skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forced servitude? you gotta be kidding... Let's look at the world as it is today: work for money. Is that slavery? No. Let's look at the world I'm proposing: guaranteed work for guaranteed money. Is that slavery? according to you, yes. If you're saying one is slavery and the other isn't, then I have to disagree.

>guaranteed job idea are that it presupposes a judgment about what types of work are inherently valuable (and does so at the cost of exploring the unknown)

Picking up the trash and cleaning up the neighborhood are unknown high risk ventures? Fixing pot-holes, washing graffiti off walls, planting trees, picking litter off the beach, helping the environment have no benefit to society? There are PLENTY of jobs that can be created that are not high risk ventures and can benefit all of society. I'm not proposing to start another NASA program.

Are you trying to say that paying people money to sit on their asses while entire cities have thousands of little problems is a more worthwhile venture then telling someone to help out the community in exchange for the same amount of money? Your reasoning being that we as human beings are not intelligent enough to make judgement about which types of work are more valuable?

Make a judgement on this: which is more valuable? Helping the community for money OR sitting on your ass for money?
I think you'll still need to carefully prepare the samples.
> Go set up your own bank that is not an intermediary but instead issues dollars.

Wait, wait, wait. There are different types of banks? How many different types? Let's start again, talking about all of these types. How do they interact? Got any good links?
Who would be scared?

The only thing this would prevent would be to offer a modified version of the software on a SaaS model without opening the code for its modifications.
This post is a good example of why fact based interview questions are not useful. It's how information is gathered and applied which separates the wheat from the chaff.

Einstein puts it best:

One of Einstein's colleagues asked him for his telephone number one day. Einstein reached for a telephone directory and looked it up. "You don't remember your own number?" the man asked, startled.
"No," Einstein answered. "Why should I memorize something I can so easily get from a book?"
It's not specified in the legal documents. Take a look at the PDF's.

It's only "specified" in Kidd's own blog post.
They are deceased, but not yet cold.

I am good at my work, I take pride in it but recruiters commonly solicit me for perm or contract work for which I am completely unqualified. For example I do osx device drivers and windows gui so on a damn near daily basis I am approached by recruiters who want to submit me for windows device driver work, even at microsoft.

Their applicant tracking systems other do not support exact phrase matching or the recruiters dont know what it is. Neither do they ever attempt to read my resume, not even when they do submit me.

Many of my "colleagues" were obvious imposters who found work through recruiters. The recruiters dont care, they get paid, see.
For this reason I'm thinking of switching from gpg to encfs. It has an option for auto-unmounting after a period of unactivity. It would also play well with programs that need to read password from a file.

Has anyone else here had the same thought? This guy seems to at least;

https://github.com/equivrel/password-store-encfs/blob/master...

Edit: spelling
Basic income would only cover essentials such as shelter and food. While some people would choose to work because they enjoy their jobs, many would work to be able to buy a nice car, dishwasher, TV and other non-essentials. Unpleasant jobs might be the only choice for some people, particularly for unskilled workers.
That's strange.
CentOS 6.x is still very popular.
/adds to reading list

A very short introduction to the Haitian revolution can be found on CrashCourse World History https://youtube.com/watch?v=5A_o-nU5s2U
Does LibreOffice give security patches for eight-year-old versions of LibreOffice?
If I'm using a language and platform that I'm very used to, then not very often. In that case, I'd only use Google if I hit a weird bug in the platform that I haven't seen before or wanted to use a new capability.

When I'm just starting out on a new platform I'll Google a lot though. I find it's good to keep a blog of everything with a new platform that took more than an hour to figure out.

These days, there's a definite lack of appreciation for rote learning of frequently used information.
Meh, you can already do this with a query AST. For every request, grab the user's data permissions represented in the same query AST and then AND them together. Compile your query AST into whatever search technology (I've seen it done with ES, Postgres, MySQL, Mongo, Solr, and Rethinkdb in the last couple years). If you're being super fancy you can even use your query ast to match on a document stream in real-time by compiling to some actual programming language and checking things on whatever document stream.
Netflix tends to have some degree of physical presence in many places due to their DVD-by-mail service. That's one good argument for splitting that into a separate legal entity.
It's best to be rigorous about it in case you refactor or export the function, and to make sure you get a green light from valgrind.
>I work out of 1871, a Chicago incubator, and I'm surrounded by several hundred companies that are all going to have to implement this tax in their software if they want to sell locally.

How is this different than any other local tax in that regard?
The Gradation Rates from Every School District in One Map
And shipping with kernel 2.6 and being 4 years old.
Why is it that myth has more importance to a tribe than reality?
>The amount of stupidity in design is astounding

Please, elaborate on all the design stupidity that the Tesla solves.

I've test driven a Tesla. It's awesome, thanks to the amazing torque delivery that comes from electric motors. It's a paradigm shift for a long time car guy, and has to be experienced to be understood.

..but, other than that...it's just a luxury car. What exactly has it "solved" that every other car company is still doing "stupidly"?
Revamped Bubble Wrap Loses Its Pop
I'm guessing there's a web stack of some type, backed by a database, perhaps with an API mid-layer. Probably some type of FTP or other content upload system for articles, and an image origin for a CDN. Also, perhaps a data ingestion and ETL system.
We need it because there are quite a few people in America who do not believe in equality in the least, even though they may say they do. Being gay is a choice...it's a choice to believe in who you really are, and not try to be something you're not, and furthermore, to LOVE whoever you become. For a white, heterosexual, adult man like myself, that choice comes with no pre-defined societal restrictions. But stray from any one of those character traits, and suddenly society finds you reprehensible. I'm not saying the choice to believe in and love yourself is any harder or easier for anyone on the planet, but what I am saying is that inherently, there are a lot of hurdles to get over when one chooses to "come out" as being gay.

A member of my band is gay, and he spent several years during the first years I knew him hiding that fact from the world. Only when I began to really get closer to him did I find out his "secret". He asked me if I cared, and the look in his eyes was that of fear. Fear that I would immediately reject him because of his internal chemistry. But I didn't, and we remain friends and band-mates to this day. He later grew up a bit and came to find out that being gay isn't so bad, in fact there are a lot of things about being gay that are rewarding and awesome. He's much more comfortable in who he is today, and much happier as a result of it. His choice to act upon and embrace his homosexuality, rather than shy away from it, made him an all-around better person.

That's pride.
yeah it makes sense the 2.6 kernel is too ancient. They have kept it patched up, but upward and onward!
The tax seems like a bad idea to me as well, but in what way is it going to kill jobs? Doesn't it apply to Chicago-based and non-Chicago-based companies equally?
AWS Summit Chicago 2015 keynote
http://www.howtogeek.com/128087/how-to-run-chrome-os-in-virt... :)
HN is not really amenable to humor, but there are no situations that are above being made light of, only people who get offended by it.
Yeah it's huge in the enterprise. Not everyone has migrated to 7.x with systemd yet.
I'll take a little of the publisher bait (I sit on the board of a "dinosaur paywall publisher"). I'd like to question the popular thinking that publishers do not add anything of value.

There has never been a time in history when it has been easier to publish your research output in any number of other places than a paywall journal. You can post it on your own blog. You want a DOI? You can post it on The Winnower. You need it in a journal with an impact factor (even though you hate impact factor)? Submit it to PLOS One or PeerJ.

By publishing with a paywall journal you are acknowledging the fact that your field values the prestige awarded by that journal. That's what you're getting, the prestige. You can argue all day about whether that prestige is earned or not, but it's not the publishers that are dictating the prestige, it's the tenure committees and faculty. Everyone is "against" the journal impact factor until it comes time to apply for tenure, at which point your tenure committee weighs it so highly that you can't avoid pandering to it. So you publish in the highest impact factor journal.

We're all hoping to change this system. Publishers don't like being held hostage by Thomson Reuters (who controls impact factor) and having to constantly worry about the next year's impact factor. In a lot of ways we'd all love to move to academia-accepted alternative metrics. I would love a system that allows third parties to provide editorial review of the importance of a paper, and allow that to be separated from the journal. As a publisher that's what we're really trying to do, provide a way to judge the importance of a paper before you can get all the citation data coming in over the years. I would love to figure out a different way of doing so. But changing that means changing deep-rooted behavior throughout all of academia. And that is HARD.
It's unclear: the article makes claims that can't be substantiated:

* The legal documents don't mention any payment (required or otherwise) to EFF.

* The EFF doesn't mention any payment (required or otherwise) from CL.

* Only 3taps' own blog mentions this, which the article quotes extensively without attribution.
Yes.

Thats because I dont regard craigslist job postings as useful to anyone.

I built my first index just for santa cruz county, on north monterey bay, to assist my coworkers in bailing from live picture because kate mitchell got the bright idea to shorten her commute by moving our office to san jose.

Just before our announced IPO, there was a reverse seven to one stock split, Kate resigned, live picture declared bankrupcy.

Dont Piss Me Off.
Aren't universities the main customer of journals already? They pay millions for subscriptions.
I miss the days when I was developing in mostly only one language (C) and mostly only one environment (X11/Motif), all the searching I needed to do could be done on my bookshelf that was filled by the awesome O'Reilly 'Definitive guides to the X11 system' series and other related books (like the great 'Software portability with Imake', for example)

It was so nice to have all the knowledge I needed at my fingertips and I was always sure to visit any technical bookstore if I was abroad to see if there were other O'Reilly books I didn't own; I remember when I went on vacation in England feeling so bad about not being able to buy all the books I wanted in London because I didn't have enough space in my luggage...

Nowadays having to switch at a moment's notice between perl, python, C and java, as well as many, many, many related environments/libraries I don't think I could function without google, there is just too much information available and it changes way too fast.

It's not like it's any more complicated than it used to be (I think at one point I ended up subclassing the XmText widget to support rectangular selections, which took a while to get working) it's just the volume that makes it difficult to keep more than a couple of environments fresh in your brain without having to be online to refresh your memory.
He was enticed into a the murder for hire scheme by the agent who was stealing from the evidence, by pinning the theft on the object of the murder for hire plot. Doesn't get much dirtier than that.
I wasn't very convinced by this article, and it took me until the end to get to the punchline, it's written by a founder of "a startup that is bringing back the arcade as a platform and marketplace for virtual reality innovation."

My main issues:

* The author talks a lot about arcades as a social environment - this is absolutely true, but when people are strapped into HMDs in 15'x15' rooms, I just don't see how those same dynamics come into play. Sure you could have displays of what people are experiencing, but it's not the same kind of visceral or fluid experience that the best arcades have. You can't drop in on a game, or even see multiple players interacting in a physical space - ironically (or fittingly) you'd have better social interactions virtually

* Yep, VR is expensive. It takes a fair amount of gear that will be obsolete in a year or two, and the author's argument that good VR requires 1:1 motion and a large amount of floorspace (individual 15'x15' rooms, conservatively) and it doesn't sound like a very palatable (or profitable) business venture to me.

I could see some aweomse social experiences like The Void that use VR HMDs for shared mix-reality use (cavernous warehouses w/ redirected walking, practical effects, etc), but that's pretty far from the author's suggestion of putting regular consumer VR arcades up (I can also see existing PC bangs/KTV/room-based Internet cafes in Asia transitioning to VR if there is demand assuming that multiple people/headsets can interact in a shared space (otherwise the economics still doesn't make sense), but IMO VR arcades that just house regular VR experiences seem DOA.
> I work out of 1871, a Chicago incubator, and I'm surrounded by several hundred companies that are all going to have to implement this tax in their software if they want to sell locally.

Making it even less likely that a new company would want to start there.

> We're going to kill this thing.

Thank you. This kind of thing needs a rapid response wherever it crops up, lest it spread elsewhere. "This was tried elsewhere and quickly repealed" is an argument that makes it far easier to vote down such measures elsewhere.
React integration should make implementing good server-side rendering much easier. There is already a discussion and community project around this: https://github.com/meteor/react-packages/issues/15
I either type in my query in google, or the comment box on hacker news. Same effort, different results.
All pre-2007 versions have been end of life/support for a while now. So yes.
Oh. Now I understand Illinois.
Memorizing documentation and obscure bash tricks is the last thing a developer should be expected to do.

Even reading the documentation (in its 'raw' form) can sometimes be harmful, because you miss out on the contextual information that a search engine provides. Especially if you're new to a language or domain, it's easy to fall victim to the XY problem [0] - you comb the docs trying to implement your perceived solution, when a simple Google search or Stack Overflow answer would give you the solution you're really looking for in seconds.

If something is important to you, you'll absorb it over time anyways.

[0] http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=XY+Problem
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/world/asia/prominent-north...

http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-pa...

http://adamcathcart.com/2014/10/09/north-korea-misinformatio...

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/north-korean-...
> America will be about the last place to attempt this

We came much closer than anyone seems to remember under Nixon in the 70's.

http://www.remappingdebate.org/article/guaranteed-income%E2%...
anytime I hear an Einstein story I assume it's made up.
Ok I understand you now. You are simply defining "baseline" to be "free of negative mutations". But this is not a useful definition for these purposes. Given that you have stated that genes account for 50% of variability in intelligence (whether this variability stems from positive or negative mutations doesn't matter), you would actually disagree with the claim that "we are all born basically with equal potential"

Your definition of "normal" in this context is not relevant and distracts from the actual issue of genetic variability vs environment. Imagine a teacher saying "no, you didn't miss out on the intelligence gene. You just have a lot of bad genes that make you less intelligent."
Will we get all the juicy details in "I am Victoria, ex-AMA liaison. AMA."?
Why is this embarrassing? You moved something from local memory to remote disk and found it when you needed it again using a sophisticated index. Seems like a well-functioning system to me!
The browser never hangs my desktop, everything stays fluid. It is only the browser itself which slows down to a crawl.

That the desktop stays functional probably is due to it being rather minimalistic - Xmonad, dzen2/dmenu, conky and trayer. It does all it needs to do, no more.
/r/Science is gone too.

Reddit is biting the hand that feeds it...
The software I work on, MAAS, is also licensed under the AGPL. It is the perfect license for a lot of projects.

https://maas.ubuntu.com/
Sighs. You really don't get it do you.

Basic income (NB not minimum income!, not negative income tax!) is not means tested at all. No means test period. Everyone gets it. From the beggar to the millionaire. This is a totally different concept to means tested benefits. The proposal is a so called universal benefit.
I miss the days where you could become an expert in one language and work completely offline. Things have changed so much though, with everyone expected to be "full stack" and have a working knowledge of a wide variety of constantly changing APIs. Now, having n years experience in one language no longer seems relevant. Your value comes from your ability to understand requirements and marry different pieces of technology together. I don't feel as smart having to constantly look things up.
>No. Ulbricht was charged in multiple jurisdictions for multiple crimes.

So you keep saying.

I'm not sure what you're arguing here. You agree in other threads that Ulbricht was charged of separate crimes in New York and Maryland courts.

Guilt of crimes which according to you are not related.*

I'm not saying the crimes were unrelated at all. I'm saying that the sentencing phase of a trial is different from the guilt phase. In sentencing hearings, the normal rules of evidence are relaxed, so evidence that was excluded from trial can be considered.

Maybe they affected sentencing then?

That's exactly what I'm saying, and that's the reason those allegations and underlying evidence were introduced at the sentencing hearing: to show that Ulbricht deserves to be locked up for a long time.

And since the testimony has been reduced from "let's convict Ulbricht of murder for hire" to "character witness hearsay from disgraced and corrupt federal agents who themselves provoked the alleged crimes by stealing many hundreds of thousands of dollars from Ulbricht"; can sentencing be revisited by the court, or is a new trial required?

Separate case. Ulbricht was convicted of several counts, each of which by themselves would justify a 20+ year sentence or life sentence. It wasn't even necessary to bring up the murder-for-hire allegations. The prosecution only did that because Ulbricht's lawyer tried to argue that he was really just a good guy.

The sentencing can be appealed, but there's a 0% chance that he would succeed at reducing the sentence given that it's well within the established guidelines for crimes of this nature. It's also possible to appeal the underlying conviction, but there's almost 0% chance of that as well, since the murder-for-hire allegations and the acts of the corrupt Maryland federal agents were not relevant to the New York convictions.
Does anyone know if there is a way to make something equivalent to this but using GPG's symmetric crypto instead of public crypto? This way you don't need to carry a key file around with you, just the encrypted secrets.
> I think BMW is the one being hurt by them the most.

Well, I've also seen plenty of BMW electric cars on roads these days. I believe it is their i-series of cars. http://www.bmwusa.com/bmw/BMWi
Is Google losing their competitive moat?
I've always been surprised that Intuit (maker of TurboTax) hasn't taken more heat for openly lobbying against making taxes easier to pay. I don't think that's the only or even the primary reason we don't have simpler taxes, but it's so shameless.

http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-...
I would say that the paradigms are a bit different between meteor+react and pouchdb+react. I can't say I am expert in either. I have never used pouchdb, but I am well versed in meteor.

If I understand correctly pouchdb is an in browser implementation of couchdb and some api's which allow the pouchdb to synchronize with a remote, server side couchdb. It is lightweight, allows for easy set up and integration, and really focuses on the database side of things.

Meteor has this same sort of functionality and one could easily say that Meteor and pouchdb could serve nearly the exact same purpose, with the key difference being that Meteor uses mongo as opposed to pouchdb's couchdb. However, Meteor is aiming to be more than an in browser database with remote server synchronization. It also has a robust server side api with many other built in tools and features. I guess I could list out some of them, but I would suggest instead that docs.meteor.com would do a better job at this (I am not trying to say read the docs, I am just saying, they are well laid out and will be more helpful than me!).

I guess I would say pouchdb is a minimalist solution for those who want to synchronize data from client to server and have an offline solution available. Meteor is a complete, and somewhat picky, client/server framework. Their functionality may intersect in some small areas but they both serve very different functional purposes.
Yeah. I didn't use Google (or any other search engine) when I started. For some I had an electronic reference with some syntax. But you know what I really used? The printed reference, either a manual for a language or a printed copy of it if the original was in electronic form. I'd have this stack of 200 pages of printed paper..

Nowadays I'm kind of scared of how much I rely on Google and StackOverflow, and fear I'm being too reliant on other people's knowledge, but you know what - there was an alternative, and it sucked.
But the financier of the research is already paying for the research to be done, rarely for their economic interest, but so that it gets out there, establishes the science, furthers knowledge, cements reputations, etc. For research done by economic interests the incentive is even stronger, a drug company, say, wants to get their drug out, proven, marketed.

Your response seems high on derision, but you've not actually made any point about why it shouldn't be the people paying for the research's role to pay for the research's availability.

The counter arguments is on availability, the hegemony of large institutions, and the lack of transparency of funding bodies.

So, other than derision, accusations of naked emperors, and a variation of "didn't used to be like that", what actually is your problem with that model?