skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one real world example we have, of Dauphin, suggests this is not the case at all.

A final report was never issued, but Dr. Evelyn Forget conducted an analysis of the program in 2009 which was published in 2011. She found that only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less. Mothers with newborns stopped working because they wanted to stay at home longer with their babies, and teenagers worked less because they weren't under as much pressure to support their families, which resulted in more teenagers graduating. In addition, those who continued to work were given more opportunities to choose what type of work they did. Forget found that in the period that Mincome was administered, hospital visits dropped 8.5 percent, with fewer incidences of work-related injuries, and fewer emergency room visits from car accidents and domestic abuse. Additionally, the period saw a reduction in rates of psychiatric hospitalization, and in the number of mental illness-related consultations with health professionals.[0]

We know that poverty is extremely stressful, and stress leads to all sorts of other negative things. However, there's little evidence showing that poverty provides upward pressure. If we can remove the stress of poverty, people are allowed to start functioning normally.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
Google’s $10 method for scaling apps from zero to a million requests per second
Can they? (This is an actual technical question...)

I was under the impression that they couldn't. But yeah, it's shocking that people idolize the core devs even though they set up a failing system. My best idea I think was to set up a cryptocurrency that is 1:1 with the dollar, therefore if you need to print more you do it by well... putting some $$ in the vault and dumping the equivalent amount of units into the ecosystem.

Bitcoiners seem to hate the idea of using the dollar for stabilization though. It's an affront to the power of imagination and the aforementioned "anarcho-capalistic wet-dream".

Incidentally, Ripple seems to be an implementation of what I'm interested in. Yet for SOME GODDAM REASON I DO NOT UNDERSTAND, their internal cryptocurrency (XRP) has some dumbass dispersement scheme too.

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
>Don't give them money if you don't want them to have it.

So you want to make the system optional? If so, how would it be different from somebody simply setting up a charity?

Your second statement is pretty bold. I am not necessarily disagreeing but nobody knows what the effects of a system like that would be because we've never tried it.
He fairly specifically says that interpretations such as yours are wrong. He specifically says:

* No, the conditions are not awful...I love this company

* No one here has been scammed into working as hard as they do, and
the implication that we’re all blind fools with low self esteem for being here is honestly insulting.

* There won’t be any taking advantage of starry-eyed young twenty-somethings.

He explains why he's leaving directly and clearly, (including "No, I did not burn out.") and that he likes working there. You're assuming he's lying, which you can't know.
My ability to invent and create is limited by my education. If I never got one in the first place because I had my basic needs met, there are quite a few things I could never do that I could now. And 'worth a try' on something this potentially disruptive needs more evidence than wants and feels for me to ever consider it viable. I don't think I'm alone.
> I feel like PNaCl is the technically superior approach - define a stable set of LLVM bytecode and build an interface to run it in the browser.

I don't agree. I think that LLVM bitcode was not really designed for this either [1]. Google has not succeeded in eliminating all of the undefined behavior from LLVM [2]. At least asm.js has a fully defined semantics as specified by ECMA-262. For any hope of interoperability between browsers, that's critical. Things like order of iteration of properties were once left undefined by ECMA-262, but pages began to rely on Netscape's behavior and other browsers had to reverse engineer what Netscape did. Eventually they were added to the standard. Likewise, without all the undefined behavior removed from PNaCl, anyone who wanted a separate implementation of PNaCl would have to reverse engineer what Chrome did.

There is also the issue of compilation speed: asm.js was designed to compile quickly by a backend that doesn't do much optimization. LLVM, on the other hand, was optimized for -O2, which compiles much less quickly. PNaCl at -O0 is far worse than either V8 or OdinMonkey. On the Web, compilation speed matters a lot.

I think an actually technically superior approach, if backwards compatibility were not a concern, would involve:

1. A from-scratch, untyped, non-SSA bytecode, basically an isomorphism to asm.js. All operations would have fully defined semantics. This would yield fast compilation without the JavaScript syntax and would be amenable to multiple backends, like LLVM or V8.

2. A mechanism for providing a C binding to WebIDL-based Web APIs. This would eliminate the necessity of Pepper and would mean that any new Web APIs would instantly be available to native code.

PNaCl, unfortunately, is neither of these. asm.js isn't either, but I think it's closer to this ideal than PNaCl is.

[1]: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/0437...

[2]: http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/pnacl/stability-of-the-...
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This seems to me a typical US response. Let me give you a perspective from the rest of the world. I've lived for years in multiple countries on multiple continents, so I'm not just talking out my backside.

In the rest of the world, the poor people vote for health care, welfare, and unemployment insurance. This is because they want that safety for themselves if something goes wrong. They recognize that these programs are largely insurance. They pay into them in the expectation that most of the time nothing goes wrong, and they're not getting their moneys worth.

But when something does go wrong, the insurance is there to help them. In that situation, they get far more out of it than they put in.

Their decision to pay insurance is a rational one, based on cost/benefit analysis. It's the same as your decision to buy life insurance, or fire insurance on your house. (Car insurance is usually mandated, so I'll ignore that...)

Sure, there are scammers. But the scammers of these programs are individuals. Their impact is limited. The scams done by corporations, and people with the right connections far outweigh the scams done by Joe Average on welfare.

In the US, the poor people vote for no health care, no welfare, and no unemployment benefits. They also vote for lower taxes on the rich (corporate, inheritance, etc.). They claim this attitude is because they don't want idiots on welfare spending MY money.

You might be well intentioned, but the rest of the world thinks your approach is crazy. Not "Gosh, that's crazy!". But "We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty by reason of mental defect".

The disparity between rich and poor in the US has grown enormously in the past 20 years. And it's all because the average joe has bought a line of horse twaddle about "independence" and "welfare mom living off of MY money".

The rich people who've sold you that crap are laughing all the way to the bank. And Joe Average is left wondering why he's doing everything he's told... and is still poorer than his parents.
> When it will be as easy to buy a bitcoin as it is to buy, say, an ebook, it will go up significantly.

In the UK many banks refuse to process transfers to known Bitcoin-related accounts. PayPal and Transferwise likewise.

Once they stop trying to protect their vested interests then purchasing Bitcoins will become significantly easier.

Halifax and Nationwide are two that do not impose this block, but there's still the 25 UKP transfer fee
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Kiosks let travelers swap their leftover change for Bitcoin
At least in the short term the media likes large numbers, Bitcoin gets more exposure and thus more users.
This is very much an annoying off topic observation, but seeing this title makes me think:

'Algorave' Is the Future of Dance Music (if You're a True Scotsman)

Why can't we just have it be the future of Dance music, why does it have to be "if you're a Nerd".
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I was surprised that there wasn't a dip when it hit 1000, I'm sure that there must have been quite a few people will sell orders at this round, but arbitrary point. If this was the case there would have been some dip, is it just being overly inflated by some rich backers who are slowly taking the cash out, but backing it up when it dips ?
Exchanging BTC for LTC is the better option.

But https://litecoinlocal.org/ is good for small-medium transactions.
Sure. I added it for you :)
Everytime I read a Ruby version announcement/explanation, it reminds me that I've been a coder working and thinking exclusively in English, but my current programming language of choice is prominently steered by non-English speakers...and somehow things work pretty peachy. But it always makes me wonder how much more in-depth and richer the discussion of Ruby amongst its Japanese maintainers, before they translate it for us in English?
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I'm sure many would be happy to watch tv all day long. But likely a majority would want to do something with their lives.

If we were to do a program like this it should also include free birth control and even the option to sell reproductive rights. I've seen Idiocracy and while it is hyperbolic, I think there are elements of truth there.
We treat Bitpay transactions the same as any other in terms of fees/pricing. There's a 1% or 2% transaction fee on plans with lower monthly fees, but those are waived if you use Shopify Payments for credit card acceptance (even on Bitpay transactions).

A better breakdown can be found here: http://www.shopify.com/pricing
.singles? Really?

How much for kraft.singles? Come on, these gTLDs are a joke.

I have always been a staunch opponent of new gTLDs, because phishing and the like are bad enough as is. In addition to that, now we expect another gigantic troll tax of $165 x 14 + $165 x (however many new shitty gTLDs they can landgrab) for every large company that needs to defend its trademarks? What a clusterfuck.
Quitting eating outside was one of the best things I've made.

If I can install Rails 4 then I can prepare the best Curry Chicken out there. I eat more for less money and cooking became part of my hobby that helps to distress a lot.

Also, I was noticing my daily diet was based on the same quantity of dishes, what I meant was: trying different dishes wasn't normal, I hanged out always to the same places with the same menus, at the end eating a different thing was rare.

I go dinner around 2 times a month just to eat those things that are really hard to prepare: sushi, etc.
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This is an extremely ignorant statement to make. Providing for yourself financially is easy if you have the right situation: support structure, upbringing, experience, opportunity, geography, luck, and attitude + thought process that is the typical result of all of those things. Your experience with getting an income leads you to think it is "pretty much adulthood 101" but there are no universal truths when it comes to this sort of thing.
Odd, I have a Nokia N9 with Meego in front of me, works perfectly and was cheaper than a similar Android phone. I'm completely aware of this family problems, but you can't say that it hasn't delivered.

The Jolla devs have promised a guide for installing Sailfish OS in this phone, so I will happily make the switch when they publish it.

We are in Hacker News, today you can't find a more hacker-friendly OS for your phone (well, maybe Firefox OS is on par, I haven't used it). I think that's what the parent was talking about.
Real-world cryptography often doesn't have security definitions, e.g. AES. In parts that is because security definitions tend to be asymptotic (which is a massive simplification), and real cryptography is working at a fixed parameter. Coming up with a good security definition is hard, the 2013 Turing award was given for one. I think it will take a long time before we get a realistic security definition for Bitcoin.
Just compare it to the Nexus 5 at the same price point. Half the memory, probably lower res screen, the sd card slot is great but I don't think it justifies a $100+ price premium.

I'd rather see Nexus 5's flashed with Ubuntu Phone / Plasma Active / Tizen / Sailfish than all these companies trying to batch order hardware of their own that never has the economies of scale Google could pull off.
How would minimum basic income free us from a welfare state?

What happens when your $50,000 in medical bills is greater than your $27,000 in annual income (or whatever it happens to be), and you elected not to purchase insurance with your money? Serious question, not meant at a dig against this proposal, because I am genuinely curious as to how it would be handled.
I don't have to read much between the lines to interpret a strangled reference to losing at pingpong as a more literal expression of his status.

He posted this on his current employer's public forum, after all.
my god man another one? People need to stop investing in theseeeeeeeee.

If you see rapid price fluctuation

> !currency && failure && pyramidscheme

true
About 5 of us left incredulous comments in response to the line "live HTML coding" - you can still see this in the URL I believe.
Very nice execution
It seems you'd get more folks w education, not less, if they weren't starving.
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... And they got it right. The employee confirmed what was in the job posting and what people had issues with (so many different roles, ridiculous hours, low pay, etc).

It's not that hard:

Want a programmer? Hire one.

Want a web developer? Hire one.

Want a system administrator? Hire one. Hire two if you have any type of 24/7 on call requirement (it's not remotely reasonable to expect one individual to be on call 24/7 365).

Then unless you want to get sued, set reasonable expectations of hours (2x full time is not reasonable).
This is most noticeable for me when using VLC and there doesn't seem to be a specific set of actions that prevent the ghost menubar from displaying. I end up just doing random actions (click different desktops, unfullscreen -> refullscreen) and hope the ghost disappears.
Yes, I did, and you did not provide a single example. You just said "“oh see, I can run some examples from page just fine. So everything's all right, I've got full Unicode!".

Taking the time to actually prove your point it useful. However, your recent example seems to be running fine on Python 3.3. You did not include any version info in your example output.

Python 3.3.0 (default, Mar 11 2013, 00:32:12)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> "öo̧"[1:]
'o̧'
>>>

I haven't run across any situations where Python 3.3 is doing wrong, which is why I am asking for some examples.
If you are in the US, use CoinBase I don't even know why people even consider using Mtgox.
Is there a problem simply using the version of git that comes with Cygwin? Seems to work for me.
He says the conditions are not awful, then describes awful conditions. He says he's not leaving because he burned out, and then describes when he burned out.

He very obviously loves the company, but it's not a healthy love.
When I was a kid, my mom's poor friends would buy us groceries with their surplus food stamps, and my mom would pay them back in cash so they could actually pay their bills.

Does anybody know if this is still possible/prevalent these days with EBT/Link cards?
It's more accurate to say "increasing prices lead to higher adoption." It's a classic bubble. Remember in the early 2000s with people buying houses because "house prices have never gone down nationally?"
Nice first troll, but we troll about 2 irony-levels deeper around here. Establish a persona and then slowly interject believable bait for maximum care responses.
> The iPhone wasn't vaporware as it was never officially mentioned before it was released.

iPhone was announced on January 9 2007 and went on sale June 29 the same year.
Ideally the income level is below "Owns 42" flatscreen, can go to anything more expensive than McDonald's, owns latest xbox, owns other luxury goods" such that people are no longer living in poverty, but still have motivation to excel beyond their current situation.

Unfortunately, if you hand someone with poor money management skills a bunch of cash, they may end up with all of those luxury items & no food on the table.
Here are a few to get you started: http://www.scottcowley.com/blog/algorithm-based-content-aggr...
Then and now of tech IPOs ...
A terrific author whose philosophical work informs his fiction, but not in a heavy handed or didactic way. I only wish there were more novels.

If you haven't read anything by him, I'd start with In the Name of the Rose. The beginning is a little tough to get into, but if you persevere you are amply rewarded (in the afterwords it is disclosed that this was a deliberate literary choice, I won't spoil it by explaining the rationale, but it does make sense). Foucault's Pendulum is the magnum opus.

Edit: after In the Name of the Rose I'd probably go with Baudolino, but FP is a valid choice as well.
The IRS already collects if points are gifted with a valuation of $600 or more [1]. However, the conventional loyalty program is not a taxable event because it is treated as a rebate tied to a repeated series of sales events.

There are also many other factors in play that you haven't mentioned. The airlines, hotel and rental car companies run special loyalty programs for travel department heads and C-level execs at large customers with a lot of travel needs. These business customers get steep discounts, but push huge volumes (in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and up range) of bookings each week through their preferred vendors. The reward points systems are a lot more attractive at these more rarefied levels than what the traveling public (or corporate rank and file) has access to. I would be surprised if the decision-making didn't take these perquisites into account at least informally during negotiations.

[1] http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/irs-taxable-inco...
i can't even begin to know what the fuck a 'volunteer' Enforcer is, especially for a profitable company. sounds like a 20 foot pile of horse shit.

Why don't you try using Google and looking it up before angrily speculating?

The Enforcer system is what the use at Penny Arcade Expo. It's a volunteer system to help run the event, and in return you get to attend things when you're not on the roster. It's no different to all sorts of roles, be it grad students being a student volunteer to attend a conference (and if you want to talk about underpaid, grad student is where it's at) or teenagers picking up trash after the Glastonbury Music Festival.

No-one is being pressganged into being an Enforcer, it sounds like a pretty sweet gig to me.
U.S. flip-flops on U.N. online privacy protections it originally criticized
Koichi is gives some of the best presentations. It is hard enough to be funny in one language, yet to be funny and understandable in two is quite an accomplishment. If you're ever at a Rubyconf, go to his talks. Also love the speed work he's been doing with generational GC. For a primer, Pat Shaughnessy has a great talk you should check out, also Ruby Under a Microscope is a good dive into Ruby.
The study is interesting, but it was performed in Canada in the 1970s. I would be interested in seeing it performed now in the various 'target markets', with so many more distractions available, especially ones targeted at the teenager who just reached working age (i.e., video games). I really believe we would see different results.

EDIT: I play a few video games, hence why I know how distracting they are. Speaking of distractions, I should get back to work...
Or they immediately bough more bitcoin to replace the bitcoins they used. Or they had so many bitcoins that they're happy with the price rise and the purchases were insignificant.

Unless all of your wealth is already in Bitcoin then buying something with bitcoin isn't really any different than not buy butcoins with your other currency.
You probably had a pretty good upbringing, right? I don't mean private schools and butlers. I mean school and parents that could provide a roof over your head and enough food to sustain you.

Not everyone has that upbringing. Not having that upbringing is strongly correlated with living a life of poverty.

In our system, some people start out with a significant disadvantage. Was it their fault? Of course not, they were born there. So why should they be punished because of which parents they had?
Awesome, thanks for letting me know. Time we revisited BTC payments then! :)
You had guts. Most people don't have that. You have perseverance. Most people don't have that either. You also have your health, you have a great wife, and it sounds like your family is healthy as well so that's a few big things that most people don't have.

You also haven't failed yet until you stop trying.

Houses are also never really anyone's until they fully pay it off anyways. In most cases, people are just renting from banks. I don't feel that you really lost anything aside from property taxes.

That said, it doesn't hurt to regroup and get a normal gig for some time. I don't think there's any shame with moving in with either your parents or hers for a bit.

Maybe next time you get the fever, aim for starting an equivalent of a "small restaurant" first before something much bigger. i.e. have a day job and work on your project at nights and weekends.
And I see they deleted all of those, including some interesting discussion of the merits of Haskell, Processing, etc. Poor form on Vice's part, in my view.
Or first ever truly global, internet-powered Ponzi Scheme, which is very interesting to watch.
How are they determining which sites are the 1 million most popular sites? I hope it's not by some useless metric like Alexa Rank or something like that.
As far as I can see from a completely outsider perspective, the Maemo / Meego / Jolla team have always been severely under-resourced, have always been the underdog and have always deeply suffered from the political turmoil happening above their head while they were at Nokia.

One thing they have never been however is vaporware. They have always delivered. And what they've delivered, particularly with Meego, was superb. Meego was especially impressive given that in the last few months before its release, they had for all intent and purpose already been fired from Nokia. That they managed to pull together, keep working on it and release something of that caliber when they knew that Meego had no future at Nokia is pretty incredible.

It's obvious that Jolla is extremely unlikely to ever go mainstream. But that's not the point. They're clearly a team of talented, passionate and persistent hackers that can create products that manage to be delightful to use, open source and very hackable. That's why I find the lack of interest from the HN community, which is usually all over these type of projects, to be surprising.
We're trying to figure out better ways to do this. For now if you know about where you left off you can do something like this:

http://hello.processing.org/editor/#shapes-4:20