skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get you. I am definitely not in the camp of central provisioning of food. But how's that different from BI? BI is pretty much central provisioning of resources. Yes it's money. But that money translates to resources. That's the point I was trying to make when mentioning about beefing up common infrastructure to a point where it's next to free to a degree. In other words, basic income should be replaced with basic minimalist modern life style. Giving people money, creates all kind of access and may even cause more disparity. What if people spend all the money on video games or alcohol or foreign holidays.

Won't it be better instead of basic income we aim for better basic life for everyone?
Why not have the payment processor notify the vendor's server directly? I believe PayPal does this.
China and Japan each have their own currencies. If they wanted to provide a basic income right now, they could pay for it by issuing new Yuan or Yen. The Gresham's Law hack is for bootstrapping a new currency, so they don't need it.

But so long as they forgo basic income, their currencies are vulnerable to disruption by a currency like Gresham Dollar.

China is inventing fake jobs and facilitating a massive credit bubble in an effort to prop up economic growth.

Taken together, a lot of your Gresham dollars / basic income properties are already in place. In spirit at least.

In what sense? Basic income is continually replenishes the economy with fresh money, lessening the role of unstable credit. That's not what's happening in China.

And we see the flaws/limits.

Do you believe that Gresham Dollar would lead to a credit bubble?

And the basic incompatibility of long term BI sapping productive parts of the country, all show up.

I'm not convinced that China's state-owned enterprises are a useful proxy for basic income.

Do you believe that basic income would sap productive parts of the economy?
I think they should focus on making paper notebooks instead of adapting technologies that have failed many times before.
Thanks for the detailed reply.
I've noted as employee power has collapsed over the last 30-40 years that workers who still had some sort of market power would look down on those that had lost theirs and used such as a status marker. And then that became an impediment to action. Why would I work to give losers the same status as I have?

You can also see this with doctors. For decades they thought their position was secure. Unlike nurses they never unionized, as such was beneath them. Now they find themselves being treated badly. And they are angry and confused.
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But what does this tell us about introverts? Is the "pebble in the shoe" of an introvert an annoyance with the perceived carelessness on the part of the grammatical offender? Or maybe a lack of respect? Is introversion the cause, or a sibling to pedantry of a broader psychological trait?

I hated English classes in school, never paid attention. Skipped. Failed. It seemed inconsequential at the time. Gaining access to a BBS was a bit of a culture shock. Computers were fascinating but suddenly my peers cared about spelling, grammar... even punctuation (it happened to be a BBS for a local paper, maybe related). So at 15, I felt out of place and committed to thoroughly learning all of the things I'd skipped in school. Not because of snarky responses, corrections, or others’ expectations but because it impacted my ability to communicate - which I don't particularly enjoy but feel is important. Even now, I'm communicating... but it isn't for the sake of making noise or banging on a keyboard, it's about an idea. We communicate to share thoughts and without that mechanism we wouldn't have shared learning which resulted in anything commonly considered "technology" or "machines" today.

My visceral reaction to grammatical errors is the feeling that the person places less of a value on communicating ideas. It isn't about intelligence, it's about values.

Does anyone else feel this way? Am I just a pedantic, judgmental asshole?
Silicon Valley[0] is quite funny if you get the culture references. And sometimes it is also quite spot-on in its critique.

[0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/?ref_=nv_sr_1
OpenBSD's security only works if you don't install any software that isn't made by them.
From the tone of it, it seems he is graceful that he didn't get into any legal trouble. So I'd bet no, he didn't get any bounty.
What about the old trope that the hero uses a Mac and the bad guys use Windows? :-)
It's actually very similar in a lot of ways to chobham armor, which is layers of ceramic and high strength metal in a composite structure. This seems to work similarly but with a more consistent mixture of both materials throughout a material, which might make it easier to manufacture and to work with, and possibly lighter as well.
You presume Hollywood is more misogynist than profit driven, and would pass great scripts if delivered by women?

Maybe women are discouraged from becoming writers at an earlier age, but the above sounds BS.
No, you're right. Explosively formed projectiles work best when formed a few inches from the armor. However, they have a sweet spot and if the distance is too far, they don't work. I figured that's what the cages were for.
Basic income doesn't solve this problem. I've worked with several executives who get to decide how much they want to "appear" to make in the United States -- all the rest is hidden offshore in stocks. The stocks they own have a very low "face value" -- since their value is set by transfers from other offshore stocks set up in a maze through different countries (so the Panama revelations won't catch them.) I have literally worked with executives hiding billions. Basic income does absolutely nothing to solve the problem of opaque financial instruments (derivatives, trusts, non-profits, and charities are also used to make money disappear. But mazes of offshores seems to be preferred by the rich people I have worked with - they are legal and well understood by all the big accounting firms.)

It would be very easy to make holding such stock illegal. And, considering the cost to our society and our world, any downsides would be outweighed by the incredible gain.
Imagine that.

From the link:

Like the shift from 40-year mortgage subsidies to 15- year housing certificates, the shift from the certificates to 5-year vouchers enabled Congress to reduce HUD's budget authorizations. Such reductions have created the mistaken impression that federal housing assistance has been cut. In fact, annual outlays increased from $5.7 billion in 1980 to $13.8 billion in 1988. The number of families being served by HUD housing programs rose from 3.1 million in 1980 to 4.2 million in 1988. Moreover, a housing voucher costs the government only about $4,500 a year, whereas a new unit of public housing costs it $9,000 a year.

I guess mistaken impressions are still common on the internet.
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Just because it has those functions doesn't make it good at them. Have you ever seen a Pythonic program converted into functional style? It looks horrendous.
The mupdf PDF reader has been patched to make use of pledge on OpenBSD.
They are breaking the social contract to operate. We give them limited liability, they give us the finger.
Google has been working on this (I don't have deep knowledge of whether their solution is adequate for SEO. I just found this article that suggests it works fine: http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascri...)

But I think, while we're making assumptions about the kind of technology good engineers should create, let's also ask Google-led Angular and Facebook-led React (and similar projects): if your library can manipulate HTML and the browser DOM, even while using async network requests to load data, why can't it take that same data and code to provide an HTML string upfront, as a "First Render"? This should be the standard way to do it. If React can re-render an input box every time I type a character, and not just generate HTML but also directly manipulate the DOM to reflect it, surely it can generate HTML for the input box upfront. (I don't know enough about the internals of these libraries, but maybe the fact that React is declarative makes this easier than it is for other libs.)
The "classic" course is still available as cs61as

http://www.cs61as.org/
> You should probably be using a different tool if it makes your site slower.

Any recommendations? I see a lot of tools out there that work by basically rewriting the page on the client side, which will tend to give you suboptimal performance. And if your app's already a JS heavy SPA thing, your over optimistic byte budget is probably already running a deficit.
Python list/dict comprehensions are awesome. The only other language I've seen that has comparably awesome comprehensions is Haskell which (opinion ahead) offers easier access to more power at the cost of some readability upfront.

Sadly I've seen functional operations like map/filter/reduce etc discouraged in (commercial) projects I've worked on, though I guess there's a bit of an argument there for debugability (make it a word?) since hunting down side effects may be more onerous?
A disproportionate amount of movies are about crime stories. Most policemen and criminals are young and men (today, and even more in the past). For the same reason most war movies will also be dominated by young men. Same thing for western movies, the role of women at the XIX wasn't to hold the gun, and guns is what keeps the audience entertained. Why would it be surprising to have a disproportionate amount of young males on screen given the sort of stuff the audience watches?

For the same reason I would expect to see a disproportionate amount of policemen, soldiers and criminals.

They should do that by genre. I would be surprised if comedies, romance, or drama would be much imbalanced.
Forgotten about Enlightenment - haven't seen that since mid 90s!

There's a few scenarios where they're still useful, and I'm reminded. I know we generally have 40x the resolution, but even so...

Running two or more monitors, you decide to run a game that for fps won't run at standard res. Now your second monitor is shifted, and so is windows desktop. Watching the movie as you play is now a pain in the arse unless you also change Win resolutions with each game. If you change win res, have messed up desk icons.

Achieving two monitor workflow when you've only got the laptop with you. Often missed that in virtual desktops which are an all or nothing approach to more space. Or you play a game and if it's the one you run at lower res, now windows messes up all your desktop icons, and can even do this for full res games if they change res for the intro vid (to display their sodding LOGO).

In 1995 Civilization ran on its own, different res, screen. Desktop not impacted even a bit.

So not everyday, but still regularly useful to have.
Doesn't solve what problem? It doesn't solve the "problem" of some people being very rich, but it does solve the problem of some people being too poor to meet minimal daily needs.
> You should research all tenets of basic income including the economic side of it by getting the opinion of actual economists on it before you make your decision. If you're not properly considering an idea then that leaves room for personal biases.

There is now on HN enough discussions of and references to basic income that it would take half a lifetime to ponder it all.

The only take away from this huge corpus of advices, opinions and reasoning is that economists - just like everyone else - heavily suffer from biases that trickle down to the laymen and that economic science is burdened with many theories that raise so many internal and external contradictions that the only way to see if any theory holds at least a grain of truth is to implement it and then spend the next half century explaining why it should have worked and why it didn't.

In my misinformed opinion it all boils down to two problems: greed and psychopaths are ruining it for everyone else on a massive scale.
The spelling with A belongs to Jung himself:
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This may help
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Useful little tool: https://github.com/iSECPartners/ios-ssl-kill-switch
A fact that needs to be remembered when people ask for centralized key escrows and gratuitous backdoors in encryption systems. I know this gets mentioned twice a week now a days in HN, but it literally can´t be repeated enough.
No. The different instructor ruined it.

Mr. Harvey is a gentle intellectual with charm and that characteristic lack of arrogance and tendencies to show off modern narcissistic personages exhibit nowadays.

I can't stand guys like Hickey or Tellman or whoever it is.

Watch him, at least first 3 or 4 lectures.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1AE464371B3398CC
Usually, people don't feel the same way when thinking about any kind of work; you have to master the basics if you want express something. You need to learn to draw before you can get to the point of expressing yourself via paintings. You need to learn architecture before doing buildings, learn to code to do programs. Yet only the most extreme cases of idiots claim that learning the means of expression stifles expression. Why? I think it boils down to the lack of hard metrics and the link with social issues (the old orwellian fight between classes through language).

I'd say that you're not the only one thinking this way, but some would disagree because that makes you an "uncle tom".
There were a couple of graphic adventures that changed res 2/3 down the screen.

Top part, lower res, highest colour depth for the graphics, lower part highest res, 8 colour for the text adventure and typing.
>the point we make in the book is that few employees expect or want lifetime employment at a single company

You'd be surprised.
You are fetching their property and do not respect their rules. No matter how much you squirm and squeeze, this is objectively not OK to do.
That sounds 100% like my job, but I'm a self-employed contractor. I see my clients as peers and we can speak openly about whether they even need me anymore. Sure as hell my clients are not my family (I hate office social dynamics).
So is your book basically saying that regular employment will/should become more like self-employment?
Offshore is down. What were you expecting?
Depends if DIY, Cars and Computer magazine count as male magazines or not...
First of all, while I understand that English may not be your first language, you're going to have to improve your grammar before investors will take you seriously. You post is riddled with errors in punctuation, spacing, and capitalization.

To address the content of your pitch, I don't see how your service a good solution to the problem of poor online maps. The problem of not being able to navigate to addresses sounds like a great opportunity for a better standalone mapping service.

How are you able to provide better navigation than Google Maps? Presumably you're using something like GPS in place of a street address, but a business could also distribute that to their customers via their website, which could then be used with services like Google Maps.
DO NOT LISTEN TO THE FUCKING HYPE FOR FUCKS SAKE!

I don't think you can go from PHP to Rust and expect to work on the same kind of projects! Are there any jobs in Rust for webdev currently?

Are you sure Rust is a great lang for webdev (meaning, is it worth it?)?

Regarding revolutionary tech:

1. Bootstrap is just a theme. 2. Backbone/Angular are js libs and can be used with whatever backed lang. 3.Node IS NOT revolutionary. 4. Nosql should be used ONLY when needed (ex: elasticsearch when you want good search, redis when you want really good performance, cassandra/hbase/etc when you have more data than you can fit in a server with 1TB RAM). 5. I guess you can use HHVM with php. 6. Hadoop, is the same as 4. 7. Spark is the same as 4. 8.Go, is at most meh. 9. React:see 2. 10.Graphql I don't think php is blocking here. 11. Rust is like, a better c++/c. Are you doing any c++/c/java/low-level ? 11. Swift is not revolutionary, just a lighter objective c.

If you want a language to do everything, I'm afraid only c/java/c++ can do that. But even though the language can, doesn't mean you client will like you using c for your webdev project. What is this "didn't have a change to learn python"?.

So your dream is what ? To move off PHP? And to work on what kind of projects ?

I would recommend python (since it can do daemons etc) and is easier and there are more jobs and then go/try Rust . If you think you'll learn Rust-lang and then either find webdev jobs in rust, or find a job hacking databases/low-levely-stuff in it, you will find it's a little hard. (because there's no rust-web-dev and doing low-levely-stuff is hard, you need to know data-structures,algos,caches etc).
This robot will be inherently stable, which is a good start. A clever underslung chassy approaach to balance.

Knees higher than pelvis is inherently stable under load - ( akin to spider and beetle legs ) - this makes that useful mechanical linkage adjustable.

Mechanical Intelligence is important, this robot thinks mechanically with its 'knees'.
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I can recommend a odb2 dongle as well. Very interesting to plug in every once in a while. Do mind most dongles are read only though. You need a good cable to write. Be carefull if you want to tweak de ECU! Theres lotsnof info on the internet on how to tweak stuff.

$30 is way too expensive btw. On aliexpress i bought a wifi (because of iphone) dongle for $9,99 incl shipment.
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It appears that Ubuntu is indeed, as I said, taking on Debian's "universal operating system" mantle.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11415985
Then they make the new guy get them out with a pry bar.
And going by Canonical's marketing only a few days later, its ubiquity is what they are pushing.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11464703
http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/index.xhtml might be a bit better, but I haven't read it yet.
> Does anyone else feel this way? Am I just a pedantic, judgmental asshole?

It depends. Now that you have gone from an intelligence problem to a value problem: do you believe these people are worth less because you believe yourself we choose our values and inherit our intelligence ? Do you despise them even more so now that it's a value question and not an intelligence one ?

Or are they not intelligent enough to pick up the adequate values ?

It also depends on how you pick up on the less grammatically versed or bully them into shame when pointing out their mistakes. Do you do that ?

More importantly: s our grasp of grammar strong enough to make up for the perceived deficiencies of the other interlocutors ?
Wow, don't agree with that. I always thought Intuition the nicest GUI I ever programmed. It was beautifully designed. ADos was a mess obviosuly. And rather limited compared to what we're used to now.

I remember at the end of the Amiga days buying a PC, Petzold, Visual Studio and MASM. Worked through Peztold, by the end and after porting one of my simpler amiga apps, there was so much swearing and disbelief at how Windows did dozens of things, and my app was now 40x larger with all the shite you needed, just to accept a resize message or somesuch that I sold VC, MASM and the book to some random guy at work and never touched Windows programming wise ever again. Pc had been reinstalled with FreeBSD within weeks too.

That was the moment I became a server side developer. :) Played with X a little, but wasn't a huge fan of that either, but it didn't produce the same level of swearing Windows had. Never did any real dev on OSX with the GUI, so don't know.
That seems like a good thing: call it infrastructure which much be a basic right of all and then define what that is: education, housing, healthcare, food, electric, roads, public transport, clean water, internet, 2g and up, and so on. But then how much of this all? And can we resist the capitalist 'solutions' taking over? Like making healthcare available by mandatory acceptance by insurers and making insurance mandatory is not the way I think as someonr who lived in different countries and systems: once insurers are involved all breaks down as their job immediately is make money so all are worse off besides them. I went from mandatory private healthcare (completely subsidized if you make too little) to public and public is just better and more natural. My doctor does not care about cost and I get better healthcare because of it which is a basic human need imho.

Public transport made private is a joke in the countries I saw it. It was bearable when it was a public service: privatized it is the same or worse 'quality' but insanely expensive. So infrastructure indeed to me is better than BI however not if it is not clear how and within what boundaries it is handled.
Any thoughts on this Idea?
Those instructional videos in the article are extremely well done. They seem to be part of a longer film, does anyone know if it can be found online?
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Oh yes, the "death panels" nonsense. I remember that bullshit. These insurance companies already are death panels, by design. They have a big pile of money and they get to keep every penny they don't spend on someone's healthcare. Of course they're a fucking death panel. Their business model is letting the most people die without it becoming so obvious that people stop giving them money.
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We've changed massively - that was the point. Who's to say the next 40 years is the same direction?

Also many things have improved, but certainly not everything.
Make is convenient for tiny programs, and annoying for larger ones. The system in GHC seems like a nightmare to maintain - I remember having trouble building GHC, mainly because it was hard to debug their system.

I use Docker for a similar purpose nowadays. It's inconvenient for development, since rebuilding the containers is slow. But it usually works without much trouble. I think there's a GHC Dockerfile somewhere that hvr maintains.

I haven't used Shake specifically much. The only thing that bugs me is that Haskell isn't nearly as portable as plain Make. If Shake didn't build the program but rather emitted a build-file that a small reference C program could interpret, I would feel much more comfortable about using it for just about everything. Because I'd know that if I was on some ancient CentOS 4 system, I could still build my software.
This idea makes more sense to me than trying to implement flexbox without flex properties.

Do you have any examples of this idea implemented well?
The "watching" app sounds very cool. You should add a link to a demo or some other way to learn more about how it works.

I have to say, though, that you lost me with your last paragraph. First, it has many grammatical issues, including a run-on second sentence and an impressive butchering of the spelling of "businesses" as "buiessnesses." Second, it's ridiculous to claim that you could "very soon" be automating hundreds of billions of dollars in transactions. It's good to be ambitious, but you do have to be at least somewhat realistic. Third, you don't need to tout the merits of automation (especially in the overly casual way that you do). Instead, you could conclude with something that makes us believe that your company is the one to do it.
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Thanks for this. I will check it out
Newbie here. Not sure If I understand correctly.
So, there is a reason to not take painkillers at work?
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Let's think outside of the box. Look at the kangaroo.
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