skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an entire field of mathematics dedicated to answering such questions and the answer is a lot more complicated than your simple quip. In fact the way most democracies are set up they are theoretically much less optimal than they could be and in some cases are as good as dictatorial systems because of susceptibility to being rigged. As usual wikipedia is a pretty good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system.
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Yeah, it does not ask for any information at all. Just decide what you want your place to be called.
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If a monopoly spontaneously emerges out of a free market, whereby no violence or coercion was used against other participants, then that business was simply better and more efficient at giving the market what it wants. It also doubles as a price signal to others that something in their way of doing business is inefficient and wasteful (or just not as efficient as the most efficient participant).

I don't have a problem with such "monopolies", because they aren't real monopolies. As long as the market is still open to new participants, then it's not really an issue. For example, if a monopolist starts raising prices and hoarding supplies in order to artificially elevate prices, then new participants can enter the market and make money off the delta between the new prices and the old prices that made sense to the market.
For comparison, the Ferrari FF has something like 670 bhp.
See my reply to the poster below you.
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Not germane to this case, but I've recently started to wonder why employers aren't more responsible for commute times. There aren't really incentives to situate places of employment in affordable neighborhoods.

Long commute times end up being a regressive drain on the time of employees, and employers bear no responsibility to alleviate the problem though they are complicit in its creation.
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There are some fascinating stories on using QuickCheck to test Riak and other distributed systems. For example: http://basho.com/tag/quickcheck/ and https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/4505-quickchecking-riak (registration required)
> unless you think 50% of America's budget going on weaponry to fight threats that don't exist is a productive use of capital

That is flatly not true. Where do you get your numbers?
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Who else is having a "bad css day"? Just spent a few hours nailing down font rendering differences across Internet Explorer versions. Ended up using a combination of conditional statements & weird ms-specific media queries. CSS. Fun for the whole family.
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Not as a call for citation as I have some basic understanding, but I'd like to learn more about why those threats are considered non-existent and why the USA keeps fighting them.
As an eu citizen I knew that, and I can tell you they are "working on it" since decades of years (almost since Apple for the first time implemented it around the '80s), Nothing changed because Ireland doesn't want to change its taxation because the corps on its field lobby under the threat to move to another country, and the EU commission has not the power to impose the change to Ireland.
Wow, could they have made it more obvious than this is a choice they made because they didn't want to award it to someone else (like Snowden)?

What an incredibly "generic" winner. His fight for improving children education? Seriously? There must be literally millions of people who do that. What is it with these guys and poor Nobel Peace Prize choices?
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Really sorry about the misinformation. I meant to say citi.
Thanks for the detailed answer, I did wonder what the exact reason was. Do you think there would be much overhead - financially speaking - speaking to adding the dedicated hardware? I ask because I can only see them doing it if it's financially viable, as in, will enough disabled people or those interested in voice recognition by the iPhone to make it worth our while.

Also, does the CPU get hot whilst it's plugged in and constantly listening every few milliseconds?
The workers are paid what the market is willing to pay them. If there is an inefficiency/mispricing and someone can get better compensation elsewhere (for the same skill set, presumably), then it makes sense for them to arbitrage that gap and change employers. If enough people leave Amazon, then Amazon will have to start paying people better, and ultimately, the gap will close.
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SO my friend got asked to find a good free web hosting site, he normally find good hoster, he found a good one for www.serenityrecovery.com or seastoneofdelray.com, but the owners of this new site he got dont like anything he showed them so any recomendations ?
There are still accents in England where those words would be pronounced almost the same :)
I love both pages. They brings back nostalgia. I remember those times fondly, I just started to learn HTML then. The Web those days was different, it felt like a social network itself. I miss it.

Also, your girlfriend seems to be winning now :). Those ASCII-art birds are beautiful.
I'd argue the second case, generally.

There are far too many situations where a switchover time of [user initial reaction time + initial response time] is high enough to be rather dangerous.
Sorry for sending you on a wild goose chase. I meant to say citi offers the service.
> barrier for entry into the online shopping industry is relatively low

I was under the impression that online retail is extremely capital-intensive. Especially in the initial years, where companies use capital to undercut competitors.
This is also a huge problem in Ireland with young males being most at risk. Its a complex problem with many factors but for sure.
http://stopsuicide.ie/suicide-myths-and-facts/
It still paywalls me from google.
> Once there's a critical mass of cars with cameras, cars could communicate road conditions automatically.

I would be frightened to trust the data coming from a random car in front of me. Inferring road condition from another car behavior sounds reasonable, using data supplied from it, not so much.
It depends - was it a foreigner who was having their throat checked?

Although, yes, formally the ー mostly appears in katakana and after a vowel, there's a lot of informal ways to use it. eg. んー？ - the sound of someone thinking or っー an extended pause (perhaps in surprise - something happened mid sentence to cut someone off suddenly and make their jaw drop).

eg. just coincidentally, my friend posted this on instagram as I was typing this response.

http://instagram.com/p/t-BznNC0Nw/

んーしみじみ

n-- shimijimi.

mmmm, deep thoughts...
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If by "certain kind of economic system" you mean a heavily regulated pseudo free market system, then sure. But don't try to pretend, as I think you are, that regulation isn't the important bit there and that somehow the free market is the cause of these monopolies. The systems of regulation we have today are both not very effective and also generally hugely advantage consolidation, working against the often inherent advantages of fresh startups as competitors.
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On a related note about the economic system have a look at this: http://www.upworthy.com/9-out-of-10-americans-are-completely...

This is what happens when wealth accumulates at the top of the pyramid. The video is talking about people, but those people are those behind the companies you mentioned (including Google, Facebook, hedge funds and oil companies). The problem with capitalism in my opinion, is that it's not truly capitalism: i.e. it's not the free competition system they claim it to be, but a system which is "more free" for some.
I updated the front page text. Any better / clear?
I had a difficult time watching this video from a technical aspect, so to save others the trouble :

PGs biggest regret has to do with not with business or entrepreneurship, but that he wishes that he had told his parent(s) to have more frequent colon cancer screenings.

Jessica's biggest regret was squandering her time in college, not learning as much as she wishes she had.
I'm surprised employees on "Interproject" (also known as being on the Bench pretty much every consulting company out there) don't just treat this as vacation and let Ubisoft know they'll check their voicemail every couple days to see if they any new gigs coming up.

If the place is depressing, and you aren't actually doing work - why not spend the time resting, recharging and relaxing.
Reminds me of the sequence where Big Head gets kicked off the Nucleus project in "Silicon Valley"
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Interesting picture of the CPU! Multiple PLLs, different memory types, logic functions.
From a hardware perspective, I think physics plays less and less a role here. What matters most nowadays, are all the subtle logical challanges introduced by software.
Spies can access my metadata, so why can't I?
This sounds exactly like being "on the bench" at a big IT company - no current project, yet still retained and encouraged to find new work for a while before any mention of redundancy or unemployment rolls around.

Edit - ghshephard pretty much nailed it in his post just before mine!
German law forces Uber to cut fares to eliminate profits for drivers
Ask HN: Programmers, what are your min requirements? What is your utopia?
This account is a throwaway as I wanted to ask this semi-anonymously.

I've been thinking over the past few years about what my minimum requirements are in a working environment and what my ideal would look like, but I honestly have no idea -- not really.

I've got 10+ years of coding experience at a major corporation -- non-tech -- and I'm getting rather bored. I'd like to do something new: it doesn't have to be new subject matter, but I'd like to do something different. But before I embark on my journey I need to define my parameters: what is the minimum I need to leave my current (cushy) position? What is my ideal working environment?

I honestly have no idea how to answer these questions - which is scary. So I open the question up to you, HN: what is your IDEAL utopia for a workplace, as a programmer? It could relate to the physical workplace, source control, programming language, IDE, agile, Goodness and not Evilness, whatever. It's entirely subjective. What is your MINIMUM baseline for a working environment for you to even consider working somewhere? Again: this is entirely open and unstructured. It might be "free snacks," it might be "lets me bring my dog to work" or it might be "doesn't engage in human sacrifice every week."
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Love the name of the blog: "This will never work in theory", indeed!

When I did my first greenfield TDD project[1], I was utterly amazed by the low defect rate (3 in a year, only one really related to coding) we achieved with a fairly relaxed attitude towards comprehensive code coverage and edge cases.

This seems to be related to a slightly different observation, which is that most of the really awful/pernicious bugs tend to be super simple/stupid once you have found them. You know, the "slap your forehead" type of bugs that you just couldn't see because they were too obvious.

My suspicion was that firing even a few monte-carlo rays into that potentially huge state/argument space is sufficient to induce writing the correct code in the vast majority of cases, it's great to see pretty convincing empirical evidence for it (rather than just anecdotal).

Of course, we all "know" that testing is insufficient, after all Dijkstra said so. Did I mention I love the name "This will never work in theory"?

[1] http://www.springerprofessional.de/011---in-process-rest-at-...
I still think that either said config files should use another format, or people should adhere to the spec. For this to have massive adoption new parsers will be required for all major languages. The problem it solves is not that great to merit new parsers I don't think. Of course, I could be completely wrong and this will become the next standard, but I doubt it.
I'm not pretending. I also disagree that a truly and freely competitive system is the answer. I don't think in the entire history of the world there has ever been any kind of free marketplace and the discussion on these matters are very often mired by ideological biases. Economics falls in a weird gray zone buffered by pure economic theory on one side and practical social constraints on the other.
> minimally higher prices spread across millions of customers

Except higher sticker prices on commodity goods are regressive. If people are worried about the cost of living, raising the cost of essentials is absolutely worse, all things being equal. I would like to see the math behind the way to raise the cost of toilet paper while simultaneously making it universally easier to buy toilet paper.

There's a case to be made that raising prices (or taxes) on non-essentials is a good idea, but pricing rules inevitably become susceptible to lobbying and discourage innovation (why invent a yacht that costs half as much to manufacture?). Introducing "sin" taxes (cigarettes, oil, carbon emissions, corn syrup) might be a good idea if there are affordable alternatives, but you're also introducing morals into your economic system, which has its own problems.

If the concern is that it's hard to earn enough money to live, why not address that problem directly through minimum incomes, earned income tax credits, and the like? I don't see why we have to interfere with pricing to achieve those ends.
Yow.

I didn't know that.

(Seems like a better way to test would be to allow anything, with three sets of numbers. One for "time from source to as far as you can go without input" (i.e. compilation time, loading the source into RAM, that sort of thing) "time from input to end of first run", one for "time for nth run", with n being high enough that the timing settles. So after any JITters are done, that sort of thing.)
This is one of the main criticisms of the capitalist system. If it inevitably results in socialism in disguise then you could have actual socialism.
Made you smile because you think he actually had already done the math? Or because he did it fast right there and corrected her?

I smiled too, because of the latter.
It is all over the world. A large number of men are commuting suicide, mostly students and then married men. Yet if you look through pop media all you will see is how many women are 'attempting' suicide... :/
This brings in an interesting area of questioning, does this mean that Snapsave could get in any sort of legal trouble for storing these images?

I find it hard to believe, what makes Snapsave different from any other file hosting service? As far as I know, no service provider is liable unless they are aware of any specific illegal content being uploaded.
Oh, please. This piece is silly. Amazon's ebook "monopoly" is incredibly fragile. Either Apple or Google could squash it without breaking a sweat. Microsoft, Facebook and others could too, they'd just probably sweat a bit.

None of them want to. That's not an accident. It's because Amazon isn't giving them an opening by abusing either customers or suppliers. Publishers can claim otherwise, but they're not putting their money where their mouths are. They're not walking away from Amazon, nor can they even demonstrate that they're getting clearly better terms from anyone else.
I disagree. I don't think "human culture can be (honestly) recognized as a consciously directed emergent property," any more than an individuals personality can be directed.

We know some things. We control some things. We can't engineer a human personality. Same goes for human culture. We can't decide to model Iraqi culture on Italian culture. We can copy some institutions, the copying is indirect. The cards will fall where they may, and the honest truth is that we don't know how it works.

Before the fact we have a bunch of angry amadons screaming that xyz will happen if we do xyz. After the fact we have the amadons arguing about what really happened. No knowledge is gained.
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Microsoft has pseudo-3D with multiple planes and realtime-computed shadows now?
Good point. We should let wealthy companies manipulate the economy because you said competitors are envious. That makes tons of sense.
Psychodrama
Kinda wish this was the top voted answer because you do a much better job putting things in perspective in terms of all the interactions that are involved. Maybe HN should implement a vote transfer feature.
Probably because the way French consulting companies manage their employees is awful.

They're a reason they're called "meat sellers".
The internet works that way, and you seem to be fine with that. :\ Is it the "saftey issue"? i.e the internet can't crash you into a wall, it can only send you to rotton or steal your credit card...
Great to hear about the more rapid release cycle - it will help the switch to Ceylon!
No, I think they dropped this since Vista. There is a pinch of old-school, you are right.
I think there should be a move towards targeting government policies that improve the numbers on measures like suicide and reported happiness. There are quite a lot of stats out there and they vary a lot from country to country - Wikipedia has Lithuania at 31 suicides per 100k per year, Greece at 3.5 and the UK and US in the middle somewhere around 12. You could try figuring what make the difference (perhaps with regression analysis?) and implementing policies to make it more like Greece and less like Lithuania perhaps.
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On Nexus 5 (Android L preview is only for Nexus 5 and 7).
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I hear this expression, "heavily regulated", a lot from Americans but I never understand in context to what? Are you making comparisons to Canada, the EU, China or other countries with different economic systems? Also, how do you further differentiate necessary regulation from overbearing regulation? Surely you aren't suggesting all regulation is inherently bad?
This is a very "communist" answer, because it pretends as though wealth and value are static, inherent things, rather than dynamic products of human activity. A parody of communist thought would be to say that they believe that wealth comes out of a factory (the "means of production"), and it's just a matter of manning the stations and throwing the "on" switch to get wealth coming out, from there it's mostly a matter of who gets what. This is a fantasy, and a dangerous one at that. Because of this stilted viewpoint, "communists" tend to imagine that the only way for the wealth of a "worker" to increase is to take that wealth from elsewhere. The reality is that wealth creation is an incredibly complex and dynamic dance between many disparate individuals and systems, and it is not fixed.

There's tons more I could say on that subject but let me skip ahead to what I think the problem is in the US today in regards to worker wages. I don't think it's a problem of some inherent evil in the free market. Rather I think it's a symptom of excess regulation and taxation (and other costs) and a poor educational system, among other factors. The cost and complexity of living these days is much higher than it used to be. There are so many bills, so many taxes, and so on. The bar for a "reasonable" living is much higher these days, and much harder to obtain, with more pressures from every direction on savings and discretionary income. More so, the increasing costs combined with increasing necessity of higher education has put a lot of young workers in a financial pinch, as did the latest housing crisis. People aren't getting the skills they need to build strong careers and to have greater negotiating power. People are being discouraged away from trade schools and funneled into liberal arts colleges. People are being saddled with huge debts in exchange for skills that don't go far in the marketplace, they're discouraged or prevented from saving, they're discouraged from creating their own work (unless they're in software, which is the rare exception) by starting their own companies. All of those things were on the table for previous generations. Without them we've ended up with a generation of workers who are desperate to find and keep a job, who must rely on working for a big corporation because they need that surety of a paycheck to pay their high costs of living and their debts. We like to imagine that all these regulations and taxes have no negative consequences because they were created with the best of intentions, though that's not the case.

But every element there is amenable to improvement, without resorting to marxist wealth redistribtion. I would posit that the consolidation of wealth we have been seeing is not the cause of the problem but rather the symptom of a larger underlying problem.
What an awful article. So much text, so few informations.

We need an tl;dr app that measures the amount of informations and gives you a tl;dr version if the blow-up and repetitions reach a certain percentage of the complete length of the article.
So if a car, driving right ahead of me, leaking oil when cornering...
I know exactly what you mean - I was thinking the same thing when was making decision to start something on my own.

As of physical environment - stup below works perfectly for me:
- 27'' double screen
- proper headphones with noise cancellation and DVD's stack with my favorite music
- proper ergonomic chair
- big desk
- non-membrane keyboard
- big (0.5 liter min.) cup of something to drink (not necessary coffee since it usually makes it harder to focus)

As of tools I use:
- operating system depends on work I do, however Linux Arch is my favorite
- subversion as version control (old but still has something in it)
- working with code - usually simple kwrite is just enough
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The main benefit seems to be that it's based on a Firebase backend and updates in realtime.
★£2m Debt based SEED Investment – A good idea?
Hi guys

I am the founder of a London tech startup which launched in beta earlier this year, we have a live website / iOS app and won a few cool awards so far. We are now undergoing SEED investment discussions to take the project onto the next stage and start to generate serious revenue next year.

Our current valuation is £1.5m pre-revenue.
However, we have been offered £1-3 million by an investment group. This would not be offered as traditional equity.
Instead they are requiring a combination of both equity and debt.
25.1% equity and 6% of the debt paid back annually (e.g. £10,000 per month for £2m)
Debt payback would begin 2 years after we sign the contract.
The creditor does not want veto power / ordinary shares and just one board member
The debt is signed to the company not to individual founders.
We are unfamiliar with debt investment, is it a common option and does it sound like a good idea for us as a young startup?
Are there any problems which may occur with this style of investment?
Our projections suggest that after 2 years we would be generating enough profit to pay £10,000 back per month without breaking a sweat. The £2million would really give us the ability to break into our market and move forward quickly.

We are in talks with other investors also, but not at this amount. Instead, they are typically around the 150-500k amount.
Can anyone shed any light on this?

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If he were emotionally stunted, he would have difficulty expressing his emotions. Evidently, he does not have that problem.