skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they said they didn't pay for LiDAR. The company had only existed for a few months; it didn't have a big base of proprietary technology that was worth a bundle. So either the employees were worth hundreds of millions, or Uber was really paying for the stolen documents.
They are not the same. You can't buy groceries with a piece of paper that says you're going to pay less taxes next year.
Thanks, I didn't read that properly. Hopefully truth will come out of criminal investigation.
No, though neither is Javascript. (I am not sure how far along non-WebWorker-based wasm threads are, but here's the proposal: https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads)
Obviously my comment was not about not liking broke people having opinions.

It was about not liking broke "wannabe startup billionaires" sneering on people with lifestyle businesses as if they somehow "failed".
I learned programming by books and the PHP .chm offline manual mostly (and trial-and error with VB6/VBA). The difficulty was and is that a book is likely to be outdated even before the printing plates are engraved.

It was bad as hell with PHP (which in turn led the PHP core developers to provide backwards-compatibility for ages), but in the JS world which evolves waaaay faster and especially believes that "backwards compatibility" is the devil I will not buy any kind of JS dev book - and also the reason why I shifted from JS frontend work to backend, server ops and security. Stuff there evolves fast (and is plagued by security considerations), too, just look at Docker - but at least you are out of the "I just reasonably understood framework X, version Y but now version Z is out and I can throw everything I learned into the bin" loop which is bound to destroy you sooner or later.

StackOverflow, in contrast, attracts a massive load of users so you're way more likely to find a working example - and usually if it's outdated you'll find someone in the comments mentioning that it's outdated and in most cases even an updated response. What I don't know, however, is if StackOverflow's success is based on the hyper-evolution in the JS scene or if the evolution would not be possible without SO - because there would be no way to distribute the knowledge fast enough.
I'm from Göttingen, and I find the article to be strangely one-sided. Steidl is clearly a great publisher, artist and businessman. But he also comes across as very presumptuous, the kind of cultural elite that lives detached from the plebs. The part where he rides in his converted Phaeton and drinks wine is real-life satire.

The Grass quarter of the city, mentioned in the article, is also problematic. As always with projects like this, nobody in the city is asked. By virtue of owning the land, having connections to the city council, or being an art figure (or all three) you unilaterally get to decide how a plot of land in the center of this small town is used. The city government thinks it is a great idea, but really only the small portion of the city's educated and well-off will tend to visit the museum and the exibitions. Again, this is all quite detached. It's the same impetus that lets cities put up hideous art and monuments in common places without ever asking the residents (also quite a problem IMHO in Göttingen but also elsewhere).

(Not to mention that some people say Günther Grass never properly processed his past in the SA and was quite anisemitic in his old days... I think that's rather tangential, but Steidl is the kind of person who is seen as on the moral "high ground" and from whom such scandals tend to pearl of.)
And then London architects took care to reproduce this features religiously: http://uk.businessinsider.com/death-ray-skyscraper-is-wreaki...
Aspnet-webpack: Webpack with asp.net core applications
> I don't think its defeatist to say that no book or lecture about riding a bike would compare to the experience of actually riding a bike. To paraphrase the top-rated answer, why would you expect anything different from maths?]

This it the wrong analogy and does not capture the MO answer. The correct analogy would be training vehicle designers by teaching them all the parts necessary to build a modern bicycle without teaching them any of the ways early bicycles were designed and why those designs were discarded.
That's fascinating. I've always wished my city had things like these. Trees would be nice, but they grow slowly and just when they start being big enough to thrive, look good and be useful, some official decides they're dangerous or happen to be exactly on top of a new roadway. So I guess a cold dead mechanical tree is the best we could get.
> In order to make the system fair so that it actually will do the intended job that people want it to, you would need to exercise a strangling amount of control over the economy and people's lives.

I disagree with this. SSA and CMS oversee over $2 trillion in SS/Medicare/Medicaid spending (enough for a generous BI), with administrative expenses of only about $10 billion.
At the very least, browsers are the new JRE.
$26K and the spot on every most wanted cyber criminal list on the planet. Congratulations guys, well done!
Considering nobody has had their files decrypted yet, I'm almost surprised how high this figure is. You'd think some people would do at least a bit of research before throwing $300 down the drain.
Lets talk about your drive to the airport...
Basic income is dead; long live basic income.
The problem is that india gets most of its electricity from coal (59.1%).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_India
What if number of products = -0.000..(infinite zeroes)..1

Would that be both 0 and less than 0? there's got to be something wrong here. :)
"likely infringes" is absolutely false. Your bias is showing.

There's evidence. But not enough for a preliminary injunction, which is why there's going to be a trial. If there were a smoking gun, then they would have issues a preliminary injunction. And there hasn't even been a question as to whether or not these are trade secrets. That's part of the trial.
BI can cost less than current programs in the US. Consider you can receive $3,576 per month from social security. BI would be capped at 1/3 of that and if someone had significant investment income they would effectively get nothing saving the full 3,576$/month.
Either NSA's role involves using zero-day exploits, in which case they shouldn't disclose them; or NSA's role doesn't involve using zero-day exploits, in which case it shouldn't be looking for them and would have nothing to disclose.

You might argue whether or not NSA should be into 'hacking other people with 0-days' business or 'making computers more vulnerable' business, but NSA definitely is not in the business of making computers less vulnerable. Especially for computers located in other countries, they have no business helping to protect them - that's against their role, they're paid to facilitate the exact opposite goal.
w.r.t bitcoin being the new payment method, so far bitcoin hasn't enabled the really game changing thing: frictionless micropayments. It's possible that lighting networks will enable this (load up your browser with 5 bucks and lock that up in a connection to the LN, pay for articles then pay 1 cent to skip ads, buy premium features one at a time etc), but we haven't seen this yet.
I like the ambition too, specially when it's on someone's else expense :) At least the invested money is not sitting on offshore accounts.
I was, at one point, very excited about this company, to the point where I recommended a colleague join the company (she thankfully did not). I strongly believe there's only so much vaporware that the general public will accept, and Magic Leap has definitely overstayed that period.

If they aren't more honest about their current progress and more realistic with their near-future plans, they'll end up cratering their reputation with the public before they even have anything off the ground. At that point, it might not matter how many billions they have in the bank if they ruin their reputation to do so.

Worse, if they don't get in front of their persistent vaporware problem, they could find themselves in the dust by the time they do come out with a product. Microsoft has already released their first version of the HoloLens, and is said to be working on their next version at full steam. By the time Magic Leap comes out, Microsoft might already have a compelling ecosystem and device portfolio. Other companies are joining suit.

It'd be nice if Magic Leap showed the public the same thing they're showing these investors - clearly, their demo is convincing some supposedly smart people to pour lots of money in, so why can't they show the public?
Odd, I can see all 26 pages. I'm not signed up.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=designers%20guide%20to%20dpi&s...

Seems the oldest submission is at least 3 years old.
I agree with this article, but though I am no expert in this topic I do wonder how much the wannacry perpetrators would actually go after this guy. Consider:

1. The fact that it was disabled so trivially was ultimately their own fault.

2. As we have seen, it was easy enough for them to change the logic to remove the web request on the nonexistent domain and start spreading again.

3. Retaliation would not be without cost and risk. Acting on #2 instead is a less costly, less risky action.
I got to my inexpensive build by buying trailing edge hardware, still much faster than what I had, buy cheaper than current generation hardware.
Through, to be fair, plenty of developers are cool with such management decisions as long as the company is cool or the decision helps their career too. They may even proactive come with proposing ideas to management.

Management is ultimately responsible for the overall culture. However, bad cultures find plenty of eager employees. We are talking about skilled people able to find job elsewhere if the ethics was consideration - we are not talking about uneducated dudes having no choice.
Enumerated rights and obligations versus assumptions pulled out of thin air.

The Constitution of the United States lays out that the government defends us with a military, builds and maintain roads, and enforces the laws it sets. This is done through taxation. The Constitution doesn't enumerate that it can take your money and give it to someone else because they have less.
Actually that building was designed by Viñoly too. He seems to have a personal preference for building death rays.
The author talks about this further down in the article.
Someone already has few findings:
https://gist.github.com/rain-1/989428fa5504f378b993ee6efbc0b...
This would be a weird time to have an anti-UBI push since such a bill wouldn't even make it past committee under the current administration.
It's an interesting analogy but I think it proves too much. You could argue that computers will never win at Chess or Go because the search space is too large, and look what happened.

Although it's not proven, we have fairly good reason to believe there are no sufficiently efficient shortcuts for factoring large prime numbers, while there are shortcuts for proving many difficult mathematical theorems. After all, humans can do one but not the other.
I have already done this. The Walmart web experience is miles ahead. Amazon customer service has declined, where I have never needed to contact Walmart customer service for web orders.

I wonder how long it will take people to see this, but Amazon prime really isn't the proposition it once was. If you ask any Amazon employee they will tell you that you get free shows, music, books, etc. But I just want my orders to show up at my doorstep in two days. As you said, this is incredibly hard to do with Amazon prime in its current state.
You don't need to go to a server board for ECC - a lot of the X99 boards actually do support it. Not all of them (EVGA doesn't, a lot of Gigabyte boards don't) but a lot do (Asrock usually does).

And you can find motherboards in pretty much any price range except the barest of dirt cheap. There are motherboards like the GA-X99-SLI that regularly hit $125 or lower. Cheapest thing on Newegg right now is a $150 Asrock board that supports ECC.

The only price range that you "can't get" for X99 is the under-$100 price range, i.e. the super-shitty low-end chipsets. And you actually can get it if you are willing to take an open-box item. I paid $60 after tax for my last X99 board.

Also realize that most of the people who are bitching up a storm about X99's $150 motherboards likely turned around and paid $250 for an X370 board when Ryzen launched. I mean, you gotta get one of the nice ones with the external clockgen so you can get your $300 Samsung B-die memory kit to run stable, right? (but that's totally different! /s)
Apologies for correcting but it's "a number of people", not "an amount". "People" are countable.
I think capitalism has fully explored the concept that most corporations will do the minimum allowable to protect human decency.
We do have systems in place to keep people alive. Food stamps, medicaid, medicare, social security, soup kitchens, charities, etc etc. Those peograms are targeted to people in need, not just "just because
> I would have totally flagged that story if I had seen it for the same reasons I flagged this one: I don't live in the US, I don't care about politics

Why flag though? Is it because parent threads don't have downvotes so people opt to flagging?

Politics and rumors aside, I'm confused by why people flag something that they just don't care to read, instead of going onto the next story. If a post makes the front page, it's probably a good case that it's a subject people want to talk about. By flagging it because you don't care for it, makes no sense to me.
Hey at least a few VFX houses got paid.
When I read Magic Leap, my head reads it Major League" all the damn time.
That's an extreme example. There are many less extreme ones.

If you trust a self-selected random sampling of "people," I suggest that you participate in a jury trial... or just read some YouTube comments.

Government assistance is subject to the rule of law. The rules are public, relatively objective, and codified. The rule of law as implemented by people is by no means perfect, but it's vastly superior to the rule of random emotionally-driven whim.
If you design a building that is literally a threat to public safety, and then you design a second building that poses the exact same threat, you should lose all professional licensure. If you do any work in that field again, you should be charged with criminal negligence or something similar.
> "For example, the FBI is open to the unlocking happening in Apple premises, so Apple could install the patch, unlock the iPhone, and erase the patch before the iPhone is back in the FBI’s hands"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nelsongranados/2016/02/20/apple...

> "As an additional precaution, the government says Apple can design the program to let investigators try different passcodes by submitting them electronically, so that Apple can keep physical control over the iPhone while the special program is deployed."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-apple-ceo-tim-cook...
Counterpoint: their UX works perfectly well for them (see: $690m in revenue) and any proposed overhaul would carry potentially disastrous costs (see: Digg's site-killing redesign). Redesigning for the sake of change is not inherently good.

Also, on a personal level, I've come to appreciate CL's design, and I very much appreciate its consistency. I don't use CL all the time - I go to it sometimes for things like furniture I know I can't get too attached to, or rental listings. It took a little time investment maybe 15 years ago to learn how the site worked, but once you know how it works, it's fairly easy to navigate, and they have never required me to relearn the site, no matter how long I go without using it. There's serious value in that. Add in the network effect that's killing the new apps trying to challenge it and you have a behemoth.
> It promises politicians the luxury of no longer having to worry about unemployment.

Yes, but it would no doubt increase unemployment, decreasing the pool of willing workers. Is there something I'm missing? Why is that not a concern?
"But wow, the demos! I played a shooting game and designed a universe of stars and planets that stretched across a living room wall. I watched a boxing match on the desk in front of me, and saw a friendly droid wave up at me from beneath it. One scene in particular moved me: a firefly buzzing around the room. It looked real–there was no pixilation. Its wings were faintly translucent. I held out my hand and the bug flew down to perch on my index finger. I had injured this finger in an accident five years ago, and since then, it has had no sensation. But as the firefly perched on it, even though I knew it was just a hologram, I felt the slight tickle of its legs. Magic Leap had tricked my brain into telling me that my finger tingled."

- https://www.wired.com/2016/04/went-inside-magic-leaps-myster...

Uhhh....right...
This piece seems poorly argued. It throws its hands up at the impossibility of funding UBI without any deep structural analyses and then relates some unsourced anecdotes about working-class and migrant children who plan to "go on the dole" and then matches that attitude up with just taking UBI and presumably... nothing else?

It seems like the main concern among nay-sayers is that they can't conceive of a world where some people choose basic leisure over working low-status, poorly-compensated jobs.

Because upward mobility, while still possible, is difficult for most. You'll notice that critics of UBI don't offer alternatives, just the status quo.
If we could just pay everyone to write think pieces with
as many assertions and as little evidence as this one, then
we'd have an easy way to guarantee full employment with no training or knowledge required. Essentially UBI, but with worse output.
I take issue with the two assumptions implies by this quote:

"Any resolve to invest in themselves and to improve their lives through work would be put to the test every day..."

1. "Seeking employment is the only important reason for investing in oneself." I believe that a duty to family is important to most people.

2. "The loss of work as a motivator for self-improvement would be bad." Perhaps other motivations would take the place of work, and people could focus on achieving other ends in their self-improvement.
EOs cannot violate the law, or compel someone to violate the law. Could the president issue such an executive order? Potentially. But that does not mean it gets carried out, or is legal.

Do you think this president would? I don't think it terribly likely, and if I heard that he was about to, I'd probably start booting Linux for a few months, because I would wholeheartedly suspect that it did more than just patch effected systems.
Some of the points of article are quite weak and lack a bit of sight.

E. G. Like oh you need work to socialize and learn the language. But if people didn't have work(and could pay bills), couldn't they find other places to socialize?

Disclaimer : I am pro ubi and I feel like most of these in article are weakly debated
> So your argument is torture is OK because blah blah blah

No, it is not.
If n_products = (claimed products that do exist) - (claimed products that don't exist), maybe. Of course, no one knows whether Magic Leap actually has a product, so there's that...
Has anyone actually tried both Magic Leap and HoloLens? How do they compare?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics

Photovoltaic installations have also grown exponentially at roughly the same speed (very roughly about 50% per year), although starting a lot later.
How do you reconcile that with the state's legitimate need for discovery and gathering of evidence? We can debate the merits of any specific case, but in general, do you feel that a state has the right to legally issue a warrant and search for evidence?

If so I don't see how compelling someone to hand over a password is any different than searching their home, asking them to open a safe, etc.
Well, many of the secretive startups remain secret because (1) they do have a great product but they want to test the water first, keeping initial customer happy and until enough maturity they go out and take over the market (and in many case their customers aren't any Internet users, often corporates and government so they don't care if you and I know their existence), or (2) they are really just bluffing. I have seen both. In both cases, the founders don't care about public opinions because their goal is to raise funds from VCs. In the first case, they obviously have a good intention, but in the latter, obviously they just want to buy time hoping one day they assembled a star team and get something delivered. Although I am very surprised how VCs are willing to buy time, specifically the top ones are known to be really sharp in investment. Something is up with this startup.
That's one scheme. I don't see people really living off $1200 a month unless prices for necessities fall within that level.

Whatever the amount offered by UBI, it has to provide the "Basic Income" for an inhabitant.
I remember downloading open source projects that I found online and combing through their source code to find out how they did something. Back in the mid 2000's I was working on a video game and I would spend hours looking through the games on pygame.org for examples. Painful process.
The top marginal rates were higher in the past. But there were huge deductions and loopholes. The percent of income captured by those taxes weren't really much higher. So raising from 39%->90% barely created any more tax revenue.

Which is why I wonder if the math and economics works out.

If you tax all income over 1 million at 90%, the partners at the firm I work for who make on average ~2 million will just incorporate and take equity instead.

If you raise capital gains rates to 90%, nobody would invest another dime in America.

I'm very skeptical that the top 10% of earners are going to sit still while you take 75% of the money they earn.
The article makes four points, none convincing.

0. The costs would be manageable. You could pay for a generous BI ($9k per adult, $2k per child, nothing for people already on SS) just by raising U.S. taxes to the non-U.S. OECD average, and eliminating non-SS/Medicare/Medicaid welfare spending.

1. "First, basic income would further divide society and prevent social mobility." I grew up quite privileged. I can't even say with a straight face that having dad's bank account to fall back on "held me back." To the contrary, it has allows me to take career risks I'd never have taken otherwise. Remember: education is a risk! People who have mouths to feed can't afford the opportunity cost.

2. "Second, an unconditional basic income lacks social legitimacy." Arguably, a check everyone would receive would have a lot more social legitimacy than today's hodge-podge of means-tested welfare programs.

3. "Third, an unconditional basic income runs counter to the needs of a society with rapidly growing immigration." Immigration is not a necessity; it can be limited to achieve more important social goals.
$300 per machine, not per network.
To make an analogy, right now it's possible to write and include C++ modules in your Python scripts, just like it's possible to do with WASM/JS. But people still use Python, because it's a much faster/easier way to get a specific kind of thing done.

So WASM is a great tool, but not a good choice for building something like HN, where perf isn't an issue. Iteration speed, debuggability, and the GC make HTML/CSS/JS a better choice here.