skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this was a fairly common experience to those of us who were homeschooling some 30+ years ago (wow, has it been that long?).

i know lots of friends with similar experiences, having prepared statements to tell adults who wanted to know why we were out during normal school hours, having to wait until after 3pm to go outside to play just to avoid the scrutiny.
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>Which able bodied person?

That can be debated, but I'd argue for somewhere around the median.

>Why is someone who was once well off but fell on hard times entitled to more help than someone who was born into hard times?

I'm not sure what you mean? I'm just suggesting we might want a supplementary income for disabled people, since they don't have the option to supplement their basic income with a job.
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True, but if I pay $60,000 in federal taxes each year, and only receive $25,000 in "mincome", then it's still "socialism" (as Americans seem to define it).

It seems that any tax plan that is remotely progressive is immediately labeled as "socialist" by the right.
Thanks a lot for the explanation :)

My concern was that I saw the blog did the run on real life big(actually big) data and outperform everything on the market. This got me thinking, are we still not there on the problem size/computing power curve so as to justify use of distributed computing?

Of course distributed makes sense in a lot of places specially web and where problem is embarrassingly parallel but running graph algos is a bug chunk of the market and it seems for most firms a laptop will do.

Again, thanks for sharing.
My personal solution has been to own two clunkers, but my wife says it's a personal sickness on my part (I like clunkers).

I blame the fact that while I am not personally a redneck, I am descended from a very long line of rednecks and can't remember a time when we didn't own at least one car that didn't run.

And that's not even counting the beloved "donor" cars. :-)
I don't personally like using git GUIs other than the occasional gitk/git gui but I've found it really helpful to give to someone with not experience who has to use git "right now" (Like in a Game Jam) and/or is not a programmer.
I grew up middle class, and statistically I'm upper-middle-class now. The closest I've got to a new car was when I got together with my wife, who had just purchased one.

Currently, we operate two cheap vehicles, less than $10k between them. But I work from home, and my wife is part-time, so we don't put a lot of load on them. We also can easily handle one of them breaking down, both financially and from a scheduling perspective. I have the time to change a flat if needed.

Used cars make sense for me, but I'm definitely privileged in many of the ways Jack describes in the article.
What's built not to be repaired, is bad value for money.
> they just needed reasonably smart people and university acted as a filter

Bingo. That's all most employers are looking for. If employers in the US were allowed to do IQ tests on candidates, no one would care what degrees you have.
Compare US numbers in RH guide to the wages listed on the Department of Labor website, Wages By Occupation. Across the board, the lowest RH number matches the average DOL number. For example, salaries for non-senior web developers are listed at $65k-$95k per RH and at $67k on average for all web developers per DOL (http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151134.htm).

RH numbers track what I see out in the field much more closely (being a developer myself, hiring other developers, and sharing compensation information within my professional circle). I've always been curious as to how DOL comes by their numbers, they just seem so low.
Thanks for bringing this up. I've seen and heard it mentioned before and never took the time to seek it out.
This shouldn't be odd to anyone who's spent a large amount of time releasing open source. You just end up being used and uncompensated. At best you get a job offer from it.

It's really sad to me how many companies benefit from open source (including my own software) without the author ever being compensated.

It's hard for me to get motivated to do anything open source anymore because of the feeling that I'm just a gullible idiot in the end.

The feeling when I fix issues opened by people at VC-backed companies with millions of dollars is really really nasty. I always feel like such an idiot.
It was more than just "being a mechanic".

It's

* being a mechanic (so you don't have to pay $500 for a $200 job).
* having a job with flexible hours (This happens on the way to McJob and your late? McBye Bye.)
* having someone else dependable with a flexible job (Friday night and everyone know you know is working at McJobs?)
* having someone to take care of your kids so the kid is at home/daycare/babysitters and not freezing in your car
* having spare money so the choice isn't food vs radiator
* being able to easily adjust to different circumstances.

Not everyone can lose a car and adjust with minimal effort. car breaks down and you expect McJob holder to be able to afford another car? thousand(s) for fix? downpayment on a replacment in short order?

All of this revolves around the fact that he's in a good place, and able to count his blessings. If all you got out of this is "you gotta be a mechanic" then you need to re-read it.
GitLab B.V. Account manager here. I've noticed the links are broken, so here is the same comment as above, but with working links:

Take a look at the conversation that transpired on the blog post comments.

Here is a copy and past from the CEO for GitLab:

GitLab B.V. CEO here, as you might know GitLab is an open source project that is similar to GitHub and Bitbucket. Because it is open source some of our 700 contributors have contributed most of the top 5 feature requests you mentioned:

1. Contributor Statistics https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/4307/feature-request... => Available on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/graphs/master

2. Group repositories https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2323/create-a-way-to... => GitLab has groups https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/

3. Search source code https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2874/ability-to-sear... => Available in the top bar of every project (uses git grep on the backend) https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce

4. Support for 2FA => Still not in GitLab, we would love to see it and we're accepting pull/merge requests for this http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions...

5. Separate permissions for wiki/issue tracker https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2462/allow-admins-to... => In GitLab a guest can access the issue tracker but not the source code https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/perm..., this is not the case for the wiki.

You can use GitLab for free on GitLab.com with unlimited (private) repositories and collaborators. Currently we're at 5TB of repo's but it is growing fast. Feel free to reply to this comment if you have any questions.
> open source and free for non-commercial, require a donation if it is used in a commercial product

Every serious definition of 'open source' or 'free software' says that you can't discriminate by field of endeavour - if you have one set of rules for commercial use and one for non-commercial use, it's not really open source. And the nature of donations is that you can't require them.

That's not to say that you can't build a business model around open source software. You can charge for pre-built binaries, you can charge for exceptions to the GPL license to build proprietary software with it (this is what Qt used to do), or you can charge for services associated with the code (e.g. running a hosted service). You can even technically charge for the code itself, though since anyone who buys it can resell it or give it away, that sounds precarious.
The telecom industry was actually one of the most famous examples of unregulated monopolies, Ma Bell... used in economics textbooks.

So your choice is:
big business squelching competition directly
or
big business squelching competition through lobbying.

The problem still goes back to unchecked unregulated big businesses forcing themselves on the country with their market share and giant wealth.
As long as one (or more) of those clunkers isn't hiding under un-mowed grass and surrounded by broken garden gnomes :)
perhaps it's how I am, but if I'm not interviewing with people who are part of the company, how am I supposed to make judgements about whether I want to work with these people?
Don't be, it was easy to miss :) I should have added an @
Great, insightful reply from somebody who's been there.

As someone who has not been there and has zero experience in this, I'm left wondering whether you had more leverage to ask for "X,Y, and Z" before the deal closed. Not from the acquirer (avoid risking the deal), but from your employer. Surely if you explained the situation and how it is relatively unfair from your perspective, they might be able to negotiate on your behalf?
Which is all great but as far as I'm aware one of the major reasons for titanium's use was its high melting point. Nothing is said of how this compares here.
"If you like to donate Bitcoins you may use the Wau Holland Stiftung account too."

Link: https://www.wauland.de/en/donation.html#61
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"Java was originally designed for interactive television, but it was too advanced for the digital cable television industry at the time."

Likely it was designed, and then used for their first product. Then when that failed, they kept the language for other possible targets.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/javah...
I wonder if it would be feasible to pick a small town in the US and have private parties contribute enough to run such an experiment -- perhaps with better record keeping.

Say a town of 3000 adults and 1000 needed help to get to a 'living wage' level. Let's call living wage an average of $40K per year and, on average, the 1000 people needed about half that to get to that level.

$20m/year plus administrative costs, let's say $5m. $25m for the experiment. Say we run it for a guarantee of 5 years, so that is $125 million.

Too bad. A bit beyond a kickstarter level.

Maybe somebody could supplement it with a reality show.
Is it down for everyone or just me?
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Don't forget that permissive licenses are one of the main reasons people widely adopt these tools in the first place.

I hear you though. Free of charge and open source need to be two separate things (not all the time, of course). Cutting costs in FOSS development usually means spending less time on websites, documentation/support and UIs, which hurts the projects in the long term. It's a vicious cycle.
I read it as "repaired by the blessed people and parts".

What I don't understand is, if this sensor fails so often, why doesn't the farmer keep one in stock. That he's willing to have the machine idle for 2 days to get it suggests this isn't a really big problem for him.
FIY: That's 3.8% assuming everybody donated by credit card.

Anybody got an idea why they pay so much?
I think a startup blog should communicate a personality, the thoughts, value and experience of the particular startup. Obviously for the content side, you're going to write about your product. But while your product evolves, can I read the growth? For instance, would be great to write about new features as solving more problems for developers or making their lives a bit easier. Good luck. Hope the blog becomes a venue where audience witness your growth. :)
I am not saying that regulation is desirable. In fact it is going to be a major obstacle to innovation. What I am saying is that we pretty much see a major data breach every week. There are some instances where one can call them force majeure, like a zero day on a major security component in windows or linux. But there is no excuse for SQL injections vulnerabilities, unencrypted personal data, IT professionals logging-in to websites without checking the URL, unpatched systems, etc.

Complaining about budgets to fix these issues is like saying that the problems with collapsing bridges is that we don't spend enough fixing the structure. Well, it should have been built properly in the first place.

Yes, resources will have to be allocated to fix existing systems but I think the problem here is more fundamental than a problem of budget and management focus. We need to have a profession competent enough to build a bridge structurally sound even with average engineers.

And this is a general comment. We don't know yet how this particular breach happened.
Meh. Older luxury cars can be great cheap cars for the kids, as long as you avoid extreme high mileage, known expensive parts issues, and dubious service records. CARFAX is useful: You get to see service records. I would pick a 10-15 year old Benz with 100k miles (where the prices come down quickly) that's been dealer-serviced, over a Subaru or Volvo. Any decent car should go 200k miles before it becomes a money sink, and Lexus, BMW, and Benz engines should run to 300k miles before anything expensive wears out. Automatic transmissions and rev-limiters make it hard to destroy an engine through abuse. Non-turbo 6 and 8 cylinder luxury car engines have led an easy life.

The cars they are talking about are either semi-exotic high performance models that probably have been whipped, or super-high-mileage. That's called having a hobby.
GitLab B.V. CEO here, GitLab has comparable functionality and runs best on Linux, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/inst...
Can someone explain to me how basic income could work? I'm really interested, not trying to start a battle. The biggest question: Where does the money come from? Massive taxes on the wealthy? You can't just pull a salary for everyone out of thin air. In the case of this town in Canada, the project was probably funded by taxes from other parts of the country, and could not have worked universally.
Siri was completely unusable/unresponsive from 2011/2012, but then, somewhere around 2012/2013, started to become pretty good (most of the time) for things like, "Wake me up at 6:30 AM" - I used it for that type of query a lot. Dictation, though, was spotty - I would say about 10-20% of the time, I just got a spinning non-response, and even when it did work, it would be slow, and the results would be iffy. And, once again, I used the dictation a lot.

But - sometime in 2014, and I can't really place it - but right around June/August, Siri all of a sudden turned a corner, and her dictation ability got markedly better - so much now, that I don't even bother typing into my iPhone if I'm in a place where I can talk to it - dictation is 99% flawless. much better than my typing, and unquestionably faster.

For whatever reason, Apple hasn't been making a big deal of this - perhaps because they don't want to admit how crappy it was before - but it really is a big deal. Siri is, 3 years later, what she should have been in 20111.

Can't wait to see what the next step in this evolution will be...
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I'm part of the SymPy project and we opted out of a similar program tip4commit. It's a bit easy to game. If you do it per commit, someone could just break up their work in smaller commits. The same thing with pull requests.

I can see bounties for issues fixed, but a per commit system is fundamentally flawed.
I'm sorry but you are wrong. Inflation is nothing but the increase of money supply without an equivalent increase in production.

What you are doing is being a good Keynesian and trying to make people believe that this stuff is too complicated for them to even start having an opinion on it. That strategy is condescending and not productive, and encourages helplessness in people.
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I've been with Anthem since going back to the UC system.

Is there any way to check if I'm affected by the breach? University of California has not made an official statement regarding the breach whatsoever.

I'm looking for something similar to the way you could enter your email address and figure out if your Adobe account was hacked.
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... maybe the problem is people working for free and giving software away for free? The open source culture is a vehicle for entrepreneurs and investors to profit from others' work without compensation. It's that simple.

Hoping for donations to reasonably compensate developers is beyond naive.
I've sometimes wondered whether it'd be worth mid-to-large open source projects doing more triage for bugs. Because I'm in a similar position: I'm happy to make small fixes to stuff I use, but I'm not familiar enough with many codebases to fix big bugs. If I could pull up a list of bugs sorted by "expected ease of fix", I think I'd contribute a lot more.
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Extrapolating the data from the US http://taxes.about.com/od/statetaxes/a/property-taxes-best-a... the states with highest property taxes (New Jersey, New Hampshire) don't seem to be the economic powerhouses compared to the states with ultra-low property rates as the theory would imply. (The rates there are on "property value", so the rate for land value would be higher than indicated.)

> A person holding a land in the city for 25 years didn't make anything new, their profit is a direct zero-sum transfer from someone else.

For one, he took the opportunity risk of locking his liquid capital into a piece of land, which only accumulates property taxes, as opposed to owning a bond or a stock that pays dividend or interest. When you calculate the IRR, land doesn't necessarily come out ahead of S&P 500 over longer periods of time.

For two, he took on the appreciation risk - the land is not guaranteed to go up in value all the time.
So they are building a server-side app to deliver a usable first-load experience with HTML and CSS, while the JavaScript loads in and runs, and until the JavaScript runs, all the links work like normal anchors.

Sounds like Progressive enhancement [1].

[1] http://tomdale.net/2013/09/progressive-enhancement-is-dead/
In the States it should be called a "negative income tax". It's basically the same thing with a different name, but it's the name that Milton Friedman and other leading right-wing economists use.
I was under the impression that there were issues, even with the LGPL. E.g. static vs. dynamic linking.
As I understand it, at the macro level auto design is mostly stiffness-driven. But since they use stampings everywhere, strength matters since stronger materials can be made thinner without buckling (hence your roughly tubular section is stiffer for the same weight).
Donated 20 euros. It's amazing, in some hours has one from 40.000 to 58.000!
I really like the idea of basic income. I think you bring up an excellent point about degree of disability. I think it's really unlikely BI would be at the same level as someone on full disability. However, i do think the VA's model of % disability is helpful here.

BI would (i hope) replace the first say, 10-20% brackets. Hopefully, that would simplify VA administration, so they could focus on specializing support for higher % disability servicemen.
Milton Friedman created a reasonable argument for conservatives that this program is in-line with conservative economic principles.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/business/23scene.html?_r=0
Is this the bread 'choice' you're talking about?

http://i.imgur.com/pnMMj.jpg

Every thing in the supermarket is created by a small amount of companies. The rest is all marketing.

Unregulated free market doesn't stay free for long because competition is rapidly consolidated, squashed, or absorbed by larger fish into mega monopolies.

A free market is just as crazy as communism as both have the end result of a small group of people controlling the market.
I'm not saying that GPG is exactly where it needs to be, but is it lost? The code is out there and it is in use by many around the world. Just to play devil's advocate, what's wrong with stopping development on it?
> they'd say stuff like "Oh, that horrible cancer you have?
> Yeah, we're not paying for it because it was a 'pre-
> existing condition' that you got during that weekend you
> had between two jobs six years ago."

Can you give a link to an article about this? I didn't know "pre-existing condition" worked like that.
It's a weird one, actually; lots of socialists like the idea, but so do lots of libertarians. Alas, conservatives hate it.
This means he doesn't look you in the eye before he sends you to the Gulag.
Nope.

We call it Free and Open Source Software for a reason. Open Source means the code is open (i.e., you can study it), Free means it's licensed under a Free Software license (it doesn't necessarily mean free of charge).

People usually omit the "Free and" part when they talk about FOSS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software

// Anybody want to tell me why you vote me down? Am I wrong?
I read it twice to see if there was any mention of the word 'Shenzhen'. It's difficult to not keep that in the loop, for a hardware startup anywhere in the world. Even SF.
Exactly correct.

Side note for companies like Indiegogo, success at attracting device makers to use their platform is key to their growth. At CES alone they have something like 14 booths.
That could be an interesting project for someone. I suspect the hardest bit would be how you determine which projects are most important or most deserving of donations. As soon as money is involved, people will try to game it and spam it.
Could he not just change the license to require commercial usage by companies with more than $x annual revenue to pay $y in license fees?

Could still remain open source and free for majority of applications if x was high enough. Also, creates a system where those reaping the most also pay the most.
This is what he is referring to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_limit
This is wonderful! Can't wait to see what future batch companies look like
No you don't.

New Toyota corolla: $16,000
2005 Toyota corolla: $4,000

I don't think there exists a scenario where you can end up outspending the MSRP if you buy a used previous model. Say for example your absolute lemon has chassis damage and needs to be scrapped (that's the absolute worst scenario). You still have $12,000 with which to buy another used car. Say you spend a whole week working on it to fix something catastrophic. I don't think anything would take that long but anyway. How many people actually make $12,000 in a week? Not many that need to save money on cars.
The point isn't easily settled, it seems:

I am having a hard time to find financial statements from Debian.

Ubuntu, or rather Canonical, being a private company, doesn't seem to release financial information.
The Ubuntu main page doesn't even provide a 'donate' link anymore.

Which leaves RedHat, at last. A public company, of course[0]:

Operating profit 2014: $ 1.3e9
Net total income 2014: $ 178.3e6

[0] http://investors.redhat.com/financials-statements.cfm
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The article needs a new title. "You gotta be rich to own a car with almost a million miles on it" would be much better. Of course, this is a pretty obvious thing to say, so it probably wouldn't get as many clicks. But at least it would be honest.

It makes no sense to talk about costs of "owning a used car." The costs involved in owning a two-year-old midrange Toyota with 20,000 miles on it are completely different from the costs involved in owning an ancient luxury car that's driven the equivalent of to the Moon and back twice.

Buying a Lexus with 900,000 miles on it is so unusual that there's no way to generalize the story beyond it.
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