skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly disagree with the overall idea expressed here - it seems to be based on a misconception. I was with you until this point:

They accept your money today on the tacit belief that you have provided enough value to someone else, somewhere else that it will even out in the end when it is their turn to consume.

Most merchants will not care whether you earned you money by doing one thing or another, found it in the street, got it from a rich uncle or the government. What they want to know is whether they will be able to exchange it for things they (and their business) need. If printing 1% more money results in a 1% increase in GDP, for instance, then there will be no inflation (simplification but mostly true) and everyone accepting the money an keep getting goods at the same prices.

A lot of times money is created for being invested, eg banks giving loans to finance ventures. This money has to be backed by some demand for the money - usually that is tied to the credit of the issuer. The credit of a government is backed by the tax income from those doing business in its jurisdiction. As long as that place attracts business, it will have tax revenue and therefore its money will cotinue to be valued. If it attracts 2% MORE business with 1% more money that's benefitting its economy.

As for your idea of fairness, getting something for nothing ... well that's why humans have societies and civilizations in the first place. Just by virtue of being human, you get all this nice stuff you wouldnt get in the jungle. We set up these systems to get something just for being human. And if we are to get anything, it is a safety net for all to prevent them from DYING due to market discipline. Limited liability corporations dont need it but HUMANS do.

And finally -- your expectations rise every decade with human progress. Do you really think we, the people living today, EARNED all the knowledge and advances and systems people invented in history who lived in the past? No, we ALL get the benefit for free. So how is your inheritance from humanity more deserved than preventing people from dying just by virtue of being human? Isnt that just... civilized?
Slightly off-topic, but can anyone tell me which desktop environment she is using? The terminal also looks pretty nice.
>would be similar in loudness and unpleasantness to the Williamsburg, Queensboro and Manhattan bridge bike lanes

Lol nope. You clearly haven't been on a Californian freeway.

--- has ridden a motorcycle in NYC, CA, Detroit, etc...
My favorite dial control is this JQuery Knob plugin:
http://anthonyterrien.com/knob/

If he wanted the knobs to look exactly like his existing dials, I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to modify the plugin and add an extra dot at the position of the value.
I don't think I misquoted.

Yes I agree it's an interesting experiment and I like the idea in general.

But the article certainly doesn't do a good job arguing for it by quoting that crazy lady and containing such obvious contradictions.
Hey Watershawl... the thinking is that it may take 6 months to build a product that customers are willing to pay for. Definitely try to validate faster if you can!
Too much employee churn == horrible code.

Launch-and-flee, fast firing, brutal deadlines, and corporate behaviors that don't instill loyalty, all are pretty bad for code quality.
> My guess is that Bitcoin was created because its creator doesn't trust the government.

Also privacy in private markets, so not trusting VISA/Mastercard etc to sell my transaction data [1].

Plus the decentralized value [2], so not trusting the bankers/finance industry who have a large influence on the value of state currencies in addition to the government.

[1] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/05/the_publicpriv...

[2] http://paulbohm.com/articles/bitcoins-value-is-decentralizat...
I don't know, but i don't think that really matters. google mostly deals the "cheap" stuff, while watson deals with really valuable stuff , so compute cost is is not so important.

I think there was a query on quora about this.
Debian 7.0 released as stable
Chromium Issue #31482: Huge amount of goats teleported
Daniel Kottke on Backpacking with Steve Jobs in India
> I also think people willingly participate because it's a way to substitute mediocre/subordinate social acceptance for the much more intermittent reward/thrill of genuine work.

The drive to seek "intermittent rewards/thrills" isn't universal. Specifically, in people with naturally low dopamine responsivity[1][2], it's almost non-existent. Within this group, you don't tend to see anyone who enjoys casinos and/or casual-social-mobile games, for example; they experience no dopamine hit from one session, so they aren't drawn to replay.

There's a categorization system of psychological reward profiles, originally derived from MMO play-styles, called the Bartle test (http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm). Of the four Bartle types, people with low dopamine responsivity are almost never "Achievers"--instead tending to focus on the other three. Here's the description of the category:

> Achievers regard points-gathering and rising in levels as their main goal, and all is ultimately subserviant to this. Exploration is necessary only to find new sources of treasure, or improved ways of wringing points from it. Socialising is a relaxing method of discovering what other players know about the business of accumulating points, that their knowledge can be applied to the task of gaining riches. Killing is only necessary to eliminate rivals or people who get in the way, or to gain vast amounts of points (if points are awarded for killing other players).

In a business context, people who aren't Achievers are almost[3] inherently MacLeod "Losers."

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[1] Low dopamine responsivity is diagnosed around 7% of the time as ADD/ADHD. It is so widely prevalent in modern populations, though, that many doctors refuse to recognize, diagnose, or treat for that condition, dismissing it as "a healthy psychological state which just doesn't mesh very well with the expectations of the labor market." However, you will frequently find that someone treated for ADD/ADHD, whether or not it is a real condition, will become a Bartle "Achiever" where they previously were not.

[2] People who have had chronically-low dopamine responsivity their whole lives also tend, more than the median member of the population, to self-identify as either "nerds" or "creatives" (or both.) When you don't derive any internal "rush" from competing with others (whether "doing the sports" or "going into finance" or "making the sale"), you tend to need to "make your own fun"--which leads to such pursuits as programming, science-fiction, and Minecraft; or to painting, writing, composing, et al. There is a reason, besides their market value, that an MBA in a down market will "hustle", while an Illustration-major will work as a barrista.

[3] The "Explorer" play-style/reward-profile gives them the ability to also be "Technocrats" (in your terminology), though.
Design, and why I don't do it
Wait, are you trying to install it as an APT package? It's probably easier to just download the script and install it that way. If you do that, it will install all the libraries to a folder in your home directory.
Those depend a lot on the context. Firstly, the complexity for the arithmetic operations you listed mostly only matters if you are working with big numbers (something that is not very common to be a bottleneck). Factorization doesn't have a polynomial algorithm so I don't see why the complexity matters anyway (its still going to take longer than your lifetime with hard inputs anyway). As for linear systems, it depends a lot on your input and the problem you want to solve. If we talk about the Simplex algorithm that most people use, empirically it takes around cubic time but its still an open problem to find a base-choide heuristic that does not have pathological exponential worst case performance. In addition to that, many important problems are modeled as linear programs but will have extra special structure that let them be solved with more efficient algorithms.

Finally, you got me when it comes to the numerical stuff (eigenvectors and matrix inversion). I haven't looked into that in a while.
Economists have long known that negative income tax (which is equivalent to a guaranteed basic income) is theoretically optimal under the usual assumptions of perfect markets and perfect rationality. However only very few economists, such as Milton Friedman, have advocated it as a practical policy.

On the one hand, guaranteed income is much more resistant corruption, since the distribution of money follows a simple rule where there is no discretion on the part of officials, and is similarly resistant to other kinds of rent seeking.

On the other hand, through traditional welfare systems, governments may be able to determine who is really in need, and thus save money on giving out welfare to people who could be earning more if they had to. Governments can also give out welfare in kind rather than cash, helping people to make better choices, or make welfare conditional on getting education or training.

I very much doubt that a negative income tax could improve over the best administered welfare systems such as Australia's. What is interesting is whether countries with much less ability to administer public services, would be better off with a guaranteed income.
That's the rub isn't it? You may be in the minority and represent 10,000,000 users. Now who reading this wouldn't love to have a product with 10M active users?

If I had to coin it as a law I would say "The probability of an acceptable UX for a product is a function inverse square of the number of users of that product." Which is to say its impossible. Hence the need for the UX to be morphable.
If you are not accepted and/or are unable to relocate to SV, then a MOOC version of YC makes sense for the reasons that MOOCs make sense in higher ed: location & time independent, high quality learning, structured peer review, clear milestones and deadlines, tuition free, and most importantly ... it is far superior to the alternative, which is often doing nothing.

I tend to agree, but would love to hear any first-hand experiences from anyone who has participated. I'm sure there are a few, maybe I'll throw up a "Ask HN" sometime and solicit some input from some of them.
Yes, actually. I was just going by the clear-as-day diagram showing a hand saw. Feel free to continue laying on the snark, though.
> It's not a completely ridiculous legal interpretation.

Legal or otherwise, I'd rather not have money deducted from my paycheck and spent on data centers to store all of my phone calls and email.
What's with this childish "can you prove this, can you prove that" thing? Are you 12 year old?

Not everything can (or should) be proved of the drop of a hat in a discussion list -- that doesn't make everything without a formal proof "baseless" opinion.

If you cannot see the self-evidentness (sic) of a STRUCTURED API to produce an AST makes it easier to avoid mistakes compared to spitting out text to compile as a C program, then I'm not sure any proof would help anyway.

It's like asking me to prove why using an XML processor to crete and save a DOM tree would produce more error free results than manually compiling tags as strings.

Or why parsing a JSON file and working on the nodes is less error prone than using regular expressions to extract values from the JSON as a big string.
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My Official Withdrawal From The Bitcoin ATM Project
No. Abstracting away the client-server divide in web apps is a broken concept. The server runs in a trusted environment. You can trust the results of decisions it makes ("can the user write to this object?", "can the user see this object"). You can never trust the results of decisions client-side code makes, except insofar as they are a proxy of the intentions of the authenticated user on the other side of the interaction.
An indian wedding is not just "a wedding" -- it's a huge social event that defines the social standing of a family in their community. A successful wedding will result in increased respect and trust for family members, which will likely have a direct economic impact: people will be more likely to lend you money at a favourable rate, they will entrust you with responsibilities and money (i.e. good jobs) and so on. It's also a great occasion for networking per se. In many rural communities, not just in India, wedding ceremonies are often an investment, not a cost. Think of it as a huge PR event where people are basically forced to attend (not attending a wedding of somebody you know, after being invited, is very disrespectful) and where you can sell them stuff while they enjoy themselves.

A huge dowry, now that is a waste of money, but it's not mentioned in the article.
When Path first came out, I was frankly, kind of excited to try it out. I thought with Path's sleek UX/UI, the 150 friend limit being inspired by actual psychology research, and how it was "branded" to not be the next Facebook, but to run in unison with users' existing networks, that this was something that was going to explode.

They pretty much ruined their chances of that happening. It never ceases to amaze me that developers/companies think that they can spam users to increase traction. Users know when they are being spammed which leaves an extremely bitter taste in user's mouths.

"Twitter’s userbase skews more toward early adopters who might be interested in Path than Facebook users."
This might be true, but I think people are going to remember this. Maybe it would work, because I could see Path just re-branding into a more intimate version of twitter, but only time will tell. For the most part, I think Path shot themselves in the foot pretty fucking well.
And this being "pissed" achieves what exactly? Does your level of pissitude work as leverage to affect the reasoned-out behavior of these other human beings? If so, through what mechanism?
The problem is that the economy is often seen as more than a mechanism for efficient allocation and transfer of resources: for many, it's also a source and enforcer of moral order.

"People who work hard and play by the rules should have a shot at success. People who don't work shouldn't be given handouts. Corporations who misbehave shouldn't be bailed out, because they're just incented to misbehave again. We should drug test welfare recipients even though it ultimately costs us more than it saves us, because drug addicts shouldn't get welfare." etc etc etc.
Studies show welfare spending has reduced poverty dramatically and measurably in ALL countries studied.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfares_effect_on_poverty

Other studies show, however, that it has diminishing returns, especially as it leads to poverty/ghetto culture. However this is changing with technology, internet and mobile phones. People are more docile than in the 90s with the gangsta rap craze.
How is Java proprietary anymore? OpenJDK is the official Java now! Java has a specification and popular technology like JavaEE has multiple open-source implementations, unlike JavaScript where you have only two.
Guy makes his own Thor's Hammer with 80,000-volt tesla coil
Storing the graph structure in a BST is only useful if your graph is very sparse and you need to have fast lookup for checking specific edges (say, given two nodes, find the cost for the edge between them).

If your graph is dense, using a an adjacency matrix is simpler and will be faster most of the time. If you don't need to query specifific edges and all you need to do is iterate over the edges for given vertices than using adgacency lists (or vectors) is simpler and does the job just as well.
Google’s Cloud Is Eating Apple’s Lunch
Technology and The Generalized Resource Curse
Not to mention that neither Steve Jobs nor Henry Ford were dellusional or grandiose in the Kurzweill sense.

They were rather pragmatic and market based -- not foaming at the mouth for some pie in the sky tech of 2100.
Honestly, I think that VC-istan companies do a horrible job of instilling loyalty. Equity percentages are low enough that I'd rather take a full salary. True business partnership is worth going down in salary to "buy in", but if you don't get to know the cap table or at least know that there isn't some VP of NTWTFK (Non-Technical Who The Fuck Knows) getting 20x as much, then what's the point? You're getting paid in lottery tickets, you can be cliffed, the offer may be rescinded if you start asking about liquidation preferences, etc.

Also, these companies generally have tight deadlines (because they grew too fast and blew up their burn rate) and can never invest any time in doing things right, much less employee mentoring. With no loyalty to employees, these startups get none back.

Finally, when you're forced to implement bad practices (technical debt plus unhealthy work conditions) to meet these deadlines, you want to run as soon as you hit a macroscopic target, in order to (a) cash in while there's a glow on your face, making that social bump permanent, and (b) avoid suffering or being embarrassed when things start to fall to pieces.
Surely I can't be the only one who wondered if the posts were of non-negligible thickness!
I would argue that Microsoft has done fine without finding new ways for people to post pictures of food. Some of their products are so boring that people will run their business on those products.
Man vs. Machine: Are Any Jobs Safe from Innovation?
He's does say that you should build your Initial Product or Service Offering right at the beginning. I think 'start selling' is more like a 1.0, out-of-beta, ready for the pragmatists in the adoption-curve mindset.
IMHO, the "massive pain" was that applets were a literal black box. There wasn't a proper DOM API back then, so Sun were forced to do it like that to get something that worked in every browser.
Dear triple-A game developers: Enough is enough
Interested in opportunities and connections. Currently employed by a structural engineering firm as a Revit modeler/drafter, Revit parametric programmer, pseudo-project-manager, Windows Server administrator, network administrator, and backup administrator. In my spare time I have been working through a couple of personal Django projects, which were designed using Inkscape and are being implemented on Debian/Xfce, using Geany, and VirtualEnv, Pip, git, etc. for development. I previously worked for a local web development shop as a designer/developer/pseudo-web-service-provider-admin using PHP, MySQL, Adobe Creative Suite, and such to design sites on top of Drupal for localish small to medium sized businesses. Quit because Drupal & sales guy making promises without consulting programmers.

Current job has no prospect for advancement. There is, ironically, no structure. Pay is not adequate for responsibilities and contributions. I work there because I like the people I work with, I learn a lot from my boss, and I enjoy a good amount of the work. I want to work somewhere else because a lack of freedom drives my motivation to live into the dirt, and sitting for 8-12 hours out of the day without windows is crushing my soul and sapping what's left of this short life.

I would likely have to work remotely, but I'm dedicated and loyal and have a conscience. The guy I work for now has admitted that he takes advantage of my desire to work well.

So, if anybody is interested in talking about prospects for a guy with the sort of experience I've indicated, feel free to contact me. The last (strictly design) job I did for University of Oklahoma was based on the premise that I would provide a design without any expectation for compensation unless they used the design. I was compensated, and the entire process was enjoyable and rewarding.
Well, RJS was the more-or-less sanctioned way of doing interactive apps in Rails for a while.

Even though it had all these issues, it was simpler for developers. Now it's deprecated.

What are the best in class techniques for developers eager to do secure yet highly interactive apps in Rails today?
But the thing is that this power of which you speak is supposed to be ours, per our form of government.

We are so far off the reservation that we have given up on trying to reclaim our government and instead, must now find ways to protect ourselves from our government.

That's a powerful statement about the plight of our nation.
The train was returning from Ayodhya, the center of another religious controversy [1]. It's one thing to serve mob-justice to the people who burnt the train, it's an entirely different thing to "serve" it to all kinds of Muslims who are completely unconnected to the original train-burning, to children, to babies. The Hindus too started violence across the massive state of Gujarat immediately. I doubt that the Hindus were planning genocide beforehand too. But the truth is that sensational news spread quickly, even for some trivial events[2]. Both sides will play the "defence" card, even when attacking children.

Hindu terrorists[3] do not need to be attacked to begin hostilities. The Mangalore case[4] is fairly famous in India. But apart from that, one often hears stories of gift shops getting attacked for selling valentine's day cards, unmarried couples getting attacked on valentine's day for fairly trivial displays of affection, etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Janmabhoomi

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_milk_miracle The news of this idiocy spread, through just word-of-mouth, all over India in just one day

[3] practically no one calls them that

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Mangalore_pub_attack
The Canadian government tried this in Manitoba in the 1970's as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
Preventing bipolar relapse with web therapy
This is a Great Guide for any startup

If you are an entrepreneur, this is required reading
A huge dowry, now that is a waste of money, but it's not mentioned in the article.

Except that it may prevent your new in-laws from harassing your daughter so much that she freaking immolates herself.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-04-14/rajko...
http://caniuse.com/webgl : 54% of which 21 is "partial". So no, Chrome+Firefox isn't enough for "popular".
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2909367/can-you-determine...
It's not inevitable that you are going to have a bad time. Confirmation bias.
I get the sense that you have no concept of what grinding, inescapable, lifetime, poverty looks like.

many of those citizens will leave once they understand what is going on

Are you talking about the article about rural Indian villages, or something else? Who is leaving for where?
Pretty sure they're equivalent in this case, as long as you're taking unlimited literally and not as "infinite."