skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in my 20's I knew and hung out with a bunch of hobos like these. They were all (yes, ALL) middle/lower middle class, white, fairly well educated (completed high school). They all lived this way by choice. They all could get a job if they wanted to, but thought normal life/capitalism/the system/wathever "sucked". And they all depended on the system/wathever for their basic needs, or when shit hit the fan (needing a hospital, or the police in extreme cases, which happened eventually). So yeah, they could get a job. But also, our society makes this lifestyle possible, and it does have its pros. They had lots of free time, lots of freedom to go anywhere they wanted to, no responsibility, no bills to match at the end of the month, etc. But they weren't there because "you don't know what it's like".

Also, the ones who developed alcoholism or serious drug problems didn't have the stuff before. They got it through the lifestyle.
First thing that came to my mind. "Oh please. Don't involve Nolans"...

And I open the article and see this

>Add Jonathan Nolan, the mastermind behind Interstellar to this equation, and your brain might just explode out of excitement.

:(
such is life in the land of the free!
And if you're going to add signatures please don't make them MD5/SHA1. I don't understand why so many sites still offer those. Is it some default feature of some software stack where developers just "check" a button for signatures and it only supports MD5/SHA1? Otherwise I can't explain it.
Is Prince of Persia a commonly used test for measuring concentration?
Steps to Setup Authorize.net Direct Post Method in Magento
What I learned from sacking 100 employees and losing $1.5M
Bitcoin companies in e.g. the US have quite a lot of regulatory oversight. Not sure where you're coming from.

Chargebacks are a different topic, I know it's a cop out but I can't be bothered right now. I'll just say they're not as nice as people make them out to be, they're a big cost factor, they invite quite a bit of fraud, carry an awkward burden of proof, and socialise the costs (which I normally don't mind, but in this particular case it makes little sense).

I agree it's not unlikely that we'll still use institutions with bitcoin. The difference is that unlike something silly like Swift, we can have an open money protocol that is global, works with currency-agnostic tokens (bitcoins) that can present any value given the right derivatives market. It's more global, cheaper, faster, but perhaps most importantly more open and democratic, even with regulations in play. It's a bit like the Internet, even if companies individually are regulated, an open network is massively important. Anyway I won't stretch that comparison too far, most people dislike comparisons of something that's still very small to something grand. In addition to that, an open money protocol that is not proprietary or regional is a lot easier to disintermediate with software solutions. Even if institutions will still play a role, they'll be more software companies than brick & mortar administrative financial companies.
I left my job at the start of 2015 and started a company, which I've very recently launched: Pleasant.io. It's a website analytics service for humans, basically. Really simple, straight forward UI with an emphasis on useful data. If you're not a fan of Google Analytics, you might find Pleasant to be a breath of fresh air.

Clickable link: http://pleasant.io/
My wife uses a 2008 MacBook, the aluminum MacBook Pro-like model that was only available for a few months. We replaced the hard drive with an SSD and upgraded the RAM, and we expect that she'll use it for at least another two years or so, or until there's some major hardware failure that isn't worth fixing.
Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar articles in Byte, and later his magazine.
Yes but no one put yourself can trust your copy. People can reasonably trust independent third-party sites.

Archive.org will not delete anything, they do censor though. In case of court orders there should be no problem getting hidden content from them.
There is a golden opportunity here for Pirate radio stations to fill the gap.
They didn't keep consistent time as we know it. They scheduled things with fuzzy ranges instead of precise timestamps and used public reference clocks which were inaccurate but useful for two people to know the meeting is whenever the church clock says it's 2 o'clock, regardless of the true astronomical time.
[1] >A person who abuses Ritalin and combines the drug with marijuana is likely to make very poor choices, such as increasing the dose of Ritalin or combining it with other, more dangerous drugs.

This is pretty much the only risk they state. That I might get so out of it I start mixing more drugs with it.

There are no sources on the site either. The name of the site is also "ritalin addiction". Ritalin is not even known to be highly addictive, but if it is, isn't it more dangerous to abruptly cut off my (high) dose of the extended releases form of Ritalin (concerta) that I've been taking continuously for nearly ten years?

[2] the user snorted the methylphenidate. I don't snort pills or anything else.

[3] anecdotal. If you read the thread the user was inexperienced with marijuana and it sounds to me like they may have had a panic-attack.

If my doctor tried to use any of this as "evidence" to support his claim, he would not have had to ask me to leave.

I totally agree that there could be some danger, but what I'm really upset about was the fact that he wouldn't allow a discussion about my condition at all or explain the dangers.

I would argue the risks of abruptly quitting concerta out weigh the risk of lowering my dose and having a discussion about the risks and giving me the chance to choose to quit smoking marijuana over the next month.

since we're linking to unscientific studies, here is one that supports my claim that quitting a high dosage of methylphenidate abruptly is a bad strategy:

>3. Cold Turkey vs. Tapering

>How did you quit Ritalin? Did you abruptly stop and quit cold turkey or did you conduct a gradual taper? Many people can quit “cold turkey” without noticing much of anything. Others who quit cold turkey have a very difficult time coping with the severity of withdrawal. It is usually best to conduct a gradual taper by slowly reducing your dose over a period of weeks (or months in more long term users).

>The more gradually you taper, the easier it will be for your brain and body to readapt to functioning without the drug. By tapering you are giving your body and brain increments of time to adjust to functioning with reductions of your Ritalin dose. If at any time during tapering you notice severe symptoms that are difficult to cope with, you may want to taper at an even more gradual rate.

http://mentalhealthdaily.com/2014/06/25/ritalin-methylphenid...
You see a problem I see opportunities for banks to have regular (insured) current account linked to bitcoin payment system giving the consumer the option to pay using bitcoin direct from their current account if they so wish.

Imagine a consumer instead of withdrawing €50 at an ATM with their debit card and then going for a drink in the pub.
Instead settling their tab at the pub (or paying by waving their phone) using their phone with a bitcoin app
Kant's, Hegel's and Nietszche's too
This is clearly a superior format for explaining papers. Research should be accessible and it isn't. It really doesn't make much sense to have the academic profession riddled with "abstractese." That is, language that even educated people have trouble understanding without a definition sheet.
People with mental health problems and drug addictions also "deserve" to have enough money to live on. Even if you insist on seeing these things as moral failings, aren't they already being punished enough?
There is no point in making products people can buy if I also have to give them the money to pay me.
I'm fine with discussing costs and benefits, but I draw the line when people start talking about limiting what other people are allowed to do. The moment you say "I don't think chargebacks should be allowed for" then my response is going to move to the "then don't use it" approach.

Back off from trying to stop people from using something a lot of them clearly like, and I'm happy to talk about the problems.

In any case, "take it or leave it" is a perfectly valid argument for things that aren't collective action problems. "Cars are destroying society" "so don't drive one" is a bad argument, because your individual choice doesn't make a noticeable difference. "Excessive parking hurts businesses" "so don't install excessive parking at your business" is a perfectly good argument, because you have the power to change your own circumstances there. (Ignoring, for a moment, the fact that it's common to have parking lot size dictated by local laws.) Using and accepting credit cards falls into the latter category: if credit cards hurt your business, don't accept them. That this will probably result in a failure of your business merely indicates that the benefits outweigh the costs. If you think the benefits could be preserved while reducing the costs, that would be interesting, but I don't think such a scheme would actually succeed, and not simply because the existing infrastructure is entrenched.
> ... how will humanity ever learn to be creative if everyone keeps doing the same thing over and over

this charted for the yearly top 100 selling songs over the last ~80 years would clearly show the dumbing down of popular music.
The Standard Songbook contains music that everyday people sang and danced to, but has a creative variety of chord progressions.
That you wasted 1.5M?
I don't see this as a negative although there will be a transition.

The careers I most hope are replaced soon are politicians. I'm pretty sure my coffee maker currently has the capability to do at least a good a job as Ted Cruz.
Fragmentation can severely negatively impact a project as well.

LLVM exists because no amount of contribution to GCC will accomplish LLVM's goals (licensing and modular design).
Just checked my Z3. It has.

My old Note II had too.
Yeah that's simply not true. iPod didn't decline until after 2009.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/28/ipod-sales_n_468000...
eeepc. got the first model that had an ssd. 2006? with its 10in screen and full size keyboard i can carry it anywhere. external battery make it last forever as i can but newer batteries and replace them easily.

it's my distraction free coding machine. it feels a little slow on sites that don't think about perf. but i can compile and play with blender just fine.
It would cost far too much money. Most people would quit their jobs, go on BI only and bring the system down.

Not to mention that once 50% are on this any politician can win by promising to raise BI, but so can his opponent, which translate to the both of them have to keep promising to raise it indefinitely. Are you prepared to require a net contribution of taxes as a means to get the vote?
Switching from Vim to IntelliJ
The body of research might still be small, but it's growing. Here is one researcher at Mass General/Harvard that has published on it: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y0qQluMAAAAJ&hl=en...

There is a group at UMass medical that has been doing work in the area for a few decades: http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/

Of course more research needs to be done. Maybe a limiting factor in the past was the technology available to investigate neurobiology. As we understand the brain more I'm sure we'll see an increase in data on meditation.
You apparently "don't know what it's like" to have something in your life that causes their state of mind. We shouldn't condemn them for choosing this lifestyle. Especially not when their alternative is likely minimum wage with no apparent escape. It does suck and they're expressing just how badly it sucks by choosing to be homeless. Good for them.
I recommend RSA (GnuPG) or Ed25519 signatures with two key pairs: A weekly/monthly signing key pair, and a long-term one that is only used to validate the short-term public key.

https://scott.arciszewski.me/blog/2015/01/package-signing-th...
I'm sorry for making a relatively snarky reply to your (genuine, and partially fair) criticism, but "trust only the qualified" is a particularly noxious part of French culture which is, like graphology as an important criteria for hiring decisions, thankfully slowly disappearing outside the civil service and CAC 40...
Excellent, good to know that.
I think it is just the usual order on the rational numbers, but since he uses only some of the rationals, it does amount to using ordinals.

But, I think your solution is off by at least a factor of omega.
Of course all established engineering fields are incredibly narrow compared to the scope of what software might conceivably do. There are simply no definitions of software fields that have the rigor for such objective evaluations and licensure. And there probably never will be given that the substrate of physical engineering is physical matter with unchanging properties whereas with software it's a ponderous stack of man-made abstractions.

It doesn't mean that programming is in any less need of rigor or that it is any easier than any other form of engineering at scale.
This is a common misconception about CAP theorem. Significant number of people don't realize that distributed system also includes clients, it's not just communication between servers.

I suspect he did not go over replication, because Postgres technically still fail over support is DIY, although he should. There are two replication methods though which I would like to see:

- asynchronous - this one is fast, but it most likely would have similar issues the other database have
- synchronous - the master makes sure data is replicated before returning to the user this should in theory always consistent

You would typically have two nodes in same location replicating synchronously and use asynchronous replication to different data centers. On a failure, you simply fail over to another synchronously replicating server.

Regarding consul/etcd actually those technologies did not do well in his tests, but authors appear to be motivated to fix issues.
Great question. I clear cookies after every session on my PC, but not my phone (yet), so maybe the changing mode of transmission may provide opportunities. Fingerprint scanning is also far more convenient than passwords.

Honestly, though, the news one reads is very personal. You're reading politics, gossip, salacious stories... I don't want people to know what I'm reading, and I don't think increasing advertiser's ability to track you is the answer.

There's no reason every consumer of media has to pay for media content though. It can be supported by the top 5% or 1% of subscribers.

For example, perhaps people would pay for a membership/donation model for a higher price point -- for $500 or $900 a year, the local newspaper provides unlimited print/digital/podcasts, as well as discounted/free conferences, parties, meet & greets, social networks etc. Newspapers also add great credibility, so if there's a way to demonstrate that they've independently verified something (i.e. a 'media audit') there may be a way to monetize that.
If I spend all my basic income on booze or drugs or gambling and have an accident, should I be left dying or should I still get welfare? And if we still need welfare, what's the use of basic income?
> Let me just ask you this: Do you think it's "right" to just download a movie without compensating all the work that went into it? Because consuming written content without paying and blocking the ads is exactly the same thing.

This is a strawman because you need to go out of your way to download a movie without paying for it, and in most countries, that is illegal.

You're completely missing this very important difference: It's legal to block ads and view free content. It's not legal to download things you're supposed to pay for.

As for whether it's "right" or "ethical" to block ads, that's a decision the industry you work for would love to get its hands on. Fact is, it's all take and no give with for-profit businesses. You mentioned HBO Go, well how about all those pay-for services which still show ads? How about the TV channels that still show ads? How about all the services on the web that you pay for and still don't have the decency to disable ads? They're common, and all the strawmen you're bringing into the discussion are carefully avoiding that little factoid.

> taking something from them without something in return, unless it was a gift, is stealing

Oh I've had enough with you already. The websites are gifting the content with the understanding that a part of their revenue will come from ads. With that understanding is also the understanding that there's also people who don't block ads. To those who do, they're eyeballs. Non-paying eyeballs, but still eyeballs, and there's a lot of content producers out there who would kill to have this huge segment of the population reading, viewing, listening to their stuff.

You go on a lot about how "people always want all their content for free". Ignoring the fact that it's a bullshit claim, with you specifically and the advertising industry in general, it's all take and no give. If the users are not seeing ads, they're STEALING!

Maybe they're not giving you, as the advertiser, business. But they're not stealing from the business they actually deal with. You want to claim they steal from you? Fine. That's debatable but it at least has some merit. But don't try to paint yourself as this white knight in shiny armor who would defend those poor mom&pop sites whose monies are being plundered.

PS: You wanna know why I'm so bitter? Just two weeks ago I was right in front of an ad network who asked one of the gaming fansites I deal with (a major French fansite), listening to them making demands on how the site should be redesigned to fit their worthless ads and how we should start blocking people who use adblock and telling them to turn it off. This is your fucking game. You want people to disable adblock, you don't care about our users.
The development boards were crazy expensive, too.

I was an early developer on the TI OMAP1, we had a number of EVK boards that TI lent us to to get the BSP up and running. I recall they were charging $7,000 each for these things and you could only get them if you had a serious inside channel with a TI FAE and promised big orders later.

I thought Pandaboard was a great leap forward (especially for TI). We've taken 2 or 3 more since then.
Not sure this is the strongest argument for philosophy. Philosophy is valuable when it is directed to the inquiry of truth for the sake of discovering truth, not for some immediately practical application. This sort of exercise pushes against the limits of thought, and that leads to interesting and important places.

This isn't just true in philosophy. In the early 20th century physicists announced they had solved almost all of the problems in physics. One thing they hadn't got around to yet was figuring out the position of electrons at a given time. But it was popular to regard this is a trivial problem. How they bonded was a more practical issue, and they had solved that one. But those who pushed on with this seemingly trivial problem discovered that it wasn't trivial at all.

Turning unknown unknowns into known unknowns is not necessarily practical, but it is certainly valuable.
Dolphins are marvelous creatures. I don't quite think they rise to the sentience of human, but it's hard to imagine them as 'dumb animals.'
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I've always found the thought of using a skyscraper as "one house" to be very appealing. To have like 10 floors removed to have a high ceiling and other cool stuff :D
Aristotle gave us logic, which is the basis for rational inquiry in all fields. Also an important contribution.
That quote from Blade Runner: "The candle that burns twice as bright only lasts half as long..."

Sparingly, it seems like an important drug as a last resort for ADDHD but for "enhancement purposes?"

Summary:
A new study conducted in rats [rats are not people] by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School suggests that the misdiagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) combined with prescription drug use in children may [emphasis on the word may] lead to a higher risk of developing depressive symptoms in adulthood.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041220013546.ht...
Maybe not, but I'm not sure, if FM would work in that scenario.
Google says, that there are two emergency broadcasting systems in Norway:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_defense_siren#Norway

> https://www.worlddab.org/country-information/norway/history/...

There is also an app for that ^^:
http://www.umsalert.com/about
How is that not "in the workplace"?
Why no mousepad ? :o
The Osbourne Effect
First part:
http://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/mm/linux-mm-1....
Right. And the zenith can be identified by eye or using a sundial to within an accuracy of a minute or so, but not to a matter of a second or two AFAIK. Maybe using a sundial the height of the Eiffel Tower?
You're right, that's how he got 10,000% -- 10x and then another 10x . I thought he had done 100% times 100%...

Thanks for the reply.
> The FM space in Norway only has space for 5 nationally broadcasted channels

This is not correct. Norway has just as large an FM segment as every other country in the world and could have just as many channels. They simply manage the spectrum questionably. DAB+ will not help that.

http://eng.nkom.no/technical/broadcast/analog-radio/fm-radio...
I've found that kids with attention deficits (diagnosed or not) tend to be able to talk and focus better when they can move around. Try right now to describe something at the far side of the room without pushing your head or using your hands. Communication and interpretation is more than just verbal.
commies don't think about consequences. They just like to dream. Everyone is equal and lived happily ever after. No connection to the real world at all. I consider it the ultimate form of narcissism. Thinking so highly of themselves that they forget that humans are nothing more than animals. The nastiest kind out there too.
I feel like a lot of outsiders see people like Zizek, and get the impression that philosophy today has a lot do with language and psychoanalysis. I'm not exactly sure what the insights are, but it at least feels like a very different brand than Socrates badgering people about what is justice.
Well I reinstalled my laptop a few weeks ago and I decided do go with Windows 10, I couldn't take anymore Windows 8.1...

Windows 10 is what Windows 8 should have been from the beginning, it's an excellent OS.

Hardware: Ideapad, Intel i7, 6Go RAM, graphic card geforce 840m

Tools: Intellij with Java, Visual Studio with C#, Sublime with everything web related
MacBook Pro (Mid 2010)

I hate Apple, but can't deny this is the best piece of kit I've ever owned. Still going strong after 5 years.
For those saying "why not replace it with 3G/4G", this makes absolutely no sense

Radio is an unidirectional broadcast. One transmitter, several clients, no upstream communication. Simple receivers. Limited bandwidth

If you want to use Spotify on your phone that's great, but that's a different service than radio.

"It's so much less energy efficient than current FM radios", not necessarily, yes, FM receivers (the receiver part) use very little energy, but consumption will probably go down as well with new receivers.

Still, the issue of shutting it down seems like a strong case of "just because"
Ask HN: What are the most dismaying comments you've read on HN?
The kind of dismaying comments I am interested in are those that made you think "this sounds awful but it's probably true", not "whoever posted this garbage is an awful person".