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I'm an economist (sort of), with some IT domain expertise. I've been thinking about the below issues for some time now:

1) As productive capital becomes increasingly digital, it becomes cheaper to acquire or create. If capital is cheaper to acquire or create, it means fewer people are needed to pool money to attain it. In other words, capital ownership becomes more concentrated as a result.

2) Additionally, digital capital often enables production at near 0 marginal cost (e.g. it costs facebook virtually nothing when a person registers a new account). Markets where the marginal cost of production is near 0 are generally 'winner-takes-all' markets (e.g. natural monopolies, network monopolies etc.), due to always increasing economies of scale. So the returns to capital become larger, as monopolists can capture more 'consumer surplus' as profit. In addition, the more a monopolist can price discriminate (i.e. set different prices for different consumers, based on how much those consumers value the product), the more they can convert consumer surplus into profit for themselves.

The net result of the previous two points: significantly more wealth becomes concentrated in fewer hands

3) Digital capital is highly mobile. For example, AWS instances can be moved to another country almost instantaneously and without cost. This makes it hard for governments to tax returns to digital capital, barring some global tax agreement, as raising the tax rate on capital returns will simply cause it to relocate to lower taxing jurisdictions (e.g. Ireland). So governments have limited scope to redistribute this increasingly concentrated wealth using taxation.

I think that we badly need to have a global conversation about this: do we consider these good or bad things? are we ok with the resulting society? what should we do (if anything) about this?
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One of these articles said that s.f. Yellow Cab was self-insured for a while, and during that period one of their drivers got in an accident. The passenger sued yellow cab and won an $8 million dollar judgement.
> IDM

Sorry I meant EDM.

D'n'B is kinda dead except for the UK scene which has always existed.

First time I hear about Future Base , I checked some stuff and but to me it's just trap/dubstep again.

While you mentioned "fads" ,well that's what drive the business. Right now there is no real enthusiasm toward something fresh and new, aside from a few live acts but they don't qualify as EDM in my book.
You can find all kinds of things in UAT. Not just weather but you can find various equipment information like the landing gear coming down, message sent from the plane (SMS, crew) and there have even been times they broadcast credit card data!
From the article: "Another advantage of being a co-op: Since REI is technically owned by millions of members who’d get little cash from a takeover, it’d be very cumbersome for a rival to buy it out."
Assuming the signal processing doesn't take so much more energy to kill the benefit, and the higher speed is equally stable against noise. (Which might actually be true, but I don't think it is obvious that it always is)
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The world has reached “peak furniture”, IKEA says
Honestly, this read more like a PR piece. "Look at how much I care about these people!" "Man, I'd love to fix this broken system if only they would let me!" It's just a puff-piece, nothing more.
Well, let me vote you up to compensate. I think maybe the way you phrased it seemed like you were implying Google hold themselves to a higher standard than Apple, which certainly isn't the case. But I agree with you - Apple users have different expectations than Android users.

As an Android user, I am positively revolted - outraged, really - when an Android hardware manufacturer locks the bootloader making custom ROMs mostly impossible. And yet it doesn't bother me that much when Apple does this?

As an Apple user, I'm upset when my Apple device doesn't behave smoothly and responsively. Really, it needs to be like butter. And yet as a Note 4 user, I overlook all sorts of bad Android behavior - slow app startup, poor battery life, not being able to hold more than 3 apps in memory on a 3GB RAM device, dog-slow task button. Not terrible at all, but certainly not like an iphone.
"System" is the highest privilege, like "root" on Linux.
> Thomas, Erin, and I possess voluminous experimental evidence that suggests generalist engineers can know more about market making than Michael Lewis (and, if one assumes Lewis is not committing malpractice with regards to framing quotes, Brad Katsuyama) in under two hours.

After which level in Stockfighter is it likely that I know more about HFT than Lewis?
Is that really work? I mean 100$ only for a slack group :/
> I have no clue if "zero ui" is actually a good thing or whatever

"Zero UI" is nothing, it doesn't mean anything, because it goes against the definition of UI.

Even worse, it kind of creates some confusion as to what is a UI at first place. And then uninformed people (journalists) will start thinking "when there is no screen, there is no UI", which is straight out false, and spread that lie.

There is nothing new here, only people that take advantage of the ignorance of others for marketing purposes, labeling something old as brand new. That's dishonest, at best.

So yes, this "Zero UI movement" is pure bullshit, and it needs to be called out for what it is. The only invention here is the buzzword.
"Uber’s closest rival, Lyft, was sued less than a third as often."

Hmm. Uber does ~2 million rides per day. Lyft does ~400k. If the author can't acknowledge that the relative number of suits between the two companies looks to be exactly in line with the number of rides they each give, then it's clear you can't trust the author.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3050784/elasticity/uber-is-even-b...

http://www.businessinsider.com/lyft-internal-growth-numbers-...
Just as relevant is the vesting clause that begins Article II:

The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America

This executive power is the vehicle by which various acts of legislation which "provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States" (I.8) take effect.
Yeah, most businesses seem to use a check verification service these days.
What does "too late" mean? He should not have done it because it did not come sooner? It's past some deadline and it can't/shouldn't happen?
Learning git internals can be useful but I'm really sad that its also required. If git's UI weren't so leaky a beginner would be able to go very far with just the "graph theory model" as guidance, which is much simpler to understand.
Actually, a lot of these changes have already been made, and now only you hear about them in the news. Satya delivers.

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.
Although I basically agree with PG's essay, the one plausible critique I can think of is this:

1) We don't care about wealth distribution per se. What we actually care about is utility maximisation (in other words, maximising the sum of 'human happiness').

2) Once we get pass some basic wealth level, to meet some set of basic needs like food and shelter, a person's utility is a function of relative wealth rather than an increasing function of absolute wealth.

3) If you accept points 1 and 2, we therefore should care about wealth inequality in and of itself.

There's also probably another argument to be made along the lines of 'decreasing marginal utility with respect to wealth'. Which is a fancy way of saying: a poor person derives greater utility from an additional $1 in wealth than a rich person does. This would mean that the sum of human utility is increased by taking $1 from the richest person and giving it to the poorest person.
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Sources?

I'm an apple household in general, but have multiple devices.

Cortana is superior to Siri, Google is still better.

But you make a post with no actual facts.
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This past summer I spent some time learning Ansible. I've written scripts for the configuration and the deployment of my application's various services. The built-in idempotency of the commands was a big win for me and I feel fairly productive using the tool now.

My only complaint with Ansible really has been that it feels slow at times.

I'm interested in checking out Docker. What exactly does it buy me over my Ansible config/deployment scripts? Does it obsolete them?
Interesting. But I wonder, was it a coincidence that you had the manual with you in Honolulu ? Or do you take the manual with you everywhere you go ? :)
They are sharing ideas. A lot of these technologies have research roots that are published in open journals. Although the companies are competitors, people behind those companies are scientific minded individuals interested in furthering the technological possibilities.
Also, what does "pushing for legislation" mean if it doesn't include advocating for it in widely-read media?
> Don't you get civil disorder every time a high profile, widely hated criminal gets off with a sentence that's much lighter than people get in the movies?

I don't remember any such incident in Denmark.
Under "Policies and Procedures" it says that he's not only a member, but on the Scientific Advisory Board.
So it wasn't after all, with more testing... I must have been lucky and hit a spot where the obfuscation distance was small.
What do you mean by "layering violations"?
As an everyday Rails user, most of these aren't really that surprising. Sure, one could cite 'defensive programming' or whatever, but a lot of these behaviors are warned against in the documentation.
Is this "Dolby DAX2" a standard component? There's no trace of it on my stock Windows 10 Surface Book.
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is Xcode the preferred IDE in your opinion? And can I just get a mac mini and start hacking away right away?

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If anything, the race to attract top minds has actually forced these companies to open source their proprietary libraries. (TensorFlow, CNTK etc). While they might not be working together, there's definitely a greater good that has happened as a side-effect. I'd argue that the open sourcing of libraries is better than 2 big companies working secretly.
If I had to characterize Mr. Obama's administration, I'd say he all too often says exactly the right things (and maybe even believes them) but the implementations (if any) leave an endless amount to be desired.

But this, like everything the last 8 years, will come out to little more than an eloquent WashPos article. Thanks Obama.

Edit: TIL the president cannot pardon state level crimes. oops
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Why is it an issue for alerting about hotfixes? Wouldn't it make sense to get fixes out sooner rather than later? Or maybe I'm missing something here.
If you love learning a bit about how great writers hack language to achieve the greatest effect this is a great read...

This done before deconstructing a work of literature became
Fashion in writer's workshops...
He also spoke at the World Science Fiction Convention in Boston in 1989. The only time I got to see him speak in person.
Yup it started out as Richard Nixon's war on the counterculture, imagine if Steve Jobs had been taken out in the war on drugs we'd all be stuck using windows 10 at work instead of having nice macbook pros lol.
Still: externalities is different from non-zero sum game..
You didn't mention Walmart. ;-)

Well they are the ones being disrupted currently. They did it in the 80s and 90s to Sears and the rest.

you are going to have a much harder time making the case that Theranos isn't trying to be novel.

I actually think Theranos is trying to be novel, my initial response was that maximizing value isn't something new in the valley. I have no clue on whether they are or not in reality, but they portray themselves as actually making new technology - my guess is that they just can't do it and are trying to buy time.
You might find this library useful:
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2015/01/free-audiokit-lets-ios...
Not really unlikely if you consider the vast scale of time as well. A few million years is enough to reach the end of the galaxy even at very very low percent of the speed of light. That's a long time in our terms, but a very short time given the age of the universe, or even our own planet.

Self replicating Von Neumann probes could handle the issue of exploring such a large number of solar systems by increasing their numbers exponentially. They could leave behind machines that could continuously monitor and survey planets for millions of years.

If aliens exist, then I would expect for them to have observed us like that. Unless they have no interest in the outside world at all, which seems unlikely.
As a grad student, I remember shooting the bull with Minsky and Hillis (1983). The CIA had offices across the hall and we were discussing how we might grab one of their bags of shredded documents and use a computer to piece together all the fragments by hashing the pattern of edge fragments on each piece.
The Musical Mind of Marvin Minsky
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One of my problems with git is that I don't want to have to understand anything and source code control. It isn't something I am interested in. All I want to do is merge from upstream and commit my changes. Mercurial lets me do this without needing to understand much, whereas git makes me understand all sorts of stuff just to get this basic job done. Why should I have to understand the structure of the repository to merge something? Seems like a classic case of the UI exposing the implementation details. I get that if you are managing a large project you might want all of Git's features, but since that's not me, I just do what the XKCD comic suggests.
Apple in 2016: Is the mighty iPhone in decline?
Not only is the criminal justice system abusive (a problem itself) it plain isn't working.

The thing is... there are some extremely bad people in the system who know the ins and outs and consider prison just another place to abuse others while being taken care of.

We have too many laws. We spend to much time worrying about little stuff and not enough about big stuff. My personal opinion (I realize this is not likely to be a popular one) is that we need to stop locking people up for little things and return to public hanging for big things. Smoking crack might be stupid but is it really a crime?

On the other hand someone brutally killing a child for fun doesn't deserve to even breathe our air. Something like this is beyond rehabilitation. It is broken. Put an end to it without delay and return the raw material to the earth. But don't monkey around with solitary confinement. It is inhumane and in my opinion probably more so than hanging.
I think your point about profit vs non-profit is a good one.

Unfortunately I have yet to see a non-profit or FOSS bring widespread changes to the way people live and work - so we are kind of stuck for a while with this model eh?
Which later became a real-life DARPA Challenge (solved).

http://archive.darpa.mil/shredderchallenge/

And, come to think of it, a variation was in the novel Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge.
Last time I looked at the stats, 18-30 male is the demographic most often arrested. Black 18-30 male get arrested slightly more often than white 18-30 male (although not as much as you'd expect). If you looked at the numbers and nothing else, the truly "privileged" demographic is actually Asian females. And for the record, yes I'm in the 18-30 male demo and yes I've had a police run in which didn't end in "sorry officer".

Now conviction rates are another story...
So how do you like Termux? I'm trying to find a good terminal for android. I live in the terminal on my laptop and would love to just get rid of it, and move to a tablet. All the terminal's I've tried are really janky though.
Betteridge's law of headlines should tell us the answer is "No"

TL/DR: "Apple's stock value dropped to below $100 for the first time since October 2014".
There are many ways to re-engineer the system to lead to better outcomes. Say you gave everyone twice what we are giving them now. But that extra 50%, you don't give them that as income, but instead as money that can be spent on certain kinds of investment. Not commodities, food, finance, or real-estate. What sort of outcomes would that cause in the system? The standard argument for giving people any sort of wealth is, well that causes inflation. That only causes inflation only because of the way the money is used. If it is used different it can cause innovation and better distribution of wealth.
If you mention the consolidation of MSR labs including the closure of that in Mountain View, that was a bad move (in my opinion).

But, trying to understand here. My experience over a number of years is that experienced individuals are transitory...People move around. Depending on the group in MSFT and Satya's mandate, churn may make sense.

A decade is multiple tech lifetimes...Someone stellar 10 years ago may be on it now or may not...

This level of general MS bs on HN gets a little tiring when there are no facts.
I've tried to write and rewrite this comment, but it oozes disdain every time. So here's my best:

I expect that if a file uses CRLF everywhere, `git merge` will not leave it in a state with mixed line endings after inserting conflict resolution markers that end in LF instead of CRLF.

This shouldn't require a configuration option, but if it does, fine. However, Git doesn't even seem to have this.

What it does have are 'autocrlf' and 'eol' and 'text' options/attributes. For anyone who mentions those, I'm going to ask that you be familiar with not just what those actually control, but also how they're documented in the git man pages and in the book from git-scm.org—the entire premise was a discussion about Git's user-facing parts. By either source, those options control line normalization (i.e., implicit automatic conversion), which is not what I'm talking about. And the documentation for those is sick enough that even if they were the things to look to in order to configure this, then the idea that Git's UI is on par with Mercurial nowadays would still be wrong.

EDIT: To clarify, the desired approach for this is, "Use whatever line endings the file is already using". Git's approach to this is, "Standardize on either LF or CRLF, and at your discretion enable what amounts to some glorified git hooks to ensure that policy is followed, through the use of some obtusely documented configuration options. Make sure to work around any problems with that (e.g., when it's corrupting files that should have never been normalized) by applying another liberal layer."
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Apps are useless if they can't reach their data, because it didn't fit in (tiny) local storage anymore and external storage is unavailable due to lack of (reliable, fast) network connectivity. Although manufacturers could simply offer devices with local storage and solve that.
I got to spend some time talking with him once when we were both visiting the offices of OLPC in Cambridge, more or less across the street from MIT's building 32 where CSAIL is located. I told him a little about what I was working on (learning agents attached to dialogue systems) and he had some insights. I ran out to the coop to buy another copy of The Society of Mind and he signed it. We also talked a little bit about some of the ideas in his The Emotion Machine, which I hadn't read at that point.

On top of his work, Minsky taught me that you should meet your idols. If they're worth it you walk away enriched and invigorated.
Meteor is emphatically NOT all-in-or-bust.

It has a JavaScript framework (Blaze), but also works with Angular or React.

It's tied to Mongo, but this release announcement is about loosening that bond.
Yeah, one privileged guy had problems and everyone remembers it forever... Isn't really comparable to the thousands of underpribileged who's lives are just as tragically ruined...
Aren't politicians using a lot of data driven techniques to come up with their speeches? Basically have a focus group answer questions that let data analysts pick the right set of words that enables politician to reach out to targeted population.
Um...what? That doesn't even make sense. How does labeling it as sarcasm "suit me" especially when I gave a talking point about how it doesn't even matter if it was or wasn't sarcasm?

This is digressing into utter nonsense. Go back to reddit if you want to troll.
You find yourself in a realm where hackers don't branch and use svn with no experience of distributed source control.

hg is so much your friend here. They will actually probably get over the switch hump and use it. git that hump is much bigger and more arduous. Git is great, I like it. When you want to drag the team with you who aren't already sold, just go straight to hg every time. You're hacker, you can use either effectively and both are excellent tools.
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sounds secure enough (for the 2nd Millennium ):

3.5 Connection security

Following the FIX standard, Message Authentication is not supported on Millennium Exchange.
However, each CompID is assigned a password on creation that must be specified in the first
logon message.
Participants are required to change the default password on first logon.
Credit card companies take at least that much from the transaction. They charge both the supplier and the holder.
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It is? Source (why do I even bother asking you at this point)?

Regardless dangerous isn't tied to a specific set of dangers. That's simply not what the word means. I gave a set of links, mentioned I could send you many, many more, and you cherry-pick a topic I didn't post...for what purpose?

I'll admit I'm not used to being trolled on HN but this is just ridiculous. If you want to just post random garbage without providing a way of backing up claims (extreme claims nonetheless) then go to reddit.
While there are certainly ugly inconsistencies, I disagree that this holds as a rule. This kind of inconsistency - sensitivity of a surface feature to some other attributes of the situation - has the effect of increasing the redundancy of the encoding. Redundancy can (it doesn't always!) help with comprehension and correctness; individual instances should be evaluated on their merits.
You are 100% correct. HOWEVER, you don't see the companies lobbying to increase the funding to DoL/USCIS.

The reason is that the choke point benefits these companies. If you cleared the backlog so that a green card was a 12 month process, the companies would quit asking for H1-B's unless they really wanted them.
Heh... Anyone else getting tired of the backhanded racism against whites?

"Privileged" white male checking in here. I've been harassed by the cops at least 3 times. Two included spending the night in jail. One included a healthy threat of violence. I might not have it as bad as others, but I've had my run-ins buddy.
CS stands for Computer Science. Online programming courses like Treehouse and Lynda are not computer science. What you're looking for is a programming course.
I have the Xperia Z2. I really tried to use it as a laptop replacement. I'm a linux guy, all my work is in the terminal or a webpage, so I thought it would be easy.

Nope. Android keyboards are still terrible. All the android terminals that I've tried suck. It constantly locks up. It's got so much potential, and somehow falls so short.