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Why would I do something I truly love for someone elses dream?
No. Just no. The future is not Detroit. The future of a few places is Detroit, but not the future of everywhere.
Thank you, dang, I appreciate the concrete guidelines. I was actually thinking of emailing you over this.

I promise you I will try to behave as you have proposed here. I think those are fair guidelines. In fact I very much appreciate your laying them down clearly like that. If the "no negativity" policy were as well fleshed-out as you just did here I think it would be more helpful.

I will abide by your rules because I want to keep posting here. But if I abide by the rules and you still detach my threads as off-topic, then it will have been an unfair deal in my opinion.

I'd be curious to know, respectfully, if you chided the user to whom I was replying, since what they said can easily be construed as instigation:

> No, it's not. The Eugenic movement started the quest for the "better" brain nearly a century and a half ago, and we all know how that turned out...

"we all know how that turned out" DOT DOT DOT is instigation and we all know he's rubbing the Holocaust on everyone's faces without spelling it out. To me that is a foul silencing tactic and it needs to be called out on. That is what I attempted to do when I made my "carry on" remark, after having substantially and politely fleshed out the topic in that same reply.

So as you can see, from my end your enforcement sometimes looks biased.

EDIT: In fact I'd like clarification on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10381398

Their post amounts to nothing more than "Intelligence research is actually 150 years old and it ended with the Holocaust".

Now what do you call that? Isn't that snarky flamebait? It looks like it to me. Shouldn't that claim be toned down a little? Shouldn't it be substantiated a little more?

I want to respect you but for that you will have to uphold your vetting standards equally amongst all players.
In addition to the others, repeat the name throughout the conversation. And when you see them again, say "Hello, caleb_thompson. How have you been?" If you can't remember their name, be honest about it and ask again, repeat it a few times again and try again.
Serious question: what function features do you think Python's missing, that C# has (other than the lambda point)?

Python indeed supports some functional paradigms:

- functions are first-class citizens

- list and dict comprehensions, generators

- map, filter, reduce, etc. for data pipelining (though these specific idioms are/were contentious [1])

- lambda for anonymous functions, though it indeed has limitations compared to other languages

- other useful functionality in stdlib such as the functools, itertools, and operators modules

- some built in immutable data types, such as str (strings), bytes (byte-strings), tuples, frozensets

You can read more here:
https://docs.python.org/3/howto/functional.html

[1] http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196
I think more accurately its that, as the recent article on telematics shows - that the stable availability of work itself is being slowly eroded.

We can continue down that track for a while before you'll get a sufficient population of disaffection for something drastic to "suddenly" become a movement.
> But I'd argue that the "jargon" version is more precise in most cases

Legalese is also more precise, but also violates the "give it to you straight" principle.
Totally agreed. Rare thing nowadays...
I'm not sure about the technology keywords. As a student you most propably won't have extensive knowledge of any technology. I simply don't believe that most HR persons know that somebody who has experience in Java from university courses is equally suited for a C# job.
I recall a story of a company that was analysing student loans, finding people most likely to pay the loan off and buying that debt.

So yes I expect there are already student credit default swaps somewhere.
>the rebels did not have surface-to-air missiles with that range.

they had it since end of June when Donetsk BUK battery was captured. Using those BUKs during the first half of July before the MH-17 the rebels dawned 2 Ukrainian AN-26 transport planes which were flying at about 7km height, much beyond the reach of MANPADs. The MH-17 was flying much north of the civil corridor and the rebels thought that they got another AN-26.

June 29, 2014

Russian source http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=1741703

(In English http://sputniknews.com/voiceofrussia/news/2014_06_29/Donetsk...)

Pro-Ukranian source http://www.unian.net/politics/934238-boeviki-chastichno-zahv...

Somebody's personal twitter mentioning capturing of the BUK systems in Donetsk https://twitter.com/lennutrajektoor/status/48328116547931340...

Read the tweets, people were clearly saying that airlines need to stop flying over Ukraine now.
I wasn't talking about games being the desensitising factor. I'm an avid player of games myself, many of them very violent. More about a climate where mass killing is more visible and has less repercussions or damnation - e.g. war.

US has been in more wars as the aggressor than any other country I'd guess, over the past couple of generations. Perhaps that mass death and resulting inpunity for people at the top contributes to these teenagers' lack of appreciation of the horror in their actions?

I agree 'conventionally disturbed' is a silly term. Hard to find one better; maybe, 'absent of any identifiable mental disorder that would likely explain their murderous actions'?
The point is there will be less and less global-economy jobs (because of automation and the insane productivity it allows to very few skilled people) and more but not enough local-community jobs (caring, agriculture, menials and so on). In a fair deal of the so-called first world, too many educated people are just reverting to local-community jobs already, competing with the uneducated and migrants. This is not going to end peacefully if some sort of basic income is not introduced soon.
Is the code for this available somewhere?
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Pitchfork has also expanded what they review so you might become hard pressed to find anything to play at all after a while.
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They seem to have renamed Kiva Systems, which Amazon bought for $775M in 2012, to Amazon Robotics. Relevant article - http://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/20150426-kiva-systems-to-...

For those who don't know, Kiva Systems builds robotics systems for warehouses.
You are not understanding 'agarden'. He is not super-imposing his beliefs, he's stating the fact that LaDue had the almost certain capacity to enact his stated intent. By contrast, someone can 'want' to be a rock star, but even with the best application of effort they only have a small chance of achieving that goal.

> Jumping to the conclusion that his teenage obsession's
> paraphernalia indicates that he would have done this is
> silly. There's no way to know if there is ever any
> correlation between the two.

I think you are confusing "correlation" with "certainty". I'd hope we agree that a teenager found with a storage locker full of explosives and an express desire to kill lots of people is more likely to be involved in mass violence than a teenager selected at random? This is a correlation. One can question how strong the correlation is, and whether there might be stronger correlations (what would these be?) but it is false to say that "There's no way to know if there is ever any correlation between the two."
He was speaking more about the STRUCTURE and not the CONTENT, as you are pointing out.
Christ. That's five percent of the entire world population.
My generation is facing this crisis, and the default response is to complain.

I'm curious how you would rate the current crisis to what people have dealt with in the past. Is now worse than the stagflation of the 1970's?
Christ. That's five percent of the entire world population at the mercy of a single dam?
I don't know how thoroughly you read the article, but it did get pretty in depth about what was going on in this particular case, the motivations you are outlining aren't the same as the ones LaDue had.

He wasn't interested in the glory. He has a mild case of autism, displaying what is called a "restricted range of interests" causing him to obsess deeply over various aspects of his chosen field, individual acts of terrorism.

On some level, he understood that what he was planning was wrong, and self-sabotaged his efforts at a subconscious level. I get the impression that if left alone, he may have talked himself out of doing it "this year," setting subsequent dates that will then get put off in the same manner.

What seemed to drive him was his very obsession, carrying it out would have robbed him of the ability to keep obsessing. Redirected, his obsession would make for a great career in law enforcement, once he gets his condition under control.
On Creating an Ecosystem for Versioning and Forking Schemas and a Global CMS
And that, in a nutshell, is the problem.

We are the government, and if you choose not to help make it what you want, it gets made for you by people who don't appreciate your point of view.

Look no further than the "hell no" Republican tea-party caucus in the US Congress for a really visible example of people making the government the way they want it made while we sit on the sidelines.

You don't do it for the money, you do it because you believe the world can be better than it is. And if you do it right you can completely nullify the impact of people with a lot of money that try to force it to be different.

My grandfather told me that when the country was threatened by a Japanese invasion, the young men and women flocked to sign up to preserve their way of life. But when their way of life is threatened by their lack of participation in the governing of the country, they do nothing.

He was particularly disappointed with the youth of the 60's who would rather "drop out" than take their passion with them into public service and actually pull the US out of its sillyness in Vietnam.

Its a time horizon thing, one of the greatest strengths of Martin Luther King was that he could help people see that while it would take time, more than they wanted, they could achieve meaningful change. But if someone believes themselves to be helpless, they will live up to their own expectations of helplessness.
> Why is there no such distinction for "more"

Because English is weird. I still want two use it correctly.
Or if you're on Divshot's $20/mo plan, the best equivalent is $49/mo at Firebase.

And "we're confident that nearly all the features at Divshot you'll find at Firebase"?!? What does that mean?

"Migrate, and hopefully you won't be surprised by missing something that you used!" Come on, they could at least give us details.
I get nervous the way an argument like this makes efficiency a goal unto itself. Is that really what we want the future of society to be? Billions of software engineers, interspersed with some baristas, janitors, and gig economy workers scraping by?

Part of the point of BI schemes is to free up huge swathes of people to legitimately pursue the arts in all forms. Putting on dramas, creating music, learning for its own sake, philosophizing, cleaning up the environment, editing Wikipedia, working on open-source, etc... none of these things contribute much immediate economic value, but they do, I believe, make society incrementally wealthier in a way that creating the next derivative iOS game just doesn't.

The whole business of college as job-training vs. learning to think is an interesting one. There was a great piece on it in Harpers recently: http://harpers.org/archive/2015/09/the-neoliberal-arts/?sing...
Don't forget the vast majority of this has been built on the abundant wealth not found from capitalism but in the form of fossil fuel. This has been an enormous boost to productivity, food production, and general well-being.

The importance of coal and oil in modern society cannot be understated. It has been enormously transformative.

I'm not saying things aren't good, or that capitalism hasn't been a factor, but that if we're not careful we'll get stuck with terrible legacies rather than more opportunity.

For example: Undoubtedly we have access to more resources than ever before, yet these resources seem to flow up to the 0.1% at a rate that's unprecedented, and the rate of depletion of essential resources is increasing even as supplies are becoming more constrained.

One by one we're hitting "peak" everything: Peak oil, peak water, peak education, peak fish. We really need to radically re-think how we're approaching things when unchecked geometric growth is no longer an option.

So let's learn from our successes and failures and show a little forward thinking. In the 1900s people would go to work day after day for their whole life building things designed to last a hundred years. Today we smack together something over the course of a weekend and spin it off into an IPO a year later. A little long-term thinking would be nice.
Or just redistibute the wealth more equally.
Exactly. To the date of accident with Malaysian MH17, rebels shot a few Ukrainian military airplanes with shoulder-launched man-portable air-defense like SA-18 Grouse and SA-14 Gremlin. Ukrainian government did not expect Russia to provide rebels a "Buk" (SA-11 Gadfly), which is totally different thing: a battery of vehicles including standalone target acquisition radar, rocket laucher, transporter/erector, and command vehicle. Obviously "Buk" has a higher range.
Life expectancy at middle ages has expanded quite a bit:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html

A 20 year old can expect to live well into their 70s rather than just reaching 60 (so an expectancy of ~55 years compared to 40 years).

But sure, the gains are mostly from early survival rates.
Which you can't opt out of, even if you've already paid for wildcard certs? Not that $5/mo is a particularly onerous weight, but still.
You guys are kids. I used MINCE (Mince is Not Complete EMACS) in 1981.
I feel like Ars have been slipping since Hannibal left, and they closed down their open source section.

Perhaps their last great deep dive was the series of articles on the Amiga computer.

The most striking is perhaps how much of a tone change there was for one editor that moved to the site primarily to write about Android. Ever since he changed employer his articles seem to be all about highlighting what is wrong about the OS.

All in all i fear the site has gotten very agenda driven in recent years.
Or hell, great people who work on projects that get axed may not have been as visible from outside the project.

They might have written some of the best code in a feature that management doesn't want anymore (Twitter API anyone?) but that doesn't necessarily translate in being part of those that are kept.

Maybe the dev lived in a town where they are closing the whole office and relocation is too much $$$ compared to a package. Maybe she just hasn't been with Twitter long enough to shine outside of her immediate team (who're all being cut). Maybe the folks drawing up lists had to make some concessions to keep some of their friends employed (consciously or otherwise.)
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Within cities this was common, yet the vast majority of the population did not live there and was "employed" in other ways.

For someone living an agricultural lifestyle things weren't great, you did have to appease your land-owner, but usually that was facilitated by paying a portion of your crop as rent. During the winter months when you had little to do other than care for livestock, things were pretty laid back.

We're a lot less self-sufficient than we used to be, and this is perhaps irreversible. Nobody can be expected to make their own medication, to build their own computer from sand.
They sure have a lot of job openings.
No they weren't vindicated at all they just fought to never have it released.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2101629/BBC-wins-bat...

And more in general
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC
Interestingly, it seems everyone has forgotten CNN top news from mid-July: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/15/politics/mh17-pro-russian-... . CNN did spread an outrageous lie, but nobody cares.
>Underemployment should be mentioned in any discussion of job difficulty; in the US, getting a job as a barista or fast food is possible, but a horrendous waste of a college education.

But there have never been enough "good" white collar to employ the current number of Americans getting a college education. The difference was there were enough good, white collar jobs for the college graduates back then. But the number of college graduates has exploded.

You can train another 20k Physicists, but we wouldn't have any use for them.

And the quality of the degrees are lower too because colleges are accepting (and then graduating) worse and worse students.

Not everyone is cut out to do great things. There is no shame in slinging coffee.
FYI, there's also a browser version:
https://github.com/cosmicjs/cosmicjs-browser

An example React app that uses the Cosmic JS browser client:
https://github.com/tonyspiro/react-flux-cosmicjs
Yet if you are below the poverty level (unemployed) those monthly minimums can be overwhelming.
Is Medium just another trojan horse social platform?
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On which part? That there aren't roving bandits forcing people to take on huge loans? Or that there are other options?

In terms of other options, there is (a) community college—very cheap, (b) state school—much cheaper usually, especially if you live at home, (c) attending a slightly less prestigious college when they offer a substantial merit scholarship.
For one of two paries that are essentially the same? Obama made a lot of big prommises before getting into power. He hasn't followed through on many of them at all.
> Only the Russian side has these BUKs.

How is that even logical?

These are discontinued older model BUK missiles.

Meaning only a place like Ukraine would have them in any significant numbers.
The snottiness was okay when they primarily covered rock and generally accepted. It become truly painful when they discovered that there were other genres out there (esp. when they initially started covering rap and electronic music) and applied those same rockist standards to something completely detached.

I don't know if this still continues but my primary issue with the site has always been non-rock music acceptable to rock fans (or artists that they can write some culture piece about) rather than non-rock music that fans of those genres actually listen to.
That's because HTML has an abstract declarative way to define the layout/drawing whereas Windows did not.

But that's not especially important when it comes to React in general. The important is that the "how to draw myself" (in a high level) never leaves the view, not whether the "drawing instuctions" happen inside the app (as low level draw commands) or outside (by a mechanism that handles
composable values representing markup).

In both cases the view is a black box -- in that nobody else determines it's layout/style/contents. Whether somebody else or the view itself draws them might reflect a functional vs more imperative style, but it's not the key benefit of react.

In fact there are React implementations like React-Canvas that don't use the DOM/diffing mechanism at all -- they just invalidate the whole top level "viewport".
Uh yes, there is no law, but the statistical or perhaps just plain old truth is that in the future there will be more resources available, and the idea that fewer people can tell everybody what is done with those resources is disgusting if they are deciding to take away lives or even severely (obviously relative, but I think everyone can understand how difficult it would be to live like the poorest of the world) hinder the livelihood of whomever.
This makes some sense as the only demographic group still interested in nudy mags are too young to legally buy them.
The point of BI is that the government doesn't actually need to be involved in centrally planning all of the things that need doing— it's a huge amount of unnecessary bureaucracy when many of them are things people would love to do given freedom from having to immediately "earn a living".

So the government doesn't pay you to pick up trash in the ravine near your home. The government pays you because you are a citizen, and as a citizen of a wealthy nation, you deserve the basics of life. If you spend that life consuming fast food and internet porn, that's okay. But given the time and freedom to do so, some people will choose to clean up that ravine— they weren't directly paid, but having their living expenses covered made it possible.
Well, yeah. That isn't the recommended way to use react.
WndProc is how the windows manager communicates with Windows UI code. Flux is how the UI communicates actions back to the data layer of the application. They're completely different.
"who don't have the time to retrain"

The reason why we hear and repeat that old people need to retrain, is because employers don't want to hire older people and knowing that very few can afford the time and money to retrain, and that it's politically permissible to discriminate based on "retraining" then you're going to hear a lot about how its really important to retrain and old people need to work harder and its all the victims fault if they won't retrain and much hand wringing about those darn victims bringing it on themselves. If we had a magical (online?) way to retrain old people, the mantra would insta-shift to some other made up reason why old people can't be hired and no one would talk about training anymore.

It the same thing with women or minorities who aren't cultural fits. Its not that there are no star wars fans in those demographics or that it truly matters, its just a way to say in polite company that blacks need not apply because of racism. Just go ahead, "change your culture" and we'll hire you. Oh you say that's impossible, oh so sad I guess we'll hire the white boy instead. What a shame we really wanted to hit our diversity quota, but, (shrugs shoulders) well you know how important culture is. I mean look at how important culture is at every other employer who coincidentally also doesn't hire black people. Oh it doesn't matter in the greater economy? We'll we're special snowflakes in this industry, you see, and you outsiders just don't understand, we really, really don't like women programmers or black programmers.
I'm pretty sure cataract surgery was around before 1950
You can do that as an iOS developer too right? E.g. things like pull to refresh were designed by lone developers.
I like the notion of swamping the Internet with fake click-bait headlines, to dilute the attractiveness of this (to me, odious) form.

Give me sincere, honest news and discussion, or else shut up.

Unfortunately, someone out there must really have a craving for "weird old tricks" and "shocking conclusions".

It's a sort of race-to-the-bottom, least common denominator effect.

Maybe someone will write a browser extension that filters out obvious click-bait headlines. Now that would be clever!
I love the correlation between modern in-browser development and programming early personal computers. It's akin to how digital logic abstracts away the tyranny of E&M physics, but several layers higher, and this time just between instruction sets/runtimes.

ChromeOS is kind of making this leap, but I really wonder when web browser ASICs (or equivalent) will start popping up.
how did you find those features? was it just serendiptiy?
An interesting interview with the founder of Kiva on NPR's "From Scratch" - http://www.npr.org/2014/01/09/261095138/mick-mountz-founder-...