skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you strip away the shell-game effect in BI (working people pay in $x and get back <$x) and remove unknown economic issues like inflation, you end up with essentially the welfare system the U.S. has today. We provide the poor with subsidized food, medical, housing, child care, etc. We provide the elderly with income streams and medical care. We provide income for the permanently disabled.

I'm not so sure an expanded welfare system and single-payer healthcare isn't a better alternative than BI. BI seems to support a privileged ideal that "I shouldn't have to work in order to pursue my interests" that I'm not certain fits into any sort of healthy capitalist economy.
The candy diet
>Some of us just use Linux, and are happy.

Like you said, those are the ones who have "broken free". Everyone else (the "hackers") either use Windows and wish they used Linux or use macOS and wish they used Linux. But they don't actually use Linux, because [reasons].

To be fair to them, I don't use desktop Linux because [reasons].
This isn't truly distributed in that sense:

"Instead of managing chunks, SeaweedFS manages data
volumes in the master server. Each data volume is size
32GB, and can hold a lot of files. And each storage node
can have many data volumes. So the master node only needs
to store the metadata about the volumes, which is fairly
small amount of data and is generally stable."
Except I have. There have been multiple groups working on this, and they have shared their results. Some published, some on blogs. Some have been unsuccessful in getting their noise floor low enough to detect the effect. Those who have (multiple groups now), have found something. That's why this is interesting.

This sort of experiment requires a very expensive, delicate laboratory. No one is going to run a replication of this and then not publish in some form, even on a blog or a conference poster.
Apparently written in Erlang, which I reckon to be a good fit.

But 56% of the code is "Shell code". What's up with that?
Curious if you've tried a Surface Book? I find the touchpad feel and gesture quality to be nearly indistinguishable from a Mac.
Everything goes into a single backpack. Bring as little as possible, only what you need. Buy your toiletries (toothbrush, toothpaste, deoderant) when you arrive at your destination. If the airline has a mobile app, use that to check in at the earliest possible moment.
Apple really was in trouble back then, though, so all the doom and gloom was justified. In 1997, they had $7 billion in revenue and lost about $1 billion. They now make more in profit per quarter than they had in revenue for all of 1997.

There are some signs that they may be headed for trouble eventually, but they're fairly minor, considering.
> But I really have wondered why people who are liberated enough to not use Windows use macOS instead of going all the way to Linux.

I used Linux for years. I built a MythTV box and bought a digital TV tuner card for it and, later, a device to get the video from the cable box, along with an IR blaster to change the channels on the cable box. I have owned five laptops on which I used Linux exclusively (1 Dell Latitude, 1 HP EliteBook, and 3 Thinkpads). I built my desktop system for Linux. I have used Debian, Slackware, Ubuntu, Arch, Gentoo, and SUSE as my daily drivers, and have tried other systems like Mandriva and Fedora. I have compiled kernels and filed bugreports.

I now use OS X. In the end I got tired of desktops with tons of broken stuff. The transition away from GNOME 2 and KDE 3 was rough, with years of no usable major desktops at all. So I switched to barebones window managers like i3, FVWM, and Xmonad. (I have XMonad to thank for introducing me to Haskell, which I still use daily.) I got tired of reading man pages to do simple stuff like change my clock.

The thing that broke me in the end was doing my US income taxes. Our taxes are complicated so it helps to have software to do them. There's nothing for Linux. So I filled in my taxes on PDF forms. Even that was not easy: not all Linux PDF readers have the ability to do forms, and figuring out which ones do requires forum searching or trial-and-error. So I resorted to Adobe's non-free software. Even then, doing a US tax return on fillable PDFs is awful. I considered using an online service but I did not want a cloud solution for my private data.

That pushed me over and I got a Mac. I had actually tried Macs a few years ago when they were making the white plastic Macbook, but I returned it and stuck with Linux. I found that OS X had come a long way since I had last tried it. I enjoyed doing little things like downloading a song--things that would be a pain on Linux (do I have the right codecs installed? the right package?) And there's a ton of third-party software available. Some of it costs a few bucks, where something similar on Linux would be free--like a little tool to graphically show what is eating my disk space. But it's worth spending a few bucks to save hours hunting for something on Linux and fixing the breakage.

So that's why I don't use Linux. My time and my ability to get things done is more important than nebulous "freedom". Proprietary software provides an incentive to some companies to produce useful software. So be it.
>The un is literally a globalist organization that nation states voluntarily subjugate their natonal sovereignity to.

No, it isn't. Every country belonging to the UN is sovereign. The UN has zero legislative power, no enforcement arm, no army or police force. International law is still based on treaties between sovereign countries, not on a global legislature.

>There is never literally zero of people holding various political beliefs.

I did not say literally zero people. I said literally zero elected officials, which is a much smaller set of people with much more constrained political opinions. At worst, you could find a Green Party city official somewhere who might talk about world government if you get them thoroughly drunk.
The near-unanimous criticism is indeed something new, but I seem to remember Apple getting some flack every time they ship anything. It's usually "This new OS X 10.x is just catering to the unwashed masses. OS X 10.x-2 was a beautiful system for professionals".

Part of the problem may be our myopic view of the past, from where it seems as if Apple revolutionised computing on something like a yearly basis. A system that "just works" seems to bore today's "professionals" – even though I'd argue that SSDs and retina displays were two of the last decades' largest improvements in performance and ergonomics, respectively.
However, its NLP is quite good. Having my (Vietnamese-born) parents try the Echo Dot, I was struck by how awful their English actually is, at least in comparison to how my brain has come accustomed to their speech patterns. For one thing, they enunciate "Alexa" much differently than I do. And then where I would say, "What's the weather today", they say, "What weather today is?" or "What day this week will be snow?" To my surprise, Alexa actually understood their convoluted phrasing, at least for the built-in skills that Alexa has had well-honed out of the box.
TL;DR Bring back Corporate Research divisions tax free and everybody wins.

I've been a "research rat" all my life. I did research at Unimation, the first robot company. I worked at IBM Research. I've worked at Universities.

At IBM Research under Ralph Gomory, the company valued research. It measured itself against other companies like Bell Labs. I had the freedom to work on individual projects (e.g. rewritable paper and a Design-to-Build system that generated robot assembly plans from 3D CAD drawings). I worked on long term group projects, one of which was the Axiom computer algebra system.

IBM valued "wild ducks", the people who thought of new things regardless of their place in the organization. For instance, the "nipple mouse" that used to be in the center of keyboards was invented by Ted Selker who worked in the math department.

The key turning point seemed to be when Reagan shut down the Federal Labs. If you worked with someone outside of IBM Research your work was much more valued than inside efforts. The Federal Labs were a great partner in research. Once they were gone a lot of projects lost outside collaboration. The effect was widespread and deep. Axiom, for instance, was a multi-year pure research project in computer algebra. It was jointly funded by the company and the Federal labs. When the labs closed Axiom was sold, becoming a commercial competitor to Mathematica and Maple. (It is now open source and I'm doing unfunded research in program proofs for computational mathematics).

Companies don't seem to invest in "real research". Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are sitting on billions of dollars of cash. You would think that they would create a research lab equivalent to Bell Labs (where the Neural Network work was done in the 90s), or IBM Research (where the atomic microscope work was done). Gomory used to say you could employ 3 researchers per 1 million dollars. A billion dollars a year is 3000 researchers. Gomory pointed out that only 1 in 10 research projects ever produced anything that could be sold. That would be 100 new products a year, assuming 3 people per project. Gomory pointed out that "real research" took 10 years to become products. So start now.

There is a push to bring the "hidden dollars" kept overseas by Apple back into the U.S. at a lower tax rate. Instead, reduce the tax rate if the money is put into research. Let the big companies have tax breaks to run "corporate research", like Bell Labs and IBM Research. Then these company research efforts can work with universities to fund research graduate students and give them a career path worth their PhD. Tell Apple it can pump 1 Billion dollars a year tax free into a corporate research division and see how quickly the flowers bloom.
Introduction Course: Reinforcement Learning
Diluting shares should be straight out illegal. There is no reason for it other than fucking over employees. You know, the people who have actually worked to make the company a success.
You would have to have a strong enough objection to risk losing your job over it. Religion is certainly a strong motivation to take that risk...more so than a opinion.
> The cutoff was not given by me

Yet you used that data point to call the move a categorical success.

> But you are again trying to tie an economic move like demonetization with something inherently negative

No, I'm not trying to tie anything. I'm just trying to make you understand the fallacy that might have inadvertently crept into your reasoning (happens to the best of us!) Also I'm not comparing demonetization to pollution, I'm comparing the policy of demonetization to the policy response against pollution. Or to make it even simpler, I'm comparing the government policy to curb corruption to government policy to curb pollution, or the government policy to prevent deaths during the partition. Just because one policy response led to more deaths than another, doesn't mean that the former response wasn't as flawed as the latter. Especially since there are so many differences between the initial conditions that existed during the partition and the conditions that exist today. I will repeat here that simply saying that "less people were affected yet more people died during partition in contrast to demonetization where more people are affected but less people died" is an incomplete argument. Apples and oranges my friend.

> You are in the realm of speculation here

Unfortunately not. Will this data ever be publicly available? No. Did a black market exist? Most definitely.

> Are you actually comparing Nazi ideology with upholding the Constitution of India?

What if I don't agree with some of the articles of the constitution? Can I exercise my free speech rights to criticize the said articles without being charged with sedition? Can I express those free speech rights by not standing up for the national anthem and not be charged for an offence? Unfortunately not. I am being instructed by legislation to sit or stand or perform some other body movement to uphold the legitimacy of a document, or an ideology, which I may or may not agree with. That was true for the Nazi salute as well. There are very very subtle points that deal with things like burning the national flag and not "respecting" the national anthem. I urge you to check out the first amendment of the american constition and US supreme court rulings regarding their national anthem and national flag and what constitutes disrespect and what constitutes a criminal offence. Its fascinating stuff. The Indian constitution and the our Supreme court have a long way to go!

Anyway, time to get on with my life. Do definitely read up on the First amendment and try comparing that with the free speech as guaranteed by the Indian constitution. Its a good perspective to have.
Levchin Prizes: Joan Daemen (AES and SHA-3) and Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin
I learned Inkscape years ago by firing it up and going through Wikipedia images that needed to be converted to vector graphics[1]. I could pick images as simple (or hard) as I was comfortable with, and Wikipedia benefited.

[1]https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_that_sh...
Staying Fit Isn't a New Year's Resolution for These Hunter-Gatherers
Google reveals secret test of AI bot to beat top Go players
I appreciate projects with README like this - one including a gentle survey on the domain of the project. Nice writeup.
I have been using Gravit.io and their Twitter(template)for custom Tweets it's fast,online & convenient.
I do not see any contradiction in pursuing all of them together: stopping corruption", "going cashless", "cash saved at home to cheap loans". And corruption is not something that a single step or policy can fix. It would be rather stupid of government or politicians to put all effort on a single goal.

It seems to me critics show a deep disconnect with people when they claim failure due to inconvenience to people. In India riots can occur on far minor issues than demonetization. So yes people are willing to wait for results but critics are hastily jumping to conclusion that scheme has failed.
You bring up a good point though which is that if you stand to make millions and retire early, and it comes at the expense of your employees making a comparable amount, is it worth it to screw them over?

Unfortunately in this messed up world and rollercoaster economy the answer is often yes, it is better to put yourself first. Not that I would, but I can see how those who do justify it.
I wrote a "microservice" on top of S3 (tested with Minio too) and PostgreSQL that does this, among other things (e.g. image transformations, TUS uploads, web page screenshots). I would consider open sourcing it if there's enough interest.
> Explain to me again how the move was a success.

Because you are confusing demonetization with remonetization and post-remonetization. All are different. Demonetization ended on December 31st. The move was a success as no riots or coups took place. Why should I take that factor to gauge success? If you look at the history of demonetization, with the exception of Britain, 5 other countries either had large-scale riots or the Government's fell due to coups. The remonetization phase did not even commence and in some instances demonetization was also rolled back. Demonetization is just declaring currency as no longer legal tender. It has nothing to do with implementation or the after-effects. The actual implementation of replenishing cash is called "remonetization" and post-remonetization is the real impact.

Now is remonetization a success? What about post-remonetization? Only the RBI final report as well as Income Tax assessment of those deposits made during November 8th to December 31st will be able to explain. This will take some time to come out. You are assuming that all money deposited in the banks are automatically converted to white. That is where your assumptions are wrong. The Tax authorities have already started auditing these deposits and are actively catching culprits who deposited huge amount of cash during the remonetization phase (see Mayawati's brother as well as her party being investigated for depositing 104+ crores). They'll start with the big fish and then catch the smaller fish.
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If you say the intent activation word (weather / snow / light etc..) the intent will trigger. Phrasing can help for certain queries though.
Still on Mavericks. I didn't know anything about /var/log/wifi.log so I'll check that later to see if I can spot a problem - thanks.
> would require modification of kernel code

And it's impossible for an exploit to do because?..

EDIT: "?.." in this case means "please continue my sentence".
Interesting historical perspective on fake news.

Still hoping that people tire of it or that the truth comes eventually out seems defeatist. The internet traditionally solved the spam problem by thought leaders moving on to the next platform but in the age of Facebook the network effects keep people in place.

When I look at the issue from a economic and systems view the question is not how to stop any individual fake news story but how to tune the parameters so that there is

- Feedback to creators of fake news (historically fines or loss of head)

- Feedback to spreaders of fake news (historically fines or loss of licensee or head)

- Alternate views reaching readers of fake news

- Educational starting at school: Science, critical thinking and a culture that at times appreciates Grey+Complex+Diverse over Black&White+Simple

At the moment it is simply too profitable to do it. It is simply working too well to stop it. There is not a single measure that can stop it.
For the holiday length mentioned, out of curiosity, which length is it?

5 weeks x (5 days / per work week) = 25 days off

or

5 weeks x (7 days / per week) = 35 days off
Do you say May in relation to the "eternal September" (+ 9 months to have a baby?)
Just want to comment that if this worked well I would pay for it. Probably up to ~5 or maybe even 10 dollars a month.
Unlike most companies you interview for the entire company and not for a specific team at Google. That means you only know what team you are going to be on after you pass the interview. However, you will always know before you start. It mainly depends on what teams have headcount at that time and are a good fit. You can choose to take a pass on a team you are matched with and wait for another match.
Just about the first thing I do after installing Ubuntu is apt-get install vim. But you're right, the default should be vanilla vim config.
Settings -> Notifications -> "Get tips, tricks, and suggestions as you use Windows" is the main one. If you want to really dial it in you can also disable notifications for individual apps like Office or Edge on that page.

Note that if you're on Insider builds, there have sometimes been build-to-build update issues that reset some settings, which can result in this toggle being reset. IMO that's a serious bug you should report, but (hopefully) wouldn't make it to a stable release.

(disclaimer: MSFT employee on the Edge team)
I really wish comments like the GP were removed. It's like reading Comic Book Guy's thoughts.
>Editd

They rebranded to "Edited", but I can confirm that they have an amazing culture.
The reasonable statement to make from all this is simply that you don't like rogue-lite or rogue-like games.

The claims you made beyond that are invalid
In Apple-Spotify World, SoundCloud Can’t Find Room
Ask HN: Will Bitcoin price collapse again in 2017?
>I got tired of reading man pages to do simple stuff like change my clock

Oh lord, I used a WM I loved on my EeePC, until I wanted to change the clock from 24 hour time to 12 hour time. Three days later, I still couldn't get it to display properly. I can't remember which WM it was, I feel like it was the one that shipped with Crunchbang.
yes absolutely true ... so maybe it's over
The whole point of OPs remark was the payout is not the reason to work for a startup. (precisely because most startups never end in a payout)

There are many other reasons why a startup would be attractive to some people. Professional autonomy, personal growth and learning, different work culture to name a few. For many people, once you're earning "enough" to cover your expenses the pay difference between employers is worth the trade off.

In the end, unless you're founding the company yourself you're always working "to make someone else rich". That's completely irrelevant to your personal choice of employer.
2 thoughts there: Convenience trumps pretty much all other rationals in the decision making once a price point is reached. And we are still being feed ADSL instead of SDSL. Meaning that while your ISP and mine are maximizing the bandwidth they can sell, we are just seen as consummers. There might be a shifting point in the future for the consumer to be seen as a potential distributed hosting node. But this will leave the question of who is really owning the connection and therefore who is responsible in front of the law? The current context of internet data flow is very much a grey area.
The article says: "[the dog] was getting hit by peoples' bags and she was getting a lot of abuse."
> If you don't fail outright, the most common outcome from bootstrapping is often worse than raising VC or working for a VC-backed startup.

Anyone have stats on this?
True, I knew it was a different site, though I was a little vague - "other sites".
Don't think that the "operating system" for the internet of things is fully defined yet. Amazon is simply the first and the biggest mover. Google has also launched Home. Apple has Homekit. Interesting to see how it pans out
> I'm more curious to see the results of Amazon's 30 hr work week because I believe that includes developers.

I hope you're joking, otherwise you don't know Amazon at all. (source: I worked at AWS for six years)
I modified it a tad bit when you're downloading the html job files, (If that's what you're doing):

e.g.

m = re.match("\s(?P<company>[^|]+?)\s\|\s(?P<title>[^|]+?)\s\|\s(?P<locations>[^|]+?)\s\|\s*(?P<attrs>[^|]+?)$)?", "spencertechconsulting.com | web developer | New York | REMOTE, INTERNS")

EDIT:

You missed the last \| pipe symbol for separating the location group from the attribute group
Really? How much of the founders share got sold? And how much of a say did he have in this happening?

I see nothing but unfairness in this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduation
Much of it is likely intentional, particularly the taxi bit. See, for example: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/dc-taxis-discrimina...

ouch.
Capital is not abstract, capital is a production input (not sure the correct English name for this), the same as iron, concrete, flour, etc. You don't find any problems in paying for flour, do you? Then why is it a problem to pay for capital?

Another thing. State "capital" has been done, it's called communism (or heavy socialism), it doesn't work. Why not? Because the people making decisions on State "capital" do not get any of the downsides. You burn 50% of State owned capital? Who cares, it's not yours anyway.

And final one - managing capital is work! Knowing where to put your cash is work and it has a huge impact. Think how much of an impact can have somebody investing billions in space exploration (Musk?), or aging, or cancer. There are plenty of big trends worth investing that will give humanity as whole immense benefits (just look at the past 100 years).

Capitalism is not perfect, post-scarcity is a real threat, but the author is making the wrong arguments. The real problem is what people will do once we reach post-scarcity? What religions will they believe? What philosophies? How will they spend their time? Can they bear a life with 0 problems (I am not so sure I could)?
So now we have something to make our commit messages useful again?