skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Landlords and colleges are likely to gobble up as much of that free basic income as they possibly can. Payday lenders stand to make an even bigger killing than they do now. If not done carefully, it could result in an even more quickly widening wealth gap than we have now.
Because the answer is not the answer to the question I asked, so if you think it is, I didn't ask it the right way.

If I ask:

-- why can't sqlite just scale for me.

And you say:

-- Well, its meant to be lightweight. There are other more powerful databases, or you can add more code to sqlite to make it scale.

Its not that I didn't know all those things. Those were the premise to the question I asked.
For what it's worth, I was offered a senior-level engineering position at a fairly small company in Toronto which had recently been purchased by a public one for ~120k (CAD) annually. This translates to roughly 91k USD. Unfortunately due to some past legal issues entering Canada is not in the cards for me, so I had to decline the offer.

The stack would have been a PHP monolith moving towards small/polyglot microservices with an Angular front-end component.
> Everyone in America has their basic needs.

No. Not everyone in America has safety. The Americans living on the street report that the homeless shelters are too risky.
http://www.nutrition411.com/content/refeeding-syndrome-0
I'd hope you'd tie it to inflation, but that only helps so much if the rate of inflation it's tied to is even slightly "off" (say, by a tenth of a percent), and then you compound it annually...
Yes, this! I hate the "But who will pick up the garbage?" argument so much, the lazy thinker who says this is implying that our society only functions if there's an explicit hell waiting for those who fail it. And that's kinda fucked up, eh? If UBI fixed just that it would be worth it, IMHO.

Also, have you ever talked to the people who pick up your garbage?
The parent commenter is referring to application-layer attacks, which is why the Tor Project deprecated things like TorButton in favor of a dedicated Tor Browser, and why they discourage things like having a router that sends all traffic over Tor by default (because random applications will reveal trackable identifiers!).

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/leet11/tech/full_papers/...

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/

There's probably a more specific statement from the Tor Project that I'm forgetting at the moment that sets forth the idea that you should only use Tor with Tor-aware client software (that controls what privacy leakages may occur at the application layer).
I don't know how any 36-bit machine implemented C's char pointers, and I can imagine all kinds of other grief stemming from the ones'-complement arithmetic on the 36-bitters with which I'm familiar, but I can tell you how we implemented char pointers on the 64-bit word-addressable Cray-1, -2, and their descendants. The 3-bit byte offset (big-endian, arbitrarily) of a linear byte address was kept in the most significant bits of a 64-bit word, and the 24-bit or 32-bit regular word address was in the least-significant bits. To do pointer arithmetic, code would have to do circular shifts (more accurately, a shift with fill from the same register) to get a linear address and to put it back into the canonical form that I described.

I don't recall whether a cast to int was raw or converted to linear.
Basic income doesn't solve any of this. It just drops a load of money into a person's lap who has no idea what to do with it.

What do you mean by this? Poor people would definitely know what to do with it.
Look at your self righteous attitude. Maybe you should grow some tolerance for alternative ideas and thoughts. There are many of us who are skeptical about the idea and would like to see how it goes.
I just do:

function cd () {
builtin cd "$@" && ls;
}
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11806386
The problem is that a very small number of people are on that $100/month edge, a percentage of them will increase their expenses until they are as desperate as they used to be, and the increased taxes to pay this money will put others on the edge. When considering BI, or any large money transfer program, you must consider the entire system, not just the beneficial effects on a small number of people for the first few months.
> those that we received 50,000 years ago, could be provided for $1-$2k a year.

Dignity is probably a basic need that $1-2k can't buy.
>If the pilot goes well, we plan to follow up with the main study. If the pilot doesn’t go well, we’ll consider different approaches.

I'm excited that someone is taking the initiative to test the idea further. Any thoughts on how to tell if things "go well"? Is there a set of metrics that will published beforehand? Most of the claims I've heard about basic income tends to fall into the not-falsifiable camp. I am very interested to see what data/results would convince a basic-income proponent that it isn't a good idea. (I think the opposite would be easier, turning a basic-income skeptic into an advocate).
There is a substantial difference between open ended with no guarantee of continuing, and being explicitly close-ended. (Its equivalent to the difference between cutting a tax -- which might in principle later be restored -- and issuing an explicitly limited-term tax holiday, to use a well-known example.)
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Tor itself is not broken, but all it does is anonymize your traffic and therefore does not protected against exposure that comes form other sources. It does not prevent against things like browser fingerprinting (and other fingerprinting methods, see other comments in this thread), vulnerabilities caused by various content types (Flash/JS/Java) and a host of other issues an inexperienced user would not be aware of.
There's only one way to study something like this.. and that's to do it. 5 years is a pretty amazing amount of time and I'm sure some great data will come out of it. Some smart people will probably treat it as a short-term thing and treat it as such, but the majority of the population are probably short sighted and will treat it as if it will be there forever. You can do a lot in 5 years.
I did some back of the envelope math several months ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10172397
This is bad.

After all, much of what comes out of Donald Trump's mouth could be called hate speech. Much of right-wing talk radio could be called hate speech. While that's a problem, censorship isn't the answer.

What we need to do about hate speech from the Islamic direction is make Islam look silly. Religion needs to be laughed at and ridiculed. Some religions are very fragile in the face of ridicule.
Yeah - my jaw hit the floor, followed by me rereading the paragraph to see if I'd missed some satire here
Why not look at folks who have some variant of basic income -- retirees. Especially public sector. There's lots of data there to look at.

I have a friend who was a fireman who developed some health problems at 44 which made doing his job difficult without putting himself and others at risk. He's now retired at approximately half pay, with healthcare. He's now doing stuff that he is passionate about -- cooking BBQ for friends, family and events and gardening. (very serious gardening, like he can almost feed his family from a city lot).

There are many stories like that which are worth hearing. IMO, it would be a better population to study, as most retirees like what I'm describing aren't receiving subsidy for housing or food.
> Almost all of the _basic_ needs of a human, i.e. those that we received 50,000 years ago, could be provided for $1-$2k a year

Assuming people (a) have the skills and/or (b) are OK being cut off from modern society. The goal with basic income is to allow _everyone_ to live a decent life without going all survivalist (and risk dying). Even people who are very skillful (can do repairs, have their own farm, in good health, etc) often live on ~10x that.

Even if you disagree with the two above points, you've just argued for basic income being at a different number.
All the figures I have seen have pointed to large increases in food prices. Where are they getting their figures that food prices have dropped?
Uh, did I miss the "SPLC-recognized" modifier on that noun phrase, or is there a little bit of goalpost-moving going on here?

It might be polemical, but if inaccurate at all, it is only so in degree, not kind.
thanks. I understood about half of that! :-)
I don't really want to be better at speaking it just reading it (of course I know one would help the other)
I think it's important to some degree to be agnostic about what we mean by 'basic income'. We're planning to test the version coloquially closest to 'universal basic income', but something along negative income tax could make sense -- we need to find the answers (hence doing the study!), not just prescribe what we think is right.
Ask HN: Is there any interest in a full stack web framework written in Python?
Something like Meteor:
https://www.meteor.com

This would be using something like Brython on the client-side:
http://brython.info

The idea is that you would have a full stack web framework that shared as much code as possible between the client and server. The client-side Python would then be compiled into JavaScript using Brython or similar. Include first-class support for web sockets. I would also like an API similar in feel to something like PySide/PyQT.

Is there already a web framework using Python on the client-side? If so, I haven't found it yet. Thinking of starting a project like this and want to gauge interest.
So, a question for the BI fans:

I've seen it said repeatedly that BI will save us money (or at least, not be so outrageously expensive) in part because we can eliminate existing welfare programs. "Just cut a single check, no more overhead from several agencies", they say.

But riddle me this: 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? Do you tell them "tough shit, you've exhausted all your social safety nets" or are there safety nets below BI, essentially recreating the welfare programs previously destroyed? If so, how do you prevent fraud without a department following up on Joe's twelfth "my car broke down" case of the year?
"He couldn't hold down a job and regularly missed appointments."

I think this is part of the problem - 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.
> The documentation is viewed via an embedded frame. So you
> can't save URLs to the documentation. This is a known bad
> practice for web sites.

Yes and no. The site currently is arranged with a set of tabs on the left and a frame on the right. It had to be a frame because some of the web-based apps, such as the mediawiki used for documentation, generate output encapsulated in the "<HTML>" tag. As such, their output cannot be captured and placed into a div; it has to go into its own frame.

However, the documentation can be opened in a new tab (right click, open in new tab) and then where it has its own browser window, the URL is displayed as normal.

Of course, this is not the default behaviour - the user has to do something to get it, and to realise that it is possible. That is a problem. The only obvious solution is to have the documentation automatically open in a new window. That's a bit unpleasent though - new windows popping up unexpectedly is not good for the user experience.

> The API changes with every release. WTF? Really? Just... really? In order to use a newer version this library, you have to change your entire application for the updated function names.

No. All versions of the library can concurrently be included and linked against. The reason for this is so that any code which using an existing version of the library does not have to be modified at all - and so does not need to be revalidated - when a new version is published.

IME, once code is written, and given that it works, it tends quite strongly not to change. It works, so why spend time and effort merely to change it? however, if a new version of a library comes out, anything could have happened - so existing code has to be revalidated. It's extra work. This is avoided by supporting concurrent use of multiple library versions.

> And many of the lock-free structures are add-only. The binary tree is unbalanced. Which makes it not a very
> good binary tree.

The add-onlys were thrown together in a week or so many months ago, just to get those classes of data strutures out there, as writing the full versions of them will take some time. There is in fact for eaxmple a full, balanced binary tree, in the literature. That's on the list!

Regarding being unbalanced, one way to address this is to hash the key before inserting a new node.

> This looks like it was written by somone who heard "lock free", and went "cool, I'll write a library!"

That's a bit unfair. The library is eight years old now. It's not a flash in the pan.

> The web site is bad, the APIs are bad, the functions aren't very useful, the library isn't very portable,
> etc.

It's actually as portable as it is possible for a lock-free library to be. Only a fairly few platforms provide atomic instrinsics. As far as GCC provides support, they are all suppoted, and I believe GCC supports all of them.
>Beyond national laws that criminalize hate speech, there is a need to ensure such activity by Internet users is “expeditiously reviewed by online intermediaries and social media platforms, upon receipt of a valid notification, in an appropriate time-frame,” the companies and the European Commission said in a joint statement on Tuesday.

Your appointed bureaucrats in Brussels will decide what you can and can't say on the Internet, and if you're lucky, they'll just ban you if you step out of line.

How long until real, honest discourse goes back to Usenet, out of the reach of our corporate overlords?
The way you fund it, of course, is to further tax the higher end of the income bracket. It's an innocuous way of redistributing wealth. It helps everyone but the very wealthiest, which are the ones who need it the least. Jobs are not the answer, at least in my mind. A universal basic income would allow people to spend some time possibly developing a passion that they love, not slaving away at a job which is at best given out of pity, and at worst a waste of time which they are obligated to attend at a negative cost to everybody. A universal basic income is upfront and direct about its purpose.
Nothing on Ubuntu USN for now: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/ :-(
I like the idea of them but from my experience widgets have been lacking. Whether that be from not updating correctly/timely to just not working at all.
As much as it's annoying, people tend to forget those websites are private companies, not charity or gov entities. They can do whatever they want as long it's legal. They don't have in any way humanity interests in mind, it's silly to expect them to take a stand on any other directions than the one benifiting them.
If robots take all the jobs, then nobody has to work anymore and everything will be very cheap. Think robot maids, drivers, and robot-cooked meals. People are so used to today's world of not-so-many-robots that people think not having a job is bad.
I agree it wasn't designed to fulfill that need. I have not claimed (anywhere) that it is supposed to.
Free speech: "I fucking hate white people holy shit with their mayonnaise and classic rock god damn."

Hate speech: "On Decembruary 45th I call all my allies to throw glitter at every white person you see because they're so sweaty from the mayonnaise eating, and it'll stick to them."

There's never been protection for hate speech.
Introducing KubeFuse: A File System for Kubernetes
I know several devs who make music. It's not that accurate.
Modern Authentication and Identity: Where Are We Today?
It would be good to know more about the thread safety of the structures.
Exactly. Hence the 'almost', at the beginning of the sentence you quoted.

My point is we should acknowledge that the drive for basic income is driven by "people don't feel so great when other people have more significantly more shiny things than they do; people feel better when shiny things are more evenly distributed" and not "shiny things are a human right" or "it's an affront to human dignity that shiny things aren't distributed the way I find most preferable".
If what you are saying is that a large part of happiness is related to your distance to the mean wealth, wouldn't you say a society with a 'normal' wealth distribution is going to be on average happier than a society with a 'bimodal' distribution? The technologist view is that automation is taking us in an increasingly bimodal direction, and that BI can "raise the floor" to pinch the two humps closer together. That doesn't seem zero sum to me - because the function relating happiness to distance-from-mean isn't a linear one.

Distribution types for reference: http://asq.org/learn-about-quality/data-collection-analysis-...
Google Trends: Topic “Libertarian Party”, 2012 vs. 2016
I agree with the analogy, but I disagree with "bashing."

I don't think its a failure.
What do we do now when people blow their Social Security or welfare check and can't afford rent or food?
> That's certainly an issue, but your demand stifles any effort to learn more by saying that you have to study "generational effects" (what, maybe a 50 year study before you can learn anything).

It's less costly than rushing into BI. It's one of those social programs that once introduced can NEVER be taken away.
Data Models and Word Size
There used to be a free software advocacy slogan explicitly asking "would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?".

An intuition behind that analogy, I think, is that people will appreciate the importance of being allowed to do car maintenance even if they don't do it: that non-car-tinkerers will still see the value in having a hood that they can open. For example, they'll want to be able to choose others to perform the maintenance or not be dependent on the manufacturer in an emergency. Maybe sufficiently Apple-like car companies will succeed in changing that intuition or have already changed it quite a bit?
Very thoughtful post. This exactly what I look for while interviewing candidates.
Improving DNS Privacy via QNAME Minimisation
Shure with only anectodical reference...

During an interview one of my answers was: "for me - it sounds shit to live ambitions !"

And the answer was like the old adam and eve thingy: "But shit is a super fertilizer, it gives a filmsy plantlet growth and thriving.

"Because i have seen where you're going with this", i answered, "let me tell you that some people think, you can make every stand - when you only ground it"

wink
Custom domains aren't directly supported in the beta yet, but you can use CloudFlare or CloudFront and Route53 to wrap your HyperDev app with a custom domain and it will work fine. We plan to make this easier for people in the future.
Tweaking Windows Repair Pro 3.9.1 Serial Key Free
This is nuts. Basic income is not to provide extra spending money for 100% of americans. It's help 10% of the most poor while everyone else ends up paying back the money in taxes. So we are talking about 300 billion. This is half of US military budget and will be instead of, instead of in addition to, current aid programs.

It is true that basic income will not directly improve lifestyle of the middle class. It can well result in indirect improvement by poor becoming more productive and government bureaucrats currently running the program getting more useful jobs. But we probably need to other things as well to improve lifestyle for the other 90% of the population.
>Religion needs to be laughed at and ridiculed.

One person's laughing and ridicule is another person's blasphemy, defamation, and hate speech. Better hope your appointed bureaucrats in Brussels and your corporate overlords share your sense of humor and don't want to be boycotted today.
> Do you remember when at LEAST 20% of Facebook's revenue came from Zynga? Like less than 5 years ago?

This was cited in the FB S1 filing, which was around March 2012, so you are correct.
>Maybe you should grow some tolerance for alternative ideas and thoughts

Yes! Exactly! That's just what I wanted you to do! And you even elaborated a bit! A nasty throwaway line like yours about how it's obviously going to fail does not telegraph that you're "skeptical about the idea and would like to see how it goes" -- quite the opposite. You've already determined that the study will fail, and that's the conclusion you're interested in seeing. Think I'm wrong? How could I have reasonably concluded otherwise based on "[o]r moving backwards, the study will findout"?
Unfortunately, this experiment cannot be extrapolated to macro-scale because it doesn't take macro-effects into consideration.
When I was in my teens I worked summer jobs in a German social welfare agency (Sozialamt). There were many families that had been on welfare for generations and it was noticeable that their kids had no idea how to make progress in school or how to hold a job. They simply didn't know and had nobody who could tell them. They also had no role models.

I think with basic income there is a risk that a lot of people will forever be lost for the working world. Especially if the basic income is so low that you can barely survive.
Money is correlated with happiness. Sure, people will still yearn for more money, but with the more expenses people will be more happy.
BioPen Advances Stem Cell Printing – PixelBox
Currently Node.js.

Python and others: Coming Soon™
Given that the author has gone on record comparing GamerGate to ISIS and actually stated that GamerGaters are _worse_, I think it's worth drawing attention to.
The goals of GamerGate are pretty much to terrorize women. Remember, it started as a campaign to put the fear of God in Zoë Quinn.
Out-Of-Box Exploitation – A Security Analysis of OEM Updaters [pdf]
Personally, I'd hope the system would absolutely tell them "tough shit". There's got to be a line where the safety net gives out, because someone is too expensive to help.

That's where family and charity hopefully take over.

At the same time, I think your instinct is right, and it's something I've never heard mentioned before. It's almost inevitably that there'll then be the "food security" fund, and the "housing guarantee" fund.... and then we've just recreated the existing system.

That's the best argument against BI I've heard, and one I'd love to hear rebuttals to.
Programmes like this: https://www.gov.uk/budgeting-help-benefits/how-it-works
I thought SQLite4 was dead in the water? There have been no contributions since late 2015. Is there still a plan to maintain it?
This literally is why food stamps exist. So people on food stamps can only buy food and not lottery tickets.
What that means you need to define good and bad people in the first place. On a serious note I completely agree with you as right now hate speech is about race, gender & body shaming which is the current line in sand. Soon nationality, sub-races, religion, region & sub-regions, individuals, comic characters and pretty soon actual corporations will be add to the things you can't hate on.
UBI would also provide entrepreneurs and small business owners with a safety net so they'd be able to take risks they wouldn't be able to before.
Very nice work! I like the combination of the discrete/precise geometry with the haze/fog atmospheric effects. I also make architectural art in 3D but prefer the geometric flexibility of NURBS rather than voxels. (shameless self promotion: https://www.instagram.com/jeffreyemanuel/ )