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I kinda like http://jlord.github.io/hack-spots/ more. (Although I'm biased based on geographical location.)

Powered by a Google Spreadsheet, so instead of `git commit`, it's "Add a row to this public spreadsheet!"
I'm not actually as concerned about risk, but more interested in the legal aspect of bitcoin.

I see what you're saying, but how can you prove ownership of bitcoin? Is is just having the private key? Someone hacking your system can get that. Online wallet services have that. Does it mean being the first one to generate the wallet? And even if you have some way of proving ownership of the wallet, how do you prove ownership of the bitcoin? The ownership of property in the US is backed by the US government, and the US government backs property transfer. You can't just take stuff by getting 51% of the population of the US to agree that the stuff is yours.

EDIT:

Another point: I get your private key and send all your bitcoins to some other wallet. How do you prove that I was the one that did it, and that you did not agree to it?
Same here. Been running Android since 2010 on 3rd party ROMs. Thought I'd bricked on more than one occasion but somehow got away with it. Guides purporting to provide the "definitive" or "foolproof" rooting / flashing method rarely do, leaving out crucial steps and not considering the full combination of starting points that might / will occur and the effect of tinkering.

I concur with justin66. The necessary skills to deal with something going awry would seem to be good criteria for searching out Cyanogenmod for themselves and making the jump rather than casually clicking on "install" in the play store.
The fact that it is hard to buy bitcoins is ironically the very problem bitcoin solves. Once you have some bitcoins, then no credit card company, bank, or government can prevent you from spending them on anything you want.
Maybe the issue is, in the 'western' world its no longer actually necessary or even useful to have people work. That's not where the wealth comes from any more.

So incentive becomes less interesting. Demand, supply, innovation still count. But getting people to pound the streets and dig ditches en-masse is not important any more.

So a basic income makes employment not the goal. Its useful innovation and adaptation to changing conditions that matters.
What people need to survive is too low a standard given how much wealth there is in the world.
author here. I'm using ng-cloak, but maybe I misunderstood the way how this should be defined there, or maybe is not working well with less.js.

Thanks for the link I will have a second look.
Coca-cola disappears tomorrow and what happens to that food desert? It gets better? How?
The transaction fees go to the miner who originally created the block, not just any miner who processes the transaction, and with increased difficulty to find new blocks, it's less likely for new miners (without paying for some really nice hardware) to ever see a cut of the transaction fees.
I'm actually more familiar with the KMP algorithm than BM. So I looked it up to see what the difference was:

The classic Boyer-Moore algorithm suffers from the phenomenon that it tends not to work so efficiently on small alphabets like DNA.

The skip distance tends to stop growing with the pattern length because substrings re-occur frequently.

By remembering more of what has already been matched, one can get larger skips through the text.

One can even arrange 'perfect memory' and thus look at each character at most once, whereas the Boyer-Moore algorithm, while linear, may inspect a character from the text multiple times.

1: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12656160/what-are-the-mai...
You got me, what's the real shape? I thought it was a parabola if there was no air friction. Or are you taking the curvature of the moon into account?
Not much is that special in terms of the XEPs (extension protocols) that they have defined. When you innovate with it though, man you really see the power of correct XML.

You can slap custom elements pretty much anywhere you want, as long as you have your own namespace (and it's recommended you only place them under <message> or <iq> elements). Say you have some proprietary technology in a client application, with XMPP you can throw an element under the <message> that your client can recognise and act on. For everyone else provide a hyperlink within the <body> element and serve up a web page for them. If they are using your client "bam!" instant added functionality - but if they are on device X which you do not support they are not left out in the cold.
See also this website. They ask the question to students, and we know the courses the students are taking.

http://www.falstad.com/gravity.html

> Physics 324 - Modern Physics for Engineers

> "A body is at rest tends to stay at rest, plus there's no gravity"

> "The gravity of the moon can be said to be negligible, and also the moon's a vacuum, there is no external force on the pen. Therefore it will float where it is."

> "The pen will float away because the gravitational pull of the moon, being approximately 1/6 that of the earth, will not be enough to cause the pen to fall nor remain stationary where it is. The gravatational pull of other objects would influence the pen"

It's a bit scary seeing what the answers are.

I guess we need to remember just how long ago it was that anyone was on the moon, or any distance into space.

An ASCII diagram.

e g m

earth geosynchronous moon

Since 1980 we've sent people maybe a pixel from e.
Your argument seems to rest on the false assumption that (like welfare) anyyone who receives the basic income is not paying taxes.

In fact, a lot of people would pay considerably more taxes than the basic income they're getting. Yes, that's not perfectly efficient, but still more efficient than the bad-incentive-riddled beaurocracies that exist to ensure that welfare goes only to the "deserving poor".
Not true. We're not talking about some kind of inflation that hits every dollar equally. The first 10000 dollars can't be made useless without affecting all the other money.

A basic income means everybody eats and has shelter. What part of the economy does that affect? Less and less. It may be time to just make that a civil right, and move on.
Well of course its going to be. A better comparison would be at the least two javascript frameworks.
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To be sincere, I don't know what kind of Pac Man implementation was that. In the original game, each ghost has a personality [1], the ones in the video seem to just wander aimlessly, so it doesn't really tell much about strength of the algorithm to beat the game because it's not the same game.

So, to comment on your dystopian prediction, I'm not sure this algorithm would do any better against humans, unless all we do is wander aimlessly too ;)

[1] http://www.webpacman.com/ghosts.html
The big advantage lazy evaluation has is composability. In an eager language, you have to explicitly code operations in a lazy fashion, which means that if you use a library, it will probably be eager. With Haskell you can be pretty sure that the runtime will evaluate only as much of the program as it needs to.

That said, the downside is that it then becomes very difficult to reason about the performance characteristics of your library, because its performance depends on how it's used. Simon Peyton-Jones is on record as saying that laziness is probably the wrong default for a language - the big benefit for Haskell was that it "kept them honest" wrt purity, but in a production system you probably want strictness.
Why do we need new laws? Surely if people don't want this, they won't buy the cars.
Like they said, "Your level of privacy is up to you". It seems like most people are competent enough to manage keeping their wallets safe...
From the comments:

> I answered gravity on a physics test in high school for the question “What force works at a distance” and got it wrong because the professor wanted electromagnetism. When I took the paper up to him to contest it, he told me that gravity doesn’t count because it only exists between planets. I got the physics book and ..."

I was sure at that point he was going to say "dropped it on the floor" but no such luck.

> "...read to him out of it but he cut me off and claimed that what I had read proved his point."
The author jumps back-and-forth between statements such as "fundamental rights" and talking about Google ads. I believe he's mixing market and government data harvesting as a single entity. This hurts the thesis as they are somewhat distinct in reality.

I can opt-out of Google (and other networks) ads via technology and market choice (decentralized options are also becoming a reality). But I can never opt-out of state-surveillance. Fundamental rights often only apply to the state for a reason, because of they have a much greater ability to abuse them.

Privacy is a question of associating data to an identity. I can control my identity I provide online services. But I can't obscure my identity to the state without threat of jail/violence.

You could argue the state has to operate within warrants, but as we're seeing this often is not the case, and governments everywhere are attempting to support warrantless wiretapping (such as by the Canadian government again announced this week for police-level investigations, not even national security).

So while I deeply agree with the sentiment, I don't agree with the convergence of the two (market/state) as a singular privacy issue. One is a far greater threat.
GE Moore gave a perfectly valid proof.

[Here is a hand, here is another hand; I have two hands.]
Quote:

It is important to point out that under Murray’s proposal, which is outlined fully in his book In Our Hands: A Plan To Replace The Welfare State, after someone’s total annual income reached $25,000 a 20 percent surtax tax would be imposed on “incremental earned income,” capped at $5,000 once someone earns $50,000 a year.

OK, not uncle Milty, some other libertarian. Still, a tax that stops at $50K is hard to call something other than regressive.
Same story, different source, significant discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6809065

Yet another source, no discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6814293

I expect we'll see this story picked up and reported over and over again. It's about BitCoin, and everyone loves a good bit of schadenfreude.
How long will this keep returning? Of course the device works, with a minor glitch: it heats the water with same efficiency as any electric water heater. Because it's an electric boiler with some mumbojumbo attached. I doubt, however, that any person foolish enough to spend $1.5M on that will ever admit being fooled.
The explosion in use of web fonts is something I find a bit mystifying. There's nothing more jarring than watching the font of a web page change at load time. It's hard for me to imagine that the positives outweigh this one potential negative. It's like watching someone put their wig on in the morning.

I'm sure that there are tons of sites using webfonts in a way such that load time isn't visually compromised. However, I've seen the "font flip" at sites such as nytimes.com which I assume pay great attention to performance.
True, but it doesn't kill them very efficiently.
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To filter, was an original idea standing behind of using git. I kind of understand that using $ git for this is way to much, but those days github allows to modify files online https://github.com/xando/commitcoffee/edit/gh-pages/places.j... as well
The shell, combined with grep already implements these intersection and difference operators. For intersection, all you have to do is pipe into a second grep [1]; for difference, you pipe into a second grep with -v [2].

[1] Intersection: grep regex1 file1 | grep regex2

[2] Difference: grep regex1 file1 | grep -v regex2
I would imagine something based on bitcoin with an added web of trust.. One person starts it all. Another person joins and their identity is certified by the first person. You then have to run mining software but it's not required that your rig is fpga or asic based :).. few hours a week on a cpu would be sufficient. If you run the software, some coins are mined and added to your wallet. You signup another person, they do the same... could grow pretty fast.
Of course there is more questions than answers, your question of how to prevent people from creating multiple identities... Maybe few people will need to sign the cert.. and they can only signed it if their cert was signed by x number of people..

But even if this did not work out, I'm sure it would be a good experiment that could show us how basic income could/would work in a reality.
Renault cars have always suffered from poor quality electrics (source: my grateful local garage :-), so this will be unreliable as well. Another good reason to not buy another.
That depends entirely on how high it is, doesn't it?

Ultimately, it's not about money but about productivity. If the economy is productive enough to give everyone a minimal standard of living as well as comforts and luxuries for those who earn them, it doesn't really matter how said minimal standard of living is "funded".

And there is little doubt that the economies of developed countries are that productive for a reasonable minimal standard.
Ignoring the last point, this is probably why the HTML5BP loads from the CDN but fallsback to a local version if the CDN can't be reached.
You can't tax enough to fund the current government spending either....
I did not say it would be easy - just possible. :)
Why would I do that? Why don't you got commit yourself some mturk workers instead.
It's actually really easy to build C interfaces to any Javascript API or lib. Since compiled code is just JS you can just directly call from C code into JS code and vice-versa. Most of emscripten's CRT wrapper is actually implemented in hand-written JS, as well as the OpenGL-to-WebGL wrapper. For an app which mainly needs to do DOM manipulation it is probably better to write it mostly in traditional JS and only implement the performance sensitive stuff in a C library compiled to JS. Best of both worlds...
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No developer mentioned about promptly cutting down features on the same API that made people adopt twitter as a medium? Bullshit.

I do not get why I shouldn't be able to consume their information using the universal RSS.

Guess that this issue was not included on the survey.
Robots will want to do that job, keeping more high paying people employed.
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> Would you call Aristotle and Newton ignorant?

By your definition they're ignorant, but not stupid?
What's the benefit of using src='data:image for the images?
It's practically impossible for regular people to buy Bitcoin
You missed my (admittedly subtle) point. Yes, on the face of it, it gives a basic income to everyone. But you haven't magically made more wealth so your average tax payer has to pay somehow. Either through higher taxes, a devalued currency, or fewer schools/hospitals. The people who do stand to benefit are those who would have been earning just enough to stop receiving welfare before. They now get to keep the benefits and the transition up the income scale is smoother. Meanwhile, those people who had a job administering welfare are out of work.
Yes, it is, because the person with $1 and no access to credit was just made up for the purpose of convoluting a point about wealth inequality in America.
That isn't what the documents on the web say: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4816.0

What are you basing your statement on?
This would actually make sense, and it's what some economists have proposed instead of the Federal Reserve: an algorithm that targets a set inflation rate or NGDP growth level.
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As a person who likes to follow the news, I’ve been disillusioned with the current mechanisms for reading news. Online news is still presented in a “newspaper” format, with a single frontpage, and articles arranged as if it were a newspaper.

I feel like there are a few problems:

-An individual news article usually doesn’t include enough background information for a complex story

-It’s hard to track a particular story over time

-It’s difficult to get a list of stories for topics I care about. News aggregators help but usually the categories are too broad or there’s too many of them.

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events) probably comes closest, but tends to include only major stories.

Does HN agree? Anyone know of a site or app that addresses these issues, or have any ideas for solving them?
force from acceleration scales linearly with mass. mass, however, scales cubic with size: something at 1/10 scale is 1/1000 the mass.

surface scales square with scale (something at 1/10 scale has 1/100 surface or cross section surface)

with miniaturization with factor x you get 1/x^3 mass and 1/x^2 cross section surface. as a result stresses (Force/Surface) becomes 1/x less on a given surface for acceleration.

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That's one possible reason. The other might be "pen == light, wrench == heavy".
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You're not understanding. Overpopulation involves the worldwide figure. The point of the statement is that immigration increases overpopulation by moving people to a new place, and then replacing them in the original place.
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A 2007 Yahoo investigation found 40-60% of Yahoo's users came to the site with an empty cache, accounting for 20% of page views. Empty cache experience is important.

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We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted
the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws
of geometry.
—Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (1922).
Then employers would have to pay people more than an extra 200 dollars.
Electric cars with lead-acid batteries date back almost to the beginning of automobiles. This is nothing really remarkable. Electrics in fact were quite competitive with internal combustion engine cars in the late 1800s/early 1900s because internal combustion engines and the transmissions/gearboxes they required were noisy and not very reliable or easy to use.

Many of the "modern" ideas about electric cars, including exchangeable batteries as an alternative to recharging, were available before 1920.

That all changed as internal combustion engines improved, and the convenience of longer range and ease of refueling won out.

Ultimately, the Thunderbolt had the same problems that electric cars have always had: Along with the modest range, the main deterrent was really the price," says enthusiast Peter Williams. "It was being offered at £2,600. Back then, for that sort of money, you could buy two Minis.

So: Expensive, and not very practical. Not much has changed.
Oh god. Feathers and dust don't float away because they're weightless.

They float away because air currents exert forces on them that are greater than their weight. Eventually, in a still-air environment, the feather and the dust will settle to the ground. You can verify this by going to your nearest attic.
I don't recall Milton Friedman being for a flat basic income. I do recall him being for a negative income tax, which works quite differently.
I'm not sure how this meme started, Communism is a `terrible` idea. The goals of Communism are good but the actual plan might be the worst model of government ever tried.
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That's a shame. Was there any opportunity to assess the material before it was presented? Was there any method to correct mistakes after?

Your daughter presumably understands that it's not about gravity but air resistance. Has she told all her pals? Because that kind of subversive teaching could be really powerful. TEACHERS HATE HER; THE GRAVITY SECRET THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW!!! etc.

May I ask, hold old was your daughter? What kind of science teaching should she be getting? (Obviously, not anything that wrong).
Thanks Yogthos, that is pretty much exactly how I would have responded :)
That was my first reaction too. After thinking and discussing it with some non-technical people, though, I realize it's not a contradiction unless you also assume some physics knowledge. I (and probably you) have so deeply digested the fact that a pen and a heavy boot fall at the same rate that it seems like a logical failure to not incorporate it into a conclusion. It's quite possible that a person's understanding is simply inconsistent (at the frontiers of anyone's knowledge i think inconsistency is quite common; "learning" is largely a process of finding more data and working through implications to resolve them), but it not a foregone conclusion based on these answers.

This is the main challenge in teaching people any technical subject - discovering the basic knowledge you have assimilated so deeply that you can't even imagine that others don't share it.
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I agree, what you are describing sounds like what I pointed out about bigger companies in the article. They not only can afford this, but they pursue this intentionally.

> It would in my opinion be absurd to create an ecommerce system where the pricing and products require code to be updated. Much better to leverage an existing product or worse case write the logic to allow the users to make changes on their own.

This I disagree with. An e-commerce system that deals with limited number of products (like a printing shop) could easily start with hardcoded base prices, it will be months of growth and rare pricing tweaks in code before this starts becoming an issue (based on my own experience).
Really? You sound like a snopes advertisement. I believe the most generous glass bottle return is 10c, can return 5c, and that would be down at a recycling center. A six pack of crap beer is $5, meaning you would need to buy 50 bottles or 100 cans, pour them all out, take them to a recycling center and back (bus fair) and then buy some beer. I doubt this happens consistently at grocery stores.
The growth in the divide is caused by changes in CEO compensation that reward CEOs of public companies with large stock option rewards. In theory this is a reform-- only CEOs with rising stocks should get paid. Also just looking at the top public companies isn't really representative of the economy as a whole. The median CEO really makes around $360,000, which is a respectable 9-1 ratio.

http://chiefexecutive.net/how-much-does-the-average-ceo-real...
The heavy-boots answer seems pretty justifiable in the case where you have a correct intuition about how gravity itself works but simply underestimate how strong the Moon's gravity happens to be. Set the parameters just-so and there would be a threshold effect, as on an asteroid massive enough to walk on but not-massive enough to jump off.
Even if battery leasing is the future, it would be nice if you were allowed to decide yourself where to lease it.