skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're concentrating too much on a single specific problem instead of the concept overall. There are plenty of ways to have sane defaults for privacy that when people aren't happy about, they can then change. One of the simplest I can think of is to offload to facebook and/or G+. If they are a friend, they show as such, if they are a friend of a friend, they have a marker indicating that. If they are in one of your G+ groups (and maybe they require you be in one of theirs), then they show as such. Let companies with a vested interest in making it a useful interaction put some resources behind it.

Or maybe it's any one of a thousand other possible solutions, or capabilities. I'm really just trying to illuminate that when we are talking about something as far reaching as enhancing one of our senses with network information, and the unknown unknowns are enormous, I'm really just espousing a bit more caution before it's written off as useless, or a toy, or not worth the hype we've seen. I don't think we've seen a fraction of what's possible yet in this space.
My co-workers and I have contemplated that Amazon.com should purchase them, or create a partnership of some kind. I think Radio Shack is the ultimate destination for amazon.com lockers, they are everywhere, unlike 7-11's locations, and Radio Shack has tons of locations, they could make every-other location a Locker, and the ones which are not, they become Kiosks to help education elderly on online purchasing, and maybe introduce some specialized sale products at their store outlets.
Really? Bikes should always defer to hikers. If you can't stop quickly enough to do so, you're being reckless, since you then wouldn't be able to stop quickly enough to avoid an injured hiker on the trail or an obstacle, or my 73 year old mother.
What made you choose iOS first over Android? (Was it an arbitrary choice or one driven by data that more iOS users would be on board with this sort of project than Android users? Maybe something simpler like the developers had more iOS experience?)
Love Mailbirds, been having them from the very beginning. And now it's been much better. Love the interface and how easy it is to use. And it helps when you need to reply an email at home with no internet access.
It would be pretty funny if he had actually modified the web pages people view, especially considering the attendees. They would go to http://www.example.com/economy and see that everything is crashing, when in reality, everything is fine. It would send a stronger message, IMO. :)
Paramagnetic bonding sounds fascinating.

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-chemists-molecular-bond-white-d...
My company's solution - small teams of 4 to 6 people, each cluster separated from everyone else by 5 foot walls with whiteboards on them. Our development style is pretty collaborative, so we benefit from having teammates nearby to bounce ideas off of, but it isn't as siloed off as an individual office. Helps with sound, too.

I also really dislike being alone in an office, though.
Yes! The most valuable information is usually not the pure content but rather things that deviate from that. So contextual information, relationships between things, knowing what's important (the gist) and what's unclear. Especially the last part tends to be what at the end of the day gives new insights
Now my eyes are watering. Good job on the introduction video.
I find the article to be unfortunately meandering, but it contains an important question slightly more than half-way down: Why all the popular support for a Basic Income Guarantee rather than the arguably superior Job Guarantee (though the two ideas are not mutually exclusive)?

The author makes some frank points that BIG advocates should take to heart. This paragraph really hits home: Too many of the fantasies about a basic income guarantee seem to revolve around a tiny minority, like the individual who will write a great novel on his stipend. Let’s be real: the overwhelming majority of people who think they might like to write a book don’t have the self-displine to do so in the absence of external pressure. And that’s before you get to the question of whether it will turn out to be good enough for anyone but the author to want to read it.
It might be a bit difficult to send you an email without knowing your email! :D
> Cheap, non-committed workers.

Isn't that the case with 99% of retail? I'd think any executive that proposed paying retail workers a living wage with predictable hours would get fired as a traitor in the War on Employees.
There are thousands of pieces of software that hit a URL and attempt to do something useful with the contents. Just try linking to a page on your own site on Twitter and tail your logfiles to see all the interesting bots that show up.

A couple of examples off the top of my head:

If you link to a web page on Reddit, they run a simple crawler to try and extract an image they can use as a thumbnail representation: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/af09fa8dee69bef4f65a16...

If you link to a URL in Slack, they do something similar: https://api.slack.com/docs/unfurling
Also Awk has one of the best bite sized tutorial/references out there. Up there with Programming in Lua in terms of awesomeness per page count.

http://www.amazon.com/AWK-Programming-Language-Alfred-Aho/dp...
> "The Socratic position of accepting judicial punishment doesn't make sense if you have anything you want to do with your life other than making a political point."

More than that, it also doesn't hold water if you consider the possibility that sacrificing yourself isn't the best way to further your political goals.

Even if your cause is more important than everything else in your life combined, you should not allow yourself to be neutralized (jailed, or made to commit suicide) if it does not further your goal to a greater extent than anything else you could do. "Live to fight another day" is in full effect in nearly all situations.
Even if it supposedly works, it seems so artificial and counter to individual freedom and responsibility that it makes no sense whatsoever given the current US constitution and the principles the country was founded upon.

(yes, I understand there are a lot of things in place that fall under that umbrella)
This trend is quite old if you think about other means of transportation like the train:

- London Underground: 1863

- Paris Métro : 1900

But you're right about cars tunnels, the infamous Seattle project can also be mentioned
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Way_Viaduct_replacement...
Of course it does, Safari uses the resolver provided by OS X, which is mDNSResponder. (It superseded the stub resolver in libSystem.dylib starting with 10.6.)
It is cheap because it doesn't account for the hard part of building HSR: buying land, clearing legal hurdles, and indemnizing landowners. I would be happy to see Elon Musk come with a solution for that. We could use some creativity here.
There are no "homicide cases" in court. That might be term used by some cops to indicate a case involving a body, but even then it is ambiguous as cops often don't know whether the body was "killed" or whether they killed themselves. Homicide just means a killing by someone else (suicide is not homicide). State execution is also considered homicide even though there is no chargeable crime.

Actual crimes from homicide range from the various types of murder, manslaughter, felony-murder, Misdemeanor-manslaughter, negligence causing death, vehicular manslaughter ... and others I cannot remember off the top of my head.

I agree that weapons are a good thing to have but are far from necessary, especially when there aren't any (murder through neglect). Motives are equally unnecessary. Google "one-punch murder". You don't need a motive to be guilty, unless by motive you mean "mens rea", a very different concept.
I bet they came up with the strategy during disclosure.
Racing Game VS Real Life, Round Two
50% taxes for people earning less than 15000€/year ? Yes is a challenge... to survive.

I tried, I said "I'll stay here, I'll pay taxes, make money and resurrect this country", so they added +10% taxes, reduced the "low income reduction" from people earning 30 000/year (gross) to 15000/year (gross), increased the "retirement fund" costs from 24% to 29% (and will increase up to 33.7% in 3 years they said) so I ended up, in one year, from paying ~30% taxes (plus accountant, required in Italy), to ~45%, increasing to 49% in 3 years.

And NO ONE said here the worst part. I can't believe no one mentioned.

The first year you work (not employed), you have to pay taxes for the first year and THE YEAR AFTER, yes, you have understood it: 90% taxes first year, plus accountant.

Good bye, my beloved country. There are a lot of smart people, but I have no idea how to survive there.
You're correct. Go doesn't leave it entirely to discipline, since unused (or unhandled) variables are a compiler error. You can silence that error with _, but it sticks out to the eye as broken code.

However I'm not trying to argue that go gives you the same type safety guarantees that rust does, it doesn't.
This article appears to confuse guaranteed income (means-tested top-up) with basic income/basic income guarantee (which you get unconditionally)

One of the major criticisms made of Speenhamland (a means-tested top-up) is that pay was reduced because employers knew employees could claim it back via the state top-up. That could happen under guaranteed income, as it apparently does here, but is not relevant to basic income.

Wikipedia clearly points out this difference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income#Difference_from_g...

A very poor article.
sorry I thought it was in my profile, just added it :)
You are mistaken. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8896092
> Google claims that the app’s “word error rate” has been cut down to 8%.

How does Google know this? When i edit a query after speaking it at my phone Google doesn't seem to pick up on corrections in later searches. Or do they mean in internal tests?
Notes about the poll midway through the article:

- If you are single and beardless you cannot answer that you like beards. It sounds like the poll was designed only with male respondents in mind.

- If you are male in a gay relationship, more than one option may apply to you (eg. "Yes, I've got a beard myself" and "My partner has one and I like it"). The poll considers all the answers are mutually exclusive.
Which, incidentally, is almost certainly where the usage in Ender's Game comes from.

The author (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card) spent two years in Brazil on a religious mission, and there's multiple other Portuguese references in that book.

(This influence is even stronger in "Ender's Game"'s sequel, "Speaker for the Dead")
SMS-Based Recommendation Engine Cloe Aims to Outsmart Siri
It sounds like you care a lot about Bitcoin. Are you a speculator or a VC?
I found the happy medium when I designed our company's office layout.

I called it "Cave and Campfire" -- blending collaborative team rooms connected by sound-isolating glass and half-glass walls to a common area with standup tables and info radiators.

http://blog.aelogica.com/business/cave-and-campfire-our-cust...
Secure Your App’s Passwords with Safari AutoFill in iOS 8
Nearly three years of losses and sales at their lowest levels in decades had forced the electronics chain to turn to debt investors for financial lifelines to stay in business. Objections from some of those same lenders prevented the company from closing hundreds of stores it felt it needed to shut down to stay afloat.

Sounds like they want to asset-strip the business and only lent money in order to have more leverage than they would get by purchasing equity on the open market.
You just can't do it implicitl because the compiler can't distinguish Func<string> from Expr<Func<string>>.

But you can have a generic extension method that returns one of the types and then via inference you can do it implicitly typed.

It shoud be something like this in C# 5:

public static class Lamb
{
public static Func<T> da(this Func<T> f)
{
return f;
}
}

and then:

var egocentricFn = Lamb.da(() => "im a function");

I find it really useful not for Func's but for Expressions, as the type declarations can get pretty long.
What I would love is a fully-integrated browser extension that detects/fades/hides clickbaity headlines/links/articles, using something like Bayesian spam filtering. I know there's already a node.js package that worked with this concept (https://github.com/TJkrusinski/clickbait), but it would be great to have something that works like Adblocker on the various CSS classes where headlines usually lurk, something that would check all headlines instead of just some sort of blacklist for a few certain sites. Maybe it would include a crowdsourcing aspect, where users would, given two headlines, choose which one is more clickbaity, to train the system.
Well 5 is a bit boring, no? For me at least that would be filled with mail, browser, whatsapp, public transportation app and runtastic.
Beyond that: moon Reader, pocket, pocket casts, calculator++, Wikipedia
Researchers Propose Earth’s ‘Anthropocene’ Age Began with Fallout and Plastics
From the article: "Even though some readers call for a stipend to everyone, that simply is not going to happen, at least in terms of net results."

From Wikipedia: "The authorities at Speenhamland approved a means-tested sliding-scale of wage supplements in order to mitigate the worst effects of rural poverty. Families were paid extra to top up wages to a set level according to a table."

So... "basic income isn't going to happen, a priori, so I'm going to call the failure of this other system (that looks much more like what we're currently doing than like a basic income) a failure of basic income".
Here in Oregon, pedestrians and bicyclists are routinely run over by cars, buses, and light rail trains. Almost invariably without consequences. At least for the motorist; the bicyclist often suffers severe medical consequences.

Usually it's considered an "accident". The one thing you can't do is "hit and run", you must stop. The police aggressively investigate hit-and-run accidents.

There is no liability unless you are "negligent". So if you've been drinking and driving you could face both civil and criminal penalty.

And certainly you can be sued by whoever you hit. And maybe your insurance company will pay the pedestrian, but that's usually because it's cheaper to pay a few medical bills than to pay lawyers to continue to litigate. Cost-benefit analysis.
Original writing, for those who aren't interested in a book report version:

https://archive.org/details/rhythmicalessay00cartgoog
You're wrong. The laws Obama is planning to strike down are entirely reasonable; they prevent people from being _compelled_ to fund municipal broadband. That is, there is a difference between:

a) some people setting up a non-profit to offer broadband, provided by voluntary donations, sponsorship, whatever

and

b) local Government taxing people to offer same

The former is as I understand it entirely legal, and entirely compatible with a free market.
I'm perfectly happy with chopping down the patent law mess one large portion at a time if need be.

Trying to do it all at once is almost guaranteed to fail. In the present political environment it's usually better to start by taking legs out from the under the table one at a time.

The obvious solution is to exclude pharma from the patent legislation wars for now. Once a big portion of the economy is unhindered from patent trolls, then pharma can be re-examined.

If all that happened is that we free the radical majority of the economy from patent trolls, but were still left with pharma patents, then so be it, it'd still be a drastic improvement from where we're standing.
This largely goes away with http://boot-clj.com/ -- a much better build tool for clojurescript - includes live reload of clojurescript and css.
Sidewalk = pedestrian
Road = vehicle (car, bicycle, horse-drawn carriage)

If one crosses into the territory of the other without following a prescribed rule of law, who do you think should take responsibility?

In order for me to "drive into a pedestrian" I'd have to swing my car onto a crowded sidewalk, and unless a swarm of bees exits the car with me I'd have a hard time maintaining my innocence after that.
Radiation will eat you alive if you try that.
Theresa May on the proposed encryption ban
> Nobody seems to have a good answer for what RS should become to avoid shutting down.

Sell Teslas?

Make their own e-car and sell those? They have Tesla as an existence proof, so they don't have the risk that Tesla took. And they could probably license Tesla IP.

Maybe they could be the down market e-car. And with all those retail locations, maybe they could replace batteries, or charge batteries, or even swap out your whole car. "My battery's dead, gimme another car."
And if you want to mix them, you can try hy (http://docs.hylang.org/en/latest/): a lisp that compiles to the Python AST, allowing you to reuse every Python module under the sun.
Take a closer look at the enlarged fragment: https://tvori.info/jit/subpixel-resize/halos4x.png

What I am trying to avoid are the black rings around white-on-gray lines, which sharpening causes to images.

Oh, and your display _might_ try sharpening everything by itself, so you can't see any difference at 1:1 size :)
Striving for simplicity, arriving at complexity
It might be nice if your SO/parent/etc could get first priority, and then outsource if they are not available. That way couples could use the app for their own convenience too.
Yasheng Huang writes that China's economic system is not "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", as the CPC proclaims. It is in fact capitalism with Chinese characteristics, and this move offers further evidence.
Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence is a lot like this.
Great point. What I find interesting is that in the case of Socrates one may convincingly argue that the trade was, in fact, positive.
Why would they be removed? If the CA correctly follows all of their procedures and approves a domain-validated cert, why punish them for approving what is a legitimate request?

If the CA is coerced into issuing a cert, however, I agree with you.
Claims have to be backed with evidence.
What is 'it'? Where is it in the constitution? Why are we supposed to be constrained by founders' principles?
If you're interested in the idea of living off of open-source work you should check http://snowdrift.coop/
That is a very common confusion. Whenever I mention basic income and people say "That will never work, its been tried!" I ask them to explain what they think a basic income system would be like, and so far it is always some form of means tested supplemental income rather than just basic income.
If the guaranteed jobs are make-work or "bullshit" then it seems better to just give people money. But I agree with the article that there is plenty of work that could be done (like refreshing crumbling infrastructure) if there was political will to use deficit spending to pay for it.
Agree, 415 million seems like nothing for the amount of time this practice went on.
You probably meant "shread away the key", which brings us back :)
Go the Brookstone way? Did you see what happened to sharper image?

Their main asset was brand recognition, and a network of retail stores. But that network didn't fit with what they were selling anymore.

I think a good strategy would have been to spin off the brick and mortar business and focus almost exclusively on online sales of products targeted at the maker community Arduinos, 3D printers, etc.
Well, how could you prove that you were the one that inserted the value into the blockchain? If anyone can have the key, anyone could have inserted it.
Alright, so the majority of that is pretty ridiculous. Obviously drivers are looking out for any potential obstruction, and anyone whose head is not up their ass knows that much.

The point is, and this is the real crux of the issue, when you're traveling at the speeds that the automobile was invented, purchased, licensed, taxed, and the road was paved to support, you don't always have the ability to react to obstructions that come up suddenly, such as a pedestrian stepping off of a crowded sidewalk.

So what most people here seem to be arguing is, cars are inherently bad. Streets should always be crowded with people walking on foot, no matter the weather, because it is the only mode of transportation ordained by God and Steve Jobs, and to hell with peoples' want of freedom to travel in comfort on their own schedule.
One time I was about to jaywalk in downtown Portland Oregon. There was a policeman nearby. He said: "Sir, please don't jaywalk in front of me."

I guess that counts as a warning. I don't recall if I noticed him there before I stepped off the curb.
Would the creator(s) of Be My Eyes pitch in here and share their view of non-profit vs. for-profit? For instance, our company, Robin Labs, develops voice-driven solutions, technology that should be almost perfect for the visually impaired. We are willing to design a dedicated product that is just the right voice assistant for the blind if we can simply break even. We want to help, but cannot self-fund it entirely.
It doesn't seem so obscure after two people have made it in nearly identical lingo.

That said, I have no idea what it references.
Why assume the road is exclusively the domain of cars? That once again assumes the very setup it argues for.
Wow, bicycles look basically the same, and still ride out right in front of you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RvgfoXGTs#t=1m8s
I guess it comes down to economy of scale. Only a company at Google's scale can afford to budget AND monetize such a project which would make little sense at a smaller enterprise.
I thought the same thing until I read the entirety of the article. As others have pointed out, the DHS investigator Jared DerYeghiayan himself was convinced Mark Karpeles was Roberts as late as 2 months prior to Ulbricht's arrest (and admitted as much under cross-examination). It seems insane, almost far-fetched even, until you consider that DerYeghiayan even went as far as to draft a search warrant for Karpeles' email. If it wasn't at least plausible, any defense attorney who went down this road would be a fool.

Having sat on a jury before, I can guarantee you that this will have at least some impact on the decision. Even if you're convinced the defendant is guilty, the job of the jury is to act as finders of fact, and if sufficient doubt is raised to that end an acquittal is likely. The trial I sat on had a similar event unfold where the law enforcement involved completely screwed up and made some admissions during cross-examination that severely harmed reaching a guilty verdict.
Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything owned by user
yep, 'the tunnels where' in the last sentence seems like a typo
This argument can be applied to any transaction engaged in by people who are drunk or high or otherwise in a state of modified consciousness. Is it unethical to sell Cheetos because the buyer might be a stoner who is high and not in a state to give consent to the transaction?
I object to a job guarantee because I think people's time has value and I don't want it squandered on makework. While I think people can find important dignity in work, I think paying people to do things that aren't needed destroys that dignity.
Nice work! I had no idea about that rabiscoscopio tool, but it looks really neat.
That's a valuable refinement, thanks.

So when someone claims "These people should get paid more because they worked hard," they're making claims that not even Marx would endorse.
I'm glad to see someone else thinking along those same lines. Unlikely, but the possibilities in this case are hilariously endless.

The odd thing is that it does raise some suspicions with Mt. Gox, the bitcoin theft, Silk Road, etc. As moyix points out below[1], Karpeles apparently registered silkroadmarket.org.

It's a strange little world.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8896016