skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although, the article seems a little unclear on the deatails:

"Contracts for Dhong and the other Nepalese men set their base salaries for 12-hour shifts at about $178 per month."

(No matter how you do the math, with no more than two days off a week, that's less than a dollar an hour (edit: I mistakenly wrote day first))

"Another letter explained that the men were getting paid for the rest of January, plus a month. It was a total of about $600 each."

(Almost twice the salary listed above (obviously still peanuts))

edit/addition: "He earns $3 a day for a 12-hour shift inspecting the glue seams on shoes before they’re shipped. It’s about half of the minimum pay he’d been promised in Malaysia. He earns less than $90 per month ..."

Consistent with first statement of salary. Only the 2 months approximately equal to 600 dollars is off.
For those interested, a good way to implement this was proposed by Milton Friedman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax

which indeed works out to be better than government sponsored programs.

Progressive taxation has nothing to do with it though, it's not required at all.
Hopefully this clears it up for you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6696070
For me: yes, absolutely, it's much much faster and less painful to type the four numerics than to click on drop downs.
Cheat! What I thought :(
10 Tenets For Adapting To A Customer Culture Shift
Before I clicked the link, I tried to imagine all the possible comments I'd read, but not this one.
If I'm not talking about it to my friend already I find that comment just as useful or important as a random stranger.
Sure, that's fine. Don't do a wholesale copy of he execution though -- you'll never win if you're always a step behind.
This isn't just to make commenting more social (i.e. pushing friends comments to the top)-- I imagine it's also largely to hold more people accountable for their comments (w/ their reputation) so that there aren't as many nonsense/flame/bigoted comments like there always have been on Youtube, and in turn get higher quality comments (e.g. Quora vs. Yahoo answers analogy)
Embedded images don't have very good support across clients, which makes them pretty hard to use effectively. They will not appear at all in gmail, for example.

Also, it's not very nice to mark messages as spam just because you don't like their design (it affects other recipients). Unless it actually is spam, then mark away.
Confidence Intervals in storybook form
Interesting that this story is popular the same day Twitter goes public. Twitter didn't focus on revenues or profits early. Twitter didn't take months and months to get to market and agonize over every product look and feel decision. Twitter made it's early investors billions of dollars. Twitter is a household name. Twitter may or may not end up generating billions from mobile. FB certainly showed it can once that became critical.
Here is the link: http://sign.basicincome2013.eu
That's equivalent, everyone knows government gets its money from taxpayers.
A community driven taco repo
It is bundled, not required as of August. You can disable the Kinect in the settings or unplug it completely and the console will still function: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/08/12/microsoft-re...
People voting themselves bread. I'm sure this will turn out well.
I just tried to comment on a Youtube video and was not asked to sign in to Google+, so not sure what the co-founder is talking about.

I don't have Google+ but I have a Youtube account.
They're going to have an online store. You can sign up to be notified when it's open: http://www.peachyprinter.com/#!store/cb7y
NSA surveillance raises real concerns about blackmail, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Remember, the NSA is tapping into information that, e.g., Google and Yahoo were apparently sending unencrypted between their international data centers. One of the pieces of information that's coming out from these NSA revelations is that there is a ton of private information within these companies that's exposed to far too many people.[1]

From the point of view of political blackmail, there is every bit as much reason to be worried about rogue Facebook engineers as there is to be worried about rogue NSA agents. There seems to be some myopia among technologists as to this point, an idea that "NSA agent = bad" and "Facebook engineer = good" and a projection of negative intentions onto the former and positive intentions onto the latter. But at the end of the day, there is money in political blackmail, and it's not like there is no history of giant corporations engaging in political blackmail, or at least opportunistic employees at giant corporations engaging in such activity.

The internet as it exists today is a system where "private" information is shared between you and thousands of your closest friends at Google, Yahoo, AT&T, Verizon, Facebook, Comcast, etc. The entire system, where information flows unencrypted through trusted service providers, is naive and broken. It was been broken since the earliest days of the internet, with clear-text protocols like SMTP, and that brokenness has simply piled on over the years.

[1] While I don't support Lavabit's position of refusing to comply with lawful warrants, I do admire their architecture where the government has had to go to the highest levels of the company to get the information. It couldn't simply lean on some relatively low-level system administrator who had access to the unencrypted data.
The backlash will come the next time Facebook tries to raise money. That said, the cost is much less than the amount of money that Twitter left on the table.

Also - if every company flopped post-IPO, the IPO market would die. That's not Facebook's immediate problem, and again "doing the right thing" isn't worth leaving $20/share in the hands of flippers.
In quite a lot of Europe we have social support schemes that are supposed the same net effect.

Except if you are unemployed for more than X. Or if you have more than a minimal wage on your bank account. Or.. Or.. Or..

All these exceptions are meant to cut social support from people who are not entitled to it. While in reality they usually hurt people who have no means to be really productive.

Quite a lot of resources are spent on edge cases, which decreases efficiency and transparency. Thus making these schemes ineffective for what they were designed to do.

I think that basic income is an awesome idea and should be at least tried so we can see if it works out in practice. Especially because we can afford it.
Interesting how they're facilitating fraud, instead of you know, checking to make sure the person who made the order is real..
Infographic on IPv4 Addresses Running Out
“The Zen Programmer” is available
Looks like Ubuntu by default has randomization via ASLR and other protections as well.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features
It could be that his logic optimizes for chrome. I'm sure with a bit more time, he could make it work smoothly in FF... Or fuck it, just write it in ASM, which would be insanely faster.
Ask: How do you use Dropbox Camera Upload with iPhone burst photos
I can't use dropbox to backup my photos anymore because it uploads hundreds of pictures that should be deleted but is instead actually uploaded.
You can even collapse the first one into a single command: "git pull remotename master"
Same with me on OpenBSD - it's awesome!

Makes me want to play with arch Linux. There goes the weekend!
Another one of these substitution extensions...

https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt
I go one step further, and put chromium in incognito while logging in to google services. The only problem is clicking youtube links from gmail/gtalk - I have to remember to paste them in to firefox.
I hope you can find it... that issue has been driving me nuts for a few months now.

(Granted, I haven't noticed it happening quite as much with the latest version in Fedora 19, maybe some of the issues have been fixed?)
Here is the link to the parallel Indiegogo campaign:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-peachy-printer-the-fir...
He's plugged in to the times. If it were the Onion, they'd have done it a year before the incident. :-)
In answer to his comment: Because you sold your product to Google.
I've got around 200 tabs open and I don't close Firefox in months. It's only using around 1GB of RAM at the moment (rarely more).
I'm on Firefox 24.0 on Gentoo Linux and have a great many add-ons installed. It's possible that my addon to unload unused tabs from memory is helping me a lot here.
My addons list: https://imageshack.us/a/img819/2726/7gdd.png
The police officers portrayed in the movie are not part of the establishment that exists in the movie.

Especially the several officers at the precinct. They are shown fighting the good fight, fighting for the people, in the face of the impossible conditions coming down from above.
And the mass consumption and pollution of the earth. No big deal.
I have a Google account but without G+ and a YT account that was linked to the Google account. The solution for getting rid of the repeated popups asking you to turn your YT account into a G+ account seems to be to delete your YT channel. That way you will only be logged in with your normal Google account. Of course, you still won't be able to comment (or operate a channel), but at least the popup seems to be gone.
Linux can be great for alot of people, provided you set it up for them.

My computer illiterate wife uses Linux PCs all the time with no issue (albeit for basic tasks, but then again that's all she ever used Windows for either).
I've pretty much given up. Google has deleted my playlists and favorites countless times. Every time they try to integrate YouTube with one of their services/account management, I end up losing everything.

My only consolation is that Google+ is accumulating a lot of vitriol and hate across the web. It's shaping up to be the most hated "social" product in the entire Internet.
I think the confusion is the fact that he died in January this year (so it's actually the second one within 11 months).
In answer to his comment: Because you sold it to Google.
If that were really the sole motivation, they could have just linked G+ in addition to other social networks to your old account.
It is bundled, but you can choose to not plug it [1]. Kinect is useful in games like fitness and rival sports, besides obviously being used to add other functionality. Obviously, privacy implications are huge.

[1] - http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/12/4615586/xbox-one-no-longer...
> GCHQ was also said to have been "responsible for identifying, recruiting and running covert agents in the global telecommunications industry".

> Britain’s various spy agencies believe their work has protected citizens, not made them more vulnerable to attack.

This effort, and the rest of their "protection," is as if they've ordered all home builders to install a fake rock next to each house's back door, with a master key. Then the agencies hire legions of "checkers," to sneak around back, get the key, and look inside the house to see if anything bad is happening.

Now those keys are out there in those fake rocks, available for anyone to use who can discover them. We're also at the mercy of the checkers, who may or may not remain honest.

Thanks!
Just to the last bit, Op said that found out when HR gave him the paperwork that he was somehow a contractor as opposed to a full time employee.
Wait but why: Why Generation Y yuppies are unhappy
"The risk would be that you ended up with low cost of living slum areas where the unemployed would congregate , separate from the productive economy."

But in this case, they would be able to offer each other money for providing each other services. Congregations of people would inherently be able to realize some demand, which is not presently the case (or that demand is filtered through bureaucrats).
At this point it seems like Google's mission is to help make profit for Apple and Facebook.
>Combined with some progressive taxation this works out to be massively more efficient and helpful than most other forms of welfare.

Is this empirically proven somewhere? Or is that what its proponents are saying? Forgive me if I'm a little cynical when someone tells me an idea they support is a much better form of welfare than what we currently have but doesn't back it up with proof.
I’m not discussing that — things one could be done on the US DoD budgets are pretty much unimaginable.

The only thing I wanted to provide is that there are, actually, useful, measurably beneficial things one could do for „just” 72 megadollars — like a „boring” school, or a clinic. Or a stretch of a road and a clean well, maybe even a small stretch of railway. In many places those would be huge.

This doesn’t mean a space program is the best place to take money away from — not even in India, and definitely not in the United States. I just mean it’s not money one can wave away as small change.
Sure, but that's different than saying insurance is by-definition a scam.
Up until a couple of weeks ago I was a loyal Chrome advocate. However after the Mozilla team's recent AMA on reddit I decided to switch and since then I really haven't found Firefox inferior at all (aside from a couple of examples like this). So for anyone else looking to make the switch, go for it! The only thing I'm missing about Chrome are the excellent dev tools.
A healthy and minimally secure citizenry can be a public good just as much as roads and armies, which are also paid by taxes.

I want this.
Quake Live goes native and drops OS X, Linux
Xbox will know who is talking and when, it can also listen when you are playing the game full volume.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/8/5075216/xbox-one-tv-micros...
Yes, the internet makes it so convenient to remain within one's echo chamber.
A plug to my cheatsheet, it is just a repo in github: https://github.com/trufa/git-cheatsheet

I try to link to the relevant StackOverflow explanation-

I'm adding new stuff every now and then. This weekend I'll organize it and add some obvious stuff that is missing and publish it to HN.

I honestly find it more useful that most of the cheat sheets, specially those images with a couple of commands written on it.

Please feel free to collaborate pull requests and or issues are greatly appreciated.
"this idea has very weak economics fundamentals"

I'll take Milton Friedman's word on that over yours.
I admire your idealism. However you forget that poor countries have high levels of corruption which makes any kinds of records they keep dubious at best.

Poor countries will have to commit on working out their issues on their own. We must help them, but there is no way we can do it for them.

On a positive note, global trends show that poverty is constantly decreasing and that equality is rising. Slowly but steadily.
Firefox on Mac is fine (well, more or less; I just filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=936472 on the slight lag I see there), which suggests the actual issue is cairo's path drawing code, which is not used by Firefox on Mac, but is used on Windows and Linux.
10% of Americans are on antidepressants. I really hope that rate isn't consistent around the world.
The biometric info isn't stored in the cloud (applies to both the Xbox and iPhone), so that helps reduce the risk.

I have set up Kinect profiles for my family with the Xbox 360, but it is a bit hit and-miss, and signing in and out becomes a hassle. If the recognition works as seamlessly as described in the article it would be a great improvement.
Thinking price point, 300 is about a couple of hour's worth of work which they save your developers. Not a big deal.
I think the hope is that it is sort of like digging a well.
Youtube Co-founder writes hate comment regarding new Youtube Comment system
I know a good many bad firmware engineers. A few of my theories about why:

- Many of them have a concentration in EE, not software. The software they produce is what you'd expect from an amateur.

- A lot of engineers do not spend time to think about the whole stack, from decisions at the hardware level all the way to how the user interacts with the product, and how the factory produces it. The more comfortable you are working in these domains, the better decisions you will be making. Unfortunately, for many firmware engineers their responsibility stops at (say) the USB protocol they've hatched.

- Firmware engineering is often seen as a lower-class of programming than desktop. (To this, I say: Ha!)

I've sure seen a lot of crappy firmware, much of it from contract houses that specialize in things like BIOS and board packages. They don't seem to hire carefully.

If you run across that rare gem who can write desktop apps and UI, write host drivers, write firmware, and use a scope, hang onto that person.
The entire "what is that barge in the bay?" story line seems like a carefully constructed PR campaign, and I for one am opting out.
I have no idea how this is going to turn out if it gets passed, but I hope it does. I'd much rather Europe be the guinea pig.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link."
> Combined with some progressive taxation this works out to be massively more efficient and helpful than most other forms of welfare.

That seems to be a conclusion without any premises, woefully short on data and implicit but imprecise definitions of 'efficient', 'helpful' and 'welfare'.
In that case Lazy load is better IMO.
The price went up ~5x from the $85 within the first year. One interpretation is that they had tons of good news. Another is that the initial investors didn't understand the value inside of Google, and perhaps the traditional road show would have helped.

I view the bankers like real estate agents. Many are worthless, but a good real estate agent can raise the price you sell your house for much more than the 6% in fees they charge.
That seems to be a trend with google now. I know that whenever I see something big and secretive happening around google I keep thinking "Is this when they are going to reveal their AGI?!" and it just turns out to be a party barge or google hangouts.
California unfair competition law is pretty broad.
> This is kind of thinking is extremely nationalistic: I am entitled to free money because I was born in XYZ.

It's just a technical change in the way we redistribute wealth. Do you think that wealth redistribution is wrong? There are many arguments suggesting that zero wealth redistribution is not the optimum.

> there is no prove that growth comes from redistributing wealth

I'm convinced that wealth redistribution leads to higher aggregate utility. Whether it leads to higher nominal growth, I don't know.

> Instead we propose the exact opposite.

Basic income would make public spending more effective.
No one likes looking at poor people.
Also, this is a 2006 Xbox 360 problem, not a 2014 Xbox One problem. Hi, Microsoft, I have a computer in my pocket. If I'm watching tv, just send me a notification to that. Chances are I'm on it if I'm on the couch anyway.
He's a real genius.
Are people not allowed to do that? In democratic regimes?
I had a chance to play with a set in local store. Controller is massive improvement regarding rumble and grip. Simple touch of coloring the letters ABXY and not whole buttons looks so appealing. Nice to see such a beautiful UI. We (me and roommates) use 360 for TV, netflix, Play-To, and games. This will be nice upgrade, especially with UI being beautiful. I was hoping that the internals would be powerful, I want to see 4K games 5 yrs later. I do not think present internals will be able to push that many pixels. But Dead Rising 3 and Killer Instinct are addicting games. Will pick it up after Titanfall launches. I could totally connect with the use-cases shown in the video, as each one of us has different preferences and it becomes a hassle signing in and out. Will be nice to see it switching preferences on-the-fly. Here's to next-gen.

Some videos:
1) Giantbomb impressions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXwud8fSNhs

2) Xbox UI walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhe6jV-APwM
"Also, I'd argue that the automatic promotion of bare numbers to a wrapped type is not really "a matter of taste" but rather severely hurts the ability of Go's newtype feature to catch bugs."

I agree, but in general, Go is a pragmatic language rather than a pure one. In Haskell it would certainly be the wrong choice. You can pull some fun tricks in Go, such as http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2923 , but it's not interested in a Haskellian "correctness" in general.
Surely it wouldn't be it couldn't be that hard to built a better youtube and seed it with quality content. I'm surprised nobody has succeeded.

Is it just that the costs of serving video require an enormous company or is it that the term youtube is basically synonymous with "internet video".
Or $18 the day before.

One answer is there are a lot of people who just want to get their billion out. Or million. Or hundred thousand. They are largely undiversified. They are selling to diversified owners who are less impacted by day to day price shocks.
uh, you mean like Vimeo?
In the context of Google diminishing online anonymity for commercial gain, it is potentially relevant to HN. Likewise as the spark for a discussion of the costs and benefits of the larger trend of which it is a part, it also has potential interest to HN readers.

The post is funny because it cuts right to the heart of the issue.

[Meta] Complaining that HN is turning into Reddit is Google+ material.
I doubt the issue is the JS logic. Firefox on Mac has nothing like the lag people are talking about on Linux/Windows, which suggests the issue is somewhere in platform-specific drawing code. Hard to say for sure without a profile.
TWTR might've been good at a $8 billion cap, but at $25 billion+, investors are dreaming. It is unsustainable and entirely driven by artificial scarcity and hype.

Stock markets can't price shit.
"Beer Party"?
Forgetting Buzz?
This is the answer that made most sense to me - I'll attempt to paraphrase;

The net benefit of basic income for an individual tends to zero (percent) as the individual's income rises.
French PM releases the G8 Open Data Charter Action Plan for France
They're required to treat your immediate concerns, not necessarily to fix you.
My thoughts as well. If you're going to sell out, you should fully anticipate that "the man" will just gut your company & let it bleed out. Maybe they bought it to kill it off, etc.
I don't think G+ has much to do with it, more the self-moderation, but I will say the commenting on YT has improved significantly in the last few months.

That of course means we've moved from "abysmal" to "shitty" but hey, progress is progress.
https://www.youtube.com/user/jawed

Joined Apr 23, 2005 - It's actually legitimate.