skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/10/world/welfare-as-japan-kno...

Scholars say that the system in Japan almost never breeds dependence, and they suggest that the Japanese approach has emphasized the work ethic and the importance of family ties.

Caseworkers rigorously check applicants and drop by their homes regularly to make sure that they do not have banned luxuries like cars or air conditioners, and fraud seems extremely rare.

Japan does have two elements of a social welfare program that far surpass anything in the United States: universal medical care and comprehensive day care.

Everyone has access to doctors and hospitals at affordable prices, with the services free for the poor. And neighborhood nurseries throughout Japan provide excellent care for children from six months old to school age, if mothers work, for a modest fee that is waived for low-income families.

Only 1% Japanese births are to unwed mothers. That compares with 30% of USA.

''The Japanese have a tendency to regard it as extremely shameful to receive welfare, and so they are hesitant,'' said Toshio Hata, a senior welfare official in Kawasaki.

An applicant who owns a home is normally advised to sell it and use the proceeds until the money runs out -- and then to apply again. In May, a 96-year-old man was dropped from welfare because it came to light that he had $30,000 in savings. The caseworker told him to use that up and then reapply.

A welfare worker has a caseload of about 60 in Japan, and there is time for regular, unscheduled visits to recipients' homes. The caseworkers have great discretion in handling cases, as well as considerable moral authority in advising recipients what to do.
> freedom of not having to be worried

Freedom is always about increased risk (and increased potential reward). Freedom "of not having to be worried" is by definition an oxymoron, regardless of whether you're talking about gun control, healthcare or other issues.

It's OK to want less freedom, every thing is good in balance. Just don't be confused by what this word means.
I'm in the US and Prime is $99/year.
That’s interesting, my company in Chatt only pays $160/month for 270 Mbps and a static IP
They are also required, by law, to come to any address in the US, pick up a single letter, and get it to any other arbitrary address in the US for $0.49. Good luck getting FedEx or UPS to do it for 49 cents.
> We will continue to protect #NetNeutrality in Europe, ensuring that all traffic is treated equally:

Its confusing to see this. There isn't true net neutrality in the EU. There are various cell phone providers that offer packages that clearly break net neutrality. It's also not only Portugal that has these packages.

Half the time these statements are PR stunts with loose definitions of Net Neutrality, the only time I've seen net neutrality taken seriously is in India.

[1] http://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/false-paradise-eu-i...
I don't understand why that's an ethical dilemma. Do you not have a problem with disproportionately increasing the cost of living for the poor[0] or forcing the mddle class to subsidize big corporations [1] or creating an economy where corporate survival is tied to consumption, leading to innovations in "disposable product strategies"?

[0] let's say you're spending 90% of your income on cost of living and there's 10% inflation. That's way worse than in you're spending 20% of your income on necessaries and there's 10% inflation.

[1] in order to preserve wealth in an inflationary regime, the middle class is encouraged to put money into the stock market, which basically becomes a mechanism to socialize the costs of corporate r&d while the Lions share of the gains go elsewhere (the scraps are thrown back at the middle class, enough to keep them from seeing the inherent problem with the system)
I loved knots as a boyscout, how do I get into that as a hobby? Do you invent new knots? Try to do very complicated knots?
Nobody wants to breed with computer weirdos like me.
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It doesn't improve the situation at all, which is that Mozilla has the capability to silently install addons in a default setting.
More like a slightly modified ubuntu with different default packages.

And his only other project on github is a keylogger :o
Scheme is poorly expressive for daily programming and it's because of its small size. The documentation quantity for a useful Scheme like Racket is much larger.

Also, do we count all the pages expended on SRFI's? Or not?
Maybe it isn't the worst thing in the world to force people to think twice about opportunity costs before engaging in wanton spending?
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Government.
nah, java style verbing any and every noun is something else.

We war on:

drugs
cancer
terror
poverty
gangs
crime

we need to verb the noun war in the sense that, 'the president "warred on" ...' Meaning a stupid policy was followed that generally left everyone one vastly worse off except a bunch of high priced consultants.

"warred on" should have the same general meaning as "shat on their own desk"
Don’t knee jerk this as a political thing. They’re saying that the USPS loses money on this service. It has nothing to do with their overall profitability or Congressional action or whatever.
Bundling (ie: "sign up and get service X free for 12 months") is one thing, and I'd agree that's outside the scope of net neutrality.

But zero rating (i.e.: "Service X data is free and does not count towards your data cap" is another. Discriminating by charging different rates for different data services isn't really much different to discriminating by prioritisation, in terms of the effect it has on the ability of rival services to compete.
That’s not true at all
Someone explain this please.
Thanks.

You're right about Merkle tree. This is a whole section of the bitcoin paper and it's pretty important. But as far as I understand, it's "only" an optimization to save disk space, so it doesn't change the underlying logic.
"Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action; and on no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right."

Does that claim apply to itself? I.e., what if I were to claim the negation of that?
FCC vote won't end net neutrality fight
In fact, last year an attacker launched a denial of service on the main Ethereum implementation, and the network barely hiccuped because people just switched over to one of the others.
Looks like something you'd see on 8-Bit Guy.
I can recommend two classes of resources.

First, take a look at material on the "security mindset", starting with https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_... . Everyone on your team needs to be thinking, for every new feature, "how could this be exploited?".

Second, for the specific case of sensors, start looking at research on sensor side-channel attacks, and how sensors can be used to gather information you wouldn't expect. For instance, see "Sensor Side-Channel Implications on User Privacy: Analysis and Mitigation". And take a look at some of the sensor-related work coming out of the various workshops on "Cyber-Physical Systems Security".

Finally, please keep in mind that it's still risky to have these sensor nodes out there that even have the capability of doing this collection. Even if you keep all of the above in mind, even if you do everything you can to mitigate it, the capability will still exist, and all it would take is some malicious policy changes to abuse your work and your infrastructure, and turn it into a massive invasion of privacy. With that in mind, start now, while policies are in your favor, arranging maximum transparency for the nodes, source code, data collection, and similar. That way, if anyone ever does try to abuse your work and your infrastructure, it'll be extremely obvious, and if anyone tries to remove the transparency first, then it'll be conspicuous by its newfound absence. That same "security mindset" I mentioned above also applies to policies and administrations; take the time, while those policies and administrations are in your favor, to plan ahead for the scenario where they are not. Plan ahead for something you hope you never need, because once you find out you do need it, you might not have the option of building it anymore.
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Every time my wife and I go skiing we end up with the same discussion.

My wife wants to try as many pistes as possible I like exploring the same in more depth explore some of the details.

She gets to explore many different pistes I get to explore the details of the same.

The tradeoff is really about perspective but it's not really a tradeoff but just consequence of choices (which is a kind of tradeoff).
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger... - in particular see Iran vs Sweden, how more egalitarian cultures show more gender difference for occupations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

There are many instances where guns saving lives never make it into reports/statistics.

Here are a few that do:

https://bearingarms.com/category/guns-saving-lives/

Imagine this: What if you were told you were no longer allowed to drive or even ride in a car, because the chance of dying in a car accident (in your own car even!) was too great? Wouldn't you say it's up to you to balance the level of risk you're willing to take to engage in the freedom of expeditious travel?
you are obviously making your health a priority, which us key. lots of people with megacommutes end up losing what little exercise they had and are probably reducing their lifespans

seems like you are also on your way to squeezing out more WFH as time progresses

as long as your company continues to honor your arrangement, it sounds like you have it made, congrats!
I keep seeing arguments that it's "rare", but I don't think that's actually the case. When I read about multiple cases in the news, _and_ 1 parent (out of only 12) in my cub scout den had to deal with someone calling the police on his kid playing alone, it certainly seems like a real threat. It's going to have a chilling effect.

The problem isn't that you're going to go to jail, it's that once you're on the radar of a state agency, it's scary, and you end up in the position to prove that your home and family are safe for your kids. It's embarrassing and deliberately intimidating, and you ultimately have no power to stop at least a small disruption in your kids' lives.
> It was pulled yesterday after the backlash

The fact that it took a backlash to pull something that Mozilla engineers built and deployed is the worrisome element that the post and many people discussed.

> This event tells us that “Firefox studies” into a backdoor for advertisements, and I will never trust it again. But it doesn’t matter - you’re going to re-enable it on the next update. You know what that means? I will never trust Firefox again.

That's the real problem. There's already a strong negative taste after incidents like https://twitter.com/dherman76/status/433320156496789504

> Excited to share the launch of @mozilla @firefox Tiles program, the first of our user-enhancing programs

The default assumption that Mozilla is "one of the good guys" may have been there years ago, but in 2017 after many stumbles people are calling Mozilla's actions into question. The impression Mozilla's actions left upon 'sir_cmpwn wasn't based on an overnight reaction -- it was years of questionable actions. Trust is incredibly hard to earn, but very easy to lose
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IOTA is the only big cryptocurrency that seems extremely fishy to me. The trick is that even a fairly technical person (like me) cannot easily refute it based on the whitepaper, because the whitepaper is intentionally indecipherable, and does not have enough information to evaluate the project anyway. The average person sees such a whitepaper, and is amazed by the complicated scientific formulas. A good engineer/scientist on the other hand gets uneasy about it I think. I don't understand how a huge network of full nodes, nodes which are small indusrtrial devices can scalably reach consensus in a fast way. Even storing the full state is impossible, not to speak about history. It is independnet on whether we use the DAG or blockchain. That is why scalability plans on other networks go into the direction of sharding, or have a smaller number of powerful nodes, or use layer 2, etc...

Crypto communities fight each other (BTC vs. BCASH, DASH vs. Monero, Ethereum vs. EOS) but these are all serious projects. The whole community should speak up about IOTA instead.
>Why aren’t there lots of trains there?

1.) The Bay Area is made up of 100 cities and towns and several counties. There is not a single “Bay Area government.” Every single transit project has to be approved by several levels of government and funded by the state and federal government. Moreover, that funding and consent has to last for decades to keep the project on track. It rarely does. Every train line in the Bay Area was the result of a fight.

2.) Trains require density to be feasible. Density increases the supply of housing, driving down the value of existing single family homes. Owners of single family homes store a significant amount of their net worth in the equity of those homes. Municipalities rely on the property taxes from those high value homes.

3.) The Bay Area is not zoned for density. Trains will not catch on here because 60 odd years ago the people who designed the highway system did not consider the possibility that many people would need to live close together to make the place affordable. No one was thinking of affordable housing then.
All american-protected. Maybe people are just getting scared shitless with overbearing eyes? Hint: it's not just chilling for crime.
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.. and is the reason I'm so skeptical about Self-Driving Cars.

I even think that AI investments are going to be a major cause of the next stock market crash.
I just did some profile snooping and I gotta say that your story is both unique and uplifting and I appreciate your willingness to contribute.
If you don't know what you want to build then I would stop everything you're doing and figure that out because without a clear goal in mind, then you're just going to fizzle out very quickly.

I've been a self taught programmer for the last 20 years (and by self taught I mean no formal education and just learned everything from experience, books and documentation).

One thing that stands out to me is nearly everything I've ever learned came from not thinking "I should learn Python" but instead "I want to write this app because I need it".

You might want to read this post: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/how-to-quickly-learn-a-new-pr...
Suggestion for better title:

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For an article like this I find that static visualizations aren't anywhere near as effective as dynamic ones found in a similar explanation here (3Blue1Brown on Linear Algebra Transformations)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjBOesZCoqc&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...
https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues/631

https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues/577

https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues/511

https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues/416
by Chinese law, it is criminal offence to do this to fake the sales number to mislead other buyers.

e.g. see report below (in Chinese), 5 years and 9 months in jail for doing something similar

http://news.ifeng.com/a/20170621/51293545_0.shtml
That project is so smoooth.. wait, what is C.H.I.P and how to get one?
These relationships are pretty clear once you see the other distributional metrics. Going further there's skewness and kurtosis for the third and fourth statistical moments, resp.
The US is not the same US it was 10 years ago, and wasn't the same ten years before that... Kind of an interesting hypothesis to why we shouldn't call this the land of the free anymore. Parents are now being called legal gaurdians in some circles as a way to show how that state now owns children.
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This is why I live in the South. Cost of living is low and you can live like a king on nothing.250k will buy you a Mansion here near the beach.
We try but there is an army of IOTA shills that drown us out.
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> for 49 cents

I’ve seen forever stamps marketed for years, but it’s been a long time since the price of a letter went up. So, if the price went up to 51 cents, your forever stamps would still work, but, honest question, what are the realistic chances of that happening?
Might as well replace the title with "In <not the US>, small children take the subway and run errands alone (2015)". Children are expected to get to school and to go to whatever by themselves from age 6-7 in pretty much all of Europe.
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That's going to depend entirely on the Irish border solution. I'm not sure it's a great test case given the total incompetence of how it's being handled.
3Blue1Brown has an outstanding series of short videos, "Essence of linear algebra"[1], which covers vectors, matrix transformations, and the related math. What I particularly like about these videos is that the concepts are introduced first without the numbers and calculations (that stuff is covered later). The concepts are first introduced as abstract animations to emphasize the "shape" of what the vector, matrix, etc really represent.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...
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How about working on the groping issue?
What kinds of material do you read? Any recommendations? I'm particularly interested in engrossing fiction, and also non-fiction work with "sticky" ideas that have changed the way you see the world.
Lazy downvoters who can't be bothered to explain the downvote - nice
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I don’t get how you see plea bargaining as the evil thing in that scenario. To me, the shock of that scenario comes from the extremely harsh penalties, often for crimes that can stem from negligence.

If you believed the possible punishment were indeed proportional to the crime, would you still be outraged at plea bargaining? And would the same logic apply to any variance reduction strategy (like insurance) or just this one?
Stop being lazy and post some logical reasons for the downvotes
While the concept of a peer-reviewed cryptocurrency is an interesting one, and certainly has merit, I can't seem to figure out what Cardano offers that existing, and well established, cryptocurrencies like Ethereum don't.
Great comment on gizmodo:

"This PC debate is just so out of hand. PC basically means don’t be a dick, and if you are, people will call you out on it. Anti-PC people want to be a dick without reproach. They’re response to reproach is to get very offended at the fact that you took offense to their dickishness. They also don’t seem to realize that there are times when one must behave professionally, and using those occasions to tell people how much you hate gays or whatever is not going to end well for you."

Edit: removed asterics from original quote to remove unintended italics.
Could you explain that better?

I'm not into cannibalism, not a Survivor Type either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_Type

Or is it sexual?
I think the point is more to do with savings: in a non-deflationary environment, you have the incentive to invest your savings in potentially productive use. In a deflationary environment the incentive is simply to hide your money under your mattress, which doesn't help anyone.
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To carry the analogy properly, it would be using a vehicle which uses more energy than the species we're studying has ever created.
While docker is pretty bloated and doesn't really add new capabilities, I've found it a real time-saver for distributing cross-platform build environments to a dev team running multiple Linux/osx releases, especially when those build environments are used only a few times per year.

Probably a VM or really good scripts could take care of it, but since we use docker elsewhere people don't have to learn something new that they'd treat as a black box anyway
Qua?! Legal guardians is just a more general term than parents, which can encompass situations like orphans cared for by grandparents. Had nothing to do with saying that the state 'owns children.'
> I also spent most of my childhood playing outside eating dirt, and go figure, I have no allergies or immune problems.

Me too, except that I have severe asthma and am allergic to all sorts of organic things.

Your anecdote is not data.
Phones had cameras back then. Disposable Cameras were available at every airport shop.

And Someone allegedly photographed it, but no one bothered to examine or release the photos?
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Well I would expect them to say that, turkeys don't vote for Christmas.
While I loved this post, could have also been helpful to include more info about Pythagorean Means (geometric mean and harmonic mean). Worth looking into depending on the type of variability seen in your data.

EDIT: just saw this was mentioned in one of the comments...
Nothing, as far as I can tell. The goal seems to be just to do it better.

There MAY be an idea of keeping the computing layer private, meaning you can run computations w/o everyone seeing how it works, which is the case with Ethereum block chains. That's just the impression I get from reading their docs.
The prices have fallen a lot since then what might not have been economically feasible then might be today 3 years is a long time in solar tech.
"...where you can Buy XMR (the token name of Cardano)"

This is incorrect

XMR is the token name of Monero

ADA is the token name of Cardano
Estimate a potential profit which you could have Bitcoin :)
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It is a very nearsighted view of individuals and grossly oversimplifies people as intrinsically good or bad without considering how people change over time, or how they're ahead of their time and seen as right later.

Especially in the context of cultural production. We wouldn't have the Beatles ("more popular than Jesus" controversy, drugs, bed-in for peace) or probably any other rock/punk related music... also anti-racism, LGBT rights, feminism, and other social movements we look back on as positive would all have significant impediment to making progress if possible at all.

In a very narrow per-use-case context like rating a contractor on quality of work, or restaurants on quality it's obviously not a problem but the key difference is social-wide aggregation and enforcement of norms that sound good at the time (to a critical mass of people) but leave no room for society to evolve and improve through new ideas and beliefs.
What are you engineering? Mozilla's relationship with other developers?
On top of that, all of his technical issues with IOTA turned out, by his own admission, to be using the network wrong. Not understanding that buying 1,000s worth of an obscure cryptocurrency is going to come with a heafty dose of RTFM is a fool's errand. Instead of realizing this, the denial in him turns this into "victim blaming."

that said - he's right about IOTA. If that type of use is what it takes to make everything work, it has a long way to go.
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