skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, you

1) had solved a bunch of Project Euler problems, but fewer than 200 (account recovery is still available for those folks),
2) lost/forgot your signon information, and
3) lost/deleted all the code you used to find the answers?

You, sir, are in a very small boat. A frustrating boat, to be sure, but I suspect that virtually none of their users share your fate.
Borrow more to serve your citizens a comfortable life?

Isn't this madness?
The only way a reasonable person could write this comment is if they didn't know what nmap did.
I'm assuming your comment is rhetorical, right?
The game has been around as long as civilization has been around. The conventional view is that money came first, then debt, when actually it was the other way around. Rather than being a modern invention, debt and the management thereof was what led to the creation of money and accounting.

Debt: The First 5000 Years [1] is an excellent book I'd recommend if you're interested in the history. It's very well researched and a fascinating read (even if you don't agree with the author's politics.)

[1] https://www.librarything.com/work/9530527
Just to clarify: a bunch of people pooling their resources together to negotiate a lower price are a problem, but provider charging high prices to those not able to negotiate a discount is not a problem?
shit I goofed the link...who the heck upvoted this?
"Most negative information disappears from credit reports after seven years and, depending on state law, debts may be unrecoverable through a lawsuit after as little as three years"

So all I have to do to get out of my loans is live off the grid for 7 years? I wonder if this is the same for student loans.
If you purchased a liquid asset with the $10,000 (and your creditors never found out about it in time to sue you for it), couldn't you just reliquidate it at that point and use it to pay off the IRS debt, leaving you with pure profit (and a horrible credit score)?

Actually, wait, maybe not even that: given that you purchased the debt, you could legally mark it (as the creditor) as having been repaid and then petition (as the debtor) to have your credit score corrected, no? This is what the http://rollingjubilee.org people are doing, at least.
Recent addition of The Neverhood to ScummVM is a great release.
I guess that works for the majority of people, but in order to satisfy me they need to admit to and take responsibility for their widespread product failures. With each of the products I listed in my post above I have long stories about their widespread failures and plenty of evidence from websites, blog posts, forum posts, and even HN discussions, that it wasn't just me having these issues (with exception of the 5s, unless iPhones are expected to be waterproof; I was having issues with the earbuds though).

I'm over them though. Honestly, I loved each one of those products deeply (the video was actually under warranty, but it was stolen from my car before I sent it in). They are obviously very pleasant to use, and their high price tag provides quality material and sleek designs. I just have no more patience for the failures that render them unusable. With a higher price tag it should be even more crucial that the product does not fail, as we see with cars.

For my future computing device purchases I will opt for the lower cost products that have less failures. I hope that there will be more high material cost devices that can compete with Apple and maintain quality assurance. It is also a plus to get out of the walled garden.
Facebook Messenger Permissions Come Down To Trust
If you literally believe that GCHQ has owned up every machine it is technically and feasibly capable of owning up, there's not a lot of reasonable conversation that can happen between the two of us.
Interesting, didn't know that! Still, feels like a lot of the usage of that word that I come across is pejorative, as per the linked article.
Really? I'd think the intuitive solution is the greedy solution to the problem, which is incorrect.

Now we have to ask ourselves a few things A) which of us is correct about which is more intuitive and B) does being intuitively good at the knapsack problem imply anything about being intuitive at dynamic programming and C) does being intuitively good at dynamic programming or the knapsack problem have any correlation between good hires.
The real story here is how little effort most healthcare providers put into debt collection.
Yeah, I mean this colossal misunderstanding (or willful ignorance, really) also comes up in basically every discussion on privacy.

"Oh, so you give all that information to Facebook, but you don't want the goverment to have it?"

Well yes, smartypants, that's because the government has the monopoly on violence. Full stop.
This is not about small businesses. It's about suit and tied scum, like the banking and insurance business. They buy and lobby politicians to deregulate their sectors like crazy, they give away credit cards and loans like candy, they use all the "black" tricks to inflate debt and tie people to their monthly installments forever. And when those fail, here come the collection agencies, including paid scum using borderline illegal methods. Of course if those companies fail themselves, they have some trillion dollar public money bailouts to expect.

About people that should "know better". Sure. Doesn't always happen, and people are not all perfectly rational, highly disclipined game-theoritic individuals. It's easy to preach "personal responsibility" from an ivory tower (and who knows what kind of privileged upbringing or lucky break), but it doesn't make those people less victims. It's like a woman victim of domestic abuse ― she should know better and leave the guy, but that doesn't make him any less of a prick.
It is renewable. Every time there is a supernova a whole solar system loaded with Thorium is recreated!
Hmm, you make a lot of claims without backing them up. While I don't have the time to bring them all up, how about one: "People are not good at spending money... giving people food stamps ... is significantly more effective than just giving cash at solving hunger issues."

A lot of evidence points to this not being the case: http://www.givedirectly.org/evidence.php

People actually do very well when given the power to make their own decisions about where to spend their money. There are, or course, arguments against direct aid, but it isn't nearly as simple as you make it out to be.
What makes you think we shouldn't be applying negative connotations to the mortgage credit? There is lots of evidence that it has been particularly harmful and it is a very regressive entitlement (if that's important to you).
armed with a tactical thermonuclear ("neutron"/"clean") bombs.
If labor is effectively free (because robots don't get paid) then I don't think that the products of that labor would be particularly scarce. Even material costs are primarily the labor cost to extract or recycle a material.
There are two things that are hardly ever addressed when Basic Income comes up: 1) What problem is it trying to solve, and 2) what will the social effects be?

For (1) the thing we hear is that BI will be a way to deal with the increasing automation of labor and progressive unemployment that it will bring. That's a decent motivation but we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking that it will solve poverty. Whenever people have choices, some will make bad choices. A cheque for 1K a month can be used wisely or squandered immediately. The net effect is that the power-law distribution of wealth will not go away.

For (2), it's easy to imagine our future being something like Star Trek where people don't have to work but elect to. Again, some will and some won't. When people have a lot of fee time, they can opt for self-enrichment and charitable work, or they can sit on the couch all day (every day) and play video games, or they can cause trouble - delinquency/crime. The path people take is really more influenced by culture than economics. Basic Income will take the issue of what people do with their time and make it a pressing issue for society.

I'm liberal, but I do buy the conservative argument that work engenders responsibility. When work is unnecessary, hopefully there's some other social force that helps us stay healthy as a society. I think that Europe would handle a transition to BI better than the US would.
> SS isn't supposed to be a total retirement plan, but it is for many

There are many people who are unable to work due to age and infirmity and have no other savings and who are forced to rely on SS as a total retirement program, but there are very few if any who do so through choice, even if they have earnings high enough to have SS benefits at the high end of what is possible.

> What is the incentive to work under this scheme?

Even assuming that BI provided a standard of living equivalent to minimum wage (which the levels that have generally been proposed don't, even if one assumes no inflationary effect from BI itself, which is naive), people who have the capacity to expend effort to acheive greater than minimum wage incomes frequently do so under the current regime.

The same incentive exists to do some work in a BI scheme that exists to work to get more than minimum-wage in a non-BI scheme. That incentive is called "money".

Furthermore, because BI would be available to all unconditionally (unlike existing means-tested programs), it would mitigate disincentives to work that exist with existing systems that it would replace.
Molten Salt Reactors are cheaper. They do not need a pressure vessel or a huge containment structure. They can fit in a shipping container. BTW red herring is delicious!
I see you are more about fishery monitoring but an old friend of mine is big into reef tanks and is a biologist at cal academy and takes care of the big aquariums there. I'll point him to your stuff anyway. How far along are you with your product? Feel free to email me.

PS. Put your email address in the about text field so people can contact you off list.
in some cases, if you make a payment of any amount towards your debt, the statute of limitations resets... so keep that in mind!
I installed it but don't get annotations on the same page as shown on the screenshot (activerecord/scoping).
There is absolutely no way the USG's best program for mass-scale network reconnaissance relies on nmap. All possible respect to Fyodor, but nmap just isn't very good at that task, and if ever there was a bikeshedding problem in software security, port scanning and active host identification is it.
Why would you assume that? I did add the word "any" in case you thought I was saying libertarians in general support BI.
>A 10% rise in taxes? That's a heck of a lot of money. The majority of the rich won't buy into it, they'll fight it tooth and nail.

But now they pay insurance anyway, aren't they?. With a single-payer system, their contribution would actually probably fall.
You are not getting any better (2013)
How about charging it? Considering the lack of network and somewhat long charge time, the theoretical maximum is probably very well defined.
What if it isn't being presented as a magic new technology, and you just perceive it as being so?
"they have also been very actively building out a surveillance HQ with pretty advanced monitoring."

The Domain Awareness Center was originally supposed to be city-wide, but has been cut back to focus only on the port.

http://oaklandwiki.org/domain_awareness_center
From observation, the beer thing's healing looks ridiculously overpowered, to the point where you probably can't fight someone near one
Yeah, it is not a coincidence that the word has become pejorative. Granting any group a special privilege, no matter the justification, will piss those not getting the benefit off. At the same time, no one wants to admit they are getting any special benefit, that they are 'entitled'.
Debtors need to take control. They need to collectively seize the paper at the giant discount and then dismiss the debt.

How to do such a thing? Seems impossible, but even a 4x or 5x overhead would be a giant bargain for the debtors next to the sharks, and the sharks wouldn't be able to compete on those margins.
"It goes on to argue that nuclear deterrence is not effective and that nuclear weapons should be eliminated for a host of political, military, humanitarian, and environmental reasons."

Not having read the actual(and now classified) article by Doyle, can anyone summarize the "political, military, humanitarian, and environmental reasons"?

EDIT: Whoops here's the original article: http://www.iiss.org/en/publications/survival/sections/2013-9...
Show HN: Swift Resources
I've been gathering Swift related URL's so I'd have a lot of material to work with once I started using Swift. Well, last night I started, and today I put all the URL's on my site:
http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html

Let me know if there are others.
Reading the title, I was expecting to reply "python -m SimpleHTTPServer", but it actually looks like a nice app with some useful features.

Would prefer ngrok over localtunnel, but hey, it's open source. Guess I'll do it myself!
The only way a reasonable person would correct his comment is if he though mislabelling nmap as heinous is of any importance with regards to the heinous nature of the whole operation.
It's not "more libertarian" at all, since it goes against the complete idea of libertarianism. Income redistribution goes against everything that libertarians believe.
Well, negative connotation in the sense that those people receiving the benefit feel entitled to it. I'd disagree with such an implication as I don't think the tax-credit was requested by those people, but rather given as a benefit or tax-incentive.

I don't think I've made any comment regarding the harm/benefit of this tax-credit. Can't say I have a big opinion on it, or have researched it. Why do you say it's harmful and regressive?
In the video he says that the new jobs we have created do not make up a significant portion of all jobs.
The article heavily focuses on the experience of one intern, who not unexpectedly had something of a culture shock to bureaucracy. She will find a different sort of shock in the private sector as well.

I don't find this long article particularly enlightening about NASA's situation, except that budget cuts and lack of moonshot type projects aren't particularly inspiring to the young.
How to talk to a developer (Part II)
Send me an email at support@omniref with your browser info (type, version, installed extensions, etc.) and I'll look into it.

That's tricky code to get right; github uses jquery-based fast-loading of their source pages, and the extension security models make it particularly difficult to detect the change events (especially on Firefox :-/).
I still listen to Terry S. Taylor's soundtrack to it on basically a regular basis.
That's why I want an electric car... Probably far fewer parts. I would be curious to compare a combustion engine car's parts list VS electric car.
Hey guys, I work at Famo.us and we've recreated the Flipboard flipping interaction in Famo.us as an internal demo and wrapped it in Cordova with great success. I'll look into publishing this as a demo or making it public.
The tragedy (from wikipedia):

On 21 July 2011, Oracle announced they acquired Ksplice, Inc. At the time the company was acquired, Ksplice, Inc. claimed to have over 700 companies using the service to protect over 100,000 servers. While the service had been available for multiple Linux distributions, it was stated at the time of acquisition that "Oracle believes it will be the only enterprise Linux provider that can offer zero downtime updates." More explicitly, "Oracle does not plan to support the use of Ksplice technology with Red Hat Enterprise Linux."[5] Existing legacy customers continue to be supported by Ksplice, but no new customers are being accepted for other platforms.[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksplice
I do not find it hard to believe that I'd offend Yemeni Muslims by making a haphazard attempt to pray alongside them at a mosque, because I can imagine what would happen if someone walked in off the street at my parish, got in line for a Communion wafer, and messed up that ceremony in a way that made it obvious they weren't Catholic.
>What if one of the cops who shows up happens to also be a part-time firefighter/paramedic, and lends a hand with patient care?

Probably the same thing that happens if a cop with a dashcam shows up to a traffic accident.

I don't know what it is that happens exactly, but it's a pretty common occurrence, so it seems likely that this scenario isn't that big of a problem.
The additional word makes it a lot clearer. We're on the same page.
This is sort of funny stuff to me:

Not long after getting out of prison, Wilson took a job as a debt collector. He proved quite good at it, and soon he bought some paper and opened his first agency. Later, he also became a debt broker or dealer, a type of role he knew quite well: “I used to buy pounds of weed, all right, and then break it down and sell ounces to the other guys, who were then breaking it down and selling dime bags on the corner, right? Well, that’s what [I’m] doing in debt.”

I mean a lot of it has comical tones -- granted, darkly comical. But, hey, I have probably had more real financial problems then most folks on HN and my dad once collected about 98% of the defaulted debts kept in (probably) a shoe box at a small business he worked for. So I have seen kind of both sides of this quite close to home.
Really appreciate the feedback. Will come up with some alternatives to this copy to test.
This is definitely true. The Yorba Foundation is a recent relevant example where the tax code failed.

I think the risk that the IRS is trying to mitigate is for companies to establish a development only organization and single-licensing it to a shell to sell. We will need to find a nice dividing line that pushes FOSS causes forward while simultaneously preventing the creation of loop holes exploitable by for-profit entities.
Yes, that's about right.
Programming problems and Competitions: HackerRank
Try selling it? There is another bit of activation energy between someone liking it and pulling out there wallets.

I had one phone call where I described my idea to gauge interest, and the guy tried to forward me to his purchaser straight away. Had to explain I hadn't a product yet.
I think you're trying too hard, and 'no true scotsman' fallacies don't really help your "argument".
We need a robot tax to pay for minimum income.
> Assuming social security is replaced by basic income seems to be a fallacy.

No, its not a "fallacy", its a proposal. It may be politically difficult or undesirable, but that's not what "fallacy" means.

> Reducing SS payments, perhaps by a dramatic amount, is not going to go over well.

So, don't. Take as a short term cost that anyone who has established eligibility for SS (including people who have paid into it already but not yet reached retirement age) remain eligibility established based on their past earnings, but elimimate any future eligibility. However, SS benefits claimed are charged dollar for dollar againt BI -- no one loses SS benefits to BI, but you can't double dip the two. And, over time, SS fades away.

> Likewise, giving straight cash versus Medicare/Medicade does not work. You are basically telling people "I'm sorry, but you can either die of a treatable condition, or starve".

There is a real problem here, OTOH, it could be addressed (thinking of the smallest change from the status quo plus BI situation, rather than necessarily the ideal solution under BI) with an Obamacare-style health insurance purchase mandate, possibly with a provision for default assignment to a qualified plan -- whether public or privately-offered -- if one isn't actively selected.)

> The price of child care alone is huge.

That might actually change with BI; while I'd generally expect most prizes to rise slightly under BI, its at least plausible, intuitively, that BI would lead to a greater drop in demand for childcare than in supply, and decrease the market clearing cost.
Best strategy I've seen from watching is to gain mines until you have a sizable portion, stay adjacent to a beer until you see someone you can kill, kill them, then go straight for a beer. If you are constantly using the beer you become invincible for only 2 gold per turn.
The big question is whether this mimics the "non-blocking" behavior of goroutines - if you block in a goroutine with a select on a channel in Go (or rather, if you do ANY synchronous operation, including network calls, channel operations, etc.), Go will automatically context switch off the goroutine and run another one. But if you have a tasklet that selects on a channel, will Goless/Stackless automatically run a different tasklet, or will that tasklet stall a thread (or worse, the GIL)? What if the tasklet is doing a synchronous HTTP call or waiting on a future to complete?
What incentive do any of us have to work for more than $12k/year? Hell, half of us make that in a month, but you don't see everyone dropping everything and playing video games for 11 months of the year. Even low income people currently making $12k/year desperately fight for more hours at their patched together part-time jobs.

If anything, people would increase their hours spent working, as there would no longer be steep disincentives to working as benefits phase out and progressive taxation steps in. The only people who would drop out entirely are ones who simply are incapable of producing any real economic value for society, and we have to figure out how to deal with them anyway.
Hmm, I'm not sure how to answer that. Hoarding increases the unit price relative to other assets, but doesn't make it any less liquid. Essentially infinitely small amounts of bitcoin can be transacted at any time.
same here. Nothing happens. => https://cloudup.com/ck9BPBaopFz
Anyone interested in this should also look up kGraft and kpatch, developed by SUSE and RedHat, respectively. Each has been submitted for inclusion in the mainline kernel.
Robin Williams, An Avid Gamer, To Be Remembered In World Of Warcraft
From what I remember, Oink differentiated by being about the things inside stores/restaurants instead of the businesses themselves.

For example, if you were in the mood for a certain dessert, you'd see the ratings of the dessert in a city versus the ratings for the place.
“A Shocking Sabbath Carnival of Death”: The Central Park Zoo wild animal hoax
> Horses, to my understanding, do not have a seemingly insatiable desire for novelty and to create a new world.

Dark as it may seem, many people would say the same about most human consumers in this country. Looking at the most successful creations in the past century, most are made by corporations. While people have been spearheading those efforts so far, the whole novel creation process would be automated if and when it can be. (The "if" in this case is weather or not you believe in "the singularity")

> We do not as a society place value on the employment rate of horses.

.. but a society of horses sure would. We, as a society of humans, are worried about the future of human jobs. Our human society and social structure is in for one hell of a shock, but the world will move on.

> Our economy does not depend on horses purchasing goods and services.

And our economy barely relies on humans anymore. As long as there is something with money to spend, the economy doesn't really care. Look at the banking industry. Look at all these B2B partnerships.. who cares about humans in those relationships? Robots are getting better and better at deciding how to spend money.

Is the analogy really that silly? I love it because it helps wake people up to the reality we live in: we are the horses in this new age, growing ever more irrelevant. The world economy couldn't care less about humans.

This is getting depressing. I'm gonna go listen to "Dog Days are Over" by Florence and the Machine...