skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Universal basic income is just communism 2.0. It's adapted for the sensitivities of the American middle and upper classes, who want to help the poor but only by giving money to make the problem go away.

Fundamental premise of UBI is everything is justly the property of the state. The state determines who should get what. Throw in a little capitalism and a little "I want to keep my upper-middle class life" and you get UBI. Everyone gets something, but those who make more get to keep some of that.

UBI in practice would likely lead to massive exploitation of the poor.

see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12277301
Think of it as ini 2.0.
Not been my experience; where someone has left a bad review they seem to have got one back.
Minister: FG plans 40 digital TV channels across Nigeria
Yes. It would be naive and racist to just assume that people just aren't trusting for some arbitrary reason.

A lot of it is rooted in memory of having experienced exploitation and abuse from "official authorities" that they could not trust, for they were merely the enforcers of plutocrats.
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Trust is earned not just given.
At a Tech Bootcamp, World Domination Is Put on Hold for Profit
More to the point, there is no way to protest or circumvent spurious fees and charges that always follow lock-in to any system. Some charges certainly are justified, but accompanied by many purported new fees and "errors". This is already abused by every telecom & public utility I have dealt with over the past 25 years, and it could only get worse as freer access is secured. I would never give a major monopoly service provider free access to my accounts today to "conveniently" auto-pay my un-scrutinized charges. They are entitled/entrenched beyond retribution excepting the most extreme trespasses and regular 'nicks & dings' on billing cycles in hopes of not being noticed is the norm. Unearned revenue is profitable when it nets > the penalties, if penalties ever were imposed.
I have backspace in caps lock and found very comfortable to be able to go back with caps lock.
Migration isn't THAT bad. They aren't out to get you. It's a bit paperwork intensive though for sure. We do a lot of business in japan so we just incorporated a subsidiary there. Email's in profile if you're curious.
if you're smart enough to get into an elite university, you're smart enough to get a full ride at an upper tier but not elite university.

And if your parents had a high enough income where you had to pay full tuition, then you already enjoyed an upper middle class upbringing.

It's a slight disadvantage and not the difference between going to Harvard and not going to college at all.
I believe "anti-pattern" is a way to assert an opinion by giving it the color of best practice.

> It is a best practice to assert ones opinion by declaring the alternative as an anti-pattern.
In case whether 'search & replace' method is not an option you may create your own 'proxy' server like gopkg.in [1], since Golang packages don't have to be only on GitHub [2] you may set up mirroring rules to overcome problems with package location, version/revision, or library when GitHub downtime may occur. Personally, I don't think if creating own proxy server as solution would be quite big deal whether there are many various dependency tools for Go. 'Search & replace' is not mission impossible either. Go is not PHP - it just won't compile if (local) dependency is broken.

[1]: https://github.com/niemeyer/gopkg

[2]: https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Remote_import_paths
This is humorous.
Maybe the assumption is that

- everyone has time to figure it out

Or

- nobody will use it
You can buy mini travel-size toothpaste in just about any chain drugstore in the US
Great list, I suggested adding:

> "The simplest way to try, install, and manage fonts."

* SkyFonts || http://skyfonts.com/

> "The best Latin text generator for OS X. Incredibly quick and lightweight."

* LittleIpsum on the Mac App Store || https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/littleipsum/id405772121?mt=1...

> "CopyClip is the simplest and most efficient clipboard manager for your Mac. Running discreetly from your menu bar, this app stores all that you have copied or cut in the past, allowing you to quickly find that snippet of text you've been looking for."

* CopyClip - Clipboard History Manager on the Mac App Store || https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/copyclip-clipboard-history/i...

> "Every time you want to copy content from one app to the other, compare files side by side or multitask in any other way, you need all the windows arranged accordingly. Magnet makes this process clean and simple. In just one drag to the edge, you snap any window into left, right, top or bottom half of your screen."

* Magnet on the Mac App Store || https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/magnet/id441258766?mt=12
I don't know. Any of these peer rating systems seem to devolve to give 5 stars unless they did something horribly bad and wrong.

Back when eBay was more of an online flea market, the culture was certainly that anything other than a glowing A+++++++++ positive was a black mark that people took as indicating you actively swindled someone. And retaliatory low ratings were certainly a thing people discussed.

And, with Uber, I'm acutely aware that even somewhat lower ratings can have a big impact on drivers so I'm not that inclined to give 4 star rather than 5 star ratings even when the service is a little bit subpar.
It's not "racist" to recognize failings in cultures.

My dad left Bangladesh because he didn't want to raise kids in a country where he had to pay a bribe just to get a second phone line installed. That cultural trait isn't something us Bangladeshis get to blame on the British or whatever. It's deep-seated and long-standing. And it holds us back as a country and a people.

What we really don't need is people calling any criticism of those cultural traits "racist." It's not healthy for the cultures that need external pressure to overcome these problems, and it undermines the internal reformers trying to move beyond them.
Boosted version of telegram's bot API
Surely long before step 18 Ad companies will attempt to make blocking Ads illegal?
Amiga Memories – The Boing Ball [Episode 1]
Or I just mistyped and you are reading in too much to it?
> layered snapshots

Git isn't immutable, it is possible to destroy a remote repo. So if one really wants verifiable backups, one needs to take an immutable snapshot of some sort.

> free press

Like the pentium bug, corporate IT departments everywhere suddenly realized that they used github due to the site wide reset. It was a minor kerfuffle on the net that week.
It is socialism, and that's great. The problem with communism was that central planning sucks, a lot. Basic income keeps efficient free markets, it just distributes the benefits to everyone, instead of just the rich.

>UBI in practice would likely lead to massive exploitation of the poor.

What a bunch of nonsense. The poor massively benefit from UBI. What are you even talking about.
Except say you can donate to a nonprofit, write it off, and that non profit can pay your kid an inflated salary to sit on the board. Happening right now to a presidential candidate.
I think it's more pragmatic. What are you going to do with a stolen phone in a country where everyone already has the exact phone that they want? Bag snatching (ひったくり) used to be a regular enough occurrence that most people would know a friend it had happened to, but the occurrence of that has dropped too (90% since the year 2000 in Osaka [0]).

I would attribute the drop to the fact that most things people carry around now simply aren't worth stealing. Why risk jail over things that you can only flip for a few hundred bucks at most? There is almost no poor underclass here who would do that to survive, a side effect of Japan not being a desirable place for poor people to immigrate to.

[0] https://www.police.pref.osaka.jp/05bouhan/gaitohanzai/pdf/hi...

Heisei 12 = 2000
Heisei 26 = 2014
I (like, I imagine, many people here) have never been interested in sports but managed to get very interested in eSports - itself a blasphemy to sports-culture - for a little while a few years ago, which has made me more sympathetic to sports fandom. The special charm of eSports was that the entire scene felt like it was ours - like it belonged to the generation of gamers who grew up playing the precursors of the popular games (RPGs & RTSs that were the progenitors of MOBAs, and of course Nintendo-land). This tribal feeling was foreign to me, but I imagine it's the same sense of allegiance that functions in normal-sports culture.
Uber drivers are not, in any meaningful sense, their own bosses. Whether working for Uber or for a medallion holder, their place is, unfortunately, strictly at the bottom (maybe not so much in London.)
10 Optimizations on Linear Search: The operations side of the story
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Obligatory link any time palette cycling images are mentioned:

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/?sound=0

All images there are completely static 256 color bitmaps with only the mapping from color index to RGB value changed.
sending referrals to a site or handling payments are quite different.

There are plenty of definitions of the word taxi in many languages that simply mean a person transporting you from a to b exchange for money.

Doesnt say it gets exchange with the driver, nor are you saying that uberdriver drives around for fun and games. He does get paid to transport people from a to b. The typical business of a taxi service :)
Great demonstration of intellectual curiosity, HN denizens. Can't have people pointing out academic research that is directly relevant to the topic at hand. Downmod any facts that are inconvenient!
The Death, and Life, of Reading Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
I travel over 100 nights a year. So go to the drug store and buy a few travel toothpaste tubes for ~$1 each and stick one in with your travel toiletries when you travel?
Eventually you are either the ancestor of everyone on earth or the ancestor of no-one.
Fraud triangle: http://www.acfe.com/fraud-triangle.aspx

Fraud is usually a combination of opportunity, pressure, and rationalization. It sounds like a bad powerpoint slide, but it changed the way I think.

People are untrusting and dishonest partly because they're poor or desperate (pressure). (edit: someone who makes 100K but can't make debt payments is also under high pressure and a fraud risk, as is a CEO who may get fired for missing his numbers). And reputation systems decrease opportunity, making people more honest. And a personal touch (e.g. a walmart greeter) makes it harder to rationalize cheating.

One thing the fraud triangle is missing though is culture/learned behavior. If you're around other people who steal, you're more likely to think stealing is normal. And when you've stolen in the past, your mind has also learned the pattern of stealing and you're more likely to steal in the future.

Reputation systems plant into people's minds the patterns of trust and honesty. Cash registers, credit reports, and star ratings have likely made people more honest.
I switched because I had to nuke my entire Macports packages directory and start from scratch to fix one error or another several times a year. Got fed up with it and tried Homebrew ~3 years ago. Haven't had to do anything like that even once, so I've stuck with it.

Homebrew has all the markers of a project I should hate, but it's so rarely inconvenienced me in practice that I can't help but like it.
In this version, the ball actually bounces around. OP version doesn't seem to do any actual bouncing. The "boing" name didn't make much sense. I have to say, the bouncing version is a lot more impressive.
I think it is pretty racist to posit that the source is mysterious and possibly sticky to the people as they migrate and uphold visibly cultural habits such as dress and language.

Peruvians haggle and bribe cops because it's fresh in everyone's memory that cops weren't impartial agents of justice, but paid-up enforcers of the colonizers. I expect the same holds for Bangladeshis.

"Cultural traits" follow the money. In the 70s, South Koreans were a lazy, unproductive people. Now the stereotype is workaholic to the point of suicide. In the 1800s, Germans were thieves, now they're industrious.

Look at culture if you want, but it's going to be much less instructive than economics and history.

edit: It seems I "triggered" some of our resident race realists, since these posts are garnering a lot of silent downvotes lol
There is something similar in Greece, people can not pay their share for filling up common heating oil tank. Lot of houses are not heated in winter (sometimes bellow freezing with snow).

It is not question of trust, but poverty. People are not gaming system to buy new car or TV. Food is more important than electricity or heat.
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Yes it's stable. CloudFlare heavily uses it in production.
On Monsters, Role Playing, and Blackness
Does this account for the possibility that the shrimp aren't necessarily "bluffing", but might just be hopped up on a testosterone-analog and have no idea of their true abilities?

I've seen a small yippy dog go into a frenzy trying to attack a much larger dog, and when it slipped its leash, it DID attack the larger dog, and was promptly tossed in the air.
Heh, but not true, speaking as a native of the state (born, raised, and retired to it). Nor is it a widespread law, certainly such a proposal wouldn't go down well here in the SW corner of it (especially in the very SW part I'm in that's culturally Southern), nor, outside of HOA procedural/contractual insanity can I see our Missouri Plan picked higher level judges approving of it.
Money quote: "We never had a reading culture. We had an entertainment culture where reading was the easiest form of entertainment."
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If you just read the headline and not the article, then maybe the article is about the really bad recession that is going on in China right now (wellknown to all readers of HN). And how the expats caught there must "reflect" now that the party's over ...
Obviously because Uber has nothing to do with housing. Are you asserting that there is no possible way for technology or government policy to make housing more affordable?
Why does it bother you that Charles isn't open source? The developers behind it want to get paid for their work, and they've put a lot of that in over the years. I've licensed it a few times myself, and consider it money well spent.
It's my understanding MacPorts came from the same BSD Port system and keeps the same philosophy. How does pkgsrc differ?
I appreciate the desire to transcend the exploitation of labor, but even ignoring the fact that this specific case goes about doing that in one of the worst possible ways, I don't think that it's fair or wise to offer bailouts in reaction to specific economic shifts. By bailouts I mean any kind of intervention to cushion or shield individuals from financial collapse.

I say this because it creates an incentive to move with the herd. Only economic shifts that effect a large class of people will ever see bailouts. This means that it's safer to to do something that a lot of people do, like drive a taxi, than to do something more exotic, like opening a pastry shop. If you drive a taxi and some large corporation deploys a fleet of self driving taxis in your city, then you have a chance of a bailout because there would be enough people affeced to make it worth legislators' time. If some starts delivering oven-hot 3d-printed pastries by drone, then there's not enough pastry shop owners for legislators to address it. That's not fair to the pastry shop owners, and it makes it less attractive to open a pastry shop.

If you want to avoid destroying lives and families when major innovation occurs (or in other circumstances) then it has to be via means that are available to everyone. Proposed systems like basic income or negative income tax make the loss of a job less damaging, but are not without their downfalls. Similar with traditional liberal welfare programs.
Just by casual observation but without knowing the flag vs upvote ratio/formula it's hard to tell anything.

We've had posts with 100's of upvotes being flagged to death (usually 'political' or 'polarizing' issues) so it didn't look to me like upvoting does much to keep the post alive.

And since the amount of flags isn't visible to us it's not that we can see that posts get flagged once they reach 5 flags for example or once the flag count reaches 10 over the upvote count etc. and make a better observation from that data.

But thanks for the correction :)
Sorry, my camping days are showing :)
This seems to have coincided with a practical cause to look for a new place:

But now that we have to leave Mac OS Forge anyway, it makes sense
to convert to git and take the opportunity to do some much needed
and overdue restructuring[...]
I have an rMBP13 (2015) and have been given a new XPS 13 at work. I'm an Apple fan, and prefer my macbook but I'd go for the XPS 13 - I think the MBA is a bad buy at this point. The XPS 13 has great hardware (it looks so small compared to my rMBP and has a 13" screen still), that display is fantastic and performs great. I can't give anything non-subjective about the SSD but it feels as fast as my rMBP unless Windows is doing something stupid. I don't use the built in keyboard much because it's usually docked at work, but when I've used it it feels good - I haven't used it enough to compare to Apple though. The trackpad is good, and gestures work, which is more than I've ever seen from a non-Apple laptop. I haven't tested the battery at all, obviously MBA's is amazing in practice.

All my complaints are with software (Windows specifically), so just make sure your Linux distro behaves sensibly with a 3200x1800 screen and whatever external monitors you want (Windows doesn't).
That's a good point, but it definitely relates to what I'm saying as well; you're just describing the benefit side of the cost:benefit analysis any criminal has to do. A lot of the cost in Japan, even for the pettiest of crimes, is that you either have to absolutely get away with it, or be branded a criminal.

All of what you said applies too, and it's all connected to the tighter community-oriented culture. There is after all, nothing impractical about choosing not to commit a petty crime, when as you say the benefit is minor and the risks are enormous.
This headline and the content are misleading. The war is not between Ad Blockers and Advertising techniques. Neither of those things are sentient or has any personal interest in the outcome.

The war is between service providers and their customers. And there's only like 3 steps. Step 3 is customers get fed up with being treated so poorly and they stop using the service. The service goes bankrupt and vanishes. Services which find ways to monetize without relying entirely on advertising revenue survive, and the problem vanishes in the long run.

I think there's an interesting psychological discussion to be had about the way people are misinterpreting this situation.

EDIT: Another perspective is this is a war between companies like doubleclick.net and their eventual and well-deserved extinction.
https://nomansskystreams.com

As I am obsessed with No man's sky lately, and I wanted to play with Twitch API, I built a web app + android app to watch No Man's Sky live streams, during a week-end 2 weeks ago
If you mistyped it, pls correct it.
On an AZERTY keyboard, alt+left forces to uses BOTH hands since there's no right alt key. It's not a usable replacement to the backspace key
works for me in Firefox
Content will not be rendered if ads are blocked.
There will always be a place for advertisements, the methodology needs to change. Companies like "doubleclick.net" are dead, they just don't know it yet.

Direct advertising still works. When the ads are sourced from the same domain as the content, blocking them is essentially impossible. This means a bit more work on the part of content providers, they have to solicit advertisement revenue directly, but many of those companies have been doing that for decades (newspapers). Shouldn't be too difficult.

That sort of advertising is less offensive as well, because it's more likely to be relevant and safe.
> I would say they should maybe go into medicine, engineering or law

There's already an AI lawyer:

http://www.rossintelligence.com/
http://www.techinsider.io/the-worlds-first-artificially-inte...

and Watson played doctor:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ibms-watson-cracks-medical-mystery-...
And that's the point! Armed revolution is really bad, and massive inequality is one piece in a puzzle that can lead to it. It seems really odd to me to shrug this off as at least part of the answer to the original question of why inequality is bad.

We have been more or less immune to this in the US for a long time because of our large and strong middle class that has had way too much to lose. But that's the same middle class that the elites are eroding by short-sightedly capturing an ever larger portion of the modern economy's output.
Relevant to what? Your specific interests?

Here's how social bookmarking sites work, for those confused: people post stuff, and other people vote on them. If it gets lots of votes, it's put in the first page, and it's de facto relevant to the site member's interests...
What you're describing here is called "Social Capital"[0] and can be summed up very neatly with the question posed in that section of that entry [1] "do you trust the others?" which basically gets to the bottom of that issue which is trust.

The "social trust deficit" phenomenon that plagues certain societies is one of those key implicit factors in the lagging economic performance in those societies as it drags and dampens economic activities due to the fact that doing business is all about trust and this prevailing social distrust across classes and communities is one giant road block to that end.

Also, the example you cited about electric generators in Angola is yet another instance of "Conway's Law"[2] in play. Apparently, these people don't talk to each other and even if they do, it doesn't bridge the trust gap to unlock the potential that they might have to improve their standards of living and quality of life.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_capital#Social_capital_...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_capital#Social_capital_...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law
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Interesting how it was used in Washington, DC (especially Congress) and New York, yet when it was banned by the FCC, Congress wasn't able to make it legal.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again?
Imagine how much wasted toothpaste ...
Furthermore, toothpaste is a health-related product and a lot of people are loathe to mess with what they use and "works." Personally, I doubt there's much to choose between various Crest and Colgate products. On the other hand, I travel a lot and wouldn't be very inclined to routinely use some unbranded single-use tube provided by a hotel.
“The average age for a successful startup-founder is about 40 years old.”
Great explanation. The intersection of people familiar with those terms but not familiar with how this iconic demo works is probably small.
While placebo "walk" buttons in New York City are amusing, more malevolent was that NYC had thousands of placebo fire hydrants. The city would ticket people who parked in front of these unused fire hydrants even though they had been disconnected decades earlier.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/23/nyregion/soapbox-a-little-...
https://vimeo.com/179647961
Trust is also an important component in a labor market: trust that an employer will treat employees fairly, and trust that an employee will meet their obligations.