skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basic income at what level can't even remotely work? Of course there are funding levels where basic income does work, and then everyone is then free to go to work and earn any additional amount they desire.

One key point is that being able to work to subsidize the basic income makes the income much more powerful than "phantom" dollars that disappear as soon as you start to work.

The trick is that the funding level of basic income doesn't have to "fully cover" a family of four. The family of four will be able to supplement the income, rather than today being locked into receiving it. Also, it doesn't mean that programs like SSDI go away, you still can provide national disability insurance.
I agree, but there is inherent risk to switching for a cloud provider, even though AMD might offer a cheaper and faster CPU.
Forgive my ignorance, but I'm not sure for what a dataset like the "Collectible Card Game to Code"[0] might be used. Can anyone explain how and for what it might be used?

[0] https://github.com/deepmind/card2code
Turning users away is a feature? Genuine question -- I really don't understand your point.
Finally. A voice of reason. Unions are not inherently good. They were good in the past. They're terrible these days.
There's virtually no way for a 20-something to amass a 20% down-payment in a reasonable area, without postponing home ownership into the mid-30s.
Do you think the article is guilty of "trying to turn it into a universal theory of everything, dismissing actual human experience" anywhere? It's very specific in it's conclusions and discusses several of your objections in it's limitations section (at least from the Abstract - perhaps they're reaching much further in the full paper?)
Same thing happened in Denmark. Several operators advertised a rise in prices with the exact reasoning: To pay for the loss of roaming charges. They actually advertised that the price rise was to pay for their lost income, as if to somehow try to gather sympathy from the average customer.
Thats not what assured access means. ULA absolutely cannot conduct a launch on 24 hours notice, nor can any launch provider. It takes months for them to prepare a launch. Payload integration alone (assuming, by some miracle, they actually had a rocket fully built, in the configuration needed, and all the development work needed to certify the combination of the rocket with a particular payload was done, and that the pad is available, exactly none of which will actually be true) takes multiple days. ULA does have, as a commercial service, RapidLaunch which is the fastest launch service in the world from order placement to liftoff, and that still takes 3 months minimum.

Assured access, as defined by the EELV program, just means there are at least 2 launch vehicles in service (in this case, Atlas V, Delta IV, and partially Falcon 9) which are capable and certified to carry the full range of national security payloads, which means problems with a single rocket design will never ground all national security payloads
At least unions for private companies make a little sense. Unions for public agencies are a drain on society.
They'll do a word cloud and then do what? Is he is really going to act on these ideas without looking at real data on poverty, education, climate change, etc?
The Roots of Consciousness: We're of Two Minds
Well, it's giving something... In any case, workers' wages have been stagnant, jobs have been lost to automation, wealth has been pooling up at the top. Things would probably be better off if Amazon's employees had had more of a share in the wealth that was created and he wasn't in such a position.

I don't really think Unions are the solution to this problem, but it is a real, and important, problem to solve.
One of the problems is that powerful people are predicting widespread, permanent unemployment and proposing basic income as a solution to this. Then the same article that says this has glowing, warm stories about how basic income can supplement your underpaid job and says not one word about how dreadful it will be to live in a world where you have to get by on basic income, possibly forever after, with little or no hope of supplementing it with an earned income.

That's a pretty grim picture that no one seems to be acknowledging.
I really don't think I understand what you mean. Those links are some open source stuff that they've done. Great. That's not the OS, nor the apps. I want them to open source the OS and their apps.

I'm sure they are fixing security flaws, but they are still not addressing the underlying issue. I like what they say their philosophy is, but until they open source all their stuff, I have no reason to trust them.

I definitely hate them, because I really want a company like them to succeed. But they refuse to put their money where their mouth is. I'd invite you to point me to any facts that I've missed, but I don't see where I've missed any.
Tess Valentine vs. Kacee Carlisle (Steel Cage Title Match)
I easily find affordable housing in and around Seattle via Zillow. What are you expecting exactly that's not already out there?
ULA does not and cannot offer guaranteed launch at any point in time -- their launches, including launches of government payloads, can be and are delayed for days by anything from technical glitches to unfavorable wind conditions to planes wandering into the launch corridor. (Google "Atlas V launch delay" for numerous examples.) And they don't have boosters "on standby, ready to go"; like everyone else, they refer to launch preparations as "campaigns", and they extend for weeks after the rocket and payload are both at the pad.

(There are other capabilities ULA offers that SpaceX still can't match, but those are all about babying the payloads -- mounting them vertically on the rocket, rather than tilting as is SpaceX's current practice; providing clean-room access to payloads already on the rocket, and so forth.)
When describing the broad beliefs of a group of people, there is general agreement that the beliefs are not held universally. I would think we can all agree on that; therefore your mention of your family (which is itself necessarily highly correlated and less representative) is of suspect value.
Can you provide a little more detail on how the union caused them to leave and not tax incentives from other states?
Opera actually has this ability built-in. It lets you A/B test websites (with/without ads) by going to the URL "speedtest".
"If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

Pray, Mr. Babbage, what is the "true value" of roaming?

How much profit shall we decree suitable, for private corporations? And why stop at telcos?
Yup. Me to a tee. Really glad I read this.
So you're telling me that if I state a fact but don't back it up then I get down-voted? On so many occasions I've stated facts without explanation that got up-voted. So what I'm trying to say is: the idiocy of crowds.
I think this is mostly targeted at prepaid Visa cards which are very commonly used for money laundering.

I keep my wallets in a private cloud. I don't see how a border agent could know they exist.

I think the bigger question is 'does dark money enable crime?'. If the answer is yes, then we as a tech community need to consider the impact of legitimizing cryptocurrent and enabling unfettered criminal enterprise.
I agree that confusion exists, but I don't think you have the details quite correct. In North America, I think the term "Red Deer" is only used to describe non-native animals. The paper says its about Cervus elaphus, but the study was done in Alberta, Canada. The native animals that are hunted in Alberta are locally called Elk and the provincial government says they are synonymous with Wapiti: http://aep.alberta.ca/fish-wildlife/wild-species/mammals/dee....

I think the missing pieces of information is that Wapiti (Cervus canadensis) was until recently classified as a subspecies of Cervus elaphus. I'm guessing that the authors of the paper (and the provincial government) either don't agree with this reclassification, or have some legal reason for continuing to refer to the native North American animals by the older Latin name.
Instead of downvoting, I will just say, there are absolutely situations where a down payment of less than 20% is perfectly financially reasonable. Interest rates are extremely low.
Fusion.
Sad, but true https://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/we-cannot-trust-int...
> I think the base economic theory is that companies will pay for labor exactly what that labor is worth to them.

I imagine they would pay less, rather than just break even.
There is no reason to believe this statement is true, and the article doesn’t even try to make a case for it. It “feels” like it should be true, but the discussion is really just asserting the statement.

Skeptic: “I understand X. I’ve spent years working on it, and I’m recognized as an expert in the field. but I can’t explain X in simple terms.”

Believer: “Well, then you obviously don’t really understand it. Can you prove to me that you do"

Being able to explain things in simple terms is a skill in and of itself. Many people do not possess this particular skill, but that does not mean they are unable to understand any subject.
I am not in the Seattle area. From what I have read, there is a long standing and growing shortage of genuinely affordable housing nationwide.

Though I am curious as to what you think of as "affordable" in Seattle. Care to provide some examples?
OK, then they got me. Too similar to something someone would actually write.
Nenad great design man. You really nailed the colors and I dig the flat UI, similar to what you'd see in a RAW editor like RAW Therapee or Lightroom. It's consistent, professional and carries a certain logic through all of the elements. Hope you get the gig!
Oh I hope that with some good moderation it could get much better than that...

"People are starving in Somalia" is as useful as "people around the world are suffering", or (like in many software projects): "this program is too slow".

But if you can narrow the scope, like, "There is a neighborhood in Baidoa, Somalia, that have no access to fresh water since the beginning of June because a pump is broken" then we could think of possible ways to solve that. And if you also include information about organizations in that area that could help, then we are much closer to a real solution.
Pasition – 1kb JavaScript Path Transition Library
What can we really learn from failure?
Well, it is in Samsung's interest to do that if the costs of preventing it are greater than the costs of allowing it to happen.
I am a terrible writer but I have still considered it many times. I've seen a lot of incredible things being out in nature all the time. Also there are many misconceptions about logging that I like to clear up. But my stories are usually better at a party with a glass of wine!
Now apply the same reasoning to every other company in every other polluting industry, and you see (or at least show) why we have a problem.
It is not that, office cleaning is outside the core competency of a company. Hence hire the services of a company that will keep the office clean for a cost, exactly how they achieve that and with what staff is for them to manage as per contract decided on.

By analogy think of the milk in the fridge at work. The company could have employed a farmer and bought land for a cow but that didn't happen, instead that was outsourced.

Nobody thinks 'must own cow', that is almost always outsourced, certainly in the first world. I think cleaning services are like that, no company thinks to build up a department of cleaners, it is outside the core competency, much like dairy farming is. However, the big companies that are criticised for outsourcing departments started out in an era when there weren't so many security companies, cleaning service companies and such like. If those companies started out now they would not be building up 'cleaning departments' with the management structure, pension plan and bonus incentives, it would just be outsourced, probably to some zero hours minimum wage contractor.
It feels horribly outdated whenever I try to draw something. Omnigraffle is far ahead of it.
Can you point to any links that shows the chinese people protest on streets about their Govt's stance on south china sea, Tibet and Taiwan? If they don't, does that not mean they agree 100% with their Govt?
To add to this, Snap's S1 stated that Spiegel was receiving millions in annual compensation.
What Your VP of Engineering Wants You to Know
The biggest problem with unions is that they try and force everyone to join them.

Fine, join whatever private organization that you want.

But please leave me out of it. I do not want to follow your ill thought out rules and I want to be able to negotiate myself. I can get a better deal on my own, and I do not want your collective bargaining that they try to force on everyone.
It's not really that much less egregious than root. With this shared account, anyone is able to log in and become root.

There is not audit capabilities when using shared accounts. Using shared accounts is just bad idea.
And with individual car ownership.
After destroying the Seattle education system first. Then after realizing issues are more complicated than he originally imagined (and local issues reflecting poorly on him) going to foreign countries to experiment with dispersing his tax breaks.

Not exactly a stunning endorsement. Basically the least bad example.
> After reading The Jaunt by Stephen King, I was on edge for a day or two afterwards.

The story has been optioned [1], will be interesting if it does come out as a feature film.

What would be really interesting is if it is used as a platform for different storytelling angles. Instead of coming out insane, someone comes out, Anathem-1,000-Apert-avout-like, with incanting-like powers from meditating for so long. The Buddhists would get a kick out of that; imagine being able to meditate without physical need for far longer than the 10,000 year increments so popular in Buddhist stories. Then put in savage plot twists: the venerated Buddhist sage is sent through and comes out blubbering insane, but an affable Cajun-drawling redneck scientist goes through and comes out with telekinetic and world tracking powers.

[1] http://io9.gizmodo.com/stephen-kings-teleportation-tale-the-...
Alexa?
I think that's a fair response. Allowing unions isn't really philanthropy, but it's certainly related. He wouldn't have so much money to be "generous" with if all Amazon employees were treated fairly.
Solve a problem and create two?
Processed wood is considered carbon neutral until it breaks down, minus the transportation emissions.
One example: Andy McNab. I actually really admire that about his writing. I've read some war stories where there's a lot of negative attitudes - he always calls out what his enemies did well and how it was nothing personal that he held against them.
At the time this manifesto was written, Stephenson was just publishing his first serious novel, Zodiac. He wasn't yet a well-known writer.
How Uber’s Brash Approach Is Beginning to Backfire
The way that you restore balance is that you make it illegal to force people to join them, as it is in many right to work states.

If unions are so great, then they can stand on their own.

If they end up sucking, then people will leave them.
There's no dishonesty. The author makes it very clear that the GAO report prices in the billion dollar a year fixed subsidy ULA receives.
<3 Abelton, even for it's flaws. Absolutely an essential part of making live music these days.
I mean they are clearly looking to sell and Stewart is trying to create a bidding war to get the most money out of this deal. How many companies can afford to create new enterprise contracts with Amazon for enterprise software? They are either Google customers or Microsoft customers for employee productivity software.
Amazon granted patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checking
Maybe you should use the right number of spaces in your codebase.
Kiva is kind of like that!

Edit: not Python
How does one get into that? I've wanted to try my hand
> I think this is mostly targeted at prepaid Visa cards which are very commonly used for money laundering.

I've never heard of prepaid Visa cards being called a "tumbler of digital currency", which the bill specifically deals with. It seems clear whoever wrote this knows about Bitcoin etc.

> I keep my wallets in a private cloud. I don't see how a border agent could know they exist.

It's well documented that they're poking around on social media for information on folks. You've posted that you have one on an account whose profile mentions your employer's name. I wouldn't be shocked if they could connect the dots pretty trivially.
The food that is there in summer tends not to be there by November.

The hunting got worse at a swampy cabin I know when feeding/baiting got more legal. The deer stay with the food.
WA already provides massive tax incentives, and further increased them to get them to stay. To say the massive strike going on at the time had nothing to do with it would be disingenuous.
They use it to train an AI to program. It reads the descriptions of the cards' effects and produces computer code that generates that behavior.
I clicked thinking "I bet that's Tim May." I was not disappointed.

Some of his posts in the '90s were tough to read, but they were interesting without fail. Anyone know if/where he posts nowadays?
Oh Hacker News, you beautiful people, let me tell you a quick story, because I am in the mood to tell a story in this current country I live in where we are going to make things Great Again by restoring industrial jobs, as though industrial jobs were ipso facto wonderful, high-paying things. As opposed to dangerous, low-paying shit work that killed the people who showed up 6+ days a week until they all looked at each other and decided not to accept the terms that had been decreed to them.

We didn't used to have great jobs for high school-educated folks, we used to have unions. Because lots of people earning 0.05x joining together are the only way to make things fair when woking for a person earning X. Or 10x.

But that only applies to the slob packing a box to send you a fidget spinner thing. Not to you brilliant coders working in Silicon Valley, obvs. Except here's a thing: I worked for at a 8-to-5 for years before going out on my own for the last decade. And now I can't seem to go back, because all the full time gigs I find quote me $US125-150k. And I make about twice that as a contractor. Nothing fancy, I haven't found some wonderful niche, I just ask for my rate and get it and work. And even after accounting for paying both sides of Social Security taxes, I make 2x the top end of whatever StackOverflow survey you want to look at.

I'm not amazing, I'm just a guy who got a decent education that was paid for in large part by my mom's salary as a teacher. Which was a result of her efforts in a union that had to go out on strike some times. Unions aren't perfect. No organization of humans ever will be. But regurgitating "facts" about why unions failed that have been drilled into you by popular media isn't a way to overcome that. It's a way to get screwed. Good luck.
Any technology enables crime. Have you considered the impact of legitimizing cars, weapons, phones, audio recorders, drones, etc?

Edit: not sure how to interpret the replies to my post ("currency enables crime"). Yes the dollar/euro/pound/cryptocurrency enable crime. Should we ban them all? No. Both government-controlled currencies and cryptocurrencies enable economic activity, hence create wealth, and are a net benefit to society. Besides more illegal activity is conducted (in absolute and relative numbers) in fiat than in cryptocurrency so that's even less of a reason to ban cryptocurrency.
> does dark money enable crime?

How can there be any doubt in your mind that the answer is yes? The whole ransomware industry is only viable because bitcoin has succeeded.
Reverse traceroute [pdf]
Pretty sure this didn't help: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/boeing-unions-move-to-end-strike...

> Boeing's value has reportedly fallen by about $5.3 billion since the walkout began and that strikers have lost more than $125 million in wages

Followed by this 8 years later... http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/06/news/companies/boeing_strike...

And then this 5 years later...
http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/20/news/companies/boeing-strike...

At some point, it's getting ridiculous.
I think if efficiency conscious companies like Amazon or fast food inc could find savings in automation they would.

They have workers because they need them to run their business, not out of a sense of charity.

Talk of automation as a 'threat' every time workers rights are brought up is disingenuous and a bit self serving.
They don't have to know about them. They just have to ask you about them. I don't know the exact legality around border agents, but I can't imagine lying to them working out well for you.
The proper way to overcome your lack of understanding would be to try hunting...
Along the way, we also need to consider what is considered crime and what is not. Not all 'crime' as defined by law, is immoral. And sometimes, enabling certain activities can be very illegal, yet profoundly moral. Of course, we all likely won't agree on what counts as illegal/moral.

Your point is not invalid, just more nuanced or complex perhaps that your direct point suggests.
When I was putting myself thru college I took a couple of Union jobs during that time. They both left me with a poor impression. There was little positive for the company (always looking for ways to be _less_ productive) and they took my dues and I had nothing to gain from it. When I got hurt on the job (nothing serious, but still) they didn't bother to help. My impression was they were multi-parasitic, they sapped productivity from the employer and they offered little in return to members except for some pro-forma stuff.
It's not true. It's based on one person's observation (in this case a Canadian woodsman).

Plantation trees are used to make paper in New Zealand and Australia. That is my personal observation, but it is enough to disprove the claim that paper is only made from dead or rotting trees.
And if PC manufacturers forced the issue they'd sell more dongles and/or drag businesses into the 21st century.
>'does dark money enable crime?'

all currency does this.
Scratch and Alice look like actual programming to me.

The odd features: You have a structured editor. You are tightly tied to a graphics library that focuses on cartoon animation.

I would prefer that you could have one feature or the other, or both, or neither.

The structured editor is very important. It is like syntax highlighting, but it actively prevents syntax mistakes instead of just complaining. Structured editors usually come with non-standard languages, which is a shame. You could do a decent subset of most modern languages, even C. Code written in a normal editor could even be loaded into the structured editor as long as the code doesn't go outside the supported feature set. Look at the code, imagine the colorful shapes missing, and you can see a pretty ordinary text-based program.

The graphics library is so typical. I suppose it is needed, sadly. Kids allegedly get bored with printf. I wonder if the kids who seem to require graphics are simply uninterested. If you can't simply enjoy the pure pleasure of manipulating data with code, programming might not be your thing. In any case, a graphics library is the norm.