skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I didn't downvote you, but I do feel like your comment ignores the elephant in the room. Your model ("takers rob makers with state") implicitly assumes something like a Labor Theory of Value, in which "value creation" always and only requires that a human being perform painful, undesirable labor. Within that model, the 20th century gave us all sorts of debates regarding job guarantees, job-creation programs by the government for stimulus, privatization, socialization, et cetera.

The whole point of proposing UBI, however, is that we now (almost) universally agree that the LTV is just plain false, and much "value creation" actually involves machines doing the work. We believe that if we impose work requirements by force on humans by depriving them of machines of their own, forcing them to compete with machines to survive, there will be immense human suffering for completely arbitrary reasons.

UBI is thus the moderate proposal to deal with the issue. The radical proposal is to give everyone whole or partial ownership of enough machines to supply for themselves, perhaps through some collective-ownership arrangement like a cooperative, commons trust, or the state.
As someone who runs like a roleplaying site for like ten people (or several of them), I cannot be responsible for other people's bank passwords, nor should I be punished for daring to host websites without the huge added burden of cost of HTTPS.

The notion that every homebrew website is supposed to support HTTPS is also never going to describe reality.
My biggest disappointment in Obama is that he spent 8 years trying politely to move things ahead where he could, while the opposing party decided on day one to completely reject any idea of compromise with him and say no to everything, even as the country headed towards depression.
Those may be the very same people who play music, build stages or give water to overly wasted kids at summer festivals. Or they might fix your motorbike better and cheaper than your local mechanic if you asked them to.

Or they might not. Either way, I wouldn't consider them any more harmful to society than those probably millions of people working very hard to shove ads into peoples faces ever more efficiently, or those bankers and accountants looking for loopholes to effectively steal from others. Or corrupt politicians whose only concern is filling their pockets. Or I could name a bunch of other mostly useless leech industries.

My point is, I think you are judging these people from a faulty perspective very much ingrained into our society, where one's usefulness to humanity is primarily judged based on how much money they can get their hands on either by stealing from others or selling their freedom to someone willing to pay for it, regardless of what value they actually contribute (if anything) as long as it's considered legal and they do so as part of the so called "workforce".

UBI would fundamentally change that by allowing people to spend time doing things they consider useful, rather than working for whatever gets food on the table, however useless it may actually be. Of course, for that to work, people need to be open to other people's ideas of useful and the currently dominant view of measuring usefulness in GDP or whatever may become obsolete.
Maybe most of the jobs in the factory will be performed by robots and not humans.
Having worked at SABRE its not as easy as you think, as there are a crapton of systems and people that depend on all that old stuff to keep running as it. SABRE has spent 30 years trying to modernize their mainframe based system piece by piece. But the core reservation system is actually highly available still, it's the modern bits that wind up less stable. The problem is that travel is a highly interconnected system of many different companies in which complexity is almost impossible to avoid. There are also many systems involved not visible to the public, such as weight balancing, crew scheduling, etc where even one of those failing and screw up airline travel worldwide. It's not always reservations or checkin that's broken, even something as simple as an airport system failing can have a domino affect all over the country.
Thank you mjolk! :)

- Have you tried pushing the more info button? When you do, it wil scroll down.

- Ah yeah, do you mean showing a list of nearby airports? We are working on that one :)

- Allright, i'll write that down!

- True, that would add a lot of value in terms of UX. We have that planned for the near future.

Thank you for your feedback!
I think this part is the key. They have $billions sitting in Ireland and elsewhere that they can't invest in US-based operations. If they could bring that back in under some sort of deal, that could mean massive investments, acquisitions, R&D, dividends, and a variety of other things I'm not qualified to guess.
Man, 25! That's when I just about actually started becoming an adult. You've not lost any time. And the fact that you are reflecting on your life now is a good start.

You have your entire adult life ahead of you. Take a little time to identify what you want to achieve over the next 2 years. Define realistic goals. Then, map out a step by step path to them. Get to work.

Take comfort in the fact that success is about a lot of little steps over time.. not one big step in an instant.

Its never too late. :)
I learned long ago that what I do, or do not believe is achievable, is not applicable to 99.99999% of the general population.
I remember waking up in my apartment, walking out onto the balcony, looking up and seeing the office windows (I lived across the street) and thinking that I had failed.

A week later I had my entire life packed into my car and drove across the country to be with my friends who knew me before I had sunk my life into trying to make the company happen.

Fortunately I still had some residual income from another part of the company that I hadn't sold, so I lived off that.

A year and a half in a bathrobe, letting friends pass thru my house, I found myself being asked to help a friend at his startup getting things off the groud, a contract gig, but cash and something back in the working world.

Life continues, its a very hard place to be on day one, but each day it gets better.

It is still an experience that I'd never trade. Ever.
Seems like Obama was put on a spot more than other presidents. He could say the right things, act the right way[1]; yet if at any point something negative came (drones, nsa) he would be bashed generously. People expect A+ from him and scream at an A-. The sad part is that Trump is said to have been elected because he was felt like a true person; I understand their sentiment, his mouth seems unfiltered, so he's a true nasty person but people still prefer that to someone that looks like 90% good samaritan.

[1] you can find lots of videos where he would adress antagonistic crowds peacefully and wisely. Lots of times where he showed caring (his behavior toward his wife) and a sane personality (cracking turkey jokes with his daugthers).
Due to an eyesight problem I run everything on dark background including theme, editors and web. I'm not sure if this makes me sleepy, but it is possible to try it. The best firefox addon for dark browsing is > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-backgrou...
I will never understand any defence of Trump in 2017, At this point, it's not about Hillary, it's all about Trump. It should be about who he is, what he is doing, what he is saying and what he plans to do.

And we have enough data to unequivocally reject the man as well as his rhetoric. Look at his cabinet. Look at his twitter feed. Look at this constant stream of lies. See how unprepared he is. Skate to where the puck is going and see how this ends.

In the time from when he won (by being the biggest losing winner) to when his actions taking office, there is literally no defence of this man.

He might have listened, and he heard exactly what he needed to say to his "marks" (this would be his term from the Art of the Deal) to win and then he got on with his real agenda: making himself and his friends obscenely wealthy at the expense of the rest of America and the world.
The Trump administration is giving bloggers and other online 'news outlets' previously unheard of press access and credentials. I would find these blogs and 'news' sources (I personally find their journalistic pedigree laughable) and aggressively track their headlines and content. Scrape all data and train neural networks on them to generate headlines and content. Either hire a cheap college student to do some quick once-over editing or do it yourself. Then, automate a publishing pipeline - it could be as simple as Lua script that samples from the NN and then pushes to a wordpress or blog. You can do all of this on a $750 dollar computer (just splurge on the GPU). The real trick is crafting the facebook posts. So I would watch to see what breaking news alerts happened and then tweak the generated content based on that and then dump a few dollars to promote the post that had a great headline + FB commentary, not to mention a catchy picture. Once you build an audience, ad money will roll in and I don't just mean AdWords. Focus on native content and tweak your generation algorithm for each brand sponsor you acquire (trust me, if you have a few thousand uniques a day you'll have people knocking on your door esp if its a conservative slant since more small business owners in America tend to lean that way). I've played around with generating Breitbart headlines and the results are sometimes scarily close to home. It's also key to generate "think pieces" and other opinion material so that way you can produce content that isn't necessarily "news" (and thus less reliant on 'timely' data which is expensive to acquire since it takes time to train the NN on new data) but are still able to propagate repeatable viewpoints/headlines i.e. 'facts' in our time, which is how you build your audience and revenue stream.

The genius part of this is that even if your cover is blown, you will be hailed as a thought leader because of your subversive enterprise. It has all the requisite crossover buzz: machine learning, fake news, alternative facts, 'bubbles', distrust of media etc. You can easily pick up some television and other media spots not to mention the tell-all piece for Vice or Esquire.

For inspiration and more information, read up on Vladislav Surkov. Also check out the latter half of the videogame Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, which not only predicted the rise of memes as political discourse, but also does an excellent job examining media disinformation techniques (in this case, the hysteria of Y2K) and the use of AI to control public conversation. Have fun.
No, they're shutting down coal plants.

Bloomberg: Beijing to Shut All Major Coal Power Plants to Cut Pollution

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-24/beijing-t...
I don't want to be dismissive of the concerns you've highlighted, they are certainly valid, and I'm no fan of Trump, and even less a fan of some of the people in his cabinet, but as someone who falls into some of the demographics you've listed (non-white, poor immigrant working on becoming middle class) I have more pressing concerns.

Don't get me wrong, mass surveillance, the continued and most likely expanded drug war, climate change skepticism, and a long list of other existential threats, all worry me, but they don't really worry me as much as housing costs, employment, not being killed by the Mexican gangs in my neighborhood, not being mugged while riding the metro, or being killed by the police because of mistaken identity and itchy trigger fingers.

Also, to clarify so there is no misunderstanding, when I mentioned Mexican gangs, I'm not using Mexican as an uniformed euphemism for Hispanic/Latino, I'm specifically talking about Mexican gangs who are active in targeting non-Mexicans, and in particular blacks, with violence to try and force us out of entire neighborhoods.

Again, this isn't to dismiss the valid concerns you've raised, just giving an example of things that concern me more immediately.
As a fellow tech worker in MA, I'm curious what you mean. Can you elaborate on your "second class citizens" statement?
I'd be happy enough if there were no apple. Overpriced crap, reality distortion field and an egomaniac running a wage fixing cartel operating the whole thing. No thanks.

I'll take some high speed rail though, please. Perhaps 100,000 new affordable apartments in New York and San Francisco too. Unless you think that there's no need and people wouldn't want them?
I'm not sure why you're putting 5 minutes per letter in there. I'm sure he's a well-read guy. It's not crazy to think he could get through a one page letter in a minute or less.
What's the other portion of traffic that's encrypted if you give them your private key?

Given a symmetric key, it can only be outgoing, but again - why would you do that on the server?
Do any popular Western apps collect the same range of data? I won't install the Facebook app because I don't really trust it. Wouldn't be surprised if they were suggesting friends based on Wi-Fi access points we're both nearby.
Being responsible for killing many kids over a long period of time is near the top of my list of despicable. If it's not near the top of yours then I agree we don't have any basis for a discussion.

Edit: Obama isn't the only one who thinks it's ok to kill kids in pursuit of their goals. Remeber when Madeleine Albright said it was worth the price of the death of 500,000 children to get Saddam? [1]. Obama is right up there with her.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnskeu-puE
The PhD is irrelevant. What is relevant is the experience of doing science in a rigorous fashion. Today's "data scientist in a box" lessons don't give people the basic understanding of how to approach a problem or even what a null hypothesis is. Some of the videos on Youtube make it seem like any correlation is relevant when they don't even know what they don't know.
It seems to me (as an outsider) that people in the U.S.A. now more than ever judge the President for what he symbolises. Perhaps this explains the power of constitutional monarchy (not advocating one system over the other; just an observation).
Awesome work guys!
Do you guys mind sharing what stack you use?
Wouldn't bother if the other side was not so hypocritical. It is interesting that it's just fine to make fun of someone's skin color if you identify with the faux outrage side. Name-calling is such a hallmark of Trumps opposition, it's hard to not point it out.
We're looking in to ways to solve this problem too. You're right that that's way easier on android, but we've found some tricks in iOS that might work too.
A UBI does not prevent anyone from getting work. It actually makes it easier to get work if you want to, because you don't have to compete against as many applicants because some of them would rather stay home and take care of their kids, or woodwork.
The article has sample letters, they don't seem overly long. Maybe figure 3 minutes average? So closer to 30?

Don't see any reason we should doubt it considering the apparatus that was in place to make sure he could and it was a stated goal.
I'm worried about the inter-generational effect of UBI. What happens to the kids in a family who plays WoW all day? What if neighbourhoods become segregated between workers and non-workers? How are kids going to learn to develop marketable skills and basic work ethic?
Honestly, this doesn't look to be a true test of who is better at poker. Poker is not like chess - a lot of emotions are involved in reading another players' cues (if he is touching his face, whether he is talking nervously, how quickly does he call all in etc.). Making all this computerized seems to take the spirit of poker away. It is like playing online poker which is an entirely different ball game vs. real poker.
Cop Sadistically Tases Homeless Man While He Was Surrendering
You readily acknowledge "Our Institutions have failed us" multiple times, but you're arguing they can't fail us again because of "The long history" - I think you're arguing against yourself. And while this is digging further into the past, you left out The Trail of Tears from your list - an iconic example of the president ignoring the law because he can. That man is now on our $20 bill, so it seems he's been rewarded by history.

Saying injustices happen and are eventually rectified is one thing (which seems to be your argument), saying injustices can never happen again is something completely different.
I am a researcher in Medical / Healthcare AI, and currently developing a Caffe like framework for learning from publicly available large claims dataset.[1]

I actually have a very pessimistic outlook. I think outside of few specific applications in Radiology and maybe pathology, AI/ML is unlikely to succeed in Medicine. Even Deep Mind which started its health division by building a Non-AI app. The major issue in medicine is figuring out the right kind of problem/intervention/interface.

Worse a lot of research in this field (outside of radiology) is pure hype. It typically involves researchers teaming up with their friends in university associated hospital to publish studies on private datasets which can never be reproduced. Why worry whether the problem definition is correct or clinically meaningful when you can claim anything and the community lets you get away with calling your work Deepest Patient or AI Doctor. This is why Physicians & medical researcher mock machine learning in healthcare research.

It is going to take another half a decade or even a decade untill unform EMR/EHR datasets become available. And some Imagenet style competition weeds out the current crop of GRU-LSTM-RNN-Stacked-Autoencode-GAE papers whose goal is to stuff resumes with "hot" keywords rather than actually improve the state of the art in an emiprical manner.

[1] https://github.com/AKSHAYUBHAT/ComputationalHealthcare
OSSEC has an agent that works on Windows and with configuration can do this stuff.
Real American wages increase with the dollar

I don't follow. I can see how the wage earners' buying power for imports improves with the dollar's rise against corresponding foreign currencies, but not a generalized wage increase.
Trumps stance on the intelligence community might be a good thing, as they all leave leaving the government with a desire but no experienced people to do the work. Of course that also leaves us wide open to be attacked. So maybe this causes a reset of sorts.
With “warm LEDs” I mean their color temperature, not their physical temperature. See the Wikipedia article on color temperature[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature
Hell, even shared hosting like Dreamhost which I use for a number of old projects I host for other people has built in LetsEncrypt functionality. I was setting up a WP blog for a family member the other day and saw the option and it was super easy. I've added to my backlog to go turn it on for all my other sites as soon as I've confirmed it won't break anything (ie. loading assets using absolute urls that use http. But even that is easy with this WP plugin I found that rewrites all url's you list in pages/posts and while it's probably meant for changing the URL of your blog from abc.com to def.com it works flawlessly with going from http://abc.com to https://abc.com).
I've been doing the dark backgrounds for years, due to being farsighted. I recently switched to a high-contrast theme, and it is way easier on the eyes. I think not all dark themes are equal when it comes to amount of work the eye muscles have to do.
Wouldn't he have quickly shuffled the US into signing the TPP, then, rather than boldly rejecting it (which was confirmed by WikiLeaks/Asian press today)?

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/823036353986359296
A thousand times yes.
Okay, so I'm equipped, but how do I find those jobs? By thew way, I'm making more than the 128 as a developer already, and not in expensive Cali, so is it even worth it?

I think any time you're talking with c-suite type people, the stress level is pretty high. That's been my experience anyways.
While Americans Focus on DC, Cops Unleash Fury on DAPL Water Protector Eviction
Why is it unfair? Both the human and computer players are unable to make reads on the other based on physical cues.
Obama went after whistleblowers more aggressively than any prior president, so that grounds the 'journalist' part
I've never seen a CTO write any code. That's not their job.
> And does anybody really put the comma separating initializers at the start of the line? Yuck.

I don't, but I can see why someone would. When you copy-paste initializer lines around (say, because you've re-ordered members in the declaration), a leftover trailing comma often leads to insanely painful compiler errors. Organizing the commas this way makes that less likely.
Some people receive responses, so if he wrote them himself you need to factor that in as well.
His actions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and Syria are despicable to me. As well as increases in the surveillance state, making the Bush "tax cuts for the rich" permanent, overthrowing a democratically elected government in Honduras, torture of whistleblowers (as opposed to going after those who extra judicially killed journalists in Iraq), and keeping Gitmo open.
This conflation creates division. The same occurs with a myriad of other issues. Someone could have supported Trump at the inauguration on Friday, marched in support of women's rights on Saturday, and been entirely consistent in the views they were espousing. However, a common viewpoint is that these are somehow mutually exclusive when in fact they are far from it.
Reducing trees to charcoal is not cost effective. It releases a ton of carbon dioxide by itself anyway. But it also doesn't make sense that we would plant trees, turn them into charcoal, and then bury that. This is insanely expensive and by the time you've got charcoal, you might as well burn that, too, rather than burying it and then digging up more coal to burn.
Deplorable Trump Bots Are Now Hawking Obama Merch
My advice is unless you can locate jobs doing ML stuff, it simply isn't worth it.
You're right, of course. And that's what I will try to do with current and future opportunities and choices. I appreciate the perspective and encouragement.
Thanks Sitharus, great to here :)

Yes true, we are from the Netherlands so also want to have temperatures as °C.

We made a little mistake by relating Fahrenheit to currency (USD). We'll fix that :)

May I ask where you're from?
Dreamhost is in that price range and has LetsEncrypt built in (it's just a checkbox when configuring the domain). I don't use them for my real projects but it's great for blogs and low traffic sites (a couple thousand users should fair fine I'd think).
I'm guessing they mean TSA Precheck. It's basically a little background check that allows you to largely skip the screening process.