skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My significant other works at the local power company, I'm always receiving SMS pictures of charred raccoons etc.
True, but I doubt new jobs will be invented in the same number. Also those new jobs will demand a much higher education/qualification which is fine but then we have to make sure the poor will have access to higher education which they currently do not have for several reasons.
King of the ARMverse: Can anyone snap the dragon?
Algorithms in C/C++
mistercow points out that this statute only applies to antitrust investigations, I don't see how it could apply in this case.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6309891
# Hah, I have almost the exact same thing in my bash_profile
up () {
TIMES=${1:-1};

for ((i=1; i<=$TIMES; i++));
do
cd ..
done
}

EDIT: Although now I'm looking at it and it looks like I made a strange choice with `TIMES=${1:-1};`. Oh well, I think it was my first bash script... it's funny to look back at the hack-y crap that your bash_profile accumulates over time.
I just have an alias .cgit='cd /home/<user>/<...>/<repodir>'

In fact, I have a lot of .c<dir> aliases that take me directly to various frequented directories.
The problem is funding that poverty relief fund is not giving you a competitive advantage in a systemically brutal market. If you give charity (beyond the tax emept parts) while your competition invests, you are losing ground.

If society forces a 10% consumption tax on goods transactions, or you could just put a 10% profit tax, you don't create an environment where being empathetic is bad business.
"I guess this'll be used mainly for function pointers"... first example.
maybe that was their TV, self projects
Thank you very much for the website.
I don't know about Russia, but in the US we have a system where we vote for people who mostly agree with us to represent us in the state and federal government, then try and nudge whoever wins toward our viewpoint on specific legislation. My neighbor and I can both call Paul Broun to encourage him to support our different views.

Sometimes it means markets are deregulated to the point of self-destruction, but it also means we get things like the ACA. It's an imperfect system, but it tends to move in what I consider a good direction. I happen to prefer a civilization that tries to keep the lowest of its members from falling too far, and a system that taxes with representation is the best way I know to do that.
I trust you. My point is not that we shouldn't help poor people. My point is that it should be done voluntarily, not through taxation.

Your example, btw, is not very ordinary. I find it hard to believe that 46 million people in the US (a number mentioned above) need the same amount of help you and your mother needed.

I grew up in a family and we didn't have our own apartment for quite some time (we lived in a single room) and at some point we had to really scratch money to afford something to eat. I didn't and don't complain and I don't believe we should've forced anyone to help us (because this is what taxation is: you ask government to extract money from other people).
Usually most of the people realise the need for this kind of tools when they are facing a need/requirement to develop a single page web application (SPA). If you don't need to make one then it's ok to use jquery or even add some PJAX to make your web site look more snappy. But if you have to develop a SPA, then you can't go far with jQuery because it just wasn't created for this type of things, you have to think about models, templates, about application state management and all other stuff, this is where frameworks like Ember and Angular shine.
> I mean what is this bullshit - basic income guarantee has been in practice for 50 years in almost every communist state around Russia, my Poland included. It wasn't called that way, but the policy was that everyone has to have a job and receive a specified wage.

But is it really the same thing?

A basic income guarantee is the same as having a basic (food/healthcare/public services/whatever) guarantee (basically, state welfare already implemented in many countries) - the difference is the government is paying in money instead of trying to provide the services themselves.

The way I see it, it's quite different than everybody getting the same income. It has the potential to improve public service efficiency and foster the economy away from big production centers (decreasing city population density, which causes a lot of problems on it's own, like homelessness or poor housing conditions, traffic, health and environmental issues, all of which are problems the government has to waste money on already).
Starting position is Maastricht? You sneaky bastard ;-)

(For non-Dutch people: Maastricht is one of the oldest continuously urban centers in the Netherlands, which makes it nice to show off this kind of technology but it's also very far away from the rest of the country. Nice city though, definitely worth a visit).
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To understand if this is feasible I think we would need to answer a few basic questions:

1. Given that we have a plethora of wealth transfers in place why have they not lead to a decrease in poverty? The "Great Society" was introduced 40 or 50 years ago and why has that not lead to a decrease in poverty?

2. Why does collapsing all existing programs into a single program make it more efficient? Why will it lead to less complexity? How will other actors (like government unions) respond?

3. How much is "Basic Income"? How should it be adjusted for inflation? Should it be the same in every geography even though the cost of living varies greatly? It seems to me this is the real question that people focus on even though personally I believe it should be the second.
US population estimate as of current = 316,582,121

Estimated population over 21 = 80% = 253,265,696

Cost of BIG: $2.53 Trillion (15% of GDP, more or less)

The benefit hopefully would be no person should have to worry about basics of water, food and shelter. (See homeless camps that appear to be third-world mud & scrap shelters.)
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Sure, it's just one part of the overall environment. If you wanted to decorate a room to say "boys club - girls keep out," the first thing you'd do is hang up some pinup posters. But in the fashion industry they work with lots of pictures of beautiful women and women outnumber men. And this is probably US specific too; I imagine they do things differently in France.

In computer science (either academia or industry) we have a recruiting problem and we're facing an uphill battle. We have to care about how it looks.
Why did we move away these forms of societies? It's because someone listened to their inner voice and conscience -- they felt deep inside there was something wrong with what was going around them. Few act on these things, but those who do, brought change about in the world.
A lot of unemployed are mentally ill, psychologically unstable or disabled people. How much oversight will you need to get any meaningful output from them? Yeah, they come and try to be useful, but they don't accomplish anything, you fire them, they either go to court or apply to another job they can't do.

BIG solves this but Basic Job doesn't in the slightest.
Rob - Is there a way I can get in touch with you via mail with regards to one of these positions?
Merida (of Pixar's Brave) was proud, rebellious, impulsive; she endangered the well-being of those around her, and was slow to take responsibility for her mistakes. Not bad. :P
> What do I want instead of a Strong Female Character? I want a male:female character ratio of 1:1 instead of 3:1 on our screens.

It's going to be hard. What are the highest grossing movies? Fantasy/sci-fi and crime thrillers? That means you will have to put up with all the just ratio movies being fantasy, because it's hard to come up with a typical convincing crime thriller plot where there are as many women as men.

Realistic films try to portray the reality. If producers start following a feminist agenda, they'll have to sacrifice that. For example, are there many female undercover police officers? Are there many notorious female gangsters? What about bank robbers?
Strong female characters in fiction are often neither genuinely female, nor genuinely strong -- it's as though "strongfemale" is its own type of being. It's a character with a mostly-male personality, lots of curves revealed by a tight-fitting outfit, and the only bit of feminine personality that comes through is a flighty, childish crush on one of the male leads.

I know plenty of genuinely strong women. My wife, my mother in law, the principal at my son's school, and so on. These are people who can handle tough situations, who show genuine leadership qualities, and so on. I've also been delighted by a few strong female characters in modern media -- Shu Lien in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon; half of the main characters on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic; Zoey from Firefly; Delenn, Ivanova, and Lyta from Babylon 5. One thing they all have in common is that they have real, feminine personalities and real strength that doesn't overshadow their personalities.
> I don't think that hate speech bans are compatible with equal protection under the laws.

Ok, so I'll agree with this, but only because most / all laws work this way. I believe that in those instances some protection is still better than no protection, e.g. protection against murder is good despite the alleged ethnic prejudice in the acquittal of George Zimmerman.

I mean, even though it's unfair and far from ideal, you're not losing anything if it's illegal to advocate genocide against Jews but not against Atheists, are you? What's the advantage of it being shitty for everyone?
Authomatic – an authorization/authenticationclient library for Python web apps
How Steve Jobs and Apple turned technology into a religion
wget -O /usr/bin/bd https:[snip]
chmod +rx /usr/bin/bd

Really? Run wget as root to get a random script, and put it into every user's PATH and a directory that should only be used by the system? :-|
Perhaps given more time to tend our own gardens, make our own tools and furniture and work on our houses, we'd be a happier and more prosperous civilization.
Use of booth babes is a somewhat different case. I personally don't like that practice, but it seems likely to me that women on tech conferences are assumed to be booth babes because it is so often true (apparently - I haven't studied that). That is, the likelihood of a woman to be at a tech conference an not be a booth babe might be low, so that the expectation is otherwise. That sucks, of course, but the only way I can see to change that is more tech women attending conferences. Or maybe some obvious signs of non-booth-babeness.

Also, did those women really not manage to talk to anyone? That seems odd, given that booth babes are probably also supposed to make people talk to them, and are considered an effective means for that?
I want to build website with Yapp.js, my business model involves SEO, how can I do this in your framework?
You're going to have to be more specific than that. What "individual problems" are you referring to? What "fundamental flaws" are there?
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Can you detail this often non-well-formed XML? I've not seen any XML parsers that handle invalid XML. Except for people who wrote their own XML parser and think a simple regex is enough.

Validation is another issue, and I don't think you'll find anyone saying that the myriad XML addons are simple or easy :).

The mixing of HTTP and HTML also seems like a bit of strange hack to me. And let's not start talking about well-formed HTTP; I'd be surprised to find many real-world clients or servers actually following the inane HTTP spec. Just like mail clients don't always handle comments in email addresses.
They simply don't appear to exist in the US (especially the west) but I've met a few in Europe, South America.
pushd and popd can be used maintain an easily rewindable history of places you have been. Use pushd to add the cwd to the stack and cd to another directory. Use popd to cd to the top dir on the stack and remove it.

$ pwd
/dir1
$ pushd /some/other/dir
/some/other/dir /dir1
$ pwd
/some/other/dir
$ popd
/dir1
$ pwd
/dir1
If the pouch doesn't work as intended and the phone still has a very weak connection to the tower, the phone will transmit at maximum power, which will just eat through the battery life when sending and receiving data. I can't see this becoming successful if the pouch has this issue.
There was one anime that I watch that was an adaptation of a low-fantasy medieval novel written by a female author.

The protagonist and her love interest were in a role reversal. She was the warrior, and the male was the doctor/caretaker. However, the rest of the setting follows traditional gender roles, although nobody seems to think it's particularly strange that the protagonist was a female warrior.
What is the punishment for reading banned news?
Sorry, my post was a bit sparse on detail. I keep a TC volume (file) on three separate public file shares. My laptop is clean. I download and install TruCrypt, and download the TC volume once I'm through customs. When I say clean, I mean that there's no trace of anything on any of my devices while I cross a border. That means there's no TrueCrypt, and no TrueCrypt volume on my laptop at all. Why should there be? We have the Internet.
If we are moving to that point then tax machines doing human job and split that and only that tax's revenue evenly among the populace. As soon as we get to that point you'll immediately get BI.

Till then, I'd rather not work to support people who had not worked a single day for generations.
We also built Googlee (https://github.com/FriendCode/googlee), it's a service using PhantomJS, allowing you to snapshot the HTML of any Javascript based website.

Depending on how many pages you want indexed, I would pre-index your website with Googlee (periodically) and cache the results to disk, so you can quickly serve the HTML to Google and other bots.

Feel free to shoot me an email at aaron@friendco.de if you need any help.
> Of course it would. But there is no reason to think that an equilibrium couldn't / wouldn't be reached.

I agree equilibrium would be reached. I guess what I'm asking is "Why wouldn't the equilibrium be Marxist communism?" (and if it is, can we just admit that we're advocating for communism?)

> For that to be necessarily true, we'd need to already be in a sort of Malthusian crisis, and/or have a resource scarcity. Sure, it might happen, but it is not a certainty.

Can you elaborate on why this is necessary? This ties into my question of "Why wouldn't the equilibrium be Marxist communism?"

> People still strive for wealth, why would they stop just because of all-you-can-eat-beans-and-rice buffet and health care?

Wealth is a means to an end to achieve a certain quality of life. For most people, it is not the end itself. The caricature of the Scrooge McDuck character who collects money out of a psychopathic addiction to raw wealth so that he can swim around in it is not representative of almost anyone's actual financial goals or motivations.

People don't create wealth for the hell of it - they create it to improve their quality of life. If I am producing wealth, but it is not contributing to my quality of life, I have zero incentive or motivation to continue producing wealth.
Are there many notorious female gangsters?

Far fewer than their male counterparts, but there are some pretty nefarious ones, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griselda_Blanco
An unmotivated, largely unsupervised park fence painter might not achieve much in the way of output for their $7.25 per hour, but importantly they aren't being paid $7.25 per hour to enjoy their chosen form of leisure. Which means that when someone in the private sector wants to pay them $8.50 per hour to work hard creating $10 per hour worth of value, they might actually consider saying yes. Any value the "basic jobs" themselves add to society is just a bonus.

I don't see why the administration of "Basic Jobs" would be any more open to corruption than any other bureaucratic role, many of which administer things far more significant than next week's work assignment to people earning far more than $7.25 per hour. It doesn't seem unsurpassably difficult to design a set of rules to ensure that "basic jobs" are rotated and not too cushy or unpleasant; I'd actually see that as an easier task than calculating a level of "basic income" that doesn't grotesquely distort one or more of (i)low-end labour supply (ii)budget balance (iii)price inflation and (iv)rental yields on substandard property
First, note that the world population is still exploding, and the us still has a 2.2 birthrate.

If basic income only for adults did drive people not to have kids (where you don't get as much welfare as a child costs now, so it is still a net negative today, yet parents have kids anyway) then you would have to then conflate with cultrual and societal rejection of those who don't procreate.

Even if you got into a situation where you had a sub 2 natural birthrate and were concerned about your long term population sustainability, you are looking post 2050 at the earliest. Why not just use genetic engineering to create human templates and just grow generations in labs, a la Brave New World? Why not raise them in some collectively researched and agreed upon environment to try to grow them into creatively thinking intellectual socially capable human beings? Do you really need to organize your social reproductive structure around random pair bonding that gets funky and creates amalgams of the parents, who said parents then raise, with 13 years of state funded daycare in a factory environment?

It is worth noting, though, that African birth rates are still high for a competitive advantage reason - without state elderly welfare programs, you heavily depend on having children that reach adulthood with enough productivity to care for you when you can no longer work fields. It is really modern where some countries don't have children as their retirement account.

It is also worth noting that female empowerment and education more directly correlate with lower birthrates than any amount of fiscal policy. US birthrates haven't changed much between 80s monthly check per baby welfare and modern unemployment programs, but European birthrates tanked when women were getting state guaranteed higher education.
If someone can present an actual spreadsheet showing where the money would come from and how to avoid impacting the prices of things that people requiring BI would be purchasing, then I would be extremely interested in it, but I am willing to flat out say that it's impossible to cough up $2.7 trillion yearly (that's 18% of the US's GDP) without moving the needle in a substantial manner.
I don't think taking business advice from Ayn Rand novels is a particularly smart thing to do.
Obligatory link to Tynan's excellent blog: http://tynan.com/?sort=rank