skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You can still conduct public counts..."

Do you have any examples of corporations submitting to FOIA (public record) requests?

My point is that our elections are being privatized. Internet voting is just the excuse.

"...my reasoning falls closer in line with Milton Friedman's..."

Mine's closer to Abraham Lincoln's:

of the people, by the people, for the people

Elections are what give a democracy its legitimacy. The right to vote precedes all other rights. Like the Zeroth law of Robotics. It's unstated because it's assumed because we voted ourselves (nation) into existence.
There's a whole industry built around embedded Linux. Just FYI.
You do realize that, assuming taxes work like they do today, it'd be 90% on the amount over 250k/100k not 90% over the total income?

Assuming you realize it, your point must be that only having 10% effective increase in income after you reach the threshold is demotivating, and I would agree.
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Do you not see that poverty can also be the cause of those behaviours, rather than the reverse?
The most common evasion is in the handwaving around the size of the proposed UBI check. Total US tax revenue per person comes out to just over $20000/year, that's $1666/month (in comparison, a 40 hour workweek at the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr, no holidays, comes out at $15080/year or $1256/month).

If you abolished every single government program and fire every single government employee, right from the DoD down to your local playground, from congress to the schools, never mind every single existing welfare program, assuming that tax revenue somehow managed to stay at the same level, what with no IRS to collect it and 22 million newly unemployed public sector workers, you could barely afford to pay a UBI at the minimum wage, never mind attending to the people who might legitimately need more help (also, no roads or schools).

UBI is either going to require cuts of a depth never proposed, much less enacted, in any western country, ever -- or be too small (perhaps a hundred dollars a month) to live up to its promises.
Buy vs. Build: Every CTO’s Dilemma
> One school of thought is to migrate DNSSEC from relying on validating resolvers sitting within the network provider, and moving it closer to the edge, in web browsers and so forth. Not much of that has happened to date.

Fedora is actively working to including a system-local DNS resolver by default that will validate DNSSEC-signed zones. The change was originally slated for F24 but was deferred due to lack of resources, but I suspect it should make it in by F26/F27 if all goes well and some of the NAT64 issues that were discovered with Unbound are fixed.
OTOH, back of the envelope calculations by detractors are usually misleading by an order of magnitude.

For example 320 million Americans * 15K/year in basic income = 4.8 trillion dollars that has to come from new taxes and spending cuts.

But if it all comes from tax increases than somebody currently making the average income will see their taxes go up by exactly amount as their BI payment. Is that actually a tax increase? And if we can get cost savings from simplifying welfare, then their BI payment is more than their tax increase.

4.8 Trillion is completely unfeasible, but the real cost is in the order of hundreds of billions. A heck of lot, but it is feasible.
Most of the electrical energy comes from burning things that create carbon-dioxide as a side product. The only real alternative is fission, and the public opinion against nuclear is even worse than against oil. How do you solve this problem?

Getting people and things moved by train is a great idea, but in the grand scheme of things we're dependant on oil for so many other things.
I hear the kids are into lisp these days ;P
I think there's a simpler solution to boxes in boxes. Assume that the outer box is axis-aligned. Project both boxes onto the X axis, so they become one-dimensional. It's easy to check that the "projected perimeter" of the inner box is smaller. Repeat for axes Y and Z. From that and the triangle inequality, the result follows.
No it isn't. US gas prices are comically low compared to virtually every other country on the planet. The exceptions are countries with stupidly low gas prices like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. If this tax was applied it wouldn't push America into European levels of pricing. It wouldn't even nudge it into Canadian pricing levels.
I like Hunter's writings but I wouldn't look for coherent philosophical ideas in it. I see his writing as artistic, very entertaining, really unique phraseology, inspirational, stuff that really represents the feel of the 70's in US (at least that is what I am told, I wasn't born yet then).
Depends who you're talking to I guess. I wouldn't call that an embedded system, although it could technically be described as such.
Good cold-calls are well-researched.

In the sales world, the merits of research are well-known. An increased hit-rate is always worth the additional time in researching and qualifying before-hand.
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Sorry yes of course, that's what I meant. But O(1) is the amortization with the average being O(N^0.5)
Well, Minard's graphic is actually 2 charts - the top one maps distance/abstract geography (2 dimensions), size of the army, and time/direction of movement. The bottom one maps the temperature to time during Napolean's retreat. It's tough to encode more than 3 separate dimensions on a chart (usually 2 spatial axes and a color/shape/size axis) and have it still be useful for analysis/presentation.
The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet (2013)
IPFS (https://ipfs.io) does that.
I think we're agreeing with each other.

Maybe I poorly phrased my comment, but I don't think sending an automated form email counts as 'specifically recruiting' OP, nor do I expect Google to spend time prior researching them.
Java8 helps a lot - CompletableFutures can be easier to reason about IMO.
If you need to share state, you can use Akka to encapsulate the state in an actor, and thus you will have (what appears to be) lock free concurrency!
It assumes, they can secretly assign and remember a 100 items random ordering and then execute it perfectly. Further, it assumes they can decide which orientation is the start vs end of the line. Thus, it's not actually possible, but 'in theory' it seems to work.

EX: If I know your going to order based on which side is closet to the entry door nob when the door is closed. Well nothing says they all enter from the same door if it's based on the wall, put the table in the middle of the room.
You must be joking, I know an awful lot of americans with laptops. Its not like mortgaging a house!

And Im not talking about 'above living expenses'. When I bought mine I had no money for the electric bill. I leveraged the laptop purchase into paying that bill and many more after it!
A funny question: wouldn't it be easier to teach students assembly in a good environment that can diagnose errors instead of crashing and burning?

It is easy syntax, no extra concepts. Then pick some sort of structural language, and then go further...

Come to think of it, might be as successful as Logo but more gradual and useful. Everything is explicit.
Two points

1. All his developer errors are not best practices.

2. Writing domain logic is sooo much easier than writing the plumbing/integration logic that comprises most enterprise development. One of the hardest things in software is defining the right abstractions and names. But in domain logic 80% of those names and abstractions have already been created.

Oh what am I gonna call this thing my company owns that generates profit and losses for us and generally resides at a single location. Maybe I'll call it a "Store". Versus what do I call this thing that decides whether we pull information from bing or google based on complicated rules around performance, cost, and time of day. BingGoogleApiDecider?
Then make way for someone who is otherwise motivated, by something other than fire. Your personal drive to get money and succeed has nothing to do with your capacity to provide goods and services: heck, it might be causing you to cut corners, cheat people, and otherwise push so hard that you're harming your longterm prospects.

If you're some sort of titanic corporate entity, you're almost compelled to deliver constantly growing earnings for the next quarter. If you're a sole proprietorship but driven by these deeply personal motivations, you might be stuck in similarly self-defeating attitudes. Compare to Elon Musk, who barely seems to register the concept of money and is only interested in the specific things he's doing. Without the money, he'd be much the same person, I think.
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This purist talking point infuriates me, but aren't you lugging those 50kw battery when you are not traveling 200 miles and only 30 miles. PHEVs are not your enemy. I see the criticism and some of it is fair, but most of it is not.
I think that it's a bad thing that "multi-national corporation" has become synonymous with "bad agent" or even "evil." Much of our society is multi-national corporations, so when we have a biased view of them we may end up cutting off our nose to spite our face.

And in popular culture, if we end up with people opposed to a carbon tax just because Exxon wants a carbon tax too, well it doesn't more nose-less than that.
.5 multiplied by N is still O(N) time (.5 a constant factor).

O(√N) means there will be at most C*√N operations (where C is some constant factor > 0)
"There's no reason to believe Apple will implement the forensic technology in an upcoming consumer product, but the patent does highlight Apple's continuing research into how to harden security on mobile devices beyond passcode screens and Touch ID. " [1]

[1]: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/08/25/apple-forensic-data-capt...
TEALS volunteer here (https://www.tealsk12.org). TEALS offers its Intro to CS curricula as open textbooks:

Sem 1: https://teals-introcs.gitbooks.io/introduction-to-computer-s...

Sem 2: https://www.gitbook.com/book/teals-introcs/2nd-semester-intr...

I taught this last year and had a blast. It's still a very new curriculum, so expect to have to work out some flow issues and maybe even a bug or two. In particular, doing Snap! for a whole semester I think works if you're only teaching one semester, but we wanted well more time on Python than we had.
Maker of EpiPen to Sell Generic Version for Half the Price
If I remember well was slower than using HTMLUnit (http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/) that is written in Java, and it was much slower than writing a browser extension to achieve the same task.
Out of interest, what do you think their real goals are? (I agree with the sentiment of your comments FWIW)
> See NPR's expose on rampant disability fraud

There's no incentive for fraud in an unconditional benefit system.

> It's hard to see how eliminating safeguards will improve things.

Its actually easy to see, when the "safeguards" directly produce perverse incentives. Means-testing reduces the marginal benefit to finding additional income, encouraging a culture of dependence. And any type of conditional benefit scheme creates an incentive for fraud where the benefits of fraud outweigh the expected cost of committing it.

The "safeguards" are the problem, not a mitigation.
Yes, fossil fuels, nuclear or hydro are the 3 feasible options. Long-term, investing in safer nuclear power is the way forward.
Error handling mostly with error codes seems like an OK compromise for me since it doesn't require any dynamic memory allocation (like Gos error interfaces). I guess one would use some custom return type or a GetLastError equivalent if more details are required.

However I'm not sure if purely compiler assigned error numbers will work out for a systems language. Of course it works when you build the whole application, but if you build only a part of it (a library, an application that (dynamically) links against a library, ..., where do you get the information from which error codes are already occupied by them?
It's not that similar an argument, it suggests a carbon payback time of 3-10 years, not 30 or never (10 years is unfortunate but workable (especially if you expect it to improve, which is basically guaranteed), 3 years is fine, never would be unacceptable).
Which one is that?
One of the links in the article points to jevi.com instead of jeviz.com
Look Who’s Getting That Bank Settlement Cash
You're assuming those two parameters, mine were $number_of_interviews / $number_of_prospects. Unless that's an industry term I misused, in which case I apologize.
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- A position as a first class citizen in a tremendously wealthy industrial country that got that way by stealing resources and enslaving native populations for centuries, presumably
NHTSA and FMCSA Propose Speed Limiters
The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) TLS Protocol
Why Uber Is Making a Loss
Assume for the sake of argument, that we woke up one morning and there were machines that could write code. Really good code, 30,000 debugged lines a day. They invented better languages that we couldn't even understand and were willing to do this work just for fun.

In that world of super high productivity but few jobs,

Would basic income make sense? And if not, what's a better system? (asking the BI opponents here) I'm asking as a sincere question, I'm not trying to be persuasive.

I'm not saying this will happen, I'm hoping to avoid that debate, I'm just saying assume-for-the-sake-of-argument that this does happen, in some other world, a world we don't need to debate about.
>it was the hunger of having nothing, no safety net, and having no job that STILL drives me today

Canada has had health care provided to you since 1984. So to say you have "no safety net" is factually wrong. Did the existence of public health care make you decide to leave and build your business somewhere else? It seems it did not.
That would seem to assume we're not already funding (1) already for everyone who isn't too mentally ill to participate in existing more expensive to administrate programs.

A classic example would be something like working poor on food stamps. We've decided as a nation to provide corporate welfare by allowing corporations to under pay employees and taxpayers will pick up the tab by providing food stamps to the employees. A lot of pointless administrative money is spent to make sure yes indeed they work at Walmart and Walmart doesn't pay a living wage. An interesting side effect is many jobs are going to have massive wage deflation down to minimum wage. Sort of a communist system where everyone gets the same pay.
It does, but it's a matter of <20% efficiency versus >80% efficiency. Not enough to heat up the cabin.

Not that it matters for a Tesla though. A Leaf feels the effects of running the heater more.
24 people who are having a very good time in virtual reality
Reviewable.io: GitHub code reviews done right
To whom are you referring ?
Playing Devil's advocate,

> You can't put a dollar value on a lot of contributions towards society

You could still measure whether any contribution is being made at all and only give BI to those who are contributing. Which is essentially what existing subsidies for art & etc are for.

> It also seems to me that, due to our racist and sexist history, there is a massive wage inequality geared towards industries that are dominated by white males. Who is paying for whom here?

Under BI, members of minorities who overcame those handicaps will be paying more in taxes to support a whole bunch of white males, though.
Same. It was not clear that multiple padlocks can be added to the box.
Everyone is standing on the shoulders of giants and has everything they are to owe to the society that formed them. What a single human can achieve compared to that is extremely small.

The reality is that the greatest amount of wealth is not attained by work but inherited. This stands in total opposition to the idea that our society is a meritocracy.
There's another design decision not considered in this article: using a separate bucket state table, or using sentinel values inside the buckets to represent 'empty' etc..
I've measured sentinel values to be faster.
For the USA, precinct-based paper mediated voting is the cheapest option.

We don't need PCs. Self contained scanotronic style systems (think SAT tests) work just fine. In fact, all but the largest jurisdictions (because of ballot size, complexity) could get away with manual counting.
I think his chart is using the wrong date range. Here is a better one: https://encrypted.google.com/finance/chart?espv=2&q=CURRENCY...
Generally, populism implies oppression of the unpopular.
Amazon's "sort by rating" functionality is fundamentally broken. See http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.... for an explanation on how to sort items by ratings in an intuitively good manner. What it does is balance the uncertainty that a low number of ratings implies and the proportion of good ratings.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9855784 for an older comment thread on that article.
So a bracket like that which stifles motivation would absolutely hurt industry, economy, and innovation.

Its like youre in a race against every other business and country in the world, and you say: "hey, lets put these leg cuffs on! No everybody has a 3 foot stride wehn walking, so its no fair for you to walk fast. These shackles will only restrict your movement if you succeed too much and are able to take bigger strides. The most important thing is to reduce the gaps between winners and losers!"

In that race, do you think you stand a fighting chance against unshackled competitors?
Reminder: this is a man who killed himself
Ask HN: Should I leave my startup?
I've been with the company 7 years and am employee #3. I started as a senior engineer and worked up to VP Engineering but for all practical purposes I'm the CTO.

I manage 5 engineers down from 15. The 10 that left did so because we couldn't afford to pay them market rates. In my opinion we were understaffed even at 15.

It would take > 3 senior people to replace me. I know the company can't afford it. I know for certain 3/5 of the remaining devs would definitely leave if I left (an the other 2 probably would after that). Plus I have a lot of proprietary knowledge because I'm a specialist in multiple areas.[1] I don't think the company can survive me leaving. That means 20+ people losing their job.

I make $109k but haven't had a raise in 4 years. The company can't afford it. I was promised $170k almost a year ago (never happened).

I live in a medium COL area. Cheaper than SF but still expensive. I have a mortgage to pay.

I started at <1% options and I now have >5%. On paper it is work over $1MM but I can't see liquidity happening for a few years.

The company owes me more than $60k back pay. I went 6 months at minimum wage and have a note promising to pay me back but there is no interest built-in so they have no incentive.

My non-compete an invention clause are very strict and I live in a state where they are legal. We do consulting to pay the bills (the lean startup way) so my non-compete pretty much covers every industry you can think of.

I have 4 weeks vacation but my average I can use is 1 because there is always a deadline looming and the company loses a lot of revenue for every week I'm not here.

On the plus side: I love the team, I think they are great. And I have a high degree of freedom I probably wouldn't have elsewhere.

[1] Note: I try very hard to spread the knowledge but every time I get close they leave for better offers.
Check out https://rubybench.org/benchmarks for Rails, Ruby, and Bundler benchmarks on every commit and release to either project.

If you want Rails-specific benchmarks for Ruby commits I suggest the `discourse_` benchmarks that are running specific chunks of the open-source Discourse Rails app: https://rubybench.org/ruby/ruby/commits?result_type=discours...
I would say the first time I went through this it was very nerve-racking. However, the CEO of the first company (which I spoke about in another comment, the real estate software company) really changed my attitude on working and being an employee forever. I remember sitting with him at an Applebee's late at night. We were talking about the downturn of the market and the financial problems the company had during the time and how scary it was for me as "just an employee". He said to me, "You're not 'just an employee', you're an investor in my business. You invest your time, talents, and efforts to make me succeed. I pay you dividends more regularly but honestly you should never act as just an employee. If you do amazing work you'll be rewarded just like an investor, if you act like an investor."

I know what a lot of people will say to that. "No way, you're just an employee, you won't be treated like an investor." Well, true, if you have that attitude you won't be treated like an investor. You'll be treated like an employee. However, if you start acting like an investor, you'll be treated as one. Ask intelligent questions about the business and its financials. Talk to the board. Give intelligent and thoughtful advise to help the company. Be an asset far above the code you write.

If you do that, and then all of the sudden everything starts to nosedive, you will be in a position to help fix the problem and reap the rewards. You are an investor, not an employee.
Good point. Few solutions are apt for every scale and every business!

OTOH, if you really essay a given deployment again and again, you can become really confident that the operation will succeed in production.

Real example: the most important feature I've developed this year has been put 5+ times in staging across a couple months. Every time I've asserted all kind of stuff, gathered feedback from the business owner, etc.

The deployment going bad in production is just not a possibility.

At a larger scale than mine, I would probably introduce 'dark launching' as well. That would further reduce the possibility of needing rollback.
Hmmmm...I don't remember what I was thinking then. I remember wanting to use something more typically low level, like bit shifting, and it either being way too much hassle or not supported.

Either way, thanks for the correction.
Yes, and if I redefine all errors as successes my program has no bugs.

Back in reality, my application is not meeting business needs, and BI is still wasting a bunch of money on people who don't need it.

Means-testing reduces the marginal benefit to finding additional income, encouraging a culture of dependence. And any type of conditional benefit scheme creates an incentive for fraud where the benefits of fraud outweigh the expected cost of committing it.

A Basic Job Guarantee (if you need a job real bad, the government gives you a real bad job) does not create incentives for fraud. EITC also has minimal incentives for fraud.
No it's not. 20 is all one needs for DC quick charging.
Theres no need for meaning...
Precincts are the smallest political jurisdiction. With poll sites, each precinct's election is administered independently. That's how paper scales.

How large is your precinct? Probably somewhere between 0 and 1000. Totally manageable.
The first theory of evolution is 600 years older than Darwin
Because it's already late 2016 and we always expected them by 2018?
The article doesn't spell it out. Here's what you do:

- Search on amazon

- Filter by 4 stars and up (or whatever)

- Choose a sort from the dropdown

- Change the sort=XXXXX param to sort=review-count-rank
Replicated State Machine Model in 1980s Auragen OS
What exactly is a first class citizen? Care to explain?
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Or pay for three mailings, whichever is less expensive.
That's the Declaration of Independence you're thinking of, I believe.
> PostDocs may have a bad rap, but 'subhuman' is going a bit far...

That may have been an autocorrect "correction" of the word "subdomain".