skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, my aim was to remove Jamestown from the equation, as that was not some failed experiment in socialism, but a poorly planned colony.

In terms of what you're looking for, there is not pure society like that. The closest you'll get are nations that highly socialist. Here's a Quora question on the topic: http://www.quora.com/Which-are-the-rich-socialist-countries-....

Fully removing incentives doesn't work, but I would claim you do need to make sure people avoid the poverty trap (and that's only part of it).

To respond to your other question, the classic example would be mortgage backed securities that were part of the housing crisis. They provided -some- value, but overall, they were nothing more than scheme to make money off people's payments and nonpayments of mortgages.

Also, CEO's, on average, make 300% of the average worker's salary. I'm not sure the average CEO is 300% more productive than an field worker or an engineer. They do have a hand in leading the organization, but honestly, most of that work is done by the people below them in the org chart.
> No quantity of money can end poverty

What definition of poverty are you using? Certainly studies have been done: https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2013-01-19/...

> the quantity of money existing is pretty much irrelevant to that.

I mean, that's what I'm saying, but as it is now, if I had a billion dollars, I could build a few wells in Africa, yanno?

> Money is debt...

Clearly, but in addition to that, my point is that the system of money needs people to be in debt. There's no "neutral state" as it were, and indeed, many of the efforts of the IMF and World Bank are calculated to get poor countries further in debt.
I am positively sure that is not the case.

There have been "modern" human beings (homo sapiens sapiens) for at least several tens of thousands of years. Even accounting for the fact that human population today is much bigger than it's historical median level, you would expect that if 94% death rate was anywhere near accurate (and assuming a power law distribution of age), you would have no trouble to find a few people that are 200-300 years old. I don't feel the need to calculate the actual numbers, but I suspect that it would be plausible to believe there was at least one "millenial" (someone older than 1,000 years) alive today.

Instead, what embryology tells us is that the power of life and the power of death are not opposite to each other, but deeply entangled. Your body is what it is in equal parts by the fact that many of your cells reproduced themselves and specialized, but many more committed suicide so that the whole organ could live and thrive. And if you stop cellular death, you don't get immortality, you get cancer.
Caterpillar sells some purportedly hardened android phones:

http://www.catphones.com/phones/b15-smartphone/

http://www.catphones.com/phones/s50-smartphone/
I don't think that's quite what they meant by that.

In silly "outside universe coordinates", inside the black hole you can define a "minimum inwards speed" as a function of distance from the singularity. This is how fast a photon will go towards the singularity if fired directly away from it. It's zero at the event horizon, and it increases as you go in.

Now, what (I think) logfromblammo was saying was, "If I'm at the event horizon, can there be someone close enough to the singularity that I can never catch up?"

Communication isn't much of a problem for two people falling into a black hole one after another if they're close enough. The messages from the person lower down don't "go up", they just go down more slowly than the person higher up. If they're too far apart, though, this might not work.
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I was laid off along with most of the engineering staff at the startup I was working at in February due to lack of funding. Since I'm based in NYC and my colleagues were very well connected people, the software community immediately reached out (like sharks smelling blood in the water, but in a good way :D) and most of us landed somewhere within a month or two.

It was quite a shock the way we were all let go and it seemed to catch many of us by surprise. I've been through this kind of event twice now in my career and it sucks, but I recognize that we are still in a really great market for software jobs right now, so there's nothing for me to cry about other than getting to work with that particularly awesome team anymore.
Investors will have problems if the gap is too large. They'll wonder what discussions aren't being had with the 20% cofounder, if that person is motivated to be part of the company for the long term, etc.

Unless you've done this many times before, its not really that big a deal to do an even split. Assuming success, you'll likely end up with less than half of your original equity, so what is a 20% gap now (huge!) might be 5% or less when you exit (ie no big deal).

Of course, go with a vesting schedule and cliff. And to make up for them coming on later, perhaps you start with 40 / 40 / 20 but have a plan (that you share with them) to grant them additional equity each year until it's roughly even, so as they prove their worth and commitment you make them an even cofounder.
Saying a lot of "you" makes the impression that you(!) think I think that way. I haven't posted my own opinion though. I just added another reason people(!) have for working.

About the other argument you are right. Other people's respect is also an important reason to work.
This.

To me this

-) is a sign of an area or areas of still not recognized core problems leading to tackling it from different angles

-) it could be connected to the average age of developers in the field responsible for the choice of their tools. They will settle for something with time ... eventually ;)

-) bears resemblance with an earlier me, eager to find the latest, newest and most importantly most different way to ... well, what actually? Most probably traverse the unknown landscapes of new, landscapes of "my way"

-) is worst than it used to be, as the _really_ old ppl say ;) ... or I changed the sides, moved on on this spectrum of professional attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
(Assuming you are the author of the post)

Did you watch the network traffic that apps send home? I would be curious to know, of the top games in the app store that see wifi data, how many of them actually send it back to their servers.

I've been running mitmproxy for a project, giving me rare insight into the data that leaves my phone. It's amazing how often android/ios apps "phone home." Every few seconds, apple and google servers receive a request from my phone with fingerprint information sufficient to pinpoint my location on a map. Usually the current WiFi SSID is included in that.

It has me wondering if there is viability in a consumer-grade "man in the middle" router for auditing/filtering the traffic leaving the user's home network.
This has nothing to do with Instagram's TOS. This is an argument about whether or not this falls under the US's Fair Use doctrine to determine whether or not the instagram user can assert copyright over the images being used by Prince.
To the best of my knowledge, the intention is to deprecate fstab(5) entirely in favor of automatic GPT partition discovery. Where this isn't possible, systemd-fstab-generator(8) will translate the contents of fstab(5) into native systemd units (mount, automount, swap...) and henceforth the semantics will be subject to the ordering and scheduling policies of systemd itself.

Mount and swap units are in theory supposed to just be wrappers to the regular system tools that merely extend them to the Unit semantics, but as a whole I'm unsurprised that these assumptions may not play well with more complex storage configurations. That's always been a recurring systemd pain point.
Web has some advantages and remains important. But HTML/CSS/JavaScript will decline in the future. They are limited compared to native app technologies. Web will be used mostly as a JSON API.
> Guy who doesn't do anything about nvidia's blob, even though he could?

Well, other than flipping them off :)
i would strongly argue #4 is not a lie. show me a language with a third sex/gender, or really any classification system that is widely recognized, that has more then two options(or three if NA is an option).
Is there any time dilation in the same reference frame as where the singularity is forming?

(I'm running on rules of thumb rather than a genuine understanding of GR: I would normally answer "no", but "frame of reference" might not be a useful concept where a singularity is forming)

It is kinda neat that the only time where a singularity has formed is contained within the place where the singluarity formed. That isn't even yo dawg.
The real problem seems to be that Nate Silver's (and 538's) brand value exceeded the available payment from NYTimes. So he did the rational thing and tried to capture it in the open market.

But Nate's a stats guy, not a marketer. Brand dilution is a thing. I don't begrudge him for selling out. I just wish my domain-based trust filter hadn't been broken in the process.

I sure hope they put together some solid election coverage.
One might argue that a majority can not decide anything since it's not an agent, nor is the relative amount of people who share a specific opinion somehow relevant in most of contemporary politics.

Also taxation is not a one way route as it might backfire through tax avoidance or just collective time re-allocation.

I'd bet there is no single agent on any developed country either powerful enough or knowledgeable enough to implement the UBI as it will most likely require massive legal and political changes.

So I guess it's pretty obvious why no one implemented the UBI yet.

Edit: never mind. I guess I miss understood you. Sorry.^^
I consider Onshape to be a big win for web: https://www.onshape.com/

It is a full-fledged CAD design software (think Solidworks) that runs on the web.
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It looks like the author's name is Pete Egoscue
If your devices have been compromised by federal agents, you can probably get a lot for them on ebay from security researchers and other interested parties.
I'd imagine that there's a great deal of prior work, research, and implementation detail on Maglev trains in Japan on this very issue. Not to say that you're not right, but that this test track is probably precisely what's needed for an initial test, since the other issues (commonly solved with expansion joints) are being actively tackled/solved by many different industries.
Modern Nokia feature phones get battery life of 2-5 weeks depending on talk time. I use one.
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>And yet any media player beats it at its core functionality: video playback.

I would argue YouTube's core functionality is "making it easy to share videos with family, friends, and the world". Allowing playback of the videos on the page makes this functionality easier.

>Often I find myself using youtube-dl to fetch a youtube video and just play it in a regular media player because it just works better than what browsers have to offer.

I do this too - although only because an addon I have causes Firefox to memleak if I leave a YouTube tab open too long. Rather than finding the problem and fixing it - I download a video I want to watch and close the YouTube tab. Honestly my video player of choice (MPC-HC) does exactly what the YouTube player does. It plays the video. Not a whole lot of bells and whistles needed to do that.
The company was failing and I knew the end was near. The entire design department was let go a few weeks earlier and I was assured that this wouldn't happen to me (don't ever believe management when they tell you this. Everyone is expendable).

Well, I was brought into a room and let go the following Monday. The boss even got pissed when he asked me if I would not look for a job for awhile because he "might want to hire me back" and I said "no". Within a few weeks, the office was sold and the rest of the employees were let go.

It took me 2 weeks to figure out an idea for a company and I made my first $50 within a month. This lasted about 2 years and I had to get another job when the business failed. I pivoted that original idea a year later..and I've been doing pretty well running my own business since then (3 years now).
This is exactly the sort of post that you find regarding quick fix solutions and Make Money Fast schemes. Don't believe in the magical cure-all nature of Trend Of The Week? So bitter and negative.
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Let's break things down nice and simple. As you said, everyone needs a roof over their head and food in their belly. Well, there's plenty of that to go round. We don't need to fiat more money or otherwise increase the money supply, because as you astutely observed, that would potentially lead to a post-war Germany-type situation. If, however, the world's poorest were gifted adequate funds from the world's richest, they would be able to afford the biological necessities.
Wow, is Lua now the canonical example of a language that uses 1-origin indexing? No one remembers Fortran anymore? God I feel old...
Interesting link, thanks for posting it. The analogy to eminent domain is a clever one.

This reminds me of a bit I heard recently about early British hunter-gatherers and the transition to agriculture.

http://loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=15-P13-00009&se...

An interesting question that comes up is why British hunter gatherers were slow to adopt agriculture when there is a 2,000 year gap in when wheat was first introduced and when Britain become more agricultural. One possibility is that they simply didn't want to become more agricultural.

"..it may well have been the case that the Mesolithic peoples of Europe really did not want to switch to an agricultural economy, but at some point they would have had to switch as their own hunter-gatherer economy would have ceased to be viable as they lose more land to this encroaching advancement of arable agriculture."
Analysis Paralysis, Gavin on changing the one-megabyte blocksize limit
> Every voluntary exchange is a net plus or it wouldn't occur.

This generalization is justified if, and only if, there are no externalized costs and the perfect knowledge of resulting utilities pillar of the rational choice model accurately reflects reality; neither of these are true generally of real-world transactions, so the generalization is unjustified.

Like the world without friction of many introductory mechanics problems, the world of Econ 101, while it may be a useful foundation for building an understanding of the real world, is very much not the real world.
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I don't know if git-annex does that. Could you make a subvolume of the right size? Or create a new user and set its disk quota to the size you want?
I felt more concerned by the behavior of the Facebook and Whatsapp applications as the author described them. At first guess, the poor notification for new messages might reflect the absence of a proper multitasking OS.

On the other side, chances for these applications to be legit seem quite low considering that nobody seems to have any clue where and by whom these phones are manufactured. This constitutes a big opportunity for a serious widespread scam scheme being built up (or already operational).

Any security folks looking into it?
Fastmail's mobile webapp is a webapp done right. It feels like a native app that is a natural extension of the full-featured website -- but it isn't native.

And it's blazing fast.
"Damn right" is exactly the right response to criticism for not pulling 100 hour work weeks. Bravo.

Unless I'm saving babies and kittens or planning a Mars mission, you won't see me spending my entire life in a cubicle.
While we could debate terminology and classification over the contract status, I consider it a termination given that A. It was an ongoing work assignment and I had continued to receive new work up until the notice to not renew, and B. I had to go through an off-boarding process.
Angular is helpful because it promotes things like loose-coupling, dependency injection, modularity, re-use and the factory pattern.

Modularity and code re-use are like apple pie and motherhood. The real question is, do you need dependency injection and the factory pattern to get those things? In JavaScript, the answer is no you don't, because you have closures and first-class functions. Patterns like DI and Factory were invented to compensate for the deficiencies of Java, they are superfluous in JavaScript.
Nah, there's a pretty big difference (mentally) between SO and Instagram.

You put your code on SO with the intention of giving it to someone else, potentially many others. That's the entire point in SO and it's pretty clear from the start that that's what you're doing there.

You put your photos on Instagram so you can show them to your friends. Instagram is a storage space for your photos. When someone looks at your photo, the intention is that you're showing them the photo, rather than giving them the photo. (Un)Fortunately, when computers are concerned, showing and giving are the same thing.

The fact that people think of showing and giving as different, but their smart devices treat them the same, results in a lot of friction. The entire DRM industry and respective legislation is concerned with aligning computer behaviour with (some) human expectations.

So yes, I agree that Instagram works the same as Stack Overflow, but that's not what people's instinctive expectation is.
What Can It Be Worth?
It seems like simple trolling trying to hide behind dissent

And every one of your posts comes off as simple shilling. Interesting how that goes, isn't it?
Weave 0.11 Is Out: Comes with Distributed IP Address Management
> I have enough trouble remembering what I did yesterday, let alone last month.

I have started to write this down, for my own good. Writing what I did at the end of the day, makes it easy to pick up where I left it the next day.

Additionally, for reviews&stuff I now have a list of everything I've done I can check before the meeting. The list makes it easy to remember that I should bring up how I solved issue X promptly Y months ago.
> I didn't mean to make it sound like a business strategy (entirely), I mean it more as a natural progression of how people function. If as an engineer you are spending a lot of time working on Openstack, I'm sure you want to see the new advances and features in the product that you've invested so much time and effort into get into the distro ASAP, as long as they are stable

That's not really up to us, though. We still have product managers and project managers and project leaders who decide that Feature XYZ is going into Openstack Zeta, which comes back around to the original issue.

If I'm an engineer spending a lot of time working on Openstack, it's likely that I'm spending all of my time (other than hobby projects and side projects) on Openstack, just like you may be spending it on whatever your mainline product is (if you're a dev).

All devs probably want to see their features hit stable as soon as possible with wide consumption, but Openstack is a good analogue to Fedora, in the sense that things are operating on a schedule. We aren't releasing new versions of Nova/Neutron/whatever whenever we want or whenever we think it's stable or cool. We try to orchestrate that.

Fedora tries to orchestrate projects.
Login and Pay with Amazon releases new SDKs, code samples, and docs
If someone tells me about an "app idea" without specifying platform I assume a mobile-native app. I do not think I am in the minority in this.
Add a comment to someone else's Instagram photo: not copyright infringement. Make 90K.

Sample one measure of a well known song in a hip hop tune: totally copyright infringement. Get sued for 90k.
A few years ago, I bought a Samsung quad-band flip phone for about $50. The battery lasted nearly two weeks with light usage.

If you just need a reliable phone, I'm sure they're still out there.
What about the keys? I was thinking of getting a mechanical keyboard but with shared space the noise would be a problem. I have heard a lot about the cherry switches but not about matias, so wondering about that.

It seems that the ergonomics is a bit touch and go by person. Its difficult for me to get these keyboards so I want to make a safer choice. Anyone has a thought if I should try for a more ergonomic keyboard for comfort or getting a mechanical one should be first priority.
In a way, but there are advantages to running an application in a web-based platform:

- Distribution is easier and doesn't require approval from a third party (such as app stores), providing less of a barrier to entry and more freedom to create what you want to.

- It can be easier to develop and you may not have to provide support for multiple versions of your app (because you can easily ensure that everyone is running the latest codebase).

- Common components/libraries that would be used across different applications can be part of the browser itself or cached for one app and re-used for other applications, instead of having to be packaged into a downloadable runtime application.

- Depending on your application, creating a cross-platform product may be easier and require less development and have built-in functionality like copy-paste and other functionality provided by the browser (history, bookmarking, etc).

- The user and other people have more power to use your application in more flexible ways (due to browser plugins), and the content can be crawled and made searchable/discoverable by a variety of companies.

- The hyper-linking built into the web offers easy, cross-site (and application) integration that may be difficult to accomplish in a native app. In fact, you may be limited to a certain application provided by the operating system (like a particular map provider on mobile)
China Consumer Electronics Show Disappoints
This is a follow up post (with additional context) to the post from yesterday.
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I never said they were. But requiring clear, obvious warnings on things is a large fraction of regulation and the relevant part to "helping people who can't read between the lines".

Regulation is rarely an outright ban, especially in this context.
this is like Yahoo when it was on the buffalo server
I would compare and contrast the experience you are describing with a podcast player like pocketcast.

Synchronized play state and playlists on all the devices. Offline handling of the media files with streaming as an option. Feed subscription but also podcast repository and ranking/trending screens.

All media files are by definition in independant feeds, and sharing a file URL is supported.

It brings a hugely better experience than youtube pr any online video service I've seen. I actually switched to my podcast player all the youtube channels that also have a separate feed.
According to Wikipedia [1], the only 3 passenger service operational Maglev lines have lengths of 18.95 miles, 5.5 miles, and 3.8 miles, which are in China, Japan and South Korea respectively. That would make it seem like it is far from a "solved" issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev#Operational_systems
As far as I can tell, this only works on Mac OSX, which doesn't seem to be explicitly stated. It seems worth pointing out.
It happened to me once, mainly for doing things like question the work/life balance (expectations were to work 60+ hours per week, no matter who the person was) - fortunately for me, I was prepared with a formal job offer at another company, and the day I was let go, I started at my next company 2 hours later.
U.S. Cable Operator Charter to Buy Time Warner Cable
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