skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am beginning to turn to Praxology: economics is just psychology under conditions of scarcity. Because most discussion on economics and minimum wage is a peak behind people's own perceptions and prejudices.

So peak behind my veil. It may not be a coherent argument, but it is trying to form from a different direction I usually see on here.

1. Welfare payments (paying people not to work) are about avoiding the human cost of moving from one equilibria to another. We do not have an ethicall acceptable way to judge if one person is deservedly poor and another is a scrounging parasite. So we pay everyone.

2. Welfare payments are getting really expensive. Partly because of their complexity, partly because we fiddle with it too much.

2.a. Welfare payments act as insurance for society. You have a bad year its not worth forcing you and your family onto the streets.

2.b. Forever welfare payments (benefits scroungers, 13 kids and never had a job etc) may be a reflection of a persons true economic worth. see below

3. Paying everyone a minimum guaranteed income is not so crazy - it is merely a monetary reflection of the value and utility derived from other public goods like medicine, science, roads, clean air. I get a lot of value from these things. The NHS means I don't monetarily pay a US level insurance. So I can put a pretty accurate number on a minimum payment already made to me.

For me the situation now is paying people who are not currently econmically productive enough to survive, and turn into productive citizens. It is messy, it has problems, but for my ethical point of view it beats not having a welfare system and seeing people starve. Thats why we brought it in and thats why we want to keep it.

However we are seeing demographic changes (which is what the article is about) that may well negate a lot of this - more and more human beings, with moral value, may find they are no longer economically in the black.

So we might have a future that is golden, of robots growing food, houses built from nanostructures in days, of the human basics for 10 bn provided for tiny effort or cost.

But getting there is not a clear road. And for my money holding the people who will fail to cross that bridge to the future, and giving them a decent life with the bounty of new productive technologies, is a moral duty. And also a sensible hedge for hubris.

In short, we pay for welfare because it is the right thing to do, it is usually short term for each individual, we might need it personally, and as we transition into a new world, we have no idea how bumpy it will get - so safety nets are a good idea. But is the current system(s) perfect, desirable or sustainable. Almost certainly not, and we shall see wide experimentation with different variations before settling on something similar to Singapore.

But that is a long way off and I am late.
Very interesting. Other comments have listed possible factors like population density, public transportation (MUNI). I'd love to see the correlation with:

- the derivative of elevation (i.e. the slope)

- the street lightning
How about we produce an enclosure that looks about as good as an iPhone or iPad (as some are already doing; hello Samsung). Inside we put cheap electronics, but with no barriers to what software can be run (hello Apple) and no barriers to inspecting each and every line of software code that will be running on our device that we own (hello, Apple). Finally, we install our own open source OS (say, UNIX). That UNIX might be so simple that we could, if desired, compile it ourselves from scratch. Maybe even the compiler itself. No better route to security, if there is such a thing.

If iOS is so great and there is demand, Apple can sell us a license to run it on our device. My guess is that few would pay for this. More likely, the market would demand a windowing GUI, not an entire OS (e.g., one borrowed from CMU, FreeBSD and NetBSD; hello again Apple). Could developers respond and deliver one?

UNIX can do lots of things well. And well enough. That's probably why iOS relies on UNIX and not some other OS. But iOS won't let you do all the things that UNIX will let you do.

Conclusion: iOS is inferior to other, more open, more traditional UNIX alternatives. Apple does make a nice windowing GUI. And some very nice enclosures. Each worth a price, no doubt. But UNIX, the code that does the important stuff, has always been free.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(Linux_container_engine)

As usual, check wikipedia
There might have been many due to other government actions, but the vast majority are surely attributable to the US government. What's a few hundred thousand deaths when they are Muslim though?
I don't see an argument that flat is more user-friendly - just that it's not less user-friendly for people who are familiar with GUIs, and so now we (as UI designers/programmers) can use them without actual drops in usability.
Corporate No Benefits Cartoon
This. So much this. Cheap connectors are a huge source of loss in these systems, and eliminating them can be a much bigger win than expensive capacitors.
And that's why allocation of income to people by anything else than supply and demand forces leads to market inefficiencies.
Maybe. It looks like the buttons are a bit smaller with slightly more space between them.
Really, men in tech need to stop thinking that they're somehow not part of the problem and are therefore free to make jokes about it.

You become part of the problem when you do stuff like this.

You don't see white people going around using the word "nigga" lightly, why should it be OK for this sort of joke to be made at a tech conference? It's not OK. It may never be OK. So just stop doing it. You're not Louis CK, you didn't make a career of comedy. Don't think you can tread the line of these social issues and not have it blow up in your face.
It is possible, and even encouraged.
Literally everything the author states is Very Wrong, or a symptom of only noticing bad implementations. The most frustrating part is that they are coming from the perspective of responsive design only being used for mobile, which is super, ultra Wrong.
Consumers and the new sharing economy
Jesus do I ever need this service too. What's worse is, it tends to fall on the shoulders of my spouse.

I've had my license suspended in more years than I've had it valid, and it's entirely because of stupid shit like not getting my sticker renewed (I have very few actual moving violations).
The Pi Calculus
> There is nothing empowering about the concept of "global citizenship."

I think there is, I think it's a beautiful thought. It seems to me that the big challenges for the centuries ahead include problems with the planet... like global warming, pollution, ecosystems not working out right. Solving these problems will require intimate coordination among many big nations. If we start acting with greater cohesion, if we understand that global warming is as much of a concern (or should be) to a guy living in Arkansas as it is to a guy living in China, we can probably solve these problems more effectively. Mind you I'm not advocating erasing all country-lines right now, I just think there's probably a good balance between the two extremes. We probably weren't ready for the transition to happen a few decades ago, but now we are a little bit. I think/hope this continues.

> The marginalization of nation-states just means that there is truly nothing to stand up to the trans-national corporations and global capital owners.

As if that's not the reality right now...
* Plotter fonts are intended to exactly communicate important technical information.

Actually, plotter fonts are optimized for pen movements, not legibility.
My (somewhat uninformed) understanding is that car sourced motion sickness is due to turning without your body expecting it. That is, seeing and expecting a turn negates the problems.

If that's correct, then maybe some sort of visual indicator that lets you know when to expect a few minutes or more of relatively straight travelling (such as on a highway), and an indicator when this is about to end, would be helpful?
I like III-B.

It seems to have the least amount of finger-roam of all the layouts.

Yet it offers more keying discernability than VI-A owing to the tiered layout.
If a dog snarls at their owner then that's a badly trained dog. I recommend this book if you have a badly behaved dog [1], or any dog good or bad actually.

1. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dog-Listener-Jan-Fennell/dp/00065323...
> with insurance it ends up costing $10,000.

You pay $10,000 out of pocket? How much is the total cost, and how much is covered by insurance?

Also, wow.
Google can't collect my information if I don't give it to them. They can't install splitters at major NAPs, demand that Microsoft give them their data on my or use it to prosecute me. If they engaged in a campaign against their users by leaking embarrassing data they would be prosecuted since doing that is illegal. If the government does it there is basically no recourse.
Indeed... I find the second much harder to differentiate from the background. Especially the yellow o.
Just commenting on the L2 and visa matter...

L2 is just the status that you are in (similar to H-1B).

How long you can stay in the US is determined by the date on the I-94. How often you can re-enter on a visa depends on the single/multiple entry on your visa stamp. If you happen to have a single entry visa, then of course you would need to make another consular visit to get a new visa if you wanted to come back to the US.

Remember, the I-94 date trumps whatever duration you have on your consular visa stamp. If the date on your I-94 says leave tomorrow... then, in most cases, that is the best course of action to take.
A Nexus fan's take on the Moto X - Just can't go back.
We Don't Build Websites Anymore
Apple would be insane to have a centralized database with all the fingerprints. It's bad enough that NSA can even get your individual data as you sync your iPhone with your iTunes on a computer. Having it on a central server means they can get tens or hundreds of millions of fingerprints in one nice scoop.
An API would be appropriate.
inhaaaaaaaaaaaale

nice.
Way too negative. This font looks like an excellent font to complement my inner circle of Courier and Terminus.
Thank you! I've still got a to-do list, but I thought it was stable enough to let HN play with.
If you think about it, that's the same way companies perform their activities: Make a plan, allocate resources, etc.

The advantage is that capitalism pits companies against one another, and the best ones win.

I suppose Nations too, compete against one another.
Detroit’s Ambassador Helps Companies Reward Their Advocates
Considering the next image when you scroll down is the picture of the iPad rotated so that it does fit onto the screen, I suspect that it hangs off the screen intentionally at first (perhaps to encourage the user to scroll?)
Strong opinions, weakly held. Be vocal if you think you have a case or don't understand. Stay professional, don't make it personal and you should be ok.
And thank you for crystallising that thought in my head - we are seeing a boom in entrepreneurship because the cost and risk of being one is dropping.

And drop it further still will see an increase also - put your faith in human's need to do creative productive work. No matter what.
Perhaps it facilitates crime (petty theft, etc) especially considering the density of people in areas where public transportation is available.
These were tests. They tested each group against each other, so some of the patterns were tested more than once.
Could it be that he didn't care more about being right, but rather didn't want his name attached to a project using deprecated crypto standards? Or that he genuinely cared about his customer's data security and privacy?

To me, he sounds like someone who's very defensive about a topic at work because of the conflict involved. And until I have reason to believe otherwise, I'll assume it's because of one of the two reasons I mentioned above (or both).
Ask HN: About to launch a web app, am I missing anything?
I am in the final stages of building up a web application that I have been working on for some time. Like many of you with startups on HN, I would like to start with a paid and free level of access.

Since I will be accepting payments, do I need to file as a business / acquire a business license in my state? I want to make sure I am covered if anything goes wrong. I will obviously be using Stripe or another process company to handle all payments. Any tips on money collection would greatly be appreciated!
Forgive my ignorance, I'm assuming S-1 means "series 1" funding round, which would be the first time you ever get funding? But what are 10-K and 10-Q?
7 Simple A/B Tests That Can Increase Conversions by 10% or More
I think grandalf is implying that public transportation tends to be an attractor to some people who are more likely to commit street crimes.

Notice the street. I'd say that financial crime is more likely to be done by Uber riders than bus riders in SF!
And the politics of race/religion. If those deer and your scooter start acting all foreign, there is going to be trouble.
Just to tag along - I was surprised when I first saw early 1920s typographic/graphic design (esp. book covers) just how closely the newer "flat" UIs resemble that period's style.

EDIT: As an example, here's a 1925 German journal cover that would look only slightly out of place in Windows 8: http://typographyhistory.tumblr.com/post/871290549/typograph...
Yes, that would be a nice visualization. http://cartodb.com/ is a pretty powerful tool for these kinds of maps.
"Googol" is a word invented by a child. "Google" is a homophone of this word. How to do you give the logo a less-childish treatment while maintaining a name that is also childish?
Windows RT does NOT do this.. They have a few very limited APIs for IPC, such as Search.. other than that, it's very tied down. Even so much so that it's impossible to make a universal file browser. You have to declare ahead of time which file extensions your application should be capable of opening
Super nifty, bookmarked.

Although it's missing API's for Hacker News[0] and Fuck Off As A Service[1].

[0] https://github.com/dmpayton/python-ihackernews

[1] https://github.com/dmpayton/foaas-python
This title stretches the definition of the word "almost". They tested a bunch of varieties and settled on the best one. That doesn't mean the worst of them were "almost used".
AFAIK Docker is LXC + union filesystem layer management + a build system + the repository system + community, so it's not that little. But the real answer is marketing. DotCloud and CoreOS are companies that directly benefit from exposure, so they spend the effort to go out and get that exposure.
Failed to load resource http://solomonkahn.com/us_budget/public/facebox.js

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'settings' of undefined

Chrome/Linux
Not sure why you were voted down, it is perfectly understandable to fear being unemployed. But it's a bad thing when it paralyses you.

What is perhaps most surprising is that I have observed that people are often a better employees if they are less afraid of losing their job.
I wrote a similar system for C# - we had three queues per application, work, delay, and error. In our system, the deferred queue used per-message TTLs that would push messages back onto the work queue. This allowed us to inspect the deferred and error queues while the application was running.
It's on the homepage because it reached the top of /r/programming on Reddit about 24h ago? :P
Thinking not long ago this was in the news
http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/06/01/chinese-man-makes-ho...
It doesn't cause crime, but it can spread street criminals to areas they might not otherwise be able to access (conveniently enough to bother).
Release soon! Really excited about this.
you know where this will end up right? Anytime you offer anonymous photo sharing it will quickly turn into illegal porn distribution.
I used the mousewheel to zoom in, making it much easier. I still was 140miles away though.
I'm going to enjoy it now, before 4chan gets a hold of it... :D
Spam filtering:

Step 1. Spam filter
Step 2. Encrypt

Searching:

Client side tool which builds a local index as messages are decrypted to be read for the first time. The index is it's self encrypted and incrementally synced between clients.

That took me less than 5 seconds to think up. Google can spend time and money thinking up better solutions if they want to actually do something.
A youtube user has posted a video run of the original game including shots of the mission emails from maritz, which can be read in fullscreen. I love the plots in games of this ilk from the nineties, syndicate and system shock are among my favourites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nycxPg6lJmk
There's a widely-held view that public transit is associated with higher crime rates, but it's a myth:

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/01/transit-sta...

In fact, the data shows that if anything, introducing more transit will reduce crime.
"but a font by a programmer makes as much sense as a database library by a font designer."

"a bridge for pedestrians, by a pedestrian".

I wonder why when a designer kind of guy tries to get into programming he generally gets encouraged and when a programmer tries to do some artsy/design stuff he gets slammed down ?
Because articles and magazines don't magically come and talk about you. You have to work to get them. The people behind LXC don't have or need a PR team. The people behind Docker, on the other hand, do.
seems someone didn't get it.
On "your browser"? It is an animated gif, not a browsable map. All browsers render the animated gif the same way.
One reason for the "Hate" button; it cuts the expiration time remaining in half.
> we pay for welfare because it is the right thing to do

Or, it might be "the right thing" to give funds to fight poverty in some other way and welfare is counterproductive. Making such a claim a-priori is the crux of the problem.
People being at places causes crime in those places, and public transportation helps people be at places.
I'd like a map overlay of median(not average! that means nothing in SF!!!) income of those areas. Something tells me higher elevation = way more expensive, especially here in SF.

I don't think the common thief is wandering about on billionaire-row[1]. I think this has more to do with wealth than land-elevation itself.

http://www.sfcityguides.org/desc.html?tour=34
I think this is a cool idea. I'm curious how you will sort the photos in the grid once there are lots of submissions. The location of a photo will eventually be a pretty important factor in determining its life span, as it will affect the number of views and thus votes that it gets.
This has to be the smallest and most important git tip I've read. Suddenly I see branches as transactions and master a coherent backend.
Very useful video to see the tech in action.

One thing I wasn't prepared for was how slow and pointless it was to be navigating around the office workspace. Seems like such a waste of time to be rolling around the office in a regular workday, at a speed that seems so much slower than pedestrian traffic. My immediate thought was that it would make worlds of sense to have the bot run ROS and generate sensor maps of the office, so it could automatically traverse, and avoid objects, so I wouldn't have to pay attention to the mundane work of having to drive it around. At that point though, it makes me question having a driving around bot at all. Video conferencing drops you immediately into the location without the traversal anyhow...

Also, it def seemed to make some of the coworkers feel awkward and spied on, especially the impromptu discussion the driver lurked.

Interesting to see this all in practice!
Besides picking apart small issues like the u and m and proportions, I think my main issue seems to be that your website does not showcase the font anywhere besides screenshots at the very bottom.

People don't care about your story, updates, information, etc (as much). They want to see your font. Make it shown at the very top so I don't have to scroll 3 pages to see a screenshot link. Take a look at how other font people showcase their fonts, something like a nice picture like http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.... is all you need. But showcase it!

Overall though, I actually really like it. I think I'll give it a try when it comes out.
Happy Birthday Dennis Ritchie. Wishes from HN
Understood, thank you. We're in the process of modifying this now.
Play on the word trust + rss? tRSSt?
More open source fonts are great! But as somebody who doesn't know too much about fonts my first thought was.. I could as well code in Comic Sans. I don't mean belittle any work, it's just what crossed my mind.
Ok I hate being likbaited into wondering about a page hunting for a download link, only for a link to be bogus and then there is no font. You know what I mean.

I also like fonts that look great without anti-aliasing. There are no examples of that there. And that is where it is the hard work begins(in making fonts). Font kerning is a sucha nitpicky process. Especially when you consider many font sizes and have excellent rendering for each on of them (without antialiasing.)

There is no opinion about the font from me - there as there is no font and I can't try that. Probably better compose a font and then ask for opinion.
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When you release this, please release source files under a permissive license (like inconsolata has) so that others can make their own variations.
They still exist, at least in Ohio -- see Mendelson's (http://www.meci.com/), which is basically a giant warehouse filled from floor to ceiling with all sorts of weird bits and bobs. It's great fun to visit, or at least it was as of a few years ago when I last got the chance to swing by.
Try Source Code Pro, by Adobe.
TopOSM is Open Data (OpenStreetMap data) and is my go-to place for finding out where hills are. http://www.toposm.com/ (For looking at hills in cities, click the "+" on the right to get a menu where you can toggle streets ("Map Features") on and off.)
Thanks! Right now, the photos are sorted in reverse chronological order, so older ones drop off (the index page only shows the 40 most recent). Of course, if "younger" ones expire, then its possible that older ones would show up again.
I left Google, and lived to happily tell about it
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This looks like a monospace version of Comic Sans to me! Is this a joke?
Ginger. I prefer the pickled sushi ginger, but any type will do cookies, crystallized, tea, tablets - take your pick.

'The present study showed that ginger at a dose of 1,000 mg effectively reduced the severity of nausea evoked by circular vection, prolonging latency before the onset of nausea and shortening the recovery time from nausea after the cessation of vection.'

Effects of ginger on motion sickness and gastric slow-wave dysrhythmias induced by circular vection
Han-Chung Lien , Wei Ming Sun , Yen-Hsueh Chen , Hyerang Kim , William Hasler , Chung Owyang
American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver PhysiologyPublished 1 March 2003

http://ajpgi.physiology.org/content/284/3/G481
Living Life Well -- Surprisingly deep perspective of an NFL RB to his daugher
Why does it make sense to introduce into this discussion some number of hypothetical counter-factual fatalities?
All I want is for a good programmable spreadsheet on the Mac. Is that too much to ask?

(This is windows only)
Ding ding ding, we have a winner.