skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was confused by the

"4,894 BTC
~$84 million USD
remaining"

on the site. It initially appeared as if he/she was asking for donations. I guess that's actually the amount of money yet to be distributed.
Sure, if the us govt said "only land owners should vote, so were giving everyone land" you might have a point.
It's not ethical to use a human life for that message.
I was surprised to see this article because I remember hearing steps to address this in the U.S. over the years. Then I actually saw the article was about New Zealand and comments are about Germany and other countries.

After doing a quick search here's some info I found about U.S. federal funding for research:
https://scholcomm.columbia.edu/open-access/public-access-man...

I'm not in the research business, but available after 1 year sounds reasonable to me. I can see the cost in vetting and distributing and how certain businesses and universities would pay a premium for quicker access.
What if your $30k was actually in your car?
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The country of Nauru has had universal income since the 1970’s funded by mining resources.

Unfortunately, it has not resulted in human potential being unlocked.

Outside the mining, run by foreigners and with foreign works, economic activity in the country has gone down. Nauru now has the highest obesity rate in the world. 94.5% of the population is overweight, 71% obese, and 31% diabetic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Nauru

I agree that some form of UBI looks to be better in many ways to what we have now, we can’t be blind that one actual historical outcome is a nation chronically ill, obese, and unemployed.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/06/meet-na... (2011)
Maybe it did not affect the lead characters as much, but a brutal disparity of wealth was always part of the cyberpunk aesthetic.
If he gets a $100k+ job in IT security, he'll have paid the fine in three years.
'Textbook' communism involves the government directly managing the means of production. Owning a minority stake in many corporations that are run for profit by incentivized managers in a market economy has, perhaps, some similarities but it's certainly not the same thing.

I'm not sure you can generalize Venezuela's collapse beyond a cautionary tale of corruption and populist looting; i.e., their economic problems are fundamentally political problems. A better comparison for a developed Western democracy with competent political system is Norway, which has an amazingly successful ($1 trillion) sovereign wealth fund
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
comprised of oil revenue used to fund social programs.
The ones no-one imagined before. Just like few people saw social networks coming, it's currently hard to predict what can be done when huge number of people is connected in networks of value. But a few examples can be: borderless financial system; programmable instruments, derivatives by just about anyone; stable-coin (a stable reference currency)
I’ve been recommending msft antivirus to my tech illiterate family over symantec/mcafee/avast/whatever since win7.
Norway becomes first country to switch off FM radio
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Although I agree with your list of considerations, I'm against your advice in general terms, since I think you're only providing part of the picture people need to consider.

Here's some situations where you might prefer a startup.

1. Do you want to change career paths? A startup provides a much lower barrier of entry than traditional companies.

2. Do you want to pursue a career without having the credentials i.e. skip school completely and become a programmer, salesman, businessman? An internship or job at a startup might be a good choice.

3. Do you want less bureaucracy, a lot of ownership, challenging problems, but not have to have the weight of everything on your shoulders (like when you're a cofounder).

Monetarily, its almost always going to be a bad choice to work at a startup (unless #1 or #2 are your reasons and you want to jump into a career where you can long-term earn more). But there are a lot of other things in life to consider besides money, and money isn't a motivator for everyone, some people weight more control over their day to day work, flat hierarchies, and working on innovative products, etc. - all over money that's all. I don't think, knowing that, there's enough to make any hard recommendations for anyone.
When I worked for Chase on their main app, the policy for support was the current version of the browser, minus one.
Very inaccurate. The 1st generation Volt has a reputation of having very high quality. Especially compared to other GM cars.

The 2nd generation it remains to be seen. Mine seems good so far.
Welcome to marketing! Get out while you are still sane.
The funny thing is, checking their web site they still haven't managed to secure their landing page. You'd think they'd get the message when everyone's just laughing at them...
Firefox's Reader View reduces the problem, and with some custom CSS, solves it completely (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15080363 ). I imagine other browsers include a similar solution.
The problem that charging up-front was created to address was people pledging money, reaping rewards, then dropping out before paying any money at all. With this system, if someone signs up for one month, then drops, the creator still gets paid for that month.

Worst case: a patron could game the system and only pay half as much as other patrons for the same content. That would involve pledging and canceling repeatedly every other month. That is not a likely scenario, and still infinitely better than the previous worst case: patrons paying $0 for that premium content.
This seems so fake. If its too good to be true...
10 rivers are responsible for 90% of the plastic in the ocean
> You can't just make up your own domain and hope no one ever does anything conflicting with it.

Actually you can! You just need to use one reserved for that purpose:

> In 1999, the Internet Engineering Task Force reserved the DNS labels example, invalid, localhost, and test so that they may not be installed into the root zone of the Domain Name System.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.test
Would like to hear Sam's thoughts on how this would impact on immigration. Could the system sustain the current or higher levels of immigration? If not, would Sam recommend cutting immigration drastically for this to be a viable option?
It's both/and, there are costs associated both with the laws around llcs and providing the need to play the of liability holder of last resort in certain circumstances.
It's a shame that he released it under a no-deriv's CC license. The actual cost of textbooks is small compared to the penalty we all pay from not having our textbooks iteratively refined. http://blog.jessriedel.com/all-posts/2015/04/16/beyond-paper...
I read op's commentary more along the lines of emotional immaturity being present, he wasn't really surprised at the nature of the crimes. A lot of these emotionally immature individuals often times are part of the "do things for lulz" mindset. The fact that this started as Minecraft DDOS attacks, re-iterates the immaturity of the individual based on initial targets. I'm not defending these criminals by any means, but I would agree with OP that people whom fit the mental profile of potential asshat hackers are way more common than we'd like to admit. If every crazed rick and morty fan had the technical prowess to pull this stuff off... just imagine the chaos.
I think it was more that Troy Hunt is incredibly high-profile in the security arena. If he blogs that your site security sucks, some of his readers will prove it.
I took as more of a "if troy is pissed at someone, then everyone knows the person he's pissed at is hackable" statement.
> I've often felt like science in particular would benefit from a sort of embargo period, during which time pseudonymous authorship would be obligatory, and after which researchers could collect their due credit. Too much focus is given to "rockstar" PIs and their labs rather than the substance of their findings.

I don't think this would work because pre-publication work is usually not a secret, it gets promoted at conferences and seminars well before it's formally published.
and I'm nearly certain such a change would require low-level, POSIX-breaking changes.

Well, as long as you were happy with it being opt-in (ie, every currently existing program and terminal defaulting to just ignoring the content type as it does now), I imagine you could get 99% of the way there by adding two new command types to the fcntl(2) syscall:

F_SETCTYPE
Set the content type for the data written to this
descriptor to the value pointed to by the third
argument, which must be a pointer to struct fctype.

F_GETCTYPE
Get the content type for the data read from this
descriptor and store it into structure pointed to
by the third argument, which must be a pointer to
struct fctype.

struct fctype would just contain a character array.

You'd implement it so that the value set by F_SETCTYPE on the writing end of a pipe or named pipe is returned by F_GETCTYPE on the reading end, and for pseudo-terminals the value set by F_SETCTYPE on the slave side is returned by F_GETCTYPE on the master side.

You probably wouldn't bother supporting it for sockets or disk files (though files could store it in a POSIX extended attribute if you really wanted to).

The writing side would have to set the content type before calling write(), and the reading side would have to get the content type after read() returns.
I'm pretty sure it's the "can't take money back out" that's the deciding factor, yep. While I'm not positive, I think this is even true for (non-banking) government agencies -- I can load value on a transit card, but I can't take it back off as cash.

(Edited to add: of course, this means that Patreon could have done a balance card thing if they were willing to say "but you can't get your balance back if you cancel," but I doubt that would have won much more love than the per-transaction fee idea did...)
At that point, will we start seeing attackers targeting DNS instead?
I assume one team is responsible for the home page, and another team is responsible for the banking portal, and they can't be bothered to coordinate with each other.
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There's also the Code Review site on StackExchange, https://codereview.stackexchange.com

It can be pretty good so long as the code meets the guidelines...which is basically that the code works.
I am pretty sure RIAA do not ask for $2 per infringed song when a company is the one doing the infringement. Maybe per copy, but then that will likely count up to millions in the end, like with the pirate bay case in Sweden. The founders did get charge for infringement of specific films, games and music, and the cost where no where near $2 per work.

As far as I have heard several lawyers doing GPL enforcement, no person has ever been sued over GPL infringement. It has always been companies that sells millions of copies. The $2 figure has no relevance since it don't cover commercial infringement done for profit.
I liked it. I also made it.
Those aren't the same, though. You can pay for a subscription with the App Store, and you can buy in-app "tokens" for games. But the subscriptions are being charged when they turn over each month (Apple will bundle charges together that occur on the same day, but that's it, AFAIK), and you can't exchange tokens back for cash. So Apple is never "holding" your money.
Do you have any references of existing code or research that deals with correlation issues? We considered few home grown ideas (like measuring correlation level in each sample and then compacting a sample by that % before quantizing) but all of them were pretty computationally heavy...
Gives me an idea! Why not go buy up a bunch of these types of names then tell them that they look similar to their login url. THEN when they come to try to buy it they find you own it and then charge them an arm and a leg for the domain?!
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If Edge dies, the web will be left with only Gecko and Webkit rendering engines... :-(
Forced. Compelled. Persuaded by threats and/or violence. The consequence of the film not being made was just as unnatural an imposition as the nude scene would've been in the first place.

> She could have said no and not made the film. Does that mean this was OK?

I think you know my answer to that, and I don't think you're making an argument in good faith. How about you just come out and say directly what you'd like to say?

Weinstein imposed a "choice". But it wasn't a real choice. It was a threat. An ultimatum. Visiting violence upon others is not OK.

I expect that you're going to take the least-charitable possible interpretation of what I've said. That seems to be your MO, reading the rest of the thread. You're angry, and I get it, but I think that your anger is misdirected.
A compromised, but legitimate CA is a vector of attack in this case. Any CA can be compromised by nation-states through legal coercion, and all of them probably have some vulnerabilities that have yet to be found. There are also new CAs that are not yet trusted, and sometimes old ones that are on their way to being delisted.

So you need an up-to-date list of trusted CAs (which most of us are relying on google for, in this case), which means trusting google at the very least (a company that compiles and sells your data, and is also based in a nation that issues secret warrants and orders to tech companies). It would be pretty surprising if this wasn't already a vector of attack being actively used (the fact that a trusted list needs to be maintained suggests that it is).
I believe Venezuela, Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Argentina and others greatly appreciate Bitcoin as a store of value due to their hyperinflation travails. These locations are the exact places where a complete loss trust exists toward government and the financial institutions therein.
Then this is a list of "beautiful open source landing pages and UIs".
It's $17bn over the 10 year projected lifetime of the implementation. So "only" $1.7bn a year (roughly, the projected yearly costs ramp up until 2025, then drop a bit). That's easily do-able through federal assistance funding. Nutrition Assistance For Puerto Rico already gives $1.5bn of federal money every year, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrition_Assistance_for_Puert...
This "legitimate adware" is abusing an installation process to gain persistence.

I have a feeling BlockBlock (Objective-See) would be able to intercept and block the installation of the plist.

> https://www.objective-see.com/products/blockblock.html

If a third party app is installing a com.apple.<whatever>.plist, be aware of it.
More of a high-level mindset, since GT is more of an academic topic.

A lot of the effects described in GT can be learned by practice and observation of human competitive behavior, but studying it gives you a much better understanding of why certain situations happen, or how competitors will react.

The market entry game (retaliate/accommodate) is usually the best example:

https://books.google.com/books?id=xhAACwAAQBAJ&pg=PA77&lpg=P...

Another example is signaling: when you publicly declare that you will match prices aggressively and will never be undercut, that's not actually a threat to your competitors, but a signal that if they keep prices high, you will as well, avoiding a price war.
You're right. The magnitude of the potential upside and the control you can influence over outcomes is vastly different as a founder vs an employee though.
Democracy was basically Bitcoin of the 1700s

History books don't say stuff like this. You are making ahistorical arguments about men who owned slaves.
Ugh, MS just seem to get worse too, "Try our new login experience, it logs you out every 15 minutes, so much fun!".
Everybody knows that the numbers don’t add up (for long) when you allow unfettered immigration (legal or not). However, discussing strict immigration controls is highly impolitic these days.
No it's even more basic then that. There are two competing theories for humanity. One is, do you have faith in society and the peoples of that society? The other, do you not have faith in society and the peoples of it?

Many of the human-made constructs in our world were defined as a stop-gap for the lowest depths of humanity. Certain people are extremely selfish, narcissistic, care only for themselves? We have some laws to combat that such as taxes, environmental protections, etc. Certain people are violent? We have some laws to combat that and gone to war against that.

So you need to ask yourself, do you have faith that UBI will "free brains enough to produce innovation, progress, and further intellectual output", or lead to massive work reduction, increased prices, and increased complacency?
This is often a difficult question to find an answer for and a lot of the other metrics for determining charity effectiveness are pretty limited.

Give well is a meta-charity that tries to find out which charities maximize donation effectiveness and might be a good place to start looking.

https://www.givewell.org/
I've done exactly that. However it only recently worked flawlessly due to a bug in Powershell and how Hyper-V interact. Here's a sample setup.

https://gist.github.com/jamesleonis/277901b79f5bae4b0487daf4...
The level of taxation will lead to increased levels of Open Hypergamy.
While the whole point of the experiment that they are doing is to get a better idea of what BI could support, I can't see any reason why a UBI that was viable otherwise, with the obvious eligibility criteria (covered population is either citizens-only or citizens and legal permanent residents), would have any trouble with immigration at current levels.

If UBI reduced minimum wages (say by $1/hr. for each $2000/yr. of UBI, from a pre-UBI target level that increases with inflation) and is not available to immigrants other than permanent residents, it might reduce immigration demand in categories that require a period of non-LPR status (and particularly attractiveness of resort to illegal immigration) by reducing both wages (but not total income, for citizens and LPRs) for unskilled workers directly in both open employment and, by indirect pressure, under-the-table employment.
> If the government spends and the economy responds productively to that spending, then you're fine. Taxing is a separate issue. You should only really tax when you want to remove money from a specific part of the economy.

Or when you don't want your government to run a deficit. Or when you don't want to finance your government by printing money. That always ends badly, no matter how clever the mechanism is this time, or how many people say "it's different this time".

> To put it succinctly, increasing taxes does not increase the amount of money the government can usefully spend unless you directly taxed the use of some resource and the spending is going to put that particular resource to use in a more desirable way.

I don't think the economy works the way you think it works...
When did a fiat currency win out over gold? It requires government manipulation by price fixing, outright debasement and mechanisms like legal tender laws for worthless tokens to win out over a precious metal such as gold.
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I think the people who would agree with you are the ones who see this firsthand. The people who back UBI generally live in a bubble or see things from an ivory tower.
I was looking up details of the new Microsoft Surface recently, so hit the top link in a google search which was (supposedly) on Microsoft.com

It wouldn’t load because Facebook.com was blocked and apparently they were doing a full redirect via fb. Crazy.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/11/hsbc-us-mon...

https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/07072016_o...
I mentioned the problem on oss-security in 2016:

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/21/9

(I think my claim that git escapes some control characters is incorrect; it's less that does it.)

> Same response, “it’s the pager’s job,” in that case.

It can't be the pagers job, because pager has no way to distingiush from escapes generated by git (to make things colorful) from malicious escapes.
I thought we were talking about Congress, not the President.
I agree - even Mendel was ignored for 40 years by the researchers of his day (and his findings were only published in an obscure journal that were largely ignored until being rediscovered later).

It's bad for science, which is bad for all of us.
It's extremely effective on win10 without creating further security issues with the cabal of AV products out there. We tell our clients save the cash, use Defender, and invest in other more effective technologies in the stack.
With Bitcoin, those who don't own coins can at any point vote to take away all the coins from those who do. That's exactly the same problem that the founders were worried about. There isn't any sort of fancy historical imagination that's needed.
Efforts are underway to get rid of dirty energy because the costs of renewable and battery storage are so much cheaper that this is a non-issue.

Um what? Certainly we have made great progress as a civilization switching to cleaner forms of energy production but calling greenhouse pollution a "non issue" at this point is pretty nuts!
With the layman example, you are describing man in the browser attack. It doesn't matter if you use wireless or not.
Cool, thanks for the explanation. My opinion is that from a branding perspective, a subdomain of ycombinator.com would be much better. Otherwise, it seems like a cheap affiliate website (like those search engine optimized domain names). Ironically, in your case, using a subdomain will be better for SEO (as you correctly stated).
>Banning data caps is very different from not allowing higher charges for higher usage.

>A good faith attempt to charge heavy data users fairly for their use would probably look something like the billing models used for electricity.

It's not "very different", it's one way of charging higher users more. And the fact that it's a bad way doesn't mean the NN crowd supports the good way either! They object to the electricity model on the grounds that "bandwidth isn't scarce[1]" and that high users should be just as capable of crowding out low users during peak times, that there shouldn't be any downside to higher usage.

[1] in the true-enough sense of "the relevant scarce parameter is not how much you download in total, but how much of the flow of the pipe you are using at any given moment".
git diff | less -U

But the you lose all the colors.
Tech Knowledge is a self-admitted FCC/BigTelecom shill.
Reality winter printed out a classified document at work, I think you're confusing her with Nghia Pho, whom appears to have been the Kaspersky leak victim.
What are the pointless jobs you're referring to?
Most users check the URL when they first browse to a page.

You want them to continuously keep verifying it’s the correct domain/cert just because this company is too lazy/cheap to buy a cert?
Do you mean it's not moral? Because that's what would make it bad.

I'd say it's morally wrong not to do so. Part of moral governance is to protect people from bad guys.
I'm so glad I bank with Nationwide who seem to do this right.
Cancelled a subscription that I had also, will have to return now. yipes
When big corps buy small startup just to kill it off because it might eat into their cake or because their competitor might buy them, that's game theory.
They literally founded a company, "Protraf Solutions LLC", that would DDoS people for profit.

Your AK-47 claim also shows that you really don't know anything about this case and are just trying to justify why you still like your friend. They open sourced their botnet four days after they DDoSed Dyn and Krebs- it wasn't random people who used this software for the attack, it was their company that did so.