skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes me wonder if basic income can't get passed in Finland with a constituency that should (in theory) be in favor, what chances does it have in the rest of the world where dynamics are aligned against it?

Decades before we see it in the US?
But they're stuck with two distinct platforms: iOS (touch) and macOS (non-touch) while the hardware the world wants is not so binary. Basically, that we can't touch the screens of the high cost workstations and laptops where we do our creative work, kind of brings down the whole ecosystem.
This deserves a better, less clickbaity (which I think has the opposite to intended affect with this audience) title.

Particularly towards the end, s/he comes across extremely self-aware, and makes some salient points around the state of school CS education in the UK. It certainly resonated with my experience.
Not to mention that PFSensenormalizes a lot of management. It provides an easy mechanism to queue changes and apply them, lof when changes were made and what the changes were, etc.

In a previous job we used to deploy OpenBSD firewalls to provide site-to-site VPNs. We switched to PFSense because management was easier when you have 10-20 of them to deal with, and multiple people might have access.

That said, we definitely would have preferred an equivalent interface on top of OpenBSD instead of FreeBSD. There were some differences in the CARP implementation in FreeBSD that made some features of CARP we relied on with OpenBSD unavailable in FreeBSD, and thus PFSense.
Syntax differences between pf and ipchains/iptables are why I chose OpenBSD on my firewall so many years ago.
>Of course, there's no guarantee of integrity,

Exactly. It's been a decade since I've used Usenet but I remember there were always tons of messages complaining, "part43.rar and part62.rar is missing please reupload!!!"

As another anecdote, I personally posted a huge list of AWK one-liners 20 years ago to Usenet (comp.lang.awk) and I can't even retrieve that message. That's just pure ASCII text (probably less than 2k) and even the Google Groups (dejanews acquisition) archives don't have it.
Facebook commits to audit its ad metrics by the Media Rating Council
I asked because I am trying to gauge the user experience that he/she had in calling their representatives versus mine. Mine spent a considerable amount of time with me and asked my zip code. For the representatives aide to not ask for any identifying information led to my asking the area code question, the person receiving the call may have used it as a crib to put them as within the representatives area.
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If a side-effect of UBI is the retreat of the 24/7 economy, it would be a plus.
All I see is "WF" in a box.
Truly terrible, but consistent with the Economist. I don't want to bring Trump into every comment; but with "solutions" like this floating around and decision making based on an unemployment statistic - not happiness, job fulfilment, job challenge or job earning potential - you can really see why he picked up the votes.
Nobody cares about data junk. Especially your personal data junk if it is all encrypted. I don't think that a lot of persons will look at your data there. If this sort of good encryption you consider for public cloud backups breaks we have a lot more problems than exposed backups.
My prediction was that the article would talk about: abstraction, application, and variables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus
You might not need the equity to invest in a medical degree, aside from cost of living and some pre-med catchup. Many states offer free medical education if you are willing to serve an underprivileged population for 5 years. I researched for a bit. Parts of Indianapolis, a fairly metropolitan city, count as under served. I don't think you get cost of living, but you might be able to find a similar grant that pairs with the free schooling.
Idea: An open source peer-to-peer backup service where data is encrypted and backed up in pieces across countless systems around the globe. No one person had your data but in some way it would be guaranteed your data would always be available. Everyone who uses the backup service would be required to also accept data pieces for backup.
Maybe they also implemented a better navigation algorithm as part of this? The media likes to reduce everything down to soundbites, but IIRC, this is a rather large effort within UPS to improve routes in general. The left hand turn optimization was just one of the outcomes of this.
You don't have to use pfSense, you can use pf directly and just configure the box yourself.
Abolishing welfare is the argument that makes it palatable (affordable). But the reason is simpler: automation will put almost all of us out of work. What then? Spiraling consumerism where we all need personal nail polishers? Return to sedan chairs in downtown districts? Abolish home kitchens so we all have to eat out and support chefs?

Or, let the robots lift the yoke of labor from our shoulders forever, and turn to other pursuits.
He was manipulating the market by generating large sell orders. This would drop prices (because others can see that some stock is being rapidly sold off -- especially by high-frequency traders or other automated programs who will also start selling). He would then cancel these orders to buy at the new low prices. This is called spoofing orders.

It was a large reason for the crash (though not the only component in my opinion) because these orders amounted to $200 million worth of bets that the market would fall and they were replaced or modified 19,000 times. And of course this is just one person. The market involves multiple people so you can imagine how much money was at stake here.
My biggest issue was with server rendered applications.

Thanks, this is what I'm talking about too (server-side web apps), I've found it a good fit, but do understand the initial difficulties with html/template - it is not very user friendly and was not designed for the sort of layout/partial arrangement that almost every web framework uses, however it can be used in that way with a little tweaking. That data has to be retrieved somehow though for the sidebar say, so I don't mind having to pass it in explicitly - it at least makes all the work being done explicit.

Agreed on the frameworks issue, frankly I find the hostility to frameworks on places like /r/golang tiresome and cultish - there is the kernel of a good idea in rejecting frameworks (they can after all straightjacket your code and invert control), but there can be many benefits to them and they provide essential pointers for those new to the language. I think for Go to grow it does need people to start to coalesce around solutions so that beginners don't have to reinvent rails again for every app or (worse IMO) start using JS for frontend and Go for backend - then you have two problems (or 400,000 if you use npm). I prefer server-side only and am happy with Go for that.

Elixir is on my list to check out, thanks for the link.
Los Angeles' Measure S would block over 19,000 planned housing units
If you posted something in the last 6-8 years or so it'll be readily available. Around that point most of the big commercial usenet providers just kept growing their storage without stopping. Drives got that cheap.

With something like backups though, it's expected you'll be regularly updating them, so the retention won't be a huge issue anyways as you'd probably prune old ones even if you were paying to store them.
I wonder if there's a FF add-on that can strip query parameters by default on a cross-domain request?
FYI. It took me eight months to truly quit and not miss it.

(Fast forward two years and I'm hooked again. Turns out adding a few drops of caffeinated coffee to your decaf cup will gradually snowball into full caff cups.)
Common problem is these people (who just do their job and make no trouble) are often seen as useless - you don't hear much about them anyway, what are they getting money for at all?? And the fact that their stuff just works makes many people think that they were just lucky to work on much simpler stuff than others - and you know, when code is done and works, especially a high quality code - it looks very simple, a buggy spaghetti code looks a lot more complicated and someone writing it usually has an easy time explaining a non-technical manager that he is working on very complex stuff...
This criticism seems a bit misplaced levied against Vice. Their whole deal is edginess, defying the norms you think they should embody. Ignore them if you like, but it seems weird to say they should be fundamnentally something else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_(magazine)#History
1) Guccifer2.0 appeared a few days after the DNC found out they had been compromised and Wikileaks announced upcoming DNC releases.

2) Nothing Guccifer2.0 personally released was either actually harmful to the DNC nor exciting.

3) Everything tying Guccifer2.0 to Russia was simple things anyone in the world could do.

4) Guccifer2.0 first document releases contain metadata showing they were modified minutes before by a tech guy who worked for democrat campaigns.

Article postulates that Guccifer2.0 was a front to discredit the real leaks that had happened and point attention to Russia.
Your ellipsis suggests to are disagreeing with the original comment, else what you wrote is just a truism. The point of the original comment was that it was authorized by default as intended by design, and thus not a "hack."
Has anyone experience with that in practice? What are the data limits on this kind of backups?
It's a well-overloaded term.
There's some contention about the terms "hacking" and "cracking", as you might know.
That's why we shouldn't have an insurance based system. Like Ron Paul (who has been a medical doctor since the early 1960s) says, health insurance should be for catastrophic medical events, not for routine checkups and minor ailments and illnesses.
There are only two kinds of scenarios that I've seen people do this where it might be vaguely acceptable:

1. Where it is impossible for the developer to test the change himself. For instance, if the bug is not reproducible by the developer due to some difference between the production and development environment that he lacks concrete information about (e.g. external customer). In which case, the developer should test that it didn't break his own system in some additional way and should at least warn the customer that there's no guarantee it'll work.

2. If you are under some contractual obligation to ship on a particular date, and the thing you are shipping is going to be a giant bug ridden turd anyway due to time constraints caused by poor project management. This is not ideal at all, and not something to take any pride in doing, but it may be passably acceptable to cut corners like this if management tells you to because otherwise your employer is going to lose money for not delivering. Especially if you have a "defect release" planned in the contracted schedule later on anyway (e.g. because all parties to the contract already know the schedule is going to produce a turd and planned accordingly).
I reckon that's closer to "goal-based programming" (the proposed "missing" fourth programming paradigm on that page). Basically (as I interpret it at least) defining test cases / behavior specifications for what you want the software to do, then letting an artificially-intelligent sort of "autoprogrammer" automagically generate a program that conforms to that specification.

Software like Cucumber [0] might be part of that particular paradigm once the missing pieces around AI/ML take proper form.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber_(software)
I've seen plenty of evidence of paid protesters. Not sure why you have to act like a jerk.
You hit on a problem I hear from my high school teacher girlfriend. It typically looks like:

1. One or several motivated schools attempt a new style of teaching / grading / curriculum.
2. It succeeds amazingly.
3. Other schools rush to grab some of that success.

The issue is that the causality between #1 and #2 is: "A motivated admin & teaching staff all working in the same direction can improve outcomes". While #3 is assuming: "a magic curriculum will do it for us".

Then after adopting the new-hotness fails, repeat with another new idea.
Ugh, this is just a terrible conflation. And it ignores very real and well-understood union tactics like this. You can be pro- or anti- union all you want but if you don't think unions seek out individuals to use as essentially "seeds" for a union - including paying them - you're woefully naive.
What's a "normal" history class? Is that sufficient to impart the attitude on the population at large?

The USA is, on the whole, an extremely, extremely unrepentant country. Your average american will admit to a good number of crimes, but immediately contextualize so as to not really feel guilt about it. "Why should I pay for the crimes of my ancestors" type stuff, a disconnect from te past.

This is why talk of e.g: reparations is incredibly, incredibly controversial.
It can. It depends on the source of the money. If the government just prints more money to increase everybody's bottom line, then it would be an inflationary pressure for sure.
At least 1 year, which is ages for an employer.
See also: Public Choice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice
I think Dayshine is disagreeing with the 'interesting' or 'novel' requirement of the top level comment.
I'm all for monero, and have been keeping my eye on its development.

An important aspect of a private cryptocurrency is fungibility, which is something that only a truly private currency can provide. Bitcoin's public ledger means that coins found to be used for illegal purposes can be seized. This creates a greater demand for newly mined coins, and a lesser demand for older coins. Monero's transactions are hidden by their nature, so each monero is of equal value.
Same reason VR flopped in the late '90s. It's a cool gimmick, but people don't generally want to own it. Just like the last wave of VR, it will live on in niche applications. Spending time in VR means putting actual reality completely on hold. That makes people uncomfortable; we're much happier being distracted than being blinkered.
So everything has been running in successively more nested layers of virtual machine, ever since the Magna Carta. What we need is for someone to start a "rust for civilization" project.

Further thought: could the thing that's happening be that money is getting less real? So it takes more of it to "push the string."

To me it seems that heavy redistribution, with high taxes and a basic income, could help make money more real.

One has to trust the opportunity landscape has shifted due to the Internet, and now capital accumulation is not a requirement for innovation. Otherwise it looks really scary to tamp down on the idea of capital accumulation. Especially to the bankers, who might be out of a job.
Smlr
I think it's more that the port of Windows to phones was so broken that they saw that there is no way they will get the platform into a stable state in the next year. It..just..so..broken.

I had a lumia 950 and with the crashes, lack of apps and UX horror I bought a OnePlus after 2 months amd never regreted it.

I heard that Windows Phone 7 was nice and everything went downhill with WP8 but I wouldnt know personally
Why would we need H1Bs for fresh graduates, unless they are graduates in some very niche speciality (maybe machine learning?). Aren't H1Bs for skilled workers where they can't find an American equivalent? Is it really the case that there aren't enough fresh American grads graduating every year?
We've seen recently that it can be checked. Our hope is that those that with the ability to check him continue to do so.
Here's a pretty good one from 40 years earlier.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6xhFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA382#v=...
Related to this:

My favorite is "We are experiencing an elevated level of errors" Which almost always translates to "This service is completely down!"

Although, with that said, they are not lying. 100% failure is "elevated" from "0"
"world leaders have a cure for cancer": Made up nonsense.

"Russian hacking": Allegation supported by multiple law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Moving around with hjkl is a bad habit to be discouraged. It's not the vi way.

Well, j and k are fine if you're not moving far. A lot of slow scrolling up and down should be { and } or C-d and C-u or <count>[jk]. Even better: Use / and ?. It's bad to be repeatedly tapping j and k or waiting for the keys to repeat.

But h and l are the EMACS approach. You should be moving in a line with w, e, b, f, F, t, T, ^, $, I, A, 0, and the like. Vi provides lots of tools for efficient line editing and h and l are not good.

Beginners should try

:noremap h <nop>
:noremap l <nop>

to keep them from the temptation of the nefarious h and l keys.

Lately I use

:no h ^
:no l $

which is even better because ^ and $ require moving your hands off the home row even though they're much better than h and l for you.
http://jonasholm.com/3G%20Auctions%20Jonas%20Holm%20061103.p... has a chart showing the differences across Europe (page 9)

Germany and the U.K. got over €600 per capita, several others less than half that. Part of that seems to be that companies are more eager to win in larger markets; part of it also is timing and/or the design of the auctions.

One can argue that getting more money out this action is a loss for the governments selling the spectrum licenses, as it made it left the winners with less money to roll out a network that covers the country, and left consumers with higher prices. That's why page 17 judges the NL auction to be a "moderate fiasco (?)"; with, basically, 5 buyers buying 5 licenses that weren't that different, it didn't bring in that much, but it didn't drive up prices later.
Maybe you have not read the article closely. You normally have a bunch of .par2 files (my knowledge is also 10 years old) which can repair your missing files/parts when the amount of loss is smaller than the size of all (non broken) .par2 files.
I would consider hired protesters in the same class of scumminess as what I assume you're referring to by post-truth tactics, and I see no more evidence being presented from their side.
>But then [it sucks]

Absolutely. I agree with you, I'm just saying it's not trivial to turn a delta encoded format into a nice schema.

I mean, I would advise against storing deltas as tuples and considering that the schema. If it's at all possible, try to rectangularize your format. If you're using a column store a lot of the redundant data from the denormalisation can be compressed away.

If the rectangularisation is lossy then you may need to archive the raw data. This is the hurdle where a lot of people stop and choose schema-on-read since they can't afford the storage requirements for an archive of raw data and a nice analytic format for querying.
Any universal income would eliminate or severely diminish the survival factor of work. The reality that the individual must have work to support him/herself. People accept less than optimal, for them, work situations as a result. If people have options - such as a guaranteed ability to survive, no matter how minimally - they have the power to refuse some situations. That would diminish the bargaining power against the individual worker of all who currently employ people at or near the UBI level.
Instead of sentiment analysis directly maybe use a model to predict whether the stock is going to rise or fall.
I designate myself and my other fellows as humans.
I don't think it's quite that bad. It's also not new.

He described the passage of the bill as something of a “con-job” that allowed millions of immigrants in the country illegally to have legal status with a promise of workplace enforcement and other measures to curb future illegal immigration.

But that didn’t happen, he said. And there was little incentive to follow through on promises of strict workplace enforcement, he said, once millions of people were legalized.

“I definitely view this as the 30-year problem,” said Doris Meissner, who headed the now-defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service under Bill Clinton and is now a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/todays-immigration-debat...

Both parties are self-serving and don't trust each other for good reason.
I agree. It says a lot about society that someone who has clearly found his thing, due to some admittedly poor decision on his/her part, has basically zero options with which to pursue his interests in a controlled environment. I'm not from the UK so I will refrain from commenting on the state of their education system, but I've definitely seen this scenario play out here in the states. I'm not an educator but it's obvious that people are slipping through the cracks and that's something that should be deeply disturbing to most.
There was a good opinion piece by a conservative radio host: "Why Nobody Cares the President Is Lying"

"For years, as a conservative radio talk show host, I played a role in that conditioning by hammering the mainstream media for its bias and double standards. But the price turned out to be far higher than I imagined. The cumulative effect of the attacks was to delegitimize those outlets and essentially destroy much of the right’s immunity to false information. We thought we were creating a savvier, more skeptical audience. Instead, we opened the door for President Trump, who found an audience that could be easily misled."[1]

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/opinion/sunday/why-nobody...
Down on the immediate, up after some hours:

The article just mentions how it ended the day (UP), but it started by going DOWN quite a few % after Trump spoke against it:

http://fox6now.com/2017/02/09/nordstrom-stock-defies-preside...
Turning right on a red light is only permitted after establishing that it is safe to do so. Obviously you can't just assume that it'll be fine to go. The difference between your country and the US is the default value: do you have a blinking light permitting it in some places, or a sign prohibiting it where it would be unsafe?
Could you elaborate on this? I think DO has a right to hire however they want to but I'm curious about who they're auto-rejecting/why.