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This BBC radio programme asks people to chose some music tracks and talk about the significance of that music to them. They chose a track they "inherited" from eg parents, and a track they want to "hand down" to eg their children.

This one is author Iain Banks in 2011. There's a large archive and I though HN might be interested.

The BBC website is v. Frustrating to search though. :-/
I find the title to be somewhat misleading as it tries to get readers' attention.

Most of the article is related to the Blockhain, but "won't need us" makes most assume it's purely related to automation.
Define "you". I didn't think a maximum round of $9600.50 for a seed into a business needs to be considered by a VC who normally invests $500,000 for example - it can be a different group of people. Likewise for a $100 'seed'.

It is hard to imagine that these amounts are actual legitimate seed amounts into a business, but, there you go, that's H.

If we don't allow H then it's irrelevant whether the OP started with $100 or $9700. i.e. without H this is not a real, significant, or relevant number. (instead it is clickbait, for example, or a false memory due to lack of recording of actual spend at that stage.)

H is the hypothesis that it is, in fact, relevant and meaningful.
> At some point we must get rid of all the humans on earth to keep up economic growth.

Sure, but first we need at least few colonies to move to.
Vitalik Buterin's response:http://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/3ai4pm/the_humans_...
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Companies are simply a tool that helps a group of people to make a profit. If you remove the group of people then what would be the point?
Just the way we should've estimated the likelihood of curing cancer before we started pouring money in it. Probably we did, and then based on the importance of the matter, poured in billions of dollars anyway.

SENS approach is essentially suggesting something better than that. According to them, pouring billions of dollars into individual age-related diseases (e.g., age-related onset of cancer) is the wrong way to go, because age-related diseases are a symptom of the root cause, which is aging itself, defined to be molecular and cellular damage through out the body. If that is tackled head on, there would enourmous savings in health care costs (both maintenance and research) and a positive impact on the economy as a result of more healthy people being available for work.
It doesn't. "Task" has a notion of side-effect and no notion of yielding a value. Except a task can yield a value and have no side-effect.
The World Wide What?
Here is that train of thought pushed out a few hundred years http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
My quick search shows 30-57k for a police officer's average salary.
The real issue, IMO, is not who owns or manages the prison, it is the laws we have on the books in the US that hinder or prevent individuals released from jails/prisons from becoming productive members of society. Often the easiest path for them is the path back to jail. For example, we expect an ex-offender to get out of jail, get a job, have a stable housing environment, pay taxes, and not break any more laws. Instead, we release individuals, hinder their ability to find gainful employment because of their arrest, deny them loans, deny access to public housing, tell them they can't go to some schools and deny them grants/scholarship opportunities for the ones they can, and then we tell them they can't vote in elections. While I am all for you do the crime you do the time, but when does that time end exactly? Do we tell someone that committed a non-violent petty felony at age 18, serves a year in jail, gets their HS diploma in that time, and is otherwise a decent person that even when they get out of jail they are no longer welcome in our society because of their crime? What do we as a society expect is going to happen to that person? And the cycle begins.

There's a group that did a short film highlighting these issues: https://vimeo.com/121718382

Ok, rant over :)
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That assumes that those jobs would have existed without your software - and that the factory/warehouse wouldn't simply have closed and caused even further job loss.
Why do you need so much information if you're just looking to gauge interest?

I might be interested depending on the number of people in the space, the conditions of the space itself, and the available amentities of the surrounding area
Not-for-profit companies shouldn't exist then?
A history of American genocide (2006)
I changed the title due to the likely negative assumptions people would make about "Progressive genocide."
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And? This is like MapReduce, which scales well for certain problems, particularly those involving counting. If I am counting up the words in 25 TB of text in one case and counting up the words in 1250 TB of text in another, but in the first case I have 25 servers available to me and in the second case I have 1250 servers. How long does it take given in both problems each server is counting up the words in 1TB of text? Does it take 50 times longer to count up the words in the second problem? No, because there are 50 times as many servers. There are other issues which make the Indian elections complex, but counting the votes isn't one of them, and neither the counting nor the other issues mean that voting machines are "pretty much required" as was claimed.
Why does trade require growth?
And that's the right place to use it to get people involved. Better than "7 people like your comment", "John and Mary endorsed you", ...

This is really one of a few examples of "hooking" people for good. There is even a book "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" about it: http://www.amazon.com/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Product...
While that is very good, at the same time 2% is pretty much nothing. Why not make it so that 50% is payers choice? (I wouldn't make it 100% only because there are too many people who wouldn't want to fund the military).
For a more real time experience, I made this bookmarklet:

http://blog.higg.im/2015/06/20/open-all-secure-https-hackern...
you left out the most important..national defense...oh sorry, most of the EU dumped that on the US so it could afford all these social programs!
I found it a bit busy, personally. Much like "What is Code?", I am certain it would devour a phone's resources within minutes.
What powers it? Google? Or are they doing their own indexing?
Fundamental of Physics by Halliday, Resnick and Walker is a good book. You should check it out.
It is not a donation, because you don't get chose not to pay. You get to choose where to send the money. I don't see how this couldn't work with a high portion of the money.
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The link to the study comparing income and graduation was broken.

Here it is : http://www.nber.org/papers/w17633

The female advantage graphs are truly interesting.
There's an interesting political Rorschach test with articles like this. The article is unambiguously about prison companies lobbying the government but, invariably, people start ranting about the prison guard's union and their lobbying efforts.

I assume this is a flag for conservatism or libertarianism (or just a measure of the effectiveness of their rhetoric?) rather than a simple inability to stay on topic or to distinguish between a company and its workers' union. It is interesting because of how utterly consistent it is between conversations. It always seems to happen when this subject comes up.
Maybe there's a way I just can't find, but it would be handy to be able to toggle everything 'off' again to get back to the original ball-less image.
Actually I think I could work such that when you are unemployed or getting money from the government coffers you also get a notice with a name and picture of the person who payed tax to give you that. Sorta like "your income this months was made possible by the hard work of $NAME" - would you be more or less inclined to abuse government founds this way?
For me, yes you will curse a lot at compile time. But the upside is that stupid, preventable programming errors (which are responsible for a majority of security vulnerabilites) are stopped at compile time, not at segfault time.
Let's see:

- your blood contains your DNA, so you not only give out something to help others, you also give out your biological finger-print

- insurance companies might use lab results + identifying info to deny insurance

- your blood contains information on your heritage

And I'm sure there are many more examples like that.

Maybe I'm over-sensitive to data collected for no particular purpose but NL has a pretty bad record when it comes to this sort of thing and in fact people have died because of the innocent collection of something as mundane as religious affiliation.
The majority of US states eventually restore the right to vote:

http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=0...

Vermont and Maine allow prisoners to vote, 13 other states allow voting on release, and then some more restore the right after parole/probation.

Many of the remaining states allow petitioning of the governor to restore the right to vote.

(That felon voting is not particularly problematic in the states where it is allowed can be used as an argument against disenfranchisement, so I think it is good to try to accurately characterize the situation)
No setup fees and an access API with only one endpoint (so, very simple).
By hardware do you mean open at the chip level? Most of the stuff at Sparkfun is open.
> SENS Research Foundation is made for relatively wealthy people who already have money and health who want to live longer.

Ignoring the fact that you're pulling statements out of a hat, and assuming what you said is true, which one of the following two scenarios would you rather be in:

- A world where fundamental research on aging hasn't been done and people get sick and start to die between the ages of 60-90.

- A world where, as a result of some secretive research and development of medical technology, a handful of people (the rich ones) seem to be living a healthy life all the way up to 180-210, and the public starts demanding that such research be made available to everyone.
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I don't understand it all either, but I can appreciate one of the key benefits is in transparency. Transparency in Bitcoin works because everyone who uses Bitcoin has a copy of the full blockchain. This makes the rate at which trades can take place relatively slow, but also gives protection against people gaming the system (it is possible to game the system, but it's hard for most to do so).
I'm sorry I haven't had time to respond. I meant "this is helpful" to respond to his hope that his questions were helpful, rather than mean spirited, for instance.

We currently have no proof of PCI compliance, yes, but we will. I personally have worked in the PCI space for the last decade and understand how important it is. What's lacking in this service isn't good security, but public documentation of that security. We will work on that.
Hasn't the gamification and the application of Pavlovian behavior online gone already too far?

I mean this trend of employing FB notifications like Dopamine/Serotonin rewarding systems is getting out of hand and we need to address it properly.
if everything gets replaced by bots, how will the economy run given that much of it is because of employees getting paid and in turn spending that money?
The BipCot NoGov license [0] might provide a template, replacing "government" with "[leaders of] media organizations" (or whatever), as applicable.

But if you're looking for something with teeth, this probably won't meet your needs -- as they say, "It is not copyright-based, it is entirely shame-based."

[0] http://bipcot.org
How old are them?

The Bohr model is ok. Is one of the most amazing achieving of the humanity. Enjoy it. Note: I'm currently publishing paper in Quantum Mechanics, (essentially: if you have a molecule and know know where are the atoms nuclei, you must simulate in a computer where are the electrons)

* The bad new is that it's impossible to understand Quantum Mechanics without a few Algegra courses (eigenvalues and eigenvectos) and a few Analysis courses (partial differential equations) and a few Physics courses.

Quantum Mechanics is confusing and unintuitive, but at least has a clear mathematical method to do the calculations. Most tries to explain the subject without math transform it to just confusing and unintuitive :(.

* The good new is that they can learn something interesting. Some ideas:

* Buy them a molecular model kit ( https://www.google.com/search?q=molecular+models&tbm=isch ) Let them play with it, learn the name/color of the atoms, build random molecules, (my daughter liked to build a dog). Later try to build real molecules (Wikipedia usually has the structure graphic)

* Try to explain that the bounds are really not sticks, and electrons don't go in orbits. [this is difficult, I hope someone can give a good book/link.]

* When I was young, I really like to see the graphs of the orbitals (I still enjoy that.) The math is complex, but if you ignore the math, the graph are still nice. ( https://www.google.com/search?q=orbital+chemistry&tbm=isch )

Try to read the explanation, and see the relation with the sticks model. Don't bother with the details, but get the general idea.

* There are some programs where you can draw the stick and ball molecule and it will draw the orbitals, but most of them are too difficult to use, and the conversions is not so easy because you have to run an intermediate program do the heavy calculations.

* And the orbitals are not real, they are only an approximation. The quantum details are even more weird. In chemistry they usually call this "resonance" and in physic they call it "correlation". (They are not the some concept, but both term describe the same problem.) The resonance articles has nice graphics and is a good approximation to the idea without math ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonance_(chemistry)#Resonanc... ), the math details are better explained in ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_interaction ) but it's too cryptic.
Someone has to program those robots.
One thing to keep in mind is that guards put in a lot of overtime. Example: Prisoner gets hurt and has to go to the hospital? A guard has to go with him, and he gets paid for all of it.

It's a pretty shitty job, mostly due to the work-life balance, but it pays pretty well for a job that doesn't require a college degree. A guard who puts in enough overtime can make 100k+ pretty easily, and that's in areas that aren't very expensive. After all, many prisons are in the middle of nowhere. For every San Quentin, there are a lot more Vacavilles.

Source: Girlfriend worked as a corrections nurse for a few years at the state prison and county jail levels. That's another shitty but well-paying job.
We have attempted to try the open source bank access model you've described [1], but I'm not confident that such a system would ever be dependable without the cooperation of the FIs themselves, for the reasons AdieuToLogic gives.

[1] https://github.com/simplefin/bank-access
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There is also the Magento Enterprise division.
There's no real solution other than build new prisons, hire new people and transfer prisoners.

There's a lot more solutions than that.

Decriminalizing drug use, and treating it like a public health issue (which it is) would drastically reduce incarceration rates. It would save the nation a lot of money too. Just tax and regulate it.

Spending time and money to help people not re-offend (and go back to jail) would also be cost-effective.

Unfortunately, there are big interests that want to keep the status quo.
Are you serious? I was being polite and posted a question asking for some constructive feedback. I got some of this, then Mithaldu went off the deep-end and decided to start ridiculing me and tell me how he'd avoid the company I work at because of the questions I'm asking. And now you're saying that I'm the one crossing a line here? Seriously? I just re-read the guidelines, which did I break? The only one I can imagine is not flagging the comment but that was because the software did not let me since it was a reply to one of my posts.

I have been perfectly civil. Telling someone they are not being constructive and should grow up is not uncivil when it's in response to:

> Please tell me what company you work at so i can avoid it. There's no other way to say it other than that your ideas horrify me.

Be sure to read that again and let it sink in. This person wants to know what company I work at so he can avoid it because of a question I asked on the internet about git.
The most important clients for a bank are businesses, not people, and businesses generally want to do their banking from 9-5.
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What I don't understand is why the for profit prisons are even in the US at all? Why not put them in Vietnam, Mexico or the Philippines where all costs are cheaper.

Because cutting off family support for these prisoners would make a bad situation worse?
Blood donation is not very efficient charity and the service is homophobic and (in the US) nationalistic (no the entirety of Europe doesn't have mad cow disease). Instead of sending these feel good SMS messages they should work on solving those two issues.
Probably not the secretary, accountant or dispatcher whom they replace. And for every programmer created to develop for these devices, there will be 10, 100, even 1,000 desk jobs which will vanish.

The best and brightest will find jobs as these programmers; the rest will be left to fend for themselves - to find another meaningless job with a tiny wage, so they can live.

This, as something of a tangent, is why I support basic income.
Yes, you are right in that most states do have a path to restoring voting rights.

But the fact that it is an issue at all is the problem. A non-violent ex-offender should not have to go through a process of petitioning, or even have to worry about having their voting rights restored at all, when their sentence is completed. Even automatic restoration is not always "sure thing". Florida for example used to have "automatic restoration" but it actually entailed filing with the clemency board and getting approved (although approval was pretty much a guarantee). Since then though, Florida, like some of the other states that have automatic restoration, has changed to add a waiting period and additional approvals. For non-violent felons that complete their sentence there should not be a wait. Using the Florida example, an 18 year old arrested for selling drugs on the street corner. Serves a year in jail. Gets out free/clear (meaning no parole or probation). Has to wait 5 years to have his right to vote restored. That is wrong in my opinion and only makes the situation worse. Disenfranchisement is a much bigger problem than people realize when it comes to elections. There are over 6 million adults in the US that are disenfranchised. Making the number worse is the hodgepodge of state laws across the country that lead to confusion. There are countless numbers above the 6 million that have no clue if they can vote at all, if their rights have been restored, or what is even required to get them restored. Yes, they can get lawyers to figure it out for them, but who is going to pay for that?
Somehow tangent but this made me think about this quote found on HN last year:

Context: Evolutionary algorithms and analog electronic circuits

> One thing stands out when you try playing with evolutionary systems.
Evolution is _really_ good at gaming the system. Unless you are very careful at specifying all of the constraints that you care about you can end up with a solution that is very clever but not quite what you had in mind. Here power consumption is the issue. If you tried to evolve a sturdy chair you might end up with something that is 1mm tall. or maybe a fuel efficient car that exploits continental drift.

I think it's the same here: The net is never gonna better than what it needs to be, and it is probably always gonna take the easy route.
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Unless you're making the backend/app to learn stuff, a very upfront benefit of using an "obvious language" is that it will be easier for you to extend the team in the future.
One major reason is if you were in the UK for more than 6 months between 1980-1996. You can't donate blood in Australia afaik if this is the case.

This was due to the BSE, 'mad cow disease'
* Technical experts won't necessarily be good at teaching people to use technology, or helping to set up infrastructure in third world countries.

* Other people (eg. teachers) will be better-placed to teach technical expertise to people in the third world.

* Technology isn't necessarily the most valuable thing to people in the third world - often they need simple things like corrugated steel roofs, anti-parasitics drugs and malaria nets.

* Technical experts are the best people at creating technology (tautologically) and they'll be more productive at that than they would be at any other task (and more productive any anyone else would be at creating technology).

So the elegant, effective solution is to have technical experts apply their technical expertise where it's most needed, get paid as much as possible (while doing useful work) and donate a significant portion of their earnings to fund education and development experts (who would otherwise be doing something less valuable) to go to where they're needed and help poor people in whatever way they need help.

Sending technologists to the third world will do about as much good as sending academics to the farms. May it would be spiritually enriching for the technologists, but a lot of technology will go unbuilt and a lot of poor people will miss out on deworming pills because that money went to fund plane tickets.
It would look like a cliff, as most of the population would be packed on the left.
Indeed; being disabled, I'm on Medicare rather early for it, and I get informed of everything that's billed and associated with me for Medicare Part B, doctor's office etc. sorts of things (haven't had to go to the hospital so I don't know about the original Part A). I also have deductibles to pay, including before my Medigap insurance kicks in.

That said, they could be billing fictitious people, or people sick enough the extra stuff is easy to miss with all the other charges ... and that's very possibly how many of these fraudulent outfits were found. There are plenty of us with personalities in the direction of OCD, my 79 year old mother for instance, who's I'll admit is pretty healthy and was a RN before I was born, wouldn't miss anything. Last time I was in the ER for a nasty fall I later called them up to query a charge of $90 for a TDa?P inoculation, and was satisfied with their explanation that they had to keep plenty of non-expired medicines on hand for everything, including unexpected events. In their case, they had been the primary hospital that received the injured from the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, and closer to home, a lot more people would have died than the ~160 in the EF-5 tornado that hit my home town and took out the other hospital, if they hadn't had ample supplies (see http://stormdoctor.blogspot.com/2011/06/first-response-mode-... for an idea of just how intense that was)
It actually isn't based on OAuth2. For instance, consumers of the read only SimpleFIN protocol don't have to establish a relationship with the server -- they need only provide credentials. Also, the SimpleFIN Server does not redirect a client back to another server -- it is left to the user to deliver the credentials to the party(ies) of their choosing.

As far as reparations, we haven't yet published that policy, but we will.