skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a more fundamental question that I intend to work on at some time down the road, and it is this:

How does the money flow, and at what point does it brake down?

You see, if we give every person basic income of $BASIC, that money must come from taxes (else we just have runaway inflation). So ultimately every dollar spent needs to be collected in taxes. That's not to say it gets taken away by the government at the first transaction. The velocity of money will play a large part in determining the tax rate required to collect all the money back to the government. But that velocity will be low if a large number of people choose to not work. It also depends on propensity to save and some other factors. I'd like to see even the most simple analysis of this to get a feel for the math and what some obvious constraints it places on the system.

Has anyone done this and published a blog?
Yeah, agreed on who this may appeal to. Personally, I don't think I'm necessarily one of those "10x" devs, but... then I work around many other folks on different projects, and I see the extremely wide range of skills and productivity levels. The wider range I see the harder it is to judge. (and... judging doesn't normally net me anything except feeling better or usually much worse about myself!)
I understand the reasoning but the need for capital depends on your situation. For example if you want to start a software business and are a good developer you need no capital. The only thing you need is time to work on your venture. It might look like it's the same because taking time to work on your venture requires to have money but there's a big difference.

You might want to read this :

http://read.reddy.today/read/4/flexible-revenue-model-vs-mvp...

Good luck
* no commute/transportation costs (include extra gas, car maintenance, etc)

* more time with family

* smaller food costs (don't eat out as much)

* smaller clothing budget -- not dressing up

* complete control over my environment (lighting, wall color, music, etc)

* fewer interruptions (even with 5 kids in the house)

* almost no sick days...like I'm not going to work when I have a bad cold? I go stir crazy.

* 1 am eureka moments happen more naturally.

* I can justify my increased home internet bandwidth
This is the accounting firm we use, they are awesome! However, they need feedback regarding their page from startups
Ask HN: What is the vi/m equivalent of the Emacs “Org Mode”
I've never used Emacs, but am pretty fluent in vim. I regularly see people sing the praises of "Org Mode" in Emacs, but rarely see a coherent explanation of what it is, or what it does.

I've read around a bit, still not much the wiser, and would be interested in any HN-readers' recommendations for a vim equivalent.

Anyone?
I've already seen reports of Lyft drivers rating passengers entirely based on whether they received a tip.
Ah. I wasn't thinking of batteries.
> The majority of fashion is targeted at women

I actually complained once to my favourite label about their very limited choice of fashion for men. They replied that it's because men don't buy very much, which is funny since men don't even have the choice to begin with.

> therefore there are more quality pictures of women out there than men, therefore...

It's a bad reason to use the status quo to justify itself.
US is a huge territory, and differences in suicide rates vary quite much across both Europe and the US by region. Finland has only marginally higher suicide rate than US (14.8 vs 12.1) if you consider that Alaska and many states in the Western US have rates around and above 20.0 (per 100,000): http://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/
I purposely avoided reading the comments like a sane person. Thanks for confirming my decision.
Yes absolutely. Its just that in the USA this debate has taken on a religious tenor to where facts and logic essentially mean nothing. It just comes down to who can yell the loudest or push their legislation through
The best line of code i've ever wrote is the three i didn't.
Maybe I am out of the loop and missed something, but I did not get a "this guy thinks he is superior to us" vibe from his post (and I am usually the first to notice such slights).

I really like his post and he has piqued my interest in learning more about da Vinci, of whom I knew very little.

Your post seems a bit harsh. Not everyone here is well-educated in the same fields. I am not even a high-school graduate.
I wrote a MCTS backgammon move recommendation engine/AI for a class in college. It was a lot of fun.

It was easy to ramp up to many many cores.

I have no idea how to play the game well, never learned, but because the win/lose rules are so clear and using this method, no need to build in game/move theory. Still got great results compared to "advanced" players' games.
Cultivated Play: Farmville
My only problem is with the use of "nothing to do with". I'm sure it's just me but, as I tried to explain in my comment, that's a pet peeve of mine. If you had "nothing" to do with it, what word would you use to describe what I had to do with it?
1) http://www.amazon.com/DAEMON-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451228731
2) Industrial augmented reality is a real thing that is really happening
3) Data-driven economics

It's my dream that some day we can know enough about how energy and goods move throughout society that everybody is more-or-less able to do what they want with their lives, and we use information technology to simply arrange them in groups such that civilization results.
There's plenty of citations in industry material like this:

http://www.aboutoliveoil.org/oohealthbenefits.pdf

(Now that I've pointed you to an easily found resource, will you read the cited works?)
Thanks. I was hoping for the "Go" response, but since I'm working with Torch I'm genuinely interested as well.
> Products that offer serious competition for incumbents in the financial sector to bid down the 7-10% of the economy taken by financial services.

The limiting factor here is the regulatory regime, which makes it all but impossible to move money around without using a bank as an intermediary. That gives the banking cartel effective veto power on all new financial services.

The key reform here is to separate the movement of money from the provision of credit, and to have access to money transfer be classified as a basic human right along with food, water, and internet connectivity.

Good luck with that.

Otherwise it's a terrific list!
Any specific models in mind? I would love to run vanilla linux on my phone. Checking ebay, I see a few with 2GB (like UMI ZERO MT6592T), 4 would be really nice.
We took that distracting word out of the title and put in Larry Page's name, since everyone here knows who he is.
Yes! Funnily enough, the site this story is hosted on is using HTTP.
I often think about big cities where people have reasonably priced housing options available. Two great examples for me are Tokyo and Berlin. I think a big factor in both is a combination of dense traditional city planning, and transportation. I really enjoyed this piece on traditional cities:
http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20130330.php
"Enjoy lunch with your spouse instead of in the break room with Connie from accounts payable!"

I'm fully in favor of the freedom for everyone to work from home, but I think there are unique upsides to being in the office, too. Incidental contact with people from other departments (e.g. "Connie from accounts payable") is one of them, as this can give you a unique perspective on your organization and can spur new ideas/reveal new avenues for improvement you would've never encountered had you been sequestered away in "deliberate contact only" mode at home.
I used to use Evernote connected to a Galaxy Note tablet that I could use to write handwritten things down. One day I reviewed some of these and decided they were way too personal to entrust to a 3rd party who didn't even have an encryption scheme. Also, when you sync Evernote to a new computer, it can download notes you would rather not have on every computer you want to use Evernote on.

I deleted my Evernote account. I now carry these tools everywhere I go:

* Fisher 400B Space Bullet Space Pen - Matte Black[1]

* Field Notes Pitch Black Edition[2]

The pen was a spectacular find. It is only a few inches long, which allows you to carry it in your front jeans pocket without discomfort. It is also heavy and a joy to write with. The notepad is a sweet goth black and slides easily into your back pocket.

DS Note [3] by Synology is a spectacular replacement for Evernote. It is an app that runs on their Diskstation NAS servers, so all the data is stored on your home server. You can import your Evernote account to it. I rarely use it, but it is incredibly full-featured. You just have to buy a Synology Diskstation NAS.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WGD13U

[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GC5QTR0

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.synology.d...
Aaand, it is not currently the imperative of gov't to provide people with a sense of self-worth. That may be a worthy thing to shoot for, but it isn't currently a purpose of government. Even if one accepts uncritically the self-worth imbue-ing power of labor it's not necessarily the only way to impart a sense of self-worth to the individual.
It seems a lot more efficient to do a tabletop or synthetic study, rather than outright paying people BI as a sample.

Probably what I'd do is look at people receiving benefits equivalent to basic income. Disability is a good proxy for some -- you would need to correct for the disability itself. 20 year military pensions are another.
Based on my own experiences of transitioning voluntarily into homelessness, I am very excited by the focus on lowering the cost of living. Living more simply, and getting there by a slow and intentional process (NOT coercive or painful), leads to more enjoyment of life, and less fear of failure. Funny how living in the presumed failure state of western society recalibrates your instincts.

I find myself wishing that something like the process I went through could be institutionalized to a degree. For example, I had to be previously indoctrinated on the value of minimalist living. I had to be convinced that that was something that I wanted. And I had to consider all my habits and responsibilities, and what I might be willing to give up to get me to different outcomes. I had to understand how cheap it could be to exist in the city in which I live, and then cut in order to get there. I had to let friends know of my goals, and hope that we could create new traditions that sacrificed little and perhaps even strengthened our relationship. The whole time, you are altering your habits, testing them out before removing the harness. For example, when I wanted to stop requiring my bathroom space, I started going to the gym every morning to shower. Once I was used to that in my daily routine, I then started doing fitness and running while I was there. And when I didn't want to come back for food, I started putting together a minimalist meal plan that I could prepare in advance and take with me for the day. Reworking my habits and needs was almost a full-time job for a few months. Anyhow, I would never assume most people would want to take it as far as I did. Everyone's path would be different, as their responsibilities and routines differ. But that slow process of change if life-altering.

I am now living in San Francisco for perhaps $300/month, and living very happily (perhaps moreso than ever), although El Nino is a recent complicating factor :) I will likely upgrade from hammock tent to camper in the near future, as I don't want to strain relationships with my partner. But up till now, it's worked very well.

And I want to clarify that I would never see minimalism the goal, but just a means to happiness and resilience. In any process that might resemble my own journey, taking something away should always be a choice made for future benefit.

Perhaps making that benefit more concrete could be part of any institutionalized program. Pay generously at first, but then expect costs to come down, and the more they come down, the more "reward". Perhaps that could be a retirement bonus. Or access to some sort of YC investment portfolio that would essentially be retirement reward. So the cheaper you learn to live, under the guidance of the program, the more of a nest-egg you earn.

Anyhow, apologies if this is less than coherent -- lots of thoughts in my head on this topic. I am very not in the "tech solutionism camp", and am pretty self-aware that my experience would be less a prescribed path, but rather a general template :)
That's a half marathon every day. Not only is that far more time than most people could spend it's also far more activity than most people could do without injuring themselves. That kind of distance takes years to build up to safely.
https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/2mqaym/which_plugin_fo...
>"But that's not the point. Sexism, in reality, favours men and hurts women. That's why an image of Brad Pitt is okay, whereas"

If seeing attractive women "hurts women", then by that you have to concede that the same happens to men when it comes to attractive men. Not only that, but "sexism" against men occurs on multiple levels in our society, so much so that we are actively blind to it, see your comment as well as below.

>"Any argument that goes "But if we switched genders, then it would be fine!" is completely missing the point that we are still living in a de-facto patriarchy, where objectification of men is not even an issue."

It's odd how you claim "defacto" patriarchy, then concede that this patriarchy allows the objectification of men to occur as a non "issue". The fact that it's okay in this society to objectify men but not women is not proof of patriarchy, if anything it's proof of "matriarchy" (if we borrow feminist-naming conventions).

We are still far from true equality, and it is something we should strive for as an enlightened society. But to blatantly have double-standards while claiming systemic inequality is quite disingenuous.
In other words in the short term can and will distort the market. So, the question becomes do they discover a economically meaningful price in the short term or is the processes essentially random.

As to lowering the price, arbitrarily increasing or decreasing the price is not an economically useful activity. The value of markets is price discovery, at best HFT reduce transaction costs though this is somewhat debatable as they are extracting money from somewhere.
In can't help but think that the only real answer to getting housing to be appropriately cheap is to manufacture it 100% off site and bring it to the site in easy to assemble pieces.
Great example. To be a doctor you need to pass the medical board exams.
Not "idle" exactly, but in the Canadian Mincome experiment, teenagers and new parents decreased work hours (to focus on studies and childcare, respectively).

http://public.econ.duke.edu/~erw/197/forget-cea%20(2).pdf
I'm curious: is there a Chess league for software? And if yes, how far are they already better (in ELOs) than humans if run on commodity server hardware?
The thing is... the driver rating isn't really a real "rating" any more. It's terrifically skewed because everyone knows the drivers basically have to be a level 5 or else they'll essentially get fired.

I feel terrible giving anyone a 4 or below because I know they might get banned from the platform and possibly lose their livelihood. Even if they're a mediocre driver, can't speak English, don't know where they're going and have a smelly car, I don't want that on my conscience that they get fired and can't feed their kids or pay for school.

Most people are aware of know how hard Uber is on their drivers and so now it's become that unless the driver commits an egregious act (road rage, wrong way down a 1 way street, unsafe practices, sexually inappropriate comments) everyone universally gets 5s. If Uber really wanted real rankings they would encourage ACTUAL feedback and have some sort of training and remediation process, not just banning people people if their rating drops below 4.7.
Basic income introduces a few drawbacks:

- talented people will not need to do consulting or daytime jobs to support their startups or side-project, which can lead to them living in a bubble

- there will always be people who spend all their income on gambling, drugs, sex, whatever - with basic income they just have more cash to waste (although this could be controlled somehow)

- low-skilled jobs aren't going anywhere soon - how do we want to motivate people to do jobs like garbage collection or road maintenance - this is already a problem in countries with exuberant social systems like France
Stranded Bulk Carrier 'Los Llanitos' to Be Dismantled Along Rocky Mexican Coast
Ok yes, if there's a mechanism that dynamically loads the missing parts then it could work (actually emscripten supports dynamically loading scripts similar to DLLs). But 'naively' deleting functions from an asm.js blob would result in some 'unknown function' exception if the analysis was wrong and a removed function is still called somewhere.
Founder and CTO of Lever, here.

We are so thankful to our many users in the YC community. Would love to hear from anyone already using Lever or companies looking for tools to help them refine their hiring process on how we can continue to improve. I'll be following along today and respond to any ideas!

Hiring is the most difficult and important thing most companies and founders have to learn, and we are hoping to do our part in providing software to make it more successful and a better candidate experience. We believe the very best hiring is accomplished by building long lasting relationships with candidates.
I think that's true to some degree but most types of doctors still require going through an internship (sometimes), rigorous and lengthy residency program and passing their specialty boards.

It's true if someone can do those 3 things without going to medical school they may be missing a great deal of knowledge passed from medical school that maybe they were not explicitly tested on or experienced in the field. I'm not sure what to do about that. If you could find a solution for that then banning from asking or considering education could actually work, I think...but that's a hard problem to solve.
As a company founded on disruption and (mostly) willing phd dropouts i'm surprised you've set this at 5 years.

Ask yourself, is the additional research in extra years worth it over what can be accomplished in x years? (1-2 years in this case).

I say do what you've always done: fund disruptive ideas. In this case, research proposals with short timescales and big impact.
Related: but Seattle's $750K+ housing market is dominated by Chinese cash buyers.
Speaking of which, what would a robot war look like? I imagine a large portion of the effort would be to hack/otherwise persuade the enemy robots to switch sides.
X2Go and Xpra – Replacements for NX and FreeNX
Even that test has limits though. Competive gamers all start off playing hours of video games a day, but playing competitively means sacrificing fun for grueling practice, formulaic tactics and very little experimentation; basically all the fun is sucked out of it.

Theres a moment in the show "Silicon valley" when a programmer looks at an Agile deliverables chart and says "This just became a job".

I think that would be the test. Can you endure the drudgery of daily grind and constant challenges and still want to go through with it? You won't know unless you try.
Why not have startups have their employees work from home? Much simpler and easier to implement solution. I don't have the obsession of wanting to live in a city but I'm aware most people I know who don't have that obsession either still have to because their bosses does not let them work from home. If you only have to come in once a month or less you can live in a region where housing is affordable; I could buy a livable house every 2-3 months in my region. It's not for everyone but it would provide greater quality of life for many and would certainly allow people to own their own houses / land without having the risk of the bank to throw them out no matter what goes wrong (you don't need a mortgage).
SmartJS is in the same niche as MicroPython, NodeMCU (non-JIT Lua), Netduino (.net micro) etc: it's a language that is more accessible to people [read: hobbyists] without a ton of experience programming embedded systems and who don't want to get familiar with C/C++ to use Arduino. It's not really meant for production products AFAIK, but to make IoT and other microcontroller stuff more accessible to e.g. web devs without much hardware experience in the case of SmartJS.
You misunderstand me. The book I referenced does not try to teach you math. The book I referenced surveys scientific studies on the question of "whether everyone can learn math." There is overwhelming evidence presented in this book that, in fact, everyone can learn math.
Now that you mention it, Google should work on an AI to play championship-standard Seven Minutes In Heaven.
I hope It's not coming back to bite me in the ass to say that, but I have been slacking and collecting unemployment benefits in the last few years.

During this time I have re-kindled my interest in mechanics and electronics, bought and changed the electronics of a CNC router, learned to use it, learned a bit of woodworking, created the control software and tool path planning system ( https://github.com/nraynaud/webgcode ). I have helped a guy on the internet with a laser cutting software, I have created an easy captcha breaker, played with Cypress PSOC MCUs (it's the gateway drugs to FPGAs), started a project that uses Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals (hint: you can control the 70V stuff with the parts destined for vacuum fluorescent display).
And I learned a few techniques:

- CNC cutting vinyl and using it as a stencil for painting or sandblasting

- isolation milling of PCBs

- PCB etching

- CNC made wood inlays

- using a lot of glues

- learned a bit of Ember.js, lots of Chrome APIs

- a bit of mold making

- parametric mechanical CAD design

Now, I have accepted a job offer and should start next Monday, so I guess all those projects and learnings are over, but that was a good ride.
I've wondered that too. IP addresses have never been secrets.
I think the parent is saying that if someone can demonstrate they can handle a physicist position for R&D, does education even matter? It would really depend on the criteria used to determine the ability to perform at the job. If the criteria is good enough I see no reason why someone without a PhD could take the job.
"Interesting New Startup Developed Using The Restroom" was my favorite.
wget with the mirror option, if saving the original markup is a priority.
Things to note about 10x developers:

I have only been able to group developers into the following categories:

- not competent

- competent

- competent + problem focused

I would never hire non-compitent developers. They suck. They make terrible decisions and code. They are many.

I would be careful hiring competent developers. In fact a competent developer is usually a junior developer who needs proper mentoring. I would push hard for getting that developer above competent.

The last type of developer is the golden goose. They can code, but they are focused on solving problems NOT writing code. They focus on what problems need solving, can they be solved later, what is the price of solving such problems. All that while being competent at making code.

So thinking of someone as 10x or 0.1x is an error IMO.
Yeah. Still not paying for a cert on my person home-pages just so I can have my own page come up first when people google my (worldwide unique) name.

That page contains static HTML and does not need SSL, and it's not "insecure" just because you may be on a network which MITMs traffic. That makes your network insecure, not my page.

So yeah. Not interesting. Not worth it.
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