skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like this is not a "saturation" site for testing the basic income theory. All participants appear to start with the same income, but the basic income group receives their income with no strings attached. This can create some unfortunate incentives that would not occur had everyone received a basic income.

For example, if you have one group with a basic income and one group without a basic income in the same population, the group without would be more likely to be hired for low wage jobs because that salary is much more important to them. If everyone had a basic income, then all potential hires would be on an equal footing and it would not look like the non-basic income group is more employable.

One way to test the basic income theory is to give everyone a very low basic income and then slowly increase that amount over time. If basic income works, it should be beneficial even at low rates that do not massively disrupt the tax and welfare system. When this is seen to have beneficial effects (or at least not adverse effects), the rates can be increased.
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Don't ask, it's only hurting.
What you say may or may not be true, but such a sweeping statement about humanity needs to be backed up with facts. Has anyone studied whether people are generally lazy?
So if you have a thought of having a panic attack even though no health problems would cause just the mere fact of fearing a panic attack can cause one?
Sort of. You can definitely be up and running relatively easily, it's just there are so many different knobs and switches and ways to set things up, you never know if you are doing things the right way. I also agree that the documentation is not particularly helpful and sometimes it's contradictory. The software itself is rock solid though, gives me very little trouble (other than logrotate & emperor mode being a pain)
Is \v being mentioned in specifications really causing a problem? I've never seen someone mistakenly use a vertical tab in code where they could be using something better.

Maybe it's useless, but I wouldn't say it's harmful. This is a pretty overzealous rant over nothing: it's almost as useless as the vertical tab.
It was the long-standing failure to handle code blocks and pull in images that moved me from Instapaper to Pocket. Have not looked back and finally got around to just nuking the instapaper app on my phone. After getting an early lead on the offline article niche Instapaper just squandered any goodwill by doing nothing to improve the product.
That's true, and I know this from first-hand experience. Having an unstable financial situation, constant worrying about how to support 4 people and pay off debts pretty much shuts down your ability to do anything creative. It didn't stop me from having ideas, it didn't even stop me from starting to work on them - but it always stopped me from advancing on them - either because lack of money for required components, or being too stressed out worrying to focus on doing the theoretical/software work. So in the end I ended up opting for watching stuff and reading books as a way to tune down before another day of struggle.

And yes, I am a programmer. You can end up in shit as one too. I made some bad work choices before and ended up pretty much not being paid for half a year.
It's a disturbing trend in tech that's going on.

Here's an upvoted, but vile, close-minded, comment from another thread:

The [general populace] are lazy, and if given money, will sit watching reality TV and stuffing their face with ice cream.

The arrogance of techies is getting obscene, but the reality is we lucked out on enjoying mucking around with computers and now we're starting to believe we deserved it all along...
Random fact: Microsoft PowerPoint inserts a vertical tab when you press Shift+Enter, e.g. to start a new line inside the current bullet point.
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Raise your hands if you feel "terror" at this news.

Yeah, this isn't "terrorism"...
We will do it next time.
Yes, why not? They are 200 km apart, coordination would be extra effort while the need for it was small.
As far as I know, Windops Phone 8.1 can do it, and it can be turned off.
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Sorry, but I actually am using RS, FS in the equivalent of a CSV import. It's ASCII, folks.
cool photos. Every time I see an article about cables like this on HN i think of the Mother Board Mother Earth article by Neil Stephenson. Worth the time if you haven't read it.
http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html
> From the POV of medieval people We're already in a less-scarcity scenario. We just don't like to share, as a species. I highly doubt technology will change that.

It seems to me that technology will force that change on us. In a world when a robot can do every job you can, only faster and better, and doesn't eat, sleep or complain, there's little use for you and me. So either we get rid of the whole concept of jobs or starve (or stop the progress, but good luck with that, the very system that threatens to destroy us is the one that's driving progress).
> It’s designed expressly to make workers get and feel lost, because, as neuroscience shows, disorientation keeps people alert and expecting the unexpected.

This is an example of taking the science out of context. I think it's pretty obvious that this type of disorientation applies in a new environment. The employees who work there every day? Pretty quickly you'll learn the in and outs of your own workplace.

Without this premise as the reasoning for the architecture, to me it just seems like another tech firm eager to spend its money.
Debate, sure. But how long did it sit as default before it officially shipped?
Why would competition increase?
> biased reporting

The idea that "unbiased" reporting exists is a modern myth. There is bias in simply deciding the topic to report on.

The modern idea that "unbiased" is somehow a virtue just leads to the CNN phenomenon where every story has to have two sides regardless of what the situation actually is.

One of the purposes of journalism is to make the decisions about what is "news" and what is junk. Obviously these criteria are going to depend on a lot of personal interpretation, so the key to good reporting is to know and understand how the reporter judges a story - their bias - so their reporting can be properly weighted.

In this sense, techdirt is quite open an obvious with their bias, and is fairly consistent in style, which is something I wish I saw a lot more at "news" websites.

(how you interpret that bias is another matter entirely)

As for their content, while I agree techdirt can be one sided at times, I have never seen any serious lies, either direct or by omission. Maybe I've just missed them?

Speaking of which, I don't see how reposting a quote that was included in the techdirt article is supposed to be evidence of them being "one sided" or "not even trying to actually represent the truth".
I wish there was a translation of this article into English: https://decorrespondent.nl/511/waarom-arme-mensen-domme-ding...

Basically, the argument is that "poor people do stupid stuff" because their "intelligence bandwidth" is being sucked up by worry about where to find the next meal/rental payment/etc. leaving no brainpower for what we well-off and spoilt folk would call "constructive pursuits".
... and the two remaining nameservers look to be run by the same organization; the /16 that they both reside in (49.212/16) is being announced by "Sakura Internet" (AS9371).

It looks like they do have multiple upstreams, though.
This surprises me a bit:

"All requests should be made via the POST method, and all parameters should be passed in the POST request-body and not in the query-string."

So even typical GET are sent as POST (/api/1/bookmarks/list)

Is there any reason to do that?
I'm a strong supporter of the concept and motivation behind universal basic income, but I admit I don't understand one part of the calculations - what's the solution for the problem of prices universally rising to the point of cancelling out the UBI? I mean, if everyone suddenly gets additional $500 a month to spend, how do you prevent the market from correcting for that?
I wonder why these are no longer used. There is the obvious visibility issue, but tab delimited files are still quite common. I wonder if it was because languages (particularly C, and all languages which copy the C convention) don't provide escape characters for them?
Rise of the head of UX: management fad or foundation?
I think the basic argument for testing this is that in the future it might very well be the case that only a small portion of society can do "meaningfull work". Think of an AI future or a vastly automated one.

Sure one solution is pushing the wages of say a factory worker up so it's enough to sustain them. In reality we'll probably reach a point where lots of manual labor jobs shouldn't rationally be done by humans. It's a very hard problem to solve imo and naive "comperative advantage though" isn't the answer.

I mean I can see a ton of reasons against base incomes but I also don't see many good answers for a scenario where say half the currently working population could be "optimized away".
...in which we learn the real reason you're against UBI—dirty immigrants.

I really fail to see how this can be anything other than an argument for more fair/equal wealth distribution in the world. If most countries had similar schemes, then why would the "good for nothing immigrants" go to supposedly scrounge in the US?
the only 'slow' moments are when visiting some Javascript-infested site
which insists on doing senseless things to a perfectly functional browser.

If you happen to be using Firefox, look into the Noscript extension.
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In other words, they put themselves in a boring industrial terrain in a boring suburb, just like any other boring company, and then try to recreate the creative impulses you get if you would live and work in a lively city.

What they cite is their motivation is exactly why I live and work in an urban environment, but the office is supposed to be the place where I can focus in turning that input into productive results.
Actually, IBM didn't "invent" SGML, they participated. GML, which was invented by IBM in the person of Charles Goldfarb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Goldfarb, was a major influence in SGML.

And HTML came before XML.
It wasn't by a long shot. This very practice was a major plot point of season two of The Wire, which was aired in 2003.
Computing is full of crappy re-inventions of things that already existed. For instance, many old style terminals could do fields and validation of those fields.
This site has been around for a long while and is one of the better resources for entry level reading on that subject
I lived in the UK during 1996-97 and there were plenty of stories in the news about the "poorer" countries being allowed to join the EU. Greece being the chief among them.

You're right, they knew but they didn't care.
And yet the internet keeps working.. :)
Docker.io still resolves for me, and i guess many others do?
I'm wondering how much of the last thousand years of culture is at risk. It's a new ecosystem without any local maximum. Globalization has value, but cultures too, and right now cultures are mostly 'preserved', they're not really alive, we keep tradition but I don't see new food, new art forms.. Am I wrong ?

Having isolated spaces to create leads to 'biodiversity'.
Cut defense wastage. Uh, sorry, I meant defense spending.
So if I make a public website, you get to re-use the content on it however you like? Err, no.
He could get a good placebo effect with this if he communicate well :) That s the only thing that i could imagine as a good effect
... this feels beyond absurd.

Attention and focus is important. Sounds like start-up kool-aid to me.
I was also under the impression that the only difference between the Greeks and Romans when it came to warmongering was that the Romans fought fewer internal wars (an advantage of not being composed of local fiefdoms and direct democracies, perhaps?) and had greater superiority over the surrounding nations...
I would use two mutually recursive functions rather than a single recursive function, as it’s possible for an implementor to implement TCE for recursive functions, but not for the general case.

I’d also up the number. That code runs fine in Safari for 20,000, I had to use 200,000 to get it to break.
Basic income would need to be pegged to the CPI or some standard of living.

I imagine partitioning living NEEDS [housing, food, transportation] as an area of the economy with its own money/token/basic-income-credits system separate from the WANT economy of everything else.
Economic experiments can never really have a control group, so what the Dutch government learns from this will depend greatly on the theory they already have when interpreting the data.
They are not punished, but praised and rewarded. Draghi was head of GS Europe at that time, now he is head of the ECB, with the power of ELA, OMT and Q€ to control the fate of nations.
every y out of x times a DNS recursor will fail to resolve .io .... ratio of y:x is based on complex srtt algorithms, and traffic levels. Not a big issue for popular hostnames like docker.io because most recursives would have the delegation in their cache.
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Get users -> deactivate 3rd party access to API -> lose users -> reactivate 3rd party access

The circle of life. Wonderful.
It gets even better:

> If the response is not valid JSON, it should be interpreted as an HTTP 503 "Service Temporarily Unavailable" error, and the request should be retried later.

Why not just return 503?
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It is truly ugly. I say that out of wishing that they had designed it differently.
I don't have experience with this specific Go-QML bridge, but I've developed a number of applications with a QML front-end talking to a Go background process via HTTP and/or WebSockets, packaged together to appear as a single app. Works very well.

Qt is obviously very solid, definitely "production quality," while QML is solid in the sense of not buggy and the UI looks/feels/performs quite well on Windows/Mac (haven't tried on Linux). But QML can be slightly to considerably irritating to use because it's not always clear or intuitive how to accomplish something or why something isn't working the way I expect, and I usually don't find many examples/tutorials when I turn to Google. That said, it's far, far more enjoyable to build an app with QML than with HTML/CSS/JS; I'm way more productive and the result is an actual application rather than a weird facsimile.
For basic goods there would be more demand (people who can't afford even basics would enter the market making the total market larger) in turn making it more attractive to compete there. People always go where there is opportunity.

We are also on a long term trend of prices coming down in any case.
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If we redistributed wealth around the world, everyone would be poor, unable to start companies, etc etc. Does that really solve anything useful?

You do realise that if you redistributed wealth over the world, you would be drastically worse off don't you...
The concrete would have to cure properly to have any significant effect, which takes time on the order of weeks.
Often benefits put you in a situation where it makes no economical sense to pursue a job. I have a friend who lost her mother and had a pension that would be taken away if she got employed, but the pension itself was much bigger than she could ever dream of earning at that time (hell, it was bigger than I was earning in my first two programming jobs). So there's your incentive to go and get employed.

Or another example; until not so long ago, my mother (single parent) got social benefits that would disappear if my own personal income would exceed a particular (not very big) amount, and this would turn into a problem with paying rent and feeding her and my siblings. She also spent some time unemployed after a company she worked in went bust (the original owner died, and his son mismanaged it into the ground), because all jobs available for her wouldn't even pay enough to cover the lost benefits.

Basically, living at the lower end of income spectrum is incredibly hard, and you end up doing a lot of weird calculations. When working hard for 8+ hours a day pays you less than not working at all (and caring about your kids instead), suddenly this "laziness" becomes a perfectly rational choice.
> Craigslist killed two companies

... but they didn't. Those two companies killed themselves by building their entire business off of data that the didn't have the right to use.

And it's not like they were led to believe that the data was usable. It was clearly marked as not usable, for the exact purpose they used it for.

It may be that your personal opinion is that once a piece of text is on the internet, it's fair game to use. But it's not. Thankfully.

Chances are we're both wrong (you legally and me libertarianally). But the only thing we've established here is that we disagree.
While it's nice that TCO is in the ES6 specification the fact is not one JavaScript engine implements it. Not one. The Babel transpiler implements a rather limited form of TCO, but hey, that's better than nothing. Meanwhile an alternative to TCO is to use a trampoline which I've blogged about here https://taylodl.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/functional-javascri...
The English language is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, second only to Mandarin. That English is used almost everywhere is only one of the many advantages of learning the language. This website http://preply.com/en/english-by-skype will let you chat with native english speakers
Yes, basically I do mean that. It's not exactly that I gave him an iPad as an experiment, but the times he somehow got an iPad I 'experimented' with not taking it away.

Eventually, I felt like I should take it away, though. (And I did.) The reasons basically boiled down -- as much of being a parent does -- to gut feeling. The way he played with most iPad apps didn't seem healthy. He plays with blocks, builds a tower, it falls down... sometimes he is upset about that, sometimes he laughs. But his experiments with blocks and trains somehow lacked this obsessive quality.

I mentioned it in my reply to jasonkester elsewhere in this thread, but I felt like he was a kitten and the iPad was a laser pointer. He couldn't/wouldn't stop himself from using it, even when it was obvious that it had passed the point of being fun and became this frustrating, negative experience.

At such a young age, under two, the brain really is working on the basics. Weight. Gravity. Hard. Soft. Big. Small. Etc.

As he has grown, some of the things he can do with the iPad are getting pretty neat (painting, music, etc) and he does get a little bit of (supervised) iPad time now.

It's hard to say at this stage, but I wouldn't be surprised if we let him do iPad for an hour a day (or an hour or two every few days) by the time he is say, four. It depends on what we see him doing with it, and how observing that makes us feel as parents.

I'm just speaking from my experience here, because I am not an expert on brain development and things like that. But I do really think there is a qualitative difference between e.g., physical wooden blocks and blocks on a screen. In general, younger than two just seems self-evidently too young.
Yes, that is absolutely unreasonable. Instead the irc channel should be set to +m and voice given to non-abusing users.
>the group without would be more likely to be hired for low wage jobs because that salary is much more important to them.

That's not necessarily how it would work. In the UK we've had a top up with tax credits for low paid jobs. What we've seen is an explosion of low paid part time jobs as businesses know people will take them as their income will be topped up by the govt.
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Wow... what a stupid idea. But hey, it's cheap PR!
Our CI server monitor has 3 modes: Red, Green, and Tiger Cage Released.

Future iterations will involve individual angry badgers in climbing harnesses located above each developer's desk. `git blame' will identify the build-breaking commit and react accordingly.
What's troubling to me is that the objections being raised here are all about how they went about it, not that the whole idea of social engineering is somewhat problematic in the first place, condescendingly paternalistic and robbing ourselves of moral independence and autonomy, etc.
"The dark side of .io: How the U.K. is making web domain profits from a shady Cold War land deal"

https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-...
All the methods that need to append `add`, `delete`, `update` to the URI. Why aren't you just using HTTP methods for this?

Why do I have to POST everything? Do you know what POST is supposed to be used for?
In the US you have Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Pennsylvania Railroad to thank for the modern time zone system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_time#North_America
I think we've encountered another situation where developers who don't fully understand HTTP best practices and standards, are asked to adapt their internal API services to work on the web :(
It wouldn't work because the bomb was full of nitroglycerin. Concrete is strong but it would only possibly dampen the explosion. Also recall that the bomb was set to detonate without any delay if it was subject to even slight vibration. I wouldn't have volunteered to cover it in concrete.
https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-...

"The rights for selling .io domains are held by a British company called Internet Computer Bureau (ICB), [...] The British government granted these rights to ICB chief Paul Kane back in the 1990s. ICB gets to run .io “more or less indefinitely, unless we make a technical mistake,” Kane told me. (ICB has so far run a stable .io namespace. It should be noted that Kane is a respected veteran of the infrastructure scene, and has been entrusted by ICANN with one of the 7 so-called “keys to the internet”.)"

Ooops...
Haven't heard but thanks for pointing out. It might be pretty useful actually as I develop on OS X and use CoreOS in production.
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