skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now you've got me imagining children receiving their own basic incomes, with the government getting to decide how some proportion (30%? 100%?) of their monthly allocation gets spent, and the parents getting handed the rest.

Something interesting with basic income is that it erases the traditional "income flow" that makes it make sense for parents to have one bank account that they own, and pay for all family members out of it. Under basic income, I could see each family member defaulting to having their own bank account to receive deposits.

You could go way more wild in the "enforcing spending on childen" with that setup than anything food stamps do. You could require that e.g. the government gets to audit the expenses on all "child" accounts to ensure they're for the child; and additionally require that parents only buy things "for" their children by first transferring money from their own account to the child's, and only then spend what is now the child's money on the item.
You know Alphabet has binder full of corporations so they can always send another one over to drive the car if the police take the current driver into custody.
Personally i think it is quite obvious that a self driving car a tool that you use. And therefore you as a user is accountable for the actions/damage you inflict with your tool.

No different that using a gun and shooting someone by accident.
The cap is 35 mph according to the link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10558220

It looks like Google limited it to 25 mph on their own accord.
I probably have super skewed view on the matter, but what is the point of expelling someone for cheating? Not everyone learns the same way and not everyone needs the same set of skills/knowledge. I feel like people put way too much value on a degree considering what real world is like.

So far in my short SW engineering career I haven't used a single thing I "learned" from my B.Sc degree, but what school did was to let me hang around with same minded people for few years which encouraged us to work on side projects together which taught us way more than any class.

That being said, I didn't cheat either, but I don't think cheating once is a good grounds for expelling someone.
In what field are you? From my experience in a business school, there is a lot of pressure now to have more woman and minorities as faculty. For instance, this is a task I recently got asked to do:

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Hi ,

* said that you can help me collect some data for the finance hiring committee. Here is what I need.

Attached is an excel spreadsheet with a list of business schools. Please go to each business school's website, and look up the finance department/area/group, and count the # of assistant professors in that group. In addition, please note the name of any assistant professor who is female or African-American, and the year of PhD if available.
I hope you can complete this task by . Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best regards,

*

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Interestingly (in a sad way), I couldn't find any African American assistant professor professor in the list of ~100 schools I got for that field (although I did find "African Africans" and "African Europeans" or whatever you call being black and not American).
> The alternative is Android. Which, if you ever tried to program for, is literally worse than going to the dentist.

Parent comment is mostly rubbish, but I'll concede that he has a point about programming for Android.

Compared to most other systems I've touched, programming for Android feels incredibly heavy and tooling reliant.

Android Studio and an updated toolchain has made it less painful than it used to be with Eclipse, but it's still nowhere as nice as making a standard Web-app, or WinForms app or something like that.

I'd love to just blame Java, but really... The Android API could take some sweetening up too.
If it was proven that it's not in P then we would have shown that P!=NP which would be HUGE.

No, this is "merely" finding a more efficient algorithm for a problem which we still don't know exactly where belongs. From a complexity theoretical viewpoint nothing is changed. It's still possible that graph isomorphism is in P.

Now if graph isomorphism is shown to be NP-complete then this result would imply that every problem in NP can be solved in sub-exponential time which would have huge practical consequences.
Probably because they're the most obvious of the factors that could impact such a program.
I get this a lot. Sometimes there's a car in the far left lane (the legally unofficial "fast lane") driving much slower than the social norm expects. It causes issues. People need to move when someone is in their way. It's instinct. It screws up the flow.
Jekyll against the rest of the world
[EDIT:] For those who didn't read the article, this is a cute parlor trick, but RC4 is broken and should not be used. If you really want a small cipher, use TEA or one of its more recent variants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Encryption_Algorithm
I assume you're new to his blog. For regular readers it is clear it's humor / sarcasm.

Edit: And I'm not sure how ISO8601's definition of the first week is relevant to a discussion of dates in a particular culture (Danish).
A gun isn't very autonomous, though. As tools become increasingly autonomous, it might not always be fair to place blame on the end user rather than the manufacturer.
Same here in Windows 7.
I doubt it. It likely requires running a specialized script, and if you are running arbitrary JS on your NodeJS server/app you are already in trouble.
> Hell, you could boot a kernel over USB, and Palm gave you the tools and commands to do it

So does Google. All Nexus devices allows you to do "fastboot boot kernel.img".

Other devices with unlocked bootloaders supports/supported this too (like my old HTC One M7), using the same standard Android tools.
It seems a little strange that one should have to worry about such things while not doing anything wrong.
HHCodes: A Data Structure for Spatio-Temporal Databases (Varma, 1990) [pdf]
Java debugging and language support in Visual Studio for Android
Moky Puts an Invisible Touchpad on the Keyboard
I love Facebook. Definitely makes my life a lot better. I use it to:

* stay in touch with friends

* know what events are up (my group of friends create events even for very small gatherings)

* find out about new music from the artists I like

* find interesting links and news about programming/tech (from a group I follow)

* read interesting discussions about programming/tech (same group)

* see interesting posts about indie games and indie game development in general (another group)

* see what people I've long lost contact with are up to nowadays
>Believe me people, the problem is real.

It would be nice if you provided concrete examples, because I've had very much the opposite experience as you. From my perspective the problems are grossly exaggerated.
Moreover, he never wrote down the "law" that is now attributed to him---a marketing coup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler's_law_of_eponymy strikes again.
> Except that for many users, they would GREATLY PREFER to have the RIGHT to acknowledge the risks entailed, and use the device how THEY WANT TO USE IT.

Let's face it: These people (rightly) buy Android and Nexus devices.
> I wonder if it would make sense at some point for VCs to make seed investments at infinite valuations -- that is, taking no equity at all -- in order to obtain information rights. Even if there are no follow-on investment rights attached, having insider information on how well a startup is doing must be worth something...

Somewhat incidentally, I think this is one of the reasons why YC is such a powerful force. YC recently invested in their 1000th startup -- couple that with the many other thousands of applications they've gotten (when you submit an application to YC, you're spilling a lot of beans already about yourself / your startup to YC), all of that put together is quite the house of knowledge. And on top of it all, it owns HN and thus to some extent has the power to frame the prevailing narrative of tech, I think there is no other entity in the world more in tune with the spirit and direction of startups than YC.
Finnish social security already pays out handout that is comparable to proposed basic income. If basic income is implemented, poor people don't get significantly more and the basic income is taxed away from those who are wealthier.

The benefit from basic income in Finland is reduced bureaucracy and welfare trap removal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_trap It's beneficial to work even low wage job part time when your wage is not reducing your basic income.
Full quote:

>“What I meant was that the internet was over for anyone who wants to get paid, and I was right about that,” he says. “Tell me a musician who’s got rich off digital sales. Apple’s doing pretty good though, right?”

So he implies that Apple is getting rich at the musicians' cost, which I agree with.

There are some musicians who are trying to make it outside the walled garden, but no-one got particularly rich. I think Amanda Palmer is making money with Patreon, but she wasn't particularly poor to begin with (husband with movie-deals etc.)
I have not done the course, just looked at the first 2 questions, but the output prints to the console, so it was just to open the inspector.
Sometimes I wonder what future, more evolved humans will be like. What traits will be emphasized?

I hope they look like this guy. Insatiably curious, extremely intelligent, endlessly productive, and effusively happy.
maybe the fact you arn't should tell you something about your perspective on the issue.
An aspect greatly overlooked in this discussion here is, that an UBI would rid us from a ton of bullshit jobs people are currently forced to do, just to get by. So in a way, an UBI can lead to degrowth eventually, which decreases pollution, traffic jams, energy consumption, waste a.s.o.

I'm looking forward to see what people are going to do with the spare time.
Seems to be sixty per second on the TV!!
Windows 10 November Update Reset My Defaults
So I decided to do the November Update. It's big so it took a long time. Well afterwords it restarts the computer and I get a screen similar to the first install screen where it greets you.

Well, I decide to go about my business, and what's this, Edge is now my default browser. Oh and notepad is now my default text editor. This made me worry so I decided to check the privacy settings. All were now enabled. I haven't updated my other computers in the house yet, but this startled me quite a bit.

I thought I would post this here just in case this happens to anyone else and so others check just to make sure they don't suddenly start sending data they do not want to.

[1]: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/11/12/first-major-update-for-windows-10-available-today/
>Statically generated pages usually offer no way of showing any sort of dynamic content.

There's two kinds of dynamic content. Content that needs to be rendered at site build time and content that needs to be rendered on page load. As an example on my personal site I have an Atom feed that I have as part of my Jekyll blog which I wanted to have the first five entries from on my homepage. Since any change in the Atom feed will mean redeploying the blog, how I decided to do this was to write a deploy script for Jekyll that will check for the existence of a 'prerender.py' in the site root and execute it to modify the site before building it:

https://github.com/JD-P/misc-scripts/blob/master/reset.py

What this means in practice is that I can have content that is static on page load but is dynamically generated at build time.
If whoever wrote the California traffic laws didn’t want neighborhood electric vehicles to drive on 35 mph streets, they shouldn’t have written the law that way. Such vehicles are legally restricted to a top speed of 25 mph, and by law they are allowed on roads with posted speed limits of up to 35 mph, unless restricted by local ordinance. cf. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/?1dmy&urile=wcm:path:/dmv_...

More generally, urban streets, even arterial streets like El Camino, would really benefit from more strictly enforced speed limits, and lower limits wherever possible. A pedestrian or cyclist hit by a car going 20–25 mph is likely to sustain only minor injuries. A pedestrian or cyclist hit by a car going 35+ mph will probably die. Drivers also have dramatically less reaction time and much worse road awareness at 35mph compared to 20–25 mph (and realistically the speed of traffic is probably 40–45 mph on a road with 35 as the posted limit).

Cars are scary killing machines, one of the leading causes of death, and drivers are often poorly trained, distracted, or just idiots. The slower and more carefully they drive in urban environments, the better.

I’d love it if armies of 25 mph self-driving cars were constantly cruising around town, restricting other drivers to a safer speed. If they could supplant the taxi/uber/lyft industry whose drivers speed along my residential street at 55+ mph every night from 12–6 AM, that would also be dandy.
Funny, in my travels outside of the US people seemed more interested in getting your WhatsApp, Skype, Line, or WeChat. Regional variations I suppose.
As a Finn, my primary concern is whether or not basic income will just inflate rents.
Growing evidence for dark matter
You need to subtract underage people (~1 million) from that 5.5 million (as well as non-citizens ~200k). I think some ~1.5 million people will also pay enough taxes to offset their own basic income (assuming the taxes will be set so that the average worker ends up with the same amount of money as they do now).

I'm not sure if Wikipedias numbers[1] are accurate, but they claim that social security already cost 57 billion in 2011 (of course not all of that would be replaced with the basic income).

[1]: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosiaaliturva#Sosiaaliturvan_t...
Windows 10 Mobile
um... what?
Basic income is typically called "Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen" (unconditional basic income) in Germany, to indicate the difference between what we already have and what BI aims for.

The social security tier you seem to refer to (Arbeitslosengeld II, ALG II, also known as Hartz IV) has all kinds of conditions, eg. personal wealth above a certain value needs to be used first; significant others need to chip in first (and for people younger than 25 also their parents, and if you live in a flat share agreement, overzealous officials may try to exploit that fact); there's a cooperation requirement on seeking jobs (and the officers in charge to deal with that can mess with you in plenty ways).

The "father who has income on paper" (and presumably a job) scenario is the smallest problem, by the way. Alimony is capped at a living income (which happens to be defined as "enough to not receive social security benefits").

But it seems to me that the system is not very efficient to get people back into jobs, even though that's its basic premise: Continuing to receive ALG II can be a full-time job in itself.

The "promise" of unconditional basic income is discussed somewhere else on the page: you get the money, now you're free to live with that somehow or find a job on your own terms. It gets rid of the busywork, both for the recipient and the social security sector.
Basic Soldering Lessons
This Week in Mobile Development October 6th – 13th
I can't really take an article seriously when it refers to Milton Friedman as a Libertarian. He's most certainly not. He was a leading Chicago school adherent.
This is a pretty colossal failure. I was watching a sports game with my son last night, using the Mac connected to our TV, and in the middle of the game Movist abruptly quit with the modal dialog everybody is seeing[1].

My dad emailed me today because his guitar program suddenly demanded signing into the app store (and of course, he didn't remember the password...).

At work, tons of random people came up to me (since I work on our internal OS X apps) wondering how to fix the bogus app-is-damaged alerts and incessant repeated sign-in demands.

And these are just user problems! Read those exasperated quotes from a veritable Hall of Fame veteran Mac programmers! If the Mac App Store is terrible for users (and it totally is), it is a fucking insulting abomination for developers.

Apple has never been good at this stuff, and they are proving that they still aren't.

[1]: https://twitter.com/dancounsell/status/664739577832321024
A collection of PHP exploit scripts
I was ticketed for jaywalking in Germany. It’s a €5 fine.

Police was hiding in an unmarked car, watching a traffic light in front of a supermarket with the singular purpose of catching jaywalkers. I was crossing the street (definitely not a busy one, more of an access road, mostly to just that supermarket and the old center of town, decidedly not exciting on a weekday at 10pm) while the light was red.

The officer was actually running (jogging, I guess) after me because I had my headphones on and didn't hear him asking me to stop. I thought it was quite ridiculous, but, if I'm honest to myself, this experience actually did make me think twice about jaywalking. I think I'm less likely to do it now.

The fine is not a big deal, though, it's basically the mildest possible punishment.
Oh, shit! How come I always miss the obvious things? What am I doing wrong?
Handlebars Considered Harmful
Show HN: Robust TV/Anime Series Renamer in Python
> Well, my straight-up critique is that you're trying to pass your personal preference off as some sort of broad rule, and I think that's bunk.

Ehhh. I think it's just a consequentialist statement. "Everyone will be more effective at achieving their goals if they don't get offended by criticism." This says nothing about whether the other person is offensive; they probably are! But allowing that to determine to what degree you absorb the factual statements of their critique is a suboptimal game-theoretic strategy. No general ever won a war by ignoring information he didn't like the tone of. (But he still probably tried to get the source to be less offensive, both for the sake of that person's effectiveness at interacting with others who aren't as pragmatic, and for the sake of his own mental energy spent putting up with the offense.)
Died? I'm pretty sure he's just been swapped into a context that we don't have access to and is running in parallel with us.

RIP
El Camino always seemed to me like it has an absurdly low speed limit, then a friend reminded me that there are unsignaled pedestrian crosswalks along it in Mountain View. It's true that it feels like it ought to be a 45 road, though.
Well, one could argut that it would rather the new "I'm not on myspace, friendster, orkut, livejournal,…" but to stay in check with reality it ought to be "I'm not on aol" for aol was the only one of those to be a walled garden experiment.
The "I don't own a TV" is often deceiving as people without a TV usually watch their TV content on youtube, streaming or download. How many do not have a TV but have not missed a single game of thrones ?
So your entire argument against DNSSEC is that the US Government seized the domains of known "pirated" software distribution sites?
I've seen several of this kind of fountains in France and Spain, so maybe it spreaded at least in Europa.
Although this is a nice write up about a possible setup for self hosted alternatives for popular cloud services, I don't like it. It falls short to compare the different possible services and the possibilities you can have with them. OwnCloud is nice, but why should I pick on OwnCloud and not SeaFile. Ampache is cool, but why not Subsonic?

I would like to read the reasoning behind the individual choices OR the reasoning behind the overall choice of moving a way from big corp products.

It feels to much like a "look at my setup" posts, which are nice to read but it could be much better.

But, my input now:

OwnCloud is wonderful for file syncing but where it really shines is the contact and calendar sync. It is the easiest to install and best accessable web interface Cal/CardDAV software out there. Radicale is a wonderfull little python Cal/CardDAV server but it hasn't got a web interface which is a feature I do miss when I don't have it. OwnCloud is really pulling through on the whole "google replacement", work has been started on a mail client which looks very nice and works decently (for now).

Ampache is cool but I found the installation to be too fiddly and easy to break. It could be my incompetence with that product but I prefer subsonic. A java product which just runs and it runs well. The webinterface desperately needs a good UIoverall but it works and it doesn't get in the way.

RocketChat I don't know and I should look into but I do feel that XMPP should be the chat replacement for all. The fedearation, the gazillion clients and the maturity of the software is just so so nice that I am sad that it isn't more popular. I feel it's a huge shame google and facebook stopped fedarating their xmpp services.
Without an IV, it's laughably easy to reconstruct the plaintext from multiple messages with the same key. Probably as few as a handful.

That being said, I agree with the other people -- this isn't a "real" thing. It's just something to show how ill-conceived a plan to "ban encryption" is.
Why is electricity so hard to understand? (1995)
Why would they? Would people in general be "earning" more money from basic income than current benefits? I mean you can't increase rent past the point people are able to pay.
I just simply unfollow all my friends and keep the ones that I want to follow in groups.

That way, my newsfeed is not polluted and it is up to me to decide who I want to check up on.

I could never totally give it up because it has become an indispensable hub of communication with people I know with Messenger.
Central Shop, the evolution of credit card black markets
Effective Communication – A Key to Great Teamwork
You’re the one who
must decide who’s
to live and who’s to die.
You’re the one who gives his
body as a weapon of the
war—and without you all
this killing can’t go on.

That's from the Donovan song "Universal Soldier" (original by Buffy Sainte-Marie). Looks like some historian published it as a “mystery poem” in the Smithsonian magazine[1], not realizing it was just quoting song lyrics.

¹ http://buffysainte-marie.com/?p=809
It's sad that if you want a fast Internet around here you are put behind ISP wide NAT which means you can't host anything from home, so all these "self-hosted" things aren't really self-hosted for me.
I gotta say I was infuriated until I read your comment, you totally nailed it.

Distributing binary code to thousands of iOS users is dangerous, if nothing else. So Apple clearly has a point trying to control distribution through the app store.

And if the author truly does believe in curing sleep issues, as they state, then they should have released the source code and let people install the app themselves.

In fact, with 176000 page views, and 15 million downloads of their desktop app (I myself have been a long time user) I don't see why he didn't just pay the 99 USD and distribute it via the app store. I certainly would have payed for it because it pains me to see my SO in bed solving sudoku with a flipping 50W lamp in her face.
Isn't that the usual cycle of adoption of a new trend according the merchant of cool ?

Though I remember differently, 10 years ago some of us were warning against facebook as the major privacy concern it was and due to their spam techniques to capture new victims.
With three lanes in each direction, there should be plenty of room for other cars to safely pass a Google car, no?
You're probably right that the edge isn't so sharp, though I note that his finger was higher above it than it looked, but I wouldn't underestimate glass splinters.

Those really suck.