skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In today's world, absent social security or other income programs, $1MM in a post-tax account provides about $35K in income over a 60+ year projected period of non-work (aka "retirement").

This is about 75% of the median income for families of 4 and has to cover everything (including rent, unless you take some of the $1MM and buy a house, reducing your safe withdrawal rate accordingly).

That's a fairly spartan existence, IMO. Proponents of basic income systems (which are certainly appealing emotionally and viscerally) need to account for how to give every family the purchasing power of millionaires, forever. That seems economically a non-starter, regardless of whether or not I think it would be awesome to live in such a world where every precious hour of my labor could be devoted to improving my family's comfort and overall lot in life instead of more than half of it going to "run the family".
I worked for a company with a 'flat' hierarchy. There was actually a secret hierarchy, and I got pushed out for defying the secret hierarchy. The structure allowed the 'managers' to avoid any accountability.
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Disposable bag ban wasn't because of a reduction of waste, but a proliferation of trash.

We (pretty much all governments world wide) subsidize electricity, so consumers don't see a complete price signal and thus are less sensitive to less efficient lightbulbs.

We subsidize water, and then place restrictions on it's use. Without the subsidy, the restriction wouldn't be necessary -- the market would sort it out.
Do you have any links regarding that? Regardless, some/most trusted CAs include the OID 2.23.140.1.2.2 when a certificate is OV validated per CA/B guidelines, so you could just look for that.
The workaround in the article was:

var thingsGroupedById = _.groupBy(things, function(t){
return 'seller' + t.sellerId
});
// { seller1: [...], seller2: [...] }

But I actually would have failed this in code review:

_.map(thingsGroupedById, function (things) {
// ...
});

and replaced it with:

_.map(_.keys(thingsGroupedById), function (thingKey) {
var thing = thingsGroupedById[thingKey];
// ...
});

because although mapping over objects is "normal", it has never been 100%.
https://vimeo.com/97270099
Right. And $1,000 spent on bullets has the same ROI as building schools.

"Those cattle occupy the same ecological niche as the bison did 150 years ago, with a similar environmental impact. Tearing up the native prairie to grow any sort of grain or vegetable crop would destroy the land."

No. Bison bite off the grass, leaving the roots. Unlike cattle. Some argue that bison were an important part of the ecosystem.

http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/un...
Or it turns into Enron and the committee is just a massive scheme for back-stabbing and horse-trading.
> During the Vietnam war pilots turned off all the alarms in some of their planes

There was Duke Cunningham[1], a fighter pilot ace that (IIRC from a documentary) also turned off the comm link from his RIO to avoid the potential distraction. He was able to speak to his RIO, he just wasn't interested in what the RIO had to say to him. Wow.

His political career later went down in spectacular flames.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Cunningham
The tax code is byzantine and full of loopholes.

Warrants are comparatively straightforward. The paper says "jump", you say "how high?" or else. In any case, handed a warrant signed by a judge (kangaroo FISA court or otherwise), you hand over the info first and fight it later. Anything else is obstruction.
Easy, take a 360 approach to reviews from those you work with during the year regardless of title or lack of. IMO this would be more valuable than only having one managers viewpoint. And as a bonus this would cobble those annoying employees that focus on managing up only.
The nut is probably drier relative to the rest of the tree (especially compared to the leaves and the flowers) and then we usually roast or smoke & maybe salt them, so I would expect there to be low water content in the final product compared to the totality used in production.
The problem is imho we as society are still shitty in management of knowledge workers:

- we still think in titles (hierarchy) vs roles (context)
- eg someone can have the role product strategy and that gives him ownership about certain decisions

- we still thinking of "managing people" like of "managing resources" vs setting up processes and communication when processes fail
The beauty of our market economy is that you don't have to work in a company whose culture you find offensive, you can find one whose culture is more to your liking.

<cue civil rights movement>

<cue women's rights movement>

Maybe for the most part now that those are done, but I'm sure there's a few things left.

<cue religion-vs-LGBT flamewar>

<cue women-in-silicon-valley flamewar>
Rapid prototyping is all fine and dandy...but what happens if my idea actually does gain traction? This is the part that makes me uneasy about Meteor. It sounds like I'm either going to have to rewrite everything completely, or wait until Meteor matures, if I need to scale.
Since there are 'no bosses', why does Tony Hsieh have a title like 'CEO'?
New robot API designed to seek out feedback from forums, comments and reviews
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/Makefile:

> NAME = Hurr durr I'ma sheep

The apostrophe in that name seems likely to break things.

(See also https://lwn.net/Articles/545741/)
Mozilla's per process project is called 'Electrolysis'. It's been in the works for years, but Mozilla is saying that it's going to be released (in not beta form) later this year. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
I'm sorry that didn't come across very obviously, but yes, the symbolism is being used to pretend something useful is being done -- which in itself glasses of water amount to nothing, but it makes people think "save water".

Funny thing is journalists reporting on this consistently say idiotic things such as "we should have started this years ago when the drought started" with the implied message that this "measure" is conservationally meaningful.
It treats people like cattle, thrown into the same homogeneous pen together. It can't possibly be about "collaboration" because private offices don't impede on collaboration. It's about fitting as many people into as cheap of a space as possible. And because Facebook has done it, now everyone and their brother is going to start implementing it in their startups, if they haven't already.
I don't know where OP worked but Yahoo 'treated' its employees to Fifth Estate. Everyone was given a ticket (or 2) to an afternoon showing at the Shoreline theater. And no, Citizen Four did not get the same treatment.

Any Googlers want to chime in?
This interests me very much. Are there known problems about mapping over objects? What do you mean it has never been 100%? Thanks!
Valve has the 'Gabe / Everyone Else' structure. They seem to make it work ok. Performance reviews are written by your peers, usually people who worked with you in some way recently.

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1074301/Valve_Handbook_Low...
Are you kidding? You could make more than 5K in an hour of "YT cleaning service, $100 per video"
It's not suppose to appear compromised, it's a joke to reflect the codename given to Linux 4.0 by Linus: "Hurr durr I'ma sheep."

Link to source: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
my gripes with meteor are:

not sure how ddp works or how to scale a meteor app.
does not work with postgresql or any other db.

The biggest issue for me is the tight coupling to MongoDB.

Background: we used Meteor back in mid 2013. we ended up wasting a lot of time and resources because we had to learn everything. when we did, it did not perform so well, over 1MB going back and forth for what could've been achieved with a simple LAMP or ROR app. I think they've dropped Meteor completely.

Anyways, the windows support is nice. Might give it another go now. Not sure what the deal is with MongoDB 3.0. I've been using postgresql entirely now.
A Brief History of the ATM
Is this really harder than Mount Baker Marathon? That one involves 108 miles of trail from sea to summit of 10,700 foot snow clad volcano. Just climbing the volcano alone even when starting at 5000ft is usually quite a bit of an accomplishment. This race adds a long ~100 mile run on the top of it.

http://www.trailrunnermag.com/people/adventure/1495-revival-...
So ordinarily I'd just upvote this comment (and I did), but...this article is so eye-poppingly terrifying that, if accurate--and I have no real reason to believe it's not, it's written in the most kid-gloves style I can think of--makes me genuinely worried about everyone involved.

Work is a social phenomenon. People aren't robots. What the heck are we doing to ourselves?
Hello distributed computing. Command + control at AWS, the heavy lifting at $cheap_dedicated_server_of_the_month.
There are democratic, non-heirarchical corporations out there, like Mondragon.

They grew a bit more organically than this, however, so the structural result is very noticably different.
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Streaming Algorithms and Data Structures
I feel as if google's april fools jokes get progressively worse every year.
This is actually a fairly old and well-known idea, first proposed in the 1960s.

"this apparent lack of structure too often disguised an informal, unacknowledged and unaccountable leadership that was all the more pernicious because its very existence was denied."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessnes...

People interested in ultra modern flat management structures would do well to look up the history of communes, collectives, and other experiments in self-organizing.
Using fallacies while not understanding them makes you look like an idiot. Just FYI.
The latest version of underscore has a _.mapObject function.
Lots of cattle are raised on grasslands in California, but not in the San Joaquin Valley, because that would be a waste of prime land. You can find grazing lands in Marin, Sonoma, San Benito, and other hilly counties.
I disagree. Interesting people can and do work through the ranks at companies. Additionally, a good manager is someone who can encourage and help a mediocre employee become a good or great employee. A flat team means that everyone is stuck doing the same repetitive job, and there's no one /to/ go to to discuss issues who has a bit of detatchment.
For someone who is very new to Clojure, but trying to learn, can someone please explain what this is?
People used to complain about not having a corner office, then about having a cubical while the VPs had offices. Now no one has an office but people still complain. It's impossible for Facebook to give all of its employees offices, so what's the best solution? (People are overreacting to a single sentence by Zuckerberg anyways, the new Facebook headquarters has tons of conference rooms and private nooks.)
Basically.

Every kind of program known to mankind will be implemented if a language remains popular long enough. There are web servers written in awk, but nobody cares because awk isn't compumateguistically threatening to them.

I mean, you could even make a web server/router/framework out of Javascript, but what kind of lunatic would do that?
Jeri Ellsworth (ex-Valve employee) will disagree with you here.

"There is actually a hidden layer of powerful management structure in the company," she claims.

"And it felt a lot like High School.

"There are popular kids that have acquired power, then there's the trouble makers, and then everyone in between. Everyone in between is ok, but the trouble makers are the ones trying to make a difference."

http://www.develop-online.net/news/valve-s-perfect-hiring-hi...
How will they handle accountability without bosses? Decisions are likely to get made by the more outspoken or celebrity personalities. How will they accurately identify weaker decision makers in this category as where they spread influence is a 'group decision'. At 1500+ employees this could easily end up into some political minefield of power struggles and blame/credit games.
Fair point, though those average workers who can do math and plan ahead would lease the car, where NMAC (or the competitors' equivalent) would purchase the car and take the $7500 federal credit as a cap cost reduction and the lease payments would reflect the full value of that credit.

I would be in favor of a simplified tax code, even if it takes away the mortgage interest deduction (mine is partially phased out already), the EV credits, etc (and especially if it gets rid of ACA as my health care plan changed dramatically for the worse and by an amount far greater than historically normal rate increases).
1. Just learned about Hacker Monthly
2. Downloaded first issue and read immediately.
3. Subscribed for 1yr and started reading from 2nd issue on.

I want you to know that after 5 years, there are still people finding out about your work and regarding it as awesome :)
I don't get it - are you saying you don't like knives and elephants?
> private offices don't impede on collaboration

Source? At the most basic level, having a wall between two people makes it harder to collaborate than no wall by the sheer fact that the other person can't hear you.
Things I don't understand as a California:

- Why we continue to sell (nationally) bottled water from California

- Why public golf courses are green

- Why my public officials nag us not to water our lawns as often, when that's not the problem. (FWIW, yes, I replaced my own lawn with drought resistant plants a few years ago.)
>The structure allowed the 'managers' to avoid any accountability.

Privatizing power while socializing accountability/responsibility :)
Why not instead do

_.map(_.values(thingsGroupedById), function(thing) {
// operate on thing
}

Then there's no need to do the property access yourself.

Chaining makes this even nicer:

_(thingsGroupedById).values().map(function(thing) {

}
You don't compare the relative scale of a glass of water and all the almonds in Fresno County because the water isn't fungible. You could stop growing almonds all over California right now and that isn't going to put any more water into Hetch Hetchy for drinking by San Franciscans.
The first part of this -- the ability to check whether there is mail in the mailbox -- seems useful.
> The software could have been designed to make the probability of requesting a 38.5x overdose from the robot pharmacist negligible, by reserving a special warning for extreme circumstances

A special warning is good. But the software could ALSO require the doctor to, instead of just clicking, read a message like this on the screen:

YES I REALLY WANT A DOSE OF 6160 MG OF (whatever)

Then force the doctor to re-type that exact message into an input field. Typing required, no cut/paste allowed.

There is nobody, no matter how busy, who would type those words without thinking about what they are doing.

Of course, that sort of typing can't be requested routinely, only in extreme circumstances. Perhaps these extreme circumstances would require TWO people to type that same message?

Or, maybe the software should simply REJECT a dosage greater than perhaps 10x safe dosage for a person. No override allowed?
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If you're not worried enough, see the prior article about the suicides.

http://recode.net/2014/10/01/the-downtown-project-suicides-c...

Fortunately, some smart-thinking entrepreneurs are there to, uh, disrupt depression with a startup mental health clinic and a startup church. Or something.
I wish I commented frequently enough on HN to have earned the downvote button by now...

I feel like the only proper way to treat April Fools jokes is to bury them.
> This sort of disrespect, this sort of complete dehumanization of the worker, it's the new normal.

When you decide to work for a CEO who called his own users "dumb fucks" for using his product, I'm not sure you should expect respect and humanization from the top.
Opposition Comments to §1201 DMCA Copyright Exemption Requests
It's a real long-shot that this is going to get enough upvotes to appear on the homepage, but it's really interesting stuff.

After the mess of the last triennial §1201 DMCA exemption (unlocking exemption was removed, causing a kerfuffle), a coalition of organizations rallied around this year and petitioned for a whole host of important exemptions.

These are the opposition comments - its fascinating to see content creators and equipment manufacturers come out and argue for why people shouldn't be able to use and modify the devices/content they've purchased.

The original petitions for exemptions can be found here: http://copyright.gov/1201/2014/petitions/
You could also keep the same salary for executives and share the savings across the employees.. which is probably what is being done.

So sure, that makes the gap executives-employee seem bigger, but in reality its the same. With the advantage of a flatter hierarchy.

For I have experimented some of these, I found it way more enjoyable than having 3 to 10 bosses on top of me, where you consistently spend your time:

- covering your ass

- covering your boss asses

- discussing in meetings until another boss comes over and changes everything

- having to do whatever the manager decides if its a bad manager, even thus its against the team opinion

- discussing in meetings until the boss that isnt in your range of bosses decides a political coup (approx every 6month)

- etc.

Ie, corporate life of a low-end employee.... yeah zappo's hierachy isn't near as bad as you make it to be, in fact - and while im sure its company depend, it seems rather enjoyable.
>"And it felt a lot like High School.

"Called "holacracy," the new system replaces the conventional command-and-control workplace with a series of self-governed teams, known as "circles." "

i first read it as "cliques" :)
I'm sure glad you haven't earned that downvote button. But after reading this comment, I sure wish I had one.
A raspberry pi model A costs around 25 dollars, doesn't it?
Of course the calculation was wrong. The correct calculation would require consideration of the entire tax code and every means tested benefit the hypothetical family might be eligible for. But your assumption that the loss of $45,000 rather than $65,000 makes it not a cliff is equally erroneous, because many of the other things not accounted for go the other way. The loss of financial aid may still exceed $45,000 for a family with more than one child in college, or if the housing expenses in question are eligible for some other source of means tested financial aid. The additional income may destroy various previously permissible tax deductions because of the Alternative Minimum Tax. There are any number of totally unrelated benefits that the family may lose eligibility for at the same time.

There is a realistic hypothetical family that loses more than they make in total regardless of whether the loss of Stanford financial aid is $65,000 or $45,000.
I think it is pretty clear Tony Hsieh isn't the right person to lead Zappos at this scale. His craziness got it to where it is today, but what you need from a CEO changes with scale.
Ask HN: Best of Tech and Startup April Fools Announcements
Would love to see some of the awesome product announcements that are coming today. Lets keep this thread alive.
Does HN need a top banner saying that it's April 1?
The crazy bug aside, I could have done without the animated image macros.
Rubicon Project to Acquire Chango for $122MM
And while totally respecting your POV please understand that some of us think things like Beef, Pork/Bacon, and Fisha re absolutely delicious.

We can agree to disagree and still be friends, or at least civil adults :)
Good one, google :)
Fortunately, a good embedding story is one of Servo's top-line goals.
What is responsive SQL as opposed to just SQL?
I want that in my car
to be clear, part of what makes glass the genius that he is comes from how he is able to do so much with so little.. so to come across a supposed criticism of his work sprawled across thousands of words just made me chuckle a little
I remember the time where they were using April 1st to release real products... Like Gmail.
Even then, there is no downvote button for submissions - only for comments.
Smartbox by Inbox

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/smartbox-by-inbox-mai...
> given what we know about the liver toxicity of acetaminophen/paracetamol at this point, not sure this is the best example of a spurious alert

Why is acetaminophen even in the picture? Isn't ibuprofen very similar in effect but much safer in an overdose?
Considering that 60k feet is well above the altitude at which most commercial planes fly, does anyone find the concept of "total climb" a little misleading? If they're basing it only on all the "ascents", then wouldn't going up and down one foot for 60,000 times also count as "60,000 feet of total climb"?

Also, it's too bad humans don't have regenerative braking...
Yea, way harder. The vertical climb is equivlant to going up and down your volcano almost 6 times.

Also, the whole thing thing is in backwoods on practically non-existent trails.
Isn't there often "informal, unacknowledged and unaccountable leadership" hiding within traditional hierachical structures? It's often not fully apparent from the organizational chart who has real power and influence.
In fact, I've already said brc might be right and decided to change to some other claptrap.[1]

No one ever comes back and says they're glad they convinced someone - they just switch targets and find new people to call doomsday prophets and bloviating windbags.

Thank you for your prejudice and have a nice day.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9300899
same reaction as other commenter when I visited your site. super slow to load.
I don't get it, the post is clearly dated March 31st.
It's impossible for Facebook to give all of its employees
offices, so what's the best solution?

Why is it impossible?
If a wall is all it takes to impede collaboration in your office, then the wall is not the thing impeding collaboration in your office.
Fair enough. Maybe I'm just awful at tuning out all the false product announcements and so on that show up today.

I'm still going to be a curmudgeon about it though.
Indeed, why does anybody talk about "The Central Valley" at all? The northern part is sopping wet at all times, prone to flooding, and the main problem for agriculture in many counties is that the groundwater is only 8 inches under the surface. That's the Sacramento Valley.

The southern part has a dramatic gradient from somewhat dry in Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties to extremely dry in Kern County. That's the San Joaquin Valley.

It makes as much sense to conflate these areas as it would to talk about El Paso and Austin as being part of the same ecosystem.
No, not "manager," "lead link." You just don't get it, man. You just do what you're told by the people who are better than you. They're not your managers! They are just 'better' so they deserve to tell you what to do and how to do it.