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>I was under the belief that only the middle class protested for basic income. It would have been more interesting if the "beta test" was done on educated/ first world persons, so we can finally get progress (or a full stop) on this debate.

The middle class protests for UBI because the middle class is the one with enough education and free time to think about these problems, and push for solutions, and that also cares about such things (the rich generally don't). The middle class also is closer to the poor side, and both sees what the welfare state is really like and how much of a mess it is and why UBI would be so much simpler and easier to administer, and the middle class also has to worry more about backsliding into the lower classes and so realizes how good it'd be to have that safety net in place.

You're absolutely right, it would be better to "beta test" in industrialized nations, esp. the USA with its very large amount of spending for social services (SNAP, TANF, etc.) and also its large and growing divide between rich and poor and the falling of many poorer people into poverty as their jobs are automated away. Places like Kenya don't really have this issue; they were never highly industrialized. However, doing a "beta test" in the US would be very expensive and it is flatly impossible, politically, at this point in time. The best we can hope for is to try it out in someplace like Finland. So until then, I guess the idea is to try it out in places like Kenya, where it can be done extremely cheaply because the local cost-of-living is so ridiculously low and the standard of living is low too. (Give $10 a week to a Kenyan living in a hut and it'll have a big effect on their lifestyle; give $10 a week to an American, anywhere in the US, and it won't make any difference at all. Maybe they can buy lunch 1 or 2 days with it, and that's about it. It certainly won't pay the rent.)

>This is similar to the Toms fiasco where they would donate a pair of shoes to Africa for every pair bought -- it crippled the local fabrics businesses.

That's something people are going to have to deal with in a globalized world; local businesses have to compete, to some extent, with businesses across the planet. But this is not similar to what you describe. This is giving cash directly to people, to spend how they will; it doesn't favor or disfavor any local business, it just injects more money into the local economy, mainly at the lowest levels, where it'll be spent quickly. If anything, it should be a boon for local fabrics businesses, as the locals will now have more disposable income to spend on things like that. Of course, they might also spend it on manufactured goods shipped from China, but that's not such a bad thing: it'll raise their standard of living regardless.
I wish all the drivers of the world would take this philosophy to heart :)
What shit?
I read it when I am sitting on the toilet.
In the specific case of cryptography where it's unknown how bulletproof the algorithm will be why not use multiple hash functions? Perhaps using the top 10 best hash functions of the day. That way you're not putting all your eggs in one basket and if nefarious collisions are able to be created in the future you still have the other hash functions to both "trust" and double check against. It's even more unlikely that nefarious collisions will be able to be constructed that collide all the other hash functions as well. You could just append the hashes to each other or put them in a hash table or something. Maybe my computer science is not up to snuff but it seems like this would provide more resiliency against future and non-public mathematical breakthroughs as well as increased computing power such as quantum computing. Yes, it would take a little longer to compute all the hashes in day to day use, but with the benefit of a more robust system both now and in the future.
The SF food scene is falling apart and it's somewhat caused by tech workers eating all their meals at their office.
The recent generations can address 128GB as long as your motherboard supports it (my X99 board does).
Me too. Reminds me of The Simpsons episode that charts out what different foods are made of, including Hot Dogs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CptWCSreg_w
I hope they intend to stick one in a NUC. I would love to switch out my old 4-core NUC with a 16-core beast.
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The root problem is that no one sells software anymore. The vast majority of software is an interface to a service, where the goal is achieving minimal results in minimal time. Only software used by professionals gets the attention required to make quality, mature interfaces.
Who is doing this and can't afford a Xeon system? And why should Intel and AMD be making everyone else pay more so that these people can pay a little less?
>> Making frameworks and generalization is the only reason I manage to keep doing what I do.

<sarcasm>
This could be written on the tombstone of JS.
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Trolling people on omegle
I have absolutely no insight into the actual case. If I was into gambling I'd bet that the allegations against uber are true.

But. From experience I can tell you that it is absolutely not trivial for a company to simply claim a given allegation is false. Even if the company is correct and truthful about it. With a tiny kernel of truth to otherwise false allegations, enough bias will give clear answers and the public verdict becomes all the more damning.

So as much as it may be appropriate to damn uber in this case, please don't do so simpy because they didn't go for "a good offense is the best defense" here.
Do you mind pointing out where? I went back through the article and found:

With this initiative, GiveDirectly — with an office in New York and funded in no small part by Silicon Valley — is starting the world’s first true test of a universal basic income.

As you stated, there have been other attempts, so I don't know what the definition of "first true test" is.

A universal basic income has thus far lacked what tech folks might call a proof of concept. There have been a handful of experiments, including ones in Canada, India and Namibia. Finland is sending money to unemployed people, and the Dutch city Utrecht is doing a trial run, too. But no experiment has been truly complete, studying what happens when you give a whole community money for an extended period of time — when nobody has to worry where his or her next meal is coming from or fear the loss of a job or the birth of a child.

The Mincome experiment was 5-years. Why was it not "truly complete"?

http://www.marketplace.org/2016/12/20/world/dauphin

Back to the article:

That, surprisingly, worked well enough to give them the confidence to start a threadbare randomized control trial the year they graduated. It found that the recipients, who received an average of $500, saw excellent outcomes: Their children were 42 percent less likely to go a whole day without eating. Domestic-violence rates dropped, and mental health improved.

Not trying to be argumentative, just not sure what this is testing. What is it controlling for? What is it doing different from previous experiments? What does giving money to every person in a poor community tell you that giving money to poor people in a wealthy community doesn't?

These are very rural and impoverished communities by developed standards. Giving money to the poorest of the poor seems like an obvious improvement for them. What it doesn't say is how you can do it anywhere else.
IIRC they will not reveal this until March 2.
Recent i7 chips support 128GB (my 6800K does).
Well, in the absence of your followup post, your second line about priors could just be interpreted as 'redefine merit to include being female'. Of course that isn't what you meant about changing priors, and I'll be honest, I've been drinking but be more user-friendly :)
http://moovlink.com - you can organise links into cathegories, rearrange them, tag them, search for links ...
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The doc [1] below agrees that there are about 700m in extreme poverty now, which it defines as living below $2/day. If we gave each of those people $2/day, we'd need $550billion/year. So yes, $66b seems low for the $2/day threshold.

I wonder if this $66b is for those who are below $1/day. Looking at the plot in [1], we can guess that the number at $1/day is much lower; $66b would give 181 million people a dollar a day.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty/
Not good for low-carb/keto eaters. Soy has carbs, chicken doesn't.

There has been some discussion regarding subway and carbs in the chicken, because their nutrition shows far fewer than some app trackers do. If it's 50%, that's a serious level of carbs, and makes Subway not an option.
> 24-bit (...) uncompressed audio

Do you really need this much headroom, e.g. for producing music professionally? (If so, why are you arguing over the $50-100 extra for a Xeon?)

Because for listening, it's proven fact that even professional musicians and mixing engineers using equipment costing >$100k can't tell 24 bit from 16 bit in a proper double-blind A/B test. Presumably you use a high sample rate as well (maybe 192 kHz), which is equally useless. Drop both of those, and you're within 64GB easily with no noticable SQ loss.
Sure, here's one: http://www.newsweek.com/2014/07/25/us-department-defence-one...

This one claims that its the third largest polluter of American waterways: http://www.environews.tv/world-news/analysis-dept-of-defense...
>"Next dead-giveaway: non-typist code is... minimalist. They don't go the extra mile to comment things.

Is this why it seems that programmers never write comments these days? I feel like I'm the only one who uses a healthy amount of comments. But I'm also a very fast typist; I've been typing since I was 7 I think, and I can type fast both on QWERTY and Dvorak, and even switch seamlessly between the two layouts (I'm typing this comment in Dvorak). One of these days I want to try out Colemak to see how that compares; it'll probably be really easy for me to adopt it. So typing comments to me is very low-effort.
> Linus just doesn't take this stuff seriously. I really wish he would, though.

Can't downvote this enough. This is plain FUD. Did you even read the complete thread on the git mailing list? This was just one proposal by him.
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Ack just a few months back I started getting IBS symptoms and figured out I'm intolerant to soy, dairy and some spicy stuff. I end up having make a lot of stuff myself because I can't trust what is made in restaurants.
Don't need a xeon for more than 64GB of ram. I have a 5820K with 128 GB ram on an X99 mobo. Runs very well for it's price, though a little power hungry.
How dare you make a joke on HN?
I came to the comments before reading precisely to find a post like this. So often these articles have a lofty title that is unrelated to the content, and I'm increasingly clicking on the comments first to verify the headline against the article.
Huh?

Cloudflare's screw-up had no impact on third parties. What it did was cause havoc for Cloudflare's own _customers_ who had agreed Cloudflare could purposefully MITM them.

For it to function at all, Cloudflare undoes all the TLS encryption, signing up for Cloudflare means saying "Yeah, Cloudflare now has total control of my web site, I don't care, I'm sure these people I've never met are competent and will protect my site and its users". I guess that's OK if you're running a blog about your cat ? But millions of people decided it sounded pretty good for their business or private data. -shrug-
I recently bought my first chicken sandwich in a very long time from subway, and apart from being quite apalling with barely any semblance to chicken, I literally could not eat the chicken because it stuck like glue to my braces and my palate.

One of the worst food experiences in quite some time, and while I've realised lately that I'm quite a bit more 'sensitive' to bad food, I still have a hard time believing that more than a few percent wouldn't react quite negative to the very obvious difference in both taste and texture? However, I must still assume I'm wrong in my intuition, or they would've quickly returned to using more chickeny chicken, wouldn't they ?
No, but the difference between i7 and Xeon is significantly less than what you'd have to pay for that extra RAM. We're talking O($100).
Is it not reasonable to think that if someone says it's a chicken sandwich, that'd be a chicken sandwich?
Well obviously you never dealt with automation in the lab. You don't have to have consciousness to observe or measure but you damn need it to draw meaningful conclusions.
SOMA has no culture—it's almost entirely apartment buildings and startup offices now.

One reason is rents, another is that startups provide food/drinks in order to keep people at work. Not enough demand to create a healthy ecosystem.
But the author didn't get it right though. His conclusion- "By highlighting its Greek heritage, Afghanistan could claim a share of the classical origins of Europe and the West", aspiring to "the 'civilizational norms' of the developed world"- is a tired formula of western Orientalism.
The Seleucid Greek culture has had an enduring impact on the people and culture of Afghanistan, as anyone can see by the Buddhas there which matched the muscled aesthetic of Apollo statutes, as opposed to usual image of the sitting Buddhas in China. Greek culture wasn't some attempt to manufacture legitimacy for national boundaries in the '30s.
Interestingly, it seems that the desire to inherit the legacy of Alexander the Great's feats is not limited to the people in his kingdom. After all, Sean Connery in the film "The Man who would be King" is one of the more famous depictions of Kipling's novella on wayward westerners trying to capture an Alexander glory from the locals, including Civilization V, Star Trek episodes, Jimmy Buffet songs, etc.

Also: Once the Taliban took over, I think everyone can agree that they represented the polar opposite of modernity and ties to Europe. Despite destroying the Buddhas, they did not destroy the Greek antiquities or scrub the Greek from their money.
Could you elaborate? I was thinking along the lines of money as it relates to Maslow's triangle. The more money you have (or skills that equate to money) the higher you can go. Money is freedom, money is self esteem (for many), money is power. Lack of money is imprisonment, despair and weakness to even protect yourself from predators (metaphorically speaking). If 70% of the population is stuck on the first rung, nasty things are going to happen. Once creating automation can itself be automated, that will jump to 90-95%.

For many, money is survival. It's just a convenient instrument to trade. If you are unable to make or have money, you are unable to accomplish anything you can't do by yourself (this includes shelter and sustenance which requires land).

Also, wealth concentration globally is a lot different from wealth concentration nationally. In other words, if we follow globalization as it's been seen in the US recently, the owners can easily sell goods to offshore markets while neglecting the local labor market, allowing them to further diminish. The wealth class can (and do) simply pay the government for protection (police, imprisonment, military, etc).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs

Personally, I'm not so sure a living wage is enough to keep the population at bay. People need something to climb up Maslow's triangle that money is only a prerequisite for. People still need a feeling of accomplishment.
Which version of Firefox is that?
The point is being able to use chicken that virtually nobody would want to eat.
Though they could document what they do or learn with brief posts that are not technically deep but still provide value to those learning. Even sharing one link is sometimes enough to provide value to others. Long form is not required.

Also, writing is a skill. The more you write the better. That means you will sometimes write shit. Thankfully, you can go back and rewrite your early work when your skills improve.

I normally write short posts and then revise them afterwards as many times as required. In fact, I edited this post to add more info.
That seems rather user hostile.
I hate writing boilerplate and I'd rather have pineapples shoved up my behind than write code of the kind that should be in the freaking standard library.

But yeah
>Like C or C++ does.

C is more dynamic than typed. Types are very loosely enforced there and carry little information with them.
It's a great idea: it'll increase profits for large companies like Comcast. Why are you worried about consumers? They don't matter. The only thing that matters is profits for large companies, who then provide generous campaign donations for politicians in exchange for policies and laws like this.
Yes I'm aware of that, but it doesn't change the reality that hedge funds have an incentive to have more money from fewer investors, even if they have to be careful not to take on too much money overall.
> Who cares what the corporate owners feel? They're custodians of infrastructure that was built with substantial government assistance; they knew there would be strings attached, even if they expected in the near term to stay a step or two ahead of the regulators[...]Net neutrality is a lopsided issue. That doesn't mean that the clear right answer is a win-win situation all around.

So what you're saying is that because they agreed to X terms from the government that they should have always expected for the government, later on, to add additional terms to it even in cases where they may not have accepted government assistance? You do realize there are some companies and situations in which infrastructure was entirely laid with little or no government assistance, right? I'm not saying that's common (as far as I understand it isn't) but those people paid a considerable amount of money to do that likely without expecting the government to step in and tell them what they can and cannot do with it.

You seem to have side-stepped my original point, however as I never wanted to argue which side is correct or who's side has merits. In your point of view the argument is lopsided and it's just black and white. What my respond should have shown you is that it isn't clearly black and white.

You would be better for it to try and see both side's point of view instead of completely dismissing one because "who cares what the corporate owners feel".

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."
I got to this on my reading list finally, realizing my first impression that this was a piece promoting an organization called GiveDirectly, wasn't a sound impression (lesson: don't comment till you read the article). This is a higher level than that, it's testing Universal Income, frequently called universal basic income.

Public policy whether implemented by governments or by organizations should test, innovate, change, not just pick an approach and run with it as seems to happen with the largest programs here in the U.S. As far as I can tell there's not been much innovation in the implementation of the safety net since Johnson.

Like anything else humans try to do, there will be bugs, there will be blind alleys, there will be mistakes. Small scale testing is a necessary step so that a working model is ready for larger-scale testing or maybe it'll be found that the implementation will have to have configurations that vary according to local conditions and even just preferences.

I'm a Pacific Northwest guy perhaps out of touch with what Silicon Valley is up to, sometimes I'm critical, but for this initiative, I say thank you. I have no clue how I'd thank anyone for this so just in case anyone involved is reading my comment I would like to express gratitude for doing work that has a high probability of playing a part in making the world a liveable place for my young son and the rest of humanity in the years to come.

By the way, if you've got the chops to beta test UI any chance you could save the Amazon Basin?! Please.
How utterly pointless. We don't need 5G; we still don't have 4G deployed that widely, and even there it isn't all that useful because mobile data costs in the US are ridiculous. This isn't going to change that.
Should work in Firefox 51 as well.
Excellent question. I would recommend the nomadic capitalist.

There is a sheen placed on the US which is waning.

But buying power and corporate freedoms are still better here.

As someone who tried to startup in India and have had success here, the grind may be a bit more currently but still a fan.
This is awesome and I'd like to support the effort to turn it into something robust enough for production. What's the best way to do that?
> well-behaved clients can still reap the benefits

I don't think that the supposed benefits of HATEOAS actually materialise, in the real world.
Who on a low carb / keto died eats a sandwich?
>If it's 50%, that's a serious level of carbs

An ounce of tofu has about 0.5g of carbs. I don't think it's going to add more than a few grams for an entire sandwich.
Doesn't seem that bad:

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-chicken-mcnuggets-are-mad...

The "chicken skin for flavoring" part isn't especially appealing, but chicken skin is fat+protein, just like the rest of the nuggets.
This explains so much of Silicon Valley and the tendency to try to circumvent or avoid regulations at any cost, like for ride sharing, AirBnB, etc.
I'm surprised he didn't encounter the 4th reason for not blogging:

4. The topics I want to blog about are controversial.

That is, strong but controversial opinions on certain technologies are just as likely to help you get noticed as hurt you (i.e. get noticed in a negative way.) Even if the topic isn't technically controversial, it can still be a negative. Revealing that you helped {religious minority church} set up their network, or that you solved a problem with {porn website} can also put a mark on you that is not automatically good. Heaven forbid you worked for/supported {political organization} this election cycle.

So the answer is, of course, to self-censor. You have to strip out your opinion and context and only blog about technical details that you are very confident are correct. Keep your jokes gender neutral and your insights limited to your profession.

But that's boring. That's not blogging, it's writing a corporate memo. We've just ratcheted up the difficulty, limited the new thoughts you're allowed to think, and made you invisible to all hiring managers who can't recognize when your technical manuscript applies to their industry.
Another thread is that a lot of ingredients originated in different places in Europe, thanks to political fragmentation.

- Mass production: Venetian arsenal

- Central Bank: Sweden

- The word Bourse: a certain family in Belgium

- Political philosophy: lots of places

- Coal and steel production, factories: Northern France, Belgium

- Religious freedom: rather bloody wars still in living memory