skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good points. I definitely see both sides of the coin playing out: with some landlords and sectors increasing prices, but others holding steady. I personally have no evidence to assert that over time, the battle would be won by the landlords and sectors that maintain reasonable prices, but your counter argument makes a great point.

I just feel like BIG would be ideal in so many ways. We can cut all social programs that are BIG for specific groups, and use those savings to help offset the massive cost of the program. The BIG would allow disenfranchised/unemployed persons security in food and housing (hopefully, as our discussion brings up the concerns), tt would allow part-time workers a chance to save money, and participate in the economy, and it would allow full-time workers to supplement their income, again allowing them to make larger purchases and save.

IMO, the current economic climate warrants experimentation. Where I'm from, we've had a study in BIG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome), that showed promise not only in an economic sense, but a social sense as well. I truly think it could be a force of good. As a society, we need to either set the bar higher for our collective support towards to lower classes, or we need to come to grips with a class based reality that is projecting towards more inequality.

> I think at the crux of the matter is the supply elasticity of goods consumed by the least wealthy.

A very valid concern. I feel like landlords would be reticent towards increases initially, as their isn't any data to back your decision on the matter. Again, I feel like the holdouts combined with migration will pressure the groups wanting to raise prices enough to limit the increase. But then again, if everything raises in price by 15%, then you're not just paying 15% more, you're paying 100 dollars more for rent a month, 100 dollars more for food per month, etc...

We need to at least start implementing studies and experiments. I can't see any reputable economists dismissing the policy out of hand without proof of it's benefits/downfalls. Both you and I can only speculate. I'd love to change that and for us to talk about data regarding this someday.
If you're waiting to get good weapons through the shops, you'll always fail. They'll drop the good stuff early on when you don't have any cash, or they'll have only all drone stuff, or whatever. You have to maximize your confrontations early on, hit as many shops as you can, and try to capture ships rather than blowing them up.
Yes, been there, done that. I'm all in favor. But now, I want some of those warm fuzzies....
Aside from the other problems mentioned, one big problem that comes to mind is that, assuming a functional legal system that is able to actually put freezes on debtors' assets, a defaulting loan should always be worth more than what the debtor could pay for it.

Random example with arbitrary concrete numbers: let's say you owe $100,000 and you could afford to buy the debt for $1,000. However, that's also $1,000 available to pay toward your debt. If the creditor can be assured of getting that $1,000, then the debt is worth at least that much. And unless you're completely destitute with no prospects of ever earning any money ever again, it's worth more, because you'll have income with which to pay more in the future.

So in theory, if you can pay $1,000 to buy your own debt, somebody else should be willing to bid at least $1,001.

There's a lot that complicates this (expense and uncertainty of collecting assets through the legal system and such) but it's a thought.
But this is not about risks. It's about not being dumb punishing their own paying users with DRM which has zero effect on piracy. May be most DRM is driven by side ulterior motives which have nothing to do with piracy.
Relax your mind for a while. Spend a couple of days doing something completely different and look at the problem again
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone
Loaning someone money without interest is the same as giving them the market rate of interest, which in the case of the banks after the housing bubble bust was somewhere around a billion percent a minute, because all of the banks were insolvent and completely uncreditworthy.

To make it even more obviously a gift, a good bit of it was used to buy treasuries. If I loan you $100 at 0% interest, and you loan it back to me for $5 a day, aren't I just giving you $5 a day?
>> "The underlying sentiment I read was -- "you mean I will be stuck unable to tell everyone I work with the latest bleeding edge tech because there is a newer, cooler faster hemorrhaging tech out there, after I spent nights online evangelizing about how awesome this last bandwagon I jumped on is""

Let me ask you a simple question: Do you trust the professional opinion of someone who would complain about this? And loudly, at that? Do you think this person is representative of a majority of front-end engineers?

>> "It was rather amusing and sad. The amusing part is how the stereotype of immaturity and childishness was just re-enforcing itself."

Which community of people have established a stereotype of immaturity and childishness that was just reinforced?

>> "The sad part is that here is Google spending man months ... of work and giving it back to the community and as a thank you they got spit in the face ("how dare you release open source projects, that you spend money developing, in a direction I don't agree with!").

"Giving it back to the community and getting spit on"... Google is a for-profit company. They're not doing this for charity. There are many facets to the idea of replacing javascript as the client-side language of the web. Would that we could all act like adults when discussing this on the merits. That doesn't always happen, as we are human beings. I agree that getting angry at the Dart team is irrational and non-productive.

Okay. So what are we talking about here again? I'm still confused. Perhaps the confusion is my fault and not your own. But if you could elaborate a bit, that might help.
"It's not s-expr based".

For some us, sexps are just not mentally parsed.
Looks good!

Jobs that help humanity should be touting it directly -- a major selling point.

I'll see what good stuff I find there.
> Logographic-based languages... actually allow Japanese speakers to become comfortable with processing a lot of information in short period of time / space

not true - article with references: http://persquaremile.com/2011/12/21/which-reads-faster-chine...

This article and references is about continued reading speed (bandwidth), and as it notes all languages read at similar speed, because the bottleneck is in cognitive processing. Actually, how adults read English is not much different from how they read Chinese -- ie. we do not parse individual letters, just as a Chinese reader does not parse character components.

But for a shopping website, the relevant issue is not bandwidth, but latency -- ie. how fast the reader can recognize what's written on a button, and I suspect the results there may be quite different.
Great writeup. Curious, are there clear advantages that the vector representation has over graph models (FB graph search, Google Knowledge graph)?
You can give up that right, I'll take it away from you since you don't seem to want it.
That's called google adsense
I have it somewhere, also still have that laptop. It wasn't a benchmark but a poc for an algorithm.

I did some serious optimization when I wrote it. There was a "best practices" for V8 that shedded some light on the background of JS variable allocation, I followed it and got a serious boost. Also did lookup tables instead of runtime math with exp/log functions. But in the end: hit several worst case images that took more than 12s, which was a gap that couldn't further be reduced through optimization.

But you're absolutely right, I should redo it in PNaCl.
You can't. Go for a more traditional job instead. Eg: finance or law.
Software development effort estimation
I completely agree. The whole article seems to be a mix of what people would like to hear re philanthropy and what Bill Gates would like other people to do. Not sure he tells out all the motives he has. But the main idea of the article is good –getting hands on helping the world but doing what you can do the best is cool. What many idealists who work in this area lack is co-working with those who can help them use cutting edge technologies and get reasonable funding. The ideas are great, let’s see what the implementation will be like. And is the Gates foundation the only one that does that?
It's never mentioned he has a wireless transceiver in his brain. He has a wired one, but not a wireless one.
I've been involved in volunteer projects. Ideally, I'd like to be able to do this sort of thing all day long.
Funding future software development through Kickstarter is a really dangerous proposition, even more for the person receiving the funding than the people who contribute to it. There've been success stories, but when things go bad it can ruin someone's life and credibility.

Maybe I'm wrong, but just from passive observation, it seems like for projects which haven't even been started at the beginning of the Kickstarter campaign, success stories are the exception rather than the rule.

It's so easy for someone to not manage expectations properly, especially in the early stages when they're trying to get the attention of potential backers. It's so easy to underestimate the time involved in any sort of creative venture that isn't 100% specced out ahead of time, whether it's software or an RPG supplement or a gadget or whatever. Software development time in particular is insanely difficult to predict.

I strongly feel like Kickstarter is best for projects that are essentially complete, but need funding for mass production or other costs related to distribution. The danger from Kickstarting open source projects isn't so much from money somehow polluting the goals of a project, as it is from the whole thing just blowing up into a nightmare for everyone involved. It's hard enough to predict timelines and establish requirements and manage expectations for one manager, I can't imagine what it would be like when trying to keep hundreds or thousands of managers happy and on the same page.
Holland said on television he hates rich people

It is unfortunate to misquote someone in such a polarized debate. What Hollande really said is better translated as "I don't like rich people, I don't like rich people, I have to admit".[1] Why put more violent words in his mouth?

(As mentioned in the linked article, he also later said: "This was too short a wording. I appreciate talent, work, merit. What I don't accept is indecent wealth.")

[1] http://www.liberation.fr/politiques/2012/09/10/hollande-anti...
They are precisely the same when considering merging two distributed states. How those states are stored seems trivial.
This is, IMO, the stupidest thing ever. Why just WHY give up on food? Cooking and enjoying food is one of our essential pleasures in life; I just can't see myself replacing it to some hipster matrix-like shake of nutrients. Just no thank you.

Anyway the title feels a lot misleading for someone that is used to do water fast. That is truly 'eating no food', and some do it for lengths of 30 days (yes it's safe for most people).

Cooking your own food, experimenting around and occasionally doing some fasting is, again IMO, the true way to eat happy and healthy. That's what I do.
Did you mean this reply for me? Because I don't recall mentioning forcing someone to do something. I'm just saying that one could apply a similar thought process to tools that have changed the world in radical ways, like the internal combustion engine, steam power, precision machining, electricity, etc.

I understand that skepticism and in this case I share it, the number of inventions that have actually made radical changes to our world is infinitesimally small compared to the number that claim to, but the same reasoning could be applied to many past developments.
Nice selection of "meaningful jobs." But the listings are US only (though the other features have international support). When will you expand the "meaningful jobs" to the UK?
If S&P had an agenda against high taxes and extensive welfare states they would downgrade the Scandinavians first. The vikings easily beat France in those categories yet they all have triple-A ratings.

These ratings are supposed to indicate "the capacity to meet financial commitments". I have read articles fearing a French collapse even in left-liberal newspapers here in Germany. Meanwhile nobody worries about Sweden or Denmark not being able to pay their bills.
Based on the linear extrapolation they make over the third year failure data into the future (to calculate an estimated half life of roughly 6 years), I would say they probably have not.

A little statistics is a dangerous thing.
The angry comments in every solyent article are pretty silly imho. You are under no obligation to use it. Those that do are still permitted to dine with family. :/ Any bugs will get worked out over time.

These days I usually make a smoothie for a quick breakfast... perhaps some unsweetened almond milk, protein/vitamin powder, ground flax seed, a bit of fruit/veggies, sometimes even a healthy oil. The concept is not terribly different than soylent.

I do like to keep my blood sugar in a moderate range, however. I might be interested in trying soylent if they had a low-carb version, one not significantly made of oats and maltodextrin.
The PNaCl bitcode can serve as the output of any compiler. Google currently provides toolchains for C and C++, but folks have been working on Go ports, Lua, Python etc. Haskell, in fact, already has a LLVM backend so porting that to emit PNaCl bitcode should not, in theory, be overly hard.
360 degree panoramas with the throwable Panono ball
Public beta commando.io
commando.io- Manage servers as a Service. Looks pretty nice. Not sure on price (if any) after the beta though.
The breaking of bread is one of the most important social aspects of humanity. Soylent is perfect for the disconnected from humanity factory worker.

I fully appreciate that it's cheaper than food, and might be nutritionally healthy for you. Mental healthwise, it seems like a disaster.
Ah. That wasn't very clear in your comment.

Yes, breaking humans is bad. Is there any indication that Soylent is going to break people though?

As far as I can tell, it's unknown what the long term effects will be, but we have some evidence that it should be just fine.

Do you have any evidence that points to Soylent being harmful?
Enabling Voice Communication on Android Apps
Taking care with the Internet Axiom
Based on my reading of the announcement, the content and story are still largely unchanged. I'm sure the content is worthwhile, but since I already know in broad strokes what's going to happen to my crew, I think I'd enjoy spending the time elsewhere.
Sounds like you're working for the NSA.
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As others have pointed out, the moral hazard is limited because you would never be able to get a loan again.

> Limiting moral hazard is what keeps our insurance/finance/debt system churnin

I kind of agree with that but I think you meant 'Trust' instead of 'Limiting moral hazard' in that sentence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX - 1996 is knocking… yes, I know - it's very, very different this time, but still can't help remembering the horrors of ActiveX :)

PS. From Wikipedia article: In principle it [ActiveX] is not dependent on Microsoft Windows, but in practice, most ActiveX controls require either Microsoft Windows or a Windows emulator

PPS. I'm not really trying to compare them, just pointing out that obsessive idea to run Photoshop in browser is almost as old as browser and photoshop themselves. And so is the idea for a grand platform that will let us "write once, run everywhere". Uncountable attempts were made, yet somehow they all fall short of expectations. Is the idea itself flawed? Perhaps we have different operating systems for a reason?..
Hey, here on HN we never say "You can't."

I've done the finance thing, and it's got its good side. But now, I want to see how I can help more directly. And yes, it's possible.
In many ways the creditor does do that (and even the debt collector). Send them a letter that you are willing to pay them the 1k up front, and they will actually be pretty willing to accept it.
Yeah, almost all of it is shared with other departments for free if others are interested. For the most part lot of it is internal to an organization and the business practices and technology differ from agency to agency and as a result lot of it does not implement well. But lots is shared.
Its funny because we already live in this dystopia and you simply don't notice it because the plastic food we eat "looks real" and "tastes good". What is the difference between the completely artificial hamburger people get at McDonalds and Soylent? The fact that its basically "molded" to look like the real food we used to eat?

The reality is that we long ago crossed the line into having a society that mostly eats absolutely garbage and artificial food. This is not some future prospect, it is today, and we regularly see (and ignore) the disastrous medical results. This is of course perpetuated by a government that pushes a purely political nutritional agenda (let's tell everyone carbohydrates are the most important staple to eat and let's put corn and sugar in everything for economic reasons and let's also hope no one notices that fiber has mysteriously disappeared from our diets).

At least Soylent is trying to harness this machine for good. A world where "the cogs" at least receive proper nutrition would be a step up from today's illusion of choice.
Silverlight was a big success up until Sinofsky decided to kill it (with Silverlight, you could create rich apps and bypass Windows Store). Worst decision ever, I hope PNaCl takes over the world now.
A document with which someone could create an alternative implementation; like another browser for example. Do I take this to mean that there isn't one?
It's been a long time since I had anything to do with Smalltalk, so I may be shitting you -- unfortunately, I'm also on the run and cannot properly check the following statement, so please take this with a grain of salt -- Smalltalk does not have named functions that aren't methods. In other words, if something takes arguments, returns things and has a name, it's always a method of an object (i.e. it's a message to which an object responds). In other words, while (in abstract terms), a method (1) is different from a function (2), Smalltalk only has (1). You can't define a "function" outside the scope of an object, like in C++. You could define a class that only has a long bunch of static methods, not modeling any kind of logical abstraction, but it's considered bad style.
Don't know how to find jobs like this in general, but I'd suggest checking out Nextdoor.com
"but I guarantee every single person on HN will rather take the chance of malaria than the certainty of not being born in the first place."

You would have to assume that anyone who didn't want to be here would have topped themselves already.
I like that, it would be similar to Lain... but, I always thought about another possible interpretation: what we call "the real world" is actually pretty similar (if not equal) to a machine. If the Matrix is a simulation of the real world, then why Neo wouldn't be able to hack the rules outside of the Matrix as he did inside of it? Maybe the glitches or errors of the Matrix are actually physically possible (obviously not in classical mechanics).

If that's the case, then, the Matrix is a good thing since it would let us understand in more depth the reality.
Whoever has the gold, makes the rules.
Isn't it better to ship uncompiled C++ code directly, instead of decompiling and recompiling already compiled code?

Honest question, I'm a noob at compilers :)
> * Also I got bored with it after 3 play throughs, there's just not enough variety.*

How would you know how much variety it has it you've only done three playthroughs? You haven't seen a fraction of what the game has to offer.
For those who feel like they are missing out on the social aspect of eating out. Perhaps restaurants can start offering Soylent-based meals in their menu but with a twist. Instead of a plain shake in a cup, they could mold and dye the Soylent powder to look like a natural food like an apple, strawberry, or even a steak and serve it on a plate.

No stigma from having to turn down a restaurant invitation or a get together with friends.
If you are creating products that people are willing to pay money for, then most likely you are being a huge help to society.
Stronger: more harmful than many irresponsible diets e.g. McJunk, fat, sugar?
You can do something like this to change the URL without reloading page, and then just use AJAX for the currency switcher:

window.history.pushState("Updating URL to ___", "Title", "/?currency=USD");
I understand that you may be unmoved by the sentiment, but how can you rationally compare a "small indie dev community" with "2 guys"?
Aging will affect France less than most other EU countries, since it has relatively high birthrates. In particular, Germany and Italy have horribly low birthrates and should be affected much more by this.

Since internal trade and capital flows are much more important for the EU economy than external trade and capital flows, what matters is the relative aging effect compared to other EU countries.

So it was valid to discard that effect for a discussion of the broader dynamics.
"There are whole categories of problems that are pleasantly parallel, and in those cases the [Linpack maximum] number is really not as important because we did intentionally make use of the entire 1.2 petaflops because they were all concurrently executing the workloads," Stowe told Ars. "Maybe there does need to be a different metric for analytics and big data and genomics—and all these pleasantly parallel workloads that are becoming more pervasive."

I wonder if people miss this part. For easily parallel projects, Amazon is great since any core can make progress regardless of the other cores state or reachability. But if there is any inter-dependence between the cores (I use the term engtangling but others have called it co-dependence) the number becomes limited by the bisection bandwidth between cores. Poorly scheduled (like randomly scheduling on a core) is the worst case, if you can keep the bandwidth between entangled cores high, even if the system bandwidth is low, you can improve things (dramatically some times). But at the end of the day its the level of sharing between cores that will tell you if you can do your problem in the 'cloud' or if you are going to need a local data center.
This is exactly the relaxed attitude I am talking about. Soylent, used as hyped, should not need to be proved hazardous. Soylent, used as hyped, should be shown to be safe.
I accept that fact that some people like yourself find a product such as Soylent to be convenient, and I am in no position to criticize such personal choices.

But there are lots of existing products on the market, that have been available for quite some time now, everything from nutrition shakes to complete food replacements for people with chronic diseases (Crohn's, IBS, etc...), and Soylent seems to be more of the same, sans the actual clinical testing and trials that guarantee the safety of such products (and with the added Silicon Valley hype, of course.)
The problem here is that this could remove your ability to use localstorage in your application for anything but your JS source. We were hitting issues with some browser's 2-3MB limit when storing data for offline use.
I suspect people are less likely to investigate things that make intuitive sense, due to confirmation bias.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6720683
For $2M a day, your company can run the third fastest supercomputer in the world
If we define democracy as liberal, pluralistic democracies with a respected constitution, then that list shrinks dramatically.
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