skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The copyright year is generally when the work was first published. Even if the site is updated regularly the copyright notice should still stay the same. For example, I launched my website in 2009 and while it does get updated on a weekly basis, the copyright still says 2009.
I for one prefer the more "algebraic" implementation. Why worry about performance when you get theorems for free?!

Monads.
> The worst gift I gave my wife was a Micro-Vax

You have done a service to mankind. "Well it's not like I gave you a MicroVAX" will be the first line of defense at many a geek's house come Christmas morning.
Why do "they" need to fix it? They seem to be doing quite well (sellers of digitally restricted media) and there's been no mainstream outcry.

I try to buy DRM-free where possible, but most of my friends don't care or don't know any better.
> Inflation is a redistribution scheme of the poor to the
> rich and from savings to spenders.

Technically, from those with monetary savings to those with non-monetary savings. Inflation will strike someone with $1,000,000 in the bank much harder than someone with a stash of precious metal, large property holdings, or industrial equipment. The hardest hit are individuals who have accumulated wealth but are not skilled enough at managing it (e.g. retirees living on an immediate annuity). Inflation doesn't have much effect on the poor, because income tends to increase along with the cost of consumer goods.
Investment returns may not follow a power law given that they can come from "normalstan". The distribution of startup values for both funded and unfunded startups (including IPOs AND failures) would come from "extremistan" due to the presence of outliers. The data from extremistan will more likely follow a power law distribution. The terms normal and exstrem-istan come from the writings of Nassim Taleb, author of Fooled By Randomness and Black Swan: Impact of the Highly Improbable.
Back in the day we had these things called webcams and bloggers would set them to take snapshots every few minutes and automatically upload them to their blogs. As an example, Kottke had his running for a long time: http://kottke.org/cam/

Gamers stream themselves practicing and playing matches live on Twitch so regularly that fans can sponsor or make donations and its become a form of income for them. Podcasters often run a live stream while they're recording and have open chatrooms for live discussion in the moment.

It seems like we've found ways to peak behind the curtain in some media forms already. The desire for this type of interaction has been there for a long time and in some communities is already being met with different technology solutions. For blogging, what is old is new again.
When I was a kid Consumer Protection legislation actually existed. We can fix this and we should. I wonder whether any particular member of Congress is more amenable to this than others?
I would live to contribute to save it on the Deletion page, but unfortunately I don't have a Wikipedia account.
Does anyone have any good links to information on the "BIOS" attack the NSA claims to have thwarted?

To hear the head of the NSA tell it, China was seriously getting ready to launch WWIII on the Internet, which I find pretty surprising.
It means that she thinks anyone who does not have similar interests and hobbies as she does should be run out of the city.
Yes. And for the same reason, that's why you sometimes have to do things in assembly. No compiler is going to go against its own grain when generating code. Yet, sometimes, that's what you must do to eke out the necessary performance.

As an example, while doing code for a 6809-based video game (see [1] for full war story), I had to use every single register on the processor, including the system-stack register and the direct-page register, to speed up a graphics routine. This meant that, while my code was running, the system effectively had no stack and couldn't use certain addressing modes. Further, it also meant that interrupts would corrupt whatever memory the stack register happened to be pointing to.

All these problems were solvable – and the pain we had to go through to solve them was, for us, absolutely worth the 70% speed-up it bought us – but no compiler writer is going to incorporate tactics this weird into a compiler's optimization logic. If you need to go "full weird," assembly is often the only way.

[1] http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-gam...
Read this article instead: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/rethinking-the-...

The idea is to remove the current welfare system and replace it with basic income.
At the very least, it's encouraging that the NSA feels the need to do keep up this sort of damage control because it suggests that people in the agency feel its public image continues to be damaged (or at least threatened) by the leaks. I doubt they would be actively trying to massage public opinion like this if the story had died by now, or if only a negligible portion of the public cared.
Shame on Feinstein Coalition
The problem with 'dog is a mammal' is that there's basically no obvious scenario in which you'd actually be modeling things this way unless you're trying to build some kind of ecosystem simulation or whatever. If you want to teach people, not only what inheritance is but why it's useful, you need to use a situation where inheritance makes things easier.
Have you ever looked at the breakdown of who writes the Linux kernel? It's mostly maintained by corporations, notably companies like Red Hat and strangely enough even Microsoft.
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Bitcoin Proves That Libertarians' Idea Of Paradise Would Be Hell On Earth
Here's our Data Model
Your users might care ...
I can only repeat myself. Fungibility isn't the same as indestructibility. Once bitcoin is destroyed, it cannot be regained. The total supply, no matter how denominated or subdivided, has shrunk.
Every group has their fair share of unlikeable individual. It is the act of a bigot to confuse those unlikeable individuals as representatives of their group.
The Perverse Incentives That Underpin Ad Fraud
He's not the first Microsoft employee to go to Google, and won't be the last. Maybe if this was Steve Ballmer, it would be newsworthy, but other than that, no...
As Anita Sarkeesian observes, it is possible to enjoy something while also being critical of it’s problematic aspects.
Should we eliminate taxes, welfare, and universal access to health care too? Let people starve or suffer if they can't find work?
Ask HN: Want to do something for Animals I am a devops engineer
I've been a Linux/Windows Admin for years and now I am a DevOps Infrastructure engineer working in NY. I love animals, I want to donate my time to help organizations that help animals that my have a need for a sysadmin to help them with their cloud needs/ datacenter needs/ deployments, and automating their environments. I am looking to offer my services for free. I just want to make a difference on the lives of animals. Where can I find organizations with those needs?
The bit about Fairhurst High School is one of those garbled things that you get by playing Chinese whispers.

In fact John Fairhurst was the well-regarded head teacher at Shenfield High School in Shenfield, Essex, a small town in the commuter belt east of London. You can read more in this article that I found on Google: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lNLliSZ...

He has since retired but not before serving as president at the Association of School & College Leaders. And he has regularly been featured in the British press commenting on the need for more innovative ways to educate kids.
What is the book Spark you are talking about? Could you share the link?
Well, if no one would work the unrewarding jobs, and they were needed. The wages for these jobs would go up. As Bertrand Russell said there's two types of jobs. "The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid". Reversing this might not be the worst thing in the world.
To be fair, if they were tech savvy they would probably work as freelancers or at a computer store instead of stealing aqua imacs.
My Haskell skills still are growing. Can someone explain?
I'd suggest that they do what we do when we don't have the resources we need in the 'real world'- figure out some way to collaborate with others!
http://imgur.com/QIVtdxM.jpg
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They didn't remove it, but they made it darned hard to find. You have to install the Amazon Unbox app, which is truly terrible and outdated, update some licensing components in Windows Media Player through Internet Explorer, then it'll download a DRM-locked WMV of a movie you "purchased". You can do this a limited number of times per purchase.
An economic analysis on a proposed minimum income model for New Zealand:[0]

The [basis minimum income] scheme proposed by the Welfare
Working Group is a significant policy change with large
economic consequences. The scheme is fiscally very costly
and would not necessarily achieve its main goal of
reducing poverty. The high personal tax rates required to
fund the scheme are highly distortionary to the labour
market and to savings and investment decisions, and would
be likely to induce a significant behavioural response.
This has damaging effects on the tax system and economic
growth.

Also of importance, from the same report:

Although the Gini coefficient improves under all models,
many beneficiaries (including the disabled, carers and
sole parents) currently receive more than $300 per week
and would be made financially worse off under a GMI
scheme.

At a high level, it seems that the economic reality of providing a basic minimum income to everyone requires a significant increase in taxation revenue. That might be possible with significantly higher GDP per capita, but I'm not certain we're there yet.

[0] http://igps.victoria.ac.nz/WelfareWorkingGroup/Downloads/Wor...

Edit: formatting.
Life sure but sentient creatures like us using technology, maybe we're the only planet to have survived comets, meteorites, gamma ray bursts, black holes, galaxy collisions, novae to make it this far.
The Invention That Just Changed Biking Forever
Amazon agreed to terms that allows Disney to behave in a manner upsetting to their customers.

Sure, Disney might not have signed on otherwise, but sometimes I wish Amazon, Netflix et al. would put up a tougher fight for pro-consumer rules on their platforms.
Facebook Referrals Skyrocket: up 170% in past year, 47% over last month
satire is meant to make you laugh

... and also to express a view.

If you understand that, I don't understand how you can view satire as purely entertainment and completely a-political.
I loaded the page and scrolled for half a second, and noticed it was slow. Developer Tools shows 109 requests, 23,023kb, 46.13 seconds.

Perhaps I could offer your friends some unsolicited advice that in order for their website to scale, they should focus on reducing the number of HTTP requests and increase image compression, as a start. =)
If you haven't seen this yet, it's absolute gold. The NSA getting grilled at a UWisconsin recruiting session.

http://mobandmultitude.com/2013/07/02/the-nsa-comes-recruiti...
I'd definitely like to see an explanation of what's going on, both at a high level and the specifics of the code. As a Haskell beginner-intermediate, I don't really know what most of those functions are doing (much less the context of what that function's purpose is), but I feel I could probably understand an explanation if it were given.
You would fit right in at http://reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk :-)
I'm not the author of that blog, so can't fix it :) Here's the link that talks about consonants: http://www.languagereef.com/consonanttable.php?lang=SANSKRIT

Also, I don't have any comments about that Pi verse itself. From what I gather, it's first occurrence was in a book from 1965. So, may be it's a retro-logic based on Katapayadi system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katapayadi_system).
As far as I see it. The point is that a big wealth gap is detrimental to a society. Having a good minimum wage is a good way to reduce such a wealth gap.
People seem to take the view that if the US stops surveillance, then they'll be truly free.
In which case I think the flaw is with the test, not the student. Why does a kid need to memorize something that he can get on-the-fly expert answers from? Why memorize something you can look up? =\
Amazon allowed Disney to remove access. You'll never see a company telling Amazon to recall physical goods it mailed out to people (without compensation no less).
Basic Income is not Communism. Communism is state control of the means of production, and centralized planning of the entire economy.

Whether Basic Income is Socialism depends on your definition of Socialism. If you go by the definition found on wikipedia, which I think is pretty standard, BI is not Socialism either. [1]

Basic Income is redistributive, but so is the US tax system, as it has been for nearly 100 years. It is a more aggressive and explicit redistribution scheme, but it is not of an entirely dissimilar nature, nor is it incompatible with free-market capitalism.

So regardless of one's opinion of Socialism and Communism, whether or not socialism and communism typically fail has no bearing on whether a basic income would be successful, because they are different things.

However, when you say:

> Socialism and Communism fail every time they are tried. Every time.

You should consider that the vast majority of the world's large economies are described as "mixed economies" that combine elements of socialism and laissez faire capitalism. Many, if not most of these have been mixed--combining Socialist and Capitalist policies in one way or another--for decades, if not for more than a century. So, unless you are going to assert that the modern economic order is a "failure", I think you should rethink this sentiment.

> The author is an economic idiot.

Strong words probably not best used in this situation.

If "redistribution" of economic surplus (i.e. profit/income) is a feature of Communism and Socialism, it is not the most important feature of these ideologies, which concern themselves with limiting or eliminating private property.

In fact, I would assert that redistribution is a specifically Capitalist response to the Socialist critique of private property and markets: it is a way to reduce economic injustice by focusing entirely on the distribution of surplus, while leaving private property at the core of the economic system, and while also relying on markets to determine prices and the appropriate allocation of investment.

[1] "Socialism is an economic system characterised by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
Don't be fooled by the 60 Minutes report on the NSA
The really big idea is that when you allow teachers to observe their class and experiment with different techniques, then you can get better than average results.
Feinstein's position on private ownership of firearms:

“If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them . . . ‘Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in,’ I would have done it.”

Leopards don't change their spots.
Jobs with horrible bosses and shitty work environments are less likely to exist as well. The health benefits and productivity increase from less stress from this alone will be fairly big.
We totally can make it come faster. If we institute basic income tomorrow, you seriously don't think we'll have mostly-automated McDonald's next year?
The original line was something like this:

acc = "";
for (var i = 0; i < strings.length; i++) {
acc += strings[i]
}

The new version is something like this:

strings.join("")

The second version can pre-allocate a string and copy characters into that string under the hood. The first version has to allocate a new string and recopy the characters on every iteration.
First off I myself am on disability, not by choice but because I became mentally ill due to the stress I was under at my job. Startup burnout or whatever.

Secondly, I'd much rather be working a job than be on disability, but I wasn't given a choice because my doctors had ordered it. I wasn't given a choice because employers discriminated against me for my disability/mental illness and either called me 'overqualified' or refused to hire me or only hired me to fix things and then fire me when the things are fixed.

I've been trying to do my own startup since 2002 when I lost my last job. No money for me anywhere. I would have less stress with my own small business and small circle of clients than in a large greedy megacorpration that cares more about profits at any cost than people or anything else.

I think instead of basic income, we should give money to the small business administration to give people lessons in business management and programming or whatever to do their own startups. The SBA has a lot of volunteers who can mentor people into starting up a successful business. The real problem for people down on their luck like me is finding the money to do a startup while on disability or little or no income.

I read articles about giving some random homeless guy money and programming training, and then he has an app in the app store for iPhones. Why don't we just do that for all of the poor people out there? Everyone can write their own app, get training and support, and get some startup funding and see if it works out they can have their own small business. If not, well at least you tried.

This basic income is not freedom, it is slavery to force one out of the market and no longer be productive or do anything for society. I can just see people dropping out of high school in large numbers to stay at home with their parents, avoid taking a job, just apply for basic income and get that low income AT&T DSL Internet for $15/month and play video games on a cheap PC or used Playstation or used XBox for the rest of their lives and never contribute anything for the betterment their lives and help out others.

Altruism is great, but most of it is fake altruism for attention or good PR or to pay for past sins of getting rich at the expense of others and make a foundation that does charitable things that buys products from their businesses and provides a tax shelter and then gives them awards. True altruism is doing things to help out others, and mentor them, and teach them to become better and also help out others and keep passing it on, with no personal rewards and no good PR and no attention, just doing it for the empathy and compassion. But so few people do true altruism these days, only the fake altruism.

I think that it takes more than to just give someone money as a basic income, you need to give them an education, train them, mentor them, help them reach a level of success so they can become independent and then in turn help out others to do the same as people once helped them.
Money is not a powerful motivator when it comes to innovation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive:_The_Surprising_Truth_Abo...

Money is still a motivator when it comes to getting unrewarding work done, but basic income incentivizes work in a way that a welfare that only gets paid when you're unemployed does not.
I wonder what's fundamentally different about music and movies that led to DRM-free albums but didn't lead there for online movie distribution. I still have a couple dozen songs on a backup drive somewhere that I outright purchased in the early 2000s that can no longer be played as the "Buy.com Music" servers no longer exist to authenticate their PlaysForSure DRM.
> Regarding fungibility, bitcoins are definitely fungible.

Where have I argued otherwise? Fungibility is not the issue.

Irreversible shrinkage of the monetary base is the issue.

> By your argument, USD is not fungible because old 100 dollar bills may not be accepted in some places.

You are now confusing fungibility with liquidity.

And I note that, unlike bitcoin, if I have a damaged $100 note, I can exchange it with the central bank for an new equivalent note.
Lol. Fortunately, after finishing my "prediploma" in mathematics as the best of my university, I also realised that I am not going to be a mathematician, at least not in the sense that most people understand it then and now.
Agreed with your reasoning within your framework. But I'm a little skeptical of the utility of this framework for thinking about learning. Why do we test people without communication, when most of what they're going to be doing throughout most of life is going to involve communicating with others, one way or another?

I think there IS utility in assessing people with the constraint of "you can't talk to anybody else", but I'm not comfortable with that being the dominant, primary means of assessment. It should be consistent with the likelihood that you'll actually be forced to work stuff out on your own- maybe 10, 20% at most?

Your thoughts?
Norvig claims you can make progress in AI using probability theory and statistical analysis (IBM Watson style), and Chomsky is clearly skeptical about that approach. Seems like a conflict to me.

I do like Hawkins' ideas, but so far neither he, nor Dileep George has made any significant breakthroughs, and it's been 10 years since "On Intelligence" was published.
I wonder if the author's point would hold, if biological weapons were used by the attacker.

Smallpox made the first European invasion of North and South America a lot easier.

A few well targeted weaponized viruses with a reasonably long incubation period could greatly reduce our ability to defend ourselves. (The trick would be making sure they didn't spread beyond US borders in an increasingly globalized society)
But - Amazon shouldn't be offering to let you "buy" it if those are Disney's terms.
I suggest the OP check out Cloudability[1], which provides realtime cost management for AWS and other cloud providers. We help over 10,000 customers make sure this doesn't happen to them. (disclosure: I work there)

[1]: https://cloudability.com/
Great response to Franzen and Eggers article/novel, she articulated a lot of the feelings I had about their works.

In general, you can pick any innovation in history and find naysayers at the time:

“The automobile as a death dealing instrument was unanimously decided upon as the greatest present day menace to public safety.” Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1920.

There were critics of the radio, telephones, television, the Internet, and there will continue to be critics of every new innovation. By learning about it and embracing it, Ms. Waters takes the right approach to coding and technology.
The first sentence, yes. The second sentence, no.
"I wish more people would share ideas like this."

You might like this site: http://firespotting.com/news
Why not upgrade the compiler to detect the algebraic implementation and optimize it to the buffer implementation?
The primary issue with our economy is that each dollar one has makes it easier to obtain the next dollar. If you play that out to its only possible conclusion, you wind up with all of the money in very few hands. Somehow, that money has to go back into circulation, in the form of loans, grants, charity, salaries, etc. or our economy simply won't be an economy anymore.

It has never been the role of government in a capitalist society to hand out money, nor should it be. Government's role is to create a legislative structure that incentivizes behavior that leads to a healthy economy and society. If we have a problem with the stockpiling of wealth, then we need to craft new laws that disincentivize that behavior. Something needs to change, but it doesn't involve firing up the money presses.
Which makes it more difficult (impossible?) to polyfill. For the time being, I see that as an anti-feature.