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You'll do your snooping work to find this stuff out, because you can. Sadly, others can't do this to HN. Because HN software becomes increasingly opaque by the day. Users are forced to take you at your word, all the while comment score points are hidden, users are rankbanned without warning, users are slowbanned, etc.
What are some of your Firebase-powered apps? I'd be interested in trying them.
It is not always your choice when you will have a baby, and length of employment at a company should be the last thing to consider.
The problem described here seems to come primarily from the fact that nearly every single "meritocratic" measure that we use is highly correlated with income in large part because income is a VERY good predictor of future success. Finding a predictor of future success that cannot be gamed by income is exceedingly difficult and of vital importance of we wish to continue this pseudoquantitative approach to measuring human performance as a criteria for admission to ever more elite opportunities.
> Also, the article states there are "legions of coders" flocking to the site but I can't find much evidence of that

Possibly an instance of http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
The narrative assumes that working hard necessarily creates value for oneself, by investing in oneself as an asset. It makes no claims to one's effort building value for society as a whole.
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I think it is very feasible: in college you have opportunities for jobs where you can effectively get paid to study. I worked as: the greeter/pool ball distributor in my dorm every other weekend, the monitor in the cafeteria/study hall/student area one or two nights a week, and in the concession stand at events (only busy during breaks), and between those gigs I netted 20 or more hours a week. Almost all of this time was dedicated study time. I was frankly amazed at how few of these opportunities students took advantage off – every building and every dorm room had similar jobs and I was always able to pick up extra hours if I needed to. I had a few entrepreneurial friends that also worked night shifts at 7/11s or the front desks of nursing homes who were also able to get paid to study all through college. With the exception of the 7/11 gigs, studying was always encouraged. My impression was that college students felt these jobs were beneath them and/or did not take the time to seek them out. Once I entered law school the first thing I did was find a similar job – working the front desk at the law library during the night shift...
For most people, it won't be possible. Even if it is possible, it shouldn't be. If you can work that much (and take all your weekends off schoolwork), then you aren't taking challenging enough courses, and aren't getting your money's worth out of your education. School is a full-time job (and more).
> Blatantly false numbers in this article calls into question anything that the journalist said

It's VICE, what did you expect? I recommend EDGE for harder-hitting fact-based journalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWVNDfDSE44
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There was a lot of this in the PC hardware component / peripheral space in the 70's and 80's.

Probably not so much for end consumer devices, like you say.
Exactly. As per my previous comment, the currency of merit being traded in the orator's meritocracy is only defined within the Ivy Leauge-al community. The currency of merit that SHOULD matter is based on the collective suffering of humanity.
Considering that people only know your name because of your obsession with Turing, I'd say it's merely an interesting coincidence.
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Definitely. I didn't quite double mine each time, but I did get good raises out of jumping ship.

But that had nothing to do with better people leaving my target companies.
> But you have to allow that advertisement to be served, otherwise you are not paying for the content.

When is this contractual obligation established?

The first HTTP request goes to the host's server before I am even aware of whether they wish to send ads or not.

At that point neither party has agreed to any obligation.
It's a mediocre article. It glosses a bunch of history adequately and then points out a completely different anomaly. By "completely different" I mean "has all the signatures of an instrumental or analysis artefact." It's intermittent (huge red flag) and while the article doesn't say so (additional red flag) close to the threshold of observation.

There are completely mundane explanations (upper atmosphere models slightly wrong, unaccounted-for EM effects) so while there may be a fundamental cause (gravity is doing something exciting) the odds are that it's a boring effect, just like the superluminal neutrino observations.
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That's certainly a valid reading but I doubt that's how liberals would read it. The parent comment points out that the article does much to avoid upsetting a liberal reading-- which is a good point (and I agree)-- but probably not liberals thinking critically of the piece (which they likely won't-- it's a commencement address).
Demand has definitely shrunk but prices keep going up. The demand curve for schools aren't rational.
It is very difficult to leave things to the free market that you can't reasonably say no to. The same problem is true for health care. In a free market there is a transaction when both (all) parties agree on a deal, every party is free to say no. In education and healthcare a one-sided "no" means a less secure future or even death respectively. It means rich will continue to have better resources, live longer and be healthier. It means their children, who did no work to obtain their wealth have better chances.

I think a system where the schools/colleges/universities etc are paid with public money are more fair. Such a system provides a reset of opportunities for every generation. I think it will even lead to a better market as I can't imagine that "the top 1%" also provides the top 1% smartest and motivated children.

Of course everyone is free to vote for their own system, I'm just saying I would prefer to live in a country where I'm helped when I'm ill, no questions asked and where I have the same chances as any other kid of my generation.

Can you really blame Walter White for cooking meth when his life is on the line? Can you really blame a kid from a poor neighborhood when he ventures into crime? They are born with less chances than a kid that was born in better circumstances. The current American system judges and gives kids opportunities based on what their parents earn in stead of on their motivation and intelligence. It will be reflected in American markets. It will increase the gap between rich and poor because both are on a self amplifying course.

And don't start about Darwinism, this is past that, this is Darwinism of ideas: memes. And any brain can be "infected" by a meme, good or bad. Memes are not restricted to a set of genes and they are much more at the root of the economy than DNA is. And memes are perpetuated and destroyed by raising kids and giving them quality education.

I like the speech, it nicely points out the downsides of the current system for those on the inside of that system. Seems like the best way to start even though the people outside the system will probably shrug at the elites so called "problems".
Having worked in ERP, Ecommerce, Financial tech, and general SASS based tech stuff, I agree with you on the "not too many use cases where having schemaless is a good thing". In most cases it's a shortcut and an unnecessary tradeoff made by people to avoid the few technical issues like DB migrations (also, a solved problem in many ways as long as you don't attempt to reinvent the wheel). The only time I saw a good use for a NoSQL db was to store products in Ecommerce. Managing taxonomy and attributes was always a nightmare and everyone was constantly afraid of performance issues (being on Magento and battling the EAV system didn't help). It would have been great to have only the products being stored on a NoSQL instance and the rest of the data being on the traditional relational data store.
If you'd rather watch/listen: https://youtu.be/jLtzbOupsEE?t=6049
First of all, a barrier to entry is a barrier which would prevent a high human capital poor person from entering. The fact that poor people don't have high human capital is a separate issue.

Also, your narrative explaining why poor people have low human capital directly conflicts with the evidence. It's the hard working, highly stressed, wealthy people who's children are raised well.

https://www.nber.org/digest/jul06/w11895.html

In contrast, the lower income people living a life of leisure are the ones who's children are raised poorly.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/cps/a-profile-of-the-working...

I have no idea what you are talking about with "roof on your head". If you google statistics on working hours (you probably need to multiply annual hours worked and labor force participation), you'll see that hours worked per capita hasn't changed drastically since the 70's.
The middle class can't afford tutors, private school and the time to shuffle kids around to various enrichment activities.
Im in no way to related to YC, Techcrunch or Pando. But, I think in their power and willingness, YC was very much justified in escorting Pando out of the event. Would you let someone into a private event or party when they come without an invitation and you dont want them there? They were very apologetic and nice in escorting them politely and journalist mentions that. Why were white men and women randomly thrown in the article as if to highlight them when there is neither a need nor it adds any information to the story ? This is plain clickbait. When it is my event, Im free to invite whoever I want.
"Planned and managed economies don't generate enough production to even feed and supply their existing populations well."

Sorry to tell you but capitalist society as it exists is planned and managed economy. Large corporations are command economies.

You should see what science has discovered about the brain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
For a moment let's say that you're correct: the 1% indeed worked harder and smarter than the 99% to get there. Even given that, I think the important point that you're missing from the speech is that they are being rewarded much, much more than they used to for that. I don't believe that they are working much, much harder, or that they are much, much smarter, it's just that the reward Pareto curve has gotten that much steeper.

And what I think the author is arguing is that that's not necessarily a deserved, or good, thing.
> The part that really hurt my non-american sensibilities is when the letter points out a cost of 12cts/kWh.

That's commercial/industrial pricing. If Solar City is able to obtain status as a generator that can sell power on the open market (combining rooftops into blocks for firm generation using controlled release of power to the grid from sunlight stored in PowerWalls), they'll be able to "sell" power to Tesla at a much lower rate.

As a residential customer in Illinois, my cost is 6cents/kwh, and as low as 1cent/kwh between midnight and 5am.
1. Bootstrap,2. Foundation by ZURB,3. Semantic UI,4. Pure by Yahoo!,5. UIkit by YOOtheme.This is important and a deciding factor for many.

http://aimsely.com/
For anyone interested twitch.tv (live streaming website) has a section for programming[1]. Twitch archives all past videos so be sure to check those out as well.

The game development section often has good programming related content as well.

[1]http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Programming
When you say better startups, what do you mean?
Modern aristocracies perpetuate themselves across generations by training at the school and in the family when young, and then so-called "competition" in the market place. The anthropology/ sociology theory that looks at these dynamics is generally known as Practice Theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_theory

The current system has the dual advantages of plausible deniability (anybody can, in theory, get into Stanford and become a master of the universe, but family income and culture radically boost your SATs and character), and it allows for new blood to enter the system more easily than when you needed a pedigree.
The funny thing is, in several years of using Go in production in what are certainly non-trivial applications, I was able to find any bug either through log-debugging, often with the help of isolating code in unit tests, or through pprof, in particular the net/pprof integration. Just looking at my own experience, I never _needed_ an interactive debugger, or deemed it essential, but then, that's just one data point.
I might (with sadness) agree with you if this were the CEO of a Fortune 50 company. But that's not the case.
... or, for some of them, just correlated. Like expectation/demand of academic success in childhood.
Don't privatize education.

Yes, there are lots of countries where higher education is available at reasonable costs, including all top universities.
Discuss papers, and suggest them to specific venues
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> The only Google product I use is Google Maps

I tried Bing Maps the other day and was surprised how much more usable it is. It loads faster, moves faster, and actually has a nicer interface because it uses semitransparent text to show names of areas.
The article states "The excess educational investment [...] that children born into a typical one percenter household receive is equivalent, economically, to a traditional inheritance of between 5 and 10 million dollars per child": it _does_ cost money to provide this kind of environment. This is why the 1% gives birth to the next 1%, not because they're better than the rest (again, according to the article).
It's going to blow peoples' mind when they find out they can host a bare git repository and access it normally over http, ssh, file system, and more!

Oh wait, oh no! I told the secret!
I very rarely hear people complaining that the rewards for hard work and good education are too high.

Usually the claim is that the people at the top inherited their position rather than earning it, and that others didn't have a fair shot at getting it.

Obviously the latter claim is a far better narrative.
I think you've mistaken two desireable dimensions as a choice. A country like Norway beats the U.S. in both GDP per capita (PPP and nominal) and in all measures of inequality.
It is a little more complicated because you have to omit the previous rule as well (and overriding it may interfere with other CSS rules), so it should be:

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Here is another side of the coin. Some ideas might seem silly. In fact, some actually are! But let's say a couple of them make it and turn a profit. Did the idea change the world? Maybe a little. If that much. Here is the kicker: The idea will probably have changed someone's world for the better. You don't need to go out and change the world itself. Sometimes its enough to improve somebody's world. Who knows? Maybe its one of those uber drivers Ive met who have fallen into hard times and are driving a car around to support their families. Not world changing, but important. And uber, when you think about it, is a simple app where you request a car to pick you up. It has not resulted in world peace. But is definitely keeping some people from going hungry.
That is a pretty naive point of view. That amount of know-how, and I'm assuming he knows much more that has presented, is normal for someone who has been programming for 15+ years straight.

If you find yourself still seriously programming after a few years, try evaluating this position then.
Honest != being a dick. You can be honest whilst respecting the other person. Being a dick just shows that you are a dick.
I think it's wrong to believe the claims that Yale, Harvard, etc. have actually become meritocracies.

They absolutely are not. For undergrad, these ivy league schools are much more forgiving of grades from elite high schools.

"Well rounded" or "holistic" admissions also strongly favor upper and upper middle class activities and talents.

Admissions are gamed to such a large degree that it's all a game that is played out year in advance. And the middle class and poor students don't even know it's being played.
I have friends that fuss when I use the term 'white privilege' but what you describe is exactly what I classify as 'privilege'.

Buffett calls it the 'ovarian lottery'.
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It's nice to read an article that's balanced and does not try to hype everything up, like so much modern media is doing today. Nice find.
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Damn, I use them for Costco all the time.
Must have been very fun and rewarding. Are you suggesting this is how humans should live?
Regular expressions are probably one of the most practical and immediately obviously useful things to come out of automata theory.
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It's just his opinion. His opinion is that Bitcoin should be a single, unified, consensus-driven project - that's what trust in the network is built on. Without people following the same protocol, Bitcoin doesn't work.
The fact that poor people don't have high human capital is a separate issue.

It just moves the barrier.

It's the hard working, highly stressed, wealthy people who's children are raised well.... In contrast, the lower income people living a life of leisure are the ones who's children are raised poorly.

To be charitable, I'm betting that "hard working" and "leisure" have special definitions in this context.
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Sorry for not being explicit. My point was: you need to use a special API to do outgoing HTTP requests. This leads to vendor lock-in. In Heroku, you just do it.
Sweet grass (Hierochloe odorata) was recently shown to contain substances as effective as DEET.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierochloe_odorata
Thanks. I hadn't thought of it in those terms.
Cubes and Hypercubes Rotating

http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/math/4d/rotation/welcome.htm...
The old-timey prose is more appropriate than the speaker can possibly imagine. He still thinks law is an elite path to success, rather than the soul-degrading billable hour hell it is.

He does get one paragraph /almost/ right. What a dick. Which is it? Is every incentive wrong? Or is that thought a chicanery?

>
I wish that I knew. I could tell you—and I would mean it—that when you find an opportunity to trade a little money or status for a lot of freedom, you should take it . . . you should take it every time. But that thought—although honest and heartfelt—is a chicanery, akin to insisting that the rat-race is over. The fact remains that, for each of you individually, all the forces that have brought you to this point remain in play. Every incentive is wrong.
I'm in the same boat. I use ST3 as my primary editor and it's been quite stable.

The ST2 users are part of a significant chunk of developers who just use defaults. They use the default shell, default themes, default mail/calendar/IM client, etc. They don't toolsmith. Their motto is, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Considering the annoyance of dealing with unstable software, I can't blame them... much.
And your engineers work for free.
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Wait, when did GitUp go Open Source?

Also, how much up GitUpKit is explicitly tied to OS X? I'm really, really, really tired of OS X-exclusive applications.
Places like Harvard and Yale used to educate the elites themselves, but no more. Today the elites are the billionaires and hundred-millionaires who own the country's capital. Harvard and Yale educate the people who work directly for the elites - lawyers, CEOs, financiers, etc.

Like the Praetorian Guard of Ancient Rome, they derive significant power and wealth from the fact that they take orders directly from the elites. But since they are not the actual elite, they must endure intense vetting and culling at every level, and work hard often in harsh conditions (also like the Praetorians of old).

So the comparison in the original PDF is not exactly apples to apples.
Turning down an offer because it isn't right for your business is in absolutely no way whatsoever a 'failure', especially when turning it down still gets you many thousands of dollars worth of media coverage.
I've researched this for a long time; for many reasons, I believe it's him. He never cryptographically signed anything, so the lack of signature actually weighs in favor of the message's authenticity -- not against it.

"Something I only recently realised is that Satoshi's apparent policy(1)
of never making any cryptographically secure signatures to link together
his posts - or indeed any communication at all - fits well with the
avoidance of creating a central authority figure.
...
As you've often said, the biggest achievement by Satoshi in the creation
of Bitcoin was to create a system where the identity of the creator is a
mere historical footnote. We can probably go further, and state that
while doing so, Satoshi quite counter-intuitively took steps to avoid
even creating a pseudoanonymous identity."
- Peter Todd, https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015...

And of course, the most important sentence is from Satoshi's message itself:

"Bitcoin was designed to be protected from the influence of charismatic leaders, even if their name is Gavin Andresen, Barack Obama, or Satoshi Nakamoto."

So whether it's Satoshi or not, it doesn't matter; Bitcoin was intended to transcend even Satoshi's own influence.
The most important point in the narrative about inequality is that big inequalities are bad for society.

You don’t need a cast of super-rich, and the rest deep in debt in order to motivate people to perform. But this is where we are going.

The 'no left wing’ narrative if this: ‘we deserve it because we are better’.

It’s not really a very original claim.

All the privileged ‘classes’ in human history say that. In medieval Europe, Japan or anywhere, there was a warrior cast. These people were trained from birth to fight. They were also better feed and, as result, they were bigger. What do you think this people thought about their rights?

That doesn’t mean that personal merit doesn’t exist or that we shouldn’t reward it. It just mean that we have to be very aware of what are the trends and where this kind of thing goes if there is not some kind of corrective force in the system.
Urwid is cool, but still doesn't have very high-level widgets like Turbo Vision did to my knowledge.
I'm still not sold on the idea of using Dropbox and Git on the same folder. Would anyone mind explaining the benefits of having such setup?
>http://gitup.co/images/speed.png

I hope no-one here ever has to deal with a tree like this.