skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may have part of the answer. It makes the labor market freer. People talk about free markets, but the labor market cannot be free, you don't have the choice of not working, because then you can't afford to eat, and you die or steal. The minimum wage is an attempt to make the market less free by setting a price control, paired with welfare.

By having UBI the choice to participate in the labor market now exists. The market is more free.

It's not an inherently collectivist idea (socialism being extreme authoritarian collectivists). It's a collectivist libertarian idea (see the following link for history and moral philosophy): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism
Yes, root's shell should be one provided by the distribution's base install.

I think the biggest worry is that if you need to do something like boot into single user mode for an emergency recovery, and /usr or /usr/local (with root's shell in it) is on a different or unmountable partition then you will not be able to do anything.
Agreed :)

I tried to be constructive at the same time though
Agreed. I got so happy about the news that I didn't even check the API itself.
I think you may have the memory issue the wrong way round.

Human memory is built precisely around remembering geographic locations, human faces and images[1]. The 'have I seen this before feeling' you get is your brain trying to match the demo location to memories ( my conjecture anyway )

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
Perhaps if those tools aren't meeting your needs, you could run the Node interpreter in a sandbox, instead.
Surely you meant this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY
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Also the appropriate way of declaring what browser supports should be done through the Accept http header.
> as is the rest of Europe

This, as everything, wildly varies among European countries. There's plenty European countries where it's easier to start a business than in many a US state. There's also plenty where you don't even want to think about it (Serbia, anyone?). Don't forget that Europe has about as many countries as the US has states.
As others have pointed out, you'll need -- in this case. However, there's really no reason why youtube-dl should not detect this common problem (we also try to detect when users forget to quote URLs with ampersands). Update to youtube-dl 2014.11.23.1 or newer and try this again ;)

By the way, the GitHub issue tracker (https://yt-dl.org/bug ) is usually a better place to report issues. But just for youtube-dl reaching #1 on HN, I'll make an exception.
Actually, the majority of the weight would be in steel rope.

For one type [0], the safe limit is a tensile load of about 134-150 MN/m^2 (= MPa) [1]. At a density of 8 g/cm^3, the limiting length of a uniform cable is ~1.7 - 1.9 kilometers. If you have a stationary, suspended cable of this length, its own weight puts it at its maximum load; it can't lift anything else.

Steel rope on McMaster is around $10,000/ton [of rope]. So, these assumptions are a dead end.

You can't solve this by using shorter cables, because that decreases your energy capacity at the same rate. If you use cables of 1/10th the length (~100 m), you get only 1/10th the potential energy storage per ton. The cable thickness per lifted ton is constant.

[0] http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/wire-rope-strength-d_1518....

[1] The breaking limit of rope is far higher (~700 MPa), and the breaking limit of a single wire strand -- the tensile strength -- is higher still (1,770 MPa according to [2])

For the cross section area, I'm assuming a circular rope (not accurate).

[2] http://www.gabaswire.com/en/overview/grades-of-wire-rope.htm...
Thanks for sharing this. Just curious - in which cities have you guys been using Uber (if you've ever used it?).

I'm from Stockholm, Sweden and use Uber almost every week - I love it, and I wanna know if people from other cities also have this positive experience?
Why does it look like a Fracking drill? It looks like a Trojan horse.
> Granted, you can get the same in the UK for almost nothing until you actually make money

You don't have to pay any National Insurance contributions (employer or employee) until your salary is above £153 per week. Although that's below the minimum wage for full time employees, as a director you can pay yourself what you want.
what's this `cl` program ?
I looked at flex/air a year or so ago for the same requirements - ended up using Delphi. It was uncertain at the time whether flex/air would be around (it may be different now), also Delphi has a very mature 3rd party component market.
The trick is not to do it yourself, this is a complex enough problem that it's worth leaving to others to do if it really matters to you.

https://github.com/OpenDDRdotORG/OpenDDR-Resources
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This post has id=8647773. The comments share the same numeration, so assuming each post has ~10 comments there are ~800000 posts.

Algolia host the official api: https://hn.algolia.com/api (if you are going to scrape the site, remember to read the rate limit at the bottom)
"Liked"

6. Get somebody to come to my house, pick up my dry cleaning and drop it back off the next day (Amazon "Clean").

There's actually a new Swedish startup (I'm not a part of it) that does exactly this! https://twitter.com/LaundryOnlineSE

"LaundryOnline is a swedish startup created to make ur day more awesome by taking care of ur laundry. We pick up and deliver ur laundry fast and easy." Seems cool!
And Go by means of Limbo.
I think you comments violate the spirit, and maybe the rules, of HN -https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
It doesn't matter though, a photograph of a low contrast scene with a few blocky subjects would produce the same result.
Ugh thank you.

I got hung up for like ten minutes, before I realized it could also be written as "foldr f z = go", or "foldr f z elements = go elements"
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first world problems of somebody living in the silicon valley ?

sorry but most of those things either stems from politics or lack of market development.
According to the docs it formats them as "best" by default.

--audio-quality QUALITY

"best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", "opus", or "wav"; "best" by default
No one pointed out that it has a do-whatever-you-want license. This is the thing which bothers me most. There are gazillions of shitty youtube downloaders (paid, free and adware supported) out there that people still use and the code is being powered by the work of open source developers.
I love how many porn sites are supported by this
> youtube-dl -F OKbtC223e30
139 m4a audio only DASH audio 49k , audio@ 48k (22050Hz), 525.88KiB (worst)
171 webm audio only DASH audio 129k , audio@128k (44100Hz), 1.27MiB
140 m4a audio only DASH audio 129k , audio@128k (44100Hz), 1.36MiB
172 webm audio only DASH audio 176k , audio@256k (44100Hz), 1.78MiB
141 m4a audio only DASH audio 255k , audio@256k (44100Hz), 2.71MiB

Just use youtube-dl -f 141 to direct download just the audio from YouTube. I always use this to download songs.
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That's right, and on top of that you can create a limited company for a tiny fee with zero minimum capital requirements. The UK is pretty much ideal in that regard.

However, there is only one place in the UK for starting a startup and that place is London. Rent alone will cost you several times your Spanish social security contributions.
Direct demo link http://js1k.com/2014-dragons/demo/1951
I think maybe it could be an option in several years... right now, as Spanish, I think it's not the best place to launch your start-up by far. We could consider the political atmosphere too, next year is gonna be the president election and the country could be unable to be managed...
Or just dumb ideas.

Call the police from an app? Your phone is still a phone ...
> I have to strenuously disagree with you (respectfully, of course)

Try not to trip on those eggshells.
They just are what's being used in laboratories (or, at a larger scale, in industry) for keeping temperature. No need to evolve anything.

http://www.lauda.de/shop/en/temperiergerate/warme-und-kaltet...

Probably my family will complain if I bring the huge Lauda cooler/heater from the lab to the kitchen, though...
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At the base of typecasting/stereotyping is prejudice. If you prejudge someone as being 'a manager type' before they've done any actual, you know, management - then you are prejudicial in your approach. Just because someone doesn't wear a tie and conform to social normatives, does not mean they cannot do things "typically associated with" socially-constructed norms, or 'types'. This is the biggest problem with manager-culture today: that bigotry and prejudice is still very much a factor in human interaction.
I remain frustrated that world financial systems are unable to handle instant money transfers between institutions. There seems to me to be no good reason that I shouldn't be able to transfer money between my accounts without waiting until midnight for the funds to clear. Worse, the routine seems not to run on weekends. Why is this? Is power unavailable on Saturday night?
That's exactly the kind of approach that inhibits entrepreneurship. It's very hard to see hurdles which kill non existent companies by preventing them from ever happening. There are big risky steps that happen before it feels real. The easier these steps are, the more likely it is that people take them.

Red tape that would not be more than an annoyance to an existing company kills off new companies. Maybe to an individual with decades of entrepreneurship 10-20k for a lawyer to handle stuff and make decisions about things he doesn't understand is fine, but to an average joe thinking about starting a business that represents a year or more of savings.
Just wondering if anyone is still using it for new projects?
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I'm pretty sure this is to enable an acceptable level of fraud protection. Within some countries (UK) it is more or less instant most of the time.
The interesting bit is that in addition to scene graph engine, "QML" is actually two slightly different but overlapping things.

First - QML is a set of javascript bindings to manipulate the native Qt widgets. In this regard it's a bit like Delphi mixed with Smalltalk. You can build and rewrite the UI scenes, using javascript as just the glue language. The more logic is built into the native widgets, the less javascript code will be required for actual UI implementation. (QML requires QtScript, which builds on top of V8. So for random javascript code execution, it's reasonably fast.)

Second - QML is a declarative scene description language, not entirely unlike CSS. You can embed javascript code to handle dynamic UI updates, which is pretty neat for simple interfaces, and quite nice for prototyping. For anything which requires high frequency and reliable low latency, native widgets are still the way to go. Yes, you can write your own custom widgets; Qt 5.x provides proper development headers so extending the framework is easier than in 4.x days.

Technically the scene graph and QML parts are separate. There is quite a bit of history in how the implementations lived and diverged: from a single "declarative" engine to first integrating a scene graph backend, to eventually splitting the QML implementation(s) into their own higher level modules.

Disclosure: I had the privilege of working for very propeller-head style Nokia projects where we had direct exposure and visibility to how Qt evolved from its 4.7/4.8 form to the current, modular 5.x rewrite.
"Trivial" changes like that contributes substantially to making projects hard to read and understand. When there are no better alternatives, that may be warranted, but in this case there is an obvious alternative: Fix the libc implementations that are incompatible with glibc, and at the same time gain the benefit of helping other applications.

I wish more projects would take this line.

Autoconf is the devil. It's a symptom of how broken Unix-y environments have been, and how people were willing to impart a massive maintenance cost of countless application code bases instead of either pushing their vendors to getting things right, or agreeing on common compatibility layers.
Washio does this in SF as well (I've been a happy user)

12. Get a qualified guitar / piano / cello teacher to come to my house without randomly calling people on craigslist or doing general google searches.

13. Keep track of where everybody in my team is physically right now.

Both of these are possible with the right apps~
While -f 141 is of course perfectly fine, may I suggest -f bestaudio ? That should work fine for non-YouTube sites (soundcloud or so), and will get you a better version should YouTube one day add it. If you really prefer 141, you can also use -f 141/bestaudio to fall back to bestaudio if 141 is unavailable.
I'm not sure if "leeching copyrighted content" was the kind of motivation that Eric Raymond had in mind for future open source projects when he wrote Cathedral and the Bazaar.
To be fair a "OS" is a compilation of lots of components: kernel, user-land utilities, a user-facing graphical environment and associated tools. You know, the source behind the whole "GNU/Linux" affair.

This means that somewhere you have to draw the line.

Android has a Linux-kernel, but (from a user's point of view) shares near nothing with a "regular" GNU/Linux OS, so it's considered an OS of its own. Which I think most people will be fine with.

That Debian is a GNU/Linux OS should be beyond any debate.

Ubuntu is a plain Debian-derivate. Is it its own OS? It's "merely" added a prettier installer, pre-bundled some common firmware and added a new (different) login-manager and GUI shell (Unity) and tried to add some consistent themes on top of that?

Elementary OS is (as far as I know) based on Ubuntu. It's the same story, except this time they're not just changing the shell (Pantheon instead of Unity), they're also creating lots og new user-facing GUI applications consistent with their own design-guidelines to compliment it.

A user using elementary OS and just the pre-provided GUI-apps a no terminal, will only see components provided by elementary OS. A new OS or just a new GUI? If we accept the principles behind Android being its own OS, this should be too: A user sees nothing of the traditional Linux apps or Linux DEs.

If we don't accept elementary OS as its own OS, why don't we? And if so why do we accept Android as such? You have to draw the line somewhere, and I agree this is hard. But if we accept elementary OS as its own OS, how is this (once built) not?
YT videos lag a lot when I stream them directly in VLC 2.2.0, (`vlc <youtube link>`) and some protected videos don't play at all, so I often use this:

ytplay() { youtube-dl "$1" -o - | vlc - }

As a side benefit it of course also allows you to instantly watch stuff from all the other sites YT-DL supports :)
Not negative at all. It is actually quite accurate. I started up in Spain 5 years ago and was the worst decision ever. Never again.

For several reasons our venture failed and I was stuck with hundreds of thousands of € in debt w/o any protection, with me and my co-founders scared of losing our homes, and severely affecting our personal lives.

Spanish gov is specialist in showing a big smile in the pics that appear in the press, but the evil is in the details. When things go wrong you're alone. There's not legal protection for failed startuppers. Starting up in Spain w/o resources is extremely difficult, and can really mess up your life forever.

Looking back, I wish I had started with a LTD in UK, and working from Spain (yes, you can). It's what I'm doing next.

My 0.02
This may be of interest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_drilling_technologies
I suppose I'm just wishing for a society that would disapprove of political witchhunts the same way it disapproves of Eich's support of Prop 8.
1) Make everyone else do what I want, for free.
2) Discount the cost of other peoples investment (capital and social) to zero.
3) Never have things go wrong.
4) Magic.
But not by people who just left the developer teams of those products and can take advantage of IP in a similar way (at least in the majority of cases)
We used AIR for making graphical user interfaces on embedded devices. From a technical point of view I can only recommend it: AS3 is a good language, Flex and MXML are easy and straightforward to work with and there is good tooling included.

However the downside of AIR is really future-proofness: Thanks to bad publicity and the assumptions that all flash can be easily replaced by HTML5 the development of AIR is continuosly phased out. E.g. AIR for Linux (not Android) is already no longer supported. I don't know how active the development now is under the Apache umbrella.

Alternatives would be:
- Xamarin (.NET)
- QT (i enjoyed it less then AIR because you have to switch between C++ and Javascript whereas in AIR you can implement your whole app in a single language)
- use one of the HTML5 frameworks in combination with typescript (you will need quite a lot of JS libs to get what AIR brings you straight out of the box - but on the other hand you are more flexible to choose what suits your needs)
All of these score 1 on one of my favorite HN comments, the Yudkowski Ambition Scale[0]. That's OK, but it's a bit disappointing for a post that clearly tries to come off as visionary.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510702
With GPL, you only must distribute the source to those whom you distributed the binaries. Which means, Amazon isn't required to give back.

Besides, I don't remember examples of Amazon being nice - not that it doesn't happen but they don't communicate on it.
While it's easy to call emergency services by 911, it's more difficult to call, say, the local sheriff's office for something that's not an emergency especially when you're traveling. An app could help solve that and resolve the best non-emergency number for you in your current location.
6. Get somebody to come to my house, pick up my dry cleaning and drop it back off the next day (Amazon "Clean").

We do exactly that :) http://temizlikyolda.com/
Since 2008 the UK, the Faster Payments Service[1] on infrastructure run by Vocalink[2] enable bank-to-bank payments that usually clear in a couple of seconds. This should work 24/7, depending on the sending and receiving bank. Many banks will "soft post" the payment during the day in a mirror ledger, and then run overnight batch processes to "hard post".

Of course, their batches only run on business days. Because there's no-one around at the weekend to crank the handles on the machines...?

I'd expect to see Faster Payments rolled out in the US in the next 5-7 years.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_Payments_Service
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VocaLink
If this catches on everywhere we'll run out of gravity in no time.
"You can't solve this by using shorter cables, because that decreases your energy capacity at the same rate. If you use cables of 1/10th the length (~100 m), you get only 1/10th the potential energy storage per ton. The cable thickness per lifted ton is constant."

This is a simple "figure of merit" for cable in this problem,

cost / (length * load capacity (N))

The is the same as the cost / energy stored. The denominator is simply the work equation (distance * force) -- the mechanical work the cable can do before it runs out of length.

= cost / energy

This is actually sort-of constant, since the denominator is ~proportional to the cable volume. (The load capacity is ~ the cross sectional area d^2).

For steel rope from [0], it looks like a lower bound of about $1,200/kWh.

[0] http://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-wire-rope/=upui3o

(E.g. item "3440T68", 5/8" plain steel, $5.16/foot for 9,080 lbf lifting capacity;

$5.16 / (9,080 lbf * 1 foot) = $1,509/kWh)
> 31. Be able to get a $100 MRI. It can be done for this price.

> 32. Be able to get into an ER for under $100. It's ridicoulous that a mere 15 min consultation can cost somebody (the system) $1000+.

A good number are Silicon Valley (or US) problems, the $100 MRI is pretty much the cost of an MRI in Europe, but then, it's free for the patient. Same goes for the ER.
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You're right that none of these ideas are ambitious, but that's exactly the point. The list is "Things I still can't do in November 2014".
I found it a little bizarre too, e.g.

> 11. Get a quick, binding divorce online.

This makes absolutely no sense to me, in so many ways. Presumably a divorce should be a rare enough occurrence that doing it in person is not a burden?
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Yeah ok. I must've not had my coffee yet.
But presumably you'd need more than a day's worth of power to lift the damn thing? That's probably doable, but still, I suspect that'd be the main problem.
boring!

1. jetpack
2. real hoverboard
3. immortality
There are a number of modern Logo languages like NetLogo and so forth, and even older Logos were actually capable of quite a lot more than advertised (Color Logo for the TRS-80 Color Computer even included a chapter teaching recursion!)

The trouble is that little teaching with Logo ever goes that far, focusing on a very imperative simple base syntax to make the little turtle move around, and then promptly moves to some other language to teach actual structured programming.

A language needs people to grow up and keep using it to survive, and no one grew up just using Logo; they all moved to Basic or JavaScript or Python or Scheme. And since Logo doesn't do anything any other Lisp can't already do, there really wasn't much point with sticking with it.
I've installed youtube-dl via homebrew. How do I install these external sources?
Might be worth trying ALSA->JACK routing?

http://pastebin.com/iVAjZzTS
Some of those already exist, and some of those should never exist.
Think of the Icon as a planet, and your attention and focus as the sun .. only then will you find true nirvana. Daily.
If you don't want to install anything, just use http://savedeo.com for almost any video or http://auderio.com for Music from Youtube
Most of these revolve around non-tech industries having horrendously bad tech/web presence. Laundry, musicians, hospitals, government, banks- all of these are extremely traditional fields with many of them mired in incredible amounts of regulation.

Hospitals are particularly embarrassing- even just moving to electronic records is taking them over a decade and ~100 billion dollars to do. Many hospitals are still fighting the transition heavily despite every estimate I can find pointing to massive cost savings several times the initial expense. Unfortunately I suspect we'll all be waiting a long time for even basic conveniences like home blood drawings, let alone cheap MRI's.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/24/5/1103.long
An interesting excercise, make these four lists
Make four lists:

* Ideas that I thought wouldn't work but worked

* Ideas that I thought wouldn't work and didn't work

* Ideas that I think will work

* Ideas that I think will not work
You don't need to, as far as I'm aware. I think you can just request a supported URL, and it will download it automagically.
> A good number are Silicon Valley (or US) problems, the $100 MRI is pretty the cost of an MRI in Europe, but then, it's free for the patient. Same goes for the ER.

FWIW, while the patient-facing cost is about that, I think the actual cost (after accounting for taxes, charitable donations, the radiographer's time, etc) is quite a bit higher.
In this specific use-case wouldn't plain old content-negotiation/accept headers work?