skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure you would want the compression done by the database and not the filesystem, since there are many ways to do compression to fit specific applications, and the database knows what it's trying to do. I read a little bit of the MySQL docs regarding how it uses compression, and it sounded pretty different than general-purpose compression.
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Good article, it's nice to see someone not only provide some actual analysis, but also be clear with their assumptions and welcome critique.
I also started to study Haskell recently. In my view, it's great from mathematical perspective, but it has its problems.

Monads sort of force you to make plumbing visible, and it's not so neat as a result. For example, consider a big program that has two modules. The module A calls module B to do something. Now later, you want to add logging to the application. In normal languages, you can just call logging functions (which do IO), from within module B; module A doesn't have to know a thing. In Haskell though, you have to wire the IO monad (or some other monad that does the logging and encompasses it) all the way from A to B. Or say, you want now to access database from module B. Again, you have to wire your DB access up from A, because that's where the entry point is.

In normal languages, plumbing like log access, configuration, DB access can be accessed from any place via global variables or singletons, without imposing a dependency on the main module (or other modules). In Haskell, it's like a military installation - every interaction with outside world has to go through main gate. I am not really sure if there is any benefit to it, but there is certainly a downside that the plumbing is becoming visible in Haskell.

If there would be way to declare something as "plumbing" and have it always available (but still explicitly declared as part of function signature), without having to pass it along everywhere, it would be great compromise, I think. It could even make the programs more type safe, because instead of passing RWS or IO monad everywhere, you could make functions dependent on just DB monad for database access, for instance.

Or you could then configure the plumbing for specific modules, something like dependency injection.

Maybe I am missing something, but I tried to find some articles about how to write large scale programs in Haskell, but no one really seems to explain this.
And yet after viewing the OP, I have a lasting feeling of the difference and will more likely remember the disparities.
When I find myself worrying too much, I take a walk. I find that being away from my worries helps me work through them more easily.
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Complexity + assumptions. There are too many variables and unknowns to make even a reasonably accurate model. Also, you're dealing with rational and non- rational actors and the creation of new actors as time moves forward. Cute analysis though.
You think there are some cool problems? There are so few of them, that you were not assigned to any of these fancy problems?

Apologies, if I misunderstood.
I'd be happy to answer any questions concerns you may have, I've had some decent experience with Browserify and I've loved it.
> their estate is responsible for paying their debts.

so why couldn't they just transfer all assets from their estate prior to dying? meaning, if you were about to die, there is never any need to pay down any debt, despite having the assets to cover it - it is better to give it away to charity or children/relatives imho.
As a C coder I really wish it had a standard syntax and a similar tool to deal with that. Dealing with proper style is a constant headache among a team. And I always feel like a "coding style nazi" when I bother other people to tell them "you should put spaces here", "your braces are not in the correct position", "you shouldn't use TABs there" etc...

So in the end I stop doing it (or I let small mistakes go by) and soon enough the whole codebase is heterogeneous and looks like crap everywhere.

I don't really care about Go and never used it but this is a very good move on their part IMO. No bickering allowed, it's standard. No arguing, just run "go fmt" and you're set. Brilliant.
That seems like a poorly thought out service that might lull a normal user into thinking that their email is actually secure. It sounds like they encrypt the email between their servers and the client. Great. Your email is flying around the internet unencrypted (most likely through the US, mind) and it's stored on their servers unencrypted, yes?
It would be interesting to look into this. My experience has been that multi-disciplinary researchers are more likely to be familiar with a broader range of research and familiar with statistical techniques across their different disciplines. Someone with a narrower perspective is more likely to get into bad habits related to their field.

I think your comment about them being less likely to be able to handle depth from a personality/self-habits point of view is really projecting and probably based on experiences with a few bad apples. My experience doesn't reflect that at all.

I feel like a lot of the problems with statistics come from overly insular journals and conferences where everyone does it wrong and nobody realizes that because they're all doing the same thing. I've seen this in some computer science fields.
Yes! I switched a few months ago. I find that the web interface and features offered are GMail-competetive. It's good, reliable, ad-free, and is accompanied by good customer support.
Domain names will probably be sold in bundles with certificates, driving the price of SSL certificates lower.
I've just started trying to use https://codio.com/ it's pretty nice, not sure if it can take over desktop-based ones though.
I know that some enterprise put this kind information in their engineering blog (for example the Linkedin: http://engineering.linkedin.com/ ). But What more exactly your are thinking to use?
I've seen:
https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-recurly-subscription-saas

Which seems similar. I never looked too deep into the source code though or used it personally.

It might have value but template solutions almost always have the same draw back and that most use cases differ from the template's path by a lot and now the template user has to learn a 5,000+ line code base to understand the system.

It is good trade off though if they plan to stick closely to the template.
if you disagree, write some code

unstated assumption: and do so quickly enough for it to influence the discussion before it slips off HN
Google will soon display your Google+ photo when you call an Android phone
My biggest problem with Fastmail is that they make it extremely difficult for a single person to have an email address with your own domain. IIRC you either have to purchase a family plan or go throw aliases, the latter of which is user unfriendly.
He wasn't making that much money, and some of it had to be in hard to reach places. (401Ks?) So even if he had 100K, how long will it last when you're travelling internationally and staying in expensive hotels?

Being a whistleblower doesn't excuse you from having to work for a living. I hope he's able to get decent employment.
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Get well soon Mr M!
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But you can break bitcoins down into smaller increments than just 1. That must be significant in some way.

Being infinitely divisible is significant in that it renders subdivisions like cents etc meaningless and makes deflation acceptable without causing problems with transactions, but I can't see any significance for the price.
Totally agree. While this sounds amazing, the process of maintaing certificates can be a nightmare especially to someone not familiar with the security process. On the other hand, this does present a huge opportunity for a service that would basically manage your companies certificates.
I use the gmail app.
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It's not secret, it's confidential because it's not finalised. This is perfectly normal for treaty negotiation.
I recommend switching to Row-based Replication, which avoids this problem.
By this criteria, there is very little science going on anywhere. We don't teach philosophy of science enough anymore. In most of the fields that I'm familiar with, reproducibility is very hard and rarely bothered about by either the original researcher or others in the field.
Overall good attempt, but there are factors which are harder to measure.

How many people start new companies since they have a little fallback support? (potential increase or decrease)

How many dual-income families can afford to have a single parent working with the income of two families coming in? (potential decrease)

How many people can afford not to work while in college now? (potential decrease)

In previous question, Does this mean their long term chances of success are higher? (potential increase)

How many people could use the benefits after a layoff + savings to better them selves and their future before re-entering the work force? (potential increase)
Here's am article on the Apple TV UI framework. It's called Back Row
I don't think you use it anywhere but

> The marginal income from labor under a BI is precisely (1 - tax_rate) * income, rather than (1 - tax_rate - lost_benefits) * income.

shuldn't the second one be (1 - tax_rate) * income - lost_benefits? I don't know if/how benefits are taxed in the US.
What are the use cases for this fancy feature? I'm thinking of e-advisor for fun, but what are the real life serious use cases?
I think the whole discussion boils down to this:

An additional cost is the incentive or disincentive for engaging in productive work created by the Basic Income. On the one hand, the BI creates disincentives for recipients to engage in productive labor. If you are happy earning direct_cost each year, why bother putting down Call of Duty and getting a boring job? (…) My inclination is that it is more likely to reduce labor than increase it. So I’ll assume that the number of non-working adults will increase by up to 10%, or decrease by up to 5%.

This is always going to be the crucial input parameter that makes or breaks the whole idea, and no amount of math modelling is going to tell you how millions of people will behave after such radical change.
What bothers me most about this is not the caller's privacy (he chose to upload his photo into a public profile after all), but the called person's.

The called Android phone has to obtain the "correct" photo in some way. The least horrible implementation I can see for this is a local query to the G+ app installed on the phone, to check if the caller is in your circles.

However, any online photo check, as implied by the article, will send a caller's phone number to Google, allowing them to collect data about all the people you receive calls from.

Update: the original source [0] writes that G+ is queried both for incoming _and_ for outgoing calls! Time to call your data protection commissioner!

[0] https://plus.google.com/+AttilaBodis/posts/E6Z77tkr78r
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It's only a barrier to entry if you insist on using http 2.0 which is a CHOICE you make. Don't use http 2.0, just like you can choose to use your internet connection for whatever.
You should post this on 4chan. They'll tell you what people on this site are actually thinking.
I'm sorry but this is a bit ridiculous

There are dozens of completely arbitrary assumptions and nobody could possibly know if they were anything close to being right

> If you disagree, write code.

Ok..

"With a Basic Job, you can’t - your choices are a Basic Job for $14480 or possibly a McJob for marginally more (say $15000). I’ll model this by assuming the number of non workers will increase by up to 5%, or decrease by up to 20%:"

I disagree, I made my model assuming that the number of non-workers increases by between 60 and 80%

Oh look! My results show that basic income is better! Great, that's what I believed before hand, my model must be good.

edit: I'm all for mathematical modelling, but there needs to be some kind of basis for the assumptions, and it helps if there are less than a bajillion assumptions too. Anyone could tweak all the assumptions so they still sound reasonable and come up with any conclusion they wanted from this model
Yes, I agree but it's really very difficult to compare companies these days. On the surface, Microsoft, Apple and Google all seem like competitors to each other but they have different businesses underneath and as you said, different gross margins. However, I don't think you can truly find businesses that are almost identical when it comes to giant conglomerates.
That and the size 10 pixel font they use for everything.
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Try "Yes, maybe more." ;).
What is your diet like? Sounds like you might have low serotonin levels. In your diet do you get enough tryptophan? Consider supplementing it. I also second the suggestion for meditation.
Post it on your own blog and tell me when you do. I'll certainly upvote it.
Certainly true, though it would be interesting to simply model both cases and see how much the results deviate from each other.
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I just viewed the OP 15 minutes ago and I have no idea how much revenue any of the companies made. I know Samsung and Apple were near the top and Blackberry was near the bottom, but I already knew that! If it had been a simple table with numbers I'd still remember them.
Netflix and Steam haven't improved your experience? Their very existence depends on DRM.
Profits relative to revenues isn't a useful figure. An investor who sees a business as a black box where you put initial capital in and get money out, doesn't care what the revenue of the company is at all.

Jobs are a more complex issue - offshoring manufacturing may be efficient, but it does have an impact on the distribution of wealth, and unemployment. It's not clear what the right policy trade off is. I think cutting back on illegal immigration would be a better way to boost job growth in the low end of the job market.
Absolutely.

_My_ feeling is that people would always like a little bit more money. Basic income removes the "cliff" effect, whereby earning more money can actually reduce your income. Therefore people will work more.

After all, if you could go out and work for five hours next week, and be guaranteed that those five hours would give you the cash to buy something you have your eye on, then why wouldn't you?
Any good overviews of this leak yet?
Umm... errr... the 4chan Party Van is the FBI. Back in The Day, 4chan had basically only one real rule -no child pornography- and the people running the site were extremely conscientious about cooperating with law enforcement when people broke that rule. I assume they still are: it's just there there are more rules now, though most aren't the sort that will incur the wrath of the FBI when you break them.

The harassment described in the article also occurs, of course, but that's not the party van. It's more like what they'd call a raid.
Such a post would really benefit from some analysis of how sensitive the model is to each assumption.

I think that might be the most interesting way of looking at such an abstract model.
I've very excited to see this, hopefully it will help Aaron's Law to pass too.
Welcoming critique? I didn't get that at all. I personally think writing "shut the fuck up" removes any sense of critique being welcomed.

The author does kindly gives us permission to critique as long as we accept his model - a very naive device with zero academic or economic justification.
Love this! It'd be neat if you could enter a stock ticker for any company and see it displayed here.
I dont like the Gardens, but it is not correct to say it is wasted. Precisely because it is reclaimed, it needs another decade or so for the soil to settle before we can build skyscrapers on it.

Trust me when I say it, real estate speculation is the primary path to wealth in Singapore, and the biggest, most well oiled speculator in Singapore is the government.
That looks sweet but I can't help but wonder:
How are those implemented internally? It seems like it would be loops?
It would be really sad if we have a new standard gaining momentum and forcing people to stay supporting broken SSL/TLS.

I hope they mandate using the newest TLS with the beast mitigation etc and also mandate perfect forward secrecy.

Generally, the whole CA approach also needs a rethink, but its less straightforward to trot out solutions to that problem. Hopefully Moxie and other experts will weigh in.
Without empirical data, it is next to pointless to throw together some assumptions and model them.

No, writing code is not the point here. Anyone can write code to do this kind of modeling. Reducing the huge amount of degrees of freedom in the model in a meaningful and fact-based way is key. And here the author fails big time.
Many researchers in less mathematically rigorous fields lack basic statistical knowledge, such as how a p-value is calculated or what a chi-squared test is. And that isn't to be snarky towards them - they have a lot to absorb in their own field. It just means that they are slower to adopt or even know about various mathematical techniques.

This reminds me of the med researcher who rediscovered integration in 1993 and was cited many, many times:

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152.abstract
Deal: I want to investigate the case where everyone is bullied into quitting their job, by thugs who don't want laziness to stop being a social norm
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Isn't that what the title says? Or did it change?
The model doesn't tell you this parameter. All it does is takes such a parameter as an input and tells you the cost of the policy.

Note that I changed the plausibility range of this parameter quite a bit in the "How to Disagree" section, it didn't alter the outcome much.
You are late to party and you made me check job offers at Canonical and there is position where I potentially fit. Thanks :)

One question: how long does hiring process take?
Agreed. But would those “five hours of work” be enough for the whole economy to stay afloat and pay the basic income?
writings that help me (to limited degrees):

Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
http://mwkworks.com/desiderata.html
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.1.one.html

A couple of important thoughts:

-You're not the first to go through this feeling; great, successful people feel (or have felt) this way. Worrying is badly executed caring about yourself, and it's better that than to not care at all. Don't beat yourself up about it. You've already decided you want to change, don't beat yourself up about needing time to do that.

- Life will go on with or without you feeling okay about it. Every moment you spend thinking about some way you want the world to be different is a moment you didn't spend doing whatever it is you want to do with your life. Your life is your own, and whether it feels like it or not, you are choosing to worry, and you can choose not to. There are a great many things you cannot change in this world, and it's unfair to yourself to worry about them. You CAN change your thoughts and behaviors, so change them to however you think a great person would think and behave. There is nothing that is more worth doing with your time.

-be easy on yourself; laugh about it. it'll pass into "what the hell was my problem with that" much quicker.
Please don't see a doctor who will prescribe drugs. Cut out the middle man and see a Councillor that actually wants to solve your [perceived] problem in a cognitive way.

The problem is a state of mind and can be solved without drugs.

“Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere”

― Erma Bombeck
The political system in Singapore also makes me uncomfortable: it's superficially democratic but not really in spirit.
Exactly that!

I had similar experience with MacOS memory issues, and all the answers I was getting: "MacOS is superior to Windows, its just Cache, the memory is actually free". Yet my applications could not allocate memory and were hogging whole OS as a consequence.

Back on topic, never had similar 'cache' problems on Linux though.
True, though it would be cool to be able to get input from a wider audience before it's final.
All the Devils are here is interesting on the US housing crisis which sparked the last bust.

Fiat Money Inflation in France is an interesting short outline of a currency which goes horribly wrong due to being debased (opposite problem to bitcoin):

White describes a disillusioned public who, under the influence of increasingly self-serving public officials and orators, accepted more and more assignat printings even though the perils of such printings had been documented throughout history...

Bitcoin is interesting because it has this hard limit, which means in theory it will reach a point where no more currency is made, and thus it is relatively stable in value. Until them though the value of it will ramp up in relation to real goods and other currencies (deflation). It's a really interesting experiment, though it does heavily reward the initial investors and skews it towards being an investment (and a bubbly one at that) rather than a currency, at least till the hard limit is reached.

I do find the question of whether the public could be persuaded to just up the limit and print more bitcoin interesting - I suspect if we had bitcoin as a world or national currency, just like assignats or other currencies, people could be persuaded to print more or otherwise bend the rules for the good of the nation/world/economy.
Wow, did you see that chart in their manual (page 32, PDF-wise or page 24 printed):

http://strikedebt.org/The-Debt-Resistors-Operations-Manual.p...
I'm more horrified by how ugly that code is
I am pretty used to everyone being on google apps, so (selfishly) this isn't a problem for me, although I do agree it probably makes sense to support more options since you're catering to businesses who will probably have specific needs.

However, commenting 'cause this seems awesome, but as per your comment I definitely need more info before I want to sign you up, give you access to all those information sources, and start getting e-mails from you. A demo is pretty complex; just as good to get me started might be (for people who want to dig deeper, not for everyone) an example for each service of the information you can currently summarize and pack into an e-mail. Hell, you could offer to send me a one-time example e-mail so I can actually receive one and see what it'll be like.
I liked the presentation, but I think I would have preferred a dynamic bar graph, where each bar grows at the rate relevant for that company, starting from zero. It would keep all the data on the screen and still show visually the differences.
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It also seems like people are overlooking an important fact: people find ambition attractive. So anyone without any ambition in life other than to collect a basic income while playing games may find themselves shunned by their preferred sex. If you want to date, then you'll probably want a job. And almost everybody wants to date (or at least to mate). Therefore there may be no basis for being afraid that basic income will reduce people's desire to go work.
The other thing the article ignores completely is the less extreme version of the "jk rowling effect". Where's the cost benefit from all the new startups and small businesses that people doing min-wage jobs or basic jobs wouldn't have the time or want to take the risk to do?