skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do! But it's from the article and it supports the opposite conclusion:

> Longer-term research into anti-poverty interventions is rare, but it exists for cash transfers. A 2013 study in Uganda found that people who received cash enjoyed a 49 percent earnings boost after two years, and a 41 percent increase after four years, compared to people who hadn't gotten a transfer. Another study in Sri Lanka found rates of return averaging 80 percent after five years. In Uganda, not only were the cash recipients better off, but their number of hours worked and labor productivity actually increased.
Not the OP, but for me: use Unix. Cygwin is not a sufficient alternative to having an actual, working Unix that works as I expect it to when I use it, with a decent terminal emulator on top of it. (PowerShell is both non-substitutable and inferior.)

Windows-the-desktop is fine, though I don't like it. Windows-the-workstation is, even with the plus that is Visual Studio, still a considerable distance behind even Linux, to say nothing of OS X.
The USA is _VERY_ unique in the world this way. Every other citizen of the world has the freedom to move away and stop paying taxes to their home country if they make no income from it.
You're right. But I've asked around and I haven't found any projects that use an automated build and test process.
I ate some psychedelics once while depressed hardly (sometimes it went into strong panic attacks), it was worst trip I ever had. I was just had to wait when it end up. But when it was gone I finally realized a lot of things about myself, about my life. It was clearest moment, like puzzles finally formed, everything became understandable. Like I was holding my breath all time and finally exhaled. I understood what it was destroying me inside and throwed it away. It just saved me a life.
yeah, i didn't mean literally. treasury notes are kind of like bonds?
"Startup" by its very definition is simply a company in its early phases. Whether it's a for-profit corporation or a non-profit corporation, the challenges, at a high level, are largely the same. At a lower level, they vary just as much between for-profit and non-profit as two for-profits in different industries vary.
Some people joked about the fact that selfdriving cars could be continuous Google Maps scanner in disguise. But back to business, every company will face crisis at one point, better explore alternatives while you can.
I like the configuration over code approach, but I feel like brunch swings too much into the direction of configuration without being able to code. There needs to be a middle ground because there will always be a need for specialized tasks without having to rely on creating plugins.

I stuck with gulp, but got rid of the repetitive nature of declaring the same task code over and over again by creating a centralized set of functions which generate the tasks for me from configuration and a simple API to execute those functions.

This had some other positive side effects, such as making my package.json and gulpfile much smaller. I can also create fixes / features to tasks and all my projects benefit immediately. The main downside to this centralization is that if you need a specific version of a dependency, you have to fork my project and update separately. That said, brunch effectively has this same issue.

A lot of the OP's complaints such as slow build times and incremental builds can be solved with a proper pipeline in gulp, but it is harder than it should be to do and really hard to do if you are copying a bunch of random tasks from projects strewn all over the web. wtf is plumber? =)

Anyway, I published my little project if you're interested in using it. I use it on a daily basis so it will be actively maintained for a long time to come. I welcome PR's for additional tasks that you think others could use.

https://github.com/lookfirst/gulp-helpers

https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-helpers
According to their FAQ they are not gluten-free.

https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/201274745-Vegan-Or...
But apple & co isn't just in the USA, and many of their best workers were educated & raised in other countries.
I think the term I've seen is Rustaceans :)
I read a comparison of the Liberia to Uganda, Kenya examples before that said its because Liberia('s slums) are at a worse of starting point. For the programs to be effective it needs to target extreme poor who still at least have access to infrastructure and resources to develop. If that isn't there then charity would be more effective in developing those things.
Only an American could have written this answer. All other countries in the world use a non global taxation system.

Two basic scenarios:

1. US entity owns a company in the UK. UK company earns $100, pays 20% tax on that, and is left with $80. Declares a dividend to the US parent, and the US then taxes the difference (35% US tax rate - 20% UK tax rate = another 15% to pay). We're left with $65

2. UK entity owns a company in Sweden. Swedish company earns $100, pays 22% tax on that, and is left with $78. Declares a dividend to the UK parent, which is then left untaxed.

Why does 2 make more sense than 1? Because the money was generated in Sweden, and the fact that some parent/holding entity is UK based does not matter (like, at all).

Scenario 1 pushes US companies to expand abroad (i.e. through foreign M&A), and not repatriate any profits back to the US. It also makes it easier for non US entities to acquire US companies, because they can achieve larger tax synergies than a domestic US acquirer would.

A US company trying to achieve something like that would have to do an inversion, which sometimes can be hard to do.

The current state of the US tax code is a great example why Microsoft paid a whopping $2bn for something like Minecraft (Sweden based), or an even larger amount for Luxembourg based Skype. What can they do with that cash otherwise? It's not like they're going to repatriate (ever) without a tax holiday.
I don't think your Uber example counts. Yes, they were paying 2x to drivers, in order to get them out on the road and meeting the needs of their users, but they were charging riders 1x.

The other example is closer to what I'm looking for, but I'm not convinced it's entirely what I'm talking about, either. Yes, there was a (broadly) localized price increase, but it was in the context of a global price up-trend (which can be blamed on biofuels as much as it can poor harvests).

Your cited article points out that global corn prices, for example, were up 84%, and had doubled (or, up 100%) in the horn of Africa. (About which, btw: we're talking about one of the most lawless places on the planet. I very much doubt the usual rules of economics apply unmodified in such an environment.) Those aren't egregiously divergent price increases.
Perfect! I live in San Diego, CA, so I can expect my autonomous car soon.
Thanks! Please share any feedback with us at feedback@snapmeet.io too (other co-founder here)
No pictures of the restored bridge?
That is a lot no matter how you look at it though. If you assume someone eats 2,000 calories a day and 60,000 calories a month of only this one product, that would still be providing a month worth of food for 15 billion people.
They're not wrong, just misleading. A typical person consumes 60,000 kilogram calories a month, AKA 60 million gram calories.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie
While heavy snow / rain is a hard scenario to get self-driving cars into, I would argue that they have the possibility to be better than humans. We are dependent on our poor quality vision. Cars could use laser, low light vision, thermal imaging, etc. to look right through heavy snow or fog!
I wouldn't go so far as that. I liken it more to air travel. You'll be permitted to drive a car, but you'll require far more instruction, the environment will be much more closely monitored, and it'll be much easier to remove someone's privileges for safety infractions.
... According to a conservative thinktank. Surprise!
I've been using Soylant as my daily lunch meal for several months now. Enjoy the convenience. Taste and texture are acceptable. Not in any hurry to switch to Soylant for all my meals -- just enjoying the lunchtime convenience.
Yes, because clearly people in Kenya living in houses with mud floors and thatched roofs just need to work and save more.

The idea that under privileged people can simply work and save their way out of poverty is naive and dangerous.
How far away is censorship? The IETF has always been a rough and tumble group, with consensus over voting or process. I encourage respect and politeness, but the tone of Jari's email seems a little condescending and schoolmarm to me.
In 2014 they wrote: "Soylent is vegetarian but does contain fish oil. While no ingredients by nature contain gluten a preliminary test has shown gluten present at around the FDA limit of 20ppm, likely from the oats. We are working on sourcing certified GF oats but for now cannot claim to be fully GF."

So, they were GF by the US definition of gluten free, but not fully as in certified GF.
Jeff Atwood AMA
In my early years at college, I took the necessary classes to support a double major in Computer Science and Chemistry. Then I took a look at the available jobs. I dropped the Chemistry down to a minor, and went for another minor in Cognitive Science.

It was either that, or bump the Chemistry over to Chemical Engineering, and that seemed like too much extra work on top of CompSci.

One of the factors that will contribute to the collapse of higher education in the US is the disconnect between the degrees granted and the available jobs that require that specific degree. The universities are offering a gross disservice by blithely allowing students into a degree program before sitting their naive asses down in front of someone who will tell them in great detail how difficult it will be for them to actually get a job in their chosen field.

If they're fine with working retail and food service, fine, let the students in. If they want to pay off their loans, perhaps suggest a related but more remunerative field of study. Instead of Chemistry, why not try Chemical Engineering? Instead of Library Science, perhaps Computer Science with an emphasis on databases? Instead of Art History, maybe look into conservation and restoration, or perhaps try the business school for help managing galleries and museums? Otherwise, they're doing no better than offering expensive classes in buggy-whip manufacture. That field can now support maybe one whole person, who would probably also need to be Amish. A university does not need to teach that one guy. He can apprentice himself to the previous buggy-whip maker.
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Not just that, but human drivers have a lot of "hidden variables" affecting their accident risk -- level of experience, state of mind, aggressiveness, familiarity with local roads, and so on. Insurance companies have to try to account for all of that when calculating premiums, based on a limited number of data points.

With autonomous vehicles, two cars of the same model running the same software should be more or less interchangeable. So even leaving aside the number of accidents that occur, the level of uncertainty should be a lot lower.
Fragmentation is harmful when it's mostly similar ones with minor incompatibilities, like ten thousand Linux distros and Window managers. Not to mention the various stock browser versions on Android phones.

Across a market, having two to five differently implemented competitive products results in innovation instead of stagnation with just one.
This brings up the point I'm most looking forward to if we can get this stuff widespread: massive carpooling.

Forget Uber. Get a Google-AV subscription, find the nearest "unoccupied" AV (or call for one to come pick you up, preferably scheduled in advance to it's just waiting for you when you get out), hop in, state destination, get off. Car continues on its merry way to its next duty. Repeat when you want to go back home. Much less massive waste of space involved in all those parking lots. Much less opportunity cost waste. Less total cars in existence for the same amount of travelers.

It's like a public transit pass, but the bus stops are exactly where you want them, and the bus passes exactly when you need it, and you don't have to deal with that insane, smelly old guy who dances in the middle of the bus and then shakes peoples' shoulders so they give him pocket change.
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Whoa, a ton of resources in that post. Thanks!
Not to be critical of your business practice, but the broker's behavior seems to be on thin ethical ice here, since he had a fiduciary obligation to the client - his intentions may have been ethical but but he comes off as a little lazy/irresponsible for not getting the best price for his client.

As you're obviously investing in real estate yourself, how do you balance the benefits of liquidity from a quick sale vs. those of maximizing the sale price by shopping around? Put another way, if you were the seller in that transaction, is the opportunity cost of waiting a bigger worry than getting the best price? Is it just the seller's responsibility to instruct the broker 'this is my liquidity goal, anything on the top is gravy' or 'take your time selling, I want to get the full value of this asset', depending on the seller's need?

I'm not a business person/investor so I would like to understand your thought process better. Thank you. PS feel free to email.
How does Protobuf compare with Corba? I'd be interested in anybody's experience if they have used both.
Perhaps making money out of it may not be the goal.

However working in isolation for such a long period can result in disconnect. How about asking him to do a limited alpha among a small tech group and getting their feedback?
> I am curious why google dabbles in all these strange projects removed from their core business, which seems to be organizing the worlds information and making some money off that.

http://adage.com/article/digital/google-profit-misses-estima...

> Google hasn't posted an annual increase in the average cost-per-click since the third quarter of 2011. It hasn't posted a quarterly boost since the second quarter of that year. Both streaks remain intact.

Their per-click margins aren't going up and there is a limit to what they can do in that situation to grow net revenue.

So they are looking for new growth markets since the margins on their core business aren't really going to change substantially with new investment.

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

Throwing small amounts of money at things like driverless cars is something they can control and will likely give them the first mover advantage in a new market. They take over and become the "Microsoft of Driverless Cars" and they've got a huuuuuuuuuuuge new profit center.

If not, they blew through a bit of cash. They have plenty of cash.
I was more thinking of language features. threads.h would be nice, but, as you may know, despite it being a pretty simple API, neither glibc nor OS X libc has implemented it - there's only musl and then compatibility shims. Sigh. You could blame a lack of demand, but I'd call that chicken and egg: the whole advantage of it over pthreads in theory is portability due to standardization, but as long as the portability remains theory, so does the advantage.
I don't know if you would consider it "income", but in the spirit of hacking I am an active travel hacker and have accumulated millions of miles and points over the past 3 years or so through a combination of credit card bonuses, strategic spending, and "manufactured spending."

I consider miles a valuable currency at this point in my life because I would otherwise spend a lot of real money on personal travel. I can't remember the last time I paid for a flight and can easily accumulate dozens of free hotel nights a year.

Worth looking into if you value travel.
I think by far the biggest danger with self-driving cars won't be how "accurate" they are at driving - I'm sure they'll be much better at that - but hacking. We'll enter an age you could view someone's location in real-time (GPS) and then be able to kill them with potentially relatively low ties back to yourself.

Granted, Google's security is about as good as it gets for most stuff, but what about companies like Audi, BMW [1], Daimler, Ford...Toyota [2]? Many people will still buy cars from them well into the future.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8984129

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643204
This made me think:

* Apple, Google, Microsoft et al. have many foreign workers (green card, H-2B, or maybe L1 visa) and it is easier for american citizens to move/work outside of US than foreigners to get work visa in US. So the question is, if a country (like Spain or Greece) promises tax advantage for next 25 years and makes easier to get visa for employees, would these companies move their hq there?

* If, say, European Union provides better shield, would Apple move its HQ to Germany or Spain?

* Infrastructure: I can say most European counties have better infrastructure than US and it looks like most us companies build their own if needed. With $500 billion on hand, what would prevent these companies to build a better infrastructure in a host country.
That's why it's important that it's a one-time donation, not a recurring additional paycheck. If you give 'the poor' an additional paycheck, yes, it will have an impact on the willingness to work and save. If you give them a one-time donation, on the other hand, they can use it to improve their lives in the longer term, without reducing work. That's what the data (as quoted in the article) shows.

I believe the reasoning for why that should be goes back to the cycle of poverty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_of_poverty). It's harder to make more money if you don't already have more money. By giving a one-time lump sum, you give people the opportunity to dig themselves out of that hole. Eating better, dressing better, buying things that last longer, these all have big impacts on how much one can save and earn. Even getting some basic education helps enormous amounts.
In the end, it might even lead to people being more willing to work harder and actively save more money.
Here is a couple of articles that offer more details:

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/06/05/the_historic_high_b...

http://www.welcome2thebronx.com/wordpress/2015/06/04/the-ori...
An aside: I'm very glad that the BBC included a link to the actual paper, not enough news sources do that these days.
>you can barely see any of the road (no white or yellow lines) and lights are the only part of other cars that you can see.

Arguably, no car should be driving in those conditions unless it is a life or death situation. Because you have a very good chance of dying doing so.
This is really impressive. However, has any one else thought about the ethical dilemmas these algorithms will have to decide upon?

Say for instance that two pedestrians, a young child and an old person, suddenly find themselves in front of a self-driving car. There is not time for the car to brake in time so the algorithm has to make a choice: Which pedestrian gets hit?

I think we'll see more questions like these in the coming years as AI progresses and we become more dependent on it.
Price gouging of food/shelter/energy post-disaster is a fairly common phenomenon, and I don't think it really requires extensive discussion. See e.g. http://knowledgeproblem.com/2010/01/26/price-gouging-in-hait... in the context of Haiti specifically.

WRT vaccines in particular, please read my post as charitably as possible within the surrounding context of the thread -- I can only invest so much time in internet commenting and sometime my grammar isn't perfectly unambiguous. Sorry :-). To help crystallize the point I was making, I edited my parent comment.

In general, as long as we're being pedantic, I suppose that "completely unavailable" -- meaning you can't locally buy a vaccine even for infinite money -- is a rather degenerate form of price inflation. And vaccine stores can be ruined by power outages, which are common during natural disasters.

Edit: Also, my parent comment states "price inflation for bare essentials [immediately following a disaster]", not "systemic inflation" in the sense of a country or region's entire economy. Cash handouts may very well be an effective mechanism for providing long-term redevelopment aid to an area effected by a natural disaster; in fact, that's essentially what happens with insurance payouts when middle class areas of the US are hit by disasters. But redevelopment is quite different from emergency response, which is what this thread is about.
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Mundane for the most part, but horrifying in other aspects.

Imagine if we were able to identify who was likely to be gay back a few decades ago, say during the AIDs scare? Or imagine what would happen even today in places where homosexuals are put to death?
Here is an overview I wrote. This is based on a lot of conversations and emails to non-technical startup people who wanted to learn a bit about the tech. This same material was also given as a talk at Wharton's Venture Initiation Program. Some beginning programs have told me they found it useful also:

http://illuminatedcomputing.com/posts/2014/03/basics-of-web-...

Note there are a few "lies" for the sake of simplifying, and some comments are a little dated, but hopefully it is helpful for you!

EDIT: Let me add, if you're wondering about what language & framework to choose, my advice is it doesn't matter too much, so don't spend much time on this decision. Go with your taste/enjoyment and dive in. You can't make a good choice from reading other people's generalities, so don't try. My preference is Rails, but tastes differ. (I will offer my own generalities though: Rails is best at rapid development and adaptability, Python is best at stats/machine learning, and I'd don't know what Java & C# are best at. For "best at safety/correctness" maybe I'd choose Haskell. :-)
I find it a bit frightening that some of these products are marketed as a way to work even more.

Makes me wonder how many stadium pals are owned by the same type of people.
Free signup. Here's the gist of it:

"Apple is planning a departure from the pricing formula that has defined the economics of digital media for a decade, which would cut the 30 per cent fee music, video and news companies pay on subscriptions through its App Store"
It's an exploit that'll be presented at the upcoming Blackhat conference.
I think Windows 7 generally runs better than Vista. IIRC Windows 8 should also use less ram than 7. My Dell Inspiron Mini 10 ran windows 8 smoothly, just couldn't run Metro apps because of the low resolution (there's a minimum res required).
Suggesting that people living in a mud hut in Uganda can realistically reach a better standard of life simply through working, displays an astonishingly blinkered view of the world. The majority of people there don't have access to resources required to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps".