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> Even with an automated workforce, I think there should still be social incentives, and incentives require merit-based income differentials and some concept of "earned income".

Basic income doesn't eliminate the concept of "earned income"; one of the major things promoted about it is that, as opposed to means-tested programs, it is fully cumulative with rather than replacing earned income (or capital income, which is outside many definitions of "earned income"), and thus, unlike means-tested benefit programs, does not create a disincentive to other forms of income, including earned income.

> We've already witnessed the first large-scale social experiment designed to replace the dog-eat-dog nature of conventional human society, and everyone knows how that turned out.

Pretty well, compared to the status quo ante, and compared to the slightly-later effort to do the same thing that opposed it. (I assume, by the "first large-scale social experiment designed to replace the dog-eat-dog nature of conventional human society", you refer to the gradual implementation of the modern mixed economy in the advanced democracies of the West, which while a continuous, ongoing process, started before, say, the Leninist "experiment" and its successors.)
From the point of view of classical economics, AI increases the productiveness of capital, and certain specialized kinds of labor (e.g. creating and improving AI).

While this increases the total output of society, it also increases inequality.

We already have in place mechanisms to deal with inequality, namely income tax and welfare. As the total output of society grows, we will be able to afford more generous kinds of welfare, until eventually we probably settle on a negative income tax scheme.

Note that a correctly designed welfare system wouldn't result in lots of people living on welfare, but rather everyone working fewer hours.

So I imagine that the future could be quite good, as long as our methods for redistributing wealth are able to keep pace with technological change (and there are some great examples to follow in the Western world, e.g. Scandinavia, Australia and NZ)
So I've been using Mnemosyne for a few months for physics. (I started it as a quals study-aid, after reading gwern's article.) I've found that two types of card work well:

1. Frequently (in physics) you can find a core skeleton of fundamental definitions & results. If you know these, you can solve a whole bunch of problems very easily; also, in reviewing those results, you inevitably remind yourself of why they're true (I'm starting to make a re-derivation a criterion for listing a "fact" as memorized), and of the broader logical structure of the discipline.

2. Certain problems exercise a wide variety of important techniques very quickly; I use Mnemosyne to prompt myself to re-work certain problems every so often. I try to be aggressive enough about rating "how well I know this" that I'm actually re-working the problems, not just memorizing. This is sort of like the "code kata" I've seen people suggest every now and then.

Now, this is for physics, which is probably not exactly what you mean by "technical knowledge" :-). I expect this approach would generalize very nicely to mathematics and theoretical CS (and in fact I'm using it for bits and pieces in those fields); code & software engineering would be harder, but probably doable.

Edit: removed pointer to (link to) Gwern's article: it's in the gp. Also assorted stylistic matters.
>Many libertarians are not.

Libertarian socialism is real, but does not represent the most popular use of the term libertarian. I'd also say the same thing for anarcho-capitalism, which is also often put under the libertarian umbrella.
ElasticBox + Jenkins + Raspberry Pi
Yep. The City is in every way entirely subject to parliament, and the laws of the country apply within the square mile in every particular the way they do outside it.

The biggest oddity is that since so many people commute into the City, they don't just let residents vote in council elections, but also businesses in proportion to the number of workers they have; an odd but not altogether crazy way of making sure that all stakeholders are represented.

...what any of this has to do with offshore tax havens is a mystery to me. There's only one FSA in Britain, and they don't care where you're headquartered.

Edit: From the article: "the corporation is an offshore island inside Britain, a tax haven in its own right. The term "tax haven" is a bit of a misnomer, because such places aren't just about tax."

Actually, it's not that it's not just about tax; it's that it's not about tax at all. Tax rates are the same in and outside the City. A "tax haven" that's not a haven and doesn't have different tax rates? This is Orwellian stuff.
Perhaps Disconnect search might work with this. Then both Omniref and Google can mind their own business.
This is actually something I think a startup could do a really good job at disrupting, but you'd have to have a very high tolerance for both a) schleps and b) dealing with poor peoples' problems.

Billions of dollars are being thrown around at companies where the average level of technical sophistication is Excel spreadsheets and the prototypical competitor is a high-school graduate with an average of N weeks of experience in the industry.
He starts the video exactly the opposite -- he pointed out that all humans used to be involved in food production and now almost none are and briefly summarized thousands of years of history of humans creating new things to do when the old things became unnecessary. That's a long timescale of course... on a shorter timescale I can't think of many jobs that existed 100 years ago that still exist today, at least not as a significant percentage of the current job force. Of course then he says "but this time it's different" before he starts on all the poor, and I think dishonest, logic.

So then, yes, he listed a lot of jobs that will go away, insinuated it's basically all of them (with which I agree, but no argument was made), and then took the strawman "well maybe you think creative jobs won't go away" and then defeated that strawman by incorrectly assuming creativity is limited to artists, poets, directors, and actors and said "there can't be such a thing as a poem and painting based economy", which I think is what you are referring to. That's just as dishonest as the horse analogy. It assumes without argument that creative people won't look at the new robotic world around them and find new things to create, or at the humans around them eager to work and find new ways to utilize them, all with the assistance of AIs and robots.
Why I Don't Call the Police
Seems like something that Google or Microsoft would ask as an interview question. You have all day to complete it, on your laptop, but once done, no matter how much code it is, they want it transcribed from your computer onto a physical white-board, because the only thing they know how to read is white-boards. If you tell them they are crazy and try to end the interview right then and there, you are hired, because you have guts, and you know what can and cannot be done, and will not waste your time with jerks.
Do you have a way for people to reach you? I'd actually like to talk software in the ARM space. Or you can reach me, email in profile.
I'm almost positive that native-feeling performance is the core objective of Ionic
Same here. Got excited and checked the post out. Glad i did.
OK,

The thing about this popular article is it seems to imply that the universe coming out of a black hole is different from it coming out from any kind of singularity.

Well, reading the real article, it seems this popular article got things garbled. The main problem they seem raise with the big bang is that it is a "naked" singularity - there's no barrier between the world and the singular point. So what they are doing is looking at a higher dimensional black hole and finding a non-naked singularity that would generate approximately the same effects as the big bang. There is still a singularity at work here, it is simply that the singularity is not directly spewing matter out.
"No naked singularities" is a general principle I recall from scanning general relativity articles.
The real networking doesn't happen at networking events. It happens when you happen to be up in the city and text your friend that you worked with a couple years ago to hang out and catch up, and then he invites you to his startup's holiday party, and there you meet one of his investors or just a top engineer that thinks what you're doing is really cool, and suddenly your side project is now a hot startup. That doesn't happen when you need to get on a plane for events.
The tipoff is when you go back for seconds
Were the crop quotas in Wickard v. Filburn enforced by federal agents? I can't seem to find that information.
One need not use nmap to understand that their reconnaissance is of information already considered public information.
I signed up. Was as simple to use as the video describes.

Things I would like added:

1)Possibility to add a seperate about page and other pages.

2)Allow for a one line blurb on sidebar to describe what the blog is all about.

3)Custom Title for blog/site. Eg <name>'s blog to My Awesome Site.

4)Option to remove date from post instead of having to use CSS display:none:

Otherwise I'm happy. Was using WordPress and SquareSpace recently to host a simple blog but felt like it was overkill. I do not like either of their mobile apps. They feel clunky compared to IA Writer.

And for me, for writing, you cannot beat the simplicity of your favourite text editor and dropbox for publishing. Whether on desktop or mobile. The combination works really well.

First impressions, am happy with blot.im. Its barebones but lets see how it turns out in the wild.
A global salt is called 'pepper'.
You could also ask for barbecue flavor.
The City of London Corporation is the number one reason to vote Yes for Scottish independence. The concept of the Remembrancer should be utterly repugnant to anyone who believes in democracy over facism.

Edit: And I'll note that this was voted down before I even had a chance to fix my spelling! Guess the money spent on "social media consultants" was worthwhile guys, huh?
Should point out that OpenTTD is also an excellent open source engine for Transport Tycoon, fixing many quirks and irritations in the original game.

It's not truly open source because it requires the original files, but then they've listed emulators for ScummVM and the Infinity engine, so I don't see the difference.
No. Federally subsidized student loans don't have a statute of limitations and can't be discharged during bankruptcy. And they have that much time to sue you. So they can and probably will sue you to win a judgment against you before the statute of limitations. If you don't show up to court to defend yourself you get a default judgement against you - you automatically lose.
I don't buy the "this time it's different" argument. The reason to automate things is to make more money, right? If you believe the video, nobody will be able to afford the stuff that is being made cheaper through automation.

If we're making everything faster, cheaper, and more efficient, the overall wealth for humans can only go up, not down. The question is who will get that wealth. My guess is it'll be the same as it always is: A small group of people will get most of it, and everyone else will get a little bit. In other words we'll all be better off, I think. To assume the destruction of the middle class means that the upper class will lose all of its buyers. Economics has proven time and time again that over the long term, improving efficiency makes everyone better off.
It's a shame that everyone's so insistent on democracy without having any creativity about it. Athens had the right idea -- create a set of objective standards for people qualified to serve in the upper house, then draw lots and whoever loses gets the job.
This cuts both ways. A psychologist might say, "People with no knowledge of psychology often relabel mental illness as genius." A critic of psychology might say, "Psychologists with no knowledge of natural human society often relabel genius as mental illness."

Asperger Syndrome, which famously and regularly did relabel genius as mental illness, has been thrown out of the new edition of the official diagnostic guide, but with little effect on its diagnosis rate (I still hear from parents whose children have been given this diagnosis, more than a year after it was officially abandoned).

My theory about psychology is that if you're gainfully, productively employed doing something that fewer than 1% of people can do, it might not be mental illness, it might be a positive evolutionary adaptation. But that's just my opinion (and that of the chair of the NIMH, and his predecessor).

Depression can have many causes. I can think of a really deplorable but easily avoidable one -- being told by people in pseudo-authority that your natural gifts actually stand as proof that you're mentally broken.
> Even the Prophet had trouble getting up at this hour.

I suppose author expected people not to follow thru with the source;
http://www.quranexplorer.com/Hadith/English/Hadith/bukhari/0...

But the source is quite the contrary to what you claimed.
> It's not truly open source because it requires the original files,

Art assets are not software, if that's what you're talking about. Character design, dialogue, plotlines, etc. will remain under copyright even if you do go in and replace every image and sound with freely licensed art.
Part of the reason that companies enacted irregular schedules was to remove the ability of managers to schedule employees in a biased (or perceived as biased) manner. Some examples:

* Employee A gets a more desirable shift than employee B. Employee A also gets along with the manager better that employee B.

* Employee A gets a more desirable shift than employee B because employee A has worked for the company longer. Employee B is equally capable of doing the work.

* Employee A gets a more desirable shift than employee B. Employee B feels that it's because of race/gender/sexual orientation.

* Employee A covers the shift of employee B. Employee A now has enough hours to qualify as a "full-time" employee, causing an administrative headache.

This is not to say that completely randomizing work schedules is the answer, just to point out that there's more reasoning for these systems than the article suggests.

(edit: I worked for a major U.S. retailer when they were implementing such a system.)
I for one want to live forever, be smarter, expand my senses… Infinite or no, my desires certainly aren't bounded.
Its hard to impossible to rent an apartment around here with a low credit score. That wasn't the case several years ago. I am guessing it will just keep getting more prevalent so you may have to live in your parents garage util 30 while waiting for that old debt to drop off your credit report.
> Libertarian socialism is real, but does not represent the most popular use of the term libertarian.

Libertarians who are not opposed to basic income are not exclusively libertarian socialists. To understand this, its useful to understand that BI isn't on top of existing programs, it replaces programs that involve government making more choices about who gets benefits, and what form those benefits take.
Awesome, thank you for giving it a try!

These are all good features to have.

1) About page and custom pages are on the to do list. I need to work out a simple way to add this content from the user's perspective.

2 & 3) Great idea for the blurb and custom site title.

4) Interesting, hadn't anticipated this request. Would you like a global option to hide publish dates?

And yeah, IA writer is excellent. It's great to be able to publish a blog post from inside their mobile app!
That's like saying if housing is effectively free (because buildings don't get paid).
> The petitions are not bills that people are submitting to the floor of Congress.

True. They're not much of anything else, either.
NoTinder: Talks directly to Tinder API to auto-swipe left
Point 2, 4 & 5 are just spot-on. I guess either Quest Diagnostic, LabCorp, or even automatic analyzer makers should at least start to study about Theranos.
I've heard that IE9+ has very effective GPU rendering. That could explain its rendering and animation/scrolling performance. The GPU compositor in Chrome & Safari is kinda hacked-in; it renders layers on the CPU first, blits them to the GPU as a texture, and then composits on a full-layer basis. Touch the CPU renderer and performance immediately goes to shit.

I wouldn't be surprised if things get better, at least for Chrome, in the near future.
Evil! The hyperbole is overflowing!

It is true that socialized medicine puts an end to the financial hardship imposed on individuals, but it also brings other problems into the picture, namely rationed healthcare. I've experienced it myself. That's why you have so many Canadians coming to the US when they get really sick.
I agree that there is the possibility of privacy issues from camera footage being mismanaged or leaked, but I think that is less important than the direct police abuse that would probably be significantly thwarted by police body cameras.
> Part of the reason that companies enacted irregular schedules was to remove the ability of managers to schedule employees in a biased (or perceived as biased) manner.

Do you have any evidence to support this claim? (I hate to be that guy, but, wow...)
"After the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture cracked down on a community seed library, hundreds of seed libraries in the U.S. are suddenly wondering if they are breaking the law"

Sadly, the answer to this question these days is nearly always yes, no matter what you are doing. You are pretty much one overzealous act of selective enforcement away from federal crime. 3 felonies a day and all that yap. Do remember that sensationalist stories aside, its exceedingly unlikely to happen to you. Not that we shouldn't try to fix it, but its not worth worrying about to the point that it alters your daily life with paranoia.
>It's not truly open source because it requires the original files

It hasn't for a while, since 1.0 - they have their own graphics and sound assets now.
It's the city which is trying to require him to water his lawn, not an HA.
There are at least two reasons to restart something after you update it.

(1) the update could not be applied to the running instance, so you have to restart to put the update into service, and

(2) to demonstrate that the update did not break the ability of the thing to start.

This address #1. It does not address #2.

It is extremely annoying if something has run for a year with a couple dozen live updates applied without restarting and then you have to restart for some reason (power failure, perhaps), and then you discover that somewhere in the last year it lost the ability to start. I'd much rather discover that an update has introduced a problem with startup immediately after applying the update.

Restarting things should be a regular part of maintenance.
2 kinds of knowledge:

1. The kind that you can use to make testable predictions.

2. The kind that you can't use to make testable predictions.

Kind 1 is easy to verify. Just test the testable prediction. Done. That's really all science is.

Kind 2... people have different opinions on. Some people say that Kind 2 is useless and one should reject all of it. Some other people hold Kind 2 close to their heart and find rich meaning in it. With Kind 2, though, there's no good way to tell what's right.
This reminds me of a the Student Starcraft AI Tournament: http://www.sscaitournament.com
Ridiculous, profit is what drives innovation. You think the billions of dollars a year that go into healthcare R&D comes from the goodness of people's hearts?
This reminds me a lot of when the department of education sold my student loans to a couple private firms. Out of the blue, I just received a couple emails from a couple companies I've never heard of asking me to give them all my information (including my SSN) in order to create an account. I deleted them immediately, assuming there was a new phishing scheme in vogue, and didn't realize what had happened until I checked my accounts a few months later and realized they had been paid off, with no information about who did the paying off. I couldn't even find one of the emails afterward to figure out who actually owned the debt, and had to call someone at DOE loan servicing to figure it out. I was flabbergasted.
I wonder if you could tie it to disrupting credit reporting.
Uh, it's only depressing if you agree with the nutjob elitists that think everyone else is a horse that needs their constant guidance to do something with their life.

Do you have any idea how the banking industry and B2B operations work? People. Lots and lots of people. Way less automation than low-margin retail junk, which itself is way less automated than most people think it is.

You have it exactly backwards: It's not that the economy is run by robots that are not interested in you. Robots are not interested in the economy, but the economy is very interested in you -- money is just a way of keeping score.
Show HN: JavaScript Quality Guide
Memfd_create() syscall merged into Linux tree
Blog post on memfd
https://dvdhrm.wordpress.com/tag/memfd/
downvoter(s) -- this is a subtle, poignant, and (IMHO) poetically written joke about the prevalence of non-convexity in real-world optimization problems.
> Otoh, intelligence isn't hereditary

How do you know that?
Show HN: Lit – a modern literate programming tool
I used to close and open the next day at Starbucks. Didn't mind though, since they worked within my college schedule and gave me hours that fit around my classes. Still, good to hear they are making advancements in how their employees are treated. First health care, then college, now better work/life balance. What's really great is how they accomplish this without being required to. Good job Starbucks.
The average person in the US is already paying ~200% as much as a citizen of your typical single-payer country for coverage. Not only are we paying twice as much for coverage, we don't even have universal coverage after paying twice as much.

http://healthcarereform.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourc...
Blog post on memfd
https://dvdhrm.wordpress.com/tag/memfd/
There are a lot of competing implementations of live kernel patching, but work has started to agree on a common approach.
As explained at http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2014/an-in-depth-look-live-...

"There has been a great deal of interest in live kernel patching (see http://lwn.net/Articles/597407/) over the past few months, with several different approaches proposed, including CRIU+kexec, kGraft, and kpatch, all in addition to ksplice. This microconference will host discussions on required infrastructure (including tracing, checkpoint/restart, kexec, and live patching), along with expositions and comparisons of the various approaches. The purpose, believe it or not, is to work towards a common implementation that everyone can live with. It should be a spirited discussion!
For more details, please see http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2014:live_kernel_patching"
Pokémon Trading Card Game Coming to iPad
This is a very interesting and potentially groundbreaking solution. I'm just a tad bit concerned that the tech is represented by... a turtle.
A reasonable and fair criticism. Honestly I just haven't had the time to do the TodoMVC. There is an example in the repository though. Feel free to browse https://github.com/lookout/oraculum/tree/master/examples/gh-...

Edit: typo
How alcohol causes liver damage
Alcohol can ruin liver cells and result in liver harm that triggers fatty liver health, irritation, alcoholic hepatitis or cirrhosis. Drinking even a small amount of alcohol could make it worse if you already have liver health disease.