skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went back and reviewed the YC Fellowship thread and sama's AMA thread because I got curious about this.

I would like to understand why you are reluctant to take investment. As I see it, there are two possible paths:

1) You take investment from YC, you become part of the community, you get advice, but your desire to remain King is respected. It seems to me that if this were the outcome, moving to the Bay Area for three months and incorporating in the US is a fair exchange.

2) You take investment from YC, you become part of the community, you get advice, AND there is now a perceptible push to make Tarsnap more like a "make-me-Rich" company rather than "keep-me-King" company: they keep on suggesting that you raise more money and start doing things that would increase the valuation of the company but that you would fundamentally disagree with, etc. etc. Certainly this would not seem like a fair exchange.

IOW, what I am trying to ask you is this: is the fundamental reason why you are reluctant to apply to YC Core is that you are concerned that your desire to remain King will be challenged? Or is it something else entirely that I am not seeing? Because certainly incorporating in the US is a schlep, and finding housing in the Bay Area is a schlep, but I can't imagine those being the fundamental reasons for not applying to YC considering the benefits of the community, and getting a bunch of money from YC, if it comes with no strings attached (aside from the moving and incorporation mentioned above), can't be a bad thing, even if you don't need it.
I don't think the fixed basket of goods is the best measure of purchasing power for this case.

I'd use the income value (aka "economic status") as a comparison, since IMO, you're really trying to scratch at "what is two and a half year's income worth now vs back then?" That figure is £181,600.00 from the same page you link, or £72,640.00/year.

Now, why don't laborers make that much now is an interesting question perhaps. I suspect it's because the relative position of a laborer in 1300 was middle of society and today it's not. Consider how valuable a strong, healthy, reliable worker would have been then compared to today.

There's also a labor figure on that page, which would amount to £27,656/yr, which seems inline (perhaps slightly low) for a laborer today.
There isn't huge support. Step out of the bubble...

It's just the new generation of kids flirting with communism.
That's over 2.5 years, not per year.
Welcome to the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
That's why Signal uses triple DH. That setup allows for full deniability.
I checked the homepage. There is no obvious information about the type of license for this, price if any, etc.

"Private beta soon" says (to me) that it will be proprietary, and the fact that the "first class" clients are JavaScript and .Net makes me think the backend is .net based also, which pretty much implies running on Windows server.

This of course is all speculation, but without information what else can we do?
Agree for a website. I'm selling software licenses, avoiding personal liability would be interesting (if it was affordable).
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> Minimum-wage jobs would by necessity then need to pay more

The whole reason the debate is becoming so prominent now is just because minimum-wage jobs and even non minimum wage jobs will be replaced by robots/ai. The goods may even become cheaper.
Ah yes. Someone small and very easy to shape and to scar, that looks up to you and loves you in the only way someone totally independent does = the only one you are allowed hit.

Not only is that totally effed up, but there is hardly anything that speaks in favour of it.
You need to read some analysis of this before asking basic questions like that. There are factors like unemployment rate, tax, and government efficiency to consider.
It's important to distinguish between rights- and incentive-based objections to redistribution and efficiency-based objections to government spending. The government as an organization of humans is very inefficient and wasteful at accomplishing actual tasks (e.g., building bridges), but it's actually very efficient at redistributing wealth through pure transfers (e.g., the administrative overhead of social security is negligible compared to the amount redistributed). Thus the best objections are grounded in bad incentive effects or property rights, not the inefficiency of government.
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The cost of inflation is spread across the whole economy. The brunt will mainly be borne by those holding large liquid cash reserves and owning loans, not minimum wagers.
Bob: so no workstealing with native threads anymore, just tiny fibers?

looking forward to your jit. have a look at potion, it's really simple and fast.
With a 50k salary you can afford a 125k house at the same 1300 ratio. This seems about right for a rural area but not, of course, for an urban one. Of course neither the laborer in 1300 or today is able to spend their full salary for 2.5 years straight on a dwelling. They would have to save over a much longer period of time as that 2 pounds a year has to cover food, clothing, coal etc.

Sure both Louis and the laborer didn't have central heating and the internet but Louis could afford whatever WAS available for luxury and the laborer today can afford those 'luxuries' that even royalty didn't have access to 700 years ago.

Not saying social differences aren't huge but they are influenced by perception, social norms, media, and both absoulte and relative levels of comfort/luxury. It's hard to compare directly.
From the $1 trillon stated in the article, spread across 300 million people, each person would get around $3000 a year. That honestly doesn't seem like it would help a lot, considering it would replace current welfare systems. The Swiss proposal of around $2600 a month, implemented in the US, would cost nearly $10 trillion a year which doesn't really seem feasible.

I don't think the problem with basic income is an ideological one, its a numbers one. There simply isn't enough money to implement it without massively increasing taxes.
> This would be okay for experimentation. It will not be able to run as a UMTS or LTE base station or anything like that. Mostly because the software required to do that is not available and not feasible to be done "from scratch". Those protocols are huge and riddled with patent claims.

People said the same of GSM. Now we have open source implementations. It takes a long time and it's a lot of work, and it's certainly not a given that it'll work, but I don't share your certainty that it'll never happen (yes, I am aware that LTE is considerably more complicated than GSM).

> A minor issue would be that UMTS and LTE base stations need 0.1ppm frequency precision (a GPS lock) which is missing here.

A quick google suggests 0.1ppm is what the standard specifies for "local area BS". For a "home BS" (femtocell I guess) they give 0.25ppm.

From the datasheet of their oscillator chip (RPT7050A), its frequency stability vs temperature is on the range +/-0.05 - +/-2.5 ppm depending on the frequency (I didn't look at which specific accuracy it gets on the common LTE bands).

So, you're probably right that this won't make it into commercial 4G LTE equipment without using an external oscillator. However, I suspect this is plenty just to get handsets to lock on to your signal for protocol experimentation. The GSM standard has some really strict requirements for frequency stability too, but people have made workable test networks with way less stable equipment.

> I wonder if the authors misrepresent their product knowingly, or if it's just a lack of knowledge.

Lime Micro is well known, they made the RF transceiver on the BladeRF for example. They know their stuff, so I don't think it's lack of knowledge at least.
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It's JS hate that needs to die. Maybe there's a name for a condition where people are so stuck up in their ways they can't accept objectively positive change (of The web platform).

As for this bs code, the people who wrote this will find other ways to discredit themselves, it's not a job of a platform's maker to babysit everyone and prevent their stupid decisions.

Be thankful that you can actually override this due to platform's (and JS's) openness, it could've been far worse, in many other cases you'd need disassembly to fix something like that.
I think that once landlords, housing markets and other needs-businesses such as utilities and food providers realize they can hike their prices to absorb the basic income, there will still be plenty of people collecting waste.
No, the power generation in Norway, like pretty much elsewhere, is paid for by the power consumers, not oil revenues; it also predates discovery of oil deposits in the North Sea.
The Canberra is a lot bigger than a U-2 (crew of 2-3 instead of 1, has a large bomb bay that got repurposed for instruments/recon payloads, etc). Also, there are probably a lot more spare parts kicking around -- over a thousand were built, and it only went out of front-line service (last operator: the Indian Air Force) in 2007.

The SR-71 is monstrously expensive to operate and flies in an utterly different regime -- high supersonic/low hypersonic flight, at higher altitude. And, again, it has a smaller payload.

It's kind of amazing that an aircraft specc'ed in 1944 as an emergency wartime replacement for the de Havilland Mosquito is still flying in anything other than an air show display role.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito
Most interesting passage to me:

> Strikingly, the brain atlases were similar for all the participants, suggesting that their brains organised the meanings of words in the same way. The scientists only scanned five men and two women, however. All are native English speakers, and two are authors of the study published in Nature. It is highly possible that people from different backgrounds and cultures will have different semantic brain atlases.

Would love to see this study performed on a much larger, diverse, group, to see what similarities and differences there are. Also, same person at different ages.
The EU report on TTIP "State of Play":
http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2016/april/tradoc_1544...

EU page on the negotiations: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1230
OHHH! That is so sick. 174Kb of macros to implement a Conway's Game of Life
...and how do you stop companies from hiking prices to absorb it?
Helping StartUps to focus on their growth rate
So you'd say that it's a good thing? How is hidden complexity good?
Minimum-wage jobs would by necessity then need to pay more

That's the opposite of what's being proposed: the minimum income comes from the government, not employers. Minimum income can replace minimum wage.

For example, say I'm a landlord. If everyone all of a sudden had an additional "base" income, why wouldn't I increase my rents to absorb at least a portion of that? Then, only people who had a job would still be able to afford to rent from me, while those on the basic income would be unable to afford it. I'm not out either way.

Sure, but now that you've raised the price, there's an opportunity to undercut you that didn't exist before. The result ultimately depends on the supply and demand of housing. Just think of it like a bunch of slightly-richer people moving into the neighborhood. Prices will rise, but not enough to take all the new residents' extra money.
>we see 'new evidence' stories almost every day that flush whatever last week's 'wisdom' was.

I guess the process you are talking about involves creating a new model which is able to account for the causal relationship for a larger set of observations, compared to the previous model. In this way, the previous model can be either flushed, or if the conditions under which it fails are known, we can use it for specific cases. Isn't physics prone to the same effect, only to a lesser frequency? Which might be worrisome, because if the opportunity to revise a model comes every 100 years, that might mean that you'll spend your whole life interpreting the world through an inferior model.
That's a real shame indeed as the biggest strength of Go IMHO is exactly the culture it emerged out of.

Reading the source of the Go stdlib is a good exercise in preparation of "letting go" of your idiosyncratic perspective. In that regard it doesn't matter if you are coming from Java or Haskell or any other "world".

"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points." - Alan Kay

(who probably hates Go but that's OK too ;)
If it was a small company based out of Iceland, or South Africa, or Singapore, it would still be in the same legal situation. The company (assuming just a single incorporation presence) is under the laws of the country it's from, and Joe Random user from across the internet is internationally accessing it.

National law cannot enforce anything on organizations not within the national jurisdiction, without international cooperation. However, they can (attempt to) stop their own citizens from accessing the international service.
Absolutely. And even those who can't / won't work _still_ won't be able to find a place to live or eat well because rents and food prices will go up to compensate for it.
Which is a good point. Ultimately all costs get passed on to the consumer -- so where does it end?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Financial_Fable
I wouldn't sweat the Newegg terms if you're playing the game "straight". Those terms are for things like browser-hijackers and other underhanded means of generating false affiliate referrals.

(Yes, it's great that you're reading the full terms of agreements. Too many people don't. But at the same time, you can't let ambiguous worst-case what-ifs paralyze you in business, or you'll never get anywhere. You can't steal second base while keeping your foot safely on first and all that.)
I'm not trolling. Perhaps you mean to say that his theory is difficult to falsify or even non-falsifiable. I disagree with that, it predicts a specific outcome under certain conditions. His experiments show results, these experiments are difficult to reproduce, that doesn't mean there isn't some unknown mechanism at work and it's just methodological error as you assert. So if you are going to do this dolphin experiment and you have to account for this hypothetical mechanism I'd do the experiment at the same time overlooked by the same scientist (skeptic or believer doesn't matter in the psi hypothesis).
Also read:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ruperts-resonance/
Some intellectually satisfying jobs (academic, author, artist, ...) pay badly. But many others are well paid, and probably most of the best-paid jobs are (1) largely brainwork and (2) pretty interesting to do.

Some not-very-intellectual jobs (plumbers are everyone's favourite example, which makes me suspect there aren't many others) pay pretty well. But most don't.

Some jobs that usually pay pretty well: Software developer. Lawyer. Doctor. Quant. Corporate executive.

Some jobs that usually pay pretty badly: Cleaner. Waiter. Shop-floor sales person. Bank cashier.

I think these are more representative than comparing adjunct professors with plumbers.
Purchasing power will still be increased through imports.
> * Don't worry too much about crazy contracts / terms of service. If you run a business you will end up signing all kinds of ridiculous contracts. If you are worried about the consequences, get a normal job instead.

Anyone here's been doing that, and is still running a business after 10 years?
I absolutely agree but my biggest fear is that socialists don't give a shit and will push "progressive taxes".

I live in Scotland and they love the fact that they can raise taxes here now... they openly talk about it and very few people I know bat an eyelid!

But it's the curse of socialism imo: As long as you tax people earning more than me then I am fine with it.

Sadly, something I have heard too often

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Information architecture of music is what Echonest was all about, and I'm pretty sure they keep doing what they were doing when Spotify bought them.

To the degree that judging good jazz or classical is different from judging other types of music, I think that yes, it's based a lot on opinion. In particular the opinion of authorities - critics and other performers.

It's not that this is entirely unreasonable. With music as a social phenomenon, you might prefer to not be "into" the wrong kind of music, even if you would like it for the music itself. Spotify and Echonest have actually talked a bit about how listening patterns can reveal "shameful" tastes, different from the tastes we would like to project.

The job of a recommendation system then, if we should look cynically at it, is to show you the "right" kinds of music that you would like to like, but actually like too - and to not tempt you with "wrong" kinds of music that you would like despite yourself.

And yes, I'd bet you'd need musicologists (or human analysts) for that. It would by definition be very hard to figure out from listening patterns or acoustic features. But isn't this a bit cynical as I said? Shouldn't we try to not be ashamed of what we actually like?
Well, is your argument that, had Norway not exported oil, the actual use today would be lower?

Would countries use less energy if not for Norway's oil exports?
Sorry, I wasn't very careful about how I worded that. I certainly wasn't trying to be predictive; I just flailed around for a word and landed on that one.
I'm not convinced it will even provide the basics. There would be nothing to stop rents / real-estate prices from going up to compensate. Or food, or utilities. It's simple supply and demand.
I've taken cold showers every weekday for the last few years. The way I get around the problems raised (washing hair, etc.) is that I have a really hot shower just before bed. This helps me sleep by lowering my core body temperature.

Cold showers are great and, as someone who's suffered from depression in the past, I go into each day thinking, "what's the worst that could happen"?*

*I realise that sounds flippant, but it's true...
Looks like this topic needs a serious longitudal study. This being a hot political topic virtually guarantees no one will conduct one.
Child benefit is almost-universal. It was completely universal until a conservative government started means-testing it on the parents.
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On the other hand, I believe that we have a duty to disobey laws that prevent communication. Civil disobedience is also much easier when you're outside their jurisdiction.
I'd like to think that if you've got a civilization that people feel is worth keeping, the "dirty" jobs become a shared responsibility.
I think you may not have it perfectly clear in your mind what "communism" means.
Poll: SMTP or REST for mail integration e.g. Mandrill
Hello, with Mandrill merging with Mailchimp, the threads had many tips on migrating to Sendgrid, Mailgun and others. One important issue for migration is whether one uses SMTP to interface with the mail SaaS provider or REST. REST is often more powerful e.g. has more features, SMTP might be easier to migrate as a standard and poses less of a 'lock-in'. What do you use for mail integration?
Europe is going to have to realize that all their problems are not because of the Americans. Actually Europe is freeloading off the US on defense and that is going to end. These trade bills are going to fail and the US will negotiate better deals for us separately.
You can't "import" housing though. And businesses collude all the time.
This sounds like a good way to learn, but I would worry about picking up bad habits. Do you have any recommendations of (C) projects etc. that are particularly well written?
> I feel that blaming failure on the language used is like blaming a bad novel on the word processor used to write it.

Sure. If you're a good novelist you can write something great even on a keyboard with a broken 'e' key (btw, your 'I' key is about to break; you should replace it asap).

But novelists don't have deadlines and when the novel is done, they usually don't take reader requests to change this or that part of the story.

"The advantages and limitations", what works and what doesn't, "areas to avoid" are precisely the point of that kind of review.
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That piece of code likely gathers all the key recovery candidates it can from the signature, hashes and tests each one against the hash in the address to find the correct key. Then it performs the verification. Obviously the verification would fail if none of the keys hash to the hash contained in the address.
It's crazy. I absolutely don't need it but for some reason I qualify.
I'm going to guess that this isn't only affecting consumers. Governments and businesses gradually (sometimes informally) adopt tools their employees use outside work. Tools that are convenient, consistent and prevalent are especially valuable.

If this becomes the "new normal", I'd expect to see criminals launching more burglaries and terrorists launching more attacks during the service shut-downs. If you know your target is in a weakened state, you're going to take advantage of it.
I wonder how dolphins and other animals would react to a VR headset and virtual hands? With an interface tailored to actions we could gauge their language capabilities without the need to understand the sounds. I wonder what dolphin VR CoD would look like.
I don't think it's plausible to maintain that the question of whether or not we have free will is "meaningless". Any criterion of meaningfulness that derives that conclusion is probably faulty.
A year ago one of the reasons to leave Python was poor MongoDB & JSON support, 12 months later the same author complains about the lack of a decent SQL ORM library in js <scratching my head/>

while JS is far from perfect, his problem was he was a little bit ahead of time- babel, standard promises & sequelize solve most of the problems.
I think Python is still superior for serverside, but JS isn't as bad as portrayed in this post, if you slowdown for a couple of weeks to learn how to use it properly (just like any other popular language or framework).
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That's a fair point. It wasn't so much that I was deliberately trying to ignore the idioms, but more that I wanted to write a translation in a current language to accompany someone who was working through the tutorials. Some may find that useful, others may not. I'm totally fine with that.

As a separate project I would certainly like to write a compiler that takes advantages of go's features.
More accurately, and quoting directly from the article:

"... bad data in a software package ..."

They seem not to be saying it was the software, but that it was data included in the update.
Wow, get real rituch.
Edward Snowden: ‘Governments can reduce our dignity to that of tagged animals’
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9415429
What's the zero-G impact on the immune system? (genuine question)
> but some people start believing there own delusions

Like the belief that there "must be something more" than a clever trickster doing what's reasonable for him to do. For thousands years, always a good start of the new religions.