skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can invest, or you can spend in a way that generates GDP. If you "invest" or put your money into the stock market, you are not deploying your money in a way that generates GDP.

Unless the stock is an IPO, you are essentially trading paper when you buy a stock. No GDP is generated on that transaction. In a sense you could be redeploying if the seller of the stock takes the money from the trade and redeploys it in a meaningful way.

I agree that rich people paying their workers more money is a meaningful way to redeploy their wealth.
> Frugal families often have such assets that appreciate, rather than expenses or possessions that depreciate.

i'll repeat myself. the people in this article have both, like most successful people in general. it's not a mutually exclusive choice. this article is basically not making any kind of point whatsoever. what's the thesis of the article? that most successful people don't blow all their money on bullshit like some poor people do? wow, what a revelation.

these people drive cars and take vacations and buy cartier watches. truly 'frugal' people usually don't do any of this stuff. for example, you don't have to look far on HN to find cheapskates that make professional salaries yet shun cars, live in tiny apartments, shop at garage sales, don't vacation, and live on dry foodstuffs. in fact i was poking fun at them in a comment i made just yesterday. i called it the 'cheapskate olympics'. i think that kind of lifestyle is absurd if you can afford to live a bit better than that.
I don't think it matters much that it's hard to parse: very few are going to write a parser for that language compared to the ones that are going to write programs in the language. It goes the same for everything else in a language: prefer a fast compiler rather than an elegant (compiler) but slow one.

Ruby's syntax is very short and concise if you compare it to other languages. To know if "x" is a variable or a method you just need to see if "x" was assigned a value in the method, that's all.
To me it seems like it really got rolling with Apple - Steve Jobs decision to stop doing the more richly detailed skeuomorphic designs. Which prompted flat redesigns in iOS 7 and OSX, and I think many developers followed suit to either look like today's Apple or not to be the nail to be hammered down in the iOS community. Also attributed is Microsoft Zune and Metro design work.

Historically flat design is a form of minimalist design articles point to it being rooted in Soviet design styles.
If only slavery were allowed...
And Operation Earnest Voice wouldn't be targeting US Citizens. Yes I understand they would still end up being part of it, but that isn't the primary goal, it also isn't being used in the same expressly political manner.
Against Tulip Subsidies
JSON support is also provided by the CONNECT storage engine, which I think is much simpler.

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/connect-json-table-type/

e.g:

SQL > CREATE TABLE junk.j1 (a int default null)
ENGINE=CONNECT DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8
table_type=JSON
File_name='j1.json';

SQL > insert into junk.j1 (values) (1);

$ ls $(mysql -NBe "select @@datadir")/junk
db.opt	j1.frm	j1.json

$ cat $(mysql -NBe "select @@datadir")/junk/j1.json
[
{
"a": 1
}
]

I use this for generating config files, and getting data into pydata tools; no need for a database driver, which is interesting.
Are you saying rich people are wiser than poor people therefore they deserve to be rich?

Capitalism made Justin Bieber rich. This makes him a wise custodian of wealth. Not only is my previous statement wrong, but so is yours.
> If only US and EU weren't a democracy, but allowed full blown economic freedom

Freedom is often distributed fairly unevenly. Economic freedom is of little comfort if you're only free choice is between different types of poverty.
I really like the idea of both Joxa and LFE (a Lisp on the Erlang VM!), but the main factor keeping me from using them for general purpose programming is the lack of "modern" collections. I would love to see them implement persistent data structures à la Clojure, with a unified interface for vectors, sets, etc. I know the Joxa stance is "make a good macro system and let users implement these" but as a (new) user, the task looks too intimidating.

The Elixir approach looks great, but it's unfortunately not a Lisp.
Make sure you check out http://www.reddit.com/r/soylent/ and the resources there. Lots of people are experimenting with variations of the Soylent formula/concept.
Would you mind sharing the sources mentioned in the first paragraph?
This describes the crucible of the Snowden situation perfectly. Very well put. I am also in camp A.
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."

Winston Churchill
As long as your income is greater than your expenses (which include healthcare and retirement saving) you can absolutely buy a sports car if it makes you happy and it is not your life-goal to retire early.

I think it is nice if you can provide your children some security, but I do not think that your savings have to be at the highest level when you die.

I come from a country where college education is free and healthcare is not capped. I do have to worry about dental care beyond the basics, though.
There's a /great/ video to watch - Programming with Hand Tools by Ewald. The ending is a twist. It's actually not about IDEs. You expect it to be... but then there's a twist at the end and he talks about something completely different. Great presentation. It has a cool star wars reference too.

> Where is the line drawn between ide and text editor anyway

When people say a text editor, it tends to imply having a single powerful general-purpose editor as your go-to for most work.
The US has Operation Earnest Voice, and Britain has JTRIG. Whether they're inventing disasters is another matter.

It's a sad reality that all major state actors have or will get involved in this, but not surprising. Warfare is changing in part due to massively increased connectivity, and the military and policy wonks have been aware of that for at least a decade.

I personally recommend books by David Kilcullen if you're interested.
The power of denial is strong. That's an interesting ideal, but the reality is that we have a bought government. How is giving the same people who bought the government more power going to fix anything? If anything that would lead to dictatorship and outright serfdom.
It pretty much is in Qatar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Qatar
A heterosexual community can be analyzed as a marketplace in which men seek to acquire sex from women ...

There's this peculiar American form of feminism that teaches that men want to "acquire sex" (to use the terminology in the paper) and that women are pure. It's counterfactual, as if women didn't enjoy sex as much as men. On top of that, everything has to be viewed through the lens of commerce. What's wrong with the nation?
Inherent to democracy is the fact that the fighting "you" is minority and it keeps shrinking. Minority loses. But all good. Hopefully in a few centuries humanity will see bloody revolutions
Epicycles provided better predictions than heliocentric system until Newton.
But they mostly store text, compared to video streaming or imgur that is quite small amount of data per user I guess
I feel as soon as every database supports JSON the world will move to a different data format. Like I feel a bit sad for Scala having native XML.
I know there have been studies on the effectiveness of the death penalty in deterring crimes where the death penalty is either the given punishment or a punishment option. All of the studies have found little to no effectiveness in the death penalty being a deterrent.

As for other crimes and punishments I am not aware of any specific studies. Although I would say that for the most part the threat of a jail sentence for any length of time is a deterrent in my opinion. If it were not a deterrent society would see much higher crime rates than we currently do as simply no one would be deterred by the threat of going to jail. That's just my opinion though.
Unless it's an ipo an "investment" or exchange of stocks for money on a stock market is simply just a trade among shareholders that generates zero GDP. It does go back into the economy and thus circulates.

Dividends is wealth generated by laborers and taken by shareholder owners. Sitting on stocks and eating up dividends while contributing no work of your own does not cause money to circulate through the economy in a good way. What it does is it causes your own wealth to grow unfairly, further increasing wealth inequality.
Almost. You at least need to exercise the code at compile time. For example you could write dummy usage tests like this:

typeof(MyClass.new.some_method(1, 2, 3))

That basically says "the above compiles and has some type", so you don't have to test what that method really does, just that it compiles.

I don't think it's a big problem, though. In Ruby it's the same: unless you exercise your code you don't know if it works. Now, think of a classically compiled language like C and C++: if it compiles, does it mean that it works? I doubt you'd release your code without at least a few tests (or a small test-app) to try it.
There have been lots of studies demonstrating that men on average have a significantly higher sex drive than women. Of course there are exceptions, but in aggregate it's true. With that in mind, an economic treatment of the subject isn't really that strange, and I don't really see how it reflects on the nation.
I believe your first option is the conventional one so while the others might be interesting they aren't what the article is talking about.
If it didn't recognize them as distinct URLs, a significant percentage of links would be rejected as having already been submitted. Http://site.com/article.php?id=1234 and http://site.com/article.php?id=5678 may be two legitimately unique articles.
I get your concerns but also think you are better off without $10 million in the bank, if you are scared of spending it because you fear you could lose some and be only worth $9.7 million.
Some notes playing with HAProxy
I'm curious - what industry are you in? I've never heard of a company providing perks for car and house purchasing.
Sorry I was not clear.
* Compound interest in this context is ROI after inflation.
* Savings in this context is defined as investment, e.g. saving the earnings of one spouse to make the down payment on a rented duplex.
* Frugality in this context is defined as delayed or avoided gratification to spare discretionary funds for investment.

Relative frugality (not being a spendthrift) is a necessary requirement for holding wealth. It is a key - not the only one - to gaining it.
> How do you model a "zero or one" relationship without null?

With something that leaves "Nullpointer analysis" obsolete/useless.
I had some acid reflux from Soylent about 2/3 of the time. This decreased as I continued to use it and then has gone away completely now that I put a bunch of protein powder and coconut oil in it to get a protein/fat/carb balance that I'm happier with.
Anecdotal but I've known people who have been on severely restricted diets that have also reported intense dreams about food, particularly meat.
The way you've formulated it, that's false. However, it makes sense in evolutionary biology that females are going to be more selective about partners than males. (Perhaps we'll rewire ourselves or develop pharmaceuticals that adjust our sex drives for hedonistic or practical purposes convenient to us?)
Software Engineering is more like Surgery than Civil Engineering
right, the "ladder anxiety" in being a reasonably good solo ladder SC2 player can be tough to get over for a new player with each loss, even though the matchmaking algo is pretty good at keeping you at a 50% winrate over time. The multitasking required for RTS is difficult and can be frustrating. It's also unclear how to improve efficiently, if you're not plugged in with the various forums/reddits/youtube, etc.

All of the other team based MOBA/FPS games seem so much more accessible and immediately rewarding. Aside from the current free-to-play boom, I think big companies like Blizzard see this and pour resources into Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm.

As a person who has played starcraft regularly since BW and SC2 beta and still plays today, if I was a kid looking at the competitive gaming landscape today, i feel like there's little chances I would go for and RTS over everything else that's out there.
65 grams of normal sugar if you ate 5 of these meal squares is double the recommended 25-37.5 grams for an adult male. This isn't even counting the sugar alcohol.
The Millionaire bar is lowered each year at the rate of inflation. So to see how I'm really doing vs. my generation, I factor in inflation since my birth date, and that is the number I need to achieve 'Millionaire' status.

It's somewhat arbitrary, but for me, that's about $6,000,000 in 2015 dollars....
Two kinds of citizenships. One with a better feature than the other.
> Is this a variable reference? Is it a method call? I dunno!

Neither. It's a message sent to an object. The object decides how to respond to that message.

Caring about the implementation of the message receiver breaks information hiding. If you have to distinguish between .message and .message(), you already know more than you need to know to interact with that object.

Every language is confusing until you understand the mental model (even if you disagree with the utility of that model). If you come to Ruby thinking in Java/C++/C terms, you'll be unhappy, because the mental model is very different.

For Ruby, the book to read is The Well-Grounded Rubyist, which makes the language quite obvious.
In the beginning Crystal didn't free memory. We needed a GC and Boehm was a super easy way to get that. It worked out of the box with very little effort.

Eventually we can write our own GC or use another one. It's only a matter of time. But right now there are more important things, we think: finishing the language rules, stabilizing things, fixing bugs, completing the standard library and writing documentation.

Nothing is set in stone in a language, things can always evolve and improve.
To be replaced with an analysis that finds unmatched cases (like None when you assumed Maybe)?
Capitalism does not entail that the wealthy deserve what they have, only that if they are not wise with respect to their wealth they will lose it.

With regard to Mr. Bieber, or celebrities/sports stars in general - there are many foolish ways for them to lose their wealth and only a degree of frugality, i.e. living within their means, will preserve it.
Julia's 1-based array indexing is counter-intuitive and a turn off.
Legal reasons such as? Not doubting you, genuinely curious.
People who have earned great amounts of wealth do not get it by stealing it, they provide a product or service in which others choose to purchase. The more people which the product or service provides value to the more wealth the person will make.

Like him or not, Justin Bieber has proved valuable to quite a large sub set of the population.
1) A true democracy has never existed. The needle is pushed by a tiny percentage of all the people. Such is the nature of humans. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is up for a debate. Do you really want that Walmart cashier lady's take on policy? There are counter arguments as well of course, but that's not the main point of this thread.

2) >It's fantastic capitalism - profit above environment, profit above health, profit above morality, profit for the few against rights and freedoms of the many.

This statement shows that you have 0 understanding of capitalism in regards to society. Capitalism is not about selfishness. It is about self-interest. For example, it is not in the long term self-interest of energy companies that we are experiencing global warming and they know it, and despite what you think they are working on fixing that. It's just not so simple to shift.

3) Having said that, I for one, don't want someone who has such strong feelings about things he understands so little about, to have a say in policy making. He can be swayed so easy by emotions and articles in the NYT and form an opinion about complicated problems he has no clue about. But representative democracy is great, right?
I don't think that brutalism goes as far as that. It does try to be 'honest' but it does not deliberately try to be uncomfortable.
Wow! But it doesn't seem like that's the case, several Chess players peaked well beyond that. Magnus Carlsen at 2882, for instance. [1] But that doesn't mean that you're not right, he could possibly be the best player ever.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_top_chess_players...

Doesn't seem like it. Magnus Carlsen has 2882.
What strong theoretical foundations do they provide? (this is a genuine question)
I think you normally discount primary residence
Microsoft Offers Users a New ‘Privacy Dashboard’
Actually, some people here will argue that, in fact, the state HAS an inherent power to inspect anything at all. Math and physics be damned.
I'm pretty sure I can use this article to get funding in DC to make sure there is no troll gap. Being that we're America I'll of course go overboard and use machine learning, big data, and drones.
I did think, that your comment was mostly ironical.

I also know this thinking, that taxes are theft. But that is just one viewpoint. The other is, that taxes help to build a community, to build infrastructure, to build the internet ... (remember: the internet started as military network). Taxes are necessary, to help those that are weak and have not so much possibilities in life. To help those, that can not buy their schooling ... Before (gov. funded) public schooling was started, reading and writing was a privilege of less than 10% of the society. I would even go as far, that many of our today's achievements are because of taxes (only taking schools into account). Without public schools, we might have still steam machines. The fast successes of science are because so many people have access to education.

Even you and me might be still life in some underprivileged village and reap noggins without (tax paid) public schooling.
The Russian propaganda is aimed principally at the Russian people. That's illegal in the US, and technically when the US spreads propaganda overseas they're required to make English-language copies available to the US press.
John Gruber and Josh Get Together for an Apple Chat
1. Make Udemy courses (and sell elsewhere also). There are lots of topics which still don't have good courses on Udemy, even though they claim to have tens of thousands of courses. Example: http://www.businessinsider.com/rob-percival-online-coding-co...

2. Other forms of content - like eBooks. If you can write about a technical topic or a business topic, there is money in it. example: http://nathanbarry.com/samuel-hulick-37000-self-published-bo...

3. Mobile apps - don't know much about it. This seems to be a hit or miss thing

4. Affiliate sites using various affiliate programs like Amazon, eBay etc.

5. Teach in person - this is awesome if you can pull it off. I've seen people do a weekend course and make 5k or more depending on the topic.

These are some interesting resources that I've recently started following:

http://www.sidehustlenation.com/side-hustle-show/

http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/category/podcast/

But the best is probably to build a SaaS application. Hard part is finding a need :( Here is a beautiful example https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/07/pinboard_turns_five/ ($200K per year with bookmarking site).
Seriously, what percentage of your meals are "tasty new food in the company of others" vs mundane fare eaten to get a meal in?

Are you missing that much if you don't have your scrambled eggs most mornings or skip that mediocre sandwich from the deli down the street for lunch?

People drinking Soylent typically replace those boring meals that waste time with a bunch of food prep and cleanup while still enjoying new food in the company of others.

Once you have a jug of Soylent in the fridge, it's your choice whether to pour yourself a hassle-free meal or make the extra effort to consume other foods. When you're used to Soylent, you have more choices in life. It's a tremendous tool to have in your meal toolbox.
Blowfish was a good choice at the time, and for some users switching away would cost a lot and give little benefit.

We will say the same about chacha20 in 25 years. It will probably still be secure, but there will be better choices.
The US could copy the EU and allow free movement of workers within NAFTA.
Yes. This is true. I mean wealth in terms of wealth ownership. Compounding interest from loans, dividends, or stock investments causes the amount of wealth "owned" by rich people to grow unnaturally.
There are fewer lobbyists than people. They rely upon the masses being divided and unwilling to recognize their own power.
I completely agree with you and the parent.

Sometimes (developer) friends haven't understood my attraction to automatics, but became interested in the mechanics when I showed them videos like these :

http://youtu.be/dao0mbAbNLE
http://youtu.be/qtgAJBPPefM
Frankly, I thought computers and displays in contact lenses were a pretty obvious idea 20 years ago, but didn't seem like there was a market for it (not clear there is one, beyond geeks who want an email HUD).
Thank you! I'm not anti-capitalist, but I find utterly insidious the way that "consumer" has become the standard term used to refer to people.
NoSQL databases are implementing features their users are requesting.

SQL databases are implementing features their users are requesting.
Maybe Peter has not covered all part of the app, but it is working. This joke is awful. Release descriptions are oftenly useless. If I get an update on my app, I know they've made bug fixes and some improvement on performances. No need to add stupid jokes in order to try to improve the boring desc stuff.

Btw, keep working hard Peter, if you exists :P
But we're not talking about maximum throughput above all else. We're talking about the differing throughputs of high-level languages, which Golang is, but C++ is obviously not.
If you have $10 million you should give the Ferrari no more thought than a Camry. No if you have fifteen Ferraris that's where things become problematic.
I wouldn't pin it on feminism, as this isn't written within the feminist movement. It's written by a psych prof and a marketing prof. (Few mentions of "feminist" in the paper, and it's even dismissed: "Indeed, many feminist analyses of sexual behavior (e.g., Brownmiller, 1975) suffer from reliance on the highly questionable assumption that men’s treatment of women is motivated by a primary concern with power, with sex being secondary.")

Furthermore, I've heard from anthropologists that inhabitants of more feminist societies tend to be more satisfied with their (more frequent) sex lives. After all, successful patriarchy movements turn sex sick. However, I'm not going to hunt a cite about sex for an HN post, so believe what you will. :)

Definitely agree with viewing everything though the lens of commerce though. Free market fundamentalism is the US's greatest religion. Its ivory-tower priests are forever trying to recast everything into capitalist theology. Its holy wars are primarily to secure economic obedience. (http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/5/is-it-time-for-...)
In a zombie plague, surviving in a forest would be easier than a city
There's a fair number of Sergey's babies (e.g. glass, wave) that were never going to change the world or turn a profit. I can't imagine as a shareholder I'd be too happy about these things.