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Land is special. On a non-geologic time scale, "they're not making any more of it."

Land rent taxes can't be passed on to the tenant. Land taxes serve to aid in the arbitration of land as a resource. And presumably, we stop taxing labor, and possibly even production in general.

One can always hope.

"Progress and Poverty" is a fine book and explains it all quite well.

Every time you read about the horrors of San Francisco property prices, think to yourself "if they had good Geoist land taxation, that wouldn't happen."
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If you understand currying, you've got monads pretty much. They curry in a hidden thing.
A documentary about modern art I recently watched. I was never really good at interpretation of art. I did find this interesting
This is modern art - Hollow laughter (BBC documentary)
https://youtu.be/ZK7EJOfULSA
I'm sorry, I hate to be a pain, but it's a pet peeve of mine. They weren't "glitches". They were defects.

Glitches are errors that happen outside of the design parameters of the system. For example, when you touch the antennae on an AM radio and you hear a pop or buzz from your own electrical field in the radio.

Defects are errors that occur within the design parameters. So a train that can't handle some snow on the tracks, or a national health insurance enrollment site that falls over after only a few users show up, those are defects.

Bugs are a type of insect. Using the word "bug" to describe a defect implies that the "bug" showed up, an external factor that got in and gummed up the works or something. But that doesn't happen in software. The defects were always there.

I think it's important to use the terminology correctly and make a habit of using it correctly because I think it puts the emphasis on the fact that we create the defects, and the defects were always there, they didn't just develop, they just had to be found. That's also why I don't like the term "software maintenance". When you have to take a site down for several hours every 3 months for "routine database maintenance", that's a defect in design, not just "changing the oil".

It was our fault. Calling them "bugs" or "glitches" or "maintenance issues" diminishes that.
Huh, anybody know why DrugSupervise is in the top table names? Googling didn't give me any results and it sounds like some kind of webapp for drugs or something.
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DNS will be decentralized in the future. This will be one of the motivating examples.
From your link, "pictograms" are glyphs that depict the objects they represent (for example, 下 directly depicts the abstract concept of "down").

Egyptian hieroglyphs, in their ornate form, clearly depict various items like reeds, birds, arms, and snakes. But those glyphs don't actually refer to the reeds, birds, arms, and snakes they show; rather, the ancient Egyptian writing system is largely alphabetic. Their formal letters were just much prettier than ours.
Please stop calling things AIs. It just gets my hopes up.
How would that work? I feel much less inclined to visit a site where only those in the old boy's club get to speak.
I have been using BDR by 2nd Quadrant http://2ndquadrant.com/en-us/resources/bdr/ and so far it is amazing.
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> Serrano’s photograph of a crucifix immersed in a jar of his own urine was called "Piss Christ."

I remember when this was part of the national debate around the NEA. The reason that the people seeking to defund this stuff was that it simply was garbage as art. If classic art sought to pull on "positive" emotions and move and inspire; modern art seemed determined to confuse and then move on to outrage.

Somewhere in this dwelling in negative emotions, modern art became indistinguishable from a satire that nobody was bothering to produce. It was an overly serious bunch of belly button dwelling backed by amateurishly crafted production most pre-schoolers regularly produced. Instead it became a game of one-upsmanship and gross-outs devised in the minds of 10 year old boys. Anything that wasn't deliberately trying to rile the audience was laughable "craftsmanship" and interesting in any way. The art scene became incestuous and further and further isolated itself from any potential audience.

Classical art was put out in public places for any passerby to see -- Michelangelo's "David" was displayed in a public courtyard. While it's true that classic forms became tired and formulaic, the modernist movements didn't generally replace those forms with anything of particular value.

There's interesting things going on in art in the modern world, but modern art isn't one of them.
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How much does that cost? Could the US afford to do that? Why aren't we talking about "the successful example of Japan's public stimulus in job creation" as an alternative to e.g. basic income?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10752834
The fundamental problem with icons is that they can mean so many different things, as the example with washing shows. I've heard this summed up as "a picture is worth a thousand words, but you don't want a thousand words when one will do."

I don't use Apple Mail, so this is an example of what a completely new user --- albeit one who has used computers for a long time --- thinks when they see those icons along the top:

- It's a closed envelope. Mail? Send? Close?

- Write? Edit? Compose? Sign?

- No idea what this is.

- Trash can. Deleted items? Delete?

- Left-pointing arrow --- but coming from bottom and looking like it expands outward. Back? Open message in separate window?

- Two left-pointing arrows. Rewind?

- Forward to next message? And why is this arrow not coming out of the bottom, unlike the two to its left?

- Flag. This is probably the clearest of them all.
That is the exact opposite experience in my part of the world. The local post offices have become fiefdoms.

I could not find any accountability without having to go through Amazon. And the USPS claims poverty with what's left of their 5 billion dollars surplus still sitting in their pension fund.
ANS.1 is pretty popular for introducing bugs, Estonia recently had to bin hundreds of thousands of ID cards due to an encoding mistake.

Integers being encoded as signed is a nightmare for cryptography, which makes no use of them.
But you only have to learn it once. Just like the hamburger.
Why are projects always behind schedule?
"There is a trend, Japan won't beat the trend, but right now they are way worse than the rest of the world"

Far from the worst. And the European countries in the link are artificially propped up by immigrant births; their true citizen birth rate is even lower.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN/countries...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10762457

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10761938

Perhaps they can provide some insight as to how.
Does this have anything to do with the fact that CISPA was signed into law today?
If you're going to write shell scripts or do anything sophisticated with the shell, it's worth understanding the difference. And there is a fundamental difference. With |, standard input is hooked up to a pipe. With <, standard input is hooked up directly to the file. Sometimes it does matter.
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More protobuf implementations is certainly good, Google's have been really really lacking for us.

It would be really nice if there was a pure Python implementation that didn't use tons of unnecessary metaprogramming.
This is just a Soylent marketing video. Lots of discussion about Soylent 2.0 when it was announced a few months back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10193442

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9995303
No, this has nothing to do with companies sharing information about breaches.
Abstraction, like optimization, is nice when it serves a purpose. If it doesn't serve a purpose, you're probably just making your program harder to understand for no reason. You can see this in Java too, with proliferating class hierarchies introducing needless concepts. Haskell is also a research language and there are people working on abstractions for the sake of it, much like mathematicians sometimes do. If that's not your interest, just write programs that work and don't worry about being abstract for the sake of abstraction!
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I don't see what the fuss is about
This conservative opinion video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lNI07egoefc echoes your comment.
"... for the creation of consumer surplus."

Adam Smith describes mercantilism, which is nearly pure rent-seeking and capitalism. which is oh so much less so.

If you have a royal patent on all beaver pelts from the New World - to where your corporation can order the sinking of ships carrying contraband beaver pelts - then this is nearly pure rent-seeking.

Rent seeking grows like weeds at the edges of capitalism, but it is not, strictly speaking, capitalist but rather that which capitalism replaces.

This may seem pedantic but it's actually pretty useful.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10755461
California will open-source all new code, with licenses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10755461
I actually just went to a modern art museum last weekend, and I came away thinking nothing more than "I should become a modern artist so I can bilk some rich idiot out of their money, I could produce a lifetime worth of work this weekend."

This video brings up the notion that modern art has been reduced to nothing but personal expression. And I think that's the problem. Artists aren't that special and I'm not particularly interested in their expression, I'm far more interested in what expression art can inspire in its audience...and modern art hasn't been effective at doing this.
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1. No, it doesn't. Name a relational db that defaults to listening on all interfaces with no auth. I'll wait.

2. The author fully acknowledges that other NoSQL DBs are affected. Right there in the post.
The purpose cat serves is that it lets you forget about < until you really need it.
The same happened with thepiratebay.org last week.
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There is a beautiful world out there.

Go explore.
I asked this last year and got no replies -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863782

What are good tech projects to donate to in 2016?
You could say that drugs are a way to "hack" the brain.
Here is an experimental project that aims to solve the "knowing what to grep for" problem.

https://packages.debian.org/check-all-the-things
How could DNS become more decentralized? You already have your choice of TLDs, registrars, ISPs, and software. If that's not good enough you can host a public key under .onion.
As a casual observer (at best) of art- this doesn't seem true.

It's a victim of chronic upstaging like the rest of the humanities.
"Today's art has given us nothing that bears the slightest resemblance to our own lives, touches our fears and cares, evokes our dreams, or gives hope in time of darkness. Today's art is no longer a part of life, no longer in the domain of the common man, no longer an enriching, ennobling and vital partner in the public pursuit of civilization, no longer the majestic presence in everyday life that it was in the past. It is not that the public has failed art; it is art which has failed the public."

--Frederick Hart
This argument is often made, and has been common since the 1960s. Many good essays have been written, and are worth reading, but in the end they can all be boiled down to this: popular arts have become somewhat more important and fine arts have become somewhat less important. Movies are still important, pop music is important, graphic design (of magazines and web sites and apps) is more important than it has ever been before. But the elite edge of art is less important to the public, in the ways mentioned here:

"A basic familiarity with the ideas of the leading artists and architects is no longer part of the essential cultural equipment of an informed citizen."

That doesn't mean that art has become irrelevant, only that certain kinds of art are less relevant, and other kinds of art are more relevant.

People change, and the culture changes. When I was a little kid, my mom would read the New York Times and she would clip out articles about what the great novelists were writing and what the great architects were building, and whether New Urbanism would rescue the suburbs. Nowadays, my mom reads the New York Times and she clips out articles about cloud computing, and she talks about whether the USA is investing enough to modernize its communication infrastructure.
There are vast tracts of the world which cannot simply thumb their noses at government requests. Including the systems and communications concerning you, your possessions (home theft by database access and/or impersonation fraud is a thing), and intra- and inter-business communications on matters concerning you.

You and your data trail are far larger than the few direct stones you cast.

And unless and until widespread encrypted comms are the default and assumed for all, only a very, very small subset of all online comms will be encrypted.

I've been fighting this battle myself for going on 20 years. I'd like to start seeing some fucking results, beyond "HTTPS Everywhere" browser plugins installed by a small subset of users.
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no matter how good the person's life is

I think the mistake here is to assume that a privileged life is a good life.

All the comments here that say things like "they had plenty of money, good looks, great career etc but were crippled by depression" make that mistake.
If you don't mind me asking, is there anything you can identify in the days/weeks before you become depressed, such as working long hours for a long period, boring work, excessive negative emotions, etc.

It's not that I don't believe your depression is endogenous, I'm just curious. I was in a similar position to you until I looked closely at my life and identified the factors that were causing my depression/CFS.
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He's probably referring to SPJ's work on the spineless tagless G-machine [1].

In truth, though, I think trying to incorporate Call-By-Push-Value into Haskell would radically change the language unless there's some research in type theory that allows for the implicit Call-By-Need nature of Haskell to be extended into a form that can accommodate CBPV, which itself explicates a kind duality between Call-By-Name and Call-By-Value.

If advancements have been made here, I'd love to hear about it.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6708...
The documentary is really cool - I heard about the premiere on NPR one morning, and went that afternoon.

> 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? ;)

She's come a long way since I met her. I recently found a copy of /UnHypnosis/ at a local thrift store, which she's going through: http://stevetaubman.com/unhypnosis/ - seems like it's basically applied NLP. I have most of the old NLP books, and some of the newer ones too.

My Voice Will Go With You - https://books.google.com/books?id=AEo9acmCFNUC
Hey, this is really cool! Any chance you could add a daily summary email (like PH and some other similar sites have), or am I just missing it? That's a really easy way for me to keep up with what's been featured.
Within a couple weeks, this is going to need curated categorization of products. At the highest level, I'd categorize as:
a. physical product
b. installed software product
c. web service product
d. hybrid software+service product

Could be even broader. Or use tagging. You probably wouldn't look in the above categories for performance events, dining out, or phone sex. Must decide how wide a net you wish to cast, and what ontological approaches to use. But this, in my opinion, is where it gets interesting.
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Fine art is the production of Veblen goods; The innovation of modern art was that obvious lack of effort on the artist's part actually increases the ability of his or her work to signal wealth.
Has your girlfriend tried a ketogenic diet? A lot of people, myself included, report higher energy levels and loss of sugar cravings after just one or two weeks (could be placebo of course, there doesn't seem to be a scientific consensus).
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If you google "the pirate bay" usually the first link will be the working one.

Currently it seems to be the .se domain, but I just tried it and redirected to .vg
It was counterintuitive to me at first, but IIRC the idea was there were too many people talking, and they wanted to have discussion driven by creators, or people with at least some amount of clout that a friend would personally refer them for comment access. It spread in/around our local accelerator here.

There's a podcast episode maybe a year ago with Erik Torenberg (co-founder) where he discusses in more detail. He also talks about focusing the communication by splitting PH into verticals for games, books, etc. as it is now, but at the time it hadn't happened yet.
I was forced to use Windows 8.1 recently and had a similar experience - I decided to go with icons-only to see how long I could stand it before I got used to it, or reverted to icons+text. I reverted after a few days because it was really difficult to find the right button. Even icons for apps that I'd surely have seen and used many times, like Visual Studio, were much slower to find amongst the ~dozen others without the text.

The other real irritation comes from the fact that the selected button no longer has a "pushed in" effect like Windows Classic used to have, but only a very subtle colour change (and the colour varies depending on the colour of the icon too... so instead of just one "active" colour for everything, I now have to figure out what each app's active colour is to find it quickly):

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-d...
> The reason that the people seeking to defund this stuff was that it simply was garbage as art.

Or, more generally, any potential value of it is subjective, and evaluations of merit aren't actually taking even that into account.

Offensiveness doesn't seem even remotely relevant; some people may enjoy works that others find offensive. On the other hand, foring others to involuntarily fund "art" without using any measure of the value provided either to the people viewing it or to the people funding it (and utterly disconnecting those two groups) seems ridiculous, and leads to problems like this. And then you get into definitions of "art", and criteria for what should and shouldn't get funded.

With all the myriad ways of connecting with potentially interested audiences today, much of the rationale for speculatively funding art no longer exists. If you make something people find worthwhile, you don't need public support, and if you're not, you shouldn't receive public support. Produce samples, get people interested, find patrons (or customers, or both), build larger projects, repeat. And if you want to work on something that nobody else cares about enough to fund (or that you don't care about seeking funding for, for any number of reasons), that's called a "hobby".

That doesn't mean that "culture" devolves into exclusively "pop culture". It doesn't take a large number of interested people to provide a substantial amount of funding; a very small amount of money from a thousand people can fund a career for one. So this certainly doesn't mean that only the makers of mass-market popular culture can get funding; quite the contrary.

Defining "art", or setting criteria for receiving funding, then becomes irrelevant for anyone other than philosophers or art critics. If people like something and want to support it, they can.
This article is really not true at all. Art is not becoming irrelevant, it is just changing.

We are bombarded with audiovisual media now. A painting, a song, or even a "shocking" performances is much less valuable in a supply/demand sense than. (500 years ago, something as beautiful and pure as a painting was very rare!)

But new forms of art have replaced them. Relational art ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_art ) is a popular one. Relational artworks use humans, not media, as material. A relational artist might say that what is rare and valuable today is not visual media, but human connectedness and meaningful experience. A relational artwork might try to help a community solve a social issue, or create social connections that would not otherwise exist.

These new forms of art are not evaluated on how shocking they are. They are evaluated on how they affect the world.
I think you're on to something huge and important.

Some years ago I was working for an educational software company. We sold directly to schools. As expected, we'd get a lot of feedback from teachers using the product. For a while, everyone from the execs on down would ignore this feedback with a laugh. The majority of teachers we dealt with were absolutely clueless about anything involving software. Their reports reflected this ineptness.

One day, I had an epiphany that maybe, just maybe, these people were worth listening to. We went over the written feedback, translated their ramblings into something approximating proper bug reports, and it turned out they were doing a wonderful job of pointing out many of the problems (especially UI) hiding in our blind spots.

We had dismissed them because of a perceived cluelessness, and probably because of some internalized ageism & sexism (most of these teachers were middle aged+ women and most of my team was not). And yet when we finally listened to them, we put out an update which led to several accolades, a sudden drop-off in complaints, and probably our best selling product.
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I reslly appreciated your comment but here is some food for thought.

If art is about mimicking the real world, some will be much better than others and there will be only one best

If art is about capturing the perfect moment to inspire emotion, one could argue there are a thousand ways to do it.

If you believe artists should all speak in the same voice, i would say many would lose interest. If you allow artists to speak in their own voice, the cream will rise to the top. Naturally, the most sellable and marketable products will be given the limelight (pop art as an example) and omce those go out of fassion, a new fad will arise

As much as i agree that many modern peices look like they are pictures mixed with bleach, i dont think that is a bad thing. We have a free art market today while in the old world only the best were commissioned.
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I don't think he's exaggerating; for the past 4 positions I've had to fill (at six figure comps) 80%+ of candidates with extensive resumes couldn't solve a simple recursion problem. We give the a notebook with an IDE and access to the language docs.

These folks with many "senior" level positions on their resume can't manage a task our last hire did in about 6 minutes.
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