skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. I think I like your answer the best. I hadn't considered what happens when income situations change drastically during the course of a year. Let's talk about the case of a highly compensated individually who is foolishly living paycheck to paycheck. Let's say they those their job on July 1. With universal basic income, they'll keep getting some small amount of money to live on each month. They may have to downgrade apartments or locations, but they're still OK. With negative income tax, they've already exceeded the $60K phase-out for the year, so they get no help for the rest of the year, and since all entitlement social net payments have been phased out in favor of the NIT/UBI (including unemployment), they're fucked. They have half a year to go during which they get absolutely nothing before the NIT can kick in the next year.

So you'd need NIT on a resolution of months, not years, for it to handle the situation of unexpected job losses, and frankly I'd rather run screaming rather than have to handle taxes monthly.
GnuPG is great, but it is not for real-time messaging. Real-time messaging protocol should have forward secrecy, which OpenPGP can't have because it is not an interactive protocol.

Related: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/gpg-and-me/
The only synhi I've ever not actively hated was the elvis defaults on a slackware install ten years ago, which basically bolded/italiced/faded text but didn't change the colour.
>For helping to advance an amoral field of study that can potentially delegitimize everything that currently makes humans

Or, writing from the point of view of our mechanical successors to this world, for helping to advance a highly ethical field that could exterminate that genocidaly murderous evolutionary abomination that was the human race. Who incidentally thought they were extraordinary but couldn't even play Go.
Honestly, that doesn't seem particularly horrible. Lots of people spend a lot of time driving to spread-out customer sites and/or travelling by air to various places. I know Bay area traffic etc. but one day a week in an office that's a bit of a drive doesn't seem a particularly onerous imposition.
Probably not, as they are not sitting on a corp workstation on the corp network :)
I have never understood why the USA anti-gun lobby doesn't go after ammunition rather than guns. Just ban ammunition and a gun just becomes a not so dangerous club.
Football is kind of an oddcase since it the most popular sport in the richest country, and it runs very few games per year.
The other interesting technology vector related to security is cost of storage. I ran some numbers on storing 100 bytes of location metadata per minute per person. Assuming 85% compression and using current S3 storage costs of $0.03 GB per month it costs about $0.03 to store ten years worth of personal location data.

Extrapolating out to a population of 300M that gives you a yearly cost of about $8.5M, which appears to be the same cost as building 2.5 miles of freeway in California.

Basically there's no longer an economic barrier to storing almost unlimited amounts of metadata for individuals. The fact is we just don't generate that much. And the costs will only decline over time.

(Would love it if somebody could run the same numbers and see if the result is replicated.)
Insights? None, because I don't think what you said is accurate at all. That's exactly what we're thinking - only outlaws will have it.

I don't know a single gun owner that wouldn't also be an advocate for encryption.
You mean, like the site you are using to post that complaint?
You still end up taking the financial risk on yourself.

It's one thing if the project is delay because of you. Its another thing if the project is delayed because their backend guy hasn't fixed a few bugs and you're stuck creating ugly workarounds in the client code.
Yes, you figured out why I picked the numbers I did. It's somewhat surprising how high the full phase-out amount has to be for things to work: It basically needs to go to several times the poverty level in order to make the marginal taxation on poor people of acceptably low levels.
Typical mind fallacy.

I've tried both and am vastly more productive with it off. Other people haved tried both and are vastly more productive with it on.

I do often encourage people to try whichever one they're not currently using for a month as an experiment to see if they want to switch - calling people hipsters for performing an experiment to try and make themselves a better programmer strikes me as rather depressing.
good read, thanks for the share
The people indent the text (or fail to remove the leading white space when copying).

It isn't a huge time sink to wrap a paragraph in stars.
What prevents a hosting provider from using a trojaned hypervisor?
I'm planning on moving my infrastructure to the cloud and I'm concerned with integrity of the virtualized hosts. Is there anyway to verify the integrity of the hypervisor?
It's possible to run any of the "major" neural network toolkits (Caffe, Torch, Theano) on CPU-only systems. All of them are permissively licensed (to my knowledge).

It will be prohibitively difficult to train the model without some kind of hardware assistance (CUDA). This means that if we're building an ImageNet object detector, even if the code implements the model correctly the first time, training it to have close-to-state-of-the-art accuracy will take several consecutive months of CPU time. Torch has rudimentary support for OpenCL, but it isn't there yet. There are very good pre-trained models that are licensed under academic-only licenses that also help fill the gap. (This is about as permissively as it could be licensed because the ImageNet training data itself is under an academic-only license anyway.)

I'm not sure what niche this project fills. If you want an open-source neural network, you have several high-quality choices. If you need good models, you can either use any of the state-of-the-art academic only ones, or you would have to collect some dataset completely by yourself.
There was some kind of schism between the original creator and someone who was intended to take on the project and the result is two extensions with the original changing its name.
I'm pleasantly surprised. For academic work, this code is amazingly clean.
The article describes a non solution to a non problem, with ridiculous BS like: "That’s a terrible way to brand a consumer product. It turns a harmless product name into a mild form of hazing: a new Mac user is bound to feel stupid at some point when the mistake gets corrected. Humiliating newbies is not to anyone’s benefit."

Yeah, it so much hurt OS X, which only got it 5x larger from 2% in the late nineties to 8-10% usa market share today, for what's essentially an expensive upmarket product.
Your perception is wrong. The gun lobby is crazyily grassroots. The NRA is demonized, but their spending in lobbying is low (their income is relatively low and they have a lot of other elements such as training and certification) and less than the gun control lobby since Bloomberg (and some silicon Valley VCs) began to lobby.

There is only one reason the NRA has influence: members and sympathizers will vote on thier recommendations, they have a lot of members and the NRA will always endorse the most sympathetic candidate to thier cause regardless of party affiliation.

The pro encryption lobby could emulate this. Lobby groups like the eff need more members and crucially need members to vote for who they recommend regardless of the candidates other views ie. vote for Trump if he said he was pro encryption.
The fantasy coffins of Ghana
You can certainly buy anti-aircraft guns (there are collectors of these things), but good luck getting your hands on the ammunition required to turn one from an unusual outdoor sculpture into a weapon.
no reliable one, no.
The Science and Snake Oil of Neurostimulation
I don't believe we're done with the smartphone revolution in the U.S. either. It's been 9 years since the iPhone came out. Where were we 9 years after NCSA Mosaic came out? 2002. People thought we were done with the web revolution, but most of the dominant web companies of today were either fledgling startups (Google) or not invented yet (Facebook, YouTube, Kickstarter, AirBnB, etc.)

PG observed around 2005 that the web still had decades to go, because "social changes take longer than technical changes". So it is with mobile. The low-hanging fruit that can be picked simply by building an app and putting it on the app store has already been taken, but there are still many big businesses that will be built by people who are in a niche and realize that problems within that niche can be solved more effectively with the help of a mobile app.
Earlier, with detailed discussion on why the "masterful" bit is a bit exaggerated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11276798

In short: The strategy is not "win the game", but "exploit the machine to cause a bug".
> telegraph

Telegram?
> "there's someone out there who is working harder than you on the same thing and they're going to win if you let up."

I've heard Elon Musk say this a lot. It seems to work for him, at least.

https://youtu.be/GtaxU6DZvLs?t=79
you're talking about a different aspect though. he says that you're more productive if you're writing a lot of code at one time.

you're saying that its easier to catch minor syntax errors with syntax highlighting.

this could, technically, be combined. i.e. writing code without syntax highlighting and enabling it for a quick glance to catch these errors that get obvious with the highlighting.
Sure, there may be a ton of potential smart phone users outside of G-10. But how much money can one make in these markets?

Not to be flip, and and the same time kick around Path, but they were huge in Indonesia, but at the end of the day they represented a losing investment.

https://pando.com/2014/05/22/paths-kiss-of-death-compliment-...
This is one thing about federal work that I can appreciate, if nothing else, it is at least flexible.
A great thinker has passed. One of the great names of 20th century analytical philosophy. They have now all left us, Quine, Rorty, Davidson and now Putnam.
RIP.

I guess they had a similar event on Twin Earth... even though their "water" may be a bit different from our H2O.
They were hedging their recommendation, saying that we could have a wealth tax but maybe it isn't necessary because your gains on capital are all taxed anyway. The wealth tax obviously suffers from massive tax evasion as well.
>For giving DeepMind extremely valuable test data that will only accelerate the refinement of AlphaGo's AI?

You're treating Lee Seedol as if he is a fixed dataset to be trained on. Why can't he also be a "NN" who can also "refine" his AI[0] and thus be hearder for Alpha Go to compete with?

You're putting too much faith in the machine and dropping the person, that might not be completely fair.

[0] Albeit not artificial in this case.
Social experiments with a trash robot
Though being able to compel yourself to do great things seems like a completely different skill set from being able to do great things on someone else's dime or on a team.

For example, my brilliant programmer friend that can't hold a job. Or the artist that can only paint their own inspirations. Or the savant that doesn't get along with anybody.
I know that this is somewhat off the topic, but does anyone have anything I can read about implementing memory managers?
I don't consider 20% to be a high marginal tax rate. I would love to be able to keep a full eighty percent of every additional dollar that I earn. Instead it's a lot closer to half. Indeed, the current tax code has the marginal rate set at 25% for single filers over $37,650 in income.

Yes, 20% may be a higher marginal tax rate than the poor are currently paying, but it's more than made up for by the huge payments they're getting. The marginal tax rate of a single filter earning $10K under the current tax codes is 15% (not that much less than 20%). But said person would also be getting $12,500 from the NIT. Doesn't seem bad to me at all.

And if you're really still worried about it, you could make the phase-out not linear over $60K by adding brackets, like the current tax code has. In other words, I don't think the effect that you are saying is really caused by the NIT per se, just in my sandbox implementation of it.
I think I fat fingered the down vote button. Sorry. I completely agree with your point.
Exactly, it just changes which group of students are in the "too early" group. When I start a new job, they don't say, "Well, your job offer was made on 12-May, but our fiscal year starts in April, so you'll have no choice but to wait until 1-Apr to start work." The solution likely involves abandoning the model of childhood education consisting of fixed, arbitrarily-long cycles beginning on arbitrarily-chosen dates, progressing linearly. But when you leave it up to voters, abandoning "The Way Things Were Always Done" is about as impossible as curing cancer.
compilers are easy

No.

Modern, industrial-strength compilers are some of the most complicated pieces of technology we have.

Indeed almost every part of the compiler pipeline, in particular parsing, type-inference, and optimisations, are active areas of research.
Kripke is still here. I would add him to that list.
Small Memory Software: Patterns for systems with limited memory
At the level of simple firearms, arms are arms. You're going to have to argue 2A regardless.
Or Netochka Nezvanova?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netochka_Nezvanova
"a new Mac user is bound to feel stupid at some point when the mistake gets corrected. Humiliating newbies is not to anyone’s benefit."

If you feel stupid or humiliated because some dickwad corrected your "Oh Ess Ex" you have more important problems in your life (and the dickwad too).
I think your point with Einstein is invalid.

"Einstein immigrated to the United States in 1933, where he held a professorship at Princeton University until his retirement in 1945. His routine there was simple. Between 9:00 and 10:00 A.M. he ate breakfast and perused the daily papers. At about 10:30 he left for his Princeton office, walking when the weather was nice; otherwise, a station wagon from the university would pick him up. He worked until 1:00, then returned home for a 1:30 lunch, a nap, and a cup of tea. The rest of the afternoon was spent at home, continuing his work, seeing visitors, and dealing with the correspondence that his secretary had sorted earlier in the day. Supper was at 6:30, followed by more work and more letters."

(Source: Mason Currey – Daily Rituals: How Artists Work; found on http://jrbenjamin.com/2013/08/08/the-old-elephants-tricks/)

Clearly, this quote doesn't cover the time of the 1900s and 1910s but I doubt Einstein significantly changed his work habits (that had enabled him to be so successful in the first place) after emigrating to the States. In any case, he certainly did not work on theoretical physics for 8 hours per day, let alone 24 hours.

Besides, being a theoretical physicist myself, I can tell you from personal experience that thinking about theoretical problems is hard work and depletes you of energy rather quickly. I don't think success in theoretical physics depends on how much time you spend (beyond a handful of hours a day) but rather on your perseverence, on what problems you choose and on your ability to come up with new ways in which to rephrase the problem.

If that still doesn't satisfy you, you can also google for biographies of successful mathematicians to see that a lot of them considered rest to be important and didn't work more than a couple hours per day. See, for instance, http://mathoverflow.net/questions/9799/how-much-work-does-it... .
Optimisations are easy only if you can accept the optimisation process to be slow, and/or the resulting code buggy.
Turkish government 'blocks Twitter and Facebook'
I am just curious to see what, this generation of 20-40 year old's who get lucky, end up doing with their cash. They do seem a bit more worldly wise than the last gen (who I blame for funding all the BS tech we see today).
How would this help if they are using the ISP's DNS servers as most people do by default?
is there any social network built on peer to peer?
> So many programmers don't even consider "overhead" of data when writing things.

Because they're using managed languages where the amount of overhead per object can't be reduced to zero. And also because, in exchange for that overhead, they get other benefits, like compacting garbage collection. But you don't get this in C.
I'll do it. Can you drop me a line, I'd like to email with you on the subject.
What are we to make of these sorts of comments from Obama and Feinstein? It seems like there is strong backing by certain political interests to make it impossible for the average phone user to encrypt their own devices in such a way that the providers cannot access certain data. This dove-tails nicely with what some consider a war on general computing...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-obama-idU...

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/262658-feinstein-vow...
There definitely is that market segmentation. It's been there for as long as I can remember. The way I've gotten around it is spending $600 on an 18-month-old laptop which was in that ~1000-1200 bracket (i.e. more than good enough for the power-user to run 3 VMs at once + multi-monitor via a dock or just HDMI out at full 2600x1460 on a 27"). A W-series IBM of Ivybridge[1,2] at $550 is a steal. 32 gigs of RAM + SSDs being as cheap as they are and you'd be golden.

[1] http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-Thinkpad-W530-i7-3720QM-Quad-...
[2] These will command a premium, so you might have to wait 30 months rather than 18, just because of the value retention IBM holds in the W/T/X lines. The benefit is you get meticulous machines most of the time.
Devil is always in the details. At a high level, we're all human, and we all want life, liberty, connection, meaning, and the pursuit of happiness. It's just that means very different things for different people, and as folks get older, they tend to define meaning for themselves in ever more specific terms. The more specific you get, the more likely your definition will come into conflict with anothers'.
I've never seen any official confirmation, but Wired reported that it had been enabled between Android devices: http://www.wired.com/2014/11/whatsapp-encrypted-messaging/. The implementations is reportedly based on TextSecure/Signal. Moxie says WhatsApp "is implementing" which is certainly distinct from "has implemented."
The main reason people do not move to Alaska is that Alaska doesn't have Basic Income (i.e. a living wage); the Alaska Permanent Fund gives each person only ~$2000/yr (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund#Annual_i...). That's not enough of an incentive to come to Alaska, given that someone who was homeless in California would continue to be homeless in Alaska with that income, and so would probably freeze. If Alaska were actually offering a "living wage" UBI, you would be able to afford to rent a warm little room with that money, and so Alaska's negatives in a cost-benefit analysis of moving there would drop considerably.

Given federal-level Basic Income, Alaska still wouldn't be truly equal to other states in livability metrics—it's still remote and constant snow is a hassle—but you'd see the "poverty-class" bracket eliminated from federal inter-state relocation flow. The homeless would no longer drift from other states toward San Francisco because it's a place where they won't freeze to death at night. (Or, as in the case here, there will be far fewer homeless relocating from Ontario down to Vancouver to escape the cold—which is a big problem for Vancouver.)

I'm not sure why Universal (as you said, planet-wide) Basic Income would need to be "pegged" to some particular cash-value in some particular currency. In economic terms, I'd prefer to calculate it as a multiple of a given area's CPI: UBI should give you the ability to buy a constant N loaves of bread/shirts/bicycles/houses, with that translating to a different amount of money wherever you might be. (And culling market outliers, such that unlivably-expensive cities aren't propped up and people become incentivized to move away from them—because now they're not stuck there given that "that's where the jobs are.")

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All that said, I wasn't actually arguing in favor of UBI; I really just wanted to argue in favor of mechanism/policy separation for law with UBI as an example. I'm not actually sure where I stand on UBI myself; I haven't given it much thought, and am mostly just picking apart your arguments with objections because they can be picked apart by these objections, rather than trying to convince you of anything per se. There might be a knock-down argument against UBI; you just haven't given it here.
It will probably happen in the future (assuming mma money is still there), but locally at first. To get to something close to the UFC they'll need to get much more competitive, meaning learning more disciplines and training harder.
Excellent points. I think your comment was best out of the numerous ones I received based on insights:length ratio.
> the last 60 or so years have really been an anomaly

Correct.

Musicians have to figure out how to make money from ways other than selling recordings, just like they did for thousands of years before recording was invented.

Recordings aren't scarce anymore, and that's a major net benefit for society.
I can see for performance. Software seems better at managing complexity if good structure is used. What example do you have where software is harder to develop and test than hardware due to complexity?
Most likely, it means they can finally afford to buy a house.

(Seriously, a house a normal person could afford anywhere else would kinda require a windfall to afford out here.)
Oh yeah, that makes sense. Esp for DRM or I/O.
Probably a distance of 1 for basically everyone
The product with the market share is the Mac.

When Apple has such a powerful computer brand, isn't it weird that the Mac operating system is called something else and spelled in a way that nobody knows how to pronounce?
That's not any different than what we already have, though. There are numerous entitlements (food stamps, Medicaid, WIC, public housing, etc.) that already do exactly the same thing.

By that token UBI is also subsidizing companies employing low wage earners, because it allows people to take low-paid jobs that they otherwise wouldn't since they wouldn't be able to survive on them without UBI. Also, marginal utility of money means that $15K going to someone who is well-compensated isn't that meaningful, but it means a lot to someone working a part-time minimum wage job, so the latter is compensated more (thus, subsidy).
It's a shame the page is totally broken, at least on my Chrome browser. CLicking on anything just tries to go to https://waytools.com/undefined.
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