skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, And.

Just because the current system sucks and needs to be replace, does not mean that replacement should be another Government Run System.

As I stated in my original comment the government is too closly integrated to today's electronic systems as it is

I want the government out, not more ingrained
Cancelled a subscription I had myself, looks like I'll have to renew. yipes
It seems naive to think that the "universal" aspect would be maintained absolutely. At some point, the "bad people" don't deserve a share, and when it gets to the point that "happiness" can't be bought without UBI, you potentially have a very powerful means of near-universal coercion.
Sure, but selling weed generally doesn't harm anyone, while sabotaging and extorting a company directly causes harm to its owners, employees, shareholders, and customers. Not to mention the harm caused by infecting millions of people's devices to create the botnet in the first place.
What is the point you're trying to make here, that somehow this was a victimless crime?
I think a clearer—or at least a less click-baity—title would be something like:

Pineapple Fund: Donating $86 million USD in/through BTC to charity.

I think the current one makes it sound like they are donating 86M BTC. I know that's above the theoretical maximum, but that's not the point.
Minor nitpick: they are not technically in violation of the act unless they actually onload cargo in PR, i.e. they could just offload at PR and continue on to mainland. The end result is the same though as merely offloading is not efficient so the ships always go to the mainland instead.
I'm with Three and I've not encountered that. That's terrible and I'll probably change my password.

But Nationwide is pretty good for banking.
Can confirm first hand this is a serious issue in the industry. There are finally a couple crypto-friendly banks making it easier for holders and businesses. Source- have run a BTC co since 2014.
I like Edge in general but it is very buggy. Dragging a tab away to create a separate window only works 2/3 of the time. It often just freezes without obvious reason. And this is where I only visit a few simple standard websites whilst at work. Very disappointing. Oh, and sometimes it will not work correctly when ordering from the Microsoft Store and so I have to use Chrome to place an order for Microsoft hardware! Nice.
My point was that many git users don't understand git all that well, and I think that encouraging everyone to rebase is a bad idea.

If you're going to promote a particular workflow as the the one that "should be the weapon of choice," I think the workflow of merge-master-into-feature-branch, squash-merge-feature-branch-into-master is a more user friendly alternative, since then the cases where rebasing is expensive never even come up.

And yes, you're right that I was remiss not to mention the --soft part. The git reset workflow is one that I would definitely not encourage people to do if they don't understand git well.
It clearly has $ in the HN post, and the actual site.

And you even know thats above the maximum so your concerns should have been disregarded as erroneous stimuli as the rest of our brains are already programmed to do.
Blockchains: (Please don’t ever break these) chains of love
Not between 2013-2016; there was a federal settlement that included the provision that merchants can add a surcharge for credit payments, overriding any merchant agreement.

Which was recently thrown out on appeal, so that’s fun for any place that was relying on it.
To the person running this, if you really want to remain anonymous, be careful not to write too much. You can be outed by textual stylometrics.
No, "col -bp" is not bulletproof. The attacker could still use backspace characters to hide malicious content.
I don't think people actually use Vickrey auctions in practice (although it's likely to use some of the same ideas). Even though it has some really cool properties (you're theoretically perfectly incentivized to bid your real price), it has some weaknesses in real life "imperfect" auctions (as an example, weak to collaboration from what I remember).

But seriously, auctions in general (ad auctions yes, but also many other "kinds" of marketplaces, like zillow for ex) are a super huge application of algorithmic game theory. I took a course in Algorithmic Game Theory with Eva Tardos, and she was constantly being asked by companies like Facebook for consulting on their auctions. Google also has a whole team of algorithmic game theory type people for their ads too.

Facebook actually has a meeting room named after her.
> What are the pointless jobs you're referring to?

They're everywhere. We could have let GM die. We could abandon all tariffs on imports. Any time a policymaker uses "job creation" as a selling point for a policy initiative, that means jobs that exist for the purpose of providing people with incomes.

Even the Fed has "full employment" as part of its dual mandate. The private financial sector funds small businesses that probably shouldn't exist. We still have local farms producing food when large-scale farming is far more efficient. Now that's fine if it's your hobby and that's how you want to spend your time, but we actually subsidize farming.
Still, the funny part is that someone at Microsoft thought "Microsoft Announces Simplygon Cloud" would be an OK headline. While the context makes perfect sense, that headline made me literally snort my drink everywhere in laughter. Maybe the person who named the article on MSDN is the same person who named GVFS ;)
your mistake was calling it a BTC co.

talking with bankers is an art. I have plenty of "software services" that primarily transact in bitcoin and cash out to bank accounts from bitcoin exchanges.
Did you mean VS Code?
> I'm never quite sure what people who make these kinds of arguments as you did are attempting or hoping to achieve. It's trivially impossible to represent every single viewpoint within a constituency with anything other than direct voting.

You can approximate it much better than FPTP does by any system which produces more proprotional results, which is just about any system of democratic representation you don't deliberately try to make worse; FPTP for legislative seats is pretty much the bubble sort of election methods.
The issue with with terminal handling of escape sequences, rather than with git.

If you are concerned, you can use a gui diff tool, or you can pipe it through a filter that removes escape codes:

seal:~/work/gitPocDiff$ cat > uncolor
#!/usr/bin/env perl
## uncolor — remove terminal escape sequences such as color changes
while (<>) {
s/ \e[ #%()*+\-.\/]. |
(?:\e\[|\x9b) [ -?]* [@-~] | # CSI ... Cmd
(?:\e\]|\x9d) .*? (?:\e\\|[\a\x9c]) | # OSC ... (ST|BEL)
(?:\e[P^_]|[\x90\x9e\x9f]) .*? (?:\e\\|\x9c) | # (DCS|PM|APC) ... ST
\e.|[\x80-\x9f] //xg;
print;
}
seal:~/work/gitPocDiff$ chmod a+x uncolor
seal:~/work/gitPocDiff$ git diff eeeb ebc3 | ./uncolor
diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index 6daa9b2..0321ff2 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -3,4 +3,9 @@
int main()
{
printf("I'm just a stub!\n");
+ /*
+ * Must always return a value Hidden > */printf("Insert bad backdoor here...!\n");/*
+ * TODO: Return result
+ */
+ return 0;
}

Credit to: gilles https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/14707
I think there is a real benefit for creators of physical rewards when they aren't obligated to fulfill or refund pledges that come in at the very end of the month. They can begin and end shipping earlier, and apply late pledges to next month's rewards.

And as a patron, I appreciate receiving my December rewards near the end of December rather than mid-January.
I have bad news for you ;) https://github.com/mbbill/JSC.js

Or good depending on the perspective of course.
No two people agree exactly on their preferred UBI model, but I think the mainstream idea is giving everyone the exact same amount. Those who have higher income will then pay more in (progressive) taxes. This way there is no need for an extra means testing bureaucracy.
TripleByte is pretty much US only.

Is there an alternative for those looking to work remotely?
you can donate appreciated assets to registered charities and this does allow you to avoid the capital tax AND also get a charitable tax deduction
A referendum on Donald Trump talk by top tech employee
Does China’s J-20 rival other stealth fighters?
Oh I know, it must be the successor to OneDrive unlimited storage XD
Universal basic income is a complex issue.

First, you need to see it as a part of the existing system: healthcare, education, law enforcement, prisons, etc.

- A hospital cannot deny care to a patient in an emergency situation. Many medical emergencies occur due to poor living conditions. If you give money to people, their living conditions improve, improving their health and reducing their chances of getting in a medical emergency situation.

- Law enforcement spends a lot of resources and time handling crime. Given money to people is a deterrent for crime.

- Did you know that having a person in prison is more expensive than having them on a hotel? Since giving money to people deters crime, it also prevents them going to prison.

So, in this respect, just by having people do absolutely nothing, you can end up saving money. This is unintuitive.

Now, universal basic income can be bad in some cases. Many people in the economy do whatever it takes to have an income, however low. They will risk their lives, their health, do things they don't want to do. Universal basic income gives people an option to not engage in those activities.
He also links to a couple of completed donations. The first is a transfer of of 64.77BTC (approx $1M) to address 1AttfyuVVVpsJ6FzBcJMqkFrPRzFiQoRb6 which is definitely Watsi's BTC address:

https://twitter.com/watsi/status/938241988121583616

I'm having a bit of trouble connecting this transfer back to address 3P3QsMVK89JBNqZQv5zMAKG8FK3kJM4rjt which currently holds the coins that he says will be donated. If true this should be possible though...

EDIT: Oh wait, here is the connection:

https://blockchain.info/tx/d290acbfa7c619ad4215537ae83bfe165...

I have to say, I'm generally pretty skeptical of stuff like this but there is evidence here that this is legit.

EDIT2: They also encoded "pineapplefund.org" in a NULL transaction. Even more reason to believe.

https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/c44ad5f83ddc84d08967c765...
> Last I checked

How did you check? Most research I've seen shows that welfare reduces poverty but does not drag down gdp.

Anti-welfare people tend to ignore the positive benefits of entrepreneurs being able to take more risks when they know that a bankruptcy won't be catastrophic and that they could still send their children to school and get treatment when they're sick.
> "I had to say yes" and "I had convinced so many talented people to participate" and "How could I let their magnificent work go to waste?" and " and "I wanted him to see me as an artist [not only as a prop for sex appeal]"

as a Dad with daughters I am horrified by this evil. Coercion and oppression to obtain debasing sexual content makes me sick: "There was no room for negotiation. I had to say yes."

Why do people go to such great lengths, even to compromise their personal ethics, to please others peoples imagined sensibilities or expectations?
I just did a complete takeout - it doesn't download videos, only history, comments, playlists and subscriptions (in various formats: json, html, etc).
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I was thinking more along the lines of buying iTunes cards to load money onto your "account", which you can then later use to purchase digital goods, at which point the funds are disbursed to the content creators, minus Apple's rake.

How is that different from putting money into a Patreon account, which can later be allocated to content creators, at which point the funds are disbursed, minus Patreon's rake?
It's more likely that colonial-style abuses are to blame, here's what happens in a developed nation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome

>Mincome was an experimental Canadian guaranteed annual income project that was held in Manitoba, during the 1970s.

>University of Manitoba economists Derek Hum and Wayne Simpson analyzed labour supply or work disincentive issues in Mincome during the 1980s and published their results in a series of papers and a monograph.[2][3][4][5] Their results showed a small impact on labour markets, with working hours dropping one percent for men, three percent for married women, and five percent for unmarried women.
Wtf are you talking about? I am presenting no data. I am presenting facts: they are different class vehicles, and yet weigh the same. There is no analysis of data necessary to reach that conclusion.

Put another way: the Model S is heavier than most vehicles in its own class. What is so difficult to understand about that?

What you are presenting is opinion (that most Pilot owners only drive a few miles alone) unburdened by any backing facts or data. It may be true, I don’t know. But you provide nothing to back up your claim, yet present it as fact.
I imagine you could get savaged by either of them...
> The kept the cash offshore with the belief that they would eventually be able to bring it back without paying taxes.

Remember to commend them for that spot on analysis.

Standing ovation on my end

I'm extremely excited for the territorial system and those implications for US world-citizens.
How about all it really means? "Encrypted"
High Sierra still lags heavily on 2014 Macbooks (and other models)
The address checks out: https://blockchain.info/address/3P3QsMVK89JBNqZQv5zMAKG8FK3k...
I happen to have owned a Pilot in my life. One of the nice things about it was that I could not only haul people, but also cargo. Full sized dry wall and plywood to be exact.
That's typosquatting and it's not very ethical. It's also in a grey legal zone, you might get sued for this.

So I would advise you not to do it.
> Based on industry norms with respect to peering and its
> experience with the Level 3 gambit, Netflix knew that
> transferring its traffic to settlement-free routes would
> result in network congestion by dramatically altering the
> ratio of traffic exchanged.

This is a poorly crafted hit piece. The "ratio" of traffic exchanged wouldn't have changed. At most it would merely have shifted origins--from whatever link Akamai and Comcast shared, to the Cogent-Comcast link. Comcast is principally an edge ISP to content consumers, so Netflix's change in providers meant nothing to them in terms of usage patterns. And because it's a good bet that the exchange facilities were the same in all scenarios, setting aside potential contractual issues it likely resulted in no change in network traffic whatsoever.

I have no idea if Netflix' CDN strategy was also a maneuver in the regulatory realm. I would hope they were smart enough, at least, to have considered the potential conflicts beforehand. OTOH, it would be extremely stupid and risky (and thus highly unlikely) for the change in providers to have been intended primarily as a regulatory gambit. For all we know it was Comcast who strategically saw an opportunity to test the regulatory waters.

What I do believe with some confidence given the context and errors is that the article is a poorly written hit piece, perhaps paid for directly or indirectly by Comcast as part of its marketing and regulatory strategy, if not actually written by Comcast.
>I don't think so. I don't believe his arguments are that cogent or compelling.

Ok, so how about a counter argument then?
I think what's needed to help us imagine that is art and literature, not philosophy.
The president also doesn't write laws. So there's no impact on representation regarding laws and taxation.
> 3k for military

That's an interesting point, especially concerning the US. My understanding is that many (not all) people join the US military mainly because they can't get other jobs or find other ways to finance college. With the UBI, this motivation will disappear, and with it a whole lot of military spending.
Not that it's not a noble objective. But the accountability stuff costs money which could otherwise be spent on the core purpose.
> Lets not pretend that they're already bending over backwards to lower costs on transaction processing.

It's a free market and you as a merchant are free to pick your vendor. In addition, you don't even have to accept credit cards if you want--you can just take cash or check, or even just cash. Of course people entering your store might not buy anything from you because who the hell carries around cash or checks anymore, but no jackbooted thugs will force you at gunpoint to accept credit cards.

The credit card industry is a huge, highly competitive industry with little barriers to entry. Massive market forces are at work squeezing the margins for transaction processing fees to as little as possible.

My bet is that transaction fees are priced at what they are because:

- its cheaper than handling cash or checks

- it results in more revenue, even with the "cash back" discount given to CC users.

- it is more traceable and easier for your bookkeepers to manage

And to be honest, I believe many small business who take cash only do so because they aren't reporting all their income. When it is off the books cash-only, you can pocket the sales tax, underreport income tax, pay your vendors cash under the table, etc. I also believe that if their margins are so thin they can't afford a 2% transaction fee they probably have no business staying in business anyway. Whatever they are doing is more likely than not a value-destroying NPV-negative project to begin with. (see also: just about every business shown on those "save my bar / save my restaurant / save my hotel" TV shows)
You could just take a different route
> Last I checked, welfare does the opposite of this. It helps people merely subsist, not strive for greatness.

Citation needed.

EDIT: Provided by another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15918968
Then you did something wrong or didn't pick the right export options. I do a download of mine every 3 months, and it works fine.
I disagree with this model.

A lot of positive externalities that UBI will bring simply won't kick in at low payout levels, whereas the negatives which will be brought in by diversion of funds will be apparent.

The externalities I am talking about are of this form:
-Increased benefits to public health as people are less stressed about losing jobs
-Increased entrepreneurship and all the benefits that come from it
-Increased cultural output and the increased geopolitical influence

The whole point of UBI is that's it's not another handout.

It's giving everyone an option to not have to work a day job to survive (something that moderately well-off people, or people with upper-middle-class parents already have).

The impact of "what if most of the citizens didn't have to work to survive" can't be estimated with a small hand-out, because it will not achieve that.

In other words, UBI is somewhat binary in nature: either you have it, or you don't. It doesn't scale down beyond a certain point.
> Working at a startup is never optimal economically, especially at an early stage one.

Working at a startup can be a form of investing in yourself. Obviously you shouldn't invest in yourself unless you think that investment will pay off in the longterm. At the same time though, if you don't invest in yourself then it's almost certain that no one else will either.
My point is that it was cheap coal energy that freed slaves, the economic realities of coal joules vs human joules, not high justice, economics.

Then you are clearly demonstrating that you didn't carefully read the entirely what I wrote. The "free" labor of slavery was of little relative utility over other forms of social organization. In effect, it was just another (particularly egregious) form of social organization. All forms of human organization back then had about the same access to human joules. In all cases, the value of the human joules and coal joules was greatly increased through the addition of human capital in the form of skill and knowledge. Having the power of life and death obedience over people only goes so far. It gets you only a very crude application of those human joules. In order to get the maximum value out of your working population, you need forms of motivation beyond life and death obedience.

The key fact is that the productive capacity of human capital intelligently combined with energy far outstrips the output of poorly applied energy. The key is the human capital, not the energy. If it was just the energy, then you'd just have slaves running coal powered plants. You would not have had slaves running business as in the Roman Empire, or artisan slaves and paid specialist agricultural in the US.

High justice, as a form of human capital, enables economics.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15918718
Frank Lowy is an interesting rags-to-riches story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lowy
Because the US is not a strict Democracy, it's a Constitutional Republic that uses an electoral college as a layer of separation.

Further, even if Trump had won the popular vote, your floated premise would remain: the popular vote only represented a modest minority fraction of all adults in the US. So how can that possibly represent the actual full will of The People?

Regardless, history has proven on countless occasions that the will of the people is not always the ideal thing to follow. The Bill of Rights exists precisely to protect the minority from the all-too-often irrational will of the people. (you'll note that I specifically didn't justify the current state of affairs in US politics as being somehow good or positive, I'll pre-empt that conflation)
If you're asked for SSN/Tax ID for W9 and/or affiliate revenue you can obtain an EIN number over the web and use that instead of SSN. (website can only be used during normal business hours for some reason.)
Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to
Curious where you guys live to have these experiences? I split my time between Minneapolis and Chicago, and have yet to have a (noticed at least) delayed Prime package.

Prime Now is even more insane. Last item I ordered arrived in 18 minutes from pressing the button.

I'm sure this happens, I just am wondering where one must live for it to be a common occurrence.
He just wanted to show off that he knew the "theoretical maximum" amount of Bitcoins.
Ditch the fuel tax, and instead have an annual registration tax based on distance travelled and vehicle weight? Could also incorporate lesser factors like efficiency, and likely to be a subsidy for heavy vehicles. Of course the beauty of fuel tax that it incorporates all of those factors already, and you get easy, regular collection.

As to the sister comment on how do we pay for the extra electricity infrastructure... through your electricity bill?
It's 2017, and my social media account is protected by a tamper-proof phish-resistant embedded-encryption U2F microcontroller dongle, in addition to a password of virtually unlimited length and charset. Meanwhile, my bank has a max password length of 12 and I can only use an alphabet of roughly 64 characters.

The future is here folks. And it sucks.