skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The poor camp is even smaller. It's not just those who are poor enough to be eligible for social housing, but those who are lucky enough to get it, or unlucky enough to really, really need it.
To survive without money means do many things yourself. Do many things yourself means a broad knowledge of many things. A broad knowledge of many things means that the knowledge in any particular thing is shallow and primitive, only sufficient for the basic tasks. Therefore the life becomes a continuous sequence of primitive activities.

Human civilization does not gain anything from it. We must specialize more and more if we want to push everything further. By numbing out our skills we won't achieve anything but unnecessary independence from others, which would only be beneficial if you were physically isolated from other people.
What's the equivalent of ghci's type directive in ocaml?
According to Israeli media, the price is between $150M-$200M: http://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-361422...
Flat, marriage and family – Why young Indians don’t turn entrepreneurs
Tell that to Bill Gates, who was apparently still deep in the weeds (reviewing product specs, challenging design assumptions, etc.) whilst he was CEO of a pretty large company.

(Or maybe that's just part of VP Engineering and above roles - perpetuating the myth that you are still in touch. I often wonder if these mythical sessions weren't coached for by some senior individual contributor.)
>One Bitcoin user created an exchange which completely solved the problem of violence in the drug trade.

Except he also ordered hits on his enemies, or at least tried to. Feels violent to me.

>That’s what’s threatened by taxation, regulation and intimidation.

If bitcoin will have any chance of becoming a legitimate currency it will have to be regulated and most importantly taxed. Bitcoin doesn't somehow make you exempt from paying taxes just because it is a digital currency.

On the flip side, I agree that bitcoin can serve as a useful tool to conduct experiments that may be hard to conduct with other currencies and that opens up very interesting possibilities.
"Most socialists have moved beyond that model and would instead prefer to see a system of enterprise that uses co-op's instead of privately or publicly owned business. Some industries would probably be nationalized or socialized..."

One of the earliest (and now largely forgotten) criticisms of Marx came from the American philosopher Benjamin Tucker, who facilely forsaw the rise of the communist implementations as an unavoidable consequence of Marxist socialism. So Tucker might argue that even a socialism as "modern socialists" would inevitably result in the same. Although this argument takes off further along that a partial state socialism, the crux of the idea of state expansionism and its effect on individual rights is salient:

First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice. Marx, its founder, concluded that the only way to abolish the class monopolies was to centralize and consolidate all industrial and commercial interests, all productive and distributive agencies, in one vast monopoly in the hands of the State. The government must become banker, manufacturer, farmer, carrier, and merchant, and in these capacities must suffer no competition. Land, tools, and all instruments of production must be wrested from individual hands, and made the property of the collectivity. To the individual can belong only the products to be consumed, not the means of producing them. A man may own his clothes and his food, but not the sewing-machine which makes his shirts or the spade which digs his potatoes. Product and capital are essentially different things; the former belongs to individuals, the latter to society. Society must seize the capital which belongs to it, by the ballot if it can, by revolution if it must. Once in possession of it, it must administer it on the majority principle, though its organ, the State, utilize it in production and distribution, fix all prices by the amount of labor involved, and employ the whole people in its workshops, farms, stores, etc. The nation must be transformed into a vast bureaucracy, and every individual into a State official. Everything must be done on the cost principle, the people having no motive to make a profit out of themselves. Individuals not being allowed to own capital, no one can employ another, or even himself. Every man will be a wage-receiver, and the State the only wage-payer. He who will not work for the State must starve, or, more likely, go to prison. All freedom of trade must disappear. Competition must be utterly wiped out. All industrial and commercial activity must be centered in one vast, enormous, all-inclusive monopoly. The remedy for monopolies is monopoly. Such is the economic programme of State Socialism as adopted from Karl Marx.

He was writing this a full 20 years before the communist states came into existence.
From what I've read, there is supposedly big cross-over between ADHD, autism spectrum disorders and things like dyslexia/dyspraxia/dyscalculia.

My little boy (adopted) seems to be showing signs of autism, which wouldn't be surprising since his dad suffers from it himself. ADHD, however, was mentioned as an alternative and his school said that could make more sense, so it's easy to see crossover here!

I think it's good to explore all possibilities. It's good to be educated about these things - especially since misdiagnosis seems more common in psychiatry (anecdotal).
"Liberals like to see capitalism as a marathon where the runners compete with each other and the best ones win. But the system works more like the cells in a human body. Companies need to specialize and work together to be successful."

Be careful of painting with too broad a brush. Different industries operate in vastly different ways to very different outcomes in the long term.

Compare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition
Or you could encrypt your e-mail. It doesn't matter where the server is, since the whole communication with it is probably intercepted by some intelligence agency. The only thing you can do is encrypting your e-mail and telling everyone you know to do so too.
IPhone 5s and 5c approved for China Mobile, the world's biggest carrier
If someone is interested, they've used this: https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr
Product Managers: Who Are These 'Mini-CEOs' And What Do They Do?
OnMod
So You Sold Your First Company — Now What Should You Buy First?
Frets on Fire - open source 'Keytar' Hero
This is correct about rented properties, but not about empty ones.

Empty properties can attract a discounted rate of council tax, but are only exempt under certain circumstances (resident in prison/hospital, house unlivable).

Long-term empty properties can even attract a higher rate of council tax.
Gentrification is a massive problem in Berlin... Mitte -> Prenzlauer Berg -> Kreuzberg -> Neukölln -> Where Next?

It's absolutely not as extreme as London because most people in Berlin rent rather than own, and other costs of living are comparitively far cheaper across the board. The problem is though many people have had your idea, one that I share, and we are "spoiling" it for the locals. (Or the people who were ahead of the curve) Go for a visit, the areas I mentioned, especially the last two, are packed with British, Australian and American twenty somethings looking for that cheaper/creative/hedonistic lifestyle.
That's not how computers (currently) work. Every act of reading involves copying, so it's unrealistic to expect anything on the internet to be easily deletable.

See e.g. http://archive.org/web/web.php
Gunfire Graffiti
I love that the free market has come up with a working currency, not originated or controlled by a single, or a few, players, and I love that the internet has made this possible.
Author should actually read about the history of money before making grand statements about what money is and isn't for, and what makes it good or bad. Statements about how inflation is "erosion of wealth" indicate a gross misunderstanding of the historical purpose of money and the effects of deflation.

Money is a medium of exchange. Historically, it's been mostly very, very unreliable, and over the last 100 years or so has actually been remarkably solid even as a way to store wealth. But if you want to store wealth for a long period, currency is not your best bet by any stretch.
The link is broken, could you please post the title and author? Thanks!
Flying cars [will be] a reality – set to launch [probably soon]
> Now in my early 30s, my approach to launching my start up is a lot different to what I was doing in my 20s.

Rod has said to me previously that no entrepreneur should have money before they're 30... which has rung true with me. At least from a NZ perspective, we have to suffer for our art, it takes time to earn your stripes.
> I'm one of those who is in the middle and work; I rent in an up-and-coming area (i.e. people look down on it until they come here) and rent is going up 8 times salary. We are already at rent being 30% of combined salary.

Ditto (Brixton). Flats in my area are already at the £350k (2 bed) mark, with landlords upping their rent accordingly (having bought the flat for < £200k 9yrs ago). My solution is moving further South (Surrey) near a good train line which gets you into Victoria/London Bridge in 30 mins. The rent on a flat/house out there is ~50% of what it is in London, not to mention cheaper council tax/insurance/etc.
Argh I'm sorry I downvoted you because I ripped on my trackpad, I wanted to upvote you :-/.
> Cargo cult is the result of a trap that our own brain seem to be wired to fall in

That's because we're over-sensitive pattern matching machines. This is good because often recognising and learning patterns quickly is extremely important, far more so than some false positives. Our amygdala, for example, responds very quickly to simple patterns ("AAAAH A SNAKE"). Slower processing can then tell us it's actually a stick. The cost of a false positive VS a false negative here are quite clear.

"Cargo Cult X" is always about us recognising a pattern and just blindly following it without understanding the causal links. Our poor (innate) understanding of probabilities means we can't really combine evidence well, but we can pattern match. Worse, because we start to feel like we understand what's happening we don't delve more into the problem. Even worse than that, we start to ignore evidence that doesn't fit the pattern since those examples look like outliers, and we quickly forget how often we've seen them.

As situations get more subtle than "Snake or stick" the costs of being wrong in different ways change massively. A poor understanding of statistics in healthcare can kill significant numbers of people, similarly with economic or political interactions.

Our brains are awful at complex statistics, but to be fair to them if our ancestors had waited for a double blind study on how likely a tiger was to eat you we would be here. Good work brains, but we need to stop listening to you now.

Information on fear responses and the role the amygdala plays:

http://labnic.unige.ch/papers/PV_cns2003_science.pdf
You have a bad codebase full of technical debt and bad early decisions. You know there is a way out, but it takes _time_, a good amount of time due to it's size. Time that management won't let you have due to it's ship yesterday culture. You do what you can with your re-factor as you go. People keep on digging shit in faster than you can dig shit out. They will recognize your a better developer, but when you compare yourself to the general market you are NOT a 10x developer in that place. The potential-10x developer will be one of the better ones there, but his multiplier effect is significantly reduced because he is walking in code molasses.

Because of this he will look like a medicore developer inside the that place, and it will hamper his career progression. By having to slog through crap, it doesn't push him in the right way and he doesn't improve the best he can. That is the big difference.

I think how someone else said there are 10x teams is a more accurate way to think about it. People are not islands.
Easy to do in the US, harder in Europe because of language and legal barriers (not impossible though).
> Most taxes do not go to food-aid or medical research.

In some places they go to public infrastructure, public healthcare, public education, etc.
You always pay a price. There are just different kinds of prices. You can pay in attention, money, time, privacy..

The list goes on. :)
Same for me, and if you want to exercise in any way that actually makes a differnce, it's more like 1 hour minimum with packing for the gym, going to the gym, showering, getting back home. Doing a couple of pushups at home doesn't do much good in the long run.
I had a girlfriend who loved Seinfield--memorized the episodes, etc. At first I thought it was because it
was a fairly amusing T.V. show, and she grew up in upstate
New York. After a lot of thought I realized the reason
she loved the show is because it affirmed her selfish behavior.

If you don't know what I mean; you might want to reexamine
how you interact with the world? Ya, I', talking about
you Wendy.
The article is also wrong about the gag orders in Germany. The provider can not tell you that they handed over your data while you are personally under investigation. If it turns out that you are actually innocent the police is required by law to inform you that they have requested some data about you. That they often "forget" to do so is a different story.
might have been this?

http://www.runnersworld.com/drinks-hydration/when-and-why-to...
That used to be me when I was younger. Now with a few more years of experience under my belt, I get more of my personal programming ideas done than ever before.

The secret?

There is none. I'm just better at organizing myself for my goals. I used to go about cool programming ideas like this:

1. Have an initial idea and get really excited about it

2. Clearly see in my mind how I would implement it

3. Think "this can't take more than a week!"

4. Start coding frantically, making sure to have an elegant, modular, reusable code-base

5. On the way, come up with more and more super-cool features

6. Think about every little detail of every feature and make sure implement it "the way it should be done"

7. Give up after two weeks because the project has become overwhelming and despite a massive code-base is not anywhere near a first usable prototype

I think the problem starts at 3. (maybe at 2.) and then gets successively worse all the way down. These days, my workflow looks perhaps more like this:

1. Have an initial idea and get really excited about it

2a. Do a reality-check, find it's probably not worth bothering in the big picture and do something else instead

2b. OR: if I really think the project is small enough, go ahead and give it a go.

3. Think of what the really cool features of the idea are

4. Remove them all and thus come up with a stripped-down, barely even usuable version of the initial idea.

5. Implement it in the most minimal, hackish code base possible: hardcode everything, ints instead of enums, strings are your friend,...

6. Actually finish this bastardized version of the initial idea!

7. Only then decide if it's worth going on from there toward the initial bling-bling idea by means of refactoring and refining or adding more features

Usually, by the time I get to 7. I decide I don't need it - either the version is actually good enough already (meaning the initial grandiose vision was over the top) or it has become clear already that the excitement of point 1. was unwarranted and I probably should have gone for 2a. instead of 2b.

In rare cases, however, I do stay in step 7. and improve upon the initial prototype iteratively. This can even go on for an extended period of time. But even then I'm trying to make sure that I stay true to the same method which can probably be summarized with the following question you have to keep asking yourself:

How can I achieve my goal with the least amount of work?

For me, I've realized it's paramount that I get to a result quickly - that is more important than properties like "with the most beautiful architecture" or "with the best possible UX" etc. You might think that 2a would lead to less stuff done, but in the end I think it actually leads to more mini projects actually becoming a reality.
I hate phones that spin or wobble when placed on a table, so this phone would likely drive me crazy. (Probably better than my HTC which rests right on the camera lens, but still.)

EDIT: Come to think of it, it would be kind of cool if you placed it screen-down, like the receiver on an old dial phone. Then just put a small readout on the back with a clock and notification LED.
That last part is simply incorrect; Councils have a time limit on whether empty properties are exempt from council tax. Also, there's an extra 50% penalty if it's been empty/unfurnished for 2 years or more:
https://www.gov.uk/council-tax/second-homes-and-empty-proper...
money is important! I hope that when he gets sick he will not think of using traditional medicine (like the way the Chinese are killing rare animals, in the name of "medicine" amongst other funny and weird things). What he is doing is quite inspirational and admirable tho!
In my last three projects we've aimed at an API first approach, and the flexibility of having the same API serve content for web or native mobile apps is the biggest win.
We used Play on two of this projects and Jersey for another and the speed is very slow at first since the browser has to load a bunch of JS (AngularJS in this case) but then, the whole user experience is seamless.
Our biggest problem with this approach were localization and authentication/session handling. Tackling this problems were hard at first and I've never felt confident about the solutions we did for them, specially for authentication.
That's not very different from having a company with an incompetent board of directors. In fact, it is exactly the same thing except in the Yugoslavia scenario every worker in the company would have a seat at the board. While it is true that some people could screw up their workplace for short term gains, is it more or less likely than an "investor" milking the company for profits and running the business to the ground?
Yes, you do not own your children (they are "yours" in their origin and your responsibility towards them). Children have an expectancy of privacy and anonymity much more sensitive than those of grown-ups. Parents have no right to pretend they know their children's desires in this context.

Not that I am against ANY sharing but sense and sensibility are both required.

(Edit grammery...)
If you had a team of the best programmers on earth, and big money backing, could you build a Facebook competitor? A new video codec? A new Free Software kernel?

Presumably one of the first discussions would bring up "network effects" and you'd conclude that a frontal assault on these markets would be suicidal. Then you'd find some other project to pursue.

Same goes for Office. It's not "good" any more than a private railroad/electricity/telephone system is "good", it's just sheltered from direct competition by network effects. And without direct competition you really have no basis to judge it on.
Yes, it is very much possible, absk82. I'm doing it right now as a matter of fact and I have no issues. I keep a smaller device for mail, a bigger machine dedicated to pictures and documents.
But I'm far from done, a lot can still and will be done, but I'm on the right path. You get to keep your data, plus it's also fun!
Sorry to be short and non-specific!
You are quite correct. I apologize for my brash assumption.
Database.com - Salesforce.com's Cloud Database
I never thought I'd hear "don't write any tests", since that seems to be a horrible sin to most people
> When a US factory burns down and kills all the employees inside because they'd been locked in during their 15 hour shift.

I give you the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, killing 146 garment workers. Same general gist, even: doors were locked by management from the outside "to prevent pilferage and unauthorized breaks".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi...
A great thing about moving to the suburbs (from Zone 2 to Zone 5) which I didn't consider before, was that now in the morning I always get a seat on the train, so I can immediately get my laptop out, and the journey disappears. Definitely worth the extra 7 minutes train journey for me.
Yes, http://www.rationaloptimist.com/. Though this guy traded (barter).
But they are not in a position to hand over communications received prior to the court order. That's the whole point of encrypting received e-mails.
unfortunately, the US, its various security services and most of the elected officials are less-than-excited about the idea of a _truly_ free society. currently, the 1st world state has an enormous amount of control over the day-to-day lives of its citizens, moreso than at any other point in history, imo. some things are particularly hard for the state to do vs historically, e.g. institute mandatory military service of some sort, but others have become much easier, e.g. wage economic warfare on opposing states, drone strike small groups.

bitcoin definitely goes a ways towards fixing some of these problems and i think the author is right to cite it as an epic experiment.
I sincerely hope that nobody was using the CookieStore in deployment. I think everybody should know by now that cookies are not safe or secure storage for data.
Wood fire smoke blackening the sky is the top HN comment. Awesome.
The degrees of separation between the consumer and the consumed have increased so much that it now means we’re completely unaware of the levels of destruction and suffering embodied in the ‘stuff’ we buy.

I'm convinced this is why animal-testing and factory farming even exist, because we don't see it. Out of sight, out of mind. We see the marketing campaigns with ads of radiant beautiful people using consumer products, but the much uglier side of product research is kept from the public's view.

If the public could see what is happening to our animal friends, it wouldn't tolerated. We would find another way.
The Mathematical movie database - http://www.qedcat.com/moviemath/index.html
"Urban whore" train wrecks Scientific American's holiday weekend
It's a pretty widespread practice. I think it's the Rails default.
Who do you think is more likely to be incompetent, the board of directors of McDonald's or 10 employees chosen at random throughout the entire organization?
this. To get something truly decentralized, not just geeks have to play with it but the mass public has to adopt it. Else you have the decentralized geeks on one side, but they still have to play along with the rest of the centralized world (or get isolated).

Now something like torrents seems a pretty good attempt at it (as far as I can see, my knowledge on this subject is rather limited). But for the rest (say, your own mail server and dropbox-like solution hosted at your home) this seems simply impossible due to lack of proper, easy to use tools. The masses need a one-click type of solution, not a dozen of cryptic command line instructions for an OS most of them don't even run.
A great post about the same problem but from a Math/CS perspective, and as fun to read: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/918.html [Cosma Shalizi's "In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You]
When we got our first child, my wife also went on a sharing spree, trying to put everything on Facebook. When I noticed that we had a long talk where I explained to her that even a newborn deserves his own privacy, just as us adults do and she admitted she didn't think of that and from there on, we just post really significant stuff that won't embarrass our kids when they grow up.