skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There wouldn't be a problem delivering goods, because companies would still compete to deliver those goods using price signals.

The problem is that a lot of goods delivered to the poor are delivered by low-skill workers, and since demand curves slope there will be significant inflation here, along with a lot of things undone.
The mice in the video bred rapidly and filled the space until it became too crowded. Humans however have contraceptives and entertainment systems and so the population stabilizes before that.
It should be obvious that government agencies lack the incentive (generally profit and the competitiveness necessary to maintain it) to meaningfully address and/or eliminate problems. Nor do they experience any significant downside to failure. They aren't legally accountable to shareholders and it certainly isn't their life savings that they stand to lose. Worse-case scenario, they're reassigned.
Select a new thing X. Choose between "X is a fad/bubble" and "X is a fundamental paradigm shift". Write article. Profit.
Amazing how quick this jumped into extraneous "what-if" comments and liberal vs. libertarian and so on. It appears that the premise that YC is moving forward on is very simple: "give them the money and see what happens."

I would imagine it would be monthly because that is how our culture works on necessities like shelter and water. If they run out of the money on day one, or do a deal with a payday lender, it doesn't become "tough shit." It will be answered with a big silence. There won't be somebody to call and complain to.

Once a month money will appear in your account. End of story. The funders aren't also attempting to solve health care and pay day lending. They aren't creating a bureaucracy of people waiting by the phone to listen to sob stories.

What happens after the money hits your account is the focus of the research. Thrive or fuck up, your choice . . . and not the problem of the suppliers of basic income.

Many here are jumping immediately to the worst case scenario stories. Those will comprise a tiny minority. They're playing the hunch that basic income will be a net plus and they want to find out how and how much so they can tweak it and propose it to best impact the future.

This seems like a great use of some of the wealth that has been steadily trickling up.
(Disclosure - I'm friends with some folks at Indeed.) I'm also curious to what you dislike about the UX. Indeed certainly isn't going to win any beauty contests, but I think they have excellent laser focus on exactly what they want to do: the site is very fast, simple, and has a minimal set of features that are useful without a bunch of extra BS.
Hmm. I don't know about serving "99% of developers" without support for at least top 10 languages/frameworks, catering for enterprise (which is, in my country, like 50% or more of all jobs for software devs), and an IDE that has at least the most basic of features... but most of all, I do not feel like the blog post or the site itself communicates in any way the two most important feelings I'd like to get as a developer: 1) I'm in control if I need to be, 2) I understand what's going on. These are of course related, but I have neither the sense that I can control things here, nor that I understand what's so special about this. For working alone my own dev machine is better in every regard with the exception of being able to code away from that machine; for working together I would never let a 3rd party provide glue and choice of architecture, security etc. anyway, since anything bigger would likely be a more serious (not more frivolous) endeavour... what am I not getting?
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Can anyone tell me what advantage tgz has over zip? I usually curse when I have to use it, because it lacks indexes and is pretty much only good for archival tapes, if that. I wish we'd all move to a more modern format, like zip or 7zip.
You only need kids if your society is in a position where those with the wealth to afford children are not having them. Japan certainly has that problem, currently, the US does not. If you are in the Japanese situation, I would still argue opening up immigration is almost certainly cheaper an option than subsidizing child rearing, but we are no where near any problems stateside involving population replacement, and if we did, again, we can open our borders much more before turning to child subsidy.
My understanding is that money doesnt become worthless (inflation) so long as there is excess capacity. If a bag maker has 10 excess capacity at the $100 price mark, then the first 10 customers will not cause any inflation. Clearly there will be some inflation with BI as previously nonparticipants in a market begin to participate (homeless begin to rent for example).
Any circuit through the heart is enough for (at least a single-lead) ECG. For example, the AliveCor is a hand-held mobile phone case—when your left hand and right hand are both touching it, you can get an ECG.

Chest ECGs done at the hospital are often 12-lead, and those give different "angles" through the heart, which gives cardiologists more clues on exactly which parts of cardiac tissue are causing a problem.
How is [1] distinct from rational control of population (eg birth control by default), which will presumably be necessary to avoid food and resource waste (or war/starvation)? Health care seems to be just another factor affecting population cap.
And yet the margins for insurance companies is generally not at the high end when compared with other industries.

For example, using the data from: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/...

and looking at the After-tax Lease & R&D adjusted margin, The software industry is at 24% (8th place) and the Insurance industry is at 11.51% (37th place).
> Almost a quarter of American households make less than $25,000. It would be hardly surprising if a $10,000 check each for Mom and Dad sapped their desire to work.

Ah, but a transfer payment which targets the poor is worse in this regard. A $10,000 check that you lose if you work saps your desire to work more than a $10,000 check that augments your income.
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Not that it is a good idea of course, but I wonder if there are companies who pick CEOs randomly from new MBA graduates and pay them an extremely high salary with no stock options or other incentives.
Having somebody intentionally look into your life, individually, because of some possibly perverse or unwanted interest in you is extremely creepy.

Having a large company store some data you generated in a server farm somewhere while a mindless algorithm does some math with that data to shuffle a few ads around for you to see is utterly banal and not creepy.
you don't trust yourself or your ability to maintain a single list of key->values better than a 3rd party?

lastpass has been hacked multiple times revealing ALL your passwords. the compromise is obviously to not use it and when ONE of the services you used is hacked you lose ONE account rather than them all.
It's been theorised that hunter gathers in good times did ok without blood, sweat and tears.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society
It was invented based on the file-marking symbols used by a geneticist for genetics research:

http://www.setgame.com/founder-inventor

https://web.archive.org/web/20130313190253/http://www.setgam...

You can play a variant of Set in a single color (which the rules suggest is easier -- but it's also more feasible for color-blind players).
> So you basically want candidates to duplicate what they already said (should have said) in e-mail with application? What for?

If you send an email with your CV attached that says something about why you're applying, then that email is the cover letter.

> Again, what do you expect in the cover letter?

It's just a sample of your business writing. I want you to write a simple, professional-sounding email explaining who you are and why you're interested because I want to know if you can write a simple, professional-sounding email.
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Sharing this for its practicality for programmers like myself who have inner struggles.

Robina Courtin is a Buddhist nun.
> in 20 years there are simply no jobs available to 60% of the population

Said people in the early 1800s. And early 1900s. Look, it's just not gonna happen. Jobs will change, but there will always be work for those willing to do it. You may not like the job - hell, you may not like your current job either - or it may be a better job than any that exists today.

Look around you, how many of the jobs you see people doing in your office existed 100 years ago? How about 50? 20?
$2-3 Trillion dollars in new taxes in the US.
That is surprising. If you have been homeless all your life, you probably have had more than one experience in which your stuff was taken or you were even attacked, for instance when sleeping at night. You would think that a key to door that you can lock to protect Your Stuff would be like a magic talisman to you.
Variants exist on the web as well, e.g., http://thebreretons.com/trifecta/
Healthcare can be universally provided via BI w/o having single payer government universal healthcare. Individuals can choose (not) to buy health insurance with their BI payments. Thus getting coverage or not as they see fit. Its a bit of a gamble because it turns everyone into an actuarial (do i feel lucky this year? should i buy insurance? Am I higher or lower risk than the cost of insurance?) .. But, it also allows market forces to drive down the cost of insurance and healthcare provision.
> why is Symantec still included in common roots?

Because they (and the companies they own, like Verisign), are the root of about 30-40% of all active, web-visible ssl certs at the moment.

No browser maker, even Google is going to break that much of the web over one shady intermediate cert. The consequences for users are too high and too many people are willing to excuse it because it's "only" a pathlen=0 and it would be noticed if used en masse so it's "only" useful for targeted attacks by state-actor clients.
Use the right tool for the right job. This includes picking the correct language and the correct patterns for that langauge. Of course Ruby's patterns that take advantage of metaprogramming don't work in Java. But Java has a very mature Web library, Spring. It uses heavily uses dependency injection. I find DI to be a nightmare in dynamic languages like Ruby or JS but works great in Java.

We need good languages and good libraries. Just as we need good math and good physics in mechanical engineering. They exist at different layers and are not exclusive.
> 80% of all Jobs in the western world are already bullshit jobs, that can be eliminated without any disadvantage.

Any disadvantage to whom?
Exactly. What is also missing from the post on this test is any sense of if/how they plan on addressing this piece of the puzzle as it seems a rather large one. When your experiment group is small, it simply won't cause a big enough impact at a macro level to move the inflation needle, but that is what many predict would happen.

How can we measure that or get any sense of how realistic that outcome is before a large scale program goes into effect? Don't get me wrong, you have to start somewhere, so I commend this effort, but I have yet to see a good proposal for how to test and deal with this.
Is the android app available for download anywhere?
Same thing that happens now when you use all your SNAP benefits in the first week of the month.
Something that you can get if you have no income can't be a "tax credit". Tax credits are usually non-refundable: they reduce your tax, but not below zero.
The original 1 hp self driving vehicles.

They too were saddled with drunks and had to know the correct way home without direction.
Looks like he was bought in as part of the Dapper acquisition: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesberiker
Fantastic work - this is a great portfolio.

> Really need to change provider

It's more to do with the Wordpress theme that you're using. Hitchcock loads full resolution images for each portfolio item, rather than providing a smaller and more sensible thumbnail.

Consequently you're getting a home page that is 90mb in size.

If you have any web developer friends you can probably get this fixed for the cost of some beer.
Regarding inflation of prices - if feeding everyone leads to inflation of prices then in principle we can't feed everyone. That says more about resources than it does BI, if I understand you correctly. I think if we were to do this, we would need the capital and infrastructure to handle the increased demand, maybe outside the traditional economic system so that prices didn't increase so much.
Agreed. Right-leaning libertarians strongly value the non-aggression principle. If the BI is to be funded via coercive means (e.g. income tax) it is morally impermissible and utterly incompatible.

However I don't doubt that some will accept it on a pragmatic basis, with the hope or expectation that it will lead to an overall reduction in violations of the NAP.
> Not having kids is an extremely common option that's growing in popularity. It's also incompatible with the modern welfare state as currently structured.

I've wondered whether we might be seeing a new division of labor emerging: An increasing number of educated professionals elect to have few or none of the kids needed for the next generation of workers, while some lower-income people take up the slack by having lots of kids. This might actually be a sustainable social model, but it would require two things: (1) "Talent," however you choose to define that, needs to appear in sufficient numbers of children born to low-income parents and not just in children born to educated professionals --- my guess is that this is indeed the case; (2) crucially, society must be able to provide the infrastructure needed to raise children to productive citizenship, especially when some of these children are being raised by parents who don't personally have access to the necessary financial- and other resources --- and that's very much only a partially-solved problem.
Indeed; if people feel more secure, they can ditch their job and find a better one, perhaps while improving their skills. A basic income could be a lubricant for people to improve their lives.
and with BI can 1) afford education which is related to lower childbirth and 2) wont worry so much about retirement, also correlated with lower child birth.
> Java 8 lambda expressions are merely syntactic sugar for creating an equivalent AIC instance

I think that's a decent way to explain java's lambda expressions to developers without fp experience, but it's not technically correct. Lambda expressions are compiled into static methods in the class file.

/pedantic
This article rambles a bit and seems a little thin.

There's a lot on the accusation side to spin up uncertainty and doubt about the school, but I was expecting some hard hitting evidence behind the story outside of the line items on their 990.
Really late response, but it'll gas/brake on its own and will steer back to the center of the lane if you go past a configurable margin.

Gas/brake is meant to be "foot off pedals." You set a desired speed, and it'll go the lesser of that or the speed of the car you're following, and follow at a configurable distance otherwise. It's very, very, VERY nice for Bay Area commuting.

The only real needs to pay attention are A) if a car cuts you off and then slams brakes, B) the car in front of you locks brakes up or swerves out of the way last minute with something in front of it, or C) you're booking it at freeway speeds and come up on stopped traffic. In all three cases an alarm sounds telling you to brake, but if you don't want to to be an emergency you'll be looking out for at least C) so you can take over the slowing down before that alarm could go off. Hopefully the sensors get longer range in the future.

The lane-keeping is meant to only be an assist, though, and would leave you pinballing from one side to the other (or getting stuck on the side that's downhill from the crown) as you hit the margin and it pushes you back center. It'd also get you through a gentle curve the same way. You can go hands free with good alignment and tolerance for looking like you're driving drunk but I wouldn't recommend it. Eventually an alarm will sound if you're fully hands off the wheel.

Worth noting Tesla's system isn't much different there, though, aside from that it'll hold center of the lane and won't pinball. You're still expected to keep your hands on the wheel, and it has a similar alarm that goes off if you don't.

Don't get me wrong--their system is ultimately more advanced, with speed limit sign reading and a bunch of other cool tricks. But it's still meant to be a hands-on assist and isn't sold that way.

Edit: to be clear, I'm just describing adaptive cruise control above, and there's nothing particularly special about that. For all intents and purposes, the only difference with autopilot is the active steering for lane-keeping, even if it is smarter under the hood. It seems to be have the same limitations otherwise judging by their manual disclaimers.
I was being sarcastic. I didn't think I needed the "/s" but apparently I was wrong.
>The goals of GamerGate are pretty much to terrorize women.

Which is bizarre as the only doxing/death threats/rape threats/threats against family/threats against woman/bomb threats I've seen occur in GamerGate either came from those who oppose it within their little media circle clique who have an utter distaste for their audience [0] or happens to women who support #GamerGate [1].

Not to mention they've tried to fake harassment against themselves several times and have been caught red handed doing so.

>Remember, it started as a campaign to put the fear of God in Zoë Quinn.

Since when is "#FiveGuysBurgersAndFries" equivalent to "#GamerGate"? The collusion that happened so quickly after 5 guys is what led to GamerGate as everyone realized the media was in the pits together. It was definitely a catalyst for but was never the focus of. The only time I heard mention of Zoe since at least Oct. 2014 is when the paid-for Twitter spambots spam whatever WashPo article was just written about her.

Most of the people I see against #GG have little to no understanding of what it is about other than what has been parroted by the media (lol) or the Wiki article (which was hounded so hard by the clique members against #GG that some had to be banned from editing the page for doing literally hundreds of edits to bias the page. It remains biased and even cites a Kotaku article - one of the companies being rammed against by #GG.

TL;DR - http://i.imgur.com/yYlbJHG.png

[0] http://i.imgur.com/LK3NieU.png

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2tbbkg/a_fi...
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Relocating doesn't seem very easy if you're on the short end of the cash spectrum.
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> why can't sqlite just scale for me.

Because it's not a client/server implementation, it's a single embedded library, and because part of the requirements were to use a single data file. Therefore, each process (all completely independent) accessing that file:

-needs to lock the entire file (rather than tables/rows)

-needs to flush and close the file after each write

-cannot prioritize I/O across processes, one file open the file, read or write, close the file (as opposed to do all the writes at once for example)

-cannot cache very effectively, every time a process writes, all the other processes have to re-load the file

etc...
Amazon SES Verification Email Flagged as Spam
I've decided to move an email campaign over to Amazon SES to save on some overhead. During the "verify email" process, I kept checking my inbox over and over again for the email to come through. After hitting resend 3 times, I decided to log into the web client and found the 3 verification emails in the spam folder.

Is this an issue with my set up or something that just happens sometimes? I was under the impression SES uses professional grade IPs that have fairly good rep among ISPs. This certainly doesn't leave a good first impression.

http://i.imgur.com/CuJmuTj.png

Note: I'm using zoho mail to receive inbound mail.
That's a really good, illustrative example. It seems true that, given a single hour, you're "destroying" the value of the individual's leisure. However, the individual wouldn't have to work away all their leisure time, would they? Assuming a living wage, they would still have the opportunity for leisure.

Also, I would imagine that the world is big enough to get a job at company involved with a topic you're at least mildly interested in. I wonder if subsidized wages would better support art studios?
I disagree. I think it's more likely that we're still using programs designed for a different era.

For example, food stamps (SNAP) were made permanent in 1964 as one of the great society programs. WIC came a few years later. I suspect - but have not researched - that you will find this is true for a lot of current welfare programs.

There may be people in power making bad decisions about administering these programs, but I don't believe they were designed to ensnare.
Newly issued fiat currency is an incentive to keep more money in circulation for goods and services.

You could just as easily make the argument that in a near-zero inflation economy, people who are ardent savers are also thieves of economic mobility, because they keep the vast majority of money out of circulation, which stifles economic activity (making it not just a zero-sum game, but actually a negative-sum game)

I mean, you have complete freedom of speech, so you can call an apple an orange for all I care, but labeling things like inflation as theft (and generally people like you also call taxes theft) just doesn't serve your argument and betrays a complete misunderstanding of basic economics beyond supply/demand.

Issuing fiat currency is a monetary policy tool, no more no less. It can be harmful or useful depending on the context it is used.

Assigning terms with a moral imperative like "theft" to a tool is alike to assigning the word "murder" to anything that can be used as a weapon.
In consumption-based positional goods, rents will always go up by whatever the basic income is. Because people are entering a zero-sum rat race for status. That's irrelevant to whether it's doled out as BI or as housing voucher.

But in normal markets, people will still try to supply the good at the lowest cost and consumers will still try to gain it at the lowest price, and the market will find some midpoint.

Moreover, if you can't make "universal housing vouchers" work, how are you going to make "universal basic income" work? The former is a much simpler problem.
Pretty impressive that he managed to find people who joined MySpace in 2008. Unicorns!