skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the beginning what matters are the initial vision / intuition & the ability to deliver the MVP. MVP will be the tech cofounder role. Tech cofounders have numerous opportunities to work for. They have their own ideas and tens of non tech people who want to partner with them. They will join your project if they both think that the vision is interesting and that you as their cofounder have an unfair advantage to turn this project into success. It can be a strong market knowledge, a solid network in this area, a demonstrate ability to launch a project from zero, a strong competence in customer acquisition / marketing, a strong leadership or something else. The idea on its own worth very few to nothing. Your cofounder must be convinced that you will be the relevant person to team up and achieve the vision. Demonstrate that you are this person is I think the best way to convince a tech cofounder to join your startup.
The most vulnerable part of the existing infrastructure is "the little guy", gas stations that are franchises and can fold if demand falls below costs. But they are also the most visible part of it to consumers. Having to drive out of your way to get fuel would be an increasingly annoying chore.
> is there any USB device class that could be used to get the date and time?

Not that I know of. But it's a good idea if it turns out that such a class does exist. If you find one please let me know!
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Your response is kind of frustrating because I feel we're on the same side of this, but you're just not getting it. It's like you have a knee-jerk reaction about what a job is, and there's a blindspot where you don't envision what it could be.

When a plumber gets satisfaction from a good day's work of fixing piping in people's houses, do they get their purpose in life / sense of being needed and useful (note: not the same thing!) from an authority figure? Hell no, unless you think clients are authority figures.

But they are getting this sense from their work.

Heck, even in standard office jobs, I doubt that too many people get their sense of being needed and useful from their bosses or other authority figures (if they get it at all - you don't have to tell me about bullshit jobs). They get this sense from coworkers, clients, or other aspects of the work itself. That's certainly my personal experience. We're social beings, not obedient worker drones.

And I don't know how to put that in a way that gets the point across, but I think a lot of techy types are actually quite arrogant and selfish when they dismiss full employment and think that a UBI would solve all problems.

I get it, most of us would happily work on random open source projects or whatever if we had sufficient UBI, and a lot of that work would be useful to many people. But we should be aware of how rare that is and how lucky that makes us.

Most people don't have that drive or that opportunity, but would still benefit from a social framework in which they are nudged towards doing useful things that they can take pride in and get rewards for (both monetary and psychological). It's like going to the gym: most people don't have the drive, but would ultimately benefit from the offer and a bit of nudging.

Full employment can offer such a social framework (if done right, of course), while a UBI can't (no matter how it is implemented). Who are you to deny this to other people just because they're different from you?
So data structures shouldn't be viewed as static, but indexed by time. Fair enough. I still don't understand how this couldn't 100% be achieved via state monads, or at the very least purely functionally.

That said, I appreciate all of the answers here.
Well it is, in a sense that it's part of the cost of your lease. But if it's still affordable enough, then that alone would indicate that it's not really a costly problem in general.
Fair enough, I suppose history will look down on these acts even if they have high payout.
That was actually the answer Scalia gave me when I asked him a question – must have been about 7 years ago.

(he had given a talk mostly criticizing the idea of enshrining rights in the constitution as an attempt to remove certain ideas from democracy)
Light on Yoga is a good no-nonsense reference:

https://www.amazon.com/Light-Yoga-Classic-Worlds-Foremost/dp...
I agree with your assessment of a lack of rigor in the Aeon article, I'll reserve judgment on the topic until I can peruse the book (which presumably takes the time to build a foundation for some of the claims made in the article).

That said, the central notion of Distributism is property ownership, and that it was one of the philosophy's of the founding fathers for the US that property ownership, and property ownership rights, were fundamental to preserving the independence of the individual. (here is an article attributed to Madison [http://www.vindicatingthefounders.com/library/madison-proper...] but this topic comes up often in the Federalist Papers)

The challenge of course is that most of this thinking was done in the 'goods' economy and not in the 'information' economy. Using distributism to illustrate a topic that is often robustly debated here, consider the computer programmer who writes a program on his computer. The fruit of his property (the program) is just as much his property in the founding father's view as is the corn from a farmer's field. And yet this "property of the mind" or intellectual property is often criticized as being a fiction created in order to support rent seeking practices. The for argument starts from the notion of property, the against argument starts from the notion that information has no intrinsic value.

Turning this around yet a third way, and why I believe that Dr. Livingston is incorrect in his conclusions, when you invalidate or work around legal restrictions on profiting from ones property (as AirBnB and Uber have done), you see a rapid uptick in GDP from works using their property for additional income.

While I find Livingston's observations compelling, my interpretation is more along with Piketty's in that the regulation of labor in favor of structures which are more rent seeking creates artificial barriers to entry. And work ethic or not, most people work, it seems, in order to trade their skills for a currency that lets them trade back for other needs where they lack the skill or the time to procure.

Either way, its a complex topic and if you're really interested in the topic spend some time on Google's newspaper archives (https://news.google.com/newspapers) and browse stories written during the great depression about how the world was doomed and people would never work again because of the permanent displacement of labor.
I'm at the age that all my friends are having kids so I stay off Facebook.

Really it's only good for checking in on people every now and then, most of the stuff on my timeline is now spam. I know a lot of people feel the same way.

I wouldn't be surprised if the actual engagement on Facebook is a lot lower than we're led to believe.
You can't be more than 100% energy efficient, so, while there may be some headroom in that direction, there's a hard limit as well.

Edit: Also, while there seems to be a positive correlation between GDP per capita and energy efficiency, the most efficient nations in the world have a very low GDP per capita... I wonder why it is the case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_intensity#Economic_ener...
Imagine you broke down Belgium, etc the same way the US is broken down by state. You'd get even lower murder rates in many areas of Belgium, that would make the safest areas of the US look dangerous by comparison.

Face it, the US done fucked up.
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I resent the idea that my surplus labour is anyone's but mine to spend.

Certainly you could create infinite amounts of "paid" makework but in the end it amounts to keeping a system going for its own sake, and wasting people's potential by allocating them "dig a hole and fill it in" jobs when they could be being creative.
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Heck, even if you made that proposition to a fast food worker that he could do meaningful work instead of smelling like fried stuff all the time and always be worried about working enough hours for a crappy boss and no future, or to a janitor that he could help someone instead of cleaning pee all day, maybe they would do that instead. Maybe even to an office drone, who knows.

Right now people work because otherwise they die, socially in civilized continental Europe, possibly literally in "modern" America (and possibly the UK).
Leave it to them to make themselves out to be the victims even though constant username pinging is considered harassment on reddit. (to say nothing of the content of the comments themselves...) The funny part is that if spez is deposed, he was likely the last one fighting against their sub's removal. The same thing happened in the past with Ellen Pao . According to Yishan Wong (another ex-CEO):

> Ellen had to take over (I'm not sure she wanted to, but she was the only one) and the board wanted her to just ban all those subreddits but she had been around long enough to know that you can't just do that (they'll just spring up again) so she resisted. (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/58zaho/the_...)

> on at least two separate occasions, the board pressed /u/ekjp to outright ban ALL the hate subreddits in a sweeping purge. She resisted, knowing the community, claiming it would be a shitshow. Ellen isn't some "evil, manipulative, out-of-touch incompetent she-devil" as was often depicted (https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3dautm/conte...)
We are always dying, and I doubt Facebook kills much faster than HN as most of the lethality comes from sitting still while reading. Of course, FB comes with extra stress for some, but I don't know how the cyber bullying on FB stacks up with the workplace rage from Excel.
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i have been reading lately how the direction of Saudi Arabia changed dramatically after the seizing of the Grand Mosque.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_seizure
Well, we already have a form of "social credits". It's called money. We're just not used to thinking of it that way, but that's really what money is.

So replace "social credits" in your line of thinking by money, and you've basically arrived at the idea of a Job Guarantee. And somebody who works for their money is no longer a moocher, so...
https://engineering.shopify.com/17489056-rebuilding-the-shop...
Tbh, even as someone who is pretty concerned about big corporations, I'm not too fazed by Facebook. As someone who doesn't use it but still manages to have a good (social) life, I know Facebook doesn't provide anything people actually need. If Zuck ever does anything that the general public really cares about and despises, Facebook will lose its users way faster than most people would think.
You'll love this one I'm sure:

My neighbor was using a leaf blower just a few hours prior to the arrival of what was expected to be a direct strike by a category 4 hurricane. Winds were already gusting pretty well, with at least a couple bands of heavy rain having already passed over. About half of the neighborhood was boarded up with plywood, and probably 2/3 of the families had evacuated, yet there he was, out with his leaf blower.
They do have recent satellite images that appear to show signs of water running down ravines at certain times of the Mara year. Don't have a citation handy, though.
for context, sorry if ignorant question but what else do they write with when full scale, I thought twittter was written on rails as well
Sorry, I mean the figurative bill. Small town America is dying exactly because of the socio-economic repercussions of globalization. That's the "bill" I was referring to.

> But trying to somehow "punish" Urban areas certainly doesn't make any sense.

It's not about punishing urban areas. It's about the direction we want our economy to take -- one that's increasingly focused on producing wealth in a small number of cities for a small number of people or one that provides for the greatest number of American citizens. We should be especially conscious of this divide as part of the tech community -- for all their economic weight Google/Apple/Facebook hire an incredibly small number of people compared to traditional American megacorps.

> And finally, do you really believe that it's better that a minority has the ability to "showhorn" the majority? Why?

A popular minority, yes. Population-wise the country would effectively be run by the Northeast and California who's needs and desires are not necessarily the same as the rest of the country. I believe direct democracy does not work in a country as large as the United States which is why we're (supposed to be) a federal republic.
A competing product that would will steal their users would probably help even more even if users don't delete their accounts and just stop using it (did you delete your Myspace account?)... so the more bad features Facebook adds, the better.
No, Russian Agents Are Not Behind Every Piece of Fake News You See
Being a happy Subaru owner I'm rather glad Japan ignored comparative advantage.
I recently listened to a podcast where Jeremy Scahill (the author of the book Dirty Wars) claims Saudi Arabia has been belligerently bombing Yemen to show unruly groups inside of Saudi Arabia that they have the ability to bomb people too.

https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-52-dirty-war...
You said there's no way to rationalize it, but it depends on the person. For some becoming more mindful allows you to see bad mental habits that may contribute to the anxiety. Once you are mindful of these you are empowered to change them.
There are a number of differences

First, the voter does know their vote record reflects their intent. They can't actually know that with a paperless touch screen.

Second, we do have the ballots and various things can be done to resolve an election, and they can be done in court, by humans. Trust can be established there too.

Now, we don't always need that, but it's extremely important that we have it, or the systems simply will be gamed. I would. What's to really catch me?

You bring up a great secondary point. Why trust computers at all?

In this case, both you and I have a dialog, and it needs to be sane. The machines could be coughing up a lot of garbage, but we both know they don't as the chat is coherent.

WHile this ambiguity has always existed with computers, most use cases get past it in similar fashion. Banking, by the way, resolves down to personally identifiable records, or at the least an account known by someone, and distributed copies of said records too.

All of that must make sense, or there are problems. It's subtle, but we catch a lot of trouble this way.

Voting is an edge case, and it's extreme as well as important, and a significant issue when it's not trusted.

Billions and Trillions of dollars can be impacted by votes. To think we aren't seeing manipulation is crazy.

In the case of SC, we don't actually have the means to catch this being done!

The niche case of voting breaks down to anonymity being coupled with no public record of the vote and this ambiguity of input.

In my State, Oregon, we use a hybrid. Voters do cast paper ballots and have plenty of time to do so. Individually, we can understand our votes are accurate.

They are verified by signature, which preserves the secrecy of the voters. It's damn tough to get data out of that part of the system specific to a voter.

We then publish voting and validity status for everyone too. So individually, and collectively, we can understand the votes are valid and will be counted.

For those who check, they can remedy things too.

Then, counting is done electronically coupled with blind audits done by hand.

This question is of paramount importance: How can you have any confidence in any system, unless you wrote it yourself? And deployed yourself, and completely control 100% of the system it's deployed on.

For most use cases, it's not an issue for reasons I've given. Votes are an edge case we do not bump into very often.

And that status makes this a difficult discussion.

Couple it with the strong incentives to control elections, and it's not something we should take lightly, and given we have plenty of time tested, cost effective, reasonable means to do this, we hardly require that risk be taken.

That it is consistently taken is a bother to me. There is no reason for it.
Facebook, twitter, reddit ,John Podesta, Pizzagate, Cheese, Bill Clinton, Spirit Cooking, Anthony Weiner...
Just a fake news ?

Source: Infowars, wikileaks & Kanye West
You mean made to work for insulting wages and subsistence in prison sweatshops. Prison population is a captive source of cheap labor, easily abused and exploited.
Ankor Wat was built by a local king.

No Indian empire invaded or controlled SE Asia. The influence of Buddhism and Hinduism in Bali and Cambodia is testament to the influence of Indian philosophy and belief not might.
It also means faster warming, because of reduced albedo - and part of that warming is transferred to the adjacent land ice (esp. Greenland) and permafrost, melting it in turn, which translates to higher sea levels. For bonus points, when permafrost melts, it releases methane, which is also a greenhouse gas.

Then there's reduction of ocean salinity, affecting existing ecosystems established around the current level (and with a rate of change too fast for gradual adaptation).

And not to forget about the disruption of existing ocean currents, which significantly affect weather patterns. And if I remember correctly, atmospheric circulation would also be affected.

Open shipping lanes are well and good, but when you can't grow the usual crops where you used to be able to grow them, because the climate is no longer appropriate for them in that location, and seafood catches are lower because the ecosystem is disrupted in a big way, you may well find that all that extra cargo capacity is used up just shipping food to places that used to be able to grow their own.
I don't think you'd ever want to take a road trip with me. One of the big reasons I bought a VW TDI is that I can go for 8+ hours without stopping at all.
> "Around the start of the 20th century, G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc drew together the disparate experiences of the various cooperatives and friendly societies in Northern England, Ireland, and Northern Europe into a coherent political ideology which specifically advocated widespread private ownership of housing and control of industry through owner-operated small businesses and worker-controlled cooperatives. In the United States in the 1930s, distributism was treated in numerous essays by Chesterton, Belloc and others in The American Review, published and edited by Seward Collins. Pivotal among Belloc's and Chesterton's other works regarding distributism are The Servile State,[33] and Outline of Sanity.[34]"

That's interesting that Chesterton was an advocate of distributism. I've read a couple of his books, but but I wasn't aware of his political/social views.
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To the authors: did you any of your own recordings? I've used my own and clips online, in WAV and other formats, at various sampling rates.

All of the results come back gibberish. The results in the training data seem just fine. Curious if you've tested the above to ensure it didn't overfit.
> there's no point leaving people unemployed while there's still work that needs to be done

Yes, and the government can compensate for unemployment by investing in public works, at least until the automation reaches a level where UBI needs to be implemented.
Ask HN: Anyone else getting calendar spam?
I haven't seen this before and started getting events being automatically added to my Gmail calendar without receiving any associated emails that contain them.

Screenshots here https://www.dropbox.com/s/5wrb0f1du6gbpcw/Screenshot%202016-11-25%2016.27.21.png?dl=0 and https://www.dropbox.com/s/syc0ivruqmo3ifg/File%20Nov%2025%2C%204%2030%2000%20PM.png?dl=0.

Calendar item details here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0f22kbxjlgje5d8/File%20Nov%2025%2C%204%2034%2043%20PM.png?dl=0

I'm on macOS Sierra and iOS.
Currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13037654
It's true that they will have some vetting-- All products that Amazon sells itself are evaluated through becoming a seller through Vendor Central. Just because a product is labeled as 'Ships from and sold by Amazon' does not mean that it's not a private label product; Vendor Express is available for exactly the purpose of getting vendors to sell directly to Amazon. I am a mid-volume seller on their platform and I probably see 2-3 offers a week from them encouraging me to list my products with them.

Another trick for the best price is to not always go with the buy box by default. Amazon doesn't give up the buy box unless the competitor's price is significantly lower than theirs. It's always worth taking a look at what else is listed in the 'Other sellers' box, especially on products where Amazon is the vendor. It's likely their the cheapest, but that's not always the case.
Surprise! All for-profit companies exist with making money as the highest priority. As idealistic software engineers we're programmed to think of everything as a mission, but as soon as you look higher at most post-investment companies you'll see it's about money even if leadership doesn't believe that itself. There may be an ideological honey moon period but as soon as there's a bump/loss in confidence cash is king without fail. One counter example is a bootstrapped solo entity because there is no external authority/commitment to maximize shareholder value for anyone else, so they can burn money if they want.

A good way to confirm this in job interviews is to bring up B Corps in response to the founding/mission part of the pitch and watch them say it just hasn't been a priority. A B Corp is a certified for-profit company with a mission built in beyond quarter-over-quarter growth. If they really believe in their mission they should certify as a B Corp, if they're not and they're hiring with recruiters--implies some level of cash on hand, readiness to grow--it's lip service. I should note this isn't a deal breaker if they can pay, I just like to know who I am working with. In time I'd like to prefer employment from B Corps.
11 months and no emacs port yet? Preposterous!

I guess it's not needed, Emacs users are already happy :-)
Really puts into perspective how much water is in the great lakes!
Bram is the creator and maintainer of vim and the author of that patch. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/QCj8lIntzCk

The space following the "#" is meant to signify that the preprocessor directive is nested one layer deep. You can see that this style is used in other files, like here: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/src/gui.c#L40-L42

So no, I think this is Bram bringing one file's indentation style in line with the rest of the project.
I don't think people rationalize it like that. I think they rationalize it as "I can make a lot of money here so I will". The only way it gets better if you can disincentivize people from acting in self-interest which doesn't really work in a capitalist society.
I was there last month. It's truly surreal.

One thought that occurred to me as I watched the train pass was how many safety regulations and zoning laws such a market would violate in most Western cities.

Then I realized: laws and regulations can have the unintended side effect of "sanitizing" the more interesting parts of our culture, to the point where everything becomes standard and boring.

It's the reason Seattle's Pike Place Market is a tourist attraction even though open-air fish markets are incredibly common all around the world.
Me using it, collegues using it. It's not good st all for the workload i usually have.