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Not everyone has to be a rocket scientist. At least today some manual labor is required (handyman, janitors, construction workers, farmers and the like). The issue the author I think is pointing out is the fact that low wage workers are squeezed out.
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> This is what you want to happen.

Uh, no, I don't want my dependencies to break out from under me, thanks.

This is a major problem with the JS culture that I cannot stand. Too many JS devs can't be bothered to write software that doesn't suck, and so they try to instead tell their users their crappy problems are actually what they want. No, if you push changes to a library that break your library users' software without warning and a reasonable upgrade plan, you're doing a bad job.

> The alternative is, you shrinkwrap everything and lock it down, and your dependencies never change.

Or I use dependencies that upgrade their dependencies intentionally instead of whenever the `^` does it for them. The problem is that most of the JS packages out there are garbage software that doesn't do that. So it's necessary to be careful and only use dependencies which are well-maintained and reliable. ...which isn't unique to npm or a new problem, it's been well-known since all the way back when CPAN was new. Just because installing libraries is easy doesn't mean it's a good idea.

> Except that now it's been a year, and you want to update your dependencies, and it's this huge jump that requires so many changes that it's going to take a month of concentrated pain to do, so you never do it, and welcome to the world of legacy code.

Or you can do your job like a competent professional and don't wait a year to upgrade your dependencies. Again, fewer, more reliable dependencies helps with this; if you are using reasonable dependencies, they'll push few breaking changes and give warnings and reasonable upgrade plans.
To each their own.

I didn't much like the brushed metal interface they both had back then. While I've never used it iTunes on Windows did have a reputation for being bloated and unstable (if I remember that last part correctly). Quicktime didn't exactly help that reputation either. Thank god for free alternatives.
We don't determine "poverty" by living conditions but income. As someone who tries to "earn" as little as possible for tax-protest reasons, I can vouch for the parent commenter's statement. By picking the right location and work, I'm able to support a family on $20K (AGI) per year. The used cars I buy in cash get better every time I need to get another one. As people in my area moved to bigger houses in the perimeter of the city, I was able to buy a nice Victorian-era home with plenty of room for just north of the annual median U.S. income. (And I don't have a mortgage.) The home's location is easily walkable to schools, stores, shops, doctors, etc. My "living conditions" are really pretty great just making do with the castoff affluence around me. Yet my income level is considered by the federal government to be below the "poverty level". And compared to my great-grandparents, who were successful subsistence farmers, I'd say I have it pretty damn great as my "living conditions" are far superior to theirs, even though my "relative" poverty is greater.
Although I have enjoyed watching Jack Ma's journey with Alibaba, I am very skeptical of any self reported numbers coming out of Chinese markets. While i believe they have enourmous volume flowing through their services, you can never be sure how much of this is being accurately reported.
Email logins are an interesting exception, at least for those whose domains exist purely for vanity. For non-email logins, sub-domains could be used instead.

I agree that targeting the selling aspect is another approach to consider, although I imagine there are some big hurdles there as well.
And that action generally notifies the author who is then not sure whether you're showing appreciation or just checking link-bait.

I used to star to read later. I now open the link into a browser and get to it later on. And I use the star a lot less than I would hit the heart on Instagram - and Twitter know that's a serious problem for them.
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Everything you said is wrong. Sorry to be so blunt here, but sugar coating would leave room for interpretation.
Totally applies to corporations. Applies to any entity capable of pooling and growing wealth. People, families, institutions, social groups...

Let's call it "super-critical" and "sub-critical". Super-critical is always-positive wealth growth rates, no matter quantity of wealth. This will then always occur (or, according to theory, should always occur).

If it's always sub-critical, then you don't have wealth growth, because it never makes sense. I think maybe.

So what you want is a transition point at which in order to "grow personal wealth" what you actually have to do is grow /other/ people's wealth (who are below that point)... but then it becomes growing power (social connections and allegiances) rather than monetary power (wealth).

And because monetary wealth is actually possible to quantify and thus measure, account for, examine, track, etc - it's arguably better, as we call use of that power "corruption".

In which case the only known solution is the periodic upheaval.
Undeniably true, that's how wooden bowls are typically made now.

But I cannot help but feel like using a lathe misses the point of hand carving a wooden bowl. In the same way most whittling could technically be accomplished much faster using a dremel.
Sounds like pseudo-science.
If that was the intention, a better title would be 'Running formally-verified code on the Pebble smartwatch'.
I think you're thinking of the wrong thing. govWorks was more of a digitization of traffic ticket payment/appeal, property registration, and other minor government admin processes. You must be thinking of Startup Junkies, which was a series on MoJo - a former/original HD channel.
When was the last time a politician said no to power ?
I've referred to it in conversations as movement vs progress: things that progress you forward toward a goal, or simply movement which could be in circles, backwards, side to side, hand waving etc.
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If you want to be intellectual there is a good chance you will be lonely here , too - though it depends. Indians are notorious for resting on their laurels - in this case, merely landing in USA qualifies as one. I am willing to bet your fires will be much tamer once you make it to these shores - but I wish you good luck , because at least you have that fire. When I meet Indians here (and I am one too) its seriously underwhelming - what they consider cool/revolutionary/intellectual. In a sense, the gamers of the system escaped overseas, and for the good of India, the best is left behind (sounds crazy for some reason).

The fact that intellectual activity seems to be relatively lacking in India is sad to read, and confirms my subjective opinion.

I can understand your sense of intellectual loneliness. Indians worship Saraswati (the goddess of learning), but will do anything not to learn and be intellectually curious. Behold the Hindu nation. The current wave of 'culture' sweeping through India will definitely not improve any of this.
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I've always had this thought about a computer that given a story in form of a screenplay or some other textual format, would output a video production of it! I know little to nil about neural nets but given that we have huge amount of training data (e.g. Youtube), this should be doable in the long run.

Has anyone else had similar ideas?
Mumbai actually got renamed, though. It was previously Bombay, then the name was changed to Mumbai. So yes, the same could be said of Mumbai, because it actually fits. My whole objection is that the phrasing describes a case like Mumbai's, which is not what happened with Beijing. In the case of Beijing, the official name is the same, it's just a question of which romanization you use. Both Beijing and Peking are right, or wrong, and to a roughly similar degree. (I'd argue that English speakers unfamiliar with Chinese will usually produce something slightly more accurate when phonetically reading "Beijing," but it's not a huge difference.)

I know the purpose of the statement is to make readers understand that the two spellings refer to the same place. And I agree that a person unfamiliar with the origins would consider the two spellings to be different names. Which is my whole objection: the article encourages people to think this way, when with a simple change in phrasing they could still convey the main point without also encouraging people to think the city got renamed.
The same is true of our nuclear weapons industry. My father moved to the US from Iran and many of our family are interested in nuclear weapons engineering, but CANNOT come to the US to work to follow their passion because of these laws.

Why is it that only Americans have a right to participate in nuclear weapons engineering just because they happened to have been born in the "right" place?
Hear where exactly? I really would like to see some reference to that.

//EDIT: Just to be clear. I'm not saying there are not some people that believe that, but it has been taught differently in schools for a long time, Austria's official position for the last 30 years is that it was not a victim. If you talk to old people, sure, but the last two generations? I doubt it.
One of the things that separates proper avant-garde art from other art is that "enjoyable" isn't a concern. I recently got to see the avant-garde chef Ferran Adria speak (probably the most important chef of the past 30 years), and one of the key questions he asked was, "Is it my job as a chef to make a meal you will enjoy?" (paraphrased from memory, and he had a translator onstage, so...)

This is a critical question. I used to play avant-garde music myself, in a guitar + drums improvisational duo. It wasn't our job to make music anyone else liked, or even music we liked. We were exploring the limits of sound and the interrelationships of the instruments and ideas. To this day, even in much more mainstream contexts, I play a lot of guitar that doesn't "sound like a guitar". I learned a ton about my instrument, and about sound and music.
I often wonder the same with their frequent release cylces and the amount of stuff they pack into a release, I pray they never change, or at-least pass on the tricks of the trade
Sounds like they aren't properly optimizing if they're alienating loyal customers.

Or maybe it's worth risking the business of loyal customers in order to attract more marginal customers. Btw, is this Indian restaurant called "Twitter"?
So let's pretend we have a language ABC that is based on standards. It has one implementation and one standard library and the code can only be compiled with one compiler.

If the standard library's string functions are slow, can you not say that the language is not very fast at string manipulations?
I am pretty sure most people would say that.
This Chapman, I assume?

https://meaningness.wordpress.com/about-david-chapman/

I'm something of a fan. This article is great, about his history at MIT's artificial intelligence lab, Ken Wilber, Heidegger, and Buddhism.

http://meaningness.com/metablog/ken-wilber-boomeritis-artifi...
It has its own quirks, but I was mostly impressed with SFML when I tried it. SDL always seemed vaguely badly designed -- it worked well enough that I never seriously considered replacing it, but I can't say I ever really enjoyed using it.
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Go back and analyze how Scandinavia got the capital to launch its massive social welfare programs. Same for Germany. Who did China trade with in order to become wealthy?
OK, so to be nice and avoid haha jokes about logical flaws, I'm reading that your argument is this --> that the article is "fundamentally a self-serving and dishonest narrative".

The only point you offer that relates to your actual argument is the author of the article is the CEO of kickstarter, so his promotion of less monolithic industries is ultimately self serving given that he profits off them - which is an interesting one but I'd contest that with the history and focus of kickstarter and their lack of employing any monopoly strategy.

By limiting entries to simple projects, not allowing anything purely political / fundraising driven, Kickstarter allowed for a vast sea of other crowdfunding sites to exist without ever threatening to take them or their market share over, despite Kickstarter being the site that popularized the crowfunding concept. The opposite of say, Uber's domination strategy, or a lot of other companies for that matter.

So... if I trust any company to express themselves without being self serving, it would be Kickstarter, for the reason that they had an opportunity to be the only major crowdfunding site, and chose not to based on what the founders wanted the company to be about.
Can someone explain why this was suddenly removed from the front page?
Hmm. Which then leads me to think - Is there a way to institutionalize the periodic upheaval? Or at least prevent the violence and/or civilizational collapse?

But, wasn't that part of the point of the US system - getting closer to a periodic / on-going non-violent revolution?
My parents were poor immigrants. We didn't die when we got sick, we went to the public hospital and/or went to a cheap doctor who specialized in the immigrant community and had pricing to reflect that. We were taught a certain work ethic by seeing the people around us try to improve themselves and their situation.

We didn't go to good schools, but they were good enough and student loans go us into decent state colleges (and later private school via the same loan system). So yeah, your hypothetical hopeless sob story kinda pisses on the many people who rose above economic hardships. Many immigrants rise ahead in the US due to all the opportunity here. Ironically, the minorities we coddle with welfare, political correctness, and never-ending social programs that do next to nothing but drain tax dollars tend to be the ones who don't thrive and degenerate into multi-generation poverty. Maybe the white liberal mid/upper class political thought should focus on jobs and incentives and not-hand wringing about how hopeless everything is.

>wealth is randomly moved between people,

Everyone I know has a job/wealth via some level of meritocracy. I don't know anyone who randomly ran into money. If money was this easy to get then we wouldn't be having this conversation.

The anti-US bias on sites like Reddit and HN is just ignorant. I don't think people appreciate what they have and the praise of places like Russia or China as being better or more free or more economically viable is hilariously ignorant. Or the masive ignorance of how bad Europe's finances and employment situation is in many of its countries, especially places like Italy, Spain, France, and of course Greece. Life is a lot more complex than "omg the US is the worst country ever." Seriously, if you guys want a conversation about oligarchies and inequality then Russia or Brazil are probably the best examples around. The US is very far from those levels of inequality. Pointing this out, sadly, gets you mega downvotes here. I'm curious why this forum needs to have this hysterical and furious anti-US bias all the time? Why are you being socially rewarded by this narrative? Have you ever questioned this narrative the types of people who are constantly selling it to you? Or their motivations?
I think mobile Javascript/DOM performance is acceptable while being in bad need of improvement. When looking at the state of web applications on mobile, I don't think we should say, "it's horrible and hopeless!", but rather, "it's horrible and we should improve it!".
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Interviewing for abstract qualities is horse shit.

If they have paper experience (or a solid github), pick apart their decisions and lessons from the experience. Look for strong opinions.

If they're "Jr" and have no paper experience, summarize some problem that your company faces every day and ask them how they would solve it.

For Hacker News, that might be how they'd store a comment tree in the database and how they'd render it to the user. Did they forsee any problems? Were they self-aware and recognized what they didn't know?
I missed that.

It certainly wasn't clear to me from the rest of the post that the author realized they were talking about a cache. Possibly because I'd be tempted to make that the focus, since I consider "by the way we just re-invented the cache by accident!" to be an excellent climax-twist on a post like this. You think it's about this cool new data structure, but then it's actually about thinking from the ground up or about reasoning from multiple perspectives.
What, did they declare the United Launch Alliance an illegal monopoly or something, and then break it up?
I wonder which group of people lobbied for capital gains to be taxed lower than ordinary income? Is it coincidence that since the law (one of Reagan's tax cuts) was passed a lot of executives are paid a lower base salary and tons of stock options?

I'd consider that a fancy trick :)

EDIT: To answer harryh: Yes and it has been steadily decreasing [1]. And your point is?
I think we can agree this mainly benefits the rich; I don't see someone in the middle class would have the discretionary income (not 401k, I'm talking about leftover income after expenses) to put his/her money in massive amounts stocks.

[1] http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Doc...
I would love to see a historian make a documentary out of this with some good voice over commentary. I enjoyed watching some of these clips but couldn't guess as to what was the context in a lot of them.
Most people are also not doing well financially. If you are not making money, you are losing money.
The defensive attitude comes from the fact the name Peking was given by imperialists invading China. Thus the name Peking reminds some people of the sad part of history, triggering negative emotions toward it.
I guess I'm not talking so much about the culture of everyday people, but rather the culture of companies and the people who run them. The "culture" aspect is that companies want growth for the sake of growth. Companies reinvest all their money so they can be bigger and get more money for their top stakeholders.

What would an alternate culture look like? Maybe one where companies use their profits to enrich their existing employees lives, rather than use it to expand at a rate that keeps employee quality of life at the bare minimum, and executives at a maximum. Also maybe a culture where money is reinvested in the community, so the people and place you live in is enriched, rather than use that money to spread out like a virus and stamp your chain store in the middle of communities around the world (so that you can make more chains).
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I think the Jack London story you're thinking of is "To Build a Fire":

http://www.jacklondons.net/buildafire.html
The "10" violated the guidelines explicitly (magic numbers in titles are supposed to be removed) and the "(2016)", while fine in principle, is ambiguous with HN's convention for annotating years. So we took those out.
Excellent point about gradual increases in price for additional concurrent domains. That's an elegant solution requiring very little human interaction or machine intelligence.

I'm a little bit confused though by your first suggestion.
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I think a better title for the article would be "On being really smart."
Why do we need friendly Artificial Intelligence?
Huh, maybe you can hear it on cheap headphones if you know there is something there to listen for.
It means that you've got to own the original content.

E.g. Facebook, or Gmail.
> Sorting through intellectual garbage consumes precious moments of my life in which I could be doing something I really enjoy.

If CNN is one's preferred "news" source, is it any wonder they remain uninformed? I've found Bloomberg to be a solid content provider for news, no silly paywalls like WSJ. > http://www.bloomberg.com/
It is weird, though it beats traditional closed source by a long shot.

At least this way developers can fix low-priority issues that are critical to their specific situation without having to wait, making the fix available to everyone else in the process.
Even though they're expensive and I could just learn on my own, enrolling in classes helps me because I feel pressure to show up, and I also get a chance to meet new people learning the same thing. Taking a 3-hour class once a week after work for 6 weeks really adds up.
As long as the people submitting those pull requests understood the ramifications of contributing code gratis to a proprietary platform, there's nothing sad about it.
There's some merit in what you're saying. NASA shepherded the Thor IRBM into the Delta launch vehicle over quite a long period, probably because NASA administrators don't have an 18-month tenure like Air Force Generals do. NASA could make incremental improvements for years, and that led to the occasional major improvement.

Compare tje Delta's LEO capability to the Air Force launch vehicle, the Titan, and you'll see the difference.
Yep - during a time of war people are torturing prisoners, sometimes to death. We executed people for that. People who said they thought what they were doing was justified and / or legal.

I'm sorry but the CIA torturers are war criminals, it doesn't matter about the relative aspect of it - there absolutes.

For the sake of a few thousand people, a fraction of those killed in gun violence for instance, the USA sacrificed any claim to moral superiority and probably created many more terrorists than were ever stopped. Home of the brave indeed.
I'm British, in the military and a massive ally of the USA, but on this issue the lack of contrition exhibited is shameful.