skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what makes you so confident people wouldn't use universal income to be lazy? The default behavior of young people who have lots of free time is basically what college students do: drink and copulate haha. Lowest common denominator there would be plenty of people who would use it to be lazy.

Sure the ones with families now would spend more time with theirs, but the generations coming up it would have unintended effects I think.

Think about the invention of the internet. Sure some people use it to learn and connect meaningful. But what do most people use it for? Cat pictures, YouTube celebrities and Facebook stalking.
If I get pleasure from doing X, that is an objective fact.

If I value Y, that is an objective fact.

Anyway, I'm not going to present a full epistemological theory of objectivity in the comments of HN. That would be futile. If you want to know about it, you can go research it. I don't mind chatting about it, I'm just pointing out that you can't expect too much from me here. Generally, the most I try to do in an online philosophical discussion is get people to think (when I disagree with them), not try to prove something. It's just not possible to prove much without, like, writing a book.
> What's wrong with terraced housing?

It's less dense than apartments.

> In the UK, families with growing children have an aversion to flat living.

Maybe because of the abysmal quality and ridiculous size of most accommodations.

Brought to you by people that think carpet in a bathroom is acceptable.
When I see one clueless hiring manager or recruiter, I can easily shrug it off and move on. When I see everyone making the exact same bad decision (your experience is worth zero/negative unless it's exactly the tools we need), then I wonder if I picked the wrong career.

Fortunately, I only need one job, so if 99% of people doing hiring are clueless, I only need to find one who values my experience and ability.
> Engaged as a service provider or consultant by a larger corporate customer and not authorized to make product decisions yourself?

Then you won't be able to do scrum. You have a waterfall built into your development process: requirements and designs are generated and committed to on the customer side, then "fall down to" the consulting development team.

Scrum (or, really, any methodology that attempts to keep time constant by managing scope) is an iterated conversation between the people who want things, and the people who make things. If the people who want things aren't at the table, you can't have that conversation, and so you can't control scope. Period.
Sorry - a bit off-topic but...

Try "The Truth About Money with Ric Edelman": http://www.edelmanfinancial.com/radio

Listen over time and you get an education. You can also check out his books, explore his web site, and end up with a good idea of how to run your financial life yourself.

This is especially good for those in their 20s - start now by putting away modest amounts and you'll be rich by the time you're my age.

Also the "Video DownloadHelper" extension for FireFox will let you download these podcasts and others like them that don't offer a direct download option, so you're not stuck sitting there in real time.
Parsing Date in JavaScript
That, and also the one Rob does with his wife, http://zenfounder.com/

There is a lot of wisdom on family life as a bootstrapper. I also like it because it's a small window into the reality of things, rather than just the 'glossy version'.
Yes the cause and effect goes the other way, I just mean to reinforce that the added supply didn't move the needle.

Certainly prices would be higher if the buildings hadn't been built, but one wonders just how many buildings does one have to build to get prices to drop? Possibly it's an unrealistically high number.
Dorm Room Tycoon has lots of interviews with high profile people in the field of innovation, startups and design. Compact episodes, well prepared host and guests and interesting topics make this podcast a favourite of mine. - www.drt.fm
Ironically, nukes were a substitute technology for large armies. So they were also a cost reduction - for those "advanced" enough to join the nuke club.

Like it or lump it, the logic of MAD is still inescapable. It's a real-life Catch-22 that's led to a large scale peace.

Nukes are only useful if you don't use them but project the ability to use them. As Nash equilibria go...
Yet somehow I think promising not to spam again would not provide a path towards regaining access, post Periscope.
It's not a matter of coding 10X times faster than another coder. It's a matter of coding to not put yourself into common traps/pitfalls that waste your time trying to get out of. And also to make the correct decisions/strategies early in the project to put it on a track that uses the correct tools, libraries, etc. that won't waste your time later.

A junior developer is almost always a net negative on a team of developers as the other developers end up having to fix their code. (one doesn't hire junior devs for their productivity but instead to train them to the point where they're no longer a net negative).

If you extrapolate it further, there are developers that have so much diverse experience and think at a higher level than others that their time brings 10x time to the project than even other experienced developers.
Interestingly camlistore does that:

- First you create a "random" blob that has an identity (called a permanode), that you sign with your private key. It acts as an "anchor" you can link to.

- Then you sign a piece of json that references the permanode and the content you wish; it effectively means "I, owner of key XXX, claim that permanode called 12345 now references value ABCD".

- To get the content of a permanode, you search all modifications and merge them to obtain the final value
@raldi, "Interview with Alan Kay", 2012JUL10 ~ http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-wit... and another on ars that talks around this quote ~ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/parsin...
Far from as good and complete, and will never be as good and complete given the limitations of scripting vim.
Vim aficionados (like me) can use evil-mode in Emacs, to gain access to org-mode and keep the use of their existing editing knowledge.
I don't find SRS to be satirical in the least. Hateful, sometimes. Aggressive, frequently. Strongly biased? Their bias is spelled out in the subreddit name.

The reason they bubble to the top of so many news articles is because SRS' brand of equality is so strongly polarized in a way which makes for great soundbites. Want to know what's "wrong" with Reddit? Grab a headline out of SRS. Want a view on how to "improve" Reddit? Talk to a SRS moderator.

If you're looking for satire, check out /r/circlejerk/. They do a great job at finding what's so wrong with the posts that hit the front page and satirizing them.
ICTs: Power to the People?
Similar proposal for script tags
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/2013Feb...

This would avoid the inefficient situation we have at present, where the same jQuery script is fragmented across dozens of CDNs, causing a new request each time even when previous instances are already cached by the browser.
Don't you also need to at least verify the file matches the hash requested?
Architecture astronaut isn't a term for starting projects and not finishing them. It's a term for people who overengineer or overdesign their system.

Overengineering can lead to not finishing a project, but in the case of someone with ADHD that's unlikely to be the only issue.

Overengineering/Overdesigning isn't a problem I have, and is probably the single biggest thing I use to judge whether or not someone is a bad programmer, which is why what you said bothered me.
Do you have any backtest links that show a small cash position 'is an incredibly bad idea'?

A small cash position is another diversification strategy. As your portfolio increases in value, taking some profits to cash and then having it available on the dips may be perfectly valid. Buffet himself has called cash the never expiring call option.

EDIT

Schwabs CEO defends small cash position.

http://www.aboutschwab.com/press/statements/response-to-blog...
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It's greed really - everyone wants to hire 10x engineers, but it's not like you're going to pay them 10x of course.
Roderick on the Line: http://www.merlinmann.com/roderick/

A fantastic conversation into Music, Culture, the internet, people, life, San Francisco, Seattle and Super Train.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: http://designobserver.com/topic/designmatters/1039

Fantastic interviews with titans of the design industry.
Shameless plug:
Similar thing for GPU https://github.com/pannous/caffe-ocr
The Worst Internet Things
In fairness, Twitter's API endpoints for accessing followers/following have fair rate limits. (75k follower Twitter IDs every 15 minutes)

https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/friends/ids

This is probably the only fair endpoint that Twitter has in terms of rate limiting. Getting that scale of information via conventional scraping would be infeasable.
If you're going to post the argument, probably post both sides :)

http://www.aboutschwab.com/press/statements/response-to-blog...
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Ok, I did looked it up, and still can't find anything worth updating? Different keyboard layouts?

In the end of the day it's still a keyboard. You click the keys and it sends keycodes down a wire or using Bluteooth. What's there to update?
It's amazing how much harder a decent wysiwyg is to make in web technologies than you'd think. Content editable was supposed to get us there, but needs a ton of override. Grouping key and click events into actions the way youd expect ms word to function is again not easy!
Does company-mode completion not work for you?

> In case of rarely used languages, for example, Idris, Agda, etc, they often just don't work.

Really? My experience is that emacs had the only support for rarely used languages.

> It's definitely not mouse driven. AFAIK, everything can be done via keyboard.

What about selecting the android device to run an application on when you have multiple devices connected?
Wouldn't this be completely alleviated by placing each new connection into a queue, instead of rejecting it and telling the client to try again? Or am I reading this wrong?
This would pass as it is.

You may want to re-word this part. It makes sense as it is now, but it could sound better.

"Developed the entire application and deployed it to AWS.

Codes in JavaScript and Ruby on Rails."

I would write..

Developed the entire application primarily using Javascript and Ruby on Rails and deployed it to AWS.

That is just an opinion. Your first one would work as well.
But they are the gatekeepers for getting interviews and jobs. What does it say for the industry when most of the people who are evaluating candidates are computer illiterate?

That leads to stupid stuff like when someone is hiring for MS SQL Server 2014, and they say that experience in MS SQL 2000 or 2008 is worthless.
I've used and loved all the Microsoft ergonomic keyboards. Wired ones anyways. I've never had a problem with them and while I don't ever use any of the special keys or add ons.they don't distract or cause me issues ever.
…how about a new twist on an old partial plaintext recovery attack that can actually steal passwords in the wild, given a cute name and a logo, being demonstrated in 11 days at Black Hat Asia 2015? I think that might help speed things along a bit.

https://www.blackhat.com/asia-15/briefings.html#bar-mitzva-a...

If you're managing a system, do what the RFC said: turn off RC4 on all the servers and clients. You were warned!
Wouldn't the best (and coincidentally simplest) way be to synthesize the double-precision word by combining a random integer exponent, a random integer mantissa, and a random sign bit? You'd need to account for the logarithmic distribution of the exponent, but that seems like the biggest complication.

I don't understand the debate about rounding. What does it mean to round a random number? If the rounding process is biased, the number will be less random as a result, so you shouldn't have rounded it. If the process isn't biased, the number will be no more or less randomly-distributed than it was before, so there was no point in rounding it.
http://risky.biz/
Focused on security
Dan Carlin Hardcore History - Very long episodes covering history in detail. Dan is a very enjoyable story teller.

Common Sense with Dan Carlin - Episodes covering recent events. The host is opinionated, but very interesting.

Skeptic's Guide to the Universe - this podcast covers science, but mostly is about combating pseudoscience in society. The hosts can seem dismissive, but I agree with them, so I like it.

EconTalk - I'd say some of these are a step above pop Econ. The variety and high stature (some Nobel laureates) of the guests is impressive.

StarTalk - NGT, what else is there to say. I like the comedians he has on as cohosts too.

Stuff You Missed In History Class - less in depth than hardcore history above, but also more easily consumed.

How To Start a Startup - good advice on startups. This is one you listen to over and over again.

Startup - this one doesn't have a lot of specific advice on starting a startup, but is interesting nonetheless.

Lexicon Valley -Etymology of different a words and phrases. Good hosts.

I Love Marketing - covers direct response marketing. The hosts can seem self serving, but the early episodes are very informative.
Lev Landau used to rate physicists on a log_10 scale, so the idea extends to (and perhaps started with?) physics.

EDIT: grammar
The lack of home/end and pageUp/pageDown keys has always made me cringe. Yes, I know you can remap.
Lots of great stuff here already, here are a few things which I don't think I saw.

Music:
-All Songs Considered http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/
-KEXP Presents Music That Matters http://feeds.kexp.org/kexp/musicthatmatters
-The Noise Pop podcast ww2.kqed.org/arts/affiliates/noise-pop/

Funny:
-The Bugle (highly recommend) http://thebuglepodcast.com/

Tech:
-Bad Voltage http://www.badvoltage.org/
-Innovation Hub (Hidden gem) http://www.pri.org/programs/innovation-hub
-New Tech City http://www.wnyc.org/shows/newtechcity/
-Tech Weekly http://www.theguardian.com/technology/series/techweekly

News & Politics:
-The World Next Week (Hidden Gem) http://www.cfr.org/publication/by_type/podcast.html
-On the Media (Fantastic) http://www.onthemedia.org/
-Canadaland (it's about Canada) http://canadalandshow.com/
-DeCodeDC http://www.decodedc.com/
-The Economist All Audio (really good) http://www.economist.com/audio-edition
-Inside CFR (super dry, but really good analysis) http://www.cfr.org/about/rss/podcast.html
-Money Talking http://www.wnyc.org/shows/moneytalking/
-The New Yorker the Political Scene Podcast http://www.newyorker.com/podcasts
-Politics Weekly (UK) www.theguardian.com/politics/series/politicsweekly
-What The Papers Say (very enjoyable) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sgy8c

Other?
-Death, Sex & Money http://www.wnyc.org/shows/deathsexmoney/
-From Scratch http://www.npr.org/series/126166186/from-scratch
-The Business (the 1st 5 min. of each show are great, then it gets lame) http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/the-business
-The New Yorker Out Loud http://www.newyorker.com/podcasts
-StoryCorps (Warning it may make you a bit teary eyed) http://storycorps.org/podcast/
-Science Weekly www.theguardian.com/science/series/science
I made a couple of apps now in Material design, but I must say it is hard to maintain some form of unique identity. It's hard to not just be 'skinning' and come up with interesting ways of display UI elements and data.
Unfortunately you are right. But the people who you speak of, who are without any platform or privilege, are not reading my comment on Hacker News today.
The bigger issue is that if there was no punishment, everyone else would now be trying to use the same tactics Meerkat did in order to spam people and obtain growth, which does result in a negative Twitter experience in the long run.

Startups will probably still try to do it anyways, though.
SHA1 checksums are fine for content that is immutable (doesn’t change) - but what about a file whose content changes with time?

I think we've been doing some very silly things with data over the last few decades related to the UPDATE statement.

Why not just consider all published data immutable? Look at book publishing as an analogy. There are multiple printings of a book. If there were corrections or updates they don't retroactively affect the previous printings. Why can't we look at data that is published on the Internet is the same manner?

If you want to update something you'll have to publish a brand new version. This also mirrors versioning in software libraries.

CRDTs, immutable data structures, eventually consistent data... from UI programming to big data, these are more than just eternally recurring trends. We're learning some very lasting things about how computers should deal with data.
Everything about the Dell Axim was awesome. I miss mine a lot.
I'm all for emulating good design but I feel like these guys are blatantly ripping of Product Hunt [1], right down to the last detail. Everything from the daily aggregation concept and the flyout preview to the presentation of the likes as avatars.

[1] http://producthunt.com
A brief overview of the various types of Work Visas
Agreed. The minute they quoted somebody from SRS, this whole article lost credibility.
Ask HN: How does data drive innovation at your company?
I love to write code. And it's about 20% of my job. As an engineer, I spend most of my time in design (and meetings). The code is the fun, relaxing part.

Many times, I don't even write code; I "review" code. We have "grunts" (younger programmers, usually) who pump out code all day. They're are involved in design too, of course. But in a very limited way.

But you know, I think all of this comes with age. If you 22 years old, fresh out of school, you are going to be writing code all day. And that's how it should be, You need to cut-your-teeth.

Also, one last thought, just being a [overly] productive programmer doesn't make you a good programmer. I'd rather someone take there time, be comfortable and get it right.

But I have met that rare bird, who is confortable writing code 18 hours a day.
If you liked this, then you'll like the associated blog:

http://programmingisterrible.com/
Completely ridiculous conclusions based the information provided. Even if the standard diet were quantity restricted, it does not indicated the amounts actually ingested by each fly group. Timing as the sole controlled factor for an actual scientific experiment, requires that each group ingests the same amount. As such, the amount should be no more than that which can be ingested in a 12 hour period. To relate the finding to circadian rhythm, the timing should be varied based on normal sleep patterns.
This Week in Science 15/03/15: Anti-Aging Drugs,  Transplants, and More
How the Potato Changed the World (2011)
My guess it's a proportionally low number. I looked into matlisp when I did my PhD in scientific computing - none of the other people I worked with had any interest in it. I couldn't pursue it since I would have to reimplement or interface each and every library myself, a workload I couldn't justify at the time.

So, although lisp might have been great, in the end I stayed with Python/C++. Guess I'm not the only one with similar experiences.
Hey, we are a french tiny start up making softwares to help doctors healing cancer (Currently in developpement but experimented in public hospitals).

If you don't know what to do with them : they can help us fighting that damn cancer.
Tell me if you are interested i'll give you a way to contact me :).
in my home of Vancouver the construction of towers has been constant for decades and prices have only skyrocketed in response.

My friends in Vancouver have told me that many of the modern buildings only have something like a 35% year-round occupancy rate, and that they're largely owned by foreigners as summer homes.
Yes, in prior jobs I've seen the extraverts and manipulators win, by use of their charisma over technical facts. Most engineers aren't like that, but a few are, and we try not to hire them.

It helps to have technical management, who are able to understand all sides of a technical argument, regardless of how those sides were presented. It also helps to have staff who all can communicate effectively, at least at some basic level.

Tyranny of Structurelessness is great. But I'd like to see a more focused analysis of tech culture and its failings.
Revenue model of Diaspora, needs comments
Hello guys,

I'd like to know your opinion about a model I wrote, it's about how a decentralized social network could be built and generate revenue. The model is applicable to Diaspora and all the other decentralized FLO networks.

My model is based on the experience of several industries to generate revenue using trust. I believe that there is a cross-point between 3 industries: the social media decentralization, the P2P commerce and the content monetization and they will grow exponentially if they shake hands.

Here is the model I wrote, it consists of 3 parts:

1. A whole decentralization roadmap:
http://decentralizedmodel.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/the-decentralization-roadmap/

Please let me know what do you think about the milestones I propose. I tried to be concise explaining them.

2. Lean Canvas about some of the core modules I observe: http://decentralizedmodel.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/my-social-media-decentralization-core-via-lean-canvas/

3. Some predictions how Facebook will evolve, accepting the models of social media decentralization:

http://decentralizedmodel.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/what-facebook-would-look-like-when-the-social-medias-decentralize/

I'll be really happy to read your feedback.

Here is our discussion in the Diaspora discussion forum about the same ideas:

https://www.loomio.org/d/Pd3ec8nu/revenue-model-for-diaspora-and-all-decentralized-social-networks
A great article, and very true as MemSQL (w2011) just announced its own real-time Geospatial capabilities: http://blog.memsql.com/geospatial-intelligence/
As far as I know Yudkowsky still treats it, or at least something 'near it in idea-space' very seriously.

It's not in the past.
The clue's here:

> What is the `uniform' distribution we want, anyway? It is obviously not the uniform discrete distribution on the finite set of floating-point numbers in [0, 1] -- that would be silly. For our `uniform' distribution, we would like to imagine[*] drawing a real number in [0, 1] uniformly at random, and then choosing the nearest floating-point number to it.

Because of the logarithmic representation, there are as many floating point numbers between .25 and .5 as there are between .5 and 1. If you uniformly sample numbers with an exact, finite floating point representation then you don't get something that 'looks like' a uniform distribution of real numbers in [0, 1] -- which is more likely what was wanted.
There are plenty of apps that include alternate themes for night-mode and AMOLED screens. There is nothing in MD that dictates usage of a light theme.
True, and admittedly "scrum" has become the "kleenex" and "xerox" of the agile world. Fair point.
There's an extended interview with the author at http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2015/01/episode-96-ultima-rati...

Been a while since I listened to it, but I'm pretty sure DF gets a mention or two in there..
The fact that the lines are as long as they are has everything to do with security theater.