skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of BI is that you wouldn't have to worry about supporting yourself for the bare necessities. If it's only 10 years long you still have to consider your career prospects after you lose BI. If you tell an employer "I've been out of a job for 10 years because I got free money and didn't need to work" they aren't exactly going to jump at the chance to hire you. Plus your skills will be out of date.
Did you miss the part where I mentioned malware authors and identity thieves? They're far worse even than LinkedIn or SocialCam, but hierarchies of evil aren't the point. It doesn't matter whether spamming or spying or stealing is worse. I don't want to spend time with any of them, but the point is that they're not easily recognizable. I was refuting the "how could you not know" assumption that bad actors look or smell bad (or something) so that they're easy to spot. I'm not pretending anything, and I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't make up things for others to say just so you can disagree or condescend.
Again, arbitrary

> public incitement to violence or hatred ...
Twitter removes a lot more negative posts from those on the right side of the political spectrum than the left

I've yet to meet the democratic nominee who refers to an entire ethnic group as "rapists and murderers".

Maybe twitter removes a lot more posts from the right because those posts are actually racist.
There are two pretty big differences. The first is that venture debt is usually only available to very established companies, as far as startups go, and have restrictive covenants (regarding cash balance, profitability, other indebtedness, etc). The second is that most venture debt comes with warrant coverage, so the lender ends up taking equity as well.
Most people? Hardly. Of the minority of people that have headsets, a minority thereof are willing to pull them out of their bag to listen to some advertisements.
The Nairobi study is working on that thankfully.
That doesn't make poverty solved. That means we've improved the lot for many people, but we haven't solved the problems of poverty. They're still homeless. They're still underemployed/unemployed. They're still malnourished.

When those are consequences of anything but rational, healthy, deliberate choice [0], or very temporary circumstances, then poverty is not solved.

[0] Which pretty much means religious/cultural reasons. The rationality of those choices are still debatable, but they aren't predicated on mental or physical illness.
Assholes aside, since turning an asshole into a non-asshole is an incredibly complex issue, people I've known who are like the ones you're describing tend to not like their situation, dream about and periodically pursue having a better life, but are utterly incapable of making a chain of steps towards that better life when it's so much harder to climb than it is to stay down in the ditch. The level of competitiveness in our world also means there's many people above them who have it in their interest to keep them down and dependent (as their livelihoods depend on it).

One would hope with a lessened burden and greater freedom for the millions of Americans who aren't like that, social support and community would increase. MOOCs and the like would get more support. More people would pursue experimentation. More people people would do it right instead of getting shit done. More people would be free to stop giving themselves to processes they know are unethical.

These people you're describing are only a problem to kill off / suck dry in the world we live in now. In a world of basic income, they'd at least have a chance of getting help from the people around them that do care, have a well-developed sense of empathy. Having said all this, I totally agree that giving a lump sum of money to the people you're describing is indeed a terrible idea, will have bad outcomes.
I watch those food prep videos without sound every time.
My girlfriend runs a hostel and in my experience, the "Rule Britannia" types are a (vocal) minority. No country has a monopoly on jerks...
You don't get to decide what food or drinks other people can have. That's the whole point of a basic income - unconditional baseline support. Yes, many will fuck up and waste the money, but a majority is given peace of mind and leeway to improve their lives in ways not possible without it.
Why developers should care about the drone industry
There are hundreds, if not thousands of Kollels throughout the world that work in much the same way.

I think what we see in those communities is that peoples true nature is the driving force (almost) regardless of circumstances or financial needs.

The social pressure is a fair point, but I am not entirely convinced that social pressure wont exist on a broader, more anonymous basis too.

Most social pressure is internal, not external (i.e. we tell ourselves that we are expected to conform, but in reality, that might not be true.) Not to say social pressure isn't reflective of the external norms, or that people aren't judgmental, but ultimately, someone getting Basic Income will likely feel their own social pressure, real or imagined, regardless of how anonymous it is. (IMHO)

Ultimately though, the Kollel system is a good place to start and study if Basic Income is being considered seriously, as they have 30-50 years of history and data.
Last time I tried to do some web dev on a Windows machine, I had to install bower to install a web component. So I installed npm, then installed bower, then installed the component.

When I was finished, I tried to delete bower, but Windows wouldn't let me. It had installed all of its dependencies, which had installed dependencies of their own, each one nested deeper and deeper, node_modules after node_modules, far exceeding 260 characters.

I forget what trickery I had to resort to in order to delete that folder. It took a bit of Googling and I had to follow instructions I found on StackOverflow.
10 Growth Acquisition Hacks to Boost Downloads (Screenshots)
As Jide is a Chinese company based in Beijing, and as their OS is closed-source, I cannot see the means by which they can honor their statements on user privacy. I believe they simply don't possess such prerogative.
This reminds me of how people get arrested for pointing out security flaws in important systems, trying to help. Let's don't shoot the messenger.
All system calls in ITS behaved as if they were atomic, using a mechanism called PCLSRing: http://fare.tunes.org/tmp/emergent/pclsr.htm

Other systems which took a similar approach were WAITS, the Fluke Kernel, and EROS and its successors.
this is just a blog post from an investor who wants this to happen.
Can ethics really be taught?
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/locking.html claims that flock() is less reliable over NFS (returns true without actually locking anything on Linux < 2.6.12 and "BSD" - not sure which BSDs or whether that's still true).

And my instinct is that in a networked scenario, you're at least as worried about a machine dying as a process on the machine (i.e. a network partition). A flock()-based lock doesn't clean itself up if the client is unreachable, does it?
That's not how economics works! If the landlord can charge more for rent, they will. Look at how college tuition skyrocketed as schools became awash in student loan money. Do they need to raise rents? Possible, depending on how inflation hits there costs. But if they can, and the market will bear the cost, they will. That's how pricing of all goods works.
Clean, easy, maintainable. To me that is more valuable than an increase in performance. I would be very surprised to find a palindrome checker as the bottle nek in a system.
This library has been around for many years, and predates anything resembling stable rust by more than half a decade.
The video suggests that using radar they can more accurately track hand motions than using a camera.
No, that's not the overall gist. What he's saying is HttpOnly mitigates only a subset of the exploits for Javascript injection attacks, and does nothing to mitigate the vulnerability. Attackers don't "choose" CSRF over XSS; Javascript injection vulnerabilities create new CSRF-like exploits even when the session cookie is "protected" by HttpOnly.

Generally, you can take anything Portswigger says about web security to the bank.
Would owning a part of the 'robot' be intrinsically different that owning a part of the corporation that owns the robot? Ownership in the companies that we work for is nice, but for most of us it's not enough to live on.

We could intentionally try to make automating more expensive so that companies just don't do it. The problem is automating is actually great for everyone else - as a consumer I'd rather buy a car that is better made, safer, and cheaper from an automated factory than one that might be prone to human error and is more expensive.
How to destroy the Earth (2006)
I'm no economist, but I would imagine the effect of doing so would phase out quite rapidly for jobs above the currently-prevailing minimum wage.

So while a $10/hr job might not be able to become a $7/hr job, I would expect that jobs at e.g. $20/hr would automatically become jobs at $17/hr in an environment of a $3/hr subsidy.

But I admit I haven't spent a ton of time thinking about this and am probably missing something.
Atomic Armies: An indie game-dev post-mortem
Right - the author talks about it - tokens should really be expired on the server side not the client side.
This approach is more suited to single-page apps, where the first request only fetches a template and all the subsequent requests to the website are done via AJAX. In the post I'm not really arguing that nobody should ever use cookies - just that Web Storage is an alternative with comparable security.
There's arguments on both sides of that. The truth is that economics are rough guesses at best and the only way to know if demand will outstrip supply leading to price increases or if supply will increase enough to make up a lot of the difference is to try and see what happens.

What's actually likely to happen is that some places supply won't increase as much because of external limits (a la zoning in SF or space in NYC) and other places the supply will increase enough that there will be only small effects. On top of that it's hard to guess how much more mobile people will be if they have a guarantee of income if they move to the midwest from a big city where their BI will go much further, which would blunt the demand increase in big cities.

It's a huge mess of interdependent factors and effects.
Yep, I too came from a poor background, went to university, then became quite successful and left that economic bracket behind. I work in software and security engineering, and coupled with good investments am in a very solid financial position. I have also spent a good chunk of the last decade studying and learning about the root causes of poverty and it largely cured me of my "I pulled myself up by my bootstraps" mentality I had as I started to escape from the mess that my childhood was.
Rich Hickey has mentioned that abstracting i/o devices is an example of where OO can make sense. using OO properly requires a honed intuition about how to build large, stable software systems and see occasions where, in such systems, some component or aspect would truly benefit from a bit of OO sprinkled in. i think one great way to develop such an intuition is pick up a functional language and use it for a significant period of time (a couple years) -- because this let's you see how far you can get just by writing simple functions and passing around simple data structures without any classes.
You need to rely on your friends, your family, and the people in your community that you have helped out in the past.
> It seeks to reinvent financials news for the millennial generation.

Is it horribly cynical to think this is just going to be an even worse version of something like CNN?
Improving UX with Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling
You're right of cause, but strangely enough I never meet anyone who liked open floor plans that didn't have a pair of head phones glued to their head half the day.

It's personal preference of cause, but I believe that the disadvantages starts to cancel out any benefits at around 6-8 people per office.
This is similar to revenue sharing agreements that many investors enter into with startups. Many angels at least bake this option into their Seed Stage investment if they fear that the company could turn into a "lifestyle" business.
Digital Media May Be Changing How You Think. "Using digital platforms such as tablets and laptops for reading may make you more inclined to focus on concrete details rather than interpreting information more abstractly,"
https://www.dartmouth.edu/press-releases/digital-media-chang...
No, universities can't do this. They can't compete with publishers directly because publishers can decide to cut off the supply of journals to libraries.

They also can't set up a competing independent paper service because there's no way New Journal X can compete with the brand recognition of Nature or Phys Rev D.

The publishers have a de facto monopoly on the prominent brands. That's why it's extortion, and not a service. The only service provided by the publishers is access to the goodwill associated with the brand.

What universities can do - and are starting to do - is to set up alternative publishing systems that will start to bypass those brands. Arxiv is the most famous examples, but increasingly communities of academics - not universities - are creating their own online enclaves, with the optional prospect of live debate about papers instead of the current somewhat dysfunctional formal peer review system.

Eventually the goodwill for many disciplines will move to those online enclaves, and that's when publishers will lose their leverage.
One of the reason I use a DB is to be able to recover most of the data in case of a crash, met disconnection etc... So memory isn't good for me here.
> > Differentiating between "left" and "right" political posts is not possible from an objective, programmatic standpoint.

> AFAIK, there are well-known methods in political science for defining left and right.

Small problem: political science isn't computer science.
Make sure you upload your AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID.
Maybe it will be, but we're still a long way off of robots being able to do a good job of organizing my house or babysitting my kid.

Edit: And once we get there, I'm sure there will be more things I want done for me if I have money to hire someone.
GitHub new feature: write your bio in your profile page
Mildly off-topic, but why do sites like this highlight the "top highlight"? I always find it really off-putting (in a "Oh, you tracking EVERYTHING I do" sort of way")
Never bothered to fully automate it, tbh.

I use `unset HISTFILE` to make sure when I exit the history file doesn't get all the cruft in.
Every now and then I might do some housecleaning, including going through the history file then `cp ~/.bash_history{,.2}` to keep a clean copy around.

As far as saving, heres a handy function:
`getlast() {
fc -ln "$1" "$1" | sed '1s/^[[:space:]]*//'
}`
Right, ECC is improving one piece. ZFS adds file checksums. SATA uses ECC for transfers. Considering the cost I think ECC is worth it.

The xeon E3-1230 is cheaper than the i7-6700K and while it has a slightly slower clock I don't think it's noticeable.
Yes, because rockstar coders are willing to work for $10k (or whatever the BI fans are touting today), plus vague stock promises...
Why one would like to have an atomic operation is easier to understand.

For example, one can use the atomic nature of creating a symbolic link on nix to create a lock file to prevent a race condition in a forking shell script. Say you have two or more processes wanting to do something that can (or should) only be done by one process at a time; one naive solution is to manage access of each process to said action by using a lock file. However, writing or touching a file itself is not atomic.

The answer is to throw a symbolic link into the mix. In this scenario, the lock file already exists. However, the lock is not the file itself, but a symbolic link to the file. The protocol for each process to follow is:

1. try to create a symbolic link to lock file (any file really)

2. if successful, proceed; if failed, wait (or exit)

3. when process is done, delete symbolic link to lock file

Simply checking for the existence of the symlink is not sufficient since there is a period of time between checking for the symlink (or file) and proceeding with said action where another process can think it has the lock.

The OS ensures that one and only one symlink (of the same name) can exist; attempts to create it again (even simultaneously) will result in a failure of one process to create the symlink. There is one winner; all others are losers. This is to say, the kernel ensures that the operation is atomic. As a result, the OS is now arbitrating what process can proceed to action, at the very lowest level. Another way to think about it is that it provides a way to make competing processes serialize - or get in line so that they may complete their action one at a time.

In my experience, it is important to experiment and test to make sure that the atomic primitive you're using is actually working as expected. I've run up against some inconsistent implementations of symlink creation that make this action not as straightforward to use as one is lead to believe.
“Venture capital can be like a mortgage you can’t afford,” says Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar. “It sounds great at the time, but you regret it when your mortgage payments overwhelm you and you realize you didn’t really need a big house in the first place.”

No, venture capital is not at all like a mortgage. There are no payments due, unlike a small business loan, which is very much like a mortgage.
I am not able to load chedder.com, hopefully they can bounce back relatively quickly. [1]

Generally, I think this is a pretty good analysis. I think that it's very difficult to predict when this shift is going to happen though. Clearly the demographics are not in traditional TVs favor, but there are still significant lock-in effects due to sports and other live events. There is also a tremendous amount of media content that is owned by these traditional networks, and on top of that they seem to be verticalizing.

As a milllenial, I don't have a cable TV subscription, I pay for Netflix/Amazon due to the amazing original content and the non-stupid delivery on my internet devices. I do watch a ton of TV shows through 'alternative' means. For live sports, I either opt-out of the sport altogether, go to a bar, or go to excruciating lengths to pick up an online stream. There is no easy way to be a cord cutter due to a cluster-f* of blackouts, poor distribution systems, and ancient players trying desperately to cling to their old business models. My household is probably worth another $20-$50 a month for a competent streaming service. I will check out Cheddar. I'm also not alone, basically everyone in my income, age, and geographic breakdown is the same.

1. I work for the CDN Fastly, if you are from Chedder we can help get your site back online, email me at [myusername] @ fastly.com if you need assistance.
Does YCombinator have an Institutional Review Board?

Musing about this study, it feels like it could very much run aground with some of the ethical concerns regarding consent that have dogged some studies with high participation incentives, in that withdrawing from the study potentially represents a financial catastrophe, so participation in the study becomes less than fully consenting.
Qualcomm’s latest wearables chip is meant for kids and the elderly
Free software, free people – A conversation on hacktivism with Pete Fine
I don't think that's a good test case because allowances don't have to go to things like basic necessities so leisure and nonessentials get all the money and there are a lot of constraints on what a teenager can do. They're bound to their home and have limited free time to do other things.
Dated April 1, 2014.
I think you are putting too much weight on this pilot. They aren't trying to find out if BI is going to work, they are trying to suss out basic, mechanical issues that they might not have thought of. If good BI data comes from it, great, but that's not the point yet.
where do you look for jobs in utah? Craigslist seems pretty dead. Thanks!
Ask HN: What small websites do you frequently use/visit?
FYI you can click "web" under the title and it takes you straight to the Google page
Reminds me of the movie Fantastic Voyage [1966] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060397/
If there is one thing that could possibly make tech recruiting even worse, it is this: "Did you review the study guide for our interviewing process?"

The problem is not that the job candidates are not sufficiently informed about the way specific employers conduct interviews. The problem is that employers have expectations regarding the tech jobs market that start at merely unrealistic and progress beyond a complete schizophrenic break with two extra hits of LSD.

We are not re-inventing the tech interview. We are, in the style of Thomas Edison searching for a better incandescent filament, discovering 10000 ways that are worse than the existing standard.
Well, your current ones are programmable.

Medicine just didn't discover the perfect API, but there are some well known (and very effective) hacks.
On a shared network drive I had to resort to mapping a subdirectory deep within the base directory to a new drive letter to recover data after someone copy/pasted a folder with its own deep-nesting directory structure into it.

Would've been nice if Windows wouldn't have let them do that in the first place (given the constraint on file paths).
> And things that lag with an increase in demand? Housing, etc.?

The degree to which housing lags is a function of unrelated (to the benefit structure) aspects of public policy (particularly, local zoning and planning processes.) Places where the low-end housing markets are unresponsive because of these types of policies will remain problematic for the same reason under a UBI.

But avoiding major disruptions is one of the reasons I think a gradual ramp up of UBI and phasing out other benefit programs by just counting UBI in income when determining eligibility is, even though it defers the administrative cost savings of UBI, the best way to move to it.
it's http://www.cheddar.com/ not chedder.
It depends what you are tracking. They specifically said that they could more accurately track depth. For eye motion tracking I suspect that depth isn't a major component and the 2D image is better to track eye motion, especially because the pupil has very little change in depth compared to the surrounding area on the eyeball.