skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of that money isn't stored as a pile of cash under the bed. It's capital invested in other activities: think machinery, think infrastructure, think capital (and we know in some industries like banking and insurances they need to have capital, don't we?).

The fact that these people "have" it doesn't mean it doesn't produce value. You need to understand that liquidate all that worth WILL put people on the street and will disrupt the economy as we know it. Namely, maybe at that point you won't do much with those 15k.
Fair enough, but Bitstamp is also doing close to $10M/day. You are probably right about the AML hurdle, but that is orthogonal to needing a service to sell them off slowly for you.
C#. It's a modern multi-paradigm multi-type-system language.

Best choice if you can get Visual Studio (paid) along with ReSharper (paid).

Will let you target all mobile platforms via Xamarin (paid) (since you want to develop an app as opposed to a website).

If you want to get a prototype quickly rather than focus on code quality then one of the purely dynamic language options would also be OK.
Another cherry-picked study that will be refuted in the coming years.

What happens when you distribute money: it dissipates and poverty for all results.

But don't take it from me, Comrades!
It doesn't tend to cause many nuisance trips.

Of course, if you buy something from the store and it trips your RCD you know it's got a fault so you return it. And if something old starts tripping your RCD you know it's developed a fault, and you fix it or replace it.
Thermocouple, RTD, Bi-metallic strip/coil, Silicon Bandgap, Thermistor, and I'm sure there are a few common types that have slipped my mind. Your statements are a gross over-simplification.
So true.
then (at least in our country) there's the base federal taxation:

we still are paying the following "una-tantum":

Abissinia war 1935

Suez crysis 1956

Vajont disaster 1963

Firenze floods 1966

Belice Earthquake 1968

Friuli Earthquake 1976

Irpinia Earthquake 1980

Libanon peace mission 1983

Bosnia peace mission 1996

...

+22% VAT
I do not know about pricing, but they're widely used for espresso machines. That said, my point was merely that it allows for a much more precise control of the temperature - not whether or not it was economical feasible or provided enough value for the money.
the left one
i always recommend the dossier at attriton.org: http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/kimble/
Spark does look very promising. It is great being able to experiment with jobs on distributed collections from a Scala repl. Consequently it is very quick to get started.

My first impressions are that there seems to be a fair amount of abstraction leakage. Some things that compile and look valid fail at runtime - e.g. referring to other RDDs from within a filter predicate or map function. Other More complex jobs cause the nodes to fail and it gets into infinite loops of restarting the nodes, replaying the job, and them dieing again.

I hope once I get a better understanding of what is going on underneath I will understand what is going on here.
IRC is still great, however I disliked this line:

> This episode just goes to show that IRC even in the 2010's continues to be one of the most expressive, influential, and effective communications mediums on the Internet.

Because this story on its own really doesn't show that at all. "Group A needed money, told people about it, and a rich person gave them money" could just as well happen on HN, Twitter, etc.
just makes me wonder why our leaders aren't robbing these people down into 'moderately disgusting' levels of wealth inorder to equalise our varying national debts and deficits... and why tax havens aren't being threatened with severe action if they don't cease their tax havenry.

i don't agree with theft, but i have a hard time feeling sorry for someone who can lose 95% of their wealth for the greater good and still live a fantastically luxurious lifestyle and ensure one for two or three generations of offspring as well.
I mostly agree, but just one nit: Pixar was mostly John Lasseter, Ed Catmull, and many wonderful folks including many animators. While Jobs personally funded the company for a long time (10 years or so? That's really quite a vision), he wasn't really running it.
interesting, the calculations in the reddit thread put the number at around 500 for each of the 3.5 billion
In my world, upvotes would be based on truth (correct relation to reality) and insight (ability to uncover new truths or present old truths in a new light).

Neither niceties/political correctness or experience/expertise should be reasons for an upvote unless the answer is correct or insightful.
If Krugman can use that kind of language in an article, I can use this kind:

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I wouldn't start with this (MailChimp calls that "groups") until you are mostly clear with what you want to discuss...

I don't have any best practice, but I felt than more than 3 would be completely overkill in my case.

Not having groups allows you to move around a bit more easily - angry people will just unsubscribe :-) But I also felt that having groups would help some people remain subscribed in my case.
I found this, which worked for me:

https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?&t=28804

In Vbox:

Right click on the VM to edit...

Settings > System > Extended Features: Enable IO APIC
much substance
What about Amancio Ortega Gaona - starts a business selling quilted bathrobes in Spain and ends up 3rd richest person in the world?

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

What did he do that was "illicit" (he certainly didn't inherit wealth as he started working in his early teens)?
It doesn't really have any flavour of its own (similarly to Tofu), but it's normally sold "chicken-style" or "beef-style", and has some sort of very mild flavouring added.

One form it comes in is frozen "mince". That would probably be the best way for a non-veggie to eat it. You can use it as a replacement for beef in pies/chili con carne/bolognese etc. The lack of fat probably makes it slightly less satisfying but I'd say it's worth it for the health benefits. The actual flavour doesn't suffer at all.
You've really never heard of VLC (admittedly hardly a startup, but certainly a project) or Feedly?
Some math here is fucked up. These people don't have an average of over a trillion in assets each (assuming that tn stands for trillion...) My guess is that they have something like two orders of magnitude less, and the world's population would get $150 each. Then again, that sounds low, given some people with tens-of-billions fortunes. Anyway, $110 trillion and $15000 is way, way too high - between one and two orders of magnitude.
You should definitely differentiate between Linux distros and companies that make their money with a distro.

Because unlike RedHat and Ubuntu, practically all the other Linux distros out there have little cash and little manpower to spare. The developers of those distros might contribute to keeping OpenSSH alive, should OpenBSD go under, but they are unlikely to tax their own, scarce resources to keep OpenBSD as such alive.
The Number Empire
On the amount of work I put in compared to amount of work I get back in my salary (or the amount of work necessary to have my living standard). The latter is much higher. So either (a) I exploit other people or (b) the extra work comes from machinery and organization (productivity). But although my salary is above average, it doesn't explain the difference, so (a) is probably not such a big factor.

I consider merit based on amount of work you do, disregarding the productivity. I am not my own cause of high productivity, I was simply born to that world. In capitalism, why should I? The productivity can be (and often is) ascribed to capital, which is owned by somebody else.

As you correctly say, people have different ideas about this. But the point is, someone has to own the capital and the productivity gains (it may be the collective ownership, though). Just saying you don't care who owns it (because you believe in value of your work alone) will make you poor, because you will in essence give up those enormous gains.
Neither of those studies shows that women leaves STEM because of an "hostile environment".

Study1:

What does emerge is that investments and job rewards that generally stimulate field
commitment, such as advanced training and high job satisfaction, fail to build
commitment among women in STEM.

The second study is more interesting, but is only speculative (i.e. Not scientific).

“We suspect that the retention deficit in STEM may be due to the team organization
of scientific work combined with the attitudes and expectations of co-workers and
supervisors who hold more traditional beliefs about the competencies of women in
these rapidly changing fields,”

When a researcher says that they "suspect", it really does mean what the word says. Its a opinion without study. A study can produce findings, and findings are what the last linked research article (in the research) show.

A related 2012 study published in Sociology, “The Dimensions of Occupational Gender
Segregation in Industrial Countries,” examines why some jobs may be filled more by
men or women, be it by choice, obligation or exclusion. Among the findings are that
women tend to outperform men in the general desirability of occupations

So neither is a empirical studies to backup your anecdote. The findings however where an interesting read, and I hope similar studies are made on the "suspected" and "suggested" theories.
While i sympathize in some ways, i.e. looking back things are quite something to compare with the past, the reason we aren't happy yet is that things are also still kind of shitty.

Cars are still a brilliant way to get killed; cars are extremely inefficient.
Oil is going to run out at some point.
Traffic monitoring works only in some places.
Internet via cellphones is generally prohibitively expensive, and quite laggy compared to wired internet.
Cellphone UI and especially data input is still an order of magnitude slower than mouse and keyboard.
Smartphones, if used with some regularity, do need a recharge once every two days at least.
I don't even want to think how ineffecient they are.
Humanity's knowledge in the internet is difficult to access and only really accessible to those who spent a lot of time learning how to search it.
I write software for a living too, but i've no idea if it'll ever benefit anyone.
Sometimes i spend more time on a software solution to a problem that could be solved faster with less time in a manual way.
I enjoy all the fruit in the supermarket, but i don't like to think about which elements along that supply chain live a life that's much worse than mine and don't get even remotely adequate compensation. etc.

I hold both of these truths in my mind: Things are amazing. Things aren't nearly as amazing as they were thought to be.
Nest Protect Teardown
I'd wrap this into a single HTML/JS snippet with something like [PUT_YOUR_USERNAME_HERE]. Style it to show the last tweet in Twitter's card style. Show that on the site and anyone can use it, even without knowing what a GET request is. Drop a credit link to your site at the bottom. This is the simple stuff that is useful to non-technical bloggers and Tumblr-ers.
HFTs certainly are making money. But they're making money by making the market. And they're making a lot less money than they used to which you can see because spreads have shrunk dramatically. This is because computers can do this job much faster and cheaper than the humans who did it before could.

It's the same kind of automation we've seen in many other industries.
I guess you've probably missed Bill Gates and Warren Buffet talking about the sperm lottery? If they were born in the slums of Brazil, for example, they probably would not be successful.

There are 7 billion people on the planet and the article cherry picks the poorest 3.5 billion. I imagine that there is little opportunity at that level. I doubt if anyone in the United States is on that list.
No, most people are rich because they inherited land or businesses.
No, he was not. He was, among other things, known as a fellon in a pump and dump scheme around letsbuyit.com.
http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/kimble/
I'm really interested in starting a SaaS business with 500-1k MRR a year after launch. I'm frugal and the cost of living here is quite small.

I keep hitting a block where I can't find a SaaS idea that could guarantee this revenue that wouldn't require a lot of upfront effort in development. I think I'm better at designing an app and improving its marketing strategy than actually writing the code, but I can't hire a developer.

I read the gospel (ahoyhere's blog, http://unicornfree.com, closer to us mere mortals than 37signals/svn) and understood it as: find a group of people, watch them in their natural habitat, pay attention to the problems they mention having, and if you know a way to solve that problem, turn it into a product.

I still haven't had a solid idea. Every time I identify a group with a problem, the solution is something that would take a lot of upfront work for me on my spare time. I know there's an idea or problem I'm overlooking, but I can't find it.
Why does it always have to be one extreme or the other? Why can't inequality be curbed, instead of getting worse, without nightmares of "everybody being made the same", or Stalinist Russia? I've been in situations where everybody shared, it wasn't scary at all.
I read through a lot of the comments so far and they expectedly turned into a stream of educated opining for and against the validity of stipends for the poor. Although many points are well said, do they really matter? Seems like the fundamental point is the ongoing lack of experimentation around poverty alleviation that leads to a Duke researcher only having a small Indian community that she has been studying who then gets a casino to be the only opportunity to see potentially innovative policy initiatives.

I'd love to see block grants distributed to states for a competitive process of poverty reduction (or pick any another long term social cost) where such experimentation could become institutionalized and there'd be a lot more to talk about.
The last three paragraphs are the most interesting. I wonder how many sellers and buyers the FBI will be able to identify from following the Bitcoin blockchain.
Well; they are known for their impeccable execution(s) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...)
One significant user-visible feature of 3.13 is nftables:
https://lwn.net/Articles/564095/
I've used OpenBSD on and off for years, and have even donated to the project, but I personally use Linux (Debian or Arch Linux) these days.

Specifically influencing my decision is that OpenBSD has issues on my current computer. Wireless networking drops after a certain amount of inactivity and with the most recent release, the mouse keeps disconnecting with a "wsmouse0 detached" warning.

More generally, OpenBSD has always felt slower to me than Linux on the same hardware. It does not have a modern journaled file system and OpenBSD faces a free Unix software ecosystem that increasingly Linux specific.

All that said, OpenBSD gets so much right. They care about security and documentation. They care about creating a good version of Unix. They care about software freedom. I could never fault someone for choosing it.
Pic or it didn't happen:

(Obviously I sent out the friend request after I saw it).
No friends, no mutual, whole different country..

/edit
Second one, where you can see the privacy setting.
And for more fun I left the URL unsmudged. So you can now all like my pic(?)

/edit2
woops..
http://i.imgur.com/b8LJmO6.png
Git add -p
just like Silvio Berlusconi. And probably one of the Kim-Clan in northern Korea.
Man, jokes are not well received on HN.
I've watched that keynote, and it certainly wasn't there. While Jobs had a tendency to claim ideas as his own internally (often after dismissing it initially), to the public he never seemed to like to claim ideas as his own, but rather make a point of how the products were a result of teamwork.
> But Geniuses/Leaders - they come but once in a lifetime, and we admire them for that uniqueness.

Oh please. There are 7 billion people in this world. This hero worship has got to stop. By your own admission he was a complete arsehole. His 'vision' was who he could exploit. Look at how he treated Woz. That's not the actions of a visionary, that's the actions of an egomaniac who discovered a route to power.
I can publish anonymously in any number of places. The problem is keeping it published in the face of takedowns and this site seems to be completely silent on the subject.
Darcs as a higher inductive type
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The 2007 National Intelligence Estimate is where the Iran information originated, nothing has changed in the subsequent years.

'Mr Bush expresses anger that US intelligence agencies played a role in removing the option of military action against Iran over its nuclear programme.

He describes the "eye-popping declaration" in the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) judging with "high confidence" that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons programme.'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11722375

Comparing the factual analysis to the propaganda whether on Iraq WMD before the invasion or Irans nuclear programme now is certainly an interesting exercise.
Amancio Ortega Gaona allegedly profits from child and "slave" labour across the world. High street fashion is commonly manufactured in factories that have particularly awful welfare standards. e.g. http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG9970846/Zara...
>Self pity is the biggest enemy of the minority. Nothing does more to promote this than the visual media

Politicians who seek to exploit racial groups by scapegoating them and promulgating stereotypes do a pretty good job too.
Instead it should be entirely spent in AI development, infrastructure, sustainable energy and manufacturing, automatization and climate change prevention. All major problems humanity has will be solved by that.
If you want to be a developer, you should aim to learn one new programming language a year, at least to the point where you can understand the strengths and weaknesses of the language. High-level languages like Ruby, PHP and Python are all good. At some point dive into functional, and at another point go a bit lower: C, perhaps.

However if all you want to do is build this one product, then you need to evaluate which framework is easiest to get started in. So, choose a feature and build it in a few different frameworks and decide which one clicked for you.

My recommendation is to try Rails, Django and CakePHP. If you're feeling brave, Meteor (in Javascript) is worth a look. Figure out what worked for you, and what didn't and make the decision from there. You might like Ruby but hate Rails: try Sinatra. You might love Javascript but hate the conceptual building blocks of Meteor: try Node.js. And so on.

There is a lot of personal preference going on here, and I presume this is for now a side project so your focus should be on having fun. I think if you can get your head around it, Rails will be the one that gets you the fastest from "I have this idea" to being able to use it.
I think the problem with the concept of having "acute business acumen" is that it is basically orthogonal to moral concerns, but there seem to be plenty of people who consider making money using one's business smarts morally good an sich, no matter how ruthless and unethical the means. King Leopold II can certainly be said to have had "acute business acumen"...
From the article: " I was an engineer at HP designing the iPhone 5 of the time, their scientific calculators. I had many friends and a good reputation there. I designed things for people all over the country, for fun, all the time too, including the first hotel movie systems and SMPTE time code readers for the commercial video world. Also home pinball games. Among these things, the Apple I was the FIFTH time that something I had created (not built from someone else's schematic) was turned into money by Jobs." It seems that regardless of whether he had met Jobs or not he would have been a tech superstar, rich, and quite probably part of something great.
The death of Windows XP will impact 95 percent of the world’s ATMs
Heating up a stove takes considerably more energy than using a microwave.

On my microwave, it takes about 96,000 joules (800W x 2') to heat up a plate with leftovers, while doing it on my oven it takes around 432,000J (1800W * 4').
Tracking timeline: Critical times
>if you want to convince white people in this country that doling out free money to the poor is a good idea, you're going to have to convince them that blacks and latinos aren't going to abuse that system en masse.

Alternatively, rather than attempting to convince them, we could educate them.
You are right. Thanks for the clarification.
Yes, because other projects will rise in its place run by people with better social skills, and they are more likely to build tools of use to a wider audience, and we'll see wider acceptance of crypto.

I genuinely believe my non-tech friends and family have such a poor approach to security, because the people who have a good approach to developing security tools have such a poor approach towards my non-tech friends and family.
>every one of the "racial differences" (especially the mental ones) that have been claimed have turned out to be baseless and untrue.

You should re-phrase that to point at racist claims. There are quite a few differences between the races. Bone density is one example.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1863580/
I'm not a libertarian, but if I were, I would find this horribly offensive.

> What you also get from the report is just how connected all this stuff is with libertarian derp

Much of prominent libertarian philosophy is derived from principles of nonviolence. Of course, it is infer thaf this statement to apply to all libertarians, but simply dismissing them as 'libertarian derp' based on one violent individual is deliberately misleading.

Also, talking about Amy Adams and her cleavage? This is the New York Times, not Maxim.

I expect better from Krugman.
I love the idea! This is a really cool way to learn anything, then, for that matter, I guess. Thank you.
Your parent commenter misread the article. Oxfam claims 85 persons have a wealth of $1.6 trillion, and another 70 million have $110 trillion.
Fine, I'll attempt to parse through your example.

"Rather than buying Wigets-R-Us at $100/share, the HFT slips in with a, say, $99.99 offer to the seller, and offers you $100.01."

So, 2 possibilities, you don't say, but you are sending a limit order to buy at $100 or a market (or marketable limit, or fill-and-kill) order to buy at $100. Apparently, you seem to be suggesting that there is a seller in the market, presumably offering at $100. Now, you seem to be suggesting that the HFT sees your order before it hits the matching engine (nonsense) and also that they can somehow re-negotiate with the seller and get him to lower his limit sell to 99.99 (I'm not sure how, do they send goons around to kneecap him if he doesn't? All in the 20 milliseconds your order is on the way to the market?).

" and offers you $100.01"

...but let's assume that somehow the magic omnipotent packet-sniffing HFT knows your order is enroute to the exchange, can force market participants to lower their offers, now you're claiming that it can force you to buy at $100.01. Why didn't you send a limit buy at $100, if that's the price you wanted, you saw, and were prepared to pay?

>wrapped in condescension

If you want to write entire paragraphs about something you know nothing about, you're not really adding to the conversation are you? So you'll open yourself up to a little condescension.
"Overall ownership of kettles has declined from 83 per cent of the population in 2008 to 78 per cent in 2012."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262020/Humble-kettl...
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