skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But then wouldn't businesses who sell a lot of goods to people on the minimum income just put their prices up to force the gov to increase the minimum income at above inflation rates every year?

You also still have the problem of people like drug addicts who spend all of their minimum income on drugs/drink/gambling and are still left homeless.
I tend to think a lot of the social programs that do exist in this city (and there are many – healthy san francisco, housing subsidies, dozens of shelters, and even more food programs) don't really address the root problem that causes such a disparity. For instance, I've a number of friends who work in the tenderloin with some of those same social programs, and they're perspective is that the housing subsidies that bring people to the tenderloin only exacerbate the issues that plague it.

It's not just warm weather that draws people to SF, but a plethora of social programs that are often poorly executed, underfunded, and addressed at superficial issues and not their core causes (education, for example).
It is individualism vs collectivism.

Socialism is a set of collectivist policies desired or in force while a capitalist society is being consumed (i.e., distribution of goods and services by society's collective dictates).

Capitalism "solves the problem" of production by producing what returns profit (in a market of demands and supplies). Once profit is stamped out, production is unguided except by "society" commanding it (i.e., a command "economy"). Even if this guidance were democratic, it would still be subject to the tyranny of the majority (the bulk of the collective).
Blackberry was dying a year ago. They're doing quite well now.
Is there any chance that Square (or any of its competitors) will open up their service to custom app developers?

I want to build a custom application that uses their hardware and payment processing back end. But I can't.
Heh. Daring to suggest people think before they procreate is certainly one of those things you cannot say.

Ironic on HN, because http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
I'm 30 years old, and focused on a liberal arts degree, but since I was a kid I've always done basic PHP and JavaScript stuff.

The CS courses I'm interested in taking, such as C/C++ have a math requirement. But I don't just want to do it because they're required. I now have a genuine interest in math maybe because of my life experiences, finding what type of person I am, etc. I have very few friends in the liberal arts, because I'm not really like them. Kinda complicated to explain all of it.

My personality meshes better with people in the sciences. This goes for work-related stuff, as well. It took me 10 years to figure that out after graduating high school. Even though I excelled in all of my classes (graduated in top 5%), I think I was living in my own little world with regard to liberal arts.

I feel like I can never get to fully appreciate mathematics, but at least I will try my best to do what I can when taking the math pre-reqs for CS.

I'm open to receiving any feedback/advice -- the people around me usually find these types of discussions boring, though :)

Email is in the profile. Thanks!
Tone. Which is an actual objection.
Are you a hobbyist developer who gets no recognition for your work?
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I was referring to publicly shared folders w/ non-Google users. If you don't have a Google/Drive account and someone shares a link-accessible folder, it can be viewed and items downloaded piecemeal, but there is no option to download the entire folder.

Link-accessible Box.net folders don't have this constraint. You can share a folder link w/ someone who doesn't have an account and they can download the entire folder w/o creating one. Google only let's you view the contents and download one-at-a-time. Your work-around is good to know, but you'd have to be sharing with another Drive user for it to work.
"For overall health and lasting benefits you're going to need to get into a gym and pick something heavy off the ground."

That statement is not true.

Yoga is incredibly beneficial to the body with many lasting benefits after you leave the mat.

And you never have to lift anything heavy. Ever.
By "leaving them alone", you mean "has investigated them numerous times at the urging of various conservatives, and found they didn't violate the law".

In other words, the IRS has applied the same standard to MMFA that the Republicans so vigorously object to having applied to them.
Some examples:
http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/43085729257/the-street-kid...

I'll agree, "most" is probably way off. It is greater than 0, but it could well be a negligible amount.
Man catches flying bird with bare hand
What makes you think the individual frames look like the letters? They certainly don't have to. At the price of a little flickering you could, say, show the top half of the letters in one frame, the bottom half the next, the right half the next and so on. Or randomly leave out one letter in every frame. Or even throw in different replacement letters for one frame each.
You've made a great case for popups and tooltips while using a site.

But what if the waiter visits your house, asking you why you haven't been to the restaurant in a week? I'm sure that I haven't opted in to that, even if my address is on my checks.
I'm definitely not going to disagree with this, but there's also a lot to be said for age and experience when it comes to understanding things. Being exposed to it once starts you off, but even if you don't think about or work at it consciously, the second time -- particularly years later -- unless you've been living under a rock, you're likely to see a massive improvement in your understanding right off the bat.

This is particularly true when you're still working your way through school. That time is more dense with learning about learning than any other time you're likely to spend; it's not something you might be concentrating on intentionally, but building up your abilities and knowledge result in the way and speed at which you learn changing and improving.

Like I said, I'm not denigrating teaching or its positive effects in this vein at all. But there's also something else (at least one something) at work here that might be playing a larger role than realized.
You can accept payments with credit and debit cards from customers anywhere in the world. Currently the Stripe UK and Ireland betas support Visa and MasterCard, with American Express payments coming soon
I think this comment seems to assume that "homeless" is the only problem, whereas I think the OP was discussing poverty in general as well.

I don't think anyone can say (with a straight face) that most people who live in poverty have chosen that lifestyle.
self-driving car systems are going to eliminate human operators in a few years anyway, no?
What's the value proposition - i.e. why would someone want to use it, what benefit would they get from it ?
> The solution is simple. You simply give every adult citizen enough money every year to insure that they can afford food, shelter, and other basic needs. Give it to everyone, rich or poor, same amount. BAM!

You left out the part where the money comes from. Your idea is fine and dandy, but I doubt you are currently implementing it yourself by spending your own money. The idea depends on everybody being forced to pay.

Distributing money indiscriminately devalues work and effort. I disagree with your premise that people who work for rewards are unmotivated.

Those who think this is a good idea can go ahead and spread their wealth as they see fit, but I do have a problem with forcing others to do the same.
Thanks for quoting. I'd like to add that the workout the blog post cited was the ACSM article's "sample workout" based on HICT (an efficient, common sense approach commonly used by personal trainers), that also required no specialized equipment.
Ask HN: Any early stage startup looking for CTO/Chief Architect
I am a startup engineer. I currently work in a senior role at a high scale, high profile, very fast growing startup where I manage the majority of the backend and operations. I've helped grow the company from 5 employees to now over 60 in about a year and a half.

Now I want to work somewhere where I can have more say over the direction of the technical side of things. I'm looking for a startup that is still less than 5 employees (or at least less than 5 engineers), funded and tackling interesting problems. You don't need to have a ton of traction (or any all really). You don't need to be profitable. I enjoy seeing a startup grow from those early stages to something big.

If that sounds like you, and you want to chat and see if it might be a fit, email me at anonjobseeker2@gmail.com and tell me a little about your company.

Thanks for taking time to read this.

p.s. I'm doing this anonymously because pretty much everyone I currently work with reads HN.
No you are not. I think I wasn't clear enough. These are too good choices. I had forgotten about Google voice. Thanks.

Anyhow, I guess I meant something that worked pretty much exactly like the pay phone. Something that I can use once and not leave the rest of my money trapped there forever. At least for Skype you have to buy at least $10 worth of credits. How does it work for Google voice? Is it on demand?

Also, something that you didn't have to subscribe to some service so you can use it. I know both Skype and Gmail both have hundreds of millions of users but what if you don't use either one.
3.5.2-linode45 also seems unaffected

$ uname -a
Linux li252-14 3.5.2-linode45 #1 SMP Wed Aug 15 14:10:55 EDT 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

$ gcc -O2 semtex.c && ./a.out
semtex.c: In function âfuckâ:
semtex.c:30:37: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
semtex.c:30:23: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
semtex.c:31:21: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
semtex.c:37:19: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
semtex.c: In function âmainâ:
semtex.c:74:3: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
semtex.c:74:3: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
a.out: semtex.c:51: sheep: Assertion `!close(fd)' failed.
Aborted
There is a diversionary slip road for overheights (OHT) on the approach to Blackwall after the first pic and before the second. If you've made it to the second (having ignored a good few red lights), expect to be prosecuted.
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What's really scary is that a can lead to b:
http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse/News%20and%20Events%2FNews%2FS...
yeah, and by extension i'm asking why enough readers of hn considered it interesting.
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Awesome concept!
How to Delay Gratification in a World of Immediate Distractions
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And here I thought that the driving force was the desire for clean water and clean air.
So what happens with signatures? I recently visited a cafe where they were using an iPad as a checkout, and the cashier had to constantly swivel the thing around to let customers sign for their purchase.

I know it's not that big an inconvenience, but it just seemed like an awkward conclusion to a transaction that's supposed to be simplified by these devices.
"third-world country conditions"

No.

Even a porta potty cleaned infrequently is more sanitary than the conditions in the third world. There won't be a cholera outbreak. Food is available and nobody is going to starve to death.

Heck, a simple clean water fountain in some third world countries can improve the lives of an entire village. Even in the most horrible cities in america there are dozens of sources of free water.
The first three or four times I read this post title, it made no sense at all to me. It might as well have read "Sydney tunnel correct horse battery staple". Once I clicked through to the article it made sense, but this is one of the few times I wish the mods had edited the title to match the article.
Couldn't agree more. However I would also add that from a truly liberal perspective the logic behind government intervention is market-driven as opposed to primarily humanitarian. Recognising that markets have failures is a key part of capitalist liberalism, and it is that failure of recognition that makes libertarianism such an unstable and unworkable political philosophy.
There are some funny quips here (like "#WhenIGraduate I'm going to work for McKinsey because the hours are better"), but I like how each is paired with a pretty sobering 'fact'. For instance I was surprised that a postdoc scientist makes roughly the same as a McDonalds Store Manager (~$39k).
Why do people commute 45+ minutes each way to work... To live in a Suburb where the dont interaxt with any neighbors. a place with no public transport, no major retailers, and no place for "malcontents" to flock within 10 miles that's not private property. Even my small city has no "public space" or public transportation after business hours. We have lots of small parks designed to deter "being homeless" there.

Everything about American Rural and Suburb culture drives out those who Rent, and don't want to own full-size autos with all the "rat-race" keeping up with payments and insurance and taxes... Right up until people retire and realize they can't keep up.
Eventually the tunnels will have "soft walls" which send large trucks a remote-braking command if collision seems likely... and the trucks themselves collision-avoidance radar. And soon after that all the trucks will be self-driving.
Who the F keeps a directory of images like this? I've seen enough internet for the day.
I was in SF in march, and when I commented about this to someone, he said that a friend of his, who worked in an organization that works on helping the homeless, told him that other states actually give the homeless a one-way ticket to SF so its no longer their problem.

I was shocked with this, asked a couple more people if they had heard about that, and they had.

My conclusion was that maybe everyone (or most people) was expecting someone else, or the government, to help the homeless, and there comes the vicious cycle.
Those same arguments could be made against welfare to an extent. The advantage of this system is that it would be simpler and therefor cheaper to administer and possibly harder to game.
"Obamacare" is not socialist, it's liberal, as a core concept of liberalism is that the state should fund things that people cannot or will not fund for themselves, like roads and healthcare.

"More doubtfully compatible with the liberal conception of equality is another measure which also gained wide support in liberal circles, namely the use of progressive taxation as a means to effect a redistribution of income in favour of the poorer classes. Since no criterion can be found by which such progression can be made to correspond to a rule which may be said to be the same for all, or which would limit the degree of extra burden on the more wealthy, it would seem that a generally progressive taxation is in conflict with the principle of equality before the law and it was in general so regarded by liberals in the nineteenth century."

- Liberalism, F. A. Hayek
The Blackwall Tunnel in London has a something similar with heavy metal weights on chains. http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=...

These will make a fair mess of a vehicle, I saw them hitting a lorry once but are pretty attention grabbing.

The Blackwall Tunnel has different heights and widths for different lanes due to the tunnel profile which is why the restrictions are different in each lane in this photo.
I believe if you're a verified business account and the total is under $20 or so, no signature is needed. If it's over a certain amount, then you have to get a signature, which means you're going to be swiveling or handing someone an iPad regularly.
OTR by default? I would like to have a record of most of my chats.
Or they could you know....just build a tunnel big enough to fir every vehicle size? I don't think this problem exists in the UK, I've driven through many different tunnels and they will accept any vehicle size.
Approximately $63 per hour on Amazon EC2.
Do you think they fought because they would starve to death otherwise or because they had mental issues?
The reason why this problem is difficult is because primes have everything to do with multiplication (every number is the product of primes), and summing numbers have everything to do with...well, addition. To give additive properties of numbers in terms of primes is like putting a round peg in a square hole.

The reason why this problem is important, is that in the grand scheme of things, it'a more about the math and less about the applications. People have already assumed it to be true, and still not applied it to anything practical like cryptography, as far as I know. Please correct if not.
But Facebook doesn't pretend to have a secure network. Skype often claims to have a secure, encrypted network.
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If it wasn't the pregnancy tests, why did baby catalogs arrive at our house?
No mongo natural order is just order on the disk. It is not always in reverse insertion order
To me, that feels more like a limit on human cognition than a fundamental quality of the proof or the program. After all, you can summarize--or, perhaps compress--the proof into a program which checks the cases. It's simply a level removed from how mathematicians normally work.

On the other hand, if a proof could not be reduced at all--and, given my very limited understanding of information theory, this is possible--then I would certainly agree that it's inherently more complex.

Put another way, I think that using a computer to check cases like this is morally similar to using induction. It still exposes and exploits a certain simplicity in the domain.
How good is Go, as a replacement for Java?
>Because joints move through, and must support load, at a variety of angles. Being really really good at a particular 10 degree band is not very useful for most folk.

And this is part of why you see bulgy weightlifting types at the rock climbing gym getting shown up by skinny "DYEL" types.
The time it takes you to realize that there is no viable revenue model for the concept.
Spam is not about content, it's about consent.

This is ancient, and it's disappointing that it appears to be forgotten lost information.

It doesn't matter if the email you're sending is full of great information and money off coupons. If you didn't confirm the email address and didn't get permission to send to that email address the emails you're sending are spam.

I hope weebly has a checkbox for users to opt in to a mail list (or, at least, opt out) - so by giving them his email address and not unchecking or checking that checkbox this user gave them permission to send him email. So they're not spam.

Not being spam is not the same as "acceptable" - an email a day would be frustrating to many people.
If you paste a "one-click to activate one time" link into a Skype session, the bot will click the link and then it won't be valid anymore for the legitimate recipient. That's a terrible idea.
Yes, that's true, except for the calling into non-Lua libraries, this is where LuaJIT + ffi really shines. It can actually optimize away boxing/unboxing and inline the native function call into the trace (not the body of the native function, but the call itself.) Surely you're referring to something else? The often repeated wisdom on the LuaJIT mailing list is only use the Lua C API for legacy code as it can't come close to the performance or ease of use of the ffi. If your experience is otherwise, maybe the JIT bailed on your test code? The ffi is very slow without the JIT.

String and memory limitations have yet to bother me at all because anywhere speed matters you get order of magnitude improvements by managing the strings/memory yourself via the ffi. With Terra, it's clear that's the approach being advocated as well. I agree it really bolluxes small benchmarks, especially if the code is written for Lua and not done the "LuaJIT way" with the ffi. Outside of embedded or other exotic environments I think one would be hard-pressed to come up with a real-world workload where Lua PUC outperforms LuaJIT and there's no easy way to turn the tables. There are just far more options for optimization with LuaJIT and more ability to get closer to the metal than you have with Lua PUC.

None of that is to take away from what the Lua PUC guys have accomplished. Like any craftsmen who enjoys his work, I just like to use the best tools. That's LuaJIT in my opinion, and now Terra too.
Scribble is excellent.

My favorite part about Scribbled documentation is that everything from code samples to function names in text is clickable. Even the function names in the five-line code samples on the front page of http://racket-lang.org/ are clickable; you can just jump straight to any function's documentation from the home page of the language.
Let's say, you're a first year PhD student trying to decide which research lab to join, you narrow it down to three labs, you can check the three professors to see 1) who their ancestors were 2) where their former lab members ended up to be, industry or academia, etc.
Interesting. I've used Beluga, WhatsApp, Brightkite and GroupMe, none of which were ever truly satisfying, mostly because there's no strong network effect in place - anyone I messaged with these apps was someone I bugged to install and use it.

BBM brings to the table a sizable entrenched user base. I agree with the person that said this would have been an iMessage killer a year ago. But this will be crossplatform and iMessage is not. Good for us who aren't living entirely in the Apple ecosystem.
Will add it to the list. Thanks!
when I woke up and saw my 25 karma comment here I think we should!
Yes, we are actually thinking about that idea. The problem is, how to encourage more user participation?
You should talk to my mum about it. When anything comes up on her computers' screen, she will just panic and call me or my dad or anyone else, BEFORE even reading what is says. Most conversations look like this:
"Hi son, my computer just broke, something came up on the screen and it won't go away"
"ok mom, what does it say?"
"I don't know, I haven't read it"

People are exceedingly good at ignoring information if they don't want to get involved....
You can simply post a comment to your own submitted story.
This might be a little too late (more like a year or 2) with the multitude of IM apps out there like Whatsapp, Line, Viber in addition to iMessage, Facebook Messenger & Google's rumored new app, Babel.

Pretty much everyone I know uses WhatsApp (which has replaced a few google groups/yahoo groups for me) and Facebook messenger.
road spikes
Complacency. Even Linux distributions don't come with email and voice communications security enabled by default.
Startups don't end up working out for a great many reasons... this is a solid tech team.
I am addicted to it now. My boss will be angry about Google.
Why not see if they'll swap the gear, refund you, etc?
Hitchhiker: You heard of this thing, the 8-Minute Abs?

Ted: Yeah, sure, 8-Minute Abs. Yeah, the excercise video.

Hitchhiker: Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 7... Minute... Abs.

Ted: Right. Yes. OK, all right. I see where you're going.

Hitchhiker: Think about it. You walk into a video store, you see 8-Minute Abs sittin' there, there's 7-Minute Abs right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?

Ted: I would go for the 7.

Hitchhiker: Bingo, man, bingo. 7-Minute Abs. And we guarantee just as good a workout as the 8-minute folk.

Ted: That's right. That's - that's good. That's good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with 6-Minute Abs. Then you're in trouble, huh?
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I honor your struggle and hope you are victorious over your addiction.