skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know where there is a lot money to be saved - much more than from food stamps and whatnot? The "defense"/war budget and the home police state. You could save literally hundreds of billions of dollars - every year - and you'd still have a bigger budget than it was at the beginning of 2000's.

Not to mention an increasing chunk of that money is used against you: militarizing the police, all the unconstitutional searches from DHS, the mass spying of NSA, the "war on drugs" DEA, and so on.

Besides keeping buying stuff the army doesn't even need to have a strong defense, and besides going into pointless wars for the sake of maintaining the profitability and businesses of the Military Industrial Complex, there's also incredible waste in the defense department, with things being paid for many times over what they're really worth.

So, Democrats (or really, anyone), if you want a lot more money put into social programs and into fixing and building the infrastructure, then target the defense budget, and ask for a dramatic cut - and not just those bullshit "cuts from planned budget increases", which is just another way of saying they won't increase the waste much more than it already is, in the future.
Use youtube-dl:

http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
I was dubious about the idea of Basic Income in the past, but now having more experience of the problems of the economy I'm in favour of it and see it as becoming inevitable at some point. Eventually it will simply be impossible in the majority of cases to exchange human labour (intellectual or physical) for resources, and we're on a sliding scale where it is becoming increasingly difficult to do that.

The existing welfare state here in the UK is wasteful and highly corrupt. In the last few years I've seen all of the various government scams with my own eyes. It would be far more efficient simply to have a minimum basic income for everyone without preconditions or poisonous moralising. A lot of wasted effort and unnecessary hardship would be prevented by doing that.
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Yes, for me listening to some west coast US accent is extremely tiring and even plain painful. I started playing some Google videos about topics I'm interested in and stopped after two sentences.

Just to add some relativism to this highly relative topic. I'm French by the way, and enjoy British, German, Indian, black American, Chinese accents, for example.
This idea could not work in the kind of 3rd world country you are talking about. Those countries have a much more fundamental problem in not having a capitalized society at all. So there is no foundation for any such base income system to be built. For them to get out of poverty requires the removal of their corrupt governments and the establishment of a sound money system coupled with a required public education system.
In 4D there are 6, the five expected ones and an additional strange version of the octahedron.

In 5D and more, there are only 3, the equivalents of the tetrahedron, cube and octahedron.
The actual innovation is McDonald's supply chain + infrastructure, which allows them to deliver the exact same dipshit sandwich to every town in America. And AWS as "dipshit innovation"? Um, ok.

You are also simply wrong about the financial crisis - that was a crisis caused by long term investments, specifically 30 year mortgages.
Haskell also has it in the Data.List.Split library, which is handy, although it's easy to define yourself.

λ> chunksOf 3 [1..12]

[[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9],[10,11,12]]
The original docstring is a complete red herring... yours is much better, but I'd go one further and include an example.
Why should the .gov chose a winner as in "used to finance housing or education for those children"?

Why not demand a savings account for iphones to make apple rich? The fundamental problem is housing and (excessive) education is a non-productive activity.

I don't see any benefit for society as a whole, in a supply/demand situation, to make relators and school administrators wealthy, while making it financially much more difficult / impossible for kids from small families to compete. What philosophical reasoning behind a kid with only one bro/sis has to live in the poor ghetto or be unable to afford college, in comparison a kid with ten bro/sis will have far more money in his account and be better off for his/her entire life merely because his parents were more fertile? There's an obvious financial reason under this system for college admins and housing builders to encourage huge families, because they'll be able to suck more money out of them.

Another interesting effect of inflating higher ed prices would be the elimination via unaffordability for adult education. No more going back to school to learn X if the tuition for X has been exploded such that only children with 18 years of savings and 10 siblings can afford it. I'm not sure as a cultural trend that using the hammer of .gov policy to discourage lifetime learning (insert cliche about the economy being faster than ever, blah blah) is a wise social goal.
Nobody ever said bool was a bit.
By the way, I was recently surprised by a similar pattern in linux, where you can do:

(echo -e "one\ntwo\nthree\nfour") | paste -d, - -

to get result of:

one,two
three,four

by exploiting a similar trick, i.e. reading two times ('- -') from the same iterator (STDIN of 'paste')
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Not sure if you read all of the linked article but it proposes a basic income for adults only. This makes sense to me; children don't have a clue about money. Although if a child were say, emancipated from her family (living independently) perhaps she should receive a basic income?
Your conclusion has no relationship whatsoever to your observation, and you don't describe a connection in your post.

I live in a country with high income disparity, basically the poor are living in dumps, but I don't see what that has to do with the states which is further a long the developed country spectrum.
An obligatory addition - check out fasd (https://github.com/clvv/fasd), inspired by z.

In addition to "z foldername" to move around, you can do things like "v vimrc" or "v freetds.conf" to directly edit files, where ever you are.

It's available on homebrew.
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Yeah, I was thinking of RC/NG, although I'd never force people do only have a choice of an armed force.

The market-distorting effects only happen if it's a high percentage of population (either overall, or in a specific area). Even things like the FB "$500/mo extra for rent if you live within a mile of the office in downtown PA" turned into "all rents go up $500/mo" once the density of FB employees in that area was high enough. (and it only has to be people renting at the margin; established residents were already in place filling most of the apartments.)

100 BI recipients per state wouldn't distort things much.

Once BI was universal, as long as some people made substantially more money than BI (and that making money in supplement to BI was considered good, in general), there would probably be enough market incentive to provide goods in the BI price range, or slightly augmented BI price range, to keep cheap food/housing/etc. cheap. After all, slumlords usually live in nice places themselves.

If it were universal, it would also replace the "game student loan recipients" (U of Phoenix...) with "game BI", but since BI is much more flexible, it's harder to game. It's just "there's a much greater demand for products in the $10-30k/yr income bracket", which should reduce prices (through competition, economy of scale, etc.) for goods with declining marginal cost to produce, like say cheap phones. Real estate would be interesting, but if you didn't need to work a $20k/yr job, you might live in an entirely different place on $20k/yr BI. The US is huge; it's only real estate within proximity to certain things which is inherently expensive.
The reason that & and | have lower precedence than the comparison operators is indeed historical - it's because the earliest versions of the language didn't have the logical boolean operators && and ||, so the bitwise & and | operators stood in for them. The lower precedence meant that you could write:

if (x == 1 & y == 2) {

..and have it do what you meant. This became a bit of a wart when the && and || operators were introduced (still well before ANSI standardisation), but it was considered that changing it would have broken too much existing code.
No, not really; and the rules aren't that simple.

Example: My father's Medicaid was suspended/discontinued because he failed to submit some paperwork by a deadline, and missed a scheduled appointment.

Well, of course he has to fill out the proper paperwork and make his appointments! you might respond, and yes, for you or I, perhaps it might be reasonable to demand filled out forms, on time, and that we submit to an in-person interview. However, if you have COPD / Emphysema, you must to take oxygen with you; lacking a portable oxygen system means that you are, for all practical purposes home-bound. You most certainly are not able to make a sixty mile round trip. So, homebound, and lacking necessary medicine, portable oxygen, his health deteriorated until he needed hospitalization. At the hospital, a social worker was quickly made available. Medicaid was restored. He received enough care at the hospital to be released. He returned to his apartment. This cycle was repeated several times before his death.
I think you talk about this

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-...

:)
Just went to submit this myself. Interesting read, it deserved to hit the front page imho.
>With a basic guarantee many people who are marginally employed would stop working.

I believe with basic guarantee many people who are unemployed would start working. Social security in many countries mean that it's rational to either work many hours per week or work zero hours per week. Basic income means that every hour worked or dollar earned increases your standard of living, thus creating a higher incentive to work.

>You'd have two classes of citizens: the workers and those who are effectively parasites off of the workers. I don't like people being poor but society is just not wealthy for poverty to disappear.

There are countries like Finland with a social security guarantee. You can pretty much refuse to work and get $1000/month as a social security (though there are details and sanctions which make this more complex in reality). Anyway, the point is this: in Finland you can already be a "parasite" and some people do that.

Finland doesn't have a basic income guarantee. We also have a system where living on basic social security (toimeentulotuki) working 5 hours per week doesn't really make sense. The effective tax rate for working only a little is 90-100%. If you make 100 euros per week, the social security is decreased by 100 euros. With basic income the effective tax rate would be 20-30%, so working would make sense.

In Finland you pretty much have either full-time/part-time workers (20+ hours) or people who are completely unemployed.

Why should a citizen living on basic income would want to work? To get paid more.

An unemployed person living on $1000/month basic income can increase his or her standard of living substantially by getting paid $200/month more. If someone is working full time and getting paid $3000/month, a $200 increase per month has a lesser increase in standard of living.

The current social security system has an incentive to be completely unemployed. Basic income means that it makes sense to work 1 hours, 2 hours, 5 hours, 10hours, 20 hours or 40 hours per week. All different kinds of working situations are naturally covered under basic income guarantee.
Does anyone have practical advice for convincing business people not to pursue software patents? Stating it will give you no real protection and is a waste of money is not enough, even when coming from the attorneys.
Start looking for a new job (or, if you feel up to the challenge, starting your own company). Once you feel comfortable that you can leave and start something else, you will also feel comfortable going to management and explaining the situation (make sure you have plenty of hard evidence). Then you'll be able to decide whether you stay and try to work with management to rearrange things in a way that's better both for the business and for yourself, or you move on to one of the other options you've already secured.
See above. If you do they will own your script!
Both. In certain trades, you can only start on your own if you get to a to certain level of certification.
People can have certificates and be incompetent, and lie to get a job. See http://www.texasobserver.org/anatomy-tragedy/ (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6306289) for an example of a surgeon who lied about the cause of medical complications.
Poor people in the United States are more poor than most people in e.g. Scandinavian countries.

You also made the fallacy of "if some people are worse off, then Americans shouldn't be any better". However, it's ethical to increase the standard of living of all people.
It sounds just like some google-translate generated speech. Do you REALLY think somebody will pay for this service? It's ridiculous.
"annual cash grant of $10,000—with no work requirements—to every adult over age 21."

And why is that?

Imagine you're 18, you've finished your high school and look up to three years of busting your ass in McDonalds instead of attending some education courses because you for some bizzare reason don't qualify for getting money like everybody else does.

Then there are single moms who don't get anything for their children.

Obviously we see and example where a smart man didn't stop and think, instead throwing in an "over 21" no-brainer.
> When we talk with the manager he thinks that it's not a big deal and once the tool is complete we will not have this kind of problem any more

The idea that "the current system is rubbish, but the new system will be perfect" is common, and it is dangerous nonsense. Every large system has flaws, and throwing it away and starting over is the worst way to address them. Refactor if you can. Add the ability to refactor if you can't.
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Is this the new reddit?
Discovered this site, seems pretty cool.
Web applications from the last decade don't have anything to do with Java. Nothing. The web as it exists now is something Microsoft never understood; not even now.
What is your opinion on reversing highly optimized compiled high level code vs reversing manually written assembly code, starting from the resulting binary ?

Having comments and human readable symbols like variable and function names is sure nice though.
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Nope, you can hire for $20/per hour online.
More money in the system will cause inflation, but given the free market it will be equally distributed around all income brackets so their will be net gains at the low end and net losses at the high end. Sure, your car manufacturer can raise their car prices, but their competitors won't. People might also upgrade a bit in their lifestyle because they can afford to...we don't drive around in one lakh cars for a reason! Universities might increase services to get more of the paid pie, but it's not lie they exist without competition either (moocs....).
So the project manager and lead developer are hiding the work of multiple employees (division?) from from upper management? Many employees are getting payed for months of work to recreate a product--work that upper management would probably disagree with if asked. In what company is that even allowed? I can understand keeping something secret from other divisions or a small group focusing on something for a period of time but sounds very fishy and something that should be brought to the attention of your boss's boss or someone higher. Between work that may be worthless and losses, your project manager is effectively spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in an unauthorized manner.
"Live by disruption, die by disruption." - Bruce Sterling
Pay it to the family. They have their parents' rights yet, don't they.
"English is a prerequisite. If you haven't mastered it yet, learn it. You must be able to read, write, speak and understand English." On his list of things to learn for physics, that even comes before mathematics.

You could also say that learning to use a computer is key to become a programmer. That's obvious and not very telling about what is specifically required to be a programmer.
Well ok, the GOV.UK is the 80+% solution for publishing; transactions is another matter, although hopefully when the Digital by Default Service Standard starts kicking in (specifically the open source provision: https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/digital-by-default#criteri...) then a lot of code around transactions should start appearing.
This is the one i have been using: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frma.audio...
Well, it could work if the BI was applied globally...that would be quite wonderful from a world peace, human rights perspective. It might not ever happen, but we can always hope. Of course, the corrupt governments would have to be removed first...
Then Success goes to the manager and lead and failure goes to the team for not doing what they were told and agreed to do in writing. You are handing them a scapegoat.
Didn't mean to say polygraphs are random, but that the US jusice system is so out whack that once someone is under suspicion, conviction (for something) has little to do with guilt or innocence on initial grounds.
lets just be happy about open-source. The magnitude and quality of work being contributed is amazing.
> that was a crisis caused by long term investments

No. That crisis was caused by private companies collateralizing debt fraudulently loaned out for short term profit to people who couldn't afford it against governmental regulations. Other private companies/individuals then bought what looked like a quick return for little risk and got burnt to a crisp.

It was in essence a short term investment failure brought upon by private corporations.

> supply chain + infrastructure

They didn't build the infrastructure they use (roads/water/electricity etc.). Governments did. Furthermore, their supply chain isn't as complex as you make it out to be.

Also, modern supply chain management is an out growth of operations research that was created thanks to government funded development during WWII. Only later was it applied by private corporations for far more prosaic, some would say more dipshit, reasons than the original one of keeping nation states secure in times of war. Moving potatoes to fryers to help give people heart attacks just doesn't have the same level of importance in comparison, quite frankly.

> AWS as "dipshit innovation"

Yep. It's virtualized servers and data storage (government funded ideas) scaled up.
I see this proposal, but like many I object to it. It reduces the marginal value of work and encourages laziness. We already have enough laziness, we don't need more.

The fact is we waste a lot of human capital. People claim to be unable to find work, yet it costs $50-80 to have your house cleaned in NYC. The unemployed are simply unwilling to clean houses for $10/hour. According to many on the left, we need more unskilled immigration since immigrants "do jobs that Americans just won't do" [1].

But I do agree that we should eliminate the current ragbag of welfare programs and replace it with a single simple one. So rather than a basic income, I propose a Basic Job Guarantee. The government will give anyone who asks a job at minimum wage. If that is insufficient to pay rent, the government can also provide cheap housing out in the boondocks [2] and buses to the location of the Basic Job.

This is the FDR plan and it worked well. Rather than paying people to watch TV we paid people to build national parks. A basic income without work makes sense after technology makes human labor obsolete, but we are nowhere near that point yet.

[1] I'm not opposed to immigration, I'm simply pointing out that people across the political spectrum agree that many Americans are unemployed by choice.

[2] I.e., move the housing projects to south jersey, don't stick them in midtown manhattan.