skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Collecting arbitrary data on US citizens is no different from collecting arbitrary data on HK and Chinese citizens.

Sure it is; US law differs greatly on the two groups. So does Chinese law.

> Innocent people's privacy is still being violated on a large scale.

And if China cares to protect its citizens from foreign interference or espionage, it has many options.
Actually, the idea of a basic income (under the rubric 'negative income tax') was favored by economists like Milton Friedman as well (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax for an OK overview). The underlying concept here is not so much fairness as that there's an opportunity cost to society in having people engaged in the sort of work they're not especially well-suited to in order to meet the basic needs of survival.
>> If you want long term economic security, own something.

So your solution is to tell labor that they should turn into capital? That is what you tell the millions of people who will be unable to find a job that pays a living wage?

Come on.
I really like the concept but I don't understand why anyone in tech would want to be in the bulk tshirt manufacturing business. I used to be in the tshirt business: albeit we used to make high end stuff which was sold to premium retailers. As I see it, the inefficiencies in the business do not come from the ordering part. There are plenty of places where you can order tshirts. The really hard problem to solve is the manufacturing one.

Second, I don't get how you would actually make real money through this. Most of this business is low margin, labor intensive. In any low low margin business you make money through scale. However, pretty much all of the high quantity stuff is done overseas and then shipped to the US, because even then it is cheaper. We used to airship stuff all the time (a lot more expensive than boat) and it would still ending up costing us a lot less than doing it in the US

I don't know why people keep making solutions for tshirt manufacturing. It is effectively a price-conscious B2B model.
This is what I thought of immediately too.
This problem is inherently transient. The worst case is that it takes a full generation for skills and customs to adapt.

Skills like "reading" and "writing" were once the province of highly-educated specialists. They became mainstream when the economic incentives made them critical to have. People learn what they need to learn -- especially if they start as children.

It's entirely appropriate to worry about how we can help people during this painful transition. But we need to be careful not to turn this temporary problem into a permanent one by creating cultures of dependence.
I agree with you that the ubiquity of microphones cameras without hard electrical 'off' switches is a real problem. Secret microphones have been used for eavesdropping for a century now, and malware has been found in the wild which uses the camera to take photos and make 3D reconstructions of the victim's home interior.

But wearing an internet connected 3rd party controlled camera on your forehead is categorically different than one that points at the inside of my pocket almost all the time. If it were the same as what we have now then Google Glass wouldn't be a very interesting product, would it?
Your API console isn't working for me (the Execute buttons do nothing) in Chrome. My JS console shows:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token o jquery.min.js:3

after each click. Also, the quote generator on /pricing only generates a price if Front Colors is >0 (it doesn't work for a back-only print).
Here's a chart of average hours worked per employed person in the US from 1970 to 2011:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/USAAHWEP

Please point to the part of the graph that backs up your claim that people in the past worked substantially fewer hours, and that people today work substantially more.

Don't forget to divide the numbers by 52 for the weekly number of hours worked.
I don't see it as a plug but more of a validation. His grandpa raised him the right way and taught him the value of hard work, perseverance and dedication. Those are things that you need in the startup industry and yielded success in his grandchildren's work. Ifixit is already well known, so it stands to be an example rather than cheap marketing.
Technology doesn't drop from the sky, like everything else it is created (or farmed, or dug up from the earth) and rightfully belongs to its creator.
Reasonable doubt.
> Arrow's theorem says there is no voting system that's "perfect".

No it doesn't, its says that there is no system limited to rank-order inputs and outputs that meets certain criteria.

There are plenty of actual and potential voting systems that aren't within its scope, and it is also debatable whether the criteria it applies are the correct ones for a "perfect" voting system.
The technology has gone through an iteration or two, with the latest coming in the last year. Your judgement may have been valid in the past (though you're providing a far worse perspective than I've heard from anyone else), but if you haven't been a customer for a while, your past experience is not a predictor of current performance.

As for the incompetent installers, they're probably the exact same local contractors working for Dish Network or DirecTV. Results will vary by area.
Figured as much, was wondering if it were close to the russian dash cameras or more of a boogeyman that isn't likely to be reality.
dollars that are part of the drug trade will suddenly have no where to go

I'm long on tie-dye. People will still enjoy advertising what sort of highs they enjoy.
I actually don't mind Gildan's quality, but "dyed burlap" gave me a nice chuckle.
When you connect this with the usage of Zoom Text Only option in Firefox, due to zoom (bigger text) + an overflow (if divs do not fit any longer within the parent width) the top bar can take substantial part of the screen on desktop also. Quite annoying indeed.
Spreadshirt has an API. But they are more focussed on small orders instead of bulk.
Sometimes I wish HN had the author of the referenced article in the summary, rather than just the domain name. This article is from Ed Bott, and it's worthless. His claim is essentially that no experts vetted the Washington Post and Guardian articles, so WaPo and The Guardian got things somewhat wrong.

That's really presumptuous, given that we've seen 5 slides of a 41-slide PPT deck. Now, if Bott had claimed that we should be grateful we only saw 5 slides of an insanely poorly-produced deck, and that to watch all 41 would be to risk PPT poisoning, maybe. But pleading "let the experts decide" is insulting rubbish. That's just a milder form of authoritarianism.

Not everyone is a sheeple, Mr Bott. Give us the info and let us decide for ourselves.
Since you get a bulk discount, would you pay a service say, $3 - $6 a week for such a t-shirt?

Alternative idea: Reddit for t-shirts. Everyone can create and upvote shirts. At the end of each week, everyone gets the highest upvoted shirt for $3 - $6.

Thoughts?
Hey ulisesrmzroche,

You seem to possess good knowledge with Ember and its inner workings, how can I get in touch? You can get in touch with me through my profile.
I'm glad I saw this, I have been looking for a book on Go to use as a resource. I've jumped right in with success, but I feel like I'm missing some of the main fundamentals that could expand my knowledge further. Just bought the Kindle version :)
Social network graphs in Homer's Odyssey match modern network structures
Next time you aren't sure if you should share your art with others, use this.
It's not just your lungs though...

You know that pain you get in your sinuses and ears and other air-pockets in your body when you swim to the bottom of the deep-end of the pool? That's from a pressure difference of like .3 bar. Now imagine something 10 times that.
The incentive to work is you make more money.

Everyone gets basic income, regardless of other income. It isn't taxed because taxing what the government gives just so it can redistribute again later is stupid.

If you earn additional income above the government provided basic income, you pay taxes on it, on a sliding scale. The more you make, the higher the rate you pay. The rich who work for their wealth are still rich, but the gaps between their wealth and the "poor" who only receive basic income is made smaller, and no matter what, everyone has enough to live.
What draq is saying, is that in this system, you still are compensated for your efforts of squeezing out additional profits- by inventing or any other process that leads to increased efficiency and profits. The compensation is just, "less". There is still an incentive to work, but there should not be the huge disparity of wealth we have now.
That's very interesting.

I haven't yet gone through the book you linked, but it appears from a quick glance at wikipedia that chronic cocaine usage does bring with it some fairly bad physical side-effects. Are you saying that chronic usage will be rare if cocaine were legal?

You seem right however about heroin: "Like most opioids, unadulterated heroin does not cause many long-term complications other than dependence and constipation." I had no idea!
Yeah, I totally get that. It's just that having learned Ruby first, when I try to write Python I type things that I think should work, but they're just the wrong syntax. Like, as a trivial example, I always try to push() on a List when I want to use it like a stack. List in Python has a pop() method but no push() method, what's up with that? I guess I just need to RTFM though.
I dont think manufacturing is the issue in the industry. The pain points that I hear companies dealing with from printing for a bunch is in actual fulfillment in various ways, as most of the printing sites are just simply e-commerce stores for merchandise and dont have a solution for the actual fulfillment of those items to the end customers. Also, for promotional merchandise, there aren't great marketing tools that are tightly coupled with this to make the swag effective in getting customers (i.e running contests / giveaways /etc). It is definitely low margin but finding ways to help companies higher up the food chain is what I think is important (TeeSpring, for example is doing a great job of this).
The military exercise in the gulf that you mention is the near-equivalent of what Kirk did in the Kobayashi Maru scenario, so I'd be careful with how much you draw from that inference. There are certainly lessons to learn, don't get me wrong, but unless you have the details on the war game and the training to understand what happened and why then you're guessing just as much as anyone else is.

Besides, the government can easily get human informants; there's no such thing as a truly trusted courier system.
I hope you'd get permission for commercial use of each of the images you find via Google Image Search?
I have a weekend project that is in "private beta" (still a few weekends from launch) that combines computer generated art and one-off T-shirts. I've been working with http://printaura.com/.

I like the idea of coding up adapters so we can switch fulfillment providers if we needed to.
what order can apply to non-USA entities? NSA has legal jurisdiction only in USA. The problem is that US is controlling internet infrastructure, thus internet.
The labmate recorded 6 hours of audio on you without your prior knowledge? That sort of thing can be downright illegal. That lab should have had some adult supervision.

This illustrates why we can't let just let researchers and enthusiasts run wild with new (and old) privacy-impacting technology. Like nuclear and biomedical research, we need an ongoing public discussion about boundaries.
Could you expand on this? I'm an EE but I don't see the practicality of building all your own hardware. As it is it is difficult enough to build economical hardware to sell to others, let alone build one off personal hardware. What power am I holding here?...
Woot does this to some extent with their Shirt Derby. http://shirt.woot.com/derby
"Yeah, but this is The Atlantic, a 156-year-old magazine with a reputation for literary and journalistic excellence".

The first thing I think of when I see The Atlantic is when they ran sponsored content as if it were a normal article, and the comments on that article were moderated by the marketing team so they were all positive. I think they really screwed up their brand that time.
Details/cite?
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Mostly true, but you will still have some of the negatives you mention, just as we do in relation to alcoholism. That's not a reason to maintain prohibition, but if we're making drugs legal then we should channel some of the tax revenue to harm mitigation, which is inevitably going to be necessary.
How is it not a permanent problem? Are you seriously asserting that the skills and jobs that workers re-train into will not have the exact same problem before long?
"matters which you consider trivial,"

I've reread his post 3 or so times, and I never came to the conclusion that he had this belief.

"and that they simply don't have the 'mental bandwidth' to understand what's going on, unlike yourself."

If you lead a busy life, you won't have time, motivation, or enough attention to consider outside affairs. Is that false? What's the big deal?
One 27-inch screen, as it's a mid-2011 iMac.

The horrible thing is that I actually find myself wanting more screen space, now and again. (Part of that might be using 16pt Consolas as my emacs font, but I work with so many people who need glasses.)
Raymond from Shirts.io here.

You were saying? http://i.imgur.com/vSySViF.jpg
By "political" I really meant "involved in elections". (Which the organization you mention no longer is.)

Sorry, sloppy language on my part.
I think the assertion is we are approaching a time in which skills will be automated away faster than the time it takes to acquire them. Where will AI be in a "full generation"? I don't know, but a good bet is getting very close to human-level intelligence, and far surpassing it in many many specialized tasks.
Yahoo Fought Back Against PRISM, Lost In Secret Ruling
>>What I object to is your assumption that there's no possible way that anyone could understand what's going on and not share your view.

This is just one of the many misunderstandings you have about what I wrote earlier.

I did not say there is no possible way that anyone could understand what is going on. I said people seem to have no desire to understand it and make sense of it because they are, to put it bluntly, too self-absorbed. Some of this is due to choice, and some of it is due to circumstance.

Out of these two categories, I gladly and righteously pass value judgment on the former - I believe it is everyone's civic duty to care about what is going on in their country. If one makes the choice to not perform that duty, that means they are taking what they have (i.e. their freedoms) for granted, and that is the most disadvantageous thing they can do if the ultimate goal is for them to keep what they have. Thomas Jefferson said it himself: the price of freedom is constant vigilance. If you don't pay that price, you don't deserve your freedoms.

For the latter category, I cannot pass judgment because a lot of people do not have the means to determine their circumstance. If one has to work sixteen hours to pay the bills, then they won't have any energy to think about much else. I gave my own roommate as an example. Could she quit her well-paying job and become an activist? Sure. Is it reasonable to expect her to? Not really. But it would be reasonable to expect her to watch less TV, for example, to be able to pay attention to the important issues of our time.
Nasa Uses Sanskrit To Program Artificial Intelligence
You really ought to update your understanding of (and support for) the 5th and help yourself cherish it greatly. It has very few parallels in human history.

When someone invokes the 5th, it is as a pleasant reminder that you still are subject to a judicial system that places the burden of proof on the government to prove an innocent defendant guilty. That is how the framers intended it to be--a decisive and enduring departure from bygone days where you were at danger of being forced to incriminate yourself by variously questionable (and sometimes horrific) means.

Citizens invoking the 5th has become in recent decades a vilified action, and this is very dangerous. The reasoning behind a person's invocation of their right against self-incrimination does not matter, and ought not be up to anyone else to judge the merits of. We even instituted Miranda rights to further cement this protection in legal proceedings and the public mind.

I despise the grandstanding and partisanship of American politics. However, when an public official (high-ranking or not; it doesn't matter) invokes the 5th, I take this to mean that the specific question and the implications of answering it, in the particular setting/context in which it is asked causes a person to have reasonable cause and/or justification to "apprehend danger from a direct answer" (Hoffman v. United States). In Grunewald v. United States, the Court held that "one of the Fifth Amendment's basic functions is to protect innocent persons who might otherwise be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances."

In a justice system that holds every person is innocent until proven guilty, that means every person--be they high-ranking official, lowly clerical assistant, or anyone in between.

Universe forbid you ever find yourself accused of a crime, but you will likely find yourself very appreciative of having a constitutional right that affords you the privilege of refusing to testify against yourself in moments you fear direct answers may place you in a dangerous legal position.

Justice requires evidence, not a measurement of your confidence. Let us support uncovering the necessary evidence to understand what has occurred in any given situation, and refrain from prognosticating guilt before then. If we don't, or if we continue to allow the public support of the 5th Amendment to erode further, we may not like the kind of justice we have decades from now.
Nope - the impulse to exhale comes from carbon-dioxide levels, not pressure in the lungs.

You'll go from feeling fine to acute pain to very dangerous damage pretty much momentarily.
Congrats Jude & Immad!
...so now we literally have machine algorithms advocating rape without human intervention. I'm glad there wasn't a complex AI algorithm behind this or oh, the backlash.
One would imagine that any escape procedure from a submarine involves some type of airlock and some type of air breathed in at the pressure for whatever depth you are at.. otherwise you'd just be unconscious from the pain instantly.
In the U.S. self-defense requires a reasonable belief that one's safety is at risk. Parodoxically, this operates the opposite way that Nordic countries apparently do: here, you are less likely to get in trouble for using extreme force (eg. shooting someone in the head) than trying to use less extreme force (eg. breaking their wrist and disarming them), because the extreme reaction shows that you were under a clear and present danger and had to act quickly, while a more measured response indicates that you had time to think and consider your actions, and if you had time to think you probably had time to do things within the existing legal framework like escape or call the police. (All this, of course, is subject to other circumstances: if you break into someone's house and shoot them in the head, it's significantly different from if they break into your house and you shoot them in the head.)

The interesting thing is that the U.S. system seems to function from within the head of the accused: given the situation as you perceived it, did you believe you had no other options other than deadly force on your attacker? While your description of the Nordic system indicates that it functions from a more dispassionate, third-party observer's perspective.
> If you want long term economic security, own something

Couldn't agree more. Thinking that the only means to an income or wealth is labor a very limiting point of view. I'm optimistic about the trends toward entrepreneurialism and ownership, especially in technology. I think this is good for the economy and society overall.
Thank you so much. The API does seem quite complex (it looks like you need to go through dozens of steps to print). I wish they could take Stripe's approach and simplify it somewhat. This seems like a great opportunity for someone to disrupt this market.
People learn what they need to learn -- especially if they start as children.

Mass literacy is very much the result of concerted efforts by the state to provide universal education -- it didn't just come into being.

Moreover, the point of the article is that we are in a time where education, whether self- or school-directed, can't solve the problem, because the productivity benefits of technology are going almost entirely to those with capital, rather than labor, i.e., the people doing the learning. You can argue with whether that is the case, but be aware that when you say "people will learn what they need to learn," you are actually stating the argument that the OP is already rebutting.
Yes, that is why whenever you invent something independently you're fucked because of this nasty thing called "the patent system" that essentially guarantees that most things you create already belong to someone else.
It is not really difficult to imagine this. For example, Safeway near the Caltrain station in SF has exorbitantly priced groceries than Costco or Safeway in Sunnyvale. They maybe using this to their advantage. Hence, for a SF user, it might be cheaper still to use Instacart which in turn gets its groceries from other cheaper stores. And since they do this in bulk, the economies of scale sides with them.