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I am aware of one experiment that has shown that basic income can work: http://mondediplo.com/2013/05/04income

I don't think that's the real issue stopping basic income. I think the real issue is that the money has to come from somewhere --- specifically, the money would necessarily come from the high earners in society. And they would have to agree to basic income since in our current form of democracy the high-earners have a disproportionate influence on the law.

However, the world's economy has been changing, such that it might actually behoove high earners to donate a portion of their earnings to basic income. Specifically, as automation decreases the need for human labor, then profits go up and employment goes down. This has actually been the trend since the 1970's. And if employment goes down too much, then there won't be enough spending money in the population's hands to fuel further earnings and economic growth.

There is an excellent, short book by a couple of MIT economists that analyzes the economics of modern automation and makes the case for guaranteed income. "Race Against The Machine," by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.
You certainly have a choice about where to live. You can easily live in a decent part of Manhattan on 130k - you'll pay more for less space, but have more time (shorter commute) and likely a better social life. If you're working for a bank, the Financial District is actually a relatively cheap place to live.

If you do decide to go that route, be very careful with real estate brokers, who are the scum of the earth and love taking advantage of immigrants. You can find some decent "no [broker] fee" listings on streeteasy.com.
Why is this much more interesting story isn't being discussed and not on front page?
This was actually somewhat of a weak point in the story: Chinese people do not leave the heater off out of frugality but because they think it's unhealthy to have a large temperature difference between the outside of a container (a house, say, or your own body) and the inside.

Of course modern, wealthy Chinese are starting to eat ice cream in summer and turning on the heat in winter (and, to be fair, in places where it gets really, really cold, like in Beijing, they've always had heating in winter) so this attitude is changing, but some of it still persists. Bottled water (and beer in restaurants!) is mostly sold unrefrigerated and Chinese shopping malls in summer are nowhere near as glacial as their counterparts in SE Asia or the west.
Why not use unlink?
or slightly shorter: 'start .'
Well that is assuming you can peak RPS for the whole day. Which wont be.

At 200 RPS Peak you are very likely only getting 1M per day instead of 17M.
This is an interesting precursor to curing cancer. What will happen to the leukaemia industrial complex? The charities? the specialists? the drugs? Will they all just close shop and go home?
No, we're all volunteers and we raise money for projects. What I mean is that we don't hand out money. We work alongside the community on each project.
So if a security bug was discovered using methods that are against the TOS then the information about the bug is worthless for them and it's better to sold it elsewhere.
I really hope this is not another one of those false cures.

It seems this research has been going on for 10+ years. How many people have died because of the glacial regulatory pace of cancer research?

One of these statements explains the other - verifying research is safe with trials takes time, it's not something that should be rushed.
You're proposing giving insurance companies the power to switch off my power, water and internet when they feel like it? Sounds like an excellent opportunity to abuse power.
For Bay Area folk (or visitors), there's a restored mechanical targeting computer at the SF88 Nike Missile base in the Marin Headlands

http://www.nps.gov/goga/nike-missile-site.htm

Highly worth a visit if you're interested in this sort of mechanical computing stuff…
I don't think developers want to listen, either. After all, improving basic practices doesn't directly translate to whiz-bang projects on the portfolio. But learning a hot new framework and making a demo in it - they'll drop everything to do that. Likewise, becoming "certified" in a buzzword methodology.
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Blanket statements like this aren't true. With a lethal ailment, a risk analysis must be done on how many you are killing with each delay.
You should use valid Last-Modified value with some randomness and join it with browser fingerprint:

https://panopticlick.eff.org
Probably not all that many. They were able to move into the clinic pretty quickly once they had gotten the research to that state.
Good. Feel free to assist the drug habits of addicts. Just don't attempt to facilitate this even further by using government as the vehicle for such programs.
Why has it taken 10 years? Because this stuff is really hard. Is there red tape in science? Sure. But even if all the red tape were removed, science would still move incrementally forward at a slow and steady pace.

Most areas of research are simply not mature enough to move forward at the exponential pace that computer technology leaped forward into our society. What is required? More hard work!
Just curious: it doesn't look like the lottery is open to new registrations. Is it only possible to register in certain periods?
Difference between iOS and Android developers, why it's not just a numbers game
> you trust the masses of HN more than your own judgment?

I trust the HN hivemind to do (most of) the filtering for me, absolutely. Otherwise I wouldn't read HN, I'd just subscribe to the gazillion feeds out there and read through each and every headline. Despite evidence to the contrary (the number of replies I've written in this thread clearly show that I don't have a highly-driven, high-achieving life similar to TFA's author), I can't dedicate an infinite amount of time to reading stuff on the internet.

Past that, I trust my own judgement in defining what is actually interesting to me by skimming headlines. Finally, once I've read an article, I'm not doubting my inner-self's ability to judge whether the material is actually interesting or not.

This is one of those few times where the two-level filter (HN + me skimming headlines) failed to weed out uninteresting material, and I assign part of the responsibility to the linkbaiting title. I don't think that's unreasonable on my part.
He didn't f* up Zuck's account. Just making a wall post on some account doesn't f* that account in any way.
I'm baffled by the HN title of this article. There is no place in the article that claims a 100% success rate for curing leukemia.

The title is: "Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?"

Fighting cancer and curing it are hugely different. Yes, this is a human interest story that outlines the success of a particular patient using a particular method, it's great, but it seems disingenuous to use the title that is here.
For the confused (I initially only saw a sign-up form and thought it was required, and came back here disappointed) - if your browser window is below 1300px or so wide, the live demo won't show up. When it does show up it is quite subtle - in the screen of the generic background image is an editable code snippet, transformed with CSS so that it is skewed and appears to be in the picture. You can type and run code in that laptop window screen.

Note to the site author - you should put the live screen flat below the sign-up form even when the screen is smaller. Changing window size should not remove information from your page, just move it around.
Useless and harmful from your point of view.

Meaningless from a universal point of view.
9 out of 12 is also not 100%
You presume the new treatment will save more lives than the current one. Without adequate research and testing, this is an unsupported presumption. It's as likely to do more harm than good if the preliminary research isn't done.

We have the regulations we do because we caused harm in the past. They didn't spring fully formed from the minds of regulators, they happened because researchers killed and maimed people by not doing the necessary verification before human trials began.
Generally, I see pressure for best practices coming from the bottom more than the top. The developers know having no tests is crap and complain.

Improving basic practices DOES directly translate to successful projects, and many developers at start-ups have options so they care about such things.
Aside from the general tone of this, that's not how taxes work.

You can only pay VAT on the 50% of your income that you keep (and that is presuming you spend all of it). So you have 50% * 75% = 37.5% of your income left to give to charity.

I also find it a bit interesting that you are OK (presumably) with giving away 63% of your income to the government, where you have hardly any say in how it is spent, but offended at the idea that you should give anything else away when you can choose where it goes.
You apologise and pay the guy. Then you write it up as a public case study in very simple English. At each step point out what he should have done. That means the next people know what to do, and everything comes out positively from this.

At the moment the loud and clear message is that there are far more welcome places than Facebook to report found issues.
Misleading headline...
It's not quite so simple as all that--again, as the article states, we seem to have gotten into a point where the true costs of developing software or hardware are unknowable to anyone other than developers (if them).

We've already seen the bottom drop out of the mobile app market--this is not simply survival of the fittest. We seem to have given away too much while--more importantly--teaching too little.

Again, compare our state with doctors and surgeons.
Move on to another disease that has yet to be cured or feasibly treated?
The article links to that very page:

> anarbi posted a great [link] about how compilers can contain a memory of things that are no longer in the code.
My understanding is that many self hosting compilers do something similar to bootstrap, etc. Very cool to get an inside look despite my other feelings of Kal.
"This is your sitter, I'm on the way to the hospital with your children" is an emergency call, although it doesn't come from 911.

Etiquette is the solution here, not technology. If there is a possibility of an emergency, put your phone on vibrate and if it wrings, silence it immediately, leave the theater, and call the person back from the lobby. Not hard.
NO! Stop it!

Look I appreciate your desire to help. It's a fantastic thing, and something we should all do. However, giving money to people on the street is not helping. It's enabling.

Basically every city has some sort of program to help the homeless work themselves back into society in general. These programs are generally built around strict oversight and supervision during those early days.

These programs are effective and important. However, they do require the people participating in them to be fully "bought in". When you give a dollar to someone "down on their luck", you are really giving them just enough of a life-rope to keep from entering these programs (which require sobriety as a matter of course).

You're not helping them. You're ensuring that they spend another night on the street, and ultimately that may prove fatal. They need to bottom out and seek help of their own free will. That's how the road to ending their homelessness truly begins.

* source: Working with several homeless organizations.
What happens when someone is underperforming?
Wow, all of those links are full of utter bs.
Well, if you have the email, just reply to it and re-open the conversation and see what happens. If you can explain it correctly, they might be able to research if the bug indeed existed and was fixed. I did a follow up on a bug that I submitted before the whitehat program was in place and that I never got a response on. They looked up the bug, replied to me and paid me. Very diligent.
I think you shouldn't allow yourself to become too cynical, even when you see bad examples like the komen foundation. I have no doubt the vast vast majority of doctors and charity employees that treat or support leukemia patients would be delighted (in particular, I'd bet many volunteers have been personally affected) to declare victory and either retrain for different diseases or find another hobby.

edit: for an example rather than a hypothetical, see polio

edit2: also, if this works, an enormous chunk of doctors, medical researchers, and scientists are going to drop whatever they're doing and frantically attempt to apply this technique to every cancer one can think of
I'm 23. I'm the child that embraced this. I own no media. I own no stuff. I own one of a lot of things, and about 3 of a lot of things. One laptop, desktop, monitor, projector, receiver. Three generic bowls, cups, plates. A cheapo set of silverware. A random pot and pan. (Whatever misc accumulates as I cook). That's easily 95% of all of the physical possessions I own besides furniture that I use every single day.

I move every 9 and 3 months though, so I appreciate staying nimble. I'm also a presumably life-time bachelor so I don't have a reason to need or acquire stuff.
What you say, isn't that more or less exactly what I wrote?
Show HN: I wrote a Python wrapper for Hacker News.
Fuck you and anyone who uses the concept of social justice as a hammer to try and silence people they disagree with. That is another serious barrier to actually solving any of these problems.
> Firstly, no idea how you can conclude he hacked an account. A bit strong of language there?

This is like... the textbook definition of a hack.

> however if you have a human making decisions, and not just a drone following written orders, then the ability to make compromises exist. Just no one at Facebook wants to engage and be human it seems.

I love that this statement is downthread of a Facebook engineer's comment that states he considers the guidelines reasonable. It's as if you're just a drone following written orders without the ability to make compromises.
Man, that's a collection of utter bullshit. There's nothing lower than preying on the hopes of potentially terminal patients. That last link is sick, there's hundreds of commenters begging for help.

ED: For future reference, the deleted post referred to http://cancertutor.com/ as a trustworthy source. It also refered to a miracle cancer healer's blog post http://thinkindia.hubpages.com/hub/CANCER-TREATMENT-FOR-FREE .
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First, laws, guns and police are much more excellent opportunities to abuse power and already attract all sorts of sadists and psychopaths.

Second, there is no "giving power" anywhere in the voluntary agreements. Your water will be turned off only if your water supplier thinks it's more profitable to please some insured customers than not piss you off. If they turn your water off unreasonably, they risk losing clients.

Policemen and congressmen do not have to please any customers and never suffer economical consequences if they don't. This attracts psychos of all sorts in the realm of brutal state power.
I thought the main reason why JPEG2000 was not widely adopted is its problematic patent status.
I think it should be obvious that you need two "moves" to lift people up from poverty:

1. build infrastructure (water, electricity, roads, communication, education services, political infrastructure, financial etc.)

2. "lift people up" to a level at which they can make use of the infrastructure, through education and covering some of their basic needs.

No-string-attached donations are great for (2), but they are limited in impact and quite pointless if the people don't have the "infrastructure" to grab to once they are "lifted up a bit" - you'll only end up with poor uneducated people that will have more children so you'll end up with more poor uneducated people.

Otoh, if you build the infrastructure but you don't do something to directly lift people up from misery, poverty and depression or hopelessness you'll probably end up with an even bigger waste of resources and lots of angry people.

Philantropists and governments that want to lift their countries out of poverty should understand that you need both (1) and (2) simultaneously and that of course you need to have (2) with no-strings-attached (an ER doctor doesn't make a cardiac arrest patient sign a contract before resuscitating him!!!).
This certainly seems like a very interesting and double-edged sword of a treatment. The engineered T-cells nuke the tumors, which is a good thing. But if I'm reading this right, the large amount of cytokine that gets released from such a rapid destruction also wreaks havoc on your kidneys and could itself be fatal. It sounds like an all-or-nothing treatment that you either sweat out or succumb to. Apparently there's a drug (tocilizumab) that essentially acts as an undo button by taming the engineered T-cells and avoiding such fatalities, but then you're back to square one. It looks like the Penn team has partnered with Novartis to study the engineered T-cells and (I'm guessing) develop a method to tailor the engineered T-cell growth rate to a magnitude the kidneys can manage.
> I'm baffled by the HN title of this article. There is no place in the article that claims a 100% success rate for curing leukemia.

> The title is: "Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?"

And here we see the other side of not being able to change (editorialize) titles. I can see both sides of the argument, but I think this example forms a good reason to disallow giving articles different titles.
I thought so too, thanks for the confirmation.
Isn't that what downvoting is for?
My guesses are: 1) maybe it's a mockery of the redundancy of using "www" in URLs, 2) a clever prank on anyone that attempts to communicate the site's address verbally and doesn't know that the sub-domain portion is optional, 3) a way of making the link catch the eye and create enough curiosity to result in a click.

Just guesses though, I really couldn't find anything concrete about it.
I'm glad you brought up this argument.

I live in New York, and I frequently travel in NYC. I've spoken to a number of homeless people. How do you counter the often heard response that homeless shelters pose a risk to people entering them?

I have heard stories (I don't know if they're true, but I wasn't told on the pretense of giving money) that homeless shelters frequently house other members who will steal from their fellows or abuse them (sometimes sexually).

Like I said, I like your argument. But you worked with several homeless shelters, I want to know your take on this.
Huh. I wasn't aware of the "in the Militia" bit. Is that the same militia that lets us all have guns according to the Second Amendment?
Also what about the sudden population explosion? What if the survivors need after care for the rest of their lives, or expensive drugs?
Poverty is a hard problem with no easy solution.

Surprisingly, giving money to poor people makes them not-poor.

Now, for some reason, people tend to be averse to outright cash transfers, because they think that pre-tax income has a special significance in that it is somehow "natural". Matt Bruenig explains this better than I could, e.g. here: http://mattbruenig.com/2013/07/21/tm-scanlon-is-wrong-about-...

The essence is that pre-tax income is not in any way "natural", but also results from more or less conscious decisions made by society. So the reason that you think solving poverty is hard is that you assign a specific significance to the difference between pre-tax and post-tax income.
I've heard of "apartment-looting" parties in Vienna, don't know if this is common elsewhere?

In order to empty a deceased apartment, they publicly sell a limited number of tickets (~20-30EUR iirc) for a cleaning/looting event.
At the event, they let in a certain number of people at the same time, so it doesn't feel too crowded.

Once inside, everyone is free to take whatever they want and can. This is fairly popular with students who just moved into their new flat and need stuff like kitchen supplies, lamps, frames etc.
How about gzip compression? It's not like you can gain anything by using JSON compared to HTML, when gzip is enabled.
Expect around a 1% chance of winning.
I'm sorry, but you're totally and utterly wrong.

I've sat in the oncology ward at the Royal Melbourne Hospital for a solid six months and watched scores of patients undergoing the most diabolical treatments anybody could ever conceive. People so blasted by the chemotherapy drugs that they can't even be visited, lest their damaged immune system succumbs to even the weakest of infections. I sat with someone as they dripped blood because there was a severe shortage of platelets and they had none of their own to clot with.

If there was a better solution, we'd be using it.

You also linked to a site claiming that Autism is caused by vaccinations.
> source: Working with several homeless organizations.

I've a few questions (from legitimate curiosity - I have no point to prove here,) if you'll indulge me:

* What percentage of the homeless you've encountered in your work are mentally ill?

* What percentage are addicts?

* Of those addicts, how many became homeless because they were addicts, and how many became addicts after they became homeless?
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>Not only is cancer not caused by DNA damage, but safe and gentle natural medicine cancer treatments exist that can revert cancer cells into normal cells. This was first done in the 1930s, but the technology was shut down by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is essentially the "police force" of the ultra-wealthy and politically-connected drug companies.

Seems legit and not conspiratorial AT ALL.
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"Bosses wouldn't be able to threaten to fire someone if they continue showing up to work late."

The employer is paying the employee to provide a service according to rules that both parties agreed to when the employee was hired. Insisting that they show up on time isn't coercing the employee, since it's something they freely agreed to as a condition of their employment.

"Restaurant patrons couldn't threaten to leave a (only one) negative review if their service is poor."

The restaurant patron is paying to be served, so they wouldn't be getting something they're not already entitled to by threatening to leave a bad review.

"but it would be illegal for me to request money from my neighbor and promise to tell his wife about his affair if he declines."

The difference here is that you're trying to force your neighbor to give you something you're not entitled to (his money) by threatening to do something bad to him. It's different from the boss or restaurant patron, who are demanding services that they've paid for.
I have worked with lots of tech savvy people in many fields, from programmers to general technicians. They work in all different kinds of industries. I am still shocked that none of them really know or use source control, other than the programmers (most, not all). It has become the most interesting type of program to save my ass in many situations with computer data.

Morale of this story: universally good and/or smart ideas are universally applied to the masses. Oh well.
Sorry about that. I can see how its unclear in the way it reads. I shortened a more descriptive title and lost the meaning. I was originally referring to how dramatic the treatment has been for those it has been effective in. I have updated the title.
Actually, in certain situations, it's not insane: http://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/cas...
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/1223/
Amazing tip!

FYI: On Windows 7, you need to press Alt+D to get to the location bar. (I believe that's the case for XP as well.) Ctrl+L doesn't seem to do anything.