skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the minds of most people it's more of a "you will not go hungry or get cold in the winter" level of support, and I would make the argument that the majority of folks would continue to work to supplement their income beyond the bare necessities.

And that's the essential fallacy: You cannot control the prices of goods and services in the market.

Once you provide a basic income to everybody, that will create a scenario wherein the majority of people benefit from the income inversely proportionally to their level of other income. This is the intended effect: The poor benefit the most and the upper-class are largely unaffected. So it's a good idea, right? Not exactly: What are the poor going to spend their income on? Primarily food, housing -- the "not going hungry or cold" things. So they've got more money to go out and buy food and they will. And the lower-middle-class who make a bit more than that will now have enough money to buy more food and better housing and they will. And the middle-middle class have a little extra money to spend as they wish and they will. And so on. But the majority of that money will be spent. With more free cash to go around, prices will rise to capture the additional profits. When prices go up we have inflation and now the poor are back to not being able to afford food and shelter and the lower-middle-class are back to living hand-to-mouth and so forth. The market compensates for the additional influx of cash by providing opportunities to soak it up, so it doesn't wind up helping anyone in the long run.

Well we'll just peg it to the rate of inflation and the problem will be solved, right? Again -- it's not that simple.

See, only one in three Americans is working. If we determine that each American needs about $500 per month to "not go hungry or cold" then that means the average American will have to pay $1,500 in additional taxes. We'll burden the upper class with the majority of those taxes, of course, but this isn't good for the middle class either. The upper-middle-class winds up being saddled with enough additional tax burden that they join the middle-middle class. And the middle-middle class who were previously getting along fine on a household income of $50,000 just joined the lower-middle class because even with the added income they have to pay more for the basics: food and shelter because of the additional inflation.

So now we're saddled with a shrinking middle class, (sound familiar?) nobody being able to afford any more than they were before and the rich continue to remain largely unaffected by all of this. In the end it accomplishes the exact opposite of what you set out to do.
As does WPI. Good move, imo, starting with functional programming Just Makes Sense
Notwithstanding the privacy concerns, this agent is a real jerk. it also is concerning how much leeway they have in blocking people. pretty subjective what can be considered a medical condition that could pose a risk to others or yourself.
In practical sense .NET does not exist outside of Microsoft world. Most of those who mention Mon have never used it (or non-MS environments for that matter). Don't waste time on "Microsoft-Java". Either learn Java, or better yet start with Python.
A friend told me recently that they liked Python because it was an easy language to start a project with, but they loved OCaml because it was an easy language to finish a project with.

My point? The best language to learn first is the one you are most likely to be able to finish a project with, and the best approach to figure out which is which is to start learning whichever one seems like the right one. If you're wrong, the good news is it's much easier to learn a second language, and a third, forth, etc.

I started with pascal, and it was the incorrect choice. I'm still not sure what the correct choice would have been, but from here it looks like lisp/small talk, neither of which I have bothered to learn yet. Go figure!
...a monkey would have scored better than me :(
Show HN: Monitor your tethered mobile data signal, usage & connection time
hmm i don´t know...to give 50% i think you must bring something seriously substantial to the table (not 10k!!), no matter how tweek the numbers the investment still needs to stack up...i think equity you give should be related to the level of investment, but also value of the business. However in early stages, my key question is, how do you value the business to then have more or less decent number to work with?
Tether Strength for Mac:
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Really?

What would that information possibly be useful for?
No, gox works like all the other bitcoin exchanges, people send them bitcoins and/or fiat currency which they put in the person's gox account. The exchange provide an mechanism to let them swap one for the other with somebody else, and a mechanism for withdrawing whatever is in your account back to your bank account or bitcoin address or whatever.

The key here was that somebody basically compromised gox's security rather than some random user's security, and managed to put coins in a gox account without actually depositing any bitcoins. This was why rolling back was a justified action (albeit the hack shouldn't have been possible to being with).
>Ember 101: Learn Ember at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]

Incredible.
I started with C++ 6 years ago. 3 years ago, my religious view on C++ ended and i finally realized, that C++ is not enough. I saw Java, Lisp, Prolog, C# and others but got stuck in Haskell, because Haskell is the way, i want to write programs.

Independent to a language, i recommend to start without a IDE. C# and Visual Studio is in this case a bad combination.
This should give some indication.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_blocking_access_to_Th...
to make sure I am hearing you right, you think this agent was doing the right rhing and realistically had good reason think this woman was a risk and should be denied entry?
I had an unusual, negative interview experience with Ooyala several years ago. I rather suspect it is the company and not you.

This happens. As you get more experience in software or engineering, you will find yourself acing hard technical questions on interviews and knowing you have done well, yet, for some reason, the company won't hire you. In some cases, it will be because they, in fact, feel threatened, that you are better than they are. You can be a direct threat if the hiring manager is running a project that is in trouble and higher ups or investors are unhappy about his/her progress.

From what I understand, Ooyala was founded by a couple of very young Google alumni; Google was their first job after Stanford. The heavy technical interviewing is a typical Google practice, and Googler startups frequently copy Google practices. Googler startups, especially those founded by ex-Googlers who have never worked anywhere other than Google, tend to be odd. There can be a teenage rock star whose success and adoring groupies have gone to his head problem.

Some aspects of video technologies, such as developing and implementing video codecs, are extremely difficult. It is fairly common for people to grossly underestimate the difficulties if they are unfamiliar with the field and then become frustrated and emotional in dealing with the problems. This might also have contributed to your negative experience.
Problem is that a 5.56 automatic rifle isn't going to be helpful when the enemy is also coming with 5.56, 5.45, 7.62x39 automatic rifles (the choice of plutocracies), but in greater quantities and aided by helicopters, tanks, etc...

A bolt action or semi-auto 7.62x51 or .30-06 is a lot more useful -- especially if your goal isn't to assume the role (i.e., overthrow) whoever is coming from you but to get yourself, your family, and ideally your property away. (I've got a 5.56 semi-auto as well, but it's mostly for the purpose of being able to use cheaper and more readily available ammunition for recreational shooting and not bruising my shoulder after a range trip, while using a calibre that's still more fun/practical than .22lr)

As for taking money without your permission -- no matter how you look at it, it's going to happen (whether via income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, taxes on investment income, etc...). Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and company aren't exactly socialists: when they advocate these programs, their goals are to increase individual liberty and decrease state intervention in our lifetimes (rather than pine for a utopian anarcho-capitalist future). I'd rather that money go directly to the poor than to bureaucratic middlemen and rent-seeking corporations (most of the existing welfare programs) or middle classes who don't believe they (or perhaps their neighbours) are sufficiently competent to make their own retirement investments or choose the right health insurance plan for themselves (ACA, medicare, SS, etc...). I find the various paternalistic mandates (SS, ACA) to be more onerous than payments for the truly poor (some of whom as result of structural unemployment).

Replacing programs like SNAP and medicaid with a cash handout aren't going to increase existing tax rates, which seem to be the equilibrium as far as taxation goes -- higher taxes on the upper brackets (or on investment income) won't be accepted by the elites with political power, while increasing taxes in the lower brackets won't gather sufficient votes. They might actually decrease the tax rates by reducing bureaucracy.
Well, he was able to transfer out 643.27 coins which was not worth that much at the time and certainly not the windfall that he was hoping for. True, that portion could not be rolled back. I wonder if he kept those or transferred them back to MtGox in the end. I bet he gave them back because he was a verified customer, not an anonymous hacker and I doubt he wanted to go to jail over a few thousand bucks.
What about Peercoin proof of stake mining?
Except that your costs go up as well. There will be an added tax burden, for one. Since only one in three Americans works, you'll have to pay for a lot of taxes. Then you've got to buy the flour. Your next door neighbor didn't just walk in one day and raise his prices to $6.00. The costs of the flour rose. The eggs. The yeast. The labor that creates the bread increased in cost as well, since nobody wants to work for minimum wage when there's all this free income now and the increased cost of labor shuts out newcomers, thereby reducing competition. Eventually, you have to raise prices not out of greed but because if you don't you'll be losing money and then you'll need to rely on your basic income and so will all the people you used to employ.
This affects me too, firefox on linux
Well, in my case it was because I was a little uncertain of what the various classes meant. This was my pre-university days before I studied networks formally.

My first router could only do the 192.168 range so I got in the habit of it. Later with subsequent routers, all my devices were already set up on a specific class C network, so it was easier to change the router than go through all the devices and change them.
The example is merely illustration and not the recommended practice for writing C++! (Can you imagine?)

I only meant to illustrate that even in C++ where types have a different meaning I will get a warning with a decent compiler.

In either case the expression in both languages garners a silly result. However Scala is happy with the result and reports nothing wrong with it (not even a warning). I was just surprised is all.
Fair enough. Thanks for the answer. :)
For me, C# / .NET / Visual Studio / Resharper is the most productive general purpose development environment I've encountered. I've made a number of very serious efforts to move away from it (to diversify knowledge / due to it's image problems), but always come back because my productivity is just so high.

For operations, I don't like Windows - Linux is far superior for scripting, how-to information more widely available, it's open source, cheaper etc. So I tend to always deploy using mono. There are incompatibilities, but I have found them to be relatively minor based on my experience working on some very large systems.
Used https://bittylicious.com/ for small amounts (UK, NL, CZ, used to have KR but seems like not anymore). The price was 20-30% higher than Bitstamp, but that got covered by the increase, and at least I don't have register my bank account, wait few days, then denied (language barrier here in Taiwan) like they did.

Edit: Well, currently they seem 50% overpriced, so maybe this is not such a good idea, unless you really just want "some" BTC to use instead as an investment.
You could look into https://www.hnsearch.com/api . They provide the search bar functionality on this site.
Has anybody seen the first five minutes of Super Troopers? The kids in the car no doubt felt the cops had mind reading powers.

"you know how fast you were going?" "65?" "63." [kid freaks out]

"you feeling ok?" "yes sir" "did you say 'yes sir' or yeah sure'?" [kid freaks out]

I imagine that's how most of these stories go in real life. Cop's a bit of a jerk, victim freaks out and imagines all sorts of terrifying threats. And of course the story always gets better in the telling.
I don't know if newspapers were publishing it, but this story is not very comforting:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-05/states-hospital-dat...
> I believe he's mixing market and government data harvesting as a single entity.

On the other hand, the tools are eerily similar. It would be relatively easy for instance to re-purpose Google's spam filter into a threat detector, or customer profiler. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if 2 of those three actually share a fair bit of code.

As Eben Moglen said, the main threat is not data going out. It's code going in. Who knows what the vendors will invent, and who knows which of those inventions will be re-purposed or re-implemented a few semesters later.
If you have the skills and capital to design and fab your own bitcoin mining chip you can make money mining. There is nothing you can buy off the shelf though that will make you more profit than just buying and holding Bitcoin.
These had me on the floor:

My husband is a JavaScript library for capturing input

Ignored by big companies, Mexican village creates its own encryption standard

“I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl steps down

U.S. Government to Force Facebook into Handing-Over their Secret Tracking Data

Show HN: Learn Math the Hard Way

Valve hired their first Github repo
The system is now straining at the seams. Its computational underpinnings have collectively reached 100 times the performance of the world’s top 500 supercomputers combined: more than 50,000 petaflops. Bitcoin’s success has revealed three weaknesses in particular. It is not as secure and anonymous as it seems; the “mining” system that both increases the Bitcoin supply and ensures the integrity of the currency has led to an unsustainable computational arms-race; and the distributed-ledger system is becoming unwieldy. Will Bitcoin’s self-correcting mechanisms, and the enlightened self-interest of its users, be able to address these weaknesses and keep Bitcoin on the rails?

And this is how you spread misinformation and create fear. Bitcoin certainly has its risks, but either the author is fear mongering, or really does not get it.
Why not try to get in one of the IT squads in the Army? This way you have both... serving in the miltary and coding.
Towards the end, there are some guesses as to what theory of gravity the students hold, if it's a buoyancy analogy, or a threshold theory... A lot of people don't really subscribe to any coherent system of the world at all.

When you press someone, it's not uncommon for them to just pile on another fact about the subject matter and reassert the claim.

It's like brute force puzzle solving, kind of like I used to do in adventure games - you know the result you want, juggle all the stuff in your inventory or mind until it works.

And for a lot of subjects, for a lot of education, that approach works really well. You're told three facts about some historical event. You're asked a question on a test about the event. List one of those facts to win.

I'm guessing they jump to "boots" because the bootprint on the moon is a pretty widely seen and memorable image, and boots in our normal life are sometimes heavy. Heavy things make it harder to float, that's what heaviness sort of means. Having arrived at "floating's hard," they then call it a day without really understanding anything about how they got there.

There's no underlying theory, they kick away the scaffolding as soon as they get to any answer.

People don't have a list of facts in their heads that are constantly checked for mutual consistency, and people can stubbornly hang on to any premise they want.

In other words, the students (+ phil TA) aren't just stupid on this point, they are so stupid, the physics teachers don't even understand how stupid they are.
Are you using adblock plus by any chance? I had to switch to adblock to fix that on ars a while back.
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He doesn't back up these statements with any evidence...
I started with Python, then Lisp, then I had my first job working with C#. I honestly don't think C# would make one iota of sense to me if I did not have any background in programming.

I think that there is something be said about learning the value of all the libraries and working at a high-level view when your aim is production, but for learning, peeling away all the abstractions and forcing yourself to learn the fundamentals first is more important, with a much larger payoff once you are exposed to working with higher-level concepts. The dichotomy is that being productive is somewhat at odds with learning the fundamentals, but being productive in C# requires some intuition and knowledge about when to use a tool as much, if not more so, than how to use a tool.

I think that the entire .Net ecosystem is a terrible place to start. The first reason is Visual Studio. There is immense value in learning how to compile a program, using real REPL, learning how to design your file tree, and many other issues. I also think that a language that basically requires you to use code-completion is bad for your discipline as a programmer and doesn't enforce one of the major tenets of LCTHW, which is that typing and accuracy are highly valuable skills and depending on code-completion is akin to doing copy-pasting. Typing forces you to consider the "why" of your actions.

I also think that C# is generally much slower to develop on because far more verbose than other languages. It is better, IMO, to just focus on the problem at hand. Having a program that is 3x longer than Python can't be good for a beginner. Too much to focus on. Just get to the point and focus on it.

There aren't many learning resources about C# and using it for programming fundamentals. The advice can often be highly confusing and at odds with what you are ultimately attempting to accomplish. There is something to be said abound step-by-step and simple and straight-forward when you are just starting out.

I think C# is fine as a second or third language to learn. The reason is that there are many wonderful ideas and concepts in there, but they won't make a whole lotta sense without something to refer to in your own mind.

I hope the above isn't interpreted as a bash of the language or .Net as I believe that C# is a beautiful language with some amazing concepts. With that said, I'm sick and tired of seeing slow sites with the .aspx extension. If people with years of experience get bogged down in the complexity of the framework, what will happen to our beginner?
In the article's examples, the e-mail was actually providing the content which was the product (e.g., a list of historical check-ins or communication between a group of angel investors). That's very different from collecting e-mail addresses of people interested in a product that doesn't exist at all.

I don't think something qualifies as a minimum viable product unless it is, in fact, a product.
Army Scores a Super-Stealthy Drone That Looks Like a Bird
Kraken, an EU exchange, allows you to trade up to $10,000.00 a month without scanning in your ID; just need to put in your name, DoB, phone number, and address. The downside is that not many people trade on it.
He's pretty nuts. I met him when he spoke at my university a few years ago, the CS department invited him and had a reception with RMS for CS faculty and students only. At one point, a retired faculty member asked if he had any suggestions for convincing his bank to make their website Firefox-friendly since his wife didn't want to switch.

His suggestion was to lie to his wife and switch anyways...

Half the students at the speech got up and left (not kidding) when he put on a halo, proclaimed himself the Jesus Christ of Software and started auctioning off a stuffed gnu.

Add in his tirade about how evil the university IT department was for requiring authentication to access the network and you had a very pissed off administration the next day.
> So.. the whole point of this phone is HTML5 apps.

Pretty bizarre interpretation, perhaps you're thinking of Firefox OS? Jolla includes an Android runtime, and also has its own native applications, it's clearly not all about HTML5.
Ask HN: Is it just me or has YouTube gone fanatical on ads?
I never used to have a problem watching the first 5 seconds of a sponsored commercial on some of the more popular YouTube videos, but I've noticed a startling increase in the amount of ads being served to me. It is at the point where I would say 3 in every 4 videos plays an ad now. It's disgustingly frustrating.

Has anyone else noticed this?

If so, has there been an announcement regarding this that I've missed? Perhaps even something to do with Google+ IDs being used for user accounts?
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Nope, in the UK, debit card payments tend to be part of the chargeback scheme.

http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/problem/how-do-i-use-...
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Gemini 6A also aborted after engine ignition. The astronauts climbed out, the engineers found the problem, and they launched successfully three days later.

Liquid-fueled engines are inherently restartable. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to test an engine without throwing it away afterwards.

Sometimes manual intervention is required, though. For example, the starter cartridge on the Titan was a consumable part, and had to be replaced before restarting the engine.
and even there (here:), most of the good stuff is outside of the plaza in the neighbouring streets, and underground stores. It's really fun, though.
That just means there aren't enough consumers who care about not having drm for it to be worth serving them.
I agree with you, but to be fair you don't provide any to refute it.