skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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,

That implies that being poor is a product of a personal 'failure'. Sometimes it is. From what I understand though, the vast majority of times it's not. Much like the vast majority of wealthy people aren't wealthy because they really worked at it, but because maybe they worked at it and mostly they were given opportunities that the less fortunate weren't.
"Communism (Which is what this is), has failed."

No it isn't, communism is a form of government, which in theory everybody is equal.

Basic income is a variant of welfare / taxes.
Example for such game ?
Interesting, thanks for that.

Here's a quick translation (I tried to do it correctly, but didn't want to spent too much time on it)

Utrecht starts experiment with basic income.

16-06-2015 • 10:15

Everhardt2

After the summer holidays Utrechts starts an experiment around the basic income. Counciller Victor Everhardt from "Work and income" likes to see if a basic income principle works in practice.
"It would be more simple if the system is again based on trust."

Why this experiment?

I have been counciller "Work and Income" for a year and I think that it's a sign of civilisation that people who, usually temporary, but sometimes also longer, cannot take care of their income get social security benefits. At the other end of that system we have built up a huge verification system, often based on mistrust.

People with benefits usually have to take into account a large number of rules, like welfare, special welfare, rent assistance, children welfare etcetera. All these systems have their own verification mechanisms. There's a forest for the trees amount of rules and verification methods. It's quite easy to get stuck here. It would be a lot simpler if we could base the system again on trust.

People could abuse this and not go to work?

From our data it appears that less then 1.5 percent abuses the welfare payments system.
However, before we get into all kinds of principle debates about should we do this or not, we would like to research how a basic income system works.

What happens if somebody gets a monthly payment without additional rules and verifications? Will such a person go sit at home passively or is that person more motivated to develop him/herself and make a meaningful contribution to our society with paid or voluntary work?

How are you going to research that?

Together with the University of Utrecht we have designed an experiment at which people who live on welfare get to meet specific regimes. For example a group that works with rewards and 'jobs' for a payment, another group with a basic income without any additional rules and of course a control group that lives by the current rules.

And are you allowed to do this from the minister?

We have verified this at official level to see if an experiment with a basic income is possible and we have not yet heard "njet". In addition, minister Plasterk of internal affairs has announced that cities should get more room to experiment with existing law.
We think the basic income is very suitable for this.

When does the experiment with basic income start?

End of June we have an expert meeting about basic income with other cities that also have plans into the same direction, like Nijmegen, Wageningen, Tilburg and Groningen. Together we can make our call for more room of possibilities for cities stronger. In addition we like to start with the experiment in the second half of this year.

(deStadUtrecht.nl – Mario Gibbels)

edit: spelling, readability and line spacing
true, I'm talking about fairly generic Ubuntu VMs out in the fog. But basically, the facilities available cover my common use cases very nicely on the occasions I actually have to write a startup script - I'm finding an upstart config vastly preferable to cobbling together an init shell script, and have yet (out of about 5-10 cases) had to resort to a shell script.
How many of those visual hooks are provided by syntax highlighting? You have that in Lisp as well. Moreover, you don't need that many syntax hooks; you learn to recognize words, just like when reading a book, and also indentation structure.

> Array programming languages aren't used for scripting (e.g. games), are they?

They've been used at least once, if you count one demo and one game I wrote in MATLAB. Man, you wouldn't believe how convenient array languages are when you need to do, things like polygon mesh interpolation (morphing), not to mention actual array operations like multiplying matrices or vectors. MATLAB may be a crappy language, but the array operations? I wish I had them in C++/Java for games.
On-demand startups get more heat over using contractors
I wonder if it's equivalent to the distraction of an open office?
Interesting. I did the opposite a couple of months ago.
How Many Games Do You Need to Sell to Make Profits Off Linux Ports?
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Unsustainable increases to national debts and/or the IMF? Good luck running a country on that basis...
Exactly. But they have to shop/eat/live somewhere, and laying on heavy regulation and taxes doesn't help.
"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."

Looking at populations of people who have gone from being very poor to being very rich overnight does not support that statement. Most of the time the money is more of a curse than anything else. I believe the same goes for people who go from very poor to receiving an annuity from things like legal settlements, but I am only guessing at that.

(I'm not arguing against it, I think it's an experiment worth having)

I think there is are a few hidden premises here that need to be called out: the premise that having more money is better for everybody than having less, the premise that not struggling at all in life -- whether for personal goals or paying the rent -- is better than struggling, the premise that everybody will respond in a positive way to the same external stimulus, and so on.

I find many of these premises dubious, but I cannot deny the fact that I personally feel better the more folks in the world that go to bed without being hungry or sick. The trick is separating my personal desire to feel good from what actually may be happening with various policies I would support. That's why we need more data here. It's very easy to grandstand something like this either way. There's a lot of smoke but very little light.
I don't get it. A lot of people (e.g. a16z) are saying that late stage financing / "private IPOs" are keeping the wealth in private investors instead of public investors when there is a public IPO.

But- the investors in these "private investors" such as Hedge Funds, PE funds or even late stage mutual funds (Rowe Price / Fidelity...) are LPs such as pension funds. The money in these pension funds are that of the common man again right?

So the common man is taking a longer term view & getting a better return through alternative investment vehicles (PE funds etc).

That is a good thing overall right? We complain about public markets being short term. But then we also complain about common people taking a long term view via LPs investing in late stage funding.

From the article:
If the private investors are wrong, employees, founders and a lot of hedge funds could be in for a reckoning. But if they’re right, it will be you and me wearing the frown — the public investors who missed out on the next big thing.
> If Netflix does not have a sufficient nexus with Chicago to force them to collect, I too would like to see them tell Chicago to go suck donkey lincolns

Sadly, Netflix appears to have a shipping center in Chicago (and 3 more in other parts of Illinois), so they probably can be forced to collect.

Spotify appears to have an office in Chicago (their jobs page has an opening for Sales Development Manager, Midwest, listed as being in Chicago, and Chicago is an item on the location dropdown on that page).

Apple has two retail stores in Chicago.

Amazon has a warehouse there.

Microsoft has an office there.

Rackspace has a datacenter there...and I just realized that tzs.net is in that data center. Oops. I'm not selling anything, so it's not a problem now, but I'll probably move it to Dallas to future proof it.
Or there will be an exception for "Critical to the National Interest" traffic, so banking data would be exempt.
While it's true there's a lot of research, using ReLu instead of tanh and sigmoid was a pretty much low-hanging fruit that took a lot of time to be applied
I tried to run the same image in it a few times.
http://imgur.com/5Hsuoiy

Since you have this all set up, can you make some feedback loop animations for example with zooming? Or apply this to each frame of a movie? For example something famous like Charlie Bit My Finger. Hopefully using the deeper more horrifying setting.
I wonder, if GPGPU becomes more common would that mean that it's time to switch to chips that have smaller cores, but more cores ?

I mean current GPU architecture is very good at vectorization, but is it possible to have a chip that has bigger cores than GPU has, but smaller that the ones on a CPU ?

It really seems that we have big cores because managing an OS requires it, but I wonder how realistic it is to make a computer that use more massive parallelism, there are many algorithms out there that can be alternative to sequential ones.
I'd be happy to see kids actually explore and discover not only their games, but also the machines that the game runs on. That's mainly why oppose giving tablets and phones to kids.

This is very relevant: http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...
Wrong. The majority isn't lazy, the majority is rebelling, in a passive-aggressive way. Faced with a job that they easily recognize as worthless economic make-work, they do as little of it as they must. Faced with having their mental energy drained down to nearly nothing, they prefer no-effort recreational activities like TV.

Basic income will unleash a temporary plague of laziness, as people snatch back control of their own life, raise a middle finger to the world that has hurt them, and seek comfort activities and recuperation. This will continue for a month or two, and then they'll get intolerably antsy for something constructive to do. It's at this point that you'll start to see how much human creativity was stomped upon by "the 9-to-5".
It's amazing how wholesale scraping of data was being celebrated, because the scrapers "were making the internet better".

This is the first topic I've seen were the HN's usual Libertarian bias disappears and no-one challenges the underlying notion that CL is seen as part of the Commons. Channelling Dagny Taggart, I'd say 3Tap & PadMapper were a bunch of moochers.
Odd, i find nothing in the fstab man file about nofail.

And all that the mount man file says on it is that it suppresses error messages.

Neither dictates any specific behavior when said errors show up.
Ark is a systems programming language somewhere inbetween C and C++
2. I like it not so much as a strict security device (it's easy enough now-days to change the keyboard layout with the mouse), but as a means to discourage the annoying co-workers/bosses who rudely grab your laptop to "show you something".

4. I found my typing speed DID increase when moving to Dvorak, most likely for the fact that it enforced proper touch-typing discipline, since I _have_ to memorize the key locations now.
Norway is extremely different than for example US. With all due respect, I'm sorry, I can't see Norwegians happily supporting social programs if they are mostly designed to help immigrants. US is immigration based. What about Norway consisting in 15-20% of Blacks, than the other 80% coming from all over the world. I believe that about 75% of all Americans are immigrants, their children, or their grandchildren. Would you not mind supporting Latinos, Blacks, Poles, Russians, Germans, Brits, Indians, Pakistanis, and whoever else is there in this pot?

I think in Norway it would end up with much worse results than in the US. I think Norwegians in this case would vote for some kind of nazi stuff. It's enough for you to have a few immigrants here and there to become extreme right.

So, please don't compare and don't think you are any better. You are not.
I wonder if it would remain distracting for long - as someone who has worked in some very large buildings that would seem more confusing than what's shown in the pictures here, after a week I tend to have memorised most of the layout I need and it becomes more or less second-nature. If they were moving the walls regularly, that would be a different matter...

If anything I'd say the odd-angled rooms and visually "rich" environment give more navigational affordances than relatively featureless, repetitive structures like straight hallways and rows of doors: "Go straight until the ceiling turns blue, bear left and turn right at the yellow wall." I think I'd be far more likely to get lost in a place like this:

http://c1038.r38.cf3.rackcdn.com/group1/building3277/media/5...
As a parent (11 years now) and an introvert, I'm convinced that early development depends on lots of direct involvement, and screen time is detrimental.
You shouldn't let some opportunistic reality TV show be
the basis for your world views.

Well if Western societies didn't function in a miasma of political correctness highly sensitive to even the least prickly of criticisms perhaps Channel 4 or any other outlet for that matter wouldn't have seen a need to reach for an alarmist tone in the way they fashioned their programming in matters such as this, that one could argue have influenced the most recent UK national parliamentary election.

The opinion polls suggested quite the opposite outcome [1] which goes to prove that many of the voters were quite concerned about the issues such as these and general direction in which UK as a sovereign nation was headed, but rather stopped short of voicing them openly, lest they be branded prejudicial or worse.

[1] Election 2015: How the opinion polls got it wrong

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32751993
There is a huge difference between everyone gets exactly the same regardless of merit* (communism) and everyone gets a guaranteed income on which you can just barely make a living (basic income).

The second doesn't disincentivize working, as you still get increased rewards if you work or work harder.

* Unless you are in a position of power of course, then you deserve more.
I think that if you are able to do deep research in nuclear fusion or a cure for cancer you should also be able to find the way of earning a good salary under any circumstances and at the same time finding a way of allocating time for your real passion. Great people become greater under difficult circumstances. I don't think basic income should make a real difference in that. You can't change people with a formula but I think there is a lot you can do to motivate and coach people, opium is not a solution. Could be basic income the opium for the people?
In my experience, tablets over-simplify that process to the point of promoting atrophy. Kids need challenges, not crutches.
So it runs games now?

ZING
We already provide public schooling to develop basic skills. But, many adults aren't capable of being productive, regardless of motivation. And even absolutely low-skill jobs are being automated out, like McDonalds cashiers being replaced by machines.

Not everyone is smart enough to be productive in a competitive society.

The basic income is going to prevent larger potential problems with them, like crime or health costs or decreasing property values or other social expenses, beyond their immediate income expense.

These people already cost you money. The basic income is the option where you pay them little now so you don't have to pay a lot for them later.
> But the API appears to be write-only

You can list your bookmarks (= saved articles), your folders and you can even fetch the processed-text HTML content for the bookmark, what else do you need?
It's not certain, but I just am surprised I found myself fighting on their side, at least for the issues mentioned above...
> The documentation from uWSGI is really great

I don't think the documentation is really great. I think it is terrible. Every page seems to assume you understand the internals and the documentation attaches fancy names to concepts that are difficult to understand from the documentation.

For example, "workers' mercy", "zerg mode", "emperor mode", "the zeeg problem", "uwsgi mules", "harakiri mode".

I for one would like uwsgi a lot more if it focused on a few simple patterns that worked for the majority of cases and explained them thoroughly, including their tradeoffs.
Given what I have seen, I think 2 is too young to start them on screens.
> Communism (Which is what this is), has failed. Why this generation seems determined to try it again is beyond me.

Isn't communism about central economic planning? Basic income is explicitly capitalist. No-one decides who ought to do what. We just distribute money, and let the market determine what to fund with it.
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Kind of cool, but it seems a bit overkill. If the guys are trained in river rescue scenarios, throwing a rope across should be relatively easy and a lot faster on a river of that size. Speed is often a very important factor in river rescues.
I love downvotes without explanation. You know I'm right, so you don't discuss. I certainly take a lot of satisfaction from this.
There's a similar issue here in Denmark, it seems that every problem can be fixed by giving schools iPads.

One school that bought 700 iPads for their students now reported that: "Yeah, their sort of useless, and laptops would have been better". That's weird to me, you buy 700 iPads, only to find out that most of the software the kids need doesn't work on an iPad, and that their aren't great for productivity. Why where schools so instant on iPads/tables to begin with? It seems that we're pushing technology into class rooms, without any plan.
I doubt people are starving in developed countries so I wouldnt say it's taking anyone out of starvation, it's an alternative to existing welfare in that regard.

And when we get to "basic shelter" well coupled with free health care I guarantee you there are people out there who have very little ambition beyond that, I know more than a few from highschool that literally said things like "all i need is enough money to play WoW" or just work enough to earn money for weed and go out with their friends and live with their parents (and these are people in late 20s early 30s).

People with ambition aren't the ones that benefit from minimum income (unless they get really unlucky, which I guess is a valid concern, but then again those same people are not the ones doing the bottom tier jobs, at least not for long).

Also that's not how I saw basic income schemes suggested, usually it's paid out to people below min income and then progressively lowered to some point otherwise the taxes would have to be insane to finance it.
Collect taxes at high stakes -> Give money away for free -> Expect from people to be happier. Why governments just decrease some tax rates and let people to choose what to do with their own money?
It could be self funded, most advanced economies have a progressive tax system, if they switched to a flat tax system and moved the lost tax benefit to basic income it would be mostly cost neutral.
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No doubt. Had companies in general not taken advantage of employees nobody would even be considering this option. This is what you get when companies look at the bare minimum they can pay somebody for the work they want.
I still use Debian on eeepc 1000H, which is over six years old, I suppose. I love everything about it, except that it is too underpowered now to even watch youtube in 720p. It's mic and camera gave in, some buttons are missing, it can not handle much anymore. I thought about getting old 13" MBP and installing Debian, but systemd is too bothersome. I'm not sure about hard and soft anymore..
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One such option that I am aware of is kivy[1], though I have not used it. It is a python based application framework library. I am not sure if it is fully mature but I have read good things about it on reddit.

[1] http://kivy.org/#home
Err, to help people who don't have any money?
Just go to a country with really high labor costs. This is exactly what you'll see. Lots of work goes undone because people just don't care enough to pay for it. Usually just cosmetic or convenience stuff.
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Redistribution is not a zero-sum game. With every redistributional loop, politics get influence they can convert in votes, power, etc.

..and this is not cynism, just regular public choice.
Link to Google's article: http://googleresearch.blogspot.in/2015/07/deepdream-code-exa...
> lazy people can see themselves as completely disposable objects

Many people who are in long term unemployment already feel that way. (I think that's my case.)

There is no political motivation to just take unemployed people and just create businesses and do something with them, so I think it's a problem of entrepreneurship. It should be a huge opportunity, but it's not getting done for a simple reason, people consider lazy people to be subhuman moocher and they don't want to deal with them. It is plain stigmatization. People pity the unemployed, but they don't want to help them eitherway.

The thing about the UBI, is that it simplifies the process of welfare, but it also stimulates consumption, which in turn boosts the economy.
IQ is not a valid indicator of intelligence.
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Anecdotally, I have found that my focus welcomes slight distraction, in various forms - tv show I already know by heart, stupid silly shows, instrumental repetitive music, music I'm extremely familiar already...

Basically, when I'm at risk to lose focus from task at hand, this steals it, and it's rather boring compared to what would most likely be highly abstract contemplations, totally new ideas and so on, so your focus returns to original task since immediate alternative provided is dull affair.

It somehow "eats up" part of my nature that nudges me to lose focus. It's maybe analogous to how rain noise gobbles up various distracting sounds.
> there shouldn't be legal limits on that kind of behaviour to a publicly accessible system anyways.

Are you sure about that? So you don't want any legal recourse for someone that overloads your API/web servers with thousands of requests per second? You might say a technical solution (like rate limiting) would do - but that will cost you time & money with no upside, and can be easily circumvented (use many clients in parallel with the same effect - hammering your server and increasing your costs)

I think a law for that is fine, as a last resort. It will keep people at their best behaviour.
Simulated lsd?