skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The genius of the minimum guaranteed income, and the reason that it could possibly appeal to both liberals and libertarians is because in this case it does precisely the opposite of what you're afraid of: the government doesn't pick anything.

They give it to everybody. If you think that the government does a poor job of allocating the absolutely colossal amounts of money currently spent by social programs, or you recognize that trying to "do a good job" and prevent fraud, and all the other social engineering requires a vast, wasteful bureaucracy, then this is an interesting option.

This is a program that eliminates extreme poverty, but requires almost no infrastructure. You'd only need to verify that recipients are citizens and that they file their taxes. Since you can abolish Social Security, a stripped down social security bureaucracy, which already prevents people who haven't paid into social security from receiving benefits, could take over that task.

It could allow one of the largest and most sweeping reductions in the size of government in our lifetimes.

And if you believe in freedom, but also want to live in a country where people don't have to beg for food, then this is your best bet. You trust people to make their own decisions about what benefits them and their family. You don't discourage work or enterprise.

I think it's a political long shot of epic proportions, but also a great idea.
Miners could simply refuse to process future blocks which contain spends of these bitcoins.
When the attack vector is literally relying on information disparities (previously unknown exploits), "obscurity" does provide a fair amount of security. If everyone thinks you're running Linux+OpenOffice and spends time writing looking for exploits there, but you're really running BeOS+Pe, that gives you a significant upper hand.
No, not really. The JSON standard says you can't put raw newlines in strings, and you must write \n. Why does it say it is okay to put raw unicode line_separator rather than requiring \u2028 ? Two more lines to the spec, and DC's variant of JSON would actually be a subset of Javascript. Instead we are left with an edge case that we are going to have to worry about for the next 20 years.
WebGL experiment: VJ clips recreated in real-time
Zephir - a language for building PHP extensions without the complexity of C
And if they want to keep customers they have to act nice.
> What is certain is that D's
type system is expressive enough to allow libraries to reject during
compilation embarrassments such as transporting pointers over the
network.

How does the language do this? Doesn't that have more to do with the design of the program itself? It certainly is a interesting security idea, much more strict than sending remote procedure calls or serializing objects and sending them across the network.
I actually think that would be extremely difficult. I think that such cars -- even with less restrictions -- would actually be slower than F1 cars around the same track.

My theory is that so much of driving (especially at the F1 level) is about feeling what's going on. That just doesn't translate to a remote control.
It depends. If the company is in SF, they'll either pay you an SF salary, or a salary relative to where you're working from (see Buffer's ad in WhoIsHiring). But more abstractly: don't take a salary you won't be happy with.
It's complicated, but modern processors actually do have many more registers than you can name in the instructions. They use things like "register renaming" to avoid false conflicts between instructions.

Registers that you name in assembly != physical registers. And when you use a register in two different instructions, you won't necessarily get the same physical register each time.
Google TOS update: user endorsement in ads optional
The app Anthony Weiner should've used: HASH
Messaging that is untraceable and screenshot-proof
I discovered that when I Read The Fine Article directly. I also discovered that the original list os frozen and out-of-date. It includes at least one book that is no longer freely available, and omits my own JavaScript Allongé, which was made free this month.
On an air-gapped machine? How would they determine the OS, so long you're careful about how the files you export are written? The article rules out TEMPEST and physical attacks.
FB never said that. And google stopped saying that a while ago.
Don't be evil

Oh, wait its 2013...

carry on
Thanks for the reply and suggestions. It also occurred to me that "there's a reddit for that", and sure enough there is one so I'll check out the resources you've listed and what I can find over there. One of my hobbies has come to a screeching halt (scheduling conflicts, people moving) so I actually have time over the next few months to spend on this.
What's wrong with you guys? Why do you keep complaining "in the name of privacy". There's nothing wrong with that, nothing creepy about it.

You all assume that it's bad, it's "evil", but give me a rational argument against it. Just one. You can't find one because hating on such poor basis is irrational and foolish.

Just grow up and embrace the future.

EDIT: man up -> grow up
We use Flask in production at Mighty Spring (https://www.mightyspring.com). What started as a simple MVP has become a fully-featured web app and Flask has been great to work with along the way.
Plastiq opens up a lot more borrowers and lending opportunities for the processing networks ( e.g. people use their Visa on items they previously could not --- tuition, rent, etc. ), so Plastiq is able to negotiate some of the lowest rates in the business.
If you're desi and you're hipster...
I've heard that modern Intel processors have 100 < x < 200 physical registers. I'm not sure they actually document the exact number.
With names like they have, I was shocked to realise they weren't QANGOs[1].

In the UK, such bodies would always be publicly funded - it doesn't make sense to do it any other way, as then they have to worry about profit and funding themselves! QANGOs still have to worry about funding cuts from axe-friendly tories, but at least they can publish evidence of what a good job they do.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quango
Would have been nice if a standard format for hyperlinks were added. This lacks the elegance of pure JavaScript but it would make it possible to create strict RESTful APIs that don't violate HATEOAS or includes links as some sort of extension.
Category 5 Cyclone Phallin to hit India in 18 hours
Yeah. Clearly Brazil should have launched nukes at the US.
It seems like this is the Delaware Corporation of the 21st century. And I see a YC startup to help the little guy evade taxes completely legally in the making.

Call it Double Dutch Chocolate (dot com).
This is not true for most of Western Europe, the notion of an ethnically homogenous population it's an outdated idea of Europe that Americans still hold on to.

In fact, for major parts of Europe it was never true in the first place, the continent has seen centuries of migration of various ethnic groups and cultures before many of today's nation states were even formed.

Pointing to European countries "homogeneity" is just a cheap and borderline racist (they're all white people right, so how can they be ethnically and culturally different?) excuse used by Americans that don't want to examine their own motives.
Do you anybody else that uses Google App Engine?
If we're going to pick up on BAR's fuel tank problems from 2005 (and calling it a 'secret fuel tank' as the article does is rather disingenuous), then it's worth also pointing out that the tank manufacturer said that BAR's design wasn't unusual; they were merely the scapegoat picked on by the FIA during a period when it was noticeably pro-Ferrari and BAR were for a period their leading challenger.

Or we could point out that McLaren specifically asked about running a hydraulic-based hybrid system in the late 90s and it was initially approved then rejected on pressure from Ferrari, or about their (entirely driver controlled) fiddle brakes system being ruled an illegal driver aid and banned while Ferrari were allowed to decouple the throttle pedal from the engine throttle, or Ferrari getting higher spec tyres from Bridgestone than the other teams, or.....
One way a country could get to this would also be revenue-neutral taxes. A revenue-neutral carbon tax, for instance – a lot of taxes would be collected, on the theory of limiting output, or maybe you could use the theory that you were charging for access to the environmental load, which is a public resource held equally by all people. To make it revenue neutral then you have to return that tax money to people. You could cut taxes or put it some bullshit "lock box" but that's nonsense thinking. IMHO the only reasonable way to keep it truly revenue neutral is to directly funnel the money back to individuals. A basic income would be the result.

People freak out that a carbon tax would be regressive, and it would, but the return would be so progressive that it would more than undo that.

In general I think this kind of theory should be applied to more use taxes – places where ostensibly a tax supports something like roads, making a system self-supporting. But the use taxes only address a small part of the cost of roads, they don't consider the opportunity cost of using land for roads and they don't address the negative externalities. A use tax that included all of that, and returned some portion to people, would be a fairer tax. In that context something like congestion pricing would be fair in a way that it isn't currently.
I'm sure the length of the crunch varies. And in a startup situation having a crunch every 100 days doesn't seem totally unreasonable to me. Also, people's versions of "crunch" differ... one person might picture 60-hour weeks and another might picture JWZ taking catnaps under his desk every 48 hours.
If you haven't seen it already, check out http://tosdr.org/
Yes, if I was to learn a systems programming language, I would only pick from those that allow manual memory manipulation. Either that or the ability to trivially integrate with C functions that can do manual memory manipulation.
Completely unconnected to the discussion, and excuse the incursion, but your (Aristas) Switches _rock_. Got 8 at work - loving the 10G interfaces.

Thanks, carry on. ;)
I agree. The only problem is when it's done fraudolently. Just two weeks ago I was somehow added to a random Facebook event in another country; I think it might have been done with click hijacking.
Yes, this is basically a carbon copy of other lists, but I found at least one resource that was new to me - http://refcardz.dzone.com/ So cool.

Thanks :D
it's on the main kickstarter page:

"Although this new version of Iconic will be commercial, it's important to state that the current open source version of Iconic will remain freely available."

so the version for which the kickstarter runs will be a new, commercial version:

- with a price >$70

- based/derived on the existing opensource iconic

- the icons in the opensource version will receive an update if they are also in the new commercial version

what i really miss tho is what kind of commercial license the backers/buyers receive for their backing.
Probably not, but there are definitely delay effects at play or L2 and L3 cache would be unnecessary, you could just have humongous L1s.
The F-duct was a clever work around of the old F1 rule of no moveable aerodynamic devices (which dates from the 70's) and was motivated, intially by the practice of mounting the rear wing directly to unsprung parts of the suspension. A more applicable example of the rule was the late 70s brabham fan car which used a large fan at the rear (ostensibly for engine cooling purposes) to suck out air from the underside of the car to add downforce. Think of the hyperloop design, in reverse.

By making the only physical moving part in the f-duct design the driver (who obviously has to be allowed to move), the devices cleverly adhered to the letter of the law. The driver would close a hole in the cockpit which allowed some air to pass or not to a fluidic switch (think of a transistor), which would influence the flow of a larger stream of air to the rear wing).

One issue with banning the engine mapping that blew the diffuser off throttle was that this was already being done by many engine manufacturers for engine cooling purposes, and thus could not be easily regulated. Even their year end attempt at a fix by specifying the location, pointing direction, etc of the exhaust outlets didn't work (see coanda effect / downwash exhausts of 2012). They have finally addressed the solution in 2014 regulations by specifying that the exhaust outlet has to be behind all bodywork.

It's also worth pointing out that exhaust blown diffusers are more than a decade old, but in the past suffered from the problem of changing the balance of the car drastically mid throttle (when the driver gets on the throttle) due to 1) less advanced engine mapping), and 2) directly feeding into the diffuser venturis. In fact, for a long time, the standard solution (periscope exhausts pioneered by ferrari), sought to remove as much influence of exhaust air on the aerodynamics as possible to make the car's balance unaffected by engine exhaust volume, so given that environment, no one was worried about anyone using the exhaust for aerodynamic benefit. The modern (Red bull design) blown diffusers only channel a relatively small portion of exhaust air directly into the diffuser channel, and instead use a large portion of exhaust to blow over the top of the diffuser itself (enhancing the diffuser effect), and on the side of the diffuser (to provide a air skirt that prevents squirt air from the rear tires bleeding into the diffuser from the side which decreases efficiency), particularly on cars like the Red bull which run a high level of rake (which enhances aerodynamic downforce separately by placing the front wing closer to the ground but makes the diffuser more vulnerable to tire squirt and other effects).
If I may ask, what's wrong with datetime? I may not have encountered unusual cases, but for most uses the date + datetime + timedelta scheme seems to work pretty well.
Ding ding ding! You're doomed the minute you go public...

In this instance, Google was given no choice.

http://utterlyboring.com/archives/2004/04/19/google_may_be_f...
You're basically talking about inserting a fraudulent transaction into the blockchain. Even if 99% of nodes included that transaction, the remaining 1% of nodes would still reject it and build off the longest chain without it. This is different than a double spend where if 51% of the network starts building off an alternate chain, it will eventually surpass the 49% chain in length and then the 49% will switch over and the transaction will be canon.

That said, there's nothing stopping any number of miners (51%, 1%, it doesn't matter) from forking the Bitcoin protocol and declaring that the transaction is, in fact, valid. This is equivalent to creating a whole separate currency with the Bitcoin wallets as a starting point. It would just slowly diverge from Bitcoin.

I just don't see that kind of thing happening. People think Bitcoin is software, but it's really just a contract between people. And it only has value to the extent that people stick to the rules. The reason things went so smoothly during the 0.7/0.8 fork is that everyone just wanted to stick with the spirit of the contract, and it was pretty clear that that meant reverting to the 0.7 chain and fixing the incompatibility.

Basically, Bitcoin is rules. You can change the rules, but that's not changing Bitcoin it's just creating something new. In programming terms, Bitcoin is immutable. You can create a modified copy of it but you cant change it.
I seriously do not understand what the issue is. Why would you +1 something if not to have Google tell your friends and followers you +1'd it? Why would you comment on something if you don't want Google telling your followers you commented on it?

Where is the issue?

And, for what it's worth, Google claims to be "clarifying" this part of the terms of service, not changing it. I haven't verified what that means though.
Ask HN: Do you use online job boards?
I have been wondering if members of the HN community actually seeks out job postings on job-boards, or do you wait for the jobs to find you?

Full disclosure: I am collecting a list of job-search sites at http://thejobist.com.
defer is great for "one off" cleanups, but in so many cases (closing file handles, releasing locks, etc.) cleanup is not one off but is repeated over and over again. So the price of explicitness is redundant code that is easy to forget or get wrong.

Note that if your language supports RAII and lambdas (e.g. C++11), it's trivial to implement defer using a class that takes a function as an argument to its constructor and calls that function in its destructor. So you can still have the flexibility of defer in a language with RAII.
Introducing vLine link: Free, simple WebRTC video chat
My understanding is that Facebook uses random peoples name/picture to promote anything they want.

Google uses your Name/picture to show that you have reviewed/+1/etc. something.

Facebook is lying, which is Evil. Google is showing your friends things you chose +1, review, etc.

People keep throwing around the word evil as if it's anything that they disagree with.
Yes, hyperthreading (aka SMT), as implemented in Intels processors, can execute instructions from several threads in the same clock cycle. Other processors, like Sun's Niagara, switch threads only on certain events like cache misses (this is known as SoEMT). Workloads with a lot of cache misses is where both really shine.

Of course it's hard to write about a complex topic, choose the right details, and make it all seem simple. Thumbs up for trying!
Because most merchants would then need to borrow money to pay their suppliers and expenses while awaiting payment, which would end up costing them a lot more than an extra 1%.
It's not just a matter of being ridiculous, it's a matter of being unenforceable and impossible to comply with. If I created an open source project that used a "no evil" library then how am I supposed to restrict the actions of my users? How do we even define "evil" (which has no legal definition)?

That last bit is the tough one. Some people define homosexuality as evil, others define it with things like women going to school. DC obviously isn't that extreme, but he's using a term in a legal setting that can be defined by different people in completely different ways. This makes it so no business can use this code, and even things like open source projects should be extremely weary.

What this essentially did was allow Douglas Crockford to claim that he open sourced his code while actually keeping it closed and forcing people to go through him if they actually wanted to legally use it. While I'm sure plenty of people use it regardless, there's nothing preventing DC from simply stepping in and forcing them to stop. If he had used a real open source license that would be impossible, but as it stands all he has to do is walk over and say "I consider that evil" and you need to rip his library out.

This isn't just hypothetical. I had to remove code from an open source project because of this. It's why I wrote JShrink, as an open source replacement for the JSMin libary. https://github.com/tedivm/JShrink
Instead of buying a company like eBay, Apple should try to acquire a company like Tesla, assuming Elon is ever willing to sell (probably not).

1. Apple has considered building a car before

2. Not quite the same but essentially an EV is pretty much a giant computer, and more relevant to Apple's current strength than entering the e-commerce space itself. There is a lot of baggage that comes with the eBay/PayPal business model (I realize this is just an example Scully used) that Apple probably doesn't want even if they were to enter the payment space.

3. The market for EVs is still tremendously young and in my opinion hugely massive and one worth entering and competing in right now even if it is far from Apple's current product lineup and doesn't sync as well as all of its existing product.

4. Even with point #3 above, Apple is working with car manufacturers already to integrate Siri and other things probably. This might put a dent in partnerships (maybe) but arguably the EV market is more important than extending a marketing strategy to integrate Siri and other aspects into other major car brands in my opinion.

Just my two cents.
> Economists who want to study the effect of a basic income can travel to Alaska and see the impact for themselves.

The problem with the states as laboratories of democracy is that, from a scientific perspective, they're pretty crappy experiments in terms of having any control groups. While an economist can travel to Alaska, it's hard to tell whether any given quality in the current state is due to the experiment or not. For instance, the price of food is quite high in Alaska; is this due to some basic commodity inflation, or is it because there are no road and rail links to most major population centers? Probably the latter, and you can look at Alaska both before and after the Permanent Fund was implemented, but even then, it's not a perfect control.
Yes, that solution OBVIOUSLY removes the need to spend an extra minute adding comments to the spec.

Also, I hope, trailing commas and binary types.
Economists who want to study the effect of a basic income can travel to Alaska and see the impact for themselves.

Can you say more about this? What is the perceived impact?
Go can do unsafe memory access, can't it? See http://golang.org/pkg/unsafe/
Retail merchants have capital tied up in product; what difference does it make if its on the shelf or already in customer's hands? ... sure cash strapped people always pay more. But the reason the rate is so high; 3% on month > 36% APR b/c of network leverage and government regulations.
When is this from? I thought the black bar was all but gone.
It seems that you can opt out of this new Google thing tho, right?
If the landlord uses identical locks on all the apartment doors, he can't turn around and complain that turning over the key to the apartment being investigated would open all the doors.

Why?

When setting up a business, are you required to organize it in such a way that in the future, the government can come along and perform a certain kind of search/and/or seizure? It that your obligation, failing which all of your customers must suffer?

It's one thing to have a law that states the government can ask for things. But I haven't heard anybody argue that the law requires you to organize your affairs in such a way that you can comply with requests like this "cleanly."
Good luck with "avoiding" it. It's getting harder and harder to use Google without using Google+ (clearly intentional), and it's nearly equally hard to use the internet without using Google.
How to keep your real name and face out of Google's ads?
Stop wasting billions of dollars using the wrong software languages
If you have congestion pricing, and the money is paid in cash, people who value the money more than the convenience will use the transit system earlier or later when it's less crowded, and pocket the difference.
New Google TOS. From 11th November onwards, Google might use your photo in some of their Google products. : https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/changes/
One might upvote or +1 something just for future reference (like the 'Saved Stories' on HN).
Yes, but from what I've learn of the original developers, "replace C++ for their needs" means, "we are using C++ currently, we don't want to, so we're making a language which incorporates a core which helps our tasks (goroutines). To do this we will fix up some issues we have with C."
http://www.google.com/about/company/philosophy/
"You can make money without doing evil."
I plus one something to show my appreciation to the content creator. I'm not doing it because I want to be a part of an advertisement.
Make Eye checks a priority if you have diabetes..