skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether statistically significant or not, this provides a ray of hope that some of the benefits proponents foresee will be realized and many of the concerns that opponents foresee may not be, respectively, improved outcome for families, versus, reduced participation in the work force:

"Before the casino opened, Costello found that poor children scored twice as high as those who were not poor for symptoms of psychiatric disorders. But after the casino opened, the children whose families’ income rose above the poverty rate showed a 40 percent decrease in behavioral problems. Just four years after the casino opened, they were, behaviorally at least, no different from the kids who had never been poor at all. By the time the youngest cohort of children was at least 21, she found something else: The younger the Cherokee children were when the casino opened, the better they fared compared to the older Cherokee children and to rural whites. This was true for emotional and behavioral problems as well as drug and alcohol addiction.... Other researchers have used Costello’s data to look at different effects of the casino payments. One fear about basic income is that people will be content living on their subsidies and stop working. But a 2010 analysis of the data, led by Randall Akee, who researches labor economics at the UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs, found no impact on overall labor participation."
I tend to disagree. Very few live up to Tolkien's level. And it's not about the brand, it's about the depth of the settings he created.
"How would anyone control something like that?"

We know empirically (see your comment, for instance) that some people would vote against a raise. That idea that 'people' is unable to control their passions is not supported by history. Not so long ago, basic income was rejected by referendum in Switzerland.

"At some point you would be giving people more money than you produce as a country"

That statement is meaningless. Any country that run his own currency can produce an infinity quantity of it. The real constrain is what real resources are available in the country. If you spent more that what is available the value of money will go down (also know as inflation).
This exists to a certain extent in some European countries. I heard in Denmark there is also "basic-education", where you get unemployment welfare if you enroll in job training programmes.
If a startup is giving equity to employees because they have nothing else to give them, what is that equity actually worth? Isn't it possible they'd be paying more taxes later if the company is actually successful, and thus its stock is actually worth something?
And this is in fact sometimes suggested as one of the key benefits. If an area suddently has a lot of people out of work with no safety net it causes a ripple effect as they curtail their spending massively at local businesses, and the next domino gets toppled.

With unemployment benefit the goverment automatically injects cash into the area to forstall this outcome.
Now I get to go back to my friends and say: "Remember when I told you that they would create a film adaptation of the Sylmarillion and Appendices, in 8 installments, and you all rolled your eyes at me?"
A scare piece with the "buy our pro plan" message tagged on at the end.
You don't like what some of the startups in the current age are focusing on, so you want disincentivize all startups in general, for perpetuity? That's an incredibly extreme response.

Throwing the baby out with the bathwater, if I've ever seen it.
I'm also getting 5 out of 5 for the Postgres, but I think these questions are helpful. I'm not a DBA, but just guess with my knowledge when I take the database implementation course.
Thanks for the kind words! I haven't used it personally, but a programmer in my Twitter feed recommended this one that they've been using with their kids recently. (I don't think there's a heavy emphasis on CLI.)

https://tksstgiftguide.tumblr.com/post/167274832422/our-kids...
Sure it does, languages allow you to express things.

Some shitty languages don't have a concise way for you to express particular things (like sum types), so you have to rely on idioms or "patterns".
How about the origin stories of the Ents and of Beorn
This could be both quite good and original.

LotR takes place at the end of the Third Age and Tolkien expanded that into the three novels, but he also wrote (and his son co-wrote, edited and published) The Silmarillion, which covered everything until the end of the Third Age.

I always thought The Silmarillion contained enough source material to make a dozen "LotR"s and keep everything consistent within the same universe. I hope that do that instead of a "Young Aragorn" type of deal.
For proving what? - I haven't seen anybody that their reports are inaccurate. The only possible critisicm might be that they maybe don't tell everything to protect individuals. (Which I don't believe they do) But even there it won't help if they publish everything as we can't have a prove it's everything.
>where paying out a lot of basic income one year results in fewer taxes the next year, which means the government has less money to pay out in basic income that year, causing people to need to a job, which increases taxes the next year, after which the government can pay out more in basic income.

There are problems that need to be solved, but the one you have here you just invented. Government programs don't work like this. They aren't pegged to revenue.

The problem you described with oscillations and feedback loops is exactly one of the primary criticisms of attempts at forcing the government to balance the budget each year.
A lot of people seem to be down on it, but I'm pretty excited. He's still the standard to which any fantasy book is held to, as well as the standard for worldbuilding. Nothing else really comes close.
Not to mention the oodles of solutions for super specific scientific computation tasks that exist in fortran. I'm learning about numerical integration and stuff for solving differential equations, and there's so much stuff where someone essentially figured out how to do this years ago and wrote a .f file for it.
It's not accurate to characterize finance as simply something that happens to be capable of making you rich in a narrow point in time. More than you know, I'm not a cheerleader of modern finance but it is the reason that most of the capital in the world exists and it's important for people to be aware of it as a fundamental part of our society. People ignore it at their own risk.

You're right that the problems of finance aren't fundamental to the natural world, and they're not as elegant as the problems in mathematics and the mathematical sciences.

However, there is some basic amount of financial knowledge that people should have as a basis of functioning in the world. And I think many intelligent people should be interested in establishing that knowledge base because it can enrich their life.

What's fortunate is that the amount of knowledge required to simply understand one's degrees of freedom and the outcomes is pretty basic. Even if you don't find it interesting, you should be able to slog through it in less than a day. And that's a good thing because it would take a lot longer than a day to get to the state of the art in finance but that's not critical to understanding why it's unfavorable to use a credit card to buy a car.
I have no faith that a Snow Crash movie would live up to the novel, as much as I want it to exist anyway. A series would be better, especially one with a planned ending.
I wonder if better use of multiple cores by a single webpage (what they are calling "fine grained parallelism") is actually a good idea. It seems like web developers can and probably will eat up any improvement in performance by building slower sites. So in the long run equilibrium, your computer's performance and energy consumption suffer, while the web remains just barely fast enough to tolerate.
dom.ipc.processCount in about:config
Totally agree actually, I love all Rich's talks and agree with almost every word of Simple Made Easy but I don't necessarily agree with the conclusion he takes it to (Clojure).

I've heard it suggested somewhere that possibly the leap is in believing that 'a simple thing + a simple thing = a simple thing'.
* Can be self-hosted.

* Queries other search engines besides just Google.

* Has more search options.
Is there no oversight for mutual funds in the USA one of the reasons why I prefer IT (Investment trusts) where the board acts in the interests of the share holders and not the managers.
When renovating my apartment, it surprised how few of what I had to buy was actually made in China.

Once you want anything custom-looking, it quickly stops being mandatory. In the end, I have one ceiling light and one bathroom shelf from China.

Of course this would vary by locale, I guess.
On the other hand, even $1M/year doesn't look good compared to what you would have made via options/RSUs if you were employee < 10 at Facebook/Google/Amazon...
As an empirical observation, in the US we currently have one group of politicians advocating for a larger safety net and a different group strongly advocating for lower taxes.

Sometimes the bigger safety net people win, taxes go up, and payouts go up. Sometimes the lower taxes people win, taxes go down, and payouts shrink. Eventually these forces hit a stable equilibrium (or a semi-stable "pendulum") and the tax and benefit rates don't seem to explode or contract endlessly.

I don't see any reason to expect that a basic income would be any different.
This article is about revolutionary technology that we all expect will show up at some point, but when that will happen is uncertain. I don't think we're all that close to true conversational computing -- I think that would herald the dawn of true AI and we're nowhere near that. How close are we to quantum computing? Hype stories about quantum computing were a regular fixture for the better part of a decade but I haven't read one in a while. Are we significantly closer or did progress flatline?
> So we have to start paying people in actual shares if we want to give equity

This is also a big gamble if you're given shares in a non-public company. You pay taxes on these shares at vesting - not only have you reduced your liquidity until IPO/exit, but these shares could end up being worth nothing if the company fails.
> review all your lists (or one list in a given context) every time you sit down to do work

That's the opposite of GTD. One of the goals of GTD is that you get to a point that you don't make decisions about what to do while you're working.

> when I want to get work done, I ignore all these lists, get in tunnel-view-mode and forget about everything else.

The ability to do that is the benefit of GTD.
The .NET Standard spec has multiple _versions_, each of them adding more APIs: https://github.com/dotnet/standard/blob/master/docs/versions...

It's true that .NET Standard 1.0-1.6 had a lot of gaps but these should be rectified with 2.0 now so you shouldn't run into these problems anymore (otherwise there's usually a good reason why a method/API is missing from the standard).

Disclaimer: I'm working on Mono for Microsoft/Xamarin, primarily class libraries and tools.
Why dental practices have been so slow in adopting EHRs?
When I did Mensa exams I also felt that coders might have advantage there.
Sorry I wasn't clear. Chrome profiles is a usable UI. Easy to find, switch, manage, create, delete, all with just a couple clicks, never very far away.

about:profiles is not discoverable (obviously), easily usable (you have to restart), or easily switchable (you have to open about:profiles or the terminal).

By the technical definition of "UI", the raw filesystem and terminal counts, sure. Opaque and unknown about: pages count, sure. But that doesn't make it good.

For features like this the UI is the feature. about:profiles is not a good UI, so the feature is 80% useless.
It's pretty remarkable that money apparently cures psychiatric disorders. Maybe we should be prescribing cash instead of ritalin to kids with ADD.
It's written in a conversational style.
Does something like AmeriCorps fit your description? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmeriCorps
I've had a similar tax issue which caused a few 100k in taxes on unrealized gains. That was not a happy day and I could barely pay the tax bill. In my case the issue involved moving from The Netherlands to the US. As far as I know the US is one of the only countries which taxes unrealized gains. In The Netherlands you only get taxed once you actually make the money. The VC industry is world class here in the US, but some of these tax rules are so backwards that they do real damage to startups and the economy as a whole.
That already exists in the form of minimum wage + an economy that isnt bad. Going to that extra step to say that government should provide the job itself is just an admittance of failure that the economy is so bad that there are no good jobs and the gov has failed to provide an environment for them to be created.
Webdev kneejerk reaction I guess, haha.

Everything is web nowadays! Kudos for making a standalone application.
Hayver’s ICO Cryptocurrency Rewards Recovering Addicts
I wish someone would do a proper job on the Earthsea novels. Netflix, are you listening?

LOTR is a bit played out, the Hobbitrilogy kinda beat it to death.
I think the key here is that the valuations would change and likely be far more realistic. We certainly haven't seen the whole story on cryptocurrencies to know what regulation needs to apply, so I'll withhold any speculation there. But I have a feeling that with the amount of data a blockchain-based security gives you, the need to restrict non-publicly traded entities somewhat goes away (since you can always audit after-the-fact if the ledger is distributed).

In any case, the market would be far more liquid. I'm not a huge fan of cryptocurrencies for personal use, but I absolutely think they're going to take over the world when it comes to the money used in investment finance (which is ~99% of the money on Earth).
No it isn't. The deal was announced today, the linked article is from six days ago. Speculation and rumors are not the same thing as a done deal.
A noisy signal :) I meant noise from as in 'low information, high annoyance'
I think it just got pushed for the fresh 59.0a release (memories of changelog)
And that's why Silicon Valley is on its own for this one.

It hasn't loaned me its political power for anything that matters to me, and so for this issue that impacts me not at all, I will not be returning any favors.

The collapse of the 2002 bubble hurt everywhere else far more deeply than SV, with a more painful recovery, so I see anything that might curb irrationally exuberant investment in companies that are not likely to ever benefit rust belt economies as a good thing.

Furthermore, I am more in favor of simpler employee incentives that do not force people to invest where they work. At the income level of a typical tech employee outside of SV and NYC, any investments should likely be buy-and-ignore in a robot-managed index fund. I don't want all my net worth to be tied up in my employer, especially when we have no contract, no real control over its business strategy or tactics, and I can be fired at will. If you want to pay me $X, pay me $X.
I'd like to see both: a basic job for someone who wanted something to do, and a basic income for everyone.

For me, the goal is not to have everyone engaged in busywork. For me, the goal is to end mandatory work.

Freedom comes not when no one has anything to do, but when everyone gets to do what they want.
Ethical issues in research using datasets of illicit origin [pdf]
I tried making the switch from Chrome but ran into three issues :

1) Firefox does not import Chrome logins and passwords. Major pain.

2) Firefox freezes when importing Chrome history and bookmarks. I get a "script is taking too long" message. If I force close and reopen, then try to delete the partially imported content, it freezes as well with the same message. Tried deleting profile and restarting restarting to no avail.

3) (more of a nuisance than a real issue) I need to use the same browser on all devices so that everything is in sync. Google Search in Firefox Android looks like a page from the 90s and is missing Search Tools. Maybe Google isn't playing nice?

Did people migrating from Chrome experience issues 1) and 2)? Tried the initial import on Linux and macOS, same issue.
There is a key difference betwen "this is the will of the people" and "this is the will of the people that we allowed to vote, and who found the time to make it along on the day".

People aged 16-18 and people living abroad are two groups that had no option but to sit at home and are both considered anti-Brexit.
> even though I walk under the sun a few times per week for about 15 minutes each time,

This is a very very low amount of exposure to the sun, isn't it (esp depending on your latitude)? I'm asking because it sounds like you're phrasing it as if you think it's a decent amount.

It's honestly only recently that I'm realizing how little sun exposure most people enjoy/are used to. I feel like something's wrong if I don't get sun+fresh air much more frequently than you're describing.
I also work in the loop. I found that my mood changes in the winter, and it's greatly helped with Vit D. Just popped one just now.
If you set your screen resolution to "default for display" in System Preferences, does the scrolling feel closer to native?
I mean not to be a jerk about it but so what? It seems like giving out high risk stock options is a bad deal for workers overall. If the goal is to grow the economy wouldn't paying a rank and file employee more fairly be better for more people and the economy as a whole?
With a society that's still fighting to achieve the bottom layer of Maslow's hierarch of needs, the most meaningful types of innovation are: housing and transportation.

Flying cars, or some kind of easy flying transportation would vastly benefit society: we greatly underestimate it. If you can triple the distance a person can travel in the same amount of time, you nearly 9-tuple your employment opportunities. Companies would have nearly 9-tuple the number of candidates.

Unlike land based solutions, sky based solutions can go directly from point to point without needing to follow an arbitrary arc on the ground.

And best of all, you'll have much more cost effective housing options. With housing being as bad as it is on the west coast, I bet people would pay big money to go farther and faster.
So, socialism (the fear of) improved the live of those people. Sounds like a good deal.
Mouse gestures in Linux and MacOS are completely broken due to a known bug. They have a Linux patch likely slated for version 58 (in 6 weeks) but no MacOS patch yet.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1360278

Mouse gestures are critically important to me, so I'm sticking with Vivaldi until this is fixed.
Link to the bill with before / after descriptions. Starts at page 116:

https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/11.9.17%20Chair...
The Moon is a floating eyeball that can control and monitor your house
I see your point and I agree with you, but it is so hard to put ideas in peoples head! and it is taking so much effort! you can't do that in a meeting when 10 other people are sitting! I guess there is no way to get around it and I should just give up !
I ate it right out of the shell deep in the Filipino jungle. I knew for years what it was and had preconceived notions. Besides the texture of certain parts I could identify while chewing (e.g. feet, beak), it really just honestly tasted like a kind of hard-boiled egg. If I didn't know what I was eating, I wouldn't have second-guessed it at all. I do recommend it, for the adventure. The Filipino guys that gave it to me said it gives you a big burst of energy, and I thought they were full of it, but indeed, it gave me a kind of heady feeling. I think that just might have been getting a ton of calories all at once?
The problem with giving employees shares is that they would either need to pay for those shares or be taxed on their value. This would effectively limit early stage startup participation to those with a nicely filled bank account.
I got 4 out of 5 for mysql. Should have given it more thought :-)

A suggestion: also mention that the correct results with an explanation are shown at the end. It was not clear to me and therefore I decided to answer just quickly. But maybe that is intentional ;-)
What. Why would anybody pay for this?
Ask HN: Best bidirectional Android to desktop pipe?
I want to be able to easily send links and text back and forth from my phone to my desktop. The way I currently do this is (sigh) by saving it as a draft in gmail. This works... reasonably well, but feels wrong. I don't really want to sign in to a shared browser account on both. Any good solutions out there?
I was referring to:
"Around the same time, Eben made legal threats towards another project with ties to FSF."
Check out Tropo or use Asterisk AMI
Should those people be excluded from every vote or only the votes whose outcome you disagree with?
There are problems with trackers and closet trackers I sthat you have to by the dog's

Some of my actively managed funds managed to avoid a lot of the loss on bank shares - a tracker would have had to keep holding risky bank stocks or say enron and take the loss
The article points out the damage that being an Alice can cause - some people (most people, really) are affected by the way others treat them, so when you are right, and someone else is wrong (and you are certain of that ;) ) you can add a bonus to your technical contributions by mentoring that person. Winning an argument is hard and doesn't fix underlying problems with competency, but mentoring someone will build up good will. Instead of feeling like they have lost or been proven inferior, the "opponent" in this case will correctly believe they have grown technically.

The way to do that is all in phrasing, tone of voice, and general respectful treatment. If, like me, this is not something that comes naturally to you, it might be worth searching google for a few little tricks that will help you to resolve disagreements. The Socratic method - using questions instead of statements - can be effective. It has also helped in my experience to describe similar situations in which the course of action you support has proven itself.

When speaking with managers who make a bad suggestion, it is helpful to explain that the course of action they are proposing was considered, and why it was rejected. That will reassure them that you are on top of the situation, and (in the case of a good manager) show that you are able to do your work without your assistance.

Of course if your manager's ego is tied to his/her suggestions, which is common, you're probably SOL. The most effective way I have seen a team deal with that is to implement the bad suggestions as quickly and flexibly as possible in order to minimise the damage to the schedule, the project, and so on.
> coworkers become accomplices, and gaslight his abuse

Personally I think this is the worst part. It's much harder to deal with a group of jerks and their like-minds. A group typically self-justifies their behaviors and more likely to defy company policies. That's why bullies typically come in packs.
With the tiny amount of details provided, we can't even begin to offer suggestions.

When it comes to VoIP stuff though I always lean towards Twilio-but once again, it entirely depends on what you want to do.
I recently attended a marketing conf, and Electric Arts employees were so pround of ripping of so called whales and their gamification and gambling features in their new Triple-A games. They guys I spoke with had no clue about games, they were not gamers. They said it's all about statistics, KPIs and marketing.

Remembering the 1980s and 1990s era of awesome Electronic Arts games (their games were really arts), it's so tragic.