skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mind you, self-driving cars can find computing traveling-salesman routes slightly less of a hassle than humans do—and so punching into your phone that you'd be willing to carpool if it meant arriving faster would likely mean a car (whose occupant had expressed the same preference) immediately stopping on its way to wherever it was going and picking you up. Only the people who want complete privacy will have to wait.

Extend this thought to its logical conclusion, and you realize that (self-driving) commuter busses and light rail can be programmed into the network as plain-old cars that happen to have high occupant capacities. You set that you're willing to take a bus (and one is en route), it'll stop for you. You set that you want a less noisy/drunk/homeless-filled experience, and you get a car instead.

You could also set a price threshold, where everyone in the car must already be willing to pay as much as you are to be picked up there and then. Low threshold—a taxi-like sedan comes. High threshold—a limo.
chrisBob should have added "legally speaking". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class
Condoms do not protect against herpes.

But I agree, it's a good idea to use them until you've both had a screen.
> A recession is two consecutive quarters of negative gdp growth.

That's a common rule of thumb, and apparently (per Wikipedia) the official definition in all states in the EU. But the US is not the EU, and the closest thing to an official definition in the US is that a recession exists whenever the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economics Research decides that a recession exists.
Frankly I'm getting tired of these empty posts.
Where is the source?

Can we stop posting "news" like this unless it is actually significant, ie contains the thing that they claim is open?

Its almost to the point where these posts should be flagged IMO.
I fail to see how that solves the problem for anyone other than people who already know that they're looking for a Haskell REST framework that might be called Rest.
I take a very very dim view of Keynsianism prescriptions, although their analysis may be correct (sometimes).

Let's agree that we're in a demand constrained economy (I am not sure but it may be the case).

1) Why should you believe that governments are good at readjusting the economy to "unconstrain" it from demand? From Halliburton/Iraq to Solyndra to Fisker to 38Studios (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_Studios) to Telacu (http://capoliticalnews.com/2014/02/21/construction-firm-tela...), time and time again, we see governments at all levels (local to federal) reallocate funds to cronies instead of in the "interest of the public".

2) Why should we do anything to stoke demand, at all? Doesn't consumerism and the impact it has on the environment (among other aspects of society)? Why should we presume that there is a 'correct' amount of consumption that society ought to engage in? How does one measure it, and why should we be incentivising individuals to abandon what they think is right for them based on their localized information?
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"Just days after the launch of India’s Mangalyaan satellite, NASA sent off its own Mars mission...named Maven. Its cost: $671 million. The budget of India’s Mars mission...was just three-quarters of [...] $100 million..."

I would like to point out that Maven is 1.8 times the mass of Mangalyaan (in terms of "launch mass" according to Wikipedia; Maven's "payload mass" is 4.3 times that of Mangalyaan). Mass costs.
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> 1) Also meet an "assets test"

Yep. If you have lots of assets, you don't get this money. I'll bet any Guaranteed basic income would work the same - i.e. you don't want to pay it to people that have a $300k house.

>2) Be "looking for paid work"

You fill in a form every 2 weeks that takes 5 minutes.

> 3) Be "prepared to meet the activity test while you are looking for work".

Again, it takes 5 minutes every two weeks.

It's hilarious to see so many people debate Minimum Basic Income as financially not viable or that it would destroy the economy because nobody would be motivated to work. Here I am pointing out that Australia already essentially has it, and those two problems are not real. And here you are nit-picking the fine details. Look at the big picture here. It works, Australia has it.
"Quasi-slavery"? Really? So why is it that millions of people have risked their lives to flee from countries with less economic freedom to countries with more? If economic freedom is so awful, why don't you try living in say, Cuba, or North Korea? Whoever said that there isn't planning in a free market economy?
Yes. That exact sentence is exactly correct.

This little subthread is a microcosm of one way the whole site regularly goes off the rails. "Wet bulb temperature shmet bulb temperature, let's all yell about patent trolling!"
Many people see that as an advantage of sleeping in chairs. The point of a nap is to get to a state where you're totally relaxed, not to spend a significant amount of time in it. You don't want to get into the deep sleep state which takes ~1 hour to wake up from.

The apocryphal example is Salvador Dali: he held a spoon above a metal pan to wake him up as soon as he dropped the sppon.
Basic income is a potentially unlimited liability without any government control over fertility. If the needs of the portion of the population that are net consumers grow quicker than the surplus from net producers, an economic apocalypse happens sooner or later.

In a world of dysgenic fertility, this is guaranteed[1].

[1] http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2014/06/dysgenics-is-mo...
I'm sure it's on your list of possible future enhancements but I'd be interested in a Ukulele version.

Now I've done 4 full lessons and some riffs - I'm finding the scrolling on the tab a bit hard to follow, TBH I think it would be fine if it were a bit more compressed (so less scrolling were needed) and also possibly you could but a visual break [like a coloured vertical bar or similar] so that the eye can more easily pick out the move? Happy to give further feedback, I'm pbhj on your system.
Cofounder of Staply here.

It is also applicable for the UK. When it will be different, we will provide clear examples for the US and the UK.
This is really cool. Never understood the seemingly traditional java practice of making super-deep source directories (gov.nasa.arc.spife.core.plan/src/gov/nasa/arc/spife/core/plan/timeline/ with nothing else in the intermediate folders)
For those asking, here are some links that will start you down the path to reading all about said research:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/25/240590433/what-hap...

http://freakonomics.com/2013/06/04/should-we-all-just-give-c...

http://freakonomics.com/2013/09/26/would-a-big-bucket-of-cas...

http://freakonomics.com/2013/11/27/fighting-poverty-with-act...

http://poverty-action.org/project/0522

I'm glad I could help Google That For You.
You would think with all the social spending we do that things would be better by now for people in this category but its not really. There needs to be a concerted effort to reduce the number of assistance programs to a single digit number so that funds are not lost to paying the workers to administer the programs. There are thousands of assistance programs just at the Federal level, sure that is not an ideal way of getting help to those in need.
Your first point is a deeper problem that goes far beyond economics. We do have a government corruption problem.

As for #2, the problem is that economic demand and economic activity means doing anything at all, including fixing environmental problems.

Imagine there's no growth. Why adopt solar power then, and who's going to pay for it since there'd be no investment capital? Nope, just run those coal burners forever. No need to upgrade if there's no growth.

The deflationary road leads to the dystopia portrayed in The Hunger Games: one or two massively advanced cloistered cities for the mega-rich, and vast feudal slave classes feeding them with coal and other should-be-obsolete things.
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So please explain in a few sentences what is that that Yudkowski writes, did he make any new contribution to the standard model or made something else or do you agree that the standard model is the most researched and most usable model up to now, and he just made a lot of posts where he just writes a lot of text?

I see a lot of links in the article you gave, but I don't understand what we're supposed to discover in Yudkowski's writings after trying to follow most of them. There's a lot of free text, not much physics. The standard model is a lot of smart formulas supported by the decades of expensive elaborate measurements (and vice versa), however his texts look more like writings of some philosophy student who knows a little of the math than like a physicist's material. I'd also really welcome opinions of professional physicists.

Edit: Wikipedia entry about him seems to fit my impression: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky "Yudkowsky (...) is an American blogger, writer, and advocate for Friendly artificial intelligence (...) Largely self-educated."
Argentina did pretty well after it defaulted its obligations in 2001 and the commodities prices significantly increased. The issues in Argentina are more related to poor infrastructure (transport, Internet, mobile, financial) and corruption.

There is a saying in Argentina that we should stop stealing for at least two years [and the country will flourish].
> No, the definition of an unconditional basic income is that you get it -- with no direct reduction based on other income or wealth

Sorry, you're right, it's called Guaranteed Minimum Income which is what the original linked article is talking about.
Being a design/dev person here, now I"m curious what a D3js library built specficially for designers would look like.
"They are basically an anarcho-capitalist society, bordering on kleptocracy."

I completely and utterly disagree with that statement.

See here:

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Ferengi

I pasted that link because I didn't think you knew that the Ferengi had a government and governing structure. But then I realized that it could be the opposite...that you don't know what anarcho-capitalism is. So here is a link, please read it, and don't confuse anarcho-capitalism with any form of immoral government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism
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"There are people who I'd invest in before even knowing what their companies plan to do."

Couldn't that arguably put you in the "friends and family" category?
That's actually one of the pieces of evidence that leads me to believe that software development is a form of engineering.
Entitlements are simply something people are legally entitled to.

No one thinks that entitlements Social Security and Medicare go predominantly to minorities and a lazy underclass, and yet they're the biggest parts of our budget. (Some people do, however, labor under the impression that SS and Medicare make up 5% of the budget and the remaining 95% goes to welfare, foreign aid, and greedy public employees, but that's another issue entirely.)
My understanding is that the pilot wave theory is a non-local hidden variable theory, which doesn't contradict Bell's theorem at all. Of course, this presents ftl information transfer, presumed to be impossible, which is part of the reason such theories have been unpopular for so long.
We need to find the next big growth engine. Like "the internet" big, or its baby brother "mobile" big. (Imagine what the US economy would be like without those growth engines. Even with them, their effect on the US GDP growth chart in the article is unnoticeable.)

I have a hard time thinking of things that could be so dramatic in terms of growth. AI, radical life extension, space elevators, renewables... I'm not sure.

The sad thing is we only have one Google. Very few other well-monied companies are taking big moon-shot risks. We need a dozen Googles and a hundred Elon Musks to find the next growth engine.

But instead we have billionaires buying NFL teams, the government taking money from STEM to fund entitlements, and corporations too risk-averse to make any big bets.
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Desalination has a fixed energy cost that can't be "innovated" away. It requires at minimum, 1kwH/m^3, in a completely 100% energy efficient system (such a perfect system does not exist).

That is the base energy required to boil the water away. Chemistry isn't like software, you can't innovate away the laws of physics.
Additionally none of this is population normalized.
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=a7jenngfc4um7_&...

Additionally, the first GDP chart conflicts with what it's reporting: Title "United States GDP Growth Rate", Subtitle "Percent change in Gross Domestic Product". Additionally, percent change relative to what?
What do you think is missing from Swift?
An AnyFunction type would be great. Also reflection is incomplete and undocumented. Message passing - http://www.buckleyisms.com/home/2014/6/16/the-case-for-messa...
> ll bet any Guaranteed basic income would work the same - i.e. you don't want to pay it to people that have a $300k house.

An unconditional basic income would, by definition have neither an assets nor an income test.

A guaranteed minimum income would only actually be a guaranteed minimum income if it had an income test, but not asset test.

> You fill in a form every 2 weeks that takes 5 minutes.

The amount of time spent is not the issue. The fact is that you have to be looking for work, prove that you are looking for work, and not turn down work. Its essentially an program to protect against involuntary unemployment, not either a basic income or a guaranteed minimum income. Its essentially a guaranteed employment program with some other conditions.

> Here I am pointing out that Australia already essentially has it,

Australia has neither a guaranteed minimum income nor an unconditional basic income. It has a fairly generous means/asset/behavior-tested welfare program, which is not the same thing at all.
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I have never used Optimizely -- instead I developed my own software for A/B testing -- but if this blog post is true, that's pretty sloppy.
You missed the trend of growing inequality. I think this is important because the marginal propensity to spend for someone low on the income scale is much higher than the wealthiest.

Otherwise, good points.
The second is the physical unit of time; if you tried to skew seconds to be longer or shorter you would break physics (physical constants would change in value, it would be impossible to compare current experiments with previous experiments...).

Would it be smart for civil time to be based on another unit, decoupled from the physical second? Yes, but no-one thought of that earlier, in the same way that no-one bothers to use LVM on the first server they set up. This sort of thing wasn't thought of when governments were first setting up time laws back in 18xx, and many countries' laws included reasonable-sounding provisions like "The average difference between 12:00pm and solar noon shall be zero".

There's a proposal to abolish leap seconds, but it's been pushed back to 2015 to give national governments more time to amend such laws. I suspect and hope that we'll get rid of them sooner or later, but changing one nation's laws is a slow process; changing 190-odd much more so.
Not only capital structure, but lots and lots and LOTS of various minor improvements in all areas.

They would not be making iPads, because simply having one around doesn't automatically create the production technology to create it. That would still take a whole lot of work. It may well be that it would be more efficient to send them a bunch of C64's if you simply wanted them to improve faster, since the gap between the technologies are lesser.
Another interesting chart: https://twitter.com/hblodget/status/483577150805901312
Because if "something sucks", you clearly are making the right decision by going with the other thing.

As opposed to worrying about whether or not your decision was the right one because all of the options had really good upsides.
Although Google has done a much better PR around its research efforts, IBM and Microsoft are both investing much more in R&D. Microsoft is the tech company with the most research investment.
I actually think the the Block-chain could be such growth engine.

It basically holds the promise to potentially take out any middlemen from server to bank, from company to nation which in itself would cause a major shift in the economy.
Young people.
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Airline executive Michael O'Leary's comments about charging you to use the bathroom were a "we're cheap" publicity stunt; no more and no less.

Sure, there's almost an infinitude of theoretically possible micro and macro optimizations that can improve airlines' profitability, especially across 133 million passengers (that's a lot of olives) but most of them aren't quite as promising as they seem. Save fuel by replacing heavyweight but durable IFE system with iPads, for instance? Bet you spend more than the actually realizable fuel savings replacing broken or stolen iPads. By my calculations you lose money if approximately 1 ticket holder in 1000 doesn't return their $250 iPad intact, based on the original article's $32.7M cost saving (25 cents per passenger) even without considering costs of actually rolling them out and phasing out the IFE in the first place. Needless to say, forcing passengers to empty their bowels before flight could have more significant effect on airlines costs and ticket sales. Even Ryanair is on a charm offensive after taking the "we're so cheap we don't care what our customers think schtick too far)

If you really want to save weight or microoptimise revenue the excess passenger weight charge can has been implemented... in Samoa.
Incumbents are correct that adding evolutionary features will allow maturation of technology and public acceptance. However, you cannot use that route to get to a completely autonomous vehicle. There will almost certainly be a red area once you get to the "car only needs human attention X% of the time" phase, where X will be somewhere between 60 and 1. Once the human is allowed to tune out, they're going to and won't be able to come back fast enough in many many circumstances. Heck, that happens today when X is 100.

Once you find X, you're going to have to stop and/or back off a little on automation. You can't just keep on pushing towards 0. I presume Google has already found the X point during their program.

Google is ultimately right to be aiming at fully auto if the goal is fully auto, not just "driver assistance." There's a big area where half measures just won't work. I wager it'll take quite a lot of work to get to that goal, but it at least seems achievable. And appropriate for an entity not already "in the business".
Google doesn't have the experience with liability that traditional automobile manufacturers are and I bet they tend to brush over items that made the other guys pause.

Its one thing to deliver ads and mail, a simple mistake or improper product usage by the end user doesn't hurt someone, but cars are a whole different ball game.

and don't underestimate that some people who get in one will try to cause problems.
Not being sarcastic here.

2013
A = Debt is around: $17.5 trillion
B = Debt Service: $416 billion
C = Average Rate: 2.38% ($416 billion / $17.5 trillion)
D = U.S. Tax Revenue: +/- $2.8 Trillion

Things won't get interesting until B approaches D.

So one way of looking at is if everything remained constant (which it won't) you'd need 15% interest rates on the current debt for debt service to approach tax revenue. If interest rates stay the same you could increase the debt to $128 trillion.

Reference:
Debt: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/ir/ir_expense.htm
Debt Service: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/ir/ir_expense.htm
Tax Revenue: http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/
I was struggling with the way the operators are written:

clickStream.map(f).scan(g);

Then I realised that map() and scan() are not doing much when that line of code is executed. They only add a new operation step to a list of operations for clickStream. Only when an event is received, the saved list of operations gets executed. So, I think a better naming would have been addMap() and addScan(), because they only add operators. They don't map/scan anything when they are called.

I think the best tutorial for me would have been an article explaining what is going on under the hood. This tutorial does mention this implementation detail but only very briefly.

Anyway, without the tutorial, I wouldn't have realized this, so it was actually helpful. :)
I learned early on the value of sleep - a good amount of rest allows you to be focused longer during dredges of work.

From my own experience, it helped immensely during grad school, and it helps me now with my career. I almost never have to wake up for an alarm - I naturally wake up at a good time, without the added stressor of a hurried morning. All it takes is a little discipline and advanced planning to get yourself prepared.
There's very little OS- or application-level support for it. Adding support would probably take more effort than convincing governments to abolish leap seconds.
You are right. It is "our" money. I just wonder why "we" aren't going to our mutual funds who even a small retail investor might pay thousands to every year and say, "what are you doing to proactively avoid these situations? are you taking the sell-side's marketing materials as truth, or are you doing your own analysis?"

If, as a retail investor, I could make only one call to complain, I would call my fund manager who has a _fidicuiary duty_ to me and demand an explanation.

(Note that no such fidicuiary duty exists between a sell-side broker and insititutional investor, which is why they had to use the Martin Act and there are no securities fraud charges.)
Fortunately it seems the css and font files are still alive:

https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Arimo:400,700
I have never invested in a friend, and I doubt I will. I have invested in capable people of whom I'd known for a while but were barely acquaintances. Friendship is separate.
Politicians will get into bidding wars in order to get elected which ends up ramping up national debt.

That's it. The rest is just noise. It's just too easy to spend other people's money, under the guise of 'public interest'. Even if the politician is not corrupt, and not, say, channeling public funds to friends, outside of a few obvious cases (foreign invasion, giant earthquake, meteor strike, e.g.) it is difficult to hold politicians accountable for, say "good intentions gone awry".

The United States did quite well for a half century or so (only dipping into debt to pay for wars). There was the moral precept of 'no taxation without representation' and the early government understood that debt incurred the future taxation of people who would not be able to go back in time and vote against the spending[0]. That's all been abandoned long since.

[0] it is often said that "governments are not like families" and so that debt dynamics are different. Well, that is indeed the case. At least when individuals enter a debt, there is a contract of understanding between a single person and the lendee which means that the responsibility for repayment is on the borrower and the consequences of default are on the lender (except in a few morally questionable cases, such as academic debt). When governments enter debt, the payment is the responsibility of, potentially, someone else (there's the 'spending other people's money' again, except this time, at a societal level).
Back in the day, I would use httrack for offline web browsing, and these were a constant irritation.