skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not have it not be state controlled at all? For instance setup it up as a series of trusts paid out to each person.

Or limit state control by creating it under a constitutional amendment which establishes a fourth branch of government outside of congressional and executive control.

These are not unsolvable problems. The US has a large standing professional military which is civilian controlled. Many thinkers in the past would have asked, "Do you think the people that control the military will just allow the president to fire them?" Yet that has happened. Legitimacy and tradition goes pretty far.
what happened to SQLite 4?
Caprine – Facebook Messenger desktop app
Except that his reasoning seems flawed. He says that expanding the Finland trial would require "taxing citizens double what you’re taxing them now".

Finland has about 5.5 million in population (this counts children)

So 800 * 12 * 5.5mil = 52.8 Billion euro

Finland GDP is about 290 Billion euro and their tax take as a % GDP is 20-25%. That's at least 58 Billion euro.

So while it would take a lot of work to find the money, it seems that this statement is not really true either.
The OP said he already uses the service from the competition for his clients so at the least he will be able to switch them over and have some revenue.
Been there. Cheers.
That's true, in practice it's different and it could be hard. But still, companies that take into consideration this incorrect categorization are exacerbating the problem, because I'm sure there are alternatives to helping unfortunate people without considering their race.
The parent is more similar to doing `sudo find . | grep -- "*-foo.bar" | xargs rm` which I can definitely say I've never done because it's absurd. The consequences of redirecting to a file are usually nil, unlike running rm on the output of a pipeline without at least using -n on the destructive util...
Awesome.... I have a bunch of these sitting on my bookshelf :)
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I'm a web developer. I've integrated Facebook into a bunch of apps in non-trivial ways. I would describe myself as a power user Facebook.com and the app.

I had no idea you could see the history of statuses. I'd imagine it's not widely known. I've actually seen people use this exact scenario for trolling (going onto a politician's page, saying something the followers agree with, and then editing it to something awful).
The Cultural Dynamics of Globalization (2006)
I would worry about replacing many of those child-focused programs with something cash-based. You want to do everything possible to ensure children are getting a basic level of care, and unfortunately if you give parents the choice between paying for a child's vision exams and keeping some extra cash, more than none will choose the cash.
People who want to build large companies are just plain scum. They are the upper class version of the aspirational middle class. The aspirational middle class can't wait to leave their peers behind and start managing them like slaves. The aspirational upper class can't wait to build a giant slave farm.

Since the agricultural era, humans have been taken over by slave drivers. We should be going back to small, decentralised groups of people. Big business and big government have done nothing but destroy this planet.

I used to work for a large company and that experience solidified my disgust for these places. I can fully understand why people would want to resign now that the company wants to grow. I decided that I would rather go down fighting then ever work for a large company again.

Has anyone asked why GitHub needs to grow? If there are other products that could benefit from GitHub integration, provide an api and let some other small group of hackers build it. All GitHub is doing is laying the foundations for their slave farm.
That's not entirely true. The new players who haven't experienced an MMO are children, obviously.

Unfortunately for would-be MMO's, the modern world has Minecraft. Unlike most MMO's, Minecraft fully appeals to the minds of the young children who would one day become new MMO players. Personally, I believe that this prevents those kids from ever having a 'first MMO' kind of experience, because none of it will really be "new" since they grew up with it. It's not novel to anyone anymore.
I don't want to be unfair to you or your argument, but I can't understand what you're saying any other way than that we should build racism and sexism into our policies and processes as a step toward eliminating racism and sexism.
Then we should hunt down this racist people, regardless of what their race is. It doesn't matter that the people doing this are white or whatever, what matters is that they're acting that way.
Graphics programming in Ubuntu C++
Any time you use the console or a printed output to debug something, that is an embryonic test assertion in the making, and all you have to do is move it to a proper suite. ;)

If you are doing it because you are deep in some nested conditionals... you need to refactor.
I pretty much NEVER subscribe to anything like this as it seems like a given that I'll eventually get spammed.

Recently, though, I signed up for the "cron.weekly" [0] newsletter and it's actually pretty decent. I think I first saw it mentioned here.

The "archives" [1] are available as well, so you can get an idea of what it's like before you sign up.

[0]: http://www.cronweekly.com/

[1]: http://www.cronweekly.com/archives/
This entirely dodges the moral issue of whether it is acceptable to force people to subsidise others. UBI is particularly problematic in this area, as given its scale, it is impossible to implement without coercion.
Instability Zero Determinant [games shows] that winning isn't [all] (2012)
Introducing “Playing” – A simple command for displaying song info in terminal
What computer science can teach economics (2009)
Ideally, you want ad hoc sandbox (like Sandboxie on Win32)

Ideally, Docker could offer ad hoc commands to launch an process in a sandbox. And then you launch a file explorer process in the same sandbox (like Sandboxie) to inspect or run a diff-tool that outputs statistics like the tool in the headline.
Microsoft may be running the biggest Turing test in history
Arc Hub: Unleash the Full Potential of Your USB-C MacBook
One thing I imagined with basic income is if my wife and I paid off our mortgage and saved enough money, we could retire early, tighten our belts and live off our savings and whatever the basic income provides (multiplied my number of people in my household.) A big part of our living expenses are taxes and a mortage!
I'm pretty sure the code in the article could use __COUNTER__ followed by __COUNTER__-1 in the macro to avoid the __LINE__ collision and allow more than one yield on the same line.
So what's the budget left for infrastructure, defense, R&D, education, disasters, emergencies?
People seem to forget just how much is currently spent on a lot of extremely... debatable programs. These are approximate numbers off the top of my head, but:

US military spending = $1.5 trillion per year (~$700 billion for the DoD, the rest from other military and NatSec programs)

US per capita healthcare spending = $8,600/person/year (edit: corrected by caseysoftware below, that includes private and public spending)

Social Security = another ~24% of the federal budget

Interest on the national debt = 7% of the US budget

Again, rough numbers off the top of my head, but you could get a decent basic income going across the entire US just by switching to an affordable healthcare system and cutting the military budget to something on par with what the rest of the world spends. UBI would also replace and simplify a lot of the existing welfare and social security system, so that portion wouldn't even be additional spending compared to what's already happening.

The obstacles seem more political and cultural than fiscal and economic. To a large extent it's basically wanting to replace the current corporate welfare for the military-industrial complex, healthcare, college bubble, etc. systems with something that would (arguably) benefit society far more.
How is it different from an earned income credit?
Never used this myself, but a friend uses (and likes) it: https://clarity.fm
And self-respect. What Golden-age do UBI proponents imagine in which everyone is massively dependent on a state entity, in which young men and women grow up without an impetus to become self-sustaining adults, in which everyone is an "artist" working on their book, one Facebook alt-tab at a time.

It would begin with a basic income. And once it is in place, would voters every pick the candidate that promises to reduce or persist the current rate of free money? It's impossible for UBI to not explode in scope over the course of a few election cycles.
I have found this to be a great way to get expert advice if you don't mind paying for it:

https://clarity.fm
I said it back then and I'll say it here: There's a difference between "having a political view" (thinking that non-heterosexual marriages are icky) and taking positive action to prevent others from having equal rights (donating money to a lobbying/social engineering group)

One is a thought, the other is an action.

Punishing people for unknowable bad thoughts is an Orwellian nightmare. Punishing people for visible bad actions is how society moves forward.
You always suspect that this kind of claptrap is being sold to F500 companies, but it doesn't make it any less shocking to actually see how ridiculous it is.
Lava doesn't melt marble
You'll get hammered, I'm sure for the rest of it, but this is a good question:

> Has anyone asked why GitHub needs to grow?

They are a making a pretty decent profit now. They could keep the lights on and keep doing what they are doing for the foreseeable future, make incremental improvements and scale out servers to pick up additional load without shaking things up drastically and taking in loads of VC money. That's not the sexy, billion dollar unicorn move, but it is a safe, sustainable bet.
It's an issue involving third parties if the third party colluded. If there was any communication between Amazon and Google in this matter, that would be a problem.

The NLRB has recently been deciding cases involving employee criticism of employers in social media.[1] "The focus of
many of these recent rulings has been the protection of the right
of employees to communicate with their coworkers about their
terms and conditions of employment. Indeed, the NLRB has
increasingly defined the contours of this right expansively." There are lawyers who take on such cases.[2]

[1] http://www.postschell.com/site/files/post__schell__nlrb_arti...
[2] http://employee-rights-atty.com/the-censor-he-has-a-face-and...
It's a story about industrial espionage, it includes allegations and claims from both sides; what did you expect, Xinhua news?
Looking at their archive [0], it appears the last "issue"(?) was a little over 14 months ago.

[0]: http://www.devopsweekly.com/archive
I am never thinking about doing rollback on production, downgrade is nice on dev machine when you work on multiple branches. I'd rather do database restore and code restore to pev version.

I would not roll out new code with migrations without ad-hoc db backup. Any new code as well.
I've always loved this absurd document. I think it must have been made after the new logo was designed, as a way to back-annotate a fake history of how it was developed.

Looking at the new Pepsi logo, this is all I can see:
http://blowatlife.blogspot.com/2009/02/pepsi-logo-response.h...
Classic Game Postmortem Pinball Construction Set
I acknowledge it seems I'm dismissing and even excusing people who are racists. This is definitely not the case.

Let's pretend there are no races for a second. What would racist people do? They would probably still hate on "others". They would probably not have the vocabulary or the knowledge to group people, but they would still hate "others". The fact that racist hate other races is just incidental to the fact that we categorize people, and then they use that as a tool / avenue for their hatred. So why would we promote their tool for hatred? We don't categorize people based on eye color, so why skin color?

The idea is not to lose identity and pretend we're all the same, but rather to avoid explaining things with race. When someone behaves a certain way, or when someone can't get a job, or got the job, the explanation should not include race, because it's just not needed, it's inaccurate, and it promotes the semantic tools for racist to leverage and keep hating.

I'm definitely open to why this is wrong, so corrections are more than welcome.
>"if you give parents the choice between paying for a child's vision exams and keeping some extra cash, more than none will choose the cash."

The question we should ask is whether children would be better off, not how much would be spent on them. It may be that money allocated more efficiently by caring parents would be more beneficial than the neglect which may occur.
Actually at least one cateogory, EB1-C, specifically applies to managers relocated from an overseas branch of the same company. An equivalently qualified manager on H1-B in the US is ineligible for that category.
Four types of product (and startup) risk
This was a really fun read - any longform posts on the history of this? Would love to read more.
On Windows you have sandboxie (http://www.sandboxie.com), a complete sandbox for your programs.
Both. While tableau has a visual query builder, sometimes the queries are too complex. For example they may need self-joins, non-standard join criteria, temporary tables, etc. So ultimately, the tableau guy has to ask a programmer or database person to create a script to use as the tableau source.

One example that involves both is when the visualisation needs a contiguous date range in the data, but the data is missing some dates. As a programmer it is easy to just loop through a date range and put 0 where there is no data.

There are also lots of limitations in terms of the visualisations. The end result was that multiple visualisations had to be created to show something that a programmer would be able to create as one visualisation.
> 1) Salaries can decrease because employees are getting some income from the government. If you're making $100k now, you'd no longer need $100k from your employer, post-UBI, to have the same total income and quality of life.

Who would actually be incentivized by this? "I can wakeup and do whatever I want today... OR I can roll into my crappy job with my crappy boss and be part of the economic machine and make a tiny bit more money each year..."

If you're making $30k a year for nothing, why work at all for an extra $10 or $20k?
Let's talk about FB (the social network asset) in two years. Zuck won't bother and just retire early in his life, like Bill.
Most of the countries which collect a higher percentage of GDP do so only at the federal level. If you look at US tax income and include the states, you will see that the collection percentage is more closely comparable to other western countries, and that the total receipts still stay relatively flat despite tax policy changes.
https://twitter.com/bhcarpenter/status/695811814244773892

https://twitter.com/ptr/status/696025411898085376

read the timelines ... very interesting.

the first is from a Twitter iOS dev, the second a former TL PM.
Alternatively, the questions is, should we have a minimum floor ensuring all children have basic access to care, or are we more interested in maximizing the average [and admitting this could result in some children being neglected medical care].
I scary to think about. I currently spend my days in a start up incubator and a majority of people in there are on this same schedule. They sit for 8-10 hours a day and rarely exercise, all with the hope and sometime soon they will be back to living an active lifestyle (once they have money)
20% * 300 billion = 60 billion is where they're at now, add on 58 billion to pay for basic income and you've doubled taxes.
Reminder: iPhones commit suicide if you repair them on the cheap
Don't guess when the actual 2015 budget is a single search away:

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...

Your $1.5T number for military isn't backed up by facts as the entire discretionary spending for all agencies is only $1.1T

US per capita healthcare spending - do you mean Medicare and Medicaid? I'm not sure how you came up with this number because $8.6k * 320M people = $2.75T which would be about 66% of the federal budget.

Social Security itself is closer to 33% of the federal budget, not the 24% you cite.
One time I couldn't get to an LED so I used an IR thermometer pointed at chip to debug it.

Telling the difference between hot and cold and whether it was getting warmer or colder told me what I needed to know.
What is shockingly bad about being against that ideology? It seems pretty regressive and oppressive, to women, for example.
It's not "a lot less than other providers". You know what happens when someone starts DDOSing one of my AWS servers? I get a CloudWatch alert saying "high inbound traffic" and that's it. They don't black hole the thing and cut off all traffic. Then, I can log in, see what's happening, and take my time diagnosing the problem. Even under a fairly heavy DDOS I never feared losing access. With DO, the black hole happens before the email alert. It's a terrible policy and I can't use or recommend DO until it's changed. I can't stick CloudFlare in front of every server I own.
Chrome uses it for local storage too right?
Nice! Does anybody know a project that combines this kind of techniques in a program that could be ran across billions of rows, most preferably something that scales to multiple nodes?
Sadly I don't have one. I wish our media was less vapid, and "think of the children"-ish.

I mean the fact that yesterday the police spoke to a restaurant[1] over there wine list is absurd.

1 https://www.broadsheet.com.au/sydney/food-and-drink/article/...
There was an interesting defcon talk featuring the developer of WoWGlider, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hABj_mrP-no

While not directly related, definitely worth a watch.
I am a math minded person I don't see how this adds up. Let me explain myself in a different way.

Money, wealth, currency and value are all related but they are not the same. They are tied to each other via currency.

Just imagine a class room full of students and we have a way of grading student's work. A better grade means the student is smart. Currency is just that a system of accounting to make students work for better grades. Try distributing grades from performing students to non-performing students and see if it makes the entire class any more smarter than before? Similarly try to just boost grades ie guarantee someone a minimum grade. Now the overall grades look better but students are working the same and they are not any smarter than before.
I'm not sure how you can draw any conclusions from that data. The fact that tax to GDP ratios in OECD countries vary anywhere from around 17% to 48% suggests that different tax policies can alter a country's tax take: http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/taxrevenuesstabiliseinoecdcount...

Taxing 'bad things' is fine, assuming the author means taxing activities that generate negative externalities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax). However I doubt that would raise sufficient revenue for a UBI. Most likely you'd have to levy taxes on large, immobile tax bases like consumption and land.

Worth noting the cost of a UBI isn't completely additive. In the most extreme form, the cost is partially offset by the abolition of unemployment welfare payments and administration, tax free thresholds, earned income tax credits etc.
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DKE, five presidents, including both Bushes. Even the Yale Herald says DKE at Yale is a party frat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Kappa_Epsilon#Controvers...
[2] http://yaleherald.com/sports/bros-booze-and-balls-why-yale-a...
Focusing on UBI as a national program is a mistake. Something like this would only gain traction if it were proven at the state level. Remember, ObamaCare was RomneyCare first.
I disagree with the premise of your statement that there can be an absolute floor, as government is fairly good at distributing money, but bad at providing outcomes; but agree that there should be some discussion of the classic mean vs median vs 5th (or other) percentile outcome prioritization trade-off.
They called them apps too. It's easy to remember with the infamous (quoting from memory): "You can write apps in HTML".
This looks nice but I don't know how I'd remember a zillion methods. It is starting to look like java with method names like removeBeforeOwnPropertyChangeListener.
Docker Hires Alpine Linux Developer to Move the Official Images from Ubuntu
The Martian Express: The Aldrin Cycler (2008)
I SSH tunnel when I need a foreign IP.
I can't not mention Joseph Needham, British biochemist, who developed an interest in things Chinese.

In the early 1950s, Needham wrote a proposal for what he suggested might be a one-volume work covering the history of Chinese scientific, mathematical, engineering, and other arts. As of 2016, there are 24 volumes of the work completed, with another three still in process (Needham himself died in 1995).

The story is the subject of journalist and author Simon Winchester's book, The Man Who Loved China. There are also several condensations and abridged summaries of Needham's work, including the single-volume The Genius of China (1986) and a five volume work, The Shorter Science and Civilisation.

The organisation and treatment of the work (detailed in the first and second volumes of Needham's original, and in the summaries and Winchester's account) are instructive as to how to write a history of science.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Civilisation_in_...
We are using airflow to schedule backups for our servers and it's been really stable so far !
Just did that the other day trying to track down a hard fault at startup. Binary code on LEDs was all it took to zero in on the cause.
This Is the Martial Art That Gave Birth to Kung Fu
Equivalently qualified manager on H-1B would have spent a year out of last 3 serving in such a position overseas so he would also be eligible. Alternatively, a L-1A manager who already spent more than 2 years in the US would be ineligible.
The fix is to make things hard for the body shops (Tata, etc) and their like minded counterparts.

I've posted before, but having worked with India, Korea, Japan, and China... There is only one culture that pushes to outsource things when it doesn't make sense... And usually the one doing the pushing is getting a cut or kick back... It's neither Korea, China, or Japan.

I think the solution is to cut off all Indian body shops and visas in bulk and require strict individual vetting. There are great individuals stuck in the morass, but Tata etc are trying to bring in people less qualified than an automotive technician who could get 3-4 months of training...

H1b and outsourcing is all about the bottom quarterly dollar.
> Percentile

> In MySQL, we can use local variables to keep track of the order (...) Here's the Postgres version.

I would be interested in the MySQL percentile snip.