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"A lot of people will decide that they are entitled to that money"

If you use the franchise fee model to talk about a basic income, that is the point. A crony capitalist business screws up everyone's environment, screws up everyone's health, screws up everyone's economic situation, screws up everyone's government, screws up everyone's wealth and income distribution by population graph and all the social issues that result from it, therefore everyone is equally entitled to a small cut of the action because they're already involuntarily getting a cut of the degradation. Seems fair enough.

There's an American tradition of privatize all the profits and socialize all the losses, this could be interpreted as socialize some of the profits and I'm sure we'll continue to socialize all the losses. Some worry about it, but it wouldn't really change that much.

One common argument against a basic income is assuming it can only be implemented with means testing. I see some of that at the end of your comment. Especially in the underground economy, which is already big and growing.
That must have been a typo of some kind
That's a great point about Amazon. In fact, Amazon is playing the role of both exchange and market maker. Can you imagine the shitstorm of comments if a stock exchange tried that?
Liar, I didn't say interviews are a one-way street.
So, by that same token, is not being forced to give cash as a result of losing a bet distasteful and disrespectful of the poor?

Shall we all go through a committee to get pre-approval before taking any action to ensure that it offends no one? At what point does the lone last misogynist become our Harrison Bergeron?
How do you determine that a "lot" of people will prefer not to work? That assumes that they take no joy in labor, have no desire for the luxury and enjoyment that an increased income would bring, and are uninterested in the social advantages of being employed and financially comfortable.

The small set of people who are only motivated to work by the threat of destitution, and who would be satisfied by a pittance and choose not to pursue further labor, are people whose labor was likely never worth much in the first place.
Thank you.

It's 'funny' because a man wearing makeup and a skirt is something you're supposed to find ridiculous. Meanwhile, a woman wearing masculine attire isn't funny.

I'm a trans woman. People I've never met before make it their business to come up to me in public and make dehumanizing statements. Or threaten my life. My friends have been beaten up for not satisfying gender roles. I lost one friend to suicide, and my lover was hospitalized after his attempt. All because this society is so fixated on making their lives unlivable because of their gender presentation.

This 404 page is part of the culture that feeds into this. The double standard between women dressing masculine, and men dressing feminine, speaks to a greater underlying prejudice.
Another factor people take into account when deciding whether to take a job is what the effect is on their total benefits. Higher taxes for instance decrease the amount of benefit in taking a job (relative to the value to your employer of you having taken that job). But taxes aren't the only thing that decreases the benefit of taking a job, there is also the potential loss of other benefits.

When we have "means tested" programs (i.e., anything for "the poor" or "the unemployed") then the marginal benefit of a job (or doing more work) U(base or base job income + new job income) - U(base or base job income). When you factor in needs-based benefits U() can be a very peculiar function, and the marginal benefit can be small relative to the new job income, or even negative.

If we take the social safety net as a given, then we shouldn't abstract away the existence of that net. A basic income has the potential to remove the need for more sophisticated implementations of the safety net, ones that can lead to poor U() functions.

In fact I think that the bottom of the concave U() function cannot work as in theory, because of what is considered socially acceptable. Your first $1000 in income is very valuable because you are living in terrible deprivation. But some people are not able to make that income, no matter the utility. It may be job availability, it may be a disability, or an injury, or addiction to drugs, a criminal history. It could be a parent that has succumbed to any of these. It's hard to enumerate or easily define what any of these are, so to some degree we are willing to offer help simply because someone is experiencing deprivation.

Which is to say, the part of the U() curve that a basic income chops off is already really messed up.
It's not the phpQuery part that was replaced. It's the file_get_contents() call, which does the http get that he moved to the react framework.
Here's an alternative scenario --

The technology is 20 years ahead of the need, or it takes 20 years to work out the kinks in the process. So the patent expires just as it becomes valuable.

But once the patent expires, no company can get a sustainable advantage. Thus, the net incremental producer surplus gets competed down to zero. However, consumer surplus is increased by zillions of dollars, because the technology has effectively been "donated" to humanity through patent expiration.

But this would be a terrible story for VCs, because they didn't make any money off of it. Instead, 100% of the benefits went to humanity.
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Sorry, you are right, Switzerland is only part of Schengen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area), but still the long term objective of the Schengen Area would be borderless trade, immigration, workforce, etc.
It's the concrete implementation of the Semantic Web - using a common model (RDF[1]), to link different data sources / pools and query them in a standard way, using SPARQL and similar technologies, and even perform automated reasoning to discover new facts about it.

[1] http://www.rdfabout.com/intro/
No, I don't agree. European history is something that children study in school year after year for their entire school lives. Then they take maybe a single year of 'world history', maybe two if they're lucky. "Africa" is a footnote comparatively.

Europe has power and does not suffer from the systems they largely put in place. As such, they are the ones that need to make a reversal, not the other way around.
"their plugin framework is extremely complicated"

This (along with the terrible plugin management UI)is the most annoying thing about a product that is just a host for plugins. I suspect it's the reason Google moved to IDEA for the Android IDE.
Thanks - I used Drupal a lot from v4.4-4.7 and then was responsible for the security of a handful of 4.5-4.7 and v6 sites. Neither task endeared me to it, but I know Drupal 8 is going to be pretty different, so seems a good one to look at.

The flexibility's great, but the code hooks felt like a maintainability nightmare ("just what's affecting this now? It's 6 months since I last looked at this module..."). A tradeoff I guess. I was also burned by broken modules (submitted a couple of patches, but it did defeat the point of off-the-shelf features), but Wordpress et al are no better at that either!
Sorry, I meant programmers rather than game developers in general. Of course a game developer such as 3d animator will prefer Unity.
These notifications are straight up pissing me off. It's like Windows ME all over again! They dont even have the option to never show up again, you can only select to be notified later. Some applications are in the notification center, but some apps have separate preferences that you need to find to turn them off. It makes me want to vomit any time I see a notification and cringe because I thought I had turned them off and it just brings me back to 2001 and Windows ME. Quit with the goddamn popups, especially without 'x''s to close them and options to NEVER see them again.

With that, I will happily install your application to ensure that these popups don't get by the preferences I may have already missed.
> So what percentage of production code anywhere in the world is written in an eager (strict, whatever) language?

How is this relevant?

> If you tell me it's less than 99.999%, then you're being dishonest. 99.999% is a "feature of humanity".

Make all && and || strict in all C, C++, Java, C# code, and chaos will reign.
Something that's not been mentioned much is the impact on the benefits system - and specifically the cost. Presumably this would completely replace all benefits - everyone gets $X a month, as a universal benefit. No specific claim for housing benefit, jobseekers benefit, etc.

On the one hand, this massively reduces the bureaucracy/overhead of administering the system, reviewing claims, etc. On the other hand, all the public servants involved in the administration would presumably be out of work. But then, everyone's got this extra cash, to put back into the economy through their purchases…

Would be really interesting to see the effects at a large/national scale.
I wanted to switch back after about 9 months with IntelliJ. But anyway, why would you care how many people want to switch back! To each his own...
No, this is a separate problem. Free movement of labour is an EEA policy which permits nationals of one EEA country to work in another EEA country on the same conditions as that member state’s own citizens. "Same conditions" includes the right to the same benefits.

If Switzerland accepts the basic income, they would probably have to leave EEA or negotiate some pretty steep exceptions to its membership.
It's a shame that the "Shit HN Says" Twitter account is dead. This would be a dead cert to end up on there.

In all seriousness, from a highly abstracted view, Dropbox isn't all that complicated. However, the same things are said about numerous other projects. I remember when Stack Overflow took off, and everyone around here said "I could build Stack Overflow in a weekend".

It turns out that, yes, you can build Stack Overflow in a weekend. However, all you've managed to build is a basic Q&A site. What you've missed is practically everything that makes Stack Overflow work. The rep count probably doesn't work as well, the moderator controls aren't there, the OpenID integration isn't there, the markdown controls aren't as sophisticated, it's slower, etc.

I don't have a link to it, but not long ago there was a repost of the original "Show HN" for Dropbox, where there were similar criticisms of how "trivial" Dropbox is to implement. The devil is in the details.
By the big publishers? Conservative, herd mentality, existing publishing agreements, misaligned incentives between publishers and distributors.

By indies? I didn't think any of them bothered, but apparently some do?
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I have the complete opposite experience. Then again, I only really have my current position as a reference point, and we'd welcome anyone as long as they are competent developers and can communicate well in English.

Essentially all meetings, reports, documentation, etc, etc are in English. It's only when there are just native speakers around that we use Swedish.
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Disclaimer) I work in HFT and this is all anecdotal.

I have found very little correlation between advanced degrees and ability to determine valuable trading strategies. In fact, the strategies that most people bemoan the most with HFT require the least amount of mathematics because they are very simple.

I've also worked outside of trading in both big institutions & start ups. The ratio of genius to average to bad seems about the same in all of these environments.

As far as the common pool resource approach, the problem with that is that it will most likely tilt the balance of power in the markets even further into the hands of a few giant institutions. Why it is popular to protect the poor investment bankers from the ravages of HFT baffles me.
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If you average all of those feelings out, then does it mean that we really are living in a 1980's version of the future?
This article cuts off right when it should be getting to the meat: What are my options? How do they compare?
Sounds pretty cool. Most of the data sources that I'm interested are not interested in publishing their data using RDF, but maybe it would be useful to have RDF be a result of an ETL process.
Also note that a couple of new javascript files like "googlevideo" are required to play youtube videos now.
This is a Dickensian nightmare that kind of reminds me of the workhouse of old. Only problem is we don't need oakum today.
Sounds fantastic! Ever considered putting the source up? I've considered pushing mine up on GitHub, but yours sounds better, and would work really well in an agency setting.
Like swombat, I'm also a swiss citizen living abroad (in San Francisco), and will be voting for this referendum. Basic income is the ultimate fair and bureaucracy-less social safety net: there is no burden of proof, and nobody gets left out.
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No, I remember reading that JetBrains offered to help Google develop the IDEA plugin. With Eclipse it would have been a solo effort.

I have written Eclipse plugins (one with a graph editor as well) and didn't find it all that complicated. I haven't written an IntelliJ plugin, so can't compare.
Measuring productivity is AI-complete. Trying to create automatic measurements is futile.

EDIT: NP->AI :)
Disclaimer: I know the developer but after seeing so much hard work put into this, I wanted just to say a few things since the developer himself will be too modest to say much. This game is the follow up to his original lemonade world flash game (http://www.addictinggames.com/strategy-games/lemonadeworld.j...) which has ~11 million plays on addicting games. This version is really fun to play on a mobile device and is great for just picking up and playing for any amount of time. It's only $.99 and well worth supporting a promising indie game developer.
He could if he wanted to, but he doesn't want to have a maintainable library.
When this has been discussed previously, the objection is always raised as to why would anyone want to do an unpleasant job if all their basic needs are already taken care of.

The reply always seems to be "Because robots!"
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Yahoo Pipes can be used for normalisation, but I don't know any datamining program for little datas...
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I'm working on some software to record as much data as possible, from as many sources as possible, into one unified form so that you can actually analyze it.

I want the data sources to include far more than just health data--GPS, title of active computer window, sms history, file modification times, device and sensor readings, snapshots from your webcam, etc--really anything that you can record.

If anyone is interested, feel free to email me!
Yes, that bastion of right-wing views, the New York Times.
Curious to hear what others think. Does there have to be a tradeoff between blogging and building?
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What do you mean by "entitled"? Yes, they are entitled to claim benefits from the government due to meeting certain criteria. This is value-neutral language, and yet it seems like you're suggesting there's something wrong with it.
I think you mean http://xamarin.com/studio
Basic income is a universal human right.
As a synthetic chemist, it really surprised me to see carbon tetrachloride featured prominently in one of the pictures on kickstarter. The use of this chemical is essentially nonexistent anymore due to its toxicity, carcinogenic properties, and danger to the environment. I'm all for letting kids learn with all manner of chemicals, but why bother with one that both academia and industry have essentially deprecated?
The need for people to live on state-issued subsistence wages seems like the nightmare to me.
Any discussion of a basic income on HN probably needs a captcha to prove authors have read

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

maybe by entering the annual individual payout in 2012 was (fill in the blank) 878 or $878 or $878.00 or whatever.

Most posts against it usually have a tinge of "keep the government out of my medicare" about them.

"Somebody should try this" or "Its too dangerous to try" and all the like almost intentionally seem to ignore this actual implementation.
So I don't know what to make of http://apple.com/jp

Is it just cultural ignorance on Apple's behalf or do Japanese people secretly appreciate this design style (given the popularity of Apple products in Japan)?
Because of the insurance system, price is no longer a consideration for the buyer.
Fine, but why doesn't every new industry have to make this same argument?

It's pretty obvious to me that social networks have some pretty dangerous attributes (decrease in privacy & personal securty, etc) to them. Do these dangerous attributes outweigh the value that twitter provides? Who decides and why?
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Sure, half of my family is from "Africa", and have started businesses that create jobs and lift people out of poverty.

I also put myself out there to take a beating from peers of privilege to speak up about things I think are part of the problem. Reinforcement of otherness I think is a large part of the problem.
You know those days that are totally normal, the routine, what you do for a period of time in your life to just reach to the next level?
OK, I had a 4 level deep dream, in which I dreamed that I woke up. I did in glaring detail what I would do, when I actually wake up, including the stupid things like opening the fridge just remember what I was about to do. I didn't notice that I dreamt until a single detail made me curious and I instantly woke up, before I could notice what it was. However this was the 3rd level of the dream and much more realistic than the 4th level. I'll skip the 2nd level, but in the 1st level of the dream I could not find a single thing that made me curious, heck I even did what I would do, if I were suspecting that I was "dreaming", like washing my face with icecold water, phoning to someone I know, asking someone to pinch me. Unfortunately the pain and everything else was realistic so I kept dreaming that I actually woke up now and was somehow fooled to become relieved by that matter.
After my routine day (which of course includes brushing teeth, washing face, shower, going out, taking a bus ride, going through the city and such random stuff) I turned back home and was just about to think about the day, when I noticed something was wrong. I couldn't remember what a professor said (you'd think that's normal, huh, haha?). And In the glimpse of an eyeblink I woke up again. This time I was really awake, but couldn't believe it for several weeks until I gave up finding out what's real or not, hoping to be really awake. Everybody who had a very very long dream taking years (in detail), knows that when dreaming there is no time limit. A second can be an infinity in a dream.

After "waking up" into what I think is reality, I experienced a single difference between dreams and reality.
In every dream that I woke up, I could see myself from the top and then immediately when my dreaming self opened it's eyes I started seeing things through that perspective .

>> Is sleeping inside a dream possible? If not, that could be a trustable way to find out if one is a dream or not. Much more reliable than a ring ;)
Lost monetary gains of some vs the lives of so many. Guess it depends on your point of view.
If you bought AAPL at $10.45 ten years ago, you'd have made $511 today. That's with one trade.

But in 10 years of 252 trading days of 6.5 trading hours, there are 58968000 seconds. If you'd traded AAPL a million times every second, you'd have made $30132648000000000. That's a lot more money. See how unfair it is?
I'd say it's generally believed to be the truth in Sweden, however, it's a heavily politicized question. Crime statistics are very complex and immigration is such a political hot potato that mixing the two together makes it nearly unworkable.

Proving criminals are innocent victims of poverty and class is difficult unless you are of Marxist persuasion. Statistics related to immigration and crime are obscure, as definitions of crimes change and entire classes of statistics are forbidden to do for political reasons (e.g. tracking offender's race or religion)

However, one point of view is that it's the opposing viewpoint that must be proven. It's also hard to prove that being "immigrant" or "non-european" is causing you to be a criminal, unless you are a nationalist.

Personally, I'd say it's asking the wrong question. We want to reduce crime and poverty, and the question is how to do it. If it was easy to prevent poverty, it would be done already. And frankly, if Sweden hasn't prevented poverty "enough" when non-working immigrants are provided with food, clothes, housing, cable-TV and mobile phones, then when is it really prevented?

Example sources:
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=3615&g...
http://www.svd.se/opinion/ledarsidan/brottslighet-bland-inva...
http://www.advokatsamfundet.se/Advokaten/Tidningsnummer/2010...
http://www.bgf.nu/faktabanken/kriminalitet/brabra2.html

and I'm not writing a dissertation in sociology here, unless you want to give me enough bitcoins :)
It's unfortunate that the Austrian School has taken a blow during the great depression, which was entirely due to government influence (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Act (read "Putting the fox in charge of the hen house")), leading to the adoption of a new orthodox standard of tax and spend (Keynesian) and later increase in monetar(ism|y control and domination from above) (Friedman). Now, after the 2008 crisis, which was caused entirely by government influence (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act#2008... (read "Bad credit? No problem.")), the resurgent attack against laissez-faire economics is regarded as something new by those who haven't read their history books

TL;DR

The fox is in charge of the hen house, blames the hens on their problems, and uses that as a justification to put an even large fox in charge of more hens.
no it was maptia. this is neat too. thx
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It pretty much is SQLAlchemy. Look at the code, there's very little there.
It tells you the bitcoins have moved to address 1ekcj57h2kde45... (made up example). But you have no idea who owns this random address
I agree with this in theory... but I know of at least one counter example: if you moved to Denmark, it would took 2 years (working or studying there) for you to considered a "resident" and be eligible to all state benefits as a Danish (at least was this way 7 years ago). I believe that it will be very interesting how they will solve this... they would need to add some barrier otherwise LOT of people will migrate to there... in France the minimum wage is around 1.400 euros for working 35 hours... people would even live in Switzerland and come to work in France or Italy...
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