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Thank you Colin for writing this. I think it's necessary to champion how much we rely on Open Source to encourage giving back.

This has been a very recent topic at our company that was bootstrapped early this year and now is humming along nicely. We are formally implementing an Open Source Friday each month (would love to do every Fri, but company not doing quite that well). We're suggesting three avenues, but we're not limiting it to these:

1. Contributing design (we're trained designers that also develop) work to projects we actively and implicitly use.

2. Open sourcing our own novel technologies and working on documentation, issues, and community.

3. IF (there better be a good reason) we have to work on this Friday, half of the revenue for the day will be donated to supporting Open Source Software.

We'd also love to hear ideas from others on ways designers could help out the Open Source community.
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I have to say, I don't understand Google's decision on this. MathML is something the web needs, and it ought to be supported natively. MathJax is a hacky workaround, not a long-term solution.
1) Droids: fair enough. But Star Wars didn't really invent the concept of androids, so I don't know how much credit it should get for that. Might as well mention Softbank's robot Pepper[0], if only to mention that the terms of service apparently explicitly say you can't have sex with it. Certinaly, intelligent software agents seem to be more commonplace, which isn't surprising since you don't have to worry about having those lumber around the real world.

2) Lightsabers: Probably only marginally possible if you entirely abandon the premise of having an energy weapon altogether, and certainly that the "blade" has to be made of light. The closest thing reality has, and maybe can have, might look like a cutting torch.[1]

3) Tractor Beams: Probably impossible as envisioned by science fiction - a beam of energy that pulls you towards it, rather than pushing, which would be more reasonable. Manipulating some medium like air or water might work, but shouldn't count. Although at small scales, where you can harness the Casimir effect, it might be feasible[2].

4) Holograms: Everything like the "Tupac Shakur" and "Hatsune Miku" concert holograms seem to be images projected onto a surface, but the technology to create and manipulate points of light as an actual 3d matrix does apparently exist[3], but are nowhere near ready for shipping with HoloChess.

5) The Force: Simple tricks and nonsense.

[0]https://www.aldebaran.com/en/a-robots/who-is-pepper

[1]http://www.gamezone.com/news/someone-made-a-real-life-lights...

[2]http://www.livescience.com/48414-tractor-beam-pulls-in-parti...

[3]http://qz.com/438880/scientists-have-created-3d-holograms-th...

So yeah - any possibly valid technological ideas in Star Wars would seem to be pretty generic for the genre, and the unique concepts are, unsurprisingly just magitech.
The median home value in Palo Alto is $2.5M per Zillow; in neighboring Menlo Park with comparable schools it's $2M. If you cross I-280 for larger lot sizes (and generally, though not always, more house square footage) you'll see the median home value in Portola Valley is $3.8M. If you don't like those figures, you can look at Trulia's, which says the median sales price for Palo Alto is $2.5M and the mean listing price is $3M.

Note these are generally not luxurious properties at those prices. Many are small postwar ranchers or Eichlers (beautiful but a pain to update) that have not been renovated in decades. Some houses have negative value because they're teardowns; you'd buy the property for the land.

After taking into account housing costs and California's aggressively progressive tax regime, you may find that $250K salary does not go as far as you like. You may make 2x-3x as much--but your cost for comparable housing may be 10x-15x as high and your tax burden will be more oppressive as well.
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To paraphrase Charles Steinmetz, doing the grep is only 0.01% of the work. The rest is knowing what to grep for.
> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with.

AFAICT, there is nothing here that we can play with and this should not be Show HN post.
It was absolutely NOT directed just at men. We all have internalized stereotypes and biases.
we can't just decide that property rights can be ignored when they're cheap to exploit (like copyright or patent infringement)

Copyrights and patents are state-granted exclusionary privileges, not property titles.

If you want to improve wealth distribution, messing with the mechanics of how things are bought and sold, as always, isn't going to get you very far.

What are you talking about? Abolishing and reforming institutions is one of the most powerful tools there is.

Maybe just raise taxes, you know?

The whole point of this paper is that simplistic fiscal shenanigans like this don't work.
I'm not sure that's really limited to any of the BSDs, honestly. Newer Unices and Linux in particular are pretty darn user friendly relative to how it used to be. And users have the backstop of googling for any answer these days.

OpenBSD hearkens to the older school of thought that reading the docs is not a bad thing and in fact can be a great place to start. It reminds me of my start on UNIX puzzling out the mysteries of UNIX one man page at a time.

You are in a maze of twisty little man pages, all alike.
If you consider "ssh jump host" and "vpn" somewhat similar implementations of the same general strategy (forcing users to jump through something secure) we have a similar recommendation.
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cat takes as many files as you pass it, yes.
I've noticed that any time a debate of this sort comes up, and someone states a strong view supporting either side, the other side will start downvoting them. That's usually counteracted by their own side upvoting them back up.

It happens to everyone, so it annoys me when I see people complaining about it in every HN thread that has divided opinions on some social justice movement or whatever.

There's no "Please explain why you've chosen to up/down vote" pop up on HN, so no one really owes anyone an explanation for it either. That's just how things are.
The broadness is purposeful, specifically she is interested in what is the shortest path. She is interested in Computer Security, but I suspect there are shorter paths to landing a tech job.

Given my experience as a developer, getting a job as a developer is not the quickest path (experience and/or success are required to overcome a lack of a 4-year CS degree).
I dunno, I've seen a lot of adolescent-minded 20 somethings not getting laid a whole bunch.

In some cases, guys don't grow up not because sex is so readily available, but in some cases (especially due to society's pressures and feminist social development) because they've given up and retreated to a digital lifestyle.

Interesting article, and maybe true on the whole, but I have seen a lot of first hand anecdotal evidence that suggests young college aged males are having a lot less sex.
>As soon as a signifcant minority (let alone majority) do not like the market's outcome, they will petition a legislative alternative to that outcome.

But that presupposes that the populous would dislike the free market's outcome, which if anything points to the idea that free markets are unworkable in a practical sense.
Glad to find that this talk included current, good practices for Core Data and not just a "it's very complicated so you should use Realm instead" style of talk.

(In fact, the speaker isn't affiliated with Realm and doesn't have much to recommend about Realm... so I guess, kudos to Realm for publishing the transcript, regardless.)
Millions of iPhones out there, thousands in your area, hundreds that are the same model/screen size, and so on.
There are many reasons why your seemingly generic hardware has a unique fingerprint. Without access to your results page I couldn't tell you exactly why, but there are a lot of things that can be used to fingerprint your device, including browser configuration, how your gpu handles vectors (same model chips, different results), injecting supercookies, or possibly your browser is leaking other unique identifiers.

If you used tor browser on panopticlick you'll see it report your browser to be fairly generic.
I wonder if, in time, this won't morph into just telling the window manager the layout and widgets in your window... then we can have full abstraction over all widget toolkits. Like, you send it some sort of xml description of your window and callbacks are delivered over dbus. Maybe we can also include a scripting language to do some light scripting of the controls so simple operations don't go over the entire callback mechanism.
You should know that on HN you're speaking with the voice of the platform. You have a right to your own voice; they have a right not to give you theirs.

Usually though, the rationale for "downvoting" (really flagging) is that somebody is being unreasonably negative. I think it's rare that a well-researched non-disparaging comment is flagged more than a couple times.

We have all said things on HN that have been flagged, we all know it feels bad. That doesn't mean there shouldn't be moderation.
And just to make things even more meta:

https://www.reddit.com/r/openhunt/

(If somebody affiliated with OpenHunt wants control of that sub, just message me).
This paper seems to be directly targeting doctors specifically and is leveraging resentment against the 1% for doing so.

The author (Dean Baker) is a supporter of ACA. Maybe this is some sort of attempt at fomenting support for bringing down doctors' wages in order to help bring down the costs of ACA.
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Webdevs calling themselves engineers is an insult to
the amount of work and effort that I've put in to get
where I am now

1. "web dev" is nebulous. At what part of the stack does it cease to be "web dev?"

2. Definition of engineer:

"An engineer is a practitioner of engineering,
concerned with applying scientific knowledge,
mathematics, and ingenuity to develop solutions for
technical, societal and commercial problems."

Your statements misunderstand the definition of an engineer and devalue the accomplishments of people who apply math, science, and ingenuity to [animate things on websites] [make a website load in requisite time] [bend the constraints set by the browser to achieve certain objectives] [...insert other software engineering tasks].

3. It sounds to me that you feel hurt over credentials. What you are projecting: "I worked hard for this thing and I perceive that you are devaluing it." My response is, credentials are different in software engineering, sorry. And nobody is devaluing your mechanical engineering degree here; if it's something in your field that is valuable, that's good for you.

But mechanical engineering isn't software engineering, and you can't say x isn't engineering, you have to understand what the accepted definition is.
this post is pretty much the table in the back of my signals & systems book
If that is the case then it is an even better idea. These folks aren't after "stuff" they are completionists with a competitive streak. That suggests that you could have something as simple as steel medallions which were the "prize" such that folks could collect them and then turn them in for other "in game" items. Sort of the Internet of Things meets Freemium gaming.
It certainly is common among the techies of my acquaintance, which may explain why there is so much overlap with communities focused on arts and music.
Anecdote: I've been at one of those companies for three years, and made about $250k this year.
It isn't unfair in any way to point to the American healthcare system as a massive protectionist racket. Doctors, insurance companies, pharma companies, and hospitals are all hard at work ensuring their profits at the expense of patients and the American tax payer.

The AMA is a highly self-interested organization.
I have panic disorder and Pregabalin has literally saved my life. Otherwise I was going the Ian Curtis route. So many thanks to the scientists who developed this drug.
Good points! Thanks for the feedback :)
One of the advantages you have that can lead to success is your unique combination of ideas and insights that no one else has in your niche. Don't ever sell short your abilities and value, especially over the long term.

You feel shitty in your current state, but what would constitute an endstate for you that brings fulfillment and elation? I felt like you did until I decided what I wanted for my endstate. That helped guide me to make some changes. Now I don't feel shitty about my situation and I'm taking 30 mins here and there every day to eventually hit my goals.
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For those who would like to launch their own version of HN or PH, would love for you to check out HelloBox - something we've been working on for awhile.

https://www.hellobox.co

[Now that I think about it, I should put this on the OpenHunt!]
No, but there are authors who attempt to avoid an agenda, and authors who attempt to advance one. It's an important distinction.
Essentially, it boils down to how effective I can be with my time. I can be far more productive today, using modern information tools, than I ever could have in the mid-nineties. It's not just a function of experience, in 1995 I'd already had like 8 years of exposure to computers and programming. The main barriers I had to success were in knowing what to do and how to do it.

Now, there are practically no informational barriers at all. I've shifted from looking for options to take to sifting through all the available, great ones. The quality of what you can find on the Internet these days is just mind-bogglingly better.

What this means is that time spent 20 years ago is worth less than time spent now. And since time is far more valuable than money, there isn't an amount of money you could throw at me to make me yearn for those old days.

I use the similar logic to come to the conclusion that I'd rather be a lower-class American than a Chinese billionaire. I'd actually rather be a middle class Chinese than a Chinese billionaire, if only because that means I could move to the States. Everything I've read about these people indicate myopic, ugly personalities. The social fluidity of the US is worth more money than I could ever imagine, as increasing the value of time spent is worth more than any amount of money.
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Fair enough. I mean in that case I would probably have spent some time in the video showing how easy it was to set up all the devices to work with Josh. Since what you're saying is that while the end result is about the same (currently), the setup is easier. As you said not really for me then since I like having the hackability of using IFTT to do all sorts of things, but I can see how someone in a 10k sqft home might not want to deal with it.

Of course that's a pretty small audience, so there you go. "Sell to the classes, eat with the masses", as they say...
If you were rich twenty years ago, many of our modern conveniences could be purchased via labor.

Uber? Pay for a private chauffeur

Travel? Pay a top-tier travel agent

Technology has pushed more luxuries to the masses but rich in 1995 was still pretty awesome. Maybe if you'd said 50 years ago I'd be more in agreement.

Plus, there is the downside of technology. More distraction, easier for competitors know more about your business and thus catch up with you, easier for your employer to outsource your job overseas etc.
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Yeah, that last part is bunkum. You don't even have to go to malpractice. A bus driver in Sweden makes 1500 times what a bus driver in India makes. Yet a bus driver in Sweden is not even getting into the top quartile of earners in Sweden, let alone the 1%.
Doctors in the US earn twice as much as the OECD average. Dean Baker talks a lot about how during the era of 'globalization' manufacturing workers were pitted against low-wage third world workers while doctors were shielded from similar competition by professional organizations and barriers to entry by immigration law. Basically, doctors in the US have lots of ways to control the supply of doctors, so their wages are unsurprisingly elevated above the international norm.
I'm currently still in school, and I personally don't know anyone who is making $250k/year five years into their career. But I have seen new grad offers that make that number seem reasonable. One of my friends is a really smart developer who got several offers from places competitive with those companies. I don't think they really had much full-time work experience. The first year total comp in one of their offers was around $200k. A 25% compensation increase over five years seems reasonable to me.

Edit: It does kind of depend on how you value stock/RSUs in your compensation package. Most of the offers they got were from public companies that were well run. So I personally would not be extremely worried about the stock losing most of its value before I was able to sell.
Absolutely not, no.
> You seem to think "reflecting on its past" is one of the advances that came with Western civilization

Not if taken so far as to become self-destructive.

> Not sure what "modern western ethnomasochism" is,

It means that here in the West we are (were) the best (in relative terms) but we think we are the worst, and wish for our own end.

> Can you really have one without the other?

Oh yes. Godspeed to Asia which will inherit the future, learning the good bits from the West without the suicidal self-flagellation.
Physician income is not currently the most important part of US healthcare expenditures. In fact, administrators and administrative costs lead to more expenditure, and do not directly contribute to patient care. So, I have to agree that cutting physician income is not going to fix the problem. In fact, physician income could be set to 0 and it would only reduce healthcare expenditures by ~15%, last I looked.
Replying here cos I can't reply to your other comment.

Either I have been so bad at communicating my point that it came out as garbled nonsense or you've confused me with someone else.

I am all for people being able to downvote whoever they want without needing to explain themselves. The only reason I mentioned being downvoted at all - by 1 guy, I think - was to point out that the same people complaining that they are being "unfairly downvoted for having controversial opinions" have no qualms about downvoting people with opposing views. Which, in my eyes, is hypocritical.
Think the closest you can get to that is the direct iframe at http://www.theatlantic.com/media/interactives/2015/11/colora... (leaflet page.)
Has anyone tried using DigitalGlobe (the service that's used in the OP) for on-demand photography? Their landing page [1] provides several call-to-actions: download Silverlight to see an interactive demo, set up a live demo, or regular Contact Us form. They apparently have a partnership with CartoDB [2], which states that day-of photos can be requested (at $30/km2) and is integrated to their API -- but then states it's for Enterprise clients only (though later in the page, says "Anyone can access this data").

I guess there's probably not a service that just lets you fill out an online form and pay by credit card to get an image on demand, but would like something a little more frictionless than having to meet with a salesperson when I already know exactly what I want to try out.

[1] https://www.digitalglobe.com/products/spatial-on-demand#feat...

[2] https://cartodb.com/cartodb-for/satellite-aerial-image/
Of course you think that it's a big problem, your paycheck depends on it!
On the contrary, Greenfield's proposal directly and explicitly addresses "the problem, the uniqueness and the mystery of consciousness" and proposes a simple solution which explains them. Just because you think she's wrong doesn't mean you can dismiss the argument as missing the point. She knows the area very well.

I don't attempt to present her argument, just the proposal. The book is interesting.
...I was going to reply to something in your earlier post, but you stripped it out. It ended up in this post and when I noticed it I clicked to reply, and now you've edited it again.

I guess what I was going to reply with would now come off as a non sequitur, but is there some reason you won't leave your posts alone for 10 minutes?
Date: 2004.

Which brings up the question of, was it the last?
Ask HN: How are people doing networking in containers?
I'm curious as to how people are dealing with traditional network functions in the container world, and the orchestration world (CoreOS, Mesos, etc..). How are people ensuring security, and dealing with microservices load balancing?
What's the source for that chart? And why is it so old?

The Washington Post paints a very different picture regarding pay for doctors:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/salary-gaps-and-doct...
"Am I having subjective experiences right now?"

"Yes."

"What are the nature of those subjective experiences?"

(crickets)

It works pretty well. And it's hard to refute without appealing to 'I just know'.
Without comments it doesn't feel like a community
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Hint if you're looking for other css selectors to make additional customizations: to inspect any GTK3 app under GNOME ≥ 3.14, just set the gsetting mentioned at [1], and Ctrl+Shift+I to get a Chrome/Firefox devtools-like inspector :)

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK%2B/Inspector
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If you're going to post on HN that you're in search of a job, you should probably include a way for interested parties to contact you... because I'm an interested party. :-)

We (OwnLocal; http://ownlocal.com) works through newspapers and other local media companies. Your domain knowledge would be deeply valuable to us.

For what it's worth, none of the stuff you're worried about (too "old", wrong tech, no degree, generalist) really worry me as a hiring manager. We have all those things on our team.

If you're interested, pretty please send me a note -- jason@ownlocal.com.
FYI, they finally backported XCOPY /H (I think) to the real mode DOS version in WinMe I think, unfortunately too late since they decided to disable "MS-DOS mode" before it was finally released.
The paper defines "rents" differently than its common meaning (e.g. the monthly payment for an apartment).

"this upward redistribution comes from the growth of rents in the economy in four major areas: patent and copyright protection, the financial sector, the pay of CEOs and other top executives, and protectionist measures that have boosted the pay of doctors and other highly educated professionals."

The Medium blogger seems to only be talking about housing.
This is what forks are for, isn't it? If it's that simple, I'd think a fork could pretty easily start to solve some of GTK+'s issues.

From my perspective, GTK has been mired for a very very long time. Essentially from its inception it was something that was required for other missions. There have been tons of volunteers and people working on it but I'm not sure how much of that was because they needed it vs because that's what they love to do. I also have some suspicions that certain UXy/visual type problems just don't seem to be good fits for the bazaar model, all my evidence would be tied to GNOME, GTK, and GIMP for the most part so I could see how I might be wrong. If it's being held back by some Redhat folks that are paid to maintain it because Redhat went all in with it decades back, a fork could potentially revitalize it.
Full article here for anyone interested: http://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/economics/a-phool-a...