skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can approximate this somewhat today by distributing only an .asar or .zip archive of an application package and encouraging:

npm install -g electron
electron ./myapp

Or as npx gets more widely deployed:

npx electron ./myapp

That's not a particularly "robust" way to install applications and you can't use native libraries outside of the base Electron distribution, and you'd mostly only be useful to devs with NodeJS already installed, but it's an option of a sort.

(It still won't share as much runtime memory as you might want, but it would reduce install footprints at least.)
>>Those who died after the settlement was approved in April 2015 are not eligible for an award, but Hernandez’s family could argue for an exemption.

An exemption should only be made if the money goes to the families of the victims.

Why does the family of a murderer get a monetary reward? Even if it is proven the the CTE somehow cause him to commit the murders (which is a long shot), why would his family reap the benefits of the settlement?
Say I buy the music for $.99, and then put it on my own service where I sell copies for $.09. And say people use my service because I've made it very simple or that I'm using a business model that people prefer to either freely downloading it or paying full price. Should this be allowed?

I do not consider piracy theft, but I do consider there to be economic issues that must be handled. If the creators aren't compensated, there are limits that wind up occurring. For music, because of factors such as the ability to be compensated through concerts and through fame (fame can't directly pay your rent, but I think it still counts as compensation because of the impact of having high fame), it is possible for people to still make money. But in other medias this may not be possible. Look at movies, if we allowed infinite copying how would we get the budget to create the expensive movies currently created? Imagine if a theater only had to make a copy and could continue to show the movie and make profits without giving any back to the creator.

If you look at indie video games, you see a truce of sorts. Most indie games have little protection, but many people still buy them even though they could copy them. Some do this because they want to support people who aren't developing game with always online DRM or similar techniques. But is this model sustainable? What happens if people begin feeling entitled to such an extent that the producers aren't able to sustain their livelihoods?

And I'm not sure my personal experiences are relevant or not, but I'm someone who use to pirate computer games back when I was a broken college student but who started buying all my games once I had a steady income.
> As the series helpfully reminds you, barely 40 years ago, China was in the midst of the Cultural Revolution, a collective self-inflicted madness which we would find difficult to imagine.

I grew up in the "communist" Eastern Bloc. I can easily visualize that type of event.

I still don't buy it - neither the premises of that trilogy, nor its conclusions.

At the end I was like - there's got to be a better way, or else this is a pointless Universe.
Yes, Cassandra supports common aggregation functions as well as user-defined aggregators which have to be created in Java.
> Is a bankruptcy greater than >10 years ago statistically a red flag? What do you think would be a better term?

I think the banks themselves should be allowed to decide when the risk is worth taking. It will all be determined by actuarial tables like every other similar business decision.

If the risk of someone defaulting 15 years after bankruptcy is 20% higher, then banks may charge that person 20% more interest.
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The inflation rate has been low for over 30 years, since the early 80's when Volcker killed it by creating a recession.

The Fed's loose money policy has only been around since 2008, with very low inflation since then.

While critics constantly predict inflation, it hasn't caused inflation in practice.

Yes, labor is getting screwed but how it's being done is not that simple.
This is ass backwards. Central bank/fed policy in the US, Europe, and Japan has consistently been to keep inflation low on behalf of the investor class for a long, long time now.
The Marxian response, although unpopular, is the rate of exploitation has increased. For Marx, technological development leads to more constant capital versus moving capital (i.e more machinery and tools of production) being employed which means that there is a drop in demand for labour-power; while the total value inputs and outputs are identical, only the composition of the value has changed. The falling demand for labour-power means that labour has less of a negotiating place at the table which can lead to real wages decreasing.

(Edit: Why are my comments receiving instant downvotes within less than a minute of posting? Who exactly is doing this, without explanation, and more importantly why?)
To the extent they are funded, that money could never be rescinded. And you could negotiate early funding as a feature now, because it would actually mean something to the recipients. There are no untrustworthy promises required.

And you could do new things based on control of your pension, which might radically change how we think of them.

The main thing that smart contracts remove is the need for trust. And that's the main problem with pensions.
Totally awesome, nice project! Makes me want to do some web audio right now. What was the hardest part of this demo, were there any tricky pieces?
so basically, a big one could still happen there and the clock isn't reset
Do you have plans to eventually make something more pro-sumer oriented? I love all of these small board projects, but feel there is a woefully underserved market in the "it could be a desktop replacement" category.
Actually looking at examples of the apps shown here JS does not matter. They still look like webviews.
Cross-platfrom is really a misnomer, it should be no-platform. Yeah, it kind of runs on both, and alien on both too.
He's a nasty one - my wife got a big box in the mail from Enfamil last week. "Congratulations on your new baby, here's some stuff to get you started!"

One problem. She didn't know that she had been pregnant and suffered a near fatal (to her) complication and miscarriage 7.5 months ago. Only a few parties were aware of this: My family (not posted on Facebook), two health insurance companies, the hospital, two pharmacies and the Ob/Gyn practice. Last week would have been the due date.

One of more of those entities, who are all supposed to protecting her privacy failed to do so to extract a few more bucks.
Humans have the ability to reason. Just because Stacy is a lady with a vagina does not mean she must bear children to embrace her "true self."

Because humans have miniature canines does not mean they have to imitate carnivores with full-size canines. Humans can be omnivores, or herbivores, or carnivores, all by reason and choice. Our dental structure and shape lends far greater evidence to a plant-based diet (molars with which to grind down leaves) than to meat eating.

I'm not trying to say that being an herbivore is for everyone, but killing does have consequences, some seen and some unseen, and at the very least one should warn a brother.
Thanks for the link.

I had a book once that seemed very nice. I had it as a kid and would thumb through it. Good to know about wind patterns, how to build emergency shelters, and such.

One emergency shelter type seemed a good plan. Did a trench 3 or four feet wide, and so deep. Then drive a vehicle over the trench for a roof to protect against radiation and fallout.
Maybe crunchyroll? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunchyroll
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Mass fraud amongst people who can't afford it is a concern to any political entity. If millions of Chinese lose their savings to fraudulent ICOs, just like when million of Americans lost their savings to fraudulent mortgage-related products or S&L products of pre-Securities Act hucksters (to whom we've come full circle with ICOs), that becomes the elite's problem.
The people who buy stolen goods also get more value then they spend, so all thieves are inherently good?

Some companies produce more good than bad. Some companies produce more bad than good, but the bad is primarily not affecting their customers. The latter is inherently easier which is why civil courts must be eternally vigilant.
Don't know about hardware you can buy, but AWS will rent you a machine with 3TB Ram by the hour :) https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
Haha open hunting season on poachers! That's a hilarious idea, although practically not at all implementable.
> The main representations of people of color that I remember—the sand vipers—were hands down the worst part of the entire show so far.

Your comment is quite funny since Dorne is inspired by Spain :)
PgSQL more and more looks like the "redis of databases".
Whatever the problem, you can almost always find a good reason to use it :)

You get great performance for the simple "dumb" use case (relational data in DB term, key/value store in redis case), and lots of awesome additional feature on top of it for more complex situations.

I love it.
This is a really insightful comment. It's not that you can't get Postgres to handle any volume...it's how much work is required on your part.
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Thanks for the tip - the reply link did appear, but when I tried to submit my message, I got the 'You're posting too fast' page).

I agree with the logic of your statement - it is perfectly sound. My point was that for a large enough balloon and a small enough rate of increase, the effect will "look" linear(e.g. look at the domain [4.1,4.125] of e^x and determine if it is a linear or exponential function), and our instruments (probably) can't even begin to measure for the effects which you propose.
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In other words, all of the extra money is going into health insurance premiums.
Exxon has known since 1977[1].

[1]https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...
I love the Baroque Trilogy. It's such a different universe than his other work, and I'm a history buff so it's fascinating to read and try to figure out what is accurate, and what is his imagination.
Ya, my thoughts exactly. I think the reserve ratio for Chinese banks is less than 20% ATM; and that doesn't include off the book shadow loans.

A lot of the extra liquidity is being sopped up directly into real estate. It never even hits the real economy.
Another interesting question, what is the role of libraries in all of this? If I check out a book I want to read and read it, my likelihood of buying the book drops significantly. Some libraries even allow this for movies and games.
>Do you have any evidence to support this ridiculous claim? Two of the largest movies of the year (Get Out and Girls Trip) are predominantly black produced. The issue is getting Hollywood to fund such ventures, not demand for them.

Do you have any proof he's wrong? I can't say I've ever given two thoughts to the race of the producer/writer/director of movies I've enjoyed. I assume there's a laundry list of independent blockbusters that simply didn't make it in mainstream hollywood due to the race of their producers that you can point to.

>Actually, people do say this.

I've literally never heard anyone say this in real life. Once.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/opinion/the-economy-is...

In 2015, median household incomes rose by 5.2 percent. That was the fastest surge in percentage terms since the Census Bureau began keeping records in the 1960s. Women living alone saw their incomes rise by 8.7 percent. Median incomes for Hispanics rose by 6.1 percent. Immigrants’ incomes, excluding naturalized citizens, jumped by over 10 percent.

The news was especially good for the poor. The share of overall income that went to the poorest fifth increased by 3 percent, while the share that went to the affluent groups did not change. In that year, the poverty rate fell by 1.2 percentage points, the steepest decline since 1999.

The numbers for 2016 have just been released by the Census Bureau, and the trends are pretty much the same. Median household income rose another 3.2 percent, after inflation, to its highest level ever. The poverty rate fell some more. The share of national income going to labor is now rising, while the share going to capital is falling.
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Yes in newest versions it does. But for any non-trivial analytics you would use Apache Spark (most likely Spark/SQL).

Cassandra's CQL is very limited in terms of types of queries it supports.
"Broadband" used to mean really fast, not just adequate for most people.
Well, if "snakeanus" on Hacker News says so, why would I believe Matthew D. Green, Bruce Schneier, Avi Rubin, Steve Bellovin, Emin Gün Sirer, and Paulo Barreto when they cosign a letter saying that report was horseshit? Tough call, I guess!
This could get hairy, very quickly.

I thought Coinbase had insurance that only covered the online portion but not offline vaults, where most of the 'money' is stored?

If an offline vault is compromised through their system then what? The promise of keeping things separate doesn't guarantee anything.
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So the answer is "no", since it depends on the blobs from TI. That's too bad.
Because it's HN, where opinions other than "hooray libertarian technocracy" are frowned upon.
Indeed, and it would be interesting to take a fuller numerical simulation that takes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrostatic_equilibrium into account.

Absent enough input energy to push one or more of the fragments onto a new geodesic, to zeroth-order the moon would very quickly recollapse into a hot spherical droplet (likely by way of seven increasingly droplet-like components), and it would take an enormous amount of time for surface features -- like seas and so forth -- and lunar mascons[1] to appear.

There's some brief discussion of this sort of thing at https://gizmodo.com/what-if-the-earth-suddenly-turned-flat-1... which while it's Gizmodo, is one of the better "What If?"s. Dave Stevenson (Caltech)'s answer is short and sweet.

The undistorted body in the Earth-moon pair under either scenario is distant enough that the squashed Earth or the fragmented moon would still source a close approximation of the Schwarzschild metric[2], with an interface between the two as part of the boundary condition of each. Usually for simplicity we'd just describe the motion of the lighter body in the geodesics of the Schwarzschild solution of the heavier body, and the whole moon, its seven fragments, and the fragments' successor arrangements are very likely amenable to that.

One could always kick part of the mass of the moon such that it escapes "to infinity" from the Earth-moon system. Unfortunately one would have to recalculate the stress-energy tensor around the residual moon (and around the Earth, and around the sun) and then work out the geodesics. This would make for an entertaining project in numerical relativity.

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[1] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/news/grail20121205.... from https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/main/index.html

[2] The Schwarzschild solution is after all an exterior solution, and is fine for approximately spherically symmetric bodies with approximately zero angular momentum. Moreover, if we don't care about ~ microsecond accuracies (and we almost certainly don't, because the conditions at lunar fragmentation are not that finely specified), we can do everything with small corrections to Newtonian gravity (cf. sec 6.4 of http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9783527634569.ch6... for the post-Newtonian Kepler solution and ch 8 on relativistic geodesy).
On a first moment, possibly. After that, we would see how free the market really is. If it's reasonably free, the market will self-correct and prices will decrease.

A thought experiment: you have a business; now everyone has money; then prices rise "together"; so market distribution remains the same; you decide to reduce your price to the old price and your competitors don't. Now you get customers from your competitors that you didn't have before.

The amount that this happens depends, naturally, on how free the markets involved are (if free at all).
Wages aren't growing because people aren't worth more. Most job growth is in low-skill jobs.

For wages to grow, people have to be paid more than they're worth as an economic unit. That's what unions are about. "More", as Samuel Gompers would answer when asked what he wanted.

This was a well understood concept in the 1950s, and was accepted by both management and labor in the major US manufacturing industries. The UAW - auto company contracts of that era explicitly tied wages to increased manufacturing productivity. It still is somewhat accepted in Germany, but is dead in the US.

Part of what killed wage growth was the demise of Communism. Communism was once a serious ideological threat to capitalism. From the 1920s to the early 1980s, there was real fear in the business community that communism might work. It might deliver a better life to workers. There was competition in ideology, and capitalism had to provide an increasing standard of living or risk countries going communist. Communism never did deliver a better standard of living, but the presence of a competing system which more or less worked kept capitalism honest.

With the demise of the USSR, and China moving away from its strict communist roots, the competition disappeared. Capitalism became a monopoly. Then it started acting like one. There was no longer any need to deliver a better life to workers.

That's how we got here.
>That's an interesting fact about power. Is this due to the inverse square law?

Yeah, but not in the way you think. Cities are densest in the center; as blast radius grows, the amount of things inside it does not grow at the same rate.
> Everyone should read Piketty.

Absolutely, unreservedly agree.
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Not an expert on jellyfish physiology, but might there be a distinction between "a sleep-like state" and being plain "tired"? After doing some physical activity animals tend to need some rest. Exhaustion is much less of an exciting phenomenon than sleep is.
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I wonder if there's some skew there where pensions aren't counted as benefits, but 401k company contributions are.
Not exactly.

'All digital currency that Coinbase holds online is fully insured.

'Coinbase holds less than 2% of customer funds online. The rest is held in offline storage.'

They only insure less than 2% of their coins. This does nothing to protect private keys that go missing or are destroyed in their offline wallets.

I would love to know that I'm wrong.

https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/166237...
The Basic Income research project in Finland is certainly relevant here. A podcast episode: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-finnish-experiment... A recent article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/opinion/finland-universal...
Yep. It's a zero trust universe. Luckily the real world doesn't work that way because that would suck.
Not to mention that (IIRC) several of the murders he's thought to have committed occurred before he'd ever played in the NFL.
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>When everyone gets their monthly $UBI check, supply-and-demand dictates that "free money" will be duly devalued, with prices of low-end essential goods/services rising to match (say, basic rent rising to $1000/mo).

At first glance this seems intuitively correct, but I'd encourage anyone reading this to control+f my username in this thread for arguments showing otherwise.
If they ship an API + a lowish cost proprietary license I could see them doing nicely from this. I'd go $100 or $1 per employee, whichever is greater.
Undoubtedly, IBM is partially at fault. However, I strongly believe that a vast majority of the blame rests on the Canadian government's managers. My thinking comes from my experience working with government.

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I work for a contractor that does the software development work for a large government entity (albeit smaller than the entire federal government of Canada). And while I have some incredible horror stories to tell, the following is particularly bad:

One project was particularly bad. During the initial requirements discovery phase, it appeared like a simple CRUD app. So, my firm proposed an architecture that suited the requirements we found. However, when the government employees in charge of managing the contractors looked at it, they tacked on a few requirements and changed several requirements/fundamental assumptions. So my firm adjusted the proposal and resubmitted. The cycle repeated several times. The government managers really wanted this particular project out as quickly as possible, so my firm had started building some of the basic parts of the application (i.e. creating the database tables, importing the models/relationships into the code base, designing the UI, etc.) before the architecture was finalized.

After a month with 5 engineers working on the project full-time, the managers decided to completely change the requirements altogether. So, we had to throw away everything we had made to date. That month of thrown away work costed the government $100k+ and they have literally nothing to show for it.
Almost everyone can't type anything but a fraction of Unicode already. Can you easily type Chinese, Farsi, Russian etc? All of those are in domain names, passwords, usernames etc. There's no reason not to allow emoji.
spoiler: it's merely the avatar of a 4th dimensional eldritch horror and is actually studying the scientists before treating our realm as a cheap buffet.
Maybe in the US, but the article indicates this is a worldwide phenomenon.
Don't make me pull out the Dreyfus affair
I mostly agree with you, but what, in your opinion, makes Norway special, but the Netherlands not? Norway has oil, the Netherlands has/had natural gas.
Maybe they were thinking HF (High Frequency), which is what's used for long distance/international contacts and what many people think when they think "ham radio". AFAIK the USB stick receivers can't receive HF. But that's a hardware limitation, not SDR limitation. There exist SDRs that can do HF, they just don't cost $15.
My point is, to follow your example re: orange juice consumption, that the reasons not to treat it as having any reasonable probability is secondary to the fact that there is no supporting evidence (burden of proof, etc.)

As I replied in another subthread, I'd agree that probabilities with regard to what is reasonable to assume (the operative word here) shift as a consequence of circumstantial information, but you can't really draw any conclusions based on that.
Actual Title - "Google May be Guilty of Gender Discrimination But Is Definitely Guilty of Bad Data Analysis."

It was too long!
In real UBI implementation, is it considered taxable income?

Core to UBI is that since everyone gets UBI, and since I pay substantial taxes, I'd pay a minimum of $UBI in taxes and simply get it back as a UBI check for a net total of $0.

BUT... If that's taxable income, I have to pay (say) a cumulative 33% on that additional "income". Instead of a net $0, I have to pay something like $4000 in additional taxes. WTF?
It doesn't seem to crash my browser, but I'm assuming it's reproducible due to the existence of that page.
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They could lower the threshold until they get an acceptable proportion of false positives, but I wouldn't want to be one of those false positives.