skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand where the author is going with this, but I would like to offer a different way of looking at it.

At it's core he correctly identifies being "too involved" as part of the issue because this makes you emotionally attached to a project and clouds your judgement.

But thats not really the core of the problem – at least not in my experience having run agency myself and I don't think the essay have any useful conclusions. Saying we should not be emotional is easy to say when it's your company.

The real issue is if designers (novice or experienced) feel like their design abilities are being questioned (and so their position threatened). And so the real trick is to make sure there is a clear understanding of what direction the critique is aimed.

If there is any confusion you ned up with designers who take critique of the discussed solution with a critique of them as designers. And so I have always tried to make two things clear to the designers I had.

1) They are there because they are good enough. And so whatever discussion we are having is not about them but about what they produced.

2) The point of critique is always to improve the result never to discuss any individuals design abilities.

Chances are if you survived the first 3 month of your employment you are there because you are good enough.

Getting people to a position where they feel they can trust their own intuition without judgement of them as people is what removes adrenaline. Sure you might get into a heated debate about something (and thus adrenaline will flow) but you aren't debating each other you are debating the project at hand.

Of course this require quite a lot of work up front and a level of honesty in an organization that sometimes simply arent possible.

But if you want to make your designers think more like astronauts you better make sure that you built a proper spaceship for them to travel in.
Well pop-art is calling, and would like a word about your first point.

As for "real art", how does divergence stem from practice? There are plenty of great works, say a Rauchenberg or a Turrell, who's beauty comes not from the labor of practice, but from the alignment of concept, subject, and vision. Conversely, there are plenty of brilliant artists who fall-off after many years of practice - I think of Hockney's photo collages.

My original point, which I stand by, is that the use VHS warbling is completely mined and tired. Should somebody come by and employ it in a radical way which communicates new meaning then great. But, for myself and many others, it makes me cringe a little inside.
A lot of people are jumping into an argument with you, but I think your point of "inequity vs standard of living" is a really smart distillation of concepts and deserves credit for being insightful.
oh my god he is being tongue in cheek seriously
Can you do a progressive tax on consumption, such that the rough cost for essentials is essentially untaxed, from there to average upper-middle-class consumption is moderately taxed, and O(a yacht) is highly taxed? I suppose this used to be impractical because consumption taxes are generally implemented at point of sale, but since most large transactions are digital (and there are well-accepted laws about moving huge amounts of cash around, anyway) maybe this is tractable.

Are you also suggesting a high estate tax, so that you're encouraged to spend or invest it instead of building up wealth for your family?
Someone knows something about how to get sustainable research funding.
But they only need to be faster to avoid being eaten by lions, so this seems to be begging the question.
The graph's axes aren't labeled. Therefore it isn't informative.
"Graham's point is that if one person makes more than another because they're more productive, you don't want to "fix" that, because it's not a problem, it's what fuels economic growth."

I do not believe he said this, and it's a non sequitur
Did he read Piketty? It doesn't seem like he's even read it somehow: an awkward oversight if you're looking to contribute to high-level discourse about inequality.

He seems to assume that Ycombinator is a microcosm for the American economy, but this is a burdensome assumption for most who have even a casual interest in the subject.

For those who missed it: Capital, the recent intellectual best-seller on this topic, spent about 500 pages attempting to demonstrate that inherited wealth (NOT human capital) is the dominant force in the economy and that this tendency is only worsening, for fundamental structural reasons (r > g). In other words, we are entering a new gilded age.

Think Trump, not Zuckerburg.

So, I can't understand why Graham doesn't address this. If Piketty is correct, it renders meaningless almost every thing he writes in this piece.
"Learn functional programming"

No. Jumping on the latest buzzword bandwagon doesn't let you magically code 10 times faster.
How Players Revived Star Wars Galaxies and EverQuest
Not to dredge up this debate for the umpteenth time, but the same can be said of unit tests: they are not a proof of correctness, and they often give you a false sense of security.
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Or perhaps, you wait around a corner with a rock and you bash the person who bought it at $10k head in.

This is idiotic at best. If a iPhone is worth $10k and it someone's hearts desire. They should get taxed the bajesus out of them and that money spend on actually doing good in society!
Wouldn't that almost by definition make then unhappy? If your job isn't helping your fulfill your life goals then at some point it seems like that conflict would make you unhappy.

That said, there are 3 companies I've worked at I would have stayed at 2-3x as long if I'd been happier at them where in this particular instance happiness = having more fun at work and building stronger/closer relationships with my co-workers.
This is kinda unconvincing, because Rick Perlstein throws the kitchen sink at Rahm Emanuel, blaming him for everything from NAFTA to the last Congressional election.
since they made it so any loss on a card when used with a stolen pin is the cardholders liability.

I stopped using my card completely and went back to cash.

now know several people who have lost thousands from having their chip and pin cards cloned.

they've gone back to cash now too.
What about "Does my compensation cover my basic needs?", followed shortly by "Does my compensation provide me any meaningful life planning?"

Being fairly compensated and being adequately compensated are two different things. Sometimes you have to pay more than what is "fair" to keep people. Fair is tied to market forces, forces that assume people can/will move between jobs. To stop people from falling prey to market forces and leaving you need to pay them above the going rate, beyond fair.

An extreme example of this is where the fair/market rate is zero, or even below zero. People like interns on film/tv productions are paid nothing, sometimes for years. There are even examples of people paying for the opportunity to work without pay. If you want such people to remain loyal you have to pay them something, which would be more than the fair/market rate of nothing.

For an example of negative market rates in the medical field, see http://thetab.com/uk/uclan/2015/10/04/is-uclan-elitist-1193

"There has also recently been criticism of work experience placements in a private hospital being sold for £500 per week, which would help students improve their applications to study medicine at university."
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Researchers control a drone using the Force, and an Apple Watch
File a bug! They might not even realise.
This gets to the core of the question!
How did a rich startup person get
wealthy anyway? They built something
that people wanted.

And were lucky enough to live in a society sufficiently functional to let them build that thing others wanted. You don't see a lot of millionaires or billionaires coming out of failed states.
Machine Learning for Economists: An Introduction
BT Sync is for syncing folders between different computers, with access control. It's not the same at all.
> 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.

This kinda reads like word salad to me -- I have absolutely no idea what concrete policy changes it's meant to imply.
Orange Pi One Is a $10 Quad Core Board with Ethernet and HDMI
All the banks I deal with offer it. Chase. USAA. Citibank. Capital One.
I don't think your justification for saying your "Native American" around tribal members would fly. Technically, 1/32 Cherokee is white (or whatever other racial types you possess). 1/32 (like my 1/8 [edit: I guess I would qualify for different tribes and you would if you were a certain non-Cherokee tribe http://www.native-american-online.org/blood-quantum.htm]) wouldn't get you on the rolls of any tribe in the US. I'm listed as a lineal descendent of my enrolled member father, but am not considered a member nor can I put down "American Indian and Alaska Native" on a form. Certain federal school funding programs can claim me as a number but scholarships sure weren't one of them.

I have never heard anyone on a reservation use the term "Native American Indians". [edit: removed].
Unfortunately I can't afford to replace my hardware. It would be nice if DD-WRT supported zero-handoff but I couldn't find any reference in the website.
Ditto. I'm also curious if D ever came up. My impression is that it was (until recently) much more stable than rust.
Keep in mind this is a 500 newly opened issues over a period of four months, and that the backlog did not start at zero. So this is thousands of issues accumulating over a year.
The opening of "If I told you that contemporary ideas about innovation and disruption were driven mostly by ideology, ignorance, and marketing hype, would that seem controversial or extreme?" left me intrigued. Yet there is so much to digest (which I am still doing -- having read the complete post 3 times. Now it is time to explore the citations)

That said, a statement in Peter's summary resonated deeply when he noted:

"We should think about all the variables an outsider might bring to our attention, and then about how to embed that outsider perspective as an integral part of our organizational culture."

How many times has this question been asked, with the common answer of "We do, and then ignore or dismiss 'the outsider'"??? Far more than most care to admit I suspect.

Yet it is this very statement that has led me personally down the "platform/software/technology agnostic" road. Repeatedly.
Exercise makes it pretty difficult for me to sleep, for up to 3 hours after. So, if done with the appropriate lead time, it should work.
And, some people are born Mozarts and Newtons, and we never hear of them because they they lack connections, access, leisure, and opportunity.

I don't know what true socialism feels like, but I do know that whatever mixed system the U.S. has certainly doesn't feel like freedom. Whatever we have, I'd like to try something new because it's not working.
As I've said on Twitter, I'm not _exacty_ a communist. I am far left, but the differences matter only if you're already a leftist. I think "anti capitalist" is the more accurate umbrella term.

I'm also one of the highest karma people on this very site. ;)
Income inequality is not the problem, it's a symptom
"We don't pay much attention to race issues here" is precious. (50-cent army or thinks meiguo (America) means beautiful country.)
Something similar was made with WOFF. Version 1 used deflate, version 2 uses brotli. You could now argue semantics wether WOFF2 still is WOFF, but that doesn't matter at all. The point I wanted to get across here is that it's a relatively easy change
I don't think that

auto start = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
// benchmark something here
auto end = std::chrono::system_clock::now();

is concise. I think that

start, end = benchmark do
# benchmark something here
end

is concise.
If the hobby is causing serious problems, then maybe changes should be seriously considered. I would never prioritize my current lifestyle + meds over changing said lifestyle without meds, especially when sleep is in the balance.
>He retrieved the stash and poured all the jewelry into an insulated Whole Foods bag, then he drove down to Lady Bird Lake, on the edge of downtown. With the bag in his hand, he walked to a secluded bend, hoping he wouldn’t be interrupted by some stroller-pushing, power-walking busybody, and he began scattering the treasure behind trees, bushes, rocks—the way one might hide eggs at Easter. It made him cringe to imagine a dog peeing on his $25,000 Patek Philippe Aquanaut watch, his $22,359 Ulysse Nardin watch, or any of the other watches and gold bars he’d grabbed on his way out the door in Corsicana. When he ran out of hiding places, he tossed the rest in the lake, resisting the urge to jump in, fish it out, and stuff it all back in the bag.

lmao, incredible.
No, not all the thinking, impact analysis, and projections. I asked for an outline, a sketch of a thesis for his plan beyond "raise taxes".

Please do not be hyperbolic and sarcastic.
I can't think of a reason why the richest and one of the smartest men in the world would go through all that trouble just for petty "image management" (he has nothing to prove to you in terms of intellect, we all know already he's super smart. Why would he try to brag about reading lots of books? That's for losers who just want to appear "as though" they are smart) More importantly, I don't see any reason why he woudln't read these books. I've read a lot of them and learned a lot from them. Why wouldn't he want to read these?
Revolution may or may not improve things for the underclass, but it certainly ruins things for the upper class -- at least they are forced into playing political games all over again and cannot rest on previous political success (though, yes, if they are trained or predisposed towards politics at least they have a chance). And the credible threat of revolution forces that cool, calculated, and orderly effort to go somewhere, instead of merely watching the arc of history bend as slowly as the earth's surface.

Britain, for instance, was not irredeemably terrible during the American Revolution, as evidenced by them being basically as reasonable a place as America today and not having had a revolution of their own since then. And they even managed to do some things better (e.g., they banned slavery before America did). But the American Revolution was still worthwhile, and that gave credibility to the American approach instead of the imperial one.
It sounds like asking how to get startup funding
One of the first things Reagan did when inaugurated was, by Executive Order, rescind the oil price controls. The gas lines vanished overnight and never returned in the 35 years since, despite all kinds of gyrations in the oil business.

It's rare that we have such a clear example of the deleterious effects of price controls.
A Simpler Approach to Functional Programming
OK, there are a lot of claims here but the one I'm interested in is the idea that productivity has increased while wages have stagnated. I'll have to read more about which of those are adjusted for inflation and how all that measurement actually works, but for now I'd like to make a few points that might be relevant:

- There's not much consideration why productivity has increased. If I had to guess a significant part is because executives hired analysts and planners to increase productivity, not just because better technology had that side effect. The incentive to do this is presumably that more productivity means better margins for the company. I can understand the argument that the workers deserve a bigger share of the rewards than they have gotten, but there is also a share deserved by the executives and analysts who were involved. And legally you can't really say that anyone is entitled to a share, which I guess means that in our society the balance comes down to ethics and morals.

- I think this point is made elsewhere, but there are a lot of things you can do with a "middle-class" income these days that were simply not possible when the wage stagnation started. Could it be the case that even if wage numbers don't track productivity, there is some balancing elsewhere that means actual quality of life does increase with productivity?

I'd like to hear peoples' thoughts, if these ideas are not full of trivial fallacies (which may very well be the case as I am not very knowledgeable about economic stuff).
Yes they do. People are people at the end of the day - they will focus some of the time on the stuff they think is important/fun.

CEOs/presidents have even a larger amount of individual influence on what they do, as the roles are more open than say a CFO/CTO.

Sure - there are things they need to do, but there are also things they choose to do. Sure - when they do those things they are aware of their overall responsibilities, but they still choose among what things they do and dont do.
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This is 100% accurate. My ultimate allegiance is to Deleuze, but that's only relevant to a VERY small niche of people. Marx is much more well-known.

Also, I care more about left unity than arguing over the exact kind of leftist I or others are.
Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing
As a Kivy dev, I've thought about it before on the desktop (it's come up before and a gsoc student did some preliminary investigation for the best way to do it), but I'll admit I didn't realise the implications on Android where actually this support might be harder due to the mismatch with the normal java widget mechanisms. I do think it's important and will try to take a look at it, but it's certainly true for now that Kivy does not have much support for standard accessibility tools, probably particularly on android and ios.
I suspect you have misunderstood my point. We say "So and so is a native New Yorker" or "So and so is a native of Wisconsin." Etc. In the sense that I was born and raised here, I am a native American.

Native:

1.a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth, whether subsequently resident there or not

All I am saying is that it is potentially linguistically confusing because although I am not by blood Native American in that I am not mostly descended from indigenous peoples who lived here prior to the "discovery" by Columbus, I am still a native American in that I am an American by birth. When you say that verbally, you don't know if the letter N is capitalized or not.

I am sure most white folks would sound like heathens when visiting a reservation and trying to engage the members of the tribe.
Can you imagine? An automated echo chamber built just for yourself? How terrifying.
It is creating value. Every new cleaning job means a cleaner gets another job to choose between. So his/her salary will be better, and ditto for working conditions.
So, the rich are getting richer, but the poor are at least not getting poorer? While not ideal, it doesn't sound so bad to me, or am I missing something?
| Graham is arguing against an enormous straw man.

Word. I don't know anyone who understands enough to actually have a discussion (e.g. isn't some back to nature hippy) and seriously thinks we should attempt to minimise the opportunities to create new wealth. Everyone I know who argues for reduced economic inequality favours increased minimum wages and/or redistributive mechanisms (income/wealth tax). I don't know if Graham has encountered people who seriously argue against permitting opportunities to create wealth, or just thinks those people exist, or has some sort of anti-redistribution agenda (which would function to reduce the potential gains that could accrue to startup founders... though not significantly).

I was particularly struck by this suggestion:

"And if there are people getting rich by tricking consumers or lobbying the government for anti-competitive regulations or tax loopholes, then let's stop them. Not because it's causing economic inequality, but because it's stealing."

Stealing is an extremely imprecise and emotive word, and he makes no effort to clarify. Which is usually what you do when you want a lot of people to feel like they agree with your arguments even when they might not if you went into detail. But the weirder part of the statement (ignoring the fairly broad 'tricking consumers', which would include most people who market their products) is that he specifically identifies tax avoidance (which I'd argue ISN'T stealing) as something we should eliminate... "not because it's causing economic inequality, but because it's stealing", even though the main reason we have tax AT ALL (and hence laws around when you do/don't need to pay it) is to reduce economic inequality!

So... all our existing tax laws, and their economic-inequality-reducing redistributive effects, are wise and good and infractions should be rigorously prosecuted because they'd amount to stealing. But any NEW tax laws that might increase the redistribution of wealth to increase economic-equality would be bad and misguided? Because where we are, right now, is the perfect optimum, despite the widespread evidence of increased concentration of wealth and its negative consequences? Riiiight.

Finally, last I checked there are various areas which have lower tax than the USA. Yet somehow plenty of startups are still formed in the USA. Which casts doubt on the 'the startups will move elsewhere if you change anything to reduce their direct rewards' argument.
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Working on it :) We are hacking away full time on the Serverless Framework and have some big features coming in the next few days.
Someone else already did:

https://github.com/kivy/kivy/issues/2820
Yeah so the IWW is an anarchist organization, not a communist one. Or at least, not a Marxist one. Soooooooooo
The analogy with poker is a poor one. Poker is a zero-sum game. Capital markets are not zero sum. Capital allocation can create (or destroy) wealth, and the transactions to which you point make that process more efficient. If there were no secondary market for shares, there would less money invested in IPOs and other primary investments.
Especially if a beach covered in plastic is the best possible advertisement for a solid, well-informed approach to helping the environment :)
If you're willing to pay someone more money to retain their marketable skils then that price is 'fair', by the definition of 'free market' anyway.