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If you disagree, you can respond with a working example.

I am the working example. I can read texts and answer questions. HTM is an attempt to explain how I do that. Obviously, it's an incomplete theory, but its main ideas make sense to me. You got a better theory?
Thank you for enlightening me as to why female public washrooms are disgusting places. I wonder how many women are honestly so germaphobic as to never touch their rear to the toilet seat. Which results in them trying and failing to perform these kinds of feats, which in turn makes the toilet and floor disgusting, which in turn makes other women not want to go near. Perpetual cycle.

I haven't had to clean public washrooms in over 10 years now, but I will never forget the incredibly disgusting sights I had to endure in the stalls of women's washrooms. While men's stalls aren't always spic 'n span either (if any man reading this has ever taken a piss without even lifting the seat, or have poured half your liquid onto the floor - fuck you), the number of occasions on which this is encountered is a tiny fraction compared to what women routinely do.

Yuck.
That depends if it were enough to live on. If it was then it would give those minimum wage workers the freedom not to work.

If not, then all it would likely do would be to let employers lower wages.

IIRC there was actually a town in Canada that did this and this happened. Then it was taken away entirely and the poorest citizens ended up even worse off (wages did not go back up again).
I love my work and couldn't imagine doing anything else, but 'love' doesn't pay the rent. Fuck anyone who expects me to give away my time.
This winter depression treatment lasts longer than sitting under a bright light
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10424272

Plus many other submissions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=How%20an%20F%20Student%20Becam...
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My god, it might have cost thousands (THOUSANDS!!!) of dollars to install some noise panels on the ceiling to cut down on noise.
Maybe you should print your own money, then?
Uh, what? There's been an almost 25% growth in median real income from 1970 at 21k to 2007 at 28k.

And it's not exactly like we're really pushing the Republican economic vision. We have the highest corporate tax rates in the entire OECD.

http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/corporate-tax-rates-...
Terrorism is a global threat, but so is organised crime
China’s Alibaba Just Beat the US in a Global Machine Battle
Love Hayek, Love Darwin
While I'm not mad at you in particular, this approach makes me mad. "How do you go about qualifying and reviewing", the previous 200,000 years of (anatomically modern) human development doesn't mean anything?

Why do we need a 'scientific study' for everything? This is particularly evident in 'nutritional science' too, when I see an article 'such-and-such vegetable is good for you' I just laugh. Of course it is, we've been eating plants (and animals) for hundreds of thousands of years. What else?

How should we humans raise our young? It'd be pretty difficult to do worse than the current standard.

I remember watching Koyaanisqatsi a couple of decades ago and just thinking "Yep, pretty much." In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means "unbalanced life"

One of our issues in these times is that we are all so sceptical we demand 'evidence' for everything, then go on to doubt the methodology and debate how to interpret the results, and then fail to act.

We've reduced the family unit to 1 -we literally live alone- and then wonder why children, adolescents, and adults aren't 'well adjusted'. Are families are (often) so sick it's little wonder we move away from them. Not to mention the economic incentives: we can sell more lawn mowers if everyone has to own one. It's good for 'the economy', as though The Economy is some entity separate from ourselves.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Krishnamurti

Mustn't've had my medication today.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi
The Medieval Fourier transform
>A big bang approach would be very disruptive. I think it would be better to start at a modest level,

Starting it at a 'modest' level would end up subsidizing employers who could use it to ratchet down wages. Only if you could leave your job entirely would it have the effect of raising wages.
> The actual case against basic income: it reduces work effort drastically (13%) in the experiment where this was measured.

That's not a case against it, that's one of the benefits of it. The notion that everyone must work is antiquated in this continually automating world and will soon no longer be possible. The people who are losing jobs don't have the skills to be in demand and demand for human workers will only continually decrease as time passes. When you automate people, the rules change; it's not going to be like the past where people just did different jobs. There won't be enough jobs that require human skills enough to keep more than a small part of humanity working.
This. Mine was built in 1964.

The entire floor both upstairs and down is tongue and groove 2x6 planking... vs today's 3/4" OSB.

For being over 50 years old, the "skeleton" is in outstanding condition. There are some very minor foundation issues that I've been slowly fixing with a little elbow grease, and that's about it.

If the drywall and electrical were redone, this thing would be in better condition/quality than a large percentage of BRAND NEW homes on the market today.
Open source analog HN
Because such institutions were explicitly founded to provide education to minorities, and it would be unfair to force them to allocate their limited resources away from that goal. Most do so voluntarily anyways.

It's actually quite simple to understand I think, and the judgment says so in what is plain language, not some sophistry.

And Hindus are minorities in Kerala? Despite being 54% of total population? Citation please.

As far as J&K as concerned, I'm not too sure what you are saying is correct. Maybe it's true, but then J&K never merged with the India, so it's possible since laws enacted by parliament don't automatically apply to J&K. Citation please.

EDIT: Your point about NMEC is invalid as well [2].

Let me know if you want me to suggest some material/books so you can better understand this issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Kerala

[2] http://ncmei.gov.in/writereaddata/filelinks/c296efcb_Guideli...
Here is a simple html 5 app that I made, that lets you add watchers for HN and reddit threads as part of its functionality.

http://z-petal.com/ceasium/#/hackerNews

It runs in your browser itself, and stores all the data in browsers local storage.
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Taxing the rich is good for us whatever happens, mostly because it will collapse the sky-high cost of property (and consequently rents).
I absolutely agree with the criticisms of this book. I do, however, think it was a good idea to include in school curricula, precisely because the other history textbooks student are presented with have a different set of biases and implied modes of thought. Seeing the two side by side can reduce students' blind faith in the narrative presented to them by authoritative sources.

The problem is when teachers set up Zinn as the "real" authority. In my (admittedly AP) class, we used both Zinn and a standard textbook, and were warned that both had agendas and biases. If a student is taught that Zinn and his flawed, confirmation-bias-ridden methods are "real history", then we have problems.
https://github.com/kulakowka/1post source here
"Tk is just too old and bad."

Tend to agree, funny thing though, I can use it on various versions of Win/Mac/Lin OS. The secret to Python IDLE is it just works as predicted since it came out. A clever choice of GUI.
Assembly Language is for understanding the processor.It is still relevant for that.
Dan Aramov ran Patron campaign to raise money to work on developing Redux.js full time https://web.archive.org/web/20150721215514/https://www.patre...

And then there's Andrew Godwin raising £17,952 to work on Schema Migrations in Django https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-mig...

Asking for money for open source software does work.
Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things
Platter Crash on an IBM Death Star HD (2003)
>at the same time complain how they can't find enough talent.

They won't ever stop complaining about that.

More talent > more competition in the labor market > lower wages > a lower wage bill > higher profits

Since the biggest cost for all tech companies is their wage bill, they'll lobby for anything that puts downward pressure on salaries.
I wouldn't overthink this, it's mainly the psychology of the people who work in the bowels of big companies. They are used to having vendors kissing their ring, and on some level they justify it by thinking it's because BigCo is such an awesome big company. So they take that posture with "vendors" who are random open source devs on the internet.

But these people are usually the most cynical bastards you can imagine, and they really know it's all about the money. So, I'll echo the other suggestions, and recommend you send them a professionally-worded proposal. If they know can spend $X to get Y, (and Y kissing their booty) they'll drop the pretense and 'do business'.
Materialize – make icons in your home screen Material-Designed
I live in Hanover, NH -- the town mentioned in the post -- and see that building every day. I also know the architect that designed that building personally, and would be happy to forward any questions to him.
This is on the radar. The differences between the languages, especially regarding collections, are tricky. For example we're finalizing a data structure to mimic tuples that would allow value lookup by index and/or element name.
(For OpenBSD in particular.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10515961
Google acquires photo and video editing startup Fly Labs for its Photos team
Great! It must be pretty tricky to translate that across without destroying performance and interoperability. I just wanted to check, because the other one seemed to think it was no big deal to leave it this way.
Inflation is price increases. It is caused by increased spending (demand-pull) (e.g. basic income) or increased costs (cost-push) (e.g. the 1973 oil crisis).

Milton Friedman's idea that it's only ever caused by an increase in the money supply needs to die already. It's always been wrong.
> Don't be afraid to say no.

This has been key for me!
$1100 per month is about normal price in Texas too.
If students count, the other day I heard some griping about how they had to learn assembly even though "we're never going to use it".
> because they lack a means to calculate relative value sufficient for anything other than robbery, and certainly not sufficient for directing activity fit for an industrial society.

That seems to me to be an argument against a planned economy, not against socialism. There's no requirement for socialism to remove markets as mechanism to determine value.

There is a requirement to reject a market based on private ownership of the means of production as the means to determine the individuals return for work rendered, not to reject market mechanisms in general.

In a sense you are right that Marxists and "Austrians" could agree that "intermediate" socialist policies that hamper the functioning of the market are doomed to fail. But some Marxists will believe that this is because an actual Marxist implementation could have freed the market from the limitations of the halfway house of social democrats.

E.g. a problem with the social democratic model of Norway for example is exactly that the market is stymied by all kinds of regulations that are intended to cushion society from the effects of unrestrained capitalism. These clearly affect the ability of the markets to accurately price e.g. the actual cost of a product, because it ends up pricing in societal costs of dealing with labour issues unrelated to what this company actually does.

But these are necessary to achieve a socialist programme under the constraints of capitalist modes of ownership, not because of the market.

As a specific example, in Norway it is incredibly hard to make people redundant, and even normal notice periods are typicall 3 months. These protections were hard won successes of the labour movements. But they are there to safeguard employees in a system where long term unemployment is a risk leading to reduced earning ability - possibly for the rest of your life if you end up losing career progression.

Consider a socialist system where the cost of employment are effectively borne by society whether or not there is currently work for you, and where you're not losing out on salary progression. In such a system you might want to strip most redundancy protections back to the bone, because they obscure the real costs of production and they obscure real unemployment.

By stripping such protections, society would be able to see what the free labour pool actually is, and take measures on that basis - whether it would be to lower working hours, or offer more vacations, or encourage more education, or offer up resources to people wanting to start new projects.

It is thus not the market that is a problem for Marxists, but a capitalist market under capitalist modes of ownership.

That does not mean all socialists, or all Marxists, want market economies, but there certainly are Marxists who see the market as by far the best means to calculate relative value exactly in order to direct activity fit for an industrial society. At least some Marxists and Austrians will in fact agree to levels of regulation in many areas that would cause "intermediate" socialists like social democrats to have strokes.
"You make up terms where widely accepted terms are already used (because the appropriation of Latin phrases makes one sound much smarter that those silly scientists) and dismiss the essentially the entire field because there are some (in your view) ignorant troglodytes who don't dovetail with your obviously more informed world view. Your argument is so compelling that you don't even feel the need to support it with facts."

- kjs3 on lobotomy in 1930.

- kjs3 on Alchemy in 1650.

- ksj3 on Astrology in 3000 bc.

- ksj3 on Human Sacrifice in 10000 bc.

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Are you honestly so stupid that you think that just because a lot of smart people are doing something it must be correct?
Microsoft might be ambitious now, however I think they are the ones who will lose out in the future, where platforms are everything. A huge problem I see in Microsoft's approach is its ability to build a compelling platform for consumers, especially in a time of increasing skepticism in American tech. It's technology might be great, but it's cultural influence is low and may not be enough to keep it strong in the face of Chinese competitors in the future. They may end up like Sony...

I hope their foray in the consumer space proves fruitful. It's a shame they have to compete with the likes of Apple and Google, along with any future Chinese tech company.
Rumblr –  Tinder, but for fighting
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
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There are 9 different technology tracks in which you can participate -

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Apart from the big, all expenses paid trip to SF for the winners of every programming track, there are some other amazing prizes too
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Which reinforces the point, 3D GUIs are a lot of fun but not very productive. In my workflow at my day job I want fewer GUI interactions and more production. AutoHotKey and 5 tonne overhead cranes help a lot, 3D GUIs not so much.

I won't discount the possibility that there will be some future problem that will be solved by a 3D GUI, perhaps astrogation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10506422
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10506422
I heavily suspect that is the case. Our climate depends on more than just sun patterns.

Historical record show Golf current supplies heat to Europe. Once that fails instant ice age tends to start. With increased temperature, ice cap melt and salinity of water drops, which causes Golf current to stop.
In fairness, on site the itself it is pretty clearly highlighted as sponsored content.

Must admit that I was disappointed on clicking to find that it wasn't actual reporting.
You can expand this to everything in your life you could pay for. Gardening, painting, car maintenance, cooking, cleaning, growing vegetables, hunting, making clothes, this list goes on.

Anything you can do yourself will save an enormous amount of money because using money is extremely inefficient.
Only if the navigation would condense while scrolling... Hate that 25% of the UI is blinding me with color/space and distracting away from what I'm interacting with.
Agreed-- especially in the early years of education. The Montessori model [0] is based on this. I remember being taught by older students, and then teaching/helping younger students with the same concepts. In addition, mixed-age models lets each student advance at his/her own pace for each subject area.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education
Exactly.

There's so much stuff like that going on it's hard to know where to begin with these people.

For example, demographics. If you have a large young population and a large elderly population you will have a median income pushed lower than when your demographics skew middle aged.

Also, when you have large immigration influx, that forces down your median income as a percentage for the whole population, even if the people who were there before the influx are doing considerably better in real dollar terms.

Or if retirees are doing part-time "fun" work for small amounts of pay, when they wouldn't have been 50 years ago, that'll force down median income since they're not competing for higher wages.

It goes on and on.
"It’s actually good news for the overall economy and ecommerce ecosystem if you really think deep enough about it."

I love this guy
As a thought experiment, can anyone think of something that is expensive, where the direct employees are well paid?

I feel like that no longer happens in the world, with profits being pushed ever higher.
The future is owning a state-of-the-art 3D printer to produce the small plastic part for your sixty-year-old washing machine.
That means the average device running Nucleus RTOS is 3.5 kilometers from Earth.
> Why do we need a 'scientific study' for everything?

There's value in knowing that we do something because it's actually a good thing to do, and not just a quirk some ancient monarch had that was adopted by the peasantry.

There's also value in knowing why something is good to do. Maybe we can find more ways to do it.
So instead of stop doing the stupid things, we should instead do another stupid thing. Hoping that stupid cancels itself?
No mention of James Loewen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me," which fills in some of the blanks they mention in Zinn's narrative, overflowing with both footnotes and primary sources, going out of its way to point out alternate explanations and the reasoning behind the author's deductions and conclusions.

Edit: Loewen makes no claim that his book is by any means a history book and outright states that he does not intend to cover everything, but I personally feel that the issues he does cover are treated considerably more fairly, even if he makes no secret of which side of history he comes down on. He also feels like he has less of an axe to grind with the United States as a country and government as compared to Zinn, coming across as being more against certain persons or policies that have been (in his opinion) incorrectly hero-worshipped or whitewashed by traditional history books.
Do investors really need to 'wise up' as you say? It seems to me that they are quite tolerant of this type of thing, because it's cost effective in the end. They're searching for billion dollar unicorns, the diamonds in the rough, and they have to launch hundreds of startups to get them. That requires a lot of young engineers willing to work for ramen and stock options. The perks required to bait them are a modest expense in the grand scheme of things.
Not only that, but its primary objection is buried towards the end, receives a tiny fraction of the essay's length, and so thoroughly lacks originality that it has literally driven people in the opposite direction (I originally went searching for other schools of economic thought because I didn't believe the "jobs will appear" mantra, not the other way around).

It feels like a student essay where the author has a word quota but no actual point so instead they just aimlessly wander along tangents until they pass the "finish line."
MicroServices: Thinking small on civic tech
Are profits actually going up?

Are people becoming greedier?

Why is competition failing?
Does this matter?

I don't think what your pointed out would be a hindrance in any way.

Having worked in a non native speaking environment for 10+ years, I've learnt that simple, plain expressions get the job done. This doesn't take a lot to learn, in fact, but does take a lot to impress on others, especially when they're used to wordy sentences and long complex presentations.

Worrying about sounding native gets in the way, and often confuses things. Based on the writing above, the OP has no reason to focus on English vs. other things. Sure it's great to add nuance, but this comes slowly with environment, it isn't a #1 priority.
Mate, this is bloody Oz. It hit nearly 46C (114F) last year in my city. Last thing I'm trying to do is minimize heat loss.
Just like devs will eventually build apps for Windows 8...

While I've some great apps built on the Windows Universal app platform, there really haven't been anything that I've seen that is a must have or the next explosive app. The larger problem is the hacker community's love for their Macs & Linux. Microsoft should just flood the Bay with Surface Books, that might prove more fruitful than giving devs cash
I think one of the issues with the better woods in particular is sustainability of growth. Basically every house built today in NZ will be using Pinus Radiata, which is a less dense wood that grows very very quickly, and is very sustainable. In the past, e.g. 1960 and earlier, houses used Rimu, and potentially Kauri - both of which are very hard, very dense woods that will test even the best drill bits - but they're not sustainable.
Watson? It's got a billion dollars in funding and it seems capable of finding many customers in medicine.
It's not too different than college teaching, and could be a model for the future of education careers in general.
A friend got a special permit and re-habbed injured native animals in his home. At any one time he often had baby kangaroos, wallabys, koalas, etc. They're all extremely cute. Bottle feeding a kangaroo in a hanging sock is fun.

When they're old enough he releases them back into the wild.
Nice work, please continue to create coherent, well researched, concise, useful material like this.
I definitely feel for the regular people getting hit with such ransomware, but devs that don't have backups are just asking for it to begin with. Not that it's right or anything, but if you have no backups of your site, it was destined to be lost at some point whether is be ransomware or software/hardware failure. With storage so cheap, it's really inexcusable.