skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, because that is how mean net worth is defined. I don't see specifically what that argues against, except that mean is not the best indicator to use in all situations; perhaps a different indicator is appropriate, such as the income per patron by percentile. 100th percentile will be Carlos Slim, but 99th percentile and lower will be other patrons.

If Carlos Slim actually does frequent the casino, then his attendance is an important part of understanding the situation.
> [Y]ou're no worse off.

Except your dignity, maybe?
NB, "this claim" is from Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Black Swans. Pretty credible, generally.

(Authorship matters. Particularly in discussions of authorship mattering.)
Most likely. He probably sits at his desk and watches a bunch of CCTV monitors or the time clock management server making sure no one leaves early
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Two words: air gap

I remember when Lockheed got hacked, I thought, why the hell were their CAD workstations connected to the Internet at all? So the engineers could check Facebook? And with so-called "Internet of things" it's only going to get more ludicrous.
In the last 24h I have seen this vid everywhere anybody known anything about it?
I don't make that much doing Engineering. Maybe I should go model.
One thing is having backup, another thing is having backup which is not overwritten by more recent backup.
Because it can be more efficient for each person to consistently perform their specialist career for two decades
He said tech companies, not startups.

For tech companies, it doesn't really matter. They have unlimited money (relative to the cost of an employee). For startups, it does.
Disclosure - I published an award winning street paper and eventually received an award for my contributions to progressive politics for my work. I know many many panhandlers across the country and am deeply biased in their favour.

That said, panhandling is one of the more impressive sales accomplishments in our modern world. Good panhandlers understand the math - about 15% of people give, 15% of people call you a bum/tell you to get a job/otherwise insult you, about 25% just walk by and the remaining 40% say no. Consequently, they have learned that the only way to make enough money is to be relentless and keep asking, even if the last person threatened to kick your ass. Good panhandlers will make 200-300 contacts a day...

As a sales problem, panhandling has almost no compare. Your only 'product' is your humanity. And, unfortunately, since many of the people who panhandle have some rough years behind them they don't always look very good.

As a startup type, I have way more in common with panhandlers than people who work for the government. Their hustle both amuses and inspires me.

That's all a long, roundabout way of saying, "Seriously, don't use the word beggar. With all due respect, you don't know how much pain that word causes."

As for the well dressed fellow with the iPod, he may not live on the streets - truth is that many panhandlers have homes. But, I assure you that his clothing and iPod are part of his pitch. People are nicer to folks who look like them.
Dual core? Your next laptop should have a quad core
Makes sense to me. I was talking to a trader the other day and I asked if he bought when Hilary's comments drove the prices down. Seems he turned a pretty penny for his firm.

The technology required is becoming more accessible, the research and break throughs certainly aren't going to stop, I guess the big question really becomes, which companies? Unless there's a bubble, because the profits don't materialize (in which case progress would slow only to pick up again down the road I figure).

Of course, you could probably buy a fund which tracks that particular segment of the market.
This article was probably written by a well off NYT journalist who doesn't need and therefor doesn't understand the need for these kind of campaigns, sounds like a "let them have cake" kind of statement.
So the nytimes article goes like "maybe, just maybe if we are in a bubble then it is going to hurt. and here are some signs that it is indeed a bubble". And the response is like "don't worry there is no bubble because you know, facebook is huge and software is eating the world". Not very convincing if you ask me.
It's almost as if you've never read historical journals of scientists saying silly things like "This obviously if the height of human achievement, we'll never possibly find anything better", over and over and over throughout history.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10488188
Or Forth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace
I personally use Fastspring. (Legally the sales are handled by Fastspring and I invoice them so they are the only party I have to care about when it comes to VAT).
As far as I can tell, the key takeaway is that the NYT has no trouble shaming the poor and middle classes for not having the support network the well-off can mobilize. I know executives who I wouldn't trust to run a bake sale without FTC oversight, but every time they fail there's another c-suite job waiting for them somewhere. Their panhandling is just done out of sight, over a good Malbec at the Capital Club.
That is great, i will think more deeply about the things that can stand me out, and i will build more interesting things... I definitely have to improve my website.

I followed a couple of tutorials, you are right... It is a bit difficult for me to be "creative" and build something original and striking... I have to improve this.

Thank you very much for your advice!
I disagree. Many companies I know started out by outsourcing development to some sort of agency and then brought some development in-house after the product is finished. Many agencies will give you a much stronger initial product, since they're used to making good v1 products.

Usually to be successful, the non-technical team must have complementary strengths, such as great domain knowledge and industry contacts, good sales ability etc. Purely technical startups are rarely successes outside of Silicon Valley, usually the tech needs to be married to a strong non-technical team that sets up sales, distribution networks, operations, etc
The reason this is a problem is because needs should be fulfilled collectively by our society and unfortunately they're largely not so people are forced to beg for money to save the lives of people in their family on the same platform as college graduates who want to buy a new gadget.
Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months
Those were usually red color filters which filtered out one of the noise channels, leaving the message.
Ask HN: How to find dev positions quickly on H-1B?
Hey guys,

I lost my job yesterday and I need to find something asap and I would need my H-1b portability transfer initiated no later than Dec 4th. I would prefer this to happen before thanksgiving.

My most recent language was C++ but professionally I have worked in C#, Java, Ruby, JavaScript & Python. I am open to any dev work.

I am currently living in Seattle but anywhere in Silicon Valley or Seattle would be perfect. Also, I wouldn't mind relocating to any area with decent public transportation.

Any suggestions on how to find something asap?

I would be more than happy to share my personal details over phone or email if you can reach out to me : msvzgt [at] gmail [dot] com

Thank you for your help!
That experiment has been done before! https://github.com/philipl/pifs
Misogyny? I do not think it means what you think it means.
But loans are also a critical way to get leverage. You buy some equipment for your farm up front so that you can produce more food immediately. If you have to save up for a year to buy that equipment, then you're far behind where you are if you buy it with a loan.

This is why most people buy houses with a mortgage: because they'd rather live in a house today and pay it off for 30 years, than save up for 30 years (while living where?) and buy it in cash at the end. Lending is generally a good thing.

I'm not sure what to do about the cost of lending to the poor. Perhaps there should be government aid of some kind to help them find jobs or start a business. Ultimately, every person needs to make the decision for themselves about whether it's better to save and buy the things they need in cash, or take a loan to buy those things now.
>I would prefer to see a civilisation of polymaths rather than a civilisation of narrowly trained craftsmen.

If you think that doing things gives you a more narrow education than taking classes... I suggest you spend more time with people who do things.
That link has gone wild:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/fashion/gofundme-gone-wild...
on the topic of news organizations... new news startup: http://betalist.com/startups/thus
Garry gave me one of the best advice over 6 years ago.

http://cl.ly/image/1e3o2W450h3w
In Finland my high school had one mandatory course on philosophy. It was really more "history of ontology" than actual philosophy. (There was maybe one instance when students had to form opinion on something, instead of memorizing what some dude had thought two thousand years ago. How do you call that philosophy?)

It was really unpopular because: "I think philosophy is stuff you kinda already know deep down. So why study it?" And now it's no longer mandatory.

Apparently analyzing a poem is important, but analyzing an argument is not.
That's interesting, could you elaborate on "creative accounting"?
So what would happen to these guys if the patent is granted? And do you think it is likely it will be?
Having a state not based on a geographical boundary would be interesting for democracy. You could join such a state based on your political alignment, and pay/not pay your taxes to them. It would be like working abroad.
It is working in UK. I wonder if he set it to EU-only then.
Because governments and large corporations want colored (or coloured) bits. (http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23)
Well, at least he could have enough paper at least.
I have to improve this, learn languages is something that i like to do too and i have to do it well. I try to practice every day reading things like news.ycombinator, Quora, Reddit etc. I appreciate your comment, very helpful.
> It looked like you are also confirming PG's observation but you ended with a skeptical tone.

Both of these things are necessary on HN if you want to maximize the number of upvotes.
Of course I had to see that after I'm done doing everything by hand...

Did you try any of the other implementations of the paper?
Webmail now seems to have disappeared.
You mean just printing new money to pay a UBI?
What should they do ?

Mining minerals ? Nobody mines minerals in on a planet, you use asteroids for that. Microgravity will make separation easier.

Occupying another planet ?

Everybody with understanding of history knows that it does not work, endless conflicts, suffering, problem, etc. Makes no sense, just take another one.

But our planet is so special!!
No its not, even our next neighbors have statistically speaking one habitable planet. Just because we only see the huge gas planets with our current observation tech does not mean there are not many smaller ones. Remember 15 years ago, they were unsure if planets in other systems did even exist, now we have 1000s found.

To far away ?
~ 1480 ly is not easily done, you need a type 2 spaceship with double fields which gives you restrictions on the minimum size and still there will be some upper limit on the travel speed for complex biological system like us. We have currently only type 0 spaceships (impulse based). EM-Drive is a type 1 thruster, but a very bad one. How fast you can be there really depends on your tech, it can be from 16h - 100s of years.

Just because you don't know if they are not doing anything, does not make it so. Its not a valid deduction.

Anyway, don't worry, most of the Galaxy is very friendly and we are the Klingon-Ferengi type of idiot the rest is laughing about.

If somebody wanted, they would have overtaken us already. Everything we have are toys compared to whats possible. Conflicts would just be so devastating, nobody would win. War never has winners, someone just looses more then the other, something we as a species still have not understood.
I take your point that floor space per person is probably a better metric than population density.

That said,

> high-density living (like SF) is pretty much the standard

I don't believe this. Yes, there are denser cities than San Fran, and yes, San Fran probably has more floor space per square mile than most European cities. Still, my default guess is that people living in San Fran have less floor space per person than average, for most reasonable choices of population to average over.

If you have statistics that show otherwise (don't have time to look currently), I'll gladly admit that I was wrong.

It's also not really relevant what the U.S. As a whole looks like.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/facebooks-new-name-pol...

It's also a problem that they immediately shut both the user themselves and their friends out of their account just over the user's name. Even with the changes they're making to reporting, the user's account completely disappears from the site until the "issue" is resolved. People might think something happened to them, and of course the user is still shut off from what may be their only means to communicate with some (or even all) important people in their lives or support groups.

Also, from what I can remember from helping my mom through that process, I don't think you can even export your own data if your account's been flagged. Even if you could, the export process is broken: exporting private messages is broken (a long, 50,000+ message conversation with a close friend doesn't export in full for me, and archived conversations also don't get included), and according to https://www.facebook.com/help/405183566203254, your notes, your own timeline posts, your posts on others' profiles, things you've shared, things you've liked, and your following list are also not included. (Edit: I also just noticed that photos don't export in the highest available resolution, and not all photos even export to begin with.)

Not to mention what happens to your ability to log in to other sites with your Facebook account (I honestly don't know about that one).

Overall, the way they handle real name "violations" is just way too drastic. I'd say they should give a 45- or 60-day warning before shutting off access to the account, and even then still allow the user to export their data (and fix the export process) and/or close the account. They also need to let other users access the suspended profile if the user doesn't choose to close it.
It's definitely relevant that my complaints are from a Haskell perspective (as this is a Haskell thread). If I'm working in just about any procedural/OOP language, sum types are a completely foreign concept. If I'm working in PHP, I don't expect a consistent API. If I'm working in a strict language, I don't expect to be able to abstract my data model away from how I loop over it in memory. If I'm used to anything without some support for dependent types, I just assume that an empty list, or a list with too many entries couldn't possibly be detected at compile time. The high level constructs it does have are strictly less powerful, largely as a function of not being composable/consistent and certainly not as polymorphic as the kinds of things in Foldable/Traversable, though certainly better than writing your own for-loops.

The thing is, these are practically all you do in SQL, so it's pretty frustrating that, when working with it, so much time is dedicated to dealing with these solved problems. They're the reason you can't import a "votes" or "comments" package to your database, and why being a database expert is such a niche, specialized, and lucrative position - because so much knowledge isn't captured in the language, or the compiler, or libraries (even though it quite feasibly could be), but just spread by books and blog articles. It's why building complex things on relational databases is so hard - the level you're working at is strictly limited to "what keys do I join on to get the result set I want" and "how do I make this only loop once" - it's not inherent in the relational model/relational algebra, it's strictly a problem with SQL.

To add, as a declarative query language, it's worth also comparing to things like Prolog/Datalog. Prolog certainly doesn't get you all of the things I mentioned, either (e.g., no dependent types), but it is a much higher level of abstraction - you can describe things like "this is a one-to-one relationship" at a high level. The flipside is that, to write performant queries, you need to understand the Warren Abstract Machine, but because of its consistency, that's a significantly lower barrier to entry than trying to understand a specific database's optimizer implementation, or the arbitrary decisions in the SQL spec, and the knowledge there is actually transferrable.
When I lock my front door and leave a spare key under the doormat, my insurance company is not obliged by law to pay for any damages if the spare key is used by thieves to enter my house. I could have easily prevented the situation.

Content publishers should properly lock their front doors, too, and not have spare keys lying around all over the place.
Kids need to learn to read. Society works sooo much better when you can assume every adult can read.

Give man a fish vs. teach to fish..
Takes.org, Immutable Java Web Framework
This is off topic, but in March 2016, I'll become a dad for the first time and I was wondering if some more experienced parents could answer a question for me.

That article has a black board with a tally of diapers changed today. The count was up to thirty. Is that somewhat accurate/possible???

If so, holy shit, I'm investing in cloth....
I wonder, would those people be able to do those things if the information were presented by spoken word? I suspect (and could be way wrong, of course) that this is more about ability to understand stuff in general, and not really related to being able to read and write.
Could this be an argument for making computers harder to use by requiring programming for common tasks?
Academic Journals: The Most Profitable Obsolete Technology in History
Preventing Timing Attacks on String Comparison with a Double HMAC Strategy
I want to know if these people are getting gofundme requests from people they know. If so, what are they doing differently from me?

Because if you're getting gofundme requests from people you don't know, we've all been getting hit up for money from shady "charities" forever; it's just that the internet has democratized the technologies used to ask randoms for money. This isn't really a change, in my mind.

I'll accept that it's a cultural change when I get these sorts of requests from people I know, rather than from random strangers.
Don't look down: Tech unicorns face reckoning as valuations detach from reality
The difference being that I don't pay a tax to the people who are inconvenienced when I smoke. Suppose everyone in an area set a price that they would be willing to smell cigarette smoke during their meal. If I pay them all that price, why shouldn't I be allowed to smoke? And some people would set it at +infinity, which is fine too, which would mean I don't get to smoke.

With heating, the government is placing a +infinity price on heat retention for buildings(with ceilings > 8'), but isn't actually enforcing that price in any other manner. Why not just charge progressively increasing amounts for electricity/gas expenditure? Right now, I can have a 100% legal, heat-efficient home, and heat it day and night by leaving the windows open. I wouldn't do that because I don't like to waste money, but that is just like I would not live in a house that was extremely energy inefficient.

Basically, if I want to pay for tall ceilings in my house, shouldn't I be able to, assuming I pay the appropriate amount?
What metrics should you track in a new app?
That's a great cop out when you don't want to think critically about the history or current state of science. Besides, I didn't say that we are at the "height of human achievement" but that there are physical laws that remain practically unchallenged by centuries of observational or experimental evidence. the speed of light as a cosmic speed limit happens to be one of those.
To be honest VAT MOSS was introduced just for the the sake of introducing it, large retailers will find a way to avoid paying taxes small businesses wont.

Germany has already made statements that it will not allow other EU members to audit and collect VAT from German companies.

I'm happy that the response to this has finally changed I got downvoted to hell when commenting on the VAT changes when news just started breaking out almost 2 years ago saying that it will kill small businesses and now after the changes were implemented people actually started to see that it have.

The system completely ignores deferential VAT rates for different items in different countries, it forces businesses to register for VAT regardless if they are VAT exempt (e.g. small businesses in the UK with under 100K in yearly revenue) and it forces them to implement a "reliable system to verify the actual point of consumption of your goods and services" without actually putting in criteria on what is reliable or how you should verify the source of consumption if the first place.

"If I use a German bank card to order and item from the UK to Spain where should the VAT be collected?"
To this date I haven't received an actual consistent answer or even a consistent thought process to evaluate this.
And this is the most simple scenario which can be easily made more complicated like ordering an item from Germany with German payment details to be shipped to Spain from the UK, ordering an item with German payment details from the UK while you are in Spain, ordering an item from the UK with German payment details while you are in the airport in Norway, or doing the same while you are outside of the EU completely.

And these aren't complicated scenarios they things happen all the time the amount of times I had to order something I need from Amazon in the EU to myself while being in another country is ridiculous sometimes I'll order something from Amazon UK to my UK home while I'm away, sometimes I'll order from Amazon to be delivered to some country in the EU, some time if I'll need something down the line in the trip I might order it from country a to country c while being in country b.

And while Amazon could easily deal with this because they have an army of lawyers and tax advisers that will find them all the loopholes and legal justifications to continue to do what ever the frack they want, normal businesses won't be able to coupe with these types of decisions.

So far this seems to actually benefit Amazon the most because all of the people that I know that operated their own online stores for various goods and services have actually moved their store exclusively to Amazon and the likes even when they can charge a commission in the double digits just because it was the only way for them to be able to "ignore" the new tax regulations.
I don't know the best way to get in touch with them. Besides, hopefully they've gotten this feedback already. If Microsoft execs are reviewing the game, they will certainly get feedback.
Linux Kernel Library backend for libguestfs
The unicorn winter is coming – are you ready?
My 3 month old goes through about 5-8 and my 2 year old 1-4 a day depending if he uses the potty or not.
> Which is unsustainable in the aggregate.

Isn't that just implying that most energy is artificially cheap, relative to its externalities?

Why can I own two new homes with 8' ceilings and heat them both(even if I don't live at one for 90% of the time), but I can't own one new home with 12' ceilings?