skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you might underestimate the cost of services that address the extended consequences of basic poverty. There is lots of criminal enforcement, healthcare, housing, etc., that is disproportionally expensive to maintain due to the perverse incentives created by existing policies.

With basic income, the only people who would need additional services would be those with physical or mental illnesses which prevent them from being able to escape from squalor. Whereas today there are many people whose skill-set consists of many clever ways of exploiting the social programs that are intended to provide much-needed assistance.

Also, with basic income, there would still be taxation of that income so many blighted areas would begin to have a tax base for things like law enforcement and other important infrastructure.

When you consider that nearly half of Americans effectively pay zero income tax today (1), their productive output is very low and most of it goes directly into state taxes and payroll taxes (which are highly regressive).

So the accounting of basic income would necessitate removing the regressive shackles of payroll tax AND replacing the demographically unsustainable social security system with something funded out of general revenue.

The thing I like best about basic income is that it corrects for the political distortions caused by social security. The annual statements are expressed in highly misleading future dollars and the whole thing is a self-perpetuating shell game that nobody can count on.

But imagine instead a large number of voters of all ages who happen to have had to lean on basic income for some period of time in their lives. We'd end up with a system driven (politically) by empathy and experience, at least compared to the status quo when it comes to social welfare programs.

Imagine if everyone who ever took out unemployment insurance, had to consider filing for bankruptcy, ruined his/her credit score due to unexpected job loss, etc., could relate to the usefulness of having that basic income to fall back on.

There would be a huge impact on things like payday lending and all the gray market (or even black market) lending that victimizes the poorest among us. Suddenly a whole swath of minor organized crime vanishes.

Similarly, kids whose parents are unable to create a stable financial environment would have some degree of additional stability. Not to mention the reduced stress placed on the lowest earners. Studies show that low status work is among the most stressful things humans experience, and I would not be surprised if a lot of substance abuse and domestic abuse were reduced by the type of broad cushion that basic income provides.

Even Milton Friedman advocated for Basic Income, calling it "negative taxation" so that there would be a consistent incentive to work which lacked the distortions caused by typical approaches to welfare.

1: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/45-of-americans-pay-no-fede...
I definitely didn't claim that value only came in the form of software... in fact I think I claimed the opposite of that in saying that reddit calling their platform their product was useless and unhelpful. They have one thing that is attractive to users, advertisers, investors, and creators. That thing is their community. Pretending anything else is what they should try and capitalize on is silly.
It's poetic, yes, but why? As you say, you already needs lots of special handling to be able to bootstrap. On the other hand, treating the files as actual files causes bugs like this one. So on what occasion would $MFT being a file (and not some special purpose data structure) actually be useful?
At some point in the future people could dig it up for use as fuel in fast breeder reactors. Even if renewables such as solar and wind take over fully, it would be the responsible thing to do for future generations to truly get rid of the waste completely instead of just hiding it away.
Jacque will be missed. Fantastic communication, patience and ideas. I actually wrote Jacque in once as my vote for president as well as donated to the Venus Project.

This should be front page news, good to hear it at least is on HN and NYT.

He has said in the past he didn't think our current society would make it to his ideas in his lifetime and that it may take a 100 years or so. He knew he was playing the long game and was laying the ground work for society many years out. A true visionary unbound by the scars of modern civilization.

Jacque (and Roxanne) have deeply affected my life and direction. I will continue to strive towards the ideas brought forth by them.
UBI would need to implemented as a Negative Income Tax where all welfare programs are effectively replaced by the NIT. I think the one caveat would be that for UBI to work under this model, that there is universal healthcare in the mix. The cost of healthcare is used as a benchmark against which the NIT threshold is set.
This might be a good idea for a startup where they create a plug and play service so users do not have to go through all of this.
Are you an idiot?

Thanks!
Yanis Varoufakis, Greek Minister of Finance during the Greek debt crises, has suggested that the (somewhat hidden) redistribution of money from the wealthy parts of USA to the poorer part via federal government spending is part of what allows the poorer parts of the USA not have the same level of problems that Greece (and Spain?) has with respect to Germany in the EU. The EU budget is about 1% of European GDP while US federal budget is abut 20% of USA GDP.
I worked for Change circa 2010 ~ 2011. Interesting to see how their revenue model has changed.

IIRC they were previously making money by building email lists for non-profits and other orgs that would essentially contract Change to get them exposure.

From what I read here, seems that wasn't really working out. Not sure what to make of becoming it a crowdfunding platform.
silly but true, just google "everest damages". Me sitting in front of a laptop, using my bike as transport, I've an infinitesimal fingerprint on environment. Most people don't care, but still doing a trip there + the amount of energy and material spent (from the fabrication process to transport) on it, damages much more than driving in car during all that period

it's surprising how much people can't realize it
At this point no one expect alphago would lose. So just have fun
I don't think scheduling a ride a few days in advance actually helps the drivers. One of the best things about Uber or Lyft for the drivers is that they don't have to think about scheduling, they're told exactly where to drive.

If they have a scheduled ride and they forget about it, or they're stuck waiting around to make that ride and lose business, that doesn't seem like it will be popular.

One big thing that Uber needs to fix is the incentive scheme. One of the Uber drivers I talked to said she hated how they were, in my words, gamified into earning their incentive bonuses. And the incentive bonuses change every time, so it makes it hard for them to keep track. That's something Uber needs to change in order to increase driver satisfaction, making it clearer and more consistent on how to earn the incentives which is where the drivers make more. I don't see how Lyft's "Power Zones" are any different from Uber showing where surge is occurring, but if it works, then great.
Hint: It doesn't, it's spam.
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I was at a Tesla dealership the other day, and the "sales associate" or whatever they call them was really pushing me away from the Model 3. He said, "Think of it like an electric Civic. It has no luxury features. The dashboard is a flat board like a picnic table. It has no speedometer or any gauges in front of the driver (it's all on the touchscreen in the middle). It doesn't have air conditioning on the passenger side, or even a glove box. The entire $30K of the car is for the battery."

It almost made me want to pull my Model 3 reservation.
Not just Flash. I recall seeing it bundled with all manner of Freeware over the years. Google was spending some big bucks to get Chrome onto every damn Windows install out there.
If you don't have a bureaucracy that tracks income and fraud, you also don't have a tax system to pay for your UBI...
What you want is a handy WWW page to refer to.

* http://jdebp.eu./Humour/exiting-emacs.html
Not naive, and that's pretty much the primary reason. But for all web components in general, not just the Polymer flavor.
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IMO, you're comparing from the wrong things.

AlphaGo is good at playing Go specifically, sure. But AlphaGo was built by machine learning infra that is capable of doing more than just playing Go.

Google's ML capabilities as a whole are the 10x developer.
> It would be nice if other languages allowed implementing "syntactic sugar" in an easy way. A lot of stuff that's done with reflection in C# could be replaced.

They're talking about allowing that in C#, but it's not there yet, see https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/107
Presumably another driver would pick it up - it wouldn't just get dropped.
Yep, so much spam from change.org after signing a petition, had to unsubscribe
No Javascript version:

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https://archive.org/download/opentimestamps-calendar-backups...

https://ia801509.us.archive.org/13/items/opentimestamps-cale...

https://github.com/opentimestamps/opentimestamps-client

https://alice.btc.calendar.opentimestamps.org/calendar/
https://bob.btc.calendar.opentimestamps.org/calendar/
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Forget the marketing gimmicks: It’s time for colleges to cut costs
Wikipedians join push for Fair Use in Aust. after 6 Gov't reports recommend it
Yes, they weren't doing this on their own initiative, they had a contract to test 4 specific vehicles of which 3 were VW TDIs, I think. They didn't initially think they'd found cheating, and it took a year or two for CARB to get interested and things to develop.

You'd think someone would fund broader testing...
Shameless plug, but that is very similar to the immer::box type in this library of immutable data-structures: https://sinusoid.es/immer/containers.html#box
From the book 'Peak: Secrets of the new science of expertise', Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool state that to be an expert you must be successful at something more than once.

Which means that just because someone was successful doesn't mean they were directly responsible for it. Like being on a team where you may have even been the manager but the team players were what made it truly successful. If you were successful on two different teams then the odds of you being a key player in that success are much higher.
The whole cross-origin model in browsers, like it or not, allows something like this. It's hard to fix. Chrome already aggressively restricted permissions for file:// in a way that broke existing apps because they wanted to limit the risk of attacks against the local filesystem.

IIRC there have been file://-related vulnerabilities in webapps like pdf.js, too.
> So in the end, UBI needs to be accompanied with some sort of tax reform, and isn't just about sending out checks to everyone (including Warren Buffet) on top of the existing system.

Yes - and the tax reform, fundamentally, has to address the imbalance (colloquial 'income inequality') between the sectors that make money from money (tech, finance, law) and leech it away from people 'trapped' working within sectors that use money as their actual lifeblood (spending it on resources as much as they take in from their sales of goods or services).

Tire companies (or whatever) don't exactly create "cash hoards" quite like Apple - who have $250B just in their offshore fund (i.e. doing nothing for American citizens). The entire basis of this country is apparently this idea that jobs and taxes serve to make access to resources accessible to all; but taxes are written in the orders-of-magnitude wealthier realms that're all but blinded to what even a day in a poor slum looks like.
I'm not sure where the claim of "untraceable security" came from.

I do something similar to this. The goal isn't avoiding legal liability or based on the belief that AWS, et al are friendly.

There are multiple reasons, but the single biggest is to thwart last-mile surveillance by my ISP. That alone is worth $10/mo and a few minutes of setup.
Wikipedians in Australia are running banners to raise awareness that they ALREADY benefit from Fair Use; that schools must pay to use freely accessible websites; and that common activities like sharing memes or just forwarding an email is technically not allowed. Blogpost:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/22/australia-fair-use/
Aussies are encouraged to write to their MP at https://www.faircopyright.org.au/take-action/#emailform

Social media on: #FairCopyrightOz
I think the point is not that net neutrality would somehow stop Comcast from abusing its trademark like this, but rather that absent net neutrality Comcast probably would be hijacking or blocking it.
Grrrr... BI no longer works when you have an ad blocker installed.
Yeah, that was a question I had while watching the stream too. Is a team of Go experts working together typically considered stronger than a single, highly skilled player playing alone?

Also worth noting that due to the time constraints of this particular match, the human players didn't really have a lot of time to discuss and debate every move they chose, which could have had a negative impact on the potential advantages of working as a team.
If you consider that the team is just a group of experts discussing an ongoing game and variations that may be better/worse, it seems pretty common. I'd imagine that multiple experts could perform better given sufficient time. With only a few hours, most of the time seems like it'd be lost in inefficient human IPC.
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Thankfully no, M0s nearly come in cracker jack boxes now days. A lot of what used to be on 8bits are moving to M0s because why the heck not.

Commercially advertised prices are around 60 cents in bulk, corporate buys in the 100s of thousands are going to be cheaper than that. Death to 8bits! :)
> you'd think a well-equipped Corolla will be competitive with the Model 3.

When I was at the Tesla store, this is what they said. Their exact words were, "Think of it as an electric Honda Civic".
>> Microsoft has been informed, but at the time of publication has not told us when or if the problem will be patched.

Doesn't a bug like this one deserve a responsible disclosure and wait for a patch to be available? The report doesn't state when Microsoft was informed about this, but given the severity of this issue and the fact that they haven't heard back, I would suspect it wasn't too long back.
i think the point is that the powered one is not very compelling. He even pointed out a slight benefit to the standard mechanical ones.
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So we started the website you see today to help inspire others to go out and create magic. The prints also look really good as wall art ;)

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EVs have boatloads of torque at low speeds. The challenge with Teslas on the autobahn is that they have one gear, which reduces their top speed and torque at high speeds compared to a multi-gear transmission.
He lied in his confirmation hearing after being pressed on an issue. Then admitted he was not truthful after it was publicized. Lots of people (especially in Gov) get away with that sort of stuff without conviction. That seems to have been a large point of the last election no? Different set of rules for everyone else and all that.

I'd say my posts were drenched in bias from the very start. I'm amazed you missed it ;)
These look awesome - I just ordered the Google PageRank patent! I literally want to hang every one of these in the office. My second favourite has to be the Microchip patent filed by Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor. A close third would be the IBM patent filed by Arthur Dickinson. Really great job with these overall - I'll be ordering some more for birthday presents
Exactly. Nobody is going to be confused and think comcastroturf is Comcast's website or a website that Comcast registered.
Latency is not a problem for low orbit. You're adding a few hundred miles to the trip, which adds single-digit milliseconds of latency. Cost is a huge problem (that's why Iridium went bankrupt) but SpaceX will be able to launch their constellation far more cheaply than it cost Iridium in the 90s.

I agree that they're vaporware until they deliver, but latency isn't going to be the killer.
I'm still hoping for ligature support, especially with how common arrow functions have become:

https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig

The lack of them is one of the reasons I'm considering switching to VS Code.
I could be incorrect, but I don't believe Bundler was the first to lock and manage dependencies? I seem to recall using such tools before 2010. This isn't to take away from your main point by any stretch; only recently has JavaScript gone from "downright terrible" to "tolerable" and most of it is through doing what others already did, better, many years before. It still feels like a lot of the community doesn't have sufficient exposure to stuff outside their closure and people who work with that community's stuff are the worse for it.
I think your response is a bit narrow and takes my response out of context. It also ignores a number of other issues to make electric cars look better than they really are.

1. Electric cars use a lot of copper and lithium. Mining of both are horribly polluting. The worst EPA superfund site is a former copper mine. Lithium mining is also pretty bad. However they are at least localized.

Electric cars still need power, most of which still comes from carbon emitting sources. Until the world switches to renewables, electric cars still generate carbon indirectly. California and other areas are much better about this but Tesla Model 3 customers don't all live in CA.

2. I was trying to answer the initial question from the perspective of a potential customer of the Model 3. If someone is as passionate about the carbon emitting issue as you, they can already do that with Nissan Leaf, BMW i3, or Chevy Volt. They don't need to wait nor pay more for the the Tesla Model 3. So within that context, the other things that make BM3 3-series what it is matters. These things include the interior, etc.

3. BMW already do updates over the air but not nearly at the rate that Tesla does. Tesla really has embraced software whereas other carmakers treat it as an overhead. I really hate how Autopilot is presented. It's not really self-driving because they keep telling you to be involved in the driving process. Until they can confidently say it's completely autonomous, it's more of a novelty than an useful feature.

Edited: Kudos for being so passionate about the issue. It does matter to me and which is why I still haven't completely dismissed the Model 3 as a choice.
Sound logic.

Except you're presuming that Moore's Law will last forever.

How will you know when it's about to stop?
"Most people" using new/delete with raw pointers = memory leaks and crashes, guaranteed.

unique_ptr and shared_ptr are really simple and incredibly useful. If you're too scared to use them, you should not be using C++ at all.
> I drive a BMW 3-series, which would be the Model 3's main competitor.

See my other comments about how at the Tesla store they describe the Model 3 as a competitor to the Civic and Corolla, not the BMW and Lexus.
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According to http://kdvr.com/2017/05/14/7000-coloradans-names-addresses-u... the addresses seemed to be real. Also I thought the comments were appearing to come from Comcast subscribers, but according to http://jeffreyfossett.com/2017/05/13/fcc-filings.html it's coming from data breaches instead.
What is Rust's monoculture?
Glad to hear that sublime is still alive as I find it very intuitive (I grew up using Windows shortcuts). The thing that makes me still search for alternatives is the closed source condition. If I can find another editor with similar speed and capabilities (but software libre) I'd switch without thinking. Atom it's great but as a front end developer dealing with large code bases in a text editor that can't handle large files, fast search, and keep many files open it's a no-go.

I have donated to organizations such as Wikipedia, FSF, EFF, etc. so in my case software libre it's not about saving money. I acknowledge that making money with a software libre project it's still a challenge.
deleting seti-ui and seti-syntax will fix the problem of not being able to update packages[1]

[1]: https://github.com/atom/apm/issues/620
A very common methodology is using a technique called fuzzing. There exists many fuzzers which have produced great success finding a plethora of both non-exploitable and exploitable bugs for Linux [1] [2].

[1] https://github.com/kernelslacker/trinity
[2] https://github.com/google/syzkaller/
Linkedin have betrayed our trust
Heads-up display to give Soldiers improved situational awareness
So this is of course anecdotal but the only time I book taxis is when it's very important I get somewhere in time, like catching a plane early in the morning. Given the nature of Uber/Lyft it would take a lot before I would trust them with this.
Yes, but it is a bit awkward. You can can separate implementations depending on whether T has a particular member function. I need to look up how every time, though.
Interesting that there's no mention of UC Browser in this thread. I actually only learned about this browser myself today, but seems to be gaining a lot of marketshare: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268254/market-share-of-i...
Turns into 'tessless'