skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, yes. Like a helicopter drop, a minimum wage increase shifts money from those who would save it to those who have the greatest incentive to spend it quickly. As noted in the earlier comments, what I was missing was that a helicopter drop is done by printing money, rather than shifting it from others. An EITX is closer to a helicopter drop, and I'm starting to see part of why it's a better idea.
Mozilla has an enterprise agreement with Google that limits what data is collected through GA and how it can be used. Quote:

Our Google Analytics premium account is set to opt-out on all of 3rd party
uses of the data and the only people who have access to the anonymous
aggregated data is Mozilla Employees. This is not the normal Google
Analytics setup that most people use on other websites.

Also, to increase privacy we flipped the anonymize flag in the Google
Analytics request [...] and don't do any cross-domain cookies within Google
Analytics.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1122305#c8
Samsung Galaxy Note 5 or Project Zero 2? 4K Screen or OLED? Price? Rumors?
> When I asked on IRC recently, whether I was missing some reason that it wasn't more common, almost every single response was, "Woah, I never heard of that feature."

They should read the excellent perldocs for 'open' [0][1], it's been available since ~2002 (Perl 5.8) [2][3]

You can change the directory it uses by overriding the defailt $TMPDIR ($ENV{TMP} in Windows 7)

$ENV{TMP} = '/path/to/my/tmp/dir';

open my $fh2, '+>', undef or die "$!";

It was introduced along with another useful feature, 'File handles can be opened to "in memory" files held in Perl scalars' [0][2]

open(my $fh,'>', \my $variable) or die "$!";

... do stuff to $variable as if it were a file

[0] http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/open.html

[1] http://perldoc.perl.org/perlopentut.html

[2] http://perldoc.perl.org/perl58delta.html#PerlIO-is-Now-The-D...

[3] https://books.google.com/books?id=IzdJIax6J5oC&lpg=PA1&dq=&p...
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations believed that the banks were putting pressure on the ratings agencies to deliver good ratings:

http://www.hsgac.senate.gov//imo/media/doc/Financial_Crisis/...

It's a huge document, V.D, pdf page 274, document page 267, doesn't really dance around the issue:

The Subcommittee’s investigation uncovered a host of factors responsible for the inaccurate credit ratings assigned by Moody’s and S&P to RMBS and CDO securities. Those factors include the drive for market share, pressure from investment banks to inflate ratings, inaccurate rating models, and in adequate rating and surveillance resources. In addition, federal regulations that limited certain financial institutions to the purchase of investment grade financial instruments encouraged investment banks and investors to pursue and credit rating agencies to provide those top ratings. All these factors played out against the backdrop of an ongoing conflict of interest that arose from how the credit rating agencies earned their income. If the credit rating agencies had issued ratings that accurately exposed the increasing risk in the RMBS and CDO markets, they may have discouraged investors from purchasing those securities, slowed the pace of securitizations, and as a result reduced their own profits. It was not in the short term economic self-interest of either Moody’s or S&P to provide accurate credit risk ratings for high risk RMBS and CDO securities.

(But I agree that there were 2 parties involved in each of the bad loans, the evil bank story is an appealing populist narrative, but not at all the full story.)
Failing that, we just need trillions of vintage mainframes.
Why prefer BoringSSL over LibreSSL?
The Rust Programming Language Book has been a fantastic resource.

I was recently complaining to myself about some style and grammar issues (e.g. "Book" is redundant in the title of a book), but I realized I'm complaining about style and grammar issues of comprehensive documentation for a recently released programming language!

I respect the effort Rust and Steve have invested in documentation and hope their effort is replicated elsewhere.
although the body of text does little to explore the full sub-title it is:

"The obsession with eating natural and artisanal is ahistorical. We should demand more high-quality industrial food."

in that sense i feel the author cannot be accused of saying "let them eat tomato bbq sauce", rather they are imploring industrial food manufacturers to provide food 'on par' with fresh produce - like tomatos.
Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of the deceased in order to grant them a chance at a renewed life when technologies for restoration are developed. One of the big outstanding questions is the degree to which a well-conducted cryopreservation successfully preserves the fine structure of the brain and thus the data of the mind. The fact that cold water drowning victims can live again after an hour or more of brain death tells us that memory is encoded in physical structures, with the current consensus (not undisputed) suggesting it is located in synaptic connections between neurons.

Scanning technologies have been used to show that cryopreservation via vitrification of cryoprotectant-infused tissue does indeed preserve the fine structure of brain cell connections. E.g.:

http://www.brainpreservation.org/content/competitors

So it seems reasonable to move forward with initiatives based on the theory that yes, cryonics is going to preserve the mind. Certainly all too many people are left with no other viable option for a shot at a longer life in the future. There is always the need for more and better proof, however. At the present time studies involving restoration of vitrified individuals must be carried out in lower animals, unfortunately, as researchers are still far from the point at which they can safely restore vitrified mammals. That said, restoration of a vitrified mammalian organs has been demonstrated, though even that is very early stage work in the grand scheme of things.
well, today we can restore information - sound - from a photo of the gramophone recording media (https://mediapreservation.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/extractin...). Tomorrow - from a frozen brain.

So, i wonder, if i had enough money - may be instead of whole body or head cryonics, i should go for sub-micron thick slicing of my brain and making photo and various other wavelength scans of it and storing this digitized info somewhere (like Glacier :) Or may be i should just start a start-up offering just such a service to make money for my future cryonics :)
Correct. And there is zero info on this in our media. Same as local council pension spending which another poster had no clue about until informed.
You're thinking of Mother of All Demos. If you watch some interviews with Douglas Engelbart, the whole philosophy was to do away with the existing mediums of paper and video and embrace the new one possible only with computers, like wikis, simulations, etc. Instead we just put the old mediums on computers to make access more convenient.

Doug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeSgaJt27PM

Alan Kay addresses the matter https://youtu.be/BbwOPzxuJ0s?t=1h7m42s too. He worked on XEROX PARC, which inspired Steve Jobs to make the Mac.

Brett Victor also leans in that direction https://vimeo.com/115154289

The printed book is a good fit here because it's a single perspective, best absorbed linearly. The more important question to ask is why are we reading a single person's perspective these days? Where are his simulations? How are they different from previous author's simulations?

When people talk about complex systems, like battles, politics, etc. they're using simulations in their heads, which are only be described through words, maybe some edited videos. So to compare different author's perspectives we read their books and run a different, imprecise simulation in each of our heads. Why not just run a single precise simulation for each author?

Well, most of society only uses computers to edit text. Same text that could have been written centuries ago, but now more conveniently.

The possibilities of video have also been explored. I've watched many hours of good documentaries on the Battle of Waterloo. Also Gettysburg and many others. But a few plays of http://www.ultimategeneral.com explained things better. Also played the Total War series but the way large historical battles are represented there is a mess. It can only handle small battles of 1000 men believably.
Key bindings are totally a matter of personal preferences. I like Emacs-style bindings better. The only thing I think vi in my opinion does better is copying and deleting lines (yy, dd, p), which in Emacs is not so simple for such a common operation.
This is simply jaw droppingly amazing. Put's my projects in their place...
it is also available as an ebook from oreilly: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565922617.do
Some of them are crap, and some are good. Yes, they lack quality controls, but that doesn't prevent quality. It just means I need to take claims with a grain of salt and independently verify them.
One issue with "a genuine, good-faith attempt at improving the properties" is that unlike single family homes, trailer homes are actually a depreciating asset. A 30 year old trailer home isn't worth much since the cost to do meaningful improvements is likely more than the home is worth. This means an owner can only make a profit on the rent as opposed to a mix of rent and equity like most real estate.

Trailer parks on the other hand are appreciating assets and is where the real money is made by renting plots of land to the trailer home owners or tenants.
The type of people in favour of CCTV are likely to be "intellectually unrefined" and probably in favour of CCTV being an impediment to the actions you mentioned.
The Queen?
I find it very, very hard to get outraged over analytics code on a web browser site. And as previously mentioned every time someone brings up this idiotic factoid, Mozilla's use of GA isn't exactly standard.
Or starvation.
I personally feel that jumping on the bandwagon will only crash and burn you unless you genuinely believe that you have an idea or believe in a cause that would make real difference to the world.

It may seem like everything has already been done but remember that back in 1898, Charles Holland Duell, who was appointed as the United States Commissioner of Patents famously said "Everything that can be invented has been invented."

Start from the grassroot level. Start by looking around you, think of how we can contribute to education and make better citizens of tomorrow by empowering our children with technology, be able to assist farmers with advanced data analysis that would enable them maximise their cultivation, predictive analytics in policing and bring down cost of law enforcement, there are plenty of ideas that are worth billions of dollars. There is no point in being another Uber of some on demand service valued at a billion pound. Be another google, another apple, microsoft or IBM. The foundation of all these companies were built on creating a legacy, to revolutionise the way we think and percieve life and to make a difference in our existence.

Have a short term goal of 2 years to find what you want to do and chase it with singe-minded determination. You are not late. Good Luck!
Here's a crazy idea: regulate residential real estate.

This is sickening. It should not be that the poorest of society are further pressed because some graduate of the "mobile home university" wants to jack up rents for his class project.

We do NOT need this free market. It is exploitation backed by the threat of state violence.
How does this compare to something like Privacy Badger[1]? I haven't done any benchmarking, but if it causes similar slowdowns, it isn't bothersome and the benefits are definitely worth it.

[1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
Think about the kind of data that they would collect.

I personally rarely use Shazam, but when I do, it's more often then not a song I don't know at all rather than trying to remember a song's name.

So someone like me hears a song and wants to identify it. Then another person, and another. So you have three people in a specific location at the same time looking to identify a song. That would suggest that those people like what they hear. You know what the song is so you know interest has piqued. If you cross reference that with radio plays at that time you have a new metric that you couldn't measure previously - reaction to a radio play. It's incredibly interesting because of the type of data it collects, which to be honest I think the article explains explicitly and very clearly!
(John Steinbeck, East of Eden, right?)
That works excellent for individual pages and articles. But you have to get to them via the information and graphics heavy site, because for extracting the most important navigational components the mobile reader will not work very well.
I'd also like a comparison with ublock and/or ghostery. It appears that this becomes enabled after the blocking plugins.
As a long time Emacs user, I would recommend using the real documentation too. Learn how to use the built in info and help, and study some of the elisp.
Well damn. This really tells you how hot the market is and how much information asymmetry there is in job negotiation: it is interesting to see the variance in each company at the same prevailing wage.
I remember posting this awhile ago. Here is the Original Thread if you are looking for more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8634357

Great article regardless. Glad to see more peoples take on it.
Looks like there will be one in two months, from a company called Fixstars; the price estimate given in the article (which it calls optimistic) is $1800-$2400.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/205362-massive-6tb-ssd-hi...
It's absolutely absurd to try to assert that overpopulation is the root problem with a straight face when you're dealing with a system with such radical inequality.

Yes, piling more people into the box of fighting for a single-digit percent of a single-digit percent of the wealth in the US is rarely great for anyone, but the root problem is not the people being added but the minuscule scraps they're forced to fight for while the rich get richer.

Barring outliers like NYC, the US is centuries away from even population density _parity_ relative to most of the rest of the world.
Unless you know something about SHA-512 that I don't, calling it less secure than SHA-512/256 seems like a mistake.
see the zapcc developer's post on clang.devel:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/42...
> your reading comprehension is subpar and you don't have a grip on reality

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Please don't do this. The comment would be fine without the first sentence.
You find it very, very hard to get outraged because you either use GA yourself and do not wish to acknowledge your complicity in the matter or you've simply failed to make the obvious leap from analytics to clickstream data.

Google wants to know what web pages you visit, when, and how often, and a GA beacon that phones home that information placed on every web page is the easiest way for them to do it.

EDIT: there are either a lot of angry GA users in this thread or Google apologists. Either was, I do believe Google is now or will soon use GA for clickstream tracking. I also believe this is why they offer to host frequently requested assets like JQuery.
I could be wrong, but I think the previous poster was asking about getting API access to Watson itself, not the cooking site.
http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=nzj105e6ugn
> Nordics are in the midst of dismantling their system

Are we? Being a Nordic citizen, I'd like to hear more about this. Can you give me some pointers?
What a great tool. I wish it was more customizable
http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=ssa105e6rw0
Foreign doctors get trained for free and then move to the US. We have a shortage here anyway.
It seems that their protection is based on Disconnect. Does that mean I can get the same level of protection with this feature instead of using Disconnect?
Sorry, but I can't agree with most of it.

- Using open source is a completely different choice from the build vs. buy (false) dichotomy. Open source lets you have full control of your future, while not needing to write all the code yourself. It's a best of both words scenario that'll only create more problems than the alternatives if you have licensing incompatibilities.

- Yes, engineers are biased towards "build". And executives are extremely biased towards "buy". Keep both in mind. I've lost count of how many times I saw somebody spending 6 figures buying some software that didn't solve the problem, just by having the problem solved later by a single engineer working less than 6 months on it.

- Yes, most of the cost of any software is maintenance. That true for buying as well as building. Except that you can be sure that maintenance of built software goes to making it better, on brought software that varies a lot (know your suppliers).

- Finally, that doubt about buying software that sustain your core domain... If you can buy software that solves exactly your core domain, are are on the wrong domain.
Proof, yet again, that end users give zero shits about security.

Just give me my free stuff!
What, exactly, do you believe this proves?
SHA-512 allows a length extension attack that SHA-512/256 does not. Some links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack
http://cryptopals.com/sets/4/challenges/29/
Weird. If browsers can detect these trackers, could an alternative be to just de-prioritize the trackers, so they load last and won't slow down page load time (since I assume they're invisible anyway?)
Rlite is a fast JavaScript router
Much of "the best nutritional and scientific knowledge" is hardly science and mostly magical thinking. Nutrition studies are probably the most misleading "scientific" papers out there. When John Ioannidis demonstrated in 2005 that most medical research findings are false, he singled out two particularly grievous offenders: genetics and nutrition. Yes, we know a few things about what's healthy and what's not, but precious few.

Most of nutritional "findings" are based on sketchy statistics run on inaccurate data obtained from really bad experiments. If anything, what little evidence there is suggests that there may not even be such a thing as "healthy" or "unhealthy" food, but food that may be more or less healthy for a specific individual. And what is more certain (from large scale statistics) is that the effect food has on our health (within a reasonable margin) is quite small in most healthy people without some genetic anomalies. What makes it seem large is simply magical thinking (or placebo, if the two are different).

Which raises the far more interesting question of why is it that otherwise scientifically minded people treat nutrition as a science rather than the "science" it really is? The psychologist and anthropologist Jonathan Haidt believes that this is a psychological manifestation of a drive for "purity" (one of several common moral drives he's classified in many societies) as it expresses itself among some people, especially liberals. He says conservatives channel purity to sex and liberals to food. He says people in all cultures believe that some behaviours contaminate us; conservatives tend to think those behaviors are sex related, and liberals think they're food related. Which is why accounts of people "feeling more energetic" after changing their diet read just like conversion stories -- they are simply two manifestations of the same phenomenon. And just like what religion people convert to doesn't matter, the accounts of being "more energetic" and "feeling better" are the same no matter what diet people switch to (of course, sometimes you read other accounts, but such is the nature of placebo -- it's complicated). As long as there is the slightest excuse to justify a particular choice of diet -- and in the case of science fans that can be a "science" paper -- psychology kicks in.
Nice PR piece for Shazam. Does anybody do actual reporting anymore?
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9593988.
Unmasking Pirated Premium WordPress Plugins (& the malware that comes with them)
Ah but type annotations allow tools like QuickCheck to exist, so you can automatically catch those logic errors too!
I can't find the original source, the best related article I found is http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2679107/Mind-...
Sam Zell’s Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS) is the largest mobile home park owner in America, with controlling interests in nearly 140,000 parks. In 2014, ELS made $777m in revenue, helping boost Zell’s near-$5bn fortune.

I first read up on Zell when EQR took over my low-income housing in East Palo Alto a few years ago. It's clear that his investment strategy is so unethical it borders on despicable. Zell's entire fortune is built on exploiting the REIT tax loophole:

Equity Residential, a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in the acquisition, development, and management of multifamily properties in the United States. As of December 31, 2007, it owned and invested in 579 properties in 24 states and the District of Columbia consisting of 152,821 units. The company qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, it would not be subject to federal income tax to the extent that it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. Equity Residential was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. (sources: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=EQR, http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=ELS)

So what happens to a community when all of its wealth is getting funneled out tax-free? To just a handful of ridiculously overpaid executives who get tax-free compensation?
How to TAME Your TEMPER
In other words, investing in future will actually make sense.
It would've been great to have this available on mobile too. Do they expect people to cook next to their computers? Phones/tablets are _the_ device to use in the kitchen for this sort of thing.
If it's on Google's servers, then clearly Mozilla employees aren't the only ones with access to it, and the anonymization he's referring to is mere IP address anonymization, where the last octet of an IPv4 address is zeroed. The viability of browser fingerprinting as demonstrated by the EFF's Panopticlick shows cookies, cross-domain or otherwise, are no longer the only viable means to persistently tracking users.
LibreSSL removed a significant portion of the optimized ASM from OpenSSL. This means that for key operations it is significantly slower.
My understanding of the NIMBY thing is it's either: A) keep everything the way it is so that things don't change for me or B) keep everything the way it is so that my home value goes up. The arguments you use to enact a NIMBY strategy are not really important.

So type A NIMBYs were "right" in that they didn't want BART to go through their neighborhood because it would case the neighborhood to change, and lo and behold it did. Type B NIMBYs were "wrong" if they argued against BART because it had a positive effect on their home values.