skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the Swiss are thinking about doing something like that right now.

Part of the problem with giving a basic income is how much to give people due to variances in the cost of living. Someone in east san jose or oakland will need much more money than someone in East Nowhere, Midwest to acquire the same things.

I'm not saying that can't be solved and then done, but it will be complicated and as you mentioned a very hard sell.

EDIT:

Food stamps could totally be designed to be a long term program that every american is eligible for. One way would be through a tax deduction/refund. It would need to be more than a refund, though, to cover instances where people don't have enough taxes to use the entire deduction. Also, it assumes people would be smart enough to use it for food and not big screen tv's.

I think extending the current program to everyone would do a better job of ensuring everyone has access to food than just giving money. The current program basically gives you a credit card every month that can only be spent on certain food items (eg no alcohol). Sending those to every family once a month (or allowing it to be picked up from a dmv-esque office for people without an address), would ensure that people have access to food (there are already measures in place to prevent someone from selling their foodstamp card for money). heck, if you wanted to get fancy, you could even allow/extend the card to be spent at restaurants.
I understand the opinion, but I don't understand the sudden outrage.

LI, Google and Facebook have always wanted your third-party email credentials for Friend Finder-style features. The only difference is that this time we cannot even hope that they delete them after logging in once. Security-wise, it's all the same.
I think a wrong concept is being circulated around. Will power is not energy, and there isn't a 'bank' you are depleting. And there isn't a 'spending' will power. If you are hungry, just go eat something and get back to work. Working while running short on energy is one of the things where will power helps, and not the only thing.

There are plenty of people who are very healthy and fit, but can't push for a minute extra beyond their threshold of tolerance.

If you look at it that way, Will power almost has mystical effect surrounding your ability to do certain things when they seem impossible to people outside. Which is why not every one eating and living healthy is swimming the English channel, or writing the next operating system, or playing the football world cup finals, or some one in dire poverty rising their way by hard work.

These things can't be gained eating something or living a particular lifestyle.
I agree, Vim is nice to know. But to each his own, I like the Sublime Text style editors, and having something like it but in terminal sounds really cool to me. Wonder how it will support multiple cursors, have yet to try it.
Whence the call to raise the minimum wage.
The whole town is actually considered for a place on the UNESCO world heritage list: http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5472/

It certainly has an interesting history, having started as a company town, important war history (sabotage of production of materials for the production of nuclear weapons), and certainly interesting geography.
We appreciate it, but right now we just have to make one. The million will come later.
Cool, what do you think about adding the chance to set a poll id directly?

Example: http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=6603807
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CT is a great screening exam because it is cheap, quick and more readily available. MRI is much more specific in diagnosing problems in the brain and has a lot more 'features' that can be added to aid in diagnosis. So generally, everyone gets a CT and then moves on to an MRI if there is an abnormality... or if they fail to find an abnormality when the clinical exam remains abnormal/severe. There are a lot of exceptions... like in little kids, you should always avoid radiation when possible and people will go straight to MRI.
Plus, the author should be dead in France for 70 years. "L'article L. 123-1 du Code de la propriété intellectuelle précise : « L'auteur jouit, sa vie durant, du droit exclusif d'exploiter son œuvre sous quelque forme que ce soit et d'en tirer un profit pécuniaire. Au décès de l'auteur, ce droit persiste au bénéfice de ses ayants droit pendant l'année civile en cours et les soixante-dix années qui suivent. »" Notably, the authors are prevented to waive all rights to the work, because this obliterate the rights of his heirs, present and future.
So they brought sunlight to a parking lot. A. Parking. Lot. I was hoping for a decent cafe, restaurant, playground, meeting place, mosque or such to emerge. Let's see if that's going to happen.
Samsung fined in Taiwan for hiring bloggers to slam HTC products
Not that useful if it's not updated often enough.
BlackBerry!? - does it still exist?
I would have to agree with you. Less tech savvy user are less likely to trust an odd TLD.
Battle of the low-cost airlines: is Ryanair knocked off the perch?
We all know that Ryanair is the cheapest, right? Well, not quite. Ryanair is famous for their hidden fees, and our recent research shows that they make a big impact on the final cost. In fact, when all costs are counted, there are three other airlines that come out cheaper!
I thought this was incredibly sad. It reminded me of my best friend during high school, who took his own life last year:

http://www.desototimes.com/articles/2012/12/18/news/doc50cfc...

The brightest of us are the hardest to reach and the most difficult to persuade, but they're also the most painful to lose.

To anyone reading this: if someone that you care about needs help, don't wait until tomorrow. Don't make excuses. Don't fuck around.
Right but BMW/Daimler/et al's company models are not based around the kind of massive 'moonshot' R&D that is needed to enter this market with a full self-driving car.

They do a lot of R&D but in a very structured way that produces the consistent results their shareholders ask for. The market might be disrupted but until that happens convincingly they will do everything they can to prevent it while adopting the low hanging fruits of automatic parking etc.

They might consider licensing the technology from Google or buying startups working on the tech but even then they might just bury the startups to delay their main business model being disrupted. I think it's going to take disruption from outside the main car manufacturers - in the same way it took Tesla entering the electric car market to shake it up.
Pondering what happens when the pv cells get snowed under.....
It is an excellent guide.
Maybe future polls should just ask HN users to use something like http://strawpoll.me
And an engineering study published last year concluded that automation could theoretically allow nearly four times as many cars to travel on a given stretch of highway.

I am pretty sure it means what it means: the possibility of selling more cars.
Italian town did it first: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/6189371.stm
There will be a breakthrough in education. MOOCs will replace physical text books and a greater part of studying and learning will take place at home, giving the teacher the oppertunity to discuss things in greater detail. International level books and Lectures will be easily available to students and teachers everywhere, especially in rural regions, bringing the students from there at par with other students from cities.
Give the guy a chance to write a functioning editor first. I'm sure he'll reconsider opening up the issue tracker after the thing is actually useful, and maybe has a few more contributors to share the load.

No one is entitled to anything with open source, not even support or a bug tracker. The author is trying to provide an open source alternative to a closed source product controlled by an uncommunicative company. He deserves support and help, not people telling him what to do.
It wasn't that part that struck me - obviously he wrote the copyright statement long before. What bothered me was "...it is a fitting demise...".
It's written at the bottom of the article.
Nintendo says this amazing Super Mario site is illegal
That does add a lot of context! Thanks for mentioning it. What a bad situation all around.
> Maybe there's a "The Emperors New Clothes" effect

Possibly, but it would have to be at a subconscious level. They clearly didn't just pretend no to see the gorilla.
I use a virtual card when I don't trust a merchant / service too.

But the markup ... say EntroPay of 3.5% makes regular usage very expensive.
Wouldn't be a good example for propaganda. Apple is busy abusing Chinese slave workers; it's always McDonald's that abuses poor Americans.
That would be Windows Store vs Windows, right?
It happens all the time. I'm sure we can all think of a few "the doctors should have noticed it" anecdotes that happened in exactly that way.
What if the JS file itself was replaced?
No. Kogan would only be lifted from their GPL responsibility if they transfered the complete work unaltered to their customers. That includes the source code in those CD-ROM's, as the source code is part of the work.

By removing said CD-ROM's in the distribution, Kogan would be altering the work, and would require a copyright license to do so, in the same fashion as if they added something to the work.
Me too. ARJ was easier to use IIRC, specially with muli-volume archives (frequent if you had to split an archive into several diskettes).

I used ARJ mostly, until RAR came in, of course ;)
Let me clarify.

There is a massive difference between 'Pain' and 'Disinterest'.

Lets say you are super passionate about making the next big programming language. The task is huge, its monstrous. But you go about it eventually, meanwhile you stretching beyond means. You stay up awake whole nights, you are working weekends, you've stopped seeing your friends. All that 18 hr/day work is causing you immense tiredness, there is reasonable amount of failure you are seeing every day. All that failure and way things are going is humbling you down. Now despite there is pain here, you are still carrying on. Because you go on and on, despite situation and find ways to just keep doing it; Until you eventually win. This is what is will power.

There is a second scenario. You come to office 9 AM every day sharp. There is build failure you need to look into, which is some trivial ftp call timing out. You have nothing serious or challenging. All your innovations and extra efforts are treated by your immediate superiors as threat-to-their-positions and crushed ASAP. In fact all you do is fix builds, fix trivial bugs and add an occasional feature. Your time goes in hearing dis interesting stories of what totally irrelevant issues your colleagues are upon during stand ups, your afternoons are full of filling up boring time sheets and agile management software. You are doing this only because you want a health insurance, some assurance no one will fire you ASAP and some comfort pillow. You are just seasoned to do this routine, because of some fear of failure.

While the first situation has tremendous pain associated with it, you are putting up effort in situations where others can't.

The second one is clearly the craving for safety, fear of failure and total non willingness to change unless forced to. This is some what opposite of Will power, because if you had it- you would be doing something else.
Because that takes more time and effort than not doing that. Who are you to tell this developer how to spend his time?
Why, Common Lisp of course!
cf. Naughty Dog.
irc://irc.freenode.org/#lispgames
http://lispgames.org/
for web browser generally
How can I prevent SQL injection in PHP?
Maybe he doesn't want an active community of users using his software, which is fine. But then why post it on HN?

He didn't. Author != submitter.
This is very interesting. Thanks for the code.
"The poor in America are far likelier to be overweight than starving."

Your statement is true, but mainly because very few people in the US are actually starving. What they are doing is living on poor diets.

There certainly seems to be some kind of correlation between low income on obesity, but the contributing factors are complex. Individuals and families living on low incomes may lack ready access to fresh food ("food deserts") due to high transport costs and/or there being no nearby shops that sell it, may not have equipment to prepare food, may live in areas where opportunities for exercise are limited due to crime or lack of facilities. Poor education about nutrition and lack of role modes can also be important factors.

I'd urge you to read the short article "Poverty and Obesity in the U.S." [1] from the American Diabetes Association. Quote:

"How is poverty linked to obesity? It has been suggested that individuals who live in impoverished regions have poor access to fresh food. Poverty-dense areas are oftentimes called “food deserts,” implying diminished access to fresh food (7). However, 43% of households with incomes below the poverty line ($21,756) are food insecure (uncertain of having, or unable to acquire, sufficient food) (7). Accordingly, 14% of U.S. counties have more than 1 in 5 individuals use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The county-wide utility of the program, as expected, correlates with county-wide poverty rates (r = 0.81) (7). Thus, in many poverty-dense regions, people are in hunger and unable to access affordable healthy food, even when funds avail. The double-edged sword of hunger and poor availability of healthy food is, however, unlikely to be the only reason as to why obesity tracks with poverty."

The American Society for Clinical Nutrition has a
paper from 2004 titled "Poverty and obesity: the role of energy density and energy costs" [2] that goes into a lot more detail. From the abstract:

"A reduction in diet costs in linear programming models leads to high-fat, energy-dense diets that are similar in composition to those consumed by low-income groups. Such diets are more affordable than are prudent diets based on lean meats, fish, fresh vegetables, and fruit. The association between poverty and obesity may be mediated, in part, by the low cost of energy-dense foods and may be reinforced by the high palatability of sugar and fat. This economic framework provides an explanation for the observed links between socioeconomic variables and obesity when taste, dietary energy density, and diet costs are used as intervening variables."

I would urge you to look into this subject more carefully and, considering some of your other comments in this thread, to avoid resorting to crude and misleading stereotypes of people living in poverty.

[1] http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/60/11/2667.full

[2] http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/79/1/6.full
Interesting to see GTween in there, HTML animation lib simular to the AS3 API used in the S-Class. So I guess the dash must have some browser in it. Seems inefficient for something I imagine has a finite scope, such as open a car door animation, or tween the temperate bar etc.
Looks awesome. Is there any specific stylus that is recommended for this app? Also would it work on an iPad Mini
> GPL v3

There is no [AL]?GPLv3 in those cars, it would be impossible to comply with the license terms.
To me, a platform is how a user interacts with your app. An iOS user interacts with iOS apps, and Windows user with Windows apps. Web apps are to be used by web users, regardless of the OS their browser runs on. So, it's fair to say that someone who develops an app who's front end runs on the web, is developing for the Web/HTML5 platform, not for the what ever OS your backend happens to run on.

You may think about your self as a Linux developer, but you are developing for the web platform, because that's where your users are.
> What makes email SO MUCH more important than any other data to be in a category of their own?

The fact that email has become the de-facto master password for our online lives. If an attacker has my github password, they can push shitty code and write messages that I can roll back on the next day. If they have my email credentials, they can take over most of my online accounts anywhere.
The planets most expensive domain
For our product, each dev runs his own copy of the service. We have shared instances of r/w services (databases etc.), and use prod instances for read-only services provided by other teams.

If we like what we see on a developer's machine, we can push it to prod & feel confident it will work with the currently-deployed services.
if so, that means facebook is also a malware :D
Only a minority (< 10%) of web developers develop for Chrome Store/Firefox Marketplace. Why would that be? As far as I can think, the advantages of putting on these stores are clear and there isn't much friction to adapt the app for them. Am I missing something?
Randi Zuckerberg: Post More Baby Photos
Just fyi, in Paris you can get an MRI (they call it an IRM)(or a CT Scan) at a private clinic with fairly-modern e.g: GE machines (don't know how old) for 180 euros (including an assessment by a radiologist). Ahead of an MRI, you additionally pay a pharmacy 20-50 euros for injections they'll administer to you during the MRI, depending on which type of scan you're getting (your weight), etc. You leave with a DVD that summarizes your results and a report. I imagine the fees are subsidized by the government, but I actually don't know if it is since it is a private clinic I'm talking about. I imagine the technicians, doctors, and assistants are likely paid less in France.
The 1.2 million deaths per year figure was for the entire world.
Yes, but auto-pilots are easier problems to solve, due to predictability.
It boils down to maintaining speed and bearing, while considering some other factors such as weather, terrain and collision prevention with other planes (transponder based?).
In case of a truly unpredictable event, the pilot takes over.

Cars on the other hand need to do much more than that.
The process of automatically determining where the road actually is, is not trivial by itself.
Cars also need to handle other unpredictable factors to a much higher degree; other manually driven cars, bicycles, pedestrians to name a few.
Not to mention road obstacles, and animals (in my country moose collisions are common, and deadly).
'Web' is a bit ambiguous here. It could plausibly mean either writing http services predominantly used by native apps or client-side browser development, which are really quite different.

The original question was better, I think, because it was clearly restricted to which client platform people are targeting.

I'm surprised that the ratios within purely client mobile platforms haven't really changed that much, apart from a few new marginal entrants. Given what I've seen from freelance offers and job ads, I'd have expected the iOS-Android ratio to have shifted further in favour Android than it has compared to two years ago, when it was basically all iOS.
How I prepared for my first pitch (cup technique)
I have not met anybody outside of the development community who has installed an 'app' from the Chrome or Firefox stores. I suspect penetration is very low.
I do not think that hate is the appropriate word for it, though I have found myself almost hating this company in the past. I have thought about it, as it is not a rational thing to "hate" a company and I came to the conclusion that there is a reasonable explanation:

This company has caused me pain time and time again, so this is the first reason I strongly dislike them.

That aside, this company may have had successful agreements and marketing strategies but for a range of technical people they are more of a pain and problem than a solution. They give attitude, they do not respect their users, they do not innovate, they charge for ridiculous things (eg starter, home, professional), they haven't managed to build an os+GUI in the last 25 years!

You (or a lot of other people) may not agree with the above opinion. The truth is that a lot of people agree and it looks like a lot of them can be found around here. This is my explanation.
Progvember
Microsoft Drop Surface Pro’s Price by Another $100
I was hoping that support for worship of non-existing supernatural beings wouldn't appear in the comments. And in case any worshiping object should appear there, I vote for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
Apple shows us the amazing process of making the Mac Pro
The Mac App Store is upgrading illegal and trial software for free
All that would be used for on-board diagnostics for the different electronic control units.
Fisioathome
From my experience are these contents only provided once per IP and then you're getting filtered to not get any content again, to prevent 'easy' detection of this.

You simply get blacklisted after the first serving
http://www.visitnorway.com/en/Product/?pid=30978

It's the town square, which is usually a multifunctional space. Markets, fairs, dance festivals, pagan rituals, etc.
Innocence has yet to be proven. Right now it's looking like static.php.net might have been compromised.
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/puL...
Capitalism is based on private ownership. Is it really a flaw if it applies badly to an area of public/common ownership? Is a plane flawed because it doesn't fly underwater?
When I added the ability to import existing SVG images into Pablo, and to export the generated SVG in different image formats[1], I was pretty thrilled by the possibilities of having a JavaScript bridge between the design tools and the web app, the designer and the developer. And I see that Snap is also totally aligned to this kind of interaction between the web app and the external graphics tools, like Illustrator, Inkscape and SVG Edit.

The obvious next step is for a drop-dead simple visual interface to choreograph the graphics and the animations, with hooks into the rest of the JavaScript application. It could might be a game, interactive art, a visualisation or anything with graphics. Flash is dead, but there is nothing that exists for the open web that is as intuitive and fun to use as the Flash IDE was.

It must be just a matter of time before a tool as brilliant as the Flash IDE comes along for the open web, and I can imagine it makes a lot of sense for Adobe to be in on it.

[1] http://pablojs.com/api/#Import-Export
Correct. The termination clauses has an interesting - if somewhat unlikely - effect on software.

FLOSS software which depend on the ability to distribute new copies could have their license terminated after the 35 years, given that said software still existed in large enough volume to qualify for copyright status. The first thing I can think of would be the TCP/IP stack that was created in BSD, that if terminated could cause some serious problems for Apple and other OS that depend on that code.
Next Generations payments app
Hello fellow hackers, we've been building a next generation payments app from past one month now and have come a long way making it so amazing.

What do you all expect from a next generation payments app?
Surely you agree that if patents expire immediately on sale, they will never sell for anything above $0.
Someone is getting fired
Hey Fellow Hackers, What is it that you all expect out of a next generation Payments app?
There are really only a few broad categories of OS licenses, so in this case it's the fault of the programmers for the proliferation of licenses.
Explicitly visit the url of that favicon in the browser and hard reload the page. That usually works for me.
It is horrible but there is little you can do to stop this trend: Most online services do not want that users can undo decisions and the vast majority will be okay with that. Ever wanted to correct a post on facebook?
The download numbers for the popular apps aren't bad imo - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/popular. Still your hypothesis is an interesting one. Any possible reasons why this might be the case?