skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2013, there was this company that snapped pictures and took a comment. user engagement was through the roof among an unknown number of 15-23 year olds. Hundreds of millions of photos uploaded every 24 hours ("more than facebook!" they would shout) instead of the ipo bubble of the 90s there was a bubble bidding war among the startups that themselves barely made any money but nevertheless, managed to raised billions of dollars... this app is a 3bn dollar app! nope tomorrow it'll be worth 4. why? because we know that next month it'll be worth 10bn!!! based on my perpetual growth method valuation that my 21 year old intern who previously interned at GS in sanitary engineering division last summer created, this app should overtake FB and Twitter! the ceo who just stole the idea and fkd over his own friend replied, "woah. let’s take a step back fellas. we're worth way more than that! we have potential to save privacy. what's the price tag on that? gazillion at the minimum. Maybe kakakakazillion?... we created an industry that didn't exist 12 months ago. ephemeral communication!"

From wall street to silicon valley to local teen bloggers, people were #obsessed #addicted to this app. then with a single snap, #crash happened. but nobody remembers what really happened because all the memories were on that app... with the exception of one man and his servers. that's when the next bubble started. selling terabytes of worthless BIG DATA crunched by NASA scientists. #gg.

Almost all bubbles last longer than most people realize. that's because the people who inevitably show their hands and forced to pop it are also the ones who want to continue to ride the bubbles (misalignment of incentives due to selfish greed vs. institutional capital). lemming investors who get in late need to keep marking up their books and re-setting valuation occurs higher and higher every quarter. however, only when exits do not happen, when growth does not occur, when monetization plans do not become realized do the general public's sentiment shift and liquidity stop flowing and then… bids stop coming. and that my friends can take a mighty long time. some of the smartest people who shorted the first dot come bubble went belly up. that is because most people are lemmings, mere momentum driven followers in everything they do and the rest in the middle just want to get out of the rush hour freight train heading toward the apex of Mt. Neverneverland.
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>[...] would in affect move the poverty line up higher, which would mean the people at the bottom are still poor relatively.

This might happen to some degree but there is no reason to assume it would be "linear" so the effect is canceled out.
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I don't know how schools afford them, they're pretty expensive. $50 is about my limit for whiteboards.
The equitability of a basic income is not its main selling point, as I see it; in other words it is not necessary that it be equitable according to some specific conception in order for a basic income to provide value to society as a whole. The selling points are, as I see them:

- There are now more people spending money because they have disposable income. This is good for businesses.

- There is added incentive to work, because one does not lose income by starting a job.

- The people being made redundant by automation are given a cushion that will help as they figure out how to become economically relevant again. This is good for everyone, because there are fewer families forced out onto the streets, etc.

- There is, potentially, less of a bureaucracy to manage the distribution of existing welfare programs, assuming existing programs can be consolidated into the new basic income scheme. This is an attractive point for conservatives and libertarians.

There's no need for equitability here, although that's also something that is desirable within bounds. But I think few millionaires and billionaires will find a significant decrease in their standard of living if they have to pay more into the pot than they receive. Also keep in mind that the billionaires are billionaires because society provides a framework for them to accumulate and retain the capital that they have; for this reason they have an implicit debt and obligation to society.
Well put. Perhaps if the energy sector wasn't so corrupt that £71/week might actually go a little further. I'm living in a house with an old immersion boiler and it costs around £20 every 4-5 days (that's only on for 2-3 hours a day + cooking).
Whatever you convince the judge to award you. You've still suffered calculable damages in November 2013 if your bitcoins are stolen, even if the bitcoin bubble bursts as of December. These issues are not new.

More broadly, "The US legal system is not prepared to deal with bitcoin" is not the source of systemic risk that you should be terrified of.
Nope, he suddenly went silent after I agreed to the bet. But I'm sure he had some very important thing to do that's keeping him busy and not able to answer ;)
As I've already said to someone else. This is about linking, not compilation. The rest of your comment is irrelevant to this discussion.

And I am reacting to your grandparent, who was talking about compilation.
> We don't know what the full impact of technology would be, so a basic income is premature at best.

Now, maybe, but one need only look at long term unemployment trends to see what's coming.

> When you say "People need to get over the idea that work will be necessary to live" you are just insulting people's intelligence.

No, you are just choosing to feel insulted.

> Basic income might be a kinder and more efficient way to deliver money to people without jobs, but it won't magically make them more productive.

It's not supposed to make them more productive, so who cares.
Some US army official is no longer employed by the US army now :(
That merely demonstrates people aren't thinking, they're just applying patterns.
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It's not about what's possible in principle, but whether the tools facilitate a certain workflow. When you work in Clojure everything is interactive. You can write a function evaluate it immediately, see the result, use it in the next function and so on.

The workflow is very natural and you practically never have to restart anything. You can build up state in the application, see how things interact, reload functions add new functions, and so on. Using a debugger in Eclipse is a very pale imitation of this.
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Happens in the UK. Every £2k over £100k and you lose £1k of your tax-free allowance. This means that you keep 38p of every £1 earned between £100k and £118k, before the tax rate relaxes back to a more sensible 40% after £118k (and then up to 50% at £150k).
3-10x is, of course, intended as a 95%-of-cases interval with some basic assumptions. Some contexts (e.g. type of problem, engineer, timeframe) will be below 3x and others will be above 10x. (The 99.99% interval is probably 0.2-100x.) Among those basic assumptions is that the engineers have the curiosity, drive, and ability to learn it. Ability is the least issue of the three; if they're not smart enough to learn Clojure, they're not smart enough to Java or C++ well, and they're mostly making messes.

Lisp has a bad reputation compared to what it is. People think it's impractical, that Lispers are arrogant (due to a few vocal but influential people in the Lisp community) and that it's archaic or weird. I've addressed those perceptions, but they're out there. Clojure is, in fact, a pretty damn practical language.

Now, the arbitrage argument: in larger companies, the concerns aren't engineer productivity so much as appearances. For a middle-manager to launch a meaningful Clojure/Lisp initiative would be to put himself out there in a major way, and since programmer productivity is only one piece of a much larger system, it might not have that big an impact on the company as a whole. It might not be worth it. (Would Google's market cap go up 3-10x if it replaced Java with Clojure? Almost certainly not. Maybe the fair value would improve by 1.05x on fundamentals, which would be drowned out by month-to-month volatility.) On the other hand, startups generally can't afford (or don't think they can afford) to experiment with newer, quirkier languages. VC-funded startups tend (surprisingly?) to have stodgy closed-allocation work cultures and boring tech stacks because they're expected to allocate 100% of the "risk allowance" to one department: business-model risk. That's not to say that there aren't other kinds of companies that can (and, in some cases, do) use more innovative tools; but the two dominant cultural forces (VC startups and large corporations) in technology don't favor it.

For the large companies, I'll admit that there's an Amdahl's Law sort of effect at play. Let's say that you improve productivity of engineers by 3-10x. Does that "3x" the whole company? As I alluded to for Google, probably not. It makes something else the limiting factor. For most firms, using the wrong programming languages is nowhere near their top problem. To use Google as the example, it might deserve a 5% bump on market cap if it included Clojure (a small gain compared to monthly volatility, so small that no one could prove causality and take credit) on the white-list but the fair value would go up 50-200% (again, on fundamentals, as I can't predict investor opinion) if it implemented open allocation. Programming language innovation just isn't the top priority for most companies. But for an individual developer, the advantage conferred by a powerful language can be pretty serious.
I still cannot comprehend how anyone with a basic knowledge of economics can perceive this as a good idea. All universal income can achieve is increasing the cost of living to the point where it is as if there is no universal income.

In other words, the universal income idea simply increases the cost of living by the same factor of the increased income. Perhaps it takes a year or two, so the poor benefit during that time, but in the end all it does is destroy the currency and suppress economic growth.

"There is no such thing as a free lunch"

Point being, there's always some trade off. All universal income does is push the cost of lunch onto the wealthy even more.
> Why pay transaction fees to an exchange if ...

Because you want to support bitcoin. If you don't want to pay with bitcoin, don't. If you do want to support bitcoin but don't want to erode your savings, then do this.
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I wonder how "sturdiness" scales. What happens when you drop or bang a battery with such tiny features? Obviously they are very weak, but they also have very little mass.

I generally count on HN to have someone with experience in any given field. Today I call on those with experience scaling structures into the larger micron ranges.
The fastest programs are the ones that don't prepare themselves to do something and then don't do that thing. Another way to say just do one thing well.
>In my experience, design/UX needs will always trump dev/ops

What does that have to do with anything? Things are not getting bigger because of UX needs, they are getting bigger contrary to UX needs. They are getting bigger because marketing weasels have always wanted things to be this bloated and shitty, and now they think everyone has high bandwidth, low latency connectivity so they can force designers to do it now.
More likely, they'll be able to build unique shapes for batteries that will allow cramming more battery into awkward spaces.
It's Popperian epistemology.

You don't know what definite descriptions are ?

It has become depressingly clear that a majority of you don't even have the philosophical tools to adequately discuss "the Matrix" as a topic. No wonder you all soak this shit up.

It's fascinating to me that I restate exactly an explicit plot device of the film (decision keeps you in the Matrix, not "pills"; decision determines one's fate: "Neo"); you recapitulate it back to me; then you call it magic.

And then you insult me. Your ego is

Are you trolling me ? One requirement I have of trolls is that they be funny, or at least intellectually familiar with the topic.
A friend copied an e-mail that MtGox sent to them today:

<snip>

Dear MtGox Customers,

Thank you for your patience during an incredible year for Bitcoin and MtGox. We’ve not been able to communicate as we may have wanted, but we’ve been working tirelessly in the background and we’re looking forward to even more progress in the coming weeks, which we’ll be announcing soon.

We have four developments that we are proud to announce today:

Introduction of the MtGox OTP Card
Increased limit for SEPA withdrawals from Poland
A modified trading interface
Trade with no fees from Bitcoin Black Friday through Cyber Monday

...

Additional Points:

To increase the speed of Bitcoin transactions, we will now require all Bitcoin transfers to pay the standard 0.001 BTC network fee. The fee will be charged separately from your balance.
I use Clojure for a lot of analysis, modeling, protoyping and optimization for supply chains (I work in Amazon's Supply Chain). The presentation mentioned that Clojure was used for SCO, and I was curious jf there was some community of supply chain users of Clojure somewhere because AFAIK I'm one of two people that use it for SCO.
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The most interesting thing Google Dart will be used for the main languague for Android
Leaving a comment here and upvoting simply to have an access for the resources. I will really need to update my way of bookmarking pages...
Met een energiezuinige infraroodverwarming haal je de zon in huis
> This pretty much happens already in progressive taxation countries(e.g. belgium) where you can actually make less money by having a higher salary because your tax-rate increases.

You don't understand how progressive taxes actually work. This simply doesn't happen. You can't make less money by making more money.
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There are also practical downsides: information on the internet is often scraped, archived and cached. For example at https://www.hnsearch.com/ and http://hackerslide.com/

If deletion is allowed, it would be easy to add "undelete" from a previously scraped copy, or even a page for all deleted comments with previous user details. Both of these already exist for Reddit. In a way, deleting a post would highlight and bring it to the attention of people looking for controversy or accidentally leaked information.
Sure, given that, what does it matter? Don't kill the bacteria now because...what?

The old argument was, don't make our current antibiotics useless by breeding 'resistant' varieties. But now, IBM is making 'magic bullet' antibiotic polymers on their 3D polymer printer.

So what does it matter that new varieties mutate or whatever, if you can just print up a new polymer to handle it.

This is a game-changer. The old ways of thinking are probably obsolete.
The idea is this: in the current system of welfare benefits, they are phased out with income. At those income levels, this phaseout acts as an implicitly high marginal income tax, which creates a disincentive to work. If you give everyone basic income with no phaseouts, you accomplish the same goal of welfare transfers without those ill disincentive effects.
Thanks for the clarification, my memory was off. Link to Intel/Micron site: http://imflash.com/
It would be interesting to know what the median has done.

The average doesn't really tell much of a story, since there's a lower bound at 0MB but no real upper bound. My guess would be that a certain subset of sites have gotten a lot bigger and pulled the average up, while the remainder have seen more modest growth.

Anecdotally, it definitely seems like news sites and blogs have seen a pretty staggering increase in page weight in the past few years. It's not uncommon to see a ridiculous number of resources loaded from 30+ domains on a single site anymore (CNN.com, I'm looking at you).
I did a writeup a little while back reflecting on why I feel Clojure makes me more productive:

http://yogthos.net/blog/49-Why+I%27m+Productive+in+Clojure
Wonder how rich these guys are now. The exchange will not survive, because it is horribly architected.
I urge you to step into a supermarket or corner store/dairy, in any country outside of an area of affluence. Are you familiar with the concept of Food Deserts?

"Because of the Agriculture and Food policies soon people living in food deserts will have only a couple of food producers to choose from: Coca-Cola, Nestle, Kraft and Kellogg’s."

http://saynotofoodwaste.org/2013/06/03/food-deserts/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
Battery life only sort of bugs me, the real issue I have with modern batteries is longevity.

Once a typical Li-ion battery is a few years old it might as well be worthless, it will hold only a fraction of the original charge it could when it was new and that amount will continue to drop over time. If we could build batteries with even 80% of the storage density of Li-ion but would retain 90% of that capacity over 10 years I'd be pretty happy.
I'm not an expert in forex, but as far as I know, high volatility commodities can quickly wipe out forex accounts, especially with such low amounts.

It does seem like a very interesting strategy though, that can probably make one even more money than investing directly in Bitcoin, but for that to work I think you need a sizable ($10,000?) amount, and only invest a few hundred dollars at most in that position. That way you can still make a lot of money if Bitcoin keeps increasing, but if it does happen to drop quite a lot, at least there's a much smaller chance of losing all the money.
It allows you to create a single, compact structure that can then be utilized in a number of ways without having to re-cast it, replace it, or otherwise reallocate it.

For example, you can have a union between a 64-bit pointer and a 32-bit type identifier plus 32-bit value. This means you can store 32-bit integers in the same space as a pointer.
Why?
On earth, heavy boots hold you down, but dust and feathers float away.

The moon has less gravity than the Earth, so a pen is like a feather.

Blah blah atmosphere electro-magnetism blah, the universe is big ad complicated.
This is absolutely not 'a new drug'. This wasn't made through the tedious try-1000-things-and-see-what-sticks.

This was a DESIGNED polymer, made explicitely through chemistry to attack a particular animicule.

The old antibiotics are done; the CDC calls the age of antibiotics 'over'. There is no longer any use in stonewalling or holding back on chemistry through some fear that it will ruin the status quo. The status quo is 'nothing works'.

This is a game-changer. The old arguments, the old ways of thinking, are probably obsolete.
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So cut out the 'glib' stale arguments and read the article again; come up with a cogent point.
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Looks like your ng-cloak isn't working - you may need to add a few CSS classes - see here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11249768/angularjs-ng-clo...
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>>There are only 2 hours, 3 minutes and 50 seconds until perihelion of Comet ISON<<

Look at that max speed. Reaching 0.1 percent of speed of light. http://www.cometison2013.co.uk/perihelion-and-distance/

I hope it doesn't disintegrate.
Samsung plans to outspend Iceland's GDP on advertising and marketing
Time person of the year is not about the best person. It's about the most influential person.

Hitler won before.
(I don't seem to be able to reply to your comment directly)

danieldk 8 minutes ago | link

>> As I've already said to someone else. This is about linking, not compilation. The rest of your comment is irrelevant to this discussion.

> And I am reacting to your grandparent, who was talking about compilation.

I'm fairly certain that that slow compile time is a combination of `compile + link` and the linking is probably a big part of the equation as well, just like it is in C and Go.
How about they process things faster. Maybe add direct deposit like coinbase from bank but make it faster with less fees. Bitcoin wiki is already very good.
dude.. sorry about winzip. I'll pay for it next time, I promise.
I think Kent was being sarcastic - his point is that it's rather pointless to optimize until the system is producing correct results. He's also famous for the "Make it work, make it right, make it fast" quote.
There is quite a bit of welfare benefits in the U.S. the complete lack of social security in the U.S. is a strawman. Now, it's probably true that the benefits are not as generous as elsewhere, but they are fairly extensive, and depending on the state you live in, are quite generous
If you choose creationism, you also choose the existence of a creator. A great many people who hold this belief seem to base many decisions in their lives on what this creator would want them to do (or at least, say they do). This can be a very, very long way from "zero practical impact on their lives".
> 352,117,848 views.

Now I'm depressed.
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FWIW, that's more than London spent on the 2012 Olympics.
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It didn't get Klayton of Celldweller, but it did guess (among others) Brett from Blue Stahli, who is signed to Klayton's record label, so pretty close :)
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"US military are pirating software" would have been a better title :)
Confidence is a funny word for gambling. Secure an odd choice for something defined as volatile. If you need money and your bitcoin savings is worthless, you lose.

Volume of participants has had no stabilizing effect on bitcoins. They suffer in spades the destabilizing properties of real currency, with no corresponding 'federal reserve' able to (try to) control fluctuations.
My interpretation of offline is if someone had access to their stored data (ex: blockchain.info is hacked, database is leaked, etc). In that case then 2-FA is pointless. It's only valid when interacting with them as an online service.
That's a valid concern with this user interface. However, this might also work as a filter, because only real geeks will suggest a coffee place via pull request.
I disagree. I think that top-1% programmers actually fare worse when thrown into a typical Java codebase. Sure, they're very productive on their own stuff (whether in Clojure or Java, although I still think those programmers will fare better with Clojure) but if you dropped a 1%er (or even a 10%er) into a pile of someone else's FactoryFactory garbage, he'd either rewrite it or fail completely to make any headway. Bad code is the Waterloo of good engineers.

I've seen companies end up in inversion, which means that the most apparently productive engineers are the worst ones. It's a common effect in "design pattern" Java shops with all their Visitor and Factory and Vibrator and AbstractSingletonFactory patterns. It's not pretty. Good people are either taken badly (because they keep agitating for rewrites) or become disengaged and eventually leave or are fired.
I call that "sketching in code." I've gotten in some trouble in interviews for "starting to write code right away," so it's a habit I'm having to fight at the moment, but I find having something in code (that I'm fully willing to throw away) really helps.

It's like Fred Brooks said:

...plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.
The systems I wrote were independent of HN and didn't slow it down. I got significant grief for them and pulled them.

Standard "wisdom" for start-ups includes "If you're not embarrassed by your first product then you didn't launch early enough," and "Try the minimal viable product before investing too much time." I both launched early, and made sure the "product" was absolutely minimal. It got slated by the people it was trying to help, so I didn't bother refining it.

The experience was educational and instructive.

(minor edit to remove some inappropriate snark - apologies)