skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look I really like this idea of a UBI but I don't think it would work. We tend to think everyone is like us and we're hackers and creators to us its a compulsion to add or create value. The trouble of this idea to me is for a lot of low income families we pretty much subsidize their lives and it honestly isn't working. I grew up in an area of the country where we had tons of people living on welfare. Did they create? Did they add value to the community? Nope not at all. They were a drain the community. Take for instance a friend of mine we'll call her Mary. She has three kids and she gets free child care and after school care. She also gets food stamps, low income housing, and is eligible for 2 free college classes a semester from the local university because she's a single mom with low income. She's also got her CNA licence. She holds no job despite offers from places in the community. Now according to this UBI theory she would be a prime candidate. We give her money and magically she begins to add value to the community because she doesn't have to worry about money anymore. However we already do this and she's a drain on the community. She takes and never gives back. Now let's take another friend of mine we'll call him James. He doesn't have a job and didn't qualify for college but he can code. His github account is filled with commits to all kinds of crazy projects. He just loves to build things. He adds to the community. My question to you is do we give every UBI because I'm not really ok with that. If James said man I'm short on rent this month I'd give him $100 but if Mary said she need $100 for diapers and cloths I'd refuse because she has places to get that and if she's short on money its most likely her own mismanagement of cheques. I'm open to new ideas though. So help me understand why UBI is a great idea.
Have you ever taken the bus/train in 1980 ? 1990 ? Was it different ?

In my opinion : no.
I don't really see any negative spin at all. Amazon is portrayed as a business just trying to get things done in "backwards" Washington DC.

They are made out to seem like they don't even know what they are doing, "Amazon is really having to learn how to navigate all these things," even though they are spending nearly 10 million dollars on lobbying, have numerous contracts with the federal government and have a former whitehouse press secretary as a senior vp?

This is pretty much an amazon fluff piece.
$40 yearly is around the paid tier of other like apps, such as Todoist ($30 yearly) or Wunderlist ($50 yearly). While the price may be high, saying it's obscene is an exaggeration of the strength of your case.
It's a win for Sonya, and more opportunity for Kentucky coal miners!
'North' Vietnamese? The partition is a colonial construct.

And what "battle" did the US win? As a military exercise it was a debacle from start to finish (much like our more recent efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan). Wrong war, wrong reason, wrong plan, incompetently executed (strategically).

And the comparison with 'Spartans' is off too. The Spartans were pretty weird (not just by our standards, but by contemporary standards too) and their society was entirely wrapped around military tradition. Despite centuries of foreign occupation and resistance, Vietnamese culture was and is basically Confucian (in which the soldier is pretty much the bottom of the totem pole).
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I saw an economic study from several years ago showing that the arrival of a Walmart actually stimulated the growth of "Small shops" around the Walmart. That it stimulated commerce in the area-- in part because walmart brings in people from quite a distance (especially in rural areas) and the stores showed up to capture that traffic.
Dataset is awesome. I've been using it consistently for the past several years. It is lovely in ETL scripts, especially considering you can use it just to send regular SQL when needed.
The Vietnamese people didn't win the war. The people lost when the communists won. They realized that a couple decades later..after the communists had inflicted their brutal tyranny on the people.

Neighboring Cambodia lost a seventh of their population because of Communist evils.

By the way, despite leftist gleefulness of "American loss ". The US militarily won almost every battle and had a kill ratio of 134:1.
The better solution would be to not have people be 'loyal' to any country at all. The whole thing is just a way to be able to demand all kinds of services where no obligation to provide should exist in the first place and where - usually - there is no loyalty in the reverse direction.

Any country that wants my loyalty to a flag or some abstract concept has lost my vote of confidence right at the gate. Countries - just like people - should be judged by their actions and loyalty should be earned rather than demanded.
Because the people that were running them and just barely getting by likely don't have the funds to open a new store. A lot of these places the building/infrastructure was just handed down generation to generation. Once it goes under, there's nothing left to start it back up.
Investment advice is one of comparatively few fields where the quality of it available at $50 million in net worth is indistinguishable from $50k [+], but the price is 1000x higher.

Use a roboadvisor (or a moral equivalent like a target age retirement fund from Vanguard). If you need someone to talk to, the magic words are "fee-only financial planner" -- should cost on the order of $100 to $200 a year for a sympathetic ear that can tell you "Yep you're still on track and not doing anything insane."

Edit: forgot the jargon here -- some fee-only planners still charge a percentage. You want someone quoting a flat fee or hourly rate.

[+] No financial planner has predictably better-than-market advice regarding investment choice than any other planner -- though heaven only knows how many intimate they do. To the extent they provide a valuable service it is similar to an accountant's: they can hear the totality of your situation and tell you about options/factors you may not have considered, allowing you to sleep better.

A representative question: "What's a good way to save for college given we have a 5 year old? What type of account? What general plan? Ballpark how much?"
Imagine the opposite of a Walmart a store that primarily sold local products.
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Thanks for posting. I always wanted to emulate the original 1930's vintage Voder speech synthesizer in software. I wonder if anyone's done it yet. The Voder was not computer controlled, it had to be played by an operator, much like playing a piano.
http://120years.net/the-voder-vocoderhomer-dudleyusa1940/
With what capital? More likely that these old mining towns and more rural communities wont exist in a few generations. With younger people moving to the cities to find whatever work they can.
Crowdfunding campaign announced: Nanotech: from air to space
Nanotech now has the capability to make the space elevator and private, orbital launchers possible.
It now also makes possible the long desired 'flying cars'.
This crowdfunding campaign is to prove it.

Nanotech: from air to space.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nanotech-from-air-to-space/x/13319568#/

For technical background see:

From nanoscale to macroscale: applications of nanotechnology to production of bulk ultra-strong materials.
http://exoscientist.blogspot.com/2016/02/from-nanoscale-to-macroscale.html

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Being mostly a database guy I often feel dumb when I read discussions comparing a popular Python framework over some cutting edge js "unicorn powered" new framework...

So it suddenly make me quite reassured that some others are terrorized by SQL which look to me like a joyful playground.

I guess that should be everyone mantra in CS. Don't underestimate yourself, don't overestimate others, just accept that you can't master everything anymore.
Don't. More for the rest of us.

Also, ditch maths, music, drawing, cooking, learning (thats a skill), accounting, and survival skills.

And that will be the absolute limit of my attention this kind of thinking gets from me.

Farewell and good luck.
Many articles have been written by many outlets over the past decade on exactly that topic.

Here's one by The Post, for example:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/wal-...
I don't dislike or object to blues, indie rock, reggae, heavy metal, hip hop, etc... but it would be great if a jazz festival website prominently featured jazz music. It was surprisingly hard to navigate this site and find any jazz music.
The main reason this isn't done is that `let (a, b) = (…)` is the pattern matching of two tuples, but assignment doesn't do pattern-matching.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2939
The old mom and pops bootstrapped organically, grew both inventory and the know how to stock it over decades, in lockstep with the community.

Today, takes a big start cost to go from zero to viable, and the lack of intuitive mom and pop know how is a risk too. In these locations, that startup money itself will be risk adjusted, so expensive.
> My point was that I don't find it particularly analogous to the Eich case.

I think there's been a miscommunication, because neither do I.

They're fundamentally different cases, in that I think the NSDAP should have the legal right to march but they can absolutely be punished socially.

Likewise, I think what happened to Eich was perfectly legal but not necessarily moral. They're not the same and that was my point: invoking "free speech" as a Constitutional right has no bearing on the Eich case.
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While making this I discovered a 5x speedup of build context creation with an 18 line patch to docker :) https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/20088
Most also charge a fee based on assets under management. Regardless of performance. So if you have $50m in invested assets, they will charge you (0.)x% on that in a good year (the ones where you make 20-30% in the stock market) and in a bad year (the ones where you lose 20%).
No kidding. I spent most of yesterday boning up on basic math skills that I haven't used in years, and I did that after turning off the computer, with a short break to watch The IT Crowd on Netflix. Now that my breakfast is done, I'm getting off again and back to the books in a few minutes. Gotta keep the old neurons alive. Sitting and passively reading the internet is killing my brain.
They feel like the Head First series...only more fun.
I appreciate your suggestions and will give them a try. One potential problem I see is that while my desk and chair are height-adjustable, unfortunately the armrests of my chair are not. That could get in the way of "hanging my arms loosely at my sides".
> I've seen coverage of the war from a skewed pro-Viet Cong propaganda perspective. This isn't that.

After reading several replies like this one I finally understand why I'm being downvoted.

See, you assume that the article is in english, the audience is supposed to be from US, and the context is US culture. This is no longer true in modern world.

Personally, most of the information I was fed about Vietnam war throughout my life was the bullshit of Soviet and post-Soviet anti-US propaganda, so seeing this shit once again without any context seems sick. I guess a person from US, who have been mostly subjected to the other perspective, wouldn't understand it.
For a vertical mouse, consider the Evoluent VerticalMouse: http://evoluent.com/products/vm4r/

Regarding the interviewee's comment about portability, my VM and Kinesis Freestyle (http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-for-pc-us/) traveled 25,000+ miles on a dozen flights in the past few years. Split keyboards are incredibly portable. Combine with a Crate or Stanton foldable stand to elevate the laptop.

For anyone choosing a keyboard, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9605262 has more comments.
I've spent countless hours creating botting frameworks/bots as well as client features for the Haven & Hearth client (http://www.havenandhearth.com/portal/). The vanilla client is open source and pretty shitty, so the community is basically relying on hobbyist devs to create their own versions. The super-secret clients (that will eventually leak) all have their own botting frameworks. The game is permadeath, as well, so a lot is at stake.
Aside from "American kiddos that cannot accept their great US ever loosing ever.", is there anyone that considers the Vietnam War as a victory for the US ? It was hands down the biggest military failure of this century for the US.

Also, as a french, I'm contractually obligated to do this:

We warned you guys, we told you this wasn't going to work out, we tried :^)
Isn't this the case for almost all professions though? Take cosmetologists for instance. In the town where I live, a person who cuts hair gets about $15 for about 20 minutes of work. Guaranteed job (because people always have hair that they want cut or dyed), a flexible work schedule, and more social cachet than being a stuffy programmer, since they are "hair stylists".

Or consider doctors. $200k+ is a pretty standard salary for a doctor, plus people look up to them in an almost godlike way. In my state, nurse practitioners are also allowed to call themselves "Dr. X", so the social cachet applies to them as well.

Can you imagine the reaction if there were "Everyone should learn to cut hair!" or "Everyone should learn basic medicine" movements? Then why code?

[Tangent] If anything, I think there should be an "Everyone should learn how to cook movement" in the US. Might help with the rising obesity and related complications.
"Sure, programming languages are cool and useful, but so is geometry, and I don’t spend my free time on that either."

:D - I'm spending this sunday afternoon learning abut geodesic grids (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Geodesic_Grids) as part of a project to teach myself d3.js.

Otherwise - I agree with the author. It was strange seeing programming become a huge thing about 2/3 years ago, but realistically, most people don't have the mathematical/logical abilities to ever get really productive. Which is fine, they should focus on what they're good at, rather than beat themselves up for not mastering a quite specialised skill.

I gather the growth in coding bootcamps has lowered the demand for junior devs, but there's still a huge demand for more experienced people.
What does that have to do with my short analysis of Amazon's tactics? It's rude to call someone heartless without basis in fact.
If people in a community have to drive three hours for food, then there will be enough demand that someone will open a grocery store. When there's an economic vacuum left by a closing superstore, other, possibly smaller, stores will come back and fill it. It's simple economics.

When a company such as Walmart opens or closes a large store, there seems to be a mass of news articles explaining how the opening or closing is destroying the community.

When a large store comes in, people rarely consider that the new jobs will have benefits and advancement opportunities not found in the traditional mom-and-pop stores. When a large store closes, people rarely mention that it will leave room for new mom-and-pop stores to open.

The fact is, large stores have a pluses and minuses. Their opening or closing is more a result of local economic conditions than the cause.
> Sometimes it’s better to be explicit than abstract.

This is a false dichotomy: after all, "open" is explicit and abstract (w.r.t. actual file systems).

The original article from Metz was interesting, but the example here is disappointing. The code was apparently used only once: why generalize?

And if you want to generalize, why not make use of two functions: a new one which implements "touch", and the existing os.Chmod?
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Actually the cultures of north, central, and south Vietnam are quite different. The accents vary so much that people from one section of the country struggle to understand people from another. They have been ruled by different rulers for much of the last thousand years.

Speak to many southern Vietnamese even today and they'll tell you the war was an illegitimate land grab of the more fertile and valuable land in the south by communists in the north wrapping themselves in nationalist ideology.
I would ask myself why he felt he needed to add such statements. Provided he isn't an idiot it is probably because the flow was hard to understand. Was that his fault?

I've found that if I can't understand the code it is because it is unnecessarily complex or, to mimic an above poster, there's too much state going on. Refactor to remove confusion.

Imagine yourself as a newbie asked to support such thing in production. Could you do it? If no why not?
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Any thoughts on the performance?
I read some interesting articles about Cecil/Lions in South Africa. While, in the west, there is a lot of support for Lions as "Majestic Creatures" - there are a lot of people, particularly those who live in the same habitat as the Lions, that are not such big fans, and are more than happy to see them wiped out to the point where they only exist on Wildlife Reserves/zoos. There are also lots of scenarios where we try and protect, at incredible costs to human welfare, protected species like the spotted owl, or gopherus agassizii, the California/Nevada tortoise that's endangered by Solar Panels in the Nevada Desert.

While all of us (for any reasonable definition of all of us) are happy to see small pox, guinea worm, malaria, ebola, and now zika, wiped out in the name of advancing humanity, it's pretty clear there is a greater divide when it comes to lions, owls, and tortoises.

And, before you say, "Well, the owl/tortoise only have financial impact" remember that $$$ can be easily translated into lives simply by dialing up safety standards/inspections/health care/etc... With incredible returns in the third world, and, even some low hanging fruit in the first world as well.
I suspect that what you are seeing is an effect of Facebook pushing information to your screen <dom> intermittently rather than continuously. Because the flux architecture updates different parts of the screen independently, the section showing who is online can happen at a different rate than your main feed or notifications.
Could be a tactic by Walmart get rid of the competition. They open smaller stores, get the small businesses to close. Then by closing their smaller stores they force people to go shop at their larger stores.
I like it! There are no or a lack of drag and drop editors on the web, what I mean is using true drag and drop with absolute positioning, granted it would also require a script to render. What frameworks and libraries are you using on this project?
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That's a flaw in how you use node, not node itself. We run dozens of instances of node without internal process state, the need for sticky sessions, etc. You're losing a lot of load-balancing ability by not keeping this discipline too.
A lot of that private money/VC funds are institutional money chasing alternative asset class returns.
You are coding, just likely that you aren't doing it "well". "Doing it well" is very subjective and depends a lot on the context.
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If it did, I like to think it'd feature 100 pages of setting up and debugging your module loader, preprocessors, dependency resolution, mvc framework, polyfills, unit tests and build scripts. ;)
As I understand it, it means that a valid transaction is accompanied by a zero-knowledge proof, proving that this transaction is in fact valid, but revealing nothing about source or destination of funds.

Bitcoin requires each user to verify the entire blockchain, whereas the SNARK-technique means a single user can verify the blockchain, and produce a piece of data which essentially proves that 1. the verification has taken place and that 2. the claimed result of the verification (valid/non-valid) is the actual result of running the verification.

If it sounds too good to be true, that's because it is fairly revolutionary (if it works). Here's the paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/507.pdf
the US was maintaining a kill ratio of 134:1

This ratio makes no sense and would imply almost 8 million dead NVA/Vietcong combatants by the end of the war.
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I completely agree with this. Understanding the way everything fits together is likely far more useful than being able to write a basic Python script.
Have you considered the possibility that this analysis is over-simple and serves a particular narrative.
Most consumer items - including computers - don't have the interfaces you need for useful beginner-level coding.

I think that in itself is a problem.
Previous discussion on a related paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10773457

I'm not sure why people keep using the word "dead" regarding code annotations. They're easily stripped out for release builds and clearly provide value in many debugging and maintenance scenarios. And yes, like everything else in the static vs dynamic debate, there's no free lunch.
Bear in mind that Jerry Pournelle is a very right wing guy and was right wing at the time of the Vietnam war, so he looks for confirmation of his own pro war views.

The big problem we had in vietnam is that we backed the wrong side from the beginning, and we did it for blindly ideological reasons (Ho Chi Minh was an avowed "communist" therefore evil). If Ho Chi Minh had been a race supremacist (South Africa) cannibal (idi amin) drug dealer (too many to mention), we'd have been happy to back him.

The Viet Minh, who fought the Japanese and largely defeated them with little outside help during WWII were disarmed by the French with US and British help after WWII. (Roosevelt appears to have wanted to let Vietnam be independent after the war, but he was dead.) So Vietnam went back to the French who created a hot mess, got their asses handed to them (despite a lot of US help) and then we stepped in and picked as our clients the bizarre collection of mobsters and thugs the French had been backing. And while your correspondent appears incensed that some people didn't get a parade (you know that they had reeducation camps in the South after the war? I would have led with that), from what I've heard and seen, Vietnam didn't end up too terrible, and certainly in no worse shape than places the US "won' in like Columbia, Chile, Honduras, etc.

No Buddhist monks burned themselves alive to protest the _north_ Vietnamese government.
The key phrase here is "fee-only advisor."
While I understand (and agree with) the sentiment, I'm not sure it's 100% true. $50 million might be in the range where complicated tax minimization maneuvers start to become tenable, and you won't get help doing that from a $200 fee-only adviser.

Maybe call the upper limit ~$10 million?
I subscribed to the standard leftist narrative about the war until I actually moved here and spent five years traveling around the country and speaking to people on the ground. Exactly as you say, the truth is much more nuanced. It was a complex war fought for different reasons by different people.

And anyone that has lived here can tell you that the ruling communist kleptocracy is no friend of the Vietnamese people.
SQL is powerful and awesome. You can process almost any information such as you don't need to do any extra steps after obtaining results. That is, of course, if your database is well designed. That part is hard to automate.
Have you been to a farmer's market recently?
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The data says most managers will not out perform the index. So instead of trying to beat the market you should just find the lowest expense index fund and put your money in there. Lower your risk by risk pooling. Avoid the Fees. Profit.