skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh cool you are the guy who made BatteryBar :) I bought that back in 2010 I think, don't use a laptop much these days so not used it in a while. Nice little app though.

Just out of personal curiosity but what is BB developed with?
Sounds like they built something users love.
Our current approach is telling them "though shit", so at worst we're back where we started. Most proposals protect UBI from wage garnishment so that people don't end up homeless because they are in debt. They also typically assume the existence of universal healthcare, not just treatment but also long-term care of the disabled. So I think the worst thing that can happen is temporary homelessness due to poor money management. Hopefully homeless shelters and social workers will still exist.
Tomorrow Never Dies
VR is not just a tool, it’s a foundation to build new tools off of
Simply Hired's founder self-funded, FYI, I don't think there was ever any VC money involved.

At least when I worked for them circa 2010 that was the case.

Hope all the smart folks I worked with there land safely.
>Both are red flags

No they're not; they describe 98% (made up number) of the industry, and I don't think that "soul-suckingly bureaucracy" is an inevitable outcome of implementing reasonable processes.

We have IP that we have to protect. We have a company to protect (hence the HR involvement). Sure, you may be lucky enough to wing it in your little five man operation and get by, but you had better hope you don't run into a problem employee if you're not covering your ass. The sort of company you describe can be a ton of fun to work at, but you're also probably failing in a ton of areas and you don't even realize it yet. It's a mistake to think that your hipster SV perspective is the way that the world should work.
Yes it's hard to tell what will work in practice.

I'd setup Seasteads with different taxation systems if I had the money, which of course nobody does.

Still an experimental approach is what's warranted. We wouldn't run a pharma trail without a control group on millions of people simultaneously.
I having trouble seeing what's going on here. Is the formatting ok? Maybe throw it in a gist?
Exactly...and as an example, also in today's news is the story of a former Miss Turkey was punished for insulting a public official:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/31/former-miss-turke...
> However some legacy Win32 APIs only support up to 260 characters for backwards compatibility and old file system reasons.

Legacy or not, this affects all .NET applications and also to some extent NodeJS (with its crazy node_moules mess) and you have to apply all kinds of crazy workarounds for this not to come back and bite you.

The amount of builds I've seen broken over stuff like this is ridiculous.

If they can get this fixed proper, I'd love to offer the MS engineer who made this happen a beer or twelve.
advertisers feel duped when they pay top dollar for what they believe to be “genuine, legitimate, honest ads

Yeah right. No clean hands in that game.
Thinking about doing the same thing now and then. I am still using Messenger, but not the main app and website itself.

It would be great to have a Messenger-only mode including your existing contacts.
The Surprising Resilience of the Patent System [by Stanford Prof. Mark Lemley]
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I'd wager that the investors started to evaluate the actual traffic sources and quality of the candidates going through their system. Upon investigating, although the traffic numbers were high they weren't legit. So rather than trying to right the ship, it didn't have a high enough ROI to save so they just sank it.
</guess>

Another article with a lot of good data is http://recruitingheadlines.com/simplyhired-shutdown-latest-n..., and I think the Quantcast stat is worth a lot more consideration than the piece gives.
React-aim
That site is amazing, I can look up anyone's email address and see what hacked communities they are a part of
It's pretty easy to compartmentalize your staff. In fact, it's necessary, as it allows people to not feel "responsible" even when aware that they are doing something wrong. So one person makes the sales calls, and another ships the products, and another makes the products, and another does the billing, and they're all just executing SOPs and minding their own business...
I had an employer once who was about to cross the line, by getting a project from the gambling business. A cool software/hardware project (service interfaces for casino machines) that seemed to match my skills. I flat-out declined participation. He actually was very relieved, he was himself uncomfortable with it.

The other time I threatened my employer with leaving on the spot if I ever see the shady spam-marketing tactics they were discussing popping up on my blog. I'm not sure if it worked or if they decided to never again talk about marketing strategy in my presence.

There are many jobs out there that are morally acceptable. Not as many as I'd like, but fortunately I've managed to find one, and I'm sticking to it at the moment. But yeah, I get your point - after hearing stories about various shenanigans my non-tech friends were asked to do at their jobs, I'm under firm impression that most companies are in fact fucking over their customers whenever possible.

> only way to win, is to not play.

Let's get on with Basic Income. It will be much easier to stick to your morals without the threat of going hungry hanging over your head.
Do add to that point, how do you handle people who need more than just BI, because they have some disabilities and because of ths they can't work. Remember there are lots of people who not only have physical disabilities but also mental disabilties and as such need support. How do we handle people who are sick in terms of cancer at alike?

We exclude all those people who really need our help.
Higher Education in America is largely chicanery like noble titles before the French Revolution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11756804
See https://wiki.haskell.org/OOP_vs_type_classes
Nvidia CEO: We'll be solving VR immersion problems for the next 20 years
I'm a foster parent. BI will most certainly NOT eliminate the need for me. It's not about being poor. It's about not taking proper care of your children.
But at the same time I feel like this is an accurate summation of the problem and contains solid advice.

This was a good read.

I think getting good data on this would be impossible. Unfortunately it would involve including peoples' opinions and perceptions on events and we're amazing animals at misunderstandings and self-deceptions. Who knows if the purported reason actually has anything to do with it and isn't just the answer someone is comfortable with telling themselves or others?
I wouldn't say it literally stunned anyone, but it's certainly a very (figuratively) impressive result.
I think you miss the point of why we actually need BI research and one of the foundational reasons for it.

I know predictions could be off. But if in 20 years there are simply no jobs available to 60% of the population. What are they gonna do? Just all starve to death? BI is the inevitable step towards a post scarcity society. When majority of people not only don't want to work but that there are simply no jobs for most people yet there is plenty still to buy/consume because automation.

This has nothing to do with your 1980s example because there were still plenty of jobs to be had that needed doing.
>I mean, their representatives signed the Warsaw Pact without gun to their heads

There were other representatives that wouldn't have signed, but they had literally had guns to their heads, and trigger pulled. Soviet occupation of much of Europe was by force, lots of it. It involved disappearances and executions of dissenters and even potential dissenters. This was done by USSR in perfect harmony and agreement with Nazi Germany. It really, really was against the will of Central European nations, such as the Poles.

Not everyone there, of course; you can always find honest ideological support, willful lackeys and stupid fellow travelers. But these countries stayed under Soviet influence very much due to literally having guns to the heads of people. Katyn, for instance.
Did you miss the part about this being a small pilot? I sounds like they want to figure out the administration and reporting issues more than anything.
And the host does what? Move? Not rent?
"Dada Science"… fantastic!
What has happened with web storage since 2015-09-09 that makes their recommendations out of date?
"Solve lots of math problems"

If you are the type of person that absolutely loved each second of each lecture that your math professor held in high school, where he/she tried to prove an equation on the black board, and you acctually managed to pay attention for long enough to acctually understand what he was talking about, and you got a real kick out of that newly gained intuition, and you now long for that type of "profound" enlightenment, how would yo go about gaining in mathematical intuition when you are in your 40ies?
It was an issue long before that, hence the laws related to it.

Privacy never was a "natural" thing until the 19th century. Sex in private yes, there's plenty of evidence for that. But that's about it.

By the end of the 19th century, it became an issue - indeed a right - owing to people preserving data around because cameras became a thing.

And as pointed out in my post, the main novelty today is the ubiquitous access by _everyone_ - it's no longer local to your immediate circle of contacts, it's basically publicly available information.
> What if your washing machine breaks or your kids need new clothes or your car needs gas?

paying out nightly would be better for the "car needs gas" and really no worse of the other two. Many families are going to take a hit on major repairs.

I assume we are talking about the same amount of money as the single monthly check divided up my payment days.
Practice, and read about similar puzzles/problems. Track down reprints/scans of Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games and similar publications.

In general, for identifying if something is a graph problem:

1) Through some mapping, (almost?) everything can be transformed into a graph problem of some sort. Now, that's a bit too big a set and ignores the real question.

2) How do I identify that a problem is practically solved with graphs?

Some heuristics (note, these are heuristics, particularly useful for getting started, but not at all absolutes):

Is it discrete? In the given problem from the link we have a finite number of extreme points (ends of each line segment), but an infinite number of points between. Fortunately, thanks to the problem constraint, there are only a few non-endpoints that we are concerned with. So we can safely ignore the infinity of possibilities by only examining this finite set.

Are there transitions between these states that are easily modeled as edges? In the given puzzle, absolutely. And its symmetric so an undirected graph is suitable (sometimes directed graphs would be more suitable or the only applicable solution).

After this, proving various things (like that the generalized statement that all properly constructed puzzles have a solution) will require learning some of the basic properties of graphs, and how to restate the premises (such as constraints on altitude and movement) in a graph-theoretic form. It's easy to intuit the proof now that you have a simplified, but complete, model of the problem, but harder to state it with mathematical certitude. That part really will just require more practice and exposure.

At some point you'll develop sufficient vocabulary in the field that you may not be able to prove it straight off, but you'll know what and where to look for the elements you need to construct a proof like they have.
Saving Sprockets
The thing about docker is that the containers are thin provisioned, you can run as many containers based on 8GB images if you have the spare 8GB for the base image.
Still, bloat is to be avoided so Alpine as a base image is a great idea.
I'm _not_ worried about people getting paid to do nothing. It's a feature not a bug to me because it gives people the freedom to do non job things like the arts which are culturally enriching or do volunteer work helping other people.
I'm trying to see what's here: https://hyperdev.com/about/?utm_source=fcblog&utm_medium=ref... but all I get is:

{
"status": "Error",
"statusCode": 503,
"statusDetail": "GetPort: Application failed to start on container cosmic-panther"
}
On the one hand I like the incentives of this, but on the other hand it further punishes the children of people who can't plan well.
Censorship of hate speech through various mediums. Don't be pedantic.
Simply Hired, founded in 2004 and based in Sunnyvale, had raised just over
$34 million in funding from investors that include Dave McClure,
Foundation Capital, Guy Kawasaki, Fox, IDG Ventures and Ronald Conway.
Mathematical Games, by Martin Gardner.

EDIT: Distractions abound so I hit submit before forgetting.

Why: Martin Gardner wrote on a variety of mathematical topics in fields such as geometry, graph theory, number theory, combinatorics, topology, and beyond. His writing is very approachable, and well sourced. This will help to develop a base vocabulary across the mathematical fields that you can use for further research and investigation of your own once you find the areas that interest you, along with being delightful reads just for their own sake for the mentally curious and engaged.
Great empty platitude there. Socialism is about economic democracy and worker self management + ownership, although the term has become increasingly nebulous in recent years. Classic socialism, as in what was spoken of by those like Marx and Kropotkin, had nothing to do about some redistribution of money. What is related is social democracy and conservatives using the label for any social spending they don't agree with.
I can buy the tech side of things and if you think about this - just about everyone's standard of living today, including the poor, is way higher than in the past which can in part be attributed to technological advances.

On the monetary side of things - it's very easy to 'proclaim' that you're willing to sacrifice your standard of living for the benefit of the others.
When it comes to concrete implementations however, things typically don't work that way, ppl tend to bust their asses when there's concrete material compensation involved, otherwise - not so much. And if you take any material incentive to work away by providing free money you get multi-generation welfare families which we have in abundance as is. One can argue that these folks would be better off without the free money killing their will to work - to 'organize atoms and electrons' for ANYONE's benefit, yours included.
FTA: "... Of the four reasons people litigate patent cases other than to win on the merits, three (nuisance-value settlements, bullying, and regulatory gaming) are actively socially harmful. The patent litigation system imposes substantial costs on third parties, and most of those third parties are themselves innovators. It may be worth paying those costs if there is evidence that patent litigation is supporting new invention. But absent that evidence, the patent litigation system looks more and more like a drag on society. ... That doesn’t mean we can just get rid of patent litigation. ..." (at p.64-65)
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I agree with you that a proper study would have to take all that into account.

But since we're just hand-waving here, I'll argue that the point where you're paying, say, $50/month more in taxes than you get in benefits is likely to be at a high enough income that $50/month doesn't make nearly as big a difference to your life.

Also, there is an insurance effect. A guaranteed $100 a month (even if you lose your job or have to move) provides more financial security than a larger amount that you can't necessarily rely on. And folks who aren't good at saving money (for whatever reason) will benefit more from having a bit more financial security during bad times, even if increased taxes means you don't make quite as much money in a good year.

Sometimes when people talk about this, it sounds like they think any amount of financial security is bad for poor people - it provides the wrong incentives. But that seems backwards to me; when you're desperate, you're more likely to make decisions you regret later.
A "payday loan" usurer would be all too happy to lend someone $1000 in cash, and then take $50 out of each of the next 52 weekly BI checks.

I don't see a way to BI without significant buy in from Dept. of Agriculture and Dept. of HHS to provide some of the value of benefit as actual food and as gratis-rent, subsidized-utilities housing. Moving 100% of the benefit as cash leaves too much opportunity for middlemen to take a cut. The ways to do that range from straight-up charging you interest on advance loans secured by the benefit to charging slightly more for the goods and services typically consumed by poor people.

So I don't see the same magnitude of cost savings as the idea-evangelists do. If anything, government payroll would probably expand in the short term, as it builds the infrastructure to provide non-cash benefits to citizens. The existing food aid programs use EBT cards that act like debit cards and just leverage the same grocery stores and farms that everyone else uses. BI would have to assemble 300 million fungible daily ration packages and truck them to distribution centers sized and located appropriately for the needs of the population. It would be like building the postal service all over again, except shipping identical 3000 kcal packages to somewhere within a 1.5 mile radius of every person in America, every day. (Then also ship the older, unclaimed packages to the pork farms.)

The upside is that those jobs would be real, actually-do-something jobs instead of the bullshit, pencil-pusher, bureaucratic jobs that typically suck up some of the welfare budgets. The post office may have a bad reputation, but at the end of the day, they do have something to show for their work. Eventually, those jobs get replaced by robots, too.

Just moving the money around is not going to be enough to satisfy the need. If all you do is cut checks, it may take decades for the supply chain to adapt, if ever. Food stamps have existed for a long time, and we still see "food deserts" in lower-income neighborhoods. Even the promise of having a local monopoly on rent-seeking the free government money has not motivated food distributors to set up shop in otherwise unprofitable areas.
Sorry about that - a lot of the same detail on that page is included in the blog post at https://hyperdev.com/blog/hyperdev-open-beta/
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Let's start with just calling the personal standard deduction 'income tax'. Then, I guess your tax system needs to be progressive, because just having everybody paying $6k tax wouldn't even be enough to pay for non-BI costs such as schools, infrastructure etc. So the highest incomes would probably see their BI disappear to the tax office.

Such a system looks a lot like the systems which are currently used in the Netherlands and Scandinavia. True, there are some differences: BI is called 'unemployment benefit' for those who don't work. And for those with a low income, there is no BI, but instead there are subsidies on housing, health insurance etc.
I'd probably try it on indiegogo or kickstarter. that way if you don't collect the minimum then I didn't waste my $30.
Phoenix is one of the most suburban major cities in the world. I cannot think of a better example of a decaying suburban shithole.

I am from Phoenix, BTW.
Too bad they didn't open source this implementation, but they did link a bunch of papers that inspired it.
"Top" is relative, you can be at least given the choice of provider, but I am absolutely certain in a UBI scenario offering your UBI for simple living provided for you would be a huge industry, and would also account for anyone who cannot manage money like OP says just fine.
> So once you take BI received - taxes paid, people that earn more outside income get less from the BI program than those that don't. And we are back in the same situation where a welfare program creates disincentives for work.

If you fund a UBI program by, say, eliminating preferential rates for capital income, and adding supplemental brackets above the current maximum brackets, and tie the level of the UBI to (because the former actually simplifies reporting in a way which prevents doing this exactly rather than by estimates) an estimate of the revenue resulting from those changes, there's no actual disincentive to work compared to the status quo ante due to the UBI except for very high income workers(this isn't no additional disincentive compared to those in other welfare programs from the UBI, its no disincentive at all.)

There's a disincentive compared to the status quo ante to generating income from long-term capital gains, but the practical effect of that is probably only in the upper end of the distribution (in the lower and middle ranges, the relative comparative disincentive to earning that form of income is probably more than offset by the having more surplus income to invest.)
> The good news is that it doesn’t matter if we find we have married the wrong person.

Yes, it does! OMG, this so laughably wrong. (The whole article.)

Who you marry is a big, big determiner of happiness.

It's better to be single than to marry the wrong person.
That doesn't help. Your assert can be false. Consider, for example, a 32-bit architecture which ignores the top 8 bits of the pointer (as was the case in the old 68000 Macs, as discussed elsewhere in these comments). Consider two pointers which differ only in a top bit, like 0x1000f000 and 0x0000f000. They will compare equal, but the underlying bytes extracted with your memmove call will differ.

And this isn't just a historical curiosity. ARM64 can optionally ignore the top eight bits of its 64-bit pointers, for example.
Google reportedly working on bringing Android to the Raspberry Pi 3
$2,000 is a trivial amount to give up for increased satisfaction and a muuuuch shorter commute — I assume you missed a zero and mean $20,000?

Anyway, it all depends on what is most important to you. If the money is most important, choose that. If work conditions are more important, optimize for those instead.
Fair number of commenters here justifiably laments over Micro:bit not resembling a "real" computers despite matching and exceeding specs of ZX-Spectum and other late 70s - early 80s microcomputers. Fair enough, good point.

But consider this: we have quite a lot of those "not quite computers" a.k.a. microcontrollers around us nowadays - there is one in a washing machine, several in a car, complete with a network to talk to each other [1], etc... Many are to be found in quite unexpected places: inside an SD card [2], in every PC keyboard, in a bluetooth headset, inside your phone's touchscreen controller [3], or same phone's wifi/bluetooth chip, etc..

Would it maybe be a good thing to expose kids (and adults alike) to a general idea of having deeply embedded turing-complete devices, together with giving some hands-on experience with them?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus

[2] http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554

[3] http://www.atmel.com/products/touchsolutions/touchscreens/
there are ways to save money through community action (pooling resources to buy in bulk, etc...). It's more a question of organisation and discipline rather than opportunity, though it's certainly harder than only having to rely on your own initiative.

Sounds like a good project to benefit those lower on the socioeconomic ladder.
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