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>In order to be useful the basic income has to be a substantial fraction of the median income

Woah thats a pretty crazy assumption - basic income only needs to provide enough income for basic needs to be useful - are you trying to say that the median salary in the US is the bare minimum to meet necessities?
Median income is the amount which divides the income distribution into two equal groups, half having income above that amount[1]
currently the median household income is estimated to be $51,371 - if you think that this is the MINIMUM amount of basic income for the program to be useful then its clear you have a core misunderstanding of basic income at its core.

>What I mean is that say $2000 for 0 hours worked in a month is very nice, and $2020 for 1 hour worked is at least in percentages, infinitely less desirable.

You say that people are not entirely rational at the beginning of your comment, yet you are now assuming they are - many people enjoy work, do you think PG only does ycombinator purely for the money? warren buffet? does tom cruise still act only for the paychecks?

Also, you are missing another key point of my last comment, and that is that the price of labor will rise. I agree that working for 20 extra dollars isnt going to seem as worth it when you already have enough to serve your needs - that is the whole point. wages will rise, people will be choosier about what work they are willing to do, and the less desirable jobs will have to pay more - that is how simple supply and demand work

>EDIT: I forgot to touch on the black market. If a person wants to accumulate income it might be better to do so on the black market. That allows a person to avoid high taxes (basic income has to come from somewhere, that somewhere is always proposed to be higher taxes). That makes the black market (or working "under the table") attractive. The shadow economy of Europe is already by one estimate 17% of the total economy. Basic income would further encourage such things:

First, you are somehow overlooking that the incentive to work under the table is already there, yet the vast majority of workers do not get paid cash under the table - it is in both the employer and employees interest to subvert the tax system for wages already yet this isnt happening - what makes you believe that this would so dramatically change that MOST of the labor market chooses this option?

This is to ignore that fact that there are regulatory bodies that actually enforce this, and will go to job centers to make sure employees are being payed legally - this happens all the time and is a common method is trying to find illegal aliens (I have years of experience cooking in restaurants where i have seen this first hand many times)

I appreciate the discussion thanks

[1]http://web.archive.org/web/20060922200944/http://www.busines...
[2]http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acsbr12-02.pdf
Few things are as aggravating as a website that commandeers the navigate back gesture.
Ugh, you dolts are like Stallman, other than never having produced anything of value that is.
I am find with ads, I am not fine with tracking and data mining on cost of my privacy.

The internet is built on free stuff. It got big on free content. HN is free content. Look at all those comments that people leave for free. The belief that things must cost money is a fallacy!
That's the beauty of hackernews, it doesn't need a paywall or advertising. The presence of the users is the payment.
Yes, you are right. Somehow did not think about it in advance. I'm wondering how this could be solved.
i was under the impression that it was common knowledge to have a doubling strategy for buffer sizes to amortize the cost of each addition. fwiw, java uses a 3/2 strategy, and python uses a 9/8...
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Shit that sucks man. Yeah I guess there are a lot of instances where you really have to be careful.

What are you up to now?
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Rewards could be harming your organizations more than punishment
Yeah, all I've seen in this article was "Americans, americans, americans..". I though we have already found out that NSA is a world wide problem and, among other adversary effects, poses a serious threat to literary break Internet into regional networks, not that "NSA is bad because it listens to the phone calls of americans".
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What if you query the total and available amount of RAM on the system to set your limits?
But hackernews links to free information sources. No free information sources => no hackernews...
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Worth reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle if you don't understand the last part.
Three or four levels down in $(eval ...) and $(call ...) still makes me stop and think how many $ I should have.

Yes, that's the paper, I was also heavily motivated by it. And when I read JDK also switched[1] to something similar, it just cemented my belief it was the right way to go, for the same reasons as for them.

[1] - http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/138
Super useful documentation!
I'm seeing half the phone at the top of the page in Firefox 33.0.1 :/
I find conversation view confusing because a) it often compresses individual emails which then get lost b) it conflates emails which clearly do not belong to the same conversation. The former regularly causes colleagues to miss important email. The latter is common with automated mail.

I always turn it off, but I think conversation view might be worth it with the following changes:

1. When viewing a conversation, always expand all email and cut quoted text from each email. The fact that quoted text is shown which duplicates email in the same conversation makes for a horrible mess.

2. Use the proper headers (Message-ID, IIRC) to determine which emails belong to the same conversation, rather than the current fuzzy-logic based on the subject and current phase of the moon. At the very least, implement this logic: two separate emails, neither of which are a reply to another email, do NOT belong to the same conversation.
That's bad general advice in my opinion, instead encourage that a programmer reserves the expected capacity beforehand, or at least tweaks grow attributes for the specific 'growth pattern'. At least in games (only area where I have experience), dynamic containers will often grow very quickly to and remain at a fairly predictable size for a long time (several seconds to minutes). Reserving capacity beforehand to the expected size will always beat 'smart' growth strategies. If a lib can't predict the size on its own because it doesn't enough information, provide API functions to configure it from the outside. As a fallback I use 1.5x growth factor of previous capacity, clamped against a per-container-configurable min and max growth value.
A workaround that I've used before is to connect to my site via the domain name in one tab, and the IP address in another - cross domain protection ensures I get two nicely partitioned sessions.
This is a common problem that plagues every modern windowing environment. In my own experience, OSX suffers from this the least, but even there, inconsistencies between apps are pretty common.
We've built a model to analyse the value of a CV. We had a dataset of 50,000 CVs.

Feel free to drop me a line if you'd like to discuss any further. I'd be interested to hear what you're working on.
Appliances create addresses and map them to instance templates. Appliances send those mappings to the pool where they are placed in an NDB database used for searching. Users can search or have prior knowledge of an address to get instance addresses. Appliances listen to the blockchain for payments sent to the address and make instance starts based on those payments. Before an instance is started, the pool may send data to the appliance to effect provisioning tasks. Alternately, a callback URL can be returned, which is then used to 'bounce' the provisioning request to a third party site.

Note the pool never sends a start request directly to an appliance. Instances 'time out' when they run out of time, but that could also be done using another payment to another address. Provisioning requests are probably the weakest link currently, but we have plans for dealing with that shortly.
I noticed a few of the quotes in the article from physicists who, while not outright dismissive, couldn't be bothered about pursuing something that could lead to a more fundamental understanding of reality.
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"The name got me thinking about App discovery however."

This is exactly what came to my mind, as i added more terms to the search, to whittle down the results.
With proper sig figs please, 60 MPH is 100 KMH not journalist style 96.56064 KMH.
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Nice feedback, thanks a lot!

Special balls are bombs. When you burst set of balls with a bomb it explode all balls of the same color on a stage. Slow-mo indeed could help with the explanation. I'll think about it.
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." - John C. Maxwell
This is possibly the best ALA article since "The look that says Book":
http://alistapart.com/article/the-look-that-says-book
I love science. This is a very nice example of it.
There's a weird attack on MBAs for not being good at creating value in tech. But the biggest, most successful new tech companies over the last few years are hardly valuable in the grand scheme of things. Social networks are just new advertising platforms. Sure, there are companies like SpaceX, but I'd imagine the vast majority of people here on HN are not building anything so significant.

So why the outrage? Live and let live.
Experiment, curiosity, huge NASA buildings, near vacuum. I'd rather read about this than mark zuckerberg.
Agreed. We should strive to increase the access to non-needed luxuries to everyone. There should not be a gap where some people lack access to the luxury of basic healthcare while others have access to space travel. It's possible that the ability to provide basic luxury to more people comes at the cost of reducing access to more high-cost luxuries to others.
Except what Virgin is doing isn't "spaceships" or "space tourism".

It's just a high flying plane.

Its max altitude is still within the outer limits of the earth's atmosphere for pete's sake.

It can only hit 100km (62 miles):

International law defines the lower boundary of space as the lowest perigee attainable by an orbiting space vehicle ...

Due to atmospheric drag, the lowest altitude at which an object in a circular orbit can complete at least one full revolution without propulsion is approximately 150 km
It is brought up frequently, in the debates I've heard.
Not even old-school acceleration like we used to have in the 90s? I thought RDP used to at least support things like "move this rectangle to a new position" for the performance win over things like VNC.
Wow, great game! I can image this being a hit on the app store. Sometimes the rotation feels a little awkward, but with a bit more polish this could be a huge hit.

I also think, that it's getting too hard too fast. You should tweak the "difficulty curve" a little bit :)

BUT, it's _really_ hard to find. I had to search for your company to have a chance. (German App Store) Renaming it could be a wise decision.
A multi-story vacuum chamber on earth is pretty freaking amazing. Certainly stimulated my intellectual curiosity.
I use both languages, and like them both just fine. Your complaints are a matter of having a preference for the C# paradigm over the VB one.

Snippets: In what way are snippets unusable? Hold down the Ctrl, then type KX.

Namespaces: VB is sneaky. Right-mouse-click on the project (in the Solution Explorer), select Properties, go into the Application tab. The equivalent to the automatically inserted namespace is the "Root namespace" field.

C# static class vs VB Module: What is the mismatch, exactly? They essentially the same thing (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/881570/classes-vs-modules...). Members of a Module can still be qualified with the Module name - it's just optional when there's no ambiguity. BTW, "Extension Methods" are available in VB since VS2008 (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384936(v=vs.90).as...).

You're probably also not happy about the case-insensitivity, lack of implicit interface implementation, or the use of keywords over braces to make code blocks, among other things. Whatever, but I use both, and at the end of the day I don't find VB more verbose than C# overall, or C# less friendly.

Each have quirks that make them a mixed blessing. One can easily google on "c# vs vb syntax" and get plenty of articles on the strengths and challenges of each.
Wasn't that crash investigation a corner stone of the field of metal fatigue? They made a full-size pressure vessel for a test jet and managed to recreate its failure.
Interestingly enough, it's priced similarly to both the RS7 and the E63 AMG.
This is worded too strongly but I do not know why it is being down voted. For those who feel any interpretation is warranted, many worlds is entirely credible and cleaner in some respects than Copenhagen (no collapse).
When you have <pre> formatted paragraphs that are wider than the viewport, it's quite annoying that you also intercept swipe-left to open a different article instead of letting the user scroll.

MobileSafari, iOS8.
What happens when you try to buy $25k of Web design consulting?
And time and time again they don't: Having your own tiger petting zoo, milk baths, private chef... So now we know that luxuries may or may not turn out to be considered basic needs.
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Perhaps we need some sort of BitBallot? Distributed and cryptographically guranteed.
Sure, but it would great if they had a Linux version of every compatible laptop they sell. Even though the investment would not pay directly, one could be confident that specific model would work with Linux because there is a Linux variant.

The last Dell I bought came with Linux preinstalled. I would be happy to pay a little more for a Linux-certified machine, but, unfortunately, the only ones they offer are worse values than their Apple counterparts.
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> We invented a /new/ time tracking system..

Having had a very quick browse on the page. This looks like wakatime.com.

I've been using that one for a couple of months with zero problems, it gives me an very detailed overview of what I worked on (down to filename, h:m:s editing, git branch name etc) and it gives me daily and weekly summaries.

Is there a reason for me to change to koala?
This is great until you start vending an api to a higher level client that makes several arbitrary mutable copies of your buffer object. There are still 32 bit machines and it is not unlikely to have a contiguous 4 meg region of heap unavailable in a long lived app. (One option to help is to ensure that the naive object duplication code always compact the new copy. But malloc can (and will) fail.)
Surprised no-one has mentioned redo[0]. I much prefer it to `make` for personal projects these days.

[0] https://github.com/apenwarr/redo
Another way of putting the argument is that, if the base rate of publication bias is low, your articles will have a very high false discovery rate. That's inevitable, yes, but it means I would not treat your individual bias results as particularly strong.

But the survey of Psychological Science papers makes this point moot, since it shows that the base rate is fairly high.

It would be interesting to see if there are other approaches to detecting publication bias. In medicine several reviews have spotted outcome reporting bias by comparing clinical trial protocols given to ethics committees with the published papers. Typically the clinical trial protocol includes several outcomes that aren't in the paper. Other reviews search clinical trial registries to find publication bias.

Is there something analogous in psychology? You could presumably track down ethics board documents and figure out what fraction of experiments never appear, then do a sensitivity analysis on the published results. I don't know if this has been done.

I assume you're familiar with this survey that found about 50% of psychologists admit to publication bias: John, L. K., Loewenstein, G., & Prelec, D. (2012). Measuring the prevalence of questionable research practices with incentives for truth telling. Psychological Science, 23(5), 524–532. doi:10.1177/0956797611430953
5 minutes of browsing on producthunt should change your opinion that 100% of startups are developing breakthrough products.
It interesting some people think a vacuum means a lot of pressure but really it's the same as 10 meters under water at sea level pressure.
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From another perspective, these technologies left us with little science of utility (Tang?) while developing intercontinental ballistic missiles that loom over humanity like the Sword of Damocles. When historians from far off planets visit our nuclear wasteland they will see our thinly veiled space program as the beginning of end. :-)
That is a very naive view. Guess where the money for the IPO parties is coming from?
Not really, not seeing that. Sorry. Pretty sure I answered your points rationally there.

Nice work on the Rupees by the way - that was a perfect example of a currency that has inherent downsides to dealing with it. Not all cash is equal.
One way of adjusting your intuition is to imagine the bowling ball and the feather standing still, and the ground coming up really fast and smacking them like a giant ping pong paddle. That's the only way I can get my eyes to agree with what the brain is thinking.
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This is something we, at teamgeist.io, did wrong in the beginning as well. We moved to a more "Design Thinking" and "Lean Startup" approach to actually test our assumptions before we implement them. That helps a lot.
Edison? you mean he has a team of engineers that invent stuff for him? and all he does is slap his name on their creations?
Browsers need large contiguous areas all the time for things like image buffers and JS heaps. I doubt there are many apps that try to tolerate badly fragmented and cramped 32-bit VM spaces, at least while using malloc.
While it does appear here and there, I think it's because the vast majority of gay relationships take place in a monogamous/monogamish framework, so plural marriages aren't a direct endpoint.

Whereas, "sure collect everyone's correspondences, but delete people who are citizens" isn't a far jump to "ok, you don't really need to delete anything".
Every interpretation of QM is "metaphysics" in this sense.

(Anything that produces different predictions is something more than, or at least other than, an interpretation of QM.)
We use Clojure (in production, or almost) at Red Pineapple Media in Berlin, mostly for basic web dev stuff (compojure, http-kit, org.clojure/java.jdbc, cassaforte) and data analysis (Apache Spark, using flambo (https://github.com/yieldbot/flambo). We're building new services with it, but we also rewrite performance-critical parts of our backend from PHP to Clojure.
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I wish the producers were less enamoured of their slow-mo and showed us the whole thing in real-time.

The "weird" thing is seeing feathers plummet to the ground and I wish we got to see more of that.
The wave function is a function on configuration space, which in non-relativistic QM in our 3-space, is a 3N dimensional space. While a cork on an ocean is an appropriate analogy, it breaks down in that it is higher dimensional and there is no "water" that the wave is traveling in. It is similar to how E and B travel through physical space, but not in any particular medium in that space.
This was a fantastic read, thanks so much!

Can anyone define 'pertubations' for me?
Maybe this is a dumb question, but how did the call-ins work then? There was always a message if it was a rerun (don't try really calling, etc.) but even their last shows had what appeared to be live call-ins and a call-in number and I remember them having to advise people to turn the radio off while they're on the phone.
Pretty much exactly what I came to say.

Also, as well as ponying up the cash, they will also be risking their skins. We need human guinea pigs, and the super-rich are volunteering.
All the best facilities have big buttons labelled "Mega speed trigger".

But in seriousness, does the Moon not count? Surely space is the largest vacuum chamber we have access to!
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I'm in my 30s and the software thinks I'm 7 or 14, depending on the pic :) And I don't look this childish at all
My favorite part of the article is the comments at the bottom about how the sucker buying a Dodge Charger will have to pay for gas. I had a friend a few years ago who bought a $15,000 BMW motorcycle to save gas money 4 months a year in New York, and now you can go one better: buy a $120,000 car and then leach off of the supercharger network.

I love Teslas, but buy one because it is an amazing luxury car with an AWD option, not because it is the best financial decision.
I think side notes are the single most underappreciated visual design element, and you make great use of them. I’m very much in favor of Ted Nelson’s idea that everything should have a content related, even editable/interactive sidebar.