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The closest example may be Visa International before it became a public company. Visa used to be a chaord, a strange organizational form dreamed up by Dee Hock. Visa was owned by banks who were competitors, and they needed for it to be a neutral intermediary. Hock wrote a book, "Birth of the Chaordic Age", on how this worked, but the idea never caught on.
Writing programs using ordinary language (2013)
Or: The high cost of housing has pushed all the poor people out of SF.
> If you agree that welfare should exist to take care of people who cannot work or have expensive conditions that need to be treated then BI cannot replace it.

That's what insurance is for.

(And the state (or parents) can take out insurance for the kids before they are born---ie before anyone knows whether they are at special risk of any diseases or conditions, thus charging the average is economically fine.)
Not sure about this. If we're writing a scientific study with nothing to do with computers, we still use the standard "write one line after another" to describe the processes and methods we use. Sequential lists and trees may be a natural property of our reality in the same way gravity is?

As you say, when problems become more complex it becomes more difficult to reason about when dealing with a linear flow. But as with writing a report, the key is in the layout. The solution to a problem like that may be simply defining your abstractions better in your code so that each logical block is contained and understandable -- the same as with a section in a report.

Basically it's the age-old programming logic: instead of having large chunks of code where you have to reason through complex logic, create abstractions so that the complex flow is defined in an obvious way. There will still be complex pieces, but they can be pushed to leaf nodes in other classes/files and can be backed by formal algorithms with logical proofs.

So, well, standard best practices from the 1960s and still standard best practices today. Why? Because it seems to fit with the laws of reality.
How about a fleet of fully automatic-driving cars? That can deliver goods as well as people? Uber is aiming to replace the automobile in your garage. Currently, to establish themselves, they need to displace taxi cabs for those that already don't drive cars. But their intentions have been clear: a fully automated driving fleet, combined with same-day delivery of packages. Their aiming to disrupt not just the taxi industry, but also the automobile industry and the package delivery industry. The package delivery industry might be leveraged in the future to disrupt the online shopping industry.

Do I think they'll succeed? Honestly, no. But I do understand why all this money is being poured into the variety of taxi cab alternatives out there. This is a lot bigger than just the taxi cab industry.
You're parroting the law, not giving any real reason. "It's legitimate" .. but why? Eevee has actual arguments here, namely that it doesn't promote the advancement of the arts at all which is the sole purpose of copyright.

Why shouldn't I be able to draw artistic representations of a game character?

I can draw a representation of Donald Trump with no problem (as many political cartoonists do) and I own that because I made it.
Why the hell does some random digital character have more rights than a human?
I know this is a bit of a silly analogy, but your comment is silly to begin with.

It's obvious that if I'm taking someone's art or work and re-selling it with some minor transformations, that's wrong.
But if I put work into making something that has my flair, my touch, my innovation, why should the original artist profit from it?
> [...] presumably would draw backlash from wealthy business owners who would simply raise prices on basic goods.

Why don't greedy people raise prices already today?
this is an extremely self serving article given that the author sells a tool (for $29/ month no less) that writes the code for you. Wonder why he doesn't like code academy's. There is some truth to the fact that a lot of people don't make it through code academy, but I would take this article with a grain of salt.
I worked in a programming bootcamp and I can tell you that is a complete scam. Yes, everybody knows the wonderful feeling of having your code.... but this is related with a marketing scam where students pay thousands of dollars for nothing.
I don't know, he seems to be a man of quick action. Word on the street is that he's already pulling Canada's fighter jets from the Syrian conflict.
I guess that measurement introduces energy into the system and that is what keeps atoms in places.

I haven't seen refutation of this in the article.
There is some demand for me to make videos to teach HolyC. It is similar enough to standard C/C++ that I find the prospect ridiculous. Do I really want to teach beginners how to program?
> In any case, the lower marginal effective tax rate for the poor under basic income, is only possible because of a higher marginal effective tax rate for the middle class.

Yes. Though simplicity has its own benefits. Simple schemes are cheaper to run and monitor. And they cause less economic disruption of people moving away from efficient behaviour.
I'm quite sure he is not working as Google's CEO to amuse you.
Okay, $4000 of devops spread across how many games? And so many purchasers will never look at the forums, or the content stores, or the...

These are nice little bonus features but they're nothing more than bonus features. If you offered me a tiny discount to not get them, I'd take it just about every time. It's not in the same ballpark as 30%.

The discovery is critical but also way off in left field, because it's a network effect that causes itself. Steam could in theory have those network effects without actually providing direct services.
The closest I've come to visual programming is various UI designers and a couple of DB designers. They work OK up to a point, but as soon as you're doing something complicated you have a mass of arrows crisscrossing the surface.

I think the problem is a visual designer is only a reasonable organising principle for 2D problems. You can get a nice global view.

As soon as you need more dimensions, you might as well use something where the connections are only locally visible. By that I mean eg in a complex codebase, you can only see a few incoming/outgoing connections depending on where you're looking. A codebase can be arbitrarily complex, so chances are on any problem that isn't quite small, you aren't going to be able to represent it nicely in 2D.
Are you sure you want to live so long? :-)
You can look at central and northern European soziale Marktwirtschaft to get some of your questions about how it could work out in practice answered.

They don't have basic income, yet, but they do have fairly generous welfare payments, that do try to provide for a decent life.
Ask HN: Is Diabetic Retinopathy reversable
Hi Friends,
Firstly, I would urge all of you to take good care of yourself and if unfortunately you are suffering from diabetes, your most important target should be a good control of HBA1C and avoiding any complications of diabetes which suddently strike after 8=10 years of existance of disease.

My question is about recovering from Diabetic Retinopathy after few instances of bleeding in the eye, couple of laser treatments and anti-vegf injections in the eye. The traditional medicine only had these modalities and they are primarily to maintain vision at that level.

However, there have been couple of modalities suggested by non-allopathic tradtion from Ayurveda to Oxygen Therapy (i.e. Ozone Therapy) to therapies like PEMF (e.g. Bemer) and most recently Stem Cell therapy, which is great hope but not yet prevalent

Have you come across such modalities which helps impriove diabetic retinopathy and vision improvement in such condition.

Please take good care of yourself.

Thanks
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I have no problem with reading HN at 100% zoom, even though my vision isn't great. Is it that annoying, to use the 125% zoom or use your own CSS (I do that to decrease width)?
Oh, indeed. The nanny state is strong here in New South Wales.

You can't open a nursery in a building above a certain height. Even if the kids are only ever going to be on the ground floor.
Move to Germany.
have to say - am not sure about it either! I'm simply intrigued by the question, namely, why do we still use linear tools for multidimensional problems? I think you have posited an excellent answer in that it's basically intrinsic to how we think and manage complexity, not only in CS.
> I'm not entirely sure if you're alluding to it but starvation mode is a myth.

I'm curious if you know this as a fact with proof, I'd be very interested in how that might be proven.
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I have MtF friend. We knew each other when we still we're both officially men. We became roommates for a year when she was mid transition.

I thought that would be cool, because I might understand women better now that I had somebody who had seen the both perspectives. How it is to be a man and how it is to be a woman.

I was wrong. She had never understood anything about manhood. Now she didn't even pretend anymore. I think there are some real and big differences between the sexes, but I still don't have good grasp about them.
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Yes, as in any field I'm sure there are scammers out there, or even just poorly conceived programs. So maybe what we need is a review site for these academies.
So in theory if you wanted to take down a web server that allows for creating files in a directory structure you just have to nest less than 1k of them to start wreaking havoc? Yikes if so.
Yes. But imagine this on a scale of the big defense contractors. They won't 'eat themselves to death' as you put it but they are big enough (especially after major consolidations in the 90's) to sustain this behavior indefinitely.

Unfortunately a large part of their business model relies on fulfilling their commitment to seat engineers on programs as promised in the contract they signed with their customer, i.e., the USG. Filling seats is more important than achieving quality engineering outcomes. There are three big-time losers in that equation: [1] the taxpayer, [2] the "lifer" employee, and [3] the warfighter.
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It hardly matters how many games really because 90+% of indie games aren't ever going to make more than $10k.

However, those numbers were for one indie game with light usage. If you want your poor little server to support multiple games, you'll need a a few hundred $/mo more in servers, possibly a second devop, and massively more development time.

Whether that stuff is worth it or not can very well be gauged by the fact that people pay for it.

If it weren't worth it, people would sell on alternate platforms like their own website or what have you.

You're stating your opinion as fact, but the numbers don't agree with you.
That's correct. Anything you can debug with gdb should be debuggable under rr. (Though of course there could always be rr bugs that need to be fixed.)

Languages where debugging requires complex VM services are another story. For example, if your language supports debugging by modifying the code generated by a JIT, that's going to be a problem under rr, since an rr replay preserves the exact instructions executed during recording.
Humans actually. "The brain to body mass ratio in some members of the odontocete superfamily Delphinoidea is second only to modern humans, and greater than all other mammals"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetacean_intelligence
I wasn't equating ego to meanness, more a disregard of what other people think about them, not being afraid to fail also not to compromise their product to make everyone happy and ending up with a washed down product.
The way I see it is that, as often when it comes to differences due to sex, you have two wide Gaussian distributions that overlap a lot. Sure, there are behavioral differences (due to testosterone or other reasons), but the variation in behavior within one sex is probably larger than the distance between the means.

The problem is, that in casual speech, we can only easily express black-and-white: either men and women are different due to testosterone, or they are not. Neither statement is really correct.
Autism Spectrum Disorder is an encompassing term for all different types of autism. It makes the point that autism has different forms and falls along a spectrum. Asberger's falls on that spectrum.
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The part of it that is ridiculous is that Americans protect their richest minority without being part of it.

Seriously, America is the country where paid sickness leaves or maternity leaves are not guaranteed.

America is the country where waiters are expected to make the most of their living income from tips and not from their salary.

America is the country where local governments have outlawed people from collecting rainwater while giving exclusive contracts to rich corporations to collect ground water or pollute it by dumping fracking waste into or near it.

America is the country where the police can rob normal people from their money without probable cause (civil asset forfeiture) and the majority will rally behind said policemen because "blue lives matter".

America is the country where home owners aren't free to plant vegetables in from of their own houses, on their own property and you call that country "the land of the free".

America is the country that goes to war to make corporations and shareholders richer and you all call it "bringing them liberation and democracy" while America's legislators, judges, sheriffs and government officials can be bought by Political Action Committees and "unions", sometimes for as little as access to garden parties, golf clubs, tickets for sports events in VIP boxes and other trinkets.

Do you think those laws are to protect the people, or corporations like Walmart, Costco, Nestle, Halliburton, Exxon-Mobil and others?

Still absolutely ridiculous.

Here's the thing about the future of humanity: if we want to have a future without perpetual (American-caused) war, we must promote and nurture post-scarcity cultures.
> but what?

People making candles couldn't imagine another set of people would be employed for years making light bulbs. Newspaper owners, investors, writers and workers could not foresee the Internet. Nobody could imagine making money with software that played back fart sounds or allowed you to launch an angry bird into a structure.

The point is: Not being able to answer the question is of no consequence. Progress and change will still happen despite our collective lack of imagination and malfunctioning crystal balls.
In a way it would, if it's affecting the culture surely it would affect the company as a whole.
And The Martian took advantage of NASA's budget and Star War's budget by also being about space.

And OS X took advantage of Microsoft's marketing budget for the idea of Laptops / computers.

Who cares if you're gaining recognition by making a derivative of something that already exists?
When some parent product marketed something, it was for its own benefit. If I also benefit, that doesn't mean I'm stealing their marketing budget out from under them, it means I'm taking advantage of what people already are familiar with.

I do think your statement that someone making a derivative work is taking advantage of the original's marketing budget, recognition, etc.... I just don't see why that matters.
Hell, the derivative work often-as-not can act as further marketing for the original.
Its not really a big issue when you consider that no one does any serious web hosting on OSX server. Maybe if you relied on it for profiles?
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And reassigning ground troops. It's just shuffling assets, not actually withdrawing from conflict.
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/9/e1500758
I call this 'inventor syndrome' because innately people want to better the world in some way, instead of just leech from technology.

MY only issue with that approach is people re-inventing the wheel. There is more code on Github than one could imagine, and not enough people evangelizing for Less-lines-of-code.

Of course it may take a programmer two decades to realize this, but what's the phrase:

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few"
I wonder if, in the future, people will compile these writings into a book with numbers for easy reference of quotes. They could also add testaments of things He said as recorded by His disciples.

We could call it "The Book of Graham".
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It's true that the 'dream' has been here for ages, but I do think that automation might force us to rethink our job in the digital industry.

I recently published an extensive article about the current state of these 'code machines', if developers might lose their job to them and what our options are. If you're interested, you can read it here: https://medium.com/design-and-develop/code-machines-29b066b6...

Bottom line is that I don't think that developers should feel intimidated by machines right now, but not be surprised by their rise either.
Not your coding skills, but your business will define if you’re still needed. If you’re coding basic low-cost websites at a high pace, you might run out of business faster than you might expect. If you can do it by repetition, a machine certainly can do that too. If you’re building crucial online services with a lot of custom functionality, the machines will have a harder time to keep up. Don’t worry about the need for your skills, worry about the need for your current business.
We are digital construction workers because only a few of us are in a position of designers. Most of us are told by product teams what to do and if we have leads and architects in the hiearchy we are limited even more.

If you find that creative then you can find anything in your life creative, even shopping.

And I must agree 90% time tasks are mundane but for the 10%, it is worth doing.
This is exciting.

My son has a congenital heart defect, and will have Fontan surgery in a few months, an operation in which a short PTFE tube will be inserted between his vena cava and the pulmonary arteries. While PTFE is generally well tolerated, he will need to take blood thinners for his entire life to reduce the risk of embolisms.

The prospect of one day being able to print an artificial vein, from materials that do not increase the risk of embolisoms, with an optimal fluid dynamic profile, possible even one that could grow with the patient... That's a very exciting thought.
That's an amazing lack of skills on so many levels.
More like the last 50 or 60 years: "the programming occupation will become extinct (through the further development of self-programming techniques)" (Herbert A. Simon, 1961, and the notion seems to be even older, cf. Janet Abbate's "Re-Coding Gender", page 74-75)

From the same book (p. 84): "Stephanie Shirley, who started a contract programming company in the early 1960s, later recalled: 'When COBOL was introduced, we thought that would be the end of the company, that nobody would be buying software anymore – programming – because it was just so easy.'"
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I agree with the point the author is making and generally am just as annoyed by arbitrary password rules; nevertheless:

> chili dog monkey nutso

Is definitely not 18 quintillion years at best it's approximately 250000^4 which is 2^72.

A good (though still requiring some memorizing effort approach) would be something along the lines of https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawi...
which uses a standard dictionary of 1626 easily memorable english words with each password being a 12 word mnemonic phrase. 1626^12 ~= 12^128
Glenn is truly impressive as a negotiator.

Fantastic piece overall. Funny to think of EU presidents popping down the hallway to say "is Matteo around?"
Argh! The XKCD entropy comic. Back away slowly..

The "4 common words" password meme was around a lot after that comic. However, such passwords are definitely not secure because a good dictionary attack will break it in hours. You do not have as much entropy as you think with them.

The same problem tangentially applies to his suggested password schema to.

The problem is: as soon as you start using human word or pseudo words then your complexity decreases significantly.

With that said he has a point: password complexity schemas as employed by websites are not good enough. It should enforce length and complexity properly (not by saying "you must have these types of characters" but by really analysing the password).

I appreciate the UX problems involved there... but then we could push people towards using password managers and auto-generated passwords.

Summary: use a password manager and auto-generate complex passwords.
You might not like G+ but it IS innovation. Everything one does in slighly different way is innovation, if you don't want that, you would have to abandon pretty much everything except wheel and fire.

I also don't think that creator's ego is a factor in product's success. There are many egotistical entrepreneurs with successful products. People might not like creators, but they like the product.

So isn't the best strategy to let the market determine if something is worth it or not? I'm sure G+ has got its valuation...
>'what right does A have to take B's money and give it to C?'

The question implies that there is a natural or divine law, not made by A, B or C, that says what is and isn't B's money in the first place.

What if the people (i.e A, B and C) are a radically meritocratic bunch and they define B's property as everything that can be ascribed to B's individual effort, not to the country B was born in, not to the social group B was born into and not to pure chance?

Based on this meritocratic definition, some of what ends up in the B's possession at some point is not legally B's property and must be redistributed.
Beautiful example of politics driving research. They only studied something they knew was a disadvantage for males, while the first thing everybody is curious about is how the IQ changed, if it changed: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/dr-paul-i...
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Building on pre-existing stories has been the norm for a very long time! New media works based on Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Cthulhu, and many classic myths of cultures are very common and popular. The present state of affairs where no one can properly create media making use of mythologies authored only in the last century seems unusual in retrospect.

Great relevant post that I'm sorta parroting: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/06/they-too...
Well that sounds better. But perhaps a poor choice of name. VisitorId might have been more appropriate.
it's approximately 250000^4

If the attacker knows you've used four dictionary words in a row. Now you need to multiply the number by the odds of that..
I gave the reason, you are ignoring it. Because a creator has the right to decide how it's character is drawn, in what context it's put, for what it is used, etc. it is also a protection against parasites and stealers. If you don't understand that you are not a creator.

Create your own characters and the problem is solved. Or ask for a license. The creator may give you a free license if your drawings and use of it match his liking.

A copyright is a protection, not an interdiction. Ask the permission to the creator. The decision belongs to him and that is, in my opinion, right.

Don't down vote me if you simply disagree with me.