skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The dole in Australia is only conditional on one thing - how much money you earn.

Every article I can find about the Australian dole references other exclusion and participation requirements like a "mutual obligation requirement" that has various ways that it can be satisfied, one of which is "Work for the Dole", and indicates that if those requirements are not met, you don't get anything. [1]

> If you already earn more than the basic income, you don't get the dole, which is the definition of a basic income.

No, the definition of an unconditional basic income is that you get it -- with no direct reduction based on other income or wealth [2] -- no matter what your income level is, and without other participation requirements besides membership in the served population (usually defined by legal residency within the jurisdiction, but possibly by citizenship instead.)

[1] including the ones you cited upthread, but also, e.g., http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/13/young-australia... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_the_Dole

[2] this does not exclude the potential for a reduced effect through operation of, e.g., a progressive tax system, however.
Its not like you will be creating a collections library all the time you create some program... yes generics are cool for code reuse.. but i think some people just overreact, turning it into something that will make the language unusable or that you will have to copy-and-paste just because of the lack of generics.. this is far from truth..
From personal experience, this seems to be much more common among women closer to or over the age of 30.

Then again, I'm not sure I would trust a young twenty something I just met if she said she has an IUD. When an attractive, gainfully employed thirty-year-old who clearly doesn't want kids says she has an IUD it's much easier to believe.
Excellent. Hope this gets support and more attention. I'm getting tired of explaining how hand-waving about probabilistic magic of subatomic behavior is successful guessing of reality without explaining it.
Hmm, this sounds like immediate-mode GUI that is a well known design in games. Since games people are used to rendering the view anew on each screen refresh, it was logical to do this for widgets as well.

See eg. https://mollyrocket.com/861

edit: and of course I was hardly the first one to make the connection :) Long IMGUI discussion at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4561 with 20+ mentions of FRP.
Many times. My grandmother was a hospice nurse for most of her career.
Did that, nothing happened. Just air guitar like a gangsta.
So the answer is, mostly, that I don't know what an angel is. :)
Using Cellular Automata with Seeding for simple 2D terrain generation
China's world-beating supercomputer fails to impress some potential clients
Kind of besides the point though -- that line in particular had nothing to do with blocks/inline functions.
I'm a developer with lots of ideas living in São Paulo. How can I take advantage of this hub? I have zero experience in business and not that many contacts...
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Thanks for watching out for story quality on HN! In this case, though, the submission is fine.

A small number of reposts is ok if a story hasn't had significant attention within the last year or so. Otherwise, what reaches the front page is too affected by randomness and churn. We want the best stories on the front page, not just the luckiest ones. So good stories need multiple cracks at the bat. Especially the Show HNs—a new feature for which is coming soon, by the way.
The oven design is of course patent pending:)

On a serious note, Like him or not his books/treatise on cooking is excellent. [1]

I got it for my wife for Christmas about 3 or 4 years ago, can't remember, and all 5 books have been well used.

You'll need a big kitchen for all the specialized gear he recommends but it made cooking fun for me and helped my wife go from an amateur enthusiast to someone who can hold their own with professional chefs. I'm very lucky:)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-Home-Nathan-Myhrvold...
Ask HN: How to apartment search in the bay?
I'm researching a move towards the bay area and curious what sources that people were successful with... (craigslist/padmapper)???

I'm a developer, is there an apartment search for hackers?
Basically, Rx was a huge step back from FRP by getting rid of behaviors and focusing just on events. So ya, you get to do things about those streams, but none of the fancy continuous binding computations that could be done in FRP (and to a lesser extent, React).
An Empirical Study on Program Comprehension with Reactive Programming [pdf]
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I always have to stop and check which 'react' something is talking about lately every time.

From my perspective it is causing confusion...and I don't think I am alone.
Hey, thx for writing! So the Firefox issue is that the browser asks for microphone approval on every lesson, which can get a little annoying as a user. Is there a way to get Firefox to ask only once and remember what the user chooses?

To see what happens, try a few lessons in real guitar mode on our staging box. This box allows getUserMedia() even for FF:

https://stage.getinstinct.net

(also just a heads up that our staging box is small, so if a lot of people hit it, it might get slow)
Exactly! And as "natural" water becomes more scarce, prices will rise, incentivizing investment and innovation in desalination, making it more and more efficient over time.
Every Scott Adams post about CalendarTree makes me wonder if I'm reading marketing for CalendarTree.
Its actually worse than that. Preventative care is not guaranteed, but emergency care, at a hospital emergency room is. This way caring for someone with a minor illness or injury often ends up being more expensive because they can only get help when it becomes life threatening.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02...
That could be considered as discrimination against big tall men(not overweight). Another thing is luggage.
>You're speaking in present tense about an 8 year old article

Because they are still fleeing (there are many).

More seriously...saw the 2006 tag but posted anyway because I knew it'll get downvoted either way.
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If it's someone you just met, you probably should use a condom for STD prevention.
What about implants for men? Why do women always have to be the responsible(ish) ones?

Note: I say ish, because if people were responsible at all, we'd not have unplanned pregnancies.
None 2: I'm a dude and I think it's horribly pathetic that men always expect women to 'deal' with this.
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I'm sorry, but your claims sound absurd. Do you have an economic background? What data are you basing that on?

I'm neither claiming expertise with oil or economics, but some cursory Google searches seem to strongly disagree with what you're claiming. Just taking from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_of_petroleum

Adjusted for inflation, our current oil prices appear to be equivalent to 1860s era prices, which places them at 4 - 5 times higher than they've been for the entire intervening period.

Not to mention oil prices being subsidized in the US, your claim that the "true cost" of oil hasn't risen seems totally nuts. Care to elaborate?
I briefly wondered how to get push notifications from a Google spreadsheet, to update a website. My guess is they do it by getting email notifications: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/91588?hl=en
... and marking them as "active" as they scroll down from a YouTube video or browse to a page with a G+ button while logged in to Google (= always).
Well for one, I'm assuming the frontend is all javascript? Am I dependent on a 3rd party service? Are there some examples of how it looks / behaves on the frontend? Is it stable? Is that form submission code adding rows to the spreadsheet? Does it depend on the spreadsheet being a certain format? What about multiple tabs? Does it need to oauth a google account? So on and so forth
Using the model from the article, about 33% of the ticket price is total fuel cost, and 16.5% ($1300 of $7900) is 'weight marginal' fuel cost. Combining these two gives us 5.4% of ticket cost on a full airliner is weight marginal fuel cost.

Extracting 5.4% of the ticket price and making it pay-by-weight (or, rather, by the proportion of the total margin weight you make up) seems fair. On the other hand, 5.4% is a pretty small number compared to the other costs associated with "pay by weight". Lots of people would be, justifiably or not, angry about paying more because they are fatter, taller, or not a child even if that is only a few dollars per hundred on the ticket price.

On the other hand, as a tall person I would strongly support being able to pay marginally more for more legroom. Many airlines do this with a tiered model ('premium economy', 'extra comfort', etc), and it works really well for me.
It addresses the criticism of the article which (criticism) misses the forest behind the trees. I.e. Netflix deserves to be viewed as a threat indeed. Just for different reasons.

> It is nonsense, treating a user as a criminal is not a security threat. DRM is just encryption

Tell it to these folks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit

Or to security experts: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/drm_in_window...

DRM is obviously a security threat because of its very nature.
Well it could end human life, and thus end the ability to move any other life off of the planet, right?

Or think about the LHC creating a black hole (not likely but when talking about the fate of life in the universe, worth considering.)

Or even runaway global warming turning Earth into Venus? (Not sure if it's possible, just ideas)
In other words, "natural family planning" achieves its very low "perfect use" failure rate by solving a different (and easier) problem from the ones addressed by other methods.

It's easy (in principle) to solve the problem of avoiding pregnancy: "just" avoid all sexual activity. The problem contraceptives were invented to address wasn't the problem of avoiding pregnancy but the problem of having sex without getting pregnant.

"Natural family planning" is -- when done optimally -- very effective at the "without getting pregnant" part of that, but not so good on the "having sex" part, since somewhere around half the time it's equivalent to abstinence.

Redefining the problem isn't always a bad thing, but it's as well to be aware of when it's being done.
There's a few points which sound right in this essay, but I'm surprised he didn't discuss the more technical definition and its impact on the ecosystem:

1) an angel investor is someone who invests their own money
2) a venture capitalist invests out of a fund, which is mostly other peoples' money (OPM!) while taking a fee + economics from the fund (the famous "2 and 20" model)

But that's not too useful, because what's important are the behaviors that come out of the situation.

Because most angels are investing their own money, they usually don't have crazy amounts of capital to work with. Thus, they usually invest early so they can get a better percentage at a lower valuation.

Many VCs also invest early, sometimes exclusively so with smaller funds, but they are often called "seed funds" to make that distinction. A fund which invests OPM is never called an "angel" regardless of what stage they invest at.

And finally, big funds (managing 100s of millions of dollars) are what we think of usually as venture capital.

(Funds that invest even larger amounts at higher valuations are often referred to as "late stage venture capital" or "growth capital." And there's more specialized terminology later stage since more specialized financial instruments can be brought into play - SPVs/debt/mezzanine/etc)

Where Scott's essay rings true is that idea that investors of all classes are more risk averse these days- they prefer to see traction since the cost of building an app/website is rapidly decreasing. Thus, they are all behaviorally acting like "traction investors" rather than "idea investors" whereas in the past, traction investors purely consisted of the growth capital guys.

This might be worse for the ecosystem since people want you to have everything built before taking in our first dollar of investment, but you could argue it means the ecosystem's $s are being allocated more efficiently also.
A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Reid Hoffman
You probably are overtaxing your central nervous system. Not getting enough sleep keeps your nervous system from fully recovering, which makes it harder to push yourself even if you have the cardiovascular and muscle capacity.
Good comment. In my province, there is a very long wait for an MRI. The wait is so long that, in many cases, it makes more sense to go down to the United States (or to a province with private MRI facilities) and just pay for the test.

I was raised with Medicare, but I see nothing but problems with how it is administered. And, I hope that your country doesn't follow our mistakes...
> They like it because they're very non-technical people, but totally get spreadsheets.

My experience matches this. About a year ago I rigged up Google Spreadsheets as a data source for Middleman in order to streamline content updates from the client throughout development. I learned the hard way to use fuzzy matching when correlating client-editable record names between data sources, but it otherwise worked well for both of us.
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Seems like you could write a shared calendar app for way less than $15M. And it's already in beta, so a lot of the development has been done already.

I also wonder how much success he's going to get selling to enterprise customers. Any company with over 200 employees already has a calendar system (Outlook or some cloud equivalent).
Haha, sorry about that, probably a bug.

If you don't mind sending us OS / browser / version + the lesson you played, we can try to debug. Our email is hello@getinstinct.com.
This isn't true: gold prices have varied wildly relative to the price of the dollar.

For example, gold was at $1780/oz as of September 2012, and is now at $1326/oz, a difference of -34%. Prices for goods and services have not fallen 34%. On average the prices for consumer goods have increased by a few percent in dollar terms, so an ounce of gold will buy you less than 34% of what it would have two years ago.

Intelligent comparisons of prices are done with inflation-adjusted dollar values rather than gold-adjusted values for a reason.
What do you mean by "we're seeing a type of high stress sleep"? It sounds counterintuitive.
The main use for robots.txt is to prevent crawling of infinite URL spaces: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.br/2008/08/to-inf...

Alongside tagging links to such resources with nofollow.
What a bunch phooey. Just more peddling of flawed studies to promote increased taxation.

If you want to reduce congestion try the obvious. 1) Mixed zoning, allowing more residential and retail to be close together. So people have less distance to travel. 2) Raise speed limits where possible so people can get to their destinations faster. 3) Build for the future. Don't just add a lane or two, add six. 4) And yes trains, do help. The problem in the States is that we hardly have any. Only the major metro areas have any sort of adequate rail system and even they are fairly slow, limited and antiquated. Which brings me to my last point: 5) Consult with Elon Musk.
Right, but most of our economy is controlled by the price of labor. How have prices compared to the median wage? How much fuel could an average worker buy in 1960 compared to today?
Airlines love shifting revenue from ticket prices onto ancillary fees. Why? Because they're not subject to the same taxation as the revenue generated by the ticket price.

"The government funds a large portion of the aviation system through a 7.5 percent tax on the price of a commercial airline ticket as well as taxes on certain kinds of aviation fuel. But the Treasury Department considers charges outside the base cost of a ticket to be exempt from that tax."

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/baggage-airline-fee-re...

It's basic tax-avoidance. If they need to raise an extra $5 per seat, they're better off increasing the price charger per bag than they are increasing the ticket prices, and that's exactly what has been happening.
The discussion is here because the community is here. Most websites do not have the ability to produce sufficient content to draw sufficient audience as to have it's own large community and the commenting that goes with it. Some of the current benefits of posting it to HN is that provides traffic. I find that I occasionally get comments directly on my blog when something posts to HN but the comments there are a bit different from the discussion here. So I think of them as being fundamentally different.

Managing a community is a job in itself and is fundamentally different from producing good content. I don't see this as a bug. It's a feature. Though I have started wondering if I should start putting a link to the HN discussion in the blog post. For now, I did recently add a page listing FPP-Worthy posts that generated real discussion and putting the HN links there. I am still trying to figure out what the hell I am doing and largely figuring it out alone since I have no mentor or similar.
Cool. I have read some stuff about him and he has interested me; I will look into more literature on him. Thanks.
> cares enough about his job enough to even make an attempt at dressing up
Why not be yourself and let the right role culture find you?

If my employer won't swear in the interview out of principle, we are a bad culture fit.
I see this in the recent comparison list. Very suspect.

Cost of living in London is 16% more expensive than in New York City

Cost of living in New York City is 14% cheaper than in London
> If you don't earn enough money, it is unconditional.

No, its not, even per the official-source article you cited in your other post describing it [1]. In addition to "earning enough money" (income test), you must:

1) Also meet an "assets test", and
2) Be "looking for paid work", and
3) Be "prepared to meet the activity test while you are looking for work".

And that's just the short version: the linked "Eligibility Requirements" page [2] has a longer list.

[1] http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelink...

[2] http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/enablers/centrelink...
"Incomprehensible style is a nice word for sloppy."

Then since it isn't sloppy, you won't be surprised to learn that it isn't incomprehensible either. :)

In software (as probably in everything) people tend to think that non-standard and uncommon things must be worse. It's in the DNA of Hacker News not to think that way, and to me that is one of its most precious qualities. The HN code is somehow symbolic of all this, whether it's to one's personal taste or not. So yay the HN code!
It's an exciting time to be an F# programmer. The community really seems to be stepping up and getting ready to make important contributions.
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For all the Long Islanders out there who prefer the company of a warm terminal
Soundcloud becomes DJ hostile
Default settings of blogging software.
I have both MC and the much cheaper Modernist At Home and recommend the latter (the smaller cheaper one) over the former.
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One small criticism? Your headline says "best tech bloggers", so I was assuming the app was focused on that. Clicked through to your landing page and the screen shot is all about soccer, something that I not only don't care about, but also, is not tech. So now I'm trying to figure out what it actually is, the closest I can find is: "PICK FROM DOZENS OF POPULAR WRITERS AND BLOGGERS"
Orbiter may crash on the surface (not sure if it'll burn like an asteroid).

Happened with NASA in 1999 : http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,288...
It's not a fad at all, with Netflix and other companies using Rx in all flavors on their platforms. See this video from Jafar Husain, a tech lead at Netflix, talk about how they use RxJS at Netflix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRYN2xt11Ek
Agreed. We also use Spreadsheet as a zero-code backoffice interface for data entry in enterprise companies and they love it. You can even embed specific sheets on your website if you want, so they don't even have to leave the site.
It is amazing that a private, armed company with commercial interests is de facto giving orders to government officials and... the situation continues.
Inflation isn't some magical unknown force. Every comparison of historical value includes inflation adjustment. Of course prices rise over time, of course currency devalues over time. Everyone is aware of that.

What is this 'real' money you speak of? You mean the relatively extremely volatile value of Gold and Silver? Did you even check a graph of the inflation-adjusted gold or silver price for the past 30 years? Here, I'll link you: http://www.macrotrends.net/1333/gold-and-silver-prices-100-y...

So is the 'true' value of gold $400 inflation-adjusted dollars or $1800 inflation-adjusted dollars?
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I always assumed Federation members had their bills paid by the Federation. ie. Quark sells 100 bars of latinum worth of drinks in a week to Federation staff, the Federation's accounting/remittance department sends over 100 bars of latinum to Quark (digitally of course).
> Promises/A has been ported to Ruby, with basically the same API…

This is, to me, the core of the problem.

> The Promises/A spec from CommonJS defines Promise.then as taking three (optional) callbacks: fulfilledHandler, errorHandler, and progressHandler. The code above is passing two of them at once.

Shoehorning things from different realms (e.g desperately trying to write JS in Ruby or vice-versa) is not a good idea.

Instead of either:

db.select_one(sql, thingid)
.then((proc {|rowset| rowset[0]['foo'}), (proc {|err| log_error(err)}))

or:

db.select_one(sql, thingid)
.then {|rowset| rowset[0]['foo'}
.then(nil) {|err| log_error(err)}

Why not do:

db.select_one(sql, thingid)
.then {|rowset| rowset[0]['foo'}
.else {|err| log_error(err)}
.each {|whatever| the_progress(callback_is)}

Also, method(:log_error) will happily turn the method into a proc.

This last case is actually extremely important. Contrary to what the author claims, functions and methods are first class in Ruby. The problem is that in Ruby's grammar an identifier without parentheses is a method call if that identifier does not resolve to a variable. Therefore, you cannot refer to an existing function by its name, merely because it would resolve to a call.

Therefore the difference between those is purely syntactic:

Python Ruby
foo method(:foo)
foo() foo

Also, this[0] explains how &:to_i works, which can be leveraged with great success, should one implement the promise class in a sufficiently idiomatic way (turning the above log_error reference into &:log_error)

[0]: http://ablogaboutcode.com/2012/01/04/the-ampersand-operator-...
I imagine they'll eventually change their name to "We love cute puppies".
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Why not try watching the video from Jafar Husain, a tech lead from Netflix, talk about Async JavaScript at Netflix which uses RxJS to explain these concepts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRYN2xt11Ek