skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we all shift to a single glorious time zone to solve all the author's pains. You still need to remember "zones".

You work in NY and propose a meeting at 1300 GMT? You still need to remember how far ahead London is, how far behind California is. Want to call your cousin in Tokyo? You still need to know when she's likely to be awake. Heading to a vacation and want someone to pick you up from the airport? You need to know if your flight lands in the middle of the night or while your ride is at work.

Sure, you could divide the world up into 24 zones and call it a day. Then people still face the same problem of a strong dividing line separating suburbs and cities. Or a country split between two or three zones when it really only needs one. And then you realize, as a self centered programmer, people aren't robots and local time makes sense for 99.9% of peoples' lives.
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This is stupid. While true we didn't have time zones per se until fairly recently, it was worse... Basically noon was when the sun was directly south, which means one town away might be five minutes off.
Would love to hear what others do to add minutes back into their day. Any tools or techniques that you know to maximize productivity?
One problem: Corrupt financialization. The types that financialize everything to make the poor poorer and rich richer will end up making contracts abusing the downtrodden along the lines of "sign over rights to your B.I. for the rest of your life and we'll give your child a kidney transplant, otherwise too bad for your kid, or maybe we'll give you a subprime used car this one time or maybe enough cash to pay off that legal bill"

It'll be quite a feeding frenzy for both the legal and illegal crooks for a little while.

(edited to add I think you'll also on the other side need some level of bankruptcy reform... lets say the cost to me of doing business while in bankruptcy is less than $10K annually... so you'd have to be an idiot to give me a mortgage loan because I could structure things quite carefully to get it for free. Or if not normal expenses like that, the usual medical industrial complex scam of huge bills for things not covered (entirely) by insurance.)
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I think ImageMagick also supports GPU/OpenCL if you compile it in.
Everything hosted by FreedomHosting, including Tormail, which was most probably the true purpose of their op (it had been used by Snowden and others, but all the mail was GnuPG encrypted).
If one problem is that subsidized people have a disincentive to work more, that can be solved by writing everyone a check, regardless of their income level. This way, even if you have the check, any amount of work you do will supplement that check, rather than make you ineligible for part of all of the check.

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to a simple flat per capita rate"
I clicked around launchkey.com, and after five clicks, still haven't found any useful content - what is it, how does it work, why should I use it.

As far as I can tell, I carry my phone around and it magically does everything to let me into everyplace I'm supposed to be.
Awesome thing. I really liked the idea when I read it.

But when I looked at, it wasn't so great. I don't know what is missing or what is wrong, maybe the ideas I saw weren't mine. Or maybe the transition between "anything you think about" and the paper is not that easy.
Hi Sol,

Where's my t-shirt you promised me 5+ months ago? =]

-Tk2oG
Politically, it seems that a possible (though not particularly likely) approach in the USA would be an expansion of Social Security to younger ages. Pretty much abolish SSDI, TANF, Medicaid, SCHIP and use the funds that went into them to partially fund the expansion.

"Social Security for All" has a nice ring to it.
Ember has components which are very similar.
How fast should I be able to rotate? It's a little slow for me.
Are these guys really changing the book publishing industry?
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What's it like to administer a cluster of Mac Minis? Do any of the popular open-source orchestration tools work?
I just tried to create a gmail account with non-latin characters and received this message from Google:

Please use only letters (a-z), numbers, and periods.

EDIT: I guess I missed this crucial sentence

Of course, this is just a first step and there’s still a ways to go. In the future, we want to make it possible for you to use them to create Gmail accounts.
you should call it esperantime
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Maybe it says "Hey look, this guy isn't even a professional, but look what he can do. This is the state of security."
There's also http://livestream.com

Twitch.tv (justin.tv's parent company) is one even though its gaming focused. People stream non-gaming stuff (including dev-streams) quite often.
To be honest this is sort of how I felt when I got my first iPhone.

I was downtown in a very busy urban center that I absolutely hate navigating. I was so happy to have an iPhone that was aiding me through the maze of one-way streets; for once I wouldn't be late for my rendezvous.

Just then: the person I was picking up decided to call me.
iOS decided that a phone call was more important than driving, so it displayed a full screen alert which closed my navigation session.
As a result I of course missed the turn and ended up in a rather stressful situation.

Now this was before iOS had built in turn-by-turn navigation; so I don't think it's fair to say that Apple intended it to be used as a replacement for a navigation aid; but the incident still sends chills down my spine.

---

The iPhone is no longer with me: but that was the point where I decided two things. (1) my iPhone would always be jailbroken. (2) The "CallBar" app in the Cydia store was well worth the pocket change I paid for it.

---

I can't stand the notion that social interaction is somehow more important than driving.

When you're driving: your utmost attention is the one and only social obligation you should be expected to fulfill.
Another key point is making loans offered on the basis of future basic income allowances unenforceable.
Leap seconds only really affect people making computerized timekeeping systems, satellites, etc. They don't affect the majority of the world's day-to-day. For the most part, only a few specialists need to deal with leap seconds, so no: Daylight savings is a lot more work to deal with.
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I know the feeling :)
I'm just happy to get some feedback.
For example, I didn't think of building an export functionality, but I find that now a mandatory feature. I'd find it useful for myself.

I never realized how important the privacy policy and terms of service were, but its a small fix.
Swatch Beats were a better idea to communicate unambiguous time. I kind of wish some big websites would adopt it - Reddit AMAs for example.
The real-time V-Ray raytracing is slow because it is very high quality -- it is doing real global illumination with no precalculations, favoring quality over speed.

For client side WebGL, click the Real-Time tab.
I would use this solely for navigational purposes with Google Maps turn-by-turn. This is exactly why I would not pay $300.

Why does my car need Twitter?
What do you mean by this? 40 countries certainly don't have BI, as much as I wish they did.
Can I cross post some of the images from the blog post over to a community based on images of excellent cable management[0]?

Also, I have to say I really like the API(?) for manipulating images via url parameters, and even more, I really like that you used it on this blog post. When I went to pull the images from your site, I was able to get the full resolution versions of those images just by making some minor edits to the urls. This made making an album really easy[1].

[0] - http://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn

[1] - http://imgur.com/a/OFVqX
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So hazarding a guess here - you've written your own services on top of CoreImage, Core Text etc? https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/macosx...
I like this idea, but one issue I see is that, while 95% of people could use an extra 10k, the real cost of welfare comes from those few who have major medical needs, and that 10k would do nothing for them, at least as currently outlined here. There are always going to a portion of society who will need a disproportionate amount of financial assistance, and this doesn't seem to take that in to account. It seems likely that after problems arise, we would implement some other form of welfare on top of this program, and wouldn't have really gained anything.

That's my quick assumption anyway.
Great points in the article. I agree 100%. I have long thought we were treading water.

I agree with making progress, but there is just so much NIH syndrome out there when it comes to new languages, development practices, you name it. I honestly miss the older days when I was doing simpler Perl stuff. The expectation was for me to solve a discreet problem, not enable a group of people to ramp up to a billion dollar company in less than a year.

Startups that focus on the money always do worse than those who focus on delivering good software, services, whatever. Solve a problem and the money will come naturally. There is really nothing new under the sun, just different ways to do things. Lately, I just want to solve problems, not come up with "new" things.
Yet as a counterexample socialized medicine works better than the USA system in every country on the planet, but we're still stuck with the USA system here.

Even if a B.I. is implemented in every country on the planet, we'll still be the last holdout.
Any source for that claim? I've heard things like that spouted by pundits, but they never seem to have any credible evidence.
My Moto X actually attempts to figure out if you're driving, and it is capable of reading texts aloud and it even allows for reply-by-voice.

My jaw hit the floor the first time it went off. My jaw also hit the floor when it read a rather private message while I was a _passenger_ in someone else's car.
A determined person will cut through as many nets as they need to; should we have a tertiary net as well?

Can't save everyone, but we should at least be able to say with a clear conscience that we gave everyone the chance.
Hello, I'm Anuj, founder of Zip Phone and I'll be here all day to answer any questions that you might have. Zip Phone started as a small personal project, but has quickly grown into much more than that. I hope you enjoy using it as much as I do :-)
Sites that measure trends in jobs offered for example are both much more accurate AND useful to the general public. One that i know of is http://indeed.com
I believe your interpretation of this data is incorrect. Given the relatively infrequent contact children would have with magnets strong enough to be dangerous as compared to all of these items that are found in every home in America and most certainly in every home with children in America the rates indicate the opposite.

Think of all the confounding factors here such as ages 1 month to 15 years - older children are far more likely to be injuring themselves with knives, the population at risk from these magnets is generally under 10 years old. Think of just how rarely a child in America makes contact with one of these magnets as opposed to the other objects. All children in the school age range are practically forced to be in contact with a pencil for hours a day every weekday for ten months.

PS: I do really appreciate that you looked these numbers up though.
Of course he's only 20. We'd have it no other way.
I think the point was that a regulator would be more sympathetically inclined to 'protect' the cleaning workers by legally mandating overtime since they necessarily have less negotiating leverage than white-collar workers.
Is it possible to get my own listing history natively from Spotify?

I'm not interesting in scrobbling to another service, etc. Seems like this should be a well documented and used service from the Spotify API, but as far as I know, it does not exist.
Doesn't have to be Federal. Doesn't Alaska have a BI already?
What do you do today about parents who sell their food stamps for liquor or other drugs?

This is, of course, the huge problem with this plan. Not that this isn't the right thing to do; but because the media and public will seize on the few morons who do stupid things and therefore malign a program that would actually help most.

Just imagine the headlines: Addicts Caught Buying Crack With Your Money.

It doesn't matter which party pushes it. If the Democrats pass it, the Republicans will scream about this; if the Republicans do, then the Democrats will scream how this justifies government as a warden.
But debugging and support is nonexempt - I wonder where, say, "production operations" falls in this, if you're on-call 24/7, and primarily put out fires caused by developer stupidity?
I think parent is being sarcastic. :)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10172298/One-surveilla...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-circuit_television

It is a fact that the UK government has installed thousands of security cameras.
> My argument is that such an API cannot be made, because it will be too large, too fragile, or both

With that logic, why does Dart even has futures? I bet those are more complex and use more code, and yet, Dart have them, so I don't think it is about "being large and fragile".

>I don't know if Polymer.dart depends on mirrors, but it's irrelevant as neither Polymer or Mirrors are part of the core library

Since Dart developers are obsessed with Polymeter I wouldn't say is not relevant, and if they would have to make the JSON to Object<T> serialization in another library and not in the core then so be it, nobody is asking them to put it in the core.

> Yes, because because reliably instantiating an arbitrary object with all data in the right place during runtime is just quite a hard problem in a static language

They already have 90% of te job done, they have the JSON parser, they have mirrors, btw, JSON is a very simple format in the case you don't know, they already have mirrors to instantiate objects at runtime, they instantiate Maps, why can't they instantiate Objects with mirrors? is not logical, the other reflections libraries seem to work pretty well so, is not an excuse.

> My argument is that it's an issue of downsides not being worth the benefits

For who? maybe not for you, but for others it would.

> That's your problem, not a valid reason to criticise the Dart developers

Dart developers are humans and fallible, so they are not supergods or something, and Im not asking to put this in the core.
When a system becomes so complicated that you find it difficult to express logically in the context of a machine built to run on logic, I think it's fair to say that system has some flaws.
Since we're going with car analogies, it's more like a company leases a fleet of vehicles where each vehicle can be driven up to 20,000 km/year for the price negotiated. However, the cars don't have odometers to keep track of distance traveled. The dealership who leased the cars thinks that they've been driven further and complains to the Department of Transport. The DoT investigates and adds up third-party records of everywhere the cars have been and finds out that some vehicles were routinely driven more than 20,000 km in the prior year. The company agrees to pay the agreed-upon rate for any overage distance per vehicle plus a proportional fine and also agrees to add an odometer to the vehicles to track actual mileage in the future.
I've long thought that it should be illegal to play any sort of siren on the radio. I can't tell you how many times I've gone into "fight or flight" mode because of some new hiphop single.
> Holding credit on the stellar network requires trust. You need to trust the issuer of the credit to be willing to redeem real-world value for the credit.

That's my primary concern. Given the choice between trusting a particular issuer or just trusting that some entity exists who will exchange a currency I hold, I'd much rather do the latter.
A very brave decision to make, especially given the growth MongoDB is experiencing at the moment.

With that said I would like to add that as an early adopter of the technology (read; most of our company's software is built with MongoDB as the storage tier) I'm less than impressed with the technical leadership shown there. In other words, I'm not overly familiar with Dev Ittycheria and I'm sure he's a capable replacement for Max Schireson but what they really need is a new technical leadership. There are some properly questionable technical decisions being made or postponed that damage the reputation, maturity and usability of their tech.
$10/gb is for our database offering. Our file storage is the exact same price as S3.
Don't FOIA requests usually require you to pay reasonable fees? I know they're not free....
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Doctors and lawyers regulate who can enter their field. Doctors even control how many students med schools can accept each year. They seem to still be 'prestigious' professions. They were just smart enough to avoid the word 'union', since it's been tarnished by 50 years of political attacks.

I'd also trade in a lot of prestige for the guarantee of employers not having overtime as a free resource that employees are expected to give with a smile.
I had never heard of this product until now. Who uses it? Why would a company outsource it's authentication to an unknown body?
It's a BSD-based OS so I would expect most OSS orchestration tools to work (via SSH and such).
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I appreciate your comment, mainly because english is not my native language, and i was not even aware that that phrasing could come across as snarky. It was certainly not intended as snarky. Maybe some cultural disconnect.

How would i phrase that more neutrally?

(No idea why my name would show green to you, maybe because the post is still editable or something.)
Agreed. What time is it in Bulgaria? 6.93 Earth Time? ummmm - should I call them? I was up until 17.50 last night, I'm not sure, man.
I totally agree with your comments. Before Navdy, the stuff that distracts you are out of your focus. With Navdy, it bring the distractions right in your view, making it easier and faster to be distracted.
I once heard that they don't store that info, though I would love to be proven wrong.
No; this isn't a good idea. The developers on our team live in 3 different time zones (this number has been as high as 6 in the past), so I have some experience in this.

Times have meanings that would be quite difficult to track without the reference points.

I'd be happy if daylight savings were gone -- that's much more cost than it's worth. But even if it were possible to switch everyone to UTC, it'd be awful.

Let's say you're in SF and you want to schedule a conference call with someone in Bangalore. You'll use worldtimebuddy.com or similar to compare your day with theirs, and you'll find that your first thought, 2pm, is 2:30am in Bangalore. So... maybe you can get up early -- 7am for you is 7:30pm for them. Better ask if maybe they'd prefer to meet after dinner, or (since you stay up late) perhaps YOU could call after your dinner and catch them at 9am Bangalore time... that's when the most common working day starts.

Think about doing this check without timezones. 2pm for you is... 2pm for them! How useless to know that. So you'll still need some reference to figure out when they will probably start their workday, when they'll probably break for lunch or go home for dinner, etc.. But how can you refer to those times sensibly without using times? You'll say "oh, so 2pm for YOU is sort of like 2 AM for me, how awful that I called your mobile then". And boom, you've re-invented timezones.
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For some reason I find this topic fascinating, and at the same time I feel completely hopeless in navigating in any of it.

What do you think of The Gervais Principle?

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...

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I stopped watching when the HUD was actually a tiny piece of screen glass limited to the device. I thought it would project light into the dashboard somehow.
Does anyone have insight into which LinkedIn employees this actually applies to?

I'd think that the majority of LinkedIn employees are computer professionals or sales people, to whom overtime laws don't apply.

Also, this thread has a lot of consternation/discussion about overtime payment for software developers. If you consider our bargaining power, overtime protection is completely unnecessary. Just find a new job where people will either pay you a commiserate salary with your work hours, or find one which doesn't expect ludicrous hours.

Despite the stereotypes, it's perfectly possible to find great technology jobs where you work 40-45 hours a week.
> Genome analysis suggests that the two species are swapping genes at a surprising rate. But each species has genome segments unique to its own kind, which seem to persist despite the mixing of the rest of the genome.

If the population was split and bottlenecked and recombined, would you get a lot of this sort of "either AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA or BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB" correlated variation? Maybe we're just seeing a point before crossover undoes that effect? (On the other hand, the researchers would probably have noticed the lack of genetic variety if all these cases had gone through bottlenecks.)
> Timezones are fairly simple to handle

I guess you've never had to deal with time zones then.

DST isn't the only thing you need to take into account. You're forgetting that cities, states and countries modify their timezones for political reasons e.g. America/Sitka went from UTC-8 to UTC-9 in 1983. Just to repeat this if it's not clear, that's a UTC offset change for the Sitka zone, not a DST update.
Susan Wojcicki[0] is the sister of Anne Wojcicki[1], founder of 23andme and Sergey Brin's ex-wife. I applaud the author for not weaving it into the narrative. But I'm also surprised there isn't even a mention of it.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Wojcicki
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki
It could very well have been an unintentional violation of the rules. A few bad habits here and there turn into a cultural practice before anyone notices, everyone assumes that someone else must be in charge of enforcing compliance with that particular rule and that mythical someone must know something they don't that makes the rule breaking okay, somehow. It's easy to do. Never ascribe to malice what can be covered with stupidity, etc. And don't forget that the people suffering from this rule violation and the ones who were supposed to be enforcing it could be the same people - companies are made of people.
When I tried it it worked pretty well, except the stream lagged really far behind. It was usually a couple minutes behind live for me
This seems a lot like a simple application of Leap Motion

https://www.leapmotion.com

maybe just providing 2d data is much easier to digest for apps.
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I'm saying it's very rude to "choose not to state it" in your own words if you already understand it, since it would be a trivial step to write a few sentences and save thousands of people from reading 30 pages just learn what the core argument is and whether the it's worth reading further.

Given that "90% of everything is crap", people need a little more to go on than "Cool new argument that demolishes the nothing-to-hide point. The NSA hates it!"
Any benefits to that over UTC?
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Url changed from http://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-think-they-..., which points to this.