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Bottlenose’s ultimate mission is to create a global artificial brain. This global consciousness is build out of a continuous stream of human conversation and attention. By analyzing these vast amounts of data and by analyzing the emotions around it, we build up a mental model of the world. We think this will give us a shot at creating an incredibly powerful Artificial General Intelligence.
What part of that is the fake data, and what part is the code?
YCombinator sort of pays smart people BIs for a summer not as a reward for work but to ENABLE them to work, to great benefit (though not entirely unconditionally, obviously). When and why have we given up hope of expanding such concepts to all of society?
I think tech investment actually works better as an argument against expecting returns from giving people money to do what they want. Venture capitalists distribute capital to the most talented and motivated individuals in the entire country and have significant leverage when it comes to ensuring those elite recipients use that capital to generate positive financial returns.
And yet most VC funds still lose money.

Do we really think that taking money from people performing tasks people are willing to pay for and giving it to people performing tasks people are unwilling to pay for will be, on average, a winning bet for society? If it is, the misallocation of resources is probably too big a problem to be solved simply by throwing money at people.

It's one thing to subsidise public service and the risk of trying to produce something else. It's another thing to subsidise self-service and insulate people from the consequences of never producing anything.
Sorry, but if you think that we have equivalent fear of disease then and now, you don't know what life was like then.

How many people did you personally know who died of disease as a kid? I knew one. (Cancer.) But this was a period where people would have 8 kids in the hope that 2-3 of them would survive to adulthood. And disease was the big killer.
and you might want to have a look at your auto-refresh feature as it keeps firing ajax requests regardless of the previous one being finished or not…
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Is the interview process for working in Madison any less than the ~4 month long nightmare in SV?
Urgh, I'll let our web folks know (although I am confused how you're getting the HTTPS). Try http://www.moka5.com/ .
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"basic income guarantee has been in practice for 50 years in almost every communist state around Russia, my Poland included"

This type of statement betrays a total lack of understanding of what a basic income guarantee even is. Plenty of deeply anti-communist thinkers--including probably the most effective one in history--have supported a basic income.

Why did your native Poland fall far short of its productive potential? As you yourself say, it wasn't for lack of money: it was because the things people wanted to consume were not being produced.

The root cause of that was broken capital markets: special interests (or foreign special interests, in the case of Poland) captured political control of the economic resources of Poland and used non-market decision making to allocate capital. If people who completely deprioritize popular standard of living control capital, then, yes, unsurprisingly other things--military, party functionaries, foreign invaders--will end up getting their demand met.

Also: "Because life ain't fair, it never will be unless we live in utopia where everyone is good and there is no evil. So why not try it? Because there was a guy who wrote it all down. His name was Marks. And you know who used his theories in practice? Lenin. And you know what happened next? The Red Revolution."

It's abundantly clear that, for all his faults, you don't even have a passing acquaintance with Marx. He's wrong on virtually everything, but you're not even wrong.
He's in an ancient used Rialto (excellent choice) not a giant class A. Unless you've got an RVer in the family (like my parents) you merely glance at it and say, oh, just another van.

You've probably seen a modern version without even noticing. Usually the give away is the side mounts for water. A modern new conversion van is like $75K so in a big enough city its cheaper than any real estate, not so much in the country.

They're pretty comfy if you're short. If you're living in a city, supposedly all those people live there because "theres so much to do 24x365", so other than sleep and sex you should be outside the vehicle at all times. Reminds me of my honeymoon cruise ship cabin, that was a dumpy broom closet but we were too busy to notice.

The mileage tends to be excellent. How many MPG would my wife's Prius get moving an entire house? 60 MPG divided by probably hundreds of trips = not so good. Rialtos get like 15 MPG, or so I hear, which isn't bad. I imagine it depends on the exact model and condition of mechanicals.

I always thought SF was on the ocean, and the obvious live aboard vehicle is a sailboat. Of course marina space is probably expensive and unavailable. Perhaps if you moored offshore in wifi range of work...
If you break it down by race and ethnicity, this falls away. Poor Scandinavian people are as well off here as they are in their home country.
same thing!
Had to look up the "9X generation". For those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9X_Generation
This language should not exist.
Are you funded by In-Q-Tel? Is the NSA one of your customers?
I would do a mobile app that focused on privacy and photo rights. Kind of similar to apple's photo stream, but something that works on android too.

If you can include some sort of messaging functionality (like whatsapp) that would be good. The integration of photos and messages would need to be elegant though.

Mobile is facebook's Achilles heel.

It's a really hard space to break into. The odds are against you.
What I pasted is mock data of what would normally come from Amadeus, there is none of our code in that. We parse it with Python
From Wikipedia: "The BANCStar 10.0 release changed the "Screen Code" format to binary, and rearranged the numeric codes into an opcode with a variable number of parameter integers. The 10.0 opcode encoded a bit mapped length value that indicated the length of the command in words."
This doesn't seem that bad.

It's basically machine language (i.e. lower level than assembler). I remember programming in machine language on an Apple II - I had no assembler, just a photocopied table of the OP codes, and I calculated them myself and entered the hex numbers and ran it.

I wrote part of a tetris clone that way (although never finished it).
No offense, the men were thinking it. If the project had a hard deadline in a few years, any respective employer would think through this option. Failure to do so (under certain circumstances) could cost you dearly. This is despite "what the law allows you to say".
You're right to point that out. I agree that a divergent scheme is not the best fit for the data. A simple gradient would have worked best, though it would have been less colourful.
People are talking about cellphones, but another use occurs to me: It could be used to hold RFID cards that one has to use.
I wouldn't say zero. Child pornagraphy and copyright infringement are still censored. (Admitadly, most copyright infringement is self sensored to assure DMCA compliance, but I still count that).
> It is understood that you don't talk about how the government takes the risk out of business by funding R&D efforts through taxpayer-funded grant allocations to research institutions, subsidies to business, generous patent monopoly grants and other measures.

I don't know why you think this would upset libertarians, myself included. Much of the problem we have with public funding* is that it privatizes gain and socializes loss, thus distorting market outcomes.

IP is more controversial among libertarians, and I will grant that many libertarians support it on psuedo-Lockean grounds -- though many oppose it in whole or in part because of the market distortions it can create and because it restricts the peaceful behaviour of others.

*I do not object to all public funding.
How the hell do you build hardware remotely?
He specifically lives in an ancient VW Rialto. Its a conversion van. From the outside it looks like a van, because it is one. Anywhere you can park a "normal" van you can park a Rialto. You've probably parked nearby one, or a modern sibling, in a grocery store or something without even knowing it.

You can't get away with that using a full size class A, or even a little pop-up trailer.

Real RVers know the real problem of RVs for road trips or urban live aboard is finding a dump station downtown. I suppose you can always use the local mega corp parking lot. Antics like that are what leads to attempts to ban RVs, of course.
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Tell the founder. If the culprits aren't immediately fired, then quit.

If you stay it will damage your reputation.
Really cool, but every single move I made on my ipad added a new history. And trying to go back after spending 10 minutes playing around was the most annoying thing I've ever experienced. So annoying I had to close my browser and reopen HN.
The pairwise recipe function in itertools demonstrates just that (using tee instead of multiplying the iterator):

http://docs.python.org/2/library/itertools.html

def pairwise(iterable):
"s -> (s0,s1), (s1,s2), (s2, s3), ..."
a, b = tee(iterable)
next(b, None)
return izip(a, b)
Funny how demographically, lower income citizens in the US are the backbone of almost every state lottery...
Rise of computerised toilets leads to hacking concerns
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They seem more like 30ish to 40ish. Skimming the article... seems they are 30ish. Dealing with idiot clients probably aged them.
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> That doesn't happen in the real world -- raising taxes doesn't cause runaway inflation. (How could you possibly think that it does?)

I agree that it doesn't cause runaway inflation (which we can see empirically), but it does cause economic contraction, which has many of the same effects as inflation. There's a good reason that one of a government's first relief measures in a recession is to ease taxes.

> Say that each year you set aside 20% of the GDP for basic income. Then your basic income plan already automatically increases with inflation.

It's important that we not conflate "inflation" with "consumer price index" here. The GDP is not fixed to the CPI - they have an inverse relationship. This means that if the GDP contracts significantly (reducing BI), the CPI could well expand outside of the bounds of what BI provides, necessitating the need for a greater BI contribution. Setting aside 20% of the GDP works until it doesn't.
I suppose it's possible. Personally, very little has made me as happy as moving from a house to an apartment and never having to tend a garden or make housing repairs ever again.
I was wondering about those giant, closely spaced industrial-looking buildings on the outskirts of town. Apparently greenhouses: http://goo.gl/maps/qIQxk
Switching DNS providers could cause problems simply because your new provider doesn't do as good a job in your area, not because of any intentional penalization. You could try opendns (208.67.222.222), or some other 3rd party provider.
I think the BIG is an interesting idea, but I'd like to see some hard evidence that it works before we implemented something this large nationwide. The government should do a controlled test. You could go somewhere like India, randomly select a bunch of small cities, give half of them a BIG, and see what it did to work incentive and the local economy. It would only cost a few million, and you'd have better, more reliable data than economists' un-tested theories.
The argument of "I can't find someone to clean my house for $10/hr, so everyone must be lazy" is specious at best. Occams Razor says that you're mostly likely not soliciting labor from the right people. It's likely that a broke teenager or an addict who needs a fix would be willing to work at the low end of the pay scale. You don't get to make proclamiations about the american work ethic because no one answered your flyer.

It's not productive to turn the poor into an "other" or a "them". They are obviously people just like us, with pride and dignity just like we have. The fact that they don't want to clean up other peoples' messes for $10/hr doesn't mean that they are "lazy"...it means they are normal people who don't want to do dirty jobs for low pay.

One of the things that a BI will do for us is weed out the people who don't want to work. Ideally, the people that we interact with in commercial situations will want to be there, as opposed to lazy and incompetent people taking up slots just so they can get a small paycheck. It could be a like a streamlined version of our current welfare state: jobs for those who want them, a modest living for those that don't.

There are people in our society who suffer from mental illness, addiction or have social problems that prevent them from being able to focus, show up on time or be a part of a team. We can ask them to clean our houses for a cut rate or we can get serious about solving the problems that effect so many of our fellow citizens. None of us would be on hacker news if we hadn't gotten lucky in so many ways. Instead of calling people "lazy", We should be eager to help those who weren't so fortunate.
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The article mentions that PHP has a "functional nature", I'm not sure I understand where the author is going with that. Not sure where he got that from either for that matter.
Basic Income should be for survival and basic necessities, nothing more. If a couple wants kids, one of them should work and make more money (the other one could stay at home). I don't think an entire family living off BIG is a good idea.
Kind of reminds me of MUMPS, which is a real bunch of crazy that I had to use for a time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

Edit: The examples on the wikipedia page make it look less crazy than it is. For example every keyword can be abbreviated to a single letter, and was abbreviated to a single letter in the code I had to read. Also, each variable is connected to a global database which (in 1990) had no ACID properties or staging system, so better hope your undebugged program didn't delete any patient data (or worse, randomly modify it).
>Wildlife is incredibly destructive :)

Said the guy whose office occupies the space where the trees that grandma and grandpa squirrel used to live in once stood.
Gun Bill in Missouri Would Test Limits in Nullifying U.S. Law
What kind of test you run ?
Do you test every single pure functions or you test just abstraction layers ? Or what ?
I should point out that the structure of the taxes to fund a basic income are a very, very important implementation detail. As a pragmatic matter, I'd want to phase out existing programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, SSDI, food stamps, educational grants, etc. and simply redirect their funding streams to a basic income--best to pick one battle at a time.

But my ideal taxation scheme includes an abolition of corporate, income, and sales taxes, and a replacement of them with aggressive taxation on goods that are highly inelastic and cheaply taxable. Think land taxes, except updated for contemporary times. Yeah, wish me luck with that.
You would say that, wouldn't you?

There are dumb people.

I've seen dumb things.

My exceptions, however, are excellent. I'm tried of talking to dishonest people. It gets really old. It's funny -- at osdev, there's a guy named RDOS. All his answers support his position -- it's really pathetic. Just walk away.
What's the gas mileage when traveling on a highway?

Do you know of any others who did this in other countries?
You think cutting a break to unemployed job seekers that want to sleep in is a good rebuttal?

If you want a job, show some hustle. If you don't have a job and need one, why are you sleeping in on Monday?

To the heart of the discussion, these should come out on a fixed schedule to give everyone a fair chance.
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Great list. Add Judi Dench, Renee Zellweger, Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, the list is quite big...

As I mentioned in another post, you see what you want to see ("victim mentality").
Most of the people on the project were vocationally trained ex-mainframe programmers. You could say there was a general lack of awareness that there was any other way to do things.
I thought RPG/400 and XSLT were bad. This is worse.
Microsoft can put a Holodeck in your living room, they just don't know it yet
BitTyrant provided an average 70% download performance increase
Isn't that romantic.
I'm one of the designers at funda (largest Dutch real estate listing site) -- though on the Personalisation team and not the Search or Presentation teams.

This is definitely a beautiful and useful visualisation and something we've been thinking about for a while too. We've found that in an average real estate search people very much appreciate information about the neighbourhoods they come across when finding relevant properties. The thing I love about this is -- like some others pointed out already about Rotterdam -- is that it tells a genuine story about a neighbourhoods history in a way a real estate agent wouldn't be able too.

In the US there's Trulia Hindsight built by Stamen Design which includes animation: http://hindsight.trulia.com
I can't extract my existence from the country not because it's technically impossible, as you claim, but because state prevents me and others from doing so. If I wanted my kids to go to a private school or if I wanted to homeschool them I could do it, but I would still have to pay the tax. If I wanted to use private roads all the time, I would still have to pay the tax; additionally, states do not allow private roads in cities, for example. And in many other areas of economy, state acts as a monopoly, preventing others, either economically or by force (licensing, for example) from entering the market.

Thus when people tell me "but you have to pay taxes because you use this service government provides" I wonder how come my ISP didn't come to me and said "we will provide you with internet access from now on and you will pay us this much money or you go to jail". States don't ask or offer, they order you.

Finally, when people talk about social responsibility and how we should be grateful to our teachers, for example, it's also very misleading. Yes, I might be grateful. My parents paid their share of taxes that went into teachers' salaries. What more do I owe them and why? If I'm grateful to Steve Jobs for inventing iPhone, or Khan Academy for awesome educational videos, or Wikipedia for a great deal of information, does this mean I should be paying them for the rest of my life and go to jail if I refuse to do so?
I would expect that BI would (and should) have an impact on the cost of housing.

If the BI is constant across a geographical area that has varying housing costs then people without any other income would choose to live in cheaper areas, those living in currently expensive areas would have to pay more for basic services to allow people providing them to live nearby. I think this would help to deflate the current housing bubbles.
Very far for Dutch standards of course. Maastricht is only 2-2.5 hours away from cities like Utrecht, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. For other countries this would be considered close neighbors.