skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is an outright fraud.

1. Premise: "Basic income of X units of money is sent to everyone in population".

2. Basic income comes from where? Either from taxes, or from printed money. Either way, purchasing power is being taken from some people in proportion to their savings/income.

3. There's always a difference in income and amount of savings. If everyone was making the same amount of money, doing "basic income" wouldn't change much (except feed some bureaucrats in the process).

4. Therefore, some people will be taxed less than "basic income" they receive. And some people will be taxed more that the income they receive.

5. Therefore, some people do not really receive any extra income. They are getting deprived of a portion of their purchasing power instead.

6. Therefore promoting it as "everyone gets it, no strings attached" is a total lie.

If they said "we want to take from some people and give to others" it would be honest and true. But it doesn't sound as fair as "everyone gets", isn't it?

Note: I'm not debating taxation itself. Even if you think it's okay to tax and redistribute wealth, the description of this law is a total lie.

EDIT: I guess downvoting folks are too busy redistributing people's wealth to point out a logical flaw in my comment.
Crucial is only marginally better than OCZ in terms of reliability. You got lucky. If you care about drives surviving, buy Intel or Samsung:

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/911-7/ssd.html
Same goes for anything you actually buy with currency also.
I'm baffled by how this is both high-tech and totally bonkers, being able to produce a polymer specifically targeting specific harmful bacteria is quite an achievement by itself but it is dwarfed by the ability of IBM to do away with the laws of physics, making matter just disappear is an incredible feat.

I wonder if this polymer just turns invisble or if it cease to exist without leaving any other compounds, residues or energy.
Overpopulation is in the eye of the beholder. 72 is enough, we don't NEED more people! Side effect of overpopulation capitalism: need more people on the same space ? You need apartment, which requires capital, which means America and there 1%/90% ratio ... Do not want!
How about having your funds sliced by sort of Cyprus scenario? How about getting ill for half a year and finding out that the inflation has eaten most of your savings away?
It is ridiculous to suggest that someone with a dollar but no access to credit is weathier than someone who is able to borrow the cost of a house.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1pxycu/tutorial_how...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1pxq6s/can_we_get_a...
An alternative that I prefer is a welfare system such as in Australia. Australian welfare is very similar to basic income, the main differences being that you have to look for work (but enforcement is not strict) and the way welfare decreases as your income increases, makes your effective marginal tax rate about 50%.

I'm not sure what the optimal tax schedule (pre-tax vs post-tax and welfare) should look like, but my intuition is that a high effective marginal tax rate for people on welfare is not bad, as the disincentive to work that it produces affects fewer people, than if we had a flat tax (e.g. VAT) plus basic income.

The disincentive to work produced by a higher effective marginal tax rate is also offset by the fact that welfare isn't a lot of money, and the longer you are on welfare the stricter enforcement becomes.

I also don't see the moral reason for a true basic income, except perhaps for men, who should be compensated for the possibility of being conscripted.
How to actually get bitcoins?

I mean, seriously, I tried, but all my attempts were futile.

Why can't I just use a credit card or similar and buy bitcoints?

Back when they were $100, I really wanted to buy a bitcoin, spent half a day on it, but didn't manage to. I gave up everytime I needed to do something strange involving permissions with my bank.

Is there an easier way to get them? I live in Europe by the way.

Thanks!
Worse yet, they're going to add noise to the signals for normal behavior, and standards of predictability will be lowered on both sides, ruining things for the people who do understand the technology.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaranteed_minimum_income#Minim... for some pointers to schemes which have actually been tried.
From our experience, we needed to quickly find email adresses of people in a company, with an accurate return value, so we built Norbert : http://www.voilanorbert.com

It's in it's early stage (if you go after 5 tries, you will be requested to pay via Paypal to enable unlimited access : it doesn't work so far).

We don't plan to gain a lot of money on it, the limit is more to restrict user about abusing it.

For information about how it works, it simply connect to the mail server, simulating a email to be sent, and testing if the server answer with a "Email not found" or "Ok". Depending on the answer, we know if this email exists or not.
"that move quickly to target infected cells in the body": does it make sense to write this when you talk about bacteria? It looks to me like the author confused them with how viruses work: With bacteria you don't target "infected cells", you target infectious agents, the bacteriums.
The quote below is priceless.

"Apptricity is now incredibly energised to use the settlement resolution as a catalyst for aggressive investment in our team, our solutions and our untapped market opportunities," said Randy Lieberman, Apptricity's chief financial officer.
The language authors obviously disagree with it being an "idiotic" engineering choice. Your choices of tradeoffs don't match theirs, and engineering is never as simple as "I'm right, you're wrong", as you well know.

Yeah I was being facetious with my original reply, and frankly I get your point, I was pointing out however that you _can_ fork it to make it work the way you'd prefer. If you truly don't want to (or can't) do that, then open a ticket or send something to a mailing list.

If this really matters to you, do something about it that can make an actual difference.
The love-hate relationship developers have with Twitter
I always sucked in tests. In the first question, I would have hesitated between b) and d).

The reason for choosing b) would have been that the moon's gravity being weak, the earth's gravity nullified the moon's thus having a floating pen.

The reason for choosing d) would be because Moon's gravity is stronger than Earth's.

This is why I think tests are stupids. If I had chosen b) instead of d) I would have gotten a wrong answer. Even though my thought process would be correct. Just missing the right information (which could have been easily found outside a test environment).
Even if DARPA knows that E-cat is bullshit, an act of buying an unit is an easy deception possibly diluting nuclear research resources of certain countries.
Well, in case of electric heaters used to heat a home the efficiency should really be measured in terms of "how much electricity is consumed if the heated room is kept at constant 20C measured at e.g. center of room". This is somewhat dependent on the quality of the thermostat controlling the heater.

Then, I think that there are some real differences found in the efficiency of the heaters.
The newest model is TLC, but it is likely that they figured out a way to make it last long enough for average consumers.
> Why can't I just use a credit card or similar and buy bitcoints?

Chargebacks are the reason. If you buy a bitcoin with a credit card and I send you a bitcoin, you can get your money back from the credit card company and keep my bitcoin.
Lucky find, I guess.

From the story: "The unauthorised copying only came to light after a US Army official mentioned "thousands" of devices running the software during a presentation on technology."
Tcl originally did the same thing. Semantically it still does, but values in the Tcl interpreter were changed to a string/union pair so that conversions can be cached.
Has MtGox resolved their withdrawal issue yet?
They've actually sold many more devices (per-order). What they did now was to deliver the first 450 devices.
They want to see what works and becomes popular.
I disagree with the premise of the article.
Text is for humans only. If you are connecting computers with no human interaction, binary is much more efficient.
I think the people who answered wrongly aren't thinking in a first principles, physics-based mindset, but just instead just recalling previous memories and reasoning in an intuitive, fuzzy kind of pattern-matching.

We've all seen images of pens floating weightless in space on films and TV, and we probably haven't ever seen pens falling on the moon. But the moon is in space right? so... yeah, why not, it floats.

And for the guys on the moon, well I haven't got any memories of astronauts without boots on, and those boots sure look big and heavy, they're special gravity boots, I'm sure I heard that on TV once, yeah, that's probably it.

The first principles approach of applying the concept of universal gravitational attraction probably isn't even entering their heads, even if they've been taught it.

This used to get on my nerves, how can people be so stupid? Why won't they just think for a moment!? But recently I've been focussing some effort on learning a language (Spanish) and realise that in that this case the first-principles style of learning that works so well for physics and maths is largely useless, and it's better to turn off the analytical side of your brain and not think too much, just keep exposing yourself, trying to communicate, and let your subconscious do it's stupid fuzzy pattern-matching, and it does a remarkably good job!
Yes, that is a pedantic statement :). The number will never actually hit zero, largely because the brief statement I wrote here is a drastic oversimplication of how currencies are valued. But it doesn't change the underlying statement - the basic income will be pretty useless after a relatively short amount of time.
I wonder how Mt. Gox dares to spend their time creating this (which is nice by the way) instead of solving their withdrawal issues and finishing their new trading engine integration, which is pissing off many of their customers.

The only reasonable explanation is that they have given up on decreasing their churn rate and instead they are focusing on acquiring newbies into their platform. Actually this is kind of sad...
A gigantic win for them considering licenses usually don't cost their company a cent. If the US had queried first, they probably could have got an unlimited license for less than $10 million. Heh, staircase wit.
Hah :-)

Thanks for the support, but if I make an arrogant remark, I have to expect to get snarky responses, right :-)

The line was supposed to be taken as a joke, in reference to people signing off their blog posts with "If you read this far, you should probably follow me on Twitter" and the likes.

Thanks for your feedback though! I hadn't thought about how people could interpret it as a slight insult to their understanding of the subject matter, so next time I make an arrogant joke I'll try and take stuff like that into account.
Ok, so how to get a bitcoin (well 0.1 btc for me now that they are 10x as expensive as last time I looked) in a practical way without credit card?
If you give everyone a basic income, prices on certain goods will rise, but not nearly as much as to cancel the effect of the basic income. A basic income is just wealth redistribution from the rich to the poor. Relatively speaking the poor get a little richer and the rich get a little poorer.

If you give every person in Vietnam $1, then the poor people have a relatively higher percentage of all the money to spend than they had before. Hence the percentage of all goods and services going to the poor will also be a higher percentage of the total goods and services. This becomes even more apparent if you exaggerate the amount. What if you give all people on earth $1 trillion dollars? Now everyone is basically equally rich. Even though prices will rise massively, the total supply of goods and services going to the people who were previously poor increases a lot. (of course in practice such a massive basic income may completely destabilize a society)
The other (more traditional way) would be to address anything in plain JS and add special code to handle things for IE, rather than piping all browser through some abstraction layer.

(Same applies for other, non-UI-specific JS: Need Array.forEach()? Use it. Define Array.prototype.forEach() for legacy IE, rather than piping all browsers through "MyLib.forEach(myArray, function(item) {... })".)
Using Twitter Alerts
Well the banks might have to change their tune when >50% of their clients are using Tor. In fact, when security and anonymity are commonplace, most websites will have to reexamine their policies.
Looks like these military software licenses are cheaper than songs. $9000/song[1] vs $6000/user license.

[1] http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/minnesota-woman-order...
Bitcoin is the Economic Singularity (2011)
Its hard because it's easy to own and secure Bitcoins, but impossible to own money in USD, bank accounts or paypal. It's all a huge network of promises based on debt. When you transfer bitcoin, you really transfer ownership forever. When you transfer digital dollar, you just rely on a bunch of intermediate agreements to hold true unless judge decides another way. Paypal payments are reversible, CC payments too. Even bank wires can be reversed sometimes because it's still based on an agreement between banks. Even laws regulating these agreements are also promises to punish or reward people based on other people's decision.

Bitcoin is the only money you can really own. Other currencies are fragile and ephemeral.

http://blog.oleganza.com/post/67362431718/you-can-own-bitcoi...
They link to two competitors: Bitstamp (a direct competitor), and Coinbase (a semi-competitor).
Don't take it up with me, take it up with ck2. That's what his statistic (yummyfajitas and the Walton's have more wealth than the bottom 42%) is measuring.
If you know that the XML has been generated in a particular way, you can often beat any compliant XML server by employing knowledge of the exact structure.

E.g. you can sometimes skip over chunks of characters without every accessing them, and get speedups of magnitudes over even "just" checking every byte in the input.

There's nothing a faster proper XML parser can do about a custom parser like that.

(Obviously this is a brittle solution and a last resort optimisation, and should be accompanied by ample warnings, but sometimes there are no alternatives)
I agree the "send me differences" model is appealing. A version based off rsync was created back in 1999 but patents killed it. I think the patent in question runs out pretty soon though...

The Tragedy of the RProxy: http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/rproxy.html
Judging by your name,

http://www.bitonic.nl/

iDeal...
Please post articles in English only.
hiring managers would use it to convince people to take sub-100k wages. This pretty much happens already in progressive taxation countries(e.g. belgium) where you can actually make less money by having a higher salary because your tax-rate increases.
Do you honestly think that any programmer who works on Mt.Gox core product would have anything to do with this simple static information site?
List.js – Adds search, sort, and filters to HTML lists, tables
Thanks. In my top post when I asked about intra-modules optimizations I've naturally meant "compiler produced pre-linking object" modules, but after the discussion I've recognized that I totally missed that "already compiled objects loaded for execution" (i.e. .so or .dlls) are also an important feature for a language that intends to support seriously big projects.

Are there any plans for making ".so" modules in native Go?
The thing is, you can go on in life without understanding barely anything. That's one of the wonder of the modern life. You just need to be able to do enough arithmetics to buy stuff at the grocery and pays your bills and taxes.

For your uncle and friend, understanding something doesn't mean you feel it's going to apply to you. Road accident are not only a matter of physics but also a matter of statistics and risk calculation. Some people are reckless because they can't compute the probability of accident and often underestimate it, feeling that since they think they are good drivers it won't happen to them. Humans in general are bad at assessing risk, it's a very difficult matter.
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Actually, one of the points that I tried to make is that the amount of situations where you have to do that is remarkably small. You don't code a word processor every day. And, if you do need to do that, and you need to support more than a single language, you're talking about a rather complex, probably slightly fuzzy, major feature.

I bet the MS Word team that made internationalized search/replace spent a lot of time getting it even somewhat right.
At some point, that $12,000 you would receive turns instead into $12,000 you deduct from your taxes, so it all works out. There isn't a sudden step.
At the same time, seems like the credit industry was kind of asking for this kind of thing when they decided to muddy the waters by spin doctoring "credit card fraud" into "identity theft"
I can see where you're coming from, though I don't quite share your anger. Let me explain:

When Snowden did his revelation that was pretty much all we talked about. In fact, pretty much everywhere I go was full of the discussions. BBS, blogs, forums, you name it. We recounted where Snowden was at the time, whether he would escape the U.S., whether he would be granted asylum, and so on. The news was very high profile and (in)directly relating to the people, especially the developer community(the hackers, following your diction).

That's the nature of the high profile event. When something of interest happens you want to talk about it, do you grumble about its lack of diversity of topics? Sure, but the stuff was important and we talked about it.

I'm sure at least half of the so-called hackers, (I would prefer the term developers, but I digress) also either play a game, or more obviously, hired. A lot of us have been burned by bad employers and know at least a friend who's been exploited by such bosses.

PA, in this case, hits the two demographics in the center. They are one of the biggest presence in gaming industry and they showed themselves as an exploitive, abusive boss still pretending to be 'the good guys protecting the small'.

To me PA stands in a very bad books because they had a track record of hypocrisy, misogyny, and more importantly, bullying. This is just another record to be added, but you see why people would want to talk about it, and when they have a place to talk about it, sharing the same interests and same demography, they talk about it.

We are all people, and a BBS doesn't define the topics.
What to do when you fail and your day looks like a bad dream
Apple does the same with its display manufacturers.
Means testing is a lot of bureaucracy for less effectiveness. Giving everyone a basic income eliminates those issues.
Computational Creativity
Actually, while I do see what you are saying, I don't think it's that ridiculous. If they have a house with lots of equity they aren't included in this. If you have a negative net worth you aren't doing that great. If you happen to lose your job (like lots of people have over the last few years) now you are in an even worse situation than the guy with a dollar. Now you have no money, and lots of debt.

Having debt ("able to borrow the cost of a house") does not mean you have a negative net worth. It just means you have debt. Having 30k in credit card debt on the other hand...
According to this article, they were never trying to create Windows on ARM, just another locked-down walled garden a la the iPhone app store.
> Nope, I say make sure poor people have that basic income.
> You don't have to give it to everyone.

Then it's not a basic income. Giving it to everyone, period, is the defining characteristic of a basic income, and what makes it different than welfare.

Proponents believe it to be a superior model because it eliminates a lot of beaurocracy, bad incentives and paternalistic structures that communicate to poor people that they're inferior and might as well not even try to improve themselves.
Yup. Only one organization in the world has the resources and desire. I don't want a Google-run future.
I often find that most groups on a professional meeting don't stand too close together and if you step in a bit, those around you will move to incorporate you physically in their circle and, as a result, in their conversation even you haven't said anything not anyone said something to you. You can listen a bit, if you like the conversation you can join, if you don't there's no harm in stepping out again. Even if you don't know what to say, or you're shy, by physically becoming part of a circle, you've entered the conversation. There's no awkwardness.

Now, in you would try that in a close-knit group, you'd be seen as an intruder, imposter, or potentially danger (to the alpha of the group). Don't do that.
He's talking about a proper country, not the U.S.
I don't have a good answer for that as I no longer buy bitcoins. My methods from when btc were cheap will no longer work.
ok, but the article says that there is more images (btw, other media too), i.e. images make 50% of web page now and image size growth contibutes ~400KB out of ~900KB, images tend to change, given that top 1000 pages are dynamic, thus, no cache will help. Also I find it interesting that stylesheets are growing, given that css3 are more powerful now and IE6 is likely to be retired for most of these sites. What is interesting is what makes this "other" part? is it just webfonts or some media (also very cross-site cache friendly)?
I wouldn't go as far as calling it economic singularity. I would agree that it will take over as the currency of the internet. PayPal and others need to take notice now or be left behind in a market there created
The colors pass all the accessibility checks on foreground vs. background I've found. Maybe your monitor is a bit off
I used node to build other parts of the site - namely the blog, a link shortener, and a few APIs I wrote just for my own other projects.
I swear that's just what PHB said on last week's Dilbert.
> 2. Perhaps, although if they do something stupid with that money, they still need supporting - so you either let people go homeless / starve or help them (which creates a new layer of welfare)

Maybe. Even giving people food isn't reliable - some people will sell it for drugs. Sure, we'd probably still need some kind of emergency welfare system for those circumstances, but drastically reducing the size and complexity of the welfare system is a win, even if we don't eliminate it entirely.

> The goal posts will just be moved and the poverty line will be above the basic minimum everyone gets paid.

The point isn't to make the unemployed any better off than they are now. The point is to make the working poor better off, incentivize work more than it is presently, and reduce the overheads of the welfare system.
I often hear this argument, but it sounds wrong to me.
Benefits are cut when you start working, and resumed when you stop again.

Did you consider the fact that salaries WILL be lowered to compensate for BI ?

If BI is 1000, that 1200 paying job will become a 200 paying job... I just can't see where's the incentive to work. Who wants a 200 paying job when you get paid 1000 for just breathing ?
Do it abstractly. Nobody should know how your XML processor is getting its data, simply that it is an extremely brittle, extremely fast choice for one or two parse steps. If you can't pay for speed with brittleness then your bottleneck is unfixable.