skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$30,000 is a pretty big number.

If you made it $8,000, a family of 4 would still be above today's poverty line (which is still arbitrary, but it seems like a better "minimal income" than one that gives everybody approximately the current median personal income).

$9 trillion / (30/8) = $2.4 trillion.
Not to mention there's a huge difference between a used car with 890k! miles vs. a used car with closer to 70-100k miles. Sure that Lexus is a well built Toyota with good reliability, but at that mileage you're going to be expecting things to break. On the other hand if you get a less than 10 year old car with under 100k miles, unless it's known to have major issues, you shouldn't have nearly the amount of problems.
I read the article. He mentioned the civic thing once, and didn't explicitly recommend buying used civics. It wasn't mentioned in the title either. So I wanted to comment here, just in case anyone got the wrong idea that used cars are expensive.
I'm not sure I understand what distinction you are making. All of the examples you mention are built by reusing OS/JVM threads. That is how you have to implement user-threads. How do you feel Akka differs from Quasar/Go (aside from the coroutine/actor distinction) .
On carmax a 2005 Corolla with over 100k miles still sells for over $9000.

General car advice is the minimum you should spend on a used car is at least $5000. And that's if you're really lucky. If you want a problem free used car for a usable amount of time (3-4 years) then you need to go up to at least $8000.
It will be interesting -- and by "interesting" I mean "terrifying" -- to see what the thwarting of internalized expectations does to our social fabric. It's the same essential motivation that fueled the rise of Islamist terror groups in the Mideast: young men with education but no financial or social prospects. Obviously, these were societies with threadbare social fabric due to decades of political repression and economic mismanagement, but there's no ironclad rule that an otherwise stable country can't tip over with shocking speed. (In this, the sheer size of the US probably creates a tendency towards short-term stability, while also making it more difficult to enact long-term solutions.)

The post-war economic ideal of America was a powerful albeit somewhat utopian concept -- a large number of financially-secure skilled and unskilled laborers supporting a smaller but still large upper middle-class of "symbolic manipulators" for whom a college degree served as an entrance ticket. The lure was, of course, that anyone could move up the ladder if they applied themselves, worked hard, and got an education.

The post-war social compact offered stability and meritocratic advancement in exchange for sociopolitical legitimation. Stability was swept away by automation and globalization, and advancement is, for all but the most elite, tenuous at best; what, then, will we replace it with?
>316 million Americans, at a $30k/year money sample works out to be $9 trillion dollars a year.

I'm not sure if you read the article. But the proposition in Canada was essentially a negative income tax for the lowest tax brackets. And it didn't reach nearly your $30k a year - I have no idea where you came up with that number. Current deliberation on the issue would not even consider nearly that amount.

>On a large scale, it would be a disaster.

Only if we let you make the plan. There is plenty of other serious discussions about reasonable possibilities in this space.
Covered entities must "[protect] against any reasonably anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of such [electronic protected health information the covered entity creates, receives, maintains, or transmits]" (45 C.F.R. § 164.306(a), http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/45/164.306). Storing passwords in the clear "obviously increase [sic] the risk of a breach", hence this is a reasonably anticipated threat.

HIPAA and similar laws don't codify whatever we think is good computing practice today. Down that path lies madness. Congress would have to re-write the law any time GCPs change, or else the law would become a hindrance to the very goals its trying to achieve (in this case, healthcare-related information security). Instead, the law is written more generally, with "reasonable" being the keyword that lets the legal system refer to current practice.

(My adaptation of "GCP" is stolen shamelessly from the clinical research folks, who use it to refer to "good clinical practice", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_clinical_practice.)
Having copyright end exactly at the point of death does raise the interesting possibility of people being killed for exactly this reason. Not exactly a likely scenario, but it is possible, and worth thinking about, IMHO.
I wouldn't say what someone else "should" or shouldn't do, but my point was that the parent's solution overlooked a crucial factor.

It's not an either-or choice; There are solutions that help him and GPG.
> Like many people who build security software, Koch believes that offering the underlying software code for free is the best way to demonstrate that there are no hidden backdoors in it giving access to spy agencies or others.

I'm guessing this is a problem with the journalist misunderstanding the subject, who probably said publishing it as free software (which is not the same as giving it away for free) is the best way to demonstrate that it is secure.
That is absolutely not what would happen. Some organization that relies on it would fork it and maintain the fork. It would be highly likely they would even ask him to consult.
It's a technical interview to assess your technical knowledge. The idea is you'd have another interview with your boss about your teamworking skills and similar rubbish.

I can actually see a need for this, but they need to get more experts than "our mates from nearby startups and their parents."

Also the subjects they've listed are all for programming topics when I doubt you're going to be in the situation of not already having some in house experts. They need much more niche subjects.
True that. Cambridge,MA initially.
According to [1], for a family of 4 the poverty line is just under $24k?

[1] http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/14poverty.cfm
There was a "Spidernode" project started a while ago: http://zpao.com/posts/about-that-hybrid-v8monkey-engine/

I believe it fizzled out partly due to lack of contributor time and partly because the mainstream Node maintainers were wary of fragmenting the Node.js ecosystem/community.
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Don't forgot to donate to ProPublica for covering an unsexy story as well.
Here is a prediction: A Pakistani student whose uncle got blown up by a drone will build a drone that flies a few hundred miles, nap of the earth, nobody knows where from, and blows up a few people on a US military base. He will build it using his university's 3D printer, hobbyist materials obtained mail order, and plans (except for the exploding parts) from Make Magazine.

All of a sudden, drones and other autonomous and remote killing machines will be seen as if they are land mines, and will be beyond the pale for any civilized nation. After all, a land mine is just a drone that waits for you.

The US will have to be dragged to this position by international pressure. The FBI will track down all purchases of drones (welcome to some list, somewhere). And talking heads on the news will tut-tut drone hobbyists as terrorist enablers.
Wow. That is incredibly hilarious and sad. I passed the note on to TU.
Was assaulted with this weird ad on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcYyK6MhIfM

Thoughts about PIF?
HHVM vs. PHP 5 battle. HHVM is much faster
Yes. Of course, I wish YC would take my advice, too! ;)
Gratipay (gittip) comes to mind, but that's a donation mechanism, rather than the information collection you're describing. Sounds like a good idea for a project. IMO, the hardest part of that will be accurately prioritizing which projects are critical, very important, moderately important, etc.
My guess would be £0. Why would they need to? A very sizeable part of the population think he's a creepy nerd who's hiding from sexual assault allegations. The later is true, the former subjective.
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This is pretty cool, but I'm not sure you have a bunch of iOS users complaining about the store. OTOH, if you did this for Windows Phone, you'd probably find some desperate people.
I would take it a step further and say that server-rendered JavaScript apps completely changes the game and will have ripple effects throughout the web industry.

Here's MercuryJS's example of server rendered app: https://github.com/Raynos/mercury/tree/master/examples/serve...

As you can see most of the code is the client-code. All the server code does is run a function and stringify the results.

What this means is that you no longer need a back-end team and a front-end team. Your front-end team is your team (not counting "API" teams). Sure, some companies have already been doing this but now you can do it with far less code. And you can do it faster. And with fewer developers (there's less work). Which means you can do it cheaper.

All of this means is, if you are writing your front-end and back-end in different languages, you are in a real competitive disadvantage.

So any language used for web development is going to see its usage slide if they can't find an answer for transpiling to JavaScript. And hopefully having an isomorphic answer the way JavaScript now has.
>If minimum income is enough to allow everyone to live comfortably

That depends what you mean by "comfortably". Most basic income proposals suggest a level that is survivable, but which still provides significant incentive to supplement it with a job.

Living on the absolute minimum, for whatever reason, should be a choice. Disabled people don't get to make that choice.
In what world are privacy tools not beneficial to the CII? And how does OpenSSL not fall under "privacy tool"??
I think you actually understand the philosophical basis of property and why it doesn't apply to ideas better than you're letting on here, but I'll answer this anyway.

Ownership of physical property is natural because physical property is inherently rivalrous and excludable — if you take my hammer, I can't use it, and thus I need to keep my hammer in my shed if I want to have access to it when I need it. Ownership makes natural sense there. It's essential to security.

Ideas are not the same way. Any number of people can think an idea, and in fact an idea becomes just as much a part of everyone who thinks it as the first person who thought it, and you literally can't take an idea back once you have shared it. Ideas are not just easy to copy, they aren't even entities that need copying. The mind is constantly taking in and assimilating ideas and creating its own.

I'm not actually against copyright. I think there is a sound moral basis for it, in that otherwise an increasing number of people wouldn't be able to enjoy the fruits of their labor. I just don't think there is a moral justification for the tortured concept of eternal copyright. Eventually, any successful idea will become so diffused throughout society that it's just an utter farce to pretend it is not part of the commons.

If nothing else, infinitely decreasing the number of ideas that may be legally had is so harmful to society that it outweighs any good that could possibly come from it. In other words, even if we say "Sure, let's pretend treating ideas as property is a natural fit," the Lockean Proviso warns us against allowing them to remain property forever.
Thank you Tom Dale for continuing to make ember better with Fast Boot. I personally write and live-test a lot of my apps on 4chan's /g/ and /r/programming (which I imagine hosts a large "tinfoil" user base), and the most common feedback I would get from them is "why do you need javascript for this trash?" (well, the actual most common feedback I'd get from them are personal insults regarding my sexual preferences, but they're not constructive and heeding them will not lead to a better product). So thank you so much for working to make ember server-side-enabled.

Also, not to put the cart before the horse, but any chance we'll be getting virtual dom any time soon?
It tries to, but browsers generally load a lot of assets meaning high chances of eviction etc along with the problems in dealing how servers / browser deal with cache directives.

I mean try it against 2 fairly comparable static sites - http://backbonejs.org/ + http://pouchdb.com/, keep on refreshing them, that case is gonna give you the highest cache hit rate you can get and its still noticeable.
Congratulations Luke and team! The ClusterHQ crew is great to work with, they really get what we're trying to do with Docker, and they're providing great feedback on the best way to help the Docker ecosystem be successful, instead of getting in the way.

Whenever people ask me "I want to use the Docker ecosystem to distribute my product, what's the right way to do it?", I point to a handful of projects as examples to follow. ClusterHQ is definitely one of them. I'm tempted to point to other good examples here, but this is Luke's moment so I'll wait for a more appropriate occasion :)

Congratulations again!
Just donated and you should too... ;) Great project!
I don't want to get into a big discussion on small libraries vs. big frameworks (your use of the word "bloat" gives away your position here ;).

I would ask readers of this discussion to visit any of the web applications they use on a daily basis, open the developer tools, and look at the size of the JavaScript payload. Whatever libraries or frameworks they're using, the payload size is almost always several hundred kilobytes.

I'd argue that using small libraries is a noble goal, but in practice, you just need several hundred KB of JavaScript to build modern apps. If we're honest with ourselves about it, we can try to do a good job of managing it from the beginning. Otherwise you just end up with an ad hoc mess.

The other point I tried to make here is that, yes, of course, you can do all of this by hand. But in practice, most teams are so under the gun to ship features that they don't do it. If we can make great boot performance as easy as installing an npm package, why not?

Lastly, regarding the vaporware claim: we've got a very alpha version up on GitHub already. I invite Ember users to play around with it and give us feedback: https://github.com/tildeio/ember-cli-fastboot.
I don't think anyone is missing the point at all. I fully understand what you're attempting to do because I tried to implement an Ember project only to have so many negatives pile up that it was actively working against our goals.

I really wanted to like Ember, but even with those issues aside, the two most common comments on out team about Ember were "Wait, why is that working?" and "I didn't change anything, why isn't it working now". Neither is something you should be hearing from your dev team.

You can do some pretty cool things pretty quickly, but there are more promises that resolves.
Would Patreon or Gittip (which has changed its name to something I can't recall at the moment) not work for this?

In fact, Gittip's original mission was tips for open source projects.
"And the law let them do that."

IIUC, not since Obamacare went into full effect in 2014. One of the main provisions of it was that it became illegal to deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions.

They still need the records because one of the other effects of Obamacare is that it became illegal to not have health insurance, but it's broken in a different way now.
Thanks! Will do asap and push out a new build.
> The Ubuntu main page doesn't even provide a 'donate' link anymore

Try to download it: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute/?version=1...
I like the simplicity. How does this handle CSRF tokens?
Re: Virtual DOM, keep an eye on https://github.com/tildeio/htmlbars/pull/282.
It's not so much about earning $12,000 a week, but rather working for a company that's flexible enough to let you take a week of on short notice to fix your car, regardless of pay.
Just donated 50€, hopefully the goal of 120.000€ will be exceeded!
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That doesn't mean prices won't change because of it.

As a simplified example, let's say poor person A is renting an apartment from rich person B for $500/month. The new system gives everyone $500/month basic income, but to pay for this rich person B has to pay $1000/month more in tax (of which he gets back half as basic income), while poor person A doesn't pay more tax. So essentially poor person A is getting $500/month from rich person B. Obviously it wouldn't be that simple in reality, but roughly speaking that's what a universal basic income covered by taxes would mean - money flows from rich to poor, in varying degrees.

Now sticking to the simplified two-person version, rich person A thinks "well poor person B could afford my $500/month rent before, now their income has gone up $500/month, so if I charge them $1000/month rent I know they can still afford it". The end result would be wasting time on behalf of the government and indeed the individuals to update everything while money split would remain identical, the only difference being that $500 now flows from B to A (via tax and basic income) then back to B (via rent increase).

Obviously in the non-simplified world it wouldn't be as easy as saying "that person is now getting some money from my taxes so I can charge them that much more", and numbers wouldn't be exact... but as a rough theory, pricing definitely could alter at least to some extent.

All that said: I'm not an economist, I don't know if that would happen, or to what extent. And my personal non-educated opinion is that basic income would be a good thing anyway.
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No mention was made specifically of how to rule out spontaneous pair production, although I'm guessing it would be the same answer as how they rule out cosmic sources? Would spontaneous pair production be dependent on anything external at all?
Awesome. My own experience is more with Scala IDE, which is terrible. I tried IntelliJ for a brief time last year, saw it had spurious compilation errors, and the gurus at my office told me it was even worse than Scala IDE (but you know how gurus are...).

Out of curiosity:

- Do you have incremental compilation enabled with IntelliJ?

- Do you ever experience a compile error in the IDE for code that SBT is able to compile successfully?
Uh-huh. 4*8=32.

You used 316 million as one of your multipliers, that presumably includes children.
Photos does look great, but Apple decided to completely ignore iPhoto while making this. iPhoto has so many bugs and problems and there is nothing I can do but sit and wait for them to release Photos.
honestly we have not gotten that far yet - at least on the speech technology side. Good discussion to have.
Typical credit card fees are 2.9% + 30c. Assuming that they have regular fees at not non-profit rates(which tend to be lower), it would make their average donation amount to be around $7.14

Source: 48995/689239 = (x*.029+.30)/x
It will be good if this is real. Nature articles about nanotechnology which claim "huge breakthrough to be commercialized real soon now" are all too frequent. Then we never hear about the technology again.

For aerospace, the big advantage of titanium is a high melting point. This material won't have that, which is probably why the authors talk about automotive applications. For automotive applications, a question is whether these new properties will survive ordinary manufacturing processes. Casting, probably not, but maybe the process can be applied to castings later as a heat-treating step. What about rolling and stamping?
Depends on what you want to do career-wise, and what's going to make you happy.

There are billions of lines of COBOL running out there, doing all the unhip, non-HN, bread and butter IT/MIS types of things that keep the world running (like getting your paycheck right, or processing your insurance claim, or calculating your utility bill). Because many of these applications incorporate decades of tribal knowledge and accumulated tweaks, all the "COBOL needs to die" nonsense in the world will not make them go away in my lifetime, and probably not in yours. And since the cool kids keep hearing that COBOL is the ultimate in looser languages, you are correct that there's a declining pool of COBOL talent. One of my clients even funded the CS department at the local CC so that there would be a COBOL/Mainframe oriented degree track to develop talent.

Up side: You'll be in a field with declining talent but not equally declining demand and will generally be able to find a job and be paid well (though don't count on off-the-charts compensation). You'll usually work in mature, stable operational environments at large, established companies. You'll almost always be involved in core business processes, making you less likely to be the subject of cuts when budgets get tight.

Down side: There are no COBOL start-up companies; you won't be working on cutting edge stuff. "Modify the taxation calculator to reflect changes in the FY2015 tax code" would be typical projects. Stable also usually == staid & bureaucratic, and if that sort of work environment annoys you, you won't be happy. COBOL is a horrid, ugly language especially if you're used most anything else. COBOL is often tied to IBM Mainframes, so it's somewhat rare to not have to also know something about z/OS, CICS and other IBM-isms. Hipsters and brogrammers will judge you negatively not because of your talent or accomplishments, but because you solved problems with COBOL, instead of their choice of cooler languages (I get this some times having done a fair bit of FORTRAN back in the day by people who ignore how cool the problems we were solving were).

So if career stability is important enough to give up on faster paced, more cutting edge environments, then you might give COBOL a go.
It seems to be this entire argument can be solved by looking into the number of people who have allegedly committed sexual assault in Sweden, are currently residing in the UK, and have been arrested and deported back to Sweden for questioning. If the answer is zero (or near zero), then there's obviously more to this than what the Swedes are admitting.
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How long ago did you check out Ember?
The thing is, the underfunded dependencies that are the most vital are those that are widely used by many projects. If it was normal to chuck a small percentage of available funds to dependencies, the money would start to add up.
This is a great resource for when your teenager comes to you with terrible eagerness - "Hey Dad, I found a truck online and it's only $1000. Will you come look at it with me?".
What YC is doing is bundling discounts on PCB prototyping, and 3D printed parts. The rest of the offerings are further down the stack (testing, RF, etc.) so the only thing you would be missing as a non-YC company trying to build a prototype to get into YC is discounts.

If you are hand assembling your prototypes then you only have PCB fabrication costs, which for a 2 to 4 layer board should be about $500 max for your protos (1 week turn). That should be doable for most start-ups, even if they need 3-4 spins.
I think reality TV would prefer if mincome made for worse outcomes.