skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> It's not an inconsistency, it's a disagreement over property and aggression.

In the same way that I disagree that taxes are a form of violence, yes. However if we're reducing everything to violence (as libertarians tend to) then I don't see these as different.

>> To you, land belongs to whole humanity

As something of a pragmatist, I consider property rights to be useful rather than absolute and have no particular views on universal owenership. I'm not exactly a Marxist.

But I wonder what the philosophical basis is for appropriation of land in a system that (on the surface) claims to be absolute, particularly in the principle of non-aggression.

Homesteading is wonderful in a system where land is unlimited, it can be seen as an extension of the moral right to the work of your own hands. But in a system where land is limited, the very act of appropriating does deny the resource to others, and any defence of that appropriation would surely be violent?
In fact Locke appears to have acknowledged this (from the page you linked to) - The Lockean Proviso.

And yes, left-wing libertarians are not often encountered on tech boards in my experience :)
From the Oscar front page: "Free doctor visits via phone". WTF is this? How can a doctor visit by phone?
All this story is just a smell on how deeply broken the entire US health system is (together with all the healthcare-systems of 3rd world countries).
Swift Collections in Action - Arrays & Dictionaries
Would anyone like to give a hand with https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font so we could build a 3270 theme?
Huh, some of your papers sound like ideas I sketched out in my commonplace book (particularly the ones on oil prices in the context of the larger economy), looks like I'm a few years behind.

I guess my biggest concern is the viability of pursuing a PhD in economics without having a previous degree in econ. I have a BS and MS in environmental science and an MPA in energy policy/economics. I think I have stronger scientific chops than many economists, but I don't know how valuable that actually is.

Also, it seems to me that the general market for energy economists is very strong, and will remain that way for quite some time. Do you think that's accurate?

I love plowing through data and developing methods and analysis to try and draw out relationships and show why things are what they are. I know that sounds incredibly vague, but as far as I can tell economics is the field that most closely aligns with this in the context of energy and the environment.
I wonder what if I used the stock options money to purchase lottery tickets, would I have more chance of winning big? Since stock options vests over 5 years and lottery tickets draws every week, I tend to think you have better chance winning the lottery than winning on your options.
I launched my first app in March 2013 and it's basically paying off my school tuition.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spinme-alarm-clock-guarantee...
pretty awesome accomplishment. are your users in india as well? how are you monetizing?
That's the same as asking why do startups bother with starting a company. If the startup succeeds, you want employees to be aligned with the company success and motivated to stay and vest. If the company doesn't succeed, the equity is worthless.
Absolutely.

I've been in healthcare for a bunch of years (I dunno, sheesh, I guess like 14?). For a big stint of that I built systems that aim to prevent medication errors in hospitals by telling clinicians when doses were due, etc.

I know of at least two incidents where code that I wrote failed in a way that (due to some edge-case concurrency in one case, and daylight savings time in another case) didn't make it clear to a nurse that another nurse had given a medication to a patient and the patient received a double-dosage of a pretty severe drug.

Imagine getting that call. It's every bit as fucking terrible and humbling as you'd think.

Far more numerous (thankfully) were the calls that we got reporting that we stopped double dosages or even order-of-magnitude label misreadings on drugs. I know of more than a handful of instances that code I wrote may have literally saved a life.

I've been lucky to have found myself at companies that take this stuff really, really seriously. It's a really hard balance to strike when failure is as devastating as it can be in healthcare, but the status quo is pretty terrifying also. In general every health IT shop's culture finds some balance between making decisions based on fear, and trying to achieve a velocity that allows problems to be fixed quickly and the greatest positive impact possible against the problem they're solving.

I talk to a lot of people who want to work on "big/real problems" and list "healthcare" as one of them but when it comes down to it are often pretty freaked out about the stakes. It's weird to be used to the gravity of it, I certainly am now. I can't even wrap my head around what it would mean to work on something that doesn't hurt people when it fails.
Spectacle should work on 10.6+ according to it's Info.plist:
<key>LSMinimumSystemVersion</key>
<string>10.6</string>
In my books, heckuva lot of money == never having to work again.
https://www.blueshieldca.com/bsca/about-blue-shield/health-r...

One of california's largest health insurance companies is a not for profit and doesn't stockpile money. why is healthcare still expensive?
It is much more likely the startup will fail than an established company. Consequently startup employees are taking a greater risk than established company employees. This, however, isn't really reflected in salary and is instead reflected in the lottery ticket/equity grant.

And just to add: my view is that at a startup, "market rate" is too low, even with equity on the table (to a certain extent--if it gets to double-digit equity my opinion is the negotiation isn't about bringing on an employee so much as a legitimate co-founder) especially given the broad responsibilities early employees are tasked with and the high likelihood of failure.
Shouldn't this have a field for the salary you make at the startup?
Or you can adopt a short nickname everyone can say right, and put the entire problem behind you.

There are more important things in this short life. A name is just a bunch of random sounds so when someone talks, you know they mean you.
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I started a recruiting company in the real estate niche.

We're profitable technically, but I would only say "gross profitable" not "net profitable".

(Couldn't afford to pay minimum wage for someone to do this)

On the up side, its a B2B so there are opportunities to cross sell a better product if we come up with one
cool site! well done =)

i did a search for sennheiser and got an excellent breakdown of headphones. also i don't mind that a price range can have two different options if they're far enough apart. that's a nice touch.
I did the same thing.
it's like a lottery ticket. odds are it probably won't be worth anything, might be worth a lot.
I'm sure you think those works indirectly make your argument, but what I'd really like to see is:

1) Your definition of "the system [the US] was intended to have in the constitution" (including how, in concrete terms, it differs from the status quo and your justification for the assertion that the system you describe was, in fact, what was intended in the Constitution), and

2) The argument (which can be brief and supported by appropriate citations to other works) that you believe has "proven" "as a fact" that that system would have the effect you claim.
This is really clever! But text mode interfaces weren't _that_ slow.
Well, it could help. The problem with a democracy is that if the majority is bigoted, then the money is taken from a less-bigoted minority and applied unequally. And in any kind of government, if an elected or appointed official is bigoted, then policies set can get biased too.

It's certainly a possible improvement, but it's not an absolute one.
It's the risk you'll be out of a job in three months when the seed funding runs out, right before your benefits kick in.
> If you co-found with a non-bestie, not only are you taking all that risk on yourself

I co-founded a company with my best friend in high school. He screwed me 6 months into the biz. As an individual, the fires of entrepreneurship completely changed him.
There's significant incentive for us to wait until we feel all the security pieces we have been working on are relatively stable before releasing.

Even if we don't advertise, we really want to have multiple security audits, and to know that it's pretty hard to mess up with the software before it gets in the hands of anyone who could get in trouble for using it.

It's a hard balance to strike, but we're getting pretty close :)

The github link has most of the source public, it's really just the front end UX that's kept private until we're ready to open up a public beta.
That you can lose that job all of a sudden.
Browse more then 100k 3D files with your Oculus
These days VED is sent directly to the Queen, who gets to spend it all on hats. New government directive 27b/6.
This is pretty close to what happens. It's generally phonetic, and yet there seems to be a wide variety of first pronunciations, which deviate from the phonetic by several syllables either way.
Not saying it "would" be bad, saying it "could" be bad.

Most of these articles rarely speak of potential negative consequences but only of potential positive results. That's the point of my first post.

It's not a bad idea to openly discuss potential negative consequences which most proponents of a minimum wage hike seem to do their best to avoid.

For instance, you are assuming that such an increase would only involve that 50% of the country. I'm assuming that such an increase would affect nearly everybody across the board, something more like 80%. That's not necessarily a good thing. But it could be a good thing, it's just that it's rare for a discussion to take place.
There is, sometimes, a tendency on the part of young, ambitious entrepreneurs, to be overly optimistic and assume that they can gatecrash an industry they know nothing about, set up a slick website and disrupt the big, bloated, uncool incumbents.

Sometimes that works out but I believe that a new entrants chances of success are a lot higher if they have somebody on board who is actually familiar with the industry sector they're trying to disrupt.

None of Oscar's founders have worked in health insurance previously. They come from tech entrepreneur/VC, consulting and technology backgrounds.

Edit: Here's a good example of where some industry expertise might have been useful: "..it was a design decision to limit the information presented to hospital's on what is covered in detail (like in­house labs)."

There's currently a big trend in design towards making things simple. But there's a difference between making stuff simple and dumbing it down. Sometimes, stuff looks complicated because it's complicated.
It's because GitHub Pages (where the Brick site itself is hosted right now) runs an outdated version of Jekyll that doesn't support Collections yet.

You can track the issue here: https://github.com/alfredxing/brick/issues/62
Of course it is. All things being equal, if you're still employed a year later your stock vests. In his situation he'd have to start negotiations about his equity. That's a huge difference.
Go generate: Proposal for Go 1.4
There's an unwillingness to introduce too many opt-ins into JS as it quickly leads to ever increasing implementation complexity. Note that Perl is one of the few notable languages to have such sort of opt-ins.
Enjoy fighting your straw man there.

Looking at patterns of human activity in the past, I do believe that libertarianism would go that way, yes.

That doesn't automatically mean that I'm a huge fan of the status quo, though. There is more spectrum to political thought than libertarians on one side who want to change everything and statists on the other who want to change nothing.
Can people realize by now how ludicrous it is that a bot or idiot is able to take down 116 repositories without any oversight or validation, and your only recourse is to (a) deal with it (b) take time from your day to jump through flaming hoops for bureaucrats? GitHub's brand of DMCA compliance is much like YouTube's: lazy to the point of unequivocally benefiting copyright owners, not content producers. Hosting your code on GitHub is senseless because anybody can take your code down at a moment's notice.
I'd guess through Amazon affiliate links, which will pay out for every purchase that originated on the site. Very nice idea, and brilliant use of an affiliate scheme.
This is nonsense. You don't "own" your body. You are your body.
I was in the same position and switched to Arch long ago. Power management in my MacBook Air 11 2013 is as good as in OS X, if not better. This sounds like a bold statement, but mind that it's almost 100% Intel hardware. Intel funded powertop, which is a utility that allows you to track and optimize software and hardware power usage.

Even Linus himself used this machine for quite long. He then moved on to a Chromebook Pixel. These days he seems to be using a Vaio.
I wonder if the privacy-conscious individual is safer than others or made a huge misjudgement by signalling that they have something to hide thereby putting themselves under a magnifying glass that only the top-X% of secure internet users will escape?
I launched Invoiced [1] as a private beta in June of 2013 while in college. In November I took it out of private beta and have since been fortunate enough to be able to focus on it full time.

Invoiced provides simple invoicing for the small business/freelance crowd. It is bootstrapped, profitable, and currently producing 4-figures of MRR. I learn something new every day and get to work with awesome people (customers).

[1] http://invoiced.com
They're supposed to link to a font-specific specimen page where you can see exactly how the font renders and take advantage of some content-editable headings and paragraphs.
I could see this being really useful. There are many times I have needed questions answered by the doctor (e.g. I've been diagnosed with x - can I still do y safely) and the only way is with an appointment which wastes both our time. I wish my local GP would set aside 1 hour per day to answers questions via email or phone. It would make things much more efficient.
Mispronouncing someone's name is understandable. What gets me is people misspelling my name... after they've worked with me for years... and seen my name hundreds of times...
Should be affiliate links.
It's only a polite fiction that things outside of open-source projects overwhelmed him. Your link itself says that he doesn't want to work on his open source Python projects because of Python 3 taking his motivation.
His name is probably "Marius". That's about as short as it gets as a name...
Put me on the list of disappointed that it's not JS.
Zoo Animals and Their Discontents
Biggest void in universe may explain cosmic cold spot
I have serious objections to anything that increases reliance on fossil fuels. Or anything that releases more carbon to the atmosphere for that matter.

There are clean ways to get you off the grid. This is not one of them. At least not entirely.
Remember that that pledge can be fulfilled by increasing employee (i.e. CEO) salaries, nicer buildings for the company, etc. That's what's happened at our local BCBS affiliate.
If you steal my car and give it to your kids I can get it back can't I?

So how about giving back North-America to the rightful owners?

Since this is by far the largest and longest standing misappropriation of wealth on the continent, I would expect it to be the primary if not sole focus of Libertarians.
How HN users will pronounce my full name: Mario César Señoranis ?

Some suggest that this feels pretentious to suggest the correct pronunciation, however I always research the correct pronunciation for all persons I'm presented. From my side I like it, is a courtesy, is about good manners.

Not getting mad about someone mispronounce your name is courteous as research the correct pronunciation for others name
I've been using WinSplit Revolution for years and love it. It's not extensible, but lets you do things like toggle between 1/3, 1/2, and 2/3 of the space, which I use a lot.
> equity ~= the percentage of ownership and responsibility.

The entire point of the corporate form is separating degree of ownership from degree of responsibility.
I have emacs-like keybindings in most Linux apps, including dmenu. For some apps that don't support this by default, you can configure it via their gtk backend.
Doctors would say health care is expensive because of the threat of lawsuits which forces them to carry expensive insurance. It's easier for hospitals to price gouge when they're billing a faceless corporation instead of an individual.
One person's "dreary monotonous" is another person's paradise. Be careful with the value judgments. Plenty of people want the room to spread out and raise their family away from the urban density.
Raw milk distributors.
> Extinct Humans Passed High-Altitude Gene to Tibetans

Extinct? Hmmm. Get over it we are partly neanderthals, denisovans and so on.
FiveStar is incredible, nice work. I just bought some stuff with it and had a quick but enjoyable experience.
This is just as much on Github as it is on Qualcomm. There is no reason Github should grant preliminary takedown on any repository no matter who the client is, and a quick run-through on some of these requests show that many of these were made in error. It should be Github's responsibility to make sure that erroneous claims are not capable of actually removing or blocking content on their service.
The best in finance have most of their compensation on a perfomance-bonus basis.

so for a highly sought after trading associate (real example, really high valued financial institution), get 100k base but also getting forward guidance for a 200k bonus at an absolute minimum - e.g. if not turning out to be completely incompetent.
That's when Borland was right up there with Microsoft!
Ask HN: Most amount of time you spent on a project with nothing to show for it?
Edit: The question was meant for personal unpaid time, not a company funded project that was scrapped.
Do nation states need pen testers?
For retention. If the company actually starts taking off, the equity keeps people there. If they don't have equity, every person with a decent title at a fast growing startup will jump ship to other competitors immediately and get a big (cash) raise. The equity keeps people in the fast growing startup longer. Golden handcuffs and all that.
For me the sixth is all Lato -- the blue block that starts with "Unity"
I can't help but think the creator's genius would've been better applied to practically anything else. But so what, it's fantastic!
>Sure, just ignore all the asians, hispanics, women, etc

Well the libertarian movement certainly does.

http://redd.it/28wdvh
the non-state group ISIS seems to have a decent cyber warfare capability. The pwning of a "significant number of SOHO-routers" in Iraq could have been prevented had an adequate pen test been performed on the SOHO networks across the country. :) Should nation states force either: a) their citizens, or b) their ISPs to ensure networks are "secure?"
Needs more ═[▪]═╗. :)
"Much better to say that you should consider salary and equity separately. One is for doing the job and the other for doing it now when uncertainty and the possibility of failure are high.
Also, some people (like me) would trade an increase in equity for a smaller salary, so it's not a perfect separation. I had a job offer once that gave me two options to choose from, which was really cool."

So the two options you were given was more cash less equity or more equity less cash. Doesn't that negate your point that you should consider salary and equity separately? I don't really see from a financial perspective how you can seperate the two when considering a job as both relate to the risk you are taking.
> or has made a huge misjudgement by signalling that they have something to hide

That is obviously a psychological effect that the NSA & Co. welcome very much, maybe even try to use against the rest of us. The question is: Do we want to let such a cheap trick get us?
I'm curious what you think "the founding values of technology" are, and when they were established (the founding of "technology"? Like the wheel? Or just transistor-based technology?), and by whom/what.
But you can always ask FBI to prove that their sources are legitimate. They say the sources are legitimate, but you say no, and it's their word versus your word, right?

On an unrelated news, http://mayday.us campaign still has two days left.
I like this in my ~/.inputrc

"\e[A":history-search-backward
"\e[B":history-search-forward

Type a few characters and hitting the arrow keys will show only commands that match those first few characters.
It's a great name, but it has three syllables and is uncommon enough for people to wonder if they should pronounce the "s" as he himself demonstrated.

There's a reason you know William Gates and William Clinton as Bill Gates and Bill Clinton. Richard Cheney knows short name is so important, he'd rather be called "Dick" rather than his full name, "Richard".

Short always wins. Mark isn't bad, by the way.

Marius "Mark" Capone.

Yup. Great.
Or god forbid, just git itself.
No mention of the Brackets editor here from Adobe. Also built with JS and open source. Any opinions on it in comparison to Atom? http://brackets.io
No, the optimizing compiler inside the JVM does produce a lot of native code for your system... c/assembler. It just has to discover hot spots then JIT them.
As I always like to say, equity doesn't pay rent in SF or put food on the table.
I will never expect anyone to pronounce my legal first name, Xitij.
This was part of the coverage I had with QLiance in Seattle. I could send an e-mail or call my doctor on the phone and get a prompt response.

At one point we went from "noticed problem" to "discussed via e-mail" to "at the clinic being treated" in an hour. Other times, we'd notice a problem and solve it entirely via e-mail or phone, and save the clinic visit entirely.
Quite a few of them appear to be part of the Qualcomm Vuforia AR Toolkit. I happen to have this lying around from a few years back and the license for the example code seems to be "All rights reserved, Qualcomm Confidential and Proprietary". I suspect this was an oversight they may have corrected so I will be interested to see what happens with the DMCA requests.
Wait, what? Are you being facetious? This is so oddly specific.
It is enough. You can perf test the same non-trivial program (such as a biz application) in C and Java, and given you allow the JVM to warm up, discover hot spots, and JIT your code... they will run just about the same performance level... every time. The JVM is impressive.