skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"allocated based on usage for labor."

You mean based on need? Don't recall there being any kind of qualifier that you have to work X amount to get Y, which would essentially be barter capitalism (without currency that is).

Under theoretical communism, the allocation is equal to all individuals and has no preferential treatment. Of course, that's not really achievable in the current form of the human condition, as the history amply shows.
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The theoretical argument is that due to the diminishing marginal utility of income, you get less labor supplied.

Suppose the utility loss from taking a job is X, and U(income) is a concave function. Both of these are standard assumptions, well validated empirically.

With no basic income, people will take a job if U(job income) - X > U(income=0), or equivalently U(job income)-U(income=0) > X.

With a basic income, people take a job if U(job income + basic income) - U(basic income) > X.

By concavity, there are values of X for which the former inequality holds and the latter does not. So people falling into this regime will be deterred from taking a job by a basic income.

Society as a whole is poorer as a result by an amount equal to those individual's marginal productivity. I.e., fewer nails are manicured, fewer homes are cleaned, fewer restaurant meals are supplied.

Note that you can alleviate these negative effects by replacing a basic income guarantee with a basic job guarantee (i.e., just like a basic income, but you need to work for it). That also costs the taxpayer far less.
Unity seems a bit tricky for a 9 year old even with this update, you might want to check out something a bit simpler like Construct 2 to start with. Just an idea
Well, I don't think you've told entire story. She was speaking at her lunch time in polish and her manager said that this is not allowed.

http://witnesshr.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/polish-worker-sacked...

(Btw, a lot of polish and spanish developers arrived to the UK in recent months)
What would be more useful to me, is a global hotkey that hides notifications.
One of my guess is that "applization"(I mean a web service becomes more and more like an app) has its role to play in current simple/clean/flat web design trend. A more app-like web service is more likely to require the app visual design. So this could be an interesting perspective to examine the development status of web design in different parts of the world.
This !

I really, really didn't get why so many people on the net didn't get it, or thought it was really complicated !
Well I'm going to back him up, and blaspheme the memory of George Orwell for good measure.

Sanity is socially-defined. So is reality, at least human-eudaimonic reality. Basically, imagine we live in the Matrix, and you get out, but you're the only one who does get out or ever can get out. Do you live in reality?

In the scientific sense, yes: causal arrows run from your reality to ours.

In the social sense, no: you live in total isolation, have an utterly meaningless life due to lack of social relationships, and quickly go insane from the extreme solitude. (I mean that literally: solitary confinement of human beings causes measurable damage to mental and neurological health.)

Given multiple possible realities, the one that's going to make you sane and happy is the one where everyone else lives, or at least enough of a peer group to keep you sane. Thus, if you break out of the Matrix, you should focus on building Zion.

If we're talking about real-world, non-hypothetical real-life versus, say, World of Warcraft, it's pretty damn obvious that you can have better and more meaningful relationships with more people in real life, and that living almost entirely in real life does much more to support your physical and mental health than living in WoW. We can therefore obviously conclude you should stop playing WoW right now and go out in the healthy sunshine.

Just like your mom used to tell you, but way mind-screwier.
The reason it sounded stupid in the movie is because it was the name of the actual element that they were mining. The historical use of the word that you mention is for hypothetical things, e.g. in thought experiments. From Wikipedia:

"In engineering, fiction, and thought experiments, unobtainium is any fictional, extremely rare, costly, or impossible material, or (less commonly) device needed to fulfill a given design for a given application. The properties of any particular unobtainium depend on the intended use. For example, a pulley made of unobtainium might be massless and frictionless; however, if used in a nuclear rocket, unobtainium would be light, strong at high temperatures, and resistant to radiation damage. The concept of unobtainium is often applied flippantly or humorously."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium
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Global hotkey! Somehow did not even think of that to be honest, I could add a menu item to let you set a hotkey. Think that'd be a good idea?
This is something that I also would like to know, just for curiosity, I don't know anyone that works at Twitter currently, I used to but would be awesome to see what happened after the IPO inside Twitter.
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There are many sources, but you might get a good overview on this issue watching the documentary "Science under attack":
http://www.denkmal-film.com/cms/index.php?page=presse-9
I left work in a way that I believe is less cold turkey and helped ease the transition. Instead of quitting, I told my supervisor that I would like to work as a contractor. My reason for doing so was to live elsewhere and be more flexible with my schedule.

Since I was so valuable to the company at the time, they were just happy I wasn't quitting. After a few months of contracting I told them I was done and by then I had other opportunities come my way. It worked out very well.
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Interesting discussion, a pity HN is not made for long conversations.

Political system are a complicated beast. We all watch the same movies, buy the same stuff, but, somehow, vote in completely different ways. I think it's because of how incentives are set in the respective countries. They are not really culture, but just something that's there and it is very difficult to remove.

For example, the Italian systems protects pharmacies (you can have only 1 each xyz inhabitants). But the Danish system protects its economy taxing cars 180%. The principle behind those 2 policies is the same (the State can and has to affect the economy), yet the incentive this creates and the impacts on the economy are very different.
downvoting me does not change facts.
If the low paying, menial jobs are indeed essential, why are they low paying? Do the people working these jobs currently really have a choice? Is that morally justifiable?
If the spending is funded by taxes rather than printing, why would we expect huge inflation to result?
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I don't think so. Even people who can read both languages seem to notice the difference.
Nothing snotty about not liking Inception. I for one didn't like it at all. I agree that it borrows concepts from deep scifi but it painstakingly explains everything to you so that you lose the mind bending effect of deep scifi.

Then there is also the god-awful performance of Cotillard.
I like how troll-baiting it is to use MIT and Stanford stereotypes in this article. The sustainable ammonia technology in this example is audaciously important, but convincing people to buy sustainable fertilizer is also important too. I think that too many technology startups have an entitled disdain for literally putting shit in a box and selling it profitably---with a hand-signed note.

Even if a technology company can raise funding and grants, sustainable revenue from licensing or contracts should be the first priority for the company or it won't be able to stay together.
Glass.

It's an ageless 'mind-blower', but I can only imagine the type of response it would elicit from kids that age, especially if they're even just a little tech-inclined.
Why is this company not being investigated for being a monopoly. They control the entire market, price competition is an illusion.

Are the law so lax in northern Italy? At what point does the EU step in?
Author here.

As for 1.: CSV files are encoded as a stream, so they can be as large as needed. JSON is dumped as a whole from memory, I'd be keen to see if someone has written a streaming JSON encoder.

2.: Consuming, no. I normally load them in a browser with D3 or jQuery to feed them into a graphic or other interface.

3.: I'd argue this is out of scope for dataset, but simpler REST API makers would definietly be cool. Check https://github.com/okfn/webstore - this is what dataset came out of, and it makes somewhat RESTish APIs.
FWIW, I know someone who joined Twitter in 2010, and shortly after the IPO, quit his job and decided to create his own startup.
You state your view as though it's obvious, yet it is far more contrived of an explanation and is predicated on the idea that Nolan would change his mind about the ring and NOT fix it throughout, which seems so unlike him
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The author states the "extreme" case of OOP is "everything is an object" and the extreme case of FP is "purity."

The problem with this analogy is that everything being an object doesn't by you much. But in Haskell, the type system helps you keep track of what's pure and what's not. So having a type system that keeps track of purity buys you something: lots of pure and extremely easy to reason about code. Non-deterministic (unpure) code is the same difficulty to reason about in any language. Isolating it from pure code just reduces the amount of code which is difficult to reason about.
Monad transformers are ugly, ugly, ugly (though not really hacks, since they are based on sound mathematics.)
"I tend to trace it back to a trip Melinda and I took to Africa in 1993. We went on a safari to see wild animals but ended up getting our first sustained look at extreme poverty"

All of us with privilege need to stop referring to the place as just 'Africa'. It's an incredibly diverse place, and just smacking that label on it to refer to every place on the continent trivializes the population.

Sure, the national boundaries are just some lines colonists in Europe drew on a map when divvying up the resources they were going to steal, but we need to be able to have a respect for people while we're talking about these problems.
I'm looking for a nice syntax to implement the other filter types in Python that doesn't amount to rebuilding most of SQLAlchemy. Maybe it's just a question of exposing the existing API of SQLA better.
The iPad screen is 43% larger and the hardware is significantly faster. Even if all you are doing is web browsing it provides a significantly superior experience. $400 is a bit high, but its definitely not $200 high.
Http://politicstomorrow.us/nora/china-another-great-leap-backward/
You (don't have remember/will not forget/will not click the button twice) to turn notifications back on.
Presumably you are taxing income to pay for this. The net result is a transfer of wealth from people who work to people who don't.

As a result the money supply does not increase. If any inflation occurs, it is caused solely by a shift of spending from goods/investments not measured by CPI (or the swiss equivalent) to those that are.

(I.e., if money shifts from investment in electronics research to pizza consumption, the price of pizza will rise and the price of of oscilloscopes will fall. Since CPI includes the price of pizza but not oscilloscopes, inflation will rise.)
Here's the winning formula:

* As Patrick mentioned, tap into your CoC's network of local businesses and offer to host a presentation. This will help you seed an audience - you'll later want to host your own events.

* Go to your local office supply store and get those folders with business card inserts. Print out your slides, and insert them and your business card into this folder.

* Hand folder out to each attendee, and include a strong call to action: "Want to learn more about how your business can best utilize email? Go to bit.ly/xyz and sign up for my FREE email course."

* Try to get everyone in attendance to opt-in to your course. Reinforce your email course during and after your presentation. (BTW, this is MUCH easier when you're running your own events and have some sort of registration system - you can then just auto opt-in everyone who attended.)

* Over the next month, teach them more about email via autoresponders.

* After your course completes, personally email each attendee and ask them point blank how they're planning on implementing the advice you taught them both at the live event and in the email course in their business. Tell them you want to buy them coffee and listen to their plan + give them some advice (note: this is a FOOLPROOF way of securing that first meeting.)

* The general takeaway from this meeting should be, "Wow! I now a LOT more about email marketing thanks to this guy. But hey, I'm busy running my business, and it's obvious this guy knows what he's doing, I trust him, and he's already delivered me an overwhelming amount of value."

* ...Profit
Since you already admitted that you liked my source I assume that you also read the introductory page which contains this enlightening paragraph at the top [1]:

Comparisons between countries that are based on their individual crime statistics require caution since such statistics are produced differently in different countries. Criminal statistics do not provide a simple reflection of the level of crime in a given country.

Criminal statistics are influenced by both legal and statistical factors, and by the extent to which crime is reported and registered. These factors can vary from one country to another. There are no international standards for how crime statistics should be produced and presented and this makes international comparisons difficult.

The comparison with Finnland doesn't hold. Also the 17% you quote directly contradicts the 6% in your earlier article, at least one of the two can't be right.

Then again, the GP doesn't contradict the assertion that the overall ratio is now lower than a year ago. You're nit refuting his point. His argument is that the police now concentrates less on easily solvable crimes that have little effect on the general population but rather on more difficult crimes with significant effect on the general population - which in my book is a good thing. Tying police success or failure to a statistic that measures something only tangentially related is a mistake, albeit a common one, even in high profile newspapers. (cue rant about journalism today).

http://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statisti...
Idiorm is one of my favourite PHP libraries by far. Itself, plus Slim for routing on top of a bunch of classes is the nicest most maintainable way I've come across for building small web applications in PHP!
Wait. You mean "technology" isn't synonymous with "latest consumer gadget"?
Imagine if you had a heart-rate monitor and a sleep monitor.

The heart rate monitor would know when you spiked yourself with caffeine, combined with the sleep monitor that knows you've only slept 4 hours the past 3 nights.

An alert pops up on your computer: "hey, you need rest. Stop drinking so much caffeine. Eat an apple and take a 20 minute nap, you'll feel better."

Those are just two data sources.

Harvest (time tracking) + RescueTime (productivity) + Runkeeper would be super valuable too. You'd know that you're 10% more productive on days that you run.
No no no, I wasn't trying to say that Factory pattern in itself is useless, or dependency injection frameworks, or similar. These are all useful things, time-tested. However, in a language with first-class functions, all these cease to be "obscure patterns that you need a certificate to think of and design" and simply become "just another day of life". For example, you don't need to create a FactoryFactoryFactory class with appropriate functions and the whole framework around it, you simply write a function that takes the appropriate parameters and returns the appropriate object, and pass it around. Similarly, you don't need a complicated Dependency Injection framework, you just pass parameters to a functions and it gives you what you want. It's that simple. Still, occasionally some advanced IoC functionality can be useful, but much less frequently.

To see this in action, try googling "factory pattern in Python". You will find hardly any results.
This is by no means meant to replace an understanding of databases. The typical use case is a web scraper, where you download a lot of messy data into an operational data store before you clean it up and load it into something with a proper model. Many people use mongo for this, but I actually like keeping my data around.
We are working on solving some of this, specifically for health data, at http://humanapi.co - you can connect your various data sources, and we then give you a central personalized API you can query.

(full disclosure, I am the founder of this company)
Oh man, this is rather tempting.
Misleading title linked to crap pseudoscience article.

"World renowned heart surgeon" - Hasn't had a medical license since 2008, and had 5 regulatory actions taken against him between 2000 and 2008 while working in Arizona (nowhere to be seen on the U.S. news ranking of top hospitals for heart surgery). Regulatory actions reflect poor practice of medicine.

"what really causes heart disease" - In his opinion. Some, but not all, of which has any relation to published scientific findings.

In addition, it looks like he has had financial and legal troubles and primarily hypes his views to sell products (books, supplements), like any huckster. You can tell when a scientist or doctor holds serious, well-founded views because s/he usually doesn't try to make a buck selling trinkets and scams.
Source: http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/lundell.html
Daily stand-ups were the best thing I ever did for this. We had our task list on big post-it notes on the wall. We talked about which ones we were going to accomplish, what we had done the day before, and what we expected to do that day.

That way, when I looked at their check-ins and their project updates, I had context for that.
Functions that work on "any monad" in Scheme can accept the monad operations as an extra parameter. A macro can hide this, like

(with-monad m
(monad-operation data))

See https://github.com/clojure/algo.monads for an implementation of this in Clojure.
The current policy of means-tested welfare is just a complex combination of minimum income and high (sometimes >100%) marginal tax rates for the poor. The proposal to get rid of these programs and replace them with a more simple system of basic income is just a proposal to lower the marginal tax rates for the poor, so that they are no longer the highest.
The proposal wouldn't change the average net wage; effectively higher taxes on the well-off will subsidize those on lower income - not so much the unemployed, who already receive quite a lot of public subsidy, but those on minimum-wage/part-time jobs do a lot better under this scheme.

So hopefully this will a) reduce income inequality b) give better incentives for the unemployed, which may improve overall productivity.

I guess you could argue that a higher velocity of money means an increased money supply that has the same practical effects as inflation. IIRC economic thought is divided on this?
First things first, IsaacSchlueter in the thread, wow :)

So, I'm stress testing our company Node app to find where we can go with it's performance. First problem was file descriptor, which I fixed with your "graceful-fs" module.

But now, I'm reaching some "invisible" limit that I can't identify. My app doesn't return any error in the log.

Does "maxSockets" will help to receive more requests also or is just to make requests?
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There's actually some truth to this that is missing in the article. I had lived in China for awhile and it was so incredibly difficult to navigate Chinese websites. I'm using China as an example because the web designs are similar.

There was some study done awhile ago within China that I can't find the link to that compared the designs of a complicated site like sina.com.cn with text and images all over the place and compared it with a much simpler design that practiced white space and minimalism. It showed that the Chinese actually preferred complicated designs over simple designs. Having lived in China, this makes sense to me because of the culture. Simplicity and white space is not very well practiced. The "East Meets West" graphic by Yang Liu is probably a good example of some of the cultural differences.
Backblaze wrote about it here (2011): http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v... and here (2013): http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20/180tb-of-good-vibration...

We are constantly looking at new hard drives, evaluating them for reliability and power consumption. The Hitachi 3TB drive (Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630) is our current favorite for both its low power demand and astounding reliability. The Western Digital and Seagate equivalents we tested saw much higher rates of popping out of RAID arrays and drive failure. Even the Western Digital Enterprise Hard Drives had the same high failure rates. The Hitachi drives, on the other hand, perform wonderfully.

In the second article they say that WD-RED are 2nd in reliability (WD-RED did not exist 2011). I'm happy that I've got a cheap Hitachi Ultrastar. But who knows.

As a personal anecdote: WD-Green failure rates are huge here. 24/7 Desktop machines, 240 drives. I've replaced in last 12 month at least 20 drives.
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There are extremely large difference in reliability between different drives makes and models. Here are a couple of numbers (we're building storage servers, running 24/24 in various environments):

* my company installed about 4500 Seagate Barracuda ES2 (500 GB, 750 GB and mostly 1TB) between 2008 and 2010. These drives are utter crap, in 5 years we got about 1500 failures, much worse than the previous generation (250 GB to 750 GB Barracuda ES).

* After replacing several hundred drives, we decided to switch boats in 2010 and went with Hitachi (nowadays HGST). Of the roughly 3000 Hitachi/HGST drive used in the past 3 years, we had about 20 failures. Only one of the 200 Hitachi drives shipped between 2007 and 2009 failed. Most of the failed drives were 3 TB drives, ergo the 3 TB HGST HUA drives are less reliable than the 2 TB, themselves less reliable than the 1 TB model (which is by all measure, absolutely rock solid).

* Of the few WD drives we installed, we replaced about 10% in the past 3 years. Not exactly impressive, but not significant either.

* We replaced a number of Seagate Barracudas with Constellations, and these seem to be reliable so far, however the numbers aren't significant enough (only about 120 used in the past 2 years).

* About SSDs: SSDs are quite a hit and miss game. We started back in 2008 with M-Tron (now dead). M-Tron drives were horribly expensive, but my main compilation server still run on a bunch of these. Of all the M-Tron SSD we had (from 16 GB to 128 GB), none failed ever. There are 5 years old now, and still fast.

We've tried some other brands: Intel, SuperTalent... Some SuperTalent SSDs had terrible firmware, and the drives would crash under heavy load! They disappeared from the bus when stressed, but come back OK after a power cycle. Oh my...

So far unfortunately SSDs seem to be about as reliable as spinning rust. Latest generations fare better, and may actually best current hard drives ( we'll see in a few years how they retrospectively do).