skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the rich, taxes are all disposable income. For the 99%, taxes are cutting into their living wage. The rich might not be able to afford a 3rd house; the rest of us struggle to pay a mortgate/rent on the 1st one.

So for Almost everybody, disposable income rises.
I'm curious: has there been any study done on how much money is spent on the bureaucracy surrounding the myriad social programs?
Have been consistently impressed with the way these guys have iterated on the developer experience as well. The first version of the SDK was completely usable although admittedly limited in what you could do with it.

We worked with them for a while before the official release of the V2 SDK to put together the first automatic swimming lap tracker for Pebble [1] and they were incredibly responsive and helpful when we ran into issues with it. They'd clearly put a lot of thought based on the V1 feedback into how to make it a better platform for developers to work with.

I think it's underestimated just how much work from such a small team must have gone into getting a the developer experience as good as it is, only a year after launch.

[1]http://www.helloswimio.com/
Understood :) As a fun note, i just remembered that the emergency FADEC power on the turbine engines is provided by a tiny hydro generator powered by the fuel flow itself, so it can run in case of total electrical failure. The throttle position sensors are energized by the same emergency circuit so they continue to work too :)
Adjusted for inflation it can go down. And some states have reduced welfare (welfare mothers don't vote).
Can you be fired from your basic job? What happens then?
Neovim’s fundraiser ends tonight
Or you could raise taxes on the wealthy...
I think the main difficulty in migration from windows XP to linux is leaving word, excel, outlook, ie and powerpoint. If users have already migrated to open alternatives (libre office, ...), the OS switch is almost transparent.
How do you decide the "50M who actually 'need' it" with vastly less overhead? There is a cost to run the IRS and determine (correctly) peoples income.

Furthermore, a 4k tax on 250M of the U.S. could be crippling to a good chunk of them. If your true point is redistribution of wealth, our tax system already does that and can do it more. But that's a different discussion..
One person still in the running... the rest of the people with 31/32 all had the same wrong pick. Brutal.
Because some people don't use it correctly doesn't mean it can't be done. Here is a different random article about ServerDensity using it successfully

https://blog.serverdensity.com/tech-behind-time-series-graph...

This is nothing wrong with MongoDB.
As a US state, Alaska can't halt immigration to the state (at least not from US citizens.) If Alaska was it's own country, I would bet they would have pretty severe restrictions on immigration.
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I would just like to add that in some cases linux can be better than windows at emulating old dos applications. I believe some large companies write application code based in the console because they stream the applications from some central server and not having a GUI puts less stress on the network, this is especially true for older companies. I worked at a call center for a while and we used multiple ancient dos applications running on windows xp to fill orders. The only other thing the desktops were used for was logging into your personal account and approving hours and looking at your schedule, which was done through some web app.
Oh my, maybe we can get of all the 2048 links with this site... Fwiw, the site performs very badly on my fairly recent small notebook, all those previews are just too much.
People who have employer payed medical have no idea how expensive their plans actually are

People in general have no idea how much their employers pay for any of the mandates - this is by design. If people were forced to pay all (the exact same) expenses from their own paychecks then the idea that they were getting a good deal would fade away.
PyDev 3.4.1: improved interactive console, multiprocess debugging
But the reality is that we don't NEED everybody to work, or soon won't. The comforts of life will become a civil right. What then? Old Puritan work ethic becomes obsolete. Any thoughts on 'right behavior' in a post-work economy?
I've been following OpenFL/NME for about a year, I was surprised when reading http://www.openfl.org/blog/2014/03/18/flash-and-html5/ that pixi.js is based off the Flash API.
Yes, I agree, however MongoDB is evolving

This is probably what raised awareness of the issues of MongoDB http://www.slideshare.net/emiltamas/scaling-with-mongo-db-wi... and it's from 2011

It's a lot of time for a software project
i remember all wireless devices were made wired, all keyboards where non-mechanical, very simple/traditional layout (no multimedia keys, etc) and no usb interface. i'm sure there was more to it, but that is all i saw/remember.
From 2008.
It's very easy to underprice your product
incomethax already mentioned that this is essentially supplemental insurance.

Basic Income is needed because while productivity increases the ownership of these productivity increases are centralizing in the hands of a few. Through system-effects these centralization are leading to further rent seeking than could have happened before.

To give an example. It is game theoretically highly likely that there can only be one centralized social network such as Facebook, simply because the cost of centralization is lower than that OF decentralization (think diaspora). However, the cost of switching to another service doesn't make sense to a single user, hence rent seeking becomes possible. Telcos are another good example. To change this paradime the cost of decentralization has to be significantly lower than the cost of centralization, even to each individual user.

So the real problem isn't that all people are not paying into such an insurance contract, rather that the rent seekers are able to seek out rent at increasing scale while contributing ever less to society. Any BI fund would logically need to be funded by taxing the rent seekers rather than normal people who's productivity gains normally don;t lead to rent seeking due to more liquid markets for employees.

Taxing land, monopolies, money (through demurrage rather than inflation) and adding all of those funds to BI would make a lot more sense. Think Norway Sovereign Fund or the Alaska Fund.
Sure. That other thing is self improvement, looking for normal employment and helping their family / community or whatever else they think is important. In other words it is a basic income for the unemployed...
Mongo achieved success because of marketing overselling its capabilities. Now they are dying by the same sword, and rightly so IMO because databases are not something where marketability, ease-of-use and fashion should trump solid engineering.
184 karma user here, who often posts late to discussions but until now still felt like part of the community. Guess I'm not going to be able to post anymore. :-( If this policy goes forward, I hope PG and the rest of the wealthy elitist clique on here enjoy their circlejerk.
Does Facebook store plain-text passwords?
Is learning MongoDB worth it?
What are the benefits of using MongoDB (noSQL) over a more traditional MYSQL, or PostgreSQL?

I'm thinking about investing some time in learning MongoDB but before doing so, I would like to hear more about why it's better (if it is) than the former.

Cheers!
What I appreciated here was the attention payed to the performance aspects of the proposed changes, in addition to the aesthetics. I think designers and other related professionals often get a bad rap for ignoring these issues, but I've worked with quite a fee that are supremely mindful.

I know many aren't fans of the content (or sometimes the cover images), but I do think that medium looks beautiful and is very readable.
An end to animal testing for drug discovery?
Replying to all the helpful posters here.

Thanks, that's very information. I checked out the link and it is very cool how blake2 can be tuned for different roles. I hadn't though of how newer filesystems are doing deduplication, my head is stuck in the ext4 era.

I still think performance matters. Even at 800 megabytes a second you are talking about committing two entire cores to checksums on 10-gig E if you need to move data around. An entire core if you are talking about sequentially scanning an SSD. I suppose this will stop mattering as we get more cores.

If a filesystem is using CRC32 for something, it doesn't need the properties of a cryptographic hash or they are doing it wrong. I can see how you can argue against CRC for reliability.

I am not sure whether you actually risk a corrupt block every 1 in 2^32 blocks. Most blocks won't be corrupt so the CRC only has to detect a much smaller number of errors. Assuming every block had an error needing detection you will miss an error every 16 terabytes (assuming other things as well). Assuming 1% of blocks are corrupt you would miss an error every 1.6 petabytes? Maybe I am thinking about this wrong, and I recall other factors like block size effecting CRC's reliability.
I would personally feel that that wouldn't help as much, as many of the new accounts are just people wishing to express their (perhaps unpopular) opinion without putting their main account and thus themselves in negative light.
Easy to dismiss genius as 'obvious', don't err too far on that side! Newton was certainly the greatest Scientist in a couple of centuries, instrumental in advancing three areas of Science. Not single-handedly certainly but nothing we ever do works that way.

Hooke, btw, was an enemy of Newton. Hooke would publish books of drivel about 'what if' physics worked by a certain equation; Newton derived why physics Must work a certain way. 'Hookes Law' of springs should be another of Newton's laws, but Hooke had actually written down that spring law with no proof and no motivation, but nevertheless published first. Newton argued (correctly) why springs worked that way. So a basic rule of physics has the name of someone who did no physics.

Or so the story goes.
The title "Guide to MongoDB for Startups" is hand-wavy, and is more like a high level overview of MongoDB architecture. If you are looking for a "Guide to MongoDB for Startups", it would probably be part of a much larger series of technology choices for startups. Since I found the other lacking, I'll give you my perception of a Guide to MongoDB for Startups:

* Do you have a customer yet? If not, technology choices do not matter, go build your product as fast as possible and get a customer.

* Is your system starting to have slow performance during max usage? If so, every system will have a few easy optimizations, find those using something like NewRelic. Aside from those, technology choices do not matter, throw money at any scaling problem (at this point, it typically isn't that much money). This will optimize your time for sales and marketing to get more customers.

* Is your system starting to buckle under the weight of customers? If so, go hire someone who can scale everything you learned from your customers, and not someone who bends to the latest trends on HN.

Here is an article on my philosophy and experience with scaling businesses and architectures: http://blog.mongohq.com/changing-the-growth-formula/
I started Udacity courses, highly recommended, you don't have to pay as well if you don't want to. There are othe MOOC's as well..
I'd like to state this controversial position, in the hope that is read with the open-mindness of the "what you don't say" thread:

I believe that many of the problems of our society are due to people afraid of dying: Accumulating money in the delusion of fighting death. The universal fight for happiness is impersonated in one extra year of struggle, often by sacrificing the life of others. Seems to me that despite 2000+ years of history, a concept such as the acceptance our own frailty, and the consequent joy of every extra day, is too hard to be learned.
Do you think it is MongoDB problem or all NoSQL dbs has the some problem?
So I recently picked up "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" by Randal Bryant and David O'Hallaron. It's pretty good and seems very thorough. Also- I've seen it recommended online. http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/

Also- Try searching or asking this on quora. Users on there are pretty good with these type of questions! ok bye.
I'm curious as to what people think the future of Pebble is. Would I be a fool for buying a Pebble today with the Moto 360 right around the corner? This isn't rhetoric btw, I'm genuinely curious.
They planned to make it 128 bits, instead of the default 256 like for SHA256. Isn't that 64 bits of security?
Maybe this thread help you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7448721
It would be easier and more foolproof to just make the entire coin from a substance that can't be easily created. For example it's really hard to transmute one chemical element from another, and many are rare, so why not pick one to use for coins?
I'd recommend filling out a dreamline (Google it) to figure out SPECIFIC goals you want to achieve over the next year or so. Then list the specific steps you need to take to achieve those goals.

Start on step one today.
Why not link to the actual site, instead of the reddit comment? http://bithost.io
The 5 Things I’d Tell My 21 Year Old Entrepreneurial Self
Except that publishing an article has way way more influence than someone acknowledging the work you did. Because it shows you are getting new shit done.
Now smartphones will need protection against listening to keystrokes from the environment around them.
Example of Model-Based Testing using finite state machines
I don't know that it's fair to say there's nothing wrong with it. We use it heavily, and generally enjoy it, but there are quite a few things wrong with it (write locks and ridiculous disk space usage come to mind up front). None of them are dealbreakers for us and can be worked around, but we also use it with the knowledge that it's a young product.
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> The only material things worth a damn are (a) 80/20 good health practices like regular moderate exercise and calorie restriction

There is a study showing that caloric restriction increases life span in monkeys [1], but apparently there were issues with that study. According to a NYT article [2]:

>Its authors had disregarded about half of the deaths among the monkeys they studied, saying they were not related to aging. If they had included all of the deaths, there was no extension of life span in the Wisconsin study.

Another study on caloric restriction in monkeys showed no increase in average lifespans [3]. Also the NYT article mentions that other studies on rats have also shown no increase in lifespan using caloric restriction. So there's not really a great consensus out on the effectiveness of this yet.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/325/5937/201.short

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/science/low-calorie-diet-d...

[3] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7415/full/nature1...
I'm using an iPhone 5.

I don't really have a problem with charging, it's just that it doesn't offer any advantages over a normal digital watch right now and it still has to be charged every few days.

I've tried a lot of things to get it to behave and at this point I'm pretty sure my Pebble is broken. I would seek an RMA but Pebble support is like a brick wall.
Bus companies in the UK have big coin counting machines. The total cash at the end of the route is tallied off at the end of a route against the charge sheet from the ticket machine which is printed out. Rejected currency is seen as an operating cost and is handed back in crates to be disposed of. It's also why you see lots of bus companies giving huge discounts on pre-paid cards etc.

The annoying bit for is that if they accept a high percentage of bad currency this is tracked and the drivers get disciplined so they tend to try and give it back as change before the end of the route (which is why you'll sometimes see them fumbling around in a pocket for change rather than the coin dispenser fitted to the bus).

Therefore always check the change from a bus driver meticulously!

Also if you know a bus driver as a friend, watch your change too as the total amount handed back to the mint for disposal is usually less than the amount collected. Some of it gets stolen usually and pocketed by staff as it's still pretty easy to use in pubs etc.

Source: I used to write route management and payroll software for bus companies that tracked this sort of thing.
Every DBMS comes with its own set of special problems. Most people only find out about the truly tricky ones once they have deployed a database in production (i.e. when it is too late to decide your needs are actually not served all that well by what you chose).

Once a DBMS like MongoDB gets popular, then people uncover some of its failings and write about them...which is great because it means you don't have to discover the same things the hard way. But it's a drag too because there's no database system that everyone agrees is adequate (much less ideal) for every application.
I am curious to know more about BOSS. The http://bosslinux.in/ is not opening (not responding to http request). Does anybody know any alternate link?
There's a lot of irrelevant stuff on the first page of a Google search for dreamline. Here's a solid link:
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/lifestyle-costing/

Thanks for posting about this; I've read Ferris but hadn't heard about this one.
Living longer is a problem, not a solution

Cars are a problem, not a solution

Religions are a problem, not a solution

Democracy is broken. Weighted democracy may work slightly better: (you take a test on the voting matter and the weight of your vote is proportional to the score)

this feels good...
I spend about $10k a year on SaaS, depending on how you define it. In 2013 I had 175 charges in my accounting software for it.

Prominent expenses and the approximate monthly rates include: Wistia ($100), WPEngine ($250), Sendgrid ($100), 37signals ($100), KissMetrics ($150), and then a large grabbag of sub-$20 SaaSes such as Blinksale, Airbreak, Scout, Dropbox, Google Apps, etc etc.

The smallest SaaS expense: Tarsnap, at $0.60 per month [+]. (Colin, get on the gravy train, you're welcome it it.)

SaaS is a very small portion of my businesses' total expenses. I spend more on hosting and telecomm (largely due to the line of business which is, well, an international telecomm). People are also much more expensive then software, even to the limited extent at which I hire people.

[+] It turns out that a) this had creeped up to $3 per month and b) my account was within literally days of running out of funds, which I only found out because I just happened to check now. grumble grumble picodollars grumble grumble Would happily pay $100 a month to not feel what I'm feeling right now. grumble grumble
My work primarily based around 3D reconstruction of human faces from photos. It's a machine learning problem, and we have quite good results at www.3D-Avatar-Store.com. I have personally performed thousands of 3D reconstructions of people, and have developed a pretty good intuitive sense about a person from their facial photo.

Of particular interest has been reconstructing twins and near age siblings at different points in their lives. From my experience, the strongest drivers of facial appearance I've found are, in order:

1) genetics & ethnic background
2) attitude (not life style, but life perspective)
3) life style

In #1, I see very little variation between children of similar ethnic backgrounds. And when I say "little variation", I mean in the formal sense, from the facial recognition coefficients. Children are interesting in their facial photos often clearly indicate how they will progress through #2.

I'm yet to read formal observations of my #2; It is very clear to me when creating reconstructions of real people, it is their "attitude" they wear on their face day after day that by the time an individual reaches adulthood that "look" is impressed on their face. And this "look" tends to increase over time and age, unless a major attitude adjustment takes place.

I see #3 as a strong influence to facial appearance, but it is driven by #2, so I consider attitude to be the #1 driver of facial appearance which an individual can have control over (short of surgery).
Yes, I did an experiment tracking which coins I had were fake. I found 10 out of 200.
Microsoft to give XP users $100 off of select Windows 8 PC’s
Book review: Grokking Magento – Basics and Request Flow
I don't know if this has been discussed, but why doesn't hacker news support folding comment threads? You (Paul Graham) have written about your observation that the quality of comments are inversely proportional with the depth of replies.

If this is true, why not just let users fold threads? Or provide a way to jump through threads at a particular comment level? I find it frustrating that if the highest voted comment on a post has many replies, it is difficult for me to navigate and bypass that thread to find out what other lines of thought might be on a topic.
helpful, thanks!
Good parts of Brazil military.

I don't remember all details now, but the Air Force I am sure their official policy is that all their desktop machines run Ubuntu and all their server machines run Debian.

The Army and Navy don't have a broad policy like this, but also has lots of FOSS-related use and work.

Also Brazil government has several state companies that develop FOSS software, but several places still unfortunately rely too much on Microsoft (usually in the judiciary and executive branches)
Get a good kitchen set and starting making your own meals. Spend two weeks where you make every meal you eat, so you break the habit of eating out.

Also continue to surround yourself with fantastic people, it will keep you from getting depressed. Exercise (jogging, especially) is a very economical and beneficial pastime. Start that as soon as possible.
How do you decide the "50M who actually 'need' it" with vastly less overhead?

We already do this with income tax forms.

Furthermore, a 4k tax on 250M of the U.S. could be crippling to a good chunk of them. If your true point is redistribution of wealth, our tax system already does that and can do it more. But that's a different discussion..

That's what this is. It's very similar to Milton Friedman's negative income tax bracket.
Do that stupid thing: a todo list. Write what you want on it, set priority, set a lifetime for the todo list (like say it's for three month), setup deadline for some achievements like (30 hours of by june), update your todo list.

You'll keep track about what you have done so far and it will remove that feeling that you will meet at some point that you haven't achieved anything.

The key is to review your todo list regularly : to know what to do, to remind you of your objective, to write down that you have actually done something and also, very important, to update it by removing what doesn't interest you anymore and adding new stuff.

I have a three months todo list, with all the big things in my life, I have milestones or targets for all these. I find it pretty efficient.
Dunno in India, but in Brazil they do :)
The target number is 2^50, and the grid is 64x64, so I think this should be fairly easy to beat if you ignore the fact that it'll take about ten million years at one move per second.