skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, instituting UBI will decrease the people's willingness to accept immigration. The Nordic countries are notoriously homogenous in respect to diversity. A country like the US is extraordinarily far more diverse than something like a Nordic country. Countries like Norway, etc... that institute these welfare programs for their population are also among the least welcoming of immigrants.

If Donald Trump were smart he'd likely pursue the UBI dependent on how much money the US makes versus the number of citizens. This would definitely trigger the same kind of mentality resident in welfare states like the nordic countries to resist immigration.

How would this be addressed in the US? Would it signify a change in the immigration trend in the US?
And boy does Eve bring the redistribution of outcome-hammer down hard.

The incredible effort of groups to build up military strength as well as economic factories that also require skills to be able to do any of those things makes sure you never think Eve is too easy, but also not too hard. Thats why I quit. I learned from Runescape how horrible a well made game can be to your productivity and sanity. Better to obsess over algorithms and programming than MMORPGs
UBI seems to be presented under the context that every single adult in the country receives a UBI payment every month. Assuming that the UBI is funded through existing taxes/entitlement inlays, why not limit it to only those who need it or would ordinarily qualify for some kind of social assistance? (i.e. Unemployed/low income + retirees)
A WordPress curated newsletter you can find at http://wpmail.me

It's sent once a week and you should find at least one or two good articles that are worth reading.

Then there is
https://www.brainpickings.org where the author reads a bunch of books and sends out a newsletter with a resume of each book. I personally don't think there's anything like this out there!
I say yes. If someone else is successful you know that it is a proven market.

Depending on how big they are you might not be able to beat them, but that doesn't mean you still can't be successful.
You don't believe any actions should be taken to try and unwind the lingering effects of chattel slavery and jim crow?
Nice idea. Shameless plug: this reminds me a ptrace hack I did a couple years back:

fluxcapacitor

https://github.com/majek/fluxcapacitor#fluxcapacitor

https://idea.popcount.org/2013-07-19-how-to-sleep-a-million-...
I'd wonder if this could be implemented more robustly on ZFS using some snapshot magic.
> A basic income can be funded by taxing bad things...

The author is assuming that you can increase revenue by imposing new taxes, but that is rarely true. Tax revenue as a percentage of GDP has been nearly constant for the last 70 years, even as tax policy has fluctuated all over the place[1].

[1] http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Doc...
It could have a phase out, and many proposals indeed do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
> any record of Pompeii Truthers

They would be arguing at what temperature the Roman column melts.
History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme. Down with the Kulaks! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak
UBI advocates believe that distinguishing between people who need/deserve assistance and people who don't need/deserve assistance is one reason why the US is not in favor of larger social outlays, and putting a check in everyone's hand every month will buy ironclad support from across the political spectrum. They additionally say that welfare programs can realize tremendous reductions in cost of administration by not having to distinguish between e.g. working and non-working recipients.
This is what I immediately thought. This command should not be considered fail-proof. Even if you're fooling the caller returning successes when actually doing nothing, the trace displayed by this command can't be considered exactly what the program, running without being traced, would have done.
In embedded land, you can just make something that works like setjmp and memcopy the stack off to someplace convenient.

Super useful if you want something resembling modern programming in an embedded context. It is a bit better than callback hell, but you do end up using memory for all those saved off stacks, so that limits how many co-routines can be in play at once. Thankfully embedded projects tend to have small stacks. :)
I'm partial to it as an idea and a sentiment, but what it would take to institute it is the impossible: deciding on the level of it.

Should it be $5,000 per month so that the full costs of an apartment in NYC/SF so that a family could on with their lives undisturbed by unemployment? Or, should it be $500 to cover just the most fundamental needs of shelter and nourishment in the Midwest?

There are many levels in-between -- it's just as impossible to decide between $1,000 and $1,500 -- and if you went ahead to implement UBI, the conflict this would cause would halt implementation.
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Because it's wrong. Two wrongs don't make a right, etc.
UBI is attractive in its simplicity but there are many open questions.

-How much is dispensed/person/family?

-Who qualifies [every child, man and woman; when do new citizens qualify?]

-What happens when people make bad decisions about their UBI? Do we still offer assistance to people who misspend/misallocate it?

-In order to get more purchasing power out of UBI, do we move people en-masse to less costly and more dispersed places?

-Is it progressive depending on income, or is it unconditional?

-People who were once employed by the apparatus, and who may not have alternative jobs in social services, are they relegated to just getting by with UBI?

-How do we pay for all this [depending on allotment]?
>they are faster to type from a feature phone.

My customers are entering the verification phones through a computer keyboard, they are only receiving the SMS verification messages to their mobile phone once so I can verify that they own a phone.

Unless you were assuming that their "browser" they would be entering the verification code into is on their feature phone?
Why would anyone ever invoke something like this and expect maybe to somehow steal those pipe characters? It's almost meaningless and displays just enough know how that the author should know how a shell works.
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> ...I often wonder if there is a lack of qualified black male or female engineers or what but sometimes I do feel isolated.

FWIW, my anecdata shows that less than 1 out of 20 technical interviews I do are with black applicants. I do wonder why that is.
This also neglects that after taxing those things, less of those things will exist, thus decreasing tax revenue.
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* http://softwareleadweekly.com/ - about people, culture, leadership

* http://www.devopsweekly.com/ - DevOps, by Gareth Rushgrove

Just my pick. Indeed, I've found links there that haven't popped up anywhere else (HN, Twitter), so I second the original poster's opinion that mail newsletters are a good thing - wouldn't have thought that.
@dnautics where do I order these chips with neurons giving me patch membrane potentials. I really want one of these chips - a link will do. But it has to come with neurons not two sources and i have to culture them. Again, chips, with deliberate microcircuits in 3D with neurons already on it and its a plug and go. Thanks I think you are really awesome if you give me this link. Otherwise you are full of you know what ... :-).
There's a good one on internet (and non-internet) culture at http://tedium.co/
I'd definitely recommend learning the traditional css (i.e. not flexbox) because that is what most existing sites are written in and most front-end developers know, so you're likely to need it.
I think you're seeing the tail wag the dog here.

Racism or 'seeing in race' isn't just a natural group-think behavior. It provides poeple with concrete benefits both emotionally (meaning, it allows people to tell themselves a story where they're better than other people) and logistically through the racial equivalent of cronyism.

So don't get caught up in the idea that racism is just a random behavior, or holdout from an earlier time, or something that people want to think themselves out of.

Acting with love towards all people and believing it's in your best interest requires a level of abstract thought and faith that isn't a prerequisite for tribalism & racial discrimination.
I got 8/10 right. I didn't really think about how I might figure it out, but just went with my gut feeling. Apparently that worked pretty well. I wonder why!
The first bots were based on the "autominer" shareware, if you could get your hands on it. That was in 2002 or so. It was a simple macro based bot system. It was before they made anything to stop people from doing that (beside occasional baning). At first they added a "sleeping" mode to the game where played had to sleep after too much work and there was a CAPTCHA to wake up. It worked, but played hated that as it made some things hopelessly long to do and gave massive advantage to players who had done them before the sleeping concept was introduced. It actually had the interesting effect of shifting the in-game economy from the normal "gold coins" to a bond like system that handled inflation much better. At the end of RS1, most transactions were done in coal and lobster (really!) certificates, worth about 1500 and 1200 cold coins each.

I lost too much time to this game (mostly RSC / RuneScape1) and liked it very much. I have fond memories of it, but as time passed it changed and I quited. The clans and forums were quite lively. I never (and will never, ever) played another MMORPG, but still, nice memories. I dropped my party hat long ago (only RS player can get that one) ;)
> A transparent canvas overlay

Yes. Using the DOM for a lot of individual spans totally kills this.
So how many SQLite databases are in use? "We don't have a good way of counting it," he says, "but we're guessing it's the most widely deployed SQL database in the world."

This article came out before the original iPhone was released -- it certainly is by now, probably by an order of magnitude.
One option is to host the repo on Bitbucket and use the Aerobatic (https://www.aerobatic.com) static hosting add-on. Free custom domain and more, included.

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I would have used something like this when I was first learning rsync...

Even though I had read all of the man pages and knew the commands inside and out, it still seemed incredibly risky and scary to me to run rsync with the --delete function when I was backing up my main USB drive for the very first time.

Basically my biggest fear was that I had source and destination mixed up, which I didn't, but it would have been nice to run a test trial of that command before doing so.
As someone else here pointed out, that tweet is out of context. It was part of a 10+ tweet rant about politics and social medicine. (It still is a bit offensive, but less so than the article makes it out to be)

https://twitter.com/_danilo/status/690601512813367297
I note only 2 of those interviewed actually discussed the financial logistics at all. Matt Breuning throws out there that "10% GDP would be do-able", without really explaining where that $1.677 Trillion is coming from. Is it only existing programs?

And even that figure only works out at approximately $5,000 per US Citizen per year. While worth investigating, I feel that's a far cry from what most people want when they talk about 'basic income'.

[1] Numbers based on what Google spits out when you search for US GDP.
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I've been lighthouse keeping for 21 years and no one's ever thought that I was in anything but a lighthouse.
Well people in SF pay more taxes, so as far as the federal budget is concerned, people working there are worth more.

If an immigrant doesn't want to stay in SF, they only have to work there long enough to get a green card, then they're free to move.
Wouldn't you then need some kind of bureaucracy to process applications, make decisions on eligibility and combat fraud? One of the arguments for UBI is allegedly lower overhead.
Well, is it really considered a Turing Test? I thought in Turing Test, the interrogator is the one to ask (choosing from questions at his will).
I.e. if pollution is taxed, there'd be less of it? I'd vote for that!
I'm sorry but I can never support something that gives this much power to the federal government. I'm thinking of the massive tax collection and enforcement machinery needed to gather this much money. im thinking of all of the new laws and exceptions that will be created.
But don't several other countries collect a much higher percentage of GDP? I like your data, but it seems more likely to me that fractional GDP collected is limited by voters than economic limitations of taxation.
I like the conclusion to this fun little exercise:

"""To write out all the code and make minor refactorings took around 30 minutes. It took me way longer than that to write this blog post detailing exactly how it works. If I wanted to draw a moral from an exercise I entered into purely for amusement, I would have to repeat the oft-quoted wisdom that code that is readable and understandable is going to save you much more time in the long run."""
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I also enjoy http://www.MarketSnacks.com for a quick and often humorous read in the morning related to wall street and the public markets.
PayPal isn't competitive on fees, never mind its other issues. Dwolla is a whole lot cheaper, although USA only. It was designed to bypass card fees. VPNs should accept cash by mail, too, or at least money orders.
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From man rsync:

-n, --dry-run perform a trial run with no changes made

This probably also would have helped
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9314155
The polywell is an interesting concept, but it is extremely different from every other confinement mechanism, so it's hard to see how the ideas could be incorporated. To be precise, there are two "shapes" of "electromagnetic fields": curl-free (electric (unless magnetic monopoles exist)) and divergence-free (magnetic or electric), and each kind of field lends itself to a different kind of degree of symmetry in a confinement mechanism. Specifically, a divergence-free field cannot admit a spherical confinement because of Green's theorem, whereas a curl-free field requires a very unrealistic charge configuration to generate a toroidal confinement.

Tokamaks use a combination of divergence-free magnetic fields and divergence-free electric fields to make a donut. Stellarators use only magnetic fields to make a twisted donut. The polywell uses curl-free electric fields generated by an electron gun to make a sphere. There are other variants of inertial electrostatic confinement fusion, including that currently under development by Lockheed Martin, but it's generally received less attention.
One could mitigate that by setting it up where new citizens have a waiting period before they can qualify --kind of like retirement [where you wait till you qualify]. Same for anyone under 18, they [or legal guardians] receive progressively more as the children grow and need more.

Or alternatively, your qualification follows you as a natural-born citizen of a given country --so you as a Canadian or American, Japanese, etc., receive UBI from your [original] country no matter where you live or move to so you would never qualify for UBI from a new host country blunting the threat of people thinking new immigrants get a free ride from the new host country.
You are conflating two points here. UBI needs to be available to everyone, but that doesn't mean everyone should receive it. Unless you abolish all tax, then for people paying more than it in tax, it's simply a tax break.
Wouldn't the rsync --dry-run flag be helpful in that scenario?
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I just realised I had my account open since 2006 with bunch of undone task there (join gym was one of them), maybe I should complete them now
He's gesturing at the "finance is evil, we need to tax each transaction" body of thought.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/opinion/the-case-for-a-tax...
If one has to qualify for it, how is it different from welfare, etc.?
It is interesting to see how race is discussed on a site like HN vs. a political website. Even people posting opinions I disagree with state their point(s) with respect.

I understand how a white person could feel "under fire" in a discussion about "diversity" and "white privilege." For all the talk about the importance of empathy, it sure seems like some on the left don't have very much for our white brothers and sisters.

We have to understand that no one is born with historical context and we should't be so harsh on white people who either don't have it (context) or who do and feel singled out for being white.

We can't speak of the ingenious, invisible hand of institutional racism and then be mystified when a 23 year old white guy is skeptical of its existence.
> What benefits do they bring to the organisation?

Marketing to uber-rich investors?
If the subject of this policy is a service for people outside the US who want to pretend they're in the US ( to get Netflix etc), then your point is rather pointless.
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Have you never run something like "sudo echo 0 > /proc/sys/..." and only realized your mistake after running it? Ever?
> The argument that white people are being discriminated against based on a formula that rectifies past wrongs and undoes future ones belies a misunderstanding of the purpose, benefit, and impact.

That's perfectly absurd. Discrimination is discrimination is discrimination.

How do we measure wrongs? How do we "undo future wrongs"?

I can't. Totally cannot. 100% can't deal with your argument.
the wealth a single man produces is bounded by physical law and physical limits. Even for an artist to make an abstraction such as a painting the artist needs to use material and energy both which are part of a zero sum game.

when said artist accumulates 1 billion dollars worth of wealth did that mean he painted 1 billion dollars worth of paintings? Did the billionaires of the modern world single handedly each create a billion dollars worth of wealth?

take a 747 airliner. a product worth less than a billion dollars in value. such a product must be built by multitudes of people because projects of such immense complexity require man hours that exceed several life times. If billionaires exist it implies that the billionaire built several products of equivalent value and complexity all by himself.

for a single man to hold such extraordinary wealth of absurd proportions means one thing and one thing only. He built his wealth off the backs of others.
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> taxing bad things, things we need less of, such as [...], and extreme wealth

Yes, the money should be taken away before those people fritter it away on eradicating polio, making electric cars, and building a space program.
Most states have some form of income tax. The federal government could work with an average UBI amount, which each state could increase (or not) from its own budget.

(Not that the above isn't contentious and probably stands no chance of being put into place; I'm just suggesting a model to address your point.)
Back at an old job, I was working on a new embedded system. It took us about a month before we bothered setting up UART for printf debugging. Fortunately the CPU/devboard supported gdb out of the box. What we ended doing was having a global char pointer point to somewhere in the middle of the memoryspace, and we would log things by appending to that string. Then we could gdb in and print the contents of the string.
But this can have the effect of reducing incentive to work, according to the criticisms section of that page and some other stuff I've read.
http://www.devopsweekly.com/

I don't always have time to read it. But, when I do, I never regret it.
I have just switched to Bitbucket, since in my experience anything feminists touch turns to shit shortly thereafter.

I get free unlimited private repositories and everything works. It's blazingly fast. I absolutely love it, not a single issue so far.

Should have switched sooner.
Under current rules babies are eligible for more entitlements than older kids up to teenagers just because at that time in life they need more care.

If UBI is replacing existing entitlements, that means taking away food stamps, WIC, free child annual physical / dental / vision exams (under AAC/Obamacare), tax deduction for dependents on 1040, and a host of other programs like free baby formula or car seats.
the sun and the earth are the root of all wealth. Both are limited resources.
http://blog.chipx86.com/2016/01/26/a-tribute-to-vmware-works...
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This is a complex existential question that shouldn't be so easily dismissed.

Similarly, should US-based multinational corporations make an effort to keep jobs in the US and pay their employee living wages? Wouldn't it benefit those corporations in the long term to grow the base of consumers that can afford their goods? I don't know about you, but it just seems like the right thing to do.

Tech has the ability to do something about terrorism (and bullying as well), but seems to lack the will. I guess we're all focused on using big data and machine learning to trick people into clicking more ads for viagra.

But then this can quickly snowball into pre-crime discrimination if tech does take a pro-active approach.

So as you can see, it's not really so black and white.
For comparison, current Federal welfare spending divided across all households is equivalent to ~$3000/year: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_welfare_spending_40.h...

I think the expectation is that income taxes would increase so that above a certain income level it becomes a net negative or break even at least - in that case it's pretty easy to get $1000 or $2000 / month equivalent for the bottom quarter of households or so.

It's interesting that you describe $1000/year as "Exceeds combination of all federal spending on healthcare and education." given that it would be a savings over current welfare programs - doesn't seem like a very balanced comparison.
Because this is an accurate description of how the wealthy have used their wealth.

The public good shouldn't be left in the hands of those who are only willing to contribute if doing so can increase their wealth.
What proof would you expect them to need other than your login associated with requests to their website or their content CDNs from IPs associated with VPNs?

Its not a court of law, its terms of service. They can terminate your account without any recourse. That's how business work (unless you can prove they're discriminating against you based on a protected class).
but both actions require energy. in one case value was created in the other case no value was created.

there is no case where value is created and no energy was spent.

thus wealth is limited by energy.
It would truly cost liberty.

Do you think an entity that gives you free money is going to let you be free? It is going to tell you what you can/cannot spend on, where you can and cannot go. The system would enslave you to the state.

It would be so bad it would even be impossible to opt-out.
> They can fire him for any or no reason and it's completely ethical.

You must have a different definition of ethics than the rest of us do. I'm having a hard time reconciling that opinion with a definition of "ethical" that actually means anything, to be honest. Would you care to provide a definition?
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