skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, this sort of thing is common sense. All the austrian economics fans talking about better price signals as an argument for less regulation - all of them should consider using the same argument for giving an unconditional safety net to the poor.

When a poker player has a small stack at a table, he makes poorer choices. Similarly, poor people cannot optimally use their resources, but must avoid one potential crisis after another. If you free them from the rat race, you can even end minimum wage.

What I see in the USA for the past few years is really a class struggle manufactured by ideologues, people vilifying the rich, others vilifying the poor... but with increasing automation and outsourcing, more and more people will find themselves unemployed. If those people had money they'd spend it on basic necessities and the things they want the most. This in turn will empower those industries to produce more things people actually need, and innovate. Who knlows, maybe the poor will even be able to help fund solutions to their own challenges in their communities. Even Milton Friedman advocated for a negative tax.
That doesn't make sense. Other cars have resale value too, so how is this a comparative advantage? Why are they subtracting this off?

Google suggests the "average" car actually has higher resale value, at the same age/mileage, than what Tesla is guaranteeing: (I guess they're comparing to a subclass of luxury car which depreciates faster)

http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/how-fast-does-my-new-car-l...
Brief aside: With labor/populations relatively fixed in place (legally as well as financially), there is no "one world economy".

Delve into the myriad policies controlling trade, and you further discover this.

I find myself frequently annoyed by the free market... "mythers", I guess would be the word.
This has been tried in other places with positive results.

http://crookedtimber.org/2009/06/02/the-basic-income-grant-e...
For me this question is more about careful reading that actual mathematics. A valuable lesson, IMHO.

As for the teacher, well, I and my entire class once spent half a lesson arguing with our maths teacher who was swearing blind that 1x1=2. She wasn't an idiot or any thing, actually usually a very good teacher, but she just had one of those silly mind blocks. Once it clicked in her head she basically realised how mad she looked and took it with great humour. So, fair enough. Only human.
On Chrome I did not (the dotjs works just fine). I had issues with HN bookmarlet[1] on Github on Firefox, but I just disabled CSP on FF (GitHub mentions that this is a bug in their implementation).

[1] http://ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html
How do I create/get my own piggy bank with a key?
There has been publicised information (by major news outlets) that points to this for a long time. And Echelon is also not some crackpot's dream. What's to doubt? Even the CIA CTO said at some point that the "record everything they can and keep it forever":

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/20/cia-gus-hunt-big-da...

The CIA Chief Tech Officer. What more proof do you need? As if they're gonna let you have a peak at their data centers! If you don't believe they do it at whatever scale it's possible at this point, then you're delusional.

And, no, "The data storage that would be required for that" (logging every call) is not insane by any means. Even a medium-sized corporation could afford it nowadays, and we're talking about the government here.
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> All the austrian economics fans talking about better price signals as an argument for less regulation - all of them should consider using the same argument for giving an unconditional safety net to the poor.

Interestingly, one of the founders of Austrian economics, F.A. Hayek, actually did argue for a minimum income: http://www.kmjn.org/snippets/hayek79_minimumincome.html
The problem isn't the OS, it's software like SVN that didn't support junctions until much later than junctions were introduced into Vista (and backported to XP).

And then projects need to use the latest versions of those software in order to benefit... and that's assuming the feature support is stable.

As late as 2009, our windows project devs (at my old company) were at a disadvantage to OSX, Linux users.
Yes, I agree. Get rid of the conditions and pay people directly through bank transfers.

The public should push for a basic income in developed countries also. A universal basic income would provide a safety net for entrepreneurs and make it easier for people to pursue education or high risk ventures. It would eliminate vast numbers of bureaucrats and lawyers from programs like US Disability. $1.5 billion was spent on disability lawyers in 2010 (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020351840457709...)

Governments could pay for a universal basic income with pollution taxes. The overall program would be revenue neutral. People would be discouraged from wasting energy (e.g. gasoline) to do low value work.
sadly, this doesn't seem to support any sort of multithreading. Even something as simple as swap! isn't thread-safe in this implementation. So that kills one of the main reasons to use Clojure in the first place.
About the same for me except that being a night person is why I used to work the night shift. My problem comes from the 7 years since then that I've spent working day shift.

I'm usually ineffective until about 10am, then good until the midafternoon, when I have trouble focusing for awhile, then good until the evening slump (transitioning out of work) then good until 2am-4am.
Ugh, what's with posts like these?

"How to Go From $0 to $50 billion in 20 Years?"

"Do what Bill Gates did."
This article was previously submitted and discussed earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5655838
Good question. Anyone can sign up for a piggy bank outside the room. The robot also takes care of that :)
Obviously the guy doesn't have access to any 7 year olds.

Besides being way (way way way way way) too long, it's way too complex.

Lottery, transaction, millions, security camera, online, indestructible, odds, all words that would need their own explanation in 7 year old terms.

This is just more bitcoin fluff trying to ride the buzz.
my first thought was, "what's a recording?"

is buffering packets in a network device a recording? using metadata for traffic/performance analysis?
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About 5-6 between baby and work. Feel okay but not amazing. I envy the people who can do 4 hours consistently and function.
The video is good, but still complicated. The second I say, "your computer generates Bitcoins," people give me a funny look.
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My apologies, I misread your post.
Thanks. I agree, it's not perfect.
I doubt any "index" exists in the way the words indicates. It's likely highly custom for how it's accessed. What would an API for that look like? Do you want to just be able to do random regexes (that would be awesome...I miss code search)? Do you just want a disk sitting somewhere with all the internet on it so that you can run custom programs on it?

Identifying what a recipe looks like and then providing a search interface that can figure out which of the millions of variations of some soup recipe is what a person is looking for and is more authoritative than others (and not some blog spam with minor (but random) alterations, or written by an amateur with no business in the kitchen) is a hard problem. Crawling isn't really the hard part. It takes a lot of hardware and time, but then you have all this data...that's when the hard part starts.

I'm interested in what others think a useful "index" API would look like, though.
Really good chat.

At many times I would like the interviewer to let drew talk out rather than interject with her joke or personal experiences but overall it's great toa hear a down-to-earth discussion of a runaway success.

Drew's Dropbox YC app: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27532820/app.html

Drew's original post Show HN for Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

And what I believe to be that video showing off the prototype: http://web.archive.org/web/20070716181042/http://getdropbox....
Bitcoin is a lot like quantum mechanics. Nobody really understands it.
What is this membership thing one needs to buy at, what sounds like, a supermarket?

Honest question, I've never heard of such a construction.
Apologies, I didn't notice that pjmlp posted about JS.
It varies. I wakeup around 9am each morning without an alarm no matter what time I go to bed. I try to be in bed by 1am, but if I stay up until 4am I still wakeup naturally around 9. Sometimes I can go back to sleep for another hour and a half or so though if I stayed up really late.

I feel the same with 6-9 hours of sleep. Any less and I notice it though.
Lack of multithreading seems like a result of the implementation being heavily based on ClojureScript ;) (it's actually pretty cool to see how reusable core.cljs is IMO). I imagine ClojureC will have its uses like ClojureScript does when the JVM is not an option.
Happy to:

Change the div#TOC rule the following:

div#TOC {
float: left;
width: 25%;
font-size: 10pt;
background: #eee;
margin-right: 15px;
margin-bottom: 15px;
line-height: 15pt;
}

I hope that helps!
What was Braintree's value proposition? As in, why did everyone switch to his service? Was it lower fees? If so, how do they offer lower fees in such a mature, crowded market?
I remember this from my first university physics class. We would derive a movement equation for a cannonball, to find the optimal angle to shoot a cannon for maximum travel. Everybody knew the answer of course, but we'd always just used the formula. This time we'd start with the obvious integration equation, movement + attraction between 2 point masses, integrate over flight time, and find the point where it crosses the ground plane.

And then the teacher just took the range from the integration, and the formula, multiplied the two and put a ~= sign between them. I believe I actually stood up and said you can't do that and we had the first of many discussions about exactness.

That was scary.

That was my first run-in with what I considered the central article of my then faith : that you can derive the structure of the physical world from first principles. Throwing away terms in an equation in order to arrive at correct physics laws, I don't know, I considered it sacrilege or something. Of course I've since learned that deriving all of physics from it's own basic laws doesn't work, and the way we fix that is that we delete "inconvenient" terms in the equations when required. Deriving physics from a few mathematical laws is completely impossible. You can't even correctly derive the (mathematical) fields used in physics, so the very numbers that one uses to do physics aren't actually valid mathematical numbers.

So the relation between physics and mathematics is not that one is based on the other, because that was tried and didn't work out, and people have almost completely given up. So it was replaced by a marriage of convenience (this works ! Sure it won't validate mathematically but the numbers look really similar), ignoring at least a dozen elephants that stood in the way, and we just act like they don't exist.
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As a (7 year * 4) old man, I dont really understand your explanation:(
> The one area where age discrimination should rationally favor older programmers and they still get the shaft.

The reason older workers are employed only grudgingly for vacant Cobol jobs is most of those jobs require after-hours standby support that older people generally don't want to do. Not wanting to be woken up at 3:00am anymore was why I left my last job doing such stuff. Younger workers are less likely to get a doctor's certificate saying they're no longer able to do standby work, soon after they're employed.
Costco is like what Makro is in the Netherlands.
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That's a good post that I hadn't seen before. Thanks.

It's a matter of continuing puzzlement to me that, despite the fact that more robust and better-abstracted methods of producing output exist, the dominant paradigm in web development is to concatenate strings together and hope.

But it's worse than that: many people actively reject better methods on the basis that, as I've heard it expressed over and over, you "should" be able to just write HTML, ipse dixit. There's active resistance to improving this awful situation.

I don't understand it. I wish I did.
BioPython - http://biopython.org/
The annoying knob UI killed any enjoyment I might have got out of this.
I often end up almost entirely stopping coffee as soon as a term ends. Last time I did, I also forced myself to go to bed earlier and do some work at home before leaving for work. It worked for quite a while but as the term progressed and work from both job and university piled up, I started to not have time to follow this strict schedule and to drink more and more coffee. It's very difficult when your schedule is tight, but I believe it's better to stick to way nevertheless. Tomorrow, I'm starting this schedule again. Keep going on yours!
Le monde diplomatique is something i really miss about france. Love that someone is asking the real questions.
Using seconds is or at least seems convenient for developers but you can not represent many meaningful recurrences. Birthdays? No, because of leap years. A meeting every Monday at the same time? No, because of daylight saving time. Essentially everything beyond »every hour« is broken because one hour is the largest time unit with a fixed length - day, week, month and year do not share this property but are the units most recurrences are based on.
Well, I'm not sure about 7 year olds, but it's the first explanation of Bitcoin I've seen that I think my father may be able to understand. I'm going to link it to him.
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I hate these clumsy startup-ish videos(I wanted to type `z' at the end of the word but I remember the last night (US day?) post...).
The latest YouTube itrration is just god awful for me. Title should be above the thing I'm watching, not below. Because of that, the video sits in the top corner of my screen. And. I. Hate. It.
Maybe there is a way to fix that, but guess what. I can't be arsed to look for it.
It's nice to have an overhaul of your UI every now and then, but screwing it upside down every other day just makes me stop using it. Facebook is so retarded now that every time I have to use it I want to scream in agony.

Gnome is a nice example. They did a dramatic change, but it was long overdue. I hated it at the start, thankfully Unity was such a pos that I gave it a shot and came about. Now I'm having trouble with Windows, since it feels clunky and inefficient now. But gnome did the change once.
With some websites it feels like they just like to horse around making me guess and study their new gimmicky fud.
This fails to address the biggest question any self-respecting seven-year-old will ask:

"Why?"
I was going to send it to my wife - I think she could understand this better than how I've been explaining it. I don't know anything about kids.
How about: Anyone can place a security camera in the room, but maintaining one costs money. The lottery goes to the security camera operators.
Am I the only one who thinks it's funny that her name is Melissa?

For non-geocoding-geeks: http://www.melissadata.com/geocoding/index.htm
If you believe the model, roughly 'when hell freezes over'. I find it a little hard, but I guess we'll know who to believe during the next 5 years if Blogger is indeed killed.
Basic income and government healthcare would be amazing for freelancers and entrepreneurs.

However all our politicians are owned by the corporatists. Effecting change like that seems asymptotic, unreachable.
Not knocking you. I liked your article. Just answering your question :).
Relevant: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm
>When a poker player has a small stack he makes poorer choices

This immediately shows you have not played poker seriously or have a working knowledge of poker knowledge. The framing of the question is wrong too,
What do you think about my explanation?: Bitcoin: The Simplest Non-technical Explanation: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=66

(Although, like the room full of piggy bank analogy, mine is only a partial explanation.)
Python's main utility is finding who amongst your coworkers is incapable of giving attention to whitespace.
Revolutionary idea!
Why not use Thunderbird?

Or any other mail client?
I think this ad will actually help Lyft ...
If you just start paying people money no matter if they work or not, what is their incentive to improve in life.

Frankly, this smells of people trying to sneak communism in through the backdoor.

And what do you do when they blow all their money on drugs (this will happen with some of them).
I think the concept of the (Guaranteed Annual Income) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaranteed_Annual_Income is the most effective way to deliver social services. The overhead is much lower than welfare, WIC or food stamps, meaning it costs less, and more benefit actually makes it to the poor.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal... shoot a homemade cannon at the age of eleven.
"There’s a robot in the room that runs lotteries. Every so often, this robot randomly chooses a piggy bank in the room, and puts 50 coins in it. "

Is this true ? So saying if I'm a user of bitcoin, will I just wake up one day to find 50 coins added to my balance ?
It's just a currency for Silk Road.
That's how it is explained.
As clear as when I always remember when I wanna understand how is it addicted to the real economy.
Young kids always ask that, don't they!

I'd probably talk about trust, but there's no correct answer here. My guess is that Bitcoin was created because its creator doesn't trust the government.
Assuming you're a miner, yes. In order to a be a miner, you just need to install the program.
For the last couple of weeks, I have been getting about 4 hours of sleep a day. It is maddening, with me resorting to ZZZQuil. It does knock me out, but I wake up 4 hours later. I have been used to waking up in the afternoon for years, and getting 7-8 hours of sleep. I recently had a schedule change and I am slowly going insane...
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“It’s a fuzzy line, and we have to be very, very careful,” Lander admitted. “This had the potential to fundamentally destabilize the game, and that’s bad for all the players. Because it was very obviously something wrong, whilst we didn’t take any action against the players who were doing it, we did fix the problem.”

I had to check the date on the article. If this were from 2013, it would read, "These players gamed the system at the expense of everyone else. I think two years in prison barely scratches the surface of what they deserve."
The point is that you do deal with them, you just don't know about it. You also have to factor in the odds that there will be a false positive affecting you.

Your name might be on a no-fly list, even though you aren't "crossing them." There might be "100% verified" data which links you to some event, as there was with Brandon Mayfield's fingerprints, even though that connection is 100% wrong.

These are all low-probability events. Odds are, you don't have to worry. But every time you have to wait in line for security screening, remember that it's a false positive because they are worrying about you crossing them.
Yes, but they'll need Boston Dynamics in the mix before they can build terminators.
Yep maybe the analogy needs to be updated to reflect that :)
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I'm pretty sure that's the Golden Rule of all improv, not an invention of Fey's. :)
Ask HN: how long should the recruiting process take?
How long do you think the recruiting process should take, from the time you first submit your resume, until the day you are offered the job verbally?
Hm, it doesn't cost any money to gain access to the network though. Anyone can download the client.
I actually think that LAPACK will outlive us all, as I can't see anyone ever rewriting (and re-testing) the software that essentially runs science (and a large proportion of "Big Data" approaches).
Instead of jumping to conclusions, consider that the OP is probably talking about a typical person playing poker who is prone to making bad decisions for psychological reasons. Hey, that's just like most real-life people, which is what this article is about.
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It is quite interesting though as soon as you extend it with calls to C libraries. Like if you want to use Clojure for libavcodec, or many others.
Cool idea. It's comes along just as I've ordered a pile of music theory (for newbies) books - but they wont turn up for another few days.

It'll be good to work through these videos at the same time =)

I'm up to part 9 of the basic lessons and so far they're looking pretty good!
In theory, those who lead destructive lives (drugs) will die sooner (if the anti-drug claims are true) therefore removing themselves from the system.

I'd imagine the payments in this case are only enough for food and shelter. Spending $ on drugs makes it harder to obtain the other two.

Communism would be conditional income ("to each according to his means, etc."). What the article describes is unconditional.
Why C but not llvm? Structured code generation is always better than string-based one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center -- 'alleged to be able to capture "all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Internet searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital 'pocket litter'."'.

That page talks about being able to store (hypothetically) 1 trillion TB.
This idea of a human-in-the-loop whose role diminishes over time will recur with many AI related technologies. Imagine call centers today with automated attendants backed by fleets of humans to handle all the special cases and frustrated callers. This duo will remain in place, but the humans will dwindle over time, handling increasingly obscure accents and odd situations, as the AI gains capability. Until there is only one lonely human... waiting for the phone to ring. Power is handed over not with a bang.
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I think the point is that mining costs a little bit of money in electricity, and mining is more effective the more money you put into it.
there's the mistaken notion that only a sales person can run a company. and while in some industries this is true, it isn't always true. in fact even if you look at tech many companies are engineer driven and not sales driven. in fact that was steve jobs critique of where apple went wrong before he took over. the key thing is knowing what you don't know, and then having that ability to find people who do.
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> And when it will start happening, it will also apply to today's data.

I hope everyone else noticed this as well.

Even if the tech to do crazy analysis does not exist today, the tech to record all the data for future use is quite real.
Yeah, I'm not sure how to explain it without making the analogy a lot more complicated.
Performance model is even with the M5:
Time M5/Tesla:
0-30 2.0/2.1
0-45 2.9/3.1
0-60 4.5/4.4
0-75 6.4/6.1
1/4M 13.8/12.6

Personally, I don't feel a tenth of a second makes much difference, but it's wrong to say that the Tesla is handily beat in every benchmark.

References:
http://www.edmunds.com/bmw/m5/2013/road-test-specs.html
http://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/track-tests/2013-tesla-mo...