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> Why would anyone do anything if they had no incentive to work?

A lot of people wouldn't do anything; but they don't do much now, either.

Others, however, wouldn't be satisfied with basic survival.

I could probably quit my job and move somewhere cheaper and work 10 hours a week and be able to afford basic food and accommodations - but that doesn't equate to a party at my house every night, because the ultra-basic income wouldn't pay for any frills like alcohol, drugs, or entertainment.
Only, what would a game company care about Linux adoption?
I see no one in this active discussion has mentioned yet Charles Murray's book In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State,

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0844742236

in which Murray goes into detail about how much a program of guaranteed income for everyone would cost in the United States, and some probable effects that would have on everyone's everyday behavior. I read the book a year or two after it was published.

Murray's own summary of his argument

http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc242a.pdf

and reviews of his book

http://www.aei.org/article/society-and-culture/poverty/in-ou...

http://www.conallboyle.com/BasicIncomeNewEcon/MurrayReview.p...

http://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/region_focu...

http://mises.org/misesreview_detail.aspx?control=296

may inform the discussion here. Big public policy proposals are not easy to discuss, but the big public policy proposal of a guaranteed basic income for all is a response to existing policy of supposedly targeted social welfare programs that are just about equally expensive, but more costly to administer.
[Peter, Michael, and Samir are chatting as they hang around the printer]

Peter Gibbons: Our high school guidance counselor used to ask us what you'd do if you had a million dollars and you didn't have to work. And invariably what you'd say was supposed to be your career. So, if you wanted to fix old cars then you're supposed to be an auto mechanic.

Samir: So what did you say?

Peter Gibbons: I never had an answer. I guess that's why I'm working at Initech.

Michael Bolton: No, you're working at Initech because that question is bullshit to begin with. If everyone listened to her, there'd be no janitors, because no one would clean shit up if they had a million dollars.
That's fair enough, it seems like it would be really useful for article searching, like the NSA one you gave (great, example, blew Google out the water!). I can see it being great for research too, assuming academics spend the most time on a good source which seems reasonable. I'll definitely be giving this a go for some searches, really nice!

Oh, and a quick suggestion: Have you considered a Firefox search engine addon? I do most searches from the omnibar, and I think more people would switch search engine up there than manually go via blippex.com
It's just that the hardware that I'm currently running the same game on fell short of the minimum system requirements sort of put me off. Guess I'll have to report back after checking it.
Well, you can solve the problem very easily. If they don't want to have a j-o-b, you can send them to Siberia. Now everybody wants a job. Of course being productive while at work becomes your next challenge. The travails of communism!
The camera is without a doubt, the most important part of my phone. I use it at least a dozen times a day. I'd absolutely pay $300 for a phone with a good enough camera.

Unfortunately, I'm not going to do that AND switch to Windows Phone. But given an Android or iOS device with this exact hardware? I'd 100% grab one of these.
http://www.schneierfacts.com/facts/623
>The only difference between this and the article, is that if you get a job, whatever you earn is deducted from your payments.

That's a pretty significant difference considering that the major selling point of a UBI is that (relative to traditional welfare) it doesn't have the problem of penalizing people for earning money on top of the transfer payments.
Did you mean "orthogonal" in place of "mutually exclusive"? If they were in fact mutually exclusive then any central planning should have a dramatic (and negative) effect on your business.
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> reduce costs elsewhere

Like by hiring less employees.
Citizen! You yourself are perilously close to committing one or more Thoughtcrimes now,and don't think we're not watching!
Did Nokia build their Xbox, keyboards, mice, Surface, Surface Pro, Kinect or any of the other devices that Microsoft offers?
Oh yes, because Symbian was such a great OS!

I really don't understand all you Symbian lovers / WP haters. Symbian was the shittiest mobile OS that I have ever used. I would use Windows Mobile before Symbian. I remember when all the Nokia lovers were raging about the N97, so I decided to pick one up for something like $700 because it seemed like a great phone (and it had great specs for the time). It was the worst phone experience I ever had. Even after doing all the updates and mods that everyone suggested, it was still extremely buggy and slow.
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I like your thinking :)

Over time this could potentially grow, but given your 'remove below date' (and I guess many people's behaviour of marking all read after a while) this sounds good.
Have you considered the fact that you don't know anything about the lives of the people who live across the street from you and maybe you should refrain from judging them so harshly?
This is a really unhelpful comment. Why don't you think for a second next time before rushing out some snarky, superficial nonsense.

Of course people would still work, for the same reason you don't still live with your parents - although judging by your response, maybe you do. Are you personally going to be perfectly content with a $10K/yr subsistence allowance? And closing all schools? What are you talking about?

The fact is that many countries have something like this anyway, with probably a few more strings attached, and they haven't turned into anything like what you predict. The fact you name-drop "communism" just cements your obvious ignorance.
If you want to join the party:

http://gildviewingparty.eventbrite.com/
I won't argue that camera phone lenses are high quality, but you can really only push a 1/3" or 1/4" sensor so far.
This is absurd. People will work, they just won't "work for the man" if they don't want to. They will do things they enjoy. They will be creative. They will play sports. They will volunteer, etc etc.

Ask yourself: what would you do with your life if you had nothing to compel you into the daily grind for survival? If your basic needs were guaranteed to be met, what would you want to accomplish? Imagine a world where this were true for everyone. Why would anyone prefer this rat race to that? Just so you can continue to stratify society based on those who "contribute" in ways that have market value?
Is Apple the first company to have done that? I highly doubt it.
It seems to be writing code that runs at native speed, is a LISP, or talks to the JVM. Not all three, but maybe two at a time.
It was closer to two years, according to Wikipedia.
Your carbon tax of $1500/ton of carbon is a couple of orders of magnitude bigger than any proposed carbon tax. Proposals are for $20/ton to reduce greehouse gas emissions to targets. Estimates of the social cost of carbon dioxide range from $50 to $200 per ton.
WP, especially WP8 got pretty got reviews. Why the hate ? Especially with Nokia phones where you get Nokia Maps for free. I don't know of any Android phone where you get an offline quality GPS for free.
I would agree, but for something as important as cryptography, I would prefer people error on the side of too cautious or repetitive if it means less people making the same mistake twice. It's the same reason why I don't mind repeated HN submissions if it's a good enough delay - the discussion was clearly relevant the first time, and new people have joined the community since then and deserve an equal chance to talk about the subject with new perspective.
There are a lot of companies doing this, but it's still a huge problem and I agree w/ chintan that there is a lot of opportunity for innovation.
Yes, you are missing that the idea is to tax the money when individuals get it out of the corporation for private use. Right now capital gains and dividends taxes are relatively low.
Real MILITARY soldiers are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice... Which is somewhat stricter and includes a lot of rules that are unconstitutional for crvilians. They also don't get to form unions, they get a chin of command and that's it. They break ORDERS and they get Courtmartialed.

Our militarized police like to call the rest of us "civilians" but they run straight to their Union when any superior calls them out, and they hide behind the same lawyers as the rest of us and ask for favors from the prosecutor and court.

We need to keep the teacher unions and break the police unions up, then subject them to higher standards of conduct, and LOWER standards of defense and evidence... We have allowed them to become a wild pack of dogs and they need caged up, put back on the leash, or put down.
Unlikely. I know of a lot of people who live in New Jersey but register their auto in another state under a relative's address for cheaper insurance. I also know people who use an old address or the address of an acquaintance/relative so their child can attend a different school district.
>99.9% of people who will buy this phone will never have a need for 41 megapixels. But they'll buy it just the same.

The tech does make normal pictures look better because of the oversampling. Not to mention optical image stabilization for reducing blur and shake in both image and video.

http://i.imgur.com/fUe8rLC.png
Thanks for pointing this out. Do you have a URL to where you found this?
I just rented an apartment in NYC this week and using Naked Apartments and RentHop were great -- forget about Craigslist. Naked Apartments combines duplicate listings which was definitely a helpful feature in my search. This new feature seems really great and helps prevent waiting around for email replies (some brokers are ridiculously fast, some aren't).
>> My point is this is the _worst_ kind of spec padding.

How so? This is actually the first officially announced smartphone (I also have a keen interest in the upcoming Sony i1, but it's not a reality yet) that I'd consider buying just for the camera.

Personally, I think Nokia has taken an interesting approach with the sensor, because the added resolution gives them leeway in overcoming the optics problem (from a focal length perspective, at least) in that the "digital zoom" will produce better results than any other phone.
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True. Worst part is that in the long run combined with the right contract, that's still a cheaper option.

Phones tied to contracts are scams.
But if they designed it with 5/10 optional popular hardware modules , and marketing about future modules that will come from community, this could really appeal to early adopters , and people with specific niches that need to be filled.

And technically , if this is the right way to build more innovative phones, it has a good chance to win in the general population.
This is not fair!! You must ask for permission if I want to share my browsing history or not! WTF!
That was fabulous as far as fanfic goes. I'd call it almost on par with the "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" fanfic by Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Every single adult member receives a weekly payment from the state, which is enough to live comfortably on.

Maybe we at least start with "enough to live somewhat uncomfortably on"? That way nobody starves or goes without basic necessities, but still have an incentive to improve their lot- and it isn't that hard, because they are on the cusp of living comfortably.

Another important factor, IMO, is how you index how much the income should be. Do you index it based on where the recipient lives? (I.e. everyone who lives in New York should get enough to live comfortably in New York) Do you index it based on average nationwide cost of living? Personally I'd be inclined to the latter.
Up voting/Down voting here on HN tend to be pretty ridiculous, I wouldn't take it personally. Just engage with the community and try not to give a damn about the votes.
There was an experiment with this called Mincome in Canada. They found that the only two groups of people who worked less were new moms and teenagers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
lol entrapment bot. maybe they can also release terrorist bot that denounces the west at set intervals and constantly private messages you "Blow up the embassy y/n? ... pls hold for FBI operator"
I am a huge fan of android , but using wp since the past 3 months, I hope that people who comment badly about wp will use it once before complaining about it.
The U.S. government is a very large user of PKI.

One is issued an identification card which is really a smart card ("common access card"[0]) with certificates on it and that is used for authentication.

PKI works but "it's too {hard|much trouble}" is a frequent excuse.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Access_Card
Agreed... he lost me as soon as he cited that idiotic Kodak to Instagram concept. The idea that the 13 people at Instagram are the effective replacement for all of Kodak's business (while ignoring the 500K-odd people involved in building the phones instagram runs on) is so dumb it's galling.
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How about compared to Japanese war crimes? When Japanese soldiers waterboarded US soldiers, we hanged them for it. Now that the shoe is on the other foot...
Those are good points, but the comment I was responding to wasn't about them. It was about not trusting the company because of one bad product.

It also wasn't about hackability (your last sentence), it was about the phone simply generally sucking due to lack of updates.

But even if hackability is what you're waiting for, that's my point - if they do eventually provide it, re-evaluate at that time. I'm not sure it's healthy to write them off indefinitely because what you wanted, they didn't provide back then, when the company was obviously very different.
The source for that quote is Mohammed's attorney, I feel like he has a bit of latitude to criticize the government. He's also the source for the very sympathetic descriptions of Mohammed in the article.

Not that he doesn't have a point. Its just worth noting the article is a little opaque about the sources.
I'm not a pilot. But I once had lunch with a commercial pilot who had spent time training and certifying commercial pilots in Japan--and he told similar stories of inflexibility.

He said in the simulator he would fail one engine at rotation (when the pilot lifts the nose to take off from the runway--a big "point of no return"). The correct action (IIRC) is to declare an emergency, punch the throttle on the other engine, reduce the angle of attack, get off the runway and climb slowly. Instead a lot of the Japanese pilots would take their hands off the yoke and say "no no, very bad, impossible."
I don't know if intimidated is the right word, but I'm pretty average height - 5'11'', and I've personally observed over time that I feel much more insecure around bigger people. I'm not sure how common it is but it's something I've become consciously aware of and try to correct myself on. But even being aware of it, it's really hard to ignore. For example, I find I gain a lot of self-confidence when I sit at a conference table talking to someone, putting us on "equal" footing. But if standing where I'm looking up at someone I suddenly feel like a small boy talking out of place to a grown-up. It's silly but it's an overwhelmingly noticeable sensation that drives me crazy.

I suspect it could have evolved out of having a physically intimidating older brother growing up (I grew out of a lot of insecurities when I became taller than he was, but maybe not all).
I agree that choosing an expensive lifestyle is a consumption choice. I was just trying to make the point that it's difficult for a government to determine what basic income is "enough to live comfortably on".

Those kinds of decisions alienate voters and, as a result, are desperately avoided by congress critters.
Animated CSS3 books
Over 5 inches big, though. Sigh.
A lot depends on how thicker this would be and what the users will get in return.
Github reveals formula for your "hacker persona"
"The essential problem here is that publishers do, it turns out, actually fulfil some useful roles. Publicist is one of the major ones. (Editor and designer are two other important, undervalued skills that publishers traditionally take on.)"

Exactly, and these roles are a lot more crucial than most would-be self publishing authors take into consideration before getting started. Amanda Hocking, one of the more famous of the self-publishers in recent years, decided to switch to a major publisher. Her rationale was that marketing, publicity, design, etc., had become 99% of her job, relegating writing to 1%. She wanted the reverse. She loves to write; she is less interested in running a publishing startup (which is, essentially, what a self-published author needs to be doing to be successful). I think it's a very interesting insight.
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That attitude to crypto is pervasive, annoying, and wrong. We don't tolerate the "you're too stupid to use that" attitude in any other part of software development, and we shouldn't tolerate it in cryptography.

Every developer needs to touch crypto. Encrypted communications needs to be our default. And yes, of course, we should prefer verified, standard algorithms (NSA Suite B, for example).

It's OK to get it wrong, it's OK to fail forward, even with cryptography. ROT13 will protect you very well, if your attack vector is someone glancing over your shoulder for 1 second. As long as the code is open, and you're honest about what it does, you've made people a little bit safer.

There's a fair amount of gloating around Cryptocat, but it protected people's communications from me, because I didn't know how to break it. So that's better than nothing.
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If the number of nurses willing to work for current rates goes down, then the market rate for nurses will go up. Eventually it will be high enough that being a nurse is more attractive than being a programmer.
Mine has all kinds of buttons that never get used...under the hood. Outside of the door it thankfully has buttons for 1 Minute, Start, and Stop. Very nicely done.
I am glad that there's more competition in the marketplace rather than just Apple and Android and that there are companies looking beyond earnings in their next quarter.

Apple could have probably made more money over the years by selling Macs with Windows and retiring their own OS.

Competition is good, for example see the flat look and concentration on typography that both Android and iOS borrowed from Windows Phone.

That's why I don't get all the deriding of Firefox OS and Ubuntu Phone. Android has plenty hardware OEMs behind it.
This looks pretty sweet. Seems like it'd work well with EC2 for transparently getting you into the private hostnames without having to open security groups and use something like FoxyProxy. Anyone used it for this?
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Note that "Guaranteed Minimum Income" is something else. From my reading Mincome is in fact a Basic Income system, despite the name, though I'm by no means an expert on the experiment.
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this kind of memory is likely stored throughout the worms nervous system / body, rather than centralized in its brain.
Automated thermal face recognition based on minutiae extraction
I'm not sure what you're actually arguing for or against. There is nothing at all wrong with functional programming, and such had nothing whatsoever to do with my comment. That LINQ happens to use some functional techniques doesn't make my criticism a criticism of fP.
I used Windows Phone 7. The UI was fantastic. The platform innovation was poor. The Maps app (including the Nokia one) was poor- and utterly terrible at interpreting addresses. Any IM experience outside of the built-in (and not extendable) native options was awful.

I want to like WP, but in many ways it was a mercy when MS decided that my (few month-old) phone wasn't going to get any updates any more and persuaded me to head back to Android.
Relevant: https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9909.html#OpenSourceand...
> The web has been full of applications since the beginning, no? There was no golden age of pure document sharing. So much of the web throughout its history has been CGI, ASP, JSP, ad hoc setups to provide dynamic sites. Session cookies, inscrutable URLs, forms with two dozen hidden fields encoding cryptic parameters...

True, but many of those dynamic pages actually had semantic meaning in their structure. Think of a discussion forum, for instance. That's a case for which the WWW is perfectly fit.

> Calling it a day and forking it" seems in some way to mean giving up on this fruitful encounter between two paradigms.

On the other hand, this encounter doesn't look too fruitful in applications like Google Docs, Meebo or Prezi.

In the meantime, one side tries to push for things that are primarily relevant for non-semantic applications (think HTTP 2.0's binary protocol, which is all around HN nowadays), pissing off the people who primarily want to transfer semantic content, while the primarily semantic-oriented additions keep dragging the other side back. People have been building web apps with fancy UIs for almost a decade now, and there's still no decent UI builder to speak of.
I posted this to just comment on it. If you're asking for 18% equity as an incubator, you're going to have the worst batch of startups conceivable. This will not end well.
A friend turned off Google+ and Hangouts was entirely shut down for him, even on the browser side. I'm not sure if that's a recent change, but deleting a Google+ profile seems to cause some unexpectedly bad things to happen, like that.

I know for a fact it is impossible to use Hangouts on iOS devices without maintaining a Google+ profile. A friend was forcibly signed out when she deleted the profile it created for her using the iOS app. Either Google+ is on or Hangouts isn't a stable option.

Edit: To clarify, two separate friends who don't like/use Google+. Sorry if I'm being confusing when trying to add context.
If the cooking is under 10 seconds, you might as well start it for 10 seconds and stop it when needed. You won't have time to turn around and forget about it.

If it's over, I doubt a one-second difference will make one (difference).
>> despite the OS

For a normal user, how much does the OS matter in 2013?

The OS playing ground is much more level today than it was in 2008.

I'll be upgrading my iPhone 4 soon, and frankly, I'll be considering everything OS out there. I'll actually be choosing based on hardware more than OS, because all the web services that I use are supported by every operating system.

I guess if you're really into apps, the ecosystem might matter, but I suspect a normal, non-geek really doesn't need access to hundreds of thousands of apps if their core needs are satisfied.
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A bit more coordination would do them some good, releasing the Surface without Office was a stupid error IMHO
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Thanks. Yes we will implement a Firefox search engine addon soon.
This will be another nail in the coffin for the rights of those who are already neglected[1] in the current system : stateless people, and unpopular minorities who can be made stateless.

1. The neglected non-citizen: statelessness and liberal political theory. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17449626.2011.558...