skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turning socialist...

Have you any concept of the percentage of GDP that most European governments take in through taxation or on what sort of programs that money tends to be spent? Europe has already been socialist for a long time, some places much more so than others.
Good to hear. The situation with python packaging has seemed kind of chaotic for awhile. The setuptools/distribute merger will hopefully standardize things from here on out.
Be sure to talk to the ham radio guys and RC car guys first, who have a couple decades experience with almost uncountable number of DC power "standards", or you'll just poorly reimplement something they already figured out back in 1970 or whatever.

The Anderson Powerpole seems a rather effective and cheap way to shove a couple hundred watts of DC around. Of course there must be millions of existing connectors all operating at 12 volts so applying it to a 5V standard will be problematic at best. I have them all over my house given my electronic interests. Do NOT listen to people who complain about them, much like the legendary PL-259 connector or soldering SMD device by hand, 99.99% of the population just does it no problem without drama but the 0.01% who can't be bothered to learn how, make sure to very loudly tell everyone about how it never works, etc. Its tiresome but traditional.

The molex family seems most effective at demonstrating the flammability of overheated nylon, at least at power levels over a hundred or so watts.

The ancient Cinch plugs worked sorta well, although they're a bit large and fiddly.

Coaxial DC connectors are something of a standard although few can handle a hundred watts, at least at low DC voltage.

A miniaturized version of the standard used for intelligent electric vehicle charging would be interesting. There's probably a patent preventing innovation, but maybe in a few decades when existing patents run out thus permitting innovation to start again...
That is true and should (at this point in history) be taken for granted.

The iPhones in Europe had for years the same price. So I don't really understand your example. Could you elaborate ?
Ask HN: Best paid SaaS for developers?
There are a ton of paid web services to make developers life easier:

* Code management tools (Github, Bitbucket)

* Issue trackers (FogBugz, Trello)

* Project management services (Basecamp, Jira)

* Customer service/user feedback systems (Userecho, Uservoice, Zendesk, Useresponse)

* Task management tools (Wunderlist, Asana, Zendone)

* Note taking services (Evernote, RememberTheMilk)

* Training sites (Nettuts, Tutsplus, Railscasts, Lynda.com)

* Theme and other marketplaces (Themeforest, Creativemarket)

* Service integration services (Zapier, IFTTT)

* etc, etc, etc

Which one can't you live without and why? (Not only from the list, but URL please!)

How much does it make your life easier in what way? (If not trivial.)

Only paid services please!
Is TypeScript a superset of JavaScript? Or is there valid JavaScript that doesn't compile in TS?
Microsoft reportedly testing its own Google Glass-like eyewear
I think that this is a great idea. I would rather people got their $1,000 and stayed at home playing with their kids or studying on Udacity (or watching movies and eating junk food) than flipping burgers for 12h a day.
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While I don't think Engadget is that good anymore, this was still original reporting, and not too far below par for the course for this kind of story. (Compare with the Verge counterpart: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/22/4865306/nokia-lumia-2520-...)

I'd go with your other theory (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6591687)
Are you going to buy the new macbook pro (2013) and why?
Apple is about to release a new mac-book pro, i myself have been waiting for it . Do you think it will be a good investment if i purchase the new mac-book pro 2013?
>1. Attempt to re-express your target's position so clearly, vividly and fairly that your target says: "Thanks, I wish I'd thought of putting it that way."

There's a closely related concept with a pretty catchy name, which is something that's often useful for making concepts stick; perhaps HN could make use of it. That concept is the "steel man":

>Sometimes the term "steel man" is used to refer to a position's or argument's improved form. A straw man is a misrepresentation of someone's position or argument that is easy to defeat: a "steel man" is an improvement of someone's position or argument that is harder to defeat than their originally stated position or argument. [1]

It can be used as a noun or a verb, e.g.

>We will want to "steel-man" NASA's argument. [2]

This can be considered a stronger version of the idea in 1. since it deals with improving not only the expression but also the substance of the opposing side's argument.

[1] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Steel_man

[2] http://lesswrong.com/lw/hab/rocket_science_and_big_money_a_c...
To make more companies like Amazon, I think you answered your own question: They get a free pass because Bezos is convincing and for Amazon its sort-of-always-been-this-way.

You're right in thinking that would only really work for new companies (with strong leaders), but if the stock punishment is an issue, then these two happenings will allow older giants to be this ambitious too:
1) Amazon succeeds wildly & shareholder demand these older giants copy that success
2) These older giants' stock starts to tank and must scramble to try something new.

There are certainly more, but this is what I can think of from the top of my head.
Weird. I'm in a completely different time zone - and it's 4 hours from now for me, too.
Google managed to colour-coöordinate their Glass charger, so that the wall plug is black-white the same way the cable is, but didn't have a good answer for how to do the device side of the plug.

See https://phandroid.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/0...
I did not realize you could setup a MX record for a wild-card subdomain. It would seem like there are lots of applications for that setup - how come it's not something I've seen dome more?
That's a real effect, but implicit in your description is an assumption that there's only one standard currency, like dollars or gold.

An alternative is to allow anyone to issue currency. Worgl, Austria got itself out of the Great Depression by doing just that, creating a currency with built-in devaluation (until Austria's central bank shut it down).

We already have multiple bitcoin-style currencies, and it's easy to create more. Some even devalue, much like Worgl's currency. So I don't think this is likely to be a problem, unless somebody is silly enough to make bitcoin the only legal tender.
DjangoCon US 2013 videos
"It's Ketchup, but with 3 Ps."
"So, CatchUppp?"
"Yes"
"I can't find it"

The inherent flaw in having a name that requires explanation.

Before you name anything, practice saying it out loud, imagine explaining it to your grandma. It's already hard enough to make a service sticky, why add the name as another barrier?
You're right that this isn't the full approach needed.
Ouch! Exactly.
Most externalities of drug use are a consequence of prohibition.

Meanwhile, blanket gun bans in the US are clearly invalid per two recent Supreme Court decisions. Gun laws in New York City specifically are currently under challenge in federal court, a challenge likely to be somewhat successful.

Few things that don't involve direct and specific harm to another person are subject to blanket prohibition. Rather, we use varying levels of regulation to avoid or minimize harm. Crying for a ban whenever you see a potential harm in an activity is a gross overreaction, and will merely cause people like me to consider you a NIMBY quack.

If this thread had opened with "we need clear rules about operating RC aircraft in heavily populated areas, let's talk about what would be reasonable", the thread would never have existed in its current state.

But that's not what happened. Instead, there was a knee-jerk cry for banning entirely. The irony is that it is your reaction that is emotional -- specifically, the emotion of fear. You cower in the face of things unfamiliar, while accusing those without fear of being emotional. Projection.
Haha, yes it does funny things with some sentences. :) The original text uses a relatively rare dutch way to phrase that the Republican Nixon was in favour of a certain type of basic income.

Similarly, the dutch expression that's oddly translated here to "with straw money" would perhaps be better translated as "throwing money around".
They will "hit" only curret IDEA 13 EAP+
Both are quite up to date there and are update often - i.e. PS7's php plugin version will be out in a hour.
That's a facile and inapt comparison that does not aid this discussion.
Exactly. Apple learned a lot working on resource-constrained mobile platforms, and they brought a lot of that knowledge into OSX (one of the benefits of not having separate divisions?).

Back in Lion, the Mac would began suspending/killing processes in the background:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/8/#proces...

Devs and ubergeeks got upset ("Steve Jobs is taking away control of our desktop too!"), but obviously we are seeing the benefits with battery life. And Mavericks goes much further:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/06/how-os-x-mavericks-work...

Update: If there's any doubt how seriously Apple takes battery life, note that their WWDC 2013 talk/video on "Maximizing Battery Life on OS X" was given by Bud Tribble.
That's not accurate. 75% is the maximum commission for sellers with 55% being the starting rate. 35% is the minimum and applies to themes sold non-exclusively.

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I thought communism (theoretically) was more similar to a universal shared maximum income.
I felt the same way when a pokemon thread was at the top a few days earlier.
Sounds good in my case, because I use php-fpm with nginx anyways! Great work. By using MySQL usage for dev is pretty much the same as with Percona, it would've been nicer though to have Percona (or MariaDB if other people use that) instead of actual MySQL though, because you never know if there will be some incompatibility issues.
>First, if you make a minimum income of 1,000, anyone making less or around that will demand a raise, after all why would I work if I could get the same amount loafing around the house.

You've misunderstood the concept. Everybody gets this. If you're currently making 900 a month, then you now make 1900 a month. You go to work because you want more than the basic 1000.
One factor, unless you owned the building your rent would go up until they took all your profits - or shut you down for not agreeing to their price increase when it comes contract renewal time.
So, following your logic, the Bangladeshi Taka is a toy currency, as well?
I agree with you and with the idea of unconditional basic income, but I would only support it if means tested welfare were completely eliminated and the basic income amount were inflation indexed to a broad spectrum of consumer goods.
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With $100 billion in the bank, as CEO I'd announce that I had spent the money on two International Space Stations and nuclear weapons to be deployed thereupon.

That'd cut-down on patent infringement...

Basis:

GAO estimate of ISS program costs in 2006: $35 billion

Inflation-adjusted Manhattan Project[0] cost estimate: $25 billion

[0] we wouldn't actually have to start from scratch but this seemed a reasonable baseline
You are missing an important point: different systems fail in very different ways. The reason why people will generally prefer software over other ways of building things is because the cost of failure is often very low. No one is going to die if a website serves an incorrect image, nor will such a bug require billions of dollars worth of semiconductor inventory to be recalled to repair.

If every software project was run like an avionics project, software would be more reliable and of higher quality. But the world would be worse off; most of the software people use would never come into existence.
Glorious day! As a person who went to PyCon and experienced first-hand the state of Python packaging, this is excellent news. Good luck to the Python devs in the days to come.
Regarding noImplicitAny, I find the choice of a compiler option rather than source code markup (like "user strict") rather odd. Granted there's no standard way to do that, but still...
bitbucket-Its free for private repos ,perfect for freelancers.
I think you have a unique and relative point there. This is going to be one interesting social experiment.
If I'm trying to avoid the Syrian secret services, then maybe NSA surveillance is the least of my concerns.

This is a peer-to-peer proxy so you don't have to proxy with a friend in the USA.

uProxy should be equally useful in avoiding US secret services (though Google's site doesn't highlight this use case).
I would be totally in favor of a basic income as long as it was a replacement for (some of) unemployment insurance and the minimum wage. We as a society really want people to have an incentive to work and don't want to price out people who are only marginally employable, but we also want to help poor people. There is some disincentive effect to a basic income since working for $6/hour when the alternative is nothing is more alluring than when the alternative is just getting by on the basic income.

But on the gripping hand, it's ridiculously simple to administer and doesn't have breaking points like other policies. I think that people consistancy underrate the importance of simplicity in government programs, especially in democracies where voter attention is often the binding constraint on good policy.

And if robots do eventually replace human labor - something I'd say is unlikely but possible, then we'll be needing something like this.
"BeOS (oh how I miss it)"

You may want to look at: https://www.haiku-os.org

...if you didn't knew about it already.
Very, very theoretically. Communism definitely had many people much more equal than others. It seems that if you hand over all the power to a glorious central authority they will, you know, use it.
You are confusing "minimum income" and "basic income". "Basic income" is something everyone gets, employed or unemployed. Whatever you make in salary comes on top of that. So there is no "why would I work if I could get the same amount loafing around the house".
Eh, people should take responsibility for the shit they put in their bodies. No excuses, in my opinion.

I swear half the problem is that people don't cook anymore. I cook every meal from as close to scratch as possible (I really enjoy it). Same with the rest of my family, and we are all super healthy weights. Plural of anecdote is not data, but I always wondered whether that had something to do with it.
Oregon wants to tax motorists for miles driven, not petrol burned
I wish I could find more information about them. All I can find are videos showcasing the performance improvements but without any explanation.

http://www.youtube.com/user/FlexyCore/videos
Don't throw your web analytics baby with the bath water too soon
Dutch guy here. Would totally spend all my time on OSS development, I can already live of 1,000 a month. Let's make this happen :)
I think there's still a problem because that leaves still only 255 PID.

Maybe we should just squat the VID, and then do a PID+(another field in the descriptor) as the discriminator for people who need special protocols (I do).

For now I've stolen my MCU maker VID and used 255 as PID, because I couldn't even find an "experimental" PID/VID in the spec to use during development.

It's a bug and urgent problem, I'm perfectly ok to fudge the rules, but we have to agree on something that doesn't break people's drivers.
We actually don't have unlimited hospitals or doctors.

New hospital constructions will often require a 'Certificate of Need' - existing hospitals can essentially veto any expansions.

We haven't expanded our medical school supplies in 30 years either. We essentially graduate the same # of doctors as we did in 1980, although demand for medical services has increased significantly over that period.
https://www.aamc.org/download/153708/data/charts1982to2012.p...
Ok, then why not adjust the basic income by the percentage of inflation on a regular basis? I mean we can cope with inflation without basic income. Why not with basic income?
Superset[1]

[1] http://www.typescriptlang.org/
> Better to have rent control and other cost-of-living regulation.

Rent control is another government program that messes with the natural order of things (aka the free market). It kills the incentive of developers to build affordable housing. Why build a building if you can't turn a profit? It keeps people from moving. Why move if your rent is 50% below market? Which in turn causes a shortage of new housing stock, which drives rental prices up.
I agree. However, this will never happen. Our Dutch society is entrenched with 'big governement' on a scale a US citizen could not grasp. Such a proposal would delete most cival servants (and their contractors).

Wikipedia: "While the private sector is the cornerstone of the Dutch economy, governments at different levels have a large part to play... In addition to its own spending, the government plays a significant role through the permit requirements and regulations pertaining to almost every aspect of economic activity. "
I've walked into one of these in Chicago - not sure if it's that exact one. I recall the fee being something like 40% of the item...
Another recommended resource for learning Django: http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/index.html
Quite a few years ago when USB was new, a trip to the local hobby store with about $3 cash resulted in a green model builders "paint pen" which is pretty much what it sounds like, a felt tip pen that releases paint. The paint dries out inside the pen after a couple years. I would imagine depending on your local graffiti problem these might be banned even more severely than spray cans, although in a civilized area they should be available?

Anyway the next discovery is I charge my phone face down to protect the glass, so I have to plug in upside down. Rightside up and Upside down connectors are commercially available for PCBs because the manufacturers have no idea which side might be up in a finished product. So you've converted the problem from figuring out which side of a cable is up, to memorizing which devices you own that have to be flipped upside down. Of course a dot of the same color paint fixes that although it might look ugly on a phone if done sloppily enough.

A greater annoyance is should the USB charger input be on the top, bottom, right or left side of all phones? I think I've seen it all.
"a closed source critical product with no option."

Sadly, I disagree. While it isn't SOP for a startup to go down this route, many companies still end up dealing with vendor lock-in.

Unfortunately, Google is going to continue dealing with the stigma of abandoning and sunsetting their own product line, regardless if it's not happened in the enterprise sector. I just don't trust them.
I'd settle for indexing it to median salary. Say at 24% or 33% of it.
I don't think anyone can make less than 1,000 if that is the basic income. Everyone gets 1,000 plus whatever they earn from a job. If someone's job previously paid 500, then their new income is 1,500.
If you can install it, the best caching solution is varnish. Much better than the wp-supercache and the likes of it (namely because it is can manage both RAM and disk cache, with very good content discard strategies). Configuration for WordPress is actually pretty easy, drop me an email if you need some help (don't cache anything under wp-admin and don't cache for logged in users)
I think that's a great point that they can get away with it because they've been doing it for so long. It's built into the core of the company. In the boom days, while Pets.com was betting on sock puppets and others were making ludicrous Super Bowl half-time ad buys, Amazon was building warehouses. And they still are. The seem to understand that infrastructure, over all other things, is what will let them win in the long run, no matter how unsexy it seems.

Their own logistics / delivery component would be a gargantuan undertaking, even for them. They seem to understand what businesses they can get into and do very well in (cloud computing, generic branding (Amazon Basics), eBooks), and which ones to steer clear of. I suppose they could launch this in urban areas, but that would be shortsighted in an area that they are particularly smart, so I wouldn't count on anything past a pilot program.

Regarding what could be done to make more Amazons... You can't. Walmart is the closest competitor (although they are a bigger company, but let's see about that in 15 years). If there is one company on Earth that can beat Amazon at efficiency (warehouses, shipping, and general business ops), it's these guys. They've made an empire around it. But it seems their only strength here is their storefronts, so it seems like their online strategy would be to go the "pick up in store" route, which is a giant hassle for most. So as Amazon finds ways to improve selection and reduce costs, Walmart will go the way of Borders, and a lot of other brick and mortar stores that came before it, albeit very very slowly. Unless one of the big box retailers is willing to say "screw this storefront crap, we're totally up-ending our business model", there is absolutely no one.
The Netherlands has a rather liberal drug policy, and because of that, considerably less drug addicts than other European countries.

Also, addicts will be addicts. I'd rather they get the money than steal it or kill for it.
OH! You wonderful wonderful man!
I'm a huge fan of PhpStorm. However, I'm wondering what's the purpose of having vagrant in an IDE?

Vagrant is easy to work already, just 'vagrant up' and you're away. What problem does the IDE solve? And looking at the interface, the 'halt' button is too close to the 'destroy' button. Might have an accidental click there...

It would be cool if they had an interface such as WAMP Server, where you can select the php versions, php extensions, start / stop services, log files, v-host configs, etc, all from one menu. Now that would be very useful.
Monty was one of the smartest engineers I worked with at Red Hat. Brilliant guy, quick on his feet. I'm a bit disappointed he's moving on, but at the same time, he belongs at Mozilla. Once all the engineers are in the same room, Daala is going to kick ass.
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This submissions seems to also have been killed. The flaggers are out in force tonight, I guess.
this is probable the worst idea I've seen emerging from the Snowden leaks aftermath.

It's not secure, it's not accessible and I fail to see how it protects privacy of defeat surveillance in any way, actually all your emails are now belonging to another third party, namely fade.li.

oh and the emails and not even self destructing.

Use openGPG instead.
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Does there exist a version of the Java plugin with PPAPI support? Because if not, all the commenters chiming in with "well we're switching our entire company to Chrome!" will be in for a rude awakening next year when Google removes NPAPI support from Chrome entirely.

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-f...
As I understand it, a negative tax can be used to implement basic income, but more typically refers to schemes which only give money to those on low incomes. Basic income is argued to be preferable, because it's simpler to administer and minimises the poverty trap.
django-allauth is a very good alternative that covers almost all kinds of authentications.