skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooh, this looks exactly like what I was looking for like ... a year and a half ago to go along with dmpc.
Incidentally, a gallon of gas seems to weigh about 6 pounds. So 7 pounds is a bit over a gallon, which probably gets you around 30 miles or so in an average car with decent fuel economy. On the commuting statistics I can find, look like around 8% of Americans commute about that far. So OP is probably a standard deviation or so past average for either distance or fuel economy, but nothing crazy.

Assuming he didn't just make up the weight number, of course.
The only problem with basic income is that rents would just rise to consume it and poor people would still be poor.

BI won't work as good as it should without simultaneously shifting balance between renting and owning, for example, with progressive real estate tax to discourage investing in large amount of real estate (selling 10th house below market rate would be more cost-effective than keeping it) and to make it easier to purchase one house for yourself (because of increased supply and reduced prices).
Microsoft CEO Nadella’s Memo on Leadership Changes
Get a Random Math Fun Fact
Dull work can be made fun with a little effort. One of my high school teachers had us form lines, we refactor on the fly, said the factors of a quadratic out loud, and then were able to shoot the opponent (like a duel).. After a few shootouts everyone got very quick at refactoring. That little fun boost made the grind feel meaningful.
My brother is leaving industry and going into the ivory tower later this year. He says that it's not just the DoD or the academy, its all government funding. He says the PhD is like a union card now. Lockheed just fired 4000 people[0] and NASA's average age is about 53 [1]. The entire DoD is aging and about to retire, with no-one in the 25-50 year old range, effectively. You'd think that they would then start hiring people in those age brackets, but no. It seems that the idea is to just let government funding die a slow death, that or transition to drones somehow. Its increasingly likely that the good jobs are going to be from private funding due to decreased tax revenue. We can see this in the Valley right now. This means you gotta know people to get the work, not just be 'good.'

[0]http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx...
[1]https://wicn.nssc.nasa.gov/c10/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll?b_act...
Death by Average Talk Time
I would suggest that this metric is not the rope we use to hang our agents, at least not until we know what the other metrics are saying.
I can't seem to find it on Google. What's a PORO?
> The whole "disincentive to work" idea is preposterous. If you get $2000 a month for free, do you still want more money or not?

Its even more preposterous when compared to the status quo. Consider the following alternatives:

1. You get some amount regardless of whether you get additional money from work.

2. You get some amount (which may vary from reason to reason) if you don't get any income from work and manage to convince one of several bureaucracies (all paid out of tax funds on top of the cost of actually providing the benefits) that you meet some qualifications, but in almost all cases this amount is also reduced if you actually make any money from work (sometimes, proportionately, sometimes, if you make any money, you lose the whole benefit.)

Clearly, the latter provides the greater disincentive to work (and, at the same time, the greatest incentive to fraud and corruption, and the greatest public expense compared to the benefits delivered.)
Why can't these touch screens work like the Razer Blade mouse pad? i.e. it's a touch screen, but you couldn't tell because it has metal plates/buttons on top of it. Essentially, it's just a programmable mousepad + keys.
Most of the people I know who like Putin are those who buy into his mass media propaganda. Such people agree with pretty much everything he does, including invading Ukraine to liberate them from the "fascist coup". I wish I could say that these are typically older people, but sadly this is not the case, such naiveness transcends age and gender.

As for hackers, they are an educated and independent bunch who know to use their brains. Those whom I know pretty much unanimously believe that Russian troops should not be in Ukraine. IMHO Hackers worldwide tend to think much more like each other than their native countries populations.

Non-technical young people are somewhere in between. In my circles they generally condemn the invasion, but that is not a given for every young person.

I'm seeing this pattern on a lot of issues that I consider blatant Putinism.
"Systematic hard work can get you results in academia. From what I understand about show-biz, it requires a lot more than just talent and hard work."

Agree (in that what you are saying makes sense. I don't have unfortunately (or maybe I should say fortunately) have personal experience in those particular job markets.)

In any case they appear to be pyramid type systems of success [1](and for that matter athletics are similar to this, right?) Things which many people strive for but few people actually achieve what they set out to achieve (throw startups into this mix as opposed to lifestyle type businesses).

One thing that these pursuits have in common is that money really isn't the primarily motivator in that while becoming a rock star may give you money (or an athlete or a top academic) I always thought that it was more the sense of accomplishment and fame that was much more important. Joe Dimaggio made quite a bit of money in his day but nowhere near what athletes today make but yet many people wanted to play baseball back then.

[1] Perhaps someone could point out the right phrase for this concept. I'm looking for the word that describes professions where people are generally driven to work hard believing they will be the ones that become famous or well known or "the best".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7337079
I got a PhD in computer science, and I landed a research job in industry where I get to do both research and development. So, half production, half academia.

I consider myself extraordinarily lucky. I can point to many different instances of luck that enabled me to be where I am now. Hard work and talent are a given, but among those that work hard and are talented, there's a lot of blind luck that determines who gets the few positions that are available. I continually remind myself not to fall prey to the narrative fallacy, and think that I was somehow "destined" for my current position, and that I got here entirely because of my own work. I was not, and I did not.

I know people who did not land those academic positions, and are either in industry not doing research, or stuck in the post-doc waiting room.
That's interesting. Not sure if it's a "jurisdiction" thing, as in if it's a part of the airplane, they go into the certification regime?

For instance, laptop PCs running Windows and iPads are certified for EFB use now (I would assume for approach plates as well), but I'm not sure what the limitations are, or what certification level that is.

Btw, what did you work on in avionics, and what made you move to a different area of work?
US Investments surge for African startups
Look up Steve Keen. His suggestion for a debt jubilee / universal money distribution scheme more-or-less follows on this basis, though he puts the first cut at debt.

The point is: if you spend the money, whether on retiring debt, on recurring expenses, or on new purchases, what you've received is a net increase in income. For people who are living hand to mouth (they have no surplus income, or worse, negative surplus), the money will be spent.

If you're able to squirrel some away, that's a consideration, but it's 1) built into the model and 2) it's a relatively small fraction of the total distribution (likely less than 20%).
Instant messaging will get Tor treatment in TIMB
Mopidy – Server which can play music from multiple sources
> Absolutely not. It puts Apple in total control over user's software.

Well, yes, but your OS vendor is already in total control over its users' software.

The only difference this makes is that you don't have to trust anyone else.
Three times now to three different MPs. Gave up then. Glad you got something more.
1) That's not entirely true. Evolution is an optimization process and tends to produce more fit individuals over time. Intelligence is a great example of a trait that improved over time because of evolution.

2) No one is claiming that in the first place. The quote is about the evolution of culture and technology, not biological evolution.
Counter-intuitive concepts might seem stupid at first, but if you think through the mechanics you might see that it could actually work.

For me, I have to remind myself that money is just a social construct. The real economy consists of people working and deploying physical plant and equipment to create things other people want.

Today we find that the real economy has a lot of idle resources. People who want to work don't have jobs. Factories and equipment are idle or under-utilized.

If spreading some green pieces of paper around will get the real economy moving again, the standard of living for most people will rise.

It seems wrong at first glance, but it's even more wrong to allow all these resources to waste away, unused, when so much could be done.
I said before that I do want the problems with using real names to be fixed. And I am thinking that insurance for periodic doctor visits is probably flawed.
Cortana sounds like a mouthful. Imagine saying "Cortana" everytime you want to tell it something. And I imagine it would be even more embarassing to do it in public than it is for saying "Siri".
have you seen orderly?

http://orderly-json.org
Researchers develop cluster management tool that triples server efficiency
Combining Reddit + Website
The circle of life: photos pulled from Reddit; voting takes place; winners submitted back to /r/awwr subreddit.
As a somewhat of an air combat simulation enthusiast I have experience that trying to dogfight me262 in anything that is not jet powered is an exercise in futility.

If Messerschmitt pilot can fight vertically instead of horizontally. 262 was the best aircraft of the theatre in terms of potential. However its fragility and reliability did make it a dangerous machine for the pilot and the opponent.
If Ellen Had Used This App, Jared Leto Might Have Been In The Selfie
Right. But one must use a bank or check cashing service to use a check.
It had nothing to do with the Guardian. What on earth are you talking about?
The police department has Constitutional obligation to follow the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. Don't these obligations trump the provisions of any private contract?
You found more information than me.

Tried to "read terms of service" > redirected to the main page.

Whois returned "not found"

dig returned a GoDaddy dns proxy.

Two Emails sent to me by them. The first a email confirmation.
Zidisha, Inc.
21900 Muirfield Circle #302
Sterling, Virginia 20164

The second thanked me for joining their email list.

My profile page has several links like "Lend Fund", "Join a group".
Not sure what to do next...
Basically this meant i signed up for a mailing list
I hate to be _that_ guy, but for someone who values the opinion of others as you apparently, do, using 'whom' on the internet isn't likely to win you over any friends. Let alone using it incorrectly...
> I don't think the judgement was that the money was wasted, but that the money would be spent immediately by the poor, and the rich wouldn't do much with it.

Yes. But they would have to give poor something back for that money. And that's what they currently are not doing because they are waiting for the poor to produce the money they have no means of producing.

In order to manufacture the thing the rich can give poor in exchange for their helicopter money they have to increase production and probably hire some poor people which benefits poor even more.
Plain Old Ruby Object, as opposed to an ActiveRecord model.
Historically, we addressed this by being supportive of families in a way that no longer exists. If you just give everyone money without tying it to anything other than citizenship here, you are failing to encentivize positive behaviors. Creating more pro-family laws and culture would help. A stay-at-home-parent provides value to both the family and the economy without earning money but is not just a "welfare case" either.

We have done a lot in the U.S. to undermine families. Reversing that position would do the economy a lot of good and help address the issue of a world where not everyone "needs" to work but everyone needs resources to sustain themselves.
Hi janj, I am not familiar with any place where debt is not used in some form or another. (See http://www.amazon.com/Portfolios-Poor-How-Worlds-Live/dp/069... for a really thorough exposition of the variety of debt strategies low-income households use to manage their finances.)

The main alternatives to debt that I am aware of are forms of Islamic financing, such as rent-to-own and profit-sharing models. We have explored the possibility of offering a profit-sharing financing product, but failed to come up with a feasible way of implementing such a model. The successful implementations of profit-sharing models seem to rely on strong information verification systems and intensive interaction with local staff, which we as an online service cannot offer.
That is about as helpful as telling people that they can't trust food that they didn't grow themselves. Has no relevance in the modern world where unfortunately you can't easily grow your own food. In other words pick your poison and your battles.
How does this compare to say using Tarsnap (apart from cost)?
State of Massachusetts testing surveys from Panorama Education (YC S13)
Well not any more : http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-24/cisco-sells-linksys... (as Cisco sold LinkSys to Belkin) but the point is valid.
FWIW, Cisco sold Linksys to Belkin. I guess slapping Cisco logos all over poorly-designed Linksys home networking products didn't do anything especially positive for people's perception of Cisco.
He said contemporaries, not friends. Meaning that other successful PHDs/Scientists that put in the same amount of work that he did, but in the private sector, are making that much money.
Never seen the term used before, but by analogy to POJO and POCO it would have to be a "Plain Old Ruby Object".
Thats a bad argument, because food products are heavily dependent on the price of fuel, and that has gone up because of: geopolitical instability, limited supply, and explosive demand in developing countries. QE didn't cause increasing demand for oil in China. The price of food and fuel would have gone up relative to other things regardless. Inflation from an increase in money supply will manifest in a way that cuts across industry sectors. Cars, computers, and personal services would be getting more expensive. They're not.

Look at the price of BMW's U.S. entry level 3 series. In 2004 it was $28k MSRP. BLS estimate for 2014 using official inflation is $35k MSRP. Actual is $38k MSRP (under 2.5 percent) for what is for various reasons a lot more car (50 more horsepower, bigger, safer, more fuel efficient). If it weren't for tighter emissions requirements since 2004, inflation in the price of cars would probably be below the general inflation rate.
I've used JungleDisk, CrashPlan, and now Arq.

I left JungleDisk because it went sideways and S3 was too expensive. After that was CrashPlan; I liked its free remote backup option. But then my backup destination disappeared behind carrier grade NAT. That left me with paying for regular CrashPlan or looking elsewhere. Enter Arq.

Based on my estimated usage, for two computers, I calculated the following estimated yearly cost.

JungleDisk S3 $288
CrashPlan $120
Arq Glacier $ 32

Assuming I didn't screw up my estimate, Glacier was a no-brainer, even with up-front cost of two Arq licenses ($70).

This month is the first full month in which I'm not seeding my initial Arq backup to Glacier. I'm hopeful that the cost will be significantly lower than CrashPlan.
Can someone tell me why I shouldn't be using BitTorrent Sync as a multi-location backup plan?

In other words, can someone sell me on the idea of paying for AWS storage when I have dirt cheap storage around my house and even a remote location that I can stuff a huge drive in.
Nobody gets tenure anymore. Most stay as associate professors, and make 60-70k.
The spectacularly effective British Vickers Supermarine Spitfire (against which this plane would have hypothetically been pitched) was based on a peacetime racer, the S-6B.
STOP NAMING THINGS Q IS WHY.
Ask HN:Is there a solution for networking , between Cloud service providers?
Is there a solution for networking , between Cloud service providers ,eg AWS and Rackspace ?
Also www.wefunder.com for the US.
This happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_Pont-Saint-Esprit_mass_po...
I'm not convinced it really injects the full $100. It's swapping something that's basically cash for something that is cash.
What are we supposed to say to this? You've been so vague that are we supposed to take your expert word or believe you're a close minded snob?

What do you do? How do you help?

Do you think you're suffering from an anti-'survior' bias where you can only see the ones who continue to fail?
If companies are people, isn't disclosing private information belonging to that company is a violation of a person's privacy? Doesn't that mean the gov't also has a constitutional obligation to not break the privacy of companies?

What do you even do when you have conflicting constitutional obligations...
This is the sort of unfortunate reason that many people use in these situations. Why should everyone profit if some people are going to squander it? Why should I pay into global income to pay for a drug addicts habit? The reason is that he may be able to seek actual psychological and social help for his addiction. And even if he doesn't do that, at least he can afford his drugs without having to kill you for it.
I'm not doubting that it can beat V8, in a mature project with very significant programmer time behind it. But I find it very hard to believe that one weekend of fiddling with an LLVM javascript engine is enough to produce results better than V8, which has had the benefit of years of work from some of the smartest minds in the industry.
Plain Old Ruby Object
You're right, it is Belkin now, somehow I missed this year old news!
No one wants to get sued, no matter how frivolous.
> legacy OSS

Are there actually programs that still use OSS? When I see OSS I think redhat rembrandt or picasso and kernel 1.2.12. I thought OSS was killed off in 2.2.x or 2.4?

> alsamixer is really intuitive even if it is ncurses based compared to pavucontrol.

I don't mind ncurses; to be honest I have never really complained about an ncurses interface compared to the gtk equivalent. It is funny that you mention QT, I will put up with pulseaudio even though I do not think I need it installed. QT/KDE is another story. I would like to use rkward but every time I type `apt-get --no-install-recommends install rkward` I take one look at the list of dependencies and say forget it. I think its nuts that a stats program depends on kde-runtime. If rkward just needed some extra qt libs (similar to gnumeric grabbing some gtk libs but not gnome-core) I would probably bite the bullet and install it.

I hope my reply did not sound bitchy, I appreciate you taking the time to explain the sound madness to me. Do you do professional audio work?
"It's 2014" and Chrome can't even render a web font that's not hideously jagged on Windows. Even IE renders text better than Chrome these days. Why would the pixel perfect Apple designers leave something as integral as typography up to a browser with rendering problems?
So here's the problem that I have with most of these types of cases, where police don't follow proper procedure to capture a suspect. Let's say they went through normal procedures -- get a sketch artist to make a possibly inaccurate caricature of the suspect, and use that to make an arrest, and have the victim ID the suspect. This has a good chance of convicting the wrong person. First, if the sketch is inaccurate, the victim may have that image in there mind afterwards, which would influence picking out the suspect from a lineup.

Now, using the alternative procedure, in which the police are tracking down the victim's stolen phone (I'm assuming with the victim's blessing), there is a much higher chance of getting the right suspect.

So, how do you argue with someone that the police should use inferior (but legal) evidence to put the (possibly wrong) person away, instead of using more accurate (but 4'th amendment violating) evidence to get the right person? Now in cases where proper procedure always gives superior evidence, then it is easier to argue for that (such as standards for collecting DNA evidence to avoid contamination). But in other cases, it is possible that unauthorized methods can lead police away from an innocent person and toward the guilty one.
Teen leaks unreleased HTC One successor, and HTC isn't happy
That's ok. When that happens I'll gladly pay a premium to get my data fast. That should only happen once every few years though.
Show HN: Fiction55.com - 55 word micro-fiction stories.
It looks like Windows 8.1 is whitelisting PuTTY by hash or signature: nothing to see here.

Repro steps (Windows 8.1, desktop IE 11 or Chrome 33):

1. Download putty.exe from any shady source

2. PuTTY runs without prompting

3. go to mega.co.nz (an extremely shady source), upload your copy of putty.exe

4. download it again

5. this version of putty.exe also runs without prompting

6. open your hex editor of choice, change a byte in a text string

7. upload this tampered version of putty.exe to mega.co.nz

8. download and run it

9. observe full-screen modal red banner: "Windows Protected Your Computer" requesting an Administrator password to run suspicious binaries.
Yet the previous owners of those bonds and stocks who now hold the cash are likely members of the same elite investment class, and immediately ... reinvest it in bonds and stocks, instead of spending it on goods and services. (unless they are the recipients of, say, social security -- the biggest single investor in government bonds)

edit: replied without reading the HPE post. My point, I guess, is that this helicopter drop of cash, if evenly distributed (e.g., every US citizen received 3.19488818e-9 of it), would disproportionally be distributed to those who would spend it immediately, increasing aggregate demand - compared to those few percent who would just add it to their investment portfolio.
Possible branding problem: Cortana the Halo character goes insane after seven years.
The PTO would probably revise the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure to include any new direction from the Supreme Court. See the current section on patent subject matter eligibility:

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2106.html
The problem is that it is like pouring water evenly over the surface of the globe, removing both oceans and continents. Yes, we need to find a way to more fairly and humanely distribute the available resources. I just don't think this is really it. If you tie it to nothing, it isn't likely to work or be sustainable.

What will it be tied to in order to ensure that it doesn't just wreck the economy? That piece seems to go unaddressed. My understanding is that in Alaska, everyone gets a check instead of paying taxes but it is because of the Alaska oil pipeline. When that pipeline runs dry. so will the "free money." It comes from somewhere. It doesn't just get printed out of thin air. Oil gets sold, the state redistributes the money to its citizens. It isn't just some magical manipulation on paper because money is relatively abstract, so people seem to think manipulating it really works. No, it really doesn't.