skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a tricky question, and an important one.

What I meant with projects is something tangible. What you are talking about is education? should that count? if those people are being educated or want to learn something, shouldn't they be able to still have an UBI while doing it?

My answer to that is:

20hours/week of communal work - they would do that work 20 hours/week and still have time to learn whatever they want..

Also, a centralized system could give more rewards to scientific advancements.

The system that we have now seems to be:

If other people want what you are creating, they'll pay for it, so that's how you define what it's worth to have.

However, the system that we have is flawed in many ways, because the closer to the selling point and to the money that you are, the more reward you make. Which makes sense, but undermines by underpaying some very important jobs/tasks that are the backbone of a lot of things, to name a few:

Scientific research
Investigative journalism
Businesses are free to dissociate from organizations that they feel will hurt their brand. They're also free to not do business with organizations purely for philosophical reasons.

Does it surprise you that most companies won't advertise on Stormfront or 4chan /pol/?
Think of it as advertising, most of them have a domain name in there.
Java Task Parallel project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tymeacse
Android Task Parallel project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tymeacand
Java Data Parallel project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tymeacdse
Java Reactive Stream Builder project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tymeacrse/
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Yes, in addition to JavaScript. The filter is first run through a JavaScript VM, then jq, allowing you to manipulate the object with either.
I read that as "Schengen IO" and expected one programmers (because IO) analysis on some european citizens migration data from country to country. :)
"Besides, liberated from corporate taxes, they'd have more freedom to increase wages"

yeah right .. we all know thats exactly what's going to happen!
Previous discussion (two days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13023954
Thank you for this! Accepted & merged!
It is sad so many people cry First Amendment right free speech but have zero idea what it is.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html -

"Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
From the linked transcript:

BLUMBERG: But fortunately, as you know, plank three I think is something that people can get around - a massive tax cut.

SMITH: OK.

BLUMBERG: Are you ready?

SMITH: Yeah.

BLUMBERG: A tax cut that's an insidious tax. It's felt everywhere in the American economy. It destroys jobs, stops innovation.

SMITH: I am all for it. OK. Who gets this tax cut?

BLUMBERG: Not who - what.

BAKER: If I'm being blue sky here, I would say the corporate tax is totally a waste.

FRANK: The corporate income tax makes no sense whatsoever.

SMITH: You are killing the voters here. So far we've got raised taxes on the middle class and eliminate taxes on corporations?

BLUMBERG: Yeah. And those were the two most liberal members of our panel, Dean Baker and Robert Frank. And here's the reason that they and pretty much all our panelists hate the corporate income tax, which by the way is one of the highest in the world here in the United States at 35 percent.

BAKER: It doesn't make sense really to tax the corporation as such. What we want to do is - I'm going to sound like a Mitt Romney here. What we care about is if the corporation is reinvesting the money. What's wrong with that? Why do we want them to prevent - why do we want to prevent the corporation from reinvesting the money?

What we might want to prevent is giving the money to wealthy shareholders or them buying a second, a third, fourth home, getting a new Mercedes every six months, whatever it might be. That's where we want to have the taxes. We don't want to prevent Microsoft or General Motors or whoever it might be from investing more in improving their product line. That's a good thing in my view.

BLUMBERG: So a lot of people, you know, when they think the corporate tax, they want to keep the corporate tax in place because they want rich people to pay more taxes.

SMITH: And rich people own corporations.

BLUMBERG: Right. But our panel agreed. If you want to tax rich people - and not all of our panelists agreed, by the way, that you should tax rich people more than others - but if you did, if that's what you wanted to do, just tax rich people - do that. Don't tax the corporation.

tldr: Taxing corporations prevents them from reinvesting the money and doing such things as advancing technology and hiring workers. It is a terribly destructive tax, discouraging exactly the sort of activity that drives the economy. It's the people who own the corporation that you're trying to tax, so tax them when they get the money.
I keep waiting for the day cynical businesses will cut out the middlemen and make a point using only their own resources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qu...
So now you want to force businesses to associate with businesses they don't want to associate with and you're calling them totalitarian?
Any feedback is greatly appreciated :)
What depresses me is the fact that $77k can easily run a startup for over a year in my country.
Unfortunately reality has a well-known liberal bias. Let's not mistake disinterest and impartiality for unquestioning support of "all sides".
A low rate on capital gains is justified because we want people to inject capital. Absent an extreme situation, your regular wage check isn't subject to being completely wiped out. Yet if I invest in a company that sells ice over the internet, my entire investment could vanish. So collectively we put our thumb on the scale that more investment is better than less investment. That's also why we have the (imperfect) short-term/long-term capital gains setup.
This is worse than click bait; the headline is a falsehood designed to provoke outrage. WF is NOT arguing that customers are bound by forged signatures, despite what this headline implies. This is Fake News making the rounds. Good job HN.
I guess saving the Internet isn't supposed to be easy. Or did you think you could do something good AND have an easier life?

There are no examples of that in history.
If you're into retro-computing and unix, there's also
http://www.sdf.org and
http://tilde.club (but, as I understand, their membeship waiting list is endless at this point).
The UK got rid of mortgage interest tax deduction in 2000 without any problem.
I use a Samson C01U condenser mic for calls. Not cheap but it also gets used for professional voice recording, and it's also not that expensive.

I tend to use speakers and rely on echo cancellation. It appears to work pretty well as I rarely get complaints. My current speakers are Harmon/Kardon ones, but I got them as a gift.
I down-voted and I'm not a bot (at least I don't think I'm a bot...). First off, there's a reference in that article to a "renegade Jew" comment, as well as calling muslims "ticking timebombs". In my neck of the woods that's pretty beyond the pale. Beyond that, I obviously don't agree with the sentiments, but hauling off and labeling this as totalitarian didn't seem to add a lot to the discussion.

Or, read another way: I'm off to squeltch your speech, ABUGABOOGABOOGABOOG IM THE TOTALITARIAN MONSTER
Killing terrorists does not put you on the same level as Castro.
There is plenty of evidence.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/04/28/breitbartcom-...

And they are not muzzling, they are ceasing to support. Since money is speech in the US, why would you infringe on their free speech rights?
> I do not see why rich people gaining disproportionately is a problem.

You are free to have that opinion, but I think that the majority of the people affected by these economic policies (who by definition cannot be rich) will disagree with you.

I think that the debate of policy would be greatly improved if proposals started with a statement of fundamental axioms like these, from which the supposed merits of policies are derived.
Will someone please think of the grass!
Black guy. Different thing. I've noticed that many of the scapegoats for the flash crash, and other similar things are not white.
> what's wrong with my solution? It would be fair, and visibly fair, without the whiff of "Oh, you're just ignorant" to the naysayers.

Absolutely nothing is wrong with your solution, it's fair and probably increases tax income for the country. It would only work if corporate taxes were abolished, though.
The questioning of my support of sovereignty came in reply to my post saying the question is what the laws/rules should be. If the sovereignty worry is about illegal immigration, then the reply makes no sense in the context of my post.
Their FAQ is also pretty good.

Q: Why aren’t you giving all this money to charity?
A: Why aren’t YOU giving all this money to charity? It’s your money.
It's for advertising. Like meh.com (known for weird humor, like reverse psychological sales pitch).
Not sure if that was a pun or Freudian slip, but the expression is, "dissenting opinion".
Strongly reminds me of this classic Onion video: http://www.theonion.com/video/in-the-know-should-the-governm...
> The USA has some of the highest corporate taxes in the developed world

The US has low (substantially below average within the OECD) actual corporate taxes, though it has a high nominal rate of corporate taxation. (Various tax deductions, credits, etc. make the actual ultimate tax rate low.)
Corporations are not people.
I'm not arguing with you, just clarifying: my example was marrying an equal partner, without marked difference in richness and probably with some property on either side already -- surely you don't agree that even when parties are very amicable they cannot follow a simple plain-word prenup, or that nobody has used arbitration or mediation successfully to resolve minor disputes when they're otherwise trying to cooperate?

I'd be shocked at the latter but, if that is your knowledge then I'll take it. Are you basically saying that nobody has ever used arbitration the way it's written on the tin? (a low-cost way to have a third party mediate in case of minor disagreement?)

why does arbitration even exist in your opinion? (both in theory and practice).

someone's been downvoting me, but I'm just asking open-ended questions. I don't have a strong preconception myself. it's clear that in the rest of this article discussion thread, people are taking "arbitration" to mean "whatever the company wants." is this your experience too? (in such strong terms?)
His rate was so low because, IIRC, he had a boatload of equities that he knew were going to be worth a lot more in the future and he parked them in a Roth IRA. Not exactly a strategy open to your everyman even if we can all open our own Roth IRAs.
In Georgia, we implemented immigration laws and neither the juveniles or prisoners would pick crops for both minimum wage and reduced sentences.
They will fill it in after the stream is finished this year.

https://twitter.com/c_frieds/status/802217118964023296
You seem like you might have this backwards. This isn't a clause creating the option of arbitration in the face of an otherwise guaranteed trip to court - you already have that option. This is a clause removing the option of going to court.

Yes, costs can be kept down by requiring things stay out of court. This is at the expense of some of the normal guarantees you can expect from our court system.

If that's okay for you, and you're in an equal bargaining position with the other party, go wild. You're not in an equal bargaining position with the banking industry when a majority of banks start adding the clause to their T&C.
صور+بنات+ترامب
That does not follow from what I said, you can also just declare them legal and enforce paying them minimum wages. Heck, you can even try to keep them illegal and enforce minimum wages, if you discover an illegal immigrant working below minimum wage just go after the employer and leave the worker alone.

And I am not a US citizen or living in the USA, so I have no stakes in what happens to illegal immigrants in the USA and in turn also no well-founded opinion. On the one hand there is the law and if you violate it, you have to deal with the consequences, so there is certainly a point for expelling illegal immigrants.

On the other hand you probably should also take the lives of the immigrants into account. Can you justify the consequences? Ripping families apart, sending people back into unsafe futures or countries? And what about the economic consequences?

Maybe the USA could pardon all current illegal immigrants while then being more aggressive towards new ones? I really don't know what I would suggest, that is not a topic I ever really thought about.
Ah, but we will have a surplus of whatever was dug out to make that hole
And we're not going to buy anything from them, since their products price includes this kind of "cost".
A significant number of the comments here could apply to alcoholics contemplating sobriety if we just ran:

s/Facebook Events/beer/g

I'm actually disappointed and I thought I'd stopped falling into that trap.

What the actual f*ck
This is crazy awesome! I just wanted to do a cost breakdown:

0.6s/$ is $6,000/hour (thanks @danielvf).

The excavator is around $2000/day[1].

The truck is around $2200/day[2].

Plus at least two operators with $200/day each[3].

And then the cost of Stripe's fees, buying the land, getting a permit (?), etc.

[1]: http://www.rentalyard.com/listings/construction-equipment/fo...

[2]: http://www.rentalyard.com/listings/construction-equipment/fo...

[3]: http://gcsenergy.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016-Hourly-R...
Evil people .. They must have an hidden plan .. Like burying a big time capsule with the worst items of our era... Not nice !
I think all colos say crap like that. During a tour at switch, they pointed to a large cage and said, "It's a search engine that you all have heard about but I cannot name."

A week later, in Atlanta at QTS metro, they said almost the exact same words.
Of course not. But cutting ties and making baseless accusations?

This is false shaming and participating in a false narrative.

This is exactly how totalitarianism takes hold.
I cannot find the information which charities will receive the money. Should this not be mentioned?

EDIT: It's OK. I was naive. I had thought it was a joke AND had a good cause.
I was talking about self-improvement, which is similar.

OK, further question - what if they want to watch The Wire and write a series critique for public consumption as their communal work? That's definitely something tangible.

Does that answer change if they're:

1) A complete unknown with a blog
2) Have published work but aren't very well known
3) Are a famous media writer with thousands of fans asking for this critique?
4) A well-known academic in the field?

If the answer to all of the above is "no", is that also true of other academic work? What about journalism? What about artistic work?

Having worked in the arts for years, the issue with any sort of "we want to pay people to do Good Works" plan is that eventually you have to have someone define what Good Works are, and more importantly, aren't.

I do not envy the many people on grants councils around the world trying to say "well, this thing is Art, but this other very similar thing is not."
The type of people reading fake news are the kind of people who click random banner ads, who install toolbars, etc. I imagine fake news is a lot more lucrative than real news because you're market is generally a less sophisticated internet user.
So, now we are helping destroy the environment for sarcasm? Seriously, what's wrong with these people?
Better yet, abolish for-profit corporations. Cap individual salaries at 1.5x median or something. Create a global or national direct crowdfunding platform. Have the population propose, vote on and fund causes with the excess money.
Farnell seems like a weird vendor to pick out as being slow or unreliable. I've always been amazed by the delivery of stuff I've ordered from Farnell - often you can order it at 7.50pm and it'll be there the next morning. In fact in probably 50+ orders I've never had one go missing or arrive more than a day late.
Ask Wesley Snipes how well this works out. He only spent 3 years in federal prison, a crap load of attorney's fees, and had to pay fines and back taxes.
I've discussed this with a lot of people. Why do you feel the "shortage" isn't a rational response to wages and working conditions?

Do you think none of the US citizens who became nurse anesthetists, physicians, or lawyers were capable of becoming programmers? I suspect many of them could have, but realized that better working conditions and wages were available in other fields.

This doesn't really many much to do with immigration - the 1.2 million immigrants the US takes in every year are, like people born here, generally free to pursue their profession or trade in response to their own personal interests and market signals. Interestingly, among 300 million US citizens and 1.2 million new arrivals every year, software employers continue to experience a shortage.

I'm glad you feel well compensated, but the real test is whether someone who is free to pursue other fields chooses to pursue this one.

I see the restrictions of these visas as inherently anti-market. I actually see them as anti-freedom. If you can't compete for the labor of free people, people who are free to choose their field, then you don't deserve workers. Setting up a coercive visa program that allows immigrants into the country only if they agree to work as software developers seems like a magnificently bad way to solve this problem.

I'm also very confident that in the absence of this crutch, employers would absolutely find a way to improve wages and working conditions, to the point where people with choice (a group that includes all immigrants who came here freely) might be more interested in it again.

If you create a large scale program that staffs this field with people who have no choice in the job they work, I assure you, eventually the only people who work it will be the ones who have no other choice.
Re: battery life. VSCode (and the underlying Electron shell) is likely to blame. I can get 10 hours on my 2015 MBP if I'm just tooling around in Safari and Emacs. Having anything Electron based (or Chrome) drops that to about 6. It's somehow more power hungry than MS Office, which is saying a lot.
From their FAQ

>Why aren’t you giving all this money to charity?

>Why aren’t YOU giving all this money to charity? It’s your money.
you use really strong language (even in your username) and since it's just 27 days old, perhaps could make another one.

with that said, I think if you suggested an alternative title (under your handle or a different one) that better reflects the contents of the article, the mods would be inclined to change it. They often do - and clickbait titles are explicitly against HN policy :)

so go ahead and make a suggested title change, under your current or a different HN name. thanks.
I'd be shocked if it wasn't a video of a hole already being dug for some other purpose.
That hole ain't gonna stay empty for long. It will probably fill with water and provide a habitat for a fairly large variety of plants and animals. Which might or might not be a net gain for the environment as well, depending on what species it attracts.

Middle-class Americans spend more money landscaping their backyard than the cost of this entire project.
So basically if I want Skylake Xeons I need to move from AWS to Google Cloud? Interesting that Intel did this. I guess throwing AWS under the bus is worth it?
If you're waiting for people to stop breaking the law altogether to make reforms, you'll never reform a law in your life. Sounds like an excuse to do nothing.
> Either way, it's a nice project with a good execution!

I agree. Very quick too. I tried it with some ascii art and it makes the overall image a bit thinner, though:(

(not handling spaces correctly)

Image: https://sli.mg/ZSLtf6

Ascii Source: http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/ghi/gary_larson.txt
It's not for charity.
AWS is bigger in general access Cloud, but could Google be bigger in terms of raw CPU numbers to power all of its internal services?
aren't there limits on the enforceability of arbitration? meaning if people are REALLY unhappy with the arbitrated decision, can't they sue anyway?

what I mean is, isn't arbitration in a sense always "voluntary", because you can always sue after, if you really don't like it? Thanks.
I listened to that episode and if I recall correctly, economists agreed that corporation taxes should be abolished because they want corporations to reinvest profits and prefer to shift the taxes to shareholders/income.

Also mentioned on the podcast is abolishing all deductibles, including mortgage interest.
I am confused. So when you donate you choose the charity yourself and transfer it directly? Is that what it means?
The ventilation system also seems buggy at this point.

http://apple.stackexchange.com/q/261604/45492
The money isn't going to charity. Check out the FAQ.

>Q: Why aren’t you giving all this money to charity? A: Why aren’t YOU giving all this money to charity? It’s your money.
> I assume, he's just abusing "editorial" powers in pretty much the worst way possible

The platform shouldn't provide editorial powers that allow you to edit others comments. Removal of comments and banning of users is sufficient. There's no legitimate need to have that functionality built it.
It's not a donation. You are literally giving them money to dig a hole.
A party card game about combining cards with tasteless jokes on them to make larger tasteless jokes.

The company is also known for viral marketing campaigns, like mail-order poo.

They also have a more elaborate social deduction game called Secret Hitler about politics in Weimar Germany. With cartoon lizards.
Drones verify the leaves were raked etc..
Spreadsheet Programming with User Defined Types and Functions (2013) [pdf]
And only pre-tained.
Yes, in the United States, even if you don't come back, you have to file income taxes on that foreign income. There is no differentiation between foreign and domestic income (although you can get tax credits for foreign taxes paid).
I prefer a beowulf cluster to a hole.
a) Is it really a net gain for the economy? Not really, unless this hole has some other future productive use, because you're ignoring what this money would have otherwise gone to pay for in lieu of this hole.

b) Funnily enough, the example of paying people to dig random holes is frequently given in economics arguments to illustrate why the Subjective theory of value makes more sense than the Labor theory of value.

C) Holes are made to be filled. Next year's gag is probably filling the hole back up with something.
> if you're willing to make arguments that sending troops 4000km to protect your own citizens

You mean, the colonialists sent by the UK government?

They shouldn't have been there in the first place.
$20/hour? According to the article, the average is $17.95.
Seems weird to downvote. Python is a trademark of the Python foundation and if you de-eol something they want to eol I don't think they'd let you use the name.
Roofing is difficult and dangerous work. It makes sense that pay would be high.