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Creating opportunities for serendipitous meetings between people or teams is one of the challenges of remote work. Several ways to create similar opportunities without needing to rely on chance.

The idea of relying on chance encounters to drive innovation within an organization is insane.
This seems perfectly reasonable to me.

00-00-00 is a two digit year, hence 2000-00-00
2000-00 is the month before 2000-01, hence 1999-12
Then we have 1999-12-00
That's the day before 1999-12-01, hence 1999-11-30

And that's what it gives.

If you're going to ask for month 0 and day 0, expect "interesting" results.
90% of companies that try that are going to fail.
If prices are given as a floor for selling and ceiling for buying they can be fit in a fair and methodical way through many different methods with any remainder being left over for the next tick. I'm surprised it is even such a controversial idea that a fair and fluid exchange can be made without resorting to a first come first serve structure.
For Google, it’s not just about providing a secure environment and secure websites. In fact, Google actually has a monetary incentive to get as many websites to move over to HTTPs as possible: convincing website owners to move to HTTPs will help get rid of competing ad networks.
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I agree that it's a broken system. But when systems are broken because of egregious market inefficiencies, as in the case for "pay $150k for a certificate from a university" case, I think you have an opportunity to make a large amount of money while improving the world. Things that can make large amounts of money can be funded by the markets, rather than requiring legislative fixes.

(I am not opposed to legislative fixes! I'm a statist liberal Democrat. I'm confining my response to the terms 'sama set out.)
It's not clear to me that functional programming really is "losing the war on adoption", as the article claims. Purely functional languages might not be making a lot of headway, but it seems that there are enough widely-adopted languages with enough FP features to consider that FP is becoming mainstream these days.
Nope. And you have no guarantee that the server supports sending that, or that anyone else is using the same IRC client.
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Yesyesyes. This as well as "everything needs to be done in JS", even static pages.

Gnome (ongoing dumbification since gnome), Canonical (Unity, although HUD was a nice idea), Microsoft (ribbon, although it has some decent ideas) etc etc.

There is room for huge improvements in UI: more search-friendlyness, a way to explain scary buttons in mobile UIs since they don't naturally seem to support hover etc etc

Dumbifying things, both by assuming your users are useless and cannot learn new features, as well as just plain weird ideas like breaking alt-tab without checking (Unity) or hiding save button in Office behind what looks like a logo (MS ribbon early edition) should hopefully be less important.
I'm helping them out (built this for them)
Yeah, so I learned. Didn't even have any of the more serious complications, but had nausea with it which led to dehydration and sleep deprivation. 72+ hours of that and I was in really rough shape, I'd guess not more than 12 hours from requiring hospitalization when I finally went to the doctor and got some drugs. Will not make that mistake again.
Well as house prices have shot up, interest rates have come down, so the cost of servicing a typical mortgage might be flat.
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Anyone that breaks code and then doesn't investigate why a unit test exists is not a boy scout, but a vandal.
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Start with reducing the costs of basic needs.
Shelter - micro apts, container based
Lots of regulations make this problematic in short term.

Food - Basic nutritious food should be cheaper. Currently, cheap food is not nutritious or that cheap. Even Soylent costs $2.83 and many do not consider that food. A meal should cost less than $1.
- 2 ways that I have been mulling
* Automation for on demand food
* Mass production of simple meals.
> Still not paying for a cert on my person home-pages

lets encrypt?
Yeah, there's really no excuse anymore really. They've made it insanely easy to generate certs.
I don't think we can have the conversation about basic income without having the conversation about currency.

Right now the government has basic(or really much more than basic) income . . . it can create the money it needs to do what it wants. And this trickles down from the President and the Speaker of the House to the foot soldier and the mailman.

This is a feature of the monetary system and it is only challenged in rare, extreme, or politically charged cases.

Perhaps we should think about innovating the currency to provide basic income to citizens rather than to the state.
> The modern trains will be equipped with WiFi and charging stations.

I'm a bit sceptical for the charging stations. USB ports are damn easy to break, even accidentally - e.g. by forcefully inserting a USB connector the "wrong" way, breaking off the inner lid and likely shorting Vcc to GND in the process. Also they wear out pretty fast... not to mention people getting pushed around in a crowded car, and breaking off cables out of the ports with their elbows.

Providing "live" 220V, on the other hand, also has safety issues. In a mass transit situation there will be "pranksters" who set off the RCDs with "tweaked" plugs (used to do this in school for great effect), there will be people who connect shady equipment to the outlets etc., or just people with fried chargers providing a fire hazard.
I take issue with the idea that government should use violence to take from some people and give to others, the "You have to" (or we throw you on a cage or worse) is the problem.

The money and time wasted is the huge infrastructure to enforce the ever growing list of restrictions.
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That's nice and all, but no one is going to feel content at basic income.
This is obvious, right? A K-12 teacher handles ~30 kids at a time, starting at age 5-6. Their job is more rigorous than the one a child-care professional does. Meanwhile, most parents are happier about the time their kids spend in school than they are about the time they spend in childcare.
She's in over her head technically (obviously) and asks an arguably insulting question to end the interview. It's a softball interview, but it was also in 2003 I think.
You don't prove that it's "correct," as there is no such thing as a "correct" program. You prove that it works.
-- Lower office costs - which is really important for startups.

Ironically a lot of startups seem to be office focused, but if there's less than 8 people in the company, don't get an office. You don't need the expense and hassle of an office.

When you need to meet face to face to hash things out, you can go to someones house, or you can go to somewhere like Panera Bread which often has meeting rooms you can just use.

This has the benefit of making those meetings more focused, since the effort to have a meeting is higher than in an office.

I'm continually amazed by the companies that have a daily meeting wasting engineers time (never been to a good standup) and how attached they are to this-- it seem to be very management driven, much like the "need" for na office: "IF I can't see them and waste 30 minutes of their time each day, how will I know they are working?"

Apparently looking at issue tracking systems doesn't work for bosses.
Someone pointed me to a good book on this topic called "Scarcity" written jointly by an economist and a psychologist. It looks at what happens to our minds when we're in a "scarcity mindset" -- basically, we have tunnel vision, lose attention span, self-control, and the ability to plan long-term. Your mind is compromised, and that's a cause of perpetual poverty (i.e., if any of us suddenly became poor, we'd start behaving predictably like those who are low income do).

Along those lines, they suggest a few types of things startups (or anyone) could do to reduce mental stress for people. For example, adult continuing education classes where it's ok to slip up or learn on your own schedule (thanks to technology). Or savings products for young people that start before they are desperate and living in a world of scarcity (and prevent them from going to a payday lender one day). Or a service that gets patients to take their meds without having to think (I think at least one startup is already attacking this).

For things that require behavioral change (like making on-time mortgage payments, or saving money), maybe social pressure can be used in productive ways....like it is in microfinance groups in the developing world (small groups borrow collectively and group members encourage one another to repay). Anyway, just a few ideas...this is a great topic.
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Yes.

Everyone bemoans the increasing in tuition and increase in admin staff.. these things are intimately tied. The cost of education on a per-student basis hasn't increased very much in the US. Most of the cost burden has just shifted from taxpayers to students (for better or worse). Much of the admin staff is necessary to handle all of the financial aid, grant applications, etc.

Simply providing tuition-free education would eliminate much of the bureaucratic overhead.
Einstein famously (and actually) had poor grades in subjects he had no interest in, and did great in subjects he enjoyed. It seems to have delayed his progress that no one recognized his skill and passion early on.

Bad filters look for weaknesses and good filters look for strengths. Anyone who excels in at least one area has potential to do great things.
Why do we have to go through this whole SSL certificates thing and can't just have a simple, automatically secure, I-do-nothing-and-my-website-is-secure protocol?

Seriously though. If secure is the default from now on, why can't it actually be the default?
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How does it get rid of competing ad networks? Does Google have a monopoly on serving ads over HTTPS?
Here's another link: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-mincome-experiment-daup...
Why does everyone assume that Alice just sat on her ass the whole time? That she doesn't know how to program just because she knew she had better things to do than bring yet another half-assed CMS into the world?
I'm not sure I agree.

You seems to be suggesting that the only way to solve a problem is to write code, and that's precisely the point that that article is trying to address; That you don't always need to write code to get something done.

It's the same reason why when you need to build a website you don't build a web server from scratch (unless you do in which case, godspeed).
I have those kinds of meetings all the time on slack.
I just published a Medium post about this exact subject: Tech Innovation & Economic Inequality. https://medium.com/@a13n/tech-innovation-economic-inequality...
There are YouTube videos demonstrating what org-mode does, including this 18 minute one (many others in the side-bar):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgizHHd7nOo

And, on Org-mode's Wikipedia page -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Org-mode -- there is this list of Vim plug-ins:

Vim text editor (for Unix, Linux, Apple's OS X, MS Windows, Android, iOS...), which has plugins[39] with subsets of the Emacs Org-mode functionality:

VimOrganizer - An Emacs Org-mode clone for Vim.
vim-orgmode - Text outlining and task management for Vim based on Emacs Org-mode.
VOoM - Outliner including an Org markup mode.
vxfold.vim - Fold cycling similar to Emacs Org-mode.
Another alternative is to use emulation layers such as Viper or Evil for Vi/Vim key bindings in Emacs.[40]*
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Well, in that case, just look busy in your cube.
Because you need to create a public key for the browser to use.
We already have an estate tax that maxes out at 40%. As long as we don't allow any more exemptions or windows, it shouldn't be a problem. We may quarrel over whether or not free lunch at work qualifies as income (I'd say it is not worth it to make a fuss) but use of corporate funds for personal expenses would count as income for the person if we are worried about these things. As long as the mega rich do not receive and spend over (for example) three million dollars a year per person, why should we worry about them? If they take over three million dollars and pay 90% off the top, they are more than welcome to do so in my eyes. The main thing is that there should be no exemptions for any reason. Exemptions, exclusions, deductions, tax discounts, and such are inherently examples of central planning. I can't believe that we would allow such communist ideas in our country.

My goal is not to facilitate people to become ultra rich through "entrepreneurial zeal and hard work". It is just the same ignorance as shown by pg in his recent essay where he says that a startup entrepreneur who becomes a billionaire is somehow better or more desirable than a billionaire who inherited his money. What I want is to get a solid foundation so people are not worried about their next meal or a clean dry place to spend the night.

If someone creates a new business process or a new gizmo that does the work that formerly took one thousand workers, well I am thankful to the person. However, we will still cap his payday at a hundred times the minimum living wage. I think it is a fair deal. People who do things should do things because they want to do things not because they want a big payday and become "mega rich".

Edit: There was an article that I read the other day that said something along the lines of forget the mega rich the upper middle class is the cause of the decline of America.
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Angular has a larger community behind it right now.
Have you ever grown a two sided marketplace? Especially in a marketplace with popular competitors? How do you plan to do this without advertising or throwing money at people (like driver signup bonuses)?
All of this is misdirection to the point that high frequency traders definitely make money, but it extremely difficult to justify what they add to the market. People making decisions don't want to trade somewhere with high frequency traders and they don't need to for any technical reason.
I did the homemaker thing for two decades.

Pro tip: Have the full time parent take classes part time and do volunteer work. These days, blogging and online freelance work can also play a part.

Those things help preserve your employability. They give you something to put on a resume. The one and only thing that has the ability to increase your earning power while you take time off work is education. I read that somewhere and I have experienced it firsthand.

I got my first full time paid job at age 41. It paid better than minimum wage and I worked for the largest company in town. Any time I made small talk while buying myself lunch or getting a haircut, telling people where I worked got oohs and aahs. They didn't even know my job title or that I was stuck in an entry level job and never managed to get promoted. Just having a job there at all was statusy and a ticket to a real career.

I wasn't making the kind of money my ex made, but I wasn't doomed either. I ultimately left (for health reasons). I now do freelance work and, with my health issues resolving, my income is going up. At some point, I expect to live comfortably.
Naively, a $3T program would increase the US budget by around 50% even if you eliminated all existing social security and unemployment benefits.

I can't see determining a politically acceptable and GDP-neutral progressive tax that finds an average of 50% extra per person as a simple problem, and that's even before you start dealing with the backlash from equally unhappy people whose existing welfare or social security program entitlements add up to more than $10k per annum...
Don't get me wrong. I think PSR standards are great, just not all of the fit into this framework. In PSR-7, for instance, Request and Response objects are immutable. Imagine the framework when this concept is applied to other objects. It will be a much different beast.
A company from a Nordic country? Unity and Zendesk are from Denmark another Nordic country. The Nordics are Scandinavia + Finland and Iceland.
Google should offer stupid SSL certificates either for free or for $1/yr.

Perhaps at least to customers of Google domains. I won't mind switching from namecheap to Google domain in latter case.
Especially since there would be absolutely no difference at all in this story if the author were a woman.
In reality, there's no good path to a career in the law that doesn't go through a small subset of the big law schools, because there's a huge glut of lawyers. A starting point for looking into this is the Google search "third tier toilet".

The thing that unlocks legal professions from the grip of $200k law schools is going to be something that reimagines the role of a lawyer, creating a new kind of legal professional that makes radically less money than a BigLaw lawyer.
The productivity of labor is also vastly different.
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/google-will-soon-shame-all...

They should have it force https.
Do I think that an organization should rely on chance encounters to drive innovation? Certainly not, but that doesn't mean there's not value in such serendipitous encounters.

Sometimes the value of such encounters is simply that you understand the daily trials and tribulations of another department better and can use that information to better communicate with them.
Zendesk was founded by three Danes.

As far as I know initially based in Copenhagen, though at some point they opened offices in the US (don't know if they have presence in Denmark anymore, but it's not unlikely).
If the basic tenants and studies that have called basic income into the forefront are to be believed (and the actual spectre of central state control that people are afraid of in some circumstances is real, and it is), the best way to benefit people in need is to give them cash. Most of the time, people spend it on things they need. If they don't, they are either suffering from a mental or addiction issue and need treatment, or they made mistakes and its their own damn fault, and nobody needs to pity them.
This is a huge component that should be considered when arguing for / against basic income. Does this lack of self worth stem from actually not having a job? Or simply not putting quality time into something valuable? Did they study people who found other ways to spend their time on something productive and interesting, like volunteering or learning a hobby? Did they measure people who were jobless by choice?
Again, why do you assume that she's not averse to writing code? Why do you assume that she just forced Wordpress on people, instead of doing the same analysis that Clyde and Bob did?
> The problem with basic income is that people need purpose, not charity.

> I think we need to figure out how to empower people.

I don't think anything you've said is incompatible with something like basic income.

What could be more empowering than knowing your basic needs will be taken care of? From that position of strength you can negotiate with others based on mutual benefit rather than avoiding the consequences of not meeting your basic needs for survival. You must be enticed into a transaction rather than coerced no matter how circumspect that coercion.

If people needed to be forced to add value to the world through the threat of starvation or homelessness HN wouldn't exist. Why would people with means continue transacting? I don't believe the poor are much different, they will nurture their potential and provide what they can to the world because the trade leaves them better off.
This suggestion supposes that there is a reasonable "floor" and "ceiling" for prices in batch auctions. But in fact that spread of prices is exactly what market makers figure out organically.

If you instead mean that individual traders could input orders with floor and ceiling prices, that's something that already exists, but now you're back to the original problem of resolving whose orders execute when (inevitably) most of the orders don't match.
Yes, shame all libraries/swimming pools giving their schedule online without HTTPS. Shame gutenberg project, the documentations for OS, code, your washing machine.

Why would money from libraries gutenberg project, NGOs informations go to more expansive OPEX for web hosting when an information is clearly designed and OK to be public?

And does not require adds or payment.

Google has some godwin point very authoritative views on the internet and the protocols that make me dislike them.

Especially that their business model it is to not pay transit for distributing their contents. Basically every fucking internet users pay the 95th percentile transit to google products even if they don't watch videos on youtube, don't use gmail or else.

These people are like ... catholic priests. Do as I say, not as I act and be good members of the community.
I think that social security is the wrong thing to compare it to. Try social security + unemployment + food stamps + aid to families with dependent children + ...
But businesses won't have to pay employees more. If anything, they can pay less because the UBI covers it. See @simonh's comment [0] to parent.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10982605
What a strange title for an article. It's like back-to-front thinking.

Surely someone uninformed on the topic would want to read something along the lines of "anti-submarine warfare" or even "submarine detection", during the course of which would probably learn about magnetic anomaly detection and attempts to defeat it.

I mean, who and how would someone know (or want to know) why submarines are demagnetized without already knowing something about ASW?
I'm a bit unclear on how degaussing the hull prevents the sub from showing up as a magnetic anomaly. All that would do is keep the vessel from affecting nearby compasses. It still distorts the local geomagnetic field, doesn't it, just by virtue of being made from a ferromagnetic material...?
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It means your internet provider can't inject ads or profile you based on the content of the sites that you visit. Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon have all done similar: https://certsimple.com/blog/ssl-why-do-i-need-it#4-not-havin...
What any individual, or even large group of human minds, can achieve is a very tiny fraction of what can be achieved given enough time and scale. And if that isn't nihilistic enough, it probably means absolutely nothing given even more time.

So, no, I think that fear is a silly byproduct of our own biases with or without the possibility of superior intelligence.

I'm sure when the AI overlords really take over, they'll give you a little box for you to excel in :)
Their iPhone app is superb, a few £s a year and you get access to all their stories in an intuitive format. Well worth it.
and of course, a little bit of taxes to redistribute YCombinator money made from startups-that-don't-help-people-to-eat to those people who'd be relieved by basic income
Money won’t make you happy

This is true but misleading.

Nothing external makes you happy. As cheesy as it may sound, happiness comes from within. That being said, having money can ease some of the stresses that weigh upon us and make us unhappy.

Moreover, it's the kind of thing that is said by people who either have a lot of money already or have no chance of ever having a lot of money. For those of us in the middle, it's a patronizing and frustrating platitude.
But that tends to fall more into 'search' instead of 'browse', unless you both happen to be having unrelated conversations in public channels.
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