skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally work at home before lunch, then in a (cramped) group office after lunch. This way I get to work by myself for considerable chunks, get to do all my meals at home (good for budgeting), and still get to interact/collaborate with colleagues basically every day.

Once I spent a full day at the office; I was totally beat afterwards.

The only problem is that it _looks_ like I only work half-days to everybody else.
...the retail price of power is so high that it makes obvious good sense to install your own generation. But instead of adjusting the rates to reflect the new availability of supply, the incumbent utility seeks to raise barriers to competition instead.

Incumbents elsewhere might find themselves in similar situations. If they react the same way, enough localized generation and storage will appear that they will find their business unworkable at any rate level.
I'm building medical scheduling software[1], so I have a decent amount of insight into medical process and the program needed to improve them.

Shoot me an email if you want to do a quick skype to discuss- its in my profile.

[1]: https://reschedulemed.com
Wrong link. The correct link should be thespeakeasy.ch!
I was under the impression the majority of /r/ADHDer's are PI or combined type. I recall hearing that most people with ADHD fall in one of those categories.
The BBC radio 4 long wave broadcasts cover the north-east Atlantic and North Sea.
Your download links point to the most recent version of the app, which is not always the recommended version available from F-Droid. Recommended versions are marked with a star. For example, http://fossdroid.com/a/fdroid.html serves a download of 0.86 which is an unstable test version. All of this is handled better by the F-Droid client app. The way your site is set up now could lead to a poor user experience if they encounter problems with unstable versions of apps that shouldn't be downloaded by default.

Being open source, you're free to do whatever you like, but I suggest you talk with the F-Droid devs to make sure everything is mutually beneficial.
> Being insolvent means that they can't cover your obligations right now

No, it doesn't. If it did it would mean that everyone with a mortgage is insolvent, as would most businesses (what sort of business keeps a 1:1 debt/cash ratio?). What insolvent means is that you don't have enough cash, and/or assets with enough liquidity to be able to pay your debts.

Banks are fine, because for the most part they can sell debtors for cents on the dollar when they really need the cash.
Could you expand on why this film came to your mind in this context. I also saw objectified but felt it was, to put lightly, a fluff self-glorification by designers.
Sure fractional reserve banking can be done with bitcoin. It's not a problem of the currency but of the environment and ecosystem.

A regular bank is well-trusted and insured. A bank run is unlikely because of the trust and even in that case the insurance or a lender can keep the bank solvent. A bitcoin bank is at best moderately trusted and is almost always uninsured. Minor events can lead to panic which leads to a bank run, which leads to insolvency because there is neither insurance nor a good lending infrastructure available to most bitcoin banks.

Concerning lending: there is a small but growing bitcoin lending community, but it's closer to Kickstarter or the VC model. Credits are not given out by banks but by a number of small investors. It's not very efficient yet, but it kind of works.
Looks nice, you should post it on Qudos.io too
Ok thanks, i added this issue :) i hope to fix this soon.
> Where will this income come from?

Largely where it already comes from. The U.S. currently spends around $1 trillion on welfare at the combined state and federal level.

> Who will determine it?

It should be pegged. I believe the best marker is minimum wage. BI can be pegged to a part-time job (between 16 and 20 hours) at minimum wage.

> Who will distribute it? How will it be regulated?

I have given this a great deal of thought. I believe jurisdiction of the program might be best suite to the Federal Reserve in partnership with the Treasury Department. Every citizen would become a common stake holder (1 stock per person) in the FED, entitling them to the monthly "dividend".

> What if other nations don't do the same?

That's their problem. But I imagine some will follow suit.

> How does that impact immigration policy?

It needs to be fixed, of course. Just as it needs to be fixed presently. This won't effect that much b/c illegal immigrants are not citizens and therefore will not receive BI.

> What will be done to address current outstanding national debts?

That's a good question regardless. It's already well known that we can never pay the debt off. Dylan Ratigan argued there is no other solution but debt restructuring. Of course our system is now based on debt, so paying it off would actually kill our economy in its current form. Short of redesigning our economy altogether we just need to keep the debt within a tolerable growth path. (Unfortunately too much money is getting tied up in finance... but I digress.)

> How will this account for cost of living (e.g., NY vs WV)?

It must not account for this at all. That's already a problem with cost of living raises, which only worsen the wealth divisions.

> Do we need a basic rent, too?

No

> Who will determine that cost of living?

Already asked in "Who will determine it?"

It's really not a "comfortable form of serfdom". It is actually very much a capitalistic idea. Think of the economy as an engine and there are various adjustments we can make to improve its performance. BI is just another one of those adjustments. Understandably it didn't seem like an adjustment worth messing with in the hay days of industrialism. But with accelerating automation, it's going to prove essential to the future.
To build on the pedantry, make would be traversing a restricted form of directed acyclic hyper-graph, no? The edges are between sets of vertices to a single vertex.

I found these structures cropping up alongside Horn clauses, and Context-Free Grammars in interesting ways. In this case, viewing make rules as Horn clauses allows us to use a variant of Horn-SAT to find the minimum set of files we have to produce to build a rule, which is interesting to think about, and reason about.

This article felt as though it was food for thought and not really trying to push any particular idea too hard. In any case, I found it interesting as it found parallels to the sorts of structures I found when exploring various algorithms for Context-Free Grammars (such as pruning, or detecting erasable non-terminals, which can both be described in terms of Horn-SAT).
I was graduated from Epitech and it's right the background in cs theory is very poor but the goal isn't to create monkey coders.

The goal of this school and by extension of 42 (the school mentioned in the OP link) is to create real hackers, people able to learn by themselves.
Most of the projects are coding projects right but it's oriented in a way that forces you to learn all along the way if you want to succeed. Learn from internet, books or your peers. RTFM is the motto of the school.

You'd be surprised by what the students are able to achieve.

If that matters some Epitech students work in very successful companies (fb, twitter, google or microsoft) and the Docker founders were in Epitech.
> The thesis boils down to: 'not having seen the data, there is no universally superior algorithm'.

We humans apparently found a way around it by a) examining the data, and b) selecting the best algorithm. It's a meta-level algorithm and could AI not do the same?

(it's meta-level but there's a closure here; you can apply the same bayesian reasoning to select algorithms as you would do on actual data set)
I'd wager what people actually prefer would be wide open fields where everything you see in front of you is yours but they can't afford that, hence they settle on a suburban lawn. Economics drive suburbanization, not any sort of actual human desire. If the economics skew away from the heavy subsidies for suburbs, people stop expanding them.
And the best response to the tweet is from Matt Blaze:

> "I'm on an Amtrak train, which, for the record, I'm pretty sure I can't take over via the wifi."
- https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/589153697910935552
I've had chronic pain in the past that's probably far more minor than yours, and it sucks. But for what it's worth, I've found that the mental effects of exercise are far more dramatic than the physical ones – paradoxically, even running until I'm sore and exhausted seems to relieve more pain over the following two to three days than it causes. Maybe worth considering. Anyway, hope you're trending toward better.
Totally agree with not prosecuting users. It's the dealers that need to be dealt with.
> Not all religions believe the same thing. ... Not every religion is the same.

The article doesn't even suggest anything of the sort. Further, it extends "religious thinking" to include things that aren't religious in the usual sense (anti-vaxxers, for example). The entire point of the article is that there is a different kind of thinking going on when the belief is "religious" vs when it's a belief about reality.

As the article states:

> when people consider the truth of a religious belief, what the belief does for their lives matters more than, well, the facts.
> ...
> scholars have determined that people don’t use rational, instrumental reasoning when they deal with religious beliefs.

Which, if true, should be:

1) fully grappled with, and

2) actively opposed.

Magical/religious/superstitious thinking leads to strongly held beliefs that are impervious to being updated by evidence in a rational manner. Some of these beliefs might be benign or even pro-social -- true -- but at best this process of gaining beliefs is definitely unreliable. At worst, well, we know how it ends at worst.
@fit2rule Support for Lua has been added in version 1.0.1
Seems like another initiative to disrupt the traditional model <good university> -> <good job>, after the MOOCs and soon Star Fighter.

I think it's a good thing to disrupt prestigious universities that hire on credentials, but France is not exactly the country for that since education is mostly free and admissions (at least in engineering schools) tries to be more meritocratic.

EDIT: disclaimer: I did an engineering school in France.
"Utopia" means "no place".

It will have to change.

Then there's the possibility we just haven't happened on the right reciepe to keep people working. It's a huge shift in the basic assumptions of economics, one of which is "not every thing can get done."
I also am not advocating increased penalties for users. Only dealers.
My town tried something like this. Built apartments for the "chronically homeless" on the idea that, provided with decent homes, they could focus on getting jobs and putting other areas of their lives in order. What's happening? The tenants are trashing the apartments, selling the appliances, and not working. Enabling poor life choices generally doesn't stop those who are making them.
I don't know, while I never used opiates or any other "hard" drugs (except nicotine and alcohol), I had/have gambling addiction, lost a fortune of money (myself and parents), now have huge debts, caused a huge emotional pain to my parents, now have to live very frugal, because have to cover my debts, etc, etc.
So I think I imagine that full blown heroin addiction does to you, but the way you describe it sound like some virus, which affects your brain and make your a zombie (like some wasps do this to cockroaches). But in reality in just simple chemical with well understood action mechanism. Of course if you high all day, there is no motivation to do anything, but I think, we as humans beings, have to take responsibility for this and not blame some chemical.

When I said "gentle" and "harmless" I meant their psychical properties to human body. A roulette or deck of cards is also harmless to body, but they can ruin lives too.

But the main tragedy is when people lose health, money, commit crimes, prostitute themselves, etc. An as heroin is relative safe and harmless to body, legal heroin supplies to addicts would solve so much problems.
No Calls, No Bother: “Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule” and Writers' Work
> French companies, especially large ones, have a really strong bias towards applicants from well known and somewhat elitist public schools,

Not only French companies, but also banks, hedge funds, companies like Google and so on...

I was saying that in an other comment, but recently Google Paris organized a programming contest. All teams in the top ten came from top schools (mainly ENS, but also ECP and X) whereas 42 performed extremely poorly.

There's a reason why employers are biased towards elite schools.
Well as I see it there are only really two possibilities: full reserve or fractional reserve, and I've never really seen full reserve banking (i.e. demand deposits cannot be lent).

But please explain if you mean something else.
@gizzlon @senorsmile perl 5 is now the default in the latest 1.0.1 release. perl6 is available too, either by using .p6 extension or specifying an override image with: dexec foo.pl --specify-image dexec/perl6
Hacker News written with Angular 2.0
SOMA is a relatively new phenomena. Live/work developments will follow Twitter's invasion of the Civic Center / OMA area.
Show HN: Points – Summarize websites into bullet points
Yeah, something weird is going on, I'm looking into it.

You're right that this could end up costing me quite a bit, but I'm still safe right now, with a couple of safeguards to prevent it from running away from me.

EDIT: The issue you're seeing might be because `curl -d @filename` strips out newlines before sending it as data
I'm going to repeat this, but more strongly: no doctor should use software created by an amateur. I would be alarmed and furious if my doctor did something like that.

Not only would that be dangerous for you and your father (due to potential lawsuits), you'd also be messing with people's lives. A leaked diagnosis could be absolutely devastating to an entire family.

Just do not do this.
> see FDR on Youtube as an example

Can you be more specific? Searching gives a bunch of documentaries about FDR the president, don't know if that's what you mean.
Yes I agree, and personally I would trust a bitcoin bank even less given the repeated security problems that bitcoin businesses to date.
from another related article[1], "A working hypothesis is that socio-economic circumstances leave their mark on the epigenome leading to stable changes in expression of genes critical for human health, such as those involved in cardiovascular, immune, stress response and behavioural pathologies"

[1] Associations with early-life socio-economic position in adult DNA methylation. Int J Epidemiol. 2012 Feb; 41(1): 62–74.
I wonder if it would be useful to have some kind of block scope for null coalescing? (Alternatively, why can't the programmer just specify the root coalesce and have the compiler figure out the rest?)

Beyond that, I imagine the solution is to just bake null coalescing into the language somehow. Then maybe you'd want to have a block scope for non-null coalescing code.
Hey HN! I'm a high school sophomore and I created Points initially as a way to summarize the long readings we did for honors history this year and I have expanded it into a fully-functional tool for summarizing websites into bullet points. I'd love your feedback and I'd be happy to answer any questions!
Death penalties do not stop smugglers or dealers. Why do you think your harsh penalties will?

Edit: here's one article talking about people being executed for drug smuggling: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-31124858

And here's another one explaining why harsh sentences do not want to deter drug dealers: http://m.smh.com.au/world/does-the-death-penalty-deter-drug-...
>> "...the Union Square area."

The Union Squarea?
haha

The basis of engineering for the last two decades has been mountains of Matlab code, among other things.
Insolvent: Liabilities exceed assets.

Illiquid: Immediate demands for cash exceed liquid assets.

Fractional reserve banking: Short term deposits are lent out as long term loans.

Under normal conditions, a bank has capital (ie, its assets exceed its liabilities). The capital acts as a cushion, which means it is not insolvent, and not likely to become insolvent.

On the other hand, fractional reserve banks are prone to liquidity crises (aka, a bank run), because while the bank will pretty much always have enough assets to give all depositors their money back, it will pretty much never have enough to do so immediately. Which is why real banks have depositor insurance (and also why depositor insurance is affordable to provide).

The article is describing MtGox as being insolvent; and despite incorrectly using the term, it's not describing fractional reserve banking, and the two are not the same thing. MtGox didn't make long term loans (or any loans), and it did not suffer a liquidity crisis. It was insolvent because the money was stolen. It's a vastly different thing.
Project Orleans: Different Than Erlang, Designed for a Broad Group of Developers
We have an ongoing joke about issuing 20p fines for using stupid phrases like, "going forward, I'm leveraging the stakeholders for additional resource to in-flight the next key deliverable". That one's worth at least £1.20. What's wrong with "I'll ask for another developer to work on this project"?

This started with the observation that what's presently called "Human Resources" used to be called "Personnel" and before that simply the "Staff Department". A progression of euphemistic bullshit words.

Letters and parcels are "deliverable". How about "task", or "feature", or "report", or just "thing".
The Cochrane report says the evidence for exercise as an intervention to improve depression is "inconclusive", whereas you say it "probably doesn't" help, which isn't the same thing.

The various reviews of exercise-based interventions illustrate how complex it can be to implement trials and interpret their results.

Frankly I'd encourage exercise in a depressed patient, rather than say it "probably doesn't help". There are numerous other benefits that could probably outweigh risks (although these should obviously be assessed on a case-by-case basis) and interventions should seek to minimise nocebo as well as maximise placebo -- ethically of course. It just might work for that patient, and actually that is a perfectly rational basis for treatment sometimes.
"Then, Liss-Riordan says, her friend looked at her. “He saw what was going through my mind. Then he said, ‘Don’t you dare. You’re going to put them out of business.’”"

I have this vision of her, now, as one of the villains from Atlas Shrugged, merrily destroying wealth and lives in a misguided attempt to do good.

"“Here’s Uber — this business model with $40 billion behind it, that is seen as the future — but if she’s correct about their needing to classify all of these drivers as employees, it destroys that model. And it means all these venture capital investors who have poured millions of dollars into the company have bought a pig in a poke.”"

What a horrible, horrible woman. And the terrible thing is that she's probably 100% convinced that she's on the side of the angels.
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Seems to me we have some conflation of the term "burnout" versus the verb "to burn out". The other people in this subthread were talking about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout_%28psychology%29
Who would the white Europeans be running away from?
I don't think you know how HN works.

You can't just post links to your site and post spammy comments :-/
So basically, it is a big/free internet cafe?
Neat project.

It's 98% Ruby and is being called a "Unix tool" because it has cmdline options. Interesting criteria there.

It seems to be pitched as a js testing tool. Not clear on how it is different from node or just plain phantom.
I think it is fantastic to make many programming hours during your education.

However, I am wondering if these students would learn the computer science fundamentals which are usually found in more or less dry books. Programming analysis, logic, fundamentals of programming language implementation etcetera. You can't say: look on the internet and find the relevant papers in all those fields and synthesize the theory by yourselves. That would be highly inefficient, a problem we tackle with education.
If you make the comparison to Harvard you aim for more than educating people to become good/ exceptionally effective developers in my understanding.
> In my opinion the goal (as with Epita/Epitech) is to produce monkey coders

The creators of Docker and React Native come from Epita/Epitech, so it does produce a few gems :)
You sold 17M albums and you want to pay me nothing
Soundtap is awesome, thanks
I'm slightly unclear on this, how does this differ from Node and what are its uses?
42 performed poorly because it's only been in existence for a year so they have no graduates yet. Only people who've been learning for a year. Time will tell if this school will produce great coders.
Exactly. A library doesn't count as open plan. Silence policies are very strict. Open plan offices on the other hand...
I see your point, but the land itself has a very different history.

European never lived in america, or in australia, no matter how far you go in the past. Jewish people only historical land is in judea ( where it got its biblical name) / palestine. English or french or spanish didn't claim to "return" to america, and not a single archeological american item features scrolls written in english telling how life was when english lived there..

No palestinian kingdom or nation has ever existed, and this land was under the ruling of turks since the 13th century, and it has belonged to many different people througout history. Saying that only the arabs are legitimate there is a strange view of history. It is just one of the multiple people that has a strong connexion with that land ( the most recent one, that is right , and as such a very important one).
I probably spend $400/month just on meat; I love it. You people who are trying to get people not to eat meat should stop trying to guilt people into forgoing things they enjoy and focus on reducing poverty or eradicating slavery. Those are much more worthy causes.
> Only when using GNU rm and its descendents, as far as I know. FreeBSD and OS X's rm neither require that option nor support it.

Indeed. Although I would argue that since we are talking about Suicide Linux, you would in all likelihood need the flag
For anyone else that didn't know: a bridge-and-tunnel (B&T) person is one who lives in the suburbs and is perceived as unsophisticated.

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

I'm perpetually amazed at what people can be condescending about.
Looks like they are back on track. I foresee in 2025 somebody writing "massive scientific misconduct and fraud has been discovered in FBI labs from 2010 till 2020, but the major reforms implemented since should prevent if from reoccurring in the future".
Agreed -- I would love to find a plugin to curb Parallax and other abuses of these CSS/JS UI tricks.

Don't even get me started on the terrible performance of mobile...

The worse offenders are Themeforest templates. I sometimes buy there because the visual designs are quite good for the money. However, post-purchase I am swinging the code-machete and killing 90% of the animations, CSS tricks, big images, and video background that come with them.

Then, for my own projects, I've become super lazy/efficient and just use PureCSS [1] and adobe kuhler [2] and one of the icon sets [3,4]

[1] - http://Purecss.io
[2] - http://color.adobe.com
[3] - http://www.flaticon.com
[4] - http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
That isn't really the purpose of the question. It's so you can't say "that isn't mine, I have no idea how it got there" when they find contraband.