skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easy-to-use already exists, it's getting it at a reasonable cost that's missing. ArtCAM, for instance, will gladly sell you something in the automobile-priced, dongle-secured range, that can handle all of the toolpath calculations, tool swaps, etc. (so you don't need to be a machinist to understand what's going to break and what's going to burn, etc.) But if you need $10K software to turn a model into instructions for your $2K mill, there's a bit of a prohibitive imbalance there from a hobbyist's perspective.
Learning Job Interview Skills from Actors
We Need Algorithmic Angels
> You could argue that some language like Lisp requires the same, but the problem is that Lisp is just a language, Pharo is a lot more than that.

Actually Lisp is so much more.

Lisp is a whole family of programming languages and its implementations. From Lisps on tiny micro-controllers, PCs, servers, to supercomputers. From simple interpreters to highly optimizing whole-program compilers.

Pharo is just one particular implementation of the programming language Smalltalk.
Thanks - vanderZwan provided a curated list of pubmed articles elsewhere that directly answered my original skeptical request.
What Great Artists Need: Solitude
> What does it mean to act like a woman? You think you know. Name a behavior, I guarantee I can name a woman who does not engage in said behavior.

There is no set of "woman behaviors". If you want me to make a wild guess at a sweeping generalization for which there will be endless counter-examples, then here is my answer: Women in general are more risk-averse than men in general. This is the most logical explanation I have encountered for why both the world's leadership and the world's prisons are populated primarily by men.

> And yet the lesson you draw from this experience is that children should be taught to respond violently to a bully?

Not at all. From my experiences with bullies, the lesson I draw is that children should be taught that there is a time for violence, and they should be taught how to decide when it's time to take violent action against a bully. The mechanics of such an education are certainly non-trivial. If you tell a 5-year-old that "violence is okay", then you have failed. I expect that to properly educate a child in this area would require most of the childhood and into early adulthood. So it's not an easy task. If you want to tell your child that "violence is wrong", as one of those temporary lies that we have to tell our children because they don't yet have the brain capacity or life experience to understand the truth, then that's fine. But it seems like we have a majority of parents who go with the convenient lie and fail to follow up. I think that if the population were properly educated on this topic, the overwhelming majority would never encounter a situation over the course of their entire life where they chose violence.
See also "Solitude and Leadership:" https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/
Not a movie, but a book: The Commonwealth Saga. It paints mostly a pretty picture of the human race.
Would be nice to have a 'Suggest an app' feature on the site.
Why not contribute to F-Droid, rather than 'reinvent the wheel?' https://f-droid.org/contribute/

Your site looks great and I don't mean to take anything away from it, but when I see something like this I think of it as merely an art project, something I might see on Dribbble. I would never download APKs from here for example, but have no problem trusting F-Droid's APKs.
The problem with philosophy is that it seems to make progress only very slowly. As an outsider, it seems that their fundamental questions are still at the same level as those of Socrates and Plato. It would have been nice if this article had addressed this issue. For instance, by discussing what are the most important insights of the last decade.
> For half your life or less, in the west.

Due to the economic downturns of recent decades and some poor decisions, both my parents, and at least a half dozen other 50-60+ people I know will never be retiring because they have no personal retirement funds left, due to having spent them all due to cost of living increases, job insecurity, medical expenses (hahaha USA) forcing them to consume their IRAs, where both had 15+ year single-position careers, but got 401Ks instead of pensions.

Its only going to get worse for newer generations.

> studying or living on welfare will steadily increase

But thats not what is happening. It is an outlier and a corruption of the current political paradigms (again, US) to be able to break out of wage slavery. Social Security Disability is, if anything, a necessary evil for the rich and powerful to somehow avoid 40%+ unemployment overnight. But it is a horribly broken and wrong system to have. Same with all the other benefits programs. In reality many people are working 2+ dead end jobs, and cannot retire at all, almost exclusively due to a lack of connections or social wit to get on welfare programs or into cushy jobs.

We should have a UBI, one that is tied to the real growth of automation and technological efficiency, that can start however low it needs to be (look at the Alaskan oil dividend) and as we automate more (and thus put more and more means of production ownership in fewer and fewer hands) the benefits can actually uplift society.

Good luck ever passing that, even in the most socialist European countries like Sweden. There is just too much profit in keeping 90% of the first world population on a downward spiral of insecurity and desperation.
Apple just bought a forest 2.5 times the size of Manhattan
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But he's not asking the man to get a high paying job. He's wondering why he can't get a low paying job and rent out a cheap room. This man is single, young, and otherwise healthy with no dependents. In that situation it is certainly possible to live off minimum wage.
If you want to be (unnecessarily) pedantic, I never said what the frequency of the compounding was.

I didn't realize we were trying to come up with a realistic model of expected utility in these three fields.

If you don't want to believe that work put into these can compound over a person's life, thats fine. You're wrong, but that's ok. -- just don't pretend to pick it apart by applying math to an informal discussion.
The bottleneck in basic research is not employees - we already have too many of them - and we're already starting to automate lots of the research work,both the manual one(robotics in biology), and the mental one(lots of the data analysis in many scientific disciplines could-be/is automated).
The "deserving homeless" are generally able to take advantage of resources that are available, like shelters, soup kitchens, etc.

Although I hate that term, because it's bad enough that we're already divided by class in this country, and now we have to impose our own classes on the homeless?
This doesn't sound very well thought-through.

Where will this income come from?
Who will determine it?
Who will distribute it?
How will it be regulated?
What if other nations don't do the same? How does that impact immigration policy?
What will be done to address current outstanding national debts? Income tax is the US's primary tax revenue source.
How will this account for cost of living (e.g., NY vs WV)? Do we need a basic rent, too?
Who will determine that cost of living?

The questions go on.

On the whole, this sounds like just a more comfortable form of serfdom.
"Come on Eric, you've had your lunch"

https://www.youtu.be/qf_BR1StMxQ

Sorry
I agree with your problem with the phrase "legitimate researcher". I'm usually supportive of the EFFs position on most issues, but sending a Tweet like this guy did was pretty dumb. Even the disruption from a "overreaction" is a problem.

Also, the gateway between the aircraft safety systems and the CANBUS is one-way. The worst he could have done is shutdown the In-Flight Entertainment system, and inconvenienced a bunch of passengers.

I'm not saying that the possibility of security flaw isn't there, only that this CANBUS issue isn't it.

A legitimate researcher would arrange a ground test, or even a test flight, and not experiment on an airliner with passengers. They can do "hardware in the loop" tests on the ground, with minimal risks. The FAA are actually involved in requesting security assessments on airline systems with safety implications.

IMHO This guy come very close to crossing the line of "interfering with the safety of an airliner" when he conducted previous tests, and that is most certainly is illegal. People have gone to prison for less.

The EFF should be pushing for further evaluation of the actual issues, whatever they may be, in an appropriate manner. If Boeing/Airbus blow off the EFF, push back harder.

A well trained crew can operate a 737 quite safely using the Standby Flight Instruments for an emergency landing, even if some sort of compromise shut down the primary Flight Management System and Primary Flight Displays.

I happen to know several computer programmers/security researchers who are also test pilots. More than one called the CANBUS risks "inconvenience" and not safety of flight.
Did you read TFA? it ends with: “I’ve become a professional vagabond, and this is the lifestyle that I love.”
Did he re-write a swift compiler?? Or is there a way in swift to compile a string?
That may be so. It's a weird stance to take, though. CL has as little in common with McCarthy's Lisp as any of the other variations that descend from McCarthy's Lisp. So at this point it's just a name, and I'm not sure what's to be gained even if CL somehow got everyone to agree they had sole ownership of the name.
Do you mean OS X 10.10.3?
What I take away from this is that despite a totally open and visible accounting system (the blockchain) it is still possible to hide transactions - no wonder we have been stuffed preventing tax evasion.
Work:

OS: Windows 7+, Windows Server 2008+

Hardware: Consistently 4+ workstations and dev servers with varying specifications.

Tools: SQL Server 2008+, Visual Studio 2012 with tweaked VsVim. Powershell, Vim and Cygwin.

I work in BI consulting, so dev environments and workstations change with clients.

Home:

OS: Arch Linux

Hardware: 2008 Sony Vaio (Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz, 4G RAM, not as bad as it sounds - I have no reason to update this machine until the RAM goes).

I don't really do development at home - just trying to learn "real" programming. Vim, playing in Python, Lisps (Scheme and Common), and Haskell currently.
I wouldn't say 'definitely'. I think it's actually quite likely. Some reports have already surfaced of this. Some reports have surfaced about their reporting obligations. Both because they're controversial. i.e. the fungibility of bitcoins is very important for many reasons. The moment we have 'tarred' bitcoins, we get different bitcoins with different histories, and with different values. So a stolen $1 is suddenly worth $0.50, forever, because it's got a blockchain history associated with theft. That is not a workable long-term system, so it has received a lot of backlash from the community, which is why these stories usually get out.

And it's known that many companies do a lot of analysis and tracking and have lists, so the biggest bitcoin company in the world for example (close to half a billion valuation), Coinbase, is known to close down and flag accounts who's bitcoins have been traced to e.g. relatively innocuous sports gambling websites, because of its compliance obligations.

So the notion of black lists is not unlikely. What is unlikely is that (without gov. pressure), they will be eager to employ them. Again, fungibility gets destroyed and bitcoin takes a big hit, might not be workable that way. And two, they cut into their own business to block customers. And three, institutions blocking blacklisted coins goes against the privacy spirit and non-reliance on 3rd party permission of bitcoin, which is something that makes you popular.

It also appears government hasn't asked for this yet and that they prioritise innovation and rapid growth over implementing crushing regulations in a tiny ecosystem. But that might change. Although if this happens (government requiring black lists etc) I think it's more likely that exchanges will get extra reporting duties, allow the sale of bitcoins, and that banks will be the ones freezing the fiat accounts. That'll give the government easily seizable assets, and proof of laundering, yet allows the bitcoin ecosystem to continue on as usual.
And if people do not need to seek employment as much to survive, a lot of people do not realize the state subsidizes huge swathes of employment disciplines (obviously educational, medical, scientific, etc - but they also use tax code and tax deductions and exceptions to influence the transportation, service, agricultural, and resource extraction industries hugely, among many others - almost all of them) with the intent to either control markets or artificially prop up slow and inefficient protocols to get people jobs. That is what almost every "jobs" bill has ended up being for fifty years - creating artificial circumstance necessitating workers where naturally there would not be any.

Truly, we do not know exactly how much we could save by implementing a UBI, and then realizing we can dismantle the tax hell at all levels to account for the economic freedom it provides. Suddenly price fixing corn syrup to make cheap junk food to fit on food stamps matters less when you can peg individual base income to the entire economies prosperity - ie, the redirected effort keeping coin syrup cheap could be put to whatever naturally more productive use the economy would normally move it towards, and the growth benefits just boost the UBI.
Here's another comment to downvote for all you haters.

Any explanation for why?
Competition is contribution.

The relationship between LLVM and GCC is an example for this aphorism.
What is the use case for such a classifier?
Layout is great;
Let me try to show you my point of view. I see a link on Hacker News about a new database. Now I think there is someone who is serious about developing a database and is confident enough about his work to present it to the public and to this forum in particular. I naturally expect that author has a good understanding of database systems because I think he will have researched the topic before he started building something new. And there is really a lot of literature on databases.

The dominant standard, the relational model now often more or less synonymous with SQL, is 45 years old, the first »modern« database systems are more than 50 years old like IDS [1] released in 1964. But even those are usually referred to as 3rd generation systems with a decade or so of development on their back. And if you want to you could go even further back, at least as far as 1884, 130 years, and the Hollerith machines which are at the roots of IBM.

And with this expectation I looked at your project and found something that is probably the most convoluted ways to implement an database that I have seen. Really, don't take it personal, but there is not much that resembles a usual database system design and there is nothing where I honestly could have said that it is a nice idea but it could be improved by doing this or that. I could have suggested to read the Wikipedia article on databases [2] and work from there, but would this really have sounded less rude?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Data_Store

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database
A long time ago, in a Galaxy far, far away =\

Star Trek much more so. Post-scarcity, post-currency, where citizens participate in Starfleet not out of need but out of a sense of duty.
I remember making LED circuits and small wheeled robots from kits. Was it Heath or something like a Graymark catalog? I can't recall the name.
This is - as a personal, opt-in debugging tool something I have dreamt if for some time. However, I'm curious what horrendous implications you see there. Could you explain?
I know, it's a side project to learn Symfony 2.
I love F-Droid project so i made this web app, I've contacted the authors of F-droid before doing this.
Thanks :)
> I encourage Buzzfeed to put up a paywall. They will find out quickly how little people value their low quality content

Has it occured to you that people reading Buzzfeed probably don't have the money to subscribe to any media in general and are probably more interested in Buzzfeed than the NYT or The Economist? Some people enjoy Buzzfeed and the fact that it's free, nothing wrong with that.
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Don't underestimate philosophy's power to change the world. Marx's critique of capitalism had a dramatic effect, for example.
I have read the article. Nowhere does it claim that the reason for this is that FM is simply "old". They believe that DAB is better for particular reasons - choice, they want to reclaim the bandwidth etc. You disagree with that, but it has nothing to do with simply the age of FM.

Nobody has argued that the reason they want to replace FM is that it is old. So why challenge that argument?
The "choice" to accept credit cards is kind of like the "choice" to have adequate parking -- if you don't do it, no matter how good you are, you're not going to be able to compete (in most parts of the country). Consumers expect to be able to use cards these days, many people don't carry any cash anymore. Every typical storefront is expected to accept cards and your shop won't get traffic if you don't, just like it won't get traffic (again, in most parts of the country) if you expect your customers to park a mile away and walk.

This whole line of argument is kind of a red herring anyway. It's OK to discuss things we do or don't like about something without it becoming a "take it or leave it" situation. "Take it or leave it" is meant to shut down an discussion that the party pushing that line doesn't want to happen. I never asserted that the force of law compelled anyone to accept credit cards, so it should be obvious that it's "optional", right? Why can't we talk about the problems, real or perceived, with chargeoffs, mikeash?
FM radio also consumes finite and expensive bandwidth. The difference is that it consumes it at 100% utilization 24/7, rather than using it intelligently. The reason there's no extra cost as you add users is simply because you're paying the full cost for all potential users from day one.

Even consuming "linear radio" over a data connection has a substantial benefit over something like FM broadcast, namely that you can support far more variety in the same area. FM is limited to, what, a few dozen channels in a single urban area? Maybe a couple hundred if you add HD radio? Streaming over a data connection can support hundreds of thousands of different stations, instead of forcing people to choose from twenty examples of the least common denominator.
I've tested my R7000 router and MacBook Pro up to ~900Mbps, which is just as good as Ethernet (within 10-15Mbps).

Both MG and N BaseT support 2.5G and 5G, not sure why there are 2...
As a (lazy) research student who is always playing with data I really like the idea of being able to run a few queries in a graphical interface without the hassle of setting up a proper database, and the interface looks perfect for that. I can't exactly afford it right now but I'll definitely buy a license when I get on the job market.

As for feedback the only thing I can say is that you should maybe look into marketing your software to research labs, as they/we spend a lot of time probing data and a lot of them are not proficient in anything but Excel. Or they are, but are too lazy to use anything else (like myself :)).
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You mean the Easy++ problem? The solution isn't very different from the solution to Easy (i.e. the original problem); it just takes longer to run.

For the Hard problem, you're on your own.

The wording is very careful :-)
See my other comment [1], I don't think I could have done it much better.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9403780
This could easily be the case for software engineers too, if we didn't abdicate the power to judge competency to employers and vendor certifications.
People literally scream UBI in these threads nowadays. Every time it comes up someone does way too much work disproving the arguments about "its too expensive" or "its not enough" and then they shut up until the next batch of naysayers comes along.

Discussion is important, but really, this is starting to be repetitious. I can trace back my first posts on this topic, back when I was doing those long form investigative reports, back to 2012 on reddit, and 2013 here.

And the worst part is we now have a literal library of highly qualified writing and video about the topic, and all were doing is reposting links to this stuff every time someone brings up regurgitated complaints...

Maybe HN should just sticky "yadda yadda, UBI fixes economy, blah blah startups".
The spotted insurance being provided for bitcoin is through private for-profit organizations, which unlike FDIC, has margins that come at a cost to the consumer.

There are "chargeback" solutions, which involve multi-sig escrow, but are not unique to bitcoin and thus not competitive.

This is why bitcoin can't be competitive - because consumers make the decision on what type of payment method to use and opt for the method that empowers them in case of fraud and accidents. Bitcoin isn't competitive by design, and no amount of proselytizing will change that.
You know whats even better than having a wallet full of cash and credit cards (which can be stolen, cloned etc and having to spend hours on the phone trying to convince your bank that no you really didnt go on a trip to eastern europe paying for hookers with your card)

Having a phone with a Bitcoin app where I tap on the payment terminal and pay by confirming the amount and entering my pin.

Or scanning a Bitcoin QR code and paying online instead of typing long string of numbers, expiry codes, cvv etc etc and then going thru the anal probing that Verified by Visa or mastercard secure code is.
I absolutely love this! Great job. For anyone looking to figure out how to build android apps and looking for source examples this is awesome. And the interface is much more accessible than f-droid.

My only suggestions would be to make the source and tracker links more prominent and flip newest so its first or consider making separate menu points for each.

Also any link to the fossdroid src, quick google search for fossdroid didn't turn up anything for me.
a non-press-release version of this story, from the washington post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/04/14/ne...

this is the result of a multi-year fight by disability advocates, most notably Robert Kingett from the accessible Netflix project (https://netflixproject.wordpress.com/). What finally put them over the edge was the release of Daredevil, which made for a story the popular press finally bit: blind people can't enjoy a show about a blind superhero.

honestly, the fact that netflix remedied the situation so quickly once the PR situation got bad enough does not improve their reputation on this issue in my eyes. For a long time, I thought that maybe there was some great technical complication I just didn't understand that made this much harder than it seemed from the outside. Apparently that wasn't the case.

Also, as Kingett has said, "now comes the easy part." Adding description tracks on Netflix for all of the movies and TV shows for which they have been available all along.