skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you suppose that $1b would be allocated? Of course it will go to the top 1% of researchers, so the established top will stay at the top. Your proposal will make matter worse in exactly the way that "SOCIALISM" (OP's scare words) doesn't work.
There was a hacker news article a while earlier about a reseller of garage/estate sale music being put out of business because Fulfilled by Amazon doesn't necessarily send the item you put in the warehouse to the customer.

Seems like that's the same root cause here - something that is marked as new by Amazon seller, but is in reality an RMA item that hasn't even been properly repackaged for sale.
It seems like the author was dealing with an Amazon storefront, not "Sold by Amazon.com". so this isn't exactly surprising. Many storefronts are just one guy doing business so of course they would get orders wrong, promise things and generally be all around incompetent.

Amazon has a huge branding problem around communicating to it's users the concept of Amazon.com vs storefronts. I've seen multiple places where educated users report bad experiences with Amazon and 90+% of the time, it's with a storefront.
For instance, we try to greet newly joined Stockapps authors on Twitter. Also, we've spent some time to bring the faces of our supporters to our landing page.

That actually is really creepy and I would immediately stop using whatever startup that did that.
Somewhat related to this article, there is greater participation in the workforce as well. So while there may be a wage gap among workers, it changes considerably when you include the greater number of men earning $0.
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Who do you think is holding your health records right now?
My experience here does not have to "generalize" and isn't really meant to. More like an attempt to give a concrete example on a small scale that perhaps people can relate to more readily.

When Europe sent people to "The New World" and tons of silver was shipped back to Europe, the result was ridiculous inflation. Historically, when you inject more money into an economy but not more goods and services, not more intelligence, not more real value, the result is inflation. Prices go up because there is more money but not more stuff to buy with it.

I don't know how help you understand how ridiculous this idea is if you think dismissing my personal experience somehow proves my point wrong. It doesn't. The point can be made other ways. I just happen frequently speak from firsthand personal experience in part because it was part of the culture of a very respected list I once belonged to where the standard was 1) speak from firsthand experience or 2) cite your sources.
Basic income can be cost neutral.
Add a Scandinavian example to the collection.
In principle increase on the demand side will raise the price of a commodity short term.

Meanwhile raising the market price of bonds makes debt servicing less expensive, saving taxpayers' money. Unless the market expects inflation, lowering bond prices again.
> While the download itself is served using https (from amazon), curl will contact the google url shortener using HTTP.

Whoever wrote the installation instructions here should take a page from Sublime Package Control's installation instructions:

> The download will be done over HTTP instead of HTTPS due to Python standard library limitations, however the file will be validated using SHA-256.

> WARNING: Please do not redistribute the install code via another website. [Because of the embedded SHA-256 digest, the installation code] will change with every release. Instead, please link to this page.

[1] https://sublime.wbond.net/installation
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It's very interesting to see the Python libraries starting to experiment with the power of the new 'yield from' statement.
>If you just give everyone more money

Basic income can be a cost neutral, effective form of social security.
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Focusing on what happens at the margin also excludes the bigger picture, which is that the act of carrying out monetary expansion through the issue of bonds paying risk-free real interest (as opposed to helicopter dropping printed money or channeling it through fiscal policy) is a big subsidy for fractional reserve banks and cautious holders of liquid wealth.

That's not to say there aren't massive gains to society from a policy mechanism that both provides a relatively efficient and reversible means to manage inflation and helps stabilise the banking system, but the fact is it favours the wealthy much more than the alternatives.
I don't get why POROs would need some special API. I also don't get why you're pulling code out into things like ConfirmGrouper that still depend on the DB. Why not a true PORO and something like ConfirmGrouper.for(grouper)? Why not just write methods that return bools?

Though I don't know if I agree that the actual sending of emails belongs in a PORO either and not a controller. It seems like determining whether or not emails need to be sent is the kind of logic I would put in a PORO and do the actual email sending from a controller method as in DHH's example.

Edit: Just saw DHH's second example, that's essentially how I would write it.
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How would you know that the exchange is actually running the source code that they publish?
"I don't know what that effects it would have. I assume the first and most direct effect would be budget shortfalls in local governments which would probably try to create more fines[0] and sin taxes (assuming they are still legal)."

In principle you could have a revenue neutral transition to a land-value tax. In practice, it might very well lead to crazy numbers.
Accepting arbitrary EC parameters would, of course, be madness. Not wanting to start a holy war here, this is one case where the NIST curves could be a better choice than curve25519 (or any other Montgomery or Edwards curve).

Being a Montgomery curve, the order is a multiple of at least 4, and it is possible to try and slip a point of order <= 4 past Alice, which would have the same effect as sending {0,1,-1} in DH. No implementation of curve25519 that I know of checks for low-order input points. NIST curves, being of prime order, have no such pitfall (unless you allow some way of representing the point at infinity in affine coordinates). On the other hand, you can try to slip invalid points past NIST curves, whereas curve25519 and friends are protected against this.

PS: I haven't really anything to correct: TLS minutia are not really my area of expertise. It must be some kind of achievement to be lumped together with the likes of 'cperciva, though.
Looks like he posted Owin/Helios results back in December.
http://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2013/Dec/09/Reexamining-AS...

Not sure why someone posted this old 2012 article to HN when something much more current was available.
> In this case, the Right Place (tm) to put these is in POROs / Interactors that can be tested in isolation and re-used across the code-base if necessary.

Key phrase: "if necessary".

It sounds like you're advocating for building abstractions before you actually have a reason to use them. Your reason seems to be "we may need to reuse them in the future" or, "one can see where we might move in a direction where we'd want want to re-use this code", or worse yet, "we're definitely going to build some functionality after this release when we'll want to re-use this stuff."

I've been there, really, I have. Build the abstraction when you actually need it, not when you think you're going to need it, or pretty close to needing it, etc. Because 98% of the time, YAGNI.

> In that case, is there not an advantage to standardising the API for these POROs in Rails?

Not a big enough that I've come across to warrant building domain-specific abstractions and special rules that, as @dhh mentioned, will serve only to raise the barrier to entry to your codebase.
Slippery Slope: If it wasn't for obscure scientific research, almost nothing we know would exist.

It doesn't mean that obscure scientific research has the same market value as almost everything.
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The script tags are a nice touch, too!
That might sound right for all users, however we're running a multi-sided model where we try to personally gather a group of authors/publishers. Thanks for your comment anyway :)
However, one aspect of being a professor has been terrifying me for over five years now – the uncertainty of getting funding from NIH. No let me rephrase that. What is terrifying is the near-certainty that any grant I submit would be rejected. I have been waiting for the funding situation to improve, but it seems to only be getting worse. I personally know about ten scientists who have become professors in the last 3-4 years. Not a single one of them has been able to get a grant proposal funded; just rejection, after rejection, after rejection. One of these is a brilliant young professor who has applied for grants thirteen times and has been rejected consistently, despite glowing reviews and high marks for innovation. She is on the brink of losing her lab as her startup funds are running out and the prospect of this has literally led to sleepless nights and the need for sleeping pills. How can this not terrify me?

Why does MIT require funding from the NIH? Isn't this what endowmnets and tuition is for? Imaginge of google or GE hired people and forced them to raise money from the federal government to actually build their next project? Notwithstanding the mis-appropriation of the profits, purely from a managerial perspective this is highly flawed.

The flipside is also true, Universities are sturctured to leverage outside capital rather than their own (despite having gobs of it). MIT has $11B in the bank, they are not desperate for cash. To do "science", or otherwise.
That's why I like lisp:

(/ 10 17)
=> 10/17
(+ (/ 10 17) (/ 4 9))
=> 158/153

=]
Pull Requests vs. Committing to master
A few pointers for anyone stranded by this.

Tiles:

* MapQuest Open: free tiles, good all-round cartography, high availability and very generous terms of use. The default option for anyone who "just wants a map". http://open.mapquest.com/

* MapBox: need no introduction, easily the biggest and slickest OSM-powered operation out there. Some really great technology, smart guys (they've hired a lot of the brightest stars of OSM), and a bigger commitment to "giving back to OSM" than CloudMade had. Wide range of plans from free to "Enterprise". http://mapbox.com/

* Thunderforest do a range of attractive specialist cartographies, of which OpenCycleMap is the best known, and can design and host styles to order. http://thunderforest.com/

* Set up your own server: reasonably easy for anyone with a little Unix experience, runs fine on a €59/month Hetzner box. Docs at http://switch2osm.org/ (disclaimer: my site)

* And for the client-side library, pretty much everyone uses Leaflet now: http://leafletjs.com/

Geocoding:

* MapQuest Open run an instance of Nominatim, the standard OSM geocoder, again with high availability and generous ToUs. Setting up your own Nominatim instance isn't trivial, so use MapQuest's unless you have a really good reason not to.

* Mapbox has a basic geocoding API that comes as part of their plans.

Routing:

* OSRM is the standard router, capable of blisteringly fast results which facilitate Google-style draggable routes. Source and public instance at http://project-osrm.org/ . Be aware that building the routing graph for the whole world takes a lot of RAM (though you can EC2 it if you like). The author, Dennis Luxen, has been hired by MapBox whose Directions product is expected imminently.

* MapQuest Open also offers routing, slower than OSRM but a nice free public instance.

* GraphHopper is gaining some traction for lower memory requirements than OSRM, though also fewer features. Java. http://graphhopper.com/

All-round OSM shops:

* Geofabrik are very much at the heart of the OSM ecosystem - pretty much everyone has downloaded their invaluable data extracts at one time or another. Hugely knowledgeable, helpful and capable of pretty much anything you can throw at them. http://www.geofabrik.de/

* Gravitystorm, the OSM consultancy side of Thunderforest: http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/

(And a personal note: I do cartography (but not hosting), plus general OSM knowledge with expertise in editors and in routing inter alia. Link in the profile as per usual.)
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The quick offense makes the subject difficult to discuss objectively. A significant percentage of poor are so in large part because they squander opportunity; "free money" all too often gets blown on luxuries instead of improvements. (In no way am I accusing all of such behavior, but the topic's tendency toward B/W all/nothing imputations destroys sensible analysis.)

Further, "free money" also in large (albeit not complete) part becomes a point of dependency from which more is demanded as a right (not appreciated as a gift).

Insofar as a debatable percentage of such "free money" gets squandered, that money has arguably been taken from those who, having earned it, take greater care in spending it wisely.

I'm all for giving people a hand up, just with the qualification that it be given voluntarily, and reasonably results in upward mobility. This "free money" aka Guaranteed Basic Income (same idea, different degree) notion is certainly better than the welfare morass currently in place, but still doesn't address the core flaw leaving so many to receive so much yet get nowhere with it.
30 minutes is way too short. 90 minutes is a good starting point. At least make it as long as a typical meeting + time to download any final notes after the hour is complete.
My product helps people make more money which they can use to improve the quality of life ^_^. That's that simple!
Explain how Google's corporate officers better meet their fidudiary duty to maximize shareholder value by not structuring search results to optimize revenue than they meet that fiduciary duty by structuring search results to maximize returns.

This isn't a conspiracy. It's basic business and doing otherwise would be the basis for a tort.
How is this different from my printer - where an inbuilt chip in the cartridges makes buying third-party versions difficult (but not impossible)?
You're both right, its a collaboration between the two:

>For the MUSCULAR project, the GCHQ directs all intake into a “buffer” that can hold three to five days of traffic before recycling storage space. From the buffer, custom-built NSA tools unpack and decode the special data formats that the two companies use inside their clouds. Then the data are sent through a series of filters to “select” information the NSA wants and “defeat” what it does not.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-in...
The author also sounds like he's trying to do some self-promotion:

> FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION (images attached also)

> From Alan Turnbull, http://www.secret-bases.co.uk

> * World Exclusive *

> The Customer "B" is Secret Bases author Alan Turnbull, infamous for exposing the MI6 Chief's family on Facebook and many other internet/tech related exclusives in the media.
Awesome! I just tried it from a university campus to a business ISP (both very high bandwidth) and the quality was crystal-clear.

Two immediate requests:

1) Screen sharing

2) Group chats

Definitely loving that there's no other software or installations required. Looking forward to its further development.

(Edit: Already got an email from the developers, and I understand the security limitations of easy screen sharing, so I guess just do what is possible; I'm not asking for the impossible. Just easier than installing some full-blown software, if possible, would be great.)
Some other fun things to get that Silicon Valley vibe: http://paulgraham.com/seesv.html
Pretty awesome to see this. When I used a Mac for work, I used Arq and set it up on my coworkers' computers (they were completely non-technical). It was very easy to use.

I'm curious what backup tools people use on Linux if they want to back up files on Glacier. I use git-annex[0] for certain files (it works well for pictures and media). The rest of my backup process is a fairly rudimentary (though effective) rsync script, but it doesn't use Glacier.

My current setup works fine for me, but I imagine there are better tools out there.

[0] https://git-annex.branchable.com/
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Lovely plane, shame about the article.

The Germans already had the fastest plane, the rocket powered Messerschmitt Me 163. It was so fast that it was completely impractical in dogfights against slower planes that had tighter turning circles. Also, it kept blowing up on landing. And take off. And any time anyone looked at it funny.
I guess the first customer should have had to pay a heafty restocking fee or worse, since they returned the laptop not in new condition. I think the first customer got away with a lot, aside from being foolish in not wiping their personal data from the system.
Strange, I made a very similar thing a few years ago at http://dankbarkeit-ist-nicht-erforderlich.de/
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Social security (as in the American retirement thing called "social security") is a form of retirement income. It is based on the idea of paying in over time and getting something back in old age. Such systems run into problems in countries with low birth rates because you hit a point where the working age youth are overly burdened with taxes to support the elderly.

I don't currently have a solution. But I am clear that just paying everyone money that you manufacture essentially out of thin air is a disincentive to actually work. It may inject short term liquidity into the system but it won't solve the real problem.

I think some kind of basic income might be useful to level out the haves and have nots and redress some things but $2000/mo is more than a full time minimum wage job pays currently. I think it would cause a lot of people to see no reason to work. If people quit jobs to live on the government dole, this could actively harm the current system rather than improving things.
Nope; you can't trust SD cards either, not even if you copied things directly from a host that you trust: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554
(sorry long weekend)

The issue becomes when opening sourcing engine components it becomes very easy to damage engines in ways that could injure the driver/other people on the road, as well as maintain EPA standards for emission and fuel consumption.

Not every mechanic is a Fuel System Engineer, its relatively easy to hydrolock an engine. If you screw up the internal mechanics then just a hop-skip-and-a-jump to a VERY rapid dis-assembly.

It's a lot like overclocking, but instead of a 500CPU you have a 5,000 6 chamber bomb.
If you're on a newer Mac, there's no need any more - Internet Recovery installs the system onto a blank HD
Do you mind elaborating what your total backup solution is? I've been looking at Arq but am not aware of what it does not do and what I would need to fill in the gaps. Currently I rely on time machine backing up to three different drives and keeping one of those drives in the office.
'Changes at a Glance' from the release notes: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/5....

* BlueZ 5 support (A2DP only)

* Reimplementation of the tunnel modules

* Native log target support for systemd-journal

* Small changes here and there

* Many bug fixes

Personally it's probably been a year since last time I had to think about pulseaudio, which is the way I prefer it to stay.
It's not, and that's the problem. Printer ink prices and practices are universally reviled.
Land which is worth enough to put a hundred story skyscraper on it usually doesn't stay empty for long, especially if the landowner is paying the same tax rates as the owners of the surrounding city centre lots.

There's no a priori reason to assume that land value taxes would either fully replace other tax systems or not be revenue neutral. If collected locally, they might even favour well-managed local governments who should see their investment in better services reflected in higher land prices.
Coffee instead of ink, your printer cartridges include the print head.
So an Amazon customer "Concept Tech" who sells goods through Amazon (anyone can do this) was reselling returned and barely used products as new.

Why is this news?
It makes coffee? Seriously, same idea, but it's still newsworthy because it's a bad, bad, dangerous idea.
I was thinking that some people would feel damned by faint praise, after their expectations were raised due to the nature of the site. "Yeah they mentioned X and Y BUT NOT Z!!!??"
Without knowing the exact split of stock/cash that's difficult to answer, but we can at least say the cash portion is taxed at capital gains rates.
It's beyond parody because it's just plain false. Par for the course for The Guardian over the last few months.

http://www.earthware.co.uk/default.aspx
Author feels that there is a link between Amazon and both storefronts. IE Laptop purchased from store A Returned. Same laptop sold as new from Store B. Author checked original storefront name with original customer after finding customer's PII. Author feels Amazon is creating fake store fronts for some reason. Author also investigative journalist in need of new scoop.
Most are making 5x to 7x? If we estimate that a professor in a low-paid field makes maybe $60k (ignoring the possibility of grants to pay for additional salary during the summer) this would mean most of your high school friends are now making $300k to $420k. It's rare that most of a high school or college's students go on to become 1 percenters.
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Restocking fees are illegal in the UK for online or telephone sales. In fact ordering online in the UK gives you very good consumer protection thanks to the excellent Distance Selling Regulations. You have the right to cancel an order from an online store for any reason up to 7 working days after receiving the goods.

http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/distance-s... for more info.
I'll keep making real coffee thanks.
A colleague of mine wrote that Open in Github plugin when we worked together - it's incredibly useful if your code's hosted there and you do pull-request code reviews.
> Furthermore, and perhaps even more damning, the original Amazon Marketplace supplier "Concept Tech - fulfilled by Amazon" changes its name to "Xtra Cubby" a few days after the situation is highlighted. Suggesting that fake Marketplace shop fronts are being used by Amazon.

I'm really confused by this. How does this suggest that there are "fake marketplace shop fronts" (could the seller not just coincidentally have changed their trading name?) and - even harder to understand - that these "fake" storefronts are being operated by Amazon. Am I missing something obvious?
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Fraud? or just a mistake? Seems a bit far to jump to the conclusion that some conspiracy is going on. Especially since I've heard nothing but good experiences regarding Amazon's return policies. Like returning a MBP that's already opened...
Very much looking forward to getting one of these units and breaking it. Always a fun exercise.
but what benefit is it to be packed in basics classes that you don't need to anyone? you don't get to skip classes you already know, you have to sit through them, and waste your time

When I chose where to study (for undergrad), a major factor in the decision was minimizing the amount of coursework I would have to repeat.
It's not just news. It's a "world exclusive" apparently...