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This would only work in places where supply exceeded demand. In a landlords' market there is no reason to compete. All the same people who could afford to rent from you before can still afford to rent from you now, you're just charging them more.
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If there is enough to implement it with a big tax increase but not without a big tax increase, and if that makes it infeasible ... isn't that exactly an ideological problem?

(For the avoidance of doubt, an ideological problem can be a serious real problem. If a basic income can't be implemented without a tax increase that voters would never tolerate, that's a good reason not to do it. If it can't be implemented without a tax increase that would wreck the economy, that's also a good reason not to do it, but I think that would rightly be called a numbers problem rather than an ideological one.)
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>I can't see how they could believe this. First of all a minimum wage becomes unimportant as you should hypothetically have enough money to support the kind of lifestyle a minimum wage job would provide without working.

It's considered a distraction because it's a political pipe dream that has a very low chance of being implemented.

The reason the left doesn't like it is fourfold:

* The pretext for basic income presumes that we have a lack of spending because we've run out of things to spend money on. This couldn't be further from the truth. American infrastructure is crumbling and yet politicians still want to restrict necessary spending, choking off demand and killing jobs.

* The pretext for basic income also presumes that we have a wide variety of cheap goods that don't need much US labor because of efficient markets and automation. We don't. We have a wide variety of cheap goods not requiring US labor because China intentionally undervalues its currency. China can pull the plug on that at any point and trigger a torrential level of inflation in the US.

* The last time the US faced this problem of high unemployment due to artificially suppressed demand (in the 30s) it was successfully fixed with federal job guarantees that ended up providing useful employment and getting a huge amount of useful infrastructure built that we still use today.

* However much you try to deny it or dress it up, people actually want jobs - for more than just the income.
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Learn X in Y Minutes is also my go to site for dealing with code in an unfamiliar language. It's managed to get me through learning Ruby and Coffeescript on the job, as well as learning PHP for university.

It's a pity that nobody has done one for SQL yet, I would've thought it would be in high demand.
There is a nice video of it flying in formation in December :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvmVTzN8exQ
https://github.com/rogeralsing/gam/blob/dev/build.bat

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It's partly the king-not-rich bit; but it's also partly that I'm an irrationally patriotic Canadian. Canada is my home, and Canada is Tarsnap's home; my notion of success includes providing an example of a Canadian startup which was successful without moving to the bay area -- because Canada is sorely lacking such examples.
No, I was mostly arguing generally, that a monopoly can exist without it being the government's fault. But I think it's fairly clear that the housing market is indeed strongly influenced by regulation.
Thanks. Every time I see a WP link on hn these days, I first visit the comments to see what the actual content behind the clickbait title is, because the site has become so deliberately misleading.
Developer working in large international media company here. Views not my employer's etc etc.

This looks fantastic.

It's never going to get anywhere.

Most (if not all) large newspaper CMSs are either a) large cumbersome things that have been in use for decades and are never going to be replaced because Stockholm Syndrome, or b) custom in-house-built and fit the particular editorial workflow of that organisation perfectly because the developers have taken time to listen to the journalists and implemented exactly what was needed. I don't know of any news organisation that's successfully migrated from one third-party CMS to another.
I envision it as enough for someone to get by. So not enough for luxury expenditures. Basically food and shelter. I'm also looking at this from the perspective of someone in the UK who doesn't have to think of things like health care and education which changes things quite a bit. I'd say around $800 p/m per person would be plenty if you look at food and rent for a room in a shared apartment. Tax revenue should also stretch much further with a UBI. You could reduce huge inefficiency and lay off the majority of staff involved in welfare programs which would amount to massive savings.
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This only applies to our global economy if every country were to implement UBI, and with similar amounts.
I still think that until the real estate question is resolved it's all a moot point. Already-inflated property markets will just become more inflated.
> I always get bothered when people bring up the `curl [...] | bash` “argument” (which is usually less of an argument and more of a rude dismissal of a good product).

Why? Package managers were created for a reason. Virtually every Linux distribution anyone would use to host a service such as Sandstorm will include a package manager.

> Not sure, but I’m pretty sure you don’t validate every tarball you download, and even if you do validate them, you certainly wouldn’t look through each line of code making sure there isn’t a backdoor or something.

I don't download tarballs. I install packages. Who downloads tarballs to install software in 2016?

Anyone actively developing for a project will likely be using git, and I'm not aware of too many projects which make use of toolchains which are so new that they're not available in any rolling release/testing distro.

> Any malicious person could break into a tarball download site, and replace the checksums as well (only way to mitigate that is using a signature that is associated with the tarball maintainer), and even if something like PGP is used, the attacker would be able to replace the instructions to obtain the PGP key with their own generated one, or even remove the signature completely.

Yes, fine. And that's why all major distributions sign their packages, so you know that it's valid. Again, it's 2016, who seriously installs software from tarballs?

> The only thing worse about it is that it’s less noticeable when the script has been replaced.

No, what is much worse than that is you are installing software outside of your package manager. Also, companies who deploy via curl | bash, typically pull in their own dependencies outside of the package manager.

It's bad form.

If your application has specific dependencies, then ship it as an appliance using LXC, Docker, or $TRENDY_CONTAINER_TECH. That way, all updates are atomic and you don't risk eff-ing the OS by pulling in a bunch of stuff outside of the package manager.

> In conclusion, please don’t be rude and dismiss an entire product because of a single installation method, which isn’t actually worse than a malicious tarball.

In conclusion, package management is a solved problem. Companies which have installers which do not make use of the distribution's package management system are lazy, and anyone who defends curl | bash is an apologist.

Seriously, it's not difficult to generate a DEB/RPM/<insert distribution package format> and create your own signed repo. Package management has been a solved problem for at least a decade.

It annoys me that companies think it's okay to have curl | bash as an installation method. If they think that will ever be acceptable in an enterprise environment where change management is important, they're delusional.
As costs go up, consumers buy less. There's a certain price which maximizes profit: that's where it ends.
Well, technically, there are few reasons for Danes to be unhappy. High salaries, low workloads, free healthcare and education, somewhat efficient government services and low bureaucratic load. I spent there about 6 months, so I don't exactly know.

But there's some dystopian feeling about all this. All Danes have social security numbers which are deeply integrated into all government services; all information (including healthcare, bank accounts, childcare services etc.) are accessible online by it (using MFA). To "fit in" and not being heroic is the general theme of Danish culture, something that they teach their children. "See these identical Lego blocks? They are essentially the same, and don't do much on their own, but you can build different things from them, to be fit for different purposes. This is how society works." — a Dane might explain. Lego is Danish invention; it is an acronym for "play well together".

No wonder quite a few people are depressed there.
I think that is the point, there will be too many people "that can't work" due to tech innovations.

It all makes sense if you think about welfare not as "these slouches are rewarded for the laziness" but as a price you pay so that unemployed people are not forced into violent property expropriation from you.

When large swaths of population don't have an access to money-making jobs, it significantly affects middle class well-being.

Of course you can "get yours" and double down on police and live behind electric fences South Africa style, but that's not pretty.
Doesn't the US spend that much already on quantitative easing :) ?
with a UBI, you don't need a minimum wage. Also low end jobs will pay on top of a UBI, so it will be quite attractive if you don't have a lot of skills for higher paying work. Also with a UBI you have to balance it with a tax system that taxes wealth. In new zealand one of the advocates of UBI came up with a calculator for it ( simplified, but gives the idea of some of the levers you need to do it ) http://www.bigkahuna.org.nz/calculator/finance-minister.aspx

If you live in an area where there is a housing shortage, then yes, the market will drive things higher, but then a UBI lets people be a bit more mobile so people may move out of high rent areas more easily, also potentially driving up wages because less people are around to do needed work, but then as everyone gets pushed up, the tax will start to pull things back down. The whole point is income redistribution , especially in a society thats starts getting more and more automated.
Although interesting to read, and I identify with the issues listed, I feel the author should have explained up front that this is a promotional article for his new service/app[1].

[1] Which I don't have a problem with per se. Just not a fan of dressing up promotional press releases as blog posts.
>$10 trillion a year which doesn't really seem feasible.

There's nothing infeasible about spending $10 trillion a year. The US can quite literally print and spend as much as it likes in dollar terms. The only limiting factor is inflation.

As soon as public spending starts causing ~> 12% inflation year on year you need to start worrying about "can the country afford this?". Not until then. The government certainly wasn't worrying about the total dollar number during the war or the last bank bailout.
The simple answer is : A subsidy of such large proportions is not economically viable for the Govt.
I knew it before opening the threat. What would the highest ranking post be, someone discussing the merits of Angular 2 or someone doing the usual "yeah nice, BUT REACT!"?

There are lots and lots of shops that - for one reason or another - don't care about React. And frankly for someone who works with Angular 1.x, React might just not be that interesting.
I'm so glad we imported this style of politics to Australia. It's lovely watching our government openly and boldly torch tens of billions of dollars on our Internet infrastructure and condemn our economic prospects for decades simply to spite the other political party, while the idiot masses cheer them on because the blue team is winning against the red team.
Plumbers, electricians, carpenters, automation mechanics, fishermen off the top of my head. Just from local personal experience in a place with low unemployment.

It's hard to disentangle the effects, since many of my age peers who went the blue-collar route weren't exactly responsible... but those who were, and some who weren't, still did very well for themselves. Theoretically, maybe we white-collar workers would do better after 20 years - but not if our blue-collar friends invested their savings in the meantime (which many do).
There are some sorts of political proposal it's reasonable to be shocked at people talking openly about. For me, they're things like: Reintroducing slavery. Switching to communism. Putting people in prison for having the wrong religion. Expelling all black people from the country.

... Do I understand correctly that you consider raising taxes to be in this category?
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From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-100_Super_Sab...):

Adapted as a fighter bomber, the F-100 was supplanted by the Mach two class F-105 Thunderchief for strike missions over North Vietnam. The F-100 flew extensively over South Vietnam as the air force's primary close air support jet until being replaced by the more efficient subsonic LTV A-7 Corsair II.

And this was mentioned in passing in Clashes.
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It also appears that the tank is not waterproof, as you can see quite substantial leaking at around 30 seconds in.
Love that the stub in the url says "3-lessons" and the article title says "4 Lessons". I wonder which one is the afterthought...
I second this. Here's a good starting point for free certificates. https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encrypt-and-heroku-...

Also it seems that you simply let the application crash if the age input is a huge number. Maybe limit the age input to three characters? I'm not sure why 9999999999999999 would crash the app though. Intentional?
This is obviously, I hope, all just a bit of fun.
hehe that one shouldnt be checked in, it's just for me to see that proto contracts hold between edits.
The "get yours" mentality is flawed because all you end up doing is imprisoning large sections of the population for poverty-driven crime, and you end up paying for their imprisonment.

What do prisoners get while in prison? Basic necessities, like food, shelter, warmth.

A kind of basic income, if you will.
Actually the only place you would install isArray is the browser...

Node has support for the built in isArray, and you only need that "micro module" if you want to support IE8
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Not to mention it's flaky on even producing correct queries. Sequelize was hell for me and I'm glad to not be using it anymore.
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The main problem with a general basic income is that it would be enormously wasteful, regressive and unfair. If you have a good economic situation, 250$/month is peanuts. If you are grasping for air, it won't be enough; even more so if it comes at the expense of getting rid of public programmes that can target concrete problems and leverage economies of scale.

Other approaches (e.g. minimum guaranteed income for the jobless and tax credits for the working poor) look like a far better use of resources.
I will say that if the US ever got a basic income, I wouldn't have a reason to kill myself anymore.
I haven't touched browserify, but with webpack what you said could not be more false...

Webpack doesn't bundle at runtime, it doesn't add any amount of code overhead per module that I can easily measure, and it doesn't trash startup speed.
Totally cool. Alsing and Stannard did a great work on Akka.NET, and I'm happy to see the OP making inroads into Golang projects. How does the message throughput compare between GAM and Akka.NET?

I might as well start contributing to this project.
I wonder if it makes sense to use the notion of a 'price' when talking about former times? Prices as in list prices seems to be a relatively modern phenomenon. One thing you notice when being outside of modern places is that price tends to be completely based on who asks whom. In many shops you'll only find products and then get a price when asking.
Very few people bat an eyelid because the upcoming election is a guaranteed SNP win, and they aren't planning on raising taxes - despite claiming to be a more progressive party.

If Scotland was really keen for tax rises the SNP would implement them given they are currently focusing on nothing but winning sufficient support for a second Independence Referendum.
In the brave new world of guaranteed income, why would you need a pension?
Actually it will probably depress property markets. Our inflated property markets are caused by the ultrawealthy hoarding their wealth in property.

A large dose of cost-push inflation will drain that wealth, causing them to sell off their property, causing the price of it to drop.
Low-skilled dirty jobs should either be automated, or they should be treated like taxation.

Everyone, without exception, has to pitch in and do them - to a reasonable standard, with doubled time for slacking, and serious punishments for avoidance - for [very small number of days a year].

If that sounds authoritarian, consider that's how work already functions for most people - except they're compelled to do it all the time, not just for [very small number of days].
Exactly. I have 5 apples. There are 5 people willing to pay at least $2 for them, so I sell them for $2. That's basic economics.

With a basic income, now most of these people have more money. So I can charge $3 per apple, and even if I only sell 4 of them I still make $2 more than I made before. I eat the last apple myself, and the person who only has the basic income doesn't get an apple at all.

I think universal welfare makes more sense.
Surely a more useful measure of how far away it is, would be the time it takes, rather than the taxi price as a proxy for distance?

It's ~60mins to Tokyo station, compared with ~30mins from Haneda. And depending on where you're going that difference can disappear quickly. The time to Ueno is ~40mins either way.
ZPAQ and pngwolf have very nice approaches to learning algorithms for compression. Especially ZPAQ.
Damn sorry I accidentally downvoted you on mobile... I really wish HN would fix that.
NASA was always a jobs program as well as what it ostensibly was for, it was officially tasked with industrially uplifting the South, which became an even bigger thing when LBJ became president. The area to the immediate northeast of MIT was still mostly a wasteland when I showed up in 1979 because NASA all of a sudden decided that Houston was the ideal place to put the Mission Control Center....

After Apollo, that became many times more what it was for.
Gray text on black background is awfully unreadable.
Of course, when you do introduce actual numbers and note that poor people looking for work generally get more than $3000 per year in benefits, and early retirees and stay-at-home spouses generally don't, arguments against a proposal that would in practice take away from the former class of people and give to the latter become a profoundly ideological argument.
Truly, the most predictable of all replies.
I'd like to see a "I don't play computer games" button, as I need a beefy CPU, but have no need for anything faster than a R7 250. Good luck with your project!
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First of all, no job should be considered dirty.

Second, if you go to places like Netherlands, Norway and Japan you'll see that it's not about money. Higher education prepares workers to do more complex, more efficient and more productive jobs.

Also, the society is more conscious about not having someone to do stupid things for them like collecting their trays after they eat at the McDonadls, this is YOUR responsibility as a member of a society, to look for others as well.

So in Amsterdam for example, street cleaning and trash collection are done with specialized vehicles. In Denmark, subways are autonomous.

I like to believe that as you increase education and income, the people that would be considered "dumb" in an very unequal society will spend their time developing technologies to automate tasks no one likes to perform and increase productivity.
In UK? You always qualify, but you'll have to pay it all back if your income goes over a threshold. In its current form, it's basically an interest-free loan for 12 months.
Async-functions are the answer to all his problems. I generally agree on his conclusion though: Do small things, don't build big systems.

I hate that JS trys to be this OO-FP hybrid. Jack of all trades, master of none.
I see this is now getting off the front page without input from some of the most notorious HNers, but some of them have explicitly stated they like to be contacted by email and to give free advice. I'd suggest you try emailing some of them. Unfortunately I don't remember now who else advertised as such, but I'm certain at least about patio11:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/standing-invitation/
So the key quality here is high-altitude performance? Like higher than the service ceilings of current civilian planes or military transports?
thanks for that useful input. That is exactly what my question is. If there is clarity around these aspects, what the founder would become undoubtedly awesome.
No, that is terrible advice. People will try to throw ridiculous things in contracts, but as a business owner, it is your responsibility to read them, and negotiate adjustments. It is also your responsibility to know what is/is not acceptable for your business, and know when to walk away from a negotiation.
second this. devdocs is awesome.
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> I think the reason for huge support behind Basic Income is failure of government in efficient allocation of its resources.

Basic Income is interesting because (a) it removes the requirements for administration of social security and policing of fraud, and (b) because some people think increased automation/AI will create increased unemployment so a different approach would be beneficial.

I'm not aware of evidence to support a view that poor implementation of particular social security programs is a driver.
I actually voted the startup that can actually change the world on a meaningful way: Feynman Nano e Gresham Money.

I found all the other companies "small thinking" that won't impact my life in a meaningful way, maybe perfect for YC and even a better fit than the one I voted.

However since are not my money, I don't actually care if the companies success or fail but I care of those companies can change the way I live.
Hey Jaruzel thanks for quickly coming up with the response.
The main objective is to list all the problems and how people try to solve their problems . Telling them a way to solve all the problems they are facing in the end i would not say its a promotional post :)
You talk about any product (software/hardware)or any service that can help solve any problem in every post here.
So they are not promotional if they are teaching you something or helping you out :)
The same reason you have pensions now, despite guaranteed state pensions. Whilst $10K is probably liveable, in some places, if you own a house, it's likely not going to be terribly comfortable.
I don't think anyone wants a Sci-Fi dystopia: It doesn't benefit anyone.

Government should provide every citizen with basics should they falter: Food, clothing, shelter, education etc. I absolutely believe that is a basic human right.

What I don't want is to fund anything other than a safety net: Welfare should be a helping hand to get you back on your feet or to give you a start - Nothing more.

It should also come with an expiry date!