skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oddly enough, I only ever made it to the final boss twice. The first time was with the stealth cruiser, which had maxed stealth and teleporting, and I got annihilated by missile volleys and those combat boarding drones.

The second time was with the Engi cruiser, and I handily beat him. I had only EMP weapons, a level 2 defense drone, and a level 2 attack drone (probably also a repair drone). I just played damage control and set the EMP weapons to autofire at the shield room. When they eventually disable it, the level 2 attack drone shredded him.

Haven't played since then (figured I'd quit while I was ahead), but this may get me back in.
That's true, but it would feel very weird to use katakana as a way of denoting hierarchy.

You can bold, color, and shadow Japanese text just fine though, so I don't really see the author's point.
Compared to other CMSs. Sure you can custom code with a crud like rails or similar, but that isn't particularly useful for some types of sites that Drupal is well suited for. We have about 1000 static pages that have to be edited passed though a workflow for approval by non tech users, and about 30 or so modules with custom custom code. These things could be done with rails, but we'd still be building it if we tried.
13 times? Wow, you REALLY liked it eh
Friends don't let friends use Eclipse
Usage for labor just means, "You get the means of production by using them", or, "Everyone directly controls what they use, and nothing else."
Everything in Java is not an object, and the author never made this claim. Languages he referenced where everything is an object are Python and Scala.
The problem with the Facebook platform - it's a billboard
While Facebook is popular with marketers, it is surprisingly hard to extract data at scale about fan interactions. Does this make Facebook less useful as a business to consumer communication tool?
> How does not having static typing prevent you from abstracting over monads?

They were probably talking about the way Haskell can figure out which monad you're in through type inference. As an example, `return :: a -> m a` dispatches on the type of the function's return value, which doesn't map cleanly to a dynamically typed implementation. You need to be explicit about the monad you're in if you don't have the compiler helping you out.
Did anyone asked Bill Gates to fund research efforts that could potentially have global benefits?

Anyone succeeded?
The title isn't negative, though. Just radical.
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One of the previous discussions here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6532738
And can we get a checkbox to always hide those?
1: Motivation. A lot of people will decide that their "minimum" income is sufficient and will try to live on that without contributing to society.

2: Entitlement. A lot of people will decide that they are entitled to that money, that it is not enough for whatever arbitrary minimum lifestyle they decide they are entitled to, and that the police power of the state should/will/must be used to confiscate the difference from taxpayers.

In fairness, all should contribute to society at least as much value as they derive from society (at least insofar as they are physically & mentally capable). Giving people enough to live on while requiring nothing of them screws up the human psychology of self-worth: they can exert $X of effort/skill and get $X, or do nothing at all and get $X ... meaning their effort/skill is worth nothing.
> "40 percent of Earth’s population is alive today because, in 1909, a German chemist named Fritz Haber figured out how to make synthetic ammonia."

More people living doesn't necessarily mean people living better lives. In a finite world with limits to growth, relaxing one bottleneck only leads to the next bottleneck.

(I use the term limits to growth in reference to the book Limits To Growth -- http://joshuaspodek.com/the_best_book_on_the_environment_eco... -- which strongly informs my perspective and I recommend to others as particularly relevant here. It offers a systems perspective -- http://joshuaspodek.com/systems-perspective-population -- necessary to create effective strategies to help everyone in the context of a finite planet.)

Reducing suffering caused by disease undoubtedly improves people's lives, but increasing the population without the ability to provide everyone resources doesn't. We know that simply having enough resources for everyone doesn't mean everyone will get enough resources. How we distribute resources matters and that's a social issue, not technical. Trying to solve social issues with technology doesn't work that well. Changing social patterns is much harder. Capitalism is great at increasing the pie, but poor at distributing it to those without capital.

I applaud his optimism and support for reducing suffering from disease and supporting education. I suspect he's helping create a world with similar fraction of people suffering versus happy, just more of them. And accelerating toward limits to growth, some of which we can't overcome with technology.

(If you challenge the belief that the planet has limits to growth or even that we're near any, I recommend the excellent blog "Do the Math" -- http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/post-index -- which looks at physical consequences to growth by a Caltech-trained physicist. I also recommend it if you like reading thoughtful, intelligent blogs by knowledgeable people who do the math behind what they talk about.)
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Cool! Is this going to be available to consumers in general?

edit: fwiw, I understand if it won't be.
>you can alleviate these negative effects by replacing a basic income guarantee with a basic job guarantee

Since a lot of industrialized countries have had high unemployment for years, if not decades, that seems like an impossible idea. It might even be worse because if you send the unemployed to clean parks and plant trees, you effectively destroy a labor market for gardeners.

I don't know if a "Mincome" would work but if you want to guarantee everyone a job, you need some pretty clever ideas how to create those jobs - preferably without negative side-effects on existing low-wage markets.
A person that would still go to work a menial job, even with a basic income, would get so much respect from me, and I think from others as well.

That is another form of currency.

At the same time these kind of jobs are increasingly being replaced by robots.
> The critique is 'Haskell takes FP to an extreme and I show this is true because someone tried to implement miniKanren and needed Oleg to do it'.

>That is not really a strong argument.

It's worse than that. The linked paper is about implementing minikanren as a monad transformer, which is a lot trickier than just porting it over, regardless of language. It's probably a lot easier in Haskell than in Scheme though.

Furthermore, if pure FP is useless, then monad transformers are useless too. But then the argument becomes "this useless thing is really tricky to implement in Haskell, therefore Haskell is useless". The only reason you would want Oleg's minikanren to be easy to implement is if you actually want pure FP. So the argument kind of negates itself.
Not a good example. Amazon.com is famously a jumbled mess.
> I don't think this post is shitting on PHP - Symfony, Laravel, Fuel, etc, all produce better content manipulation screens than Drupal does.

No, they don't. They don't produce them at all - that's left to the developer.

It's entirely possible to make a totally custom form UI in Drupal just like in Symfony et al. It just comes out-of-the-box with a default one.
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Here is a link to the text of the manual that came with the original sets (warning: Comic Sans):

http://science-notebook.com/gilb-chem01.html

EDIT: Found a PDF as well:

http://keeline.com/chem/1936-Gilbert_Chemistry_Outfit_Manual...
People ask me if they should drop out of MIT to do a startup. I tell them to transfer to Harvard first.
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"If you write great code or are an expert in genomics or know how to develop new seeds, I’d encourage you to learn more about the problems of the poorest and see how you can help."

Check, check, check. And actually it was a previous article of Bill's that made me want to become a scientist, and now we're Gates funded to develop more efficient crops.

Coders of the world - we have awesome data to play with. Come and help :)
I'm a old and frequent reader, but usually don't have much to say so I never bothered creating an account. And my english is not very good either. But the political links here are the ones who have always encouraged me to comment.
Yes, we have Gates funding for the C4 rice project.
I'm late to the party - but a few months back I started http://gitat.me specially to highlight useful & interesting repos that don't make it to the trending page.
Ok, here's a slightly different story with an online vendor. I bought a pair of prescription sunglasses online. I paid extra to have a thin lens. $250 order from a reputable merchant.

I received a pair of glasses with the lens half an inch thick. This is not an exaggeration. It was literally that thick. Return and refund? Sorry, no, when you place the order you agree that you are NOT entitled to a refund under any circumstances, merely a replacement.

After a bit of back and forth, I sent the pair back and they blamed it on the design of the frame. Ok. I told them to pick a frame where I would get a normal sized lens. So they sent me the new pair, this time it was slightly thinner, but not by much. Now there's a racket. Wasted $250 on a pair of clown glasses with no recourse.

I got a pair at my local Pearle Vision for the same price and the lens was perfectly normal and thin. Never again.
Jesus guys it just a funny bet.

Stop with the 'offensive this' and 'offensive that'. We just need more sense of humor.
Yes! Yes it does! I'm getting feedback that people want those specifically to be able to be targeted, and I've immediately started working on it.
Inception was a pretty good movie but people treating it like it's some deep, super-complicated work of genius makes me worry about them.
Bill gates is basically an moron and his wife is ugly as sin
> A lot of people will decide that they are entitled to that money

Well, that's the point, isn't it?
The point is a) wealth redistribution, because the marginal value of money is much greater for those who have less of it b) a nationalized safety net against catastrophe, because individuals are bad at planning for disaster, or even entirely predictable futures (witness e.g. the US IRA system) c) the social benefits to everyone (in terms of crime, disease, general wellbeing, being able to have public facilities that don't get destroyed...) of not having a poor underclass

(Yes it's paternalistic, but without a certain level of paternalism, lots of citizens die. Handing out money is about the least paternalistic way of stopping that).
They're low paying largely because the capitalist class uses both brute force and state power (union-busting is a premier example) to systematically suppress the price of labor.
Being an African I don't really get offended as you seem to think I would. Mr. Gates obviously isn't saying "Africa" because he's a privileged white man, but because that's how people talk and write. And contrary to your response, he obviously knows what you are saying to a degree that neither of us will ever know.
Drupal is a CMS, but a highly extensible one. Yes, you can replace any just about any core feature. I needed a register for a new account feature that integrated with other parts of our site, so I rolled my own. I'm not super familiar with Wordpress but i didn't get the impression that it scaled to large sited with lots of pages (we have about 1000 static pages)
they can exert $X of effort/skill and get $X, or do nothing at all and get $X ... meaning their effort/skill is worth nothing.

That's only with current welfare systems, not with basic income, where you receive it regardless of your income.

So under the regime being proposed, by not working you'd get $X, and by working $Y you'd get $X+$Y (less taxes).
Oh come on that does not even make sense.

>>> More people living doesn't necessarily mean people
living better lives. In a finite world with limits to
growth, relaxing one bottleneck only leads to the next
bottleneck.

Its not that people think gosh I have 1000 more calories, I will have another child, its that without those 1000 calories either the mother dies before or during pregnancy or the child dies after, of starvation.

Granted there are now lots of other things to kill the child, malaria etc, but I guarantee every single person on HN will rather take the chance of malaria than the certainty of not being born in the first place.

I also guarantee that most of HN places themselves on the "not yet happy" side of the fence, so I find your argument which seems to be "its no good bringing another child into this world, they might not die of starvation but something will get them, and they will never be happy" to fly in the face of, well, millions of years of evolution. We've always been unhappy.

More people is a good thing, more people, and in a world that knows it should use its wealth to provide decent sanitation, opportunities, education, peace and justice, it is an unalloyed good.
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Yes, I'd love this. All of my other notifications are ones I've opted into receiving and am fine with. The Software Update one is impossible to get rid of.
It's ok to hate Bill Gates (the Monopolist), and to admire Bill Gates (the Philanthropist).
Similar experiments are being tried in India :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_in_India

http://binews.org/2011/09/india-basic-income-pilot-projects-...
here is an excerpt from the 2nd link :

"These projects are similar to the Namibian basic income pilot project and to the U.S. and Canadian governments’ Negative Income Tax experiments conducted in the 1960s and 1970s, but the rural project adds an important new innovation to the method: the project is being conducted on the village, rather than on the individual, level. All residents of eight Indian villages will receive the basic income, and their behavior will be compared with residents of twelve “control” villages. This method will allow project designers to study village-wide effects of the transfer.

Guy Standing, professor of economic security at Bath University (UK) and an honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network, helped to conceive and organize the project. He argues that it needs to be conducted with scientific dispassion. But he’s hopeful of the outcome. Asked about the results of the Namibian pilot project—which he was also a part of—Standing said that organizers documented many positive effects: “Child school attendance went up dramatically, use of medical clinics went up. Those with HIV/ AIDS started to take ARTs (Antiretroviral Therapy drugs) because they’d been able to buy the right sort of food with the cash. Women’s economic status improved, and the economic crime rate went down. Income distribution improved.”"
I realized I had gotten a bit off topic. OTOH while the post wasn't defecating on PHP (sorry, I can't swear I'm in Utah) the crowd seemed like they were.
>The Matrix is a great movie but a poor expression of Baudrillard's philosophy. The Matrix is quite straightforward, there's no confusion, no paradox: you're either in the Matrix, or you're in the real world. You may not know you're in the Matrix, but that doesn't change the fact that you are, or are not, in it.

This is incorrect - in fact there is a very reasonable explanation that the Matrix is three levels, and what looks like the real world is just another level of the matrix. This is why Neo's abilities bleed over into the real world.

That is the version that most closely aligns to Baudrillard's philosophy.
And babies born in Y2k are teens now
Chill out. He was simplifying his discussion throughout the essay so that his writing would be accessible to a broader audience.

For all you know, his trip covered several African countries and he didn't care to list them all in that sentence.
The NIH should require statistics training in the same way the require ethics training for all life sciences graduate students.
Who is we and what sort of playing is needed?
I see your point and I'm not sure that it applies to the target audience of this essay but many people wouldn't be able to place an African country by name.

EDIT: Wow, I'll stop pointing out possible reasons for things, yeesh.
> "Walking around Tokyo, I often get the feeling of being stuck in a 1980′s vision of the future"

I'm British, living in the US, and I've always felt this way about America. I recently heard from an American friend that he felt exactly the same when visiting Britain.

Not sure what to make of it, but it's interesting!
I think many people will live out their entire physical lives in advanced holodecks of the future. I think that would be perfectly reasonable.
It's great what he and Melinda are doing.

I'd put the focus much more towards reducing or even reversing the tremendous population growth. Malaria, Polio, fertilizers.. all about more people (yes it helps them, is good...; complicated, I don't know how to argue). But - if you ask the overstretched seas, overhunted animals and so on - less are needed. And each one will be more valuable.
The point is not everyone can afford to pay taxes, so simply reducing tax wouldn't help them at all
As someone who inherited 240 24/7 running WD-Greens: http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/ works fine but disabling the timer has negative performance impact. 3000 seconds is fine through. But you need a complete powercycle before the changes take effect. No more parking. Does make a difference in longevity in my not very scientific opinion.

I can second the 200> bad blocks. Sometimes they still work fine after using badblocks -w a few times on them and raising the timer.
You are leaving out a couple of details. First, there is already unemployment, so there are already people not filling jobs. Second, this is a redistribution of tax money, so society is not getting poorer that way. As for people not filling jobs, there would be new pressures on corporations that needed workers, McDonald's could continue to pay minimum wage (assuming it wasn't abolished) for people that cannot live on $10k, and startups could pay substantially less, as could not for profits or other organizations that had missions more aligned with people's worldview of themselves. New jobs might become possible that are not today. Who knows. The point is you cannot say the outcome of changing one variable while holding all others constant, because they are not constant. Also, your counter suggestion is based on the assumption that the government can redistribute jobs instead of tax money, it cannot.
Doesn't research tend to put downwards pressure on electronics prices (I guess you've just made a typo...)?

An interesting side effect might be an increase in the ability of people who work to extract the value of their work from people that hold capital.
The basic job doesn't need to be economically valuable; it can literally be make-work, and is there to correct the incentives, not to (say) clean the parks.
Node isn't a framework.
Yeah, soon we'll just be able to merge this website into its own subreddit and call it a day.
Virgin sites are extremely well done design, just fantastic. Technology is Drupal, so 1 out of 2. You can get Drupal running well on cache and it has merits, just lots of pain as well.
By no means it was my intention to make one side or the other look bad. I'm sorry if it came across that way.
I was just trying to make it short, since that is a side story and therefore it's likely to be irrelevant to the OP.

But since you pointed out one of the many articles surrounding that particular case, fyi that article is also incomplete.
Google a bit and you'll find some extractions of the court case. The speaking-during-break was the pinacle of the story, which had started months before when her boss told her to speak only English even when the clients (parents) started a conversation with her in their shared/common language.
Well, let's admit it: because under a debt-backed fiat currency, the value of currency is a function of income inequality. To reduce inequality is thus to dilute the currency and create inflation.
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When you consider that companies will spend 7 figures for that POS, it boggles the mind...

Yes awful..... so exactly which companies are paying upwards of a million for this?

I just got an idea for a startup, I call it it Terrib.ly

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I think it is a good example. Amazon is a powerhouse in the US and Naver, one of the South Korean sites the author linked to that resembles almost all the other sites he posted, is on similar footing in Korea.
Humour has no barriers. And it shouldn't have. We joke about death. We joke about illness. We joke about disabilities. We joke about just everything. Laughter and humour is what separates us from monkeys. Let the monkeys be politically correct. We'll have a good laugh in the meantime.

The fact that you feel offended is the itself the result of misogyny. If the world were misogyny-free, there would be no offense implied. It is not, but we should fake until we make it.
Transparent. (Don't get one.)
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If you take offense to use of the word 'Africa', you shouldn't use the word 'Europe' either.

Sometimes referring to a continent is useful.
Say I live in New York and have a 2 hour commute to Long Island or whatever. Winter comes around, it gets dark at 4:30PM and I get home at 7. By the time I get home, I want to eat, zone and get to bed.

Unless I have responsible teenage kids or a spouse who doesn't have outside employment, that means that I NEED to hire out all sorts of routine tasks needed to get through life in a comfortable way. Things like snowplowing (or lawn mowing) ($100+/mo), cooking ($30-50/day to get takeout for a family of 4), household cleaning $80/week), laundry ($40-100/week), etc. $6,000/year. That's alot of money when you think that a professional, high paying job in something like IT pays $70-120k.

I made the choice to live close to where I work -- about 10 minutes. That means that I recapture about 18 hours of my life back every week compared to someone commuting 2 hours.
Next chapter: "Eco-conscious" stickers start showing up on store-brand ammonia in the Bay Area, and the Stanford start-up quietly lays off two employees and liquidates.

More seriously: what these two companies need to do is merge. One has no product, and the other is just intellectual property assets no one is selling. Together, they'd make a mean business.
Let go of your loops and learn to map, flatMap, and fold! Once I really figured out how to use those effectively, I've written far few indexed for loops. I tried to explain this philosophy on a recent and unheralded SO answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19720830/is-it-safe-to-mo...
Perhaps he visited more than one country during his trip to Africa?

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

All of us need to stop referring to the place as just 'Europe'. It's an incredibly diverse place, etc.
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Yeah, if Apple hadn't ditched it, maybe it would even be Mac OS X main language instead of Objective-C.

Well, one can always dream.
I think that there are assumptions made by your argument that sound reasonable on the face of it but that don't actually match reality. Not just yours but pretty much every economic argument that I've heard that takes this "forces of nature" form.