skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tenure at universities has a similar effect. You have a job for life, but you're stuck with the other equally unfirable people.

I suspect that is one reason personal feuds in academia can be so bitter and last so many decades.
These are private companies, though. They can police their content however they want and might determine that more restrictive rules are better for the product than loose ones. The host simply accepts the consequences of making the wrong choice.

They are not in the business of providing a platform for free speech. Just look at reddit for an example. The quality of their product has suffered because they allowed (and continue to allow) racist and misogynistic subreddits to proliferate. Thus, these segments of their user base also proliferate. At various points, they decided to take action. Whether those actions improved their product or not is debateable.

Social media platform users have no right to free speech on the site. They do have a right to start a competing website that allows free speech, though.
Gawker Smeared Me, and yet I Stand with It
Like in Honor Harrington? Let's hope not.
> The other preaches tolerance and respect.

Wait, the Catholic Church is a political party now?
Yeah. My attribution of these issues to saving skills only applies in a UBI context, iff the scheme doesn't force people into particular spending patterns as some current welfare systems do.
It doesn't run on electrons. To the extent that the brain runs on electricity, it modulates that electric potential by moving positively charged sodium and potassium ions, not electrons, across cell membranes. Also, the ions flow back and forth across the membrane, not parallel to it. Furthermore, the electrical signal only travels within a single neuron. Transmission from one neuron to another by sending small molecules called neutotransmitters across synapses.

Of course, none of the above precludes the brain being considered a digital computer. However, the brain does not operate on any kind of fixed clock, and the strength of a signal from one neuron to another is measured in neurotransmitter molecules per second, a fundamentally analog quantity.
If you detect cancer earlier AND CHANGE NOTHING ELSE you cancer survival rates will look better. So you can't just look at cancer survival rates.

I meant what I said about AND CHANGE NOTHING ELSE but experience tells me I have to repeat it. Merely detecting it earlier, BUT DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT, will improve your cancer survival stats.
I was eventually able to find the story you mention, although I couldn't get the Enquirer's site to deliver it to me; I had to depend on the Google cache. There's a possibly more stable copy of the article at http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?495943-National-..., followed by the kind of worthless tripe comments you'd expect from the kind of people who read gossip tabloids; there's more background at http://gawker.com/why-is-the-internet-obsessed-with-photos-o....

It might turn out that the Enquirer is wrong, but I see no reason to assume that they are; they've been right about a lot of apparently implausible gossipy stories in the past. I also feel kind of dirty for even considering the question, since obviously whether Clinton has sex with women (lesbians or otherwise) is a private matter.
You have a very different perspective. I think it leads you to believe that other people are all in denial, and would obviously be upset (feel shame, horror, etc.) if forced to accept the reality of chickens being killed. In other words, "meat is murder" for you.

I assure you, this is not how we all feel. I look at an animal and I see food. Trips to the zoo make me hungry. The only ones I don't want on the menu are the biohazards, the toxic ones, and the bad-tasting ones. My only reservation about killing them is the same as with changing the oil on my car: it's messy, dirty work.
TOS's generally protect the company's I'd imagine. (IANAL)
I guess the main problem to get users is a social problem, but let's try to see the tech problems.

Are all transmissions in https?

Aye you sure that the DB will never leak?

Do the NSA see the transmissions? What about the college proxy?

If A and B have sex, how can A prove that A didn't force B to signin in the app, or that B was not drunk, or ...

If your conservative mom/dad find that app in your phone, how would you explain it?

If you have a semi-SO, can you show the log to your semi-SO? Can you show a "filtered" version of the log?
The US is more expensive. But that's as far as you can say.
Atom has git integration built-in? I couldn't find it when I tried it a few months ago (and I was shocked, considering it's sponsored by GitHub).
The thing I've liked about this is that bloat isn't just about size.

If you have no reason to interact with the userland tools inside a Docker container, you similarly have no reason to introduce their complexity and attack surface in a container designed to run one service.

My current "minimal" installation shows 25 SUID binaries (a large amount of them being systemd related...) and my server services need very few of these.
And don't forget Arq.
What possible reason could Apple have for wanting to delete these files?
I don't want it to replace existing welfare programs. I want it to be additional. Welfare is good.
> "For all the kollel stipends that are paid out, ultimately, peoples true nature wins out. The only thing we can do is work to improve that nature."

And that is for a community with a strong ethical and moral standards.

If "people's true nature wins out" is the deciding factor in a larger experiment, I'd expect to see more abuse.
Yes, the bankruptcy statistics are from the PNHS study. What about the other numbers from the CDC and the Commonwealth Fund? They also damn the US private healthcare system, and so far you've been ignoring them.

It's impossible to determine "#bankruptcies there would be absent medical causes", because it's impossible to determine a number that only exists in a counterfactual. Absent this, subjective surveys give us an approximation that's broadly useful; literally anyone can lie or misattribute just about anything on any subjective survey, but that hardly makes them useless. There's no sense in being interested in "the true figure" exactly unless we have reason to believe that it varies dramatically (say, by an order of magnitude) from our best approximations, and outliers like a criminal millionaire football player are hardly that; what matters is an idea of the impact of medical costs on people's financial security, and the study absolutely provides that.

Exactly what realistically obtainable data could persuade you that medical bills contribute to financial instability and bankruptcy in the US?

The PNHS study showed that among medical bankruptcies, people on average paid ~$17k out-of-pocket on medical bills. Would those people have gone bankrupt even without having to drop that much money on bills? Maybe! It's impossible to know for sure. But here's a study that says 76% of Americans live paycheque to paycheque [0]; what happens when you drop an unexpected $17000 bill on them? You're fighting an uphill battle against common sense, here.

And from the other direction: a blog post with some numbers showing that people do indeed go bankrupt in countries with single-payer or socialized medicine [1]. Based on the blog title and the writing, this is, I suppose, is supposed to be a rebuttal against arguments for the public system, but the actual numbers - exactly as imprecise and subjective as the American PNHS numbers, mind - are 5%-15% instead of 30%-60%. That's still too high and still disgraceful, but a dramatic improvement nevertheless.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/24/pf/emergency-savings/

[1] http://www.conservativeblog.org/amyridenour/2013/5/28/yes-pe...
> While it is a DnD game the room for role playing is limited. The draw of the was the system of the gameplay and the simulation of the world.

How old are you? I remember when Baldur's Gate 2 came out and it was a roleplayer's dream, all across the internet. Which was a lot smaller back then. This statement is about as wrong as one can be about a huge number of people playing and loving Baldur's Gate 2.

And in the mean time, Zoe Quinn can't get up in the morning without receiving rape and death threats so, yeah, GamerGate is still absolutely about her.
I have used universal syntax highlighting and when it highlights stuff that shouldn't be highlighted, it is very annoying and confusing.
HamNo over at gawker had a piece today outlining exactly this issue http://gawker.com/two-problems-with-universal-basic-income-1...
How about Ubuntu's updater? Any problems there?
404 for me. Link is broken
No. Most vulnerabilities are sql injections and phishing attacks. There are so many leaks because incompetence is the norm among developers.
Same could be said for startups!
> That's a contradiction. Productivity is defined as output divided by hours worked. Output is defined roughly as "sales of things that people want".

I used the wrong word, I meant 'overall economic production'. Economic participation is falling during this "recovery", and that is not just due to baby boomers aging: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-is-the-real-unemplo...

> work that pays nothing is very often work that nobody wants done

I disagree, but I think this disagreement boils down to underlying problems I see with the ways in which we tend to measure economic output and GDP.

If I write a poem that brings me no pleasure and I sell it to you, and you write a poem that brings you no pleasure and you sell it to me. That "counts" as economic productions. However, if I write a poem that brings me pleasure and you write a poem that brings you pleasure and nothing is sold, the same value is produced but it doesn't "count" towards economic production.

You may not like poetry, but there are tons of other examples:

Grandparents who babysit their grandchildren, people who fix their own cars, people who grow and cook their own food, people who write open source software, people who volunteer with non-profits, the list goes on and on.

> At some level the notion of productive work must be tied to an exchange of goods or services or else the phrase becomes kind of meaningless.

While it is hard to measure productive work that isn't tied to the exchange of goods or services, that doesn't make that work meaningless, nor does it mean it has no value.

Conversely, I would argue that there is a large amount of "unproductive work" or "busy work" that doesn't really produce value, but does involve the exchange of goods and services. Specific examples are controversial, but some potential ones are: fighting frivolous lawsuits, political fundraising, defensive patents, and many types of advertising.

see: https://medium.com/basic-income/basic-income-meaningless-job...

I think many of these many of these jobs provide "competitive advantage" in marketplace but produce little to no actual value to society. Every corporation needs someone doing these jobs so they can stay competitive, but it ends up becoming an arms race of economic waste.

My hope is that by reducing the necessity of work that get paid well, we are able to start weeding out some of the BS work and enabling people to do more of the less/un paid work that produces hard to measure value.

I think we should accomplish this by incrementally phasing in basic income pair with gradually phasing out minimum wage. Each increment should happen at the start of a recession so the the increase in government spending on BI paired with the availability of cheaper labor (due to lower minimum wage) can prompt growth and shorten the recession.
Or in a similar vein, when YC funded the adware distribution company InstallMonetizer.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130115/17343321692/why-a...
> if you allow the masses to do absolutely nothing while providing them the necessities for life

Perhaps I'm underestimating the issue, but isn't there already today a sizeable chunk of the population in the world that does nothing or close to nothing, but still enjoys a good quality of life? Some people have the drive to work and create things, others are content with just consuming and making families; we have always had that, the only difference is that BI would make life easier for the latter group, but it doesn't strike to me as something that would radically change society as a whole.
Shooting electrons out gets harder and harder as you go since you're counteracting an ever increasing positive charge from the Earth.

Besides, on a uniformly conductive sphere (which admittedly the Earth is not at the crust but probably is near the mantle and core), excess charge distributes over the surface, so only the top layer of the Earth would get blown off (along with your accelerator).
It can be even easier by just autostarting:

iceweasel "https://www.google.com"

...and installing something like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/r-kiosk/

Or, you can take advantage of this almost two years old bug related to full screen mode: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1049807

It takes ~1 minute for my RPi2 to boot and start IceWeasel, but it gets the job done in the quickest way possible.
> You can see from their reported figures that their U.S. treasury holdings are far too low for a sensible national portfolio. It's a pretty glaring hole, and you know that the money is going somewhere off the balance sheets.

Figures were published by US. ;) Alternatively, you can also consider that US is playing hardball and letting SA know that there is a 'cap' on the threatened liquiditation event.
Marketo is acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $1.79B
I'm not an economist but I'm wondering what do you think would happen to technology research and science and such if the rich were taxed this way? Would the economy shift more towards what the poor buy, rather than shift to what the rich spend their money on? Or does it all grow together or equalize in some way?
I don't think there should be any protection to prevent the wrong. That ventures into totalitarian regime.
Do “all Java type checkers have bugs”?
You could probably get the usage data from companies by offering analytics.
Why is Haskell used so little in the industry?
The Three Most Important Systems B2B Companies Can Keep Up-To-Date
I sullied my apple watch by wearing it while playing hockey for science. AMA.
A very short introduction to R
Maybe you need this license?
http://www.wtfpl.net/
I don't want them to destroy their bodies. I don't want them to fuel black markets with my money, and this is speaking as an occasional consumer of mind altering substances not available in pharmacies.

Further, I don't have much money. I cannot afford a lot of stuff for myself. So I can only help with necessities. And I don't want to judge whether any given person is lying.

In conclusion, I never hand out money. But I've bought quite a few bags of groceries for strangers.
My wife also is amazing at this game and destroys me every time :)
If you were to compile a list of "bad ways to conduct an interview", this would be near the top of the list. Sure, exceptions can be made for a later stage of a sales interview process after first impressions have been made, especially if it's a role play. But if "copes well with rude managers" is a hiring criteria for software developers... well they probably have the option for working for a company that doesn't see that as an essential skill.

Senior execs that do this belong a long way from the interview process (and probably a long way from a senior exec role, because if they haven't figured out that interviews are a two-way process and unnecessary rudeness isn't a good first impression to leave they're not really management material)
Explicit memory as a framework for the neural correlate of consciousness (2011)
Of course "right person" doesn't mean "flawless person"!

That is a complete strawman.

> you should own your emotions instead of letting them own you.

Those who let their emotions own them are the ones who tend settle for the wrong person. "Sure he drinks, spends money like crazy and flirts with every beautiful woman he sees ... but I LOVE him".
One of the reasons I like a boosted EITC is that it encourages work and particularly above-the-table work. If you are getting a $2 boost for your $6 job, you would make sure to report it.
Peter Thiel makes people draw all kinds of analogies...
Some really solid advice.
I'm a white Airbnb host. I reviewed 102 guest requests to assess my racial bias
Even if that is true, we can somehow rank the wrongs on a scale and go with the least wrong.
For the record: not a Tumblr user.

My opinion is that people who commit those acts need to be killed as an example to others.

Some will argue that they perform a public service of some sort, but the fact is, they're bullies, plain and simple. They are past any public service point and now are off into lulzland, where they're selling this information because they will profit from it. I cannot envision that there is any sense of remorse in these people, either.

I am fairly certain they will get away with this - odds are against them ever being caught in a country with a decent enough justice system to apply a lasting verdict. Even finding enough proof to convict is a very long shot.

The part of me that despises bullies, though, wants to line them up in front of their colleagues and say "Do what you want, but remember, there are consequences. This is consequences." and turn them into a thin, red smear.

I try to avoid posting while angry these days, because it's really pretty useless. Sometimes, though, can't help it.
This would lead eventually to the system we have now, only larger (because it's not means tested). It also has huge supply-side economics problems:

If you stipulate that every family can spend an extra $1000 on housing, rent will go up by $1000 pretty quickly, and housing prices will go up by whatever $1000/mo in mortgage payments will allow.
You still need your phone for that. If you're out of battery charge, you're temporarily locked out. If you loose your phone, you're locked out until you recover the number. If you can't recover the number for some reason, then what?

People downplay the probability and importance of these issues, but the situations where you loose your phone are often the situations where you need access to your online accounts. One such situation can do far more damage than all the hacks combined. (For example, someone steals your backpack with your phone and wallet. Horror scenario: someone steals your backpack with your phone and wallet in a foreign country.)

In short, loss of access must be considered as a tradeoff.

Loosing anonymity due to phone-based 2FA is another issue that never seems to be considered in these discussions.

Finally, phone-based 2FA discourages you from splitting your accounts. (It's a bit of a hassle even with one email. Imagine managing 5 or 6.)
I am getting a 502 message on your about page (hyperdev)...really frustrating that I get the over capacity message two weeks after signing up for the private beta, I would have thought this would have been resolved by now especially with this new press.
Then why all the philosophy about what "kind of person" he was and whether he would use the money "for other purposes"?

If someone asks me for money, and I give them money, it becomes their money, and it is none of my business what they choose to do with it, any more than it is any of their business (or yours!) what I would have done with it if I kept it.

Otherwise, you're not really giving them help, you're taking some amount of control over their life.
Because a) that is how it was represented to me, albeit with very high standards, and b) I don't feel comfortable massaging the truth like that. If and when I go into detail I can explain things that I think go in and against my favor.

Also, mathattack's answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mathattack
Storm Chasers, Stay Home
They could put a toggle in settings that anyone can use. Call it 'Airplane mode' or 'Do not disturb'.

When enabled, the 'Notifications' link/page disappears from the UI and the user no longer receives messages from anyone who they haven't messaged before.

Not hard to do at all.
Let's call this what it is. Any system that short circuits the basic human need for hard work and reward compensation will never be a success. You can sugar coat it and re brand it any way you want to. Humans need that feedback loop of blood, sweat and tears before they receive a 'reward'.
Indeed, but I do think they are aware of it since they do offer "Signature Edition" computers, which require manufacturers to not install additional software.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Signatur...
Not all work provides regular, consistent cashflows.

Examples:

* Launching a startup

* Developing a vaccine

* The performing arts

* Solving math problems

* Fruit picking

* Writing your first book
> But if in 20 years there are simply no jobs available to 60% of the population.

It means we are living in paradise. There is nothing to be cleaned. There is nothing to be fixed. There is nothing to be repaired. There is nothing to be trimmed or maintained.
Well, that seems reasonable. I'm just not OK with the whole "deserving poor" idea that seems to be baked into American political philosophy when it comes to homelessness and poverty support, because I don't want to have control over other people's lives any more than I want them to have control over mine.

Freedom isn't freedom without the option to fuck up.
Yet animals and humans DO communicate to each other. Especially horses.

Happens all the time.

I am hungry.
I am angry.
I need comfort.
I want to go somewhere.
I am pleased to see you.

And so on. It is elemental communication but it is real.
salted with what? unique salts per password? hashed with what? in many cases you're 5 minutes away from plaintext passwords, so the distinction is meaningless.
To be sold to patent trolls.
Serving assets from S3 may hurt performance
Well, the data is already on the internet...
https://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php - "Noises, soundscapes and tonal drones ... Shaped to your hearing and environment"--great for improving focus, relaxing, etc.
You weren't given cash, but today kids are given an essentially unlimited amount of government backed loans to pay for school - the availability of which has caused education costs to skyrocket.
So my taxes will drop, right?
i thought you needed three electrical connections for ECG?
I'm a fan of projects like https://github.com/petehunt/rwb

It's a little opinionated but aligns well with the decisions I independently made after spending way too much time learning "build tool bullshit". That said, it's a little rough around the edges and development is not very active.
I agree completely with what you're saying but this:

>This looks like it was written by a 16 year-old student who heard "lock free", and went "cool, I'll write a library!" And he missed the last 40 years of software best practices.

Is not constructive criticism, it's just being rude.
> Because security is actually really hard, contrary to popular opinion.

But some of the password hashing algos used, no salting, making all password characters lower-case in the background, etc. are not hard things to avoid. So when a site is hacked and the user information stolen and we find that stuff out, it's safer to assume other security practices where also subpar.
What do you mean "save us money"?
Flirting with Crystal, a Rubyist Perspective
RPM-based distros are not the most popular, though [0]!

[0]: http://distrowatch.com/
it is more convenient, just upvote and move on
It doesn't have to be funded by taxation.

Basic income could become the primary lever of the money supply or of monetary policy generally.

e.g. imagine if Quantitative Easing had been implemented via an adjustment to a basic income, rather than buying bonds from merchant banks.