skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get your answer back in 18 hours. For many research questions, being able to answer quickly has value - either for the use of the results, or if you're actually doing many runs doing parameter sweeps and the like.
You wouldn't need to have minimum income that large to make a big difference. The international poverty line is $1.25/day. A minimum income of $500/yr would make a big difference to absolute poverty. More importantly, it would be affordable ($3.5 trillion or 4% of world GDP) while your proposal would be huge burden.

It would have little effect on the relative poverty in developed nations. But there are a surprising numbers of people in the US ((1.65 million households) in extreme poverty (defined as $2/day) that would be helped by a low minimum income.
It is naive and stupid to believe we will ever be able to export excessive population to Earth orbit and beyond.

It is naive and stupid to state that overpopulation increases the chances of a species' survival.
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As in people doing these diets years before soylent, not years on said diet. My grammar might not've been clear enough.

EDIT: Specifically I'm thinking of the hundreds (if not thousands by now) of people on T-Nation/Testosterone Nation who've done the 1-month Velocity diet, which is (or was, I haven't been there in years, but that particular diet has been around for at least 5 years+), a protein shake diet with very little solid food. There are years of people doing it for a month and relating their experiences, highlights and downfalls, and I'm sure there are several more experiences in that world that would provide better data points. However, it has the issue of being mostly anecdotal evidence.
I love open refine but I like scripted events so I can repeat it easily and move on to other tools. Currently I use Python and Pandas.

I want a way to use Open Refine and export the code to Python.
Not really. When people say 'democracy', they generally mean modern states with universal suffrage. They don't mean to encompass "ancient greek states where only wealthy native men could vote" nor "enlightenment-era Polish noble republics". In this argument, I find that it's the people who claim any system that has more than one voter to be a 'democracy' as the ones bringing in the semantic ambiguity.

The spirit of the argument "there is no(t much) war between democracies" is that "when everyone gets a say, they generally don't choose to march off to war". Given the spirit of the argument, to then define democracy as forms of government with quite limited voter eligibility, is somewhat intentionally missing the point.
Well, whatever is called "bread" in most of the US, especially things served in fast food, etc. have very distant relationship with real bread. Anybody who tried the real thing would never agree that the real thing and the spongy rubbery tasteless thing served in fast food should be even named with the same word.
Well, asm.js gets around this by piggybacking on JavaScript's syntax. So that's one approach.

Adoption really is a big issue, and I think it kind of misses the point to handwave it by saying, "Oh, adoption is such a big issue that it's insurmountable, so let's ignore it." Google hasn't really done a lot to work with anyone else on PNaCl, or even really to address any issues anyone's brought up with PNaCl. They're just sort of creating an island so far. If PNaCl is going to be a thing, they're going to need to get past that.
Main comments in the original video about taste were that it was pretty nasty. Also smells bad.
Did you manage a self-selected team?

I swiped the Roman Evaluation Method from Luke Hohmann. During interviews, a No from one is a No from all. Self selecting teams is one of those agile advices.

If your prickly superstar was chosen collectively, he would have been given a lot of latitude. Eyes wide open kinda thing.

The only sticky interpersonal problems I've had is when some higher ranking genius assigns people to my teams, mostly unwanted and unwelcome.

And sometimes just plan bad soup. People good individually, bad together. Like when the boss assigned an outspoken Lebonese and an outspoken Israeli to my team. They got along as well as peanut butter and lug nuts.
You have a lot of excuses for why the post-coup economy had problems - the price of copper changed, currency was pegged to the dollar (and who decided that policy?)

Chile's GDP in 1969 was 7 billion. 1970 Allende becomes president it is 8 billion. 1971 its 9 billion. 1972 its 10 billion. 1973, the year of the coup its 11 billion. Then 1974: 16 billion, 1975: 15 billion, 1976: 7 billion, 1977: 9 billion. It was 3.5 billion less in 1976 then it has been in 1972 under Allende. So then it runs up and begins descending again. 1984 19.8 billion, 1985 19.2 billion, 1986 16.5 billion, 1987 17.7 billion.

Going from 11.5 billion in 1972 to 16.5 billion in 1986, 17.7 billion in 1987 is not all that impressive.

From 1994 to 2010, under left wing governments, Chile's GDP grew by $124 billion to $172 billion.

This notion that the coup transformed the Chilean economy for the better was at its height (in the U.S. as well) in 1982 - right before the crash, which needed a multi-billion dollar IMF loan/bailout. The story you're telling sounded better 31 years ago, before that big crash.
> Which is exactly the problem.

I don't follow you.
Well, that makes sense. Also someone upthread mentioned that YC Partners does indeed own a stake in Soylent [1].

[1] - http://blog.soylent.me/post/64789154918/soylent-funding-anno...
Thanks, go-restful looks awesome. Definitely going to play around with it!
Even plain old water can easily kill you.
I've heard it attributed to former GE CEO Jack Welch [1] who is apparently Fortune magazine's Manager of the Century.

In terms of hard science, unfortunately blind randomized controlled trials are impossible, so it's not possible to definitively isolate causal relationships and confounding factors. "It seemed to work for GE in the 1980s" is the best that's on offer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve
You have a funny definition of "likely". Possible, sure, but likely?
If you had the right of first refusal to buy your own debt for pennies on the dollar, what would be the point of paying back any debt at all, ever?

But then let's say you could big on for the right to collect your own debt along with the other debt collectors. That would just bring the price up to whatever you're willing to pay plus a premium, or the whole debt in itself.

Since you could pay $1,000 for a $20,000 debt, the collector could offer $1,500 to collect that debt, knowing they could already get $1,000 from you towards it. That would continue until either you have shown that you could pay back the debt yourself, or you'd be outbid by one pissed off collector that would make your life more hellish.
And a statistical average is very different than exactly when your specific drive will fail.
Clocks Are Bad, Or, Welcome to the World of Distributed Systems
Not sure what you're implying with this comment. Is it that people concerned about security of their phones are wearing Tin-Foil Hats?
Google launches Chrome 31
Ok got it. Thanks for the feedback. I think I can probably do something to prevent playback triggered by scroll events.
Corn subsidies + sugar tariffs (US sugar price is double of the world market).
I think the related but slightly more general claim is that you cannot update your beliefs in the same direction for both of two exhaustive and exclusive outcomes. In this case, if people disagreeing with you reinforces your beliefs, then it should be the case that everyone agreeing with you makes you question those beliefs. (This might be reasonable if you are e.g. in a mental asylum.)
Correction: you can write cross-platform PNaCl code; there's a project called pepper.js that compiles the PNaCl application using emscripten. To quote the GitHub README: "Native Pepper applications can now be run in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and more."

This leaves them in roughly the same place; write code that will be heavily optimized for one of the browsers, then include a compatibility layer that will make it runnable in all of the others. Without making an argument as to which underlying approach is better, I see no clear upper-hand from the perspective of compatibility.

What somebody needs to do now is define another language that compiles to both PNaCl and asm.js-suitable languages, and offer a deployment mechanism that correctly uses one or the other when in a browser-optimizable situation. Nothing beats too many standards like adding another standard to unify them. ;)
I would argue that some free software projects can be compared to Google search and Watson.

Sharing the source to Google would be better for society, but a bit bad for Google, and since Google decides, they are deciding not to. The same goes for Github. It’s the collective action problem.
"Different" is a very diplomatic way of saying it. Probably better to just call it what it is: wrong. The link seems to be dead so I haven't even read the article but I do have some personal experience in the matter.

While there are a bunch of reasons for why it is the way it is, I think a big part of it is the goddamned Keitai. For a lot of Japanese, the only way they ever accessed the web was via their mobile phone. Until smartphones, this meant a very very dumbed down experience. Sadly, even now that smartphones are prevalent, there's still an attitude of "Let's wait and see if this smartphone fad keeps up for a while..."
> Sounds more like Java to me. Let's replace a few words in the article:

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

After seeing all the web developers of the 90s dump on Java applets all the time, it's fascinating to see the same functionality being reimplemented piecemeal in Javascript.
Managers found out this morning. It's possible he was part of a pilot program and had early knowledge, but I suspect it's a coincidence. If anything, having early knowledge would likely have kept him from writing that until after the new Microsoft program was announced.
Here we are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3094072
Given you're at a computer using HN, then at any off time a good meal is no meal. You can safely say stuffing more food into you is not needed.

So the only real reason you eat in these off periods is enjoyment of food, stopping feeling hungry and habit.

This is not what Soylent is for as far as I can see.
Using relatives is fine; my only point is that bitcoin is new and interesting and newsworthy and the negatives tend to get focused on. I honestly do not think that crime is more rampant in the bitcoin economy than the dollar economy. And this is just considering financial theft, and not institutionalized crime - e.g., innumerable instances of malfeasance committed by large banks or the wholesale robbery of the population through inflation of the dollar. Considered in total, I think bitcoin represents a far more honest and less crime-prone monetary system.
Backblaze doesn't use RAID, they use blob-level replication. I'm sure they can lose data, the question is how likely they are to lose data simultaneous with you losing your HD and local backup.
if you move them to a known place that is unreachable then they have effectively disappeared
This is real big news! This blows out the concern for long term product availability, and will make more conservative people to adapt the product.
I'm confused - he already has a store, already has demand for this product. There are even comments here from people saying they have already bought this set from this guy. Why does he need Kickstarter? He is not asking us to fund development of a new project, he is asking us to fund his supply chain.
That argument is mostly used by racists to support their racist beliefs(by claiming that there is no way they can be racist). There are so many different levels of power and influence in society and it's so variable depending on location and situation that saying only one race or group is in a position to be racist is a joke.
Raising statistical standards to reduce amount of non-reproducible studies
"Lastly, the baseband processor is usually the master processor, whereas the application processor (which runs the mobile operating system) is the slave."

Can maybe somebody explain what this means exactly? Could the baseband processor/OS be used as an attack vector to exploit the main mobile OS? Could the OS protect itself from this?
Hey SandB0x, thanks for the advice! I actually started off by using numpy.dot, which is precisely what's needed. The problem is that I need it to go even faster (currently takes a few seconds) but this function is already heavily optimized and uses Intel MKL to accelerate the math. In fact, my cython implementation would be slower than numpy.dot were it not for some embedded logic that breaks out of the dot product half way through calculation. As I'm computing the row * row, going element by element, if the running sum of those products gets to be really negative (indicating that in the dimensions multiplied so far, the two rows are highly dissimilar) I stop tryin to calculate the rest of the row, thereby saving me from calculating the full dot product. This is cheating obvioisly, but it's x3 or x4 faster numpy.dot. So, because there's branching logic in my implementation of the dot product, I can't express it interns of Einstein summations.
Hey thanks for the link, and for not being a passive-aggressive prick.
Many startups put the word "utilize" in their press releases to sound fancier and more official: "This...prompted us to utilize more robust packaging."

You can always say "use" instead of "utilize" to avoid buzzwords and sound more conversational. In fact, there are only a few specific cases (mostly in science writing) where "utilize" is necessary:

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/use-versu...
When did we have free tuition for everybody?
Marvellous, so 6 years later they're finally getting around to taking mobile security seriously. Too bad for the ~900 million buggy old webkits already in distribution.

Of course, this is entirely the fault of the carriers!
Using ssh without password
Electron Appears Spherical, Squashing Hopes for New Physics Theories
Yes. What I'd really like to know is, how many bitcoins are being exchanged for actual goods and services, not just shifted from wallet to wallet or swapped back and forth for dollars.
Because the world needed SSH public key authentication tutorial #5,772,180.
I enjoyed it much :)
Let's recognize the fact that McDonald's food actually tastes good to a large portion of the population, for better or worse. To do otherwise is, IMO, harmful to the discussion of improving what we eat as a society.
I am assuming that the RTOS has direct and full unrestricted access to the hardware such as the camera and microphone? If so then I would also assume that an over the air attack to silently suck data from the camera and microphone would be pretty easy for those with access to the RTOS (such as governments)?

I know there has been software to do just this in the past on some Nokia devices but I would assume (I am doing that a lot in this post!) it is just as possible in pretty much every mobile phone?

Anyone with knowledge of this care to comment on my assumptions?
no, not at all
> Gain experience before telling people how they should do things. I’ve been a manager since 1997, so I think I’m justified in writing this article.

Most to all of his advice is good. Even the bit about gaining a bit of experience. But merely having been a manager doesn't give you any special ability, and never convince yourself that you don't have something valuable to say because you aren't a manager. Managers aren't special, they're just people doing other jobs.
Show HN: Author Scan, a service that lets you monitor the web
Anyone can declare bankruptcy and have their debts wiped away. What is the point of paying back any debt at all? Why not just run up as much debt as you possible can and then just declare bankruptcy?
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> you can use your smartphone inside a Faraday cage.

Or, more accurately stated, "you can't".
That's what YOU want. Compare that to the status quo and it's hard to argue against the fatty, grease filled cheeseburger.
> There is a well established argument that racism is "prejudice plus power", which actually makes disempowered groups incapable of being racist.

Note that that "argument" was an attempt to redefine racism after people had generally agreed that the old definition was a bad thing, so that the emotional negativity of that association would be limited to only things that the people doing the redefining didn't like.

Its obviously the case that, generally speaking, the harms produced by any kind of harmful attitude are increased as the people holding the harmful attitude have greater power, but its pretty silly to redefine racism from its generally accepted definition of "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior".

But, even if you accept the silly redefinition, you can still have prejudice plus power in a person of any race, even if in general members of that race are less likely to hold power than members of another race, so it would still not be the case that members of a disadvantage race could not be racist.
Recently, they have been updating parts of Android through their Google Play Services app. I don't know enough about Android development to know if this webview is used much in the framework of the OS (especially with the new 4.4 out), but I think this is more for html5-based apps.
Ideally in most circumstances you should have at least one cold (non-raid, non-connected) backup of all data, and an offsite one. More being much better.
Wow - I love this, love both the aims of this project and the look of the finished product. Fantastic stuff!

Can't wait to see one of these recreated next:

http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/atomictoys/GilbertU238Lab...
One thing I am concerned about is, since PNaCl is essentially yet another platform, how Google (or anyone) is going to manage the host of supporting tools required. Tools like dependency management, libraries, process control etc.

By the way, Google has already proven their "platform-creation" skills with Android.
It's a form of self-delusion whereby you start from a place of supreme self-assurance and the existence of critics only serves to further your confidence.

I mean, make no mistake: the parent not only has no idea what he's talking about, his thinking also suffers from multiple logical fallacies. Let's go through a few of them.

1. Eating together civilizes people. It's emotionally and socially edifying.

Sure. Who said you need to consume your Soylent all by yourself? I told one of my coworkers that I ordered a week's worth, and guess what: she asked me if she could try it with me.

2. Eating real food persisted throughout human history because it's more than about eating.

No, eating "real food" (whatever that means) persisted throughout human history because we did not have any alternatives. It's kind of like aging: because it kinda just happens, we have accepted it as a normal thing. But that doesn't mean it is normal, or should be accepted as such.
Comparing paying for health care to dying in a developed country in the year 2013 is a disgrace. It sounds like you're talking about an undeveloped hell-hole.
Before 1998 in the UK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuition_fees_in_the_United_King...)
Yes, it is totally inaccurate. It is like the people who performed witch hunts: "If she doesn't admit to being a witch, she must be lying. If she admits to being a witch, then obviously she is because why would anyone admit to that?" If either outcome of a test -- criticism, ~criticsm -- increases your prior belief estimate, you need to have another look at Bayes' theorem.
For an example of an open-source GSM implementation that would allow one to build a base station, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBTS . There are lots of videos about it on youtube where you can see it in action.
In a one-player game, you can write a competent, consistent computer player. Then use the standard deviation in performance of that bot over many runs as a measure of chance in the game.

In a multiplayer game, write a skilled/optimum player and a naive/basic player. The win-percentage of the weak bot can be a good measure of chance.

Many roguelikes (a category FTL is usually included in) have bots which facilitate this kind of analysis. But since competent bots are sometimes difficult to write well, some games also use "scummers" and/or stats modules which generate millions of randomly-generated levels and compute difficulty or reward heuristics for each, ensuring that the st. dev. is within desired ranges. If the heuristics are good, this can be sufficient.

Another option in a hosted game or one that can phone home is to have real-live players be the guinea pigs instead of the bots. Same basic principles apply.
Why would the baseband processor need access to anything but the RF and maybe the GPS hardware?
Sorry to nitpick

SDHC - SD card high-capacity

SDCH - Shared Dictionary Compression over HTTP
Yeah a lot of websites make you scroll too much. So sick of scrolling like 3 pages to see one sentence slide in from the left in 48 point text.
Millions of people eat at McDonalds and like it. Most people would choose the McDonalds burger. The people that give a shit about factory farming and nutrition are in the minority.
Bullshit. What's the point of bringing up that it's used on Febreeze rather than the medical or food-based usages? Your point was very clearly intended to scare people because it's used in cleaning products.
It wouldn't. Though you could build it that way, I guess, if you felt so compelled.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseband_processor
Part of the new program is an explicit focus on frequent feedback. If anything, there ought to be fewer surprises than the current once (twice-ish with midyear discussions) a year feedback.

The risk going forward is that without being forced to a distribution, wishy-washy managers will trend towards the middle. High achievers will be under-compensated, and under-achievers will be overcompensated. The budget hasn't changed, so the same pool of money has to be divided among the same set of people, managers now have more freedom as to how.
There is nothing abstract (or debatable) about ocean acidification, forests burning, desertification, thawing tundra, depleted aquifers, etc.

Malthusianism is correct in a closed system. Predictions of doom and gloom are as of yet unfulfilled because humans are clever and find new pockets of resources to exploit.

Do you believe our Earth is a closed system or an open system?

Malthusianism is incorrect in that they did not foresee ever increasing productivity leading to costs approaching zero. So reaching many limits has been postponed (e.g. peak oil is an economic issue).

I'm personally optimistic. We're in a bear race. I hope and work towards a sustainable economic model. Trivially, that means decoupling economic growth from resource consumption. I hope it happens.

But don't pretend the current situation is anything but dire. A positive outcome is far from certain.