skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Net operating cashflow is negative because they're piling money into expansion. Their gross margin is about 25%. If they wanted to be profitable in the short term all they'd have to do is stop spending money on expansion and just pull in the sweet profits from current sales.
Are they even going to know who else is participating in the study, and who else is applying for their jobs?

When you go apply for a job, do you find out who else applied, and decide if any of them "need" the job more than you?
I also think flat file storage is a valid solution. If you are abke to use advanced filesystem features like snapshots and online replications, the use-cases for databases shrink even further.
No clue. Went to PubMed and searched for "pollen spectra". Found http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4395086/ from PLoS One, 2015 Apr 13:

> Aeroallergen monitoring networks are an important part of treatment strategies, but unfortunately traditional analysis is time consuming and expensive. We have explored the use of infrared spectroscopy of pollen and spores for an inexpensive and rapid characterization of aeroallergens.

They think it's doable.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=midnight+commander
The GNU clone of Norton Commander, a text based file manager.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander
Try 6NF[0], not only do you get separate logging for when the row was/will be marked deleted, but you have a record of when the DB believed that the record was/will be deleted. Also true history and rewind capability.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_normal_form
Kalyna was the result of a public competition started in 2006 [1], so it mirrors design preferences of that time. There were 4 other candidates, some were broken, and none of them seem any more cache-timing resistant than Kalyna.

[1] https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/0317154006ogdr.pdf
This is the source of the often reported allergen counts in the Chicagoland area:

http://www.gottliebhospital.org/allergycount

I don't have time right now to dig further, myself, but I know people who know Dr. Leija and this leaves me with the impression he is a... "good egg", I guess I'll say.

Meteorologist Tom Skilling is probably the most frequent reporter of Dr. Leija's / Gottlieb's values. He has an "Ask Tom" feature; this is the type of question he might enjoy digging into and reporting.
Getting Started With, and Subsequently Breaking, Schema for Gmail
Ask HN: Do you volunteer your time as a programmer?
Who here directly uses their talents as a programmer to volunteer for charities/non-profits in their spare time?

If so, how do you go about doing this? Pro-bono projects, micro-volunteering?

If not, is it something you would consider doing, or do you think it's better to help via other means, eg. donations?
I dispute your purchasing power argument:

http://www.statista.com/statistics/226956/average-world-wage...

You'll note that Austria and Norway beat the US, and Sweden and Finland are in the ballpark.

I'm not arguing about innovation or "freedom", I'm arguing about a better society - one with less crime, better social mobility, etc. - for the average person. Not the Internet startup lotto winner.

And the government doesn't "get" a large percentage of your income - they don't keep any of it. Your fellow citizens get it. It goes to pay for the huge amount of infrastructure that you used while amassing your fortune (court system, transporation system, an educated healthy population to draw employees from, etc.).

You view taxation as theft. I view people who use infrastructure and then don't want to contribute back as welchers.
Pretty damn good, especially after the turn of the millenium.

Hell I'd hire any of the guys now if that was in their resume somewhere, because that was some nifty stuff. Gotta respect those sort of individuals who show real front-to-back understanding of what it takes to build/implement something people actually use, do it well, and adapt to change while scaling.
> Those text books are unlikely to be read by humans in the same physical form we exist today (unless something catastrophic happens), and the class of intelligent beings dominating that period will trace their lineage directly to inventors and scientists than businessmen.

Sounds like assumed strong AI to me.

> Citation needed. It turns out there are exactly zero computer scientists who have ever said anything even remotely like that.

Why cite, you've apparently done the lit search.

From memory there's:

"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended."

That was in 1993 -- so we've got almost ten years left. Phew.

http://mindstalk.net/vinge/vinge-sing.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge

Now he's a math professor, although his profession is currently "computer scientist" but I expect it to be very easy to find many other computer scientists who've said similar things, even going back to before neural nets. They may not be computer scientists you (or I) respect but...

I think some computer scientists spoke with similar confidence about LISP, but can't be bothered to find citations. (Obviously hard, since there aren't any, right?)

For really off-topic assumptions of this kind that push my button -- slower-than-light travel to other stars is often discussed as though it's a solved problem (e.g. Fermi's Paradox) despite the fact that it would require a really complex machine that was able to work flawlessly for hundreds or thousands of years. Again, something we're ludicrously far away from.
Not everywhere. There are still plenty of state run prisons in the country.
How about a guaranteed job rather then a free paycheck.
Freight Pipelines to help solve the problem of Transport Congestion
I have a feeling Oprah could actually afford that.
I've been following this project for a while now and I'm impressed with the transparency around the decision making process. I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next.
The problem with this line of argument is that books like "The Bell Curve" have been debunked on scientific grounds, leaving no reason for scientists to believe in them except that someone wants them, ex ante, to believe that black people are genetically determined by their race to be stupid (and so forth).
I suppose. Most car companies (i.e. all other car companies) don't have 56% year-over-year growth numbers either (per the linked article). So my money is with the "apples and oranges" crowd here.

Analyzing an investment in Tesla according to the rules you use for GM or Daimler is going to lose you a lot of money. Or realistically already has -- most people whining are whining because they didn't get in on the Tesla boom and are looking for reasons to prove it's a bubble.
You should take a look at event sourcing. Every action is stored as a separate event and periodically snapshotted. To see how something was modified, you can replay all the events forward from day 0 or from any snapshot.
Something being "incredibly obvious" is not scientific evidence.

First thing, there are huge genetic differences in non-mental traits, like height for example. No one doubts that. And many people use those to infer the same is true of mental qualities, but that would need to be proven separately.

Heritability studies show that IQ is in fact significantly heritable. But these do not prove what non-scientists often assume. Heritability is the percentage of variability due to genetic differences, but it is always relative to an environment. Genes are meaningless without environments. For example, if we as a cultural thing feed shorthair cats different diets than longhair cats, and the diets affect their weight, then genetics would explain much of that variability. Cat weight would be heritable, strictly speaking, but in a different environment - all cats get the same food - it would not be.

Various sources of evidence show that IQ is heritable in humans, but depends heavily on the environment. For example, adopted black children have higher IQs when raised by white parents, most of the difference between black and white kids goes away in that case.

Is that the final answer? We honestly don't know. To really study it, we'd need to do unethical things - raise people in controlled experiments - which we simply won't do. But we do know that cultural effects are very large, and they might mask genetic effects.

In practice, though, heritability still holds. People are born with genetics and those genetics are correlated to certain environments, and reactions from those environments. So even if in some theoretical way we are "born with equal mental potential", given the world as it is, that simply isn't true. But it could change.
> No they don't. Net operating cashflow has been hugely negative for their entire existence and there is no conceivable path to profitability.

Sure they do. They're just always spending it elsewhere, like Amazon. Amazon doesn't sell products at a loss, their prices have become much less competitive over the years.

But the lack of profitability at Amazon isn't because the various business units are all operating at a loss. It's because the older units which make a profit finance the new ones that are starting up and not profitable yet.

Telsa may well be taxpayer subsidized and it may blow up. But on 2014 revenue of 3.2b the odds that they're cooking the books are vanishingly small.
Well I think it's pretty standard for these types of companies to start as a small project, as a founder's inkling of something people would want. It's not like millions of VC money is being raised before that even happens. Except for some cases of stupidity, like Color or Clinkle; those are the anomalies IMO.

What we're discussing is where to take the venture/project after figuring out, "Holy shit, there are probably millions willing to pay money for this, we've hit gold." Most ventures don't have that moment - or even worse, miss that realization if it's true.

So the smart ones start arming up -- getting those big VC dollars to grow the venture as fast as possible before someone else realizes what they've done and tries to do the same. I can pretty much guarantee you there existed direct AirBnB competitors around 2010 or so. But how many of these got funded by Sequoia? How many had a global vision they had to make happen? This money, and the strong status signal of investor confidence, attracted talent, which let them continue building and outpace all of their competitors whom we've never even heard of.

Anyways, that's what I've observed in a nutshell: hit on something big with experiments at a small scale, and then fund like there's no tomorrow. Because for all but one of these type of companies, there isn't.
SQL is so fancy

you can get a long way with join, awk & grep

http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/join
Interesting notes, I didn't realize the competition was so old. Thanks!
And your opinion would be wrong. In my opinion, not having something like this would be forcing people to stay in shitty, abusive jobs because they have no alternative, due to needing to buy food and keep a roof over their heads. Alleviating those issues would mean that low income workers would be able to be more selective in the work they take, which means that employers would have to work harder in attracting employees. Not a bad thing at all.
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Yeah I have no doubt that flat file are a valid solution, I think the only headache was related to a dupe bug.

"Server-boundary crossing edge-cases and race conditions persisted for a long time -- allowing for gold and items to be duplicated, though I think we had largely eradicated the big ones by the time I had moved on to UO2."
Yes, here's one of their masterpieces: https://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs/blob/master/src/rails.js...
Moral of the story in this comment section;

Negative comments about Tesla will be down voted upon detection.
>provided the funding of such a program is done on a purely voluntary basis.

Like taxes right?
What Xoom sale says about unicorns and tech bubbles
When technology automates the all the worthwhile jobs, should we be paid to dig holes and bury them back up?
Considering humanity's pro-biotic ingestion is primarily, if not exclusively, through food I kinda doubt this is a major concern. I think what's more important is how changing diets affect gut flora more so than clean water or too much soap. There's research in this area and its pretty interesting. I doubt these guys haven't considered water. Its probably just a non-issue.
Everything will be automated. Cost per unit will be down. In an open competitive market without monopolies or price fixing cartels the price for high demand cheap basics gets driven down due to increased competition. For cheap basic good the main competitive strategy is to be cheaper than your rivals. It's the classic race to the bottom like we are seeing with low end electronics. The more the system fully automates and becomes hyper efficient the closer we move towards zero marginal cost.
Cutting all the programs needed to enable basic income would mean most public servants would lose their jobs.
Nice to hear some good news for the guy after his rocket exploded.
Thanks for including the source - that was my question as well.
More broadly, I imagine there are plenty of people dealing in... chemical substances, let's say... who would be interested in an on the spot test of purity they can rely on before parting with their cash.

Equally, I suppose there would be interest from law enforcement in the same technology.
A distributed cron job cluster. Interesting!
You're describing non contributory Social Security not a basic income. The difference is that those systems usually make everyone but the retired look for work or be in education etc.
Most Koreans see it as a necessary evil because the system of cozy relationship between government and large conglomerates have served the country so well, at least in their mind.

I think the system is starting to backfire because the income gap between those affiliated with the conglomerates and those who don't has stratospherically diverged, creating 2/3-tiered society.
Set up a robot fighting league. Lots of people would want to participate.
Their initial strategy involved purposely losing an hour of player data every day. Everyone used to troll newbies by pretending to be nice and giving them free stuff around 11am, and then by 12pm it would suddenly all disappear and revert back to the original owner.
Never mind the bollocks, here’s the new Virgin Money credit card
Not uncommon in real architectures, either by convention (ARM r0) or design (the MSP430 CG, which, like this architecture, also generates other useful constants).
I for one dig the joke.
Monitoring a Docker Cluster with Telegraf and InfluxDB
Mine's in it's box. I can neither use it or let it go. First Xeon, 2006 I think.
I think you mean, comments which state falsehoods will be downvoted.
I went for the slightly more clever "series of powers" after 3/9/27 validated.
My initial thought was seems like a useful product, my second thought was legal documents seem like the kind of thing that almost always require a manual overview to make sure everything is in order.

So my question would be something along the line of how do you address this seemingly unavoidable necessity?
You are mocking transracial people, but they honestly do identify as another race. You are just joking about doing so.

The same for transgender people. They honestly identify as another gender, and we should accept them as that gender.

Accepting people doesn't cost us anything.
"I think that if you are able to do deep research in nuclear fusion or a cure for cancer you should also be able to find the way of earning a good salary under any circumstances and at the same time finding a way of allocating time for your real passion."

In theory, sure. But in reality, most jobs suck. Even if you are of that level, odds are the job you'll get is going to be emotionally or mentally draining, and at the end of the day, you'll really just want to relax.
They already enforce that in France.

How? Just like any other regular old copyright violation.
My knee-jerk reaction was 'ah, jeez - there's going to be a big percentage of lazy people just gaming the system'. But on reflection, as some other posters have already said, these folks would probably not being looking for work regardless - and if this helps the majority be more productive and happy... to me, it's worth a punt to see what happens.

Good on you Utrecht - I love the bold thinking. It might not work - but at least they tried something new to address one of our oldest problems!
So you limited yourself to non-negative integers, and had no idea what negative numbers or fractions would do.
"From an incremental improvement side, probably, but from a new product side, definitely not."

What in the world are you talking about? Chlorination decreased adult mortality by nearly 50%, and childhood mortality by nearly 75%. These sorts of public-health innovations are what gave us the ability to start pursuing those "new products" you value so highly.

If that's incremental improvement to you, you need to re-examine your assumptions. The incentive here was saving the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
Have you considered that you missed the point entirely?

It's hard to see how you consider this an insult and not an interesting "live" experimental result.

"Test your problem solving skills" is merely the experimental set-up and the purpose isn't to actually measure problem solving skill, but rather to demonstrate confirmation bias on a population.

Your alligator tears and perceived insult add nothing to the conversation.
It's not "just thrown in there". It's an overt act supporting the conspiracy charge. It was introduced into the case in such a way that rebutting that claim would harm the prosecution's case --- which is not something they were required to do, given the enormous wealth of evidence they collected for all manner of other overt acts.

It is literally the opposite of what you've been claiming it is. It was ventured by the prosecution as a formal piece of the case. The prosecution actually staked part of their case on it being true.
Japan/Western/... Transasian? - RPG
Many copyright owners were paid for creating copyrighted works.
How do you think it's being used here? That is, how is it being used here differently than "come to grips with", "apprehend", "understand", or "comprehend"?

Another dimension is its use as a shibboleth. In this case, the origins from a science fiction novel that was popular in the counter-culture of the 1960s and made its way into the hacker culture of the 1970s and 1980s. Its use indicates membership in this group, even if the meaning duplicates words in common practice. Similarly, your use of cromulent indicates your alignment with a TV series.

If you mean to include that dimension as well, then you are right; using 'grok' embiggens the distinction between ingroup and outgroup in a way that those words do not.
What distinguishes normal accountants from these apparently corrupt "government-sponsored accountants" who "cook the books"? Do they have pointy ears or forked tongues?
Yeah, I actually read that guys blog post to see how practical it would be to run something like linux on a smaller word sized CPU. Since the CPU emulation code is only 325 lines of C, it wouldn't be a lot of work to port it to emulate the 32 bit instructions on a very small word size.
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What are your chances of getting into Congress, if you try?
"What do you think the skin tone of the people that came up with the AI is? Can you say with a straight face that this has 0 influence on how they initially calibrated the models?"

Are you really being serious right now? You can't really see how AI could make the mistake that it made?

"What happens when someone does actually get physically hurt, or experiences financial misfortune, due to shoddy programming?"

This has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Companies already experience financial misfortune from AI through mistakes made through algorithmic trading.

Why are we going as far as AI? It's not here yet. What about when people spread lies online and it ruins a career or when sites like Wikileaks spreads undercover operative positions and someone gets killed by a foreign government?? There are no consequences.

"those same people have a right to voice their displeasure at the company and people that promote these shitty images. The fact that you're trying to silence their response makes you no better than those that wish to sue Google for something like this"

It only goes one way, however. This is the problem. For example, people have been fired for expressing their dislike of gay marriage on Facebook (which I don't consider homophobia). However, I don't see anyone getting fired for spreading their dislike of religions or religious people (another protected class) which I see plastered all over social media. There are countless examples of this and it's making our society a pretty scary place.

This should be the real discussion here: Why are some people free to bully, torment, and slander another class of people with virtually no repercussions?
That's where Dropbox is really cool actually. They have a bunch of great collaboration tools. The way we handle it is we do all the admin stuff - collecting info, filling in the docs, putting in tags for e-signatures - then we drop it in a dropbox folder so that humans can edit the document. When the humans are done editing, just tell Ironclad to pick it back up and we'll go from there :)
fork - the original NoSQL
Oh sure --- I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it technically. But I can't use any kind of open development process. So, no github or Bitbucket. And the distributions still won't touch it. And there's still a single point of failure revolving around Volker Barthelmann; I can't rely on vbcc continuing to exist.

A similar thing happened to lcc, which was a perfectly good if quite simple compiler that simply stopped being relevant because distributing was too hard.
What incentive do they have to educate themselves? After all they currently had an incentive to educate themselves during their period of compulsory education yet still ended up working in a minimum wage job they value so little they'd quit if they were given a minimum wage.

You don't see masses of low waged workers in countries with maximum working hours (and thus some leisure time) educating themselves.
Yep, I'd guess this is a massive bias. The people who get it right are much more apt to report and show how smart they are
Not if you don't put any creative work in.
I dunno, what happens if your job stops giving you money?
I think those who are against a basic wage feel the current net negative portion of society would be a greater net negative because not only would they be receiving a wage, but they'd spend it on crap and society would still have to take care of them (hospital bills, food, etc).
The model X is the bogeyman in Tesla's house. If they fail to start deliveries by September as they have indicated they will likely not make their sales goal for year. The suspect in the X delay is the gull wing doors which like the ragtop they had before, Elon's insistence on particular features again is causing production issues.
In the context of a thought experiment, where people would live is an interesting question. There are certainly many places today that are inexpensive in no small part because there are few jobs. It doesn't have to be in the middle of nowhere. Detroit qualifies too. On the other hand, moving somewhere cheaper would imply moving away from existing family and social support structures.

However, I suspect a lot of the people who are championing basic income are implicitly envisioning living in a relatively comfortable apartment in the Bay area from which they can follow their muse--not public housing in Detroit.