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Haha, YMMV.

As an "older person" whose eyesight is progressively getting worse, I consider the 5 inches to be a blessing more than a curse.
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The reason I would like a client certificate solution that worked (even if it was a malware target) is that I could reject all web traffic to my applications if they came in without a cert. It would decrease my public footprint dramatically.

I don't mind approving a user once per device. We've got to set them up anyway.
> My feeling is that corporations shouldn't have a disincentive to make money.

Corporate taxes are not a disincentive to make money. They are (since the structure of deductions applying to them makes them a tax on retained profits more than income) a disincentive to retaining profits within the corporation to avoid the taxation the stockholders would pay were the profits distributed (or earned by a business subject to personal rather than corporate taxes in the first place.)
The technology should enable better outcomes. But the "good" in question here is your personal health -- its "worth" is infinite.
Possibly. Unless the tax code gave them incentive to cut costs elsewhere instead. I would guess such incentive to be logical, given the problem they're trying to solve.

In any case, one of the big premises of the article is that hiring less is happening anyway and contributing to the need for a basic livable income. So, that's a bit circular.

And, of course, that's just one of many potential cost-cutting measures.
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Great idea! It seems they should close more like a fridge or oven, instead of a car door.
Not everyone cares what their peers think of them... particularly if they in turn think their peers are being dicks. And not everyone has the same opinion (or level of outrage) over what the NSA has done.
> Can we come up with a solution that doesn't strong-arm workers into keeping society's dead weight around?

Would you prefer they die? You do realize automation will soon ensure there simply isn't enough work to go around?

> Why make sure that every non-worker in society has enough money to eat McDonalds and watch cable TV

Because it'll keep society from crumbling.
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I'm not as tall as you, just 6'2" but I take the precaution of sitting when talking seriously to people (mostly students, I'm a teacher, I just carry a chair round the classroom). The result is less challenging behaviour from students (UK)
This will not happen in the United States of America in our lifetime.
I think there's a meaningful difference between publishing and re-publishing.
I didn't say walking through a casino for an hour, I said betting all your money for an hour. As in, find a game, bet all your money, rinse and repeat. If you can win dozens of times in a row please take me with you next trip.

Compare to buying and selling stocks repeatedly for an hour. Except for transaction fees you're probably not going to move more than a couple percent.

What do you want documentation for? Buying a stock for three months is about a million times slower of a feedback loop than a casino game, and that's an unarguable fact. When I search for anything about addiction to investing, all I find is articles talking about addiction to speculating, which is not the same thing.

And of course the speed matters, because the core of my argument was that you can't do something like blow your paycheck on investments. Bad investment might lessen your savings over the long term, but they're not going to turn a working adult into someone that costs society money the way a terrible car crash or gambling addiction can.
How is that different from what happens now? How many poor people can afford to live in Manhattan penthouses right now? By leveling out people's relative wealth just a little bit, this should reduce the ghettoization, not increase.
The level that I suggested is not out of line with what is already accepted as customary in many European countries. And the net impact on most would be minimal because the cost is returned fairly directly to the people paying it.
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I agree completely, and in my opinion the stated reason not to go with Android - ie "being different" - is moot, when you consider that every phone maker can make windows phones too. Having a differentiation that you can't protect at all is not worth having many less apps to offer.
>Is there any way to get use out of it that doesn't include 'booze-fueled and partying'.

Sure, you can check out the talks, wander around the venue (CTF, vendor booths, etc), talk to people. The "partying" isn't as rampant as some may have you believe. Sure there are parties, but it's not like you will be dragged into one. They also appear to be non-inclusive. I know I wasn't invited to any last year (and I'm no wet towel! ;). In fact, I was uninvited to one (you can't come; it's "private"). There is still plenty to get out of going and plenty of fun to be had.
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I get "You are not authorized to access this page."
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Oddly enough, the age of consent in Spain is 13.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe#Spain
Awesome info, thanks a ton for that.

I recently bought a Leatherman Wave for my EDC after carrying a Victorinox for about 6 years and I've been happy with that so far. In hindsight I wish I knew that the Piranha existed though since that + a good knife would be basically equivalent with less bulk, although I'd lose out on the pliers and scissors I suppose.

Anyways, there's still some random stuff I feel like I'm missing, such as perhaps some sort of flashlight or nail trimmers or a flash drive. I'm considering buying that pry bar as well just for the heck of it since it's small/light and my Wave just has a wide flathead screwdriver that I wouldn't trust with prying anything significant.
>> 99.9% of people who will buy this phone will never have a need for 41 megapixels.

Nokia's really screwing up the messaging on this, as people are fixating on the megapixel count -- they are missing the forest for the trees.

The best images you will get out of this phone will actually be the oversampled images, which have significantly fewer megapixels.
Hi, Joe. I wondered when talking to Relan yesterday how entrepreneurs will react to this. On the one hand, it's certainly better than the 50% stake he was taking before. OTOH, perhaps those earlier terms were part of why YouWeb seeded only a handful of companies.

Thanks for the feedback - Peter Delevett @mercwiretap
You started off with an interesting addition to the conversation, and I was hoping for a reference regarding the relationship between corporate taxes and the ultra-weathy, but instead I got a gratuitous, tired, over-used, boring, ad-hominem about Republicans that added nothing to conversation.
> NOTE: Moore's law is concerned with number of transistors on a chip. That number has climbed, it's just split into several cores.

Exactly, so now Moore's law is working against JavaScript, since JS doesn't do threading. So let's assume JS somehow magically gets to be ~2x slower than native instead of ~4x slower. With the standard being quad cores now, that makes JS ~8x slower than native doing image processing - you know, that whole "instagram" thing that's insanely popular on smartphones. And during that ~8x longer it's spending processing that image, your UI is completely frozen and unresponsive.

Yes I know about WebWorkers, but WebWorkers are hideously inefficient & slow by design. The limitations with them are also absurd, it is not a substitute for threading. The world is better off forgetting that they exist - which it basically has.
Whatever means works out best, in theory and practice, of course. I don't have a strong opinion on what that looks like, in this case. Conceivably no increase, quite possibly a lesser amount that ramps up over time or a fixed lesser amount, or potentially the full amount but with much of it earmarked for medical and educational expenses.
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The other problem with "targeted social welfare programs" is that it is very easy to dislike programs that someone else (particularly someone that you don't like) benefits from. A program that you yourself benefit from tends to be less likely to get eroded by future politicians.

Compare welfare and social security for a classic example of the difference.
Congratulations Bruce!
Craigslist is completely useless in NYC, but largely as a result of brokers poisoning the well. They will indiscriminately post in roommate categories, no-fee categories, and basically any category remotely related to real-estate.

I've seen coverage about some NYC apartment startups recently, and while some of these features are useful, I keep hoping for someone to come in and actually fix the core problems with NYC real estate - i.e., brokers.

There was a startup that had some buzz locally a few months ago when they launched who claimed to be upsetting the broker order, except it turns out they were doing this by becoming a mega-broker themselves and charging basically the same brokerage rates as brokers. Meet the new boss, etc.

If there's any aspect of NYC that desperately needs generous application of our "disruption" buzzword, it's renting.
Not "a startup," but "a startup that uses an informal 'partner' structure as an ersatz hierarchy, like ours." Pretty much an n=1 post.
I feel ridiculous having to claim this up front, but I am also not a pedophile... however, I would very much like to find this chatbot and have a very long conversation. In fact, I might even be inclined to write a reverse chat bot that actually initiated conversations to this chat bot from a myriad of IP addresses, just to illustrate the innocuousness of it all.
That is basically a while loop without a "proper body", right? At each iteration advance is called with the closure as first argument and iteration continues until it returns false?
Pixels are also used for lossless zoom. You can crop a 5 MPix image from the full image with about similar quality as straight from iPhone's sensor.
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Sigh. And I knew that. Just not at 2am. (Though the way I phrased it, maybe it could slip by as an intentional link...) Thanks for pointing this out to my less tired self and anyone else who stumbles upon this thread. It's perhaps worth pointing out that HTTP 2.0 then is not an April Fools joke :D

(1.0 and 1.1 was all I knew, but Google distracted me in to thinking it was real again with those dang uncorrected news articles...)
Unfortunately, it's really really difficult to test for randomness. We can test for particular patterns, but nowhere near what a determined human with access to the source code can find.

At the moment, the only "correct" test I know of is hilariously impractical: enumerate all possible programs up to a reasonable length, run those programs against output from the random number generator for a few minutes each, and see if they're better than chance at recovering the seed you used.
The context is that the original game's publisher planned a prize for reaching 100 points, which would require 800 hours of gameplay. As this more than a month of continuous play, perhaps it is best this contest did not go live!
I agree that a basic income may be the best solution to the decline in demand for labor. And I consider myself economically conservative. There is still much to be learned about the societal effect. Its something we need to consider as an alternative to social upheaval.

However other parts of this article concern me, in particular:
"Employment law is liberalised, as workers no longer need to fear dismissal."
Employment laws should be entirely at will in such a system. Workers should fear dismissal. And after all, they have a basic income to fall back on.

Combining basic income with "liberal" employment law would be a disaster.
I've had the Lumia 928 for 3 weeks now. My three previous phones were iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s.

Part of me wishes that I would've gone Windows Phone sooner but the realistic part of me realizes that Windows Phone 7 was still nowhere near the quality of iOS.

Windows Phone 8 is a completely different matter though. It's superior to my old iPhones in almost every way. Live tiles, SkyDrive integration (much better than iCloud especially if you get the 25 GB free from Microsoft), much better maps application, tight OneNote integration, native Office support, excellent Remote Desktop support. The other thing that's important to note is that the web browsing is just as good and email is just as good. I actually do those two things more than any other function on my phone.
to the Gulag with you!

Coders that work more than 8 hours a week will be banished to the countryside to learn how to live free.

It will be former CEOs that clean the toilets as repayment for their debts to the working class.
Relevant classic: http://www.gaudior.net/alma/johnny.pdf
Ask HN: A couple of Trivial Pitch Deck Questions
These are trivial, but I"m pretty curious about a couple of things:

1. Does anyone use slides with a white background anymore?

2. Are the graphs typically done in Excel or by something else?

Both of those stand out to me, but I'm worried I"m the only one so I wanted to check with the community to find out if I'm crazy or not.
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw the "Dotted Line" bit. Sad that this thing was already parodied almost two decades ago!
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Basic income in the form of currency is fungible and cumulative with other income, rations/allotments, as usually understood, are non-fungible (for specific goods) and usually non-cumulative with other income (that is, a "ration" means you get that much and can get no more, rather than that you get a basic amount and can buy more freely.)
I agree completely, and in my opinion the stated reason not to go with Android - ie "being different" - is moot, when you consider that every phone maker can make windows phones too.

They can, but they don't. And Nokia is indisputably the king of Windows Phone world, even though HTC have created some perfectly great devices. It's unlikely that Nokia could ever topple Samsung from the Android top spot.
I've been struggling with this concept for a while. How can we have an effective democracy when it's so easy for stupid, essentially malicious, but persuasive-sounding "political memes" to infect the working classes and derail processes which are actually in the country's interest?

I still don't know the answer but realising that the media were actually part of the effective bureaucracy was a revelation.

We've been lucky, for a long time, that the media has basically done the right thing for the good of the country. Collectively, they are in charge. They slip up every now and again, giving air time to toxic memes like the carbon tax thing, and of course the example you raised - McCarthy suddenly got traction because he comes bearing gifts of news. But generally it's been not too bad.

I hope we remain lucky.
This looks interesting but I'd like to know more about the actual performance gains. If I'm not going to use the python standard library (and therefore lose access to all the 3rd party libraries that go with it), there has to be some serious payoffs for the tradeoff. Otherwise I might as well go with C or GoLang where a performance bump is guaranteed.
Most people can print to PDF at this point, you could delay working on something more complicated for exporting by investing a few minutes in fixing your print stylesheet. It already looks almost correct, just a few overlaps.
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My opinion is that these guys will stay in GB until some president is forced to do something about it. No one is going to voluntarily open that can of worms.
Assuming you're talking about implementing, and not using preexisting, vetted libraries:

Spend a long time in the community. Listen closely to the people who have a good reputation. Have your code publicly vetted before it's ever used. Expect your code to be torn apart.
set up an API endpoint for receiving post requests so that people could send a json payload with their contact info.
>> Sweet! None of us have to work anymore! Party at my place every night for life!

That's the point. With increasing automation we don't need to work.

>> It'll be nice to close all of the school's down and tell kids they can go home, play video games indefinitely, and never have to worry about their future again.

You have aspirations for more than a roof over your head and enough to eat though, right?

>> Hey boss, fuck you! Why? Because fuck you, that's why! What are you going to do about it? Fire me? Ha!

Yeah, if you still want the money we pay you, or you can go back to your subsistence wage. You won't starve on the street but there won't be any fancy vacations either.

>> Make sure to tax them high enough to pay for all of my house parties.

How are you funding these parties? Your basic income feeds, clothes and houses you, and little else.

>> Who wants to volunteer to clean my toilet and mow my lawn? Anyone? Even if I say thank you when you're done?

No, those would be jobs you still have to pay money to get done, because they're unpleasant.

In fact you'll probably have to pay more for those because they're unpleasant and people don't need the work as badly.
Arguments like this are completely selling ourselves short on our ability as a species/society to innovate and come up with new ideas that improve our life for everyone. I'm sorry, but it drives me absolutely nuts! Come on guys, are we really saying that we aren't capable of continuing to come up with new ideas and grow them into sustainable businesses that lift a majority of Americans out of poverty?? What a positive, optimistic this author has on our future, not to mention his faith in the capabilities of fellow human beings.

Instead of jumping into many of the circular arguments below of where costs are truly incurred from things such as taxes on the rich and on corporations, let's think of taxation in a different way - as valves controlling where capital flows in our economy. Think of taxes as valves in a hydraulic system or switches/relays in an electrical system. If those valves aren't directing the right amount of electricity or hydraulic oil to the right parts of the system, the entire system stops working. In the same line of thinking, if not enough capital is going to the right places in our economy, our economy slows down and stops working.

So, the question becomes, where do we need to adjust the valves to get the entire system working again? Where can we cut taxes, to give that sector of the economy a boost? It's small businesses, innovators/inventors, and early stage startups. Why? Because if 1 out of every 1,000 businesses started turns into the next Microsoft or GM and employs 100,000 people, then we need 10m people out of work right now/100,000 jobs per Microsoft startup*1,000 startup businesses = 100,000 startups.

There's a reason the first round of capital for starting a company typically comes from friends and family - because it's extremely risky, and those closest to the entrepreneur can make that investment at the lowest risk possible because they have insider knowledge of the entrepreneur's skillset. If we have a disappearing middle class, that means that very first round of capital is disappearing too, because it comes from the middle class, which means 10 years from now, we will have even fewer jobs for the middle class. I'll leave it up to everyone else to debate how we can get more money into the hands of the middle class, but taxing the rich and providing a basic income for everyone is not the answer.
>> Not quite DSLR quality

If you are a big DxOMark fan, you'll find the RX100mk2 scores a 67, while the RX100 scores a 66, which is the same score as a Canon 7D's sensor.

And while you may argue that the 7D's sensor is old, Canon's been pumping variations of the 7D sensor into all of their recent APS cameras short of the freshly announced 70D.
I've been playing around with DJB's NaCl (http://nacl.cr.yp.to/) and have found it to be a very easy API to use (if a bit quirky to install). Using this, I've come to the conclusion that the actual cryptography is trivial compared to key management ("trivial" in the meaning "it's done and proven, it should be easy to use," not in the "anybody can write their own encryption system").
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It's been a while since we had one of these.

Tell us about your startup/side project!
Url:
What it does:
Are you looking for anything? (Feedback/Hiring/etc)
Hah, clever. Bonus points if you don't need to run the code to figure it out (since the cipher is trivial and the ciphertext isn't particularly well obfuscated in the Haskell version).
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This. I don't recall the source or many details, but there was a guy who had chatted with a law enforcement official posing underage in a chat room, but he never showed up for their "date". They sent the SWAT team and news media to his house and he shot himself. They made the point that lots of people suspend belief to live a fantasy in a chatroom, knowing the other party is likely not who they say they are. Was this any different? Certainly a moral gray area, but not worth the guy's life for some sensationalism.
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With regards to your first bike don't be embarrassed to find out for the past yeartype or a second hand one. It will save you upwards to several hundred cash by doing so. Right now you now have a beginning point and a thought of what is available.
Perhaps they had a change of heart...
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It looks like a great event and I'd love to make it but I can't justify a flight out to SF for a 4 hour conference. I hope they record the sessions and make them available online. I'd definitely pay for that. Currently it seems limited to an SF-only crowd.
If money is any object or record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given socio-economic context or country,( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money ) then what are persons who receive this money paying? What changes hands? The state gives Chad cash and he gives them what in return? Is a minimum income even money anymore?
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Early stage investing is the most competitive. These terms show a fundamental misunderstanding of the market (or his value).
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You can't MITM an SSL session with validly CA-signed certs unless you've pwnd the CA, web server or end user's machine. And I don't know what you're going on about with regarding "no real cert validation". If it's valid, it will be validated. There's nothing wrong with it when it's done right.
I wouldn't be too positive about safety, there are lots of very step-by-step tutorials out there.
At the risk of starting a device war, I'd agree with everything you've said, except that Android does a lot of those important things better still. Maps in particular- Google Maps is utterly unparalleled.

But it's all down to the user- I have no requirement for Remote Desktop support, so that doesn't matter to me. I don't use OneNote or Office, and use Dropbox for file syncing.
> There are some arguments that those living off of BI would form a unique subset of the population and might effectively be ghettoized at least in terms of colocation as opposed to the more economic/social aspect due to their similar needs/means.

The people living primarily off BI (that is "the poor") would likely continue to be segregated, to a certain degree, both physically and socially from those more well-off. But that's not an effect of BI, that's true of the poor now and basically for all of human history.