skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a few examples:

- High implicit labour prices. When you add up all the required costs to hire somebody (minimum wage, healthcare costs, payroll taxes, etc.) it's no surprise that there's going to be some portion of the population which can find no work at that price.

- Unnaturally high costs in the most productive areas. Cities with lots of jobs will naturally have high costs, but a lot of regulations, like zoning law and building codes essentially put a high minimum price on living in particular places. This makes it very hard for people to move to the work.

- Licensing and accreditation. There's tons of jobs (many of them service-sector jobs) that require a license, lots of permits, and often particular kinds of schooling to be able to legally do them.
"Everyone gets it, the poor, the rich, the middle class, the deserving and the undeserving alike. You, me, Rupert Murdoch, Beyonce, and the homeless man sleeping in the gutter get exactly the same cash payment. It is nothing if not equitable and fair."

The fairness isn't about who gets it...it's about who pays for it. If Beyonce gets $100 in UBI, but then has to pay out $10,000, it's not really that 'fair'.

The whole problem with UBI is the long-term, not the short-term. We will probably see a slight increase in prosperity in the short-term.

However, as more and more people start to rely on it, there will be less people to tax. Not to mention the inflation this will cause. It's actually a decrease in pay for the rest of us because our money won't go as far.

I would rather see our money go toward educating people to be more self-sufficient.
The idea is: Compute where your data is and yes data do have a location when computing has to be done with physics(computer).
Building a Website Performance Monitor
>... "alleged" ... "terrifying" ... "unnerving" ... "supposed" ... "should" ... "unable to reproduce" ... "maybe" ... "unsettled" ...

Some people are saying:
https://webkit.org/blog/6784/new-video-policies-for-ios/

"Speaking of audio, there's some alleged iOS behavior where audio won't play in a webview until the user interacts with it by tapping something. Sounds bad, right? There are ways to work around it but the terrifying part is: I couldn't trigger this limitation at all. Everything just worked like you would expect it to, contrary to what the Apple docs or anyone on StackOverflow said. So, I just kind of rolled with it, but this was very unnerving."

RTFM:
https://developer.apple.com/reference/webkit/wkwebviewconfig...

mediaTypesRequiringUserActionForPlayback
Determines which media types require a user gesture to begin playing.

Use WKAudiovisualMediaTypeNone to indicate that no user gestures are required to begin playing media.

"Case in point: the iOS 10 beta introduced some new behavior where WebKit ignores the user-scalable viewport meta property. This "feature" is supposed to be for accessibility reasons; anyone should be able to pinch to zoom any web page. That's fine and all, but this would completely and totally break most webview-based apps. However, I again was unable to reproduce this behavior at all in Super Flipside. Maybe it's the way I'm handling touch events or something, but I just couldn't get it to break in the way it was supposed to. And again, I rolled with it, but felt very unsettled."

RTFM:
https://developer.apple.com/reference/webkit/wkwebview/14149...

allowsMagnification
A Boolean value indicating whether magnify gestures will change the web view’s magnification.

Discussion
The default value is false. You can set the magnification property even if allowsMagnification is set to false.
It's so Microsoft. Microsoft has a long history of executing anything that looks executable, going back to "autorun" on CD-ROMs. This continued through a long history of Excel and Word executable behaviors, most of which led to exploits. For a few years, Microsoft cleaned up their act. But in the new cloud-centric world of Windows 10 and the Edge browser, it seems that Microsoft has returned to their old strategy of invoking Microsoft products on external data whenever possible.

The "ms-windows-store:" protocol is documented.[1] Some other fun things you can launch:

- ms-people: - Opens the contacts list program.

- ms-settings: - Opens the settings program. Microsoft encourages using this so that if your app wants, say, to access the microphone, and privacy settings won't permit it, it can force the privacy settings app open to apply pressure to the user to let the app use the microphone.

- ms-windows-store: - aim user at the Windows store for a specific item

- bingmaps:, ms-drive-to:, and ms-walk-to: - bring up the native map application

- ms-tonepicker: - mess with ringtone settings

There's no mention of "read:", though.

However, any installed app can install new protocol IDs, and web pages can then trigger that app. What could possibly go wrong?

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/launch-resume/l...
There are incentive for some scientific knowledge; that's why companies have R&D labs. One way to increase this incentive would be increase the scope of patents.

Also you can pay for investigative journalism and scientific research.

> tax wise, which could be a way to subsidize scientific grants from the government, we both know that they dodge those and lobby with success for them to not pay them.

The case with EU and Apple hasn't been settled yet.
Sure but notice how Samsung and BMW get to use the same roads and police departments as Apple and GM, while their headquarters (with respective taxable wallet) resides some place else.

Only domestic companies' corporate earnings get hit to pay for this.
Actually all he is saying is that the post-power tail-off matches what one would expect from thermal contraction. He does not address whether the onset of force matches what one would see from thermal expansion (because it does not--note how it is not a smooth curve like the tail-off).
Paywall... Booo! Come on WSJ, you need to understand your customers better. I don't mind paying for content if it's reasonably priced. But, paying 18$ per month isn't reasonable, especially considering that I might not use it that frequently. I'd much prefer a pay per use type of deal. Perhaps, you could charge like 5 cents per article. I'd sign up for that.
What Happens When Cars from Mexico and the US Collide Head-On
No sarcasm; I gave an explanation how that occurs indirectly in some sense. Essentially, with better investment earnings, you need to save less for retirement; which allows better current lifestyle.

What would you do if investments doubled your money in a year?
> I don't even care what Fidel's dream was for Cuba because the end never justifies the means IMO.

Well, history is effectively written by the victors, so it will be written so that the ends will retroactively justify the means, or at the very least will be scrutinized far enough into the future that we can disengage emotionally.

If Castro's dream was to avoid Cuba from turning into a Haiti or a Honduras, it was a resounding success. If it was about turning it into a socialist utopia where people lived as if was the first world, it would probably be unrealistic in the first place but things remain to be seen.

The point is that, in fact, we do justify evil when it aligns with our policies and goals, because a lot of our well-being depends on it. The American quality of life depends a great deal on the intervention and installment of puppet regimes in countries that provide natural resources to guarantee a steady stream of supplies for manufacture; that was the basis of the Monroe Doctrine and it justifies atrocities to a level where Castro's worst was just baby play.

I actually do agree that there is evil in the repression of the country, but at the same time good is not the absence of evil either, and you can't talk about the evil without recognizing the successes of the Cuban regime. Otherwise you cannot even begin to make a single claim on the good things of the US because it has been based, to a great degree, on the control and oppression if millions of innocent people through projected global power.
I'll be a little more detailed. What I tried to do was make a game using Phaser. I didn't get past creating the loading and menu scenes before I starting noticing really bad sluggishness when first loading, etc. If you let it sit for 10 seconds then things mostly smooth out, but you still have the frame rate randomly drop, etc. I had done so little there was nothing to optimize, it was just the barebones to get something on the screen. And I didn't even try it on mobile, this was using my desktop/laptop.

I see the same thing with CSS3 animations. There's this weird jerking, even on something simple like this: http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss3_anim... . When I enable the FPS meter I see drops to 30FPS.

Also, I hadn't heard of Framework7 mentioned in another comment, so I checked it out. The demo apps I tried (http://framework7.io/apps/) have issues on mobile. I just feel like it's unfair to new developers who are going to invest a lot of time before they figure out hybrid apps have issues. I know people want to market/highlight how great their framework is, but it causes us all grief. We should be more upfront about what works well (CRUD apps), and what doesn't (games, animations, custom UI).

I don't know enough about React Native to comment.
NIMBYism is largely targeted at preventing construction in the traditional residential areas. Most of the new development is large buildings in areas that aren't traditionally residential. In particular, the areas around where the Giants stadium (SOMA) is and where the Warrior's arena (Mission Bay) is planned have seen many new high-occupancy construction projects because there aren't neighborhood groups being obstructionist.
1. My beliefs are considered very heterodox here on HN. That's ok.

2. Likewise, I disagree, even vehemently with a lot of more mainstream opinions here.

3. Neither me nor those I disagree with in good faith are idiots.

4. If one hangs out with white supremacists and spouts their ideology """ironically""" or whatever, I think one is an idiot. Yea, that's true.
To me it seems that traditional media is taking this opportunity to make their case with Google/Facebook that they are the sole/main providers of "real" news and that others are less reputable. And this is just a way to re-establish their pedigree as canonical sources for news to the detriment of alternative news sources --including of course the inflated purveyors of "fake news" who are not the real targets. The actual targets being anyone not associated with an institutional news organization [your local news, independent news, bloggers, etc].

Imagine the glee in mainstream news if FB GOOG would mainly surface the news of the NYT, WaPo, FoxNews, etc.
As mentioned in one of the other two comments on this submission, the "web" link should work to get around the paywall. Have you tried that?
Well, ask people in Honduras or Nicaragua, which are "free" countries, effectively how much better they have it than Cubans. Hint: they don't, because their countries are "democratic" in theory yet they're overrun by gang violence, misery to a level that makes the worst of Cuba a paradise, and have state actors that claim democracy in theory yet will do what they need to keep their power.

If anything, the history of Cuba's attempted overruns by the US only serve to justify the regime's paranoia.
What is TOD btw? I think I agree with you but I'm curious about the term.
Can you be more specific about the benefits? Every potentially benificial outflow of cash from a corporation to a person (dividend, distribution, RSUs, options, company car, corporate housing, phone bill paid by the company) is taxed as personal income to the recipient.

Two exemptions I can think of are health/dental insurance (exempted by law) and free food at Silicon Valley campuses (highly contestable benefit as far as IRS is concerned, the jury is still out on treatment of that).

How can one hide virtually their entire income while still being able to enjoy most of the benefits?

A large group of people (plumbers, electricians, landscapers, solo real estate agents) are actually incorporated and self-employed under this model, and yet are not massively wealthier in comparison to the rest of the population.
This functionality change affects web apps running within Safari. If you care about accessibility on the web, you're likely to view this as a feature rather than a bug.

If you're building a "native" app that happens to uses web views as an implementation detail, as in this article, Apple explicitly exposes a property in the WKWebView API to revert to the former behavior. See: https://developer.apple.com/reference/webkit/wkwebview/14149...
For what it's worth, SBCL (which essentially in all ways completely unrelated to chicken other than them both being native compiled dynamic languages) can startup a minimal runtime and exit in 3.8ms on my system. it goes up to about 5ms for a moderate sized application (which includes some dynamically linked libraries that must be loaded).

on the same system:

/bin/true starts up in 0.5ms

/usr/bin/env perl starts up in 2.4ms

/usr/bin/perl starts up in 1.8ms

If you want to run your own benchmarks, just use time and something like this small program (I ran with 1000 iterations):

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int i;
int iter=atoi(argv[1]);
for(i=0;i<iter;++i) {
pid_t pid=fork();
if(pid) {
waitpid(pid,NULL,0);
}
else {
execl(argv[2],argv[2],NULL);
}
}
return 0;
}
And I thought Jersey City and Hoboken were bad. I pay 1825 in rent for a 2 bedroom that's 30 min from my work. But thats because the landlord has not jacked up the rent since I moved in 2 years ago. A new place as big as mine today will probably rent at 2500, which is still not as bad as many other places like SF.
A spectacular self-beclowning.
Which part of "GPLv2 clause 3a" did you not read?
If North Korea were a wealthier country because of extensive natural resources, an established industrial base, and distributed the money more reasonably, then you're making an actual dilemma.

Why, instead of taking a comically bad example, you don't pick a more controverte place like Singapore, an organized state where drug consumption leads to the death penalty and you will be suppressed it dissent is attempted, yet has one of the highest standards of living in the world?
I would rather live in the woods and hunt for food...
The far-right conspiracist gold bug economics of Bitcoin
Plan Your Short Stays with Holiday Homes
Except that's not really saying much. If there was nothing more to owning a house than paying a mortgage instead of rent everyone would own a house and never rent.

The cost to live in the hostel when you include all factors is lower even if the daily rates were the same.
It's worth noting that diabetics often do this almost as a matter of course. If diet soda were spiking diabetic people's insulin, they would almost certainly know.

Some of the most avoid consumers of diet soda I've known are diabetics who checked their blood sugar multiple times a day at least.
I think that considering just how much "droning" is basically inneffective in its purpose and just ends up killing thousands, it's really not any worse morally.
Let's say I'm reporting on a study that sets out to see if there is wage discrimination against earthling immigrants in favor of native martians. The study shows that earthlings earn more than martians on average, but once you control for occupation and education and all that, earthlings actually make less for doing the same thing.

It's true to report that earthlings tend to earn more than martians. I could use that fact from the study to form the basis of a totally factual story that goes completely against the study itself. My readers will come away thinking discrimination happens in earthlings' favor instead of against them. Totally true facts can support a totally false conclusion, depending on presentation.
SF still has a loooonnng way to "plunge" before the rates resemble anything half way reasonable.
Probably too early to tell. Given that they've apparently changed the material, we can hope that one of the reasons is to toughen the sheath.
" among the groups that received a high-fat diet, the mice that drank the sweetener solution became considerably heavier than those who drank plain water. However, the blood sugar level was higher than normal in all of the mice that received sweetener solution. "

In mice, at least, it seems that the artificial sweetener helped them accumulate more fat than mice who were given water and the same diet. So, aspartame may act like an obesogen[1] in mice.

If you think this is hard to believe and that calories in are calories in, consider diabetics. If untreated, they excrete sugars to the point where they have difficulty maintaining weight on a diet that would make somebody else quite fat. The body's chemistry is complex and, as far as I can tell, not well understood at all, especially when it comes to diet. There seems to be a lot more funding available to develop drugs and procedures to treat illness than there is to optimize (relatively) healthy peoples' diets.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesogen
How would that differ from WebGL?
RIP America's Mom. I loved her performance in Shakes the Clown, the Citizen Kane of Alcoholic Clown movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rX5hindBRU
No it wouldn't. The Sun has many billions of years left to go before its red giant phase, and in its red giant phase the problem will be way too much heat, not too little. And anyway, heat is lost in timeframes much shorter than billions of years. The Earth is warm now because of radioactive decay on the interior and sunlight shining on the exterior.
There is another advantage to "real" reading that other replies haven't mentioned: a good book is well crafted language, and by absorbing the author's eloquence – by savouring his/her metaphors and lexicon and wit and style – you, over time, grow more articulate as well. It's soylent vs three-star fine dining; both have their rightful place, and neither can fully replace the other.
This applies to literally every head of state that every country's had. It's a tired line of reasoning. I hope you start demanding humility of your own leaders too.

But no, we hold Cuba to a standard that no country on Earth has achieved. Maybe except for the Germans, since Merkel is keen on doing her own groceries.
At micro-economic level this makes sense, at macro-economic level it reduces economic mobility. In countries with no artificial taxes on generational wealth the richest families of 2016 are likely to be largely the same as richest families of 1916 and richest families of 1816.

As their wealth is typically preserved via real estate and
land ownership, there's a politicial motive to decrease the cost of that, so economies also suffer from high barriers to entry and need to inflate taxes on something else to pay for the government services.

Repealing estate tax would work when combined with higher property tax rates or land value tax, but is rarely politically doable, as well-connected political families and large landowners tend to be the same families.
Good! I'll get a sex change ASAP!
My problem isn't that I choose diet coke for the 'health' benefits. I choose it because its delicious.
These examples don't actually disprove anything about microeconomics though.

Your example of the fish markets is just a good example of the fact that people have varying marginal utilities of money. Of course people try to get the highest price they can get - taking into account, of course, the time they'll be receiving the money. Obviously people will see if they can raise the price, but they're still in competition with other sellers; the price cannot be raised indefinitely. And it's not always clear whether other factors have changed - things like fish supply and catching are notoriously dependent on the weather, demand for fish varies seasonally and with changing fashions; it's a perishable good with not-super-fungible markets - maybe the prices know something about fish that you don't.

You give the example of super-high pricing for drugs such as the Daraprim case with Martin Shkreli. Note that this market is overseen and hugely, hugely regulated by the FDA, which imposes very lengthy and costly approval processes on drugs (even different manufacturers of off-patent "generics".) More generally, these drugs are on-patent - both of these situations are a de-facto monopoly that grants exactly the kind of economic rents that microeconomics predicts.

Ecommerce pricing also doesn't disprove anything. You could, for example, explain this by other factors, such as that ecommerce warehouses and logistics chains are capacity-limited, so "surge pricing" would make good sense to smooth demand peaks. But that's besides the point, really, because microeconomics would absolutely predict that if people, on average, have a preference for shopping at a particular time, then a seller may attempt to capture this preference in the price. This isn't done in brick-and-mortar retail, since changing the prices hourly would be a huge hassle. But in ecommerce, it's easy, so prices modulate with demand. And stores have always changed their prices over time, it's just that the internet makes it easy to go for a smaller granularity.
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But this is no different than what happens in capitalist nations, which show a constellation of different policies as well. Romania was different from Yugoslavia, which was different from Cuba or Hungary.
That, plus a complete refusal on the part of government and voters to build any more housing.

not to mention all the environmental impact fees, taxes, and endless regulation which increase housing costs way beyond where it would be without. It's not just LA and SF (gold rush cities that have housing problems). In CA, even the rural areas with miles of space in every direction, housing still costs a lot more than the national average.
The author contradicts himself on this at the end of the article:

> The next year or two will be a more compelling time to upgrade. I expect to see 32GB of RAM, more efficient modern processors, improved battery life, broad industry-wide USB-C support and docks, an OLED screen, and richer support for touch bar in MacOS apps. Until then, if you have a recent MBP, I’d hold on to it for another year.

> That said, I’m keeping my new 15". :)
Sounds like your friend is a fool. I had a nicely sized studio in West Hollywood about 2 years ago. It was right on La Brea and Santa Monica, and that cost me $1000. With laundry and parking. The idea of paying $600 to split a room 5 ways is crazy. That is more representative of your friend than it is of LA housing market. WeHo is probably among the more pricy areas in LA(save Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and a few others), and I found and signed for that room in about 6 days. There is a paid rental listing website. It seems like a scam, but it's not. It was called Westside Rental I think, you'll see the name on a lot of signs. It's work the ~$60 for a membership to see all the listings, maybe you can sell your membership to someone else after if there's a few weeks left.

I ended up leaving LA because that place is a hellish shit hole, but not because of the rent.
You'll need to use Chrome and disable flash @ chrome://plugins. Works great.
This is awesome :) You should keep writing it.
i thought it was common knowledge that real estate prices vary around the world. a lot. if Proud Aussie saying anything more than that? and that Proud Aussie has a mortgage?
Check out Framework7:

https://framework7.io
If they still own the building and don't let people live there, then that is scandalous. I'll stand by that.