skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easier to afford the GrundeinKommen if your banks are full of capital stolen from the rest of the world.

The basic income is a terrible idea that could be a great idea with a few tweaks. One of the worst economic policies is minimum wage, it attempts to help the poor but at the cost of a loss in some jobs, and some of it's benefits to upper middle class (kids and wives) that don't need it. It's inefficient, and can be counterproductive for those most in need.

Those at most risk of losing jobs because of it are the ones that need it the most, unskilled, single parents, etc. An employer is biased keep jonny college kid over suzy single mom when they cut a position, because jonny might come back as a manager after finishing school. Minimum wages also can create that situation where it's so damn hard to get that first job that you need to get your next job.

A minimum wage that is paid for by the government is a far better option. As long as you work, we don't care what your employer pays you, $4, $8 hour, you should get government benefits that round you up to a living wage based on your life situation. Which means more for the single parent, a little bit less for the single worker, and nothing for the high school/college kids living at home or executive wife taking a second job.

And this means more jobs, and makes it much easier to find employment (and have job mobility). Also more jobs means more output, which means higher GDP.
Why do you want to sit near other people? Then they can see what time you come in or leave the office.
The real lesson is for language designers, who for some reason love using equals for assignment. Lisp got it right a hundred years ago and nobody learned.
>How? It's the same amount of money, just redirected from existing welfare programs and redistributed via taxes.

The average spending per welfare recipient is roughly $25 a day[0] in the US that adds up to $9125 per person. 23%[1] of households currently receive some type of government benefit, while half of working individuals make less than 30 thousand dollars a year[2]. If you wished to provide basic income to just those making under 30 thousand a year my back of a napkin math says you would at a conservative estimate double the current expenditures and that program isn't basic income as much as welfare expansion.

>If you're making $10k/year and get another $10k from basic income, you'll be much better off even if somehow there is significant inflation.

If you doubled everyone's salaries, due to supply and demand, the price of every good would then double. Money is used to purchase goods and services that are produced using a finite set of resources. Those resources don't grow simply because you have printed more money.

[0]http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/05/04/the-avera...

[1]http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/jan/28/...

[2]http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/25/1-in-2-working-americans-m...
An interesting thing I noted recently: Lots of people around me read HN, but with a varying degree of depth. Some programmers skim over the coding articles, some take interest in SaaS / marketing articles, and some only read science-related articles. And of course, everyone enjoys reading comments.

Although, discussion here can get awful technical but HN can cater to everyone's interest. Everything from 'why lawyering is an unsound career option' to 'why pugs are anatomical disasters' gets discussed. One of the many things I enjoy here is digging up old threads about obscure topics and I rarely get disappointed.
Incredibly large? Chrome and httpd are each hundreds of times larger than react. If you like simplicity then you should abhor HTML, not React...
In fairness that's a bit like saying John worked hard and got into NBA now he is doing what he loves and is making millions a year therefore any student that has an inkling in basketball should give it their all and eschew everything else for a shot at the NBA.

What happens to all the ones that don't make it? Go flip burgers?! Maybe it isn't crazy to opt for a more stable + likely outcome than "go for broke".

I'm not knocking Slack. They've done a great thing but there is also a large element of luck in what they achieved meaning many things could have gone wrong which would have nullified their hard work.

With VC fuelled "growth" you're always locked into shooting for the NBA at all costs.
People in my office use something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Ikea-Lova-Canopy-Green-Leaf/dp/B001QS...

edit: one of the comments says it's 1/4th that price in the actual store
sorry but implying this is all done in bad faith is ridiculous. unless you just the only producer of a widget your profits are dictated by how well your market your product, how good your product is, and how your pricing compares. robotics reduces your costs after the initial investment is accounted for. prices do drop or remain steady, rarely do prices go up and much of that can be accounted for in increased regulation or embedded taxes

the only winners when government takes over an industry are politicians and those they choose to administer the industry.
You mean Lisps?
> If that "vision" relates only to the design or structure of the software, then I believe that meritocracy means conforming to the project owner's standards.

At least in this case "meritocracy" does not mean "the opinion (about code structure etc.) that is (necessarily) shared by the majority of the contributors".
One of our guys started a tutorial series on writing an AI to play the game, DOOM. It assumes very little knowledge and is a fun exercise to do when taking a break from some of the great courses posted here. It's no replacement for the excellent course work, but it is fun.: https://www.codelitt.com/blog/doom-ai/

My favourite course for grasping the foundations of the concepts was Andrew NG's course (although it seems like you're beyond this now): https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

I think the best way to learn, is to build things though. Have you checked out the Kaggle challenges? https://www.kaggle.com/ Those will give you great practical skills.
And would you want to? They are probably members of the Freedom Party!
What engines provide this diff patching?
Show HN: Dreaming up dresses via WGAN
This is brilliant and a niche needed for React. My toolset is React Native, React web apps and now this for simple marketing sites that you can inject functionality into.
I thought they open-sourced it a while back (early last year or so)? Was this before that, or is there some catch to it?
Not really different. In fact is is mentioned on the Wikipedia page.
Thanks! Great points.

Smoke free startup is an important design/operational consideration. There are lots of videos demonstrating startup technique (search "rocket stove starting"). Here's a couple good ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls_eqNB6d0Y&t=1m23s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSkUquOQt5w

Note that the goal of the drafting chimney is not to soak up a lot of heat, but rather to be insulated and have low thermal mass to minimize heat loss. The higher the air exit temperature from the riser, the stronger the draft. The important thing for self-drafting is to heat the air in the riser, and only secondarily heat the riser material itself.

A good design should make startup as "idiot proof" as possible. I've seen a few builds that use a 12V case fan on the air intake. Since the goal is to heat up the air in the riser (and that heating the riser... draws hot air into the riser), all you have to do is "tip it over" into that stable equilibrium.

Imo there's a market opportunity for an inexpensive, compact, nice looking, and easy to operate rocket stove. The open source (and excellently documented) "batch rocket" design seems a good place to start. http://batchrocket.eu/en/
Are you referring the lederhosen? I saw it enough in Austria in the last few years to consider them more traditional than Germans
Right, any reasonable implementation will result in people with higher incomes having their taxes increased by more than the BI amount. And I think that's a trade a lot of conservatives and libertarians would accept: more redistribution in exchange for less intrusiveness and greater efficiency.
What about the parallax effect though? Edit. I guess it would only apply in cases where there is nothing in the foreground?
>>They don't understand what it takes to get a customer to actually pay you

With your username I'd expect you to get paid in full.
My wife and I have cancelled a proposed trip to NYC this summer. The States just seems so dark, unwelcoming and aggressive that for a short break it hardly seems worth it.
none of the stores listed in the first part of the article are American.
Why UPS trucks (almost) never turn left
What is the underlying platform for Divio?

Is it like https://nanobox.io that allows you select any host (AWS, DigitalOcean, etc.), or is it more of a full stack PaaS like https://www.fortrabbit.com/ but for Django only?
Then they can see what time you come in or leave the office.

If you feel the need to hide the hours you work then there is something very wrong.
The "Code of Conduct" discussion is about a larger social issue. CoCs in open source projects are just one facet.

As others have posted here, some people pushing "codes of conduct in open source" end up violating those codes themselves, and abusing their authority. These people do this not only in open source forums, but in other places, too.

The underlying topic then, cannot be about the CoC. In reality, the topic being discussed is who gets to control the conversation. Along with that, who gets to decide what topics are acceptable. Not just which topics are OK for a list / forum, but which topics are "good think", and which ones are "bad think".

The question for someone running an open source project, then, is will your project be taken over by people who are pushing a particular ideological agenda, and who are using your project to do so?

My answer is "No.". Perhaps "over my dead body" is more accurate.
I'm also not a programmer and this is pretty much my answer. Also, I'm in finance and this is sort of an "inside view" into the tech sector.
Sorry, but nothing beats working from home in your own home office. It's an environment you have complete control over.
I've found that it also chokes when you throw Google Apps Scripts at it; or at least it did when I was developing a mail merge app for a Real Estate friend. By "chokes" I mean the application frequently locked up, cells would stop responding and I had to constantly reload the page, in a spreadsheet with only a couple of hundred rows, and maybe 12 columns.
Titles like 'senior developer' are anaphora. Their final meaning depends on context. In some contexts 'senior developer' can resolve to a self taught JavaScript programmer with two years of experience based on their ability to solve ordinary problems without much supervision. In other contexts it means someone with fifteen years of embedded systems C experience based on their ability to solve hard problems with no supervision.

People move jobs for the same work with a different title. Titles don't bestow technical ability upon a person...though in certain contexts they do increase their billable rate.

Good luck.
Fossil is the SCM I always wish I were using, but for the benefit of external collaborators, I stick with Git and GitLab (previously, GitHub). Fossil is a lovely, small piece of software that does exactly what I want in a nice and simple way. It's fast and uses SQLite for everything, making it easy to programmatically extend it and munge its internal data.
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MITM Part 2 – Scan and Attack
It is the fastest growing productivity app of the year (I read somewhere based on a metric I cannot recall).

I didn't realize they had an API. I just looked it up and the documentation is so good it makes me tear up.

The trick with the documentation is that it lets you pick one of your own databases and it then makes all the examples relevant to that database!

Why doesn't everyone do that?
I have.
"Don't do it because it is not done" is a good reason unless you're working solo and are sure your code will never be seen by others. And even then, it's a good idea to stick to what's done so you don't accumulate bad habits for projects that do have others looking at the code.
Interesting to choose this over simpler storage, such as sqlite. I suppose you get offsite backups for free.
You beat me! But I'll say it again, nothing beats a home office.
dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13650611
Old jobs are always replaced by new (and usually better ones). The history of the last 200 years has been the massive slaughter of old jobs and replacement by much higher paying and safer new jobs. In US history in from the 1800s we transitioned from 95% brutally hard and dangerous farm labor to less than 5% of the population mechanically farming. Original manufacturing was all by hand, now it's constantly machine aided.

Another trend is we simply don't work as much. The age of the robots may be that we start working 24 hours a week for more money (and still bitching about going back to work on mondays)
This specific law (which among others prohibit owning such equipment) contains a clause allowing the federal and state governments to issue exceptions. They do this for police. For actually using that equipment one needs to through another process including legal review.
"Enough with the stereotypes..."

And then some more paragraphs of stereotypes.

People here are complex, just as they are everywhere. The washing-over of several different empires has added even more layers to the cultures of Eastern Europe, but to paint it as uniformly bleak is to miss the humor and wit and diversity of this place.

The trappings of modern consumer life are just a varnish on this place. Only a shallow reading would mistake them for anything else. Master a Slavic or Baltic or Turkic language and then dive down the rabbit hole. It's fun. It's weird. And it's definitely not dead.
So, smoothing and applying a brownish/pink skin color.
What about the negative impacts that the coal ash spill has had on my state? What about the coal ash spill in the state adjacent to mine? You can go oh what's a little ash, the sludge had enough volume to fill a football stadium nearly a half-mile high. Coal has environmental impacts, but continuously. A nonstop stream of toxins just flowing right into our local water tables. Nothing compares to the continuous destruction of human lives and environment like coal does.
On some level I'm surprised this approach isn't more common. With diminishing marginal utility of wealth, a small chance of making millions has a much higher expected value than an almost zero chance of making billions. Plus, even if the billions were worth proportionally more, we actually tend to underweight high risk/high reward scenarios compared to a perfect expected value maximizer. E.g. you wouldn't pay much to get a 1/10,000 shot at unimaginable bliss, even if the expected value math works out.

I'm guessing part of it is that at some point, say under a 5% chance, we stop calculating altogether and it just becomes "so you're saying there's a chance!" If you have a 1% chance of making something as big as Basecamp and a 0.001% chance of starting Facebook, they both feel about the same, so might as well shoot for the moon.
Agree, well said. I'd add that it's very time efficient. I'm trying to be as informed as possible in as little time as possible.
Tl;DR To learn.

I'm someone with a social studies background but I've always been interested in technology and also its ramifications in society.

Also, comments on here are often more interesting than the article itself and go more in depth. I like to learn by myself so this helps a lot to understand the bigger picture on the technical side of things.
Streisand is giving something more attention by trying to hide it/cover it up. Different thing altogether.

I'm talking about how people were raised in the 90's and early 00's. In the late 00's and turn of the decade in the 10's we saw a drastic turn against protecting individual privacy, with the rise and fall of various social media sites. We went from telling people to never share their full names to asking them to enter them on their profiles [0].

There is a cost/benefit of this. Many people on HN share their names/LinkedIn accounts/position in the company they work for. This allows them to network or have authority when they speak on a subject. OTOH, they throw away their privacy.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/h7kZcxF.png
> I only intend to refer to these, not others. I have no support for bourgeois progressivism.

Well then I can only beg you to ponder about the consequences of ostracizing a large proportion of people to this "alt-right".

Defenders of free speech, and enemies of censors, in todays political climate, will gain popularity versus opposing ideologies which the political elite espouse or pretend to espouse like globalization (relevant as Zuckerberg mentioned this).

I'm curious how you see this turning out in the US especially, being that Trump is president and they have the 1st amendment. And it seems the main target of fake news is alternative media and conservative media, which are rallying around each other due to being attacked.

The newer target is Trump calling MSM fake news, trying to turn the whole smear campaign against them. I'm curious what a self professed communist thinks where this will end up? Did you know PewDiePie was a Nazi?
If anyone from Google is reading this: please add a database (yes, like a cloud version of MS ACCESS) in the Google Docs/Drive suite.

Has anyone looked at "Fusion Tables?"

A google search reveals that is what it is supposed to be.
Teslab is the companion app Tesla owners have been waiting for
It's good to see so many SCM systems showing up. But it makes me wonder how many of them can actually work on GBs of codebase with over 1000 of programmers checking in on daily basis. I my experience most of SCMs are fine for small to medium projects, but they go down with crawling speeds and sometimes even not working at all when it goes large scale.
Except that the system being discussed works as if ferrari released their new cars at $5000 -specifically to allow people with less money to afford it-

But released far fewer than people that wanted to buy a ferarri.

naturally a market of dealerships would snap up all the ferraris and sell them and much higher prices right? but that's not quite what ferrari intended when selling their cars at $5000. How they can get the cars into the hands of truly random people instead of always to the dealer is the problem here.
I get what you're saying, and I do agree that beginners can easily get bogged down in all the different tools, frameworks and libraries, however at the end of the day I feel like beginners just have to learn how to navigate the ecosystem. If a novice is trying to build a webpack powered react/redux SPA on top of kafka without understanding basic programming fundamentals then only their own failure is going to teach them why that isn't such a great idea. At a minimum I think we need to just expect beginners to do a little research on what it is they need to learn. Overambitious novices are not exclusive to the software world, think of a novice guitar player who insists on spending $3000 on pedals, amps and mixing software before they're able to pluck out "twinkle twinkle little star"; some people just need to learn the hard way.

Besides, as you alluded to, having the ability to weigh tradeoffs and make a cost/benefit analysis is a honed skill that takes time and experience to develop and making a few incorrect choices is a critical part of the learning process.
Your previous article made me remember about and subsequently purchase PICO-8. I've been hooked since then.

If anyone out there is considering buying PICO-8, go do it! It's so much fun.
Pretty sure the kings of old would have been dumbstruck at what we consider "hunger" when they see how obese our poor typically are.

Edit: I don't want to make this sound like I don't care about hunger, clearly kids should not have to go hungry in our present day society. Its on us to provide the poor with avenues and incentives to work and earn living wages. Adults who refuse to work help themselves, well hunger can be a needed incentive.
An amazing fetishization of the "psychogeography" of what is colloquially called Eastern Europe. Borders which represent a bastardization of cultures and partitions for empires long past.

It starts off by playing on stereotypes of dirtyness, grit, and sanctuaries of sexual promiscuity whose location changes by which first world country you ask. Before diving into existential questions and nuances of a variety of cultures in the former second world. A term whose meaning is largely erased from the collective conscious and lost for a colliqualism of first and third world ambiguity.
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Main advantage in our usecase is getting the CUD interface for free.
I absolutely love Fossil. And the author is a great guy! It never gets the press or usage it deserves.
Glad to see this come up on HN!
The key thing is to consider transportation costs in addition to housing costs. When you do this the balance shifts, and walkable neighbourhoods with high housing prices suddenly become a lot more affordable.

They studied this in Metro Vancouver and found that the "expensive" downtown core was actually more affordable than the outer suburbs where you had to use a car for all transportation needs.
If this keeps up, that trope of CSI's "enhance, zoom, enhance" will become reality.
None. They're no silly command line tools two people wrote in their spare time.
I for one am happy that we can buy (the same) clothes, do the same things and almost live the same life in Eastern Europe as in Western Europe.

Maybe foreigners increasingly miss out on a good laugh as the horse carriages disappear from the Balkans. Maybe a westerner is disappointed that his long weekend slumming in Prague is spoiled by normalty. Maybe an intellectual's romantic dream of Eastern Europe is ruined.

But for those of us who live here, it's better this way. Maybe not for many people in the older generations, though.
What's also strange is that people focus so much on bad words, but not on bad speech, so Americans learn to attack each other with classy speech.
I don't think so. Communists and many authoritarians of all spectrum want to terminate any opposing views, and slander them as evil, wrong.

Obviously fascism is wrong, but I don't think PewDiePie or Trump are Nazis...
Anyone using it for development? What is your experience?
I dont see the point of Fossil, I looked into it. The commands arent that much easier to understand. If I'm using an SCM anyway and I still need to use a cmd line and I still need to memorize commands then I might just as well use git. And Git has Guis now.
I don't agree that attaching disposal's real costs to products will significantly change things.

Disposal really is cheap. Some things are improperly disposed of today, sent to developing countries instead of properly landfilled or recycled. But the cost of doing it properly is still very small, and hardly enough to merit restructuring manufacturing to a less-efficient method.

I don't know what you mean when you call this a cause for "a lot of the issues that we experience in society today." But it is definitely not better for the environment to use less efficient manufacturing schemes.
SQLite usage makes me wonder how will it behave over time with millions of commits. Also makes me wonder how will it handle distribution.
No, the main problem is that a) it looks like a doll b) it has a microphone c) it can transmit recorded voice. That's enough to make owning that device illegal.

That it transmits the voice of unsuspecting children (who of course also have privacy rights) to who-knows-where is just the icing on the cake.