skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is an experiment. If the experiment shows a big enough benefit (increase in productivity, reduced costs on healthcare, improvements on education, etc) then, you start thinking where is that money coming from.
I use a MacBook Pro. I run all my linux programs just using homebrew. I also have docker on there if I need to truly run something.

The battery life and screen quality are just off the charts. If I am going to stare are a screen for hours, I want crystal clear text.
I'd say in the last 6 months, for sale signs have gone up all over my neighborhood in SF. There are at least 3 on my block alone. Despite this, there is a 3 bedroom apartment two doors down from me that is asking for $10,000 a month rent, $30,000 due at lease signing.
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It's a personal decision. No need to hate on it.

There was a recent entry here in HN where a developer discussed his/her regret at not having moved to the managerial path. I am trying to find it but it's taking me some time.

It's a tough decision.
This lady has done such huge harm to Germany and to EU - where's the democracy? Why is she still in power? Germany, wake up! You're destroying not just your own country, but EU as a whole as well!

She invited the migrants and so caused the whole migrant crisis. This alone costs EU billions, forced countries to start building walls, and made it kneel down before Erdogan! Now, she's doing extra favors to him! Such a disgrace!
I've found similar situations with sites that share logins for forum/comment postings as well as disposable email services. While there were a handful that just didn't want to share their email to register, the majority were using it to harass, spam, etc.
justine musk (the ex) has an opinion about this

https://www.quora.com/Will-I-become-a-billionaire-if-I-am-de...
Merkels actions in this case are percepted very critically around here (at least in my filter bubble). I think it is quite open how this will play out for her. The public TV, where the accused has his work place, although independent formally, is force-financed by the public and widely seen as prey of the ruling parties (mainly SPD and CDU, who form the government now). It is quite possible that the ensuing discussing will scar the public TV as well and Merkel in the cross-fire.
I wish he hadn't.
Real Estate is an awesome investment, but when done correctly. The irrationalness of buying a house gets in the way at times.

To address some of your concerns:

- Time: It only depreciates if you buy at the top of the cycle and sell before it recovers it's value - assuming you're able to stay in a house long enough for the cycle to recover. Many people can't wait for cycles - when it's time to move, it's time to move. Don't buy if you're unsure about the future of your market. Definitely don't buy if you believe your market will _never_ go down. That's called irrational exuberance and the '07-08 crash was aided by that psychological non-sense.

- Money: Let's say you put 200k down into a house in SF and take out a 800k loan, so you pay 1M total for the house. If the market drops 10% over the next year, you've lost 100k in your downpayment. That sucks. Now let's say you waited 2 year from now when the market has cooled off, and you purchase the same home for 850k. You put your 200k down again, but this time, the home increases in value 10% over the next 2 years. Sounds like a better deal, right? Value is correlated to many things, but timing is one that cannot be ignored.

- All my money is locked into my house!!!!!: No, it really isn't. I don't understand why many people think this. It's called a HELOC, or Home Equity Line of Credit. You can get one for around 4% annual interest right now. You can take ~80% of your current principal in the house, and pull it out as needed through your HELOC. This is very common and a great way to use principal money as needed. So taking the same example as above, if you have ~250k in principal in your house after 1-2 years, you can use roughly 200k of that money (assuming you pay back your HELOC of course). Now if you're thinking...wait...that means I'd have 2 loans...we'll of course. But when you rent, you get to use 0% of that money for anything.

Housing, for most of us, is a long term investment - unless you just have millions lying under your mattress. Looking at things from a 1-3 year perspective is why so many people rent. Again, for some people that's their only option, but if you are fortunate to be able to plan for the 5-10-15 years down the road, you can really make housing work in your favor.

Just don't buy this year. Let things cool down :)
The point that makes universal basic income (UBI) unconvincing IMO is that it relies on a reality that it actually subverts, i.e. money. I'm not saying that we should eliminate money or provide UBI in a different, subsidiary, form. But maybe it is worth thinking on what the meaning of money, economy, markets, loans, etc will be in a world where there is a UBI.
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I never understand why the term "progressive" gets painted in a positive light?

If I eat a steak, the restaurant doesn't come to me and say "Hey, you make 10% more than the guy two tables down, so you'll pay 10% more for your steak".

Why did this sliding rule ever get enacted for taxation? If you use something, you pay for it at the established price.
In your defense, the Spotify app is a mess and it seems like they're adjusting their own UI enough to suggest that they don't quite have usability down quite yet. Don't get me started on how often it hangs or crashes, or how the timing is eerily close to when it tries to transition into/out of ads...

Snapchat just has a bad habit of introducing a feature you need to perform a gesture for and only telling you once and nowhere else.

I wouldn't blame your age on it, I just don't think a lot of these popular apps have particularly good design but get by because the service is solid and hits "good enough" for your average (usually non-technical) user.
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That's not so different from how tax and welfare currently works in America, and the current redistributions are far more complex than UBI would be.
One of the interesting explanations I've seen for income inequality is that globalization has massively increased the size of the market. So the top end for incomes has massively expanded along with it. But on the bottom end, the floor of 0 never changes. So an increase in income inequality is a natural consequence of globalization.
I feel this could benefit from some additional context.
And Miami is hot again from foreign (Russian and South American) buyers. Blocks of housing in Edgewater are razed to put up huge luxury condos.

My wife (Brazilian) and I joke that we won't have to take the kids all the way to Brazil. We just need to go to Miami.
Take a few minutes to discern your motivation.

If you're motivated by learning, you'll certainly do so. You'll probably learn about topics you hadn't considered learning about. Start small and build incrementally. Be patient, you're in for a lot of reading.

If you're motivated by profit, i.e. starting a company, then you need to be strategic. The Big Guys - Apple, Google, MS, etc. - are mostly looking at "general purpose" assistants. Keep in mind that they're putting massive effort into these assistants because the technology will become a central part of products like automobiles.

Perhaps you can find a niche market they're missing so that you can target your research and coding efforts.

As others said, pick a small, focused goal in building an assistant and add goals as you succeed.
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Post anything, offer a bounty and let people find it for you.

Similar to MITs solution to the DARPA Challenge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Network_Challenge

Was submitted as a Apply since it's just an idea it probably is better as a Ask HN.
1. If I'm looking at a complicated webpage with dynamic content, it's quite often that simply copying and pasting the URL will not bring up the exact same state I'm viewing. Indeed, when I go somewhere in Google Maps, the url doesn't change even as I scroll and zoom around the map. But when I click the button to generate a shortened Google Maps URL, I know I'm getting a link to the view is it appears right now.

2. Long urls still sometimes break when handled by some email clients.
See examples above.
"just wondering if the cultural and technical infrastructural differences between Africa and the US/Europe would create experimental distortions."

everything is tied into the conditions under which it arises. whatever the "cultural and technical infrastructural" conditions are, there would still be people freed to be "madly productive in their passionate interests."

whatever their economy and culture demand, people with more free time will be better able to fulfill those needs, right? the people best able to assess that are the people within the local economy and culture.
If they secede, they will still need the goods and services provided by the 99% - I doubt that many janitors, mechanics, painters, secretaries etc. are in that 1%. They'd need to have these servicepeople commute in and out of "rich California" every day from far off, and they probably wouldn't want unsightly public transport, enormous highways, high-rises, or low-income housing cluttering up their little paradise, so commutes of an hour or more would become normal. That would never work.
> The real problem is the collection problem: if you have a set of these 3,000 people who receive, say, $100/mo (made-up number), then I think a true test of Universal Basic Income is that the income has to come from that same set of 3,000 people.

That clearly isn't how a real UBI would work. If you literally take $100/month from everyone and then give it back to them, nothing happens. It would have zero effect.

The way UBI works in practice is that everyone gets a fixed amount of money and then everyone pays a fixed percentage in taxes, so that more of the UBI is funded by the wealthier people who pay more taxes. Which is what the experiment is doing.

In theory to make it accurate they should also impose a "tax" on the participants based on how much money they make from external sources, i.e. if one of the participants has a job paying $200/month and we want to emulate a 20% tax rate then they get a $100/month UBI but the funders take back $40 (20% of $200) as "tax" to "fund" it. Obviously that wouldn't work if someone had above average income (i.e. they made $1000/month in Kenya and would have a "tax" exceeding the UBI) because nobody would volunteer for a study that cost them money. But you could at least see what a UBI would do for poorer populations, which would seem to be the interesting question, because for richer people it just looks a lot like any other "take from the rich and give to the poor" welfare program.
I never got why people read and get this 'owner of the company makes all the money' narrative from the book.

She is obviously glorifying these man, making them the 'hero', but don't we do exactly the same in every other fictional book? It's been a while since I read a book about John and Jane that details their virtuous lives that is not played out, one way or another, on a high level (either starting or becoming a hero etc).

My take from the story was more that these people exist at every level. I remember parts (I might be grossly mistaken here, but this is what I took from it) where Rearden talks about and with his most valued employees, or where Dagny has her valued associates, where the train men that 'stand their ground' are praised. I'm not sure the 'owner makes the money' story is what she wanted to portray, or possibly I just took my biased view and ran with it while reading ;)
Photoshop uses layers to cover over a lot of missing functionality. Ideally you should be able to undo any individual change while keeping all others and change the order or location of your changes.

Instead they cram layers down your throat which does work, but it's still a compromise.
It looks like the Archive Team has already got to that: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GameFront
because we are sheep. nobody cares as long as there's no child porn.

i'm so bloody sick of my fellow gelantinous countrymen.
>Anyone who hasn't played around with their laptops once receiving the wifi password, running their chosen network analysis tools/penetration suite and messing with people whose screen you might even see from two tables away, hands up in the air.

That's not ethical, and depending on exactly what you're doing, possibly not legal either. There's very clearly an implicit assumption that coffee shop wifi is for your own personal (and relatively light use). If you want to do anything else, you should get the permission of the owners.
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@antix accelerating returns on investments lead to an even larger gap. The taxes are fine, from me a 1% guy.
libGDX is definitely not mostly made by me. Truck factor and all :) https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/graphs/contributors
Works off the idea of Six degrees of separation.
I think UBI is a band-aid on a bullet wound which is the notion of capitalism (note that I see markets as independent from the concept of private ownership of capital/land). All it does is delay the inevitable collapse of capitalism under its own weight.

The better solution is to try to decouple capital ownership from individuals, corporations, or states. I'm not sure how that can be best achieved but honestly I think automating the economy itself may be the best approach. It can be done in a piecemeal fashion, but it's a question of whether the capital owners will give up the reigns of power to machines to decide how best to fulfill demands of people. I'm not so much arguing for the nonsensical approach of Jacque Fresco because his notion requires engineering wants of people and the abolition of money. For me, money and prices are good aggregators for demand, they just need to be adjusted in their use cases (probably away from capital speculation), but even an automated economy would need something akin to a price and a unit for which the price is measured in. Otherwise, how are goods created? I don't see happy thoughts and wishing being viable means to ration in any economy.
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There already is a long term UBI scheme in Kenya's poorest region around Lake Turkana if anybody wants to see what the desperate poor do with the money.

http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/2165738...

UK's DFID and Equity bank in Kenya pay out $50/mth to 10,000+ villagers there.
The prosecution could still decide to throw the case out if they don't think it has any merit. Just the same as with any other law where the government isn't even asked for their opinion.

He would have been prosecuted anyway. If the government hadn't greenlight it under that law it would run under the label of the general insult law.

In practice this decision shouldn't have changed anything for him. It just sent a message: "In Germany the courts are independent. We won't interfere, even if we could."
It seems strange that your definition of "hiding" is "not present in the US". Is most of the population of the world then a "hidden" group of people? That sounds a bit condescending.
I'm sure most other people are just as tired of arguing against this kind of silly Randian nonsense as I am. I wish Thiel's braindead Seasteading Institute had succeeded in building their dream island in the middle of the ocean. Then we could all watch it collapse in utter failure and not have to have this tiresome conversation anymore -- we could just point at the seagull-shit-covered ruins and move onto different topics.
Archive Team is _always_ on the case. Their Warrior VM to help archive sites going away is a great VM to run locally or with free credits on Digital Ocean.

http://tracker.archiveteam.org/
A digital signature is reasonable if it can be used to produce a warning but not a denial.

In other words, if my computer wants to pop up a “This will void your warranty!” warning the first time I plug in a cheap peripheral that has not been validated, I think that is fair use and buyers are free to continue and accept any consequences. On the other hand, I do not think the original manufacturer has the right to outright prevent the use of unsigned-but-standards-compliant devices, since that wanders into “you actually leased and never owned your device” territory.
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Does that "income" count capital gains?
Very interesting. But closed. Not open.
Thanks for putting so much in your comment, I really appreciate it especially since is coming from a parent.

Limiting him to electronics creates however another issue, it will get him bored - we have only one kid, what is he supposed to do?

I like seeing him happy and having fun but I also think he spends too much time in front of the computer though playing games will still be better than watching countless hours of Youtube since will help him think more instead of being passive starring at the screen.

Me and my wife we are always busy with something and this may be our mistake too.
you pay them a commission because real estate deals can get ugly, fast, especially in competitive markets like in the coastal US.

a good agent has seen it all before, knows what to do when the seller or buyer starts making threats or is trying to angle the deal somehow. he knows what lawyers to call, what finance people to call, and yes, networks and has relationships with agents to get you properties that haven't hit the market yet.

out of my peer group who has ever bought property, i'd say a good third of them had some kind of issue during the deal that required an expert to mitigate.

of course a shitty real estate agent isn't worth their pay - but that goes for any job. but otherwise, it's the same old shit -- things are going great, what am i paying you for? things are going shitty, what am i paying you for?
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Been to Miami lately? Take a drive around Edgewater. Foreign money is not a myth.

The biggest problem is operational for these huge towers. The occupancy rates are all over the place with wild fluctuations. It makes things like staffing and water pressure difficult to manage.
I'm aware of at least two old PCs of mine that are still in my mother's garage. One is a Pentium 100 that was primarily used as a router/firewall for my local network so there probably isn't much "data" on it. The other was slightly newer and may actually contain some of my old files. I think I'll bring them home the next time I'm there and see if I can find anything significant on them.
It's hiding from the IRS not the US. Apple still makes what's going on clear to the SEC which is just a different branch of the US government, stock holders, etc.
No. If a fusion reactor fails, the fusion plasma would dissipate in less than a microsecond. There are no secondary outputs so the plant would simple "turn off". Unlike a fission reaction which can occur spontaneously on its own[1] the amount of energy to keep a fusion reaction going is tremendous, without that energy it stops.

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-nuclear-re...
One idea is to reduce the budget. There is no reason government needs to be "this big."

If we did that, we would all pay less taxes (both low income and high income earners).
> Super-high earners in California have marginal rates over 60%. How is that just?

And yet after tax one of those super-high earners will still take (way) more money home than people who earn less.
Right but that goes against the narrative which permeates indie media where the 1% are freeloading devils with offshore accounts who are running the state into the ground because they are not paying their fair share of taxes.

Mind you I'm not a 1%er. Not that that should have any bearing. But indie media have their dead horse they like to climb on and it wears thin.
The SSA is even worse than the IRS - look at these password requirements as an example:

http://i.imgur.com/fkWNDF3.png

(exactly 8 characters, >1 number, >1 letter, no symbols, case insensitive).
On the flip side, learning resources will continue to improve. Now days all one would have to do is google "database optimizations" and immediately see things like indices etc. Furthermore if they're using a framework, which most are, the search becomes "how to speed up django" which leads to a lovely documented page hand holding you through whatever you need to do.
Why not tax consumption if your concern is consumption? Tax (NET_INCOME-(NET_SAVINGS+POVERTY_LEVEL)) or something.

EDIT: The responses are all assuming the tax is regressive. Note the POVERTY_LEVEL constant in there. And the tax rate itself could be progressive. 0% under 20k (if that's the poverty level), 15% on the next 30k, 25% on the next 50k, etc.
Verizon has no moral responsibility to provide jobs anywhere.
Factorial recursion solution is flashy? It's supposed to be high school level stuff.
Having society dependent so heavily on such a tiny fraction of the population makes it particularly vulnerable to events that affect that tiny slice.

Especially for governments that are bad at long term planning for tougher times.
Whining about all of societies ills being 'their' fault not 'ours' is toxic.
I don't see how a lot of things are acceptable. This is law. I choose not to have an opinion on it.
>If there is legislation on the statute then how can Merkel have it ignored

Because Erogadan is not a German Citizen.

>don't you believe in the rule of law

There is no international rule of law between Turkey and Germany.
I remember this story, and people familiar with the industry (tptackek and friends) explained the situation quite well why Facebook did the correct thing, although not fair for unfamiliar with the industry readers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754194
And yet, it's much less risky that what everyone else has been doing, since mean and median incomes have declined.
I assumed that by "go to jail" you meant actually be convicted. Yes, of course you can get arrested; that doesn't mean it's actually illegal, and we were talking about the laws, not police attitude.
My previous car was a Mazda RX-8, and my current car is a Nissan LEAF. I feel under-represented.
While this may be true in the US, most prosecutors are neither elected nor appointed by elected officials in Germany.
Interesting, my son is in the same grade, 4. Would you mind sharing the Khan courses your son follows? Maybe I can get him do some coding. I'm a coder myself and I know this can be fun. Thanks.
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Do you like the rename? It is worth mentioning that Apple is taking environment seriously, as they put the hint on their official environmental page.. http://www.iphonebites.com/apple-website-hints-the-new-name-of-os-x-on-environmental-webpage/
Facebook wouldn't exist without the loads of engineers developing it. If it was only for Zuckerberg it may never have left his dorm room.