skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Quite the opposite. I was saying that I suspect that most people keep their money in circulation, if for no other reason than to negate the effects of inflation. I was saying that if the Scrooge McDuck model were the case then increased taxes from BI would cause inflation, but I don't believe that's the case.

> I don't think that very much of it at all is genuinely out of circulation which could otherwise be brought into circulation through BI taxes
It's also a great way to take your smugness out for a walk. The unspoken corollary to "your job will be obsolete in 15 years" is "but mine won't." It's casting judgment on the person: I'm smart, you're stupid; I'm successful, you're a failure. (Even though your job isn't obsolete yet! Don't be fooled by the decent life you have today; your inherent loser-ness is going to flush all that down the drain, you see. It is inevitable.)
From 1994 (I welcome any earlier references too):

An easy change in the United States could be through the social security system. Social security was originally presented as a government-run pension fund that accumulated wages for retirement, but in practice it transfers income from workers to retirees. The system will probably be subsidized from general taxes in coming decades, when too few workers are available to support the retiring post World War II baby boom. Incremental expansion of such a subsidy would let money from robot industries, collected as corporate taxes, be returned to the general population as pension payments. By gradually lowering the retirement age towards birth, most of the population would eventually be supported. The money could be distributed under other names, but calling it a pension is meaningful symbolism: we are describing the long, comfortable retirement of the original-model human race.

from http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.artic...
Any article on quality of life in agrarian societies should also be contrasted to what life was like in pre-agrarian (hunter gatherer) societies. Jared Diamond wrote the most well known/accessible essay entitled [The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race](http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html):

> "Are twentieth century hunter-gatherers really worse off than farmers? Scattered throughout the world, several dozen groups of so-called primitive people, like the Kalahari bushmen, continue to support themselves that way. It turns out that these people have plenty of leisure time, sleep a good deal, and work less hard than their farming neighbors. For instance, the average time devoted each week to obtaining food is only 12 to 19 hours for one group of Bushmen, 14 hours or less for the Hadza nomads of Tanzania. One Bushman, when asked why he hadn't emulated neighboring tribes by adopting agriculture, replied, "Why should we, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?"

Of course, that's sort of besides the point... Before the mid-70's productivity and median compensation were correlated, however for the past 40 years this has diverged. Since 1973, median hourly compensation grew 10.7% while productivity has increased by 80.4%[1]

Keyne's prediction in 1930 on the leisure society in the US would have been correct if the public had continued to share in society's gains. Instead these gains have been increasingly captured by the top centile. The share of income by the top 1% has increased over 120% since 1979 [2]. While the top 20% has also nominally increased (~30%) all the other quintiles have had a negative share as a result.

Now, knowing this, is there anything that can be done to reverse these trends? It seems that we've been locking in socio-economic mobility [3] and our entire government has entered "regulatory capture." [4][5]

[1] http://www.epi.org/publication/ib330-productivity-vs-compens...

[2] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequalit...

[3] http://www.ibtimes.com/us-social-mobility-casualty-income-in...

[4] http://i.imgur.com/PVpFY.png

[5] http://www.the-american-interest.com/article-bd.cfm?piece=10...
Haha, you're charging 99$ a month for a template. That was a good joke.
> It wasn't called that way, but the policy was that everyone has to have a job and receive a specified wage.

That is not a basic income guarantee. With a basic income guarantee, you receive the basic income regardless of whether you have a job or not. You do not have to have a job. If you choose to have a job, you earn a wage in addition to your basic income. The system you're describing is a completely, fundamentally different thing from a basic income guarantee.
Articles like this annoy because the underlying tone is, "Well, you shouldn't have a car." But I don't know anyone over 30 who doesn't have one. The bus system doesn't go everywhere. How would I get to Mt. Rainier, or get around Bainbridge, or for that matter over to work? I've taken the bus and I've driven from Seattle to Redmond; the bus takes twice as long for me to get from home to where I'm going.

Rent goes up. If you don't like paying high rent, move to Texas.
That would suggest a surplus of labour competing for high wages. Are you sure about this? Economically it doesn't make sense and we also know that until legislation finally restricted the practice, the factories were employing kids wherever possible to keep wages down.
Yes, and it isn't doing anyone a favor to not talking about the reality of the future.
A thousand times yes!
Automating away a lot of jobs as the economic system is now be disastrous, just think of Detroit at a very large scale.

"Wouldn't that be perfect if she could actually pursue her hobby?" is a very ignorant statement if you start to consider the implications of industry automation for all of the workers who have been automated away.

I believe that if we don't fundamentally change the economy through reform this will eventually lead to the next large revolution.
>> This has nothing to do with socialism. The means of production do NOT change ownership.

> Oh, a Marxist.

Not necessarily a Marxist, just someone who actually knows the meaning of the word socialism. Depressingly uncommon, that.
Considering how far the research into EEG has gotten the line between you and the computer will eventually blur out.
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While we are on the topic of programming infernos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge
"No, if you decide you don't want to do business with that entity anymore then you have to get off that entity's land."

Not if you believe that governments derive their power from the consent of the governed.
If you read some of the comments on the article they simply cite automation techniques that are focused on decreasing costs for merchants like grocery checkout. It's true, these are arguably worse than the human alternative. However, this is extremely short sighted as in time we will have automation that is superior to the human alternatives. Grocery checkout will be replaced with self-stocking kitchens (which decide on a menu based on the FitBit in your blood stream) delivered by self driving cars. Instacart is a good example of the "hack" version of this.

With that being said, I think there'll still be room for the "human touch" in leisure oriented businesses like restaurants or high-touch pricey services like high end wealth management.

You can see that this article appears to have an anti-futurist, anti-technology sentiment. Its opinion represents the vast majority of the world's view which tends to only forecasts out 3 to 5 years out. Significant change is a scary concept especially to those subject to the change. I believe that wealth disparity will continue on the trend that it has been and likely "get worse". But it is my hope that someday a high standard of living will be so affordable that the poorest will have a very high quality of life.

Currently, we technologists are building products that improve the quality of life of the wealthiest 25%. I see this as a good testing ground. Take a page from Tesla's strategy with products and services for the wealthiest to later understand how to bring those products/services to even the poorest.

A note to the technologists/futurists here: as much fun as it is to be "disruptive" especially to large enterprise and put ourselves against them, this is not the most pragmatic approach for middle class jobs. Instead, let's emphasize that automation/technology will ultimately improve everyone's lives so that the middle class lifestyle will be the new "poverty". That's the type of "poverty" I'm happy with.

EDIT: reworded/reorganized/clarified
Try to reason from first principles: karma is a property of a HN username. A username is attached to a human identity, even if not enforced.

Karma is used to predict future quality of that human's posts based on previous posts, and for it to make any sense it must be assumed that past quality is a predictor of future quality.

Changing the human behind the karma breaks those assumptions, so it is a way of misleading the site's users.
I would love a car-less city where the only vehicles are public transport or commercial delivery vehicles, with cycling being the only allowed personal transport.
>The whole piece is clearly advocating an opinion that more leisure time is a good thing, for one.

There's a disagreement on the issue?
And I thought 'EZ-C' was bad. Still, it was the worst I've used. As far as I know, a large retailer still uses the data format and libraries from an awful "4th generation language" called 'EZ-C'.

Fun parts:
There were a fixed number of variables.
All variables were global.
There were two control structures: if/then and goto

Imagine a Point-Of-Sale application written in such. A 100,000+ line Point-of-Sale program. Imagine the fun of chasing down re-use of a variable with no debugger.

EZ-C was supposed to be a simple language with built-in screen handling (via curses) and data file handling (with variant records and multiple indices). The theory was that you wrote code in EZ-C and debugged it, since the simpler syntax would reduce errors. EZ-C came with a program that would comple your source and link against EZ-C libraries. The best of all possible worlds - a nice interpreted language that compiled for blazing fast speed!

That was the theory. In practice, the compiler was broken, and so all programs ran via an interpreter called 'dparse'.

So (and I can hear you saying) I started to do what many of you would do: I started to write my own parser with the idea of building a compiler for the language. And that's when Mike, one of the older developers/admins/jack-of-all-trades/wise elders, stopped me. "Don't do that," he said, "because if you do that, we'll never stop writing in EZ-C."

And so I stopped immediately.
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Have you looked at some numbers?

Here's a start: 300 million people * $1500/month = $5.4T per year.

It seems the total US tax revenues are around $2.9T in 2013. So with these numbers, all they'd need is to.. roughly double their revenues. In other words, the US would need to forcefully confiscate almost twice as much money as they do now.

This is why statements like "A proper basic income is fucking trivial to implement. Give every member of society X amount of money per T time period" are somewhat annoying, and we haven't even gone into the consequences of raising taxes by even half.
Here's an article summarizing some experimental evidence to the contrary: http://mondediplo.com/2013/05/04income
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This doesn't quite sit right with me, because it seems like the underlying argument is "those who benefit from BI don't know how to spend their money, so we have to protect them from spending it poorly". The end result of that line of thinking is targeted social programs, which specifically do not permit people the chance to mis-spend money. How would BI + strict regulation and oversight be substantially different from the entitlement programs we have today?
Sounds like you live in Seattle. When I visited there recently, I used car2go instead of renting a car. It's a car sharing service like Zipcar, but unlike Zipcar, you can drop a car off anywhere in their network instead of having to return the car to where you picked it up. Very cool. I use them here in Austin, too, where I live (and they started.)

> If you don't like paying high rent, move to Texas.

Sadly, not so much true these days, although here in Austin you can make 100% of your mortgage back via Airbnb or having roommates.
Do you have any recommendations for books/learning materials/websites for people who want to learn MUMPs?
Because it's hideous? People walking around don't want to walk past the blank walls or ventilation grates of parking garages. An attractive urban pedestrian environment needs to have something _different_ and _interesting_ every few dozen feet. That's why streets with many narrow storefronts are the most crowded with pedestrians.
I've resorted to stylebot to kill those motherfuckers dead. Annoying as fucking fuck:

.yt-dialog {
display: none;
}

.yt-dialog-bg {
display: none;
}

.yt-dialog-fg, .link-gplus-flow-has-gplus, .link-gplus-intro {
display: none;
}

NB: HN is wrapping lines, may need ';' between specifiers.
Maybe some other bugs too... There's a capital L shaped area that is marked as all 1995-2005 but when I click on it, it alternates between:

- 1738 - Vijfharingenstraat 5
6211EC
Maastricht

- 2002 - Grote Staat 5
6211CT
Maastricht

http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/buildings/?utm_source=buffer&utm...
> Hey, you're a little early. We haven't launched yet but if you leave your email address we'll let you know when we do.

So meta.
Unfortunately, I think a lot of people believe that.
Isn't this just a launch rock clone that offers less and charges more?
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The point is to not force people to build the parking by having minimum parking laws. If some building wants to have lots of underground parking, fine, and if another building wants to have units that are $20k cheaper because they lack parking, that's also fine.
> you feel like you're amongst a bunch of half-asleep people

A few months ago I was sitting in a crowded urban park. I was people watching for a bit; no book, no phone. I saw some sort of surveillance/tracking operation unfold in plain site. A fit, ex-military looking guy in his mid 40s dressed to look like a tourist in a t-shirt and shorts took a seat. He would steal glances off to the side at a certain individual. He talked into his blue tooth ear piece, casually glanced around, and then he took off his blue baseball cap, put it in his backpack, and quickly replaced it with a red baseball cap. He later shot me a little grin, having seen me noticing him, even though I was discrete and over 30 meters away.

Over 100 people could have seen this unfold but I am sure none did because literally most of them were looking at phones.

There are all sorts of interesting vignettes going on in crowded places that almost nobody sees. I have other memorable observations.

My advice to security firms and the FBI tailing targets: fit people over 35 stand out in America at this point.
UI Router solves this problem pretty handily
I think this is related to another trend that's a little closer to home for us hackers: software that solves common problems tends to become free over time. Eventually an open-source option picks up steam, and proprietary vendors find their product has been commoditized. This is nearly identical to having their job automated away.

I think customization and support are the future. Just like the woman in the article was able to provide specialized help for the other person who couldn't figure out the ticket machine, there will always be room for someone to fit a generic solution more closely to some company's specific needs. It will at least be the next phase before strong AI (possibly) takes over and makes people completely obsolete.
Yeah. Not a lot of laid-off auto workers doing backflips with joy because now they can devote more time their stamp collection.

The "hobbies" line is also infuriating because it practically drips with condescension. "I'm sure you have a hobby, don't you, dear? Of course you do! Why don't you go and spend some time on that while the grown-ups do the important work." All it's missing is a little pat on the head at the end.
In my opinion the BART kiosk employee is a bad example of a job that can be automated. The fact is her job is already automated and probably why we don't have 10 of those kiosk workers per station handing out tickets and processing them by hand.

Her job is really just catching the 10-20% of people who don't know how to use tech that need hands on support at the stations, and random other odd jobs at the station that in fact can't be automated or automated to the same level of quality.
I can't understand why Gruber is still making this argument, even when Satoru Iwata has flat out said "no" to it. If Nintendo puts their games on other platforms, there goes any reason to buy Nintendo hardware. If Nintendo had absolutely no chance for another hardware generation, then sure, publish multi-platform. But otherwise, it makes no sense for them to do so.
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You know it's the 80's when everything is built out of right angles, from phones to cameras to bicycles.
ATMs are a good example of where a strong experience proves motivating enough to overcome a pretty tragic UI! Another one that springs to mind is driving.

That's not the summation of the article, though ;) the summation of the article, I would say, is that UX is so important we need to define it properly; it also proposes a definition that's somewhat different from the post that originally inspired this one.
Don't really have anything to ask, just wanted to say MUMPS was always neat when I worked for a medical software company and did conversions from and older versions of MUMPS to a Caché server.

I liked the one-letter verb abbreviations, even if it made the code feel somewhat write-only. Data right next to your front-end language was neat too.
Can confirm.
I live in Northern Canada, and often Sears has the cheapest shipping on larger items, appliances, etc.
Our shipping options are extremely limited (mostly just Canada Post). I bought a 40" TV that cost me only $7 in shipping, delivered to my local gas station /Sears Pickup Depot.
I'm about a ~30 hour drive north of Vancouver
Well, it sort of did in 2007. But that wasn't a software error.
IMO, it's more complicated than that.

We live in a more individualistic world than before, but customs are still a big determinant of how we live. The custom among professionals is working 9-5+. I'm saying its a pity customs haven't evolved to take better advantage of our modern wealth.

But, I'm talking about the median. People with kids. Median salaries. etc. There are lots of example of individuals and subcultures that do optimise for leisure time. The 10-4 job for the accounts receivables guy that can do so much more work in a 6 hour day than his pre-computer predecessor did in a week.
The issue is what is the most efficient way to distribute income, which we already do plenty of. The problem with Basic Income is all the other ways would have to go away, and that is not realistic
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Well aren't you a unique snowflake.

(http://xkcd.com/610/)
> Aspiring game developers should be playing through the NES canon

Sure, but, dude. These are books we're talking about. Playing games is a given, to the point where if you're not, just go away.

The humanities, as I listed, are extremely valuable because they, too, show where we as people, not merely we as gamers, have been before--the tools we have developed that are put in the part of your toolbox for making people feel. Calling what it produces "fanfiction-quality" is silly and shortsighted and you're clearly wiser than that.
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