skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just myopic. The reason why many of those groups have more children is because in any agrarian household, more children = more free labor = more productivity. This can kick in at even a very young age.

In more urban centers, however, more children often means more cost for the family. It has next to nothing to do with religion, and in fact, most of the religious teachings that seem to encourage more fertility are probably just a case of putting the cart before the horse. Those teachings were emphasized because the households that listened to them already had a strong incentive to have more children.

The future, as far as anyone is able to predict, will still have much more urban, educated, and "liberal" people than not, even if those households have fewer children individually. And this will be true so long as we remain an urban rather than an agrarian society.
> Have you ever entered your phone number or member number at a business for a discount?

But I can choose not to.

"May I have your email for our records?"

"Thanks for asking, but you may not."

> Personal liberty is important, but it doesn't trump all considerations. If we can actually utilize the information to help research new treatments and further our knowledge of the human body, allowing the collection, and careful protection and anonymozation of the data is for the greater good, and worth the risk Imo.

That's fine, and it brings to mind organ donation, but this should be absolutely crystal clear. If I'm giving them my DNA, I want to know exactly how it can be used, how it will be anonymized, to whom they can sell it, whether I can opt out at some point, etc.

Personal liberty absolutely ought to trump considerations here; one reason I haven't sent a DNA sample to 23andMe, etc., is because I can't control what happens to my data after that point, and I'm not even sure if I can find out.
pretty simple really. he doesn't understand what's happening. hardly controversial comming fron the white house.
> It's built into humans to prefer people like ourselves.

That's like saying it's built into humans to murder and rape. Some 'innate' human behaviours are actually based in circumstance. And even if our xenophobia is truly something we're born with, not cultured into, we can still aspire to be better. We can make it our culture to aim higher.
..."TechCrunch also did a fantastic analysis about the future of machine learning algorithms."

That's how you sound... Please don't bring in pop-econ sources to validate your points...
Because income inequality is more important to this guy than providing for people's basic needs lol
>ARM926EJ-S [41069265] revision 5 (ARMv5TEJ)

Hey! It's been a while since I've seen one of those. I ran a Dreamplug [1] for quite a while. There was a reasonable amount of info about OpenOCD and uBoot for that platform but I'm guessing the scope is different enough that it wouldn't help.

[1]: http://www.geek.com/chips/dreamplug-puts-a-1-2ghz-arm-pc-in-...
Care to actually explain what he doesn't understand since you are so wise?
While that might not be the right choice of words, there definitely is some sort of legal force behind Uber - they operate a service that is basically illegal in a fair deal of cities around there world and manage to come out on top most of the time.
www.coach.me
The website and the app have already helped me create many new habits.
There is actually decent support for the GP's position. Unfortunately any discussions of it tend to quickly hit taboo topics. See http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/28/book-review-the-two-inc..., especially section IX.
I like how well you took a very complex issue and made it feel like it's this obvious black and white thing.
I didn't make any points. What are you talking about?
Five trillion dollars to protect inflated equities markets? Standard procedure.

A basic income to stimulate demand and take pressure off broken labor markets? Heresy.
A basic income is a massive threat to the liberal welfare state. It would totally deflate the left's institutional agenda so expect them to fight back hard. The premise of the current welfare state is that the people, too stupid to manage their own lives, are better off under the paternal care of enlightened government bureaucracies. It's gonna be entertaining in ten years to watch Republicans support the basic income and Democrats oppose it.

The debate will be about whether people should be in control of their own lives or whether they need a paternal state to protect them from themselves.
From the screenshot, all this seems to be doing is running an X server, so it should be trivial to switch from Unity to i3, Xmonad or whatever.

The next level of integration would be running X11 fullscreen and then launching Windows programs inside that environment. e.g. Word 2016 launched and managed from the Unity launcher.
There are $1600 2 day developer sessions concerning all things Elasticsearch offered by elastic.co . The cynic in me might assume that they give just enough documentation to let you know something is possible, but not enough for you to easily do so without the training. :)
I've never found it a serious problem in most cities. Sometimes I have to wait longer.

The problem is with surge pricing, people can't choose to wait longer, than can only choose to pay an amount many people can't afford. That's what upsets people.
Hope there's enough popcorn for both of us.
> Countries like Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Australia... are exempt from surveillance

Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of spy-craft knows that's not how it works. Everyone will spy on everyone else when they can get away with it.
This article isn't about surge pricing, it's about a specific way that Uber investigated a plantiff pressing suit, possibly violating witness integrity.
> > > I just want to pay for a service or product and have that be the end of my interaction with the company as well as the end of the company's use, possession, and monetization of my data.

> Do you really compare DNA and phone numbers?

I think you've let the prior context of the discussion influence your interpretation of my point. My comment had two two main points. First, that we've never really had a system where transactions did not convey some additional information about us, our preferences, and the market (what's more, "my data" is an interesting and often under-explored topic, IMO. If data wants to be free, and you go spreading it around, do you really have a singular claim to it anymore?). Second, there are competing interests of the individual and society when we are talking about aggregating data that might yield substantial benefits for people in general (as in the human race). We've made considerations about this before, such as with vaccination.

I'm not making a case that a private company should be able to keep all info about your genetic makeup and profit from it privately. I am taking a position that we should carefully consider the possible benefits of aggregating genetic info, the possible downsides in loss of privacy and other possible problems, see if there are ways we can increase the benefits and/or decrease the downsides, and try to make an informed decision, with the minimum FUD possible.
I've relocated overseas before (and returned). Never again, now I know the impact to health and finances.
Wouldn't it be better to skip writing the unsafe code, & have the proof generate proven-safe unsafe rust code?
Why would you bring in probably the least authoritative source on the topic you could? I thought this forum had higher standards than that. Why not just link to the actual research mentioned, such as "universal basic income versus unemployment insurance" published by FRB St Louis?
I would say that there are no inherent "hard problems" in marketing (other than "people are complex")

I would say that there are no inherent "hard problems" in AI (other than computability).
Probably just Paul Krugman talking points.
The customer gets year #1 for free. At the end of the year we approach them and ask if they want to renew. If they appreciate your software, they usually do.

And since my replies were being rate limited, I'll respond to your long-tail question above. We have tried a lot of long tail keywords, but they have such low frequency that Adwords penalizes you (low quality score) for using them, which means you pay more per click account-wide. That is why I say get to know Adwords - there are a lot of gotchas.
Nice, I like how you ignore that the government made all its money back in a few years plus interest.
From a scientific standpoint, there's been alot of theory about an Aunt/Uncle advantage which is similar to a Grandparent advantage as far as it being able to help improve survival through the family of any genes responsible even if it is at the cost of an individual.

Of course, there's also the strong possibility that it isn't purely genetic but a mix of certain genes, which may be linked to other important traits, with a certain environment (possibly even in utero).
Potential password/credential breach at Datadog
Oh, wait, he's THAT dude: http://www.wired.com/2016/04/alex-st-johns-daughter-wrong-wo...
Not a lot of substance. He is basically saying that we should invest in training the existing workforce to adapt. That can happen even with UBI.

He also says that UBI will cause wealth to be distributed equally which means less of the total tax will go to the poorer class. This is not exactly true because the idea is to give cold, hard cash instead of trickling down the wealth. So the dynamic will be different, and that is the whole idea. That just giving cash is generally better than welfare schemes.
I'm someone who works on partnerships with startups for a large tech company.

IMO the "hard tech" companies from Israel are pretty good (it infrastructure, cloud computing, data, microprocessors, etc).

The most of the 'consumer tech' startups are kinda lame and copycat-ish imo. Waze was a weird anomaly and sparked about 100 derivative geo startups in Israel.
> A bank failure doesn't have to happen overnight

A confirmed bankruptcy of Deutsche Bank would be followed by the collapse of 10s of banks, not in a day but maybe few weeks. Quick enough for unleashing the biggest financial armageddon in the western world.

> there will be no systemic risk to the global banking establishment [...]

Are you sure? on June 30th the IMF said exactly the contrary: "Deutsche Bank Poses Greatest Risk to Financial System"

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/deutsche-bank-poses-greatest-r...

or in a simple pic:

http://cf.broadsheet.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/risks.jpg
No, but it would be great if I was that creative or could come up with stuff like that.
“Replacing part or all of that system with a universal
cash grant, which would go to all Americans regardless of
income, would mean that relatively less of the system was
targeted towards those at the bottom—increasing, not
decreasing, income inequality,” Mr. Furman said.

Does he not get that the tax structure and minimum wage would need to be changed to accommodate UBI? The welfare state needs disruption, not gradual change.
The cities lean Democratic, even in Republican states.

In general, less population density , small homogenous towns ,leans Republican, and high density, where people encounter more people less like themselves, lean Democrat.

The most expensive citiesare coastal cities that have geographical barriers to growth.
So, let's make Bay Area a city, instead of an endless suburb sprawl?
Woo, rough in this thread. Treading carefully, I do notice that the subject of the article is short on concrete solutions to the (potential) problem, instead relying on:

"“The concern is that the process of turnover, in which workers displaced by technology find new jobs as technology gives rise to new consumer demands and thus new jobs, could lead to sustained periods of time with a large fraction of people not working,” he said.

Still, the solution isn’t a universal basic income, Mr. Furman said. Instead, he focused on reforming the existing array of programs meant to help the unemployed and the poor."

This almost seems to bolster the opposing point: yes, there's a real threat here, but we (hand-wavy thing) have existing programs we can fix up for that. Other than the last sentence, I don't see substance, but more of a media sound bite.
How do customers finance a twenty thousand dollars course?

Edit:

This [1] blog post loosely explains it. Pave, which is one of the "lenders" has the following terms:

$3,000 - $25,000
6.97% to 27.10% APR
2 - 3 Year Terms
No Prepayment Penalty

[1] http://www.hackreactor.com/blog/partnerships-with-lenders-pa...
No, seriously. Unity (the ubuntu desktop interface) is an abomination. Not a joke. Very serious.

It is painful to even try to use. It forces so many unnatural behaviors, in favor of... I don't even know why. It's not elegant, it's not pretty, it's not fun to use.

It is bad. Horrendously bad. And suited to the tastes of little more than a very small handful of people, who probably open a browser and read email, and do little else, except maybe script shell commands on the rare occasion.

Their decisions arbitrarily imposed on many, who likely still use the distro, simply due to ease of installation (and probably no other reason), and then shoulder the burden of routinely overriding the default install configuration immediately.
Usually credit cards, from the people I've spoken to who have taken them.
Some Republicans undoubtedly support principled, market based, small-l liberal solutions to social problems. But a lot of others just seem to want lower taxes. I would expect them to oppose basic income as just another "big government" initiative. These are folks that think taxation is the moral equivalent of theft after all.
The left behind generation / structural unemployment trap seems to me to drive both ethno-nationalist groups and muslim radicalisation - both are symptoms of the same underlying problem.

We may be fucked.
I've never really used udemy -- care to elaborate?
Had to write a plugin to Elasticsearch recently. Was like a fun little hike into the source code without the documentation. On one hand, it could have been helpful. But on the other, I couldn't have learned a few internals of how ES works.
I do switch deadline to vi mode, since that's the editor I use the most.

I'm always surprised by people who are on the vi/vim side of vi/emacs debates but then use the defaults emacs mode in deadline!
That isn'y evolution if it is epigenetic, it would be another type of adaption, Lamarckian really: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism#Epigenetic_Lamarcki...
Sounds like he prefers a heavier handed approach that would result in much more government than a UBI. I completely disagree with him. Give people the power to choose with a basic income. That will do more for th nations wealth than training programs ever could. It will also require employing fewer people at the governmental level.

On the other hand, can you imagine the political fall out if he had been for UBI?
Wow, that sounds like a modern version of Tony Hsieh's LinkExchange, from the 90s. Glad that the model is still working. How did you go about signing up such impressive publishers? Was it organic, or did you hustle to make it happen?
having free (mostly subsidized) education through to tertiary level will be necessary in conjunction with UBI. If it is a workable idea at all.
You sound like a Sarah Palin speech. Instead of using meaningless buzzwords like "elite" maybe be specific about who exactly you are referring to.

That aside I don't know where you get the idea that the Republican party would be for a universal basic income. Their current position (under Trump at least) is to abolish the minimum wage in order to encourage everyone to work. And they have always favoured individual responsibility and opposed government handouts.
I think that even among that crowd there's an increasing acceptance that redistribution is a fait accompli and that now the next best thing is to dismantle the bureaucracy. Give it a few more years.
'the left'. Come on man, I've had enough with this bs reductionist rhetoric on fb. If you're dumb enough to think there are only two political categories, you're too dumb to post here. Stop, do a 'right' or 'left' turn...straight to reddit or your fb/twitter timeline. Leave us alone.
An interesting thing to note there is that research shows that untrained individuals have significant variance in task performance which decreases as they get better at the task. Mechanical Turk might be an extreme case, since all tasks are done by untrained individuals.

Whilst I agree with the quote that AI has difficulties when moving away from well-defined tasks, so do we. Most expert performance is constricted to narrow task domains, does not transfer well to other domains, and takes a long time to acquire. In a sense, that's not too dissimilar to AI.

I do disagree with the "simple". Games such as Chess are the stereotypical example for things AI performs well in. Their rulesets are well defined, but the games are incredibly complex. It is amazing that AI outperforms even grandmasters in this area.
I really dislike comments like these. First, because of the reification of a "class" as a villainous force which--we might imagine--can be defeated. This is a very dangerous reification, because the ordinary dynamics of a supply+demand economy become recast as a war of Good vs Evil.

But when your boss wants you to move, this (usually) isn't under direction of a Global Capitalist Conspiracy, and when you decline for a local opportunity, this isn't a victory for the Forces of Good. If we pretend that it is, we completely lose the ability to 1) look at what really is happening; 2) ask who it is good for and what the trade-offs are, and 3) fix it if there's something wrong with 2).

For instance, the licensing issue brought up in TFA is a very real barrier for poor workers who can't afford the training and licensing costs for career advancement. Often those licenses are nearly meaningless. This is a valid concern and one where labor market flexibility clearly favors the most disadvantaged workers. In addition, site- or business-granular licensing clearly favors capitalists as well. More generally, a lot of anti-worker situations fall under the category of poor labor flexibility.

The second reason I dislike comments like the above is that they snarkily express a popular emotion, and get the upvotes, but add nothing to the conversation.
Researchers reveal first sightings of rare whales off New Zealand coast
It's ridiculous to be stingy with your DNA information. You're dropping that stuff all over any sofa you sit on. It's not you (any more than your twin is you) and it's not yours in any proprietorial sense, it's just data. Chill and let the nice scientists study it.

So far as I'm concerned, if they can use my information to help study medical stuff, it's entirely cool by me.
So you are now backtracking from "Putin said he'll teleport people" to "some person from the government said something that indirectly induces that he _may_ be meaning we'll teleport persons if and only if there were no movies produced in the last 20 years that do not feature quantum teleportation of elementary particles".

I'm not going to engage in that kind of discussions, sorry.
Ah that's a very interesting concept. I appreciate your time! Thank you!
rice. nice part of town too, one of the few places i could actually walk to stuff.
Our competitors are 10 - 1000 times larger than us. Doesn't help us in any way for them to know our size.

And the couple of customers that know our size have indicated it's better to appear large. For example, you wouldn't switch a company from using Microsoft Exchange to something else if that something else was run by a couple of guys. Our company would be in very deep trouble if something happened to me. To balance that, customers get updates and fixes very fast because they work with such a small company.
Not quite.

While US may be an ethnic melting pot, it is steeped in WASPy culture (apologies for the racial term).

Europe while bland food-wise is far more diverse (linguistically atleast), so there is more to "preserve".

Russia seems to remember the days of Eastern Orthodox vs the Vatican (now repeated by Putin et.al).

India is, diverse yes, but those who make it out are mostly the outputs of a colonial system which wanted to replicate WASPs. Kind of the same thing in Africa.

China is kind of asserting its own culture, but Mao's men didn't leave much tradition behind to stand on. The schizophrenia is now quite visible; but then it's not clear if it would have been better if Chiang Kai Shek held on to power.

Japan is slightly bit better, but the tradition seems to have become frozen, and quite irrelevant. I'm not sure if it was more fluid before Meiji.

Perhaps, the reason why the Anglo-American world is so fond of diverse peoples is its task - for the better or worse - of synthesizing a universal culture.
Blindsight (Watts)

Between the World and Me (Coates)

Economics in One Lesson (Hazlitt)

Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them (Shapiro)

Los últimos españoles de Mauthausen (Hernández de Miguel)

Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit (Takada)

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm (Dartnell)

Historia mínima de España (Fusi)

Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders (Marquet)

What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars (Moynihan)

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Google)

Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum (Francis)

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (Arpaci-Dusseau)
udemy has had a bad reputation in the past for members stealing content and presenting it as their own. Take Jeffrey Way as an example:

https://twitter.com/jeffrey_way/status/649933605305774081
Yeah, let's dismiss the fact that the inegalities are at a level we have never seen before. Let's just say that the people that are left behind by the globalization are just xenophobic.

So we could either just say "people voting for Brexit / Trump / whatever far right are stupid xenophobic people", or we could tackle the root of the problem. Globalization has been extremely poorly handled by developped countries, and they left they lower - mid class behind.

we need to adress this before the countries that drive globalization (which is a good thing worldwide. People are on average richer than before) become unstable due to too much internal pressure.
You may be interested in TheLounge[1], which is a FOSS self-hosted always online IRC client

[1] https://github.com/thelounge/lounge
Right off the bat:

>“We should not advance a policy that is premised on giving up on the possibility of workers’ remaining employed,” Jason Furman, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said Thursday in remarks at New York University.

Isn't the idea that people could be employed doing anything on UBI (subject to the market demand - sans artificial restrictions)? As in, the exact opposite of what Furman claims is the premise of the UBI system?
There may be valid criticisms of UBI, but this article doesn't mention any.

> Our goal should be ... to foster the skills ... to make sure people can get into jobs, which would much more directly address the employment issues raised by [artificial intelligence] than would UBI.

That is the traditional solution, but we should question the assumption that is it the best way of life for most people.

> “Replacing part or all of that system with a universal cash grant, which would go to all Americans regardless of income, would mean that relatively less of the system was targeted towards those at the bottom—increasing, not decreasing, income inequality,” Mr. Furman said.

Nonsense. You can get any level of income inequality you want by choosing suitable numbers for UBI and tax rates. Furman is an economist, so he must understand such basic math. This part appears to be pure FUD.