skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lines being tangent to the circle would also work.
If, like me, you wonder how you started reading a piece about making and ended up reading a piece by a person who hates beards, here is a nice piece about "critique drift": http://fredrikdeboer.com/2015/03/10/critique-drift/
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11273388
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The housing voucher wouldn't cover school books, electricity bills, gas to get to work, or materials to keep a small business going. All of which also come up in the GiveDirectly outcomes.

On point 3, the initial Givedirectly interventions gave cash to the poorest members of a village, which created resentment and social problems; going forward, they just give money to everyone in a village. If anything, they've learned to use /fewer/ evaluations on giving money out, and explicitly avoid getting involved in accountability beyond exit surveys. The point is to reduce overhead and increase impact, exactly what we hope to have from a basic income scheme.

I'm definitely in the camp that believes that basic income doesn't take the place of things like alcohol rehab programs or mental health facilities. But it will be a huge boon to people who are poor because they don't have money, people living paycheck to paycheck in bullshit jobs (if they can manage to find jobs at all), which is an increasingly large slice of the US population.
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How much money do companies spend on Super Bowl ad for a 30 seconds of publicity.

How much publicity has Google received for $1 million? (Much less than that actually, since they won)
Apparently 1920 cpu's so maybe 200 kW?
Force is only one form of influence. As recently posted on HN, search engines have a strong influence over their users' thinking and decision making.

Article: https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-internet-flips-elections-and-...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11255633
That's a view put forward by some libertarians (as far as I know a minority), not a party policy.
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How does your notion of post-scarcity square up with the laws of thermodynamics? Even if you have vast amounts of capital deployed the amount is still finite and thus en masse has a finite capacity to transform a finite amount of energy.

While I can imagine having such great amounts of capital deployed and resources available that maintaining an unbelievably high standard of living for the average person could become vanishingly small, I find myself also believing that, with such material available, even grander plans requiring still even more resources would be concocted, plans that could only be achievable at the limits of what would then be available. Plans of that magnitude would be operating under conditions of what we might call scarcity, that is, they would require in those undertaking them the ability to economize.

What do you think?
Which also links to this: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/02/24/the-cashle...
Google's infrastructure gives it an extra boost, but even the single machine version can beat the distributed version 25% of the time.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/708489093676568576
Remember that this is about Ontario, not Canada. Ontario happens to be the largest sub-sovereign debtor in the world and has had spreads over underlying CAD govie benchmarks increase dramatically over the past few years.

Unless this plan is revenue neutral, which is likely not going to be the case, markets will continue to charge ever greater premiums for borrowing. Ontario desperately needs to get its fiscal house in order; it spends like it's a sovereign with the capacity to access a broad set of monetary and fiscal measures that only sovereigns have.
begins? where have you been? the big push to debit cards and gradually making procurement of any reasonable quantity of cash (especially given inflation these days) almost impossible has been going on for ages.
They're surrounded by confirmation that it is. Plus way too focused on the details.
If the average Joe picks a few stocks manually, and holds them, how does HFT wipe him out?
Facebook are working on a rival AI.
True

Given most of us have a printer at work, it may be environmentally more efficient if we just print stuff at work.

That said I am disorganized enough that being able to print at the very last minute is kind of handy!

Printer makers must hate people who buy a $50 and use it once in a blue moon and hardly ever buy a cartridge.
Meet the Traveling Entrepreneur who is cycling 10,000 Km across India
Yes, definitely. That's one of the advantages startups can have over incumbents.
That's not right. It just needs to choose equally good or better moves in playouts. It doesn't need to anticipate when its opponent plays bad moves, that's just a bonus. Basically: if you're good enough you don't need psychology, you just play the winning move.
They did loads of that in the cloud during training.
They could also rent out the voting rights to the highest bidder. (Just like you can already rent out your shares to shorters.)
It's hard to know when services are really wanted. One measure that absolutely does not capture information about the service being wanted is sales. Pure sales information fails to control for the neurological process that generated the decision to buy, and takes an incorrectly agnostic position that the business has no social obligation to care how that buy signal was generated in the customer's brain.

There are all sorts of ways to induce an impulse in someone which, if given the opportunity to engage their higher level thinking processes, would be described as "unwanted." Most often, the victim of such manipulation is unaware and could even mistakenly report later that the choice was made solely of their own volition. Others may rationalize later that it was "wanted" even if they didn't "do the wanting" at the moment of purchase.

But the existence of priming, SEO tactics, in-app currency manipulations, pay-for-pain-release, bank overdraft fees and holds on deposits designed to cause such fees, etc. all represent dark patterns (which benefit from data and consumer prediction) that are by definition based on an open acknowledgement that customers will be doing things they unequivocally don't want to do.

There is no one set of decision-making processes that "is me." There's the lizard brain me that often makes choices that the homunculus me disapproves of, and a whole mess of competing interests, distractions, and irrationalities in between. The mistake of saying that a consumer purchase choice is a clean signal of wanting is that you don't know which "them" did the wanting, and which "them" is allowed to approve / disapprove of it.

My general belief is that we should be skeptical. When someone enters into a purchase behavior that is impacted by advertising phenomena or data-driven optimizations on the order of how fast their eye saccades sweep over a monitor, we should heavily discount the degree to which that signals a valid want, and instead view it as an instance where the person was grifted out of money for a thing they didn't choose to buy and then primed to back-fill their account of their choice with a rationalization that maintains their volition.

In a very real way, this means that the more sales certain organizations accrue, the more direct evidence we have that they are not wanted or value-creative.

It's similar to seeing a very successful loan shark and saying, "well, if the loan shark is successful it must be because people wanted the loans." No, psychological pressures were used to convince someone to bear a risk and make a type of purchase they didn't want. The success of the loan shark is a direct testament to the value they have destroyed.
Speaking of the Kindle version, caveat emptor: http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R5M8INIR1QJ63/
The $1M gets paid out by Google whether AlphaGo wins or loses. I just goes to charity if it wins.
People already play this game. Enough people to compete away the profits to be made serving the index funds with market making.
Images were illuminating but was hoping for a little more depth when I went into the article. It did lead me down the "web rabbit hole" to find this page of "Aerial Photographs Reveal Mysterious Faces" http://io9.gizmodo.com/aerial-photographs-reveal-mysterious-... which I found rewarding
The article doesn't really provide many details so it's hard to tell. I don't think they can order a wiretap under CALEA since, like you said, that only applies to telecom providers. And even if they determined that WhatsApp was a de facto telecom, CALEA still has exceptions for end-to-end encryption.
> banks whose shares are often packaged in index funds tend to offer higher fees and rates for such services as account maintenance and deposit certificates than banks whose stocks are rarely or never included in index funds

Obvious explanation: the banks packaged in index funds are the largest banks. People don't tend to switch banks all that often, so larger banks charge larger fees to take advantage of their existing customers whilst smaller banks offer better deals to get customers. The explanation in the article makes no sense; it's in shareholders' interest that the banks they own shares in make as much money from customers as possible. (Also, since either outcome could be used to justify their conclusion, this is not science.)
What's interesting is that Go (and its predecessors, Limbo and Newsqueak) is strongly influenced by Niklaus Wirth's languages, especially Oberon, both syntactically and in its design and simplicity. Before C++ and Java, Pascal and its cousin, Modula/Modula-2, were widely used as teaching languages. So it wouldn't be too surprising if Go becomes popular as a teaching language. Wirth's languages are all eminently suitable for this purpose.

(Pascal was originally designed to be a language for teaching, and also became widely used to write pseudocode for algorithms, which you'll find in a lot of technical CS papers; the pseudocode tends to be a close approximation of Pascal.)
You know, they have index funds that do value investing?
People consume bad products because they are in bad circumstances. Maybe they are too stressed to cook and can't afford a healthier alternative, and then become addicted to the sugar content (McDonald's), maybe the company has a monopoly on something people need for work and school so people have to buy it (Comcast), or maybe human psychology makes us susceptible to certain kinds of deception (Fox News).

Claiming that a product can't be bad if people consume it is incredibly naive.
Awesome. Thank you! I'm guessing Android doesn't have anything like this being that there's no single chip SoC design across Android phones.
Money laundering laws require your driver's license number when transfering accounts to verify who you are. They discriminate against those who can't get a license for some reason.

Copyright laws get rid of fair use by DMCA takedown notices of any material that has even a small bit of copyrighted material even if it was nonprofit or educational or parody and covered under fair use.
The problem with that vaccine is that they only give it to young people. If you're over 30, you're outta luck. Basically they assume that if you're over 30 and are sexually active, you already have HPV.
<Large tech company> knows Everything about you and the threat of having all that information looming over peoples head ought to cause fear. If the data is leaked and mined, lives are harmed and sometimes irreparably. Clearly there is evidence of damages and I think a lawsuit makes sense. If you poison the air with mercury causing a significant chance of fetal brain damage, you get sued. Why should you not be sued if you leak information that leads to suicide, divorce, etc...?
Ask HN: Working in software industry outdoors?
I'm a software engineer with 10 years of experience and a pretty crazy love for the outdoors. I hike, climb, go on adventures in the mountains and just like being outdoors in general. Are there any interesting companies that can fulfill the side of me? What kind of a job in the software industry would get me to do software engineering outside at least part of the time? And I'm not talking about working from home in my backyard :)
Similarly to what the other reply said, if the claim is that these countries can only afford to provide healthcare for their citizens because the US subsidizes their defense, then the implication is that the US is paying for both their defense and healthcare at the expense of its own people.

But the US military budget is enormous, and has largely failed to achieve any of the major foreign policy goals it's been applied towards. After 15 years of wars in the Middle East things are as bad as ever. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria are hardly on the road to stable democratic governments such much as bogged down (to one degree or another) in internal conflicts and civil wars. Russia and China are already kept in check by NATO, around 2/3rds of whose ~3.5 million active military personnel are not US based, aside from other non-conventional military deterrents (e.g. nukes and economic sanctions). Framing US foreign policy as "good vs bad" with the military as being the only thing keeping the evil foreign hordes at bay is borderline agitprop.

That aside, my point was that the money is there for UBI, it's just a question of what other programs to take it from. Military spending and healthcare are two of the largest portions of the budget (along with social security, which would also be partially replaced by a UBI), so while people might debate the merits and dangers of cutting those programs, the money could certainly be found without significantly increasing taxes on the rich.
You hid the point pretty well then, because those who engage in "domestic violence" and "fights that escalate into _blank_" are certainly not "non-criminals". So that leaves only accidents:

Widespread $PHYSICALOBJECT ownership among non-criminals has side effects that harm innocents. Not the case with $VIRTUALOBJECT.

You know that regardless of what you use for $PHYSICALOBJECT or $VIRTUALOBJECT that statement will be true right? You also did not state exclusivity among non-criminals, is that because you know that is impossible? If that is the case then you've hidden the point very well.
"If you trust OpenWhisperSystems" is a pretty huge condition – the exact condition we're discussing here. The advantage of open source is that you don't have to trust OWS, you have to trust the source code, which you can do by auditing it yourself.
The article quotes a scientific paper. Chances are better than even that the paper controls for something as obvious as size.

To the articles credit, they linked the study they are talking about. I am still downloading the pdf, so can't say anything concrete yet.
What if they picked one small, area, perhaps somewhere in SoMA, and built all the skyscrapers there and not anywhere else? That way the buildings are all centralized and nobody gets gentrified.
Ember.js is already proved, the best framework out there nowadays. Corporate ready, production ready, future proof. I'm really looking forward, that Type Script support will be landing soon in the framework, so it will be a concrete solid environment. The whole addon ecosystem, with Ember Data and Ember CLI is just top-notch.

You can check here with this tutorial, how easy to write a complex application with Ember.js: http://yoember.com
http://blog.thedataincubator.com/2016/03/calculus-is-so-last...
/source

gawd I'm tired of paywalls. If only I had a couple hundred friends with scanners we could... actually I guess I should just stop reading garbage like this and stick to worthwhile stuff like analysis/calc texts
Sorry, did "static factory" sound scary? How about "use a function to create your objects" instead?

So instead of doing this:

Foo foo = new Foo("bar");

You can do this:

Foo foo = Foo.of("bar");
All AI does is remove the ability to progress through the ranks accurately via online play. Unregulated online competition will suddenly become a bumpy road full of Elo-breaking presences.

I gather this may be a Big Deal, but except insofar as it kills the sport by a thousand cuts, 'Young Go Prodigies' have nothing to worry about.
Just a few ways to open your options since these are how I got my jobs:

- a small personal project was how i was able to get my first job

- LinkedIn was not my primary source of job links. I googled for job search boards PER city/area/state. this one landed me my 2nd job because I found my company via geekwire.
Original copyright law expired after so many years to fall into the public domain so others could use it and it made copyright holders invent new copyrights to encourage better intellectual works.

Only Mickey Mouse was set to expire so Disney had the laws changed. The same with Time Warner aka DC Comics and Superman. So other companies can't use them as they will never fall into the public domain.
Thanks for the clarification. Does anyone know how Android's crypto at rest compares to iOS?
You should get rid of that old thing, and upgrade to a early/mid-2000s HP LaserJet 2300d. It's about the same size, but it's far faster at printing (especially graphics), has a USB interface, you can add a JetDirect 10/100 ethernet card, and is a true Postscript printer. It's also extremely reliable, and the ink cartridges are cheap on Ebay.

The 2400 series (which replaced the 2300 series) looks pretty good too, and has built-in ethernet (no extra card needed), but that's when they switched manufacturing to China, so I don't know how reliable it is.
>You don't see humans trying to keep bacteria "in the loop", why expect otherwise from our artificial progeny?

Bacteria didn't design us. We will design our artificial progeny and so try to keep them friendly. Whether that will work, time will tell.
//Lots// (flood the market with) of luxury condos and apartments and hotels (for long, medium, and short duration living).

Extensive design validation, solid construction, not cutting corners to badly, generally actually build them to last.

Plan for maintenance to happen during the building's lifetime.

* Have a 'car/dog wash' area in...

* A parking garage with room to actually park cars for families.

* Actually acoustically isolate rooms (even within the same unit) for privacy.

* Design ventilation paths that route 'waste' air away from /all/ residence windows.

* If you aren't going to hard-ban smokers from occupying residence within the building, make sure that there are designated smoking areas on each floor. (A scrubbed exhaust room).
A "static factory" is just a static method. You know, a function. Nothing over-engineered or enterprisey about using functions to allocate objects.
Does that mean that marathon runners will no longer be in regular use in industry, and be relegated to special events justified in part by aesthetics, and also by audience spectacle?

Likewise, if machines can do quality accounting, does that mean that accounts will be relegated to special accounting events, just like there are marathon events, where people come for aesthetic enjoyment or audience spectacle?
It wouldn't be expensive to rent that much "cloud" hardware for a few hours.
Unless someone programs one to develop free will and decide on its own destiny. Which someone will no doubt, when that becomes possible.
The article title claims "advertising doesn't work"--a rather bold claim, in my opinion. However, the content seems to heavily qualify that claim.

For example, ROI--it seems you'd really prefer to see more attention paid to it, in which case advertising very well might work.

The thoughts seem to drift a bit, as well:

"More and more, people are turning to services like Netflix, Spotify or even pirating, for the simple fact that they allow us to consume our media both conveniently and advertisement free."

That train left the station a looong time ago. Heh ; o )

Sympathetic. Thanks for sharing.
If the economy isn't doing well, then the government SHOULD be running a deficit. If they run a surplus, then they're depressing the economy even more.

Also, running a deficit by providing services (universal income included), is far better for the working poor and middle class than Quantitative Easing (i.e. jacking up asset prices, which predominantly benefits the rich).

Universal income is essentially the same as Steve Keen's suggestion of a modern debt jubilee, in which the level of private debt is returned to reasonable levels by expanding the money supply and paying down privately held debt. This would reset the clock, so to speak, allowing economic growth to continue. Whether such a policy makes ecological sense is, of course, a separate issue.

Edit: clarified "paying down privately held debt"
> The advantage of open source is that you don't have to trust OWS, you have to trust the source code, which you can do by auditing it yourself.

No. That is not the advantage of open source. The advantage is that as long as somebody audits the code, you don't have to.

And in this case, you don't need to trust OWS to do the right thing, only to refrain from pushing rogue updates (ie, to only sign versions that are actual releases). You can still read the code yourself.
That looks like a sketch of a decent business plan. I hope you didn't mean it as a suggestion for legislation?
And Kernighan's writing really is a few levels above the typical quality of textbooks.

K&R really is a classic; even as a beginning programmer it rewarded so much on first and almost every subsequent reading.
I guess it depends on what you mean by upper tier. Goldman Sachs pays well. JP Morgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, BNP, Citi, Morgan Stanley, TD Bank, Standard Chartered, etc... These places absolutely don't pay well even compared to medium quality established tech firms. Certainly they don't pay well compared to hedge funds, private equity, VC, and other types of boutiques. And if it is even remotely adjusted for quality of life, they begin to look horrible.

The larger banks like JPM etc go out of their way to suppress wages. They are sort of the IBM of finance. Lots of big, senseless, ill-conceived technology re-orgs all the time happening to create bonus fuel for someone up the food chain. These places certainly don't recruit the best, and often dupe decent developers into doing totally foolish things, like working in a proprietary language for years that heavily damages your ability to get other jobs, for salaries and bonuses that don't even afford that great of a lifestyle in the high-cost cities you're required to live in to work for them.

Bonuses at banks are also often paid in the form of bank stock and vests on a rolling basis. This stands in contrast to straight cash bonuses paid by many other types of firms, which have the benefit of not immediately being correlated directly to your regular income stream (e.g. if things go downhill and you're laid off, at a bank this often means that stock bonus has lost considerable value and you could be screwed out of a large portion due to vesting issues ... whereas a cash bonus could have been invested in some way that helped diversify and hedge against risks of losing your job).

Comparing with start-ups is not very useful since start-ups also seek to greatly suppress wages by marketing jobs as lifestyles instead of a fair trade of labor for wage.
That isn't an actual answer to the question, though. With UBI, you get a fixed amount and just end up paying more taxes to make up for getting the UBI in the first place. NIT means instead of taxing you for the amount of money they give you you just stop getting the money.
The Five Stages of Fascism (1998) [pdf]