skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this was a Republican in office right now the hipster socialist crowd would be going ape shit over it. Instead, crickets....
And the employees will say "now that i'm getting $2800 I don't need to keep this shitty job"
Yep. Let the market decide.

The employer has to pay enough to get people to bother to apply for the job. If it can convince people to come into work while paying $1300 instead of $2800, then why not let it? We don't have to worry about people being forced into a job they hate, because they've got their basic needs cared for. Employer gets cheaper marginal labor, employee gets minimum income plus more income plus lower effective marginal tax rates.
How to turn a girl out like a pimp
basically use these lyrics and you will have walking the boulevard in a matter 5 minutes;-)
We don't all subscribe to their site, anyone have a link that doesn't require my credit card?
The suggestion is that hardening is less valuable than obscurity. As long as your choice is secret and uncommon you'll probably be safer than a well known hardened OS.
I wonder what a race with "truly, anything goes" as the rule for car design would be like?
This has been debated to death, see something like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture, Pinkers "Blank slate" book, or what other people already mentioned. Look at extreme cases of people with genetic diseases on one side of the spectrum, and people like John Von Neumann on the other end, and you really shouldn't have any doubts about this, however bad this makes you feel (I had this reaction first considering this too, and judging by the amount of people who responded to this comment very promptly, I judge this happens to a lot of people). By the way I am just summarizing what seems to be the majority vote of scientists, I don't have any strong personal opinion on it.
I must say I'm impressed ! This is so great. Awesome work. And I'm totally gonna try this in my next talk. Till then i wanna ask that is there any way we guys make this more awesome by adding some effects and colors. Or possibly make an online editor, which will help common people to make such presentations ?
"...suddenly I get a share of this money".

No you don't. The basic income is set off against your income tax liability, in fact, it's also been referred to as "negative income tax".

One of the nice aspects of the negative income tax is that it reduces the marginal tax rate at the bottom, which can often approach or even exceed 100% (you lose close to or even more benefits compared to the income from a low-paying job). Instead it's all just one smooth scale.

Another aspect of this is that it is one way of distributing the "automation dividend" that technology has given to society more equitably: "if robots and algorithms replace us in the labour market, they should also substitute us as taxpayers."

http://binews.org/2012/05/rieger-frank-2012-an-automation-di...

Inefficiencies in the social insurance system are one aspect, but a rather small one, IIRC.
As with learning a language, I suspect that both inborn ability and determination are overrated as determinants of eventual programming success, and having the right experiences (opportunity to participate, and social encouragement to engage, and positive feedback for success) early in life -- when the brains ability to learn patterns of thought is at its peak -- related to the kind of symbolic reasoning that applies in the field (whether its just mathematics, or whether its programming directly, or whether its something else that fits the same pattern, or a combination) is underrated.
Completely agree. On Top Gear they have a segment where they have a celebrity drive a 'reasonably priced car'. They had to create a separate scoreboard for F1 drivers, because they are all so much faster than anybody else.
Probabilistic computing can save power and improve performance
Oh, Chesterton. He wants to argue that seeking "worldly Success" per se is impossible (and impossible by definition, if he can), but ends up arguing mainly that it's immoral.

I hope no one takes his word that the only instinct that makes people rich is greed, or that it's "cheating" to seek to better yourself in any way besides skill at your trade, which we should tell young people will make them rich because at least this advice is noble even if it's "fallacious."
A persons personality has very little to do with their actual mental ability to learn something.

Their personality might keep them from succeeding at learning (e.g. too lazy to read a book), but that doesn't mean they're mentally incapable of it.
Cyclone Phailin heading to India. Tracking here
I am not really a huge racing fan, but am fascinated by the innovation going on in formula 1, and other race circuits. These innovations eventually make it into mainstream cars. By self-imposing constraints, they are pushing the engineers to get creative.
SNAP: A father photographs the world of his autistic son
What is your definition of hypocrisy? Perhaps it's just me, but I don't see, first of all, how he was being hypocritical. Second of all, you are also "goofing around on HN" so why are you giving this person so much crap? Last time I checked saying something should change and saying you would do it are different things.
Show HN: Salary of Every BART Employee visualized in D3
With fish they have tags that record light intensity, pressure and temperature which is enough to give a low res position estimate [1]. Not sure how well this would transfer to this problem but it is cool tech.

[1]:
http://www.gtopppublications.org/repository/254_07-11-11_Blo...
Encrypted Cloud Storage
Many of my high school teachers' profiles were easily located, but it was pretty easy for them to keep their information protected and simply explain that district policy prevents them from friending students. The only information you leak is the fact that you have a Facebook profile.

If someone has interacted with a public page/event, you don't need to see the person's profile, you just need to see the public/page event (which is indexed by Google).
Recharging the Python standard library
I'd guess because of memory limitations. Some more info on those days:

http://www.landsnail.com/apple/local/applewoz.htm

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JohnSzczepaniak/20130507/1918...
I expect a higher level of debate here than the CNN message boards. I'm disappointed that my expectations were not met.
The State of BroadBand 2013 - from the ITU
The blog post might not be very clear on this, but I think the research mentioned basically shows that some chlidren are very strongly convinced that they "don't have a mathematical mind" or something along those lines, and believe that other people grasp mathematics without effort, which produces some sort of psychological barrier that stumps their abilities. It's not really about denying genetic variation in intelligence, more about getting the children to understand that even very able people have to struggle quite a bit to learn hard things.
Pro-Privacy (for Himself): Zuckerberg Bought The Four Houses Around His
You're describing a significantly different proposal there: with a basic income, the government doesn't make up the difference of pay up to some threshold, which amounts to a massive marginal tax rate on low income labor and a massive subsidy to employers of low income labor. That's a guaranteed minimum income.

With a basic income, the government gives you the same size check, regardless of if you work and how much. I believe what Switzerland is proposing is a basic income.
I work with standards as well (structural engineer), and I am 100% in favor of them being freely available.

Codes and standards are EXTREMELY expensive. A typical code will cost in the 200-400 dollar range, and will be updated every 2-3 years (requiring repurchase). And a practitioner can easily use 10-20 different codes.

Because a building HAS to be built to code, the codes end up being responsible for how billions of construction dollars are spent. Keeping this information restricted is extremely irresponsible, and makes it easier for code writing to be hijacked by special interests. (Possibly apocryphal story relayed to be by my boss: Most model plumbing codes don't allow PVC pipe to be used to for interior water distribution. This has little to do with the effectiveness of PVC pipe, but was lobbied for by plumbers unions, as PVC can be installed without the aid of a plumber.)

Not to mention the fact that once these standards become incorporated into a state building code they carry the force of law, and legal precedent is fairly strongly in favor of "the law can't be copyrighted"

There's many ways to still make money without charging the egregious price the codes currently cost.

-Give an electronic version away for free, but charge for a paper copy.

-Give the standard away for free, but charge for a design manual that makes it easier to use. This is essentially what the AISC does - the steel code is available for free, they simply charge for a design manual that gives standard steel member and connections properties/capacities. PCI does this as well.

-Give the standard away for free, but charge for the code commentary. This is what PCA does.
That's just ... absurd, in comparison at least. It uses TCL and glib?!

I'll go out on a limb here and claim that this C program is not the shortest possible equivalent to the JS version.
Brazil's government (and UNASUR as well) is pushing for building connectivity for all of South America, excluding the USA, so all information flows between countries without going through US companies.
The Hardest Part Of Building A Startup (You'll Be Surprised)
That is an issue the Swiss need to prevent with the implementation of this law. Also, They will need to maintain productivity.

I would be happy if this works, but correct implementation of this law is the hard part.
My faint hopes for trailing comma support are now crushed.
I'm not quite sure that I understand your comment's tie-in with the quote. Can you elaborate?
I'd be interested to know if this has any impact on the "don't be evil" clause in the JSON license.
iDisk died with mobile me.

Interestingly as an iOS user I don't find Dropbox a great fit because of the jarring of the file system model with the sandbox model. I'm sure that their cloud expertise would be beneficial to Apple but it may be that the optimum time for the two organisations to come together has passed.
Sega is bringing Total War to Linux
Kept Microsoft's enterprise licensing rolling along to continued substantial profits, both by tending to existing "franchises" (Windows, Exchange, SQL Server) and launching new ones (SharePoint is now something like a $2B business).

Ballmer is a sales guy at heart, and I always suspected that his staying power at the company had much to do with his relationships with Microsoft's largest business customers. That someone like the current Ford CEO is considered a candidate to replace him only reinforces that impression.
Silk Road Update: Federal Prosecutors File Separate Forfeiture Complaint
A belt sander with rough grit should take care of that without damage to device or surroundings. Sand from the top -- that's where the data is, or used to be. For paranoid satisfaction, sand it all the way through.
Does this mean we can now use it for evil?
Where this might be important: governments and bureaucracies which have a fondness for formally specified standards. Now they can adopt JSON.
I can imagine Russians let the Americans invent the pen and then just stole it. Total costs much much smaller anyway :)
There's a huge difference between saying "Some people are born smart because of their genes" and "Some people must necessarily be smart because of their parents"
As someone who took 5+ years of college-level Japanese and majored in (applied) Linguistics, recently learning Korean in my free time has made me appreciate the simplicity of the writing system.

In Japanese, a (non-native) reader can go from understanding one sentence to not even being able to read the next. Sure, there are instances where one may be able to _understand_ a sentence you can't read through inferring meaning from the kanji -- if one couldn't read [水力], but knew both characters (water and power), one could infer that it's "water power" or something hydroelectric. It's a slight advantage to have meaning inside of the characters, however, it's a wonder if the Japanese writing system is too information dense.

Now Korean (and my limited knowledge of it) seems, to me, that it might be the sweet spot. It's relatively information dense (takes less room than just writing things in Japanese kana[1], or hell, even just regular Latin alphabet), but it's quicker to read (and write).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana
It's something worth thinking about in concept.
Comments in here saying that this sort of precaution was nonsensical only months ago. So perhaps it's worth considering the ideas and precautions that seem ridiculous now.
The book "Thinking, Fast and Slow", quite often favourably quoted on HN, contains an interesting chapter on how what we perceive as "inborn ability" is much more the result of a very long chain of decisions (willingly or random), influencing an individual in certain directions. It especially quotes studies that many kids that were seen as excelling at a certain point turned out to be rather "normal" in all areas in the long run.

It is, unsurprisingly, called "Regression to the Mean".
The concept is called a "photo release" and it's standard in print media before they will publish a photo of someone who is clearly identifiable (public figures/celebrities excepted).

I don't know if they are legally required though. If they are, what you want is a court case that finds that Facebook needs a photo release from each person before allowing that person to be "tagged" in a posted photo.

I don't use Facebook, but would be unsurprised to find that somewhere in their terms of use you grant a blanket photo release to them.
> Irregexp[1] compiles on V8 byte code

I was thinking: but V8 doesn't have byte code.

Then opened the link:

"After optimization we generate native machine code which uses backtracking to try different alternatives."
At least they didn't reprint the obviously-sarcastic comments that Vettel made in interviews, which Jalopnik put in their article. As far as the tech goes, it is a total rehash of Racecar Engineering's work, but Wired has a very different audience so that isn't such a waste. I think their reasoning is flawed as to why it would be kept from Webber — the money argument doesn't smell right to me — but at least they added something to the discussion that I haven't seen fleshed out elsewhere.
But python tools are not (by default) portable when they deal specifically with OS stuff. The paradigms are too different - you have to spend considerable amounts of time doing 'if os==linux:elif os==windows' if you want portability for that kind of thing.

And to say 'windows is going away' is hilarious - maybe in the Valley, but def. not in big orgs.
Significantly?? That is pretty bullish. Are you saying the supply of labor will drop dramatically for undesirable jobs? Or there won't be a underclass willing to work for less pay?
(extra dot in the end of the URL)
"Dave" being recognised as generic name for any developer.
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So lobbying (aka legalized bribery) is the problem.

I don't see how it's Google's fault.
> Almost none of this is true if the operating system allows you to provide a write-only layer

What kind of operating system should provide non trustworthy, malware prone security minefield, which is a "write only" layer? You'd think no sane OS should, but wait! Windows does, since Vista times.

That's the whole point. DRM is by nature incompatible with openness. Therefore EME is by nature incompatible neither with any open systems and browsers, nor with the open Web.
Why do you believe that using XML is better than JSON in every case? Or am I misinterpreting your comment?
The more I think on this, the more I actually start to side with the government's argument. I hate it, but I think they're justified.

Lavabit intentionally structured their service such that there were only two ways to get at a criminal's email: obtain a copy of the suspect's private key or compromise the entire service. Lavabit was capable of reading the suspect's email, but only by slurping from the firehouse and reading everyone's email.

What Lavabit set up to be their greatest strength ("Nobody can read your email unless they somehow have our SSL key") turned into a terrible systemic weakness ("If the government want to exercise its legal right to obtain a warrant and read a suspect's email, then the only way it can do that is to get the key to everyone's email").

My personal real-world analogy is a safe deposit box that opens either with a key the suspect has or with a master key that opens everyone's lockbox. The bank would defintely be required to turn over the master key. The fact that the only key that opens the suspect's lockbox also opens every other customer's lockbox is a fault of the bank's own devising.

(Of course, who the suspect is in the investigation is irrelevant to everything else.)
Why MongoDB is worth $1.2 billion
If you want more of the same: http://pineapple.io/tags/presentations
The effect is not specific to women. The paper he linked is, but it also has a bibliography.

I'm not wasting any more time debating this with you. Cheers.
It's an accurate observation that (a) everyone who knows anything about US politics already knows, but (b) this is a very international community in which as much as 50% of the viewers of this thread might not be in the (a) group. So I'm not really sure why you think it's not a valid observation to post here. If you don't think this article is appropriate for HN, that's fine (and I'm with you on that). Once it is here and once you click through to read the comments, it's not really fair to ding someone for commenting on it IMO.

What 'debate' on HN do you expect about such an article?
I am surprised that anyone would even solicit the opinion of this bozo.
I think he means that because more people have broken espionage laws under Obama's watch, doesn't mean it was Obama's fault.
Yes, businesses are encouraged by financial incentives and that's why Apple, Google, Facebook and countless of other IT giants and startups are based in Silicon Valley - the most expensive place to hire employees.

Meanwhile corporate taxes and personal income taxes are at record low and it still didn't stop all manufacturing jobs to be outsourced to China.

See your logical fallacy? Sometime "basic econ class" will teach you... well... just the basics.
Don't blame the hacker for stealing your personal information, blame the software vendors for allowing such access, right?

Intent matters, and these loopholes circumvent the intent of tax laws.
No thanks to Mr. Crawford for not fixing the \u2028-9 issue. JSON as defined is not a subset of javascript. It is a design mistake that was pointed out to him years ago, but he is too stubborn or arrogant to fix it.
The USA is significantly cheaper than Switzerland, though, so you don't need nearly the same amount here as Switzerland.

I have a hard time figuring out what the ideal grant amount is, but I'd want $15k as an absolute maximum, and more likely something like $10k-$12k. And like you mention, getting to there from here is pretty trivial if you think redirecting SS and Medicare funding is an option.
Yeah but it's more fun to click "edit" on a file in github. Propose the changes and click "submit pull request". Instead of:

1. Download current design file

2. Edit

3. Submit pull request

4. Repo owner downloads file

5. Repo owner figures out what has changed (somehow hopefully) and hopes nothing else was broken with the edit due to different versions, setups etc.

6. Repo owners accepts pull request (while the change cannot be seen in github since it can't diff .ai files).
> If you made Formula 1 totally unlimited you'd have gaps so big that there'd never be a question of who would win barring a crash.

Which is largely true today during the Vettel era and was largely true during the Schumacher era. People still watch it.
I remember when.

There were stories on HN....

they were about tech.

-haiku
Do you know any of these?
Certainly not, but I also don't believe that we are all born with the same abilities. Things that comes easy to some are more difficult to others. Even at the youngest ages kids show signs of what they like and don't like, and this will play out later as ability.
Ask HN: What system programming language do you use and why? 
I've been reading up on C lately and noticed a lot of languages that position themselves as "C replacements".

Off the top of my head, those would be C++, D, Rust and Go.

Any others I've missed? Which do you use? Why?
3 Lessons You Can Learn about Copyright & IP from a Startup Founder
Out of interest, does anyone know the most common first name for a developer?
I know the editing wars take a toll on Wikipedians(thanks for being one) but I still have to take issue with the idea that useful articles on Wikipedia are rare. As for being the encyclopedia that any bozo can edit, that is true, but unavoidable. Think how much worse off HN would be if it disallowed comments by any bozo(looking in mirror).
Funding student start-ups
They already use Tom Tom map data. How would owning them sort anything out? They'd just own the provider of (some of) the slightly dodgy data.