skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your proposal gets the math a lot closer, although I thought social security paid more than 7k/yr... so now grandma has to take a haircut on her income and pay for Healthcare out of pocket too. I'm no social security lover but that seems extreme.

The allure of UBI is interesting but I've never figured out how the math works out without making sizable reductions in quality of life for significant chunks of the population. The money has to come from somewhere... I think UBI works out to be worse than zero sum economically.

Anyway I've always been a firm believer that if you can't come up with a compelling and largely accurate back of the envelope justification for your story, you're not going to get many adherents.
> It boggles my mind that we consider the US a first-world country when I read things like this.

We had a hospital stay before the birth, emergency c-section (the cord was around my son's neck), hospital stay after the birth, and about 2 weeks of him staying in the neonatal ICU. I think the bill came to around $30,000 (covered by insurance), and I think we paid a couple of $20 copays.

> And the leaving the house/car part I also don't follow.

Exponential? No, but I don't think anyone claimed that. But compared to a couple going out, a couple and a child takes several times more time to do each step. Everything takes more planning, and nothing is completely spontaneous.
Hate to be dumb, but what exactly is a 'high entropy string'? Thanks in advance.

EDIT:
I see now.
http://blogs.splunk.com/2015/10/01/random-words-on-entropy-a...

So you're looking for hashes gotcha.
Hacker news job posts would be a good place to start.
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Away we go?
Side note, this was issued previously on DVD, although now that's out of print. It's since been reissued on DVD with an accompanying book: https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Ra-Space-Place-Limited/dp/0986115...
The U.S. is not as nice a place to live as other rich nations.

Funny that the waiting list to immigrate to the US can be decades long. I guess those people are just too stupid to know how bad it is in the US?

Also, I immigrated to the US from one of those other rich countries and I think quality of life is better in the US (but it's all a personal preference).
I would throw in the failure to deal with the economic impacts of their single unified currency. The eurozone ties the poorer states to the richer states, they serve as a forced export market and cannot depreciate their currencies to provide labor-intensive products/services. They clearly need capital transfers to shore up the budgets of the poorer states (or direct spending to relieve some of the basic burdens of infrastructure/medical care/etc). The US accomplishes this with Federal spending - the coastal states have booming economies that pay much more in Federal taxes than they received in Federal spending; that money goes to the poorer states in the heartland and midwest.

You don't act like a single nation either. When a hurricane hits the US we don't worry about who foots the bill, we collectively respond at the Federal level to solve the problem, in the expectation that if we ourselves have a similar disaster then everyone will step in for that too. You can't say that about, say, the refugee crisis in the EU, which has entirely been lumped onto the backs of the states least able to afford to deal with it.

Basically the EU's problems are fundamentally the same as those of the Articles of Confederation. You can run down the list: no Federal military force, no Federal ability to tax and spend, a body of members who espouse values of unity but actually stand for the values of their own independence and sovereignty, who work against each other every step of the way if it'll mean a bigger slice of the pie for themselves, etc. Fundamentally you still view yourselves as sovereign nations and national citizens, rather than Euro Member States and Euro Citizens.

Honestly what the EU really comes down to is a bunch of tiny, insignificant states who think they deserve a seat at the grown-ups table of international politics but are unwilling to make the sacrifices they need to get there. You don't have one foreign policy, you have 28 foreign policies, and the same thing internally.

The EU is first and foremost an experiment in integration of economic and foreign policy, it clearly doesn't work at that. If you want to be a United States of Europe, then you need a Federal government with some authority. If all you want is European Peace, can't that be handled at the United Nations?
Maybe the desire to call them "data models" is an argument that the relational model doesn't really belong in this essay, because it really is much more of a data model (abstractly describing an ontology of mathematical objects) than a memory model (describing how to map that ontology onto bytes in memory).

I will have to think more about your comment.
> In every company I've worked in the CEO has had a cubicle with the rest of us

Hehe, still, I'm sure he was near the corner and was close to the window right ? :)
This might be the most pertinent thing he has ever said. But when he says "If you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier.", it is not entirely safe, one still need encryption because mail can be intercepted.
Hong Kong has the second most expensive real estate in the world, per square foot. [0]

That being said, HKers have done a better job of adjusting to this by making (tiny) apartments available whereas in SF you're forced to pay more for a bigger space.

[0] http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-most-expensive-cities...
My advice is simple : lists.

Write them. Read them. Live them.

If you see social interaction closely (but not too closely), you will notice it is best kept uncomplicated, low on substance and meaning with absolutely no expectations from others or from you and the attempt to finding a faint sense of connection.

With this in mind, you will realize, uncomplicated things are usually obvious and hence go unnoticed like what you wore to work on the last day of 2016. Thats a conversation starter right there.

When stereotyped, new years eve is about partying or just staying home or something else. Either can continue the conversation further for a couple more sentences.

And if all you care about is telling this to someone you bump into at the water cooler, you're likely to hear something similarly dumb and irrelevant to you.

But, lo and behold, you just had a social interaction. Uncomplicated, light, useless and just that.

Unfortunately, right now, you won't get things to talk about off the top of your mind. So making a list is a life saver.

Here are a few samples:
TVs have gotten slimmer over the years. But not people.
Being a traveller vs a tourist
How your teacher from 4th grade looks so similar to someone you bumped into on your way here.
Indian food.

Each can be connected to the next in more than 3 ways if you think :)

After 20 conversations like these, you'll just get good at them. And since you have a list of good conversations, you can always fall back to tried and tested ones. One misconception is that social interaction should just be natural. Puh-lease. Just do this, feel better and do what you really should be doing.
I don't take issue with finding common ground, or revising regulation. I will even acknowledge that regulations are slower to change than private actors are at innovating. Which is a problem.

I agree with you that grey markets can show an inherent problem with a regulatory regime and should be viewed as providing useful information. That being said, people will always break the law, that doesn't, by itself mean there should be no law, the question is what is the right balance given the competing objectives.

But I think your examples are excellent. Regulation can definitely go to far, have unintended consequences, and create real social harm. The problem is that what is ok changes over time; right now we are comfortable with using cadavers for research, but society was not at the time due to certain beliefs in place. Perhaps we will have a similar change with stem cell research in the future such that some of the current restrictions will seem similarly antiquated. But to say that both were inherently irrational is not a fair reading of facts or history. My point is that its good to debate what regulation is beneficial and revisit the debate regularly.

There will always be a tension here, regulation to protect social interests, and freedom to allow individual commerce, and that is ok, society should always reevaluate its structure as should any organization. I am merely reacting against the impulse to eliminate ALL regulations or say that business models that ignore relevant regulations are valid and superior.

For the record, I am actually a big fan of AirBnB, and use it regularly. I support their mission, I just think we have to be honest about the sources of their success, a part of which is a unique, better product, but a part of which is due to regulatory arbitrage. If we are not honest, we cant learn from what they have done and replicate it in other sectors. If my company takes the same approach in health care, I would go to jail, so why should we encourage this mind set for others reading hacker news?
Why would that be?

I built a company on translating academia research to business so I can totally relate to that feeling. I consider that a company exists to provide value to its consumers. If a simple linear regression provides value, why go the DL route?

I am absolutely not saying that DL has no use-case, we use it internally and on customers projects, I am just arguing that if decades old stuff does the job, don't bother with DL, in particular because applied DL is indeed very hard.

To me, it is like an extension of the "if it aint broke, don't fix it" philosophy: "if it can be fixed with a simple solution, dont over-engineer".

I often hear young software engineers laugh about banks still using COBOL for their core business. COBOL is lame, it's monolothic, etc. It may be all fashioned (and the little COBOL I've done I've hated it :-) ) but it goddamn works, why touch it and risk breaking stuff?

If a new technology efficiently solves a use-case then fine, go for it, but I hate the "hype" phenomenon. For instance, about 5 years, the hype was RoR, 2 years ago Scala, now it's DL and Pony, etc... I do some pretty nice DL, it's useful. I really like the concepts of Pony. But I'm not going to promote a deep learning framework in Pony to replace SWIFT money transfer, even though I'd be ticking many boxes of hype with that...
Oops sorry! It was late..:)
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>the content of the pre-convention leaked emails

Such as? Further, one person leaking emails is a far cry from "the DNC" being against him. You cannot blame the organization for actions of individuals.

>act of writing and discussing the contents of those emails

But it is absurd to be upset by internal discussions that resulted in no action against the Sander's campaign. When I ask for what action the DNC took as an organization, it is in this manner that I am asking the question. Internal emails does not constitute "actively working against the Sanders campaign". Such a characterization is blatant dishonesty.
very yes.
RTTI and unwind adds an unacceptable size bloat on embedded. (in some cases). As does "academic" use of templates.

Reasoning about code that can throw is almost like COMEFROM. Instead, on any serious bad (oom, etc) process aborts and is restarted.

OTOH, lambdas for callbacks helps writing decoupled interfaces a lot.
>Fact is, if you use SMTP, you can only see if the content is encrypted or not once you receive part of it.

Then don't put your users at risk by using SMTP.

>The techniques I mentioned are to reduce the risk of these (partial) plaintexts being captured, but should be paired with a refusal to deliver.

Techniques you mentioned are nothing more than pointless showmanship, which you'll cease as soon as the government asks you to.

>There's no way to stop a user's contacts sending plaintext emails for all the ISP's/intelligence agencies to see

Which is why you shouldn't put them in a situation where they will inevitably do so.

>Unless you drop SMTP altogether.

If you're going to launch a service that advertises secure communications, you have to. Otherwise you're just endangering your users, just like lavabit did.

We're not talking hypotheticals here. Lavabit already fucked over their users trying to pull silliness like this.
A string that is close to random noise. Low repetition. Like what you would find in a randomly generated cryptographic key.
this paper still consistently blows my mind whenever it is brought up. the future is clearly headed for complete end-to-end learning systems, maybe even with learning to learn methods. https://youtu.be/x1kf4Zojtb0?t=1h4m54s
SEEKING LIFE - World,
I wouldn't spend one second filling your stupid pockets with more money if my life depended on it.
I spoke to the author and she said:

"You are right that there is lot of evidence that the expectation of reciprocity strengthens the loop, but there is also evidence that non-cooperators can take
advantage of that expectation and ultimately weaken the loop; they break the virtuous circle of trust and trustworthiness. The sentence you cite signals the possibility of such conditions."

Which makes sense of course, parasitism is definitely a failure mode.
You have two random systems on opposite sides of various NATs or other awkward network topologies, and you want to move data between them.
Assuming something (that you care about) works a certain way without verifying the assumption is amateur hour.

Why would NIST have servers in Europe? Almost all of the big national standards institutes have publicly available time servers, NPL for UK, INRIM for Italy, etc.
Yup, that's really why I'd only consider living there if I'd acquired a decent amount of wealth already (at least $1M USD).

Hopefully the boom will end at some point making it affordable again, but I don't hold out much hope for that.
That would be true if there were enough social mobility, and that's I think the American dream: that your wealth is directly related to your tenacity / hard work. Unfortunately that's not really the case, as money is hard to gain for those without opportunities and easy to keep for those born into it.
It is infact using `Accept-Language`-header and `lang`-cookie as seen in this[1] file on line 168, 184 and 196. This is according to W3C[2] a good starting point :)

[1] https://github.com/go-macaron/i18n/blob/ef57533c3b0fc2d8581d...
[2] https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-accept-lang-lo...
So let's go through a hypothetical situation:

A has friend 1 and 2. He vets them, checks their ID, goes to a key-signing party, trusts that they are 1 and 2 with his life.

Now he gets an email from "5000" who claims that he's from the IRS and needs to know information from you.

You look up this "5000"s signature.

Now, none of A's friends work in the IRS, but "5000" was signed by "500","302","201" and another 500 people.

"302" was signed by "23", "23" was signed by "2".

Should "A" send him the info?

Theoretically, he can call "2", ask him how "2" knows "23", then call "23" on behalf of "2", and so on.

But he doesn't know if "23" is honest, and all the more so "302".

And what if "302" says that he knows who he is because he self-identified as "5000 from the IRS" at a bar?

Too much thinking.

Now imagine A is the kind of person who downloads EXEs to view cat pictures?
Wow, what a well explained blog and pretty impressive that it doesn't need more hacking to get it to work! EGPU is really an exciting future!
You just need to fix the educational system.
I was not aware of this; I assumed it was read-only except for reset flags, thank you for pointing this out.
$500 for the PearlVision product and you have to supply your own phone for the display. That is some hefty markup. You can get some decent ones that include a display in the range of $50-$150 on Amazon.
> I'm so fucking jealous

Don't be.

They've had to work insanely hard to get into and finish Harvard, only to be granted hundreds k of debt. Then they had to work their ass harder to get into hard-to-get into-companies and acquire the experience required to get into even harder-to-get-into companies (i.e. investment banking). After a decade, they're finally there and all they got is long hours, too much responsibilities and no free food.
> Deep learning practitioners are aware that they're using non-convex optimization

It really depends. It's now perfectly possible to use deep learning as a black box, and I've already seen many people use it that way.

Just like you don't have to know how a web-browser works to be a web-programmer, you don't have to know how deep learning works to (e.g.) train a classifier.
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Sweden is a member of WIPO, too, and it's laws incorporate the same copyright treaties that the US does.

http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/profile.jsp?code=SE
At my local Safeway one employee manages 6 self checkouts whereas the traditional checkouts each require 2 - one cashier and one to pack. Also the line moves much faster in the self checkout.

Sure there are edge cases but on an average you still save a lot of time/money.
Which is fine, but for the uninitiated they can translate this into disinterest. Make sure she's not confused. In some sense you're better off actually saying something along the lines of what you're thinking; quite literally "it's not you, it's me - I need to go recharge my batteries". It's also useful to figure out a way to be alone together. Instead of 2 hours expecting a conversation the whole time; structure it as maybe 4 hours with intermittent conversation, mostly doing your own thing, but in a shared space.
I can't speak to the history of the term, unfortunately, but the term poaching in a hunting context means more than just killing an animal illegally; it has a connotation of trespassing to gain something otherwise inaccessible. Employee poaching has the same connotation because the former employee uses their familiarity with the old company to hire employees that other companies can't access as easily.
> Yes; as vegetarians - not vegans.

They are lactovegetarians who have utmost respect for cows. I'm actually 100% ok with this setup, if this is achieved, I'm ok with not going full vegan.