skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would Bill Gates personally fund a UBI? No. The claim wasn't is Bill Gates rich enough to personally fund an American UBI. He would still see his taxes rise considerably and would fall within the tax net to fund a UBI. Those taxes would reach far down the income and wealth ladder, but as long as your UBI is below GDP per capita, it's feasible and a nation could fund it, if it so chose.
That would be beautifully ironic because I perceive HN as an Adda[1] of intellectually stimulating nature. And everybody knows, Bengalis love Adda.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adda_(South_Asian)
what does salary determined by peer review mean?
But the Switch downclocks the GPU greatly in portable mode, so it consumes less power. If it does that, and charges but a bit slower, you won't need a 45W battery pack.
As soon as the head of political sales found out about the editorial he stated:

> We are also talking to the NRA about running ads within the story.

Later in the article it says that the NRA advertised on Snapchat in 2015, have they since? Or was it that now we will contacting the NRA to tell them it's a good idea to advertise during your editorial.

Seeing the comments it looks like the majority doesn't see a problem with this because the NRA is free to do advertising. To me it's just bad business to be featuring a good cause as a so-called partner and then extorting them like this. It certainly also seems like that would be a negative experience for the viewers and the partner.

In the end Snapchat lost both an editorial partner with a group that resonates with their target demographics and any potential advertising revenue from the event.
And genomics?
What is in it for google?
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Ask HN: Does anyone have a multi-cloud infrastructure with automatic failover?
Everyone is saying not to have all your eggs in one basket, especially after yesterday's outage. Does anyone actually run a multi-cloud infrastructure? Using a combination of Azure/AWS/Google Cloud?
I think you might be projecting your own beliefs onto Trump's election here. If what you're saying is true then we would expect income to be a good predictor of voting for Trump right? It wasn't [0]. Trump's election was backlash, but not to loss of jobs. It was a backlash against much more than that?

Did you feel that loss of jobs to technology was a problem before Trump? If so it seems very convenient to believe that the election of a candidate that I'm assuming you hate, was due to a situation which you already hated. I'd encourage you to look a little more deeply at what caused people to vote for Trump.

[0] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/education-not-income-pre...
Employee satisfaction.
Ask HN: Why aren't there any large e-ink monitors?
I tend to read PDFs at my computer, and I would prefer to read them on e-ink, on a large display.

I just searched and found Dasung Paperlike[0], but it seems both quite small and quite expensive.

Is there some technological limitation to creating a large e-ink monitor?

0:https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e-ink-monitor-13-3#/
How is amazon for fresh produce and meat, particularly local fresh produce and meat? I know grocery delivery can get me that.
I just tried the search and couldn't seem to get any results to appear for Seattle. I tried "Seattle", "Seattle, United States", and "Washington" and the top result was never a job in Seattle or in Washington. Now it's certainly possible there's no jobs listed in Seattle however I don't see how I would be able to check. So my feedback is this, maybe give some thought on the way you'd like to handle queries that don't have any matches rather than what appears to be random listings when it occurs.

Edit: Appears to be working correctly now.
How exactly did it work out for music? I like not having drm on my music for ease of use, but did it work out for the music industry?

As I understand it most money now comes from licensing deals, like commercials, as opposed to record sales.

I'm no fan of drm, but there is an interesting question about how people get paid for their work. DRM sucks for users... what do content producers do to protect their revenue stream?
Bookmarking this. I recently was alerted to a CRLF injection vulnerability on the service I manage because an outdated dependency was vulnerable. This could have nipped that in the bud.
That's the reason behind using a remote interpreter, unless there is some other benefit to running your IDE in the same OS as your code I'm missing. Your IDE stays on whatever system you want to use, your code gets executed in your VM.

99% of the time I'm working natively in Fedora when I'm working on code these days (unless I have to do .Net or other MS stuff, Windows goes in a VM for that) - but before I could make that switch I ran PyCharm/IntelliJ/etc. on Windows and just had a headless Fedora or CentOS VM that PyCharm ran my code in.
It's a waste of time and money, for a few reasons.

1. Suppose you get your patent. You won't enforce against an infringer unless at least one of you is making a lot of money from it. You'll already be beating the odds if you get that far -- nice problem to have.

2. It's software. It's one solution to a problem, among many. If someone is infringing and needs to work do something else, other solutions are out there. Obviously I don't know what problem you are solving, or whether your solution is the only practical one, but usually there are workarounds.

3. A patent is no guarantee that you will benefit from your work financially. You will also need to build a business around your software, which will probably dwarf the effort you've put in to date. And if someone else does that work, infringing your patent, you are unlikely to make money licensing your work (see #2). You will probably have to sue (assuming they don't voluntarily pay you), which is more time and money.

I can think of two reasons for getting a software patent. 1) You are trying to get VC funding. VCs love patents. 2) You work for a big company and they collect patents. That's obviously not you.

Also: assuming you work for some company now, check your employee agreement. They may actually have rights to your IP.
I wouldn't call it superficial, even. Might not be deep rooted, but some thought and work go into it.
I'm not really sure I agree. I think the eras you've chosen are pretty contrived.

If the gimmicks that "muck up the same handheld" aren't worth anything, then the vita should have captured a large segment since it had virtually no gimmicks and just solid hardware. Not the case.

Nintendo's portables have added a lot. Please don't tell me that juice is "essentially just water with some flavor gimmicks." yes, everyone is iterating. No, nobody knows what will ultimately pan out and what won't. If you want Mario on PS then say so, but Nintendo is genuinely trying to innovate and think differently. Move and Kinnect are gimmicks. Nintendo will happily devote a generation to do something interesting.

The day Nintendo gives that up and makes an x86 platform running expensive hardware with no "gimmicks" is the day they become a primarily a software developer.
As scary as Google's massive size and power is, it's pretty awesome that they're incentivized to do things like this to help the internet because they are the internet.
There's a very clear distinction: one is illegal, the other is legal. If you say someone is engaging in tax evasion, you're accusing them of a crime. If you say someone is engaging in tax avoidance, you're accusing them of following the tax code as written.

And if you just wish someone paid more in taxes than they're required to, then look closer at the things they're legally doing, decide which of them you'd rather not be legal, and argue against that. But that's not an argument about the behavior of that person; that's an argument about desired properties of tax law.

Even if you believe that some part of the tax code is currently immoral (and I certainly think there's a critical distinction between law and morality), it still doesn't make sense to voluntarily pay extra. Pay the legally required amount, and if you decide that the best possible use of your additional funds is to donate them to the government, do so; the Treasury Department (and specifically the "Bureau of the Public Debt") accepts voluntary additional payments, and they're even tax-deductible. Or, perhaps you can find an even better use of that money to have an impact on the world.
Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he did not disclose
Seneca talks about this a lot. When I first started going to war in my early twenties, I began confronting my own mortality, and found myself slowly being funneled towards the great Stoics.
What I really want is for the symlinks created on Linux to work on Windows. Right now, Windows can't read them at all.
Music has a different history and context. The music publishers started to use DRM-free music as a competitive wedge between sellers of digital music, mostly as a wedge against Apple. Then Apple decided to also go DRM-free.

Unfortunately music is backsliding because more of the market is moving to DRM-ful streaming services where you rent your music, instead of DRM-less music that you own free and clear.
This is not even close to being true if you also assume most people need to eat and pay rent/mortgage.
> Alternatively, you'd have to define a NonEmptyArray type that excludes arrays of length 0, but that seems less than useful.

I think the usefulness of a specific NonEmptyArray type is controversial, and I would say such types could be extremely useful. AFAIK there have been discussions if Haskell's Prelude (part of the standard library providing a name space for convenient functions and types, similar to the functions you get in e.g. Python like map, zip, filter, range, etc.) should be more save by not advocating too generic types and functions like the standard `map`, `head` and `tail` implementations.

Functions like `head` and `tail` can be seen as problematic as they can fail and cause runtime errors (the head and tail of an empty list cause a runtime error), but I do not think they already changed that (or if it's even a topic of discussion at the moment).

It's a little bit a matter of taste. Think about Unix' "head" program that by default prints maximal 10 lines of a file. How should we deal with the following?

$ touch empty.txt
$ head -n1 empty.txt

Currently this works - you do not get output and $? == 0, but one could also say "head" should panic here.
Of all the people commenting about legal topics on the Internet, the probability P(Lawyer) is so low that it would take an especially unreasonable person to honestly believe the discussion creates an attorney-client relationship. But once someone says "I'm a lawyer," I'd guess P(Lawyer) is at least 50%. A mildly retarded but otherwise reasonable person might get the wrong impression at that point.
Azure goes through ups and downs. It can be really good, and also really shitty.

The transition of Classic to ARM (Azure Resource Manager) made me drop Azure for AWS. Now ARM is more or less stable so there's no issues, but damn when they started it was complicated.

But in terms of UI...

GCE > AWS > Azure.
My wife is Lao :) Because I'm only semi-fluent (or lets say, I can do my shopping and hold basic small talk in it), I'm not in a good position to do a competent comparison. However, I feel is that is a to the point language. There is a fairly good amount of re-use of words. Also, it being tonal you have to be careful because unlike Hindi/Bengali, wrong tone _will_ change the meaning. Thankfully, people on my wife's side are very kind and forgiving so I survive the blunders I do :)
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Title change by mods
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I submitted this post as "Googlers used BigQuery and GitHub to patch thousands of vulnerable projects". After it got to #1 on the front page, mods silently changed the title to "Operation Rosehub – patching thousands of open-source projects"

I wish HN had a more transparent way to show that the mods changed a title and why. Since HN does not, the least I can do is add this info for transparency.

(related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102013)

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GovCloud is indeed in the Pacific Northwest, according to the 2011 announcement from Amazon itself. Specifically, it's in Boardman, Oregon, on a road named after famous explorers. It was their first structure in the area, confirmed by aerial photography and contemporary reporting. Smaller modular backups were active on a different site in Boardman right next to the interstate, and outside Umatilla near the prison. These other sites eventually evolved into the rest of us-east-2.

As for us-east-1, it all began in Chantilly in an existing low-rise building you could mistake for rentable office space, then expanded to several different sites between Sterling, Ashburn, and the airport itself, and perhaps surprisingly, to another place where famous battles were fought. Finally, they have a site a bit further away, near where Disney was going to build a theme park. That's where they want to expand more, but first they have to convince the power company to get them a dedicated line, instead of being fed from the same place as the battlefield.

Some sources:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-govcloud-us-region/

http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2011/11/a...

http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2011/10/a...
Apparently. The last few jobs I tried to get in the twin cities was met with resounding silence.
Dupe. Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13767245
what a disaster. learning all of the wrong lessons. it sends the message that the infrastructure isn't secure, which is true, but the response is to ignore the opportunity to develop something that provides a reasonable proof that your system is secure.
> I mean yeah it kinda is, but you really think google needs advertising for its brand??

This is advertising BigQuery[0] which is a Google Product people may be less familiar with. This nicely shows off what can be done using a large dataset.

I'm grateful for the work they've done here, and I have no doubt individual employees donated either their free time or 20% time (or w/e it is now). But that doesn't negate the fact that this is an advert for BigQuery.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/
I saw this book recommended on HN several months ago: https://www.amazon.com/What-Swearing-Reveals-Language-Oursel...

A very interesting and enjoyable read.
Rails 5.0.2 has been released
I've started taking CBD semi regularly as a stress/reliever, and anti-inflammatory. It's a great alternative to ibuprofen for pain or alcohol for an end of the day wind down. Only side effects I've found are dry mouth/eyes. I'd rather have to take some eye drops than deal with the destruction of my stomach from ibuprofen or the side effects of alcohol.
Right, you get 5-8 C (9-14 F) increase in global mean temperature. That mostly translates, I think, to temperature increases during winter, and at higher latitudes. Biomes will both be shifted poleward and warped, and that will happen faster than some component species can adapt.

The good news is that runaway greenhouse warming won't evaporate oceans and bake out CO2 from surface rocks :)
I'm glad that your dad is OK. Was he experiencing symptoms prior to him falling unconscious at work?
...in Angular
>why was it bullshit?

It probably was bullshit because to raise money the company will usually create new shares - and doing this will always make all existing shares own a lesser percentage of the company.

Fun example time! Let's consider a company with 100 shares in total (as printed physical IOUs). An early-stage engineer received 1 of those shares, so they own 1% of the company. Fast forward to the next all-hands meeting, and a founder says they just raised a new investment round. Common practice suggests that the new investors just bought 25% of shares/IOUs. But where did these IOUs come from, if there were only 100 and all are distributed already? In essence, the company just printed new ones, much like the government can print new money. In this case the company started with 100 shares, then printed 33 new ones for the new investors, and now those investors own 33/133 shares or ~25% of the company. And our early-stage engineer owns 1/133 shares, or their ownership got "diluted" to 0.7% from 1%. Perhaps. Or perhaps the company printed 500 new shares, and the new investors now own 80% of the business (500/600 shares), and the engineer owns 0.16% instead of 1%. This is what the engineer is asking: "by how much did I get diluted?". The founder is replying "you didn't", which is mathematically impossible if new shares/IOUs were created. Of course now the engineer's 0.7% is probably worth more in $$$, but that wasn't what they asked.

That's under typical conditions, but it's possible that the founder was correct as long as the company did not print new shares. Two examples come to mind: (1) the founders sold some of their own shares to the new investors at a much higher price, thus keeping the total share count at 100 but implicitly increasing the price of the 1 share the engineer holds. This scenario is unlikely because it's seen as a bad signal - the founders are cashing-in and existing the venture. (2) The company had 100 shares, but only distributed 80 of them initially, so the new investors are getting their shares from the remaining unallocated pool. This means the total share count remains at 100, and the engineer still owns 1% with no dilution, and the price just went up and that's it. Having 10-15% unallocated for attracting talent is normal, but having ~25% unallocated for future fund raising is unnecessary complex and highly unusual.
Am a big fan of my CEO, in one of his intranet blogs he said something similar to this "AI will make a huge unemployment is a very big claim and an overstatement.. 20 years ago before the computer era people were worried about computers will lead to unemployment and especially all the bank jobs (prestigious jobs back then) but then it is the opposite now, technology always helps you never know in which form" i strongly feel he s right.
Only in regards to political candidates, who must be given reasonable commercial access; otherwise, nets are free to refuse to sell ad space to other entities, including political groups (e.g., CBS v DNC).
In flowchart decision points, it's clearer to make "yes" co-linear and "no" orthogonal.

Likewise I prefer to structure cyclomatic complexity like this by doing something like

if not <condition 1>
return
else if not <condition 2>
return

<logic>

Rather than

if <condition1>
if <condition2>
if <condition 3>
...
No, it's built into web browsers. Same with WebVR.
Probabilities don't usually have error bounds. Some (most?) people even think that the concept is meaningless.
Clever app lands in Singapore to help you get free air tickets
I can highly recommend http://www.banggood.com/ZMI-QB820-20000mAh-Quick-Charge-2_0-..., although I'm hoping someone with a thermal camera can do a proper teardown and review at some point - it gets a little warm at ~40W output.

It charges my XPS 9350 just fine, so it should do the Switch no worries.
While I support a universal income gradually reaching up to (and eventually perhaps well above) the level at which it could fairly be called a UBI, it is not at all the case that any UBI level up to the pre-UBI GDP per capita is affordable.

A universal income will affect behavior, and through that real GDP; at some levels, it may actually improve GDP by reducing job market friction and better allowing people to retrain, retool, and optimize their contribution and their own returns; OTOH, there's certainly a level at which it draws people out of the labor force in large enough quantities to overwhelm any advantage from reducing friction, crashing real, post-UBI GDP.
While I see the merit to this article, keeping the 'whitewashing' theme alive in the public sphere, I have to say, with a twinge of regret, stuff like this helped put Trump in the White House.
Call your elected representative; do it now. The answer is through government.

If we paid the true cost of carbon, probably we'd fly less, fuel would be re-engineered, and other forms of transport would be developed and expanded.
well people have to learn to do things for themselves. very difficult when it takes a lot of work and, frankly, pain
Hi, thanks for the interest. I've quit LI due to spam but can send my resume. What's your stack?
I thought it was funny and particularly relevant because the article is written in a macro->micro progression in the tear-down. Hackernews does tend to want to stay dry. It reminds me of my second post where I got dinged trying to be funny. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10211855
Who enforces his ownership of the land? The other two have superior numbers.
Yea, it's a difficult topic for an internet forum. (Probably better suited for think-tank roundtable disscussions.) If a job is eliminated, and a new job was created, (to me) the original job was still eliminated. It's a different job. That new job may have different hours, different qualifications, and be in a different location.

As productivity increases with more automation, the economy will do very well. Poor, uneducated individuals in rural areas will see jobs disappear. I don't think it is comprehensive to look at job loss and disregard it, since at the macro-level employment may be zero-sum. I think that would be a disservice to the individuals that will be affected.

fullshark was probably more concise and eloquent with how he stated my thoughts in another comment on this thread.
Probabilities are "error bounds", of a sort, on a binary prediction (in that they express the degree of uncertainty in the prediction.) Error bounds on a probability don't make a lot of sense.
My theory is that the inability of US chains to figure out online ordering is really some anti-competitive agreement to force customers to go into the store because the chains live and die by high-margin impulse buys.

Wholefoods just opened a brand new chain called '365' that has all sorts of sophisticated nonsense like a programmatic tea-bot and yet there is no online ordering. Even the made to order stuff is driven by an interface which could just be made publicly accessible and they'd be done but no, into the store you go.
Interesting. I would give it a try if I weren't using Sunrise Commander (an Emacs plugin[1]).

On a related note: it's good to see more and more apps include a command line, where you can invoke any function of the program. Menu + icons + hotkeys strategy may be a good UI for normal users, but the command line - especially with good completion, like with Helm[2] - is much more convenient if the program has more than just a couple functions. Emacs (M-x) and Vim (:) worked like that since the beginning, I wonder what happened, what caused even programmers' tools to shed their command lines for more than twenty years?

[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Sunrise_Commander Screenshot: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SunriseCommanderScreenshotOn...

[2] Screenshot: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/blob/master/images/helm-b...
If anyone has people like this in your life, the Bible gives you a little ammo for changing their mind. First of all, mankind was given stewardship over the Earth. God expects people to not trash the place.

Secondly, Jesus was quite emphatic that no one would know the day & time of his return. He did say there would be warning signs, but also said it would still be a surprise. If someone wants to destroy the world in order to push for the Second Coming, then they're on the verge of being a false prophet as described by Christ. Not to mention: why take the risk when this might not be the time of his return?

I'm personally not a believer now, but I was raised in a very conservative Christian family. These arguments sometimes have an effect on my friends and family still in the church.