skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you believe the Keynesians or the Monetarists, it's because they refuse to work at a lower nominal wage than before. Unemployment/welfare/etc makes this an appealing prospect, and Basic Income only makes the problem worse.

Sorry, how is that? Under the current scheme, if I increase my wages (from $0 to $10k or from $8k to $14k or whatever), I lose my benefits. Under Basic Income, I do not lose my benefits; I only gain by increasing my wages.
I've always been highly sociable compared to my other coworkers and have also noticed I get attributed things that weren't really accurate. Notably non-technical coworkers seem to think I work at break-neck pace when I really just work at pace with everyone else, most likely because I actually talk about what I'm doing with them more often.
Working on a PNaCl spec or did I miss it and that was released too?
OP here, this post was originally titled - Google Dash/Dart: Leaked Internal Email

Edit: IMHO, I think the above title was better suited for this post. I respect the fact that HN moderators modified it to email subject, it refers to, but the title should have at least included keyword "Google".
Wow, I've experienced getting headaches every time that I've gotten a new pair of glasses. I never thought it would be because the pupillary distance was off. I just thought I had to adjust to the new prescription. But half of them were from a brick and mortar store so I'd expect them to get the pupillary distance right.
Airbnb launches hospitality-focused apps for its 350,000 hosts
Are you saying that some of these can't be done in JS, or just that they're more efficient in PNaCl?
So you have read the "The Limits to Growth" (which was pretty scary in 1972) looked at what has happened over the last 40 years, and not figured out where it went off the tracks?

Quite simply it is this, extrapolation of closed systems always fails to predict the behavior of those systems. The two most interesting examples are the use of energy and birth rates. Birth rates go down as countries become more prosperous for a variety of reasons, but the effect is that once it gets below replacement rate (as it has in Japan and elsewhere) the extrapolating the population leads it going to 0. We intuitively know that it is unlikely a population will simply die off due to a failure to reproduce. But it is easier some how to imagine a crushing horde of people, too many too feed, crammed into pens. Why? Energy is another area where we've constantly predicted (again via extrapolation) the end of the world as we know it, and again it has failed to materialize again and again.

These are examples of the responsiveness of the system to forcing functions. People don't reproduce as much if they are not worried that their children won't live to adulthood, energy as an expense is minimized by gains in efficency, process changes. The US' carbon 'footprint' has remained flat for years, policy change, people change, the economics change.

So predictions based on extrapolation are fallible if not simply wrong.
Why did the agency fail? One of my goals was to start a small agency and work with a few developers/designers and take on projects.
You need some serious balls to defend Pinochet and his criminal gang.

"Immediately after the coup the junta moved to crush their left-wing opposition. In addition to pursuing armed revolutionary groups it embarked on a campaign against opponents and perceived leftists in the country. As a result, according to the Rettig Commission, approximately 3,000 people are known to have been killed, 27,000[1] were incarcerated and in a great many cases tortured." [1]

Reading "The Shock doctrine" by Naomi Klein opened my eyes. She would disagree with you on the "halfway-to-Cuba socialism":

"As for the argument that Friedmanite policies are the reason Chileans live in "houses of brick" instead of "straw", it's clear that Stephens knows nothing of pre-coup Chile. The Chile of the 1960s had the best health and education systems on the continent, as well as a vibrant industrial sector and a rapidly expanding middle class." [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Junta_of_Chile_(1973...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/mar...
Although sovereign credit ratings by the big Credit Rating Agencies do have a small impact on borrowing cost, their ratings should still be taken with a grain of salt.

Take a look at this study by the New York Fed.

http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/epr/96v02n2/9610cant.pdf

In particular on page 10 table 8 you can see the additional impact that a credit rating upgrade or downgrade has on borrowing cost. You could also read throughout the paper and in the conclusion that a lot of what determines a sovereign credit rating is correlated with publicly available macro indicators (i.e. the market was already moving in that direction anyways). Take a look at page 9 chart 2 to see the direction that spreads are moving before an after a ratings announcement.

My point is that Ratings agencies don't swing a huge sledgehammer; its more like a small mallet. The author of the article is right you should be skeptical of the incentives behind these ratings decisions but you also shouldn't fear them.
If the basic income is reasonably low (the income figure seems high for the US, but cost of living is much higher in Switzerland), I don't see a major decrease in productivity. If anything, I see an increase, due to elimination of extreme disincentives the means-tested programs create. But there surely is a level at which what you are describing would happen, and that is exactly what I am worried about.

The regressive payout sounds like a good idea, but isn't it equivalent to just flattening the income tax?
Also interesting to try something like:

sleep - sleep

http://www.thisplusthat.me/search/sleep%20-%20sleep
There are some fairly stringent regulations that ensure food products are made in a GMP environment.[1] Flaunting those rules is extremely dangerous, both from a health perspective and from a legal one. There are numerous instances where those in charge of food operations have gone to prison for failing to maintain hygienic standards.[2]

Soylent better get their shit together. Food safety is nothing to play around with, literally life-and-death decisions being made.

1. http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/CGMP/ucm110877.ht...

2. Listeria killed 33 people, owners of company to prison: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24292036
I agree with the point I think you intend to make, but I think you're going about making the point really badly.

Yes, the issues of the world are political. But demonizing technology doesn't help. Pointing out that technology didn't fix the problem would be a more reasonable way to make your point than "look how technology was used to make things worse".
The Principle of Charity
I was wrong, and you are correct. Replacing unemployment with a basic income could go either way, depending on the marginal taxation rates of reducing benefits and the rates of diminishing marginal utility.

However, a Basic Job guarantee can only go one way. You never get to avoid the disutility of labor (X in my formulation).

But I'll dispute one point: you assure that work always has a higher marginal benefit

BI assures that work has a higher marginal income. It does not assure that work has a higher marginal utility, which is what matters.
IE6 did not have an open source implementation that others could adopt.
Sure, paid by companies, they aren't asking for funds in kickstarter.
Leverage the situation
Convert bar graphs into data?
It's an open marketplace. The project still has to have merit to be funded via Kickstarter or similar venues.

The best use of this strategy has been integration of South into Django itself. The funding for this went above and beyond what was expected as everyone released the immense value of getting this work done. Also, I don't believe anyone is getting rich doing this. In the case of South, there was a genuine request of "hey, I can do this, but I can't make too much progress in my free time".

Using Ruby on Rails is a little disingenuous example too. It's had the backing of its main company (37signals) since its inception.

I do believe that these things will self-adjust itself. On face value, DHH makes interesting arguments. But, projects that are getting funding are being done by people that are already intimidate with the project. Also, the rates that are being set for the hours that will be involved are hardly market rate.

What I love about this new model, is that it can push projects into the mainstream whereas companies start getting involved and allow their employees to spend time making fixes and improving the projects.

Another example of this was Microsoft's financial support for the jquery UI team for building the grid. They funded I believe at least one developer's salary to get the work done. I don't think anyone would argue that this was a bad move as the jquery team was still in control of the project and the timeline (which has definitely been pushed back with regards to the grid).
The population can be reduced via attrition, allowing everyone currently alive to be deserving of a great life.
Marginally off topic, but calling a A Windows box a Wintel box implies that there is functional, if not fundamental, difference between Windows/Intel machines and Windows/AMD machines. There isn't.

I ran all the same Active X controls on my WAMD box you did on your Wintel.

Or am I missing something about the Windows/Intel combination?

Anecdote: I switched to Mac (Mintel? Mactel?) in 2007. Prior to that, my 486DX4 100 (circa 1995) was the last Intel I used.

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Term you are looking for is Laffer Curve. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
I believe "state" here was used in the generic sense to refer to any organized political entity rather than the 50 states that make up the US.
JS should not be that slow in my experience. Do you still have the code to your benchmark somewhere? Perhaps you ran into a performance bug that we can file for the relevant browser(s).
> I suspect austerity does work but has an inflection point. It can (theoretically) be used to cut outright government waste.

So that makes intuitive sense, but a lot of things in economics (and everything else complex) make intuitive sense but turn out to be completely wrong. The problem is that while we both "suspect" that this is true or close to true, all that really means is that our gut says it must be and we're smart enough to know about a mechanism like inflection points that can be used to rationalize it.
They still have to pay income tax on the abolished debt, but for someone in trouble like this that's probably at a pretty low marginal rate. The IRS doesn't want me paying for things by loaning the seller the price and then forgiving the debt as a way of getting around taxes, though that policy ends up being unfair in this situation.
If the homeless are citizens, they too will receive the money. So there won't be a need for so many charities.
There is no disincentive to find work. Either you don't work and earn X, or you work and you earn X + Y. Just like it happens now, with less hoops to jump through.
Github cofounder says his company doesn’t just ‘sprinkle Internet on top’
Yep. Important to know if you ever find yourself in a dark alley cornered by a gang of radical genderqueers. You're lucky if you get out of there with just a shaved head and confusing-looking clothes.
Ask Washington Anything
Just out of personal curiosity, what do you think of Castro?
FoundationDB Raises $17 Million Series A
18 hours, $33K, and 156,314 cores: Amazon cloud HPC hits a “petaflop”
> Everyone who gets a check, which is pretty much all Swiss citizens, now need to add one line item to their taxes, which the government can verify via interface (1) above. Those who make a lot of money via their job and the minimum income pay more in taxes. For pretty much everyone who is rich, the $2800/month actually comes right back out in taxes.

From what I kind, the highest combination of federal and cantonal income taxes in Switzerland is less than 29%, so unless they have truly stupendous local income taxes, it will never be true that "the $2800/month actually comes right back out in taxes".

Obviously, those in higher tax brackets will get less additional after-tax income, but it looks like every citizen will get at least a significant fraction of the $2800.
Some of this is that underlying model is insufficiently trained, but some of this is disambiguation. Disambiguation in text is a very, very, hard problem.

So some of your examples, when clarified, are a bit clearer:
Paul McCartney - Beatles + Rolling Stones = Mick Jagger is in the 3rd spot. (http://www.thisplusthat.me/search/Paul%20McCartney%20-%20Bea...) Change stone -> Rolling Stones.

Thank you for the comment!
Ask HN: How can I find out what a website is actually about?
For a project of mine we want to analyse what a website is actually about. We need to obtain a list of keywords what the website is about.

Right now we are just using meta tags to get a list of keywords. But this does not offer very good results.

How does Google do it? They must have some way to find out what a website is actually about.

Do you know external APIs that could help?

Thanks.
I think that a big change in prescriptions can cause it temporarily as well, but definitely have them re-check the prescription/PD. A surprising number of mistakes are made.

Also if you notice that your eyes aren't centered vertically in the frames, that can mean the optical center is off which can lead to headaches.
I honestly don't even get why reward pools are such a big deal.

I do work for you, I am owed compensation based on terms we've negotiated before I started working for you. From time to time these terms will come up for renegotiation.

There is no need for compensation in excess of what we've negotiated. Sure, I am not one to turn down free money, but understand that this does not affect our normal compensation discussions.

My work is worth $X on the market. I expect that you will pay me $X (or come up with alternative forms of compensation that are mutually agreeable). I will not sign a deal that adds up to $X where part of the compensation is discretionary. My work is worth what it's worth. If it is not up to your satisfaction, you are free to terminate this relationship or renegotiate my pay. You may not unilaterally decide to pay me less than what we agreed upon, and I will not submit to a system that allows this.

Which is to say, you will be unsuccessful if you try to persuade me to lower my base salary on the promise of "bonuses".

I feel that "bonuses" are just ways to hoodwink people who haven't been around the block. Every time I have come across bonuses of this variety, it has been an excuse to lower your base salary. I have never once received the full possible bonus, even though I have been promised multiple times prior to joining the company that "everyone" gets the full amount, and that only very poor performers don't. I have never received a poor performance review.

If you do not pay me $X, whether in salary or in bonuses or in suitcases of bacon, I will leave. I do not give one flying hoot about stack ranks, bonus pools, or any such nonsense. I am not willing to inject uncertainty into my income without a proportional upside for myself.

Discretionary bonuses are full of shit.
While it may not take away from the product itself, I think that this definitely shows some level of inexperience from the people behind Soylent. The idea is there, but the process hasn't been perfected.

Unfortunately, when dealing with matters of health and sanitation, you don't have the luxury of trial-and-error iteration.
Statistical significance and its part in science downfalls
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Negative. One of the best Japanese coders I know runs his own property management business, and learned coding (and English) so he can stay on top of the various stuff he's created in support of his operations.
Leave this kind of political rant for /r/politics please.

If someone wants to say something interesting about the downgrade of France, some actual analysis combined with numbers and graphs would be much more welcome than a linkbait title based on a column full of caricatures of political opponents.
Lobster: Instagram & Flickr marketplace
Interesting.
Currently it generates garbage for lot of queries but, some stuff is kinda fun.
Forrest Gump - comedy + romance gives pulp fiction (!), as good as it gets (match) and polar express (?)
Avatar - action + comedy gives The Office (haha!)
Sync your HTML slides in real-time with your audience using Firebase
Looks like it doesn't work on python 3.3 for some reason ;(
It would be better to put some information to the website about required software\modules versions etc...

in <module>
import dataset
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\dataset\__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
from dataset.persistence.database import Database
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\dataset\persistence\database.py", line 3,
in <module>
from urlparse import parse_qs
ImportError: No module named 'urlparse'
It really seems like the authors are trying to excuse the unsanitary conditions when really it's not excusable to have them at any stage. Both the journalism and the topic at hand were disappointing. They have more than enough capital to keep the place clean, and you'd think it'd be at the top of their list given the huge (vocal) concern over personal health regarding their product.
I prefer Gamemaker Studio (http://yoyogames.com/) it's more code oriented but very easy to use. There's a free version too. Look up Hotline Miami if you want to see a commercial game made with it.
Any reference to support your claim that LLVM bit code is quite large ?
Aren't supplements/non-medical powders/various other juju immune from FDA issues?
Your last point is dead-on, and I think it's not just true for Japan but also for Germany and Russia. People from these countries tend to approach technology from a much more hardware or math centric view. The interest in UI stuff is nowhere as great as in the US and it doesn't garner the same level of reputation.
IBM’s strategy in a nutshell: All roads must lead to profit
I was thinking that we need to optimize for growing crops indoors under minimal water and light scenarios. Living in your own apt/led greenhouse. To do this it would be nice to run thousands of experiments to find the optimal conditions, crowd source the variable space. Thoughts?
Startup Newbie: Conference Networking - Cluster Then Crawl
Back to the Future: 1.21 petaFLOPS, 156,000-core
Let us speculate a bit further and perhaps coalesce multiple debtors, repackage their debt, create a debt-repurchase-vehicle that would purchase a tranche at a significantly lower cost than face value? Someone should really start securitizing that market from the other side!
Pay it off early. So long as your debt contract doesn't have a huge penalty for early payment, you can save tons of money.

For example, a $500k home loan at 3% over 30 years costs $258,887.26 or more than 50% of the original loan amount!

I've known a couple folks with poor credit scores who bought cars that would cost them almost double the purchase price over 5 years because the interest on their debt was so high.

http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/managing-debt/annual-per...
I'm hoping that Space Monkey (http://www.spacemonkey.com/) helps solve some of this. It backups up to a local appliance-style box, then syncs with other space monkey boxes in a peer to peer manner. Like cloud storage, but cheaper at $10/month for 1TB.
I'm neither the OP nor one of the downvoters (I don't have enough karma for that anyway) but isn't satisfying (or in PGs words, gratifying) curiosity exactly what's asked for in HN submissions by the guidelines?
some level

They're just treating nutrition like we build databases. Ignore all relevant history, research, field knowledge and make up what you want for yourself. Iterate until downtime/heart issues stop.
I changed my password to "photoshop", because I was expecting an advice from adobe telling me to pick something more secure, nothing happened :/
so can't I take out $36750 in loans, buy the debt for $1000, rinse and repeat?
I just bought a pair of eyeglasses and sunglasses last week to use out my benefits from work. My previous pair I purchased online from Coastal Contacts. Those cost my ~$175. I spent ~$600 on my eyeglasses and sunglasses at a local optometrist this week, after my insurance coverage.

This time around, it was a lot easier. The ladies there picked a bunch of frames they thought would look good on me, and had me try them on. I had both pairs picked within 30 minutes. On Coastal Contacts, I took almost a week to finally decide on a pair. Is it worth the vast difference in price? Debatable. I do like these glasses, they look a lot better. But overall, the experience was better. I'd probably do it again, but only because I can afford it. I do understand that spending ~$300 for glasses is untenable for many folks, and the online shops do a great job of fulfilling that need.

That being said, I watched this whole video, and I think that the Luxottica brand is amazing. Here's a scrappy little shop in the Italian Alps that went from a small factory in the 60s to having over $9bil in sales last year in 50+ years. Not only do they own and make several eyewear brands, they own retail stores, and they even own an insurance provider.

You can lament their monopoly all you want, but I think they're an excellent example of what hard work and tenacity can produce. Since many of us are aspiring founders, we can only hope to achieve such market dominance.

Also, that CEO handled that interview extremely well.
You bring up a good point, but I don't think the status quo will be able to persist. This is because of the pace of at which efficiency increases. To be honest, I haven't looked relevant data, but I imagine our rate of improvement is non-linear. As technology advances, it increases the rate at which technology advances. Thus far, demand has scaled in conjunction with the increases in supply. I don't believe it will be able to keep up in the long run though. You just won't need as many workers.

You'll also notice that the average worker now has far more education and training than in the past. This is a side effect of our increased dependency on technology. As more and more specialization is required, the barrier to entry in the workforce will just become too high.
Alcohol without the hangover? It's closer than you think
The preparation area shown in the video is hilariously disgusting. Fucking horrific.

I still expect them to come out as a huge troll. If so, 10/10, did rage, would rage again.
Fixing my old code makes me want to cry