skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In other words, the tragedy of the commons.

My biggest concern with the UBI is that looking back at societies with UBI (such as the upper class Europe of the Middle Ages through the 19th century), for every Newton or Voltaire were many more unknown nobles who spent their life grooming their mustaches.

I don't believe our society is that much better now.
I have heard otherwise from several Aboriginal Australians, though they've also seemed to suggest that progress is in the right direction.
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This is inexcusable. If it's impractical to prosecute police officers who behave like this because of the cozy relationship between the district attorney and police department, then at the very least the cops should be immediately and permanently fired.

It is unacceptable for police officers to endanger and terrorize the public like this.
This word "cautious" is getting thrown around in this discussion. What was described in the article was insane aggression, not caution. Caution means taking care to AVOID danger and mistakes, not escalating the situation in order to assure it. A cautious person does not point a gun at a child or threaten to murder someone who's non-threatening.
It is interesting that trying to ban an in demand item rarely has a good outcome. Examples include

Alcohol - see prohibition

Teenage sex - see abstinence only education

Drugs - See war on drugs

Often, rather than ban something, taxing/regulation can be far better ways to serve a public good.

So now we have more or less a ban on ivory, yet there is a demand for ivory and people do illegal things to satisfy that demand in exchange for money. What if we tried a farming/sustainable approach to ivory where elephants are raised and a sustainable percentage is killed for their ivory. By doing this, I think we would have a greater chance of preserving elephants rather than going down the road we are going (62% decline in numbers over the last decade).
1) Poor internet connection

2) Client timezone shift

3) Work vs. vacation visa challenges.

Issue 1 is fairly fluid. Telecommunications infrastructure is constantly being upgraded, so internet connections tend to improve over time.

Timezone shift is a challenge. Expect to take some late night calls with clients (or early morning).

I never overstayed a vacation visa, but the horror stories from digital nomads most often are related to securing and renewing a work visa. This is easily avoided by never taking income from the local economy, where taxes may be required.
I want a chatbot that can allow me to practice second language dialogues for a small set of short daily life interactions. I want to practice short simple A2/B1 level dialogue describing my family, dwelling, local attractions, what I did on the weekend etc. Duolingo (en->de at least) is a great start but I find that it doesn’t help me with on demand dialogue style generation which I need for interacting with natives speakers. Ideally it would also correct my grammar or help with sentence construction.
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My wife used to work at Apple. I work at Google now. Compared to the former, secrecy at Google is nothing. Apple takes it to a whole other level.
What do you mean by "stops in general"? Police officers pulling people over in their cars?
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Monitor compatibility with MacBooks is an issue.
I can't get native good-looking resolution when connecting to my Acer LCD.
Thanks, good to know.

Most of what I have seen comes from the Instagram feed of Bradley Friesen who seems to have some pretty awesome pictures of where he's able to land his R44. Makes me want to move to BC.

https://www.instagram.com/bradleyfriesen/?hl=en
> It seems like, punishment would need to be interpreted purely as societal cost. So you tally up the wreckage from the car accident example above, say $25,000 and 2 lives.

I don't think so. I think determinism makes "punishment" as a concept, completely nonsensical--you can't punish someone for something they didn't choose to do. I think determinism pushes the focus to rehabilitation rather than punishment, which for many types of crimes (i.e. drug use, computer hacking, nonviolent robbery) is clearly more effective in preventing recidivism (and I'd argue that for crimes where it's not effective, that we haven't really explored rehabilititation because of the widespread belief in free will).

> I don't really see how we can have both manslaughter and murder, without free will. What extra thing did the angry guy do? He didn't make a choice, because (for the sake of argument) he has no free will. What is the characteristic that makes what he did worse? The cost to society is the same.

Agreed. But does this highlight a problem with a deterministic world view, or does it highlight a problem with the distinction between manslaughter and murder?
I'm in the process of automating some tools. They should be out soon. I'll make sure to do a Show HN post for people like you who are interested. :)
Policing does seem like it should be a 1 or 2-strike you're out kind of a job, not a "we'll get multiple reports about misbehavior and do nothing until someone dies" kind of a job.
I don't think Terraria and Starbound are a great comparison. They're very combat focused, while combat in No Man's Sky is something of an afterthought.
if you do that, they'll tell you to roll the windows all the way down.
Thanks, that is very reassuring! :)
> I made it VERY clear this officer seems to be out of line. My comment was more on officers in general being extremely cautious in the US .

It isn't caution. It is a lack of consequences combined with political propaganda consumed by a small minority of police officers.

Most police officers are fine. The problem is a small subset have realized they don't face consequences if they act this way and the propaganda they consume encourages that behavior.

http://www.newsweek.com/it-has-never-been-safer-be-cop-37202...

> And no matter how you slice it, police work has been getting a lot safer. Fatalities and murders of police have been falling for decades—per resident, per officer and even in in absolute terms.

http://time.com/4326676/dangerous-jobs-america/

There are 14 jobs that are more dangerous than being a police officer.

Garbagemen and farmers are in greater danger than policemen, ffs.

Despite this you get articles like this:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/07/07/in-2016-job-averag...

> In 2016, the job of the average police officer has become more difficult and dangerous

> Of course, this type of specious reasoning is ludicrous. A perfunctory look at the raw numbers might be enough to influence the easily persuadable into believing that no war on cops exists, or that there hadn't been a better, safer time to be a police officer in decades, but as with any data set there is more to the numbers than meets the eye.

> Since the outgrowth of unfettered, anti-police rhetoric took hold of the public discourse in the wake of Ferguson and Baltimore, the job of the average police officer has become more difficult and dangerous.

"Ignore statisics, we feel its more dangerous because of anti-police rhetoric"

> When greater numbers of officers remove themselves from inherently dangerous self-initiated enforcement situations, the likelihood of injury or death correspondingly drops. That doesn't mean that society is any less dangerous or that the job of the average street cop is any safer, however.

Aka "We take less unnecessary risks, everyone is safer" somehow became in the mind of the article's author "more dangerous" for everyone.

They shouldn't be taking these "self-intiated enforcement actions" (like what happened to the OP) in the first place because what the OP experienced is what these sorts of things look like. They are dangerous to everyone involved and make everyone less safe.

Its really quite frightening the level of doublethink the political supporters of police engage in. Its also quite frightening when you realize a substantial percentage of police officers with similar political beliefs share that behavior.
True. A better way to phrase it would have been "are there any objectively measurable things that happen to the children which are widely perceived to be bad?"
Ask HN: How do you keep highly sensitive information off-site for a long time?
How do you keep highly sensitive information off-site for a long time?

To be more specific, and to ask about some case (while general answers are welcome too):
Imagine I'm running private certification authority. I have my root certificate and private key. For everyday use I generated some intermediate certificates to sign other certificates by intermediate ones. So if server is compromised, it's more or less OK, since I do not have root certificate private key on server (just do not need it), and I can generate a few new intermediate certificates, revoke old ones, regenerate issued certificates, conduct some transition and keep root certificate as is. So, I want to keep root certificate private key for 10 years, to be able to generate new intermediate certificates, just in case.

To be more generic, and to ask broader question:
I want to save in safe place some data I need rarely (once a few years), but really do not want to loose under any circumstances, including natural disasters and human errors.

Of course, I do not ask about general backup best practices. I mean, I backup databases encrypted off-site, but I think that is different, because:

1) I do not have master copy. For database there is database and backup of database. For root CA certificate private key there is only backup.

2) Databases are generally not that sensitive, information outdates quickly. Minute resolution log of CPU load is no match to root certificate private key. Such information can be used years after it leaked.

3) Databases backup usually should not be kept for more than a few months. So, if my off-site storage provider goes out of business, it is not a big deal.

4) Restore checks are often (once a month at least), while I ask more about "backup and forget for 10 years" case. So I may not even be aware I lost my data until I need it.
All the other things don't directly cause suffering of an intelligent species and aren't depleting a very limited resource.

You know what, instead of banning cannibalism, we should regulate human meat consumption. Do you see the ridiculousness of this argument?

> there is a demand for ivory and people do illegal things to satisfy that demand in exchange for money

The demand was minimal before 2008 when CITES relaxed restrictions on sales of ivory. The demand has been skyrocketing since then.

> What if we tried a farming/sustainable approach to ivory where elephants are raised and a sustainable percentage is killed for their ivory.

Let's not. It's cruel, and economically, ecologically and zoologically not feasible. Also this would wouldn't stop poaching in the wild.
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> Grey ignores the idea that technology also allows for normal people to do jobs that used to require highly skilled specialists.

Computers are much better at highly specialized jobs than people are. And the amount of things they are not good at is slimming down all the time.

> If Watson is doing diagnosis, that means that more people with less training can be effective 'doctors'.

And it'll eventually improve to the point that we won't need 'doctors'. It'll get to the point that your average person can be their own 'doctor', because most of the work is shelled out to a computer.

> Yet the number of people employed overall in transportation went up not down.

Because even with more automated, cheaper shipping, we still had jobs that robots couldn't do. But more of those jobs are disappearing every day.

I think your logic is skipping over the fact that computers don't have hard limits like humans do. If a computer can't do something, just give it a handful of engineers, and some time, and it'll eventually be able to do that. Once a computer gets better at a task than humans, there's no reason to ever go back to humans. It's a one way street.

Sure, computers can't do everything we do now, but they will. It's only a matter of time.
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Ask HN: How much should I work as a first hire?
Should one clock in regular hours, are weekends and overtime expected?
This is the key.

I recently started for similar reasons, to develop aerobic and anaerobic for the purpose of martial arts. Exercising is no longer just a boring goal that I have a hard time getting behind, it's now part of the conditioning component to learn how to fight properly.
I will say that sociologists are better than normal at making model disagreements sound like the other person's fault. Perhaps my understanding of a Kuhnian paradigm shift is wrong? It doesn't feel wrong, and I've read a fair deal on it in my early college days.

I never got the chance to talk with Kuhn himself, but I'd imagine if we could bring him back and include him here we'd have a third notion of what he was talking about -- and all the models would be consistent with the text he wrote -- not a bad thing in my view, rather like differing opinions on a poem's meaning.

Take care and thanks for chatting.
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>I blame the militarization of police, and indirectly the war in Iraq (from where a lot of these cops come from, having served a tour or two).

That doesn't make sense. There were always a lot of military veterans in police forces.
Then Heroku aren't the solution either. But they're a step towards it. It's all attempts to get it right, wild swings in the darkness. Someone's going to smack it hard in the head and we're all going to ask why we didn't think of that before.
Another antipattern, not specific to standups: everyone sitting around absorbed in their laptops not paying attention to anything until their turn comes around. (Another reason to actually stand during standups, I suppose.)

Another mentioned in this thread -- if you have distinct groups within a team who are working on mostly separate projects, don't combine their standups. Otherwise, you just encourage half of the attendees to tune out (exacerbating the situation above.)
Right, if one introduces monopolies on certain job sectors, it's not a dual system, it's two parallel systems.

There are some short-term issues as far as performance and accountability for those hired into such monopolies, as well as aynrandian incumbency protection, such as rejecting light bulbs as too many are employed in the candle-making sector.
Thanks for trying it out !
Currently just a large hand-picked list of sources.
I looked and yeah, some irrelevant book data sources
were present, I just removed them.
Try again, tell me if you get better results.
(It will be improved over time. I use it when I search for reading material myself)
In finance class we learned it should be investors who make that decision not google. Therefore they could just break it into google and all its other companies so the investor can invest what they chose to. If they want to invest in risky bets they can. If they want to invest in core google assets they can.

The issue is other than ad words their other bets are not nearly as profitable.
Rocky & Bullwinkle? Everything about that cartoon was top notch.
Imagine if he had crank windows & had to reach across the seat to roll it down the passenger side...woulda been shot for sure ;P
All depends on the team. Biggest thing to do is discuss expectations up front and clearly. Communication is key.
The difference between Fedora and Redhat is like between consumer Windows and LTSB Windows.

One has faster development cycle, the other is regularly branched off and has longer support.
The police unions are very good at protecting their members from disciplinary actions; it is probably their core competency.
Have you tried WorkingOn? https://www.workingon.co/

If you post into Slack, this will compile everything into a daily email. We used it for a bit but then people got lazy about posting or completely forgot about it. It may work for you team.
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In your document? I find that pandoc + french typography = love as it is using LaTeX under the hood and LaTeX have pretty decent rules for French Typography (better than Microsoft Word IMHO).
Ask HN: What amazing successes started with a “Show HN”?
You have a paid version of a python script? Curious how that works.

`print('Paypal me 20 bucks please!')`
How+Does+Green+Tea+Help+In+Weight+loss?+|+Life+Weight
"Graybeard generalist" makes you a good fit for a lot of startups, maybe in the 5-20 employee size range. Your brief list sounds like you'd be useful in a company developing a web-connected hardware product of some kind... or "IoT" if you're feeling buzzword-compliant.

edit:
Having alternated startups with big companies for about ten years myself, I feel like a startup environment can be "stable enough" for a father of young children. But you have to be willing to grill them during your interview process about burn rate and runway. A well funded startup can even be a good way to ride out a downturn for a year or two!
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Works surprisingly well with Jitsi Meet, since it runs in the browser and requires no setup. Just send them the link, they click on it, done.

Public instance there: https://meet.jit.si/

Company I work for migrated from Skype to Jitsi for meetings.
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That would be the Vice of 15 years ago then. Vice the news channel(HBO) is respectable journalism. Shane Smith had the good foresight to see that they could grow with their audience. It doesn't have to Cronkite but it doesn't have to be "brah" either.
No. The reason this is news is this kind of thing is very rare. You're also making the assumption he's relating the story as it happened.
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I'm not defending IBM here, because god knows I've had my experiences with their juggernaut, but in this case you are not considering the big picture. If IBM had let you donate this component, there would be:

1) financial implications (you were paid to develop a solution. we, the customer, have discovered that you were donated time & code. did you disclose your potential status as receiver-of-charity during your initial bid? do we need to hold a recompete because other bidders did not know to use free labor in their bid? how much code was donated? does this reduce the average wage of developers on the project below minimum acceptable standards? can you prove it?)

2) product liability implications (this free code you used is not working properly. people are dying or becoming impoverished as a result. we are going to the donor-developer for doing this, his employer for allowing it, and you for failing to provide sufficiently rigorous integration testing.)

3) support implications (your free code broke, and nobody can get ahold of the rando who wrote it, and the company he worked for at the time disavows responsibility. everyone is going to get sued.)

4) due diligence implications (did you use this code because it was free or because it was correct? can you prove it? was this a cost-cutting measure that may have deprived me, the customer, of a superior product? can you prove it? don't answer me; answer my legal team.)

I know it sounds extreme, but I've seen each of these things occur, at differing scales, over the years, and the reason companies like IBM exist is to deliver defensible solutions. This is not startup-land; it is not sufficient (or even, often, necessary) to deliver a working product -- the product must be able to withstand a Congressional investigation. You don't have to prove it correct, but you do have to prove you adhered to legislative guidelines intended to control the process.

This is also the reason behind the headline regarding IBM's "reputation." Nobody at IBM gives a shit what any of us think about their technological prowess or even their project management skills. IBM's reputation is an ability to operate at a massive scale without getting nailed to the wall by some government or another. If they get their ears pinned back in this census situation, the takeaway is not "IBM tech sucks" or "IBM PM sucks" -- the takeaway is "IBM is not a safe company for politicians to hire"... and for an IBM, that is fatal.

Again, I agree the whole system by which IBM operates is disgusting and wasteful, but to compete in this space you must become this space, as it were.
My main point is that people tend to view everyone as themselves. So intellectuals tend to view everyone as intellectuals.

So we think that if only I'd have guaranteed income, I'd finally get around to fixing Firefox, or making an Open Source Google, or whatever. Therefore, it would be better for society if people would be free to leave "useless work" and innovate instead.

But once you see the "real world," you realize that it's not going to happen. Most people would just sit at home playing CS or chatting on FB.

Now once humanity is retired, and of no more use (singularity), then sure, why not. It'll be the AIs innovating everything, running everything, and no one will be doing anything useful anyways.

But until that point, I don't know if we can realistically afford three quarters of the population to just go into early retirement.
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I tried it for a few years, albeit on and off, working when travelling about 6 months of the year. It was my goal, I built my life around that. While travelling made me experience amazing places and moments, I never managed to be truly happy while on the road for a long time. It became blend after a while. I think the main reason was that I ended up being disconnected from the reality of the daily life people I met, and family and friends back home, were experiencing. Sure it is cool to have the freedom to be and go wherever you please and people envy your lifestyle. But you don't build or cultivate relationships with substance that way. Arrive somewhere, meet people, stay for a while and then move on to somewhere else; it becomes a routine after a while, somewhat similar to the routine you wanted to escape from in the first place. I also found it difficult to really focus on my work: why spend time on something you can do later on when you have an amazing place to discover! I think that maybe the digital nomad lifestyle is simply not enjoyable on the long term for most people. It was fun for me for a while and I grew out of it. I think I am happier now living in a place I like with people I love and with some kind of a work routine that helps me get things done. I still travel as often as I can but I do not work then and I feel like I enjoy the places I go even more!
I took it as a lampoon on the "Full stack dev in x" bullshit that gets tossed around. It does sound insane to expect the devs to also be marketing gurus and finance experts and legal wizards... but no one bats a eye at the idea of "PhD. ML who also knows front end JS".