skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mother of all misleading headlines... the doctors received the approval of the patients. They didn't receive state approval.
There's debate about whether increased availability of abortion really accounts for the decline in crime; one alternative hypothesis is that reduced rates of childhood exposure to lead (mostly from leaded gasoline and the resultant exhaust) is at least as responsible.
In reality garbage men make more money than any basic income would pay. The misconception is that a BI would cause no one to work because they were too busy driving ferrais and eating cuisine with their government money. But we're talking about a basic income here. Any job that pays more than the minimum will make someone seem wealthy when compared to the average person. Any one with a job, even a janitor, would have more money to throw around than most people.

Ex-cons in particular will be in a much better situation as far as we're concerned. There's no constant stress of being expected to find a job in a society that doesn't want to hire them. More importantly, there's less incentive to steal from one of us if criminals have an easy backup plan. People won't have to fake disability or become welfare mothers either, saving society a lot of money.

There are always unintended consequences, but 100% of them aren't bad. A BI will save a lot of money just by eliminating some of the perverse incentives of the current system. It won't necessarily destroy the work incentive either. As the OP pointed out, we'd get a situation where the only people who apply for a job are people who really want them. A government income doesn't destroy natural talent, interest or ability. We could end up putting ourselves into a situation where jobs are things people enjoy moreso than we do today.
I love the ET Atari reference sprinkled in there!
Hardly. Lowering the minimum wage isn't going to make an unskilled and lazy teenager useful.

We have programs for this:

* http://www.jobcorps.gov/home.aspx -- This provides room, board, a stipend suitable for a teenager with no expenses, and vocational training for those under 25 years old (i.e, teens)

* http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/ -- There's really no disputing this one. Any one of them can hoof it over to the nearest community college and get some skills and a paid work-study job.

* http://www.army.mil/ -- Many of you probably don't like this, but it's probably the most successful organization at turning lazy teens into productive citizens, however, it carries the risk of death or dismemberment. My point, is there are many options.

To split hairs over the minimum wage because 95% of 1% of kids (the approximate dropout rate) don't have jobs is nonsense. So, because these kids who did not do their civic duty are unemployed means we should lower labor standards for everyone else, including those who have to feed families, such as the parents of these very children? It can only worsen the situation.

Min wage is already so low that it is not the driver to whether someone is getting hired or not. The big corporations that run most of the "small" businesses now, can pay. They just need to know they're indeed getting a valuable worker.

The other thing is, a lot of that 95% can be accounted for by kids who don't want a job. They'd rather play x-box, or work as a foot soldier in the local gang.

We have programs for this. Job corps, seriously. There's nothing stopping young people from working here. The jobs exist. The skills do not.
not to mention industries whose profits are generated solely on the basis of tariffs and subsidies (various areas of industrial farming: corn, sugar, etc)
$100 trillion! Wow, what a big number!

But completely meaningless unless you give a timeframe for the future liabilities. How long do you expect the United States to last for? Twenty years? 100 years? 1,000 years?
If you have a good resume but no degree, that almost certainly means you have job experience. Of course actual experience trumps a college degree, that's why its so hard for new graduates to get a job. I know things are going well on the west coast, but around the DC/MD/VA area most companies are asking for 3-5 years of 40 hour/week experience, a TS clearance with a polygraph, and a B.S. in Computer Science for entry level jobs. They are called entry-level positions simply because they plan on paying you 40-50k even with the ridiculous requirements.
Yes, yes, yes. Many tech companies don't have the kind of environment professionals like to work in, because they foster an environment so casual it borders on 4th of july drunken barbeque.
Even if I grant you all of that, it doesn't change the fact that Stanovich's claims re: the cognitive abilities of George W. Bush are based on extremely flimsy evidence. If he had stronger evidence than the testimony of Frum and a column from George Will (who, as far as I know, never attended a meeting in which GWB made a decision), wouldn't he have used it?

Indeed, in contrast to your laundry list, Stanovich doesn't present a single concrete example of an irrational decision by the former president and the cognitive bias that led to it. He doesn't have to, because he wants to appeal to a readership that is delighted to find that not only is the target of their political animus wrong, but actually suffering from a mental disability!

It's intellectually lazy and unworthy of a serious scholar.
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I'm fairly happy that the author as a former investment banker and a current journalist for the Investors Chronicle understands capitalism pretty well.

I've read Chris Dillow's blog for a long time. If you scratch away the Marxist sheen, which some people will find toxic at first glance, he has a few basic themes which are pretty hard to argue with:

Modern capitalism has failed to keep everyone employed. It may have helped countries out of poverty but there remains a persistent and growing underclass.

Most subsidies to the poor end up directly in the pockets of the rich. i.e. rent accounts for 50% of the income of people on welfare.

The poor are statistically less happy i.e. Frank Gallagher maybe pissed up all the time and maybe happy, but most people are not.

The stability of corporate entities is overestimated. Most companies have the life expectation of a forty year old man.

Managerialism is a failure, and an unhealthy obsession of the modern left.

Whether you agree with the Marxism bits or not he is generally an interesting read.
If that were the explanation, then wouldn't we expect white drop-outs to have unemployment rates that are similar?
I think QuickBooks is least for any business, for auditing purpose, espcially for filing tax report.

Myabe you can find users among eBay sellers or individual Amazon sellers.
It's a cold substitute, but for those who are interested in life in the American Midwest, Malle's film gives a small taste.
AFAIK, the biggest experiment in Basic Income is happening in Brazil. Come and ask us in 2030 how it did go. Today, all I can say is it serves the politicians in power to keep their power. People who receive state BI seldom vote different, afraid of losing the benefit.
Thanks for that, I guess the next post is going to be "Doctors in Federal Prison Euthanizing Inmates Without Approval or Consent" where Inmates is the name of the prison's 15-year-old suffering mascot dog.
What are your thoughts on Google's corporate mail service?

http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html

$5 a month / $50 a year.
Some things I've learned while renting a room in a house:

* Don't store expensive alcohol or munchie relieving foods in common spaces.

* Some people don't close the washroom door when taking a leak, even with strangers around the house.

* Establish a dish washing and house cleaning protocol. Split the costs of all supplies, or have a piggy bank for this stuff. Can be used to order pizza too.

* Some people believe Febreeze helps clean your fart repository sofa. Or mask the odour coming out of the organic waste bin on a hot day.

* A low rent is more likely to attract a problematic tenant. I've seen tenants ranging from complete slobs to the two students who could not pay the rent and eventually set the basement on fire (by accident). Fix up the place at least cosmetically, buy low-maintenance plants, take pictures on a sunny day with plenty of natural light, and up the rent. Good tenants are worth the extra work.

* A short-term tenant is more likely to treat the place like shit.

* A laundry machine in the house is great. If not available, check that the laundromat is within walking distance of someone carrying massive laundry bags, and that it closes at 12am and opens at 6am, or is open 24/7.

* A walking-distance grocery store and/or fruit market is a massive plus.
You can leave taxes behind by moving / etc.
You won't be allowed to leave this behind in any sense.
There's no need for a basic income to be set so high that it subsidizes infinite children. If the BI for a family of four was $25,000 in today's money for example, any more children than two would be as financially uncomfortable as it is today.

The key to basic income is to make the amount paid enough to live, but not to live well. The more basic the income becomes, the less incentive it creates not to work. In addition we have more people who want jobs than there are jobs available in our current economy. We can tweak the numbers without wrecking the whole system.
Reminds me of a scene from Pulp Fiction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPfPYVVNgVw. Doesn't seem so ridiculous to me.
> These old ideas of capital and labor are dead. Please let them rest in peace without digging them up so often.

I'm pretty sure China's GDP disagrees with this premise. A lot of stuff needs to be manufactured, constructed, etc - i.e. manual labor.

Please stop pretending software is the only industry in existence.
The problem with increasing minimum wage is that the more you increase it, the more incentive you give a company for further ramping up mechanization even though the initial costs are generally high upfront.
And all that would mean something if (a) all of sociology was somehow based on the work of Margaret Mead, (b) Margaret Mead had been proven fraudulent, (c) proof of bad evidence on one side automatically meant the correctness of the opposite, and (d) you provided any evidence of your claims that genetics somehow drives society towards an ideal that coincidentally lines up perfectly with your preferred gender roles.

Since none of those things are true, I'm left to ask again - what the hell does any of this have to do with men getting weird looks in parks?
You could even get the private market to finance it--at least for larger airports. I'm sure sites like FlightAware and Airliners.net would love the footage.
Murray Rothbard called this "probably the single most disasterous economic idea ever invented". He spoke on this topic during a speech on Milton Friedman. It's worth a listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AenYS193mSI&t=10m34s
High birth rates mean more youth to contribute to the working population to deal with the ever increasing number of retirees, a sort of policy that Japan could benefit from! What if people on basic income got more money as they got older?
Right, that's specifically why I said "$50/yr is too little".

I would never use Google for my mail (I do have a gmail account for when necessary, but I hate using it). They're probably more technically competent than most shitty mail hosters, but from a privacy/security perspective, outsourcing your mail to a company which will happily turn it over seems like a bad choice.

The only way I'd outsource my mail is to someone who can operate the server but not see the contents; this is technically difficult but could be done (relatively straightforward if you're willing to pay enough for dedicated hardware; conceivable with a better VM system someday).

Ideally also with options in free countries like Hong Kong and Switzerland (which I don't currently have).

For a regulated US company who was fully at risk to the USG already, Google Mail might be an ok choice. You still end up with the potential for civil discovery, but a document retention policy (i.e. destruction policy) of 6mo or less would address that, and Google does that for hosted mail if you want.
I've been doing the primary parent thing for about 16 months now. My story is probably a bit different in that I've started it much later in my children's lives than all the any other articles I read.

Basically I worked full time and my wife worked part time for the first 12 years. She had been wanting to go back to work full time, and we had done a test run when she covered someone on maternity leave for six months, but both of us full time just wasn't working and everyone was miserable by the end of it.

Then in 2011 an opportunity came up for me to work part time, mostly from home, and we decided to swap and give things a go. So I didn't start with infants, but with a 12 and 10 year old. It's been interesting so far.
My question still stands. I'm not proposing for some random person to go there and install the cameras, I'm wondering why the industry does not adopt this as a standard practice.
Some of this seems odd to me. Snowden appears very intelligent and credible, but how would he have been in a position to know who wrote Stuxnet?
Here's one anecdote - a woman I know has a very youthful appearance. Inevitably when she has to provide ID, the person reading her ID will exclaim that she can't really be XX years old. They think it is a compliment, but it enrages my friend because that person has now disclosed her actual age to anyone near by, including any acquaintances that might be accompanying her.

So, she asked me to create a fake-id to use in such situations. We made a really low quality id - a laminated "state id" (not even a driver's license) from one of the more obscure states a thousand miles away from her residence. Completely ginned up, not even intended to look like the actual id from that state. The information on the ID was correct, except that her age was listed as ten years younger then she really is.

She's been happily using that fake-id in those circumstances where they are just being nosey and there isn't a legal requirement for an id. Being nosey means they feed that information into databases at companies like Blue Kai. The result is that she has a shadow identity in those systems that is exactly 10 years younger. If you look her up on a website like spokeo there are typically two entries - one for her true age and one of the fake-id age.

Anyway, the lesson I learned from all that is GIGO - these commercial profiling databases are no better than the quality of information that goes into them and the controls on that information are no better than a minimum wage clerk taking applications at Costco or the local gym franchaise.

If you intend to use a fake-id simply as a way to compartmentalize the pervasive tracking rather than commit fraud it does not take much. You don't need a birth certificate from a deceased child, or to bribe someone at the passport office. Just get yourself a fake-id like that available near most colleges and start using it - most of the people you show it too couldn't care less about its authenticity, even if they knew how to check they don't bother because it's not their job.

The one bit of tactical advice I have is to look up name frequencies and pick ethnically appropriate names that are very common. That will help to make your information blend in with all the other people with the same name.
I have a serious beef with this. The main problem is you need a tutorial like this. As long as it is as convoluted to set up and operate like this, end to end security and privacy will only be for the few of us.

This should be ubiquitous, and easy to set up for everyone, which it isn't, nor are any of the numerous Outlook plugins either.
> Also remarkable was the amount of information crammed into a single chirp lasting a 10th of a second.

> "In one 10th of a second, they say 'Tall thin human wearing blue shirt walking slowly across the colony.'"

Millions of years of evolution at work. We're still a young species here.
You're right, this information is very dated. The "dead baby" method has been dead for a long, long time. Using someone who died when they're older is even less likely to work since they would have had an SSN issued and it'd be in the social security death index (SSDI).
I take seriously any claims that I've done something racist, as racism is commonplace. However, it seems your claim is based on the misunderstanding that I'm referring to non-elite nations as non-democratic.

But I think anyone can see that I consider my country, the US, to not be a democracy; and it's hard to imagine we're a free people when most of us obey commands from a "boss" all day. (The US has a top-down form of government with some barely-functioning democratic forms; our corporations are akin to dictatorships, where power is strictly top-down.)
Are you a pilot? Because I am, and I'm telling you from firsthand experience that you're wrong. Except for takeoff and landing, there's next to nothing I have to do. And the only reason I have to do the landing is because my plane is a small GA aircraft without autothrottle or autoland technology.
This site has one of the most obnoxious popup / "paywall" type systems I've seen in a while.
It does seem contradictory, but it's not. You definitely learn to recognize your biases, it's a skill. There have been many times when I've caught myself thinking something, only to then say "wait a minute, I've just fallen victim to bias X" and then reversed my decision or opinion.

I'm not great at it, but I'm very happy that it catches at least some of my brain's bugs.
Why, because the plane was not 100% vertical on the Z-axis?
This is a question of whether the post is relative to HN, not whether it is related to Islam or not. Rape and Anti Islam are all good, just not this specific rant. You are doing exactly what the OP does, hasty generalizations.

i must say, it is very easy for such a post to fall under controversial categories. i believe well informed individuals on HN will flag this as an attempt to go viral by being controversial.
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The dead baby method has been "dead" for a long time.
Approval under continual coercion, especially by people with significant authority over you, isn't actually approval in any meaningful sense. It's not a misleading headline at all.
Currently, no. I do plan on adding warnings (not errors) on a statically-calculated type issue. One thing is that I don't plan on it erroring if you call a function with a value whose type might be an "any" type or a "union" where it expects a specific type. If there's some overlap, it would allow, to make things easier and give the programmer the benefit of the doubt.

Thus, the following would compile without warning:

let double(x as Number) x * 2
let repeat(x as String) x & x
let fun(x as Number|String)
if is-number! x
double x
else
repeat x
let fail(x as Boolean)
// this should fail at compile-time
double x

I could write the compiler to be a lot smarter and have it track types through conditional branches (which would be very hard, but possible), or allow it in those cases where it is possible that the types overlap.

I also might add a "cast", i.e. a runtime type check. I'm not sure what the best syntax for it would be, but it would act like the following:

CAST(x, Number) // validate that x is a Number or throw a TypeError
CAST(x, Number|String) // validate that x is either a number or a string, otherwise throw TypeError
CAST(x, Number, 0) // validate that x is a Number, otherwise evaluate to 0.

Of course, in the cases where `x` could not fit the type requested, then that could error at compile-time.

I would love some feedback on this, especially from the perspective of "what would I use to help me develop", not "I need my program to be 100% statically type-safe without having to do any testing".
I got that. My point is why do you allow them to apply pressure?

Simply ignore them.
The 'dawn' part is wrong.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dawn
Thank you for an introduction to the author. I'll look for some more of his work.

I try to be very careful about bashing things on HN -- it's too easy, and everybody does it. If I implied the author was somehow generally incompetent, I apologize.

He's just smoking crack here. Whatever his merits as a columnist and journalist, in my opinion he's out of his depth on this topic. I also appreciate your providing his credentials. Since my comment was on this essay and not on him, it doesn't make sense to respond to that information in one way or another. The last thing I want is to start some kind of discussion on Dillow the person. My remarks were entirely about the concepts and structure of his argument in this one essay (along with an observation about the use of the word "capitalism" in general) I found the material off-handedly shallow, ill-conceived, and not very well thought-out.
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How wouldn't he?

That's like asking how he would be in a position to get Top Secret documents.
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Actually, I'd argue it doesn't matter what the minimum wage is. Today we see that the minimum wage just means a lot of people aren't working, and if you dropped minimum wage and gave them something to do hourly for pennies they still would have nothing.

If you raised minimum wage, you would just drive McDonalds to automate away more of its menial jobs and make Walmart replace all the cashiers with self checkouts, which I think is good (eliminate the useless wastes of peoples time) but it doesn't mean more people are employed for labor.

The real issue is that the distribution of economic resources has been direly concentrated in very few for 30 years, and they are now the predominant drivers of economic activity because nobody else has any prosperity anymore. It is a compound effect that the people with the money to hire and employ others have nothing to hire or employ them for, and thus they don't, instead they push their money into avenues that make profit off of regulatory exploitation rather than productivity (big banks & the fed, fortune 500 investments, lobbying for monopolies to get artificial markets).
You make a really good point. Also, and just to "level set" as they say, my immediate reaction about all the news around surveillance it that it is evil. But to play the devil's advocate, if the Internet is subsidized by the government, does that give them the right to snoop into it? If there is a network that is totally and completely private, built with zero money from the gov, then I would say no way, you cannot snoop, but if they are picking up a piece of the tab, I am not so sure?
To the author's credit, though, she seems to be communicating from her subjective experience as a former Muslim. As in, "X" was what her life was like in Lebanon, and "Y" was what her life was like in the USA.

I found it an interesting window into her psychology - going from one culture to a radically different one.
They don't, it's the toupée fallacy http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Toupee_fallacy
Eliminating decimalization is basically just a way to increase the profits of market makers at the expense of retail and other long term investors. Minimum increments are just a minimum wage law for high frequency traders.

I blogged about this last year:

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_whats_broken.html

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/subpenny_rule_respons...