skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thread has gotten a bit muddled, but I don't think the thrust of the argument is that Jobs didn't want to get rich (did someone upthread actually argue that?); instead, its "if he had to get somewhat less rich, would he have done what he did?", to which I think it's far to ask "yes, but how much less would he have been OK with before he said 'no way'?"

The discussion is about marginal tax rates without stating it as such. He might not have been OK with a 95% MTR, but would he have done it with a 45? a 50? People could opine on what he would have or would not have done given that, but I think it's reasonable to say that many people would, and do (given that successful innovators and businesses exist in higher tax countries.) Higher marginal tax rates don't mean you don't get rich; they mean you don't get quite as rich, which is what much of the proposals are about.
"Startups either go Facebook or go bust, they're not created to stay stable at small scale."

I started rsync.net with the intention of staying stable at small scale.

It's worked out so far.
And there we have it. A mises.org citation.

Good luck finding a country that doesn't engage in taxation. You won't find one with a functioning government, or utilities, or roads, or a military. Keep on with the "taxation is violence" meme. I'm sure that'll get you far.
I think this just verifies the old maxim:

"Words are cheap."

Another perspective is that this is a failure of management to remove requests that will never be done. At one place I worked we had such a backlog, and much of it was related to contracts that had been completed months or years ago. Eventually the company set up a new issue tracking system, and mothballed (but did not decommission) the old issue tracking system.

My guess is that in situations like this, most of the "backlog" is the management version of technical debt. No one cleans up the mess because there is no perceived value in doing so.

At a fundamental level, this is the fate of a "to do lists". Ideas are easy, and execution is expensive.
So far, no. The only one I was nervous about was a ceramic cat water fountain, but it arrived fine.

I have had discs from Netflix arrive unreadable/broken (yes, I still do the by-mail thing as I get consistent picture quality even on Saturday nights). I'm not sure if that counts as a store return though, as I just drop it in the mail and they send me a replacement.
If that were the case then the same approach might stop cooper theftvas well.
We are not talking about the US, we are talking about Los Angeles County, there is no real regulation on the streets ...
The relevant link is here (https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/blob/master/share/t...)

ridiculous_fish, we still use `complete` all over the place for completions don't we. In Fisherman there is a nice little AWK script, still far from perfect that attempts to do a similar thing, parsing a utility's usage help.

usage: utility [...]

-s --short Short option
...
It's just an analogy. I think you're reading way too much into the choice of words.
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No way. There is absolutely no symmetry in the positions; that's part of the false equivalence narrative. Is Krugman, Baker, DeLong, Thoma perfectly unbiased? Of course not. Do I trust their lack of bias more? I do.

If someone were to argue about the less biased nature of Cowen, Hanson, or Murray, or other RW intellectual, we might have a discussion. I don't agree with those people half or more of the time, but I definitely trust them to change their minds and look at the facts, rather than having an a priori position immune to facts. I don't expect the same from Cato, and certainly not from AEI or Heritage (whom I consider far more biased than Cato.)
The core problem is that "number of issues" is not a meaningful metric, "rate at which business value created" is.

At it's core, I believe an issue tracker is fundamentally the wrong pattern for developing software and the same pathologies crop up over and over again.

Issue trackers seek to accomplish multiple goals: They are communication mechanism between departments, they're a way of tracking the state of progress, they're a means of prioritization and they're a way of evaluating progress. Because these goals lie fundamentally in tension with each other, the same problems predictably occur with long time use of an issue tracker.

Issue trackers are like shopping lists without price tags. if you imagine an Amazon Wishlist with all the things you want to buy in life, it's not hard to imagine the same graph appearing. Somewhere mixed into all those items is a ferrari and also the washer you need to stop your tap from leaking. And, of course, the list is going to get exponentially longer as time goes on, even as you check items off. But the reason we don't get stressed about our ever expanding wants list is because price serves as an intuitive gut check over priority and, as long as we see our personal living standards improve, we don't care that we can never fulfil all our wants and we don't bother applying "won't buy" or "item does not exist in real life" tags on our list. (this is an analogy, ok. Please don't try and fight the hypothetical on this, I'm aware our economic wants are significantly more complicated than that).

One of the ideas I've been tinkering with is to treat issue tracking less like a todo list and more like a storefront. A todo list with ever increasing entries is stressful experience, a storefront with expanding inventory is not. Items would have a base cost associated with it and a "shipping cost" so that 2 day shipping costs more than USPS ground (aka: Whenever we can get to it). External clients get to create items on the storefront, set the price and the shipping costs using some kind of artificial currency and engineering gets to figure out which orders to fulfil and in what order to maximize revenue.

Of course, to paraphrase jwz, "You have a problem and you think "Oh, I know, I'll solve it with an artificial currency". Now you have two problems".

Still, I think it's worthwhile getting back to the foundations and think of what an issue tracker does in the context of software development and whether there's a better thing that could serve the same purpose.
110 journalists killed in 2015, mostly in 'peaceful' countries
Some interesting theories - at first appears quite reductionist but I think succeeds in highlighting something very symbolic.

Odd, though, that pg can write an entire essay about identity politics without naming it.
The basic principle is minimizing "work in progress", which is an idea that comes from the Kanban production model.

It's certainly worth questioning whether it applies to software... I suspect the idea behind your thought is that there is no inventory cost to issues since they are just a few bits on a hard drive somewhere.

But I'm not so sure that's true. Every minute that passes after a bug report has costs: the reporter's memory slowly degrades making it harder to reconstruct the triggering scenario. The software itself slowly drifts away from the state the bug was filed in, adding questions about whether it's still applicable. And recent changes to the codebase that might have triggered the bug also slowly fade from developers' memory. Lastly the larger the bug database is, the harder it is to search and the slower de-duping becomes.

In a real sense the value of the report decreases AND the cost of addressing it increases over time.
you very much get tracked by brick and mortar stores, not all but many. Just did a return tonight, and once again had to give them my information in order to complete the return. depends on the situation of the return, whether you had a receipt or not, whether you were already on file, or if you had paid with credit card and they could track that.
I'm a little sad that the grand-parent comment was deleted. He raised a topic that needed discussion.
I have never written anything up personally, but I'm sure there is some stuff out there to be found.

Get any two former Ensemble employees together, possibly buy them a beer, and you will almost certainly get some stories that sound apocryphal but probably actually happened :)
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> When analyzing why a group of objects (usually very small, like successful companies) have a certain trait, it is not enough to find something all these objects had in common and say that it was the reason.

But it's enough to sell a book claiming so.

> At bare minimum, you have to look at all the rest of objects and confirm that they did not have that thing in common too.

That would rule out way too many profitable books. /s
I really like the IntelliJ products (especially PHPStorm with the Symfony2 plugins, PyCharm, etc) but you really need a 'beefy' computer to run it properly. SSDs are a must.
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Great! Keep it up.
Proxyquire - https://github.com/thlorenz/proxyquire - is a nicer way to solve many of the problems that people tend to use rewire for.

We use it to stub out imports in our unit tests and find it very easy.
All companies doing business in a country have to abide by the laws of that country. What's the big deal?

If anything, I'm surprised to learn it wasn't already the case.
No, it's not just that. CF is not the only mechanism through which the wealthy can exert their influence:

- think tank funding

- ad spending

- lobbying (CF will not fix that)

- the potential of future jobs / revolving door

Most importantly, cultural deference does not go away with CF reform; people respect the monied and the powerful for more than their campaign contributions. They also respect people "like them" (http://time.com/373/congress-is-now-mostly-a-millionaires-cl...), which means similar socio-economic backgrounds, elite schools, clubs, etc.

They buy influence indirectly by simply having wealth and power concentrated with them. You can only reduce that by reducing the distance between the bottom and the top. You have to reduce "vertical social distance."

Nothing is a silver bullet here, but reducing wealth inequality is the most direct route to equalizing political power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

I especially recommend reading "The original problem of social distance" in "Twilight of the Elites."
Seems a bit confusing to use a single capital letter 'A' within a 6 sided polygon as your logo, given that it's already been done by another popular JS framework.
Along these lines, I'd recommend The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives http://amzn.to/1NYgSQm

Even very intelligent people seem to have far too many delusions about their own competence or success.
You are only mentioning the tech industry in Silicon Valley, which I admit is pretty utopian. This description excludes everyone else in Silicon Valley. You can't talk about income inequality while only looking at those with high income (everyone in the tech industry), and forgetting about those with lower income is a huge reason why income inequality is problematic.
As a bachelor thesis, this is very nicely done. I'm particularly interested in what's been claimed in the future work section: the ability to repartition the graph according to topology change. Wonder after 6 months, is there any progress from the author along that direction. Haven't checked the Spinner paper though, maybe it is a solved problem there.
Sure, I was referring to pre-1.0 rust ;)
Like how PG talks about poverty being the real cause of the problems that people blame on wealth inequality, the solution here is to limit the leverage that wealth has on politics (finance reform).
It's not inevitable. It will happen if we let it happen.

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." J.S. Mill
I explicitly mentioned "(and other reform for areas outside of politics like higher education, etc.)"

So all those things you've mentioned are the real direct causes (that should be fixed) of the problems you blame on wealth inequality.
Some of these compression patents are expiring now. I don't know if they were ever enforced to begin with. The wikipedia page is confusing, but suggests that the JPEG committee got the relevant patent holders to agree to let the patents be used freely.
Looks really interesting one. I had a quick look at docs and its well structured and informative
The interesting thing to watch will be who they lay off. Back-office support (accounting, marketing, etc) is pretty much expected. But if they kill product lines, that'll be an indication where Dell intends to take it.

(I hope the people all land somewhere quickly)
Additionally, Python plays well with C, so perhaps some of the performance killing portions could have been replaced with C.
I can't agree. When I find myself in the mood, and with a bit of time on my hands, investigating -and sometimes fixing- these low-priority bugs is often a fun and useful way to spend an otherwise wasted part of a workday.
re stock market: A common (and expensive) fallacy of beginners who think they can beat the market with clever technical tricks is analyzing all of the publicly-traded companies' history and divining patterns in trading and such. This ignores, of course, the countless companies that have gone out of business completely or have otherwise been de-listed from the exchanges.

In analyzing these trends, you're biased by looking only at the companies that have done well enough to be on the current list. In this way it's particularly insidious, because you're omitting the very data that might save you from betting on a company that might be delisted.
And the cycle continues swinging back and forth. "Let them eat cake" is not sustainable either. It usually ends in violence despite the rationalizations of the elite.
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What you are referring to is more the traditional distinction between the materialists (i.e. Marx) and those that believe in market forces (i.e. Smith).
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Get rid of objective, it is unnecessary.
Also that same time St. Louis PD just getting over the era of peak of violent crime, which St. Louis was very much affected. Those were not good days. Things are better, but that doesn't mean we dont' need cops around here doing all kinds of different tactics to maintain order.

Some people think that their peers are going to be well behaved in all cases if only they have their basic needs handled. That's very much not the case. And criminals are just as diverse in thinking as normal people. Meaning some criminals are scared to get caught, others are ready to fight, others NEED to be intimidated or they will escalate to worse and worse. And some escalate no matter what you do.

Cops deal with all these people. And once you meet them day after day and see what they are capable of, you grow a lot of different types of muscles and mental street smarts and tactics to handle and combat them.
Are you referring to the penalties or the annual membership fees? Nobody I know ever pays the annual fee; it's rarely worth it, unless they have a very good rewards system.

Although, I'm not sure what's worse, the penalties or the interest if you don't fully pay your balance every month.
They use the same iPhone, have access to the same chemo, and watch the same movies. The only difference is they fly in private planes instead of commercial, drive high end Mercedes instead of Fords, live in mansions instead of apartments. But their HVAC cools just the same as my window unit, it's just quieter. Yeah, they have lots of things we don't. But the difference is smaller than between a rich person in 1915 and a poor person today.
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As someone who is about to heavily start using the Cursive IDE (built on top of IntelliJ IDEA), this is wonderful news. Coming from a frontend web dev background, Java 6 has been a layer of slime at the bottom of the barrel of sweet wine that is Clojure. Now, as soon as Minecraft gets off Java 6, I can rid my system of that infernal scourge.

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The US redistributes enough money to the poor to make them richer than the UK, and likely many other wealthy nations in the world. It's not like the US is some Mad Max universe where the poor are forgotten and left without aid.
I can see a lot of cases where someone gets stuck in the queue and is never served. It's quite possibly (and even likely) last in first out provides the lowest average wait time but it would come at the expense of the outliers. First in first out is the standard for lining up with people because it provides the lowest deviation from the average. It's the most fair system for everyone involved because you wait from the back to the front just like everyone else, no special cases.

Optimizing FIFO is easy as well: just go when other people are less likely to be there. There is incentive to shop for christmas Dec 1 since Dec 23 the mall is a mad house. I did my grocery shopping when I worked graveyard shift at 2 AM on my weekend with 24 hr grocery store since the place was deserted. I stroll out for lunch at 11:30 AM and beat the rush at the food trucks. Not everyone has the flexibility to shop at 2 AM or shift lunch time but for those who do there is incentive to take advantage. Optimizing LIFO is also easy but awful for those around you. There is no more incentive to find a low volume time; just rock up and stroll past the suckers who tried to beat the rush but just didn't quite do it.

Some common things people line up for:

Low volume shop (ex furniture) - Here you'd never wait that long to pay simply because there are not that many customers. If the cashier is busy customers simply linger longer around the merchandise and wait for availability. No need to make any changes

High volume shop (ex supermarket) - These stores have a steady stream of customers so would be the most likely to get someone stuck in the queue for a long time. If there is a spike in customer numbers for 1/2 hr but then a very steady stream of shoppers for the rest of the day someone could be waiting hours for the queue to dwindle low enough to clear the spike. The steady stream takes up the full cashier capacity leaving the spike waiting for service while their food spoils. If the rate of customer arrival exceeds cashier volume (as it often does during busy times) some people are going to wait in that queue until the rush subsides.

general admission event - Here people pay the same amount for tickets and in FIFO are able to pay extra with their queuing time (since time is money) to indicate how much a good seat is worth to them. In LIFO you would try to arrive as late as possible but the venue can only be filled so quickly so you'd get the reverse of the stadium emptying problem. When everyone gets up to leave at end the exits become a massive bottleneck and everything slows down. If being late means you skip to the front of the queue everyone will arrive late and the event won't start on time since no one will be in their seats when the event is supposed to begin.

I don't doubt there is some math that would indicate average wait times would go down with FIFO but queueing isn't about minimizing the average, it's about minimizing the extremes. Often minimizing the extremes is at the expense of the average. A O(logn) queue sucks if the worst case is O(n^4). Better to have O(n) and fewer stabbings.
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> If physicists (and other Ivey grads) all only chose wealth-creation, we'd see far less inequality (at least outside the Bay Area).

Choosing wealth-creation rather than rent-seeking has nothing to do with distribution of wealth as far as I see it. The hugely wealth-creating SF bay area is one of the most unequal places in the world.

I think redistribution of wealth is absolutely necessary to reduce poverty and increase average quality of life. Sadly, I don't have much faith in this happening due to the argument that selfishly motivated wealth-creators or rent-seekers will flock to wherever taxes them the least.
Just use two parallel containers: one for names, and one for values. It is dead simple to check that they have the same size and iterate over both simultaneously where needed. And the best part is, for code that does not actually require both pieces of information, you can pass one of the lists and pretend that the other does not exist. Code that only knows how to visit values only has to deal with values and not weird hybrid name/value elements.

Seriously, always try the simpler thing first. Do not go deeper into templates and special syntax before seeing if any other construct will do the job.
It depends on the tribe. A family member visited a friend on a Navajo reservation a few years back. It was a flight to some rural airport then a long drive. In general the advice is if you want to see how people live, it is best to know someone. Some places are prohibited to go into if you are by yourself.

Also, as you might imagine you might not like everything you see you there. The beauty of the terrain was stunning, but a lot of issues like poverty, drugs, drinking and such (even though alcohol I understand is prohibited on the reservation, there are places selling it around the border).
That's very true. And quite frankly, the housing rents, the overstuffed infrastructure, the student suicide rate in Palo Alto, and so forth make SV look pretty dystopian, even for most tech industry workers. The only thing tech has is what Michael O. Church so eloquently said: "Software engineers aren't a privileged set. They're just less fucked than the rest of the U.S. Former Middle Class."

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-software-engineers-make-so-much...
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The 100 million civilians murdered by communist/socialist governments is well documented. What are the numbers for capitalist governments murdering their civilians without even the semblance of a fair legal system?
I'm sorry, I don't follow. You cannot reduce social distance without reducing income inequality. If those other things include "reduce income inequality", then yes, we're in agreement. If those other things do not include that, then we're not in agreement - those things are ultimately eating around the edges (and we should do them. 100% we should do them because they matter, too) and not attacking the core problem. Income inequality is both a symptom (policy preferences that favor low taxes, loopholes, etc.) and a cause of the problem (inequality itself causes vertical social distance, causing unresponsive elites, causing people to get elected that favor the preferences of other elites, which causes..) It's self-reinforcing.

You can't fix "vertical social distance" without reducing inequality. Read my links to find out why.

Here's another: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_Unite...
I see a lot of people in this thread misunderstanding the "shields down" phrase. If you get a cold call from a headhunter you've never heard of before, are you less willing to consider their opportunity than when a good friend makes the same request? That's because your shield was active - it's a psychological way of coping with unwanted input.
We've been in contact with the owner of tent, and are responding appropriately. Our logo unfortunately does bear a strong resemblance to theirs, which our designers are working to resolve.

I'd hitherto not heard of tent nor seen their logo, and neither had anyone else on our team. Saying that we "stole" it is fine for sloppy internet-talk, but it imbues your statement with a level of accusatory malice that we should try to avoid.