skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well the answer to that depends on whether in one's language "mathematics" is a "science" -- as I have (to no small surprise) discovered, in English it's quite often not, and there is no really agreed-upon definition of what science is...
Gov't finds Theranos lab poses 'immediate jeopardy to patient safety'
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The most important thing that can be done for long-term prosperity is to eliminate almost all forms of debt. Debt ends up making everything cost (at least) 2x as much and is the reason why everyone feels the requirement to be perpetually employed. In the US, we've built an entire lifestyle on debt.

I'm not talking about consumer debt here (though that's a problem too), I'm talking about the debts that are intrinsic to the system used to obtain a high standard of living in the US. Those debts are what keep most people shackled down.

If you want to take a sabbatical because of a series of hard knocks in a short timespan, you can't, because if you stop working, you'll lose everything you own. If someone can take everything from you when you stop giving them money, you don't own it. That's the core problem, the core reason employment is so stressful and the core reason that losing a job is a major life negative.

Want somewhere to live? You gotta pay that house payment and/or rent. Very few "home owners" in the U.S. are actually home owners, they're effectively just renting the house from the bank. Even 30 years after getting their first mortgage, most are not home owners because they've sold and rebought their homes several times over the years.

Want (need) to drive to get somewhere? For a decent car, it'll be $300/mo for 6 years (+ insurance). You might be able to go a few years without a payment, but by year 10, most cars are going to be worn down to the point where they have to be replaced, and you'll have to start making payments on a fresh one.

Want a decent job? OK, we're down with that, as long as you pay your non-dischargeable entrance fee of $50k+ student debt for the privilege. Actual skillset or competence is of little relevance for most professions.

Make all of these things so cheap that they don't require debt, or make these things available in some attainable way that doesn't require debt and allows people to actually own something, and we'll have a huge portion of the problem solved.

Of course, the powers that be really hate it when someone isn't in debt, because debt is literally free money; usury is the most effortless way to earn money in existence. There are a lot of people that make a lot of money by keeping the citizen dependent on them for big, necessary purchases.

Perhaps the government could offer 0% financing on all of these items -- homes, cars, and education. That might be a start to breaking the debt cycle. Another thing that would help is moving back to multi-generational housing and maintaining a strong culture of inheritance.
Isaac Newton was neither shamed nor stigmatized into developing calculus. Most of that work was done during "idle" time, while his university was closed for the Plague.

I daresay society's great achievements are not derived from shame and stigma. What real benefit does society derive from meaningless jobs [1]? We've tried shame and stigma. We should see whether society is better off when the thinkers and doers are free to use their time thinking and doing what they feel called to think and do.

[0] http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-04004/1

[1] http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
Because it forces classifying workers as either employee or contractor when a case could be made for another classification of flex-employee. So, for example a good number of über drivers are part timers, which is fine, but if this becomes a normal aspect of the economy, we need to be able to make it automatic for this class of people to get some kind of benefits. Not as much as employees, and more than [$0] as in contractors who need to do their own taxes, benefits, healthcare, etc.
Overactive brain pruning in teens could cause schizophrenia
Perhaps in 1999 this was the case.

But technology is no longer a blocker. Often times companies will use this as an excuse instead of just coming out and saying "we prefer asses in seats because it looks good to our bosses".
In the "go to the same parties" sense, sure, but after work I hang out with my partner, not my coworkers. I've already spent 10 hours with them, that's less than I'll spend with her (not counting sleeping).
Are you honestly trying to say you understand the market better than Uber?
Its possible the internet has solved some of that benefit of closeness, but that socially we haven't yet caught up, but will gradually.

eg. Having good broadband plus good VR goggles and cameras might make remote working much more immediate and a viable replacement for all those commuter cars on the road.. the technology to make that effortless might be here in 2 years and our social norms might catch up in 10 years after that..but maybe its much longer, and/or a carbon tax or higher fuel or road use tax is needed as an incentive.
How do you get to "almost certainly"? What makes you think people want to wear a VR headset to get real work done? It's not even established what the effects of long-term VR usage are.
Getting a Google domain means giving up getting new features from Google :( (pauses to clean up bitterness)
So, you want communism or forced labor camps?

I don't want Basic Income only to be told where and how to work. If I have to work for it, I want to go find work my damn self that I find palatable.

Which is (part of) why I don't want Basic Income at all.

(Edited for clarity)
In the past years I've gone from a 15" MBP to an 11" MBA and most recently the 12" MB.

I hate the MB. The key travel is way too short and have seen no signs of adjusting. The lack of expansion ports is criminal. Just one more. It's the little things--like no led to indicate charging/charged. I use it for testing for work, but that's about it.

My MBA plugs/docks into my cinema display. Keyboard and mouse are plugged into the display USB hub. Ethernet on the other USB port. When I travel it's super light.. no complaints.

Just for reference, the MBP was just too heavy and hot. Lugging around the 15" in a backpack around airports all day was not comfortable.

I wasn't happy with the Lenovo laptops, so I went Apple. Now? Not sure where to go.
If only tech blogs had access to a dictionary.
My guess would be they meant "ensure" rather than "insure." It is difficult to have both parents working if they aren't certain they have adequate child care.
Spiders that have formed armies 50,000 strong
Could switch over to NIST at time.nist.gov
See http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi for info/details

Granted that means trusting NIST over someone else.

The other options are getting time from a cellular modems, GPS or the most extreme running your own atomic clock.
This is my dream. Can banned anti-zionist/anti-globalist/anti-despot individuals still apply?
Like for other products? I've never seen an ad in parallels and have been using it since it first came out.
Reductionist science does it again.
Going back even older, the first TV's didn't have degaussing coils built in. If you moved the TV, a technician would have to come to your house with a portable coil and do it for you.
Also, good on you guys for doing something established academia refuses to touch.
They're trying to nudge their customers for a while. It is just a little difficult when that's one's biggest source of income.

For example, https://support.google.com/dfp_sb/answer/4515432?hl=en
No, Tesco can just buy it from someone else (or even import it at a loss) and good luck staying afloat when 80% of your business just went elsewhere.
Haul a Uber from hipchat
College in Poland is free and there are options for very limited stipends which can sustain you (albeit on a poverty level). That did lift me from a poor, but educated, family into the world of computer software and a relatively successful career it seems. As it did for countless of my peers.

Please don't discount free education as "not changing much", in the US I would be probably working at Mc Donalds or dealing crack and in jail.
I don't listen to hiphop, but it was neat to see that the hiphop I could find myself listening to all sat within a 1-2 year span, and if I wanted to give it a shot, grabbing albums from that period might yield some palatable albums and artists. So not only is this a great visual demonstration but a useful tool too... thanks
Facebook Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2015 Results
Agreed, something different would have to be done for the jobless.

I only claim economic equivalence, not political or marketing equivalence. On the other hand, we already have a negative income tax for working people (the earned income tax credit) and no national basic income, so maybe the marketing advantages aren't a slam dunk.
The letter the Feds sent to Theranos [pdf]
> Xcode for iPad is coming within two years

Who is asking for it?
Show HN: Perdido Grid System – A Translation of the Lost Grid for JSS
Any ideas on the computing requirements at run time?

Amazing and impressive!
Ultimately this is just mixing up definitions of "value" in disguise. It's the reverse of assuming price is tied to some kind of intrinsic "value" of the good. Here, you're assuming nothing can be free (in economical sense) because physics. But it's not true. If you give stuff away no strings attached, it's free, period.
https://xkcd.com/1002/ rates Poker as easier than Go.

And Calvinball as impossible.
It also means they quite literally at least assist with offering free SSL certificates.
I tried to set up LE for my personal bunch of websites, but sadly the rate-limiting is still too strict for automation to be a viable option.
/r/programming isn't well-regarded here. His first sentence was a dig at the quality of this discussion.
"Yes. I'll also add the 4-year education is incredibly inefficient, in terms of skills added over time"

I'm uncomfortable with the idea that a university degree is entirely about workforce skills.
As another pointed out, the supply curve for these certs is probably close to horizontal so we should expect the equilibrium quantity to increase but not the price.
I also suggest looking openresty based frameworks, it is non blocking I/O, but you can write procedural code normally and Nginx will handle events internally. That means no callback hell

There's Lapis, by leafo http://leafo.net
And I'm also improving Nginx experience on the framework I develop, Sailor, because it was originally developed for Apache http://sailorproject.org
Money becomes devalued when you flood it to spend on non-productive things. You sure you want that?
Can you devise a filter that's as rigorous as all the tests and projects that a student would have successfully completed over the X years it took to earn the degree?

Seeing the degree is a shortcut to verifying that the basic level of knowledge in the applicant's major has been satisfied. The testing necessary to verify that independently (and redundantly - one for each company being applied to) seems prohibitive.
I see the same thing claimed in Vancouver but there is no conclusive evidence.
Why should it ever have been an option for the drivers to be the ones paying?
However, Facebook's long-press function makes sense inside an app. It's less a webapp there, and more a desktop app--even though it's interfacing with the Internet, it's presented standalone, not as a place to go within another program. You don't expect to see the browser's long-press menu in the Facebook app, because there is no browser.

As for desktop, if they're intelligent at all, they'll use a different method there. Perhaps all the new variations will be displayed side by side. Perhaps instead of only trigfering on a "long-click", it'll expand on a normal click.
This is a deliberate design decision in CoffeeScript – "everything is an expression" (see http://coffeescript.org/#expressions).

This is probably as a result of CoffeeScript's Ruby-esque syntax and semantics. It does mean you can write some very clear and succinct code at times, but the tradeoff is that it can have unforeseen performance implications.
I wonder if this will reduce malware that injects advertising into users' browser sessions. Seems like a win-win, but I don't trust Google at all. They want all private data un-encrypted and available for their own analysis/mining/auction when it comes to their own servers and services.
Why millennials are embracing socialism
Society exists independent of taxes, for example we didnt always have a federal income tax, and there are states without state income tax now. There are other ways gov can raise money.
Service APIs with “goa”, a Go-Based Microservice Framework
"Having money isn't everything, not having it is."
So? As a driver, wouldn't you rather go after a fare that does tip instead of one that doesn't?
VirtualBox is actually fairly strategic inside big-O. They had to sort out its positioning vis-a-vis Oracle VM and "the cloud", as well as dealing with the usual wave of developers leaving (Oracle and Sun are very different cultures...) but I think they've since rebooted its development in earnest.
Forgetting the Internet
OMG. My heart is literally in my mouth right now.

I've been using linux (centos) since '06. I've tried nearly all of the virtualisation products out there and always stuck with VMWare. On the desktop I've bounced from Windows, to Linux (ubuntu) to now a mac.

VM Fusion pretty much gets installed as my first app which allows me to run a linux env for development. Shared Folders is mandatory for me. Snapshots is a good send and never ever ever crashing no matter what I do with it via Windows 7 in it's own VM.

I'm so in bed with Vmware Fusion right now, I cannot think that another product will replace it. I know there are other products, but these don't simply cut it at all.

I will be praying to the apple or virtualisation "gods" out there and hoping someone buys the team and either spins off a new product or carries on.

I guess after 2017, I will hope the product keeps on working and keeps running with the latest mac releases.

Hopefully someone can make a petition to Apple to buy this team also. I'd sign it. They have the money after all and it would be a great addition to the OS.
Being high-iron cells, cancer cells is supposedly more easily damaged by free radicals (this is how artemisinin being super-peroxide works against cancer and malaria), and one can see the logic that cancer cells can benefit significantly from decreasing of oxidative stress, in particular by anti-oxidants.
Dlang LLVM-backed compiler: alpha release for android
Lua used to be LUA, you'll find LUA written in old source code comments :) Don't be so mad about the Lua Uppercase Accident :)
I edited the main post. I meant that there was no private sector job growth.

When has lowering taxes and removing red tape not worked?
Ratings don't replace the feature, as you don't really choose your driver.
Mixed content is insecure because of active content to be very honest. Most people don't care about passive, but of course, you can make some fake banner if you are able to MiTM. You'd like javascript coming from HTTPS rather than HTTP. HTTP itself is insecure but doesn't mean every website has to be over HTTPS. However, given HTTPS is cheaper to deploy it should be encouraged. Do I really need HTTPS to show an album of cat photos I share with the world? No. But I do anyway.

However, the biggest challenge is actually internal traffic are almost always over HTTP, and the reason is almost always "because self-signed cert is invalid." In some way this is okish since internal traffic is a darknet, but as we have proper toolset make Let's Encrypt available, more people should consider deploying full SSL support for internal traffic as well. At this point, the toolchain to actually make Let's Encrypt simple and useful is still, ugh, a little hackish. Cron job here and there. Sort of complicated process to get started...
I tried Caddy the other day and was pretty impressed. It's a single binary, it automatically installed a Let's Encrypt cert for itself and it had a bunch of other nice features.

I'm not going to switch production to it yet, but it's looking like it'll go on my home server pretty soon.
So how would you suggest getting the technical knowledge to build solid, generic foundations if most projects don't have them?
The largest bank in the Seychelles (a known tax evasion jurisdiction) is Barclay's, based in London.
I think the 80% win rate against CrazyStone is for the single-machine version. The distributed version won 100% of the time against CrazyStone and 80% of the time against the single-machine version.
Agreed. Another way of looking at it is that a pure cash exchange would filter through the market demand for all goods, and as a result the nominal value of all goods would increase through the mechanism of inflation, not just land rents per the Henry George Theorem. However, there is an input consideration of identifying where this cash infusion is coming from, whether from printing money or from selling accrued assets on the open market (as what the YCombinator crew would probably be doing, if they don't already have liquid assets devoted to this endeavor).
> "because you're more likely to win with this move"

Is that not exactly how a human decides which move to play?
Sweden's recent good years are courtesy of substantial pro-market reforms they made after several lost decades in which their over-sized welfare state had caused stagnation.

Don't take my word for it, here's their recent finance minister explaining what they did and why:

"Like many societies, we went too far in our welfare-state ambitions" ... "If you’re working yourselves upwards in taxes and deficits, we’re working ourselves downwards"

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0803/international-invest-...

[2001] "By 1991 the voters had had enough. They threw out the Social Democrats for the first time since the war and installed Carl Bildt’s Conservative government. Bildt set about liberalizing important state-monopolized or dominated markets, notably telecommunications and banking. As competition in telecoms cut telephone and internet access charges, Sweden became a hotbed of technology experimentation, with some of the highest penetration rates for mobile phones and internet access."

"Bildt cut back Sweden’s confiscatory taxes. His 1991 tax reform package capped national taxes on personal income at about 50%; before 1991, rates could go above 90%. Bildt’s tax reform also established capital gains, dividend and net interest income as special income categories, taxable at 30%. Corporate income tax: 28%."

http://www.forbes.com/global/2001/0319/034.html

That said, I'm not aware of any free-wheeling Capitalist nations except perhaps Singapore. The US for example is a highly regulated welfare state with upper-mid tier taxation among nations.

Meanwhile, Finland is in a depression [1][2][3], with their economy shrinking year after year, while they refuse to cut their own stagnation-causing over-bearing welfare state.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/12001895/Finlands-depress...

[2] http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/35c8560c-c62f-11e4-add0-00144...

[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-26/the-new-si...
Wouldn't that only be if Lyft doesn't continue doing the same thing?
This is certainly true. However, for many cases there may be little difference. A year or two of basic income is sufficient to start a business, learn skills to enable a career switch (exceptions, of course), care for a newborn, deal with short-term illnesses, etc.
Regarding size, a Mithril/MSX implementation would look about the same.
This isn't entirely accurate.

Think of the exact same system performing the same intra-system permutations (changes) but in two different reference frames (one relativistic and the other not). The changes are identical but the time required by each will be different due to their different reference frames. If time was simply a measure of change than you would expect the time taken by these two systems to be identical. Time then takes on a quality (or rather perhaps has a dependency) that exists beyond simply a "measure of change".
Wow, not mincing words. I think we've found our first dead unicorn of 2016.
You're missing the point and reading thing that I didn't write. People don't want your charity. They want a chance to earn a living.

When you give people everything they need to subsist, but nothing to do, it doesn't give them "freedom". It creates dependency.

Nobody in Silicon Valley has basic income. They have ripe opportunity for productive employment. That's the safety net that facilitates risk.
ML-like and Lisp-like languages tend not to be pure. There are mainly 3 kinds of pure functional programming languages: theorem provers, research languages, and languages descended from Miranda. Both sides of the purity design spectrum are influential, popular, and used in industry. So i don't think it's "hipsterism" that explains why purity has been successful in certain functional programming languages.

The research languages are mostly shaped by the idiosyncrasies of the researchers who developed them. The theorem provers are pure functional because no one actually wants to run the programs they write. This leaves Miranda-style languages.

Miranda was pure for design reasons: Miranda was also a lazy language. Having unrestricted side effects in a lazy language is almost completely unworkable. This tension between side effects and laziness 'protects' lazy languages from giving into the siren call of side effects as Simon Peyton Jones puts it. Without laziness, they often give in.

So between your example and mine, it seems that some technical capability enabled by purity is the primary motivator for a continued culture of purity. With Miranda, it was laziness that required purity. The inference is that those languages became popular because laziness was useful enough to create a community in the first place: no culture of purity without community of users. Smalltalk's development environment was a similar kind of highly valuable and distinguishing feature.

The abstract notion that purity is better for developers doesn't carry enough value. It's only when it's translated into concrete capabilities that it starts being considered.
That's a terrible interview. She literally ends by calling them nerds, probably in reflection of the fact that she has no clue what they're talking about.
Why Two Millennials Created a 'Cards Against Humanity' Game for Election 2016
Commerce.js: Full-Stack ECommerce API for Developers and Designers
The rate of college attendance and graduation increased dramatically with the introduction of state universities and financial aid programs - it was no longer just the province of the wealthy. This obviously had good effects on the economy, and on society.

When my daughter was attending a private university, she had an enlightening conversation with a professor who worked on pricing for her university. He told her their prices were not going up in response to increased costs, but rather to maintain a certain price relative to in-state tuition. Of course, in-state tuition has been steadily increasing because it is becoming less subsidized.

In other words, the cost increases are a response to cutting government funding, both for private and public.
That's... impressive. I'm going to mess around with this over my weekend - thanks for sharing!
That is not a proof by the CS standard though -- well, unless the job is defined as "write a program that processes these N test inputs known in advance", in which case a program that prints the expected hardcoded output in response to each of the expected inputs and otherwise returns an error would be a good implementation :)

I personally avoid using a word "proof" to mean anything other than a mathematical proof. It can be done with code, for sure, but as grandparent said, usually isn't.