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I disagree. I have volunteered to help religious organizations, both in the United States as well as other countries, who provide aid to those in need. In all cases, aid was offered to help people get back on their feet and to become self reliant. In these cases, the aid was not only greatly appreciated, but was given in a way that was ennobling. In the United States, government aid often becomes a multigenerational lifestyle, and it is indeed dehumanizing because it keeps people from living up to their full potential. It sends the message, "You can't survive without us," and that simply isn't true.
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It kind of bugs me that an OS maker is suing a software developer and utilizing a UI/UX design patent to do it.
"Hard science" and "laboratory test" means random selection with random assignment and controls for confounding. What are some quick keywords so I can Google for your claim? I'm not even asking for a citation.

If I said something about causal learning, I could point to Patricia Cheng as a keyword to Google. If I said something about dual systems of cognition in economic behavior, I could point to Daniel Kahneman or Jonathan Evans.

Point me in the direction where one can find this "hard science" with "laboratory tests", so that I may know these are not toy words you threw around.
> Deadly Innocent Fraud #1: The federal government must raise funds through taxation or borrowing in order to spend. In other words, government spending is limited by its ability to tax or borrow.

Unfortunately, in the (deadly?) Eurozone this is indeed how it works.
If there is in fact such a problem with incentives, what entity do you think might have the power to create proper incentives, and what are the odds of it happening?

Or perhaps let's shelf this discussion at least until we figure out how to incentivize sustainable development of new antibiotics.

In fact, one extremely effective way to reduce cancer-related mortality would be to keep ignoring the problem with antibiotics. We may not exactly like the way that plays out though.
Currently I am just using an org-mode file, but this is more like a reading log along with a bit of meta-data (author, keywords etc).

So far it has suited my needs quite well, but I don't really annotate them, but I do add a one or two sentence overview, which is enough for me.
i'm not sure why you're saying that. While details have been lost in time, general story is pretty clear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians
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Isn't the ribbon part of the widget-library included in the Windows APIs? If you use widgets from the same library it will obviously look the same.

Although this case is a bit extreme, the order of the buttons and everything is a carbon copy, if the title bar was removed i would have a hard time telling which one is Corel and which one is Excel, and I'm a daily Excel user.
I'm currently taking the Coursera course "The Global Financial Crisis" [1] (from Yale) and quite enjoying it. Their answer to what caused the crisis is bubble thinking from all involved, not moral hazard on sub-prime loans or government failure. They back their finding up various studies, which seem convincing to me (but I'm a beginner, so don't take my word for it).

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-financial-crisis
" At least here, in the South, your status still greatly depends on 1) if you managed to raise a family (single 40 years old ultra rich Corporate managers don't get much credit); 2) if you have a good network of friends (and people here don't look down at blue collars). "

A little bit offtopic:

Well, Italy is economically not at the top and South Italy even much worse. So, I just wonder if this is a healthy attitute.

Even on micro level: If you don't have ambitions besides friends/family, this is very sad. At least I couldn't imagine living like that.

There was an interesting quote from Max Levchin, can't find it, will edit later. It was something like this:
"Interviewer: Why do you keep founding companies/push yourself? Levchin: Well, you sleep 8 hours a day. Then you play 2 hours with your children, spend 1 hour with your wife. Wtf do you do the remaining 13 hours?" This is actually a nice summary.

And this is the similar reason why people are defined by their education. It's just a small amount of years that elivate your value. It will be strange to miss the opportunity without a very good reason.
Yes. We likely do want to stop companies from attempting to steal users by literally aping the interface from a more successful competitor that spent millions of dollars in UI/UX/HUI research to develop it (opinions on the Office Ribbon notwithstanding).

If you cut the title bar off the two screenshots in the previous post, I think most people would be at a loss to tell you which was actually Excel.
I prefer swaks
>There were holdouts in Europe originally, some central banks were slow to adopt fractional reserves. They were trounced by the economies of other European nations and their superior access to liquid capital.

This is in no way a proof. A good analogy, but not a perfect one, I agree, is looking at 2 companies where one of them has more capital and so it can undersell its competitor, using prices lower than its production prices. You might win the competition, but that's definitely not a a good system long term.

And another thing that I think is very important to keep in mind is that we went through 2 world wars quite recently, each one performing a reset of the system. It is very hard to say that we are on the right track when the system needs to crash and burn every couple of generations.
In its own ribbon guidelines, Microsoft encourages UI designers to use the same tab names, icons and icon locations that are already familiar to people. Their examples of "correct" designs are taken straight from MS Office.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn7...
Talk to friends who work in non-Tech industries, ask them their most time intensive/monotonous task. It can be industry/domain specific or not. If they can’t think of any specific, ask people lower down the food chain, e.g. interns, new joiners, etc. They will be probably given a lot of boring grunt work then see if someone would pay for it and if you can automate it.

The author of the article was working within a call center and got to see how it could be disrupted, price.

Not a perfect formula, but you can start to see areas that need improvement. Also make sure companies are willing to pay for it.
It looks pretty much the same, but then again, it looks... standard. I see in the subthread here that apparently MS UI is licensed, which seems to me as something weird, but frankly - it's good platform design if different applications look the same. There are many ways of designing a slider, but on a given OS, only one should be used for everything.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10801008
> How one can reach such conclusion is beyond me.

Actually, if you don't trust democracy, labeling topics for a referendum as tragic or awful goes without saying.
The stat you linked to is misleading.

40% of Americans aged between 25-64 covers anyone who graduated in the last forty years. You should look at recent graduates to remove any bias from older generations who may have been educated before the 'rite of passage' idea became popular.

On the other hand, the actual figure is around 35% for 25-29 year olds so it's not far off. It goes up to 45% if you include associate degrees. While that doesn't seem like much, it's more than 1 in 3 and 25 years ago it was 1 in 4. For a qualification that was once an elite bit of paper, that's a lot of people. It's also showing no sign of decreasing, increased costs or not.

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_caa.asp

> But please stop advocating for the wholesale elimination of the most accessible path to success for millions of low and middle-income Americans who are not exceptional.

Is there a citation for that? Median wages, over time, have not improved in line with a more educated populous. More people getting degrees has not translated into a more wealthy population.

Note that in the UK at least, some of the larger firms have stopped asking for degrees and simply require you to pass in-house testing.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/e...
As a sidenote, giant commits including giant dependencies in the tree are the perfect time to include new backdoors. Nobody will know who really introduced them.

Wish people didn't do that. Separate repos are not hard to create...
That won't cut it for industrial use (trucking, airlines, shipping, etc). For these things where fuel is a major cost, a swap to batteries is untenable until they are cheaper or equal either via heavy carbon taxes or an improvement in battery tech well beyond the 20% number you have in mind.
> everyone makes oneself enlightened

Really.
It is possible to run Android on something much closer to a Linux kernel, eg with namespaces and cgroups and other useful features normally missing from Android. So it might be possible. Not on a stock Android kernel though.
That's been true for a really, really long time. Battery tech being the limiting factor has been the issue since the first battery powered vehicle was invented in the late 1800s.
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That's one way to see it. I usually don't think about security in terms of individual programmers' capabilities but more what the company behind them wants to accomplish. Security should be a process. Compare the code coming out of Microsoft in 2000 with 2010 -- still not great perhaps, but what a difference a change in objective can make.

Antivirus programmers are paid to add new parsers. Not to assess the security implications of the software. The result is predictable. Sourcing competent programmers would make zero difference as long as they have no incentives to change their process.
Its a battle for internet freedom
With regards to 1: So?

Buying options is buying insurance. From the point of view of the purchaser, the expected value of buying insurance is always negative (otherwise insurance sellers would be out of business). However, insurance is not bought due to its EV, it is bought due to its variance-minimizing properties.
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"makes oneself enlightened before vote"

How long does it take for someone to be competent to vote on monetary policy?

It's ridiculous to expect a voter to spend that amount of time on every issue.
When you are a monopoly platform as well as an app provider, you have to give your sharecroppers a little leeway. No one is "stealing users" here.
I'm curious to which country you're assigning these noble ideals.

In no place I've lived would the average person walking into the voting box have spent time studying the history of banking law and policy to make a well-informed rational decision. They'd at most have read the opinions of some journalists or listened to a news reporter, and would make their decision after discussions between similar poorly informed friends/colleagues.

Fierce debates != well-informed debates.

We elect representatives because it's known that the body politic, once it reaches a large size, doesn't have the time to be well-informed on all decisions they'd need to make as a pure democracy. To suggest so exposes a serious need for a second look at the situation.

Representative democracy isn't elective oligarchy.
even more so, there are a percentage of people who are of the opinion that they will not learn another interface than the Microsoft one because that is the one that they will be forced to use at work anyway.

[lets not get into how wrong they are, they exist that is all]

I have no wider proof, but of non-technical people I know who use Windows they pretty much all fall into this category.
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>I'm always bugged by whiners complaining that they bought a return flight from New York to London for 399$ and then complain that they can't change it, because they just don't seem to grasp the concept of non-refundable. If you want refundable, that can be had. For 4x the price.

giving the high volume (and thus in particular high statistical predictability available to airlines), the huge spread between refundable and non-refundable strongly suggests that there is something out of whack here.
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MS also had tabbed toolbars before they built their ribbon format.
Fawers...
I drink 2.0, average it once a day. It took 2 days (2 drinks) to get use to the taste. Drink it cold, it'll help. I also got a headache the first time I drank it but after that it never came back. It doesn't seem like a lot but I did get a full stomach after consuming it. So far I like it a lot, its basically my breakfast at the moment and if I drink it consistently I can actually function without coffee in the morning which is pretty awesome.
Url changed from http://qz.com/582073/now-underwater-this-ancient-egyptian-tr..., which points to this.
You can print money; if you hand a friend a piece of paper that says "I owe you $10" or "I owe you ten apples", you've printed money. The nominal economic value of that paper becomes the value of what it promises. Your friend could then trade that marker to one of his friends on its nominal value, as long as his friend trusts that you're good for it.

You perhaps can't print currency, but you can create money in exactly the same fashion that banks do - any time you issue a debt marker, money is created.
MS Office is used as an example of the "right" way of doing UX on Windows. It includes button order, names, etc. Under these constraints all decently made spreadsheet programs should basically look the same. "Carbon-copy same" is improbable in practice, but "mostly same" is what's expected.
I am not building anything in particular, but catching up on some online courses that I've been trying to complete all year.
It looks like a lot/most/all(?) of these, if categorized, would be "public moral position" questions. 2015 and 2014, at least. I wonder if bank reserve regulations really falls into that as well?
That's a really interesting use case, thanks for mentioning it.
oh god no please not multiple inheritance.

Javascript objects are composable at run-time: you can build your object out of whatever behaviours you need. They don't need multiple inheritance.

Can we stop trying to make Javascript an OO language please?
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I agree that there is a societal aspect of it, but individual responsibility is the one thing each and every one of us has ultimate control over. You can whine about century-old affronts and complain about societal deficiencies for centuries to come, but the one thing that each of us can change today is our own personal behaviors. It isn't a malicious distortion. It is an alterable reality.

Why not control what you can control first before you try to tame the impossible?
From the description, I would not be surprised if the cause for the interviewer's behavior was that the decision had already been made to hire someone else. Eye contact patterns, if they have significance, probably reflect some internal state, e.g. confidence.
The secret of elite colleges is to admit only those who have a high probability of succeeding even without a degree. Then take credit for their success.
It's not, it can not be. Banks will just have to answer to the central bank for big loans and truth is that it makes sense if you think that every single bank will have to rely on the central bank when it faces a bank-run... So now the central bank will be able to control the banks in a more direct way (theoretically it already does, but in practice it didn't work in many countries, don't know about Switzerland though).

So, nothing spectacular except from the idea of putting this into a referendum instead of saying "No/Yes" without consulting the population. Switzerland is amazing.
> 2. Continuing increase in client-side JavaScript/HTML5 popularity. The dominant platform will be ES6/React not TypeScript/Angular2.

My prediction is a better alternative to JS for client-side development. WebAssembly, I'm pointing at you. And as a result, a lot of new client-side frameworks.
Beautiful!

Is the thing halfway towards one o'clock the hat of a fungus or the sporangium of a moss?
It seems we might finally get to see a Microsoft Surface Phone in 2016
Apparently, zero divided by zero equals 2
https://www.facebook.com/interestingengineering/photos/a.139188862817493.25247.139188202817559/1009031262499911/?type=3&theater

Even as a degree-less person who is currently teaching himself computer science and mathematics, I realize the problems starts between the fourth and the fifth equal sign in the 'ans' section. If you independently do the calculations at the fourth step, you get 0/0. Interestingly, the same miraculously changes to 20/10 at the fifth step i.e (10+10)/10. The trick seems to have been diving (10-10) by itself and falsely giving 1 as the answer rather than the infinity it is supposed to be. After all, (10-10) is 0 which divided by 0 becomes infinity. Therefore, the conclusion cannot be correct. Anyway, someone seems to have cleverly played with mathematics, here.
>Economic historian Niall Ferguson beautifully describes fractional reserves as one of the greatest innovations of humankind in Ascent of Money. The miseries from bank runs and crashes are real, but even so, the total impact on human welfare from fractional reserves has been overwhelmingly positive.

That doesn’t make any sense. Runs and crashes are an important part of the free market, keeping banks in reign. Fractional reserve banking would be impossible or very limited if runs and crashes were allowed to happen. This would result in non-inflationary currency, improved value of savings, and decreased volatility of the markets (extreme booms followed by extreme crashes and long periods of unemployment due to constant reallocation of resources in the society).

All of this is prevented by central banks.
>The result is that between 2000 and 2009 the state has foregone a trillion pounds. How many public services could that have funded?

In addition to what can be funded now? Probably none at all. The size of the government as a share of national spending is not determined by specific sources of income. It is an ideological and pragmatic decision of the people (or by whoever else has political power)

So if the government had this source of income, it would not be able to levy all other taxes to the same extent it does now. It is unrealistic to assume that the share of government spending would be much greater if they had this particular source of income.
Well, it’s a bad idea, but you can’t prevent masses from shooting themselves in the foot but feeling good about it.
You have ruined JavaScript (2014)
Javascript is not readable to you because you're attempting to apply OO patterns to it.

Javascript is not an OO language, it doesn't work like that.

It is an incredibly powerful and elegant language, please take the time to learn how it works and appreciate its beauty. Then by all means make suggestions about how it should be changed. But only then, please.

Not all languages would be improved by being "more like Python".
GPUs are often considered "hard to program", let's see how this goes for FPGAs.
Switzerland, actually, is bloody good at this referendum thing. They do it all the time, and because of that the level of debate is relatively high and the populace make far better choices than you would see in a country without the same situation.
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...and they won't be the last, as more and more later-stage "startups" begin to show they won't ever make the returns their valuations would suggest, and start begging for cash as they burn through their existing investments and meagre revenue.
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This is an interesting angle. The important thing to note is the "I owe you $10" piece of paper is worth roughly $10 when it comes from a trusted source.

I think if I wrote that it might not be worth the full $10 in "publicly traded" circumstances.

There's an interesting exercise in how bank-like you can become before you need to register as a financial institution.
Wild guess: perhaps their OpenCL to FPGA compiler.
OpenCL is many times easier to program than VHDL.
What happens if the bank lends 10 million as per the previous example, holding only 1 million, then the bank goes bust. Does that 9 million seemingly magic money stay with the borrower? I don't understand how it balances back again.
Did you read the whole article? There is no reference to paper currency, the cash strictly refers to coins.

But you're right, it's not exactly clear what he means there:

"When the Roman Empire fell apart, there were no coins in circulation, just gold. But you didn’t pay taxes with gold. What the Frisians did was reinvent cash. Not just coins, but cash—money you carried with you in order to do business."

I'm pretty sure the Frisians weren't the first to mint coins, and if this refers to a new kind of use of coins, it's not explained in the article.
Hows that compiled though? Most iis installisations don't send idenditifying information.

I know if you nmap our website which uses iis it returns as something else because of our load balancer.
Potentially a great resource.
Yes, but most people, including me, didn't realized at the time what was going on.

And most don't realize yet.
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Could you elaborate on what specifically would cause the real estate market to tip over in your scenario with regards to the Fed's policies?
>I suspect the vast bulk of cancers are due to environmental factors or are intrinsic to the human aging process

Sure. Those generalisations are super easy but don't help a pharma company to design research. Which are which? What factors are meaningful? How do I isolate them and test against them? Is there even a vague chance this research leads to a drug that I can sell for $$$?

(also is there any evidence that a protein and vegetable only diet reduces the risk of cancer in a meaningful fashion?)
If you want a more gentle introduction to hash-based signatures: https://www.cryptologie.net/article/306/hash-based-signature...
> I'm curious to which country you're assigning these noble ideals.

Actually all of them.

> In no place I've lived would the average person walking into the voting box have spent time studying the history of banking law and policy to make a well-informed rational decision.

Because most people have been mercilessly been beaten into obedience, and the belief that they aren't actually able to think by themselves, that they're inferior to the oligarchs in command (hint: they aren't. The President is no better than me and no better than the garbage man).

In 2005, in France, the "referendum on a European Constitution" lit an immense debate, and there was an incredibly well-formed decision on an enormously obtuse tome of legalese.

You can check that similar debates are common in Switzerland. People actually think about the problem, discuss it, and vote in conscience.

If you think people aren't able to think and decide autonomously for themselves, you are actively opposing democracy.

Ordinary elective oligarchy is the ideology that mostly pass as "democracy" nowadays, but please don't stay abused and go on pretending you like democracy when you don't.
In my experience, most people simply vote for the opinion shouted loudest and the one their relatives/friends vote. Only a very few investigates the topic independently, but their votes are lost in the noise. I would not trust decisions, that require specific knowledge and that can't be explained in layman terms, to the masses.
Very interesting and links are gems.