skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I am misinterpreting your comment, but forecasting isn't the primary function of macroeconomists. Most of what will determine the future hasn't happened yet, or hasn't yet been measured. And yet, public policy, fiscal policy, and monetary policy choices all have enormous effects, and those choices are ideally informed by people who have actually studied the economy.

To put it in familiar terms, there is a difference between the climate and the weather, and we are able to influence the economic environment for good or bad in the same way that we could affect the climate by changing the atmosphere or changing the distance to the sun.
A big bang approach would be very disruptive. I think it would be better to start at a modest level, and increase it after people get used to the idea and can see some of the effects.

There's no minimum to get started. Something like $100 a month might be hardly noticeable to most people, but it will make a difference to anyone living on the edge.

Also consider that having a guaranteed income makes it that much more feasible to either move somewhere with a low cost of living (since it doesn't depend on a job), or alternatively, afford to move somewhere a bit more expensive. Hard to say how it would shake out.
1) I think that the difference comes from how you look at the data. In the past, jobs that were displaced were replaced by other forms of unskilled or minimally skilled labour. The total pool of unskilled/minimally skilled jobs never shrunk. It is still too soon to tell what effect intelligent automation will have on that total pool. It could very well be that for every job automation technology displaces, it creates ten more. But if those jobs are highly skilled jobs that the existing labour force can't transition into? Then we have a problem.

4) I think that perfect employment is a good goal, but how we get there is something else entirely. We can create more jobs, we can "re-educate" workers, we can decrease hours to create more shifts, but all of this still leaves a lot of people in the cracks. I think that one of the main benefits of a UBI is that it guarantees that nobody falls through the cracks.

I don't see how UBIs would entirely destroy labour unions either, since labour unions are often about more than setting minimum hours and negotiating standard compensations. Unions provide a lot more utility than that so I don't see workers abandoning their unions just because they get a check in the mail from the government every month. If that was the case, the union probably had very little utility to begin with IMO.

I don't know if a UBI is the right solution for solving poverty or worker inequality. But I don't think the author makes a convincing argument for an alternative, and I don't think doing nothing is a solution either.
Why is your solution more government involvement? Why not less?

If there's so much money to be made in child are, why aren't childcare centres popping up on every street corner? It's the kind of business you can easily run from your house. Get five neighbours to pay you twenty bucks a day to look after their kid, and everybody is coming out ahead.

I can only assume that the reason it doesn't happen is massive government licensing requirements.
Yes, I have seen that.

Of course the JITer will not perform the same level of optimizations as the fullblown code generator, but then you can just call that if you like.

The new JIT engine does support SIMD [1]. And C# can generate SIMD code using various libraries (I think MS has one, and I know Mono does).

And various people have shown how to do fullblown x86 assembly code generation and execution from within C#, but it's fragile.

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/04/07/the-jit-fi...
Would have been more interesting if they just broke down the expenses of a childcare center, like that one described in the article with 19 kids and 3 teachers making $9/hr that the owner says is just scraping by.
It seems like one of those cascading series of perverse incentives up and down the value chain. The subcontractors want to cut corners with the contractor. The contractor wants to cut corners with the developer. The developer wants to cut corners on the project in general, passing the headache onto the buyer at some point after the eventual sale. Almost no one in this mess has incentives aligned with doing things correctly.

If buying and moving homes were a more frequent event, buyers would play more "rounds" of this game and eventually become wiser to the ground rules of it. Reputation would start to matter, and developers, contractors, et al., would need to work harder to ensure they didn't get dinged. As it now stands, except in the luxury market, really, where people custom build homes, no one cares about a developer or contractor's reputation. So they don't have any reputational risk on the line. So they happily cut corners wherever they can get away with it.

(And I'm willing to bet that even the luxury/custom buyer barely has a clue when it comes to evaluating the quality of construction and materials.)
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The creating-crap thing, I suspect, intersects with issues over equality and minimum income.

There are people who, quite literally, would do more good to the world not working than working. Especially those producing products or services which are net negative. I started noting this with the growth in products that seemed aimed entirely being disposable, and retailer's view of them only as vehicles for moving dollars: retail exists less to move goods than to move money through the economy. Work of many sorts exists as much as a workfactor activity for reallocating wealth.

Other fair means of allocating both productive activity and income could avoid much of this.
Not surprising at all.. pretty exciting times ahead!
Sounds like a reason/opportunity to locate outside the U.S.
The information that we report is all publicly available from places like Pubmed ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ ) and ClinVar ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/ )

It's conceivable that that one could look at each of the 600,000 lines in 23andMe's raw data and find these research reports individually.

We simplify that process and make the connections to research reports for you. Then, wrap it up in a nice package where you can compare your family member's data, get information on genes, generate PDF reports, etc.

Unless the FDA wants to shut down public access to scientific knowledge, then we don't expect to hear from the FDA. Others have been operating in this space for several years.
Probition should be prohibited.
Yep, that's a much more apt description.
The main thing is the drywall. Interior walls in homes used to be plaster, troweled onto lathe or wire backing in several coats. Plaster is a LOT heavier than drywall: it's basically like having 3/4-inch cement walls. Plaster walls lend a sense of solidity and quiet to the entire house.

The basic framing of houses is not that much different.
Interesting theory for sure..
People have done this if you dig around. The basic idea is you can assemble arbitrary code into a byte array, then use an unsafe cast and use PInvoke to execute. The calling convention for many platforms has been reverse engineered, but I don't have a link handy. I've used it before to see if it works, and you can do it.
Real autopilots, sure.

Most people are exposed to autopilot systems only through movies where the autopilot not only can fly the ship in combat, but make cappuccinos and (more likely than not) has a sexy female voice.
Missing teen may have turned to Reddit for help
What if we make the welfare office also be the UBI office? Can we extend the welfare system to everyone, and just start calling it UBI?
Thanks. The project is still in active early development, so there are still a lot of bugs that need to be worked out. We have a good portion of the core language features covered so far, and are working on adding more.
>>any non-pathological adolescent or adult can take care of children acceptably

Define "acceptably".

Some babysitters think it's acceptable to just chat on Facebook all day and plant the child in front of the TV for 10 hours. That's not acceptable to me, but that's more or less what you get for very cheap labor; just someone to keep you legally clear from abandoning a minor. Like those super-cheap bare minimum car insurance that does nothing but keep you legally driving.

Here's the definition of acceptable when it comes to my children: Take kids to parks and museums. Can avoid using profanity around them. Won't smoke around them. Won't be speeding down the highway with them. Can be trusted not to fill my children with junk food. Can truly trust them to actively watch the kids so they don't do something crazy like sticking a fork into a power outlet or turning on the gas stove without the flame, thus filling the house with gas. Right now, the only people my wife & I trust with our kids are their grandparents... aside from the pre-school teachers.

Finding quality childcare is harder than you think.
There are many more for Scheme, or its sister language Racket ;)
If no recording equipment would pick it up, no human would pick it up either.

Quoting xiphmont

> Once you're driving air so hard it becomes nonlinear, thus introducing intermodulation distortion in the air, that distortion produces actual audible-range distortion products. And because the distortion you're hearing is in the audible range, a recording will sample and reproduce it accurately.

> You're hearing the audible _result_ of IMD, you're not somehow listening to the distortion curve itself.
The robot is .. meh. I expected something like http://www.honolulutraffic.com/LayingBrickRoad.JPG, but vertical. That slow and hesitant 3 joints arm seems a bad idea.
High ceilings help when you don't have air conditioning. They are nice aesthetically but unnecessary and even detrimental (more air volume to cool) when you have it.
In the case of sites like what.cd, I think that FLAC 16/44 rips of CDs and vinyl are useful for creating distributed backups of our cultural corpus. But I agree that 24/192 FLACs of vinyl are ridiculous.
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This was the first result in Google. It may be out of date. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013
Got an example of something that isn't SF? The only one I can think of right now is Otto from Airplane! whose capabilities are actually vaguely realistic, even if his mechanics are a little... off.
It's international thing. One of the original breeds of modernist architecture was even named "international style". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Style_%28archite...

I have a theory why it's like this. In 1800's architects we're often painters first. Their day job was to paint portraits and signs and whatever was ordered. There was quite lot of painters around, only few of them made "art" and only the best got to draw buildings. The architect would then work the design together with mason. Civil engineers of the time we're busy building railroads.

Then at the end of the century, photography happened. In hindsight it's called "the crisis of art!". Suddenly architects could no longer apprentice by painting stuff for customers. You needed a school for architecture. The teachers would of course be old architects, who hang out with painters. So they sucked that "we can't sell portraits anymore, let's go crazy!" attitude.

In the 1940's you still had some old school guys. During this time some factory owners still thought that paying an architect was investment. You got a factory that would sell your product, keep your employers happy and make you proud. Here is factory building from that period. http://torshammer.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Kabelfabrike...

Now architecture has not been based on anything for century. Or maybe seeping fashion trends of modern art. Most big money people use architect just to "pretty up" the facade of a building as afterthought. If even that. Nobody trusts architect to make anything coherent or beautiful.

At the same time architects need to jump on any opportunity to get some international fame. Because that's the only way you can ever succeed with such career. This breeds eccentricity. Which makes the whole thing worse.

To justify not using and architect, you might word that as "saving money". To be consistent with that, you cut costs in labor and materials. To the point of making actually bad buildings.
I have to admit that there is some truth there, and I apologize for implying that you were deliberately misrepresenting the issues under discussion. I wasn't giving much thought to your arguments because they seemed to be fundamentally missing the point, and you were probably thinking the same thing.

As it happens, I was considering the general case, and the examples of URLs and SQL came from Mike Ash's article, where he was considering the interpretation of text as information. My interpretation of cballard's post is that he regards an URL to be primarily a string, and therefore that an NSURL is, in some way, a typed string. I didn't think it was a good example, but as I was making a general point, I did not see that as mattering - I could make my point with Mike Ash's general examples instead.

My interpretation of Mike Ash's original statement is that it would be useful to have different string types where strings have different interpretations, and I disagree - the semantics of a type do not depend on its textual representation (if that were so, it would not be possible to translate those semantics between languages.) If I now understand your position correctly, it is that it is useful to have different string types because there are several different ways to interpret the underlying bit sequence as a valid string. I am not convinced that is the best solution to the problem created by us having incompatible bytes-as-text representations, but I agree that it is not wrong to consider it as an exception to the general rule.
Yeah I don't think it's bias.

That would imply that there's no issues with the newer design when the article clearly showed where the wrong choices have affected the durability of the building.
The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer [video]
Tesla does this if the car loses confidence and thinks you might need to take over. You can drive for quite a while completely hands-free, but only if the road is good and the car is handling it well. I think this is a pretty good way to do it, personally. I'd be sad if they dropped it to match the lowest common denominator and required hands on the wheel always.
"scale existing labor rather than invest in new labor, and thus increasing the number of people with no income, sounds like movement in the exact opposite direction."

Sorry, this was never suggested? "Scaling" existing labour is the same as investing in new labor, is it not? Or do you mean new "types" of labour?

Either way, most new productivity boosters allow you to do more with the same labour force. Ideally. So you let the labour force collectively bargain higher wages so the company is forced to invest in new technology (exp(n) boost) to scale their operations instead of increasing the size of the workforce (n boost).
That's average income. Look at the median income for men and things look less exciting. Then add the increase in tuition fees and housing cost in urban areas.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aTB7SNmJgkY/UCPmRNHaUxI/AAAAAAAAFw...
Actually, I just tried it:

float[] floats = new float[1000];
float factor = 1.01f;
int index = 0;
while (index < 1000)
{
floats[index++] *= factor;
}

...becomes...

00007ff8`80a804a9 488d549010 lea rdx,[rax+rdx*4+10h]

00007ff8`80a804ae c4e17a1002 vmovss xmm0,dword ptr [rdx]

00007ff8`80a804b3 c4e17a590524000000 vmulss xmm0,xmm0,dword ptr [00007ff8`80a804e0]

00007ff8`80a804bc c4e17a1102 vmovss dword ptr [rdx],xmm0

This is in VS 2013, compiled with DEBUG off, prefer x86 off, and 'any cpu' as the target.
The budget for Head Start is a matter of public record, and they are a fair representation of the costs (just ignore the social services budget items).
> Tapeworms can transmit their cancer cells to humans

This is freaky stuff! They're not actually sure where the cancer cells came from. They're definitely cancer-like, but they're not necessarily human cells.

I'd never thought of cancer as contagious before.
Facebook Bans Tsu Links Entirely, Choosing Control Over User Empowerment
I was more thinking of stuff that is entirely mine that I just want to dump a copy of onto the web.

I don't think it's fair to make contributors assign copyright to me, especially if they are major.

I'd probably just keep a private fork from before their contributions, and, if for whatever reason my employer is GPL averse, that's their problem, and they can pay to reimplement anything they need from after that point.

Edit:

Perhaps a fair way to do it would be to say that contributors who agree to the CLA are also assigned rights to the whole code base, with the restriction of only being able to redistribute it wholesale as GPL. Similar to the way commercial sound and video clip libraries are licensed, you are allowed to redistribute it as part of another work in whatever license you like, but wholesale redistribution is only allowed under the GPL.
That would give the same advantages as a more permissive license, but reduce the freerider problem to some extent.
Regarding cryptolockers, if you have a backup drive on a SAN ... beware. Crypto ransomware will scan for any attached drives and encrypt those files as well.

To make matters worse, your DropBox syncing software will automatically cryptolocker your files stored in the cloud.
What the heck lol. People...
Ask HN: How to meet new people, get friends and dates in SF Bay area?
Hi All,
I grew up in India. After living in 2 states in south finally I moved to San Francisco.

Unfortunately I haven't made a single friend here. I go to meetups but everytime new people show up.

I like hiking,creative discussions,watching NFL games and board games.

I am 32 so it is little hard to get friends.

- what shall I do to meet new people and create network of potential investors, employees and employers. At some point in future I want to do my own startup
- I am having hard time dating as well. I met few girls here and there but no girl liked me. Being Indian puts me further downstream in terms of women's preferences. Now, I do take care of myself. I go to gym regularly, smell good. Looks wise I am okay.

Any suggestions or hacks ?

Thanks!
It depends on how you structure your business. If you structure it for hypergrowth, then maybe not.
Can you explain why a flatter hierarchy is necessary for software development?

My background is in hardware engineering, and this strikes me as surprising (although something I haven't ever given much thought to). What about software makes it incompatible with hierarchy? Don't a lot of traditional software companies have a sort of hierarchy?
How do you want to go back to single-earner households when the vast majority of families don't have enough income to support all their members from two salaries? There is no economic incentive, system-wide, for having less people working for more money.
That's exactly why it doesn't happen. In OK you must get specialized certifications to look after more than one kid who isn't your own.
My perception is that parks, walkways, fences etc have gotten better. Even bridges are getting beautiful again.

It's houses that seem to go downhill. But not single family houses, only bigger buildings.
This is more of a historical survey of the idea UBI than a mediation on why it's good/bad thing.

I get the arguments he makes from the perspective of the revolutionary Left. They are, however, not interesting or really acknowledging the role that robotics/computer vision/etc will play in the future. It's not really his fault though. Rather, I think many people are just ignorant of the profound impact that this kind of technology is going to have, simply because their direct exposure to it is so minimal.

As someone that has had experience in the rev. Left for some years and saw developments with robotics in research at a well-regarded school as a grad student, I feel like I have some perspective on this article. What I saw in school really made me change my mind and re-evaluate how the future will play out. Things are going to change and the genie, so to speak is out of the bottle and there's no putting it back in. But as pretty much all most socio-enviro-economic problems, the impediments we collectively face generally aren't technological as much as they are political, and that's where the activist focus needs to be. But I digress.

Mr. Phillips, doesn't seem to get that the technology isn't ready to displace humans from all work. The real threat (which is a threat until further notice) is that robotic technology is now "good enough" to do the kind of work that was just out of reach of automation in the past. It is not inconceivable to think robots will be able to perform the tasks of human garment workers soon. The gap between robots and semi-skilled labor are disappearing every year.

The idea for calling for a stronger labor movement as a solution is frankly laughable. It isn't going to happen any time soon and the economic conditions (what Marxists would colloquially refer to as "super-profitability") that created things like a labor aristocracy (another term) and social democracy no longer exist. How does one recreate a strong labor movement when the industries that were unionized are structurally hollowed out by no-pay robotic "labor" (which isn't labor in the Marxist sense either)? I'd love to hear a non hand wavy answer (seriously!).

UBI is actually a strong step on the road to the Marxist idea of communism (ironically enough) in that it does something special: it decouples the idea of compensation from labor, which is one of the long term goals of a society transforming from capitalism to a stateless, classless society. Lenin had a term for this too, which was "bourgeois right".

Anyway, my 2 cents.
I like the idea of having to subscribe to get the latest source, be it dev, unstable, or whatever.
I hate the motion sensor flushes. They almost always flush while I'm in the middle of using the urinal and end up spraying me. I've been told that the color of your shirt makes a difference, but I haven't noticed.
Personally I'm all for taxing the shit out of rich people (higher rates, treating capital gains as income, high inheritance taxes, abolishing loopholes that let companies stash profits overseas where they're not effectively reinvested, etc), but I feel like the argument around UBI is more likely to involve cuts, because if we gave every person in the US $100/month, it would cost the US $385 billion dollars, which is 10% of the entire federal tax budget.
"There is an increasing body of research indicating that the quality of the care a child receives from birth, as well as the safety of socio-cultural environment a child is born into (which can be controlled by high quality child care), are strongly correlated with how productive a member of society the child grows up to be."

Can you please cite these research results. There are some specific results, but I would be interested in your long term data.
Huh. Too bad it's finance. Is there anyone in a non-parasitic industry still paying that kind of money for assembly coding? Maybe I should get back into it. I always loved the low-level world, anyway.
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