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What a hodgepodge of ideas. This is a perfect example of Douglas Hofstadter's chocolate/excrement milkshake.

The idea behind Basic Income is to remove government intervention in the economy. Coupled with a flat tax, it massively reduces government overhead and bureaucracy, and leaves government to it's main role as the arbiter of society.

Governments' main role is to enforce the rules a society is based upon via the social contract. Collect taxes, enforce laws, and invest in the unprofitable but necessary foundations of civilization (infrastructure, healthcare, research, conservation, etc.)

In societies, as in design, less is often more. The more lifelong government bureaucrats we create, the more perverse incentives exist for them to parasitize the government for their own gains.

So why do we need to legislate for minimum work hours if we have a sufficient BI? And in what fictional universe does open borders make sense?

Human beings are competitive, and we form tribes to compete against one another. This is healthy, and leads to great achievements when properly channeled. The Cold War, for example, caused an era of unprecedented technological innovation. As we enter the post-war era, we already see the downfalls of globalization. When there is no need to compete, decadence sets in. The rich hoard money, and governments refuse to invest in their people's future in the form of infrastructure, research, etc.

We need borders, and we need a competitive immigration system that behaves like a sports team manager who is constantly on the lookout to poach talented individuals from competitors.

Competition is the quintessential human trait which has brought us to where we are today. Setting it aside has always lead to decadence and downfall.
Hamilton to stay on $10; Tubman replacing Jackson
Yea, I think this is a case of looks sketchy but is fine. Still, journalism often focuses on the interesting even if it's not that big a deal.
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Why do you consider a house "non-productive"? If you want to test how non-productive a house is I suggest trying to make do without one.
I think any funding of the UBI cannot be distorted by the UBI itself, at any level of the UBI.

Imagine the UBI was raised to a level high enough that essentially no one wanted to work anymore; how could this possibly be funded, insofar as there IS no income to be taxed?

The LVT avoids this particular problem, in that it's driven fully by the value of land within a city. No matter how much or little people work, this land will continue to have value.
> but you can always pull a Cyanogenmod and ship a phone without those apps installed.

That’s exactly what you can’t. Google only allows you to ship Google Apps on one of your devices if you ship it on all.

Which is the most important part the EC complains about.
A FPS bot that gimmicks a 14 year old gamer. It either camps or goes full on spray and pray, is constantly flooding chat with insults, accusing people of cheating and calling them fags, and team kills "4 the lulz!!!"
Yes, it would be pegged to the full Economic Rent of the whole of the land stock. Essentially making it a citizen's dividend on the value of this land.
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Violations of HN's rules aren't affected by what "lots of people" agree with (lots of people agree with every such violation) nor by how you feel. You broke the rules by replacing what you saw as political spin in the original headline with an opposing political spin that you happened to prefer. That's so obviously against the rules that if you do it again, we'll take away your right to submit stories here.

Instead, either use the original title or (if it is misleading or linkbait) replace it with one that is accurate and neutral. That means as spin-free as you can make it, preferably using representative language from the article itself. It's pretty easy in most cases if you try. Doing this is a valuable service to the community: it presents the story in a way that allows people to receive it as information, not agitation.
How 'bout rather getting back at them corrupt bastards in an attempt to essentially eliminate the dark side?

Could be helluva less bloody today in better developed places than in 1917 here :)
I once read a humorous column that described it as an attempt to give any visiting Soviets an inferiority complex by out Soviet-ing Soviet architecture.

There are some decent brutalist buildings on the MIT campus including the MIT Student Center--which has a lot of interesting funky angles and is a rather useful space--and a number of IM Pei buildings (at least I think the latter are considered brutalist). There's also the Christian Science Plaza that I'd go so far as to call quite attractive.
That's because no benchmark is perfect. You're also being tricked to buy a "twice faster cpu" on your latest phone because it showed twice better performance on a particular benchmark.

But There's a big difference between the company that make engineering decisions that try to improve the results on the benchmark (because after all that's what consumers get fooled with) and the one that would have a "if (benchmark_in_progress) cheat; "
> Also the left are against this, because they could not run around calling people "fascist" anymore.

By the same reasoning, you wouldn't like to see a UBI because then you couldn't bash unions or McJobs anymore.

Sometimes when people say they want to see something go away, they mean it.
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Probably not:

* It's not well liked in the broader Erlang world because of compiler magic.

* Elixir has Phoenix, which is now the project in that space.

Also: I changed jobs and moved so... don't use Erlang at work any more, sadly.
That doesn't make them special. Fish can not survive without a host either (i.e. water).
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Learn Java, Javascript, and Python, then move to San Francisco. You can pull in a base salary of $150K within 4 years of graduating if you get jobs at hot/popular companies.

That said, due to its high cost of living, $150K isn't that outrageous in San Francisco. You can use online cost of living adjusters to see what the equivalent salary would be in areas you're familiar with.
> The European left is too scared and complacent to either set boundaries or speak up for the benefits of liberalism due to complacency after decades of being in charge.

I don't think that's the full picture. First of all I don't think the European left has been in charge for decades, and second of all austerity measures e.g. in Spain have resulted in left movements growing stronger.

It all depends on the country, really.
Yeah, that was my point, that this desn't apply for Fry's writing.
Driverless pods will run on Singapore's roads by end of the year
I sponsored last year's. It was a blast!
That article is good, but keybase.io is a non-starter until they open registration. I have been on the pending queue for over a year now.
I'd like to see them pay income taxes for this 'employee' and do all the other paperwork needed.
I think there are multiple different type of A player developers:

There are "researcher" developers that given a tough problem can come up with an excellent solution. If you gave the same problem to someone less competent, you would get a hack with lots of problems, or possibly no solution at all.

There are also "coder" developers that given a well fleshed out specification, can crank out code at break-neck speed.

You can tell research developers in interviews by proposing large-scale problems and asking them how they'd approach finding solutions. Do they get excited, or freeze up? Big tell.

To get coder developers, open source project activity is probably the best indicator. If someone is part of several open source project teams and has active forks and a commit history, that is a good indicator.

Once you have people like this, when managing them, you need to make sure that you assign tasks based on their strength. Coders are great as project maintainers, researchers will probably find a new job if you put them in a maintainer role. Likewise, coders aren't going to be happy if you don't have well fleshed out requirements/spec for them to chew on, while researchers view that as a license to let their creativity run wild.
Yup, it's despicable. Wage-slavery is basically the system minimum wage workers live under now. They may not be bought and sold like cattle, but they are viewed and treated as such.

Interestingly, in Seattle, with the 15/hr movement, initially businesses were using small business as a shield to argue that 15/hr was unsustainable. Unsurprisingly, they quickly changed their tune when we said that we would levy greater taxes on larger corporations to subsidize small business.

These reasons, among many others, is why I'm involved in 15 Now and other fight for 15/hr minimum wage that's pegged to inflation. Capitalism is increasingly unstable. People continue gaining consciousness of this fact.
I wonder how you can get a patent on a laptop stand.
I assume it is a design patent.
Many others have wisely advised caution. This is an area which interests me as well. A lot. So have read a lot of articles and also some books on the topic (some may only indirectly apply to this topic)

- 'The Big Short' & 'Liar's Poker' by Michael Lewis

- AntiFragile by N N Taleb (There are other's by Taleb, which I haven't read)

- Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin (on lessons learnt from Warren Buffet & Charlie Munger -- Yes, few of the most richest guys, who gained perhaps)[1]

I have also made some mistakes in investing. One so obvious mistake in hindsight, one was around 2007, when I moved a large portion of my networth from a single stock, to a diverse portfolio. Which was a good thing in itself, as I was moving it from all-eggs-in-a-basket to more distributed. But When the crash happened (world wide) I might have gone down 30%! The single stock, was comparatively down by much less. The good thing I did was not to do a panic sell in 2009. Though Discarded some stocks which were proven worthless (some down by 95%), just to avoid the pain of seeing them in my portfolio. But I kept the Mutual funds, which again started to come back to the original levels around 2011 and later on.

In restrospect, I should have reduced the risk fast. That is moved it all to cash. Then gone about investing slowly. By which I would have escaped huge downside (2008/2009). The problem is I knew the mantra already. But it got firmly registered after that experience. Another such golden rule is 'Buy when cheap, Sell when high'. Sounds very simple, but hard to grok it fully, unless you have felt some pain.

Having learnt that lesson. Now I keep most of my investment outside the stock market (exited during the rise of 2014). And keep only lesser amount around 10-15% in stock market. And that too only in index funds.

So IMHO, there is clearly no one size fits all. Investing and gaining from it is very much possible. Wonder if there is any vested interest in the mantra which gurus give i.e. invest only in mutual funds/index funds. Do they want others to not compete with them? :-)

But it does take a lot of time and years and pain to become good at it. And time is the biggest resource constraint, which perhaps we (the non-pros) all have. So at present I like to read everything I find on the topic. But decide to play it safe (i.e. fixed deposits, index funds, and similar). As once you are in the game i.e. investing in stocks/instruments which have huge upsides/downsides and hence riskier. You need to be more involved. And my personal experience its very difficult to do that, with things like programming and trying to grow your own business.

Hope this misc bit of reading pointers and micro experience share, is of tiny bit use. I am ever interested to read as much on this topic - views, articles, particularly the insights people learn from experience.

[1] Had got this reco via Derek sivers https://sivers.org/book/SeekingWisdom

Edit: typo
10,000 years ago suggests Mesopotamia. My weak history knowledge suggests that was the only thing closed to a civilization in that era.
Any big company has massive variations in employee skill levels. I get the feeling that Google tries to get a certain minimum standard for the people they hire (even if that standard may be high).
Solid reply -- thank you!
Your version sounds backwards.

If you have a corruptible personality, and live in a society that incentivizes corruption (most if not all do), then you have a better chance of getting super rich. It doesn't mean anyone who is super rich must be corrupt.
>>but rather core human experiences, closely tied to the concept of "middle class" themselves, and not financial back-breakers for middle class families in the past.

What constitutes 'core human experiences'? There are people in this very forum who think a vacation per year is a very valid human need because 'life happens only once'. So by many a measure 'the trip to vegas' is a 'core human experience'. Plus there is a very think line of difference between a vacation to vegas or grand canyon.

The right way to measure a 'core human experience' is to ask what is the person's highest priority? If you ask me nothing is more important to me than putting food on the table, having clothes to wear, a roof above my head and enough cash for my health expenses when I grow old. That said, now I have to plan my finances accordingly. I can't spend a good chunk on everything else and then complain I don't have enough.

People at all levels of income are faced with 'priorities', this includes millionaires as well.
So first off, I like this. I actually quite like the design as well. I absolutely agree that a "latest reviews" or something would be great. The first thing I want to do is at least see a single review, just to see what one looks like.

Probably a bit late for you to change since you have your domain name, but the name kind of suggests code reviews. But I don't think you're really aiming for code reviews correct? You're aiming for a kind of package reputation?

A related project shown here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11481459

There I wrote a comment about how package reputation systems have the slight problem about what to do when a package is updated. A review may then be out-of-date, but you cannot just delete old reviews since they may still be quite appropriate. So it isn't an easily solved problem.
In architecture and civil engineering, even with powerful BIM software like Revit and Archicad, AutoCAD is still widely used, and for good reason.

Any AutoCAD > 2006 (maybe 2004) is still very good today.
IMO the versions after 2008 are bloated with shoehorned 3d stuff that work better on other software and isn't the core of AutoCAD (vector drawings).
Agreed. In particular, the social support for physical/mental disabilities that often fuel homelessness was probably nonexistent then. And yes, it's fair to scoff at the social support when comparing nations among one another at the present. But the trend among all of them at present is light years ahead of what it was 10000 years ago.
Treasury Picks Tubman for $20 Bill, Hamilton to Stay on $10
Actually when writing this comment, I was thinking about the LISP paradigm: RNA is both code and data.
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Deregulation isn't exclusive to the Reagan era, how about the Clinton era as well, ie. Glass-Steagall.
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if you want to audit the script before you run it, you can just save it into a file first and then run it.

The point of this oneliners is to allow anybody to install it. It's insecure as hell, but whether you're piping it directly to bash or downloading an installer file and then executing it (like a great deal if not most of the software is still distributed to the general public anyway) makes not a big difference.

That's why the linked article is interesting; it shows that in fact there is a difference between piping to bash or downloading an installer. The difference is important and concerns the auditability. Any people who cares to audit the script might not notice anything suspicious but people who blindly pipe it to bash can potentially run code that is not the same that audtors see.

What's basically happening is the either a malicious software publisher, or a MiTM, fools auditors. And fooling auditors is bad because a lot of people rely on the community to signal this kind of abuse.

What an auditor could do to detect this kind of malware distribution is:

curl https://foo/bar.sh | tee >(md5sum)| sh

If she gets a different hash than by fingerprinting a saved download, it's an indication that the server is tampering with the installer.

However, people who follow good practices and want to audit the script are not affected by the problem in the first place, because they will just save the script and they will know how to execute it after having read it.

People who don't know how to audit the installer in the first place might not even know how to verify the download with GPG as well. Or worse, they won't bother and might deem the software to be too hard to install and choose to use something worse.

That's why sandstorm offers PGP-verified installs for those who know what they're doing and show how to use keybase to solve the web of trust issue.

(I'm not affiliated with sandstorm, but they seem a very reasonable and competent bunch to me)
Haven't read the others, but Red Mars is excellent, and better than Culture, in my opinion (though the latter varies in quality).

For another vision of a futuristic post-scarcity anarchist adhocracy, see James P. Hogan's Voyage from Yesteryear, which features less "magical" AI and is more of a reflection on cultural conditioning.
There are many supposed theories that survive for decades with little scientific support.

Such as the RICE treatment for illnesses, which has finally been denounced by its creator. [1] http://www.drmirkin.com/fitness/why-ice-delays-recovery.html

The pressure to publish new results and the low attention given to validation experiments drives a lot of unreliable outcomes.
You start with a premise that is not universally accepted, even among proponents of the UBI: that the UBI exists to reduce government intervention in the economy (the UBI is a government intervention in the economy, and many UBI proponents support it because it's such an intervention that replaces current interventions premised on a certain labor market model with one that they see as working in a different labor market model they see as emerging with automation, or because they see it as simply more effective than existing and other alternative interventions.)

That's not to defend the article, of course.
Feeling like everyone is a better software developer than you?
In 2016 I would write networking and RPC in go.
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"the updated $20 bill isn't expected to be issued until 2030 at the earliest, according to a report from CNN; citing the lengthy approval process by the Advanced Counterfeit Deterrence steering committee"
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> divorce lawyer

Using "rich people who are getting divorced" adds a pretty big confounding variable to your analysis.
> You're dealing with a known actor with a known track record against a known target.

People with anonymity aren't "known actors"?

You could just as easily argue willful blindness with Tor or end to end cryptography devs. And that's how I'm worried that a case like this will be used if it's successful.
> Seems off-topic, can you explain the relevence of this?

You said:

> Hiring faculty is a very different thing (and subject to different rules and policies) than getting students succesfully to graduation.

That's why I mentioned it.

> Diverse workplaces are more pleasant to work in

If somebody's opinion was that all male workplaces are more pleasant to work in, would you find that a reasonable basis for discriminating against female applicants?

> Additionally there's a growing body of evidence that documents how diverse workplaces have higher productivity; and gender gaps in entrepreneurship negatively affect GDP (Cuberes & Teignier for a 2015 example http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21661804-gender-equal...)

Not a very convincing study. They just noticed that women work less than men, and calculated the increase in GDP if women worked as much as men. Note that from the data they use it is apparent that women work more in poorer societies. So maybe women work less in richer societies because they can. This is a good thing, because it means the things people do are dictated more by their passion and less by economic necessity.

The other studies are all about perception. I wonder how much of it is due to the effect that I mentioned (if you confer a selection advantage to a group then it becomes rational to believe that post selection individuals in that group are less competent). I'm also a bit wary of publication bias. I've heard from people in the field that there are certain results that are good for your career and certain results that are not.

Do you know of any reliable studies showing actual discrimination of the magnitude that the study I cited showed?
Had to look up the meaning of wangle. "obtain (something that is desired) by persuading others to comply or by manipulating events."

Does anyone know where facebook is coming up with all these words - folly/wangle?
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What are these assets? Surely not most capital, which depreciates rapidly.

The only assets that would apply would be:

* Intellectual property (patents and copyrights). This would be a problem, but only to an extent-- there isn't such an inelastic demand on the return of IP as there is on housing stock.
* Picassos, etc. This, while true, isn't especially relevant.

Is there something you're getting at that I'm missing here?
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This scorecard is terrible, and does multiple disservices to the cause of getting people to use secure messengers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10525266
Well, especially if you take the source article to heart, "Fix" is actually future tense - "When applied this commit will fix the JS typo on foo page for Chrome". "Fixes" would indicate the present tense: "This commit fixes the JS typo [...]"
That employee would need a corresponding Social Security Tax Number System (SSTNS) number, and only those with resident registration are eligible.

I'm not sure the government wants to collect taxes on an individual that doesn't use any social services. It would be very strange.
Where I live, everyone celebrates the start of winter (because they're tired of summer), and then then start of summer (because they're tired of winter).

My favorite part of winter is, a warm fire literally never feels better than when it's freezing outside.
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