skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would add to the article's list of reasons why minimum income is a good idea the very Roman purpose behind public aid: to prevent civil unrest.

And I'd second sama's mention of controlling cost of living. In addition to universally obvious importance of it, with minimum income there is the added possibility that prices for low end necessities could rise commensurate with the size of the minimum guaranteed income.

A third point I'd raise is to ask about medical costs which, unlike Finland or Canada, if this test is carried out in the US, would be a very significant factor. If the minimum income needs to cover this too then healthy, and generally the young may tend to have vastly more disposable income while an unexpected illness for anyone could far exceed anything the minimum income could hope to cover.
Definitely could, but they'd need to lay their own international cables -- PIPE Networks (owned by TPG) is the closest we've got to a market disruptor and they can only compete because they have their own undersea cables.

Given the low total population and very low population density it's probably not really worth it though.
From the site:

First we connect to GitHub to find out what the latest
revision for this repository is, so that we know what we
want to get. GitHub tells us it’s 5fbfea8de... Then we
go out to the GitTorrent network.

So yeah, wouldn't have saved you.
I'm sure they're aiming for the nostalgia factor. Their target market is probably people who grew up with Back to the Future and always wanted one of these cars but don't want to deal with finding and maintaining an old, old used one with no manufacturer support. That demographic is getting to an age and point in life where a decent number of them (small, but perhaps enough) can afford this sort of price. "Dated" is exactly what you want, here. Just the right kind of "dated."

I wouldn't buy one either. I'm in the right demographic, and nostalgic for them, but not that nostalgic. But I think enough of my fellows are that this will enjoy some success. It won't be a mass market item, but that's OK.
How fitting that they called it airplane mode. Looks like you might want to have that enabled when visiting that particular amusement park.
I have chronic headaches and my dentist mentioned that when mine were removed it might help. It didn't, but it was certainly something that they knew about.
I'm in the US. Had mine removed when I was 17 before they broke through the surface, I think. They offered general* and local anesthetic. I asked for general, but nobody told me you couldn't eat or drink anything in the 18 hours or so before the surgery, so they ended up using local. It was a pretty quick procedure.

* It might have been sedation they offered, not general anesthesia.
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I wonder how much of that revenue came from VC-backed startups that just want to acquire a user-base whatever the cost. Mobile app install costs $4+ for iPad and $2.5+ for iPhone. Even at a 100% install to launch rate and a 5% conversion rate, companies need to make $80 per paying users for the numbers to work. This just doesn't seem sustainable to me.
Are you familiar with conversion tracking? You can attribute conversion (checkout, sign-ups, etc) with clicking or viewing of FB ads. More details here: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/460491677335370
What I struggle to understand is why you would need need to 'sync' the DOM with your data?
If you're dealing with atomic values, you don't need to diff or 'sync' data. In Polymer, when you update data on the frontend,
it sends a CRUD update request to the server, the relevant field is then updated in the database, then a realtime notification is sent out to all frontends which
are subscribed to changes on that specific field.

Multiple fields might belong to the same 'object' but each field is atomic and can be updated independently of the whole object (without having to diff the entire object each time).
This is much more efficient on both the client and server because diffing is expensive and incurs a high latency and bandwidth overhead when you scale out.
Diffing is useful for collaborative editing of unstructured text documents, but it is not needed for structured (or even semi-structured) data.
The difference is that "series of tubes" is merely wrong/silly/awkward/clueless, whereas "emasculation" reinforces decades of toxic masculinity, which is a societal ill.
"Since then I have written a bunch of ray tracers in Pascal, Fortran, Scheme, C, C++, Java, and most recently Swift (which is awesome for writing ray tracers). "

What makes Swift so good for writing ray tracers?
Therein lies the social change though. Because fundamentally, most people go to work at 9 and leave at 5. Driverless cars don't alter this without other changes: you still need a car for every commuter to satisfy maximum demand (9am, 5pm).

You have to combine that with flexible work hours (honestly, no reason this isn't already a thing), carpooling, or hybrid transport with car+rail/bus to have any impact on car ownership.
It looks like they stopped updating the availability percentages on the status page? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> In the past it has beaten a 9p with a 4 stone handicap, which is impressive, but that handicap is huge and it hasn't yet won with 3 stones

4 stones is a huge handicap? 4 stones is a huge handicap if he was playing against a 6p maybe. But with 4 stones handicap anything near 2-4p would still have a hard time.
Thanks for the summary.

Obviously, given the near six billion dollars they made, they know what they're doing. But....

This doesn't fix anything currently making Facebook suck. It makes it noisier.

My solution would be a tagging system. People can add tags (that don't even need to be shown by default), and other friends' feeds can be filtered by the tags.

For instance: This is a baby pic? Tag it as baby. In my feed, I will never need to see another baby again.

Other people don't like politics or football. They can get tagged as such, and ignored by those who don't like those topics.

This would absolutely positively fix Facebook for me. They are smart enough to make it work. No more babies PLEASE!!!
> Source: I work at GitHub.

So, you're saying you broke it.

Everybody, over here, gang up on this guy.
What is your definition of "intelligence" in this scenario?
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Great idea. Actually slightly embarrassed I didn't suggest that since I was a PM on Google Search once upon a time.
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> what was particularly striking was... the highest polluting facilities were also more likely to be located in proximity to poor and minority neighborhoods.

This is what's "particularly striking"? There's only one substantial class of people who would knowingly live near extreme pollution: people who can't afford to move away. The most trivial of logic dictates that if anyone is living near extreme pollution, there's a substantial probability they're poor.

Now, that said, news about this new study saying that the problem is bad that quantifies the problem, tells us why it's worse than these EJ scholars suspected, or even just a reminder that this is bad and these peoples' lives should be improved, sure, go ahead... but the above statement of shock detracts from that, I should think.
That's not how it works. Happy consumers leads to happy enterprise users. They are one and the same.
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So, how do you interact with connected hardwares, then?
For example, the company I'm working on have a interal-only, web application that interact with smart card readers. This one of the cases where Java applet comes in handy...
Very interesting figures. Can you share the sources?
My wisdom teeth at the jaw were removed with a brief surgery and the anesthesia was local. I find it strange that in the US full anaesthesia is the default.

I see that many doctors do extra studies and interventions so that they can charge for it to the medical insurance. For example, every time I go to a new dentist (covered by the insurance) they always want to do a 'dental cleaning', as that is something extra they can charge, and the medical insurance always authorize it when they have a new patient.
It's really a national failure that this entire industry isn't shut down with ruthless force. Utter financial parasitism by people who don't give a damn about who is affected downstream.
> effecting all http://github.com services

Guess they're too busy working on the issue to notice the misuse of "effecting" instead of "affecting."
Likely the strong generics while still being terse and inbuilt functional methods on collection types. Also being able to add extensions to any class is super helpful.
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yeah. HVDC is pretty interesting. Lots of great applications.
1. I disagree. You can draw a lot from phone conversations and I've developed a great amount of trust in all the remote employees I work with on a daily basis. Certainly you should meet face to face at least 2-5 times per year (once per quarter seems like a great fit), but it's not a requirement to bond with co-workers.

2. I'm not sure you need informal video chat with co-workers. #random/#ideas channels seem to do just fine.

3. Couldn't disagree more. Working from home requires the same amount of discipline as a location-dictated workplace. The difference is that a remote job is much more enlightening because there's no burden of a commute. You also don't have to put on some fake act for a lousy boss that wants you in the office at a certain time.

4. Again, I completely disagree. It's only isolating if you let it be. Get outside for a hike or a walk. Go to a coffeeshop. Find some friends to grab lunch with. I shouldn't have to point these things out. It's pretty obvious that the only way you'd be isolated is if you deliberately lock yourself in the house and never go outside.

I've worked remotely for two years now and honestly I'd have an extremely difficult time going back to location-dictated employment.
I just downloaded and installed Firefox 44 today and it works great. Clear your cache?
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what do you mean there's no wiki page for it?
> I'd hypothesize that it will spawn another innovation in batteries and clean energy, because no overlord of a fleet of autonomous cars is going to want to pay the recurring cost of gasoline.

Furthermore, I can't see how value of car (regardless of who owns it) isn't in some way directly proportional to its utilization percentage. And a more heavily utilized car (because it's auto-navigating and picking up multiple passengers all day) is worth more. And a car that's worth more is a more financially feasible platform to install more expensive technology on.

Higher car utilization through shared ownership is going to alter a lot of the economics around what tech we can afford to put into vehicles.
Yes. That's true. I've found out about GraphQL lately, which seems to be with a real possibility for me to use since I have a python backend and Graphene will help with creating an api for GraphQL to consume.
I thought they existed because eons ago humans lost molars in young age, so there was room for those third molars when they came in? With modern dental care, if you keep all your teeth there isn't room for the third ones?
Apparently even airplane mode might not necessarily protect you (though I don't claim to know how this works in the internals of iOS):

> Furthermore while the IMSI is not transmitted often a silent SMS or a failed call will induce the phone to transmit its IMSI or TMSI also in and out of airplane mode while registering on the network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AIMSI-catcher
Their biggest tax payer is Disney, so they are flush with money.
The massive and rapid dissemination of knowledge the internet has provided will produce vast and unknowable changes over the next several generations. I believe it may be ultimately a considerably larger change than the industrial revolution. Knowledge changes everything.

(Of course then there's Facebook so maybe I'm being overly optimistic.
I had mine extracted years ago...my case was the latter--very difficult to clean, even for a trained dental hygienist...

The process was not at all pleasant...I refused general anesthetic, so had lidocaine and a couple of minutes of nitrous oxide...

By the time the dentist was finished we were both in a noticeable sweat...

I was put in mind of a cartoon I once saw of a dentist in the late 1800s with his foot up on the patient's chest, trying for all the leverage he could get...

I developed a "dry socket" (clot broke loose) and walked the floor all night, in intense pain, waiting to get an appointment the following morning...he simply packed the hole with a piece of gauze soaked in oil of cloves...the relief was immediate...

Since that experience I've kept a bottle of oil of cloves in my medicine chest...the stuff is magic, and sold over the counter....I've used it for minor toothaches over the years with great results (until I could see a dentist)...can't recommend it highly enough...
Economists define growth as increase in GDP -- either nationally or per capita. Gordon's premise is that this is nearing an end for the United States, if not over.

There are numerous ways you can respond to this.

1. You can look to alternative measures of growth. Ecologists and anthropologists use the principle of total energy throughput. Seems that's starting to trail off as well.

2. You can look at re-allocating the fruits of the economy. The popular name for this would be "re-distribution", if it were popular, though generally in the US it isn't. That speaks to one of many reasons growth is popular: it allows offering (or perhaps only promising) more pie, by growing the pie, rather than reducing the share given any one person or group. That's also presented problems of late.

3. You can advocate for "virtual growth". More arts, more movies, more music, more creative activities. We're entering a post-scarcity period of abundance. This poses problems of price-discovery given zero-marginal-cost goods, which gets you back to distribution of purchasing power, and of how high up Maslow's Pyramid you can base the foundations of your economy.

More to the point, change, for its own sake, isn't progress. Re-shaking a salt-and-pepper mix may change the distribution. It's unlikely to re-sort it.
Honest question: Is this nationwide? Or is this regional?
I had my wisdom teeth removed (in Canada) under local anesthesia. Two of them didn't strictly have to go and were pulled out in a couple minutes, the remaining two were impacted and pushing against the next molar. I can remember no pain during the procedure so lidocaine was quite sufficient.

I can see why general anesthetic might be desired, the amount of force required to break the tooth is downright disturbing. I remember wondering if the surgeon ever slips with that punch and that the sound of breaking teeth in the absence of any other feeling was eery.
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That's my vision and not only mine [3] - i've wrote about this [1]

Building the credit lines economy from the ground up on social networks based in trust.

Each user is assigns trust level to another users and sum of trust is calculated with decentralized algorithm [1]

[1] http://earlbarr.com/publications/trustdavis.pdf
[2] https://medium.com/@kacperwikiel/social-lending-alternative-...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTqgiF4HmgQ
[4] http://rachelbotsman.com/work/collaborative-finance-by-the-p...
[5] Landing page for this project: https://getline.in/p/landing

Edit: I am giving 10% of service revenue to users as a basic income prototype.

Edit 2: maximum depth reached.
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And it's back! https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/692534911593549825
Yep, but nobody ever includes them. Nice stuff to automate, gotta chek if there is already DevOpsy stuff to fix that, and if there isn't, got me a new weekend project...

It is obviously gonna be hosted on GitHub. Oh, the irony...
Now that GitHub is back up again, it looks like
a cron version of https://help.github.com/articles/duplicating-a-repository/ would get me some of the way there.
Hi Kyle!

It looks like webhooks are wedged.. no?
Abraham Maslow addressed the psychology of basic needs in the 1940's.

http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

The fear drive for basic needs is an innate motivational quality in humans that should not be artificially taken away.

Only upon overcoming the fear of basic needs can a human evolve and pursue more enriching needs.
Yes, tracking last-touch is easy. but last touch is far from the whole story, and once you move away from simply tracking last touch, it gets really complex.

Sure, the user saw the facebook ad or clicked on the facebook ad. But... does that just mean that facebook is good at showing ads to the sort of people who already buy those products?

(I know that when I'm running without ad-blocker, I already own most of the products that correctly-targeted ads try to advertise to me. My argument is that the ads are merely following my preferences, not driving those preferences.)
The article continues and covers solutions to that.
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I honestly haven't heard anything yet that makes me regret having mine removed under general anesthesia, except possibly a few of the horror stories about anesthesia in general (which mostly appear to apply to those older or in worse health at the time).
Increase prosperity by creating a K-12, open source homeschooling curriculum and application.
This looks great - thanks for posting.
Most of the app ads you see on Facebook are for games which is how they can justify spending $4+ (the big mobile game companies make billions in revenue).
The 6th five-year plan of the Soviet Union had as one of its central aims a wage reform to guarantee a minimum income and simultaneously reduce hours required to be worked. Khrushchev held reduced working hours as a basic goal of the communist movement, which is entirely aligned with the vision of Karl Marx: to each according to his needs, regardless of ability or work.

The notion that one's income ought to be guaranteed regardless of the value of one's work, or even of its existence, has its origins in the Marxist claim that people should get whatever they need regardless of personal, intellectual, or capital differences (couched under a general denunciation of private property and of non-labor theories of value).

European socialists have been advocating for Basic Income --aka "social dividends"-- since the 60s at least.
Elon Musk's dad was an engineer, and his mother was a model. Even if assuming he wasn't crazy wealthy, he was at least partially exposed to engineering, and brushed with educated people from an early age.

Not to mention, from Wikipedia "In 1995, Musk and his brother, Kimbal, started Zip2, a web software company, with US$28,000 of their father's (Errol Musk) money."

I adjusted for inflation, that was $44k in today's dollars - quite a substantial amount of money to be gifted from a parent. Plus in 1995 the very idea that the web not only existed but had investment potential was still limited to tech geeks.

So at a time when I literally spent 2 full years furiously arguing to my own dad about why he should simply allow me to hook up my modem using the household phone line, somewhere else in the world is Elon Musk - smart, exceedingly well educated, born in a year with a small generational cohort, along with his also ambitious brother - cashing a generous $28k check from his engineer dad to build, at the exact perfect time in history, a website business in a space that has been duplicated literally thousands of times since, and later sells it for $307 Million. How many people even have the opportunity to nail a combo like that?
GDP growth is "more money". Money is created when people borrow against land. Most borrowing is against land. The boomers+ have stopped borrowing because they are going to die soon. Ergo end of "growth".

GDP is a very bad thing. Also 10% of GDP is "imputed rent" - the rent you would pay to yourself for your home if you were to rent it out. Ten percent. Yet again all tied into land lending/prices.
23 & Me's tests worked, though. And it's possible for a reasonable person to believe that the regulations they violated are BS. Their actions were arguably no more inherently immoral than Uber's "disruption" of the taxi incumbents and their captive regulators.

This isn't the same thing at all.
Last year a machine beat the best humans in Arimaa. Until this announcement, shogi was about as close as go, iirc.
Ultimately the fact we neex to talk about this issue is a sign of just how much progress we've made. We're on the cusp either of ww3 and or technofacism or a new age where most people spend their time in the arts or pure sciences all those "dont quit your day job" dreams have a chance oglf coming true.
We're all rooting for GNU Guix. For me, at least, this is the project of 2016 to watch, get involved with and support. I grabbed early versions and I couldn't be happier :-)
Employers who require trained workers should bear the responsibility for training them (and control the process of doing so).

On the other hand the public has an interest in liberally educated neighbors and voters.
That's not true, because Ke Jie would not have played the dame points if Japanese scoring would be used.
I would expect this to be the tip of the iceberg in regards to serious genetic hacking.

Modify your own genome and wait for your body to heal itself? ... Sounds kind of risky and frightening!

Have your heart or liver transplant source one that's 5/10/15% "better" (in function, endurance, etc)? Well, you already needed a new one...
Your last bit seems to be key. Self-driving cars will make public transportation more attractive by filling the "last-mile" role, letting governments invest in better service along core transit lines.

Wake up, do your morning routine, walk out the door, and there's a car waiting to chauffeur you to the subway station (or long-distance bus service)... preset with your favorite seat position, climate, and music.

Flex hours would help drive down costs by reducing idle capacity between 9 and 5 though.

> carpooling
Self-driving vanpools with just-in-time routing FTW.
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