skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I'm replying to you down the chain a bit because this is a great example of you just not getting it at all.

Do you have a college education? Did you go to a good high school? Do you have motivated peers? Growing up, did you have enough food to eat every day and every night? Do you have two loving parents? Or even one? Did you have a roof over your head every night? How many times did you change houses, schools, districts?

These and more are the factors out of the individual's hands that can severely negatively impact their ability to grow up and become successful.

You didn't 'just have a laptop and a desk.' You had a laptop, a desk, an education, a stable upbringing. MOST PEOPLE DON'T GET THOSE THINGS AND THAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY GAP. Again -- MOST PEOPLE DON'T GET THOSE THINGS AND THAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY GAP.

This comment I am replying to is just the worst kind of ignorance -- no, dude, there are SO many people in this country that can't afford a laptop. And if they could -- do you know how fucking expensive it is to learn to code??? You need one of 3 things -- 1: lots and lots of free time 2: a $50k education 3: an exceptionally great free public education ( I say exceptionally great because <20% of american schools teach coding).

I'm not going to be that commenter that just says 'ugh google privilege and you'll get it.' You had privilege in excess, and now you have ignorance in excess. You need empathy and humility. I'm honestly disgusted by your comments. The kids I work with every fucking day don't have half the shit you grew up with and it makes ALL of the difference in their lives.
Maybe prison deters criminal activity?
Does a poor man on the street, with no shower, no transportation, no cell phone, and barely enough money in his pocket to eat, really have the ability to seek work?

Yes. Hundreds of thousands of people manage to do this even with the additional hindrances of no tengo permiso de trabajo and no hablo Ingles. But I'm sure that those illegal Mexicans are suffering from privilege, unlike the white man born into a country where welfare benefits usually exceed the mean GDP/Capita of Mexico.

The book Scratch Beginnings is well worth a read: https://www.amazon.com/Scratch-Beginnings-Search-American-Dr...

I'm not even sure what you're suggesting though. It sounds like you're suggesting that we should continue shaming poor people as an effective means to prevent poverty. You don't think absolute desperation and lack of safety, security, health, and food, is enough of a motivation?

Apparently not.

You think shaming works?

No, I think ignoring the cause of the problem is not a road to a solution.

Maybe a basic income system is necessary for our society to function in the future. There are a lot of indications that this is the case.

I have yet to see even a back of the envelope calculation suggesting these benefits will occur.
Maybe someone could build a greasemonkey script to make it even easier.
The logic of Putin apologists never ceases to amaze me.

I remember when the situation in Ukraine/Crimea was just unfolding and I was discussing it with a friend. At first his position was "There is no proof Russia is in Ukraine, that is just Western propaganda. What do you think, Putin is trying to annex Ukraine? Come on, that's ridiculous" a few months later, Putin annexes Crimea. All of a sudden, his argument changes to "Well Crimea has a very interesting history, and plus, all the people living there really want to be part of Russia" you can't win with these people. They will keep changing their argument. If Putin annexes all of Ukraine tomorrow, you will see the same changes in their arguments with justifications for his terrible decisions.

Also, you can always bet on them saying something along the lines of "Well the US did X, so that totally validates Russia doing Y"
You can still find stuff on Flippa but it is completely different than 10 years ago; those were it's golden days. Not sure if anything replaced it...
Leave your brother to die on the street, cold and hungry and ignored. Of course.
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Grace is definitely a factor to consider.

The question I have is: should someone be required to work in order to live reasonably well?

One entrepreneur, JK Rowling, is worth USD 1 bil. She did not require many resources to attain this; a savvier setup could have allowed digital-only publishing. Value can literally be created from the mind.

Given this, should it not be an acceptable profession in society to provide mind-workers the space and time they require to produce works unique to them? Should they not have comforts if required?

Can not any individual create in such capacities, and is it not only our fear and reliance upon the tales of a dark history and historical slogans which keep us from thinking the problem through to completion and from the very consideration that such new ways of working are indeed possible at a civilization scale? Are we afraid of success?
The amortization is the average and is O(1). The claim is that the worst case (when the table becomes relatively saturated and a resize is required) is O(N^0.5). I don't really buy that and the supplied link doesn't really make that claim either. By the argument in that link, it should be O(N^1.5) for rehashing. (Usually we think that copying N items is O(N), but he makes an argument from physics which I haven't thought through.)
Much of the point of the Zen of Python is that it's self-contradictory.
Society doesn't have aims, people do. Your unstated assumption that you views represent everyone else's is incorrect, and I am sure that my aims are very different from yours.
Now that you mention it, is it even allowed that someone outside the DAs office try criminal cases? The DA is the legal representative of the state in that case, and I don't know if someone else can just step in there.
Yes, I never knew that. But I saw it in another post and as the sibling post mentions it's enough to surround just the first character with the brackets...

This is why I love HN, I learn stuff I never knew I wanted to know!
Makes me wonder about the deflationary effects. Eg, would it be rational to think "I could buy a solar system now, but if I wait a year it will be cheaper by a large enough margin it's better to pay more in electricity until then"?
The CEO has a fair amount of money personally, I wouldn't put it past him to go after me with his personal funds. He's a generally nice guy but a ruthless business person, especially if someone torpedoes his company.

On that note, he has gone without pay much longer than me. It's not like he's been taking paychecks this whole time. But he's also a millionaire and I'm barely getting by after my entire savings went away from all the missing pay checks.
Ah, I love these kind of puzzles!

Here's another one, similiar to the first one (Names in Boxes). Apologies for any incorrections in advance.

There are 100 prisoners. At random times one prisoner is chosen uniformly at random and led into a room with a single lamp. The prisoner can choose to switch it on or off or leave it as the last visiting prisoner left it. Apart from the state of the lamp he must leave the room unchanged.

After visiting the room, each prisoner is asked if every prisoner has visited the room by now. If he answers 'Yes' and indeed everyone has been to the room at least once, then everybody is freed immediately. Otherwise they are all executed ;) He can answer 'I don't know' without any consequences.

Apart from the lamp being on or off the prisoners have no way of communication at all, but of course as is customary in such puzzles they can plot a strategy in advance and everybody is a perfect logician.

So, to clarify: The goal is for one prisoner to be 100% sure that everybody has been to the room at least once. The "easiest" solution would simply be to wait a few billion years (it's an abstract puzzle, they are all immortal anyways ;). But of course there is a more elegant solution that terminates earlier.

Also, as the time for a visit is chosen at random a prisoner has no way of knowing who the previous person in the room was. It might just as well have been himself!

As there is some randomness involved, it is theoretically possible that the goal state never happens. Just assume that in the limit everybody will have visited the room infinitely often ;)

In other words: Implement synchronization between 100 threads with only one bit of shared memory and completely random scheduling.
"Much of our society is multi-national corporations"

I have problems with that statement.

In my opinion, if we start forgetting we are a society of humans that, sometimes, use corporations as a tool for collaborating, we have serious problems.

So, everybody, repeat with me: we want to maximize humans welfare. Corporations are tools.
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Such a different voice compared to his later work. It really drives home that HST, though seeming crazy, was fully conscious of what he was doing and intentional in his choices.
This way lies hedonism.
I agree strongly that trying to diagnose people of the internet is unhelpful behavior. However, from the tone of Andrew's comments on this page, it would seem he is interested in improving the quality of his experience of life by seeking greater self understanding. I take the parent comment as merely the offering of yet another possibly helpful direction of inquiry for Andrew, and not an attempt to diagnose.
You would have to download the app they spammed with vibrates and let it install.
'First class citizen', while not really used outside of programming, was likely meant in contrast to a 'second class citizen.'

"A second-class citizen is a person who is systematically discriminated against within a state or other political jurisdiction, despite their nominal status as a citizen or legal resident there."
- Wikipedia

He's saying you probably did not suffer much at all because of systemic discrimination, and pointing out the glaringly obvious -- that you don't realize that majority of the people in this country DO suffer because of systemic discrimination.
That's pretty lazy reasoning. Tech companies spend a lot of time promoting STEM education. They benefit from the government teaching people those skills on the public dime. So do you reflexively question the benefit society gets from STEM education?
So we need a BI because the poor will spend all their money on drugs, and then engage in violence against peaceful citizens who don't feed them?

That's an interesting view.
Fitbit launches Charge 2 activity tracker
At the moment the pairing seems to be Electron + Cordova for non-React JS frameworks; with those two you can share 100% HTML at least if you have a responsive CSS design.

Also, now that React Native is extending into the Desktop space more directly (with Linux, Mac, and Windows UWP variants), for React you may not need Electron at all.
I can run my business on about 20K a year if I'm frugal. It's another 'laptop' type business and while I can make use of capital to build value, that's not the core business.

I would absolutely accept a 100% marginal tax rate on over 100K a year and be happy about it. I live in an area with extremely low cost of living compared to NYC or SV, and I can build mindshare and interact with extremely happy, encouraging customers and become authoritative in my field with or without raw capital.

Put it this way. I have personal friends who were names on the back of vinyl record albums when I was a kid. On the whole, they are not over 100k a year either, and some of the things they love and cherish most are not (to them) core businesses earning over 100k a year.

If you don't figure you can be happy and fulfilled without millions and billions of dollars, you're doing something wrong. I have no problem with overruling your opinion here, and saying 'you have it wrong, and if you don't understand marginal taxation you're not entitled to opinions about it, still less to scaremonger people over it'.
I don't disagree you. I'm not aware of a production-grade blockchain voting protocol that yet exists that is resilient against one or more of the currently known de-anonymization attacks.

I'm not even sure it's possible to build one, given that humans are a portion of the workflow. On the other hand, I'd love to be proven wrong.
Thank you for pointing! I fixed it.
Apple sets iPhone 7 launch date
This article frames it in part as due to the Alphabet reshuffle, but hasn't it always been this way? Has X been decreasing in effectiveness recently, or were they just always there to be Sergey's batcave?
Don't Repeat Facebook's Free Basics Mistake
There is no "free market here"--CO2 production is an externalized cost and not taxing it enables some companies (that use energy) to pass off part of the costs of their profit-making activities on everyone else.
Absolutely. If you don't like it, sell them weed and then
you have their $500.

Except now, you've used your time and resources to produce weed instead of other goods and services. The people who would have used that $500 to buy those other goods and services will subsequently have a lower standard of living.

If someone steals $5k from me and uses that $5k to buy my car, am I just as well off as I was before because I still have my $5k?
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"it precludes any positive action"

Not really. On a nation scale its more or less a justification of imperialism or at the very best unequal alliances. That is going thru a bit of a popularity lull at every scale from large imperialism 19th century style down to recent brexit. Its smaller scale equivalent in the welfare state has been under intense turmoil for decades... was the CCC a great idea or a horrible unconstitutional experiment? Was closing all the mental hospitals some of which were abusive and tossing the crazy people into homeless shelters a wise idea? A large fraction of economically non-viable young black men are very expensively warehoused in prisons, that's not going to scale much larger either financially or ethically although it's worked very well up to this point (for everyone but then incarcerated economically non-viable young black men, anyway).

The general zeitgeist at the nation level seems to be to let them fail in place and kind of ignore the problems, while patting ourselves on our backs for our wise non-interference. Look at the path from Somalia to Zimbabwe to South Africa and the inevitable outcome of western civilization doing nothing. Or the future of a country like Nigeria where they're gonna give birth to a billion people, but they'll never produce food for more than 50 million long term sustainably or maybe 100 mill temporarily western industrial ag style, but we're hands off in the west, so unless China saves them ... (and Chinese gotta eat too, so what are the odds of that...).

I figure based on the above national level analysis, the individual welfare level analysis should anticipate the checks getting cut off in the coming decades then its sink or swim time. That'll be an interesting time to live in Detroit.
You aren't disagreeing with me at all.
I think this is actually highly feasible... I mean who better to talk to machines and write code at a deeper machine-level than the machine itself? They have bots now that can write whole news stories, coding wouldn't be that difficult for a sophisticated AI to do in 10-20 years from now. Medical doctors, and even lawyers may be displaced by AI at least in part. It's not just service jobs that will be going away, just wait till the high earning jobs start being automated away.
To wit: the 12V battery in a prius (the one that fills much the same role as the battery in a gas-only car) "repaired" at the dealer, using OEM parts, in 2016, is pushing $300

this post is from 2012, OEM battery was $235 at the time:

http://www.priusonline.com/242-prius-battery-charging/20810-...
Reads like a big PR release for a budding industry....but since I am a huge fan of space exploration... I'm totally cool with it.
That provides redundancy. Redundancy is an insurance. Insurance is inefficient in term of resources but very useful in unforeseen situations.
Minute Physics [1] did a video on the puzzle [2] and the solution [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics/videos

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eivGlBKlK6M

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5-I0bAuEUE
I see nothing about her researching these founders prior to agreeing to work for them, nothing about a signed contract, something like this would never happen to me, sounds like this girl needs a good lesson in street smarts. Way too gullible.
The insurance is likely owned by "us" anyways through our mutual funds, retirement plans, etc. And high insurance fees come out of our pocket directly as well by making such policies more expensive in the next city.

The issue though is that it's not the pockets of the guilty. Officers are almost entirely shielded from the legal and financial costs of the damage they do.

When we ask "Why do they behave like that?" the answer is because they can, and there's literally no reason for them not to. They're literally consequence free.
The fact there's a section of the population who believes that poor people won't turn to crime before starving to death simply amazes me.

You actually have 4 options: do nothing and then put people in jail. Which will cost you WAYYYYYY more per person, per year, than just giving them money directly to "freeload".

Do nothing and wait for the mass revolt when half the population is starving to death when you've got someone like Martin Shkreli buying his fourth Ferrari "just because". If you think the masses will just roll over and die if they're starving to death, you're delusional (whether intentionally or not).
The rigorous version would be:

0 < (Vol(Bε) - Vol(Aε))/ε² = ((a+b+c) - (a'+b'+c'))π + 2((ab + ac + bc) - (a'b' + a'c' + b'c'))/ε + (abc - a'b'c')/ε²

The limit for ε to infinity must be >= 0 and is ((a+b+c) - (a'+b'+c'))π, therefore a+b+c >= a'+b'+c'.

"large epsilon" is a standard way to express "consider the asymptotic behavior for epsilon to infinity and you will see what I mean".
Even the structures built from stone were dismantled for the materials over the years. It's why Machu Picchu is such an amazing find--the locals didn't know about it and thus didn't tear it apart over the centuries. Compare this to grand sites like Saksaywaman that were picked apart down to the foundation by people looking for building material.
Long term continuity of the human race, by backing up to another physical medium, I.e. planet
I'd take a couple days off to play videogames until the system was restored.
Other utility companies just always offer off-peak rates to everyone, e.g. depending on time of day or season.
"Autonomous" in the sense that it does not requires external power supply, rather than intelligent.

I agree that the title is a bit missleading, but the rest of the article is clear about this:
(e.g. when they say: “Fuel sources for soft robots have always relied on some type of rigid components,” )

Edit: clarity
Very probably. It's much easier to deal with an audit if you have a button to print exactly the report the IRS is asking for.
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He was involved in Sintel? If I had any money to give, they'd have it.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
After she gets the package. If the post staff just break into your house to take your stuff based on internet communication, they'd find out about your ring the next time one of you mentioned it, among other problems.
Yeah, I applied for Employment Insurance (EI) one time when I got laid off and, though approved, no cheque ever arrived so I still had to make do without it. The second time I found myself in a tight spot I didn't qualify for Employment Insurance - so even though I have paid into it, when I needed it it wasn't there for me.
Straight Crushing it
Gawker, the open web, Thiel and Zuck
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Except everyone living in poverty also has degraded brain functions - which also keeps them in poverty. There's a real physical correlation to mental health and poverty. Removing poverty from the equation will mean less single moms, because less dads committing crimes to get money. It'll mean more advanced brain function because they don't experience the stress growing up in poverty brings....

Here's a good article on this: http://europe.newsweek.com/how-poverty-affects-brains-493239...
Beyond what's been pointed out, entrepreneurs have an additional safety net: limited liability.

You can be sure that by creating a legal veneer, your home and other property will be safe, while the rest of society pays for the losses accrued by your experiment. That's potentially a much larger welfare transfer than any BI.
Err. I wouldn't learn python to make yourself more attractive in the embedded software engineering field. I do embedded software in mostly Python and C these days and when I get messages on Linked in from recruiters they're normally looking for C++ experience which I've become weak on.
As well as a massive motivating research goal with incredibly hard problems that tend to have practical applications on Earth. And a means of inspiring billions.
How so? It's meant to be used by researchers distributing the datasets for their own papers. (Notwithstanding the fact that people seem to already be uploading textbooks/lectures, which seems against the stated intent).
In my experience, there is a middle path. Hard-code the sampling period, but put it in a constant `SAMPLING_PERIOD`. Then when the hardware changes and things break, refactor the I/O code into a DataReader object. If and only if you need to support several formats, either implement your DataReaderFactory, or write a class for each filetype.
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Health care doesn't pay the electric bills. Health care doesn't buy groceries.

I am glad if I went to the doctor I could have been seen without a cost to me. I didn't NEED a doctor, I needed food to eat, and money to pay bills to keep collections off my back.
Oh thanks, also a good read. The author in this post however states:

"That I use Big O to analyze time and not operations is important."

This strikes me as an odd statement though as Big O is generally meant to describe a run time or space not operations. What am I missing?
Space-based mining may solve dwindling availability of rare elements useful in industrial processes made profitable by realized cost reductions in space travel.
We could establish a temporary database on 8.8.8.8 until a more permanant solution came into being. There's not much I could do personally.
The real problem with the space economy is that there are really very few business plans:

- Space Tourism

- Imagery Acquisition

- Communications

- Science

- Astroid Mining (pending)

... And it turns out that none so far have been good businesses, and the small sat form factor is really limited. I really really love space stuff, but I don't see any of these creating explosive growth in the short term. Eventually the costs will come down, but it will probably take a long time.

*EDIT (as pointed out by pjungwir):

- Zero G manufacturing