skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fuller is half-right. The true business of people should be to discover skills which enrich others. In some cases, this is manual labor, but as our society makes that less and less necessary, we are able to spend more effort on creative and intellectual pursuits. Now, the problem with Fuller's concept is that 'creative and intellectual' pursuits are intensely introspective and rather qualitative.

One could say, 'well I am ENTITLED to money because I spent a lot of EFFORT reading and analyzing the entire opus of English literature from 1200-1400.' But whom did that enrich? Why should we reward such behavior if it is solipsistic?

On the other hand, if someone said, analyze the entire opus of English literature from 1200-1400 so that someday we can assist Shakespearean actors in their dramaturgy - and I'm willing to pay you X dollars for it... Now that's creating value for SOMEONE ELSE. It's not an entitlement, you have contributed to society in a way that is demonstrable, as proven by the exchange of resources for your effort.

Work is necessary insomuch as it takes effort for one to provide 'other people' with goods and services that these 'other people' value. Now, what constitutes work will be dramatically different and undergo tectonic change - playing video games, for example, as an alpha tester, can be work (and hard work, too) - as can being a world-travelling dance teacher - or being a football player (these are professional jobs that would not have existed 200 years ago)- or who knows what in the future.

Unfortunately the idea of doing work has been corrupted by a narrow-minded view of capitalism (agents on both the right and the left are guilty of this) and wages, have been caught up with cost of living and thus a sense of entitlement. Certainly, there are people who we should contribute to help out for no reason other than compassion (a quadruplegic multiple gunshot victim I delivered food to comes to mind) but we should think hard about what the mechanisms for doing this are, and who gets to decide how much.

But the idea of abolishing all work forever is a dangerous one.
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I have absolutely no idea. That's just what my relatives tell me.
She could have, sure. But she doesn't have a history of doing that. I have known her for almost 30 years.
The question is: who gets the money?
So, let your phone hold the canonical copy and let the swarm handle the efficient transfer of files -- not everybody will be on cellular data plans, hell you won't be on a cellular data plan when you are within range of a wifi AP like at home or the office.
Of course, it won't be profitable for long, now that the secret's out. :-)
I really want universities here to pick up Scala as well. You can teach all aspects of modern programming paradigms using it, while retaining real world applicability and the wonderful JVM and it's ecosystem.

I use typesafe stack and it's really, really good.
A fractal-based ﬁbre for ultra-high throughput optical probes
A core component of all scanning near-ﬁeld optical microscopy
(SNOM) systems is the optical probe, which has evolved greatly but still
represents the limiting component for the system. Here, we introduce a
new type of optical probe, based on a Fractal Fibre which is a special class
of photonic crystal ﬁbre (PCF), to directly address the issue of increasing
the optical throughput in SNOM probes. Optical measurements through
the Fractal Fibre probes have shown superior power levels to that of
conventional SNOM probes. The results presented in this paper suggest
that a novel ﬁbre design is critical in order to maximize the potential of the
SNOM.
I don't think most ASICs can break even at this point, the difficulty has shot up dramatically over the last 3 or 4 months.
This one might fit: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/orchestral-strings/ns-design-...
Salinger plays this Sumerian Son in pop culture that is able to drop the note under a table that exhibits the essence to overcome technological exuberance for the plight of humanity.
hah yah i can very easily imagine them in a museum one day in the "History's Greatest Pranks" exhibit

I think another factor to consider is that for the companies to use the ASICs themselves -- even if they felt they could eke out a slightly bigger profit (though I bet they know they can't), it would require faith in Bitcoin. By selling them its cash upfront, which is how real-ass businesses (hardware manufacturers being a major type) operate. The business model is reliable and 1000x simpler.
> Eventually, one day, you're trying to board a plane and you get denied because you've been known to disseminate "false or misleading information".

That's absurd. How do you picture Facebook achieving control over whether you can board an airplane?
just encode is with whatever method you choose, don't leave the list as plain text so anyone could view it and "judge" it.

greatfire.org is an OK website for now, history record shows it's not that reliable. If you need any in-depth prior art take a look at Chinese researchers did at GFW Review http://gfwrev.blogspot.com/ They reversed engineered almost everything about GFW, socially and technically.

Btw also this masterpiece http://www.chinagfw.org/2009/08/gfw_30.html which triggered a man hunt and serious online crack down in China
People have been worrying about mass starvation due to overcopulation since the Victorian age (I believe it was a big motivation for the missionary movement).
I'm subscribed to HN's RSS feed using a feed reader app on my phone, and when I saw this item the title was truncated at around "written." Somehow I just knew it would be Go.

I entertained the idea that maybe it would have been written in JavaScript, but I think a JS interpreter written in JS has already been done at least once.
That's a pretty strong assumption. I've travelled with instruments, and complied with the rules of the airlines involved as well as the government agencies involved, and still managed to get shit badly broken. I don't know of the specific case in question, but I would wager that the "moron" who packed the double bass was not, in fact, a moron.
Having worked with Scala for the past almost two years, I can tell you this: you're missing out by not using IntelliJ. It is a huge timesaver, not just from the code completion or the inspections, but also by being able to fire up FSC outside of IntelliJ and have your code recompile very, very quickly when you make changes. The one thing that IntelliJ doesn't do very well yet is work with sbt. It works, sure, but the maven support in IntelliJ is that much further along, so I generally still use maven for in-IDE dependencies, and then write up an sbt file when I publish my work.
I'm not sure. Perhaps people who are ticketed for anti-social behavior or who are picked up by the criminal justice system would need to do community service or face a gradual escalation of penalties -- not be able to own a credit card, hold a driver's license, etc.
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=markopolojarv...

Intermediate certificate isn't sent by the server, which might be the issue.
I'm the author of the post. I didn't include a lot of background detail because I wanted to publish the technically interesting bits quickly. As I see it, mining LiteCoins on EC2 is currently profitable because of four main factors:

1) Bitcoin's recent dramatic increase in value. (LiteCoin's value is heavily correlated to Bitcoin's.)

2) The relatively low difficulty level for LiteCoin mining right now.

3) Spot instance pricing for the EC2 GPU (g2.2xlarge) instances.

4) LiteCoin can be mined using both GPUs and CPUs (although GPUs are dramatically better, another ~35 khashes/sec from the CPUs is still nice).

Interestingly, the previous average historical spot price for these instances was ~$0.075/hour. The spot pricing has now jumped to $0.10-$0.12, depending on region.

As an added bonus, you may be able to get $100 of AWS credit at http://aws.amazon.com/big-data/powerof60/ which would give you 2-3 free days of mining.
Oh please. I've been using computers (sysadmin/devops/gamer) for decades, and I've also been a musician for decades. While the value of my instruments and computers has always been roughly the same (because I don't play classical music, where $3000 is a beginner's cello), the replace-ability isn't even close. Musicians form a close emotional and physical attachment to their instruments. I've had a laptop stolen, and I've had a bass stolen. I could care less about the laptop, and ten years later, I still dearly miss the bass. It's apples and oranges.
Why I'm Putting All My Savings Into Bitcoin [2011]
The Octopart team has done a great job with HNSearch, and we really appreciate the huge favor they've done us by providing it. That said, due to limitations on our end around how they integrate with us, they're not able to offer real-time updates or full fidelity ranking snapshots.

I'm working on a more comprehensive first-party API for HN, and plan to implement the following, in this order:

1) Near-real-time profiles, comments, and stories as JSON.
2) Real-time streaming of profile and item changes.
3) Near-real-time ranking of comments and stories.
4) Real-time streaming of ranking changes.
5) History of ranking changes.

Sadly, I can't commit to any firm timeline for future progress right now, but know that I'm working on it :)

--
Edit: Remove link to broken data file. Fixing it up tomorrow.
Indeed. I would estimate that at current LiteCoin values and difficulty level, mining on EC2 will stay profitable until the spot price for these instances passes $0.20-0.21. One thing that will slightly slow down the abuse of this is that by default AWS limits you to 10 spot instances per region for the g2.2xlarge type.
Boswell's Life of Dissipation
Mr. Odersky can you please take a compiler course based on Scala as well, pretty please? :P
Well, here are my top 10:

MIT scientist captures 90,000 hours of video of Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack.

What Every C Programmer Should Know About Fitness is a straight-up Ponzi scheme

Name.com hijacks non-existent subdomains and redirects to their help Text

WebKit is the sum of three primes

John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone unlocking and fixes the DMCA

On Confirmed Assumptions or, Not Trusting Google is evil now? Let's Get Real. How About Apple?

Ask PG: could you travel across the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition

Beej's Guide to Social Hacking: How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community

JS roguelike game: The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative to Github

Ed McMillen: Ubuntu Store Sold Super Meat Boy leaves database wide

This thing is hilarious.
How about valuable, fragile, that you have a close emotional attachment to, that is also required for your profession.
The scary part of the bitcoin bubble (and it is a bubble) is that most of these people putting a lot of money into BTC are not going to be able to get their money back out in the event of a market downturn.
I have plans for a more detailed first-party API: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6818059
>But how you cheat on universal income is to declare having more children than you actually have. Or just actually having them, treating them badly.

Welfare also scales payments based on the number of kids you have. This is a common (and almost certainly apocryphal) accusation against people currently on welfare; if it's ever true, it's an exception and not the rule. (which is why it would be news)

What is true is that the vast majority of people want to feel useful -- and (at least when the women in question are even moderately educated) they don't want to have extra children just to have a higher stipend.
It's important to note that the "couple dozen very healthy guys in the middle of any given workday" that you are seeing are almost certainly not receiving welfare in the form of cash payments - (cash payments are generally how welfare is defined in the US). Since the 1996 welfare reform act, people who receive welfare benefits (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) need to be either working or in a job training program or they will lose benefits after a maximum of two years.

Welfare reform addresses the problem that you describe, but the work requirements also create other social problems. For instance, single mothers who might previously have been able to stay home with young children now need to work long hours at low-wage jobs.

It's also important to realize that there are other factors besides the welfare trap that keep otherwise healthy men unemployed. As you pointed out, one is a lack of education that may only qualify them for low-skilled jobs. Also consider that if you've been to prison it's incredibly difficult to get a job at all.

Also remember that when you're driving through these neighborhoods you're not seeing the people who are working.

When discussing how the unemployed "drag down entire sections of cities", you should consider the causative arrow. Are these neighborhoods in trouble because of unemployment and idleness or do the chronically unemployed happen to congregate in these neighborhoods? Consider the effects of decades of disinvestment in minority neighborhoods and of white flight. Banks spent decades refusing to provide mortgages and small business loans in minority neighborhoods ("redlining"). Desegregation busing and the movement of minorities into traditionally-white working and middle class neighborhoods often triggered wholesale abandonment of the inner cities by these white families. When middle class white families abandoned the public school systems after desegregation policies were implemented, many inner city school systems ended up as warehouses for the poorest, least prepared students, greatly degrading the systems' capabilities to provide an education. Similarly, when middle class white families moved out of inner city neighborhoods these neighborhoods decayed.

Systemic poverty and unemployment are complex problems with many causes and cannot be blamed entirely on some culture of idleness.
The price has two main factors: exponential growth in its adoption, and a speculative bubble on top of that. As long as the growth continues, everyone who invests in it will make plenty of money in the long run. The bubble has already 'popped' 4 times or so in its history.
couldnt you just register multiple users - and thus by-pass this limit of 10?
Edit: Found the article, here it is http://socialtimes.com/youtube-pre-roll-ads-drive-users-inst...

Can't find the article now, but I recently read that the Youtube ads getting more obnoxious is hurting a lot of small advertizers and sites. Because of the annoyance, even many non tech people are increasingly looking for solutions and installing ad blocks, which block all ads and not just Youtube's. Google can get around this somewhat by paying Adblock Plus to unblock it's own text ads, but a number of small fish cannot.

Previous discussion of Youtube ads on Reddit here. http://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/18m95j/has_anyo...
Ok there's no conclusive proof yet as no one has been able to do it yet, but as far as I know no one actually debates this anymore. It would be incredibly surprising, to say the least, if the brain turned out to work completely outside the known laws of physics.
Could the spot price increase also relate to "black friday" related usage?
Ask HN: what would you do if you did not have to work?
With all the latest talk about basic income and the future of work (or lack thereof), I am genuinely interested what would HN readers do if they did not have to work.
Be careful with:

--default-names do not prepend 'g' to the binary

On OS X (a BSD derivative with BSD-grep), --default-names will put GNU grep in your path. A lot of things in OS X depend on BSD sed/awk/grep. Omitting --default-names links then GNU variants to ggrep/gsed/gawk.
Hans Rosling says the answer is to reduce child mortality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYpX4l2UeZg

"Year by year child mortality fell in almost all countries and as child mortality fell women chose to have fiewer and fiewer babies, and that enabled them to invest more time and resources in each child."
I'll bite the bullet: Funnily enough, I think this sort of design fails to account for Moore's law (different Moore, you see).

The principle here is to drop many of the principles that make modern processors fast: pipelines, caches, large register files, rich instruction sets (e.g. different instructions for different data sizes, DSP-style instructions, SIMD, etc). You end up with a really simple core, easy to implement, cheap in terms of die area. This might work well for certain applications (maybe as a power efficient microcontroller), but you're left with two major issues: 1) you have no other way to increase its performance apart from increasing the clock frequency - we know that pretty much stalled; and 2) you'll discover at some point that while hitting the cache is expensive in terms of energy, it's still better than hitting the off-chip RAM, and since you always have to go to the RAM... Apart from that, DRAM bandwidth has sort of kept up with processor frequency, but latency hasn't.

At this point, you might think that this design would work well in a manycore system. Well, the problem with that is that we haven't quite figured out the algorithms and software for many-core systems. Pretty much anything apart from data-parallel problems scales worse than linearly on manycore.

That being said, there's one feature that I quite like: having an exposed separate return stack could improve the performance of virtualisation (dynamic translation), JIT engines and so on. Modern architectures have an internal RS used for branch prediction, but it's usually not architecturally exposed.

tl;dr: Moore's law led to fast RISC/CISC, MISC can only scale horizontally (many-core), which limits its usefulness.
As a hobby pianist trying to relearn some music, I was looking at Denemo, Frescobaldi, etc the other day. But I ultimately realized that I prefer a simple text based solution, because I can use a text editor rather than learning a complicated new GUI.

I ended up writing a simple wrapper around JFugue in Scala (about 10 lines of code). I write the composition in a text file using a text editor and then run it through the scala script.
I once travelled from the US with a guitar a few years back. I was told at check-in that instruments travelled free and had to be taken onboard. Was even ushered to the front of the boarding queue when I got there so I would be able to stow. Assumed I'd discovered an airline hack and had been considering a guitar case as a sneaky second suitcase in future.
You could, if you had multiple credit cards I guess.
At the dinner now! Big group. Lots of smart people from all over the world. Tasty food.
I don't think this is true for many types of insurance. In many cases, insurance companies can "go after" a perpetrator, like in car accidents and credit card fraud situations, but what about home insurance that covers fire/flood/acts of God? What about life insurance or health insurance?

In these cases I am pretty sure the insurers make their living by shrewd actuarial rate-setting that tries to make their "average" policy profitable, and by having a large enough customer base that the "average" case is statistically likely.

The way to make BTC insurance work would be similar: calculate the costs to replace BTC, times the likelihood of needing to, and charge more than that.
It could, but we're talking about a specific GPU instance in this case. I wouldn't see an obvious correlation between Black Friday and the g2.2xlarge instance type.
My university switched from Java to Scheme (Racket) for their first year language.

I'm not sure why they're trying to scare the poor first years away.
I'd probably sit around on the Internet most of the day.
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From what I understand about speakers, a vibrating piece of glass would be an amazing one. Especially for sophisticated equipment.
How precisely are his views extreme? The criticism of Stallmans opinions (as opposed to his behaviour which is another issue) I have seen unfortunately boil down to the fact that people can not even imagine sacrificing the smallest of their conveniences for any kind of moral reasons, and consider any suggestions of resigning from them "extreme". It's like the Louis CK sketch about the favourite thing, but with Facebook or whatever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQSRPMFDTSs
Dutch privacy watchdog says Google breaks data law
Healthy eating habits for kids- two eating problems
Same happened with me. i thought this happened last night. (lets not forget this is a NEWS site, so expecting posts about CURRENT events is the default modus operandi)
I would just bike around, lay at the beach, and eat great food. And I would not have a care in the world. Serious answer. That would satisfy me.
The idea in theory is great, but we are generations away from getting there. Right now, the idea of having really high taxes for those who own/control technology to pay a minimum living wage for those who can't work would stop all forward progress from here on out. Case in point - Elon Musk. Musk nearly went bankrupt in 2008 trying to make Tesla and SpaceX succeed. If he had been taxed at any higher a rate, both companies would have failed. Musk is arguably a once in a generation entrepreneur. I'd hate to be waiting another 20 years for electric cars and private rockets to come around.
I'm pretty sure that's what happened in a nut-shell.
That's it, I'm printing out a Neighbourly Code of Conduct Law... I'm so gatecrashing my neighbours house, her cooking always smells delicious.
Yep, noticed this annoying feature too, I guess its been there for a while but till now Adblock used to block it. Google has found a way to bypass it.
No. It would probably pick up on the correlation, but AIXI assumes that its only interactions with the universe are through its input and output channels, so it cannot recognize that a particular part of the universe is itself. It does not know how to formulate that hypothesis.
ISON grazing the sun
This is certainly an interesting read, and stack machines have a long history among alternative CPU architectures. But I think that the complaints this (admittedly 18-year-old) article levels against mainstream CPUs are largely unfounded with today's chips. Or at least, increasing complexity is not a cause of decreasing performance, as is claimed, but rather a major reason that we've had such amazing leaps in computing power. Pipelining, branch prediction, out-of-order execution, multilevel caching, and clever tricks in many places all enable 3GHz CPUs that can peak at 4 instructions per cycle today. You'll lose two orders of magnitude in performance if you try to throw all that out and go back to basics, as the article suggests. (You may reduce more than two orders of magnitude in power, and power is an interesting constraint in today's systems; but the article didn't specify low power as the goal.)

- "Modern RISCs are slow because instructions take many cycles to execute": Latency is irrelevant as long as the pipeline remains filled. Pipeline length only matters when it's in the critical path, e.g. cycles from fetch to branch execution determines the bubble size on a mispredicted branch.

- "The pipeline must be flushed and refilled on branches"? Only on mispredicts, which are rare with good predictors on most code.

- "Cache makes the system more complex and expensive"? But it also is the only way to have acceptable performance when DRAM accesses take 200 cycles or more.

- "RISCs are slow at calls and returns" due to many registers? A good compiler will only save as many registers as it clobbers; more registers reduce register pressure and spills/fills, improving perf. (This is a net perf increase from x86-32 to x86-64, for example.) The only significant cost is additional context-switch overhead.