skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you don´t need an experiment, it has happened in southern Spain. Thirty years ago it was a very poor region, land was in hands of a small group of landlords. It really was necessary to give a hand to that region. It was not a free money help, they had to work a number of days at the fields, and then they were entitled to receive a help.

Fast forward 30 years, the system has been abused by the people (cheating, not even working the necessary days) and politicians (they lock the votes with those helps, socialist party has been in power for 30 years nonstop at Andalusia, PER has been one of the tools used to achieve that democratic kind of record). The regions is no longer that poor, but has not grown that much either (I am referring to the rural Andalusia, of course the cities and the touristic parts have a competitive economy). The problem is that northern Spain is paying for those helps, and people is fed up with that, as all that money has to be diverted from local projects. For example this sensation of (real) injustice is being used as fuel by the Catalan and Vasc nationalist parties, to ask for the independence.

That´s why I really think it´s that important to monitor this helps. They are necessary to help people to leave poverty behind, but if they are taken as a right to be enjoyed no matter what, people will no longer feel the need to work and give to the community. And after all somebody will have to produce that "right" and that will be and injustice too.
Totally agreed, luckily Crouton is super easy to use!
The iPod isn't a flop. People I know who got one (including the nontechnical) used it a ton, and it was awesome.

The iPhone isn't a flop. Same story, everyone I know who got it loved it.

My parents got an Apple TV, after enjoying their iPods and iPhones. As far as I know they haven't used it since the first week, and after seeing them try, I don't blame them. The problems that the Apple TV is trying to address are real, but IME it's not there yet.
Oddly enough I recently ran into this stackoverflow thread:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15489163/why-does-undersc...
I do wonder, if Twitter hadn't gone psycho on the twitter clients, if this problem would have been solved. Twitter stopped most development on this issue for anyone outside Twitter.
The Bohemian Club and Stanford University started out with similar egalitarian ideals. I wonder if it's possible to sustain this kind of endeavor long term without losing the egalitarianism...
I hope this passes because it will put to the test some of the possible benefits of a basic income. This is an interesting question:

"One of the main questions about something like this
is about who would do boring, low-paid work with
this sort of basic income. What I would really hope
is that people would still do many of those jobs,
but for far fewer hours--largely as a way to get
money for incidental expenses and luxuries beyond
the basic income. One problem I find with most jobs
is that it's much easier to get more pay than less
hours, even if I really want the latter. There is a
large drop-off between full-time and part-time work."

As I understand the theory, people will do this for exactly the reason you give, which is that it will add to their income for extras. The basic tenet of the BI concept (as I understand it) is that you provide subsistence wages and do not add an economic penalty for working, thus people will work because it won't cut down on their basic income (like it does with welfare) instead it will improve their income picture.
I was more responding to your question "how are these people still in business" than questioning your logic. Obviously it would have been better for them to test their market. But the flop itself is pretty insignificant, pocket change to a company like P&G.
you should post this on r/pixelart
The Hail Mary Cloud And The Lessons Learned
That's an interesting word - Assimilation. I have no idea if you're maybe trying to rather quote "integration", or if in the UK the word "assimilation" is used some other way then it is in the US, but...

Assimilation is something that the Borg does. It can be forceful and is primarily an act of the collective.

"Integration" on the other hand comes from a desire to be part of a society. It's more of a soft osmosis type effect.
This is something of a solved problem for many of the major javascript frameworks. Sproutcore (just to pick an older example I'm familiar with) has had this licked since 2008; you put all your DOM-upating code in your view update calls, and Sproutcore pipelines the calls. I'm sure most of the other JS MVC frameworks have similar solutions.
For some people, spending all day doing A Thing can exhaust your interest in doing that same thing at home.
Well I am looking for the exact opposite. Focusing my "programming energy" for my own stuff while having a source of income from some other job. I have found nothing yet though.
I think OP's post is tongue-in-cheek.

Like you said, it's essentially 5 different gifs with lots of bootstrap and buzzwords in the title. But hey, it got on the front page too.
I like that this will allow me to try to promote my music in a way that doesn't feel so spammy. If people don't like it, it won't get any visibility, and I won't have to feel like I'm bothering people.

A bit of feedback: people's submissions should default with 1 upvote(ala Reddit).
VSync is a related concept, but not quite what's going on here. You have to relayout before the next VSync if you want the drawn frame to be "correct", but you also might need to relayout before this (if you read dimensions of one of the visible objects, like in the article, for example). Android also has a measure and layout phase for each of its views (See View#onMeasure and View#onLayout), which can be quite expensive to perform and is best avoided if at all possible. This phase is also one of the reasons you want to maintain a flat, simple view hierarchy if at all possible (since layout and measuring is much cheaper then, sometimes exponentially so).
Buy bitcoins on btc-e, sell them on mtgox.
I'm guessing his intention is that you build an app which scales its metrics to values between 0-100 and then construct a URL directly to the image--that way you don't need to worry about mapping the value to the damage inflicted.
Samsung in talks with retail giant BestBuy
Apple can develop new technologies so quickly because the technologies that Apply deals with are relatively simple by comparison. Developing a machine to mimic the abilities of a Natural animal, discovering a drug to cure disease - that stuff is very hard to do.
as fast as possible

sometimes that's seconds, other times it's weeks. (oops)

i figure 4-5 hours is the longest anybody is away from email. maybe slightly longer for super busy or offline people
I was quoting Rayiner.
Facial Hair in the tech world
On comparing languages, C++ and Go
A nice reminder that the screen sharing built for the initial demo still doesn't exist without jailbreaking a device. :)
> From everything I've seen since, I was right.

Please substantiate this, as I've been using Maven for quite a while and while it isn't perfect, it's not remotely painful. And I'm not talking about just for "build this jar" projects; most of my Android apps use Maven, too, as do a number of projects of mine that have native dependencies.

(I have no problem with Gradle, either; I just generally find most of the Maven complaining to be overblown.)
The problem is that you have to pick a commodity that is actually the same 'value' globally, which is very difficult. For example, rice is probably worth much less in Asian markets because it is grown so much there, as opposed to other regions which may have to import it, imposing additional costs for the transportation.
Ethics: Taboo genetics
Looks neat, However, the widgets are not loading for me.
Yes, you are correct. You have described the Men's Rights Activist (MRA) part of the Manosphere.

There are also the PUA and MGTOW parts of the sphere.

PUAs tend to be younger men who recognize that women enjoy sex as much as men, and (contrary to pervasive indoctrination) women are attracted to social status and natural masculinity.

MGTOWs (Men Going Their Own Way) have decided to avoid the snares of male-female relationships in the West by "going Galt." MGTOWs avoid marriage in order to avoid potential loss of income, assets, children, and freedom via frivorce (frivolous divorce) and divorce theft (the rapacious stripping of a man's life, encouraged and enabled by the divorce industry). MGTOWs also avoid live-in relationships.
I was looking for this as it's what I've always assumed. The salt and fat I would think also makes for good fill and makes you want more fluids ($$$) and lets you retain more in your body (practical).

I do wish theaters did a better job of becoming a great experience again, as I'm a fan of the concept, the two nearest movie theaters here are considered world class (Norway) so I much prefer it to home theater, but it's not enough for the average Joe to bother (barring the top blockbusters.)
Masbooth: a revolutionery camera booth for parties and events.
Ditto, using Chrome 30. Going to try Firefox, then will see if it's some HTTP request not working.

Edit: Working in Chrome now.
I couldn't figure out the Cat.random thing. I'm pretty sure I could code a Firefox mobile app from scratch, but that UI is confusing, though pretty.
Don't forget there's a god mode face image too: https://www.google.com/search?q=doom+god+mode&source=lnms&tb...

I made a similar doom guy visualization long ago to monitor server health that got some laughs from coworkers. Like it was mentioned, be careful since the Doom assets are still copyright id software even if the code and shareware WADs are free.
with webkit here it did not load on the tutorial but loaded when i quit it.
Every new version of the android twitter app makes it harder to get at the lists (currently, from launching the app it takes going through 3 levels of menu to get to my main list). It's a feature that Twitter itself clearly wants to bury but can't be bothered to just kill.
Never heard of sinatra before. Just checked /tests folder. It's a small and beautiful piece of code. I shall bookmark this.
This is a good demonstration of FFI, but sadly not at all what the title implies! Good job though.
What are you doing on your sabbatical?
I guess, but then you have to scale to 0-100 (don't forget to round!), which doesn't seem any more convenient.
Glad to hear I'm not the only one, the whole concept looks really interesting, but for a walkthrough, the Cat.random thing is kind of confusing.
You're not alone. ^_^
That's why poverty line is different amongst regions. What I want to know is if someone is able to buy same amount of rice in one country at poverty line as other countries or how much does it vary.
A bag of popcorn you purchase will run out when you consume it all.
A Budget Distress Call - 'Please Pay Us' - Hidden in a Federal Weather Forecast
I could publish a very simple app, but I'm not sure where I can "install" it? Mobile Firefox maybe?
Anyway, pretty neat visuals but a bit of lack of documentation right now. But I assume it's not yet ready to use as they did not communicate on this right now.
About 4 hours if I know the reader is in the same timezone and its during business hours. If I don't know the location then its 24 hours.
This entire experience was quite opague. I can't figure out if it's a game or some GUI for basic apps or what.

I lost interest fairly quickly, and half of the components seemed broken.
Proven.com doesn't respect your privacy
"If you as a Worker choose to provide information related to your job history as part of your Worker
Information, you understand and agree that Proven will share this information with our third party
service providers, who may reach out to your previous employers in order to verify the job history
you provide as part of your Profile. If you do not want Proven or its third party service providers to
contact your previous employers, please do not enter information related to your job history as part of
your Worker Information."

I didn't add this info into my profile, you scraped it from my resume and added it to my profile.
Just the project I've been meaning to code in the language that's on the top of my list. Now my saturday night is perfect. I'm gonna read this code after pizza. :) Thanks for the effort!
I know a local gardener/landscaper laborer in the SF bay area who makes $25 an hour in cash by working after hours. If a Tesla lease is $600 a month (the website says that, but it's based on some assumptions including where you live), he would have to work about five hours a week extra to afford a Model S.

That means this SF bay area laborer must give up a Saturday or Sunday afternoon every week, but it's hardly impossible "to afford" or a "massive tradeoff in quality of life." On the other hand, it's challenging to haul a few thousand pounds of mulch in a Tesla, I expect.
Whilst this is a post of derision, I do think people only know the highest level abstraction mankind can accomplish these days. It's embarrassing really. There is elegance in simplicity.

Please continue to take the piss out of it :)

I actually knocked up a single new static error page for our main web application a few weeks ago in 620 bytes including inline css (quite big if you ask me). It had no dependencies. My coworkers were actually astounded that it was so small!?!?!

Go figure!
This analysis underestimates the probability of higher sales and margins in Tesla's future. Specifically the point where growth will slow down to "auto industry averages". Up this number and the expected net margin a bit, extend the discounted analysis a bit beyond 10 years and use a slightly lower discount rate, and you'll end up with a number higher than $200. This is all guesswork based on unknown parameters; all we can do is assign some probabilistic assumptions.

Furthermore, direct comparison with the established auto industry is dangerous, since we are likely to be in the beginning of a large-scale transition to electric vehicles. The established auto industry will have trouble with this transition due to vested interest in internal combustion vehicles. Tesla has already demonstrated that it can tackle innovation on a level the established industry is unable to (cutting out the dealerships, fully utilizing the advantages of electric drivetrain, software-like configuration of cars including battery swap), so from my perspective it seems exceedingly likely that it will at the very least grow into a major automaker. But the upside from this point is discounted by analyses such as the one you linked.

That said, I don't really care whether you agree with this. You're certainly welcome to take the other side of the bet; I have my money where my mouth is. Would you be willing to take a short position in this stock?
The difference between maintaining facial hair at a couple of millimeters and maintaining it clean shaven is time, work, money, and (in the case of disposable razors) trash. All because current fashion is by default clean shaven. Resist!
"Oh wow, that seems neat. I should check that out"

clicks link on Hacker News

"Hmm, not sure what this is about. I'll just hit the 'Start' button"

Hits start button. 'Add a button' dialog pops up

"That seems pretty straight forward, I'll just add drag that thing labelled 'Button' from the left window pane, on to what looks like a smartphone"

Drags button over. Gets 'Congratulations' box

"Wow, this is really intuitive so far. With a little effort, something like this would be a real game changer in the mobile space!"

New dialog pops up: 'Add a randomcat component to your app

Looks around for anything labelled 'randomcat'

"Huh, thats strange. I wondered if it's labelled something else and I'm just missing it"

Looks for 'random', 'cat', 'Cat.random()', and any other possible combination

"Wtf mate?"

Gives up and leaves
But the bag sitting in my hand is empty. That's what's gone. There's still more to purchase, but what I already purchased has been eaten.
SAT tutoring - you can work flexible hours & via Skype. I've been able to make a full-time salary working a few hours a week tutoring while getting startups off the ground.
Have you posted on the "Who's hiring" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6475879) thread?
I'm genuinely disappointed that IDDQD did not turn him god mode.
I used to work in government IT. A lot of people are wondering why the projects so pricey and why there are so many issues.

1) The RFQ/bidding process isn't as logical as you'd imagine.

2) There are layers on top of layers on top of layers of bureaucracy. The government is its own regulator, not the market. There are no shareholders or VCs that can curtail the government's power. Elections and recalls are slower signals by orders of magnitude.

3) government projects fail all the time. You just don't hear about it because then heads would roll, which is faux past in the public sector.
You have to do the income tax anyway, you might as well run the two programs together.
Everyblock Co-founder on healthcare.gov and Marketplace sites
Introducing.... Mailinator Guy
C'mon dude.. Where can we buy or download your record? I'm always interested in supporting HN musicians. At the very least point us to your soundcloud!
Thom Yorke: Spotify is “the last desperate fart of a dying corpse”
Looks like a bug. I tried it out and it had a component called 'randomcat' on that part. It was just as straightforward as the button. But I just tried it again to take a screenshot to show you, and it didn't come up.
Say, hypothetically (I haven't done any tests or anything) that Bluebird was faster than the included promise specification, is there some sort of dependency injection to replace it, seeing as it's a spec?
you can detect bugs with one running alone as well. but so what.

if i run one without the bug and accept a payment, you and millions with the bug will just say "meh. this one does not match. will just drop it" and my transaction goes out of the main block.
This was my exact thought process. Tried again and a bunch of new widgets showed up :shrugs:
Exactly ... I can't believe someone can say that with a straight face.
Designing DownJS
> It is telling that you avoided the actual argument in my comment.

You told me you were running away and I didn't want to waste my time. Apologies for taking you at your word.
Loading the site in an Incognito window fixed the problem for me. AdBlock or something might be stopping some scripts from loading.
To the people saying "4-5 hours" for a response: I would really disappoint you. I check my mail pretty regularly[0] but make a point of not responding too quickly to many things because I do not want to say something in haste.

Sure, if there is a time-factor involved I will try to answer faster, but the limiting factor is rarely the frequency of my checking mail but my desire to be more thoughtful in my reply.

When sending mail I assume the same is true of others. They may have gotten my message right away but might want to put some thought into their reply. For most things I expect an answer in about 24 hours.

[0]: When I am heads-down working I put off checking E-mail because it is distracting. I'll skip it for several hours. Clients and friends will call me if something is urgent.
I would love to get some feedback on this idea. Is it useful? What would make it more useful. What are the potential pitfalls? Where are my ideas flawed?
I posted this on a similar thread, I own a cleaning business and although it had some programming involved, its not the main part of it.

The current profit is on target to be around £4.5k a month.

I will at some point write the story up, but the TL:DR is: Spotted vastly under valued cleaning business with complete staff. Turnover of previous owner £190k a year. Profit of previous owner £18k. Yup, £18k.... Bought it for £13.5k.

Still in the early stages and still changing things but the previous owner was/is in massive debt, little free time to put into the business, did EVERYTHING on paper/fax/phone and had enormous monthly costs.

Theres a much longer story to this but i'll write it up in a few months when its a bit more proven. I have a mailing list setup for those interested in hearing about it when i eventually do write the story up, if anyone it interested: http://eepurl.com/FNvPr
I'd love to hear more about your experience, what is involved and how you got into doing that part time on the side.
Thanks for the feedback on the scrollbar.

Our redis instance is pretty tiny (~10mb) and we haven't had any issues thus far. The performance has been outstanding and we have only used a small fraction of our capacity.
i wonder, too, if their whole control-freak attitude has alienated the people who were most invested in discussing and helping with this sort of meta-issue just out of a "twitter is the new commons" feeling.

i have no real idea whether it is or isn't essential to their business model to be able to control every aspect of how you view your stream, but personally i stopped caring about them the minute they did that. i still use twitter, but if they vanished overnight i wouldn't really feel any sense of loss, whereas when there was a thriving ecosystem of people building things atop the firehose i did feel like i was part of something that played a significant role in today's internet.
I got passed the randomCat but got stuck trying to add the 1 star rating
Auto industry is accelerating adoption of HTML5
Absolutely, we hope this grows into a platform that artists can promote their songs in a unique way not available anywhere else.

Regarding the auto upvote, we agree and will implement that soon. Thanks.
How do you deploy beta testing versions your iOS apps?
Hey all we've been using testflight to deploy beta version to our testers. I was wondering if there's a way to deploy iOS apps to testers without having to add their devices to Apple's provisioning profile. Is this possible ? How ?
Yes, in all for letting the Swiss screw up their country with this idea.

Then I no longer have to spend energy explaining why this idea doesn't work.
"As a result of the Concepcion case, it is essentially impossible to sue a U.S. cell phone carrier in a class action," Aschenbrener explained in an e-mail. "Consequently, there is no effective check on the power of U.S. wireless companies.""

So, this is a pretty inaccurate statement.
It is more accurate to say "it is essentially impossible to sue them over contract disputes in class action lawsuits".

Additionally, you'd probably be better off filing 10000 arbitration actions than a class action lawsuit:

1. You can all do it in your spare time

2. You are not required to be lawyers to interact with the arbitrators.

3. AT&T is in no way set up to handle large scale arbitration

Heck, you could set up a firm to do nothing but manage arbitration claims against AT&T. Because it requires no licensing, you could let the moral equivalent of paralegals handle all of the work.

Class action lawsuits were meant to be about efficiency, not a tool for social change.

If AT&T doesn't want that efficiency, you should show them what the result is.
We live in a world were people feel entitled to bring their little contractual issues all the way up to the CEO of a company with over 30 MM customers. So you either believe
a) you're above those other 30 MM and can just do your CEO 1:1s if need be
or
b) you foolishly believe that the CEO of a major corp has the time and willingness to deal with customer support for 30 Million people.

Just wow