skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
maybe, maybe not?

There are enough 1k+ karma posters that, at least unless the karma bar is either raised or a lot of malcontents are culled, consensus on controversial topics is likely to be impossible. At least I hope so.
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Thanks, I learned a lot from this!
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Good advice. I find a lot of games (Steam-wise) do work natively. If your Macbook is powerful enough, running a windows vm works well too - or you can bootcamp.

There's always the option to get a Thinkpad and run Linux. shrug

Though I have separate computers for work/gaming. It's a good divide.
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Actually, your math is entirely wrong.

Let's use the same numbers as you: 300M people, $20k each, only 50M people who actually "need" it.

In the BI scenario, 250M people are paying for the cost of program (since the 50M who actually "need" it presumably can't pay). That's $6B / 250m = $24,000 per person. However, each of those people is also receiving $20,000 worth of BI. Therefore, the cost to them is $24,000 - $20,000 = $4,000 per person. $4000 * 250M = $1B -- exactly the same as your conditional benefits program, except now there's vastly less overhead and no poverty trap.
The guidelines don't mention anything about "unharmonious". They only recommend to avoid endorsing posts without content like "this" style comments, and comments that are made in an aggressive non-collegial way.

If that's group think, then awesome. Let the group think begin.
1. It depends what platform you want to target with your MVP, and whether you have any coding experience. Generally, web technologies have a somewhat gentler learning curve than iOS/Android, and can still reach mobiles. If you're starting from scratch, learn HTML and CSS and make some simple static pages. Then once you're comfortable, learn a high level language (eg. Ruby or Python). Then learn a web framework for that language (Rails if you're focusing on Ruby, Django if Python). You'll probably want to pick up some Javascript too.

2. Macs are popular for iOS, Android and web development so they're a good choice.

3. It's possible but it will be a lot of work. I don't have any recommendations on beginner courses. Maybe check out reddit.com/r/learnprogramming

4. As you implement your MVP, try to break each problem you face into smaller, manageable chunks. It's much easier to solve several easy - medium difficulty problems than 1-2 hard ones.
What you 're referring to is closer to materials, rather than the results of research.
If anything many people are pushing harder in this direction. For instance, consider the push for mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients even though the places have tried it have discovered that:

1) Almost no one fails them
2) They cost more money than they save (in cancelled benefits)
> One of my professors came from Kazakhstan, and once casually remarked that a certain problem on a homework set was "impossible unless you were Russian", since the proof was easy if you knew a certain proposition from Euclid, but extremely tedious without it.

Do you remember what was the problem, by any chance?
> I can't raise the kid for 18 years on my fond memories of paternity leave.

How does that make it less of an incentive, though? It's better than no paternal leave.

In the end, though, people usually don't get children on a purely economically rational basis. Sweden also has daycare prices that scale with income, free and relatively high quality public and private schools, child benefits and free dental and healthcare for children.
My only experience learning a new language that use a completly different paradigm is Prolog. The syntax and builtins make it hard to write something else that what it is meant for.

Do you mean learning or mastering a language. It is kind of different. Looking for "ideomatic python" will help getting pythonic Python code done.

Not going against the spirit of the language helps.
I think this is a great idea. Very useful, thank you.
I came to here say this as well.
If Buffet only offered half the EV, it's likely you could sell your stake to another investor/insurance company/etc at something closer to the EV (maybe 90%+), so I think Buffet would have to offer close to that as well.

You could probably even find someone to sell a partial stake to which would get you set for life and still allow you to ride the bet to the end.
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OP here - thanks to everyone spreading this around. It's hardly viral, but getting good notice, which I appreciate.

Quick word on the point of this - I originally wrote it some time ago when I noticed a) a rise in the number of articles and discussions among "newbie" programmers about sophisticated hacking techniques and b) a rise in the number of forum (ie, Stackoverflow) questions that showed a lack of understanding of the very basics

So this article is aimed at people getting into programming and maybe haven't completely grokked just exactly what a web form IS - without which, you really have no hope of writing good code or protecting yourself

I consider this my "public service announcement", and I hope you'll share it with appropriate people so we can make our web a safer place.
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I don't understand - how does a Basic Job prevent you from either going to school or taking part time work? No one is obligated to work a Basic Job. It's just what you do if you are unable to find anything better.

Basic Job programmes have vast bureaucratic overhead and are far more expensive to implement than Basic Incomes.

Back of the envelope calculation, please.

Incidentally, your study merely shows there is very little evidence of anything due to workfare being poorly implemented and rapidly abandoned. For example, NYC had only 2800 people on workfare in 2003. Additionally, it claims that about half of people on workfare don't actually work and merely loaf about the work site (but presumably continue receiving benefits).

Obviously a BJ won't work if you turn it into a de-facto BI or welfare system.
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this a starting point: http://learnxinyminutes.com/

might help: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code

reading about the language or read code. Writing code...
What's wrong with the modern diet
Thanks, that was really interesting.
Static typing is an excellent new for PHP developers. However I wonder if Hack has an some kind of included framework in it or if it's compatible with cake PHP, symfony, laravel, etc.
Not only for disabled users, unless you consider users with RSI or related injuries disabled. The backspace to go back and the space key to scroll are extremely convenient to browse the web with an ergonomic Kinesis Advantage keyboard. They are the biggest keys on the left and right, directly accessible with your thumbs. Removing this behaviour in a browser would make browsing less usable - although it's possible to remap keys on the Kinesis Advantage.
Yup. I know plenty of 80 year olds into ultra marathon running in high country NZ (extremely tough to run) and yet, I'm pretty sure they're not going to "beat death". No matter how fit and healthy they are.

This article is definitely just silly.
I think everyone should go first debate what Milton Friedman proposed: the negative income tax.

The negative income tax has the virtue of at least restart the debate on how much taxes should companies pay. Why aren't taxes progressive ? Why are there still oil subsidies ? Why are many companies still able to dodge taxes ?

The basic income cannot happen if the government cannot pay for it. Maybe s very low basic income at something like $3000 or $5000 per year would be nice to experiment, but until then, politically with that congress, and considering the electorate and how hated the poor are, it's just impossible.
Can you elaborate on this? What's wrong with MongoDB?
I find it somewhat depressing that the first comments on any post about MongoDB generally seem to be short, disparaging and dismissive without offering much if any substance.

We use MongoDB in production, processing millions of new records every month and it works great. Our data has differing and evolving schemas and can be used as JavaScript objects or python dictionaries with little effort. It works and performs well for us and our use case.

I'd be delighted to find out what these nay-sayers are doing that MongoDB must fail so incredibly at for them to have such strong negative opinions.

I'm not speaking only to the existing comments on this post but the general theme of past MongoDB submissions.
The second president of the United States was an avid walker (3-4 miles a day) and he lived to be 89. John Adams was not a ripped guy.

http://www.presidenstory.com/stat_tal.php

Almost two centuries later and it doesn't seem like we've made much progress on aging.
So direct them to do that other thing for their Basic Job and use the machine for the bridge.
Looking at your graph, which tells us what we all already really know (we will probably die somewhere between 60 and 80) makes me profoundly uncomfortable.

I think of my grandfather, who is about 80 now. He seems pretty healthy, but I know he probably has a couple more years. I should make the best of every time I see him. Should try to see him more.
That is still a pretty small amount given the other amounts of money being discussed in the budget.
Perhaps I misinterpreted you. When you said

> It baffles me that every site on the web keeps using simple up/down systems and then complains about how hard it is to generate quality discussion when this is hardly a new problem set.

It sounded like you were saying "if those sites just used a better moderation system, it would be easy to generate quality discussion". But the moderation system you propose does not generate quality discussion on slashdot.

If that's not what you're saying, then I'm not sure what particular benefit you think slashdot's sytem does have. What does it mean for a system to be good at directing discussion, but not at generating high-quality discussion? Why is it useful to be able to revoke mod privileges, if that doesn't generate high-quality discussion?

Or are you saying something like, it would be easy to generate quality discussion with slashdot's system given certain other factors (where simple +/- does not make this easy), but slashdot lacks those factors?
If people are getting mad at going back a page by accident, then they are going back a page by accident. It's happened to me, and while I'm still not entirely sure why, I really don't care why. The "Self Destruct" button shouldn't be next to the "Make Phone Call" button.
This has been done in the German Democratic Republic. They had a "right to work" article in their constitution that was basically fully implemented. Almost everyone who could work except for older pupils and university students had a job. In fact, not working despite being able to do so was an offence punishable with up to two years in prison.

Arguably the only good thing that came of this was that equal pay for men and women was also assured by their constitution.
I wonder if those games that come from steam are really native or run in a wrapper, such as cider. Anyway like you said, you can use bootcamp and most games will run pretty okay! (But not as good as on a dedicated machine with a decent graphic card of course). I've had no luck yet with running any games trough a windows vm (I've tried both parallels and vmware).
But the economy doesn't want them, or is unable to utilize them under present conditions. Eating what you have in front of you is still more filling than waiting (or letting someone wait) for that next, bigger meal.

Of course, that also doesn't mean we shouldn't eliminate the incentives that contribute to inefficiencies being preferable. There are plenty of scenarios where people are employed to dig a proverbial hole and others are paid to fill it (patents and copyright enforcing intellectual poverty; interest on public debt, etc), even if each side spares no expense and might use the best tools available. If we were actually solving problems, prices would be going down and people would be happily unemployed (because there were less problems to resolve and less to need money to buy) at the same time as quality of life were going up. That is not what is happening.
If you do, be aware of gotchas: https://blog.rainforestqa.com/2012-11-05-mongodb-gotchas-and...
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- Why aren't you using mptt comments?

- A one liner query is just called a queryset.

- To get all the "upvotes" of an user it's better to start from the user.

- I don't think your code is ugly.
This has such potential for abuse and it's obvious it hasn't been very well thought-out. I hope that in order for an overseer to put the kibosh on a comment he or she will have to enter an explanation. Also, all comments that don't meet the group-think criteria should be viewable by everyone along with who censored it and why. I hate to see another website I love go down the drain.
> not enroll and use private plans instead

Whether you sign up for coverage through an employer, or on healthcare.gov, or ehealthinsurance.com, or an insurer's own website, it's the same companies providing health insurance today as 10 years ago. "The system" includes everyone with insurance no matter what channel they used to sign up for it. The ACA or the healthcare.gov marketplace aren't a separate system that needs its own enrollment numbers to work, AFAIK at least.
I don't know if you can or not, but there's research showing that calorie restriction can delay ageing in monkeys, and double lifespan in rodents.
I wonder how long until we get Coins with RFID in them to verify etc. Certainly make checking and counting coins in shops much faster. Though they would probably be made out of a plastic by then.
While this problem may be true of certain poor actors in some fields of science, I would argue that it's far more the exception than the rule.

My experience (in genomics / evolutionary genetics) was overwhelmingly positive, with huge amounts of collaboration all around. Scientists did try to publish at the highest-impact journal because they care about their career prospects, and there were often competitive labs racing to the finish line with a breakthrough publication.

But I never saw researchers withhold important details in order to accelerate their own publication or to hamper the efforts of others. By and large, I saw huge teams collaborating on large projects with a deep sense of purpose to move the field forward and improve understanding.

In fact research funding in genomics became so collaborative — with increasing portions of the research budget being put towards huge consortium-based projects — that smaller labs began criticizing funding agencies because their smaller projects weren't being funded. These projects are typically more competitive and higher risk, yielding potentially high-impact articles with a far smaller number of authors.

What's the answer in the end? As with many things, it's balance. Cooperation is great, but to a fault. Sometimes having small labs working in relative isolation, even competing against other small labs, can yield great innovation and progress. Other times you need a huge collaborative effort to do something big, expensive and important for the future of the field.
Not sure if I've been silenced, as my last three-comments have an asterisk next to them, and I'm unable to find them when browsing from another device.
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State of Kerala in India already uses Linux for almost everything. From basic functioning of government offices to computer education in the schools.
I'm surprised peadophilia and bestiality haven't come up. These are often victimless but you can say "I want to have sex with children".
Tangentially related: Are there any characters who are known to maintain an above average level of fitness, while hacking a startup? Fitocracy comes to mind, but if the industry were not related to fitness that would be more impressive. Fitness is one thing I would like to accompany me throughout building a startup in the future - asking too much?
I've only casually used MongoDB, but the articles about companies switching from it to other solutions (I've seen at least two about companies switching from Mongo to Riak) have kept me wary of it.

Personally, my 10k foot impression has been that MongoDB is really easy to get started with, has some cool features, and is fun to use... but then in production it has serious issues that are fundamentally unworkable. Until I see a series of: "Here is what was wrong with MongoDB and how we fixed it" articles floating around along with a number of endorsements - I'm probably going to keep that 10k foot view.

I could easily be criticized for not digging in to Mongo's problems myself to learn exactly what they are and whether or not they are still an issue, but life is too short and there are too many other things to do.
Not at all

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
That's certainly true in a number of cases, but I also think that distinction can sometimes be hard to make. And the mere sharing of results (in the form of papers) is basically the bread and butter of research anyway.
> And this is coming from a person who called the news "bullcrap".

Please read the definition of name calling.

> This is a very sensitive issue and people have good reason to believe every hiccup is intentional.

True, yet I still don't see any reason for me getting insulted.
Backspace in some browsers goes to the previous page because that used to be the standard.

Nowadays we enter a lot of data in a web page and having to explain to an end user that the browser works differently depending on where the cursor is might be confusing for them.

A decade ago most people just used the internet for consuming the page (browsing), sometimes entering a few lines of data. Having the back button go back in your navigation makes sense in that respect as you are "browsing", not creating.

Re: "it's totally destructive", actually it is not destructive, you can hit backspace in the middle of your edits, go to the previous page, then go to the forward arrow in your browser and voila.. the text you entered is still there!

Of course that isn't true on every website as quite often the site developer is trying to do "smart" things. It is however a standard html feature and I just did that here while typing my text and it works fine on hacker news.

Personally I like the back button in my browser to go back in my browsing history, as mentioned by others, this is configurable in firefox.
It's because mongodb just isn't as good at queries as a relational db, while also not offering the scalability benefits that other nosql databases do. Also the attitude that mongodb takes towards data - namely, convenience and performance first, data safety second - is very incompatible with most uses for a database.
Usual weight, magnetic and maybe inductance tests apply.

I also wonder about someone's ability to take slices of the surface of a coin and spread that out over other cheaper coins. I guess you have to randomize the test, or make sure it covers more than just a couple predictable spots on the coin.

Anti-piracy is hard.
Great! Sending you an invitation to register bikes on the Index through Chuck's Bikes too.
I wish I could say the same thing about my Pebble. It constantly disconnects from my phone and Pebble's support take 5+ days to respond with boilerplate.

Right now it's an overpriced plastic non-smart watch that I have to charge every four days.
Karma per post is not well correlated with the actual quality of your contributions. You can get hundreds of karma for posting superficial observations early on a post that become popular. Someone that has observed HN for long enough could probably get 1000 karma in a day from just trying to optimize for karma instead of quality.

If you really do want to reach some karma threshold I would suggest trying to get it from submissions instead. You can easily get hundreds of karma per submission if you submit the newest release of some popular software product or the latest Zed Shaw rant with very little invested. This also has the bonus that you are not actually lowering the quality of your commenting for more karma.
So, how does this help now? I have a jar of coins (like 1M other people). If a grocer finds a coin that doesn't 'glow' right, either its counterfeit, OR I spent one from my jar. So what?

Or we all turn them ALL in for new ones by some switch-over deadline. And keep finding now-worthless coins in couch cushions, old jackets, bank boxes etc for a decade and going "Oh, dang!" Not popular either.
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Oh, most people in NK never get a sniff of a computer. But it has some animation and IT-outsourcing businesses which are no doubt a nice little foreign-currency earner for the government:

http://www.koreaittimes.com/story/8242/north-korea-needs-set...

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1906219,00...

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/8/153816-inside-the-hermi... (A¢M paywalled)
> It works and performs well for us and our use case.

100% agree. I think it's become cool to knock MongoDB, just because it is MongoDB.

It isn't a silver bullet, and its use cases are more limited than RDBMs. But if you know what you're doing, it has some great applications.
> can run backward. On a treadmill. In the dark.

Why is this so significant. Does this affect your health in a goodway?
I guess this is a good introduction to some of the internals, However its very very high level. If I were to give one piece of advice it would be to plan out your primary key's according to your data access pattern. This is especially true if you know you will need to be sharding across multiple nodes.
You have to factor a multitude of other things in.

Such as capital gains, tax deductions, very low corporate taxes, the actual control etc.

The overhead is many times more than you seem to indicate when it comes to targeted programs.