skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Tough shit" sucks when parents blow their handout on lottery tickets and drugs, leaving their children in perpetual poverty.

Seems to me that with a universal unconditional benefit that is sufficient for adequate support of both parents and children (which, incidentally, I don't see as likely in any early-phase UBI, though over time it would hopefully grow to that level), failure to provide adequate support for children is, without exception, culpable neglect; interventions to address such neglect exist and are outside of the scope of the public benefit programs UBI would replace (though, if children are counted as beneficiaries with the benefits flowing to their legal guardian, you've dramatically simplified some aspects of the administration of those programs, as well, with a UBI.)
Sure, but GamerGate really isn't about those. If you look into how the movement came about in the first place, you will see that its origins lie in Eron Gjoni using the internet as his personal army to punish Zoë Quinn by tarnishing her reputation with misogynistic lies. "Journalistic integrity" is just a figleaf to mask the true aims of the movement.
Considering 50onRed started as an ad network on facebook helping companies like Zynga, as explained in the article, point 1 can most likely in part be blamed on them.
When you say "limitations", I'm not sure what you mean. I wonder if there's a misunderstanding here - the matrix describes the toolchains which are supported out-of-the-box, i.e. build files for them are provided, and they have all been tested and should work.

It's not a matrix of the ONLY platforms which CAN work. Is that what you're thinking? Other platforms might well need the porting abstraction layer to be implemented (the Intel compiler might offer a different set of atomic intrinsics, for example), but that's what it's there for.
Excellent. I look forward to playing around with the datasets as soon as they are released to the public.

Have you considered partnering with some differential privacy people and releasing the datasets to kaggle?
That is one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that taxes on the richest brackets are at their lowest point in like 50 years, while simultaneously those people have accumulated an even higher portion of the total wealth/income in the economy. Taken out of context, what you are saying seems significant. Looking at it historically, the rich haven't really had it better regarding taxes and their share of the country's wealth in the last century. Put this way, raising taxes or adding new higher tax brackets seems pretty reasonable.
> No. All versions of the library can concurrently be included and linked against. The reason for this is so that any code which using an existing version of the library does not have to be modified at all - and so does not need to be revalidated - when a new version is published.

This is what having consistent interfaces is for. Keep your interface consistent, not your implementation.

This is also a strong argument for not releasing code and advertising it on HN if it's not mature.

> The add-onlys were thrown together in a week or so many months ago, just to get those classes of data strutures out there, as writing the full versions of them will take some time. There is in fact for eaxmple a full, balanced binary tree, in the literature. That's on the list!

Which begs the question why you included immature implementations in your library.

> That's a bit unfair. The library is eight years old now. It's not a flash in the pan.

Which doesn't negate the criticism in any way.

> It's actually as portable as it is possible for a lock-free library to be. Only a fairly few platforms provide atomic instrinsics. As far as GCC provides support, they are all suppoted, and I believe GCC supports all of them.

There are working examples (ConcurrencyKit) of lock-free data structures that target more architectures and more compilers, so "It's actually as portable as it is possible for a lock-free library to be." is provably false.
- To a large extent, it is expected to replace current programs like welfare and social security. So those budgets, in theory, would be reduced or eliminated and supplemented with Basic Income.

- It will be a taxable income. So a family including two adults would have an additional $24k on which to pay taxes. Those taxes help pay for the program by effectively reducing the additional funding that needs to be raised.

- Theoretically, it will increase wages and employment since there will be a lot more money spent, increasing economic activity. Increasing both wages and employment increases tax revenues, which would again offset some of the cost. I think this is really the biggest factor that needs studying, as it seems to have the most influence on the decision to deploy BI. Ultimately, it is a macro economic decision. It is also the most difficult factor to model and predict without actually implementing it on a large scale. The most important question, in my mind, is what is the extent of inflationary pressure applied by BI?
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> Well for starters I'd imagine a future BI system to handle something like rent via direct transfer to the landlord. Food handled the same way, some prepaid debit card that only works at grocery stores, etc.

In other words, exactly what I said originally. You'd be recreating the administrative overhead BI is intended to eliminate (section 8 for housing, food stamps for food).
Or a load balancer push that ignores the 'yep, I'm alive and healthy' bit and sends traffic anyways.
Cheap is relative to what you have. If you have no money, no one is going to build the robot that will make things for you. When automation increases without basic income, the share of resources going to those who are automated away gets squeezed, not increased.
The move to PC had very little to do with expandability and a lot more to do with available software and performance. For many Amiga fans it was Doom that drew them to the PC. Most PC users weren't in the habit of building their own rigs.
At work unfortunately the sys admins disable customisation. Especially HIST_SIZE etc :(

At regular intervals, especially when I have important commands to save I do a:

cp ~/.bash_history ~/bash_history_bak_2016-05-31.txt

That way I can do a:

cat ~/bash_history* | grep <important-command>

to find it
Honestly, I wouldn't bother with red-black or AVL. I'm not sure about the current state of lock-free data structures, but I prefer a B-Tree to a red-black or AVL tree. At least in the single-threaded case B-Tree operations tend to be faster, have better cache locality, etc. Google reveals there are lock-free implementations of B-Trees, so maybe look into those instead?
Access it via Google and there is no paywall. (It's stupid)
https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=Venture+Capital+and+Its+D...
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It's more of a general perception of shadiness: https://www.designernews.co/comments/85691
In the US, they could do that by reducing the payroll tax.
I know the author of CK, and he's very, very good. Better than me, I am sure of that!

I believe CK offers a delete-supporting hash, too, so it has a full O(1), which liblfds does not yet have.
Possibly (though many polities have some form of rent control). There's lots of opinions about what would or wouldn't happen. The difference is YC is going to test it empirically.
What are you quoting with the quotation marks?

I agree with you on that a BI that ends in 1 year isn't a good test. However, from the article their goal with the sort-term pilot is "to prepare for the longer-term study by working on our methods--how to pay people, how to collect data, how to randomly choose a sample, etc". So...who cares if the short-term pilot isn't a good study on BI? That's not their goal.

I disagree with you that 10 years of BI wouldn't count as BI. That is a long time for an individual to be receiving an unconditional income.
If you're just blowing through money too quickly, then that's not really a crisis that needs intervention from the state, imo. You'll either learn to spend your money better or learn to like ramen.
> Yes the US takes part in that, but the organization is the IMF.

To be clear: The IMF and World Bank are primarily controlled by the Western powers. EDIT: And are seen as tools of Western power by many.
> fails to convey the idea that "using" and "programming" are not separate things

Bravo. It just makes no sense: in 1980 you could have a tiny device you could program on that device itself. In 2016, you have to use a PC with an IDE, without which it is just a brick. Where is the progress?

An interactive programming language on that phone or tablet is better.

On the other hand, this separation between using and programming is good for teaching embedded development; but the focus of that should be the surrounding tinkering: we program the device, and it fits into some context where it does something on its own as part of something else. The program isn't the whole project, and the device isn't the whole system.

It doesn't have to be either/or; an embedded device can be interactively programmable somehow.

As far as hooking up to a PC goes, there should be a dumb serial interface, which is just a way to have a better keyboard and bigger screen: but all the interaction going on within the device rather than "build image, upload, flash, reboot".
I watched the first few episodes, but I couldn't really get into it. The biggest thing was that I couldn't believe that our hacker hero (I don't recall her name) could be that person. It may be sexist, but the statistics were that such a person was almost certainly male. But even beyond that, the personality just didn't click for me.
Isn't snapchat video only?
The attempt is at least made to earmark the money so it becomes more difficult to do so. There is a BIG difference between giving someone money earmarked for specific purposes and a check that can be used for anything. You will see a tremendous amount of that happening if BI is implemented in this country that way.
And WW2 started as a campaign to kill Franz Ferdinand.
Food stamp administration has gotten better over the past 10 - 15 years, but as someone else in this discussion pointed out it is still fairly easy to turn food assistance into cash if you want to.

After-school programs only work if the kid actually goes to them.
If someone has that much difficulty managing money, I think social services need to get involved and take some control over the person's decisions away from them. I just don't think that should be the default.
Right. The income value I keep seeing floated is in the realm of US$8000 per year. This is not basic income, it's basically a large tax credit. I don't know why it's called basic income, there's nothing really basic about it when it can't completely pay for one basic thing like say rent or mortgage.
Can't you support both?
Post scarcity doesn't exist. Someone has to make the T-shirts. If you think people would be better off if everyone had the same tshirt instead of a variety of choices that is the system we already have. The government making T-shirts at cost and distributing them is communism and it has not worked in the past.
New relic sever monitoring my friend. It's free (emphasis because I was shocked when I looked up pricing) and takes all of 5 minutes to setup (no exaggeration, it uses yum for 99% of setup).

https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/servers/new-relic-servers-lin...
I think that what you would see is rents exploding in certain places like SF, but if you don't need to be in a particular city for work or social services, a lot of people would move to places like Cleveland or Detroit that are much cheaper to live in.
They might know what to do with it. They might also spend it all on drugs, or fall prey to scammers or thieves.
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The two types of people might squelch their vocalization when writing arguments in support of the BI. But both would vote in favour of the status quo against the other side's proposal if given the opportunity: liberals don't want a meagre BI to replace most of the welfare state and most existing low income tax credits and libertarians certainly don't want high taxes to pay for a generous BI in addition to most existing programmes.
This is a reasonable question, but it is also the kind of question that led to the list we are discussing (and I'd like to respectfully avoid trying to generate another one).
Why not? Who taught you that you must work or you are worthless?
So just give money in small daily deposits. If someone spends all money in beer one day, he/she will be hungry the next day and make better choices.
> Big tech companies have also met U.S. government officials earlier this year to discuss how to stop ISIS from recruiting terrorists on social media. The Obama administration had asked the companies to develop techniques to detect radicalization, and block pro-ISIS messages, photos and videos.

Assuming the messages could be accurately detected, wouldn't it make more sense to allow them to continue and flag them for spying, and find the people sending them? If they're blocked from Twitter, they'll just move on to some less easily accessible platform.
What viewpoint are you endorsing? Given your standard, CM30's assertion is neither verifiable nor refutable.

The parent comment is valid. hackuser isn't asking for a double-blind study with p=0.05 and n=[all Tweets ever produced] ; she or he is asking for any evidence whatsoever to substantiate the claim.
I've brought up this idea before. Have part of the UBI of children go into a fund that they can then access at 18 to use for schooling or whatever they please. With CPS helping with neglect cases while they are young, the child then isn't stuck in perpetual poverty, because at age 18 they will have savings and full UBI in hand to make their own life. The money not in the fund either is used responsibly for child rearing by the parents, or foster parents if it comes down to that.
> The one thing that I never actually see any of the people who tout BI answer is why it won't just cause an increase in the price of low income goods.

It won't just cause that because of the way supply and demand curves for real goods tend to work. It will definitely cause an increase in the market-clearing price of many goods demanded at the low end of the income scale (because of how demand curves are shaped, and the influx of cash), which will increase the quantity supplied of those goods in most cases (because of how supply curves are shaped), resulting in people who are net beneficiaries (after considering where the funding comes from) affording more total goods, even though they are also paying higher prices for each unit of goods.
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Yep, it's still there in that case.
As in paper.
Someone, somewhere on the network would melt a person into goo just for the lulz, then justify it because the victim's security was so weak.
Why should anyone work?
Depends which Python - Py3 is a bit more robust wrt metaclasses.

instance checking on a overridden magic method certainly is a hack, I don't know what youy mean by "first class pattern" - Why add the possibility that the instanceof mechanism has been messed with, thereby throwing off alot of reasonable assumptions about the check?
It's not very clear, then. Reading the page leads me to believe that if x is my toolchain then y won't work, and the idea that such a thing could even be possible for your library speaks very poorly for it. I suggest tweaking it if this is not the case.

In any case, I did re-review the library today and I'll still pass on it because I'm very opinionated about C and this library doesn't match my opinions.

And I would like to see ARM64 support before I depend on this sort of thing, too, for what it's worth.
Snapchat is also pictures and you can do traditional text. Mainly you have this thing called a "story" that people can subscribe to that lasts for the last 24 hours and it's pictures and video and text that you send to it. I recently tried using snapchat with a few people. They get annoyed that they can only see your pictures for a few seconds and then can't view them again and text disappears after 24 hours.
This comment makes zero sense in this context.

The parent poster said he was for defending free speech, why would he want to switch places to somewhere where it's restricted?

What is your objection even? That because free speech is restricted in e.g. North Korea we should start restricting it elsewhere?

Or are you implying that oppressed demographics(e.g. homosexuals, black people, etc.) are having their freedom of speech stifled and therefore restrictions in free speech as a result of the 'safe space' movement are justified?

That's the only reasonably understandable(albeit flawed in my personal opinion) interpretation of your comment I can really make.

Care to clarify?
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The porn example was a joke; the ssh example wasn't.
I own my computers, and I will determine what software runs on them. You guys cannot mandate that and retain any legitimacy.
Or, we could revise corporate and capital gains taxes, tax currency exchanges out of the country, and then tax everyone at 50%... from there, that would be enough for a "basic income" where everyone is taxed the same on what they earn.

I don't think corporate taxes work, what's needed is systems and taxes in place to encourage keeping money more local, as well as diversifying or paying out dividends, which would in turn be taxed (assuming adjustments in capital gains). I'd just assume get rid of corporate taxes with the above adjustments and also get rid of corporate personhood and significant campaign reform.
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On the last point, as Sussmann says:

"Bible, Talmud, Koran
Read them whether or not you believe them!
Be sure to read between the lines, and you can discover what people were actually thinking back then.
Very interesting documents!
Bava Metzia 59b is an interesting story!"

http://aurellem.org/thoughts/html/sussman-reading-list.html
This reminds me of "smart and gets things done". Your idea is to test whether people can get things done. An interview can test how smart they are. Both are important.

I've seen web developers with years of experience delivering successful projects who turned out to be terrible programmers. In this situation, it is nearly always because they're not smart enough or because they have an anti-intellectual outlook on life ("I found this on stack overflow, it works, I don't understand it in depth but it's good enough for me" or "why would I know that, I never needed it") or often both. They were ok churning out 4 month projects one after the other or maintaining some business web site for years, but when you have them working on difficult and complex problems, their abilities turn out to be lacking and the brilliant kid with much less experience turns out to be much more useful.
There's no privacy on SnapChat either, in terms of privacy from data collection. As soon as SnapChat is pushed to really monetize the platform, it will slowly start to implode. People I know don't usually post much on Facebook, or even Instagram...but those are their "public" personas and they will post things that improve their public image (usually.) They do sign into them, look at what people are doing and occasionally post. SnapChat is the "private" persona, so posts are going to be more varied. While Twitter has the opportunity to be an anonymous platform for some, which neither SnapChat or Facebook have, really.

They are all different components to what people want with some audience cross over.

I don't use SnapChat, mostly because the CEO killed off the 3rd party app for my platform of choice (Windows Mobile.)
The other side of this challenge is that the "savings" will come from downsizing vast swaths of the public sector. That would be a political nightmare.
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I think it's more like, if you have a cool office with nice kitchens you can pay your employees crap and they still think they're getting a great deal.
I remember thinking this as a kid. "Just make it illegal for a corporation to own a robot, each person only owns one robot and they keep the value it generates." Thought I'd solved the problem ;)

I think the reality is that it's not really a 'robot' in the sci-fi sense - it's a thousand automated machines doing one tiny piece of the process, and slowly your factory with 500 employees only needs 5, and output and quality have increased. There isn't really a single robot to 'own', and even there was it would be far too expensive for one regular person to own it.
Might be the only one here, but I'm looking forward to a day when Tor Browser is Servo based.
bash too
Are you proposing we eliminate the charitable tax deduction? That's one of the main drivers of Romney's low rate.
I have a colleague you might like to meet. Understanding anything is not his forté. He turns up, does what he is told, goes home, and is paid at then end of the month. Except maybe the "does what he is told" part, but that is a different story!
Oddly enough nobody is concerned with fiduciary duty when a CEO pulls a few million dollar bonus out of a failing company.
Correct.

The nuance in the US is that this is censorship by corporation, not by government, so extant laws against censorship (which are aimed at the government) don't apply.

I think it's past time that corporations for social media of a certain "size" be recognized as public fora, and a body of law be developed regarding their behavior and responsibilities. Facebook, Google, etc, should not be censoring. Where this gets tricky is that both the corporation and the internet tends to span borders, so jurisdiction becomes very complex. Someone in country A uses a service in country B to interact with someone in country C. Which country's laws apply?

That is the problem. In the absence of legitimate power, illegitimate power is operative, and today that is Facebook and Twitter; they are serving de facto as quasi-governmental entities regulating interactions between citizens, since real governments have been unable to do so.
Nobody excused Google or Facebook for their problems, but this was presented as a comparison, and one between companies that have many legitimate and and non-problematic divisions and products to a company whose sole purpose is to circumvent control of the user and the authors of the content they are viewing.
See above for one of them.
I have a colleague you might like to meet. Understanding anything is not his forté. He turns up, does what he is told, goes home, and is paid at then end of the month. Except maybe the "does what he is told" part, but that is a completely different rant.
So no actual stats, just your gut feelings about how you think things work.
Living on a piece of land is rent seeking? I don't think you know what that word means.
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From wikipedia: Snapchat is primarily used for creating multimedia messages referred to as "snaps"; snaps can consist of a photo or a short video, and can be edited to include filters and effects, text captions, and drawings.
Subsidized housing, day care, etc? Food stamps aren't a great example because you can sell them. You can't sell the $800 you save in subsidized housing. You can't sell a service.
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Having watched both of the available trailers for the new Ghostbusters movie, I think I will very much dislike it and have no intentions of watching it. By the measure of many prominent online media publications and verified Twitter users, this alone makes me a misogynist, hate mongering, intolerant man-child [1].

https://heatst.com/entertainment/angry-video-game-nerd-james...

But Twitter et al. support that sort of hate speech, while my opinion would be happily suppressed because of all of the hate people would stamp onto it.