skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes let's cripple the web by continuing to use unencrypted http, just because computers from 15 years ago won't be able to properly display some webpages...
HotJava was a pretty cool concept.

An empty graphic shell that could download protocol implementations on the fly.
Every time this happens people make clever remarks about how Git is distributed but we're all depending on GitHub for so much that we defeat the purpose. But once GitHub comes back up, everyone just gets back to work, trusting and relying on it as much as ever. Eventually it goes down again, and we come back to complain. Convenience is the only thing that we seem to value. (I'm no different, which makes my comment completely hypocritical.)
Although, when looking at the Deep Dream images that come as a by product (more or less) of image recognition AI, I get the impression that there ARE ways of communicating things about what a computer is "thinking" when trying to solve problems in areas where humans are traditionally better.
Can you list one or two of the things/features that you feel are the biggest failures with what you have tried?
I'm guessing the parent doesn't mean only bower, but bower uses github as the source of packages/code (I don't use bower, so I'm only going from memory). On a build that downloads everything 'fresh' it's not going to be able to get sources that are only on github.

Bower certainly isn't the only thing that does it. It's a trend that's becoming more and more common.
How will this impact page-speed?

I recall switching the product pages of an e-comm site, which had up to 50 small images per page, from https to http and the change very significantly increased page load speed for the end user
Something fundamental.

There's a qualitative difference between fundamental and incremental innovation.

An example of a fundamental innovation would be radio. Before radio there was... no radio. Nobody could communicate across vast distances invisibly and without sound. After radio, they could. It's an absolute, sharp discontinuity.

An example of an incremental one would be multi-core processors, self-driving cars, or reusable rockets that land themselves. These are awesome don't get me wrong but they're refinements of things we already have. We already had cars, CPUs, and rockets, and now we have better ones.

The line is not perfectly sharp. Were ICs fundamental or just a refinement of transistors? (I'd argue that the photographic down-projection of circuitry in that way was fundamental.) But I think it's fairly clear to me that nothing of even the magnitude of the IC has come about since 1970. Certainly there hasn't been anything of the magnitude of radio, electromagnetism, powered flight, or rocketry in a long time. The last was probably understanding DNA and the DNS->RNA->protein synthesis pathway.

At this point I'm fairly convinced that this doesn't work, but if it had worked it would have qualified:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_resonant_cavity_thruster

"Cold" fusion, had it actually worked, would also have qualified. Something like that would convince me we have not entered a new dark age.

A possibility I didn't mention in my OP is that we've hit the limits of human cognition. I find it hard to believe that we understand "all of science," but maybe we are close to understanding all that the brain of homo sapiens can process.
One of the points you are missing is that there are two kinds of poverty: absolute and relative. Even if you could eliminate absolute poverty, there is no means to eliminate relative poverty. The minute you have a UBI, anyone who only has that is de fact poor relative to others.

Many years ago, I saw a study that asked people in different countries to define poverty in terms of things like how many meals per day a person ate, what kind of shelter they had, etc. The study concluded that less than 0.5 percent of Americans were poor by the standards of people in India at the time the study was conducted. Meanwhile, Americans routinely conclude that 12% to 14% of us are living below the poverty level.

As a homeless American, I have regular access to electricity via a public library. I have access to public toilets. I have access to cheap goods. My quality of life is likely higher than that of many people in the world who live in countries without consistent supply of electricity and other basic infrastructure that I take for granted. There are countries where women are fairly routinely raped and sometimes murdered while attempting to relieve their bowel or bladder in an open field because there is insufficient infrastructure.

My quality of life is likely higher than that of kings of old, who had no electricity or Internet or antibiotics etc.

Humans are a social animal. If you eliminate physical hunger but cut us off from freedom of choice, social connections and a great many other things that money cannot buy, you do us egregious harm.

We need to invent the 21st century's version of the 40 hour work week. I believe the answer here is currently being called The Gig Economy. We need to make sure the Gig Economy empowers ordinary people to work when they want, as much as they want. We need to make sure "gig" work can create a middle class lifestyle if you do it decently for about 40 hours a week.

This will empower homemakers, single parents, etc to create a comfortable life that works for them without being cut off from Society and the halls of power.

We need to worry about empowering people to readily and easily make the money they need. Giving money to people will never provide the same quality of life as earned income. It is qualitatively different. It will always be qualitatively different. You cannot change that fact.
My dad who's a year or two short of 70 has wisdom teeth that never "erupted". Personally mine did at the age of ~20, but my orthodontist at the time thought they needed to be removed a couple of years before because they were pointing the wrong way. My dentist thought otherwise and I took his advice.

I'm half convinced that the whole "wisdom teeth industry" is just a great way to legally get some opioid painkillers.
My grandfather started practicing dentistry in the '20s and my mother in the '50s, so my thoughts come from them (paraphrasing):

While many people may not have an urgent need to get rid of their wisdom teeth at age 18 (or even 50), it is a very simple extraction before these teeth have taken root. After they have rooted, it is more complicated, and more painful. These teeth are unnecessary, and one can eat perfectly fine without them. The most horrible stories I heard as a kid were mostly about wisdom teeth causing crowding and/or gum issues. To each their own, of course, but I believe the prudent route is to have them removed when you are 18 (or whenever they start to come in for you).
Google can provide some value depending on how you want to search - "some job skill site:lever.co"
Hey, I think the least we can do is remove means testing so we don't penalise people for bothering.

We've got a higher effective marginal tax rate earning the first dollar of the year than the 100,000'th and I think that's a problem.
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There is more than this recent fiasco to back up the person you're replying to:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/new-study-spills-doub...
You're correct - taxi drivers have been suing for decades to get employee status. You don't hear about it because Uber is the first major national player that everyone recognizes.
So the parent said "in space" - doesn't mean another star.
WordPress-as-a-service can meet business needs. But WordPress is an awful idea outside of that. Someone is needed full time to keep it and its plug-ins patched. I would laugh at just about anyone who suggested a self-hosted WordPress as a reasonable solution to anything.

There are other sites where you can get managed CMS hosting (wix.com, squarespace.com, even wpengine.com etc.) to build a CMS on.

To suggest that "WordPress" is a good solution at this point should get you laughed out of the room. wpengine.com is a reasonable solution. "WordPress", hosted on your own server, is a disaster waiting to happen.

I actually tried building something, not on WordPress, but Drupal, and as a result can't imagine recommending anything that's PHP-based being a good technical solution.

Call me a PHP snob then. It's so horrible to work with I can't imagine that other solutions can't be better.
Lunch is my break from work. I leave the office and go somewhere, whether it's to take a walk in the park, go to the gym, or just grab a bite out and read a couple chapters.

Also, trying to get three or more people to agree on a time and place for lunch is less fun than herding cats.
I was responding to your comment on why it is a good thing that people should not seek professional success.
Good to know - thanks
What if some companies experimented with basic income? I mean, sure, people working there are probably already getting paid pretty well, and 'basic income' at that point might just seem like a small bonus to their salary, but what if it was implemented like we implemented life insurance? Hear me out:

So, you work at Company X. You and one person of your choice are now entitled to basic income. It will come as a separate check, paid for by the company. You can put your spouse, your family member, or a friend--etc. as a beneficiary of the basic income, or choose nobody at all and miss out on this "free money".

That person would have to agree to accept the money of course, and the check will be written directly to them, not you (you are not a proxy).

One main difference between this and an actual implementation of basic income is that these individuals will only receive the basic income as long as you work at Company X (unless, for some reason, the Company agrees to continue the program beyond your employment).

Another difference is that it's linked to the success and failures of this company, instead of the successes and failures of society as a whole (the latter seems less risky).

Anyway, I'm posting this more as a prompt.. What if? Do you think it's a reasonable experiment for a company to run? I know big names like Google and Facebook have some interesting perks, so why not basic income for all your employees plus 1 person of their choice, paid for by a flat % of everyone's income at the company?
Well, I think that the hype is one-directional because the default assumption is that machines will lose to humans in tasks that involve reasoning. We know that there's no computer that can learn to put away the dishes after watching a person do it, so there's nothing to talk about and nothing to hype.
You are correct, though it's worth noting that advertising spend as a % of (American) GDP has been constant for a long, long time [0]. FB and Google are probably still competing for money that was previously spent on TV/Radio/Periodicals, but still, everyone's competing for a slice of the same pie.

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-03-03/advertisings...
Self-hosted isn't 100% reliable either. Nobody is that good. I've done serious high availability (financial system that would land on the front page of the New York Times the way Github lands on HN), and it wasn't 100%. And the overhead of high availability is incredible.

No way would I do self-hosted version control. I have better things to do than babysit servers for commodity services.
To say Facebook is the biggest scam is too extreme. Click fraud exists on every single platform. Pay a hundred mechanical turk and they can click for you all day long.
Too bad I'm not teaching someone to use git and/or github right now. Perfect opportunity for a practical joke. "Oh, great, look... you broke GitHub with that last command."
"Polyphenols in coffee have been shown to affect free radicals in vitro,[132] but there is no evidence that this effect occurs in humans. Polyphenol levels vary depending on how beans are roasted as well as for how long. As interpreted by the Linus Pauling Institute and the European Food Safety Authority, dietary polyphenols, such as those ingested by consuming coffee, have little or no direct antioxidant value following ingestion."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Health_and_pharmacology

It's very hard to trust health information you get from the news.
This ultimately comes down to the debate between capitalism vs socialism - if people are still driving at lower rates, then we weren't at a market equilibrium. But should they have basic coverages?

I expect the ODE to become a huge topic for the 2016 election, since (at a high level) it's a manifestation of the Republican vs Democratic platforms.
If 90% (that was the figure when I last looked at them a year back), or at the very least an overwhelmingly large percentage of your revenue comes from advertising, you're an advertising company.
Git is not Github. If hotmail.com goes down, it doesn't take down email worldwide with it.
There are plenty of better ways, and SuperMicro could have been using them all along. Their IPMI client is a PITA that is absolutely not an argument in favor of keeping around the technologies it depends on.
> "But it hasn't resulted in the kinds of professional contacts I had hoped for."

I know this is off topic but... perhaps you'll have better success at exchanging information with fellow entrepreneurs at a local Meetup group (assuming you live to a nearby group)? http://www.meetup.com/

> "Often, financial problems are clues to something going wrong and also serve as a motivator to overcome your problems. I am not in the least concerned about stigma. I am concerned about removing valuable information from the system and making it radically more difficult to figure out what is going wrong, thereby making it harder to fix the problems because we are blind to them."

I see what you're getting at now. Three points:

1. The 'basic' part of basic income is important, as it's only meant to be enough money to cover a basic standard of living (i.e. food, shelter, etc...). If someone wants to have higher material wealth, they either have to earn it, or they have to learn how to stretch their basic income further. This process of stretching the basic income further relies on frugality and creativity, the same frugality and creativity you're suggesting only those at the top have. I'd suggest being poor can teach you those same lessons.

2. Money as a source of information isn't being lost. Again, the basic income covers the basics. Even if the market for bread and rice is stable, the market for luxury goods would be just as variable as before.

3. In your opinion, what is the purpose of money? In my opinion, the purpose of money is to facilitate trade. Trade can be seen as a form of collaboration. This collaboration relies on trust that what someone can produce has value. However, sometimes even when someone can produce something of value, they're blocked from doing so due to a shortage in tokens of exchange (money). For example, when the Great Depression started, you still had the same skills in the economy as before, but fewer means to coordinate the productive use of those skills. What I'm saying is that money has value as a means of exchange, but not as a means of production. If work is an engine, then money is the lubricant. You don't produce a more efficient engine by restricting the volume of lubricant to the smaller cogs.

> "Alcoholics often continue to drink if it isn't ruining them financially"

Alcoholics often continue to drink even if it is ruining them financially. Addiction isn't curbed by logic alone.
Solved with traditional pt jobs, not so much when you join at will. I may work today but because exams, vacation, etc, might not get back in till weeks from now. Maybe I want to just try out a job.

Thjs kind of dipping in and out does not work for a restaurant whose work demand is inelastic. It works for the übers because its elastic. One gal or guy not coming in doesn't cause mayhem in the shift. Surge pricing also helps. You're not going to tolerate surge pricing at restaurants, for example.

So the work demand is different, it's much more flexible and you need a classification which allows for dabblers, people who might work for five or ten different outfits one week, none the next and one the third.
Since the article doesn't even attempt to answer the question, instead getting lost in a meandering, Randian path of complaint about cronyism and the government... let's give it a shot.

1) Millenials aren't idiots and don't think socialism is the same thing as Communism.

2) Millenials are also closing in on the age where they get booted off their parents health insurance, and might be forced to be pay ACA if they aren't in an HMO or qualify for Medicaid.

3) They look at socialized medicine and think, hey, if only.

This almost certainly doesn't cover the 4 in 10 they throw out as a number in the article, but at least I tried.
Yes, but at least you can continue to work while it is down. You'll be missing on the collaboration part (and bug trackers, and stuff).

If you are desperate, you can also call another developer and add another remote pointing somewhere else. So Git is a win anyway.

Try that with a "SubversionHub"...
My only regret is that I have but one upvote to give. All these anecdotal comments, and only one reference to RCT.

However, this link appears to be paywalled. "You have tried to access content that requires a subscription to BMJ Best Practice."
Based on your comment, I went over to see if I could obtain a certificate.

It took all of 5 seconds for me to do - it's all automated via the admin panel now. Just tick the box to make your site secure. Looks like DH has resolved any initial issues they had.
I see bureaucracy and government control of education is primary speed breakers in the human potential in the coming decade.

The way I see it human creativity is expanding at rapid rate than ever thanks to advancement in technology. The government is however slow, rigid, corrupt and unwilling to relent. This is a clash that is going to define the coming decade or so. If the government wins, I am pretty sure there wont be any improvement in an Average American's life.

One has to look at countries like India which were totally government controlled upto 90s. From 1950s to 1990s India barely changed. Everyone remained poor. Some minor reforms led to explosive growth.

In USA I see the trend as opposite. We have a government that is focused on intangible and dubious goals such as climate change while hurting people with ridiculous regulation.
I had mine well into my late 30's but I could not brush behind them as they where so close to my jaw. I have very strong teeth but eventually age caught up with them. Funny part was I would occasionally suffer from headaches but they where so infrequent that I just assumed they where normal headaches. Years later, after having them removed I realized that I had not had a headache in years.
>People who retire earlier die sooner

some people. Do not generalize.
Even if convenience is not a priority for you, it almost certainly will be for people you want/need to interact with.
Except that like everywhere else on the globe that isn't Antarctica there were already people there that needed to be displaced. Someone else's asset was stolen and sold (for very little initially, but sold nonetheless). Land (in absolute terms) has little to do with property prices compared to where the land is geographically, politically and socially.

Land tax will help marginally with inequity but the majority of the cost will just be passed on to renters (like what happens now). Taxing vacant buildings higher will increase supply which should depress rents slightly. None of that stops housing becoming an investment and a financial asset though which is the root cause of unaffordability.
Yeah, the downward spiral towards being on the rocks was just as bad, if not worse, than being homeless. Watching your bank account dry up is not fun. Coming to the realization that your friends and family can't, or won't, be able to catch you when you hit bottom is pretty sobering. Not having the skills necessary to negotiate not having a place to live is terrifying. It's weird getting to the point where you might not even be able to pay for your cell phone bill. And being depressed is, well, depressing. I have no intention of ever reliving that experience.
I dont have data but whenever I buy likes on page they seem to come from people who are totally fake.
I'm a former CPA and founder of Zen99, which built tax tools for independent contractors like Uber drivers. So this is my forte :)

You're right that it's not cut and dry, and can't be. There are too many specifics to take into account. For example, if you're a part time worker at Whole Foods, you don't get to write off your commute to and from work. But as an Uber driver, there are ways you can do this so you pay less in taxes, which can make your take home more than the WF worker. Neither of them get benefits bc part time employees don't have to be given benefits (note: not sure on what WF policies are, but that's a true statement for part time employees in general).
Isn't gasoline a commodity now? And isn't a self driving car essentially the same thing as a taxi?
Only the naive ones think that.
I think we'll see human activity in space increase by an order of magnitude over the next decade. Multiple nations are entering into the space race and have plans for manned missions as well as space stations. Multiple private corporations are making advances weekly and have plans for manned missions and orbital habitats.

Oncolytic Viruses seem very promising to me.
CRISPR sounds like the invention of the transistor for genetics technology.

AI research is advancing at a scary pace and that will enhance all the other cylinders.
Okay, but there is a generally understood definition of advertising as used in common parlance. I'm certain you're aware of it.

Diluting it to mean things like "Oh me telling you my name is also a form of advertising" doesn't really do anything.
You mean like IPFS? [1] People are working on it.

[1] https://ipfs.io
...but it was a terrible car! Just stylish; and now that style is dated.
giving people enough money to live on with no strings attached

There's always strings attached, either directly or indirectly.

50 years from now, I think it will seem ridiculous that we used fear of not being able to eat as a way to motivate people.

Considering current political trends, I find it significantly likely that in 50 years government would use fear of many different things as a tactic to "motivate" people (food among them).
Maybe the author felt emasculated by the experience, and didn't realize that modern humanity demands attention to all manner of bizarre sensitivities because of a rabid desire to take offense where none is intended.

I do have to admit, I stereotype reporters as absolutely swimming in that particular lagoon, so it's unlikely, but hey, you got to speculate too.
> Apparently looking at issue tracking systems doesn't work for bosses.

I'm glad my boss knows how to use our bug tracker and read the emails that it and our source control system generates...
I have had websites for about 14 or 15 years. I have been trying to monetize them the entire time. While I was homemaker, I could not figure it out. While I worked for a Fortune 500 company, I could not figure it out. I only began making in-roads after I became homeless.

My father was career military. He never figured out how to make good money as a civilian. He tried commissioned sales work. He tried wage labor. He had his own business. He often spent months at a time unemployed. I think my mother bitched less when he was unemployed than when he was doing door to sales, spending money for gas, and making nothing.

I have 6 years of college. I am far from dumb or incompetent. But being in a position where my income depended on certain kinds of behaviors was a tremendous mental block and practical barrier to me learning how to make money online.

I am out of time for today. I am not sure I explained that very well. If it needs clarification, it will have to happen tomorrow.