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

In a sense, but in this particularly case it operates as a negative feedback control mechanism which prevents the actual feared problem from occurring, so is hardly a "tragedy".

> My biggest concern with the UBI is that looking back at societies with UBI

There are no societies with UBI to look back on.

> such as the upper class Europe of the Middle Ages through the 19th century

A benefit restricted to a particular social class is not a UBI (or, at least, not much like what modern UBI proposals target, and not likely to serve as a guide as to what one can expect from them), nor, even ignoring that aspect, did the upper class of Europe through any of that time have anything remotely resembling a UBI, which is a flat, equal, unconditional grant to all members of a society.

Now, in much of that period, individual nobles had (either by definition or just disproportionately, depending on the particular time and place) either claims to income from substantial properties or family connections to those who did and who would support junior family members with, often quite conditional, support, but that's more the position of a wealthy capitalist or their associates in the modern era than that of a UBI beneficiary.
> Last year I had a client who asked us to implement a solution and configure it according to their specifications. We did so, but they then realized that what they asked for was not what they actually wanted.

This is essentially always the pain point for "enterprise" software, and essentially always it's because the actual programmers communicate with the actual users through seven layers of middle management at both client and consultancy. Because middle management has to justify their existence, and are mortally afraid of being cut out of the information loop.
"I've never been a police officer, but I've had some in the family. Their job is a lot like that of a systems administrator, in one specific way that's of import here: you don't get credit for your successes, because they're mostly only visible to people in your profession, but your failures are obvious to everyone."

Excellent point. It's why I always qualify these reports with "some police departments, officers, etc" or "the corrupt cops." I make sure to differentiate between the lethal ones and those doing anywhere from non-lethal abuse (eg overticketing) to those doing a good job. Let's show some gratitude that the good ones are good and the bad ones are usually not that bad.
Have you asked? I had a similar contract and when I asked if I could contribute to a large open source project they said yes.
Quite the contrary. Welders, carpenters, or heavy equipment operators in my
country enjoy a decent pay, yet there is a shortage. For some weird reasons
those who studied so sought-after political studies or literature can't be
bothered with a job that consists of physical work and doesn't require
a degree.
The risk of pushing "education" is that it's either duplicitous -- a well-rounded liberal arts education is a good thing, but doesn't guarantee the mythical "job" -- or just cost-shifting to potential workers: a lot of companies would prefer that a large number of potential workers pay for their own education as welders, machinists, and air conditioner repairmen, increasing their labor pool, driving down their own wages, and taking on the risk (of whether there is a need for their labor) themselves.

Education should be for the sake of learning; companies should be willing to train laborers, from machinists to drivers to software engineers.
Please do then. Explain it without math, I mean.
The easiest example I could find: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1132957/Piers-Morgan.... But there are plenty of these stories if you go looking.

Note: this does not apply to Americans, because they are taxed based on citizenship, not residency. But even within the US you can save taxes by moving states (i.e. by being based in Texas or Seattle when selling your company, vs California). I believe Mike Arrington did this.

Another example:
- http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/12/10/cest-it-aint-so-gege-fre...
well, chances are if you're driving a car that old, the cop is going to be on high alert anyway, and will know to approach from the driver's side, or tell you what to do from the loudspeaker.

i didn't make the world an unfair place, but that's how it goes.
> I don't see how subjective experience, i.e. consciousness, can come about from purely material interactions as currently understood. That means that a Turing Machine would be able to produce them, which means that a bunch of monks working with paper and pencil for thousands of years would be able to produce them.

Not without input data, they couldn't. You can produce a model, but unless you collect data to validate your model against, you're just speculating in a void.

> There's something fundamental that we don't understand and the scientific community is very opposed to talking about it, dismissing any and all speculation as quackery.

We're talking about it right now, and I haven't heard anyone opposed to talking about it.

However, I'll fully dismiss opinions as quackery if they clearly misrepresent the facts, i.e. claims that Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle or Bell's Inequalities prove free will are quackery. This isn't because the ideas are taboo or because I'm opposed to talking about them, it's because they're misrepresentations or misunderstandings of facts which are clearly established.

In my experience, when people claim that scientists are opposed to talking about their hypothesis, it's because their hypothesis has been thoroughly and concretely disproven.
> 5. put your hands at 10 and 2, ON THE WHEEL

I stick both hand out of the window with fingers spread out. I have had odd reactions, and most officers actually think I am an officer myself or I have family that is LEO (I am not and I don't, but I have practiced as a criminal defense lawyer, which I don't acknowledge either). Probably the oddest reaction was one officer saying I must really not want to get shot while laughing at me.
Food for thought:

If your resume is treated this way, how will you be?
I agree, however if I'm OK, getting this information rather than taking irrelevant vitamins in the belief that I have some disease works better for me.
At a previous job (huge enterprise dev org of 1000+ devs, many many siloed teams) we used it for client-side validation of rest service calls.. it was a really easy way of detecting missing/bad data from upstream systems and handling it appropriately.

It was also great for contract testing in CI of other teams' services (warning us if they slipped some breaking change into the build).
This is something I relate to, as I first started getting into coding while I was in elementary school. I started with Microsoft Visual Studio, and wrote my first bits of code in Visual Basic. In high school implemented a DMX lighting controller driver and built a simplistic binary search in order to determine which address a given light dimmer was on in the local performance hall. I built my first webpage in 6 or 7th grade, but the most amazing thing is I gave up many of these early interests mostly because I wanted to "Fit in" in highschool. I took on an interest in film and photography, and even did 2 years of college majoring in documentary film.

In my spare time I occasionally tinkered with Arduino and Raspberry Pi's, trying out python and other things, but never really got very far.

The biggest change happened when I landed a job for a production company, and 5 or 6 months in their lead developer decided to leave. Remarkably, I was incredibly unsatisfied with where I was in the company. I found that creating advertising videos for people who didn't want to shell out the cash to do it right was incredibly destructive to me and my creative drive. I saw an opportunity to learn, and set out to try to learn to build smart phone apps, as well as web-apps.

Im 2 weeks away from transitioning to a new job as a full-stack software engineer. The road is long and hard, but I will say that living and breathing code for 2 years as a full time job really helps you learn a lot really fast. It was far more beneficial than taking a Computer Science program in college.

I realize this isn't really why I stopped but kinda how I became what I am today. Yes it's incredibly confusing. Learning HTML, CSS, and Javascript, then to find Node, Gulp/Grunt, Sass/SCSS, and Angular. Then to have React come out, and learning all these libraries that are changing constantly, I totally understand how getting into the web can be hard. The truth is many people don't see the joy or power in it, and it seems too hard to even try. The key is to have a reason to learn. To force you to learn.

Sorry for that long-winded response. :-)
I've dabbled in both constantly (3 times a week) for the past 15 years. Although body building can sculpt a body, I never felt really as fit and as strong as I do with power lifting, with an equivalent physique. Something about isolating muscles seems to 'erode' athleticism power/strength. YMMV.
Make sure you use the right lifting posture and don't overdo it with weight, or you can seriously and permanently mess up your back.

When I was 16 years old, I somehow twisted my spine in my lower back in a way that it wasn't meant to be twisted doing 250 lbs max rep seated leg press, and ever since then, my lower back has been alternating between bouts of sharp pain and dull pain (but never subsiding) ever side for 10+ years now.

Backpain (and the resultant osteoarthritis) is still a modern medical mystery too so the usual suggestions of exercise and stretching from my doctors are something I have been doing all along but have not actually worked.
This just reminded me of the joke from HIMYM:

Marshall: Whats that?

Ted: A 1986 world book encyclopædia. Just the one I grew up with.

Marshall: An encyclopædia?

Ted: [laughing] Oh! You think it should be pronounced encyclo-pee-dia. I'ts a common mistake. But if you look at that squished together "ae" symbol in this here encyclopædia, you'll learn that it's a ligature derived from the Anglo-Saxon rune ash...

[shelf breaks and falls]

Marshall: You know, you're gonna have to pædia for that.
I wonder how many hundreds of billions of dollars all those worthless ponies like Youtube, Maps, Gmail, Android, Chrome, Docs, etc. would fetch if they were sold on the open market.
Invert the multiplier silly.
Additionally, in my experience if you have an older car without keyless ignition, taking the keys out of the ignition and putting them on the dashboard will help as well.

Number 5 is one of the most important things!

6. Can be difficult especially at night when they're shining the spotlight in specifically to blind you.

Also don't forget to ask permission before reaching anywhere.
Why do you spend that long commuting? Are there no closer/remote jobs, or can you not move closer?
Horrifying to even imagine that someone has to go through this with their 7 year old sitting right behind them. Now I will be shit scared to rent a car EVER!!
Even better would have been to give the mass instead of the volume, because the volume depends on the temperature and pressure. Assuming STP, I get 2.16 billion kg, which I guess most people would call 2.16 million tonnes, though I'm rather inclined to write it as 2.16 Tg :-) That's .01% of worldwide annual emissions from burning fossil fuels.

(Someone should check my arithmetic -- it's been a long time since I last applied the ideal gas law.)
my kids love the old dangermouse, the new one is _rubbish_.
I wish pandoc was better on converting asciidoctor and not just asciidoc. Asciidoctor and asciidoctor.js is so much nicer than all those markdowns it's not even funny, wish I would have found it earlier so I wouldn't need to work with older markdown files or having to convert them.
I think watching people play with toys ~= playing with toys,

It's not all unboxing though, whole stories get acted out with toys and different camera angles and lots of editing. There's a lot of elaborate music video reenactments too, like the songs from Frozen.
Silicon Valley's water reservoir at lowest level in 27 years
There's a good San Francisco FRB white paper on it. Should be an easy Google whack. Boomers sell the world during their retirement burn.
> For a stolen license plate? Let's be real here, it was an over reaction by the police officer given the circumstances for stopping him.

I suspect this is SOP, actually. I live in AZ. When I reported my license plate stolen some years back, they told me to report back if I found it or I would be pulled over at gunpoint. I never did get it back and I checked the screw holes for evidence of stripping--there was none, it was clearly stolen.

I think it's due to the drug runners around here using stolen plates. A fair number of police get shot when busting them.
On the "rather not be seen" point, one hack that works for me is to exercise at night or the very early morning. For a long while I would go running at 4:30 or 5am when the streets were mostly still empty. I also found a 24 hour gym and started identifying times when I would be the only person there. (For me, it's not that I don't want to be seen, but I felt less anxious without anyone else around, and it also meant I could use any equipment I wanted.)

But even solving that point, I still struggle with the motivation & enjoyment. The 24hr gym has got me working out more, but still not regularly.
You're essentially still paying the rent/mortgage costs of having a fixed home + any travel expenses. I thought the advantage of the DN lifestyle was that you didn't have the costs of a fixed home and could funnel that towards seeing the world.
I haven't had the same experience in Boston or South Bay. There have been a few instances it has been late by 3-5 minutes but not too often to actually bother me.
Your body isn't actually burning the food. Therefore, why is this an important measure, other than it is easy to measure?

Bioavailability / metabolizable energy varies not only in the small, ie composition and cooking of food, but in the large, as long run diet choice changes gene expression.
You can easily mitigate that by just Airbnb'ing your place out when you're not there.
If they were higher on that list, wouldn't it mean they were bad at their jobs? Police officers face people intentionally trying to kill them, the other jobs generally face some sort of accidental risks.
Well, basics is certainly right here. It's the very lowest level stuff relating to title tags, content and meta descriptions.

It's still useful to know (the amount of people who have a useless title or don't set the meta description for the search listings is ridiculous), but I'd say the off site SEO factors matter a ton more than these on site ones.

Because at the end of the day, SEO (like any other marketing) is all about who you know rather than what you know. Not literally in the sense that knowing someone at Google will give you better results, but in the sense that knowing the right influencers to boost your content's 'signal' is more important than how well written or 'good' it is.
Most of the examples you point out make sense if you know that using greater than or less than casts the value to a number. >= and <= always cast their parameters to numbers while == only does if either side is already a number.
Specific lifts can really help. Squatting and deadlifting has done a lot for me. If you're skinny and you've never lifted, something along the lines of Starting Strength or a 5x5 would probably be really helpful for you.
Since 10.7, application state is automatically saved on log out. Some 3rd party software took longer to properly support it, but 5 years has gotten everything up to speed.

Can be disabled while logging out (untick the checkbox) or holding shift while logging in.
Dude, what's your angle here.

> extra-judicial

You are implying that.

> killing

You know what they say, "live by the sword, die by the sword".

> (most likely black) person

You see, the thing about Africa is that there aren't too many people of other races.

> person in 2016

Are you this upset over drone strikes in Afghanistan?
For such along article (and I did enjoy some of it) they spent almost no time on describing the study methodology.

> Nowhere in the fear center of Honnold’s brain could the neuroscientist spot activity.

Could this be solely accounted for in the selection of pictures and experience of the participant? Compare e.g. the response to the sound of explosions for someone that has lived in the US vs. someone who has lived in Damascus the past couple years.

edit: Not sure why this is being down-voted? Is there a detailed description of methodology that I missed somewhere?
How do I report a scam/phising page?
Got redirected to a scare-ware - you got a virus site via an ad. It uses text to speech to say a bunch of scary stuff.

After dismissing the dialog prompt, chrome shows two options: Stay on page or close tab. Regardless of which option is chosen, it opens a new tab and the process continues.

Worse, the browser would refuse to close unless task manager is used.

ip-downhelp10.in.

BTW: I'm use an adblocker - ublock origin. The page wouldn't open with the adblocker on. So instead of disabling it, I used incognito mode. That's how...
Oh gosh thanks!
1) I'm not making a reasoned argument supported by data. I'm suggesting a new metaphor that might help us understand what attracts and motivates many tech workers in the SF Bay Area.

2,3,4) I think you're taking my metaphor literally, which is not very useful.

I lived in the South Bay for 22 years working in various tech jobs, and I learned a few things about Silicon Valley culture (although I'm certainly no expert). Many young people with some degree of formal education and technical experience move to the Bay Area to establish careers and accumulate some capital. A few get wealthy and can afford to acquire property in the Bay Area and settle down to a reasonably normal life. Most, however, are transient workers who get valuable training and experience that will serve them well when they decide to move to a more affordable place. The "college town" metaphor is my way of describing this pattern.
It's just true. You live like a galley slave at that rate. It takes about 300k to approximate the lifestyle that 40k can get you in Omaha.
Ssh! Don't tell that to the people at /r/protectandserve. They are busy circle-jerking about BLM.
Wow, I can't believe I didn't know this after all this while hacking lisp. Many thanks.
Here is the NatGeo talk that is referenced at the beginning of the article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFfTHoJ9khs
Given that CO2 levels in the lake have now built up again to be even higher than they were in 1986, according to this article, I wonder if they shouldn't evacuate the area and see if they can set the thing off intentionally. Seems like explosives might do it -- like shaking a soda can.
Or just make enough money that you can afford to pay your mortgage and travel at the same time.
I couldn't do my workout plan without a home gym. It makes a huge difference. I only need it for the weight lifting since my cardio is running and I just need a pair of running shoes, headphones, etc for that.
> Again, literally the only thing I'm proposing is that instead of giving people money NOT to work, we instead give them money to work.

No, you are actually proposing giving them money, whether or not there is work, and then trying to scrounge up some (perhaps meaningless) work so that the money you give them cannot be used for personal development, small entrepreneurship, etc.

> I'm not proposing communism or slave labor.

Forced, economically inefficient (hence, why there is no demand in the private market including that fulfilling government contracts) labor through economic coercion rather than chattel slavery, but I'm not sure that the difference is meaningful, especially if there really is a problem of a growing-over-time number of people unemployable at any given time in the private market due to changes which render their labor superfluous given the available alternatives.
There are tons of studies and data that can be found in many places (obviously, it's a fairly common topic of research) but here's Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_and_female_fertility

They also have a table there, outlining the theoretical "percent of women who will fail to have a live birth" if they start trying to conceive at a certain age. Not the same thing as infertility -- they may be fertile, just unlucky up until the point that they're actually infertile. The numbers are a little all over the place, but for 35 year old women, it's somewhere between 13 and 22%
>The problem is that there are a lot of people who don't care for that. You pay them money, they'll sit playing Video games, sports, or simply bum around.

Which is cheaper than housing even a small number of them in prisons. One of the hopes is that by eliminating much of the desperateness from poverty, we'll save a bundle from the accompanying reduction in crime.
Maintenance and troubleshooting with PCs was the reason I switch to Mac in the first place. To me at least, it's worth a few extra dollars if it means I never have to look inside of it (the hardware or the software).
Yes, i see that now. The distinction depends on free will, so isn't a good test.

Very insightful. Thank you.
I did the digital nomad thing for all of 2012, 2013, and 2015. It was a blast and I loved the people I met and the places I got to see. I stayed in one place for 12 months, and otherwise moved every 2 to 3 months once a visa ran out.

The thing you miss is friends and community when you are moving that much. But, you save a ton of money, especially if you stay outside the USA for 330 days out of 365. The tax savings basically paid for all my travel and housing :). For 2015 my wife and I were traveling, it is def hard on a spouse to be isolated esp when she wasn't doing online stuff. But still fun :)

I just bought a house and I am settling down, and it feels good to have an office. I hope to still do 1 to 3 months a year living somewhere else.
In the city center the bus is useless because it's stuck in traffic jam. Any other option is better: bike/tube/overground/underground.

Outside the city center. There are only a very few bus lines, infrequent and not covering much area.

I suppose it's the same in most of the European countries:

10% of people have good nearby transportation.

50% of people live in the country side, with little to no transportation in sight. Car is highly recommended (usually considered mandatory).