skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a neat platform. I use it myself.

HOWEVER.... it DOES rely upon Smartthings "in the cloud". Every interaction with sensors is mediated through the cloud and if something goes wrong on their side (and it does) mayhem ensues.

FWIW, the developer platform consists of writing groovy scripts in their web-based IDE. The code runs on their servers, not your devices.
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I'm pretty sure kids under 20 are far, incomparably, even, more internet-savvy than the previous generations.

So I'm going to go ahead and guess this is a problem with the use of the word "savvy".

Let's take the internet out of the equation. Kids are inexperienced, short-sighted, and lack the perspective to understand the short- and long-term ramifications of what they say and do.

In short: they're (on average) dumb.

And this has never and will never change. It's part of this thing we refer to as "growing up". It's why minors can't legally vote, or buy alcohol or cigarettes.

All the internet did was give them a very public, very permanent place to be dumb.
What bugs me is how many companies these days want to include reliance on the cloud for features that don't require it at all, in the interest of gaining access to more customer usage data, but then when they turn the servers off the product becomes useless.

This has become a key thing that I look for when buying new products. If the product relies on the cloud for a feature that I think should be entirely offline, the product will be immediately returned and a negative review will be left on the resellers site.

A perfect example was the early version of the Lockitron device. It required cloud access but had a one time payment. Based on that information alone I could not justify the purchase to myself even just to play with because it's a bad business model.
You're right. In germany there is a law called "Leistungsschutzrecht" that makes it illegal to publish snippets of news stories of the big publishing houses especially in search results such as google news. After some months the publishers realised that now they weren't getting as much pageviews as before (go figure) and granted google an exclusive license to publish their stuff. So now there is a law that would require any new search engine to make deals with every major newspaper in germany.
On the other hand we do not have such a thing as fair use, so I imagine that image search is an endless ongoing lawsuit in germany, as every image thumbnail is illegal publishing of copyrighted material.
Per http://www.dol.gov/general/topic/youthlabor/wages: The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires a minimum of not less than $4.25 per hour for employees under 20 years of age during their first 90 consecutive calendar days of employment with an employer. After 90 days of employment, or when the worker reaches age 20 (whichever comes first), the worker must receive the minimum wage. Employers are prohibited from taking any action to displace employees in order to hire employees at the youth minimum wage. Also prohibited are partial displacements such as reducing employees hours, wages, or employment benefits.

HTH
Be careful of the incentives you create with these methods.

As a side note, will a poor person who is unable to have a child be allowed to adopt and receive an increase in basic income, and will the adoption process by significantly more discriminating in who is allowed to adopt compared to who is allowed to have children?
I do, actually! Thanks for sharing it :-)
Read the first answer to my post to see an example.
but that permission is always granted is inherently different from a system where no permission is ever needed.

Indeed. And that system, the one we've been using for a few decades leaves you vulnerable to bootkits in such a way that you'll never know you've been owned.

The PKI has to have a trust root anchored somewhere for the concept to work, and it can be anchored under your control using your keys.
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It's not about not having to work for an asshole, it's about being protected from abusive business practices. Not everyone can afford lawyers to sue bosses that made them work overtime without overtime pay, for example.

Usually the people who need worker protections the most are the ones being abused the most, for the same reason: they are poor and have no other choice. They have no union and their cases are usually too small-fry to be worth it.

>If you want to avoid bad bosses you need to learn a skill that makes you highly sought after or be self employed.

Ha! Good one. Now let's all gather around a campfire and talk about how our tech giant/startup employer had us working insane hours because "crunch time" or "demonstrate culture fit". You can even add your own! Don't forget to mention prohibitive cost of living in tech hubs and the mountain of student debt you accumulated so you could have a "skill that makes you highly sought after." :)
I don't understand this post at all. And I'm smart.
I was in the same camp as you until a few weeks ago. I finally gave in. Found that ublock origin doesn't block many types of ads though.
The POWER line, and all PowerPCs except the G5, are actually bi-endian, and quite a few operating systems run in little-endian mode (including all vaguely recent Linux releases I know). The G5's lack of a bi-endian mode is why VirtualPC didn't ship on it for a long time (if at all; I don't even remember).
I can. You can.

The general public can whilst the 'allow untrusted sources' box exists.

But once that box goes, the vast majority of the audience for software outside of Google Play is gone. F-Droid is already tiny as it stands!
Is that fair? What if the language of an application that the developer must extend has only "garbage" (in your opinion) ORMs? Which ORMs allow me to update an object without querying for it first? And before you say "you shouldn't do that", remember: your domain experience is different from mine. My domain experience includes guaranteed single-concurrent-accessor systems where the service isn't in any danger of racing another use to the data.

Many ORMs will double the DB<->app traffic when a single column of a single row is changed, even if only the primary key of an existing record and the NEW column value are the only things that need to be sent, and the front-end application is the only possible source for BOTH values. Sure, I'd need to check for consistency - is this record the same as when I first queried it? - but a trigger (don't laugh, that'd be a mistake) that locks a row and increments a "row_version" value on update could allow me to optimize the consistency check to a simple "SELECT id, row_version FROM my_table". I'm personally not aware of any ORM that allows for that kind of optimization, though I'm also certainly aware that I'm not an expert in all ORMs and all things related to RDBMSs.

ORMs have their place. Many solve common problems well. Just as many miss some optimizations that may be relevant to one person, but not to you.
Nobody gives a crap about these semantic games. Nest is owned by Google.

https://nest.com/about/
If you can't reduce PR size, then at the very least you can make the process less painful by splitting the work up with a tool such as https://reviewable.io/
Moteino is pretty cool if you want to DIY: http://lowpowerlab.com/moteino/
If you build for low long-term cost, you're not using wood anyway because of fungus and termites. You're using cementboard, concrete blocks, stucco, and similar. That won't burn. The roof can be corrugated metal.
My guess is there's some provision in the "Family Entertainment and Copyright Act" that they think makes this streaming legal. The text clearly makes the displaying an edited version legal and does talk about transmitted works.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/110.

The key point is in (11). the following are not infringements of copyright: "the making imperceptible, by or at the direction of a member of a private household, of limited portions of audio or video content of a motion picture, during a performance in or transmitted to that household for private home viewing, from an authorized copy of the motion picture"
I think equally a problem with raising the minimum wage as well. If people make more money on average, I can now charge more for my goods with less balking. It would be illogical for me not to raise my prices. In the end quality of life stays the same. Asking people to be illogical is... illogical.
The only way I can see Basic Income working is if the average person has a net income change of $0. That means someone making the average income of ~$45k/yr gets a $10k check from the government every year, but also has their taxes go up by ~$10k. I believe others have referred to this as a negative income tax.

From what I can tell the average salary of a hackernews reader is above $100k. Each of us would probably end up paying ~$800+ per month in additional taxes, maybe up to $1,500/mo for those making that BigCo money. [1]

The first question is, does that sound reasonable? Do you want to subtract $400 from each paycheck for the sake of total strangers? And I guess the second question is, why aren't we doing that now? How much do each of us currently give to support other people in various ways?

I think Basic Income is a good idea. If people have more money, they'll be able to click on internet ads and buy things, and that will help the companies that many of us work for. But it won't be an even exchange and many people here will end up with less disposable income. I think that it will be worth it in the long run, to ensure that the economic engine that produces our paychecks continues to function. But I don't know if every UBI proponent is prepared to deal with the short term costs.

[1] I completely made these numbers up. Could be more, could be less.
I think it won't be able to run windows program, at least at first, and the reason is probably mainly technical: detecting fork/exec pairs of calls where it should be possible to spawn a PE is non-trivial, especially since you mainly aim at standard Linux syscall compat with unmodified pre-existing GNU/Ubuntu userspace (and Linux does not even uses fork() but clone() as a syscall -- which makes the issue even more difficult to handle).

Now as for what it could be useful for, I guess a lot of people will reclaim a solution to be able to run windows program from that environment, because one of the scenario is build-systems and leaving that to a separated environment would be too bad. At least I will. In the meantime, maybe we will be able to cope with ssh.

Now back to technical stuff, I think the best way to allow execution of windows program from that environment would be a small custom program that uses a special syscall and to spawn a windows process. The end result would not be transparent (you would have to launch let's say "windows cl" instead of "cl" from the Linux env, but this is an extremely small price to pay, since: build-system already often can prepend things to command lines, for example to use ccache, we can actually implement this solution without even needing syscall support but instead TCP/IP (and maybe ssh) and switch to an accelerated para-syscallized solution when it is available -- but then the classical problem of inheriting the environment will reappear (env var to translate with heuristics, etc...)

So maybe MS thought about all that and decided they will "never" do it (until they change their mind in 10 years), and we actually should just stick to MSYS for that kind of stuff? Would be a little sad, but it's not like we are without an existing working solution.
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That's a good way to calculate it, fair enough. I concede the point.
I am picturing this more as an extreme edge case than anything else. If a person can safely do 20-25mph in an area then a self-driving car should be able to do the same thing.

It's the edge case where a car needs to cross a really high traffic area that's going to be an issue and people can't do 20mph right in front of a high traffic box store entrance etc. Further, going slow for a few hundred feet really does not take that long.
> Jekyll [...] doesn't require dependences

What? Doesn't it need Ruby and a bunch of gems? (I have been unable to install it on Windows/msys2 properly because a dependency's native extensions won't compile, so if there's an easier way I would like to know.)

Edit: or are you talking about serving the static, generated site? If so, nevermind.
> Wow, my first thought was “headers are messy and this is so restrictive”. As a lazy developer, I’ve shied away from dealing with headers, relying on abstractions provided by libraries and frameworks.

I'm sure this is a common thought, but oh man it hurts me to read it.
That seems sarcastic to the point of ignorance. Don't conflate ORMs with prepared statements. Input to a stored procedure can be sanitized like any other query.
That's some fine whataboutism, but a poor answer to my relatively straightforward question. Again, every UBI implementation I've ever seen includes basically destroying the existing welfare structure.

If someone blows their UBI due to, not just drugs/alcohol, but just plain old poor finanical management skills, what happens to them?

They've got nowhere to turn for two weeks or more because we tore all that shit up.
Perhaps this is a business opportunity for white label streaming services (as hosted SaaS or on-premise deployment).
I bet you're talking about Forbes.
Is it that generous? My understanding is that in empirical trials, direct cash transfers are one of the most effective programs for alleviating poverty.

Of course, I've seen this evidence in a different context that might be somewhat biased: GiveDirectly[1] provides some credible research and are supported by Effective Altruist organizations like GiveWell[2]. There have also been experiments specific to basic income with similar conclusions[3].

To be fair, none of these studies are remotely bulletproof. Further research would help significantly, as is almost always true in the social sciences. But, in this light, the default position should be that the poor largely wouldn't waste their money—I'd put even shaky studies up against "common sense" any day.

[1]: https://www.givedirectly.org/research-on-cash-transfers

[2]: http://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities

[3]: Unfortunately, I can't find the summary I was thinking of. The Canadian Mincome study[4] is one such experiment and the conclusions, tentative as they may be, are worth a look.

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
The ability to create very affordable, but quality shelter/housing. Cheap & effective materials, a solid, reusable design, small footprint, easily replaced components, etc.

Off the top of my head, this might look like:

Cement block housing, very limited plumbing (with ability to have a pitcher pump at the sink), composting toilet, some kind of simple fold-out cot/bed/hammock, small furnace/woodstove?, etc.

Make housing so simple & affordable that every single person can have a safe place to stay, even if that place is without luxury.
Why can't you just change the secret on the server? It would invalidate all sessions.
Okay, but I'm still not getting it. I mean, what's keeping anybody from getting their bitcoin wallet or miner on an app store? The Apple OSX app store has at least one wallet on it.

(Not that I agree with the "lock down everything" approach tech companies are taking, that is.)
HTML5 service workers allowing near parity of web apps to native apps could easily change all that. If my web app on a phone can receive push notifications from my server even when it isn't running, there's not much I can't do.
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You think UBI will eliminate corruption?

All the money collected as taxes goes to the govt every year and the govt is still in debt and taxes go up every other year.

People voluntarily invest their extra savings in the wall street, look at the level of productivity and innovation that brings. the prices of electronics keeps going down.

Looks like wall street is the clear winner here. Corruption is everywhere and only the free market reduces it.
Cached mirror:

https://archive.is/yOB5L
Maybe I'm missing something, but how would EME have stopped Netflix? They always had proper licensing and DRM for their digital content.
"They do what because it works?"

Advertise a low base fare and add extra fees/cut add-on services to make up the difference.

The checked bag fee is just one of the more recent ploys in a process that's been going on for decades.
Url changed from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/04/full_linuxonps4_hits..., which points to this.
It's a temporary measure whose end and efficacy remains unknown. It seems like the QE injection really only affected 'Wall street' with very little of it escaping to cause mainline economic activity.
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I think what OP is talking about is even though we know how to get over the walls of these gardens, the average user would not. :(
I spent my summers in rural Russia, occasionally in the winter. I'll take the insulation over the indoor plumbing and the electricity, and trust me, so would you if that was the binary choice.
I'm not sure how your view on ad blocking is entitling you to infinite media consumption of IP you didn't contribute to. Advertisers didn't make these hypothetical guinea pig sounds you like, I'm assuming.

And my views personally represent my own, not an organization, which is why I don't hide behind a dinosaur name :)
I was going to get a Nest, but now I'm having serious second thoughts.
That's a fair point. I mean it in the sense of "net better off for everyone, including the very employers who are forced to pay higher wages (assuming they weren't doing legally questionable things to begin with)."
How would there need to be a huge bureaucracy to administer it? The IRS already handles annual funds-transfer (and validation) for citizens.

Moreover, replacing welfare (which has bureaucracy to check eligibility) with a flat "everyone gets paid X" would remove the need for the bureaucracy that _currently_ exists to administer welfare programs.

It seems to me that there would be substantially lower administration costs for such a plan, since there's no need to verify whether people are eligible, other than filing tax returns. Perhaps verifying that someone is actually alive is necessary, but that still seems to be less than the current checks that exist.
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If you've been a developer for a long-ish period of time.
And could go back and tell your younger self, fresh out of college or entering your first job. What advice would you give?
And with Xcode 7 you can deploy apps to your iOS devices with a free dev account.
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In the minimum wage context, the advantages are pretty clear.

Mostly bringing people outside of productive society inside it. Homeless, unemployed, addicts etc.

This is not about making middle class college graduate parents work more.
Also without government intervention, there is competition between firms in the market. If firms wish to stay innovative (and in business), they must compete for high-quality labor. They must provide a safe product to consumers, or they will lose reputation in the market. Without government barriers to entry (regulation), when firms act in non-competitive ways or fail to innovate, competitors arise to keep them honest or put them out of business.

How did the countries with lots of government get where they are ("objectively much better places" according to you)? Did the USA always have a government that took such a massive percentage of total output? Only by extracting the wealth of capitalism can the socialist/progressive agenda even exist. We have so much prosperity in market economies that we can contemplate things like basic income.
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That's because the normal shell game with the "only for schools" taxes often involve adding 1 cent to school budgets with the new tax and subtracting 1 cent of school funding from some existing source.
Based on reading this:
http://www.hi-energy.org.uk/Renewables/Renewables.htm

and this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Scotland

...it appears most of that is wind energy, with a little bit of hydro.
Source for Jubilee? Googling it yields nothing but the christian version.
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That's great!!

Montreal is the place to be. Open, not so expansive, with easy access to North American market and it's easy to recruit internationally.

Only one real problem: the brain drain to the US

And I'm not talking about subsidies or taxes because that's a similar problem everywhere.
A lot of folks like to argue against BI by pointing out population*(BI $/person) = $$$$$ (really big number). The counter argument is that most people won't be netting the full BI as they would be paying it back in taxes somehow. The NIC is essentially BI, but with better visibility into where the break even point is on the income scale.
Directions plus a bevy of road sensors. Basically the same way you do.

It may use GPS supplementally, but never primarily.