skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth reinforcing the point that a guaranteed job requires effectively zero economic output in order to receive a paycheck. If you are guaranteed a job, and we accept that people seek to maximize their income per unit of work done, then the maximization of that function is to do as little work as possible without losing the job. If you are guaranteed a job, then it effectively means that you can't be economically penalized for doing no work, so the most efficient personal approach is to just collect your paycheck and do no work.

The threat of economic penalty for failing to work is an important incentive to actually contribute to economic output.

I'm not sure why a basic job would be any better than a basic income since it would encourage people to collect income for no work performed, except that it would do so at risk and expense to the employer (and at damage to the employer's brand and reputation) rather than at expense to the tax paying populace as a whole.
BREAKFAST - Brooklyn NY - Full Time Engineers

We're an early stage startup looking to define the intersection of real-world signage and the digital world and we're looking for a few experienced computer engineers to join our small team in Brooklyn.

Roles we're hiring for:

- Software engineers with strong analytical and match skills. Machine learning, "big data" and complex algorithms such as search or online ad-platform experience is a bonus.

- Full stack developer and operations (dev-ops) engineer. Experience with large platform systems and geo is a bonus but not a requirement.

- Electrical Engineer, this is a senior and very varied role. We're looking for someone with lots of experience with PCB schematics and layout, assembly and manufacturing. Experience with microcontroller circuits, serial and SPI interfaces, and everything up into system integration and firmware coding. Experience with FPGAs is a bonus.

We're mainly looking for senior applicants however I don't want to discourage younger engineers to apply.

About us

We're a small company in Brooklyn, NY (Dumbo), our mission is to bring smart wayfinding to the masses. Our smart mechanical/digital street sign, Points (http://breakfastny.com/points), is just the beginning of what is possible in this brand new market. Using all the power that comes with realtime data and online signals, in a real-world scenario opens up new doors to what physical spaces can offer.

We are big users of open source software. Our codebase is mainly python, c/c++ and javascript (node.js). However we do not discriminate if your main focus has been some other language. Our software stacks usually include linux, nginx, postgres, redis and misc AWS services.

We do a lot of prototyping in-house. We believe that engineers should have access to the right tools to get their job done. We have 3D printers, a large scale CNC for cutting metal and a slowly growing prototyping shop for electronics work.

By looking at our previous work you can get a better sense of who we are and what we like to tinker with. http://breakfastny.com/projects/

We'll offer salary based on your experience and the specific role that you fit in. We also offer health care, an unlimited vacation policy, weekly happy hour beers and a couple of office get-away days a year where we all go out and do something crazy to blow off some steam (zip-lining, go-carting and other juvenile-ish fun). We'll let you pick the laptop of your choice as well.

If you're interested in joining us in this very early and exciting time of our business, please talk to us so we can figure out how to get you on the team.

Get in touch with me on jobs+engineer@breakfastny.com
Another F'ing onswipe site. It just makes for a terrible mobile browsing experience.
It wouldn't hurt to start looking for alternative clients. Bide your time till you can have enough breathing room to renegotiate your relationship. Even take advantage of the fact of it being the 1st and post in the freelancer's thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6310240

Depending on how your contract works with these guys, there's no reason you can't renegotiate your terms.

Voicing your concerns is a huge first step. Just don't make a move on a whim. Make sure you're in a position to where you can negotiate.

If you don't feel you're as skilled to where you really can get a job, then build up your skills where you can.

You're the only one who can dig yourself out of this.
60% of the US national debt matures in three years or less. It isn't rational to expose yourself to that much interest rate risk, but the people taking on this risky debt on behalf of the rest of us won't be the ones responsible for paying it if interest rates spike.
Because turning it off doesn't work. You can't fully turn it off without popping the battery out.
SEEKING WORK - Remote / Houston / Travel

I build web applications from the ground up. From conception to design, implementation and marketing, I can do as much or as little as you need me to. Maybe you've got an idea, and you don't know where to start. Maybe you've got a 60-page specification, and you need it executed to perfection. I'm here to make it a reality.

Currently I'm working on a side project, http://weigh.io, which is also my first experience with d3.js.

Portfolio: http://ioddly.com/hire/

Github: http://github.com/ioddly

Email: ioddly@ioddly.com
You are in the wrong country for me. But I want to say that like a lot of people, I am hugely excited by your company and hope you do well!
We have not achieved gender-role balance, we just attributed to women all the qualities a capitalistic, highly-competitive society values in traditional men roles.
SEEKING WORK - Manchester, England - Remote - Part Time Ideally

Proficient in LAMP stack, also have implemented various (e.g. Djikstra's) algorithms in C, have some experience in coding Assembler for ARM (about to start writing an OS as coursework). Frameworks I have worked with include Laravel, Kohana, ZF (1 and a bit of 2).

I have worked with a local social media start up (almost a year), also have worked with small non-tech companies to solve their business problems.

I love non-coding part (requirements gathering, designing the application, etc) as much as I do love coding.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gediminas-rapolavicius/64/48b/b9...

Feel free to get in touch at gediminas.rap@gmail.com.
Considering that the US has zero speech-related internet censorship, and the comparison is to a law banning sharing any news articles online and publishing any material opposing the government, I'd say the US still has a valid complaint here.
Convince people to help voluntarily by donating, without any fear of consequences if they decide not to pay. If you can't convince them, then you're forcing them to agree with you and pay, basically acting like a bully.
I think there is reasonable consensus about some software engineering best practices:

1. Avoid action-at-a-distance and side-effects that are hard to reason about.

2. Use immutable objects and values rather than references and pointers.

3. Avoid intricate control flow with many branches.

4. Greater isolation of processes/threads (actor model).

5. Use systems and platforms with simple and strong guarantees (e.g. ACID) that are easy to reason about. Special cases and nuances to the underlying platform should be avoided.

6. Use tools with good support for static analysis (e.g. a good type system with a compiler that can understand it).

Exceptions seem to violate #1, #3, and #6.

These rules only apply to software engineering; that is, the reliability, robustness, long-term maintainability, and total project development cost (including maintenance and support).

Of course, there are other considerations, such as: performance, the time to achieve the minimum viable product, how much developers like the tools, how "hackable" it is, or utility for research purposes. These other concerns may be a good reason to violate the above rules.
Just quit. Tomorrow. Life is too short to waste time on crap corporate politics and the culture of failure.

Frankly, it's probably not worth the time it would take to do a brain dump to upper management, HR or any potentially interested party. I wouldn't volunteer anything unless someone who seemed genuinely interested asked.
My point was that the nudity in art is, for the most part, unnecessary. Yet people, including women, bear with it.

The point is, there is probably no absolute, specific reason (such as nudity) why women don't want to go to CS. The reason may well be the cultural difference from the norm (of majority of population) itself, no matter what it is. Whether it's nudity or Star Trek, doesn't matter. So the morality doesn't even come into play here.

And that's why positive examples are needed. To show, "OK, it's a bit different culture, but that's fine" sort of thing. (Also to show that girls can be good in CS, because they often seem to lack confidence in this - at least I met several that didn't feel they could be programmers, even though they were lot smarter than me.)
Bolsa Familia is not a basic income. It fails to fix the fundamental problem with current welfare: that it is a disincentive to reemployment.

A proper basic income is fucking trivial to implement. Give every member of society X amount of money per T time period.

This has nothing to do with socialism. The means of production do NOT change ownership.
Here is one for Brooklyn:

http://bklynr.com/block-by-block-brooklyns-past-and-present/

I published some instructions on how to generate such a map using the recently released PLUTO data:

http://bdon.org/2013/06/29/working-with-pluto-and-pad/

To the best of my knowledge, San Francisco doesn't have a public building age dataset. There is a building footprint dataset on https://data.sfgov.org/, but the quality of the shapes isn't very good.
SEEKING WORK: London UK or remote
I'm a backend-focused full stack web developer, who particularly enjoys working with startups. I'm happy building systems from scratch, extending existing systems, refactoring projects that have become unmaintainable, or scaling systems that have been pushed beyond their capacity.

I've got very limited availability for the next 1-2 months so can only take on small implementations or work as an advisor, but I'm more free from October so if you're planning ahead then it'd be good to hear from you.

There's a summary of my skills & experience here: http://alexpounds.com/cv
>Dangerous for people taking the test or administering the test? Your comment seems ambivalent about the efficacy of tests.

Dangerous to the organizations that rely upon the test, in that lack of the belief in the efficacy of polygraphs decreases their usefulness as a screening tool.

>But is it accurate when used on people that have extensive training about how to beat the test?

No, its not particularly useful for any query if one has specific training in how to control one's physiological responses. The Soviets used general coaching, and I believe these modern firms are using biofeedback.

>So why would telling people that it doesn't work be dangerous if it is "pretty accurate for specific questions?"

The polygraph measures physiological indicators such as skin conductivity, heart rate, respiration, and muscle tension that are metrics of stress, stress being considered a proxy for deception.

The greatest effect of the polygraph coaching is that it reduces the subject's belief in the efficacy of the test, thereby reducing the stress response during the testing, which in turn makes untruthful responses appear truthful.

>Good investigators have other skills use other things such as body language, speech patterns (e.g sudden shifts in tense when describing events), and facial micro-expressions (using systems such as FACS). So a good investigator wouldn't need a polygraph test.

All of those are useful techniques, as is voice stress analysis which is supplanting polygraph in corporate security, but all can be fooled.

The biggest added advantage of all "objective" deception tests is that they increase stress on the subject, causing more indications of deception to leak through the facade. When people believe the tests aren't very effective, their efficacy decreases.

The future is in functional MRI technology. Memory and fabrication are two very different mental tasks, and I would imagine the difference should be detectable with current technology, although I'm certainly no expert.

The two firms I've seen in the space are Cephos and No Lie MRI, which are claiming ~97% accuracy (a useless number I realize, but the best I can find from their public information.)
I keep seeing this article or variations on it over and over. The question I have is, "Why did they ever have a free version?" Why does DropBox have a free tier? GMail? Why do Canonical, Red Hat and SUSE give away thousands of QA person-hours and more thousands of server hours on community Linux distros? Why are the complicated pieces of software that are browsers mostly free?
I know you said you don't trust digital storage, but discs remain the best way to backup files for me. I purchased a blu-ray burner a couple years back and I've hardly made it through my first stack of discs. The blu-ray discs should easily outlast any other storage medium if they're kept in proper conditions. It comes down to your ability to keep track of them, not whether they'll go bad on you.
I do that too. Extending Ember.Object also makes a perfectly fine model. You can mix in things like Ember.Evented to use it as an event target. You can work with Ember where it expects promises simply by implementing a `.then()` method.

This is why I'm saying I think a lot of people fall for the same trap/gotcha as you. Ember Data is totally not necessary to be productive with Ember.
your right, they should prolly focus more on commenting there stuff then making an example in every obscure framework possible
Increasing logical display resolution on OS X (HiDPI)
1) In console:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool YES

2) Log out/in

3) Select one of the HiDPI modes in Preferences -> Resolutions
I think soon you will have good news about this from the cocos2d-x side.
Do you have any evidence or probable cause for your claims about "private companies collateralizing debt fraudulently loaned out for short term profit to people who couldn't afford it against governmental regulations"? Admissible evidence only, please.

"They didn't build the infrastructure they use (roads/water/electricity etc.). Governments did."

This is just ignorance I'm assuming. In America and the rest of the developed world, governments submit RFPs to solicit bids from private corporations. Private sector companies build the infrastructure, not the government. If your argument is that the government funds those projects, I simply ask you to think where the government gets that money.
I've built generative tests for an entire betting exchange. We run the database in-memory, throw generated events in one end and make assertions about the state when processing is finished. The tests range from very specific, narrow pseudo-unit-tests to coarse properties like 'if we process 1000 random orders from 80 different customers in 3 different currencies, the total amount of money in the system remains constant'. I can't imagine reaching the same level of stability in the core exchange if we had to write all the test cases by hand.
Want to train your brain? Play StarCraft
The use is knowing your phone isn't sending or receiving a signal.

The value is anonymity with the option of being able to use it when you want. The true value is having a real "off" switch.
Still waiting on that PS Vita support they promised.
Hacker News is primarily a job board. The reason that it's worth Y Combinator's time and money to run is that it allows YC-funded companies to post hiring ads where normal stories show up.

Of course, in order for those ads to be effective, the rest of the site needs to attract the sorts of people that YC-funded companies want to hire. To that end, it needs to be a decent news site (or something) as well.
I think you'd use it to connect to the grid when you want to, make your call and then go off the grid quickly again. It gives the power to you to have a untraceable one-way communication device (if you don't have landlines available ie).
> You feel confident that you have already handled all the error cases (that you care about) in your code.

What about the errors you don't care about at the time, but realize later than you should care about? Do you go back and add them? This process seems error prone to me.

From the Go FAQ "[Excpetions] also tends to encourage programmers to label too many ordinary errors, such as failing to open a file, as exceptional."

So the problem is not with exceptions, but how some programmers use them.
Check out an interactive variant at http://bag.edugis.nl/. Beware of errors in the data, though.

Alternatively, download the data from https://data.overheid.nl/data/dataset/basisregistratie-adres... it is open data.
the hell is this witchcraft? http://cdecl.ridiculousfish.com/?q=cast+foo+into+block%28int...
Capitalism has been given a bad reputation, but fundamentally it just means people engaging in voluntary exchanges - wealth is accumulated, and invested. That's about it.

You need to realize that voluntary exchanges are the basis of all economic activity ever. There is no economic system to be "built" - there are only exchanges to be made.

Every single one of us is out to benefit from voluntary exchanges, but that's alright because so is whoever you're trading with. If you don't think you'd benefit from a particular exchange, you just won't go through with it. If an exchange happens, it means both parties perceive it to be aligned with their personal interests. In other words, voluntary exchanges are a good thing, and it makes no sense to curtail them.

Sure, so-called "crony-capitalism" is a problem, but that doesn't mean Capitalism itself is problematic.
I think Cuba tried that already in the late 50s.
That's classic! You should make a post out of that link—it's great HN material.
Unfortunately many modern smartphones precent you from removing the battery.
Agree with UK. It's generally a good idea to start a limited company for even minor ventures as it insulates you from any direct liability from fuckups and legal problems.

I've had 4 limited companies over the years.
This article statement, "His life was shadowed by fear of famine, disease and bursts of warfare. His diet and personal hygiene left much to be desired" explains why I don't want to go back to the life of my peasant ancestors.

The author's background, "Lynn Parramore is a senior editor at AlterNet, co-founder of Recessionwire, and founding editor of New Deal 2.0 and IgoUgo.com. She is the author of "Reading the Sphinx: Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture" and has taught cultural theory at NYU" suggests to me why I won't take this opinion piece kindly submitted here as a guide to current economic policy. Actually, today's economy in the United States offers unparalleled opportunities for each worker to make the worker's preferred trade-off among cash income and leisure time, especially if the worker is part of a family household of persons who agree to make different trade-offs from one another.
Is there a detailed explanation of the plan available online?
It actually originated from shift work. It used to be two 12-hour shifts, and then Carnegie and others realized three 8-hour shifts were more productive.
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Disclaimer: I am a backend developer sporadically doing front end to speed things up (as in: back end is done, time to help the other guys with the front end).

Why is this better than jQuery? I haven't looked at the full code base and documentation but did watch the 25 min demo video posted in this thread and thought: "Well, I can do all of this with jQuery too probably just-as fast.". What makes this different? Am I missing something?
You seem to be incurring in the Nirvana fallacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
Chat with others and get paid in Bitcoin
New jobs will be invented, as they always are.
If it's actually faster, the speed actually matters, and you wrap it with a well commented explanation and descriptive name, I'd consider it reasonable. Otherwise, just write out what you're doing. It's definitely clever, but fewer lines of code is not an optimization.
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We are a small team with a focus on work/life balance. Developers at 20spokes are given a lot of responsibility of their projects and gain a lot of experience.

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What material are they using that creates the Faraday cage effect?
Iz.js updated: now includes JSON validations
Thanks for pointing out Brazil. And as for the OP, I would also point out History! I mean what is this bullshit - basic income guarantee has been in practice for 50 years in almost every communist state around Russia, my Poland included. It wasn't called that way, but the policy was that everyone has to have a job and receive a specified wage. And everyone did. You know what happened? Money was useless because there was no supply. Everybody had money, nobody was poor, the problem was - you can't eat paper.

You know what would happen in the US, where there is supply? It would drive spending nuts, demand would grow, prices would grow, therefore inflation would grow and the dollar would lose its value, effectively diminishing the basic income benefits.

Because life ain't fair, it never will be unless we live in utopia where everyone is good and there is no evil. So why not try it? Because there was a guy who wrote it all down. His name was Marks. And you know who used his theories in practice? Lenin. And you know what happened next? The Red Revolution.

Seriously, such ideas for the US… "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."
this is honestly the most annoying thing about go for me. Really hard to do a quick google search for an answer to something!
The Republic of Ireland's independence from the UK and the end of apartheid in South Africa are the first two examples that come to mind.

Hell, just look at this country's own history: KKK terrorism was tremendously effective in preventing a civil rights movement from even existing for close to a century.

Cops murder black civilians to this day. If Nelson Mandela is a hero for bombing government buildings and killing government officials to resist apartheid in Africa, why are the Black Panthers villains for killing cops to resist apartheid in America?

Fear is a tremendous weapon if people can save face by pretending they never caved to it. Without the fear of more militant black nationalist groups, whites would have never given King the time of day.