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At the time of Iranian disputed elections of 2009, I worked as an engineer for one of the biggest Iranian websites with millions of audience looking for reliable source of news, in the strict absence of any news, when people were getting killed on the streets of Tehran.

I see the need to clarify who this self-titled 'blogfather' of Iran is. I see this need as things get out of control quickly on hn due to hype and links like this jump to get 1k votes, where most of the voters simply vote because others voted.

For those who do not know, since just before the Iranian disputed elections of 2009, Hossein Derakhshan has been living in Iran. He was 'supposedly' in jail, but there were rumors about his collaboration with the Iranian government to build their cyber presence, which almost did not exist at the time. Shortly after his arrest, many anti government bloggers inside Iran were arrested too, there are speculations that he revealed their identities.

Years before entering Iran, Derakhshan was busy with 'blogfathering' Iranian web space for a few years, explicitly being anti Iranian government, which always bring visitors. This way, at the rise of the weblog era, he was doing good. He had a big number of visitors which could make him enough money to not look for another job.

During post golden era of weblogs, specially when the Iranian Digg copy websites appeared, his monopoly weblog business was going south. At that point, he started publishing more unconventional content in Iranian web space to gain attention. Mostly, they were of sexual nature. A good example is a video he published where he asks an Israeli girl to repeat graphic sexual words in Farsi (Persian) after him. The girl did not speak a word of that language. Another example is his dedicated website to naked pictures of Monica Bellucci.

I am not writing this to reveal that Hossein Derakhshan is a successful web attention seeker. I am writing this to let you know that in summer of 2009, when our tiny team was trying to protect huge DDoS attacks on a handful of low budget EC2 instances funded by donations, we were convinced that on the other side of the line, Mr Derakhshan had made a deal to conduct the operations by hiring Russians. This was by tracing his old account on our website to multiple new accounts claiming how they enjoy taking down the website, and let me tell you this, if you write thousands of lines on the web with your identity, it is not easy to escape your writing style when you pretend to be someone else.

Another elections is coming in a couple of months in Iran, where the government allows high profile media to report from inside Iran, hence this article pop up out of no where. This is a known pattern.

I had to get this off my chest after so many year. It is disturbing to see links like this on the front page of hn, where people claim to be pro democracy and freedom. This hurts.
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I'd guess Sidekiq could be adapted to work with Disque too (as Disque takes off).
It should be easy to provide a citation then, I presume? saying "it's obvious" doesn't actually count as evidence
Rich person finds nothing wrong with inequality. News at 11.
Funny you say that given I'm dusting off an old laptop that has a 1.xGhz Core Duo CPU and 2GB of RAM. It's the next one to be used for performance and stress testing. The reason? Anything that can't run snappy on that box is just bloated or wasting resources. Lean, native code tends to do the job nicely. :)

Note: Also good to do it on cheap, throwaways because this sort of thing burns out the CPU's. Better that box than my main one.
> The problem is not economic inequality

Yes, actually it is. There are other problems that are negative consequences of inequality, such as the US having turned into a plutocracy etc., but inequality just by itself is a problem.

To quote: "The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. That's very important in poorer countries, but not in the rich developed world. But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much."[1]

Let me repeat this: in our fairly rich developed world, inequality is the problem, it is more important than overall wealth of the society. So the "rising tide raises all boats" meme is a nice metaphor but empirically just pure nonsense.

Furthermore, even the very rich in the more unequal societies are, in many aspects that matter, worse off than average people in more equal societies, even though they are much weather individually. This surprised me. A lot.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson?language=en
I think the first interpretation is that he thinks a language should have either traits, multiple inheritance (of implementation) or mixins.

The second interpretation would be that a language should have algebraic data types.
Shouldn't you be asking your doctor that? And also whether you, particularly, should take such a supplement?
Hmm so explain Fairchild and Intel and all the spin out companies in SV.
I'll grant the uneven surfaces, but transitioning between the ground and the wall is something those Chinese toys do perfectly fine; I've seen it demonstrated in a badly maintained pedestrian underpass, so the walls weren't exactly even there. It passes the test for an urban toy (indoor and outdoor), though I doubt it would play well with e.g. rocky terrain.
If you were looking for a high water mark of this bubble, I think we may have a winner. Though I will wait to see what the next 3 months also bring in.
See also @jckarter's draft for property behaviors (https://gist.github.com/jckarter/f3d392cf183c6b2b2ac3), which also covers property observers.
This is pretty close to what I ended up doing.

I've repeated this process elsewhere too, both for other companies and on my own projects... though the example shown was among the most severe.

In the essay, I'll try to be a bit more precise though, because in practice you might have a hard time with getting buy in on "Delete the issues" and an easier time with what I actually did on this project:

"create a priority queue that only the product owner and CEO can touch, treat that as the new official backlog until the crisis is resolved, put a bunch of rules on what gets in there and how much it can hold, then track progress actively"

More details will be shared in a couple days, can't wait to hear responses. :-)

If you want the followup essay in your inbox, sign up here:
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And you don't think the mechanics, aviators, etc who keep the billionaires flying are happy to have jobs now?
I was being precise with "Silicon Valley". Just as SV is the undisputed world leader in VC, it also has earned a unique reputation for lack of "tithing".
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You may want to go pinging around some of your own tier 1 crossconnects. I bet you'll be surprised.
See: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/glance-bittorr...
Are those studies equating "starting a small business" with "startup"? Paul Graham only uses "startup" to refer to business that start small but grow large is a short time, as he says in the OP article itself (and elsewhere). If you equate those two ideas, you won't be able to talk clear about this topic.
The only possible difference would be between those varieties that are presently capable of incubating malaria and those that are not. If the driven allele actually works for human purposes, it will work on the former, and have no effect on the latter.

One might imagine a gene the expression of which is modulated by the environment. If this had the effect you fear it would effectively create two species anyway. Either 1) a mosquito population would inhabit a "benign" environment (for the mosquitoes) and individuals could either incubate malaria or not, or 2) a mosquito population would inhabit an environment in which malaria incubation was deleterious to (mosquito) survival. Humanity seeks to modify the first sort of population, and will not affect the second which does not interbreed with it. It's probably a good idea to study the second however!
And even if some super rich guy has a tax rate lower than 10% measured in absolute dollars he probably still pays much more than you or I. I have yet to see any kind of justification that percentage based taxation without getting more in return when you pay more (in absolute dollars) is fair in the first place - even though somehow everybody seems to believe that.
Just finished reading Pedro Domingos' book The Master Algorithm, which also features these ideas. I was way more fascinated by his so-called 'data unions' also mentioned in this book: companies empowering individuals to take charge of their digital footprint. Taking on the data-collecting walled gardens that are currently rising up. Much like labor unions represent workers that suffer from a power imbalance, only for the digital native. Lots of food for thought.
I'm only saying there are consequences for concentration of relative wealth that even market fundamentalists (such as libertarians) argue against. I am not one of those.

My position is complicated. I find the best explanations of market failure come from a greater financialization of the economy as a whole. Which is to say, in this increasingly programmable world we live in, there are greater and greater opportunities for gaming the system. Even startups inevitably head in this direction. Financialization is an economic gravity-well.
We know at least an instance of how billionaires spend their money.

Just 158 families dominate U.S. presidential campaign contributions:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/10/158-families-do...

Inequality is not only about money, it's also about influence.
Which is something that George Osbourne a Conservative has said in the UK.
My guess is that in OO you are typically only parameterising `this`, and therefore only talking about one facet of the domain. Family polymorphism (or virtual classes) provide a way around this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income should fix it
For many countries, I suspect that international sanctions, a lack of a banking system or a lack of international agreements on transferring money except via Western Union will be a roadblock.

Also the African continent just isn't a profitable enough market for the "big players" when compared to US, EU and Asia.
Why the downvote?

This is on topic .. a different perspective on why you may not want to leave the job you love for the unknown PROSPECTIVE better opportunity...

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More downvotes...is my thread here not on topic?
About what to work on (said about no estimates, but works equally in the face of a mounting backlog) from Kent Beck on Twitter:

"Alternative to estimates: do the most important thing until either it ships or it is no longer the most important thing"
That seems inconsistent with what I have read on the subject. Can you provide a link to the data you are citing?
Ok, then I have no idea either ;) I only know these tiny ones like in the video, and they are limited like that.
Yes I do, that mattress is called stock.
A Response to Paul Graham’s Article on Income Inequality
> To give an example in microcosm: if you buy a used car on Craigslist from someone, the fact that the seller is a welfare recipient doesn't mean that you're a beneficiary of welfare because you're not paying him enough to live off of.

I think the difference here is that it's not a matter of a single transaction, it's an employment, so what the employer is basically paying for is the employees time (and time is finite). So a better example would be that you pay someone on craigslist for a service, e.g. paint your house. If the painter works full time painting houses and still needs welfare, then the taxpayers are basically subsidizing house painting ("conduit of welfare" as it was phrased). Why can't those that need their house painted pay what it actually costs to get the job done? Because if the full time painter needs welfare, they're in reality paying him too little.
There is at least one other project with the same name ("btfs"): https://github.com/arvidn/btfs

Seems a bit more feature-complete than this one.
> the current flap about economic inequality is not about people wanting to become rich, it is about people wanting to get by

In other words, it's about poverty.
Interesting! I worked on a related subject during my PhD. I also did a static analysis of power consumption, but in the framework of side-channel attack, with the goal of proving that the power consumption is sufficiently balanced to make attacks via differential power analysis too difficult.
The result was published in the Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, but you can find the paper from my website here: http://pablo.rauzy.name/research.html#formaldpl.
I believe he wrote this as an example after someone reposted his article on "corn-pone thinking" to show how no matter who or how wealthy you are, your thoughts and opinions won't interfere with how you earn money.
Could this cause an apocalyptic worldwide famine if applied to plants that form large parts of human food supply (e.g. by terrorists, rogue states, or as part of the "destruction" phase of a mutually assured destruction)?
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Humans are susceptible to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Ctrl-F on the comments "Baumol" - not found.

197 comments and no one actually read the article?
95 perhaps. NT was rock-solid.
There's also xdebug, which can give a lot of detailed information. And then there's New Relic for PHP.
Great article, but it misses two triggers:

1. Globalization. A lot of manual labour was tied to USA, not so ago to local labour. In last 20-30 years a lot of things get imported from China or outsourced to India.

2. Software (briefly mentioned in original article). Previous technology advancement can give someone leverage, but software got probably the largest leverage in humankind history. Single program can automate what used to do an army of employees. Natural monopolies are common thanks to network effect, economy of scale or technological advances.

Winner takes all market (e.g. Apple has almost all profits in smartphone market, Android got some market share, alternatives are niches).
> I have done a search on Lycos for your papers...

Now there's a blast from the past!
I was a loyal T-Mobile customer for 12 years, until I went to the apple store and paid full price for a pair of unlocked iphones. After a few weeks I got a letter from T-Mobile saying that they had taken out a loan in my name to pay for the phone I had just paid for in full. I never got the whole story about how this was even possible, but there are clearly very scammy people somewhere in the management chain at T-Mobile.

I went to Verizon and got more data for less money, and since I had an Iphone 6 it was fully portable to Verizon.
A very fascinating article that I have truly enjoyed reading minus the last 10 or so paragraphs where Paul expressed it unequivocally that he's a status-quo warrior and that nothing can be done to remedy the problem of the ever widening gap of income inequality in the global economy and more specifically in the US and that it's a "natural" product of the state of affairs in our world. A classical example of « the naturalistic fallacy » [0].

Also, it's also worrying the degree of infatuation or affection for the early 20th century years with central planning of the economy, crony capitalism, robber barons, an all-powerful big government, centralization and concentration of power at the hands of a few, regimented and uniformed society ...etc.

No leftie is arguing or longing for any of these policies. What we're looking for is just more equality in economic opportunities and esp capital and that distribution of capital to be more fair across all the classes and not to be a privilege only for rich and highly connected people.

That's how we envision the solution to fix this problem of "fragmentation" as he put when it exactly is more like a "segregation" problem but not based on racial or cultural factors but on economic one into two completely separate societies between the haves and have-nots, between the 1% and the 99% of the population and it's getting worse and uglier by the day.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
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But is it wrong for a rich person to hoard wealth, or to spend only on luxuries for themselves? Why do they have to "contribute to society"?

I'm by no means wealthy, and at my age of 29 I've donated more money than many of my coworkers. And I'm all for a portion of tax dollars supporting the underprivileged. But when I read about Larry Ellison's yacht-racing hobby, I think to myself, "good for him." He can spend his money on whatever he wants, right? I don't see that he owes anyone anything just because he has more.
The thing is, those are only most of the reasons that are directly related to the job itself. Perfectly understandable, considering the goal is to tell managers how to retain employees. But anyone in that position should also be aware that any employee's real list includes a bunch of things that have nothing to do with anything that happens at the company they work at. The "Shields Down" moments may include things like:

Wanting to move to a different area for any number of life reasons

Wanting to change to a different career entirely

Need to take time off to deal with a new child, a sick relative, etc.

Finding an opportunity for something you can't offer them, like a chance to start their own company

And about a hundred other things that I couldn't imagine.
That's not what the original article is about, either. They're not leaving GitLab. They were never there.
When I find myself "in a rut" mentally, sometimes a day-night-day of no sleep followed by a night of slightly more sleep than usual does just the trick to make me more coherent and productive.
For me personally TV seldomly works. Either in too bored and start thinking about/doing something else, or I start to be really awake and then can't easily stop continuing to watch.

Regularly doing sports and reading fiction (often only 15min, never less than 5) before sleeping works better for me.

But it's perfectly normal to differ here ;)
Bold claims. Forgive me for saying so, but your knowledge of finance does not strike me as particularly deep!

Do you not think that use of financial instruments is vital for allocating resources in a world of imperfect information?

For me, their utility and necessity is obvious. If you think about it, making stuff that people want is actually rather complicated. The world is rife with hazards and risk; the intricate supply lines upon which production depends are all vulnerable to disasters both natural and human.

Naturally, those whose business it is to produce things and not to speculate on future events would like to be free of such risks. This is true the source of fundamental demand for financial instruments. All the derivatives markets, and zero-sum game apparatuses exist in order to transfer -- and in so doing compute a consensual value of -- these risks to those who believe they are better informed about reality.

While I understand not wanting to personally engage in this process, I claim that that the world is better that these contracts and exchange machinery exist!
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When you say relevant content, do you mean about the car company? That sounds like infringement if so, and you're lucky they were satisfied with just taking the domain.
If you're buying newly issued stock, that's going to be directly spent on business expenses like salaries and payments to other companies. Even buying existing stock directly supports the market for companies to raise money in that way.

If you're buying existing stock, someone on the other end is receiving your money that they will then spend or invest as they see fit. Very little money is idle, since it's in no one's interests for it to be.
Self-attribution-fallacy

http://www.monbiot.com/2011/11/07/the-self-attribution-
fallacy
The Gates Foundations is a counterpoint to your theory. Yes they're volatile, but they've helped change the way that charities operate, with numbers and tracking progress. It feels like when single/double-digit millionaires donate their money, they're too often donating to charities which are social status symbols rather than the most effective causes.

In addition, places like GiveWell are helping the direction of that wealth. http://www.givewell.org/
justifying their own existence, it seems
This is why the Europeans make fun of us. b^)
> The most common mistake people make about economic inequality is to treat it as a single phenomenon. The most naive version of which is the one based on the pie fallacy: that the rich get rich by taking money from the poor.

For most of us, our largest single expense is housing, whether that be rent or mortgage repayments. Supply of housing is quite inelastic, something that should be clear to all of us who live in California, New York, or London.

By driving up the costs of homes, those of us who have more to spend are driving those who have less further out from the urban centres where the jobs are found, reducing their leisure by forcing them to spend more time commuting instead of with their families.

While the cost of manufactures has been falling as the economy grows, food - the other major expense for the poor and middle class, has also seen much higher inflation than the headline figures.

Entrepreneurial progress is a great thing. But we need to recognise that for many, the 'pie fallacy' really isn't a fallacy. For someone on the median income, a reduced share of total earnings is materially increasing deprivation.

The biggest thing we could do to increase entrepreneurialism would be to redistribute more and make more people feel secure. It's much easier to take risks when you have the security of parental wealth.
>The absence of a "Python 2.8" fork suggests that the idea of forking hasn't been popular enough to happen organically without someone putting money in, after all.

Or it's evidence that python 2.7 works just fine for many people.
Similar here. These days I usually sleep around 6 hours (used to be 5.15ish). If I sleep longer repeatedly I start to get migraine like headaches. Weird, but at some point I decided it's not worth worrying about.
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