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I love this! I feared that Instapaper development would stagnate after Marco sold it. Even though he said that they will develop a lot of new features, you know how it often times is when companies/apps get bought.

But i'm happy to see quite the contrary!

What i love about Instapaper is the fact, that it doesn't fuck around. It tries to be one thing and one great thing only. I don't want to see tweets, i don't want to see related articles or what other people think besides my texts.

Instapaper comes as close to reading a ebook/book as it could get. At least for me.
Look at, eg, the English "Working family tax credits" system.

People on low wages pay some tax on those wages, then apply to have some of that tax returned. There's a lot of bureaucracy involved. It's not great to be on those benefits because you can't budget your money.

Scrapping that system and then just reducing the amount of tax that everyone on low wages pays would probably be better.
I disagree. They can't see the wood for the trees.

Über is inherently safe. The drivers are licenced. The cars are modern. And most importantly, the drivers have skin in the game. If you spend any time on the road at all it's frankly irrational to worry about driver safety.

Complaining about Uber, a company that operates entirely through mutual consent, being 'evil' is ridiculous, against the backdrop of a deeply corrupt industry.
Amazing that it easily runs on consumer hardware, this dispels suspicions that a Google cluster was necessary for these results.

I'm wondering if it's possible to use this with a model that was trained on a database without labels, just pictures. Is such a thing even possible? For this particular application, labeling and categories are ultimately superfluous, but are they required in order to get there?
And then, we'll automate hubris.
The real reason Communism couldn't succeed (not necessarily the reason it failed) is because none of the countries trying it were or are advanced capitalistic economies before the revolution. Imagine a transition into communism in a less-scarcity scenario, where robots generate so much material wealth as to provide it to everyone, and no one HAS to work, and technology married to political science in turn allows more distributed forms of governance by the people for the people. Once you have that, and of course less bigots running the roost, you have a shot, as a society, to completely do away with 'marginalization', since every city and every community will be self-contained and no one will have to do commutes to serve a master.

Communism, for all I know, is the alternative to Totalitarism (be it from American corporate overlords or from so called extreme "left") in a future where jobs are no longer to be found lying around. It probably won't be called communism, though. China or Germany (and other smaller european countries) may have a shot, but the US seems destined to be ruled by corporate emperors.
Communism is something else entirely (C & P from wiki: "is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production, absence of social classes, money, and the state."). Clearly we can see that UBI is not communism by I will take the bait anyways.

Every single person I know has a passion they would pursue outside of work. Some of them would be productive for society (startups or SME's) and some would be largely neutral (self-indulging in sports for example) but none would be destructive. Contrasting that to their work lives I have witnessed some of them taking part in activities that are largely destructive to society because it is the only thing that will put food on the table. Surviving at a minimum level of comfort should not be merit based. Living in opulence perhaps but not at bare minimum level.

Finally with your last point if society is stabilized through UBI and we leave behind our guilt based protestant work ethic and crime through desperation ridden society I can't see how I would be worse off. I would be able to pursue any project I deemed worthy (even some that are not profitable but would have a profoundly positive impact on society) and not fear financial ruin. The quality of society would improve and therefore the quality of life for everyone also.

Your post is heavily emotional but full of glaring factual inaccuracies that reflect on you more than they reflect on society itself.
For what it's worth, I've never before heard of \v.
To me, I think the difference is that the guy posting goatse links is causing actual harm, while the guy scraping the website may have basically no impact. Only cases where there are actually meaningful damages should end up in court.
Human nature is people wanting to reap rewards for their work (that includes having private property). UBI doesn't take away that.

Speaking of "removing all incentives to do something useful in the long term", this is what capitalism does today. There aren't many businesses or even people caring about long-term in their lives, because you have to pay your rent next month, you have to be competitive today, you have to reach your company's quarterly goals, etc. Competition makes things inherently short-term. UBI is a way to remove some of the pressure from general population, so you'd have an option to say "fuck it, I'm gonna do something for long-term payoff" and not starve in the process.
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Socialism and Communism are "almost" the same thing.
The most galling implicit premise of all is that every proposal for basic income I've ever seen accepts that BI isn't practically feasible with open borders, and therefore nothing changes at all for the class of people who work the longest hours in the worst conditions
(indeed their wage slavery becomes even more essential to ensuring future riders of the purple wage can still buy consumer goods)

An argument for implementing BI in the foreseeable future isn't really a "nobody should be forced to work" argument, as desirable as that might ultimately be. An argument for implementing BI in ones own developed country in the near term is a "nobody with the right passport should be forced to look for work" argument. I think social security - essentially insuring people from a risk of unemployment caused at least in part by policies enacted by an elected government - is a good idea, but I categorically don't agree that my fellow Brits should have an automatic right to receive more than the world average purchasing power adjusted income without even thinking about doing anything for it.
Nobody sane would experiment on their kids that way so I assume it's a rhetorical question.
iPads and TVs are results of lazy parenting, especially at early ages. Kids should develop playing with parents, siblings, friends and on their own. At a later stage, banning is probably bad but I believe exposure to electronics and their content should be controlled by parents.

When you start to have kids, you notice your social circle is full of other parents (on the one hand your friends are around the same age so they're having kids and on the other hand you tend to be with people having kids - usually the same age). You can clearly see the differences in kids getting (uncontrolled) exposure to electronics at various ages and their reaction to being deprived of them etc. So you certainly develop some awareness and some idea about their effects.
You won't help people by addicting them to free money. Individuals should be independent, what if government change their mind and stops giving money away for free?
Ask HN: How do you go from being an average software developer to a great one?
Practice, practice, practice of course is part of it, but that can only take you so far if you keep making the same mistakes you don't realise you're making.

What else can one do to improve their skills in programming? What are some key resources that everyone in this field should be exposed to?

Things like this are a great source of concepts: http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Contributions_Appearing_in_the_Book

But what are some ways to improve the practical skills of programming, to efficiently and effectively put together the nuts and bolts of software?
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Perl staying ahead of the curve as usual ;)
From what I learned, Communism has this successful capitalism as an assumption, as starting condition. They tried to speed up the process (with bloodshed), so it's no surprise it didn't work, just like you wouldn't expect a baby born 5 months premature to survive. It's not developed enough.
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The main evidence in the article that ipads are bad is:

>The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the most influential body to have released such guidelines, recommends that "television and other entertainment media should be avoided for infants and children under age two."

So they're an influential body but I'd be curious to see the actual evidence. I mean if you worked for the AAP would you say sure go ahead and give them iPads, risking subsequently being found to have caused harm or say oh no be carful and thus cover your arse. They are almost bound to recommend caution as a default.
It can also be created ex-nihilo by the state, similarly to what the private banking system currently does through credit, but without interests. This system causes inflation and to avoid ending up with ridiculously large numbers it requires devaluating at regular intervals.
Depends on the implementation.

Support for TCO means that an unbounded amount of tail calls can be active at a time. A normal call pushes a frame to the stack. Most implementations don't push a frame for a tail call. However when debugging is turned on, one could keep, say, the 10 last frames corresponding to tail calls. That would give you the best of both worlds.
While I don't agree with nanny state regulating this, I don't think your comparison is valid.

Fatty foods were a part of our diet and then the experts at time said they were unhealthy and provided evidence - still the burden of proof was on them.

Children were (successfully) raised for generations without digital devices - you need to actually prove it's a benefit otherwise it's wise to avoid it just on being conservative.
The Windows Live Family Safety filter that was installed on my first internet connected computer taught me how to kill processes and manipulate startup entries on Windows.

Oddly enough, my only experience with OpenDNS is from me convincing my parents to let me try to set it up on the family router because I broke the other control (which makes no sense from a protection / censorship perspective).
The consumption will increase. The poors consume much more than the rich because the money they have is just enough to cover basic needs. Investments may decrease but the relation between savings and investment is far less direct.
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>A child's brain develops rapidly during these first years, and young children learn best by interacting with people, not screens

Whilst probably true in isolation, this is rather a false dichotomy. You could equally say that kids learn better by interacting with people than with cuddly toys, so we shouldn't let kids have them either.

Having a child watch TV,or play with a doll or an iPad, doesn't mean you will now stop talking to your children, and parents aren't going to be spending every single waking second talking to their kids.

So the question that should be asked is whether TVs and iPads are better or worse for kids than the other things that they could be doing during the times that the parents isn't going to be actively interacting with them - things like playing with their dolls, crawling around the house, listening to music, sitting and staring out the window etc.

And I'm guessing that the answer to that question is that they aren't intrinsically particularly better or worse than any of those other things, and that the problem comes when you let any one activity be the default way of keeping the kids quiet.

Of course there are parents who replace any actual human interaction with 18 hours of TV a day. But the problem there isn't really the TV. If you took that away, it probably wouldn't be replaced with human interaction. They'd just find some other way to keep the kids quiet that didn't give them much stimulation either.
Not to mention all the jobs that are socially destructive and other jobs created to counteract the results of the former.
CPU is the last thing you'll bottleneck on in a CDN. You can saturate network IO with a 20% CPU.
> If I could stealthily patch the compiler for any language supporting the "\v" escape so I'd receive mail whenever it occurred in source code, then I could trace actual uses of it. I'm willing to bet that all the mail would come from beginners trying to figure out what the heck "\v" actually does, and then giving up when they realize it doesn't do anything.

Whilst it's true that I've never actually used `\v`, I have included it in code before to cover genuine, necessary edge cases... For example:

https://github.com/tom-lord/regexp-examples/blob/master/lib/...
My toddler grew up using an iPad. He is also outdoors playing most of the day (for 5 or 6 hours). Usually he plays with the iPad for 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the evening, as well as 30 minutes of Netflix.

He also spends time drawing, singing, painting, or reading stories. I don't feel like there is anything wrong with this. The iPad is just another activity.
I honestly think that all images should stay on Wikipedia. In my opinion, there will be less and less copyright infringement about pictures. Websites use the more and more the fact that they use images as "fair use". This is not really restricted and almost any picture could be used under this term.
> If a government were to do that for everyone

Inflation would eat it up.
Basic Income is sometimes dogmatically derided as 'socialist' thus evil. Proponents of Basic Income - or varieties thereof - can be found on the left and the right of the economic political compass. Even Milton Freedman was a proponent of some guise.

Personally I think it is lazy to dismiss the thinking behind Basic Income as merely communism.
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My understanding is that basic income is unconditional while social security has some conditions attached (e.g. you need to go to interviews)
What's equally disgusting is that all of these VCs are upset that the more sophisticated, harder working, more data-driven investors, who used to only be on wall street, are now moving to the earlier and earlier stages, taking away the easy money that the top VCs have enjoyed for so many years.

No more VCs sitting on the beach while collecting fat checks from their carry percentage and toying with companies, sometimes even hurting companies for their own personal enjoyment, at the expense of the LPs.

VC is changing fast, and today's VCs are very upset about it.
Because all these features come at a price.

If you can see why wordpress is terrible, you don't need it and can easily whip out your own replacement.

If you can't see why it's terrible, then it's the perfect product for you.
Exactly.

Though because you bring up central planning - I think that we should reconsider this idea. In a technological society, central planning run by supercomputers executing global optimization algorithms doesn't sound like that bad of an idea. Historically, central planning failed mostly because there was no way for flesh and blood humans to react fast enough and to optimize well enough (that and usual human corruption). Not to mention we didn't have properly developed optimization theory before the 60s.
Yep. Nextdoor often barely works for me, with the browser trying to load some asset or other.
Ask HN: Can the brain create something it doesn't have?
How powerful is fear? If you fear something so much can the brain actually create it?

Like fear of being blind or fear of having a mental disorder is that fear enough to actually make the brain mimic symptoms of it?
Not really since the whole idea about species is they don't actually interbreed. What I find most interesting about the whole human genetic story is all sides were right. The out of Africa side is right and the regional hypothesis side is also right. This is not what I expected 10 years ago.
And I bet those audit logs are classified, right?
I am still on Qt 4.x. How is widget/control support in QML these days? Do they feel as native as the old Qt widgets? This looks really promising:

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquickcontrols-gallery-example.html
Yup, I think a lot of commenters here are taking this literally at face value. I got 2 kids of my own and I get the "vibe", or direction/intent, Taiwan's lawmakers are going for. They know they can't enforce it; they're just trying to suggest "Look, don't just plop your baby/toddler in front of a Youtube Playlist of 200+ Dora-the-explorer & Barney episodes all day. It's not good for adults and it certainly isn't good for a new developing mind. Yes, we know there are educational apps 'n all that... but you know and we know that's what most of you are sedating your kids with on those glowing glossy screens. Let them look around and process their environment & interact with real humans in the room. Dora & Barney are great, but not replacements for real flesh & blood human interaction and the real world environment around them.".

Of course, depending on your social-economic level, this is __far__ easier to do for some parents than others. I'm lucky with my flexible high-earning techjob my wife only works 2 days a week. We have a great deal more time to actually go outside and walk around in nice parks with the kids. Very different from the parents that work crazy hours, _SIX_ days a week and barely have time to sleep before having to go back to work - not to talk of having time with their kids.

______

Pre-emptive: At about this time, in previous similar discussions, someone on HN will say: "Well, why did they have kids if they can't take care of them?" I think this thread handles it well - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177756
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The UK government currently spends around £120b on welfare (Including pensions) a year. Please don't pluck false information out of thin air.
GP post was specifically about those lazy benefits claimants who don't study or do voluntary work to improve their chance of getting back to work.

Parent post correctly points out that many of those claimants were prohibited - under threat of criminal prosecution - from doing those things while claiming some benefit.
I suppose that's why I'm on HN while waiting for builds.
That's why I hate political labels. People say UBI is 'communist' because it's similar to one aspect of communism, and therefore must be bad because of all the other aspects of communism. It's a strong failure mode of human thinking.
Having children on my on, I am firmly convinced that especially in that realm, expert advice should not always be heeded.

A couple of days ago there was an article about parents camping out for days to get their kids registered for a specific school.

If all experts (like teachers) are so good, why are parents going to that extreme length to avoid the majority of those experts (teachers at the unpopular schools)?

If you have kids, you will find a lot of crappy opinions handed out to you. Another example would be "the worlds worst mom" who was criticized for letting her 9 year old kid ride the New York subway alone. Which expert would you as a parent trust?
All the Neanderthal gene flow in living humans came in from the male side - it is more like if he is cut, hit it (Neanderthal's were significantly stronger and more muscular than other humans).
I think it's even more than necessarily being tired: people who struggle to get by are in a constant state of alert and stress that precludes developing their creative dreams (they will have them, but can't advance on them). When you're stressed you'll turn to addictions to relieve yourself: chocolate, TV, MJ, and some will even become workaholics through some basal twisted work ethic.
I got my numbers from here:

http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/

Perhaps I misread the data.
One gripe I have with Instapaper is how it formats code blocks. It doesn't look right at all (at least on the iPad version).
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Hey Pete, I just wanted to say thanks for posting this, it was a huge deal for my page views. Between reddit and hackernews, my webpage went from having about 100 visitors/day to having 10k in a single day! Thanks a bunch, and if you tell me where you live (maybe via comments on my page), I'll make sure you get beer to delivered to your doorstep:)
There isn't much you can do to SVG to hurt readability, actually. Scour mostly removes things such as superfluous IDs, superfluous elements in <defs> that are not used, shortens IDs, rewrites CSS into XML attributes where appropriate, removes attributes that replicate defaults, rewrites paths with a bit less whitespace and most importantly reduces the accuracy of numeric constants. The latter is in many cases the greatest reduction. And you don't notice the difference between 8 digits after the decimal point or 5 (unless the local viewBox is seriously fucked up).
By "somebody else's data" you mean the end users who list their properties on Craigslist, right?
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Yes, but it is unlikely.
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Welcome to the hyper-individualist bro culture based around status and money. The self-worth crutches for people with low self-esteem/ huge uncontrollable egos.
There's evidence on a national scale that birthrate is anticorrelated with wealth. The better off people are on average, the less kids they have.