skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Society is an abstraction for the aggregated product of individual actions. It's an abstraction layer above the level of individual choice, much as thermodynamics is an abstraction layer above mechanics.

Now lets suppose we do want to work on the societal abstraction level. The problem is that the proportion of people making a certain individual choice has gone up. One solution is a pigouvian tax to disincentivize this choice.

I agree you can't blame every single obese person for eating too much. You can only blame the vast majority of them - a small fraction really do have thyroid issues (and could potentially be excused from said tax).
Actually, the stuff in the kernel explicitly doesn't care about content of messages.

Also, systemd-dbus has already done away with the XML config files. They are parsed only as legacy/compat mode.
Is there a way of bypassing geoblocking via youtube-dl directly?
You can examine your TCP traffic and verify that Chrome is or isn't doing anything with your data. That's a fact.

A lot of security experts out there would be making noise if they discovered that Chrome was phoning home, or doing anything overtly malicious.
I'm considering Phis for production workloads, and getting the test unit was never an issue. However, I also have some hobby projects that might work well on Phis. There's always the argument that personal projects are preparation for work stuff, but I'd be more comfortable running the former on my own hardware.

FWIW, I think I could fit two in the 4-way workstation I left in my parents' basement ;)
Yes. So ironic that "worse is better", which was said about Unix vs Lisp Machines, worked this time again (Plan9 vs Linux).
To PGP/MIME or not to PGP/MIME
…although GCHQ has usually refused to give much of that data to law enforcement, because they don't trust PC Plod to properly not use it. (The National Crime Agency has not been too well received either.)

I wouldn't say this is the "snoopers' charter": that's not quite correct. Reserve that one for the original bill that was forcing ISPs to retain total communications metadata and/or DPI - full GCHQ stuff - and make it accessible to law enforcement, who will… not have the foggiest idea what to do with it, actually - evidentially, metadata is pretty rubbish as it's tricky to properly analyse and conclusions drawn from it can have a rather large false positive rate.

But what this is apparently is an attempt to revive the UK provisions relating to the EU Data Retention Directive regarding ISPs' RADIUS logs—yes, that's right, the directive the European Court of Human Rights just struck down. And it's an attempt to revive it in a way HMG lawyers think will survive another ECHR challenge, by saying it's national legislation for national security reasons and is therefore reasonable, proportionate, exempt (and any other bullshit they think will stick).
I would say that CEOs are straight forward and have visions. They say something "stupid" = all people think that the CEO is a jerk. I would say that CEOs shouldn't care too much about what other say - they should follow their vision, which will make them "jerky".
Maybe because wall street was deemed "too big to fail" and propped up with billions upon billions when it collapsed?
Awesome! Not long ago I switched to mpv from mplayer. mpv being able to use youtube-dl without any glue script would be fantastic.
Do you have a rough estimate of how much fear-based productivity will be lost in the short term, and how much will be lost in the long term as the market adjusts? Emotional arguments are well and good, but what if it turns out that the economy was in fact running on fear?
good luck trying to get that in europe...
Perhaps the insanely low price is because no one is buying the current design in the quantities they naively expected and they have to dump these ugly monstrosities for whatever price they can get before a new architecture is released.
T42 – Tennis for Two
>So there seems to be some confusion what things like "binary" mean

I'm pretty sure binary, in this context just means you can't open a payload in notepad.
So do you not consider sending every keystroke in your address bar spying? I do.

http://www.favbrowser.com/google-chrome-spyware-confirmed/

There's probably more, especially with sync enabled, like Google permanently storing your web site history, which cannot be verified from the client alone, because the server sync engine is 100% closed and hosted by Google.
For those less familiar with C I'd like to point out that a common solution to the "function pointer hell" in C is to alias the types with typedef, although one might argue it's more a workaround than a real solution.

So the last example of function pointer taking a function pointer parameter and returning a function pointer could look something like:

typedef int (*return_fp_t)(int, int);
typedef int (*param_fp_t) (int, int);

return_fp_t do_stuff(param_fp_t a, int b) {
/* ... */
}

It requires coming up with new type names but it remains pretty readable in my opinion. Also if the prototype of one of the function changes (which is pretty common in my experience) it's easier to modify it since it's only declared once.
I live in Brazil. Anything is easier than that...
Beastie was much better than the new logo that looks like a shiny bauble.
Isn't that called a phone directory? I can go to my country's directory website, type "police", choose "near me" (it gets the location from the device) and click search to get the number.
There have been a bunch of attempts. I think that one might eventually succeed.

The problem is the difficulty in actually figuring out who's advice is worth what & where. But, in many cases 30 minutes with the right person could be incredibly valuable.

Technical/scientific/engineering expertise is one are, industry knowledge is another one. I think the second might be the most important.

Say you have some sort of awesome technology that you want to market to the hotel industry. You need to understand how that industry works. What software they use & how. What they pay for various things. The right person could get you months ahead in 30 minutes.
There's enough competition in the web browser market to prevent a lock-in in IE6 scale. There's IE itself, still a massive force in enterprise, there's Firefox, there's Apple with its own Webkit fork in OSX/iOS...

edit: also, these days browsers work together in standardization communities and implement stuff from other browsers. This was basically non-existent at IE6 time, in addition to IE6 being basically frozen and closed for years.
I've said it before but I think it's worth repeating: general purpose CPU cores are not becoming much faster. Learning to make your software run well on multiple cores seems to be a very sound investment.
[video] What Is Web-scale IT?
Yes, the usual nitpick about tax-funded services applies here. It's not actually free, as in it doesn't come from the sky, but if you pay your taxes you're covered, which means that A) you WILL have the service when you need it, with zero cost at the moment of purchase (that is the key here: no headaches related to money, no loans necessary, etc), and B) average Joe pays less in taxes than what he would spend if national healthcare was provided, since when it is not, the high entry barrier allows the development of a price-raising oligopoly.

I guess that it's a matter of opinion, but personally, looking at the state of healthcare in the USA, I'm quite glad I live in Europe.
Web-scale hyper-converged infrastructure solutions are revolutionizing the enterprise datacenter by delivering efficient, radically simple physical, virtual and cloud environments.
20-56 is the working age. If you wanna do this comparison you should include whether skinny people work more/pay more taxes while the obese are busy being sick. It gets complicated :-)
I agree. This is also a bit of a slippery slope.

My 2 previous jobs offered health coverage that included gym membership discounts.

This is a proper motivator [for me]. If I want to maintain and improve my health, I'm offered the benefit of doing so with perks.

But what advantage does it give to those who have something such as a heart condition that won't allow them to participate in the same exercises?

In this case, diet could be the helping factor. Then do these people get a refund on part of their grocery bill?

The problem is trying to create cookie cutter solutions to people that are diverse and have complex issues.
Some case studies of this here [1].

[1]: https://software.intel.com/en-us/mic-developer#pid-22612-186...
I mostly agree with your point[1] but you should be aware that seroquel and abilify (the 5th and 6th most prescribed medications in the US) both lost increased appetite and weight gain as side effects.

The US also has a lot of "off label" prescribing of other anti psychotic meds. This includes risperidone - which again promotes weight gain. The rate of prescribing mental health meds has increased dramatically since the 1990s.

The mechanism of weight gain for some mental health meds is not just "increased appetite, eats more" either. Part of it is the sedating effect so people need less calories, and there might be some changes to gut flora.

Gut flora to lose weight: http://bbc.co.uk/news/health-22458428

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-gut-bacteria-h...

http://rt.com/usa/children-antipsychotic-taking-us-187/

[1] are you aware how you come across and just don't care?
Invented 1864!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieren_photography

And there's a variant in color:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g4UBeaG5fs
Yes! :)

I love to tease the public health nazis with... "On average, fat people are healthier".

Funny because it's true.
1) people want line item veto from taxes? Where can individuals opt out of paying for wars they don't agree with?

2) taxing obese people would (beyond all the moral and ethical questions that arise) disproportionately affect people that already screwed by the status quo, people of lower income that cannot afford to eat better.

Obesity is a symptom, in the same way that homelessness is a symptom of a failed policy towards mental disorders. Just as some people treat depression and PTSD though alcoholism, some people consume unhealthy food that is cheap and keeps them going. The same reason that demographic also disproportionately smokes, it's a cheap chemical hit that keeps them awake while working two jobs.

This reeks of "Fuck you, I've got mine".
If I was on windows I would have control over the font my browser uses.
I really liked the "predecessor" DCOP better. Applications publish objects, others can call methods (one-shot) or functions (wait for response).

From DBUS' own (old) FAQ:

> D-Bus is a bit more complex than DCOP, though the Qt binding for D-Bus should not be more complex for programmers. The additional complexity of D-Bus arises from its separation of object references vs. bus names vs. interfaces as distinct concepts, and its support for one-to-one connections in addition to connections over the bus. The libdbus reference implementation has a lot of API to support multiple bindings and main loops, and performs data validation and out-of-memory handling in order to support secure applications such as the systemwide bus.

> D-Bus is probably somewhat slower than DCOP due to data validation and more "layers" in the reference implementation. A comparison hasn't been posted to the list though.

IMHO DBus suffers from the kind of overengineering that's been endemic in Desktop Linux in the last few years: DConf/GSettings (as a less flexible, IMHO unneccessary replacement for GConf), PulseAudio and NetworkManager (initially really bad, now work nicely, as long as you don't have to debug problems...), all the *Kit stuff, systemd, and so on. For me, libraries like this don't really solve problems on average, but cause regressions.
I once wrote an AI that solves the Sliding Block puzzle: https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/unblock-me-free/id315019111?...

The code is still in my PC, but I moved overseas, and didn't bring my PC along.
There's a difference between personal tutoring and general advice. I believe he meant the latter. Like for example paying to see this kind of list.
Putting "stupid" in quotes is key, because if you are a CEO of a truly disruptive startup, most everything you say will be called stupid right up until you are celebrated as a genius.
In the context of healthcare, "free" means "free at the point of use." This is perfectly sensible, because everybody is aware there is no such thing as healthcare which is literally absent of any cost. Given that, it seems like making this tedious statement every time someone references free healthcare is getting old.

I'd also point out that the insurance rate is actually 15.5%, that people with low incomes are exempt, that the total payment is capped, and that employers contribute around half of this payment.
An insanely low price relative to it's original price. Peronally, I still find this a very reasonable price (double it would still be decent), but normally they are heavily overpriced.

It's hard to compare different devices of course, but in terms of pure FLOPS (and benchmarks) is roughly the same as an AMD r280x, which costs 240$ and allows you to play video-games in between your work.

There is definitely a market for these cards I think, niche but it exists, however the normal price of >$2k is the old-fashioned "industry tax" (c.f. Tesla cards) and not a reflection of the actual performance.
Many times I want to program in C or try to debug some open source apps but I'm always reminded why I didn't touch C/C++ since high school: macros, #include, CONSTANTS, long_identifiers, ugly castings everywhere and cryptic function pointers with the dreaded clockwise spiral rule. I still wonder how the world would look like today if instead of C++ we would have had a C v2 binary compatible with C but with type safety, interfaces and syntax similar to Go, or even this c2lang.org.
Healthcare is under 12% GDP in Germany so a 20% tax on everyone is clearly not happening.
To expand on the other explanations, this can be:

T=[0],B=0,F=0,Z=0,D=0,i=0
The frequent (almost daily, sometimes more frequent than daily) updates are really impressive.
The problem, dang, is that some of the submissions here are generic submissions (health is a chronic topic here, because we all desire to be healthy), and not submissions based on a line-by-line reading of a few different sources to see which one is worthy of discussion here. A university press release about a small-n preliminary research finding rarely deserves more dismissal than noting it is a publicity puff piece about an unsettled conclusion.

We only discuss what's submitted here. The first filter that distorts reality here is what never gets submitted, because it is thoughtful and nuanced and takes too much thinking to read and discuss.
Is this really that extraordinary? I can buy a Samsung GT-E1200 candybar phone for $15 in Norway. Presumably similarly priced phones are sold in the US. That's a considerably nicer phone too, with a bigger screen and more features.
That was indeed the original purpose.
Plan 9 had Venti, which was indeed a content-addressable file system. But it was not the main file system for day-to-day use; it was intended to store backups only.

Btrfs is not content-addressable, although everything else you say about it is correct.
Well, smokers already pay more (e.g, 80% of the price of a pack in France is taxes, and many other countries have similar rates). Sugar taxes are also appearing in some countries.
I don't think it happens at the chip level.Chip fabs have pretty good respect for IP.
You stay classy, Uber
This technique helped me figure out http://stackoverflow.com/q/25671410/140937 in seconds. This is gold. Thank you!
Smokers and the obese cheaper to care for, study shows (2008)
>A prime example of Orwellian state in my opinion would be DPRK, or Cuba

Prime example would be all western states where the electorate votes against it's own interests.

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverte...
Sorry, but did you mean one-dimensional data represented in two dimensions, as in scalars represented through areas?
Well, you can get a cheap VPS in the US, or UK, or wherever the content is available, and run youtube-dl there. You can also use a proxy[1]. Unfortunately, I think socks proxies are not supported yet[1].

[1] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/documentation.html#d5

[2] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/402
Living in Brasov, Romania: price of MRI for a knee is around 400 Lei or around $110. Proportionate prices for others. Not sure but I think these might be the lowest prices in Europe. If you're desperate and your British NHS doctor doesn't agree then this is an answer though I suspect the doctor will then ignore the scan because it was not produced by the NHS (open to correction).
The problem is the same as why Freelancer, ODesk and the rest suck so much: majority of the good designers already have full-time jobs.

People who have valuable advice worth paying for are usually already being paid by their employer.
Is military force no longer the way to win wars?
Because then people use a competing browser that doesn't break the sites they use.
I am impressed how smooth many oft the demos run in Firefox for Android
A great paper to read if you find this talk interesting is this one about data-parallel algorithms that Steele co-authored with Daniel Hillis in 1986: http://uenics.evansville.edu/~mr56/ece757/DataParallelAlgori...
We bend time to make our world make sense
The best I've seen for advice online is https://clarity.fm/ which for the most part has a decently well curated list of experts.
But there's still a big difference between "stupid" because of the CEOs ideas and being an "asshole" though...
I agree. It's a consequence of the software being very volatile, having thousands of users and supporting so many sites. There's something to fix or to add every day.
I'm sure 30 is probably best achieved by putting a 5% GST-like tax on food and drinks that exceed a certain calorie, sugar or fat content. Making people get weighed for their taxes isn't exactly going to be logistically, morally or politically possible in the foreseeable future.
As far as 30 is concerned, we already make smokers and drinkers pay more taxes through the various huge taxes on cigarettes and alcohol directly (at least in my country). It's not so far fetched, and if it reduces obesity then it's a net good for society.
It's not the Internet that made the US or the UK act less free. It's enabling them to do things they wanted to but lacked the technology for.

Were this 1965 or 1970, and were the Internet deployed to the extent it is now, Hoover and or Nixon would be all over these same types of programs. The abuse would be rampant, the secrecy would be extreme. Echelon dates to the 1960s, but it wasn't capable of easily reaching into the pocket of every citizen; they lacked the technology to record everything, and to automatically sift through everything.

The sole difference between then and now, in terms of doing these programs, is the technology 40 years ago made it impossible.

What the modern Internet has exposed, is culture rot inside many countries. That rot has existed in the US for a very long time. You're merely seeing the military industrial complex laid bare; it has been there for 60+ years.

Rather than making the US or UK act less free, what the Internet is doing is showing you the rotten insides.
It happens. Usually, rewriting the code from scratch will produce a better version.
You are looking for the Dunning-Krunger effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
It was a very sad day for computing when Ritchie released this brain fart upon the world. I think this "invention" called spiral rule is one significant reason why so many good programmers who know or knew C at one point don't use C in their projects and will never contribute to open source projects written in C.
And those of us who continue doing athletics into our "Masters" years burden it with injuries. My broken leg in a Pole Vaulting accident and its subsequent rehab was not cheap for the health-care system.
Is there a plugin version of this program, which would dynamically change any (supported) flash video reference to an HTML5 video tag? That way I can get rid of flash completely.
When you convert audio from a lossy format to a lossy format (from YouTube's native AAC streams to MP3,) you always end up with worse quality than the original, regardless of the encoding settings. Since pretty much everything can play AAC, there's no point in converting it in the first place. Just remove --audio-format mp3, and you'll get an .m4a straight from YouTube with no conversion step.
The Bright Star During the Daytime – Supernova Explosion of 1054 AD
this. the trick is when u cant remember to stop there, and dont worry or force it, about 10 mins later the answer will come to u.
Have you seen 10eqs? http://www.10eqs.com/
I'm a little confused about the value proposition here. This is about 60 CPUs at 1GHz with little memory and low IPC. Price, before promotion, is $2k, and after, $250.

I can get an FX-9590 for $250, which has 8 cores, but running at 4.7GHz, and higher IPC. In terms of raw compute speed, it seems like the FX-9590 will be at least the same speed. But:

* I can use standard programming tools.

* I only distribute computes 8-ways, not 60-ways. That's easier.

* Anything which is not easily made parallel is much faster. My experience is that there tends to be a lot of that.

* I have less work to transfer data back and forth. For big data, that actually takes a fair bit of time.

When would the Phi be faster? When would I want to use it?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/15/w...
The iWatch feels like a very MVP to me.
startups can only work in london? what a bizarre claim
I use this to replace noisy audio on a smartphone recording of dancing lessons with a high-quality version from a youtube video, automatically: http://youtu.be/AVIHpaNQLS0
The main problem is, DCOP was explicit about it being a quick hack.

While DBus featured a huge amount of bombast from the day one while being really slow on useful things. I think they did not even have a proper console client a few years into development and some shipping.

"due to data validation and more "layers""

You can't really have data validation and proper layers without a spec. You just can't, it would be an annoyance instead of useful feature.
If one's calorie needs go down, one can reduce consumption, correct? Similarly, "increased appetite" is simply a desire to eat more - additionally, it's a signal that your mind can correctly dismiss once you know it's phony. Another choice is to do what people in 1989 did - not consume those pills.

I'm aware you don't like me. I make no effort to signal loyalty to the American "blue tribe" (c.f. Scott Alexander [1]). Further, I am willing to discuss inconvenient facts/questions and I oppose the fashionable anti-intellectualism that's pushing into the tech world. This angers people.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...
"11. Get a quick, binding divorce online."

If you google "divorce online" you get a shitload of links for existing services.
> However, there is only one place in the UK for starting a startup and that place is London.

But it's a small-ish country, with decent transport connections. Why not Manchester, with trains every 20 minutes to London when needed? [1] Or Bristol [2]. Cambridge has had startups for ages.

[1] http://traintimes.org.uk/london/manchester
[2] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/12/bristol-ba...
The protocol is ASCII-only, but strings are UTF-8, and then they talk about endianness?

That's not a modern message bus, that's a post-modern one.
There's an app for that in Colombia, works well.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.com.ceiba.c...
I don't know, if 1 is "well adjusted normal human being" and 10 is "Yudkowski", this guy is weird and creepy enough to be probably about a 6 or so.