skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a good argument to be made for a larger sum for the disabled who cannot work. But I'd be extremely opposed to any regional adjustments. If individual cities and states want to supplement the UBI, then that's up to them, but people moving out of high-cost areas and into low-cost ones is part of the natural ebb and flow that keeps the cost of living reasonable. And can you imagine what a CoL adjusted UBI for San Francisco would look like? A massive ripoff of the rest of the country.

I don't know what the solution is here but if in this hypothetical reality, the garden state didn't supplement but California did then I'd move to California in a heartbeat. I am sure I'd be broke even with any supplement in San Diego but at least I'll be broke in San Diego.

Edit: I cannot support any discrimination in basic income based on "ability to work". I'd rather the whole thing fail. I'd rather we never have basic income implemented at all than this bastardization go through. Personally, I'm all for death panels. We should not try to keep everyone alive at all costs. If I get in a freak accident and it'd cost me $10M+ to keep me alive with little to no chance of a full recovery, please let me die.

Something we need to discuss separately from universal basic income is the need to reduce cost in healthcare. I'd gladly support expanding Medicare to everyone without having to qualify. We would need significantly greater penalties for Medicare fraud and add incentives for whistleblowers and make it easier to report fraud. I'm OK with "lite" Medicare that drops expensive procedures and lets patients suffering from rare cases fending for themselves in order to cut costs especially if there is little chance that the patient will ever recover fully.
Peter Thiel's Dropout Army
Yea, CALs are another mess altogether. I think some server products even use per-core licensing now.
I have a couple of the T420s and with the exception of having to replace the CPU fans in both of them, I have no complaints.
Isn't this exactly what sudo / sudoers is for? You can specify a single command or even restrict down to which arguments an unprivileged user can pass to that one command.
I think that devolves into "I can hire Matt, the neighbor kid and pay him $5/hr, but I can't hire Matt Inc, the landscape company, because they aren't allowed to pay Matt [the neighbor kid] $5/hr"

All of which perpetuates the cash/grey economy (and the off-shoring of garment-making jobs in your example).

The thing about UBI is that it allows employees to turn down bad economic deals without starving. Sure, you can't live in a 2000 ft^2 house, drive a new car, eat and party out all the time, but you probably don't have to take a job with ridiculously bad conditions just so you can buy a can of beans or Ramen.
We're disagreeing on why the current situation is not good.

I'm mad that there's a class of a parasites getting rich off the backs of the artists and workers that create the value in the concerts.

I have no issue with poor people being unable to see live shows.
I wonder if they are just reselling:
https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/
It looks like for the moment, yes. FB Lite isn't offered in Google Play for users in wealthy countries, but there are mirrors for the APK.
Yes. In fact anything.
Charitably, Microsoft learned from Windows 95 and Windows NT that if you expect users to upgrade on their own they won't do it. So now they are forcing the issue, albeit with bad execution.
> Does it really need to be an "us vs them" eat each other's lunch kind of a deal to you?

The present state of messaging affairs is that 99.9% of the market is proprietary spy apps that lock users in to one platform to try to force their acquaintances onto said platform for monetization purposes.

That is an undesirable state to be in for anyone advocating for open and private communications.

So you are either splitting efforts between the two, or saying damn one for the others benefit. I would gladly accept an XMPP implementation that could outpace Matrix / Vector's current performance and accept it wholeheartedly - there just isn't one, and as long as Matrix is at the forefront of usable federated open secure extensible private messaging thats who I'm putting my eggs behind, to the degree where I would say "damn XMPP" only insofar as free software developer hours are precious and wasting them are two different implementations of the same thing (much like Tox vs Ring for secret messaging) wastes a ton of effort that could be better spent making one of the two excellent rather than having two working solutions nobody uses.
Member of the peanut gallery here, and I fully agree with Renner1. I occasionally do front end development work, and the pace of change makes life very difficult.

Imagine someone who last wrote a Python/Ruby/C/Java application 5 years ago - they could hit the ground running and learn a few new best practices and tools in 1-2 new weeks.

Compare that to someone who wrote a JS app 1-2 years ago - they have months of catching up to do. It feels like the JS landscape is changing so fast that keeping up with things is a full-time job.
This is the most logical option. Tabs to add an indentation level, the width of that is unimportant and can be configured by each user. Spaces to align, since they're like any other character in a mono spaced font thereby perfectly matching the line above.
The concern is a plausible cover for action. Your suggested solution would be a little difficult to explain away - especially considering the kind of coworkers you'd have at the NSA. Instead of explaining why you're archiving all your mail, you'd have to explain the cabling, capture card, massive video files...
Do you own a residential ISP? I will pay you top of market for your IP addresses
If you own a residential ISP, I will pay you top of market for those addresses. Ping me at alee@londontrustmedia.com

Thanks!

Sorry if I'm not supposed to post like this - I'm assuming if it's off topic people won't upvote. :-)
BOINC – Open-source software for volunteer computing
Graphics adapters and WiFi are still the two things you have to really pay attention to if you are buying a new PC with the intent of running anything other than the OS it's delivered with.
>Never10 does NOT prevent the installation of Windows updates, including the infamous Get Windows 10 (GWX) update KB3035583. Never10 simply employs Microsoft's documented and sanctioned configuration settings to instruct it NOT to change the installed version of Windows.

That would not have helped in this situation OP stated what hurt them was the huge amount bandwidth (6GB) used on an account where they pay per MB.
States will probably have to be allowed to opt-out of the current system, and then implement their own version.
Yes, almost no electric bikes in China have pedals, and they could perhaps be better described as scooters. However, they are universally called e-bikes.
I did have some problems when working through the broken thorns tutorials. It seems like some of the code on the site does not work verbatim. Needs a little finagling.
How did they make the header loading animation ? Seems to be using canvas but I don't get how it works.
Brazil’s Interim President Receives 8-Year Ban on Running for Office
Feeling antagonistic also often results in irrational actions.
> Windows 10 represents a significant increase in security

Is that really so? It seems that last 20 years Microsoft just plays whack-a-mole game closing endless vulnerabilities instead of designing a better architecture that would not allow such things.

For example in Windows any app has full access to a device. The user can run any app written by anyone just by clicking a link on a web page or mail message. In Android these problems are partially fixed and in iOS the user is unable to run malicious applications at all.
Alternatively he could've just read about prior NSA whistleblowers (like Binnie and others) who tried to blow the whistle on many of the same issues more quietly and instead of being able to keep fighting for the Constitution, they got their doors kicked in and silenced by the legal system.

Edited to correct smartphone auto-"correct" typos
Yet Windows 10 contains significant improvements to the security model:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/whats-new/...
> The only way a user would be surprised about that is if they didn't read the message in the first place.

Users don't read anything. They take whatever action is the quickest way to get rid of the dialog box they aren't interested in so they can do what they actually wanted to do with the computer.
> When it this last time you logged into a box and /bin/bash wasn't an option?

A few hours ago; and before that, last Wednesday. The latter says:

JdeBP % /bin/bash
zsh: no such file or directory: /bin/bash
JdeBP %

The Z Shell is an add-on here, too. /bin/sh is the Korn shell. No, it's not OpenBSD.
https://www.dto.gov.au/our-work/cloud/
They're probably going to dilute it but I think they just want to know how many Romans died at Cannae or whatever.
> > The distinction between … becomes pretty moot

> I vehemently disagree, since by identifying the actual issue you can

I understand where you’re coming from. And I already agreed that what actually happened – the shifty practice to supposedly gain consent – should be the discussion. My entire sentence about the distinction is with regard to giving consent, which is what your original one-liner alluded to. Microsoft tricked people so they would have the excuse after the fact that you gave consent, when they really do no such thing.

So in most ways we probably agree on the actual issue – but your original one-liner came across as blaming the victim for being human – my reaction to it was to blame microsoft for intentional manipulation of human nature to achieve their objective, without the person’s consent, against the person’s desire, in a way that tries to make it look like their own fault.

If nothing else though, the snark comment prompted us both to elucidate our viewpoints and (I hope) find common ground.
> Do they even exist anymore?

Maybe not S40 exactly but there are still plenty of "dumb" phones.

It was only 3 years ago that smartphones started to outsell dumb phones [0]. In America, there are still ~24 million "dumb" phone shipped each year [1].

They are still around, people do still use them.

[0]: http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/13/smartphones-outsell-dumb-ph...

[1]: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/157114/20160510/u-s-flip-p...
Maybe a silly question, but why $13,000? Why not $5,000? Why not $20,000?

How does the risk/reward tradeoff of this proposal change as that magic number changes?

Also:

> The UBI is to be financed by getting rid of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, Supplemental Security Income, housing subsidies, welfare for single women and every other kind of welfare and social-services program, as well as agricultural subsidies and corporate welfare.

What about education funding? What does corporate welfare entail? Defense spending, for example?
Uhm, what? You want to buy a /24 through the ARIN transfer process? You want to know what IPs are in use by residential ISPs?
> “Do I need to go down and get the certificate that says I’m CEO of the company to get you to stop challenging me on this?”

In my experience at Amazon, there's a lot of free discussion and invitations for criticism of management ideas, but once a decision has been made, everyone is expected to get behind it for at least the next 6-12 months.

I don't think most teams at Amazon engage in "shaming" behavior, as much as they set a standard. Ie, if we agreed that all new modules are going to have 100% or near 100% test coverage and someone turns in a commit that doesn't have any tests at all, they're going to get some shit from the rest of the team.

There's a difference between an implementation that doesn't work as well as hoped that needs to be refactored, and intentionally adding technical debt and going against best practices to save yourself time. Quirky implementations are treated pretty indulgently at Amazon as long as you fix them once it's clear they're a problem, while laziness and causing harm to other developers who have to maintain the codebase is clamped down on pretty hard.

Most people would be in favor of "shaming" an airplane mechanic who doesn't follow the safety checklist after they've been taught how to, but not so if it was their first day.
What? How do you get a Facebook profile from an email? Is that possible?
Don’t Let Them (Your Best Employees) Go
http://webvatar.com/ was built for the indie web, so it works with full website URLs, but it supports Facebook, Twitter and Instagram URLs also.
What are you doing to prevent others using you as a whois proxy?

Alternately, how are you planning to evade the (rather restrictive) rate limits which whois servers impose?
I worked in cargo for a Latin American airline in the 1970's. Our fleet consisted solely of 727's. Back then, cargo prices were regulated. Our cargo operations paid for the airline's costs; passengers were profit. Even without passengers we paid the bills. Also, keep in mind that the aircraft would pick up passengers in Bolivia who were going to Miami. If you were in Paraguay flying to Bolivia there were a lot of better local choices than waiting for the flight from Miami.
Same here, in a way. Seems like he has actually not "reported these clearly problematic programs to more than 10 distinct officials, none of whom took any action to address them.", as he stated in front of the EU parliament.
> You're opted in, and given an option to opt out. And that is the dark pattern here.

Bingo, nailed it.
Any news on how the e2e support is progressing? The FAQ [0] says "End-to-end encryption is coming shortly to clients for both 1:1 and group chats to protect user data stored on servers, using the Olm cryptographic ratchet implementation. As of October 2015 this is blocked on implementing the necessary key distribution and fingerprint management." and I can't see much floating around on Github.

I tried asking in the group chat as well but nobody seemed to know.

[0]: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#how-secure-is-this
Thank you for reading the whole comment. :D
>An independent/small family bakery, or photographer, etc. who may not even have a retail storefront who won't service gay weddings, I would consider "not a real problem"

So a "No gays allowed" sign on a walk-in retail storefront would be bad, but a "Gays need not call" ad in the yellow pages[1] would be "not a real problem"?

[1] Or however these non-storefront businesses connect with customers.
There are a lot of articles that a noteworthy on Danish Wikipedia but not on English. There are many aspects of many things that are relevant to a Swedish population but not a Vietnamese.
Inventory tracking for Visual Thinkers
For what it's worth, I applied to work with 18F late last year. I'm a web developer with a wide array of skills - front-end, back-end, and even UI/UX design, product design, and some marketing and management - with about 8 years of experience, mostly doing independent consulting with a couple years at a SF startup in there. I'm also very civic minded, doing a bunch of pro-bono work and (since) getting involved in community activism.

I had two phone interviews in which both interviewers asked almost the exact same questions (which struck me as odd). Then I had a third phone interview in which the interviewer - who had a law background, as I recall - seemed very disappointed that I had not worked on Google-sized teams before. Maybe he was having a bad day, but his tone made it sound like I was wasting his time. That was the last I heard from them.

Sorry, this probably isn't the right place to comment on this, but I just wanted to share my experience with you. I was somewhat disappointed in the process, even though I LOVE the mission of 18F. I was prepared to up and move to DC, and honestly take whatever salary you offered - I was in it for the mission, not the money.
https://m.signalvnoise.com/we-only-hire-the-best-c711c330fc2...

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html
How to Fix Slow SMB File Transfers on OS X 10.11.5
For sure, I don't blame 18f, it is just super annoying to see things like this.
He connected on monitored systems to all kinds of servers under several credentials to steal their files. You think a hidden camera on his chest aimed at his monitor or phone just angled in its direction is too much risk, though?
> common ground

If the common ground is that we're somehow in a situation where both Windows users, and MS are being harmed, and the only people benefiting are news websites who get clicks for sensationalist headlines that do nothing to help the users, then i think we've reached it. :)

:(
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The Gauss-Jordan-Floyd-Warshall-McNaughton-Yamada Algorithm
Here's what I don't get. In previous versions of HN, my submission would be directed to the original. Why doesn't that happen any more?
I like your thinking, kinda surprised you got downvoted on HN for it.

One angle is the use of parasites to treat autoimmune diseases. It wasn't mentioned in the article, but hookworms are being studied for their ability to secrete a wide range of immune-modulating molecules. Companies are trying to determine which molecules are especially useful, and in what combination, so they can synthesize them and sell them.

But, you can get their beneficial effect right now, which is very appealing to people with major autoimmune diseases. Some companies are selling parasite eggs by mail to people who otherwise can't get them. I have MS, I take them.

It's not a lucrative business, and there are a lot of regulatory hurdles, but the treatment is quite safe.

Most people are disgusted by the idea of infecting their self with parasites. The reality is that humans evolved with parasites constantly inside of their bodies. It's only in the last 100 years that widespread anti-parasitic medication has wiped them out.

That did a lot of good for society in general, but we took it too far, essentially, by wiping out parasites entirely. There are a lot of benign "parasites", which should be thought of as symbiotes.

The way that big pharma is dealing with this is as mentioned above: they're trying to synthesize the right stew of immune-modulating chemicals to deal with this. But the immediate solution is to educate people, and sell them clean, safe parasites (or their eggs).

It's also nice if they live a long time in their host, and don't reproduce inside of the host. This is why Necator Americanus is mostly used; it fits all of these characteristics.
> Open positions

> We're pausing applications while we evolve how 18F plans for open roles. We estimate that we’ll post new open positions at the end of June.

???
>As a rule of thumb ...

I've heard variations on that a lot, but have not found it to be true at all. I've tried 3 times over the years as I got better at programming to write a server for a little mmorpg in OO languages. Each time it turned into a buggy, unmaintainable mess. On my fourth try I was using ocaml because I thought a better type system could help. Again the OO version I wrote initially was buggy and terrible. But being ocaml, I could rewrite bits and pieces in a functional style and improve it gradually. I ended up with no OO code at all, and very little imperative code (which was only for performance reasons). This is the very definition of "you have to model the relationship and interaction between things (objects)", but OOP was terrible and FP is great.
That's cool, but the world doesn't work by what you specifically call a public accommodation. There are dinner clubs with membership requirements (look here for a big hint as to how to continue refusing service to 'undesirables' legally), there are office parks with water fountains behind fences. The solution, if you don't want to do business with the public, is to not do business with the public. If you choose to be publically available, that's on you.
Note: if your services require licensure, then it's not your right to provide those services to begin with--it's a privilege you've been granted and that will come with extra legal stipulations by that very nature.
Not in the 1980's.
>Harper contributed the largest deficits and the biggest total new debt of any PM;

Neither of those statements are correct. Do leftists seriously just make up nonsense because they like the way it sounds?
It's more about taking an analogy where you compare a normal distribution to something that isn't a normal distribution.

Physical capabilities of organisms (e.g., strength, speed, jumping height, etc.) tend to fall into normal distributions.

Knowledge work where you can take advantage of powerful (mental | software) abstractions don't tend to fall into normal distributions, as previous work can make a bottleneck disappear, leaving you with more mental bandwidth for other concerns, which quickly expands your capabilities.
I'll be that guy. Forcing a person to do an action against their will is morally repulsive. Even if that action is to be a decent person.
This situation is way better than everyone having an in-house "library" that you have to learn, which is what it seemed like what happened a few years ago (it would be something in house, layered on top of jQuery or whatever).
Given that every server and most desktops at Google are Linux, and that it created at least two operating systems based on Linux (Android and ChromeOS) -- yes, I think it would be safe to say there's a Linux bias :)
1. Backup your Windows 7 install

2. Upgrade to Windows 10 (this associates your machine with a permanent license)

3. Restore your backup

If/when time comes to actually upgrade, you should be able to do so (or install from scratch) using the license you acquired in step 2.
https://www.cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-l...

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/10/...

The high profile cases were James Risen & James Rosen.
I have no idea whether you're being sarcastic or earnest, but the post is funny either way. Describing "the user has a high amount of control over their own personal machine" as a problem is new. :)
What is a Google-sized team?
No, I'm calling them out for falsely marketing themselves as pro-founder.
> If we are in a situation where a part of the population is plainly unable to perform any work that pays for a living and we are unable to improve their skills, then we are really is some kind of trouble.

And that's exactly the situation UBI is intended to solve because that's where automation is taking us. In the near future, only the very intelligent or machines will work because the machines will put most people out of work leaving only room for the very skilled.

> The obvious solution would be to not get into this situation in the first place, to heavily invest into education and training.

That is not a solution because it assumes wrongly that everyone is capable of performing knowledge work; they aren't. A very large minority of people simply won't be able to do anything worth paying them for, they won't have the capacity to do anything we can't get machines to do for far cheaper. When the machines take over blue collar work, and they will, the economy will have to change to something like UBI for it to continue working.
Same story. And I was at it a couple of years before Napster showed up and made it easy. Searching through ratio-ed FTP sites for the "Flavahood Sexual Healing Remix" of Keith Sweat's "Twisted" (cause that's the one they played on the radio and it was impossible to find anywhere) all while on dial-up, was a badge of honor! But I did buy a ton of music as well... which I promptly would pop into the CD-ROM drive on my linux box, and CDRip and LAME-encode for later usage. But, just like you, somewhere along the way, I didn't feel like it was worth the effort once services like Last.FM/Rdio/Spotify started showing up. $10 a month is little to ask. Sure there are times when I can't find a track or even an artist... but a few minutes later, I'm cruising along listening to something else.