skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
9am isn't actually that early. I started school at 7am every day.

Most people I know..who aren't teenagers..hate getting up early...but they do it anyway. College students also hate getting up early (my 7am classes were always empty..compared to my 1pm)...should we mandate that all classes start in the afternoon?

Coddling our kids will only create a generation that is unprepared for the real world.
I buy a lot of CDs and they're about $13-$15, which is down from a few years ago when they were about $18.

I've never really had good luck with music recommendation services, I always seem to get the safe recommendations from the priors.
i thought the point of this way, gee, the world bank makes it hard for you to get data out, so we scraped them, and here is the data for you guys to play around with. I looked for a bit, but couldnt find the data -- am I missing something?
Is it okay to not completely understand code functionality?
Artists are totally free to pull their music from these services. Popular artists like Adele and Coldplay have notably kept their music off streaming services, and still sold enormous amounts of recordings.
Fair enough -- and I don't disagree in the slightest about value for the money (my Sennheisers are a tank, sound great, and they were only about $100).
Confidence Intervals in Pure SQL
I agree, and this is just a workaround, but use http://maps.google.co.uk instead.
Watching the video I heard the speaker say unit testing is rather easy, since state is always sitting next to code in your components. This is great and sounds logical: test different input states and check against expected / consistent output.

What I'm wondering, given the unidirectional flow and the design of flux as a whole: would Integration Testing be needed at all anymore?

I mean, there's no state outside of the component that could possibly influence the component's consistency. Therefore, all needed testing could be done by simply unit-testing all components in isolation.

That sounds pretty huge.
I like the main point being made here and think it is partly valid because there really is a lot of waste. (but some of it is stuff consumers really create due to convenience purposes and impatience) But I think the idea that nobody needs jobs is downright wrong. Even the idea that it would be relatively few who need jobs is probably false. But maybe we are operating with like a 20-30% extra workforce than what's essentially needed.

I would like to see more investment into people and their skills. Also general planning for community...with people's individual,specific goals/ideas/dreams at the core.
It sounds like a marketing problem. Although, I suspect the PDFs aren't the only dissemination method (as stated in the article). After someone spends so much time writing a report, it probably sits in their consciousness and spreads via the person's other interactions (eg shaping their perspective, thinking, and pursuits). With so many people producing so much content on a daily basis, it's hard to imagine people actually reading it all. So hopefully the good ideas get kept in the person's thoughts and come out repeatedly until it's heard. Otherwise, I am not sure there really is a good filtering mechanism on a system scale.
Sure, but all you've done is keep medicare in place and reduce BI to $7800/year. Note that medicare is only available to people over 65 in most cases - it isn't generalized health insurance, so now anyone under 65 needs to pay for health insurance on top of the Medicare tax. Which is exactly how it is now anyway.
What I learned being in a documentary (tl;dr – they are BS)
>The unfortunate conclusion is that in the future, someone like Snowden might immediately be caught.

I think that is too naive. Snowden types don't assume they won't be caught, they probably assume that it is only a matter of time until they are caught, and play the cards they have in such a way that you make it really hard to send your garden variety cia/dia/spec ops/defense contractors out on a pick up operation not only only from a feasibility standpoint, but from a geopolitical stand point (e.g. What will Beijing's/Moscow's/D.C.'s response be if we run such an operation in their front yard? What precedents might we be setting?).

Also to note that offensive/defensive technical capabilities aren't as asymmetric as they appear for all possible targets of nation states, some yes, but probably not as much to those with the technical knowledge who can create/use such and derivative systems which might very well be other nation states (or appearing to originate from such).
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718277

Other sources for the same story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7725148

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7722993

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7722328

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7721668
This seems like a perfect companion (or replacement) for Notational Velocity.
This is essentially a plan to get local resellers to distribute an Edubuntu-like Android OS on bootable thumb drives.
We changed the url from [1], which was more sensational and not as close to the original source.

1. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25538-how-your-ancesto...
A major flaw within old monarchies was that the workers' jobs were essential and the bulk of their output went to the higher ups who merely watched over their work. The growing issue today is that people who are "lowly workers" are doing pointless jobs so that the higher ups whose primary purpose is to watch over workers doing nothing can justify paying those workers.

It is possible to distribute wealth and supplies without forcing someone to sit at a desk and fold paper airplanes for eight hours a day, five days a week.
"It will eventually come down to prevailing social norms. In this, the pro gun forces are already losing the battle of emotional impressions and imagery across much of the US."

Citation needed, I believe.

Outside of the usual suspects, plus very recently and perhaps temporarily, Colorado, the vector of pro-gun facts on the ground is very strong. Those states did their usual things in response to Sandy Hook, but at net the legislation passed has been pro-gun, and hasn't stopped.

Or look at the nationwide sweep of shall issue regimes, 1987-2011, followed by Illinois, and now California and Hawaii, brought to heel by the courts (if and when finished, that'll cover 90% of the population).

As for the "debate", there is indeed none. But that's been true for decades, as or longer than I've been alive, e.g. look at the immediate indictment of the right after JFK was shot by a Communist who was upset at his policies towards Cuba (a blast of cognitive dissonance they've never recovered from).

One of the reasons my side is arming ourselves so very thoroughly is that our opponents are very clear in how they view us, and end game they want. This recent use of open carry in political speech (well, besides avoiding bashing by union thugs in that first case of an Obama speech in New Hampshire) is, I sincerely hope, a clear message that the cost of their implementing their desires is going to be intolerably high. And perhaps the strongest force in preventing our cold civil war from turning hot.

Something else occurred to me: the organs of the state routinely carry openly. I can't see how that isn't itself also political speech, something particularly obvious when they herd the hoi polli into "First Amendment Zones", or arrest people at public meeting for speaking more than their alloted 2 minutes, etc. etc.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, especially seeing as how it's an enumerated Constitutional right!
The only game engines that have lasted decades are the id ones. Coincidentally, they are about the only engines open sourced. But even today, games (of foss and not variety) are still being developed for them. Directly.

All the proprietary engines get iterated on, they keep (usually) the same core, but all that old code has gone to rot and waste because of its proprietary nature.

Every game developer is reinventing huge amounts of the wheel. Or more particularly engine developers. Because they all in house whole stack do the thing themselves, rather than work together, and waste everyones time.

> creation of most proprietary software is entirely bullshit. Ok, so?

So the OP was talking about how software is rarely a job without being paid to look busy when actually coding. But really, by reinventing the same wheel thousands of times over, because everyone wants to be a literal 3 year old hiding their toys in their own sandbox and not letting the other kids share with them, it is all a huge waste of time.

In the same way that we have perpetual employment of a lot of people for no reason than to keep them in an office to justify giving them money even if they aren't productive, IP as a whole exists for the same purpose in the modern information age - it is wasting everyones time to add false valuation to something that should not have any. I'm not saying information isn't valuable, but individual copies and licenses and crap like that are not - they are artificial, to prop up a false economy, so it is all bullshit.
"...no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

I'm tickled that they're actually getting warrants sometimes, but this sort of warrant doesn't sound like it would meet that test.

If you can't describe a physical location of your search, you're opening up all sorts of potential for mischief that would play off the technical ignorance of some judges and the inherent interconnectedness of the Internet.

"Machines connecting to the target machine or relaying traffic for the target machine", etc.
Who is making any money in streaming music? It's certainly not the service providers. Neither Pandora not Spotify are even profitable. Nearly all of their revenue is eaten up by the royalty payments they must pay record labels.
MS is one of the very few organizations to whom I'll give an NIH pass, if for no other reason than merely to have someone exploring alternate implementations.
Thanks for the very nice explanation with an example.
As Mobile Roars Ahead, It’s Time To Finally Admit The Web Is Dying
There's no moral imperative in 7am classes.
I don't care if people downvote me, the only reason to read the comments anyway to is to get other peoples insight into the matters of whatever the threads subject is. Doesn't it defeat the purpose of being here if you are afraid to speak your mind? I have plenty of unpopular opinions, but until someone can persuade me with facts and reasoning and not an arbitrary Internet number that I'm wrong I'll keep espousing them and taking those downvotes with pride!
One thing I've learned around HN is that sometimes you have to wear your downvotes with pride.
The product is becoming the Windows ME of Google.
It might be a ten hour job for someone who knows what they are doing, but I am not such a person. I have zero experience with closed captioning, so for me to do it myself, not only would I have to do the actual work, but I would also have to climb the learning curve which almost certainly would take more than ten hours. It would make a lot more sense to just pay someone to do it for me (which I will probably end up doing).

But that's not the point. The point is that because of a government regulation (one which does not even apply to my film, BTW) I have to pay $500 or lose my distribution. That, to my mind, is the very definition of a "chilling effect on free speech", not unlike a poll tax. It doesn't matter that the amount is relatively small, and that I could easily afford to pay it. It's the principle of the thing. Poll taxes were relatively small too. My concern is actually not so much for my film, but the thousands of titles out there made by people for whom $500 or ten+ hours of work is actually a substantial burden, and the thousands of films that might not get made because this extra burden pushes the producer over the edge to decide it's not worth the bother.
Since we are on the topic of experimenting with the FF new tab page, it would be great to get the feedback of the HN community on this add-on that we've been working on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/starthq/

StartHQ replaces the new tab page with one that you can fully customize, giving you quick access to commonly used functionality using "deep links", as well as the ability to search inside your cloud services, like Greplin did back in the day.

We also have an API so you can add search support to the services we don't support or internal apps used within your organization.

More info here: https://starthq.com/features
i love bootstrap to death, but am I the only one getting Bootstrap fatigue?
If artists think that (immensely popular) streaming services are worthwhile, then they're going to have to accept lower royalties. These legal streaming services are responsible for as much as an 80 percent reduction in music piracy. If artists kill off these services, then they better be prepared to accept the rampant piracy of the 2000s.

http://www.digital-digest.com/news-63709-Music-Piracy-Down-b...
Did you get to borrow the Winnebago?

We call this need to spend the budget thing 'slippage' in the UK. Once we had a little bit of slippage, about £1k, so we bought some Sony Mavica floppy disk cameras when they were new and exotic. We just lent them out to staff to learn how to take digital pictures. That lead to digital editing, storyboards &c and quite a lot of upskill. Much better powerpoints.

Just a thought...
In the Nordic countries and especially in Sweden everyone can collect berries, flowers and mushrooms in the woods. It is the law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam#Sweden
> Starting any business requires capital.

Not really. A large number of businesses can be started with essentially nothing. Rowling wrote "Harry Potter" on a yellow pad, for one example.
Pirata – A Simple Ruby API for ThePirateBay
How much will this be able to work with old ASP code?

We've got boat-loads of it, and while we're slowly retiring it, we can't even diagnose trouble-spots because most monitoring tools (like New Relic) don't instrument it.
> Bucky talked a lot about a world where there was enough food to go around, people were educated, and many jobs were being automated. I assumed he was party inspired by the Green Revolution/Norman Borlaug.

That notion dates back to the 1840's at least - the industrial revolution triggered ideological developments out of a growing optimism over the ability of finally doing away with poverty.

The birth of socialism was basically rooted in this optimism. Marx made the point in The German Ideology (1845) that a sufficiently well developed capitalism to ensure a level of production that would allow redistribution to eliminate basic wants would be essential for a successful socialist revolution, or the old class struggles would be reignited (Soviet Union being a good demonstration of exactly this)

He saw the "endgame" of capitalism as being when production was so extensive and so automated that the automation would cause massive unemployment, while production capacity outpace what is needed to sustain everyone. Without redistribution, this would then cause increased poverty, and unrest, was his thinking.
Basingstoke one of the most important places in England? pull the other one
Hey. We're currently using a makeshift braille cell made from solenoids.

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Cheers!
Also to note that offensive/defensive technical capabilities aren't as asymmetric as they appear for all possible targets of nation states, some yes, but probably not as much to those with the technical knowledge who can create/use such and derivative systems.

If you concede that your computer has a chip with DMA access which can be used by the government, then you must concede that the same chip can monitor you for activity that triggers active surveillance. For example, I think Tails is going to force governemnts into monitoring at least which operating system you're using. There's no way to target a specific Tails user, so the only recourse is for the government to do dragnet surveillance of everyone using Tails, or ignore the activities of those using Tails. Since the latter seems politically untenable, the former is becoming more likely with time. When the government can passively check whether your activity is fitting the pattern of some kind of criminal activity, the situation is about as asymmetric as I can imagine. Is there really any technical knowledge that could protect you?
ITT: jelly
At the time, I thought the thing you plug in would solely be an identification token + cache.

That would give us what Jobs said he had had for himself for years, in _1997_. See http://dcurt.is/steve-jobs-and-the-cloud
You, and the parent of my comment, are not backing up your arguments.

I posted a reasoned comment which does not worship the power of private enterprise, and asserts that the public sphere is better at some things than private wealth.

This is not an outrageous and thoughtless idea, and it is not one that deserves a downvote simply for being expressed.

Many enterprises in history have been organized by governments instead of wealthy capitalists. It is not unacceptable to suggest that medical research is one of those areas that could be done better in this way.
Perfect, thanks.

I got the redirect error too when I tried to download _all_ files. However when I deselected all and just checked the readme, csv data, and python scripts, it worked just fine.
Full-time is generally 40 hours per week in the US, although there are always exceptions. The vast majority of "office" jobs, however, insist on 40 hours per week.
There isn't very much variation in the royalty rate for artists on Spotify.
And to strengthen that: We're talking not just on public land, but in privately owned forests too.

When I grew up in Norway, the notion of whether or not a forest area was owned was moot - many of the places we went for walks or went to collect berries and mushrooms probably were, but I can't tell you which were and which were public, as it was totally irrelevant to us as we have the same legal rights of access either way.
PNaCl's LLVM IR is machine independent and can be used standalone without Chrome.
Especially if everyone was bootstrapping.

Mildly provocative thought: what % of Ycombinator assisted companies have customers with 'real jobs' (by definition of OP, which I accept may be contested)?
The iOS Google maps navigation is unreliable for me. Several times, it's shown me an icon indicating a left turn while the audio tells me to turn right. Plus the app doesn't really cope well with roundabouts, which in my country is a big problem!

I'm hoping that they improve maps using their acquisition of Waze, rather than abandoning that app...
My guess is the original person leading the Google Maps project was very, very competent, and they either moved to another project or quit - and got replaced by someone really awful. I think it happened at some point pre-2013, because Maps was great until then, and has been in decline ever since.
How is supporting people by employing them in unproductive bullshit jobs any better than supporting them with basic income? They are getting paid to do nothing of value either way.
Google has a bad habit of trying to be too clever. For a very long time, searching for "yore" (an English word) on the Google Play store only gave me results for "your", without even bothering to tell me what it was doing.

Google is very concerned about giving users what it thinks they want, rather then what they actually asked for. Sometimes that's great (I love basic stemming), sometimes it fills my results with irrelevant garbage.
When all you pay for is butts in the seats, don't be surprised if the only thing you get is a bunch of asses.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7721720
You can get loose-leaf mate for cheaper than that per drink, but probably more than $3 per purchase.
" Older linux window managers"

You remember that horrible WM everybody seemed to be running 10-15 years ago, 'enlightenment'? Completely unusable but it looked cool with all the shapes and transparencies and etc.
> Libertarianism is the belief that the only valid rights are 1) private property, and 2) no initiated direct physical violence.

That's simply not true. Libertarianism is a group of related ideologies that includes libertarian socialism - often called "left communism" (and derided as such in Lenin's "Left-Wing Communism - An infantile disorder").

What libertarian ideologies share, is liberty as a prime goal. But many libertarian ideologies see private property as antithetical to liberty, as it intrinsically restricts access to limited natural resources, even when sharing access to the same would cause minimal reduction in liberty for someone who might otherwise have exclusive access to said property.
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Once you start creating trusts and shell companies, it's not personal data anymore.
I always felt most people in IT offices occur very busy, when their work is harldy any time consuming, just to keep their job, they act busy all the time...I felt this false pretense is the primary reason most people loose confidence in trying new things and being experimental.
I disagree that the blog post is way off and I think the issue is that google can't find Sambisa Forest (it can't - as your gif demonstrates). It can find, "Sambisa Forest Reserve," which is great, but not the point of the blog.

They are saying that google's ability to take natural language requests (sambisa forest, in-n-out east bay) and come up with an answer that corresponds what you searched for has seriously degraded. Personally, that is consistent with my experience.

What is causing the problem (bug, difference in focus, etc) is also worth discussing. Why does google have so much trouble finding answers to queries that seem straightforward? Why can it suggest "Sambisa Forest Reserve" (based on "sambisa forest") and then have no idea how to find "sambia forest?" The title might be a little grandiose, but I think it's a fair question.
What's wrong with bcrypt?
Thank you. I've hated Quora since day one precisely because of this - they're the archetype of a company taking all its value from the community and giving absolutely nothing back. Sadly, every time I've voiced this opinion in the Bay Area, I'm met with blank stares.

My dream would be a Quora-like service run by the Wikimedia (or similar organization), but that'll likely never happen.
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It would be even better if the patent application process was adversarial. There should be an-equally robust argument against the validity of the patent at every step of the process.
Inversely proportional to your odds is success, though.

For many people the stakes are a bit too high: people who are already affluent with safety nets can tolerate more risk.
And even in the event that they do need a warrant, warrants can be issued easily through email and fax machines that are located in every single cop car.

So... if you deny the search, the police can often call a judge to write up a warrant really quick. Judges work overtime, on weekends and on night shifts for this kind of thing.
The grandparent comment was quietly asserting that the "perceived fear" was actually Mozilla's plan, and that they reversed course. I must admit, while I'd never really thought about Mozilla as an organization much before, the last month or two has prompted some thought about it, and this sort of "We're doing A. <time passes> No, wait, there's a perceived fear that we'll do A, but that's not who we are; we're doing B." seems like a good model of what they're doing lately. This saddens me, since I mostly use Firefox these days. :/