skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not having a job or some collective sense of mission is bad for people, period. We are, at our evolutionary root, not designed to be idle or not tied up in some sense of collective effort to survive.

ANY PROGRAM that doesn't provide this very much needed element of the human condition is going to fail.

My ideal drug rehabilitation program for homeless addicts is this: give them drugs, and make them work at some kind of job to continue to receive them, as well as a basic income. This is based on a more recent theory of addiction (that I wholeheartedly embrace) following the "rat park" model of psychological isolation and emotional injury being a bigger contributor to compulsive drug use than the chemical dependencies.

Edit: Forgot to say that the above would likely result in the majority of folks in the program to quit drugs in a few years on their own as they became happier and more socially connected individuals.

All the programs my mom ever had available basically treated her like a helpless victim: stay away from drugs, take your lithium, and "of course we don't expect you to work. Just sit around and do nothing all day and here's your disability check".

And let me add this: most addicts are actually pretty functional and capable of work if provided some amount of drugs. The cases where an addict won't be able to work are going to involve folks who are in withdrawal and need their fix. They aren't going to be doing clerical work or anything, but day labor and other basic work like that is 100% doable. This is the kind of work that cities like SF have available in large quantities for their public infrastructure.
creation of ISIS is the result to Hillary's and Obama's policies.

Bill looks kinda odd in this list. i like the guy, he lived good life.
This is a pretty dark thought, but... While that may not have much of an effect on first-time crimes, it'll definitely have an effect on recidivism rates :)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3773 https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/cause-and-effect-t...
And finances. Also might be useful to track lottery winners, though i once read a book published 30 years ago that was a bit depressing on the subject.
The idea is that many of those problems can be solved via technology removing the need for most of the people needing to do work in this world.
JS was indeed developed in just 10 days[1]. It was a way for netscape to differentiate itself. It is also why it has so many... quirks.

1. https://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/A_Short_History_of_J...
Great summary! By nature of my job (eng lead of a major mobile malware detection team) I have a lot of startups pitch their ML solutions to me. A couple of thoughts:

- There are no publicly available data sets for training available. There are a few small ones and a few old ones, but they don't reflect the reality of 2016. Companies that approach me and pitch me solutions to the malware of 2012 are not useful.

- The majority of mobile malware is based on some kind of social engineering. On a code level these are indistinguishable from legitimate applications (the same APIs are used in the same fashion). The only difference is whether app behavior meets user expectations or not. Making this decision automatically seems intractable so far.

- Malware is not really a well-defined term. There is phishing, toll fraud, Trojans, privilege escalation exploits, ... If you generically look for malware, the signals you will look for are going to approach the complete set of APIs made available by your OS. Your results will just be a giant blob where everything is connected. Pick a single malware category and focus on just that at a time. ML signals for priv esc will look very different from those for phishing.

- ML is sexy. Malware analysis is not. Startups seem to hire too many ML people and not enough malware analysis people. I've had startups pitch to me that had literally zero people on staff who knew what mobile malware actually looked like. They just did anomaly detection and then tossed the results over to my team to verify the results. That's not how it works. We're not your QA team. :)
I've actually had this idea for a while now of creating snap-together redstone-like (from minecraft) cubes. Each would generate a signal, unless it's receiving a signal from a neighbor, making each one a NOT gate. You wouldn't literally build it with a transistor per block, they could have some fairly complicated logic inside with led's showing where the signal is going and so forth. You'd set each side to be input or output with a switch, and you could have different types of blocks (light or sound detectors, for example), or ones with usb ports for power/output, etc.
Ask HN: How to move from architecture to cod
Books like Architecture of open source applications exists but as forever beginner I always struggle when complexity strikes.

I am looking for some resources which will actually demonstrate how architecture is mapped to actual code.
Yeah, somebody needs to make the video games. Otherwise, what's the point of not working?
Watch out, knowing Apple you'll be able to pay for the new iPhone with a kidney soon...
Well-meaning but condescending welfare programs don't work. Current welfare programs assume that people who are on welfare need to be managed with kid gloves because they're incapable of being responsible, punish people who can't follow arbitrary guidelines, and generally don't provide enough money anyway.

In Vancouver, as an example, people on welfare don't get enough money to rent a bedroom from someone, let alone pay for food, clothes, transportation, taking care of children if they have any, etc. Even if someone on welfare does get a job, there's a decent chance it won't pay them enough to afford child care so it'll be a net loss in the end. You also have to prove that you're out there looking for a job every day, but there's such a stigma against people on welfare that it can be difficult to be hired, so the government is requiring people to go out every day and be told no over and over again.

These people are often unskilled and have no money to learn new skills, so they're stuck getting low-paying jobs which also don't provide enough money to learn new skills, and so on and so on.

A basic income system would save a significant amount of money on bureaucracy, making sure people are looking for work or jumping through hoops to pay someone not enough to live on and then take it away as soon as possible. It would also give people a lot more opportunities for entrepreneurialism, education, child care, and so on.

The current programs are focussed around spending the minimum amount of money possible on as few people as possible, which is an expensive and inefficient proposal. The parent's suggestion is to give people the power in their own lives, which studies have shown can result in huge turnarounds for people in unpleasant situations.

So OP is suggesting that overly complicated, byzantine, and underfunded welfare programs aren't working, so maybe we should give up and do what experts have been suggesting, and studies have shown results from, instead.
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You are deluding yourself. The hardest thing to believe is that she is an "honest person trying to do her job". All the flags and all the signs and all the bells and all the whistle are blowing and screeching at peek levels; yet here you are acting as though the fact that someone who cannot do anything without running afoul of laws and rule and controversy is somehow an honest person.

You are the equivalent of a person who everyone sees all the signs and signals and clear evidence that the person they love, blindly, is cheating on them and lying to them, yet simply cannot wrap their mind around reality and just keeps on making excuses and evades facing the truth.

It's quite amazing how basically a whole half of society has fallen into a kind of mental disorder where even as they see their spouse cheat on them right in front of their eyes, just turns their head away and voids looking at the reality they are seeing in order to suppress it. It's quite an amazing phenomenon. I guess it's base in fantasies of what she is and you imagine will come of her in spite of simply being played as a tool for her personal gain at he expense of sacrificing the most basic fundamentals of our government and society.
My reason is that I'm quite tired of paperwork and suspicion from payment processors when doing totally mundane things (like buying a PDA manufacturered by a small European company). The more of these laws that exist the more shit I have to do as a law abiding citizen. I use bitcoin because I like just not caring.
"The article does not do the subject of technological progression necessary justice."

If you had said that in the comment I responded to, I likely would not have reacted, but I think that's quite a different claim from "The article treats conditions along WWI front lines as static"

When you write a one-page article on a four year war involving millions of people, you can't do all its aspects justice, but not discussing something doesn't mean denying its existence.
I was looking into the limits of compelled speech during the Apple v FBI situation earlier this year. IANAL. The courts have said that there are some definite limits on when the government can force speech. I'm not sure where a warrant canary falls, but you should look at Wooley v. Maynard if you want to learn more[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooley_v._Maynard
> Your argument is surely moot because it assumes that startup employees take on no risk

I wrote "which some guy employed at Google with a 6 figure income doesn't have." -> you are free to work at an established company and have no risk, I didn't say that startup employees have no risks.

Otherwise they wouldn't get equity, wouldn't they? So please don't twist my words.

> There are many companies out there that have never, nor will, take investment or IPO yet are still successful

Great, but how is this related to anything I wrote? My comment was about investors and companies that accept investors money, nothing else.

> There's also an argument to say that any company that isn't profitable from day one shouldn't exist in the first place.

Isn't Google or Facebook highly profitable? It's hard to imagine that a company can reach such a scale in such a short period of time without outside investment.

No society can have private property rights and freedoms without the right to private investment. If I am not allowed to decide for myself where I will invest the money I have earned then I have no money, the state owns it instead.

> Your argument also suggests that founders must go "cap in hand" to investors to beg for startup capital

No, not at all. I didn't suggest anything like that.

> In all scenarios I do not see a positive outcome for the employee, and it seems only more and more difficult to attract new talent

Sorry, but software development is one of the most privileged and highest paid professions. You make it sound as if we are all working in coal mines.
Hasn't all crime gone down since the 90s?

Edit: https://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/data/table_01.html

So the answer is yes, crime has been declining since the 90s.
Spelled out, TurboFan and IonMonkey are JITs that take longer to run but can do more optimizations. The idea is to run them on code that executes a _lot_ of times, so the faster code generated pays for the extra JIT time. If you wrote a game in straight JS and it contains some code that runs for a bunch of in-game objects every frame, that's the kind of thing these JITs could really help with.
The Art and Science of Cause and Effect (1996) [pdf]
The assumption that every employee leaves after 3 years and keeps none of their equity is absurd. I don't see any value in that example at all.
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You've got it right on the web apps. And thanks again, this should be a big help
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I was in a restaurant in SF near embarcadero.
A 70+ year old woman eating in another table got her check, about $18, but realized that left her purse at home.
She wanted to leave to get her purse in order to return, and pay. But the lady that runs the restaurant started yelling "where is the money?". There were also some cops eating at the restaurant, and asked if there was anything wrong, and then proceeded to arrest her.

The restaurant was full of people. Many of them seemed to have a good living standard. But nobody got involved in helping an honest senior person in distress.

I got involved. I paid the bill and the cops set the woman free. Even if it was intentional (unlikely), if you are stealing food then you probably need help anyways, especially if you are old.

I was horrified to see how a society so prosper can be so dehumanized. Shame on you people.
I am curious - what principal(s) do you or gp think Etherium was founded on that which a hard fork decision will go against?

I think you can tell by the way I phrased the question I disagree. I own < $10 in DAO so I don't think I'm too biased here, and I believe in a pow system if you can get a majority the miners to agree than nearly any decision is justified.
Furthermore, it used to be much more expensive to host content "back in the day", while today you can do it everywhere for almost or actually free.

With revenue being far less required today to keep a blog up than it used to be, denigrating the effects of ad blocking on the "little guy" makes even less sense.
I was going to say, you'll need a bigger boat, but I see it is just a typo. Never mind.
If you assume that you will be screwed out of your equity, it makes sense to be compensated entirely with cash up front.

And with companies like Uber that seem to plan to never have an IPO, and also this meme that it's good to screw ex-employees out of their vested shares, it's not necessarily an unreasonable assumption.
Do they still have any customers? Why would any sane person want to work there or use them?

If any Theranos investors are reading this: Please just shut it down already and save all of us in Silicon Valley further embarrassment.
It depedns on definition of gross or super-gross salary. It may vary per country.

But...employee is always the only one who have to create value for customer who will give company his money. It doesnt matter who pay taxes (even health or social "insurance" are kind of taxes) value needs to be created and customer needs to be charged. Employer will not pay (long terrrm view) your bills and taxes from own pocket (dont consider early startup phases)
Thanks, we updated the link from http://www.vocativ.com/335705/correlation-causation to this.
so p0.8, wasn't 0.95 the standard for claims once?
> It's obviously true that "those who commit sex crimes are more likely to reoffend" than the average citizen.

How about vs. the average prisoner? Figures from other threads show that re-offend rates for other crimes are anywhere from 15x to 35x more likely to re-offend.

This is much more accurate of an indicator - compared to their peers, sex offenders are much less likely to commit a crime again, yet they are the ones for whom the punishment never ends.
Their faith is mentioned only twice and both in passing in the article. The specific religion they have doesn't seem to be highly relevant. Loss of indigenous religion can be sad, but it is no where near as bad as an entire loss of a homeland and a large diaspora of the population.

Focusing on their religion and why they have it makes it seem like that is the only issue you care about.
My life? No.

My projects? Absolutely.
Some people need those visual metaphors in order to create something. There are people who think differently (from you) and a CAD tool would simply be a hindrance. And if the resulting building is top quality why care how the blueprints were made?
I am CEO of Intel.

I have a space alien.
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As someone who is for such programs in principle, and willing to pay even more taxes from my high IT freelancer income to support the parts of society worse off, still I am not in the mood for "simple" solutions.

It was tried giving people housing. The problem is not doing that once - the problem is the ongoing process. Even in Africa the helpers switched to letting people pay for basic services instead of giving it to them for free, not because "capitalism", but because it turned out they didn't value free stuff and ruined or ignored it.

Similar with the homeless, and in addition a large part of them has mental issues! If you want to have ruined housing, sure, just give them free housing now. But a solution that involves an entire well-organized system that takes care of them and the housing is needed - and likely a very flexible individualized one. Some may need almost constant help, for others checking on them occasionally and giving nudges and support is enough. "Basic income" is not a solution for this problem. Most of those people on the street are very likely to gain next to zero benefit from (just) getting money.
Your stuck on jobs programs not the multimillion dollar payout for the owners.

Congressional districts are huge at around 700,000 poeple, and 'brining home' money is not going to buy many votes. Further, this still goes on even when there is little risk for reelection. In fact it's more common the longer someone has been in office.
RSUs are simpler and can be planned for. For example, a company could grant RSUs with a mandatory buy back vesting schedule (basically 83b election) upon hire and include the taxes as part of the comp package.

Examples:

Junior Engineer Sally joins Company A and is offered 0.25% of the company in RSUs. Company A recent raised at a 20M post money with a preferred share price of $1 and a FMV of $0.20. She owes tax on $10k of RSU gains. Company A either: 1) Buys back $4000 of stock in order to cover taxes 2) Provides a $4000 signing bonus to cover taxes.

Senior Engineer Bill joins Company B and is offered 0.05% in RSUS. Company B recently raised at a $500M valuation with a preferred share price of $10 and FMV of $3. He owes tax on $75k of RSU gains. Company B either 1) Buys back $30k of stock or 2) provides a $30k signing bonus.
I checked the link from the archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140701160526/http://resrc.io/ and from what I can see, it looks like the main issue (vetting of the links) wasn't really solved. That's the main issue with the awesome-x, from my perspective. Most of the people don't really need to read 5 books on basic Python, nor have the time to do so (trying to read a few books and dropping some is also time consuming).

Having tons of options sometimes seems cool when just checking or looking around, but when you actually need to use/learn something it's usually much better to have a couple (at most) of vetted resources that you can trust. Especially for the basic things, where there are countless of books, blog series, online courses. The paradox of choice, sort of. That would actually take 'community curated' to the next level.

The way I imagine this format working is having lists and sublists (loosely made of awesome-x repos) and each link having a upvote/downvote/report button. While the voting system would reside outside the github, every link could in github could have a widget next to it, similar to build status widgets. Well, you could implement voting using issues and reactions but that seems like a really messy way to do something. If widgets with score wouldn't exist, it would be extremely hard to convince the users to go to yet another web site.
The whole reason for clocks was to know when factory workers should start work so moving the schedule was moving the clock.
Exactly. They could even order you to keep updating it. In the Lavabit case, the FBI asked and judge agreed to compel Levison's silence + lies if they got the key with reason being his business wouldnt suffer if customers were lied to about their privacy. That argument and a judge agreeing with it are worth remembering in discussions like these.
But, why not just stop visiting those sites and instead visit sites that run ads in ways you agree with. Kind of like how its better to not willfully infringe on copyright to "stick it" to some random megacorp. Instead just support the people who're doing things you agree with.
Among the dubious claims that the author provides no back-up for I found this gem:

> Plus, in many modern-day societies, unemployment can also be downright boring. American towns and cities aren’t really built for lots of free time: Public spaces tend to be small islands in seas of private property, and there aren’t many places without entry fees where adults can meet new people or come up with ways to entertain one another.

Really? I feel the market for entertainment and those interested in niche activities is as rich as it has ever been.

> “Sometimes people retire from their work, and they don’t know what to do,” Gray says. “They’ve lost the ability to create their own activities.” It’s a problem that never seems to plague young children. “There are no three-year-olds that are going to be lazy and depressed because they don’t have a structured activity,” he says.

I've read the opposite from PG, who suggests that children are now unhappy and depressed because they have no purpose. Many parents are just using schools as daycare [0]

> But need it be this way? Work-free societies are more than just a thought experiment—they’ve existed throughout human history. Consider hunter-gatherers, who have no bosses, paychecks, or eight-hour workdays. Ten thousand years ago, all humans were hunter-gatherers, and some still are.

The authors romanticizing such lifestyles are free to build a cabin in the woods. But one should understand the accompanying poverty that would accompany such a decision.

I could go on...

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
OK, mind telling me how to get root on my iPhone, then?

BTW, I have physical access.
Before you receive an NSL, you have no limits. After you receive one, you may only report buckets (0-249, 250-499, etc.) on a quarterly basis.
Well, I hope more of them can move to the USA or someplace that has better opportunities. I'm not really saying that is a fix for SK's woes, but it may be a better outcome for the individual.
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So basically there is only mainstream benefit: removing chargebacks.

The rest are just ideological and/or about facilitating illegal activity and irrelevant to most people. This is the problem with Bitcoin and other digital currencies. There is just not enough focus on making something better and simpler than the existing system.
Your complaint is essentially that they are using a language that other people working on the same project don't know. There are good reasons to discourage that: it fosters bikeshedding, and CSS's ways of expressing dynamic behavior doesn't match intuition as well as procedural javascript. However these reasons have to be weighed against technical limitations. Using CSS for dynamic behavior is often better than using javascript because many more people disable javascript than CSS. If the project requires javascript for some other important part of the page, then it's not worth the complexity of specifying dynamic behavior in CSS. But if all parts of the page work well without javascript, then introducing a dependency on javascript for something like an accordion is probably not rational if you have someone who knows how to achieve the same effect with CSS.
>Whats code? Patterns.

Im not trying to insult your work, but this is so grossly generalized and false that it's absurd.
What monetisation ?

The bank isn't authorised to provide that information to third parties.
> You can still do remote work from a cheap location

Wouldn't the employer insist on paying in the local salary range?