skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My gut feeling is actually similar, but I'm not sure it's quite correct. One big difference from what you are describing is that it while reward is guaranteed, it is not fixed -- any earnings are on top of that. I can see how it might actually result in people being more productive -- or it might not, that's why an experiment like this is a nice thing to do.

Also it doesn't imply communal ownership. It does not even imply communal consumption decisions -- unlike, for example, government-provided services: people themselves decide what to pay for and how much.
That wouldn't even be close to the situation. The equivalent would be if uber, at the highest levels, reached out to terrorist networks and helped them get from compound to compound.
I have a standing offer to buy a beer for anyone who visits me here in Bend with the entire 10's of cents I get every month with those links. But hey, at least it's a free beer for someone, rather than Jeff Bezos.
Which if you read my last point, would increase taxes on those where capital is concentrated to be spent on research I listed.
Experiments in dense, but attractive housing are probably the gatekeeper to affordable housing. I don't see this talked about much. Affordable housing is a good goal, but until it can be done in a very dense way, it cannot compete with other schemes. One idea I have is to run genetic algorithms to create housing schemes that would seek to maximize sunlight, and privacy. The plan needs strong focus on sound proofing and technology to reintroduce ambient sound when desired. The plan would also balance the exposure of inhabitance to each other in their comings and goings and in their use of common areas. Finally, the scheme would seek to keep public as much of the area as possible to make it competitive for commerce and livelihood compared to other parts of the surrounding environment.
The top reasons I support the Basic Income concept: 1. It provides a safety net for the most vulnerable in a society. 2. As automation and wealth inequality increase we will need a system in place to deal with mass unemployment. 3. Not being accepted at a job offer can affect the mental health of a person. Basic income gives people time to re-educate. 4. If it works for the royal family it can work for all of us. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/07/basic-i....
YCR is a non-profit; we just think this is important and interesting. Though if it does turn out, years down the road, that basic income happens, I suspect we'd get more people starting companies and that would obviously be good for YC.
Basic income sounds like a very good idea.

As a teenager, I saw this news blurb from the George Bush presidential campaign. A woman (single mother) was working three jobs to make ends meet and the audience engaged in a massive circlejerk. Couldn't help think about the incredible waste of a life - soul-sucking jobs that ensure this person doesn't move up economic classes, has no time to focus on self-improvement and gets to provide no attention to family. And then the next generation continues this cycle.

In the 21st century - we must change our approach to governance - dignity for everyone.
The last human surveys the burnt husk of his dying planet, suppressing pangs of awe as the gleaming computronium ships - no more puzzles left to solve - turn and flicker out of space-time in search of new challenges elsewhere.

"Clever, but nothing to do with general intelligence," he mumbles under his breath as the flames consume him.
The reduced sense of self-worth is likely a result of the cultural stigma against joblessness.

Hopefully, merely collecting a universal/basic income will not be similarly stigmatized.
In the USA, if Basic Income were to be implemented, where would the money come from? Currently the rate of monetary inflation is quite high- we've gone from $11T to $18T in the monetary system during the Obama administration. If we were to start printing even more money to pay people a basic income, this monetary inflation would cause prices to rise to wipe out the benefit of the program, most likely.

In fact, the reason people are suffering now is the level of monetary inflation (Which has been high going back to the Reagan era, so it's the fault of both parties. This is not a partisan issue- it's an economics one. And the problem is that politicians get elected by promising stuff, but to produce the stuff, they can't raise taxes, so they do the equivalent by printing money.)
"Down on your luck? No problem. We understand that terrible things happen to people just like you all the time. But did you know there is a way out? Just sign right here and we'll provide an annuity based on your child's 'right to help' income. After all, what's good for you is good for them too!"
That's not quite true. He mentioned Alice has better shit to do. She realizes that there is other more important work to do and building a CMS is not the thing to spend time and budget on.
Stop thinking of startups as "startups" and instead as businesses. The whole startup mentality of prizing growth and valuation, at least from the outside, seems greedy, rapacious and unsustainable.
There's not going to be an answer, of course.

I think a good source of data could be the population of retired people. I'm pretty sure if I could afford to be retired, I could easily keep busy the rest of my life.
Also mid 30s, just wrapped up an engineering Ph.D at a major state research university. It wasn't CS, but still quite technical. Never once did I see classmates use laptops for taking notes. Maybe it was just my department, but we were pen and paper all the way. I'm a bit astonished that taking notes on a laptop is even a thing. It seems incredibly distracting and ineffective. How does one draw diagrams or write equations?
This is very interesting. I recall the first time I heard of a basic income proposal... Milton Friedman proposes it, calling it a "negative tax" in his book Capitalism and Freedom.

Some kind of welfare state is always going to be necessary, so the ideal proposal creates an incentive landscape that is both humane and also nudges citizens toward improving skills and working hard.

This is how we'd design a video game if we wanted to encourage socially responsible behavior. It's a silly accident of history that we haven't managed to do that in the real world.
I just had a weird thought about cell phones;

I think that going forward, communications are a basic need. There was a startup in ~2008 that was attempting to provide "free" cellular service to its users who agreed to watch ads on their phones. If they interacted with the ads, they would get more service time...

The Facebook phone was an utter flop - however, if they wanted to surveil the population, they may have done better by creating a cell service company and allow people to be spied on in exchange for a free phone....

That damages my DNA saying that -- but it would be a workable model for the long tail of poor people that love facebook.
Not exactly research, but reading The Culture Series by Iain Banks [1] has caused me to give a lot of personal thought on the subject. When AI is advanced enough to dominate everything and humans are left to just do whatever, what will they do, and will they be happy? That's not the focus of the series, just a side effect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series
Why shouldn't basic income be $36,000?
I can't say I know much about Australian welfare systems, but here in the US it can be a bit of a trap, since welfare benefits drop fast once your savings or income rises, resulting in a huge disincentive to get off welfare, and furthering the sense of hopelessness, and presumably, the drug and alcohol use.

To what extent does Australian welfare gradually taper off as a means to incentivize saving, instead of punishing it?
People value money they earn more highly than money they are given (, about twice as much from what I've read). In addition to that, many people get a sense of purpose from their work, as they feel they are contributing to something, and through a sense of fellow-feeling with their fellow workers, even though they may find it stressful and/or tedious.
You can get limited data from NOAA (METAR) through ADDS: https://aviationweather.gov/adds/dataserver

Here's an example for Moscow: https://aviationweather.gov/adds/dataserver_current/httppara...

If you need forecasts, NDFD appears to have both SOAP and REST services that are updated hourly: http://graphical.weather.gov/xml/rest.php
I'd go as far as saying that it is a liberal (in the sense classical liberal) idea.

Basic income recognizes the idea of a labor market, but admits that this market is neither pure nor perfect: the jobs seeker are in an unstable situation that they have to get out of to pay their bills.

Therefore the employer has an edge in the market.

By decoupling the revenu and the employment, the job seekers can make better decision for themselves.
I'm curious to see how Finland's basic income system turns out. I think doing so would drop the omnipresent fear of being destitute and homeless, which would do a lot to improve mental health.
Some senior executives are afraid to provide feedback
Ah, gotcha! Didn't realize his rank was from the Chinese association.
Look in to what shodan is, its a service dedicated to portscanning the internet. With ipv4 you can easily scan every ip, with ipv6 you need some mechanism to discover addresses. This very much looks like they joined the ntp pool soley to harvest and portscan addresses.
Seems like you're mixing up two arguments. Is the problem the cost, or the particular things provided?

If the latter, who gets to decide what's essential and what's not? I'd be pretty useless without a cell phone and a laptop.
The problem with basic income is that people need purpose, not charity. Look at the success of programs in Africa that give people the ability to make a living, not a bag of rice. One particularly moving story was about a group that got foot-powered water pumps into the hands of subsistence farmers, who subsequently were able to send their kids to school.

At one point, the core purpose of monetary policy and central banking was full employment. Now, it seems to be stability and productivity. The political system is too corrupt to pivot -- but the private sector can, because untapped potential represents lost customers.

I think we need to figure out how to empower people. We have all of these underserved communities that suffer mostly from hopelessness. How do we empower a handyman in the inner city to build a sustainable business that enjoys his neighbors? How do we bring vitality to a rural community marginalized by the death of farming and mills?
I read further on wikipedia and it mentions that these lines can also be underground. DC cables do not suffer from capacitance issues that AC cables do: "Long underground DC cables have no such issue and can run for thousands of miles." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Un...
> If they had to reclass as employees, they would just raise prices to end consumer 10-20% to compensate (or fund it via other's money like they're doing now to price out rest of market).

I think saying that they would "just" raise prices 10-20% is trivializing the problem. One of the reasons that Uber took off was because it was so much cheaper than regular taxis. Would Uber look the same now if it had had 20% higher prices from the beginning? Almost surely not.
Or if you want to see the greater picture:

Uber's violation: trying to kill a whole industry by making people act illegally, while also taking 20% of their revenue.

National Union of Taxis violation: trying to not have the lives of the members ruined because an american company thinks it can get rich through illegal behaviour.
You can pretty much show any kind of effect from a treatment by P hacking, not adequatly designing a study or accidentally contaminating your experiment. This is exactly the kind of thing that really doesn't need attention until it's replicated.
https://ssa.gov/oact/ProgData/newIssueRates.html is the data you are looking for here.
50 years from now, I think it will seem ridiculous that we used fear of not being able to eat as a way to motivate people.

Could not disagree more. This has been the ultimate motivator for all human accomplishment, as well as the evolutionary enhancement of all living things on the planet.
AFAIK Hydro-Quebec already does something like this.

http://www.hydroquebec.com/learning/transport/grandes-distan...

Granted, there's not much details :

« The technology used to transmit direct current is not the most common. However, it can be advantageous for isolating alternating-current systems or controlling the quantity of electricity transmitted. Hydro-Québec has a direct-current line (which goes from the Baie-James region to Sandy Pond, near Boston) as well as many direct-current interconnections with neighboring systems. »
At least for me, as I explained in the article, this was a primary benefit of writing out notes. Having less time forced me to summarize and synthesize, rather than transcribe.
"As noted elsewhere in this thread, the US has 300M residents; naively the cost of this program would be $3T!"

So you raise taxes. For the people who don't need the extra $10k... well, that's OK, because their taxes will go up by some amount. Possibly more than $10k, possibly less. It depends on how much they earn.

You do still have the problem of determining what the progressive tax looks like, but this is a simpler problem than administering a large number of social welfare programs, all with their own eligibility criteria.
If by "people" he means "undergraduate students" then yes, they're probably pretty rare. On the other hand, if he means "an average programmer with 5+ years experience", probably not rare at all. Given the scope of the article, I'd assume he means the former.
Here's a great resource for taking handwritten note taking to the next level with doodles/sketchnotes. Sketchnoting is pretty fun and does seem to help with learning.

http://sachachua.com/blog/book-accelerate-your-learning-with...
Haha - sure, if you get the Evil Bank (TM) interest rate only and the money is sitting there stagnant...

Its kinda funny how people who have money live by the mantra "It takes money to make money, but once you have money, money makes itself"

Yet any time you talk about investing on the behalf of others/society -- everyone laughs it off as impossible.
I agree about the mundane skills but I also have to say that this is a very poor application letter because it only lists baseless claims. A good application letter instead lists tangible accomplishments that substantiate such claims. Ideally, the evidence for these accomplishments is so strong that the claims do not even have to be made explicit.
Why would there be a gap in your resume? Just because you receive a basic income doesn't mean you won't work. I suppose there will be some who would minimize their lifestyle to live off of the basic income but I suspect many will continue to earn far more.
Personally, I think one way to handle funding is that current tax deductions might count in some form as coming 'from' basic income so if you were already making significant income, then maybe there would be no additional government expenditure.

Negative income taxes (linked in other comments) is similar to this idea.
I don't like the interest part of the formula. There is too much financial "imprisonment" because of interest.

But what you are really saying is put aside $10k and grow it through investments. Then withdraw the gains only, and make the $10k a withdraw-but-pay-back option.

No gains :(!
A legitimate firefox bug?

Firefox did this for me too, so I started investigating the glitch. Chrome worked just fine. Overall, this sort of thing would happen to me occasionally (and my colleagues) with h.264 <video> elements: it's some kind of a freaky and infuriating bug. I can't explain it, but I suspected the actual problem was with the original network transmission and a client-side caching mechanism, possibly aggravated by server-side caching mechanisms. Reason why I thought that is below, but now I'm not so sure: I copied that Earth video to a private server and it froze at the same exact spot, albeit it got less frames parsed/decoded/presented/painted than I put below during the S3 render.

Last project I was working on had MP4 files (h.264 encoded) hosted on an iron server, with varnish-cache configured for streaming (streaming config was an attempt to troubleshoot the glitch.) During the development I must have previewed the work-in-progress hundreds of times so I initially chalked the behavior up to caching freaking out. After resetting cache manually or pulling up the file and shift-refreshing, things would work fine for awhile. Attempting to reset cache doesn't fix the stalled Earth video.

The video files I was previously working with were 2-4 mb in size, nearly as 'small' as some larger higher quality images, so I don't think filesize triggered the issue. The ultimate fix for my project was to superstitiously switch from directly-hosting MP4 files to move them to akamai's CDN because that had worked in the past without an observed glitch. I can't explain why this eliminated the problem, but it did (or I just stopped looking at the project): I imagine akamai has a whole bag of tricks up their sleeves, and at that point I was so done with the problem that I didn't care.

That is, I didn't care until I saw this glitch again just hours ago and realized it wasn't just me and my shoddy work that made it happen. So, I pulled up the direct MP4 video of this earth loop (hosted on S3), and pulled up stats for it (right click on video menu). The video was supposed to be 12 seconds long, but it only loaded about 2, letting me see same thing you did before the playback froze. The video stats read the following:

Media: 2015-08-03.mp4
Size: 2200x2200 scaled to 1085x1085
Activity: Ended
Volume: 100%
readyState: HAVE_CURRENT_DATA
networkState: NETWORK_IDLE
Frames parsed: 2030
Frames decoded: 1696
Frames presented: 189
Frames painted: 168

Despite this info dump, firebug revealed (or claimed) that around 32 MB of the file was transmitted. I hit play and the video stopped at 2 seconds. ffprobe claims that nb_frames is 278 (24 * 11.583333), rounded up. So where the heck are the other 89 frames, firefox?? When copying this video to my slower private server, even fewer frames were presented/painted.

Any firefox devs around?
The catch is very simple; you receive $10k, but as your income is $100k+, your income tax will go up by $10k + $X.

1) You getting the $10k benefits society in that we don't add any administration on the front end - deposits go to everyone, and then the taxing back step is already being done (as you're already filing taxes). So cheaper administration cost overall than doing a means test or whatever.

2) A basic income has to be introduced with corresponding tax increases. For some people the basic income is a net positive (if you're currently poor, broadly). For others it's a wash (middle class, by whatever definition). For others (like you and me, most likely) taxes will go up to pay for the poor. But then there are all the savings basic income leads to - fewer administration costs, fewer costs of poverty (like homelessness and crime), etc.

3) Right, don't do that. Handle it through taxation at the back end.
Can't stress enough point #1. I've seen a HUGE performance difference between VB and Fusion with actual web-development workload.
Enough to justify moving from a free solution to a paid one.
Plus you get other nice features, eg. open a file on Mac OSX with a program installed in a Windows VM.
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Partially it will, but mostly it won't, because it won't be an aggregate change, as you will need to increase taxes to the middle and upper income thresholds in order to pay it.

It also is being given people, not directly to the area, so if rents are raised in one area, people can move away from it. This isn't the case with infrastructure improvements such as road/rail/schools/electricity improvements.

The likely effect will be that cheap housing will increase in price, but it will be bounded by moderate housing (i.e. for those people who don't see a real terms change in their post-tax/benefits income).

The other point, is that that the sector most dramatically affected by this will be the homeless and unemployed.

An interesting question is to what extent the basic income should be linked to inflation and differential cost of living (e.g. should it be more for people who live in San Francisco as San Francisco is expensive, or should it be equal because we don't care where people live).
So, pair a basic income with abolishing the minimum wage.
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In the recent 5-game match between Jie and Sedol a few weeks ago, it was decided in Ke Jie's favour by less than a single point in the fifth game. It literally would have come out differently if they'd used a subtly different (commonly used) scoring ruleset. It's not at all clear who's stronger at their peak.
Well, since you are a developer you don't have so many performance of hardware requirements. The pro user described in the article doesn't really apply to you.

> who should Apple cater to more?

That's the real question, and of course we will all be biased here. For someone like you it's fine that you can't (for example) get the latest GPU technology, but for someone that works on digital effects that is a very real issue.

It is a fact that Apple used to cater to such audience before, and the whole point of the article is if Apple is leaving that audience behind or not.
A lot of people mistake Machine Learning and General Artificial Intelligence. From what I understand (and I'm no expert), ML is a focused task which it does one thing really really well.

The idea of General Artificial Intelligence is something that can learn anything you throw by adapting and reinforcing base assumptions.

There's a podcast called Talking Machines that really dives into a lot of this stuff. He's freaking great and pretty darn entertaining.
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Well that explains a lot. It makes the celebration less inappropriate.

I've deleted my original comment.
Great concept! Regardless of who you select to conduct the study, I'd like to volunteer the use of my software (FocusGroupIt - focusgroupit.com) as a way to capture qualitative feedback from study participants on an ongoing basis.

That kind of ongoing feedback would be invaluable to capture the day-to-day experiences of study participants, and I'd be happy to volunteer my time to support the study...
"Doesn't technically have a basic income" is doing a whole lot of work, here.

The key component of it is that it doesn't phase out with higher income, which would otherwise cause a strong disincentive to work. How strong compared to no phase-out is a good question, but that's exactly what research like this is good for.
A lot of startups founded in Spain have the legal headquarter in Delaware (USA). Anyone knows the reason for this?
I agree with what you're saying, and this is probably why I don't hold a management position anywhere.

This also mirrors my experience with startups. I've been lied to about money many times to get me to keep working. The only things the owners care about is how they look to investors.
How long is it going to take for society to accept it as the new norm? Decades?
I think if a basic income is eventually introduced nationally it will be the result of a hard-fought political battle with many proponents and detractors, and there are plenty of cases of laws like that being reversed within a few years.

I don't know this would be too unrealistic for the study.
Seems unlikely. "Built my own CMS" is not uncommon on resumes and isn't a big draw. Presumably Alice has other accomplishments from the 99% of time she didn't use writing her own CMS.