skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realistically though, a super intelligent AI, would require far more fundamental breakthroughs. People who say otherwise, should take a look at problems in Control theory.

The effect of scaling things up should be interesting though. Perhaps there is a "Phase transition" like thing, where suddenly something awesome happens. This also means that, sadly, Universities would no longer be able to provide adequate resources for research.
> Wouldn't businesses just raise prices to offset the basic income, rendering it useless?

Assuming a competitive market, which is a decent assumption overall though clearly there are good for which it doesn't work, an increase in demand (which is what more money going to people more likely to spend it does) should result in an increase in price smaller in proportion than the increase in income and an increase in the quantity of goods sold. So, yes, you'd expect some inflation, but not so much (at any level) as to render the increased income useless.
Not a good PR move? Is this because you think it is a bad idea for:

* quicken to get a ton of free mentions in the press with one month before
income taxes are due?

* this otherwise unknown gentleman from the midwest to announce to the world
that he has a lot of money?
As a .net dev by trade, I seriously don't recommend going with .net for starting with web dev. For every microsoft option, theres 15 open source options with better community support that is easier to get started with.
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We don't hold humans to these standards.
This is really fast!

What I want is a way to actually evaluate the quality of the plans; coverage network (esp while out of state), etc. Ideally vs. my actual medical expenses for the previous year. This is much much harder, though.

(Also, wow, health insurance plans in the state/zip I tried dropped a lot over the past month!)
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The issue is that Cirrus is marketed as a personal transportation vehicle to people who aren't already pilots.

If you look at the accidents, there are quite a few head-scratchers (pilot gets lost and deploys BRS, or pilot gets disoriented in IMC and deploys BRS). It's not just one or two, but quite a lot like this. The Cirrus seems to be the new doctor killer.
No. He's just making fun of the idea that men and women should be identical and should be 50/50 on everything.

In actuality women and men do different things and have different interests. It's kind of crazy to pass up a better person just to get more women/men hired or to do something.

If you have to hire 10 people for a coding position and you have 100 applicants (10 male and 90 female) but the 10 male applicants are better (more qualified and better for the job) than the 90 female applicants then you should hire the 10 male applicant. There is no reason you should try to force it to 5 males and 5 females or even 9 females and 1 male. Just hire whoever is best regardless of gender.
ignore the "3d" idea. Just look at the rules of the game and play by that.

I'm sure some people can maintain clear mental models of higher order dimensions and seamlessly translate the grids on the screen in some hyperspace in the mind.

But I, my friend, have no chance of that. The more I ignore that notion, the easier it becomes.
While it's clear on your website, "sherpa" is unusual enough that I completely missed it trying to read your URL. healths-her-pa, health-spa, health sher pa ... oh! Health Sherpa!
Actually, I was arguing against the idea that society is punishing people who can't find a job.

Personally, I'd love to get BI. That would free me to work only on what I like, or not work at all when I don't want to.
This sounds kind of like the earned income tax credit, which is basically a reverse tax (if you don't make enough to pay taxes, you get a subsidy instead): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit

Expanding EITC substantially would be politically easier than attempting to do this, since it already exists and has bipartisan support (as opposed to raising the minimum wage). You need some sort of job for the EITC, though.
I've just been pointed out in a similar thread nearby (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446404) that the "Lists" link has been there in the bottom left corner all along. The lists page links to /noobcomments, /noobstories, /best, etc.
Is it really that taxing though?

The problem is, your definitions of what is uninteresting, useless and fluff are subjective, and no more relevant than anyone else's, which leads to a conflict of interests within the community about the bounds of what Hacker News content should and shouldn't be.

I think the models which would satisfy the most people are opt-in, in this case, choosing to collapse threads and ignore users rather than expecting the hivemind to do it for you.

Perhaps if users had a custom set of filters which automatically collapsed threads for them based on their own criteria, that would solve part of the problem. But I don't think it's too much to ask of people to actually take the minor effort to form an opinion on what they read, or curate their own account, if they expect content they don't like to be hidden from themselves and potentially from others.
For MD5, a core problem is that the total number of computable hashes is small, meaning that 1) rainbow tables are possible because the entire hash space can be stored in memory on commodity hardware, and 2) specific collisions can be trivially engineered.

This means that both data authenticated by MD5 hashes (say, software package signatures) and access mediated by hashes (say: passwords, if you're incredibly stupid), can be trivially hacked.
Digg changed the way Noobs and Power Users interacted. It created a tiered system that split the community, and then reduced the appeal to new users. It would be like if World of Warcraft only had zones optimized for level 20 and above, and all the Noobs died over and over their first year of playing.
I know I'll get downvoted to hell for this reddit-like behaviour, but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc

Others have already stated the specific reasons why this isn't a good idea very clearly and concisely.
If in the US information is only secure, if in your own possession (not any trustee or similar), than cloud storage and any online service of vital documents is just impossible in the US.

If this is the case: I don't think, that many companies are aware of this. But that would render the worth of online services to void for many companies.

Or are we living in a world of morons?
Closer integration with HHVM than plain PHP
...drum roll...

Accurately assessing financial risk is the reason Buffet has stacked so much paper.
What the hell? It seems like someone just threw up an article that refers to HN at the beginning, then the entire rest of the article is about digg and how it failed. It offers no reasoning at all about how they are similar (they are not).

It really reads like scraped content crap. Pure spam. Do not upvote.
It's possible for HN to be increasing in popularity while decreasing in # of submissions. For instance, if more users are coming to the site, the site is growing in popularity. If the X percent of users who normally submit the most frequently are decreasing their submission rates, submissions will go down despite the user growth.

Of course, this scenario assumes that # of submissions follows a power law distribution: a small percentage of posters make the majority of submissions. That pattern emerges on many content sites, especially sites with active forms of communal self-moderation. I have no idea if it's the case here, but it seems feasible.
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I find these changes to be very degrading of what I love about HN. Regardless of objective truth or upmost importance being the defining characteristics of comments, I happen to enjoy the quirky humor and general remarks of fellow HNer's. Very disappointing, PG.
Yet, somehow, welfare, food stamps, medicaid, social security, etc etc etc still keep writing checks when the economy is down. Ok, so wipe all those out (including the significant overhead of running each one by its own, separate organization), and send the checks to everyone who's a citizen.

> Ultimately, it is another form of "spending other people's money" which runs out at some point or the other.

This is already happening. See above. It doesn't run out if you have a functioning economy. I'd also argue that GBI would make the economy function a lot better by opening up business opportunities to those who don't have access currently.
This might be good for spotting astroturfing campaigns.
The reason Google or Microsoft or Yahoo won't implement it is that only on the order of a few thousand people want it. Most people would much rather be able to search their email from any device, which requires the server to have an unencrypted copy.

These companies don't bother with products that have such a niche market. There are plenty of smaller companies that do though, so I don't see anything to complain about.
> Do you want to switch to metered service?

I'd rather have metered service than ISPs (who are often without effective competition as ISPs, and where the necessary property access -- which the incumbents got as monopoly telephone and/or cable providers -- to compete poses a very high barrier to new competition) that are also streaming video providers using consumption of unmetered service as an excuse to selectively try to extract rents from competitors in the streaming video space to reduce competition in that space so that they can establish non-competitive markets in that space as well.

This isn't about internet usage, its about access monopolies trying to become content monopolies.
> 3. Banning assisted suicide for the elderly and terminally ill.

Too narrow a scope. Future societies will condemn us for not eliminating mortality faster.
If you are doing a pitch, "Netflix for Octopusses" would make you look stupid. Grammar does matter, especially when you are trying to convince the world you aren't an idiot.
That doesn't have to be common for the system to work. I'm just explaining why they're separate.
In 2012 Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's health funding was $732 billion. And I don't know how you get rid of SS since the government would still need to make payments that are higher than any typical basic income level.

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1258
That definitely helps, though you can't use it to introduce new variables with the := syntax:

if buf, err := json.Marshal(make(chan int)); err != nil {
fmt.Println("Ehh..", err)
return
}

In this case, buf will not be available outside of the if statement. Go fmt can already leave your insignificant whitespace as is, I just wish it could also leave the if error != nil statement say in one line instead of formatting it to take three.
I think wage slavery refers more correctly to the condition many people find themselves in, where they cannot afford the switching costs to find another employer or educate themselves for another career. Perhaps they have a family to support or have basic needs, thus through market discipline they are forced to work in the same conditions.

In other words, although they are getting paid, they are getting paid just enough to live paycheck-to-paycheck, and they can no more be a free labor market participant than a slave.
If that were the case then wouldn't a more appropriate solution be to lock commenting altogether after a particular time since thread creation (or an expiry after falling off of the front page?).
You should rather try to make the comments sound less robotic and more human.
I don't think people will have to wait so much they'll notice, but we'll see.
If they could get a court order, why did they not do so?

I am really amused about the law feeling in the US. It seems to me, that in the US it is enough that a big company thinks that it can get a court order -- in that case nothing else is needed -- don't waste the time of the courts just go on.

Why not allow MS to also do the punishment -- don't waste any court-time!

Really cute!

To come to your question: There are cases, where you can get warrants because you infringe patents. So, when MS thinks, that I could infringe one -- why not search my office documents first??

Is this enough example? I would say, there could be thousands ... just imagine a world where the lawyers of the big companies make the court decisions ... <sarcastic>would be OK, they are making the laws anyway!</sarcastic>
Starting the headline with "Revelations of spying cost" instead of "Spying costs" is taking a position.
No, take from everyone and give to everyone. In a non-biased way. Hey, the rich get their $1k check every month too.
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This is related to the problem I have. I think endorsing something, or upvoting it, or downvoting it is too ambiguous. I try to treat things like that the same way I would when I name something coding. I want the intent to be unambiguous.

That's why I think the notion of giving a really limited subset of reasons to upvote or downvote something could be potentially useful. "Inflammatory" or some other, much better word, would better describe why I downvoted something, and might make it easier to take appropriate action on that, or figure out if the post is a one off for the user, or typical of their habits.

All of this, of course, if heavily dependent on the moderators/creators of the community deciding what exactly they're trying to drive, as far as specific behavior (with or without the input of the community--it's their ship to guide).
Whoops, it should be noted that the spam algorithm changed at around the peak, which also explains the decrease. (I made the chart)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

> in most countries you get a wage AND you are free to look for jobs everywhere around you, and to get them

At some point, there will not be enough jobs to keep everyone gainfully employed doing meaningful work (in even the loosest sense of the word). With a basic income, rather than having immense swaths of poverty, each person would have the freedom of any pursuit they desire. For many, this would be some form of productive work.

> Even from a personal standpoint, most people would not really feel good to be paid to do nothing.

This is a thought process very much a product of our current socio-economic environment, where you are told that you are worth the work you put in. But when there is nothing to do, how can you argue with being paid to do nothing?

Furthermore, it is disingenuous to call it being "paid to do nothing". You are being paid a wage directly, unconditionally, but there is nothing forcing you to do nothing. You are free to do anything the law affords.
This will not break, for example, because everyone know that everyone must be able to pay higher rents? Where I live (Colombia) if the basic income become 5% at the start of the year then everything is 5-10% more costly.

If I get (fixed) 100/month and everyone else too, then the rent will be (surely) X+100. This is happening now, the economy is accelerating and everything is rising up.
Huh? Nobody's suggesting a 100% rate. Every dollar you earn increases your income with a negative income tax, it just doesn't increase it by a full dollar. It might be 90 cents. Still a fairly strong incentive to work.
I have ~1900 karma so I'll be one of the endorsers ... but I am not sure I want to be. I think this is a very aggressive change and one that puts too much power in the hands of people like me. Just because I have enough free time to sit around and rack up HN Karma doesn't mean I should control the speech of other, newer users.

Also I think the delay caused by waiting for endorsements on comments will really kill a lot of fast-moving comment threads. it will make it harder for people to have a discussion until the 1000+ karma gods take notice of the thread and throw enough endorsements around to make the comments visible.
This is interesting. BikePedia is the site I'd currently go to for stuff like this. And at least for the bikes I have direct knowledge of, BikePedia has more of the bikes and fewer errors. For example, in 2005 we have the Trek 2100 WSD which you say has 700/650x25c tires (correct) but 650b wheels (incorrect). The 1500 WSD in the same year lists 700x25c tires only, despite that the smallest versions came with 650x25c instead--a critical distinction. And the derailleur specs are wrong too (BikePedia has the right ones).

I'd contribute corrections if it were right there on the page like Wikipedia, but probably not if I have to go dig for something to edit in GitHub. And I'm less motivated to contribute to a project which for some reason has worse initial data than the existing sites. I wonder where the errors came from.

Similarly, does the site simply rely on people adding whatever bikes they feel like? It seems odd that Detroit Bikes is a listed manufacturer but LeMond is not. LeMond was a fairly significant brand until a few years ago, and there are lots of used ones on the market--unlike Detroit Bikes which I imagine most people have never seen before.
As I said here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446808), there are about 4.6k that have >1000 karma.
If you give the computer primarily 4's, you can clog the board by placing 2's where it cannot merge them. I beat the game on my first attempt this way.
[random buckets of bricks] probably generate less revenue than sponsored sets. ex: marvel, starwars themed legos

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2014/02/infoporn-legos/
I'm opposed to rewarding those who sit around and do nothing period, including the current system.

Yes, starting a business is hard. So? All I'm hearing is excuses.

I'm not saying do things that put you in indentured servitude. Debt is a tool that can be used to great effect but used unwisely it can make life harder. Unless it makes sense financially people are better not incurring college loans and educating themselves or working for less pay. They will actually come out ahead financially even though they may make less in wages. Alas, financial education is rarely taught in school, parents, or society.

Those who start out with less resources need to work harder but it is possible. Why should those who have worked harder or whose parents' have worked harder so their kids have better opportunity have to sacrifice for those unwilling to put in the hard work and make the difficult sacrifices?

The majority of bored people engage in escapism and only a small percentage engage in creative endeavors. People have more disposable time now than they did 100 years but instead of using those hours to work on their own stuff and better themselves the majority engage in escapism (facebook, movies, tv, video games,, etc).

The free market definitely approves of art. What are you talking about? Increasingly larger portions of disposable income are being spent of various forms of content (music, movies, books, etc) than on actual physical goods.
This was incredibly satisfying. Just have to do all the things I hate when the AI in 2048 does to me.
As to the second: "without gratuitous nastiness", I would encourage you to go further towards the postitive and think about building on a FIRST robotics meme, "gracious professionalism" -http://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/gracious-professionalism
Well then we better get it out of people's systems now.

Mac rulez, Windoze sux. Android is greater than iOS any day. OP is stoopid.

Let the flamewars commence.
I disagree that it needs to be done gradually.

They can roll it out tonight and immediately roll it back if it is stifling conversation in a way that causes more harm than it resolves. They can also iterate on it if any part of it works in a way that isn't optimal.

Essentially, if you trust HN/YC to not leave something horribly broken, there is nothing to worry about. The code is not set in stone, and you can bet they'll be watching closely for anything not working well about the new system.
> Since I'm going to check out of HN at the end of this YC cycle...

Wait, what?
Of course it's acceptable. Depending on the circumstances, killing can be acceptable, eating human flesh can be acceptable, why wouldn't stealing be?

It's not taken from you, if everybody receives basic income, how can it be taking from you? You're missing the point.
Does that graph include comments under "submissions", or only stories? I bet the latter. There are only so many conceivably-appropriate-for-HN stories out there, and many of the rest get taken out as spam.

If the number of comments, on the other hand, hadn't gone up since 2012, I'd be shocked.
Taxes remove money from the economy and also create the demand for the fiat currency.

A government that didn't spend any money while collecting taxes would create massive deflation and markets wouldn't clear. On the other hand, a government that didn't collect any taxes and simply spent the money would create inflation.

If for the increase in money supply there is a corresponding increase in GDP, there is no real inflation since the money is chasing more goods and services.

The increase in demand would happen mainly because the MPC multiplier of poor people is higher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_propensity_to_consume

Guess what - that means more poor people getting what they need, before rich people get to fund golden toilets or something. And yes, I will think this way even when I am a billionaire.
Security and detecting duplicates are two different things. You can detect duplicates using a Bloom filter and use a lot less memory than using MD5s.
Any story about Legos on the internet is required to include comments pointing out three facts:

1. Plural of Lego is Lego or Lego bricks

2. Kids in this day and age are lacking creativity because they never combine their Legos into a big box when they're done building the initial design

3. The makers of Legos demean girls by marketing girly sets to them.
It's important to remember that news.yc is, and always will be, a Y Combinator owned private website.

It's the community which is what made it what it is today, but there's no question that it's by no means a democracy. I had to come to grips with this a long time ago after getting slowbanned and my submission privileges revoked a year ago without any prior warning whatsoever. It was a stupid article, yes, but come on.

Twas then when I learned that PG is Mussolini in disguise. Hey, at least he made the comments run on "quality." (terrible joke, I know)
Oh I know, but inevitably someone is going to use this endorse thing as a way to be incredibly condescending. Hopefully this system will then prevent that post to show, but I doubt it.