skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the basic income doesn't induce cash flow by supporting local businesses?

I've heard the (not so intuitive) assertion that unemployment insurance payouts and welfare actually bring back $1.73 for each dollar the government hands out - primarily because the people who need such money are most likely to immediately spend it (and support small businesses who then buy other goods), whereas more wealthy are more likely to bank it and not circulate it back into the economy directly.
It's different for me. I know a bunch of people who are deeply creative, artists and musicians and such, who spend enormous amounts of time volunteering their productivity - or what's left of it, after "earning a living". I'd love to see them with the opportunity to not have to worry about eating, so they could make things instead.

The conflation of value and money is one of the worst things about our society. Money is, in many ways, units of suck. Jobs pay because no one would do them if they didn't pay.
Cool guy who influenced entertainment and technology greatly. Everyone should read Masters of Doom.
On the other hand, that seems to be where ideas like "living standards" come from. I'm not sure that constitutes (useful) progress in this case.
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I had ELB issues all week - might be related to a change in their scaling policies.
Mozilla with it's hundreds of millions of dollars a year in revenue comes to mind as a steward of such a initiative. But they seem to have been spending the money in pursuing project without a chance to succeed like FirefoxOS and expensive office and perks.

E.g. https://ryanseys.com/blog/summer-at-mozilla/

>Interns at Mozilla, myself included, are truly spoiled rotten. Competitive pay, free travel/housing, free snacks/drinks and catered lunches every week were really just icing on the massive cake that was my internship!

>Oh, and did I mention that Mozilla also sent me to Paris, France?! Yeah, it happened. For my final working week, myself and a handful of the Identity team met up in the Paris office and hacked on Persona, and ate… and drank… a lot!

http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-mozillas-amazing-offic...

http://ngokevin.com/blog/mozilla-day-one/
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If Box was overvalued then Dropbox must just be fucked.
http://www.joda.org/joda-time/
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This is mostly about social signalling. The presence of the bot conspicuously telling people not to use the term "guys" signals to both men and women on the team that influential people on the team are feminist. So what matters isn't whether or not "guys" is technically a valid term for a mixed-gender group; what matters is that the ban on "guys" will be interpreted as feminist.
How about maps.me? http://maps.me/
I have a ready to use bootable sdcard image for raspberry Pi(built with buildroot). This solution allows you to deploy your raspi and huawei-E173 behind your home router, and access the sms send/receive functionality via google-hangout.

In this setup, you need two google accounts, one for you and second one for your raspi-xmpp-chat-bot. You can have the whole setup up and running within 5minutes.
This project is a opensource hosted on github.
here are the details:
http://albert-david.blogspot.de/2016/01/rbox-remotely-deploy...
Not trying to SJW here, but please note that the "grandma" meme is based on the idea that women and old people are unsavvy.
In Florida the MajorBBS scene called them GTs. In my opinion, the split-screen chat really brought people together. But chat in general was the community thing, along with a few of the door games. Like my old TW2002 opponent, we're still in touch. My little bro went to a couple of those GTs. In retrospect, if I had kids, I wouldn't want them involved in that, because some of those BBS people were questionably creepy.

In one way, Internet chats haven't caught on to what we had in 1989, which was seeing every keystroke from everyone simultaneously in separate panels. Line by line (IRC style) is less personal by comparison. Watching the keystrokes and edits unfold, it's more compelling, and MajorBBS deserves credit for that unique multiuser experience which required specialized hardware. Multitasking > 2 phone lines was rare because fast PCs could barely multitask 2 modems with DESQView or OS/2. Windows did not have any multitasking capability yet. And only OS/2 had any concept of prioritizing the CPU. So most BBS doors were limited to "turn based" games where you play after somebody else (your turn, like RISK) unless you had MajorBBS which had low-latency fast action battlefields like Flash Attack. What you now call AJAX (single page apps) we could do that in the 80s with ANSI position codes, which you're just starting to see today on Facebook, where you can see content updating without a page refresh. We were severely limited to an 80x23 grid with only 16 foreground colors, but we made it amazing.
It's not ideal and it won't be as good as in person office hours, but we think there's value even in this format. I believe there was some back and forth in some of the threads the last time we did it.
We prefer the term "crowdsourced"
That's very valuable feedback. Thank you for telling me that you thought I was listing random free items and made money with affiliate links. I like the idea of making an extremely visible "about" at the top of the page so that a first time visitor reads what the site is about before making an assumption.

You're absolutely right that the more people you tell, the less of a chance you have to win. The model is flawed right now. The winners are telling their friends (or even friends are asking the winners how they are taking them out to dinner), so if I could somehow get more winners with a low budget, then the site would be a success.

My goal is to work on the website full time. It makes me very happy running the site and I'd say it's the only thing I think or care about. Also, I thought that maybe some of the users are interested in learning programming and I could create Youtube videos to teach them how to make websites/program. I've always wanted to be a teacher.
It's 'Whoever', not 'Whomever'
That sounds great in theory, but in practice it sounds like the established players have a very strong financial incentive to avoid the rise of any forks, going so far as to DDoS any attempts at doing so.
The user numbers have basically flat for many quarters now. It's really really bad.
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> Eastern European communism created a much more equal society

I question that assertion. The problem is that in communism, (not unlike our financiers in capitalism) the people closer to the resources or decision-making process were inherently more well off - in fact, probably closely modeling a power-curve.

Part of this is human nature, the other part is lack of technology for transparency.
You're of course right; I should have considered my response more. I suppose it would be more accurate to say the M50 problems are not only an in-joke in the sense that one always hopes for a George Dantzig moment. But clearly the inclusion of something like FLT has to be done with a at least a little chuckle from the author.
The blockchain as a technology, not necessarily an operating service.
Why is it a monopoly position? All the other SoC makers - Samsung, Apple and AMD - would negotiate similar deals with Netflix.
Haven't people been saying this since about 1848?
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From the original essay:

> Closely related to poverty is lack of social mobility. I've seen this myself: you don't have to grow up rich or even upper middle class to get rich as a startup founder, but few successful founders grew up desperately poor. But again, the problem here is not simply economic inequality. There is an enormous difference in wealth between the household Larry Page grew up in and that of a successful startup founder, but that didn't prevent him from joining their ranks. It's not economic inequality per se that's blocking social mobility, but some specific combination of things that go wrong when kids grow up sufficiently poor.

Someone paid a small fortune to buy Larry Page the same elite credentials that billionaires buy for their children, and it was the critical component in his success.

Others spent fortunes buying the same elite credentials for Bill Gates, Paul Graham, Mark Zuckerberg, Drew Houston, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and most other "successful" Silicon Valley founders/investors.

All of these people are smart but that's not why they're rich. They're rich because they had elite credentials which gave them access to resources and opportunities that 99% of people do not receive.

The pie for elite credentials is (intentionally) fixed. Less than 1% of the population gets them, very few poor people do, and yet these people control most of the wealth and power throughout the U.S. They dominate Silicon Valley as if they were in an official alliance.

People on the top of the pile don't complain about getting stepped on, or even see what all the fuss is about.
Taxes on the rich have changed very little since Obama took office.

During the 2012 election, one of the things that eventually came out was Mitt Romney's effective tax rate - 14%. This is less than half the effective tax rate of my own upper middle class family that earned 1/100 as much in the same year. Not much has changed since then. This is a big problem.
> but it depends a lot on the context

No. It was unwanted contact. It is, at a minimum harassment, and at worst assault.

Arguing context about one bit of behavior in the context of a pattern of harassment is insulting to a victim of harassment.
A lot of commenters here are missing the point that inequality is bad because the 1% can't spend all that money which causes a drop in aggregate demand and slows down the economy.
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nice, but you need a server for more than one dollar for this website
Yes, every single person who disagreed with him just misinterpreted him and "lacks basic reading comprehension skills". Even people who are better writers than him. The only people in the universe who read him correctly are those who agree with what he has to say. What a coincidence. Can I use this technique next time I write something and people disagree with me?

Extreme economic inequality is always, inherently a bad thing for any capitalist society. This is the point he, well, he doesn't argue against it, he just claims it's wrong without argument. He writes an essay as a hyper-rich person about how it's okay for him and people like him to be hyper-rich. He misunderstands the entire debate with a silly woodworking analogy (if one woodworker makes no chairs but owns a woodworking factory and another makes 10 chairs but owns nothing who makes the money?).

He describes reasonable attitudes (understanding that while not 100% technically accurate, in a very real way money IS a zero sum game in our society) as fallacious without argument.

He brushes off 'rent seeking behavior' as just a few bad apples in the income inequality bushel whereas in the article here we see it's actually the vast majority (86%) of the reason for inequality. He threatens to hold society hostage by suggesting founders will 'go galt' if they can't reap obscene profits and ascend to wealthy capitalist overlord status by inventing the next instagram for dogs.

He really misunderstands the entire crux of the issue. Rent-seeking behavior is essentially synonymous with capitalism. In capitalism, wealth is the best/only way to generate more wealth. Just having wealth immediately leads to rent-seeking behavior; you use your capital and leverage to profit off the labor of others.

It really reads like 'I'm a millionaire but I'm one of the good ones because I gamble on people who write iPhone apps' self-defense piece and most people who read it see it like that.

I really like almost all of PG's essays, just not this one.
I suppose you could do that, though given the nature of medical records, keeping everything locked up so tightly that only the (potentially impaired) patient can give access seems unwise.

I was more thinking that those organisations who do process medical records on your behalf -- your doctor, hospital, etc. -- could and should take steps to prevent the often very large number of staff they have from accessing an individual's records without proper authorisation. This would limit the ability for anything sensitive to be accessed by anyone without a reasonable clinical need for it or to be readily transferred to other systems, as well as creating a robust audit trail of access to sensitive data as well.
Yeah, but where's the fun in that!
Depends, I skipped the contents completely when that happened, only went to the comments to see if I was the only one.
You seem to be ignoring that there are profitable open source companies, the prime example being my employer, Red Hat.
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But to return to the parent's implication, what if it were possible to artificially add a new sense, one that biological humans don't possess (seeing polarized light, or sensing RF, or echolocation, etc.). Would we let some people have them, or routinely give them to everyone, or ban them outright? There have been quite a few SF treatments of these themes, Nancy Kress' Beggars in Spain comes to mind, or Kim Stanley Robinson Mars books (for the politics of modifications).
Exposing filenames in the clear like that is a significant drawback. I'm not sure how you could get around it, though.
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Words to live by.
Denmark is also worried about growth. But they have started a program to reduce hours at some select hospitals - to see if they could convert some of the GDP growth into higher quality of life for those workers. And I read that Sweden has been trying a similar program - reducing working hours at some public institutions in order to convert the past decade's GDP growth into a better life. Really, a program for basic income is neither Utopian nor magical - it is just a reasonable thing to try.
This is the first time I've seen the argument that X company is in trouble because the baby boomers use the other platform.

AirBnb raised $1b last year, projecting 2015 revenues at $900m [0]. Until financials show otherwise, they appear to be doing just fine.

[0]: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-math-of-airbnbs-24-bi...
For something engineered, sure.

However if you're working with designers who don't have a lot of formal education it's much easier to convey the concept of a function that "pauses" where yield() happens.

Also quite a bit of gameplay code ends up as throw-away so being able to quickly put behaviors together is a plus.
It doesn't help that the WP article basically attacked pg's article with the usual inflammatory crap. It's easy to argue that pg kind of missed the point by caring too much about his source of inequality (productive creativity), and not enough about the primary source of inequality (rent-seeking). The article was unnecessarily and unfairly inflammatory about it.
Many multiples? Try two to three, currently.

"For instance, there seems to be a consensus that the most lucrative cab market in the world is in Japan, where yearly revenues are estimated to be about $20 billion to $25 billion just in Tokyo, followed by the United Kingdom with revenues of $14 billion, the bulk from London, and the U.S. with $11 billion overall and about $3 billion in New York. Assuming taxi revenues in the rest of the world add another $50 billion to this total, I arrive at a total market of $100 billion."

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/uber-isnt-worth-17-billi...
man, I miss BBS'ing
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One issue that I have here, and I can't view it because the site is down, is that shipping will probably make any of these things not worth buying. Most $1 things aren't worth shipping. Unless you filter for only free shipping?
Yes, it replaces all other forms of social welfare. Here in the US at least, the welfare system is problematic enough (bureaucratic snafus, etc) that a robust private charity exists to back things up.

So there are private soup kitchens, food banks, etc. Someone who used up all their basic income would need to turn to friends, family, church, or these private charities.
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I find it very amusing that RuneScape made the top 10 list. As a retired fiend, it reminds me just of how popular it was at that time.
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Why is that number not believable? Like the comments you pointed out mention, it's likely gross not post-driver cut, likely includes more than just the 7-mile diameter of SF, includes tourists, surge pricing can be pricy, corporate comping, etc.

I never incur surge pricing and infrequently take Uber yet I can easily pay $100-200 in Uber costs per month. Then you factor in the non-UberX options that are way more expensive, UberEATS, etc. etc...
> But in the meantime bring me the biggest cup of lemur turd latté you can transport on your Scoot, millennial.

I don't have much to add, but this almost made me spit out my coffee. Coffee that I made in my own kitchen like a savage.
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Search for visa stress test they can handle over 56,000 tps.

You could write a centralized system that interfaces with millions of partners handles tens of thousands of transactions per second and does fraud detection? Do it. You sound like the basecamp is a weekend project people.

You aren't? But you just said its good for shopping because of discounts so now it's not good for shopping because it won't scale? Bitcoin couldn't even handle worldwide remittance volume at the moment. And the only scaling solutions that make sense involve not using Bitcoin.

And so can remittance companies now. Moving money isn't the expensive part of remittance it's the last mile. Even one of the former directors of rebit.ph posted a large article on why Bitcoin doesn't make remittance cheaper. Some edge cases sure but only if they remain unpopular. You talk about avoiding forex but all you're doing is adding another one.

This is what people have been saying for years though. If you're depending on merchants investing in the cost of supporting your new currency you can't also expect them to hand all the savings over. They do it for the savings not to lower prices.
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"Blockchain" is just a brand name given to a particular form of using Merkle trees, and Merkle trees have no correlation or dependency whatsoever on Bitcoin.
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I'm inclined to think that very, very few people (including myself) really know:

(a) What exactly is income inequality? Can you define it with some type of formula or methodology? Are we using the gini coefficient, atkinson index, decile ratios, etc? Article authors mostly use vague references to "income inequality" and "the top 1%" and "the rich get rich and the poor get poorer" etc without really knowing what they are talking about.

(b) Once we've defined what exactly we're talking about, now let's talk about it's effects...positive or negative. Is this bad because money is pooled up and not being spent on consumer goods? Is it bad just because people think it's unfair? How is all of this extra income at "the top" being used? Invested into stock markets, into private startups, sitting in a bank account, buying yachts, etc? Where is all this extra income flowing to?

(c) Next, how do we measure the effect of inequality (b)?

(d) If we fix inequality, does it automatically fix the negative effects from (b) above? Or is it possible that inequality is only correlated with the supposed effects from (b) and there does not exist a causal relationship like we thought?

I am continually frustrated when I see articles getting passed around social media and getting in the heads of "regular people" when the article author doesn't really know what they're talking about, the person reading the article doesn't understand what they're reading, and the end result is emotionally charged people angry at the world for some [maybe real or maybe not] reason that they probably can't even articulate.
So if those VPNs were compromised, the Chinese government would want those channels to be easy to use.
No, what I am saying is the dissociation induced by meditation is not a reliable to way to deal with emotions in the real world.
I think in order for it to be sustainable, it can't be tied to taxation on production, but rather taxes on rent.

For if production goes down, it becomes impossible to fund this entitlement. But if the entitlement is strictly tied to land rent (analogous to the citizen's dividend that Alaskans get for the extraction of natural resources), this can't completely disappear.
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Is this essentially the same thing as encrypted loopback filesystems?

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/creat...
Not actually true. Tax rates on high incomes were much, much higher in the 1950s and 1960s.

http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-tax-rates-2012-5

http://s158.photobucket.com/user/OnlyObvious/media/Tax_Rates...
I read his use of "if" as being in the mathematical sense, where "if A, then B" is identical in meaning to "A implies B"
You are linking human labor to production, which is not necessarily wrong, but not necessarily right either. Many of us who are cautiously supportive of BI think it sounds like an awful idea that is nonetheless one of the few that has a somewhat credible vision of a plausible future where production is almost completely independent of human labor.
The barriers to entry for any competitors are highly behavioral. Consumers are used to using (and implicitly trusting) AirBnB and Uber. Any new entrants would have to replicate that. This is part of the reason why Jet.com will never beat Amazon.
"MINI and HAX will give $60,000 in equity to each startup in the three-month program and tells TechCrunch it could further invest in the strongest ideas."

That doesn't sound quite right. I'm assuming this means $60k in exchange for equity (how much?) in each startup?
Actual FF employee here. Based on a few of the things he said, I don't believe he works here.
Resque-pool (https://github.com/nevans/resque-pool) -- which every Resque user should be using -- loads your process first, then forks the workers. Forking uses copy-on-write semantics, so as long as you're loading everything before forking, you're conserving a great deal of otherwise wasted memory on what would be shareable pages.
Feedingamerica.org would be a good place to start. The site is about the difference between poverty and food insecurity. If any place could put to a comprehensive database on outright starvation, that would be it.

I'd argue though that in North America, outright starvation isn't as much of a problem as just having difficulty accessing healthy food. The last stats that I read argue that about 15 million kids in the US experience hunger. They may not be starving, but they will have more trouble learning without adequate adequate nutrition.
Hey tmandry :)

Looks fun, I hope we'll see a Hammerspoon module for Swindler at some point :D
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