skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you make a change like this though, I think a lot of other adjustments logically follow.

Yes, that's the tricky part.

I seem to be politically moderate on this issue, in that I am in favour of some form of social security safety net for the essentials, but I also think any government aid beyond that needs to be limited so those who do more also see more benefit in return. A guaranteed basic income seems like an interesting idea that could work as part of a wider reform of our social security framework.

Perhaps it could be combined with some form of public service requirement for those who want to claim it, so it would be more like a guaranteed job available to as many people as need it than a hand-out. This could be used to support useful activities that aren't run commercially, such as looking after local neighbourhood amenities, or helping at your kid's school if you have useful skills to share, or even going abroad to help with aid work after a natural disaster. Instead of the state social security apparatus concentrating on who qualifies or doesn't qualify for which benefits, with sometimes controversial or unfair results, maybe it could concentrate on recognising valuable activities and helping those otherwise without a job to contribute to them.

Next you have the issue of private and public sector employment. Maybe set a statutory minimum wage for employing someone full-time that is a modest but noticeable amount above the basic income level? Tax any form of income above that level, adjust in some reasonable way for people who are working part-time, and adjust in reasonable ways to support those who have other genuine responsibilities or disabilities, and this seems like the basis for a system where work does pay but if you're ever the unlucky one for a while then you aren't getting punched when you're down. Maybe it could even support a different kind of lifestyle for the type of person who likes contributing to their community in practical ways and doesn't much value material things or financial wealth.

I also wonder whether, given the shifting population patterns and increasing debt particularly among the young that we have in the West today, we should place a lot more emphasis on social housing, even if that just means a modest dorm-style room and some basic communal facilities so everyone can have somewhere to eat, sleep and wash. It seems to me that this would be a natural fit with the idea of giving everyone a basic safety net and an opportunity to move up to enjoy things beyond the essentials in exchange for taking on better paid work.
Funny - I don't really see much of a debate...
A couple of comments since I've spent the last month building out this exact architecture.

First, the author doesn't really address security and authorization, in fact they gloss over it. The typical solution with CouchDB/PouchDB seems to be per-user databases. That sounds horrendous to a SQL guy (me), but it turns out that CouchDB can happily handle hundreds of thousands of databases.

In my current application I have found couchperuser very useful. It's an Erlang Couchdb plugin that creates a database with appropriate permissions every time you create an entry in the _users database. (Access to the _users database is restricted to an admin account so is done via a parallel web service.)

If users are accessing CouchDB directly, of course you gotta worry about what horrors they're stuffing into your lovely pristine database. Control over that is provided via Javascript validation functions that are run on every document save. Those are saved into the per-user database at account creation time.

The biggest downside to this architecture that I've found is that there is two sources of truth on the client - the Redux store and the PouchDB database.
With affiliate links, I sometimes make upwards of 10 dollars every few months - enough for a free book once in a while. I'll let you guess how that compares to my salary...

I think it's pretty clear from people's posting/comment history whether they're adding them in good faith or not.
In every EU country digital signatures have the same validity as physical signatures since a long time (Directive 1999/93/EC). Most company filings are submitted electronically. Every state keeps a list of certified identification providers, which are mutually recognised. This list usually includes some government agencies, the national post service, sometimes banks, professional associations, chambers of commerce, and other private providers.
The identification device is either a smartcard or an RSA dongle. The smartcard can be also used as PKI certificate for remote logine, S/MIME signatures, etc.

What is so special about the Estonian programme?
This is a publication, not a patent. The title is incorrect.
All of the surrounding doublespeak is deplorable. We are expected to treat these all these terms as being synonymous: "climate change", "global warming", "human-created CO2 emissions". If you deny one of these, you deny them all.
I have no idea what I'd make with this, but knowing I could have something made this way is awesome :)

Minor grammatical error: "How it works?" is not valid English. Instead this could be "How it works:", "How it works" (with the colon implied) or "How does it work?"
"you can generally take that team and throw them at a problem with a reasonable expectation they'll accomplish something"

For about 6 months to a year, after which time most of them have left, or have gone into "waiting for the golden handcuffs to come off" zombie-worker mode on a project they have no inherent interest in.

Totally anecdotal but the couple of acquihires I've seen from the inside have gone like this and it seems to be the natural state of them based on what I've heard second-hand from others.
Puts are, simply put, insurance (pardon the pun). You pay a premium for the option to sell the stock to someone at $X at a future date. Let's say you think that AAPL is going to go down in price. You could for example buy a put option to have the option to sell AAPL stock at $118.28, in 6 months, to the person who sold you that option. If the stock goes up, you don't exercise the option. If it does, the option writer (guy who sold it to you) pays you the difference between the stock price at that time, and $118.28. The only cost to a put option is the premium (maybe a few dollars, depending on the forecasted price of the stock and forecasted interest rates) that you paid at time 0. So if you paid $10 for the option, and the stock goes down to $105, your total cashflow is +$3.28. If the stock went up to $200, your total cashflow is -$10.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9730541

Finland: New Government Commits to a Basic Income Experiment
(basicincome.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10090542 (233 comments)

Finland considers basic income to reform welfare system
(bbc.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10093134

Finland considers basic income to reform welfare system
(bbc.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10511242

Finland pushes to introduce a universal basic income
(afr.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10553008 (280 comments)

How Finland plans to implement the first nation-wide Basic Income in the EU
(finlandpolitics.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10682359

Finland plans to give every citizen a basic income of 800 euros a month
(qz.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10683527

Finland Planning for National Basic Income
(yle.fi)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10685049

Finland plans to give every citizen a basic income of 800 euros a month
(sbs.com.au)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10685076 (15 comments)

Finland plans to give every citizen a basic income of 800€ a month
(qz.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10686490

Finland plans to give every citizen 800 euros a month and scrap benefits
(independent.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10688207 (146 comments)

Finland Is Considering Giving Every Citizen €800 per Month
(telegraph.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10688714

Finland plans to pay each citizen 800 euros per month
(abc.net.au)
A photo of you in public does not violate your privacy. It has been ruled, time and time again, that the image you present is public and anyone can take a picture of it.

BUT, technology allows me to capture far more than the visible spectrum. Give your clothes probably don't consist of lead plates, part of the photos I can detect are from your body and not your clothes. So using this information, and some recoloring algorithms, I can likely create a decent image of your underlying body.

Applying technology allows for more information to be withdrawn from situations where previously that information wasn't available. But due to the need for advanced technology to pick up on the information, most people do not even realize they are leaking it. (Take private conversation being recorded at a distance by viewing vibrations in objects near where the conversation is happening.)

Our technology has outpaced our moral/philosophical reasoning and the gap keeps growing.
I think in this case, the best interests of the companies that were receiving support complaints/bad press for broken products would be motivated to find and prove out the problem.

If some product company (let's say, a router company) experienced some enormous increase in customer service and damage to brand image, I'd like to believe they'd eventually put quite a bit of money into finding out why they're losing money.

Could you imagine a world where a service rep has been instructed to ask whether a customer has any Verizon devices in the house? And to just give up, if they do, and blame Verizon? Would be terrible for Verizon's brand, pretty sure they're not ready (and probably don't want) to partition consumers who use internet-connected devices into pro-verizon and anti-verizon.
You make a 10-hour-each-way trip frequently? Man, stop throwing away your life like that. Downsize your house, take a pay cut, do whatever it is you have to to move somewhere closer. I struggle to even begin to imagine the misery of what you're doing.
Take the 600Mhz band that is going to be up for auction and make it unlicensed explicitly for LTE.
Yes, this is my perspective as well, but for ease of conversation I didn't mention it here-- people get very upset.

But take it a step further. Who funds Saudi Arabia, and why? Who backs radical Sunnis, and why? Who backs the radical Shia? Geopolitical problems have many causes and symptoms which can grow into entire pathologies in their own right when they get really out of control, as the West's idiotic power struggle with Russia in the Middle East has.
> Well, plenty of people do think that Erdogan is strongly sympathetic to ISIS.

I do not believe that he has emotions. It's all money and power, IMO. And he is as representative of his people as Hitler is of today's Germans. And it's not that Europe is enemies with him.

> Can blame all you want, but what's done is done.

Then you should have the same approach to terrorist attacks too. See, ideas have the bad side effect of applying to a wider spectrum than you intend.

> Canada (or rather British territories in North America) was once at war with the Americans. We were at war with the Germans (twice). We got over it.

You got over it helping each other. You didn't exterminate Germans for the bad they did. Revenge will not bring peace. It'll bring more revenge.

> Don't pretend the Islamic world didn't participate in the [empire building games.]

I'm not a muslim, and I do not have any sympathy for any religion or empire. The world progresses, and what I do not like is the pride that people try to hold on to. My words should boil down to "we are different faces of the same evil". In the end, West has had more chance to mess it up than the muslims, and they've never ceased to do so. Where are the native americans?

> If the West is so vengeful, why IS Istanbul still Istanbul?

It is Istanbul now. Who knows what'll happen tomorrow?
When you have different manufacturing facilities you will always have this issues even when you are building to the same spec.
Your manufacturing process will have different tolerance biases that's unavoidable.
The problem happens when you stack tolerances in an additive manner for example when you have a nut which is built to spec in plant one and is 0.005% too big (which is well within the tolerance limit) and you have the bolts built in plant 2 and they come out 0.005% too small (which on their own is still within the spec) you get an overall tolerance shift of 0.01% which all of a sudden is out of spec.
This just happens in manufacturing all the time the parts are in spec individually but the end result just doesn't work.

I actually deal with this all the time in hobby electronics you buy various parts which all of them have a spec with +- certain percent and you when you buy them from a single batch you can be quite out of luck and find out that when you add them all together the tolerances just stack against your initial design.
Is "The Mindset" a new edition? If so, is it worth reading if you are familiar with the original one?

For people who haven't read it BTW, I highly recommend it, especially if you are a parent.
Atomic Design in one GIF
A better analogy would be if the Jamestown settlers had spent 10 years floating in the English Channel being resupplied by rowing boat rather than actually getting on with the business of crossing the ocean and settling somewhere. The whole programme is frankly a total waste of time and money which is a huge distraction to actually making any progress in manned space exploration.
I believe some over the air TV still goes over the 600Mhz band.
You're right, there definitely is (and it's obviously not a given that the service degradation would be attributable), but I think the product companies that are on the receiving end of the complaints will probably start putting money into correcting the problem (or at least rectifying public opinion) once people think the products are the problem.

Google is going to be pissed if their new wifi router doesn't work properly despite millions spent on testing, just because Verizon is screwing things up for everyone.
> The critical function that none of the software I'm looking at can really do is putting a single sub-task from a story into a sprint.

The reason you're not finding this function is that it's in contradiction to agile/scrum technique. A sprint is a commitment to finish a set of stories in a time period. It doesn't make sense to take a sub-task of a story and put it into a sprint -- either you finished the work you committed to or you didn't, and if not, you should let the fact that you weren't able to finish it adjust your velocity for the next sprint.

You could make your story into an epic, and your sub-tasks into stories.

Pivotal Tracker (cloud-hosted), JIRA (cloud-hosted) and taiga.io (open source, self-hosted) are the best tools I've used.
Windows Servers are rarely infected with botnets. Linux servers actually out-number Windows Servers for malware now (by a fair margin).

Windows clients are an entirely different story, but we're talking about VPS which are almost always Windows Server.
I think the author makes a good point here. But I also think a comment can serve as an invitation for a new test case (i.e. Bugfix comments as he describes them).
haha! Definitely feel you! Thanks for the heads up - changed :)
What the hack? The rise of hackatons
Those are really the only three outcomes for a venture-backed startup

Once you raise venture capital, you have to go big or go home, in the span of a decade. You don't have the "grow slow and stay private" option after raising a Series A.

That being said, this is just the current, common state in VC-backed companies. With the weak IPO market and hostile public environment that forces short-term quarterly thinking, we may see alternatives like formalized secondary markets. Perhaps companies like Uber will be able to avoid going public and still provide liquidity options for their early investors & employees.
>I guess I don't see the distinction.

Do you see a distinction between me taking a photo of you by being out in public being my right and me using a special camera to pick up photons emitted by your body and not blocked by your clothing and creating an image from these?

Do you see a distinction between me being able to look into your window from the public sidewalk and me using infrared technology to map out everything you do in the house?

What if I invent a camera that can take a photo of a letter and reveal all the contents inside in easily readable detail, without needing to touch the letter. By you grabbing a letter out of your mailbox, you are letting me see the outside of it, so if this camera can capture the content is there any significant difference?
I am in complete agreement that people can be productive and positive to their society without working. My girlfriend and I are both STEM graduates, but if income hadn't stagnated for the last 30 years and my earnings could support the two of us, she would be a housewife in a heartbeat, and it would also greatly benefit my utility, such as gaining an extra 40 minutes a day at minimum from being dropped off at work instead of walking to and from the employee parking lot. The additional time, energy, and mental health could help boost my work performance and increase my chances of raises and promotions.

We often wonder what Western society lost when the private sector discovered that feminism was profitable.
Except Verizon can't upsell everyone, and if you're suggesting that they can lead a push to replace wifi as we know it today, I would definitely put money on that NOT happening.
It is not forbidden, but it was condemned many times including for talk about concentration camps or jews. For a long time, it was borderline.

And It has a very dark history:
- During the Algeria war, its founder (JM Le Pen), then in the army, used torture.
- In the 90', the security force of the FN (Skinheads) killed a man (throwing him in the Seine).

Nowadays, its communication is way less agressive but it is the same core.

Currently, of its voters :
- 92% thinks there are too many non-white people in france
- 36% of its voters thinks some races are superior to others.

FN played its card well : it convinced many french that their current economic distress is caused by immigrants, Europe and anything coming from outside. Its political agenda is a big pile of fantasy about the France of 50' (powerful and white). And its economic program is laughable.

Well, that would be fun if it wasn't so serious and so sad.
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I deal with a ton of cell towers interconnected with Ethernet over fiber [ Ethernet point to point built on MPLS ]. I am not sure about cell towers over POTS but I dont think thats how its done now.

Thats not to say there arent legacy towers out there on POTS, but all new towers are on Ethernet via fiber as far as I can tell.
Can you explain your lack of belief when 97% of climate scientists (there's conflicting data on this; some reports show as high as 99%) agree that human activity is causing global warming?

EDIT: That's not rhetorical. I'll entertain any logical reasoning you have as to why your reasoning is superior to those educated and practicing the subject daily.
There's definitely a large subset of the market which expect not to pay for an email client, but there are many email products available now with many paying customers e.g. yesware, streak, sidekick, etc. There are certainly ways of capturing revenue from the email marketing, but I think that Mailbox was too focused particularly on the entire 'Inbox Zero' aspect of the product and never expanded much beyond that.
> What is so special about the Estonian programme?

They actually use it.
Side chains are centralized I.O.U.s that still need bitcoin transactions in order to be fulfilled. They remove the benefits of using the decentralized bitcoin network while still using the network.

If 10 m people used side chains (just for today), it would take some of their transactions up to 40 days to fulfill. If 10 m used it again (just tomorrow), it would take almost 3 months for some transactions to fulfill.

Most merchants will not wait that long for an I.O.U., especially with fluctuating BTC exchange rates, making side chains much worse and less competitive than ACH.
LEO is an orbit around Earth with an altitude between 160 kilometers (99 mi), and 2,000 kilometers (1,200 mi) The moon is on average 384,400 kilometers (238,900 miles) away. The Moon(ish) is where NASA is headed, LEO is what they're leaving behind.
I wish they took desktops, I have three I don't use and my partner keeps yelling at me to throw them out.
Quartz: What critics agree are the best books of 2015
http://qz.com/566945/what-critics-agree-are-the-best-books-o...
Nurse practitioners are special in that they can do roughly 80-90% of what doctors can do, including writing prescriptions. In some cases they can act as specialists, such as handling mental health needs that your standard GP wouldn't handle.

They certainly do have an important role to play, but we need a lower level medical professional that can accept appointments and perhaps write a limited set of prescriptions and handle treatment of basic ailments.

One shouldn't need a masters for the 'oil change' of medicine, just as one needn't be a registered engineer to change an air filter.
The Sports Bubble Is About to Pop
Unfortunately the close link on the popup doesn't work and I can't click any link or button, with the exception of the main menu at the top of the page. The menu also hides the top of the popup unless I scroll to the very top of the page. Opera Android.

I'll check the GitHub repository.
Can the Gros Michel be revived? The article says it was hunted to "near extinction" which means there must be some still around.
> but does the average customer care?

They do, but they don't understand why it's bad. This is 'can you hear me now' and 'what'd you say' happen most of the time
In fact, there is a media query checking for this and changing the font weight to 300. Actually it makes it 100 for retina screens. It's tested and works in several devices - let's check if there is any error in loading the 300 font weight from google fonts though - thanks for the tip.

Your comment on examples is very correct and we've been advised at least 3 more times here; we are definitely doing this soon! Thank you again for your comments.
With too much reliance on cheap coal for economic growth, you end up here:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/7/9861174/beijing-pollution-...

China's use of coal has probably peaked. Any developing country would do well to follow China's lead and build renewables rather than coal, whatever its short-term advantages.
Another consideration is that often they will try to use the fact that you don't use their hardware as an excuse to not go further in troubleshooting since they "don't support 3rd party hardware."
Purple Reign: The unmaking of a Yahoo
Swift AI – a machine learning library written in Swift
Chuck Williams, Founder of Williams-Sonoma, Dies at 100
Wrong questions. You need to ask: What is the benefit of being able to use Tor? What is the benefit of communicating privately with the help of encryption?
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Any designs following material design. Seriously. Especially one page marketing sites.
"Fake Internety money" of course actually translates into real job opportunities in this case.