skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You also have to look at the effect of UBI over generations. Children growing up with UBI may never see people close to them who do actual work. I once had a summer job at a welfare/employment agency. A lot of the people who received welfare in the second or third generation often had no idea how a job works. They were late all the time or just didn't show up for a week. The social worker had to explain to them how a job works.

I don't blame them. They just never had seen what people who have a job do. When I grew up everybody close to me was working so I could observe how a job works. And people who grow up around high-powered people like CEOs know how being a CEO works.
Best? The Pixel is good, but it's hardly the best thing HTC has done.

HTC still has the Vive team.
> people working under fake SSNs to avoid taxes

Which is exactly the problem. The IRS is relying on the fact that SSNs are sorta-kinda-secret. Unless the database gets leaked there's not much impetus for change.
Unfortunately this link wants me to login.
We've got an Electron app in the works. Check out the Github repo if you're interested in helping out!

Yeah the domain name is pretty much a complete misnomer (it was a cheap gTLD :/).
I wouldn't. Currently I don't have a choice.
GDP does not measure production

Debatable. GDP probably measured production better in 1920s America than 2017 America.

and should not use as a measuring stick of how productive a country is.

If you have to compare the relative size of two economies on a single dimension, GDP is probably your best KPI.

US government spending is 1/3 of the US GDP. If you accounting for state and local government, the number is much higher. This level of spending is unsustainable.

But most of that money isn't ultimately spent by the government. The money goes to Boeing, hospitals, the elderly, etc. A lot of our GDP is ultimately spent by consumers.

I have serious concerns about America spending too much on its military and healthcare but I'd think we spend our money better than China.

No, the US government cannot just auction it's assets to the public to pay off debt.

Why not? It holds the assets, it can write titles to the assets, it can conduct auctions.

If it is that easy, the Federal Reserves can just print 20 trillions and pay it off

If you don't see the difference between printing 20 trillion dollars and exchanging valuable things for mutually agreeable prices, then I'm sure you're set in your way of defending the wise policy decisions of the Chinese Communist Party.
I have to say that you've only made the product sound more interesting: something that users spend countless hours with, which qualifies for a healthy subsidy, and which purports do something of great value (feeding one's children) sounds like an interesting business space to me!

My wife is going back to work on Monday (and leaving our 6-week old boy with my mom), so this product sounds especially enticing. If the claims of producing more milk are true, that would be incredibly comforting - we really want to feed him all breastmilk for as long as possible, but she has fears about her supply keeping up with a growing/hungry boy. That seems to be the main selling point to me, so conversely I can see why these products would be uninteresting once you've determined that your supply is more than adequate.
Are humans not part of the natural environment?
I think you're either intentionally or unintentionally looking to create/perpetuate controversy where there is none. The post you linked mentions itself that most people weren't even aware of the origin of the image, which I think is probably the only thing which may cause it to be offensive towards prudish people in general.

Personally, I find it strictly more offensive that people are outraged on behalf of these supposed women, who are so delicate that the use of a heavily cropped playboy image outrages, offends, or discourages them from a field of study. I think regardless of which image you choose, you'll always find some group of people who are offended by it, and anyone who is offended by an image as tame as this one probably has some growing up to do.
That might just be the saddest post I'm going to read all day because you're probably right. Individuals have access to lots of credit, it fuels our American consumerism.

Maybe it's better, in the long term, to suffer that shrinkage? I'm absolutely not an economist, so I don't really know. Maybe we are in a credit bubble and it needs to pop?

Could we absorb the negative drop in the economy without there being riots in the street? Would it be better in the long run?
”A lawyer in those jurisdictions writes an invoice for $50 million and the Chinese firm “pays” it. Bitcoin is irrelevant to Chinese capital controls.”

...all of which is easily traceable by the government. Do enough of it, and you’ll eventually be disappeared for a friendly conversation with the police. It’s also expensive, and has a central point of failure (the lawyer).

That is why bitcoin is the up-and-coming escape mechanism for yuan. Obviously, not everyone was doing this, but it was becoming a trend, hence the crackdown. It was absolutely not “irrelevant”.

(Aside: I love the way that bitcoin people are incredibly imaginative when it comes to visions of borderless, regulation-free financial systems, but can’t see their way past even the most trivial of fraud incentives involving their system.)
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I've seen large companies do the same.

Testing? Pfft.. that's for losers.

Design specs? Same answer.

Apparently if you spend enough on sales, you can sell utter shit to unsuspecting customers. Then, you beat up the engineering team to fix all of the bugs that the customers report.
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I think a very well read 4th grade history or science teacher discussing Newton was my introduction.
Which is precisely why that illusion needs to be completely and utterly destroyed by releasing the database.
I wonder how often this happens. Something like 25 (? god, I'm old!) years ago a friend of mine bought a new Jeep that had been vandalized on the dealer lot for some ridiculously low price. We helped him get it back in shape and it ended up being a pretty nice project vehicle.
Reading this article I got reminded of Google's hairy heart emoji... https://emojipedia.org/google/android-4.4/yellow-heart/
Question from non-american: do you perceive there being difference between show about regular black people doing regular things and show about regular white people doing things? What is different? Besides skin color and hair style.
The rest of your point aside, no matter what you're doing, "Works well with others" should always be high on the list. No one wants to work with an asshole.
They don't need permission to store the identifying personal data about me for some reason (they, Equifax, the entity that I have no direct relationship with...) what was that reason exactly? Medical providers would not store your personally identifying information without permission, even if it was shared with them. You can ask a health care provider to furnish you with your records and delete their copy at any time, if I'm not mistaken.

Shouldn't they have some kind of licensing requirement in order to be held accountable for their security practices? Where is the line, that when they cross it, they should lose their accreditation? There isn't one, because there is no such accreditation (not to my knowledge anyway.)

It is not reasonable if there are only 3 credit reporting agencies and they do not have any licensing requirements. If I am mistaken about this, please correct me.
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> There may be no perfect solution but I am really hoping something better can exist. There isn't as much trouble in some other countries, maybe we can look into what they are doing?

In France for example there's no SSN used by banks, there's no Credit score either. How do people get mortgages? Bank do their research, ask for your paystubs and other documents, it's simply due diligence.

Due diligence can take you pretty far, for instance for mortgages, probably the biggest loan a person needs in life: current mortgage fixed interest rate are around 1.3% - 1.8% for long duration[1]. You get this without the existence of a credit score. In 2008, there wasn't any wave of people loosing their home because their mortgage was approved too easily and they suddenly weren't able to pay back, so something must be done right.

As an other commenter mentions, you might not be able to get your mortgage approved in a minute on a smartphone app ... But who wants this anyways? In a house/car buying process, this isn't the most time consuming task anyways, and certainly not the one you should approach lightly.

It's true that in the US, opening Credit cards is much more common, but even there, I'm not sure why a couple weeks of wait is much of a big deal, the bank already takes one to 2 weeks to send you the credit card by mail.

[1] http://www.meilleurtaux.com/credit-immobilier/barometre-des-...
China has the world's fastest bullet trains but a terrible safety record.

Sure, some ghost cities might pan out but I wouldn't hold my breath. If this were 2006, my position would be "it doesn't make sense that fat women with crappy entertainment jobs can afford luxury houses" and you'd retort "but the houses appreciated, even if she can't afford it, it's more valuable now than it was so the bank wont take a loss on it".

We'll see if the fat lady sings.
> Why can't you require that each wallet be signed by a party that identifies the person behind it? Then you find where the money went and you force them to give it back.

And what if they refuse [despite consequences]?

> Lots of people have different reasons for liking block chains. Their reasons may disagree with yours.

I'd say the common/paramount feature is "decentralized, trustless ledger w/distributed consensus." Dillinger talks at length here about how "...the Trustless nature of Bitcoin was the main thing that convinced me Satoshi wasn't scamming." Yes, lots of private things calling themselves a "blockchain" exist. But those all submit themselves to some sort of authority/trust system. And it's likely the case that they do that in order to avoid the problem described.

IMO it's anarchy [good connotation] vs rule-of-law. Crypto-coin/asset systems can be ruled by distributed consensus but this feature is mutually exclusive with state-managed systems. When they intersect or when they're forced to intersect, we end up with an imbalance/mismatch.
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Government IS the check on corporate power! You are the one who is misunderstood. As a libertarian, I believe governments are vital to a civil society (never said I was an anarchist). I believe governments SHOULD have (granted to it by the people who it represents) pretty ultimate powers in dealing with bad-actors. However, those powers should only be used in very specific situations; Does person A's actions infringe on person B's rights. Spewing toxic smoke into the air and making me sick is an act of physical violence towards me; the government should step in. The government picking winners and losers in a marketplace based on special interests and who can lobby more effectively doesn't protect my rights - it infringes on them.

All people, whether they work for a massive corporation or within the government, make most of their decisions based on personal self interest. Give corporate entities unfettered power, they will stomp on people. Give government unfettered power, they will stomp on people. It's all about channeling the individual's drive to improve their own life towards the best interest of the collective. A free-market and a government whose sole purpose it is to protect individual rights, is the best way to do it.

I don't believe in unlimited corporate power because people are fallible. I don't believe in unlimited government power because people are fallible.
For example the one of the article, which basically get rid of all the SQL code. Read the article.
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>A LOT of companies think what they're doing meets that definition when it really doesn't.

Can you back that up with data? The majority of companies in the US have zero problems hiring developers who aren't rockstars even when their business model is unique for their industry. My evidence is the disproportionate number of questions from developers on Stackoverflow asking things that they would know if they had a decent amount of mastery in their field.
Yeah I downloaded it last time I got paranoid about nuclear equipped super-powers falling out with each other.

(In case of real emergency, maybe the paper version :- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nuclear-War-Survival-Skills-Instruc...)

If you can put aside my prepper-paranoia then I suggest it's a good practical and insightful read. There are many tips in there that would serve you well during any disaster, man made or otherwise.

Don't forget to buy your geiger counter while stocks last :-)

Oh and get your copy of SAS Survival Handbook, a timeless read :- https://www.amazon.co.uk/SAS-Survival-Handbook-Definitive-Gu...
I hope they're recording what they find "swine paunch", etc. actually consists of in a machinable format along with what they've tried in place of those. Translating old formulas and procedures written in extinct jargon is a _huge_ challenge.
You should give it another try. The modern ecosystem / DX environment is really fast and slick. I've known a number of native devs from different languages who now love the lang and what it has to offer. But you've gotta go into it with an open mind :)
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The title doesn't have much to do with the article. Calder's popularity is, in my opinion, largely due to the non-political, inoffensive nature. It is in a conversation with other artists, but doesn't say anything about war, death, love, governance; it does not stimulate strong emotion, but an abstracted air of interesting-ness.
> Said like someone who sees people that look like them in damn-near 100% of the media they consume

What media do you assume I consume? Can you contain yourself for a moment instead of attempting to assassinate and beat down what I'm saying with an off-handed remark?
"Soft skills are vital for team lead and product management but being able to write a good email and butter up your superiors isn't too important for other developers."

Unless you're a developer that works by themself on code that will never be used directly by other people, soft skills are always vital. Soft skills include things like being able to empathize with others, which is quite important for building usable interfaces. And, soft skills are incredibly important for getting along with others, which, as a developer, you're going to have to do.
> So you don't like the bureaux; well, nobody does really. But what is an alternative which allows lenders to compare applicants on a like-for-like basis with some degree of confidence?

Ironically, even if I liked the bureaux (I don't) I couldn't do it any more. Their negligence self-defeated their mission.

With the leaked information, no credit report from Equifax is believable any more. If somebody slams it in my face I can shrug and say "Nope, that's not me: leaked information". Everybody in the Equifax data can do that. Everybody in the other companies' data which intersect with Equifax's can do it. All of a sudden, these companies are providing zero value.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Problems+with+HIPAA

I just googled it, and it was the first result
The value of land and spectrum would 'fly to the bottom' if they sell one hundred billion of it?

The last spectrum auction ended with a winning bid of 19.6 billion. The initial subscription was 86.4 billion. You're telling me that 84 mhz of spectrum represents 85% of the entire world's willingness to pay for American spectrum?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wireless-auction/fcc-s...

Get real. It's worth its weight in gold.
The opening paragraph is wrong. It has been 32 years since the greatest earthquake in Mexico, 1985.
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I've used superset and honestly, it kinda sucked as a user. Maybe it will thrive now it's not under AirBnB's ownership, but I more than welcome competition in this space.
> Then they started tweeting out links to a phishing site that looked just like their own "equifaxsecurity2017" site.

Not much to say about that one, for sure. I still don't understand why they wanted to make a completely separate site with that stupid name.

> Meanwhile they had delayed long past the timeline outlined in legal requirements for their reporting of the breach.

I think you'll find that they adhered to the letter of the law on that. Maybe you know when Equifax made the breach public, but you don't know when they first contacted the relevant authorities (law enforcement or regulatory).

> Where are the Congressional interviews with their executive directorship?

Oh, that's coming, for sure. Other companies have been called before congress for far less. But what good has ever come out of such a hearing? That's what you do when you want to save face with the American public and seem like you're going to do something. There might be hope...Al Franken is the ranking member on what I think is the relevant committee, and he usually does a good job in calling out BS when he sees it.

> I'm just as incensed about the response of law enforcement

How so? What would you expect from law enforcement here?
I'd mostly attribute that to the MKL and their ability to just have to deal with their own instructions. But that's just an "educated guess".
No, a certain kind of VC, so man-boys with more money than sense and no one honest enough to tell them that they’re not really princes of their own little kingdoms. In that light, the behavior of the Kalanicks of the world is easy to understand, and this article doesn’t come as a surprise.
I so want "iPad Pro + SSH client + keyboard cover + gcloud/aws box" to work for my needs, but I have yet to find a solution that allows ESC/Meta and all the common control keys to work seamlessly within Emacs in a way that doesn't confound my decades of traditional and laptop keyboard muscle memory.

If anyone has definitively solved this problem, I would love to hear about it. I've dropped 50+ USD on apps trying to make this happen.
Edit: Sorry, I didn't read to the "Is this really worth the extra effort?" section.
> Jailbreaking is not part of the lock-in. It's a way of doing more stuff with the hardware than the original software allowed you to do.

That's precisely what rms is referring to when he says "jail":

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html#jails

"allowed you to do" is the key phrase in your sentence---software should never tell you that you can't do something just because its developers don't want you to do so (we call that an "anti-feature"); software should be a tool to serve the user, not hold their computer/device hostage to exert control over them.
They have a page explaining their reasoning: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.en.html
The difference isn't the encryption, but the fact that Google tracks your searches to give you "better" results.
You'd think we'd have a better QOS metric for courts than standing.
This is not different at all from the situation of the pound sterling at the beginning of the 20th century. Of course it is easier to deal with US dollars, this doesn't mean anything for the health of this currency in the long term.
The water can stay in the tubes for up to two weeks. She tried the Medela and the Phillips and while they were decent, ultimately felt the Naya was better for comfort.
I used sqlite as a backend for scraping 160 million websites a day. It works extraordinarily well if you hold it right - in my case, that meant devoting a database file to each thread. (Arguably in this context, it's competing with flat files, but it does a really good job there.)
It's expensive to do VOD right, because videos are such huge pieces of data. Plus, the "user experience bar" that Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube have set are pretty high and actually require a fair bit of engineering. There's no "15 minute blog demo" for VOD. The last company I worked for started out in that space, but had to pivot to doing linear television because the market just wasn't there. They built some of the same infrastructure that cable companies now use to do their on-demand services.

The only VOD services with healthy profits are actually content creators themselves. All of the services I just mentioned in the other paragraph have their own original content, and at least Hulu & Netflix are pretty successful at that. This original content keeps people on their service, generating more ad revenue, which is how they make money. Basically, if you're a major studio and have billions of dollars to throw away, VOD is pretty easy ;-)

Source: I worked for a failing VOD/broadcast video company for a couple years.
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Dune is often described as being about oil [1]. Similarly, TBP is mostly about Chinese nationalism and the politics involved with being economically intertwined with the United States while retaining an opportunistic military posture.

The message of TBP is hopeful in that the US and China are ultimately locked together against a universe of unknowns.

It totally goes off the deep end there at the end though, but this would be a hard book to write while living in China. The CPC wouldn't allow this kind of propaganda to be sold to the West if it didn't basically follow their party line. I mean, the author basically telegraphs this situation with the subplot about how the Terrans learn how FTL travel works.

[1] https://futurism.media/dune-and-oil-the-real-world-influence...
I guess that's a good point; I've been looking into some small TFTs with hand-solderable MCUs that fall short of application processors like this, but still run at ~50-200MHz. Not quite the same ballpark.

Still, on those, it's still only 13 pins for an 8-bit parallel bus (which I think can still do 16-bit color,) rd/wr/dat-cmd/chip_en/reset, and the chip_en/reset pins are probably optional. And while they do tend to have a few hardware SPI peripherals, some of them also have flexible memory controllers which can rapidly pipeline data over a customizable interface designed for use with a variety of RAM/storage/etc banks. But I think it will probably work since TFT interfaces are essentially writing to a framebuffer. And BGA packages usually have like twice as many 'pins,' but to be fair 'real computers' do also require a lot more I/O than microcontrollers.

See [pdf]: http://www.st.com/content/ccc/resource/technical/document/ap...
Revolutionary France is a prime example of that restraint. /s
The Linux kernel use the variable length array in the structure which is a GCC extension and not part of the C standard.

Clang don't want to support that GCC extension because it's too ugly.
I ordered a PINE64 and IoT stamp on June 10th and received it on June 24th. YMMV, but they seem fine.