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Yes, I don't know who in their right minds is thinking basic income will work out well for society based on the predilections of the masses.

Most people do. not. like. to. work. Period.

But work is good for society. Idle hands are the devil's tools after all, and where one finds high unemployment, they are almost certain to find crime, drugs, gangs, single mothers, and most everything else that reasonable people consider a step backwards in civilized society.

Now what's the other side of that coin? Young ambitious hackers that browse HN will have more leeway to easily start startups living in their parents' basements. That's a good thing, and honestly sounds very appealling even to me now (minus the parents and the basement though).

However, you have to do what is best for the most people, and while a few percent will benefit and be able to further contribute, the majority will flounder and sink into degeneracy.

That's the problem with utopian thinking. Reality and human nature always get in the way.
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You don't need to use different keys for each customer.. it's not a problem to just provide the same public key for all of them. However, if you have several different access devices (i.e., laptop and desktop), you should definitely have different keys on those. (disclaimer: I work for Userify)
Does it really matter how long it lasts in the long run if he's making $125,000 a month by himself?

Coming up with a good startup idea is sexy, but this is a pretty sweet deal too. You could argue that hours spent working on this prevent him from working on something that's potentially more lucrative and more fun, but from the sound of it he's at a point where it takes up much less time than a full-time job.

Even if he can only milk $1 million off of it, that's still really good.
If you have a fire, you gotta stoke it once in a while to keep it burning. For me, that is what biographies and self motivation/help books are. They are not the source one one true secret to help you find the way. They are a bit of fuel to the fire to fuel your motivation and keep you going.
No, I think they are expressing the idea that people who are fluent enough with the language to prefer written over in-person communication might not fully appreciate the extremely poor reading comprehension of the general population.

I say this as somebody who used to prefer written communication. But I have come to realize that it is necessary to ask your audience, "Does that make sense?" after every major and minor point, and then listen to them reformulate what you just told them to make sure they actually got it.
I respectfully disagree that they are less stimulating. Those things are stimulating at a deeper and I think more grounded level.
Meanwhile, the “dark sky” movement criticizes LEDs as a major contributor to what it calls the “light pollution” that humans cast into the night sky.

As a former, quasi-astronomer, nothing at night is more impressive than a star lit sky. My first night in Colorado was unbelievable.
If HP manufactured the bycicles then they would have a short print cycle.
I agree.

For the first time in a while, I've picked up a language I have not used for almost 15 years.

Google is helping immensely, and I've been shocked at how often (>95%) of the time the first result is SO, and that answer is perfect. So much so I've stopped searching google, I've just got a lot of SO tabs open.

It might not be perfect, though I'd say it's the best by a massive margin.
No evidence. Just observation based on unscientific measurements. I could be very much wrong.
It might be a good idea to think about a system that can update/rotate your keys across all of your servers on the fly in case one is compromised or assumed to be compromised. (disclosure: I work @ userify)
Okay that is the coolest thing I've seen in a while. I never really thought about how you'd dismantle a building without a single demolition event. I wonder how practical / cost effectice this is in comparison.
seems like a good outlet for nerdy power fantasies.
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https://github.com/markocalvocruz/YC_Application

I decided to add this Application along with the Founder Profile template to my github repository (thanks iamroger and t27 for the suggestion).

I also linked to previous successful YC applications in the README for convenience.

Hope somebody finds this helpful!
> However, a 2013 study has found that 77% of users only ask one question, 65% only answer one question, and only 8% of users answer more than 5 questions. With this article, I’m exploring the likely reasons for that very, very low percentage.

This is a power law distribution. It is to be expected.
>It sounds to me like the author would rather work for a big multinational instead of a startup.

Most people in the startup scene, especially those who found care about their future a lot. In a weird sense probably even more than people working in the big multinationals. In a startup I co-founded in Berlin, 2 of my co-founders matched the negative stereotype described in the article and in the comments very well. Ironically they cared a lot about their personal development. Already one month after working fulltime on the project my one co-founder indirectly (="nicely") threatened to leave the company. Eventually he left 1.5 years later, the other co-founder left as well, making the startup fail. I want to try my luck again some day, but definitely not with people who only care about their own development and not about that of others.
great idea! done. I added a new comment with the link since I don't know if it's appropriate to submit a new link or not (new member here)
I am not sure why but I am very luck with StackOverflow, almost always. It might be due to the fact that I ask detailed questions that are 99% of the time valid questions and I am using languages that has welcoming nice community and usually not extremely popular so trolling is minimal.
A lot of the "landfill" in that part of SF is rubble from the 1906 quake, which there was a lot of. They disposed of it by making the city bigger!
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It has been discussed, and fairly recently: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/326095/please-unpin-...
An account that can only login on the local ptys is a good enough backup plan.

The disk encryption doesn't buy you much in such an environment, though... Even with whole disk encryption if you're running virtualized; then your provider can just read your VM's memory anyway...

Unless your VPS is going to be forever shutdown, disk encryption under a hypervisor you don't control seems reasonably pointless -- I only use it for physical security to stop people being able to use disks they yank from physical boxes -- even then if they were motivated enough they could probably grab the memory from the server(s) and get the keys anyhow...

AFAIK, there is no possible protection from this besides running your own gear. There were recently published attacks where someone managed to pull keys from other machines by abusing some either intel or vmware's memory dedupe tech bugs iirc (don't have the link handy) -- so; it's not even limited to what your provider may be doing...
I recall reading his and a lot of other companies' and developers' .plans over at https://www.bluesnews.com
If I am getting free money, is 'society' going to be my boss, but in real life? Will I be more subservient to society than I currently am? What is my role in society, what am I giving back to it?
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> Not long after he leased out the shell of a once-iconic Phoenix steakhouse, developer Lorenzo Perez got an email from a broker. He learned that the new space, now home to an award-winning restaurant, a small garden store, and an independent bookshop, was worth about $195 a square foot.

Was curious, found an article which said that the restaurant was Beefeaters [1]. The independent book shop is the second Changing Hands [3], whose location in Tempe has been doing very well for 40 years[2].

[1] http://www.phoenixmag.com/valley-news/meet-the-newton.html
[2] http://www.changinghands.com/40th

[3] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Changing+Hands+Bookstore/@...

This part of Phoenix is an interesting blend of poverty and wealth. Central north of Camelback has some very nice properties.

Missouri Ave, 1/2 mile to the north, gets progressively wealthier the farther east you go. At 24th St (3 miles from Central), Missouri ends at Frank Lloyd Wright's Biltmore Hotel... The houses around here all priced in the multi-million dollar range.

Missouri Ave gets progressively worse the farther west you go. My aunt used to have a house at 11th Ave & Missouri... It was a perfectly normal middle-class neighborhood, with small post-war homes.

I helped a guy move his family from the cheap motel at 7th Ave & Van Buren to the sketchy apartments at 21st Ave & Missouri (3 miles to the west of Central Ave)... I think he said his kid had started a fire at their last place.
Yes, I was a little glib. But nonetheless life on Earth (not just our species) evolved with a 4100K light source at night.

You are confusing color temperature with how the lights are installed. If your streetlights were 4000K and spaced properly you wouldn't have an issue with them. The penny-pinching distribution (high lumens, wide angle, distantly spaced) of lights chosen by your city is at fault. That layout will create maximum glare and is the most miserable layout imaginable since distant lights will always be shining directly in your eyes.
I live in Long Island City (a neighborhood in NYC for those not from the area - it's in Queens) and I see many children, but few that are unattended, despite the very low crime rate.

Of course, LIC is full of well off yuppies, so perhaps the demographics are the reason.
Real wages didn't get higher when they got kicked out of the basement. The difference is they had to do something in order to feed themselves.

I think a 20 y/o who lives with their parents so they can play video games is a sloth. I fully intend to teach my kids the same. I expect them to leave and take care of themselves even if the only opportunities available to them are blue collar / manual labor that pay very little.

The decrease in real wages lowers the incentive to work. But so does a society that views playing video games in your parents' basement in lieue of entering the workforce as acceptable.

That probably sounds harsh, but (at least from the article) it seems like these people haven't had difficulties getting jobs when they're in their 30s with equally poor experience. They're just ten years behind the earnings curve.
I'm a top 4% user for the year apparently, I've asked 40 questions & posted 318 answers. SO is a minefield.

It's an excellent resource and I've found so much value out of it, but the moderation is hyper-aggressive at times and often duplicate marks are for old behaviour in old libraries. I think it needs a clean sweep at some stage, leaving the current content but drop everyone back to 0.
I did not try to defend microservices. I tried to note that devops is not an opposite to customer-facing value.

I think most of your points are valid (wherever my experience is enough to judge).
It's about to, says the article.
Yearly revenue is $818,600 profit round $500k which is very nice but if "makes" in the title means "makes profit" as I assumed then the numbers are not correct.

Profit of 500k / 12 = 41.7k per month, not 125k.
Absolutely. On the top of that you have very different communities. If you ask a question about something in OCaml or in Javascript your experience will be very different. The only thing I don't like is the new user questions that cannot be answered, usually down voted very fast though.
The best way I can think of to sell an idea is to build it (at least a prototype), prove the idea, and then try to sell it. You aren't going to be able to sell just an idea. You can recruit a partner to work on it with you; you don't have to build it yourself.

If it's not worth this amount of effort, then I don't expect someone will pay you money for an unproven idea that doesn't have enough value to spend your own time on.
Almost nothing can be protected from that..

Witnesses can be wrong or just lie, paperwork and signatures can be forged.

We can't live in a world where every conviction is somehow "mathematically proved", we live in a world of "beyond reasonable doubt". It's messy and imperfect, but seems (to me) to be better than the alternatives.
It also allows scanning all the border-crossing internet traffic. Which is an NSA-style dragnet since there is mostly international traffic in a small country.
The actual point of UBI is to address the coming employment scarcity: labour's value's fall and capital/automation dominating everything.

The efficiency vs today's welfare systems is simply a pitch (and not necessarily an inaccurate one).
Iranian here, I completely agree. USA overthrown democratically elected secular government of Mosadegh, and right now I totally live in fucking shit show (created by fucking mullahs) just because of USA politicians thought of themselves as good people and we should intervene just because of our own interest in other countries destiny.They literally replaced Mosadegh with a fucking dictator who tortured people like animals.
Give me fucking break.

We all know human right situation in Saudi Arabia , but who supports them? United States fucking government.

Give me fucking break dude. I am not that stupid to believe USA government is "good".they are as bad as other players. The only difference here is because of situation of domestic freedom they can not jail and tourture people as regular as their opponents do.

Fuck them.

Me and people like me as new generation of Iranian people which does not gives fuck about Islam(generally the youth in Iran are secular, atheist. Even the religious ones are open minded-exlude a very small fraction) or other stupid traditions,yet I have to pay the price just because some fucking stupid politicians thought we should stop Mosadegh. What they are doing now?
They literally cut medical export to Iran , for what? Because Iran was going to build nuclear weapon with medical stuff? It is fucking lie.
The city has stated that water and sewage connections to the building might soon fail depending on how much more sinking there is.
> No matter what choices we make there will be upset people.

Sure, I have no idea what you have to deal with on a daily basis and in the end the content is mostly helpful so you are probably doing it right. But in more than few occasions I have been treated like a dirty beggar/shoplifter/moron/(you name it) for actually asking a question (or answering one)! Yes I need you and yes I owe you a lot - but I don't like you. And I won't root for you when you will be an underdog and when there will be equal alternative I will switch and never look back.
I disagree -- you really do need to; I tend to need to use ssh -A on my clients (jump boxes, etc) -- and the agent I will only have their key in it -- if one of the other staff with root on the bounce box, or an attacker, grabs my auth sock, then the keys only let them further into that one client, instead of pwning all my others...

Or say, someone pwning a dev jenkins box doesn't get an agent connection which lets them into prod...
where one finds high unemployment, they are almost certain to find crime, drugs, gangs, single mothers

This is because of poverty, not idle hands.
Silicon Valley wages would have to increase by something like 3x--or house prices would have to drop by over 50%--to make houses here as affordable as the national average. Neither is likely to happen.

A median house in San Mateo County costs 11.3x median county income. A median house nationally costs only 3.3x median national income. So if you wish to buy a house in this area (and of course many people may prefer to rent), you should avoid moving here unless you can make those numbers work.

The reality for homebuyers is a bit worse than even those numbers indicate. Income taxes in California are very high, and most of the SF and peninsula housing stock is older and smaller than the national average. The median San Mateo County home is 1500 sq. ft; the median national home is closer to 2,500 sq. ft.

Construction, renovation, and maintenance costs are higher as well. Gas taxes are higher than the national average, sales taxes are higher, electricity costs are higher, etc. SF and peninsula municipalities have planning reviews that can add tens of thousands of dollars, plus state requirements (Title 24) and local requirements (no site development without survey, civil engineer, etc.) that add still more. Also geotechnical reviews and more expensive foundations--remember we're in earthquake country, folks.

On the other hand, we have very pleasant weather. :)

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Sources:
San Mateo County's median home value is $1.13M[1]. The county's median household income is approx. $100K[2]. A house costs 11.3x income. [1] http://www.zillow.com/san-mateo-ca/home-values/ [2] http://www.mercurynews.com/2014/08/28/can-working-class-fami...

The national median home is $188K[3]. The median national household income is $56.5K[4]. A house costs 3.3x income. [3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/13/median-home-price-2... [4] http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2016/cb16-158....
> Have you considered that post hoc is not necessarily proper hoc.

Disruption of the endocrine glands is on the drug safety information [1]:

Effects on the Hypothalmic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis

Some patients receiving medroxyprogesterone acetate may
exhibit suppressed adrenal function. Medroxyprogesterone
acetate may have cortisol-like glucocorticoid activity
and provide negative feedback to the hypothalamus or
pituitary. This may result in decreased plasma cortisol
levels, decreased cortisol secretion, and low plasma ACTH
levels. The use of DEPO-PROVERA Sterile Aqueous
Suspension may, due to its cortisol-like glucocorticoid
activity, also produce Cushingoid symptoms such as weight
gain, edema/fluid retention, and facial swelling.

[1] http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/ucm2323...

edit: p.s. Thanks for commenting, I'd never looked at Depo Provera's safety information before. Someone else had said that he thought that Depot-Provera's FDA approval, in spite of what's known about it, is a good example of 'Regulatory Capture'. Psychosis is associated with cortisol deficiency [2], so this safety information strongly supports my theory about the origin of my friend's mental health struggles.

[2] https://www.jcu.edu.au/news/releases/2016/june/stress-hormon...
I'm talking about the photos in the article.
What about we let the prices fell slowly towards zero as automation makes things cheaper and cheaper to produce?

What's the point of distributing money if things are free?
Sounds a little like Optimism cf. Candide.
This is why statistics on the "average" in a population are worthless. The meaningful statistic here is the median, which isn't subject to such skewing.
I don't think the word 'disingenuous' is appropriate here. You can argue that GarrisonPrime is misguided or incorrect, but there's no need to assume he or she is deliberately withholding information or is not sincere.
Those in favor of a forced $15 min wage should take note. More money in The Market gives others the opportunity to see what increases it can bear.

That is, to presume you can increase income and all other costs will remain fixed is naive.
This is global, it's not specific to America.

Fun story, the word luddite comes from Ned Ludd, an 18th century English weaver. He destroyed some mechanical looms and inspired a bunch of people to copy him. They were angry about automation taking their jobs.

This is a timeless problem.

> Of course for individuals in an industry that will be soon redundant it sucks, but that's the nature of life. Move on, adapt, re-train.

You're gonna need more empathy than that. For someone like a 50-year-old coal miner living in Kentucky, "adapt, retrain" is easier said than done.
Highly upvoted answers are usually converted into "wiki entries", so that they can evolve, extend and restructure with time. It somehow alleviates the problem, as long as the both sides (asking and answering) care to actually update it.
In the 1960's people did not travel. Commercial air was for the rich. People might have had a family outing, by car, to Disneyland or something. Now people travel worldwide.

"Real wage growth stalls half way through the 70s, just five years later."

This is completely false - and is a function of how we calculate inflation. In fact, it's laughably false. A 'medium wage earner' today has a significantly improved material situation than in the 1960's. Everything is significantly better for the common person on a common wage.

The average person today has multiple TV's, cable, internet, smartphone, 'apps', 500 channels, amazing healthcare, amazing cars (have you ever driven a car from the 1960's), travel possibilities, educational possibilities.

The notion that real wages have been stagnant is one of the most laughable economic fallacies of the modern era. Anyone alive in that time knows exactly the truth. Financial concerns aside (aka debt), a good measure of wealth is 'what you can buy with it'. The average person is significantly wealthier than the average person in the 1960s.
Already happening: WoW gold farmers.
This is a very long-winded and wordy way of saying:

"People who distinguish between things will get their way because people who don't distinguish between things rarely care."

Good example from the article: Halal food, non-halal eaters will eat halal, but halal eaters will only eat halal.

So lets just make all things halal.
Stack Overflow is useful, but a lot of that usefulness comes from its complete dominance of search results. By keyword stuffing in the sidebar (and last I checked the nofollow links) they maintain a strong search presence for virtually every topic.

So, this position as top tech knowledge hub is sort of artificially propped up at this point. You type in your query, arrive at a page with something vaguely like the question you asked, are faced with pedantic flags about how the question you came to have answered is somehow unfit, and maybe some useful info. Also maybe some outdated info with real unaccepeted answers below it.

I'm not aware of another site that so heavily depends on content it itself seems to consider unworthy, siloed into so many vaguely overlapping sub-sites
Nope. Look at the history of big housing projects in the days of generous welfare payments. Food, clothing, shelter, and some spending money were provided. Huge crime rate.
That was Karl Marx's plan. Didn't pan out perfectly though.

Most people just want more and more stuff. Cheaper prices will only result in people buyijg more.
- coworker asks for password to some AWS box?

To be clear, GPG encrypted is better than plain text for all sorts of secrets, but using a single account and passing around passwords won't scale. (Or rather the security implications of everybody having root access via a single shared account and passing the password around should frighten you.)

Ideally there's some sort of mechanism so all users can login to their own account on servers (from puppetized ssh keys to LDAP, among others), and no one is actually passing around passwords.
Well ... the article is poorly written; clearly the author doesn't understand the science.

But you make some good points. I support your recommendations.