skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Volunteering full time on BI sounds like they are paid to volunteer, and my narrow definition is because I see people behaving similar to what I've observed with foodstamps.

finding ways to live off solely that and making little to no effort finding a job, simply finding ways to increase foodstamps by having additional dependants or otherwise.

these people are not volunteering more or what I would say are being productive members of society, yes they are likely a small percentage, maybe 1 out of 50 however, I see that percentage skyrocketing if something like basic income is provided.... I don't mind being totally wrong, I just find it very very very hard to believe people will still try to be 'productive' members of society ina general term.

not to invoke Ayn Rand, because I disagree with more than 50% of Atlas shrugged, but the whole concept of 'To each according to their need and to each according to their ability' does not work. people will abuse the system of BI just like SNAP or foodstamps or Dole are abused today.
If you don't know what HaveIBeenPwnd is, you type in your email to check if it is involved in any data breaches online. They don't give you the actual data back.
If the "actual cost of research" as you mention it includes some "overhead" amount which has some amortized portion of professorial salaries, departmental costs, university costs, etc, then I think you've just underlined Sam's point about bloat and expense
There's a lot of things they could spend money on that also wouldn't be a waste of money. Infrastructure could really use more money, the space program could definitely benefit from a pile of cash to both the public and private sectors, and funding for education is in serious need of an increase (as well as reforms to improve effectiveness).

Just because the government wastes money some places doesn't mean they're incapable of putting it to good use in other ways or that we should avoid good programs just because they might misspend savings from it.
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> Google now spends more money lobbying the government than any other corporation (1) including GE, Exxon, etc, etc.

Didn't realize that, thanks. I wonder where that money goes though; I don't see any big successes in fighting with MAFIAA over not screwing up the Internet.
> And I'm sorry, but what existing agency currently helps people back on their feet after their 12th car accident in the first place?

Exactly. Not the first time I've seen this pathetic excuse for an argument.

People will be people. You cannot force people to do things they don't want to do. So don't be a fucking idiot and attempt it.
Really nice layout, I felt really comfortable just scrolling through looking at the artists, even though I have no interest in concerts at all. Can you not search for anything though?
Just looking at the haveibeenpwned.com it links to the cryptically poor Adobe password were. I am fascinated by how popular certain passwords are:
http://stricture-group.com/files/adobe-top100.txt

It appears some random words aren't necessarily random. Words like 'shadow' and '1q2w3e4r'.

Fascinating!
UBI prevents people from having to toil at horrible jobs unless they choose to, rather than being forced to in order to survive. That can only be a good thing.

I agree with you. My whole point was that most people do not agree with you. There is enormous support for the idea that you are supposed to work for what you earn. Full stop. End of story. Anything less is charity that should, at best, be accepted as a last resort.
> "... In third grade I started to put a lot more effort into really remembering what I read ..."

Do you have any tips, tricks, hacks that you would like to share that you may have developed in helping you to remember content.
Did any techniques evolve over the years?
Related application:
http://hackaday.com/2016/05/20/using-an-fpga-to-generate-amb...

"The concern was that simply averaging the pixel color values would deliver a color, but would not necessarily deliver the same color that a human eye would perceive. He goes into detail about the difference between RGB and HSL color spaces, and arrives at an equation that gives an importance rating to each pixel taking into account its saturation and thus how much the human eye perceives it. As a result, he can derive his final overall color by looking at these important pixels rather than the too-dark or too-saturated pixels whose color the user’s eye will not register."
It looks like you are part of the project. Can you clarify what you mean by "license-free"?

If there literally is "no license" and something isn't public domain, then it means you aren't authorized to use it (because the authors have a copyright, even if they have thus far chosen not to assert it). And in order to be public domain, it must be explicitly put there. That may be the case, but your page would be clearer if you said so.

And if not, then a license must exist, and you should elaborate it.
Can you back up the statement that more people are working than ever before?

In the USA at least, labor force participation has been trending downwards since 2002 i.e. fewer people are working:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/labor-force-pa...
Don't know much OCaml (understatement...) but the way I understand it an OCaml type-switch like the expr one is essentially enumerating the different ways one can construct an expr. True is an expr, so is False, etc. - these are constructors of expr not functions as I see it.
So I'd code that in Java/C++ as a hierarchy that uses dynamic binding to achieve the case-specific computation for the evaluation (since in OO, it's the compiler that should be writing the switch'es) - in C++ [edit - some pointers don't render; all fields are pointers to expr]:

struct expr { virtual bool eval() const = 0; }

struct True : public expr {bool eval() const {return true;}};

class Not : public expr {
expr exp;
public:
Not( const expr & e ) : exp( &e ) {}
bool eval() const {return e->eval();}
};

class And : public expr {
expr exp1, *exp2;
public:
And( const expr & e1, const expr & e2 ) : exp1( &e1 ), exp2( &e2 ) {}
bool eval() const {return exp1->eval() && e2->eval();}
};

And so forth. Different type constructors -> different sub-classes of the abstract type. Functions operating on the type -> methods of the parent class, that each sub-class overrides.

If instead of expr and True/False we had Shape and Triangle/Rectangle that we're more used to looking as forming a hierarchy, it might make it easier to see my point.
Isn't this the Java/C++ way for doing so?
If not, what am I missing here?
Not really.

The goals of OO features such as method overriding is accomplished by typeclasses or implicits in FP.

It's just that the default polymorphic mechanism for FP is parametric polymorphism, and the default mechanism for OO is ad-hoc polymorphism.

OO didn't have parametric polymorphism initially, and added it with Generics.

FP didn't have ad-hoc polymophism initially, and added it later with typeclasses or implicits.

Choosing OO or FP really just puts you one of the two side of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem . They are more complimentary than proper subsets of each other.
Sure, but, like, changing the fundamental cost structure of our health care system seems like a pretty big add to the already absurdly big policy change of a basic income.

(Which is not to say that I disagree with you, though I do think that there are actually three different cost categories of health care:

1. Routine/preventative/minor care. Probably best dealt with as out-of-pocket costs.

2. One-time catastrophes, like "I broke my arm" or "I got pneumonia." Probably best dealt with as insurance.

3. Long-term or lifelong large expenses, like "I have HIV" or "I have MS." Probably best dealt with as a government program.

But then you'll have a lot of problems with the boundary cases.)
These are all good points, but ultimately it seems like a well-configured cookie-based storage is equally secure as a similarly well-configured web storage session. There are more hacks required with cookies, but you hopefully only have to configure them in one place and there are libraries to help with the tricky parts like CSRF mitigation.

OTOH, there are some usability issues with web storage. Mobile safari in private mode (which can be a not-insignificant percentage of iOS traffic) doesn't support localstorage. Also, if you have any server-rendered pages, say, you have both a single-page web app and some admin pages with server-rendered html content, you need cookies anyway for the server-rendered pages (unless you want to make all your non-ajax forms to submit via ajax to use the local storage token, which is a pain because you'll end up fighting against most web frameworks and re-inventing the wheel).

Given this, my takeaway is that cookies basically cover a super-set of the scenarios that local storage tokens do, so it seems preferable to stick with cookies everywhere vs. using two separate auth flows, even though I agree that web storage is conceptually a nicer model with a smaller attack surface.
Most people will never abandon their job for 5 years of guaranteed income, even if they hate their job.

What happens after the money ends? They have to re-train, search for a job, apply, interview, explain a 5 years gap, climb the office/workshop ladder from the bottom again...

Situation changes radically if the income is guaranteed for life, if they are guaranteed to never have the necessity to work again.

Since a study limited to 5 years can't, by design, satisfy this last condition, it won't be significant at predicting how many people will leave a "hard" job.
If I recall correctly this change didn't just need a GPO setting, but also a .manifest file for the executable (often embedded)? In order to tell the OS that "Yes I am now a Windows 10 long path aware application; bring it on." Otherwise yeah, it would wreak havoc on apps using buffers with MAX_PATH size.
Keep in mind that, under many current programs, you are not allowed to have savings. If you do not use all of your welfare money, then you get your benefits cut. If you have too much in your savings account, then you get your benefits cut. So it's not so simple as to say they have difficulty managing money, it's that they are not allowed to do many of the things you'd associate with successful money managing.
American tech companies shouldn't indulge censorship, even if it seems well intentioned, the scope is promised to be limited, and the pressure from governments is immense. They also shouldn't try to pick political winners by promoting the social campaigns and positions of the EC, as they've promised (citation below).

What is legitimate speech should not be determined by whoever is in power. Europe has tried that on several occasions. It never goes well. Just imagine if Donald Trump could declare what speech was considered legal and illegal. Perhaps we're getting a preview from Erdogan in Turkey right now.

This situation appears to be an attempt to suppress dissenting views (largely on immigration, border control, and refugee/asylum policy) following shifts in public opinion away from European integration and establishment incumbents like the CDU/CSU and SPD and toward nationalism and political parties like AfD in Germany, FPO in Austria, and FN in France. Since November Merkel has been pressuring Facebook to sanitize the platform of negative views toward migrants. It is troubling that leaders can punish their citizens for views that break from their policies. State police have even conducted house raids on those promoting "incorrect opinions" toward migrants on social media (citation below). We are not talking about physical threats, we're talking about opinions. Facebook and Twitter should not enable what has become, in a very literal sense, thought police.

If there are window-licking asshats posting nonsense on social media, let's challenge their views and win the debate. Democracy is about more speech, not less. I hope Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft haven't drifted so far from their original principles that they've lost sight of that.

http://www.dw.com/en/berlin-police-raid-homes-in-crackdown-o...

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36416967
It's a shame Tumblr and Yahoo... we are informed 3 (!!!) years after this breach. Unbelievable.
This makes sense to me because I have a feeling most people who would need to rely on BI also have a problem managing money.

As an example, I once had a homeless guy ask me for money outside a grocery store. I suggested that we go inside and get him whatever food he wanted, and he said he'd wait for me outside. Sure enough he was gone by the time I returned. I'm fairly certain he only wanted the money for alcohol or drugs. That kind of person doesn't save money for food, they beg for food and use the money for other purposes.

If you made the program automatically adjust your BI down when you started accepting food from government programs, that would basically act as the government stepping in for people who just aren't able to handle money.
I wasn't aware of this, but it looks really promising. Thank you for posting this!
Intentionally devaluing currency is taking money from people's savings. It might not be considered theft by statute, because government, but it's still taking people's money. It's a great way to sidestep opposition to increasing tax rates.
It is entirely unnecessary to copy the string, to stack or heap. Rather than stripping whitespace, you check for whitespace when incrementing/decrementing the index. Rather than setting everything to lowercase, use a culturally-appropriate character comparator that ignores case differences.

Just stick a Turkish dotless-i character in the unit tests somewhere, at the end of "I’m a lasagna hog; go hang a salamı." and see what happens.
Here in Spain being paranoidal about work is not the case.
The key is as always, to have a life outside work that gives you apurpose besides it.
Thanks! Totally agree, but, too late once I already published papers with RaftLib...and own the domain. Give it a few years and hopefully it'll be disambiguated.

In a few months we'll roll out the distributed compute support, before that though I'm ironing out Windows compatibility bugs and getting the more researchy part of the code-base integrated with the rest of it. Maybe in another year we'll have another ShowHN post to detail the overhaul.

The API though, is stable. We might add to it, but definitely not take away.
> how do I identify that a problem is indeed a graph problem?

Mathematical intuition. To answer the next obvious question of how to buld mathematical intuition: Solve lots of math problems (I've also heard that reading "Pólya - How to Solve it" is supposed to be helpful for this; I can't say anything about it).
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Indeed. One use case I have in mind is using the Shamir Secret Sharing mode to create N backups on separate flash drives stored in diverse locations.
Umm... No, that's the situation where taxes create a disincentive to work. Try solving that without having taxes be a flat fee.
I was just about to suggest increased adoption of nodejs on Windows is most likely what triggered this change.

(I don't even use node, but if a project I'm interested in has a bunch of node modules in it, I'll have to stop and spend time to fight the path length errors.)
+1

That and the fact that way too many ML examples/tutorials take a very academic/theoretical stance where they are making the model purely for the sake or it, and the tutorial basically ends with a statement like "Our loss is 0.0034!" which I am sure is great if you are a data scientist, but for people just getting started (e.g. me) it is not helpful since I want to know how I can do real-world stuff with ML, not just intellectual-masturbation/maths-for-the-sake-of-maths etc.

I would love to see some more "real world" examples that go from "data files in a directory" to not only a CNN, but also an actual "..and here is how we actually use our model in a real-life web application to do something useful: <example>"
just to add quickly, I do believe one day the need for many types of work will be minimized to almost nothing, so some solution will be required, but from what I've observed with proposed BI solutions I have very little faith in actually succeeding.

I dream of a day that was referenced in Star trek where all of these challenges were 'solved'. I do not see BI in its current infancy being a possible solution, it needs work and I'm excited to see more research on the topic because that is what it needs in order for a solution like it to be truly successful.
Could't get anything to load.

Got a message saying Hyperdev has hit capacity and to try again later.

:-\
Not so stupid: Start with the phrase "Hoteling's rule" for a century of academic analysis of that question.

If you own an oil field, you have to balance a number of factors:

* How is the price of oil changing, relative to overall inflation? You mentioned this one.

But also,

* Are technological improvements (either increasing the total amount of extractable oil in the world, or outright oil replacements) going to dramatically lower the price if I wait too long?

* Is it still going to be my oil next year, or am I going to be first against the wall when the next revolution comes?

My (unsophisticated, outsider) opinion is that if you see oil-producing countries selling as quickly as they can, that's weak evidence that they're worried about the last two bullets.
Yes, it is substantially different. I guess what I thought of was that if the UBI were to be implemented while not being widely (as in by well over 50% of the voters) accepted, say by a far-left political party, barely winning elections, it could be perceived similarly.
The impact of poverty is more than just being poor, it can also affect your state of mind. There are studies that show people who have grown up in poverty have (on average) less self-control than those who grew up without experiencing poverty. I'll dig up the study so you can see it for yourself.

EDIT: There are a bunch of studies related to poverty and self-control in this article:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-motivated-brain/201...
An example: Facebook removing actual statistics on campus rape (i.e., "hate speech") and kowtowing to the completely false SJW/feminist narrative that 1/4 college women are raped.

https://i.sli.mg/oNjASl.jpg
If you look at the studies she cites many (most that I spot checked) of them are using the formulation of ketogenic diet used to treat epileptics, and not the form that many people advocate as a life-style. Theis is esp. true of the ones that show negative health effects. These diets are low-carb, low-fiber, moderate fat and high protein.

The ketogenic diets that are proposed for use by normal people are low-carb, high-fiber, high-fat and moderate protein. So they have a fundamentally different macro-nutrient ratio and include a high volume of low-carb veggies. This formulations also minimize Omega-6 polyunsaturted fat, and many studies listed use that a primary calorie source (there is a depreciated view that this was a healthy fat source).

You can find many studies listed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ketoscience
If anything, hijacking page real estate makes it less likely the user will click on non-injected ads (which actually pay something out to the content creator).

I believe content creators have a right to seek compensation for their work - whether it's through ads, affiliate links, or a subscription model.

But what 50onRed does is thievery from the creators, plain and simple.
Heh, given the controversy about violent games (with Doom being way up there on the list) i suspect you were going for sarcasm.
Surely we could work out education / creativity. For example, the gov could consider attending a university as a "job", and send funds that way. In any case, why worry about people "skirting the system" when the alternative (UBI) requires no work at all?
I meant only for testing.
Let's follow that logic: the internet infrastructure is owned by private companies (i.e. Comcast), so shouldn't Comcast be able to censor and throttle anything that goes over their network?
> Just about anybody can get a job making minimum wage

It can be hard to see because the problem is so unevenly distributed through the social fabric, but this is just objectively not true.
You already can make your account private to only your friends on most of these services. I guess giving up the attention isn't worth it for some of these people.
I mean it is supported directly with __instancecheck__ or __subclasshook__ .. explicitly to allow you to create metaclasses with custom implementations of instance checking or subclassing. To call use of this a hack is similar to saying that overriding __getitem__ is a hack. In Python, it's not a hack, it's a normal, common way of doing many things.

You'd mess with the isinstance mechanism exactly when doing so made engineering sense. In Python, making assumptions about what isinstance is doing is a very bad idea, would indicate novice Python understanding -- just like picking up some other class (like say, pandas DataFrame) and assuming something "reasonable" about what __getitem__ does would be a bad idea -- __getitem__ is heavily overloaded for various design and performance reasons in Pandas (and in many, many libraries).

You can't (and shouldn't want to) pick up any old class in Python and assume things like operator overloads, hashing, instance checking, item getting, serialization, iteration, etc. etc., work under "reasonable assumptions." Either the class authors implemented the trickery in some way that virtually never impacts anyone, or else you need to know the gory implementation details to effectively reason about it. My experience has been that you should always assume the latter until you have strong evidence of the former.
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That seems ideal.

Essentially, allow people to pre-commit to paying for a specific expense to a private organization which has to provide that service. They can opt out later on, but only before their next basic income check.

Also, I think there should be some sort of auto-enrollment system. So if you're found homeless, having blown all your BI check on booze, you'd be automatically enrolled in the top housing provider.
This is already an existing problem with SNAP (food stamps), which I believe are disbursed once a month. You can totally use it all the first week of the month and be SOL for the rest of the month.

As for rent, the current "safety net" has no problem with homelessness.
The heat is particularly miserable, and this from a guy that willingly moved to NC (hot and humid). What you call "suburban", I call "the epitome of urban sprawl" (same thing, I guess). Now that's not to say that there aren't a lot of other places in AZ I wouldn't mind living (hello, Sedona, got any jobs for me yet?), but Phoenix is not one of them.
The cifar_10 example code is a good starting point:
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/r0.8/tensorflo...

Read the how to on reading data from files:
https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.8/how_tos/reading_dat...

and check out this useful Stack Overflow answer:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33648322/tensorflow-image...