skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That actually sounds like a really, really good idea.

Although... I just started thinking about the possibility of using a microcontroller that had a tiny bit of internal, non-reprogrammable ROM, so I could implement a secure stage-0 loader... lol
I dont know why you'd get downvoted for this. Thanks for linking it. There are some interesting talks here.
A basic income doesn't necessitate increased consumption, only shifted consumption from the rich to the poor. If you think a basic income is going to have an adverse effect on savings/investment rates, there are plenty of ways to bump this up (sovereign wealth funds for example).

But your comment is pretty clearly motivated by an ideological commitment to the rich having more and the poor having less, rather than some genuine concern with insufficient investment. Why not just be honest about it instead of hiding behind this ideological wordplay?

Labelling the freedom of choice of a low income worker to leave a job they hate and/or work a bit less as "deadweight loss" is reveals a lot. I suppose you think the lack of ten year old children working in coal mines is deadweight loss too.
It's not so much an assumption, it's more just looking at our 5.5% unemployment rate (aka "the natural rate") and 3.5-4% NGDP growth.

Even if we aren't, this article provides no mechanism by which a BI would get us to full capacity or increase output at all. All it provides is a mechanism which would take us away from full capacity (If your boss is an unreasonable jerk, you can tell him to “take this job and shove it”...).
Stealing copper from phone and power lines isn't "extreme" at all. It happens with some regularity.
> US citizens pay taxes. They choose to distribute that money among themselves. That is the purpose of the US government: to protect and serve the interests of US citizens.

Non-citizens pay taxes too. Residents/green-card holders/visa-holders pay full income taxes without getting full benefits. Everyone pays state sales tax if there is one.

> If you feel that this is morally wrong, then I don't see how you can't argue that every single aspect of any government is morally wrong. The fact that I live in the US and not Syria is unfair, but it's not morally wrong.

Your argument is "the US government: to protect and serve the interests of US citizens.", so I don't see how you can think there exists ANYTHING that the US government does for its citizens at the expense of its non-citizens that isn't morally wrong. Since the reason corporations exist is to benefit shareholders does that automatically make all their actions ethical as long as they increase share value? Obviously not. Thus, I think we can conclude that its possible for the US government to do things that help its citizens which are morally wrong.

> Do you have a job? Are there stipulations on how you can spend your money? Because you are arguing that paying people without such stipulation is morally questionable.

Uhm, the difference is my employer and myself mutually agreed to the transaction. That is obviously why he can't stipulate what I can do with my money, whereas with taxes, which are taken from me, and which I by your own argument a few sentences above explained have some control of through our votes as US citizens, we do have a say in. Let me use your own logic here: "plenty of US services have stipulations on them, such as voting which you can't be a felon for, for example. THUS we should be able to have stipulations on these new services".

> If these immigrants are benefiting the economy, then surely they are worth the basic income we'd be paying them for that benefit.

Sure, but that doesn't mean they'll actually make it in. We already turn away lots of people that would be incredibly beneficial to our economy. I am arguing that a policy such as this would further these bad policies. However, if you believe that the government always makes the right choices, rather than our immigration policies being a mess of special interests and constituencies, then I suppose we are at a fundamental impasse.
They ought to get makeup talent artists for this, 99% are CGI except certain movies.
A response from Vitalik with actual numbers https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/38jiyv/are_ethere...

> Okay, fine, under normal conditions bitcoin blocks are 98% likely to be final but ethereum blocks are 80% likely to be final. However, six bitcoin blocks provide a one minus one in a billion finality guarantee (since 0.02 6 < 10-9) and 13 ethereum blocks provide that same guarantee (0.2 13 < 10-9), so it's still the case that what bitcoin provides in 60 minutes, ethereum provides in 156 seconds. Sure, not in six blocks, but it's a battle of linear versus exponential, so the more fine-grained you can make the single-block confirmation time the better.

There are also uncle rewards which mitigate the miner incentives.

I see benefits to both systems and longer block times are clearly more efficient, but since Ethereum is an application platform a 10 minute block time is untenable. It may be less efficient, but I don't think thats a nail in the coffin.
Government welfare gets money to all locations over the long term. Private charity does well in short, acute phases (eg hurricane relief), but over the long term, it's only useful for socially attractive services - and even then, it's not enough. 'kids with cancer' charities do a lot better than 'young adults with mental illness' charities, which in turn do better than 'disabled people who need 24-hour care for life' charities.

> poverty was decreasing between the 40s and 60s

... something which had little do to with welfare or private charity.

> I know you'll find this hard to believe but its true the richest in our society give more than anyone else to charity.

I don't find it hard to believe at all. What you're finding hard to believe is that even though the rich give more than others, it's still a drop in the bucket compared to government-supplied assistance.
Point taken; that was the wrong way to say it :P

Also, to clarify - and I should've qualified what I meant, but tiredness is such an unhelpful thing at times - this is a genuinely interesting-sounding idea (as I noted to the other reply at this comment depth), but the paragraph at the bottom was kind of an independent thing.

I've always wanted to tinker around with a handheld, reasonably nice-looking device with similar specs to a Palm. Sort of like the TI watch (http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos), but a PDA equivalent.
While the little guys aren't making bank anymore, what about the big guys?

It's my impression that the pornhub network is quite healthy, financially.
> that right there is pure neglect for the value of human life

What value? If you believe in God and think that people were created in his image, then human life does have value independent of what anyone thinks. But, if you're not a believer, then people are just self-deluded carbon-based life forms with limited lifespans on some tiny rock in a vast universe with 100s of billions of galaxies and 100 of billions of stars in each of those.

> Sex is not necessary for you to survive.

Of course not. That is not what I wrote. The question is why you would value survival instead of reproduction. If reproduction is the basic, biological goal, then it should have more value than survival.

- For example, the goal of working for the most part is to get the money. Since you like Basic Income, you would say that people should get the goal(money-basic income) and skip the work.

- What I say is that people make money for the most part to find a partner and reproduce. So, using your reasoning, since the goal is reproduction, then they should get that goal(dating-sex-reproduction) and skip the money.
Get it?
The fine article talks about the losers of the trade war. The winners are OK. If you look where the money is, it's with MindGeek (formerly known as Manwin), a company that has through the years bought bought most of the tube/cam sites, owns Brazzers and other content producers.

For sure, tired unattractive content won't make it. But then you have the true artists of fucking, like James Deen, Pierre Woodman, and those guys working at Czech AV. They seem to be doing quite well.

The innovation in porn, from what I've seen (hehe), is on the personal level, when a performer interacts regularly with viewers through social networks. To successfully provide illusion of intimacy or a relationship is the next frontier in porn, in my humble opinion.
The simple fact the author offers a different perspective on Edward Snowden is worth reading.
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I would like to know what the researchers think of the consolidation of miners within Bitcoin.

From the whitepaper "Miners with capacity smaller than 1/4 of the total network are incentivized to follow the protocol."

Yet, if any two of the five biggest mining pools collude, https://blockchain.info/pools?timespan=24hrs they'd already be over 1/4th of the network. And if three or more collude, they could take over the entire thing.
https://www.google.com/search?q=real+unemployment+rate+us+20...
A basic income doesn't necessitate increased consumption, only shifted consumption from the rich to the poor.

Did you read the article?

"A rich person, presented with a tax refund, will not necessarily increase his or her consumption. Instead he or she might well save the money...When the poor and lower middle class get cash in their pockets, they generally spend it straight away..."

If you think a basic income is going to have an adverse effect on savings/investment rates, there are plenty of ways to bump this up (sovereign wealth funds for example).

Please explain the mechanism by which this would work. Specifically, consumption of shoes and the number of people producing shoes goes up correspondingly. Some people quit working because their boss is a jerk. Where do the people building the new shoe factories come from?
He seems to have a typical engineer problem with underestimating time, but at least is not trying to bullshit anyone; even in his "misleading" announcements he's straigth and to the point. You can see that he honestly does his best to deliver. It's a refreshing quality.
Thanks a lot, it means a bunch to me :D
I had and enjoyed an m515. :) I see there are several for less than $30 on eBay. Maybe that wouldn't last if someone built the software and a bunch of paranoid power-users started buying them. :P The potential to recycle some old hardware is part of what makes this idea interesting to me.

I suppose if you can do full USB, you can probably get data in somehow.
Hi, there's no limit on disk space.

We use Google Cloud Datastore which is quite reasonably priced at $0.18 per GB per month.
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Thanks for joining in. How do you feel about the marginalization of porn by the primary platform vendors?
I think its too harsh to blame fBolsa Família for the current state of the Brazilian economy. Its share of the budget is not even that big in the grand scheme of things. For example, subsidized loans the government/BNDES gives to large business (who coincidentally happen to be campaign contributors) are responsible for a bigger hole in the budget than the bolsa família.

Also, the reason we had to rename the currency last time was because Brazil had suffered from hyperinflation for so many decades that even after the government stopped printing money prices kept goingup out of sheer inertia. To give an idea, most supermarkets hired a person that would go around the aisles restickering things and mindlessly bumping prices by 2% every day.

Nowadays the government again has gone back to the times of a screwed up monetary policy but we are still far away from hyperinflation.
> AllAdvantage was launched on March 31, 1999, by Jim Jorgensen, Johannes Pohle, Carl Anderson, and Oliver Brock.[2] During its nearly 2 years of operation, it raised nearly $200 Million in venture capital and grew to more than 10 million members in its first 18 months of operation.

Holy hell! So that's where those companies had money from. As a kid I always wondered how those bullshit "install our app, get paid for surfing" companies got their money; it turns out they were burning VC funds all along...
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> It's a rape of your mind.

This is perhaps the most ridiculous comment I have read this afternoon.
We set up boundaries between creatures, define concepts like life and death because they allow us to understand and predict the world better.

I think that's what "eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge" means. If the universe is unity, when you die, the universe is still here. As Christians put it, "One with God". If you see yourself as separate to the universe, when you die, you're dead. And Hell = consumed by ego, which likes comparing you and others.

That's going into philosophy, and it's useful in so far it helps people feel content.
This is just an educated guess, but it could be an issue with the on-disk record formats. A quick look here: https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat2.html shows that variable length types like BLOB and TEXT are denoted by a type code value greater than 12 that is even or odd (respectively). The only wiggle room looks like values 10 and 11, but of course there would have to be some completely separate way of denoting the size.
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you are talking about the studios not the actors right?
OkBuck is a gradle plugin, aiming to help developers utilize the super fast build system: BUCK, based on the existing project with Android Studio + gradle, and keep both build systems work, with less to only 10 lines of configuration.
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Yes, the 'ultimate decentralized solution' relied on 'who happened to be on an IRC channel' for forcing things the right way.
"Ninja". "Superhuman powers".

Is it 2005 again?
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this really is something! One thing that I would love to see is font pairings that occur together frequently.
What I'd like to see - and never see suggested in these discussions - is starting with a revenue-neutral carbon tax to fund a BIG. Since the tax would internalize the externalities of pollution and climate change, the government could cut subsidies and tax breaks for energy production and efficiency, and throw those savings into BIG as well. Anyone willing to be a below-average greenhouse gas emitter comes out on top, while anyone who owns a private jet is doing well enough not to care.
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Forget about the porn for a minute gang... this is, to me, the key insight in the story:

VR and its cousin, “augmented reality,” are controlled by the big corporations.
Facebook owns the Oculus Rift. Microsoft built the Hololens.
Google does Google Glass. These will treat porn at least like Android
treats porn—or maybe even like Glass treated porn when O’Connell
unveiled his app. In other words, they won’t allow it through official
channels and maybe not at all.

And it isn't even just about VR... the point is, we, collectively, are losing control of our use of computing and technology.

Remember the early 80's, when anybody could buy a handful of 8086 processors, a Phoenix or Award BIOS, some cases, etc., and start pumping out IBM compatible PCs? That was pretty amazing, and arguably led to amazing things. How about the way you could take your PC and install ANY operating system on it: DOS, Xenix, Solaris x86, Windows, OS/2, BeOS, BSD Unix, various flavors of Linux, etc. Great opportunity for invention and creation there...

and now? When was the last time you installed a new OS on your smartphone? Your game console? Your VR device? Your smart watch? Etc?

Yeah... thought so.

Look, I'm not saying anything terribly new here, and I don't claim to be. Cory Doctorow said it all better, and before:

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

But we need to take this seriously. I don't want to live in a world where Google, Facebook, IBM, HP, Twitter, Microsoft, EMC, Cisco, Snapchat, etc., decide what content I can consume, what programs I can run, etc. And I doubt most of you do either.
Not to harp on details rather than substance, but... this is still a thing? We're still doing this?
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Ownership. Delegation. Support.
Your example doesn't really make any sense.

This wasn't about cheating - this was about war leaders making decisions during times of war or conflict (or what they believed was war).

As a President (or political leader) you will need to make hard decisions.

And you are guaranteed to annoy some sub-section of the population by your decisions.

And like it or not, conflict (or war) is a part of our world - and as a leader, you need to make tough calls.

We can dissect those decisions afterwards - and offer our own commentary. But I am not arrogant enough to think that I would make a better President or political leader - I don't have the stomach for those sorts of decisions, or a thick enough skin.

My question to you - do you think you could make better calls in each of those cases?

Personal opinion - I didn't agree with a lot of Bush Jr's decisions. However, I think he did the best with the information and advice he had. Whilst some people may not like him, I don't think anybody has actually ever accused him of being outright deceptive, or misleading? (Stupid, perhaps, but he was anything if not earnest).

Another thing - often on HN, we don't understand that we aren't really the majority - we're in our own little echo chamber here (for better or worse).

Most of us are fairly affluent, technologically advanced - and let's face it, out of touch with the average person.

And some of us are also part of the tin-foil hat crowd =).

Take the Snowden leaks - a lot of us are up in arms about the invasion of liberties (and possibly for good reason).

But for many average people, Snowden is nothing more than an American traitor - and the fact that we're spying on other nations? "Gee, I thought that's what our government was meant to do?". A lot of the people outside of tech don't really care that much about the invasion of privacy - they are so far removed from that sort of thing that it doesn't really impact them (or so they think).
Yeah! I was hoping that this was a discovery of NSA malware, something that only a nation-state could put together. I mean, we've all heard of Stuxnet and Flame and Duqu and the Equation Group, but there's still some nagging doubt that those were really NSA malware.
More money and more queries-per-month then that at nsone.net. They are very good. The api is especially nice for setting up failover and geo pools.
Cool, never knew about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
Okay, so, silly question time: why can't we just have a Paetron for porn actors and actresses? Cut out all of the middle men, pay them directly?
Square's IPO prospectus shows just how much the company needs a full-time CEO
> The innovation in porn, from what I've seen (hehe), is on the personal level.

Good point but I think there is room for innovation at the film side. Porn is the most conservative genre: films are cloned with different actors.
Darktable, which I've been using for at least three years now, is certainly a reasonable lightroom replacement. Its initially rough edges have been mostly well rounded now, and some of the more hard-line decisions from the developers (like "no file delete functionality at all") have been sensibly slackened.

Some things I think are still missing from open source photography workflow: adequate support Linux from high-end printer manufacturers (eg. I have a Canon Pixma Pro 1 and I basically have to use it through a shitty Windows VM), and better front-ends for lens distortion calculators.
Is there a subtle conflict of interest with YC essentially benefiting from lower early round valuations, whereas before this was not the case, e.g. YC and startups were aligned on valuation
Something like this?

http://pledgex.net/
As hands off as the war is it still costs more than it's worth

That's very hard to measure. ISTM that in international relations things tend to either muddle along rather badly with gradual incremental improvements that roughly track economic growth, but when they go bad (ie resulting in war or massive political change) they tend to do so quickly and catastrophically (in the sense of a major discontinuity rather than mere badness, although more often than not it's bad).

And while I share your reservations about the US as a global hyperpower whose policing of international relations can frequently result in backlash (not unlike its internal policing culture...) I'm also inclined to look back at the era prior to the formation of the US and note that when there's no clearly dominant actor on the scene you have endemic peer conflict.

the increasing flow of information is forcing us to act rationally

I'm more pessimistic than you about this. It is easier then ever to make rational decisions thanks to all that information and accumulated insight, and I do think the US is maturing as a society. But there's an argument that irrational political behavior is rationally rewarding for voters who know they have very little influence over the political process and take their vote as an opportunity to express their disgruntlement through perversity. Bryan Caplan has a very good book about this called The Myth of the Rational Voter, if you like economics.
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The Iraqi thing has been done to death.

It's never a black and white decision.

Yes, we may not agree with his decisions - but I guarantee that if you go through history, you will find many political decisions that each of us would disagree with.

I may not like a lot of the decisions my political leaders make (I'm Australian).

However, I don't pretend for a second that political leadership is an easy calling - it's a tough job, and a lot of pressure - which can affect people in different ways.

I dislike armchair pundits who will dissect every decision, and then try to force it into their own black/white view of things.

At the end of the day, they made the call to topple Saddam Hussein, and take out Iraq.

I don't think anybody will argue that Saddam was a great human being, or that his regime wasn't responsible for atrocities - for me, the question was more that did we (well, America and its allies) have better things to do with their soldiers and money?

And look, we took out one dictator and put in a democratic government - and gave them aid and training - but it remains to be seen what they can make of it.
High end might be so high that even though it is more than median it still ends up being the mean.
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Interestingly, India has several AllAdvantage-like mobile apps. Kids install them and do various tasks (mostly watching ads) and take payment in the form of mobile recharges.
I'd love to read a couple of journal articles that you recommend to learn about TDA. I do large scale data analysis on health care data at my university and am always on the look-out for interesting techniques.
The film side has innovated in Japan to mimic girlfriend-like settings and interactions to fill the emotional void of young men who feel abandoned by the dating market.

Much of anime has followed a similar evolutionary adaptation there.
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This is way cool. I've been wanting to play w/ Postgres's new(er) json features but haven't had use case to set up server and do so. But this can be tried out really easy.

Oh, did I mention how much I love SQLite? Not being a startup in "scale mode" it works really well for the size of apps I build (internal apps with only a handful of simultaneous users). The only drawback I've ever had was with simultaneous writes, but a lock and a server queue easily fixed that. Other than that, it is fast, reliable, and so easy to set up and deal with.