skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolute poverty is pretty much a solved problem. Homeless people are a very small percentage, and continues to fall.
This is about adblock plus and their pay to play whitelist, which looks to be many many hundreds of lines long-lmfao. Why anybody would use adblock plus is beyond me. More importantly, what newspapers consider news these days is akin to the latest youtube video or what some celebrity did or said and is not news at all. If reporting on news was even the slightest bit informative folks might actually pay to read it. Unfortunately, when all one sees today is, breaking news!, this just in!, omg how cute!, or joe blow ran from the cops in hoboken, people just don't care. In other words, yesterdays news is not news at all. The crap they call news today, as opposed to the actual hard reporting done in the 70's is long gone.
soo.. do it in COBOL?
Or fish shell! It's autocomplete is the bomb.
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Good point.

When the library was initially released, back in 2009, and until recently, it's been license-free, or at least thought to be. Recently with the addition of Dmitry's design, and a closer analysis of the possible licensing terms, the picture has become more nuanced - hence the inclusion of per-data structure information regarding licensing and what happened is of course classic computing - there's now a regression bug in the one line description of the library! Where the "license-free" term has been in the one-line description for so long, it was overlooked.

I have to figure out what to do about this now!
you turned on the Spectrum and landed on a BASIC interpreter. A device that "has leds" and you need to program using some IDE outside of the device

I think (not 100% sure though, but also see other comments and https://github.com/ntoll/microrepl) it can run micropython so that means you turn it on, run something to connect to it on the client and it drops you to a REPL. Not exactly the same principle as with the ZX but pretty close.
There's probably a significant percentage of homeless people who are homeless because they have untreated mental illnesses. They'd likely be homeless even if they weren't monetarily impoverished.
> In our pilot, the income will be unconditional; we’re going to give it to participants for the duration of the study, no matter what.

This is omitting one crucial detail: for how long will the basic income last. At least for myself, my decisions would be completely different if I was to receive unconditional income for e.g. 10 years (or less), vs. for the rest of my life.
The license is interesting but the discussion is off-topic here. I created another thread about the license: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11807463
@smt88 that's fine, but when I talk about performance I'm not talking about what a human eye can see, but rather what Google wants in terms of performance.

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When you haven't even fulfilled the bottom tier of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, I don't think that it matters whether the poverty is relative or not.
Agreed- Juliana is top-shelf.
And frankly the world is likely to be better off that way.

research have shown over and over that as economic differences grow, social structures deteriorate.
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Every nation is built on a hill of skulls. "Has done in the past" is not the same as "is currently doing".
If a country stops producing useful things, it's currency will become worthless and they will no longer be able to outsource things. Any form of retirement inherently relies on the productive capacity of subsequent generations. There is no way around that.
"support" personal and economic freedoms for all people is code for what policy, exactly? Because the word is vague on its own, and in the way in which you're using it. This sounds like a very interventionist foreign policy, otherwise what else could "support" mean, if it's at all a meaningful statement?

I also think you severely underestimate the strength of entrepreneurship as a social class, in that area of the world. It's not like they materialize out of nowhere the instant the U.S. stops propping up strongarm governments. They didn't exist in any signficant number before U.S. intervenist policies either. And by what moral authority do you draw upon to suggest that these countries should be modeling themselves off the U.S. economically in the first place?

I think the better policy is to leave them alone, in the John Quincy Adams approach to foreign policy.
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/jqadams.htm
Yes I can type. I took a 6 month typing course in 8th grade to learn how.
SQLite has it's roots in Tcl/Tk which is written in the same style. Personally I find it hard to read and sometimes it does not even look like C to me, but it is very consistent.

Although there are places in Tcl/Tk ecosystem where using LISP bracing style (ie. last line of function being " return xFoo}}}};") in C seems acceptable.
Since no one mentioned yet, the (lack of) license:

"The source code files for other SQL database engines typically begin with a comment describing your license rights to view and copy that file. The SQLite source code contains no license since it is not governed by copyright. Instead of a license, the SQLite source code offers a blessing:

May you do good and not evil

May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others

May you share freely, never taking more than you give."
Not to mention paying an extra $8 to print your own ticket.
Very cool! Please consider studying GiveDirectly's approach to evaluation (e.g. pre-registered evaluation plan and pre-analysis plan).
I think it was on NPR hourly news this morning I heard a segment where the person they interviewed, someone in the EU in Brussels, implicated 'hate-speech' in causing the terrorist attacks in Paris. I'd never heard that line of reasoning and think it sounds pretty dangerous. Came off as sort of victim blaming to me.
It's worth noting that the folks in the article reporting simulator sickness and long term disorientation are pilots, meaning they have been screened and selected for their endurance and resistance to motion sickness. On top of that, the symptoms they are reporting go well beyond seasickness. Have a look at rowanH's comment in this thread for a better idea of the effects we are talking about.

I'd certainly agree that the brain can adjust to using VR, but at what cost? If using VR means losing your depth perception and sense of balance, so that you are walking around bumping into things (or worse driving), then it's probably not going to be worth it for many people, despite how fun it might be.
What needs to be censored is all of the above incl. cnn. Problem solved.
You have to decide when you work for miltech or any dual use tech company if you are cool with it.

At my first job (hydrodynamics R&D)I was tasked with analyzing high sped files from one of our test rigs.

It was quite obvious what the rig was simulating and my office mates said oh yes thats REDACTED the Update to REDATED - I had to sit down and think how I felt about this.

I do draw the line a at Chem, Bio and Payday Loans.
Please don't egg this kind of thing on—it has predictable and unwanted results.
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-conspiracy-theor...
Quick, which represents a larger value, green or red?

Having a gradient between two colors, from dark to light, makes it easier to determine the scale. Rainbow gradients look nice, but hue transitions are nowhere near as intuitive as luminance.
We use rootsh[1] logging to syslog, which gets forwarded to a logging server, which in turn is periodically copied to a wholly separate AWS account, so that in case of breach of the main account the audit logs are intact.

[1] http://linux.die.net/man/1/rootsh
There's a big difference between taking advantage of pension tax reliefs in exactly the way a tax authority designed them to be used and creating an offshore subsidiary charging artificial royalties to exploit the tax authority's openness to actual foreign-owned businesses investing in the local area.
That's not the point. The point is that it's a pandora box.
You are arguing about specifics that do not make any difference to the overall argument the author is trying to make. UBI for 244 million is still unfeasible.

UBI is just a bad idea, jobs in themselves have nice externalities that UBI wont give. People that have jobs generally don't commit crimes. Also a UBI will disincentivize working jobs that are undesirable but are necessary for a functioning society.
That's not the case.

What you get depends only on the processor type.

What does vary is whether or not any given platform has actually been tested - i.e. the code compiled on that platform, and the test programme run.

Currently, only ARM32, MIPS32 and x64 platforms are available, and so the test programme has only been run on those platforms.

Finally, I think you may have been misled in the same way another reader further down was; note that the matrix is the matrix of toolchains which are supported out-of-the-box, i.e. where the library ships with build files for those platforms.

It is NOT the matrix of the ONLY tooclhains which can be used.
Somehow this sounds like starting with the easy case. It may well be, that people who get basic income in a pilot study behave better than people who get basic income as a right, however this seems to accentuate the benefits of basic income, so that you can at least study one half of the argument. And the complicated parts can then wait for a follow up study.
Today my mother got AD on her phone with "Android update", it was a pop-up from one of normal sites she visit. So she touched "update now" as she normally do with system messages about update... Then she confirmed, then she got 2 SMS, in one that deal was finalized. WTF? I've checked with Orange and indeed she was charged and subscription was started, 20 euro a month for some 3 shitty sms per week. They have turned this subscription off. THIS practices should be stopped. This is really a plague, I see those on my desktop and phone on regular basis, i know they are fake updates but most people don't..
"The New Black Panthers" is not even close to what would come to mind for me when I think about left-wing hate. I specifically didn't mention any of the groups that do come to mind because I have no interest in getting in to a shouting match with someone who identifies with them.

Said groups could however be characterized by a mob mentality that leads to attacking peoples livelihood, harassing peoples families, sending death threats, etc, usually driven by social media, and hopefully something we could both agree is over the top, unacceptable, and indeed openly hateful.

My comment was ridiculously measured. I didn't even pick sides in the actual topic. I definitely didn't pick sides politically. You seem to have chosen one for me, although I regret to inform you you have assumed incorrectly.

Your comment was not measured. You made it impossible to have or continue a productive conversation. If I would have been the person you apparently think I am, you would not have won me over. You would have alienated me further. But I suspect that's part of it all. Some people don't care about productive conversation. They care about being "right" in front of other people who also want to be "right".
"One reason we think it may work is that technological improvements should generate an abundance of resources."

This is already being seen in some contexts. For example, the portion of income Americans spend on food has dropped from 17.5% to 10.5% over the last 53 years. "Because of the overall rise in income, and the consistent shrinking of food prices adjusted for inflation, we actually have more disposable income than our grandparents did" [1]. It is likely that improvements in agricultural technology and food distribution have led to the 'shrinking food prices' contribution, seen in the US. This means that there is downward pressure on the actual threshold of what would constitute a basic income, and thereby supporting Sam's assertion.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/02/389578089/you...
Wouldn't the Getty quote imply that it's China and Saudi Arabia who have the problem, not the US?

I don't know about "sacrifice our industrial sector" thing, either. The US is the world's second largest exporter. Those exports just happen to be somewhat less visible since they include a lot of things outside of consumer goods. You can walk around the US and see all the Chinese-made phones and think, "China sure makes a lot of stuff." But most people won't walk around China and see all the US-made airliners and think, "The US sure makes a lot of stuff too."
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> Maybe what we need is more like the Spectrum Next? http://www.specnext.com

Yet another site that shows crap all without JS enabled...

Anyways, the Ello M2 recently popped up on my RSS reader.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/knivd/ello-2m

It seems very much in tune with the early micros.
Honestly, I think any "Basic Income" research where the recipient classes aren't 100% of the members of some well-defined polity and where the policy is explicitly a close-ended pilot is researching something so fundamentally different from Basic Income (it is well-known that close-ended benefits have a different effect on behavior) that, while there may be some useful insights that have applicability to actual Basic Income, they should be called something else.
Eh? The 500 was their most successful model, and the 1200 was the second most successful IIRC. The 600 was a mistake, it was meant to be cheaper than the 500 but ended up more expensive to produce.

If anything, the 2000 should've used a new chipset instead of being the same as the 1000, and there should've been a much bigger jump in performance on the 3000 and 4000. By offering different chipsets on the high end models and the low end models, they could have captured both the high end and low end markets. As it was, the high end models were useful for the Video Toaster and not a lot else.
Sadly, the compensation for people in technology in Toronto (which includes devs, designers, pms, etc) is less lucrative than most major metropolitan cities in the US. I wish this wasn't the case, but in my experience, I'm making more than double in New York than what I would be making in Toronto as a designer. Would love to come back to Toronto if it made financial sense.
No. Irresponsible ad networks threaten online revenue. We're only doing what we've been forced to do to make the web safer and usable.
...aaaaand whether or not your children would be receiving it, right? We make many rather large financial decisions based on our choices to procreate or not. If I didn't know if my kids were taken care of, I would probably make different decisions than if I did. There really is no way to test basic income without simply implementing it.
I don't think it's all that clear cut. Living on the street likely promotes a range of mental health problems. Though, most of this is temporary. One out of 50 children or 1.5 million children in America will be homeless each year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...
I prepared this vagrant script to easily get it up and running in a virtual machine with just a single command and then accessing it through ssh: https://github.com/carlosperate/microbit-dev-env
Hopefully other people might find it useful.
Hah. I was thinking that too. While I was reading the article, I was thinking about how I would do it. Then I read the wall of text that was the ideal solutions and thought, "wow, what the hell are coders doing these days?"
Making just over 50K as a Java Application developer right out of school.
It's 5 years. Outlined in the link below

https://blog.ycombinator.com/basic-income
Would a basic income simply cause a rise in the cost of living (housing, food, etc...) and therefore nullify its intended effect?
The question here isn't whether BlueCoat would go out of business, but rather Symantec. I don't like Symantec, nor do I like BlueCoat. That being said, we have no evidence that this certificate was used for misissuance. Symantec claims that BlueCoat never had access to the private key. The certificate was disclosed to Mozilla's root program. I have no idea why Symantec would agree to sign a certificate for an organization like BlueCoat - the PR damage has to be devastating. It would make even less sense for them to sign such a certificate to allow BlueCoat to use it with their MitM devices, because something like that is more or less guaranteed to be detected sooner or later, with HPKP and other pinning technologies. They would essentially kill their CA business, and I doubt any amount of money BlueCoat would be willing to pay would cover their entire CA business profits.
Any specific examples of established academic research you can link to?
I was going to say "Well jeez, can someone please alert the media? Where's the photo op with "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner in the background? :P
Yes and no.

On Linux, the library uses the GCC atomic intrinsics. As such, the library funamentally supports any platform GCC supports with its atomic intrinsics. So the instructions are indeed machine specific, but they're provided by the compiler through a standard API.

Of course, actually getting something to work means actually compiling in on a given platform and seeing the test programme pass.
Not just yet. We will have that available down the road. You can view and download directly from the site. Look for the downloadable link in the post. Thanks for asking and happy coding!
The comment is still optional. You don't have to give @param a description. @param stringToTest would suffice. http://usejsdoc.org/tags-param.html
I think and learn the same way, but this is very different behavior from what the article describes.

What you're describing is just a way of learning... Diving deep into the knowledge graph to understand related topics. You non-linearly learn many topics, but you're never really distracted from learning process.

That's a bit different than checking your cell phone for a second before dinner, seeing a twitter notification, responding to your friend, catching up on the past 40 minutes of posts, re-posting viral content, noticing another friend's weekend photos, following an interesting hash tag to other people's posts, seeing a reminder pop up for a game, playing the game, seeing an add for a new movie, watching the trailer, posting it on facebook, noticing a funny meme on your frontpage, following the meme to youtube, watching people play games, and then realizing dinner has been cold for a while.

The former is scattered learning. The latter is just spinning wheels, literally wasting time. It's dangerous and detrimental to society.
You could simply introduce more taxes. For example, one interesting idea is a universal land tax - with more expensive/desirable land being taxed much more - the idea being that there's no fundamental reason why the right to use a piece of land would belong to one citizen and not the other just by the virtue of their birth. So those who want to use scarce land (wealthy people, corporations) would be paying rents to the rest of the society. That would quite quickly restore inequality back from inherited inequality to just meritocratic inequality (people who produce more would be richer).
I don't think how isolated the ecosystem is too important. I would be more concerned with the methodology of measuring how behaviour has changed- Are they going to follow around candidates before the checks come rolling in to establish baseline behaviours?
>The tax loopholes that companies like Apple tax advantage of are another thing entirely.

No, the significant ones (i.e. offshore subsidiaries) are very much codified.
This article is yet another example of binary thinking.

Basic income could be started at any amount. It won't pay the rent, but an extra $100 a month makes a difference for people living on the edge. The first $100/month will make a bigger difference than anything added on top of that.
Yep, and it doesn't even bother talking about the $21–32tn of untaxed assets(http://www.taxjustice.net/cms/upload/pdf/Price_of_Offshore_R...).
Or that we tax the rich too little while we tax everyone else too much to keep public perception focused on taxes being too high(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historical_Marginal_...).
If sites use HSTS, browsers won't allow users to bypass the errors. See section 12.1 of RFC 6797:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6797#section-12.1

So you can encourage people to use HSTS and then get part of that behavior at least for individual sites.
Eric Chen, mentioned in the article is now working on his own VR startup Bellus3D. http://bellus3d.com I worked there for a minute. Really cool stuff they are doing.
Access to popular applications that you and your staff are familiar with and can use anywhere on a plethora of other devices, potential simplicity compared to maintaining Linux on the desktop.
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Interesting. Why did it turn you away? do you run code on many of the given platforms?
Good point. I'll ping authors to update page with dates.
Also: "A universal basic income has many undesirable features, starting with its nonnegligible disincentive to work."

I can think of two responses to this:

(1) Perhaps work that doesn't pay more than a UBI can provide is not work worth doing --

(2) Except for charity work, which is extremely valuable, and which would be greatly incentivized because having a UBI would free up people's time to work on it.
I played around with it and ended up getting rid of it for basically the same reasons, but I have to say that I was impressed by how easy it was to remove. When I got rid of Homebrew I had to run a script that did a bunch of non-obvious things, when I got rid of Nix I did rm -rf /nix && rm -rf ~/nix-* and removed a line from my zshrc.

My main complaint with Nix itself was that Vim was built without python support so Youcompleteme didn't work and it wasn't obvious how to recompile it to have python support, but the experience was nice enough that I'll give it another go later on.
I remember interviewing for a search company, but then found most of the work and business was spent on adverts! No thanks Google!
> Although basic income seems fiscally challenging today, in a world where technology replaces existing jobs and basic income becomes necessary, technological improvements should generate an abundance of resources and the cost of living should fall dramatically.

I am 100% for this experiment. But the assumption that technology will replace basic jobs seems naive. Throughout human history, we have seen rapid and accelerating technology improvements. In 1900, roughly 40 percent of Americans were in farming. Today, roughly 2 percent of Americans are in farming [1].

During that same time period we went from most woman not working to most woman working. We are currently in a period of prolonged, very low unemployment by historical standards with more people working on earth than ever before.

As much as it seems obvious that technology will replace all low income jobs, it may be obvious because we are limited in our imagination about what the future low income jobs will be.

[1] http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/259572/eib3_1_.pdf

Do not let my comment be mistaken for a lack of interest in Basic Income. Hopefully it will be a well thought out and great experiment. One that teaches us about Basic Income and its potential impact.
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.