skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that it would be handled the same as senior citizens who gamble or drink. Next month another check arrives, same as usual.

But who worries about this, or would consider cutting social security due to drinking or gambling?
If I were Sam A. instead of (or in addition to) funding UBI, I would fund R&D projects which enable people to live as off grid and self-sufficiently as possible with all the comforts of urban/suburban living without all the costs.

Basically strive to enable Amish style living but instead of trying to maintain an complete early 19th way of life, include elements which are near free due to automated manufacturing.

You supply the land (lot in an exurban area near a major metro with a temperate climate) and labor and the rest is available at a minimal recurring cost.
1.) Housing - Permit ready Ikea like house with mail order pre-cut 2x4 and panels
2.) Energy - Solar charged battery/heating/cooling
3.) Transportation - 4 wheeled e-mountain bike
4.) Clothing - Target/Walmart
5.) Food - Self grown heirloom tomatoes, quinoa with store bought supplements such as cheap corn, meats, etc.
6.) Telecom - Long Range Wifi Receiver or Internet Cafe
7.) Education - Khan Academy, home schooling
8.) Entertainment - Youtube by DVD

The first two minutes of this video are pretty interesting/inspiring (not that I'm ready to drop everything to start a farm or anything...yet):

Urban Farmer Curtis Stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHls2HEFudw

TLDR - Farming can teach you a lot about yourself.
Greetings, comrade! I see by your comment that you don't often use VPNs, or tor, and even limit your use of incognito/private tabs[1]. Thank you for being a good citizen! Carry on!

/s NNAlphabetPopulationSentimentBOT 0.1alpha-3zulu-beta-5-mark20

[1] We are getting better all the time at tracking activity in private/incognito tabs, but there are still some gaps particularly when users manually enable extensions like ublock in incognito mode. This hurts the user's experience on the web, and we suggest only enabling google extensions in incognito. It's incognito even without privacy-enhancing extensions. We promise. Nevermind that we know enough about you to let you bypass our captchas.
That's awesome. I haven't played with webpack 4 yet. Just recently started playing with webpack 3. I'd be keeping an eye on it.
> The math doesn't work and has never worked. UBI proponents will never talk math because it doesn't add up, even with the most casual analysis.

I'm happy to discuss the math with you any day of the week. One of the biggest misconceptions that many people have is that the basic income (or any government funding) must somehow be funded through taxes.

That's not how money works.

There's a limit to the amount of government spending that the economy can productively absorb and that amount has very little, if anything to do with the amount of tax revenue that the government collects.

> But just to do that in the US you are talking about 3 trillion dollars (300 million x $10k for easy math) that you have to find in the budget.

If you try to do this using conventional budget math, you're not going to get the right answer.

> Now basic income advocates will say you can make up some if not most of that by cutting welfare programs

No. This is a terrible idea and it's due to the same misconception.

I agree with you that most basic income advocates don't understand the underlying economics. But the underlying economics are nevertheless sound.

> How exactly do you convince a nation which already isn't willing to pay for healthcare to pay for basic income, too?

Yup. Politically, it would be very difficult to accomplish. That's why we have to do it ourselves.

> I'd love to be wrong, but I've never seen any numbers that are workable, especially in a political climate anything like today.

If you're interested in digging deeper on how this could work, I'm working on an economics paper that describes the economics of a basic income.

Here's an abstract:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9KDLUTAOkduOXdNQWl3REw4eWc...

Email me if you're curious about reading the full thing.

> There could be a complete paradigm shift in the future, where machines literally take care of all needs in an automated way, but that's such a strange reality that welfare reform is honestly about the last problem we'd need to discuss.

We've been undergoing this paradigm shift for centuries. It won't reach its full potential without a basic income to allow people to take full advantage of the wealth we're already capable of producing.
Password Manager Sanity for the Plebian Coder
I've spent the passed day reading about good Password managers. It seems obvious 1Password, LastPass and others are not safe.

Then there is KeePass, which had an original version that relied on Mono which is a Microsoft owned company with some patent issues, then there was a cross platform fork, but a quick search on HN history for KeePass has some serious flaws pointed out.

Then I saw there is TOTP and Yubi Key Support, at which point embedded in the comments people who had worked on KeePassXC merges and patches had issues with TOTP, arguing it was only storing TOTP, and furthermore that was a bad idea since then everything would be in one place.

It's not that I expect there to be one answer, or that I want all the answers handed to me, or that I am not willing to put in the work to learn more about this stuff, but honestly without being a crypto professional, full time hobbiest or expert or spending a month doing your own code audits,

Outside of making sure the (open source ones) crypto is implemented correctly,

is there any framework of analysis to go through that the average coding plebian can apply to considering what is safe for PassWord managers? aka any browser extension is unsafe, or if browser extension, these are the main things to rule out.

Is it not safer to write things down on a piece of paper after running your own random password generator offline, and switching those frequently?

Also, I see alot of talk about many new Password managers, but what about Password Safe written by Scheiner? I don't see anything in HN history about Password Safe, but it seems pretty secure.

Is a Yubi key always a good solution? Would it not be safer to have the equivalent of a Yubi key in your own head as your own primary or secondary one password fits all?

I know there are many many debates, and I'm sure they will occur here too, but is there an even slightly reasonable way for someone to navigate choosing a good password manager?
NASA's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
my motivation from a while back was it would be so useful to have something that you can dump few megs of independent entropy into your /dev/urandom right before generating BTC/ssh keys. TrueRNG stick is also good, but just 40kb/sec (i have TrueRNG on cron job reseeding every hour anyway)
> Even upon receiving that, many people would still work massive hours to obtain the best house on the block.

I'm no UBI expert, but I don't think you understand the point of UBI: universal basic income. I would argue (again no expert here) it's more about constant economic injection, providing a baseline to reduce risk of entrepreneurship and generally providing a higher quality of life to the 99%'ers.

As far as paying for it or finding the right way to make it happen in the US, I agree that there are a ton of roadblocks. Right now welfare is at $1.3 trillion, let's say that was increased to $2 trillion; divide by 300 million Americans and you've got over $6,500 per American per year. Just over half of what you stated is the typical amount discussed. That being said, I could certainly find a good use for an extra $500+ a month in income.

> How exactly do you convince a nation which already isn't willing to pay for healthcare to pay for basic income, too?

I think it's the politicians and the news media that twists this, Americans in polls generally do support single-payer health care and I would posit this same sentiment would be shared for basic income (if not more support since it's quite a bit easier to understand)
> Right now semis are heavily subsidized by everyone else

Ok but its not like these guys are just joyriding around, they are providing a service to make sure that people get the things they need and food to eat
I'm not a lawyer, but the actual law says "An employer shall not, orally or in writing, personally or through an agent, seek salary history information, including compensation and benefits, about an applicant for employment." It would probably be up to a judge to determine whether asking for a range could be construed as asking for "salary history." Considering this law is a misdemeanor, which means the potential for jail time, I'd stay on the side of caution until some test cases come out.
It's buried in the wired article, they found zero days to use to infect hosts.
TIL you can use AppleScript to inject Javascript into every browser page you visit, regardless of browser, as an alternative to using a browser plugin to (for example) monitor every website you visit.
Or they’re looking at Kmart and Sears and worried they’ll be next.
I mean sure, you could seize the means of production and capital and pump a bunch of currency into the economy, but that's just textbook communism. This is literally what Venezuela did with its oil supply.
> If I were Sam A. instead of (or in addition to) funding UBI, I would fund R&D projects which enable people to live as off grid and self-sufficiently as possible with all the comforts of urban/suburban living without all the costs.

This would be a mistake. Self-sufficiency is very inefficient. By pooling our resources, we can live much more sustainably and prosperously.

If everybody in the world tried to live like the Amish, we'd destroy the planet in no time. That lifestyle was only sustainable when there were far fewer humans.
Maybe not, but I wouldn't be sure that that's it; the stated version on the top of the page is an important one, or at least is as long as IE 11 is a thing.
No apology is enough to atone for Pomplamoose.
Sure they do, most developers are even't aware that ANSI C does not define any kind of inline Assembly, and ANSI C++ only defines the existance of an asm keyword with implementation defined behavior.
My point is not meant to imply that bad actors invalidate the scheme, but that it seems likely that a political regime wishing to maintain (or gain) power could capitalize on our empathy for marginalized groups, adding complexity and building quite the leviathan.
>It seems that for this to work we'd have to maintain some intestinal fortitude to say "no" - and that to me sounds like a serious culture change in this country.

I'd argue that the culture is currently overwhelmingly biased toward saying "no," usually under the guise of "freedom" -- if we couldn't say "no" to the chronically homeless, we probably wouldn't have a half-million of them on the streets. If we couldn't say "no" to low-income mothers, we wouldn't have the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world.
Sorry, what Wired article is that?
Oh they can be forced to do it.
Just to make sure, you mean in Japan, right? Because unloading stolen goods are alive and well in countries where cell phone prices are high and average income is low(my personal experience is with the situation in Brazil).

Phones are easy to steal, people just start using them and lose focus on their surroundings, thieves can just grab and run, they are easy to conceal and a lot of people want to own an iPhone and can't afford it, there is a market.

I know there are ways to brick the device to make it unusable after it is stolen but most people are unaware of how that works.
Just wanted to say, this is a fantastic app in my opinion. I took one photo and it was already more accurate & personally identifiable to some friends as a 'better' Bitmoji.

I'm impressed
Interesting numbers !!!

> US gov revenue is 3.31 trillion and the population size is 323.1 million. Which leaves about $10244 per capita to play with.

> How would a BI work, give people $7k per year and save 3k for military and basic services? Seems like BI would need big tax increases to become viable.
> Cash has value though. Equity? Lottery ticket.

Lottery tickets have a predictable value. Lottery tickets and cash are basically interchangeable goods, and if you have the ability to bear the risk that any given lottery ticket might not pay out then you can make money by taking on that risk. It's not really any different than being a VC, an insurance company, a movie producer, etc.
You should be required to list as an EV, so that you pay the share of road maintenance of which you're currently cheating the taxpayers of Georgia.
also here to say the precise same thing. left my laptop while this page was loading and it was up for 5 or 6 minutes. Work with understanding fellows, but that is not okay to load without warning, BuzzFeed.
This is tenuous at best. iTerm2, at least, doesn't support the "conceal" color (^[[8m) and any other color would rely on the "victim's" color scheme to work properly. Git is safely removing sequences that could actually cause problems like OSC. This technique also wouldn't stand up to review on Github or any other online code review platform.
The funny thing is that gpl is mostly used by per profit companies creating a two licensing system. Gpl is great to test drive before buying a commercial license, but other than it’s pretty much ignored except maybe in academia.
Not a good comparison.

The reformers (Gracchi brothers, Caesar, etc) wanted Roman citizens to have their fair share of the actual land that Rome conquered. Not regular hand outs of grain. The idea was that citizens would actually own a piece of The Roman Dream. Land is income, then and now.

Never happened. The wealthiest Romans were successful in assassinating reformers and dominating the Roman 99% for a thousand years.
Or use the past participle:

noed.js
Thanks.

Protocols - HTTP + some custom stuff on top of TCP.
You've just described the SoCal suburbia...but with backyard farms and solar rooftops and worse internet.
Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Bot Service and LUIS
Wow, the implications of that are quite interesting. The effects of his sentencing can technically last for decades after he is out of jail. Funny how you never hear much about that in these trials...

But agreed being a convicted hacker won’t prevent him from being employed. Even by the government...
It's 5000 miles away, to the east in China or to the west in California? I think we can spend years discussing where that value is created.

From a purely practical point of view, Apple will only be able to sell their goods in the EU and pay no taxes on the profits for as long as they can keep finding another Ireland. And those seem to be in short supply in the future.
Indiegogo announces initial coin offerings and blockchain investments
I’ll reserve my judgement until I see the org chart.

Every so often the smaller company gets its executives placed high in the organization making it more like a merger than a buyout. Some of those turn out pretty well.

The ones where they talk about a strategic purchase and learning this and blah blah that but they end up strangling the company end up sounding really good at the beginning but then turn sour quick. Also the rank and file employees usually get screwed in this scenario.
For those who don't know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_God_for_Mississippi
really glad to hear!!! hoping we can get everyone to have this experience :)

thanks for giving us a try! if at some point you have other feedback pls let us know.
> You might be surprised to learn that girls aren't attracted only to toys that are pink and flowery or related to traditionally feminine pursuits

Perhaps not all or even most girls, but definitely some are. As long as the gender-neutral versions are available for girls like you were, what's the problem with having more targeted options for the girls that are different? The point is to get these kinds of toys into the hands of girls in whatever way possible so that they don't miss out on this crucial developmental stage.
I am in the States and I am charged VAT. I emailed them, tweeted to them - no response! I can't believe this company is run so poorly!
Ok I agree. The main thought was that the pilot doesn't seem to be eliminating the means testing (i.e. conditional welfare). The pilot seems to be just piling UBI onto people's existing federal/state/local welfare checks. And additionally the pilot is giving it to people not already on welfare.
I see what you're saying, and that's an interesting way of thinking about the intrinsic value of Bitcoin. I suppose in estimating the value of the ledger you should also consider the negative value contributions to having this particular ledger, such as environmental impact, potential to destabilize governments, expected loss from hacking/user error, etc and see whether that outweighs the benefits of what some may perceive to be positive value.

I suppose what I meant to say is there is technically no money sitting somewhere held for owners of bitcoin to lay claim to.
4 downvotes for "like"ing the 2-bag technique ? I am amazed. In a puzzle i was asked long ago, the solution was similar to this.
> If they have to collect vat, they need separate transactions

At least in Europe that's not true. If I buy milk (6% VAT) and beer (19% VAT) in the supermarket here (The Netherlands), I don't have to split that in two transactions.
This speaks to me personally but think about what happens if you try to practically apply this beyond an experimental phase. When members of some of these communities start to see others that have developed more favorably, they're likely to converge on them, resulting in heavily populated urban centers and decreasingly populated rural areas like have now.
you are completely correct - as I mentioned in the end this would be easier extractor: "Want to relax IID assumptions and avoid careful setup of a non-correlated quantizer? Easy — use any good universal hash function. The only new requirement is that the universal hash will require a one-time seed. We can make an easy assumption that the iPhone local state of /dev/urandom is totally independent from thermal noise camera is seeing, and simply pick that seed from everybody's favorite CSPRNG."

The main reason we went with VN instead of SHA or universal hash is just was more fun thing to build/experiment with. SHA is like flamethrower that will deal with anything you throw at it. VN is far more brittle and you see all mistakes in scenery or generation. Of course then you hash the output anyway before use!
> 90% or so tax rate will drastically improve living conditions for everyone.

As a person who was born in the USSR those kind of proclamations always amuse me. I am wondering how much taxes are being paid by those people thinking that 90% tax rate will not create a feedback loop that will drastically worsen living conditions for everyone. My personal ancodote is that when I check it turns out those people rarely pay any taxes at all.
>If you try to do this using conventional budget math, you're not going to get the right answer.

I'm very curious about this part, particularly in light of your comment elsewhere that "It's possible to implement basic income without any direct government support." I feel like there are very interesting answers being alluded to in your posts but none actually presented.
Remember that the point of these exercises, for the company, is not to avoid double taxation, but to avoid even so much as single taxation, by ensuring that the only country in which they legally make profit is one which won't tax them for turning a profit. The actual sales which eventually (after many twists and turns of international finance) resulted in those profits may have happened anywhere, and it's meant to be difficult to untangle exactly where (since if you could easily do that you could tax it).

A better solution, of course, would be a tax on the value of goods sold, at the location where the sale occurs, since it's hard to argue that an Apple Store in the US whose customer was standing in front of the register was somehow actually in a Caribbean tax haven.
The thing is 1000 people don't necessarily own 40% of the market - it's 1000 addresses. Many of those addresses likely belong to exchanges and hold multiple users wallets.
I don't think that [4] can really be accurately characterized as producing general-purpose journal management systems. The OSF is more for study management and sharing results, although I imagine that you're referring to OSF Preprints (https://osf.io/preprints) which serves a similar function for pre-peer review results sharing.

For [3], the actual platforms produced by Coko and its affiliates are more readily discovered here:
https://pubsweet.org/
http://substance.io/

Hadn't heard of [2] before- looks neat.

We have [1] currently deployed for a couple of websites where I currently work. We've found it to be a bit of a pain and are trying to phase it out to some degree. It's basically a layer on top of WordPress to the best of my understanding (I haven't dealt too much with it).
> And there’s some country where it was, like, referendum. It got totally crushed a year, two years ago, maybe it was Sweden. I don’t remember.

Fwiw, the country that Sam is referring to here is Switzerland.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36454060
Washington State leaders announce steps to protect net neutrality
I think something to consider is that working at a startup is an extremely common path to starting one yourself.
It’s not cash, and has questionable value. Equity is no replacement for cash compensation, and it’s exhausting to watch people explain it away as equal to cash comp.
React photo gallery box component
Just to let you know, I've been self employeed for 10+ yrs. I'm confident I understand that world :)

For me, side projects are "this is the diection I want to take my career (but no one yet has asked)." The crowd (aka The Market) might be "smart" but it can also be slow. If you're not ahead and/or anticipating then someone else (aka your "competition) certainly is.

The arc of the point - I think :) - is to get into a position where works chases you, and not you chasing it. It's not easy. But it's certanly possible.
As I understand it, if the cash is repatriated, the income is taxed at US corporate tax rates minus what they've already paid to a foreign government. So essentially they would be paying an amount equivalent to the US corporate tax. Framing it as "foreign and US corporate tax" is misleading.
> do you just not trust the poor?

Its not a matter of trust, its a matter of likely occurrence. In the event that someone uses their UBI on something non-essential like gambling/drugs instead of paying their rent. What do we do as a society? My solution is pay for the essentials like food, housing, medical, etc directly instead of handing out cash. This eliminates that possibility.
Yes, obviously. Far worse. Are you seriously suggesting that intentionally poisoning thousands or millions is less bad than assaulting one? One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic, right? That's literally Stalin discussing mass murder.

If someone has the power to poison a whole nation, with that power comes equal responsibility for their actions. If they act in good faith, we tend to forgive their mistakes, even if they have disastrous consequences. But there's no good faith here. We know he intended to poison them.

There is no serious ethical justification for considering a mugging to be worse. None has been presented here. We just naturally 'feel' that when the powerful commit crimes, these are mistakes (they are not). When the weak commit crimes, they need to be put in their place, because the weak and poor breaking the law is abhorrent to our neoliberal ideology -- the rich are supposed to assault the poor, this is just how things are. The opposite is unthinkable.
the preference for "blocking" /dev/random is one of these crypto-urban myths that is almost dispelled by now: https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/