skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed BI would save on admin costs for benefits. But it's not going to solve the greater problem of economic rent extraction through land.

If we have more money they will take it off us via land. Saving on job centre costs makes us more efficient. Efficiency flows to the rentier. You'll be right back where you started with BI. Up BI and they'll up rent. And again.

In your example once you have your revitalisation and all the people pay taxes to build more roads and hospitals guess who's waiting for you with a big hat to shovel all the gains in? The land speculator. Up go the rents, up to the level where people have enough to live but no more. And back to square one.

Surely they deserve the gains, after all they are investing their hard won money? No! Fiat money takes no resources to create and the bankers will have your shirt. Private banks create money from nothing and "lend" it out if you promise to give them a cut of your labour as "interest" for 30 years.

Bank of England official blog:

http://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/06/30/banks-are-not-interm...
Anyone feel like these type of visualizations will be much more common in the future as we try to better understand software processes? It's really such a great way to demystify or reveal certain patterns in various algorithms..

Great work OP.
I don't know about government regulation in general, but what happened in this country from Reagan on was the extensive New Deal regulations of the financial industry were taken down, piece by piece.
The uncontrollable number of masterkeys.
HTTPS assures the integrity of the data transferred is from the origin domain, so it prevents your ISP from injecting additional ads into tour site, which some ISPs like to do [1].

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/why-comcasts-java...
If you were stuck like me looking up an OSS github project, http://archive.org/web/ has github pages.
Here’s what a stingray is in this context:

”Stingrays and Dirtboxes are mobile surveillance systems that impersonate a legitimate cell phone tower in order to trick mobile phones and other mobile devices in their vicinity into connecting to them and revealing their unique ID and location.“
I agree with most of the points, but to be honest the list is not for "everyone".

For example: University education changes don't help most people over 30 at the moment. (some indirectly because of children / family) Similar restricted set for child care. (provided someone has a need for childcare because they're employed) Both won't help people who were already affected by current system and are post that phase.

I don't mean these are bad ideas, but it's a list of specific issues in a comment about basic income which actually supposed to help everyone. People had decades to provide solutions to those specific issues - why are they relevant now?
Do you have further evidence/elaboration about this point?
The title should have been "Some molecules, which happen to be antioxidants, may cause cancer".

In no way does the research suggest that the antioxidant characteristics of the molecules are what is causing the cancer.
Are you saying that once you break something, you should break your monitoring as well, but do it very quickly since it may be too late? :)
Indeed, if you need it done, the older you are the harder it becomes as they grow and dig-in and fuck up their neighbors.

In my case I desperately needed it (8 wisdom teeth), but no one was around to tell me as a teenager. So there I am a few decades later with power tools in my mouth for hours, dental assistant was about to faint...
Somewhere on my todo is "wire pager to cell phone", I think this would work by having a Asterisk system take the incoming call, send the (nationwide) page, pager is wired to phone, phone displays page as if it's an incoming call (while caller hears ringing), if callee decides to answer the GSM circuits get power and the phone calls the Asterisk box which patches the two together. If someone beats me to it, I'll buy one. Putting a RTL-SDR into the phone would take care of the pager circuit and make other neat things possible.
Exactly.

So I had to install Gems from RubyGems, not that big of a deal, and I had to look them up on RubyGems since Google gives me GitHub first, but that's OK too, but then all the documentation seems to be on.... Github. Except not, it's also on RDoc. (Though RDoc kinda sucks, compared to GitHub...)

Pretty big win imho, Rails got a few more points with that. :D

Now I'm wondering how NodeJS is faring at this...
I didn't know it could be enabled in chrome. Tried enabling it in vivaldi(as its chromium based) but now it crashes on launch.

I also use "too many tabs" add on so that the page content can be read later once added to too many tabs. To save page content I use different archive formats available upon installing "Mozilla Archive Format" Firefox add-on
We had networking issues on Rackspace earlier today...
Huh? No, it isn't.
http://git.oschina.net/ is a good choice and it's private repo is also free.
Shuttle disaster: 'I could have been on board Challenger'
Yeah, our time to shine has finally come!

We use Bitbucket in our ~30 member academic robotics research lab, it's wonderful because they are nice enough to supply us with as much as we need (private repos, teams, etc.) for free!
Wow... really... I just tried as well (even in IE) and same thing.

Why have buttons then? to fall back in case my browser (Which one?) doesn't do autocomplete?

Or maybe there is a setting to turn it off?

Edit: Well duh... you need to turn off autocomplete of course... try it and "I'm feeling lucky" still works and indeed it takes you back to google.com
I had to have mine removed at 17 for orthodontic purposes. I used to pride myself on never having headaches like my peers, but after having my wisdom teeth removed I've been having headaches every few weeks for the last decade. Have no clue what happened but I'm assuming that the contact released tension in my jaw, after removal my teeth no longer have any contact in the relaxed state.
This is reminding me of last year's major Facebook outage. If I recall correctly, that outage was a bug in service discovery that took down all data centers (a CLI accepted a negative value when the Zookeeper variant treated it as an unsigned int , then all service discovery went down). I feel like service discovery is the biggest point of failure at large companies, and it would explain why services across so many different domains and systems went down.
I would have agreed with you 5+ years ago. But Dell, after privatization, has really lifted its game. Compared to HP, Lenovo & UCS are better quality & their customer support is leaps & bounds ahead.
I believe that is the solution to the problem and I'm not sure why others don't see it.

Stop taxing labor. It's counterproductive. Tax what really does belong to everyone... the land and raw materials.

This approach (in addition to more morally just in my estimation) would have the added benefit of built in environmentalism. There would be a financial incentive to do more with less, to conserve and to recycle.
Yes, Papua New Guinea is part of the Australian continent. East Timor and parts of Indonesia are as well depending on who you ask.
Australia's a bit bigger, but with similar forward-looking banking systems.

I was floored when I had to sign my name (on a brand new touchscreen) in the US but EMV wasn't deployed.

Contactless payments were brand new too (I couldn't use Android pay at that point), but we'd had "tap and pay" in Australia for two years at least. In Canada, someone took a carbon copy imprint of my card. An imprint, in 2015!

I can't find the exact dates, but EMV has been in Australia for at least a decade, signatures were "deprecated" at the end of 2014 and cheques are pretty much gone now.

https://www.commbank.com.au/about-us/news/media-releases/200... says that NFC payments started in 2006, but they took a few years to really take off. Last year I could finally use my Android phone to pay pretty much everywhere (and it's more secure than an NFC credit card, because I need to unlock my phone and enter a PIN to make a payment)

Also, what's the deal with interbank money transfers in the US? All I need to send money to someone in Australia is the BSB (Bank-State-Branch) and an account number. It takes about 2 days for the payment to clear.
I remember when my wisdom teeth started causing me problems in my early 20s.

The lower ones caused some kind of infection that wasn't treatable and my gums started leaking a terrible puss that was pretty disgusting to be frank about it. Perhaps it would have all sorted itself out in a few months. But throwing up 4 or 5 times a day was making it hard to get nutrients so I went in, got knocked out, and them hacked out of my head.

The were so impacted the dentist had to break part of my jaw and I was unable to open my mouth for about 8 weeks while it healed and it was months before I could fully open my mouth again.

But guess what? No puss, no more barfing and I haven't had any problems since. So I think that was probably the right choice and if I had to do it over again I would have had them carved out of my skull 5 years earlier before they had become a painful and disgusting problem.
Anaheim city pop is ~350k. OC pop is ~3 million.
Boxful
That would mean a positive feedback loop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback_loop

(Positive in this sense has a similar meaning in behavioral psychology's terminology for operant conditioning, adding punishment.. which both come off as odd with our common use of positive as good and beneficial :/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning)

...Carrying on with your analysis, since uninterrupted positive feedback loops result in explosion, I guess that would mean either (for this outage) github's fallback status page would go down or the parts of the network carrying that traffic, which could not handle their increased load, would go down.

Probably better we would rework these control mechanisms and reroute \ rewire \ entirely change these processes.
I think he meant that the commit should work fine, but the push would fail.
Yeah I thought the same thing.

However this has the founder of Aereo pushing it who made a pretty successful implementation using that technology which had to overcome some of the same issues: Access, visibility, and interference.

Also comcast with other ISP-Content providers also helped in shutting down his company, so he might have some bridges to burn to bring ISP down.
Maybe the trick is to view college not as a service you must buy, but as a service you must perform. An educated populace is a productive one. Maybe we should pay people a living wage to go to college. I can think of far worse ways to spend taxpayer money.
> I do have the app. And that fact makes this double-annoying.

It really just shows the sad state of mobile advertising when they're showing you ads for an app you already have.
I was starting to write something similar, but realized I was really just projecting. You may be out of touch.

>I've observed a similar thing in areas like film: most of today's films are reboots, rehashes, and remakes or at least are exploring themes and plot templates already laid down. Musical innovation lasted longer but seems to have effectively stagnated since the late 1990s. I haven't heard anything in a long time that doesn't just riff on something pioneered before the year 2000.

There's a lot of wonderful modern stories being told, with new perspectives all the time in film. "Popular" movies have always played to the lowest common denominator.

What you probably missed around the year 2000 was the rise of electronic music. There is an explosion of creativity and new sounds coming out all the time. Again, "popular" music is frequently lowest common denominator.

The field of neuroscience and psychology has come a HUGE way since the 1970s. Remember when people were just "crazy"? Untreatable?

You might not see these things from your vantage point. As you grow older things start to look more and more the same - while it can be true that there are a lot of similarities, know that cognatively it'll be more difficult for you to actually pick out the "new" stuff.

Honest opinion - stop watching the news and hearing professional opinion sellers. There's not as much advertising revenue from telling you that things are doing just fine.
Distilled, the article basically offer the contention that:

>.... it “could be that while antioxidants might prevent DNA damage—and thus impede tumor initiation—once a tumor is established, antioxidants might facilitate the malignant behavior of cancer cells..."<

Then immediately says this:

>The medical advice for people at this point is tentative. More studies need to be done to bolster this hypothesis and understand exactly how antioxidants affect cancer cells in humans. <

My takeaway is this:

Antioxidants may help prevent the sorts of DNA damage that contribute to cancers forming...
Antioxidants may contribute to the health of cancer cells, once formed, in much the same way...but that's not certain yet, even though it certainly seems plausible...

In actual practice--everyday life--we have no idea at any given time whether we have active cancer cells growing in our body, or not...symptoms are what lead us to suspect that such is the case and seek medical advice...with certain types of cancer symptoms can take months, years, to appear...if the contention is true it's possible that people are going out of their way (with supplements), or being obsessive (with diet), all the while unknowingly contributing to their undoing...

I think I'll just keep eating a healthy blend of foods, avoid all supplements unless they've been prescribed because a diagnosed deficiency, and get plenty of exercise...
Unfortunately, iff you do have a problem though, it gets worse the longer you wait.
Simple explanation of UTF-8
What about Instagram / Whatsapp? Both potentially huge revenue drivers. Whatsapp is particularly popular in emerging markets.
Those capsule hotels aren't meant for long-term occupancy. Such extreme confinement may be a dream for you but I think most people would consider it torture.

Nevertheless, I do think it's worth trying as temporary housing. I certainly might be willing to drop into one for a night or two if I had a job interview somewhere.
More info for anyone else who hasn't heard of Stingrays:

> The StingRay is an IMSI-catcher (International Mobile Subscriber Identity), a controversial cellular phone surveillance device, manufactured by Harris Corporation.[2] Initially developed for the military and intelligence community, ....

> Active mode operations

1. Extracting stored data such as International Mobile Subscriber Identity ("IMSI") numbers and Electronic Serial Number ("ESN"),[9]
2. Writing cellular protocol metadata to internal storage
3. Forcing an increase in signal transmission power,[10]
4. Forcing an abundance of radio signals to be transmitted
5. Interception of communications content
6. Tracking and locating the cellular device user,[4]
7. Conducting a denial of service attack
8. Encryption key extraction.[11]
9. radio jamming for either general denial of service purposes[12] or to aid in active mode protocol rollback attacks

> Active (cell site simulator) capabilities

> In active mode, the StingRay will force each compatible cellular device in a given area to disconnect from its service provider cell site (e.g., operated by Verizon, AT&T, etc.) and establish a new connection with the StingRay.[13] In most cases, this is accomplished by having the StingRay broadcast a pilot signal that is either stronger than, or made to appear stronger than, the pilot signals being broadcast by legitimate cell sites operating in the area.[14] A common function of all cellular communications protocols is to have the cellular device connect to the cell site offering the strongest signal. StingRays exploit this function as a means to force temporary connections with cellular devices within a limited area.

So does that mean it would show up as a different carrier on my iPhone, or I'd be blind to the tower choice?

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
They...attend school? Which is a good thing?
I thought they were embracing socialism because their parents after supporting them as adults for six to eight years (or longer) are starting to tire of it; and the government looks like the next best place to look for free handouts.

This is what happens when you have a generation where everybody gets an award.
I didn't say it was solved, but they are very close. IPFS is essentially a global p2p git repo, with a cryptographically controlled branch namespace.
Is there any place to sell databases/data?
Don't even know how to start after the title. But ok, i'm working with data for year, primarily collecting structured data from different kind of websites (from e-commerce, finance, to business directoriess and twitter). But is there websites where i can try to sell this data to people who might need it?
Whoo hoo! I agree!
Local bandwidth in Australia is generally more expensive than Europe or USA because we have a huge area to cover and a relatively low population. Also because of this the infrastructure that does exist is held by a handful of companies who can pretty much dictate the price.

International bandwidth is hugely expensive in Australia, everything goes by expensive undersea cables. While both the US and Europe have bordering countries where most of traffic is likely to go. Also similarly with local infrastructure, it's all owned by just a handful of companies who can strong arm providers.

Also in reference to your original question, it sounds like the VPS provider your using doesn't separate local vs. international traffic, so they're probably assuming most of it will be international and are charging on the higher end of the scale.

I think BinaryLane charges a bit less at around $1 per 10GB. There's probably cheaper providers out there but YMMV.
I came across a guy a few months ago who generates a six figure income for himself via click fraud, though apparently via Google's platform.

I think their is a certain amount of Black Market SEO Google/Facebook/Whoever will write off as an acceptable loss because the technology just isn't their to stop it (or at least the financial incentive is not there).

Basic heuristics however seem to be able to keep the big offenders in check, and that's all that really matters it seems.
You buy likes and then are surprised that they come from totally fake people?
I finally took the time to read how unicode code points are represented in UTF-8. Wish I did this before. It explains how you can represent 2^21 ~ 2.1 million code points in 4 bytes, what happened to the other (4*8-21=11) bits, and probably why the "char" type in Rust is 4 bytes instead of 1. Enjoy.
One of the reasons a country has feminine gender is the association with the motherland (ie. one's native country).
Off topic. But can I just say I love that email domain :)
When it comes to biotech companies working in clinical diagnostics, lacking the proper credentials is way WORSE than 'none of these tests work.' Most diagnostics companies self regulate by hiring an FDA certified lab managers and technicians who share responsibility for making sure that the marketed product, in this case blood tests, is properly carried out and that it is comparable to the gold standard (usually much more expensive tests with known performance and false negative/positive rates). The FDA set it up this way because otherwise regulating all of the labs and their output like pharmaceuticals would be insanely more expensive and wildly impractical.

A company like Theranos selling blood tests without properly certified staff is the equivalent of Genentech or Pfizer marketing and selling snake oil disguised as cancer medication. It's the equivalent of selling something without having ever tested it to begin with.
Really fantastic post and work. Love it.
If theres one country in the world that needs to embrace remote work its Australia.

We seriously need to move away from tech companies only setting up base in Sydney and Melbourne and in turn, killing other cities and making us all live in ridiculously overpriced apartments so we don't have to commute for hours per day.

I would love to live in a more rural area one day but this is just never going to happen while I work in tech.
Seems silly, since it's the most appropriate thing for lots of posts that don't fit into the other categories, like "Just got promoted", "I won $500 at the casino today", "My son just got first place at pinewood derby", "Just finished the last chapter for Winds of Winter it's going to the editors now", etc.
Yep. Makes me wonder...

I'm overweight and asthmatic....and had frequent ear infections as a toddler.
What colordrops wrote at least suggest that he thinks that circular motion and angular momentum are not fundamental but can be expressed or understood in terms of linear motion and linear momentum. As far as I can tell today this is not true, they are independent concepts and one can not be fully understood in terms of the other, neither by looking at circular motion as piecewise linear motion nor by looking at linear motion as circular motion about a point infinitely far away. I only brought up spin because it makes the point pretty clear - or maybe not - that angular momentum is a fundamental concept that can not be recast in other terms, especially it is not just the sum of many linear momenta.
Oracle in general is overdue for a re-design. Outdated thinking and design is present in almost all of their products, but I understand a fair portion of that comes from legacy debt. If Oracle started to pay off that debt, then they might be able to make an about-face over the course of a decade or so, just as Microsoft has managed to do.
It depends, mine was pretty major (general anesthesia, 3 hour surgery, etc.) and I had a very long recovery. The lower ones never breached my gums and had created an untreatable infection and the surgeon had to partially break my jaw to get them out. It was a real mess.

Other people I know went through a fairly normal tooth extraction like yourself, it just depends.
How is cell internet in Australia? I will be remote working there soon, and I've seen the 2 Mbps upload speeds from at least one of the cable internet providers, and am kind of... shocked. That won't do for a decent google hangout.

Are there good internet providers? If so, which ones should I look for at an Airbnb I will stay at?
Here is a version which uses OSX's say command for a spoken announcement of "github is up again". It also checks once every minute instead of once a second.

while true; do curl -s https://status.github.com/api/status.json | egrep 'good|minor' && say -r 160 "github is up again" || echo -n .; sleep 60; done

Edit: accept a status of minor as an indication of up-ness.
As one who has made arguments that sound similar to, but are importantly different from, the ones you criticize, I will clarify:

1. I don't claim everything always stays on a smooth exponential trend, but that things do so on a large scale as small variations average out. It doesn't surprise me that someone managed to get above-trend performance at Go. However, I predict this will not lead to above-trend GDP.

2. I don't predict we will get human-level AI in 2050. I predict we will probably never reach a tech level that would make human-level AI a possibility. The more people start fretting about the 'AI alignment problem' (which we would in any case no more be able to solve today than Leonardo da Vinci could design a fail-safe nuclear reactor), the lower the probability that we ever reach that tech level. Conversely, though a small thing, this news of continued incremental progress makes me a tiny fraction of a percent more optimistic.
Author, any way I can buy it as a PDF?