skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Thank you for explaining that.

It also explains why getting a loan is not considered income, because it will be paid back. The interest you pay is income for the entity issuing the loan.

If that entity now "forgives" the debt, it now becomes income for the borrower. They could presumably file a "loss" for the interest they will now not be getting.

Did I get that right?

This would also mean this kind of open a possibility of tax fraud. Companies issuing "loans" to employees, instead of paying salaries. I am sure IRS has something against that as well.
The top three offenders on the list ... are Rap Genius, Lyrics Mania and Lyrics Translate.
Also: generic functions. And hygienic macros. I miss those in ruby.
Partly both. I needed to move for work, I couldn't sell because the value plummeted and I didn't have the cash on hand to get the loan down to the new value. When I attempted to rent it out, my association informed me that they had a limit on the number of rentals, and they were at capacity for rentals because small investors had already bought up units during the buildout to rent out to people. Had I rented it out without their consent, they were going to fine me $100/day.

I was essentially fucked. I threw my hands up and said I quit. Worked out for the best.
That's not the bitcoin address listed on the wikileaks website. The only mention of the address was on bitcoin-charity.info where it was connected to wikileaks but that's now offline. Seems suspicious that only one website had that address listed.

Edit: From the 'wikileaks' account listed on bitcoin-charity.info 150btc each were sent to 2 other addresses listed on that site. An african charity 'Amani Kinderdorf' and a 'Nonprofit Recycling and Exchange Network'. It seems like (though the charities are real) the bitcoin links are not related to them and bitcoin-charity.info was a scam site. (google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bitcoin...)
> Show me some evidence or even some indication that Soylent will result in an irreversible and sudden decline in health.

> If it fails to live up to the hype, it's reversible.

Once again, demanding evidence that something is unsafe instead of providing evidence that it is not, then in the same breath taking that it is not for granted.

Is that all you are wired to do? It's like what I'm saying is going in one ear and coming out the other.
Exactly! I love 360 reviews because, in part, they help mitigate the halo effect. They were also good at revealing the halo effect.
>They would have to pay way more than a living wage

Say they'd have to pay 50% more. So what?

>This would drastically increase costs, would would simply spur inflation.

And inflation is a non-issue when you simply give everyone $30k/year on top of everything else?
I believe the city of Richmond, CA (in the bay area, green party mayor) has already passed a provision to use eminent domain for the same reason. Oakland is following their lead.
Ok, by some definition you made up that only matters to you, sure, they are the same.
This is probably abundantly clear, but someone has to say it. You need to refactor that beast and split it out into separate files for development. Add a build process to smash it all together for you. End of story.
Same thing in Canada, a lot of the US seems to envy our healthcare system and the current system is cheaper per capita than medicare in the US, even before Obama and Bush expanded coverage.
Another brick in Google's walled garden. I will never use it.
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That's one arbitrary example. It's meaningless if he represents 1 out of a 10000 sample size.
Of course, it's quite important that you are not made to spit on your keyboard. Shame on Bill Gates.
Yep. My mom got all her nutrition from Ensure for a couple months after stomach surgery. She lived.
"The Software Industry failed to deliver healthcare.gov. As a result, millions of people are being hurt. We did that, folks. It was our industry, our failure."

Wrong.

That "industry" had about as much to do with how real software is developed as an actor in a medical drama has to do with saving lives.

That industry was typical of the revolving door between corporations and government. Don't try to pin that train wreck on software developers like me: this is the work of politicians, clueless middle managers, and profiteers.

I don't know how you apparently got into my family, "Uncle Bob", but I want a divorce. Moron.
I gave you an upvote even though you're factually wrong/misguided, because you don't deserve to be in the gray.

> I personally strive to be debt free and self sufficient, and I would like my country to be the same.

First of all, you are conflating country and government. Most of a government's debt is typically held by the country's citizen, so government debt is in fact private wealth.

Second, think about why you strive to be debt free and self sufficient, and then think about whether the same logic applies to a government that issues its own currency and is indebted only in that currency. A government that is monetarily sovereign is subject to different rules than private households and must therefore follow different strategies.

If you transfer the guidelines you have developed for your own personal dealings directly onto the government, you're making a mistake. It may feel good and morally right, but it's still wrong from a logical and rational perspective.
I yield to no HN user in the extent and intensity of my distaste for the idea of Soylent, but the Pando article was, per Pando's charter, linkjacked clickbait that referred directly to the Vice article. It was totally reasonable --- desirable, even --- for the two articles to be switched. Would that we could simply do away with Pando altogether so that this kind of controversy might never recur.
The per capita GDP of planet earth is around $12,400, so this is theoretically possible. You might want to look at how well socialism has worked out in the past before getting serious about such an idea, though.
Small problems are not the majority of gross medical sales. Most of the revenue comes from expensive life-saving operations that one might argue are very inelastic.
Austerity is the pinnacle of FYGM (fuck you, got mine) politics. It is almost always lobbied for and driven by the financial elite, and their reasoning behind it is that if government spends less, it needs less taxes, which means rich people get to keep more of their wealth to themselves. Those poor people over there though? Fuck 'em. If they worked hard like us they would be rich, too!

Of course, this wouldn't be politically correct to say outright. So instead, they disguise it under things like "fiscal responsibility." But underneath the rhetoric you can almost taste the hatred and contempt they feel towards poor people.
Uh, no.

Brainwallets with weak passphrases are a bad idea. Every case of a brainwallet theft has been due to users coming up with predictable passphrases to generate the key.

Most brainwallet private keys are simply a SHA256 hash of a passphrase, which is fairly easy for a dedicated attacker to crack via bruteforce or dictionary attacks, yes. But if you use, say, a 12-word sentence with completely random words, like SHA256("fire pickle shipment lachrymose deity unwitting pernicious obstacle kitchen tumbleweed mannequin erudite"), and maybe some random letters or numbers at the end, it's infeasible that it'll ever be cracked.

One common problem is that many people will pick song lyrics, book titles, or Bible quotes as their passphrase. Obviously attackers are going to scrape and add those to their dictionaries (which will then also be permutated in many ways), so it's critical that the words are picked arbitrarily and that there are enough of them.

The idea itself isn't inherently insecure, except for the fact that SHA256 was probably a poor hash function to use since it's fast.

I can guarantee that this will always be more secure than trusting any online service to store your wallet instead. The only risk is you forgetting one or more of the words, in which case you're in trouble.
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Exactly. Not even McDonald's would suggest that. They are far more risk-adverse than the Soylent people are.
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100 randomly generated characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9) would be 595 bits of entropy. You will not be brute forcing it. Although 100 characters is pretty excessive, since a Bitcoin address only has 160 bits of entropy.
The USDA has two conflicting missions: (1) promote US agricultural products, and (2) advise the public about healthy food choices.

This dual mandate results in significant food industry influence on the advice the USDA gives the public.

Unsurprisingly, guidance about what foods are unhealthy has been softened or eliminated. Changing guidance on proteins and grains are heavily influenced by the economic interests of entrenched agricultural corporations.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8375951
a lot of people (who won't close your site because it's slow) have 4G
I think the main problem with stack ranking is that you convince your employees that their personal competitors are their teammates and not actual business competitors.

Any time the best way for me to get ahead is by using "The Art of War" on my peers you have set up your organization for eventual failure.
AFAIK TypeScript is a language which is a super-set of Javascript so in a sense it contains the flaws of it. Dart is a more ambitious project as it contains a completely new language, a VM, a development browser called Dartium including the VM for fast development cycle and debugging, a modularity system (pub), a quite large client and server side library, a stand alone editor and a javascript trnaslator (dart2js). It also works in server side.
The unintended consequence of this activity is that if people start negotiating their debt down, the collection firms will pay less for it. As a result, the least credit-worthy are going to have to pay even more for credit, or will be less likely to get credit at all.
The blog post is gone... guess that sums up the counter-argument? :)
Yes, and I dare say this whole civilization thing is working out pretty well as a result of our switch to grains.
It's a different trade-off. The Supermicro boxes use drive trays, so swapping a hard drive requires a datacenter tech to handle the tray mounting and unmounting. The PODs just drop drives right in. They've traded off tray mounting work for chassis sliding.
I really like Mavericks': "Power to the desktop."

It's like a return to form after Jobs started lusting after the consumer market.
Here is the V8 (Chrome) bug for asm.js support:
http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2599
Maybe it's safe to say that quality of life has generally improved for the human race over the last 100k years.
Once you get past about $5million you might as well cash it in there rather than take any more risks - you're set for life either way.
He saw a rat in the food preparation factory. He also saw rats at a bar.
Population growth is largely a solved problem. Not to say that it is totally under control, but rather that it has been successfully addressed in many large test-cases to the point where it's probable we can address it anywhere, given the appropriate level of governmental and social infrastructure.

Fertility is below replacement rates in China, and it's population will peak in the next decade. India's will peak by 2060. Population in Africa continues to grow, but with economic development there is every reason to believe that it can follow in the footsteps of India and China.

See: http://www.economist.com/node/21541834
Hi Laura! I am in the US. I was able to use the service just fine. Thank you.

Matt
Looks like it.

In this case, it makes complete sense. The original was intentionally inflammatory leading with a line about nude pictures of Hilary Clinton, and was based on the NYT article to begin with.
The biggest problem with this is that they just generating a taxable event and these people now owe taxes on the "income" they received from being pardoned.
Especially the Baltic plywood box set, however the $900 Kickstarter pledge for that seems a bit steep.
You'll note that Schneier's criticism of NSA as the source of the DRBG backdoor is that it was too obvious (i.e. the work of clowns, not the work of the most-advanced cryptography outfit in the world), not that NSA wouldn't engage in that kind of activity.

He also mentioned how it was NSA (and NSA specifically) who were 'so insistent' on including that 'obviously' broken algorithm in the standard. I mean, that question kind of answers itself (even at the time!) as long as you're not presupposing that NSA turned pure white in 1995.
Nice idea. What worries me is having to log into what looks like a cloudy service which I imagine stores my personal data, accessed using other cloud credentials. I get that cloud is where the burgers are good at the moment, but my personal preference is for something I can put onto my own server. At home.

To that end I've been working on my own analysis tool for personal data. Most of the work has been on a Windows desktop app, and data import is limited to CSV. But data is synchronised to my phone.

https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=0a505400-5bf6-4a6...
Didn't Learn or Didn't Listen ? :P
And who can judge if those small problems aren't symptoms of a much bigger problem? A problem that can only be effectively treated if it is caught early enough?
The default example "justin bieber - man + women" was ok, but I have found a better one - "justin bieber - women + man "
Actually, Glacier is probably backed mostly by tape with a disk cache. Writing then becomes cheap, as you can grab the next blank tape, but restores take a while, as they have to pull the specific tapes needed from whatever storage system they're using.
The existing products have really terrible marketing. They sell them in pharmacies and generally broadcast a message of "for supplementation or diseased/senile people only".

Kudos to Soylent for trying to normalize liquid diets.
"For ES6, 2014 should be a year of cleanup and minor refinement."

A whole year. I'm not gonna pretend that I have any idea how this process works. Still, what kind of a cleanup takes a year? Cities recovered from natural disasters much faster.
Find a nice high-paying job and as quickly as possible ensure that you:

- have as much private insurance as you need

- are debt-free

- can provide for yourself & your family upon retirement

Being financially independent is the greatest gift you can give to those who depend upon you, & to the rest of the society in which you live.
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I do understand that. But once it was created, it has been used by 37Signals and to some extent driven by their requirements and ongoing support. At this point, it doesn't matter but in the early releases it likely made a difference.
Yes, like I said, I was playing devil's advocate. But I would be willing to bet you own a car and it's a significant part of your lifestyle. And if you don't I'd still take that bet with every adult I talk to and come out ahead. I'm also willing to bet that your car has a negative impact on your health and the environment (from the atmosphere to the planning of your city).

My point is that world changing inventions do occur (rarely) and they are met with skepticism.
I would expand this to include the sciences. I did a 2 month industry internship in Japan a few years ago and I was blown away by the effects of the language barrier. They are incredibly disconnected from the rest of the world. While the rest of the world is publishing their results in English, they are publishing in their own Japanese trade journals. It's kind of ironic, b/c in a less developed country (China), or a less populous country (European countries) you wouldn't have the local base to support the publishing of local language journals and technical books. So they're victims of their own success.

Sure they can go read an IEEE article, but 9/10 times they'll go to a Japanese source b/c it's so much easier for them.

For programming it's probably only worse. I imagine there is a Japanese equivalent to Stack Exchange, but it will have a tiny fraction of the help you get on the English language one. It's probably like programming in the 90s! =)
What does Fox News have to do with anything?
Somebody changed the "Soylent has rats and mold" title and link to "Soylent is awesome!" with a link to a less hostile article. (Well, the original article the first post was referencing.)
I live in the UK. My local town has a 5 start system. "rats in the same building" would get a place shut down.
Take a look at VC portfolios and look through industries that might appeal to you -- education, health, poverty, law, transportation, etc. You'll find companies attacking the norm openly from the outside, growing quietly through the industry core, or creating entirely new areas to explore.

I work at Knewton (not as a software engineer, though we have many of those) because it seems so obvious once I thought about the state of formal education on this planet and how far we can take it.

Knewton is an education technology company quietly laying the groundwork for a future full of digital educational materials (lessons, quizzes, MOOCs, mobile apps, etc.) that offer differentiated learning experiences driven by deep personalization. We've built an adaptive learning infrastructure that will power any learning environment.

The core teams are mixtures of software engineers, data scientists, and teaching experts developing the world's leading models of how students learn and how to help them.

We can predict a student's quiz score before they take it. We can predict whether someone is on target to finish in four months based on all content, possible paths, and a history of student data to compare against. We can recommend the next 5-minute activity that most efficiently moves a student toward a learning objective set by a teacher in a third-party learning product. We can sift through wrong answers to determine whether a student lacks proficiency, disengaged, forgot, or simply encountered a poorly formed question. And we're just getting started.

Education -- K12, higher ed, language teaching, vocational training, professional certification, adult learning -- is one of the biggest industries in the world. We are already partnered with some of the world's biggest names, including Pearson, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Macmillan, Cambridge University Press, and more.
To be even more pedantic, saying France is not as bad as other countries is hardly a point in favor of France's medium-term growth prospects.

I don't want to give a point-by-point rebuttal. I just find the whole column facile, argumentative, and not befitting HackerNews. I'd rather not be facile and argumentative in expressing that opinion.

The responses I've been getting here have been arguing or reiterating Krugman's points, not convincing me that it's good content for HackerNews.

Again, there are many other aggregators more suitable for this sort of column.
"Lacking background in chemistry or nutrition, Rhinehart developed the formula through research and self-experimentation." (from the Wikipage article)

OMG, yes, that sounds like a totally reliable product to, you know, like, trust one's own existence to.

Not to mention the incredibly sad, and dehumanizing experience of losing all the marvellous things of a great meal that are not related to nutrition: textures, flavor, a time to disconnect and relax, a time to chat with friends, family, etc, just to mention a few obvious ones.
Yeah, that's actually not hard to imagine.
It's nice that now they are going to value teamwork and collaboration more highly, but I don't see the lack of a curve making much of a difference in compensation level for the average contributor. The total size of the compensation budget is fixed, and they have to spend all of it.

Just because now 30% of the staff can fall into the Exceed Expectations bucket doesn't necessarily mean that the budget increases. The money gets divided differently, that's all.

It does seem like a positive change though if they can improve the culture of the workplace and minimize the amount of backstabbing, cronyism and political nonsense.
Far from it. http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/05/dart-is-not-the-langu...
Is anything that he said false? If so, please tell us.
Is it really necessary to lab test wild (though bred over many years) varieties? It's natural; it worked before we touched it.

The biggest risk GMO has is over-confidence in human science.
Perhaps. Here's a quiz: Name a big Philanthropist from 300 years ago. From 150 years ago. From 50 years ago...
Some people really hate the whole process of shopping, cooking, and eating. Or, at least, they're tired of spending hours every day on it. Can you really not think of anything you'd rather do with your time?
If all BTC are on single place, it could be possible to recover them. Seems like well documented case, both parties are in civilized countries and court could take it.

Soom.cz is not very reliable source. Also Czech Linux community does not mention anything.

But according to some users it did not even used SSL!!!
Sadly even after it loads and hitting refresh I still see a progress bar.

As google knows loading time really really matters and for such small demos it does not look good that it takes 10(?) seconds to load. Makes me wonder about larger applications.
Even if it is better, why Mongo? Why not Riak?
I'm not following. In what way is a McDonalds hamburger artificial? It's bread. It's meat.

Even if there are mechanically separated parts of the meat, they're still meat.

Even if it's as artificial as you say, isn't food that "looks real" and "tastes good" better than food that "looks like deplorable shit" and "tastes like deplorable shit" and is unapologetically named after something horrible from a 1970s dystopian sci fi movie?
How do you start to ask that question? They give you a bill for X, Y, Z, and a doctor's bill for Q, and radiologist's bill for F, and ... then what? Do you ask each of them if they can discount it further? (I would have imagined that each of them have had so many people ask for a discount that their standard answer is "No!" by now -- am I just being too scared of asking?
For 2D visualization, t-sne is an excellent tool. I've used it with word2vec and you can see clusters of similar words:

https://raw.github.com/dhammack/Word2VecExample/master/visua...

https://raw.github.com/dhammack/Word2VecExample/master/visua...

https://raw.github.com/dhammack/Word2VecExample/master/visua...

And more in https://github.com/dhammack/Word2VecExample/tree/master/visu...
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Pretty much. If you went to the bank and they gave you $10,000 and you never had to repay it, then it is income.

I experienced it when I got some restricted stock (not an option but you can't sell it right way) when my company was acquired in the dot.com boom. I also got a "loan" to pay the taxes. The idea was that when the stock was available to sell, you could sell enough to pay tax on the loan forgiveness and keep the rest. (yes it was kind of convoluted but such were the times). Long story short, stock that was worth $35 in 1999 was worth $0.66 in 2001. Kinda bites big time. And yes you can take the loss, but only up to $3,000 and carry the rest forward to the next year. I believe that last year was the first year I didn't have any dot.com losses I could claim any more on my taxes :-).
Make your life a way to have a social impact and not your "work."