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Basic Job will likely leave you little time to train in an area where you could be more productive for society. Basic Pay is designed to provide you the time to do that. Sure there has to be a bit of trust that you're going to not just sit on your arse, but very few people actually want to do that (despite what a lot of people think), and it's psychologically healthy to want to make the most of your life.

A lot of the comments here also ignore a lot of the factors that Basic Pay would provide which aren't directly measurable- increases to areas such as science and the arts which, while not tied to anything concrete like GDP or a country's economy, are indisputedly important to society.
why not just create a web lisp-interpreter?
I feel the same way about joining new online communities. Humans have highly evolved social instincts that make no sense in the world of the internet. Just tell yourself you are functionally anonymous and post anyways.
> Possibly ... 1. Non-sequitur 2. Racist/Bigotted/Sexist 3. Gratuitous Profanity ... etc

> If we really want to get clinical about this, we can simply use this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

That struck me as somewhat non-parallel. Racism, sexism, bigotry, and profanity aren't fallacies.
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It seems like a fallacy that if a comment isn't read and endorsed by users with over 1000 karma within a certain timeframe it will never be influential. Weren't most of the literary and artistic geniuses completely unappreciated by their contemporaries? We may not be a literary and artistic community, but I think the rule applies all the same.
The strategy is to get the largest tile in a lower corner, with the next biggest tile next to it, and then the next, across the bottom. Once you have the bottom row filled, concentrate on putting tiles into the next row which will match the ones on the bottom row. Initially, when the tiles on the bottom row aren't that big, you should concentrate on matching the biggest tile. But as that becomes too large, concentrate on matching the next biggest, then the next, and so on. Of course as soon as you do match a tile on the bottom, merge with it so the bottom row always contains the biggest possible value. This strategy ought to get you to 2048 within 3 tries if you don't make too many mistakes.
Hi Bliker,

Yes, it is a bit strange for programmer but maybe not for non-programmer: I wanted to be closed as possible to the data that people want to manipulate.

Extending existing language is for sure the easiest path but that means I will create something for programmer. That is not the idea.
"Back in 9/26/95, the Backspace key was mapped for go up one directory in Windows Explorer. This could be the reason why Microsoft also used the Backspace key on their IE for back/up a page. Of course, this is pure speculation on my part :)"

So this is leftover damage from Microsoft's bizarre campaign to fuse Internet Explorer with Windows Explorer? Why do I suddenly want to hurt someone?
Of course it has poverty traps. I live in the UK, where I get to see how the "workfare" programme creates poverty traps all the time.

If you want to get out of poverty, a good way to do that is by getting more education and practicing skills that are valuable to employers. A Basic Job often conflicts with that.

If you want to get out of poverty, a good way to do that is by taking part-time and piecemeal work to build up your experience. A Basic Job often conflicts with that.

A government study of workfare programmes in the UK, Canada, and US[1] concluded that: "There is little evidence that workfare increases the likelihood of finding work. It can even reduce employment chances by limiting the time available for job search and by failing to provide the skills and experience valued by employers."

Oftentimes the poor are those who most need to spend time taking care of children or the elderly -- types of work which are tremendously valuable to society despite not being part of the wage labour system. A basic job conflicts with that.

Furthermore, Basic Job programmes have vast bureaucratic overhead and are far more expensive to implement than Basic Incomes. What you consistently miss in your argument against Basic Income is that it is something which everybody receives. Most people contribute to it, but all people receive a benefit from it. The "cost" is not the total cost of the programme, but the difference between what you pay and what you receive.

1: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130128102031/htt...
Awhile ago there was a wonderful little post about the probability distributions of human lifespan. The distributions fall off super-exponentially with age. What this means is that chances of someone living past 130 without major medical intervention is astronomically small.

Even with medical intervention, it seems unlikely someone will live much past the 130 year barrier.

Link: http://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-w...
I use it all the time in Safari and love it.
In Chrome it's less obvious when it is being triggered though.
Because it would be cheaper to use a machine to build the bridge, give the money you save to the people, and then let them add value to society in some other way.
Hey! This thread isn't meant for ideas that are sane and would actually improve things. Please move on to another thread.
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Hmm interesting, never noticed the 'Lists' link before. Learn something new every day!
How do you propose that new algorithms become "widely used" if nobody should use them until they are "widely used"?
Depends how they implemented midi and the timers. If it's win32 MIDI API stuff and Win32 timers the messaging isn't real time so you will get jitter. That's going to be worse on win vista and above due to a number of issues.

If it uses ASIO MIDI back end it'll miss all the problematic message loops.

I only use SYSEX and use the Triton Studio sequencer though as its the most awesome thing ever made by man.
Do you think people will use it ? For instance, polish notation is difficult to understand.
It seems to me you're forgetting an important aspect of human psychology with this system. People generally don't like submitting to 'supervision', in what they feel should be free discussion. If you create an environment in which people feel they need 'permission' to post, then they simply won't.
Or at least, your average post will become more likely to be from an insensitive person, who doesn't care about such things as freedom of speech.

I think this change is a bad, bad idea, and will have subtle unintended but quite harmful consequences.

But of course, if the intent is to create a clique-controlled forum, in which only thoughts consistent with the majority views of long-established members can be seen, then this will probably achieve what you want.
Here's my one-word guide:

Don't.
There are already services which try to cater to "non-programmers", but they generally try to deploy a web version of a WYSIWYG editor.

I personally do like the idea, but I wonder if, in practice, it would end up being complex enough that it might as well be programming for the layman. Your listed examples already appear to incorporate string concatenation, arrays and booleans. You might have a difficult sell to non-technical people who are also looking at, say, Wix.
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Top 10 oldest men on record, all died at age 124.

One single person lived through that age to die at 128. Just 4 years more.

By age 124 your lungs can't take in enough Oxygen to produce required body heat.
And that's even less significant than having to wait for fake moderators to show up and approve or reject your comment.
Idea for pg: Consider preventing accounts under a certain age (and/or karma) submitting stories. The limit could be really low (say, 24 hours and/or 5 karma) and I'm guessing it'd knock off 90% of the spam/trash problem..?
My mother learned math in the French system in the 50s and it also stressed geometry.
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I'm by no means famous, but I have over 2.5x the karma requirement and very well understand your point.
There's an excellent article about this in the NYT:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-whe...
Comparing to M4 is somewhat of an apples to oranges comparison. M4 encompasses the money multiplier effect (e.g. assuming a reserve ration of 1:10, a bank receives 10 units of currency, keeps 1 in 10 units in cash, and lends out 9 units; the 9 units in circulation result in 0.9 units - 90% or 1:10) being deposited and still assuming a 1:10 ratio - a further 8.1 units being lent out, ad infinitum, or until they fall down the back of the sofa).

In particular, M4 includes liabilities of non-deposit taking financial companies (Other Financial Companies, or OFCs) which tend to be very active in repo (sale and repossession) markets with billions often in one transaction. OFCs include non-banking subsidiaries of banking groups - a trading subsidiary of a Highly Complex Financial Institution (HCFI, industry term) is likely not to have a deposit taking license (and this subsidiary, in theory, should not be bailed out; practice has proved different).

High powered money, or M0, or roughly Notes and Coin, is the best comparison. The latest edition of Bankstats http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/Pages/bankstats/de... , the Bank of England's monthly statistical release, shows ~68bn sterling outstanding at end January 2014 seasonally adjusted, and ~67bn non seasonally adjusted.

Still, my 0.015% is not a large number, even compounded over many, many, many years.

I also agree that as MV has to equal PY, perhaps the counterfeiters are doing a service! Monetary Easing for no minting / production costs!

QE finances itself by the government issuing debt purchased by a private buyer - liability issued and asset secured - the balance sheet balances. As purchases, the BoE issue cash (a liability) for purchase of gov't debt (an asset) - balance sheets again balance. Therefore, despite their charitable service, counterfeiters are procreating government debt for coin, and governments tend not to like this.

An interesting quirk in the UK that I'm not sure is present in many other countries or jurisdictions: The Mint (the producer of coins) has minting power independent of the Bank of England i.e. the Bank of England (the UK's central bank) cannot tell The Mint the mix or quantity of coins to, ahem, mint. They are completely different government entities with no power over each other (disclaimer: this was the case, circa 2005, the last time I checked).

My feeling on this particular story: All governments strive for a credible currency, and despite the alternate low % numbers you and I mention, is abhorrent to the idea of the public losing trust in it, even a little bit. Plus the budget could have appeared somewhat underwhelming to some, so why not have an easily digested story thrown into the mix to read with some tea and digestives.
A configurable/optional karma filter which defaults to enabled could be the solution since there are genuine concerns for and against this feature.

Unregistered users may have karma filter enabled by default so that hackernews doesn't give a bad impression to the general public due to low quality comments; and registered users can switch it on/off at their preferences panel, then it could be interesting to analize the stats and see how many and who use it.
Sweet, I can make comments that people can't see unless they're users who have X karma and agree with X opinion. So now I should just agree with everyone so I get X karma so I can make honest comments.

Great idea!
I am glad that someone is speaking up on their behalf, but I don't get your point. Have you spoken to each of these 47 million individuals? Are you one of them? Are you just letting your butt do the talking? We'll never know.
>> Not sure, but wouldn't basic income induce increased prices for commodities?

>Yes, it would be expected to shift the demand curve somewhat, because you'd be redistributing income to people with a higher propensity to spend, increasing demand.

Which also has the happy effect of raising money velocity int he system. By substantially reducing demand constraints you increase overall economic activity, push money through the system faster and grow the overall economy significantly. The economy doesn't work like a household budget; the affordability of this sort of measure is rather different from what one might otherwise expect.
I have been using my version of literate programming (markdown compiled with node : https://github.com/jostylr/literate-programming) for awhile now and I have to agree with him that it does become indispensable. I am already at the point that I can't imagine coding without it. Particularly now that I have embraced Vim and the fantastic outliner Voom.

Re-editable instead of reusable code struck me as right on target as well, though there is the issue of patches.

Thinking for oneself instead of following conventional wisdom seems one of the most important pieces of what ought to be conventional wisdom. It is a hard road to travel, though.
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What can they possibly do to prevent the state department to switch to Linux (except bribing some people)?
So, now that pg has killed HN, where do you guys suggest we gather ?
In before endorsement sales and Hacker News "gold".
This is going to be an interesting experiment.

I hope it addresses something I've noticed lately, something I refer to as "Poisoning the Well".

What I've seen again and again and again is that the first (highest rated?) comment on the thread is either negative or off topic. Discussion ensues. Lots of discussion. Screens of discussion.

Most of which is entirely irrelevant to the primary topic.

By the time I wade through that mess to get to the real discussion, I'm burnt. I can't imagine I'm the only one, it seems like the comments further below, while typically of much higher quality are fewer and farther between.

I wonder how often we collectively read the first thread, get frustrated, and move on. For me, it happens all too often.
Yeah, but the language is what it is. It's out there, it's in all the browsers, it's not going away.

Rather than just learn to idiomatically write code that uses the nice features of js while avoiding the bad parts; we have two totally different notations to learn. That only causes further fragmentation.
I think what you're saying might be true for "newer" sciences, but other fields, like physics, are stuck in older research models and only recently have been starting to warm up to the idea of sharing (but still very cautiously).
I suppose with 2.5k I'm one of the rich guys here. I would love to prevent what you describe as the rich getting richer, but the regulators will be regulated. If I don't do exactly as some superadmin wants, I'll be banned from comment approving myself. My only options seem to be, to put it bluntly, to become pg's bitch and do as the model requires, or get out.
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> But we were already there with .row an .col-md-3, what's the difference between this and a table ?
semantics? yeah right.

I think that's a reasonable position to hold and I'd like to hear more detail of your rebuttal.
You may be correct, but I doubt it's due to moderators abusing their power. HN has an automated moderation system that is pretty arbitrary. It applies pretty heavy penalties to articles that have too many comments, or posts with certain keywords (like "nsa" and possibly "bitcoin".) Plus there is a regular spam filter that might be less than perfect, and I don't think the posts it filters are shown '[dead]'.
This is great I'll be reading all day. Thank you.
It happens to me when I accidentally hit my laptop trackpad while I'm typing.
I do not agree that
"Combining income redistribution and decentralizing spending would solve poverty today.
"

I would argue more individual wealth that's based on

a) cumulative and legal earnings
b) penalty-free inheritance
c) a system that rewards individual greed
d) a system that rewards equal opportunity

would solve poverty today.

For that to work, though -- those have to be world wide rules. Making an individual country as a test ground will not produce repeatable results.

The above also has one more built in assumption -- vast majority of the people are 'good to other human beings' and act 'rationally'.

The definition of 'legal' is of course vague, but must be uniform across the world (not in individual country) and would include things like

a) equivalence of genders/race/religions/ethnic/disability/political/financial/marital/law-enforcement status in the eyes of a law and competitive bidding

b) law of contract

c) uniformly standardized legal language around contracts that does not require legal council to initiate and resolve disputes

e) criminal penalty system that treats qualified threat of a physical or financial harm, with 80% of equivalence to posterior event

(this it to prevent wide spread racketeering )

f) criminal system that requires non-cirmustantial/independently verifiable evidence to result in conviction

g) largely uniform across country criminal law
This is truly fascinating - a peek into the earliest thinking of arguably one of the greatest scientific minds who ever lived. It never ceases to amaze me that Newton, almost single-handedly and working all by himself pretty much laid the foundations for much of science for the next several hundred years. And in all likelihood, it all started with the thoughts he formulated while writing in this little notebook!
I agree that forced sharing of data is an absurd requirement. It would make sense if the data itself was attributable and citable, so that scientists can get recognition, citations and attribution when their data is being used by other studies and when these citations have the same kind of impact to their career as do article citations. Journals try to enforce data sharing because they want to maintain their position as arbiters of academic affairs.
And this is coming from a person who called the news "bullcrap".

This is a very sensitive issue and people have good reason to believe every hiccup is intentional.
Thanks for the extensive resp.
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If you have a background with a Computer Science degree, it makes it easier. One of the later courses in the program I had was assembly programming. Everyone said this was the class that weeded out people. I found it easy because there were only so many ways to do things and you really begin to understand how computers work at the lowest software level possible.

Once you have a basis of data structures, object-oriented programming, and an understanding of libraries in one area (say web programming with Java Servlets) then learning another language is just a matter of building something and reading the API docs as you go.

Try re-writing something not trivial but not overly huge to learn the differences between old and new. After a while they all look the same, regardless of how trendy or hip something might be.
Your data doesn't support your claim unless you mean that you can extend life into your 80's.

As for working out, consider the workout guru Jack LaLanne who managed to live to 96.

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

Of course, his brother Norman lived to be 97.
I actually knew Sam when he was a sophomore in college, and his writings strike me as an almost perfect illustration of the term "sophomoric": smart, overconfident, but at the same time immature and lacking in depth and perspective.

His arguments for arming himself smack of complete ignorance of the concept of the monopoly of physical violence[1], and without accounting for those theories (and their practical application in modern states), the whole argument is just vapid.

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewaltmonopol_des_Staates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
I don't want to sound mean but he's still <90years old. He can be ripped as much as you want, but until he at least pass the century, this article is pure speculation. Let's see how he fares in 20 years, then we discuss.

Then, being mean, what I see here is a narcissistic guy who's saying: "I'm so cool and I bet that with exercise I will survive until 130years. Everyone should worship to my phallus idol"

To which I would like to reply: lucky you in being fit and strong and cool and rich and yada yada yada. I hope the best for you, but still this will have a ludicrous scientific relevance.

And finally, to connect with the tabou article of before, there's some one else that think that maybe living longer is a problem and not a solution?
Here's what my opinion is on those questions. (I'm an Engineering student, web-developer in my free time).

1. I don't think it matters a huge deal which language you pick, as long as you choose a language that makes sense with the kind of project you want to launch.
If your project is web-based (a web-app or service) you'll need to learn html, css, javascript (jQuery will get your pretty far without needing a very good knowledge of javascript and there are tons of examples you can use). But those will pretty much only help you with the front-end (so you'll still need a language that runs on the server and deals with data, sessions, basically doing stuff that cannot be done in the browser of the user.) There you can go with Python, PHP, Ruby, Javascript (nodejs)... of course I could give my opinion which to start with but I'm doing this too long to have an idea how long each of them takes to learn looking at your time-frame. And if you've never done programming you'll have to take time to understand why and how certain techniques work that frameworks use such as MVC.

If your project is going to be an iOS app the most logical way to go is with objective C.

2. I've bought a Macbook Pro 13" 2 years ago, upgraded with 2*8GB ram, 120GB SSD and a caddy for my 500GB HD, and it still runs very very well for development. Mac-apps tend to "just work" most of the time, and as OSX is based on unix most of the tools that will run on a server will work perfectly on OSX. The only limitation you get from going with mac is most games don't work on OSX but that's perfect as those only distract you from learning/working.

For iOS development Xcode (which only runs on OSX as far as I know) is the best you can get and most tutorials you'll find will be working with xcode. For ruby I've heard it's a bit annoying on a windows environment but whenever you go with OSX or Linux doesn't matters.

3. I think 3-4 months isn't going to be enough, perhaps others think otherwise but I think you'll need at least 4 months to get stuff done in the language you're learning and only than you'll be able to start working on your MVP.

4. That will depend on what language you're starting out with. Something I think can help a lot is knowing someone you can ask questions to while learning/building your MVP when you come across problems you cannot solve yourself or don't know how to go on from where you're at.
I was hoping to read about some really expensive treatment he was receiving.
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> You invest in a promise that may or may not be reality

I don't think cryonics organisations promise that you will eventually be revived. They promise to try, and they probably think there's a higher chance of it happening than most people do. (But perhaps not higher than most people who pay for cryonics.)

With that in mind, the structure you describe is "pay someone to try to do something that might not work", which also describes investing in startups and any number of other things.

Your objection here is that you don't think cryonics will work. That's a reasonable objection, but the way you're framing it is uncharitable.