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Startup idea: Basic Income, how to make this happen?
The idea of an universal basic income is surfacing here and there. Having lost almost half my life (I'm 40) to useless grind work, I'm determined to change the way things work.

This is a series of serious discussions I'm starting, with the explicit purpose of making BI a reality within our lifetime. Very likely this won't be possible here and we'll have to create our own community (I'm quite certain this very post will get mercilessly deleted).

Anyways, please state your ideas about how and why to make this happen.

My line of thought:

1) Basic income will still require work (energy input).
2) Stop wasting our lifes to the 12-hours industrial grind. 8 hours work + 1 hour lunch + 3 hours commute due to crowding in job-offering cities = 12 hours slavery, we never quite broken free from it. I think we need an upper limit of 5 hours + 1 hour lunch, afterwards we can claim our lifes back. Creative people would get the freedom to change the world, right now our entire energy is sucked into a black hole of helplessness and hopelessness.
3) The politicians won't do it for us. We have to do it ourselves. We have to create a company which functions under the rules of the basic income, in concrete terms this means: WE HAVE TO CONTRIBUTE WITH MONEY, AS FOUNDERS, IN A MASSIVE CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN. The beneficiaries will be not just us but the entire world, and we must prevent our honest attempt from being hijacked and turned into the same feudal authoritarianism that runs the companies of today.

OK, assuming I'm not getting deleted, please state your input and let's make a plan.
Isn't a hamburger menu just a two-dimensional ellipsis?
a little extreme but they are moving in the right direction. religion restricts the growth of knowledge.
The zune.
This is the answer for anyone who isn't maintaining something like Windows, with multiple versions of product simultaneously for years. If you are cutting releases of a web service, cherry pick into short lived release branches.
Here's your escape plan. Don't be afraid to crack open the 401(k) if your Roth runs dry.

https://hackcabin.com/post/become-digital-nomad-bali/
IMHO, this shows why you cannot judge creativity only through the free market (i.e. measure the creative output).

Because at the time when new a thing is being created, only the creator (if even) understands the purpose of it. So any other external actor who is supposed to measure the output (be it company CEO, or grant commission, etc.) is not equipped to understand why. Were they equipped to understand, they would just commission the work in the first place.
GDP annual growth rate in China averaged 9.6% for the last 30 years. So I guess they have a reason to be happy.
Reuben Wu uses drones to paint surreal sci-fi landscapes with light
In no way is asking for greater clarification about how this question was asked in the survey indicative of an inability to recognize harassment. Not-so-subtly accusing other comments of being incapable of distinguishing between acceptable and unacceptable advances and denigrating half the population in response to someone asking for this clarification about the survey is absolutely uncalled for, and it makes me question whether you're interested in a good faith discussion.

With that out of the way, the important thing is that injecting one's own assumptions into a survey question risks making vast misinterpretations of the results. The survey merely listed "unwanted sexual overtures". You seem to assume that every reader of this question shares your interpretation as "unwanted and unprofessional sexual overtures" or "unwanted sexual overtures received while seeking funding from an investor" or similar. In practice, many people actually try to answer survey questions honestly. The result of relying on unstated assumptions about the interpretation of survey questions is highly dubious survey results, as I illustrate in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18225907. And not to mention it risks trivializing the impact of sexual harassment, because plenty of people may look at broad definitions like this and think that the majority of cases of harassment identified by studies like these aren't harassment at all.
Nope, just fat fingered that one while typing up my response. I'll keep you in mind if I need someone to check my posts for typos in the future though!
Making Windows Slower Part 2: Process Creation
The Gemini looks interesting: https://www.planetcom.co.uk
Came here to say the same thing. So amazingly fast, and the absolute best for filtering, sorting and searching through your email.
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Racket is a Lisp that makes these layers somewhat explicit.
The aspect I most hate is the load time. Takes about 6 seconds to start displaying emails. Is there something to be done about that? (Note: I'm using Firefox on a Mac.) I've been mostly using the "basic HTML" version, which loads in less than a second.
The library was named for Kenneth S. Allen, Associate Director of Libraries from 1960 to 1982, in recognition of his years of service to the Libraries, and in appreciation of a generous gift from his son, Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.

http://www.lib.washington.edu/suzzallo/visit/about
Living in Vietnam, there is a massive population of swallows. They are prized for the nests they make [1] and people build whole multi-story windowless buildings just to house them [2]. I've seen these buildings all over. At dusk you see them flying around clearly eating up all the mosquitos and bugs in the air. No absolute proof, but I'm pretty sure this is why there are so few mosquitos and flying bugs here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_bird%27s_nest

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_bird%27s_nest#/media/Fi...
s/formated/formatted

Thought I should point that out in a paper that serves as a guideline on how to write papers well :-/
Computational ghost imaging using FPGA
Sorry didn't mean it negative. But "hacking a vending machine" sounded much more like touching the real hardware.
Teaches an important story about app security, in any case.
A comparison of Linux base images
Thank you; peek mode + swipe up does prompt to save the image and I did not know that. Based on user feedback, the "press-and-hold" method is the only one people commonly know about, and the major issue is that if you accidentally peek (or even imperceptibly drift into peek mode for a few ms) it won't work, and you won't get any feedback as to why.

It's handy to have a second way to trigger save, but having to include the explanation in order to teach users how to execute the maneuver is not great UX. "Press gently and hold to save. Or, if your phone supports Force Touch and has it enabled, press pretty hard (but not _too_ hard) and swipe up to save. If it doesn't work, try it again."
It's been happening for year this isn't new. Todays china hasn't changed much in terms of squashing subversion
Webamp - "A reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript"

- Load any classic Winamp skin just by dragging it onto the main window.
- If a skin specifies some transparent regions in its region.txt, they are respected.

Features - https://twitter.com/captbaritone/status/961274714013319168
Source - https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp
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Fault Adaptive Routing in Metasurface Controller Networks
Lots of people (millions) share the same wallets (technically addresses), as they hold coins on exchanges. The richest bitcoin addresses are the cold storage for the exchanges.

https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses....
Still avail at the apple store I think.

Will never forget being in the audience at the unveil, watching Steve Jobs pull it out of an envelope.
My anecdotal experience talking with Chinese nationals is that they basically approve of the government and would not choose to switch to democracy.
I'm providing a source to above claim since it appears someone is skeptical. Reddit thought to take a screenshot.

https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/8mdioc/device_ana...
I am not trying to convince anybody to be unhappy, but I have my doubts that GDP really has a lot to do with it one way or the other.
Skype before Microsoft got their hands on it.
It appears that China's government doesn't like organized Christianity, or any organized religion. It doesn't really matter what you personally believe. What matters though is anything that can influence people emotionally and philosophically, which basically means having control (thus power) over peoples' emotional and rational states of mind. Any place of congregation is potentially doing just that.

It's worrisome to see though that China has decided to go that extremely rigorous way, like burning crosses publicly and the like. Wow.
Imo, the hubs were really what made WP special and it would've been amazing with more third-party buy-in (which realistically was never going to happen). Going to a single centralized spot for social media or whatever else, instead of browsing through a dozen different apps, is such a great idea.

I was totally on board with WP but then Microsoft bungled the later WP updates (my phone wasn't supported, and it was one of the last ones with a physical keyboard) and third-parties never really supported the platform.
This is by far the best explanation I've read. Thx for making my day.
Heck, even their IDEs. I was more productive in BCC 3.1 (in text gfx mode of course) or even TCC than I am with Visual Studio.
KDE 3.

I used it for years, it was a good and mostly stable desktop environment. Then with KDE 4 they added all kinds of fancy features that added instability, strange error messages and then made them non-optional.
That might be why their deliverability is better :-)
Youtube-dl and ublock.

Adding these to ublock as custom filters removes a lot of extraneous stuff in the player, too:

youtube.com##.ytp-pause-overlay
youtube.com##.ytp-title-channel
youtube.com##.ytp-ce-element
youtube.com##.subscribecard-endscreen
youtube.com/get_endscreen?
It's not new, BTC is a full decade old. At this point the internet had a billion users.
iPod shuffle before they stuffed up the design. That was the perfect device but of course they had to make it smaller thus the clip no longer held.
But I am clearly not talking about lotto-winners, but someone who gets 2x salary, who may behave weird first couple of months and then becomes "normal". I fully agree about the lotto winners though. I had witnessed it actually as my school friend's parents won. For lack of a better description - they have become like animals with unlimited money, but money ended quickly though.
That’s the joke
I always just installed git for Windows and put keys in my user\.ssh folder and that's worked for me for as long as I can remember. What issues is everyone having? Am I just missing something?
Incredible Universe was an IKEA-sized, mid-90's electronics retailer that existed before the dominance of Best Buy. It was an amazing customer experience and you could demo pretty much anything in the store. They famously had video game consoles even in the child-care area. Every DIY PC builder, circuitry geek and soldering enthusiast went there for supplies. Eventually they started hemorrhaging money and sold out to Fry's.
Right, how do you build a website that looks like the OP as opposed to like that: http://math.mit.edu/~etingof/

(Not that it's a bad website, it's the most common format in the academia, just an example of a plain HTML website)
Yes, phone with real keyboard. Last one I had was Nokia E7, five to six years ago, and I still miss the keyboard.
I've tried Whitney's style and got some good takeaways from it. I don't need that level of density, but it made me realize that when the code is already doing something very abstracted from business logic, there is no sense in trying to name the variables with more than one or two letters. (x0 and x1, appearing in geometric functions, are favorites of mine.)

I also started using "result" after seeing it in Pascal code and have quite liked it for many years, but I just had the epiphany that "ans" (answer, as seen on several graphing calculator lines) would be a little more dense.

Basically, it was well worth it to try these radical styles out. They did a lot to smooth my everyday coding.
That’s the point, it helps keep the reputation of their servers high and ensures fast delivery of transactional email.
I'm not sure this is a fair comparison though since PMs usually are experienced when junior software engineers are common, and even more you can have SE switching to PM roles but the opposite is quite rare. But the reality remains that is way more difficult to find a good PM than a good SE.
I am familiar with the arguments of Jim Rickards, Peter Schiff and other goldbugs regarding cryptos. They are generally saying that crypto is doomed and should be abandoned. They continuously brought up fraud and money laundering until they recently realized that blockchains make it easier to track down transactions — not harder.

While I respect these people for their great expertise on the general economy, I don't agree with their take on crypto. They obviously misunderstand its nature and, to be frank, during the crypto boom they sometimes appeared to be a bit threatened by the rise of crypto (one of their core businesses is — you guessed it — gold).

With regard to your other points:

* Yes, you can create new altcoins out of thin air, but do you really think that will be possible forever? There are strong network effects at play and — as with any other market — there will be winners and losers. So far Bitcoin has oscillated around the 50% dominance mark. I don't see that changing in the near future. Saying that you can indefinitely create new alts is like saying that you can create unlimited Amazon clones. While technically true, this does not work in reality.

* Yes, inflation is built into Bitcoin, but in contrast to fiat it will not go on forever. Eventually it's a deflationary currency.

* According to the NYT the richest 1% in the US hold more wealth than the "bottom" 90%. This pattern seems to have nothing to do with Bitcoin, although I'd personally wish it would look different.

* Yes, there might be fraud and maybe there are also severe bugs. But up to now, Bitcoin has survived all tests in the field and appears to be pretty stable. Probably more stable than most other pieces of software I have ever seen.
You can still download the old Winamp and use it on a modern Windows installation. Works just fine, though it doesn't know what media buttons are.
Beware: Interview process is too long. They will not negotiate and doesn't pay as per market stabdards
Plex and silicon dust does the job for me.
Or if they had accepted the invitation, but would have preferred not to. It wasn't "have you ever turned down an unwanted sexual advance?"
GDP is not just a number you know. If one were previously hungry and cold and are now well fed and comfortable, of course that affects happiness. Why do you doubt that?
> Isn’t it a bit amazing you’re even able to read a program that’s lasted for almost 60 years?

Not really. One would expect to be able to read most kinds of programs once you get into the language used. Though there are various languages that deliberately inhibit understanding - these tend to be somewhat esoteric in nature and were intended to be difficult to read.

Maxima uses Common Lisp and many of those who support the code base use Common Lisp to do so. The source code problems are a reflection of Lisp as is the source code of other major Lisp programs still being actively maintained. I have a number of these and my investigations have led me to believe that Lisp and Common Lisp, in particular, are in no way the panacea that the Lisp community portrays.

It is more about how you go about your development and how you document your than about the language you use to write your code. I personally have a language of choice. It allows me to solve the problems I have in an easier manner than other languages. However, there are plenty of warts on it and it can quite easily get in the way of problem solving.

Regardless of whether you like Lisp or hate it, the language has inconsistencies and problems which will come back and bite you. If you love the language and it works for you, good. But be honest when talking to others about the problems with the language and what it cannot do. This will at least let others who have not been introduced to it to make a fair value judgement about whether or not to give it a try.

As a matter of course, when discussing programming languages with young people, I encourage them to look at all sorts of languages apart from the ones they are familiar with. These languages include Lisp, Fortran, Algol 60, Simula, Smalltalk, Forth, Icon/Unicon, OCaml to just name a few.

I let them know that each language allows them to look at different kinds of problem solving techniques and that each is a welcome tool in their repertoire that will allow them to continue advancing in their skills.
Like what? Everyone seems to hand-wave this, but nobody in the full decade long history of bitcoin and blockchain has come up with a single good use case that isn't better solved by MySQL.
On the other hand, CCP/PLA ideology stifles the growth of knowledge as well. All you have to do is look at the work of the Red Defense Soldiers[1] (Red Guards). Communist ideology does not ensure that knowledge seeking will not be stifled, as amenable to the science as they may be.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards
It's a real shame we lost Sun. It was such an innovative company when it came to technology - one of the few examples of really engineering led software teams where management had no say in technical decisions. Unfortunately, the market doesn't really reward world class technical solutions/expertise. I'm still not sure what it rewards. Predatory business practices a la Oracle?
Show HN: WebRTC video chat for desktop and mobile browsers
The N900 was such a cool idea and also a pretty decent phone. I owned two of them but then had to eventually let it go..
GPD Win 2; DragonBox Pyra (upcoming).
They created it
The difference is that instead of being in the top left or right corners all the all menus / buttons were placed at the bottom of the screen which made them infinitely more accessible to use.
Rebase everything so you get a clean timeline without meaningless "merge of bla" commit messages. Can be made mandatory by turning your repo fast-forward-only.
The original PlayStation Portable. No other console I've had so far has been quite as fun to play, mobile gaming just isn't the same, and I had a lot of fun learning to crack it and install pirated games. I used to take it on road trips and even watch full movies, it was a great way to pass the time as a kid. I had it repaired twice before it finally gave out, and the nostalgia sometimes hits and I consider getting one again.
Yes because burning religious icons and replacing them with nationalist icons is a step forward with respect to freedom of knowledge.
I do not see any activity here which would indicate a higher pay from any other ordinary worker.
I'm using Firefox on Windows 10. Loads in about 1.5s for me. Obviously it'll depend on PC and internet connection. I would try it with addons disabled though. (Restart with addons disabled / in safe mode in the help menu.) In the past I've found misbehaved addons (particularly the god-awful skype one that used to always force install itself) would bring gmail to a crawl.
After killing martyr after martyr after martyr, the Romans saw in this belief something useful that they could control.

Before converting to it, they standardized it and shaped it to their convenience in the First Council of Nicaea. They also decided which books made it into the bible, and which ones were "apocryphal".

The Bishop of Rome became the Pope, and after the fall of the Roman empire, the Vatican still exerted a tremendous control: the pope could excommunicate anyone, including kings.
Notes and technical questions from interviewing as a Data Scientist in 2018
Yeah, I’ve been interested in the touchbar as a way to get emacs-mode-specific shortcut keys.
Grooveshark was the only music streaming service I’ve been ever using. The way Grooveshark was slaughtered was despicable and turned me down to pay any subscriptions to the online music hienas. Years long curated playlists lost unrecoverably with the shutdown of the service :’(
I agree, although I would distinguish between trust and personal loyalty. Trust is collegial, but loyalty is a submissive relationship, at least in the sense that I mean it here. I trust decisions based purely on trust, but I distrust decisions based purely on loyalty, which is unquestioning.
Widgets are nice but in the last 3 years of using an Android I've only ever used widgets for my podcast app, music players, a few tap to dial contacts, a calendar widget with the day view.

Widgets are a good idea but they look horribly inconsistent.
Are you here to see what condition your condition was in?
> But peole concerned about it should fight it by means that minimze harm to users. Stronger encryption, tools that bypass the great firewall, standards and protocols against censorship and dictator influence, these would be a lot more meaningful than bashing a single company and a single product.

Those people are building those things. Google could build those things -- and then people could use the real version of Google from inside of China and there would be no need for a censored one.
It is not abstract general someone. It is very concretely more experience professional and teacher whose judgement you trust more then your own. And no, if you dont go much out of way to be approachable or have reason to be afraid of him, no matter how small, they will not ask more. Because most interns know they are beginners and don't know yet.
Seriously? Wow. Assembler is the most beautiful, simplest language that I have ever programmed in.

O tempora, o mores...
If I were a malicious actor with a good way to attack this, I would wait until this was being used in real applications which deal with larger amounts of ETH, and then attack.

Why should I reveal my cards for $3K?
You know you can research this stuff right? Gasoline was a waste product in the refining of crude oil (specifically, into Kerosene [itself a replacement for whale oil] they were making anyways). It used to be considered garbage. [1] It really only became valuable once they realized they could power cars with it. They used to dump it in rivers, making them catch fire. [2]

In what - concrete - way is bitcoin related to the success of Amazon or the internet? Please be specific and don't hand-wave if you're going to make such bold claims.

[1] https://knowledgenuts.com/2014/02/24/gasoline-used-to-be-con...

[2] http://www.attendly.com/rockefellers-unconventional-approach...
As Bill Clinton strategist Jim Carville once said, "it's the economy, [----]".
Rolls-Royce is partnering with Intel to make self-driving ships a reality
Vectorized Emulation: Hardware accelerated taint tracking
I feel pretty certain that you do not personally do everything you consider "acceptable behavior".

I have a friend who has expressed to me that she thinks prostitution should be legal. By this logic, she would be a prostitute if it were.

Do you really think that's true?
> Ruby got… well, Ruby is a Lisp

If only it had the same level of AOT/JIT compilers that most Lisp variants enjoy.
There's also trust issue. Doctors, who like everyone can be opinionated, had to be convinced one-by-one that checklists actually work and are worth messing up their work habits - unlike the many other things people are trying to sell hospitals.
that's because all the mosquitos are now in china...
Corn Flakes, the old recipe
People always go ”oh those crazy German words” when in reality all Nordic countries do this, and I’d bet at least Dutch too.