skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you approach it from the Negative Income Tax implementation then it's also much less to fund because basically the tax deductions already baked into the tax code can be made at some level into something that's sourced via UBI instead of just a floating deduction. Of the remainder, you fund much of that from some subset of existing social safety net programs.

It's not trivial, but I'd agree that the line was at best sloppy accounting, and at worst a dishonest criticism.
The original assumption is supported by the fact that the buses could only be introduced because a large enough number of people was _already_ driving. I doubt any company started an empty shuttle line to use as a recruiting tool. They must have sufficient number of people with that commute already in the population for the economics to make any sense.
>Java
Why would the military be interested in this particular language?
Prime is one of those expenses that I don't bother thinking too much about. It's in the Cost of Living category for our household at this point.
> It would be obsolete because it would no longer be as usable.

What on Earth makes you think this?
Thing is, when you start processing normal sums of money (>$200k/month), both Square and Stripe start to bleed you in fees. If your sub-$5k a month in volume both make sense to use as a processor, but as you get up there in volume, changing to any of their (much larger) competitors can easily halve that cost and save you a few grand a month in fees.
the “general population” won’t be programming in any language any time soon. this is to capture the attention of mba types, in the hopes of forcing adoption on technical teams because it seems cool in some ephemeral sense only mba types get
>People who weren’t even aware of you or your crimes began devising algorithms that could help find you. [...] Familial DNA.

The killer left behind 800 megabytes of information[1] at the crime scene in the 1970s. A present day genealogy website had another 800 MB uploaded from a family member. Algorithms found a match.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=dna+800+megabytes
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You can report overreach like this on meta. After that it’s up to the community to decide.
There's no way to address your comment unless you present the alternative definition of "smart" you would like to use. As is, I don't even know whether it's relevant - if you're just discussing definitions, I'm not particularly interested.

Which of the following do you think are not 1. being smart 2. related to IQ:

1. Ability to reason out answers to questions or problems
2. Ability to make plans
3. .. learn
4. .. generalize - build abstract models from limited data

These are all very much IQ things that people generally call being "smart", and which very much correlates with success in life.
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That's an excellent piece. But let's not forget that the suspect is a former police officer. Assuming he's the right person, he was less of a brilliant tactician than a turncoat who knew knew the system inside out, and who may well have had access to investigative information afterwards. He was fired for shoplifting in 1979, having committed many of these crimes during his tenure as a police officer; it was after that he began killing his victims.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/26/606060349...
I'm in that third group because I perceive SO as a 'no good deed goes unpunished' culture. I already went through that with Wikipedia, and I've got better things to do than fight insiders.
Interesting that osquery is developed by Facebook and Santa is developed by Google. I do some work with Facebook and during a video conference with one of their employees the connection dropped out. When we reconnected I asked what happened and they said that the machine updated itself. I thought this was kind of an odd time to update and dropped it into the conversation and was told that their laptops are updated every day. Without an understanding of the inner workings of Facebook it seems like they may be snapshotting employee machines, daily.
It's amazing how much people are commenting here just to say "your product has zero value because this should be possible to do with X".

They say that without having tried X. Why?
The reporting on exactly how DNA was used to identify the Golden State Killer is still pretty limited.

It sounds like they submitted DNA from GSK crime scenes to a number of genealogical sites and got back one or more familial matches. From that match or matches, they were able to backtrack to a specific suspect.

Once the suspect was identified, they were able to surreptitiously obtain the suspect's DNA, then they directly tested that DNA against GSK DNA samples, and were able to confirm the match.

It hasn't been stated directly, but it seems like there is plenty of still-usable DNA from GSK crime scene evidence, even though it will now be 30+ years old.
It will guarantee secure, end-to-end encrypted conversations without degradation of the user experience. It will be compatible with any mobile device or desktop, state or personal.

Is the application they're creating also going to be open source and available for auditing?
Because you can only focus on fixing one thing at a time?
Yeah I've been in tech for 30 years and have worked with hundreds of people and I can't recall a single one who wasn't a nerd or geek in some way.
Well one of the big uses of ancestry services is to find unknown relatives, so...yay?
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IMO I don't think SO can bounce back in any real way. Years ago I even attempted to engage on Stack Exchange and it was the same uppity BS in a garden/home improvement setting.

We are all often times simply trying to learn and share. There is no one single, authoritative source. Millions of people have probably felt the same way after posting or researching an answer. It is really sad. It could have been great.

HN can get a little tight at times but all in all it is 100x better in terms of takeaway for the user.

I guess my only gripe with HN is it has a touch of that "uppity, d*ck, unwelcoming vibe" due to calculation of points. I feel like if an individual has honestly tried to engage/add value and posts/comments 45 times and has a score of 12 they will give up with a bad taste in their mouth. Not everyone fairs well with that kind of thing. It is hard to navigate the world let alone coming into a space like this and getting crushed by a bunch of anonymous handles.

All in all it has a similar impact on a user/readers reaction to their early engagement with the community.

Obviously some of us have thicker skin and some truly believe they are snowflakes...Can't win 'em all.
That sounds like a problem with paid loot-boxes, not "double-dipping". Loot boxes might be double-priced even if the game is free by your same logic. There would be no way to know.
I find the rent argument unconvincing. Free people from having to live near high concentration of jobs, and the competition for housing just explodes.
> If you go to work for a big established company, they won't give you part of it.

On the contrary! Just yesterday I got an email from an Amazon recruiter that says:

> We also offer:

> - Stock Package, free shares given to you (no purchasing required)

It seems like it's pretty normal for people to get equity from big companies. Not even just tech companies: people I know working at Nike get stock every year too.

Also I question this:

> The fifth employee will get much more than the hundredth.

Maybe, but the thousandth will get "more" than the hundredth if you measure it in dollars times probability-of-cashing-it-out. VCs talk about how the size of the pie matters more than the percentage of your share, and I think that applies here too.
I've pretty much given up on Prime Video since they've added in Prime Video Direct. If I wanted to watch the crap that's flooding YouTube I'd watch YouTube.
AWS Meltdown patch only affected a very small portion of customers and the issue was fixed after rebooting the instances, so people who got affected were able to recover fastly, so no.
From the comments so far, I just can't shake this feeling of being astroturfed to support the price increase... Is it just me?
Wow, I think there is a Robert Frost verse about the path less taken making all the difference. Perhaps optioning a screenplay will be the financial windfall.
The plumbers I know all have pretty hot wives. Not sophisticated, for the most part, but quite attractive by mainstream American standards
You can’t charge the drug addicts fees.

This program is moving so quickly because it is both a revenue and bureaucratic expansion opportunity.
She was also an able writer, which most people are not.
I think the Internet has two competing effects here:
1. Ideas and inventions disseminate quickly and become part of open source knowledge almost immediately if useful, and when people do learn of a new idea they are unlikely to know who invented it;
and
2. Because of this openness of information and 'democratization of invention,' there are fewer recognized centers of invention (mostly being universities and special projects teams working on mostly unpublished work at big tech companies), and so great minds are less likely to gravitate to the same spot.

Another consideration here is that the hottest field is software, where innovation suffers from the open-sourcing/attribution problem to a greater degree than any other field.
Even if it's a hostile environment, I do have to give credit to Stack Overflow for killing expertsexchange... that site was a plague
I was quote young during that period (I'm 37 now) and even I remember people having heart attacks and / or defaulting on loans in Port Lincoln (highly leveraged commercial finishing outfits).
But if the borrowed can make the payments right?

Because in Canada people are often taking the max amount banks approve.
Do you apply the same reasoning for the last payment of the fixed-rate term? £30 because you're not sure that the rate won't rise over the last month and end up costing you £60; good insurance?
> Ironic given that plenty of blue collar professionals can make a lot more than your average worker in many degreed professions.

No they don't, this is a myth that has become perpetuated in recent years.

Mike Rowe might mean well by writing articles like this, but the content is a lie. The median salary of a welder in the US is $40,240 a year according to the BLS. People are essentially selling an entire generation a load of BS in order to flood the market with cheap labor instead of paying them more.

There are some welders who make $100k a year, but they are several standard deviations above the mean. Those $100k/welders are like the $5MM/yr programmers. Yeah, they exist, but only in the top 1% of workers.

I don't want my kids to be tradespeople. I watched 2008 destroy the careers of every tradesperson friend I had, along with nearly wiping out my family's (second-generation) construction business. I had talented friends in their early 20s that were forced to move back in with family after having their work hours cut to 2-3/hr a week (but they had to report to work everyday). The ones with family safety nets went to college, those without joined the military.
Once they found him they collected two more samples and matched it directly with their source sample.
Really? That's the worst possible outcome? I would have assumed that the worst possible outcome would be that the oil supply didn't redirect to the developing world and the developing world would be left with no cheap energy that they had the infrastructure to exploit at all.

Which would be a great way to ensure that it never reached "developed", although I suppose it would stop it from developing...
That scenario could be considered more hostile to any human having a bad day, week or year, so bringing minorities into it seems like an unnecessary distinction. There is a great deal of obsession with immutable identity in the west - it is remarkably distasteful, as someone happily outside that culture.
Scooters that become a traffic hazard are more than just the company's problem.

So, the dockless part is a problem because when not secured to something they really do end up in the street.
Could be a pretty major battery drain to be constantly writing video on such a small portable device.
"especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups."

I can see how you can tell someone is a newer coder on the internet by their questions. But how can anyone possibly tell if someone is in a "marginalized" group unless they go about broadcasting seemingly because you want to claim some greater virtue.

The internet was created by misfits (today called "marginalized" I guess) where everyone was accepted based on their ideas and no one knew if you were a man, woman, dog, or dolphin? It seems that it became popular and the real world just brought it's problems with it.

on_the_internet_no_one_knows_you_are_a_dog.png

PS If you're wondering if the implicit bias test is real. It isn't. It is fake science.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-false-science-of-implicit-b...
She wrote a good, comprehensive book that is both well-researched and accessible.
You'd have to build some of those first.
I remember 2002-era Wikipedia. I personally found its openness far more valuable, but then other people became obsessed with making it just a bigger, hyperlinked, traditional encyclopedia. I believe something was lost.
So why did it take so long to cough this guy up?

Served in the Navy and law enforcement in Sacramento area isn't that large a set. Something isn't being reported correctly.

This seems more like they got his DNA, and then backfilled the correlations.

While it may have worked in this case, it's more than a little worrying because it changes the police from "finding the correct suspect" to "justifying the DNA identified suspect".

And we already have a case in California where the police let the DNA guide them to the wrong person.
So after search by phone number or email on Facebook, we will also have search by DNA. For when you want to get in touch with that mysterious stranger on the subway...
Im thinking this might be an elaborate troll. I was surprised it didnt just have a rick roll instead of the phrase "your version of ubi is dumb". However its likely our fault for taking a document seriously that has the word "dumb" in the title.
What value is that?
I do understand the ripple effect that it could have to have the banks fail utterly, but I would think that if they entered insolvency, like a Chapter 11 rather than Chapter 7 bankruptcy, that the disruption could be managed. As far as the mortgages go, eliminating the debt and transferring ownership to the residents would effectively solve that part of the problem (aside from the irrationally angry people who seem willing to suffer harm themselves rather than tolerate the notion that someone else got some 'undeserved' benefit) without spreading disaster. And, obviously, reigning banks back to only lending 2x to 4x their holdings rather than the 30+x they were running at, or some other number actually supported by financial statistics, seems like it would be a good idea.

I know that the modern conception of business since the 1980s is that if the profit margin of a business is not growing that it might as well close its doors, but once it is recognized that the banks are doing more than simply engaging in commerce, but are actually providing infrastructure necessary to maintain our society... it certainly seems their classification ought to change, especially given the historical proof of the power of money to corrupt. It just doesn't seem to make sense that it could be both critical infrastructure and also something that should remain private with as light a touch as possible from government (viewing government as a hand through which the public can act to protect themselves, I know that's not always how it shakes out).
Amazon’s KB article: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

> Starting May 11, 2018, new members will be charged $119/year for an annual Prime membership and $59/year for an annual Prime Student membership.

> Starting June 16, 2018, existing Prime members with an annual membership will renew at a rate of $119/year. Prime Student members with an annual membership will renew at a rate of $59/year.

> Monthly Prime members continue to pay $12.99 per month. Monthly Prime Student members continue to pay $6.49 per month.
Most accurate statement ever. 65% MOD problem, 10% newbs, 10% bad programmers that think they know and their way is the only way, and 15% policy. IMHO
> A brand is WAY more than a logo.

I thought it was super-interesting they used the word 'brand' instead of 'branding'.

As if a brand ("what people say about you when you're not listening") could be conjured from a logo and set of colours.
Yeah I wouldn't even think about it for 2 seconds
Bezos is finally taking off the breaks. Amazon is finally becoming the profit machine that people where hoping it would become.
Prime Video for example, which is their streaming video service, including original content.
I completely agree. The prime video library is junk and besides shipping our household gets very little value out of prime.
It's a really tricky question. I'm not at all enthused about the police having rights to collect and store all arrestees' DNA indefinitely for example. On the other hand, it's both commercially risky and wholly impractical to refuse access to the service to law enforcement. You can't have a networked society and expect the police not to use OSINT techniques.
I use Jekyll along with Jekyll+ [1] for the CMS. Put it behind CloudFlare and you have a very professional solution.

It supports multilingual content, custom content types, media... Most of what you'd do with any other CMS.

For reference, it runs the new Starbucks website [2].

1: https://github.com/Wiredcraft/jekyllplus

2: https://wiredcraft.com/blog/the-new-starbucks-cn-website-bol...
I wish amazon would have a prime version of prime that would only show items that aren’t fufilled by other companies. I would pay 30% more for that. I’m on the fence on canceling prime already. The value ad is diminishing .
You don't automate, you make things more efficient. The building industry is very good at bringing to market products that increase productivity by double or more.

So people will have to build more houses for the same money.
Very surprised to never see Keybase mentioned in these discussions. Everything, even the team chats, are end-to-end encrypted with a pretty slick interface.

You can even send E2E-encrypted messages/files to people who haven't even joined yet!

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-chat
Many sellers offer free shipping without prime. Or offer the same item cheaper than prime with a slightly longer shipping delay.
I have it pretty much for the no limit two day shipping feature. It'd be great to have a "shipping only" version at a lower price.
Hmmm. As a consumer, am I allowed to submit someone else's DNA to 23andMe without their consent?
When thinking about the cost of Prime, you need to think also of the cost of defaulting to Amazon for many purchases and not doing any price comparison. I have found that now it's fairly common to find the same item significantly cheaper elsewhere, but I just go with Amazon because of the convenience. But this convenience has a higher cost than just Prime, imho
Well, I am hopeful that it is at least in some cases, simply ignorance.

I've re-written existing projects, as a personal learning experience. I've written out my thoughts on computer science, people, life, etc. I just didn't go publishing it on HackerNews, or thought it was worthy of anyone else's time.

I don't necessarily agree with you that things need re-invention as it stands. I think it'd really help to gain some clarity on what it is we're trying to accomplish in the first place, before we go off doing. What are we trying to do here really and why? If we asked that question for one minute, perhaps we'd not have top engineers at places like Facebook, perfecting newsfeed spam algorithms. We'd perhaps rethink things for one minute and realize oh wait, we can change the world instead. I don't know, I'm a dreamer, maaan :)

Measure twice, cut once - I see computer science as a field of people running around with scissors, not entirely sure what scissors are good for, just knowing they're getting paid good money to cut by following StackOverflow cutting manuals, or if they think they're fancy, by reading 'category theory' and coming up wth libraries with 0 documentation that no one can use without also thinking they're fancy, and reading category theory, sigh :)
It's straight-up wrong though. A number of people feel unwelcome or hostile? Okay, out of how many?

There's always going to be a very small percentage of people who don't fit in in large groups, no matter how much you try to work with them. They're also the ones who tend to speak up, and StackOverflow's userbase is massive, so this number gets inflated to something that may seem like a lot, but really isn't that many - and may well be within the error margin for "people who won't fit in".

Typically moderation would push these people away, so they don't keep complaining, but StackOverflow, despite any issues it has, is too good a resource as-is.
I get that someone might use the default text editor. But where would a vim/emacs variant be installed that way? And if it were, why would it last for a novice any longer than "um, this is weird and doesn't do anything". Vim and emacs are only tolerable if you put the effort to learn how they work. And if you did, how would you get to the end of a tutorial without learning how to quit?

You're right, it's technically possible, but the parent is justified in being really suspicious that someone is citing familiarity with both emacs and vim and is confused that there's a non-mouse way to do something.
This is actually an awesome idea.
Not just you. It's a high price and I wouldn't go for it. Don't use it enough.
Supervision trees have nothing to do with Actors or CSP. I can recommend reading the original papers.

Golang not well supporting supervision trees has more to do with the runtime not allowing to kill a goroutine. See http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2930
It makes sense if you compare to other contemporary subscription services.

Spotify is ~$120 per year
Netflix is ~$110-$130 per year

Amazon Prime comes with a plethora of auxillary benefits like Amazon Video and Music, Prime day deals, magazine subscriptions, and many more that I'm probably leaving out. Considering all this, $119 per year doesn't seem like all that much. It's still less than ten bucks a month.
You don't have to go for all-fixed or all-variable: you can typically split your loan and fix part of it. This effectively lets you hedge against the interest rate risk - you aren't as exposed to rising interest rates, but also don't benefit as much from falling rates.

The main downside of fixed loans is that you usually can't reduce your interest payments by making additional repayments (because ultimately they are backed by long-term bonds issued by the bank).
Our household saves more on delivery fees then annual subscription price

Are you sure? Amazon has free shipping for orders over $25, if you didn't have that "free" shipping, how many times would you pay for shipping versus consolidating multiple orders? Would you count on free 2-day shipping or order far enough ahead to get the free shipping.

I'm a long-time prime member when when my renewal comes up, I'm not sure I'm going to renew. Since I'm already a Netflix subscriber and the Amazon "free prime" catalog is worse than Netflix, prime video is not much of a draw for me
Maybe for some. I never watch anything on it.
The new decentralized economy will need new decentralized APIs