skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which should be really alarming. The money should go back to shareholders who then individually decide how to best reinvest it. Instead, Apple is making investment decisions on behalf of all of those people. Individuals deciding which endeavors are most worthy of investment is a very democratizing function of the market, and it's undermined by this state of affairs.
PHP is terrible for e-commerce where it halts on large business transactions, and terrible money handling and its lack of typing and other ecommerce APIs. PHP lacks fine-tuned IO service control, even node-v8 lacks this. Also that facade pattern is disgusting, another reason to avoid PHP.

Use CLR or JVM where you can control IO services and long-running tasks much better.
There's tools like https://github.com/jakerella/jquery-mockjax - depending on libraries you're using you'll want to use a different one. Basic term is "mock" or "fake". Just be careful to make sure your fake actually matches the real thing.
Show HN: Creative Africa – African creatives curated in one place
Wow, why would someone name a cloud product "simplygone". Doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
Unix pipes lack any ability to say "this is the kind of data that I'm pushing you." The push raw, unidentified bytes. If the downstream program had some idea what format the data was in, it would know how to output it.

Imagine an alternate universe where a pipe was a stream of bytes and a MIME type. If a terminal gets data written to it from a program in application/terminal.vt100, then it knows it should process those escape sequences. If it get text/plain; charset=utf-8, it knows it should not, and can take a different action.

I think such a universe would make for more pleasant piping, too. Imagine that every interactive command on a terminal ended with an imaginary |show command; it's job is to read the mimetype and display, on the terminal, that data. A command that emitted CSV data could then automatically render in the terminal as an actual table. A program that emitted a PNG could render an ASCII art version of that image (or, since we're in an imaginary universe, imagine our terminal has escape sequences for images – which actually exists in some terminals today – it could emit the actual image!). Essentially, the program emits the data in whatever form it natively speaks, and that implicit |show parses that into something appropriate for the terminal. (That way, the program can still be used in pipelines, such as make_a_png | resize_it.) If you want your raw bytes, then you can imagine

make_a_png | force_type 'application/octet-stream'

and then the final, implicit |show would perhaps output a nice hexdump for you. (Since emitting raw bytes to a terminal never makes sense.)

Now, I'm a bit fuzzy on exactly how the pipeline being executed, the shell, and the terminal all interact exactly, and I'm nearly certain such a change would require low-level, POSIX-breaking changes. But it was a dream I had, and I think it might be a better model than what we work w/ presently.

(In the article's case, though, git log/diff both emit terminal sequences, so even in my imaginary world, they'd need to know that they should escape them. It mostly works for simpler types, but git rm could conceptually emit just text, since I don't think it ever colors.)
True! That's a great reason to do it.
This is a good point. I think there's some merit in doing

traverse :: (Traversable t, Applicative f) => (a -> f b) -> t a -> f (t b)

mySpecialTraverse :: Int -> IO Float -> [Int] -> IO [Float]
mySpecialTraverse = traverse

in some instances.
Interesting points. Hasn't been my experience Turbolinks does anything I don't want since Rails5.
Always the mugger
I'm afraid I don't understand what deficiency or scenario you're describing here. Does it have something to do with ensuring old containers are stopped?
I appreciate the clarification, that makes a lot of sense.
upstart gangs should beware of the systemd gangs.
The scale issue is a big one. The USA is at once too big and too small at the same time.

The intercoin project was started with the aim of letting communities issue and control their own smart cryto currency, and seamlessly integrate it into apps. Same as Paypal, VISA network, Venmo, FB do. UBI becomes just an app on top of that.

Then community membership becomes a question of the community members or government. Harvard university knows who its students are. Other communities might make decisions via direct democracy (polling not voting).

intercoin.org
From the article:

> With around 100,000 users on mastodon.social — the biggest instance — it is just 0.03% the size of Twitter, and only growing at a rate of 1,000 users per week.
> To give you an idea of the scale compared to Twitter: Mastodon is 13 months old and at that same age, Twitter was around 10 times bigger.

The Mastodon Monitoring Project (https://mnm.social) estimates 1,019,544 accounts across the nearly 2300 instances it knows about. Around ten times bigger than the number this person was comparing to Twitter.

I guess that means Mastodon is growing about as fast as Twitter did!
Makes total sense in my opinion. Google has either the option to use China's cheap labor and quirky laws or stay out. No one has forced google to come to China.
Haven't had any problems with this in 2 years in production. It also works fine for Basecamp.
But the thought is that it may still be more efficient to give them the money to squander themselves rather than have multiple layers of bureaucracy with lots of middle men to be paid to ensure that the money gets spent as it was intended.
Roman wealth was generated in an unsustainable process - through pillage, theft, and tribute of newly conquered states.

As Rome ran out of new conquests, the empire collapsed.

Compare that to whether or not modern society can provide for its members sustainably with UBI. By far, the biggest expense people have is housing - which is not limited by some natural law. One of the reasons for why housing on the coasts is so expensive is because people can't make a living in the rest of the country.
There was a day, not long ago, where paying taxes was a societal duty. We all benefit from the governments programs and thus need to fund the government. There shouldn’t be this huge pressure to find a way to not pay for taxes at an ethical and functional level.

You might not (probably don’t) agree with everything government does, but government still needs to be funded. Many local governments would really benefit from paid taxes, fwiw.
It's pretty standard fare when it comes to the career ambitions of prosecutors. One of the "better" cases is that of Stephen Watt, who was hit with such insane restitution and fines ($170MM) that he will never escape poverty.

For writing code. Not hacking, not exploiting systems or keylogging (someone else did that), not even intending his code to be used for these purposes. Just writing the code.

Federal prosecutors and judges are horrible, unfathomably evil people.
You actually have to provide homes for the fish (floating structures) that act like a surface wreck. The fish then hang around the floating material and and breed and grow.

The response to phosphate addition is surprisingly fast - depending the fish you wanted to harvest you are looking at a couple of years at most before you had a harvestable amount of fish to sell.

The law in this area is uncertain. Under the various international treaties it is not legal to dump garbage in the oceans, but no one is exactly sure where phosphate fertilisation sits. Even if turns out to be illegal all you need to do is find a friendly pacific island nation and do all the phosphate dumping in their waters and let the ocean currents do the work for you :)

The nice thing about this idea is that it turns what appears to be an impossible dream and makes it possible to make a profit solving it.
1. Why is it a problem for people to spend their money how they choose? If people buy drugs and cheetos or whatever, then isn't that their call?

If people who need housing have the money to buy housing, but they're not buying buying housing, then I agree that's a problem that needs to be addressed. Do we see this in practice? Is there an epidemic of people who can afford homes but are choosing to suffer in homelessness?

If so, then maybe we can add some free level of shelter to everyone in addition to the basic income.

2. If you give the basic income to immigrants too, then they'll spend that money into your economy. This is a good thing. Withholding it from immigrants would probably be harmful.

I know you brought up the "global citizen" model. An easy way for us to achieve that model is just to start paying everyone in the world a basic income. Whichever country does this first will probably become the world's final superpower.
http://deadcoins.com - A list of dead crypto.
>I mean, tax the hell out of wealth.

Easy to say when it's not your wealth being taxed.
A large corporation didn't. A small local company did.
Yup, but with the important distinction being that it is achieved without piles of student loan debt, home mortgage debt and monopoly utility bills (Comcast cable, PG&E), etc. Plus since you're busy farming, you're too busy to go to the mall and therefore don't need a fancy car and latest wardrobe.
I read "Encryption in Google Transit" for a second and was confused.
Wow, how does the AI work?
Agreed. The OP was all over the map, but as far as NN, it's very unlikely that Clinton FCC would have repealed it.
Have you looked at Danica McKellar's Math Doesn't Suck and other books (Kiss My Math, Hot X: Algebra Exposed, and Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape)? They are marketed towards girls (see book covers: https://mikeverta.com/cover-designs-danica-mckellars-math-do...), and I like this comment about them and gender stereotypes: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/math-doesnt-suck-a...
The question I’m interested in: How do we unlock maximum human potential?

Last I checked, welfare does the opposite of this. It helps people merely subsist, not strive for greatness.

Then he goes on to compare YC to basic income. Seriously? They take a share in your company and help you develop it. That isn't money for nothing.

If he weren't a millionaire and the current president of YC, would we keep seeing articles about his vision on the front page of HN? I don't think so. I don't believe his arguments are that cogent or compelling.

I find it increasingly sad and frustrating to see yet another Sam Altman on UBI piece here. The mantra on HN is that ideas matter and that HN wants to deemphasize names and avoid promoting pieces being posted merely because they are about some celebrity. I think these articles fail that test.

If you take Sam Altman out of this article, would we discuss it at all? If the answer to that is no, then why are we discussing it?
Yes- quite a few beyond what's already been listed, in fact:

http://www.theoj.org/
https://plos.github.io/ambraproject/index.html
https://v4.pubpub.org/
During the 50s and 60s, the highest US tax bracket was over 90%.

http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-tax-rates
FWIW, cynic is a noun.
Non-compiling commits make bisecting harder, when the goal is to find the commit that broke the build or a specific test. IMHO having to skip over non-compiling merge commits only makes bisecting take more time, and it may also "pollute" the test pipelines if all commits are going to be built.
Additionally, merging and fixing the merge in separate commits makes it much hard to revert a merge later, in case it turned out that the merge introduced something unwanted).

So I will always recommend doing the merge and fixing the merge in the same commit. Ideally this produces a squash commit that can easily be reverted later when needed. This makes the merge process more time-consuming, but it can help to keep the builds more stable, and to more easily track which commit (merge) introduced a particular problem.
The healing power of Greek Tragedy
That sounds horrible, squash -> rebase -> fast-forward merge... Much more easier to reason about the commits/changes.

Git bisect is really important in some cases and that needs all/most commits to be compilable..., especially big merge commits.

Unless you have a special reason to preserve all commits as they were made (eg. signed commits), in that case go with the linux model of small single responsibility merges that preferably have no conflicts...
Atom 1.23 released
You're right. It looks like I misunderstood. The 5 wealthiest people own the same amount as the poorest 50% of the worlds population.

I think I'd be alright with UBI not being a long term policy if it meant radical wealth redistribution.
Hi, I pay $1-$3 to about 10 creators, plus some higher pledges.

A $1 pledge, to me, is a way to say "I enjoy your content. I want you to keep doing it, instead of needing to quit and get a 'real job'. And I use adblock so you aren't otherwise getting any benefit from my enjoyment.". When 1000s of other people make the same $1/mo decision as me, the creator has a stable income, and they create more and better content, which is good for me.
Sorry I was being rather facetious there. They have VSM available (Application Guard). This is only on Enterprise edition because you know, only enterprises need a decent threat protection model...
But if security software only treats 32-bit executables as suspicious, wouldn't it make sense for malware creators to switch to 64-bit?
Wow, this is something I was just complaining about today, how I had to turn off shuffle because it would mess up the movement order.
Yes, huge swaths of ultra desperate people struggling to survive who rob and mug others is definitely analogous to a tiny cabal of ultra powerful, ultra wealthy publishers that could do any number of things but choose to leech millions off the public good.

You are introducing desperation to the scenario, which is totally inappropriate. Unless you know of some publishing house executives who are struggling to put food on the table or homeless?

Also, are you saying you wouldn't blame the mugger?
Yes I believe so, as she is currently learning python and data analysis.
When I was in school we had to travel to the library of a different University to work on some of our projects because the one we went to didn't pay for the journals we needed to access to do our work and buying access to a single article would have been ridiculous. We cited over 100 papers in our final project many of those we couldn't access from our school. Paying for them would have cost anywhere from $20 to over $100 per article, not issue, article. A good majority of the studies we cited were funded either directly through government or through universities funded by government. It's entirely a way to keep knowledge out of the hands of the poor. Publicly funded studies should be made freely available to everyone.

Even the project I worked on when I finished school. We were funded by government grants and our results were intended to be posted publicly, it was written in our proposal. Instead, once we started posting our data online we were told that we were no longer allowed to and our data must now be submitted to a government database. Otherwise we would recieve no more funding.This database of course had access fees that needed to be paid. It felt really shitty to have to lock everything away. I'd worked on an online database and map I was really excited about and it all had to be taken down.
Troy is way overstating the case.

You want to know if the login page is NatWest?

Click on the Login link and look at the browsers security bar.

If it says "The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc [GB]" and that then entity with which you do business, great.

It seems as if Troy would be just fine with HTTPS rather than HTTP, but DV validated certs aren't what you want anyway with a financial institution.

It seems far more likely that you care about the entity you are working with (Royal Bank of Scotland), than the domain of the referring page (personal.natwest.com).
I think the link is wrong. It should be https://reporters.io/r/ICO (Cryptocurrency != ICO).
I thought the idea is that as you earn more from working / investments your UBI payment would be decreased, so that only those who earn below a particular threshold receive the full rate.
> Imagine an alternate universe where a pipe was a stream of bytes and a MIME type.

Isn't this powershell?

> I'm nearly certain such a change would require low-level, POSIX-breaking changes.

That seems to be the trade off, breaking with posix compatibility for nicer abstractions.
When you say "a city of a million people that ultimately collapsed", your portentous "ultimately" takes over 500 years to arrive! It might be "infamous", but it's not very quick about it.
tl;dr

you need to take the same precautions with cryptocurrencies as you would use to protect other personal assets
The Ghost and the Princess
It's absolutely resolved that way.

Rebase should be the weapon of choice in all cases, except those where it would be prohibitively expensive.

People are too enamored with the SVN ways though, or have even made up rationalizations about fictional concepts such as "historical purity". So you have a ton of people merging instead, producing code repositories that look worse than the worst perl code i've touched.
Fair warning: N. Taleb is more or less an anti-intellectual. He hates on most formal models he didn't write himself and most of his books are musings on heuristics.
Thank you for your patience with me. Your comments were quite informative. I'm now well beyond the point where I can make even somewhat relevant questions, much less comments. :)

EDIT: Oh, wait, I do have one more question. In order for this to be an effective form of carbon reduction, how much will the fish population increase? As the supply goes up, the prices will go down, and I'm still not convinced that the amount of carbon capture needed is economically justified by the increase in fish supply.
Because it's the law? The problem is that especially with non-physical assets, it's easy to make them "foreign income' solely to evade taxes. With a large American company I worked with as a contractor, as part of their standard release process we would transfer the product binary to their Irish subsidiary, which they would then license the product from so that this income was "Irish" sales of their software.
I don't think it's a unique problem to academia. I recently read something in exactly the same spirit from a lawyer (almost literally "we won't hire anyone not from a T14 school"). If anything, the interesting thing to watch for is which endeavors don't have this culture.
Unable to attend school Yusuf sends a robot in his stead
It certainly took me some time to get my head around it, that's for sure. It wasn't even a 'penny drop' type of realization either.

It's why I'm sometimes so short with people who make statements with such confidence and finality. "Bitcoin IS this." without even really understanding the subject matter. I'm not thinking of one month/year timelines for its market penetration. I want to see what it is in another 10 years. I don't subscribe to the view that fiat is going to crash, or that type of apocalyptic talk. But I do think that we are in a 50-year-old debt-bubble, and I'm not sure it is going to be quite as difficult to 'shift', if that is even the correct word, from debt-fueled monetary instruments to credit-fueled monetary instruments. Most people don't even really understand the concept of a market-cap, and how the total value of the cap has no, or very little, relationship to the amount of capital that might be extracted from it. Bitcoin could easily be 10x or even 100x its current 'market-cap' and for it to still not really have any real relationship to monetary supply IMO. Bitcoin definitely has a relationship to gold, but more importantly, I believe bitcoin has a relationship to fixed-asset debt.

I wouldn't want to be entering a career in consumer banking though. Investment banking on the other hand... that is going to freak out over the next decade as the business of supplying debt for fixed assets that are depreciating in value reverses, and people start looking to place their investment dollars in industries that increase productivity.

Just remember bitcoin could lose 85% of its current value, and for it to only have doubled in value this year, and still be the best performing asset class in the market. Because a correction will happen. The only real question is when, and how deep.
I won't disagree with the fact that it's a pain to get one up - but I've never touched Docker before, and I was able to get my instance up and running in a Docker container on a DigitalOcean droplet in a few hours over a couple days.

Sorting out the account creation email took about a week longer, IIRC. I don't feel like digging through the earliest toots I made on my instance to be sure of that right now.

I'm curious: would having your data be controlled by someone only one or two steps of friendship away feel different from a total stranger, or a corporation?
Toyota Is Desperate to Catch Up on Electric Cars
That doesn't say it was requested by credit card processors. As I understand it, the concern there is that they don't want people to pledge, get access to patron-only content, and then revoke their pledge.
Working at a startup is never optimal economically, especially at an early stage one. There are non economical reasons why it might make sense for someone, but EV is not one of them.
I wasn't trying to say that the article itself was true or untrue - just that if people were upset about the reporting, that doesn't say anything about the accuracy of the article one way or the other.
>Like many anti-competitive behaviors, A and B are seemingly beneficial to customers, but in the long run they are harmful to the market by preventing smaller players from competing fairly.

But what's the difference between those and C? Or between those and me building a dedicated line straight to my favorite server, just for us? Or are you really against Netflix's OpenConnect as a NN violation?

>I have never seen a net neutrality proposal that includes something that prevents higher charges for higher usage. ...This is a complete straw-man argument.

From a very quick search:

"Net Neutrality is one of only a few tools available to the FCC to keep ISPs in check. Banning data caps and zero rating schemes would be another great way to protect consumers from Wall Street’s insatiable demand for companies to extract more revenue from consumers."[1]

There -- a major advocacy group (stopthecap.com/tag/net-neutrality/) equating net neutrality with a ban on data caps (a species of charging for usage). [2]
The fact that you are too smart to make the argument doesn't mean others aren't, nor that it isn't polluting the discussion, nor that I can't legitimately object to NN if it's read so broadly.

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:t2UetpS...

[2] That's on top of the ever-present poster who thinks NN will keep their ISP from throttling their constant bittorrent streams in favor of granny's occasional emails.
Cinematic storytelling in AR is here
Theory of games is VERY old, predating most other groundbreaking work (Nash, Shapley, Myerson, etc.)
NatWest is a subsidiary of RBS.
I think it's significantly less true in tech, even if it's still present. People are far more flexible about hiring and working with programmers of different backgrounds, and the views I've heard on tech company prestige aren't nearly as strong and rigid as what I've heard from CS researchers about other departments. (Mostly from folks at Berkeley, but only because that's where I did some research as an undergrad.)
What fraction of users will do this, in your opinion?