skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note there's no marginal disincentive to work. Marginal. You get the money no matter what, so you're not faced with the take-this-job-or-stay-on-benefits problem that often comes with modern welfare systems.
And taking someone else's money at gunpoint is not? Taxes ain't voluntary, you know.
works fine here?
I like google keep, but Markdown is a must for me.
>That's going to be changed fairly soon.

No, it's not. We have already seen four individual proposals to the network to increase the block size. Each requires a consensus by the miners and each was shot down.

The miners are incentivized not to increase the transaction rate, because they profit from the increased competition and fees from smaller blocks. By design, the decentralized control of bitcoin is actually what is preventing it from improving itself.
>I just don't think they had the numbers on Carousel

My friends experience matched what they said on their blog that people just want their photos in their Dropbox
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You really added to the conversation with this, thanks.
It's hard to disagree with a grab bag of vague, warmed-over right-wing talking points. Or rather, it's easy to do, but it doesn't seem worthwhile.

If you'd like somebody to take you seriously enough to write a reply, take a point seriously enough to write it out clearly and give some substance to it. Data. Personal experience. Careful, clear reasoning. Anything to demonstrate that you've put some time in.

As it is, I don't have any reason to think you have thought about the topic enough to be worth responding to. I'd expect the conversation to go something like this:

http://chemicalsinpants.tumblr.com/post/101787704848/the-pro...

It's enormously convenient for you to tell other people to suck it up, while being apparently unable to endure the discomfort of other people having opinions without whining about it online. It sounds familiar:

http://www.alternet.org/culture/why-white-people-freak-out-w...
Remember also that a well-known limitation of economic measurements of GDP, productivity, etc. is that it doesn't account for personal work when no money changes hands. For example, a man who works full time and spends 100% of his salary on a nanny gets counted in GDP. But if he quits his job and takes care of the kid and the nanny takes his old job, then GDP and productivity have been reduced. Nothing has been changed about the amount of work done, but you've replaced two people working for money with only one working for money, so the accounting systems show it as less.

If part of the effect of minimum income is for people to spend more time with their kids, then this would show up as less work, in part, because less of the work being done would be for money.
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How much did these trays cost?
This made my day, thank you for the awesome comment. :)
Thanks! Hope you'll need it again soon!
In other words, your idea is that anxiety is the repetitive regression of meta-thought?
I wasn't implying that $200 million would anywhere near cover the costs of a subway expansion, nor that an H street expansion is at the top of my WMATA wish list (that would be the fabled "Purple Line"). But at this order of magnitude of costs/time, we might as well go all in with a subway expansion. It would be a huge boost to the neighborhood; I hear this all the time about H Street and other places in Northeast: "...but there's not a metro stop there".
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If one believes in democratic change, then I suppose that yes, exposing the conspiracy would cause it to be eradicated. So in effect, characterizing something as a conspiracy is perhaps taking an easy way out. Less easy than the simplistic "us vs them" narrative, but a shortcut nonetheless.

I'm just sympathetic to the viewpoint because it feels as if it is at least coming from the right place, especially as the damage from the attack is purposely amplified by the government organ of mainstream media.
I think the guy behind MailMate¹ has done just that. It’s definitely the most powerful mail client on OS X. I ended up buying it, at least!

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¹ — http://freron.com/
I don't think returning to state indentured slavery is in any way a good thing.

If the state wants to build a road, it should pay qualified people the market rate to build a road, not use a pool of people hard on their luck.

Basic Income allows people to manage their own life in a more cost effective way than the welfare and other social programs we already provide, plus it provides incentive and opportunity to better their position through work/school.
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One infrastructure company wouldn't work so well. You'd need at least two, preferably 3, with the ability for the resellers to quickly and easily switch.

Here in New Zealand we have three providers, but we have national number portability. This means I can switch networks with no fees (unless I have a contract with a termination clause) and no number downtime. It helps competition a lot.
Thanks for the quick answers. It sounds like you're on track to do well. I wish you success.

1. Feel free to get in touch if you need help with an auto cost-estimator.

2. Amazing!
Of course it's voluntary. You are more than welcome to leave the country.
Let's say someone gets a PhD - that takes ~5 years. So instead of entering the workforce at 22, they enter the workforce at 27. If they retire at 70, then their working hours went down from 48 years of work to 43 years of work, or ~10%.

Do you consider the ~10% loss in working hours a major disadvantage?

I could definitely see more people getting advanced degrees in a "MINCOME" society. For example, I have a family member that really wants to do a masters, but had to work through school and isn't sure they can swing it for a masters too.
Mainly stock. They acquired the engineers for a tiny fraction of Dropbox's valuation. (Today: $10bn.)
I haven't looked at Swift, at all. I don't buy Apple products, so have no familiarity with their ecosystem. But, now that it's been opened up, I'll have a look at it, though it seems likely to remain predominantly a language for Apple products for the foreseeable future (I think?), so not something I'd find myself using in production any time soon. But, I guess we'll see how that shakes out over time now that it is open.

Given the rate at which JavaScript is converging on a really nice set of modern features and is having warts removed and performance is accelerating, I wonder if any other language is as relevant long-term.
That's entrapment, bad enough in and of itself but not the same as a conspiracy. Entrapment is a very dangerous strategy for many reasons.
Who defines what's a "terrorist" ? Were the IRA terrorists? Were the Red Brigade? Shining Path? Castro & Co.? The list could go on. Why is it OK for the West to fund their buddies, but no one else is allowed to?

19/20 hijackers were Saudi (and more recently, so was one of the San Bernardino shooters, for all practical purposes). UBL was Saudi. Please point out to me terrorists with similar profiles who are/were Iranian.

Iran's funding of Hezbollah can be legitimately seen as defending their own interests. Just like we fund scores of militias all over the region.
Can you please back this up with some actual citation or something. I'm pretty involved in the Ethereum community as a developer and this statement seems founded either in fantasy or in information that I'm not aware of.

> Ethereum's chain is a mess.

I'm unsure what you mean here.

> It's only burning 25k USD per day, and the project plans to switch off of it entirely.

Burning 25k USD of what? Switch off of what?

> The claim that this project can cure whatever ails you on such a weak foundation is at best dubious, and probably just a scam.

Which claims are you referring to. What part of Ethereum is a scam?
We were optimizing for speed so didn't really shoot for optimizing costs as much. It cost us about $6.61 in material costs and $5.25 in laser cutting time.
We'll probably make some on our own as we don't feel comfortably sharing clients' designs without approval.

For those however that do want to share their parts' photos we provide discount for their next order.
Sounds more like a statistical misattribution to me.

1. Many unclear English sentences have "to be".

2. Therefore, let's disallow "to be" to make English clearer.

Well, the obvious alternate explanation is:

3. Since "be" is an extremely common word, for most attribute X, a subset of "English sentences with attribute X" will naturally have many sentences with "to be".

I mean, in what way is "Mars is round" any less clear/objective/interesting than "Mars orbits around the sun"?
And thanks to side-chains, which Blockstream and others are working on, you can add arbitrary functionality on top of Bitcoin while still maintaining the benefits of having its large secure network.

In my view, anything using blockchain technology that isn't actually using Bitcoin's blockchain is a nonstarter. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of what Bitcoin's strengths are. It'd be like trying to come out with a new model of car that can't run on the existing roads (which actually has instructive parallels to the complete failure of earlier self-driving car attempts of the 60s that needed specialized roads).
VCs are totally the problem here. It's not that VCs are bad people who want to screw over users, but their business model requires them to get payback on their bets, even if it's small. It can be hard to know up front if an idea is viable as a hockey-stick software company or if customer acquisition is much, much harder - often because you don't know who your target customer will be specifically until you've iterated a few times.

And many times, there's no other exit option for the VCs. Does it suck for users? Absolutely - which is why companies often have lots of apprehension about being early adopters of a startup's technology. It's why B2B startups are really hard, and why they tend not to hockey-stick because the customer acquisition costs are high and don't shrink with scale.

It's up to the founders to convince their VCs to pass on the acquihire because they think the company still has hockey-stick potential. Zuckerberg did this a number of times - it was still really arrogant, but it paid off for Facebook and shows why founders need a bit of arrogance to be successful. It's a lot harder to do this if you're running a startup that doesn't have a lot of market traction.
It wasn't said with ill intent. A reply explaining would have been much better than a downvote.
Have an up vote for a completely fair point. They keep adding stuff to C++ when the language is already ungodly complex and ambiguous enough.

Just stick with C if you need low level control.
you have reason to be concerned. see: japanese american internment. that actually happened.
Might be worthwhile to simulate a slow internet connection speed (either by firewall, or by downloading some third party app) to see what's tolerable to you. At 3Mbps, you're at the peak of 3G speeds basically - may be a good mental comparison.
And who funded the Sunni death squads? The Saudis. Who funded the ISIS? Saudis. Who prevented the US from striking at ISIS? The Saudis.
My brother accidentally called me with Hangouts the other day and the quality was just shockingly better. I've started using it instead of a regular call where it makes sense (i.e. the other person is on hangouts+wifi too, essentially. I don't want to use up their data plan for it).
Free Pascal?
but does the average customer care? similar to how Pono may have better audio quality, most people are just fine with a compressed mp3.

Its what works and its just good enough.
With the added bonus that you sometimes get the most delightfully colorful people serving your coffee. Really improves the experience for me.
4. The laser cutter I operate for my day job (4kW fibre laser) solves this problem with a feature called 'micro tabs' which leaves a small uncut section in the laser path. Parameters are tab length plus minimum and maximum spaces between tabs.

Of course, you then have to break the part free and clean up the micro tab with a file - so more labour intensive, but 99.9% of our customers are industrial so we typically leave that to them.
> I think it has nothing to do with political side anymore.

Really? I find this conclusion a little baffling, to be frank. Without saying which side of the political spectrum is more "correct", one can hardly deny that the right includes stronger reactions to perceived threats, practically by definition.

You can see it in the rhetoric, the policies, the constituents, etc of both parties. Even now, I would be surprised if policies like these were seeing equal amounts of dissent from the right and from the left (note that this is a different axis than liberal/conservative).
It just adds to the 2.4gHz channel congestion hell. Pretty much everywhere I've lived in the past 3 years, 2.4gHz has been nearly unusable.
> I still bounce around email clients every couple months

Between two-factor authentication, application specific passwords and the notification center, configuring a new mail client can be a lot of work to have to redo every couple months. I did this for years before finally settling on the default clients for both iOS and OS X, and I've noticed a lot of my coworkers have done the same.
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I see how the "perceived worth" if GDP is designed to be a measure of real economic variables e.g. tons of steel. Growth that isn't growth which isn't attributable to increases in quantity produced is just inflation as measured by the GDP deflator.
Which current society is rich enough to give a good life to all of their members?
They will focus on Paper... until they decide to axe that, too , when they see they can't compete with Google.

And that will be even worse... Carousel used photos that were stored in Dropbox. Mailbox used an existing mailbox. As far as I could see Paper data is just locked up in their cloud and can only be exported as PDF.

No thanks.

All these acquisitions and axed products have made one thing clear to me: I want plain-old files that I can download. Preferably in some open standard.
Cell phones actually inject "comfort noise" on the receiving end so that you can't detect when the stream is cut off during pauses in the conversation. I would venture that they just keep it on all the time, set above the actual noise in the voice data stream so that you don't hear two different noise levels.
Swift is really not the right language for web development IMO. Doing this would be foolish.
Around a dozen over what like ~700 sorties.
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Yes to this.

Thus far it is shaping up to be a powerful platform with some realistic potential to changes to how internet software is built.
I wasn't referring to GPS, but to things like 4.3GHz +/- 100MHz for radio altimetry.
But YOU are the one bringing Iran into the discussion. You compared them with the Saudis, by saying "but Iran is too!"

I honestly have no idea where the hate for Iran comes from. They really haven't done much to hurt US interests, even though they lost 10s of 1000s of men in the Iran-Iraq war as a direct result of US involvement.
I don't find your comment constructive at all.

First, it wasn't a joke. Second, we were discussing putting environment activists under arbitrary house arrest not terrorists or terrorism. Your anger at the tragic death should be directed at the terrorists or the security apparatus which failed miserably to protect people in the "west" and not at me or the activists.

Try next time to read the comments first before jumping into the discussion.
We both agree that individual experience is anecdotal. That is why I tried the way of stats. But you are now questioning the number of users on fb. That boat has sailed few yrs back.

A.We can all confidently agree that a large number of users use fb.

B. Most of what you have linked is opinion pieces. The first one I clicked had private chat transcripts from Zuckerberg when he was a kid and fb was nothing like what it is today.

C. Some studies are referenced which show people are miserable using social networks. Similar results have been "derived" for almost anything: news, video games, television, cell phones etc. I recommend taking it with a pinch of salt.

D. You say that advertising dollars mean nothing. Exactly the opposite is true. Try getting coke, kraft, apple and other brands to associate themselves with something that makes miserable.
An alternative would be to split wireless companies into 1) infrastructure companies and 2) companies that sell actual products to end users. The infrastructure companies would be allowed to bid on limited shared resources (= the spectrum), but a requirement for this would be that they would need to provide fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory access to the resources to other companies.

This is similar to the approach that some countries used when privatizing railroad companies: Instead of creating a new private company that's effectively a monopoly, they created one company that provides the infrastructure and another company that runs the trains. This allowed new private companies to enter the market, as they were allowed to use the resources under the same conditions as the former monopoly.
I was curious how much of the evaporation we'd get back as freshwater. About 20% assuming its evenly spread over the world.

1.1 x 10^14 cu m of water falls on land per year. [0]

5 x 10^14 cu m falls yearly on the earth [1]

80,000 cubic meters is said to be lost to this effect [2].

[0]http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2012/03/14/are-we-runni...
[1]http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2008/VernonWu.shtml
[2]http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/80000-cubic-metres-wat...
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Hi Johansch,

Your comments and experience are very appreciated. As another user pointed this out too, we'll prepare a small example list to be easier to understand pricing.

We are practically focusing on quality but we are doing our best to keep costs low for everyone.
The next time somebody tells you there's no startup capitalization bubble, point them to this frothy cup of craziness.

edit: Hmm - downvotes. So I guess people genuinely think that this (pretty shitty) company is worth $14b?

For reference, Mariott International, which just opened its 4,000th hotel, has a market cap of around $18b. In January of this year, freaking Nintendo had a market cap of only $12b (though, for reasons that are debated, it is now nearly double that).

There's no way on earth that this company is in the same realm as Mariott or Nintendo. Come on now.
Yup. I still don't see why everyone complains about current mail clients. Mail.app on OS X / iOS, Outlook on Windows, works for me.

To make me switch, you would have to show me why the new thing was so much better. Like how Google search results were always better than Yahoo! (IMHO, no objective measurements used) so I switched. You would also have to explain it in a sentence I could immediately understand, whereas all the recent clients I've ready about either (a) claim to make things better but don't tell/show me how before I get bored of the page, or (b) use manager speak that I can't understand or is vague and abstract promises to increase collaboration or something. Therefore I've given almost no attention to any recent attempt to change email.
If you click on the domain name to the right of the link you'll see that the site is being submitted by a few HN regulars. All it takes from there is 3 additional upvotes. Similar patterns exist around techcrunch, the wall street journal, the economist and many other domains that appear on HN with clockwork regularity. Pretty much every article on TC for instance is submitted within a very short time from the time they press 'publish' on TC and many HN'ers will submit these articles. It's more or less the exact reason why HN exists, to share links related to certain subjects and websites that cater to those subjects will see a great deal of exposure.
For fans of the genre, I strongly recommend Our Incredible Journey:

http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
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This article explains a few points that explains how LTE-U can co-exist apparentely counteracting the research conclusions: http://hightechforum.org/can-lte-unlicensed-steamroll-wi-fi/
Something like this? http://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-shooting-social...
Unfortunately, I think we'll find HN is just about as much hive-mind as Reddit...
How do you see the consumer services competing on anything but price, speed, and usage without breaking net neutrality? How do you see a "shipping" future for cell phone companies any different than the FedEx/UPS duopoly?
The AirMail UI needs work but I use it for its support of Markdown - one of the areas that really needs polishing.
> Even if the system is limited to trusted parties and forgoes the whole mining incentive, there's still a lot of value there.

If you take away proof-of-work, then it's no longer a blockchain. It's just a unary Merkle tree, an idea which has been around for a long time. You can't surgically extract out the most fundamental and important part of a given idea and then call what remains the same thing.
Just to clarify, Finland is NOT going to give every citizen €800 per month. It is NOT going to implementing basic income.

People read what they want to read, if it fits their political narrative.

A tiny administrative section in Finland is trialling it, but it's only being pushed by a minority left-wing, and it has no chance of being implemented in reality.

This story can be filed along with the "Sweden implements 6-hour working day", which was also arrant nonsense.
Same story, different items, not really duplicates.

However ...

Yes, I've been saying for years that HN needs a meta-story feature where a single topic can be an umbrella for multiple submissions - there are so many of them.

But there isn't.
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Let's hope they at least go for integers. Otherwise you're in real trouble... Logic really should be taught in school, but it is not in the best interest of the teachers to create an army of little lawyers that will then apply this new skill to each and every decision made by the school. Schools prefer obedient little children, not children that think for themselves.
I had come to the same conclusion as I'm very sympathetic to the React mindset, and thought that combining the d3 "math-y bits" with React as a rendering engine might be the very best of both worlds.

But the one thing that I couldn't find a good solution to, was transitions/animations as data changes. Support for transitions in d3 is quite impressive (often just calling .transition() on your selection) and I couldn't find nearly as nice a solution with React, though chenglou[0] seems to be making continuous progress.

[0] https://github.com/chenglou
There is a key component missing from this proposal: what benefits will be cut? As written in the article: "this national basic income would replace all other benefit payments"

There are many cases where unequal benefits payments are considered politically, morally and ethically acceptable by the majority of society. E.g. the blind, the handicapped, war veterans, orphans, victims of crime, volunteers...

For example in the US, the blind may deduct expenses from their income before taxes that others may not. This is an unequal benefit that we collectively accept.

In Finland's proposal, what will happen to benefits for special cases?