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> Although I have been lucky to have some jobs that reimburse me well, I also don't have a car, house, wife (that's happening next month!) or go out drinking.

I find amusing that you include "wife" with all the other expenses. You'll become DINKYs ("Dual Income, No Kids Yet") and thus you will have even more financial independence :-). By the way, congratulations!

> [..] but I've been following the bootstrapped community for a good few years)

Could you please share the name of the community?
I'm not saying the shitty job argument is invalid, but it is much more complex.

It has so many different sides a test sounds like a good idea.

Taking the shitty out of a Subway (sandwiches) employee's job might now sound hard. But there are so many solutions to this single situation. And these might be fairly different for many shitty jobs. Just to name a few in this case: better pay, automation, better working conditions, smaller one-person franchises, disappear altogether,...

It's nearly impossible to find the solution upfront nor generalize. I personally believe society's creativity can easily solve this.
How is Uber disrupting through cost externalization? They disrupt through regulatory arbitrage. They aren't dumping costs onto society.
If a startup is a marriage, do you really want to marry these people? Do you see this as a quick exit (acquisition) or a longer slog?

If you want in, get a lawyer who specializes in startups (partnership agreements). They will tell you what your rights are regarding IP (varies by state), advise on how to negotiate for equity, and determine if your cofounders have committed any crime. For instance, if they knowingly misrepresented themselves to the accelerator in order to gain funding (keeping in mind IANAL) they may have committed fraud (regardless of what they call it).
My immediate thoughts were that these incidents were committed by anti-technology folks, looking to disrupt the tech focused population. In my mind, these folks don't even own cell phones.
> Can this really work when applied just partially?

Since this is an experiment I doubt anyone reasonable participating in it would leave their work and live only on basic income. So the result is already determined - basic income doesn't change anything.

IMO to test basic income theory, it should be implemented nation-wide for unspecified period of time - with the ability to cancel it at anytime in case of when negative effects significantly outweight positive ones. When it gets cancelled it failed.
You cannot compare the revenue of a company with the GDP of a country.
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The Lisp machine OSes were pretty amazing. Everything is dynamically updatable, stuff printed to the consoles remained live and interactive, and the user could configure or modify the OS or programs interactively and easily.

While industrial Lisps may or may not be "functional" compared to today's view of the topic, these implementations were at least based around first-class functions.
We always have commons. The machinery we use is called "property".
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The 1% are perennially unhappy, or why else should they spread their misery to the rest?

A koan, of sorts, rough-shod and ill-fitted, yet perfectly shaped for the game.
But those people will always be a net negative for society, basic income or not. Empowering those who would make a positive difference if they had enough time/money sounds like a good idea to me.
Even if the research were inconclusive, surely being cautious and interacting with children instead of handing them off to a digital nanny is just common sense.

As for railing against the nanny-state - give it a rest. Most people are not experts in everything and expert advice, say, from the AAP, should be heeded.
Since it's Boise, I'll put money on these guys being either former HP or Micron employees that probably got their memristor IP as part of their golden parachutes now that "The Machine" is gone.
Thanks for the useful work. Keep up the good work. Very precise and covers most of it.
I had to buy a new machine 6 months after buying the 2012 Macbook Pro. That thing overheats like hell's breaking loose, and Apple simply doesn't admit to it, so I'm left with a paperweight that kinda works, but if you try to do anything more intensive than browsing the web on it, it gets unusable.

So much for a 3 grand machine.

Despite Apple making pretty things, that's not really making me buy their stuff again
Yes agreed, I learned this lesson on a backpacking trip thru South America, cheers.
The article is unclear, if not misleading.

They are not testing a universal basic income scheme. They are testing an unrestricted basic income scheme, for welfare recipients only. If the experiment is a success it would mean that welfare schemes will become less paternalistic.
And if that does not satisfy you, you've got all the time in the day to cultivate your own cabbage garden on balcony.
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I've not tried this but I thought I'd mention that I've been using the QT QML packages for building desktops apps and the results are amazing!

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Even better with the Material additions from here:

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Building Google Material themed apps easily with a Golang back end? Lovely!

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My links are all just like http://www.google.com/jobs/

When google has an opening they post it on their own site.

My index provides three items of value: a list of tech employer organized geographically, links to their jobs pages and link to their contact pages.

Its not always obvious what businesses are in one's city. Quite commonly jobs are posted on corporate sites but the jobs section of their own sites arent linked from anywhere. I often have to guess:

example.com/careers
example.com/careers.htm
example.com/about/jobs.aspx

Im working on a python program that will try out all the common locations.

Among the reasons that startup companies fail is that their websites are steaming piles.
It very well may have been. I can remember reading that article.
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The dogs, eyes, and Dali-like bird-dogs are really cool. I've seen some insects, too, but not very often.

Are there any other flavors of hallucination? Why all the dogs? I suppose ImageNet has a lot of dog varieties in its category list.
Most used UI Components – of web applications
Almost most of the UI components you use in your web applications as a collection.

Why name UI Components?

There is a misleading word used in the industry. Let's say you need a image carousel.

You search in google and find out one which fits your needs & the name of it is jQuery Carousel you call it a jQuery plugin to your web application. It's not just jQuery, its a combination of HTML, CSS and JS.

It's just a UI Component Plugin which uses jQuery instead of javascript, and that's where the idea of creating a repo for UI components arise.
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New York was revived by Rudy Giuliani, maintained by Bloomberg. People forgot how bad it could be (Dinkins) when they put deblasio in.

Here are the 10 most dangerous cities in the US with at least 200k population. Every one has democrat mayor:

#1 DETROIT, MICHIGAN
#2 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
#3 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
#4 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI
#5 CLEVELAND, OHIO
#6 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
#7 MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
#8 BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
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If a government were to do that for everyone it seems
pretty obvious that society will be better off - people
will spend their time working on things to improve
everyone's life rather than worrying about how to afford
their rent

The incredulity of this is plainly galling.

How does one draw a broad conclusion like that?

Plenty of European examples abound where despite generous - some would argue very generous - state dispensed benefits certain sections of the society just do not respond positively in measures of improvement of their own station in life much less "working on things to improve everyone's else (lives)".

A good - and I admit quite controversial - account of this kind of malaise is recounted in the British Channel 4 documentary, Benefits Street [1] [2]

[1] Benefits Street Season 01 Episode 01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlrLp-R4g_M

[2] Benefits Street

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefits_Street
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Unless you are a janitor making minimum wage.
As article states it's not going to affect anything.
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The link is dead but it was a copy of the original post which is here: https://blog.process-one.net/advanced-erlang/
California and Washington were long major suppliers in the top 5 producing states, with California first and Washington fifth. The data for that was 2006-2008 era, when I studied this more closely, however, I find it unlikely either of those two has significantly slipped. In addition to the raw volume that they produce, they also serve as conduits for illegal drugs moved across the border (from Mexico and Canada). Oregon also produced, but the volumes were somewhat lower.

I have a conjecture that the weed prices in those states are artificially high, because the average person in those states is buying a premium product which there simply isn't enough supply/demand for in states with a) a less direct line to the source, and first selection of choice portions and b) a culture where the dominant cash crop in the state is marijuana -- usually by a non-trivial amount -- making the whole culture of marijuana endemic to the state. Of interesting note is that in 2006-2008, Washington (while fifth overall) was the state which produced the most hydroponically grown marijuana, which fetches a considerably higher price than much of the outdoor crop.

Oregon, then, is the first state that represents "the rest of the country" once you step away from weird effects right at the source, and seems to sit in a clear trough around California and Washington. (Such patterns existed back in 2006-2008, and also happened around Kentucky, which is another major producer state.)

tl;dr: Seattle people are pot snobs as well as coffee snobs, and the WA price of pot is high for the same reason the average cup of coffee in Seattle is high -- $4 lattes instead of $1 gas station.
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A very liberal friend applied to the Romney campaign during the previous election cycle and ended up working on his campaign. Didn't hurt his career at all, and he got a lot of good stories out of it.
What round of investment was that? And yes that is sound; in later rounds even a number which makes you never (at least the coming 10 years) having to worry about money so you can focus on your company 100%. If you do not do that you will not be able concentrate even when something trivial like having too little money for your family occurs for some reason. Which is bad for investors and everyone else involved in the company.
Oh, fair enough. I just believed the media.

As for Facebook I haven't heard anything about non-US workers, barely anything about non-tech workers except that painter who took stock.
You left zero contact information and you have no profile. At least tell us the company name.
I think you misread that sentence.

It's saying that extorsion is a criminal offense, not that only criminal offences can be extorsions. In other words, the criminal offense originate from the act of extorsion, not the reverse.
> As for railing against the nanny-state - give it a rest. Most people are not experts in everything and expert advice, say, from the AAP, should be heeded.

Did you read the article? They have banned iPads for children under 2 in Taiwan. There is a gulf of difference between expert advice and legislation.
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I am sorry if I was unclear in that. My comment (and similar comments in other threads) directly referred to criticism of Lennart for deciding that he doesn't want a vendor zone for systemd.

In regards to the DNS server comment: I said it elsewhere before, this is completely unrelated. You may disagree with the decision from a political viewpoint and that is totally fine. But from a technical viewpoint the usage of the Google DNS Servers is completely reasonable.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could've provided the licenses accordingly. eg: iCheck (MIT license)
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You're woefully misinformed about exactly how generous benefits in the UK are. People who do manage to live off benefits here can't expect a quality of life that even begins to approach comfortable.

You shouldn't let some opportunistic reality TV show be the basis for your world views.
This is one of my pet topics to bore people with: how we've now passed the point where data collection, or even accessibility, (for most subjects) is the hard part. 10 years ago, for many things, there simply was no data; or if there was, you didn't know it existed, or it was very expensive. Today, the problem is that we don't know what to do with all the data. Of course loading it into R and making scatter plots is fine and dandy, and one can easily spend days on writing elaborate dataset-specific analysis reports, trying out various techniques just because you've never used them.

But turning data into insights, or even further, actionable advice - that's a whole different story; and one that many people aren't really interested in (yet?), either, both researchers and practitioners...
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> At 23, I turned down the shot to be first engineer at Palantir (now rumored to be worth $20 billion!) even though Peter Thiel personally took me out to dinner to recruit me.

So he left (a lot of) money on the table, but aside from that isn't this a good thing? The NSA is a client of Palantir and I've assumed they write a lot of the software that spies on and tracks innocent people. Is this not correct?
I started to read this article and saw no mention of Sarbanes-Oxley. I searched for 'Sarbanes' and 'SOX'. How old is Farad Manjoo? How old is his editor? Or does this cluelessness come from the filter bubble of working for the New York Times?
Pascal is an extreme indeed, it is a large language and as such, unpractical. What is practical is embedding an imperative language with pointers and an unmanaged memory. And the practical value of such a language inside a meta-host is mostly as a building block for DSLs, not as something that end users would face directly.

It's really hard to convey the gigantic difference in expressive power between the meta languages and the primitive ones to those who never got even exposed to the higher level methodologies, who never built elaborate DSLs.

And no, you're wrong in assuming that there are "other extremes" providing a comparable expressive power at no runtime costs. There are none, provably. You mentioned implementing compilers or interpreters in any Turing-complete language - but it won't solve the interoperability issue between the host, the implemented new language and any languages you'd build on top, which may need to borrow semantic building blocks from your new language. As soon as you start to address these concerns, you'll end up turning your host into a proper meta-language (as I did with C, for example).
But we got all those great British bands out of the deal.
Also data flow, lifetimes, dependency management, case analysis, factoring & duplication elimination, plus all the usual CS suspects like algorithms and data structures. Software development is a lot of things.
What's the point of your post? OP provided an anecdote, I provided another. You're criticizing something that was never said.
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> You'll become DINKYs ("Dual Income, No Kids Yet") and thus you will have even more financial independence

Haha, thanks! She is currently studying, and we will probably have kids in the next coupe of years - when we do she wants to take care of them rather than working, so unfortunately not! At least being Europeans we have good social welfare.

> Could you please share the name of the community?

There isn't a HackerNews-for-bootstrappers, at least I've found nothing worthwhile. There are a lot of disparate communities depending on what area you want to get into (e.g. creating a consulting agency, building a SaaS, internet marketing, brick-and-mortar business, etc). Most of what I follow revolves around Microconf, here are a few notable podcasts:

http://bootstrapped.fm/

http://www.bootstrappedwithkids.com/

http://nightsandweekendspodcast.com/

http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

http://www.tropicalmba.com/
I'm not sure I understand your last sentence; could you elaborate?
I agree and I don't agree.

My 5 year old, while at a basic level, starting playing pieces of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" on our keyboard, unprovoked. I asked where she learned this song and she said the iPad. She plays a piano DDR type of game on the iPad and this is one of the songs.

I thought that was kind of neat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpzxKsSEZg
Worth checking out docker-compose for more complex setups (if you need a Redis and PostgreSQL database running for example). I have been using it for Node.js development for the past few months and it is really a life changer especially if you are working on multiple projects concurrently. Pro-tip: `echo "alias dc=docker-compose" >> ~/.zshrc`
How is this a 'native app GUI'? It's only OpenGL as far as I can tell?
Could they just have put a box over it and then covered it in concrete? First thing that comes to mind, not sure why it wouldn't work.
> It means that Haskell is almost never something I can expect a lot from, but a weird combination of extensions changing to "non-standard" behaviours.

I can't think of a weird combination of behaviors from extensions that would change semantics... maybe it's because I don't use that many extensions usually.

When I do they are related to type level programming and all they seem to affect is type inference.
Lets now play where do we think NSA GHCQ have tapped it.
People starting companies are driven, determined people who want to create things.

The vast majority of people are not. You're vastly over-estimating the general population. The majority are lazy, and if given money, will sit watching reality TV and stuffing their face with ice cream. (Step outside the startup bubble for a while). Most people are also selfish. The idea that they'll all start doing things to benefit others is a bit far fetched.

Communism (Which is what this is), has failed. Why this generation seems determined to try it again is beyond me.

This is about stealing money from the successful, and giving it to everyone, regardless of merit. It's a fantastic way to reward failure and penalise success, and society will suffer because of it. The numbers are also staggering - it just doesn't work mathematically unless you can magic up billions from somewhere each year.

Also be under no illusion - if a basic income was implemented, the chances are (Assuming you're better off than the average person) you would have to reduce your quality of life substantially to pay for it.
I was excited to see "native" UI -- which I read as using the specific OS APIs to create native controls.

This instead seems to be taking the Kivy OpenGL controls approach. It looks very nifty and as though it took effort by some smart folks.

I was only hoping for truly native controls so as to provide access to screen readers and other a11y solutions by default.
I have a question: when will Microsoft address things that their community is actually asking for (as opposed to e.g. VS Code and WinJS)?

Here is a handy list of top requests: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi...
Benefits incentivize you to not work, because if you do, you lose benefits.
Why is it absurd to first withdraw permission to publicly accessible service and then sue if the individual continues unauthorized?

I can easily imagine a public irc channel that ip blocks abusing users that post goatse links (not illegal in itself). If some of those users than bypass that block, is it unreasonable that the owner would want to sue in order to stop the abuse from the then unauthorized access to the irc server?
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