skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an interesting precedent to this: Biblical Israel. Individuals/families within tribes received an allotment of land, which they were free to trade or sell over time. But every X number of years, the land would revert back to the family of the original owners. The idea here was that everyone had a stake, with an upper bound on how long they could lose that steak. It also set an upper bound on the corresponding wealth inequality that resulted directly from the land.

Seems like there's two primary considerations when looking at a concept such as this. The first is how to implement within our current political climate. The second is how it aligns incentives moving forwards. The first is an obvious challenge, so let's assume for the moment that it is solved, and only worry about the second.

Ideally we want incentives aligned in such a manner that citizens:

1) focus on long term health over short term benefits. It may be tempting for people to reject immigrants because of the perceived cost of a bigger denominator, without appreciating the long term numerator upside.

2) recognize that all benefit from the success of everyone. Put differently, suddenly I care about the state of the individual with limited opportunities on the other side of the country, because it could impact my own wallet in future years.

3) don't somehow become more disenfranchised or powerless through a secondary market of these "shares".

I think it's wise not to ascribe direct political purpose to the various shares. It would be tempting to try to address power inequality directly via share ownership, but that seems misguided.

I assume there's many more incentive issues to consider, but that's just an initial list. I don't know what the answer is to any of these, but if I were to do a full analysis, I would continue to ask questions about what we wanted to incentivize, and what we wanted to de-incentivize. Then whether this actually addresses/mitigates those considerations in a realistic manner.
To make this proposal make sense, we need to rephrase it in financial terms that Sam and HN readers would understand.

GDP is a revenue number. Roughly speaking, it's the aggregate sales of all American businesses. Or the aggregate spending of all American consumers.

Obviously there's no sense in which you can "own" a share of revenue. You own capital, not revenue.

So a workable translation of this idea into financial reality might be: every public company dilutes itself by 20%; the new shares are assigned to the government; the new shares are distributed to all Americans. Not unlike the voucher side of the Russian post-Communist privatization scheme.

Then the fun begins. Do the recipients actually own these shares? For instance, can they sell them? In theory, shares should produce dividends, but our tax system has made dividend distribution mostly a thing of the past. Profits are more likely to go through buybacks. You earn returns from capital by selling shares.

But if people can just sell the shares, what stops them from selling them all, and ending up right back where we started? A study of low-income lottery winners and their financial behavior would add a lot, I think, to our understanding of this and similar UBI schemes.
> e.g. Tor and P2P style.

You are always going to be able to encrypt your data in a way that their filters do not understand. The problem is that anything the filters do not understand will go to the low priority queue. Your Tor traffic will get treated just like Netflix traffic, in the event that Netflix chooses not to pay protection money.
I don’t think the developer of cuphead should HAVE to do anything. They made a really good game, which I paid for because I loved the art style. And honestly they’ve been very straightforward about saying “yes we were aware that the cartoons were drawing from were very racist but we loved the style so much we wanted to seperate it from the racism.” But once the audience is aware of where the tropes come from it’s hard to look at the games features and not think about where it came from.

To borrow a review on cupheads Wikipedia page:

> Brandon Orselli of Niche Gamer defended the game as a tribute to that art style, writing that it was not meant to deliver narratives, or "go anywhere beyond where it needs to go in terms of its basic and child-like storytelling"

That is a perfectly fine defense of cuphead IMO. But personally I like games that go a little bit beyond “child like storytelling.”

I’m having trouble thinking of an a way that the tropes could’ve been subverted or a game that does this really well. But ultimately what it comes down to is that, personally, I think great games go beyond simple stories and simple pastiche of art styles. Copying the style is and creating all of this art is a marvelous technical achievement. But if you just swap out the racist characters for cups and dice, have you not missed an opportunity to also write a story that borrows from the past while also subverting or otherwise questioning its tropes?

And I acknowledge that plenty of people will read this and think “who cares, it’s just a game?” And I will admit that if it’s all “just games” then my thoughts will seem pretty irrelevant. That’s okay. But I’m going to keep taking about games as if they were any other form of art, because that’s how I see them.
Does that excuse provider-based discrimination in the cases where they are distinguishable? I'm pretty sure those are the overwhelming majority.
This article cherry-picks a lot and makes quite a few distorted comparisons. To prove the rates on rich citizens are high, they show the rate on low-income citizens in America is lower than other countries, and that the tax curves upward in the US. They use this to argue that the government could spend money differently, but if you look at the numbers in detail you might see tax burden being roughly 20% higher on the poor and roughly 30% higher on the rich in some countries with huge social services. You might also see that 20% being negligible for that poor single mom given that she spends more than that on healthcare that's instead state provided, but not going bankrupt because of broken underfunded healthcare provided by the 30% for the rich might be important for her. Or having public transit so she doesn't have to own and maintain a car on a low income job, etc. Even just using the percentage of income coming from which demographics while ignoring the services provided creates a lot of skew because for instance higher taxes on the poor replacing an insurance mandate with services might end up with the poor spending less total money for better healthcare.
Of course. But they'd rather have even more cash if they can.
(2009)Plugged in - Can Elon Musk lead the way to an electric-car future?
SaaS subsidiary
If we are to open a subsidiary for our SaaS model who is currentlyin a hypergrowth situation in Canada, which jurisdiction is more likely to be viable and why? Singapore, Delaware of New Zealand? Are there any overriding issues that we have to take into consideration, what are the strengths of each in terms of globalization, comparative advantage, tariff issues, non-tariff trade barriers, RTA, foreign exchange, etc.? thank you very much for your input.
I realize this is sort of wishing for the ability to create materials at scale with the tensile strength to make a space elevator but I wonder how far are we really from having "spooky action at a distance" connected devices. Removing the last mile leverage ISPs have now could help break this near monopoly they have over America's communications.
Facebook to use AI to detect suicidal post
It's enough to remind one of Captain Slow:

http://www.wheels24.co.za/News/Capn-Slow-slams-Twitbook-Face...
This would have more of a case if the average American were already maxing out on equities allowed by the SEC (and in more than just retirement accounts).

It also seems to give much more credence to luck than statistical evidence (Random Walk) that diverse passive investments outperform active investments, especially when accounting for costs.
Cyberdog, totally get your concern, I will update the UI to add some further info.

tldr: I get read-only permissions from Coinbase OAuth and don't store any user data. You can also setup your own server -- one click to deploy to heroku, further instructions in the github! https://github.com/joshblum/profbit
Lot of successful porn sites with variants of YouTube in the title.
FWIW, Comcast's statement clearly indicated it would not throttle or block lawful content. If you're being honest, you should be able to agree that most BitTorrent traffic is not lawful. As of 07/08, I think maybe the most common use of legal BitTorrent was that some Linux distros offered their ISOs over it.

Today this might be a bit more interesting of a case since a lot of software patchers from major protocols now use the BitTorrent protocol to patch software. I believe Star Citizen does, Blizzard games may as well. Windows Update at the very least now uses a similar system, though I don't know if it's specifically BitTorrent based or not.
People like Gates don't get rich because they work hard (though most of them do). They get rich because they're willing to risk what they have build something more.

Gates could have sold out to IBM or Apple or whoever and retired as a multimillionaire without taking the chance Microsoft would end up like Wang or Altair or hundreds of other companies.
I remember a girl in high school told me I was a bad dancer and laughed at me. She was a close friend, and danced all the time. For some reason it stuck, and I really haven't danced after that...
The problem is that we, the tax payers, helped to fund the first set of pipes for them.
I do. See above comments. I spend $18k per year in a HCOL area. Plenty of room to save $5k in there and still have buffer for expenses that come up.
Can't be happier with this! Proof that people are willing to pay for quality.

In The Netherlands we just got news that public service television etc sees an unexpected drop of income through ads (they're 60 mln euros short on budget in 2019). The quality of the online public news service is declining (clickbait titles for instance). Hopefully The Guardian sets an example!
> YouNow’s ICO is hardly huge by current standards; the largest sales have brought in upwards of $200 million. But it’s notable for other reasons. YouNow is already a profitable company with 40 employees, name-brand investors and 40 million registered users, a rarity in a world dominated by brand-new projects. People who work with cryptocurrencies say they’re fielding an increasing number of calls from established companies and predict that’s where the next wave of notable cryptocurrency projects will come from. The Props project is an early illustration of what that process could look like.

How are they profitable? What's their revenue stream? Selling coins to speculators? How on Earth does that definition of 'profitability' currently justify the value of the coins? "This is not like those other ICOs, because we made 200 million dollars selling coins!" is a huge stretch of reasoning for "So you should buy coins!"

I'm not saying the business sucks, or is a fraud, but that is an incredibly sketchy line of reasoning. I expect better from Bloomberg.
I’m not sure what can be done. When my vote doesn’t count (the man who appointed the FCC chair didn’t have a mandate and didn’t receive a majority of the popular vote). The FCC has stated that they won’t listen to my comment. What power do I have? None!

I truly hope someone physically removes Pai from power as the people have no say.
Ask HN: Udemy recommendations? Many classes are only $10 today
I'm not a CS major (a college dropout actually). I only finished half a coding bootcamp before leaving (got my money back). I've worked as a technician, in support at a hosting company, as an intern at an agency, and as a front-end developer at a startup. I want to either work for a company I respect or create one that others respect.

topics I'm interested in:

WORDPRESS:
- Developing my own WordPress themes and plugins

JAVASCRIPT:
- A thorough introduction to Javascript-based development with Node.js, Express, React, Redux, Vue. A course that helps me build a few sample apps that I can improve over time.
- I'd like to know what exactly many of the most used Javascript frameworks (Backbone, Modernize, Moment) are and when/where I could/should I use them.

DEVOPS:
- Getting better with git and ssh, so I can be comfortable with running a Vultr or Digital Ocean set-up with Terminal
- Managing my own VPS. I want to get to this stage eventually.

Thanks!
The worst thing you can do is to focus on calories only. That is the worst advice out there and you get it from everywhere.

YoYo effect guaranteed, cravings guaranteed, lesser ability to focus at work guaranteed and so on and so forth. And you will be miserable and won't keep it long term.

You don't just loose fat when you exercise, you build muscles, your cardio system is getting better etc etc. The way people here talk about it all sounds as if they would be putting on makeup - there is more to health and performance (including mental) then just how quick you lost few kilo.
When most webpages have a megabyte or more of javascript libraries, having a 20kb twitter icon which is probably cached doesn't sound bad really.
A VAT tax is sort of like a tax on productivity, so I guess it's sort of like a universal VAT tax that would get collected then and paid back to everyone split evenly.
Yesterday: ARM in your phones

Today: ARM in your toys (RasPI, Nintendo Switch)

Tomorrow: ARM in your servers

Next week: ARM in your desktop/laptop?

The iMac Pro will have an ARM co-processor: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/19/imac-pro-a10-chip-hey-s... - Arguably for "Hey Siri" and other mobile-inspired functionality, but wouldn't it be interesting if it were also an ARM-on-the-desktop beachhead?

I, for one, welcome our new ARM overlords.
Find a financial planner that charges a flat fee, not a commission. He's not going to be selling you some stupid investment vehicle because he's not getting paid to sell that, he's getting paid to help you. He also is going to devote equal time to you, whether you have just a bit of money or a lot, you are equally entitled to his time as his wealthier customers. The only downside is that his financial incentive is to gain more customers. So he probably isn't going to sell you expensive bonds but he might not be able to devote as much time to your specific needs.
Pretty much. The sales guy from Seisent (bought by Lexis/Nexus) gave examples of their data mining of demographic data helped solve cold cases. Back in 2005. Both awesome AND scary.
Computers can make it possible to simulate our environment well enough so that a general AI could train itself on those simulations and apply its learnings to the real world.

I do agree with the author that the evolutionary approach is the one most likely to succeed... Unfortunately it's also the most dangerous approach which gives us the least amount of control.

We could give a computer the sensors and actuators to create its own detailed simulation of the world and then let it train itself using that simulation.
A bit easier, given that it's formatted in a readable way.

Right now, the text format is the only option. People are already talking about how to make it connect back to the original source, if you have access to it, but that's a work in progress.
See also http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/business/economy/27view.ht...
​Samsung develops 'graphene ball' to speed up battery charging
I think everyone agrees about "non-certainty". Where people disagree is on how likely an intelligence explosion is; and in particular, whether it is likely enough to warrant expending effort to plan for it.
This is very interesting paper, but is it a right one? I do not see any mentioning of working in such conditions nor 5-6000 calories per day.
> Currently, most people's share of the GDP is (mostly) their income from labor

"Most"? According to [1] only around 50% of the US citizens do get a paycheck (155 of 322 mio). The others probably mostly are kids, senior people and housewives, but they make up a significant portion.

[1] https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12000000
Just as an aisde: One needs an account from G.I.F.T. (goog, Inst, fb, twit) to use YouNow. No email option.
Some people (~3% of the population) completely lack the ability to visualise. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/17/what-universal-human-ex...
Cool, I'll continue to see us purchase quality, proven, monitors as we expand and require more hardware rather than start dropping large consumer TVs on peoples desks.
I had brochitis as a child, which by adolescence and several years of treatment with inhaled steroids seemingly just settled into an adulthood of "I wheeze and my lungs just don't work well". Never saw anyone about it, just figured it was my lot.

In 2012 I had a really bad lung infection that resulted in an asthma-like attack and ambulance taking me to hospital in the middle of the night. Months of tests resulted in them diagnosing me with Small Airways Disease, which my layman brain recalls as meaning "your big pipes are fine, but your thousands of small pipes are terrible". Not much to be done medically, but they were astonished that I had at that point run a couple of half marathons and essentially prescribed "keep running!". My readings when keeping a peak flow diary were "lungs of an 80-85yo female", rather than the 35-40yo male I was. That's pretty bad: https://patient.azureedge.net/media/Default/_Profiles/4e4362...

At the end of 2016 I had reason to visit my surgery's nurse about another matter and she said "can I hear a wheeze?". A few tests later, and (apparently) some kind of threshold for one of the measurements has changed in the last few years, and hey presto: I'm officially asthmatic.
To have such enormous deficit you would have to exercise a lot. And of course you breathe faster during the workout so I think it is entirely possible to breathe out more than 2 pounds of CO2 per day. 2 pounds if probably average for a typical person.
And if I were in a position to angel invest?
city and state isps
I think the idea that Comcast is going to change their pricing model around tiered access is patently ridiculous

- They are already extracting near maximum value from monopolistic pricing

- Services like this were tried before Net Neutrality, and they failed pretty dramatically

- Bad PR could lead to future litigation

- Most Importantly This process has only shown that it could be completely reversed again with the next administration. So they don't want to rebuild future revenue models knowing that the rules can be reversed again in 4 years at the drop of a hat.

The whole thing is really about Comcast's ability to shake down other companies to pay for their infrastructure improvements. It's really expensive to sell a $5 a month plan to a million users. It's really cheap to get $500 million dollars out of Netflix to pay for your line upgrades. And for the next 4 years, they have a blank check to shake down companies in the background.
Ethereum, the flippening will happen and when it does it will happen fast. Ether transfers in seconds for a fraction of a penny, it's a better cryptocurrency that bitcoin and that's not even its billing. It has far more utility and will use far less energy with a hybrid Proof of Stake/Proof of Work and eventual Proof of Stake consensus. So much more in the works, Ethereum's brightest days are ahead. All that while bitcoin squabbling brings it low, fork after fork after fork. It stands as an amazing proof of concept does bitcoin, but in a short number of years it will be in a museum.
Well, that's an interesting question, and it's helping me to realize that my arguments have been quite muddled and imprecise. In the case of my ancestors, there are a few points I think are relevant. One, Christianity was a split from a several thousand years old religion, and two, my ancestors presumably joined it under the regular supervision of teachers in this faith. So even though I mixed these two points together and lost sight of my middle argument, I would agree that joining Buddhism or Islam or something under the supervision of a competent and sane teacher (and you do have to be careful here, same goes for Christianity) would likely be safer than doing drugs and miscellaneous religious practices you read about from the internet. But I guess I'm worried about the number of crazy teachers in all religions now that we're discussing this. I guess I just think everyone should take this stuff with a bit of respect and stay safe.
Command line tool for soccer-lovers
Someone on youtube made a perfect video explaining this with enough precision:

not sure it's this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuIlsN32WaE
but close
Gawker got what they deserved but this sets a dangerous precedent.
Oh no! They're creating "money" out of thin air to "pay" creators.
I'm just an idiot and the password is really swordfish2
> I don't see how what Thiel did is any different than when an organization like the ACLU, NAACP, or EFF gets behind a court case that aligns with their political cause

What lawsuit are you thinking of in which the ACLU/NAACP/EFF/etc privately backed a litigant?
> Under what circumstances is false flagging your own citizens warranted?

None, in my opinion. That said, I have not considered the question deeply enough to conclude that it is never appropriate.

In any case, that isn't what the document [1] is about. Paragraph 5 mentions the "possibility" of various things. Our government should know how others within itself, perhaps with nefarious purposes, might conduct a "deception operation" against it. More specifically, ¶ 5 mentions operations in which "Soviet aircraft would appear to attack U.S. or friendly installations". Providing the appearance of something is not necessarily doing it. I also do not think false flag operations conducted against foreign countries are as ethically off the table as those against one's self.

TL; DR There are legitimate reasons for studying how false flag operations may be done.

[1] https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-3...
Pardon me but the solution you claim is already in place, well understood and totally ineffective.

Income is already taxable, including rental income. On top of that there are various taxes for owning/occupying a property. It varies with what state/country you live in.

Generally speaking, a property is a poor investment if you already have the money, they have poor returns and they don't grow in value outside of a few bubbles.

That being said, I agree that the pressure of rent is unbearable and growing for most of the population. The rebalance historically happened with wars. Properties ain't worth much when people die and buildings are bombed.
You presumably don't mean "99% of democrats are not pure and truthful." Did you mean that apart from 1% bad apples, they are? Because what you wrote condemns 99% of them. Difference between "not everyone is pure" and "everyone is not pure".
I thought it just walked away. :)
The NSA Contractor Arrested for Leaking the ‘Shadow Brokers’ Hacking Tools
Are you suggesting the USA does this to tax havens like Ireland, The Netherlands and The City of London?

Is it not a thing for startups to be based out of Delaware for a tax advantage? Would the ships even have to leave the harbor to do this?
Inflation is only a tax on wealth that is not invested. Literally cash under mattresses.

Investments in real estate, equities, commodities etc all increase in notional value to factor in the devalued currency.
Facebook deploys AI for early signs of suicide
Solution: Double FaceID.

A person at the shooting ground unlocks your guns with their FaceID. Then you can shoot with them using your own FaceID for, say, 30 minutes. If time runs out, you ask the guy at the shooting range to unlock them again.

It's an application of the two-man rule, [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-man_rule