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We did build schools in Afghanistan and the Taliban blew them up. Evil exists; it’s childish to pretend it doesn’t. As long as there are people that think it’s ok to beat women for not wearing a burka, there will be a need for men and women willing to fight. You don’t placate evil, you destroy it. Does anyone out there actually believe that the Taliban could have been defeated with schools and wells? An incredibly naïve viewpoint. Until you actually spend some time in those places, you can have no idea of the evil that thrives in the hearts of men.
Bragging that you are ready for downvotes is like wearing a codpiece to the beach.

Anyway, talk of UBI in the US is pretty silly when you look at how many people would rather not have the government do things like help people access health care.
Hmmm. If true, I wonder if cmd-clicking the top N links into other tabs can be distinguished or if it's harmful for their ranking. Also, does going back cause a reload?
It seems weird for a post that should have been about UX to boil down to a short rant insulting Google, SF, and I guess tech in general. Why? Why sling mud at people who likely have no hidden agenda and are trying to make something easy to use?

This has to do with the authors specific workflow as a professional translator. As a person who has a number of niche workflows this is just something you get used to. If you have niche needs then sometimes you need a niche product or something custom to workaround the problem. I don't think this has anything to do with people who are multilingual -- I only have anecdata so I'll phrase it as a conjecture: almost everyone, even people who are multilingual, probably search in a single language.
I think an effective strategy depends highly on the subject matter. Also, appropriate use of technology by the lecturer makes a huge difference.

For mathematics (my field) or something similar like theoretical physics, the pace at which the lecturer can write on a blackboard with a piece of chalk is just about the right information rate for the audience to absorb. Not to say one cannot teach well using more modern media, but it has to be done with careful thought and planning to be effective. (Same applies to lecturing at the board; we just have more practice at it.)

As for note-taking, I used to write everything down in class when I was in college & grad school. Sometimes this worked, sometimes not -- what's right for a course in abstract algebra isn't going to be right for a course in computational neuroscience. What I think is very effective, but requires some discipline, is:
- take minimal notes (or even photos) in class
- reconstruct lecture after class
- go to office hours and clear up any questions that arise.
It would be hard to do this for everything. For the subjects you really care about, this might be a useful approach.
It’s happening

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/11/13/its-the-beginning-of-the...
See also "Ask HN: What is the “other side” of the Net Neutrality argument?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15751789 from 5 days ago
There's a good write-up on overhauling the liquid cooling system here: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/G5_CoolantLeak_Repair/G5_...
It's often willful ignorance, combined with most people not wanting to actually give up a vice.
I think you meant damage to the free press rather than to free speech.
This is really good news. Enough for me to hold onto my Z620 for a bit longer.
Not the same choices as an accredited investor. Several(most) startups do not have any presence there.
Yes. The website beats around the bush before stating that actually most functional programming languages are just like this (possibly more interesting too, shh).
A non-scientific mental inventory gives the common setup among my CS colleagues:

- Personal computer: MacBook Pro (Linux on Thinkpad or XPS 13 runners up)

- Lab workstations: Linux on Dell

- Compute server: Racks of Linux on Dell / Generic box of NVIDIA GPUs / Amazon ECC
This seems similar to what Jeff Dean was working on with AutoML: https://research.googleblog.com/2017/11/automl-for-large-sca....
Is DeepMind collaborating with the Google Brain team and how connected are the teams? It seems somehow that the efforts may be duplicated in some areas...
They're both valid starting points!
That's like comparing a Ford Fiesta to a Formula One car.
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I have a better (may be slightly insane) idea. Open up startup investing (VC rounds especially) to a wider audience through some kind of index fund. Retirement and pension funds, endowments etc are too roundabout a way of actually benefitting from the windfall in the now.

While this is obviously risky, in the 2/10 chance where the startup IPOs or gets acquired, everyone stands to benefit a big deal.

I recently heard about the case of a private school which was able to invest $15K in one of $SNAP's funding rounds (the VC partner was a parent at the school). At IPO, the school netted $50M on this investment. This school was already well off but I can imagine what this would do for a lot of public schools if this option were available to them.
You can also piss it out in the form of ketones.
Hmm, I’ve seen quite a few warehouses and they’ve mostly been clean, decent places to work. Not the highest skill or wage work, but certainly not terrible or cruel. But, they weren’t major shipping depots for Amazon either. Mostly small/mid-sized.

In one, a subcontractor doing installations for DTV, the warehouse staff workload was pretty light. Sure, they’d hump a bit in the morning and evening to the installers checked out and back in, but the rest of the day was light.

Certainly no overtime. And CALOSHA is quite strict in their rules. I don’t recall a single injury in the warehouse.

Now the installers generally worked quite hard - the good ones completing installations 3-4 per day.
The BBC has its own problems. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jul/04/Iraqandthemedi...
GDP is obviously the wrong metric in a lot of ways; the only advantage is that it can be relatively easily measured. What you really want is some measure of surplus economic capacity.

I don’t like the direct results of this policy (taxation, presumably new and higher taxation, specifically to redistribute income and wealth).

However, the second and third order effects are interesting — our immigration policies, assuming the amounts being paid out are meaningful (unlikely at the start) would look a lot more like Canada/NZ — there would be a strong bias toward immigrants who will be net contributors (young, educated, healthy, culturally compatible), vs family unification or politically chosen.

With a correct metric, people would push to reduce military expenditure to the minimum required for actual defense, and to spend the money efficiently; same with other government programs, assuming $300B saved on defense could be turned into direct payments, etc.
That's a strange question. Do you perhaps mean: as opposed by judging by proxies like nuance, complicated sentences, absence of sensationalism, etc?

Hindsight is one way. A reader looking for quality publications can wait a month, reconsider and form a conclusion.
Ask HN: Help us find a name for our startup?
We are looking for a name for our startup and hesitate on idea, pronunciation and interpretation of our branding name in different cultures and languages.

First of its kind Massive open online deliberation (MOOD) platform. We allow voices around the world to argue in one deliberation per topic without mediation nor censorship.

The names found so far are:
1. Woodpecka
2. WeEcho
3. WeEcko
4. W3Echo
5. any suggestions?

Don't be shy, we are asking you for a good reason.. so what on your mind? Any preferences or suggestions?

Thanks a lot for your help!
The solutions are easy....nothing new under the sun...start here:

https://deanbaker.net/images/stories/documents/Rigged.pdf

Chapter 9
Rewriting the Narrative on Economic Policy

The standard framing of economic debates divides the world into two schools. On the one hand, conservatives want to leave things to the market and have a minimal role for government. Liberals see a large role for government in alleviating poverty, reducing inequality, and correcting other perceived ill-effects of market outcomes. This book argues that this framing is fundamentally wrong. The point is that we don’t have “market outcomes” that we can decide whether to interfere with or not.
Government policy shapes market outcomes. It determines aggregate levels of output and employment, which in turn affect the bargaining power of different groups of workers. Government policy structures financial markets, and the policy giving the industry special protections allows for some individuals to get enormously rich. Government policy determines the extent to which individuals can claim ownership of technology and how much they can profit from it. Government policy sets up corporate governance structures that let top management enrich itself at the expense of shareholders. And government policy determines whether highly paid professionals enjoy special protection from foreign and domestic competition.

Pretending that the distribution of income and wealth that results from a long set of policy decisions is somehow the natural workings of the market is not a serious position. It might be politically convenient for conservatives who want to lock inequality in place. It is a more politically compelling position to argue that we should not interfere with market outcomes than to argue for a system that is deliberately structured to make some people very rich while leaving others in poverty.
Pretending that distributional outcomes are just the workings of the market is convenient for any beneficiaries of this inequality, even those who consider themselves liberal. They can feel entitled to their prosperity by virtue of being winners in the market, yet sufficiently benevolent to share some of their wealth with the less fortunate. For this reason, they may also find it useful to pretend that we have a set of market outcomes not determined by policy decisions.

But we should not structure our understanding of the economy around political convenience. There is no way of escaping the fact that levels of output and employment are determined by policy, that the length and strength of patent and copyright monopolies are determined by policy, and that the rules of corporate governance are determined by policy. The people who would treat these and other policy decisions determining the distribution of income as somehow given are not being honest. We can debate the merits of a policy, but there is no policy-free option out there.

This may be discomforting to people who want to believe that we have a set of market outcomes that we can fall back upon, but this is the real world. If we want to be serious, we have to get used to it.
Same in Switzerland or Austria. In fact most IT professionals and developers I know never bothered with university.
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You should check out Norvig's design of computer programs course on Udacity (https://www.udacity.com/course/design-of-computer-programs--...) where he uses these kinds of puzzle programs to teach programming design concepts. It is a hard but really rewarding course.
As a Canadian... :(. We get European tech salaries with rapidly-approaching American cost of living. On a median-income vs cost-of-living basis, Vancouver is actually now more expensive than SF and NYC. We lose all of our good talent south of the border on NAFTA visas.
Literate programming / ipython notebooks make me very uncomfortable.

Primarily the problem is that it's a living body of mutable state -- like an Excel spreadsheet, except it doesn't auto-update -- if I poke at some bit of it, and then re-evaluate a cell, some state will change, probably. And then maybe other cells' outputs will be invalid. Hmm, maybe I should re-evaluate the whole notebook? Oh, but some of the cells contain shell commands, for example to download a dictionary file from norvig.com. Do I want to do that? Maybe I should just undo the change I made. The ipynb is in git of course. But instead of a nice diff showing lines of code, the python code is held inside some JSON document.

Ipython notebook is beautiful technology, the front-end is really-well done. But accumulating all that mutable state goes against all my instincts as a programmer. I prefer editing .py files in my text editor, with Make when necessary. And then creating output from input with a single, transient, execution.
Inheritance tax also taxes wealth, but it does so rarely and again the rich tend to find ways to avoid this.

The problem with many "wealth" taxes is that they end up missing the top 1% and hurting the people who are building a business.

Eg inheritance tax does a fantastic job of just screwing over family businesses that on paper are worth say $7mm+ because on paper the kids who inherit the business now owe taxes on maybe $2mm (I think the first $5mm is tax free w/ inheritance), but selling any of the business to pay the taxes would often destroy the business.

And I'm not talking about massive businesses like Walmart - I mean businesses like a large-ish family farm where just the land, equipment, animals, etc are all worth $7mm+ on paper, even if the farm doesn't produce massive profits.
In general, if you need life insurance, buy term life insurance, which is a pure play insurance product.

Whole life and other investments-mixed-into-insurance frippery are designed to make the insurance companies and salespersons more money.

Buying term and investing the difference is almost surely a +EV play.
You and a friend go to a house on halloween and there's a bowl that says take one. You sheepishly take two, and your friend, after you, empties the entire bowl into his sack.

You ask of him, outraged, "How could you do such a malicious thing?!" and he responds, "Me?!?! what about you?!"

This is whataboutism, and yeah, you're guilty of it. Our right wing is at least two orders of magnitude more corrupt than our left wing. Pointing fingers at "all guilty parties" means pointing fingers almost exclusively at republicans.
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maybe or are why seeing "Strange attractors" from Chaos theory?
I'm always surprised by the number of people on Hacker News who want to complain that Tesla is acting like a startup trying to "go big or go home".
Would Bill Gates have worked so hard (presumably) if he didn't have that specific understanding of ownership and casuality? Isn't that type of motivation and incentive necessary, to grind through the obstacles?
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> Then what do you do with bankrupt folks? Sorry, you had your chance, now you starve in the streets?

The institution of bankruptcy already answers, in general outline, the question of what to do with bankrupt folks: in short, cancel debts that aren't payable without excessive hardship. UBI should obviously be payable only to the beneficiary (except in the case of legal incapacity), who might contract to pay an equal amount to someone else, but such a contractual liability would be as subject to cancellation in bankruptcy as any other debt.
And... if we would prefer different outcomes?
I also wrote a piece on this book a couple of weeks ago (for Motherboard) and had a chance to interview Brian for it, and I feel like Brian's comments on the matter ring true—the most relevant parts of the PLATO story were the parts that really had nothing to do with the system's development and commercial sale, but the way that users invented ways to maximize the technology they had.

One could argue that UIUC (and later Control Data) focused on the wrong system infrastructure by leaning on mainframes and ignoring the later impact of personal computers, but it risks missing out on the most interesting parts of this story, which are the ones where people who actually used the system broke its intended use case.

Pieces like these are tough to break down—summarizing a 600+-page book in a 1,000-word article isn't for the faint of heart—but considering so much of the book was spent highlighting this point, the omission of this discussion in the linked review is unfortunate.

(And for what it's worth, I'm not linking my piece because I don't come to criticize the writer or say my article is better, but because I think this context is important to highlight.)
> Can someone actually explain what Sam wants to do here? I've read the post 4 times and I still can't see an y sort of plan

Run for office perhaps. In other words, if you can't discern a plan, maybe the post is more about Sam than it is about a plan.

(NOTE: I do think he has a plan here, just very back of the envelope. I think he's mulling over ways to incrementally roll out UBI, which if you think UBI is a good idea, figuring out an incrementalist approach is hugely crucial, important work. I don't think UBI is a good idea, but I do think this post is about a real thought and not just Sam posing or something. I have faith that there's real intellectual sincerity here.)
Dante's Inferno is not actually a good source of morality.
Nothing of what you said disputes what I said. Programmers are well paid and have a high social standing compares to real blue-collar jobs. Programmers are in no way blue collar jobs.
You're saying a person (deranged or otherwise) did what he did without malice towards his fellow humans! That's some seriously warped observation.
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That's sort of true, but I'm not sure if that the inflation effects are truly a "tax on wealth". Inflation is a tax on everybody, holding a wide range of assets in that sense. Also because it's driven by inflation, those proceeds to the government are also just growth of proceeds needed to buffer against inflation in the goods that government purchases.

Edit: Thinking about it a bit more. Inflation would also tend to drive up the numerical profits of companies, which will tend to buffer a stock price for example. So I'm not sure how this inflation independently contributes much of a specific tax on the wealth.
It's pretty convenient for you to call a communist a communist only when he fails, but then take credit when he succeeds. I still see a nation with no liberty, controlled by a central planner to a very large extent. It may not conform perfectly to Marx's vision, but it sure as hell doesn't conform to Adam Smith's, either.
It's certainly not perfect, but I'll take it over the rest of what's on offer the vast majority of the time.

And 14 years is a long old time...

FWIW I agree with the findings in that piece, the BBC were too shy about holding the government to account during the buildup to the Iraq war.
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NonStopOPS is a hosted service where you can quickly create data processing pipelines to do intelligent stuff with operational data ... like creating dashboards and reports from logging/monitoring data, calculating availability and other NFRs, or correlating events across multiple data streams. It is for times where sysadmins have use cases that cross the boundaries of traditional OPS tools, and where they'd otherwise have to do a bunch of manual stuff.
> Of course you can increase the throughput of a factory by speeding up "the conveyor belt"--a standin for the complex processes going into manufacturing.

You are treating it as a "standin" for something else, when it's unequivocally not. It's one part of a larger process, which is the point he is obviously making. It doesn't make sense when deliberately misinterpreted. Most importantly, intelligence isn't a ladder that can be "sped up" in every dimension.
Lots of downvoting from Guardian fans in this thread. Other entertaining headlines:

"Teaching my child to cook does not make me a bad feminist"

"Why do women lie more than men? Because we're 'nicer'"

"Feminists don't hate men. But it wouldn't matter if we did"
There are wealth taxes in Switzerland, Norway, France, and the Netherlands, amongst others in Europe.

They've been repealed in countries like Sweden and Austria, not because they were disasters, but because exceedingly wealthy people have a lot of influence. That's the only story.

As such your claim that no such taxes exist is wrong; and your claim that they've been a disaster is also fallacious.

p.s. your "ready for downvotes" nonsense is such immature nonsense. You said an untrue thing that HN audiences wish were true, and then pretended you're being brave. You're a joke.
> It's liberating to go someplace that doesn't feel toddler-proofed.

Agree that America feels "toddler-proofed" relative to developing nations. However, I had a great experience at St. Louis's City Museum. Even if the experience may be relatively tame to what you can find overseas, it was still astonishing to me that such a place of interest existed in America with so few safeguards.

Here's a great WSJ article about the thrills and trials of the City Museum: http://web.archive.org/web/20150612052257/https://www.wsj.co...
Yes, I already agreed this is a good thing. Perhaps I wasn't clear, my apologies. It's good to be lenient, especially in cases of accidental non-compliance. This is an uncontroversial improvement of GPLv3 over GPLv2.

I'm just bemoaning the larger context of copyleft non-adoption.
>> A more accurate analogy would be building a respectable, expensive structure and then blowing it up for the hell of it.

Locomotives do reach end of life. Where do you get the idea that they were not old clunkers donated by the same railroad interests that profited by running excursion trains to the event from Dallas, Ft. Worth and Waco?
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American tech élite is funny... USA can't even a normal healthcare BUT the tech élite is all about Universal Basic Income, Transhumanism, the dangers of AI, going to Mars and saving the suburbs/car lifestyle.

Can't they just wake up and put their mental energy and money on something that actually make sense?
> Brutal? Sounds like a regular blue collar job.

Which is to say: brutality is regular.

While of course the current move towards exposing harassment in the office is important, I don't hear much recognition that the people getting the most benefit are those whose prospects are already cushy to begin with... how much of this is actually "tricking down" to people working in often dehumanizing conditions?

I worked minimum wage until my mid-20's, and most of my high school friends didn't do college (or even graduate high school, in some cases); my parents (who both hold degrees) also worked in warehouses and stuff like that for a while when we first immigrated. In many jobs, being treated like trash, bullied, etc. is the norm. Being constantly talked down to and treated like a child is certainly the norm. And the sexual harassment stories are also much more frequent, and much worse. But people at the lower rungs don't have the social capital to take to Twitter safely, jump ship to a different company, etc. Doing so risks losing next month's bills, losing a good reference, etc. So it's just the way it is.

And I'm talking here in Canada where we have much better worker protection laws, so I can only assume it's even worse in the US.

Same with workplace safety. Sure, on paper you have the right to refuse unsafe work. But don't be surprised if all of a sudden you start getting less hours or get reprimanded for "not being a team player" or some crap.
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It's not possible. You can try to get your kids into a better school via the Allen Bill which means they can attend the school district where you are employed. For example, say you work in Palo Alto but live elsewhere. Otherwise you might have luck finding something in Union City / Fremont. But everyone is in this boat.. Hopefully, with increased parental involvement, the schools will improve.