skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When poor people are explicitly given a room, 3 square meals/day, and government issue poor-people sweats, it's pretty hard to argue that they are somehow lacking anything necessary to live.

That's extremely gross. Most poor people are poor in part because of serious health problems. Giving people "3 square meals/day" implies forcing them to accept some standard issue, probably godawful cafeteria food that they have no control over. This can make health problems far, far worse, driving up medical expenses and driving down their ability to be productive.

To me, that sounds like a) hell and b) permanent underclass in the making.

And if you think in-kind assistance cannot be diverted to other goods, you are really, really clueless as to how creative people can be about converting the things they can get into the things they want to get. The reason we have all kinds of laws about how you can use food stamps is because so many people find ways to convert them to guns, alcohol, you name it.
Interesting analogy, but don't forget the vig he keeps for his efforts.
I expect most people will think this registration applies directly to what you describe as using in parks. I have no idea whether it's supposed to apply the likes of the Parrot drones, including or not the Bebop or Spider.

We don't know what this is supposed to cover, especially with the news stories of people using your "drones in parks" types to observe neighboring teenagers sunbathing or to report on mass anti government protests.

Heck yeah there's confusion.
I guess big providers has to deal with "newbies" all the time, that don't know how to configure their server and run open relays. And don't know how to add extra headers etc.

That said, silently dropping messages without a notification is probably illegal! And pretty serious! So if you know what you are doing (and you are not a spammer) you should send a cease and desist!

Just make sure you use double opt-in and that providing an e-mail address in sign-ups/etc is optional!

Some will however put your mail in a spam-folder and it's not much you can do about it, just hope your readers complain to their provider.

So basically: setup your smtp relay correctly! Make sure you are not on any black-lists. Add extra headers like dkmi / precedence, add spf (don't froget ipv6) and ptr. Add your relays to white-lists. Publicly publish a privacy and e-mail policy (important! with opt in and optional clause); Link to them and fill out some "email provider" forms at gmail/microsoft. Send out a bunch of test mails.
This will take a whole day, but if you do this, you will have no problems unless your IP or domain is perma-banned.
The problem is that outside of a debate forum, you'd only be making a statement to accomplish some goal, and providing the link will only help you do that if people generally agree with your statement, which is exactly the case right now.
They can simply fine people who do not have the documents with them. Like a police officer would come up to a drone pilot and ask for documents.

You can build a bicycle much more easily than a drone and many counties and some countries require people to register their bicycles.
If Obama had the opportunity to do the opposite of pardoning him, I'm sure he would. In fact, a drone strike might be what he is thinking about if he wasn't in Russia.
A similar concept applies to license place on road vehicles.

Sometimes some dude drives around without plates or takes an off road vehicle on the road. The police ticket the operator and tow the vehicle in some cases.
Oh, certainly. I just also want them registered and generally recognised as being "drones". I get really annoyed at people who scream about "future killer drones changing warfare" and "how can they possibly be safe" while they're sitting on an airliner that's been under computer guidance since it finished taxiing and when the US military has been using guided missiles since the 50s.
Among the things I needed — and had — when I was growing up, but that aren't on your list: books, a computer, a bicycle, moving away from the kids who were beating me up, a root canal, fillings, tooth sealant, an appendectomy, methylphenidate, clothes that weren't itchy, electronic components, music recordings, travel out of the inner city to get into nature and visit family members, a telephone number. My parents got those things with money. In many cases, they were better ways of spending money than more government-issue poor-people sweats would have been.

It might surprise you that putting poor people into gray government housing devoid of life or joy and under the control of administrators not accountable to those people generally results not only in abuses but also in crime inside that housing. But that's what you find, not only in the housing projects you're proposing, but also in military barracks (often in the form of gang rape) and in prisons.

It turns out that, in practice, parents do a better job of assigning resources to their children's welfare than governments do. This is true despite both the occasional glaring exception and the general situation that nearly all parents spend some money on things like tobacco or junk food.

Of course, it would be great to have government or community institutions that serve as a safety net for the kids whose parents aren't providing their needs, for whatever reason. Unfortunately, as a society, we do a terrible job of providing accountability to any kind of institution whose job is ostensibly to care for people without political power — whether we're talking about mental hospitals, prisons, nursing homes, housing projects, or schools. Public schools are only as good as they are because of pressure from parents.
For reference I get the following result with my GIMPs "Cubic" scaler:

http://i.imgur.com/3LLNzv5.png
The title should really use "Photojournalism" instead of "Photography," IMO. Outside of photojournalism, staging and manipulation are a large part of photography.
There is absolutely no law that says you have to accept an email, nor that you have to send a notification if you don't. A cease and desist?! Are you kidding?
I would split use #3 into two parts:
3a) disambiguation for builtin operators - e.g. a float local needs to go in a float register, adding 16-bit integers uses 16-bit addition, a struct local needs to go in an appropriately-sized memory location. This is basically the same as #2.
3b) schema-ed data storage. This allows laying out structured data in a compact way in memory (e.g. `struct x { int a; int b; }` consists of 2 integers one after the other). This functionality is useful even in unityped code.
Basic income guarantees have been advocated by many people in many centuries. One issue is that we don't know how they would work out in practice in modern societies, and the question is very controversial, which makes it hard to get good information on. This is some information that tells us that they might work out pretty well.
One thing about the RPV/Quadcopter debate that is rarely mentioned is the reason why they don't use ADS-B transponders.

The FAA requires ADS-B trasponders to have high accuracy GPS, and that pushes the cost to over $2,000 per device. It would be logical for the FAA to relax the GPS requirement slightly, so a cheap GPS module is sufficient to alert nearby aircraft of RPV activity over a certain altitude (eg. 200ft AGL) These RPV-grade ADS-B transponders could use a limited signal output, to avoid nuisance pop-ups from longer distances. The transponder Mode-S ID uniquely identifies the RPV.

It would be possible for a transponder to use an alternate channel frequency, similar to how many General Aviation aircraft use 978Mhz ADS-B. Even with an alternate RPV channel, the RPV operators would still be alerted to regular aircraft operations.
Simply pointing to history seems a pretty weak argument because it totally ignores advances of human society. By that reasoning I should expect to live in a cave, to be a slave building monuments for my king or something like that.

I argue essentially nobody wants to fight wars, everybody just wants to have a reasonable good life. In the past we fought wars because we had kings and dictators that could force their people to fight wars for them for whatever dumb reasons they pleased and without incurring high personal costs.

But in a democracy, why would people send themselves to the battlefield? There are just no good reasons to fight wars. The most rational one is probably for resources, but simply trading them is increasingly often the more economic solution. What else? Religion, ideology, status? Why should I care? You want an Islamic state or a Communist society? Go ahead, try it, I don't care as long as you let me continue doing my thing in my country.

Sure, there are still people around that feel the need to impose their religious and ideological believes onto others but that is a declining group. Or do you seriously believe China would go to war because they want to spread their political or religious views?
The anti-competitive consequences of this are really interesting. Does anyone know if there are historical statistics on email provider market shares? It would be interesting to see how things have changed over time.
> There are more people with perfect scores than seats for them.

Citation needed. Only a few thousand students score perfectly each year, and there are far more than a few thousand students accepted into elite universities each year.
You don't have a right to privacy in public spaces. You can be a weirdo and wear a baclava and only travel by foot or use cash to use public transit, but that behavior in itself de-anonymizes you.
Is the main difference mobile? Other than that, it just seems like aggressive players.
My money's also on a NIC checksum/segmentation offloading bug. Even though it apparently isn't controllable via the exposed parameters, the card does have these features. "TCP/UDP checksum and segmentation offload (IPv4 and IPv6)" on the spec sheet https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/dam/doc/product-brief/8257...
"Imagine a world where a startup entrepreneur doesn't have to be terrified of their health insurance status." Uhh, it's called Canada. Possibly all of Western Europe, but I've not lived there so I'm going on what I've heard. Perhaps readers can comment on the health policies of their respective countries?

Countries choose what they wish to pay for. Canada's choices are different than their southern neighbor.
BigTable Model with Cassandra and HBase
Show HN: Latex resume for software engineer
> Also, you are allowed to say "Yeah, he broke the law, but we don't give a fuck." It's called jury nullification.

More importantly here in particular, it's called a presidential pardon.
While avoiding the "should this idea be implemented" question for a second, I'm wondering about the engineering issues here: is it more efficient to pay men for vasectomies or women for tied tubes.

Women are subject to meaningful rate limits. Ultimately the number of women determine the rate at which a population can reproduce.

A man can mate with many women, so eliminating a single man from the reproductive pool might have a significant impact. However, the women that man could impregnate might simply end up impregnated by someone else.

Not entirely sure how to model this.
Your links need to NOT have a hover effect if they interfere with the ability to see (or click on) underlying content. Stubhub is horrendously bad in this respect -- in their zeal to hover a (meaningless) average price for a section at you, they make it impossible to click on that section.
A history of Republican obstructionism:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2015_02/...
It's discriminatory. It doesn't treat people fairly under the law.

But it also really bothers me that it's just so arbitrary. I can't imagine the arrogance necessary to think that you know how much to tax a certain segment of society relative to another.
IBM Gives the Chinese Government Access to Software Code
well.. extracting links etc is super fast with lxml's xpath.
It is written in C, and I don't think it would be faster if you write your own parser.

For example, to extract links from hacker news homepage, you would just do

xpath('//tr/td[@class="title"]/a/@href')

This will be really fast. You can do it even faster with a more specific xpath. I extracted about 10k links a second from documents this way and was still network bound. Usually you are primarily limited by websites throttling you.
Thank you gus_massa for the link and the feedback. I understand completely. I don't plan on lowering the price. People are signing up and I'm taking in feedback from my target market and moving forward with my improvement schedule. Sometimes things aren't always exact but we get there. :)
Advertising platforms can scale that fast. What if they are only monetizing 5% of pin boards at the moment? Going to 100% coverage would be 20x. Devil is in the details but order of magnitude growth isn't out of the question.
What about these:

Historical argument: Model R/C aircraft have been around for longer (including a video downlink and limited autonomous flight like return-to-home) than the term drone has been applied to them, even if it existed before as you said. Since the capabilities of these R/C aircraft didn't change, it is logical that their name doesn't change either.

Usefulness of the definition: Aircraft which are the size of a van and shooting rockets at brown people in the middle east are also called drone. Since capabilities, dangers and use case differ so radically from a 600g aicraft crashing into trees because it's fun, it is logical that they have a different name.

Political argument: Because drone is associated with the aforementioned military aircraft, it makes it easier to call for more regulation of hobbyists by playing on the public's fears.
I understand your point, but I think you're being too abstract. End of the day, someone is being taxed (fined by the government) more than another, simply because they are wealthier. That doesn't sit right with me.

As far as growth being stronger with higher tax rates, I assume you're talking about post ww2 era? If so, then I think that was probably more to do with the fact that the rest of the world was destroyed rather than due to our tax code.
Poor people are ALREADY given cash. Its called EBT and you see them squandering it on junk food and trading it for cigarettes.
An aircraft flying under autopilot with a human pilot present who is monitoring the situation and can respond to ATC instructions and take manual control if necessary is not remotely similar to a UAV from a practical perspective, despite the superficial similarity of both being flown by a computer.
Let me share my experience with chroma upsampling and smooth jpeg decoding.

At first, I optimized each channel, then upsampled the chroma channels using replication. This works terribly as you can see in the article.

So then I changed to linear interpolation. Briefly:

+---+---+
a x b y c
+---+---+

We know the values in a and c but not b. The distance from x to a is half a pixel and the distance from x to c is one and a half pixel. Then linear interpolation gives x = a + (c - a) * (1/2 - 0) / (2 - 0) = 3/4 a + 1/4 c.

This worked decently, but it still showed fringes around sharper edges. I considered using more complicated upsampling methods like Lanczos or Mitchell, but instead went with optimizing a full size image with constraints on the downsampled image. By avoiding upsampling I got my optimized high resolution image for each channel.

But there were still fringes! As it turns out, just because each channel was optimized seperately doesn't mean that the image as a whole is optimized. So I switched to optimizing the three YCbCr channels together, not looking at the differences abs(x_{i+1} - x_i) but looking at the differences sqrt((Y_{i+1} - Y_i)^2 + (Cb_{i+1} - Cb_i)^2 + (Cr_{i+1} - Cr_i)^2). This actually eliminated the fringes.

The final result is https://github.com/victorvde/jpeg2png
What if someone inherited a place to live, but has no money?

If someone has wealth I'd generally expect them to consume that wealth before receiving wealth transfers.

But more generally, if people have some of their needs being met but not all, then they can consume only some of the available in-kind benefits. E.g., a wealthy person with no income (like you described above) might provide their own housing but get their food from the government cafeteria.

Premise 2 is both debunked in the US. Google the consumer expenditure survey and witness poor folks spending money on short term pleasures. Your premise 2 also conflicts with the article: Even if bad behavior does make poverty worse, it’s also the case that poverty causes bad behavior in the first place.

Now you can try to improve the choices that poor folks make. But you can also just eliminate the bad choices and directly manage their lives until they develop the ability to manage their own life.
In these circles, a "drone" is usually the little ones you might attach a Go Pro to or control with your iPhone, not a UAV similar to what the military uses. I'd go so far as when someone says "drone" to the general public, they think of the guy at the park before the military version.

If NBC wanted to clarify, they could add a line like "drone - anything with a wingspan over X feet - would have to be registered" and completely dispel any confusion.
We could start by making it easier for American women who want a tubal ligation to get one. Currently, if you are under age 25 and/or do not already have 2 kids, it is a huge uphill battle. My recollection is that there are federal laws that impact this. I wrote a college paper for a law class on this some years ago. The last time I wanted to discuss it on the Internet, I was not able to determine if these laws had changed. I was able to determine that, yea, verily, women are still treated in a patronizing way, like they will surely regret deciding to close off their options and will obviously want kids later. This winds up being a huge problem for some women. I have personally known women who ended up trapped in long term poverty in part because of the reluctance of the American medical establishment to let them get their tubes tied. It's really gross.

In contrast, an American man can decide to get a vasectomy at age 18 and, yeah, sure, we will do that. No problem.
This is a serious misconception. I did the same mistake and never earned a degree. Now despite being successful and earning well most countries will not allow me to immigrate on my own.

And that's just one loss. Complete system is rigged in favor of credentialism than talent.
Yes. Make driver education mandatory in public school. A vehicle tag should simply identify the vehicle out of a sea of mixed clones (a la: which blue Mustang?).

I actually think the U.S. Founding Fathers would have enumerated a "right to vehicular travel" if they had conceived of license-as-a-privilege restriction on horseless carriages.
>What does that mean? They sign up for our service and expect to get e-mails from us, which they don't receive. We have the same "idea", but the third-party is interfering with that "idea".

That's not quite how it works from the end-user's perspective.

Say I buy a product or service from you. Of course, you send me billing emails, etc. and that's fine.

The problem is that companies take this further and start thinking they have the "right" to send all sorts of garbage to that customer.

Now, they of course let the customer opt out... if the customer is willing to spend ten minutes digging through their interface. But most don't.

I know you love those newsletters; they make you money. But don't kid yourself that your customers do. Many are going to click 'report spam' if you send too many. Even if it's not spam by the definition that marketers use, it's still very clearly unwanted email, and marking it as spam is so much easier than going through the unique-to-you opt-out procedure. And if your list is like most, some of the members signed up years ago (or bought something from you years ago) and long ago forgot doing so, so of course they are going to mark it as spam.

If you want to send email to your customers, you need to understand this.

Note, I'm not saying that you can't send that email; you can. I send email to my customers, and some of it borders on being "newsletters" - I'm just saying that you need to be aware of the cost- that cost is that it will annoy some of your users. Getting your email marked as spam is only one part of that cost.

>Even if recipients did know about the third party, do you know the switching costs of e-mail? And, you're suggesting that we should wait until all of our affected members get fed up and change providers (hoping that provider doesn't use the same service, etc.)? All of this, when the problem is obviously being caused by the third-party's error, yet they have no responsibility?

My point is that third party has no responsibility to you. They have a responsibility to their customers, but none to you.
I forgot who exactly put it this way, but I like the idea of thinking of direct cash transfers as the "index investing" of poverty interventions.

It won't guarantee the absolute best return, but it can effectively guarantee a very respectable average return.
That his software does not "run the internet" does not make it any less good. It's there for whoever chooses to use it.

That he focuses on the software instead of pandering probably makes his software better than the alternatives that aim to please even the most foolish of users. At least I think so.

Maybe I interpreted the proposal incorrectly, but I always saw IM2000 (minus the "notifications") as a "pull" solution.

By contrast, conventional email relies on "pushing" spam to the recipient (in practice, a middleman called an "email provider").

A smart IM2000 recipient perhaps would not pull spam from the sender's server.

As such, the spam would never enter the network. It would just sit on the sender's server.

Therefore, IM2000 not only conserves storage but also conserves bandwidth.
Agriculture has become a much smaller part of our economy over time. Imagine you own a farm in Missouri; you can ship your many tons of goods down the Mississippi and sell them to billions of people worldwide. Now imagine there is no river. You can sell to people in your immediate region, which being a farming region, is already innundated by similar products.

The tyranny of distance and logistics might be hard for people making Internet services to imagine.
lihaoyi

you are an absolute madman. I hope typesafe can woo you from dropbox. it would be insane to see what you get done if scala became your dayjob.
This just looks like an ad for your service, Matt (which is usually okay and encouraged on HN, but this site requires signup to do anything). You should also use first person in your submission title as not to obscure your relation to the site.
I don't disagree, there are some very beneficial regulations, I should have made myself more clear.

Very good point on commerce relative to raising the quality of life around the world.

I don't know why so many people give the state the benefit of the doubt when they mistrust corporations so much. I'm inclined to mistrust both, but at least a corporation has to compete to survive. The state has a monopoly, that's one of the reasons it is so dangerous. Never forget that most of the worst atrocities ever committed in human history were done by governments. Hitler was an elected official and all that.

The goal has got to be to keep as much power for the individual as possible. The is in part done by keeping the state out of most contacts between two parties.