skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I don't think there are low crime rates for this reason. I have never implied this or stated this. In any case a comparison between Switzerland and US is bizarre -- there are far too many differences to idly (without multivariate analysis on data that is likely not even available) claim that any one variable explains lower crime rate in one vs. the other.

[Edit: I previously included a longer rant here, but, I'll just point anyone to this CDC study -- http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_natur... -- and let them make their own conclusions]

I do happen to think that it's better for individuals to decide on their own whether the risks of keeping a firearm are outweighed by any protection it offers. My firearms are stored unloaded, under lock, with ammo in a separate location: I live in a safe neighbourhood -- which I can finally afford to do after winning the IPO lottery (to be blunt) -- so for me the risks outweigh the benefits; I don't, however, claim to be able to make this choice for others. I would much rather see housing prices go down (even though I will be hurt personally by this) and for the (scary) trend of growing education-based stratification of US society to end -- stratification which is largely manifested in ways American families live.

"Not giving a shit about legality" is far worse than even outright (but enforced) bans -- it means the criminals are able to get away with it, but individuals citizens who want to actually use it for self-defense or sport cannot.

You're also confusing two aspects of Swiss laws: militia members can keep their service rifle at home while it's a fully automatic (i.e., an actual assault rifle) with restricted ammo (I think the restrictions, however, are to prevent the military issued ammo to be used for non-military purpose; you can still take it to the range and use it with civilian purchased ammo).

Separately from this, after the end of their militia service, they have the option of paying to have it permanently converted it to semi-automatic and keeping it under the same laws as other civilian firearms.

On the other hand, fully automatic/select fire weapons are essentially illegal in the United States, military members can't keep their automatic rifles with them at home, and so on. Like in Switzerland, most US states do permit ownership of semi-auto versions of those rifles (however, afaik in the United States, they must have been manufactured as semi-automatics -- there's murky case law that can land you into trouble for having cerrain M16 parts in an AR-15, for example). However, some states (e.g., NY) ban them completely..
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I'm actually on 37 because I work in Denmark. I would probably do a bit more if I didn't have a kid to collect / feed etc.
If you're holding a winning ticket then cash it in before it blows away. Don't let greed and past peaks cloud your judgement. Sell now before the sell off frenzy starts.
Shouldn't there be at least one option for people working less than 40 hours a week?
An interesting item on that list is Flooz:

Flooz was meant to be online currency that would serve as
an alternative to credit cards. It boggles the mind why
anyone would rather use an "online currency" than an actual
credit card, but that didn't stop Flooz from raising a
staggering $35 million from investors and signing up retail
giants such as Tower Records, Barnes & Noble, and
Restoration Hardware.

That sounds eerily familiar in the modern economy.
OP here. Thanks for the analogy!

To answer your PS: 1) rapidly playtesting over email and remotely with folks I'd never met 2) finding a supplier who could do the whole game quickly in the US -- though I had to pay a premium for that and make some sacrifices 3) having a plan and re-prioritizing it practically daily

(sorry for the delay here-- my darn noprocrast settings locked me out!)
Thanks! For the graphics I used TikZ, which is a LaTeX package. The TikZ code of all the figures I used in my Ph.D. thesis are available on Github: https://github.com/jeroenjanssens/phd-thesis/tree/master/fig... which can be compiled using tikz2pdf: https://github.com/jeroenjanssens/tikz2pdf You can see a whole lot of other examples on http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/all/

TikZ allows for high quality graphics, but if you're not into LaTeX, then the learning curve can be quite steep!
Right, but cost of basics would increase. If you sell bread, and you know that everyone now has $xxK basic income, why would you not increase the price of bread?
In my experience, browsers don't cache things very aggressively. You'll re-download that file way before 2014.
The idea is cool but it might be too early for people to use the blockchain like this as right now BitCoin can support 7 transactions per second.

Once that hard limit is lifted, and things like this can scale and support demand, applications like this could be very interesting.

One thing though, it says the BTC involved in the transaction is unspendable, isn't that a bad thing? I imagine an idea like this that didn't render any amount of BTC unspendable would be ideal.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability#Current_bottlenecks
wtf: http://www.t4f.com.br/natal/index.php?oem=1568&buycheap=buy-...
> Another effect that's probably more relevant for Hacker News readers, it doesn't dis-incentivize having your income be higher some years and lower on others.

A progressive tax system that enabled either (a) recognize income for tax purposes in advance receiving it, or (b) deferring recieved in year t+1 that is much greater than in year t for tax purposes would do the same thing, without being a massive tax break (compared to existing progressive systems) to those who make large incomes year-after-year consistently.
We talk about the disincentive to work. But do we actually need that much work doing? Are there actually jobs for everyone? Seems like the main problem a basic income scheme might cause is simply overpopulation.
Unfortunately Matchbook only covers a handful of titles. Out of the hundreds of paper books I have bought from Amazon, many of which have ebook versions, only five are on Matchbook.

They are also only doing it for books you bought in the past. They should be doing it like AutoRip for CDs where you get the ebook for free or small cost when buy the paper version. Bundles with ebook would make a lot of sense for hardback books. Get the ebook immediately and the paper version to get on the shelf.
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I agree with Zed - find job and re-group. I have 3 kids myself and totally understand the insecurity you're feeling - I've been through a layoff. I don't know your jedi level, but starting a business takes smarts and guts lots of companies want. You will probably get a lot of help here already, but feel free to PM me on reddit http://www.reddit.com/user/xamdam/
> During the great depression in the US, crime rates went to an all-time low.

Citation, please. The examples below suggest that this is not at all the case.

http://www.ushistory.org/us/48e.asp

http://depts.washington.edu/depress/crime_seattle_great_depr...

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?s=902192a69...
I'm completely skeptical about the benefit of CDNs to users.

I would like to see some hard data about the number of web sites a user visit typically to understand how this is a meaningful argument. As of now, I lean toward thinking these CDNs are just yet another way to track users.

Anyways, I block them all by default, and my browsing works just fine.
Now instead of "foo".freeze it's "foo"f, but how frequently will that save you time/trouble?

Worse, it seems to break the model of "interact with objects by sending messages", where you send a message using

<object>.<message>

Is "foo"f _not_ sending a message? If so, then what is it doing? If yes, then why new syntax?
What happens when a motorcycle company named Foo and a bicycle company named Foo try to secure their domain? Both have an equally legitimate claim over their trademark used in the motorcycle/bicycle sphere, but they cannot coexist in this new namespace.
Interesting. I'll have to give that a look. I figured someone would have come up with a service like this.
Your poll is a little skewed. What about those who work less than 30 hours? Full time doesn't always get defined as 40 hours.
The thing preventing me from buying an e-reader: Being able to scribble on it. It's very helpful when reading dense technical books. That and if I'm buying a book, I don't want to deal with battery power - so e-ink or nothing. The display size for paper textbooks is much larger too.
Break wallets encrypted with a passphrase, or crack private keys? The former is possible for weak passphrases, but if the latter is ever possible that's a Very Bad Thing for Bitcoin.

It may happen eventually, but hopefully we will have migrated to stronger crypto by then. I do wonder what will happen to abandoned coins at that point. Will they become invalid after a migration period, or will they be up for grabs to the fastest cracker?
I find that the people who chronically overwork are the ones who have bosses that are terrible at delegating and drop a pile of tasks on them randomly that "need to be deployed today". With good organization and realistic project goals I think 40 & gone is fine. If they want more they have to give good reason, especially if it's for free. Personally I wouldn't mind so much because I'm a contract consultant. I just keep billing. But man would I be annoyed as a salaried guy.
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I do about 30h of "work days" and easily more than 10h of off-hours, took me a few changes of venue to remove the requirement to be at my desk 8-9 hours a day, and I am more productive and happier.
I can work 45+ for roughly about 3 months before I get burned out and productivity plummets. It's important that I stop and go do something else (hobbies, exercise, etc) so that I can continue being productive over the long haul. It's a shame employers often don't recognize this
I work part time: 30 hours/week as three ten hour days, and I take M and F "off" (staying home with my kids). It's awesome. Plus it means I am paid hourly, so on the rare occasion where I need to come in for some extra time, I get paid for it.
I prefer reading novels in ebook format, but most other forms I prefer having the physical dead-tree version.

One thing I think holds some ebook formats back is the insistence on replicating the physical experience. I do not need page turn animations or things broken up into slices.

Though, once some startup figures it out, it will seem obvious at the time.
I'm a contractor (by choice) so I always laugh when they remind me "the contract stipulates that we will not pay for more than 40 hours under any circumstances" because that just means I'm done with the week by Wednesday.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9723440...

http://kondratiefflongwave.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/ushom...

OK, perhaps I was incorrect to say "all-time low", and should have said "trended towards a local minimum over the course of the depression"
OK, all the garbage in the video is really, really strange. It completely distracted me and kind of grossed me out. I don't know who thought that was a good idea.
can you say which? thanks
Just to clarify: are we talking as if a concept of overtime pay did not exist?
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A "50/50" rule such as the one described is a clear signal that the memory manager's cache eviction policy is an ad-hoc hack. This sort of problem would benefit from some old-fashioned operations research-style statistical and mathematical modeling. What's the probability that a page will be needed? What's the cost of keeping it around? A proper model would be able to answer these questions. A "recency cache" and "frequency cache" is missing the bigger picture.
A LOT of kids finishing school would be quite content getting cheap housing, eating junk, and playing video games or hanging out all day every day. The longer they do, the less incentive to be productive.

I wouldn't "do nothing", but before meeting my wife I was on track to reducing my expenses to near zero with intention of "going off the grid" with vanishingly little interaction with & contribution to society.

BTW, a suitable gun is about US$500 - a lot cheaper than paying people enough to not hurt you.
agree - i want to see what's available before signing up.
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More than that, there would be tons of metals. The magnetic field generated would be enough to destroy any remaining data in the hdd.
Yeah, it's worth more like $50M if you place your sells across exchanges:

1,600,000.00 bitcoins can be sold for 35,066,701.01 USD on Mt. Gox with a slippage of 1,544,789,298.99 USD (97.78%)
222,043.14 bitcoins (insufficient bid volume) can be sold for 15,395,973.27 USD on Bitstamp with a slippage of 1,493,404,026.73 USD (98.98%)
ABCs of the data society we live in...Always Be Copying... your own data.. "Cmon son".
Currently CDNperf uses Pingdom to gather its data. All CDNs are in the same Cluster group and these are the locations it uses:

Chicago, IL

Copenhagen, Denmark

Washington, DC

Milan, Italy

San Jose, CA

Lisbon, Portugal

Toronto, Canada

Las Vegas 2, NV

Amsterdam 5, Netherlands

Strasbourg 2, France

Charlotte 2, NC

I understand that cdnperf data does not reflect real life performance but with our limited resources this was the best we could do.

If you have suggestions on how to make it better please let us know.
It's important because it's a unique OS. Hardware while innovative, isn't radically different from the rest (except for the other half idea).
I work far less than 40, make enough money to pay the bills, and wouldn't have it any other way - for now.
I have. They're pretty lame. They don't work as well as a comparable iOS or Android device, and the app ecosystem is miserable. I don't know why anyone would buy one if they didn't work for Microsoft.
I work 45+ hours, when I can, because I bill hourly and enjoy receiving money.
I work about 45 or so, some weeks a bit less and some a bit more, but I generally have a few projects on the go at any one time. I would flat out refuse to work over 45 for a day job if they actually expected it. I love coding, but if you let an unhealthy expectation of long hours continue you'll be doing it forever and getting paid less than your salary would indicate.
I rather agree with you, though I did enjoy the book. But, as I've had occasion to say about other books, I felt I "enjoyed it under false pretences," i.e. that I was enjoying it because I thought these flights of fancy, various subgroups, characters, etc, would be wrapped together tidily like The Name of the Rose (although it too was something of an, admittedly purposeful, anticlimax).
Jukka Eklund tweeted the following: https://twitter.com/jukkaeklund/status/405766972765642752

Seems like the phone already has the command line implemented. Great for them.
I also have this problem, combined with my general awkwardness it means I really struggle to network. I even managed to go to a hn meetup and not manage to talk to anyone.

I find it particularly awkward when it is obvious someone recognises or remembers me as there is little to no chance I'll recognise them.

I ran my local poker club for a year or two and there were people who came every week and I had to ask their names every time.

Prosapagnosia really sucks, I sometimes wonder how much my social awkwardness is actually from that trait rather than aspeger's.

I'd welcome a good guide on how to network without being "creepy" but sadly TFA was not good advice, it washed over how to initiate conversation with "just do it", useless advice.
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This is a good question that I've asked to myself so many times.

The chicken/egg problem is not solved at this point because I'm just starting, but my plan is to attract videogame sellers in some big cities at the beginning. The nice thing with videogame sellers is that they are also buyers: I have Assassin's Creed & I want GTA V, for example. Then the first step is to bring some critical mass and grow the inventory.

This is a very different kind of marketplace, built by someone like me. I have some games in my mental wishlist but I'm not in a rush to buy them, also I'm a money saver, then the option to make offers and repost them until I got a deal is pretty convenient.

The same goes for selling, I'm not an active seller, what I want is just to click the items I have and I want to sell and wait for a good offer that could come tomorrow on in 5 months.

Those are qualities that other marketplaces (Ebay, Craigslist) don't have. Sure, Kloomo is more expensive (for $1) than Craigslist, but I want to believe it's more convenient in some ways (long listing period, easy listings). And compared to Ebay, it's a lot cheaper for a seller.
I would be happy to work more than 45 hours if days were 36 hours long so I can still be with my family and prepare for the Ironman next year. :)
Yes, but grandparent was reflecting on a proposal to add shared memory to web workers in the form of shared typed arrays.
If you start giving out "free money," more people will show up to claim it.
Much of Eco's work was translated by the great William Weaver who passed away earlier this month. I came to appreciate Weaver's translations through another Italian legend, Italo Calvino. Calvino had a way of incorporating scientific and philosophical concepts within passionate human drama. HN readers might enjoy his work as well.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/arts/william-weaver-influe...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Weaver
I am in the dark, the pasge describes a build tool, what's the fantastic idea here? What is your build doing. or do you mean simply build vs using an ftp server? sorry if this sounds weird, but the blurb explains nothing new, and nothing which cannot be done waaaaay better.
Could Code Rot be useful?
The price of anything, especially Bitcoins, is driven by demand, greed, speculation, and irrational market behaviors. It's people running the price up, not math and science, but people. At this moment those people will be become either winners or suckers. The suckers will be the ones who believed the math of Bitcoin makes it magically valuable just as those who believed that Pets.com had a bright future.
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You're jamming several different types of answers into single selections, then leaving gaping holes in other areas. If you want hours, just do hours. If you want sentiment, just do sentiment but you're going to need way more options. If you want to do hours and sentiment, you'd need about 25 different options just to properly cover what you're indicating here, not even counting all the holes you've left.
Trial by bike-joust. May the best Foo Fighter win.
Why should I buy this device now? 400EUR a lot of money and on Twitter they write:
Calendar sync is not supported at the moment.
MMS is not supported at the moment.
We do not have DLNA support at the moment.
What's sad is that a large chunk of HN readers are going to see this and think "well my company isn't stupid, so I won't fail" when the reality of the situation is that most startups fail and are, in fact, stupid. Confirmation bias and sunk cost fallacy keep people doing it and slaving to make money for VC snakes
So let's get this right. We want to use wc -l to count how many lines there are in a file? and we're using this to benchmark the Linux VM?

The only thing I will say is; stop beating up your hard drives asking them to read the whole file and count how many lines there are in it. Use what the filesystems provide already.

stat -c%s filename

Benchmarking with wc -l is filled with problems; and this article is unfortunately has more flaws than this but I'll stop now.
I just did experiment and asked my wife what OS is running on her phone. She has no idea. She owns N9.
I'll be getting it as soon as they'll confirm compatibility with T-Mobile LTE.
There are other factors involved in that situation which cannot be discussed here, comrade.

One is the lack of cohesive national culture.

Another is that, by approach the poor in an appeasement frame of mind, the USA has already induced them to riot/murder with impunity.

Europe's policies don't work in the USA, and in fact, they don't work in Europe, which is bankrupt and collapsing fast.
> This is because they want that safety for themselves if something goes wrong.

I have a hard time with this. If your monthly nut is $5k (mortgage, cars, kids, etc) what good is an $800/month basic income going to do for you when something goes wrong?

In fact, it's likely that most people will raise their standard of living by the amount of BI they get, so their net/net when something goes wrong will be exactly the same as if they didn't get BI in the first place.

If you're the type of person that would live below their means and save for the rainy day, BI is moot - you will be fine when something happens. If you're not that type of person, then you're just as screwed with or without BI.
I wrote a haiku
to run through a hash function
and send to strangers.

Every time this document is run through a particular function, it returns:

> d15396b27a2b176e6315c9fbbec09e2c2e042e595755902e5ff5eccec1ca634b

If I changed a single character of the document, the function would return an entirely different string.

This means it's very, very difficult to come up with another document that returns the same string when run through this same function.

If I sent my string to a bunch of strangers, they wouldn't know what my haiku is. To find it out, they would have to run through every possible document ever written (and that ever could be written) to hope to return the string.

But if someone decided to say they wrote my haiku, I could prove I wrote it first by showing that the document returns the unique string that I sent off to strangers.

What this service provides is a way of making it easy for strangers to store and date these strings for me, because they're doing it anyway when they're using Bitcoins.
Looks like they posted a retraction:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/27/technology/bitcoin-silk-road...

I hope they also apologized.
I am wondering the same thing. I would imagine that if your whole stack (especially build system) is built ontop of javascript you could have a level of meta programming via esprima, but the rest is bla
So, to put it in a crass manner:

Poor == Lazy

???
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What about those that prefer working less than 40 hours?
The web's greatest sin was allowing programmatic access to the DOM, IMO.

Interactive sites suck, if you want that, use a sandbox so I can easily discard it.
Interesting - and a very good job given what you have to work with. Surely its incredibly brittle, though? As soon as they release a new version of Gmail it's going to fail.

But then, I suppose that's how most Chrome extensions work.