skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another solution, that doesn't starve the unfortunate, is basic income. It solves the negative marginal return on the effort of finding a job not by giving nothing, but by unconditionally giving even after you get the job.

This shifts the system away from incentivizing you to be unemployed, and towards countering the centralization of wealth.
Indeed you are right. To say the truth I knew what to expect when I clicked the comments link: the “I studied hard therefore I deserve more” meritocratic bullshit we are used to. The worst lies are the ones we create ourselves as a excuse to feel better.
I think Paul is referring to the hyperbolae in the title and its implications. He offered a similarly outrageous alternative title and or implications. You're responding as if that was what the poster actually felt was the cause.

Unrelated to this, I wonder if people are outraged at the people who move to ND to pursue the oil boom over there. There relatively medium skilled and unskilled workers can earn more per year than SV 'tech' workers. Are people also showing the same contempt and or jealousy (or whatever it is) for those workers who decided they would partake in the energy industry boom in North Dakota? Or are tech workers a special kind of evil manifestation of things gone wrong? If so, what exempts the ND blue collar workers from this outrage at people's earning power?

[Added]

In both cases I pretty much see supply and demand at work. If suddenly everyone sought a CS degree (and then saw a devaluation in the degree, kind of like EE degrees in the 80s/90s), then salaries would slump. Same for the energy boom workers.
I've evaluated using tip4commit, and I need either

* The ability to prevent specific email addresses being tipped.
* Or the above-mentioned returning unclaimed balance to the project.

In my use case, I make a lot of commits, but I am entirely interested in sending the tips to committers who are not me. If I use tip4commit in its current state, I'll deplete the tip jar quite quickly, and not likely attact more committers.

Running some numbers, I have made 200 commits to git-annex in the past week. If I seed the tip jar with $1000, after a week I calculate I will have been tipped $866 back out of it to myself. After 2 weeks, only $18 will remain in the tip jar!

Hope this can be improved; it would be a pity to have to roll my own, and this otherwise seems exactly what I need.

[quick haskell program used to simulate it:

main = print $ calc 0 200 500

calc :: Float -> Int -> Float -> (Float, Float)
calc totalout 0 tipjar = (totalout, tipjar)
calc totalout n tipjar =
let payout = tipjar/100
in calc (totalout + payout) (n - 1) (tipjar - payout)

]
Yeah, Bali is not too far away, give me a remote worker job in Singapore and I can fly in for meetings every 2 weeks :-D
Think you're on the right track here. Antibiotics are used as a way of enabling livestock (hoof, beak or gill) to be bread in closer confines with high energy rich feed that, naturally, the livestock could not cope with.

Expect massive push back from the various farming industries affected by this. Money uber alles.
Ft-lbs? It's so weird. I am so glad that I learned physics using the metric system.
As of the last time I tested:

* Chrome, Safari, and Opera give precedence to the newest extension - if that extension blocks a request, older extensions don't see the request.

* Firefox gives precedence to the oldest add-on.
> The most analogous historical precedent we have is prohibition, and iirc state laws didn't change until after the ratification of the 21st amendment, so that doesn't really apply

By 1928, long before the repeal, 28 states had stopped funding prohibition enforcement: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/view-ten.... This effectively killed the law in those states that refused to enforce, because the federal government simply couldn't.
The designer of a string class in any language. C++ and Java - has to deal with the same issue - that heap allocations are slower than stack allocations. But to do a stack allocation means reserving some fixed length memory which is a waste if you have a lot of small strings. It's a tradeoff. The Ruby approach is reasonable. I think in Microsoft's C++ STL library, the limit is 16 rather than 32. Even with the low-level closer-to-the-metal power of C/C++, the string class designer still has to make a decision about the tradeoff.
I'm also a user of FreeBSD.

I've created a pull request to address the issue.

https://github.com/Incognito/openui5/commit/09a1b50bf73bc6bd...
It's not stereotyping if it's a quote, but then again, we don't know the accuracy of the quote.
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First reactions can be misleading. I'm currently taking the Reactive Programming course by Martin Odersky and Erik Meijer, over at Coursera, and one of their stated goals is to reduce complexity, specifically the complexity of what they call "callback hell".

Not sure if Reactive Programming achieves this lofty goal, and buzzwords are always annoying, but I'd be wary of dismissing RP out of hand.

(I'm still undecided on its merits, by the way)
Really?

http://www.impactguns.com/naa-22-combo-1-18in-22lr-22mag-cyl...

That's a fully functional (and certainly lethal) gun, only slightly larger than the prop in question.

I'm about as anti-TSA a person as you'll find. I think the entire organization is broken beyond repair should be dismantled. I'm paranoid enough that my reason for always opting out of mm-wave scanners is that I think the government could be building a highly accurate database of people's bodies.

Even with my tinfoil-clad credentials... I think this was a pretty reasonable decision on the part of the TSA employee.
Yeah, the one that got me is "branch on variable declaration", which I believe is actually a special case of the fact that assignment is actually an expression which returns the assigned value; `a = b = c = 42;` works for the same reason.
This really is the million-dollar question isn't it? It unfolds in all kinds of interesting directions and has big implications - why are some countries more productive than others? Why are some cultures more technologically advanced?

There's a good book on this: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Well worth a read.

There are no easy answers here, though being mindful of history is important in arguing this topic - predisposition and environment have historically been used by social darwinists to assert superiority over other cultures and races (see: "tropical climates breed laziness" and "blacks are predisposed to lesser intelligence but greater physical ability"). They're not verboten, but it pays to tread carefully if you want to argue in that direction.
Great headline, but not much of a story. A transformer apparently exploded in an area of the compound that doesn't do anything nuclear.

We covered this in Utility Dive on Monday: http://www.utilitydive.com/news/fire-sparks-shutdown-at-ente...
When you read that, you know that each and every day, Ousama Bin Laden wins a thousand small victories as soulless "security" agents make americans (and travelers) lose freedom over an unjustified paranoia.

All that because of a single attack which produced an unsignificant number of casualties more than 10 years ago.

I don't think they could have envisioned that in their wildest dreams. And the best part is that the right wing extremists and security junkies are the terrorists' greatest allies, and still keep their legacy alive.
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There is absolutely no reason for sarcasm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5158953
Historically Oil booms help too. Most the places he mentioned are going through a fracking renaissance. More importantly, it's low skill and high pay, but often cold and demanding work (say Midland isn't cold to the roughneck wrestling with the well in January.)
I sent out a minimum of 10 resumes everyday until I got a job

Not sure what century this was in, but the article is basically saying this strategy is a fail. The resume's get screened to "auto" inbox->Trash, without being read, considered, interviewed, etc. Now, if you got those leads because of your network...you're clearly using a strategy that is not widely available to many people (that's why its a network: it's exclusive, not open). So, in essence you are blaming them for not being priviledged. Again, this is a moot point. These people need to pick a strategy that is <open to them>. Saying you have options that they lack is not a viable piece of advice to them (duh!). You might as well tell them to go to Harvard or MIT and become a programmer. While it's true tha "would" help, its also true that it has zero probability of <actually> helping. In otherwords, it's a humble-brag. It's not advice or critique (or a good comp).
Has the comment been edited? It does not, as it currently appears on my screen, mention any particular race for the people in the dialogue given.
Thinking about the universe as a massive black hole, whereas black holes are a concept that is still not entirely known makes thinking about this subject highly speculative. This list only adds salt to that wound: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_ph...

But to me Black Holes are spinning L-Systems which distribute information in the universe instantly by quantum teleportation. This is much simpler than other existing theories which leave open question like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole#Open_questions

Take this information with caution, but these paper supports such possibility:

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310003

http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.1715

http://iopscience.iop.org/0264-9381/25/7/075011
>>get em working or they starve and die.. either way win win for us all.

Speak for yourself. Other people starving & dying isn't a win in my book.
Am in complete agreement; there's nothing as empowering as the act of creating, from brain to paper/pixel/your-chosen-medium.
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That's a pretty cheap shot:

* Disconnect has more than a million active users and Ghostery has more than two million.

* Disconnect is also as public as ABP: https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect.
Has anyone ever figured out how to type at a 135 degree angle? It always seems to put too much pressure on my wrists and shoulders, and I return to slumping.
Bitcoin should not be seen as a currency, warns Ernst & Young
You're exactly right on the union: I tried to edit out my error on that before someone noticed (my principal point is about the mallocs), but your comment appeared right as I saved. Shame be upon me.

So this holds (on a 64-bit machine) 8-bytes for the pointer, 8-bytes for the length (string not null terminated), and 8-bytes for the capacity. Alternately, via a union, it stores 24 bytes of string (null terminated). It knows whether it is a or b via a separate flag that it holds separately in RBasic.

I retract my jab about memory loss, but it still sounds rather terrible. Every bit of code dealing with strings needs to validate flags on every use to determine what it is dealing with, alternate between length specified or null terminated, etc. Ugh.
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I'm glad to see XFS got some love. Also PTP is nice feature.
Ok... here's one that fires the .22LR cartridge (which is quite capable of inflicting a lethal injury)

http://www.impactguns.com/naa-22-combo-1-18in-22lr-22mag-cyl...
And how exactly is it trickery if users have to opt-in to the program and they're told what the program does?
To me, as an English person looking at America through the prism of the news, and articles such as this, it looks more and more like the American state is a rogue element beset by paranoia, increasingly lacking trust not only in the world at large, but also in its own citizens.

Do any of you American citizens out there have the same opinion of your government?
This and yesterday's thread [1] are fascinating. Here we have lower-classes seeking direct retribution against higher-classes. Contrast to yesterday's article involving upper-classes discussing how to uplift lower-classes via social policy changes and enforcing certain belief doctrines, e.g., do XYZ, not ABC.

Of course it's easier to rail against the the former camp than the latter; we all believe in some degree of property rights, i.e., you bare the fruit of your labor. However, I propose both positions are unjustified and both parties need to bow out of one another's business.

Not trying to push libertarian beliefs (I am not one). But everyone is an asshole, out to serve their own ends, trying to sculpt the world in the way they would have it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6885226
This would be the case if you completely ignore what he actually says. The merit of his arguments can be evaluated, we don't need to just judge his character.

And of course he flat out admits that he would like to grow and sell it. That is no secret.
Obviously I'll be glad for a few more details of this incident, but as far as I can tell, two days ago a electric transformer went pop. The only reason this has appeared on HN is because of the magic "nuclear" word, even though the fire happened outside the nuclear area of the site.
The jive talk really adds to your story.
I'm not really sure where you get the data to back up either of these statements.
I'm not American or from SF, but interestingly from the the shuttle routes posted by @potatolicious I would say nearly all those companies on that list - Apple, eBay, Facebook, Yahoo - have just as high a market penetration. I'm surprised theyt didn't get targeted too BUT this may well just be for the sake of coordination for now.
> systemd & OpenLMI

With the next SLES also going systemd by default, Do you think this will force the hand of the few holdouts left? Going I can't see vendors wanting to support all of systemd, upstart, sysvinit.
Not a new type of alcohol, but a new drug that would give an effect similar to alcohol.

GHB was touted as alcohol 2.0 but is now illegal for being a "date-rape drug". The irony here is that alcohol is already the leading date-rape drug.
Organic farmers have approved antibiotics they can use (as well as natural remedies). If a dairy cow is treated with antibiotics the holding time before she is allowed back into the milking process is usually double or triple the normal holding time for a non-organic cow (10-15 days vs 5 days). Sh is still milked but the milk is poured away.
If I'm not mistaken nodejs was in that package set, good step forward for enterprise adoption if it's in RHEL7!
Any aggregation (market, election) has the Cheap Votes Problem. People who don't really care will, if they can, sell their votes (often through passivity) and this makes people who purchase and can control the cheapest of the cheap votes very powerful. That's why vote-buying is illegal; because, otherwise, it will happen all over the place.

VC is a Cheap Votes Problem over what a certain set of highly intelligent people, when given capital from a certain pool, will work on. Passive investors don't care (as long as they get decent returns) and trust the VCs, who use the investors' cheap votes to pursue their career goals and those of their friends.
ಠ_ಠAttribute - This attribute should be required in all .NET codebases.
'My son is mentally ill,' so listen up
People need to move to where the work is. Maybe the government could offer a tax break or stipend to get people to move (and somehow try not to let that get abused), I'd be surprised if the transportation industry isn't lobbying for it already.

For generations, people moved. To Oregon/California just because the east was too crowded and didn't have much opportunity. To the midwest to work in the tire, steel, and auto plants. To the south for the new auto and manufacturing plants.

And now it will be to the plains for jobs in the construction and energy industries.

How long can people use the excuse "I can't afford to move", when you can't afford not to? How long will they use the excuse "I'm upside down on my mortgage?" when they aren't going to be right-side up anytime soon and aren't working as it is?

Pack your shit up and move and send money back home to your family if you don't want to bring them. The long-lasting unemployment benefits just keep 'workers' stuck where they are, and as a result it keeps their families and future generations stuck in the same place.
They probably just cut them a check as a flat payment; streaming terms the same.
Altering your consciousness on such a macro level is fun.

Thing is, you can't for certain say why someone is using some substance (excepting addiction, naturally). Some people as an escape from a less-than-great life, some people for fun, others for spiritual/religious reasons, some for just straight up curiosity.

Almost the same profile as any other enjoyable activity.

I don't think it's a matter of making better things for people to do.. partly because in some cases no such thing exists.

For instance, I challenge you to find any "non-altered" experience that can measure up to the reality-bending, introspective powers of chemicals like LSD or psilocybin, the compounds in peyote, and so on.
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In all seriousness, I think you're in the wrong forum here. There are many political web fora where "starve and die" rhetoric is an accepted standard, and I think you'll find the level of discourse there to be more to your taste.
http://www.impactguns.com/naa-22-combo-1-18in-22lr-22mag-cyl...

Same general size as the prop in the article, capable of carrying 5 .22LR cartridges.
I've been waiting for Spotify to get Led Zeppelin in their catalog since I signed up when it launched in the US (Summer 2011). No Quarter is one of my favorite songs and I would love to play it on speaker at home digitally.

Tool would be the next one I'm hoping for, until then... grooveshark for them.

Edit: Looks like only two albums for now =\
This reminds me of yesterday's post : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6881662

The criminalization of everyday life. Not that long ago (pre 9/11) the security officer in the airport would have called it cute or make a comment of the like. Today the traveler risked prison time and a permanent criminal record.
Are you perhaps thinking of Grooveshark? They were sued (and in a bad legal spot) over unpaid royalties, can't find any reference to Spotify and unpaid royalties online.
The idea of relocation assistance has always been something that interested me. I often split time between Vermont and NYC, and don't totally get why there aren't more programs to help people living in a rough, low-income housing projects get to VT (or one of the other areas), where you can easily find jobs and a nice place to rent for $300/month.
Haha, nope - but I bet Google did shell the ~300€ on proper certification and registration in the vehicle ID card.
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"What it has gotten you is a UI check. Take away the check, there's no point in bothering"

Wait, the sole reason these people were looking for a job was to get a steady unemployment insurance check?
Most of the cities are in North Dakota jobs are assuredly oil field related. As such, in some sense they are an unemployment paradise if you don't have a family, because it's low-skill, subsidized housing (and often food) work, and easily pays 3 times what you would get at mcdonalds.
The problem with a timing attack is you need to put a large number of nodes in to the network, and the Tor stewards monitor and blacklist suspicious arrivals. If you wanted to do this you'd need to use a diverse set of IPs gradually over time. It's definitely possible though, I agree.
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Ok, but "quotes" can be used to further sterotypes, tho. in addition to accuracy there is always context...I'm sure the nazi's quoted a couple of jews in their day.
Previous submission with some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867962 (over 20 comments)

More comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6858585 (a few comments)

Other submissions without comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6879947

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6857995

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6857778

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6856892

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6603567

There will be more - these are just the ones I found with this search:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A%28cop...
The article presents fairly strong evidence that different nutrients show up in that kind of milk, yes. But the evidence that those nutrients have "enhanced quality" for actual living human beings is much more ambiguous. I have been persuaded enough by that ambiguous evidence to take daily omega-3 (ω-3) supplements for several years, but I think the best-quality epidemiological evidence actually doesn't support my personal habit. In other words, it may be that one kind of milk rather than another has more ω-3 fatty acid content, but it may also be that if all people drank that kind of milk rather than what they currently drink that there would be no human health benefit at all. It would take a different kind of study, based on different data, to establish whether or not there is a health benefit to this kind of milk.
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At it's heart, Qt is basically a C++ framework/library, so it's just like invoking Java from regular C++ code.

In other words, JNI is involved.
As someone who has lived with an (heroine) addict, I can tell you that decriminalization was essential in getting him to treatment, but he did stop consuming (after a few restarts, and after hurting a lot of people around him). The months he spent in jail didn't help at all.
Have you seen the movie Europa Report? I don't want to spoil any part of it for you, but it's really good. If you have Netflix, it's on there.
You can create multiple boards in trello, mixing personal and business. This means you can keep all of this stuff in the same system, but not have them appear in your Team's trello.

Isn't that way simpler? That's how i do it anyway.
The TSA agent made a judgement call when she decided to not call the police.
I really hope the Gradle support is ported to Eclipse and that the Eclipse Android tools are actively maintained. I tried Android Studio but it’s completely inaccessible with my screen reading software. Since it is based off IDEA I assume I would run into the same problem trying to use the new version so haven’t bothered.
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Sounds a lot like Solaris containers of a decade ago.
What do you think is keeping people from moving to North Dakota? I actually don't totally know the answer, are the travel expenses just too high?
The client always selects the route on any onion routing network. They have to, because only they know the route. It's been a while since I played with I2P, but i'm 95% certain you can put push the circuit length up
We'd probably save a lot of money in the long term if we helped people with mental illness. Many who are long term unemployed or out of the work force all together, are so because of addictions or depression.

Then again, there actually are some legit lazy people that will only ever work enough to buy hydro and a roof over their head.
Isn't there something more useful they could do with that milk than pour it away?
On the other hand, even designers who are adamantly non-technical and refuse to get into any code ala HTML/CSS often still learn keyboard shortcuts very deeply in programs like Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign.

The question to me is whether Vim3D is actually bringing significant improvement over whatever shortcuts exist in current 3d modeling software.
Your estimate is not far off at all. [1]
Interestingly, 2013 was the first year EVER in which its budget and staffing were REDUCED.

[1]http://www.justice.gov/dea/about/history/staffing.shtml