skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been on both sides of this. I spent a few years doing IT support and I know how much of a difference a good IT team can make.

On the other hand, I've also seen how much damage a bad IT department can do. In a previous job, I was writing device drivers, but IT only allowed general user access. If I needed software installed (e.g. compiler, text editor), I could submit a support ticket and they'd get back to me in 48 hours. That's 48 hours per program. Once I'd written a driver, I could send another support ticket to have the driver installed. After 48 hours, I could then test it. Just as a pointless side not, but I heard that, as of last year, the IT department was still maintaining the requirement that everyone use Firefox 3.0 for their browser.

A good IT team is invaluable, but a bad IT department can be worse than having no IT department. When you have 50 people doing 50 different things, probably half of them are wasting their time. However, when you have 3 IT people headed down the wrong path, then EVERYONE is wasting their time.
A basic income is a great idea...it would also be a good idea to completely remove the profit motive from health care. A social safety net that includes a living wage, guaranteed higher education, and retirement is completely possible if you don't spend so much on defense and intelligence.
I don't think languages like Go and Scala deserve the author's scorn, simply because they're not supposed to solve the author's problem. But in the context of a no-holds barred rant, maybe that's forgivable (and who doesn't love a good rant now and then?).

What it sounds like is that the author wants a superior replacement to Bash. Having recently written hundreds of lines of Bash script, I feel the author's pain there. I've used Python for other things, and it made some things better and some worse. In particular, Python could make calling external programs and parsing their output easier, but I don't think that was ever a design goal for the language.

I think the language that comes closest to addressing the author's vision might be Powershell, but it's stuck in the Windows ghetto and doesn't seem to have had any influence on other languages and certainly not on any Unix/Linux-friendly languages. That's probably too bad.

And as a final note, I'd love it if there were a standard option to get JSON output out of your typical Unix command-line tool. This might be of limited utility in Bash, but when calling tools from Python, for example, it would make many things a lot easier.
Does anyone think we are heading towards an economic collapse?
In my experience, it's already less than 5 minutes for Lyft in SF.
The classic one would be C = A + B where A and B change continuously over time, causing C to change continuously to match the current values of A and B. Change propagation then becomes a core part of push-based FRP (pull based with just resemble), whereas in Rx you have to manage the change streams for A and B manually.
With cell phones it is different than the other applications. The easiest thing to do is create a fake tower that the phones connect to happily, but that has no connection to the outside world.

Otherwise I think you just broadcast noise on the frequency your device is trying to use.
It might be a good idea to clarify HN's submission policies toward duplicate submissions, especially if new Show HN functionality is being implemented. (e.g. I've seen a rise in submissions recently which bootstrap the "Show HN" prefix for visibility when it definitely isn't warranted.)
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> Public transportation is typically worse than using a private car. You can't decide when to leave, you pretty much need to plan your trips around public transportation. They don't take you directly from A to B etc. Public transportation becomes effective only when population density becomes high enough.

When PT is done right, it's much more predictable than private cars. Being able to leave when you want does you no good when you're dealing with unpredictable traffic.
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"Entitlement" is a dog whistle that is used in place of "welfare".

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Entitlement_program
Population density is key to mass transit otherwise you have to spend a lot more money to provide frequent and convenient service. You can't get around the need for high enough ridership to make a transit system financially viable. Sparse population density = higher per rider cost = more difficult to offer frequent service without losing a lot of money.

In North America part of the reason we don't have as much mass transit as other parts of the world is because we like our urban sprawl and that makes it difficult to make the economics work out.
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The actual quote was

> In addition to thinking about new sorts of jobs to replace lost jobs that aren’t coming back, we should probably think about things like a basic income.

So not necessary "basic income", and certainly for everyone. The reality is that many of the emerging economies are better (as in "cheaper") able to fulfill low-skill/high-labor positions, and not everyone will be able to transition into higher skill jobs.
You can't remove the profit motive from health care.
I realize that it's biased but it also explains the point very well. It's a dog whistle.
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I know this is a very personal decision but I would like to ask to the HN community for their thoughts. After all, more input, better decisions =)

I have been given the opportunity to follow the security path in a well known bank (somewhat a security project manager). This was a no-brainer for me like two weeks ago but... In my current enterprise, out of the blue, a week ago (without anyone knowing I was planning on leaving) I have been given the opportunity to change to the new "Innovation" team, in which we will need to go to congresses, stay up to date and provide the enterprise with input on where to move it. My current enterprise is also a well known enterprise in Europe but in the betting and gambling industry.

The bank offers me a better salary (around 20% more) and a well known path inside security management. On the other hand I know nothing about innovation but I believe I could be good at it, but I don't know nothing about a path in "innovation" and the job market in innovation.

What are your two pennies?
What do you think about this innovation career?
keyword: "unplanned" - how many that did get pregnant did it with their fingers crossed?
So what is the reasonable response to the future we have at hand. Most answers are the sky's the limit(stock will just keep going up) or zombie apocalypse.

I would prefer more of a negative income tax.
Arguing about terminology is a great way to avoid arguing about tough fiscal realities.
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On an unrelated note: May I suggest getting a second travel CPAP even if you're not going to nap at the office?

You can use it for travel and vacations, but the best reason to have one is as a backup. Trust me when I say that you don't want to wait a month for a replacement when your existing CPAP fails (and it WILL fail).

Also, it's worth noting that many travel CPAPs have 12-volt car lighter adapters so you can run it off of your car's battery. So maybe you could use it to nap in your car?
I've been tinkering with a variant of the same thing at Cloudstitch.io and will be presenting a paper about spreadsheet-backed web apps in UIST 2014 [1] (an HCI research conference).

Happy to give anyone an account if you'd like to beta test.

Also, Brace.io folks -- great stuff. we should chat :)

[1] http://www.acm.org/uist/uist2014/
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... like $[ in Perl?
NASA Budget (2013-14) ~ 17.8 Billion USD

ISRO Budget (2013-14) ~ 1.1 Billion USD
I guess we would have to do something that requires effort like actually examine why people need to drive at all. The real problem is probably workers being denied the opportunity to live close to their places of employment due to predatory pricing and poor services downtown. But then we couldn't put the blame the average working stiff or use it as an excuse to decrease public works spending.
> Drivers already pay for the cost in lost time. It's a 'natural' market.

Yes, but it's a negative sum market. The lost time the drivers are paying is lost, it is destroyed, hours that could have been spent in productive work, or in enjoyable leisure are being wasted. Setting up the market to work in dollars rather than hours avoids this. The dollars are transferred but no resource is squandered.
US GDP growth in real dollars is low (and trending down). It was 2.9% for Q1 2014 after the second official revision [1]. If it’s down again for Q2, we’ll be in a recession.

Just a nit, but to be clear...

1Q 2014 GDP #s (revised) growth rate was negative 2.9% (-2.9%).

The second sentence in the quote also implies as much, so I think the quoted text has an oversight/typo.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101787838
oops, i accidentally published an earlier draft. i added a bit more of my thinking here--my sense is that it would probably lead to less waste than current systems.

i'm also not sure it's the right approach, but i haven't heard any better ideas yet.
That's in addition to leading people to move further out -- which also intensifies the traffic at the re-entry points to the thinner roads at the center, which are march harder to increase in capacity.
I'm no economist but at some point aren't we going to become so productive that there won't be enough need for workers. Are we maybe at that point now? If every single person wanted to work there would not be enough jobs to support that. So what happens in the future? Some people have jobs and are rich while the rest are in poverty and can't eat? I don't think society could function with that many people not having an income. If it came down to it and I had to kill you for my family to survive then I'd hate to tell you which one I would choose.
Haha - Actually, we've thought about it multiple times. With the right teacher, it wouldn't be that hard!
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I'm not clear on how any of this will lead to a recession. Why will high Debt-to-GDP or government spending send the economy into a recession?

Q1 GDP numbers were clearly affected by dismal weather (although still bad), but labor markets are improving markedly, and there are reasons for optimism. I don't see this as a very convincing bear case.

For the bull case, see this post, from a guy who's been right about everything since the mid-2000s.

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/06/the-future-is-stil...
You are misrepresenting physicists. There have been many many different attempts to talk about quantum theory on an ontological level. Case in point, the widely debated interpretations: copenhagen, many worlds, bohemian etc.

However, one reason that physicists don't spend too much time thinking about what quantum theory really means (besides laziness and bad science) is because we know that quantum theory is not the ultimate theory of reality. Why try to force ontology on a theory that can not even answer all empirical questions without ad hoc additions (standard model of particle physics) or force mating with another theory (general relativity)? We are all waiting for a better theory of physics. Of course rewriting the quantum theory in different forms, like this attempt, might help in getting there.
Corporate savings are high across a broad basket of companies like the S&P500 because the earnings of multinationals are parked in Luxembourg, avoiding US taxes. We've all read about the Double Dutch and other IP licensing schemes that avoid taxes for Google, Apple and others. I personally feel these funds are waiting for a US corporate income tax holiday, perhaps under the guise of creating new jobs and investment domestically. The stock price of companies like Apple has their cash balance as "money good", meaning the market doesn't believe they'll pay tax on the $150 billion parked overseas.

Sam's zero interest rate point is the most salient to the startup world. It forces accredited investors to chase asset classes like technology startups for yield. You also see it in the midwest in oil, gas and other natural resource drilling/mining. These are long term 10 year investments for these investors to park their cash.
The article contains some good observations, but I'm struggling to understand this one:

"Some sites try to communicate with Google through comments in robots.txt"

In the examples given, none appear to be trying to "communicate with Google through comments" - how is including...

# What's all this then?
# \
#
# -----
# | . . |
# -----
# \--|-|--/
# | |
# |-------|

...a "mistake" to avoid? There's no harm in it at all.
> The problem with integration tests as discussed in the talk it they take a long time to run and give imprecise results.

I think you left out the main complaint: It's impossible to cover a majority of code paths.
Actually driverless cars have the potential to add a vast number of cars to the roads. Today, there's a limit of one car per driver. In the future, one car per same-day package delivery.
Seeing as how "natural economic growth" is not infinitely sustainable (I'm operating under the assumptions that there are finite quantities of natural resources and human ingenuity is not infinite and infallible). It's probabilistically inevitable.
You're thinking wrong. You're also proving the grandparent's point.

You're thinking in terms of "here's this set of bullet point features that I think a language has to have to be a proper, modern language." But the grandparent was asking you to consider that a different set of features might have value form some real-world problems that Go's authors had really bumped into. You reply, "Nope, couldn't have - it doesn't have my bullet point features!"

There are more things in programming than are dreamt of in your philosophy of what a programming language should be.
Yes. We're deliberately being slow about changing the site guidelines or the FAQ, though we will eventually. Moderation comments in the threads are sort of the laboratory for that.

When we release the Show HN feature (soon!) it will come with some guidelines about what is and isn't a Show HN.
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So more lanes don't reduce congestion, but this article ignores the fact that they obviously DO increase quality of life, by giving people the freedom to live and work where they choose. We should build more lanes for that reason alone. The reason congestion doesn't get better is simply that there is pent-up demand for driving. The solution isn't "tough luck, adjust your life to fit the traffic." It's to build more lanes, so people can choose to live the life they want to live.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I'll definitely look into it.
What do you mean? It's quite common.
This data is either hiding inputs or weighting the outputs inaccurately... I looked at an example of moving to Vancouver, BC from Seattle, WA.

Housing was listed as 5% favorable to Vancouver.

The sub-elements listed were as follows:

Vancouver Seattle Variance
Monthly rent for 85 m2 (900 Sqft)
furnished accommodation in EXPENSIVE area $2,301 $2,216 -4%
Utilities 1 month (heating, electricity,
gas ...) for 2 people in 85m2 flat $85 $139 39%
Internet 8MB (1 month) $39	$47 17%
40” flat screen TV $473 $537 12%
Microwave, known brand, 800/900 Watt $121 $116 -4%
Laundry detergent (3 l. ~ 100 oz.) $10 $8 -25%
Hourly rate for cleaning help $23 $35 34%

Putting aside the fact that assets like a 40" TV are considered in "Housing Cost of Living", the weighted average for these inputs should be 1.5% favorable to Vancouver.

Take out the TV, detergent, and maid, and you're now 1% favorable to Seattle, driven strongly by rent, obviously.

This is an interesting area of work, but I'd appreciate either full disclosure of inputs and weighting or a much more simplified presentation (e.g. stand-alone rental rates).
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I am all for charging more to heavier passengers. I appreciate that the first class cabin subsidizes my flight, and I hate the fact that my ticket is more expensive so that the big guy who is invading my personal space doesn't have to pay extra because I am paying an equal share.

People would plan and pack differently if they weren't shielded from the economics of flight this way.

I have been on a few non-commercial flights, and they always make me step on a scale before I get on the plane.
Yep. Solid PT runs on a demand schedule too: during hours heavily traveled a train might run every four minutes; during the dead of night it may not run at all or run infrequency, like every forty-five minutes.

And to the GP's point, they most definitely take you from point A to point B. Those two points may not be where you are and where you want to go, though with a solid network it'll usually be within ambulatory distance.

;)
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Interactive Brokers also offer a paper trading account that can be traded via their API just like a regular account, although you need to have an account with them.

There are some limitations on specific order type/venue combinations, but most things are supported.

https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=tws&p=pape...
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^^^ This information is incorrect.

1) "A lot of women have painful allergic reactions to the copper ones" -- No. Copper allergies are rare and occur in less than 1% of the population, according to the FDA. If you suspect you have a copper allergy or are sensitive, you can do a simple patch-test on your arm before considering a copper IUD to check for copper reaction.

2) [IUDs] "have a bad history of getting lodged in the wrong places and having to be surgically removed" -- Also wrong. The most common occurrence of perforation is during insertion, and even then perforations during insertion happen in less than 0.001% of cases. I would not consider this a "bad history" or common occurrence.

SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUD_with_copper & I have a hormonal IUD currently and have had copper before.

Your information about IUDs is over 50 years old, and is based on the copper "coil" IUD which hasn't been in use for decades. Current IUDs (both hormonal and copper) are extremely safe, effective, and perhaps the most error-proof and reliable form of birth control out there. The largest risk with an IUD is rejection, where your device falls out -- the solution is simple, it's just reinserted. The largest barrier to getting IUDs is the belief in the US that you need to have had children first, to have a cervix wide enough to tolerate insertion. This is also untrue. You can have an IUD at any time in your life, insertion is just much more painful if you haven't had children.

Additionally, you don't need to scan a woman's womb before having sex to confirm she has an IUD. You can usually feel the strings from the IUD (there for easy removal) at the top of the cervix, with your fingertips. And if you're a man worth half his salt, you'll have had the opportunity to... check that out before having sex with her ;)
I had a rather lengthy interview process for a one time contract doing some technical documentation. I explained what docs I would provide, how they would be organized and an example of the main docs being used. They ate it all up, and decided to use my stuff as templates using current staff after offering and then rescinding the job.

At the time I decided against pursuing any action against them because I wanted to look ahead to the next opportunity. In retrospect, I should have billed them for my work which they were using.
Yeah I agree, I guess what I meant to ask is if we are going to experience one in the near future (within 10 years)
You do, it's just that the term is pretty encompassing :)
How does it compare to Negroni + httprouter? I see Gin uses httprouter and I guess it is the main difference.

Anyway, Gin looks nice too. I like how the routing groups are done.

I used Negroni with httprouter and it is a bliss. Just a note, gin is also a codegangsta tool to live reload your Martini/Negroni app.
isn't there binaries burned onto the chip?
Please expand on that - I personally think for-profit health care is one of the most ill-conceived ways of doing business I have ever heard of. Saving people's lives but only in ways that are investor-friendly?
Yeah, I love Bash as a UI, and I love the ability to capture what I'm saying and trivially preserve it in a script (check out the edit-and-execute-command readline function, if you're not familiar with it - ctrl-x ctrl-e in emacs mode, v in vi mode). But once a script gets to be more than 10 lines it's time to think about rewriting it. By 100, you almost definitely want something else. Mind you, I say this as someone who's spent a year working on a >100kLOC bash project. There's stuff to love, but it's not a language to build systems in.

Recently, I've become somewhat enamoured of the Shelly library for Haskell, for my "bash that's grown too big".

"And as a final note, I'd love it if there were a standard option to get JSON output out of your typical Unix command-line tool. This might be of limited utility in Bash, but when calling tools from Python, for example, it would make many things a lot easier."

Tooling up Bash to deal happily (generating, processing, consuming) with JSON would be fantastic - it would help make all the world's JSON API's available first-class! It seems that jq is a great start here.
> make a transit system financially viable

I don't know about other parts of Europe, but where I'm from public transit is most definitely not financially viable. Even in the big cities, it produces millions of euro of losses each year. Those are covered by taxes.

The problem in North America isn't [just] the suburban sprawl, it's also that you want to make a profit off of everything. Sometimes some things just need to be a public service because it's better that way.
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Some technology will be too expensive to provide, or some procedure will require skills that are too rare. They will command high prices. And you can't find enough doctors, hospital administrators, drug researchers etc for a whole country without finding some greedy/rational ones who will do better work for more pay.
Have you ever heard of Rocksmith?
What surprising or remarkable about that? Basic income has been an extremely trendy topic lately.
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I'm sure it's true that avoiding sleep-deprivation is useful for "productivity", but, frankly, it saddens me that that this is the way it has to be pitched to get people to pay attention. Avoiding sleep-deprivation is also great for avoiding sleep-deprivation! You feel better and are healthier! Not all of life is (or should be) about productivity, the workplace, competitive advantage, etc.