skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The basic point - that many people have their wisdom teeth removed unnecessarily - might be valid, but the author does a poor job proving it. Cherry-picking one study that followed young adults for only one year doesn't address the issue of orthodontic and periodontal problems that take decades to manifest fully - a pretty obvious point that remains unaddressed through the remainder of the article.

When I see such blatant intellectual malfeasance, I just stop reading. If it's really a valid point, someone else will make it without distorting or misrepresenting the truth. If it's not - which is what usually turns out to be the case - I will have saved time and energy. Life's too short to waste it on polemicists.
>separate the movement of money from the provision of credit

Debit cards?
Fixed that for you!

http://gittorrent.org/ and `git clone git://gittorrent.org/gittorrent`
I guess you could say that you can opt out of warrior identification fairly easily---just grow old.

No one can really opt out of identification in terms of their beauty. Both men and women face the reality of being judged by their looks, but women bear the brunt of it due to cultural considerations.

In some cultures, as women age they no longer have to deal with being judged as harshly on looks but in the West beauty is a point of interest deeply into a woman's middle-aged life at the least, and even people who are technically the age of grandparents like Hillary Clinton are judged on their looks.
I agree. There's too much to list, but here a few things to note about remote work:

- You need to hire people that are great self managers. This needs to be clearly communicated to the employee.

- Document everything. The internal wiki is an invaluable tool for a remote company.

- Quarterly team meetings are a requirement. You need some face to face time. Getting together at the beginning of each quarter for one week to plan is a great way to reset every 4 months.

- Send employees random gift packages and swag. This is a great way to make sure people don't fee left out.
>Only upon overcoming the fear of basic needs

Why not just eliminate that in the first place and proceed directly to the "more enriching needs"?
You can use the new AWS Certificate Manager[0] with CloudFront[1], which you can attach to your S3 bucket. The docs aren't brilliant, though.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-certificate-manager...
[1]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/gs.html
With that argument, there should be no marketing departments.
Actually, at its core Marxism is about this motto: (take) from each according to his ability, (give) to each according to his needs. The abolition of private property and other horrors of Communist implementations are simply means to that redistributive goal. The notion of Basic Income is rooted in Socialist theories intended to implement the vision of Marx and Engels.
Apple's value is not based on them. Apple's short term stock price is affected by them, but you only have to look back over the past couple of years to see that the price doesn't reflect the value.
The problem in Flint is not that the river is polluted it is that the pH of the river water is causing lead from old pipes and fittings to leach into the water. It's not really a good example of the general subject of the story.
Looking at your definition of "fundamental" , i think the thing that broke , was that in the 70's we already had too much fundamental technologies that required huge amount of human capital to "refine" the technologies into really useful things(an extremely hard task) , and of course the market pulled them , together with the issues of basic research we all know.

As for fundamental new things:

1. There's some research in fmri neurofeedback and magnetic stimulation on how to train/affect highly targeted brain regions to achieve variety of psychological effects including spiritual effects that take experienced meditators years to achieve, achieved in short periods of time.

2. lab on chip technology enables you to measure "everything" in the blood .Could lead to complete and fully accurate diagnostics. See healthtell.com
The earliest version of Java I worked with in production was 1.5, but the group I was working with had been using it in production a long time before that. There were other groups using Java for a lot of other things (JDBC, JMS, etc...). All the stuff I worked with relied on core Java and NIO though, which I'm not entirely sure how a lot of things were done before 1.5.

Java is definitely still really popular for development overall (TIOBE 2015 #1). My personal concern with Oracle vs. Google though is that Oracle does not own the language, and the copyright claim on APIs seems pretty aggressive. The JVM and Java have open specifications which in theory anyone should be allowed to implement (practice is admittedly a bit different). Even the official JDK was open source, which Oracle seems a bit hostile toward considering what they've done with purchases like MySQL and how the community largely responded.

Claiming copyright on an API seems somewhat akin to Keurig 2.0. Although, I think courts are having trouble keeping pace with technology.
Facebook makes it really easy to track your cost per conversion (e.g. subscribe, signup or sale), and if you report revenue data back to them you can track and optimize for revenue.

The only excuse for loosing money on FB in the long-term is unsuccessful experimentation and that shouldn't be huge quantities.
>thus decreasing the potential pool from which taxes to pay for basic income can be extracted.

Basic income proposals usually work something like this (numbers all made up, but close to those I've seen):

Each person gets something around the poverty level (say $10k -$15k per year). The taxes that are raised to pay for it would increase gradually based on income up so that it would be a wash for someone making $55k a year, and once you start making more than $75k a year, you start paying more.

If you look at those numbers anyone who decides they can live off of the basic income was unlikely to have been making enough to pay any federal income tax at all, much less enough to have been contributing to the extra UBI tax.

> 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.

They will be living off the dole at the poverty level, not living middle class lifestyles.
You are the human manifestation of "the chaos monkey"
curious, what do you do with the oil of cloves? drink it? gargle it?
I'm really not sure about that. There are so many conditions spanning when documents need to be signed, how to clean a nursing bag, when to hold meetings, what credentials personnel need to hold, how close to the floor/ceiling supplies can be stored.

What are some examples of COP violations leading to jail time?
> the year 2000 was the rise of electronic music

Electronic music goes back to the 60's.

Synthpop became popular (mainstream) in the early 1980's as synthesizer keyboards became common.

The 90's dropped the synths as they became too much of a cliché. So you just had a bit of a silent period before 2000, so electronic music in 2000's seemed like something new, but it merely utilized the new technological possibilities.
Help! The site is back, but I just pushed a new branch that isn't showing on the site, meaning I can't create a pull request.

circuitry git:(feature/middleware) git push origin feature/middleware
Counting objects: 18, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (18/18), done.
Writing objects: 100% (18/18), 5.01 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 18 (delta 9), reused 0 (delta 0)
To git@github.com:kapost/circuitry
* [new branch] feature/middleware -> feature/middleware

This branch is not appearing in the repo: https://github.com/kapost/circuitry/branches
If you run a gaming company, you're most likely tracking everything you possibly can about who is spending in your game.

If you are running a facebook campaign, you will buy either on volume (don't care what the price is, just give me the user, ie Uber), ROI (make sure the LTV of the user is less than the CPI), or profit (make sure we're still making money even after apple's cut)

Facebook allows you to form a closed loop feedback system. If Uber knows the LTV of a customer is $100 and CPI's on FB are $10, go to the bank and get as many of those customers you can.
Awesome! Thanks, Go Team! If you're interested in meeting Go devs in your area next month find a 1.6 release party near you: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Go-1.6-release-party.

Unofficial theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNat6iJB5So
If I need placeholders, I use pictures of classical art because there's no copyright encumberment, you get examples of human beings, and its aesthetically pleasing.

As a side-benefit, even if the portraits are laviscious since its 'classical art', many people don't care.
Kinoma XS6 Runtime Has 96.8% ES6 Compatibility
> unless you're really anal about keeping your wisdom teeth clean. Can you brush all the way back there?

That's going to require a really long toothbrush...
I wonder which exploit mitigation countermeasure was "bugfixed" in the new release?
We're still recovering; please give the site a bit of time to come back! Not everything can be expected to work until we've gone green on status.github.com. Thanks
That sounds very cool. I was just pointing out how divorced these ideas still are from the way we actually program and implement things on the web.

In an ideal world, a link to a source code repository (or a link to anything for that matter...) would never fail because there would be automatic mirrors to at least provide read-only access to it.

It sort of forces one to ask whether this is the result of fundamental mistakes within HTTP / DNS itself. It's not realistic for a web designer to put time into making external links fault tolerant by running some query to switch the routing link to an available node.
A water pik or similar is good to clean around back teeth (and gums) that are difficult to brush/floss.
Responsive Image Breakpoints Generator
> normal people (the 80% in your example) don't really want to be involved in oppressing or abusing anyone

Salem Village? Persecution of hackers (ongoing)? Drug hysteria (ongoing)? "Terrorism" (ongoing)? Heck, the privacy issue is itself an instance. Even if we disagree about the utility of privacy, surely you should accept that it could have value to others!

In my experience, people are quite ready to support draconian "justice" against nonconforming behavior. They don't "see them as real human beings" because the victims are dehumanized as a different tribe. Direct violence based on traditional distinctions seems to be fading, but I'm not going to bet the farm based on short-term history. The general phenomenon certainly has found new avenues - eg the recent trend of bullying via social media.

If you haven't developed the intuition that group dynamics can turn horribly wrong, then I don't know how I could convince you that being able to hide from the majority is a valuable thing. Most people will not understand this - themselves being part of the oppressive majority (see: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2346). No worries, I'll continue to preserve my privacy in every way possible!
I have several accounts that I set up for research purposes with close to 5000 friends each, mostly 17-25. All friends became inactive in the last 4 years.
> new regulations are going into effect later this year that will allow the production of replica cars without requiring them to meet safety guidelines involving air bags and crash tests.

This regulation may need some tweaking to stop abuse.
As a non-american, this is so strange. Doesn't the US have pollution laws that say you cannot pollute near where people live? That seems to me like a very fundamental responsibility of the state.
The Dark Side of Cryptography: Kleptography in Black-Box Implementations (2003)
I'm going to put that on a T-shirt
I think CRISPR is a breakthrough for sure, it's quite unclear whether it will be "fundamental". It's a fantastic research tool. Clinical applications however are quite a bit more challenging and at least in its current incarnation it's hard to see how they might work.

CRISPR-Cas9 is a nuclease, it cuts both strands of the DNA. Doing that to your DNA is a Very Bad Thing and usually turns out poorly regardless of whether you're trying to introduce new DNA into that area. If you've got mouse cells, then cool you only care if you get a few cells get the mutation you want, and if the others are screwed who cares? You get to move on with your experiment radically more quickly than you used to be able to. But that same equation doesn't apply to humans.
World less free for 10th year, study shows
V=IR works perfectly well for AC just as long as you measure the AC in terms of RMS voltage and current. For sinusoidal AC the result is about 0.7 the peak value. There would be no significant difference in wire size.

DC is in fact the better way to transmit energy over long distances. The computer I am typing this on is powered by energy transmitted 900 km in the form of DC.
Correct, it's worth about nine times that.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=FB
Let's see if Twitter can ride out of its stock collapse on the strength of Periscope first.
I've found the pace of business is just too fast for people to think about taking these things on (at least in tech). I'd love to find a mentor, especially being self-taught. I'm doing well for myself, but that imposter syndrome is very hard to break.
My melodramatic fear:

The the brain impulses and patterns that comprise your soul are snuffed out during general anesthesia.

The new soul that takes rood in your brain will have access to your old memories but is a new set of patterns that only approximate the previous soul.

This new soul, of course, will claim to be you in order to preserve itself. Unless primed with the memory of this idea, the new soul won't know any better.
Removing support for Emacs unexec from Glibc
reading your response to #3 , you are different from most people, who are usually motivated by social pressure, and "face-to-face". Good for you.
According to this, the new regulations limit such replicas to 325 cars per year per company:

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/12/08/new-law-vintage-cars/

Doesn't sound like much room for abuse.
Yeah I got this as well and no changes on github.com so much for creating this release tonight. :/ I hope they will fix this otherwise this push went into oblivion and the client thinks all is well.
I just have to compliment the author on this, even this makes for sort of a vacuous HN comment, because it is that cool. I clicked through half-expecting "just another Go goroutine/channel tutorial", but this really is something very nice and unique, with a lot of effort put in.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10912945

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10921441
Everything is more expensive in Australia. A large social net, a minimum wage > $20USD, and other high taxes, leads to rising costs of most goods and services.

I went there 2 years ago on vacation and stayed in hostels (which were $70USD/night) to save on price. Meals at most restaurants for 2 was $50+ and a 20 oz of coke and a small bag of chips cost me close to $11USD.

Internet was more expensive than anywhere I traveled. Free wifi was almost non-existent and most hostels charge $25USD/8 hours (it was also ~4MB).

It's probably why they don't have a flourishing startup scene.
Since everyone is getting into the concept of the patriarchy here and how it is the damnation of Western civilization... I'd like to point that the to my knowledge these developers are from China.

They're not even a part of the same cultural gestalt.

Isn't it possible this is just an example of mistaken manners when dealing with a foreign culture?
It's not like Github has 2 engineers only.
The point is that determining who is worthy or not is difficult and just giving it to everyone reduces administrative costs. Tax rates for high earners can be increased so above a certain point the benefit would be outweighed by additional taxes.
"For Windows" no surprises there.
23&Me was presenting patients with studies based on genes they actually found in the samples. They got busted because the studies weren't clinical trials done by the FDA. I've got a rare genetic disease for which there is no FDA approved test: too few patients, and it's 100% penetrant, so the geneticist just looked at the sequence. 23 & Me wasn't so different from that.
Qualitatively, but not quantitatively. A large metal object might not affect a conventional compass reading in a noticeable way, but if the enemy is flying around with cryocooled Josephson-junction magnetometers or whatever, they'll still see a distortion in the local field.

I'd think that the permeability of a submarine hull -- magnetized or not -- would be very different from that of the surrounding seawater.
It would be helpful if white-collar employers were more willing to hiring eighteen-year-olds. Many of my twenty-something (and older) peers at $Megacorp actually started this way, with some earning a bachelor's degree part-time.
I'd be interested in seeing studies done on recovery times from dental procedures pitting local vs. general anesthesia. If you're awake, it seems more likely that the dentist will practice extra caution, so it seems logical that recovery times for procedures done under local should be better.
Read Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. It's about a psychiatrist's experience in Auschwitz, and helps with identifying purpose and finding meaning in life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning

https://archive.org/details/MansSearchForMeaning_201507

http://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/0...

Try to be 1% better and whatever you're focusing on improving. It's manageable. It's realistic. It adds up.
I second this (with absolute 0 expertise in the matter). If the problem is a lack of hope, then doing things that demonstrate to yourself that you are in control of the problem should be a big help.
Why can't I reply to kwikiel?
I am shocked there's no mention of Star Trek in this discussion. And I shall remedy it!

"

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The economics of the future are somewhat different. You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century.

Lily Sloane: No money? You mean, you don't get paid?

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity. Actually, we're all like yourself and Dr. Cochrane.

"

sama asks, "What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone?" It's a good question. I think one answer that is not limited to startups, but applies to everyone, is to spread the idea and ideals that embody an egalitarian, post-scarcity, society. Star Trek happens to be an entertaining depiction. It doesn't have much in the way of details when it comes down to it, but it embodies the ideas and values of an egalitarian, post-scarctiy, existence where people don't just sit around all day playing video games, but work to better themselves and the rest of humanity.

Giving people money isn't enough. We need to also promote and live a set of values that will compliment Basic Income. We need to free ourselves from the fear of survival, but we must have the proper mindset and environment to ensure a successful freedom.

So, startups, invent replicators[1] so we can move to a post-scarcity economy and everyone, spread the word that it's time for our society to evolve so we can garner the support required for instituting Basic Income.

I completely agree with sama when he says, "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." Thus this experiment is less about whether Basic Income is a good idea, and more about how to ensure that it is a good idea and implemented successfully. I think you really need to pay attention to perceptions and societal values which requires education (plenty of startup activity here).

1. Spread the word

2. Invent replicators [2]

3. Get the messaging, education, values, mental models, etc right

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicator_(Star_Trek)

[2] Half joking, but serious.

[3] I'll try to update this comment as thinking clarifies as this topic is so large it's overwhelming.

[4] My other comment about Basic Income hopefully helping to resolve poor incentives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10985443
I'm not sure you're completely understanding how it works. I can actually run an ad on Facebook and with a conversion pixel I can see what the ROI return is. Read this for more details:

http://blog.wishpond.com/post/63739323752/how-to-use-the-fac...
American banks seem unable or unwilling to follow the simple algorithm "process the transaction immediately, if the sender does not have enough money to complete it, decline it."

Instead we depend on forms of payment which have latency measured in days (checks, direct deposit) and we process debit card transactions on a delay of hours to days. If you are playing close to $0 it's very easy to make a mistake and then fall below $0. The bank has effectively trusted you not to do this, and you did it, so they charge you a fee as punishment. Except you have less than $0, you can't pay the fee.

If you do this, then your bank might close your account and put you on the ChexSystems blacklist, which will prevent you from getting any new accounts for a few years.

AFAIK ChexSystems blacklisting is pretty much the only reason to be unbanked (except by choice as a form of protest, I guess?) Simply doing proper OLTP would eliminate the weird artifact that is overdraft and entirely sidestep the problem of unbanked people.
(in Australia) I had to have a tooth removed due to a botched root canal that led to an abcess in the bone. The oral surgeon gave me the option of local or general - I went for general, in case he really needed to poke around. He was clearly good at what he did - ripped out the tooth, cleaned out the abcess, and stitched me up without the need for so much as an aspirin afterwards. Only the vaguest sense of pain, and then only if I tried to find it.

Also interesting in this life event was that it was done by the same surgeon at a separate private hospital. It was covered by private medical insurance, but the hospital took a $500 contingency payment up-front. The next week for my follow-up, I asked if there were any unusual costs, because I hadn't got my 'contingency' money back. He (quietly) hit the roof that this was an unnecessary payment and I never should have paid in the first place. He told me that I should demand the money back. This was at 5:30pm. 9:02 the next day, as I'm gearing up to do phone battle, I get a call from the hospital's finance department asking where to send the refund - apparently in the intervening hours, this surgeon had torn the financial controller of the hospital a new one at the unethical behaviour. Colour me pleasantly surprised!
I run a 20-person fully distributed product / engineering team at Parse.ly, and this post is a great summary of why we do it. It's not about hating on offices, it's about loving on quality of life.

Work-life balance and harmony is enabled by remote work. I don't have kids, but many of my colleagues do, and they really appreciate the flexibility.

I don't think all roles can work perfectly remotely, but software engineering certainly can. Github (any day but today :)), Trello, Flowdock/Slack/IRC, AWS, GHangout, GDocs -- these are the tools you would use anyway in a good company. And you can trade the money spent on offices for plane tickets to do team retreats and hackathons from time to time.