skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on test results using Panopticlick given at http://linuxbsdos.com/2015/12/18/trying-to-prevent-browser-f..., it appears so, though using Tor Browser Hardened tilts the odds in your favor slightly
Society would have to give up property rights, in order to not have "rules" forcing capital to "go where's it's told."

Contracts, holding shares, property... These are pretty dang fundamental, but you're just brushing them all off as "rules." It's absurd to try to study Capitalism SEPARATE from those rules.
While that is in the guidelines, it doesn't seem to be very strictly applied. I think the goal of the guideline is primarily to have the opportunity to get to know the project in order to critique it thoroughly, and sometimes a presentation is the only viable option.
That's as may be but what are your chances of making the equivalent of 5 years at Dallas BigCorp busting your ass to get to a senior X or X Supervisor in 5 year vs busting your ass at start up in Dallas?
One thing I don't like about Echo, IFTT, and others like them is the fact that everything has to go through "the cloud." If I'm sitting at home and want to dim my lights, why do I need to send my voice to Amazon's server, have it call out to IFTT, which calls back into my home? Especially since I have a data cap. All of that can easily just go through a locally-installed system and you don't need expensive hardware to do it.
> Isn't rent seeking the defining characteristic of capitalism?

I wouldn't say the defining characteristic, but it certainly happens a lot, and is what Marx and now Piketty warn about...

(rent seeking of course being the movement of capital to where it can obtain economic gain without any benefit to society)
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The "listen to women" part that people take issue with is being expected to assume legitimacy, and hence support any draconian policy proposed, all based on subjective testimony. Ask a certain UVA frat about that.
yes, it is clearer the Go way. things are up-front and obvious, easier to document, and less error-prone.

although your contribution in snark is much appreciated, you're incorrect.
http://www.livingin-canada.com/salaries-for-registered-nurse...

http://www.payscale.com/research/CA/Job=Registered_Nurse_(RN...

The average yearly income of a nurse in my country is between $3k less, and $10k more than the average salary of a software developer in my country, depending on the source.

Although the stresses are perhaps not comparable, it's important to note that a nurse working the same hours as a typical software developer could expect to earn around twice as much.

Mind you, educational requirements may be more expensive than for software developers. I'm not familiar enough to speak to that.

http://www.payscale.com/research/CA/Employer=Toronto_Distric...

An average elementary school teacher in a nearby city makes about $3k less than an average software developer, with around 7 weeks paid leave.
At least one female respondent in another nearby municipality recorded having 10 weeks of paid leave and full benefits. With that, I think that total compensation must be at least on-par.

http://www.payscale.com/research/CA/Job=Social_Worker/Salary...

Average salary of a social worker is around $15k less than that of software developers in my country. I don't know as much about social work. I suspect it's good, hard work. I hear that it's risky. Benefits packages are mostly ubiquitous though.

Of the small sample on this site, all respondents said that they were extremely satisfied with their employment as a Social worker.

http://www.payscale.com/research/CA/Job=Clinical_Psychologis...

Average clinical psychologist salaries are about $25k higher than average software developer salaries in my country. Likely owing to higher typical educational requirements.

Of the small sample on this site, all respondents said that they were extremely satisfied with their employment as a Clinical Psychologist.
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Yes I think I've already reached an understanding with the OP, but thanks for chiming in.
I think the OP has made his point quite well already, and I understood him. No need for added outrage.
Yes, a lot of change cannot be done without massive upheaval - this is the dilemma we face in Africa.
That's what's driven me to write my own home automation code. (Though my code's terrible, not HN-worthy.) Anything that insists on a cloud API is out in my book. A local server is potentially worth serious money, especially if it's easy to use.
Your Stripe account is in test mode.
Hey jeffbarr, nice feature... But when are we getting IPv6 on EC2?
Maybe I put too much emphasis on the structure of private property. I sort of connect trading of private property rights as rent seeking almost by definition. If there were no profits in such trades, we would call them swaps no? And capitalism being explicitly about making property tradable is by implication about rent seeking.
I agree, seems like BS at least for iPhones. I think that tool may incorrectly assume that all factors it tests for are uncorrelated, e.g. Screen size vs browser user agent.
Yes, it's shame, but medicine has a mainstream, industrial aspect as well as it has a high-quality, focused aspect. I hope it gets well for the two of you. Remember good old exercise, nutrition, sunlight and everything else. Success creates new realities!

And most especially, thank you for pointing out that amazing documentary on Erickson! I've read the NLP foundation's first two books on him and they're incredible. I just picked up a copy of the DVD.

BTW, have you tried any NLP of the therapy variety with your gf? How surprised would you be to find it working as well as you can imagine? ;)
> Its kind of inflammatory. Using your logic: If many economists predicted a healthy economy and housing market, we would have many poor economists. I mean, if you have a vast body of evidence you can present that proves this is the case by all means present it.

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/econ...

1) The reverse doesn't hold true because the average income is $95,000 a year.

2) If one continued to hold assets, as a rational economist likely would, they would have recovered with the rest of the market by this point in time.

3) Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The claim it was widely predicted yet Nobel Laureates claim otherwise falls under that standard.

3b) Similarly, silencing such people required a certain degree of conspiracy yet there is no evidence of such a conspiracy. The reverse is not true.

4) It is a good effort to try to require me to meet the reverse logic except I'm not the one who made the initial claim that was extraordinary, unusual, and not backed by the opinion of a Nobel Laureate economist among others. Similarly, the reverse case simply isn't valid since you can't be "poor" on $95,000/year unless you are completely incompetent in managing your finances which is a different problem.

> US Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, has gone on record and said he knew of the impending housing bubble in 2005. I think even the most blind economists could have predicted a devaluation in average housing price at $x0,000/house (I really wish I knew that actual average price homes fell by), at 100M homes that is an evaporation of $x,000,000,000,000 of wealth, now from an economists point of view whether that suggest a imminent recession, I don't know, but to me that is unprecedented.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/business/economy/24panel.h...

> Mr. Greenspan said that he had publicly warned about the “underpricing of risk” in 2005 but that he had never expected the crisis that began to sweep the entire financial system in 2007.

He specifically stated he hadn't expected the crisis but rather an underpricing of risk which was one of the causal factors.

> Mr. Greenspan, along with most other banking regulators in Washington, also resisted calls for tighter regulation of subprime mortgages and other high-risk exotic mortgages that allowed people to borrow far more than they could afford.

Btw, he actively resisted and successfully fought to allow suprime mortgages.

> By 2004, a growing number of economists were warning that a speculative bubble in home prices and home construction was under way, which posed the risk of a housing bust.

Your best defense wasn't Greespan btw, but his opposition in 2004 who were warning his actions would lead to a speculative bubble. However, they were relatively few in number and there is no evidence they were silenced as the original post I was replying to implied.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/apr/16/goldman-sach...

Yeah, that isn't evidence of a large scale market prediction by economists so isn't in the domain of the argument I was making.
good suggestion! I'll create a github issue for it
I feel exactly the opposite... Why pick a reasonably common first name? Seems like a recipe for confusion...

There is a reason names like "Siri" and "Cortana" were chosen (though I'll grant you "Alexa" is a reasonably common name as well).
It is very common in my experience. Google, Microsoft, Apple, and every tech company I've ever applied to (even small midwestern shops) do not drug test.

The FBI has a problem hiring good security experts because of their strict drug testing policies.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023044227045795743...
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Simply amazing... barely any mention of the additional last-minute cyber security measures attached to the bill.
They do look at hashes of specific system objects (GL Context, canvas) and I'm curious how immutable those are on a particular device. It could be that they're accidentally including some bits from /dev/random and calling everybody unique. It doesn't necessary translate into trackable.
It's all about the I/O.

Mobile's Achilles' heel is that touchscreens can't be The One True Interface. Finger touches are too vague, involve covering up too much of the screen while you do it, and involve too much imprecision to be the only input. In a nutshell, despite what your initial analysis might indicate, a touchscreen interface is getting too many fewer bits than a conventional desktop, especially as conventional desktops and notebooks grow touchscreens. Voice still seems to be having a hard time covering the gap, making for good demos but definitely having a hard time breaking out in general (i.e., note how you still have to invoke voice on your phone, it is not fluent).

They especially can't be the One True Interface on a phone's screen.

Barring some breakthrough, I actually think what we have now is what we have for the next 5-10 years. Yes, there's a lot more mobile apps to be written, and the numbers for mobile are going to continue to climb, but I think they've largely done their damage to desktops and notebooks now. See how the luster of tablets has also faded.

(The next breakthrough will be phones being able to practically take over notebooks entirely, but despite the steady stream of prototypes we're not seeing any traction. It seems to be hard for a mobile OS to take over all duties of a desktop and it seems to be hard to jam a desktop OS on to a mobile. And it's not strictly speaking the OS, but the app model, security model, monetization model, etc. There's a lot of subtle conflicts between those two worlds right now. I think the instinctive closing of the ecosystems is a big problem here. Note how we're still klunking along with things like Chromecast, where in a truly open ecosystem we ought to simply have a generic display protocol that our phones could both produce AND consume. There's still this deeply foundational idea on all sides that they are the master. Why can't I use my phone or tablet as another laptop screen? Why can't I use my laptop screen as an adjunct to my phone? Why is all my IO hardware so, so very stuck to the hardware that happens to be in them? Is that not a step backwards from the desktop world itself? Answer: Nobody can make any money from standards open enough to solve this problem; if the hardware isn't the "master", it's not making money. The mobile world needs a heaping helping of free software, but it's not clear how to get it there.)
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>The AMA is a highly self-interested organization.

The decline and extinction of self interested organisations that represent labor is pretty much the only reason why all wealth as accumulated with the 0.01%.

AMA is, like most other unions, apparently not doing a very good job of keeping doctors' incomes up. That apparently doesn't stop self interested economists going on an academia-themed anti-union rant.
Why Pinterest just open-sourced new tools for the Elixir programming language
This sounds exactly like seccomp and seccomp-bpf in Linux, so I don't think the feature is special to OpenBSD. Chrome uses it, for example.

From https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox/Seccomp#Intro_to_s...

"Seccomp stands for secure computing mode. It's a simple sandboxing tool in the Linux kernel, available since Linux version 2.6.12. When enabling seccomp, the process enters a "secure mode" where a very small number of system calls are available (exit(), read(), write(), sigreturn()). Writing code to work in this environment is difficult; for example, dynamic memory allocation (using brk() or mmap(), either directly or to implement malloc()) is not possible.

Seccomp-BPF is a more recent extension to seccomp, which allows filtering system calls with BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) programs. These filters can be used to allow or deny an arbitrary set of system calls, as well as filter on system call arguments (numeric values only; pointer arguments can't be dereferenced)"
I stopped reading at "Mobile is the future".

Everytime I hear this, its from a clueless manager that saw that most traffic comes from mobile so decided we should put more ads on mobile. They don't realize that the over all traffic is still the same.

Mobile is the future is what made every news outlet create their own app and force you to download on each page view.
Nope. There were many people around, and it was clear that he didn’t know all of them. There were people he didn't know just as close as I was. He apologized only to me, nobody else.
It's about damn time. This makes S3 actually useful when paired with cloudfront. Before, it was a sad joke of steps and workarounds you had to go through if you wanted to to host static assets from S3 and have them be compressed.
About halfway through: "Being able to interface these fabric-scaled vector processors with rich visualizations of the sort one encounters in R, Excel, MATLAB, Tableau, and other real-time data graphing exploration vendors makes for a great marriage of equals."
> I'd rather be poor today than rich twenty years ago.

Since everybody else is commenting I'll join in too. :-)

Rich twenty years ago meant that instead of an iPhone, you had a secretary. Your TV was smaller. Your music was better. You talked to people in person. Oddly enough, the world at that time was a lot less crazy than it is today too.

Being poor in any era is in no way desirable compared to being rich in any era. A statement like that assumes poor means "I could probably live really cheap if I had to today" similar to tiny-housers.

The reality is closer to being uncertain of whether you will eat every day, where you will sleep and not to mention a feeling of hopelessness that can very easily come from feeling stuck in such a situation. When you're worried about having enough money to survive, things like getting a better education or job training go out the window.

Just by saying "I'd rather be poor..." you're getting the theoretical ability to CHOOSE it.
I'm not sure if the exact amount of $7.85 is necessary (there's definitely a decent profit margin there), but charging a registry fee is definitely necessary. There are a lot of costs that go into running a registry. This is my understanding of what running a gTLD registry looks like today (I run a registrar, so I'm on the other side of the picture, so I may be missing a few things).

$185,000 application fee (+50k if a technical review is required)

$6,250 fee per quarter

$0.25 per transaction (registration, renewal, or transfer)

More fees I'm forgetting

You also must run/maintain a bunch of other programs/services like: (this is the bulk of the cost of running a registry) shared registration system (SRS) that implements EPP (used by registrars to register/update domains), whois service, abuse prevention/mitigation, rights protection, dns services, zone file distribution, data escrow, DNSSEC, etc...
Something like Georgism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Oh god thank you so much
> And yet we're conscious of something.

The problem with saying things like that is that no one actually defines what consciousness is any objectively verifiable terms.

> However hard it may be to define, and however partial it may be, there's still something that makes it clear that I am I: cogito ergo sum; je pense donc je suis; I think therefore I am. I don't want to say that we'll never get there with computers, but so far, we don't even have the slightest idea how to make that happen.

No, that misses the real issue: the real issue is that we have no idea what that even means. We have an internal subjective experience that we describe as consciousness, and we assume other people do, too, because they look like us and act like us and it just makes it simpler to assume that underneath they are like us. But we don't have any way of determining that a thing is or is not conscious -- so not only do we have no knowledge of how to make something conscious, we have no knowledge of whether something is conscious, and no framework to develop knowledge about that, because we don't know what "conscious" means, outside of our own internal personal experience.
I've used Pocket for quite a few years. Previously I don't think there's been much difference between Pocket and competitors, but the new beta of their app has good 'recommended' things for you to read, and lets you follow other users to see the stuff that they 'recommend' - pretty great way to get interesting content.
What problem?
IIUC, the go-idiomatic way to do this if you find yourself wanting default arguments is to pass in a struct as one of the args to your function and have the default values of the fields in the struct mean "default" in the behavior of the function.

But in general, if you have a two-argument function and one of the arguments could be defaulted, just pass it. It's clearer at the call point what's happening then.
The argument on rents is important because, if correct, it means that there is nothing intrinsic to capitalism that led to this rapid rise in inequality...

Whatever the paper shows, I'm not sure you can draw this conclusion from it. The fact that systematic inequality takes some specific form and prefers some assets over others doesn't mean that it isn't a feature of capitalism, only that within capitalism, not all assets behave identically. I'm not sure why you would expect them to.
Nothing so drastic. I'm saying that if I had to be 30 and rich 20 years ago or 30 and poor today, I'd pick the latter.

Some days I feel like I've won the 'history lottery'. Right age at the right time in the right country.

I'm not certain I would choose the same thing twenty years from now. I think the essential reason why I would make that choice today isn't going to be all that much more compelling in the future, meaning the money is going to play a bigger role.

All-in-all, I think we vastly underestimate what the Internet has done for us. Like by a factor of millions.
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How do you even argue with someone who thinks that the average "big corporation" pays and looks like Google or Facebook? The vast majority of them aren't. That's my experience from working at them, interviewing at them, and seeing my colleagues work at them. The best thing about big cos? Generally I had good comradery and in-office perks, as well as good hours. When it comes to pay, raises, innovation, passion, speed, benefits, on all of those terms I've always had a better experience at smaller companies.

Sure, that may not be true across the board, but the author's assumptions are far reaching. I mean, 250k? Really? I'm not questioning his honesty, I just envy the bubble he lives in.
Did you see after the message, the writer mentions that win95 xcopy always had the switch /H available?
I think the phenomenon of humans going from normal-to-violent-rage at the most trivial personal slights from strangers (e.g. road rage) is well-accepted...but it's funny to me how slight software mixups (not necessarily bugs or outright failure) can cause the same quick rise in negative feelings, even though it's most definitely not a personal, human-to-human slight. Impotent fantasies like, "I hope the assclown and everyone on their product team who decided to move that button on [whatever GUI you use most] loses their jobs" as if they conspired to screw just you and you alone...Or maybe it's just me when I haven't had enough coffee :). I chalk it up to how sometimes aggravating and dehumanizing it is in modern life to have to use software in the first place, before people start moving the buttons around.
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Throwaway because I don't want my salary history to become public.

I spent 5 years at Google. My AGI (as measured by the IRS) during my time there went $130K, $200K, $280K, $280K, $300K, $356K (for my last 5 months there...it also includes unexercised stock options for the last 5 years, though). The bump to $280K was upon promotion to senior SWE; the one to $200K was largely because of a generous stock refresh grant.
From the manifesto on your site:

> One of the challenges to building a fully automated house, particularly one that grows and evolves over time, is the ability to program with ease. In theory it’s great if your sprinklers turn off when it rains, or if the lights go on at sunset, but these actions today take a skilled programmer many hours to assemble. [...] Even complicated queries can be effortlessly programmed, such as, “At sunrise if I’m home slowly fade the bedroom lights on, open the drapes, turn on the radio, and brew a pot of coffee.”

That's interesting, yeah. I mean I spent a few hours recently building a little script that makes my apartment's foyer light change based on the temperature and weather during the day, and go to a dim red at night, and I really wish it was a simpler process than "kludging together a Python script".

If you've got any of that kind of stuff up and running, you should be linking to that, not to a video that is essentially nothing you can't replicate with Siri and a light system that registers with HomeKit, or Echo, Cortana, or Google Now with similar plugins.

Also is there supposed to be any actual lists of brands of connected devices in the 'works with' page? All I see is greyscale photos of various anonymous devices with a word or two and an icon superimposed on them. It works with "LIGHTING" and "OUTDOORS" and "SECURITY", great, does it work with my lighting or outdoors or security?

Also: If the product is named "Josh", why is its default voice female? Has "Josh" shifted from a male-coded name to a female-coded one when I wasn't looking? Or is your product intended to present as a transman who really needs to work on his voice?
Which is meaningless without means of comparison.
The fact that programs exist somewhere in the world tells us nothing about the importance placed, or resources spent, on those efforts.
This is the second vendor forum for a new, agile, iterative, user-centered procurement from the State of California.

For background:

* http://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/2015/11/30/a-new-approach...
* http://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/2015/12/07/child-welfare-...
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