skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be a little old-school (which itself might be code for something else nefarious), but I will almost always stop for a woman [or the elderly] with a broken down car or flat tire on the side of the road (and have often doubled back from an exit a few miles down the road, then past the exit behind me, then returned if I couldn't safely stop as I initially passed). I will virtually never stop for a male in the same situation. (I have done so only when it's been dangerously cold out and in a fairly rural area.)

It comes up a couple times per year; more than half end in "I'm OK, AAA is on the way", the next most common is me changing a tire for them, and the rarest of all (nowadays) is them borrowing my phone to call for help.

If that's sexism, it's a type of sexism that I have no intention of stopping nor apologizing for.
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Yep, price tag is $10k. There's quite a bit under the hood you're not seeing in this video, particularly considering large 10,000+ sq ft homes and managing full home automation. If you're familiar with Crestron or Control4, we're playing in that space for v1.
I have a d100 that says otherwise. I've encountered a rand() that said otherwise also, but he was just being silly.
Working in Europe I can never believe these fantasy numbers from the U.S. 250k USD after 5 years, seriously? A good Senior Developer here, with 5-10 years of relevant experience, might have a base salary of around 50-60K EUR, and perhaps another 0-2K EUR in bonuses. Then you have to pay around 30% income tax and another 20% if you hit a certain income bracket (which you do with 50K) in many Western European countries. If you want to make more you need to do contract work or roll your own business.
> So, I mean, you can argue a Nobel Laureate is so ignorant of his field that you are correct if you want.

I rather see Krugman's piece here as leveraging the media narrative on the issue to his own ends; his real issue in the piece is that policymakers are listening to the wrong voices. Accepting the dominant media narrative that "few economists" foresaw the collapse is a lot better for getting people to listen to his explanation of what was wrong with the approaches that were influencing policy than challenging that narrative.

> Yes, one group of folks went out and found something they believed to be true but that doesn't represent the majority view simply by its existence.

There's a big excluded middle between "few" and "majority". I would characterize the group that predicted a significant, housing-bubble-collapse triggered recession as a significant near term probability before it occurred as a significant (both in number and notability) minority, neither "few" nor a "majority".

> This is a comforting conspiracy theory but the fact economists, as a class of people, failed to capitalize on this for their own financial gain based on knowing that the public perception was in error ... well, that would imply they failed to predict it in sufficient numbers.

Or that successful economists tend to be fairly likely to be at the income level where increased income has (as studies have shown) minimal contribution to experienced utility -- and unusually likely to be aware of that fact. Or, well, a lot of other things.

> If many economists predicted a recession on that scale, we would have many rich economists.

If lots of economists actively invested based on such a prediction, sure; but that an economist makes a prediction does not mean that they actively invest based on it (or that they are actively investing at all).
Wow, astounding! I want the full-resolution version!
And most importantly, almost no-way to compete with them in any meaningful manner. Tried one of them for a while, and eventually realized the whole thing was "rigged". We were all just circle-jerking each other by capturing, losing and then recapturing portals ad-infinitum.
This style of reply is not constructive. How can we know with certainty whether or not you have a reasonable shot at making 250k/year after five years of working at Apple, Amazon, Google, or Microsoft?

Provide an anecdote, links to articles, etc.
Nope. Capitalism is about capital going to where it is most productive. Rent Seeking is about capital going to where it's told to go based on rules.
The limit is configurable, and is also set per login class. System daemons run with lower limits. If you create a user while installing, it’s added to the “staff” user class, which has higher limits than users added later—this works pretty well for the common use‐cases of “single user desktop” and “server meant to be accessed by multiple unprivileged users”. Of course, you can always configure these limits in login.conf if your situation doesn’t match up well.
Agreed. I'd not consider those "non-cash benefits".

In the neighborhood of $250K, 401K and HSA match are just a few percent of comp generally.
I understood what he was saying, and I concurred to his statement: that top engineers at Google et al, are making more than $200k
Never heard of SQlite csvtable but there is the excellent csvsql, part of the csvkit

http://csvkit.readthedocs.org/en/0.9.1/scripts/csvsql.html

Here's an example of how to download the SF health inspection data, unzip it, build the SQLite schema (the dataset contains multiple tables), and then insert the CSVs into their respective tables, and query them, all from the command line.

csvsql handles the inference of schema from the CSV data and the import work; the SQL commands can all obviously be done from just echoing into SQLite directly. But csv2sql will also let you create a CSV in memory and run a SQL query for those times when you just need to quickly filter the data. Here's an example:

http://2015.padjo.org/tutorials/mapping/077-ok-schools-quake...

Tremendously useful tool. I can say without hyperbole that it has changed the scope of how I do data science, even though it literally does nothing that I could not do via SQlite and Python alone (csvkit is basically a command line wrapper written in Python around csv, SQLAlchemy, and so forth)
Quite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_accumulation
My in-laws have a few DVDs with fireplaces on them. Some have also quiet carols playing.
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You may think this is par for the course, but I think it's a very valuable contribution. Think about the problems startups would run into if those vulnerabilities didn't get fixed but instead were exploited.
Since your own figures show it is cheaper, especially since the lights, cameras, and network connections are already installed and paid for, I don't understand what more evidence you need.

As for their efficacy, the anecdote I posted shows there's plenty of low hanging fruit that would substantially improve things, even without an AI.
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nice alternative to PH, i believe its a good chance to smaller projects to be on spotlight.

why OpenHunt is good for PH;

- It will be a PH's moderation app, every nice project can be submitted by PH's trusted members.
- PH can get valuable feedback from this thread.
- PH can integrate every feature from OH
Can anyone give some figures for big companies in the UK?
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I'm not usually one to hop on something and criticize when it's a Show HN.

But I have literally everything that this is doing already set up in my home right now using an Amazon Echo, which is $200, instead of $10,000.

I can say "Trigger lights for projector", and lights dim how I want it. Or "Trigger lights for guests" and bing, lights. I can say "Play my Lumineers station on Pandora", and my Echo will play it. And of course I can ask Echo all kinds of things like "What is the distance to the moon?" or "What is the population of India?"

Plus a lot more.

So what is the value add here? How is this different/better than Echo + IFTT + a Wink hub? I'm really genuinely curious, because this is something I am doing right now and am totally willing to spend money on to do better, but based on this short video I have no idea how this is better...

So I guess take that as constructive feedback from (presumably?) your target audience -- show me something really cool this does to get me to consider spending $10k on it.
Please be aware that the source, the Center for Economic and Policy Research, is a think-tank and not a journal or research institute. This does not mean the work or conclusions are invalid, but it does mean the authors likely have an agenda.
> Are you at a large company in a metropolitan area?

...on the West Coast or Northeast, sure. It's my understanding that $250k is a little high for other cities, unfortunately. Hopefully the corporate culture there catches up.

Otherwise, a lot of engineers are getting used to living off of some sort of bubble.
We like the "Life of Fred" series.

http://lifeoffredmath.com/
I wish this were actually about housing rents, since that behaviour certainly warrants a discussion over government regulation.
...their capabilities make them much more sophisticated as internet platforms than PC. Really, it’s the PC that has the limited, cut-down version of the internet.

I honestly can't think of a single way in which that's true, and he doesn't seem to provide any examples either.
It is absurd to think that we could keep a true AI enslaved or subservient like this. We can't even protect our critical computer systems from other humans.

If an AI could compromise our military then it could just subvert our communications with atomic submarines and installations throughout the world. It wouldn't even have to though.

Honestly an AI that compromises even some security could just slowly take over the world in a way where almost no one would even realize it was happening. It would have basically infinite financial resources like immediately and then it could just buy some humans to do any leg work that needed to be done. There are just so many ways it could make money incredibly quickly and once that happens there are not a lot of other obstacles really.

I mean I make a lot of money completely on the internet and I am an ape that only works normal hours.
How often do people who live in San Francisco but work 30-60 miles away actually have time to do things that take advantage of living in SF, especially on weekdays?

If I had a bad morning commute, a full day of work, and a bad commute home, I think I'd most likely spend that evening at home doing things online or watching TV or reading. I don't think I'd be going out. I'd probably only get out on weekends.

But that would mean I wouldn't really benefit much from living in SF. I could just as well live near work, and drive to SF on weekends (and time the trip to avoid bad traffic hours) when I want to do something that is better done in SF.
> I have the capacity to completely detach myself from my arguments in a way that leads to a lack of bias. I am morally and intellectually selfless.

The easiest person to fool is yourself.

I've read Brin's Transparent Society as well, and I agree that a functioning society along those lines would be much, much healthier than we have now. However, this article is about the privacy-erasing tools used by the powers that be, whose very existence was secret to those on the outside until now. I'll surrender my privacy just after they do.
There is a very basic dynamic at play here. Take away every department outside of engineering and you still have the chance to actually make technology. Take away engineering and you have literally nothing. The contributions don't need to be downplayed. Logic demonstrates the hierarchy of importance rather plainly.
I share the exact same feeling. Signed on PH months ago to drop a comment and never got "approved". I wish comments were public on OpenHunt.co so I can take part in the conversation.
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It should be probably 'poor or...'.

I was at Ukraine a few times. Tech is one of a few ways to make good money there.
I signed up and submitted actually.

I am curious, why are comments/feedback all hidden? I would certainly like to read those - even if they are made anonymous.
Did you go to a top school with top scores?
Caesar wasn't shy about slaughtering civilians (though it was likely a widespread habit at the time). However, he was a political animal, and behaved in an unusually forgiving way toward his Roman opponents when he made his bid for power (in contrast with the bloody purges of his predecessor Sulla and the triumvirate which succeeded him).
> It's worth noting that $150k is high for Dallas, but not impossible for people with Principal, Fellow, or Chief in their job titles.

No one is reaching any of those titles 5 years out of college though.
> It's funny how all the real fans agree that 3/6 movies were terrible.

I don't think this is a unique phenomenon. Although the real fans hate it, I'm sure that some Star Trek viewers enjoyed Spock's Brain, or Threshold (well, I take that back; no one liked Threshold).

It's also "cool" to dislike Special Edition versions, and the Clone Wars show, but that doesn't mean they're bad, or even that fans actually dislike them.

Additionally you have people who watched the originals so many times that they were just disappointed with the prequels (it's hard to make a prequel right, and even if it was nearly perfect, it wouldn't be what the True Fans hoped for). Star Wars was never made for the real fans, because that is too small a niche to really target; in the same way as Star Trek 2009 made True Fans feel betrayed, I think the prequel trilogy disappointed them.
Mobile has accurate location, your address book, accelerometer & other sensors, and above all: portability.
Are there any authors who don't have an agenda?
I don't recall Ello saying they wouldn't take capital. Do you have a link to where they said that?

They did say they would not monetize users via privacy invasion like Facebook.
Since anyone can submit a product (not necessarily their own), we are adding a verification step (email to [any]@yourdomain.com). We'll have other verification steps as well to make those feedback items available.
Well, you could argue it's a component of a capitalist system. But not really the defining characteristic.
Creating better technology in the world is giving back.
My pleasure. I guess to help a bit more (because the list monad tends to be easier to comprehend) is to see how other types are implemented. So here's a very basic implementation of the Option/Maybe monad:

public class Option<T>
{
public readonly bool HasValue;
public readonly T Value;

internal Option(bool hasValue, T value)
{
HasValue = hasValue;
Value = value;
}

public Option<U> Select<U>(Func<T, U> map) =>
HasValue
? Option.Some<U>(map(Value))
: Option.None<U>();

public Option<V> SelectMany<U,V>(Func<T, Option<U>> bind, Func<T,U,V> project) =>
HasValue
? bind(Value).Select(u => project(Value,u))
: Option.None<V>();
}

public static class Option
{
public static Option<T> Some<T>(T value) =>
new Option<T>(true, value);

public static Option<T> None<T>() =>
new Option<T>(false, default(T));
}

The SelectMany implementation is slightly more complicated than I showed before. This is an optimisation that C# does to group the bind and map together. So it may look slightly scary as a function. But hopefully you can see that if the Option<T> has a value then it first invokes bind, then uses the result of the bind (an Option<U>) to project the final result. Here's a more imperative version of it:

public Option<V> SelectMany<U, V>(Func<T, Option<U>> bind, Func<T, U, V> project)
{
if (HasValue)
{
var u = bind(Value);

if (u.HasValue)
{
return Option.Some(project(Value, u.Value));
}
else
{
return Option.None<V>();
}
}
else
{
return Option.None<V>();
}
}

You can see that with the IEnumerable<T> version of Select and SelectMany it encapsulates list iteration. With the Option monad it doesn't do that. It instead checks the HasValue field, and if it's false then it doesn't run the map or bind functions.

The second static class: Option, contains the 'return' functions: Some or None. These wrap a value of type T in an Option<T>.

Now if we use Option<T> in a LINQ expression:

var option1 = Option.Some(10);
var option2 = Option.Some(10);
var none = Option.None<int>();

var res1 = from x in option1
from y in option2
select x + y;

// res1.HasValue == true res1.Value == 20

var res2 = from x in option1
from y in none
select x + y;

// res2.HasValue == false

var res3 = from x in none
from y in option2
select x + y;

// res3.HasValue == false

This is the same as using do notation in Haskell:

do x <- option1
y <- option2
return (x + y)

If we were to do that imperatively it would look like this:

var res = Option.None<int>();
if( option1.HasValue )
{
if( option2.HasValue )
{
res = Option.Some(option1.Value + option2.Value);
}
}

Clearly more cluttered and error prone and importantly, not composable. This is where the notion of 'programmable semi-colons' comes from. It appears that the monad is running behaviour 'between the lines', and it is.

Hopefully that clears the fog. I'll keep an eye on this thread for a few days, so feel free to drop any questions in here or on my project page.
I wish comments were public on OpenHunt.co so I can take part in the conversation.

Yeah, that would be nice. I mean, I can see the value in "direct to the product owner" comments, but some venue for public discussion would also be nice.
I find myself using it already - great job!

Edit: The subtitle font is way too washed out. i struggle to read it. Also some submissions are not "products" - is that appropriate?
> As a result of this upward redistribution, most workers have seen little improvement in living standards from the productivity gains over this period.

I believe this to be a myth caused by lamp-posting. The world is a much better place than it was 30 years ago, we just haven't found the right way to quantify exactly how much value 'high technology' has brought to their lives.

Measurable wealth might have been redistributed upwards, but everyone is still better off regardless. I'd rather be poor today than rich twenty years ago.
> In fact it makes a lot of simple tasks hard because something trivial like a loop takes an unexpectedly distracting amount of pointing, clicking, typing, dragging, and joining.

That's because you don't create loops or if-statements in graphical programming languages, in the same way that you don't create loops or conditionals in functional programming; you use map, filter, etc.
It appears to be Brad Hill[0] according to https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/tpac2012followup/results

[0] - https://twitter.com/hillbrad?lang=en
I would say it's about the lack of structure in the old landholding aristocratic way of doing things when we are in a population explosion, which will inherently create an upward redistribution of wealth due to physical limitations of land.

That being said, I think as our technology progresses, we, at least in America, have plenty of land that would be good once we can figure out reliable ways to generate energy (already mostly there with solar, wind, geo) but more importantly water. I have always imagined my off the grid setup as sufficient to power a dehumidifier that pulls water from the air and filters it to potable. (in concjuction with a well if possible, sometimes though the water is below rock or other tough structures or is too deep.)

The original point is though, that the more wealth you have the more you can generate and create (for yourself or others), but the less you have in a growing population of less-havers, pulling yourself up is harder than ever.

tldr - The middle class is what's really under attack here, as the poor have formerly had more upward mobility into becoming middle class. That is going away with the current growing inequality.
You don't need a company for building a meta-search engine. And most importantly, if you value privacy, you want the whole meta-thing to be open source, always.
That's a pretty unusual definition of rent seeking; what sort of other axioms are you assuming in order to get to that? Here's another definition:

>When a company, organization or individual uses their resources to obtain an economic gain from others without reciprocating any benefits back to society through wealth creation.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rentseeking.asp
Is this "an AI", or "a voice control system preloaded with a bunch of sentence command templates"?

I mean this as a neutral question, because it's cool either way, and does seem like a bizarre little hole in the current "voice control" ecosystem, but there's a difference in what I, at least as an HN reader, expect between the two things, and I wanted to give you that feedback.
No, the free market decides the value of the bug. You can either pay that value to a white hat to find it or wait til a black hat sells it.

Facebook has now demonstrated that they will not only not pay you, but they will attacking you publicly, slander you, and threaten you. Now what does that mean for the next hacker coming along? Someone who is clean and wants to stay clean will avoid Facebook. Someone who isn't will realize that Facebook is now an easier target because of the clean guys staying away.
You may be under-estimating how competitive and difficult becoming a big fish at Goldman Sachs is. And in many places (ex, banks), your technical chops are not appreciated as much.
When the EFF's Panopticlick says my iPhone running the latest version of iOS is basically unique I start to get suspicious. There are millions of phones just like mine out there.
Mono's DNS is broken
EDIT (for some reason I can't edit above):

-) and just for fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlgdvSNpi60 (I love that video for some reason :D)
Walking to the other side of the room and talking to your friends about the creepy guy is literally the stuff of other peoples' nightmares.

Unfortunately, some people never leave high school.
I picked this study up from Mark Thoma's blog. FWIW, Dean Baker (founder of the CEPR and author of the paper here) has a well-established record as an economist and his credentials can be looked up.

I'm not sure what your implication is, though. Are you afraid of a liberal bias, conservative bias, pro-capitalist or anti-capitalist bias?

If I posted a paper from the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, I doubt that you would consider the "journal" part to be a consolation.
In what way do they deal with gentrification? It seems like your argument is that it just doesn't happen to such an extreme in places that aren't major cities? I don't think that's true -- take a trip up to Beacon, NY.

Regardless, my interest is in how we can compensate artists that kick this process off rather than just using them to make a landowner's property more valuable. Can they be compensated in some sort of equity like early stage startup employees are, so that after 10 years of producing work and making somewhere hip they aren't just thrown out to make room for some luxury project? Can there be tools made to make it easier to purchase these distressed properties as co-ops that they can collectively own and produce out of?

No one wants the blight of old, abandoned buildings that could otherwise be productive. However, this plan they've proposed just sounds like a way to get artists to make landlords and real estate agents money in the long run.
A game I had helped develop made #1 a few weeks back. I wanted to comment on it and say thanks but ran into the same error message. Kind of strange that you have to request permission to comment, even if you have an account.