skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I could imagine some more structured data source, where the main article redirects to a table and scrolls to the correct spot. I would be fine with that, but as far as I know that concept doesn't exist on Wikipedia.

The structured data source now exists, but how to present its data is still being worked out. You can add information to it now, since the goal is to collect a bunch of structured information and then incrementally figure out how to display it, either on its own or integrated into Wikipedia articles (bot additions here are also very welcome): https://www.wikidata.org

I believe there's going to be some offloading of some structured Wikipedia information so it pulls from Wikidata in the future, instead of being maintained "manually" in articles. For example the geotags that are currently buried in Wikipedia articles' markup will probably be centralized to Wikidata soonish and just pulled from there to display. And infoboxes may be auto-populated from the Wikidata information as well. Sending people to auto-generated stub articles when a "real" article is missing is an interesting idea that might happen longer-term.
http://upcounsel.com works well. You describe your legal request and they will route you to lawyers who have experience with these sorts of things. Good luck!
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>In order for SocialCoin to work, we need to figure out a way to create a decentralized ID system that doesn’t rely on government issuance like a Driver’s License or a Passport. This is currently an unsolved problem.

>One possible way to do this is to have there be agents in the SocialCoin Distributed Autonomous Corporations who a user would schedule appointments with.

I can imagine these "agents" colluding together to prevent people from receiving their basic income unless they receive a cut for themselves.
It is fairly obvious Caltrain needs to run one more late night train on Friday and Saturday nights. Midnight is too early, especially if you're out in the city and need to take public transit just to get to Millbrae or 4th and King, and get there on time.
Does the new Compute Module share the same increased USB ports (with more power available)? Have had nagging issues prototyping Pi's with cell modems due to power consumption and was looking at the Compute for an embedded application
Issuing shares directly to employees is kind of uncommon. Do your shares have a buyback on them?

I'm not clear why you think you might have a claim on all 5000 shares. Can you be a little clearer about this? You didn't really share a timeline of your employment, so it's hard to reason this out from first principles.

Assume you get all 5000 shares. How much is that going to be worth? Low/mid/hi-how-many-figures?
People say US or EU are not corrupt or are less corrupt. That is a misrepresentation. They are equally corrupt in the higher levels (though they managed to convince people they are not). What happened there is consolidation. Thus if you want get things done, you have to spend more money lobbying at higher levels, because the lower level is scared of consequences. So a consolidation of corruption happened.

In the US when you want to win a court case, you spend money hiring top lawyers. In Russia you buy a judge. Results are the same. Who's to say one way is better than the other? You still need money to win, so how is it fair to the poor? In fact, I think it's incredibly irresponsible and actually immoral to tell the poor the system is fair while it's not.

The question is, which system restricts the free market more. That is very debatable. In some areas Russia's incredibly backwards simply because corruption expenses are higher than the equivalent expenses would be for complying with the regulation in the US. In other areas, it's great. City transportation is great, for instance. We have many private jitney services and they are not expensive, so people use them all the time. Same goes for cab services: you can literally raise hand and get any car at any time of day for much cheaper than in the US. You don't need licences to drive people around (at least nobody enforces that).

So, I'd say, in some areas the US definitely sucks. The quality of life you have in the US is most definitely not thanks to your government, but thanks to your private enterprises.
Big cities are an exception to this as it is not possible to segment further. Examples, such as Chicago or Buffalo New York come to mind where some of the best and worst schools in America exist in the same school district. Opening the avenues between these schools is often met with strong opposition, often from the underprivileged minority groups that would most benefit. Programs that reach out to the community as a whole but fail to represent that community's racial statistics are such targets.

When I was a kid our school admissions was on a lottery system where 70% of the school was admitted, but due to low parent involvement African Americans were made up a few dozen percentage points lower in neighboring schools. They made a majority although not a super-majority. I wondered what the so-called 'community leaders' that would protest this state of affairs hand in mind for the 40% of their skin color.
You could bootstrap the identity verification off of Facebook and do some machine learning to look for bot clusters.
> Should we really be able to force someone to use their property an a way that serves the public interest?

Yes, that's the price of a government-granted monopoly.

> If so, where do we draw the line?

If you don't have a government-granted monopoly, you don't have to be neutral. For example, that's how the Internet backbone works.
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Yes, UNIX's never had a concept of a limited length file extension. Until the 1980s filenames were limited to 14 characters in total, but you could put a dot anywhere you like in it.

I was specifically referring to the part of the article that the author claimed that windows inherited it from MS-DOS, which inherited it from CP/M. The chain goes back farther than that -- by the time CP/M was written the 3-character file extension was well-established. In general CP/M was influenced a lot by the DEC minicomputer OSes (its "PIP" command is one obvious example)
We don't want Google to be the next Stasi!
What exactly is meant by this? Is there a source behind it?

> The fate of reddit may have been very different if Comcast had discriminated against our little two-person-startup in favor of the NBC.com news portal and the sites of other news giants.
It isn't about performance, but instead /dev/urandom is believed to be a poor source of entropy by the OpenBSD developers.

I believe the heart of the issue it that /dev/urandom will give you a string even if it has very low entropy at the time.

You can find all sorts of articles for and against /dev/urandom and I don't really know enough to comment on it's security, but I trust the that the team working on this fork more than I trust the OpenSSL foundation.
Android Runtime Performance Analysis Using New Relic: ART vs. Dalvik
I disagree 2048 sucks. It's a totally different game from Threes. But I do think a little design will make 2048 better -- that's why I created "Edge Up 3072". Try it out: http://3072.clingmarks.com/
And another hard drive was “recycled” in a political scandal
.m is just as much a Matlab file, as a module. Speaking of Matlab, .mat extension is reserved by Access somehow deep in Windows guts and up until this day I don't know how to get rid of it.
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Per my comment, they don't. But the rest of the comment I was responding to ("he'll send them a sternly written letter", "your lawyer will have a lot of fun with a newly rich entity which desires to commit to the position on paper that it has stolen your IP") is pure speculation based on assumption.

Folks should stick to "find a lawyer" and leave it at that.
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But seriously, it's a silly limitation from a bygone era. Why should we adhere to it?

Why should we have to remember these things? Some of them are easy to remember, but even less technical users change their workflows from time to time.

Sketch uses ".sketch" as its extension. Should they have gone with something ".skc" as their extension, just because that's *the way things are done?", even though the application only runs on the latest version of an operating system without that primitive limitation?

Even with Markdown, most people use ".md", but Gruber has expressed ".markdown" as his preference because the limitation doesn't really exist.
It would not be unreasonable for a runtime or VM (like a JVM for example) to use a native library for TLS (performance reasons). It would also not be unreasonable for a VM to use clone() directly, maybe it's part of how it implements its own threading or co-routines for example.

Combine those two reasonable patterns with LibreSSL, and suddenly you have a vulnerability. This is even more likely when you take into consideration that LibreSSL is intended as a direct replacement for OpenSSL; callers are even less likely to examine the fine print of the documentation for undefined and unsupported behaviour.

Still, the LibreSSL work is commendable and should be appreciated. The real problem is a lack of good regression tests - and there may be a messy future of niggly issues because of that. I've already had to deal with some.

I'll give another tricky example. One of the earliest pieces of functionality LibreSSL ripped out was an in-library DNS cache. It was poorly documented and the assumption was that it was there as a crutch for shoddy OS-level DNS caching. But I think this cache also played another role; it helped certificate validation workflows function. Sometimes endpoints bind different certificates to different IP addresses for the same DNS-name that uses DNS-level load balancing. If you don't make the name resolve to the same IP address consistently, then what can happen is that the first connect() gets certificate "A" and some user-facing UI or validation process authenticates it, but then then another connect() gets certificate "B" and the caller logic gets confused.

Of course we could blame the caller; or the folks mixing certificates for the same name, but it doesn't really help; users still experience these problems. Just one example of why it is very hard to remove code in fully backwards compatible ways, even if the change seems very innocuous.
Try two new Volkswagens fully loaded. A quick search says it would cost about $28k, which is $45k today adjusted for inflation.
> Ironically, it's the Americans in the big cities who favour regulation, and Americans outside of them who don't.

Not quite, they just favour different regulation.

> Deregulation would probably help Americans living in densely populated areas but not so much in the sprawl.

Perhaps that would convince some people to de-sprawl?
>Then this contract can be enforced by whichever private court and protection agency I hired

And how they will enforce this contract? If it involves the threat of violence, how is it better than government? If it doesn't, how does it enforce your contract against the threat of violence?

>It's logically impossible, because for a politician the economic incentives are always in the wrong place.

Can you elaborate on this? I would say democracy is the only structure we know of which has shown itself able to limit concentration of power.
Thank you very much for posting to vendor. Could you also post links and/or names to other parts? That way it will be complete information
I wonder how long it's going to take until someone is going to port OpenCL natively to Fortran. Lots of Fortran programmers in HPC and they currently can only use NVIDIA GPUs and Intel MIC. ARM platforms could be interesting in the long run. I hope either AMD or Cray take the plunge. If that happens, I'd be happy to integrate Parallela with my parallel computing preprocessor framework[1].

[1] https://github.com/muellermichel/Hybrid-Fortran
Depending, of course, upon whichever IP addresses are associated with the account.
I do not think bitcoin derivative is the right solution for something like basic income.

It is hard to distribute resources fairly and anonymously, this kind of thing that governments excel at precisely because there is no expectation of anonymity. It might be possible to come up with a solution, however at that point it would likely be either too complex to be practical, or not fair, or not anonymous.

TL;DR doing this with crypto-currency defeats purpose of crypto-currency.
I work in an agency so I feel like I'm living in the worst of two possible worlds: I'm expected to work overtime everyday as clients always need everything for yesterday and I'm expected to get there everyday at 9AM no matter how late I stayed the previous day.
/u/161719 dispels the government surveillance/“I have nothing to hide” argument
Because the contract stated that upon employment there would be a grant of 5000 shares that would vest annually or in a liquidity event would vest immediately, with no mention of forfeiture. Valuation is hard to determine since the former CEO is non-responsive, all I know is others with the same equity position received significant payouts.
We chose Go because it offers amazing facilities for introspecting its own source code, such as go/doc (http://golang.org/pkg/go/doc/ and https://sourcegraph.com/code.google.com/p/go/.GoPackage/go/d...) and go/types. So, it was the obvious choice to use to prototype Sourcegraph. The reputation of the core team and our initial experience learning it were also factors.
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So the employment contract says that the company would grant you shares, and that these shares would be subject to vesting? But the company never actually issued those shares? So, when you left the company, the only paperwork you had about those shares was the employment agreement?

If so, it sounds like you don't own the shares, but the company owes you the shares. The fact of whether or not you own the shares should be easy to determine. The part that's harder (and requires analysis of what you signed) is whether or not the company paid you what you were owed during the period of your employment (including, if applicable, shares).
Why not automate the process of iris scanning somewhat by having monitored booths or rooms. They could be monitored by cameras and a local or remote human presence that can intervene but has limited communication abilities to prevent potential for bribery?

Unless a basic income is global, immigration problems are only going to get more difficult.
Eh. Caltrain parallels US-101 pretty closely and El Camino even closer. Between these two I doubt it will be more tortuous than a Caltrain local service (sooo many stops) and to save $50+ on the alternatives, easily worth it.

Towards the beginning of my career (while still relatively poor) I got stranded in San Jose after Caltrain hours. I got a ride with someone to San Bruno, waited in the cold and dark for a bus with my laptop as a space-heater, caught the night bus, and after ~2.5 hours and 3 buses -- including a transfer in a dark creepy neighborhood at the southern edge of San Francisco proper that I didn't actually expect I'd need to make -- I made it the rest of the way home. Now THAT was tortuous. :b
Right click a text file (such as "example.txt") and try to rename to ".gitignore". You get an error popup dialog "Rename: You must type a file name."

That's what he means...you can create it in various applications though.
If you were going to go the whole hog, slap the entire MIME type name in the extension :) Otherwise I don't think 3-4 character file extensions have really let anyone down in the history of computing.
For anyone that is interested in the history of ACT 221 I would highly recommend this writeup (PDF)

http://www.uhero.hawaii.edu/assets/UHERO_WP2009-03.pdf
It mentions chroot jails in which you can't access /dev/urandom.
Linux since 3.4 has MADV_DONTDUMP [1], and there also appears to be a /proc filter file you can use to exclude general segments of memory from being dumped [2].

1. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/madvise.2.html

2. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/core.5.html
Agree.

From the article: "It's not like it saves typing or anything. It only decreases clarity."

I find it both easier and clear enough.
This is great for before 7AM flights out of SFO / SJC, where public transit is not an option.

So how does one get from Millbrae to SFO if the BART is not running? (asks the occasional visitor)
Of course, you can also share a taxi... it may be an indulgence to hop on a taxi alone as part of your daily commute, but it becomes much more convenient, private, and cost-effective when in a pair or small group.

These taxi data do not seem to capture taxi capacity factor / number of seats filled.
Interesting, but I am not impressed with the reviewers criticisms of Firefox and IE. Firefox solved its memory management issues in version 27. https://areweslimyet.com/ IE doesn't have the plugin ecosystem that others do, but it has all the essentials unless you have specialized needs and built-in support for filters and block lists. It also has by far the best touchscreen interface of any desktop browser.

Bottom line: web browsers move fast, and complaining about problems with old versions is pointless.
Why should there be an inherent different between the two?
Me too, both of the taxis I watched showed 1913. This is some weird Y2K stuff.
Why can't you find a job with a Stanford computer science Ph.D? (2013)
Thanks everyone -- I knew engaging a lawyer was the next step after the CEO was non-responsive but having other tech professionals and entrepreneurs chime in with some insight was very valuable. Thank you all for your interest and advice.
At Comcast, you're not just a valued customer--you're an indentured servant
Lacking immediate political or economic drivers, I'd say this is realistic. Neil deGrasse Tyson has a better explanation of why this is the case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErZq2ZQQTrs (starting at 7:45 or so)
The may have indicates speculation. What's to source?
Super shuttle is a popular and econimical option. Or you just call a cab. At that hour it's $35 before tip.
Disagree. Some of us have actually done the "find a lawyer thing" in various circumstances and seen what happened. Where it's possible to share details, it's helpful, and so we do.
Is there any value whatsoever added by questioning OP's version of events? It's not like we are liable to ever hear from OP or the company that supposedly wrong him. So, just go with it, there's no benefit to doing otherwise.
But the thing is, they specifically don't isolate 'social stimulus'. They offer new information, and those who knew they were guessing revised their estimates. Those who had a good idea of the value did not. There is nothing 'social' here at all.

A better control would be to ask them how sure they were of their answers, and use that to adjust the bias.
Comcast owns NBC. They want to have a large news audience to fit their business model. Reddit directly competes against that, as a news aggregator collects information from all sorts of places (including those hostile to Comcast).

Comcast could say, "Well, you're directly competing with our website, and you're putting hostile articles about us on the front page. We'll just throttle your access until your users get frustrated and leave." They're not the government; they can refuse service to whomever they please.

If the FCC doesn't create rules that enforce net neutrality, this is a reality. And what's more is that no one can stop them otherwise because many people have no alternative to Comcast. As the South Park episode goes, "Oh, you must be really bummed. I guess you could switch services... oh... wait, you can't. We're the only one."

(nipple rubbing intensifies)

Basically, if you have the resources, you can enforce dominance in the market with money. One of the cool things about Internet startups right now is that the barrier to entry is pretty low - anyone with a laptop, an Internet connection, and some pretty cheap web hosting service can create the next Facebook. The lack of net neutrality changes that.
yes, and then there is this. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900E0D6153BF...

The demand for taxis is so high that a driver bluntly told me to give him my cell phone and setup GPS route, otherwise hes not going. And that was a good 2-burrow trip for $40. Bottom line; they don't need you -- you need them.
You never know, you could have the world's most poorly written stock vesting contract, but it seems very unlikely that their vesting scheme was designed so that vesting didn't matter in the one case where vesting actually does matter. You don't need a "forfeiture" clause for vesting to have teeth. You'd probably need to share more of the details for us to noodle around any further with this.

(If you've got any kind of confidentiality agreement with your former employer, don't share details.)
Is SQLite a good choice for learning SQL? Most of the SQL books out there use MySQL as the primary vehicle but it seems like overkill to install on my laptop just to run through a few examples from a textbook.

On the other hand, if SQLite's flavor of SQL is missing some important stuff (I have no idea what) then maybe I should stick with MySQL.
>I'd like to have it, but I'd rather not see it enforced, because I believe private property rights are more important than anything else.

And what private property is at stake here? We gave ISPs hundreds of billions of dollars to build our infrastructure and on top of that they failed to hit the access and speed goals. This comment shows a fundamental lack of understanding of the problem. This needs to be admitted before anything else.

>Should we really be able to force someone to use their property an a way that serves the public interest?

Of course. This is the slippery slope fallacy at it's finest. I can't stand when arguments are discussed in talking points. The world is complicated, we need to find the right balance of personal liberty and society's needs. Retreating to talking points is easy, but it doesn't solve any actual problems.
Instead of trying to get politicians and bureaucrats to thoroughly understand the technology and hoping that they'll steer these monopolies in a favorable direction, why don't we demand that said monopolies be dissolved? I.e., if the terms of the deal are going to be altered, why not declare that there may be two or even several players?
Also, why can't this be resolved at the regional level? Why does Netflix have to be as uniformly slow as obscure-and-poorly-optimized-cat-pics.com across the entire country?
Lots of wifi devices without network access in a high density CBD seems a strong candidate for an ad hoc network. i.e. each device becomes similar to a mini cell tower
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Kinda silly to accuse Apple of blocking innovation considering we're talking about a technology that they innovated that everyone now supposedly wants to use. Blocking use of their innovation on other platforms, perhaps.
UberX is a pretty good option for that, although it's a pretty short fare for the driver.
> "Market transparency" is a red herring. You pay $10 per month to Netflix, because that's the value of that content to you. You don't care if some of that money goes to Verizon any more than you care that some of it goes to the studios that own the content.

If he's on $OTHER_ISP, I'm sure he's not thrilled that some of that money is going to Comcast and Verizon.