skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Network Analysis of Third Party Tracking
You're from the Bay Area and you think $60/hr is expensive? I charge the least out of contracting friends, and I charge a non-trivial amount more than that. I also don't live in or around San Francisco.
The overlap between people who enjoy the same videos as me and people I trust enough to them tell my real name is almost non-existent.

And I'm not sure I'm the only one thinking that way. If I want to talk about a video, I can, you know, share it (I can even share it on Google+, that way Google loses nothing). If it turns out to be a really cool video, I'll even maybe get to impress my friends that way.
Thanks for the feedback!

I agree it’s not the most intuitive approach for all situations, particularly when you’re used to a North-South orientation for maps. The rolling is perhaps made more obvious with my use of a graticule. For this reason, I’d be interested in optionally restricting to two degrees of freedom when dragging on the globe, and the third angle could be modified when dragging outside the globe only. So the point being dragged on the globe could still remain under the cursor where possible using this approach.

Interestingly, Google Earth uses the same approach as I do, though perhaps it seems less obvious without a graticule.
Just out of interest, where have you found these performance issues?

The only thing I've noticed was that it really struggled to scroll down large pages whilst playing a video in another window/tab. Although that quickly fixed itself when I updated my graphics card drivers (completely forgot to do so after installing Ubuntu).
Super-Soaker Creator Wins Suit Against Hasbro
FYI, for the States at least, $2000/mo is too high. It always strikes me... I don't think people who make good money often understand just how poor most people really are. The lower 50% of U.S. tax payers only average around $15,000/yr. If I were to guess, approx. 50% of the poverty level would make a good peg. I also think parent should get additional allowances for no more than two children.

That said, the system has a tendency to balance itself (the marvels of free-market capitalism when allowed to work properly) so no mater how much was granted per month, the system could self-adjust. Unfortunately there are so many entrenched interest gumming up the works these days, I'm not sure anything about the markets are really working "freely" as they should.
Say I am designing / building a database for work. If I want to clone that (and make it more generic for a wider audience). Are there problems with that?
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This was posted back in September, when it first came out. It has not improved with age.
The problem I envision with a basic income model is that it could have an inflationary effect - shifting the baseline. The only way this doesn't happen is if our basic income economies exploit non basic income economies - and even this wouldn't prevent housing, energy, and (non artificially) scarce items from inflation.
I really like this because it shows the different 'places' things happen in Git arranged spatially, and groups commands into those spaces. This really helps with building mental model of how things work.

The visualization is great and a lot of fun but I would also like to have a non-interactive version for quick paper-based reference.
In my home I have: Nest, Sonus Playbar, Sonus Sub, 2 Wemo light switches, 2 Wemo outlets, 1 Wemo activity sensor, AppleTV, Ruku, ChromeCast, PS3, Apple Time Capsule, Apple airport, Work router for VPN, Work IP phone, Printer, Ooma home phone, 2 ipads, 1 kindle HD, and 2 iphones.

I have 1 public IP address and everything works.

We have an an IPv4 allocation problem, TONS of IPv4 space allocated to companies and not used. What we don't have is IPv4 usage problem, or the need for everything "on the internet" to be publicly addressable.
I also had my playlists and favorites deleted during a Youtube/Google merge. Quite annoying. I should have used backups.
Vimeo is nice on the web, but they're garbage at mobile. YouTube has an excellent mobile app on both major mobile platforms and is supported on popular TV additions like AppleTV/Chromecast.

Vimeo really needs to step up their mobile game.
I was recently reading reviews online before booking a hotel in Maui. I was on TripAdvisor and I guess I was also logged in to Facebook at the time, and TripAdvisor highlighted one of my friends had reviewed a hotel in Maui. Turns out Tina liked a hotel that was on my shortlist, and her review was absolutely the factor that made me book that hotel. Thanks Tina!

(As it happens, I booked it via Hotwire where you theoretically don't know the exactly hotel you're getting until you pay. With a little searching you can normally work out which hotel it is, based on the area and facilities of the hotel.)
So much information about atomic cats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors

EDIT: Dammit! Just saw the alt text on the original... ah well, great minds and all that...
Not that this exonerates Toyota in any ways, but if your car is accelerating out of control, why not just take it out of gear (ie. put it into neutral)?

Or have they removed that ability from newer automatic transmissions? (my last few cars all have manual transmissions)
Juju + Ansible = simpler charms
We already do that.

Throughout Europe we take 40-50% of personal income + taxing corporations to fund common good programs.

I will argue that we needn't take any more than we take currently. Expecting that taxes would drop because of BI is ludicrous. However less of our money may be wasted and more of the needy may be served.

You don't need to trust my word. Run some numbers[1].

[1]: https://googledrive.com/host/0B68HCFLtgK_QTHRGWGZBTkRNQjQ/UB...
I think in the US the law says you have 45 days to respond to a written note like that.
>The problem is that not everybody's costs are the same. A disabled person may have much higher living costs due to needing additional care and special equipment to help them, they also have less chance of gaining employment in order to increase that income.

This would seem to be the case regardless of the type of government assistance provided. Suppose we provide enough that a disabled person can live a dignified, if spartan, life. Should we deny that same level of support to someone else, who may be more able to contribute to society, just because that person is not disabled?

> Also consider costs of living/housing etc. For example an unemployed programmer might be better off staying somewhere like SF where costs are higher because they are more likely to get a job there.

That's the reason why the cost of living/housing is higher there. Increasing government subsidies in areas with higher costs cause the costs to increase even more, because recipients of government assistance then have that money with which to pay, increasing demand without increasing supply and therefore raising prices. Meanwhile only the poorest of the poor remain in the lower subsidized areas because they can't afford to live in more desirable areas even with some government assistance, causing those areas to degrade even more. This is the same logic that leads to the mortgage interest tax credit which benefits mortgage lenders much more than homeowners (and screws over renters even more) -- you're subsidizing the sellers of housing and loans more than the buyers because you're increasing the demand rather than the supply. If you want to help the poor live in San Francisco, subsidize the construction of affordable new high density housing and mass transit there, so that the cost goes down rather than up.

> The risk would be that you ended up with low cost of living slum areas where the unemployed would congregate, separate from the productive economy.

That's what happens already. If anything a basic income can disrupt such behavior, because it allows people living in poorer areas to take better risks, and provides them an increased incentive to seek employment because taking a job doesn't result in the discontinuation of government benefits.
I did, but I really see this as closer to 'finger'... perhaps even indistinguishable from it at this early stage. FOAF has been around awhile (tho obviously not as long as finger), and I've just never seen anybody use it, or was blind to it when I saw it.

I definitely see some kind of 'friend' association with Personable in the future, but it's not a social network, so I'm totally vague on how those associations might work.
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Forget the word "copying". Let's call it "reinventing".
What I Learned about Press Hacking
Randall must have one of the shortest travel times from expressing an idea (through his comics) to someone making that idea a reality (this, geohashing, etc.).
They realised this was an issue in the 1980s, back when it wasn't even clear that the internet would spread into a general usage network (rather than military/academic).

It took until 1995 to get agreement on what IPv6 would look like - but that's still 18 years ago. Plenty of time for a phased changeover :->
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawed_Karim

For a measly $60M share. My expertise in valuing Twitter tells me he should have got at least 43.6 bajillion runes.
I've seen the math done on the unused IPv4 space by some institutions. In the end, even if an organization gave up their entire /8, you get something like 1 to 2 months of extra time at best.
According to Vimeo's guidelines, you just can't upload gameplay videos. It says specifically you can upload first party videos but need to mark them to avoid deletion. With the huge community of video gamers on YouTube, I don't even get why you'd want to put that video on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/help/guidelines
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I think that 90% of people (100% on HN) understand this.

> How high would tax rates have to be, to collect enough money for basic income?

They would need to be significantly higher, but significantly more money would get back to the taxpayers too, so the aggregate demand would remain about the same, so businesses would be ok.

BI, if set up properly, can redistribute wealth in a very similar way as it's happening today (in Europe). The only difference would be side effects like lower fear of unemployment, which could make the labor market much more liberal.
"Maybe, but the same could probably be said about the favelas in Brazil."

I'm not really sure what you are saying here. My understanding of the favelas is that there is a great deal of economic activity going on there, and a lot of people working actively to better their situations. Limited resources coupled with sparse, unequally applied regulation and rule of law leads to some bad situations, but those in the favelas are living in the favelas primarily to have access to the economic activity of the city. Resources go to the favelas only in proportion to the earning power of the residents, which dynamic basic income specifically changes, and it is this change specifically that I am saying is likely to produce better results.

It's totally possible you were saying something I'm missing; if so, please clarify.

"It probably makes some sense to subsidize people to live in the area where there is currently the most opportunity for them."

Physical location matters, but it matters less than it ever has before. Ideally, we want more places with opportunity, not ever higher rents in SF and Manhattan.
For the record: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6695904
If a user clicks on one of the top ten search results for a variety of terms, there is 99.5% chance that they will become tracked by all top 10 trackers within 30 clicks.
A few weeks ago, YouTube started automatically signing me into my Google+ account (which I was forced into getting) rather than my YouTube account -- which has years of favorites and other content. I'm getting sick of it. I only signed up to Google+ because my friend wanted to use Hangouts. Now it's screwed up my YouTube channel and I can't revert it.

The only reason I post on YouTube is to share small clips with people (all my videos are unlisted). Vimeo takes ~40 minutes to encode, whereas YouTube is a lot faster meaning it's far more convenient.

Checking out my Google account, it seems I have Chrome on here. I'm outraged as I never signed in with Google on Chrome. I always clicked "Not Now". What does "Not Now" even mean? Where's the "Never" option?

This is why I hate Google. I probably made the mistake of signing into my YouTube account on Chrome which has been infected with Google+ and that leaked through to Chrome. Apparently that means my bookmarks can be stored without my permission.

The best way is to deal with this issue is to delete my Google Account. Unfortunately, that's very problematic and I've been spending the last few months trying to move to other services. I'm slowly migrating my mail (admittedly to Google Apps but I'll be switching to a different provider soon), once I'm done I'll nuke the account.

That's along with Google Docs/Drive. BitTorrent Sync actually works very well as an alternative.

I can't wait till I get to hit delete on this account. Good fucking riddance.
As someone that grew up in Wyoming, I'm surprised they even know how to spell "superconductivity".
No. Things can be hated if someone is forcing to know them.
This used to be true, but what issues are you having with mobile? Since Android support was added, I've had few issues with it.
I’ve almost up voted you, but, actually: link?
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There's a logic problem with Basic Income.

They want people to think either:
1- it will help me earn more (because I make less than the BI)
2- it won't change anything for me (because I already make more than the BI)

But obviously, these two assertions can't be true at the same time.

Instead they should think either :
1- it won't change a thing
2- it won't change a thing (so why do it?)

OR

1- it will help me earn more
2- I will earn less so others can earn more

BI advocates say it is an important change. So they advocate for a tax raise, but they "forget" to say it.
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> The insignificant time it takes for code review is the first thing that gets nixed by non-technical management

You have to fight back against that shit. Testing, reviews, these things are part of the job. You're the expert, you tell them how long it takes to do things. Don't let them just hand you a deadline without saying something. Speak up!
Says a guy who obviously doesn't have children and who also doesn't own console games :)

I bought my kid the new Lego Batman II for PS3 in March for his birthday. We decided to upgrade to the PS4. He can't play this new game - that was recently released - on the PS4. It's a weird thing to not support backward compatibility IMO. It's a win for the developers/Sony but a loss for consumers. I have to now buy all new games and Lego Star Wars isn't going to be any better on PS4 than on PS3. Your question acts as though there should always be this "evolution" going on but I disagree. I like watching Daffy Duck from the 1940s - I don't like watching the Daffy Duck from the 1980s. Sometimes a game is "really good" and doesn't need revving - it just needs to be made available for the current gen console.
It always blows my mind when countries get things right, and by that I mean providing adequate health, housing, and legal services to all residents.

Paying legal fees for employed persons sounds like a great way to provide them access to fair(er) representation. Otherwise if they have to pay out of pocket they can't afford it, and if it's loser pays the risk requires a large reward before it's rational to pursue.

Well done, again, Canada.
Why? Do you think the hundreds of thousands of people who work in the social services industry would sit idly by while their jobs are eliminated? Of course not. And that is the real reason it will never be implemented. For this to be palatable to the right, it's got to credibly eliminate a large existing bureaucracy -- something which might be palatable to the left, but for the specific interest of that bureaucracy.
What is it exactly you don't agree about? The fact that a particular nation is guilty of such 'terrorist' behavior (on a larger scale)? Or on the assumption that US could fit the bill?
How can you let them grow if in Europe we strongly protect things like agriculture or we make things artificially expensive with copyrights and the like. I mean, what can these people do?
Absolutely true. However, markets are not that easily understood and implicit expectations are quite difficult to assess.

My opinion is that if they had not gone public, nobody would have bought their shares for $46 each. But this is a worthless statement :)
YouTube comments have long been reviled as the worst of the worst the internet has to offer. I don't know why people seem to want the status quo.
Then why the hell aren't they selling a core version without Kinect? That's my main gripe and I'm upgrading my xBox 360 to PS4.
You have 1 public IP address and everything works because there are external servers for you to bounce things off, in order for external signals to reach the internal devices.

If we want proper peer-to-peer communications to be possible, we need to avoid, where possible, the need for a routable middle-man to help out.

Also, Asia Pacific has long run out of IPv4 addresses - back in 2011. There are now services starting up over there that are IPv6 only. This will spread over the next few years.

IPv6 is the future. There is no point complaining that we can shuffle around a few addresses here and there to make up a bit of space.
On the lethal discomfort of being a junior crew member on a luxury cruise: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/9860808/Five-dead-...

This happens again and again, year after year: lifeboat drills actually kill people. Usually low-ranking, low-paid crew members, usually when the lifeboat is being hoisted back up after the deployment drill. The systems are not adequately designed to support this use case, best practices (few or no people on board for drills) are not enforced, and people are dying--perhaps more people than are actually saved by lifeboats.

Many more such incidents are catalogued here: http://maritimeaccident.org/categories/lifeboat-accidents/
If you are using topic branches, it's bad practice to merge from upstream when it is not necessary [1,2,3], because you clutter your branch with new features that are mostly unrelated to what you are trying to accomplish. Consider merging the specific topic branch that you need rather than 'master'. Alternatively, if nothing depends on your branch yet, you can rebase onto 'master', though this may invalidate earlier testing.

Now to your specific question (fast-forward a local branch without checking it out), you can

git fetch origin master:master

or

git push . origin/master:master

Then you can merge 'master' instead of 'origin/master', thus eliminating the remote URL or "remote-tracking" language from the prepared commit message.

[1] http://gitster.livejournal.com/42247.html

[2] http://lwn.net/Articles/328436/

[3] http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/git_merges_from_upstream.html
The point isn't about money being "taken from taxpayers". They are already doing that regardless!

The point is would you rather have that money fed through an expensive, heavily bureaucratic and often corrupt means-tested welfare system, or would you rather just have it all distributed to everyone equally with nearly zero overhead and no means left for abuse or misuse.

I think the answer is obvious.
We dont need no education
Sometimes just opening a new tab.

Facebook seems to lag my whole pc, that might be facebook's fault, but it doesn't happen in chrome.

I browse reddit quite a lot, images just seem to render slower (and the render all distorted until finished).

Youtube videos seem to go out of focus constantly.

Cold start is quite slow, though not unacceptable times, definitely slower.

When I load a big page, it seems to take much longer before I can start scrolling.

None of this are actually tested, so some may be perception, but in general terms, it actually feels quite slower, not bad, but not snappy.
IIRC don't think this comment was actually made today/yesterday. I remember it being linked to a couple a weeks ago when they flipped the switch on G+ comments for the discussion tab and this was his response to that.
He's the only person I know of that can program using stick figures
Phew, this guys a quick-draw-mcgraw.
The crux is that this blog post compares Everpix with 55,000 users to Snapchat with 26M users and them having been around for the same amount of time.

See the crux?
I dont want another social media site, and I especially dont want to get forced into using one. I also want to use google's apps such has gmail, youtube, and others without having to sign into google+.
DailyMotion (and tons of others) is one but really it was a timing thing, YouTube hit at the right time regarding media and another technological advancement at the time, flash video.

Before Flash video, before html5 video, video was very difficult on the web to make work, the small yet pretty good codecs that the flash player video had were revolutionary at the time (Back in Macromedia days). Flash compression was always one of the best even though it was mostly software, still swf files are compressed/streamed in a very compact way.

Those specifically timed events won't happen again the same way, Youtube was born at the cusp of social media and the technology that made video economical enough. Youtube wouldn't be known as it is without that Flash video moment in history.
Bandcamp is a good service too, but there's no way it will completely overtake the place of cheap streaming that doesn't make anyone a lot of money. I agree that direct support is the way to go, but there's a place for both models.
I loved Buzz
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implemented in javascript:

https://gist.github.com/jiaaro/7372006
Any proposed government program that causes the net wealth of any distinct group of people to increase or decrease is going to be supported or opposed by various people for self-interested reasons. But the point is not to to wage war over who steals money from someone else and gives it to themselves by way of government bureaucracy, the point is to do something that results in a net benefit to society, for example by reducing the disincentive to work created by the discontinuation of government benefits when one finds gainful employment. The net result of that is to reduce unemployment and underemployment, which increases the tax base and allows a given level of government services to be provided at a lower tax rate (or an increased level of government services to be provided at the same tax rate, depending on your policy preferences).
Meant to get back yesterday - For some reason it worked when I tried about an hour later. I dont know if it was my connection or not.
What happened to "don't be evil"?

The criticism is a bit thick, but the prompts to join G+ are increasingly manipulative and gimmicky, designed almost entirely to _trick_ the user to into signing up + spamming their gmail contacts.

A requirement to have G+ account to make youtube comments is just one part of a greater trend that includes:

1. Requiring a G+ account to review Android apps in the Play store
2. Cunningly worded join prompts for first-time Android users when they start up their new Android device(s)

You know G+ is an abysmal failure when the Page & Co has to force it on users of google's other services. C'mon bro, what gives?

The moral superiority narrative that the valley likes to perpetuate vis-a-vis more traditional industries like banking, etc. is increasingly laughable and absurd.

Let's be real tech bros and broesses. Bidness is bidness.