skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sam: I like this idea. It's pretty much what everyone says when they mean "Basic Income" on a national level. A safety net and no cap on wealth. The question is about governance -- who will decide how much of a "dividend" to pay. The Alaska Permanent Fund already does this.

However, doing it at a national level requires a lot of changes, including implementing a national ID (social security numbers already do this but they have no password) and then you are in danger of being tracked by this id and so on, like China does.

However, why do it at the level of a nation? Why not communities small and large, local and virtual? That is what my company's been building since 2011. Well, not necessarily American Equity but a platform that any Community can run, to have its own social network, currency, and so on.

Take a look at these two links:

https://qbix.com/communities

https://intercoin.org
Horwood's plan of London, 1792 – 1799
Probably because it removed "useless" search terms. I had to try it just to see if there was anything scary that slipped through YouTube. I highly doubt YouTube is intentionally harbouring pedophiles like these "alt-lefters" like to point out. Searching yields results such as "how to have the sex talk with your kids" which means the words "the", "talk", and "your" played no part in ranking what Google thinks you meant. Doesn't seem that far off to me.
The problem is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
It makes more sense if you promise me X Mb/s download speed then give that to me, if you are not able then don't promise that speed, I should decide for what I need the speed, I should not have horrible speed for X protocol/site/app that I use 99% of the time but you have great speed for Netflix but we both pay same price. I want things to be fair, customers, websites, apps to be treated the same.
Ajit Pai is the worst kind of person. Greedy liar bought off by the people he's supposed to regulate.
The one thing that is good about this is that a lot of cities are now talking about rolling out their own broadband network. If Comcast does anything remotely as not adhering to the principles of net neutrality, then you are going to see even more cities talk about getting their own network.
The usual 7% long term figure for the S&P500 includes crashes and inflation in that number. You don't crash at 30% and then grow back at 7%. You grow at 7% on average at all times.

The only difference is volatility. If you need to cash out after the 30% crash, you lost a lot of money. Most long term portfolios reposition themselves towards less profitable but less volatile assets towards the end of their expected lifetime.

For an example you can look at the Vanguard "target retirement $DATE" indexes.
You can't tax the GDP, it's a calculation on the state of the exonomy not a cash flow to the state.
I can report that the climate scientists I knew mostly worked on macs (laptops, largely; a variety had trash-can Mac Pros as well). Fairly sizable motivator was the Unix CLI; they all had come up working on supercomputers with C/TC Shells, so having that locally was a big win.
Since there never was a net neutrality in place or enforced by the FCC, I think it's pretty safe to say the answer is: just as it is today
Not only that but the torrent of lies used to sell it and the torture regime that went along with it destroyed the ability of the populist right wing to discern the difference between truth and reality and led directly to Trumpism. The failure of the policy led people to look for scapegoats and trump handed them to them. Ironically the people who pushed the policy were the first victims and I can’t think of anyone more deserving.
Why would I do that, I didn't for the human? What's the efficiency in creating cow meat, .1%?
Guacamole also supports SSH/telnet, and is very snappy thru html5.
I autogenerate a guac config file for all the switches on each site at work, and even on high-latency low-bandwith sites on wireless it still works great. Definitely better than a console session via RDP or VNC.
This has the extra benefit that you can lock your switches down to only be managed thru certain IPs and enforce session recording.
> 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.

Most BitTorrent traffic may not be, but that's a matter of content not protocol. Most of the people physically located in the death row wing of a particular prison may be condemned convicts but if a government says it's not going to kill anyone not duly sentenced to execution and just drops a bomb on that wing, killing mostly condemned criminals, but also a few correctional officers and service workers, the action would be clearly out of line with the commitment.
Peter Norvig has this unique style where he explains his design process in detail, including exploring the problem on example cases, writing multiple solutions, the thinking involved in moving from one solution to the next one, including profiling and finding bottlenecks etc., you see how he goes about problem solving and he is a master problem solver. In fact his writing provides a good opportunity to reflect on what designing programs even means: investigating and choosing trade-offs, choosing an adequate representation (data structure) for a problem etc. This illustrates on a small scale how a lot of the most serious software engineering happens, the engineering where you actually have a definite, hard problem to solve, rather than just making the program pretty by criteria on which there is no agreement etc.

He does this not only in those notebooks but for example also in his "Paradigms Of Artificial Intelligence Programming" book. I have not seen this done to any serious extent in any algorithm textbook or tutorials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_system
Regardless of the market, there's very little actual functional value exchanged in simply following rote labor processes that don't inherently require skilled decision making or craftsmanship. The value tends to come from the design of the labor process itself; the rest is fungible.

Obviously we don't want the societal cost of unhealthy labor exploitation, but it is an incredibly difficult minefield to create mandates which imbalance individual value exchanges. One long tail of this is the loss of labor markets (physical labor as well as mental labor) in favor of automation even at the limited levels of AI we're currently at. Offshoring is another.
This whole comment (https://cmt.io) sounds like air leaking out of the current tech bubble (https://tech.bbl) on its last days.
Could you clarify what you mean? a UBI seems like pretty straight forward wealth re-distribution which I generally don't see described in most capitalist philosophies.

Everyone gets $10k. Obviously not everyone is going to pay $10k in taxes otherwise the system would be pointless and we could instead just eliminate taxes altogether. Those at the bottom would benefit, those at the top would pay more in taxes, and somewhere between is a break even point.
>I believe the community could make nice libraries compiled to WASM that anyone can use regardless of the programming language. JavaScript would be just another language(albeit a popular one, at least due legacy reasons).

I understand and respect the aim -- the browser should be ambivalent about programming languages.

But this is not intention, because it is quite unfeasable. WebAssembly allows one to target the web with much more low-level languages, but that also means that the languages dictate the memory structure of things. In WebAssembly world there are no 'javascript arrays' or 'object hashmaps'.

Imagine mapping the Javascript DOM API surface (with all its dynamic datastructures and callbacks) to C++, Haskell and Smalltalk. Three languages that may compile to WebAssembly, but would have drastically different internal datastructures. And all of that data marshalling that you would need to do, would need to happen for every dom feature for every language that compiles to WebAssembly.

OR! We just implement an API that does nothing more than interop with JS land. This doesn't change often and it will be easy to support many different languages quickly.

Think of Javascript as the BASH of the web. In a shell script you would pipe the output of one written-in-c program to the input of a written-in-rust program. With HTML+JS you would hookup the heavy part of the application and plug the IO's exactly how you want them. Its closer to configuration, really, much like a shell script.

So there needs to be some glue language, and we need to support Javascript and its DOM operations in a way that is completely backwards compatible, and at least as fast (read: tighly coupled) as it is now. And we want to limit the attack surface. There is no other choice than that Javascript will be that glue language.

But its fitting, because Javascript like BASH is a language whose strongest competitive advantage is compatibility. Like BASH it will be the glue language and shell of a platform.
Great course, learned a ton from it, but yeah lesson 3 where you had to build / follow him building a regex interpreter was definitely a beatdown for me. Everything else was pretty manageable, but still challenging.
You meant "moral panic" right?

"They're burning all the witches even if you aren't one..."
Games like League of Legends support custom games, but I don't get the impression that they are used much and I don't know if there are persistent servers there, so you don't get to go hangout with the same gang/community at will.
> Next week: ARM in your desktop/laptop?

And it's not just coprocessors, next year we will see real ARM SoCs - https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/18/16495010/microsoft-windo...

Next year^H^H^H^Hdecade: RISC-V in your ______
The parent also mentioned adding to the funds on a monthly basis. Does that make the math match up more properly?
Government should fund more research, but that on its own is not a solution. The entire system of academic research is fundamentally broken and laden with perverse incentive structures.
In that case The "new spirit of capitalism" sounds about the same as the "old spirit of capitalism". I'm not sure what the designation "new" is supposed to represent.
Prioritization pretty much always implies something is less prioritized.

Where I draw the line is throttling when the network could support higher speed. Say the fast lane is using 20% of resources and the slow lane is only using 20%, then the slow lane shouldn't be artificially slowed.

But I really have no huge issue with an ISP creating a fast lane that gets 30% of resources even if the slow lane wants 90% and gets throttled to 70%. Priced based mechanisms are useful for allocating scarce resources.
Show HN: Poker Simulation Using WebAssembly and Web Workers
Maybe this is easier to understand when looking across the borders, to the extremists.

Here in Germany I often hear the phrase: "Left extremists set fire to cars, right extremists set fire to people."

Of course this is oversimplified, yet there is quite some truth in it.
Hmm, well perhaps (I'm venturing into the unknown here) the problem isn't really protecting the majority from the minority (or vice versa) but protecting the weak from the powerful. When I see proposals like:

>end gerrymandering, and reform campaign financing

I think those are good because they weaken the powerful (the current majority party and the rich) to enable the weak. But I also believe that without the senate the political power of Wyomingers (Wyomans?) is going to be a lot weaker than the political power of Californians so I see the senate as overall good.

Why should we focus so much on the majority and not the relative power of those that compose the majority (or minority?)
If they had used a standard SSD interface, all else I could get around, but their proprietary connection rather than M.2 was a dealbreaker for me.
I’m not sure there was _a_ mastermind. More of a confluence of economic and political incentives combined with a bloodthirsty populace post-911.
They’re very different. The BBC is an independent organization funded directly by license fees paid by television owners. Unlike RT, it is independent from direct government intervention, and it doesn’t attempt to advance the interests whichever party is in power. The BBC primarily exists to serve people living in Britain. RT is directly funded by the Russian government, and is targeted primarily at other countries outside Russia.
What people just don't seem to understand is that a cryptocurrency has to be tightly intertwined with the service it offers in a completely trustless manner. Merely having a company which has the same name as a cryptocurrency or made by the same people just doesn't cut the mustard. The service and the currency need to be logically and inseparably intertwined.
Theyre already doing that with the sponsored content section and some really worrying companies (eg Facebook).

Individual contributions towards specific causes could very easily be capped if they were worried about distortion.

In practice, as the UK Labour party has shown - create the right structures and you can drive out mega donors. The UK Labour party has gone from majority funded by millionaires to majority funded by small donors. The guardian could very easily take up the same democratic clarion call.

But they don't want to.
> They are already extracting near maximum value from monopolistic pricing

Source? If push came to shove, e.g. if I were threatened with a price rise or disconnection, I would pay up to 10x more, maybe even more, for my Internet.
Yes, it does. I missed that. :-)
Ask HN: How do you share releases and Product roadmaps with Customers?
I haven't found a good way to keep customers in the loop with new features and drive engagement.

Currently and in the past I've done:

-Reach out to key customers directly (effective but hard to scale)

-Email blast (low conversion)

-In-app notifications (Like Taco in Trello. Seems like it would be good but hard to integrate and make the case that it trumps other product work)

Are there better solutions for sharing the product's timeline and what's coming next (or just shipped)?

I'm looking for both process and tooling that help solve away this general problem

THANKS!
> Until the Mac Pro I hadn't considered that a modern, high power computer could also be dead silent.

You've never seen the rig of a competent PC modder before that? "Dead silent computers" were pretty much invented by those people.

Apropos, here these old Powermacs still fetch a nice price, because their cases are valued by modders for ATX conversions.
American equality = Equality under law (Political and legal equality)...Guaranteeing any economic, outcome or opportunity equality by Govt. and institutions trample s on that and erodes freedom.
I'd be first one to point out that many military related technologies often have overall peaceful impact. My favorite example would be anti tank mine. It has to be dug on the spot, so it's used mostly defensively. It costs around 5$ to make and simple infantry soldier can blow up multi million dollar invading tank. Stuff like that allows poor countries to be independent. Or rich countries get to spend on social causes too.

But anything that removes personnel from the front line usually makes transgression easier. The national will to fight becomes less important and wars are dubbed just as "operations". Perfect example would be the MQ-1 Predator.

I think you made very honorable choise. Good luck on your career.
Have You Heard about Software as a Service, as a Service aka SaaSaaS? (Audio)
Agree with your sentiment. Also I really hope they include a low/mid range option for folks like me who want iMac-esque computing power, but don't need the display that comes with it.

The Mac mini is way too underpowered, but the next step up from there is $3,000.
On a new desktop box I discovered that by default ME continues to run even after power down. It is possible to disable that in BIOS but I wonder for how long...
Meh, it's an opinion column, and fairly innofensive at that. In the same period, the NYTimes had an opinion article literally called:

"To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran"

I prefer the war on the white emoji, personally.
I'm tempted to wack a mac mini into an Akito case with a decent graphics card and see how it goes.
I'm not sure that's what is happening here. If there are inequalities in race in America, it's kind of assumed that it's due to some sort of systemic racism. But what if it's caused by something else? What if it selects for socioeconomic status? Or cultural values? It's fairly known that there is a correlation between race and culture in America.

If there is a culture that breeds better self-control, better long-term goal attainment, and greater consideration for other people, doesn't it make sense that it would be a culture that does better than others?
This is a science-fiction premise, and not entirely accurate (although I did enjoy watching Moon). Without Star Trek level tech to mine and move, the moon isn’t an economically viable source of He3.

We have everything we need for fusion here on Earth, except the know-how.
Put this together on the weekend to learn more about WebAssembly, here is the demo: http://chriszieba.com/2017/11/26/holdem
I live in a city with municipal broadband. It's pretty overrated. Everything has to be managed by third parties, so it's more expensive than the national brands and service sucks.

Not saying it can't be done, but just saying it can be worse than the current alternatives.
And don't forget the "maintain this for a lifetime" part of the commitment...

Because maintaining anything for a lifetime is really easy (building a business, keeping a marriage together, keeping the weight off...)
I'm reasonably certain that this is not correct; this was a viewpoint held fairly briefly in the post-Einsteinian physics community, but abandoned because of a lack of evidence.

For the purposes of general relativity, stress-energy is the mass/energy hybrid quantity, but the equivalence is not literal in the sense that in a given inertial reference frame momentum does not attach to energy, but only to mass.
If it was me, I would sell enough to have received a gain of 2-3x my cost basis even if the rest becomes worthless, and then just leave the rest alone unless there is a compelling reason to sell. If you aren't open to _receiving_ the truly outrageous returns that black swan-type events might cause, there is no sense in making bets for black swans. You do need to be a good sleeper to do this though.

The other criterion I'd use is that if one of my risky bets has returned enough money that I could likely retire from it (i.e. >25x annual expenses), I would sell enough to be capable of doing that. That's such a monumental quality of living change that it's not worth it to keep the same level of risk.
Wage data seems to say that it's growth does not match the amount that corporate valuations nor their profits. Nor does it match the growth of costs for longer term societal needs such as healthcare nor education... On the other hand large accumulations of wealth have had no such growth problems - let alone vs inflation.

So yes salaries go up, but not in concert with people's costs nor with the value that is generated by people's labor.
I happily voted for Obama twice, but his policy in Syria and Libya was a complete clusterfuck and in retrospect I think perhaps the country would be in better shape today had we elected Romney, who while I disagreed with his policies is fundamentally a decent human being and probably would have allowed the country to blow off steam without electing a monster like trump.
In the context of a nation the UK had an adversarial relationship with, yes, that would be a prudent thing to point out.
"Everyone is jumping off cliffs therefore so should you"

This is nothing but grade-school peer pressure coming from adults and supposedly legitimate news organizations.
Which are, right now, nearly impossible. Due to lobbying efforts by the entrenched ISPs, municipal broadband is already illegal in many states. Here are two examples...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/north-carolina-s...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/muni-...
> > It’s young men queuing with yamakas and shawls and jutting teffilin. Queuing passionately for hours, at events around the world, to see the things that rabbis want them to see. To find out whether they should do things or not. They don’t know how to dress or behave. Television cameras pan across these listless queues, and often catch the expressions of people who don’t quite know why they themselves are standing there.

I'm not familiar with all the terms you're using (not sure what jutting teffilin is) but if this was describing a situation in reality I'm not sure I would get my pitchfork out.

Also I know this is HN, but in the real world you get laughed at for substituting a race or religion with "gamers" or "sports fans." You might find that unfair or another "great flaw at the core of modern PC culture" but no one has ever genocided gamers, so...

Also, gamer and nerd self-criticism and mockery is nothing new. Remember the guy who got famous on Reddit for taking pictures at magic the gathering tournaments, posing behind overweight people whose asses were falling out of their pants? Or all the jokes about how bad conferences smell?

Gamers were fine with making fun of themselves. But now that some feel that the criticism is coming from "the cool kids" when often those "cool kids" are just as every bit deserving of the title of "nerd" or "gamer", it's time to get sensitive and play identity politics! Give me a break. Get over yourself. I say this as a hobby video game dev, lifelong gamer, 10-year wow subscriber, DND player... get over it. It's just games.
It takes 90-180 days for a credit card transaction to clear, while it takes a bitcoin transaction ~10 minutes. You’re comparing the wrong thing. Retailers typically just eat the CC chargeback fraud costs, while bitcoin stores don’t (because the transaction clears pretty fast anyway).
Don't rush into a Udemy class because it's on sale, there are sales like this every month if you just google "Udemy coupon <current date>".
I use a Microsoft Natural Keyboard on my MacBook Pro, but then I'm typically at my desk.
Radioactive land around Chernobyl to sprout solar investments
I found your post a little hard to understand. Are you saying "save money because your older self can do more with it than your younger self"?
Start by re-defining what Government is.

Framed any other way, this has been done before. You could argue that Universal Health Care attempted exactly this but instead of providing money back, it went to a universal pool for care. Same for Social Security, Education and other endowment programs.
The thing about personal development - it's hard to confiscate or take away. It can't be seized, overtaxed, or barred from leaving the country. It can have value that isn't defined by just one nations' standards of governance. It's not liable to inflation (AFAIK people aren't getting smarter).

This makes it relatively less risky and more valuable.
They're one step ahead of you. Comcast & Co have already gotten municipal broadband outlawed by many state legislatures: https://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/08/28/15404/how-big-tel...

See previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15655548
Yes. But what conclusion can time bring? What independent conclusion can be better formed at a later date?