skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for MOST BI fans, but I can tell you my own answer to that question.

I believe that (like the rest of the world, but NOT the US) medical care ought to be provided to all, so I'd take medical emergencies off the table.

I also think it is important that there not be a way to confiscate one's basic income for the repayment of a debt -- everyone gets to keep their basic income no matter what.

Furthermore, we need to continue (as we do today) to allow governments to run programs intended to keep the price of food and housing low, like zoning laws requiring developers to produce a certain amount of low-income housing. We also need to continue to provide government sponsored care for those incapable of caring for themselves (for instance, those who need institutional care due to severe mental or physical handicaps).

And after that, if we create a basic income that is sufficient to cover basic living expenses, I think we DO get to eliminate much government aid for poverty. Eliminate unemployment insurance (or rather, the mandate to provide it). Eliminate aid to the poor. Eliminate social security. Eliminate a minimum wage.

You ask "what do you do when someone on BI has a financial emergency or, as will happen with some regularity, just flat-out blows all their money and now can't afford rent and/or food"? I think that yes, you DO tell them that. You example is someone who says "my car broke down" and I think we, as a society, could leave that person stranded without their own automobile. (Today I know of no government programs to help people whose cars have broken down, so I'm pretty sure we can all agree to live with that.)
People on Twitter and Facebook have already had temp bans for supporting Trump. That's no defense of Trump, but the minor things I've seen them being labeled as against Twitter/Facebook policy have been very minor. It's worrying to me as a free speech absolutist.
True, it does depend on the language... C#, for example is limited to Namespaces and Classes, you can't write a simple function without a lot of wrapper... partial & static classes help, but it's not the same.

Though, I will say writing tests against and with a dynamic language tends to be far easier when things are written with modularity in mind.
Sad but true. "Removing hate speech" is a codeword for "removing right wing ideas".
That could be interesting, eye tracking is often expensive and can require a "just-right" type of setting. Reducing that barrier can be huge for many.

I think outside of a single solution like eye-tracking there's a lot of room for a device like this to be much more adaptable to a broad range of conditions. There's so much variation of how physical symptoms can present, even within a single disease, that it can be really difficult (and expensive) to customize hardware for an individual... and degenerative diseases can take constant readjustment and new hardware.

The hardware barrier seems endlessly frustrating — you have an off-the-shelf device like a joystick/keyboard/mouse that was originally designed for hands, being used by feet and with mouths...

...a good example of hardware reduction making a meaningful impact was the advent of reliable portable touchscreens — people could actually start directly touching the interface without some of the ergonomic constraints of a mouse and keyboard. You can reliably surf the web on an iPad using your nose. Imagine trying to do the same with an off-the-shelf joystick or mouse.
Clearly it's not an analog comparison, I never said it was.

I wrote my comment because online advertising is a murky and often slimy place.

Facebook & Google are the world's two largest online advertising companies - they sell and influence your attention for a living.

Google now spends more money lobbying the government than any other corporation (1) including GE, Exxon, etc, etc.

Depending on Apple's stock performance Google is either the #1 or #2 most valuable company in the WORLD.

Facebook is not far behind in either category.

Companies, like people, are more complex than the shiny, white-washed PR version.

The 50onRed story is about a cockroach who will live & die quickly, like a million other cockroaches.

I am less interested in the cockroach and more interested in the elephant given it's weight and past propensity for bad behavior.

(1) http://www.dailydot.com/politics/google-political-lobbying-s...
Rentier classes clearly do live without work, it's largely a question of how large of a population can live without working. If the fundamental tension in Marxist theory is real, then one could argue that a UBI is insurance against a populist uprising demanding a living wage.

Religion might have been the opiate of the masses in the past, but if price stability with a dole is feasible then I can guarantee you there's going to be a significant share of the population who wants to do nothing but sit around and engage in idle socializing, sports, or art.

Provided that there's also still a differential for working, then people will still chase after prestige but not be threatened by destitution if they choose a sub-optimal career path.
I think the idea is that clicking on the button is less likely to change suddenly than whatever protocol they're running on top of AJAX.

In my experience internal layout changes seem to happen way more often than changes to the AJAX handlers.
This could be done using

script

as well.
In other words, can you really have BI without universal health care?
Which isn't actually a solution, we still need to connect people to those jobs somehow. Many people live in areas where those jobs simply aren't available. I drive through those towns all the time. There's insufficient money invested in the area in other businesses to offer a middle class that can support a lower class making minimum wage.

These people need to move, which is a non-trivial cost. There's no guarantee they'll get a job when they go to, say, Atlanta. And they'll be paying more in rent or living in even worse living conditions (crammed into small apartments with more people). They'd be giving up their connections to family and friends and a community that they've been a part of.

The problem of poverty will only be solved when no one is in poverty for any reason but choice. Calling it solved because technically there may be enough minimum wage jobs for everyone is the same as saying hunger is solved because technically there's enough food for everyone.
I want one of these in my glass so my desktop computer would put the focus on the screen I'm looking.
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If you could send me an email (in my profile) I'd love to get a comment on my ideas about the relationship between functional and OO.

Or you can post your own email and I will write you.
> The logical extension of that is a justification for current, smaller players building new "hills of skulls" in their quest to build their own new nation.

Maybe you can explain this logical extension, because I don't see it. At a minimum, it's not self-evident.
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Well, considering ~40% of Americans pay no income tax, I'd say the top is paying more than their fair share?
This is roughly the starting conditions for large parts of America. The problem is that is isn't very efficient. The people who have the resources to do this generally have better options and the people for whom this would be preferable to the lives they are living have neither the knowledge or resources to do this.

There are certainly groups in the middle, farming cooperatives are still present in the area where I grew up, but those that exist do so largely for ideological reasons: family tradition or religion.
I've seen this question asked about a dozen times now on HN and nobody is even attempting to answer it.

It's all handwaving madly so the flaws in their reasoning aren't spotted. That remains my position until a good argument gets presented that isn't all over the place with logic leaps.
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> ... mental illness ...

This is hardly a "decision somebody made".
Don't forget that there's a vast number of African Americans who do not condone the use of the n word freely and for fun as it happens these days. I believe their main objection is that it takes away from the meaning and history associated with it. If we consider another N word (Nazi), then it's also use popularly but only to mean something very negative and not in the sense of "my buddy".
Pretty sure the number is significantly smaller than that. Children under the age of 18 wouldn't get money. People in prison likely wouldn't get money. I'm sure there would be other reasons to decline some people. Such as mentally disabled. (maybe parents or care giver would receive more?)

So it would probably be around 200,000,000 - 250,000,000.
Venture debt is really just a loan you can get from a bank that is "backed" by the reputation of a VC you've already raised money from. Normally the bank gets some warrants as well, but it's just a loan. And it's not accessible to companies with the $10k/mo in revenue that indie.vc looks for.
People wonder "where is the money going to come from?" On a national level it could be newly issued fiat currency, which silences the "it's theft!" argument but then raises the crucial question: what about inflation?

Well, there are two issues here:

1) If the people are freed up to learn or take jobs (I wish minimum wage would be abolished in any jurisdiction that UBI is given out) then more dollars would be chasing more goods and services, so no inflation.

2) However, if there will be more money chasing the SAME number of goods and services, we would have to remove the money from the system by taxing corporations. And this is, in fact, something that raises questions of liberty (of corporations). Corporations can choose where to operate and they often choose tax havens.

What we should really be doing is recognizing the incredible changes that are coming because of AI and its effects on automation in the next 20-30 years. Demand for human labor will fall and experience massive shocks. Wealth creation will increasingly be done by ROBOTS.

This is a GOOD THING as it breaks countries' historic dependency on social security schemes working from having more and more children pay for the elderly. That leads to overpopulation and kicks the can down the road to the children.

Instead, we want to TAX THE MACHINES by somehow measuring the productivity gains from laying people off. Not enough to disincentivize R&D but enough to scale with the UBI and remove money from the system. The machines don't really need to keep ALL the money and the argument that "taxation is theft" starts to sound silly when you are taxing profits of corporations run largely by machines.

The other way, of course, is to redistribute the money to shareholders in the public stock market via dividends. This has been the "socialism" we've had so far in this country.
The apartment complex wants to retroactively force tenants to like the complex on Facebook.
This is all the way shady.

It's times like this that I wish there was 'dislike' option to counteract bad actors like this.
For people with an income above the level where they can apply for assistance programs, what happens to them if they blow all their money? They're broke until their next paycheck. If they borrow too much and can't pay it off, they declare bankruptcy.

BI isn't a one-time payment. Presumably people would get checks every other week or every month like a paycheck. If they blow it all, worst case they will be stuck for a couple weeks. Not long enough for an eviction to go through or to starve to death. After being hungry for a couple weeks, they should figure out pretty quickly that they need to buy groceries before lottery tickets.
I've never seen Snapchat, but that description seems to contradict the sibling saying it can be text only too.
244 atoms is big for physical chemistry, but tiny for biochemistry. A typical amino acid has about 20 atoms, and the line between "peptide" and "protein" is usually drawn around 50 amino acids, i.e. 1000 atoms.
The percent of all income taxes paid by the wealthy has gone up over time, not down.

As mention before on HN, yes rates were higher a while ago, but so were deductions. Nobody actually paid a 90% marginal rate.
It's a conversation-demolishing verbal tic, along with incantations about causation and correlation, straw people, ad homunculi and the like. Avoiding these helps conversations stay conversations rather than tedious protocol.
why not own part of one. of course I think the world will reorganize into 3 markets managed by blockchains/oracles: equipment rental, labor/services market, attention market.
We believe transparency is crucial to the integrity of the research, and we’ll be sharing our research design and data analysis plan for the full study ahead of time. We will also share the data with other researchers. As for the success of the pilot, we’ll consider several metrics, including success of mechanics (payment, data collection mechanisms, etc.); whether the amount of money is sufficient to meet basic needs; and, through interviews with participants, whether the research design is likely to offer insight into how individuals would experience and respond to a basic income.
There are plenty of people who do work but still can't cover their basic needs reliably (minimum wage isn't nearly enough in big cities but cities still need the jobs that pay minimum wage) and then people who can't work (infirmity or lack of skills).

Why should money just accumulate at the top where it's marginal utility is vastly smaller than if it were in the hands of the bottom portion of our population?

Finally why should work be the measure of a person's worth to the point of denying basic survival if you don't?
So 3d models (like https://nizuvault.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/gavr-ship-rend...)?
It doesn't matter that you can find it, but that the name is obviously in wide use as a trademark in the technology space.

Intel.js or the.js would be just as easy to find, yet that's not the issue here.
You could start a topic on HN for example.
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with El Capitan, my bash history isn't logged, with each fresh session letting me know Permission Denied on creating ~/.bash_history. The internet searching tells me to disable csrutil which I did, to no effect.

:-[
Christensen’s theory is descriptive, not prescriptive. It names a process but does not tell you how to generate that process

Something similar has been said of Marxism, in that it's an interesting way to think about what has come before, but has no grounding when it tries to talk about what should happen in the future.
William Gibson articulated some of the metaphors and mental imagery that became a significant way that non-technical people came to understand computing and the internet in the 1990s.
> This is what having consistent interfaces is for. Keep
> your interface consistent, not your implementation.

I have to disagree. If the underlying library used has changed, then the code which uses the library has to be revalidated. You cannot assume it simply continues to work - to do so is to fully rely on the library provider getting it right, introducing no bugs, or anything unexpected. This is not viable for serious projects.

The and the ONLY way in which existing code does not have to be revalidated is if it is completely and wholly unchanged.

> Which begs the question why you included immature implementations in your library.

There's nothing immature about them, and I don't know why you are saying there is. They were written about a year ago and writing them means also writing their test suite, which they pass.

The choices you disagree with in the library seem to be being taken to justify the charge of "code immaturity". Those choices may be right, or they may be wrong, and so could potentially be mistakes, but this is an entirely different matter to maturity.

> There are working examples (ConcurrencyKit) of lock-free data
> structures that target more architectures and more compilers, so
> "It's actually as portable as it is possible for a lock-free
> library to be." is provably false.

I was thinking of processor support, rather than compiler support. Processor support is the main part of the work - all of the code has to be written with it in mind. Compiler support is much easier; it's just a matter of porting their atomic instrinsics, which basically means writing about a dozen straightfoward macros.
In my very limited experience of these matters, there is rarely a clear line between 'bad but acceptable parenting' and 'culpable neglect'. In the UK, a recent report suggested that child services spend so much of their time chasing the former, that the latter cases (which are much more serious) don't get the attention they need. As a result, children die in horrible circumstances.

So the question is a good one, and can't be answered with 'tough shit' quite that easily.
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>what will happen when basic income inevitably raises the overall price of basic stuff because now "everyone can afford it"?

That is the kind of question that experimentation like this sets out to answer.

There are a lot of theories. My personal theory is that, in general, stuff is not going to get more expensive because of basic income. Providers know that people have more money to spend but there is also still competition between providers.

There will be places where this generality fails, no doubt. Two areas that I'd be interested in looking at are businesses that require marginal employees to provide a small amount of value and cannot raise prices to cover the increased cost of enticing employees to work for them: fast food, for example. They may have to pay more or change what kind of employees they hire or they may even get to pay less since basic needs are accounted for. Who knows. That is why experimentation is needed.

My main concern, and you may be referring to it with your 'basic stuff' category, is what will happen to rents. Landlords know that people /need/ a place to live. I would not be surprised if there is a spike in rents because they hold more power over their consumers than, say, a fruitseller whom, if they raise prices to try and capture some of that extra cash sloshing around, might find their customers just buying a muffin or going to the movies or, really, anything else that is available in the overall market.
>I just don't understand this attitude that all feedback has to be couched carefully to avoid hurting anyones feelings.

>Adults should be able to take criticism. If they can't, I have very little sympathy for them.

Again, your outlook is toxic to newcomers. Yes people should be able to handle criticism but you should be capable of crafting that criticism in a way that isn't mean spirited and rude.

I wish more projects and communities had code of conduct rules similar to the rust language: https://www.rust-lang.org/conduct.html

Which includes rules your comment would obviously violate:

Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude.
I think typedefs are almost always harmful. The explanation is longish and not directly related to the library, so I'll leave it at that.

What I will say though is that the struct already has a type, so as far as I can tell, the benefit consists of not having to type the struct keyword?

Also, the typedef in particular you've given would make it impossible to concurrently include and link multiple versions of the library (which is the purpose of having the version in the public entity names).
If you can use it, zsh does not have that issue. Plus a bunch of other goodies. It's been a while since I've last used bash.
Apartment block demands tenants give Facebook “like” within 5 days
Or maybe a some folks in Oakland?
It's a serious problem, no doubt. I would still probably vote for a meager BI because I feel it's easier to turn the knob up later than it is to get everything done at once.
The people who make under 10k outnumber the people making good money by a factor of 3-5?
Your comment is completely non sequitur. That such a thing doesn't exist today does not invalidate my point which is that there are technical solutions to this that do not rely on the platforms inserting themselves as judge of what is hate speech and what isn't hate speech.

This policy about removing hate comments didn't exist yesterday and is still not in place. By your logic it isn't a solution either and can't be discussed because it's not yet in place.
Some of that is due to the traditional monthly nature of payments and expenses, which is beyond some people's planning horizon. How do you think it would change if everything (both BI deposit and rent payment) were weekly, or even daily?
No they don't, just welfare programs.
I'd always wondered how all those Bond villains got their henchmen to work on crazy remote islands. I guess the perks were good! Just don't ask what we do ^_^
In a timely coincidence, the NYT published this about BI today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/business/economy/why-a-uni...
There is about a 1-2% performance overhead for ECC. Not that that many tasks are bound to memory I/O.
Use screen instead. Ctrl-a and "H" to enable and the same to disable. Log is saved in user directory as screen.<session>

That way I have control of when I log and what gets logged. And way easier to find than hunting for dot files.
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Chinese man arrest for naming his liquor “Eight Nine (or Brew) Six Four”
I dindn't say that.
Don't miss the video. They made a great job demonstrating the interactions with nice visualizations. You can watch it in 1.5x speed with subtitles. Very cool.
I agree with that one. It is probably worth it to deliver the money each day or at least each weekday. You could handle the food stamp microloan via and debit card that only is for small food purchases which deducts payment from future daily payments over a certain period of time.

It would also stop the amazingly timed police checkpoint on the first day of the month.

Handling the debt-collector issue is probably going to take something like a law to force payments in very small amounts until legitimate debts are paid off.
> right now in society, if you can't be on time and hold down a job, you'll go hungry and have no place to live. Basic income removes that harsh penalty, and lets people live regardless of whether they can make an appointment.

Historically, that would be an incredible luxury. (I'm interpreting "make an appointment" as a figure of speech that encompasses, e.g., sowing crops at the right time of year, harvesting when the crops are ripe, hunting when the game is afoot, etc.)
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Does anyone know how long the pilot in Oakland will be? What the number of recipients will be and how much they'll be getting?

I saw someone mention $10k a year but I'm not sure that's official. Also, does anyone know what the qualifications for candidacy will be?
Actually, under some models $8000 could be enough. A job paying that much locks you down, but if you got that much in basic income you could move somewhere for which that is enough to leave, albeit cheaply. I know there are places in rural Pennsylvania where you could get by on that. Those places don't have much for jobs to go around, but population influxes of people with lots of free time and a willingness to work a little for some spending money could change that.

On the other hand, there exists a worry that people on such an income who couldn't find additional work would keep getting pushed around to new areas as the influx develops each cheap locale.
Exactly. High level architecture as well. I don't sit down and come up with one there and then. I get a rough idea of the problem early and think about it for a few days (while I am doing other things). Piece by piece I see what will work well and what won't.