skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
except for the public pension that is a shameful tool invented to satisfy one generation of privileged people, I disagree with you.

The problem is not the % of income tax. tax is fine if the system works. take a simple example in many european countries education is free. in USA even in a community college, going beyond two year studies will cost you 10K$ per child, then if you do not have a good company insurance it will cost you an arm to insure your family. id rather pay tax to subvention education.

the only problem is that salaries are not going up since the early 00s, tuition costs are going up, consumer goods prices are going up, accomodation price are so crazyly high (especially in cities where there are lot of jobs) that you won't get a house before 30-40 years of debt. Hell people even thought their greatchildren will work two days a week and earn more than them but the sad truth is that the payroll of a qualified worked in today's world will buy you less than a blue collar in the old days. this is the great failure we experiencing right now, tax just did the right thing, they went up, like everything else but our salary.

This is the only thing to fix in the world right now. a company shouldn't make 400K$ profit per employee.
"Google is a technology-driven company -- one founded by computer science prodigies who have hired more than 50 computer science Ph.D.'s."

In 2002 this was weird.

Internet entrepreneurs were not expected to be compsci Ph.Ds back then.

AVC discussed a new kind of tech CEO recently:

"The new tech CEO archetype is a computer scientist who got into product management early in their career, led large product teams at a big important tech company, is in their 40s, and has great taste in technology, tech talent, and most of all tech products."

Google was one of the first internet businesses to succeed big with computer scientists at the top, leading product.

EDIT, again:

Google is quite a different beast from Sun, SGI, or Viacom. You might disagree but that's OK. Somebody is always wrong on the Internet.

2002 was shortly after the dotcom bubble. Nobody knew what was going on or going to happen. The rise of computer scientist lead consumer-facing tech companies would have surprised people who had expected Pets.com to rule the world.

As the NYT article noted, Google was swimming against the tide at the time. History has proved them right.
For small private repos, GitHub makes the per-GB price very high compared to Dropbox.
If you truly believe that you live in a planned economy there is absolutely nothing more I can add.
They seem very good, but their SSL cert is a few months out-of-date and there's no company information. They might be defunct?
They just want to set 0 level a bit higher. Basically having basic income will be considered as having nothing. What a stupid idea.
The human body is about 100W-120W, which is about 2000-2500 kcal/day. 20W sounds right.
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Well, it's from Atlassian for one :)
Their share price is high because greedy wall st types believe that they will make lots of money in the long term.
They'll change when it becomes a big enough problem. That's how business works.

Don't encourage them by supporting old IE's.
I don't think keeping busy helps people avoid depression, it's just that they at least have some human contact through the day.
... using the "Lucid" HDL, which at first glance seems like a de-crufted Verilog.
I'm not sure it's even possible to do decent quantities of LSD daily, at least in the context of trying to achieve a potent effect.

Plenty of times in my life I've done LSD and I learned pretty early on that it was pointless to try a dose the day after a previous dose.

It would just have very little to no effect on my mind and I would typically have to wait a few days at least before doing it again before it worked.
Anybody knows if it is a public or private beta?
then dropping IE support is a good way to force them focus on the job instead of surfing on the web. ;-)
Searching is a solved problem if you use OfflineIMAP to mirror your mail store locally, then run mu or notmuch on top of it. Honestly, it's faster for me to search my local mail store than using some web interface. Plus, i can do it in the train when i have no internet connection. I happily pay a few euros a month for an email server which provides me with IMAP.
That's part of it -- music today competes with YouTube, the internet, games, social media, mobile, tv series, 100+ channels, etc. Most teenagers -- the de facto pop music consumers -- don't care for music the way teenagers in decades without all these did, when a new album was a window to another world.

But music sales have started declining even before all those become prevalent -- youtube, social media, mobile, all either began or become popular circa 2005. In 1997-2005, it was mostly the "free" downloads that did music sales in.

Now it's a combination of these and of all the other stuff competing for people's attention and winning it.
Yeah. Its the only site which offers sourcecodes on membership basis.!!
Evening taking the location out of it though if you want to live in a large house basic income won't cover it. I think as long as it provides a basic level of living for everyone (small house - enough room for you and your family, basic healthy food costs, utilities) it's good enough. Then if you want a higher standard of living (eating out, mansion, car, vacations) you have to get a job. That way we keep people who want to work working but those who want to pursue pursuits without large financial upsides can.
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I hope you're not proposing that basic income is a replacement for healthcare? They're two completely different things.
Maybe someone can explain the decision in principle to me here, because I don't understand how the deliberate retardation of network infrastructure is beneficial to encouraging competition.
I get that the entry costs to the market would be higher for a new start up, but that seems irrelevant given the target competitors, and a silly bloody way of doing it anyway. But I'm genuinely curious to hear the other side of it?
Jeez, do the math. 3 acres per person. You can grow millions of calories per year per acre. 2500 calories times 365 days is only about a million calories. Potatoes are 17 million calories per acre. There's plenty of space. The problem is meat.
What is so special about it?
Why did this item get burried?
Looks like a private beta
nice, i like it.
IE6 on Windows XP is 1 GB zipped. Microsoft Edge containing VM is 5 GB zipped.

All VMs expire:

"Please note that these virtual machines expire after 90 days. We recommend setting a snapshot when you first install the virtual machine which you can roll back to later."
Don't worry!!
I tried signing up for that (I'm Dutch, so no .edu email). They just ignored my application and never got back to me.
People tend to want to work, really. But to your point, many people can't find work that pays the money they need to survive, so they become depressed. Also, people often lose their jobs.

There have been several studies/deployments that convince me that your worries are unsubstantial in practice. Really great resource: https://www.reddit.com/r/basicincome/wiki/index#wiki_that.27...
I've tried it once or twice at parties.

It's not for me really, it just made me recede into my own mind and made me feel like I was looking down a tunnel out of my own eyes.

Then I spent an hour or so just cabbaged on the couch unable to really move much.

Doesn't seem like a party drug at all (to me at least) whereas something like LSD or MDMA is just bags of fun in many situations.
When developing a Chrome extension or Firefox add-on or Greasemonkey script, do you test it on Windows, OS X, and Linux?

Sublime Text is the only editor we've had to build platform-specific workarounds for. Atom, Emacs, Neovim, IntelliJ and ilk (PyCharm, WebStorm, etc)... none of them have these sorts of bugs. (They have other bugs, but they're consistent across platforms.) Comments such as, "You didn't test it on every platform?!" are succumbing to hindsight bias.
I'd assume that a basic income would be paid weekly, which avoids the "lump sum" problem entirely and helps with budgeting.
That's a sweeping generalization which presumes far too much. It depends on the person. Some people enjoy monotonous factory work because it removes the burden of thinking. Other people need a manager because they don't want to, or can't, plan the next logical thing. Others need constant variety or don't like being told what to do.

The other issue is that getting paid for a "meaningful job" which doesn't turn a profit is not going to scale. Millions of people suddenly wouldn't work in fast food, farm fields, industrial tanneries or meat processing plants because they're really shitty/dangerous/disgusting jobs. (But I'm sure some scary/crazy people enjoy them.)

And, when people have infinite choices and opportunities, the Paradox of Choice comes in to play and people become even more dissatisfied. See also: Zillions of wealthy housewives in perpetual existential boredom (depression) filling psychology & psychiatry offices.
Does running the welfare system actually cost a lot? Last time somebody claimed that about US social security another person responded with data showing that it's less than 1% overhead.
Basic incomes have always been an interesting idea, appealing to a lot of smart people from radically different economic-political camps. There are some potential massive wins on long term unemployment that come from eliminating incentive issues, some answers to the "living wages" and other positive rights problems. Less bureaucratic micromanaging of people's lives. There's a reason it hold attention on HN, it's a real interesting idea. But…..

Basic income is the type of idea that is very, very hard to implement within our current (possibly any) political systems. There is very little room for compromise, half measures and gradualism. It does not lend well to caveats exemptions, and design by committee.

One of the big selling points is that basic income is funded largely by replacing different welfare state institutions: unemployment benefits, child benefits, housing subsidies, state housing, pensions… This allows (A) A big enough basic income (B) big savings on welfare institutions running costs, (C) the simplicity needed for a clean re-write of incentives.

Where do the "efficiency savings" come from? Largely they come by cutting salaries associated with managing a welfare system. Can a government reduce public sector employment to that extent?

The danger for any country implementing this is that once they get into the political procee, they will chop and compromise and water down the idea until it is just another item on the big list of ingredient in the social welfare soup €212.13 per month that you qualify for while keeping everything else that exists.

Reforming the tax system and the welfare system as radically as required in a short time is a tall order. Maybe the Finnish can pull it off. They have a good track record. More broadly, I expect that this would have a high failure rate.

The best chance (IMO) is for very a small country to try it first.
I'm assuming you meant "£4k-5k" there - and if you own property in London, you're almost certainly getting more than that in asset price appreciation. You could probably live the rest of your life on equity withdrawal schemes.
They expire but you can, and they advise you to, snapshot and roll back. The purpose is to stop you just using it as a windows vm for doing work on.
Anyone monitoring high volume sites care to share the number of Edge users they are seeing visiting their site? - would be interesting to know the numbers a few weeks after the Win10 launch.
pardon me if it's obvious, but what's the difference between this and stackshare.io ?
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I use this on Mac, it looks like there's a Windows version as well: https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
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<conspiracy>YCombinator is an investor in AirBNB and doesn't like to see negative stories about them</conspiracy>
Nice. Is it possible to add other parameters to compare?
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As with all things, not every user is the same. The raw number of visitors using each browser is rather a useless metric for a lot of sites - you should be looking which browsers convert to sales more, click through adverts more, spend the most time on the website, etc. In my experience IE users are much more likely to complete an interstitial signup form or leave a site via a banner than Chrome or Firefox users. IE may have fewer users, but those users are much more valuable if you're building an ad-supported site.

Also, if you're making a substantial site with, say, 10 million MAUs, 5% of them is 500,000 people. That's a lot. Do you really want that number of people telling their friends "The site doesn't work for me"?
One way basic income could potentially backfire is that rent could, and will go higher and swallow all the free money distributed to average people.

In effect robbing the ones that rely on just basic income of opportunities to get a roof over their head and transferring most of the distributed wealth to property owners.

I think introduction of basic income must be accompanied by laws that highly penalize owning unoccupied apartments to prevent that scenario.
Means testing actually increases the disincentive to work. Working usually results in greater income which can diminish the benefits. This amounts to an effective higher marginal tax rate, when benefits are removed as you earn more.

It's hard to imagine a system that disincentivizes working more than means tested welfare. A few examples from SNAP can be found here [1], CBO study showing up to 80% marginal tax rates on the poor here [2].

This is precisely the insight driving basic income: by removing means testing, we can avoid perverse disincentives to work: higher income always results in higher pay.

[1] http://taxfoundation.org/blog/high-implicit-marginal-tax-rat...

[2] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/44621
Just wanted to say that the linked concept video that autoplays doesn't really convey the idea you were trying to get at, and the page itself doesn't really counterbalance that. You shouldn't need to describe your aspiration here in a comment! :P

Also, your tagline/logo (the red paint line) reminded me of an old ad for Memorex in a 1991 computer magazine, which used the same concept (to black print out as part of the ad) - I would never think, either naively or with my existing bias, that this logo is related to audio.

Just my 2¢.
SGI was pretty big.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics,_Inc.
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I've been using this for the last 6 months as part of cross browser testing and it has been a life saver. The alternatives are even a bigger pain in the rear.

I have no idea who to thank but thank you.
It depends on quality of the human contact. Often people feel most lonely when they are in company of people who don't behave friendly towards them. That often happens at bs job.
I can't tell what your actual question is.
> The core question of basic income is: if people work, do they lose it entirely?

No. That is the point: it is for everyone.

In the Netherlands, a few cities intend to start experimenting with a variant: only jobless people get a basic income, but they will keep it when they find work.

> The next concern of bringing into reality: extremely common for people whom aren't good with money [...]

On this, data is available. Giving money directly to poor people turns out, on average, to be the best way to help them. Most of them will spend the money wisely, the ones who fail at it are pretty few.
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OTOH, their support is pretty much shit.

Still waiting for a cert request they flagged "for check within 2-3 hours" two weeks ago…
The core question of basic income is: if people work, do they lose it entirely?

No, that's the whole point of it, and the difference to regular systems with unemployment benefits: it's extremely simple to administer, because everybody gets the same amount. Also, even if you pursue a very low-paying job, you will always earn more than people who don't work at all.
I agree those are all huge hurdles and it's incredibly risky, too, as it could be catastrophic if doesn't work, and you would have to cut all of those jobs, and then you also have to revert all the social programs back back. It could turn into a decade of pain for that society.

However, I think this pilot will at least tell us if a basic income works from the point of view of whether it can be sustainable on itself and whether 90% of the working people will quit working or not. Right now we have no clue whether something like that would happen or not, and it's probably the riskiest thing about a basic income - having 9 out of 10 people sit around and do nothing while the other 1 out of 10 have to support them.

If the outcome for that is a positive one and most people continue to get jobs, then we can start making a well thought-out plan on how to do the transition with the minimum damage possible to the society (until the transition is complete and then there's a net positive from the basic income for everyone).
The windows 7 ones allow you to re-arm the activation a number of times (I think it's up to 5 times?) using the `slmgr /rearm` command.

Does the windows 10 one not have this facility?
Farmer so sick of poor Internet signal he built DIY mast
hmm...interesting.. and looks cool.!!
Or this SUN company.
For a start, how do you know that the reason for the low usage isn't that they are broken in IE? You could be turning customers away.
The article definitely did not state or suggest that it wasn't a boring effect. It was just enumerating surprises due to gravitational theories' mismatching reality.

Discovering that the Pioneer probes were off due to the moment of their thermal radiation was not 'new physics', but it was still interesting, in that it was missed in the initial attempt at modeling. And that's fine. It's still interesting and made for good reading.

Anyway, I liked it. I don't think it was mediocre at all.
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For those who want to dive further in automata theory, transducers and the non-commutative algebraic view of the theory, the following one by J. Sakarovitch is a fantastic book : http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=978...
Hmmm. I've been storing Git repos in Dropbox for... ages. Haven't tried sharing them, but for a single user I see no need to have an additional piece of software.

I am, however, quite interested in the potential for business-related repos - I guess it all depends on the authentication and transport mechanisms (I assume this will be using Dropbox's auth and TLS API)?
You're right. I should have said "first internet businesses", and now I have.

I could still be totally wrong, but at least now it's genuine ignorance not a typing mistake.
Ugh, off-topic rant: those podcasts seem really interesting, i with that they would make transcripts available!
I like it a bit more colourfull and have more space for the commit notes than for the author's name:

~/.tigrc

set git-colors = no
set show-changes = yes
set commit-order = topo
set refresh-mode = auto
set main-view = \
date:default \
author:abbreviated \
id:yes,color \
commit-title:graph=yes,refs=yes
Yup, I would not call it bad at all. It's actually very good, dare I say beautiful, perhaps?

The first parent history (the spines going down the left side) contains primarily topic branch merges. If you look at the topic branches, they're all completely linear history.

The linear history in each topic branch is carefully constructed by Junio Hamano, Git's maintainer, as commits typically get into git.git via patches, not through direct commits + merges.

This is not the same as the normal ugliness that people are used to seeing when working with larger teams that abuse "git pull" and create ugly merges in their history.

The resulting history from this approach is more carefully curated and elegant. There are lots of topics and contributors so the resulting history naturally contains lots of merges. The viewport is only so large. If we pan and zoom over to a different area, we'd probably see some pretty trees.

If you're curious, you can read more about how the branches are managed here:

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/howto/m...
I wouldn't term your state as lost, you are just 23 and graduated from a top university. You said you always wanted to start a startup, is it only to be a tech startup? you have experience in chemistry why not try something you're good at? If at the core you really wanted to make a difference at large scale it not necessarily be your own startup but you can also help folks who are trying to achieve it.

I think at the core of your approach for starting a startup is to make money. Apologize if that's not the case but from one of your comments,

> It seemed like local startups are getting funded with half baked ideas or clones and I thought that I could do just as well as them so I was pretty hesitant to find a job

This. maybe the reason, and anyway, I wish you the best.
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Not every site is about money. My numbers are actually closer to 3% than to 5%.

I could not care less.
The Czech republic, for example:

For you to bring home 2,000 EUR net, your employer has to dish out 3,740 EUR. That's about 46.5% taxation -- very close to OP's 50%.

(and that's not counting VAT and other consumer taxes, we're talking income only here)

This is not the "high income" bracket either, that attracts an additional "solidarity" income tax.

Like the OP said, nobody really expects to see any pension, and to get good health care, you have to pay private again for that.
Yep! Sometimes shit happens. That's why I am using Spinbackup to back up my Google data to a secure storage.
I don't think that paradox of choice results in more suffering than not having the choice at all when it comes to having a job.

With basic income you have a bit more choice when it comes to picking a job. You no longer have to restrict yourself to sufficiently paid ones.
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>Google was one of the first internet businesses to succeed big with computer scientists at the top, leading product.

Sun Microsystems?

edit: ah "Internet" business.
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There might be a relative small number of people in my situation, but together we probably pay a great deal of tax that would be lost.

You've made a basic error in your assumptions - you're assuming that when you quit your job ceases to exist. It doesn't. Someone else would do it instead, being paid what you're paid, and paying the tax that you pay. So long as the number of people leaving the workforce to live on their basic income + savings is smaller than the number of currently unemployed people then the tax receipts wouldn't change. In fact, with the consequent savings on employment benefit, the amount of tax to spend on services would go up.
Similar but different.

stackshare.io like one liner, where I prefer people to be more descriptive on why and how they use it.

It show Company XXX use this and that, but didn't show why they choose it, and to do what.

StackBus also double up as your tech resume :)
I'm interested to hear you say this. I teach this course, to students who mostly go on to do Java coding. I have several times run into an old student who told me that they never once used regexes after my class, either in school or in work.
It only takes a few people flagging to kill it. Say, a few heads at Amazon. Quite annoying when there is lively discussion, I agree
Thanks very much :)