skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and it supports the opposite conclusion

The opposite conclusion in a false dichotomy.

There are multiple ways to give money. The way the US does it in some cases, where earning 5K more in a given year can cost 10K in benefits, does creates a perverse incentive. The way this charity does it, you get 1K and that's it; it does not create perverse incentives.

Consider the following example. In one example, a person receives X a week to help, but the aid rolls back when they get a job, M dollars less of aid for each dollar earned. So a job comes along where they can earn Y dollars for 40 hours of work. We could call M the means testing coefficient or something fancy like that.

Say that M is 1, and Y < X. In this case, they will now spend 40 hours of their week for no immediate benefit. Having a job may lead to possible longer term benefits (say beginning a career where eventually Y > X), but the cost of 40 hours of their life a week for such little possible benefit would make not working the better choice.

If X > Y, but only by a small amount, and M is 1, then they will see some small benefit, but spread over 40 hours it may still not make the job worth it.

And if M > 1 and Y < X, it would actually be harmful to get a job.

On the other hand, say that M was .25. In this case, taking the job would almost always be beneficial, despite the relationship between X and Y.

As for this charity in question, M is 0 (but the aid lasts only for a year). It is the least likely to cause any such harm to getting a job (except for when M is negative, which is to say the more you earn, the more aid you get, which oddly enough happens in some cases of corporate welfare).
It's actually a pretty bad example, apologies. Python ships with a standard library that includes modules such as datetime, timedelta, and calendar. I've been guilty of using all of them.

I can say that when your date math becomes complex enough you might want to consider avoiding them and doing the calculations yourself. In a recent project I had to integrate several systems that stored metering data in UTC with various databases in different local time zones for the purposes of billing on that data. I can say that doing the math is easier and more clear than using objects that encapsulate the data in such complex scenarios.

There is no hard-and-fast rule for me to determine when operator-overloading is inappropriate. I only have a few "smells" I use that raise the hairs on the back of my neck when I encounter them:

1. If your object has one or more boolean members

2. If your operator has to dispatch on more than 1 type

3. If your operator breaks any of the associated identities

Any of these are just warnings. In the case of matrix addition it breaks the Commutative identity of addition but is a well-defined and known property of the operator for anyone who would be reading code involving those kinds of objects that it can be justified. Dates might be defined-enough but intuition clearly get the best of the OP.

It's just a trade-off that I haven't found valuable outside of certain special cases.
How a guy broke his private part, erect rider booted from naked bike ride
I still don't understand why lucene can't use the original document for aggregations ? I undestand that it will be slower if the field isn't indexed, but it should be doable like rdbms do.
One of the sources is:

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/03March/Pages/Saturated-fats-and...

Which suggests as the guideline and inclues a 20g limit (which the squares are still over):

http://www.nhs.uk/livewell/goodfood/pages/fat.aspx

> Cutting down on saturated fats is only one aspect of reducing your risk of heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases. Other risk factors include eating too much salt and sugar, being overweight, smoking and a lack of physical activity.

Yes, there is disagreement but no I'm not going to take "disagreement" as "HEY LETS GO OVER THE DAILY LIMIT!!!"
So you know better than the NHS, the people who set the guidelines in the US, etc ...?

Yes, but it exceeds the total daily allowance for the NHS, the US equivalent, etc.

There is literally no one that says "Everyone should eat 30g of saturated fat a day"
A detail popped out at me: that they picked people based on the material of their roof. Organics get money, metal doesn't.

I predict a "fashion" trend in the poor architecture of the region to eschew better roofs even if you can afford one.

I also think that an editor of a newspaper in Kenya and Uganda should do a cartoon where a villager uses his GiveDirectly money to buy a better roof, and then the company takes the money back and accuses the villager of fraud.
I believe Win7 has a similar feature. I've seen prompts asking me about it.
If nothing else, he was certainly one of the best looking of the early micro-computer pioneers.
The failure of Digital Research and IBM to reach a deal to bundle CP/M with the original PC provides one of the great "what-ifs" in computing history.

If that deal had been made, Microsoft wouldn't have gotten the big infusion of capital that turned it from a niche vendor into the behemoth it eventually became. Which means Windows, Office, and IE (if they were ever developed at all!) would have had to compete in the marketplace without MS being able to use their monopoly over PC operating systems as a lever to boost them up over the competition. Which in turn means a whole host of products whose names are just footnotes today -- Netscape, OS/2, GEM, TopView, DESQView, DeskMate, GEOS, Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, Ami Pro, and on and on and on -- would have had access to the oxygen that could have turned them into the Next Big Thing. Oxygen that Microsoft was only able to deny them because of the muscle the failure of that original deal had given them.

Who knows what the computing world would look like today if that deal had been reached?
They this website for more information
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This whole area is very underserved in how people
interact with their computers, glad to see people
pushing at it.

This is something that I'm extremely interested in improving.

Are there any tools other than org-mode that you have your eye on?
I wrote a couple of blog posts a few years back about RPython (http://www.maori.geek.nz/post/rpython_compiling_python_to_c_... http://www.maori.geek.nz/post/rpython_is_not_a_language_an_i...) where I implemented a Boolean Satifiability Solver in it. The biggest problem with RPython is there is no definition of a language, it is a tool chain, and it can get very difficult to tell whether what you are writing will even compile. It was very fast though.
I was on Computer Chronicles back in 1987. He was a cool guy despite missing out on the whole DOS explosion.
Yes, I agree with you. These edge cases will probably never actually happen. But again, this is only hypothetical. Are there lines of code that actually define the behaviour of the car in these cases? I think it's an interesting question (-:
Here's another website with much more information:
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Microsoft's Skype for Web beta now open to everyone in the US and UK
Not necessarily. It's entirely possible to be a great engineer and a terrible CEO/Founder/Mentor. It's obviously not always true, but I think there's a benefit to age and wisdom.

It's easy(ish) to find someone with entrepreneurial drive and technical skill. Far more important is the wisdom to know when to listen and when not to listen (and corollaries about hiring good people and managing). Those are critical for long term success and difficult to learn.

It's sad that there's a cult of youth in the valley because a lot of these skills develop over time.
Hey, it sounds like you know quite a bit about this topic, and passion for technical matters is something everyone here understands. But please follow the HN guidelines when commenting. It takes some effort, but it's effort we all need to make.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is the direction that interests me most and what I will want to be doing in my 30s. Still have a ways to go as I started in the frontend and now I'm doing mostly full stack work.
Well, at least they're not really forming wifi beams, which would run the risk of damaging your innards. But this still seems incredibly wasteful.
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The dumb thing is it's really not hard to do fine nutritionally without cooking. You don't need to buy a weird powder, or whatever. Buy a case of canned, pasteurized orange juice and a lot of cheddar cheese. You're gonna be fine eating nothing but that for at least a couple months before you have a problem. There are dozens of easy combinations of food. This is simply not a hard problem that calls for a complicated nerd powder.
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CORBA was ridiculously complex, because they tried to make remote objects look like local ones, with messages, reference counting, naming, discovery, etc. Protobuf is just a serialization mechanism. You're thinking at a lower level of abstraction - it's all just PODs that go over the wire, you build your own RPC framework on top of that (or use gRPC, which is Google's protobuf-over-HTTP2 RPC library) and think in terms of requests & responses.

IMHO trying to make everything look like an object was a mistake, and newer RPC frameworks like gRPC, Thrift, and JSON-over-HTTP are much easier to use than the late-90s frameworks like RMI, CORBA, and DCOM. Sometimes you don't want abstraction, because it abstracts away details you absolutely need to think about.
The government has the burden to prove that the defendant knew about the reporting requirement and intended to evade it... this is quite unlike many of the regulatory crimes that can ensnare the unsophisticated.

So this is a situation where ignorance of the law does excuse violating it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat
If thats the case, then thats something you should have highlighted that as well. Now that I think about it we decided to store blobs under one column using msgpack for a similar reason (although mine was "we had mongo eat up all our disk space because of field names, so now our code is littered with single character field names"). I've thought about fixing it, but if its the case I guess thats related to CASSANDRA-4175. The map solution makes it come across you weren't quite sure what you were doing.

However, I'm even more surprised at the "slower for queries" part. Maybe I'll do some tests with COMPACT STORAGE.
I think we're going to quibble on 2 and 3. It doesn't matter what the capital cost of the vehicle is if you no longer need to own the vehicle and can order it on demand from Google, Uber, etc.

If you want to hammer out details, my email is in my profile. We'd use LongBets [1] to keep track, and under the condition that the loser has to donate the amount chosen to a charity of the winner's choice.

[1] http://longbets.org/
Here is a site with a lot of information
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Oh wow, I missed that Heroku now supports Docker. I've been messing around with Elastic Beanstalk and Kubernetes for Flask deployments and now I'm tempted to see whether Heroku is worth exploring.
Lakka – The DIY Retro Emulation Console
Xiaomi's $15 fitness tracker second most popular wearable
The problem I see with companies providing an API on top of their service is that their core business comes first, API second. So if someone were to use their API to build something that takes traffic from their core business, they will shut it down. Whereas a company whose sole business is providing an API won't run into that same problem.

And I can't blame the companies for making that decision either, why should the company serve your app if they're not even getting any traffic from it? Which would be a logical argument, except these companies open up their APIs and act like they are ok with it at first, and developers spend time building on top of them, creating even more useful services, making the original company even more popular, and then after those companies benefit from these developers, they shut them down.

This is similar to what happened in this case, which I think was a complete dick move by Soundcloud: https://medium.com/@padschneider/r-i-p-soundflake-79f7cf5f9d...
What happened to the Soundcloud API?
Your genetic information can not be used to discriminate against you.

"The President has signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) that will protect Americans against discrimination based on their genetic information when it comes to health insurance and employment."

http://www.genome.gov/24519851
You do realize that the scanning is meant for checking the links for malware, redirection and metadata for previews. Which popular chat service doesn't do this? Paste a link into Facebook, Google+, Gchat and all are likely to do the same or the least passively scan it against a list of known malwares.

You are more likely to leak information by just using your browser. Remember chrome does sent full URLs of your downloads/malware sites when detected back to its HQ. [1] or post a comment on Slashdot and get your entire computer port scanned for free. [2]

I thought it was common sense by now that if you have something sensitive to share do NOT use a cloud based chat or repository!

[1] Information regarding a potentially harmful site or executable file download (including the full URL of the site or executable file download) may be sent to Google to help determine whether the site or download is harmful. - https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7562074
By Apple et al I meant private enterprise.
Your selective quoting is misleading. The post said:

"...even with the plus that is Visual Studio,... "

And you're touting things you value in VS.

I think that he poster was saying that for them the good parts of VS don't make up for other shortcomings of windows as a workstation...
I'm not sure why you're being down-voted. $2T in well-placed handouts seems like a pretty effective way to win "hearts and minds". The test mentioned at the end of the article ("would just handing citizens of this country the cost of a war be more effective at regime change than toppling the regime?") seems like a good initial test when evaluating whether war is necessary.

In general, soft power as an alternative to hard power is a serious question in national security strategy -- trhway's comment is not a troll, it's something security/IR researchers and policy makers take quite seriously.
Lake Apopka is 30,000 acres, about 47 sq. miles, a decent sized lake. The Gulf of Mexico is 615,000 sq miles with the Gulf Stream running through it. Compared with what the Mississippi dumps into it every day, this is a thimbleful.
I notice that the instructions for Soylent stopped mentioning salt problem somewhere between v1.3 and v1.5.

How much sodium to eat is very controversial, but if you're eating sodium, you should know that they took the extreme low-sodium position. The current version contains 1640mg of sodium per pouch, which is about half the typical intake. This creates a risk of deficiency, especially when exercising or in hot weather. The symptoms of sodium deficiency are headaches and lethargy; the test for whether those symptoms are caused by sodium deficiency is to eat salt (~1g mixed with food or water) and see if they go away quickly.
Isn't it true that TFS is quite quickly evolving? I started evaluating options to migrate from a trac/svn setup years ago, and wasn't impressed by TFS then. But TFS 2013.4 is really decent in terms of features, and the newest things from 2015 on vso add even more things.

The version control in TFS I'm not so sure about, and it seems obvious that some things aren't as powerful as they are in git, but if I rule out git because of repo size then TFVC looks quite appealing as far as centralized vcs goes. (really git only works up to a couple of gig of total history which is ridiculously small if you have a 10+ year project with a decent amount of binaries you want full history of). Most of the TFVC-bashing I read is from the early days (<2010) when TFVC seemed to want to emulate SourceSafe, by requiring checkouts. It's very hard to find any info on how TFVC 2013/15 compares to the alternatives.

TFS upgrading and maintenance scares me, but if you rely on VSO instead of on-premises, that part also feels manageable.
Have you seen Lakka [0] [1]?

[0] http://www.lakka.tv/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9667852
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And you still don't act upon any complaints regarding clients using your services for malicious purposes.
Before CP/M and such, he was a serious compiler guy who made contributions to data-flow analysis, etc.
E.g., http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=512945
It came back with nothing for many queries. How does it work?
The Valley is a Harsh Mistress

http://www.warplife.com/tips/business/stock/venture/capital/...
Don't forget the HP IPAQ series and early Windows tablets. At the time the iPhone was released tablet anything was seen as dead by everyone except Bill Gates, who used a tablet at Microsoft, and Steve Jobs, who dreamed the idevices.
Apple rewrites app economics for media
Free stuff marketing works
I do a fair bit of OSS development, and I had considered releasing GPL code but also selling licenses to use our projects under terms identical to the MIT. But so far my actual development projects have mostly been in the realm of "mildly useful for security auditing purposes" rather than "instrumental or useful for companies" so I've mainly just MIT licensed everything.
More accessible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-flow_analysis
Fun site (the cigarette pack looks nifty)!

So in the use case that I described, for a drone, the drone would get within jamming, lose signal and ... crash? Or do modern UAVs have protocols for losing connection?
Thanks for the info, this is something I've always wanted to learn a bit more about, would appreciate any resources you could point me to.
My understanding was the chip and pin / EMV is coming for all merchants in the US pretty soon, regardless of what they think of it. If your forced into making that change, supporting apple pay isn't anything much additional. Of course I could be wrong about that.
It's illegal in the movie Gattaca too. :D
Good summary of a 'hack' of human nature:

>A well-maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well-maintained physique, it's better. People are always more willing when it comes to beauty; there's not much to be done about it. It's a classic ideal: healthy mind, healthy body.
I second pretty much everything in here.In my meeting we were essentially working together grooming a github issue- I could imagine that issue being addable as a tab behind or instead of the notepad.
You can read about it here: https://medium.com/@padschneider/r-i-p-soundflake-79f7cf5f9d...

I was super bummed when it happened because I use Soundcloud a lot and their app has some serious issues. I was considering building my own client, but then saw that these guys built a really nice alternative. Sadly it got shutdown shortly after.
Precisely. I've been seeing a lot of this mendacious quoting lately, what's with this fad?
It could be just me but I would expect something that looks like an addition to be commutative but not arbitrary function calls.
But I see what you mean that the types are not much of a help here.
Startups are not just young companies, they're companies focused on rapid growth.

The challenges of a company built for exponential growth are very different than, say, a small business, a lifestyle business, or a charity.
This makes sense too. See also: Brendan Eich.
Make your entire house a faraday cage.

Transparent windows present a challenge but I expect it would work were they partially aluminized.
Heka monolog decoder for Symfony2 – LeaseWeb Labs
I imagine an alternate universe where you wrote :

"The failure of Microsoft and IBM to reach a deal to bundle DOS with the original PC provides one of the great "what-ifs" in computing history."
Very interesting! How exactly does writing about interviews get you the income? Is it ads, affiliate links, etc?
How much would you care to wager?
Email should not contain HTML. Not all mailtools are web browsers.
That's 50% more expensive than soylent, and has a significantly shorter shelf life. If you want something approaching food while backpacking etc. you may want to just go for MRE's.

Also xylitol, lactase, potassium citrate, rice bran, and vegetable glycerin are not really 'whole foods' by most definitions.
He was the CTO for less than 1.5 years, I guess he didn't like having that position at Mozilla if he left so quickly?
>I would plead for a better school rather than dropping out, though. It's depressing that apparently even Altucher who is supposedly a millionaire can not find a decent school for his kids.

Totally agree with the first part. School is only a waste if you go a mediocre school. There are plenty of excellent public and private schools available in the US. And most of the people browsing HN during working hours can afford the neighborhoods where those schools are located. Fixing the broken schools in less affluent areas is a more difficult problem.

I also find is astonishing that somebody who graduated from Cornell, then pursued a PhD at CMU would advocate for their own child to drop out of school at age 13. It's truly flabbergasting. Is he really asserting that he would be in the same, or better, position today had he skipped 4 years of high school, 4 years of undergraduate at one elite university, and then another handful of years at a second elite university? I'm calling shenanigans.
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The sugar content here does seem higher than ideal, and soylent is about the same.

I'm currently experimenting with making a DIY soylent and I've noticed that if you're trying to get all the carbs from whole-grain, real sources you end up getting a lot of fiber (~50g/day even when doing a relatively low amount of carbs like 35% of your daily calories). A lot of people report feeling bloated and painful from too much fiber. It also adds up in price. So, they supplement with fast-burning carbs like maltodextrin and sugars (soylent is trying out the slower burning sugar isomaltulose).

I'm a little skeptical that something that gets broken down into half fructose and half sucrose exactly like table sugar and HFC is harmless if it just gets digested slowly, that'd be like saying drinking soda is totally healthy as long as you sip on it slowly all day instead of getting too much at once.
Interesting, I've been saying this for a long time without even knowing what it was. I think I said "in one fall swoop" TIL I guess.
Are you trying to imply every OS doesn't face issues like these? A simple google search of "wifi broken after upgrade [insert OS]" will get you thousands of results.

I'd say I had worse wifi issues with Windows than Linux.
TextDecoder/TextEncoder is the emerging standard way to do this.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextDecoder
But wouldn't a faraday cage just kill your in-home electronics? How would it affect a remote UAV just buzzing by?
Uber researcher defends Carnegie Mellon University brain drain
It's a great combo. For a while though, Brunch did very similar things, sourcemaps et al, with very little configuration (which is still very clever when you need it).

With parched, the idea is very similar:

npm install parched parched-tasks-webapp parched-babel

And you're good to go.
I'm sorry about your step brother and understand how pain can flare up like this. But please don't take this argument further; it only makes things worse. Let's apply the principle of charity and assume that the GP didn't mean to hurt you.