skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's more or less what the 'basic' is aimed at, part of the idea is to set the income at a level that has a limited impact on the incentive to work.

Chart 3 shows quite some growth since 1980, but the per year increase is not exactly astronomical (and the page mentions that there are trends not accounted for in the data, such as the aging of the baby boomers).

It's also reasonable to expect a contingent benefit to have more impact on the incentive than an uncontingent benefit.
Basic income is not wealthy income you wont' be getting that much, just enough. Furthermore with unconditional basic income you will always be incentivized to work even if just for a month or a season (since you are not taxed on you basic income)
I always argue that even if they'd want to cultivate their own food, all land is already taken so they are not only unable but forbidden to earn their income.
>Unfortunately the Pro 3 uses an n-trig 256-pressure levels sensor, which has a much lower resolution than the previous versions which were Wacom based. For writing/jotting down is ok, but for drawing the difference is noticeable. The lower sensitivity takes a toll when you try to customize the response curve...

>I'm appalled why so many tablet vendors don't ship with a digitizer built-in. Strip that useless rear-facing camera and put a digitizer in there! You could go as far as selling without the pen by default, as long as there's an option to buy one!

Supposedly implementing N-Trig over Wacom allows the device to be thinner. This explains why Microsoft was willing to make the tradeoff. It also explains why most vendors don't use digitizers. I wish they did, but everyone is obsessed with making the thinnest device possible, even at the expense of functionality.
Economists believe that a financial transaction tax would primarily result in reducing low-income employment opportunities and ultimately be paid for by low-income consumers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_tax#Evaluation_and_r...

The TL;DR is that a transaction tax would primarily serve to increase bid-offer spread, which slows down the markets and results in every industry selling slightly less at slightly higher prices - which naturally means slightly shifting to favour those with more purchasing power.
I wonder if it is wise to have the first example as something which panics. Also that extra new line at the end bothers me!
That would hardly keep people without jobs out of poverty, which I read in another article is just over $20k.
You're correct in that it can replace a mish-mash of benefits, but incorrect to suggest topping up to a set limit. Rather they should get a set amount and then we can let wages fall to levels that would be unviable if the basic income wasn't in place.
Thats just sad :(
Why not start with something smaller, like providing "basic food" for everyone, and see what the result is? You could reuse existing programs, like food stamps, where the infrastructure is already in place for most grocery stores to accept payment. (except without the application process)

That seems like a less risky change than trying to provide enough income to cover housing, utilities, clothing, etc. all at once.
But you don't need all the people you are paying to control all sorts of things in a conditional system. So you would basically get rid of a lot of expenses that are currently being used to control the system.
This argument doesn't have merit. Tragedy of commons/game theory provides us the basis to understand that individual/group efforts are insufficient. Voluntary donations to government from well-meaning individuals will put them at a disadvantaged position against those who are not concerned with the well-being of the others.

Advocating for across the board changes for everyone is a more efficient strategy.
Yup (ex-pat Mainer that had to leave to find real work). The really perverse thing is where some of these benefits have income cliffs, where you lose the benefit if you make too much money working. For instance, let's say that you get to work some overtime and earn a little extra money. Then you realize that you've gone over the line to get your heat assistance, and you've got to come up with the $600/mo to fill the oil tank out of your own pocket. You'd be better off not working any harder, unless you can make the jump to get out of the band where losing benefits offsets the increased income.
I was appalled by the Samsung Galaxy Note when I tried one. The pen would draw without even being in contact with the screen.

Tablets and digital sketchpads are sort of alien to me as concepts. I like a pen and paper for sketching and a desktop when I'm designing/developing. A laptop for on-the-road server maintenance or random, trivial updates to projects (though some of these tasks can even be done from my iPhone).

The iPad and the Chromebook just about make sense as your go-to device when you can't sleep or you're having a lazy Sunday morning. Or as web-browsers while you're watching a movie and need to Google something more interesting that the shitty movie you're watching. But these are kind of luxury devices considering that I can use my phone for these tasks, so the tablet-tier device seems to be an expensive statement accessory.

That said, I've tried a few tablets. Especially since my wife kept pressuring me to buy her one. So I tried the Nexus 7 & 10, the Surface and the iPad. The Surface was by far the least crippled of the devices.
I've pulled apart wacom tablets before and the panes really aren't that thick, you're talking a single layer of flex PCB. I find it difficult to believe that this was the defining reason for them not using it in their hardware. The 8 bits of resolution they ended up with are probably not all ending up being useful either, which sounds like a pretty disappointing user experience.
Agreed. However, I learned it as "progressive enhancement".

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
good point--I missed those few words buried in the article, which successfully hides that crucial idea by using the idea that trailer parks are for sex offenders. The "trailer parks are for sex offenders" idea will hide the real truth.

The media never busts a money scam of the overclass until there is no money left in it. After all, it is the money scams of the overclass that provide much of the media ad revenue.
> disincentivize work too much

This assumes that work is good, and that not working is bad. How do you back up that assumption?

What happens when there is not enough work for everyone? If your value is intrinsically tied to your job, and there just aren't enough jobs to go around, are you supposed to just die and make way for someone who won the N lottery which let them get the job? Or should employers create unnecessary jobs just for the sake of giving everybody a job (and thus taxing us in another way, to support paying all of these unnecessary jobs)?
Awesome, but they forgot to do text only 404 pages. Quick fix though.
sigh I suppose it's a sign of the times that there are already Uber-vs-Taxi rants in the source article's comments (while there are some valid points there, it's rather tasteless.)
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Why is it silly? 2048 bits RSA isn't even 128 bits level, and lots of software makes it easier to use 4096 bits keys than 3072 bits ones.
Python 2.7.10 released
That little layer on top is the one beneath their app with which they interact, is it not? I'm really asking, not being a Windows developer but looking to get into it - and being a bit confused as to how to proceed.
Ads allow for a form of market segmentation that no one has been able to do so far. Offering a free version with ads and a premium version without ads is just about as far as we have gone so far.
A similar thing happens at an ATM when you dispense money before you give the user their card back. They tend to forget the card more often.
Apparently this happens because the users goal in that whole process is to get the money, not to get the card back. So as soon as they have their money the forget about the card.
Since the user has reached their goal there is no reason not to forget about the state of the task.
> Voluntary donations to government from well-meaning individuals will put them at a disadvantaged position against those who are not concerned with the well-being of the others.

The people that hold your position also say that the privileged can't be disadvantaged.

What I'm point out is hypocrisy.
It has multicursor support. Press Ctrl + Click :)
Although automation of jobs is a popular reason for talking about basic income these days, I don't think it's the original or only reason for it being thought a good idea.
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I suspect the latter. The static typing crowd is moving towards type inference - you mentioned the obvious examples already. Now we're seeing dynamic languages evolving towards static typing with inference.

I think that most people if they really think deeply about it would say that all things being equal that static typing is a good thing. The problem is that all things are not equal and that the cost of extra syntax, boilerplate, etc can completely outweigh the benefits of of that static typing (as the GP post clearly believes). I was a huge dynamic language fan until I started using Scala full time and since then I've gone completely the other direction to being a static fan. I suspect as more people start finding their way to tools which provide static typing guarantees without the syntax getting in their way so much that we'll find a nice middle ground.
The Anti-Surveillance State: Clothes and Gadgets Make You (Digitally) Invisible
The problem with this, at least in somewhere like the UK, is you haven't convinced the public that there aren't enough jobs.

Sure, some people are saying so, but there's a barrage of benefits programs that shows there is a subset of the native population who just can't be arsed trying to get a job, and who won't work for a job that earns them similar or less money than they get on benefits.

While these people are sitting around with their massive entitlment complexes and a subset or them are willing to go on channel4 and openly discuss it, you're never going to convince the public there's no jobs.

It's sad because, these people are supposed to be statsticly insignificant, but alas, I work full time and had to pay £500,000 for a 2 bed terrace. I resent the fact we can't move the non-working out of London when it costs a fortune to live somewhere nearby.

Of course the bigger problem is that money has a gravitational pull and the rich are getting richer, but they're not being idiots on channel4, so the middle class aren't taking it out on them.
I think you are confusing bad contract terms with actual withholding of wage.

At best, "wage theft" could be considered "wage fraud", with a slightly better connotation (if at all).

We're not really talking about middle-class workers who think their boss is a douche.
Not the other poster, but I am always bothered by the fact that, because I live in NH and work in MA, I have to pay MA state income tax. Now, because I DO use the roads there, and in the case of an emergency in that state I'd make use of the emergency responders I'm not completely opposed to paying any taxes to them. But to be taxed at the same rate as a resident does bother me. I cannot make use of public schools nor do I count as a resident for the purposes for in state tuition for MA's state universities. I wouldn't count this as "stealing" but I could definitely see how it would feel like that.

I'm also bothered by the fact that I am taxed by a legislature that I cannot vote on and I'd question their right to tax me without representation.
>The people that hold your position also say that the privileged can't be disadvantaged.

Sorry, I don't get it. Can you elaborate please?
For the record, house renting prices in the UK have went up with what the Government has been willing to pay. It's probably folly to assume that house prices wouldn't just rise with basic income.
> Supposedly implementing N-Trig over Wacom allows the device to be thinner

From the video, power consumption & latency were the driving factors.
Society as a whole agrees that taxes are generally a good idea. In today's complicated democratic systems it may be harder and more tedious to prove how exactly, but the reason taxes are levied is that society does not want to change this.
Is "basic food" enough without "basic shelter"?
Google patents ‘creepy’ Internet toys for homes
People getting priced out of an area could be good in the long term. Property taxes would have to increase a lot in that area to enable service workers to be paid enough to live there too. Over time this could act as a bit of a brake on housing costs in the expensive area.

My understanding is that people are happier with change if they feel that they have some choice in how to respond to it. If they were provided with a Basic Income then they could decide how to live within their means, maybe by extended families and friends picking where to live together.
It is very well known that cookies are not the only way to track activity. You insistence that Google somehow doesn't do the trivial step of JOINing a few tables together with any of the many possible candidate keys that browsers leak is laughable. Even plain apache logs have the IP address, which is all the "cookie" they need for those of us that have static IP addresses. Even with DHCP, Google only needs to do an INNER JOIN style query to associate that IP with any of the other requests made in the same time period to their servers such as google-analytics.

And all that doesn't even begin to touch "panopticlick" style entropy gathering.

In case you are interested in learning what how Google works, instead only looking at the facade they show you, I suggest watching the presentation[1] Aral Balkan gave at the same event that hosted djb's recent talk (which is also recommended). You won't like it - possibly violently - but maybe you can learn a bit about how the world actually works..

[1] https://projectbullrun.org/surveillance/2015/video-2015.html...
> (answer to that islam instructs muslims to fight)

The goal here was to show an example that Muslims must NOT fight each other. They must not overthrow their rulers, much less fight and kill each other.

> This is supposed to refute that sharia has the death penalty ...

No. I mentioned elsewhere that the death penalty in Islam only applies to 2 or 3 very specific cases, and none of them include living in a non-Islamic state.

> For instance, Aisha was sold to him in trade for a contract that Ali would be his successor

I think this shows your ignorance, because Aisha was not related to Ali. Aisha was AbuBakr's daughter. Again, please cite your source for this claim.

You're arguments are all over the place. I mentioned that Daesh/ISIS are not a legitimate Islamic group, and the Prophet Peace be upon him warned us of people that have their ideologies. Ask a well-educated scholar today and he will tell you the same thing.

You also keep ignoring my requests for listing citations for your incorrect claims (e.g. that Aisha had something to do with Ali's position as a successor, or that the death penalty must be enforced for Muslims living in non-Muslim lands, etc.). I'm still waiting.
I work for myself, and after I pay my taxes, I have about 2-5K left in my bank account. Then I live month-to-month from what I take in and what I chip away at.

If he can afford to pay more taxes, if he makes so much more than I, he can't be disadvantaged to me or the rest of us who can't afford to pay more taxes - by paying what he claims he wants to (but yet does not).
CEO Pay Cap: This would be tough to regulate due to the creative ways that executives get paid.

Luxury Taxes: Not enough volume to make a difference.

Roof: Wouldn't you still need welfare, then? Doesn't this defeat the purpose of basic income (e.g. eliminating the administrative overhead of welfare payments)?

Congress/Senate: They don't make big money from paychecks.

Automation taxing: The overhead of levying that tax in a fair and effective way is dizzying.
John Nash and Wife Killed in New Jersey Crash
Such a tragic loss.

Like many people, I never wore a seatbelt while riding in a taxi. I'm not really sure why, it just seemed somehow to be the social norm and I went along with it. Then one day, my co-worker and his girlfriend were both severely injured while in an accident crossing the east river in manhattan.

Ever since then, I've gotten in the habit of using my seatbelt while in a taxi, car, bus, or whatever. Sometimes I get weird looks from it. Sometimes I find that the seatbelt is buried in the seat because seemingly nobody has used it for months. I do the same thing here in Tokyo and I believe its still rare for passengers to care but at least the cars are cleaner and the belts are better maintained.

It's a bit odd that we (New Yorkers in this case) allow the TLC to push back on those regulations and win.
Purely anecdotal, but I took a roadtrip through southern Appalachia a few years ago, and the parts of West Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina that I went through reminded me so much of rural Maine that it wasn't funny.

Maine is really two different states. There is southern Maine, centered on York and Cumberland counties (basically the Portland metro area), and then there is the rest of the state. The other half of Maine has very little industry, almost no white-collar work, and extremely low population density. There are entire regions of the state that are propped up by one or two paper mills that are still operating, or subsist off of tourism dollars during the summer months or the ski season. And even tourism and skiing took a beating during the recent financial crisis.
Overtime isn't exactly "off the clock". If it comes to such an insurance claim, it may be hard for the insurance company to prove that the worker is "off the clock".

For that matter, the kind of shenanigans employers pull with on/off time and wage theft mostly happen on the books. Even employees don't necessarily know if and how they are cheated on at any particular point in time.
> and can be kept warm if you have a hotplate, although I wouldn't recommend that

I find (but my personal taste may differ to some) that in general, if you've made more coffee than you want to drink, it's better to just cover it and let it go cold, then heat it up with a microwave when you want to drink it. Of course it's not as good as a fresh cup, but I find that a microwave does little else than gently heat up the liquid for 30-60 seconds or so, while keeping it heated constantly will degrade the flavour into something burned.

I'm also a big fan of simple brewing methods. My personal method is to grind beans (from the supermarket) and use a simple €2,50 plastic filter-holder, a filter, and pour just-off-boiling water from a waterboiler on it. Straight into a (rather large) cup.

I know that doesn't make an espresso, but it does make for delicious coffee.
If you can do your intern year you can do anything and you learn a great deal in that year. Doctors are legally responsible in ways that nurses aren't and compared to the average doctor the average nurse is an idiot.Then again given the choice between a nurse practitioner and a doctor who's been at work for sixteen hours who just qualified I'd take the np.

All that said outside surgery the hours appear to be mostly hazing. Between lessened fatigue and poorer continuity of care reducing doctors' hours is a wash when analysing fatalities and medical errors. This does not hold for surgery. Reducing intern's working hours clearly results in more patient deaths in surgery. Feel free to check on google scholar.
Microsoft launches Earn Beta
One of the key planks of basic income (and the similar negative income tax) is to better align incentives so that working more always pays more (which it often doesn't today for the poorest due to poorly designed schemes that phase out benefit too quickly).
If You Teach a Robot to Fish
'A Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash killed in car crash
Its better than nothing, isn't it? Basic shelter is a more complex and expensive problem to solve (due to varying costs and lack of existing infrastructure).

I think helping eliminate hunger (especially for children), is a good place to start, without having to make a massive change in how government is run without knowing how it will effect the economy.
I'm not looking for free as in beer, I am looking to not share data that conveniently uniquely identifies the private me to random foreign 3rd parties like Apple just to do my job. Buying media via cash+reimburse or through company ordering is not my money and is often the solution for using commercial OSes with personal privacy outside my employer remaining similar to the unbanked. (But I can't tell if that is a waste of time with Apple, since I obviously need follow whatever procedures for security updates until the next purchasable media.)

From other comments, it sounds like I can dance around to make it possible on OsX, but every other OS (except ebooks?) that I have ever installed either makes opt out a transparent (though smaller button/font) process or has no registration process at all.

I don't like that the machine will be in a very small group of opt-out OsX systems compared to reasonable percentages of other Oses. By not sharing my personal details, I might be risking my coworkers having lower than normal privacy when using OsX machines.
Money doesn't disappear. If you give people a basic income, they'll spend it. On rent, beer, education, their kids, all the things people normally spend money on. And some of it is going to come back to all of us in one way or another. Maybe more people will have money to buy apps or pay for services offered by hn members' startups. Or they'll buy lottery tickets and the additional money that goes to education will be used to hire consultants or custodians for schools. Or they'll spend more money at Wal-mart, some of which will be used to purchase some kind of software from a tech startup. Money always trickles back up, especially when it's put into the hands of low income people who tend to spend more than they save.

This adds up to a discount on the cost of BI. Increase taxes by X% and you get back Y% in increased spending. Of course everyone won't benefit equally, but there will be plenty of good times to go around. Don't worry about moral judgements regarding who is working and who isn't. As long as they're spending it will mean more for you.
Same here except that for me it feels like wasting a lot of time, unlearning all my other skills and not staying up to date with current trends.

Having to rewrite polished and reviewed papers is aweful and not publishing stuff (except in a thesis) is unacceptable for many institutions, so I think making papers to chapters is the way to go as long as there isn't something completely different (e.g. no prose but making all data, hardware, software, documentation etc open source)
The money saved is in police time, emergency health care, etc. so you'd need a way for a private enterprise to claim the savings that result from housing the homeless to make this market work.
> Do you remember the tech community's and the business world's reaction to the iPhone in 2008?

Yep, and it more inline with what you said than the article's tone of inevitability. I still wonder what would have happened if RIM attacked the low-end / pay-as-you-go market aggressively with a basic Blackberry with a good programmable camera. The text loving younger market might have been fine.
I'm going to start buckling up in cabs now. Same as wearing earplugs at clubs, you might get weird looks, but it's better to be uncool than dead (or living with tinnitus).
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You are confusing a contract agreement with fraud and rationalizing the latter with a capitalist/marxist rant. Exploitative wages are not illegal and not wage theft. Not paying wage owed as per the contract, by whatever means of deception and coercion however is fraud or theft. It's as simple as that!