skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would take, say, $1200 (a very high estimate) and call it a day? You can live, it doesn’t even have to be a bad life, but it’s not really all that much. I doubt many would find that to be enough. I wouldn’t. And I’m not even all that ambitious.

I think a basic income can create very strong incentives to make at least some additional money compared to traditional social security. There is no need to find a job that pays at least $1300 in order to make it worthwhile, for one (you get to keep your basic income no matter how much you make – minus taxes, so this is in a way not always true).

I would even think that something like a basic income is especially nice if you want to become self-employed.

(There would be higher taxes, probably much higher in the US, a little higher in Europe, but I – being one of those liberal Europeans – have no problem with that.)

I’m still kind of on the fence when it comes to basic income, though. I think finding the right way to do it (how to pay for it, how to organize it, what kinds of social security systems to slim down or abolish, etc. etc.) would be very hard indeed.
CERN on trial: could a lawsuit shut the LHC down?
BioInformatics: Databases, Web Services and Tools
I didn't realize that, but you're right:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/523482/core-data-vs-sqlit...
"the real reason that you research and learn new things is so that you can pass it on."

That's not why I do it at all. I love knowing things that others don't, and use that knowledge as competitive advantage.
You're either being willfully ignorant or insincere now. Allowing non-boolean values in boolean clauses originated with lisp back in 1960. Furthermore, GvR is on the record as saying that his main influence for python was ABC.
or superuser.com ...
Agreed. Just looking at Yahoo! answers for any health related questions you can see that most people online don't know what they are talking about (but are more than happy to share) when it comes to health related issues.

Somehow the same people manage to stay off of programming sites thankfully and don't just go respond to everything saying, "Its probably a heart attack, get to your doctor!"
This post indicates they are having problems due to growth: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/b7ko0/we_know_the_site...

More slowness than being "down or broken".
How about you can sort answers by total vote count OR only by verified account votes?
Want more startup hubs? Show us your faces
If you want to make more startup hubs around the world, you need each city's local heros to show their faces to early-stage entrepreneurs.

http://startupsrule.com
Did Chatroulette Just Launch the Video Conferencing Boom?
(My comment was written from a German vantage point where the unemployed have to jump through tons of degrading hoops and everything is set up in a way which expects them to pick up work again sooner or later. I don’t know much about social security in the US, so I won’t comment on that.)
Want To Inspire People To Join Your Mission? Start With Why.
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/
The library of the Gutenberg Museum
Startup hackers should know more game theory. You can explain a lot of human behavior as evolutionary adaptations to compete in partially-cooperative sex-selected games of incomplete information in groups of around 100 players.

For example, why we care about karma on social networking sites, why some employers require you to wear a suit even though everyone concerned thinks suits are stupid, why religions are tenacious, why nobody trusts atheists, why virtually every mid-sized American city has at least one completely uneconomical skyscraper in what passes for "downtown" and why it's always owned by a bank or insurance company... the list goes on and on.
Broad index funds are great, but the big problem with them is that all your eggs are still in the "USA basket". Consider adding some foreign or emerging market funds, but also realize that it is impossible to diversify perfectly.
I doubt they put a dev on something like this...probably a 3rd party vendor or intern.
Effects of Translating an iPhone App - Charts And Graphs, Breakdown by Countries
I know this data is a bit stale, so if anyone has questions, I'll try and answer them.

We're pretty open with our sales data, so ask whatever you want.
Tea! <3
What's most frustrating about this is that it's about copyright, it's a part of a world wide trend initiated by the US Gov't that started in South Korea and NZ, reached the EU with the changes in the UK and France are the most apparent not to mention the secretive and scary ACTA negotiations. basically what the gov't is saying is the Internet has done exceptionally well without our meddling but because of the request of some special interests we will have to take another approach.
It's remarkably difficult to evaluate your own reasons for making decisions. Just consider advertising. It works very well, but nobody thinks it works on them.
Someone double check my information on this, but I believe that you can take a 10,000 withdrawl penatly free for a first time home purchase. The distribution will still be taxed, but there is no penalty.

ConsumerReports.org usually has a pretty good list of low load, no load index and mutual funds that they suggest. They are a non profit, and I'd been consistently pleased with their advice over the years.
I'm disheartened by the trend towards tea over the last few years. The solid kick in the pants that a cup of coffee brings is something I'm reluctant to live without.
I don't think I buy it (so to speak). More food, beer and wine purchases online than offline? I'm pretty hardcore about buying online whenever possible, and I buy only a miniscule percentage of my food online and no wine or beer online.
Nice product. Add Facebook Connect to increase signup ratio.
another reason to not like flash.
Does The New York Times really care about being first to report hockey news? I thought they were more about investigative reporting and analysis. It would be stupid, in my opinion, for them to try and compete with Twitter on this front.
Apparently not. The Apache feather is much more tasteful.
South Korea is basically the same. We went from unranked to 13th free and 28th paid navigation app.

We're making ~$3-5/day in SK now, though I expect that will rise more as our Lite pipeline converts.

It's only a couple thousand a year right now, but i expect growth, and the price was definitely right! I've spent more time talking about translations on HN now than I spent getting them all done I think, and the cash was negligible.
In which ways are my suggestions extreme? I don't mean to put you on the spot: I just actually don't know what you perceive extreme in what I'm suggesting.
8001050F or PlayStation Network status affects single-player games
I really need something like this for my CSS Frameworks. Fast DNS query resolving + gzip.

I think that Google and others(Microsoft,Yahoo) should give free access for more public libraries. So we can all benefit from that.
Though it's not one of my major interest I'd look like to hang around. But I got few friends who are well interested.

Kudos
Scary yet familiar. I work with many databases that have large MyISAM tables, which is essentially the same situation.
CrowdFlower
I'm a student of bioinformatics and I support this idea. Count me in.
How long is a piece of thread? Long enough to save a life
Sorry about that,then. I assumed it disappeared becuase you deleted it. I thought it would stay around in threads even if it was downvoted.
A perfect storm is brewing for the IPCC
Why doesn't your javascript code go through code review?
Why would you only net $2-4mm after selling for $30mm? (even after taxes!)
I've only played around with the website/webapp for about 30 minutes but it is very well executed. Very high quality content organized in an easy to grok fashion. Woulda liked more content on release/announcement but making an MVP worked out for them. +1 validation.
> f(x) = 1/3(x^3 + y^3) = 6xy

Pesky algebraic geometry. Get out of my graph!
Thanks for the resources guys. It sounds like I need at least a couple of index funds to be adequately diversified, and the books that have been mentioned here have been mentioned in numerous other places that I've seen; time to give them a look and spend at least a little time learning.

As for the people talking about not taking the time to learn, I understand that I'm not going to have crazy returns or anything like that. I just want an investment vehicle that will outperform basic savings accounts and such, and, hopefully, beat inflation.

Also, as for people saying "don't put money in the stock market if you need it in 3-6 years." I certainly won't need it; I was more emphasizing that I want something sooner than 401k, and potentially would like to have it available that soon. T

he more realistic scenario is I use it as a gap retirement fund. I'm 26 now, and would be happy to retire in 25-30 years. This means I need 10-15 years of gap money before 401k becomes viable.

Vanguard has been mentioned multiple times in this thread. I used to have a 401k with them, with a previous employer, but I didn't pay much attention to their offerings. For passively dumping small amounts of money into a small set of ETFs monthly, do they offer a superior service to some of the other online brokers that I mentioned?
I realise that. The thing is the model gerally works good here in the uk (note the tax is optional. Yu can choose not to watch tv).

It might not work elsewhere admittedly. But it's worth a shot. I've travelled quite a bit and Imo the uk easily has the best tv set up. :-)
A race they can probably never win, people at twitter can post fake stories about the result without much harm to their reputation (apart from a handful of people) and for a hockey match about 50% would be right.
It'd be nice if Cherokee had a "Cherokee In Production" section that listed a couple companies/websites that use Cherokee. Benchmarks are nice but I'd rather see it in action.
If you look one step further upstream, everybody on Twitter probably got their news from traditional media: NBC's broadcast of the game.
While I completely agree, and upvoted you for it, I think the implication of this is more along the lines of "whoa, the NYT is no longer the formost producer of breaking news (mostly.)"

The NYT should focus more on investigative reporting and analysis, and Twitter should stick to being about getting information out there as fast as people can type. To each it's own, right?

EDIT: To those who downvote, I'm curious as to why you did; this makes a lot of sense to me, and I'd like to hear contrasting opinions.

EDIT2: I think I must not have been clear at all: I agree with the OP. Completely. I'm just saying that no, the NYT doesn't care about getting out information as soon as possible. BNO does, that's why they're slightly better than the NYT at it. Twitter delivers a little bit of news in small bites – for some, that isn't sufficient (and it isn't for me either, though Twitter is a nice heads-up for when I'm not watching the news). But bites of news can be transmitted in 140 characters, or at the very least they can contain links to news (such as, again, BNO's links.) I don't see the controversy here, but I suppose that must be the Twitter kool-aid.
Several comments on the article suggest using sparse files. I suspect that this completely defeats the purpose of pre-allocating space. The initialization would be fast, but the time savings would return as a probably larger penalty amortized over the runtime in a non-obvious way. The only way to really know would involve performance testing the operation of a similarly sized database restored under both conditions on fresh drives.
ugh, is he serious? does anyone actually believe that the reason people don't run their own businesses is because they were brainwashed? as opposed to, um, lemme check, lack of desire, lack of funds, lack of skills, etc. i have issues with this assumption that the natural state of everyone is to be above average. i don't think the math works.
It could also be that the people at the NYT hit the button first, but their email servers are not quite as quick as Twitter.
BNO (Breaking News Online), the company who posted the news ahead of the NYT, is reputable. I'd say they have a lot riding on their reputation.
For all the value that it derives from anything other than industrial use, gold is just the fiat currency of the collective imagination.
I somehow didn't get the message as you did, it seems to me that he is saying that we are brainwashed to be average and to follow the crowd and working at a job to earn a living is one of the notions that have been put in our head during our brainwashing.
Nice tease :)
I also wanted to take a moment and let those who might be looking for a job in the Boston area know that we are hiring:

http://www.nasuni.com/sub/jobs/
Tell HN: Best OS X Utility for programmers who use the command line
I don't know how I have lived without it for so long: http://www.decimus.net/dterm.php

Fast access to the shell that defaults to the working directory of the currently used file from say xcode and you can paste in the current working file(s) as arguments to whatever you want to run. There is an option to run the command in the overlay app or in terminal.

I recently found out about it because I was looking for xcode git integration and this makes accessing the shell git stuff quick. It's free too.
Clickable: http://www.decimus.net/dterm.php
you clearly haven't spent time tuning your tea brewing! Its actually shockingly easy to brew amazing tasting black tea that is in the coffee- expresso strength in terms of caffeine.

First of all: Get loose leaf black tea, trying out several varieties to find a baseline one you like. Black tea is the simplest to brew of all the caffeinated tea variants. You'll also want to experiment with water temperature, steeping time (not that long, else you'll get the bitter flavor bits that no one like), and how you go about steeping (i
've found that disposable tea bags that I can fill with loose tea is best for me). I've fine tuned this process for myself to the point that I can make super strong tea that also naturally tastes sweet!

The mistake that many people make with tea vs coffee is that they equate the jitteriness with the caffeine working. In tea, there is also theanine, which moderates the jitters that occur due to caffeine via being a very mild muscle relaxant, and I am lead to believe that theanine has been found to have wholely positive cognitive effects generally.

That being said, coffee or tea are only helpful if you have a caffeine dependency, or you are amidst being tired/groggy to an extent that interferes with work. If your issues with doing work are not those, drink the tea anyways because its tasty, healthy and easier on the stomach/body than equivalent volumes of coffee (also tasty) or sugary(real or fake) energy drinks. and/or go talk with a doctor to figure out why you can't do work.
God can also use any kind of script you like to perform start/stop/restart. You can execute an external script or even write a Ruby block to interact with your managed process however you like.
"Smart, young, artistic people are always asking me which is a better career path, “Creativity” or “Money”. I always answer that it doesn’t matter. What matters is “Effective” and/or “Ineffective”."

Perfectly said. Every time I've ever tried to express the sentiment, people look at me like I'm an asshole alien who just slazered on their parade, particularly and most heart breakingly in the world of non-profits.

Again and again, I've seen good people do projects by the book that'd been written years earlier, wasting time, money and energy and ultimately hurting the communities they wanted to see served.
Yep, the framework checks if the WebSocket object is defined, and if not, defines a custom WebSocket objects based around flash sockets.
How Can Pre-Orders Help A Lean Startup?
If you have the right kind of mind to get into Dwarf Fortress, it is one of the most interesting games I've ever played. You start to really care about these ASCII characters, especially when one devastated by his wife being killed by raiding goblins goes into mourning, snaps, and murders your blacksmith to turn his skin into gloves... and they're the best gloves your town has ever produced, worthy of a name out of legend.
1) People use the average Joe’s poor mathematics as a way to control, exploit, and numerically fuck him over.

2) Mathematics is the subject in which, regardless of what the authorities tell you is true, you can verify every last iota of truth, with a minimum of equipment.

Although seldom noticed, mathematics is one of the few, maybe the only, subject not open to interpretation.
I've had ok luck with logodesigncreation .
Yikes. Posted quickly w/out thinking about it, while eating. You are right. Would delete it if I could. Thanks for keeping me honest :). Will do better next time.
> Furthermore, Voracek, Hofhansl and Fisher (2005) found 6% of women were receptive to offers of casual sex with a strange man

Anyone know which strange man they're talking about and what his MO is?
this thing is working for me.
A mirror is orders of magnitude cheaper than any fusion containment system you care to name, also orders of magnitude less mass.

Seriously, do the math, for the applications we're talking about (asteroid mining), given that the solar constant at earths orbit is roughly 1400 Watts/m^2 a relatively modest set of mirrors could be used to heat metal up to working temperature.
Entrepreneurs Who Believe That Business Shouldn't Be Boring
I'd prefer a "collective" model... pay for the shows you want to watch.
Uh, that would be the definition where you don't screw people out of tens of thousands of dollars when they're most vulnerable.

I'm not sure why you're picking out "Efficiency" in a health care system, and deliberately ignoring "Effective and valuable". While efficiency is commendable, you're missing the point of a health care system somewhat...
Oddly enough, I found the exact same article submitted under the title "10 Online Businesses That Prove You Can Make Money Out Of Anything" to a different site. http://madconomist.com/10-online-businesses-that-prove-you-c...
Ask HN: the best way to develop terms of use and privacy policy
Hi, my startup is talking to attorneys about developing our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. As a social (dating) site, these things will be important to get right.

How did your company go about it?

We've had a bit of sticker shock in terms of what it might cost, though the attorneys we are talking to are specialists. We are getting quotes around $4000.

Is it possible to do something basic more cheaply? Or do you need to spend the money to get it right?
sounds like it would work better in the midwest, where are you going to host it?
In Ireland, there's Start VI:
http://startvi.com/
Eclipse Phase is a roleplaying game that is the first (AFAIK) to come under the Creative Commons license.

They seed their own torrent for the PDF.

They still sell well at $50 dollars, when the average cost of a RPG book is 20-40.
I thought of this idea the other day and got stuck on how to best push messages to hanging clients in a generic way instead of the simple requestNumber request-response correlation here. I ended up just making it app specific and either generating a unique client ID per hanging connection (a UUID) or using the username of the logged-in human using the hanging client.

Anyway, this is a nice architecture indeed.

However, as a pure proxy, I would think nginx would be more appropriate for its (albeit poor but swappable) load balancing, rate limiting (a 3rd-party module), caching (memcache, redis), and general volume of usage.

In fact, there's the beginnings of a nginx upstream based redis module that supports redis' GET that could be made to RPUSH and BLPOP the result.

FWIW, I'm the author of redis-node-client. It should be noted that Promises were removed in favor of continuations in the latest Node.js on Github and I've updated redis-node-client appropriately. Thus, the sample code in the article is outdated by 2 days or so.

Using LPOP in a polling loop to wait for the response is not that great of an idea. It would be better to use BLPOP or "blocking left pop" which blocks the client connection (think "long polling") until there's something in the given list to pop. It does not waste resources and the results are returned in much less than the worst case (e.g. 100ms here). I haven't added BLPOP to redis-node-client yet though but it should be simple to patch.

To scale this beyond a single frontend, popFromQueue could potentially put the response back via LPUSH when the queuedRes[requestNumber] is nil... "Oops, this wasn't for me, let me put that back." Or, it could/should use something more formal.

Why does the Ruby worker shell out to redis-cli instead of using Ezra's client library?

Finally, "The previous spike..." What does "spike" mean here?
Mac version of the Google “Parisian Love” Superbowl ad
I believe this has more to do with Canada beating the US than people surprised at Twitter being able to break news faster then the NYTimes. The latter would of been news in 2008.
a nice product, though I think all the 'steve blank' stuff could really be provided in a single context of just watching the one full video.

A few notes.
1) on your home page, in chrome, the 'sign-up' button is showing up behind your footer
2) the 'read more' logo leads to the same videos as the page they are sourced from. If you don't have more information, don't put a 'read more' button.
I don't think it is a good idea for a individual to put money in the stock market, whether as you are doing now (via your 401k) or through some other method.

In theory, the stock market should be a place where companies can raise money to carry out enterprises that return more money to the stock holders. In order to be able to raise money from more people, rules are applied that make sure the powerful and rich don't rip off the weak; this is how the original stock markets, certain coffee houses in London and Amsterdam, fell upon the idea of only admitting members who agreed to record all of their transactions upon a chalk board on the wall, open for all to see.

In the current reality, companies don't pay dividends, when you buy the stock the money you pay is not going to go to the company to fund any enterprise, and well connected people at Goldman Sachs employ "high frequency trading" which is essentially shill bidding in an open-outcry auction.

The people who thought "high frequency trading" was OK are still in charge of the stock market; I'm not sure if they currently claim that is stopped or not, but it doesn't matter, the people who failed the test of allowing it in the first place are still in charge. Had they been selling cattle as a licensed auctioneer, and allowed that sort of thing to go on, they could go to jail.

Other places to put your money could include government bonds; you might look at the inflation protected series of bonds. You could simply keep your money in an FDIC insured savings account. As long as you are thinking you might need the money in 3 to 6 years, anything else seems foolish.
AM (1976): first math AI system to automate conjectures & concepts, not proofs
You "couldn't agree more" that I need to own my web presence, and to do that I should create an ePortfolio on your site?

Hrm.
Very friendly design - I'm really liking the feel, simplicity, clarity, and welcoming vibe to the entire site, well done.

the concept is good and has value in my opinion (I signed up). I will have to give the content a go and see if the curriculum lives up to what I'd need/want.

Thoughts on monetization? I ask because I'd hate to see my learning environment become littered with distracting ads.
As a bioinformatics/molec bio student, I would be interested in a bio HN.
Slashing Woofer Thickness