skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome thanks for the feedback and shared it cleverly on my fb via two sisters.last_name("yum") :)
> do we have any other tv connected devices running android currently?

OUYA comes to mind.
Agree. I found this post by John Langford more informative, on a similar vein:

http://hunch.net/?p=2562
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_stam... and http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_stam... are a pretty entertaining take on the "just deserts" aspect
Even if wealth and income will roughly fall along a Pareto distribution (plausible, but needs some argument), that doesn't mean the 80/20 is universal. Only some Pareto distributions (characterized by certain parameters) display the 80/20 principle.

e.g. the Gini coefficient for an idealized Pareto distribution displaying the 80/20 principle is by definition 0.60. But Gini coefficients can obviously vary a lot from that, so societies definitely can exhibit either more or less wealth inequality.
MDN publishes correct polyfills for ES5 Array functions like map, reduce and forEach. I think it's worth shipping those and using them now.

Ultimately though, wouldn't you want to use a js preprocessor that lets you write full spec ES6 and compiles down to ES4 or whatever your runtime target is? That's available today, and it doesn't confuse the meaning of class, fat arrow, variable scoping, etc.
Svbtle and Medium both started out as invitation-only exclusive clubs; you could submit your email address to a sign-up form on Medium, but invitations were prioritized by, essentially, how recognized your writing was to start with. There's nothing wrong with this, but I think people imagine a greater gulf existed between the two services than there actually was. The difference is mostly that Medium opened up faster.

I remain somewhat on the fence about Svbtle. I admire much of it but there's a rather unrelating sameness starting to manifest itself in the web design world--the pastels, rounded corners and dropped vowels of a few years ago have given way to monochrome color schemes, large text, and vast swaths of whitespace. While this is an improvement in readability, the biggest difference between Medium and Svbtle for readers rather than authors is serif text vs. sans serif, and that Medium appears to have better image handling.
Forgive me if I'm being dense but what harm would embedded crypto and compression engines do? You don't have to use them right?
And even the movie business is pretty small. This infographic puts the size of the entire market at a fairly paltry 65 billion a year.

http://bitshare.cm/post/2082365481/the-film-industry-is-big-...

Disney's studio arm pulled in just shy of 6 billion last year. Parks and Resorts brought in 14 billion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company#Revenue...
Here is the annotated link for that same file:

http://coffeescript.org/documentation/docs/grammar.html
If you are linking the requests with a comment on each end, I'm not sure I see the benefit to just pushing the rebase into an open request. Is there a real difference?
We're experiencing issues in Mountain View. Able to ping facebook.com just fine, but the site isn't loading from the browser ~80% of the time (for at least the last 15 minutes or so).
The KO blow to Ouya? Is this why the co-founder left?
These aren't unusual features in SoCs. Of course if you're concerned about backdoors you don't have to invoke these engines, at least with a software implementation you can control the implementation.
> Food is dirt cheap compared to housing, especially if you shop smart.

Don't be ridiculous. Have you ever tried to buy food on a minimum wage budget? If you want to eat anything that has even a modicum of nutritional value, minimum wage won't get you much.

I'm not suggesting that expensive/organic food is worth it's price. Nor am I suggesting that minimum wage should be raised to the point where everyone could afford to shop at Whole Foods. But if you honestly believe that the author is wrong when he writes "it's still difficult for people working low wage jobs to afford food", then you need a reality check.
>or adding media to your iTunes library.

Yes, which doesn't require the iTunes store.
> I can’t imagine working for somebody else. I wish my wife understood that.

Seriously?
Random thoughts ...

> We are becoming a nation of haves and have-nots—of prosperous San Francisco vs. bankrupt Detroit.

Based on the people protesting/blocking the shuttles, San Francisco has plenty of have-nots.

> and we’d presumably cut a ton of government bureaucracy.

LOL. A $3.5T govt program is going to cut bureaucracy? Even if it swallowed up other existing entitlement spending, I don't see this happening.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#Plausible_deniability
Placing a marker on TC volumes, or some sort of easily identifiable header, would have prevented governments from thinking that /dev/urandom data may in fact be TC volumes. By trying to hide the volumes, and to claim that they "are just random data", they've increased the risk to innocent people who may indeed have random data on their systems that may be mistakenly identified as a TC volume.
That is a pretty great thing, as far as I am concerned. Custom ASICs for routine server tasks that would otherwise clog up a general purpose core? I'll take it.
The catch is we already have several terrible systems of poorly and expensively providing basic income: abuse of SSDI and using food-stamps to buy goods to use as a de-facto currency (in West Virginia, it happens to be soda bottles, for example)
THIS! I can't get behind oscarthegrouch who thought it was important to articulate the worst case scenarios in a case like this, because regardless the next steps are the same, but this advice is gold.

Dont get to this point and surprise your partner. She is as much your partner financially as your co-founder, treat her like that from day one.
Yep. I think the name for it is true or Euclidean modulo. Here's the pull request that introduced it and two other new operators: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/pull/2887
> There are actually lots of viewpoints from which that set of "ideal goals" are not ideal.

Perhaps, but I deliberately left the goals vague. I think they represent what an average taxpayer would think. Do you have any specific examples of other goals might be?

> Well, if its just like our current system but for that change, the main difference will be a tax cut for high income earners and reduced revenue.

In that video he specifically argues against that idea. He says revenue should increase, and one side effect would be that corporate declarations should increase since there is less financial incentive to find ways to "hide" income.
Health insurance companies can no longer deny coverage based on credit scores, although apparently credit scores can impact your rates. Like I said: I have a very crappy credit score, and it's had no impact on my life (including the times I've tried to buy private health insurance, which was a nightmare for reasons having nothing to do with credit and everything to do with the fact that the ACA hadn't passed yet). Other than, yknow, to keep me out of the market for credit. A good thing.

Either way: the author is worried that someone's going to come for their house because of their startup debts. I don't think it's productive to mine for reasons to be anxious. Bad credit score? Join the club; there are millions and millions of us: we're called "Americans". Nobody is taking the house.
There's little room for tampering with crypto, the only room is for tampering with the RNGs.

As far as I know all crypto algorithms are deterministic based on the key/IV and the data.
That is why I created a service that will securely delete your data if you don't remind it every day. Just say that is where you keep your passwords (and maybe add it to your bookmark bar to be more convincing) It's the only service you don't have to use to be useful!
I'm pretty sure sociopaths care in a sense that other people's opinions is what allows them to climb the social ladder and gain power.
As long as

P(story read by audience|written in Medium) > P(story read by audience|written in self-hosted blog)

Medium will continue to be a better choice.
Completely agree. It's amazing what we don't need and I'll expect you find your confidence in 12 months is through the roof. The shackles you thought were binding you are were actually made of sand.

So all the very best, and remember this will be an awesome war story for you to tell in the future.
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Nope. Grain on an image sequence? Yes.
This may be a much bigger threat to intel than AMD64 was.
> but keep in mind that there is no objective notion of fairness.

That's the main reason I think the descriptive argument has more potential. I think that goes for any argument involving morality or ethics.
If that's the claim then the onus is on the claimant to demonstrate why or how I have made a mistake, not for me to demonstrate why or how I haven't.
It would be nice if the default filesystem on an unsuspicious and relatively popular operating system (Linux?) normally overwrote erased data with random data, and worked to maintain a large contiguous area at one "end" of the drive. You would need to be careful not to fill up your drive to the point that it overwrote part of your hidden volume, of course.

I think this would allow for true deniability.
NASA Preparing for 2014 Comet Watch at Mars
You're right, I am.

But what does that tell you about where we're headed?
Arrow-Debreu nice result gives you sufficient theoretical conditions for a unique (!) equilibrium to exist.

As you say, in practice, our markets are different, and the conditions don't apply fully. But I don't see how that applies here? There might be multiple equilibria, but that doesn't have anything to do with slave labour.
> Second they got the backing in PS4 and Xbox One hardware.

Does not mean much. Their APU used in these consoles is very weak compared to what we have in mid to high end PC graphics cards. They were obviously chosen for their price there, not for the performance (which is MEH at best).
And replies still aren't nested? Guys, multi-party conversations are not necessarily linear.
I prefer hybrid line numbering. This way, you can see the true number of the line you are on, while all the other lines on the screen are numbered relative to your position.

http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2013/vims-new-hybrid-line-number...
I like the irony of a person talking about pedantic know-it-alls, via a comment that dissects the exact meaning of the phrase "the HN crowd".
> Inequality is not the problem. Poverty is the problem.

Not necessarily. The article doesn't develop the argument, but hints at the fact that if the perception of unfairness (due to observed wealth inequality irrespective of the poverty rate) in a society becomes sufficiently widespread, there could be negative consequences. The most extreme example is probably a violent revolution of the less wealth against the extremely wealthy.
>The US has lost 40% of its manufacturing jobs since 1980 (http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=rrN). Even still, there are 245,000 manufacturing jobs currently open. However, over 11 million Americans are still unemployed (http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=rrQ).

Of course there is only 250,000 jobs open, It's a declining industry. You don't see the Sears, Home Depot, Dell, or HP (to name a few) doing much hiring while they are doing layoffs (contracting) do you? This was partially my point (thanks for backing it up with sources).

My other point was that even when these jobs exist, people don't fill them. If we had 5 million of these same jobs open, how many people (besides legal and illegal immigrants) would fill them.

We have lost 7m+ manufacturing jobs and have 11m unemployed. That is a big percentage. It is estimated that innovation cost only 20-25% of those jobs. The reasons that I mentioned before cost us the rest. Also consider that US consumption of manufactured goods since 1990 has tripled. Even if Technology and innovation cost us 50% of manufacturing jobs, the rise in consumption should have more than compensated for it.

Don't forget the other jobs that are lost when a factory town loses it's factory. The barber, the local tax guy, the corner market ETC. They all go out of business and the employees and owners have been going on unemployment, then welfare, then disability for years. For every two lost factory jobs, there is at least one axillary job lost.

>Over 1 million illegal immigrants left the US in the aftermath of the financial crisis (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/us/31immig.html?partner=rs...) and the number hasn't markedly increased in the last 6 years (http://www.pewhispanic.org/files/2013/09/PH-unauthorized-imm...), yet we have persistently high unemployment and low labor-force participation in concert with baby boomers retiring. Why does the job market still have 8 million more unemployed than openings (http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=rrT)?

I am not sure what point you are trying to make here. There are still an estimated 12 million illegals here. More than half arriving while the US was riding the dotcom and housing bubbles (They came here for jobs while the perceived wealth was plentiful and no citizen "needed" these jobs anymore)

>There's no measure whatsoever that shows unemployment at 30%. The most inclusive rate (U6 - http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=rrS) shows us at about 13%.

30% is a bit of a stretch, I admit - but don't believe the Census Bureau cheaters. The numbers they give are all based on careful and changing criteria and technicalities. This sheds some light on what I am talking about.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/11/real-unemployment-rate-30/

Now just imagine in govt size/jobs had not grown by 40%+ in the last decade. Unemployment would be way worse.

Not sure how your post proves that my statements are ignorant and fairly abhorrent. You only go on to reinforce what I am saying.
It's easy to talk about inequality from a macro perspective, but imagine this...

Imagine Bill Gates is sitting next to a McDonalds employee. Bill is millions of times wealthier than this guy. He could afford to hire 100,000 minimum wage employees for life.

By all accounts Bill is lucky. He's smart and works hard too, but he's basically lucky.

And increasingly, society suggests that we deserve some slice of his luck, because we have less. But why? Our government guarantees your right to private property. Once you own something, it's yours. When we choose to believe in a threshold at which the rules of private property cease, we erode Bill's incentive to participate in the market. If that doesn't feel like a big deal now, wait until the disincentive slides down to your level of income.

I'm not saying that civic society shouldn't do anything for marginalized people. Education can have a meaningful effect on their wages and technology is going to shake the markets and people need help to smooth their individual outcomes, but to say that they deserve Bill's money simply because he's rich is a nasty nasty attitude.

We need to seek an environment that allows everyone to grow through profitable employment, not artificially rebalance the top-end.
Do you have it on a website or github? I would be interested in taking a look at it.
Your ideal wealth distribution is that everyone has the exact same amount of wealth? Next you're going to be telling me some animals are more equal than others...
"It's like apartheid, but with programmers."
Howabout "geekspeak?" Much catchier.
Would basic income make the society really more equal? I find it quite difficult to estimate how would it turn out in practice. Wouldn't a more nuanced system give better results?
Policy: NIH plans to enhance reproducibility of medical studies
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The competitive edge that Svbtle had was its exclusivity

Is that true? Does it have no features that some users prefer?
> although I find the clock speed (2GHz) kinda underwhelming

Remember that the clock speed is not necesarely everything. AMD may be able to get more work done with those 2Ghz than a Snapdragon 800 might using similar or less energy.
Simulating minicomputers on microcontrollers
> Would you consider it to be acceptable for the larger group to appropriate smaller group's wealth using that premise?

Personally, I don't like it, although I don't claim to be privy to any objective notion of morality.
ISAs eat the market from the bottom-up.

x86 is at risk here.
I don't see AMD's play here. What value do they add with a processor that they don't design, don't fab, and can't produce in the kind of volume tablet and phone chips get produced?
Here's an idea a friend and I have been throwing around. It's probably terrible to be honest, so I'd love to hear why it's dumb.

Implement basic income, which HN is well aware of. But, instead of funding it entirely through income taxes, fund it primarily with what the Fed would call "Quantitative Easing" but what I will call "printing money."

Right now, I believe the Fed has actually made inequality much worse by printing a metric ton of money and pumping it into government and the financial sector. The hope is that this will, to use a loaded term, "trickle down" to everyday Americans. Instead, it seems there isn't much trickling.

So, why print money? Because it's a wealth tax. It's also the easiest tax to implement: you don't have to collect anything! No IRS. A huge amount of the US government would be gone: no more means testing government expenditures (benefits), no more tax collecting for revenue.
Univalent foundations subsume classical mathematics
I imagine a lot of people will take away from this article the idea that problems are important, and that exercises are not, that exercises can be discarded. That's an easy lesson to take away because, if you're like me, you like problems and hate exercises.

Unfortunately it's not true, though. Without exercises, most of us would not know as much vocabulary as we do. We would probably not know how to add, subtract, or multiply efficiently. We would not know how to write.

Exercise work isn't fun, but it serves a real purpose - it makes knowledge readily accessible. By rehearsing the act of recalling the technique, it makes that technique ready to use. It might be an interesting problem figuring out how to field strip a weapon, but a competent soldier needs to exercise that capability until it's second nature.
While that's true and required to successfully decrypt most algorithms, it is also true that there are more types of tampering one can do than changing the output ciphertext. Usually involving storing the key or leaking data somehow.
I'm not sure about that. 40% of hojillion dollars is more than 25% of hojillion dollars, but 25% of hojillion dollars is still plenty to hire a smart accountant.
Not sure I agree with fat models being a "rarely seen, alternative code organization strategy".

It's a natural state which most django codebases tend towards. There's a natural Views use ModelForms use Models data flow which leads to bloat somewhere in that chain as you add code. Fat models are easiest to test and the natural place to put most things, but eventually massive models get unwieldly and you start putting things into helpers. The core thing the author seems to have conflate util functions that have access to a request and helpers that have no connection to the request/response cycle.
Google Patents Uber Killer
Actually, I don't have a problem with top tax rates that high on say income over 10 million a year. People don't make 50 million a year living in a hut in the middle of nowhere. It's not as obvious as welfare, but without things like IP law and roads you just don't get that kind of concentrated wealth accumulation outside of warlords which are really just another form of government. People argue that it's bad for the economy, but the US has actually had significantly slower economic growth when the top tax rate was below 70% (1982 to now) than when it's above 70% (1936-1981).

http://www.multpl.com/us-gdp-growth-rate/table/by-year

http://www.ntu.org/tax-basics/history-of-federal-individual-...
I think the Steam Box has a lot more potential than this android gaming system; there are a lot of Steam games that play just fine on a controller and there's a lot more crossover for developers compared to building an Android game and having to make an interface for touch use and close range and an interface for controller use at TV range.
Indeed. The best existing atomic clocks need to be recalibrated if they are raised a few centimeters, owing to gravitational time dilation.
I don't know anything about chips. But I know ARM architecture was around for decades. Why it's hot again? I get the point for using it in smartphones and tablets, but why should servers use ARM?
Overwrite entire disk with random data. Create new filesystem. Place encrypted volume in unallocated space. "The disk was just securely wiped prior to the current OS install"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAIRU
Ditto, commenting to save page and come back at a later time.
Here is a link to someone who did a "Top 5":

http://remotenation.co/blog/top-5-sites-for-finding-a-remote...

Depending on your skills, you should also be looking at skill-relevant sites (ruby has plenty).

You could also try the freelance websites to find remote gigs, but it's not #exactly# the same having a remote job for a single company when compared to doing freelance work for many companies.

I found this forum:

http://www.workingnomad.com

It would be interesting to have some type of remote worker community beyond just a forum, to maybe learn from others experiences and other remote-related things.
Superior performance per watt.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?rd=1&word=a+...
Even the most plausible deniability fails when the information-holder is sufficiently incentivized to tell the truth, whether that is by threats of punishment, torture, etc.
One way to make basic income work politically is make it conditional upon providing something other than the actual market value of said something, at least initially.

For example, the Earned Income Tax Credit in the U.S. already effectively creates negative taxes for certain people, but only if they have "earned" income. While this isn't as efficient as a pure negative income tax or basic income, it's a good start.

You could also try paying people a basic income for community service, voting, registering for the draft, etc.
But 25% of hojillion dollars is significantly less than 40% of hojillion dollars. That's the point.
Build several identical clocks and watch the ensemble drift relative to each other.

The lattice clock in this story has numerous clusters of atoms. They could fill only a few clusters and measure the performance relative to a good clock, then statistically derive how much it would improve by using the full set of clusters.
The other articles on this site are pretty interesting, too. Especially the one about "Courage and Stupidity."
I can just image someone getting tortured for access to a hidden volume that they can't prove to not to exist.
Those are bad investors. For anyone raising money and reading this: if an investor asks for a personal bond, do not take money from that investor. That is either an investor behaving badly, or an investor who doesn't understand the risk of startups and should not be investing in them.
I ran my first startup as a "We don't pay ourselves" kind of thing. Actually mostly me, the other founder was side-jobbing as a freelancer.

I'm not sure how big a factor it was, but being dirt poor did not help that startup. And it just hurt all that much more when it all came tumbling down.