skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But PG didn't write that essay in response to a basic income argument, he wrote specifically about the argument for eliminating income inequality. So yes, he missed the mark, but only because he wasn't trying to hit it in the first place.

> The jobs of tomorrow are becoming less and less definable in terms of the jobs and skills of today.

The jobs of tomorrow are no less definable than they were 50 or 100 years ago. It's always been anybody's guess what people will be doing for a living in the future.

> We should be giving people incentive to stay out of the labor force and to spend their time how they want. Some people will stay home and play Xbox. Some will come up with awesome new jobs. Some will do amazing work that benefits humanity and which nobody would have ever thought to pay them for.

This is very idealistic, but probably not realistic. Most people will stay home and consume entertainment.

> But it's important to remember that keeping the lazy people out of the labor force decreases the level of incompetence in the labor force. Those Xbox people are staying out of the way of folks who actually want to get things done. Sometimes the best way to contribute to the economy is to stay out of it.

Competence isn't always the main requirement for jobs. In fact, for most jobs, it ranks lower than punctuality, politeness, and consistency. If you effectively remove all the people who are not that competent but able to do jobs that don't require that much competence (manufacturing, food services, etc.) you decrease the available labor pool required to provide the goods and services people like spending their basic income on.
I had the same reaction, but it's pretty cool that the "official" bitcoind regression test suite works on this implementation.
I am on the same boat and I'd suggest that apart from answering here you should put the relevant information on the front page of your project also. It'd be a pity to lose customers because of lack of clarification.
A nice tribute to Steve Jobs
Back in February, for Steve's birthday, my site created a set of tribute pages. 7 inspiring quotes set against some great pictures of Steve. Thought I would share it on this day, the anniversary of his death.

http://www.getinspired365.com/20130224

thanks
clickable http://www.getinspired365.com/20130224
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well it's a failure mode. I have used an unconventional pixel order, in order to improve the look of failure modes. I use a hilbert curve.

When you enter in an amount of text that is not exactly 129 base64url characters, it takes out the non base64url characters, turns them into 0-7 numbers, and then 1-dimensionally stretches those until i get exactly 256 pixels- and lay those out along the hilbert curve.
While your mom is not using this wallet, you cannot complain about sexism in this title.
Artifacts in the central repository are also signed, it's a requirement:

https://docs.sonatype.org/display/Repository/Sonatype+OSS+Ma...

Checking the actual signatures is another story ;).
Please post your resume on LinkedIn and stop talking about you ! The motto is "stop talking, start doing". What you did is not extraordinary, you just had time to lose and that's what you did. Basically you just procrastinated 180 days. If you want to code, then do useful applications, not another tic tac toe.
Running joke in my office: whenever you waste a day on some trivial task because you had to edit some stupid XML config file, you lose a sanity point.

I have learned the hard way to read some of the source code of any external library or tool, no matter how widely accepted, in case the person who wrote it didn't attend the class on not using global variables or depending on undocumented internals of the JVM (I'm looking at you Log4j 2). Or in case they were just plain bonkers, like everyone who was involved in writing Spring.
good idea, but coming from a privacy startup this is obviously a no-go..

and distributing a web-app would equal to just open source it.. I know, it's a dilemna
Seconded. How is user information stored? What's your crypto scheme? Can I get all my data out of the system if you go down or I want to change platforms?
Looks good. I think the 'hours saved' under 'save time with userapp' is exaggerated a little :)

If i were to use it, I'd want some easy way to export the users though. I know i could iterate through them all and get the data (maybe not password hashes??), but at one point a web app would probably need something custom enough that i'd just want to have all the data myself.

I think things like stopping invalid signups, good spam protection etc could push people to use this. Also integrating login via facebook/google/twitter and making it work seamlessly out of the box would be a big plus. For those small website projects it would be much easier/quicker to plug this in, and focus on the core of the app, rather than all the user backend crap.
Have you done any A/B testing on including text like "That's about 4 cups of coffee" in pricing pages?

I found this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4394114
Being uncomfortable about alternate implementations makes me uncomfortable.
Yes, it is more complicated than simply arresting someone and taking all of their stuff, but it's not right to say that they need to "prove that they are proceeds from illegal activities". Proving that you are involved with illegal activities is what a trial is for. If you haven't been tried yet, they haven't proven anything.
Look up evil-mode. It puts vim keybindings into emacs, and it works nicely alongside org-mode. You can edit and navigate vim-style but you still get all the org-mode commands (collapse/uncollapse headers with TAB, put in timestamps with C-u C-c . RETURN, etc.)
A bit melodramatic.

The W3C was always a pay-for-play organization led by corporate interests. The full time staff of the W3C were MIT academics trying to foster conversation so that the openness of the web could be preserved among the reality that most funding for browsers was between competitors looking to make a buck. It took enormous pressure and nearly a decade (1994-2004) to foster web standards to the competent mediocrity they are today.

The WHATWG only solidified the corporate interests, by making browser makers The Only Ones Who Matter: Google (who also funds Mozilla), Microsoft, and Apple.

You can claim you want new leadership, but who has the credibility and legitimacy you claim has been lost? Students? Government workers? All competent engineers are working for for-profit companies (or are funded by them) that want to monetize your eyeballs. You could look to academia and government-funding, I suppose, like the original web. But the web is here, now. It's likely not going to be replaced.

Starting over is a loser's game.
No, it's Schengen area, so no border checks. You drive across just as you would from Massachusetts to Vermont.
In September 1848 Joseph Charlier published in Brussels "Solution du Problème Social" (Solution of the Social Problem), a remarkable book [1]

The permanent income hypothesis was formulated by the Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman in 1957 and can be read in his Book [2].

Just as an understatement, you can see which country has the highest backing of entrepreneurial activity [3].

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[1] http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/888/1/WRAP_Cunliffe_basic.pdf

[2] http://papers.nber.org/books/frie57-1

[3] http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/which-country-back... and http://www.internationalentrepreneurship.com/total-entrepren...
Obviously it's a joke, but it'd be interesting to see how food and drink is funded in various governments.
Price is not the same thing as value and analysts are usually wrong (search for the studies). The important thing in a valuation are the assumptions: You can come up with any number you like, the reader has to decide whether they agree with how you got there.

Here is a justified valuation of $67. Tell me what assumptions are wrong how how that would yield a value of >$200.

http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.ca/2013/09/valuation-of-week...
Tweeter:TWTRQ Stock Went Up +1,000% Because People Thought It Was Twitter
Yes, the contest is already over. But, JotForm Apps and Integration tools are permanently available. You can create an integration app and promote your web business on both JotForm Apps directory and in Integrations wizard of the JotForm form builder.
You sound like you know all the legal, technical, and regulatory issues they faced in designing the system.
This looks great! For me as a developer, who considers using it for a side project, I would even bother to spend the 9$ for the development version. Would be great to have a (user limited?) forever free account.
> And I don't mean this to be offensive, but, are your cop friends sure that these "welfare" abusers that they witness aren't actually just using that as a front for an illegal pursuit (i.e. drug dealing, undeclared gifts/gambling/taxable proceeds?)

No offense taken. The picture that was painted for me was one where a segment of welfare recipients seem to be engaged in gaming the system any way they can by tapping into every available program out there. For example, single mothers having multiple kids by different fathers because each kid represents a monthly paycheck. On top of that there's work for cash and, yes, potential criminal activity.

Does this apply to all welfare recipients? Of course not. The vast majority of them probably wish they could get out of the nightmare they fell into through whatever circumstance.

Perhaps my greater point is that simply giving money away with no goals or conditions isn't good at all. It changes the way people think and behave. The most extreme examples of this are lottery winners who's life's are ruined even after winning millions of dollars.

When it comes to welfare I am a proponent of actually investing MORE money on the poor. How? Provide them with a reasonable living wage. The condition would be that they'd have to go to school (for free). The idea is the proverbial "teach a man to fish" concept rather than giving them fish. A one to two year trade education would be a solid stepping stone from which these people could pull out of their circumstances. Of course, there are cases where this would not work. I firmly believe we have a moral and ethical responsibility to take care of people who fall upon hard times and simply can't take care of themselves. We also have a moral and ethical responsibility to make sure that our help does not produce adverse effects (crime, abuse, dependency, devolution, societal decay). To be sure, the topic is wide and complex.
Namecheap upstream issues, says Do Not Try To Register/Modify/Buy right now
I need to integrate something like this in an open source platform. Is there anything even close as an open source project? Or do we need to develop the same thing as FOSS ourselves?
Exactly what I thought! I find it nice, but why would I let a third party manage the most critical part of my platform : my users? You close shop unexpectedly, I close shop. You are down? I am down too.

The dependency between my system and this one would be way too great to consider the option.
I have the opposite reaction for the same reason. This helps formalizing the behavior of the original client and is an excellent thing for the network in the long run.
I just logged in and added something to my cart. The cart was in https. And clicking of the checkout, express, or credit card related buttons yields https pages.

I'm guessing something less sinister, like a missed https:// in a link somewhere.
Completely open border; still part of the Schengen area.
Well, that's just a launcher thing. Given that the OS will be open, I am pretty sure you'll be able to install it. The question is, will it be available on Steam the platform? I can't see why Valve would block it.
I see it differently. If people are receiving a basic income their performance at a job becomes much less important. Why care if you do a good job if losing it doesn't really impact you that negatively?
The stupid choice of strapline means this product will always have this kind of comment whenever it's discussed. Rightly so, IMO. It's the 21st century and someone would have to be a fucking idiot to not realise that this strapline is going to cause comment.
Isn't it just ageist? After all, it implies that your mom already has a bitcoin daemon but your new one is better.
I have cart errors, I hope I get my domains I carefully listed so I can buy.
In what way were Pol Pot era Cambodia and Mugabe era Zimbabwe political experiments? They were/are dictators! There's nothing remotely radical about dictatorships.
Dear EFF: please don't pick the wrong fight
Everything you know about Steve Jobs and design is wrong
Museums that want your legacy tech
wait... you mean to tell me you DIDN'T write this in a sarcastic tone? woah! i think i need to re-read this...
Any kind of app that can use or process the form data would be a good integration app. The most used ones are dropbox and google spreadsheets. For example, Dropbox integration sends the uploaded files and PDF of the form data to dropbox.

Here are the list of apps we currently have: http://apps.jotform.com/category/integrations

Most of listed integrations are created by us since we have just released the self-service tools to create an integration. But, there are a few that are using the new tools.

We do not have payments for apps but you are free to crete paid apps and take payments from users on your end.
One thing that has always confused me with this claim in regards to basic incomes - if our current model is "We have welfare so people don't die when they can't get food, medical care, etc", then what happens when someone receiving a basic income spends it all on hookers and blow? Are we okay with letting him die now, because he had the option to pay for his basic needs and just chose not to? Or are we still going to have to have some kind of safety net for idiots?
I've been breathing internet from 1999, and believe me, when Rails was born it was - specially compared with the former current status of web development - awesome and game changing. That justified hype brought a lot of people, specially designers, to Rails, and still brings them even if other tools are better suited for the task in hand, and you know what they say, "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".
$89 is not "about 18 bottles of beer."
Possibly: http://status.namecheap.com/?p=13788
Turning a Wii Balance Board into a net-enabled bathroom scale
Notice that there are no jokers trying to kick this thing over in the video. Wildcat is much less forgiving than Big Dog. Three engineers have already been mauled by it...
Yes, same here. Where and how is the data stored, whats about security? After all, their business model means that they are dealing with one of the most precious parts of other businesses, so I would expect way more information here.
It's a system completely designed around gaining a consensus. Any slightly differentiation in behaviour means a fork in the chain with catastrophic network-wide consequences. Both the original creator and the current developers are typically against re-implementations, with good reason.
Are you trying to make a subtle reference to the fact that Twitter had to start off with rails and then move to java and scala?
came here to say that
> But I can't help feeling disappointed that we have yet another disposable thing, instead of a better handle for double blades.

I noticed that in the article, it talks about the price of the handle and the price of the blades[0]. I looked it up and it's not a disposable razor, it's a replaceable cartridge head[1]. Which isn't as bad from my perspective. Same source for [1] also says that the razor's made in India[2], so it's going to have a much shorter maker-to-market chain.

[0] - http://news.yahoo.com/cheap-razor-made-p-g-watches-indians-s...
"Gillette sells the Guard for 15 rupees, or 34 cents, and each razor blade is 5 rupees, or 12 cents"

[1] - http://www.westcoastshaving.com/Gillette-Guard-Cartridge-Raz...
"Description
Newly released Gillette Guard Cartridge Razor with pivoting head."

[2] - http://www.westcoastshaving.com/Gillette-Guard-Cartridge-Raz...
"Made in India."
Why do we have to work on better ways to kill each other? When will that end? Is that the only motivation we have?

Really.

I don't want to work on robotics to kill people. I don't want my government to throw money into robotics to kill people. I stand by what I said: These things add no value. In fact, from one perspective they take value away. And, BTW, I am not even close to being a bleeding heart Liberal yet I'll gladly join them in the idea that what we need is less violence, less killing and less weapons, not more.

http://www.stopkillerrobots.org/
Why? Honestly, how can you "outsource" such a vital part of your web app to a third party? Not only is this a privacy disaster but also, if this user service goes down or has a temporary downtime, your own business is effectively unusable.

I understand that it makes sense to not write these types of user functions and management things over and over again. The solution however, is not a SaaS, but a library or a little framework. And from what I remember, major Web development frameworks offer exactly these types of functionality.

I don't want to be a downer and you guys probably spend a lot of time on the product, but from my perspective, any business owner using a third party to handle user data acts irresponsibly. You OWE it to your users to keep their data as tight and as centralized in one spot as possible – a spot only you and employees have access to and servers only you rented and have access to and not a third party.

I'd even rather use Wordpress as a basic user management platform than use a third party service. This way, it is at least fully under my control and I'm the only one responsible if things get broken or data gets stolen.
> A system like this will need to be very well monitored, it can help immensely to those in need, but if done unconditionally it will certainly encourage laziness in a sector of the society.

Thought experiment: If the overall effect of basic income is to make things better overall(1), does it really matter if some people become lazy?

(1) Through whatever metric you want to measure.

... To give some background, my question is whether the existence of laziness is a sufficient critique in itself. If things get better on average, but some people are enabled to sit around all day, is that really a problem?

I'm asking this because the UK government at the moment is constantly railing against lazy people taking benefits, as if it's self-evident that should be stopped. To me, this just sounds like the politics of envy and hate (though I admit I could be wrong).

Put another way: if a utopia involves some people getting benefits they don't deserve, would that be a bad thing?

Obviously, I'm not saying basic income will produce a better society. I think it might, but needs empirical testing. My question is more whether the existence of undeserving beneficiaries is sufficient to rule it out.
The WHATWG are in control of the W3C's agenda. The corporate members of the WHATWG are the ones pushing for Web DRM. Oh, not the individuals necessarily. They might be opposed to it.

But they're just voices in a large game: Microsoft and Google are co-editors with Netflix of the new DRM spec.
No, the intended meaning is clearly not the pedantic one you are claiming should be used.
Government Will Shut Down Websites Even if It Costs More Than Keeping Them Up
Wouldn't it be worth putting a brush (or felt) at the bottom of the bowl, so you could brush the razor in the direction of the blades (the opposite way of shaving) to clean it much faster? That way, the fabric pushes the hairs out, instead of having to rely on the force of the water from the agitation.
I suggest that you provide easy one year purchases. It is much easier for my manager to sign off on one purchase than a recurring bill. Also, number of users is unlikely to be my purchase level decider. Perhaps you could differentiate the levels on another factor to get me out of your lowest tier.
Frickin' everyone? I look at the evolution of unemployment rates ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unemployment_rate_United_s... ) and I see a clear trend that I think is not going to change. Besides, among the employed, I'm quite sure that an important percentage of people don't like their jobs.
And, to answer your question, I would probably quit a "cushy" programming job to pursue my projects and interests.
OP here.

This is something that we are very aware of. We only have good intentions and want our users to feel 100% secure with us. If you don't, please let us know how we can change that! :) We don't have it now, but we will make it possible to export all of the data in UserApp at any time.

Regarding security and privacy we have written a section about it here:
https://help.userapp.io/customer/portal/topics/550128-securi...

Additionally, everything is SSL and passwords are stored using bcrypt. And we will make it possible to login using 3rd party providers later (OAuth). From a personal perspective, we will run this ship to the end of the world if we have to. Since we're developing quite a few other services (www.amail.io to mention one) we are also basing all our services on UserApp.
Because police with big guns.
Then you don't live in Sweden. Beer here is expensive :) :(
Seemingly, the WHATWG is against this. But there's a big difference between individuals on a mailing list and broader corporate interests.

It's a tragic comedy that everyone's yelling at the W3C for losing their way yet again... the WHATWG, weren't they great. Yet the WHATWG is basically a proxy for Google, Apple and Microsoft. And they have driven the W3C agenda for a long while.

When you repeatedly shit on the hippies, academics, and non-browser makers that had more sway in the past at the W3C, and replace them by corporate browser makers, you weaken the antibodies that were in place. The WHATWG's presence has marginalizing other voices within the W3C and forced it to listen to its primary members - i.e. corporate, pay-to-play ones.
I prefer straight razors. They're a lot of work, but not generating a material waste stream is totally worth it for me.
Everyone's shaving needs are different -- mine require me to spend a considerable amount of time and effort to make sure I don't end up with cuts or ingrown hairs. I used disposable razors for the longest time until I found a thread on a wet shaving forum[0] where someone had shared a quick tutorial video[1] on how to shave with a double edge razor. After committing to wet shaving I now get the closest shaves possible which require me to shave less often.

What I really like about this method of shaving is that it made me view this activity differently. It's no longer a chore and it isn't something that I mindlessly rush through. The shaving brush, razor, blades, and cream are my tools; I don't just toss them into garbage (the blades being the exception) once I've had a few shaves. I prepare everything and commit to being present while I shave. It's a ritual now and as lame as it might sound my life is richer as a result. I wish someone had taught me to shave this way when I first started.

[0] http://badgerandblade.com/vb/forum.php

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qSIP6uQ3EI
Loupe: A Chrome extension that showcases Flickr's most interesting photos
The trouble is, because the exact behaviour isn't documented and depends on subtle implementation quirks, the original implementation already has enough differences in behaviour between different versions to fork the chain with catastrophic network-wide consequences.
It does feel like they are running their user credentials and other "critical" stuff in MongoDB. I wouldn't advice that.

Am I wrong? Curious.
As far as I know the autopilot in a drone isn't so much more sophisticated than autopilots of manned aircraft. They are usually controlled by human pilots, albeit assisted with tons of artificial intelligence.
The Monetization Dilemma of Large Networks of Engaged Users