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Most of us have a representative system of government, not a purely democratic system. The problem with your thesis is that reality has not presented many examples where deep cuts have not been enacted. Austerity and Social Security cuts are common from elected politicians.

The parent idea reminds me of a certain system advocated by Thomas Paine, the famous American revolutionary who came up with a more liberal ideal of Social Security which offered every child a natural inheritance on coming of age. He suggested this in addition to subsidies for old age. Ironically, this is the same guy Tea Party members love to quote when they disparage taxes.

His pamphlet, Agrarian Justice, is well worth a read.

http://www.ssa.gov/history/paine4.html
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Thanks -- I hadn't thought of that. I have read recently that there's a push away from Bayer filters, e.g.

http://www.43rumors.com/detailed-panasonic-colour-splitter-s...

But I imagine that's a long way off from appearing in smartphones...
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Except that you can't make noise in the press because doing so could get you arrested for leaking classified information. You can't ignore it, either, because that could also get you arrested. So what do you do? You follow it, probably.

Granted, Microsoft et. al could attempt to lobby politicians to get these sorts of laws reversed, but that's not the position I was arguing against. Specifically, the GP said, "Do you think the government would jail someone of Steve Ballmer's stature if he talked openly about what the government has asked of Microsoft." That's an argument that Ballmer clearly could've talked about these programs because they wouldn't arrest him, but that assumes two things: a) Ballmer knew about this, and b) Ballmer was willing to take the risk that he wouldn't go to prison if he talking about that. Neither of those are a given.

Talking about lobbying is attacking an argument I didn't make, but I'll address it anyway.

From the standpoint of the big companies, lobbying only makes sense before the law is passed if you have no interest in following it. Alternatively, you follow it while lobbying to get it changed. You now have companies attempting to get the government to allow them to talk more openly about what they do with regards to PRISM and so forth. To put it in perspective, if SOPA had've passed, do you think Google et. al would've just ignored it?
No proposed scheme plans to give away most of the currency as BI, but some may turn out that way.

The scheme proposed here targets "comfort" for everyone, which certainly could cause inflation.
Also, we're talking about world where robots produce those cheap essentials out of soil and solar/nuclear power, leaving many more unemployed competing for ever shrinking pool of jobs that are not done by robots out of free solar/nuclear power.

Basically it's not any kind of a solution, it's exactly where we are headed now.
CALEA does NOT require Microsoft to provide decryptable communications services; in fact it ensures Microsoft can do exactly the opposite.

http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2010/09/calea-and-encryption.htm...
The flight does appear to be completely avoiding the US.

Previous flight on this route: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130708/1...

Current flight: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130711/1...
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Where are the documents? The text seems to be referring to something that isn't showing up for me.
Has it ever been a renter's market in NYC? It seems that NYC's rental market has to have been deeply in favor of landlords for a very long time in order to create a market for these brokers to even exist.
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A standard intro materials science textbook wouldn't tell you exactly what you're looking for, but it would give you an idea of what the state of the art is and where different materials are used and also a little bit of potted history. I read Askeland, Fulay, and Wright's /The Science and Engineering of Materials/ a couple of months ago; it seemed like a mediocre book, but the material covered was fascinating (and reasonably clearly presented.)
I think Python's niche is understood to be as a readable, concise, batteries-included language suitable for scripting, prototyping, and application development on a small-to-medium scale (and large scale for some people, but that's controversial,) and serving as a convenient interface to C and C++ libraries in all those roles. Python differentiates itself from similar languages in the niche by elevating simplicity, explicitness, and readability over conciseness and expressiveness. That's the conventional wisdom, anyway.

I'd say the biggest challenge to Python in that niche is the emergence of type inference for statically typed languages. Not too long ago, the difference between a statically typed language and Python was

List<Foo> foos = new List<Foo>();
foos.add(new Foo(2));
foos.add(new Foo(4));

versus

foos = [ Foo(2), Foo(4) ]

Now, a static language might look more like this:

val foos = List(Foo(2), Foo(4))

As far as I know, there still isn't a statically typed language that matches Python's simplicity and low barrier to entry, but I say that as someone who knows little about Go.
I'm in this camp. I owned a 4 letter TLD that I was first registrant on in 1994 and held it until I sold it in 2001. I had lots of interesting things published on the site and as soon as the new owner took the domain, he put up a robot.txt blocking the site my years of content disappeared from the archive. :(

I keep toying with the idea of trying to buy the domain back but it's value has become somewhat prohibitive. Maybe when I win the lottery :/
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I can understand your frustration.
The key is not to follow the headlines but do deep research on each claim.
For example, intake of dietary saturated fat is simply not associated with heart disease.
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2010/01/13/ajcn.2009...

Most soy consumption traditionally has been in Asia in small quantities, and after fermentation (soy sauce, miso etc). Vegan widespread usage of soy does not fit this pattern.
http://www.westonaprice.org/soy-alert/studies-showing-advers...
I love the design of this, from the animated gif tour, to the .json config
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I doubt it can top this though.
> Automation reduces costs and prices, creates new job fields, and permits for specialization.

Currently automation has reached the point in which it replaces lower-skilled jobs by higher-skilled jobs. Many people who worked in the former will not be able to work in the latter (mostly because it takes years to specialize), so for them, those jobs are as good as gone.
I do agree that it may cause some inflation (I'm not sure how much). I don't think those computations are correct though (3/16 = 18.75, not 25 for example). Inflation is measured as the cost for a basket of goods. Simply giving lots of people more money would not change the cost structure immediately. It would provide a larger consumer pool that companies can compete to server. The effects are complex and it's not immediately clear that inflation would spike to sky high levels, though a rise in inflation does occur when there is more trade because people are getting higher wages. A little bit of inflation is a positive indicator.

However, redistributing definitely does have an economic effect because richer people has an increase propensity to save. When you take 10k that they weren't using and give it to someone poor, that money starts flowing immediately. An analogy would be something like, say you have a lake with some water seeping out from a small waterfall. If you go and take 10,000 liters and put it in a dry lake (ignoring soil absorption :P), that water will start flowing net much faster since you now have two waterfalls going.

I'm not dismissing your inflation argument, I just anticipate that the magnitude of the effect is small (or at least able to be dealt with with monetary policy) compared to the benefit of giving people (especially poor people) some money.

As an aside, part of the reason for doing this is not economic (assuming that inflation does not outpace reasonable technical measures to oppose it). The real question is are we rich enough to afford taking basic care of all of our citizens, regardless of where they started in life? It's a question of justice. We may not have reached that point yet, but I think it's definitely arguable that we have.

You may reach a different conclusion, but ask yourself, if you were teleported outside of time and space, and didn't know if you were going to be rich or poor. What sort of system would you advocate for?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance

We may not agree on the conclusions, but my position is that we should not let people starve or suffer if we can afford not to. Secondly, we should allow people the ability to choose their life circumstances to the best of their abilities. 10k a year removes many coercive influences and allows them to eat and sleep in safety.
I'd love to see a 2013 update on some of these numbers.
Yes, but that makes JavaScript one less language to complain about in iOS.
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My memory of the math homework you describe brings up two images: geometry proofs and story problems. Never did I have to explain multiplication when doing my times tables, nor quadratics.
There's completely no point in such sensor if lens are not providing equally high resolution image too. Unless you're into shooting Airy disks (though, I don't think the phone will provide raw sensor data).

That is, the whole 41MP thing is, mostly, PR bullshit.
Basically the government guaranteed to get you a job with a basic income. All seemed like a good idea "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need" until folks realized that the people deciding basically were the ruling class and the working class now worked out of fear of Gulag instead of financial rewards.
Maybe they're taking a shortcut to save kerosine? :)
Interesting to see though, as I would expect for flights to Cuba always to avoid US airspace.
Is this specifically Manhattan experience? My experiences in Brooklyn were nowhere near this bad (before I eventually got out of the renter's market and bought here).
It is absolutely amazing that we have this information (and the ability to graph it) at our fingertips.
I think you're overweighting the relative influence BI can exert. Introducing BI as a tiny fraction of GDP does not make existing financial power structures disappear. Existing wealth will still wield the same influence it always has. There will be plenty of lobbyists to push back against corporate tax hikes, there will still be the usual capitalist incentives to start a business and increase production, the American people will still believe in upward mobility and the right of a business owner to make money. In short, I think you're imagining a slippery slope of a policy without any checks and balances where in fact there will be many. I could be wrong of course, but it's really rampant speculation on both our parts because humans don't really have an intuitive or historical understanding of how such a system would actually pan out in practice.

On balance it seems like a better risk than the current welfare and disability systems that dehumanize people and create a perverse incentive not to work in order to survive. If efficiency and automation trends continue some sort of wealth redistribution will become strictly necessary whether that is done through government policy, charity, or revolution. BI for its potential flaws doesn't look so bad compared to the alternatives.
Athletes have a lot of what might be called downtime in their schedule, but very little actual free time. downtime is a part of training, a good nap schedule and staying well rested between training sessions and races is very important. You can't just go off and pedal a helicopter because you've got a couple hours free.
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http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571

"Luciano Bello discovered that the random number generator in Debian's openssl package is predictable. This is caused by an incorrect Debian-specific change to the openssl package (CVE-2008-0166). As a result, cryptographic key material may be guessable."
I want to be able to commute to work with it!
That's a pretty silly strawman. It would obviously be a better idea to work fewer months out of the year, or weeks out of the month, or days out of the week. How long a single session of work is is probably the least important variable.
That is _not_ what Basic Income is. That's full employment. Totally different.
What would be the nearest 5th place contenders to WP8 and Blackberry?
Great circles are the shortest route.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Circle
This problem happens with Spring all the time in Java which uses reflection. It's certainly not "silly" or a "niche field".
Yeah but look at these flights:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130707/2...

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130702/2...

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130701/2...

All of those nearly miss US airspace. This flight just happens to miss it a bit more.
Sorry man, that is only for people with followers over 187. It stands to reason that the people that are truly at the top are the ones that don't take time promoting themselves on Hacker News.

Not that I think you are wrong, but those things might be related :)
The same way we always have. What do either of these issues have to do with BI?
The article mentions weather but can anyone explain in more detail why flights don't always take this (bypassing USA) route? It seems much more direct. My only guess is safety (nowhere to make an emergency landing for most of this shorter route).
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A perfect lesson on how to write "denials" that are accurate but aren't what most of the public can understand:

http://blogs.skype.com/2012/07/26/what-does-skypes-architect...

"It has been suggested that as a result of recent architecture changes Skype now monitors and records audio and video calls of our users.

False.

The move to in-house hosting of “supernodes” does not provide for monitoring or recording of calls. .."

There are more paragraphs that follow, but they can honestly say they didn't lie, since obviously they had the functionality to monitor and record the calls even before they introduced the supernodes so it is false that they introduced the supernodes for that, but it is not false that the Skype conversations can and are monitored by authorities.

Note that it's by law the job of FBI to do such monitoring, when it's about US citizens, and it's NSA's job for non-US citizens. Microsoft is definitely not breaking any laws. So when they say that it's all lawful what they do it's also true.
The route that goes over the U.S. is shorter.
It's interesting, but that's not really how dating and attraction works.

It's also funny because day 4's survey seemed to indicate they were feeling it more than the other days.

If I were to guess, I'd guess that she ended it.
You're right. I seem to have forgotten which year it was. :(
The problem is that any Ubuntu phone that is released will likely be just as locked down and filled with bloatware as everything else with Verizon.
With more and more app developers trying to monetize their apps, Emulos will be so critical!
That's an incredibly cheap dismissal that's simply not true. There are plenty of books that look at those issues from a humanist perspective.

The Bell Curve is labeled racist because it is myopic about the existence and importance of race. Race is not a valid scientific categorization: it is not based on statistical grouping of DNA, or anything concrete other than "people used to be assholes to foreigners." There is an order of magnitude more genetic + cultural diversity among each race than there are between the races.
thanks for the link - I saw the big spools in the video and was trying to figure out what was going on. I presume that means that flight time is limited by cord length (rather than having a circulating loop like a bike chain)?
If there was a UBI, then the yearly raises everyone voted themselves would be a significant cause of inflation.
But it also systematically replaces low-skilled jobs with high-skilled ones. You can't expect a low-wage factory worker to change into control engineer overnight, nor a clerk will be able to program automated checkout machines.

Nowdays new jobs are simply not accessible to the people who get replaced. I think what people don't get when discussing it is that historical (XIX century) examples don't apply because our computer-based automation is something different than their mechanical automation; robots can do any low-skilled thing humans can, which wasn't the case during Industrial Revolution. It's not just about doing stuff faster.
>the total energy extractable from humans per pound load is lower than solar

Whilst that may be true, don't forget that the energy output is in kinetic form, so for comparison you'd need to factor in the weight of motors, and for a "permanent" presence, some form of energy storage for night time use (and batteries are far from light!)
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Would love to watch the Soviet err I mean Russian reaction if the US tried to force the plane down in ATL or MIA.
You listed stuff that only affect yourself when you screw it up. But when you build systems for others (read: paying customers) you have to make sure you do your very best. And when it comes to cryptography 99% of developers are better of using well established technologies instead of brewing their own.
Between this and the crash at SFO - be interested to see how much Flightaware's traffic has spiked.
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A bigger part of it is that bad crypto looks alot like good crypto.
I think there could be a better explanation for this:

There is an impression that your IQ score is a fixed thing that you're born with, but in reality you can "study" for the IQ test and get better scores at it. There is also the whole issue that IQ scores have been rapidly rising in the past few decades.

This might just mean that IQ score merely acts as a proxy for socioeconomic status and education level and a bunch of other factors, and it doesn't really measure your true maximum intelligence potential.

Thus, the fact that some groups have lower IQ than others wouldn't necessarily point to them being inherently / genetically disadvantaged.

As an aside, I don't know anything about the book or the authors' alleged motivations, but if they truly had no agenda, it's not very fair to be called racist because the result of your research says something politically incorrect, and you conveyed your true results to the best of your knowledge. This kind of torches-and-pitchforks behavior is just as bad for the advancement of knowledge as fudging up the numbers for ideological motivations.
By 18 minutes. It's hardly a huge diversion.
My guess is that it isn't anything special. It flew over France after all and France denied the Bolivian Presidential plane access to French airspace on suspicion that Snowden was aboard.
I know you're kidding, but for the edification of anyone wondering why the normal route looks longer than the current route:

Lines on maps are not accurate representations of the shortest distance between the points, because maps are 2d representations of a 3d globe. The shortest path is approximately along a "great circle"[1], which looks like the path in the first link.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_circle
It turns out the change in path was because of the weather in the North Atlantic today: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/11...

Though if it hasn't landed yet, who knows, maybe he is on board.
Here's a Washington Post update : unusual turbulence over Greenland. :http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/11...
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One of the biggest problems with disability pay is the barrier it creates to joining the workforce. Losing payments when you get employed is a huge disincentive to looking for employment. That's the opposite of what UBI is trying to do.
Here is the official release [1], their homepage also have a great video of what looks like the successful run [2].

As one of the people that donated to the Kickstarter this make me very happy!

[1] http://www.aerovelo.com/2013/07/11/aerovelo-officially-award...

[2] http://www.aerovelo.com/
The normal route is shorter. The map projection is misleading.
The world is a sphere, the projections shown in the article don't reflect that. Russia is near the "top" of the world, so flying north is the quickest way to go south, on the opposite "side" of the planet.
> collections.Counter.most_common() uses heapq.nlargest() which is slightly more efficient than a full n*log n sort.

Creating a heap is O(n) if I remember correctly, so that may well be the most efficient solution.
Imagine that map on a sphere. The higher you go, the shorter the distance. If you flew directly over the North Pole you'd jump from one half of the map directly to the other.
It's leverage.

(In the US, corruption is hidden by punishing whistleblowers.)
The path over the US is the shortest path. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_navigation
Would you mind mentioning any one thing which federal government does which should be more costly than providing a livable income to everyone over the age of 65?

Our Federal Government is not responsible for most of the major functions of governance because our states cover most functions. Also, we aren't at war with a major foreign power.
I'm waiting for the widespread adoption of DNSSEC so we can just start adding TLSA records with the public key fingerprint. Yes, it means you have to trust whoever has access to create DNS records, but you already have to trust them.
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https://twitter.com/fitztrev/status/355340535659122688

It's actually the Solarized Dark, to be more specific. :)
Of course, that's always possible. It's also only GitHub, there are many, many, many people who develop a _lot_ of open source software on other places as well. Furthermore, the long tail dictates that the mass of people with a few contributions contribute waaaaay more than the people who are at the top.

That said, there's nobody on that list who has an insignificant number of contributions, either, which is more important. #256 is ~3 commits/day.
The route usually taken is closer to:

Great Circle Distance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_distance
For me it starts around 3:20. A lot of it was presented before Snowden but almost nobody noticed.

The "nobody noticed" part is key -- documents carry more weight than statements made by whistleblowers. Whistleblowers can be discredited in the public eye more easily than documents.
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Flat maps distort global distances. If you draw a direct line on a globe or Google Earth, you'll see why they take this path.

Google Earth screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/WyIxmC5.png
Those don't look like real flight paths.

In fact if you click on the track log they all say "Estimated" at all their points.
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