skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warning: back of the envelope calculations ahead

You're forgetting the fact that a basic income would obviate all means-based welfare programs, unemployment insurance, social security, etc; this means 2.3 TRILLION dollars (1.03T from means-based welfare programs and 1.3T from SS) in savings. Also, it would be enormously strange if we gave a full basic income to every infant, toddler, child and teen in the United States. It seems pretty obvious that kids would count as an adjustment to your received basic income that's <100% of an entire additional basic income. For comparison, a single-person household on average gets $200/mo in food stamps and a family of four gets $500/mo, which works out to children costing 1/4th as much as an adult (and note that food stamps are more sensitive to additional children than housing costs are). The percentage of the population that's below 18 is somewhere around ~25%, so depending on the multiplier that takes ~$600B off of the cost. This means that the actual incremental cost of the program would be roughly $200B(with the weak-link assumption here being the multiplier of a child's cost). This is obviously a large sum of money, but considering the scope of such a program, a revenue increase of that magnitude would honestly be relatively trivial. This is particularly the case when you realize that if you raise tax rates just enough to cancel out the basic income for, say, upper-middle class or higher, you end up with no net tax increase for anyone and an additional bump in revenue (equivalent to a reduction in cost from limiting the basic income to everyone below a given income level, without the administrative hassle of means-testing).

I'm not saying the math WILL definitely work out, because I don't know what the basic-income figure would actually be (especially given C-o-L differences), but there's enough extreme inaccuracies in the bound you're giving that it's not really useful.
This article's title echoes a paper which continues to influence the medical research and bioinformatics community, "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" by JPA Ioannidis.

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

While the OP's article targets some low-hanging fruit, like halting criteria, multiple hypotheses, etc. which should be familiar to anyone serious about bioinformatics and statistics, Ioannidis takes these things a little farther and comes up with a number of corollaries that apply equally well to A/B testing.

After all, the randomized controlled trials that the FDA uses to approve new drugs are essentially identical to what would be called an A/B test on Hacker News.
> Perhaps. But from a political standpoint, it's utopian and most unlikely in the near term.

What's stopping us?
Seriously? IANAL or a Texas attorney either but I can read...

Page 4...Section 211.003..."The governing body of a municipality may regulate...the height, number of stories, and size of buildings and other structures"
Therapy is as effective as medication for many conditions, and more effective for some. But you don't need a condition or even stress to talk to one.

Yes I see a therapist. I see it as no more controversial than seeing a physical therapist for injuries, or a personal trainer to tone yourself, or a coach to train for a sport.

As a programmer, my brain is my work. My therapist is a resource for me to use to improve myself.

And I want to live in a world where there is no more stigma for having a therapist then a trainer, and where being in a support group isn't any more shameful than joining a gym class. Not to mention that being on an antidepressant should be seen like being on insulin for a diabetic.

The only stigma that should exist is a mild one for people that don't get treatment when they have an issue, and that should be mitigated if their issue makes seeking treatment hard.
Oh, my bad then. I miss-understood the proposal and it's implications. But since the protocol supports that, how can we be sure that ISPs won't use it?
No. Things can only be wrong if they're in the past. In the present, they're anointed by the status quo effect: if it is the status quo, then it is the best of all possible worlds by reason of many armchair economics-based arguments.
No one is arguing Yahoo! didn't have talent. We're arguing Yahoo! doesn't have talent now (except for H1B people who are basically imprisoned there, and not many of them). You'll note that the WhatsApp guys are not at Yahoo! today.

Yahoo! used to have some of the best people.
I hate him because I had to spend some time fixing my sound, which had been working fine before, not for personal reasons. I don't think I'm being unreasonable.
Canadians seemed to handle it just fine.

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

Mincome was an experimental Canadian basic income project that was held in Dauphin, Manitoba during the 1970s. The project, funded jointly by the Manitoba provincial government and the Canadian federal government, began with a news release on February 22, 1974, and was closed down in 1979.

The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether a guaranteed, unconditional annual income caused disincentive to work for the recipients, and how great such a disincentive would be.

It allowed every family unit to receive a minimum cash benefit. The results showed a modest impact on labor markets, with working hours dropping one percent for men, three percent for wives, and five percent for unmarried women.[1] However, some have argued these drops may be artificially low because participants knew the guaranteed income was temporary.[2] These decreases in hours worked may be seen as offset by the opportunity cost of more time for family and education. Mothers spent more time rearing newborns, and the educational impacts are regarded as a success. Students in these families showed higher test scores and lower dropout rates. There was also an increase in adults continuing education.[3][4]
A final report was never issued, but Dr. Evelyn Forget (/fɔrˈʒeɪ/) conducted an analysis of the program in 2009 which was published in 2011.[4][5] She found that only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less. Mothers with newborns stopped working because they wanted to stay at home longer with their babies, and teenagers worked less because they weren't under as much pressure to support their families, which resulted in more teenagers graduating. In addition, those who continued to work were given more opportunities to choose what type of work they did. Forget found that in the period that Mincome was administered, hospital visits dropped 8.5 percent, with fewer incidences of work-related injuries, and fewer emergency room visits from car accidents and domestic abuse.[6] Additionally, the period saw a reduction in rates of psychiatric hospitalization, and in the number of mental illness-related consultations with health professionals.[7][8]
Nope. http://talks.golang.org/2014/go1.3.slide#23
3.1.1 TLS Handshake with Proxy certificate

When the user has given consent to the use of a proxy, the User-Agent SHOULD store this consent so that the user does not have to give consent for each new TLS connection involving the proxy. The consent SHOULD be limited to the specific access and MAY be limited to a single connection to that access or limited in time. How the consent information is stored is implementation specific, but as a network may have several proxies (for network resilience) it is RECOMMENDED that the consent is only tied to the Subject field of the proxy certificate so that the consent applies to all proxy certificates with the same name.

If the user has previously given consent to use the specific proxy and the user-agent has stored that, the user-agent may conclude that the user has given consent without asking the user again.

If the user provides consent, the User-Agent continues the TLS handshake with the proxy.

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Right in the next section, it's again implied:

The proxy will then notice that the TLS connection is to be used for a https resource or for a http resource for which the user wants to opt out from the proxy. The proxy will then forward the ClientHello message to the Server and the TLS connection will be end-to-end between the user-agent and the Server.

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Then in 3.2, again implied:

When the User-Agent arrives to the portal page it becomes aware of the existence of a Proxy in the access network and receives a consent request for the proxy to stay in the path for HTTP URI resources. The user-agent then SHOULD secure user consent.

When the user has given consent to the use of a proxy, both the User-Agent and the Proxy SHOULD store this consent so that the user does not have to give consent for each new TLS connection involving the proxy.
You don't see any way around this?

I guess you've never heard of VPNs, then?
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I chatted a while back with Kresten Buch who set this up. I know he's keen to attract experienced developers/founders to mentor teams there. If you seriously fancy broadening your horizons and spending a few months in Africa then it's a great opportunity - drop them an email.
I recently visited Homejoy's SF office and it was the social equivalent of drinking a double espresso. I've visited a lot of startup offices but I've seen few to match this one for concentrated energy.
Can you share any more about your use case here? Intrigued, as a colleague and I have recently been working on highly space-efficient hash maps for a bioinformatics application that it strikes me could be relevant (similar problem -- huge reference set that needs to be accessible with very low access times).

Email is in my profile. Thx!
We've made major strides since Firefox OS 1.0, but even with everything we think we can do there, a $25 phone is not going to feel like what you're used to. No one is claiming that it will.

To understand why that's OK, imagine that you gave up your hero phone and spent a couple of years using a $50 feature phone over 2.5G. And then picked up a Firefox OS smartphone for about $25 and compared them.

We can and will beat the feature phone experience for billions of people who are or will soon be ready to make the leap from feature phones to smartphones and who won't be served by the high cost of iOS and Android devices.

They will have access to a comfortable phone with real web browsing, popular apps, an onscreen keyboard, cameras, notifications, etc, and if we're effective, a great experience that's affordable enough to help them move to this modern online era well before they otherwise might have.

While the big guys are fighting over upgrades for the 4th and 5th generation smartphone users, we're figuring out how to get the next 4 billion people online with their first smartphone.

Maybe we're crazy. I remember a lot of people telling us we were crazy to think we could dethrone Microsoft's browser monopoly. I'm an optimist. I think we're just crazy enough to pull it off. I think the world is counting on us.
Since M0 is about 3.7 trillion, printing 7.5 trillion in cash would cause inflation of about 200% per year.

This would have obviously bad effects, causing people to great lengths to avoid holding cash. I think income or sales tax is the only way to distribute large amounts of money from the rich to the poor.
FB messenger isn't a replica precisely because it ties into FB. WhatsApp made it a point to be extremely easy to sign up for and to not require any other major social media accounts.

Somewhat ironically, Facebook may have been more successful in replicating WhatsApp if they had also made a messenger that was not connected at all with Facebook other than its corporate origins.
Why should Comcast provide transit at a a reasonable price to Cogent when Cogent hosts data that competes with Comcast's own services? Their uneven traffic argument is a relic of the telephone era -- Comcast's customers pay them for 20 Mbps of bandwidth to services they want, but what they get is just 20 Mbps to speedtest.net. It should be on Comcast to ensure their network can get their customers the data they want.
Seeing as the financial sector has failed to do so for decades, I wouldn't hold my breath. Whatever happens, CW Nevius will still be writing columns complaining about his neighbors as he has done for the last quarter-century or so.
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Is it possible that the app you were gifted isn't available in your current locale?
HTTP/2 changes the meaning of the http:// scheme. All connections will now be TLS-encrypted. (Edit: Maybe not. See hobohacker below.) http:// means that the endpoint has not been verified using the CA system and is using a self-signed certificate (and is thus trivially vulnerable to a MITM should certificate keys not be checked out-of-band).

The purpose is to provide confidentiality to the vast majority of traffic, even if the authentication part of the CIA triangle isn't achieved. This proposal's purpose is to undo that and expose all traffic using the http:// scheme to your ISP, exactly as it is today. (I would also note that this draft is proposed by AT&T, which is now rolling out new plans in Austin that charge an extra $30/month if you do NOT agree to them inspecting and data-mining all of your internet activity and selling it to advertisers.)
No, but I am very thankful for your posted workaround.
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Mine (individual purchased, for a family of three) increased slightly, from about $850/month to $880/month, but the cost for office visits went down and the cost of prescription drugs went WAY down.
I can't remember where I read this, but as far as I understand, Google is still losing money on YouTube.
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I'd like to see it because it would be cool. Why implement the game at all in another language? Why not just play the game on the Nintendo, or distribute a ROM for use with an emulator?
They're pretty comparable. A "clone" can almost always be considered a subset of a "rewrite". Both involve a new software system that is directly inspired by an existing one.

The main difference is that a clone is often written by developers who had no involvement with the development of the original system. But that's not always true, especially for any old or sizable software system, where the original developers may no longer be involved.
The benefit is indirect rather than direct, as in the user benefits from the increased availability of plugins/guis since they would be easier to create. Also vim lacks lots of very simple but essential features of modern code editors simply because it lacks the graphical capabilities to do so (an example would be displaying the documentation of some method you are autocompleting, something which I have never seen in vim and which I actually believe is impossible).
It would need to be done via the pointer-to-content (URL/URI), and an independently-calculated secure-hash, not just a header. (The 'ni' proposal might serve this role.[1])

You definitely wouldn't use MD5, as experts have been recommending against its use for content-security since about 1996.[2] (A practical full chosen-preimage attack hasn't yet been developed, but still, you'd design for security for the next few decades, which would mean a SHA256 or better.) The choice of a good hash would mean no one could practically create an alternate file with the same hash.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-farrell-decade-ni-10

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5#cite_note-30
Definitely. I am not sure what metrics Solarflare beat others (presumably including Intel) on, besides software support (OpenOnload implements the BSD sockets API and doesn't require software changes, while DPDK and others implement their own). In my testing, the X520s have been capable of both sending and receiving at line-rate.

It's possible the Solarflare NICs could be better at some metric like latency, by a matter of microseconds (only speculating here), but I can't see how they'd consider that worth the extra money for HTTP servers.
> You just need to make sure your math acknowledges the procedure.

I'd love to hear some clarification on how "[making] sure your math acknowledges" stopping randomized tests early works, because it flies in a face of how actual statistics works.
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> http:// means that the endpoint has not been verified using the CA system and is using a self-signed certificate (and is thus trivially vulnerable to a MITM should certificate keys not be independently checked).

Right. I understand that. The lack of certificate verification for the http scheme means that ISPs can MITM HTTP traffic with or without this proposal, just like they can with HTTP/1.1.

So how does this proposal make things worse?

> new plans in Austin that charge an extra $30/month if you do NOT agree to them inspecting and data-mining all of your web browsing and selling it to advertisers

Really? That's a special kind of evil and should be illegal.
I really don't understand several things about this story.

1. Why move to London if you're an unskilled worker? Are opportunities elsewhere even bleaker?

2. London has a huge problem with absentee property owners because London real estate is currently a hot investment. It's a feedback loop. The more rapidly London properties appreciate, the more absentee owners there will be, and the more demand will rise. Why haven't bylaws been passed to curb this? For example, why aren't residences that are unoccupied by their owner for a significant portion of the year taxed at much higher rates? It would probably be necessary to offer a renter rebate to compensate for increased rents, but this would discourage the practice of leaving residences vacant. If this doesn't actually drive prices down, at least it would prevent them from continuing to rise.

3. Why aren't the barge-lords being treated like slum-lords when the barges they run are overcrowded, full of mould, etc.? I understand it's hard to legally enforce a tenant-landlord relationship when it's all under the table, but there must be something the police can do to hassle these guys until they improve conditions.

4. Where are the government programs, volunteers, etc. that you usually see in other cities building low-cost housing? e.g. Why isn't anyone building legal barges with decent living conditions to compete with the barge-lords?
Why should the tech sector be tied to any one place?
Truthcoin prediction markets for Bitcoin: fully distributed trading and judgment
There is no such thing as a free lunch. The taxes just become hidden in inflation instead of visible income taxes, and it becomes impossible to adjust taxes to different levels on different individuals (all dollars pay the same tax in lost value regardless who holds them or how much income they made that year.)
A p-value cutoff of 5% says that you have a 5% probability that you're wrong in rejecting the Null Hypothesis.

So if you test 100 times, you'd expect to wrongly reject the Null Hypothesis 5 times.
I'm shocked that people who regard themselves as technically sophisticated haven't figured out what clicking on an unsubscribe link actually does.

1. In principle and according to Can-Spam, all marketing e-mails should have an unsubscribe link.

2. But clicking on the link doesn't do what you think it does.

3. After you've clicked on advertiser A's link, he can't mail you again (not that some don't cheat and mail again anyway).

4. BUT -- Advertiser A can legally pass his "unsubscribe" list to advertiser B, or make it part of a widely distributed list for use by other advertisers, LEGALLY. Oh -- did I forget to mention that this is legal?

Before Can-Spam, the standard advice was never to reply to a spam e-mail. But for some reason, after Can-Spam, people got the idea that it was their civic duty to click "unsubscribe" links, even though this identifies your e-mail address as read by a human, and thereby makes it a hot property in the spam business.

Why don't people understand that Can-Spam just made things worse, and that otherwise nothing has changed?
Warning: the graph shown doesn't start the y-axis at 0. Had me briefly wondering if the problem had been eradicated and reoccurred.
Next post needs to say:

“Only an idiot would still be using Gulp.js – Broccoli is the new hotness”
When ExP was a thing at Microsoft, we always ran an A/A test before we did experiments. We'd also do an A/A/B test to make sure the actual experiments were working.

http://www.exp-platform.com/Pages/default.aspx
Whitepaper: https://raw.github.com/psztorc/Truthcoin/master/docs/Truthco...

"Where Bitcoin allows for the decentralized exchange of value, this paper addresses the decentralized creation and administration of Prediction Markets (PMs). An alternative proof-of-work blockchain collects information on the creation and state of PMs, with the winning state of a market determined by a modified weighted-vote. An incentive mechanism attempts to guarantee a) that all voters vote honestly, and b) that PM-creators act as entrepreneurs, bearing the economic costs and benefits of the PMs they create. Bitcoin users can create PMs on any subject, or trade anonymously within any PM, and all PMs enjoy low fees and infinite market liquidity through a LMSR market maker. Scalability and customizability can be achieved via ‘branching’ (controlled-fork). The paper closes with a discussion of implementation details."

Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=475054

My summary: someone may've finally figured out how to build a fully distributed prediction market (including distributed judging, which is not left to the contract author) on top of blockchains, dubbing it 'Truthcoin'. The key idea is how judgment of a prediction market is carried out: holders of truthcoins submit encrypted votes 1/0 on every outstanding market, and rather than a simple majority vote, they're weighted by how well they mirror the overall consensus (across all markets they voted on) and paid out a share of trading fees based on that weight. This punishes deviation from the majority and reminds me of Bayesian truth serum.
The way I'm reading the sections you've quoted, the spec merely allows proxying of https ciphertext. Every router in the internet does that already. Bear in mind that in HTTP 2.0, all connections are TLS connections. The spec sections you've quoted just say that users should only have to consent once to their "http"-resource connections being proxied; they're not talking about "https" resources.
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he's not wrong about SSL being poor.. rather, the CA system is what I consider to be poor.

there was the idea of notaries that never took off, but that would be ideal imho.
Just because you can't, doesn't mean other people can't. I had actually realized basically everything they were talking about a few months ago, and since then I have improved my decision making significantly. Depending on your feelings to power you through things is very unreliable.
> I think this is a myth. The unsubscribe link, from everything I've seen since CAN-SPAM a decade ago, almost always works.

Define "works"? Does clicking "unsubscribe" for advertiser A stop mails from advertiser A? Yes, probably. But what stops advertiser A from sharing his unsubscribe list with advertiser B? Well, nothing -- it's legal and an advantage if advertiser B reciprocates by sharing his list right back.

There's nothing to keep an advertiser from sharing his "unsubscribe" list with any number of other advertisers -- the only legal requirement is that he not mail you again.
Your title is literally the exact opposite of what the article says.

The terms of the multiyear agreement, including whether Netflix was paying for its direct connection, were not disclosed, other than to say that the company “receives no preferential network treatment.”