skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
can you ? that would only work if you can use the same account on multiple platforms, but most times its bound to gamecenter/google/steam etc.
How many times is this story going to be killed and reposted?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7015191

I get that he is trying to get this to go viral and thereby bring attention to his pathetic muck raking but maybe a ban for gaming the system is in order I believe it's been submitted three times and killed or flagged each time, how many times can you submit the same lame, self aggrandizing content?
Culture matters as much as the product
It's pretty important to experiment with these ideas and see what is possible. Look at how far automation has come in fifty years, and think about what we'll see in our lifetimes. Not everyone has the ability to do complex, abstract or creative thinking. Computer vision + cheap robots with good dexterity will render a large portion of the population completely unemployable. Something like basic income might become necessary. There are limits to what a society can survive.

Personally, I think it isn't an impossible problem to find a way to provide a system where people get food and shelter, but are still given incentives to work. Most people do a lot of things for reasons that have nothing to do with food and shelter. With the right cultural values in place, people will still work. (For example, we could implement BI using dogecoin, so people are shamed into going to work.)
I wrote a short summary about what this was about a few weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942145

(Shorter: CFRG is the IETF's crypto review† board, and one of its co-chairs is an NSA employee).

This outcome was a near-certainty, for the simple reason that nobody came up with (or even nominated) a replacement for Igoe. IETF people have worked with Igoe, in person, for years. He is probably a very nice, very earnest person. Removing him from the CFRG without even having a replacement would have been demonstratively hostile without improving the quality of the research group.

Unfortunately, despite a few threads of very solid crypto discussion on CFRG during the Igoe debate, most of it was marked by shrill, repetitive, and often mistaken political commentary. The mailing list had the tenor of a Wikipedia "Articles for Deletion" debate that had been circulated on Reddit. IETF long-timers were visibly irritated. There was also an unhelpful strain of back-and-forth between Dan Harkins, the author of the (flawed) Dragonfly PAKE whose CFRG endorsement started this mess, and Harkins' detractors. At times, the whole thing looked a little petty, especially since Dragonfly is now a dead letter anyways.

It remains weird that IETF's crypto-review board is chaired by an NSA employee. But it doesn't have to stay that way. Igoe has been on the job for many years now, and, from my remove, that job seems pretty thankless. What needs to happen is for someone else to be floated as a new co-chair for the group. I wouldn't be surprised if Igoe voluntarily stepped aside for the right name.

† (David McGrew, the group's other co-chair, disputes this characterization, but the facts on the ground seem to argue that "review board" is the CFRG function that matters)
I see most of the interesting comments here so far are from a strictly American perspective, that is just commenting on what was happening in the United States then or is happening in the United States now. But of course there is more than one country in the world. In another place I have lived[1] a supposedly democratic government that in fact was a dictatorship engaged in comprehensive spying on all civil society organizations--not just the organizations that were formally opposition organizations--and stifled all mass media organizations with censorship. That didn't stop a people-power democracy movement from starting and succeeding in democratizing that country. I've advised Hacker News participants before[2] that people power democracy movements to overthrow dictatorships with comprehensive surveillance programs are not easy, but they can succeed. You and I need mental toughness, persistence, and courage to be part of the solution, but what better reward for those virtues is there than expanded freedom (and the dignity of knowing you did the right thing)? Don't give up. Keep on organizing to gain freedom and protect civil rights.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5985720

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6336795
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Cool, another Carcassonne fan!
I'm fairly sure that, traditionally, the guilds would have set the rates - if you tried working for nothing they wouldn't have been very happy with you at all.
I agree with your point: BCC is a niche market.

Though I wonder if BCC even has achieved its potential. I was surprised by patio11's statement:

I’m sorry, Bingo Card Creator does not support using clip art. Have a nice day.

Maybe he was joking. Clip art seems to be a feature straightforward to implement, IMHO should have been part of the feature set to begin with.
Do they work in those clothes, too?
Not hard because most things are abstracted (though - there's a trade off between too much abstraction and peformance).

But I feel it might be missing the point, RabbitMQ was used to remove the typical bottleneck from the broker which exists on most Ruby background frameworks, and using Postgres would bring it back. All in all, RabbitMQ will give you a good, transparent HA story with active-active which is useful when you must not lose messages (Postgres will give you just failover).

Edit: to cover @artellectual's response - I think OP meant to swap RabbitMQ with Postgres as the backend but if OP meant "is it possible to use existing Rails models / etc" - then yes, @artellectual is completely right - easy to do.
> I believe that if you remove the incentive to work to survive, vast swaths of people will simply choose not to do anything

Three-quarters of adult recipients of the Brazilian basic income system do work [1].

Like the parent commenter said, "without solid evidence, statements like that are little more than expressions of ideological preference, both on the left and on the right."

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/how-giving-cash-directly-to...
"Solve your own problems."
In my opinion, tests should be an after-thought until your product is seeing success and heavy use.
You see that? That right there - that's tantamount to reliance on a half-measure, and people aren't going to buy those weak arguments.

If you want to make basic income a political possibility, you need data. This is something which can be tested at small scales, and relatively cheaply. We should definitely do that, scaling the test size up as we go. Hell, a private organization could do this. Where's George Soros when you need him?
A numpad? Wth?
This sounds really cool. Are there any links to the paper / presentation anywhere? I would love to learn more.
Jack Bauer has the luxury of being right or mostly right when he tortures people.

In the movies, the good guys know with near-perfect certainty that the bad guy knows where the bomb is, and there is only just enough time to get the information - thus, torture. If real-world torture worked under similar certainty, few people would be against it.

If one person tortures one other person and as a result found the bomb, he probably wouldn't get a very hard sentence. But in reality (as I understand it, I'm not exactly a subject matter expert), you'd be trying a guy who tortured 50 guys, 49 of which didn't know anything (or didn't break) or fed you disinformation, and then one guy who told you something actionable, that you plausibly could (but perhaps not) have learnt through other channels.
Another xkcd applies here: http://xkcd.com/356/
Most of the poor are renters. If you gave everyone $12k more a year, why wouldn't everyone's rent (and other expenses) simply rise by $12K?
You have no idea what it is like in life. You have a guess but it is entirly wrong.
But I do. Simply put I've been there, and no there not hundreds of leads. The people you 'torture' are not random guys, They were linked to the case in question. And the information they give is always always somthing you know and something new, They of course don't know which is which. Otherwise the information is usless and you will need endless amount of time and money to sort it.

Again. Your ideas about real life are entirely wrong.
I don't see why you can't just include ActiveRecord or datamapper and connect to the same DB as your app (assuming you want to allow your workers to have access to the application database) you might have to copy the models over though. But then if you want to keep it simple you might not need to copy your models over, since models for workers are usually much simpler than the application's model.

This is of course talking about the stand-alone version. And I am talking of course about using it in tandem with the rabbitmq for job storage.
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I quite disagree. A touchpad doesn't require appreciably more movement off the keyboard than a trackpoint (I used a trackpoint Dell machine for years). Matte screens are bad for reading code, because they create a layer of gritiness that reduces the sharpness of text. Glossy screens with good room lighting are far superior. Finally, a wide-screen 13" display is just about the right size to fit two 80-character Emacs windows side-by-side.
I wrote a longer response a couple days ago but the outage ate it. :)
Three quarters work, and one quarter do not. What's the unemployment rate in the USA now? If you include those who've 'given up' looking for work or whatever, I think it's around 12%. Yeah, let's fork out a couple of trillion dollars a year and double that.

If you want to do this, you need the data which proves that it can work in the USA.
How so you test for national inflation on a small or even medium scale?
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Key is to adopt processes that would work for your people rather than they working for the processes.
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I don't think it's propaganda. It's a result of the same feedback loop that gives you the morality of soap operas, the absurdity of reality television, the voyeurism of talk shows, historically the extremity of circuses and freak shows: the need to be more attention-grabbing, more extreme, more must-see shocking than the next guy.

It's hardly news that watching that kind of stuff gives you opinions that make you a worse person.

The way I see it, fiction has a dark side and a light side. The dark side normalizes and revels in darkness, to shock and allure the audience. The light side is shocked at the darkness and stands against it, to educate and enlighten the audience.
Well, consensus seems to be that you're wrong, but I think you're obviously right. However, you left off one of the most important conditions: the interrogator has to be able to tell that you've told him the truth. The scenario where torture would best work is when you pick up someone with an encrypted laptop and want the password that they have. In that situation, it will work.
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What happens when your customers' data is lost or corrupted because of a bug you could have caught?
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I've had similar feelings before. But what if they've implemented the only moderation policy that anyone in the history of the internet has discovered to actually work well for fostering discussion among capable people about interesting topics, consistently? The ruleset has evolved slowly over time; they weren't imposed arbitrarily. Each rule was to counteract a specific class of problems plaguing the site. For example, remember the painful discussion about the Airbnb fiasco a few years ago? It stayed on the site for like two days because an angry mob upvoted it so much. (I was a part of it, before later realizing that the story was designed specifically to incite an angry mob.) Etc. There are reasons to penalize certain kinds of content, and sorting it out is a very difficult process. But at least they're trying.

I'm sillysaurus2 because I broke a rule on purpose on my old sillysaurus account. I asked if they'd unban my sillysaurus account, and they were nice enough to unban it. I stuck with sillysaurus2 rather than switching back -- no real reason, just felt like it -- but the point is that they're lenient and they understand that mistakes happen, on both sides of the fence. Contrast that with the policy of, say, /r/AskHistorians: I'm permabanned there for a stupid mistake, and their policy is to give no second chances under any circumstances. So at least these guys are reasonable, yeah?

Yes, it's worrisome that they hold the power of deciding which discussions are penalized. But wouldn't you rather they hold the power rather than some other group? They genuinely believe in merit and good intentions, rather than just using those things as a smoke screen for greed, as some other groups do.

It's not an ideal situation, but it's like democracy: it's the best anyone's thought of so far. But these are just my thoughts, and I'm really interested in hearing yours.
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Actually the data is available. The city of Newark for example has implemented several small-scale social innovations during the past few years, and they focused very much on data gathering and statistics. We don't see that in the media because it does not fit their narrative, and it does not fare well for opinion-makers to stand-up for that either. But the data is out there
Yeah, but you won't always be right - do you like being wrong some of the time because you jump to conclusions?

How about deferring judgement until you interact verbally with the person?

How about not using superficial visual cues to infer social and labor roles/identities?

I am a straight(ish, ahem) guy who from time to time paints his nails. Q: What would you infer from that? A: Don't bother, cuz I don't fit into your boxes, and guess what, no one else does (including you).
Data redundancy in multiple locations and good logging can fix that problem better that tests, I think. Most bugs can be found anyways during development without coded tests.
The thing is, Thunderbolt manages to be this amalgamation of miniDP and PCIe x4. It is actually entirely possible to run PCIe devices on a thunderbolt connection, which means things like external graphics cards are now again viable (since almost no consumer computers have expresscard slots now).
Where is it? A quick google search for 'newark basic income' yields nothing.
Anyone who thinks parenting practices -other than the most extreme- shape behavior should think twice and look at the evidence. The blank slate by Steven Pinker might be a good starting point.

There's plenty of evidence that the effects of parenting are generally smaller than we would like them to be, again with a few exceptions.
"They could situate in a reasonable school district"

Absolutely not! The 10% percentile income will always live in the 10% percentile neighborhood. All it means is housing prices and walmart prices and food prices will simply go up to match the income.

The reason a minincome will go thru, is a large retailer will get the idea that the best way to boost revenue would be for their prices to go up, and the best way for their prices to go up would be for their shoppers to have more money, and we've spent decades working as hard as we can to eliminate all lower and middle class jobs, so ...
This is pretty inside-baseball stuff. Co3 is an enterprise security product, meaning that very few people on HN will ever see it, let alone buy it. And it's in incident response (tools that allow people to follow up on breakins), which is the second-least sexy part of enterprise security.

I suppose it's good to bear in mind that Schneier now has a dog in the race any time he writes about incident response. But then, he had one about managed security services while he worked at Counterpane and BT. It didn't seem to impact his writing much.

As far as I know, Schneier remains a fellow at Berkman at Harvard, which is presumably where most of the stuff he does that is actually interesting will be done.

(I worked with and very much some other people on the management team at Co3 in a previous life; I've got nothing bad to say about it, just some perspective.)
An interesting point in American fiction in particular, is that, generally it always has the lesson: "violence works" or "violence is the solution". Applying violence to a problem is a pretty common way of solving it. And, of course, a big enough nuclear bomb will fix any problem...

A line like Doctor Who's "everyone lives!" is very difficult to find in an american show.

(It's not that I have a problem with american fiction, I just find it curious)
A year ago, I would have agreed with you. There's nothing stopping you from building a successful product without writing tests. Since I built the habit of writing tests, though, It definitely makes a difference, especially if you're working with a team or contractors.

Tests are a super helpful way to say "See, this works. Make sure it keeps working, everyone."
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@ytdtty your comment has been hellbanned, though I'm not sure whether it was meant as sarcastic as it sounded. So for the sake of hoping that it was genuine interested, yes they do.
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Kudos to the OP for a thorough Wiki/documentation

As always, the first question on my mind is "Why X, instead of A,B,C?" (sidekiq in this case). The OP's page is here:

https://github.com/jondot/sneakers/wiki/Why-i-built-it
Could it be?

http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.2338
And if you pull up a graph of the velocity of money, boosting that a big might not be the worst possible outcome given the past couple decades trends (straight down)
Don't know why you're being downvoted, this type of person definitely exists.
So by that logic a wide variety of Cloudflare's serving modes ought to return a 503, including the one where it preserves cached content because the underlying server is unavailable.

Suppose HN consisted of two content panes and one content pane was unavailable, and the unavailable pane was replaced by a message indicating a partial outage, should HN return a non-200 response code then?

200 means "this response is being served as intended without the server serving it having an error". With Cloudflare acting as a hybrid caching proxy and static site, it is appropriate for it to return a 200.

If HN were not using Cloudflare, the underlying server would probably just show an automatically generated error message of some kind and return a 503 status.
> the 9% 'drop in work' will be offset by the increase in consumption caused by a large range of people suddenly having more purchasing power

That money didn't come from nowhere. There is an equal decrease in purchasing power for others due to the increased taxes needed to fuel such an expensive scheme.
Or, to make it easier, just put a generous time limit on each program for whatever computer you're running them on.
I grew up watching Star Trek: TNG and that episode is something to remember indeed. It makes a strong rational and moral case against torture. While modern American TV shows do indeed do the opposite.

I think I know the reason for this. Gene Roddenberry was a WW2 veteran i.e. the Geneva Conventions had a personal relevance to him. In the wars of the past you had to assume that many of your own guys would be captured by the enemy.. and that you might end up being one of them. In that scenario a strong international condemnation of torture suddenly looks way more appealing. In contrast, America's modern "wars" (I do not think these one-sided affairs deserve that name) do not lead to a noticeable number of American POWs. And you no longer have to worry about being drafted yourself either.

I think the foundation of the acceptance of torture in contemporary America is the firm conviction of the supporters that they will never be at the receiving end.

This type of thinking is unfortunately widespread among humans everywhere. It is never moral and often unwise to support a system you would not support if you did not have a favorable position within it.
Nice, didn't expect to see any PTers on here
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The difference between 16:10 and 16:9 (HDTV proportions) screens is appreciable though, the former is better for dev work.

Although I cannot imagine doing any work on a laptop without external monitor and ergo KB/mouse, so I'm too fussy I guess.
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The question of where the money comes from is a valid one, and, perhaps surprisingly, your statement "The only source of money is other people" is wrong. To start with, read up on "money creation" and "fractional reserve banking."
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Schneier provides some details in this post:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/12/more_about_th...
Seems like it be highly useful for sites that do backend conversion. Never been a big fan of ruby but its cool seeing its uses.

I've gone ahead and slapped together APNG support, which not only cuts file sizes down; but conversion takes about 5 seconds for the largest MP4 I tested.

http://i.imgur.com/sCVBYC2.png This came out to be 9.9mb while its gif counterpart was too big to even upload; even with its quality cut.

Sadly I realized not every browser supports APNG.
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