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DT is famous for cultivating controversy for PR. AIUI, in the past Defcon has orchestrate [big company's] lawyers literally walking on stage to shut down a vulnerability disclosure talk.
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Key Specs

• 41MP 1/1.5" BSI sensor (capable of 34MP and 38MP output images depending on aspect ratio)
• Mechanical shutter
• Zeiss F2.2 27mm equivalent (for 4:3 still images) six-element lens
• Xenon flash
• LED light for video
• Windows Phone 8 OS
• 4.5" AMOLED WXGA (1280x768) display
• 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor
• Front facing 1.2MP camera
• 2 GB RAM, 32 GB internal memory

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Food and basic healthcare should be free. Literally free. There's no reason for it not to be in the future, in the very same condition that encourage us to adopt BI.

And if people won't eat even then... well, there's only so much you can do if the other person doesn't want to live.
Both of the examples you gave are great circle routes. Today's Af150 route is not, in any way, a modified great circle route.

One correction: upon looking again at FlightAware, it is clear that the flight specifically avoided controlled airspace around the Azores, probably because Portugal has strenuously declined to allow overflights that may have certain passengers aboard.

Edit: I mean you are wrong about "happens to miss", that's all. Planning air routes is not a matter of happenstance, and all of the examples you have given run counter to your argument, because they prove that Moscow-Havana flights invariably follow a great circle or a modified great circle route. If you can show me any previous AF150 that follows a flight path that resembles today's flight path, I will concede the point.
"Haystack is available as open source."

Still waiting on that...
from the article "You don’t need a patent to grow a crop, of course."

Monsanto disagrees.
Interesting idea, but if you pre-loaded a database with a bunch of fake profiles, then the hackers would simply use all profiles after id N. So you'd have to continually be generating new "fake" profiles during production, which would cause extra load for the servers. That translates into higher cost.
Why is my Intern so damn productive?
What makes quinoa better than brown rice?

How does the cost compare?
So a few basic strategies for maximizing UBI:

1) Get educated, find a job, work.

2) Produce more children, pool financial benefits that a single household is eligible for.

3) Vote for politicians who promise to increase UBI.

Long-term which option do you think the populace will go for?
Climate change is not a controversial idea. It is widely accepted idea.
"We conducted open-ended interviews..."

Can you say, "we asked leading questions until we get what we wanted"? Can you say, "Satanic scare fueled by 'recovered memories'"? Good boy.
The incentives do not necessarily work well there.

But I could imagine a "We The People Buy It" under a system of wealth taxes. That the gov't could choose to buy any asset for a modest premium over what the taxpayers asserts it was worth for purposes of taxes last year. Heck, maybe any citizen should be allowed in on that game?

"Hmmm, you say your restaurant business is worth only $300k? It is your lucky day! I just bought it for $360k."
Not just in an international setting. Even in a closed universe it's a lot more difficult to measure, or even define, profit than revenue. Although they are both called income tax, individuals are largely taxed on income, corporations on profit.

Better would be trying to tax the beneficiaries of the corporation. The best measure of profitability is some benefit to the owner. Usually capital appreciation or dividends, but sometimes outsize cash or non-cash compensation in an employee context, or as a non-arms length counterparty.

Increase the dividend and capital gains* rates substantially, start taxing fringe benefits, transform the corporate income tax into a very small tax on revenue to prevent the multiplication of corporate entities, crack down on people who renounce US citizenship (by for example making them inadmissible) and call it a day.

*Also eliminate the capital gains basis reset when assets are transferred at death. That makes no sense at all.
No, because the basic income would be paid for by a tax. Tax revenues increases with inflation too.
You are again one of these people going with the notion that since you disagree with the other people's ideas you get to assume that the ideas are somehow bad. Notice that in no way did you explain why these ideas are inherently bad, you simply disagree with them. You are perpetuating the fallacy that they are bad simply because you say they are while ignoring the possibilities that they have good reasons to think that way. Next thing on your agenda will be to ridicule them in some way to show your superiority over such backward-thinking people in a feeble attempt to convince us you are right without actually having to prove anything nor support your accusations.

Not at all. Being young, I will simply wait until the older majority dies off. It happened with black rights. Its happening with gay marriage, and it will happen with other socials issues.

I've got nothing but time.
The problem with unconditional basic income is that there's no incentive to do anything beyond the minimum

Actually, that's the problem with with means-based social programs, as there's an incentive not to work to get more stuff.

We can't even get them to voluntarily recycle and quit beating their kids.

Oh, never mind, you're just trolling.
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It's a fascinating idea, and it's a real challenge to market capitalism as we know it in the long run.

But the biggest problem with any such system is unequal need. Need states are stochastic at the individual level. They might appear to be neater and more deterministic at the aggregate level, but a system designed in aggregate is bound to have challenges at the margins. I could easily see this system becoming, essentially, a fixed amount that just shifts everyone's personal needs/income graphs up by X amount a year. Above that point, everyone still needs income to fit any needs not met by X.

An unintended consequence, for example, would be that this system places an extra burden on the disabled, or the parents of multiple children, or the elderly, etc., to take on more work to meet their greater needs. By eliminating need-based welfare and replacing it with a flat payment structure, we'd basically be handwaving away the fact that need states are variable.

It's possible that I'm misunderstanding how this system works. And many of the same arguments I'm making against this system could certainly be leveled against our current system. I guess I'm struggling to see how this system has greater utility and fewer externalities than the current one.
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The root of this thread was someone saying,

"Most people are taxed roughly 36% (28% income tax, 2% medicare, 6% social security) on their labor, however investments are only taxed at a flat 15%."

"Double taxation" may not be an entirely accurate label (more like "an additional pass of taxation"), but the fact that dividends (in particular) are taxed as corporate profit before being taxed as individual profit makes that 15% figure misleading for dividends, which is what the child comment brought up: "Arguably, you get double-taxed if you own stocks."

Really, the number of times the money is taxed is irrelevant (except wrt paperwork) and we should be looking at the total tax level, but the point is that it's more than the nominal tax rate on qualified dividends if we're going to be comparing tax rate on labor income to tax rate on non-labor income, apples to apples.

Of course, that's specifically for dividends; bond premium payments and capital gains are a different discussion.
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I am surprised that Medidata solutions( mdsol.com ) hasn't been brought up. They do something very similar with very forward looking products/apps that are already being adopted by big pharma.
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I'm not sure how I feel about static typing in Java, but it does do what OP talks about, because by default you're not playing devils advocate with reflection.

Static typing can guarantee the functionality of quite a lot of code, but it cannot do this for any arbitrary piece of code. As an example, no compiler in any language can know what whether a user will numbers or garbage, when you're expecting numbers. You need to check for an exception in Java even in this simple case.
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Supply as a whole is constant, but supply between exchanges and people isn't constant.
I think the discussion is more about long-term change than short-term.

I'm sure operators of horse feeding stations had similar arguments when Model T came around, but you don't find many people in that occupation nowadays.
Do you have any particular examples we could analyze? Yes, you're right, the jobs that robots can do better are gone, but any improvement in efficiency in an industry generally results in lower prices and an increase in job creation around that industry. Again, in the case of the cotton gin, while the gin itself reduced the need for manual labor to pick seeds from cotton, it blew the demand for labor to plant and harvest cotton through the roof, and the improved output of these larger plantations resulted in the creation of shipping ports and explosive growth in the textile industry. In fact, this is widely considered to be a socially negative effect of the cotton gin, since it dramatically increased the demand for labor, which was then filled by slavery. That was obviously not desirable, but the core point I'm trying to make there is that eliminating all those slaves' jobs resulted in a dramatically larger demand for labor in the supply chain.

Just because the old job is gone doesn't mean there isn't a new one to be done, and improvements in efficiency and costs of production result in economic growth that have positive impacts all over related markets.
Climate Change is not a controversial idea in the scientific community, but it is still a controversial idea in mainstream politics. Sadly.
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I think right now there aren't any strong 3rd place contenders. Windows Phone is the anemic upstart, BBOS is the swiftly declining dinosaur. Whatever the strengths or weaknesses both platforms have, neither have managed to project a truly compelling value proposition for consumers to seek out as an alternative.
Well your phone already has one smart card plugged into it all the time (assuming it's a GSM phone). Perhaps there's a clever way to leverage that as one factor in the authentication process.
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> Why make sure that every non-worker in society has enough money to eat McDonalds and watch cable TV at the cost of the freedom of everyone to make and spend money as they please?

To turn this question around, why do we want only slaves to live comfortably, while denying this right to people who are free?

Yes, slaves. Our culture, out of necessity, managed to successfully hide this fact from most of the people, that we are all slaves. We need to work, or else we starve. Some of us are lucky and do the things they would have done anyway living free, but for most of us, it's just global slavery we're in denial with.

Automation may finally free us all, and this is the point most people (suprisingly, even here on HN) seem to fail to understand.
What do you think of Mathematica? I've been toying with the idea of using it for sketching out ideas related to my computer graphics work, but it's a big investment. :/
What kind of fool would do all the work to get a security clearance to get a "cool" job at the NSA that they wouldn't be able to tell anyone at all about?

It's folklore wisdom that many of those people have to tell their friends and family that they work for the "GSA" doing PC networking or something like that.
And the NSA code injection :)
"It's superior to my old iPhones in almost every way."

Unless you count battery life, GPU, probably CPU, form factor, build quality, the wildly superior app, media and accessory ecosystems. But other than that what have the Cupertianians done for us lately?
It seems to me that they went backwards on the sensor size--which, I think, is probably the most important thing for cameras next to the lens. The Nokia 808 had a 1/1.2" sensor. I was hoping the next iteration of the Nokia would have a 1" sensor.
Medidata is a data collection system, and Comprehend works out of the box with them. If you're one of their customers you can start looking at your data in Comprehend simply by providing us with your API credentials.

The problem is, many companies use Medidata, Oracle, MERGE, and other vendors. Inside of a single study, let alone across several. That's where Comprehend comes in. We simply help customers get the actionable insights they need, and then help them take those actions.
My impression was that they enjoy drinking a lot and for many Defcon was the only time of year they got to go "under cover".
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Not that I'm aware of; I was just referencing the one. But the one certainly provides some support for "don't touch crypto" as a good guideline.
Creation is indeed fixed and constant, but the supply of BTC within the exchanges isn't. The new owners of these ASIC boxes will find themselves in an excess of supply and they'll quite happily flood the market with this increased supply, or they'll spend the coins at merchants.

Contrastingly other miners with inferior machines will find themselves behind the curve with a smaller source of income.
Here are two previous flights which are not in any way modified great circle routes:

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130620/...

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130608/...
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The premise of my application depends on the Turk API but it says that since I'm from Canada I can't create Turk jobs for others to complete? Is there a way around this? I believe I need an American address and an American EFT bank account for transfer of funds. Is there a way around this? Is there anything I can do? Thanks,

--bakztfuture
I think most of what you are saying is at best orthogonal to the article, where the dogs were not in any way 'bad ass dogs not under control' but simply stupid little house dogs that were in some cases actually /running away/ when they were shot, and the people were not getting in trouble for being threatening in any way but for not being fast enough to lie still and silent on the ground. It's obviously unlikely that you will ever be in this situation, but if it did happen I don't believe it would go as smoothly as you seem to think.
Oh, they all have their fair share of guilt, of course. What I'm saying is that there are citizens and there are citizens. Billionaires like Ballmer, Ellison or Gates, and the corporations they run are, de facto, less amenable to legislative pressure, if anything because they have armies of lawyers ready to blow holes in every book thrown at them. At any point in time, they could have resisted this overreach in many, many ways, and they didn't, so they're as guilty as the power-crazy civil servants and lawmakers who started the whole thing.
He clearly doesn't touch unit tests, either, or he'd know that they would address ALL (as in, 100%) of his concerns here. Crypto is even easier to test than 99% of things... all you have is a couple of inputs, and an output. Boom, test cases.
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Hello HN. Does anyone have any bright ideas on how to bring a company with significant design and development resources to a higher profit margin? Currently we work primarily for larger corps designing and developing websites and games for them. It seems like it's getting more and more difficult to build our cash reserves even though we seem to be getting more and more work every year. Our number one expense is our work force, which we love and wouldn't want to downsize if at all possible. Would we be better creating our own product rather than working for other companies all the time? Should we bootstrap as best we can while continuing to pay the bills by working for other companies or should we go after VC? Any books anyone would recommend? Is there a particular industry we should go after for better margins?
Providing integration to make access easier is part of a voluntary NSA program (Twitter has said they refused to participate).
I don't understand why this is a problem. A job is something you have to do to complete a task. Somebody pays you for it because it brings them some value. If they can get that task completed for a lower rate, why is that a bad thing?

Sure, in the short-term you lose the paycheck you received for completing that task, but in the long-term that person who paid you is now wealthier, which enables them to spend money elsewhere. This causes the jobs to migrate to where things need to be done. I assure you we are still a very long way from accomplishing all tasks that need to be done and for which people would be willing to pay. But if we ever did reach that point, nobody would need to work because everything would be free.
What left pane? (I see nothing of the sort in the link or screenshots.)
PC sales are declining and selling Windows & Office licenses is not going to make it

This is the part I don't understand about the new spin from MS. Sales cycles are obviously extending, but how many offices in the universe don't run on PCs? Surely Microsoft are still making a lot of money selling business software, and in several fields their software remains dominant. There is plenty they could do to improve that business software and/or to adapt it to different ways of working, driving more sales based on genuine added value, but they don't seem to have much interest in doing so. That seems bizarre to me.
It's been a courageous effort by strcat, pushing such ugliness on us over the 0.7 milestone, but it will certainly pay off into the future. I look forward to the new sugar!
Unless there's some trusted hardware involved, I doubt that effectively prevents malware from getting them.
Fair enough. Historically, the TS linux client was always more limited and harder to work with than its Windows counterpart, but it's been a few years since I've dealt with it at all.

Did you ever submit any feature requests or talk to the Mumble people about those integrations you use? Being an open-source project, it may not be too far-fetched to see them added in.
I'd be a little weary of keeping cooked rice for a week, even in a good fridge (my fridge stays at a solid 2C, which keeps most things good to eat for long than you'd think!). Rice is a surprisingly good vector for food poisoning due to it's often carrying Bacillus Cereus spores which are heat resistant and can then germinate and grow in the fridge - most of the sources I've seen suggest that you shouldn't keep cooked rice in the fridge for more than 1 to 3 days.

Anecdote - Of all the times I've had food poisoning, probably half of them have been because I've kept cooked rice around too long. I might just be unlucky though!
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"I couldn't find any existing websites with a database of microwave cooking instructions, so I made one."

This has ALWAYS annoyed me to no limit that you couldn't find one good resource for most common receipts. It is mostly Try & Too Hot ..
My brain always thought that was a no op, but the rule says infinite loop. Why would void be true? Not sure, but there likely was a good reason.
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A basic income is much more like a change in tax rates. In fact, the existing Earned Income Tax Credit is already much like a basic income for a certain segment of the population.
Requiring a constitutional amendment would create much too high a barrier. One often needs a revolution to make a constitutional amendment. I don't think we want to go there.
You mentioned the use case of shopping carts with our API for charging and transfers. I'm assuming you have a use case of a customer making a purchase from several different sellers and then needing to pay those sellers out after the transaction?

Let's a say a customer bought $100 worth of items from two different sellers. You owe the sellers $40 each and you want to keep the rest. Here's how you'd handle that:

1) Charge the card (https://stripe.com/docs/api#charges) the full amount of the purchase ($100).
2) Subtracting Stripe's fees, you'd see $96.80 appear in your Stripe balance (https://stripe.com/docs/api#balance).
3) Initiate a transfer to seller 1 (https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/sending-transfers) for $40 (this costs $0.25)
4) Initiate a transfer to seller 2 (https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/sending-transfers) for $40 (this costs $0.25).
5) You'll have $16.30 remaining in your balance. You can then transfer that to your own bank account (https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/sending-transfers) and we don't charge any fees for paying yourself out.
How can I see what level my account is at?

What are the limits for Level 1?
In the case where you are able to make a choice about which job you take then yes you definitely should be held to account for that choice. Because it is a moral one.

You had the choice of hacking for the good of people or you could join forces with 'The Man' and make a bunch of money. Maybe the choice isn't so binary, but nonetheless the choice is there. I could understand your statement, 'People need jobs to survive', if your profession was bricklayer, or shelf-stacker, but being a no doubt highly qualified individual in a booming field, as Snowden is, does not generally leave you scrambling to pay the rent and buy your groceries.
Don't worry about the Fed's absence at DEF Con, they never attended for the content. They only wanted the meta data.
This is huge for Bitcoin. Keep up the good work guys!
Friendly reminder: People work for all sorts of reasons, having enough money to not starve is just one of them.

What's the first question people ask you when they meet you? In this country, it's usually "what do you do?"

I'm just as OK with people being motivated to work by status or prestige or ego societal pressure as they are by the threat of financial ruin.
The distribution of genetic variants within and among human populations are impossible to describe succinctly because of the difficulty of defining a "population," the clinal nature of variation, and heterogeneity across the genome (Long and Kittles 2003). In general, however, an average of 85% of genetic variation exists within local populations, ~7% is between local populations within the same continent, and ~8% of variation occurs between large groups living on different continents,. (Lewontin 1972; Jorde et al. 2000a; Hinds et al. 2005) (Editied my previous post to reflect a single order of magnitude between 8% and 85%).

Thanks Wikipedia. Regarding being labelled racist, fine, everything gets labelled that. Even this post. I took your statement for something bit more meaningful than the cynic's "woe is the opinion of The Populous".