skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great product. Any chance to implement saving files to dropbox?
This is my main sticking point; for a lot of simple blog-style sites (especially for nonprofits, etc.), not only acquiring a CA-signed certificate, but then maintaining that certificate, renewing it, installing it on a host... these things all need to be made much more easy/simple before HTTPS everywhere can become a reality.
If I ever design a first course in compilers, I'll do it backwards
Even in README they wrote "most popular", not "best". Justin Bieber is also popular...
they found 91 mmN of thrust and they claim their detector is sensitive to about 10mmN. that's almost an order of magnitude.

this doesn't mean that it sounds too good to be true.

edit: fixed units - dont have easy access to micro, thanks for pointing that out.
Animals have been prosecuted as people a number of times in many different countries under the law. I don't see any absolute reason that they could not be granted ownership of something. Even if there was a specific law stating that this was not true, one of the moves available in the game of law is to change the law. Law is a subset of Calvinball.
3 significant failures, one of them big.

My conclusion is that for a multitude of reasons (most of which are well known) having involved investors reduces my chances of success considerably. And all they offer is money.

Money is cheap.
I hate the fact that as a Canadian, I can't really support any video streaming services relying on P2P simply due to our archaic bandwidth restrictions.

Most Canadian ISPs have combined Up/Down Bandwidth Caps, which are already insanely easy to hit with any sort of media streaming (they usually range from 40-80 GB/mo). Peering any of these services is only going to make matters worse.
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yeah this

public opinion is plastic, especially when faced with real world pain
Why a basic income? I propose basic welfare, food + clothing + shelter, even entertainment. Mass produced in order to minimise costs. Then allocate a fixed amount of tax revenue to fund it, say 10%. Then as productivity goes up and goods become cheaper, this 10% can provide even more.

Let money be what it is, a claim on goods and services provided for by other people. With basic welfare no one is forced into work out of fear of death, only for want of choice.
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"understand" or "aware of"; how about asking them how they choose passwords? or keep backups?
Yes, I agree. In my opinion, every resident of a country should have both social and medical security. The reason is simple: there are two main ways that the government finances itself: consumption taxes and earnings taxes. Earnings taxes are proportional, or even progressive; anyways, 0 earnings -> 0 taxes. On the other hand, even the homeless are paying consumption taxes - if they eat food, someone has bought it, and that someone also paid taxes; so, if you give food to a homeless person, you're also donating a share of taxes you paid.

That way, everybody is taxed fairly - proportionally to how much they earn and consume. So, everybody should also be treated fairly - provided all the basic services that the government provides.
If any country is able to stand up to the US coup attempts, it has to be Cuba.
Not the case at all in many advanced countries, where non-citizen permanent residents have full health coverage and access to social assistance programs. Japan and Canada are two concrete examples. Also, many immigrants do become citizens in their country of residence.
If this is your first one, .1 seconds after you see that baby for the first time, your brain will dump your current frame of mind and upload a completely new version with multiple changes on priorities, motivation, elements that provide happiness etc etc..

If I where in your place, for now I would hang on what I have, until the baby is here and the dust settles (give it ~ 4 months). After that I would let the "new me" re-evaluate the situation.
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Is this to serve as a reminder for all who have long since used the service to uninstall the app?
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I started working remotely a little while ago, and I decided to try Xoom based on a friend's suggestion. My employer had some issues with verifying the transaction when he was travelling, but it worked fine otherwise.
A solution - though extremely unlikely in this day and age - would be to abandon the notion of nations. Especially in the far future, if we are ever to meet aliens. Imagine having to explain that you only represent one of 196 nations. Seems a bit silly to me.
Google Starts Giving A Ranking Boost To Secure HTTPS/SSL Sites
This suggests something else is going on. Please post in the forums with the site details.
There seem to be plenty of (vim-ish)-in-the-browser solutions:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3109847/is-there-any-onli...

That's from 4 years ago, and the latest answer from over a year ago; I wouldn't be surprised if the situation were better now.
Now we just need an easier input method.
Very cool idea, if it does what I think it does.
This seems to be more a criticism of Khan Academy's live Processing editor.
actually, what i think is.. they're as near 'free' as it gets, probably. at least there's no up front cost using them. then its a lottery as to when u need to pay them to revoke... it could still end up cheaper than paying yearly fees for other certs, i imagine.. total cost of ownership or something..
They testified to Congress that they were doing their best to fight piracy while at the same time all of the top feeds on Justin.tv were pirated. It was a joke. DMCA requests were not meant to combat live programming--get one down and another pops up. In three hours the point is moot.
I'm don't know the details about your stack, but while the processing cost of SSL is not neglectable, i think you might be overestimating it.

I can not think of any scenario in which HTTP runs fine but HTTPS will kill the server.
>What are we expected to do with our time without paid work?

What would you do if you had infinite free time? I would spend more time exploring my city, read more books, and finally get around to my garden project. In fact, I fantasize about retirement all of the time because I imagine myself doing these things.
My version was

var target = document.getElementByID("detector-events");

setInterval(function(){target.click();}, 100);

I think I like yours better though.
thank you! I still need to calibrate when a peer gives up to receive by p2p and goes to CDN, but it seems it's working for some swarms with low RTT. Regarding the code, I bet you'll not have problems to understand but feel free to ask me anything you want.
Why must it run Ubuntu? Especially if you're gonna turn around and make Chrome (not Chromium) the default browser anyway?

Is it for the Minecraft (which, by the way, encourages a construction mindset, not an engineering mindset, since Minecraft takes numerous liberties with the laws of physics)?

That seems like the only good reason, because you can already learn to code just fine on Chrome/Chromium.
Stay in the job, focus on your family life for the next 12 months. At some point during that time you'll know exactly what you want to do, and you wont need to ask advice here.
I'm not saying it is easy and flawless, just that calling it "extraordinary" is in all likelihood an exaggeration. They do not need to know where exactly he is at every single moment to make travel too risky for him. Them not knowing where he was during that incident does not imply them not knowing where he is now. Neither it implies them not having an informer who would tip them if the Snowden tries to arrange secret fly.

CIA had a lot of time between them and now. It also have a lot of resources and his movements are likely to be top priority for them. Them knowing he boarded a plane is real risk for him.
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<Cough> You shocked me so much that I read the article! :-)

(I follow the subject by browsing news now and then at http://talk-polywell.org/ which really is about the small fusion projects. That place should have more details then at Wired.)

Use 'μ' for micro, 'm' is for milli.
What should we expect when our own President is trash talking Russia? http://news.yahoo.com/obama-russia-doesnt-anything-west-must...

Really, this guy is not doing well on the world stage, he almost seems to act like a petulant child at times with his comments.

Why shouldn't Russia do this, it causes embarrassment to a country who for the last few years has show contempt for anything Russia does. Its like the pot calling the kettle black.

The world is a flipping mess and two countries who could work together to fix it are having the equivalent of a playground spat.
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Such a reform would be difficult since it would require substantial compromise from both sides of the aisle, but some of the conservatives' favorite economists have endorsed the idea. Also certain tax credits and Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend resemble the concept of a guaranteed minimum income on lesser scale.
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Just because something is able to be replicated multiple times, by different people, you still don't want to jump to conclusions. You just need to look back at polywater, http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
According to Wikipedia (and my memory), this pre-existing word was popularised by Scott Adams:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Coined_phrases
> it's a pretty good bet that HBO's writers will be the ones that finish GoT

That idea used to frustrate me, but I think the HBO writers have ended up doing a better job with the story than GRRM. The show is just so much crisper without a loss of authenticity. (Don't get me wrong,... I love the books)
I believe the GP was referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17
It is seen in other industries, they are just more localized. For example, it used to be the case that in coal mining towns or automotive industry towns, there was great pressure to get everyone working for the local coal mine or auto plant.

The difference between the web/tech and older industries is that the web is literally everywhere. You can get to work in tech anywhere there is a computer connected to the internet.
The context is specifically "it's hard to selectively breed fish DNA into a plant."

Houshalter proposed that mutation breeding was one way to do so. My back-of-the-envelope estimation was to show that it wasn't.

What gene-swapped-based breeding technique can put a fish DNA sequence into a plant? I only know of genetic engineering techniques for that process.
Should productivity go down (say we run out of fossil fuels without developing a cheap alternative or all our productivity starts going to dealing with run-away climate change) then you just decrease the guaranteed minimum income.

That decision would have lots of consequences. People usually live slightly beyond their means. Decrease their means, and suddenly the majority of your population is living way beyond their means.

Any guaranteed minimum income can't ever go down for this reason. You could try to drop it, but then you'll wind up paying them the same amount anyway in welfare, because many more people will be seeking welfare to supplant their missing guaranteed income.
Would it not be possible to change the standard US/THEM mental model without meeting a new THEM?
My thoughts are that at some point it might become more easy to just change your identity.
The faq mentions an "-r" parameter :)
I understand where you're coming from. The US is the center of the world, while it seems everyone else only exists relative to them. It's a fair criticism, and I'm as guilty as the next person in my biased reading of news.

That said, that's not Snowden fault. Yes, he's an hypocrite, but so what? Are you judging him by the same standard as you judge yourself, or your friends? Or are you blaming him for the indifference of the whole Western population? He's just a guy.

Did anyone in the world care when Russian whistleblower Alexei Navalny got arrested? Was it on Hacker News front page?

Well, you didn't submit it. See my point about measuring others by a different standard? :)
"Needing" HTTPS and supporting it are two different things.
In kind welfare is notoriously inefficient. The bureaucracy required weighs down the system. No one knows what they need better than the people themselves.
Every time this article crops up I stop and read the whole thing, word for word. Not only does he nail the beauty of and fundamental trouble with Forth, but it's a deep ramble through a world in the way that the best New Yorker pieces are.
I would think your proposal is actually harder. Providing money is relatively straight forward. All of the decisions that would go into producing and distributing basic food, clothing, etc would be a bloody nightmare. Especially since it could be avoided by simply offloading it to the "private" sector.
Another "fun" API is the one from MUMPS (matrix processing stuff) in Fortran.

See http://mumps.enseeiht.fr/doc/userguide_4.10.0.pdf , for example page 10.

It has lot of numbered "ICNTL" (input control) variables as well as named struct fields, and some of those struct fields are only valid if, for example ICNTL(26) has the values 0, 1 or 2.

ICNTL is actually an array with 40 elements, though "only" 1-33 are currently in use. And then there's CNTL (float control parameters), INFOG, RINFOG and what not.

Also, the number of calls you must do to the actual processing function depends on some combination of those magic variables.

Needless to say that there are no named constants for all those magic variables, because the code must be backwards compatiable with Fortran 77, where the behavior of code with identifiers longer than 8 characters is undefined, and differs from compiler to compiler (some truncate, some allow them, some error out). So names are actually in short supply.
Basic income is not a left vs right issue. Lots of libertarians (including Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek) support basic income as a more efficient safety net than government-run programs.
Ask HN: Is it possible to find an internship or junior position in the states?
I am UK based, female and been coding for a year now. I really want to move to the states to gain more experience. I have recently finished a coding bootcamp which i funded with crowdfunding so do have skills. I also graduated a year ago in september from a more creative degree so i know this may help i bit with visas? I know it is a challenge but i would really love to find a way to make this work!
And your post is certainly an inspiration to me :) Thanks for documenting your journey. I'll make sure, one year down the line, I document something like this and hopefully will get some success on kaggle.
I'd really like the source for that quote, because it's dumb for obvious reasons, and I don't know Feynman to be dumb.

In fact he said pretty much the opposite to the interviewer asking about magnets in this well known video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
Check this out for a nice Ubuntu package of it: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/atom

You probably don't want to depend on a PPA, but it's a place to start.
I've had sites with a fair amount of traffic, never received a donation, not ever, not even once. Much more effective to sell a sticker than to place a donate button. A friend of mine recently avoided my advice and replaced his twitter feed with a donate button, he said it was a horribly stupid mistake.
> The right believe that their way is the only way.

To be fair, the left feel this way too.
I'm not completely clear i understand the distinction. With basic income, you just get cash (or a tax deduction if you're making money - the original proposal was around 2x the deduction vs cash). you can do whatever you want with it. like eating steak more than having a large living space? Do that.

I get the impression you're wanting to provide standardized essentials, a room, 5 shirts, 5 pants, government cheese. This invariably leads to weird market issues, people want more of X so they sell off some of Y - for example, using foodstamps to buy steak, then selling it in the parking lot for a big discount. Why bother with that administrative hassle, and innefficiency? the vast majority of people want what they want, and balance their resources as well as they can. The biggest complaint about US welfare is it's so inflexible. "Easy" to get food, but sometimes people need extra cash to fix their car. That's pretty much impossible in the current system.
From the first time I cloned a gene (that had already been isolated, and stored in a plasmid) into E.Coli, I've wanted programmatic biology. Doing manual bio work is tedious, error prone, and wasteful, but just talking to instruments in a uniform way has been a major problem. Thanks for making one of the first real ventures into that world.
by biological/objective perspective = sex
subjective is Up to you
Religion(God/illusion) is To fulfill his wishes in moral aspect
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Indeed. For thousands of years people were able to move about relatively freely in most parts of the world, exceptions most often due to war. Only relatively recently has it become the norm to need permission from multiple states to move between them. Prior to the U.S. Civil War, it was difficult to even determine who someone was if they left their area of birth. Most forms of identity were informal and ultimately relied on a community attesting to who someone is. Identity systems weren't formalized and reliable, so you could start a new life in a new place under a new identity if you wanted to.
I think what he means is even if it turned out to just be thermal energy, then that means this device has the capability of directing thermal energy as a viable proportion source, so its still pretty great : )
They offer unlimited data plans for internet. And it isn't archaic (unless you live outside a city).
Ask HN: Would you submit your startup idea for review?
I personally wonder and wanted to ask all the crazily successful entrepreneurs and intelligent people over here. Would you submit your startup idea for another startup to review?
Would you hesitate whether some crazy-ass software team would be looking for idea hunt, which is obviously funny, or would be ok with submitting it?
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Yup, I meant megabits per second :)
There are plenty of classic, well-known characters in the public domain. Sherlock obviously being one, given the context of the discussion. Frankenstein. Robin Hood. King Arthur. Jesus....

On another note, it doesn't affect your point all that much, but while Harry Potter the character would go into the public domain in 2017, the first movie wouldn't go into the public domain until 2021. In that interval, you could use the characters but you couldn't replicate their likenesses from the movies without some sort of agreement.
The previous tests were on an EmDrive, while the current one was a Cannae drive, which is a related but different design. The EmDrive guy claims the lower thrust is to be expected due to the design difference.
In almost entire Scandinavian (Sweden, Denmark, Nowray) if as an immigrant you loose your job, you've got 3 to 6 months to find a new job. If you can't find, you can't stay legally and you become illegal. In during the time of job searching you get no social security.
The idea of the government issuing a basic income is that people can choose in their own way how to get food, clothing and shelter, instead of having to settle with whatever the government provides.

Moreover, it would discourage working to get more money, since if you want to move into a less frugal home, you would lose all the benefits of having a government issued one. That choice would then be seen as a net lose.
Not having any children myself, I saw this in my group leader back in January. Before hand he always focused on pedantic small bugs (spelling mistakes, colors not being quite correct) when there were (and still are) far bigger issues. (I am a one man team. I need to use the 80 / 20 rule to prioritize work).

He had a kid, and now seems to only mention relevant bugs. No more trivial crap, which gives me more time to focus on the important things like the data being correct.
The search was built using AmisaDB provided by Amisalabs as a service. Searching by zip code hasn't been implemented yet but would be in the near future. Thanks for the like.
Inventing new engineering solutions to existing problems (e.g. winglets) is totally different from not understanding the situation at all.
Unfortunately, that obvious solution is usually War.
Maybe the hypothetical aliens also only represent their own nation?
If I had to guess, I'd say it's because they want people to focus on the content of comments, and not their formatting.
> People usually live slightly beyond their means

^ Citation needed. Maybe it's become common since the advent of easily available credit, but for most of human history it was physically impossible to live beyond your means.
Foursquare updated its privacy policy this week to warn users that with the new version of the app tracks and sometimes shares users’ locations even when the app is closed.

Fun. Kind of like when one of your insurance provides radically alters your coverage, and then buries this fact in some mandatory disclosure paragraph that they know you probably aren't going to read anyway.

I would so hate to be working for Foursquare now.
Right up until we invent strong AI (and probably even then), there's no particular reason the same thing that always happened won't keep happening; unskilled laborers will get replaced, most will retool, and no one in the next generation will train for the now-automated job. This happened to cordwainers, calculators, etc.

The reasoning for this is very simple. It's why the Luddites were wrong then and the Luddites are wrong now. When a job is automated away, the benefit is distributed among three areas: 1. Automation company profit 2. Automation user profit 3. End customer costs. The net benefit is always positive, or else the automation would not be used in the first place. These 3 groups do not take their earnings and hide it under the mattress. This newly produced value has to be spent somewhere. So we end up with fields that were historically not viable, but because automation lowers the overhead of doing other things, now are viable. These fields recreate the labor requirements "lost" to automation.

The question, of course, is how long it will take for unskilled laborers to retool, and what will they do in the time between jobs? Perhaps there will be technical solutions to speed the retooling process.
The argument resolves around the "longer-term trend toward income and wealth inequality". There is nothing however to directly link this to technological innovation. In fact I believe it is government policy which is increasing inequality rather than technology. In the UK for example, we have been seeing some clear cases of policies which have (either deliberately or inadvertently) transferred wealth from the state (i.e. the population as a whole) to the elite (i.e. the rich), e.g. the privatisation of the Royal Mail.
Even for wikipedia there are privacy implications of third parties knowing which page you are visiting and integrity concerns in places countries that want censor certain topics (e.g. China).

I wrote about this a few months ago:
https://rythie.com/blog/blog/2014/03/05/should-all-sites-use...
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