skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US corn production may have started by feeding people, then animals, then substituting for other food (corn syrup>sugar), then being burned in cars. Which just shows people tend to find ever wider demand for products as they get cheaper.

Meat demand as price drops may end up in pet food or 'corn' flakes, but the usage does not really matter. In competitive markets producers tend to make a fixed percentage of sales as profits. Thus, increasing total sales tends to also increase industry profits.
> Doesn't necessarily prove the earlier point, but your rebuttal, qualifying yourself as "well-travelled", explicitly makes your perspective that of a minority's view.

Look at it this way: 'mjolk' could be well travelled within the United States and have a very good idea of Americans sentiments. Therefore (s)he could be confidently expressing a true statement. Also, being a minority voice is not an indicator of how truthful or accurate someone is. When people believed the Earth was flat, were the minority of thinkers who decided it was round any less credible?

You are right about the word libel though, it's the wrong word in this instance. I can't think of a better substitute better than 'generalizing' though.
There will be many effects (some positive, some negative) but I think you need to use your imagination more, and don't assume that what we have today is somehow natural.

On the margin this is increased freedom, security, and buying power for people at the bottom. How they would use it is hard to predict, but I think we can look at retirees to get some idea about which areas of the country become more popular.
Also agree. My programming languages course had me writing code in Racket, Julia, Erlang, Prolog, and Haskell, in addition to the languages that all students had to use for certain classes (C, C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, Assembly, and C#)
Firefox has a similar feature enabled in dev edition: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2017/01/20/communicating-t...
When the wind of change blows, some men build walls and some build windmills

- Chinese proverb
Problem #1: Minimum wage locks some people out of the workforce. If you aren't disabled, but your skills don't rise the value of 2x of the minimum wage (wage + payroll taxes + benefits), then you are locked out of finding any legal work. If you start to raise the minimum wage much higher than it already is, you will start to make some forms or work and some industries economically unfeasible.

Problem #2: Disability most definitely does not "work great". If you take disability, you can be charged with a felony for every seeking work again. It is a side-track to poverty for the remainder of your life, despite the fact that you may be re-employable at some time in the future (possibly due to innovations in technology or changes in the workforce). Additionally, despite the name of the program, not everyone who accepts "disability" (SSDI) is incapable of working. After trade deals like NAFTA, there is a structural change in some industries and regions that qualifies workers in that industry (usually ones where the trade deal is expected to offshore jobs) for "disability" even though their body and mind are perfectly capable of working again. It would be better to give them a UBI-like program which doesn't dis-incentivize them to permanently leave the workforce.

We have safety nets like "Section 8" (housing vouchers), "Food stamps" (grocery vouchers), unemployment insurance (UBI-like fixed payments), but each of these is a step function. As soon as you get a job that pays above the cut-off range, you lose the benefits and can have a net loss in purchasing power. A UBI to replace these programs is superior because there would no longer be a penalty for finding a job or making above the cut-off.
Yes. Auto makers don't build cars all by themselves in one single factory. There is a huge supply chain.

So initially supplier 'A' may create a non-standard item for a new niche car. Eventually they make it available for other cars too. As more and more manufacturers pick up the 'new item' for their cars, the cost of manufacturing starts coming down as economy of scale kicks in.

The above is just one example, my point is that non-standard items cost high to manufacture, and as others start to improvise/ replicate the cost starts to come down.
True, it might not be the case, although they do have the exact same beam search shift-reduce parser that mcparseface has (without the neural net).
That's literally what my router's login page does. It is a text box but has JavaScript which converts each non-* character into a * character and stores the actual value in a JS variable.

Why? They added a "Show Password" radio and I guess they figured this hack made more sense than simply using JS to update the DOM to turn it from a type password to a type text.
You have redefined the English language for your own propaganda purposes. This significantly degrades any chance of you being taken seriously.
what a great article, i had no idea that the alphabet worked that way
Interesting and accessible read. But, won't this stop working as soon as they change the pdf password and update the app? Although that's probably a bad idea because all the older versions of the app will stop working.
Brief history lesson, after WW1 has ended, there has been assembled League of Nations, predecessor to UN, for the sake of not repeating the same mistake again. However in 1930s it fall apart. Then WW2 happened. Afterwards, to avoid the same mistake UN was introduced. Which made Cold War - not nuclear Armageddon. So yeah now US decides to introduce this. I am getting a bunker.
I'm not even sure you can get in without a kid? Not totally sure the policy, but they at least discourage adults to keep evil scary men away from the kids. Something like a Dave and Buster's is a much better adult venue.
"Why should we others pay" is a worthy point, if the survival of the planet means anything, Of course. But, unfortunately, it turns out that half-assed parenting ends up costing society very dearly over time. By which I mean taxes and worse landing on your tab, anway. More jails, tons more depression and substance abuse, increasing illness and more. It's better to pay less, up front.
SIP is an interesting technology; very much replicates the traditional phone architecture of separated control/data planes, call setup and so on. But there's so many pieces to it that it ends up rather inaccessible to people looking to get started with it.
I think the one caveat to that point is then every department will argue they should handle their whole hiring process. It could then become that HR becomes decentralized and each department has it's own HR person. I don't know if this is good or bad.
"should be the same as giving them free bread, eggs, milk, some clothes and some movie tickets."

I wouldn't spend any of my UBI on any of those things.
It's not just workers learning a new thing. It's entire cities built around certain industries. Vast social and economic infrastructure built around those industries. And no guarantees that anyone will bother retooling all that local infrastructure for some new industry instead of simply building it somewhere else.
A fact-checking platforms' checking platform?
This made me appreciate how much a few degrees C of climate change matter:

http://xkcd.com/1732/

When the world climate was 4.3 degrees Celsius colder, Boston was covered under a mile-high sheet of ice.
How do you find people especially passive candidates and how do we waste less time in the process? Matching company and candidate expectations.
If it's a failure, this isn't widely known. Links?
Not to mention the class of dependent rich people.
Hmm, what I've always wondered: why can't I have the SSH public key of the server signed/certified the same way as a SSL public key?

That could e.g. allow me to specify "mark all SSH keys certified by company-internal CA as trusted" or putting the expected certificate into DNS...
Who is "we"? Who is "all"? Does this include migrants and undocumented aliens who do the dangerous jobs for low pay with no labor protections or civil rights? Or would they be excluded from the basic income? If they are excluded, and have no rights, but continue to perform the dirty jobs while the rest of "us" relax and benefit from their labor, how is that different from the system of chattel plantation slavery?
Wow, that is pretty fast. I played w/ doing CSV parsing taking advantage of SIMD string lookahead a while back ( https://gist.github.com/netshade/aa9e836e843c8e84b97a ) and found it to be quite fast as well, as I had assumed (perhaps wrongly) that the cost of navigating back and forth between the CPU and the GPU would erase any performance gains. I suspect ( it's been a while! ) that the SIMD approach would be faster than GPU, but tbh after working on it for a bit, then comparing it w/ mawk's (http://invisible-island.net/mawk/mawk.html) performance, mawk still beat my approach handily, and did it w/ way more functionality. Which is all to say that mawk is pretty amazing and worth checking out if you're in the market for parsing CSV fast.
Since all I knew of Wyoming is "Yellowstone", would geothermal be feasible there? It's renewable and cheap whenever possible.
Thank you. If my seizing my neighbor's extra car because I do not have one is theft, it is still theft if I convince a majority to pass a law take it for me. And it is enforced with the threat of (or actual) violence against my neighbor, if my neighbor refuses.
> high-end carmakers invest R&D

A lot of high-end carmakers these days are owned by big car-manufacturer conglomerates. For example, Volkswagen owns Lamborghini, Bugatti, Bentley, Audi, and Porsche; Chrysler owns Maserati and owned Ferrari until a couple years ago; Ford owned Jaguar and Aston Martin in the 90s and 00s. So the trickle-down is really very direct: From the luxury makes of a conglomerate into the consumer makes.
Packers vs Falcons Live Stream
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/watch-packers-vs-falcons-live...
My impression is that, in the US, you must be able to turn on electronics, or you will not get the chance to charge them, they will be disposed of.
Systematic Safety: The Principles Behind Vision Zero
> You're in the minority of US citizens.

Oh come off it -- I said within and outside of the US as a suggestion that I've met many people and that my view isn't representative of a 10km radius.

Americans even have other cultures built into their language and core identities (self-identifying as Irish-American, Italian-American, Native American, African-American). If you have a serious suggestion for how to improve something, make that suggestion and don't try to legitimize it by spewing insults as a smoke screen for a half=baked thesis.

> How is it "libel" to label a majority of a population something?

Because you're peddling an offensive fiction.

> If our regulations are a reflection of the population's positions (arguably, they are), then we're definitely afraid of people from other countries.

You can start by proving this. How are "we definitely afraid"?
I agree. It's not always the language which makes it tough to integrate yourself into a project, sometimes it's all the frameworks, libraries, build tools, and general makeup of the project itself.

I worked for a company a few years back doing ASP.NET (my experience is mostly Linux based tech, but you can pick up a language, right?). The language was fine, the design patterns used all quite standard, but the project had an array of frameworks and libraries which made maintaining it painstaking.

In fact, I think you worked on it too.
My interpretation of that episode was that the guest was largely _for_ UBI, so long as it replaced many of the current safety net / welfare programs (it is simpler to administer, doesn't require large bureaucracies to verify eligibility, and doesn't dis-incentivize people from getting a job and working their way up as do disability, unemployment insurance, section 8, food stamps, etc).

My interpretation was that the host wasn't sold on the idea nor on the low estimated tax increases required to fund a UBI (IIRC the guest stated 3-10% increases in income taxes and the host speculated more like 20+%).
This might explain what I've seen, which is that whenever I go home for the weekend and join my parent's wifi it somehow screws up the internet for everyone else in the house.
Well, I didn't claim to be a trained historian, which is probably the correct training for this type of work. Based on your temporal evidence, I must concede the point.

However, I did not actually pull this straight out of my ass:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/statist

Thanks for the history lesson (seriously). I learned from it.
Police Use Apples to Lure Elk from Colorado Gift Store
> an onKeyDown listener that cached each keystroke and inserted a into the field... sounds like a terrible solution in so many ways.

For anyone who is wondering what these ways are, here are a couple:

1) Backspace is a crufty special case

2) What happens when someone highlights text in the input box and types over it?
That's a research project, not a sustainable program. The putative benefits of UBI would only apply if it successfully takes the place of the "safety net" of programs already enacted.
"UBI is attempting to cloak itself in free market rhetoric, but it's bullshit."

I'm not a fan of UBI - but it's not 'bullshit' in the manner it's presented.

UBI is really a 'negative income tax' - and it was first proposed by 'Milton Freeman' - a super-duper free market capitalist.

If you take progressive taxation, then make the lower ends negative - you have UBI. The concept came from economists - not socialists.

But yes - it is being promoted as 'yet another form of redistribution' - but it is in many ways more economically sensible than some other ideas.
It's called a corvette
I dont commute to work in the morning, I work from home :). To address what I think is your point there is a difference between a road I pay taxes for and use/can as compared to giving money to an individual that you gain nothing from.

Also to me its not about taxes etc, its about the shift it would bring and the ramifications of having the government issue such a huge amount of money.
> Look, only one of the following can be true: (1) everyone can buy basic necessities of life, in which case nobody is poor and we don't need UBI, or (2) not everyone can buy the basic necessities of life.

We have discovered the source of the misunderstanding.

(2) was true, which means we need a UBI or welfare and we already have welfare, so (1) is now also true.

What we are discussing is replacing welfare with a UBI, which increases the incentive to find work over welfare because unlike welfare you don't lose the UBI when you get a job.
Usually that gets filed under theory or philosophy.
I don't know that it can be said to replicate traditional phone architecture at all, for two reasons:

1) Unlike H.323 and friends, SIP is the product of rather purely Internet-orientated/IETF thinking, not ITU. It was initially designed to set up multimedia "sessions" of various kinds (few prescriptions as to what kind) over the Internet in a rather generic sense.

Aspects of "traditional phone architecture" have been painstakingly grafted onto SIP, with mixed results. Certain things that have been taken for granted for decades are extraordinarily complex to do with SIP, such as bridged/shared line appearances on office PBX systems, because ...

2) ... SIP decentralises a lot of intelligence and state, taking it out of the phone switch (or PBX) and putting it in the endpoint/handset itself.

A traditional PBX system or Class 5 subscriber switch is very all-knowing, in the way that SCCP-based Call Manager is all-knowing. SIP puts a lot more responsibility on the endpoints, leading to distributed systems challenges.
Not exclusionary. Knowing it would be best to avoid being hit over the head by hammer, is not the same as experiencing being hit over the head with a hammer. Knowing you should avoid it and roughly why, and knowing what it's like when it happens are still very different things. (This is Bertrand Russell's distinction between "knowledge by description" and "knowledge by acquaintance.")
Collapsed: Learn lessons from failed startups
For a number of reasons that won't happen with existing plants, but the two bigs ones are that the plant economics are based on selling electricity to the grid and the operating cost of a nuclear plant today, makes for very expensive oil and gasoline (an equivalent of $125 - $150 barrel of crude oil prices). However if you built a nuclear plant that was specifically designed for F-T (so for example you used it to bring the F-T reactor up to 1300 degrees) you might be able to get the cost down to something a bit more competitive at the moment. The big advantage of course is that you could build such a plant with a 50 mile (80 km) radius (thus ensuring that even a Chernobyl style disaster would have not have long term effects on anyone outside of the safe zone) build a rail spur or a pipeline to exfiltrate the production.
That's the expected behaviour. Quoting from spec:

If no expression is present, -print shall be used as the expression. Otherwise, if the given expression does not contain any of the primaries -exec, -ok, or -print, the given expression shall be effectively replaced by:
( given_expression ) -print

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/fi...
We've got the same Republican section in NY state but it's the northern part. Their biggest complaint is that they're taxed too high and their level of services is too low. Of course, they're spread out up there compared to us in NYC, so their services cost a LOT more to deliver per service per capita. It basically puts us in a mirror situation with red vs blue states... mostly Democratic NYC population's taxes go to pay for the services of the mostly Republican upstate and the mostly Republican upstaters still complain that they pay too much for the services they get.
> (a) Move to Wyoming and outvote the existing population

Pollution and global warming are not a local effects. Therefore it should not be solely their decision. It should be regulated at a national or international level instead since it affects everyone. And well, obama tried but it didn't last.

So we should escalate:

(e) The international community takes action and imposes trade sanctions on wyoming or america. And if that fails resorts to an invasion.
Don't let it crash
Perhaps I am missing something - but I am not able to find any support for keyboard shortcuts…!

I tested on OS X (& briefly on the WEB), and expected CMD-N to generate a new note, TAB to change focus between tags, notes and the actual note, ESC to dismiss dialogs (the "Server" dialog) etc.

It looks as if it's 100% mouse-only driven at the moment - but otherwise it would be really nice to use it to store my notes on my own server AND be able to access across iOS, Mac Win etc - so I think there is great potential, but simply so not understand that keyboard shortcuts have not been thought into the application now it's a hacker-tool :-)

A good place to get inspiration for a web solution using keyboard shortcuts 100% is JIRA. just try to hit "." - it's just brilliant (I quickly got very addicted :-)
> How could they possibly have calculated these numbers accurately without having several CEOs of multinational companies ending up jail?

The same way that HSBC "assisted Iran and North Korea to circumvent US nuclear-weapons sanctions", "laundered at least $881 million in drugs proceeds through the U.S. financial system for international cartels [...] processing an additional $660 million for banks in US sanctioned countries" and "failed to monitor more than $670 billion in wire transfers and more than $9.4 billion in purchases of physical dollars from its Mexico unit." without anyone going to jail.[0]

And the same way that "around 20 banks" [...] "cost US states, counties, and local governments at least $6 billion in fraudulent interest payments, above $4 billion that state and local governments have already had to spend to unwind their positions exposed to rate manipulation." without anyone going to jail.[1]

Because the people in charge of the laws and their enforcement are friends with, or in some ways beholden to, the staggeringly rich corporate behemoths that are behind these flagrant illegalities. And seem to be committed to not only ensuring that no jail time is ever handed out, but that any fines that are levied instead are a fraction of the profits made, reducing them to "cost of doing business" expenses, rather than seriously punitive measures.

And if these companies are screwing over the US, UK, and other European governments, do you really think they're not totally fucking relatively less sophisticated (and possibly relatively more corrupt) governments completely up the ass?

These people are effectively beyond the law - that's how.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#2012_US_Senate_investigat...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal#Breadth_of_scand...
I believe the US Navy already have pilot plants for doing this on nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. It's too expensive for land use but much better than shipping across potentially hostile waters.

(Gasoline on US bases in Afghanistan ended up costing something more than $100/USgal, due to being taken overland several thousand miles through Pakistan under armed escort due to occasional Taliban attack.)
Short intro to C++ for Rust developers: Ownership and Borrowing
toyota mrs
I agree there's potential in its use, but what I'm afraid of is 1) the high nutrient requirements needed to grow the biochar at a scale useful to offset global warming, and 2) Biochar is basically coal, which could be burned and converted into CO2 again.
A basic income wont solve any problems in a sustainable way as long as governments exist: https://blog.kareldonk.com/governments-and-basic-income-why-...
The US tax charts are reported in thousands, so 2.6 trillion / 323 million = 8k per person, not 8
Your first link, the numbers are in thousands of dollars so the correct amount is $2,690,755,432,000 nearly 3 trillion dollars.
It's not necessarily for propaganda purposes, but I agree that this is a highly nonstandard terminology and it's not obvious to me that it improves anyone's ability to communicate.
> FLOSS phone ecosystem will be hard to next to impossible, in my opinion, but worth going into

You can run Android without gapps fairly well, I believe there's even a project that replaces gapps and uses xposed to fake signatures so that they look legitimate to replace Google Maps and other in-app widgets frequently used on Android. Or you can run with GApps if you're willing to tolerate some level of proprietary software.

FLOSS on phones is actually in a quite good state, F-Droid is pretty good, many well maintained open source roms. Better than most other platforms.
This is a good point. A new WRX is probably more capable, and would probably compare favorably, to pretty high end cars from 15-20 years ago.
Autopsy: Lessons from Failed Startups
> , is that the TSA will somehow find your online Hacker News profile and single you out next time you try and fly.

Not hacker news, but my "anonymous" online postings that were anti-TSA most certainly affected my travel experience. And I'm not talking radical activist postings. Just real world bs postings about my continued bad experiences, and my personal opinions such as the one in my original post.
Perhaps for gaming, but I see augmented reality's main use in replacing TVs, projectors, monitors, displays, phones. I think VR is for gaming, I think AR will be one of the biggest productivity tools ever created.