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A person rich enough to inherit a house at a young age isn't going to notice the relatively tiny minimal income. They are far more likely to oppose the taxes necessary to support minimum income than they are to be a secret motivating army behind it. It's not productive to invent unreasonable stories of unfairness just to create an internal rage however exciting that may be.

If you're concerned about possible unfairness of minimum income then you would need to look at people whose medical expenses could exceed the minimum income, people who are mentally incapable of buying the right resources, people who have dependent children and unchecked market forces that would allow prices to rise beyond what the minimum income could afford.

The last one is the biggest problem as it would effectively transfer wealth from taxpayers briefly through the poorest people to the wealthy via increased profits and still leave some people unprovided for.
Is The World in a Technological Inflection Point?
How the FBI pressures Muslim immigrants to become informants
The world is experiencing an inflection point. It will emerge 10 years from now very different from the world we are in now.
This article sheds a lot of light on the world that will emerge on the other end. Thank you, Vivek Wadhwa!‎
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I wonder tonwhat degree this affects graduation rate disparity amongst man and women.
Thanks for the feature request. I've added it to the TODO list. Definitely something I will do. The price will always remain $1/user per month.
When my son was 5, he would ask me if we were going in the "455 car" or the "378 car". Both cars were the same model and color, but he had the plates memorized.

Now that he's 6, he has about 300 digits of pi memorized. He's also got the entire periodic table, and the song "Yakko's World" (all of the nations).

Some people have an easy time with faces. Others have an easy time with data.
Uncomfortable Question for Ted Cruz on Obamacare Silences the Room
Sure, if you have wire, and magnets, and cement, and electronic controls, and pipe (for hydro). And the tools and processes to make those things.

If we imagine there's some infrastructure remaining, then there'd be a small window of opportunity to rebuild using that, before it decayed. A couple of years maybe.
Wekan installs on Sandstorm, so not only is it cheaper and easier to install, but it is more secure as well.
The question relates to someone who never had health care because he was low-income and suffered from undiagnosed, untreatable cancer because he had not been to a doctor.

Ted Cruz when lashing out against Trump made some unkind comments about New Yorkers (disclosure: I am one).

It turns out that NY City has community health centers that take care of 450,000 uninsured patients (those who earn too much to be on Medicaid).

For example, a colonoscopy to screen for colon cancer can be very expensive but in NYC it is free for those who can't afford it.

I'll bet Cruz was not even aware of the healthcare provided by NYC.
I wish there were more articles like this as I'm genuinely curious of people's experiences using Rust as a backend to their API's or websites. The only example I had known of before this was Rust's own crates.io [1].

[1] https://crates.io
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You are envisioning a world of ultra-rich capitalists (who own every mean of production, both in material and knowledge economy), occasionally giving "bread and circuses" to the rest of the world, who can't produce because their "jobs" are worthless.

Incidentally, this was exactly the reason of demise of the Roman Empire. Instead of robots, there were slaves captured in military conquests (slavery is morally wrong, of course, but it was "sustainable" and there were no significant slave uprisings). But it didn't end well.
the IT department at universities or corporations can archive all the emails "legally" in their system(not personal emails though, but emails related to job), I guess this monitoring is something live instead of a cold-storage-alike archiving? while I hate this practice, they do have the right of doing that correct?
Also read the linked article from Krebs. How can people scam over and over and still find suckers to invest in yet another scam?
How does campaigning for these things work? Are there resources allocated from the state to make sure it is an informed decision, or is it entirely up to private interests to do that?
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The main downside to using Rust for web apps - at least in my opinion: is having to learn and use a type system which includes affine types: lifetimes, borrowing etc. But if you've already put in the effort to get to grips with this part of the language, that's not as big a drawback. Then you get all the other positives of the language, like its strong type system, fast speed, sensible package manager, lack of GC pauses etc.
Do clients really ask for Bootstrap specifically?
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I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with Rust the language in this context, but an API server doesn't really let Rust play to its relative strengths. Response times are more likely to be DB or I/O bound than anything else, so you'reprobably not improving response time much compared to Ruby or Python (of course, that's not always true though). Also, the ecosystem seems immature enough still that you'd inevitably have to reinvent at least a few wheels.

That said, I think it's great to do things like this. Someone has to pave the way. And, if a good API/web ecosystem builds up in Rust there's no reason _not_ to use it.

At the moment though, I think a more _natural_ fit for Rust would be for something a little lower level than an API server.
The only criminal in this whole story is Snowden. Literally, no one else broke the law here. You need to screw your head back on.
Suggestion for you FAQ:

> 4) Why use Bootstrap?
> Because Bootstrap is the most widely adopted development framework, with the largest thriving community and most extensive documentation.

How about something a little better than "because everyone else is using it", such as:

"Bootstrap gives us a common vocabulary of classes and components that makes it easier for beginners to build fully-functioning markup, and makes it easier for developers of all levels to communicate with one another. It also provides constraints on the otherwise-unlimited possibilities of HTML+CSS which makes it possible for us to build this GUI tool that interacts with it."
Tonight the deadline set by EU data protection agencies ends.

On Monday it will be illegal to transfer personal data to the US for EU startups based on safe harbor. Main impact is on email marketing.

Currently not clear if exiting BCR and standard clauses are impacted too.

It might be the case that EU startups also no longer can use Google Mail or Google apps.
Any potential development in this area deserves attention...

"Pluripotent" cells...stem cells...may eventually have the potential to serve as an aid to repair--on the fly--whatever ails us (e.g., heart tissue damage (nations #1 killer))...

Demand for organ transplantation is steadily increasing...supply is limited...

Artificially resetting amniotic fluid cells to a pluripotent state is a potential stepping stone to producing "regenerative" therapies...to my understanding, up to this point, these cells have only been harvest-able, for research, from the placenta or cord...

Very interesting article...thanks for posting...
I wonder what sort of feedback loop would result if they tied the basic income to something like the CPI[1] in the USA? -- As the price of living increased(due to the surge in demand) the basic income would be increased to retain the same buying power.

I would think some sort of controls on the prices, possibly only on things the basic income is expected to pa(rent, insurance, food, etc...) would be needed to prevent a runaway inflation feedback loop. Maybe that would be enough to prevent runaway inflation?

I like the idea of it but proper implementation would be very difficult.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/cpi/home.htm
My job is, in a very real sense, to automate jobs out of existence. How much $fiats were you proposing to pay me, again?
Show HN: Source small php page that shows the public source code of a Web page
Hi guys, I did this little self contained script in a little over a week to enhance my php knowledge.

Some problems I've found are: redirects and non 200 status codes.

I plan on redoing the whole thing in JavaScript or any other client side technology and add color coding.
We only burn oil for energy because it is dirt cheap (yes, thanks to the economy of scale). Electricity can be produced by many other ways if oil becomes too expensive for that.
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I understand this would work, but obviously this is not free, and it's certainly not elegant or optimal.
Does this include data sent by students in the course of their classes? If so, couldn't this be a FERPA violation?
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Actually, it completely changes the meaning so it's not minor.

The Swiss have referendums all the time and most, especially liberal ones like this, fail.
My school uses Google Apps for email (among other stuff). Does anybody know if that setup can be/is monitored?
Decline does not have to follow the scenario in which knowledge, capability, or even access to resources are lost. The scenario of a living hell for most people and a slow, global decline can come about simply by reducing access to the benefits of technology and resources, and by making use of extreme methods of control.

For example: what if the priority of a small segment of the population becomes putting maximum resources into some long-term project which only benefits that group? 90% of the population could be directed toward working on that massive project, by delusion, coercion, or other methods. The pyramids of Egypt and North Korea now are smaller-scale examples of this.
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My goodness, that was affecting. Such a pleasant change to hear of some good in the world.
The programme goes back continuously to the 1940's. It's very well known in the UK. Unfortunately they only have occasional fragments for the early programmes, but for instance I just found clips from the Dave Brubeck and Alfred Hitchcock episodes, from 1959:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009y7kb

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009y7js

Hitchcock mentions his upcoming production, a 'rather gentle horror picture' called Psycho!
>>>"I'd be happy if it just used some low-power communication to relay information from my phone."

Exactly. Just the most basic low power lcd.
By definition; any democratic society has the government it deserves.

If not, the society is not a democracy or the citizens are idiots.

The etymology of "idiot": from "idiota" (Late Latin) an "uneducated or ignorant person", and from "idiotes" (Greek) a "layman, person lacking professional skill".

Now, vote wisely.
Should Humans Be Afraid of Artificial Intelligence?
I mean programmer documentation, how to build this thing, why was this choice made, what ideas were attempted and abandoned and why, what gotchas, what shortcuts were taken/tech debt incured. A lot of this should be in commit messages and/or "tickets" refed in commit messages. Rest goes into README, code comments.

User docs are completely outside my realm as a software developer.

My point (and strongly held belief) is NO, when you do testing and documentation is not really project dependent. All projects need to do it from the start. Some, flight control software, need more rigorous process. Everything needs to be viewed through ROI. My contention is too many devs underestimate the return of "doing it right" from the start. and overestimate the effort and effectiveness of doing it later/at the end.
> You are envisioning a world of ultra-rich capitalists (who own every mean of production, both in material and knowledge economy), occasionally giving "bread and circuses" to the rest of the world, who can't produce because their "jobs" are worthless.

I am envisioning a world where ultra-generous industrialists give away their wealth to help the world. You cannot say it cannot happen; it has/already is happening.

Indulge me for a moment, but isn't Bill Gates (along with Warren Buffet) giving away almost all their entire net worth in a very results-driven way to help raise the quality of life for the very worse off? And did Elon Musk (no fan boy comment here, just truth) not give away (really, offer to license at a very small cost) the patents necessary for existing vehicle manufacturers to make better electric cars?

Not everyone is greedy. Not everyone is an ultra-rich capitalist.
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> If you work for someone else, they can do whatever they want with your communications on their devices.

I agree with regard to companies, but I think it's a bit less clear for a university in general. Yes, the faculty and staff are clearly employees and so in a that sense it's reasonable to expect their internet usage will be monitored. But on the flip side, one of the historical aspects of universities is supposedly intellectual freedom. And in the sense that faculty might feel a chilling effect on their intellectual freedom if they know or suspect everything this type of monitoring, monitoring might be less acceptable.

When it comes to students, this argument is perhaps less clear. The students are not employees. Yes it's true they have all clicked "I Agree" to the university's network terms of service (but with all TOS's, how many of them actually read it?). But again, universities are ostensibly havens for intellectual freedom; what would pervasive monitoring do to that?

So, I think you are technically and legally correct, but I wonder if that justification is in the long-term best interests of universities as institutions of learning and exploration.
CMake seems more difficult for the person building the software.

I'm familiar with autoconf's configure options like --prefix and variables like CXXFLAGS, and if not I can see a reasonably short listing and explanation of them with `./configure --help`, and that list often includes other --enable-foo like options the project defined.

CMake, on the other hand, does not (at least for the projects I've run into?) honor --prefix or CXXFLAGS as arguments to cmake, and cmake --help doesn't show what variables it does honor. Through googling and cargo-culting I've come up with some more cryptic replacements - `-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=$PREFIX`, `-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-lrt"`.

Now that I look at the `cmake --help` output again, I notice that in the middle of its long list of unhelpful output, there's mention of `--help-properties` and `--help-variables`, but the output is super long.

Finally, I've seen indications that cmake is a huge pain if you want to add some custom targets and rules that it doesn't generate automatically for common languages in common layouts: https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2015/11/21/cmake-depende...

I'm not a huge fan of autotools either, I tend to just write Makefiles directly (and not make any attempt at portability to Windows). It's actually not hard to correctly handle parallel, cross-platform, and cross-compiling support, just for linux / os x / bsd. It's a lot easier than fixing a cmake or autotools project that apparently messed something up in their configuration ...
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The problem with SMTP is the broken-by-design STARTTLS mechanism that allows a hostile network like here to trivially strip the encryption.

Been some time since I used a desktop email client, so I'm unsure if clients have now been upgraded to reject sending mails to/through servers that don't do STARTTLS. But I'm guessing no.
This is very cool. Thank you for doing the work.

I hope that someday there's something similar for asynchronous group communication as well as synchronous. Something like Usenet v2.
As possibly a supporting point, many Americans are unnecessarily on disability(for those outside the US, if you can prove a permanent disability that prohibits you from working, the US government will send you a check every month). They live in low income areas and buy groceries with food stamps. They faked an injury, scammed the system, and now I'm paying for their rent and food. Most people on disability are legitimately disabled, but some are not.

These people are discouraged from working, because, if they are caught working in a manner that is inconsistent with their 'disability', they get in trouble, forfeit their benefits, and possibly jail/prison time for their fraud. But, I see these people routinely trying to work in any way they can get away with. True, some do not, either out of laziness or fear of discovery, but, as a whole, most still try to work.

If that income were replaced with a legal, basic income, I have no doubt more of these people would continue to work and seek work, probably more so since it would not be a risk to their freedom or basic income, and they are the ones currently trying to scam the system. These people are probably at least a subset(or superset) of the demographic that the non-supporters fear most will just leech off the system.
The problem is, with just one hydroelectric dam, others will want it. Thus others will fight you for it, and in the process, it will be destroyed or the people that know how to maintain it will be killed.
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In the workplace it's useful to follow counterintelligence strategies. Send yourself outlandish job offers from spoofed addresses, for example. The possibilities are endless.
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It does seem unfair if non-citizens have to pay for this. Done properly, the average person should break even. Of course, few people are average.
I haven't looked into the details of this referendum but the way it's normally pitched is that this will replace all the other welfare.. in that those old systems will go away.

Does the current proposal add without removing?
That doesn't sound plausible. You expect to pay for basic income with net zero money?

The only way this works is if people with productive jobs end up with less money than today.
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I think automotion is the crux of the basic income argument. If mass automation was going to happen the way many people predict, basic income would make more sense. I don't think it will, and I think most jobs will be difficult to automate than people think. (Most factories are still manned by humans; manual jobs require interacting with the physical world, which machines can't do well at all; most professional jobs have significant non-routine components).
Democracy needs journalism. It needs people out there looking under rocks for things someone doesn't want published. (If someone wants it published, it's PR, not journalism.) Journalism makes politicians afraid. Without that, you get Russia Today or China Daily or Outbrain.

We're losing that, in the name of clickbait.
Can someone better explain the privacy outrage?

- These are University resources?
- Any corporation you work for would be monitoring their email systems and letting users know that. Why are these Univ. resources owned by the people?
- There's many legitimate reasons for monitoring. Security, legal defense, etc..

I'll admit trying to sneak this through over objections was probably not handled in the best way from a PR perspective.

And if you're privacy minded you should already know - most privacy debates that make the news - are moot.

If you have something truly secret - you must encrypt - so no man in the middle can read. If you think you have privacy sending any unencrypted email over any public network you're dreaming.

Assume that anyone with the key - has your data. Ask the guys that lost millions with Mt. Gox.
It's true that it will certainly not pass. But the main objective, as for any referendum, it's to put the debate on the public place and just that it's a unique privilege.
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I have a feeling that statement meant to only include diseases that infect humans.
The website says they are funded, how do they intend to make money? or this a nonprofit?
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> If you work for someone else,

...in the US...

> they can do whatever they want with your communications on their devices.
Just an FYI: I've been hearing more and more recently that the Pyramids of Egypt were built by free engineers, not slaves. It has been recently theorized that methodologies they used to hurl great stones across the desert required far fewer laborers. By pouring water in front of the stones, the desert sand would become slippery, and thus much much fewer people would be needed for the task. (Early estimates was that it took ~100k people to build a pyramid. Modern estimates point at only ~10k, based on newly found food consumption records)

IE: The Pyramids were more akin to the Great Cathedrals across Europe: 100 or 200 year projects completed by generations of engineers, architects, and artists. Not necessarily the elites of society... but at least those with free will. Some motivated by Religion, others motivated by simple glory and the joy of building great things.

I think people think that Egyptian Slaves built the pyramids... Sometimes people think they were Jewish Slaves: some time between Joseph and Moses in Biblical times. But if they were simple slaves, why were the workers of the Pyramids buried either near, or even within the Pyramids? This was a great honor that was normally reserved only for Pharaohs!

http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt/pyramids-tom...
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Guess this argument can also be made the other way round - larger communities > more interaction and knowledge transfer > harder drill bits. I doubt that human progress can be boiled down to a few factors but has to be seen as a chaotic system with each node influencing every other.
Of course we give a shit if NYT covers the latest Twitter scandal. Because if it is not, then that is not important. Thats we pay that 99 cents.
1800s-era Hydroelectric Dams are buildable with basically nothing but very basic technology and alot of manpower.

No one would kill for them in the general case simply because other people could build it.

This isn't some SUPERMODERNTECH but a very basic one we've been exploiting for thousands of years, just the ability to convert it to electricity wasn't really possible until the 1800s.
Consul service registry uses SRV records in this manner and it's fantastic.

However, on the wider internet with third party services it's much easier to manage and debug dedicated port numbers.
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