skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that in Denmark (I assume) you trade unemployment benefits when not working to a roughly equivalent salary when you start working. So no, you don't gain anything.
With the proposed Swiss system, any salary you earned would be in addition to the basic salary, so there would still be an incentive to work. It's just that it's not strictly necessary to survive.

I think the proposed system makes better, as the economical margin effect of working is not negligible, as it is when you just have unemployment benefits.

NB: I live in Sweden, and I'm assuming your system is similar to ours. It's a problem I have observed here and I suspect the same applies to you. I may be wrong if it works differently.
Finally, a way to share all the pixel art I've been working on!!

Jokes aside, very cool project. Nice work :)
If they offered cardboard postcard print, like moo.com but simpler, and a backing legal entity, I'd be coding against it today.
it is base64 already.

edit: in an older version I tried out compression. I quote from the pix.pe page:

It turns out generic compression of any kind is very rarely helpful below a certain message size. The size of the added overhead overtakes the characters saved. Only about 10% of pictures were RLE compressible, and even then, savings were tiny.
I would think that most would would probably keep their jobs. But instead of bringing home only 3000-3500 they would probably bring close to 6000.
What? Name me one company that moved off of Rails in order to scala.
I'm guessing the downvote is because your post has no connection to a business card ray-tracer. Has someone done one in Nimrod? Was it posted here?

Because it feels like you're just shoehorning discussion of Nimrod into an unrelated conversation.

One way of generating interest in Nimrod would be to convert the original C++ "business card ray tracer" to Nimrod and do some benchmarks - ease of writing, understanding, code size, speed of execution, etc.
Trivial in the sense that it would cost on the close order of $10 billion to figure it out, and the rewards would be in the $100s of trillions.

Trivial also in the sense that the general path to proofreading DNA is "obvious". Make a DNA segment that aligns upstream of the mutation. Glue a dicing enzyme to one end. This breaks the chromosome upstream of the mutation. Repeat for the downstream side, chopping out the mutation. Then incubate with the correct sequence and DNA repair enzymes. Voila, the mutation is repaired. This is nearly off the shelf. The not off the shelf part will be getting methylation and histone packing to come out right, otherwise you get subtle but appalling birth defects.
Very well done!

Now trying to get over the horrifying news that someone poured gasoline on themselves and tried to burn themselves to death in self-immolation near the white house. What the heck is going on in DC
Not trying to refute your point, nor even argue that we need a bunch of nuclear weapons; but nukes have a shelf life. They have to be maintained / reconditioned periodically.
Never, ever, ever add any repositories to your pom.xml. Never. Have one central repo (nexus, artifactory, whatever) for your organization and make it a mirror of all others via settings.xml, not in the pom. This adds a lot to build stability and reproducibility.
I have no idea what I'm talking about... and much less than you because I've never used drones.

When I saw the big dog prototype not falling when pushed, the assumption I made is that the eventual objective would be to just try to keep going and self-correct when unevenness is encountered.

Never thought about fully automated walkers -- just manually guided, but able self correct on rough terrain.
With this kind of comment, perhaps she would feel the environment is too hostile though.
I wish we could deport racists.
An important rule for software is to not take features away. People will complain even if it's an obscure feature they don't even use.
Try hitting the Back button in your browser after drawing for a while.
Another perspective: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/income-tax-centu...
It's for when you trust the public repo operator, you trust the authors of the package you're downloading, you trust your local machine, you trust the repo operator's SSL CA, but you don't trust the connection from your computer to the public repo.

For example, if you're using dodgy public wifi.
The UH Office for the Communication of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has a survey about data use. (https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ochadatasurvey)

Here's their website: (http://www.trust.org/?show=alertnethumanitarian)

You should be able to come up with an interesting idea.
If you use Intellij IDEA, their maven integration is top notch. light years ahead of eclipse.
Donkey ambulance helps Afghan women give birth safely
Bit of feedback: It seems quite US centric. I'm not sure how the selection is done, but maybe you could add a 'Rest of the world' section?
From OP:

> Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal, infant and child mortality rates in the world. Maternal deaths are 10 times higher than the number of civilians killed in a decade-long conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.

Wow.

(http://www.trust.org/item/20130906113921-sr2d8/?source=hptop)

> in this documentary, called SISTER, first-time director Brenda Davis exposes the health risks faced by many pregnant women in developing countries. She turns the camera on women as they give birth and on the devoted health workers who deal with the blood and pain of childbirth in places where healthcare facilities are poor or non-existent.

> In the United States, one in 4,800 women dies from childbirth-related causes. In Cambodia, the rate is one in 48, according to the film.

> One in 27 Ethiopian women dies from causes related to childbirth.

(http://www.irinnews.org/report/95900/south-sudan-the-biggest...)

> Childbirth and pregnancy, rather than conflict, are the nation’s biggest killers of girls and women.

> “One in seven South Sudanese women will die in pregnancy or childbirth, often because of infections (from puerperal fever and retained placenta), haemorrhaging, or obstructed births, with a lack of access to healthcare facilities playing a large role in their deaths,” SAS found.

Most deaths are preventable, using very simple steps.

Don't put rice in the birth canal to "lure the baby out" (http://www.irinnews.org/report/83929/timor-leste-gently-comb...)

Use sterile instruments to cut the umbilical cord (http://www.irinnews.org/report/95213/papua-new-guinea-tetanu...), don't use a sharp shell or dirty knife (http://www.irinnews.org/report/87466/guinea-bissau-hospital-...) nor a sharp sliver of bamboo (http://www.irinnews.org/report/93979/myanmar-improving-mater...). (Also, don't try and push the baby out by pushing the stomach)

Although some problems are much harder to deal with, such as war or corruption (http://www.irinnews.org/report/93420/uganda-too-many-deaths-...).

Sterile kits are not that expensive - only about $0.50 (http://www.irinnews.org/printreport.aspx?reportid=80089)

> The TBAs are also provided with disposable safe delivery kits with sterilised birthing supplies that include gloves, a plastic apron, a plastic sheet, soap, clamps, a new razor, string and cotton balls.

> "These cost only Rs 40 [about US$0.50]," said Qureshi. "If these kits are made cheaper still and made easily available in the market, this would further help ensure adherence to hygienic practices."
i might be mis-interpreting your local vs global dependencies, but if you are wary of the network nature of maven, you can always check into your scm the maven repository (and perhaps, pre-fill it with just the deps needed).
Death by incompatibility: A Samsung Galaxy Gear review
It's a really nice place to live. You pay for what you get...
5 Undercover Growth Hacks, You Wish You Had Thought Of
You have no idea what you are talking about.

It is very common to kidnap alone female tourists on broad daylight, since they "do not belong to anyone".
Does crouton have issues with hibernation on lid close? I've been using ChrUbuntu, and it is great, but it often fails to wake up after a lid close.
> Perhaps users constantly coming back and checking their comments for replies, increases time on site, and the possibility users will interact further and view other posts.

Joel Spolsky wrote a piece on Building Communities with Software back in 2003.[1] He reasons that allowing email notifications is "the best way to kill dead any young forum" and that such "checking back" as you describe helps a forum to achieve critical mass and survive.

[1]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswi...
Shumway, Mozilla’s HTML5-Based Flash Player Replacement
Just because it happens in movies or television doesn't make it real. Cars don't explode.

Then there's this: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-03-23/features/1993082...
The CA website costs $313M: http://www.latimes.com/health/healthcare/la-fi-obamacare-cal...

Did they have to build a new data center? Hire specially trained astronauts to run it from it's location on the moon? Sitting in special chairs made from exotic materials they reverse engineered from UFOs? I mean JFC where did that money go? It makes the dotcom days look like an era of fiscal responsibility.
Pretty cool. Any chance you could include a 16x16 preview? You could even dynamically update it as the favicon (e.g., http://favris.info/) which is supported in Chrome/FF.
Your request is 100% legitimate. People put a lot of time and effort into applying to jobs. Not answering for a month is just not acceptable. Even a reply that says "We're still reviewing your application" is good enough.
I hear from friends this happens in companies which have the resources and people and that's just shows the real company culture, the one not mentioned in the careers pages.
iCracked's On-Demand iOS Buyback launches. Backend hackers, join us
Here's a tl;dr for the blog post:

Thanks to Matz, DHH, Evan Phoenix. Thanks to the hundreds of contributors. Thanks to Engine Yard for the $$$. Thanks to the community.

Rubinius 2 will target Ruby 2.1. We're brining Ruby into the future! We will not support multiple Ruby language versions moving forward.

Version releases are changing with the release of Rubinius 2.0. There will be a new release once a week, won't follow a pre-determined release schedule. Master branch will be kept extremely stable. New versions will be X.Y.Z+1. Please post issues, hopefully they will be fixed quickly.

The goal is to semantically version the Rubinius core starting with version 3.0. We've added a subdomain http://releases.rubini.us for hosting release tarballs.

About Rubinius Parts:

* It has a VM that runs byte code produced by the Ruby compiler. Every Ruby method gets its own interpreter.

* The generational garbage collector (GC) has a very fast young generation collector, usually pausing for less than 15 ms to complete a collection.

* Rubinius implements native operating system threads for concurrency and has no global interpreter lock (GIL). Ruby code can run in parallel on multi-core or multi-CPU hardware.

* The Rubinius just-in-time compiler (JIT) turns Ruby bytecode into machine code. The JIT thread is mostly independent of the Ruby threads so the JIT operation doesn't impact the running code's performance.

* The Rubinius core libraries (e.g. Array, Hash, Range, etc.), as well as Rubinius tools like the bytecode compiler, are written in Ruby. The Rubinius systems treat them just like Ruby application code.

Commenters note: There's a whole section called "Plans, Meeet Future" which seems to say Ruby hasn't kept pace with the "SaaS revolution." Honestly, not sure what as going on here, I'll punt on a summarizing.

Plans for improvement:

* Significantly improve concurrency coordination in the system. Some operations requires topping all threads. Working to get rid of this.

* Provide more efficiency by using more modern lock-free concurrent data structures.

* Make the GC more concurrent and parallel.

* Make the JIT even faster and expose more of it to regular Ruby code.

Gems as Components:

* Major components, like the bytecode compiler, Ruby parser, debugger, etc. have been moved to gems. These components can be updated easily and quickly without requiring a Rubinius release.

* In Rubinius 2.0, the Ruby standard library has also been converted to gems.

The post then reflects on how Rubinius has inspired other projects: RubySpec, Topaz, Opal, Puma, etc.

And it ends with: "Ruby is an excellent language. Rubinius is dedicated to providing Ruby developers with excellent tools and technology competitive with these other languages. Developers who are happy writing Ruby shouldn't be forced to leave it because of technical limitations."
While I understand where the Republican comments are coming from, it should be useful to realize that this law was passed in a bi-partisan legislative assembly, and since it appears there was no objection from Democrats (or the public) at the time the law was passed, it's safe to assume Democrats were cool with it too.
Ah, gotcha. Yes. the 915 was originally released in 2004. The GPU in an x220 is an HD3000, which apparently uses the same driver. Confusing.
there is some chance.
> The black swan has a very simple mathematical model: an unlikely event with an effect so great that it will affect the expected value. For example, a greater risk of dying after 20 or 30 years of use - which has not yet been studied. In your calculation of ROI you completely ignore unknown long term effects.

Alright, let me clarify it then: by the remotely meaningful version presented by Taleb, your argument doesn't work and Taleb's writings support taking melatonin, rather than not taking melatonin. Why? Because even in the event of a negative 'black swan' your losses are strictly limited: the worse that can happen is you die. In fact, if I may borrow Taleb's 2x2 table from _The Black Swan_ where he brings up positive 'black swans' as well, it's easier to make a case that taking melatonin is a positive 'black swan': the negative possibilities are strictly in Mediocristan, with limited losses, easy to measure over large populations, predictable, not varying over time; while the positive possibilities look like some of Taleb's examples of attempting to exploit positive 'black swans' in Absurdistan - improved productivity, healthy, and seizing opportunities, things with potentially unlimited payoffs - such as moving to cities and networking with people.

> For example, a greater risk of dying after 20 or 30 years of use - which has not yet been studied.

FUD.
Uninstalling chrome beta is a bug. I'll get that raised.
Compiling Brainfuck to the MMU Turing tarpit via a MOVDBZ machine
Managing a company is a lot different than starting a company. I think that's what Cohen is getting to here: he was good at growing the company in the beginning, but managing a company of 80 people is a completely different job description.
I've lived in Australia all my life and can't say I share the same opinion. Racism, while clearly present (notably in some parts of QLD and generally outside of the "urban core" as Tloewald succinctly described), is pretty mild from what I've seen. And, in my experience, it's become less of a problem over the past couple of decades. I remember many more reports of race-related violence when I was young.

And within the major cities (especially Sydney and Melbourne) it's a remarkably tolerant environment especially considering the diversity of cultures. I'm often amazed looking around at people in the streets and see so many countries represented!

Then perhaps I'm biased. I'm a white male born and raised in Melbourne which is probably the most cosmopolitan city in Australia.

[I agree about the cost of living though; housing in particular is exorbitant!]
This is very similar to 'How To Ask Questions The Smart Way' written by Eric Raymond.

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Strongly recommended to hackers.
The GDC Play experience through an exhibitor's eyes
I.e. Gergo is compiling an eso lang to a single instruction set machine that runs in the MMU "processor" that lives between the cycles on your processor.
Switzerland is small and has a famously efficient train system, so it's common to live a fair distance from the city: I have friends who work in Geneva but live in Lausanne, work in Zurich but live in Rapperswil, etc. If you draw circles around the main cities depicting the diameter of how far you can get in one hour by train, there's not much "rural" land left.
I'd imagine that for most people this would make little difference - you can adjust income tax and remove the basic allowance so that it balances out somewhere near the median wage.

The main thing it would do is to remove the welfare trap - whereby you can earn less from starting work. Suddenly, every Franc you earn adds something onto your income. And you get rid of a whole tranche of bureaucracy at the same time.
I think it's like hard drives. You have a bad experience with one manufacturer and jump ship, and subconsciously justify that decision to yourself as rational because of how bad the experience was, not because the manufacturer you're jumping to is any better.
"How Interest Rates Were Set, 2500 BC – 1000 AD"
"Seventy-Two Letters", by Ted Chiang
Is there something similar to this in the USA?
RoyalCMS: demo video
RoyalCMS is a content management system that allows complete flexibility by doing nothing by default. Every piece of functionality is separately installable.
Too bad the government isn't that friendly to foreigners either...
Google to reveal Smartwatch on October 31st
Except that the other companies have done essentially all of the hard work this article talks about themselves, and more, and have been doing it for years before Apple entered the smartphone market. I mean, many of Apple's problems were with stuff like baseband development and antenna placement which their competitors have been dealing with successfully since before the iPhone even entered development.

If anything Apple were the ones that came along after other companies had done all the hard work and piggy-backed on their work whilst claiming the credit. Companies like Nokia and Motorola literally developed the technology that made mobile phones possible, and had to build stuff like phone radios in an era where no-one had ever done it before, whereas Apple could rely on pre-existing chips, software and design experience. Then Apple sued Motorola to stop them selling phones whilst insisting they didn't have to pay Motorola for the patents they'd obtained through doing all that pioneering work.
The timing of the project launch is pretty remarkable. It seems that Jobs wanted to do this for some time, but was waiting and watching for technical feasibility. From the effort they had getting the demo to work, it seems that they launched the project something like immediately after the progress of the component technologies brought that feasibility into view. And even then they had to manage risks, and then they had to get the thing into production.

And while that suggests some pretty deep technical savvy at executive levels, they still had heartburn over seemingly simple questions like "can you put radio waves through aluminum?"

It seems to me that the genius of Jobs was 1) to envision customer experiences based on really remarkable extensions / integrations of existing tech and 2) to judge the moment when those visions had gone from "someday" to "now".
I love how smooth this is on mobile, regarding touching and dragging. I've been working on making UIs for simple art projects on mobile browsers and this will be great to learn from. The palette option is fantastic, it's cool to quickly see a drawing with different color renderings. Thanks for sharing!
Pillow 2.2.1 Released
If his Forbes interview is to be believed, he apparently had accumulated enough BTC to buy out the original creator of SR. If not, then it still isn't a stretch to believe that a person whose involvement with Bitcoin goes back years, has accumulated a few BTC through mining, trading, or some other activity. Nor is it impossible for any other person who could be mistakenly identified as connected to SR to have accumulated a large amount of BTC through legal means.
I wouldn't call it the "Java" philosophy. Rather, I would call it the "wet behind the ears" philosophy. It just so happens that they correlate because of the way people are trained.
I use a combo of Evernote and OneNote (Windows). I'd think either would be fine in your case. Both have folders/hierarchies that allow for quick nav/search.
You are talking about the issue of manipulating prices via trades. We have lots of evidence that this isn't much of a problem. Read my papers for details.
I still remember the days when we had those Oberon machines (not yet bluebottle) at the computer rooms at the ETHZ. Nobody touched them except the computer science students. You didn't even needed a login to use them, just a mouse with 3 buttons for the famous interclick to execute commands! :)
Probably not very big, since getting a Swiss residence permit pretty much requires a job, and it takes 12 years of residence to be able to apply for citizenship -- and only then would you qualify for basic income.
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Absolutely. Thats why everyone complains about how an iPhone is priced at nearly 200% of its cost.
The next giant quake: It’s coming to the Pacific NW and here’s how
Negative income tax seems quite hard to administer when compared to a basic income. Why bother with all the bureaucracy required to deal with accounting for millions of minuscule incomes, when a simple flat payment would do the same job?
I didn't read the bill but I would venture this only applies to citizens, not those on work permits; and Switzerland has historically been an extraordinarily difficult place to get citizenship. (You, personally, have to be voted on, with your picture on the ballot, if I remember correctly.)

I lived there for almost ten years but since around 2008, as an American, I am not welcome anymore. The process for a company to hire non-EU citizens is essentially insurmountable.
It sounds like you think that while you like private law and anarchy, you don't think that it would actually achieve the ends that most ordinary people want to achieve. And you think speculators will agree with you, and in a futarchy would therefore reject anarchy proposals.
So, the more sophisticated a criminal enterprise, the more likely that the defendant(s) will have a fair chance to defend themselves!
Yes - exactly. Opportunity cost is something that is not discussed enough. Conceivably, any "target" is vulnerable to every communication at the right price point. From technology solutions (provided by NSA), to in-field solutions (provided by CIA), we shouldn't believe that we can be totally "safe" from unwanted eavesdroppers.

It's not "if" Tor (and friends) are vulnerable. We should assume and operate like they are, but with some level of acceptable tradeoff. It's like a safe or ATM - neither of these guarantees perfect security; they just provide enough security for the expected loss of their contents.

The problem - it's just very hard to evaluate the opportunity cost, since we don't really know how wide-spread or "easy" it is for privacy to be breeched. These types of revelations help establish the "market price" for which we can use as a basis for evaluating our options for communications (including traditional man-to-man transport).

I personally don't have any communication which I consider privileged enough to warrant the extra hassle of running Tor, etc. I consider a TLS connection with my bank secure enough for my concerns and I don't have the desire to pull otherwise questionable content from any type of onion router. Therefore, I enter the market with a different expectation of features and cost I'm willing to pay.