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> Consumers are individual people with no comparable organizational power.

Nobody said consumers have to be individuals, consumers can organize just like low wage workers should. They have just been sold individualism thanks to centuries of propaganda. Rich people have no problem organizing, that's what corporations are, but somehow when people at the bottom of the ladder do, it is a bad thing? This is puritan morals, "rich are blessed with wealth, poor people only deserve contempt" and it certainly defines America.
> why Trump would be a good partner.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that you do have useful content to contribute; why didn't you just ask in the first place? Don't be shy, I don't bite! Let me explain it like I would to my 8 year old niece. Let's break down the facts.

1. Trump knows a thing or two about real-estate.

2. Trump knows about building things.

3. Mars is large and has a lot of land.

4. Mars is red and has a lot of iron.

5. Mars is an entire fucking planet and has many resources.

6. Nobody owns Mars yet. This is a profound statement.

7. One guy in particular wants to go to Mars.

8. This guy is smart, and knows about physics.

9. This guy is rich, and knows how to make money.

10. This guy likes to build things, too!

11. This guy's name is Elon Musk.

12. Trump sees an opportunity to work with Musk.

13. Musk sees an opportunity to work with Trump.

Sounds like a recipe to me.

I think you can form your own opinion, but if I was Donald Trump, I would be all over this. Does Donald Trump want to be remembered as the guy that built casinos and hotels on the east coast? Or does he want to be remembered as the guy that built a trillion dollar empire on an entire planet? Donald Trump is the kind of fellow that gets what he wants, and Elon is smart enough to work with him, even if he may not like him. Anyways, what are your thoughts?
The advantages of containers are multidimensional. The benefit of running multiple processes on a single node is not solely to increase utilization of a given machine but to also gain advantages in deployment, etc.

Schedulers can take what's being mentioned here into account. You can say "I need at least 2 cores but would like up to 8" or "I need guaranteed 8 cores, evict lower priority containers if necessary" to ensure your containers aren't fighting over resources . You can also classify machines for certain types of workloads and then specify certain containers should run on a particular class of node. Not all container platforms handle this, but Kubernetes does at least.
> Explain to me why my tax dollars should pay for other people again?

Umm, because we don't want them to die? And society as a whole benefits from it?

> I am not sure I understand why my labor must pay for others against my wishes.

What gave you the idea you get to decide what taxes are used for?
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That is in fact the thing that a UBI allows you to do without compromising progressivity.
What can regular people learn from Pebble? Don't put your money into crowd sourced products from companies that don't listen to the contributors.
As westerners we honor free speech and we do not like censorship. We do not like torture or political imprisonment.
I was offering my experience in discussing these issues with chinese people of whom I know a lot.

Part of my point was to bring forth the fact that stuff we automatically think of as bad, is pretty much a non-issue for the chinese, because to them it makes sense.

Human rights, democracy and free speech is better than oppression.
This was one of the more interesting things I learned during law school that can be easily explained without a lot of background knowledge in the U.S. Copyright and Patent systems.

Now, I am not sure how that wikipedia article refutes what I said. If it is because the article refers to U.S. Const, art I, § 8, cl. 8 as the "Copyright Clause", you can also see under the heading "Other Terms" the article refers to that same clause also as the "Copyright and Patent Clause", "Patent and Copyright Clause", "Copyright Clause", "Patent Clause", "Intellectual Property Clause", and the "Progress Clause." Copyright and Patent Clause is probably the best name for it as the clause deals with both subject matters, (I dislike calling it the Intellectual Property clause, because other areas of IP, such as trademark and geographic indicators fall under other clauses).

Additionally, that article actually supports what I said. In the first paragraph under "Effect", the article discusses how "[s]ome terms in the clause are used in archaic meanings, potentially confusing modern readers." Specifically it discusses how "useful Arts" refers to people skilled in manufacturing crafts and not artistic pursuits, and how "Science" addresses general knowledge and not scientific inquiry.

While wikipedia may not be the best source for this, other wikipedia articles may be illustrative on the original meanings of these words, such as the article on the term Useful art itself. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_art)

But again, the cool thing, is that we can discover this connection ourselves by just looking at the text of the clause. In looking at the clauses construction we can see an A and B pattern being followed. Where A refers to copyrights and B refers to patents. Here is the clause with the A and B pattern annotated.

"To promote the progress of (A) science and (B) useful arts, by securing for limited times to (A) authors and (B) inventors the exclusive right to their respective (A) writings and (B) discoveries;"

Learning this distinction was actually helpful to me in my following coursework, as it helped me understand why in patent law we use phrases like "prior art" and "person of ordinary skill in the art" and why copyright law applies to works outside of creative endeavors, such as scientific journal articles or news articles.

Now, as far as legal effect, these words have very little to do with how we apply the laws of Copyright and Patent. They merely explain the reasons why we empower the federal government with the power to pass laws affecting copyrights and patents. Pass any constitutional challenge that the copyright laws and patent laws are beyond Congress's power, U.S. art I, § 8, cl. 8 is little help in assessing a copyright or patent case.
you must not have gone to b-school, nor know many graduates. The one thing that b school doesn't do is teach people operations. Many professors consider operations easy / tactical / something vs strategy. I actually think b school would be much better off if it did concentrate on teaching students how to properly operate.

and, btw, as a person who has spent 10 years analyzing the healthcare industry, we need more "medical factory" thinking not less.
http://www.leica-geosystems.us/common/shared/downloads/inc/d...

(full disclosure: I work for Leica Geosystems.)

With real-time kinematic service, our GPS receivers give you 8mm horizontally and 15mm vertically. And you will get 3mm hz and 4mm vertical with post processing.
Oh, for sure. I think that is one of the most frustrating things about it. Those who receive e.g. disability benefits but _want_ to contribute are penalised for their efforts whilst simultaneously they can see those who don't contribute and simply play the system.
It's just an unnecessary wrinkle. Taxing earned income is the same as doing what you propose, but incurs higher coordination costs. Also, using your example, it's regressive taxation unless the base rate is higher than 50%.
I'd be surprised if the standard library wasn't spec'd up front, so you'll get that for free at least. Seeing as spec also generates tests and whatnot, it seems like a worthwhile investment for your own functions, if you were intending to write tests anyway.

Also, I think the idea is to write specs for stuff that happens on the edges of the app, such as data received on the wire. If you have that covered, it probably would catch most problems you might encounter, such as receiving a null in a place where you expected a positive integer or such. Since it also destructures the data for you, specs for stuff received on the wire would save you the time you'd otherwise spend taking it apart manually, while simultaneously making sure it's not malformed.

Although I'm not that thoroughly read on spec, so I'm not sure I'm taking everything into consideration.
Now, the Finnish government is exploring how to change that calculus, initiating an experiment in a form of social welfare: universal basic income. Early next year, the government plans to randomly select roughly 2,000 unemployed people — from white-collar coders to blue-collar construction workers. It will give them benefits automatically, absent bureaucratic hassle and minus penalties for amassing extra income.

The government is eager to see what happens next. Will more people pursue jobs or start businesses? How many will stop working and squander their money on vodka? Will those liberated from the time-sucking entanglements of the unemployment system use their freedom to gain education, setting themselves up for promising new careers? These areas of inquiry extend beyond economic policy, into the realm of human nature.

I am not a fan of the idea of universal basic income, but I would love to see the existing social safety net system get tweaked to be less retarded. I hope this experiment goes good places.
Exactly this

Lots of American equipment have self destruction/disablement systems for occasions like this

I wonder if this drone has similar capabilities
Yes. If you pay everyone the same and you wait for years for the inflation to kick in and stabilize.

it's not gonna have much effect if only a few thousands people are paid (who may already get unemployment benefits by the way).
Don't you think the fact that their product didn't live up to their own hype was the reason their subsequent campaigns didn't product sufficient funding?

Even before they slinked out of the industry their product won't connect properly to iOS.

I think your glowing characterization that their users "loved them" was overblown.
It is achievable with static post-processing of GPS data, kinematica claims 8mm. For real time requirements, there's consumer level products that offer accuracy of a few centimeters.

https://www.advancednavigation.com.au/product/kinematica

https://emlid.com/reach/
There is no acceptable limit. It should be for life, or longer.
Compare it to the life's work of most humans.

Humans poop a lot, I'd guess even more than cats...
I don't work on YCR Basic Income, but the early steps of any experiment are pretty time consuming and not particularly interesting (e.g. logistics, experiment structure, etc...) I'd guess we can expect an update early next year with some of those details and a reflection on existing progress.

In their blogpost, they provide an email for feedback: basicincome@ycr.org

They're likely very consumed by all the work they need to do, so I'd reach out if you have some specific suggestions/asks. Otherwise, you can join me in eagerly waiting for more updates when they're ready to share them :)
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We already practice eugenics to a limited degree. Greater than 80% of women who detect down's syndrome through prenatal testing get an abortion.
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> What is that gonna achieve exactly? Aren't prices gonna just inflate upwards and things become less affordable?

Inflation is generalized increases in prices.

I really dont understand why people make the argument that UBI would cause inflation due to demand: it would shift prices of many products (because increased demand in basic cheap goods) but probably marginally so and even then it would not affect inflation rates as a whole. High luxury cars are not going to have more demand.

> If you just pay everyone X amount of money every month for whatever, it just means that in order to produce something you'll need to pay someone a lot more than that X amount in order to work and produce it and also it means that that item is gonna increase massively in cost in order to pay the items production itself.

Outlandish claim! We dont know how its going to happen. Its not true that you have to pay more, actually you could argue you will have to pay less, as UBI supplements the income: i.e. someone that wants to make 1500U$S a month, and with UBI gets 500, might be satisfied with an easy 1000U$S job.

True, the jobs that nobody wants to do will probably have a higher premium: it gives higher leverage to every human being as they can choose not to work a bad job like garbage disposal, or cleaning up road kill. So some labor is subject to decreased supply,and others of increased demand. Its impossible to know what would happen without experimentation.

> You want to solve issues? Give free food/water and shelter for survival, thats all a human needs.

This is the exact opposite point of whats truly attractive about UBI. Free food and shelter is very expensive to give through the state ,and much cheaper to just hand out money!

For example, SF spent 241 million dollars in homeless programs in a year[1]. There are about 6,500 homeless people in SF[2]. Alternatively, the city could have given them 37k U$S cash and come out ahead, effectively putting them above the median income in the US[3]

In theory, the city could literally make the homeless people disappear overnight at no extra-expenditure.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-record...

http://projects.sfchronicle.com/sf-homeless/numbers/ [2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_... [3]
All will become clear when you knw it is God.

You will die of shame for insulting His high priest.
I have yet to see any mathematical model of how Ubi is supposed to work.
You missed the key here. Amazon does not instruct LMS to fire people, because coemployment. But it will inform LMS that they're failing to meet their contractual obligation to hit the complaints target, and in completely unrelated news, here's a list of driver IDs and their complaint rates.
People born into wealth aren't guaranteed that. After all, it's their parents' money, not theirs.
Or can sing.

(People would be wiser to pay me a dollar to not sing.)
Ask HN: What React Native boilerplate would you recommend?
According to the React Native Express site posted on HN a bit ago, there are 3 worth noting. Would you recommend any of these? What about one not listed here?

Ignite - https://github.com/infinitered/ignite

Pepperoni App Kit - https://github.com/futurice/pepperoni-app-kit

Snowflake - https://github.com/bartonhammond/snowflake

Source: http://www.reactnativeexpress.com/boilerplates
I have no interest in engaging in political conversation where not all participants are interested in having their mind changed.
Few reasons come to mind:

The way capitalism is designed is that not everyone can have a job. So you pay the poor not to starve and come loot your house.

Also, I believe, there was a study suggesting that more equal society is better for everyone involved, including you.

Poverty also inhibits education and I suppose you can figure out why uneducated or lowly educated society is bad.
Here's an article about optimizing reflection on Unity AOT platforms like iOS:

Mike Talbots Blog: Faster Invoke for reflected property access and method invocation with AOT compilation

Article: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20120626190355/http://whydo...

Source: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20161005070240/http://www.w...

Newer version: https://gitgud.io/TheSniperFan/unityserializer-ng/blob/maste...

"The bane of the iOS programmers life, when working with reflection in Mono, is that you cant go around making up new generic types to ensure that your reflected properties and methods get called at decent speed. This is because Mono on iOS is fully Ahead Of Time compiled and simply cant make up new stuff as you go along. That coupled with the dire performance of Invoke when using reflected properties lead me to construct a helper class."

"This works by registering a series of method signatures with the compiler, so that they are available to code running on the device. In my tests property access was 4.5x faster and method access with one parameters was 2.4x faster. Not earth shattering but every little helps. If you knew what you wanted ahead of time, then you could probably do a lot better. See here for info:"

"You have to register signatures inside each class Im afraid. Nothing I can do about that."

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1116073/can-delegate-dyna...

If you need to extend this to wrapping member invocations from classes without using Reflection.Emit you can do so by creating a series of compiler hints that can map a class and a function parameter list or return type.

Basically you need to create lambdas that take objects as parameters and return an object. Then use a generic function that the compiler sees AOT to create a cache of suitable methods to call the member and cast the parameters. The trick is to create open delegates and pass them through a second lamda to get to the underlying hint at runtime.

You do have to provide the hints for every class and signature (but not every method or property).

I've worked up a class here that does this, it's a bit too long to list out in this post.

In performance testing it's no where near as good as the example above, but it is generic which means it works in the circumstances I needed. Performance around 4.5x on reading a property compared to Invoke.
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It will be interesting to see the rise of entire industries aimed at fixing your score.
Of course this "test" will fail, they're giving it to a group of people who already have a specific state of employment.
It won't be seen as a safety net to follow their ambition because of its temporary, non-universal nature. It might make sense for them to hoard the cash until the test is over or spend it lavishly as a temporary reprieve from poverty.

I hope this won't create material to make a case against basic income in future.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on launching a SaaS that is 100% open source?
For discussion, the main service would be a multi-tenant service with an option for a single-tenant on-premise installation. Given that you had a proper licensing system in place for on-premise installations of your software, do you believe a business model like this could be sustainable?

Questions:

- Would you expect a lot of individual users to use your software without a license?

- Would you expect businesses to use your software with a license?

- Would open sourcing your software have a positive or negative impact on marketing/customer reach?

- Do you know of any open companies that serve as good examples, aside from GitLab?

Interested in hearing different opinions on the subject.

Edit: I'd like to clarify that by open source, I mean that all source code that the company runs on would be available for review, contribution, issue reporting, etc. — not that it would abide by an 100% free open source software license.
Comments like this aren't really welcome around here, there's plenty of other places on the internet where you can go if you want to be like that.
I am largely with you, however the direct Trump referencing is unwarranted - it is the institution he will represent, not the man, which is involved in this political battleground.

EDIT:
to wit, the institution is the most powerful military force, active across the globe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...
It's named for the idea of "God's algorithm", which is a perfect optimal solution to a puzzle like the Rubik's cube from any position.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%27s_algorithm

The idea of this is that an omniscient being would know the best possible move in any configuration, and therefore might solve the puzzle in a strikingly more efficient way than an ordinary solver.

I don't know who originated the term but, if I remember correctly, it already appeared in Douglas Hofstadter's discussion of the Rubik's cube in the 1980s, so it was already current then. It was a big topic of Rubik's cube research until it was definitely solved (by the people whose work is linked above).
> What is that gonna achieve exactly? Aren't prices gonna just inflate upwards and things become less affordable?

It is a try to save capitalism from itself. You see, today's tech is turning entire sectors obsolete (e.g. self-driving cars). In a standard capitalistic economy, you work at XCorp who pays you (the employee) in order to be able to buy their products. This model worked in the 20th century where industries (e.g. Ford) had thousands or even millions of workers all over the place. Now we have 5-member companies running startups with millions in turnover.

Today average Joe has a very hard time finding a job that will allow him to create a family and live well and no, not everyone can become an engineer, lawyer, doctor or banker.

So, we either find a way to re-distribute wealth or we're up for a bumpy ride that will end bad for everyone...

Universal income is an idea that is making rounds and is generally accepted by modern economists (left, right and liberals) in various forms of course. The idea is that someone with rather basic needs, will spend all his income in food, shelter, clothes, etc. So, since it's nearly impossible for them to find job, just give them money to spend buying stuff, even iPhones if possible...

I believe that we're in a phase of uber-consumerism. To sustain this kind of unnatural growth, capitalism needs to find virtual ways of creating demand or we need to start exporting to mars.
> SQL Server isn't (except perhaps on grounds of licensing cost)

What about supported applications? Most apps I've worked with (eg: django) support MSSQL as a second-class citizen, while other (eg: postgres) are much better supported.
Roads for ants. Flying cars will happen first.
bread, cheese and tomatoes are practically a canonical sandwich!
jTDS is severely lacking in features. AFAIK it stayed on JDBC 3.0 / J2EE 1.3. This is quite outdated for for todays world an is likely going to cause issues with current frameworks and libraries.
Russia's GLONASS too, antennas for which have been built into iPhones since the 4S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS
This is a great list, it looks useful!

In addition to clib[1] mentioned in this list, there's also CCAN[2]. It's another collection of small C libraries, but unlike clib and this list, the libraries are maintained as a single project (for better or worse).

I'd love to see some more convergence on library search and package management for C. I was glad to see clib and CCAN consider coordinating.[3] Hopefully that effort will eventually bear fruit.

1. https://github.com/clibs/clib
2. https://ccodearchive.net/
3. https://github.com/clibs/clib/issues/69
A test is a test is a test.
Benefits are usually contingent on residency. Go away for too long and you lose your benefits.
To everyone complaining that this looks unsafe and rough: yes, it's not as safe as it could be, and yes the forging is not as perfect as it could be (although it gets machined later anyway).

But this is a bunch of guys working together and solving a problem, despite not having the tooling or resources they might like. This is great.
For runtime macros you need to also load the CLJS compiler in your app, which is heavy and overkill in the context of JS apps.

Even so, embedding a CLJS compiler in your app (and hence runtime macros) is possible.
The links say there are 25 of these restrooms in a city of over 850,000 people. That's about 1 per 34,000 people. They are described in the second link as being unreliable and gross, and people are suggested to avoid them in favor of private restrooms. This is not functionally different from not having public restrooms.

I believe that in California, businesses are required by law to allow people to use restrooms, but they try to avoid compliance and do whatever they can to keep homeless people away.
Why is algebra so hard? TED talk by Emmanuel Schanzer