skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oswald's research was published on 2004. Andrew Oswald is a British economist who earnestly tried to study happiness with statistics, and government data. The study tries to corollate government data, excludes detailed information on black wages, and tries to draw conclusions based an statistics, and questionable government data.

What jumped out of the paper(around page 25) was that Europeans have been just Happy! Why are first 12 members of the EU Happy over time? I'll let you speculate.

Now to entitled--usually white upper class men--who have been telling the poor what to do since biblical times. Dummy up!
I've had seen too many people die early because they became homeless.

I think what most of these researchers fail to comprehend is the difference between poor, and poor with no safety net. No parents. No friends couch to crash on. Just the inviting, wet thicket of Scotch Broom to crawl into, and being woken by gently nudge of a police officers' latest extension of their authoritarian arm. Real poverty is homelessness. It's ugly. I don't know why we are even debating someting, like a minimum income, at this point in time. I have seen friends die way too early because of their homeless stints. It seems by the time they get a little help, it's too late. They just die early?

I'm not going to list off my gripes about making a living in this enviorment, but a lot of us tech workers are very succeptable to being homeless. At least half the guys I know without roofs over their heads were former Programmers. At one time they we happy, and young, banging away with Fortran.

(Willie Brown is actually the first one I heard, wondering out loud, exactly what we are going to do with all the future homeless tech workers.

They now sit in coffee shops fiddling with our discarded toys.

Basic income at this point--yes. I actually think if some of these poor people were given a little bit of help, they might just start business, and who know where it will end. There's only one benefit from being poor; some of you see the world a different way.

We have never had a basic income in the United States. Let's give it a shot? I look around at what's happening in the United States, and I don't like the trend. It was better in the past.

(Yea, what if it gets worse. Go back to this wonderful system of privileged elitism. I won't be back, so any comments--I will miss out on. Oh, yea as to sitting idle--the subsided poor I know, are busy. See the world is funny place. Even if you get the couch in the subsidized house, you are expected to do/fix all sorts of things, including being a amature psychiatrist. The poor always pay in some way. Think about it. Did you really ever get a completely free lunch, outside of maybe grade school, or when you were young and pretty. Pretty is gender neutral.)
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This is a great boost for LibrePlanet and an excellent opportunity for GNU hackers from a variety of perspectives on the personal privacy issue to engage in a serious and hopefully society-changing dialog.
Why IT Fumbles Analytics Projects
"Don't ask for help and don't help other people"
I think the author is confusing being a better programmer with being a more politically successfully programmer in a shitty organisation.
"One of the last games".

I submit - League of Legends, any team video game.
In an Ivory tower, sure. This is the argument used to support the status quo - because any change is not 'perfect' why bother?
Can you explain why "price creep" will not occur, i.e., universities increasing their prices with small amounts (say $10 a year), so that eventually, all of them will end up at (X+Y)$ ?
The same entity should not be responsible for both education and certification/credentialing. It creates a serious conflict-of-interest, and a better system would be to separate the entities that grant degrees from entities that sell education. This is especially important if the purchaser of the education is a third-party like a government or a bank, and not the actual student. (i.e., when the education is "free")
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Originally the 10x moniker was like that. However, like many things, it's been twisted from it's original form.
Doesn't this mean the person selling natural resources to you get shafted?
All of this raises the question: why does the new default state require action, while the non-default state requires none?

Is that more or less bass-ackwards?
Thanks so much! In fact, statements like this from our customers were our very best asset in fundraising. We literally would not have been successful without you.

The partners at Scale told us this was one of the most important factors in their decision; they told us they almost never see the same kind of customer passion from other Enterprise SaaS products.

100% hear you on HackerRank integration. We've rolled out a number of integrations on the sourcing side of things the past few months, and we are so excited to grow our coverage to every single tool that our customers use alongside Lever. We have a great relationship with the team at HackerRank, so I am looking forward to it as well. :-)
In the same way that PG described wealth inequality at the top, there are also a number of reasons people aren't prosperous. Certainly poverty can be a roadblock to someone who would otherwise be prosperous, but we are fooling ourselves if we believe that is the case for all. There are starving artists, but there are also people who will just do the minimum required at any point. In my opinion there are two problems here.

1. How to maximize the number of prosperous people.

2. Ensure that those who will never be prosperous still aren't going to starve.

Incentives clearly matter in human behavior. Which is why I believe a negative income tax would be a better system than BI. Choose a livable stipend with free time or the alternative is digging ditches for very little difference in pay? I know what my choice would be. Conversely taking a low paying or part time job to supplement a negative income tax could eventually turn into a few years of experience on a resume to take the next step up.
People occasionally ask me about signs that the remaining timeline might be short. It's very easy for nonprofessionals to take too much alarm too easily. Deep Blue beating Kasparov at chess was not such a sign. Robotic cars are not such a sign.

This is.

"Here we introduce a new approach to computer Go that uses ‘value networks’ to evaluate board positions and ‘policy networks’ to select moves... Without any lookahead search, the neural networks play Go at the level of state-of-the-art Monte Carlo tree search programs that simulate thousands of random games of self-play. We also introduce a new search algorithm that combines Monte Carlo simulation with value and policy networks. Using this search algorithm, our program AlphaGo achieved a 99.8% winning rate against other Go programs, and defeated the human European Go champion by 5 games to 0."

This matches something I've previously named in private conversation as a warning sign - sharply above-trend performance at Go from a neural algorithm. What this indicates is not that deep learning in particular is going to be the Game Over algorithm. Rather, the background variables are looking more like "Human neural intelligence is not that complicated and current algorithms are touching on keystone, foundational aspects of it." What's alarming is not this particular breakthrough, but what it implies about the general background settings of the computational universe.

Go is a game that is very computationally difficult for traditional chess-style techniques. Human masters learn to play Go very intuitively, because the human cortical algorithm turns out to generalize well. If deep learning can do something similar, plus (a previous real sign) have a single network architecture learn to play loads of different old computer games, that may indicate we're starting to get into the range of "neural algorithms that generalize well, the way that the human cortical algorithm generalizes well".

A number of commenters are talking about how the human professional beat was well below the world champion. This is entirely missing the point. Beating the best human is an entirely arbitrary threshold, which is why Deep Blue vs. Kasparov wasn't a great sign per se. There's probably nothing computationally distinguished about the very best human versus a very good human - the world champion isn't using a basically different algorithm. What matters is the discontinuous jump, how it was done, and the absolute level of human-style competence achieved.

This result also supports that "Everything always stays on a smooth exponential trend, you don't get discontinuous competence boosts from new algorithmic insights" is false even for the non-recursive case, but that was already obvious from my perspective. Evidence that's more easily interpreted by a wider set of eyes is always helpful, I guess.

I hope that everyone in 2010 who tried to eyeball the AI alignment problem, and concluded with their own eyeballs that we had until 2050 to start really worrying about it, enjoyed their use of whatever resources they decided not to devote to the problem at that time.
There are some forms of work that are useful to society and rewarding, which don't pay enough to live on - volunteering in a hospice or school for example.

In this case the person doing the work might both derive self-worth and view the basic income as being 'earned' .. and hence value it as much as a traditional salary [ and not 'waste' it ].

I think basic income could fill a lot of little niches where the market economy is not perfectly efficient in allocating money to value - some of these are being explored thru approaches like Patreon and IndieGoGo and freelancer sites.. but maybe Basic Income is an even better way to reach more of these niches ?
I've just wired you the amount needed to buy an SSL certificate from any of multiple reputable and well-priced providers. You can use the money I sent you to buy a cert from https://letsencrypt.org/ , https://www.startssl.com/Support?v=1 , or https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/ .

If those options aren't enough for you, let me know why and also how to non-vacuously send you money, and I'm happy to buy you a $4.99/year certificate from https://www.ssls.com/ssl-certificates/comodo-positivessl .
That's a non sequitur.
They are a platinum sponsor of Letsencrypt, so...done?
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Having worked for many Norwegian startups, I can tell you that is the norm. You always open an office in the US. That is where the bulk of your sales will be. The US is like 200 times bigger than a Nordic country, so the home market will always be small for any Nordic country. You got to think exports right away.

Usually there will be a large sales organization in the US, and often later there might be R&D there as well since that offers access to particular talent etc. But I actually find that quite a lot of American seem willing to move to Norway to work, so it is not always needed.

I guess many nordic companies might look American to outsiders because a lot of nordics have gone to business schools in the US, lived or worked there for a few years before etc. When people here are used to other business cultures I think it is usually American business culture they are used to.
Try selling around the time college students are starting the year for a price comparable to eBay completed listings.

In my experience, base models hold a higher percentage in resale than customized or upgraded machines.
Appeal to authority is worse than actually trying to figure out a problem from first principles, especially in the field of physics.
"The top-voted comment as I write this frames someone who recommends WordPress as a solid engineer. Enough said."

What's this mean? The top-voted comment describes a scenario in which WordPress does meet the business needs, and yet two others decide to go and write from-scratch code. Whereas the other one has time to actually solve the problems the business has.

If you're trying to be a WordPress snob, then you're missing the point entirely.
And I take issue with the idea that taxes are theft. Without society, you'd be a subsistence farmer. Any income you earn above that of a subsistence farmer is enabled by society.
Yes. I'll also add the 4-year education is incredibly inefficient, in terms of skills added over time. Even in highly technical STEM degrees, you probably don't need 4 years "full time" to gain all of the skills an employer expects a fresh-out-of-school STEM graduate to have. The same is even more true of less technical degrees.
You'll then get an extremely inefficient black market for payment vouchers (Or the goods you can get from them.)

See: Food stamps.
Several weeks ago I have installed certificate to my web site on NGINX and it wasn't hard. It was fun to do. Also I got A+ from Qualys SSL Labs. What I mean is it is easy to deploy an HTTPS site.
I think you're going after just meat when you should be going after all manufactured foods. Meat prices are kept low in part by the same sort of subsidies that keep poptarts, fruit rollups, and white bread cheap. Force meat to be an expensive product, let the animals live on large tracts of land, eating naturally with minimal assistance, and deal with the occasional predation or with the additional effort to protect your animals from predation.

Taxing meat as we have now hurts the consumers and lets the manufacturers continue with wasteful, unethical, and harmful practices.
There are thousands of us. Check out /r/fountainpens.

There's even an IRC channel listed in the sidebar. There are 25 of us online right now, and have been as many as 120 or so in the past. Fountain pens are more popular among IRC users than supervisord, based on channel participation :)
DHS admin in Europe: Ban internet anonymity
NN != Statistical machine learning
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The following anecdote may not really be applicable to children, but you might find it interesting anyway. I went through a period of getting an ear infection, being prescribed antibiotics, having it clear up, but then having it recur sometime later. After quite a few goes round this loop I decided to just take painkillers (ibuprofen was very effective for me) and wait it out, and the infections stopped coming back.
Sure but Basic Income is about something else, something bigger.
It's about solving the fact that everyone is going to be out of a job.
If you only go to it by thinking you have to find a solution to the current workforce and income distribution problem then you are missing the real problem.
Denmark pays a lot in taxes, free healthcare, free education (even university), students get paid to study, redistribute wealth quite a lot and so on.

Problem is still there. The rich get richer compared to the poor while everyone is getting richer overall.
For the last few years, effectively zero.

https://istlsfastyet.com/

https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/ssl-performance-myth/

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.h...

Not to mention that if you use CloudFlare just to get a free SSL certificate out of them, you're also getting a CDN, so the performance overhead is negative.
> What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone?

I think it might be best to create a different thread since this is a separate and important question than the "Basic Income" debate that is also interesting and happening in the same comments. Either way, here are my thoughts:

You can take that question a few of different ways. What can all startups do within their current processes/products? What is a startup idea that will increase prosperity for everyone? What can startups do in addition to their current product to help prosperity for everyone?

I'm also taking the view that raising the prosperity for the lowest individuals will in turn increase the prosperity for everyone else. I think having productive people in our society who do not need to worry about the basic needs will increase the success of our society. If you don't agree with me on that, then everything below is probably not what you are looking for.

I think that setting aside funding regularly to donate to non-affiliated non-profits would be a great start. Most startups don't have the capacity (or desire) to reinvent themselves as charitable organizations. Creating a curated list of non-profits across different factors that contribute to prosperity (education, housing, jobs) and encouraging companies to commit to donating would help. I taught a relationship skills class with my wife for people on public assistance for the past 5 years until our federal grant ended last fall. I honestly believe helping those couples be in a better relationship helps them be better parents which gives the kids a greater chance to succeed. However, when the grant ended we had to close up shop and shut down the whole organization. Funding for these types of programs is so hard to come by that adding anything to the pool would be a great first step.

As far as what sort of startups can be developed to help increase prosperity I think you can segment it again into two views: The long view or the short view. The long view is done by helping ensure the future generation's increased prosperity. Things like increased quality of education and training, family life, and access to technology.

The short view ones are things that would improve access to a basic level of housing, food, healthcare and education. Worrying about those things (and probably more) are going to make it harder for people to be successful. It isn't impossible, just more difficult. I think that gathering and analyzing data would be a great start for a startup. There is a ton of information out there. The grant I mentioned above collected surveys from thousands of couples nationwide over a period of years. I'm sure there are grants funding programs that are delivering information on all types of topics. Utilizing that information to help prioritize what is effective or whatever you can glean from it would be an interesting startup. Using that information to develop a wishlist of product ideas to fund would be interesting for a VC.

(This isn't my best writing/thinking. It is just sort of a brain dump to hopefully fuel some comments by someone.)
Used React, and they have a compelling case with graphQL
Also there's a significant problem of infrastructural efficiency. There's research indicating that city infrastructure follows a 3/4ths-power distribution, where doubling the population only increases the need for infrastructure by 68% [1]. The more generalizable format of this is Kleiber's Law [2], which notes that animal metabolisms scale along that same distribution by body mass. The implication is that cities like Detroit that are rapidly contracting in population and per-capita income are getting a double-wammy of decreasing tax revenues and increasing per-capita infrastructure costs.

[1] http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/math-and-the...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiber%27s_law
They are going in straight lines in relation to the other particles in the object. Then the force of one particle exerts on another particle as they get closer or further from each other, causing them to change direction. This happens for innumerable numbers of particles, appearing like a singular object that is spinning, since the forces are too great to pull the object apart. If you spin it fast enough, the particles will overcome the atomic forces holding it together, and the object will break apart, with the individual pieces continuing to move in a straight line.
Individual income and property tax specifically. There are other ways gov can raise money. Gov has the printing press (although I want to let people decide what money is and what to trade in). Gov supported by charity is usually presented as an absurdity, like nobody would earmark donations for the DOD, I don't think that's the case.

Agreed that people just dont care enough, I think a part of that is the constantly re-enforced state of fear which promotes the protection racket.
Wow. I still use VMWare Workstation all the time. I guess it's time to switch to VirtualBox and Windows 10 for my occasional MS Office needs.

If this isn't a sign of the decline of enterprise desktop software, nothing is!
Most shared hosting accounts charge extra for a dedicated IP address, both for setup and on a monthly basis. Don't underestimate how many blogs, churches, small businesses, etc still use services like that.

To be fair, many of those sites probably ARE insecure, but it seems to be a little bit overkill to "shame" them for not implementing encryption.
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The Wright brothers' achievement is a poor analogy. At the time, other inventors had been gradually inching toward powered, controlled flight for decades. All the serious players in the field knew that it was possible in principle and there were numerous predictions that someone would do it soon. The Wright brothers success was due to several incremental improvements in engine power and aerodynamics achieved through rigorous research and diligent engineering over years. They didn't have a single, brilliant insight.

With general unsupervised learning we can't even clearly describe the goal we're trying to reach or define it in objective terms.
Startups already increase global prosperity enormously by targeting massive markets with scalable solutions. Ultimately, the way you make money as a startup is by offering value to your customers, i.e. increasing their wealth.

Some examples of this include: Uber/Lyft, decreasing transportation costs and improving quality for millions, while creating tens of thousands of jobs; Airbnb, same thing for hotels; social apps like Twitter, Instagram, etc, increasing entertainment/information flow to users, creating new media careers; etc. So startups don't need to operate any differently than they do now ... Think big and make big moniez!

One thing that definitely does not work are "social enterprise" startups. Distraction from the brutal realities of market forces ultimately leads these to fail while patting themselves on the back for doing "good."

In the spirit of the question though I'll list a few areas I think have enormous potential.

Money services and lending - very difficult to innovate here due to the iron fist of Uncle Sam and banking cartels. I think what's needed is either, 1) US-caliber teams operating outside the US or 2) products that skirt the law a la Uber/Airbnb but like those products are so positive with users that going against them becomes a risk for politicians.

Health - outsourcing/telepresence, reducing the cost of basic testing. Again may need to operate outside the US.

Legal - enormous value to be unlocked by standardizing and automating this field a la Clerky but better. Difficult to get lawyers on board, they are very good at extracting rents.

Real estate - breaking regulatory capture of Realtors.

End of life services - we're all in this market. It's not sexy so not much innovation.

Education - it's so backwards that you can innovate in any dimension.

Investment - despite nominal progress on things like crowdfunding, there really hasn't been a big impact yet by startups in increasing access to capital / opportunities to invest. It's still far too difficult to raise money for new businesses. Again, may have to operate outside of the US for this and consider innovative legal structures.

Science - breaking the University stranglehold on credible scientific research through crowdsourced/funded efforts. Enormous potential to cheaply fund studies especially those that go against orthodoxy or corporate interests. Again may need to be outside US.