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Startup funding is slowing in San Francisco
> You think legislators do not understand the subject because of what they said?

Depends. Frequently not as can be seen when the policy to achieve "x" does nothing of the sort, loses them the election or becomes some sort of personal vanity thing. Of course it depends on if the views expressed are of the politician or the party after you've attempted to pick out the double meaning. :)

> You believe what the politicians say?

If it's an independent I might. A party politician of any colour, usually not.
wouldn't that be 'Persian' (culture) art as opposed to 'islamic' (religious) art?

/splitting hairs
Two responses to that.

Firstly because, well, that's just the way it is sometimes. Putting a gate in your wall can let in bad guys who can plunder your city, yes. But it can also let in good guys who can fortify it. You just need to design and use your gate well...and, I suppose, think of the government as good guys. (Soz, I've been indulging in some nostalgia with AOE 2: HD recently....)

And two: who says this has to involve decreasing IT security? I haven't seen enough evidence of cooperation between the gov't and the tech industry on this for me to believe that an agreement on this would require decreasing IT security.
If the prices of goods and services rise, and their quality does not change, then yes that's inflation. But the quality of goods/services delivered should go up. (That's the point.)
Or the paintcode plugin for sketch?
Rents have nothing to do with the price of construction.

Prices are set by available credit for purchase and by wages less other essentials for rent.

I'm afraid this isn't simply supply and demand fudge factor after construction costs at all.

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Reply to child post as HN hates rentier slayers and throttles.

They function in that prices are set. But they are set by credit. And supply is inelastic. Banks use land to gain unearned income through their monopoly on money creation as debt.
From my attempts, it's not trivial with bitbucket. Beyond that, the functionality for this app also includes slack notification on new releases,and a nice templated email notification on what's changed. That was the request from the guys wanting this app.The point is that an app can do a anything a user wants, tailored to that user.

The betting odds app was my own pet app, mostly for testing purposes. I listed it to demonstrate something like this can be done. Otherwise, a server, database and code all have to be setup, tested, and monitored. The idea here is to let developers focus on the code only, and easily publish apps for anyone to use.
I don't mind -- too much -- those kinds of restrictions.

The one that drives me batshit-insane is "maximum length". WTF?
The Power of Schnorr-A Signature Algorithm to Increase Bitcoin's Scale and Privacy
Larger than 0 does not mean 1 :)
Possibly a local DB like Lovefield?
Official page: https://e-estonia.com/e-residents/about/
Online Deals That Only Look Like Bargains
> If suddenly the poor had some money to spare - the rents will simply go up. The water bill will go up. Electricity, gas. Etc.. until there's no extra income left. And then the poor will be in exactly the same situation as they are now.

Remember that these "costs" are seen as revenue to providers of goods and services. What follows can be thought of as the opposite of trickle-down economics.
That's if you're allowed to use that many characters.

A disturbing number of sites (even banks) put limits on the size of a password which tend ot make me think they're storing it somewhere plaintext...
The Independent also didn't look up -r as it stands for recursively remove directories...
But not everyone would. I really love my work. Fewer people in the marketplace would be good for me because it would drive up my wages, which means I could afford to do things that the average UBI recipient could not.

Also, it's not like UBI would solve all social problems. Many people who like to work in nonprofits today would continue to do so. Probably even more people would because they would have more of a safety net underneath them while they save the world.

That said, I'm skeptical of a UBI. Too many unknown consequences.
The article seems to ignore why many people buy a console over a pc (aside from price). When you buy an xbox or playstation you know that it should play all of the games released for the next 5 years or so.

Coming out with an xbox 1.5 or xbox 10 that obsoletes current gen consoles midway through a generation would be the biggest change ever to the game console business. Probably the worst thing they could do would be to make a new "low-cost" xbox that can't run games that are already out.

I can see Microsoft experimenting with doing small hardware improvements in a mid-cycle revision but I doubt they will make drastic changes.
This kind of tool destroys ones ability to program long sustainable production code. For a novice programmer this has tremendous negative effect on the learning curve. For an experienced programmer this tool is useless, because an experienced programmer will NEVER rely on "popularity" of some code-snippet out there in the wild. Programming is a very intense and deep practice and it is certainly not crafted using this kind of tools. This tool helps people write poor quality code for customers. Makes me wonder, what Knuth would say on this?
We want you to be able to use it just as much! : )

There will be an adoption curve from early -> late adopters. Working through this is something we're committed to, and we know it will take time.

We're committed because we think it will be incredibly valuable to our field. We just can't imagine a future 50 years from now where programmers don't benefit from a smart backend helping them work.

So we start with step one today, and here we go : )
Precisely. The article cites one economist who opposes BI for this very reason:

ROBERT GORDON: As far as a guaranteed minimum income, I’m not in favor of that. I’m in favor of a modest increase in the minimum wage, and a substantial increase in the earned-income tax credit, which encourages low-income people to work.

DUBNER: Why would you not be in favor of the minimum guaranteed income?

GORDON: There’s too much of an incentive, if you guarantee income, to replace work. And if you provide a guaranteed minimum income to everybody, then those with low skills will drop out of the labor force and will no longer work. So I think it’s a matter of incentives. A guaranteed minimum income would put a very high implicit marginal tax rate on going to work, for those with relatively low skills.
Even if nothing changed, it would have been worth it for the simple fact that it simplifies the bureaucracy of it all. That's basic income's most important feature
Sorry if that's a stupid question, but does that mean he was running his script as root?
So if there was an open source version of this, I'd use it. I would never trust it otherwise. Large corps will never trust it either, IT sec policies would roast you for using this. Instead I see an opportunity for IDE's to step up this space and provide this built in, without copying and keeping your source code.

"What information does Kite keep around on its servers?
Usage information about which results you click on in the sidebar.
Contents of all Python files in enabled directories."
I recommend using some tooling that wraps the original rpm tooling, such as fpm or fpm-cookery. It does a fair job of covering up the worst warts.
So how many of these higher paying jobs exist? And now who is completing for them? Or are the low paying jobs going to suddenly start paying more?

I'd say they have less leverage.
This requires amassing the capital to get started. Does it seem harder to get all that capital than to get half of it? Really you only need to get 7% of it this year to pay the over-18s.

What investments should be used in the account exactly?

What do you do about the temptation of the administrators to "borrow" from the reserves, direct the investments to benefit themselves, hoard extra resources or underfund the plan by estimating the future revenues or expenses a bit too high or low?

Your idea isn't bad exactly, just complicated by these extra provisions such as "the basic income shall be derived from investment proceeds from individual accounts."
Alex from kite here. Re privacy: we totally agree that it's a legit concern. when we started working on this we realized if we wanted to index tens of thousands of libraries, we wouldn't be able to ship the entire index along with the client. Hence the cloud-based architecture. We've thought a lot about privacy and written up our thoughts here: www.kite.com/privacy. The short answer is: we don't index anything on your computer that you don't explicitly ask us to, and our plan is to earn trust the hard (i.e. only) way: transparency, published policies, and a track record of good decision making.
Passing a law against strong encryption will totally prevent terrorists from using it to conceal their communications. I mean, how are they going to encrypt their data if it's illegal to do so? /s
I thought I was signing up for Kite not for Kite's email list. Pretty misleading copy. Nowhere does it say "Coming soon" or anything to that effect.

Also, there seems to be no confirmation email.
The plugin API doesn't make it look likely.
Is she though? What measure are you using to say that Sansa is more important than Arya?
I may be an oddity but I can assure you that emotional relation through contact has significant deep sources, causes and effects on one's mind. It was like going from 2D monochromatic vision to 3D trichr. And in my case it wasn't a smooth transition and caused me deep anguish to say the least. When I see documentaries about autistic childs, the way they express anxiety and hit themselves, I can't help but to think about my own past issues. Hence my question.
Huh. So we haven't come a long way since Eliza in the 1960s then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
tldr: Next gen 4K and VR games require GPUs and CPUs that far exceed the $300-400 price normal for a game console. Microsoft should separate the Xbox into two (or more) lines: a $150-200 media center like Apple TV with no gaming capability, and a higher priced gaming version that could potentially just be a high powered PC running an Xbox app.

Personally, I see his point that the price expectations of game consoles prevent them from effectively running next gen games. However, that's always been the case, with console gaming quality lagging behind PC equivalents. But maybe the advancements with VR and 4K this time around has finally broken the traditional console refresh cycle?
Could anyone here tell me why, in practice, it isn't possible to write generic algorithms such as sorting or Red/Black T using interfaces only in GO ? It seems like having interfaces such as "comparable, equatable,etc" should work in theory.

I've read somewhere that it was memory usage related, but i've got trouble picturing why (maybe an example would help)
This does look pretty interesting. Could maybe be a bit larger. And their website less shiny and more info.

I like that they are offering (by invitation only) a ios and Android app -- so much of a tool like that is the OS and interface, if you can give people a simulated version on a device they already have, that's a pretty good share-ware like onboarding experience.
Already confirmed and published finding 5 weeks ago.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1600651?query=fea...
Wikipedia lists the Eastern box turtle as "vulnerable"[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_box_turtle
Well, I'm controversial with some - it's still against the law in many jurisdictions so it's murder. But I consider euthanasia to be hugely unethical, so I'd consider it manslaughter.
There's a lot of trust of the government here[1] and in general[2] -- though, as that Gallup link shows, it MASSIVELY depends on which arm of the government you're talking about.

Again, not many people live in or around the libertarian bubble. And there are lots of intelligent people who avoid it for very, very good reasons.

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1. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/02/apple-fb...

2. http://www.gallup.com/poll/1597/confidence-institutions.aspx
IoT investment bulks up in 2nd best quarter ever
Well in this case I would be surprised if any other programming question wouldn't reveal them.
I fail to see by what mechanism what you describes occurs. Do you constantly query your occupant of pay raises? Why would every raise be siphoned by rent? Poor people have problem making ends meet for clothes, food, etc. Sure, more money put inflationary pressure, but it's not a magic direct correlation and instant feedback. If the government is serious and declares that it will adjust basic income to match the market price for basic goods and regulate their prices, including building low-rent lodging, then the inflationary pressure will have to subsides into only unregulated items.
That was my thought: First, a text box to make entry POSSIBLE, then, if time allows, a select/option list to constrain to meaningful answers, then, the "other-with-text" option to allow the long tail of never before seen but valid answers.

And so on, as time allows.
Look into Dash. Even if you don't want to pay for the application (or can't run it on your platform), the docsets are free and ISTR there are some editor integrations for them that don't involve the paid app.
It's a great concept for a tool, but I could never get it to fly at work.

Not windy enough for flying a kite? ;)
I was wondering about this, but the data can remain encrypted and compliant as long as it's ultimately accessible by court order. I then assume the existing laws regarding courts accessing private health data apply.
This is a very good video that gives you insight into both sides of the debate, but I'm not sure it will change many minds because the central idea of the video isn't really supported by anything. The entire thing rests on on argument, "There is no way to build a digital lock that only angels can open and demons cannot." However, there is nothing in the video to back up why that argument is true now and/or will continue to be true in the future. That is where Clinton's whole "Manhattan Project of Encryption" idea comes from that she mentioned a few months back.

It also makes the entire debate black and white which isn't the case in the rest of our legal system. Nothing there is 100% accurate. There are guilty people who get off and innocent people who are convicted. If we could devise a lock that keeps out nearly all demons and lets in most angels, would that satisfy both sides of the debate?
Right - that's the part that I have a really hard time believing. Even having a single decryption key per device seems insane - isn't it pretty standard practice to frequently rotate your session key? I'm wondering if this was something that Blackberry was doing back in the early 90s, and, as the state of the art advanced, they never upgraded their systems.

It really sounds terribly insecure to me.
In other words, he didn't have backups. A live copy of a running system available to that running system is not a backup.
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Reminds me of https://archive.is/9R2j8

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We have countless examples of capitalism failing too. But the argument that socialism is against human nature is obviously wrong, as humans are social animals. However, as any animal, if you corner them and put them in survival mode, things can get ugly.

The purpose of modern states is exactly to provide security in multiple ways, one of them being shared financial security, to remove the need of constant struggle for survival and allow the social side of humanity to flurish.

As an example on a smaller scale: There were enough articles recently for instance about Amazon, as an extreme example of hiper competitive anti-social environment that encourages people to backstab each other and play politics to advance. Pure survival mode. Compare that for instance with companies like Google, that spoil everyone and even give you 20% time for free. So far they haven't collapsed. Now you can argue that companies are not countries, but I don't see how such learning don't apply. That exactly is the human behaviour argument.

Sorry in advance for the ad-hominem, but that supposedly intelligent people even here on Hacker News keep reiterating old tropes about socialism and human nature unreflected, while any research in that regard or simple observations as illustrated above are contradictory to it, is baffling.
I believe those variables were not handled by the shell but rather in an Ansible "playbook" - see http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_variables.html

i.e. the variables where happening in a Jinja template and because undefined, rm -rf {foo}/{bar} was transformed by the template engine into rm -rf /
Wow this is personal. The 4 trillions dollars empire strikes back
Yes, much like the stock market responds to news, mostly faster than msnbc can discuss these. The issue this app solves is the ephemeral nature of the betting data. A simple scheduling feature allowed me to have historical data easily. Otherwise, go deal with a server, scheduled jobs, etc. Not impossible, just discouraging for many people that can develop, but don't want to deal with the overhead for every little application.
The New Science of Hitting a Baseball
Well the defensive player guarding Kobe better be positioned next to Kobe!

Really, all the positioning is dictated by the offense.
Defense ends up just inside the 3-point line because the offensive player sets up just outside the 3-point line, not the other way around.

Kobe (and pretty much all basketball players) are continuously planning how they will get open and where they will shoot from.
Part of that plan is the knowledge that an almost-but-not-quite-3-pointer is a really dumb shot.
So they'll usually catch the ball at the 3-point line and either shoot or dribble substantially closer to the basket.
Yes, I agree that housing markets suck.
Js-Mind: A Deep Learning Library Written in ES2015
I have a friend who is an energy healer. I personally think that kind of thing is nonsense, but her origin story makes me pause.

Throughout her teens and twenties she really struggled emotionally because she had this unconscious ability to absorb other people's emotional states. Then she went to an energy healer herself, discovered she had a gift and finally developed the coping mechanism not to let other people's energy affect her so much. Now she uses her ability to help people instead of just flailing around.
Stanford Physicist Embarks on Mission to Improve Undergraduate Teaching
Go seems to be much harder to type than Python. Would be nice if each single player level linked out to a docs page that could teach me the syntax that I was typing out. I wasn't familiar with the function* syntax in JavaScript for example.
Gol de Griezmann – Atlético de Madrid 2×0 Barcelona
A Very Uncool Cooler - An Update on The Coolest Cooler
The W3C has been hacked
How interesting. I'm learning about healthy emotional boundaries. In the past there have been times I've been so synced up with another person's emotional state I thought their emotions were my own! Practicing dialing down my sensitivity has been a big help.
You never hugged someone you missed to death ? I bet it wasn't for sensorial pleasure. There's something more when you can let down on someone else and somehow 'talk' by skin / closeness.
I don't want undermine the value of this product, but this seems like something that I've (and many others) sort of already solved by using products like Dash [1] and Alfred [2] together. You can easily and quickly find all info on docs while working right in Sublime Text, or while also using an IDE to read into functions throughout your project. And maybe I'm missing more what this product does, but that's just what I noticed based on the video.

[1] https://kapeli.com/dash
[2] https://www.alfredapp.com/
Video: Has the LHC discovered a new particle?
Programming Models and Languages for Distributed Computing
Well except for you cann't have everyone agreeing on what fonts to include in their app. J
VR is a dud
Nah, the title has little to do with the app, more with my failed attempt at brevity. But an app that could stop a baby from crying would be awesome.
Well, then, it's your responsibility to make sure that your application can cope with data pasted in from Excel, since that's obviously a critical part of the users' workflow.
I do work at npm, and you're right, that's why we do it. The same Docker-based installer (from a company called Replicated) installs on all our customers' many operating systems, so it was easiest to do the same thing to create our AMI.

We should look at ECS though. Are you more likely to deploy if something is in ECS than if it's a straight AMI?
> Kotlin has things Scala doesn't, like efficient optionality in the type system

Honest question - what is it that makes Scala's optionality inefficient compared to Kotlin? I'd never heard of this before.
Microsoft Sues U.S. Over Orders Barring It from Revealing Surveillance
I highly recommend a book called Season of the Witch by David Talbot. It's a great history of SF in the 50s-80s with a strong focus on the 60s and the counterculture. It's some amazing history that many people don't know much about.

If the 60s counterculture and the rest of America had been geographically segregated like the South and the North in the 1860s, you'd have had secession and civil war.
I think probably the right way to go after this bill is not to tell people that they need to protect their secrets from the government, but that they need to protect their secrets from 'criminals'.

Point out all the times that government databases have been hacked, and that if their secrets are swept up in government dragnets, it's only a matter of time before blackmailers and identity thieves get hold of them.
ContainerShip raises $2.41MM for it cloud automation platform
Fleecing the American Taxpayer: The Profit Incentives Driving the Police State
Fantastic idea. Disappointed I can't use it now! I'll be waiting for use with Swift.
I think suggestions reduce low income tax breaks and other social welfare programs while introducing a BI. ~11k per year could be close to net tax neutral.

EX: A flat tax at the highest rate would adds ~2,745$ to everyone above of the first tax bracket $9,275/yr, next tax bracket is hands out 6,980$, together that's a 9,725$ benefit for everyone making over $37,650/yr already being baked into the tax code.

On top of that you get things like HUD, education grants etc. Not to mention the 60+ million people getting Social Security.

PS: Not that I think the odds are good in the US any time soon. But, we are facing a lot of systemic issues which could promote a huge range of reforms.
Overseer – data pipeline management in Clojure
This reminded me of In the Reign of Harad IV[1].

[1]: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/04/10/in-the-reign-of...
At first I thought your comment was a bit harsh but actually now I think about it the Xbone is buggy as fuck compared to the 360.

I'm hopelessly addicted to COD3, and if I had a quid for every time that game has crashed on me I'd have a lot of pound coins. The OS is indeed slow, and the network setup I've had to create for games to work reliably is less than ideal. The OS is clearly trying to do a lot, but does all of it slowly and unreliably.
An article from 2011? Really?
This is awesome! I was going to build something similar, just for the terminal, but extending it to code editors as well makes total sense. And what an all-star team!