skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prove P = NP, or is it P != NP? Just write an array of the ways a law may be written.
No, the BSD part of OS X/NeXT is just that, a part of the OS. OS X is not just a pretty face on FreeBSD.
Asana switches to node.js
A glib response: I'd love your opinion on the merits of deporting unemployed Americans with $0 in savings to Liberia.

More seriously, suppose we had no BI or other welfare state - what is the harm of allowing an Indian to show up in NY with no money or job? The only cost I see is that he might annoy 30-100 potential employers before he finds someone to pay him $7.25/hour to wash dishes, making him richer than 95% of his countrymen. He might sleep on the street for a little while.

Now, there are real worries - he might eventually become a citizen and vote for Indian-style governance (see, e.g., the voting behavior of Mexican Americans), contribute to a corruption-tolerant culture, or other such things. But those are second order worries.
This really got me:

> or a recognition from the FDA that, given turnover at 23andMe (and Wojcicki’s distraction due to her public separation from husband Sergey Brin), the task of initiating outreach fell to them.

That's laughably ludicrous.
Mozilla is nearly entirely financed by Google, there isn't a sense of hate between the two organizations.
> One topic not addressed (but important) is what we do when someone spends the entirety of their basic income and has nothing left for food or shelter. Do we just let them starve to death in the street?

If you want to help, voluntarily, that is, of course, your choice. But if no one chooses to help them, well... the idea of individual responsibility for the outcome of your choices exists for a reason. By what possible argument can I claim that I should be able to blow all of my income on anything I want, except food and shelter, and then demand that someone else provide me food and shelter?
> I wonder if there was a bit of 'tech' clash with old school 'medicine' clash. Basically tech folks take the position of move forward and fix things that break, rather than wait until you are 99.999% nothing will break and then move forward. If that were the case, I could imagine a product manager getting incentivised to get the kits out the door and testing ramped up in spite of FDA reservations because 'hey it isn't like its something people take or anything.'

Replace "product manager" with "marketing exec", and I think you have it right here. The FDA's problem with 23AndMe isn't with the tech, it's with the marketing. The FDA has asked for studies proving that 23AndMe's marketing is correct, and so far, 23AndMe has not produced the results of the studies.

This isn't anything new, too. Here's what the FDA said to General Mills about their Cherrios advertising in 2009: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheerios#2009_Drug_Claim
To bring your proposal into more modern times, how does it compare to the EITC?
"the Erlang version I’m not sure"

At least try to find out if it's HiPE (native compilation) or not?
All luck aside, i wonder how much being an MIT graduate played a role in successfully getting DropBox off the ground. I always get the thought that walking out of a reputable school opens a lot of opportunities like this, which is why i read articles like this with a grain of salt.
That's the thing. Bitcoin needs to grow a LOT more before it can start becoming stable.
Um. It talks about fair wages. How is that being obligated to do so by your pay?
While I don't necessarily doubt the claims of widespread poverty and famine, propaganda can go both ways.

A 37 second video clip such as that could have been shot in many places in the world, could be entirely fake, etc...

I suspect reports like this are closer to reality: http://www.nknews.org/2013/01/life-on-the-north-korean-farm/
It's reasonable to assume I'm hurting my productivity but like I said I'm doing the whole nights and weekends thing, a couple extra hours of less productive work is better than none.

As far as grogginess/tiredness after you wake up goes that's related to where in your sleep cycle you wake up. I use one of the numerous iPhone/Android apps that use the accelerator to detect and wake you up at the end of a sleep phase.
BitTorrent doubles Sync userbase to 2 million in a month
500,000 Young girls asking: "Am I pretty or Ugly?" 
what a beauty-obsessed culture is doing to young girls: the extree preoccupation with own appearance starts at younger and younger age
I've only ever used a SASS fork, and have never had any issues with compatibility or strange bugs. I think at this points it's safe to choose either LESS or SASS. The end-user won't ever know the difference, but you will.

Choose whatever pre-processor you're more comfortable using.
He didn't say anything about the quality of Windows RT / Windows Phone products. Sounds like he was just implying that they have a relatively small installed base compared to iOS / Android products. That's pretty hard to argue with.

But... this is not very important anyway. There's no reason to have a "brand loyalty" flame war. Arguing and flaming about this on the internet is not productive. Let's just have a practical discussion about how to target multiple mobile platforms.

If I was serious about writing a cross-platform mobile game, I would use some middle-ware like Unity, Unreal Engine, Cocos (yes there is a version for Windows Phone), etc. This takes care of the underlying differences between OpenGL ES and Direct 3D, so the developer can focus on the game itself and not worry too much about the rendering engine or graphics API.

If I was writing some other app that used OpenGL ES, I could still make a port for Windows Phone / Windows RT by using a wrapper for the graphics-specific code. Such wrappers already exist, and it is not too terribly difficult to roll your own if you prefer.

A lot of times, when you see a big game that is available on iOS, Android, AND Windows Phone / RT, usually they have done this:

- Use middle-ware as discussed above already

AND / OR:

- Write the majority of the logic in C++ (all of these platforms have ways of utilizing C++ code), and use a graphics wrapper that isolates the rendering code, so you can work with OpenGL ES or Direct 3D interchangeably.
I've done similar things a variety of times, the download -> copy -> paste routine is pretty simple. So far I've never had a problem with it (even moving 100k or so).
We can't make these conclusions until we precisely know how people will spend the money. It could go into paying off debt and savings. It could go into luxury items (which the poor love to buy). Also, proposals for basic income often involve curtailing other social programs, which would have an impact as well. A basic income could, for instance, supplant food stamps, thus potentially keeping food prices the same.
>Immigration is probably the most important issue of our time. If we have a BI, we can't have immigration in any form remotely resembling what we have today, let alone some ideal situation where we have drastically more immigration. It's as simple as that. The cost of a BI (and the welfare state in general, really) is that millions of people are stuck in Haiti, India, Afghanistan and other desperately poor locales.

No. There are countries that have comprehensive social security and have immigration resembling what we have today - e.g. these countries have immigration that they already have.
> those Mexicans

That comes across as racist or bigoted and while I do think Mexico cannot control it's crime it's not for anything other than because they can't even keep their citizens or police from being killed.
While [i hope] no one is suggesting a tax rate of 90+ %, i have to imagine that anything even close to that will result in widespread shipping of jobs and management overseas. Once a few companies do that, how much revenue loss would the states encounter. Substantial, i would think.
That's like saying that if a gigantic oil deposit is confirmed, the petroleum industry would collapse.
Innovation Act passed
>How do we prove you did not already get your check? What about those without mailing addresses. Or ID's? Is the basic income adjusted for families of 1 vs 7?

Most Nordic social democracies already know the answers to those questions. Basic income could be used to reduce spending. I advocate a basic income model which doesn't reduce countries to these countries, though.
WHAT TEENAGERS GIRLS THINK ABOUT PORN? 
Excerpts from a BBC documentary showing teenagers girls feelings about the ever more available and spreading porn.
Yes, first try :) I kind of wish I could also get my score, but they don't release it.
FWIW I needed to do this to back up business emails when I closed down my last shop. At the time, all the open source projects I found didn't manage to correctly download ALL messages. I was finally able to do it by doing an HTML inject, and using JS to load each email iteratively.
More like Big Spying.
Here's a video in which Milton Friedman addresses this exact issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM

He proposes dispensing the funds weekly. You can't starve yourself in a week and drinking fountains + free cups of water at restaurants ensure that you won't go thirsty. Exposure could be a problem in certain cities, but under the new system I'm sure low-cost housing would adjust to the needs of the tenants since there's a profit motive for doing so. You might have to bus to the edge of the city to get low-rent food and housing, but the option would be there (and administered by a competitive private market).

I like this idea more than "bread queues" because it forces recipients to take responsibility for their spending without using so much force that the damage it allows to happen is greater than the value of the sense of responsibility it aims to instill (which I believe to be the case in the present system). Also, it leverages the free market to optimize its administrative specifics. Massive influx of poor people due to economic downturn? More low-cost establishments get built/converted. Massive outflux of poor people due to economic upturn? Low-cost establishments get sold or converted into high-cost establishments. No need to wait for next year's appropriations bill.
> Microsoft needs to stop trying to create an OS - just throw in the towel.

What's their motivation? Why do you think that Microsoft can't write an OS?

As pointed out elsewhere in the thread, last quarter, Microsoft's Windows division reported $4.58bn in revenue and $2.24bn in profits and represents 91% of the desktop market: http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....

Apple knew their competitive advantage (the UI/services layers) and essentially outsourced the rest. For Microsoft to outsource Windows makes as much sense as Apple outsourcing their UI[0].

Windows, on the other hand, has tremendous backwards compatibility of executables going back 20 years. Until a few years ago (when Windows phased out 16-support), they beat even Linux in the backwards-compatibility category.

The Windows OS is crufty and ugly, but given the incredibly wide range of use cases it needs to support (both horizontally, across industries in the present, and longitudinally, across older systems), it's remarkably robust.

I certainly don't think Windows is a fun OS to write for (or even to use - I run Linux). And I would vastly prefer if Microsoft made the main line of Windows POSIX-compliant[1].

But I see no reason to come to the conclusion that Microsoft should "throw in the towel" when it comes to their OS.

[0] Apple does outsource their hardware production, but that's because SCM is itself one of their core competencies.

[1] That's probably the only thing that would make me even consider going back to Windows
You are correct to point out that the article poses a counter-factual which is unsupported by the evidence.
There is a simple solution to this: An immigrant can become a citizen but doesn't receive the basic income until they have been here for 25 years, but also doesn't pay income tax until the amount they would have paid in tax exceeds the amount they would have received from the basic income. Thus, the immigrants who would have been a drain on the system become breakeven and net productive immigrants see no difference in practice from any other citizen.
No the base of Windows 8 is solid. Simply not having that Metro interface, making metro the new API that ran within a traditional desktop would have been just fine.

From that, just create an interface for Windows tablets that is similar to the existing Metro interface as it does work there.
My advice is to solve a problem you yourself have.

This is a subset of "solve a problem someone has".

(Someone = You) is often a sufficient, but not necessary, condition.

(Someone = Someone Else) is an equally sufficient condition, especially for those with subject matter knowledge and industry connections.

Either way, solve a problem.
bitcoin has moved between 850 and 1226 TWICE this week. Yesterday, and last Sunday.

I know, because my coinbase didn't come through till last Tuesday.
>These numbers would be outraging to any other section of the populace.

These numbers are normal in Nordic social democracies.
I never said there wouldn't be overlap with other bureaucracy.
You could have four of these (maybe more?) with the top edges glued to a stick (side view: +). As you rotate the stick, you'd see 10 frames per sheet, then focus on the next one. I'm not sure if that would work.
I wish I hadn't slept through that. I wanted to buy more. Guess I should have had a buy order in place at those prices...
Far from it. Libertarianism is the most realistic and non-naive system around, exactly because it is the one system that does not pretend that we can fix all the flaws in human nature and socially-engineer a perfect society by just passing enough laws and creating enough rules and regulations and bureaucracies.

At it's core, libertarianism makes no statement about outcomes, but simply demands that people be free to make their own choices without being subject to force or fraud, and are then responsible for the outcome of their actions. Nobody is making any Pollyanna'ish guarantee that such a system will result in the most possible desirable outcome for everybody involved. The claim is that it's just the right thing to do, that most people will be better off (economically) than under other systems, and that you accept that every system - this one included - has its pathologies. You can't get much less naive than that.
Of course intelligence agencies can, should be and are regulated by law. Sometimes they manipulate the law in their favour and sometimes they break it, but so do the other fields, most notably finance.

But more importantly, law and ethics are not the same thing. Merely not breaking the law does not make you an ethical person (and that's not the point of the law). Conversely, breaking some laws under some circumstances does not make you an unethical person.
A lot of startup success is luck--or, in other words, factors outside of the control of the founders or their advisors.

Yup. I hope everyone here has read the fantastic Fooled By Randomness.

Which is not to say that Drew Houston isn't awesome - by all accounts he is. But it's easy to give way too much credence to advice from a big success whose specific situation differs from our own. (And everyone's specific situation differs from our own.)
One might suppose that the reason many desire a government welfare program is to allow a complete abdication of responsibility (and disregard) for the situation of their fellow people.
People are motivated to let the IRS know when they screw up and demand money, though. People are going to be less motivated to let them know about someone who was simply receiving money.

I agree and hope that bureaucracy can be reduced, though.
Trello Hack - Auto Add Checklists/Attachments Based On Card Movement
How can they afford the SMS costs? One broadcast -- thousands of messages.
This is okay too. Just relax and don't think about anything in particular for a while.
Could you explain how to have both a welfare state and a lot more immigration? How do you make the numbers work?
Ah, okay. That feels a hyperbolic to be pride or stupidity, rather than just a poor analysis of the efficacy of an existing solution. Thank you for your response.
One argument I would make is a marginal utility one - the marginal utility of $ decreases dramatically at higher incomes, so even if you have a (comparatively) punishingly high tax rate on the rich, the amount that your tax is affecting their lives in real terms is lower due to the marginal utility of money at those incomes. I'm in the camp that it's reasonable to want at least some semblance of equality of outcome though, so this argument resonates with me in a way that it might not to someone who favors a more lassez-faire approach. This probably falls under your "moral need" umbrella.

I don't agree with your statement about a progressive income tax being economically unjustifiable, especially in the economy that we find ourselves in at the moment (and, if secular stagnation proponents like Larry Summers and Paul Krugman are right, may be the structural norm these days). The current economy is strongly demand constrained, with plenty of money available for investment (corporate profits and cash holdings at record highs), but inadequate consumer demand to justify investments. From this perspective, a progressive transfer of wealth down the income scale makes a lot of sense economically because the poor are much more likely to actually spend that money than the rich are. There's also not much good evidence that high end tax rates affect macroeconomic growth as much as people claim - just in the US we've had tax rates all over the map over the past 100 years, and there's not much correlation with economic growth. We certainly haven't seen any miracles of economic growth for the economy as a whole since 1980 with the long running supply side, deregulation, and low tax experiment. If taxing the rich really has such a strong effect on economic growth and job creation, it's hard to see that in the data...

Finally, interest on government debt only becomes a long-term problem if the rate is higher than the rate of growth. It's not clear to me that that has to be the case, but that's another discussion ;)
A physical representation of bitcoins (e.g. paper) would be terribly cumbersome.
Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman advocate basic income. One can debate if they are "libertarian".
And there's your opportunity:

1. Acquire MyClean for its "technology" (website and back office software).

2. Expand into other cities, either through direct investment or through the acquisition of local home cleaning services.

This type of roll-up strategy was not uncommon in the first .com boom. Now, instead of VCs financing the creation of networks of websites, they can finance the creation of networks of small businesses.

Double the work, half the fun, and potentially none of the profit!
Flask Testing with Mock and Nose
http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2013/12/05/flask-with-mock-and-nose/
i.e. China's economic system?
If I had a 760 I'd likely just run all my experiments right on my device. As it stands my only machine is a Early 2009 macbook pro with a Geforce 9600M. The nice part about pylearn2, and theano is that the symbolic expressions compiled by theano can run on your processor too, albeit much slower. You can always test to make sure 1 to 2 epochs work locally before sending it off to AWS for GPU computation.

I'd be very willing to buy a 760, or even a 770 at their current prices. The only thing holding me back is that i'd have to buy an entire computer in which to place the card. Haha :D

If you're interested in just how fast video cards can be for deep learning as compared to CPUs take a peek at the results on [0]. That is for older model GPUs, and they're an order of magnitude faster. Though as I understand it the Geforece 5xx cards are superior for scientific computing as compared to the 6xx and 7xx series which are more gaming oriented. (May still outperform 5xx due to raw speed at the cost of some additional CPU time). Have a look at the appendix on [1] for more info on Fermi vs Kepler GPUs.

[0] http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/lenet.html#running-the-code

[1] http://fastml.com/running-things-on-a-gpu/
What she's doing is surprisingly a lot harder. Getting a modern IA-32(e) architecture into the 64 bit mode we all know and love is INSANE.
Also, if someone is demonstrably, persistently unable to take care of themselves, help should probably take a form other than food stamps.
The purpose of the patent system is to incentivise inventors to reveal their inventions in exchange for a monopoly on the idea. This way, inventions are not lost and society doesn't slide backwards. Imagine someone invented a pill to cure cancer, but kept the details secret and then died; we would lose his invention (a silly example, but it illustrates the point).

I believe patent applicants should have to argue how difficult it would be for a peer in the industry to reproduce their work.

If you develop an expensive new pill to cure a major disease, we'll give you a patent in exchange for you revealing the details of your important invention. Future generations will benefit.

If you put a one click purchase feature on your website, it may be a new idea, but there are tens of thousands capable of reproducing your "invention" on their own. It is a new idea, so grant a short patent (maybe 5 years?) but it hurts instead of helps society to grant a 20 year patent.
An important note here: "Moral" does not refer to a singular set of values, behaviors or beliefs. It only refers to a moral system, any moral system. That is why that oath the PP carries around from morning till night is "moral", yet does nothing to encourage the larger ramifications of their work, such as ecology, human rights, etc. It's only one moral system, not one which respects others' rights (beyond efficacious contractual obligatoin), etc.
I'll be the first to say it: Your data is either incorrect, arbitrary, or we're missing some information here.

Why does everyone have "7.5" - 8 siblings and 7.5 - 8 "weekly workouts" and 7.5 - 8 platinum albums?
I think you could vastly reduce the number of people who are simply trapped in a gravity well of poverty, but there will definitely be need of additional programs. There are a lot of sociological problems that money by itself does not solve. For example, not everyone is capable of making decisions that will keep them alive and healthy. After all, a very large percentage of the homeless are not psychologically well. And we'll also still have orphans.
Congratulations on launching your side-project! No matter how far this goes, consider me inspired already.
Equivocating taking the engineer's oath with being a 'good robot' is childish, at best. I could also call it ignorant, or perhaps on its to criminal (if somebody truly believes that and puts it into practice).

The engineer's oath towards ethical practice is precisely about not being a robot. We have specifications, years of technical brainwashing in school, and employment imperatives to make us into robots. Ethical practice is about having a watchdog thread in your brain that monitors your situation as an engineer. When a situation comes up where you could be a robot and do something stupid/illegal/dangerous/corrupt, the hope is that you can invoke your ethical/moral compass and make the right choice. Hopefully your compass is better calibrated than some unnamed folks in this thread.

You want to talk about reducing a position simplistically? How about taking the backbone of a healthy engineering infrastructure, one which everybody relies on and must trust, and equating its core values to being a 'good robot'. I'm not reducing that person's position, I'm defending the position of the person who understands what they're talking about.

So, yes, I reiterate to anyone who agrees with the OP: grow up. Or better yet, don't be a god damn engineer.