skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"'this system is broken, allow it to fail and cover your ass by documenting everything'."

This advice is sound in more industries than trucking.
would it be fair to say that your site currently does absolutely nothing except for take usernames, email addresses and passwords?
The Sun Juicer: Ultralight Parabolic Solar Cooker
I've been having a rather frustrating conversation with someone who's convinced that the present regime of port-25 blocking DUL lists, etc., are all part of some vast conspiracy to keep people from talking to one another. Truth is, they grew out of 1) an exceptionally open email protocol that 2) grew up on a very much smaller network ( dozens to hundreds, eventually a few thousand hosts), in which 3) norms and fairly tight interpersonal relationships kept nefarious behavior at bay.

Among other things, I've been unable to convince him that, in fact, I would like to see a secure and useful system designed with end-to-end crypto and other factors associated with it.

Among positives, a secure communications channel would put a lot more onus on message originators in preparing their content -- if mail is encrypted to the recipient, then the recipient needs to be identified, encryption executed, and delivery made. This also effectively stops the process of providing a single message intended to large numbers of recipients. It's fairly likely that a great deal of spam would not be encrypted.

So long as the receiving system knows the originating system, then trust metrics can come into play. A "policy of first refusal" in which the first delivery attempt from any previously unknown system is enforced, and whitelisting of known good / valuable peers, would help somewhat.

I really don't see micropayments as workable, though some work-factor mechanism could well operate.
ONE delusion common among America’s successful people is that they triumphed just because of hard work and intelligence.

The ability to work hard (conscientiousness) and intelligence are also heritable to a significant degree. The central supposed conflict between inherited privilege and innate qualities simply doesn't exist because our qualities are inherited[1].

This always surprises me when I read about privilege and related subjects, the fixation on race, sex and, as in this case, class. I can name at least five factors that matter much more for your life outcomes:

1. conscientiousness,

2. being born in or able to move to the first world,

3. intelligence,

4. conscientiousness again,

5. and looks (face symmetry, height).

OK, I cheated a little but conscientiousness really matters a lot. I highly doubt music classes, or library card would crack the top 100. Maybe as a correlate for educated (ie. likely intelligent) parents.

Those used to be heavily influenced by class due to widespread malnutrition but this is now gone from the western world. Which is why we see diminishing returns from investments in education, or any intervention, really.

Let's take truancy and suspension as an example since it was mentioned in the story. Is suspension responsible for kids' later poor educational outcomes? Unlikely[2]:

while suspension is strongly associated with educational outcomes, the relationship is unlikely to be causal, but rather stems from differences in the characteristics of those suspended compared to those not suspended. Moreover, there is no evidence that suspension is associated with larger educational penalties for young people from disadvantaged family backgrounds compared to those from more advantaged family backgrounds

Even in the west you can simply be unlucky but as a society we're bumping against the limits of who we are. I'm not saying that the usual "get married, stay married, take care of your kids, don't inject H, crime doesn't pay" is not a good advice but let's not forget that we're just a bunch of clever apes and perhaps should ease up on the hubris that somehow we should be able to better manage never before seen levels of complexity ("Hey, here are a few steps I came up with!").

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8776880

[2] http://ftp.iza.org/dp7794.pdf
"You can't discriminate based on anything related to gender"

Oh, okay... So affirmative-action programs to empower women and other groups are not discriminating against men due to their gender? Interesting double-standard they have there.
Not a googler but I don't think they are using it extensively for scientific computing internally. The devs seem to be pushing it more towards server and systems development.

IE The GC thread I linked in another comment [1] makes it pretty clear that they may actually break the ability to easily call existing scientific libraries (ie by handing a pointer to a go []float64 to cgo) in favor of better real-time guarantees.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/pIuOcqAlv...
I see a thermodynamics corollary there.

The overall "temperature" in an area is the mean income of an area. Colder is poorer. You may be able to apply some heat here and there, but any source of heat (money) is drained and attempts to balance out with the ambient cold temperature. And given the expanse of a cold mass, a localized heat source is nary enough to raise the ambient temp by fractions of a degree.

This cold temp is what we would call a blight or distressed neighborhood. The way to fix this is to raise the temperature everywhere by broad injects of money/goods/services.
OP was pointing out that the title, GUN Linux, is pretty clearly a play on GNU Linux, and they don't mention GNU at all (as you say). I think OP was implying the title was clever, but out of place.
I am again reminded of this article:

4 Things Politicians Will Never Understand About Poor People

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-politicians-will-never-...

(When I posted the same link before, it generated a large number of responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6383275)
> ls | grep -c .py

That won't work if there are files with names like foo.py.txt.

These will:

ls | grep -c '.py$'

or better, because less names to filter out:

ls -l *.py | wc -l
Yes, success in the United States can be explained by some combination of hard work, intelligence, and luck.

Hard work and intelligence can, to a depressingly large extent, be predicted by the success of your parents.
Apparently Marc is right about the need for more of this - the answer is that the kind of nasty timing of message losses that can render consensus impossible don't happen, by and large, for very long in practice. It's not necessary to have Byzantine failures to prevent consensus, it's a consequence of the arbitrary network behavior allowed in an asynchronous communications model.

I should add this question to one of my exams and see if my students get it right. I'll be a little grumpy if they don't, but it's a great question. :)
> No its not. Realistically space travel is going to be a humanity as a whole deal, not "inside NASA".

I think it's a fair bet that when spaceflight becomes widespread and commonplace, we're going to have many discrete groups of people developing, producing, operating, and maintaining their own particular spacecraft independently of each other, and not "humanity as a whole", as a singular undifferentiated mass, working on a single uniform spaceflight project.

Consistency within a specific project is clearly necessary; uniformity among distinct projects is, speaking at the macro level, a liability. Variation is an evolutionary advantage; artificial uniformity slows progress.

> So you propose teaching your future carpenters and space engineers different units of measure?

Why would this even be a question? Should programmers only be familiar with one single programming language? Should people in general only ever learn to speak a single verbal language? Is there ever an advantage to only being familiar with a single set of tools, and ignorant of all others?

> Nobody is eyeballing anything in the modern world.

Most people are eyeballing most things in the modern world. It's only in the case of activities on the scale of building spaceships and 10-nm-process integrated circuits that people require the level of precision that you're talking about. The vast majority of human activity remains outside of these domains.

The original article was about American resistance to adopting metric units as a default practice in day-to-day life, and not about the use of the metric system by people engaged in highly specialized disciplines. It'd be a bit absurd to suggest that the measuring units selected for high-precision work by the small set of people currently working on microprocessor design are necessarily the optimal ones for e.g. baking a cake or tiling your bathroom. In the latter use cases, one could make a very compelling case that units optimized for alignment with intuition are vastly more useful than ones optimized for micro-scale precision.
Yes there are a lot of yet-another-3D printer project that are trying to do what others are doing and the only real difference is that they are promising to be cheaper.

But then there is for example the Peachy Printer that is trying to be cheaper ($100) by innovating and reducing the components: no motors, no big rigid frame, no external power besides what comes from the computer. Sure it will not be the most accurate printer and it's still in development, but it looks feasible and shows that with innovation you can reduce the costs.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/117421627/the-peachy-pr...
This looks EXACTLY like the Dashboard I've been building at my company fot the past 6 month, wtf ?
Some charities even use completely unpaid labor!
Triclosan Promotes Staphylococcus aureus Nasal Colonization
yes, like all startups with a registration page that are not yet in beta :)
Or they could just invest that capital elsewhere and make those employees redundant via automation. I vote for that one, less workplace drama if your co-workers are robotic.
I used to be a whitewater rafting guide in the mountain west (Utah and vicinity). I still organize private trips when I can in the summer. We're talking multi-day (4-5 night) trips; camping on the river, boating 20 miles per day, enjoying the cold spray of whitewater, the adrenaline of just missing some big rock or skirting a huge "hole."

On the trip, you literally cannot connect to the "normal" world; there are no cell phone towers that will reach you. It takes a couple of days, but eventually (finally) your mind starts to settle down and relax. It's a transformative experience, you don't realize how much the constant barrage of information and messaging taxes your brain and even your soul.

Once you relax and find that tranquil state, you don't want to go back. You know what's waiting for you, but you long to keep the peaceful state of mind. Some lucky few even choose to stay, eventually quitting their job and moving to a place where less money is made nor required.

There are many places where you literally cannot connect with the world; find these places and go on vacation there, at least one week per year.

Your job, it can wait. If you're literally off the grid and cannot be reached, you will only earn the respect of your peers even more. Be one of those people who vacations the way that others secretly wish they could do.
perhaps state that on the signup page, so people don't bother, then? there are identical sites that actually exist already, so why would anyone be interested in signing up here?

edit: to be clear, I mean: there isn't value in "testing a market" when the market is already tested.
App Store Curation: An Open Letter To Tim Cook
It is a good argument -- both are -- but they aren't the best argument, which is "we want to stop death". But we can't say that.
Intel 4004 was just specialized hardware for some Japan calculator (the size of the modern desktop). And it was just 40 years ago.
IKEA Richmond BC. Google that + strike, they have been striking for over 1 year over labor dispute.

They demolished the existing one and opened a bigger one right next door. It was barely open before strike shut it down.

The changes in this article do not help Canadian IKEA workers get a fair wage
A projectile speed sensor is relatively trivial technology and could enhance the system a lot (since barrel wear and gas system condition affect projectile speed) and would make the system compatible with different grain ammunition (though things like hollow point would require special presets due to the different aerodynamic properties of the projectile).
"Paying more by the mile absorbs the costs of refuelling and traffic, without giving any driver an incentive to waste time..."

It also gives the driver incentives to drive too long, too fast, to reduce maintenance, and to take other shortcuts that cause longer-term and safety problems. (Fortunately, the industry has done pretty well at pushing liability onto the drivers.)
I think your sentiment is true of technology and tools in general. If you have a pain point that a particular tool solves, then that tool is probably a good fit for you.

But if you buy a tool because you've been sold on all of the cool things you _could_ do with the tool, and you weren't necessarily looking to do any of those things before you knew about the tool, then buyer's remorse is almost certain to come your way.

99% of smartphone apps fall into this category. The internet of things, at least currently, is also an example of this. There tons of products out there that solve problems that no one actually has, but can be construed as game-changing with romantic notions and polished marketing.
Most new manufacturers price things too cheaply (source: own manufacturing company). I did so myself 10 years ago, but luckily some industry people convinced me to raise the pricing before it was public. I changed the pricing from $89 to $150 and that was not quite enough, and I raised it a few months later. Cost to produce the product at the time was $50.

Now with some automation we can make the same thing for $18, and we can wholesale it for $59. That is after 10 years and thousands of units, so we learned a little on the way.

I think this article is a little simplistic about manufacturing costs, but the point is true - raise the price. Sounds like what patio11 says about SaaS products.
Yeah, like I said, I'm not very sympathetic to Hachette's position. Especially with the revelation that a large part of its ebook margins come not just from cost savings over print, but from disproportionately higher cuts of what could be authors' royalties.

This certainly isn't a case of David vs. Goliath. This is a case of an elderly, infirm Goliath having its lunch eaten by a younger, hungrier, smarter Goliath. The reason I'm not completely sympathetic to Amazon, either, is that, as a writer, I'm not in favor of any Goliath's controlling the market. Trading one master for another is progress of a sort, and it's necessary progress. But time will tell if Amazon's new world order is indeed better for writers.

Many writers are being held hostage in this battle, especially those in Hachette's fold. It's one thing for folks like Patterson and Preston to take up Hachette's call to arms from their ivory towers, but the vast majority of writers are struggling to get by. Even the majority of successfully published writers. For every James Patterson, making tens of millions of dollars a year, you have thousands of midlisters who are lucky to make $50k. You even have "bestsellers" who are struggling to get by. (Indeed, the concept of "bestseller" differs remarkably from genre to genre, and category to category. Let us not assume that anyone who's earned the title "NYT Bestselling Author" is making James Patterson scratch.)

As a group, authors have never held a lot of influence over their own fates. That just seems to be the way the market forces work. I can tell you that a lot of writers would rather take their chances in a crowded field with a 70% cut than in a beauty contest with a 10-15% cut. At the same time, they're scared about the prospect of monopoly over distribution. For them, this is sort of like a choice between the devil they know and the devil they don't.
I agree that you're completely right for the kind of "consumer" scale injection molding.

But they're talking about making perhaps only a few thousand parts. The number I saw was 2400 or so. For only 2400 parts (per YEAR!) you could make aluminum molds which are much, much cheaper. 2400 parts a year is 50 per week or one every three hours. Even if your cycle time was 10 minutes (which is an eternity even for old shoddy equipment) you can still make all the parts in 400 hours which is 2.5 weeks straight or 10 weeks of 9-5 production.

There is a company in the US which will make simple molds for much less than $50k. For that you could get 5-10 molds and all the parts and possibly have money to spare. http://www.protolabs.com/protomold

If you're talking about the kinds of molds necessary to do something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHwTHarf8Ck then yes I agree $50k is a total joke. But for the batch of parts necessary to build a semi-successful production run for a 3d printer, $50k might be overkill.
Does anyone know the name of the tool that is being used in the article? (the console tool displaying the HTTP requests).
I'm using DAVdroid in combination with Owncloud, which works very well. Unfortunately though the author does not want to add support for self-signed certificates, which is not a huge problem for us technical people (we can manually import the certificate into Android and deal with the silly consequences that brings), but it's a dealbreaker for being able to get the rest of my family off of google and onto owncloud.
That has not been the case, historically. Time spent "on duty, not driving" has been a major complaint for decades and is one of the reasons duty schedules are ridiculous.
10.76 x 40 x 52 = $22,380.80

Pretty appalling.
Absolutely nobody forces you to have a TV, a facebook account and a smartphone. Peer pressure is easily ignored and the time gained can be spent on more worthwhile pursuits.

If you think you can't live without any of those then you're in an excellent position to reap the benefits of doing without them. If you could easily live without them then the gain will likely be small.
I see a lot of people suggesting Macbooks.

I have a Macbook air I got from work. The lack of buttons on the mouse is a serious pain in the arse if you ask me. Then you have to buy an adaptor to plug it in to a monitor. No ethernet either (who uses ethernet these days? The hotel I was staying in in Germany supplied me with internet via ethernet).

Installing Linux was less than straightforward (the reason I am using Ubuntu and not another distribution, though I did have the same problem with an Asus laptop, and secure boot).

I preferred my more traditional Lenovo laptop that I had before this, but a lot of these are personal niggles, and depends how you want to use the machine.
>So what would be enough to live on? That would of course depend on where someone lived, and how much that place costs. And so Glasmeier rounded up some of her best graduate students to create, basically, a giant spreadsheet. They loaded it up with the best regional data available, from government and industry surveys, on costs for housing, food, child care, medical expenses, and transportation.

I don't get it: she "avoids tourist traps" (a few paragraphs up) to find the places people really shop. But when estimating cost of living, she uses detached government aggregates rather than finding how people actually make their wages work, meaning she would necessarily miss eg how grandma provides most of the daycare services.

I would think that the primary question in building out a living wage figure would be to ask how people are currently pulling it off on low wages, rather than extrapolate one's own life through some categorized figures.
I'm calling to the criminalization of the client, meaning prostitution would not be held illegal but buying sex would be prohibited by law.

My argument was not prostitution equals slavery per se. My point was that the term radical refers to the abolition of a phenomena and therefore should be considered in relation to that phenomena and not by itself. If you believe that prostitution, or even some forms of it, is a wonderful thing that promotes human dignity then I can see why my radical stand against it seems bad to you. I think prostitution harms the people in it and harms us and therefore taking measures like legislation in hope of a radical change seems to me to be reasonable and positive, even if there is a very tiny minority among the people in prostitution who claim to have chosen freely with their eyes wide open.
So I also have the same desire, but what I have found comforting is working on side projects, for work and for myself. As long as wherever you're working now isn't too strict with ownership (like they don't try to own everything you do all the time) then when you want to move to a more creative place, you can leverage the side projects (describe them, tradeoffs, etc) and they'll be very impressed.

Also, as long as the work isn't too soul crushing, you could get your design/creation itch satisfied elsewhere while they pay for you to do so.

While this might not be ideal, I always code outside of wherever I'm working at the time, that takes the pressure off the position to be super challenging.

Also, generally people at companies that have become somewhat complacent are always very impressed to find you have time for side projects.

Why not grab one of the ideas on here on the idea-sunday threads and start making it? Pick a language/framework/database that you don't know, and start fleshing out and app.

One of the cool recent things I've seen is strongloop, which does your whole API & DB layer (think ORM on steroids) for you, and you can pair that with some messing around on the front end, and instantly get a taste for a new technology, as well as getting something to put on your resume
Given its about Ikea in the United States, why would it help Canadian workers? Plus doesn't Canada have a much better minimum wage in the first place?
The Soundplane from Madrona Labs[0] certainly merits a mention here. Pairs exceptionally well with their software synths Kaivo (physical modeling and granular synthesis) and Aalto (the closest thing to a Buchla in VST form).

I kind of assume at this point that most people who have an interest in this sort of thing know about monome[1], though I was surprised that there hasn't been more interest from HN in their most recent release, aleph[2], a (mostly) open source sound computer that can interface with just about anything that produces sound, cv, or bits.

[0] http://madronalabs.com/

[1] http://monome.org

[2] http://monome.org/aleph/
Probably not as veterans are predominantly male you would be indirectly discriminating against other protected classes.
The biggest liability of the metric system to me is its system of unit prefixes: this is just a bizarre reimplementation of scientific notation that expresses the most significant quantitative information not as part of the actual quantitative component of its notation, but as an arcane verbal prefix attached to the name of the thing being counted.

What on earth is the advantage of a notation that makes it easy to scale a value by an order of magnitude without having to alter its numeric representation?

This seems to be a much more significant "WTF" of the metric system than the fact that its base units don't seem to have any meaningful anchor in any substantive context.
Yeah, the certificate situation on Android is really sad, if you cannot afford to buy/get a "proper" cert.

I wish more applications would provide an easy way to use self-signed certs without totally compromising security.

Edit: link to davdroid issue: https://github.com/rfc2822/davdroid/issues/3