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This seems like a perfect scenario to try out Bret Victor's "explorable explanations"; i.e. not just documenting assumptions & code inline with your reasoning, but making the document itself explorable and reactive: http://worrydream.com/#!/ExplorableExplanations
Non the less. It might be, despite the gonzo title, quite interesting for some people, to see, what the positions of different countries are.

And what comes of it, when it is finalized.
I'm curious on how you envision a trustless security system to work. Any links?
NoMailbox has built-in encryption functionality. It's one of the many features and options in the new web interface.

To be clear, I'm just a satisfied customer. Using NeoMailbox gives me peace of mind. It's the best option I've found, and that's after months of testing many different paid and free email services.
Mark Lynas's quips against Herman Daly make me strongly question Lynas's credibility.

GMOs present numerous issues. Proprietary interest in seed corn and yet another usurpation of privileges by corporate interests are a key issue. It's not intrinsic to GMO, but it's quite the extant problem. Genetic drift is another. Encouraging use of pesticides (through resistance).

And ultimately, they don't address the root issue: humans have to live within ecological limits.
This sounds a lot like you are suffering from social anxiety. It's a common and widespread mental disease and is usually treated with CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) and/or antidepressants. Some studies show that regular endurance exercise like running also helps. Do not wait for it to go away, that rarely happens, usually the anxiety gets worse over time.
You're leaving the part out where he says "and write some fucking code." He wants people to show him he's wrong with analysis/simulation instead of tell him he's wrong with their opinions, which is entirely valid.
Yes, it complains, still, I'm not sure how much is truly "PostgreSQL is better" and how much is South not caring/not working around some issues.

Or even how much is limitations on the Python or Django DB drivers (two separate things)
Actually, there have been studies done of the marginal utility of additional marginal income and it's incentive effects at different income levels (I've seen several over the years). If you do a thorough review of those studies and the actual numbers from real existing income distributions and benefit programs that would be replaced by BI, it's quite plausible that you could come up with something grounded in a justifiable model that could answer that question rather than just an out-of-nothing assumption.
Nobody's asked how much the "ink" costs? I have a feeling this is the kind of stuff that makes inkjet ink sound cheap.
Older version on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6725046
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Thanks for the offer!

My main concern is non-CommonJS libraries. I haven't really had any luck with any of the Browserify shim modules out there. Any jQuery plugin that I've used with Browserify I ended up modifying myself to support CommonJS. Even then, I'm not sure I was doing it right.

Any insight?
That's just awful. You have to look in 4 different places to understand one data point.

If they really wanted to use a circle, why not a curved timeline? I've actually always visualized the calendar year as an oval. It would be so much clearer if the months were points on a circle.
Well, except that without DRM you wouldn't have the content to watch in the first place. Legally that is. As long as DRM is a requirement for copyrighted content you will have DRM.
Run the model with your altered assumption. The result might surprise you.

http://imgur.com/KwJIZoM

Even with what I consider to be a wildly unrealistic assumption, the Basic Job is still cheaper than the Basic Income in well over 50% of possible worlds.

I repeat: write some fucking code. Don't just say you did, actually do it.
I use nitrous.io . It's fast, comes with all the python tools I could need, and the support is near instant. I have one free development box, and it syncs from my Chromebook to my desktop . All I could want really is a better editor (Ace please!)
Wow, NeoMailbox is pretty expensive for the family plan. How is it better when it's 50% higher priced?
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would it be considered treason to send him money as a US citizen? I could imagine he could fetch a pretty penny consulting on russian sites about security issues (even if he isn't the top guy in the field, he has a crazy name recognition right now).
or, you don't take your kids to disney world, but teach them, bright and early when they are young, that the family is poor. That they need to understand what circumstance they are in, and don't throw tantrums or compare themselves to their neighbours who _do_ have the money to go. Tell them they need to study hard, and make sure they get a good education from school, so that their future is better than the parent's.

Then, when they are 18, they'd have a much more mature mentality, and won't go out to get drunk and cause problems for themselves. They'd be able to get a job, or try start their own business, etc. When time comes for them to have their own kids, they'd have enough to take their kids to disneyland.
"There are no qualifications beyond being an adult citizen to receiving a Basic Income."

A minor mistake. The only "sorta well known to Americans" basic income is the Alaska fund which does only pay to adults.

However most proposals seem to apply to "living humans" or whatever. After all, kids need to eat too. Or if using the franchise fee model of justification, kids lives are being ruined by the economic system too.
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It's barely acceptable even if they didn't need drm. You'd want HLS or some other adaptive bitrate switching technology as well as consistent support for H.264 video.

Also it's not Netflix's choice the studios hoist DRM on them. Unless your solution is dropping the cast majority of their library in order to support the video tag.
Are there two levels of worry?

One is within the usual bounds of brain chemistry, and can be beaten by preparation and perspective.

The other is outside usual bounds, and is really a mental health issue.

It seems like saying, "We're just a small piece of the universe" to someone with a mental health issue is similar to saying "Just cheer up" to someone chronically depressed. It may help in case 1 but not case 2.

I'm not an expert, but I've seen people with true mental health problems, and solutions that work for the masses don't work for them.

I'm concerned about the author of the article.
But writing some fucking code gives a good basis for a more informed debate since there could be a pool of models in existence which could then be refined. It also makes it a lot easier to test various assumptions and determine the sensitvity of various models. For example, take the number of non-workers a more plausible assumption is that everyone earning less than minimum wage + n, where n is the cost of maintaining the job would stop work immediately. That's a step forward from both figures used so far.

A set of iPython notebooks on Github could inspire the inner economist in us all.
Ignoring that as with every large asset, it's difficult to sell it without destroying its price, yes.
> Well, I never said anything about any such thing, so I’m not sure which strawman you are arguing with. If you think I implied it, please show it, and be more explicit in your reasoning.

What is the negation of the statement below?

> Does this have anything to do with the necessity of allowing software makers to forbid the sharing of software?

> Because those are rivalrous goods. There is a difference, and I would suggest you look it up before treating them all the same.

I know what rivalrous goods are. What on God's earth makes them so special and different from non-rivalrous goods?

You are not born with a piece of land attached to your neck. Only a piece paper with words and ideas says so. Who says one should be entitled to anything permanently? If you have a rivalrous good X, why not use it only for Y years and give it to the public for the common good?

The whole idea that you own a piece of a rivalrous good is an unnatural and a relatively new social construct just like intellectual property and ownership of ideas. It is a good solution when we are confronted with scarce resources (land, ideas, software).

Once again, there is no "rivalrous good fairy" granting them special rights. We decided to so as the other option was barbarianism and anarchy.
Here's why we are in a massive bubble.
I'm not sure most doctors are properly equipped to deal with this kind of thing, beyond referring you on to a specialist which is only going to make you worry even more.

My Dad taught me about not panicking when I was a child as he thought it was important. The way he did it was to get me to try and swim a length underwater at the local swimming pool. When I couldn't do it he said, "ok, your mind tries to tell you you've run out of air earlier than you actually have so that you'll respond and still have time to do something about it, but you know you've only got a few more metres to go before you're at the end. You actually have plenty of air when you're coming up." It took me quite a few more attempts but I eventually managed to get over that panicking feeling to finish the length. Then I'd practise every week.

This directly saved me when I got trapped once in a badly maintained wave machine once, and instead of panicking I managed to orient myself, find the grate I'd been sucked in by, get out and push my to the surface. BUT, there's an indirect consequence of this that is much more useful in every day life - it's the idea that whatever situation you're in, you are capable of sorting it out yourself.

Anybody reading and understanding what's on HN is also probably capable of dealing with most problems no matter what's thrown at them. Worried about that degree course? It doesn't really matter because you'll be able to work something out. Worried about that job interview tomorrow? Well just go in and say what you think, give it your best shot, and if it doesn't work out that's ok because you're smart enough to work it out from there. Have confidence in your ability to deal with situations as they arise. It's not easy and it takes practise, but it's a great thing to have and it'll let you sleep easy.
Couldn't agree more, I posted this in another reply:

“Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere”

― Erma Bombeck [Also - Van Wilder - Party Liason]
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Er ... "I can now grab the user's webcam stream, generate a GIF, and let the user download or share it on an image hosting platform. And all of this is done in the front-end using a lightweight interface!" ... that's 3 lines (sorry: 4) of native JS, we need node-modules for this?
Easy, integrate indent in the source control checkin hooks.

No more arguing.
Confidential: intended to be kept secret.

We shouldn't split hairs to justify the lack of transparency, especially for such a wide-reaching agreement.
All of your concerns are addressed in his article:

> The basis of any informed discussion is a mathematical model. The best way to think of a mathematical model is a way to force everyone to clearly enumerate all assumptions being made, and to accept all logical reasoning that follows from those assumptions. Given a model, everyone involved in a discussion can agree that either the conclusions of the model are correct, or one of the assumptions going into the model must be false. This is very important when disagreement is reached - disagreement in the conclusions implies disagreement with some assumption, so it makes sense to figure out which assumption is the cause of disagreement.

It’s also important not to be blinded by a model. The involvement of numbers does not make an argument empirically correct - it simply makes it more understandable and less likely to be logically flawed.

He knows the limitations of mathematical modeling and is simply presenting a basic simulation of these two policies subject to various assumptions.
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The complaints about Singapore all seem true for many years. Sure it's a little sterile. Sure it's conservative. Sure it's small. These have all been true.

It's also open to outsiders, and a model for good governance, and a mutli-cultural hub.

It's ok to leave, but to say, "Screw you, I'm gone forever and never coming back" just seems childish.
Isn't it the bad effect of DRM rather than a benefit!
Thanks guys. This helps a lot. I will update soon when I have my online presence updated and expanded.
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Note that he did not substracte the current wealth_transfers from his cost/benefits analysis.

it does not change the comparsion of BI vs BJ but it is interesting to note that even with his assumptions it means the effective impact on USG Budget is approx 0 for BI and a big reduction of $ 2 trillion for BJ.
It's important to have some way of distinguishing "problems" from things you have no control over, also. Some things you have to accept, which sometimes boils down to locating an incorrect assumption that you have about the world and invalidating it to yourself. You get to choose what you spend energy on, though.
What's wrong in principle with transparent forward proxying anyway? From almost any perspective other than security/anonymity, forcing a client to make a TCP connection to a publisher's computers every time the client wants to read one of the publisher's documents* is a terrible decision: stark, screaming madness. If transparent forward proxying breaks things with HTTP then that's a problem with HTTP. Even from a security/anonymity point of view, an end-to-end connection is no panacea either: if encrypted it (hopefully) prevents third parties from seeing the content of the data sent, but it also makes damned sure that the publisher gets the client's IP address every time the client GETs a webpage, and as recent events have illustrated publisher endpoints aren't super-trustworthy either.

* Unless the client itself has an older copy which it knows hasn't expired; but a single client is much more unlikely to happen to have one of those than is a proxy which handles requests from many clients, and probably has more storage space to devote to caching too.
I guess our priorities are different. I place a high value on my communications with family, friends and business partners. People who communicate with me know I value their privacy.

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Yes as there woudl be a perverse incentives to default -

The issue of moral hazard comes into play.

It woudl lead to increased costs for everyone applying for credit the lender woudl have to make more on good debtors to make it worth while to lend to anyone.
I'm not sure if Russia has a "double taxation" agreement with the US and a quick google doesn't immediately prsent an answer. If so, expats who pay taxes in Russia won't have to pay those same taxes in the US. As long as Snowden files his taxes, he won't be under a tax obligation or legal liability.

I am not a lawyer!
I think the LinkedIn Intro team deserves a thumbs up, do you?
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While go fmt is great tool, it is no different than integrating indent or similar tool in the source control system.
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what percentage of personal debt is medical related? That is typically the clearest case of "life threw them a curve-ball" situations where it was completely out of their control (usually).
What's the difference between secret and confidential (honest question!)?
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I forgot about that one. I don't actually expect to change anyone's mind on the political issue - my real interest here is simply writing a monte carlo tutorial and pushing the "model everything" ideology.
going by the upvotes, we aren't the only people to have seen this anti-pattern...
Not by itself.

The question is - once you start accumulating, how much will people prioritise "getting more stuff" over "playing computer games all day"?

I mean, I earn about $60k. I'm not about to drop down to a $10k income, even if I could get that without any effort. And I think most people are like that - a big reason, as far as I can tell, that many people who could work, don't is that they would lose money by doing so, at least to start with, and they're terrified to take that risk.

Let's say you're unemployed now - someone asks you to help them wash windows for a few hours next week. Doing so would jeopardise your benefits, and possibly leave you homeless if you were found out. If you could take that bit of work, you'd probably find the number of hours going up (if you were any good at it) and possibly leading into more, better, work.

But if we stop people even taking that first step, we effectively shut them out of the job market.

(I'm sure there would be _some_ people that decided to play games all day. But I'm fairly sure the free riders would be a tiny part of the population. People like stuff too much for that.)
I think that is the main takeaway from this article: models are useless for gaining consensus because anyone can tweak assumptions or input variables and come up with their own conclusion.

I think Climate Change and Securitized Credit crisis also taught this lesson for me: people with models can persuade people into believing anything. It's just a new way to lie with statistics.
Great comment, thanks for sharing your view.

But in the end, although the original post is weakly argued, it seems that you more or less agree with it, isn't it ?
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Unfortunately there is no single source that has all the best practices right. This is especially true of PHP, where too many tutorials are written for absolute beginners and not enough for advanced users. You just have to read a lot of stuff from many sources and stay tuned to the latest developments. (Avoid any PHP tutorial that is more than 3 years old. PHP development has really picked up in the last few years.)

phpbestpractices.org is definitely above average, but it seems light on security-related stuff. It's also getting a little long in the tooth in some parts. Possible modifications:

- Replace phpass with password_hash(), it has an even simpler interface.

- Don't close the ?> tag if possible. (Follow the PSR-0, PSR-1 and PSR-2 coding standards.)

- Use htmlspecialchars() instead of htmlentities()

- Know when not to use the resource-intensive DateTime class.

- Know that PHP 5.5 introduces a new opcode cache that isn't APC.

- This is down to personal preference, but I think SwiftMailer is more "modern" than PHPMailer and integrates better with third-party mailing APIs.

- Learn to use Composer.
My impression is there are a couple issues:

- Methodology - If you're mining for answers, and then presenting only the statistically significant, you will still find false positives on larger datasets, it will just take more work.

- Reproduction - If false positives were more fiercely chased down, then this would force researchers to be more careful. There is improvement along these lines.

Changing the p value is arbitrary, and may miss important results. I believe that encouraging reproduction of results, and reducing blind data mining is a better solution.
There's a section on it on wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOFORN#Levels_of_classificatio...

Basically to do with the harm it can cause if it were known. Secret is rated higher than Confidential because it can cause more of a threat to national security.
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Write some code and see if altering that assumption changes the result.

Here is the code. You are interested in line 17.

https://gist.github.com/stucchio/7447067
I agree and disagree -- I don't like the idea of C having a standard syntax, but I would like having a simple program people run their code through the points out any format mistakes. I think in general you could easily handle this using a simple perl script or similar, just require people to run their code through it before submitting. Then it's simple, and you can just point to the program to use and policy for submitting code if someone breaks syntax.
I am currently residing in Singapore and in my opinion - there is not really much to see here and in the surrounding areas, if you are here for more than a month.

I encourage you, before nosediving here for a longer period (like I do for 9 months), visit the place and make sure you really like it here. I do not, as my view of Singapore highly correlates with the article.
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Did you look at cubieboard and the whole linux-sunxi thing ?
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I think it's justified on the basis of a rising tide lifting all boats - particularly for a country moving into a skills/knowledge economy.
It's fun seeing how important lil' old words can be!

Each party shall provide [VN: oppose adequate and effective]
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I'm pretty sure Fastmail supports IDLE... you sure it's not your client?
I find a Chomsky documentary on Kickstarter to be an interesting idea. Is this entirely what we should expect given his worldview, or a subtle case of irony?
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Yeah, obviously but it's not "Standard". If I do that next thing will be "but I think we should change indent option X because it's better that way".

In the long run it would probably be a good thing but I'm not sure I'm ready to go through the massive flamewar that would be at first.

In the end I wouldn't mind this being handled at "language" level. Maybe even a flag in GCC that would warn/error on a coding style error. It would save everybody time, resources and probably a few friendships along the way.
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Nice theory, but demographics don't support that hypothesis.
I challenge you to write something by hand
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There are tools for standardizing C formatting. Another poster mentioned indent. Clang-format [1] is very good, works with C++ as well as C, and has great editor integration. You can choose among predefined style (e.g. Google, Mozilla, LLVM style guides) or create your own and then and enforce it within a source tree very easily.

[1]: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html
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As an American, I am too.