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From a calculator to a BASIC interpreter. Minecraft's come a long way.

Oh, and then there's that mod with the Lua-based Unix machines.
That quote is not actually from the Dalai Lama, or at the very least there’s enough evidence on the interwebs to suggest this is the case (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/525471-man-surprised-me-mos...).
> show the market rate is significantly different to yours.

Glassdoor seems not very useful in that respect, as it doesn't break things down by anything other than location and job title. Is there a site I can use that breaks down by experience level (and, optionally, skills, or, at least, front end/back end/devops, etc), in addition to location?

Informal conversations with other tech people I know have lead me to believe I could/should be making at least around $120k, but I don't feel I can take that to the table with my current company.
Some of US teachers' retirement and healthcare benefits would be unnecessary in countries with proper social systems, so I don't think they should be counted in comparisons.
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Yes, Sergey Brin has worked 35,000 times smarter than the Doctor. I know this because the market has valued his share of his creation at 35B.
Support what claim? The claim that he had a memory?
Sure thing, I'm happy to help. Our code is at https://github.com/google/password-alert and feel free to email me any questions at drew@overt.org

However we haven't published a good design document about the client. If you're interested, let me know and I'll try to publish one.
This should be default behavior but in Firefox:

URL box -> about:config <RET>

Set _media.peerconnection.enabled_ to false.
Inequality happens automatically if there is no control. I.e. someone will have way more than others, and not because they created value and are just capturing portions of it. Exceptional value generating individuals are not the norm, they are the exception.

Most money is acquired through luck, inheritance, network effects, rents, and interests on investments.
Same reason webtorrent isn't quite bittorrent. WebRTC gives you P2P in a webapp, but it doesn't let you connect to arbitrary hosts and ports.

You could have an onion routing protocol derived from tor or i2p that uses the webrtc data channel. You could even, like webtorrent, have the concept of hybrid nodes that existing network to the new webrtc-based one.
Ah, okay. So it's a matter of getting the ball rolling for now. And then XT-type changes may occur in the future?
fantastic analogy!
I've had an IKEA Jerker (lol) for almost 15 years and it's an absolute tank.

Some of their stuff is just junk, though.
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Maybe the easiest way to meet exact numerical requirements is to serve chemical slop.
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So is increasing the blocksize beyond 2MB expected to favour Chinese minors more so than average users? And if that's the case, would you mind explaining how so, exactly?
You are correct that Persia has a very rich history. However I think that it is difficult to predict as to how this country/culture will evolve in the future.

Also the protests of 2009 were held in the cities, I am not sure that they had universal support. (Can anybody explain why Obama was neutral during the Iranian protests but supported the Arab spring protesters ?)
> 5. realize that I shouldn't be using some parts of C++ (exceptions, stdlib)

> 6. start to ponder if I really need even the good parts of C++

This reads like wisdom and maturity to me; unfortunate, but not surprising, that people are quick to judge.

Last game studio I worked at, we wouldn't have given up C++, but there were frequent conversations about its pitfalls and complexity, and quite a few rules and conventions recommending against, out outright prohibiting some C++ practices, exceptions, for example.

Before that, the last film studio I worked at, a bad experience with C++ led them to chuck it (before I got there) and go object oriented C. I learned their style of C and quite liked it. I missed operators and templates a bit, and it felt a little verbose, but I came to really appreciate the simplicity and explicitness.

Sounds like it wasn't an easy choice, but on a solo project that large you have to prioritize what makes you feel the most productive in the long term, and there are always tradeoffs.
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The inequality is also bad for the rich since they end up getting eaten.
It was, I'm sorry. I just get really frustrated reading your responses to comments in threads where you are really active and appear to just ignore any comments that counter you with evidence.

Have you ever had a conversation with someone that always has to be right? Whenever they realize they are wrong, they don't even admit it and they just change the subject. It's tiresome and disrespectful to the other party and that's what selective responses come across as.
You would have to define "hoard" here. But there is a more interesting question which is that when Bill Gates is worth 54 billion a lot of that is stock in Microsoft, not fungible cash.

When you have a millionaire who is "rich" because they own their house (no mortgage) and the house is worth more than a million dollars, they might still be living paycheck to paycheck. The difference being they could leverage their house if they needed money on short notice.

That said, it would be interesting to see what shooting down rent-seeking taxes would do here. If for example you allowed copyrights to expire in a reasonable time, then you could have people put on a play and keep the profits. Something they can't do today.
Not quite sure the point of your comment. This article says nothing about whether poverty as a whole is decreasing? The report you link to agrees with what they say is a problem (e.g. "In high-income countries, the rising concern
about shared prosperity is a reaction
to income inequality that has reached levels
unprecedented in the post-war period.") There is no contradiction between the top 1% getting richer and more global equality within the remaining 99%.

Oxfam no doubt have a political agenda, we could probably debate how clear it is and what exactly it is, but their political agenda doesn't particularly influence whether this article is correct, nor do your links seem to contradict it.
WebRTC requires the use of a centralised signalling server for the initial connection between two peers. I feel many miss this point when reading about WebRTC-enabled projects. Even if you do have Universal Plug and Play which port forwards automatically (and thus you can communicate directly between two peers), you still need this centralised signalling server.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this poses a problem if you ever want to take WebRTC further (i.e. in a self-hosted mesh network).
This mirrors my understanding: that Docker is awesome if you want to build your own PAAS. Otherwise use CF, Heroku or whatever.
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This is excellent. I spend a lot of time doodling procedurally - coming up with unexpected patterns by following strict rules as to how lines can be drawn in relation to a previous line. This automates the tedious part of that and makes it easier to be creative.
Pretend you are shopping for Christmas...

http://www.wishbookweb.com/
Key sentence: "The goal is to showcase the power of C++14 templates and not to create a fully functional transpiler."

Viewed through that lens, this is a really novel and cool demonstration.
The major thing that is special about real estate investment is that you can live in it. If I could live inside of Google stock and it would eliminate my need to pay rent, then sure, equities are just as good.
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Strange to see a Rothschild speak out against inequality.

(FTA) Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild [...] said: “Oxfam’s report is just the latest evidence that inequality has reached shocking extremes, and continues to grow. It is time for the global leaders of modern capitalism, in addition to our politicians, to work to change the system to make it more inclusive, more equitable and more sustainable."
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YC community; I started a coffee subscription business 4 months ago but I am having a difficult time growing. I was hoping I could get some honest feedback about my site on this forum. I am not a programmer, so I used wordpress to build out the site. We have partnered with one of the bay area's premier roaster to offer the most in-demand blends, and a portion of our sales go to support local non-profits. We have been trying to acquire customers on twitter, facebook etc, but the cost of customer aquisition has been astronomical and infeasible to justify continued operation.

Your feedback will be apreciated and might just save our business.

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support us by buying minibags: http://enods.com/subscription/product/mini-coffee-bags/
2.7 million puts one in the richest 1%? Unexpected, but I guess it makes sense. There are still a lot of very poor in the world.

I started to think "injustice" when I saw the article, but 2.7 million will barely buy a nice house in some parts of the US. I suppose in some ways wealth is still relative.

I guess I'm more curious about what percentage of world assets the .001% control.
I dont think OP is suggesting buying their oil to somehow impact the price, and is instead saying that the cost US oil companies are paying to extract oil themselves is more than it would cost them to just buy it from Saudi companies
Interesting, I'd be curious to some speed tests. I was seeding to around 22 peers for a while but did not get over 5Mbps up, while my internet connection is capable of around 530Mbps. Wondering if this was an inherent WebTorrent problem or simply that not enough people were online with strong connections.
Anything that helps you develop your inner world would be helpful. Win Wenger's book The Einstein Factor was my introduction to the field of personal development.

http://winwenger.com/einfact.htm
I think you could make a strong case that would still be problamatic. Let me explain this by attempting to uncover what I think is the underlying problem.

Firstly economic inequality may or may not be a problem, so it is probably not worth talking about. It is only when the inequality manifests itself in terms of power between people. Were some people have to work for a wage in bad working conditions (even here in the US) because they have no other options. They may have kids. All the way up to: having to work for Google or Facebook et al. and hating it because you know on your free time you would rather explore your own creative ideas. But people who work at menial labor jobs are just as creative and should be given paths to allow them to pursue their creative interests too.

Language makes us creative beings, and if power constrains that in any way and it can not make itself legitimate (which the burden is on it to do so) than it is wrong for it to be there.

Thus because economic inequality illegimitately constrains the human capacity to express itself creatively it is therefore problamatic and should be dismantled.

PS I realize in theory this sounds all good, but I am more convinced that humans can organize themselves into these freer societies. And those future denizens will think of us as savage as we think of american colonialism and slavery and genocide (native americans) a few hundred years back.
Re. web pages, the feature is called DeviceOrientation Event and no, the spec doesn't require user permission: https://www.w3.org/TR/orientation-event/
> This article says nothing about whether poverty as a whole is decreasing?

They are saying the inequalities are growing, whereas the world bank report says the inequalities in income are shrinking progressively. That's a very different view.
As someone who just applied for (and failed to get) a job at a DB company:

Not sanitizing your inputs is unacceptable, even for a newbie. These guys must be really stupid.
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We combined the files too.

And then a customer wanted all their files rather than just one or two. Although that was billed back to the them.
The rest of the world is catching up.

http://www.thelocal.no/20150506/norways-men-soon-to-be-among...

Most developed countries are about 20-40 years behind the US in obesity rates--if you look at overweight and obesity rates (and rate of change) in the US from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, they match pretty well with the same data from many other developed countries from the 2000s.

US obesity and overweight rates have mostly stabilized and will hopefully decline, so maybe the same will happen elsewhere (maybe sooner?).
On Windows, C++ exceptions have a stack trace.

It's not perfect because all the destructors for your stack allocated objects have run. So for example, any std::string on the stack will be gone, but any pointers to structures on the heap are still intact.

In addition, just knowing what the stack was is invaluable in debugging even if you don't have the values of every variable.

It's a huge pain that you can't get that under linux.
FWIW, the SAT is a terrible example of a gameable test. Test prep is consistently shown to affect scores by a mere 20-40 points.
Were you ever administered Narcan, and were you pissed when at whoever gave you the Narcan? The times when I've administered it I've gotten yelled at for ruining people's highs when they came back. One guy even threw a punch at me in the back of the ambulance.

Glad you're still around.
> If your best meal is school slop...

shrug It's my understanding that many school kitchens and many commercial kitchens get their ingredients from Sysco Corporation. I know that I saw the Sysco refrigerator semi truck parked outside my rural elementary/middle/high school's lunch room at least once a month. I've seen those same trucks offloading similar looking goods to many of the restaurants near my place in SF.

Like others say elsewhere in the subthreads, the thing that matters most in regards to food quality is the professionalism of the kitchen staff. A knowledgeable cook that cares to do a good job can make a substantially better meal out of the same ingredients than can be made by a clueless and/or indifferent cook.

From the last half of my middle school education through the first half of my high school education, I had rather good lunchroom food. Through the latter half of high school, the lunchroom food was merely acceptable. What was the difference? The head lunchlady retired and was replaced with someone who DNGAF.
> Most money is acquired through luck, inheritance, network effects, rents, and interests on investments.

Inheritance -> heavily taxed about everywhere.

rents -> you need capital in the first place to secure rents, so it means that somebody has produced some work in the first place to get it.

Interests on investment exist to allow your money to be useful to other people trying new things and building their businesses. So it's a positive enabler.

Not sure what you were trying to demonstrate.
It flies in the face of modern food culture, and it's a difficult decision socially. I think this drives a lot of people. That, and they're unable to remove their associations of "how normal people eat" and they feel a lust to consume sugars / complex carbohydrates again. However, the ones that don't start eating more have much better results long-term. You can't get fat again if you don't go back to eating that which got you fat in the first place.
More accurately, the browser should monitor the data usage in the current page (including iframes and possibly subsequent pages in that domain) and cut and request an explicit permission when it reaches a high water mark.
Applying glue to a pure dowel pin joint isn't a trick; it's how you complete the joint. Some IKEA pieces in fact come with little plastic pockets of glue for this purpose. You should be able to get that free from the store.

The trick is that with IKEA ware, even joints that in theory shouldn't need glue benefit from it. In some pieces, there is some fastener holding parts together, often that silly cam screw which locks onto the head of a pin. Then there are secondary dowel pins that, in theory, reduce a degree of freedom and prevent parts from rotating.

Problem is, those cam lock things are poorly designed. So in fact the joint benefits from glue.

That is not a trick; that's how you complete dowel pin joints in woodworking. If the only thing holding a joint together is dowels, you must glue.

Here is the thing. In some IKEA units, the dowel pins only prevent the rotation of a part, which is held by a metal fastener (e.g. those shit cam screw and lock things). Glue isn't going to do much there, in theory!

In practice, those fasteners are poorly designed garbage, so the glue will help there.
This is a similar phenomenon to the not-invented-here myth.
David Deustch says a lot of strange stuff.
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A somewhat serious question: Why didn't they just shoot him?
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The source is http://steveblank.com/2012/03/05/search-versus-execute/

so you were close
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As some words of encouragement, it gets way easier. You stop craving the stuff once you stop eating it for a while.
Wealth inequality is such a hot topic that if anyone dares to call any part of it good, it receives a similar angry mob response that denying anthropogenic climate change does.

Thus, this has nothing to do with pg's actual words. This is all based on the current groupthink about inequality.
I wouldn't have a problem with this if that wealth were tied up in, say, artworks and other 'intangibles'.

I do have a problem with this because that wealth is largely, I assume, representative of claims of ownership of resources that are fundamental necessities of human life (e.g. land, water, fish stocks/quotas, etc).
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All we need now is a beatmaker chrome extension to feed this into and create a tune.
As a former English as a Foreign Language teacher, I can assure you that there are always ways to game exams in English. Because I had to help some of my students get into university, I took a look at the entrance exams. Even though I am a native English speaker, I found that I could not finish the Todai (top school in Japan) entrance exam for English in the required time. It required reading and understanding very large amounts of text and then answering difficult multiple choice questions at the end. Sometimes the questions were difficult to understand and required that you were really careful about concentrating on the wording.

So instead, I decided to try again (with a different year's test) and instead of reading the material ahead of time, I used the questions to direct my efforts. I would look at all the answers and then scan the text for areas that talked about those things. Having identified those, I then looked at the question and ruled out the answers that didn't seem related. Finally I settled on the answers -- mainly by applying grammar rules mechanically (i.e., a wrong answer would be in the wrong tense compared to the supplied text).

I was able to complete the exam in time and get full marks. I had absolutely no idea what the text said. In fact, I didn't even know what half of the questions asked.

Now for my dilemma as a teacher. If my student gets accepted to Todai, it will basically make their life. You are almost guaranteed to get a good job that will give you the kind of life that most Japanese people are looking for. If I ask the student to try to do the exam properly, by reading the text, they will fail. Even I would fail. I can teach them to pass it in a different way.

What should I do? The test is too difficult. There are always going to be ways to game it and the successful students do. Therefore the test gets more difficult and the students are forced to game it even more. As a teacher, should I tell my student that they can't go to Todai, or should I teach them how to game the exam?

As far as I was concerned, I decided that teaching English and passing entrance exams were 2 different things. I taught English for those students who were interested. I gave up a lot of my free time (a few hours every day) to help them do that. When exam time came, though, I taught no English at all. I taught them how to do what they needed to do to be successful. Every one of my colleagues did the same thing. Probably every teacher in the country does the same thing.

Standardized tests that grade you and decide your future are insane.
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As someone who's tried funding a company that way, I can tell you it doesn't work.

Companies like Google, Facebook, Dropbox and Airbnb all looked like crazy ideas to begin with. Ordinary people with limited funds shouldn't be investing in companies like these, as they fail far more often than not.

It's only due to the existence of high-net-worth individuals, who can afford to lose money on most of their investments and who have a "pay it forward" mentality, that these companies can get their start.

If the returns for people Page and Gates and Zuckerburg were capped at $10M, there's a good chance they wouldn't bother.

For people like this, the goal is not personal enrichment but rather the ability to better the world, not just via their products, but also through philanthropy.

Take away the blue sky returns, and you take the motive that is most beneficial to the rest of the world.
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Two paragraphs in its plain to see he's not talking about backing up his CD,s he's talking about full copies so he can get rid of them.

And then posting this fact to hacker news. Not the brightest bulb in the pack.
If the school's budget was constrained, wouldn't it be better to serve nutritious (but tasteless) soylent than to serve whatever "regular" food that could be obtained at the same budget?
I've skimmed the report you linked to, and I really don't see the contradiction. E.g. look at the quote below, taken from several on inequality:

"The second WBG goal of boosting shared
prosperity is new and opportune. It shifts the focus in
evaluating economic development from average income
growth to income growth of the bottom 40 percent. Indicators
proxying the socioeconomic status of the bottom
40 percent of the population, have shown little improvement,
even though the growth of incomes of the bottom
40 percent of the population has not been slower than
that of the general population in many countries. This
growing inequality in basic living standards is worrisome".

I don't see anything that contradicts the Oxfam report, while there are some comments that seem broadly in line with it. Overall, the broad thrust of both seem in roughly the same direction, although they do take different views.

Again the inequalities in income shrinking progressively shown in the interactive presentation is between countries. It looks at incomes below 100k USD, which is not particularly relevant to a debate on the top global 1%.

I'm sure there's a debate to be had on how much inequality restricts growth. Perhaps it's not correct when Oxfam says that reducing inequality could improve the overall size of the pie. But I see little in your links to contradict that at first glance. Maybe you could point out more specific grounds for your views?
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Yes, I got 2x and 10x confused, thanks.
What may be more attractive is a one stop subscription to a number of worthwhile sites. Enough quality content that the reader then spent most of their online reading time there instead of in the slums.

Economics is way to provide compensation. But it also often doubles as an effective form of filtering.