skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a pretty misguided statement. If you _can_ donate you should. Imagine having to deal with any other platform...

The more people (and companies) donate the better we're all off IMO.
Curious thing, Kela (who handle the benefits, among other things) made their sampling code public[0]. The code doesn't really tell me anything though, except that the random seed is taken from wall time.

[0] http://www.kela.fi/perustulokokeilun-otantakoodi
If you want to really test UBI and not have critics point out some stupid difference between the test program and real UBI you need to implement a permanent, world-wide, basic income. Other wise "it's not UBI."

So it's not UBI, it's a test.
That's still a disincentive: my effectively hourly rate decreases the more hours I work. Not sure how that's fair. A flat tax is the only fair tax. You make more, you pay more, but you aren't taking an effective pay cut per hour based on simply working more.
You have to go back and review the case law from the 70's. The 1972 porn classic "Behind the Green Door" spawned a whole mess of litigation and set precedents that are still cited. That's where Mitchell Bros. Film Group v. Cinema Adult Theater came from.
Ask HN: Socratic dialogue between two cybersecurity experts?
I cannot for the life of me find this fantastic resource I saw posted on HN a while ago.

It was a fake conversation between Alice and Bob, where they took turns explaining how Alice would protect a password submission form, and then how Bob would thwart the protection, and how Alice would protect it again, and so on.

No keywords are working so I may be mis-remembering some aspects of it.
> and they would consistently exceed maximum hours cdl drivers are allowed to work

Just a reminder, there exists no maximum number of hours CDL holders may work, they just can't drive after a certain number of hours without a sleep break. Many truckers will operate in such a manner that they drive to the destination legally, reach their max allowable hours driving upon arrival, and then continue working several more hours unloading. Grocery warehouses are notorious for this.

It's an important distinction because if you are a local driver with a 'day cab', you can't exactly take your sleep break in the truck and would be more likely to break the law to drive the truck back home (or the company yard). An 'over the road' driver has a sleeper berth and can take a proper break most anywhere they can legally park.

I did many FedEx loads as an over the road driver and I found them to be good runs. Many were overnight runs from one airport to another and I definitely had enough time, it wasn't as if I had to skip breaks or hurry. And the FedEx staff and load/unload procedures were very organised and easy. FedEx loads were seen as desirable and hassle-free.
Performance generally falls under speech, and hence is a protected right, but running up to an epileptic screaming I was going to cause a seizure while shining a strobe light at his face wouldn't be a protected "performance". It would be assault.

And so is this.
I also happen to be a lawyer and not an automotive editor, which I think helps. ;)
EIT tours as a costumed crew showing found VHS footage.

They are also involved with VHS preservation.

They have fairly twisted yet entertaining full length releases which consist of bizarre clips edited together from long forgotten direct-to-video films.[1]

Pushing the boundaries of fair use and artistic preservation.

I have collected 66 "Jerries" that will be finally going home as part of this project.

[1]: http://watch.everythingisterrible.com/?p=5401328194173648619
They don't even have to be raising children or volunteering to benefit society. As long as they spend the money that's given to them, the market benefits.
What is MSSQL's replication story these days? Master/slave or master/master? Automatic failover?
But you're not apolitical. You're calling a transgender Ruby programmer a bully for asking if a maintainer on a project's harmful opinions about trans people reflected that project's opinions about trans people, and the reply was that their shitty opinions were comparable to somebody not liking candy. There's no bullying going on there.

>I support LGBT rights and equality for all, but this is the sort of BS that is making me and many others switch political allegiances.

I appreciate that you can say that, but honestly if stuff as minor as an uncomfortable conversation on GitHub is causing you to switch political allegiance (to whom/what exactly, might I ask?) you might reconsider whose side you were on in the first place.
Don't give them the money just for two years, but guarantee them the money over their whole life and you will see vastly different results.

Since people born into wealth are "guaranteed money over their whole life", can't we study what they do with their life compared to what people who are not born into money do with their life? How or how not would this kind of study produce meaningful, legitimate results?

Another "problem" with this kind of study is that they are giving money only to unemployed people. Because it would be also interesting to see what people with jobs would do. I suspect a lot of people would switch from full-time to part-time jobs (at least that's what I would do).

There is some aspect of this kind of experiment/study to find out how individuals would perform if they didn't have the guaranteed income in the past but then suddenly do, but that's only meaningful for the transitional generation. If UBI were truly universal, it would need to be multi-generational. And how would those born with it, never having known anything else, treat/understand work? There's no such thing as "switching from a full-time to part-time jobs" in this context, or at least the impact and meaning of doing so is different than those who have a concept of what not having the guaranteed income means.
Western Germany recovered well from WWII, with western help of course, but then they recovered from the recession that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall and now they are again the first in EU by GDP. Even with the help received, you have to admit that they are the kind of people that have the resources to recover from disaster.

And Hitler, along with a second industrial war, was inevitable. I'll even go as far as saying that we were lucky that Hitler happened, because one can argue that he made a lot of tactical mistakes and in other circumstances the Axis might have won.

And I hope we learned something from it, though judging by 2016 I have my doubts.
I see that a lot in my company where managers don't trust their workers. A lot of decisions are being made by managers talking to each other. Input from the workers is generally not welcome. My theory is that a lot of middle managers know that they are not really that useful so they have to withold information or pretend that things are more complex than they seem.
At least a stop at a major hub will take that time. Basically, you don't only have the time spent stopped at the station, but you also have long period of acceleration and deceleration - an ICE3 takes 3km to stop from full speed in normal conditions according to a quick google search. Also, trains usually have to move extremely slow (40 km/h) in the surrounding area of a station... and the larger the station, the more switches.
Having recently interviewed lots of developers (in NYC), my experience was that there's such a shortage of senior and even solidly mid-level talent out there currently that an employer would have to be crazy to turn down anyone for non-merit based reasons. We would have hired a 300 year old sea turtle if it could get the job done... internet fame definitely not required.

Perhaps the problems are more at the margins (junior level devs, choosing between people of similar ability), but unless the market changes drastically, I can't see a competent engineer having too much trouble regardless of age, at least in locations with a big enough tech scene.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_t... may be of interest?
No, what I mean by that is that it will always be legal to hurt people in certain ways with words. Those ways are not threats but emotional... such as:

What I had in mind was a mother saying "I never loved you" to her kid. Or a father suggesting it's the kid's fault that Mommy left/died/drinks. Or telling somebody they're a loser and will never amount to something. Or that they're ugly and unloveable.

When you go to the grocery store and you see a mother be really awful to her kid (or dog), you don't call the police (and you couldn't, unless it was physical). But instead you give them a dirty look-- you use social pressure instead of legal pressure.

And we do this because the legal system isn't well equipped to handle such injustices (these cases would often be heresay, too expensive, too long/convoluted). But the social-pressure system has its own limits, and gets abused too.
There is also _GLIBCXX_DEBUG - if you have defined this symbol, glibc will use safer variant of std::vector, iterators etc, which asserts when you attempt to do bad things like reading out of range.
>If she got her job at github through bullying then she is a professional bully.

How are we defining bullying, exactly? I'll let you do this because nothing that happened in that thread meets my definition.

What evidence do you have that she got her job through this alleged bullying?
What would be an acceptable limit ? 10 years ? in that span you're free to plan long project, even raise children in the same place long enough they can develop habits, friends, without too much stress.
> There could be a system where the benefits are lowered in proportion to the income earned from jobs

The thing you are referring to is called taxes. The more money you make the more taxes you pay and there comes a point that you're paying more in taxes than the amount of the basic income.

Phase outs are a pure scam. Their purpose is to conceal imposing higher marginal rates on low and middle income people so that higher income people can pay lower rates.
I suspect this is part of a bigger problem, one that I continually see in the public service: people undervalue expertise. There's this strange belief that 'generalists' can do just about any task well. But I've never found that to be the case. In more than a few cases I've seen 'generalists' make a complete hash of something, but because they don't have sufficient domain-specific knowledge they don't actually realise how bad a job they've done.

I wonder if this is why people are sometimes dismissive of MBAs. These people are essentially training to be future leaders and senior executives of large organisations. But how can they possibly make any sort of rational decisions, or build functional systems of work, if they have no specific understanding of the work being done? I've been thinking about this kind of thing a lot, and I've realised why these types of managers love using buzzwords: it's a way of sounding knowledgeable without actually knowing anything, and it minimises the risk of being dragged in to a discussion on specifics.

Then again, who doesn't love synergy?
Ask HN: How to best handle “unlimited” use tiers in a SaaS?
Of course, "unlimited" doesn't mean "infinite". Say I have an app that lets users upload their own documents. I don't want to cap their uploads -- although perhaps, starting out, this is the best way to go -- as there is a potential upsell opportunity for each document they've uploaded (plus it would just be annoying).

What are some strategies for preventing users from abusing my database capacities? I don't want to become another Google Docs repository for everything on their harddrive. Some ideas I had were:

-enforcing a minimum time limit between uploads

-capping them at a certain amount until I can do a manual admin override

-making the user "unlock" more uploads by performing other actions on the site (thus sort of implicitly verifying that they're a real user)
There's another set of similar libraries called the STB Libraries, primarily aimed at gamedev/graphicsdev: https://github.com/nothings/stb
Yup, which is why airplane safety has gone down the toilet and prices have skyrocketed since that market was liberalised... oh wait, they haven't.

Trains are admittedly more complicated because tracks need maintenance, and it's easy to screw up the operating model (see: UK), but if we can solve this for air traffic control and airports, it shouldn't be too hard for track either
Wow, you're sensitive.
One thing I found surprising after researching Hitler's rise to power was that he in fact did not achieve a large majority of seats in the Reichstag before seizing power or was overwhelmingly popular. In the 1932 German Federal election, the last free and fair before Hitler took power, the Nazi party only achieved 33% of seats in the Reichstag [0]. Hitler and the Nazi party also gained power within the framework of the Weimar Republic (ie not a direct military coup). My understanding is that this was possible because the communists did not view the Nazi's as the primary threat, but rather the moderate socialist parties, and also some very poor judgement by the Nationalist-Conservative party to form a coalition with the Nazis. With that coalition, the Enabling Act was passed giving Hitler dictatorial powers, and things snow-balled from there.

I know this is kind off-topic, given that the article is about this guys new book, but I've been diving more into modern history after studying mostly ancient and world history. Perhaps some other knowledgeable people can point to good resources on WW2 history? On WW1, I found "The Fall of the Ottomans", "The Sleepwalkers", and "The Guns of August" very insightful, but there are just so many resources for WW2.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_Novem...
Explain to me why my tax dollars should pay for other people again? I am not sure I understand why my labor must pay for others against my wishes. If I want to donate to charity, I will.

Taxes should be used to pay for shared resources (roads, police, military,) but paying other people's living expenses? No thanks. America has poor and unemployed, yet Democrats seem to have no problem with illegal immigration which reduces the ability for those poor and unemployed to gets jobs.
Why would not reading anything other than English matter? There are a large number of English language news sources based outside the US. Even inside the US, there is a wide range of news sources with varying ideologies.
You're referring to /proc and (more recently) /sys I presume. I'm sure you're aware of Plan9 that takes the everything-is-a-file idea to the logical extreme using it as a universal namespace by means of the P9000 (?) protocol (going way off-topic here).
Ask HN: Where do you host your non-ssd dedicated servers?
I'm already using Linode & aware of DO. Both of them provide SSD disk. I'm looking for non-ssd drives upto 2 TB. I'm exploring options like ovh,rackspace,hostgator etc rather than aws/google cloud.. If you are using dedicated servers, share your experiences. thanks.
my poor cousin got his disability slashed when he tried to work part time as a cashier just to get off his ass and be part of society. For many (bit not all), working at something is preferable bc it helps them feel responsible and social and to have a purpose. Just because he was half-blind, he didn't want to be stuck on the sidelines.
Same as github link; https://github.com/kakoni/otantakoodi/blob/master/otantakood...
> Just to throw my two cents into the mix.

You have no idea how much those 2 cents are appreciated, really, I mean it.

> The idea of being able to _query_ a single key in a SQL-like fashion is interesting

Not sure I understood what you mean here. Would you mind to provide some kind of example or to explain it further?

> Instead, I'd look at using redis in front of something like MySQL so some operations go to redis and other right to the server.

Extremely interesting, how you discriminate though ? If it is going to be a "regular" cache you don't need a module, redis can already do it by itself. What use case you were think of?

> Having to write SQL statements as redis EXECs isn't elegant IMO.

I do completely agree, the API is going to get more structured for sure.
We have here a bunch of people complaining who have been pushed down the social strata. Instead of not being able to afford their own car or request a luxury class taxi, they now have to exist in the lowest tier. They don't like that, and, they now want, effectively, to elevate themselves above the people who have to piss in a subway station by banning them.

At a Christmas party that I went to with several people who have way more money than almost any of you, a wife of a Boeing executive referred to you complainers as "transit trash". She looks at you as you are looking at these problem people.

When assigning blame, if you aren't looking upwards to those exerting vast amounts of power, then you are probably the problem.

I made sure to call out this woman's trash talk and embarrass her. If you have power you are supposed to be kind to those below you. Without that graciousness you expose yourself as being afraid that you'll be assigned to a lower social strata. (And I take the wholesale disappearance of that graciousness in American politics as a harbinger of American decline.)
The U.S. is pretty corrupt but China is plainly more corrupt by the generally agreed standard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

It's pretty neat that Hong Kong is perceived as right after the U.S., though!
Clojure was designed from the beginning to be a hosted language. It's its greatest strength (great Java and JS interop) and weakness (no native binaries).
What's stopping people from taking their universal income and moving to a different country with a lower cost of living. Do you you have to collect it in person? A UBI of $1-2K/month isn't that much in the western world but you could live like a king[1] in the third world.

[1]: Okay maybe not a very rich king but but you'd definitely be doing more than fine.
Why is it "God's"?..
Americans did not pay for Galileo. The EU paid for it.

Americans did pay for
GPS, which is why we should have full access to its capabilities as taxpayers.
Or maybe people could just stop driving so much.
This is not correct. The primary civilian signal for both Galileo and GPS have the same frequency on L1, 1575.42 MHz. Their modulation schemes and encoding are coordinated to not interfere. [1]

http://www.navipedia.net/index.php/GNSS_signal
Depending on the device SoC, you may see 4 different constellations, as China has their own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_Sy...
Consciousness is tricky philosophical business.

The reality is that on our planet, even something as simple as a plant (or fungi) can have memory, communication, and the ability to anticipate results. Where do we draw the line? Is there even a line that can be drawn? This issue goes way beyond just animals and until we have a functional metric of intelligence, I can't see us getting any real answers past simply recording data.

A link to a researcher on this subject as well as some of her published work:
http://www.web.uwa.edu.au/people/monica.gagliano

There are quite a few people, all more qualified than I, researching matters like this. Figured that this was something that most might not even consider and thus was worth mentioning.
but in your example, the election swung in the RIGHT direction
While widening the scope in either duration or number of people would certainly help, I think this is still useful. It should still tell us to what extent the current benefits system leaves short side gigs and new small businesses on the table.

The time limit may, to an unrealistic degree, encourage the subjects to look for solutions for the long term. Then again the question of whether UBI encourages laziness seems to be out of scope already, since this targets only people who are already unemployed.
When has China actually been aggressive with Japan, Korean, and India, other then minor border conflicts and skirmishes?

The South China sea stuff is indeed China throwing its weight around, sure, but need I remind you that China's foreign interventions has been far more restrained than, say, the US (Iraq 1 and Iraq 2, Afghanistan, Libya, Panama) or Russia's (Afghanistan, Ukraine, Syria) even in the last three decades.

Going back slightly further, Japan invaded and occupied half of China and killed millions of Chinese people over the course of a decade, while it was the US that invaded, nuked, and then occupied Japan, even though the US never suffered civilian casualties from Japanese attack. Yet you don't see the Chinese government crying out for bloody revenge, do you?

One the one hand, we have China asserting claims to sea resources and sea lanes there are right in its back yard, where it has a legitimate strategic and national interest. On the other, we have the outright invasion, occupation, and overthrow of sovereign governments. Which country is objectively more peaceful?
That's the exact same one as the first line in the OP, if you bothered to click the link
Not allowed yet.

Ex-Intel here. It takes years to gestate new instructions. First specs are in controlled documents available to Intel employees only. Eventually, when things are nailed down, preliminary specs are available under an NDA where a VP approves/signs the Intel side of the NDA. Tool vendors will get those specs. Finally, when the chip is announced the previously NDA documents become public. I was a CPU designer at multiple companies, and everyone follows a similar process.
You can be convicted for expressing intent, as well, you know.

Both intent and crime are embodied in the message itself. Once they find the person, the case is pretty much a slam dunk.
It still does on the primary civilian signal.

http://www.navipedia.net/index.php/GNSS_signal
A New Type of Phantom Memory Has Been Found in the Human Brain
The tip of the iceberg is evidence of the hazard.
This argument doesn't add up.

Scenario 0) I do nothing, get nothing.

Scenario 1) The government gives me $1000 and I buy $1000 dollars worth of goods and services, so now the economy is better by the net gain of $1000 worth of transactions - i.e. the mutual benefits of trade.

Scenario 2) I have a job, do my job and my employer pays me $1000 dollars. Then I spend that on $1000 worth of goods and services. Now the economy gets the benefits of $1000 worth of trade plus everything that I did for my employer, which is in excess of $1000 according to his calculation.

You compared Scenario 1 to Scenario 0 and said that Scenario 1 is a win, but the context was 1 versus 2, where it's a negative. In scenario 2, the employer could be the government paying me to improve the roads, for example, instead of the government handing me the money they would have paid me. In which case the difference is the improved roads.
Right click the link and open in incognito or private mode.

Sites will display the article when coming directly from google if you don't have certain cookies from prior visits. Private/incognito ensures the cookies "dont exist".
Actually, if we speculate with more alcohol sales, then it will be low-tax vodka from ferries to Tallinn - the alcohol monopoly in Finland has high prices due to taxes, so the expert guess of any consumption increase is to get it from Estonia.

And Finland doesn't have Taco Bells.