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A human level AI could kidnap you, put you into a simulation like that and you wouldn't know.

Depending on what morality we put into the AIs it may choose to do so.
Sorry, I didn't mean to deride the title. I think the article was based on a good idea (Star Trek is post-scarcity and people will read articles on Star Trek), but went down the rabbit hole trying to justify its title (by dwelling on analysis of Star Trek, which is a hopeless task).

I think a better approach would be to look at markets that are already post-scarcity or approaching post-scarcity. E.g. entertainment, many kinds of information, and software. What happens when the price of things gets so low that the cost becomes finding the thing you want rather than getting access to it?

In the world of open source (which isn't post-scarcity, but is similar in that people do stuff for "free" and so they aren't incented by money) we see what I refer to as the "economy of interestingness" where things programmers are interested in get lots of attention (3d game engines, web browsers, programming languages, editors) while things programmers don't care about are horribly neglected (e.g. accounting software, email clients)
That was really a throwaway line tacked onto the end. You could try reading the rest of the comment.
Ncp: Crazy Fast, Crazy Simple, Cross-platform File Sender
Yes, that is with high certainty, but not 100%. We'll fix the messaging hear - thanks for flagging. Also, it's interactive so you can change the weights and see what happens
When I read this the last time it came up, I suspected that the author was walking around the edges of the Basic Income hypothesis. Theory being you can be "poor" forever (income provided for basic shelter, food, and medical attention. And anything else you want you have to work for. The basic tenant being that everyone is funded into a reasonably safe life, even people who are working. Being paid a salary is 'bonus' on top of the basic allotment.

At which point you can eliminate minimum wage and labor unions. The question of course is whether or not anyone would do some of the jobs we cannot currently outsource to robots.
2 years ago I was looking into the VC culture here in Brazil but all I kept hearing was that investors were looking for "Local Innovation" which is a pretty way of saying "Just clone sucessful US startups" and that the only risk they would take would be that making sure something like Groupon worked in our local market.

Did that change at all? If I'm looking to create the next crazy idea my only option is to either rellocate or bootstrap.
Ask HN: Programming Literature that's Valuable Sans Computer
I've been pining for some good books or articles on programming that I can read while I'm away from a computer and still get value out of. Every now and then I find a good one on the front page of Hacker News, eg the Functional Reactive Programming intro [0], but I want more. Any suggestions?

0: https://gist.github.com/staltz/868e7e9bc2a7b8c1f754
Thanks for catching - for now you'll have to view it in Chrome.
> Why does he have to pay for the space? The Federation is post-scarcity.

Deep Space Nine is not Federation property, however - while it is only administrated by the Federation, it remains the property of the Bajorans. Presumably, payment for use of space is part of the arrangement with the Bajoran government.

> Star Trek doesn't bear up to any economic analysis. It's not even worth trying.

I can't beat Tetris, either.
Wow, I guess my last post was unpopular here. Look into "Manual Underwriting" its definitely possible to get a mortgage without a FICO store.

My problem withe the FICO score is that it is not an indicator of financial stability. Its entirely based off of debt. If someone wants to live debt free, which most would argue is a great position to be in financially, you're actually punished by FICO. The system is broken, and everyones obsession with the FICO score just feeds that broken system.

If more people did things like Manual Underwriting, and tried to live debt free I think it would drastically help the entire system.
Was a whole subplot of Arrested Development Season 4 (Netflix season).
"Meanwhile, Barclays was advertising LX to high-frequency traders by offering them more information, lower fees, and faster connections than it gave to institutional investors."

Whether intentional or not, it sounds like they built a combination public swimming pool / alligator farm.

Marc Andressen recently penned a screed that made the rounds about how Sarbox and friends have killed the IPO. He's not wrong there. IPOs are happening much later and less frequently because of regulation.

Where he's wrong is... well... he's basically like a resident in a high crime neighborhood asking why all the shops have bars on their windows. It's driving away business after all! Let's take those bars off the windows...

But as soon as you do that, you get a smash and grab the next night. Sorry Marc, but there's bars on the windows because the neighborhood is full of thugs.

The ultimate problem -- and the ultimate thing that has killed the IPO -- is that the financial system is full of glorified white collar street hustlers who look at markets as something to bust out for short term profits.

Like the proverbial bad neighborhood I think the only solution might be to move out. I can see technologies like Bitcoin and systems like crowd funding as the embryonic beginnings of a new financial system with greater intrinsic transparency and with cryptographic authentication baked in from the get-go. Perhaps, with that added transparency, it'll be possible to engineer in a fundamentally better security model to discourage predation.
we're so close to understand that we're slightly different for each other, and bio-self-analytics will show us this. we just need 2 or 3 years more. to hack us.
In Orange County at least, they also have a system that takes sewage water and purifies it into clean water [1].

1 - http://www.gwrsystem.com/
I've been quite impressed with Matt Levine's articles. Also, while I realize that Bloomberg probably exerts zero editorial control over View, I've been quite happy with Bloomberg's Wall Street coverage as of late.
If you accept the ability for people to travel to and live on other bodies in the solar system, it's very plausible to assume that people can move between star systems, without any scifi stuff like warp drives or wormholes.
I don't see myself using something like this under any circumstances. I would just make my own database and call it myself.

It's not really a static site once you have dynamic content on it.
You are right, I responded to my interpretation.

That being said, the trading desks on the buy side are, for the most part, not very sophisticated at all. They are dealing with the same evaporating liquidity as the sell side, but they have far less ability to manage it. They are utterly reliant on the tools their brokers offer - tools which are generally very good (algos, and dark pools). In this case they are guilty of naivety perhaps, but it's nativity born of desperation. Barclays did directly say, "no predatory flow." At some point, even on the street, you have to believe direct statements made by your counter parties.

Later I'm enjoying this; I have to run to a meeting unfortunately. Sorry :)
Not that much, but the landscape looks a little better now in that sense, since a lot of local copycats failed.
So, having worked with Ramsey trainers and Ramsey disciples, and having worked (in a very cursory manner) with the program myself, most of what he teaches falls into three categories: 1. I lack self-control or 2. I lack basic math skills.

I've also noticed that without Dave, those that strictly adhere to his program have an incredibly difficult time making money and budget decisions on their own.

A credit score can save you money in the long run. Very few people can pay cash for a vehicle or a home. Better credit scores allow you to reduce these payments and interest in small fashions.

Also, while a credit score is a measure of how well you handle debt, why not get a good one? Charge gas, groceries and regular incidentals, pay it off every month. Get a card with cash-back, and earn free money for spending you would already be doing.

Credit isn't a devil out to destroy your life. Like anything else, it's a tool to be used appropriately.
I meant, aside from those holes. Should have elaborated better.
I've worked at one of the first B2B SaaS to launch here in Brazil, back in 2008. Get in touch and I'll be glad to answer questions regarding the challenges you're expected to face here.
I know. They should.
(Shameless plug) I wrote this blog post in october, based on numbers from numbeo: http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2013/10/why-ill-never...

I treated the subject of quality of life from the subjective perspective of a software developer (big salary in a country with small income - the average net income in romania is around 400 eur)
It's perfectly suited to the modern smartphone world, developers aren't obligated to launch on every platform at once. You could potentially end up spending three or four times as long covering all the bases and end up with a product no one cares about, rolling out on one platform and seeing what level of demand you have it's a sane and sensible approach.
So the unemployed & collecting welfare are the most useful to society?
http://www.quantopian.com let's you paper trade using algorithms if that's what you're after
Matt Levine is awesome. Thanks for sharing. He's also the world kingpin of footnotes. It's almost as if he's a frustrated academic who needs to hide his humor in citations.
Towards the end of the nap, very slowly and deliberately count up to 20

How do you do this while you are asleep? Or do you mean do this after you wake up?
apparently, correlation is equal to causation[1]

[1]entire article
Ok, a few points.

1) most institutional clients don't necessarily want to trade in a dark pool, their orders are just routed there by the broker's smart order routers. You would be very surprised how many huge funds don't do post trade analysis.

2) the dark pool operators make money from the HFT's not in terms of the commission, but in terms of collocating fees, market data fees, and the right to be one of only a few HFTs allowed in the dark pool via collocating, ie exclusivity.

The boat loads of money was maybe an akward of stating it. To match a trade you need people on both sides of the trade. The HFTs were the missing piece the other side of the trade. WIthout them no trades, hence no money. With them, you trade more... alot more, which leads to the boat load of money that starts following when the HFTs come in.

I may have a biased view as I'm on the buy side but not on the HFT end of things:)
Maybe they already have done this. Judging by my own experience, the dictation in iOS 8 is significantly more accurate.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2670673/Vatican-Many...
The actual paper http://www.ademloos.be/sites/default/files/meccano_docs/The_...
Yes but you get higher and higher scores in Tetris.

Presumably the post scarcity Federation could simply build its own arbitrarily large and luxurious DS9 next door to it. In any event, space isn't likely to "cost" anything.
The problem is the ingrained definition of efficiency. If people are happy and the society is moving forward culturally and scientifically, I'd say that's an efficient society; but american capitalism has a built-in definition that isn't necessarily tied to those values. It so happens that because of dynamics of the markets and people, it's had a pretty good alignment with the former values (when coupled with western democracy) -- cruically, better than the comunism alternatives -- but it's becoming clear we can do better with a more engineered approach specially in low scarcity scenarios.
We are in agreement that there are better and worse uses of credit. We are probably neither of us about to graduate college, however. Hence my question was why the OP wanted credit.
"This discourages people from taking interest in the lives of others."

This is a bad thing?
My HN and Reddit karma keep growing, too :P
rayiner,
My ex husband often went to work on 4 to 6 hours of sleep. He was career military and he had some sleep issues. On weekends, he would stay up late and by Sunday night he could not sleep before midnight or 2:00 am. And by Wednesday, it was not at all uncommon for him to fall asleep on the couch either right after eating dinner or in the middle of eating (or, sometimes, before eating) because he was so short of sleep and exhausted. And he often had no idea he was that tired. He often was surprised that he fell asleep on the couch.

I was very recently talking to my son about how much more of a life my ex had than coworkers of his who required more sleep and who, thus, basically went home, ate dinner and went to bed most nights while he came home and watched TV, played games, pursued hobbies, etc. And I kept finding myself saying stuff like "so he did all this extra stuff and it's not like he had accidents on the job because of it...um, actually he did have that car wreck...but it's not like he maimed himself...um, actually, he has chronic back problems and is retired from the army on partial disability and has a handicapped sticker for his car..."

Some people who are sleeping less than you do not actually need less sleep and are not actually functioning better. They just have sleep disorders. They muddle through as best they can and they may be paying a price they don't realize because probably no one is going to ever say my ex was in that car wreck due to lack of sleep and, thus, has chronic back problems due to lack of sleep (because that accident, among other things, is part of why he has debilitating back problems).

I can't prove his sleep issues caused any of those things. But I do know how much more clumsy I am when I did not sleep well or did not sleep enough. I do know how much more productive I am when I sleep both well and enough. So I can infer that there is very likely a relationship between some of the bad things that happened to him and his chronic sleep issues. Our oldest son has similar sleep issues and I know our lives are so much better now that, most nights, he typically sleeps pretty well because we worked hard on resolving the underlying causes.

/Anecdata.
I thought this was a decent tutorial, but I'm a bit annoyed at the double-click bit. Yeah sure, you can implement some form of double-clicks in 4 lines of code, but it behaves badly. And since the tutorial glossed over it, I have no idea if this is just because the author doesn't realize they implemented a really bad click system, or because it takes a lot more than 4 lines of code to do it right and the author didn't like that so chose to ignore it.

Notably, the single-click stream has a built-in 250ms delay before the click is fired. That's bad. Similarly, the double-click has a built-in 250ms delay even if the user clicks twice within 100ms. In fact, it's not just a 250ms delay from the first click; it's a 250ms delay from the last click before it finally emits the event.

That's a completely unusable way of doing clicks. If that's how you do clicks in FRP, then that's a serious issue with FRP. I have to assume there's a better way, and I'd really like to see it.

The correct behavior is to emit a click event immediately upon a click, but to remember recent history and associate a click count with the event based on whether there are recent clicks. So if I click 7 times in a row at sufficient speed, I should get a click event for every single one, getting 1x through 6x clicks before finally getting the 7x click on the last one.
Well, sure, the article doesn't fully describe the intricacies of the situation... but neither do your anecdotes.

But nevertheless, the study mentioned in the article does show that building more roads does not make traffic better:

> "[the researchers compared] the amount of new roads and highways built in different U.S. cities between 1980 and 2000, and the total number of miles driven in those cities over the same period. “We found that there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship,” said Turner. If a city had increased its road capacity by 10 percent between 1980 and 1990, then the amount of driving in that city went up by 10 percent. If the amount of roads in the same city then went up by 11 percent between 1990 and 2000, the total number of miles driven also went up by 11 percent. It’s like the two figures were moving in perfect lockstep, changing at the same exact rate."
The Spurt of Joy.India's Successful launch of PSLV C23 today
I'm hopeful for that, too. Many of the qualms with the preliminary libressl ports revolve around (IIRC) the lack of exploit mitigation features in the operating systems being ported to; perhaps a proper port would be yet another encouragement for those features to be implemented in non-OpenBSD unixen (given that - from what I understand - both FreeBSD and Linux already have the code to support those features, and just need them to be enabled)?
Isn't writing out to the network a side effect?

Edit: Haskell folks are a bit touchy :) Just a joke, I use Xmonad, I'm cool with y'all.
Thank you for the site. My friends are like a little ex-pat community, using your site often to compare cities and figure out where to move next. I really like how easy is to compare the cost of living and make a decision based on data, rather than anecdotal evidence.
Ha, time to dust up my guitar. I've always wanted to learn but know nothing of musical notation. This should give me another excuse get back to learning
How do you handle bends?
If you're approaching your limit, either request an increase or, as you have done, pay it off. There very well could be inconsistencies around reporting. I am still an advocate of paying the bill on the final due date because I see credit cards as a 30 day, interest-free (assuming you pay it off), micro-loan. It makes sense to let your cash accrue as much interest as possible (although not a lot these days) in your bank account before paying off the card.
I bought a guitar 3 years ago and I've tried to learn it on and off but never really went past the c chord because I always lose interest.

I just finished my first lesson and this is superb for me. I love the scoring system which motivates me to try and do better each time and just the ease and simplicity with which I can immerse myself into learning it at my own pace.

Just a minor thing that confused me was that the music tab layout(maybe that's the standard) is different from the layout of the strings in the animation (which is the same as my guitar). I think both should be the same as the guitar.
> I usually (> 98% of the time) only care if that something adheres to an interface.

>Well, whether something is "nil" or not definitely matters to whether it adheres to the interface, doesn't it?

True. Though we are discussing nil/null as being a potential state of data. I actually like & utilize Javascript's notion of falsy (false, "", undefined, null, 0). It's not precise, but most of the time, precision is not needed. Just the general notion that there is a value to operate on or not. Optimizing toward brevity supersedes precision in many cases.

> I'd rather be opted out by default and opt in when I want to

> Then why do you use Go and not a fully dynamically typed language? In Go you opt out explicitly with "interface {}".

I mostly do use dynamic languages. Though, the notion of the Go interface makes the api explicit, yet remains decoupled from the rest of the type system, which seems ok. I've seen proponents use these interfaces to later "discover" types.

> Why would you rather opt in? Opt out makes sense because types are so cheap 99% of the time.
I would rather opt in if I would otherwise have to think about it every time the situation comes up.

Take a collection as an example. Most of the time, I really just want to put a bunch of objects (data) into the collection. I don't want to be a bookkeeper of what type of data is going into the collection. I trust that the data "works" with the rest of the program and will utilize other mechanisms to prove that it doesn't work. I don't want to have to fight compile errors and have to craft a type system just to put an object into a collection.

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As a general notion, I like to evolve the design from a simple understanding to a more precise & intricate understanding. My ideal programming language would be forgiving of my initial simplistic domain understanding and facilitate the growth of precision as time goes onward.
The maximum tax quota is 60% by the Correios, which is simple Taxing, the other quotas are from 1% - 50% depending on the product type.

What happens a lot of times is that the business guys want to say that it's "too hard" to do business here where it actually is pretty easy, not too much taxes and a great market. There's the employee taxes which are the most expensive but some of the taxes you can get back if you're smart enough with your accounting.

It's a great place to live and to have a business, the best part is that Brazilians like new things, when you open your business everyone is coming in to see what's it about.

Best,
Security Monkey – AWS Security Configuration Monitoring and Analysis
People drive usually because it's either faster and/or cheaper. Right?

Or because it gives more freedom--you're not restricted to particular routes or particular times.

Mass transit can beat driving on all these metrics (speed, price, and freedom of travel) when the population density is high enough that it's cost-effective for mass transit to have dense coverage, so that you're never more than a short walk from a train station or a bus stop. But many people (including me) don't want to live in a place with that high a population density. That's ultimately why mass transit hasn't caught on in the US the way it has in other countries.
bigdubs: that video explains the Braess paradox, not the correlation found by the researchers. I modified my comment to make that clearer. Thanks!
I don't think that applies. Isn't the point (or one of the main points) of building more roads to make traffic congestion better? The study in this article shows that that doesn't pan out.
Wikipedia has a pretty comprehensive comparison of ~30 different birth control methods:

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

It lists both the perfect use failure rate and the typical use failure rate. When I first saw this I was surprised at how often condoms fail! I'm also a little puzzled by the infographic in the article that claims that natural family planning is less effective than condoms. While the rhythm method is less effective than condoms, symptoms-based fertility awareness is as effective as the copper IUD in the perfect use case, and its typical use case is still far better than the pill, patch, and ring.
Are they getting routed there because the dark pool can provide better execution for those orders? Because that could be happening even if the way it's happening under the hood is contrary to how the pools are marketed.
There are reasons to fear everywhere. How about also rising coasts due to global warming?
For user engagement, yeah.