skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a fiscal conservative, (actual) small government-type and I'm ok with the related idea of minimum guaranteed income for much the same reason. As you have said, it seems like there is a huge potential to eliminate quite a number of programs and taxes.

Once you get to the point that transfer payments are not going to go away, it seems like optimizing the cost and efficiency of said payments while reducing the cost (thus taxes) and size of government become priorities. This is basically one way to remove quite a lot of the government.

I'm still not sure about a fixed payment however. I guess I can see a minimum pro-rated[1] guaranteed income payed on a very tight schedule (weekly, but preferably every weekday morning). I can see it would take more paperwork, but I think the difference in payment versus admin costs probably would make it a better pick.

I get the feeling that a country with the constitution that says voting rights are dependent on not taking transfer payments might have a better chance of acceptance. It is a bit of a radical idea.

1) something like for every 2 dollars earned you subtract a dollar of payment
Oh, come on. You choose to live so far from the Equator, short days are a consequence of that.

Come on up here to the Yukon if you want to see what it's all about.
He may well have a child. He may also, or not, deal with the world and his childrens' needs and play differently than you. He may even not be a child.
To me "gray" just seems wrong, grey feels right.
Show HN: how to approach sensitive conversations
Linux (and other open OS's) have had to fight this from the very beginning. It may seem DOA now, but then Linux did too for a lot of people.

And while we still need the occasional closed source firmware blob or driver, there are now also systems where we can replace every little bit from the BIOS upwards with open alternatives.

In the mobile space, RockChip has released sufficient source to allow Ubuntu to be ported to the RK3188 CPU's (quad core Cortex A9), so there's movement. Given that RockChip is one of 3 CPU providers dominating the Chinese Android devices, if this helps their market share you can expect MTK and AllWinner (the two other main CPU providers) to be more open too.

That does not mean these systems are open - a lot of pieces still will be locked down often because they license GPU's etc. and don't have the rights to open up everything, but several of the Chinese/Taiwanese manufacturers in fact do seem to want to make custom builds available (not least because a lot of these devices ship as XBMC devices - many distributors now ship with XBMC by default, and at least one offers to flash their Android sticks with plain Linux + Linux version of XBMC instead of Android)
Our family income amounts to ~$4800 per person per annum. So you're proposing a 6 times income increase (we're in the UK). I think $3k is probably just enough to live on in the UK and it's generally accepted that the cost of living here is greater, certainly it would be enough if one weren't spending ~50% of their income on a mortgage.

We run a car too (£1.30/l for petrol), if we weren't working we wouldn't need the car and we'd be able to get an allotment to supplement our food supply. I consider us to be quite well off yet, of course, relatively poor. We don't qualify for free school meals so apparently there are a lot (400,000 children in England alone do qualify) of people worse off than us and still surviving.

$30k per year sounds like it would be a massive disincentive to seek a wage, whether that would also amount to a large population who don't work or not is anyone's guess really (but I'd say yes).
Hoboken to midtown or downtown is fine. But to the point of this article, Hoboken to Brooklyn or Queens is a long two transit systems ride.

Too bad really because Hoboken and JC and e.g. Boruem Hill or Astoria have a lot in common.
>4.4 has now a new closed source launcher

Not correct. Launcher3 is open source.
Remedies for those problems already exist. Courts can order many things to happen automatically (think of child support payments as an example). The community and police can refer a case to a government attorney. The government can sue an individual in court for misuse of funds. The court can order that the individual's income be garnished to pay for housing automatically. Then the individual who has demonstrated that they cannot handle too much freedom keeps their minimum income but doesn't become homeless. This can all happen very quickly and stacks of these cases can be resolved in a couple of hours.
What is Mac Pro's shell? You mean your shell on OS X? And what did you find so bad with Powershell?
Genie effect with JS & CSS
That's interesting, do you mean early initialisation of Windows or the VDM?
Improvely (https://www.improvely.com) passed $10k/mo RR not too long ago and is about a year old. I run several other SaaS sites with a couple thousand a month in revenue each. It's enough that I never regret turning down the standing job offers I had at the end of college 3 years ago.

Nothing really compared to the short-lived but very successful WordPress plugins I used to build and sell. A few days' work could turn into the equivalent of a year's salary. One had over $250,000 in sales in 18 months before I sold rights to it for another $90,000 to another company. I don't work with WordPress much anymore, and don't have much motivation to force myself back into that ecosystem to sell more plugins. It just wasn't as fun as running live services that handle lots of users and lots of data.
Inflation is lower today than it was in the middle of the housing bubble.
>Assuming a cell phone and indicating that only people with a cell phone are important are two different things.

And the original post was the former, so it all works out.

>And your cell phone doesn't tell you it changed times

Is that needed? Well it's easy enough to add that feature.
I plastered them all over the site in an experiment to see if I could move to 100% ad based monitization since so many visitors are just looking for free printables, but they only make like $50/mo. So I need to remove them. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. The whole site is just a playground at this point since the search volume indicates I'm close to maxing out the potential revenue. My next move is to package the technology as Custom Designed Printable X for your business and sell it along with a setup and maintenance fee.
I don't care what anyone else says. That voice is silk.
Downtown Las Vegas: The City Itself As An Accelerator?
got 2 freelancers , but as a founder , I am alone. I am a 2 time failed entrepreneur and both times Investors rejected my startup just bcoz I am a single founder, but still fighting alone to show what a one person can do :)
Yep, Firefox supported both spellings while IE displayed green for 'grey'.
I accidentally blew through my free 200 MB shortly after signing up for service. I disabled WiFi in order to run a speed test having forgotten that I had a few apps updating in the background and a few minutes later, I got an email saying I ran out of data.

I have 9 days left in my billing period and my Verizon iPad mini and it reports cellular data usage of 422 MB, with 98 MB being System Services. The mini is on WiFi 95% of the time, except when I'm walking to/from school (and I don't carry it every day) carrying it or the WiFi networks I connect to are acting up.

Speed:
I'm in Manhattan and I got 5.35 Mbps on T-Mobile LTE, compared to 5-8 Mbps on my AT&T iPhone 5s and 11-21 Mbps on my Verizon iPad mini.

Price:
The rates mentioned in the press release apply only to voice customers. If the iPad is your only T-Mobile device, then you're looking at:

One time passes:
500 MB for 1 day - $10
1 GB for 1 week - $15
2.5 GB for 30 days - $30

Recurring (30 day plans):
700 MB - $20
2.7 GB - $30
4.7 GB - $40
Until the customers just come in for the free fries because the ketchup is cheaper next door.
Carmack, Romero and two other guys were making $60K a month from Commander Keen in its shareware format. That's after Apogee's 60% cut.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cultu... - highly recommended, really good read
The following is false, confusing the short-term financing available under QE3 with the cost of financing business investments:

> Interest rates are basically at zero and have been for some time. When borrowers are paying close to zero interest on loans, that makes money cheap to get.

> People with money generally have a choice: save it in interest-paying, risk-free bank accounts or invest it in riskier assets that may pay more money over time. When interest is at zero, virtually any other kind of investment is likely to pay more because the risk-free alternative is so lousy. So investment asset bubbles get created. Stocks tend to go up.

QE3 consists of a series of very short-term loans (initially they were 1-day loans) that keep being redeemed and reissued, with the promise that the money injected into the system in this way will be taken out in the medium term. (This death sentence on the QE3 money is the reason why the money injected into the economy has not had the inflationary impact predicted by gold bugs).

Such very short-term loans are very valuable for financial institutions: they can finance short-term speculative investments and can be used as a partial basis to create longer-term financing. However, they do not provide the kind of investment Business Insider claims. For this kind of investment, you need financing over a period of years. 10-year treasuries, which provide a basline for the cost of longer-term financing, are relatively cheap, at 3.4% interest, but they are most certainly not interest free.

Every venture capitalist understands this, I am sure. A competent journalist who covers business financing will understand this too.
Success rate alone may encourage doctors to form other kind of risk preference in general. The fundamental issue is huge information asymmetry with different conditions. I guess there is not a simple solution to this. However, different simple solutions from different levels may benefit both good doctors and patients. Doctors and their organizations has much bigger power than patients do. Information could be something powerful to make the situation better, but not even close to perfect.
> My chief concern is that progressives will ask us to explain how we contend with people who despite being given a stack of currency still manage to squander that, leaving themselves hungry, without shelter, or without savings.

Pay every weekday morning - it fixes the food part

Shelter is tough because we are not trying new things anymore. You rent an apartment or rent / buy a home. We don't have many cheaper shelters like capsule hotels[1] or maybe some modular-type apartments. Innovation in shelters is not a thing and seriously hampered by existing laws.

> I personally favor family and charity as a last safety net, but progressives routinely dismiss those as impractical or insufficient.

It was the way of things in the early days, but we really need to stop making it difficult for third-partys to actually provide these services.

1) yes, this is not long term or family friendly, but I've live in worse than what I saw in videos of these things.
Another interesting data point:

2 out of the 39 are YC alums.
Why having a CS degree is a negative hiring signal (for startups)

Supply and Demand

There are some basic supply and demand issues for CS graduates. On the supply side, a surprising number of jobs are at angel and venture-backed startups that are burning through cash to pay "market rates" for engineering "talent" and likely won't be around in five years. On the demand side, while there is currently significant demand for candidates with CS degrees, if you didn't graduate from a top CS program and/or don't excel at FizzBuzz, your options may be limited.

Entitlement

CS graduates think of themselves as special snowflakes, future Mark Zuckerbergs, worthy of extremely high compensation and authority.

Misguided Thinking

"CS thinking” involves putting all of the value in technology and then, when it doesn't sell itself, scrambling to find a "growth hacker" who can take it to market. When that fails, "lean startup philosophy" suggests that you pseudo-scientifically iterate over and over again until your angel investor's money is depleted.

Selection Bias

Because building functional CRUD applications that offer value doesn't require a CS degree, it really bears examining a person's motivation for getting one. Was it because he or she is more interested in the theoretical than the practical? Is the individual going to make decisions based on what is best for the business or on what technology or approach is sexiest? Will he or she be able to compromise when business needs dictate compromise?

Limited usefulness

How many startups ever need someone who can reproduce common algorithms that every popular programming language has functions for?

Opportunity Cost

The time someone spent getting a CS degree was time they could have spent actually developing domain expertise.
Wouldn't it be easier to change what time you go to work than to change the clocks?

I for one think the entire world should switch to one time zone...
I "only" knew Capitaine Train, Lima and Bunkr.

I would recommend you to check https://sketchfab.com and https://en.mention.net
It's a tough trade-off really. Envato have millions of members so I get regular sales but the commission rates are very unfavorable. I'm working on moving some of my more popular products from Envato marketplaces and onto my own websites. It's a slow process though as I want to keep the benefits of the traffic from Envato throughout. Plus I'm still learning with regards to internet marketing and can't hope to attract the types of traffic Envato can bring me.
Thanks HN: That time you saved a bunch of lives
Man behind Oregon's infamous exploding whale dies
Hacker News was incredibly kind to me two years ago when I was diagnosed with Leukemia (AML). Many friends' posts made it to the front page here:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083770

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3149337

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297091

After about a hundred days of friends registering & campaigning, chemo, drives, press appearances, Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr posts, I found a donor:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3482119

HN played a huge part in making that happen. I want to say thanks not just for me, but for all the others that gotten helped through our efforts in the past two years alone.

Reminder: It's easy to register, and easy to save someone:

- http://bethematch.org/Support-the-Cause/Donate-bone-marrow/J...
Fair enough.

I'm a huge fan of Google Now so hopefully I can continue to use it if I decide to switch to a custom launcher.
Found the source that these guys are ripping off to make this extension: https://lekensteyn.nl/apk-downloader/
FYI this was built for a health literacy hackathon.
What's wrong with trying to protect against the shrinkage of the middle class?
> I wonder how long it will take until someone finds a security exploit of this "feature"

I'm not sure what exactly crafting a 16-bit installer file to exploit some bug in the bundled installshield to get it to execute code of your choosing (when the user tries to run your installer) would achieve.

You've got the user to run an installer that you've made. They've just double-clicked on your program. Forget crafting dodgy installer data files, you can run whatever code you like just by... running it.

Moreover, given the user is trying to install your program, they'll be happy to elevate its privileges, too (through UAC). So your arbitrary code is running as admin - what more could a security flaw in the bundled installshield get you? (And if the user doesn't think your program's an installer, they're not going to be any less confused by the appcompat installshield's UAC prompt than if your program just tries to elevate by UAC by itself. It's not like the bundled one is setuid root (or the windows equivalent)).

See also: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/05/08/59235...
It also works on any 3G tablet that supports T-mobile's frequencies. I successfully activated a SIM on my 2012 Nexus 7 (no LTE) and got the 200MB free per month. I'm not a current T-mobile customer.

I was using AT&T prepaid for 250MB/month. At least where I am in the Bay Area, T-Mobile actually had a better signal and speeds that were twice as fast. Good deal all around.
The Cellblocks’ Amazon.com
It's not unwanted. Not automatically elevating would break older installers written in a pre-Vista era, or written by developers who don't bother embedding a manifest telling Windows that it requires elevation. Imagine being a user upgrading from XP to Vista/7 and finding that all their old programs no longer install as they fail to write to Program Files -- something that you could get away with in older versions of Windows where people used admin privileges for everything. And yet that very problem would go away for almost everyone, everywhere, by simply elevating programs named setup or install. Seems like a perfectly sane way to make things backwards compatible.
Aye I have a number of features planned which will need subscriptions. One of them is the ability to host your own portfolio site on the platform, which I'm planning to add fairly soon as I need it for my brother's and father's websites :D
Good advice for today, but the Haskell Platform got started in 2008-2009. This book is from 2004.
Expected some price shenanigans, and found one:

> * If you cancel wireless service, remaining balance on device becomes due. Total for iPad Air 16 GB $630.00

Strictly speaking, it's $629.00 for the iPad Air directly, so in fact this "free monthly 200MB data for life" costs $1
> * Startups were funded whose business models were dominated by inventory and logistics costs

Wouldn't that describe the whole flash sale industry and hence its recent decline?

Although I don't think that any 1 point makes a bubble, it is interesting how some of them are recurring now.
In Ireland you get free unlimited mobile data, if you top-up 20 euro each month on prepaid. Last month I used 35GB.
Many F# developers work in the financial sector (myself included). Working in the financial sector isn't some magic ticket to a higher salary though, i.e., given an engineer who makes $X in some other industry, they're not automatically going to make 2 * $X just because they switch to finance. The reason salaries are higher in finance is because it's really worth the investment for financial companies to spend extra money to hire the most highly-skilled engineers (and other staff) they can find. Some other industries (e.g., aerospace) have similar requirements, so salaries are higher than normal there as well.
I suppose it depends on the professors you have. I had an excellent orgo professor, and a rather bad p-chem professor.

He was the hardest grader of any professor I ever had. He gave (partial) negative points for an incorrect answer on tests. I had friends who ended up with negative scores on their tests. The class average score was in the 30% range. I had one friend who managed to get every single question wrong on a 20 question true false section, which to this day still amazes me. Luckily it was on a curve, or he would have failed us all.

Eventually, I gave up trying to understand p-chem, and concentrated on just learning his very strange test style. That turned out to be a fantastic decision for my grade. I got the high score in the class on the last test and the final, which got my grade up from a B- to an A-. The downside was I never really learned p-chem ;-).
My pessimistic side believes that a portion of the progressive inclination for central planning comes from a fear of allowing people to act stupidly and suffer the consequences

Historically, the inclination came from out of work low-level aristocrats looking for "jobs". Welfare for the poor has always been (disguised) welfare for the rich. This sociologic explanation was highlighted by Nietzche in the 19thC, referred to it as "Master ans Slave" morality.
If I was so restless that I thought rinsing a teapot was appalling, I wouldn't think I needed any more caffeine.
It is certainly reported as such. But when energy[1], travel[2] and food[3] are all going up "faster than inflation" then the official number is misleading, no? And interest rates on savings - because there is so much money sloshing around - are at historic lows.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24716146
[2] http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/dec/20/rail-fares-rise
[3] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2463143/The-cost-liv...

Deliberately linked to both the Graun and the Mail there so no political bias.
It's a step in the right direction and would make a massive difference, it isn't pointless just because it isn't a complete solution.
The internet then was a fancy new magic. The internet now is just a fact of life. This one thing changes a lot.
That's really something the OS should be able to do. It ought to be able to examine the dependencies of the app and throw up a helpful alert if they're not met.

Of course, since the common case is newer apps on older OSes, that requires thinking ahead before such a problem actually happens, and that's tough. Even if you implement it, it's hard to get right because it's hard to really test. Apple does this, but the facility was broken in several Mac OS X releases, making it far less useful than it should have been.
I don't doubt this is true for you, but there are an increasing number of apps on the Play Store that are hardware-exclusive (typically Samsung exclusive).

A number of broadcasters cut deals with Samsung to give their VOD apps exclusivity on Galaxy hardware, and the Twitter Android Tablet app is currently not available on the Nexus 7 due to an agreement with Samsung.
Could you talk a bit more about production deployment?

I did a backbone project a year back and had lots of pain with things like require with CDNs, etc.

There was a post just 1-2 days back about performance tuning in Angular. I wonder if you recommend any best practices in your own from a performance/production perspective.
"... several engineering weeks had already been spent trying to resolve the security issues before we were forced to disable the code."

It's not clear what other issues are causing them to not adopt MathML, but this was at least a severe one, and nobody in any of these comments seems to have acknowledged it. The sentence quoted in the title may have been a bit of a mis-statement, since every other bit of discussion is about maintenance and security issues, not a philosophical rejection.

(I'm not sure I understand this correctly, but the other comments here have not helped at all.)
Did you get a reply back form Mac dealer? Would love to see a sample text of the email you sent.