skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The statement "the US is out of demand" is equivalent with the statement "we are producing more than we need". Don't argue with me, argue with the parent.

What I'm arguing for is on how we should look at universal basic income. Some people see UBI as a way to increase aggregate demand. I see UBI as a way to get rid of poverty, so there would be no such thing as what you call "the poor". The difference is that I don't see a lack of aggregate demand as a problem. If we could rid our society of poverty without making a dent in aggregate demand, I see that as a win.

Another way to think about it is in terms of productivity. Do we really need to make everyone more productive? Do we need to be make the poor maximally productive before lifting them out of poverty? Why can't we just lift them out of poverty?
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Been feeling this way about hosting for a while now... I'm actually anticipating (wishing?) that "p2p web" (decentralized LAN applications) is going to start taking off soon. I think it's a matter of people building software that makes LANs easier to use for ordinary people. BT Sync is an excellent example of something like this. So is WebTorrent.

I had fantasies when Web Audio and Web Midi first were announced of browser based digital audio tools that people would use in one anothers physical presence, over a small local network. There is no reason that every network application needs to depend on centralized services! I was lucky enough to attend Music Hack Day in Berlin and created this Web Midi/WebRTC chat room as an example. I have no idea if it still works or not: https://github.com/timbresmith/pandemonium
Then that's the reason. The config is a dylib, so I have to force it into using jemalloc, which I cannot do when using stable.
The article specifically points out the scientifically demonstrated opposite relationship between salt intake and blood pressure than the one you have stated here. "It is fairly well known" is nearly always weaselspeak for unfounded opinion, especially in this case.

I'm tired of this from people who discuss eating habits, because personal changes are personal yet many people interpret them as scientific. If you argue about eating on the Internet, step back and understand that your experiences will always vary. Just own that it's an opinion, and I won't begrudge you an opinion. I'll call it wrong, but I'll let you have it. It's your opinion.
That's really strange because clicking on that icon does send me to a Google page. You can see the website here: http://download.cnet.com/Google-Chrome/3000-2356_4-75205983....

The website even claims the symbol is Google's: http://imgur.com/tWV4ROd
Best not to even ask such a question as it invites dishonesty. Just look up the contact information and compare. Here's DJB's:

http://cr.yp.to/contact.html
It seems like what you're trying to say is more that we're trying to optimize economic and industrial processes that are already more than optimized enough for what we need, rather than we've "run out of demand" as such.
I know exactly how you feel and I've felt the same way, except I'm 3 years older than you. Still haven't figured out the solution, but I'm hopeful. My biggest issue is that I'm a big picture guy.

I like thinking about AI at the high level, reading about the ultimate fate of the universe and studying macroeconomics. I don't like worrying about the details, Angular vs. React, writing unit tests, fixing bugs. I suppose I'm just lazy. But at my point in my career at least, I'm the one supposed to be doing the grunt coding work and I find it boring.

One day we'll figure it out, but it's not a problem you solve overnight I've learned. I've been dealing with this for half a decade now. Some days feel worse than others, but at the end of the day, we can pay our bills and live a pretty nice lifestyle to find consolation, so I guess it's all a first world problem.
Scientists find evidence for ninth planet in solar system
holy shit those are actually really good and applicable, thanks!
That true. I think the value such an API / service would provide to florists is that the service / API would:

1. Handle online ordering so they wouldn't have to
2. Drive customers to them

And do so in a way where they could still have a "personal relationship" with the flower purchasers.

The single downside, that I can see, is the whole "reviews" issue (I have no desire to become like Yelp and be known for "shaking down" businesses). I'll have to think about that.

I'll take your advise and talk to a couple florists. I don't think they, the florists, would need to handle the subscriptions. As long as they allowed repeat orders and they handled them independently they wouldn't even need to know it was a subscription. The main thing to discuss would be some kind of discount if the service could guarantee some level of purchasing from the subscriptions.
Insensitive to survivors. I don't find it disgustingly insensitive, rather potentially troublesome.

Also, yes, master / slave is outdated. If you are developing a new product, do not use master / slave terminology. It is not appropriate for professional work product.

Daemon is troublesome in many households for young hackers, which I don't advocate changing; this just makes me a little sad.

Killing, I have no problem with, but I'm an American. If I were, say Austrian, I might prefer terminating processes.

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The whole point of PC (political correctness) is to take power away from racists, sexists and other -ists by demonizing words and concepts. I think this has obviously gone too far in many areas. For instance, people should be able to discuss slavery, racism, violence, etc in a grown-up environment without fear of undue reprisal. If someone is still an actual racist shithead then they deserve the consequences of their free speech.

Speech and names should be respectful, especially in the professional arena. Being witty is fun, but causing real pain is not. Some people are killjoys who pounce on every troublesome or ambiguous potential "trigger" word. Some people are assholes who don't believe words can cause real pain - or worse - enjoy negging, controlling, and demeaning.

Personally, I tell horrible jokes and say mean things about people pretty often, but only verbally, and only to small audiences who take them in the manner intended. I'm sure I say hurtful things in amongst the jokes sometimes, but I also try to show respect in most of my dealings as well.
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Succinct. Exactly. Dollar Cost Averaging. For buys and when buying call options or selling puts, I increase commitment while maintaining the core strategy. Highs and lows are arbitrary in an irrational market. Profits can be increased if buying at "relative" lows or selling at "relative" highs. If a stock that trades at its highest yet value of $100/share falls to $80/share over a week because of a lawsuit claim or other similar construct, but the company is otherwise outperforming, that may be a buying opp (it may be a total loss, but that differential is risk/opportunity). That stock, at $80/share is at a "relative" low as compared to its high of $100. That is what I meant by low and high. Perfect maximization is possible, though almost always unlikely. Which is why your DCA strategy should outperform (depending on your investment choices, of course).
Dropbox’s new Windows 10 app shows the highs and lows of the platform
After Eve
VxWorks Fuzzing Security-Research (Debugging and Exploitation) [pdf]
I've also been on a mostly-keto diet for the past two years. I don't really pay attention to salt; didn't eat that much to begin with even before keto.

But yes, it's one of those big food myths. I even know a health teacher in the Peace Corps who is telling 6th graders to cut down salt. It's really sad.
Curious Namespace (CPP) Trick
"Another change since the original OSes were initially being built is the need for security"

I do not know what's referred to as "original OSes" but many old operating systems had actually pretty decent security architecture. MULTICS and VMS, for example, and many others too.
People want something for nothing, and when someone teach others they're a tool for an inch, they'll take that fool for a mile.

As one example, I hilaroously got the public cold shoulder from that Scalr clown because he didn't feel he had to pay for my time and expertise, even though I didn't give anything away... I suspect he uses his cheap, outsourced eastern European staff and others in the community for free labor and simply scoffs at anyone whom doesn't immediately bow to his majesty.

PS: I'm going to get "fuck you, pay me" on one arm and "always be closing" on the other.
The docs stomped me, too. I sent suggestions for metaphors and such that might help confused people. They're hard at work on the issues from what I've seen, though. So don't give up yet: check back in a year or so to see if revisions bring you extra clarity. :)
Yup. Buddy deals are the best way to waste your time, lose money and damage relationships.
Google doesn't charge for access to the play store. They do require compatibility certification which other non-Google companies charge for this. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/23/how-google...
The Recurse Center does this with their applications -- they substitute randomly-generated names like Spandex Reindeer. Great idea.
I should have said that "we are providing the maximum that we possibly can". It just seems like there's no marginal benefit to increased productivity right now. There's lots we could do to hurt the human condition: we could always just put a bunch of people to work building weapons, and have those weapons kill a bunch of unemployed people. But if there could exist some grand new way to improve the human condition right now, the money and the jobs just don't seem to be materializing for that. And there's plenty of money and plenty of workers around.
the kill command just sends the signal of the user's choice, not necessarily SIGTERM (the default) or SIGKILL or whatever.

This lets you change behavior in a running process from the shell by triggering a desired handled signal.
I am all for advanced memory management in application frameworks. The OS however isn't something you're going to rewrite very often so work harder and squeeze out efficiency so that your apps get them.
It's not dominant, it's apparently perceived that way within tech circles because they focus on tech.

There's not a good apples to apples comparison of public data, but for instance...

Medium 20k authors per week: http://recode.net/2015/09/28/ev-williams-medium-raises-57-mi...

WordPress.com average 12.7m posts per week: https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/the-2015-wordpress-...
People often talk about scaling in a lopsided manner. Meaning scaling is only up, well scaling works both directions. For an architecture or runtime to be scalable, it needs to shrink as the demands placed on it fall. Scalability works in both directions.
I haven't had the problem with poor people, or family. I do tell them, there's no guarantee, and it's most likely something you did, and you should learn more about computing before you even think about opening up the command line, or even use the time machine."

I have had wealthy individuals act like they are doing me a favor because I need to find the virus/malware one of their clones dowloaded from some porn site. I always give them a quote. They send me home, and then the wife calls after hubby gets to the permently blue screen, or the wheel never stops spinning.
That's actually a pretty good question. I would guess that killing is so generic from the News, games, movies, etc that killing doesn't usually strike a personal chord - whereas family and friends of suicide victims[1] tend to take suicide personally.

1. Typing that out reinforces how weird it is to think about suicide terminology - a subject one would be advised to not spend too much time pondering.
I'm a Clojure fan, but I always have this niggling concern in the back of my mind that Oracle is going to do something catastrophic and fracturing to the JVM and Java.
How southern? Which state is this happening in? Chiapas?
Parallel Universe made a comprehensive 3-part blog post to modern Java. They cover language features like lambdas, as well as notable libraries for build, deployment, monitoring, and web development.

http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/05/01/modern-java/
rbenv[1] makes installing and managing Ruby pretty damn straightforward, at least on *nix. Once you have Ruby itself up and running, installing any needed Gems is child's play.

[1] https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv
I wonder what happens if you give it its own process ID.
In fact, C didn't have a specification for the first 17 years of its existence. :)
Clara M. Davis and the wisdom of letting children choose their own diets (2006)
No pets = no homeless in your program.

People like respect and affection much more than they like food and heat.
Implemented and deployed! Now just need Terraform support to bring it full circle.
That's nice, but it's not going to convince Amazon to turn itself into a full-bore social services agency. It's job offers or nothing; which do you pick?
I'm not. Who are either of those?
So OSes designed in the 70s are bad[1] but we'll use a language designed in the 50s because it's good.

Old stuff is bad except when we like it, I guess.

[1] And quite dishonest to lump WinNT in with that...
LISP side of things already has a bit of work toward a security model and components for robust implementation:

Security Kernel
https://www.kyleisom.net/downloads/security_kernel.pdf

Formally-verified Scheme
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=881...

The features could certainly be worth it. Some aspects of the Genera experience, esp productivity & holistic debugging, still aren't in modern flows:

http://www.symbolics-dks.com/Genera-why-1.htm

So, who knows where it will go. Betting on a semi-functional language with prior high-security and high-productivity work is a better start than most projects like this, though.
This is a neat hack, but pids are reused - there is a reason "proper" supervisors take care to be the parent of the supervised process.

(A process monitoring system will mostly trigger under odd conditions... such as fork bombs.)
So due diligence is happening after they decided to invest, right?

What about before? There is a number of startups that are pitching you (the generalized investor you), and for most of them you wouldn't know enough about target market to judge one way or another. Like, you don't know about wholesale distribution of manufactured goods from mid sized companies, how can you assess if the founders are onto something?
The way I see it is that the "killer feature" of Lisps is the macro system and macros fit more naturally in an untyped setting. In a way, macros are kind of a "compile-time eval" and eval is one of those functions that is very hard to statically type.
> Do you equate newness with quality, as seems to be common on HN?

When the link's thesis is "these OSes design years ago are old and therefore bad" it is hardly unreasonable to point out the language the author prefers is even older.
You might be thinking of different start-ups, but I was under the impression that start-ups are using Rust not because they want to learn system programming, but because they need the low-level control but aren't confident using C++ and find Rust's compiler-driven safety very compelling.
How about "unchain" ?

If any link is severed, no more chain.
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I trade my tech knowledge for knowledge with other things. For example, my girlfriend's dad knows relatively little about computers, but he knows an enormous amount about home improvement and car maintenance. I fix his occasional computer issues, he can walk me through anything that happens to my poor beat-up Civic.

This applies to pretty much everything - friends help friends with stuff. But there's a pretty clear tit-for-tat exchange going on. If I have a problem, I expect you to give me advice, too. So, in this way, I treat tech knowledge as being exactly the same as electrician knowledge, mechanical knowledge, and medical knowledge. If you want access to my knowledge, you have to give me access to your knowledge (and to your own network if you don't have any).
LISP is so powerful you can embed an ML in it while still getting its benefits for your use case. Incremental, per-function compilation, easy macros, and live updates were my favorite features. There's also been a ton of work running LISP's fast. Subsets even compiled to hardware in the past, including SHard (still around) and DDD.

Example from sklogic that embeds ML in LISP
https://github.com/combinatorylogic/mbase
>unearned income, aka capital

capital isn't unearned - it has to have come from somewhere (perhaps the grandfather generation).
> As long as you find people insensitive enough to smoke in public areas and force those of us that don't smoke to breathe their toxic air, cigarettes should be taxed just like other pollutants are.

I feel the same way about cars. Your statement fits perfectly:

As long as you find people insensitive enough to drive/idle in public areas and force those of us that don't to breathe their toxic air, cars should be taxed just like other pollutants are.
Let me explain it to you in a simpler way. If you have a house, and your siding is rotting off, you ask everyone in the house to pitch in to fix the siding so the foundation doesn't start to get destroyed. But everyone in the house is a child that holds childish simplistic libertarian ideals and refuses to give you anything more than the bare minimum, so you side it with tarps instead of shingles, eventually the structure starts rotting.
What do you mean by posting that link?

"It’s important to note that these styles are not claiming to be native, but instead a 100% cross-platform implementation of the Material and Universal design guidelines. For example, the Material style does not adapt to any Sony or Samsung theme on Android. You can run these styles on any platform and they will look more or less identical."

I still have to do style all the standard widgets myself or build them from scratch. I don't want them to be more or less identical, they should be what the user has on their handset.

For example where is the toast, FAB, file picker, recycler view, notification..?

iOS support is still not a thing, apparently from the comments.

Also where are the OS bindings for resources, background services, IPC between apps, OS state notifications?

Currently on the mobile space, Qt adds little value over using C++ with boost and similar libraries for the portable business logic and using the platform's main language for the UI.

At least with Xamarin I have a very good coverage for the wrapped APIs and mobile widgets per platform, updated quickly after each new OS release.
Uber drivers are likely to accrue higher than normal mileage on those vehicles, which would lead to faster depreciation.

Loan payoff is usually gradual, so I'd imagine most of them from day 1 are underwater as far as what they owe and what the car would sell for on an open market.

Market similarly discounts used taxicabs, used police vehicles and anything that's re-sold by car rental places - such vehicles have higher mileage and are more likely to have been abused.
Google Cloud Platform Identity and Access Management
Writing new episodes of Friends is easy if you use a neural network
Ditto. Medium to me always seems like people trying to add credibility to their livejournal posts.
The domain 'blog.lacour.me' doesn't resolve for me:

Your name servers seem to be ns[1-5].he.net, and ns1.he.net doesn't know what blog.lacour.me is:

> blog.lacour.me
Server: ns1.he.net
Address: 216.218.130.2

*** No address (A) records available for blog.lacour.me
https://s3.amazonaws.com/f.cl.ly/items/072W0F1l3Q1C2b3u3T2r/...
Apache Gora provides an in-memory data model and persistence for big data
Very interesting project, Thomas. Here's one for inspiration:

http://www.symbolics-dks.com/Genera-why-1.htm

About time we have something modern that can do everything in that ad that's relevant today. I want my live-updating, live-fixing, per-function compiling, whole-system debugging, crash-resistant OS. If they could do it in the 80's then... you know... ;)
This is very interesting, especially when using two separate analytics software to see that Facebook is not producing accurate numbers. Has the author considered reaching out to a tech journalist and seeing if they'd be interested in pursuing an investigation? Seems if Facebook has a little heat on them, they'd at least explain the discrepancy.
Troll, Google my "aphorisms" in quotes. I don't seem to come up with any results in google. I'm not a genius, I didn't come up with the concepts of "Keep some Powder dry", "Buy low, Sell high", or basic arithmetic. You offer exactly nothing in terms of "strategy". I'd love to see your Series 7 exam results.

"Always be comfortable with losing what you invested, because you might lose it." - Google it.
While awesome that they have API support already; that's only half of it as you don't get access to the private key.

Still incredibly exciting and a great feature for Amazon solutions!
> Besides that, I don't believe that cigarettes are taxed heavily as a means to benefit the public health. I believe that they are taxed heavily because nicotine addicts will just pay that much for a fix. The supposed health benefit just makes it easier for other people to ignore that a consumer product is being selectively taxed at a scandalously high rate.

Exactly this. Cigarettes aren't being taxed out of any semblance of altruistic care for public health--that altruistic care is arguably borne out in anti-smoking laws in public places. The taxes, however, are simply a shakedown, like every other type of "sin tax" levied to collect money from people who enjoy a thing that cannot or will not be universally defended as something that is "okay" to enjoy.
IANAL, but my understanding is that you can't be detained (or rather a traffic stop cannot be extend) to wait for a drug dog [0]. Already you should have been able to leave.

Additionally, the "no, you're free to go" bit sounds like an officer trying to find a loophole, since the standard for whether or not you're being detained is if a reasonable person would assume they were free to go. Despite the officer telling you that you were free to go, I suspect most people in the middle of no where without a car would not assume they truly were.

Plus, calling your car "evidence" at that point is a bit... weird.

[0] http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/13-9972_p8k0.pdf
Go lacks an elegant and predictable syntax, unlike Python and Rust. Also, Rust is more potent as a language, it's safer, and it has crates - I prefer a centralized package management as it helps discovery, rating, analytics, and other things we know work great with RubyGems, PyPI, and NPM.
Reverse-Engineering Apps: A Step-By-Step Beginn – Eric Jang
Ideally, companies voluntarily paying at least enough that someone working there can expect enough to live a decent life. Short of that, a higher minimum wage.
Edsger Dijkstra – A parable
I know (with software) to never say never, but to be quite frank, I'm content with the current Unix paradigm, and I haven't seen a compelling reason why any new OS would be fundamentally superior.

But I would absolutely love to be proven wrong...

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/plan9.html
Until the rise of scripting languages we would use compiled languages for everything.

It feels odd that someone would question it nowadays.

I surely do hope Rust gets used for everything.
> But when cigarette taxes go up, youth smoking goes down.

I might have missed that part, but where's the definitively proven causal link between cigarette tax rate and young people declining to pick up the habit?