skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1,000 will receive $1,000 per month for up to 5 years

What does this mean? Is it going to be 5 years or not? Will different participants get it for a different amount of time? Will they know when it is going to stop?
In 2017 "native" mean "Chromium built as a library and bundled into (every) executable".
Thanks for mentioning BamSEC.com. It looks way easier to use, even if it is a paid service.
I hope many of the study participants are living in a low COL area. If the $1000 per month covers most if not all of your expenses it gives someone a much greater opportunity to pursue something the can really improve their life rather than just a nice boon on top of their current income. Of course, this is more of an "I hope this improves peoples' lives" rather than considering how best to design the experiment.
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One for-instance: taxes. Every jurisdiction (sometimes city, sometimes county, state, country) has rules that they, reasonably, expect to be followed. Not all of those rules were written by reasonable legislatures, and the aggregate code to handle all the cases tends to be large, complicated, and subject to revision.
hey! elizabeth rhodes, the basic income research director at ycr, is keeping an eye on this thread and will reply to questions if you have them.
> Openness and flexibility tear-down limits on your imagination

I'll take ten.

In all seriousness, how do developers feel about this compared to larger communities around products like the Raspberry Pi? I've learned to follow the crowd when I'm using products for the best support.
I've found a good rule of thumb for complications is that projects that are governed by the law of the universe (e.g. chemistry, physics) might be super hard, at least the answer will probably be a widely agreed to pass / fail (e.g. the rocket guidance worked and the rocket did not blow up).

On the other hand, software defined by bureaucrats (e.g. payroll, regulation compliance) is going to be complicated with loopholes and journeys into minutia and logic defying requirements. Its all head space with very little logical basis. Everyone has an opinion and its all probably valid, or at least the invalid is disguised fairly well.
It should be released around 12pm PST.
Because our shenanigans in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and dozens of other countries happened so long ago...Is that your argument? The United States is directly responsible for worldwide violence just within the last decade. I'm not talking about Thomas Jefferson here.

The government consists of individuals. George Bush. John McCain. Barack Obama. We'll likely never know who all of the people are that influence these terrible policies.
I keep seeing calls for the government to revoke Equifax's corporate charter, because we citizens cannot vote with our wallets in this case; we are not Equifax's customers. But I wonder about Equifax's actual customers, the financial institutions that choose to rely on Equifax for credit reporting. What sensible institution would continue to trust Equifax after all of this nonsense? Perhaps banks and the like should all abandon Equifax as a credit reporting source and let the company die of natural causes.
hahah yes, the old "you believe in smaller government so you must want unlimited corporate power" argument. Not sure there is an easier way to illustrate a fundamental misunderstanding of the libertarian position.
> The use of the word 'justification' tells me that you have already judged the actions and are looking for people to explain them.

Well, how else could things possibly work? Without any judgement on my part, I couldn't even know whether there is even anything I don't understand or that I disagree about, and what could I possibly expect other than that people explain their position to me?

> From this, it appears (to me) unlikely that our conversation will lead to us being in agreement: we see the world quite differently.

Which seems like a weird reason to me?! Aren't you essentially saying "we probably won't be in agreement because we are not in agreement"?!

> Since you brought up the subject of what I could suggest, I'd like to add this: I'd just talk to people and see what they think: not in terms of "explain your actions" but in terms of "help me understand".

Which are essentially synonyms? I mean, I can see that wording can make a difference in how people react, but I fail to see the fundamental difference between "explaining" and "helping to understand"?!
I thought this might be minor, but oh god, no,

A Google search for the name of an Ottawa-based RCMP officer convicted of confining, starving and abusing his son links to coverage of that court case. The officer’s identity is protected by a judge’s order designed to shield his son from publicity.

The officer’s name had never been reported by the Citizen or any other media outlet. The abused boy, now 15, was never identified in any article published online. Yet a search of the boy’s name produces results that link to coverage of the case.

That’s just horrendous, and in a world of social media, inescapable for the boy.
The first act is about how the present day human race survives the moon being destroyed. The second takes place 5000 years in the future and is essentially about the return to earth.

I don’t share GP’s opinion, I quite enjoyed both acts. I do agree that the pace of the two is quite different - the first being a bit more sci-fi thriller pace and the second is a bit more contemplative.
You have it backwards. The rights holders forced the DRM requirements on Apple - Apple never sought it out.
Why does anything and everything has to do with bitcoin? There are hundreds of trillions of CNY in circulation compared to ~1 billion USD worth of bitcoin being traded everyday. Compared to forex the volume of all cryptos combined is a drop in the bucket.

>Chinese people are scared of their currency and want an easy way to convert theirs into a non-traceable one in case the country descends into a depression.

There is a lot of talk of potential deflation cycle coming in, and in that case holding fiat is clearly the wiser option.
Its free to host compared to other RDMS which aren't cheap on most IaaS, and spinning up an instance is as easy as deploying it alongside your code.
fossil on the server gets low numbers of writes, and not many reads. And being a distributed system, most of the SQLite action is on the client.
No, there's no reason to trust the NSA's motivations. I'm just not sure what the NSA's motivations have to do with this.

If you're asking, "do we actually need lightweight ciphers", well, the NSA isn't the only organization designing them; it's a whole field of research. If you want cryptographic security on machines that don't have multipliers and count their capacity for program text space in single-digit kilobytes, you're probably going to reach for special-purpose designs.
Another "failed" project for Canadian government, this time by Adobe.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-to-downsi...

Since the projects were done by consultancies you can't call it a failure from the consultancy point of view. They managed to milk the government for multiples of the estimated budged and this is a great success for them.
That's just how it works - underbid, lock in and then massage the client for x10 of the original budget.
Isn't 400 columns expanded enough?
> We tentatively plan to randomly select 3,000 individuals across two US states to participate in the study: 1,000 will receive $1,000 per month for up to 5 years, and 2,000 will receive $50 per month and serve as a control group for comparison.

So obvious question on many minds, "Where do I sign up for the free money?"

Also, will it be randomly selected or will the selection criteria factor in cost of living, current financial situation, education, etc?

And where is the potentially $66 million dollars for this coming from?

EDIT: On their FAQ[1] I found the answer to my first question:

>> Can I be a study participant?

> Unfortunately, no. It is important that participants are randomly selected into the study.

[1]: https://basicincome.ycr.org/faqs
That doesn't seem to be what they are saying.
Curious as to how the control group monthly amount ($50) was decided upon. Was it basically an incentive for those selected to participate?
Wow, this is perfectly timed for me. I just read Seveneves last week. Interesting that this simulation results in a "white sky" event half a year after the moon explodes -- in the book this takes a few years.
China, the biggest producer in the world

Of what? Sneakers? Its GDP is smaller than America's (though maybe not with PPP corrections).

a culture of saving a lot of money by it's citizens

Too bad the savings go to malinvestments. Good luck securing ROI from ghost cities:
https://www.wired.com/2016/02/kai-caemmerer-unborn-cities/

And Sri Lankan airports:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/07/31/china-to...

American in debt with no savings got AAA rating

The Federal Government has tremendous assets:
http://business.time.com/2013/02/05/the-federal-governments-...

We could pay off the debt with a land and spectrum auction tomorrow and people would clamor for more.

I'd rather hold dollars than yuan and that's not just because I speak English.
Ruby historically has not wanted to move to GitHub because core prefers svn to git.

That said, https://github.com/ruby/ruby/ exists, and committers will (in my understanding) take PRs from it and merge them in, see https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/1661 for example.

This has happened because the same kinds of discussions have come up with Ruby for years, especially since GitHub came out of the Ruby world, and the Ruby community overall has used GitHub longer and more than most as a result.

There are things that we in Rust find annoying about GitHub, but they're mostly addressed through things like bots; there's no significant push by anyone to move away from GitHub.
Why would you need a text editor to come with the language when you could have Vim and the rest of the command line. The problem newcomers have with programming is that educators think they're too stupid to use the command line and in the process they shield them from important details about the build process by obfuscating them under the veil of an IDE.
Magit kickstarter funded
Ok, I see it now and I agree.

I think negligence or fraud on the part of the company should multiply the penalty and it probably release the insurer from being responsible.
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Aren't we already sort of in a worst of both worlds situation here? The IDs we are using as primary keys are from the SSA. The FHA is involved in most American's mortgage decisions. The Stafford loan program in most of America's student loans.

But we also have giant for-profit companies aggregating giant databases with little to no oversight, and up until recently no ability to access your own data for free, and still today no straightforward, across-the-board, means to appeal bad data, or collect damages from it (or from leaks of it).

Even with the terrible things associated with the no-fly list there is a TSA appeals process and a court system to challenge it. Do you know how you correct mistakes in your Equifax-TransUnion-Experian composite credit score? You mostly don't, and you most likely can't take them to court, because they think you are bound to arbitration.

I don't know if there is a good solution here either, but at least a government-run solution would have to be accountable to the people as citizens/constituents (even if it would still likely be in the pocket of the banks).
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People without much money shouldn't be forced to move out of neighbourhoods they call home just because they don't have money.

Who said money should buy you the right to a life with strong social bonds?

Some things, including the ones mentioned above, should not be on the market.
They have a budget denominated in the tens of billions of dollars. How do you know that they didn't publish a simple, clean, efficient ARX cipher design specifically to get people to avoid a design that they knew they'd have trouble beating? They can clearly afford that level of cleverness.
Slovenia doesn't have the public spending Catalonia has.
Compared to their other money making activities, it doesn’t even register as a drop.
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From PHP to JavaScript with Node.js
In my experience, there is almost never a need for creating a loop on an array purely for the sake of side effect.

For instance, if you want to write something on the log, then loop and collect everything into a single array (using map) and then perform the side effect with a single command (which is a lot more performant in most cases).

For asynchronous side effects, create an array of promises using a map, and then run a Promise.all() on that array if you need to resolve all of them.

But again, if your experience is different or in your requirements, it is not possible to create a map/reduce/filter transoformation for side effects, then I'd love to hear about it.
I thought the first 2/3's of it were too depressing, and thought the last bit was decent sci-fi, which is what I actually like to read.
Sure, but other coffee operations like x||=5 are also abominations. Brevity and purity are often at odds and the choices made by a language can be arbitrary.
This is pretty much the type of analysis I was critiquing. You simply can't measure the quality of life of poor simply via a few highly visible public institutions... or something like GDP per capita.

This is isn't about who has better public institutions (which plays a part) but the fact economics and quality of life are complex, deep subjects, and debates about who 'takes care of their poor' are so often reductive and narrowly focused.
That article was all over the place and is in strong need of an editor.
Ok no one is saying you should break the law, and that also wasn't even your concern in the previous comment, either, which was about the reasonableness of building code. Before that you were primarily concerned about time and risk of cost.

Bringing the goal posts back to the original aim of my comment: that a DIY community would simply increase adoption, let's look at the Tiny House movement. It grew as a DIY community. People sharing info on all parts of the process, incl. building code, helps many people who would have been told by someone that it can't be done, just as you are doing now, to build their own house. And we are talking about building an entire house, not a minor solar panel install.

As that community grows, you have more people that are able to even shape laws for the better, which is what that community is doing.

And you are incorrect about there being no laws governing auto work and customization.

No one is saying you should do this. To be frank, the "hire a qualified contractor" advice is pervasive at HN, but it's also this groupthink attitude of negativity that can grow around a subject that I don't think is necessary, or helpful.
There is a lot of value in open sourcing the product. Yes there are proprietary pieces of Android, but overall it's mostly open. Contrast with Apple who closes everything and makes it difficult for a user to get at their own hardware. RMS is pretty out there on a lot of things, but he's right about the need for open products.
Like someone else said, this is hosted (but there's a way to run it yourself). But, I don't see any pricing. Is that something they plan on adding later. Or, how do they plan to keep it online over time?
To state the obvious, that's not the real Richard Stallman.
Corruption is all about quid quo pro.

So getting sweetheart speaking gigs after you leave office isn't all that likely to lead to corruption charges (unless, say, you believe that Obama has a lot of influence over the present government).

The speaking fees the Clinton's accepted during her interregnum were heavily investigated, because they were an easy target. I wonder if a better prosecutor than Chaffetz would have found something.
I would rephrase it to: you need people great in tasks that you actually needs them to do.

Great technical star probably don't know AI algorithms and may ressent having to implement math based routins with little tech knowledge being needed.

Someone who is great in algorithms might not be best for tasks heavy on configuration. Someone who constantly seeks new might have trouble to perform routine tasks.

Great under pressure performer might fail in "as much time as you need" situation (and vice versa).
Graphs on database history
SQLite does not have a client-server interface. That’s ok because the creator says it is supposed to be an embedded library that gives a better fopen interface. That is, you don’t need to invent file formats (think JSON, YAML, etc). SQLite is not just a database, it’s a persistence layer that happens to have SQL interface.

It places no restrictions whatsoever on the applications that uses it. That will be pointless. Fossil-SCM uses SQLite and is itself client server.
At what point does the government controlling your income start to impede personal freedom?

Wouldn't any politician campaigning to increase the basic income be almost automatically elected?
IBM has no incentive to oversell:

> "IBM Canada was the only company to bid on the government's pay modernization project known as Phoenix."
Same here. OPM was stupid and disgusting.
I think the real problem is that we have no definitive way to prove who we are. A SSN is fine and all but it's just a number that anyone can obtain and say they are me. We need key pairs or some way to prove that when we are requesting credit that we are in fact the person that we say we are. Until that happens the systems is exploitable by even the most inept of criminals.
That's a useless comment. A better one would be:

// Prevent the two tasks from running right after each other,
// to reduce load when this is run frequently
sleep(15*60)

Even the most junior dev can infer that a multiplication by 60 for a sleep function probably means the unit is seconds and we want 15 minutes. No need to spell that out. But why sleep for 15 minutes and not just carry on to the next task? THAT is what the comment is for.
Perhaps the difference is the age/size of the product/company. I could see a new company that has no choice but to build new product being driven by regulations, while a company that already has a long standing, regulated product has incentive to not introduce change.

Equifax is definitely the latter.
Probably the product of (1) multiple changes in "best practices" data formats over 30 years (XML seems to be the format de jure), (2) optimizing for the filer and (3) diversity of filing data. Agreed it would be ideal if they were all similarly structured, but they have another set of stakeholders on whom they are imposing essentially a tax -- the filers themselves -- who have a legitimate gripe any time the SEC imposes a switching cost. It's easy to dismiss those gripes, but the vast majority of these filers aren't GOOG-sized. Many are very small, and those costs can be non-trivial to them.

Edit: Worth mentioning here that EDGAR's ease of use makes sites like BamSEC simple to create. Probably EDGAR's time is best spent focusing on the institutional intermediary. That allows competition to iterate on the best UX/UI for browsing these filings without imposing the cost on the filers themselves as discussed above.
I didn't even realize it was a nude image, nor that it was taken from a pornography magazine. Thank you for the context.
I did my AI project for uni on drug discovery. It's a really cool but super complex topic.
That’s a hugely important piece of information. Granted, if it is assured for any length of time it’s practically much more assured than the usual job.
How will you be running a 400 million people country?
Gosh, the whole DNS stuff was a constant WTF for me.
In the US, you can look to the "Federal Register", but you will be digging through a lot of other stuff also.

https://www.federalregister.gov/
> The pro privacy stance that Apple is taking is wonderful to see.

Yeah, it is. Welcome to what it feels like to be wholly the customer, instead of partially the product.
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

- Upton Sinclair
And mentioned in every review I read.
I'd be willing to bet that 99% of the sites/apps on the web have low to medium writes and reads. Developers like to plan on needing Facebook and Uber scale for their new task list and subscription box services though. SQLite benchmarks are impressive, they beat out commercial RDMS in a lot of comparisons.
Is it also sneering when money pours from central state?

https://www.invertia.com/es/-/-que-autonomias-deben-mas-dine...
Here's a more in depth version of the proposal https://static1.squarespace.com/static/599c23b2e6f2e1aeb8d35...

It answers many of the questions people are asking here.
Right. They only managed a pathetic trippling in market cap since he died and have only dominated a single new industry (they're now the biggest watch company in the world by revenue, just from watches). How disappointing.
There's actually three acts: Earth, Space, Moon. It's really a trilogy smushed up into one book.

I agree, though. The first two acts were great, and the third fell flatter than the earlier two. But I enjoyed it nonetheless. It's nice to imagine what would happen, and it's pretty hard scifi throughout, albeit greatly accelerated.
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> In no way am I equating transgender feelings to schizophrenia

No, but people like to misrepresent metaphors when it suits their worldview.
A nice use case for sure. Seems possible with some kind of iterator/generator wrapper rather than the mess in the OP however.
+1

Another thing I am curious about is why is there such a price difference?
RPiZ - $5
PB - $25

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-zero/
Why use force to kick them out? If they're concerned with their well-being, they'll move on their own. If not, why should we be?
How do you think they should do that, and why are you responding so defensively? It seems to me that the only way for them to build up credibility is to never repeat the mistake they made last decade - but you seem to think that they should respond to their mistake by ... never downgrading a credit rating despite seeing issues? That doesn't make sense.