skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There's absolutely no need to race-to-the-bottom on transportation. We should build more roads and build more public transit, simultaneously. When public transit becomes cheap and convenient, many people will willing choose it."

The problem with this is that roads take room, and have externalities (cutting up neighborhoods, noise, pollution). Some of these are being worked (as you note) but there are no full technical solutions to these problems. People won't stand for it.

For these reasons, your internet and water-use analogies are inaccurate parallels.

I'm surprised you're offering these arguments. I live in LA and the opposition to new freeways in already-built-up areas is pretty much ingrained at this point. (Conservatives hate the destruction of neighborhoods, and liberals hate the environmental consequences). Limited in-place widening is still being done (with complaints) but 50 years of experience have taught something of a lesson. People generally don't believe these wider roads will significantly lessen congestion.
For the intents and purposes for which UBI is offered -- e.g., eliminating the administrative overhead and inefficient central determinations of ideal behavior that come with means-testing and behavioral participation conditions that need to be monitored and enforced -- the dole and other means-tested, conditional welfare programs are not only "different" from UBI, but exactly what UBI is proposed as an alternative to.
There is a section in Surface Detail (I think), where Banks makes the point that the difference between a galactic civilization like the Culture an a hegemonizing swarm is just a degree of restraint. :) It kind of reminds me of Michael Eddington's comment about the Federation -- at it's core, there's not much separating it from the Borg. At least the Borg tell you they're assimilating you. Just look at what happened to the Ferengi Alliance by the end of DS9. They appointed a "liberal" Nagus who had never made any profit and allows his females to walk around clothed!

It is also hinted in the Culture novels that there is a very rigorous psychological test that goes into the creation of a new Mind. I wish he went in to the "birthing" process a bit more. It seems at least the more even-keeled Minds become Hubs or GSVs, and the more crazy ones become ROUs, but what about the Minds that are too psychotic to be entrusted to the safety of pan-humans? They can't make "perfect" Minds, because "Perfect AIs Always Sublime". Apparently you have to be slightly off-kilter to want to stick around this plane of existence, but not too off-kilter.
Nope, I'm brazilian and have worked with company taxes while launching a startup. You're talking mostly about natural persons import taxes based on Correios importation.

What you are not seeing is: we have a pretty complex tax structure based on the kind of product/service you are providing. Also, we have a pretty bureaucratic import process, have you ever tried to deal with Port Customs over here? You have a 7 step process, each one involving some tax or payment to be made to one or other agency.

It's very hard too when the rules are always changing, when I opened the juridical person for my startup I had to contact a lawyer and an accountant to get the best deal on taxes for the service that I was providing, some months later the rules had changed and I'd to pay around 8% more on taxes than if I went as another type of company.

So yes, it's pretty hard to do business over here, you need to have a competent lawyer and accountant just to get your company out of the ground, like, reaaally in the beginning.
I once wrote a Haskell library for Java Swing application automation. I thought of calling it HSwing, but to my surprise (and, eventually, horror) the domain was already taken.
Non-ionizing radiation doesn't damage DNA, unless you have so much of it that it overheats or something.
I've been trying to figure out how to sort based on row value...
Around 8 years ago (the age of Google), perpetual beta was in vogue. So, the answer would have been always. These days (the age of iPhone, since iPhone is largely responsible for raising the bar of UX very high), we hardly see a public beta. So, I guess you should be in (private) beta to collect some feedback and then quickly act on it with the aim of making a public launch without the beta tag.
I envision traffic as a viscous fluid. Unlike fluids that we are used to, like flowing water, maple syrup, or honey, this fluid wants to flow in multiple directions at once. If you can imagine a stream that flows both uphill and downhill at the same time, and sometimes acts like thick molasses, other times like corn starch suspension, and other times like mercury, you are ready to think about traffic.

This bizarre fluid does obey certain rules, which are consistent and discoverable. Once you have all the rules, you can model an entire system and run experiments.

That said, I hate roundabouts. They seem to combine the worst elements of multiple solutions to make all drivers equally unhappy and inconvenienced. It is somehow okay that no one wins, because everyone loses.
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That doesn't really put Barclay's actions in a much better light. Is it any better to promise something impossible* and not deliver it than to promise something possible and not deliver it? Either way you are engaging in fraud.

*Although per footnote six it looks like at least some trading along those lines is possible and Liquidnet is in that business.
Nice response, thank you.
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The IUD may be effective for an individual woman because it will be in place for 100% of her sexual partners. The IUD isn't ideal for an individual man because there's no guarantee that 100% of his sexual partners have it installed.

For males, a better form of birth control would be a reversible vasectomy (like RISUG/Vasalgel) because it would be in place for 100% of his sexual partners. I think there is a version of RISUG that will be available in the US soon. If I'm not mistaken, some other countries already have it on the market.
That was my experience too, though I think my enthusiasm for #3 was the main driver of the others. I found I really enjoyed lifting, and was much more successful when I was sleeping and eating well, so it became a virtuous cycle. With all of that, the depression and migraine issues that had plagued me through high school, university, and the following years became pretty scarce. If I change any of those things though, problems quickly become apparent.
> It's just all syntactic sugar.

I disagree. Blocks are the fundamental building blocks (!) of various constructs that are derived from them. They're 'thinner' than lambdas, procs and methods. Blocks alone are only part of a system, which, together with binding allows one to build lambdas, iteration constructs, and various other features. Comparing them head-on to functions or lambdas therefore makes no sense. For example, where Python has 'hardcoded' generator expressions, a Ruby developer can leverage blocks to make his own generators. The same goes for features such as with, which are syntactically defined in Python, but which are customary to simply implement with blocks in Ruby. Combining instructions such as next and continue with yield return values and arguments, along with rebinding allows one to define new constructs and syntaxes without paying the price of Lisp's purity (which basically mandates that the language is made of sexprs).
Bah humbug. It looks like the author is hoping for some fantasy world where perfect programming languages would instantaneously be created and be used by everyone.

It looks like he either hasn't read, doesn't understand, or won't accept the conclusions of Richard Gabriel's "Worse is Better" essay (http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html)

He complains multiple times that languages are written for compilers first and programmers second. Yes, if you want good language adoption, the first step is that tools must be readily available and not get in the way of work. If you make your language hard to write a good compiler for it, you're increasing the cost (and thus availability) of the tool, and decreasing number of implementations. "I'm sorry, $LANG can't be used on Mac because no-one wrote a compiler for it yet."

I also take issue with "programmers have become plumbers and documentation archeologists, which is sad and uninteresting". Granted, I'm probably unaware of language/systems where the programmer is magically cognizant of available libraries(/modules/packages/whatever), their API and their use. But in the world I live in, I see this as unavoidable.

...I could go on, but the rest doesn't seem to get any better and I don't want to spend more time arguing the issue(s).
The full page pop up add is just amazing. I also love that if I browse with a smaller browser window then the add I can't close it.

Secondly it gets around adblock plus, AND my hosts file which is impressive.

Also escape doesn't close it.
Sure, you can do that. If it's not how you want it to be, just tweak it. http://jsfiddle.net/staltz/U2j4D/8/
Adding a ?a=1 to get around HN's dupe detector is unwise.

EDIT: Per dang's response below, this is OK since there has not been significant discussion on it previously.
I'm still not sure Scott Adams knows what an angel investor is. That, or I don't!

As I understand it, the real difference between angels and VCs is that angels invest without locking down a valuation, and angels invest without demanding control. A VC round comes with a firm valuation and with a board seat.
> Not everyone would get a basic income however, it would have to erode as you earn more income.

Then its not a basic income. If it is a basic income, everyone would get it.

You could, of course, have a similar net effect to tapering off with income simply by adjusting the progressivity of the income tax system, which is what UBI proponents usually propose. Since you changing the rates of the tax system, but not the behavior of the system, doesn't add complexity or administrative overhead, but eliminating the means-testing on the benefit side does reduce complexity and administrative overhead, this is seen as a net win even though (overhead aside) the net effect to recipients is the same.
Have you tried SBT 0.13? I think it addresses some of your issues with SBT syntax. The DSL usage has been greatly simplified (many fewer operators to remember). Also, the identifiers are now the same in both the config files and the shell.

In older versions of SBT (SBT 0.7 and earlier) the configuration was done using immutable settings. In SBT 0.10 there was a switch to the current model. I believe this was done to make the configuration more declarative. A side of affect of this is that builds can now be easily parallelized without becoming nondeterministic. It also means that, in general, you shouldn't care what order tasks a
re run in.

As far determining what keys are available in which scopes, I have always found this pretty easy to
determine by using the 'inspect' command in the SBT repl. Although, perhaps I am not entirely under
standing your issue here.

SBT does have a problem for specific cases when you do need tasks to run in a particular order. However,
this is something that is currently intended to be addressed[1] in the SBT 1.0 release, which is scheduled for the end of this year.

[1] https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/1001
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"I’ll listen to them again when our schools are decent and our life span starts increasing again magically."

Stopped reading right there. If you need straw men, you aren't worth reading.
Without even reading the article, goodness NO! No one group should dominate any decision making process. Diversity of thought process and perspective brings a recognition of nuance which critical to good decision making.
> In reality,the market already basically dictates this, for who can claim that a Wall Street banker works more than a teacher?

Ummm, I daresay that just about any Wall Street banker works significantly more, has to comprehend significantly more data points, exerts significantly more mental effort and is (probably) significantly more stressed than a teacher.

I will cheerfully admit that one's mental image of a Wall Street banker works less than one's mental image of a teacher.

And he puts way too much effort into justifying the internal contradictions of a poorly-written, third-rate science fantasy show.
Nice I didn't know about plug, looks cool! I've tried other hypem desktop versions but they never seem to work as well, plug is pretty much the same functionality?
fun fact: robots.txt can also be used by attackers to find admin interfaces or other sensitive tidbits that you don't want search engines to crawl

lots of target-detection crawlers will look at robots.txt as the first thing they do to see if there's any fun pages you don't want the other crawlers to see
Apple emojis are best in class, and some were designed in less than 30 minutes
It's not just that. Elm and Rx lack continuous value streams at all, they are completely discrete; also they are very much asynchronous, so they are more like the event stream manipulation done via data flow in the 70s rather than what Elliott and Hudak invented in the late 90s.

For something to be called FRP, they at least need both continuous and discrete abstractions; the simplest description of FRP involves re-evaluation A + B over time, which is not meaningful in Rx or Elm, really.
Nobody is trying to put Barclays in a better light! They did something bad. But that bad thing probably wasn't "selling out their dark pool to the HFTs".
Interesting quote:

"Moreover, a study by consulting firm KPMG last year found that American consumers would trust brands like Google and Apple more for self-driving cars than they would automakers."

Which reminded me of this from a while back:

"Early concept research had made it clear that cueing the GM name resulted in a substantially lower quality perception and credibility, whereas cueing a Japanese name (such as Sony) did the reverse."

http://books.google.com/books?id=OLa_9LePJlYC&lpg=PA1946&pg=...
If the article was written with your perspective, the airlines would still save a lot of real money if they could find inventive ways to reduce weight, and therefore burn less fuel, irrelevant of the price of fuel.
Would you mind telling me your issues? I'm a Firefox dev, working on getUserMedia/Web audio api. I'm sure we can fix them so that Firefox users can enjoy your app without flash as well. I'm padenot at mozilla dot com, or padenot on Twitter.

Great app anyhow!
Are there any experiments where the pilot wave theory and the Copenhagen interpretation predict different results?
It's not a few days, it's a week or two. And the "perfect use" on the other days is not to do anything that might get you pregnant!
Sorry about that, the problem was updated at some point. Used to be 5 digits, now is 13. The answer key I was using also had the old one.
I thought that it went without saying that we were discussing mass transit in densely populated areas. If you don't live in such a place, you probably don't have 9 lanes of road either.

As for why it hasn't caught on, it's because it's incomplete and inconvenient for most people. Even where it works, it's still not great. Ever take a slow bus across town in Manhattan? It's faster to walk.
About 10 years ago, I was talking to Aaron Iba, and he told me that one of his biggest advantages over other programmers is that he makes sure to get a good night's sleep every night. At the moment, I kind of dismissed it, but in hindsight, I think that he was dead-on.

Sure, getting enough sleep won't magically make you a genius overnight. But it will allow you to maximize the potential that you have.
I would rather they took the fuel based component out of the ticket price, then charged you an amount at the gate based on the total weight of everything you are bringing on the plane, including yourself. Then you can pay less by bringing less, or pay more to bring more. A gram's a gram.
There may not be a significant reduction in cars if everyone wants to travel at the same time. Say morning and afternoon rush hours.
> On a more microeconomic level, what happens when Bashir and O'Brien order a couple rounds at Quark's? Who picks up their tab?

It is mentioned in the article that the Federation would likely hold reserves of foreign currency (like latnium) for trading with peripheral civilizations. It's likely that being stationed on an alien space station would give the DS9 officers some stipend of latinum for trading with the locals.

It could also be that Sisko worked out a deal with Quark that rent and maintenance is free, so Starfleet officers drink for free.

Or like he also said in the article, drinks are just a loss-leader for the Dabo table and holosuites.
I'm really not sure that this is the case at all. Taxis already exist in basically every city in the US, as do vanpools, bus services and heavily subsidized public transportation, but we still have significant rates of car ownership. Self-driving cars do improve on the "human-driven-car" model because they have faster reaction times and the like, but the aspect of self-driving cars where you don't have to be in control of the vehicle isn't anything new.

It's certainly possible that cost was the major driver of these sorts of things, but my guess is that the convenience of having your own car ready at all times will remain paramount. It's also plausible to me that airbnb-like services renting out self-driving cars will be common, which would simultaneously alleviate the need to own a car and reduce the cost of car ownership.

I imagine the switch to primarily self-driving car services will have a greater impact in cities, where the density will be high enough that the latency between wanting a car and getting one will be smallest. If a car has to drive for 20 minutes just to pick you up and take you to the store to get some milk, you'll probably just want your own car.
It requires Java8. Android doesn't Java8. So no, no help for you there.
Well, there is also managed time.

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=2112...

Constraint and logical systems like Bloom also qualify in dealing with change (the underlying meaning if "react"). The nice thing about FRP was that it went way beyond event streams, which is why Rx is so disappointing (which is just about event streams, react + Rx is sort of FRP).
Yes, it was always my understanding that the 99%+ efficacy of oral contraceptives were based heavily on taking them in the manner prescribed.
It's here: http://www.ulule.com/a-blind-legend
Yes, first point, and datatypes as well. And to be fair, the author does state clearly that some of the features & benefits he lists can come from a mix of language/standard libraries, OS, runtime or third-party. At the end of the day, you just have to be able to be productive with the language.

If you’re coming up with a brand new language, you have to do a damn good job of compensating for it by piggybacking on existing VM/Libraries/third-party tools (which Swift largely does), building it in your language and standard lib (e.g. Ruby), or doing a good job at attracting a new community to build that for you.
Indeed. When used correctly, the user should not ovulate on combined or dual hormone oral contraceptive.

Most studies show that a user can miss quite a few, such as 4 days in a row[1], and not ovulate.

[1] http://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Abstract/1992/06000/Eff...

http://www.contraceptionjournal.org/article/S0010-7824(04)00...
Scott Adams is wrong. There are angel investors who invest in unproven companies, even at the concept stage. I'm one of them, and I prefer to invest in people. There are people who I'd invest in before even knowing what their companies plan to do.
If the pilot wave really drives the behavior of the particle to a very large extent, finding such experiments would be exceedingly difficult.
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Also having to take it the same time every day, and the interaction between the pill and antibiotics. I've heard that many women don't realize that most antibiotics destroy the effectiveness of the pill, meaning that a back-up birth control method needs to be used in a cycle where she gets strep, or an ear infection, or a UTI, or many other common illnesses.
So Blackwater changed its name to Xi, then Academi, then merged with Triple Canopy to form Constellis Holdings. So people who are still mad at Blackwater might not realize that they should also be mad at Constellis.
Very cool. I'm just getting into Haskell. Coming from the JS world, it's nice to be able to start to learn similar things that I do as a JS developer. My mind only thinks in the way of the web currently, so this helps my transition. :)
TERRA JOLE "Booty Bee" – Little Women:LA #littlewomenla
Eric Meijer - Unifying Documents: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=79586

Alan Kay - Worlds: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011001_final_worlds.pdf
A closer look at Angular's dependency injection
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Angels sometimes invest in priced rounds. Convertible notes are a newer thing, and not yet 100% universal.

The biggest difference, traditionally, is that angels invest their own money or that of buddies, and that VCs invest the money of LPs. This is a little weirder these days, as there are super-angels/micro-VCs/whatever-their-business-card-says where that starts to become a distinction without a difference.
If you assume the point that people would prefer to use self-driving car services over having their own vehicle, then I imagine this wouldn't be as big a factor, since we already have a ton of unused vehicle capacity (with most people driving around with 1 or 2 people in a car that seats 4). You can imagine that modern car services with a significant customer base would be able to coordinate "carpool" type situations to significantly decrease spare capacity.
Understand it should not be common practice. But that post was 138 days ago and we've made massive improvements to our app in the meantime. No one saw our last post (it has one point). We've changed our entire pitch even. Does that mean we just give up on getting to the front page with one failed posting attempt 5 months ago? Is there a better alternative? I apologize if people still think this is an abuse.
> The problem with this is that roads have externalities

Public Transit does too. Cutting up neighborhoods, noise, pollution all happen with busses and light rails. The externalities are almost identical in either case. (You can bury your light rail, but you could also bury your roads, etc).

> For these reasons, your internet and water-use analogies are inaccurate parallels.

That may be true, but I don't see how yet.

People oppose fiber lines all the time because "telephone poles look ugly" or "I don't want to be in the electromagnetic field" (even though there isn't one).

> People generally don't believe these wider roads will significantly lessen congestion.

To be clear, I'm not advocating for bad roads. I'm advocating for more roads, and there is a big difference. New freeways should be far above ground (so that there's no division of neighborhoods) or below grade, just like new public transit (usually) is.

I'm also not advocating for more strip-mall like roads. (4-8 lane at-grade streets typical near malls, WalMart, etc). There should be lots of big freeways, with lots of small exits to smaller urban streets (downtown) or smaller suburban streets.

A good example of this is the buried freeways near the Washington State Convention Center and Mercer Island - http://northwesturbanist.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/lets-bury-...