skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> UBI is based on the assumption that everyone will take basic income money and use it responsibly.

No, it's not; neither the libertarian nor the progressive arguments for UBI assume that.

> UBI in its most corrupt form turns into communism

Wait, what? Perhaps some form of communism, by the broadest definition, could be linked to UBI, but even then you'd be equivocating at best when you say:

> And we know from the 20th century that communism is corruptible almost by default. We've paid for this knowledge with 100s of millions of humans dieing in multiple countries.

Since in that bit you are clearly narrowly referring to what has been learned specifically about Leninist vanguardism in the 20th Century (which, actually, plenty of people—including many other communists—observed about its structure and departures from Marxism even before practical experience underlined the problems.)

> I think of capitalism as a type of learning system that depends on a individual reward signal.

Capitalism is an politico-economic system in which, by way of a particular model of property rights, society is ordered to favor the interests of a particular class, the owners of capital ("capitalists"). Hence the name given to that system by its critics when it was the dominant world system.

Now, arguably, the politico-economic systems of modern representative democracies with mixed economies combine a base drawn from 19th Century capitalism and its basic model of property rights with various redistributive and power-limiting mechanisms to implement a "learning system" of the type you describe, but UBI is essentially a retuning and streamlining of some of the redistributive mechanisms in modern mixed economies, not a fundamental change.
WTF is technical debt?
I really wish they would make it easier for example to convert a "for-profit" to a self-perpetuating board of directors for example.
Works on Server 2012 R2 as well...
I don't think there is a single instance of a petition leading to legislation, though.
I find that very odd; I haven't noticed that much of a difference between any of the taxi-like apps I've used. I almost always end up sitting in the front, especially in Austin.

Plus, don't most drivers drive for both companies at the same time?
One thing that intrudes on attention that has been around even before computers is noise pollution. Living in a city, loud motorcyclists and fire (and police) sirens are constant irritations. Unlike visual intrusions, you can't look away or close your eyes. Even plugging your ears only muffles loud sounds.

And in cafe settings where you might be working, there's the problem of people who talk on their phones, as well as not silencing their phone, so you hear a "ding" every time they get a text, etc.
Existing thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14423210
Alot depends on what your trying to do. I wouldn't try and start an AI company without at least one founder having a strong understanding of AI. If you're building some kind of social/mobile/marketplace (ie. crud app) just get it working first. The marketing and business side of that business is way more important.
> A senior manager started a conversation by saying, “You’re in this demographic, let me ask you…” and proceeded to ask a question about promotion (or not), for women in my stage of life, meaning: a mother of young children. On its own, the question was likely not enough to make anyone quit, but certainly enough to give me pause. To put me on alert.

Yikes - a Professional Landmine for anyone concerned about talent retention & engagement. Recalling Marshall Goldsmith's excellent advice - Happiness comes from the inside. What can you do to engage yourself? > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz7zRjKGPyU
I like - A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Irvine, provides a good overview of stoicism.
Trump's still been invited on a state visit.
1. that's fine. Again, it depends on how much value LTE adds to the end product and,

2. if Qualcomm can prove that LTE adds significant value to the core functionining of the product and consumer demand driven by Qualcomm's patented features is significant, they are all entitled to it. In patent cases, the courts use similar underlying concepts (eg, Georgia Pacific analysis) to determine what's fair. In Apple's case, there is significantly cheaper alternative to the iPhone without Qualcomm's patented feature, the iPod touch. But we also know from Apple's own sales figure that much greater number of consumers are willing to pay much higher price for the iPhone precisely because of Qualcomm's wireless functionality.

3. Apple has in the past demanded as much as $8 per, or about 1.5% of, end-device price, for frivolous patents such as slide-to-unlock, rounded-corners, etc (for a total of $30, or about 5%, of end-user device for four such patents). Qualcomm's published rate is somewhere between 3%-5% based on Foxconn's manufacturing cost, or less than 2% of the retail price. In comparison to Apple's own licensing practices, IMO, that's a bargain.
Exactly right. I moved to Chrome when it came out, and moved back to Firefox a couple of years ago because of Chrome's growing memory-hogging problems and its inability to handle hundreds of tabs.
Isn't npm shrinkwrap the npm "lockfile"?
This seems to be very similar to Gradle vs Buck (or Bazel).

Generally speaking the main tool is slow, or otherwise suboptimal but does a lot. A different tool is built with an emphasis on speed. Eventually, the main stream tools picks up the speed features of the other tool and then "wins" because it does more. (Side note: I have no idea when Gradle came out in comparison to Buck/Bazel) For context, Gradle in the 4.0 version is starting to really support build cache support.

Edit: this comment is a reaction to all the other comments I see here about yarn vs npm.
I had a required ethics course to get my CS degree, and I graduated in 2000.

The course was surprisingly contentious. A lot of students saw it as a waste of time or just an easy GPA booster. It did have some weird content, like a Meyers-Briggs day, but overall I thought it was worthwhile.
I would like to share 400+ data structure and algorithms problems
> Downvoters and those who upvoted this story, please leave a comment explaining why this is front page worthy.

We don't owe you an explanation, but I'll offer one anyway: I upvoted because it's a story about a popular tech company, and the way they're trying to improve their offering for their semi-employees. Why wouldn't I upvote this?
>Not sure that many people are using deciphered Mayan glyphs in their daily routines.

This gets to a question about the value of history. I find history exceptionally valuable to society, but you may disagree.

>This is good, but I've asked about achievements "made in USSR" which ordinary people still use in their daily lives.

Lets ignore Bacteriophages while we are at it. Yes, they improved countless peoples health and yes this research is used in biology, but US biotechs have met difficulty commercializing this treatment in the US because while it saves lives it is hard to monetize (IP issues). But hey, if you get a MR bacterial infection you might be happy that other options exist. [0]

That leaves three things people continue to use in their daily lives:

1. RFIDs,

2. Complexity Theory (you are using it right now),

3. and Dynamical Systems advances (as seen in aircraft, boats, cars, medical devices, electronics, etc...).

[0]: https://www.phagetherapycenter.com
This would be about 100x cooler if there was an environment you could fly through and not just empty grass.
What I always prefer is a take-home programming assignment, and then present the results to a group of developers. You need to be able to explain what you did and answer questions about it.
I've had at least a dozen Uber drivers suggest something similar when I road with them more than once. Almost all of them wanted to setup something so I'd pay less and they'd make more.

I hadn't done it as I usually don't need Uber / Lyft much but most of the people I know who have used Uber / Lyft have also gotten similar offers so it must be pretty common I would think.
Wondering, why was the "paperwork fudge" necessary? I guess because the U.S-N.Z. free trade agreement never happened?
I fail to see how the UK's policy is better. For starters, its a government policy which can be revoked at will. Change.org is a for-profit entity whose objectives are clear and cuts across government and private enterprise.
Doesn't matter

My ABET accredited ethics course in college took the attitude that ethics (for some definition of ethics) can't be taught in a semester at college so we'll just inform you about consequences of different choices engineers have made in different situations.
I can't recall any instance where this has had any remotely noticeable effect. Can you name an instance?

EDIT#1: Just to be absolutely clear: This is an incredibly transparent distraction ploy. There's no actual intention of acting on any of this.

EDIT#2: See also the recent FCC "public consultation" on Net Neutrality.
Okay, now they've bought food and household items with their money, sold it in the black market and bought a slightly-less-nice TV.

Which is what happens currently with these systems.
They're getting rid of extensions and replacing them with Web extensions.
My thoughts were on this line also... the same reason the crowd was shocked when Lee Sedol made an unexpected move in game 4. [0]

Is there any research done to prove/disprove that groupthink is inherently worse compared to a single genius? (less risky behavior, so less risk/less reward??) Are we training AIs that will be safe, not bold independent thinkers?

0: https://www.wired.com/2016/03/two-moves-alphago-lee-sedol-re...
Yesterday Bloomberg published a story [0] on internal tension in World Bank's development economics group. The submitted article is the internal blog of the Bank's chief economist Paul Romer (apparently mirrored publicly by him), which communicates some of his thoughts central to the conflict.

It's fascinating to read his views on trust and communication applied to their work, originally for an internal audience and now shared. These seem like issues worthy of getting everyone worked up.

Also, in the About page [1] he goes into his thoughts on how prose should work and how his approach to the blog embraces that, citing the living nature of Wikipedia as better system than "books in libraries" or "docs on drives" but one that doesn't scale(?). He advocates for text files and DVCS instead. He uses Jekyll to author his blog, although it sounds like in its current form collaboration involves manually emailing files. This reminded me of fedwiki [2]. Time to go check on what Ward's been up to.

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-25/war-over-...

[1]: http://wb-ce.org/about/

[2]: https://github.com/fedwiki/wiki
Good to know.

It would be good to figure out key rotation for Dat URL providers since this probably has to be built into the protocol.

Any thoughts on integrating with keybase? I like keybase's model where you have device-specific keys. But this would probably make moving a Dat URL provider to a different machine trickier.

This all assumes that well-known Dat URL's become an important thing to preserve (they are published in papers, etc) even though they are very user-unfriendly, even more than IP addresses.

A naming system on top of them would make key rotation a non-issue (rotate Dat URL's instead) and you could completely replace or remove the history, sort like a git rebase. But that loses other nice properties of the system?

I suppose irrevocability is something we deal with in git repos all the time. Although you can do a rebase locally, once a commit is accepted by a popular project, they're unlikely to let you remove it from history. The review process makes it unlikely that any really embarrassing mistake would be accepted, so this seems ok in practice.
> More probable is the idea that he was the one who kept the full 1.6 million.

The last quote in the article makes me think that...
David from Vanhawks here - great question. As a long time cyclist myself, I would never want to buy a bike that I didn't get a chance to throw a leg over first - we are completely aware of this and, we will be working with a retail partner in the near future to offer this option.

It was important for us to create and refine the product while we found the right partner. In the coming weeks, we'll be starting a purchase program that allows both online and in-shop purchasing in select locations.
Even calling the Model S a BMW is stretching given, for the price, how bad the interior is, how average the performance is (outside of the P100D), and how poor their customer support and QA is.

Tesla has no comparison in the auto industry. The Model S is a $35k upcharge, minimum, over comparable traditional automobiles, just for the electric powertrain. The Model 3 might get that number down to $15k. Nothing we've seen about the Model 3 looks like it should start at $35k, beside the hype around electric powertrain.

My question is: Who can get that number down to $5k first? Tesla? Or BMW, Toyota, or GM?
By understanding the reason why people have many kids to begin with:

-To help you when you get old?

-Because my religion says so?

-My parents had many kids, so that seems natural

It all comes down to numbers. What is the ceiling number for the carrying capacity of humans on this planet?

Seems like an important question for the next 5 generations of people.
That's really smart. I love how you're using Travis matrix builds for this, and publishing the results via the Google Sheets API.
Especially since the official site (http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/) has been broken for a few months if you have NoScript, even if you enable all of the 30 or so Javascript sources.

The technical problem is that if you visit the site at all without Javascript, it puts a cookie in an incorrect path, which causes all subsequent searches on the site to fail (even with full JS). Despite my attempts to get past the front line support I've still not found anyone there who is able to understand why this would be a problem. This level of incompetence makes me wonder about the whole operation.

It was actually the thing that made me switch to using http://traintimes.org.uk/ permanently.
yep :'(

and the only solution seems to use Tor-browser with javascript disabled, which makes browsing the web a pain-in-the-ass.
They've debated something like a dozen petitions in Parliament. I'm not aware of anything meaningful having happened as a result.
"it[Ada] failed to find its niche. "

This is plain wrong. One of Ada's favorite niche is real time embedded systems with a strong emphasis on safety and reliability. It is widely used in aerospace, railway, ...
$15.00 stocks might jump quite a bit next week ;-)
Vultr (http://www.vultr.com/?ref=6979836) allows you to pay with bitcoin, making it more difficult to trace you
Historical Cryptography Ciphers
INTFACT
Oh wow, didn't realize that was the focus of the story -- the title should be "Lyft now allows prebooking on both sides", not the existence of a driver-specific app (though breaking it into a separate app is interesting too).
Traveling This Summer? Don't Let Your Data Get Checked Out #vacationhack
> It's obvious that money is not a sufficient abstraction for resources and/or the usage of money eventually leads to world b

Citation needed...

We had "resource based economies" for hundreds of thousands of years. In that time, millions starved to death.

Clearly a hidden variable exists... North Koreans starve under a monetary system. Americans waste billions of pounds of food every year under a monetary system. How could money be responsible for both outcomes? Surely there are alternative explanations.
Amen! I've been saying this for years. Do you know your MBTI type by any chance?
Not sure for-profit is appropriate either though (even if it's a b-corp, as Change.org is).
The difference is that Wikipedia actually provides some public benefit, whereas change.org doesn't accomplish anything so there's not going to be many people interested in donating resources to keep it running.
Wow I'm 1/2 block away from a fiber line. How do I convince Sonic to do my street?
Like the million people marching against the Iraq war in london 2003?
There's an interesting podcast (Criminal by phoebe judge) which has a couple of episodes about disappearing. One way is to go to a corrupt country and buy a fake birth certificate. Use that to officially stop existing
Oh, I see what you mean now. Thanks.

I definitely agree that there's a difference between "generally unreliable" and "unreliable until committed". Coincidentally the person from my anecdote is also "your type", but unfortunately it's really hard to tell from the outset if he's committed or not, so...

As long as people are very clear about when they're committed, I have absolutely no problem with "unreliable" people :).
Never heard of it, but looks pretty great. Have you tried the Trainline app? If so, how does this conpare? Cheers
I think that this is actually an interesting insight into the human condition as a whole.
The letter itself possibly carries more information than the article: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/12/no-evidenc...
I first picked up the stoics in my early twenties many years ago when I started going to war, and I can't recommend them enough. What you get out of stoic philosophy will definitely depend on the translation you pick up. Every time you read a new translation, you'll get something new out of it. I would recommend researching the various translations, or even just buying a variety of translations on Amazon because they're so cheap. You can get all of the typical stoic works (Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca) for the cost of shipping on Amazon. That is incidentally amazing to me. There's a joke about the world in there somewhere. Anyway, I suggest starting with the translation which you find most digestible. Some of them can be extremely difficult, especially if you've never had to read archaic translations.
I ran across this one today: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

Based on ipsec, so no extra software to install on the clients. Looked interesting.
Hardware Lessons learned from the first 18 months in hardware manufacturing
> frankly MIMO as it stands is basically voodoo snakeoil that provides no consumer benefit whatsoever

Curious why you say this. In the last few years, I've seen a significant increase in PHY data rate when using multiple spatial streams.
Ask HN: Do computers and tablets really improve education at elementary level?
Some recent personal observations and tutoring led me to believe that schools introduced mandatory laptops and tablets simply to appear modern.

What I see is pre/teens spending most of their days (evenings and weekends) on social media using devices mandated by schools and purchased at great cost by parents. I see close to none usage of the same devices for improved learning/teaching.

Kids don't hang out on Wikipedia. They follow pop stars on Instagram. All day (and night if not restricted) using electronics that supposedly improves education.

Majority of 'educational' usage is along the lines of looking up class schedule online and doing homework on ebooks which could very well be paper based. For example what are the benefits of using drawing program vs paper, pencil, ruler for basic geometry? Is it worth spending money on iPad Air to facilitate this? Wouldn't be better to use these funds for better teacher pay and teacher/student ratios?

Are there any studies supporting or disproving my observations? What are your personal observations?
C14 dating can be accurate to ~12 years if you have a large enough sample, collect beta emission data long enough, and use good methodology & calibration data.

Out of a range of ~50,000 years that's not bad at all.
Not a huge fan of the article but here it is:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/another-way-of-looking-at-lee-se...
Being a "logical" person, I think I basically agree with you, it's just that the "real world" (aka. majority of people) don't seem to work that way.

EDIT: There's also the whole "Oh, I've been rebuffed, but thank $DEITY that $OBJECT_OF_MY_DESIRE didn't really know what I was asking". That is, people think that they've got the "secret code" to get away with asking X (by saying "innocuous" Y) thinking that the other person doesn't realize what they're really being asked.

Of course there's the more transparent ones like "Do you want to come up to see my etchings?", but also the rather more ambiguous "Would you like to come up for some coffee?".

(There's a lot of instances of people just not getting the hint. For loads of examples see: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6d53vz/ladies_wh...

... but that is kind of the reverse of what I'm talking about, I guess, so YMMV.)
Lee Sedol was near the top (#7). He wasn't the very top, that was Ke Jie. And now Ke Jie has been beaten 2/3, maybe 3/3 times.

Sedol was beaten soundly -- 4/5 games. So this is an improvement, but not an exponential one.

Go is definitely conquered like chess was 1-2 decades ago.

https://www.goratings.org/en/
> Worth sacrificing your childhood for.

Is that specific to French immersion? I don't see what that has to do with the quoted text. If your child is already spending their childhood in school, you should at least try to help them get the most out of it...
I don't think you could really disappear depending on your pursuer/ threat model. However, if you were to make more money than you needed to survive you could presumably invest in something like Bitcoin or alt-currency and with the legalisation of crowd-funding you could potentially also make tangible investments in companies through similar mechanisms to the blockchain.

Again, I don't think you could knock the ball out of the park or allude a motivated state agency if you were a terrorist or something; but if you were in a similar position to the subject of the article you could probably avoid capture and maintain a semblance of normalcy.
I think more people care about it than you think, when their attention is brought to the issue. Mozilla should keep that in mind, and make it part of their marketing efforts.
Go Beyond Username/Password with Modern Authentication
Sometimes throwing money at the problem isn't the answer.

There's a 4th option invest in people so they can function as productive members of society. Am I saying that some day UBI might be needed...sure once computers are doing all the jobs. But, until then let's help those that need it most first.

Does a child with cancer deserve more cash help than an opioid addicted violent felon? yes. Am I morally judging them? yes. Does opioid addicted violent felon need help? yes. But direct cash assistance isn't what they need!
(in fact love) this echosystem

That's a nifty little portmanteau of echo-chamber and ecosystem, though I do recognize it could have just been an innocent misspelling.
> Any immigrant heavy country would be a good choice

I think the point is that there is no national ID in the US, and often less in terms of showing ID's. In a lot of places in Europe, you have to show ID to check into a hotel, for instance.