skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you realize that the more rich people leave, the fewer rich people there'll be left to plunder?

That, in turn, means that the remaining rich people would have to be taxed even harder to compensate for some of them leaving, which would then motivate even more of them to leave, and there you have a feedback loop that leads to the Basic Income party being over.
I actually haven't found many getting started articles, which is why I wrote this. However I fully plan on writing up more interesting stuff.
Don't try hide anything from a potential employer as that just makes you look embarrassed, and the experience that you have gained from working in that industry should be a positive due to the technical challenges that it presents. If the company can't see that then just carry on looking. Good Luck!
Shouldn't this be accessible only to those who paid $20[1]?

[1]: https://www.unrealengine.com/ue4-on-github
I believe the EULA of the subscription forbids sharing of the source code with non-licensees. So whoever publicly shared the code has violated the EULA, after presumably having given EPic their credit card and personal info. I think this will be taken down shortly. Someone using this code would have to contend with Epic's lawyers. I hope this doesn't ruin the very liberal UE4 licensing for those who abide by the agreement.
Pebble (YC W11) sells 400,000 smart watches in its first year
Nonetheless, the increase isn't good. I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=986323 about this, and have started investigating.
Isn't the number of occurrences of this behaviour directly proportional to the amount of already-filled-in form fields?

- "Murphy's Law"
I'm not sure the intention of the code was it for it to be shared on the public internet in plain view without people paying the $20/month subscription. This strategy was an awesome move for Epic Games, please don't make them regret it with stunts like this.

The EULA explicitly says it is forbidden to distribute with non-license holders: https://www.unrealengine.com/eula
See 1b.
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However because this new coin is being touted as very secure and not falsifiable, people may not catch on to the fact that you are counterfeiting the coins, because they might just assume that they cannot be counterfeited. So perhaps counterfeiting the coins would actually end up being profitable in the end.
How is he not in the Quicken Loans bracket? He's at the top of it: https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/quickenloansbrack...
or is that not the right standings list?
Apply the on first participation to the thread then ?
Nothing ... go ahead. If you fail - Epic is not going to miss your token payment. But if you manage to succeed their lawyers will bleed you dry for much more than the 5% of the revenue. Are you going to take your chances?
What part of my comment gave you the impression that I think 5 to 10 minutes was the upper bounds?
That sounds like the inbox in reddit...
looks promising. where are you based out of ?
You're right. Although it's likely he may live an extended life due to genes, his parents passed in their 90's, he's living the latter years the best way possible, by being rich.

And it's reasonable to think his wealth is buying "power packs", like hormone replacement, that he'd rather not see in the press.
nice post. Thanks.
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adding 2048 alongside bitcoin on rss filter

...this is it, i can't take any more!
Do you remember the name of the third astronaut aboard the Apollo 11, aside from Neil Amstrong and Buzz Aldrin? If no, then you can imagine why for somebody may matter who solves "the last mile". Not saying it's not a problem, just that oversimplifying is probably not the best approach.
I like this idea, it certainly makes it fair. If you support the idea, you pay for it. I suspect this would likely fail though, if you didn't have some disincentive for withdrawals then it only takes a tipping point of free loaders to bankrupt the system.

Still, I love the idea of making it's voluntary. It certainly would allow the BI proponents to put their money where the mouth is. I suspect what makes BI unlikely to succeed is when it's proposed as mandatory wealth redistribution, since it's never as far as I know been done successfully and the consequences of failure are potentially massive, the risks would seem to outweigh the hypothetical rewards.

Would a voluntary pay in system, you could prove it works or doesn't work without forcing anyone else to take the risk. I wonder if a local community could do this for it's residents?
I don't know, my grandfather now pasted away in his 70s could run a mile faster than me back in my teens and I could run the mile in just under 5 minutes. We used to race at the track. He lived until he was 91. The reality is you can be pretty active and enjoy life well into your 80s but it only takes one thing to go wrong at that age for pretty much everything to stop. He has a stomach issue where is large intestine just burst... this by itself does not kill someone today - medicine is very good, but eventually it's the lack of nutrients and the body just takes forever to heal itself that eventually will catch up to all of us... The most promising thing I've read about with this regard is the gdf11 discovery by the scientists at Harvard - but like any discovery... there's a lot probably missing from it... at any rate, exercising is without a doubt a good thing, but eventually our bodies will just fall apart... literally.
Manu Prakash discussing this on TED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8cF5QPPmWU
I like this feature actually, because I'm used to it. It's simpler and quicker than using Alt + ←. I'm kinda pissed when this behavior is overridden (ie. Google Search).
To be honest, this:

"On some pages (but not all) when I want to erase the last few characters I just typed, I tap Backspace several times. Tap tap tap. And then, lo-and-behold, my browser is leaving the page I was on and going back in the tab history."

never happened to me, and I'm really wondering how the asker manages to lose the focus on a text field while he types.
To cover for comments on older stories, there would also be an area where the 1k could voluntarily review comments, presumably without context.
They're sending out 10,000 free microscopes in a beta-test shortly: http://www.foldscope.com/10ksignup
The cat is out of the bag. Anyway I doubt that this was unforeseen by the Epic team. Somebody was bound to make honest mistake with permissions sooner or later. You just cannot expect a few thousand licensees to not screw up all of the time. And once is all that is needed.

Their are lawyered up enough to prevent anyone from profiting from their IP on the major distribution channels.
The legalities aside, the little bit of code I've browsed through is incredibly well written. And very surprised to see their build system being built in C#. Cool stuff. Almost makes me want to get back into making games.
I wonder what the false negative rate for this coin will be in vending machines. When the coins are subjected to real-world conditions, will this reduce the coin's ability to authenticate with the vending machine? If the coins are being authenticated using a chemical marker of some kind, will the coins' exposure to other chemicals, dirt, or temperature affect the coins' ability to authenticate?
It doesn't in Linux' Firefox by default and that's bloody annoying.
"Programming language is just a syntax, the core logic of getting things done is already available in your brain."

Is this actually true, though, when jumping between programming paradigms?
Does backspace go back a page? It doesn't on my setup (Firefox 28.0 on Ubuntu 12.04).
Let's just discourage people from earning a living even more....
Absolutely, but that doesn't make this OK. It looks intentional, the way its been committed under a single commit etc, Epic would have prevented public forking.
Which has what to do with basic income?
I think what he's saying, though, is that to many people here the expression of "unpopular views" or any sort of criticism is always and directly synonymous with "trolling". This holds true for them even when what's said is completely valid, completely with merit, and expressed in a perfectly reasonable manner.
Well good morning hackers.. This has been around for ages...

http://www.xenproject.org/
Define hoarding.
I agree that backspace is useful as a back button (I use it that way), and also that there should be an option to change the setting (although, on which the default should be, I cannot decide).

But wasn't StickyKeys (and other assistance-related settings) created to fix the keyboard modifier problem for users with low mobility?
It is intentional. The github user has no other activity, and it's an involving conscious process to set the Unreal Engine repository to public.
Also, it might even make counterfeit coin production cheaper if it replaces rather than supplements current detection methods - maybe a counterfeiter can make a plastic or wooden coin of roughly the right shape and paint it with a paint containing the appropriate mixture, and then trick a vending machine into giving them non-counterfeit change.
Basic Job is sort of by definition work that doesn't need doing.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding. BJ is work that is not worth doing at current market prices. I.e., picking up garbage in the park might be worth $4/hour, but minimum wage is $7.25/hour. If we spend $7.25 more and get $4.00 worth of value out of it, we lost $3.25.

If we are already spending $7.25 on welfare/BI and getting nothing in return, we are losing $7.25. If we demand that recipients work for their money we lose only $3.25. As long as the BJ workers are not destructive, we lose less money than we otherwise would with welfare or a BI.

Also, the jobs need not be "dig a hole and fill it in" - they can also be "walk around town and find potholes to fill tomorrow" or "there is garbage on the streets, go clean it up". It's not as if we have a shortage of things that would be beneficial if we did them. They just might not be worth doing at current prices.
Don't thank the poster for this, Hacker News is not an illegal software distribution channel.
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If you don't have a thought to go with your agreement, just push the up arrow. I agree it isn't the same thing but I see the point of hiding relatively superficial stuff on a site with so many comments.

If you have something to say, even something fairly light, I expect it will still get unpended.
Ask HN: What laptop should I buy for programming and path to take?
Hey guys,

I want to learn how to create an MVP and launch my own projects since I am sick and tired of depending on others. Can you give me some suggestions based on the following questions:

1. Eternal question..What language to start with? And what learning path to take?

2. What laptop do you recommend for a 1000-1500$ budget? I am inclined to go for a Mac for iOS/ ruby development although I am listening to any proposal.

3. Can i learn enough programming in 3-4 months to get an MVP up and running? And what online courses you recommend me?Free or paid, doesn't matter.

4. Software combo/books to use to make things easier for a beginner?Or anything else for that matter.

I am really hungry to learn programming and since I don't have a CS degree I am kind of confused on how and where to start. I am willing to put between 10-15 hours a day (no BS) for the next 6 months just to get to that MVP stage. As I said I'm extremely hungry and eager to learn programming and anything tech-related. Thanks in advance for your help.

Joshz
I would guess the I_C_{λ_1_i}_{λ_2_i} and (λ_1_i, λ_2_i) will be protected by some sort of security by obscurity, and coin reader manufacturers will only be given the info if they comply with some sort of security process and make it hard to extract the info from a coin reader. Probably just a way of making it harder to reverse engineer, not impossible.
How is that an alternative that addresses the issues wildpeaks has raised, though? If anything, the invitation scheme over there just amplifies the sort of problems wildpeaks mentions.
I love this! I am a programmer by week and bicycle shop owner on the weekend. I build the website, point of sale and app for the shop while my partner runs most of the day to day. I would love to use the API to pull in relevant bicycles to the website and app for the shop.
> most reputable mathematicians would have nothing to do with Haskell either

Really? Is that because they don't like Haskell, or because they don't like programming in general?
Cryonics is similar to religion, it just seemingly costs more. You invest in a promise that may or may not be reality, with religion it's 'follow these rules for ever lasting life after you die', whereas cryonics is 'pay us to cryogenically preserve your body so you may have ever lasting life after death'.
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+1 Interesting.

There's probably a parallel to make between moderation systems and Russel's paradox[1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_paradox
Or with Murdoch it's BIG, not little. For example, after all Murdoch newspapers in Australia (which is most newspapers) went for one political party. That party won the election, and afterwards Murdoch got almost a billion $ tax cut from the government that was elected. Similar tactics are used all over the world, and he switches sides too.
Ok, so make the example "your wife is bleeding out". Should the can driver charge you outrageously because you are richer than he is?
> Frankly, I'd (very seriously) rather watch professional juggling than bowling.

Isn't professional juggling specifically supposed to be entertaining to watch?
Last week I received my second Pebble, one of the new Pebble Steel watches. I'm very happy with it, and it always generates some questions.

I usually describe it as the same feeling as using the Nokia N95 back in the day; it's obvious the category is the future, but someone else will probably make a smoother version of it in a couple of years (iPhone in Nokia's case, who knows in regards to Pebble).

But just getting push notifications from Google Maps on your wrist when walking around a new city is pretty amazing and feels like living in the future, without having to wear a dorky Google Glass.
The space key is also used modally, to scroll the page down. This creates an issue on some web games and video players: If the game/player element is not focused, and space is pressed (with the intention of pausing/playing the video, or making the game character jump) the page will scroll down.

Some websites, like Github and Facebook also use input keys modally. I'll very often trigger some UI function by mistake when starting to type a message if the text field is not focused for some reason.
Interesting map. Only suggestion being that at certain zoom levels the yellow and blue points are small and get lost in the background.
> "because somebody made a poor UI decision 20 years ago and people don't like change"

And now they did a poor UI decision by making a swipe gesture go back

Which would be ok if it wasn't for the fact that sometimes when scrolling (on anything that has 2 dimensions) you will accidentally swipe back.
He describes the lens as being 'manufactured directly from paper'. I'd like to understand what this means. I'm guessing that the Origami technique is what gives the lens its 3D structure, but at least you'll need some highly transparent material to form it, right? Do they have plastic or even glass glued into there?
No it won't actually. What you described might be the 1/1000 of the cases. Most of the times
when someone tells an unpopular truth that is hard to debate, it'll be more gratifying to just
silence that unpopular truth. And that is called human nature.
Anecdotally the elderly people I've known who've lived the longest, have been the ones who've been active as long as possible, not just with exercise but also trying to continue either working in some regard or continue travelling and exploring. I'd imagine there's likely studies on it, but as our population ages it'll become more significant.
Ca 0.50$ is actually only the Material cost. This number does not include cost for manufacturing, development, distribution, quality control, etc.
Similar, but at least one option has a mathematical possibility of working out...
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This is true of baseball too (well, bat technology), but there the response was "hey, screw technology! We'll just ban modern equipment!" Why the difference in bowling?
Its a micro glass lens as described here:

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1403/1403.1211.pdf
No, because the problem is deciding whether, for all possible moves you make, there is a move that the opponent can make, such that for all possible moves you make, there is a move the opponent can make, ... that will force a win or lose for one player.

This makes it smell like a PSPACE-hard problem (if you make the board size arbitrary).

[EDIT] Now I see what you mean, that you could start in a position where you can guarantee a win and so being in P doesn't matter (the computer would just be able to tell quickly that it cannot win if you play optimally). But this also isn't satisfying because it seems unlikely that a random starting position would put you in such a state (since it's so early in the game!).
Of course it happens. Entitlement spending essentially never goes down, it always goes up or when proposals are floated to reduce it they almost always fail. People do vote to give themselves money, and they always vote to protect their entitlements.
The entire issue is that you don't see a problem with censorship. They would have to endorse ANY comment, not just replies to their own posts.
Are the coins really checked / refused? I mean, I realise why that would happen (to prevent someone simply dumping their fake coins straight into their account), but I never thought the coins go through more than a sorting machine. Maybe there are more checks for businesses taking payments almost entirely in coins...

This provides some interesting incentives though... if you can sort the fake/real coins yourself in some way, you can deposit the real ones and use fake ones to pay all small bills (pay utilities, petrol, etc. with coins only)
Can you really run a caloric deficit indefinitely? Surely that can't be the answer.
While the opening of the repo is obviously infringing on Epic copyright, legality of reporting about it and even downloading - their status is very dependent on the country you are in. Also this is not software but a source code.
Why is there no better algorithm than exhaustive search of the game tree?
As a not-old person applying for internships for the first time this year, every recruiter at every company was female.

At campus days, there were guys there, too, but those invariably were the programmers / interviewers. The actual recruiter, though, the one sending all of the emails and arranging all of the travel and such, was always a woman or multiple women.
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The Spanish region of Extremadura:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuLinEx
http://gobex.es/salaprensa/view/press/press/detalle.php?id=8...

(I think other Spanish regions have talked about wanting to use more open source software, but that might be LibreOffice rather than MS Office, rather than a full switch away from Windows.)

Here's another: Lausanne, in Switzerland (pilot):

http://www.24heures.ch/vaud-regions/lausanne-region/Lausanne...

The JoinUp website has lots of examples of open software use in public administration settings. Try digging around in the news archive:

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/all
Yes? Why does it matter AT ALL how often you post? Censorship is not okay regardless.
> You invest in a promise that may or may not be reality

With religion I can be quite sure it won't be a reality, as there is no trace of actual gods anywhere I look, but a lot of good evidence of it being just a social and cultural phenomenon.

Cryonics depends on the adequacy to preserve neural information of the currently used methods, of which I am uncertain but at least is in the realm of actual science.
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One of the things I love about Isaac is his empathy. Reading his blog posts, listening to his podcasts on Nodeup, looks like he is writing/talking to me, and since I'm a developer, this makes a huge difference in my motivation.

Great job guys and very responsible choices.
Slightly off note, but any movement by the Indian government should be appreciated, considering how much inertia they have :) More on the topic - way back in 1995 when CD-ROM drives became affordable and popular in India [1], I expected Linux to thrive in the country considering how nobody, especially students and enthusiasts, had the money to buy legit copies of Windows. Sadly that never happened. At least the universities could have done their bit to teach and promote Linux, but they too didn't.

[1] Internet connections were so slow that it was impossible for most people to download a Linux distro on off the internet. But there were a lot of computer magazines distributing various Linux distros on CDs for a Rs. 100 or thereabout.
In general, I believe the premise of this is a bit off. You often see that people from the west try to design "low-cost" devices for developing countries by introducing paradigm-shifting changes to the design. But this rarely seems to succeed. Just think of all the low cost computing device projects for Africa and India.

What won out in the end? Ultra-Low-Cost smartphones, basically offering the same functionality as the western counterparts but with cost drastically reduced by being based on completely domestic chinese designs and Android.

In this case, the problem is rather the education required to use the microscope and interpret the results. A professional will probably manage to finance a $50-$100 microscope, either second hand or as a knock-off, regardless of being in a third world country.

The paper microscope is a great toy or educational device though.
pg seems to have more of a problem with the "quality" of comments than many users who actually enjoy the use of deep threads for conversation. I understand pg's point of view that that is just noise to him, but to those speaking constructively it is the conversation they want. If this was a move to cut down on trolls I would understand. The question to ask is what is HN really for? Is it for the users to converse/think freely or for the site creator to wrangle/curate smart comments. It seems the later is more in tune with HN's mission as a business, and alas the direction it's heading.
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I think the old saying 'Better rich and healthy, than poor and sick' applies here.
MMh. I would have expected a one-liner: "Use something else" ? :)
I dunno, something liberating and non government approved, like binge recreational drug consumption or anonymous object/service acquisition?
Not that it contradicts the point you are making, but the world (recorded) mile record for a 70 year old male is just under 5:20. (or 4:53 for the 1500m)
http://www.world-masters-athletics.org/records/outdoor-men

(Irrelevant, but I added the 1500m time for people not familiar with mile times. But actually this mile record was set in the Netherlands, while the 1500m record was set in California. :P )
That's not the cost of the program. The net cost of a BI is actually much lower than the net cost of the targeted program. The actual cost of the program is the expense of administration, how much resources are used by the government in running the program.