skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mind if I ask where you spent $250 online for prescription sunglasses? Did that price include designer frames?

I got two pairs of prescription sunglasses from firmoo [1] for about $25 during a promotion. I am currently considering buying a new pair from a different merchant at a regular price of $30-$40 depending on frames, perhaps double that if I spring for polarizing lenses.

Dropping $250 for prescription sunglasses seems extremely expensive, unless you chose and value branded designer frames.

[1] http://firmoo.com/
What the Silk Road Crackdown Means for Privacy
This is the chemistry set I've always wished I could find. Growing up I had a huge interest in chemistry, but never got a chance to play with it at all.
Wow I was always confused by the ending of the last Matrix movie how Neo did what he did, now I must look up peoples ideas of what the ending really meant.
LendUp Raises $14M To Disrupt Payday Lending
Step 1: Stop pushing GMO foods on people who can't afford to choose otherwise.
Most of this simply has to do with lack of disruption. Almost all sites tend to add clutter over time because new things need to be added and some stakeholders don't want old things removed. Sometimes the only way to get clean new design is to start over. My guess is that competition has been less fierce and/or has been won (rigged?) by incumbents more often than it has been in the US, leading to slower iteration and acceptance of less-than-ideal design by consumers.

Enterprise versus consumer apps is the same story - lack of disruption and consumer choice leads to decisions that make sense only to the middlemen.
Madison is legit. I'm from Milwaukee and love the opportunities here, but Madison is not far behind as a favorite. I might just be a homer though.
Semi-related story. I was doing a fan site for Final Fantasy XIV (mmo from Square Enix). It's interesting to see how things have to behave differently when a tech company has to deal with Japanese and English.

For tweets from their marketing department, they would write a tweet in Japanese first which would fit into a single tweet, but would spill over between 3 tweets when translated to English.

Within the FFXIV game, they had a chat box (like chat in many MMOs). The input field for typing in text only allowed 80 or so characters. This was fine for Japanese, but for English it was extremely limited. They fixed it soon after release, but it was something the dev team didn't realize as they were all Japanese.
I get that, and it's the simplification of an incredibly complex situation that is the problem
I think the wikipedia entry is pretty clear that its an opt-in program that requires the user to check an option in the setup or options of Ghostery.

As far as other products, heres a handy chart we generate monthly to see which extension protects better: http://www.areweprivateyet.com/
My new favourite: Cmd-option-ctrl-[ and Cmd-option-ctrl-] to switch between devices (iPhone, iPad, simulator, device, etc.)
Why not use a backend as a service company for your "data soup"?
I'm going to elaborate on the parent's confusion a bit. Even if, as you suggest, net inflation doesn't increase, price distribution might. That is, yacht prices fall, while food/rent prices rise. Since the poor spend the vast majority of their income on food/rent, much of the basic income would thus be recaptured. In fact, while the equilibrium might be different, it appears to me that the overall impact might be minimal, or at least less than expected.

OTOH, it might help with our aggregate demand problems.

It's quite possible I'm missing something, however.
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I'm putting a lot of time and effort into mastering Scala, because I think that it's the future, paradigmatically speaking. But I think the muddled syntax and the complexity of the language may doom it. But I think it's the vanguard of the revolution. I was really psyched about Pyret (http://www.pyret.org/) when I read about it here over the weekend, and I think it hopefully represents the future of how we program.
Has Google Glass lost its cool?
Everyone needs a reason to live.
The (.log js/console (dom/getElement "query")) command returns "null" instead of a DOM element. Curiously, manually running the equivalent command in the Chrome console works as expected:

> goog.dom.getElement
function (element) {
return goog.isString(element) ?
document.getElementById(element) : element;
}
> goog.dom.getElement("query")
<input id=​"query" type=​"text">​
They mention this in the update:

> Update: A few people have mentioned that Node by default will use maxConnections of 5, but setting it higher would make NodeJS run much quicker. As I said, im sure NodeJS could go faster - I would never make assumptions about something I don't know much about - and the numbers reflect that suggestions. Removing the blocking PHP approach (because obviously it's slow as shit) and running just the other three scripts looks like this:
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Yamaha Shows Off Snazzy, Impossibly Light Electric Bike Concepts
interesting. am i right to say that it turns nosql-like queries/inserts into a relational structure? what about joins and the complicated stuff that bogs down writing queries as the complexity grows, how does this library support the __advanced__ stuff?
The Largest Anonymous Site: Craigslist.
On the other hand, you might have a look at the state news broadcaster http://ard.de
Um, why? It's likely that their trip spanned several countries because the animals people are typically interested are usually spread out across several countries. I would wager that most people going on Safari end up visiting multiple countries, though that's a hunch and not a citation.

If I'm going to visit the UK, France, Switzerland, and Germany, I'm going to tell people I went to Europe.
I'm not even asking for automatic alternate routing. How about letting me switch to a better route manually, without exiting navigation?
I've got the book. It's a great book, even though the Machine Learning course here at Technion is more Bayesian than AML's seemingly PAC and VC-focused book.
The Girls You Should Be Marrying
I think I would have enjoyed the movie a lot more if I had gone into it expecting a cool action movie with neat ideas, rather than something cerebral. If I'm expecting an action movie, I'm willing to forgive holes and hand-waving in the plot and premise because, hey, it's just an action movie, and look at all the cool slow motion exploding crap.

But if I'm expecting cerebral sci-fi, I have high standards for everything being tight and thought out. With those expectations in mind, I found Inception pretty dumb. It makes me wish I'd seen it without hearing all the hype first.

But at least it was better than Looper.
I guess this is a problem with trivial examples.

Pulling redundant work out of loops is a category of optimization that is widely used. In many cases, the optimizer can detect a lack of side effects on $list inside the loop body and perform the above optimization.
The Girls Who Are Never Getting Married
would love to hear more examples.
Simple things that could be done now by simply "changing the rules"

1. Change "Foreign Aid" to be based on direct micro-loans rather than dumping excess agricultural commodities and destroying local markets and pumping money into corrupt governments that steal it.

2. End the Drug War. It's killing people and is the foundation of organized crime. And why grow food when you can make more money growing dope?

3. Recognize women's rights: unfettered access to contraception/abortion and education.

I realize the "sex" part of #3 may be controversial to some, but those who are offended can just fuck off.
The discussion of basic income has been brought up here before. The article briefly mentions unemployment, but I think that is going to become a major issue in the future. Advances in technology keep cutting down the need for labor.

As automation erodes away at the need for workers, what will we be left with? Certainly, there will always be a need for people that can maintain and innovate our technologies, but why hire people to do the things that machines can do better, faster, and more cost-effectively? I think unemployment is something that is naturally going to increase in the long-term. I don't know if basic income would work or not, but it is worth considering.
Yeah, my gut feeling is that this sort of social safety net will allow more people to take on risky projects that have low probability of success but big potential payoff. This seems likely to be a net win for society even if most people don't try this and most of those that do fail.
Yes I was going overboard but indeed it is truly hundreds of queries and sometimes numerous connections per user.

Some sites I have had to deal with on initial inspection have 250+ queries per user (sometimes the same ones over and over due to plugins/modules) and people wonder why after 10 users it breaks the database/site.

Without cache on wordpress you might be in trouble, without cache on Drupal you don't run.

Still, Drupal is orders of magnitude more useable than other PHP frameworks like Joomla. The PHP that is fun is using microframeworks like limonade, flight etc if PHP is used.
Why Your Friends Shape Your Happiness, Creativity, and Career
I always figured it sat in a bad place, at least in terms of visibility, because Lisp hackers knew about it but mostly viewed it as an unnecessary compromise (why use Dylan when you can use CL?), whereas people outside Lisp either didn't know about it, or didn't understand what all the fuss was about. Which is too bad because it's a great language.
The same goes for stacked plots -- they seem OK but in practice humans cannot reliably compare height of things that does not stand on the same level.
How Buildings Learn (and why software is no different)
> How does Minnesota's system work for me as a member of the public? I can walk all over my neighborhood feeling perfectly safe, and even my children can freely go out in public, walking for a radius of a mile or biking for a radius of four or five miles in any direction, without risk or fear.

I'm genuinely curious, I'm honestly not trolling, is this state of affairs remarkable in the US these days? Is this really an accomplishment? Is it worse in general?
Also, I believe the core of the Google self-driving car team was hired from Stanford after they won the DARPA challenge. At the very least the lead was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Thrun (I know, not a startup, but it's relevant.)
No, it's popularity is because it was the simplest a long time ago, and it's supported on lots of virtual boxes by default.

Composer is terrible compared to NPM.
'I Wanted to Be Successful, and I Could Do That in Houston'
Counterpoint - nuclear power. (granted it started with the bomb, "fear", moved to free energy "to cheap to meter" (foothold), to fear again.
This is a very reductionist view of worth. Your model implicitly values people's non-working time at zero, which is true as far as GDP is concerned, but is pretty clearly false as far as how actual human beings chose to live. If fewer people are doing nails or cleaning other people's houses, then those people must be doing something else. Maybe they're working a job which is less economically productive, but which they enjoy more. Maybe they're not working and they're spending more time with their grand-kids. In either case, it's a real improvement in their quality of life. If your model doesn't incorporate personal preferences not related to the purchasing capacity of your paycheck, then that's a flaw in the model, in my opinion.
http://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2013/09/19/all-you-need-is-call-slash...

Think again, Paul Khoung walks you through implementing some monads using call/cc
Whether you believe it is loaded or not depends on your pre-existing beliefs. If you were brought up to believe in the American dream perhaps it seems controversial to expect to be paid just for having been born. But if you were brought up in a highly socialised society this would not sound controversial.

I've read quite a bit on basic income before and generally have the opinion that it might be a good idea so it does not sound negative to me to propose that people are paid to be alive. In that way I think it's a clever title as its meaning appears to change depending the reader's perspective.
They've also been under development for a really long time.

DCSS is 7 years old (and a successor to the 16-year-old Crawl). Angband (Moria) is 19. Nethack is 27. Rogue was released in 1980 (33 years ago).
It basically does the same thinf as insurances do. It reduces risks for the individual. The benefit of this version is that it has a way smaller overhead than an insurance has.

Insurances have a risk for the company/state giving out the insurance. This entity also has to deal with the requests, has to check who really is sick and who just claims to be. They have to be constantly adapated to what is covered and what is not. You have to employ doctors, (re)verifying stuff, you need people giving support, you have to deal with constant complaints of why X is covered and Y is not. It can be abused.

Another side effect is that doing your own venture doesn't mean you end up on the street.

People finally REALLY have to care for their health and stuff, because for not being sick, being hurt or whatever you can use the money for something else.

People can do learn stuff on their own, while being able to live.

All that complex balancing governments, etc. have to deal with all the time is gone or at least way less.

So baasically it is the realization that all that stuff is complex, makes everyone hate the system and taxes and reduces freedom by implementing and fixing laws, staying up to date, etc.

This was tried in a couple of poorer countries (they had nothing to lose). Outcome was lower crime rate, an actual economy, lower unemplyment, etc.

It's most likely not the answer to all question and not perfect, but it has many, many benifits. As the article states the problem is the same as with democracy. There was a time when nearly everboy was like "My decision might be good, thought of one, but what about all the others?". And all in all it sounded like a really naive and stupid idea in the beginning. Now we all know that Democracy isn't perfect, but then what really is?
If it's about wealth redistribution, why give money to the rich? If it's about anything else, why take the money in the first place just to give it back later?
All You Need Is call/cc
Yet over the past 10 years, greater New York’s share of the nation’s start-ups funded by venture capital has more than doubled, from 5.3 percent to 11.4 percent

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/the-boom...
"Things that could be trivially done in SQL :("
We use HIVE over HDFS. Sure the type of things we are doing could have been done in SQL, if we had carefully curated our data set and chosen which parts to keep and which to throw away. Unfortunately, we are greedy in the storage phase. Hive allows us to save much more than we reasonably would need, which actually is great when we need to get it long after the insert was made.
Free on Wii u : http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/175564-WiiU-license-comes-f...

I think it will also be free on XBOX ONE
These are human beings we're talking about, with ideas and dreams and goals. I find the idea of wasting their lives with 'make-work' morally reprehensible. We should be trying to free them up to focus on their dreams and big ideas, not throwing away their potential uselessly.
> Trying to solve social issues with technology doesn't work that well. Changing social patterns is much harder.

Maybe it could e.g. when offering a 'globally funded retirement provision' to people who agree to only have one child. Or maybe if you only offer Malaria/Polio 'technology' to people who agree to this and that condition.
_The Thirteenth Floor_ was released same year as the Matrix. I think it's a better execution of the same idea.
I'd like to self-host it if possible. Letting a 3rd party possess all of that information at the same time seems risky to me.
Rest assured that Bill Gates has spent at least 2 decades and countless financial resources in order to build his own understanding of the incredibly complex situation that exists not only in Africa, but also the rest of the world. He's part of the solution; are you?
No, that's a very negative title to a conservative; that's no accident.
WxWidgets 3.0 has been released - the first major update since 1998
Do you mean zerohedge is the dailywtf for traders?
Do you have any sources to back up these claims? Some can probably be documented with a bit of historical digging, but most of this is just opinion which does not match my experience.

Not cooperating with the police will get you in trouble anywhere in the world.
Yeah, I get that he knows how complicated the issues are, but the point is that that language helps reinforce an idea of superiority. Many people that read that article are going to continue to lump the entire continent together and continue to think "poverty, disease, black, rural, other", whereas the reality is much different.
Socialism is when workers control the means of production.

I might be picking nits, but Socialism is when a group controls the means of production. This can be workers, or the state, or simply a group of citizens. Think of a cooperative: I own a share in the coop, but do not work there. I can help drive the direction of the organization. There is no requirement that a member-owner must be a worker.
Like I said, they are only one third of my backup strategy. My house burning down, or someone breaking in and going into my attic to steal my 30kg 4U server, should be the only two realistic scenarios in which I will need to rely on CrashPlan.
what about android development?
With a Filter Bypass and Some Hexadecimal,Credit Card Numbers Are Google-able
"With a basic income, people take a job if U(job income + basic income) - U(basic income) > X."

Which is the beauty of a basic income -- it means that employers no longer need to merely outcompete destitution, but instead offer a compelling reason for people to come work for them. Unpleasant but vital jobs would become better compensated, while there would be strong pressure to eliminate useless make-work jobs.

The world economy has not been suffering a labor shortage for a very long time. Basic income allows a lot of menial labor to be automated without destroying lives, and in the long term will redirect that output to creative and skilled labor, thus enriching society on more than one level.
Re: job redistribution.

What about the New Deal's CCC?
I don't think I've expressed an opinion because I don't think I have one (I have strong opinions on Scala, but they don't apply to Haskell). I'm just pointing out what seem to be major obstacles to Haskell adoption in the industry. I'm not saying it's not worth the effort because I really don't know. I'm just saying it's not obviously worth the effort. Clearly, the data isn't there yet because there is very little use of Haskell in the industry. This may be unfortunate – or not – but we just don't have enough information to tell yet.

Haskell's roots in academia often steer the discussion towards theoretical PL, which seriously hurts Haskell adoption. I actually like tikhonj's comment because it focused on practicality rather than jargon, so in response I merely pointed out that Haskell is not 100% pure gain in practical terms. That does not mean we shouldn't all adopt it, it just means that the jury is still out.
I'd always heard that children's chemistry sets got increasingly dumbed down because of a combination of direct regulation of common chemicals, under the rubric of both the War on Drugs and the War on Terror, and fear of tort liability.

Is that not the case?
If I may ask, where did you get your vision checked for the prescription? I think I'm going your cheap route, however, my vision insurance has long been cancelled since I turned into a contractor..
I was a communist until age 20 or so, but keep beating up that strawman.
My startup is working on this, analysing and making sense of personal data, check it out: http://sympho.me

It works by connecting to services you might all ready use etc.

(full disclosure, I am the Co-founder of this company)
That's funny, many of the embedded chipmakers are finally standardizing on Eclipse, which means I don't have to relearn a new proprietary IDE when we change chipsets. In that sense Eclipse is way better than environments written 10+ years ago. That's Eclipse's biggest strength at the moment.

I wish there was a Sublime-based IDE with visual debugging support. As a low level developer I still need immediate access to watch windows, memory and registers, and that prevents me from using Sublime for anything more than code refactoring.
I must ask... What compelled you to watch a movie THAT many times in such a short period?
The problem with this proposal is that it will change dynamics a lot, and it's hard to predict how people will respond to those dynamics. In other words, what will the unintended consequences be?

Will people with non-great jobs around the basic income level keep going to work, or will they stay home and maintain their current living standard, or will they keep going to work, and roughly double it?

If many people choose to stay home, the cost of the services they provide will rise quite dramatically. This will have some hard to predict consequences across the economy. Some of the services will just be foregone with little tangible effect. Lawns will be mowed less often, street swept less often etc. Slightly worse impact on the economy will be when busy people decide to forego help, such as cleaners, babysitters, handymen etc. and do the job themselves, competing with either or both work and leisure time, which impacts either or both productivity and quality of life.

The most direct impact will be the rise in cost of services that can't be foregone or "taken in-house". Trash-collection, several bits of the retail supply chain etc. This will raise the cost of everything for everyone.

Also, besides these impacts, there's the human element. If a person makes the short-term decision to not work (and not studying or working on a startup or something similar), that person moves further and further away from ever participating in productive labour. I'm a bit old-fashioned on this, but I consider allowing people to go idle, long-term like that, is a grave failure of society. Many people who start in unpleasant low-wage jobs, don't end in them. Those who never start any job(/education/productive activity) at all have no chance of progressing beyond them.

But the worst is that taken together, the rise in prices will create a strong force towards getting rid of low income jobs, which will raise the bar significantly for those at the bottom, committing many of those willing to work to not work.

This is all speculation, and it's all dependent on the level to which low-income people will or won't chose to work.
Apparently the IPO has created 1600 new millionaires:

http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-ipo-created-1600-mill...
> All of us with privilege need to stop referring to the place as just 'Africa'

> Sure, the national boundaries are just some lines colonists in Europe drew on a map

Ummm, I have no words. Kettle, pot black?

If you can't even follow your own advice then you shouldn't' have the expectation that others will.
Actually, only 3 is good. The rest are incorrect, entirely, and 5 is debatable as to whether that's a good thing.
Android development now uses (or is in the progress of moving to) Android Studio, an IntelliJ based IDE.