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I haven't listened to the episode, but the Basic Income that makes sense is one that replaces all/most welfare programs.

The existing programs are very distorting already, often giving poor people 100%+ marginal taxes.

Sure, Basic Income would be distorting, but far less than that. It should also save a lot of money since it requires almost no people to administer.

This is also the biggest problem with instituting it, since the people holding those jobs will fight to the death to keep them.
I started slinging code in Visual Basic 5 back in the day, and ran Windows until recently. I hope to be able to jump into building the Windows client soon : )

Fortunately all of our UI is html and javascript, so no windows controls needed : )
Oh, I didn't know that. I thought the server had been around since the beginning.
Probably not the problem you're trying to solve but I'd like a better typing assistant as well as a co-pilot. For example, on the first line, I'd like to type "r" then be prompted for "import requests" Anywhere where the video had to be sped up is ripe for an advanced typing assistant. Typing entire lines like this seem unnecessary:

"from left_pad import left_pad"

I guess a super autosense along with Copilot would make for more exact coding.
Vente-Privee buys Spanish fashion ecommerce site Privalia for ~$560M
How is it that lobbies from oil, guns, banks, telecom have historically been so powerful in passing legislation through Washington, yet the software industry is still so completely limp at protecting it's political interests?

I feel like politicians see tech as an easy target to walk all over to rally the technophobe base, and with good reason - there's really no consequences for doing so.

Why is a company like Apple, at time when it has a historic stockpile of cash, trying to duke out political battles by writing open letters to the press and appealing for public support to uphold basic security practices when other industries manage to bend political will in their favor to do truly greedy things at the public's expense on a regular basis?
> it literally admits airplanes are more inefficient but cars

"Driving an SUV or even a mid-size car from New York to L.A. is worse for the planet than flying there. This is true in part because cars’ fuel efficiency has improved far more slowly than planes’, but also because of Americans’ increasing propensity to drive alone, which has made car travel less efficient and more carbon-intensive per passenger-mile in recent years."

Which article did you read?
it doesn't even exist yet and he's trying to distort it.
This is a popular fan theory (Jon's parentage is very ambiguous, and it can be argued that Tyrion's parentage is not completely clear, leading to speculation that they both have Targaryen blood).
This is awesome news. yield-return semantics was something I missed dearly.

Note that we’re still in the process of estimating
the effort needed to implement this feature,
and we don’t know whether it would be reasonable
to support it in the 1.1 timeframe or it would be
postponed to a later release.

:) I can already tell you: yield is probably doable, async-await will have to be postponed.
https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releas...
Agreed that this looks awesome. Seeing code completion and context sensitive help for running terminal commands (e.g. netstat), not just programming languages, was what made me hit the sign up button.
I agree on the points of exchange for public good. Even poor people are loath to see others getting by on "freebies". But a progressive system where BI depends on need (age, for example) and commensurate effort (volunteering, helping take care of elderly, studying, training, etc.) I think is doable and will need to be worked out as more jobs get automated and people are left out of the economy either due to mismatch of skills or other handicap.
Am I supposed to think this is oppressive? Animal smuggling is a big deal which decimates wild populations. Five years seems reasonable to me.

This wasn't a one time offense either.
I'd check your sources. Hand Guns are no more accident prone than long guns.
The AWB was really about banning guns that looked bad. Feinstein and staffers went through picture books and made lists of guns that looked evil.

During the AWB you could buy firearms functionally identical to banned ones, the only difference being cosmetics.
While it's great to gauge interest, beta landing pages, especially very simple ones that require only an email address, could be a dagger in disguise.

Usually, the simpler the form, the higher the conversion rate. It's really easy for someone to give them your email but the question is if they will actually become customers. That said, providing an email address itself is a form or validation and gives you the opportunity to reach out to them. Case in point, we received 100s of leads with a simple form but no one converted. Our new venture received just a handful of leads with minimal promotion but we've been in touch with most of them.

You'll also have to consider the quality of the traffic that you're bringing to your landing page.

That said, general conversion rates are useful to some degree. What you'll want to do is evaluate any changes that you make going forward with your current conversion rate to see if anything' changed.
Because if you're still in business, you might still make more money in the U.S. due to other superior resources available here. For example, there might be greater creative output from well-paid workers who receive basic income and profit sharing, and this could lead to better overall returns for business owners. Obviously not all types of businesses would do well, but hopefully the ones that would thrive would be businesses we're more interested in seeing thrive.
Zalora, Rocket’s unprofitable Asian fashion portal, is selling business units
> Dart is also Google sponsored and no one uses it despite the fact that it's actually a pretty great general purpose language.

Citing an example that had support from Google and failed does not refute the claim that Go would have failed if not for Google's support.
I don't agree with you but the downvotes for disagreement are very inappropriate, this is a contrarian position to the party line around here but fairly well put and helps to further the discussion beyond some sort of echo chamber.

Remember right now a huge proportion of the US population does NOT agree with us, no matter how many facts you explain to them.

Telling, for example, president Obama that he's an idiot and doesn't understand technology is both a lie and not helpful. He has hundreds of advisors who each know as much as the smartest of us here.
Yeah, wow. That's an aspect I've never considered before. I suppose because I figured they would need my actual fingerprint to crack the system, but if you have the values for all the "basis vectors" of the fingerprint that are stored, one could theoretically bypass the sensor and feed the proper sensor output to the authenticating machine. The issue grows larger as this method of authentication grows in popularity.
The Golden State Warriors are a lesson in timing and luck
>A good hunting rifle, shotgun, or pistol costs less than an iPhone...

Yes, because iPhones are overpriced crap. A much cheaper way to deal with your telecommunications needs is to get a good Android phone that's a couple years old. You can get a Samsung Galaxy S4 now for about $100, and they're still pretty current, the software is still updated, and they work just as well as some new $700 model. You're not going to get any kind of decent gun for $100.
try pasting into any facebook text-entry widget (e.g., chat). editing is completely broken. multi-paragraph text is chopped off when submitted. etc. rather amazing when you consider how much money software engineers make at that company.
I was about to ask some questions about exactly what gets sent to Kite and what you do with it. Your privacy page[0] answered my thoughts and concerns quite nicely.

[0] https://kite.com/privacy
Is it really a link-shortener or just atavist providing a short perma-link? 'atav.st' == atavist.com?
Well, it was hearsay anyway. Not reliable at all.
Because there's no "simply" about it. Go ahead, mentally walk yourself through how that plays out for the rich person. Please account for all assets and potential tax liabilities. Factor in the means of production for the rich person to stay rich, and what happens when that person is no longer a U. S. citizen. All done? Oh, forgot to tell you, there's a dozen other things you didn't even know about, but the country of your previously-held citizenship will be along shortly to helpfully remind you.

That, and where else are you going to go that is more "business-focused"? Suppose you find such a place; what trade-offs are made to live there?
Apple, the FBI, and Zero Days
If the Cruise team didn't even know it was a problem- no way for GM to discover it. If the corporate entity is unaware- there would be nothing for GM to discover.
It's because some interviews try to have you solve hard problems, expecting you to have a solution ready in 5 minutes, whereas in the real world you'd consult literature for that.

Whatever happened to, "he seem to be able to code, let's try it for a couple weeks"?

Happened to me twice where everything was fine and then after having been interviewed by 5 or more people, one of them has a bad feeling, and you're not given a chance to prove yourself in a probationary period. Situations like that made me wonder if freelancing is a better path.
Filling the void left by Kiva’s 2012 acquisition by Amazon
Why wouldn't all standard of living benefits of basic income get eliminated immediately by all relevant costs rising to soak it up?

This happens every single time the poor get any sort of money. In poor neighborhoods the rents cost as much as people are able to pay, no more, no less.

Do you know when most rental deposits are collected? Around the tax return season.

If suddenly the poor had some money to spare - the rents will simply go up. The water bill will go up. Electricity, gas. Etc.. until there's no extra income left. And then the poor will be in exactly the same situation as they are now.

Source: long time resident (and landlord btw) of poor neighborhoods of Philly.

P.S: Government is willing to help poor with mortgages? House prices balloon. Government is helping with education grants - colleges raise tuition. Borderline-broke municipalities with enormous unfunded liabilities are looking for any opportunity to collect back taxes and make up new ones. I can go on.

Why would this be any different? As the history shows it will provide a benefit for only a short amount of time until costs catch up.

P.P.S: I am not an opponent of helping poor, quite the opposite. I just don't know how to go about it in real world.
Collaborative robots and breaking down evolving risk assessment
Just finished reading _Red Mars_ and am now reading _Green Mars_, so this is relevant to my interests.
These Are My Two “Must-Haves” When It Comes to Finding the Right VC
Code generation is not about a deficiency in the language, C++ has templating but I will often use code generation since you only need to run that once and templating bloats the compile time for ever.
Facebook Live Map
Why weren't you given mice from Mexico ?
There are at least 2-3 hurricanes hitting the US coast a year, and continues to increase as climate change becomes more prevalent.

The U.S not driving won't make much of a dent in climate change, not with China and other industrializing nations. But if you really cared about greenhouse gases, not soap boxes, let's talk about eating meat.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/giving-up...
Caltech’s 2500 Orbiting Solar Panels Could Provide Earth with Limitless Energy
>In the UK at least a mortgage tends to work out about half the price of renting in my experience

It depends where you live. It is only in London that house prices have risen to silly heights compared to income, so I assume that is what the article is referring to:

http://moneystepper.com/property/rental-income-vs-house-pric...

If you look at rental yields in the above graph, they have been sharply dropping in London in recent years. This makes sense if people are buying houses as investments: unless they're going to be sitting empty, they will be rented out and that will increase supply and reduce demand.

Essentially these London real-estate investors are subsidising cheap rents. So it's really a great way to save money by renting instead of buying, and investing your money in the stock market instead.

>If I had a family, lost my job, and was renting instead of owning/paying a mortgage, I would be on the street much, much quicker

Nope. If you were sensible you would put the money you saved by renting into investments, and you would have at least a year of runway before being on the streets. With a mortgage (assuming your mortgage is higher than rent, and you can't save much) you will have about 90 days before being kicked out.

>At least when I lived in Northern Ireland I didn't know anyone who commuted more than 60 mins to work and these people also owned houses in the suburbs.

Belfast is completely different to London in terms of commuting. Also, house prices haven't gone up the same way they have in London.
The beet you wouldn't eat
Hm. A good Sig Sauer handgun is from $600 and up. So about the same?
It is ironic to comment that comments have no influence upon others.

Personally I like to comment on this issue because it's about free speech and I like talking about that with people who are willing. Also I think technologists have a good chance to practice speaking up about this issue and be heard. Normally we are back-office people =)
> Government is trying to make it illegal for one person to keep secrets and whisper them into another's ear.

That is already the case. If you whisper a secret into my ear, the government can subpoena me and force me to tell a court what you said. They can force you to tell a court what you said so long as it's not incriminating to you, and even then they can do it if they give you immunity.

We can debate about what the law should be, but for the last several hundred years, the law has not really contemplated people keeping secrets from the Government. "Privacy" as it has been understood to date means protection from the government fishing for evidence without probable cause, not an absolute right to keep secrets.

Pervasive, unbreakable encryption is a game-changer that requires rethinking the existing framework. We're not just talking about not being able to get data from a terrorist's phone. We're talking about the bread-and-butter of many sorts of criminal prosecutions being opaque to the government. Good luck convicting someone on insider trading when all the relevant communications are opaque to the government.

I happen to think that the benefits of encryption outweigh the challenges to law enforcement. But its disingenuous to pretend that the government is trying to "take away" a right to "keep secrets" that you already had. Our whole legal system is built on being able to get whatever evidence is relevant wherever it may be found, with extremely narrow exceptions.
We will begin inviting folks today. We want to control the upramp for two reasons: first, with desktop software, every time you take a step up in user base order-of-magnitude (1 -> 10 -> 100 ...) you see new bugs from odd desktop configurations. For example, we've already had one user whose machine wouldn't resolve "localhost" when docker was running : )

Second, we have to also manage backend scaling. We have some pretty strong systems engineers, but maybe because they're experienced they know what they don't know!

But we want everyone to be using it ASAP also.

RE open source, today we open sourced our client plugins (http://github.com/kiteco/plugins), and published instructions for writing your own. If you use an editor that isn't supported, it's about a 2-3 day project to create a plugin for a new editor. : )
PAPERBACK v1.10
>I really think this country would be better off if CA and TX were not allowed representation in the Senate (and I say this as a Texan).

Removing national government representation would be more antithetical to democracy than anything that's going on now. A better solution, in my opinion, would probably be new state redistricting. Voters are apathetic because they feel their votes don't count due to overwhelming concentrations of opposing viewpoints, which probably should be split off into their own states (Bay Area, New York City, so on).
I tend to agree with you with one caveat. We did a C like scripting language and added one thing that C was missing, a variable value that is "undefined" which is not the same as zero. Really simple but now you can do stuff like

pid_t p;

if (defined(p = fork()) {
// parent / child stuff here
} else {
// fork error here
}

It's pretty much the same as try / catch, we just implemented it as part of the variable. And any scalar or complex type can be undefined.

I suspect if C had this a lot of these code samples would be a little more clear. Maybe? Dunno, it's worked well for us. And we like C a lot.
But then you have no idea what the computer is actually doing. There's a big performance difference between an in-memory loop and querying a database. This is one of the things I like about Go... what the computer actually does in response to any random line of code is pretty obvious (except for function calls, which of course can do anything). When you hide away the loop inside a map statement, you get people doing dumb things like this:

names = [m.Name for m in machines]
ids = [m.ID for m in machines]
addrs = [m.Address for m in machines]

So now we're iterating of over the list of machines 3 times... or making 3 database queries or whatever.
7 Essential Lessons from the Harvard Innovation Lab
Smith says the company is still figuring out its business model

Only in the technology world can a company raise four million bucks and develop a product without first having to nail down a business model, revenue projections, etc...
You probably didn't read the article because two sections below the one you linked (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Legacy_and_critic...) states:

> Some economic historians have observed that Standard Oil was in the process of losing its monopoly at the time of its breakup in 1911. Although Standard had 90 percent of American refining capacity in 1880, by 1911 that had shrunk to between 60 and 65 percent, due to the expansion in capacity by competitors.

Which would clearly be impossible if Standard Oil was a monopoly. Your quote from a politician with ulterior motives does not prove a monopoly and even sounds economically dubious.
This Pill Delivery Startup Is Going to War with an Industry Giant
Yesssss i have been waiting hard for the next part of the story. Ut's totally riveting.

I would pay for more of this!!! [And or for future investigative journalism of this incredible scope]
This is a great idea. I particularly think the trade-off between a separate tile vs. a traditional overlay is interesting.

While we lose things like auto complete, it might be less intrusive for the times when we don't need help. It will be interesting to see if we see a new generation of smart IDEs.
They took us out to lunch/dinner.
I have a rift and a vive on order, the rift isn't comfortable at all with my glasses, where the Vive pre I've used is fine. It's easier to setup, but it also lacks controllers and the second sensor right now so it's not really a fair comparison.
>stituted, it will become a political football, as politicians and advocacy groups seek to continuously push it higher and higher.

This is pretty much Chicago in a nutshell. You have all these handouts to public sector unions in return for union votes and union support. You have further entitlements given to the poor on the south and west sides for votes. You have all these ugly deals done in exchange for staying in power, and no one cares about actually balancing the books. When push comes to shove, you just raise taxes over and over. In other words it won't just go "higher and higher" it'll just be higher for special interest groups who can deliver votes. If you can't deliver mass votes and aren't part of one of these groups, your income will be low or non-existant as you'll be stuck in the 'worker' group and not in the 'leisure' group.

GMI needs an implementation that works. I suspect there really is none that doesn't quickly just become corrupt patronage. GMI and democracy/elections may not be compatible. It may only work under a totalitarian system and sounds pretty close to the USSR's system at that point. The best case scenario here seems to be automation making the cost of living so low that existing welfare systems will just be more than enough to take care of people. If we can vastly lower the cost of everything, then modest payouts will be enough and we'll be able to retain a capitalist and democratic system.
it doesn't make any difference, if you think about why hacker news bans link shorteners: there should be one, and ONLY one, canonical URL for every article. if you allow two or more, then there is essentially no way to detect duplicate submissions. so i can pretty much guarantee that it is just a matter of time until atav.st is banned here.
Your calculations don't make sense. You're calculating interest on the % of principal paid off, instead of the total principal.

Also, if you move to another house, there's nothing to say you have to get another 30 year loan. You could get a 20 year loan instead. You could also refinance your house with a new 30-year loan after 10 years.
Of course. Why would I need permission to analyze the same image that hits my eyes and to consult a digital database I maintain (or public one I have access to)? Going this way I'd end up rejecting bicycles and notepads because they're not "natural" enough.

Personally, I believe that your tools are extensions of your body.
Nothing significant found on San Bernardino iPhone
Project home page: http://jonls.dk/redshift/
SiteNabber is a completely different App, with a previously undefined objective, aimed at a "user" they just invented on the spot.
Supporting the variety of dev setups will definitely be one of our challenges. We've tried to start addressing this with 2 column mode (not shown in the demo video, but happens when Kite is in landscape mode; good for multimon), snapping to the side of your screen, and left/right-handed orientations.

This will be a long term effort. We have a lot more work to do here, along the lines of assisting with Z-index management, attaching to windows, etc.

Overall there's a lot to do! We will get there and are signed up for the long term.
I'm sure it will be one of many of the same kind of tool come time enough. I hope the team makes tons and tons of $$$. Also I can't wait to try it out!
in safari etc as well. I think its if theres a lot of double digit winds: http://wttr.in/rst
It's not about how hard or easy the code is to write, at all.

Any line of code you don't write, is a bug you didn't write either. I worked on a significantly size go codebase and the number of stupid bugs that popped up, like bad loops instead of a simple `filter` function, were just silly.

Having all this memory safety and other stupid bugs ruled out but not map, filter, or reduce just felt lazy on the Go authors part.

Of course, now that a member of the go team has said it, we'll see a huge shift in what the go team thinks about generics. I'm glad I don't deal with the go community anymore.
Where is the incentive to get people off the couch looking for work or going to school?
Yeah once you get the Spray Gun or whatever the S gun is called you are pretty much golden.

Really the challenge is playing at the same time with some one else.
Social security is basic income for those over 65.

It is a football like you say but no one has dramatically increased it for decades.

Besides the looming shortfall it seems to be run fairly responsibly.