skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that, on the whole, an individual in the US who 'loses' that lottery is going to cost themselves/their insurance significantly more than an identical individual in another country with the exact same condition, due to multiple levels of negotiation, backroom dealing, 'in-network', overcharges, etc.

That 30 year old individual with the $1m healthcare bill for the year in a for-profit system might well have only cost a public system (e.g. in Canada) $200k for the same standard of care, but with less additional financial stress impacting their ability to recover from their illness, and with no bills, phone calls, rejections, negotiations, and arguments after the fact.

It's just another example of how a uniform, public system works better.
The next wave: Everything as a Service (2008)
the similar but easier game "spot it!" works better for playing with kids, i find. (i prefer it as an adult too - i thought i'd love set, but playing it feels more like work than fun to me.)
I implemented bash audit logging[0] by making use of Ryan Caloras's bash-prexec[1] project which provides a fairly robust and resilient way to implement ZSH's preexec and precmd functionality.

Some of the features of my solution are that it creates a sub folder in the user's home directory called ~/.bash_history and underneath this it will create sub folders for each month (YYYY-MM) and under each of those sub folders will reside a daily audit log file of all the bash command history (YYYY-MM-DD). The audit script logs both login and log outs, as well as each command executed in bash.

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[0] https://github.com/onelittlehope/bash-prompt
[1] https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec
Rust <-> C++ via a C interface is a lot of work and not a lot of fun.
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Unfortunately, the increasing noise is rapidly pushing interesting information to below Shannon limit.
I spent some time trying to formulate this as an intersection of two regular expressions (the language being composed of sequences of u and d -- given a sequence which goes to the top, you can figure out at least one path which gets you there, and it doesn't matter which you choose)... though it seems much harder to deal with than just saying "the graph is connected because it has exactly two vertices of odd degree."
It wouldn't be this way if we fixed our technology access and intellectual property laws. There are a lot of phenomena in the ethos right now that people find perplexing and internally recognize don't really make sense, but they have a hard time figuring out what causes it. Those people are intentionally deprived of the information necessary to make the connection to the laws that enforce extant monopolies.

The network effect works the way it does because we have granted super-restrictive monopoly rights that prevent competition.

There was once a company that tried to allow you to export your data from Facebook. It was called Power Ventures. They were sued and shut down by Facebook. The corporate veil was pierced and the founder was found personally liable for $3 million in supposed damages.

The technology exists, but we've made laws for companies like Facebook to make sure that their monopolies are not threatened.
You talk about "the singularity" as if it exists. For all we know, that could be a mathematical fiction due to our limited understanding. The Event Horizon as we currently understand it might as well be the demarcation to a separate universe. We have no access to any information from the events beyond it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaEBbFbvcY
Another job search engine. A lot of traffic so not a statistical blip. Usually it's only the viral/buzz domains and mobile apps that need to be blocked outright.
As Heroku starts to put away free users, this will help a lot of people.
The top ten passwords in the in the adobe hack account for 2.8% of all passwords. About 1/35 used one of ten passwords. That's frightening to think about. Thanks for the share.
Isn't it simply a question of competition? If some advertisers can't support HTTPS, that means there are fewer bidders for HTTPS content. That should result in a lower price.

They are also bidding on what's presumably a shrinking pie of HTTP ad space. If the volume available to buy has dropped considerably, that may also be driving up the price of HTTP ad views.
Not enough info to really draw a conclusion, except to say many of us have SO's that are perfectly happy letting us indulge in our projects.
So what if he did buy booze with it? I buy booze with my money and there's nothing wrong with that. If someone asks me for money, and I feel inclined to give it, the money becomes theirs, and why shouldn't they spend it on whatever seems like the best choice for their circumstances? And what gives me the right to decide what that best choice would be? I'm not living that life. Maybe a bottle of whiskey really would offer the most comfort per dollar. That's pretty sad, but why judge the person making the choice? Judge the situation offering them that choice instead.
Because this allows you to run server side code.
That's great news but: 900MBps != 5GB/3sec. Plus last time I checked (2 years ago) write power for flash was about 10W/GBps and growing over time. So I expect these speeds not to be sustainable for extended periods of time.
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>It is the only way to understand statements about morality as objective and real rather than as invented delusions that can be ignored.

Not necessary. There is an alternative route through game theory and the notion of an evolutionarily stable strategy. See, e.g., http://www.saet.uiowa.edu/papers/2015/alger%20weibull%20npla.... Put concisely, the argument is that morality is adaptive. In that way morality can be said to be real and not arbitrary.
Yeah, but Abagnale never tried to fly an airplane.
thanks for explanation - I thought as much, but it seemed to be missing from the stories
Ask HN: A clean, simple and helpful Whois bash script replacement
I'm having a hard time finding a good bash script to supplement Whois on OS X & Linux. I've searched Github and Stack Overflow.

I can certainly create one, I'm thinking of a wrapper around the current Whois command with additional such as dig. I would like to know if there is something already out there, before I go this route.

Reason for this is, the large amount of unsolicited information returned by Whois e.g Disclaimers, ToS etc. And the lack of information at times. I would like a clean, simple and helpful output.

For example:

domain: example.com
...
owner: John Doe
...
registrar: GoDaddy
...
hosted on: Amazon Cloud
...
software: Wordpress (this would be cool)
...

P.s If this turns out to be an idea for a nonexistent thing, I'm happy to take this to Github.
> You could potentially dump some energy with a gravitational assist off of Venus (transfer some of our momentum into speeding up its orbit while slowing ours down)

I've heard that a hard turn around Jupiter is even better. I remember Scott Manley dropping a probe into Kerbol via Jool gravity assist in one video[0].

Actually, now I want to make a simulation with Earth doing Jupiter flybys. What's good for that nowadays? Universe Sandbox?

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNS6VKNXY6s
The nerdwallet article directly copies their medical bankruptcy numbers from the article McCardle cites. Since they added no value to this, criticizing the original source is adequate.

whereas "when asked about problems that contributed very much or somewhat to their bankruptcy [...] 54.9% cited medical or drug costs". But while 54.9% is lower, it's...not a whole lot lower.

So what? This number is again not the true figure. The true figure is #bankruptcies in real life - #bankruptcies there would be absent medical causes. The study doesn't compute this.

Nearly 100% of people who went bankrupt could cite that they paid at least $1001 in taxes and could attribute their bankruptcy to that in a subjective survey if they wanted. Does this mean that it's a "damning statistic" and "disgraceful" that most people pay $1001 in taxes?

Furthermore, bankruptcy for medical reasons (like being unable to work - which the study does include) does happen in countries with socialized medicine. These numbers - and the implications innumerate reporters drew from them - are simply indefensible.
I wonder if you could get some interesting data about macro effects by giving BI to a whole neighborhood within Oakland, preferably one that historically has had low levels of migration and shops locally. Instead of sampling randomly from the population of Oakland, universally give everyone within a neighborhood basic income (or run a parallel study doing so).

That'd answer some of the biggest questions I have about BI. What happens to rents & housing prices when everyone has an extra $X to spend? What happens to prices in neighborhood shops? To what degree are people willing to travel to avoid high prices? What happens to the social fabric when everyone is richer? Do people engage more with their community when they don't have to worry about basic financial survival? Or do they isolate themselves and enjoy their new toys? If people choose not to work, what else do they spend their time doing, and how does that effect the community?

At the very least, you'd get some really great data about elasticity of rents, housing prices, and local goods which I bet economists would love to have.
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Getting 503 error on hyperdev.com.

> {"status":"Error","statusCode":503,"statusDetail":"Waiting To Serve for cosmic-panther: No service found running on port"}

Nice sense of humour at least ;)
> At that point it becomes difficult to justify any particular point on the tough shit dial - especially when todays tough shit was, four generations ago, essentially heaven on earth.

I don't see how this follows.
You are arguing that perfect is the enemy of good?
This tough shit dial be as low as is acceptable fiscally and to the contemporary standards of society.

> It's all of the bullshit in-between that is totally unworkable - both practically and theoretically. His question - and your answer - illustrate that very well.

By this logic do current US welfare programs count as the "bullshit in-between?" Those are very much workable practically in the sense that they are currently in effect and are not planned to be dismantled. For that matter doesn't any level of government support for disadvantaged citizens count as the "bullshit in-between?"
> I'm not an economist, and I don't know the ins and outs of basic income, but that one throwaway page in The Expanse made me think a lot about what I think basic income should look like... and I don't think it should look like a monthly check.

1) If Basic Income is doled out slowly (say every week or every day as a credit card), then it's nearly impossible for someone to die from starvation. Should we also take away their knives just in case they commit suicide some other way?

2) The idea you mention is not "Basic Income", it's something else. And the major problem with that "something else" is: Who gets to decide what level of shelter is "good enough for basic"? Who decides what quality of t-shirt is "good enough"? Who decides which level of Ramen is "good enough"?

Having the government (or even a company) decide what products millions of people should get is Communism. It's pretty obvious that everyone getting these products will be unhappy with them. (Some people will think they are too cheap, others will think they are too expensive. But few people will be "happy" about it.)

Basic Income is giving everyone some money and letting people spend their money as they wish, just like Capitalism. Companies are forced to read the market and adjust their products to answer new demands. If they don't, some other company gets the dollars. Heck, science tells us that even if people choose to buy the exact same products as in the above paragraph, the people who choose it will be happier because they got to choose.

Everyone will choose to make their own trade-offs. In fact, some people will choose "cheap everything" in order to save up money. With their saved money, they can purchase "Luxury" items. So all companies benefit, not just the low-end.

For example, someone can choose to eat cheaper ramen in order to afford an XBox (people already do it today!). If many people start making that same trade-off, the market can respond and start chasing these dollars. Maybe Microsoft decides to make a low-end XBox. Maybe some competitor does. Maybe some rich people buy the new low-end XBox because they like its attributes better. Everyone with money is free to choose. There is no walled garden between the haves and have-nots.

No offense, but the idea in your book sounds a lot closer to "prison" than Basic Income.
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sorry, every statute is a matter of consensus and moves around quite a lot, especially over the course of history. This is how every legal system operates, this isn't a serious argument against anything
IIRC, established linux distributions that were using the stable patch set before could still have access to the stable patch after it closed.

Did that change?
If laziness and productivity pay the same BI (that's what a BI is), then it doesn't send a message to anyone in particular. A person with a BI can still gain more by working. The incentive is still there.

And that's what it is: an incentive, not a moral. It's not immoral to give people something that benefits them.

> BI is immoral (imho of course) because people get paid for doing nothing.

Consider that without enough money to live, people will not do nothing. They will steal and riot. Look at it this way: like other social programs, a BI can be thought of as a way for rich people to buy a more stable and peaceful society in which to live.

I think the concept of a BI is unnecessary and poorly thought-out, but it's not immoral.
Am fairly sure he meant the government bailouts of banks. There's been quite a few recently.
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There were far more interesting USENET articles than this op in rec.arts.sf.science. There were back of the envelope calcs by researchers involving hypothetical attempts by humanity to boil the biosphere using decades worth of global industrial output to seen the entire planet with a grid of hydrogen bombs. This one is a 1+ steps removed rip-off of those discussions.
> a different design with four attributes — color (which can be red, purple or green),

Was this game invented to annoy the colour-blind?
I hate Vagrant, but the rsync-auto command built into Vagrant gives me sub 100ms sync times on a tree of 6,000 files. rsync is fine with the right settings.
Here in the US, my electric coop offers a pre-pay plan for those who can't afford a deposit or who have had their electric shutoff (or anyone else that wants it). I don't think it is any more expensive than the post paid service, though. They also offer a budget billing where they average your last 12 months of service and bill you the same amount each month.
SEO + they did a really good job on their partner program. In simpler terms a shitload of free Google traffic along with a safer, diversified stream which cash flows very nicely. Both things that basically act as expanding moats the longer they are maintained.
What is the day of my coronation?

The first amendment is revoked.

God says...
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[0][1][2] I still can't honestly believe that people actually believe in brain sex. Swathes of neuroscience researchers have told you that it's disingenuous, it's a classic tool of projecting inferiority onto women, and it ignores the reality of neuroplasticity. The brains of taxi drivers are different than the brains of the general population -- does this mean that we consider them to be naturally born to be taxi drivers?

Your anecdote reeks of social conditioning. This is literally a social trope.

My partner and I make decisions together and rationally, figuring out the best course of action for the two of us. Miraculously, even with her lady-brain, we're able to come to a consensus and agree with each other before talking the majority of the time.

[0] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/brains-men-and-women-...
[1] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/talking-back/is-the-brai...
[2] http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/is-female-brain-innatel...
"off of" is one of the daftest American manglings of the English language. Ending a sentence with such a preposition just makes it sound all the more ridiculous.

[Why do Americans hate the word "on" and love the word "of[f]"? They leave out the former and needlessly double up the latter]
When viewed through Marx's lens of history, that it is Western countries proposing UBI this should not be surprising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_history#The...
Sorry, I misunderstood. You're right: America absolutely has a Protestant work ethic instilled into its culture that will make UBI hard to get passed into law. The problem is, that like most religious concepts and ideals, it's completely obsolete: all the drudgework jobs are rapidly becoming automated, leaving many people unable to find decent-paying work to support themselves.
It might be worth considering integrating with

https://github.com/osmlab/to-fix

or

https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette2/

to help with evaluating/fixing of the errors you find.
I agree with you completely!

At the same time, it's worth noting that it makes sense to approach the problem in a reductive (using the word loosely, not sure if it's completely accurate) manner, i.e., keep replicating features and capabilities of human brains until we possibly hit a wall in the form of consciousness, although it's quite possible that it turns out to be an emergent property [1], although I suspect it's a bit more complicated than that.

[1] It seems to me that most explanations that consciousness is "emergent" or an "illusion" would never _predict_ the experiences we actually consider consciousness, like "fire is caused by phlogiston": http://lesswrong.com/lw/ip/fake_explanations/. At the same time, I recognize that I couldn't tell the difference between this world and one populated by philosophical zombies (http://lesswrong.com/lw/p7/zombies_zombies/).

Edit: I should clarify regarding my footnote that I don't believe in epiphenomenalism, I believe consciousness is a purely material phenomenon, I like to think of it as an overview process running in the brain, responding to the other stimulus to take appropriate action.
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But the alcoholic might need the drink more than food, and the drug addict might need the drugs more than a place to live. Perhaps not being sick for a couple more hours is the best thing for them at that moment. I'm not suggesting that you are under some moral obligation to buy them drugs, only that not giving them anything is not a moral position in itself.
This is still unbelievable. How AMD can price the card so cheap when Nvidia cannot is going to be interesting. Hope this forces Nvidia to reduce their prices too...
I think there are a number of things that can probably be done to address harassment on social media which don't significantly infringe on free speech.

One possibility might be to allow users to set a rate limit on replies to a particular message for people they haven't white listed.

(So, like, if more than 20 "strangers" reply to a public post that one makes, it wouldn't allow further replies. But only if the person who made the post wanted it like that.)

Other possibilities include checking if many people went to an account from the same other account mentioning it, which, there would be ways around that, but, it seems like it could still help. (also as an optional thing)

Some of these are kind of weak but I think some things could be done.

Note that none of these prevent anyone from saying anything to anyone who wants to listen. It just makes it harder for people to say things to someone who doesn't want to hear them.

This seems like a fairly safe thing.
OK so I am just about to write some code for storing tokens.

What is the definitive answer for where I should store them? Based on this blog post, the answer seems to be "Web Storage"
They're an asshole either way.
Did you read the article?

It talked about how MS, Google, and others worked to prevent this type of behavior.
I read this site and am reminded of EE Doc Smith's Lensman series. He has many of the methods described, including hurling an antimatter planet at another, relativistic speed planets, and even a sun beam though that was used to vaporize a fleet.

Great imagination with a few throw backs to the sensibilities of his age but he did go beyond them too
I see the distinction now. Yes, I guess I have the same attitude - I want ownership of my data. A way to keep it permanent (and searchable) for myself. Cloud services remembering stuff is mostly convenience, but in case of personal stuff (as in things posted on social networks), not something very desirable.
> I found learning webpack and setting everything up takes FOREVER.

That's because you are learning webpack and setting everything up. It's akin to setting out to learn java by learning maven first and downloading all your dependencies through that and then learning how to bundle your code into a war for deployment on a J2EE server. Of course that's going to take more time than just copying some jars in your classpath and getting to work and learning the language.

If you want to learn React, copy the latest CDN, use the in-browser transpiler, and start learning react. Add the goodies on later.
Minority opinion here, but not all discrimination by race is bad and allowing people to discriminate by race/community can actually have desirable effects.

For example: If I'm American, I might donate to a service that helps American homeless, and would not have donated otherwise if the service was global.

Similarly, If I'm black, I might donate to a service that only helps blacks and would not have donated otherwise. If I'm Caucasian and feel a strong sense of community for my heritage I might do the same, etc.

People feel more sympathy to those they can relate with -- I don't think that will change for many years.
My idea is just figure out a way to nudge earth towards the sun and inertia will do the rest

ARRGH! This is about as big a misunderstanding as not knowing the difference between sending a rocket to space vs. getting to orbit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNS6VKNXY6s

tl;dr -- the Earth is whizzing around the Sun at a really high speed. You'd have to cancel most of that velocity to get a spacecraft to get anywhere near the Sun. It would actually be less energy to send the Earth to Jupiter than to drop it into the Sun.

You've repeatedly re-read this article, but never delved into basic orbital mechanics all that time!? I'm going to have to remember this in my chronicles of "Stuff I've actually seen posted in comments on HN."
If a bunch of people move to the middle of nowhere, they will need goods and services, and thus jobs will be created as enterprising people move to provide them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRtBvo9grLw

Did he call it "extreme negative feedback"?
It's a lottery at most ages. Age 39 health care costs: $0. Age 40 health care costs: $45,000. Due to a single incident of slipping and falling on an icy sidewalk. I carry insurance because (1) you never know when something big might happen and (2) I have to just in case the Republicans ever get their wish to "repeal Obamacare" and suddenly my kidney donation to my dad becomes a pre-existing condition again.
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