skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we are using it. UML is quite practical for stuff that needs clarity (so not just for the data model).

We are using even this allot lately: http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/ (not UML but good for visual representation of stuff).
> Your graph has the richest people making less than they did before. This is unlikely to happen.

Isn't that the whole point of any policy that implies a massive redistribution of wealth? Of course the money needs to come from higher taxes. Ergo, "What matters is political will."

As I said, it's really annoying that people say "it's unaffordable" to mean "we don't want to pay". This usage masks the real problem, which is political will (or lack thereof), not the physical scarcity of USD or CHF.
This is what happens when Tibetan villages refuse to fly the Chinese flag
And what about adding the following compile options:

-m64 -msse3 -mfpmath=sse?
The text of the Swiss initiative can be found at http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/vi/vis423t.html. Please note that it does not mention 2'500 Swiss francs as a basic income.

Rough translation into English:

Federal People's Initiative 'For an uncoditional basic income'

The federal constituion shall be amended as follows:

Art. 110a (new) Unconditional Basic Income

(1) The Confederay introduces an unconditional basic income.

(2) The basic income shall allow the whole population a decent life and participlation in public activities.

(3) The law defines funding and amount of the basic income.
> Define "unaffordable".

The Swiss people might not want to pay the amount of tax that would be necessary to have citizens income at that level.
There's also a general disdain for the poor, rooted in just-world fallacy. As American politics would have you believe, the poor can't be trusted with cash. "They'll just spend it on drugs and plasma TVs!" Thus, the only politically salient form of aid to the poor is in the form of vouchers for specific things, e.g. food and medicine.

This is dogma on the right, but it echoes surprisingly often from the left as well.
Well, families often do a better job putting up with each other than roommates do...
The initiative mentions the 'whole population', the text is not limited to adults with Swiss citizenship only.

In today's Swiss welfare state, all people living in Switzerland already have full access to what actually already is a basic income (or even more), just not fully unconditional.
Just to put things in perspective (I'm swiss), 2500CHF is a really low salary in Switzerland. There is another initiative asking for a minimum wage of 4000CHF per month.
The median swiss salary is close to 6000CHF[1].
The administration says the poverty line is around 2200CHF per month for someone living alone [2].

You can't really just convert to $ and say it's a lot of money. A lot of basic stuff like food, transportation, housing are really expensive in Switzerland.

[1] http://archives.tdg.ch/actu/suisse/suisses-gagnent-moyenne-5...

[2] http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/fr/index/themen/20/03/bla...
It is part of the constitution. What they're referring to is the events of 1975 when Gough Whitlam and the Labor party government failed to pass a budget by the hostile senate, leading to the dissolving of parliament by the Governor General.

Basically the Governor General is the Queen's official representative in Australia and officially our head of state. They have the power in specific circumstances to dissolve parliament and force an election. One of those circumstances is if the government fails to legislate a budget. It's complicated how the scenario occurs, but it happened, the powers of the governor general were exercised and a new election was held.

In this case the scenario is only possible because we recognise a power higher than our own parliament, that of the Queen. The USA doesn't have that but perhaps an alternative system could be worked out (if it's even desired, I think it's a useful thing to have).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_...
If 50% of the population aren't allowed to vote, it's not a pure democracy.
People hate hippocrites everywhere. Silicon Valley puts out a lot of lemons, and makes all its money from the exceptions. Yet then it seems everywhere the "average" tend to think they are "tall poppy". The question about SV should be rephrased, is the premise true?
Adding that to the list of C++ options I am going to try
Here's the thing... It is not in a military contractor's best interests to properly document and mothball any knowledge or capability so well that it can be handed over to the government, stuck in a warehouse for decades, and be dusted off by someone completely different without difficulty. Doing so is tedious, expensive, and makes the contractor instantly replaceable. Failing to do so is cheap, fast, easy and improves their odds of getting future business!

The flipside is that it's impractical to pay companies to maintain the capacity to build everything they've ever built for all time. Imagine what it would cost IBM to keep people trained in building new versions of every product they've ever invented! If it costs billions to adequately document and mothball the construction process for every wheel you've ever made, but it only costs millions to reinvent the occasional wheel, what do you do?
Imagine you are one of the engineers behind traffic lights. That's something to be proud of, you've built something that keeps people safer, can allow emergency vehicles to pass through, are centrally controllable, it can do this this and this, EVERYONE knows about them... "Hey I'm the guy that invented the traffic light!"

BUT now look at the "primitive" roundabout. It wins. Something thats simpler, won't fail, and actually keeps people safer.

This is the dilemma I always fight with myself when I build tech solutions to problems: Does this really make it better?
Just because I think its cool, or even that I am proud of it, doesn't mean its good for people to use. For me it always comes down to what is the best. I believe the best in anything is very objective, and that can often lead to very existential questions...

I make software that replaces paper tickets. The battle is always there when someone will say they just want to stick to paper tickets. Sometimes, its hard to disagree with them.

but when a customer pays me money, I start to feel better for awhile. Then the thought is not: 'is this the best solution to this problem'... but rather: 'is this the best thing I am capable of'
Like North Dakota?
Your impression is wrong. The vote you are referring to was on shareholders' rights, i.e., shareholders will get more influence on the compensation of the executives of 'their' companies.

The vote on the 1:12 initiative will be on November 24, 2013.
I think that's fairly common amongst developers - solving the problem minutes after posting the question.

My advice is to post the question anyway. And then when you solve it minutes later, post the solution too. That way you'll be providing a net increase to our collective knowledge while also helping yourself.
It could also act as a strong incentive for developing automatic and robotic solutions to these needs.
Unfortunately, there is actual experimental evidence to the contrary. Some of the Arabian Emirates have cash payments to their ethnically Arabian citizens that are practically equivalent to a high basic income.

In those cases, all the "dirty" labor is done by legal/illegal immigrants that are not eligible for said basic income and thus willing to work for much less.

IMO this is the central problem with the idea of a basic income. Either it has to be so low that it is on the "just don't starve" level (thus making it unattractive compared to any job), or you have to lock your borders, shutting down migration.
'Less direct' voting is not voting. You might elect representatives and hope for the best but you cannot vote on single issues.
So it totally disables all loop unrolling, inlining... hmm
>they pay back the salary for the furloughed days once shutdown ends

And here I thought that the sliver lining of the shutdown was that the government would spend less taxpayer money this year!

So much for that hope.
I wonder if the engine is used to power an electrical generator, or if the mechanical energy is used directly?
> The initiative mentions the 'whole population'

You're right -- so my initial figure was more accurate.
Seems like a very ironic thing for him search for.
same here but without tor, just noscript (disabled)
I'm not Swiss, so I have no skin in the game. Therefore, I don't care who pays :-)

"It's unaffordable" can certainly mean "we don't want to pay". It can also mean "Are there enough rich enough people and businesses that can pay, that this can be passed, or can reasonably be collected?"

It is a question of political will, and it's annoying when people lambast that question with criticism as simple selfishness.

Redistribution often hits hard on middle income earners. I'll be impressed should something like this be passed, and the earning figure simply pivots on the median earner instead of gouging earnings from the middle-class.

I wonder at what point Swiss high earners, or wealthy Swiss companies, will move to somewhere like Luxembourg to protect that wealth? Or is it simply not possible in the mind of a Swiss national to do so?
Thanks for your feedback. Sorry I replied this late.

We require a minimum password length of 6 characters. This is a regular request, many other sites would ask for password >8 characters. We do not request any specific things in your password, like numbers or uppercase characters, so I think we're being pretty reasonable here.

Also: we use captcha because of my earlier experience with bots. About a year ago I created a website which was pretty much spammed to death, so since then I use captcha's. I don't think we're being unreasonable here, we just don't want bots to mess up our statistics.

What you are right about however is that we ask a lot from people to sign up first before they are able to install the system. In the future we are going to change this. During beta, it will be in RoyalExtended, but with the 1.0 release it will be fully available to everyone with or without registering.

Also, we have described RoyalCMS in the bottom article quite well, I recommend you read that if you want more info on what the big difference between RoyalCMS and other systems is. Also, very soon a video about RoyalCMS will be made publicly available.

I hope I answered your comments adequately?
Cracking Open Encryption Standards
On one hand:

It's not Google or Facebook's responsibility to fix a broken government. Stop being so entitled. Twitter cannot fix a ghetto. Twitter cannot hand out jobs to gangsters and murderers. Twitter cannot build a police station. Twitter cannot set up surveillance for the neighborhood. Twitter cannot open up it's campus to random strangers. Twitter is a company, not a charity. It's working in the best interest of its employees.

On the other hand:

You are judged by your attitude. "Change the World"ers remind me of Christians. They worship Jesus yet act nothing like him nor do they follow any of this rules or philosophies. Googlers & Twatters talking about changing the world with WiFi Blimps in Africa and bringing democracy to the middle east while isolating themselves from their own local community is like Christians talking about how much they love Jesus, read the bible, donate millions to televangelists, build million dollar church stadiums yet completely ignore helping the children, poor, & sick.

Then again:

Should "Change the World"ers be more corporate so we don't judge them based on the expectations they set themselves up to? How is that better?
I'm sure it's possible. ;)

I'm occupied by other things now so won't do it myself, but people are free to work from my code.
I think it's 'common knowledge' which has outlived it's relevance as I can't recall the last time I found -O2 outperforming -O3.

Practically every performance oriented open source program I come across also defaults to -O3 these days, or sometimes -Ofast which also enables -ffast-math.

>-O3 can generate slower code because of the aggressive inlining and loop unrolling enabled

-O3 turns on vectorization and inlining optimizations but I can't recall any loop unrolling options which are turned on at -O3.

-funroll-loops is not turned on at any of the -O (including -O3) levels due to it being one of the hardest to get right without any runtime data as basis (which is why the only option that turns it on is PGO - profile generated optimization).

Note that I'm talking about modern versions of GCC, if you are using GCC 4.21 on OSX then this (-O2 > -O3) may still typically be the case.

>The situation is better nowadays but still, as far as I know, no major Linux distro uses -O3 as the default for binary packages.

I'd say they typically use the upstream optimization settings.
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Few remarks:

-mtune is redundant with march=native turned on;

-use -Ofast instead O3/ffast-math it turns some more options as well (although theoretically it might behave in non-standard way with float computations, you need to test this, it wasn't ever a problem for me)

-add -flto it often helps significantly

-it probably won't matter for simple program but you may try compiling with:
-Ofast -march=native -flto -fprofile-generate;
then run the program (it will generate .gcda files) and then recompile with the same options and -fprofile-use;

EDIT:
Some quick tests shows that all the options I mentioned help (MinGW, gcc 4.8.1). Original time on one thread was 3.670s, Ofast and -flto takes it to ~3.630s and adding PGO moves it to 3.46s (there is some variance with all of those) - whooping 5-6% improvement overall :)
As a swiss citizen, I'm really happy we'll have to vote on this. I'm not sure yet what I'm going to vote (I'm slightly bending towards a yes), but I think this is a very interesting debate to have. Especially because this is not a traditional left-right fight.

On the left, you have some unions saying this is going to be counter-productive and that it will reduce the leverage of employees in negotiation ("You've already got 2500, stop complaining"). Some other unions say it's going to give employee more leverage ("If you don't pay me more, I leave").

There are some people (including right-wing "economy-friendly" politician) who think this is a boost for innovation. By letting people work on what they want, without the risk of becoming homeless if it fails, you'll have more people trying to become independent / create companies.

And finally, you have what is still the majority reaction when told about this idea, which is that this is encouraging laziness.
For those who don't know what the idea behind the unconditional income is: I'll briefly explain it. Imagine you work hard and only get enough to live on the edge. Now imagine you're not even the average joe, but feel that you could really change things on the world. You haven't to be a genius in order to do that, but you need to be creative, innovative and willing to work without the command to work. Now let's get an eagle's perspective on what would happen, if encouraged people would not have to spent their entire lives working for the bare minimum that keeps them slaves of the economy and industry.

You would essentially create the startup-country #1. Everybody could now cherish their dreams again and make them real. You don't believe it right, that's "stupid eastern communism thinkblarg", right? How comes you Sir, Madam believe in Kickstarter, Crowdfunding, Bitcoin, P2P, Wikipedia.. and the individual freedom, so to say the american dream, when you actually have to rely on the mercy of the rich and your leading political party? Isn't that a wet dream reserverd for the 1:100.000? Let's chill and put into retrospect on what would happen if you were getting a salary that allowed you to get your basics needs fulfilled. You would be less sick, stressed, worn out. You would now be able to do what you always wanted to do in your life. Hey admit it, you wanted to buy a house at some time and have a wife and children and you knew that you'd have to work hard, the half of your life to get there. Believe it or not, but giving people freedom doesn't mean blindly trusting them. You are only one and the community you live in that government that likes to keep you locked into boundaries called country, consist of many of the smartest people on the world. Why not let them free, who do you trust if not them?
We're far from a Star Trek world, where anybody get's free access to medicine and any food or resource he needs.

Dear patriots, don't be afraid that your Governments managed it to go bankrupt, they've managed that already and not for the first time. It's time you your friends, families understand that the people you thought were the cause, aren't the cause. It's your Government stupid. I don't say hate Governments, but do you blindly trust a complete stranger to care for your baby? Certainly not.

For those who're not still convinced that an unconditional income is a good idea:

Why do you blindly trust your Government word-by-word to judge on your and everbody else's life's? When these people cannot even cooperate with just a few hundred other politicians? You see how wrong it is to not trust all people, but a selected few. Let's get over the indoctrinated prejudices and get to know each other again. Hi =)
trapwire

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/13/trapwire-survei...
Seized $3.5 Million worth Bitcoins from Silk Road will be deposited to Treasury
Oh the possibilities :D
> Did your side project become your main source of income in 2013?

No. My side projects are just my main source of expenditures so far :).
They're referring to Double Dissolution, which is indeed a constitutional power granted to the GG, but not the power utilized by Kerr in 1975.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dissolution#History

The event you describe is related: Whitlam requested that the Kerr dissolve parliament, but instead Kerr chose to dismiss Whitlam and instate the opposition as caretaker.
Just installed it in 5 minutes from this location on OS X:
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~fld/UnixAos/rev.4929/

Found the link at:
http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/OCP/Downloads#toc4

Seems to run just fine, though it is only running in a window and not as the OS ofcourse.
> If you work in Java and you are still stuck with Maven, please, take a look at Gradle.

or ivy? i really haven't spent a lot of time toying with the various build systems. i tend to use ant until manual dependency management becomes ... unmanageable, then maven because i've apparently been brainwashed (i.e. i heard that they use maven at a lot of not-so-bad companies like thoughtworks).

after the article, i do like the suggestion of ivy+buck, neither of which i'd paid attention to before below the clamor of gradle trampling upon maven. before starting considerations along the lines "this software does not do X" or "it does X wrong," what about asking "what's a reasonable task for a single tool?" or more specifically,

"do we really want dependency management and builds handled by the same program?" my impulse is always to go for things that are as modular as possible, but perhaps the reflex response of "no" isn't correct for some reason obscured by lack of experience with the particular problem domain.
Speaking of gcflags, did you try Go with gcflags=-B to see how it performs without bounds checking.

I know this isn't 'the right way' given that Go is supposed to be a safe language but it would be interesting to see how much difference it would make.
Throwaway time!

Though I myself have never purchased anything from Silk Road, I knew a group of (rich, suburban) kids who purchased drugs (and other stuff, like fake IDs) off of Silk Road and Black Market Reloaded, another illegal Tor marketplace. From what I understand shipments were hidden, and very hard to detect. For example, if a number of pills we're being shipped, they'd be sowed into the lining of a purse, or hidden in the battery compartment of a cheap calculator. That item would then be shipped like a normal item, usually through USPS.

Though the government has certain ways to detect certain drugs in the mail (cocaine and pot are easy to detect, where as LSD or Class Two pills are almost impossible), most of its efforts are focused on international mail and keeping drugs from being smuggled into the country. As domestic detection was almost unheard of (unless the police were specifically tipped off) most people would only purchase from sellers in the US.
> My theory: here we drive on the right. In countries where roundabouts are succesful they drive on the left.

France has 30000 roundabouts. Your theory is nonsense.

> The anti-clockwise flow of cars on right side drive might be more difficult for the brain to comprehend, leading to confusion and panic.

It's not, it's only difficult for the brain to comprehend when you don't know what roundabouts are and how they work, as with any other somewhat complex road structure.
-m64 and -mfpmath=sse are defaults on x86-64, -msse3 is enabled implicitly by -march=native if the machine supports SSE3.
We have about 3% unemployment rate in Switzerland. You have to know something about us, we love to work. Why? Because we are raised with the thought that's our strongest asset. Pretty small country with zero resources. Last year we voted for the increase of our holidays from 4 to 6 weeks. Result? 66,5% voted against it.

This vote will get something like 80% no votes because people are affraid this will change how people think about work.
What happens if you take the implicitly-assumed-to-be-ridiculous third option, and give every visitor a green card and a basic income voucher when they cross the border? Then you don't have any illegal immigrants, just lots and lots and lots of citizens.

(Don't just reply with the obviously-bad first-order effect on the country receiving the immigrants; remember that bad things would also be happening to the labor pools of all countries without this policy.)
People who wish to remain alive and not suffer economic ruin.

We have all manner of destructive and lethal weather. You don't even have to talk about hurricanes and tornadoes, any severe wind and/or thunderstorm will happily bring down trees and power lines, and set fire to fields and forests. Flash floods, heat waves, fire weather, the national weather service warns us about them all and more. Even something as simple as a freeze warning may save a farmer's crops, or if not, provide them with proof of their loss for an insurance company.
I've had nightmares while taking melatonin with the same frequency as I've had them the rest of my life. They're more vivid, but I've forgotten them just fine.
Melatonin isn't a drug, it's the neurohormone that provokes sleep. Your body produces it naturally already.