skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If everyone is given money for a specific product and suppliers are universally aware of exactly how much people can spend on that product then, yes, that can happen.

However, under UBI, I think suppliers of goods and services would still be faced with the basic issue of not knowing exactly how much consumers value any given product and competition would still exist so prices would likely still be set by supply vs demand.
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As long as I'm being cranky, let's talk about Scala/Java build tools, as well.

Curse the fool who invented "Ant", rather than figuring out how to parse a Makefile and provide a few rules or pre-set-variables to support DOS/Windows, Java compilation and such (e.g. - in a Java program to interpret a Makefile and avoid running external processes for steps that were defined as doable in the JVM). Now we have a generation raised on XML who thinks that extending a build requires creation of "Ant tasks", "Maven plugins" or similar rigor-morale.
You missed the part about people under 21, that should cut off another ~25% from your estimate. Medicare + Medicaid + Social Security is well over 2 billion, so I think it's pretty close.
Would it be free speech to write "go kill person x"? I think it isn't? So if the brackets are code for something illegal, why would it be legal to use them? (I'm not saying they should be illegal, as I am not 100% sure what they mean, but perhaps it should be investigated).
I was in the middle of writing a similar comment to OP but I think his point was that on HN, even if someone has a reprehensible view, like those you've outlined, we will debate (or ignore), we may get angry, but we will not harass them or dox them or do anything stupid. We will not set a mob of Twitter followers on them. We will debate or ignore and move on. And I suppose it's good that someone with one of those views feels comfortable enough to voice it here as we are given the opportunity to change their mind through rational discussion. On Twitter they'll either be too scared to discuss it (no opportunity for us to change their opinion) or they'll bring it up, face the mob, and likely their belief will become hardened.
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Depends, of course, who you are and what you're doing.

Ryanair isn't going to get any value out of Big Data techniques, because Ryanair doesn't have big data. If you took every single piece of data that Ryanair has ever collected from every one of its millions of customers and flights in its thirty-year history... it'd probably all still fit on a laptop hard drive. Airlines as a rule just don't produce that much data -- I'd imagine it's in the kilobytes per passenger-flight.

It's silly to try to apply big-data techniques when your data isn't all that big, and even sillier to go around calling your modest-sized data science problems "Big Data" just because you think it sounds cool.
"Ja" is the informal rural equivalent of "Ka", which is used here as an acknowledgement. "Ja" may have been interpreted as improper in this context, as it is not formal.

Language is something different to Thais - the West does not really have an equivalent, which probably makes this confusing to some. For instance, royalty in Thailand have a whole unique language that they, and their servants, converse in (Ra-cha sap). The only thing I can think of that's even close is the use of Latin in Catholic churches.
I tune cars as as as a hobby. My current setup is based around windows xp due to driver supports (technically an embedded application). My plan was to upgrade to a windows 8 machine and emulate an xp install. But I'm not going to anymore. I tune while driving and it could be catastrophic to have the machine install updates. I'll continue with the air gapped xp machine. Too bad because I was looking forward to not using a machine that was a hundred years old.
What are the control mechanisms that prevent (which?) runaway process?
Danish can be pretty terribly actually. Around here people say Danish is not a language but an impediment ( and I fully expect them to laugh at Norwegians too. Norwegians are spoiled brats for a start ;-)
Excellent book. Also banned in Thailand.
In difficult times people stop spending money, even with UBI. This means less income to spread around, the solution, print more money = inflation.

Second, under UBI a proportion of the population stops working and this increases over time as robots replace workers. Reducing earned income, lowering UBI cash availability. Solution? Print more money = inflation.

With a land value tax you get a known relatively unchanging set amount of $ based on land value. Balancing the inflation/deflation curve.
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I'm aware of the distinction, I was just using OP's terminology.I was talking about negative externalities to other people/society so hopefully it's clear what I meant. Thanks for the correction though.
Previously we could make the choice between stable or evergreen. That choice is disappearing...
I preferred HN in the time when you had never published a comment.
Self-censorship is the greatest danger. The internet tends to make our statements permanent (or capable of a permanence we cannot control). Most intelligent people will not want to spend the remainder of their lives defending and explaining something they said which they may or may not believe in any longer or which is taken out of context or which may later become actually dangerous to their livelihood, their family and so on.

Even for people that are relatively non-conformist this places a much higher burden on controversial speech. In other words it costs more to say something controversial. Therefore, less people say it. Therefore the pool of people capable of hearing it and repeating it shrinks.

The internet I think, therefore, does by its nature (at present) ensure greater homogeneity of thought, despite the fact that it has vastly increased the overall space and speed of discourse.

I don't see any obvious solution, except more individuals accepting the burden of saying things they know will cause them difficulty. At the same time those individuals must also lend an ear to the ideas they least like to hear.

Which, let's face it, sounds like a dreary pain in the ass.
I guess apartments in San Fransisco already cost more than what someone living off basic income could afford, so the prices should not be driven up at all. Indeed, people living there would presumably get a net reduction in income (from tax increases to pay for the BI), so the prices should go down.
Vulgar as the attack site is, I am really getting quite tired of the go-to "she lies" stuff we see all over the Internet. Proper etiquette should be to not comment at all on such situations if you "side" with either party, but particularly the accused. At least until whatever investigations there are have concluded. I get so sick of how every tech site has dozens of comments when things like this happen, all of them stating that the victims are liars, or strongly insinuating it. How often do we find out that multiple parties accusing a single person of sexual assault were wrong?

Let's be fair here, defending the accused inherently means you're calling the victim(s) liars, especially this early in the event cycle. You're immediately assuming the accusers are lying for personal gain. You're being biased.

When it's a simple "he said, she said," fine, argue over character if you must. When it's just two parties involved, it can be quite messy and hard to untangle. But when we have these cases where multiple people are accusing the same person of the same thing, just keep your damn trap shut. It's disgusting how our society treats this type of thing as a subject for public debate. This is between the folks involved and the respective legal agencies involved, and nothing is helped by people subtley saying "stupid ladies, they lie about man."

Bringing this kind of accusation public takes courage. I don't see anyone leaping to defend Nest's CEO for his alleged instances of abuse. No one on HN has commented that people accusing Tony of being a jerk are just character assassins. I'd imagine plenty of people have axes to grind against Tony and Jake both, but when someone comes forward to make an accusation against the CEO, no one even argues against it. The ladies (and some men) however, are expected to provide evidence, pictures, videos, statements, DNA tests, rape kits, etc.

You can defend Jake and think whatever you want, but let's refrain from insinuating that multiple parties are lying about a single party. If this were a consensus algorithm, Jake's data would be overwritten, folks. Cosby's the same way: do you really think 40+ women are just lying to get attention?

That all said, yes the site with the stories is ham-fisted. That doesn't make every accusation everywhere false. It just means some people are very upset at Jake.
That's when you upgrade. There's no reason to stay on an older iOS.
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What difference is there between this and other nonprofits like ACLU or HRC? I'm genuinely interested, not claiming to know. My understanding that donations to any nonprofit are not taxable.
>No one publically speaking about it

Re-read The Tor Project's statement before you start throwing out wild conspiracy theories, seriously. As they say

"We have been working with a legal firm that specializes in employment issues including sexual misconduct. They are advising us on how to handle this, and we intend to follow their advice."

And a big part of that legal advice (any competent attorney's advice) for something of this nature will boil down to "Please oh please shut up until it's all over and done with, and think carefully about saying anything even then." The accusations at least are extremely serious, criminal felony serious, and at that point publicly speaking much about it except maybe when thorough vetted by a lawyer is usually going to be an exceptionally poor idea, and that's true regardless of the truth of the accusations or defense (assuming that is even clear cut or uniform). They owe an acknowledgement to their community and team, and a clear statement of principles, which they've done with their public statement.

But anything much more then that at this point is effectively certain to be at best partially correct, at worst outright mistaken, with endless potential for legally shooting themselves in the gut and/or, ignoring law entirely, burning bridges and hurting important team members down the road. The wheels will and should turn consistently, but with deliberation and care as well. It's always possible to say more later, and should there be a criminal and/or civil trial then of course much would come out there, but what one says cannot be unsaid, so when in doubt silence is best. That's true in general, let alone with a sensitive, targeted and specialized project like Tor.
The proof is trivial
I looked him up also. He spoke at Google IO a few years ago. I can't tell if he worked at Google, but he also wrote some posts on their Geo Dev blog. So he could biased toward Google too.

Anyway, I read the post twice (it was good) and had trouble even finding bias. It reads more like a lab report than an opinion piece and he had criticisms of both maps.

Kinda can't believe he even worked on apple maps. The post was surprisingly fair.
If you read the article, the BI being proposed would drop off after you began earning more than $30k and the drop would stop at $60k in earned income. I imagine a rather high percentage of people living in San Francisco already earn well above $60k annually.
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I keep seeing reports like this, but it is so VERY NOT TRUE for me. I've met so many wonderful True Friends online. Why don't we get equal respect for connecting in cyberspace?
Yes, if you list only the downsides it sounds like a bad idea.
Agreed—doxxing or otherwise harassing someone just for posting a certain opinion is extremely illiberal.
I can and do doubt that.
I worry that the small studies and surveys tell us nothing about the real dangers - from interaction and scale effects in a complex system.
I call shenanigans for two reasons:

1) you can never assume a recipient ever has their phone on, with them and in a non-silent mode
2) users can disable push notifications for individual apps anyway
I tend to avoid `set -e`. To borrow the Python adage: "explicit is better than implicit". In shell it translates to "if you need error handling, add it where necessary".

See http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105 for some (most) of the pitfalls.
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XMPP is great, NOT a JSON hellhole, and has its own implementation of Axolotl for private messaging: https://conversations.im/omemo/

And Conversations is pretty great too. etc...
I hate this argument and it illicits an emotional response, I will try and be measured in my response, usually this argument takes the form of "innocent until proven guilty".

I have sat as a member of the jury on a case in which a man was accused of sexually abusing a child many, many times. I sat in that jury, I listened to the evidence and I determined beyond reasonable doubt that the accused was guilty. He is a rapist. As a member of the jury, that is my determination, I stand by that decision to this day.

I was unfortunate enough to sit on a jury with a majority of jurors that made the determination that he was not guilty beyond reasonable doubt, and unfortunately that caused a mistrial, and unfortunately the prosecution decided not to pursue a retrial. The accused, the rapist, walked free from court.

Your argument is that I cannot stand by my determination, that I must sit here and tell you that he is not a rapist, that he did not abuse that child again and again and again, because I was unfortunate enough to sit in a room with people who don't understand sexual abuse.

People walk free from court, either by way of a mistrial or because the jury deliver a not guilty verdict, all the time, and these results are frequently delivered not because the person is innocent but because of errors made by the jury, the prosecution or by the police. Some people don't even make it to court because prosecutors can make decisions that aren't aligned with justice or fairness but with their own self interest.

As a private citizen you have every right to use your knowledge and understanding of a case to make a determination about the accused and you have every right to let that determination influence your actions. I will never allow the man I judged to be a rapist go near my children.

It is morally impossible to remain neutral in this conflict.
The bystander is forced to take sides.

It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator.
All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing.
He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear and speak
no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander
to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action,
engagement and remembering...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/542700.Trauma_and_Recove... [transcribed from this book]

edit: I would also like to add that courts do not deal in proof, they deal in evidence. A guilty verdict delivered if Jacob Applebaum faces criminal charges does not prove he is guilty of what he has been accused, a not guilty verdict delivered if Jacob Applebaum faces criminal charges does not he is innocent of what he has been accused. The justice system does not deal in absolutes, it doesn't deal in proof.
Of course not other apps. I'm talking about the facebook app itself. When you start typing text, it is presumably reading the delay between every keystroke and all your deletes. However, on the non-js html site, it only can get the text after you submit.
https://chat.18f.gov/?channel=devops-public, actually. EDIT: Gaaah, sorry, down right now for reasons. Will post here again when it's back up. Sorry!
messenger.com is for desktop only. On mobile, the Facebook Messenger app is standalone -- you don't need the Facebook app to use it.
Can anyone explain what planets would have to align for a UBI to replace all of these programs?
If they didn't peer with anyone they'd be a closed network and it would be illegal to advertise that as "internet access".

They're legally required to live up to the claims of their product. If they say X Mbit/s then there needs to be at least a plausible case made that they can achieve those results. Anything significantly less is to invite a class-action lawsuit.
There are many things thought, false or true, and they DO matter because they are thought and will influence our future.

A person who believes we live in a simulation might think that the goal of the simulation is to solve some puzzle. That person might dedicate his life to solving a riddle with much more energy than if he would have different beliefs.

It also seems a bit premature to throw away a philosophy without exploring it. Just one idea: "Would a strong AI have the same thought? Would it try to break out its perceived simulator? How would it then behave towards us?"
I've used a Scala S3 library that overloaded + to mean upload.
That's not a UBI scheme. That's just welfare.
An evil person could do many things, like target ethnic groups based on their genetic haplogroup with an infection similar to the one currently being tested to eliminate mosquitoes, making all of their ancestors infertile in a few generations without their knowledge. In the future we could see something similar to the arms race, a sort of cyborg race with governments rushing to come up with way to make cryptographic DNA or mind transfers to protect their citizens from genetic terrorists.
FaceSlim has figured out a way to bypass this restriction:

http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/03/facebook-is-disabling-messa...
> Don't several medical lobbying groups actively coerce the government to limit the number of new doctors that can be minted, both overall and in given areas of practice?

Not really. The AMA is often blamed for limiting the number of medical school slots available, but they have nothing to do with that - it's capped by the AAMC, which has been very deliberately raising the number of medical school positions in the US for over a decade now.

But even if that cap were lifted altogether, the number of practicing physicians would be completely unaffected, because we already have more MDs than we have residency slots available. Increasing residency programs would require funding, and currently Medicare is the source of funds for residency programs. Hospitals would typically make a loss on residency programs otherwise; contrary to what some people believe, they're actually quite expensive to operate.
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The way we operate is that agencies come to us to do projects (or we initiate shared services like cloud.gov), so we don't exactly get to pick anything we want. That being said, there is a lot of freedom within the projects we have to work on things that interest you.
Creating new things is sometimes the only or most efficient way of experimenting with new ideas, features and techniques. And if they're really good, other libraries or frameworks can consider implementing them. The beauty of open source.
Just to be pedantic, there is no such thing as Axolotl. Olm is a new protocol, different from Signal Protocol, that uses the double ratchet internally for part of its function. However, they've made other design decisions that are different from Signal Protocol and may have received less study or scrutiny at this point.

We renamed the Axolotl Protocol and the Axolotl Ratchet because of the confusion between the two (https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal-inside-and-out/), particularly when people just used the word "Axolotl."

Often when people intentionally continue to use the word "Axolotl" now, it's because they're trying to benefit from that confusion. Olm, however, has been clear about being a different protocol.
Chances are, by 2025, you can buy a hydrogen car if EV doesn't get you far enough. That being said. EV should get you pretty far in 2025.
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Perhaps there've been older stone-carved writings found.

Stating "non-ballpoint" might be technically true, but it implies that you're saying that older ballpoint-based writing instruments have been found that you wish to exclude, or that there's something unusual about non-ballpoint writing instruments.
That caused much interest in Germany. All parties agree the law (§ 103 StGB, to insult a foreign head of state) is outdated and needs to go. Removing it won't be fast-tracked, at the same time the case again the comedian Mr Böhmermann will surely be slow-tracked by the investigators. Chancellor Merkel, after pressure from Turkey, followed the law though she had the right to overturn it (§ 104a StGB). Anyway, once removed a judge in Germany can check what the law said when the case was opened vs the current state of the law and use the milder one (§ 2 StGB). I expect the comedian will be fine.

Other comedians and newspapers supported him, there was even a song "sue me as well", the Germans in general see the whole affair as a joke.

Last week the German parliament officially recognized the genocide against the Armenians (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide) causing yet another heavy complaint from Turkey. I've read the head of Turkey is currently actively suing several hundred people.
Government censorship is what the constitution protects us from, but certainly we should resist the advocates of censorship government backed or not?
The article proposes that we replace welfare programs, social security, etc, with this UBI. Then, at some point, it says this:

Government agencies are the worst of all mechanisms for dealing with human needs. They are necessarily bound by rules applied uniformly to people who have the same problems on paper but who will respond differently to different forms of help. Whether religious or secular, nongovernmental organization are inherently better able to tailor their services to local conditions and individual cases.

I find it ironic that this individual is for the so called UBI.
No.

You're basically saying that there's no evidence that it's a coordinated campaign (really, the fact that it was talked about on Twitter isn't evidence of anything at all), and that lack of evidence is why it has to be a coordinated campaign. Which is a logical fallacy at best.

EDIT: that wasn't quite what I meant. There's some evidence that somebody is coordinating it. There's no evidence that it's a hostile government. The evidence suggests that the coordinator is somebody who feels that they were sexually harassed.
Clojure is designed to be a practical language. Part of that is interop with the host VM (JVM in Clojure's case). The "crappy" stack traces are definitely NOT crappy when you're using Clojure in a complex JVM ecosystem. The raw-ness and simplicity of it is actually refreshing. The Clojure Java source is remarkably simple, and it doesn't take much time to get used to and appreciate the Java stack traces when writing non-trivial Clojure code in a Java world.
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Seems like the median income is about 77k:

> .. Our own San Francisco Association of Realtors says that the city’s median household income is a mere $77,700

http://sf.curbed.com/2016/2/23/11101182/11-percent-of-househ...
Btw, this post seems to getting punished by the HN algorithm. 163 points in 2 hours and it's already dropping out of front page. I feel like I should speak out about this.