skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few good ones here - another really interesting, current initiative is Bolsa Família, a Brazilian assistance program that functions similarly to a basic income subsidy - the main difference is that it requires families to demonstrate up-to-date immunizations and good school attendance rates for children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsa_Fam%C3%ADlia
Yes, mercury compounds are used as medicines. For examples, thiomersal is an antiseptic and antifungal agent, and merbromin is an antiseptic.

This is why I wrote 'elemental mercury'.

I am not aware of an effective medicinal use of elemental mercury, and Lincoln's pills contained that form of mercury.
Okay, well, let's compare.

Uber's violation:
possibly not informing their drivers of the hilarious law of having to drive back to your garage after every trip.

National Union of Taxis violation:
- Instigating and supporting violence in Paris this summer, cars where set on fire and passengers attacked.
- Supporting ongoing a violent rampage that yesterdat blocked a highway, threw tires at innocent drivers and got into a fistfight with the police.

When asked how long the violent rampage will go on this summer, their president commented:
"This will go on indefinitely, at least tonight and tomorrow."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/26/europe/france-paris-uberpop-pr...

In the cosmic order of right and wrong, it seems to me more appropriate that Uber get their money back, and National Taxi Union might belong behind bars rather than driving passengers.
So how do the latest technologies filter into the Chinese software development scene? Or are they a generation or two behind due to the need for ideas to filter through?
For those afraid of losing their jobs. What happens if nobody as a job, they won't be able to buy things. So I foresee a basic income kinda society.
OK. I'd like to see a full packet capture. And technically, the address was not 'harvested'. He gave it to them when he sent them packets. The story strikes me as very dramatic and over the top because of statements such as that.
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As opposed to whoever inherits the hand-rolled codebase, who will get to discover (after spending three months deciphering the architecture) that the system is buggy and riddled with totally-unique security vulnerabilities because the original author was a fallible human being. YUUUUUGE improvement.
There is non-profit startup in Berlin trying to do this, they mainly fund themselves by raising the money from the crowd. It's a lottery system where one can win 1000€ per month for one year, which in most parts of Germany gets you somewhere. They already funded 29 people analyze and blog about who won. Most people actually didn't do dramatic life changes, which also could be because it's just one year.

Warning German: https://www.mein-grundeinkommen.de/start
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Will this be possible to simulate if the participants know they are taking part in a study?
>Maybe I'd had it wrong and people were always focused on "lines of code"?

No, the original studies talked about 10x productivity, not 10x lines of code. The more productive developers also produced fewer lines of code for similarly complex tasks, and it was easier to debug, to understand, and to modify. They also frequently would produce net-negative-lines-of-code on productive days.

Article is clickbait with a strawman premise, no question. I think it particularly attracts the clicks of 1x developers who like to think the 10x developers aren't anything special. There are certainly many more 1x developers.

The top-voted comment as I write this frames someone who recommends WordPress as a solid engineer. Enough said.
My guess would be that they don't care about mods, and that their main motivation was to have an excuse to lock out other OSes.
Or, in more relevant terms, 3.2T is about 1/5th of US GPD (~17Y).
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Yes but it's a little harder to prove that the algorithm you've described works.
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I can imagine Google and Facebook having competing armies in the coming robot wars.
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When I talk with people about basic income, my gut reaction and primary argument is that it contrasts with that fundamental human nature that's been show time and again throughout humanity - given a guaranteed, fixed reward no matter how much or how little you work for it, disincentivizes work. It follows along the same lines as why government instituted communism fails. Or why the first version of the mayflower compact failed - whatever was produced was put into a common warehouse and all the land, buildings and end product were communally owned.

I just think that socialism and communism (which basic income basically is - it's paid for by the working class) ultimately leads to the destruction of the economy.
Hey Inufu. I just replayed the games and have to say that the first game the bot shows very high quality plays.

The next two games, it seems like Fan Hui did not perform as well as the first (as opposed to the computer being clearly better than him). Where the games played in a row?

Regardless, I'm looking forward to the games with Lee Sedol. I studied in his school in Korea, and personally know how hard it is to get to that level.

My assessment is that the bot from those games will NOT beat Lee Sedol. So train it hard for march :)
Does your "US population" number include people <18yrs old, people receiving social security, and people who volunteer to not receive their basic income payment? They should be exempt from your calculation...
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Things got fiddled a bit here with the comments, but this is my response to "how can we increase prosperity for everyone?", although it's probably more a political problem than a startup one.

Maybe it's just me that has noticed it in the past few years, but "fixing housing in the US" is looming large on my list of things to improve.

It's not just San Francisco - the same debates are playing out in places like Boulder, or even here in Bend.
Better title: "How I decided that a practice that works better for me is clearly superior to others (and why I'm writing a blog to be smug about it)"
The exponent is larger. That's what that means. It's not a simple doubling (quadratic) or linear increase in search space.
No, tons of stuff are liabilities that they don't remove. Rent, salaries, etc.
Basic income is generally designed to be revenue neutral on the middle class. In other words, you send them a cheque for $10,000 and increase their taxes by ~$10,000. So your cost is off by about an order of magnitude. That you get from increasing taxes on the rich and from cost savings for social security and other welfare benefits.
I wonder what basic income would do to cost of living? If everyone ends up with x amount of guaranteed income, does the cost of living eventually rise by the same amount across the board and basically negate it? It seems like rent-seeking behavior would come in to play here.
But that number is misleading. I have a spouse and three children. Does that mean we all will get 10K/yr?

I have had a different thought on this in the past; Every child born should have $10K put into an account in their name on the day they are born. It will gain interest and grow until they are 18, then they get the money. And as an adult after 21, they are taxed at some rate to pay back the initial 10K that will then be deposited into the account of some other new baby.
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Where is the application to be a part of the experiment group? I'd prefer that over the control group...
It's a big reason we want to do it for 5 years -- things may look different in the longer term.
>They already do this.

Not according to the article.

>Vail Resorts; owner of Breckenridge, Keystone, Vail, Beaver Creek, and Heavenly is a the only large employeer in most of these towns. They have a high degree of local political influence and like to leverage the fact that they provide low cost housing (about 1/3 of market prices) so they can exploit their employees more efficiently.

In that case market forces will act much more quickly. As soon as people stop deciding to work as slaves, instantly Vail Resorts will do something about it. There's no incentive for them to do anything while they still have the cheap labour.
I've found that Codereview on StackExchange is a good place to get feedback on this sort of question:
http://codereview.stackexchange.com/
Once again, the discussion about the basic income is framed as "would people work or sit on their ass". This is a red herring. People receive free stuff all the time, from nature, from technology. In general, free things do not make people worse off, it's just more widely discussed, as are instances of men biting dogs.

What people end up doing on a basic income is far less relevant than what people end up not doing due to the taxation burden of funding a basic income. It's telling that the post contains no mention whatsoever of studying the impact of the taxation.
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If I am a participant in this subject and I am told that I will be receiving Basic Income for 5 years I might act differently compared to if I was told that I am entitled to Basic Income for the rest of my life.

The observation bias alone might motivate people to do work and strive to achieve something with all of their time. Or, it might even cause them to lie about the things they're working on.

It will be very interesting to see how they design the study, I think it has to be a little bit more nuanced than "Here's 2000 dollars a month for 5 years, bye."
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Unless it's using Privacy Extensions in which case it will change it's outbound IP in a matter of hours and once again be lost in the huge address space.

Unfortunately privacy extensions are not enabled by default on most linux distributions and server operating systems.
How? In every quantized unit of time everyone would be treated equally. If there is more demand than supply the prices goes up until there is not more demand than supply. This is also not even taking into account orders having ranges acceptable prices, which would add much more flexibility and granularity without needing more temporal resolution.
I would think that it depends on what you consider "basic income". If it's just enough money to scrape by (tiny living quarters, food and a tiny amount for clothes/toilitries, etc) then people won't be worried about survival, but they'll still want to get more money for things like having a house, cell phone, vacations, etc
With some pretty strong selection bias which will likely make generalizations difficult.
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Might be of interest: http://www.givedirectly.org
It's too early to say -- we're obviously not experts ourselves on this kind of research, so we're going to look to the researcher who joins us to first design the study.
Nice, this isn't a bubble waiting to happen or anything...
There are a few ways you could build a working site from undo76’s example. Unfortunately all the noise around modern JS does make it seem more complicated than it really is, but you can set up everything you need in about two minutes.

The only essentials you need are React itself and, because the example uses ES2015 and JSX code, Babel to transpile the script into more portable JS that will run in today’s browsers.

In practice you’d probably also be using Node/NPM to manage packages and a tool like Browserify or Webpack to resolve dependencies. I’ll use Browserify.

So, here is a complete working example. For the script, we’ll use undo76’s original code verbatim, and add imports of the React modules at the start of the file. Let’s call this index.src.js:

import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";

const DATA = {
name: 'John Smith',
imgURL: 'http://lorempixel.com/100/100/',
hobbyList: ['coding', 'writing', 'skiing']
}

const App = ({ profileData }) => (
<div>
<Profile { ...profileData } />
<Hobbies { ...profileData } />
</div>
);

const Profile = ({ name, imgURL }) => (
<div>
<h3>{name}</h3>
<img src={imgURL} />
</div>
);

const Hobbies = ({ hobbyList }) => (
<div>
<h5>My hobbies:</h5>
<ul>
{ hobbyList.map( (hobby, idx) => (
<li key={ idx }>{ hobby }</li>
))}
</ul>
</div>
);

ReactDOM.render(<App profileData={DATA} />, document.getElementById('content'));

As usual, we need an HTML file to load that script, though it doesn’t need to do much else except provide a <div> with an ID where we’ll put the content that React renders. Otherwise just use your preferred boilerplate. Let’s call this index.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>React test</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content"></div>
<script src="index.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
</body>
</html>

Finally, we need the tools and React packages:

npm init
npm install --save react react-dom
npm install --save-dev browserify babelify babel-preset-es2015 babel-preset-react

Now we can run Browserify to generate our output JS file (adjust the / to \ if you’re running on Windows):

node_modules/.bin/browserify index.src.js -o index.js -t [ babelify --presets [ es2015 react ] ]

That will produce index.js, which is just the code from undo76 linked with React and then transpiled to a more portable level of JS that today’s browsers can cope with. (Incidentally, this is literally the first example on the Babelify documentation page, which gives you an idea of how routine it is once you’re familiar with these tools.)

Now load index.html in your browser of choice and enjoy. :-)
But almost nobody proves that programs they write on computers work either. When was the last time you proved a program correct?
Federal poverty level is 15930 for a two people family unit, that gives 8000 USD/person/year (slightly below 10k), * 300 mln is 2.4trln. Total income from social security tax (assuming you're replacing all social security with flat just-out-of-poverty basic income) comes to 1.1trln. So definitely short, but assuming 4% annual growth (figure reverse engineered from budget predictions in the futute), that gives us 20 years when in real terms we would be able to fund it entirely from social security tax.

Sources: http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/federal_budget_detail
Deep Blue was only innovative in that it was specialized hardware for this type of search. The algorithms it used were well-established, and as there was no way to play it as a piece of hardware without great expense, there wasn't really a reason to keep it around.

Chess engines you can run today, for free, on your own laptop, are far and away better than Deep Blue (and any human), and I believe still don't reach Deep Blue's raw speed.
The world where these particular sample images require a NSFW warning is FAKE. It's 100% manufactured 'drama'. The natural human reaction, from both sexes, to these photos (which can even be seen in other comments here) is "those are nice pictures" or "she's pretty" and NOT "OMG, I shouldn't be displaying these, I might offend someone." Excuse the language, but this is a quintessential example of 'PC bullshit'. Grow a goddamn spine, people. Come on, there are much, much more important, relevant, and pressing things to worry about than whether or not your co-workers might disapprove of some random images of a FULLY CLOTHED female human being on a website.

How sad.
Opinions on Basic Income aside, if this were ever to become a reality in the US I'd like to see it be added to the US Constitution as an amendment because it seems like such a fundamental change to the structure and thinking of how government works.
I'm not sure how this will work out as far as long term strategy goes, but in the near time I am very annoyed. It seems like they can't decide what to do with Hangouts. Vacillating on core functionality like this every other year only serves to frustrate end users.
A basic income doesn't remove variable rewards for work. It just sets a minimum. Very few people reading this could continue their current lifestyle on a basic income, so how is this going to make people stop working?
I installed Veertu it and gave it a try. I'm mostly interested in hosting FreeBSD clients, so I was happy to see a FreeBSD net install disk image in its list of options, but the client kernel panics as it boots. Fusion supports FreeBSD (and any other OS I've thrown at it in recent memory) flawlessly… Guess I'll stick with it for now.
I think you just barely touched on the lunacy of even debating who has the better resume. You need to actually talk to them and understand what their real experiences are. Besides how do we not know that Alice is actually a major contributor to WordPress or optimizes compression algorithms on the side for fun.
In the caterpillar's universe, light rays wrap around the surface of the straw too, so they won't see anything "missing".
Removing minimum wage is a very important aspect because it allows teens to get experience early. Nothing kills teenage employment rates better than a 20$/hr mandate.
...given a guaranteed, fixed reward no matter how much or how little you work for it, disincentivizes work...I just think that socialism and communism (which basic income basically is...)

Wrong. Basic income lifts the floor. It does not concern itself with the ceiling. Calling it communism is utterly wrong and completely missing the point.
I didn't say countries, I said parts of the world. There are places even in America where misogyny is so entrenched that, like you, people treat women as nothing more than offspring incubators.

It's attitudes like yours that keep women out of the tech industry. At literally the same time that you're telling young men to take risks, do a startup, and try for the big win, you're telling women to do what? Stay at home and feel despondent while little Timmy says he doesn't have to for the 5000th time that day? That's an attitude for the 1950's, not modernity.

Not even going to touch the ableism in this comment. You're literally saying that people who are differently abled or neuroatypical are worthless.

You should be ashamed.
What I want to know is whether Basic Income implemented with our current housing and laws about land ownership will just run afoul of the Henry George Theorem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_theorem

IE, the aggregate value of public spending in an area tends to soak into the land value -- give everybody $X,000 a year and the landlords will dutifully raise annual rents by $X,000.
I want to create something that works for lots of users from lots of backgrounds and lots of feature complexity.
It seems like many aren't quite getting what's going on here...here's a brief overview:

Shodan.io fancies itself as a search engine where you can search for IOT things (webcams, refrigerators, etc) that are on the internet.

They have no technical issues doing this in the IPV4 space, because it's easy enough to scan every single address in the space.

This isn't practical for IPV6. So, it seems they wanted a way to identify every IOT device in the IPV6 space without having to scan all of it.

At least one approach they found was to join the ntp.org pool[1], and effectively donate server time. Since pool.ntp.org is the default NTP server listed for many linux distros (and thus, probably IOT devices), they now are getting live connections from the exact devices they want to index on their search engine.

Once you connect, they scan you back on 100 ports on so (ports unrelated to NTP) to see if you are a webcam, router, or whatever else they want to put in their index.

Pretty shady. Kind of like volunteering for a charity so that you can raid their internal mailing list for spam purposes.

[1]http://www.pool.ntp.org/join.html
There's a false equivalence between basic income and communism in your reasoning. Under failing communistic systems, that fixed income was generally the only allowed income, whereas basic income is guaranteed at a minimum level with other income allowed.

The capitalistic harnessing of greed still applies in the basic income situation - i.e. the motivation of going to work to get more income is still in effect.
What will stop people from having multiple kids, just to get the $10K/child windfall?
And its down: "This webpage is not available

DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN"
And confidence tricksters perform trust arbitrage.

This is all just ways of saying HFT is exploiting a loop-hole in a system to make money for themselves.

They could all be eliminated overnight and the free-market system would not notice their absence at all.

They don't provide a service to anyone besides themselves, they don't provide liquidity, they are nothing except parasites.
That's already an issue. I also don't see how it's reasonable to ask someone to essentially sign a contract with a third party entity to do one's job while sacrificing that individual's personal privacy in the process.
The beaten player is ranked 633 (Fan Hui).
I am surprised that it's for only 1 researcher though. The data on startup founders seems to encourage 2 or more people to share the burden and have someone to more explicitly bounce ideas off of. It would seem to be the case that fundamental research like this would also benefit from the cofounder type setup.
This, of course, highly depends on what your definition of "severely depressed" is. There are several standards whose ranges don't even overlap on the same scale. [1] Also consider that people who have moderate depression may have episodes that put them in the severe category, which we would like to treat effectively.

[1]: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-yo...
Yes. Since you brought it up I can provide those numbers too:

Total US population ~= 319M
Under 18 population ~= 73M
Over 65 population ~= 46M
---------------------------
Remainder ~= 200M

No data on volunteering not to receive, though I don't know many people who pay more taxes than they're required to so I'm guessing that number would be pretty small.
The key is to realize that Slack et al are really good for synchronous communication (users need to be present simultaneously to really be effective). EMail was designed for asynchronous (reply later) communication. The expectation that everything can be done synchronously is unrealistic. The reasons for this are users spread across multiple timezones, unavailability of a party, the need for some thought and consideration etc.
Unfortunately, email, as we all know has a lot of flaws.

An ideal comprehensive communication infrastructure would be one that encompasses both synchronous (Slack, Hipchat etc.) and asynchronous modes but in such a way that one doesn't create two disjoint islands as is the case now between chat and email.

TMail21 (https://tmail21.com) is an asynchronous communications platform that is designed (amongst other things) to integrate with chat apps so the appropriate communication mode can be used at the appropriate time.

At the end of the day there is no silver bullet to the team communication and collaboration challenge. There are so many permutations and combinations of use cases. It's a matter of picking the right tool for the right job.
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I don't think this is a great argument without the data to back it up. People are operating at the gut level and, well, that's not the right level to disabuse powerful economic ideas.
The West Side Yard doesn't look at all like the huge shopping malls that are owned by the MTR in Hong Kong...in fact, there's basically no commercial activity there.