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In response to your first point, I am going to quote one of my other replies in this discussion:

One of the points you are missing is that there are two kinds of poverty: absolute and relative. Even if you could eliminate absolute poverty, there is no means to eliminate relative poverty. The minute you have a UBI, anyone who only has that is de fact poor relative to others.

Many years ago, I saw a study that asked people in different countries to define poverty in terms of things like how many meals per day a person ate, what kind of shelter they had, etc. The study concluded that less than 0.5 percent of Americans were poor by the standards of people in India at the time the study was conducted. Meanwhile, Americans routinely conclude that 12% to 14% of us are living below the poverty level.

As a homeless American, I have regular access to electricity via a public library. I have access to public toilets. I have access to cheap goods. My quality of life is likely higher than that of many people in the world who live in countries without consistent supply of electricity and other basic infrastructure that I take for granted. There are countries where women are fairly routinely raped and sometimes murdered while attempting to relieve their bowel or bladder in an open field because there is insufficient infrastructure.

My quality of life is likely higher than that of kings of old, who had no electricity or Internet or antibiotics etc.

As for your second point, the information being lost has to do with what choices and behaviors are problematic and which ones are of real value.

I agree with you that the main purpose of money is to facilitate trade. So, I find myself baffled as to why you are pro basic income. What are people trading for basic income? It makes no sense to me to create a world of consumers.

I worry that we are destroying the health of the system.

At the moment, I do not have time to discuss this further. So, I am not going to try to elaborate on that last point. Given the reception I am getting here, this is probably a waste of time anyway.

Take care.
I majored in math as well, and had lots of secondary mathematics education majors in my classes. While it's true they were weaker than the math majors in the advanced classes, they were certainly bright and enthusiastic enough to teach math up to basic calculus.
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Thanks for the comment. I understand what you we're trying to say, however, the last part about not being able to vote rubbed me the wrong way. I've been through the pain of trying to find a job with no "education" as the system currently is. Making things more difficult doesn't help. Companies don't know how to judge critical thinking, that's why they rely on degrees. It's a cultural problem. I got lucky because someone was willing to take a gamble on me and it worked out for both of us. Not everyone with my "intelligence and will to learn" get so lucky as me no matter how capable they are.

Tech seems to be a strange exception to the rule. It's easier to get a job being self educated in tech than anywhere else it seems.
I don't think looking for better is the right way to go about this. There are many things that are different in Go which you might find a nice fit for a specific use case. Also, nothing wrong with learning another language to increase the number of tools in your toolbox.

I'll list a few use-cases where I found Go to be a great fit for me.

Building command line tools:

Both Go and Python are great for building command line tools. One place where Go is different is that it's super easy to produce statically linked, self-contained, binaries. The result is less dependancies to manage at install time. Many users find tools distributed in a self-contained binary easier to get started with -- no need to have the right runtime (python 2.x) installed.

Example: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/confd

Building web services:

I'm always building small services to solve a problem and this is one area where Go really shines for me. Out of the box Go ships with a "high performance" web server. Just import the "net/http" package and off you go. While the built-in web server is not a full replacement for something like Nginx (rate limiting, rewrite rules, etc), it does allow you to go really far without the need of an external web server for performance.

Example: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/coreos-ipxe-server

There are other benefits to Go like performance gains if you are willing to trade in the flexibility you get from a dynamic language like Python and migrate to a strongly typed language that must be compiled before running your code. While Go is strongly typed it does not get in the way of getting things done. The Go compiler is fast and stays out of the way.

I'm not sure what your background is, but I did a talk a few years ago at GopherCon 2014, "Go for Sysadmins" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyRbHhHFZh8), that provides a nice introduction into why I like Go and some live demos to drive key points home. Hope this helps.
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I think you're remembering a time long past. The system doesn't work that way anymore. Committing someone against their will is no longer trivial or easy if even possible. You have to have evidence and it has to be an immediate threat like within a few days and it's f'ing hard. These people do not have the power you think they do anymore. The thing you're complaining about has already been fixed.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/07/mental-...
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This guy sounds like a paranoid schizophrenic. Read it yourself (more at the link) and reach your own conclusions, but:

> I was followed to the Save Mart Shopping center at Blackstone and Clinton by what I believe to be Fresno Sheriff personnel. As I was at the meat counter, a fast walking person talking on a cell phone came into the store and abruptly stopped at the main opening of the grocery store. He did a complete 360 as if he was searching for someone. I noticed him right away because of his behavior. He didn’t appear to be a typical shopper. As we made eye contact, he appeared startled that I had noticed him. I was at the meat counter which is near the entrance of the store. As I left the store with my groceries I couldn’t find him anywhere. But, as I made my way to the parking lot and started to unlock my trunk, he came out of the store, still talking on the phone. He walked past me without making eye contact and entered a late model green Chevy or GMC Step-Side truck with custom chrome rims. As I entered my car and pulled out, I drove slowly past the rear of his vehicle in an attempt to read his license plate. However I couldn’t remember the license plate number, because, as I left the store I was interrupted by a phone call. About two blocks away from the store I received a call from a person who sarcastically said my full name, then proceeded to ask me questions about a boat repair. The Number was: [...]. I’ve never had a customer address me by my first and last name before, especially someone I hadn’t talked to before. I’m confident this number and caller is connected to this SaveMart incident. I believe this person and others is related to something more complicated and devious than simple harassment. This type of “close proximity” tracking can only mean one thing. I believe this person and others are tacking and monitoring my minute by minute incremental movements so they can direct another party to illegally enter my residence for the purpose of gaining “intel” or planting evidence.

> Eli Rodriguez is the Fresno Sheriff personnel who was going to set me up on the Jet Ski emission scam. He dropped of a 2 stroke Evinrude motor on at my shop on 3-02-2015. His plan was to drop off the motor, then at a later time enter my property with the assistance of George and Maxine Ramirez my neighbors who were placed there by Fresno Law Enforcement personnel, plant evidence, then pick up the engine at a later time and lie and say I was trying to sell him fake emission stickers, then he would falsely arrest me. I knew something was amiss on these “emission stickers” because I was receiving a ridiculous amount of calls on them.
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The most commonly cited issue with this line of reasoning is that the root reason for private sector unions (massive power disparity between employers and employees) simply don't exist in the public sphere.

Public sector employees often vote for or against their current bosses directly.
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I don't know how conclusive the studies are but here is something to go with http://www.nea.org/tools/17360.htm

However I think it's misleading to focus on their scores as a proof of good education, but that's a whole other discussion.
We added "Show HN" to the title (the convention for sharing your own work on HN) because the post is by the author and, when the project is a book, a free chapter is a nice way to let people try it out.
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It's still best practice for most normal websites that are mostly static content with a bit of jquery and Ajax sprinkled on top.

But for sites that are more like applications people are thinking about the components that make up those applications. These components are self contained and reused so it makes sense to have everything in the same small file.
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My bad, this has already been discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10978672
I actually understood what you meant, I just think it's funny when we use "just" right before saying something that seems complex (even if it isn't actually all that complex).

Having said that, I only added the link to that comic because I didn't want to just write a comment saying "thanks for the links", and I'm only replying again, because I'm hoping it continues the pattern where you keep replying to my replies with super interesting links!
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I see two things. One is what I've already discussed. The other is something perhaps just as interesting.

Colleges and universities go up for accreditation every ten years (perhaps it varies, I'm not the world expert on this but I've been part of the process). A large part of this process is a self-study conducted by the faculty and staff of the university. In the recent (one-to-two accreditation rounds) past there have been high profile universities that have failed that process. The thing that I find interesting is that the faculty at these universities (to the best of my knowledge) don't particularly give a shit about this process. This accreditation means very little, and is not worth them putting time into. Now, accreditation by their respective professional society is quite important- the Chemistry department cares deeply about what the American Chemical Society (or whomever it is) says, but not about what the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools says. This is exactly the way that certificate programs work: Learning to be a Honda mechanic, for example, requires a program accredited by Honda, not specifically by the NCACS.

So it could be that the idea of going to a university and spending $100K on a "broad education" becomes a thing of the past for all but the true scholars, and most people start turning to specialized education for jobs like engineering and computer science. Just a hunch.
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Yup, people follow incentives. I was friends with someone in college who majored in chemistry and could have easily gotten into a good PhD program or gone right into industry. She chose instead to teach high school chemistry and did a fantastic job until she burned out 3 years later. The work load was enormous, the pay was shit, many of the kids didn't want to be there, and the goals of her school administration were completely decoupled from the general purpose of teaching. She is now in industry making much more money and living a much better lifestyle.
People weren't protesting in the streets against the regime because they were concerned about oil prices. They were upset because they didn't have jobs or couldn't afford food, and the countries around them were having revolutions first.
Sounds very cool! Looks like a spreadsheet with a rich, intuitive UI.

I'm working on a toy project with a similar aim where I'd like to also auto-generate the whole UI (no markup needed), definitely going to look at your approach closely.
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No it's okay it's a servlet.
I can opt out of the physics, but I'd have to take something like chemistry or biology. I'm taking the physics route because I feel that will benefit me specifically based on the carries that I'd like.

I just rechecked, I think I need to take Biophysics, Astronomy, and nuclear physics with 1 bridge class between the three. Why? Because.

I'd love to take the nuclear physics because that sounds fun, but and biophysics will make me claw my eyes out.

Also, for my university I for some reason need to take 3 random 300 level classes and three electives as well as 3 PE classes, 8 social science classes. I can't for the life of me justify these in my situation. To be honest, I'd trade the time I would waste on this with CS classes branching into different fields. Maybe it's just me and that I know exactly what I would like to do with my career but this seems useless to me.
But what about the tiny-ass screen? It makes my head hurt to think about writing code on an iPad. Are they going to add HDMI?

Also wake me up when iOS isn't an absolutely fascist walled garden.
What signal does that show? Other than not being able to follow through with things (although dropping out of college can be due to a multitude of factors that has nothing to do with the candidate's work ethic or dedication)
Mercury fans always say this but I'm never seen anyone swap out random libraries it uses, like dom-delegator. Stuff is still made to be used together, you could swap out dom-delegator if your version had the exact same API, but then what would be the point.
Right, and there's a reason for that: a decline in housing prices would be seen as a disaster, because so many people have so much of their wealth tied up in home equity. Of course, it doesn't have to be that way: if you happen to own a single family house in SF, and it gets upzoned to allow apartment buildings, you can expand your house and become a landlord, or just sell the house to a developer to replace with an apartment building. But both of those options are harder than just sitting on your land and watching its price grow, which is part of the "American dream" of housing as a store of wealth that people were sold.
This is also what I initially understood. But still, it means that if I get 100 cops in a room, about 40 have been or will be in an abusive relationship. That is still very telling/surprising.
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I think in theory this is Voxeland's selling point - it's meant to be Minetest but with an actual, out-the-box game experience that doesn't rely on mods.
Ask HN: Major contributors to open source projects-how did you find the project?
I've been looking for open source projects to contribute to (preferably in JS) but I haven't found any projects to my liking (preferably smaller projects). I could create my own project, but I haven't had any good ideas lately for projects.

Those who contribute heavily to large projects, how did you get involved with it?
Heheh. People used to do this with Debian when Debian wasn't widely available on remote hosts. Even made it to the official Debian manual it seems:

https://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/apds03.html.en
Exactly. It's urgent and important. Put the most important point first. Make it jump out.

When I read it, it seems like a banal procedural artifact. No urgency.

He was better as an engineer than a communicator.
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The CPD and City of Chicago have long operated under their own terms, and they need to be very careful now that there is a national focus on them. The common perception from outsiders of the city has always been "well....that's just Chicago" - think when characters like Rod Blagojevich make it to the national spotlight. With high profile cases of police corruption at the very highest level, I think the "charm" of corrupt politics and government start to go away.

I lived there for 7 years before relocating elsewhere, and at no point did it ever feel like the city was operating on behalf of its residence. There is segregation unlike anything I've seen in any other major city that is entirely ignored, the "startup" culture that they've been trying to cultivate for years is complete BS and at odds with how anti-business the city is, and now people are starting to see what happens when large government organizations go unchecked for decades.

I guess the one silver lining about incidents like this is that it should put some national pressure (and hopefully, accountability) on the CPD. I am aware that things like this happen elsewhere, but having lived in about a half dozen cities in the US, I never felt like the problem was as large and systemic as I observed in Chicago.
My manager looks through all of the code I commit as part of a review process. How is that any different? I know that if I commit sloppy code, he will come and talk to me. And if I commit good code, he will give me a hearty handshake and a pat on the back. So I try not to commit sloppy code because I know he is watching.
In hindsight things are obvious.

I think the way to look at it is from the point of view that people have before the event happens. You also weigh in all the warnings that you are receiving.

No matter what you build, if it's complex enough you're always going to have individual predicting doom. The challenging part is filtering the signal from the noise and owning the decisions you make.
Fun fact: it's not effecitve advocacy if nobody believes you :)
ES6 classes do not use Java/C++ style inheritance, they are still the same as writing:

function Foo() {

}

Foo.prototype = Object.create(Parent.prototype);

....

It's just sugar, nothing more.
> theory of computation, recursion theory and type theory and PL, compilers, complexity theory and algorithms, advanced data structures, concurrency and distributed systems etc

All of those are fairly basic topics that most people can pick up in an afternoon or two.

...

I think these are fairly rational claims that I am making

Um... no. Not fairly rational claims at all.
"Domestic violence occurs in about 40% of households with police officers"... I think that is what the above claim means.
I recently found out about incremental-dom[1], a very small library that just does the "dom updating" algorithm. Its very low level and does not rely on keeping around a "virtual dom tree" so its supposedly very interoperable. Does anyone here have any experience with it?

[1] http://google.github.io/incremental-dom/
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When you use clickbait headlines (where's the part that spells out doom? Answer: It's not given and there was no intent to do so) you discredit your own analysis. This just becomes yet another fluff piece promoting a static site generator.

Why is it that alternative publishing platforms compare themselves to WordPress in order to justify their existence? Especially when platforms offer wildely different value propositions to users. Be your own thing, the market is huge. You don't need an immense userbase to have a succesful platform.
Oops, I was mistaken that Arthur wrote Hot Java -- that was Jon Payne and Patrick Naughton, who are also amazing fellows!
They also worked together on NeWS, and Jonathan once wrote his "own" version of Emacs. ;)
Quick summary: guy writes lots of stuff online about improbable sounding police harassment, sounds paranoid. As you read more however it becomes more coherent as a whole, and you get a pretty clear image of apparently severe and persistent abuses - the footage he provided is occasionally damning - for instance, I can't come up with any explanation for the thermal imager outside his home if he was apparently unknown to the police.

Guy turns up stabbed in his burning home.

For now, the end.
I love it. For everyone who believes a study that gives him an IQ of around genius level (and for every US president -- look at that!), I actually own the Brooklyn Bridge and I'm looking to sell it.

I used the wrong example: nothing creates cognitive dissonance faster than politics or religion. But, that said, it's not a show. He's quite consistent in the types of grammatical mistakes he makes, such as simple subject-verb agreement, for example, and they indicate that he's either aphasic or mildly-retarded.
So they give their experiences with many, many students that they've taught over the years, and you say it's not true because you're different?
More info on this very pertinent issue:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/airbnb-lists-homes-ill...

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/palestinians-lambast-...
> If you're seeing lots of police in Wrigleyville, it's because the neighborhood is overrun with drunk overgrown fraternity members. If you actually live in Wrigleyville, there's a good chance you like the police, because Wrigleyville drunks are pretty fucking annoying.

Wrigley isn't a good place to drink at. The cops know about how shitty it gets and they're sitting there waiting to break up fights, call the ambulance for people drinknig too much, and ticket out of control people.

Also, something that hasn't been said yet: Don't move to Englewood. That's where most of the crimes occur.
I can't help it...

> Countries only move a couple of centuries a year.

That's some pretty advanced time travel tech.
He does, but I'm struggling to explain some of the footage provided.
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Patrolling Dunkin' Donuts, sure
And how do you pay for it? How do you turn that into being able to support yourself and your family?
Ok, let's change the URL to that from https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2016-Janu.... An author's writeup counts as the original source, and people always like to find out how it was done.
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Non-practicing entities seem like an easy target, but really, they're not the root of the problem. The root of the problem is ridiculous patents on obvious ideas.

A patent is a grant of a temporary monopoly to an inventor in exchange for disclosure of the invention. But nobody in the system is charged with looking out for the public interest in the making of this deal. Patent examiners do not get bonuses based on the number of bad patents they reject. Despite that, in court, a granted patent is presumed to be valid! It takes a strong argument to invalidate it.

By my analysis, it is the presumption of validity that is the worst problem. A patent owner suing for infringement should first have to present objective evidence that their patent is nonobvious.
Whenever I see one of these articles, I reflect back to this report from 2007:

How the world’s best-performing schools come out on top

To find out why some schools succeed where others do not, McKinsey studied 25 of the world’s school systems, including 10 of the top performers. The experience of these top school systems suggest that three things matter most:

- Getting the right people to become teachers;

- Developing them into effective instructors; and

- Ensuring the system is available to deliver the best possible instruction for every child.

http://mckinseyonsociety.com/how-the-worlds-best-performing-...

This essasy doesn't conflict with the report, but it's only a tiny piece of the puzzle.
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