jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is something that people against basic income fail to acknowledge, that basic income is not a strict expense. It is redistribution. You cannot just line item it as a tax expense because if you implement it properly (automated, no bureaucracy, no middle men - best done by detaching the funding and payout) you are effectively adding your 1k or whatever a month per person right back into the economy.

And for most people, the stimulus of spending 1k vastly eclipses the recession of a billionaire losing 1k. The market pressure of demand by those who had none would generate so much economic growth it offsets a huge portion of the tax "cost" of basic income.

The real cost is not the figure in how much you take to give back. It is the opportunity cost - how much potential growth is lost depressing the rich in relation to how much growth is generated stimulating the poor.

And almost every economic report in history shows that is always a positive correlation. That the richer and more equal you make a society the more prosperous it is.

I think HN is a great reflection of that. SV is awash in venture capital, people are getting millions thrown at the most stupid ideas, because we are economically out of sync in this country, where the elites have too much and the masses have too little. This means that the rich are throwing money at random at things hoping to find new ways to get money out of the masses, but when the masses have so little they generate so little market pressure its impossible to gage what they want.

Likewise, you could have the inverse problem - where the masses have huge demand for things, but there is no venture capital left to kickstart meeting that demand. But honestly that sounds completely ridiculous today - in the age of the Internet I see no reason a wholly wealth-equal society could not just kickstart their own VC, because the only difference between one million people giving a dollar and one person giving a million dollars is the immediacy of your responsibility - your VC backer today is a lot more personal than a million funders, but I think Kickstarter and similar projects have shown how the model and work and fail.

But yes, if you talk about universal basic income / citizens dividend / negative income tax / etc in the wrong way, you will trigger all these culturally instinctual emotional responses in people against it.

But it is not like the military, or medicare (or NHS), where pretty much that "cost" is the cost. You spend money on something and hope for the benefits - non-monetary - to outweigh the expenses. In the later case you are hoping that taking care of your people is worth it over making them fend for themselves, but you are actually paying that bill with tax dollars.

Meanwhile, other projects like social security and UBI are just monetary redistribution. SS is much more inefficient than a well implemented UBI, but a huge portion of the money going into that program is redistribution. So you cannot talk about them as these black hole money traps when they are not, unless of course you are the opponent to their implementation.
> As the government is not involved at all, the overreach argument doesn't apply.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/90-perc...

If Google gives most of its donations to Democrats, how can you believe that they will not do what Democrats want them to do? Also, Democrats have been very vocal about the fact that Google and Twitter did not "censor enough" recently. This is a nice follow-up.
Yeah, using desktop-class hardware works almost effortlessly, but it's not really a good substitute for a $120 router that gets by with passive cooling. This discussion is about whole computers that could hide inside the power supply for that server and run off its standby power rail.

If you're going to be running a server 24/7 anyways, it makes sense to equip it to also be your firewall and gateway. But that doesn't eliminate the huge gap between such a machine and off-the-shelf consumer networking equipment.
Hey guys, I just received a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to spin off our advertising program into a new online ad startup that is going to reinvent display ads and make them stop sucking.

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We've already gotten some great coverage from
Mashable: http://mashable.com/2010/06/16/knight-foundation-awards-2-74...

Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/06/17/knight-news-challe...

PBS: http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2010/06/knight-announces-news-cha...

Chicago Tribune: http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2010/06/wind...

And the Chicago Reader: http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/06/16/goo...

I want to say thanks to the folks on HN for your support and encouragement over the last two years as I bootstrapped Windy Citizen and learned a ton about what works and what doesn't in the online ad space. Now I'm going to make a run at it.

We're going to be hiring (announcements coming soon), and there will be several open source releases as part of this project, which will all be announced on here.

If you've got questions about the Knight News Challenge, bootstrapping, or anything else, ask away!
Other people replied about a randomized/hard to guess email address. Building on your idea of a "hard to guess word" or token in the subject, posterous could allow a user to upload their public key, and require that their posts be gpg/pgp signed with their key (obviously this would be something that users would have to opt into). The displayed post could simply strip out the signature as it would only be needed for authentication.
I'd be interested to know the manufacturer of these devices and how prevalent they are. (p.s. you're welcome to email me rather than do that in public: append @google.com to my username.)

Cheers
Get over yourself.

Someone on a Haskell mailing list is asking other Haskell programmers if there is a way they know of that he can do what makes him happy.

Yes, happiness is not at the same place on the hierarchy of needs as 'food', but that hardly means you shouldn't strive for it.
I have another issue with the paywall.

With NoScript on, the links on The Times site just don't do anything (they just redirect back to the homepage). Surely some sort of noscript option is possible...
Not quite at the same level.

For it to be like theranos the offices wouldn't exist.
With a peanut allergy you have it and don't eat the food.

With the trigger warning what exactly? It's easy to announce something you are going to do and do it. The article addresses how pointless and possibly counterproductive that is.
I visited Mrauk U back in 2015 and had to withdraw enough kyat to sustain me for the few days I was there since there was no ATM in the town.

The boat ride from Sittwe up the Kaladan River was actually one of my favorite parts of the trip with its peacefulness. It was just me and one other traveler on the boat.
N8n.io is also a workflow automation alternative to Zapier, discussed here a couple months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21191676
Oh good catch. I missed that it was asking for rough rather than exact addition. That is the whole point of big endian - that you lead with the most impactful part.
1000ms is a massive slowdown when revenue-noticeable impacts are far, far smaller. I don't know the legality, but hitting a site hard enough to cause 1000ms slowdowns seems like it's approaching DOS legality issues.
-Increased effort by other countries to move away from US internet and tech dominance.

-More global economic shock towards years end.

-North Korea in the news more than last few years. Possible increase in US troop deployed on the Korean peninsula.

-The media decides for us that ISIS isn't really *that bad. Less radical acts coming from the group. The west starts making some concessions.

-4 new JavaScript frameworks arise as the "best way to do things". They get lots of users and press time, and will be largely abandoned by the years end.

-Something completely unexpected happens.

(I have to note the predictions for 2014 on HN were really really bad. Mine probably aren't much better. So don't put much stock. Except in the last prediction. That one is pretty much a guarantee.)
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I have never experienced it being slow. Been using it for at least two years
> unclear

That's charitable. The FUD is consistent, persistent, and targeted enough that I'd call it "intentionally deceptive."

Monetizing open source is hard. Maybe this is necessary, and if it is, maybe that's fair. But it's also fair to stay away because of it.
Second and higher order cognition. For starters realizing that what people in power say and what they do are very different.

Preferably for their own side first because I am really sick of predicting what the next 4 years will be like, being called shill, having that prediction borne out and then being told that it was actually impossible for anything else to happen from the start.
SF needs the Portland Loo.[1][2] The homeless-resistant public toilet. Not enough privacy for a drug deal. Water faucet on the outside, not the inside. Prison-grade stainless.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/world/la-xpm-2012-aug-29-la-na-08-29...
[2] https://portlandloo.com/
I used to do this as well, but I came across thiserror (which is featured in the article), which is just macros that do exactly this and nothing more.

It's certainly less transparent, but I prefer this method of error handling, and writing out the Impls manually can get out of hand (as well as having to adding new fields to the enum).
Long time coming. 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7661236

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1920220
Sadly they do not really need deep fake technology to spread fake news
> You shouldn't care which app is running or not.

I know that there is a strong culture that believes this, but this sort of thing drives me nuts. There are very good reasons why you you would both want to actually close programs and know what programs are running and what are not.

> Windows Store apps already stay in the background even after you close them.

This is one of the many reasons why I don't use Windows Store apps.
I wish I had more control over the mobile experience though. For example, my run-tracker apps will get closed and stop tracking me if I open too many apps during my run while leaving Spotify, Youtube, and my podcast apps open.

I'd like to be able to somehow pin the run-tracker as top priority. Sucks to realize after a run or bike ride that it stopped recording 20min into it.
Does anyone else see a problem in giving virtually indestructible (or at least much more so than any other car) in the hands of typical "truck driver" or is it just me ? I can just picture a dumbass in this truck on the highway not giving two shits about other cars around him. I dont like this picture.
FWIW, I've done both trips (tube vs. Heathrow Express) and I much prefer Heathrow Express.

When I travel it's usually for business and the time savings of the Express vs. the Tube just makes it a complete no-brainer for me.

People often complain that it's a very expensive and very short train ride but they forget that the short travel time is a FEATURE.
It's not the complaint itself, it's that it's rude, lazy, and off-topic.
If tablet computing takes off, the economics could change (i.e. tablets become cheaper, and full computers become more expensive).
Csomar version 2.0 will have a completely new design
I'd be curious to see if there are stats on failed companies vs. the equity split.

At times when I read these articles a lot of it seems very anecdotal, and I'm inclined to just be like "whatever the hell feels right" lol. I think the most important thing to take away from this is to agree on terms, make it in writing, and set everyone's expectations from the get go.

I mean come on, he has a bad experience, which he doesn't really even elaborate why/if it's even related to a 50/50 split. Could it be that he and his co-founder just didn't fit and they found out 6 months later? Would a 60/40 or whatever else split have mitigated that?

Perhaps I will eat my words in the future, but I'm equal split w/ my co-founder and I feel like we have arguments every week, but we always strive to resolve them and to move forward with what we feel is best. In my head I just can't figure out how negotiating a "better split" would somehow help a relationship.
Good point. Our team will look into implementing this
So because you wouldn't OPT-IN to receive the ads, you think it's fair not to allow others to opt-in?

We believe that with a solid opt-in in place, users should be able to support the developer by receiving Airpush ads.

Our mistake was we gave full control to the developers to build custom opt-in and opt-out using our Permissions API, whereas going forward we will FORCE a standardized opt-in dialog box.
Yea, that's also one prevention that needs to taken care off in the system. The user should make it clear what package is being carried and have the permission to open the package, if necessary. I don't want this to be a drug smuggling facility in the end.
I was thinking of making todos part of a panel on the right that also includes canned events, stuff to be working on today based on due dates later in the week, and other such lists of items that you can easily pull into today's agenda. This side panel would be able to slide open and closed, so it won't clutter up the interface.

What do you think?
Yes, but the dynamic changes considerably when you're a one-person team doing it for free in your spare time.

Companies that build software can afford to hire dedicated people to deal with particular hardware configurations, and usually make revenue-based decisions on what to support. One-person shops only have what they have.

Why does nvidia get the pass here? They've decided not to support the standardized graphics driver interface that Wayland needs to work. They certainly have the money and developers to do so if they wanted to. Presumably they've made a decision not to based on (lack of) expected revenue.

Why would you begrudge an unpaid volunteer to make a similar decision about what to support in their own software?
Not sure if they sell it, but pretty much any personal data associated with the state government in Texas is available for free online. For at least one major county, there is an online database where you can get the owner details for a given property address (and vice versa). There is other stuff available as well, hopefully at some point Texan voters will wise up.
Sadly no. I just decided cross check some old links to see what they would be doing nowadays.

I guess someone else would need to jump in.
The dumbest part about this is that for less than $1.50/person/year we could raise the same amount of money and not have to do this. I'm honestly more upset at how little money California gets for selling this than I am about the selling of it.
I've been following Onur's Design of Digital Circuits. I even bought a Basys 3 FPGA to do the labs. It's really helped me break down the black box that is the CPU I program as a software dev (I finally understand Spectre and Meltdown), and I'm learning basic FPGA dev as a nice bonus.
So your "true core count" for the entire Summit supercomputer will be one if you run Dijkstra's SSSP on it?

What is the bullshit factor for your "true core count"?
I.e., nothing causes anything, doing anything has no effect. The song is old.
Works great for music as well...allegedly.

Some genres are very popular on YouTube but not elsewhere (relatively), New Retro Wave been an example that comes to mind, good programming music.
No. I get it. I do understand. Maybe I should have said needlessly complex. Ie you can have keyless entry to a car and start the engine with a press of a button. Or -- instead -- you can search for a key in your pockets (put the bag in your hand on the ground first) insert it into the lock, turn the key and then pick up the bag, take the key and put it into the ignition, turn it and start the car.

So you tell me the first solution is dumb and the other one is smart? I would say that exactly opposite is true.
Valuation is descriptive, not really relevant to how much they need or raise. If you can raise $1 by selling 0.00000000222% of your company, then the company has a $45 billion valuation for the time being (if I counted 0s correctly).
I think you understand different values to be important than a Chinese does. A Chinese may not care about open internet as much as you do. (Though even that is for different reasons than you outlined. ie-not so much because of 'decadent values' as much as because the average Chinese believes the West uses the internet and Western news media outlets to 'keep China down'. It's more for nationalistic reasons than for values reasons.) But to say that, therefore, people in China want more oppression... is a bit of a stretch. They just see the open internet as a tool of Western oppression, and they say, "Good. The government is protecting me from it."

Now on other issues, Chinese are also demanding to be protected. From things like corruption. However, because of the way things work in China... this desire to be protected from corruption, at times, actually ends up strengthening the central government as well. This is because the people who are normally... say... appropriating land illegally... are local officials. The local people, on the other hand, know that if they protest long enough, and loud enough, that Beijing will come. At which point things will go in a decidedly bad fashion for the local bosses. So Beijing comes off as their 'savior' in a lot of these cases as well.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that, I really think Chinese are looking at the problems they have from a different perspective than you do. From their perspective... Beijing is a help with a lot of their issues... not a hindrance or the cause. From their perspective, oppression hasn't 'doubled down', Beijing is ALLEVIATING a lot of oppression. Getting a better understanding of how Chinese people feel about things... in addition to an understanding of which issues they believe Beijing to be the cause of, might go a long way towards alleviating your frustrations.
Maybe instead of revoking every global citizen's right to any type of privacy, the government should address the issue behind the terrorism: namely, radical Islam being allowed to proliferate freely and metastasize.
It's still 32 million people, that's huge. But you're totally correct there.
That’s true. Whenever the internet seems too sluggish, I run fast.com and other internet speed test tool then everything seems significantly faster.
or diarrhea.

An idea for an app — 'Big D': Connects people with diarrhea — so they can know someone truly understands their pain.

Unless this timeline already has one.
A great talk. I liked everything is broken by Quinn Norton: https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1

I agree with him, in that rather than give up entirely, it's better to start addressing the (very real and hard) problems head on.
In Budapest, HU there are still many in operation -- even in modern (mostly public) buildings, see this, for example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/norcisuti/997156315/ (obviously because their historical value).

It's great fun to guess who's arriving -- a bit like the old 56k modem days when downloading a JPEG took minutes. :)

In motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5HrUGiFDeg
Terrible CEO or not. Under his leadership Microsoft stopped becoming a software leader. They stopped leading and started following. Yes. Great products were launched. Windows Phone 8 (really cool interface), the Surface tablet, the xBox, Azure, various improvements to Bing. But they were outdone by competitors in almost all of these areas. Microsoft has to keep innovating, they have to become the disruptors. Right now, they're just busy playing catchup.
CDBaby predates Youtube by many years, so it was fairly obviously not created to abuse anything related to Youtube.
Traveling around countries, continents, or the world is becoming more and more popular in 4x4s and unimogs converted in this way. See this [1] for a good example of what the back of a Land Cruiser capable of driving around the world can look like.

I drove Alaska->Argentina in 2 years, and now I'm in the planning stages of an around-Africa trip which will flow into a Europe->SE Asia->Australia trip.

For anyone interested, checkout http://wikioverland.org for all the logistical info you'll need, and forums like http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum and http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/ to meet people actually doing it.

[1] http://www.geocruiser.nl/images26/inbouw2-100.jpg
I'll work on tempering my excitement :)
Starbucks roasts their coffee very dark - until there is a distinct char flavor. Can you tell the difference if I lightly parboil asparagus, or throw it on the grill until it is blackened? Of course you can. Are their flavor differences between rare and extremely well done steak? Huge differences. Same with coffee beans.

Note that is not a judgement on the roast level - obviously tons of people like it. But the more you roast, the more the char (carbon) flavor dominates. I don't know if it destroys the rest of the flavors, or just masks them, but for me it removes all of the reasons to drink the coffee. I don't see the snobbery in that statement.
> In this case, the pertinent detail is the fact the man set of explosive detectors.

Actually no, the pertinent detail is the fact that he wasn't carrying any explosives or planning anything nefarious.

> The most objectionable behaviour was arguably JetBlue's decision to refuse to honour the return ticket

You can't be serious. An innocent man was held against his will, questioned,with no water, for 18 hours, while in the mean some some secret police broke into his house, and the worst thing you can see about this is that he didn't get his money back??
When did writing ddos protection tools become a crime? Was that shortly after it became illegal to try to stop someone from stabbing you?
As someone, in their mid twenties, who is currently transitioning from a big company to a startup:

The stability question will always be there, regardless of the existence of a bubble. With a startup, there's always a greater risk of losing your job. If it was about a 6 figure salary, I would just move to another big company, many of which are hiring right now.

A fast paced high risk environment is what I'm interested in, and what I think is best for my career and learning. This transition is a non-issue for me, and independent of market trends.

I don't think 'crawling back to a more stable corporate gig' is a reliable backup plan. However, if I did, why would I lament? I would probably be hired with a comparable salary to that if I stayed on and grew from promotions. More importantly, I will have gained more in the process.