skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
statutory minimum is 5k. we work with federal law enforcement somewhat frequently at wepay to deter fraud, and it appears that the informal threshold to get their interest is about 100k of damages
Its not an impossible concept, but most people's workplaces suck to varying degrees. Unless you are a highly valued "knowledge worker" you will find that you life has a large component of drudgery.
Did MSFT make a counter-offer or any other attempt to retain Agüera y Arcas?
I've taken Modafinil in the past for this reason, for about six months. It made me temporarily more productive, alert, and able to focus (for the first two months, I'd say), but then I started to become habituated and the effect wasn't the same. When I was on it, I slept and ate much less. I am not sure I could have slept or ate more if I wanted to. At first, it made me feel so anxious that I could hardly exist around other people. I remember my first conversation with my roommate while I was on it. My heart nearly exploded and my brain froze. I had a terrifying experience driving around that first day too. (Lesson learned: do not try new drugs and drive!) But that went away after a day or so, and then I behaved more recklessly. I felt more aggressive and on edge. I think I felt more confident, temporarily. I became highly talkative (for me, at least). I drank a lot, at least for the first three or so months. One possible theory is that it induced a higher heart rate, which made me feel anxious, which made me want to drink more. I also smoked a lot more (cigarettes). I found that my memory was not as good after several months of taking this -- this could be due in part to its interference with my sleep, and in part due to the drinking, although I can't say for sure if I drank markedly more during that time than other times in my life. I don't really think so though. I actually got the worst grades that I have ever received in my life the semester I was on it (math and science courses). I stopped taking it soon after. Granted, I was dealing with a number of other issues then, so this was hardly a controlled experiment, and the effects I experienced could have been due to a number of other lifestyle factors. In addition, there could have been a drug quality issue. We'll never know. But my sense for these kinds of drugs after that experience is that it is not healthy for me and I would not do it again. I wouldn't even take it as a once-in-a-while all-nighter work-cramming thing, unless I was, say, in a multi-day gun battle, which is a very unlikely scenario. For me, I find that maintaining good mental health, working consistently, eating well, getting eight hours of sleep, and exercising makes me a much more productive, happy, and mentally sharp human being. I think it is difficult to use drugs to improve yourself unless you have serious issues to begin with and/or you really know what you're doing. If you're going to try it, make sure you plan ahead and have ample discipline, data, and possibly, expert supervision.

Interestingly, before experimenting with Modafinil, my friends and I used to sometimes take Adderall and similar drugs recreationally, because we found their effect to be quite similar to cocaine.

EDIT: Feel free to ask me more about this experience if you're curious.
Actually, it's worse than that. Check http://coinwarz.com and http://coinchoose.com. Multipool is limited to the coins they mine. If you check out the more general list at the sites I mentioned, LTC is not even in the top 25.
Caffeine reduces appetite
It really bothers me when stories like this make the news. There is no story, the article is void. And to think it reached Hacker New's front page!
Meditation is best learned with a good teacher. I highly recommend Bhante Vimalaramsi at http://www.dhammasukha.net/
I recently did a 5 day retreat and it was life changing. He makes meditation practical, fun and rewarding.
I favor the 48GX with several modifications. I have a library that gives me 5 stack lines, but also shows a symbolic representation. In other words, typing "5 6 /" is represented as "5/6" rather than a decimal equivalent. If you multiply that by 2, my calculator maintains the symbolic representation as "(5/6)*2". By retaining values as symbolic representation for as long as possible, when you finally evaluate, it will result in "5/3". This is great for when things cancel out and it allows me to carry precision further since I'm not working with approximations. I can also request the decimal representation at any time.
This is what no other calculator app is giving me.
The thread about that patch discussed how typical it is to have crazy over-the-top patches, it's not new at all
So is this the Bluestar or not?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_BlueStar

2015 would be on track for the Bluestar, but I remember Musk saying this year that it was basically delayed until 2017, which was pretty disappointing. I wonder what changed.

Either way, $20,000 Tesla in 2018 then? It would follow Tesla's strategy of releasing a new car every 3 years that costs half as much as the previous one. Even a $25,000 one would be very nice. If I were them I'd try to make it my goal to have a $20,000 car by 2020 (like those nice renewable energy goals).

I think in the 2020's electric cars will become mainstream, and most new sold cars would be electric, due to the mainstream price-point they will reach, and the mainstream-level mileage they would get by then.

According to Musk batteries improve the capacity (at the same price point) by 5-8 percent per year, which is a little slow, but still great news for electric cars in the long term, considering they can get batteries for half the price or double the mileage every 10 years.
When someone says elisp is a mess, they are holding a high bar. It's not a mess like BASIC. JavaScript is not an improvement.
Turn O(n^2) reverse into O(n)
What really keeps this from happening on a small scale is that the rest of the planet really is under US control.

If your spy agency and military leadership has a "cooperative" relationship with the US that your government isn't willing to end based on Snowden's revelations, then the freedom you have is all the freedom the US is comfortable with you having.

Unless you live under US economic sanctions in a government run by a dictator, your government is a vassal of the US.

With the possible exception of Iceland. So there are 200,000 people total who are not governed by a US vassal or a maligned and sanctioned dictator.
1. would probably work better in a basic income world because in theory the resulting boom and bust cycle would cause less distress because people would have something more to fall back on. Eventually this has to end but in the long run we'll all be dead anyway.

2. is unlikely because no one wants to pay for anything.

This whole idea is a very naive scheme to try to solve the obvious problem with welfare that there are large groups of productive people who pay for those who are not. It creates a great deal of anger in the productive group so if you can mitigate that anger then maybe you can continue your welfare schemes. I'm going to guess that this basic income would not entirely replace welfare programs.

I find it so interesting that there are so many things being proposed by people entirely ignorant of political economy and contradictory to the most basic understanding of the profession. Between this and this recent minimum wage increase nonsense it seems like we're hell bent on just saying "To hell with what econ 101 says, this sounds good to me!"

I keep hoping that the adults show up and just start ignoring all this and letting everyone know they're being ignored. I suspect that will not happen in this case. It never has before.
Another NSA muppet to the rescue. First one was a geek - easy to beat up. It was pretty quickly escalated to someone from PR dept - a fact twisting arrogant smooth talker. You guys are pathetic and frightening. Better stay quiet if you don't want people to hate you even more.
It should be on the seller/landlord to describe the transaction properly, though, not only the buyer/renter. If someone offers to "sell" me a house but actually they are only renting it to me, that would be... misleading at best.
That is because vimscript is such an awful language. People have written amazing plugins for hooking into compilers and what not, but only a few people on Earth are capable of taming vimscript.
Actually Disney removed access, Amazon is just the bearer of the unfortunate news.
That battle was already lost once regarding piracy. According to the media it's not copyright infringement, copying, or duplication. It's stealing the movie. This allows pseudo-advertisements like "you wouldn't steal a car" to exist. (I would definitely copy a car is I could!)
it is an interesting effect, but I don't see how it will ever add anything to the experience for either the writer or the reader. I guess you are supposed to imagine yourself watching some captivating writer craft a brilliant post and feel some inspiration as you peer into the surroundings that inspired such vivid thought. But who would ever want to watch someone else write? Especially when 'watching' them is just seeing some set of fuzzy colors drawn from their forehead and walls. The only time I can imagine this becoming interesting is when they can convince some upper shelf write like <insert contemporary novelist here> to participate, and at that point you are basically just turning them into a zoo animal.

I like Kevin Rose, but I wish he - and most of the other great minds that have already hit it big once or twice - would learn to think a bit out beyond pictures, blogs, and aggregating news sites. There is still so much that can be improved through creative thinkers pushing the boundaries of how we use the internet; blogs, picture sharing, etc... though are quickly approaching the limit of how immersive they can currently be.
How the f is this newsworthy
Basic income will serve to reinforce this fabric and enable the risky ventures that will power us forward in the 21st century.

Maybe. But for an alternative view, see "Four Reasons a Guaranteed Annual Income Won't Work" (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-04/four-reasons-a-guar...) and, although not strictly an alternative view, "What are some of the biggest problems with a guaranteed annual income?" (http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/11/wha...).

As so often happens, the devil is in the implementation and incentive details.

Based on my reading I think a guaranteed annual income is a good idea, but I'm agnostic on the question of whether a guaranteed annual income would work in practice.
Most people would rather work in whatever they want than working for a wage for someone else's benefit. Even if they find their job rewarding, being told what and when to do something is not as rewarding as... not being.

Also: what about highly unrewarding jobs?
"news" is a relative thing. It's on "bits.blogs.nytimes.com"...
Mearsheimer is an embarrassment to social science.
Top earners have a strong vested interest in the lowest possible income not being too low, because starving homeless masses have a negative impact on property values. The question is not whether to redistribute income, but how much and by which mechanism. Inflation is income redistribution also, remember.

The traditional income redistribution systems in the US are social security (from the young to the old), welfare (from the employed to the unemployed), and medicare (from the healthy to the unhealthy). The cost of these systems is $X + $Y + $Z. Costs are inflated by large bureaucracies put in place to enforce social mores as punitive measures against the poor ("piss in this cup or you don't get EBT this month"; "EBT is for buying cheez-puffs, not condoms").

If giving $X + $Y + $Z to everyone in the US would provide them with a better quality of life, then it makes sense to do that instead of managing separate programs.

Two significant additional benefits to a basic income are:

1. It fixes the problem of going from unemployed to employed-at-minimum-wage resulting in a net decrease in household income. It's a simple observation that punishing people for getting a job will decrease the total number of employed adults.

2. It enables the minimum wage to be much lower than the poverty line. The nation has collectively decided that an adult working full time should be entitled to to the basic necessities of life, and the cost of that decision is that jobs which are worth less than $7.25 simply aren't offered (or are only offered illegally). If everyone already makes enough to get by, then there's far fewer ethical problems with paying someone $3 an hour to sweep some floors or pick up garbage from a sidewalk.
I'm not using my ARM board as a media server or content renderer, just as an edge gateway much like the OP is.

The OP is "sharing media files with Samba to an Android tablet", but if you really need >100mbit to do that, I don't know what to tell you. I'm puzzled by everyone that wants to grind every random cheap SoC into a media server.
Don’t drop out. (until you have to)
Really? Do you really think everyone on welfare, or even a majority, are just lazy poor people living off the money earned by the glorious, noble, hard-working, libertarian class? Is it really that simple?
Obviously, 21 is a magic number, all the proposals in the article are simply based on "the 21st century".

Because it is the 21st century, so freedom is free. Done.
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There are only two hard things in Computer Science:
cache invalidation and naming things.
I had to look up Nash equilibrium, and your critique is valid given that I certainly haven't tried to compute anything. A number of observations lead me to suspect that there is some sort of optimum:

1. Working conditions generally being more dangerous in the absence of regulatory mechanisms such as OSHA.

2. I live in a state with a sizable dairy industry, and I've read that three years is the typical productive lifespan of a milk cow before it can no longer support its own weight and collapses, when its production is managed with RBGH and antibiotics.

3. Doping of elite athletes is regulated by practical limits of detection.

Lethality might not be the ultimate limit. Public outrage or a decline of performance above a certain dosage might also set upper limits.
LT is one of the biggest stringalongs in recent memory. It is all about whipping up community goodwill in hopes of flipping a buck one day.

In the meantime, humble projects are progressing along without all the young people JS-dev hype.... CodeMirror, emacs/vim editor plugins, etc
Depending on the side effect, yes.
Regret Aversion Bias - Would You Rather Be Right, or Avoid Being Wrong?
It sounds like you are under the illusion that political satire has no agenda.
Hi,

There are a couple of things that are easy to overlook when using billing metrics.

1. All billing metrics are stored in us-east-1 even for usages in other regions.

2. If you are using consolidated billing, billing metrics will be published under the linked account, and will only be visible to that account.

Hope that helps.
[lawn evictKidsFromUsing: shotgun]
This is bluestar. Rumors have the formal announcement and possible concept vehicle at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show. They'd start taking reservations then with deliveries scheduled in 2017 or 2018.

It's pretty much the same model as the S and X, both of which had 2 year delays between announcement and delivery.
That's basically all nonsense. If I have money and really feel like the poor are going to take it then I can buy security or just move far out into the country. Rich people were far less secretive in the past than they are now (for a variety of reasons).

If a basic income means that I can support myself without work and have a decent living then I'm probably not working-it's pretty simple. I suspect you'd have fewer apps being built, manual labor getting done, tough problems getting solved, etc. And if I can't then why are we bothering again?

The communist revolutions of the past tended to be largely nationalist in their roots. The poor ended up being terribly harmed by those revolutions (as did many other people I suppose).
I'd recommend blowing away your repository's history before open sourcing as well.
Because we don't have the technology to get rid of shitty jobs yet. We can't make that technology come faster by eliminating incentives to perform shitty jobs.
About the Poison Garden
Is this really for a "purchase"? Seems to me it's pretty fundamentally fraudulent to offer for purchase something without the authority to sell it.

This means that, at any time, any movie you "purchased" can be removed from your library indefinitely, without credit.

This completely changes how I feel about buying movies at Amazon, and makes me feel justified in switching to torrent. Until now I haven't had a problem paying for content, however if the rights of a purchase have been eroded this much, my mind is changed.
Because taxing high earners will magically make the necessary technology appear.
Ask HN: A question about 60 minutes
The second clip on the site said that a nation-state had developed a bios bug that would brick a computer[1], but aren't there lots of problems with creating a bug for each bios? I forget the name of the post, but this problem came up quite recently with badbios.

[1]:http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-speaks-out-on-snowden-spying/
Torgensen is the program manager for C# design and specs, this came from his presentation at NDC London, here's another rundown: http://adamralph.com/2013/12/06/ndc-diary-day-3/
That sounds about on par with copper theft, it's often ripped out of installed equipment like AC units or transformers that require total replacement.
+1 to feeling more sociable while on these drugs. Whether that is a good thing depends on your personal preferences. I don't generally like being talkative and I don't really like talkative people, so in retrospect, I don't appreciate that side-effect.
Great word, I like that classification.
The french revolution was carried out by the merchant class because they wanted political power to match their economic power.

Definitely not poor people.
Making open source projects is fun. Flipping burgers and cleaning toilets isn't.

And believe it or not, people do pay for open-source programs. It's just not necessarily the end user.
Do you really believe it could happen? I mean a real upraising and a civil war? The way it's going now I think the US is past the time when it was possible to trigger. I mean they can do terrible things one at the time forever and most people won't care. (They don't at the moment) Noting major and sudden will be allowed to happen.
Maybe a more palatable way to spinfund basic income / progressive taxing is not to tax the wealthy but to tax robotics / AI. Increasingly productivity gains will come from robotics anyway. Taxes like this should have close to the same effects as progressive taxes but seem less leftist. It would look more like an evitable human progression to the voter base instead of sneaking socialism.
Cory Doctorow always is posting about Disney. It is usually slavishly, fawningly positive and inconsistent with his public politics. But still no lesson seems to be learned here.
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To me that is an argument in favor of basic income: it would force workplaces to suck less, since they'd have competition at the bottom end.
The Chinese government would no more commit widespread computer sabotage in the US than bomb Beijing.
Useful perhaps to someone enamored with the idea of they themselves being the story, instead of their words. None of the people whose work I admire would go near it.
Inflation is a redistribution scheme of the poor to the rich and from savings to spenders.

Life becomes a lot simpler when we just eliminate all these schemes and just let people solve problems for themselves. This expectation that you can disrupt the economy in a major way and have the rest of the society stay static around me is a very serious reasoning error.
It would be kind of neat in a multimedia, "Snow Fall" like article, but I'm not sure if it would be actually useful.

I've often thought of using eye tracking software to introduce more visual/text information while viewing something. I'm sure we're a long way away from the ability to make something like that seem serendipitous rather than just annoying.
Again, that's all well and good, but it still doesn't change the fact that the satire is meant to make you laugh, whereas political commentary is meant to express a view.
you do not need to apply for a copyright. you apply for papers to make lawsuits easier. they provide you with documented and notarized dates and actions.
"Between this and this recent minimum wage increase nonsense it seems like we're hell bent on just saying "To hell with what econ 101 says, this sounds good to me!""

There's a reason why economics goes beyond 101. It's a complex issue. The minimum wage should be increased. It should be tied to inflation.
Of course not. They're just people responding to incentives to make the best choices they can. I don't judge anyone on welfare or not.
Elixir 0.12 released, support for continuable enumerators inspired by iteratees
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Someone broke into the office of a consulting shop I was working for, passing up dozens of macbook pros and who knows what else for an old-school translucent aqua imac and a $100 Walmart bike.
for the purpose of comparing with other countries, i would also like to know the average income for each country. just comparing the dollar amounts isn't the whole picture.
For that matter, you can write emacs extensions in python, using Pymacs; given that it's marshalling objects to and from a subprocess over a pipe, it breaks when anything gets asynchronous, but lately when I've gone beyond "customization" to "actual code", pymacs has made it so much easier that after a few decades with emacs, I really want an open source editor with emacs' richness (and bindings) and python as a first-class extension language.
> 2) simple feelings of being left out...that's what people don't like about Google shuttles. They're mysterious. Let people in them, see what they are, see how they're really not that amazing or great: but then that would hurt recruiting.

Those buses are private, and paid for by Google, they're not public buses. Should I let anyone from SF ride in my personal car, just so they don't feel left out? Private means private, Google&co are allowed to let in (or keep out) anyone they want on buses they pay for.
Is there an argument there?
Does the income-politics relationship remain if you look only within ethnic/racial groups? Overall, poor people are more Democratic than rich people, but the racial makeups of those income groups are also considerably different: people making over $100k are much more likely to be white than people making under $20k are.

It's possible the answer is still yes, but it'd be interesting to see a breakdown.
The release can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v0.12.0
You are buying a (revocable) licence to the media.

I think it's ridiculous but the 'rent' vs 'buy' discussion is pure semantics.
it almost always is, with the crypto-currency crew. unbridled greed is the driving force of the movement now
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4928762
What does a good smartwatch actually look like?
+1 for experiencing negative effects on memory after a while. I had that too.