skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can read the Mincome reports yourself. They aren't exactly glowing and most of the reported effects are well within the margin for error in the measurements.

BI and UBI has never been tried anywhere in a fully form because it requires everybody on the planet to do it at the same time. The closest we have are economic analogs. For example, resource rich locations that produce wealth at multiples of the labor input. You can study the economics of these places yourself and look at the outcomes. But they basically sum to: people stop working, people collect their money, labor supply needs to be imported from outside the local economy, the people who've stopped working don't exactly spend this new free-time self-actualizing themselves into discovering cures for cancer or unifying the fundamental forces of the universe.

If you want evidence, I suggest you open a high-school level history book and start on page 1. If you aren't aware of these cases on your own, but willing to promote nonsense like UBI, you're just being willfully ignorant of history and basic economics.

No amount of handwaivery and ignoring poor outcomes based on this or that technicality or goal post move will make cause and effect bend towards making these schemes work.

So here's your test: find somebody who's working poor, offer to put them up in your house and feed and clothe them no strings attached. How long before they self-actualize into a high-paid white-collar degree? Repeat this experiment 10,000 times. How many people, given this options, would rather just sit at home all day and surf the internet/watch TV/gossip vs. going out and challenging themselves into a better life?

I don't have to answer this, BI advocates do. And they need to present the outcome of this experiment as a real economic model that accurately predicts labor participation and real-world situations. This has never been done and anything outside of this is hand waivy nonsense built on fairy dreams.
Gnome 3.14 appears to be the default desktop environment in Debian Unstable. Unstable is subject to change and occasionally things stop working for a bit but many people find it acceptable for non-critical use.
Why Atheists and Women Who Speak Out Get Death Threats
Of course he says that, the budget for the department of defense...

Yet who does Congress consult when they're considering how much to spend? It's almost as if they want to spend more money on the military...
"How can we be better than we are now?" By getting informed on what is REALLY happening, i.e. if you are participating in electoral democracy, you're part of the misinformed set.

Reasoning and the human brain doesn't work the way we thought it did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Manufacturing consent

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Econom...

Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening.

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverte...

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Securit...

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-G...

Look at the following graphs:

IMGUR link - http://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnkNKipiiiM

Free markets?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Free trade?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju06F3Os64

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spect...

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

http://williamblum.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcA1v2n7WW4#t=2551
I'm supposing you're taking umbrage at my ignoring your point about conditional vs. unconditional BI?
Don't forget the fine Swedish tradition of setting the christmas bock on fire. So many gems in its rich history

http://dynamic.hs.fi/arkku/tiedostot/236485051591abb0d7c0235...
Bravo! It's so fun and... whatever that word is that is a mix between inspiring and intimidating... to see journals of projects like these where so many different interests and passions come together. I loved the visualization exploration, too - aside from the lines, most of them didn't really communicate anything to me but I was surprised at how well the circles one worked.
We already have private police forces. (security guards, police in private communities, etc.) On a different note, we also have privatized prisons. With re prisons people tend to not like them because of the incentive to keep people locked up. I don't see how privatized police forces would escape the same kind of criticism.
What, exactly, are you suggesting "works"?
In Poland for every Christmas we're watching "Home Alone". People were filling online petitions when one of main TV stations threatened to drop it last year.
I disagree. "Stuff that matters" was frequently applied and upvoted as a tag to articles during the period of time when article tags were more editorial than they are now. This was quite some time ago. Not to say that no one felt as you describe, but I think an equal number of people, at least, took the interpretation I described.

Also, I didn't mean to imply that the site creators intended for the motto to be applied in the way I described, just that it was applied that way in many cases.

The point is that sometimes making the rules a little fuzzy can allow a community to moderate itself more flexibly and prevent the "lawyers" from taking over. HN is similar, where though there are loose guidelines, the rules for appropriate content are (deliberately, I believe) kept vague.
I believe the play-like feeling can be attributed to the fact that 90% of it was filmed in front of a blue screen. Considering all the goofy camera tricks used to make the characters look proportionally correct, is must be very difficult to act in that kind of situation and have it come off feeling natural. Props to Andy Serkis for rising above the rabble.
> Summary: Wikipedia keeps deleting my anime cruft. Waah!

That's not remotely accurate. The problems are across all subject areas; consider my link deletion experiments.
I know, I know. I wrote "Social is bad for search, and search is bad for social" on that subject back in 2011.

http://www.sitetruth.com/doc/socialisbadforsearch09.pdf

Spamming social to get higher search rankings is easy, cheap, and hurts both search and social, as blogs, forums, and discussions fill up with promotional crap no one wants to read. I work on web spam and bogus ad detection, which means I'm painfully aware of the ocean of promotional crap out there. I'd like to see Wikipedia not go that way.
One common criticism, which I think has merit, is that the current system is a rich-get-richer affair where most gains accrue to a clique of old-timers and there's little chance for anyone new to catch up.

This is undoubtedly true, but perhaps mitigated by the fact that the marginal value of a single karma point is far greater for a user with a current score of 30 as compared to a user with a current score of 30,000.
An unconditional basic income funded by income taxation amounts to the same thing as a negative income tax (i.e., an income tax system with the possibility of negative taxation). The two are precisely equivalent.
On a somewhat unrelated note, some people believe this is what the founder of Bitcoin did.

> Both his forum posts and his comments in the bitcoin source code used such Brit spellings as optimise and colour.[1]

1: http://www.wired.com/2011/11/mf_bitcoin/all/
I have wondered about this as well. Maybe the audience does not care so much and thus it makes no sense stay at stuff that can be pulled off with budget. That said there is more and more things that can be done well every year. I think something like Gravity looked pretty cool and it will be interesting to see if it looks good few decades down the road.
Hardened stateless session cookies in PHP
What in particular was the d3js memory issue from? Any specifics you can share?
"Does the underdog have a any chance of becoming a multibillion dollar success? Can the underdog rule the land?"

Ironically, you are describing Silicon Valley perfectly while looking to replace it.
It has its merits. I think it does use space well. It would be silly if I said it was bad, because it works for some people, obviously.

My main criticism was that it relied a lot on search (which I basically never want to use), and it had an annoying habit of hiding things. I really hate it when UI's get super clever and try to guess what's useful to me, I'd rather things just stay in one place and I'll remember where it is. Whenever UI's try to "adapt" to users, I just find it makes them unpredictable, and efficiency is more about predictability than anything else.
That's a reasonable first guess, but it seems very unlikely to be true. Wikipedias in other languages do not all asymptote at the same sizes, print encyclopedias span quite a range of sizes, the superset of specialist encyclopedias would be much larger than even the famous ones like Encyclopedia Britannica, and comparisons of the overlap of the English WP with foreign-language WPs suggests WP could easily be several times larger than it is ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus/Wikipedia_interwi... ); and Wikia keeps expanding on specialist topics (not just fiction-related wikias). Finally, I used to subscribe to the paper New York Times and read or skim every article in every section for a while out of curiosity; I could have easily spent my entire editing career doing nothing but updating WP based on each day's issue - even though you might think that as one of the most prestigious English newspapers, the English WP would have a mortal lock on coverage of stuff which appear in the NYT.
I agree with everything you say - but it takes nothing away from my original point. The OP stated that he had 'no choice' but to pirate the movie. He does have a choice. He can wait for them to make it available to him - the cinema release was originally US only anyway. Or his other option is just to not watch it. I'm personally tired of the argument 'I had no option to pirate it'. It's rubbish. It's simply somebody's way of reliving themselves of any guilt or feeling of wrong doing from pirating. Pirate if I you want, just don't make bullshit excuses for it.
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Stripe checkout does use an iframe from checkout.stripe.com for the payment form.
So we would use this once or twice in our lives then never use it again? I don't think I need an app for that.
"I hate all the fluff in this article."
Glad to hear it, because if that's considered clever and impressive then the rocket industry needs me.
With only sixty people from all over the world, it doesn't seem like enough data to be useful. Sorry Friend.
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The logistics of doing an unplanned online launch are pretty large, and launching in lots of different markets adds a lot of complexity (legal issues, customer support issues in multiple languages, etc.). I'm surprised they managed to launch in the US in time for Christmas.

It's disappointing it isn't also launching internationally, but I'm optimistic - if this makes lots of money, then it will prove that it makes sense to launch new movies online. Then in the future we may see more movies launch like this, and with more preparation time, hopefully also internationally.
I do regret upgrading. My wireless trackball and mice no longer work smoothly and this is a known problem apparently with RF and bluetooth pointing devices. It's one thing to make things slower or for new features to be buggy, but making the system unusable is unacceptable, IMO. I'm looking at dual booting Linux now and possibly making the switch back. The only reason I haven't yet is because I luckily still have wired versions of the same trackball.
But this is progress at least. We should support progress in this area, in the hope hat it encourages these companies to be more accepting and open im with future releases
> Articles become better and edit wars are reduced when people come to the project with reliable sources[5] to build an encyclopedia.[6]

'a group is its own worst enemy'. If you only started in 2010, then the disaster is just the status quo to you.
Nonsense. Assange goes to great lengths to spin his political agenda. For example the "Collateral Murder" video. He did not publish raw source material, he published his narrative:

http://www.collateralmurder.com/

He is no Snowden. Snowden was upfront and honest from the start about what he was trying to achieve.

I used to admire Assange, now Assange is caught up in his own myth and he seems desperate to keep that myth alive.

The world needs a WikiLeaks 3.0, one that looks like the original 1.0 (the actual wiki before the cable leaks). For those of you that forgot what it was originally:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080102184708/http://www.wikile...
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Your elitist attitude is hilarious considering you've shown no signs of actually having credentials to support it (and, even if you had, an elevated person would not condescend so much). I'm not going to respond much more since there's little point and it doesn't create useful content, just some final bullet points.

a) My bad, given how subservient you acted towards official claims I thought you were American. (Sorry, other Americans)

b) https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/22/canada-proclai...

still kind of applies considering your attitude.

c) The fallacy of complexity you're using against your straw-man that I look at things simplistically or black & white is the same politicians use to further most crimes and illegal activities. See most things related to NSA disclosures and trumping over civil rights in the name of the wars on terror/drugs/etc.

d) "mocked into silence"? You can yell all you want and people will leave you alone because you're disgusting to be with or talk to. That doesn't make you right.

Good bye.
The problem with liars isn't that they lie, it's that sometimes they tell the truth.
UX in Automobiles
I have to agree on the current version of Ubuntu Unity, which I use on a Samsung Series 9.
Worth mentioning that Popup Chinese has an extensive archive of short stories, with full contextualized (i.e. not dictionary) definitions and accompanying audio recordings:

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His suggestion is to not trust random hacked-together-for-a-last-second-release vendor code, and instead use a continuously-developed firmware developed in the open with tests and a broad userbase.

The first rule of hardware is that hardware companies can't write software.
It is a quite interesting project .. if you've ever wondered how you can implement a text editor from scratch, using SDL .. or even if you just want a simple way to understand SDL itself, then this project is a great example of how to do thing. I'm hard-pressed to think of a better way to implement an editor in SDL, in fact ..
> Eh. It takes more effort to regionally lock something on the Internet than not.

Not necessarily.

To properly allow your product to be sold in multiple international markets, you need to have customer support in the local languages. You need to support the popular local payment systems. You need localized fraud detection (risks differ by area). You also need to comply with local laws (copyright law differs by country, and rights to show movies may need to be negotiated separately).

It's true that you can just put something on YouTube for free and forget about it, and in that case, locking it to one region is just being mean. But when launching a paid and supported product, it's just not that easy.

edit: you also need subtitles or dubbing in some areas
Wait, what?

In terms of market share, OS X is to Windows as Windows Phone is to iOS. Sometime about a year ago, Windows 8 alone already had higher market share than all versions of OS X combined, and has only been increasing the lead since.

Windows 10 is looking to be the spiritual successor to Windows 7, combining the improvements that came in 8 with a UI that's more palatable for many. And, now there are ample PC hardware options that rival or surpass Apple's in many aspects, which is a lot of what sold MacBooks to average consumers in the past.

I would guess that Apple is taking Windows 10 very seriously.
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Fixing Occam’s Razor
As far as I know, the "gold standard" is shooting at half the inverse of the FPS (eg. 1/60s exposures for 30 frames per second). This is how film cameras traditionally work, the so-called 180-degree shutter: http://luispower2013.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/the-180-degree...
They're using Stripe checkout, so all your CC information is being entered in an iframe hosted by Stripe.
Last year, I was told by one of the technical managers for animation at Pixar that they're all in 24 fps. They've used all the increased processing power since their founding in the 90's to increase detail, so the result is that the time it takes to render each frame has barely changed since Toy Story. Each frame of Monsters University took an average of 29 hours to render.

This article has some good info: http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/24/the-making-of-pixars-lates...

They seem to choose being film-like over being realistic when they have a choice. In one of their most recent short films, they actually lowered the framerate for a slow-motion effect to simulate a classic film technique.
Seems sketchy, no corporate info on page. Only link I could find quickly was this whois for a domain on the same server, with the name Philipp Czernin who is well known, and ANDRESLMARTINEZ@GMAIL.COM who has many domain, including WhenYouFilm.com.

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What is kernel.com? The website doesn't explain, and I can't find anything online talking about them. (It's hard to search because of the similarity to kernel.org perhaps.)
>The USSR could have traded with others, there is nothing that says a country can not be internally socialistic and externally trade with capitalists. Thats exactly how some market anarchist schemes work.

In some ideal world yes. In the real world, other countries (well, they ruling classes) wanted to see its demise, not trade with it, for it gave their people the wrong ideas...