skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know a better way to put this. The whole UBI idea that shows up here a lot (e.g. https://stratechery.com/2016/the-brexit-possibility/) is just naive. And now we have a nice poll of the experts to justify that judgement. UBI of $13k has the same support from experts as does denying climate change.
> Is that an actual proposal of his?

Sadly, yes. https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/pay-for-the-wall
Naming things makes them easier to distinguish, see the Wharfian Hypothesis [1] (which has been validated experimentally).

For example, if you don't have different words for blue and green (which is the case for some languages), then it's harder (slower) to distinguish distinct color samples that are blue and green than if you had words for the different colors.

If you're an Inuit, and you have words for different kinds of snow, it's going to be easier to disambiguate them, as you have a mental anchor (the name) for each concept.

In programming terms, I think there's a meaningful analogy with heap vs. dictionary lookups, with words allowing more efficient retrieval of unrelated concepts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
Mr Robot is an excellent TV show [0], I highly recommend it.

0) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158110/
Well, back in the day, when Z80 systems were still a thing, I actually built a soundcard for one such system. Wavetable synthesis, DAC-controlled envelope, did the whole nine yards from scratch, starting with circuit diagrams drawn on the proverbial napkin. Ended up using it to make theremin-like sounds. I was still in school and it was a fun project.
(2) Hmmm..well Google Calendar just had an outage.

I'll stick with Fastmail is very reliable and independent. They can't really be blamed for a DOS attack.
I think you're on the correct track, but a concept that I saw and loved from one of the many earlier tax related discussions offers a more clear solution.

Tax ownership of assets.

It's rather difficult to hide that /someone/ owns a phone, a car, a house, some land. Tax the ownership of value, not it's transfer.

Globally you would see the impact of sales increase taxes most where the profit actually accumulates; assuming that those types of values are taxed properly. In practice I would imagine that this would be increasing taxes on ownership of 'financial instruments'.
A questionnaire with results would not be a bad way to describe an initial interaction with a lawyer.

"Did you say yes to these 10 questions? If so, you have a case and we'll proceed. I'll file some paperwork for you."

If the target topic is as small and well-constrained like this one, it's not a far jump to consider this a legal service.
We need to talk about Islam's human rights problems all the time everywhere because that's the only way these problems will ever see the light of day. In Muslim countries these problems are always buried and there is a conspiracy to keep them buried so that no social progress can be made. That's immensely disrespectful to the victims of these problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zina#Human_rights_controversy
But they also spend a bundle with AWS... Amazon can reach the same pricing with the telcos, but will have lower infrastructure costs. Twilio would honestly be a good acquisition for AWS, but maybe Bezos feels like doing it himself.
That is... awesome! thank you so much
Your mistake is in assuming that just because you form a construct around payments, rights, and obligations of the receiver of an HTTP response, everyone else will agree with you. I'm not doing anything "without paying" because there was no "paying" agreed to by me. Content sites and advertisers just made that up from whole cloth. As if they just show up on the playground and get to make the rules now.

The playground rules were simple: you prop a server that responds to HTTP requests, and in response you send an HTTP response that generally contains content. That's it, those are the rules. If someone wants to make money from this system, that's on them, not me. If they can't make money, well what did you expect from a playground where everything is freely given? Creating straw man "rules" around payment and moral obligations is futile. If the responder has issue with what I do with their response, perhaps sending content using HTTP is not the proper medium for what they want to accomplish.

In summary, just because you want to march in and monetize shit does not mean that any of the rest of us have any legal or moral obligation whatsoever to play along.
Note that I'm not saying that a stringly typed language mightn't, in some cases, be the best choice. Just that it will be the best choice for reasons other than being stringly typed, and a language that allowed better organization of your data while offering similar affordances would be an improvement.
Maybe. Every time I hear replica, I see some kit car on a modern chassis, so I might be a bit biased.
The video makes a complete mockery of gun rights. I can assure you the NRA would not view the Streisand effect as desirable.
HN tends to follow stories about tech, science, and other hacker-y things. The fact that this story may involve death is interesting, but it's not why it's getting attention here.

But since it gets attention due to its tech content, and since it seems quite possible some death may result, I don't see why that should be ignored just because the numbers are small.

I don't see this as stereotyping or demonization. If people were saying that all of these people were going to die, then I could see it. But merely stating it as a possibility is just being realistic. You'd see the same sort of reaction if gaydar.net's user database leaked, just with "Christian" and "driven to suicide" in place of "Muslim" and "honor killing."
Spotify says Apple won’t approve a new version of its app
Because it works? Apple still spends billions buying parts from Samsung, even while locked in a patent infringement lawsuit.
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A flater tax rate would make up a large chunk of the difference. Basicly, at 50k you still get UBI, but it's offset by new taxes to leave your after tax income more or less the same.

At 25k, you pay a lot more in taxes, but get a UBI for a net gain.

At 0k you just get UBI, not food stamps ect.

There would probably be a net cost increase, but as SS counts as regular income it's not going to be huge for most retires. At some UBI levels it's actually less than our current system.

Programs to be removed, food stamps, HUD, welfare, unemployment insurance, Medical disability part of SS, and all the overhead associated with them.

PS: The economic gain from social mobility would likely be huge as long as you don't adjust UBI for locations. Why be poor in NY when you can live well in a cheap part of Florida.
His dad was worth ~$250M at the time of his death... Given the family dynamics, I'm assuming he didn't bequeath that wealth to charity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/29/the-m...

Aside from the cash loans, he was made an executive in his father's real estate firm which owned a bunch of buildings in Manhattan.

His father would further help prevent his businesses from going bankrupt by illegally propping up Trump's NJ casino with a $3.5M gift in the 1990s:

http://articles.philly.com/1991-04-09/news/25780577_1_casino...
I keep asking the same question; and all I get, basically, is that the money will just appear from somewhere.

What will happen to all the non-profits and government departments that are built around providing "services" to the poor, homeless, etc.? It's a huge industry, and it's not going down without a fight. In the meantime, you have added a few trillion dollars in annual spending to the budget.
Mise en abyme is the new meta.
Sure, the message matters insomuch as it contains any information the receiver might be able to receive, but that doesn't guarantee it will be received, so how much does a message really matter? I don't see how the sender matters that much (unless perhaps the sender and receiver are linked, for example, they exchange some kind of abstract interpreter for the message). But does the message matter on its own if is is encrypted so well that it is indistinguishable from noise to any but one particular receiver? It's just noise without the receiver. I'm not sure what was meant, but this is the best I can do in understanding it.
Depends on the costs. If automation can push down food costs to minuscule levels (like a solar powered, robot-run, indoor greenhouse), you won't need to take as much in taxes. Granted, housing is often much more expensive relative to income - especially to the poor and working class - but that doesn't mean there can't be mass-produced, high density housing units.

UBI really could work, but right now I don't think the costs of completely sustaining societies are low enough to keep the tax increases from chafing people enough to support a repeal
They are not theft, because a human does not have innate property rights(or any other kinds of rights for that matter). All your rights are provided and guaranteed by the state.
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"Uncertain, confidence 10"
> Like most tech companies, we’ve deployed Apple Macbook Pros to our employees from the start.

Most tech companies? Really?

Maybe in the Silicon Valley echo chamber, but out in the real world Windows is still the widely deployed standard. Even in the < 20 person shop where I work I had to fight to get a Macbook Pro.
I just feel that if you asked, 99% of content creators would not see it like that

<insert obligatory quote which allegedly originated with Upton Sinclair> Of course they don't see it like that. Would you happen to have a less biased source? Say, just about anyone whose salary does not rely ads?
Google's tax avoidance is likewise ridiculous. Neither the bullying, nor the avoidance are illegal. If you support one, you should support the other.
As someone who deals with hardware-backed encryption in laptops, it's a huge pain.

Modern phones are worse. I was at a training and happened to sit with computer forensicators and they complain about the new eMMC systems. Forensics systems for mobile devices were a piece of cake prior to that.

I suspect the eMMC thing is meant to make this difficult on purpose.

So, so much for that ...
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> Work = being part of society

That's a sad state of affairs.
A lot actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAT

(Not that I agree with the grandparent)
Right. That was AT&T's issue with unlimited iPhone plans. They calculated they could offer it because no one used much data. As soon as people starting actually USING it AT&T's network collapsed in busy areas.

Monopolies, oligopolies, not enough regulation, and very high switching costs mean phone companies can charge crazy rates with near impunity.
"A UBI of $13k financed by removing X, Y, Z programs [such that the numbers don't even actually add up]"

Counting that as a dismissal of all UBI proposals seems incorrect.
5 days is too much indeed, they could have come to the conclusion that it was satire in 5 minutes.

The problem is that there is no punishment for take-down notices filed in bad faith.
I was surprised yesterday, by the high number of upvotes but lack of comments on "Wide and Deep Learning: Better Together with TensorFlow".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12003281

So I made this; make of it what you want.
I'd rather just type than fuss with getting a QR code to scan in possibly-bad lighting. I just tested a password of 30 random lowercase letters, which is total overkill for security, and it took less than 30 seconds to type into my phone. Doing that perhaps once a month, or once you find a charger after your battery dies, is no problem.
Interesting that the status page marks this as a 'service disruption' versus 'service outage'. The page doesn't have any definitions of these terms anyway, so it's hard to know what the difference is.

I was completely unable to access the service. It seems like a 'service outage' to me!
> 2.) Use gmail or Google Apps. Things just work. Cede control to Google.

Until they don't, and then good luck with getting ahold of someone who can actually do anything to fix your problem(s).
Fair use is a defense. You can preemptively declare it as that, and hope that whoever you're parodying will see the light, but it doesn't give you immunity. Once a DMCA notice is served, and not obviously invalid, the content has to be taken down by the carrier. In exchange for having to do that, the carrier isn't liable. That is safe harbour. Simultaneously the content uploader can either get the supposed owner to retract their notice, or inform the carrier they'll hash it out in court. And only then, in front of a judge, does "fair use" come into play.
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It's about the database
> you'd shut me down because "NASA scientists know what they're doing"

I've said nothing like that.

A working experiment that provides irrefutable data is needed to convince me in any way. Refutation I'd need to leave for others to do, not my competence.

I really like EmDrive as an idea and hope it will work out. It's very inspiring when someone has the guts to push it despite the dominant (scientific) opinion. If it does work out, these people will be some of our greatest heroes.

After all, sometimes people like these have been right in the past in adverse scientific atmosphere. I'm just content to follow it from the sidelines.

If I had to bet on EmDrive, I'd have to bet against it.
Just a friendly reminder: Snapchat is not actually ephemeral. They save everything they just stop showing it to users.
we can always hope for Pasta gianduja. It is two versions away
LED lights tend to have a much better spectrum than fluorescent bulbs.

http://www.designingwithleds.com/the-new-cree-tw-series-led-...
Is there a guide out there for how browser users can protect themselves from untrustworthy CAs?
Because if it's CPM, then you're paying for users on the publisher who simply view it.
Looking at the copies stored on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ShareTheSafety.org they don't immediately look false, although they don't copy the NRA's current website graphic design very well.

Fair use is not an automatic thing, I'm not so confident this web site (no opinion on the video) would be protected by it, especially since, as I note elsewhere in this sub-thread, such a project is not entirely beyond the realm of possibility.
Perhaps it's because it reeks of limited hangout (trusted insider reveals a bunch of info, and then everyone uses his brief software mentions to convince everyone what tools to use), even if he isn't actually one?

Vice has me very cautious these days in general, as well: https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/disney-fox-hearst-time-warner-tied-...
A new self-driving monorail will chop 2-hour commutes down to 10 minutes
NPM mirror in China
But that's generally discouraged by law. Don't some muslim countries have laws violently that punish sexually promiscuous people?
I think you need to look at it from bigger picture. It's only matter of time when machines will take most of non creative jobs (we all see how ML is going forward) because they will be cheaper and more efficient than humans. Tell me then what you will do with hundreds of millions of people without work? In my opinion basic income is the answer to this problem.
#2 is generally true of FastMail as well. In 2 years as a customer, it's been close to bulletproof.
The article points out that this was likely not a DMCA notice.
Well, you can be rich
That's like asking "what if profits are unethical?"
The last time Gmail suffered a total and global outage, it resulted in no email lost and delays of at the most 4 hours.

That basically made their outage an argument to switch to them.
Language is a huge part of people's cultural perspective, and it causes all sorts of stupid things to happen. People will say things like "animals don't have morality", when in fact they only fail to have a human morality that humans can communicate. They'll say "animal X doesn't have emotions" - based on what? The fact that they can't communicate with you and demonstrate a human-like response?

Then there's the whole board of culture antagonism built upon the premise of people who can't speak your language being 'lesser people' in some manner.
Understand the book "Mythical Man Month".
Mise en abyme is tail-call optimised.
So out of curiosity, as someone who has a nontrivial passcode on his Android device that people constantly mock, how many characters are we talking to be safe.

I have known for a long time 4 digit numeric PINs are stupid. Sadly the San Bernadino case, for all the wrong reasons, taught me all the alternative auth methods are just as risky.

Should I be worried? I don't know. But as a long time Android enthusiast and power user who does not use Google Play on his phone and restrictive permission customization like XPrivacy, I am about to just give up and have a newish iPhone for secure stuff and knock around Android for the cool open source dev I aspire to with F-Droid.
Total tangent, but I can't recommend Mr. Robot enough, especially to the HN crowd. It is about a group of anarchists hackers that are trying to take down a global conglomerate. It might be the first critically acclaimed TV show/movie that goes out of its way to make sure the tech they talked about is accurate. You will see it as early as the pilot episode when two of the main characters debate the merits of their favorite Linux distros. And they do it in such a way that it is entertaining to both the people who know what they are talking about while not alienating the common folks who just hear it as technobabble.

I just warn you shouldn't read too much up on the show beforehand because there a lots of twists and turns in the first season that you won't want ruined.
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I do find it somewhat amusing that Android went from Dalvik precompiled to Dalvik JIT, to ART precompiled, to ART JIT.
How can a tax be in this category?
Also, obesity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/health/gut-bacteria-from-t...

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31168511
I am sure Ferrero could have been persuaded. But I guesstimate in the Kit Kat event the money actually flowed in the opposite direction - from Nestle to Google.
I tend to think that we think in actions and consequences. It just so happens that speech is an action which has a very tight loop for direct consequences which other parts of the brain can make use of (sound waves). When you're angry you imagine punching someone, or if you're happy you imagine jumping around ecstatically, etc. The tight coupling between sound an movement means that the agent in the brain for most people just uses the auditory representation since it is more salient (grabs the attention better) than the motor movements of the mouth/tongue/vocal cords. When learning a new language and trying to figure out how to produce a new phoneme if all you think about is the sound that comes out rather than what you are actually doing with your speech motor system you will have a much harder time learning. Consider a deaf person whispering or a 'truly' deaf person (who can't hear low frequencies via bone conduction) speaking. They can do it, but they must be thinking in terms of the movement of their mouth and vocal cords, not in terms of the 'sound' they make.
If you're paying for Google Apps, you get e-mail and phone support.
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Yes it had a 6502 in it.
Agree with what you said. I also believe we need to keep UBI high in discussion to move it forward.
While most of what he said strikes me as "likely true" this struck me as being utter nonsense:

> The DNC had NGP VAN software installed on their system so I used the 0-day exploit and then deployed my backdoor.

The NGP VAN is a service, not a piece of software, and most of the software NGP provide isn't internet accessible. Plus there's also the sticky issue of how he would get ahold of it to fuzz it.

On this issue I believe CrowdStrike. He purchased malware on the black market ($1.5K per this FAQ) and then emailed it to tons of people at the DNC until some moron clicked.

This FAQ has a few obvious lies like that in it, like his poor English is another obvious lie since they are so inconsistent with it.

I think they read about the NGP VAN and then made up the zero day story to make themselves seem more badass. This individual strikes me as your typical script kiddy, in particular considering how much they glorify Guccifer (1) who themselves was a script kiddy.

PS - Crowdstrike are still wrong about the Russian intelligence claims, they never had one shred of proof, even after posting their supposed "proof" it was all just generic hacktools and things you can buy on Tor.
I've wondered about this too. The documents leaked so far certainly don't have anything interesting.
This is a game being played out in public. It wasn't a coincidence that Elizabeth Warren mentioned Apple Music yesterday in a speech (among other tech companies).

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/spotify-makes-case-aga...

http://www.recode.net/2016/6/29/12060804/elizabeth-warren-ap...
Fair enough. Still, Fair Use remains a defense in court; and i expect that whatever kind of notice was actually sent has similar procedures that do not include steps like "completely ignore it".
Please Help: Under attack by VC backed company
Talking to a lawyer. Thought I'd see what advise might come out of HN.

I've been doing business under a brand and have owned the corresponding domain since the early '90's. Yes, I've been doing business under this brand since before the Internet went public and got the domain as soon as it was possible.

The brand was used in commerce prominently until about 2005 (manufacturing and selling product as well as consulting). I had a C corporation under the same name.

Around 2005 I shutdown the C corp and focused mainly on consulting with a few clients a couple of times a year. I operated as a "dBA" under this brand.

Because of the nature of this brand it has, over the last few years become very relevant to a market segment that is growing significantly world wide. I've been waiting for the right opportunity to get get back into the game (design and manufacturing product) to advantage of the new opportunities.

A few months ago individuals contacted me about buying the domain from me. It turns out they just started a company in another country using this root name. The funny (or sad?) part is they offered me a paltry $500 for it. I told them I had zero interest in this.

Well, fast forward to today. They are now attempting to obtain a trademark in the US (I have a common law trademark spanning nearly 30 years of continuous use). If they are granted such a trademark I am sure it is their full intent to put as much pressure on me as possible to effectively steal my domain and trademark away.

These people are backed by tens of millions of dollars from venture capital firms right here in the US. From places like Menlo Park and other VC towns. I don't have the financial horsepower to fight them should they choose to inflict pain.

Is this what venture capital is about in the US now? To effectively use financial terrorism to intimidate and steal from people? I am at a loss for words.

Thoughts please.

Thank you.