skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure about your other questions, but regarding your claim that "these people have now an additional incentive to not leave the area", I don't think that's true:

>In our pilot, the income will be unconditional; we’re going to give it to participants for the duration of the study, no matter what. People will be able to volunteer, work, not work, move to another country—anything.
I have sexdaily too.

Can you share your font settings? I've Ubuntu 14.4 and installed OpenDyslexic and like it. (helpful) But in some places the font seems large and it doesn't show everywhere.
> you agree that pseudocode is not code and flow charts are also not pseudocode

What?

I just demonstrated that pseudocode is an ultimate form of a code, flowcharts included (they're just a graphical pseudocode). Maybe you do not understand what does the word "code" mean?

> What's 2+2?

Is it an average complexity of the problems you're solving?

> stack do you use?

Even your choice of words betrays you. You're a web coder, aren't you?

Just today I spent somewhere around 3 hours writing pseudocode on a piece of paper, and about 30 minutes typing it on a keyboard, testing and debugging. And it's about a typical proportion.
Could not read the video on OSX with Safari :-/
Hey at least you don't have to worry about Russian mycotoxins or hundreds of megabytes of illicit data stashed in your head, and you're probably staying somewhere nicer than Cheap Hotel.
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That's really neat you've given a talk about this. If by any chance the talk is recorded it'd be great to watch it!
There are no mentions of motors or automated tracking in this article. I've heard from multiple sources that they wished they had a motorized rig, is there a reason this is not recommended for beginners?
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The initial wells and basic infrastructure. But everything built since the 70s-80s, ie 95+% of the country, was financed directly. The amount of money swimming around that country put any overseas investment to shame long ago.
If you are okay with not hiring the best, then sure, move your startup to Phoenix.

Startups go to Silicon Valley and NYC because that's where the talent is. Talent goes there because that's where the startups are. Even if everything about Phoenix is objectively better, how are you going to overcome this trend?
That page seems to not mention at all: Why is this being made? Why should i care, as an end user?
The instruments is essentially a modified SAFE with a clause for distributions (which keys off a multiple of the founder's salary) and no expiration date. The intent was to keep it simple, clear and relatively toothless.
Or "expect little and hope for more"
You don't have to, but it's an option.
We basically already have Basic Income in Denmark.

We have "kontanthjælp" which in practise everyone, without an income qualifies for.

Kontanthjælp pays 2.181 USD a month, and on top of that you can get help with rent etc.
iOS app of the referenced game: https://appsto.re/us/EXmoU.i

Physical version of the game is available, I suggest adding it to your collection.
There are already lots of people willing to work under the table at low end positions, to avoid having taxes taken out of their pay. There's plenty of incentive. Seems like the way to curb this is to target employers rather than employees. That's why it's generally harder to find an under the table job than a legal one, because it isn't worth the risk to the employer to pay you off the books.

It still happens, but I doubt a BI would significantly impact this one way or the other. Right now, people in the bottom percentiles of pay get most or all of their taxes refunded, but still like to have under the table jobs to maximize what they take home every payday, and under BI, they would still likely remain unaffected by tax increases. The middle class would likely be affected, but they tend to work jobs that aren't as easy to do for unreported cash, and have more to lose from an audit if they get caught, so its still safer to work legally. The richest would naturally get the highest absolute burden, but they are likely already doing all they can to avoid taxes, since they can have a lot of effort put into it relative to the potential gains, so I don't see a huge migration to illegal undeclared income there, either.
According to this site, the Myspace data set contains a profile with an email I wasn't issued until 2012. So my university reissues emails. So I could probably throw it into a bunch of "recover password" forms. That kinda sucks.

So when my email gets reissued i'll have to track down every single website it's linked to and purge any personal information etc. Fantastic.
Delightful snark AND intellectually interesting. Good one =D
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Nice to read about mathematics that involves Set! I found out about Set here on Hacker News several years ago, when I read Peter Norvig's blog post on the odds of not finding a set in the 12 cards [1]. I had never heard about the game before, but tried it and really liked it.

The simplicity of the rules, the mathematical nature of it, and the fact that adults and kinds can play together makes it such a great game. I continued with the analysis of finding the odds of not set in each round of play, and had fun doing so. It seems very difficult to find an analytical solution (and quite beyond me), but simulation was a nice project that gave some good insights into how the odds vary over the rounds played [2].

[1] http://norvig.com/SET.html

[2] https://henrikwarne.com/2011/09/30/set-probabilities-revisit...
Here's a weird viewpoint: OO and FP only seem different because we serialize code through text.

Some languages (spoken languages) construct sentences Subject->Verb->Object, others Subject->Object->Verb, etc, etc. The underlying relations between the parts are still there (there's an isomorphism in the graph), but the projection onto linearized words just takes a slightly different angle.

In OO languages, we treat objects as the important component, and functions as their children: bar.foo(). In FP languages, we treat functions as the important component, and objects as data passing through: (foo bar).

There's no difference in the relations, it's just a different projection from high-dimensional computation-space onto one-dimensional text that causes all sorts of confusion.

That's not to say the difference doesn't matter: projecting computation in a different way frames a different mental model for the programmer that might help or hurt, depending on the specific domain and on the specific problem.

But I think there's value in trying to see the zen in OO's and FP's isomorphism, and practicing switching projections in the same domain as a problem-solving technique.
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Building on research seems like it's a form of peer review, especially in math where you'd need to understand the entire proof before making incremental improvements to it.
The Goethe Institut definitely believes in "whole language" and they consciously practice reading, writing, speaking, listening, and grammar and vocabulary study during every single class. If you don't want that, it's indeed probably not your best best.

(Also, there's kind of this subtext about language skills for living in Germany, because a lot of the class activities are about roleplaying stuff like trying to rent an apartment, visit a doctor, order food in a restaurant, or go clothing shopping in Germany.)
Lattice (YC W16) is hiring engineers to help companies do better management
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The founders are Jack Altman and Eric Koslow, who previously worked together as VP of Business Development and Lead Engineer at Teespring (YC W13). Lattice launched last month (http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/12/lattice-be-productive/) and announced a seed round from Thrive, Khosla, Marc Benioff, Sam Altman, SV Angel, Slack Fund, Fuel, and others.

ABOUT YOU: We’re looking for experienced front-end engineers that have a love for all things Javascript. Experience with React is a plus, but all you need is a desire to learn. We’re also looking for full stack engineers that have experience with NodeJS and PostgreSQL.

Responsibility: Because our team is still small, you’ll be given lots responsibly and impact in the overall architecture. You'll work with the team to build company changing features as well as be a decision maker in what direction we take both the code and product.

Our hiring process:

Step 1: 15-30 minute phone interview.

Details: Ask a few technical questions, see if it's a cultural fit, answer any questions you might have.

Step 2: Take home programming assignment.

Details: Assess ability to work through a real-life (ish) coding problem. You’ll be given 72 hours to create your solution, it should take you about 4-8 hours total to finish the assignment.

Step 3: In person interview with founders + a day of pairing

Details: If you’re in the bay area, come into the office and interview with the founders. Then spend the day pairing with one of our engineers or the CTO on the Lattice code base itself. Remote pairing okay as well.
Is the Basic Income concept (in its current formulation) a voluntary program? Or will it depend on violent coercion?
This is an incredibly exciting technology!

My first concern is how can these gestures be discovered? Will we just get used to the same sorts of gestures in different applications over time and intuit what to do?
Perceived doom.

In reality there's a slight uptick in closures, but it's mostly business as usual. Incredibly stupid ideas are still getting funded by the hour.
I'm not sure how that is relevant at all. We're talking about how a BI system could work and whether it could be a good idea to split the money in tiny daily chunks. I stated that I believe that is a bad idea because I believe it's generally harder to put aside a dollar a day than $30 a month at the beginning of the month. So far I haven't heard any counter argument, just "How would that be worse than what we have now".

Plus that question has so many answers depending on which country you live in. I can tell you for example that in my country you are expected to save part of your welfare money for those cases, which does not necessarily work very well since it's often not enough money to really save it.
What matters in the marriage of feeling is that two people are drawn to each other by an overwhelming instinct and know in their hearts that it is right.

That is not enough. If you don't have the practical logistics down as well, the odds will be very much against you. Trust is a big factor. Everything is harder when resources are constrained, especially trust.
> People want services to forget. They want to live in the present and not have everything remembered about them forever.

This is a mindset I'm having hard time understanding. For me it's the opposite - I'd love to have everything I interact with a) persistent, and b) searchable by me. I dislike the idea of ephemerality, of stuff that happened going away, without a way to recollect them. Maybe I'm the weird kind who still has his SMS archives from 10 years ago somewhere on his computer...
You mean $2000/month?
If so, that's $24000/year which sounds like a lot, but in terms of happiness $2000 less per month is roughly equivalent to a $1333/month raise.

At least according to this: http://lifehacker.com/ditching-your-commute-is-the-happiness...
I wish i could find my hash because I used tumblr back then but have deleted my account since then. I just want to know if it is a password i'm still using or not.
Phabricator's command-line tool "Arcanist" is called arc:

https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/arca...
There is a completely valid subset of libertarianism (which includes social libertarians) that would argue for economic liberty, and how your liberty can be impeded by finances just as much as by the gunpoint of the state.

It is often modernly invoked in the exclusive context of when taxes or state programs harm people enough to put them into financial insecurity, but it applies to private finance as well, and is principally rooted in the hierarchy of needs, which can also be considered a growing degree of freedom - if you are stuck at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy, you are prisoner to it.
I hate SQL, so I was excited to see this, but there are two things that rule this out to me:

1. It's not open-source; the license on https://github.com/davidandl/Andl specifically forbids distribution and commercial use.

2. It only runs in Microsoft Windows.

Datalog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog is much more interesting as an alternative query language — it has better abstraction capabilities than SQL, and it's much less verbose, but as far as I know there's no implementation of Datalog in Postgres.
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Tiny request -- can you indicate that the line following the link is a quote? I wasn't sure if that was from the 'tweet' or if that was your interpretation/summary of it
Looks like he's posted slides here: https://twitter.com/noelwelsh/status/730449315789934593

I also really liked his talk on probabilistic programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Ykk_CqKTY
Is there Alpine Linux AMIs for AWS and/or images for GCE?
Agree, this is the wisdom I wish someone drilled into me when I was young and lusty. We got indoctrinated early into romanticism by every song and Disney cartoon. It's myopic. Ain't no r&b ballads about marriage doldrums.
The exact same comment popped into my head when I ready that line as well.
This is not for beginners. Without simple examples and example datasets the concepts remain laregely inaccessible to a real beginner.
They obviously have sections for various foreign languages, including (but not limited to) Finnish.

Native Finnish-speakers have mostly been eliminated in Russia, except for some old people who are not up to working in the troll army.

But some people there still do study Finnish, and moreover, the troll army can direct volunteer trolls - e.g. people who were Communist sympathizers and hate USA and NATO.

Their dream is gone but their hate is still there. You'll find the "representative of Donetsk Republic" Johan Bäckman running in the elections for the "Finnish Workers Party", a fringe leftist party that got about 0.03 % of the popular vote. That doesn't stop him from representing "the Finnish view" in Russian media.
> Much better to allow anyone to post anything they like that's not illegal.

Do you advocate this approach for Hacker News too? If not, why not?
The price of lithium has risen. The price rise is often attributed to an increase in demand for batteries. Is it correct to describe this price increase as"inflation"?
I think this chart helps explain why someone might think so: http://blogs-images.forbes.com/timworstall/files/2015/10/mfg...

The US manufactures more than ever before, it just takes fewer jobs to do so.
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Wanted to do network lab using VirtualBox VMS. Used archlinux iso images at first but they require 256MB of ram to boot IIRC. I stumbled upon alpine linux. I think I booted some with 64MB only. Enough for DNS and DHCP tutorials.
Maybe the future of programming is a language with a highly dynamic, flexible syntax that can switch axes easily/visually/syntactically (or gasp <meta>programmatically!</meta>).
you're being downvoted, but I've converted many a macbook to linux, and KDE was what switched them all. 4.x was far nicer than Snow Leopard-Lion, and 5.x is now vastly superior to Mavericks-current.

KDE is the interface that both Apple and Microsoft steal from/reinvent nowadays.
>objects are supposed to be processes

>FP languages like ML teach you that there is a difference between a class and a (static) type

DING DING DING THIS MAN GETS THE PRIZE. I've been trying to come up with a nice way to articulate this. When writing Java I try to think of "value classes" as structs, and classes as "actors".
The author takes care to make the assumption that A and Z are _global_ minima and M is a _global_ maximum. But, in reading the proof, it seems not necessary to make such strong assumptions; would it not work just as well for A and Z to be merely local minima and M to be a local maximum? (For that matter, it should work just as well for A, Z, and M to all merely be local extrema of either sort, so long as A and Z match)
Sounds like existing renderers for PSX emulators are either closed-source, or based on legacy graphics APIs and therefore hacky.

From about halfway down the page:

> This is probably the first OpenGL renderer for PSX that is not based on outdated fixed-function OpenGL code and which is, actually, well, open-source. Because we can assume shaders will be there, we can get reasonably close to emulating texture windows accurately (with Pete’s OGL1 GPU plugin, there were codepaths for doing it with paletted textures – the hacky approach – and the pixel shader approach). Therefore, the renderer is still kept pretty simple and easy to understand.
the problem would be exacerbated. Food stamps do have workarounds, but the fact that it's not cash makes the problem much less severe
> I think this is a relatively minor issue, but if necessary, penalty taxes/fees can alleviate the concerns of people legitimately bothered by this.

It is not minor at all. Depending on how you look at it, smoking either costs the health care industry billions (in treatment of the living) or saves them billions (on premature death). Compound this by: diet, exercise, stress, and socialization problems and you see that the lottery has a lot of knobs and buttons, most of which will only be effective if people get effective health care their entire life.
Not that you should do this because it's a horrible product, but if you ever installed IBM WebSphere Portal Server on Windows, you run into all kinds of issues because of the path name length. It would install partially by unzipping into long paths and then you would be unable to uninstall it because their uninstaller would try and hit the paths directly and fail.
Actually I have been hearing lots of “trendy” Gen-Zs say this, but the funny thing is all of them post on Facebook regularly, just not as much as their other networks.

Facebook is becoming like email. Everybody uses it, but the “cool” people use something else too.
you act like its news..Yahoo use to take big ad partners to strip clubs not 5 years ago
There's a certain amount of truth to what you're saying but these are just a couple of hubs and talented people are all over the place. That and telecommuting may work just fine.
Historically speaking, it's an incredible luxury to expect all of your children to survive past infancy. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be a basic expectation for citizens of an advanced modern nation.
I stand corrected. I guess they burned a lot of the founder's money first. ;d
I don't think you understand my comment.

The personal standard deduction is not "income tax"—it's the opposite of a tax. It's the amount of your income which is not taxed.

This system wouldn't even necessarily require progressive taxation (though I would favor it). A flat tax rate of even 40% could be more than enough to provide for BI and everything else (and everyone would receive their BI tax-free).

It's very different from unemployment insurance because unemployment disappears once you start working. So there's no incentive to take on jobs which pay less than unemployment, or even to take on jobs which pay less than (unemployment + opportunity cost of working).

It might be helpful to do some research on how taxes (particularly deductions and marginal rates) actually work.
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Good for you. If more people were like you, companies like 50onRed wouldn't exist.

I think you may have meant "insidious", though, not "insipid" — because "insipid" is the opposite of "intriguing" and "compelling".
So you can put a PSX emulator on a HTC VIVE duh!
I love the idea of iterators, they seem like a supercharged version of Ruby's Enumerable. I'm excited about Helix, so I can bring some Rust to my daily Ruby.
The talk was recorded. I don't know when it will be online. The talk doesn't go heavily into details (no talk of coalgebras) but spends time trying to explore what good code means in the FP and OO paradigms.
Socially, children are dependents. If guardians cannot feed their dependents adequately, they should lose their dependents. In the same way we find people guilty of animal cruelty all the time for the same reasons the same must be made of children.

The unfairness in the system emerges from when parents have kids through selfish motivation only to force society as a whole to pay the cost of raising them, when we may or may not have macroeconomic desire to have more children at any given time (and that desire changes, at the society level, all the time).

It is much more important to fix the actual problem - providing sufficient adoption and relocation systems to get kids out of dysfunctional households than to give them awful school cafeteria food and hope the problem goes away while ignoring it. Hunger is just a symptom of broader abuses that we should not just use state dollars to make go away temporarily. Having mentally and emotionally healthy fresh generations is probably the most valuable investment anyone can make.
Many of the same reasons he lists are why more startups are popping up in Texas too.

and, well, Omaha. :-)

It's no secret that once you get out of California, the business climate is a lot different.
Some of us find conversations that devolve into these things to be incredibly frustrating to be part of. People love to share anecdotes about themselves but rarely care much for others peoples' anecdotes.

Before sharing that you prefer pepsi over coke you should ask yourself whether you care at all that some stranger on the internet prefers coke over pepsi. Assuming the answer is 'no', then why bother sharing these sorts of things yourself.
I handled the inflation issue in my comment. In scenario #1 there is no theft from anyone even in your sense.

And frankly, when you open a store in a mall, it's not theft for the mall to use your rent money as it sees fit. It might build a toy train ride for kids that you disagree with, or spend on a promotion of itself. Same with a state you register your business in. We are talking about abstract entities here, but you are applying a word to equivocate with the visceral feeling one gets in a personal setting.
If A or Z aren't global minima, there might be a spot between A and M that is lower than all those between Z and M, and therefore no path.
We will probably open source it in the future. It's a bit hacked together right now, and it depends on code running in different places so it's not easy to deploy.

Those problems are surmountable though, so it's something we'll look at in the coming months.
One question this raises is the frequency of the BI check.

I think many people would need a BI deposit weekly.
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This was destined to happen i guess! SimplyHired has no USP, scrapers which can massively scrape jobs and SEO which gets users,that's about it. No clear direction and competing with Indeed, which has better tech must have been hard for them. Also, I wonder with $34 million in funding, why they didn't launch any products to cater the users/companies.