skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Claims are misleading, wrong, and unsupported.

> Demand for goods increases.

Citation needed. Demand for some goods will possibly decrease: like payday loans or bankruptcy law. Demand for luxury goods won't change at all: yachts, private jets. But even the demand for Big Macs probably won't change all that much. Apply the same exercise to a bunch of other sundry cases: buying a house, life-saving medication, buying a smartphone. You will quickly realize that you cannot categorically state that "demand for goods increases". And more precisely, it is almost impossible to demonstrate that demand will increase the same amount for all kinds of goods. You really need to investigate how much demand will increase for each particular kind of good.

> Supply diminishes.

Citation needed. One thing for which supply will likely diminish: consumer debt assets. Since presumably the introduction of basic income will lead to a decrease in consumer debt. But "goods" in general? What basis do you have for saying this?

> Nobody will do the crap jobs without higher pay, raising the price of everything.

Citation needed. Business owners are very interested in replacing crap jobs with automation. Also, in general, the crappiest jobs today are done by illegal immigrants, who presumably wouldn't be receiving basic income in the future.
I have Spotify to control my PS4 with, a voice recorder for my piano lessons and Codebox which is a list of algorithms I can review and learn. I'm not really a big app user though.
> while China and US are doing nothing about it

China doesn't really care about the environment. Their top priority is growth in order to avoid social unrest, and for feeding all the people they need all the food they can get - and if antibiotics makes farming more productive, they'll do it.

The US, on the other hand, has the problem that Big Ag is a powerful lobby. And Trump, given his total lack of understanding on climate and environmental issues, won't do anything to change that.
Persevering can be good, but sometimes failing can also be good. For example, if you've been trying to push a product for a number of years and the market doesn't take it up, then at some point you need to give up, or otherwise you'll spend the rest of your life chasing an impossible dream.
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SF parent here.

The original idea was to mix up the student diversity. Poor kids would sometimes attend schools in expensive school distracts - Kids from expensive neighborhoods would attend poorer schools.

Hilariously not thought through. (just like rent control). All that actually happened was the rich kids yanked their children out of public school, the "in the middle parents" put their kids into catholic school (which is 1/5 the cost of private here). The poor kids then had to beg their parents to get across the city -- WHICH THE PARENTS could not. What a mess.
This is great work but I think the machine learning part is just thrown in for trendiness reasons. More rigorous statistical analysis should lead to a cleaner algorithm without relying on pretrained classifiers.
Politics will tell people that they will raise basic income to win election. To raise income, they will raise taxes, so I will work 80h for $20K instead of $200K.

It's not a joke: post-USSR countries already have exactly this problem.
Everything that can generate some value to you customer.

Niche doesn't matter.

p.s. It's pretty hard to charge $10 for dating site with only 1 000 users.
> I don't know about Windows Phone, but don't think it's safer than Android.

Windows Phone user here. I know for a fact the SD card you put in your phone is encrypted and can only be decrypted in the phone itself[1]. I don't know for sure about the internal storage; it's supposed to be encrypted if you use a screen lock on your device but I have no easy way to test that. Regardless, if they can force you to reveal your pin/password you're hosed anyway.

[1] "Can't be decrypted" assumes, of course, that the government wanting to decrypt it doesn't have an agreement with Microsoft to hand over the private key or otherwise provide access. My understanding is that Microsoft's position lately has been "no warrant, no access" but that could just be lip service. In either case, Windows Phone is a dying platform and anyone security conscious enough to worry about border crossings would hopefully have something more inherently secure anyway.
Alternatively - under UBI - you may decide to work 6 hours per day, and enjoy the earned income in addition to the regular Basic Income payment, all the while knowing that you can leave (or switch employer) any time without fear of destitution.
occhams razor comes to mind, too
The escaping in Bash can be a pain. I was recently writing an execution wrapper in Bash, and needed to send the results via JSON. Fighting with the quotes was almost enough to make me throw in the towel and move to a language with a builtin JSON parser, but I ran across this technique, of embedding a heredoc to preserve quotes in a variable. https://gist.github.com/kdabir/9c086970e0b1a53c3df491b20fcb0... It 'simplified' things and kept them readable.

Thanks for sharing awklisp. Nice reading for a Sunday morning.
I'm not sure which ones you read. Nate Silver's analysis seemed pretty sound. His team pointed out that, just as with the housing crisis, if the models were wrong in one state, they were probably wrong in all states in the same way, giving Trump a decent chance at winning.

Note that Taleb criticized the speed that Nate changed estimates, not the estimates themselves.
Perhaps healthier hearts?

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm341822.htm

Seems like one of the primary features of this antibiotic was to have a chemical that was new at the time, so patent protection could be enjoyed from that point forward.

Different features can have different priorities at different times, sometimes there's nothing "engineering" can do about it, it's a marketing thing.

Wherever cardiac health might fall on the priorities list, it's probably not way up there for this compound.

disclaimer: haven't worked for a drug producer since I was first out of college
I am glad there is at least one person in this thread who can handle a negotiation properly.
Matter did it's emergence thing and created life. Now life is on the point of creating artificial intelligence. It's our turn this time to push the wheel forward.
What is your best advice for first time entrepreneurs?
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I understand the goal of this law but don't see how it solves it. I usually ask people what their current salary is now. I want to offer them (at least) a modest raise to come here. I want them to be happy and excited. I also want to not waste a ton of time negotiating salary if they want 50K more then I have available in my budget.

You are worth whatever you can get someone to pay you. Some people may come in with a lower ask but then you have yourself, are they a bargain or are they just less talented? If they come in high, are they overpriced or are they just that good?

I also think this only works for the employee if there is a shortage in this field and employers are desperate (but the market will force those prices up) or if you are trying to just get more than your experience might warrant. Let's say you are a knowledge worker making $80K and hoping to go to $90K. So, in the new rules, the employer asks for your expected salary and you say "give me your best offer". The employer will either get annoyed and work with the candidate that said $85K in response or they low ball you at $60K because they can play games too. You say "no" and they ask what you are looking for, rinse and repeat. It seems like you still end up at the same place with the same result except the negotiation process sucked. As a candidate, I don't see the downside of saying I want X+ dollars. I'd rather know about the job and culture and other things than $5K more or less.
Taxes will eat that income with easy: 50% tax on firm, 50% tax on worker before salary, 30% tax on worker after salary, 18% tax into basic income fund, 20% VAT, and hundreds of other, smaller taxes.
This article seems really out of touch, and anybody mentioning the 'UBI' experiment in Manitoba Canada as a success or in a positive light I can hardly trust about the experiments I haven't read about. When we Canadians did an experiment it failed!
I just tell myself there is no other choice this has to be done so failure is not an option.
They'll always consider the low end of the range while you'll always consider the end.

It's not a practical reply.
I don't foresee any event which would cause the right to be free from unreasonable searches at the border to be acquired. I guess the only hope is the supreme court?
In practise, the Schengen agreement does not entirely protect you from the security checkpoints in the airports. It just frees you from the passport control.

I used to love to fly but now actively avoid it. I've been groped, accused, shoved, stolen from, stripped down and set to wait enough that I simply don't enjoy it anymore.

All that said, I still find the US TSA even more ridiculous and slow.
iMessage. TOTP client. Mail. Safari + 1Blocker. Maps.
You are absolutely right about the number of users in a dating site. It should be 1000 users or more.
If you asked me to predict whether you will roll a six or not, then I will predict that you won't. Is that a bad prediction?
You are right. I realize that. I know that an idea alone is worth very, very little. And an MVP is worth little more than nothing.

But even "little more than nothing" is something. That's why I am asking.
That's because people in general, probably you too, are willing to take the tradeoff for resolution of acute problem over long term consequences. Most people are willing to pay for expensive cancer treatments even with the socioeconomic consequences because the alternative is death. Now whether they should or not is a different discussion altogether. Every medical intervention has associated risks and side effects - from the most routine blood draw to a simple laparoscopic hysterectomy to the antipsychotic to treat your schizophrenia. We are willing to take those risks because we decide that it is worth it.

And I would be careful to not make sweeping generalizations about how mainstream medicine makes chronic problems worse. First, most chronic problems are due to population and socioeconomic determinants of health that are often well out of the scope of healthcare providers at least in the inpatient setting. Second, even with chronic problems we have made advances: think about insulin for diabetes, antihypertensives for blood pressure, or statins for heart disease.
UBI is attempting to cloak itself in free market rhetoric, but it's bullshit.

Yes it may "incentivize" some individuals to work, but only by disincentivizing others. It takes money from top wealth producers, discouraging their labor, and gives it to people who aren't producing as much wealth, effectively subsidizing unproductive work. This will make everyone poorer in the long run.

The struggling artist meme is an appeal to emotion. The struggling artists and entrepreneurs are struggling for a reason -- the market does not want their goods or services! They should fail as quickly as possible, not continue to drag on producing things people don't want.

I'll concede that the welfare state has perverse incentives which trap people in poverty, but there are better ways to address it other than doubling down on the mother of all wealth redistribution schemes.
I know of someone else who also had admirable qualities. He was a decorated and brave soldier during the first world war. He didn't smoke or drink, was very loyal to his friends, dedicated his entire life to public service, became the leader of his country despite being low class and fatherless, revitalized his entire country and the spirit of his people, wrote a best selling book, and killed millions of people because the security of his country made it a necessary in his mind.

The fact that Hitler had some genuinely admirable qualities made him more dangerous and not less dangerous. Good people could point to the good things about him and excuse the obvious evil in his ideology.
Having worked in government, at least half of everybody I've met would be considered too incompetent for the job, if it were a normal company. So yes, it would be easy for me to believe that government workers would be laughed at in silicon valley.
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to accomplish - TSA agents are no more trained in computers than your average mall-cop and if they do decide to inspect your electronics

This depends entirely on the context. If you're a high-value target to an intelligence agency, there's a very high probability they would have someone pose as an agent of the TSA or CBP, or that they would have one of those agencies grant them access to your electronics. Someone involved in the publication of leaks or creation of security-related software would count as a high-value target.

they're confiscating headphones and power cords - there's no rhyme or reason here except intimidation

This, too depends on context. For the average person, the purpose is obviously nothing more than harassment. It's not difficult for a flash drive to be concealed inside a USB cable though, and if you're being targeted for a search, it makes sense for them to take everything.

On the other hand, a MicroSD card can be hidden just about anywhere, so if they're not going through all your stuff with a fine-toothed comb, the whole thing is theater.
STL here too. Also happy to be in flyover country with my family, close to a major city, working remote for a coastal startup.
A UBI would end up selectively helping those who need it and not putting money in the pocket of those who don't (in general). The UBI would have to be paid by taxes -- more than $1000 per month would come from those who are well off and less than $1000 per month would come from those in need.

Your theory that the cost of food would go up if people had more money is out of whack.
Canadians say they were turned away at US border on way to Women's March
For production software I program in Python, C#, Java, PHP, HTML5/JS but to keep my language skills and curiosity happy, I play around with different Lisps (including Clojure/Shen), APLs (including Q), Forths and languages made for formal verification (Idris/Coq). It is very interesting what people do with these languages and I like playing with most of them, but besides niche jobs, I don't cannot use them for production. It is simply not sellable to companies who are not used to them.

I have a copy of the first Q for Mortals (I bought it a while ago); thanks for this one for free.
More people buying stuff increases demand - econ 101. If more people aren't buying stuff, why bother giving them the money? Of course prices will rise.

The only way this isn't equivalent to the government printing money is the money comes out some rich people/company's savings accounts where it wasn't being spent anyway.
> Exactly, I refuse to go to USA even for conferences I'm invited to speak at.

And unfortunately, it's only going to get worse. Our new glorious leader is extremely nationalist and isolationist, and I truly fear it won't be long before we're as bad as NK; no one in or out except those personally approved by the president. Not necessarily during his reign, but perhaps in the next 20 years or so.

A year ago if anyone had told me what I just wrote, I'd have laughed in their faces, but it seems at least half the citizens of this nation feel the same as him, that America should be a walled-in island and fuck the rest of the world.
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> This will make everyone poorer in the long run.

I think that's unlikely, though it depends on a lot of factors (UBI is a pretty general concept, and the specific implementation and numbers matter). It may reduce aggregate GDP, but that's not the same as making everyone poorer, since distribution matters when determining that. If, to take an exaggerated example, the top 10% of earners have their income multiplied by 10x and everyone else's goes down by 5%, "everyone has gotten richer" according to some kind of aggregate metric, but in reality 90% of actual people have gotten poorer. Most economists no longer believe that these kinds of situations are automatically self-correcting through "trickle-down economics", in which just getting out of the way of wealth-creation at the top inevitably lifts all boats.
Mostly wholesale but with significant retail/ Mail order and telesales operations. We are relatively complex due to the multi channel nature. We have some special needs as we run a bonded (duty suspended) warehouse but they are limited. We are looking firmly in the general purpose market. Stuff like MS Nav and my current usability favorite SAP Business One. The company has limited in house tech and needs a lot of implementation support and a third party who will manage the DB
Not everyone has such handy and knowledgeable parents.

Edit. Grammar.
Thank you, captain. I already said that.
6 and Not 6 are two choices
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It makes zero economic sense [at the individual level]. As a society, we've largely resigned to care about of the future of the native population and instead propose immigration to solve the "children are too damn expensive" problem.
I'll echo the same. I decided some time ago that I disliked some aspects of my personality, especially shyness and sadness. I made a choice to systematically practice the habits of someone who was outgoing and happy. Now I am, mostly. Sometimes I still need to remind myself that change is possible.
Oracle Solaris might be dying, and Linux sure has a large market share, but illumos as the open source continuation of OpenSolaris is doing very well.

If you enjoyed ZFS, Zones, DTrace and so on in the past there is a good chance that you'd like OmniOS, one of the illumos distributions for classic server environments.

There are more distributions like SmartOS that tkae a more innovative approach as cloud-hypervisor that is just a slim live system.

Most of the original ZFS Developers are now working on OpenZFS in illumos.
Beeing open source also means collaborations with other OS projects like FreeBSD (bootloader and more), NetBSD (pkgsrc) is happening.

This is all independent of Oracle.
Tell us what the MVP is and we can give you more ideas. Without knowing anything about what it does, what do you want to hear ? let me give you an example. There is a framework called Spark [0] which is built on top of Laravel framework. It sells for $99 and comes with registration, auth, payments, admin dashboard all out of the box.
Does your MVP beat that ?

[0] http://spark.laravel.com
I opt out 100% of the time in the US.

There is no readily available linkage between my presence at the pat down and my identity. I have never had to identify myself for scanning or for pat down.

It would take some effort to link me, either via facial recognition or surveillance tracking back or forwards to a sign-in location where my identity is known.

After opting out 100% of the time for years, I've had my bags inspected by TSA (the little note inside) only twice (out of probably 10 domestic trips and 40 international trips). Both times were international and both times were where I was carrying random wires, Arduino experiment kits, etc. (things that probably look suspicious on an Xray).

I doubt either had to do with opting out.
> As an American citizen who travelled extensively up until TSA made me too miserable to continue,

What happened?
Which is contrary to how many of the framers wanted the nation to be run... I cite Jefferson

>>"The Constitution... meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch." --Thomas Jefferson [1804]

>>"To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem [good justice is broad jurisdiction], and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves." --Thomas Jefferson [1820]

>>"This member of the Government was at first considered as the most harmless and helpless of all its organs. But it has proved that the power of declaring what the law is, ad libitum, by sapping and mining slyly and without alarm the foundations of the Constitution, can do what open force would not dare to attempt." --Thomas Jefferson [1825]

Over the last 200 years to much reverence and power has been placed in the hands of the Supreme Court, and the federal government in general.
I don't think any countries have successfully automated most of their economies yet so it's apples and oranges.
Difference between $X for 0hpd and $Y for 6hpd is too steep.
The package on pypi is just a placeholder currently (although it should install OK, I'll check that). We're working on the full client right now which should be ready in the coming weeks :)
My refusal is on political grounds; it was never for medical safety concerns.
The use of Ionophores in feed doesn't seem to be a huge problem (they are a substantial portion of the total by weight, but I think not a majority).
The same way that my water/lights utility company tells me to stop using so much electricity and water because there is a shortage?
Does it need to make accurate predictions or just inform good decisions?

I think a model can be bad at the former but good at the latter.
Tripwire in the cloud?
Here is the same author in 2014 attempting to explain how basic income won't lead to massive inflation:

https://medium.com/basic-income/wouldnt-unconditional-basic-...

>>>It would not be new money, just money shifted from one location to another. This means that the value of each dollar has not changed. The dollar itself has only changed hands.*

There is no sure fire way to reduce the value of a dollar then to redistribute it to people that didn't work for it. The fact that you have to work for the dollar is the thing that gives the dollar value.
We are taking about "basic" needs here. All your argument then must imply that UBI or NOT UBI, "basic needs" must be denied to part of the population or else they get too expensive.

And as almost all will agree, that's not only logically wrong, it's also morally wrong.
The US has banned the use of medically important antibiotics as feed additives:

https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/03/fda-livestock-antibiotic...

It's not a particularly aggressive action but it probably clears the 'nothing' bar.
There are countless of arguments about how their methodology was wrong and what could be improved, all over the internet.

Could you link to a couple of your favourites? Non of the ones I've seen felt very convincing.
3k? (studio?) Please send me the link.
I don't think it is Big Ag, because Big Ag would be more than happy to sell a premium product at a higher cost. It's more of a consumer demand thing.
It's really the best part of life because with each failure, the goal becomes more meaningful. The only way to be miserable through repeated failure is to expect that everything you do will work out.