skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the implementation, there is nothing lightweight and low-overhead to use at build time, and at runtime how exactly is this lighter than a struct? As for self-documenting, I don't even know what it would mean here.

Remains "iterable". Given how modern compiler works, I'm still convinced you should convert plain tuples back and to a struct for source code simplicity and build time speed -- because it won't even do extra copies in most cases (and even if it does, who cares?)
Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Control by Precommitment [pdf]
Do I need it to say PhD on my resume to get a Data Science interview?
I would say it's actually fairly simple from a technology perspective: good, well-documented APIs, as much SaaS apps as reasonable, and CTOs in government who get it.
Also for Command & Conquer: http://openra.net (currently C&C (Tiberian Dawn), C&C: Red Alert, and Dune 2000 with Tiberian Sun on the way).
No mention of Warcraft 2 in those job postings? That's disappointing.
I would guess they calculate some amount of tax that you have to pay based on how much capital you have. And you keep paying it until you go below some magical threshold. Or, you don't pay and they just take it from you.

Of course, a bit trickier if you don't have capital, but rather have plenty of tangible goods. In which case, they'd probably ask you to submit your "profit and losses" for every year, keep track of how much you made in each year, and start taxing you based on anything that means your running total goes above the magical threshold.
I sent you an email last week. Are you hiring remote software engineers?
Doesn't Amazon ban you if you abuse their return policy? Especially if you have Prime which causes them to pay original _and_ return shipping
>In the end private property is indeed theft,

Private property can't be "theft" if there is no private property.

If you don't believe in private property, you're sort of poisoning the well of any economic conversation, since it's the foundation of basically all of peaceful civilization.

Without private property there is only tribalism and, "might makes right."
I'd rather have something like Strong Typdef for that. Maybe we will get it eventually.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p010...
> Which investment vehicles are those?

Madoff's ponzi scheme comes to mind. Everybody involved knew he had to be stealing to make those kinds of returns, they just didn't realize he was stealing from them. They thought it was some kind of front-running scheme.
The myth of the cop killing ‘epidemic’
You need to enable this with credit card providers. I had to confirm a mobile number with Chase then set it up with >$0 auth.
So what's up with that differentiable stack? Is that similar to what the Facebook people were doing on learning addition?
> The two party political system is more unnatural than the few-big-companies system. Libertarians and Evangelicals agree on very little yet they've been voting for the same party for years. Proponents of extreme reform on the other side don't want to vote for a moderate candidate. A Trump vs Clinton election is going to leave too many people without a candidate and force the beginning of the end of the two party system.

Two-party system is awful in representing people's opinions, but it's much better at another task, that might be even more important — reaching minimal acceptable compromise. Also, you might be overlooking another danger of multi-party system: political force that significantly over-powers all competition. Once something like this appears and gets the power over government, it gets the positive feedback effect and very often becomes a beginning of authoritarian and un-democratic regime. US and UK two-party systems server as a natural safeguard against such a thing happening.

Really, selecting the best possible leader and making best possible decisions are not necessarily the main tasks of a democracy.
> A few people making rules can't stop that kind of force

Can you elaborate please on what kind of force at work? Market forces?

Also, do you have any idea why he's bringing up the subject of "social cohesion" repeatedly throughout the piece? Is social cohesion a hot button issue in the US now that warrants more attention from the general public?

Because I believe that as long as the country is not at war with or in a national state of emergency or in other words, citizens are facing any kind of existential threat, the talk about social cohesion is meaningless and could be divisive as the term is tainted with not so favorable concepts from nationalism, nativism and the likes.

> unless taxes are high enough to discourage people from creating wealth

I don't want to discourage rich folks from creating wealth. I just want them for now to pay their fair share of taxes and close all the loopholes that fuel this income inequality gap and distribute more resources to the least privileged and most disfranchised groups in the society to alleviate their situation.

As for technology has an inequality bias to it, I have to disagree with this assertion and point out that the availability of capital or lack thereof is the main catalyst in this equation not technology.
One thing I'd like to see improved is the unit AI, which is frustratingly poor. This would probably annoy some serious multiplayers, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
AoE 2 in likely the most engaging strategy game I've ever played. I got rather involved in it in college, but was surprised that there were certain "basic strategies" that one had to follow to hope to even survive (e.g. getting to castle age within a certain time for a certain civilization). With the voobly client, its possible to challenge aoe players across the world for a game, and its kinda awesome to cooperate and deal with the mess that comes from playing an RTS game at that level.

Probably true for most strategy games, but aoe seems light enough (requirements wise) and has a great enough balance (and the fact that the game is almost freely available worldwide) enables anyone with a computer with a decent internet connection to play.
How do you feel when someone badly appropriates a word like this and it gets really big, like Uber? :)

I understand why the umlaut gets dropped, but it super bugs me too - especially as it's as easy as dropping an 'e' next to the letter if you don't have an easy way to add an umlaut.

Keeping things slightly off-topic for a moment - I love Swiss German. I lived in Bavaria and speak reasonably fluent German, so I can understand bits of it, but it's mostly incomprehensible to me, but in a delightful way. Its 'sing-song' nature and fun pronunciation are the best.

I also found in Switzerland people were far more willing to tolerate and respond to my German than in Germany (where people tend to switch to English), which I very much appreciated when I was still learning the language.
For employees: salary/responsibility growth, bigger impact more quickly

You might be right about the customer side, that non-"startups" are more likely to be around in 5-10 years, which makes a difference when investing in a new, mission-critical area of your business (e.g. replacing email server)
Haha it's always at the lowest! My flat really is that noisy. And the video I'm (slowly) uploading now is even worse because I don't have my mic so it's laptop recorded - wanted to post something to "ride the New Year wave" so to speak!

I have sound proof foam etc, it just doesn't help. Many things researched and tried (with much laughter from my flat mates on the occasion they saw me doing odd things) to no avail. A lot of it was recorded when heavy building work was going on just outside my window (basically all of the summer I was working the building works were going on but University buildings were even worse). If you'd heard the original audio, I think you'd be impressed by how clean I actually managed to get it in then end.

Targeting the Chinese is an interesting idea. The problem would be finding someone to translate the content (and documentation in the code) - which really requires a native Chinese speaker (what about both variants of the language?) and they need the technical language - a very rare person indeed in the UK, I expect!
F.D.A. Regulator, Widowed by Cancer, Helps Speed Drug Approval
Er... you realize that The Big Bang Theory is a sitcom, ie a comedy show?
Know any juniors without college degrees in relevant fields?
There are custom (modded) AIs available that you can download. I've heard that the Barbarian AI is meant to be able to give even seasoned players a serious challenge. I've also heard that a much stronger AI has been bundled with the most recent expansion.
One counterpoint:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5872764/the-greatest-mystery-of-the-i...
I know one guy who is making 140k/year on Upwork.
Show HN: Open source site converts code of various langs into tweet sized images
And at the other end? The popular opinion seems to be that we just need to force companies to pay higher wages, i.e., put up the minimum wage. Now those low paying jobs are illegal and people end up unemployed instead, especially when the economy is bad. I'd be willing to try abolishing minimum wages and letting the government pay a subsidy to anyone making a genuine effort to work, so that they have a reasonable standard of living. I'm just not sure how you measure genuine effort, so that you don't end up subsidising people who pay each other $1/week to go surfing.
Played a LOT of AOE2 back in the day.

However, I was always more of a fan of AoE1 RoR expansion. Anyone else? Something about the brutal simplicity of it, made it much more fun for me and my friends?

Would love to see that "HD'ified"!
So in your ideal world, Paul Krugman is banned from writing editorials? John Stewart can no longer discuss contemporary politics?

And if a citizen notices that all the politicians are lying, he needs to just shut up about it?
Numbs compiles entire functions on and allows array expressions with allocation and loop fusion. I don't see the problem
No, they didn't get wealthy merely by building something that people wanted - if you just do that, other companies will offer the same thing and the market will drive down the price to just above the cost of production. This is how the free market is meant to work and it's what makes it (in theory) an efficient way of allocating resources. In order to get truly wealthy you need to find some barrier to entry, some way of ensuring that you can avoid the free market and its drive for efficiency. It could be network effects, which ensure that competitors to sites like Facebook and eBay won't succeed because they're useless unless everyone's already using them. It could be software lock-in and patents of the kind that drove Apple to be one of the richest companies in the world. It could be information asymmetry that causes people to choose your well-known brand over cheaper but better products because it's too expensive for them to assess the actual quality of what they're buying. But there has to be some barrier, some way of defeating the free market.
In my experience, they're usually more talented than their counterparts who have degrees. That seems to become less true with time, though.
Why do you not have a disaster recovery plan that allows you to restore services to your customers in case of outage or other emergency?

I'm asking sincerely. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if I had a SaaS product with thousands of customers and no way to restore service if my primary provider went down for an extended period of time.
Oh look, another millionaire under the impression that the rich accumulated resources only by being ambitious.

> creating wealth

The kind of wealth that will vanish when the next bubble bursts? It will come a time when we'll look back at these profit-free unicorns and ask ourselves how were they even possible.
He's not saying the rich don't hide their wealth: he's arguing that corporations do not report artificially lower profits and then proceed to deny returns to their wealthy owners.
>"They needed to eat so they sacrifice the long term for the short."

And they would not have had to sacrifice if they went to the "mom and pop stores" instead? You're not really addressing the point of Walmart actually being cheaper than the mom and pop stores, and thus got more sales. Precisely leading to what the OP said of poor people voting "with their dollars".

>*"Walmart has innovated in logistics and supply chain management[...]"

Exactly how they made life easier for the poor, by transferring enough of the cost-savings from the efficiency to both undercut the wasteful mom and pop stores, and to save the poor customers money.
> If the differences in income and wealth were entirely reflective of people's productivity and contributions to society there would be no problem. But they aren't. Instead what is happening is that the ultra-wealthy are using their disposable income to buy political influence, then using that influence to get laws passed that allow them to collect rents.

If you're arguing the problem is the ability of the political class to pick winners and losers instead of creating rules that are beneficial to society generally and applied to all equally - amen.
> Weath is never created from nothing.

You can make this statement being true by moving your definition of "nothing" from economics to lay-people common sense, but then we'd be outside of a territory where we can obtain any actually reasonable observations.

> Nature is zero sum

What is "nature"? Observable universe from now to heat death of the universe? Yes. Earth in near hundred years? No.

> Robbery is also an economic transaction, and it can be positive sum if for example you don't notice.

What? How does the outcome of a transaction change depending on whether it's observed or not? Does it involve quantum particles of trees falling in the middle of desolate forests?

> That does not mean it's a good thing.

My comment didn't state anything about good or bad: these are very stupid terms and using them can't bring anything but loud voices and hurt feelings into a conversation.
My biggest problem with fbsd in the rpi is that it's really hard to cross-compile ports for arm, and compiling everything in the rpi takes a lot of time (I think it was half a day to compile tmux in the rpi A).
Using wealth to exert political power is a problem, but we don't need to redistribute wealth to fix it. (We might want to redistribute wealth for other reasons, just not this one.) What we want is to be able to reject the influence of money on our politics. People accept money to influence politics because they can use that money to convince anyone to produce for them. If people started to reject that money, the incentive to participate in manipulating our democracy would disappear.

This is merit capitalism. http://meritcapitalism.com
I don't want to drive anywhere near someone with 1,000 liters of fuel stored in a weak shell. If that ignites and catches fire, anyone nearby could come to a horrendously, horrendously painful death.
From the article:

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On Oct. 1, 2015, Visa and MasterCard put in force new rules that can penalize merchants who do not yet have chip-enabled terminals. Under the new rules, merchants that don’t have the technology to accept chip cards will assume full liability for the cost of fraud from purchases in which the customer presented a chip-enabled card.

But those rules don’t apply to fuel stations in the United States until October 2017, and a great many stations won’t meet that deadline, said Verifone’s Turner.
----

According to "Yearbook 2005: British Retail Consortium" [1], by the time of the liability shift (1 January 2005) "retailers accounting for 75% of transactions" had a chip+PIN terminal, with the remainder "well on the way". It goes on to explain that small businesses including petrol stations were consulted as the change was planned, there was no relaxed deadline for them. (If my memory is correct, petrol station pumps were among the first to switch, as they had the highest level of fraud — relatively high-value transactions with no supervision.)

[1] https://books.google.dk/books?id=csUYwwVZ2AUC&pg=PT207&dq=ch...
> Does anyone really believe that if only the rules weren't "rigged" local shops and businesses would be able to compete against Wal-Mart and Amazon?

Don't confuse Wall Street and Wal Mart. Not the same thing.
>Does anyone really believe that if only the rules weren't "rigged" local shops and businesses would be able to compete against Wal-Mart and Amazon?

What would happen is that Wal-Mart and Amazon, et al. would pay their fair share of taxes, and the owners (or share holders) would not be multi-billionaires, only single-digit millionaires at most. The effect would be that every single person in the United States would have Heath Care, Tertiary Education paid for, excellent unemployment benefits, etc. etc.

There would no longer be desperate people struggling to survive while others have orders of magnitude more money than can be spent in 10 lifetimes.
Clearly the parent does not believe in property rights when they believe unskilled non-differentiated labor should be rewarded with above market rates by force and at the expense of Walmart's shareholders.

That individuals believe government should be directed at investors who risk their property to create wealth in order to take by force that property to redistribute it is perhaps the most offensive sentiment.

> There is no reason why the bulk of the billions taken-in by WalMart should go to the Walton family while their employees live on food-stamps - that is just a legal arrangement. And there is no reason why the Walton family should continue to be allowed to use offshore corporations to loan themselves money to run all their WalMart stores - that is just a legal arrangement which allows them to avoid taxes and hide their billions offshore
I enjoyed the article, and found it an interesting point of view for the most part. However, I don't agree with this...

> "The form of fragmentation people worry most about lately is economic inequality, and if you want to eliminate that you're up against a truly formidable headwind—one that has been in operation since the stone age: technology. Technology is a lever. It magnifies work. And the lever not only grows increasingly long, but the rate at which it grows is itself increasing."

Tackling inequality has nothing to do with technology. Let's put it like this, we have a minimum wage already, the balancing force with regards to economic inequality would be a maximum wage. There are no technological issues blocking a maximum wage, it's just a matter of political will.
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The Quest for Cosmic Justice
You just described what happens when you receive an initial investment, like an IPO. You also didn't describe how the hedge fund gets a return. What you described could also be accomplished through debt.

I was talking about something different.
I think part of the point is that pg didn't "post" these to HN himself at all. Someone else submitted a blog post from pg from 2004, and then someone else submitted this recent blog post. In other words, the author of the posts didn't submit them for discussion on HN at all, counter to the insinuation you appear to have made.
I worked with an older engineer (late 40s) when I was 21 (and with a bunch of young SDEs) and he was proficient, intelligent. His downfall was his ego and inability to make trade offs. He beat every decision, design, code review to death and couldn't see the forest for the trees. Writing in Java, he would use byte arrays or unfold loops for unnecessary performance gains. He sabotaged meetings because he would derail for such a long time on minor issues. He was only there for 6 months and jumped ship to Google.
Dolphin Progress Report: December 2015
I'm not sure what you're looking at... but it does resemble laravel quite a bit to me.. the way relations are setup is almost identical
laravel: public function resources(){
return $this->belongsToMany('App\Resource');
}

Adonis:
posts () {
return this.hasMany('App/Model/Post')
}

The routes/middleware page seems even closer to laravel 5's, that's all I've looked through so far, but it does look interesting at least as far as frameworks go, though I'd wait a bit before putting anything into production on it, till it gains some more momentum.
> "if I can trade a somewhat regressive VAT for guarantees of decent retirement and universal health care, I’ll take it"

That's a big "if".
I edited my comment for clarity. The point is measuring economic activity is subjective. And people have huge incentives to lie.
My point is that it's not just a question of societal awareness. The links in my GP post show Secretary Clinton and Governor O'Malley making exactly this mistake. They are not idiots and their ambitions depend on courting black voters, so they are acutely aware of the issues affecting black people.

The phrase is probably the best you can do in a slogan, but it is cryptic.
Welfare discouraging work has largely been refuted: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/business/the-myth-of-welfa...

Where it does discourage work, the effects are extremely minor. Your contention that their wealth was before the welfare state is completely incorrect and ahistorical. Even the crudest measures show that to be wrong. Examples:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/denmark/gdp

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/sweden/gdp

For France, the numbers since 1960 have been fantastic overall. Look through the OECD measures:

https://data.oecd.org/france.htm

I'm sorry, but your statements don't hold up to any of the measured data, and this excludes things like perceptions of corruption or gross happiness. No country is perfect, but the ones I listed are doing better than the US on almost every internationally recognized measure.
Good read. Not sure if I agree with everything, but fascinating.
I've tried using many different online tools for tracking software projects and work (including Todoist, Trello et al) and eventually settled on Asana.

It's not perfect, but it most closely matches the workflow I need. It's flexible without being overly generic (Trello) yet doesn't impose or constrain your workflow too much as some other tools do.

There certainly are some quirks though, and my biggest peeve is the 'empty task' problem described in the original article. If I could vote for one fix, it would be that!
Value-based billing: Escaping the trap of trading hours for dollars
I submitted the OP essay with an attribution ("see Chris Olah's blog for a fuller treatment") but it was removed by the editors of Edge before publication (apparently their policy is never to send readers away from Edge). I have asked them to at least re-insert Chris' name and I hope they do so soon.
to anyone who cares: why?
I hate to write crappy comments, but my general reaction to this can be summed up with ":-("

There are terrible changes in the government that feel inevitable. Whenever these changes are beaten/voted down, we all celebrate that we've won, then just a couple years later, they are reintroduced. This seems to repeat until it passes. At this point it feels like our complete loss of privacy is inevitable, and that at once terrifies me and deeply depresses me. There's nothing that I can do to prevent this. Not in the long haul.

:-(