skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've just tried VirWox and unfortunately I was not able to buy bitcoins there since there is a minimum of bitcoins that I need to buy (this was not informed in their FAQ). So I'm requesting that they refund my paypal payment. Let's see what will happen..
What I criticize is that the GSM modem on the Arduino GSM shield (Quectel M10) comes with no open firmware for this baseband processor - thus it's owned by your mobile network provider since he can update the firmware silently. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6722292 for a more detailed discussion about that topic from about two weeks ago.
> Google is certainly throwing their weight around these days, which is precisely why Microsoft was hated in the 90s.

Not really. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with "throwing your weight around," as you put it. For example, that's exactly what IBM was doing when they decimated SCO's absurd lawsuit.

Microsoft was hated because they aggressively pushed out competitors in dishonest ways, because they intentionally made it difficult to interoperate with their software through proprietary protocols and file formats, and because they attacked open source.

Some of your questions directly illustrate why "throwing your weight around" can be a good thing. Did Sun/Oracle accuse Google of "stealing" Java? Yes, but do you really want to live in a world where people can copyright APIs, thereby giving creators of popular APIs a large amount of control over everyone else? I surely don't (and I say this as someone who has dedicated literally years of my life into designing APIs) but Oracle and Microsoft would like that world.

I don't "expect" Microsoft to give away anything, but the fact that their business model depends on tightly controlling it makes them an inherently less open source-friendly company than Google.
I'm laughing out really loud:

* Understanding the code quality of the Fibonacci Sequence

* Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his defense

* Show HN: Built a Billion-Dollar Business and Still Gets Home By 5:30 PM

* Show HN: Tired of Being Tired

* Eulerian Video Magnification for Revealing Subtle Changes in Rails?

* Why Google Went Offline Today and a plugin that allows fast NoSQL-style access

* On Atwood's Please Don't Learn to read a sentence of Chinese kleptocracy

* Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Americans died and nobody noticed

* Why I left Google. What happened to all the female developers?

* How to land an airplane if you are logged in Gmail

* In emergency cases a passenger was selected and thrown out of the US

* Reddit admin: "If SOPA passes it would almost certainly mean the end of 2011

* Software Architecture cheat sheet for web forms

* How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a html5 game, polished it many many times
Man Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build a Future Without Cars

Notch's 48-hour game: Prelude of the Libyan Rebels

Room Temperature Superconductivity Found in X.Org

Evernote Peek, The First Guitar That Anybody Can Play

How Carrots Became the new Nexus 5

US claims all .com and .net websites are in jail, the Internet café in Zimbabwe

Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a wireless airplay speaker

Judge Orders U.S. to Release iOS Maps App Tonight
Make the circuit board smaller and shove it in a gutted old phone - now you have open source phone, unrootable and not suspicious.

Edit: sorry, wolfgke informed us that still we can't have the cake.
I believe that another point needs to be made in terms of privacy. If a person does somehow become completely anonymous I every way humanly possible I still don't believe the have their privacy under control.

What I mean by this is that everyone around the person would also need to be private and anonymous. Say I, for example, am not on Faceboook, Twitter, Google+, etc. however my mother, father, brother and sister all have those services they will post something that is related to me or might even post something about me directly.

This can go for friends, co-workers, complete strangers on the street. You could basically never be around anyone with a Internet connected device(which are everywhere by the way).

So what are we supposed to do then?

Even areas that we walk in are associated with something? The rich part of the city, the poor part. In the country side. Anything we do Internet or not is associated with something. This goes for the government "surveillance" or ad targeting. I am all for privacy and I care about mine greatly but I not going to throw my life out the window in order to keep it.
Good stuff! This would be awesome as a word cloud.
It's always refreshing to find someone who wants a good debate to be settled by experiment. Hopefully that would be enough. Portugal famously had great success with decriminalization of nearly all illicit drugs, but unfortunately I don't think too many countries have changed their own laws as a result. There's almost always too much politics involved, and it's usually easy to find a reason that is at least superficially convincing as to why what works elsewhere will not work at home.
> I would hate to be the person who earns just over that arbitrary 100k line.

Yeah, that would be terrible. How could one survive?
This reminds me of the old paradox that a man who marries his maid is reducing GDP, because when she was the maid she would cook and clean and he would pay her enough to support her as a business transaction, but as husband and wife, she still cooks and cleans and he still supports her but it's not a business transaction anymore.

Likewise, a mother who goes to work and spends her whole paycheck on child care increases GDP, but if she just stays home and cares for the child herself, it doesn't count because it's not a business transaction.
I wrote on this a while back (http://neltnerb.tumblr.com/post/58818804903/an-entrepreneurs...), and it is useful to note that mathematically a guaranteed income is completely identical to a negative income tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax

That article contains a lot more information than most articles about stipends. Note that the US Earned Income Credit is a negative income tax, yet it doesn't seem to even make a blip on anyone's radar as communism.
If you don't actively maintain the tests, then yes you can get a wrong impression of correctness. But when done properly testing helps ensure a certain level of correctness and old bugs don't reappear. A good rule to follow is to create a test(s) for each bug and run the tests on every check-in which is pretty easy with continuous integration. This will mitigate most bugs before they reach production. And the ones that do reach production get fixed...forever.
Coffitivity is a great site. I really liked the idea of having those small apps to generate revenue from the site when I saw you guys doing it.
The point is it's a real-life example of what your parent believes will happen if basic income is implemented.
Thanks a lot. It'll be very helpful i'm sure.
That's for a large part due to the charging speed itself. If you charge at the maximum allowed current your battery will have the shortest longevity. Most chargers advertise on the capability to charge fast, but for a lot of battery chemistries it comes with that trade off. If you have the habit of charging over night I'd suggest to buy a slow charger or trickle charger. The slowest (optimum longevity) are typically "40 rate" which means (I'm simplifying here) the charge current is 1/40 the Max capacity current and takes about 40 hours to charge.

Note: don't go cheap by buying Chinese crap for battery chargers, especially Li chemistries. Best case: works as advertised. Worst case: electrocution or house goes up in flames.
YouTube Google+ Comments Introduces New Tools to Combat Spam
I have a suspicion that for larger companies, it's more a question of which teams are like that than which companies are, since the line manager's attitude has a huge influence on the results (for example, one bent the HR system substantially for me to enable me to house hunt effectively - a personal act rather than an organisational one).

As for what percentage? I'm not really sure. Shadowcat is how it is because it was baked into the culture from day one because that's how things should be done, so I'm not sure I can extrapolate usefully from it.
I think he's referring to cached thoughts. Thinking critically takes more effort than retrieving cached thoughts. So why think critically in lieu of a ready made meme?
I think some sort of communication from Uber about this would have gone a long way.
The government isn't subsidizing Wal-Mart; Wal-Mart is subsidizing the government by reducing these people's dependence on government benefits from 100% to something less.
> 5. WordPress has left the solar system

Amazing. Thank you!
So someone has finally been blamed for all these <table>s!
Just contacted Uber London on twitter, would love if anyone could put me in touch with someone. Would really like to use the service again.
"Redditor Explains Why They're Wrong"

Like that is going to happen.
Google’s Chromium team is building a way to launch apps without installation
We would then have to print more money.

You seem to be under the impression that this is not being done already. That impression would be wrong. The treasury creates trillions of new dollars every year.
Lost hard drive with £4m stored bitcoins
How to land an airplane if you are logged in Gmail

Matt Damon: Edward Snowden did a great job translating LPTHW to Ruby

Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Family

Mozilla should move Persona out of the plane (2004)

Sleep is more important than your users?

MongoDB Gotchas and How To Avoid Getting Fired From Your Own Company

~/.osx — a collection of well-written GPGPU programming tutorials
In CA, that's basically the scenario.

In MI, can deposit is 10c, and many grocery stores have returns in the back.

The situation described still seems unlikely to be tremendously common, but is more feasible than your reasoning would suggest.
My wife posited that perhaps their gravity suits kept them on the ground (which i found charming, at least she was thinking of gravity, and/or science fiction). My 8 year old daughter thought for a second and said the rock would fall, then on her way out of the room said it would float (no doubt taking some time to catalogue everything she's ever seen or read about space). I'm fairly sure if the question were posed as multiple choice, they both would have answered correctly.

No indictment of either (or anyone else who would answer incorrectly). After all, not many people think of physics very often on a day to day basis, particularly physics of extraterrestrial bodies.
I like computational intelligence since we still don’t really know what intelligence is and whether our kind of intelligence can be reproduced artificially (although there are some hints that it can be done).
That's presuming this is a "bubble" at all. It's not; the data doesn't support what you're proposing. That, or every time any single ridiculous transaction (or rejection) happens, we have to call it a bubble.

Let's get serious here. SnapChat refusing $3 billion, while ridiculous, does not at all compare to the masses of VC cash going to thousands of companies with no idea about how they were going to make money at all.

If you must compare them, compare them by scale. Today, we have a small handful of companies getting a lot of attention because of questionable financial dealings (whether it be IPO or the refusal of cash).

In the '90s, the differences were much larger (presumption that putting "Internet" in front of any business idea would automatically mean IPO and great riches), and the number of businesses involved was much larger.

That is why there is no bubble. When there is an actual bubble, I'll be more than happy to call it out.

Some are bigger, some are smaller.

To qualify as a "bubble," doesn't it have to involve a large segment of the industry, not just a handful of companies?
Yes, this.

My take is that capitalism is corrupted because people are unable to meet basic needs. We pretend that capitalism is a system where everyone is able to make informed decisions. We pretend that in capitalism, a 10% chance of making $1M a year in income has the same value as a 100% chance of making $100k a year. This is just not the case.

People have two different types of risk they can take. Income risk, and personal risk. Personal risk is your shelter, your food, your health, your family. Income risk is your expected income beyond what is needed to meet those basic needs.

If your personal risk is covered for some reason, then you are able to objectively evaluate income risk. But if your personal risk is not covered, you have to be more conservative. The downside is not that you might not make as much, it's that you might lose your home, health, or starve. You can't be logical about that.

If we have a system where personal risk is largely covered, then the free market will actually pay people what they are worth because people will feel free to actually take risks and (for instance) start companies and pursue their passions.

This is some stuff I wrote on it a while back, it's better written than what I put here.

http://neltnerb.tumblr.com/post/58818804903/an-entrepreneurs...
> This used to get on my nerves, how can people be so stupid? Why won't they just think for a moment!? But recently I've been focussing some effort on learning a language (Spanish) and realise that in that this case the first-principles style of learning that works so well for physics and maths is largely useless

I had the exact same experience. I'm an Engineer, and my entire life I've only been able to learn (and self-teach) by reasoning through first principles. When I can't reason it through, I don't want to learn it "just because"

I never put any effort into learning a language, and always thought it was "dumb". In high school I could say hello and count to 10 in a couple of languages, but that was it.

When I was 27 I started traveling through Central and South America, and wanted to learn Spanish. I honestly didn't know if I was capable, or if my brain and learning style would allow for it.

For the first couple of months I was frustrated and always saying things like "but that doesn't make any sense", "It should be like this" etc.

After a few months, I just stopped trying to reason it through and started going with it, like you said. After about a year and a half I stopped translating into English in my head, I started dreaming in Spanish, and I can now guess words and verb conjugations without consciously realizing I even know that given word. It first started happening when I was a little drunk, which is a good time for me to actually get stuff done in my head, because I stop trying to reason everything through and just go with it.

Stick with it, you'll get it. I can't more highly recommend immersing yourself for a prolonged period.
How so? They wouldn't be expecting any income at all if they only had a job, it would be even worse.

Of course, you'd be eligible again on return.
There's absolutely no way to justify a student attending a physics class and not knowing that the Moon does have gravity as well.
Yes, but once you give everybody $X,000 dollars per month you'll spur inflation and in a couple years $X,000 will no longer be enough to live on. So then you've got to adjust your basic income to $(X+Y),000 per month to make sure everybody has enough, but that will spur more inflation and you'll be right back where you started. Meanwhile, that money has to come from somewhere and it will come out in the form of taxes. Remember, that only about one in three people in the US is employed. So now every working American has to be taxed enough to pay for three basic incomes plus their own incomes on top of that. The rich will complain about the added taxes, but it's the middle-class that really suffers, since they will NOT escape the added tax burden and their extra taxes combined with rising inflation mean they now make just barely enough to get by, effectively placing them in the lower-class. Now you've got a gigantic lower-class, a tiny middle class, and an upper class that only gets richer because they can accelerate the rate at which they siphon off income from the lower classes through price increases.

It's a nice idea, but it's not a good idea.
Regardless of social economic status, what the article points out are still many valid reasons to be thankful.
Exactly right: you have to recognize that the moon is in orbit/freefall with respect to Earth, which means there is no gravitation near its center of mass and only tidal forces away from the center of mass. Then you have to estimate that the tidal forces on the astronaut will be small compared to the moon's gravitational forces on him. None of this even counts centrifugal forces from the moon's rotation or effects of the sun. Nested non-intertial reference frames play merry hell with the simplicity of a FBD sans prior knowledge (or solid logical reasoning) about what can be neglected.

Even with a physics degree, my kneejerk reaction didn't come from first principles. I, too, was doing "stupid pattern matching" -- the only initial difference between me and the floating-pen-people was that I happened to know that gravitational acceleration could be reasonably approximated as constant on large astronomical bodies (moon is g/6). It took a few seconds for the "otherwise the planetary body would disintegrate" argument to occur to me and even longer for the formal mathematical picture.
You just did. And it shows in the stats I happen to see right now.
Can you try stemming the words (bitcoin, bitcoins) as well as combining synonymous words like (go, golang).
And money printing devalues the money of the rich and distributes it to the poor.
That's why I don't understand why Will Evans writes: " I'd love to apologize to Uber [...], but on the other hand I understand why they banned me."

I see no reason why he should apologize, nor why he appreciatives that Uber banned him. He only wrote code to interprete the data Uber is sending and even made it open source (the latter makes it public accessible research, which I support even more). If Uber does not want others to interprete their data they should not provide any service that sends it (and if Uber's business model requires such a service/app: bad luck for Uber).
Is there an actual difference at that level?
Availability of loans and grants for college that can't be used for other purposes is a very different situation, because there are fewer options competing for that money.
Actually, it seems like Fring's bootstrapped company acqui-hires Heisenberg's, but he's not content to be a manager or COO. It's kind of like how Monty sold out to Sun, only to turn around and build the same project again. Only he didn't blow anyone up, which may have been a big misstep.
Giving it to everyone, period, is not mathematically tenable. A thousand dollars per month to every adult US citizen would represent over 2 trillion dollars in additional spending per year. At the very least you have to change the tax structure to claw it back from people as they earn more money.
Obama wins back the right to keep emails private

John Resig's 'Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja Update'

From YC Rejection to 10,000 Users in 1 Day

PyPy is faster than pushing a pixel to the screen

screenshot: http://s28.postimg.org/k9pdb67n1/funny.png
You increase taxes to provide the basic income, so on net you're not providing it to everyone. On gross you provide it to everyone so that there's no sharp drop off at any point.
I've found that the main problem is that people do think. About things that they've seen on tv, or read, that are just plain fictional.

Humans have a huge advantage in being able to communicate knowledge across generations, and a huge disadvantage in being able to communicate bullshit across generations.
Damn it, I want to read all of those!
These are good generalized life lessons for humans as well.

Seek new knowledge, learn well, reason logically and inductively, recognize patterns and generalize, contemplate and plan for the future, converse and be social, survive,
and strive for optimum health (my addition).

Very good advice in whether or not you're an automaton.
Me too. I tried several times, but was always stymied by living in the UK away from London and not wanting to give my personal/financial details to a site I didn't trust on the internet.

If there was a way to pay cash and get bitcoins, I'd have done it years ago.
I created the hack to benefit others and to create and visualise some pretty cool data.

I know why Uber banned me, they probably don't want people knowing how to access their data. This is not a reason I approve of but I can see their reasoning.

The reason I'd like to apologise is because of the above, if they feel I have harmed their service (although I feel it was more beneficial to them in advertising it) then I'd apologise.
Would a mobile network provider allow an open firmware to connect to their network?

Personally, I think it could be OK as long as the processor is contained (i.e., no open access to the main memory, reliable mechanism for fully shutting it down, etc).
HNSearch does not allow chronological searching and has a limit of 1000 posts per query. Unfortunately.
I find it sad, but not surprising, that one of the key disagreements with a BI system is the assumption that poor people are lazy and will spend it on drugs.

There are people like that but they make up such a small portion of the population considered, "poor," that it's insulting everyone in a very large demographic. I'd wager that the effects of these people who do use their BI for drugs and recreation will be statistically insignificant.

Whereas a BI would provide a lot of mobility and improve the bargaining power of the lower classes if I understand BI. It seems to me that would have far-reaching benefits for the economy at large -- even for high-income earners.
Or someone misspelled it twice.
Definitely. I do think that with a guaranteed income, minimum wage laws as well as welfare in most other forms should simply be eliminated. Pay a market rate for the work, if you don't pay enough, you don't deserve an employee. But you can also charge less for easy work and get away with it because to the employees it's basically just spending money to use for luxury items.

How much should a garbage man get paid? Arguably (to me) more than many other professions. The free market for labor is badly broken, and I think that a guaranteed income will help (although not perfectly). Besides, I for one think that giving people the freedom to raise their kids for a while, or do art, or start a company, is more valuable to society than having them work a very likely unnecessary job just because we incentivize working over value generation.
This "old bugs reappearing" how does this happen? People make the same logical mistakes in new code? Old buggy code is literally resurrected somehow?
I suspected that time difference between falls would be not linear, but I was not sure about actual ratio.

Playing with freefall distance equations showed that time to fall difference is square root of 6. Here we are:

Height = gEarth*timeOnEarth^2/2 = gMoon*timeOnMoon^2/2
gEarth = gMoon * 6
6 * gMoon * timeOnEarth^2/2 = gMoon * timeOnMoon^2/2
6 * timeOnEarth^2 = timeOnMoon^2
timeOnMoon = sqrt(6 * timeOnEarth^2)
timeOnMoon = sqrt(6) * timeOnEarth = 2.45 * timeOnEarth
Stuff and nonsense! The only reason the lamestream media promulgates such poppycock, ist das it makes the maths easier!
Or, of course, many smaller strings...
They also aren't going to get anywhere if they sue the person for more money than they'll ever have in their lives. It would end up just looking bad for them to sue someone into the ground. But I think they are trying to sue them for all they're worth.
> So many poor people.

I think poor is a relative term and I dont think America has as many as lets say Central or South America. I dont see people living in shacks sifting through landfills to make ends meet.