skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is strange - I tested again now. This time I went incognito in chrome and to my very surprise I see the facebook icon. Very strange :-(

I don't see the icon if I don't go incognito
You don't lose your basic income just because you get a job. Everyone gets it.
One problem with BI is the potential future overpopulation problem making it unsustainable even for rich countries. The solution is quite simple though, but I don't guess people would accept it: if you have more than two children per family, you loose the BI (forever, for live, you are never eligible for it again, even if your children die).

A bigger one is the global context: the retoric in poorer countries could very easily get to "those rich smucks with their strong army and everything have so much money they can even pay the slackers who do nothing! while we are milked by their corporations and can't even afford clean water for all!" and then you know what happens next...
I take a few (omega 3, B complex..), but I would love to read a detailed report on what supplements Ray Kurzweil takes and why (he's a real supplement freak, but seems to know what he is doing).
There is very rarely a time that good discourse has begun by filtering everyone out but 'the right people'. All you are doing is creating one of the world's most optimized circle-jerks.
Right, but your kids aren't thinking like buzz marketers:
1.) Do X
2.) Pitch as "Netflix for X"
3.) ...
4.) Profit
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> Thanks for the nasty stereotype though.

Sure, anytime.
Good point, they can say whatever they want but we should just assume that our data could fall into someone else hands at any moment..
"LEGOs are crazy-expensive. If you want to buy a Star Wars set bigger than your fist you’re likely to drop $50 or more. "

Not really. When you are buying Star Wars set, you are paying for IP. Of course it is incredibly expensive. It is different when you are buying non ip packs of bricks and less popular sets. Brick price measured by volume or number is cheaper then ever been.

Here is someone who calculated it: http://therealityprose.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/what_happene...
I lived in Russia for several years. Communism didn't work because people didn't have a strong incentive to work. They also lost sight of how to efficiently organize resources.

I can't tell you how many times I walked into a store and the clerk was reading a book and when I tried to ask a question they just ignored me or shrugged me off without bothering to even try to help. Sometimes they will flat out lie about whether they have something in stock to get you out of the store.

Another example, I can go to a market and there are 5 old ladies in a row all selling potatoes. I can't find any carrots or onions and so I have to walk another mile to a different market to get them. Instead, one of them could sell carrots at a premium so I don't have to walk so far, and another onions.

That's communism.
That is what I think. Probably at least half of my posts are advocating libertarian anarchy, revisionist history and non-mainstream economics, so I feel like I am going to be censored. Just as a user, if I had 1000 karma I feel like I would be too lazy to go down a whole thread and evaluate the worthiness of each post and approve it too. I'll wait and see but it seems like it will be a failure.
Physique can obviously vary widely, and differences in nutrition at key stages of development can have noticeable effects on facial bone structure and dentition, but I suspect the basics of facial geometry won't drift too far in most cases. It would be very interesting to take the generated output from this and see how it performs against some commercial facial recognition algorithms that has been trained on a large dataset, eg Facebook's.
>second guesses whether what they're posting is any good.

A much more accurate portrayal is everyone second guessing whether or not their comment will please the HN group-think. People don't filter themselves when they think their idea is stupid, they filter themselves when they think their idea will be unpopular.
In that case, I often use Textmate or gedit. Scripting doesn't really create a need for an IDE (IMO).
New Scientist is a British magazine, but 'mug shot' isn't an everyday term in the UK (partly because UK police don't automatically release photos of arrestees like most US police), so over there the term is used a bit more loosely.
here are some cases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_adoption_cases
In particular, the Department of General Education of the state of Kerala (more than 12,000 schools, about 6 million students, and about 200,000 teachers [1]) heavily promotes FOSS software both as a medium of teaching (all subjects, not just ICT) and as a tool for administration. This initiative is called the "IT@School Project" [2], and they develop and use their own customized version of Ubuntu (called "IT@School GNU/Linux" [3]) in all their schools. They do quite a bit of customization to adapt available FOSS software to the needs of their audience (which is drawn from all strata of society; this is (almost) free and compulsory education provided by the state).

The project uses customized FOSS software, such as Dr. Geo, Rasmol, K-Tech lab, Geogebra, Chemtool, and Kalcium [4], to teach various subjects. They also have ICT as a separate subject starting from Class 4 (9-year olds). As part of this, they start teaching programming (in Python, and using games, graphics, and other age-appropriate methods, and starting very gently) from Class 4. (They also teach a lot of other stuff.)

The project implements a lot of e-governance programs using FOSS software. This includes [4]:

1. A single-window admission system for higher-secondary education

2. Computerization of the program of providing free lunch in schools

3. Online transfer and posting of teachers

4. Software for administering the state's annual Youth Festival
(Arts competitions. Around 10,000 participants this year, often touted as Asia's largest such event.)

5. ERP software for arts festivals at the school level.

6. Software for administering scholarships

7. Centralised online textbook intend system

8. Payroll administration for teachers and other staff in the department

9. Software for monitoring physical fitness programmes in schools

(In case you are wondering: every school is provided a (paid-for) broadband connection as well.)

They estimate that the shift to FOSS has saved the state quite a bit of money already [5]:

"The Project has supplied thousands of computers and laptops to schools in the state. about 50,000 computers to schools. The proprietary OS and other application software come with a price tag of about Rs. 10,000/- per PC. By deploying Free Software based Operating System and applications instead of Proprietary software , IT@School Project is able to save an amount of Rs.11 Crores (Rs. 110 million) each year. Also the Educational content like interactive multimedia CDs are now being developed on free software platform, resulting in a savings of Rs. 75 lakhs (Rs. 7.5 million). The examination software which was developed using free software has effected in a savings of about Rs. 25 lakhs (Rs. 2.5 millon)."

[1] https://www.itschool.gov.in/glance.php

[2] https://www.itschool.gov.in/

[3] https://www.itschool.gov.in/downloads.php

[4] https://www.itschool.gov.in/activities.php

[5] https://www.itschool.gov.in/otherprograms.php#6

(Edit: Minor fixes, formatting.)
That improperly restates my rebuttal. I'm not saying that Islam is never Muslim or vice versa. He's making the forall statement, not me. I'm saying that it's completely false that "The only way that Muslims can reasonably be said to exist as a group is in terms of their adherence to the doctrine of Islam". Trivially refuted since he's making a ∀ statement. You only have to find a ∃ to refute it. Google "cultural muslim", etc.
I fear that giving such a significant power based on karma score might create karma whoring behaviors.

Then again it can be turned off if experience shows that it has such nasty side effects.
That's not really how computational complexity works.
What the Google employee did was just plain dumb and reckless and pointless to the point where I could totally believe that she bragged about it to a coworker, or otherwise failed to be totally discreet about it and got caught. No email snooping required. Seriously, the degree of stupidity that you just described is utterly mind-boggling on so many different levels. Wow.
Indeed, Saturday night here!
How about these "features":

* Your insurer can decide not to cover a treatment because, after digging through your medical history, they find something that lets them claim it's a preexisting condition.

* Your insurer can cancel your plan, and not let you sign up for a new one.
Same here, although I somehow wanted it to win, so I could finally at least see the mythical 2048 tile that everyone seems to be speaking of.
Drone video of UK storm damaged rail repairs
I don't see the real need to have every single comment a user makes moderated.

Surely just adding a button that says "report" to comments that sends the message to a pending queue and sees how 1000's respond to it?

I also assume that >1000ers go unmoderated?
If you developed it to give consistently good results on other primates and then other mammals, then you could probably feel pretty confident about things such as cranial shape, eye color etc. etc.
This is possible as the molecular machinery for translating a DNA sequence into a 3-D structure is highly conserved - basically if you can convert modern human DNA into a face then you can convert other close relatives as well.
Yeah, if one wants a site without opinion, emotion or discussion there is always stackoverflow.com
If you mean that special interests influence government policy, I'll be forced to agree with you. However, this is widely different from what is commonly understood as a "planned economy". Nobody sits down and decides of the economic output necessary.
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You use karma as a measure of quality (here as a way to indicate someone should have rights to endorse). One other change which I think would help comment quality is to separate or cap points for submissions (which can be disproportionate), so that users do not gain karma from posting popular stories. One person posting some flamebait article can easily get over 1000 points just by posting a link, and they are encouraged to post sensational or gossipy articles by the current system in order to get around karma limitations.

Popularity is not the same as quality, and the divergence will only grow as more users join the site.

It will be interesting to see how this change plays out, but you definitely need a solution to the problem cperciva points out - at present anything not on home simply doesn't recieve sufficient attention for this scheme to work. The new page is regularly full of articles with less than 3 votes.
The entire structure of this forum encourages groupthink. Look at shadow bans, their entire purpose is to permanently silence someone that speaks against the crowd without even letting him/her know and without providing any means of appeal.

Even though the content of the submissions of this site brings me back day after day, to pretend the comment section provides any reasonable environment for meaningful discourse is laughable. Why the suppression of certain view points and people via shadow bans is acceptable to most people is something I've never quite grasped.
I don't advocate criminalizing wealth. I'm not sure how you got that from my posts.

What I question is whether the method by which our system allocates wealth is optimal in any way. Yes, I think there are things we could do from a taxation standpoint to reallocate or put to public use, but that doesn't address the root issue, and it also gives people the impression that their gross earnings are naturally theirs in the first place.

Imagine for a Fake America with the same number of dollars, each with the same purchasing power as in the real America. Now imagine that the wealthiest American had, say, $250M, due to the norms of compensation in Fake America. What would society look like? Would anyone whose wealth in this Fake America is 1% of their wealth in Real America even know the difference?

Is this scenario possible? Who knows. Perhaps the specific scale of inequality in Real America is exactly optimal. Of course, we don't know whether this flatter distribution would reproduce the same level of enterprise we see in Real America. But I don't see why not. The 0.01% would have less resources to wield, but we'd also have way more people with resources far beyond their needs. If I never thought it would be conceivable to be a billionaire, the allure of the possibility of being a hundred-millionaire would still tempt me.

The tacit counterargument is that the only things that can possibly promote private enterprise on the scale that it exists in Real America are the ability to be at least ten thousand times richer than a person who'd already be considered quite rich, as well as the ability to establish dynasties that privilege your progeny long after your contributions to private enterprise. That could very well be true, but I'm not cynical enough to accept that without very strong argument.
I would mention the great Roller Coaster Tycoon pc game series (1999-2004): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RollerCoaster_Tycoon_(series)

You can design your own roller coaster and measure the G-forces. High g-forces will scare them off and low forces won't attract many guest to take a ride.
How can we try it out? How can all non moderators know what they are missing?
some MVPs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome in Canada

http://www.socialjustice.ie/content/basic-income-schemes-28-... report on all kinds of experiments in Africa
You can't have wealth without creating it through labor. You can see this when you isolate the abstractions society has and go to the core semantics.

Take a population of people. Stick them on a remote island. Then institute this measure. Where does this income come from? If you just print money, what is there to buy if nobody has produced it? If it is from taxation, then if you produce something and others just take it why would you bother producing when it is much easier just to take from others like everyone else?

I would argue, and history seems to show this. That a society prospers as a whole the more they reward hard work and allow the people to enjoy the fruits of their own labors.
Yes. You'd think that they would have moved to open source already if they could. Impending end of support for XP was no secret nor unexpected.
I missed the large discussion thread earlier, and I imagine someone there brought up something similar already, but I doubt it precisely what I am about to post. I'll make my more nuanced comment first.

What about older threads? Sometimes I don't visit HN actively throughout the day, but partake in the discussion at night or the next morning if I have spare time. Many times my comments are slight clarifications of a point being made, or providing some citations or links to resources that I happen to know about on the subject. They almost always go unnoticed with 1 karma, but I continue to do so because they provide helpful resources for someone who comes along later, perhaps by search, or through the discussion view on their user page. If no users with the ability to approve the comment browse the old threads, and my comment is quickly pushed off the earlier pages of the pending comments section, they'll be lost.

More generally, I get why this is being done, and it's even a touch exciting. I would love to see general comment quality improve if for the only reason that the general quality forms expectations in the community, and this can help raise the bar a little. However, it's also pretty concerning. It's a big surprise to see human activity be what is reached for.

Edit: Woah, so it turns out my main concern was discussed in the thread by cperciva [0], and it was an oversight by pg which resulted in the page of pending comments being added. This certainly has the potential to raise comment quality dramatically, but is fraught with danger.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445916

Edit 2: I don't want to flood this comment thread with another post, so I'll make it here. Close to 40 minutes after making the above, I find even my lingering doubt has close to disappeared and been replaced by excitement. My initial horror disappeared surprisingly quickly, even before I made the above comment, as I realized quickly how much this could improve comment quality. Yet, after some reading in the announcement thread, I find myself feeling like a slightly modified system would require much less activity from users, but be nearly as effective.

Why not have, after a certain threshold of endorsed comments, comments by the user be automatically endorsed. Then, instead of requiring active endorsement for every comment, give high karma users the ability to require further comments by a bad commenter to require endorsement before appearing. This ensures that they can only make a handful of low quality comments before being pushed to active moderation, and presumably the event would happen rarely so that abuse of the ability can be more accurately monitored. I imagine that the opposite idea, having bad comments being endorsed by a user resulting in the removal their ability to endorse, would be more work.

Another 20 minutes later, and one last edit just for posterity: I still remain fairly bullish about the potential, but reading the discussion threads leaves me bouncing back and forth between excitement and concern. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out, in either case.
Discussion isn't "efficient" !
Roundabout conversing is still optimal and useful in re the end goal of hitting potentially unreachable topics, and just because they are far-removed from the core topics or the central themes of the OP does not mean that they aren't still enlightening topics!

I left Reddit because it became more interested in policing rather than discourse, and I am so fudging blown that HN is devolving into the same priordial soup of authority that is more concerned with making sure that every submission has a pristine set of comments rather than a potentially controversial battery of back-and-forth argumentation.

Instead, why not allow anyone with +500 comment karma the authority to flag a post and if 3+ users flagged the same post it would die? It would be visible at inception but as time went on, if it was shitty it would get killed... Sure some folks would see shitty posts, but that's ok! Who cares? Its nbd, I see shit all day via the internet and I dont stop browsing! That way normal people could still influence the future of discussions while not deliberating precluding newbs posting just out of a silly fear of low-quality content...

Am I crazy or is what I'm saying make sense to the masses?
Society is made of many individuals, you can't disconnect a discussion about society from one about individuals, including "me". If you make high-level society-wide decisions that trample on individuals' rights, that also has society-wide implications (even if it's just a minority of individuals). What you're proposing is a tyranny of the majority, where the opinion of a single individual is discounted "for the greater good".

On the other hand, I believe society is just a big group of individuals, so "what about me?" does matter (in fact, it's maybe the most important question in all of society).
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I only have 50 karma, however I have been here for quite some time. I don't normally comment but now that all my comments will be pending it makes my comments on new stories less likely to appear.

Unless they get more coverage and land on the front page.

Shame :(
The company was Blue Cross Blue Shield (if you care)
LEGO used to have a large notice on their site, similar to that one:

“The word LEGO is a brand name, and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our products as “LEGO bricks or toys” and not “LEGOS.” By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud, and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you!”
As is so typical of Scientific American these days, there's no information whatsoever about the technology itself, other than that it includes lasers and various precision optics.

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/CMB/bicep2/instrument.html which isn't included in the article either.
Actually, someone submitted a pull request to fix this 4 hours before my original comment: https://github.com/isaacs/st/pull/37/files
Here's the complete original -- in French:

http://www.oasisfle.com/ebook_oasisfle/exercices%20de%20styl...

And for anyone curious, Queneau belonged to Oulipo: "L'Ouvroir de littérature potentielle" or the "workshop of potential literature." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo

Other members: Georges Perec and Italo Calvino.

I'm afraid the movement has lost its elan now. The founders are dead. The standard bearers are old Frenchmen, for the most part, living for another age. I know because I have met them. The future is elsewhere.
"At first blush, Microsoft’s unilateral decision to rifle through its user’s emails sounds like a violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, ECPA. We at EFF have called for critical updates to ECPA’s privacy protections, but the law is fundamentally designed to protect email from this kind of snooping, albeit with some narrow exceptions."

The charge is that they violated the spirit but not the letter of ECPA
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Because anyone who stumbles on the thread later can't see the resolution.

Email isn't public discussion.
It's worth considering bias though. Do the people in charge of hiring fairly assess the skills of an applicant? I suspect that orchestras in the 1970's would have claimed to be meritocratic in their audition practices, but the success rate of female auditionees quintupled with the introduction of blind auditions. [1]

In the case where you've hired 10 males out of a pool of 90 females and 10 males, it's not unreasonable to suspect that maybe something is wrong with your hiring practices, is it? It definitely could be that everything truly was based on merit, however there could be biases in the hiring process of which you're not aware. Could this be what most of the people that you see as having "contempt for the concept of meritocracy" are actually thinking?

That said, there are good and bad ways of dealing with these sorts of issues. I generally dislike affirmative action like solutions, much for the same reason that Justice Clarence Thomas dislikes affirmative action. Solutions like blind auditions, that attempt to remove the biases, rather than negate them, are far better.

[1] - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5903
Thoughts on the new HN policy
Considering the original works are well outside of copyright, applying CC 3.0 to the images themselves really isn't especially grandiose of them. Though I appreciate their not trying to assert control.
I've heard a couple people say they like it because you store new types of data without going through a bureaucratic nightmare. Some organizations can take weeks or longer to get a new table column approved, due to red tape or the DBA not playing well with others. With NoSQL, new data types are easy to introduce into your document without much political drama and mountains of paperwork.
How does the authentication in the new UK £1 coin work?
I'm always surprised when reading the notes of scientists and mathematicians working in previous centuries to see just how steeped they were in synthetic geometry. This was taken to an extreme in the case of the Principia, but one can't read Gibbs or Maxwell either without realizing that they felt Euclid in their bones in a way that few people do today, with possible exceptions for mathematicians trained under the Soviet system.