skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I'm curious about is what's stopping a large portion of the population from simply quitting their jobs to live off basic income, thus decreasing the potential pool from which taxes to pay for basic income can be extracted?

If it really worked out like you say it would, where people with middle or high incomes are no better off, I wonder what they would think when suddenly large swathes of the population are able to live off the dole without busting their humps.
The thing is, the subsidised poor already have a huge system of entitlements in most developed countries. Governments combat homelessness with social housing (net value far more than $10k per annum where I live) and direct despondent former Fortran programmers into jobs or onto retraining schemes whilst paying them enough to live on.

Arguments for universal BI (as opposed to tweaks to benefit entitlement rules) are in effect a suggestion that people on those programmes should have less so that we can afford to extend subsidies to middle class stay-at-home wives and twenty-somethings on gap years, because rich people that don't want to work obviously deserve the same as people with nothing going through a crisis. And you have the temerity to intemperately accuse anyone that questions it of being elitists.

And yes, BI is something which has been chiefly advocated by privileged white men.
Note: Not a medical professional, with associated caveats.

I don't know about this article specifically, but the importance of hormesis in medicine has come on fairly strongly in recent years. Specifically, that persistent, low-level damage to your cells and subsequent autophagy can actually reduce one's risk of various ailments. Antioxidants reduce the occurrence of this damage.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy
HTTP was never marked as secure.

Mixed content was marked insecure because there were assets on the page that might not be from where you think they were from. It was an indicator that the little https lock in the URL bar wasn't telling you the whole story.
Spin angular momentum seems to be a pretty intrinsic property of (fundamental) particles. What do you understand as inherent properties of objects? Position? Charge? Mass? Velocity? Energy? Linear momentum? Spin? And why? What if the object is composite? What about quantum physics, e.g. superposition states?
Beautiful! Well done.
It seems that Facebook's AI is playing on KGS and on there it plays at about 5dan amateur in strength. Would love to see AlphaGo on KGS!
And: View stock options as strictly a bonus. I've been offered a low salary in exchange for lots of equity before. I enjoy having some stake in the long-term success in the company, but it depends on so many factors beyond the hard work of the employees, that you can't afford to sacrifice your day-to-day finances on a far-distant potential pay-off.
I think disrupting the core components of our society that decrease and inhibit growth of wealth for specific groups of people would be the most effective way to increase prosperity for everyone. These components include, but are definitely not limited to:

- credit (specifically housing and pay-day loans)
- the necessity (real or imagined) of a college degree
- quality and subject matter of pre-university education
- utilities (specifically electricity and internet)
- housing and rent

To be clear, I'm not advocating the direct removal or destructuring of any of these things. I do, however, see these as disruptable (but largely ignored) aspects of our society and economic system that have direct, adverse effects on many groups of people.
Similarly, Google claimed they would start penalizing websites that showed full-page ads for mobile apps instead of showing you the website. But every single time I try to get to Gmail, or Drive, or Calendar, or any Google service on the web using a mobile device, I'm shown a full page ad for a mobile app. Google has been doing this for years, and it seems like it's also been a year since they said they'd punish all sites that do that. But Gmail still turns up as #1 in search results for email, so does calendar, etc. It seems to me that they have whitelisted themselves and choose not to punish any Google property that breaks the Google rules, despite claiming to do so.

Edit: Typically, when a service tells me "no you can't use this service until you view a full page ad" I just give up and not bother continuing to the service. But the same is not true for Google. I reluctantly click through the full page ad every single time. It's incredibly annoying that I let them get away with this and still use the services. They are so outrageously arrogant about it and it bothers me greatly, but still, I don't change.

Edit 2:

Going to calendar.google.com: http://i.imgur.com/fNRhhYx.png

First results for searching 'calendar': http://i.imgur.com/l3A5Wlh.png
I guess I'm not seeing a reason for a third kind. It's pretty clear that drivers are employees. The only reason to introduce anything else would be because Uber/Lyft have lobbied to try and prevent full employee status. This "flex-employee" doesn't seem like something that needs to exist, and would only be used to justify not giving benefits.
I think the premise of this is wrong.

1. It paints an idealistic picture of the state:

> It’s true that we have systems in place to give people
> resources, but the bureaucracy and qualification
> requirements make it a very imperfect approximation of what
> most people mean when talking about a basic income.

I'd suggest to ask why there is this bureaucracy in the first place. I'd suggest it does its job perfectly well.

2. It paints an idealistic picture of the capitalist economy:

> I think it’s good to start studying this early. I’m fairly
> confident that at some point in the future, as technology
> continues to eliminate traditional jobs and massive new
> wealth gets created, we’re going to see some version of
> this at a national scale.

Machines do not destroy jobs. The social purpose for which they are used - profit - makes and destroys job. Put differently, I'd suggest to ask why this economy produces mass poverty when it gets easier to produce stuff.

I recommend https://gegen-kapital-und-nation.org/en/what-wrong-free-mone...
I'm not opposed to free education. I'm certain free education is better than $150k education. But gating stable employment on 4-year degrees is problematic for reasons other than tuition costs, and, equally important to this thread, startups probably can't make college free, but they might be able to replace college for a pretty big set of white collar jobs.
$100M now? Some people are apparently harder to please than the sage and former governor of California:

"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

This is, of course, a joke, but there is clearly a couple thresholds that are decisive: the first around the point of "no longer need to work immediately" and the second at "no longer need to work at all if one is willing to have a modest retirement". I suspect that if one is sort of person who thinks that $20M or $100M is a important further threshold for some calculation ("all of my descendants will be able to go to college, for the next 12 generations" or "I need to be able to buy anything that I can current conceive of wanting") there's probably no real end to it.
Certainly, and I would be one of them. I'm not saying nobody does care or that nobody should, only that enough people don't care enough to make this "red X of shame" that shameful, really.

Chrome and Firefox have both had to take extreme measures for very similar things, such as web sites using expired (or even unvalidated/spoofed) SSL certificates. Google even reported that using a giant red page with warning labels didn't stop people from clicking through!
Does it have it's own format for images, or does it support VMX / VMDK ?

I'm sick at the thought of having to deal with Yet Another VM Format.
I use Lua as a general use language and I'm incredibly satisfied. It's an amazing language.

I also need to mention that Lua is the easiest language I've ever encountered, so any competent developer can learn it quickly, it's not alienating anyone.

Given that, I agree that LuaRocks isn't so vast as other languages' repositories and this can be a drawback of using Lua. But why again are you judging a language by it's package manager? If it's a good language wouldn't it be better to suggest more people to write packages instead of suggesting people not to use it?
Supplements contain massive levels of antioxidants compared to foods. I wouldn't want to completely cut out, say, glutathione, because then you'd miss cruciferous vegetables, for instance.

I'm not a medical professional, but I think whole, healthy foods are generally good choices.
>There’s a strong argument that Google is now the most important company in the world

Does anyone know what this argument is? It boggles the mind that an advertising company is the most important company in the world.
But on a grand scale, where everybody knows that everyone is getting the same amount of free money, the market adjusts accordingly, within minutes.

You can give 20 people $100 each to spend as they see fit, and it wouldn't affect the price of a Happy Meal. But if you give 100000 people $100 each, you can bet that the price of that food is going up a bit, just because more people can more easily afford a higher price.

Subsidy affects market equilibria differently than using the same amount of resources to lower costs or increase supplier firms, or do industry-advocacy advertising.
Is Lever specifically designed to not allow for general searching for jobs? I like the interface and in general the companies using Lever are pretty interesting, and I'd like to see which of them are looking for engineers in my field. I suppose it might be so that every applicant through Lever had to find the company first and know a little about them, so they have some motivation to work there specifically.
Centrifugal force is an abstraction, but angular momentum has physical reality at the subatomic level. See Feynman, chap. 17.[1] Photons have angular momentum, even though they don't have a meaningful size. This is strange, but it's reality.

[1] http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_17.html
I object to the notion of unconditional basic income. I think the possibility of large portions of the population underachieving in their return to society while we are still not rich enough as society to afford it is very real. I'd propose a twist to this unconditionality. I'd much rather see a different brand of basic income in return for work that everyone can do in a relatively small number of hours per month (20h?-40h?).

In order to implement such a system we need a reliable way for society to judge the voluntary work of its members that would justify the basic income. And a set of works with social value offered to those whose chosen work is not deemed worthy of basic income.

I'll just try to make this more clear with a possible implementation of such a system.

You are allowed to receive your basic income and do whatever you want as long as a number of randomly selected people consider your work worthy of basic income.

A way to organise this would be to present what you have done in some kind of predefined format at the end of each year. These people decide if what you have done is worthy of you getting your basic income another year. Otherwise the next year you have to work in one of the state accepted ways to get your basic income (by teaching, playing with kids, cleaning the roads or whatever thing we as a society agree it's always worthy). To maximise the accountability I'd choose these random group of people in the community of the person who receives the basic income. They will have better ways to know wether what is presented is actually being done and worthy. These 'judges' would need to be anonymous to minimise the potential for social engineering to game the system.

This is just an example, I think we can devise different versions of the control structures following the same spirit for works that do not adjust well to this kind of evaluation.

Sorry for my grammar and english. Perhaps someone can restate this in a more readable way. English is not my first language and I'm not a great writer, but I hope at least the essence of the ideas behind this proposal pass through and can contribute to the general discussion.
> I've fought this battle on HN before and nobody wants to believe that college isn't any more expensive than it previously was

Where in the world did you get this idea? College if three (3) times more expensive than it was 40 years ago:

> but do a bit of research and you'll be surprised.

Research: http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-table...
One of many reasons I mentioned that "they will quickly become customary and expected".
It isn't. That's the problem.
> largest European hacker conference now (and btw: so that niche is filled now)

There are quite a few European hacker conferences and CCC's ties to hackers (in the computer security sense) are getting weaker as it gets more political and less technical.
A Disney spokesperson told Ars via e-mail: "These lawsuits are based on an unsustainable legal theory and are a wholesale misrepresentation of the facts. Contrary to reports, Ms. Moore was offered another position in the company at comparable pay, and more than 100 of the workers affected by the changes were rehired."

Total bullshit. I don't believe any comments from companies peddling H-1B. It's time "we the people" start speaking up and take action where necessary. Why don't one of the CNN anchors pick this up for a debate? And who the fuck says we don't have talent here?!!!!
I wonder how far Liz Holmes is going to take this thing. I wonder when it hits the breaking point where even she accepts the cold hard truth that this company that was famously valued at $9b is pure vaporware, built on little more than smoke and mirrors. Does the company need to file bankruptcy? Do investors need to sue to recover what money is left? Do insiders need to be criminally charged? I wonder...
Thanks for making it! I tried a little with your scripts and got to these results: (original files available if you ask)

1 Day in 4400x4400:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_orOM8zOg

1 Month:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwN2KJcQfoQ

11000x11000 Sunset:
https://i.imgur.com/wMIXQvC.jpg

11000x11000 Daylight:
http://i.imgur.com/y1zTyU2.jpg
Good, that the usage of antibiotics is rising in cattle-breeding.

The blind usage of the fruits of progress is one of our biggest problems in a world, where many problems of human beings have relieved by the same.
He didn't talk about performance at all. If he said TCP is slower than UDP, fine, that's a perfectly valid reason to use UDP.

But he was talking about TCP imposes the notion of session on the application while UDP doesn't, which are false. If he meant the TCP connection as a session, why he led the discussion to managing session with locks and threads in application. Then he talked of the ease of Erlang handling session while other languages having a hard time, which was an exaggeration. Session management is a solved problem, in many languages by many people.
I think one of the big problems with unencrypted websites is shared hosting, who refuse to use SNI certificates (often because it would require upgrading their infrastructure). So users have to pay for a static IP which effectively doubles their hosting costs so most don't bother.
Without the actual statement of definicinies, there's not much to this letter other than that they have ten days to be in compliance with... something?

Does anyone know what they are being ask to fix?
How many employees do they have? I would imagine that the impact of a dead unicorn would be directly proportional to the number of employees it had.
> What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone?

Make starting a business as easy as possible:
1) Have all the legal stuff taken care of through a web form that fills out all the paperwork in a standard way. When a business becomes sophisticated enough, they get a lawyer to customize their solution if necessary.

2) Provide simple business banking at the same time.
Undefined Behavior in LLVM [pdf]
This is not remotely suggestive? ....Okay.

https://fengyuanchen.github.io/viewerjs/img/emma-watson-4.jp...
The major cost in time is also weather related. Materials are damaged if they sit in the rain, things have to be done in a specific order, in many places the livable build season is short (in the rocky mountain states, eg.) and the opportunity fir error is huge. If things arrive as a mostly prefab kit, then things are faster to put up on site, which avoids tons of complexity. It especially avoids a lot of the challenges with multiple subcontractors and scheduling.

Making demolition cheaper and easier would be a major improvement. Of course, demolition is one area where care is very important, for safety of the workers and the environment. It is amazing the types of hazmat that are in old buildings and houses. (Asbestos, lead, mercury, etc.) Containing it all is very hard.
Extravagant Party Themes
I think that the challenge we have is that today's antibiotics are really like the proverbial "sledgehammer to crack a nut".

There hasn't been a great deal of interest in discovering new antibiotics, as this extract from Wikipedia describes:

Following a 40-year hiatus in discovering new
classes of antibacterial compounds, four new
classes of antibacterial antibiotics have been
brought into clinical use in the late 2000s and early
2010s

I assume that there isn't much interest due to the limited financial rewards to the pharmaceutical industry.

What is really needed is a new way to target the truly " foreign " and trouble making bacteria in the body, and eradicate it. Hopefully in the next 40 years we can make such a breakthrough and stop the "carpet bombing" methods we have today.
So, data-driven development, basically? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven_programming
> ...with a very primitive understanding as to why.

Or, more likely, with no understanding at all.
Not to nitpick, but in my experience growing up in the Midwest of the US most "poor, but educated, families" like mine pushed children into state schools where they pay in-state tuition and graduate with $10-40k in debt. Most careers are open to them and you would almost definitely not be working at McDs or in jail.
I tried setting up SSL with Cloudfront yesterday and it was a complete mess. The validation method is sending an email to the domain contacts as listed in whois. So if you have whois privacy enabled, you cannot receive the email and therefore cannot setup the cert.

This is definitely a bug, because the system supposed to also send emails to admin@domain.com, hostmaster@domain.com, and a few others. With whois privacy enabled, I never received any of those emails.

Even with whois privacy, you are supposed to be able to receive an email via the privacy registrar's proxy email... but Amazon parses it incorrectly and ends up sending the email to legal@whoisproxy.com

I'm not the only one:

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=698280&t...

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=3510
Sometimes people just want some part time work and don't want to be tied in to one company --allowing them to choose different things on different days, seasons, etc.

Long term über and lyft etc won't need drivers, so it's more for the more high touch industries.
At that time they started using horribly annoying redirects.
Except right now?
Triumph+Found+for+Allergen+Free+Food+in+One-Click
Sample group of me, my wife, and my son. We see symptoms die down in 24-48 hours. Its very clear they work, especially in my case where I've always had a long hard struggle fighting off infections.

I do make an effort to get more Vitamin D in the winter, which has been helping me avoid getting sick, but not recover faster.

>Wondering what my body would naturally do with those five days

Strep can become deadly in children. Invasive strep has a significant mortality rate, and that's with treatments. If you think you have strep you should get treated.

Also, I find it amusing you consider drugs unnatural. We are a tool using species, naturally. Developing and using drugs is in our nature.

Lastly, this is the same reasoning anti-vaxxers have, so I'd be careful here. It can lead to some really bad outcomes.
The problem is how "basic needs" are defined.
sorry, misunderstood you, apologies.
I agree with you for the most part.

I also think that perhaps there needs to be someone willing to take a few arrows in the chest before new UI concepts become so common as to be generally accepted as 'intuitive'.
Some people only need / can afford to acquire said skills, and so aren't a good fit for the college track.
Space is infinite. It seems most humans cannot comprehend/accept infinity. Without understanding infinity you will have a hard time understanding space.
Ask HN: Is it possible for a Corporation to create their own Bitcoin?
I think Lua is great exactly because it knows when to break compatibility to make a language improvement and such decisions are extensively discussed.
> Yes, shame all libraries/swimming pools giving their schedule online without HTTPS. Shame gutenberg project, the documentations for OS, code, your washing machine.

So it's OK for someone to tamper with your documentation to trick you into doing something dangerous? Is it OK for a librarian to give out information on who looked at what?

> Basically every fucking internet users pay the 95th percentile transit to google products even if they don't watch videos on youtube, don't use gmail or else.

Except Google does pay for their transit. They pay for bulk transit to go around the world. Just like everyday internet users pay their ISP to get data the rest of the way down the road to where they are.
Question - how did you collect benefits for so long? The two times I was able to collect, the max was 6 months.

I agree with you 100%. The time I spent on unemployment was very spiritually fulfilling and really helped with my career. I got into running, learned how to produce music, and taught myself to code.
It shouldn't be, but there are a lot of people who don't give a damn about a liberal education for themselves, and just want a degree to improve employment opportunities. For them, I think it's kind of a sham to say that the only way to get the jobs they want is to sit through lots of non-employment-related material.

Would our society be better if more citizens were liberally educated and thusly enriched? Perhaps. But that doesn't invalidate the desire to offer students greater opportunities at lower opportunity cost.
I started getting political in the Bush era. I was understandably anti-war, anti-corporatism what with the close ties to Halliburton, etc. When Obama came into power I naively thought the left would be just as hard on him than they were on Bush. The disillusionment was palpable. That's when I understood that politics was red vs blue, and that people root for their chosen color no matter what, facts be damned.
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They're in the news business, so scoops are always a huge driver, especially so with online news where the publication with a scoop with get a disproportionate number of PVs on a story. The NYT doesn't get to escape from that logic; it just gets to play on both slow/smart and fast/quick hit grounds.
"Throughout its history Norsk Data produced a long string of extremely innovative systems, with a disproportionately large number of world firsts."

Still seems like something worth being proud of. It just got sideswiped by the personal computer industry (a lot of things did).