skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All the austrian economics fans ...

Depends on why one is a fan of Austrian economics. There is this (strawman) group that Krugman loves calling "austerians". And then, there are others who subscribe to the idea of "Not Yours to Give". (http://www.fee.org/library/detail/not-your-to-give-2) Friedman was inconsistent. There is not much point ascribing an ideology to what he said. There is no scope for Austrian economics in India. I won't get into the "why" of that.

Our politicians love spending our money on schemes that get them votes. This is another such scheme. But, if I can give away a portion of my income directly to people who are extremely poor, (after proving that they, indeed, are), and declare that as a 100% tax deduction, I'd support it!

It won't happen. Our politicians will want to introduce a scheme that they can name after one of their dead party-members. They want to be seen as the direct benefactors. Come election time, they want to be able to tell the poor "now look, under the Narasimha Rao* scheme, we give you x hundred rupees each month. Vote for us, and we will double that amount."

* As if that's going to happen!
If you want to stretch the analogy (you shouldn't) you should say a camera requires batteries to run.
I believe this works when you give women money.

My dad does this sort of work in India and we've had many conversations about how you can't trust men with free money.
"Peeping at ATMs when someone is using it..."

I think that's more of an argument against ATMs :)
> There’s a room that anyone can access. The room has security cameras that anyone can view, and every second of recorded footage is available online forever.

's/anyone can access/noboby can access/'

's/anyone can view/noboby can view/'

>Naturally, these piggy banks have coin slots, and everyone can see which coins are in which piggy bank.

's/everyone can see/nobody can see/'
(Hide it == Show it)

> These piggy banks can never leave the room.

's/leave the room/leave to the light/'

>Then, I walk into the room with a ski mask on.

>> with a ski mask on.

Yeah, You mean it!

>Anyone in the world can see me on the security cameras, but not my face.

>> but not my face.

That's what we are paid for.

>“Who made the robot..?”

The same who made these schemes and manipulations to rule the crowd.
Can you show a proof for that claim?

I believe it to be nonsense.
So basically, you don't know what communism is.
Who are the Hackers?
Oh I know this one: when they let you ungroup an email exchange into separate emails.
did you even read the article? My impression is that you did not read it, or did not even understood it. Also, you seem to have no idea what communism is about.
Another great organization working on this model is http://givedirectly.org, co-founded by the irrepressible Rohit Wanchoo. We had lots of discussion around this model, since his team had done a lot of research around it. It appears to be working well, and recently received a large donation from Google.
The irony of discussing good UI in hacker news
One application of watson is in medical diagnostics. They are working on other applications in finance, helping to develop drugs, predicting when industrial machines need maintenance and even coming up with novel recipes for tasty foods.

Basically, by reading and understanding large amounts of text, it can help you validate an hypothesis or even lead you to new hypothesis.
Here's a negative tax talk from Friedman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM

I'm a big old lefty, but i found it pretty compelling.
FWIW, I very much prefer the new version. I never use formatting controls, and to be fair you have cut off the lower toolbar from the new screenshot. If they want to make email more regular (keeping subject line structure, less formatting, more immediate and less long-form), I'm all for that.
Yes, but it doesn't cost money to view the network's history.

To stay true to the analogy, I would include lottery tickets. However, I don't think this is necessary. The core concepts are explained.
+1 for arranging your question so that it has The answer.
They say now it's "a pizza-box-sized server".
Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" images available to download
If you generate C, you can get a C AST from the result easily, which is a structured format...
That is not sexist at all.
Are the laws applied in only the contested areas, or across the whole of India?
Thank you. Exactly. I wanted to add one thing, which I have found to be a good general principle:

To help someone (including yourself) achieve real success the best way is to make it safe to fail. That makes it safe to take risks - because there are no certainties in life.

That poor kid with a talent for singing would have a better shot at helping the world if he was able to take a risk eg pursue his singing education instead of working at McDonalds 10 hours a day to pay his rent.
"I’m going to save all the money I get and spend it on my son’s wedding.”"
...
“But it’s a middle-class prejudice that the poor don’t know how to use money sensibly."

I don't want to sound like a "middle class prejudiced person" but spending all the saved money on a wedding doesn't sound very sensible to me.
very clever. this ambiguity shows how difficult it is for creative students and how important it is to be graded on the process as well as the conclusion. The process would show your divergent thinking and why you arrived at a different answer.
Agree with dools - try charging more. I increased my revenues by 25% simply by asking. Once this contract is over, I'll increase my rates again. One important note - I have a proven record of someone who delivers. I suggest you invest in making sure your next customer understands it.

It doesn't take much - do a nice write up about yourself on LinkedIn and ask previous customers to write endorsements.
Hey that's a clever idea. I love it.
I would hope that any one person's "personal experience" is not taken so seriously that it needs to be quantified.

UCSC has switched from teaching Perl to teach Python in intro bioinformatics classes (they get 5-10 new PhD students a year, plus at least that many masters students, I think?). Nobody that I encountered at my postdoc institution used Perl, maybe about 60 people who programmed, and I knew enough of ~20 people's habits to know their programming choices. R, Python, and C/C++ were commonplace, with a few weirdos using Ruby, and of course lots of shell, awk, and sed glue to keep it all together. The Broad has been somewhat successful on shoving Java into people's pipelines with GATK and Picard, but it's not a welcome addition to many people's habits, and I haven't encountered any significantly used project around next gen sequencing that is based in Perl. For example, in the RNA world, all the common tools like Tophat, Mapsplice, and ChimeraScan all use Python in ways that Perl would have been used 10-15 years ago.

I have active collaborations with about five different labs that also have in-house informatics for everything from microarrays, to ChIP-Seq, to RNA-seq, exome to whole-genome resequencing, and nobody uses Perl for any of it.

That said, it's really easy to collaborate with lots of informatics people and never even need to know what they use internally. What's this about contracting in bioinformatics? I've never encountered such a thing.
I don't quite understand your comment, mind elaborating?
Re: Whisper Systems, do you have an iOS version available or in the works? The icons you used seem to imply it, but I see the source and all examples are for Android only. A quick search for "Whisper Systems iOS" (which was a suggested string) only turns up results about the Twitter acquisition.
Split a membership with a friend. Around $40 bucks split two ways.
I hate receiving long, structured, intricately-formatted emails. If you're writing documents in an email body, don't: that's what Google Docs is for. A good email is as short as possible.
I'm not sure if this is what the previous poster was talking about, but clang has some APIs that let you get access to the AST pretty easily. It's been a really long time since I've looked at it, and at the time I don't think it was exposed as a library API for general consumption. But for example: https://github.com/bratsche/clang/blob/gtkrewriter/tools/cla...
I think the more amazing part of this story is that it was launched from a b-52 which has been in service for over 50 years! Talk about engineering longevity.
I hear they have a website coming out.
Context on why girls and women: http://www.girleffect.org/why-girls/#&panel1-1
google released a commenting system http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/23/developer-brings-google-com...
It should be mentioned that this move towards approximate search also gives strong indication of how little demand for real "smart search" there is in the search field.

Alta Vista years ago had full logical search but Google beat them with simpler searches having greater relevance. Google's searches are now moving towards even less specificity. How much could greater language understanding help this?

How many people want to go to the trouble of writing out a full sentence to specify exactly what they want? How much is it worth accommodating them? etc
After seeing the results, that must be wrong because women have more psychopathic minds.
That's a fair enough argument, but the fuel expense figures Tesla uses are far too generous. This is the kind of disingenuous marketing that turns people off. If I go to their True Cost of Ownership page right now, the "Electricity vs Gasoline" section defaults to a savings of $261/month.

According to Mint, I spend $116.75/month (average) on gasoline. The little graph shows the national average is somewhere between $165 and $220. The graph is small, but the bar is about halfway between. Being generous, that'd put the national average at around $200/month on gas. So Tesla is giving themselves a benefit of around $60 above the national average.

It seems like a minor point, but "fudging the numbers" doesn't seem consistent with the character that Tesla is trying to build for itself.
You can serve JS code that is wrapped in an anonimous function itself.
What really gets me going is the realization of how much more value people would produce if they could own their lives outright instead of renting it from one boss to the next. There'd be less "work" of the traditional, low-productivity, subordinate zombie sense, but a lot more getting done.

I want to see BI not because I have an interest in not working. Rather, I want it to free people to work. Work is too important (both as a human need, and as a productive force in society) to leave it in the hands of the entrenched boss men who currently own Work.

It would be such an excuse-killer, too, to implement BI and get rid of compulsory labor. People could no longer justify making so little of their lives due to having to work. Now, it turns out to still be quite hard to make something of one's life but, when that excuse is gone, the only thing to say is "Yes, it's hard; but go on, do it."

Sometimes I wonder, though, if we invented institutional Work to justify mediocrity, and make it OK. It's often portrayed as an oppression brought in by deceptive, aggressive Boss Men; but 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. Boss men definitely were more principal in driving Work to its current state, but it was a coevolution.
In the past I thought about CEO like about a big boss of some plant etc. Lee Iacocca, Akio Morita.

Good old days...

I only can keep in mind movie "Other People's Money".

> The entrepreneur of post-industrial America, playing God with other people's money. The robber barons of old at least left something tangible in their wake- a coal mine, a railroad, banks. This man leaves nothing. He creates nothing. He builds nothing. He runs nothing. And in his wake lies nothing but a blizzard of paper to cover the pain. Oh, if he said, "I know how to run your business better than you," that would be something worth talking about. But he's not saying that.
synchronization has to work both ways or otherwise it is only an one sided "update"
That's not true. Just because Silk Road is one of its main uses, there are many others. I think Bitcoins will do really well in gaming, small payments, and international trade.
And that's why I have not traveled in years. You're going to harass me, I am not going to play. It's going to hurt the economy, but that's your fault, not mine.
In communism there is no private property. You can't run business or be employed in any.

Minimum income is completely unrelated. It only means giving a few dollars for the poor so they don't starve or freeze to death. It's already done in developed countries (welfare) but in unreliable way.

Minimum income doesn't interfere with free market and accumulation of capital.
Miners are people who pay (with compute time) to play the lottery.
3 hours for 10 miles is about 3X slower than on a bicycle... :O
>Yes, but it doesn't cost money to view the network's history, which is analogous to purchasing a security camera.

It works if you assume everyone who purchases a security camera makes their video feed/history publicly available for free.
Man, her blog is full of awesomeness. All kinds of cool little projects on there.
Winged Robots May Shed Light on Fly Aerobatics
They were using 60-80KBs? I'm skeptical since just sending reasonable-sounding sound takes 128kB/s or so, video much more.
We need more Texas startups!
Every 10 minutes some coins are dropped in a big dark pool and everyone interested in catching them play hungry hungry hippos until some lucky person gets it.
Previous Discussions about the Waverider:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5653515

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4387725

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383627

A story timeline would be a neat feature for HN.
No employee churn == horrible code. I'm living it right now. They do not understand best practice... It's like they live in a bubble.
I totally agree, and I think I didn't get the main point I was trying to make across clearly. It doesn't matter if you do my path, or your path, or the hundreds of thousands of other paths that people take for themselves, some people find their entrepreneurial spirit in other ways and after longer periods of time. You can be in your shoes, or my shoes, but the point I was trying to make is it's usually not a play by play post on how to make x that gets people motivated, it's exactly what you're talking about, being fed up or just wanting to do something different and for yourself.
My apologies if this was a dupe - didn't see it. As far as the title, yea it's a little over the top, but still worth getting some free insight.
Yes, iOS versions of both RedPhone and TextSecure are in the works. The former has been under development for a few months now, while the latter started as a project at the "Spring Break Of Code" event that we organized in Maui.
Silly poor people thinking they can both survive and enjoy themselves a little, what nerve!
What is his definition of better? It sounds like he thinks it's entirely objective, so he should be able to express it clearly and logically.

Does he think that it's technically more powerful? Again he should be able to prove that if that's the case.

Otherwise he's just giving a shitty opinion, and should say that.

I think the claim is nonsense because with inline assembler there is nothing that you cannot express in C that you can with LLVM. So the decision between the two is opinion.
Apparently very little of this technology has made its way into the OCR software on my scanner!
Favorite data structure, that's a funny idea. Like asking a candidate to explain their favorite size of wrench.
Business Lending Index Falls for 3rd Consecutive Month
And some alternatives to traditional SBA loans that let you borrow against assets, like a vintage bottle of wine or piece of high end art.
Maybe it's not for one-day wedding ceremony, but for wedding gift that lasts for long time.
Socialism would be conditional income, Full Communism would be unconditional.
Data In, Garbage Out (2008)
We issued $2000 per head debit cards during Katrina ( http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?s=3818003&clientty... ). These villagers have a Katrina every single day of their lives, so it makes sense.
My experience is, people who are good enough at sales to turn nothing into major success, such as the subject of this story, aren't taught. They're natural. They've been hustlers since they learned to talk. So you can't just apply what they did if you aren't the same way.
Yes, so in 1897 we missed an opportunity. Have we completely missed the boat to bring bicycling back as a mainstream form of local travel, like they do is so many European cities? Maybe the biggest challenge is: people need to stop thinking about cycling only as exercise.
I've driven 20+ BMW M3s and Porsche 911s. The Model S spanks them. It's a surreal driving experience. Totally quiet. Instant torque. Amazing handling for a large car.

It's really something you need to experience before you criticize it.
You cherry-picked that example. (Plus took it out of context—the quote talks first about food and medicine.) But even granting the point completely, the presence of such outcomes in a scatterplot says nothing about whether the approach is beneficial or not on the whole.

I find it exciting that this is at least partially amenable to objective experimentation. Why not try it and see? It takes a pretty rigid ideologue to not be open even to that much. (Not talking about you there, but about "they'll only spend it all on drugs" and so on.)
It' just an interpretation of a language.
If it was - to cut out 2 pieces from an infinity board - then a teacher is correct.
If it was - to cut into 2 pieces a board to get nothing from a board in the end - then a student is correct.
A recent post about the problems with RJS (in Rails) and similar techniques got me thinking about this again. The post is old, but web development still relies a lot on string concatenation.
> Go ahead, point out that Islam is at the center of every conflict. I will not interpret it as racism. I will merely point out to you that you are inaccurate.

I actually like the point that you're making, but the data you use to illustrate it is woefully inadequate.

Your example, the Gujarat riots. The third sentence from the wikipedia article on the subject : "On 27 February 2002, the Sabarmati Express train was attacked at Godhra by a Muslim mob.[2][3][4][5] 58 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya were killed in the attack." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Gujarat_violence

The aftermath of that is what you might expect. The rest of the article has such little tidbits as calls for genocide being broadcast from mosques, in code, which obviously means that muslims were planning a genocide beforehand (or they wouldn't have had time to spread the code).

The gujarat riots were an example of their standard modus operandus : small number of muslims successfully goading a large number of muslims into committing genocide, and losing the battle. I've seen groups try the same in Brussels (thankfully unsuccessfully). But don't worry, they were only trying to get muslims to shoot automatic weaponry at citizens because of graffiti on the mosque (graffiti was related to Europe). Needless to say this was officially declared "an incident of a reaction against religious intolerance". I even know why : because stating the truth had a good chance of making the muslims attack again.

Did "both sides commit atrocities" yes. However, one side can make a VERY strong case it was defending itself. Furthermore given all other incidents, from partition and subsequent genocide in Pakistan but not in India to the many other instances of violence, I would suspect that was the case even without the many indications in the article that this was a coordinated plan for genocide against hindus run from the local mosques that got out of hand.

I think you see why this is unlikely to sway my opinion. Please, do try again, because I really don't want to think islam and muslims are at war with everybody else, which can't end in anything but massive religious intolerance world-wide. But what you've given as examples does the exact opposite you intended.
The line between mobile and desktop is rapidly blurring into irrelevance at this point... I'd guess gmail is used from mobile more than desktop at this point, and "mobile" devices are starting to look more and more like "desktops" when it comes to things like tablets, Android laptops (more of which are reportedly coming from the major OEMs over the next few months) and the Surface.

Expect to see more web services looking more like mobile, because while it used to be they were primarily web sites with mobile access, they're turning into mobile apps with some desktop web access. Installed base on PC vs. mobile should cross over this year, and usage trend is already ahead of that for lots of services.
Flood fill and the largest mass problem (F#)
the coolest bit by far is RDS was decoded from intermodulation distortion in the radio's Line Out audio caused by the stereo demuxer circuitry. :o)
Disregarding biology, an apple has .15 kg * (c^2) -> cal = 3.2 × 10^15 calories
But then only one person would need to buy the cameras, so why mention it?
I think 1qaz2wsx3edc means naming the key "hypermedia" instead of "rels". I don't like "rels" because it's hard to pronounce (do I say relationships or rails?) and because it it's an abbreviation. Unfortunately I can't think of something better.

When you're competing against nothing, lack of elegance is a difficult problem. The need to be elegant is stronger and you can't simply be as or more elegant than your competition.
Is there a chemist in the house?

AFAICT, it's not a deflagration, it's not a detonation, it's not an "explosion" in any technical sense.

It's a loud noise produced the same way as a popping balloon, it's just at a higher pressure. Plastic bottles are designed to contain the maximum amount of pressure for the amount of plastic they consume, so they don't crack and fizz out like a punctured soda can. They fail all at once.
Apples and other fruits are full of fructose (sugar). How the hell are people suggesting that they take more calories to digest than they contain?
This strikes me as the understatement of the year:

> NOTE: It is recommended that you do NOT create queries browser-side to run on the server as this massively increases your exposure to SQL Injection attacks.

It should be more than recommended against. If you accept SQL built on the client, you should have your keyboard taken away and replaced with one of those little plastic xylophones they give to three year olds.
Yes, because sending an email by accident is just like irradiating a cancer patient to death.

Obviously, they've made it easy to send emails (pressing tab then enter) but that means that some folks send them by accident. But that's an acceptable trade, because it doesn't kill people.
Most likely, whoever produces and publishes the question sets changed the question for a new edition and did not notice that the new question also changed the answer.

In the previous edition it was probably something like "Marie works in a factory which makes cars; it takes her 10 minutes to finish two cars. How long will it take Marie to finish three cars?"

And the answer to that would be 15 minutes, and the reasoning in the answer (based on reducing fractions, which is what it's probably supposed to teach) would be correct.

But probably in the next edition the question changed from putting things together to cutting them apart, and the author/editor simply didn't realize that these are not interchangeable. The teacher, meanwhile, probably didn't look too closely at it, and simply applied the answer and reasoning supplied in the teaching materials for the question set.

None of which implies that the teacher can't do the math; rather, it implies systemic problems in the way the materials are produced and in the methods used by teachers to grade the work.