skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense and I think my comment was a little ambiguous. It wasn't so much an endorsement of cryptocat itself, but the idea that using a centralized system that supports encryption may be a reasonable compromise to protect against indiscriminate collection by third parties, and something I think existing companies that handle most communication already could generally implement.
So they're not employable enough to cover their loans, but suddenly employable enough to boost tax revenues?
I wondered the same thing, and my thought was this guy calling CNN: "hey, I have iPhone vid of that plane crashing at SFO, how much will you pay me for the exclusive rights to it?"
From http://travel.cnn.com/rise-big-unnecessary-crazy-travel-adve... :

Johnson hopes the walk will help create a name for himself in the Internet industry.

He wants to develop cross-platform Web applications that engage nations.

Not sure I could think of a worse way of doing this than spending 5 years hiking across Siberia.
Quite the opposite actually. Poor people become very good at managing their money out of necessity. http://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/index.php?i=15318&a=65653
Are you talking about the Mosou? Because they're only about 40,000 strong in a country of 1.34 billion, and aren't even a true matriarchy, as political power tends to be in the hands of men.[0]

If you're talking about the rest of China, the absence of modern women leaders has been a concern.[1] I don't see any way you could call China "very matriarchal".

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo

[1]: http://behindthewall.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/03/07/6206108-ch...
If he actually said those words, I think I'd be even more creaped out. Who jokes about kidnapping?
I'm curious what age bracket you fall into? Most of my work is in a city, but I'm at an age where I want things the city can't provide (more space, a back yard, etc.) so some amount of commuting is unavoidable unless I change jobs along with a move.

Appliances and balconies are one thing - but a house and a yard are unobtainable in many urban environments.
Quite a few. I meant what I wrote, thanks.
Last week Breitbart threw a number of 144,000,000 as the current number of working adults in the United States. It sounded about right.

Let's use 150,000,000 instead and pay them a basic income of $20,800 per yr ($400 per wk, $10 per hr). That's $3.120T with a "T", just south of scheduled 2013 U.S. federal expenditures of $3.803T -- with a $900B deficit.

A BI would double federal expenditures. Honestly, how likely is it for a guaranteed basic income to pass both houses of Congress and be signed by the POTUS in the next 5, 10, or 25 years?
You should checkout the global meshnet map, http://atlas.projectmeshnet.org. You can add your node and help organize a meshnet in your area.
This reminds me of this:

http://michaelgr.com/2008/12/29/overestimating-the-cia/

The Kryptos sculpture has been there for all to see for many years, and the man who designed it thought it would be decrypted in months.. Yet it still hasn't been fully decoded, including by the NSA and CIA (part of it publicly was, so we know that if they did they would probably tell us).

This tells me that they're probably very good at some things, but that we also shouldn't overestimate them (the hollywood effect).
In bioscience jobs there are definitely pipette monkey -> manager stories, and you don't particularly need much in the way of qualifications for the former.

I suspect he's pretending all STEM is programming though.
Look interesting, but I'm not quite sure how this has to do with "propaganda disruption." Could somebody please enlighten me?
Embeddable databases are nice and portable. It's like Sqlite versus Postgres - the latter may be more robust, but requiring it as a dependency greatly increases the effort needed to deploy your software. If an embedded database can do the job, it may be worth it as a matter of convenience.
Slippery slope is a terrible argument.

If folks want to change their gender, then let them. Much like someone being black or gay, it's quite litetally none of my, or nyone elses, business. If people want to chop off their leg for fashion, who cares?

Anyone who says anything else is a bigot.
You can actually press reset and then redo, redo, redo to replay construction without having to undo first.
While iPhone peaked in US/EU, Android peaked in Japanese/Korean markets. There's plenty of space for both markets to expand.

We can see more value in iPhone app/music/content market, but to Android close the gap at US/EU they need to expand and refine to the quality of Apple products.
How about some more progressive taxation and some real regulation of the banks?
I directly disagree. Lowering minimum wage reduces the risk of hiring an unskilled and lazy teenager to train them in a job.

When you look at one hour of one person's work, the difference between $9, $7, $5 and $3 an hour seems trivial. Surely the employer has a five dollar bill sitting around, right? But when you look at full work weeks of time, plus the costs of training the job, multiplied by all of the employees the company will hire, the difference in hourly wages emerges. And, equally importantly, the employer perceives this difference and given time will react rationally to a lower minimum wage. For every dollar of "labor standards" achieved, the minimum wage imposes a skill and manners floor with no ladder beneath it for people who need to get a leg up into the employment system with experience. Lowering this floor lets an employer take a chance on someone or even take a chance on two people where only one could be hired previously.

Job Corps, FAFSA grants, and the military all essentially pay below minimum wage for job training without economic benefit, i.e., productivity (ignoring the various effects caused by foreign wars.) Additionally, while the training provided is supposed to bridge over neatly to employment, it never does perfectly and sometimes does not match real-world needs at all. It would be better to just let companies directly pay lower wages and also provide the training by having the employee learn the actual job instead of a simulated job.
I can't speak for the US, but here in Canada everyone is already trying pretty much their hardest to make youth stay in school. Doesn't always work, and we need to have alternative solutions (/jobs) for those who do drop out.
> It's rhetoric like this that makes cops feel obligated to protect each other from other citizens.

Wait, what? If citizen's lied for each other in investigations, they'd be prosecuted.
The use of details/summary as a hierarchy device doesn't strike me as very semantic. Anyone got an explanation which would fit it being so?
That happens anyway. The addicts who are both totally lost and still functional enough to do paperwork are all on psychiatric SSI.
Depending on how rigorously the research on this is done, this is a test I might actually take, especially since, as he says in the article, a lot of it is stuff you can improve if you find yourself lacking.

On the other hand, I don't want to take an IQ test. This is because you end up with a number which can now be used to place you on a scale relative to others, which as far as I'm concerned is fairly useless[1]. I'd much rather be judged based on what I've done rather on some number that purports to measure my potential.

[1] In my (fairly limited, I grant) experience, IQ scores are mostly used by insecure navel-gazers as a sort of bragging right.
I predict the first instance this privilege is invoked that mesh networks and apps developed around them will rise in popularity.
Why Every Startup Founder Needs to Be a Community Manager
I originally used this page http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/victim... and was counting by hand, but it took too long. I didn't count a few that were vague ("stabbing attack" where nobody took credit) but if you read the list for 2002, I'm confident >75% would count by anybody's definition of terrorist attack.
Sigh. No. The expensive smartphone book may have peaked, but that's not the important one.
I was really enjoying this up until everything 404'd a couple minutes ago. :(
Just because the NTSB hasn't released information on the cause of the crash, it doesn't mean they don't have strong working theories (based on information, including from the pilots). I assume the organization would want to compile a full report before publicly releasing details or theories. This, I'm sure, applies doubly if the cause could end up being pilot error, which has a strong weight on public opinion.
Wouldn't basic income replace many of the means-tested assistance programs? There's cost savings not being accounted for.
In English, "dawn" only occurs in the morning, so when used metaphorically it always refers to the advent of a thing. The word you're looking for is "twilight", which when used metaphorically means the end or decline of a thing. Thus Nietzsche's Götzen-Dämmerung is translated Twilight of the Idols.

There's also the word "dusk", which is the opposite of "dawn", but it tends not to be used metaphorically.
It's not just about what you do, it's about what you do and how you do it.

- Let the story unravel.
Just pointing out that it's not valid to argue that this stuff is impossible, or even impractical.
Because promoting round-the-world vacations isn't the business the government is in, but promoting good families is.
It's not the first time this has happened.
Startups, Entrenchment, and the Adjacent Possible
It is actually kind of sad, coming from Australia, Police are usually seen as a force of good. Granted we do not have as much corruption in this sense as America does but sadly these sorts of positions are built on power and violence (eg non compliance) I think the question you have is if the police stop protecting their own people when they are trying to do their jobs how will they attract new police? as a profession where you will have someone that will be in that sort of job for 10-20 years+ getting sacked does not really mean you will be able to get into another police force (quite the contrary) you will most likely end up in a very low end security position.

This is not really a justification of all the shit they do rather an attempt to explain the insanity.
Well, as far as anyone can tell the idea that women are naturally better parents than men was originally e feminist one, and for the most part feminists are so attached to the idea they never even seem to really question it - after all, it's about doing what's best for the child, and why would you want to get in the way of that? (That's an actual, widely used argument mainstream feminists justify their support for the status quo with.)

I've also seen, for example, feminist mums argue that their kids' stay-at-home-dad is unfairly dumping work on them because they have to organise playdates and other social events, when that's almost certainly the result of sexist bias against dads - apparently mums are uncomfortable letting dads get involved in this, it's a common complaint of single dads. They don't even think about whether there may be gender-based reasons why their partner doesn't have access to the social circles they do.
It means that they cater to a specific audience with a specific ideology and are less likely to present analysis that challenges that ideology.

(For what it's worth: that ideology is also my ideology).
How many people who love Open Source but need a job to pay bills would be just building software for the rest of humanity if they could?
Hardware too! We should have the original hardware for our childhood game consoles running in FPGAs! One FPGA with NES, SNES, Master System, Sega Genesis, Atari...
I live in North Carolina (a well-to-do suburban city) and have had exactly the same experience as you. In fact, my experience has been that quite a percentage of the moms appreciate being able to chat with a dad for a change.
I actually am a AnCap like Rothbard (not like him but simular in some ways) and I disagree with him.

He does not actually make a good arguments about BI, he has some basic wellfair principly and talkes about them, without actually going into the exact idea of a BI.

He makes some general statments about wellfair and a particular implmentation of wellfair. Also he makes a typical error that he makes all the time, he compares to some optimal system and not to the current system.

I really dislike that Rothbard is the Anarcho Capitalist that is best known.
There is an oil and natural gas boom in most of those states- the jobs pay quite well and don't really require any education. So theoretically either- but I suspect he actually means 'high school age persons in the aforementioned states'.
I'm in my mid 20's, and I'm definitely not at that point yet. Your mileage may vary. Regardless, I feel like commuting is still probably an important factor - but I absolutely believe that other things come into consideration over time.
Wow. That's nearly as awesome. I mean, it installed something when you uninstall, that's the problem. "We are sorry for the trouble. Do you want to uninstall the Norton tool bar? It was meant to keep you protected. -Arun cc:esd" could be taken both ways, however -- and that's my problem with tweets. Sometimes what we interpret as "clueless" is really someone just "making sure you're okay" using the given script after shooting off too quick with a support response. Not saying they read your tweet, as obviously they didn't respond appropriately about the uninstall, but the responses are consistent with the language on their site: http://safeweb.norton.com/lite (The title says "Is this website safe" and later in the page says, "It's our way of giving back to the online community.")

By comparison, emails are longer-form and less "instant" than tweets. They (Google) should have been able to get it as human as Apple did when I had unactivated iTunes gift cards. (The second time, that is. The first time took them awhile, so it's hit or miss in my experience. I've also learned to never expect real support from Microsoft Store or Adobe -- basically anyone with a "live chat" support service.)
I think Snowden et al made a mistake with the PR, with regard to what they released first.

The "PRISM" stuff, the stuff with specific internet app/service providers, is actually the _least_ troublesome. (And the closest to legal/constitutional, with FISA orders involved and all.)

MUCH more troublesome, but receiving MUCH less media attention (such that I don't even know the special program names, they are not 'prism'):

* They are recording everything that goes over the internet, by tapping in at major backbones, undersea cables, etc.

* They deploy RAT malware to take over and observe targetted person's computer. (Have we been given evidence by Snowden that they do this inside the US and/or to US citizens? I am not certain. Do they get FISA orders/warrants first? I am not sure. Have we gotten info released on the RAT stuff yet? This interview is the first I've heard of it, in fact.)

Both of these are WAY more alarming, more significant invasions of privacy, less likely to be legal/constitutional, than PRISM. But PRISM's getting all the attention.

I wonder if this was in fact part of NSA/government counter-PR, to make sure PRISM gets the attention and people get burnt out on the story before they get to the REALLY disturbing stuff.
I'm not a US citizen so I am not the one to judge its efficiency. Nevertheless I agree with the general idea of what you say. However it is highly peculiar if he legitimately had so much power. It doesn't matter if he is an uber-hacker or not, as some others point out. No government or agency would structure its hierarchy such that a simple cog in the machine could bring the whole thing tumbling down. Unless of course the high ranking officials are like the regular PHB's we know - clueless about technology issues.
You could just install them inside the tower pointing out the window.
I disagree with your first point if I understand it correctly. Even relatively right wing or libertarian economists like Tyler Cowen consider that the low hanging fruit for most businesses is now gone. There is a dearth of investment opportunities and the demand for labor especially at the low end is not there in the west.

Though I agree that there are people who can work but won't work, I think this is overestimated. This is a point of principle hardly worth arguing.

I'll take you up on your response to the expenditure of the poor ends up in the pockets of the rich.

The point is that the poor get "blamed" for needing this money. The market will allow the price of a piece of land with some bricks on it to increase due to demand. But clearly the market can't magically create land.
At least one more time than what you point out, a more significant time really

Gah. Usually I try to be more careful with the throwaway phrases. Thanks for getting my point anyway.
The Long Tail is Wrong
That's a pretty unfair straw man. One of the most oft-cited "points" of BI is the savings related to cutting tax breaks and social programs. I'm not well-versed with the numbers, but I've heard these are pretty high.

In addition, "higher taxes for those with above-middle-class incomes" to balance out the expenditure is an almost universally quoted corollary of BI. Citing the cost of BI without the obviously necessary offsets isn't constructive.
>Due diligence is impossible when being lied to, isn't it? I don't think you know what Predatory lending really means.

Nothing in your article says anything about lying. The main idea is - "imposing unfair and abusive loan terms on borrowers."

The main practices included adjustable rate mortgages that relied on housing prices to continue going up. People took out loans that they could just barely afford at the low intro rate hoping to either sell or refinance after the prices went up.

Other practices included simply offering bigger mortgages than people could afford.

Basically the banks and the borrowers were both greedy and wrongly assumed that house prices would continue to go up. When they didn't, both parties got screwed. The borrowers got foreclosed, and the banks lost a lot of money on the houses they got back.

Lots of people lost a lot of money in the housing crisis (me included sadly), but that doesn't mean they were victims, and it doesn't mean they had to be foreclosed on. If you lost your job and couldn't find another one, that's one thing. If you simply couldn't afford the loan you took out, that's on you. I know the loan docs include lots of pages, but when you are borrowing hundreds of thousands of dollars reading them is probably a good idea. I'm pretty sure even the predatory lending docs still included the % interest, amount borrowed, monthly payments, etc.
Plenty of time for your food scraps to compost after they're out of your house.
I've added the esc and space to deselect, and shift+redo. Thanks, once you get used to your own hotkeys it gets hard to imagine what other people might want.

As for the hash, the original reason why I went with hash= was to preserve back and forward, but I guess that might not be so necessary considering I have undo and redo.

I know that my clutter can be a bit obnoxious, but just changing it to window.replace(hash) breaks a few other things, so it's left the way it is for now.

There is probably some HTML5 history API way to do it that lets me have back and forward without saving every history entry, I'll look into it.
Not double, actually, because part of the point of a basic income is to replace much of what we currently think of as welfare. For example, Social Security as we know it could simply vanish, its function completely replaced by the basic income. In theory, salaries for government employees of all types could also be reduced by an amount equal to the basic income, leading to no change in take-home pay but saving money within the programs which employ them.

Nevertheless, as you point out, it would necessarily represent a massive expansion in federal spending: on the order of 50% or more.
Agreed. That might put an end to the endless complaints on reddit and other sites about vertical videos.

The problem is, when you hold your phone horizontally it's painfully obvious to other people you're taking a video. Holding it vertically allows for being more discreet. You might just be texting or something.

Smartphone manufacturers could also solve this problem by somehow auto-rotating the camera internally.
What "stuff", though? The moon landings were conducted by a human brain in control of a (mostly[1]-)fully-functional machine. How does that translate to fully automated landing of an atmospheric aircraft already experiencing a malfunction?

[1] Actually, the Eagle did experience a computer malfunction that almost caused an abort to the landing before an engineer said they could ignore it. You want a computer to judge for itself whether it can still safely fulfill its mission while malfunctioning?

For further terror, consult the Apollo 12 lightning strike. When the computer is FUBAR, how do you propose it fix itself?
I think a lot of people are getting to the point of having a smartphone that is "good enough" and can last them a while. Just like what happened with PC & laptop sales.

All the hardware has reached the point of letting people use Facebook, Email, Take HD photos, and use GPS navigation. A huge number of consumers don't have a reason to upgrade.

Personally, I have a S3 and I will stick with this thing for a while well beyond my contract ending. If I do switch, it will only be because Sprint finally released a decent Windows Phone. I'm only willing to switch to try a completely new phone experience. It's hard to get excited about getting a new phone but staying with the same OS you're on now.
You should break your pills in half.
I sympathize, brother.

My most irksome comments were "So... Giving mom the day off?" whenever someone would see me with my kids.

The most egregious thing to happen, was being kicked off of the local meetup for playdates... I assume I was approved to join the group because my first name is gender neutral.

Sometime between posting my profile pic (which included my kids) and attending my first meetup, I was removed from the group.
Given that human wants are infinite, why would someone with no job but a basic income not commit crimes to increase their income? They have plenty of time on their hands, and their social status would be a function of how much wealth they had beyond their basic income.
Put a bad apple in a barrel, leave it there for a short period of time, and observe that all the apples are now bad. Rotting apples release ethylene gas which is a ripening agent. Through the release of this gas, bad apples will "spoil the barrel" if they are not diligently weeded out and disposed of. Bad cops don't release ethylene gas. The mechanism that rot uses to spread through a police organization is called "The Blue Wall of Silence".

I love the "bad apple" metaphor because when you remember to say the whole thing it becomes clear that it is actually an argument against ignoring issues in an organization because only a few people are the "cause". If a police department "only has a few bad apples" then (according to the metaphor) those bad apples must be removed swiftly and decisively or the integrity of the entire department will be compromised.
The feeling of it reminds me a bit of Erlang's success typing, but I don't know enough to say much more.
I'm a programmer. My job is to free people from work, for more then 35 years. An unconditional/basic/universal income or negative tax would allow those people to enjoy the freedom I provided for them, while unemployment is a shame in current system.

Its interesting to notice that those who promote a basic income here in Germany are hardcore liberals/libertarians, while conservatives, socialists, unions, communists here still follow the puritanic thinking that "Arbeit macht Frei".
Good spot! I think I've fixed it now.