skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The only reason the banks accept such a piddling sum is because they immediately sell the loan to a government-run corporation(or maybe skim the interest for a year or two)."

Being ignorant of the situation, I went to fact check this statement and was blown away by how true it is. I'm flabbergasted at the amount of involvement the US government has in the mortage market. More reading if anyone is interested:

1. https://www.frbatlanta.org/banking/publications/financial-up... (Somewhat outdated but mostly good info)

2. http://blogs.reuters.com/bethany-mclean/2013/08/20/getting-g...

3. http://www.npr.org/2015/03/24/395119065/as-economy-rebounds-...

4. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/04/21/401259676/who-o...
Off topic, but interesting question I think.

I personally liked its addition. If you read it again, the "Hahaha." adds an extra pause that makes the ridiculousness of waiting for the ticker to come on screen sink in. The same way someone telling that story in person would pause. It makes it feel more like a real conversation. Without it the reader would have moved on to the next paragraph too quickly.
> after elections

Isn't that backwards?
> A government cannot provide its people with justice, human rights and quality of life

Justice like secret FISA courts and no-due-process restrictions on travel?

Human rights like free speech? Good job Merkle, Ergodan is proud. Due process? Haha. Protection from unreasonable searches and seizures? "Civil asset forfeiture" would like a word.

Quality of life? You mean the thing I get from novel technology, but that is constantly hindered by IP law and overregulation?

> as a society we have chosen to collect through taxes

Huh, I don't remember being privy to that decision... In fact, as best I can tell, most people are compelled to pay taxes by the threat of violence!

>A way to contribute to the society

And a way to contribute to droning of US citizens, and the funding of Israeli weapons programs, and corporate subsidies, and a way to pay for massive surveillance apparatus... Great!

You're right; society created many of the opportunities we have today. The government isn't society.
This feels state-sponsored, perhaps a product of Russia. Catching my attention:

* Emphasis on disparaging Clinton is interesting as current Admin policy is decidedly (and effectively) counter to Russian interests.

* Referring to Intel community using the reverent European bureaucratic term "Special Services".

* The boastful lone hacker, but calls himself Guccifer 2.0. Obligatory reference to Lazar midway through the manifesto.

* Real political and security drama in the UK and Europe, but focuses on a comparatively boring Clinton campaign, dropping leaks just as a stumbling Trump campaign needs them the most - and all the while Trump, who is largely reviled in Europe, is praised in the FAQ.

I'd be amused to learn this was homegrown. I have the increasing sense the Clintons made more than their share of powerful enemies at home as I begin to read the "Crisis of Character" book.
Thanks for the advice! I'll make sure to skip having already read and enjoyed three of his books.

Notice I didn't pronounce a judgement on Kafka: I pronounced a judgement on the quote's implied meaning when presented in isolation as it was.
For example, StraightTalk gives 5GB at 4G speed, however will slow you to 56Kbps (yes, dial-up speed) after.
Yes -- but the people you can contact may not have the ability to fix problems if they're complex. For example, we wanted to disable clicking on links in email for our users because of phishing -- support wasn't able to help with that.
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SegWit landed in Bitcoin Core master last week. Once activated, it increases the size of an average Bitcoin block to ~2MB.
The retirement part of Social Security is conditional. The amount of the benefit is determined based on working salary and there is a (fairly minimal) amount of working years that must be recorded to receive it.

https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10070.pdf

The disability system is different (but also obviously conditional).
Don't think that banks didn't take calculators and game theory to their currencies many decades ago.

I don't see how anyone could have claimed Bitcoin was free, while having even a basic understanding of it. The entire system relies on proofs of work and transaction fees are part of the original paper.
> 1.) Run your own SMTP infrastructure. Setup SPF/DKIM/DMARC. Realize your outbound emails still don't always reach their destination. Also you have to fight inbound SPAM.

And if someone wants to DDoS you, you're a lot more vulnerable than a major provider like Fastmail.

Personally, I use a hybrid solution: I use Gandi's SMTP servers for outbound and inbound mail, but I run my own IMAP server for unlimited storage under my control.
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I have got free Jio Sim with LYF handset. Now the problem is that sim only works with LYF handset. How to unlock that sim so that it works with any 4G enabled mobile device. Any trick?
We've been using SMS Gupshup and are pretty happy with their services.
Not surprising there are so many negative responses, the question was poorly worded. No way that you can kill medicare and replace it with a $13k yearly income.
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To point: I was in Japan for several weeks at the end of 2015. The coverage (served by NTT Docomo) was very good, literally everywhere I tried. This includes the urban and transit corridors I visited, as well as in somewhat more rural areas in the mountains. My experience with similar areas in the US is that, even in major urban centers, there are black holes of poor service. Even a little bit outside of cities, coverage quickly gets very hit or miss here.

Even subway trains and stations had uniformly excellent service. A defining experience: exactly once did I note poor reception on my phone. Zero bars, 4G in a subway station. I was figuring I was SOL for a time. Nope! There wasn't even any additional load latency that I could tell -- web browsing was snappy as ever. I've lost track of the times in the US where I'm at one or two bars, LTE and I've just given up waiting for the bits.

This brought about a dawning realization that even the best covered areas in the US are practically rural backwaters compared to Japan's infrastructure, using the same wireless technology generation.

Thus I won't point any fingers at the technology. Instead I'll reserve that judgement for the US carriers. :-/
Unless you're rich. If you're rich, and not working, your opinions are valued and respected.
What? No. People worked for that money. It's more like a mandated savings account or mandatory old age insurance or something like that.
Agreed but NASA's pictures are also pretty interesting for 6/30/16 (http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_1024_1600....) vs other days.

I think this is the exact picture they were using from that site : http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_1024_HMIIC...
I haven't seen this to be true at all, but this comment is also a good example of something that doesn't add anything to the conversation (and gets downvoted).

I have seen more downvoted content here lately, but it's largely due to it not being very good--one liners, throw-away stuff, etc. I'm glad that's getting shuffled off to the side.

As for any shift in politics, I haven't seen that, but I have noticed that unchecked assumptions about libertarian-leaning ideas no longer get a pass. Still, that doesn't mean the site's becoming a leftist "college identity politics" (I can't even respond to that) thing, just that people expect thoughtfulness.
Screenshot at http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/post/296708555778/cle...
Agreed. While I think a basic income is a good idea, the people I think it will make better off don't actually want it. They want jobs. Perhaps we should be considering a new Works Progress Administration instead.
Why do they say "approximately 32 crew members"? One would think an accurate head count could be achieved for this ship.
You can't have both transactions processed - they conflict with each other. So you won't accidentally send someone double.
We're largely in agreement.

On a philosophical point of view, it worries me that physics might be optimizing towards a local maxima. Which might or might not be the global one. That there even might be something big it has missed. How would we know?

Even more so because physicists seem to be more and more specialized to a narrow sub-field. Everything is already so advanced it takes more and more years to just to master it. Individual contributions appear to be getting smaller and smaller.

Is it possible there's something they don't see because they're too near looking at it? Studying a mountain with a microscope. Is possible we're stuck in a some sort of dead end?

I really can't judge it either way. I just can't stop wondering about that.
Security really isn't my strong suit, but isn't it standard practice to automate DDoS mitigation strategies?
Depends on how much actual cognition is involved, after playing many games it could easily just become repetition. Also could come at the expense of some of the others, like networking.
It does look like it has some modern equipment, probably for the reasons you mention. In this picture you can see a wheel, some throttle controls, and some screens which I'm guessing are for GPS and/or sonar. It's still an amazing feat, much respect.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3888/14916240637_e3f3afb9c7_b....
It's enough if the target thinks it's enough, which in this case they apparently did.

There's nothing saying you have to obey a random cease-and-desist letter, but there's also nothing saying you can't obey it. If DO prefers to take action for letters like these, that's their right. And if they give their customer warning and a way to respond, I can't even say it would make me uncomfortable to be their customer.
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Far fetched speculation, I wonder if FBI specifically instructed those who were hacked to tell the world it is the evil Russians. It played well with their victim's PR story (it is understandably we couldn't resist such a powerful enemy) but it also worked to flush him out with a blog post like this.

Say, they suspected he was Romanian or from Moldova (a lot of Moldovans do not like the Russian govt.) so telling the world "this was a Russian super-hacker" was a way to get him angry and force him to try to repair his image so to speak.

I think in the end because of of that blog post he might have revealed too much and is at a greater risk of getting caught now than he suspects.
There is a difference between a coder recommending certain code they find elegant, and a coder saying "you should not read code that is not written with this design pattern, as it is a waste of yours or anybody's time, because it is not how I write code."
Cristopher Udry, Yale: The simplicity is attractive, but deceptive. Coupled with universal health care & tax reform it could work. but we are far from that.

The key is tax reform. UBI is just an interesting and controversial new name for a more boring (and conventional) idea: wealth redistribution through tax reform.

Nobody wants to talk about tax reform because it's boring, opaque, and gridlocked at a political level, whereas anyone can have an opinion on the new hot topic of UBI. Hopefully UBI will bring about a fruitful discussion of more fundamental issues, such as tax reform, in the near future.
A lot of work does little to benefit society. It is a collaborative effort to enrich your employer.
I don't like that how tax evasion is called "rational" here. They're merely performing their prescribed role within a system, without regard for consequences. If a company were to look at the situation rationally, they might very well conclude that paying taxes is rational because taxes pay for the infrastructure that enables their business.
>UBI ought to replace things like food stamps and welfare. Not healthcare or retirement benefits!

Why would you receive extra retirement payments on top of UBI? That would defeat the entire purpose of UBI.
Short answer: yes, physical exercise has been scientifically proven to improve cognition (working memory, attention, and other factors).

In addition to physical exercise, the two other things the author neglects to mention (though it might not be as relevant for her population, comprised of children) are diet and stress relief.
Perhaps this is overly political of me, but i really hoped this article spoke to developers who actively develop systems that allow agencies to subvert the privacies we has historically enjoyed. When i see things the NSA does, i have to measure my anger as someone, not unlike myself, built this software.
The data is misleading; many of comments reject the context of the question not UBI itself. Take Thaler's response: "This is a dumb question. We are not going to eliminate Social Security and Medicare etc." The survey is not an expert review of UBI, but rather a specific implementation of UBI.
That's story is a distortion of the facts.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2011/n...

The constant stream of the misinformation has undermined the democratic process.
Let's bury lots of 100 USD bills and give people a shovel.
Monorail!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSoa1b-yBUY
I would expect that people who run an app from ~/Downloads are doing so because they don't know if they want to actually keep it and are just testing it out. Similarly, many apps already check if they're launched from a DMG or from ~/Downloads and ask the user if they want to move the app to the Applications folder, so that's a pretty simple fix for any self-updating app to adopt.
It often stands for unconditional.
For-profit corporations are not formed to serve the public good. They are formed to make money for their shareholders. They can and should always act in their own interest.

Lawmakers exist specifically to serve the public good. If they are allowing lobbyists to affect this responsibility, then they should be voted out of office.

So yes, corporations that can afford to do so have a responsibility to try to get laws passed that favor them, and elected lawmakers have a responsibility to the public to ensure the laws that they pass are in the public interest.
Standard Oil was never a monopoly, and even its 90% market share had already dropped to 70% two years later when the government even filed charged, and even more when the case was decided.

Microsoft's market position is inseparable from its support by government in the form of software patents. When their rent on Android phones is larger than their income from their own phones, and that rent is purely based on having a patent on an obsolete filesystem which is only useful because it was previously "the standard" (ie., imposed by them), the government is directly helping Microsoft take advantage from their dominant market position in other markets - exactly what they purpose to ban.
You aren't working, you're even better. You're a "job creator".
That you cannot think of such an argument doesn't mean much. That such possible arguments wouldn't obtain "legitimacy" in your mind explains far more about your conception of the role of business in society. There are no optional taxes—any company that actively seeks ways to avoid taxes is not dealing justly or ethically with the society in which it exists. The same goes for citizens. A healthy and just society cannot exist when its citizens, and their corporations, seek to enjoy all the benefits of citizenship and the services provided, but simultaneously work diligently to avoid upholding their end of the arrangement to support and perpetuate a healthy and just society.
I'm not sure defamation is even applicable to corporate entities across the EU.
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There is no canonical free market. Free markets require enforcement of property rights (otherwise people can run around taking each others property). Once you have enforcement of property rights - there is some form of government. Once you start talking about all the various cases for property rights enforcement - you end up with various rules to try to manage fuzzy cases and protect property.

You could claim that it's not a free market with the set of freedoms or policies that you'd like to have implemented, but to claim that the US is not a free market just because the Fed has taken some action seems like a fallacy to me. (BTW I agree with you in questioning the wisdom of that particular set of Fed actions..)
Imagine you are part of tribe, would you share food, care, and help in general with your fellow tribesmen and women?

Now imagine the tribe is really big and named the USA.

Human nature is both social and competitive. UBI is a social gesture, it doesn't take away or prevent competitiveness.
healthcare is not an extra payment though. I think it is important to have a universal healthcare even with UBI.
In the western society, people do have rights in fact, even if not granted formally by some government. This is because vast majority of other people respect those rights, without needing government to tell them. For example, most people accept my right to wear red shoes. Nobody really gave me that right; it is obvious. Similarly for the right to private ownership, the right to express myself and the right to move.
The European Union is updating its electronic signature laws
Depends on the type and size of the DDoS and where on the network path it's hitting.
It's a transfer from productive to non-productive under all possible setups. How were you imagining it would be funded?
>>>import antigravity

try it!
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Is there any way to semi-blacklist CAs in the browser?

I'd like to be warned about certificates from certain CAs without access to that site being blocked. That way I can still reach these sites, but know not to trust them with confidential data. It also allows me to ask those sites to use a CA I trust.

The point being to be able to punish CAs less harshly than the death-sentence that is root removal.
This article hardly explains what to know about working with someone who has Autism...
By the way, this is why Lumosity is generally regarded as "crap" by the scientific community (and why they were fined $2M for deceptive advertising[1]). Any "improvement" you see in playing Lumosity's games isn't improvement in mental acuity, but efficiencies in repetition (#2).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845068
I think that means that my Estonian e-residency card will actually be on equal footing with the (expensive) "qualified signature" cards issued by some German trust centers.
There's a whole miasma of overlapping ideas.

Lots of people propose a negative income tax as a way to implement a UBI.
Ok, but that's not tax avoidance because the companies are absolutely following government rules. Given the choice of having billions of dollars of investment in their country and thousands of jobs but no corporate tax; or no investment and no jobs and no tax, those governments are making a rational choice.

The real problem comes when these deals disadvantage local businesses competing with the big foreign conglomerates. But often these deals are really only necessary because the government has set up ridiculously high trade barriers, so the only way to get investment is with ludicrously generous deals. Brazil seems to be a classic example of this. The entire economic system is tangled mess of massive market distortions.
It's because all sane wallets have a fee estimator and will pay the appropriate fee to confirm quickly.
Actually the article in "the software vulnerabilities" is pretty useful, since he's referring to the specific vulnerabilities that let him in to the DNC. You could potentially gather that from context, but to my native ear the article sounds better.

The second example is, as you say, an obvious mistake.
Yes I know, I didn't down vote you.
I have read a lot of the comments here and your article and I find this fascinating.
On controls and such:
on reddit someone pointed out that more prosocial people may be more likely to sign up but I believe you controlled for this using random assignment so I think you are good there.

The biggest thing, and I believe it has already been mentioned, is trying not to bias the raters. The best way fmpov being to pre-record interviews and play them to several different people.

The above would prevent testing for attrition but I think one variable at the time is the way to go. You could test attrition later by having ratings go a certain way and then seeing how subjects respond when they know that they interviewer knows their gender vs when they dont etc.

If you have any interest in trying to get this published academically, and I want to make sure you understand I am a very lowly research assistant, I could talk to some of the professors at my university to see if there is any interest.
Cool, good luck. Blog about it :) It'll be a lot of fun indeed and it gives you incredible magic powers of actually understanding computers.

I am currently reading Uzix[0] and the disassembly of Symbos[1] to do some OS dev on Z80 machines which, in the end, will hopefully run on my own homebrew hardware.

[0] https://github.com/marioaugustorama/uzix-kernel
[1] http://symbos.de/

Edit: forgot; https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX
That is not an ethical problem with the tax, but with the choices made by leadership on policies and budgets.
> What? No. People worked for that money. It's more like a mandated savings account or mandatory old age insurance or something like that.

Well, if you take an insurance model to Social Security, the only real 'risk' is the question of how long you'll live. And depending on how much you make, it's very possible to pay in more to Social Security before the age of 65 than you can expect to receive in benefits even for a reasonably long lifespan, making it a redistribution rather than a mandatory savings account.

Put another way, even if you assume that Social Security will be around in 40 years[0], if you get a high-paying job straight out of college and keep getting paid at that rate (adjusted for inflation), Social Security is basically guaranteed to pay you less money than you would have if you just kept the withholdings yourself and stuck it in a regular savings account.

Whether or not you think that's a good thing, it's very clearly a redistribution and not an insurance.

[0] and also ignore the fact that the benefits being paid in 40 years will be based on the taxpayers 40 years from now, not the taxpayers today
That's not a political issue, although it somehow has been made out to be. Society is a group of people whose contributions - however large or small - are beneficial to the rest of that group. Those contributions are called 'work'. There are many benefits to being a part of a society. Receiving those benefits without contributing to the rest of the society is selfish.

This doesn't have much to do with Trump or gut-reactions. This has to do with some folks feeling entitled to the benefits created by hundreds of millions of people's effort because they were born in a certain place and time. Those benefits should be reserved for people who contribute to society.

The good thing is none of this will ever happen, as most people are good-hearted folks that want to contribute to society. A better discussion would be figuring out society can help facilitate that, instead of placating those who currently don't have a good way of contributing.