skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your language is pretty inflamatory, but you do actually have a legitimate point.

Would it really be better if they died a slow death due to disease (there's really no such thing as "dying of old age", despite the myth)?

Yet, it's understandable why people get angry when people start philosophizing about death when someone dies.
Using Resharper to Refactor Static Methods or Properties into Instance Methods
I really see UBI as the mechanism that allow capitalism to transition in to the post-work work.
You're arguing with a straw man. I never said ads don't influence behaviour. Obviously they do. My point is they don't exert the kind of scary mind control power that some people like to pretend they do - adverts increase sales, but so does having a shop window with your goods on display, so does putting your products in specialised parts catalogues, whatever. There are lots of things you can do to increase sales and which can count as marketing of some kind.

My point is to claim poor people are exploited by advertising is nuts. It's the other way around. Advertising is why poor people can have exactly the same gmail account with all the same features as a rich guy can. Nuke advertising and you evict poor people into a ghetto web. These people at Mozilla don't seem to be thinking these things through at all and that's a problem ..... there was a time that I had a lot of technical respect for Mozilla and Firefox, but it seems every time I read about the projects these days they're doing something that I find to be kind of dumb.
Ask HN: Are you secretive about your non-tech startup?
Mentioning and thus promoting your tech startup on HN, social media and your personal tech website/blog is obviously beneficial, as you're essentially promoting your product to your target audience.

However, it's a worry for many people (myself included) that disclosing a non-tech product, which are often much easier to replicate (bingo card creator for example) to a tech audience might encourage unwanted competition.

I'm planning to redesign my personal website and blog more in the near future, and i'm wondering about mentioning my B2B SAAS startup, or whether to partially hide it away in my LinkedIn/Offline CV.

Do you disclose your non-tech businesses on your website/public social media accounts?
I think what we need is "basic commodities" in terms of foodstuffs that a person could live off of, for example: a 40lb bag of rice, lentils, 3 different kinds of beans, corn meal, canned tomatoes, canned fruit, and a jar full of multi-vitamins. Absolutely no proof of income status should be required only a quick verification that that A. You are a human being, and B. you're not abusing the system by taking more than you could actually consume during a given time period.

This ensures that nobody ever needs to go hungry, it puts money in people's pockets because now they don't have to spend as much of their income on food, and it accomplishes this all without prying into the private details of anyone's life.

The goal in my opinion should not be to "give everyone an income" but rather to give everyone a safety net on top of which they can attempt to build a life for themselves. It trains people to be used to sharing and giving the things that we need to sustain ourselves, which is healthy and nurtures a cooperative spirit among men.
This is probably true. Most Beijing taxis are missing rear seat belts, usually shoved somewhere. Given Beijing traffic, it is quite scary, especially when the taxi driver looks like they are at the end of a 20 hour shift.
Many countries have tried it, and it usually ends like this [1] implementation by the Swedes from 1984-1991. Then they cancelled it after witnessing the devastation to their economic sector.

"During the first week of the tax, the volume of bond trading fell by 85%, even though the tax rate on five-year bonds was only 0.003%. The volume of futures trading fell by 98% and the options trading market disappeared. 60% of the trading volume of the eleven most actively traded Swedish share classes moved to the UK after the announcement in 1986 that the tax rate would double. 30% of all Swedish equity trading moved offshore. By 1990, more than 50% of all Swedish trading had moved to London. Foreign investors reacted to the tax by moving their trading offshore while domestic investors reacted by reducing the number of their equity trades.

As a result, revenues from these taxes were disappointing. For example, revenues from the tax on fixed-income securities were initially expected to amount to 1,500 million Swedish kronor per year. They did not amount to more than 80 million Swedish kronor in any year and the average was closer to 50 million. In addition, as taxable trading volumes fell, so did revenues from capital gains taxes, entirely offsetting revenues from the equity transactions tax that had grown to 4,000 million Swedish kronor by 1988."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_financial_transaction_t...
Is basic income taxable or not? If it is taxable, the federal budget can be expanded. If not, tax rates would need to change. If a person makes $100,000, what should their net taxes be? They will recieve $34,400 in basic income, if they paid 45% tax, it would only be a net of $10,600 in taxes.
Oddly, you get fined in the U.S. for not wearing a seatbelt in the car you're driving ("Click it or ticket!") but I've never heard of someone being cited for not wearing one in a cab. Is it because it's the back seat?
Oh, we certainly tried to teach our kids to think for themselves, too. I believe we were moderately successful. They frequently disagree with me on a whole range of stuff, and nobody finds it scary or threatening.

Nevertheless, I do not believe that any good whatsoever comes from advertising. It is all, without exception, an attempt to propagandize. If nothing else, the underlying agenda is, "Consume, comsume, consume! You don't live up to <impossible image>. You're inadequate and hopeless until you buy <stuff>." Not a healthy message.
What the fuck man? John Nash was an incredible man and it is tragic that both he and his wife passed away in this way. They didn't deserve to go out this way and this is really disrespectful to them.
They obtained your permission to run code when you directed your web browser to load the page.
The same thing that happens to 2048 bit RSA users if yet another weakness is found on it. Or the same thing that happens on the users of the NIST curves if some weakness is found (or disclosed).
Surface can run Linux since Surface 1.

http://www.geek.com/microsoft/linux-users-rejoice-heres-ubun...

I'd definitely look into just... installing Hyper-V and then installing Linux as a VM. But people have wiped the Surface Pro for Ubuntu.
In terms of features it's actually Flash's rich cousin because Silverlight is multi-language (C#, Python, etc) and multi-threaded among many other features.

Do you actually think that HTML, CSS and Javascript are good technologies to build applications on top of compared to something like Silverlight, which is purpose-built for the task?
When I used to work with C elegans, whenever we would freeze the worms and try and recover them, we would be lucky to even get a few revived from thousands of worms. This result should also be made available in the paper.
‘Elon Musk’, by Ashlee Vance
New ones are, I think. The Nexus 6 is. Older devices don't necessarily get upgraded. It's a hardware/software issue, not a philosophical issue.
I've worked at a few places where it was against the rules to talk about your salary. I asked the owner why (quoting what Spolksy had said) and I was told that if the employees know what each other earned, half of them would leave. I asked why some people were being paid more than others for the same job, and the owner told me, "Some people are better at negotiating than others." And I knew for a fact that I am terrible at asking for more, so it was time to look for another job. Shame really. It was a good job, but I'd always feel like someone had negotiated better than me and was earning an extra 20%
Monica Lewinsky on online culture
"Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop," says Monica Lewinsky. In 1998, she says, “I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.” Today, the kind of online public shaming she went through has become constant — and can turn deadly. In a brave talk, she takes a hard look at our online culture of humiliation, and asks for a different way.
People just fasten the seat belt while they're not sitting in the seat then sit on the fastened belt.
8 Processes Define a Business Rather Than a Hobby
At least in manhattan, the yellow-taxi cab Taxi and Limousine Commission (the TLC I mentioned above) lobbied have an exemption to that law. Same thing with baby carriers. It's illegal to have a baby in a car without a certified car seat, but it's legal in a NYC taxi to just hold them:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/faq/faq_pass.shtml#9
Original article http://9to5mac.com/2015/05/22/ios-9-os-x-10-11-to-bring-qual...
> no cars at all

That's not a poor lifestyle, that's a good lifestyle enhabled by sensibly designed cities. Bike around Copenhagen or sit in jams on the LA freeways? I know which I'd rather do.
Old buildings have to be demolished and new ones built, which may not be in the range of the former tenants. Old residents have to leave either way, which is both the problem itself and the root of other ones.

Anyway, it's the mutation of a city into another one, there are too many variables. Higher density sounds appealing but it may bring other problems, and the old residents end up displaced anyway. It's not going to be pretty, and the result is not going to be the San Francisco everyone loves, but well... it's not my city so why do I care.

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The PTO largely doesn't seem to care or do any research beyond the bare basics. As far as I can tell they're not really incentivised to do so either.

They collect a whole heap of fees for getting and maintaining a patent (http://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/fees-and-payment...), and even claim a fee for revisiting a patent, but so far as I've been able to find, it doesn't cost them anything to actually invalidate one. It ought to cost them all the money they've taken so far, and then some on top, to provide them with more of an incentive to make sure the patent is correct.
Sure, some people are attracted to the chaos of a startup who are just get on and build something. These are different people who are custodians and cherish the business and strengthen it.
He got it back like a month later. Just browse back in N's twitter feed (late february 2014)
The state I live in apparently has one of the highest seat belt usage rates (despite no rear seat belt enforcement for those 16+), which would explain why I almost never see people avoiding them. Sorting by usage in the Wikipedia table, I don't see much of a correlation between policy and the actual use except with primary vs. secondary enforcement, which would imply it's more cultural than not. That said, I agree that it's very disappointing that people don't understand the importance of wearing a seat belt when the cases are all around us showing that in almost every situation they are beneficial.

"Self-reported seatbelt use among adults in the United States increased steadily between 2002 and 2010, with the national prevalence reaching 87% in 2010. However, seatbelt use in states with secondary laws continues to lag behind that of states with primary laws. This lost opportunity has tremendous costs. NHTSA estimated that nearly 450 additional lives would have been saved, 12,000 nonfatal injuries prevented, and $1.6 billion in societal costs saved in 2009 alone if all states had primary laws."
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022437512...

Random anecdote: I travel to India on a reasonably regular basis to visit family, and I'm inevitably the one person that insists on wearing a seat belt and gets called out on it. Before traffic laws were actually (sort of) enforced in the city I generally visit, front seat occupants never really wore them either in my experience. It boggles my mind that people would travel at 120 km/h on inconsistently paved roads with insane drivers on the road and no seat belt to hold them in place.
Absolutely tragic.

Just a note, New Jersey, like most states in the U.S. requires the use of seat belts for drivers and passengers, even in a taxi and police will cite you and passengers for not wearing them. Drivers will get double cited if passengers are not wearing them.
Best practices are:

- Use OpenSSL with TLSv1.2 for TLS

- Use Tarsnap for online backups

- Use NaCl for anyhing else

- Try not to use anything new that you invent before it's reviewed
Help me build my dream, an app for music lovers
How Things Break: Ali fought Liston 50 years ago
You seem a very smart person, any chance I can get a quick list of your other "weird" behaviours?
Playing Leapfrog
The article describes exactly this experiment.
You don't need to boil water to create an artificial cloud. Or at least you don't need to heat it to vapor pressure of one whole atmosphere.

The freshwater sources wouldn't necessarily need to deal with the phase change energy, but the saltwater sources would have to be desalinated. It would still be a huge, huge amount of energy. And it would have to be added to the water multiple times, for each time it rains out before crossing the mountains.

Much easier to just build the cities closer to where the water falls naturally.
Unless you're working in a club or going there very frequently, I'm not sure wearing earplugs is going to make a big difference

Edit: see below for a better definition of frequently
A long time ago there were cars with the shoulder belt attached to a motorized track on the door frame that would pretty much force you to wear it...only for the front seats though.

Maybe instead of a power button, cars should turn on when you buckle up after the brake pedal is depressed.
I certainly don't understand why the taxi allows you not to, but in your own car you should be in charge.

I don't really give a hoot about the counter arguments against it, but at the same time I wouldn't let anybody in a car I drive without the seatbelt on.
Having something worse around does not make ad networks better.

Yes, Facebook is a bigger problem. State level universal surveillance is even bigger. Fighting any one of the three is worthwhile.
For those looking for more details about what has changed, the changelog is here:

https://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/v2.7.10/Misc/NEWS

(Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a short summary of the most important changes/bugfixes, like there have been for some of the earlier releases.)
"If every neighborhood had its own vertical farm, how many fewer semis would be choking up the metro area?"

In my area - Southern Ontario -- farmland is cheap and plentiful, a lot of it turning to brush or "hobby" farms (which usually means farms that don't really produce). In my area just outside of the metro area, everyone's property, with long growing seasons and excellent soil -- are in the measure of acres, and only grow decorative plants.

We recently as a family started considering the notion of mixing up life and moving somewhere else in Canada -- 100+ acre farms in PEI, NB, and Nova Scotia can be had for under $100,000. Many are now considered vacant land having been abandoned as farmsteads.

Whenever these sorts of articles talk about the "solution" to locally grown or a food crisis, I compare these two facts and something is not meshing.
Here's a fun fact: the yellow school busses most North Americans get trucked to school in usually don't have seatbelts. The reason is that they follow a different school of thought regarding safety.

The basic idea is that instead of giving everyone seatbelts that unruly kids won't adjust properly and will use to whack each other's teeth out, you make really high padded seats so that in the case of an accident the passengers go flying into the seat in front of them, but its a relatively short distance and a soft, sturdy landing. The theory is called 'compartmentalization' if you're looking for a google search term. Here's one:

https://canadasafetycouncil.org/child-safety/there-need-seat...
I am always using the seatbelt. I recently realized that when you are on the backseat of a car, by buckling up you are protecting the person in front of you. In case of an accident applying your weight to the one in the seat in front of you might cause more damage than the accident itself.
As much as I hate to argue against thoughtful analysis, sometimes never letting a good crisis go to waste can radically improve chances that others don't die - and at that point I can live with not giving sufficient respect to the death.
This is a fantastic example of how many resources we waste with modern software. Sure it's not packed full of the kind of eye-candy we're used to, but lots of the basics are there, and it's thousands of times smaller than even OSs used on smart phones.

iOS 8 for example takes up 5 Gigabytes, Windows 10 x64 is 11 Gigabytes.
This is a very small amount of boilerplate around the golang.com/x/net/html package. If you need the huge feature set of goquery, use that. But I find this pretty suitable for my day to day problems.
Open Wireless vs. Licensed Spectrum: Evidence from Market Adoption [2012]
I think the biggest problem with land-based farms is that there is only so much land available for it, and that land is also highly valued for other properties (such as residential and commercial ventures).

I don't think it's unreasonable to see us get to a point where the only room we have to grow our crops is upwards (or on another planet, but that's even further out on the timeline).
Do they deserve a slow lingering death due to disease?

Short of a heroic death where Nash uses his brilliance to save a bunch of kids I don't know a better way.
That a very weird semantic to have. I expect URLs (particularly GET requests) to never exhibit this behavior.
Yes fork it and it becomes just as expensive as building. Yet, you got all the previous benefit for free, what makes open source strictly a cheaper choice, anyway it goes.

And, of course you can get dependent on some open source code that you don't have enough resources to fork. But that again is strictly better than either buying or building, because you wouldn't be able to build it anyway, and it still gives you much more control than buying.
Tail Risk Constraints and Maximum Entropy [pdf]
But part of the theory behind Basic Income is that people will change their behaviour when given more Agency, restricting what they can spend it on doesn't let us test this.
SHA384 has many of the same properties and is less ambiguous if you care about interoperability. Most libraries require you to truncate 512-256 yourself (not difficult, but still work).
When I was in Japan and the majority of the taxis I got into would complain to the driver until I fastened my seat belt. I have made a point of wearing them in taxis for a while. The major place I don't though is buses.
Those kinds of copy resistance schemes did a number on most disk drives, as they would often force the drive to violate operational limits.
This seems insane. Especially the later exception.
Curve25519 != Ed25519. Curve25519 is only really useful for straightforward DH. IIRC, point addition isn't defined for Curve25519 meaning it's useless for creating signatures.
It's useful to remember that while the extreme libetarian position is mostly American it's a minority position even in America. It overton windows the whole discussion, but most people who don't wear seatbelts are not "Free Men on the land" quoting Magna Carta. They're just not bothered.
Nice movie, but remember to read the diff with the real life: [spoiler alert] http://monkeymigraine.blogspot.com.ar/2007/12/beautiful-lie-...
Been using Noscript in Firefox for years now.

Sometimes the number of domains that gets loaded in the background on certain sites is mind numbing.
> Prophet Peace be upon him

You're a muslim ? Ah ...

> I think this shows your ignorance, because Aisha was not related to Ali. Aisha was AbuBakr's daughter. Again, please cite your source for this claim.

Heh so I got the name wrong. I confused Ali and Abu Bakr. Whoops. I notice you don't disagree with the premise : that her marriage was based on a contract. As to what Aisha has to do with the caliph succession ... (Aisha who was raped by the prophet as a child) (because I know you'll argue : rape is the act of having sex with someone against their will, which you will find in the hadith was the case, she was either 6 or 9 at the time (and he "liked to fondle her" - also against her will - before that - need a reference ?). Hence describing the prophet as a paedophilic rapist is simply a fact)

As to the succession issue, have you seriously never read the story of the split between sunni and shi'a ? Or are you simply a sunni muslim and pretend not to know ... Here's the question : why did Abu Bakr succeed the paeophile prophet, when sharia is so very clear on the issue of succession ... do father-in-laws inherit things ?

To be honest : I've always wondered that about sunnis to be honest. I mean their whole raison d'etre is a blatant violation of sharia. I'd be interested in your answer to the question : why did the "empire" go to Abu Bakr ? The "election" thing somehow only applied in that one case ... which means it's a lie.

> No. I mentioned elsewhere that the death penalty in Islam only applies to 2 or 3 very specific cases, and none of them include living in a non-Islamic state.

"2 or 3 specific cases" - heh I know why you don't want to name them. Ashamed about the apostasy laws perhaps ?

http://islamqa.info/en/13363

"The basic principle is that it is not permissible for the Muslim to settle among the mushrikeen. This is indicated by evidence from the Qur’aan and Sunnah, and on the basis of common sense."

There is no shortage of references at the link. As for the death penalty ... do tell, what is the punishment for knowingly violating sharia and not correcting yourself when this is pointed out ? Historically, this is seen as apostacy, and well, it kind of is, of course. Both the Ummayyads and the Ottomans massacred muslim populations for living outside their borders (not as a matter of policy though, but this is the reason given for 3 massacres they committed. Granted, there isn't a hair on my head that believes that to be the actual reason).
They could have lived a few(or many) more years.
Before the current iteration of NYC in-cab media (the Windows system that plays a playlist of AVIs), there used to be a set of speakers in the rear of the cab.

At the beginning of every ride, it would play a pre-recorded message from you, generally from Michael Bloomberg or some other local celebrity asking you to buckle up. This got me into the habit of buckling up.

Now, the in-cab media plays a brief video message with no audio that tells you rates, who to call with an issue (311), and to buckle your seatbelt.

Maybe the lack of an audio prompt is why it's ignored now?
Figure 1 on sound.html seems wrong. Consider the vibration speed slider. The waves have a given wavelength and speed of travel. Slide to get e.g. a faster vibration speed. The speed of travel should not change, but the wavelength should change. The demo has the opposite: the wavelength remains constant but the speed of travel increases.
Sounds quite true. For every line of code, that is really necessary, there are about hundred lines, that are result of accidental complexity.
And one of those was to his own earlier work!
Is the situation that simple? A lot of produce you consume might actually come from manual labor, at least AFAICT. Granted, not as much that you would ave to starve, but still.

> it would not be five or ten minutes of my time each day

In optimal conditions, it would be 5 minutes to sow and 5 minutes to pick. The plants grow on their own. Of course, it isn't that easy, but neither is working only 5 hours a month.