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No, the takeaway is that economic terms themselves haven't experienced much evolution.

What does productivity mean when your economy is increasingly powered by data, not money?

As a wild generalisation, there are two kinds of economic model - the political model, where the point is to use rhetoric to enhance power differentials between social castes, and the evolutionary model, which considers economic activity a proxy measure for collective intelligence and opportunity.

We're in a transition period where the former model is peaking and about to[1] crash, and the latter model is becoming more sharply defined.

In the former model an abundance of data is a bad thing, because the market value of any specific type of data crashes towards zero.

In the latter model an abundance of data is a good thing, because it increases the possibility of invention and innovation. And an abundance of data refinement tools is even better.

Which is a more accurate measure of productivity?

[1] For very poorly defined bounds of "about to". I'm guessing more than decade, less than a century.
Why the past?

I tried to use Dropbox but it just didn't have what I wanted it to have. So, I find it to be not only replaceable, but awfully inferior to the x+y+z-style solutions.
There is a chapter in Tom Slee's (excellent) book "What's Yours is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy" which goes into depth about rep systems and product ratings, why they are different, and why rep systems are a bad way to measure things. There are a bunch of footnotes. I recommend it if you are looking for an even more critical take.
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No, it seems I reached exactly to the right depth. Clarifying the extent of your ignorance doesn't make it something other than ignorance. No one is required to explain their mindset to you, and your opinion on it is not really productive.
By that logic the coins to which I hold the private keys are Jake coins.
> Bottom line is there isn't a STEM shortage,

Tech companies don't care if we have 10000 biochemists sitting around doing nothing. STEM is a overused term.
I found the videos really interesting to watch because we see lots of polished pitches here on HN, but here we're seeing everything. These are mostly just going to a VC with a hand out - asking for money. But, that's what pitching a company is. I think a lot of people who haven't done it imagine a slick deck presentation in a boardroom. The reality is that you have to be able to sit down in a coffee shop and sell your idea to someone who has more money than you.

As far as the terms - I didn't look it over closely to see if it's a fair or predatory deal. Anybody know if it's a fair deal?
I'm still running it on a Mac iBook from 2004. Its the only thing I use it for because I can't stand later versions of Quicken on either the Mac or a PC. Granted, I'm only using it as a checkbook register but it does it so well, why look for something else?
This post is like Stockholm's Syndrome: "Oh Microsoft please don't close your platform. Because anyway we want to keep using it no matter what". You know, you could have chosen to mention Linux instead or keeping your hands tied. But no, Tim likes to be a prisoner.
I'd love to know more. How long is this process of determining allergies, etc?

Did you go back to your ideal body weight, BMI and body composition wise? Was weight-loss easier?

How did this affect you psychologically? Did you get rid of depression, mood-swings, etc?
I love get@ . All my apps in One place ,in place and at pace :)
Really sad that economics makes a bunch of massive ships travel thousands of miles out of their way, burning tons of extra fuel, just because a bunch of guys charge way too much to drive through a canal that was built a long time ago.
Quicken switched to its own proprietary format for which it charged banks a license fee.
Karma is not a zero-sum game, though. There is such a thing as a free upvote.
> Oddly, the MAME homepage still tries to give the impression that you can't use the software commercially.

What do you mean? I haven't really looked too deep into the site, but the homepage and download pages at least don't really say anything that would give me that impression.
I agree. this is just a poor attempt at dry humor. That being said, If you read his manifesto, he sounds very angry about the need for connections to get investors and his anger comes off as crude and disrespectful in general. Maybe it's just me, but he can do without all the contempt and anger and net the same or a better result.
> This is the case in Lisp, for example, but Lisp is not (or not typically) compiled …

Say what? Lisp is often compiled; the standard extensively discusses compilation[1] and — to address your point re. performance-improving metaprogramming — compiler macros[2] specifically exist in order to advise the compiler, e.g. for performance.

So, no, Lisp macros are not limited to defining syntactic sugar. It's like I keep on saying: the Common Lisp standard from 1994 contains with its covers functionality that people still don't know about.

[1] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/03_b.h...

[2] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/26_glo...
Consumer lock-in. If its proprietary, so much the better.
Two of my all time favorite books, and I love how he nailed that part.
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I disagree - the impetus for it may come from outside anyone you know.
> This is also why term limits don't work.

Its a limit on the utility of term limits where the term limited officer is unlikely to seek another elective office when termed out, but that concern does not apply to most holders of term-limited positions (it does apply to the US President, which tends to be someone's last elected position, but state legislators, for instance, often seek other, usually higher, offices with constituencies overlapping those of their prior office when termed-out, and so the concern doesn't really apply to them.)
Straw man! hacker News' favorite expression!

> The fact of the matter is you can't be imprisoned in the US for a crime you haven't committed or at least that judge and jury haven't deliberated on.

The fact of the matter is that people have been sent to prisons in the oh-so-righteous America without a single court hearing. Also, haven't you ever heard of Guantanamo? You know, that magical place where the US government sends people for decades and submits them to "rectal feeding" while they're there?

Straw man!!!

[0] http://theweek.com/speedreads/560204/half-million-americans-...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/nyregion/kalief-browder-he...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3e6m7z/e...

[3] https://www.aclu.org/news/president-obama-signs-indefinite-d...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_of_Daniel_Chong
Unless someone can find the actual FOIA request in this case the only thing we can say about it in particular is what is in the article, which is what I quoted.

As for the general case, I point you to sandworm101's link above.
??? I don't see any reference to type safety. Are we reading the same article?
I also messed with electronics since I was a kid with 100-in-1 kits from radio shack, but several years ago adafruit, sparkfun, eevblog, hackaday, and seeedstudio (Bunnie) helped provide me with the background info and fun hacker on-my-own-time-projects I eventually required to help build serious real world products - the kind surgeons use today and required approval from both the FDA and FCC.

Thanks to all of them! And happy hacking!
This is a case of "cake and eat it too" -

If you have a family it's more important than your career. If you don't feel your family is more important, you may abandon it or never have one to begin with.
Just because you have a different stack of priorities than another doesn't mean you can blame them for ranking theirs differently than yours.

Analogy is; you wouldn't protest at the Buddhist temple door because you feel that your time availably is less to become a full fledge Buddhist monk because you have a family.

It has nothing to do with women in tech, try and keep on topic please.
As an original non-native English speaker, I respectfully disagree.

People say my name is spelled funny or is too long...but it's not my problem, it's English's problem. Its only 6 characters in my native tongue.

In the same vein, what other ideas or concepts from non-natives are we missing because we are forcing them to learn a new language AND then to program? Furthermore, when we in the West talk about open-source, diversity and equity, we're still speaking in English. We're leaving a huge population out because the barrier to entry is learning English. If non-native speakers are now able to solve their own local problems in their local language, this is a boon for humanity and why we should encourage efforts to break down barriers like this.

I for one, welcome this endeavour and thank elangoc for his work on this.
I am using "newspaper" in the sense of "organization which pays reporters and editors to produce a textual representation of the news of the day." So perhaps this is semantics. But Google News does not do that.

Google News is sort of similar to the business unit of a newspaper which takes finished copy in digital form from the newsroom and actually delivers dead trees to people's doors. Of course the internet should (and will) kill that entirely.

Journalism is a professional craft. Writing about current events for free because you are passionate about some issue, or for a salary because your benefactor has a vested interest in some issue, etc. is not journalism. Your income has to flow from the fact that people want the news, and you/your bosses/your editors have to be properly incentivized to actually report the news.
That's right. The site has tons of information. The info blurb about each product is actually informative and seems written by someone who actually knows a thing or two about that item.

Tutorials? Yup. Manufacturer spec sheets? Yup. Libraries for various gizmos, hosted in GitHub? Yup. Forum where you actually get answers? Yup.
Pierce's Types and Programming Languages ( https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/ ) is great - I'm working throught it now. Its goes through both untyped and statically typed languages. It also goes into how to implement these things in OCaml.
I'm just not going to put all of my financial records in once place under one vendor in the cloud. On the other hand, I'm not going to trust Quicken after years of neglect and no sane way of getting my data out.

I used GnuCash for a few years, and was generally satisfied with many parts of it, yet it was horribly broken in some ways. And it isn't easy to get data out, even though it can use a native XML storage format.

These days I'm forcing myself to use Ledger http://ledger-cli.org/ The UI is essentially the UI of your favorite text editor (with all the efficiencies and pain that entails), but no one can argue that your data is held hostage! It's a text file!
It isn't meant to be permanent. It's meant to be a a stopgap until developers have time to transition to something which is neither DirectX nor Windows.
Perhaps if we had some formal description of all the store fronts we could write a program to calculate the "effective rating" for the item being sold and that could help prevent attacks like these.
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The same is true of wealth generally. (c.f. my favorite PG essay: http://paulgraham.com/wealth.htm )

Just like "Post a comment; people shower it with karma" is positive-sum activity, many efforts in the wider economy are positive-sum. That's why we don't eat grubs and use leeches for treatment.
I remember my parents showing us a video about "satanic" music. Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Rush, Styx, the Eagles...you name a late 70's band, they were in there. Some of the bands actively courted that image, of course, but the whole thing was pretty patently ridiculous.

Their lyrics, their iconography, their album illustrations were all trotted out as 'proof' that the bands had sold their souls to the devil and were trying to recruit us to the dark side.
You're full of shit. You can withdraw your coins from Coinbase at any time.

Why would you lie about something that's trivial to verify, about something so many people use?
Well, the whole point is that the Earth, due to greenhouse effects, is taking in too much sunlight compared to what it is radiating back out into space. So yeah, you're going to be reducing the total potential harvestable sunlight getting to Earth. However, that's not really a constraint for us at the moment. We just care about tapping sunlight in places near where there is a demand for energy. So, you could probably find a nice band around the Earth where the inability to place highly efficient solar panels wouldn't be missed sorely.

By 'too much weirdness' I'm referring to instigating entirely new and dangerous weather patterns. Ideally, you could keep the weather roughly the same, with the lowered temperatures disbursed enough to create a measurable but not easily noticeable effect.

And we're also not talking about plunging the area into permanent darkness, we're talking about enough reflection to reduce average global temperatures by a few degrees (or at least prevent them from rising further). I expect that could be done, if spread out enough, without enough of an impact on any one area to impact local environments.

Of course, this is all just theoretical. I doubt it's actually a reasonable course of action. I just don't think this is why it isn't.
That's pretty hard to do, since nearly everything in IT today is web-related: enterprise client/server applications; mobile apps; the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT).
It also writes every time it reads.
I've often wondered about all the Classic Video Games that are already on services like Xbox Live Arcade. Are these in-house emulators, or rewrites of old games?
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It blows my mind to see how people are still misinformed. Is this result of some old FUD from 90s or what? I really don't know what causes this stigma to persist.
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I mean, there's nothing stopping you from writing JNI wrappers; they work with anything that uses the JVM.

http://hohonuuli.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-simple-java-native-i...
I started playing Pathfinder (a DnD varient, don't ask me about all the variations) with some friends on a weekly basis starting about two months ago, and it's fantastic fun. Lot's of people aren't really familiar with it, but from my perspective if you would ever play any sort of videogame with an emphasis on thinking (not a reflex-shooter, that is) you should really give it a shot. It's extremely social, and enables fantastic creativity that even the latest games have barely started to compete with. Combined with dice rolling forces some insanely implausible events that would be nearly impossible to program into a video game.
ASP(non-.NET) is the real sin here.
Why do you assume there is an innate pre-requisite to learn English to code? I challenge that assumption.

Do you not see the diversity/ingenuity of problem solving when you travel to different countries? What else are we missing in the Anglo world? Do you assume everyone should speak English when you travel to China, India or Peru?

Why can't open-source communities form in different languages? Many people speak more than 1 language and can share learnings across the communities, just like in the real-world.

Bottom line: the world is diverse, let's make coding reflect that.
You're describing one of two routes people go.

Some people stay in a job for 15-20 years. They are a programmer for maybe 10 of those, but over time they grow into a niche, the company grows, and that becomes a job title.

Maybe they get called a project manager, or a product owner, head of QA or engineering or lead architect. Either way they aren't a programmer any more and they mostly manage something instead of doing - manage people, contracts, processes, customers...

And that's why programming has a pay ceiling - careerist programmers become something else, and footloose programmers become consultants and contractors and leave the regular pay figures.

The value of a good programmer probably becomes diminishing returns after a certain point. The best programmer in the world can't raise the sales of your web app past a point - if they do what it takes to do that they become something else, like a product manager. That point depends on the technical difficulty of the task and the size of the opportunity, but most code needs a good coder, not a great one, and beyond that it's all product fit, sales and luck.

I'm footloose too, and I'm noticing as I get older that the people interviewing me have often been in their job a long time. They bet on the company and became less flexible in the general labor market in return for better opportunities internally.

Honestly, when I work for them, I'm usually surprised how many normal things they don't know. Maybe they've never seen proper unit testing, or don't know what ITIL is, or think linux is still an immature product and you should stay safe with a microsoft stack.

But they know why the code is the way it is. They know what was tried in the past, and how it failed. And their boss has seen what they do in a crisis, which is much better than trusting someone unpredictable.

My suggestion to someone young, if you have the temperament, is to stay for up to a decade and grow into a new, higher value role. Then learn that until you know it well enough to get a job elsewhere and move before you stagnate.
Ah best laid schemes of mice and men! cheers friend!
The limits on legality have much more to do with the ROMs. MAME being truly open source doesn't change that in the slightest.
Isn't most of this because they also want the same apps to run on Xbox, Phone, Hololens, etc?
His terms are at your own discretion, but he assumes a few % points. (i.e you decide what to offer.)

I guess I am not everyone, so some people can find value where I might not. So, take everything I say with a grain of salt.

You have a point, but I've seen many non-polished, no pitch deck pitches that as rough as they were you walked away with a sense that they are on to something. They have some epiphany or insight and are attempting to turn it into something real. These videos (i didn't watch all) come off as people that have no idea what they are doing or even thinking other than, "I am going to make an app and be a founder."

The problem this guy has is that most serious entrepreneuers won't partake in his process, and this leaves over the large portion of people who don't have access to capital for a very good reason. Not to say there aren't many serious people who struggle with connections and who this guys offering is a good fit for, but his content strategy of sharing all these videos, even if a few have nuggets of gold is going to annoy viewers much like a listicle does after you click through to page 2 or 3 of a slide.

It's time to kill off this mantra of content, content content. We don't need more content, we need content that can't be found anywhere else. (admittedly, this guys content cant be found elsewhere, so that is a plus unless the content continues to be boring and lacking insights.

If you can hire a content writer to run a few searches and write a well written article...THAT IS NOT CONTENT WORTHY OF ROYALTY.

The only content that is king is content that you have to work hard to produce that cannot be found by reading half a dozen articles you found with 2-3 google searches.
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It might be a thing in China, but I don't think it's the case in this particular incident. It's very unlikely that Chinese government officials would come up with a name for a government project with intentional ties to a Hollywood blockbuster, which was never officially released in China. The name is very likely derived from the said Chinese idiom. But the translator might take a little bit freedom here: instead of translating into "Sky Net" with two words, "Skynet" is so much more catchier for an English reading audience :)
That's kind of like Nigel from Spinal Tap's argument that his amp goes to 11.

I doubt that internally Lyft stores your score on a scale of 1 to 5. It's almost certainly derived from a bunch of other data, or at the very least stored as a floating point number. You can approximate whatever curve you like with either, and then just round.

I'd believe that Lyft doesn't currently have a power law curve, but the 1-5 system isn't what's stopping them.
>the desktop is dead

Perhaps I am already too old, but the idea of cloud application sucks and I hope the desktop never dies.

In my opinion the cloud should only be used to synchronize my data between my devices but it should never be the sole source of my programs. If I spend money on software then my main requirement is that I can install it locally and run it independent of the mother company.
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Are you seriously accusing me of not doing so? And, seriously, what does it have to do with my response?
For me, system-wide sounds aren't changed, but I can specify non-system sounds, so that I have my headset plugged in, am listening to music from speakers, if a Skype call rings it rings on the speakers, and I answer and take the call using the headset. I've not seen it change system settings.
I am not saying they are asking to open a subsidiary. I am referring to the fact that if you were a full time employee (instead of an independent company) then they now have a fulltime employee working in a different country which under US law would mean they are operating a foreign office in your country.
> choice paralysis

Yes. This is what I'm really getting at.

That, and for environment setup, some choices will genuinely send you down a rabbit hole of wrestling with with unfamiliar tools.
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No, they usually don't go to college at all.
I did yet another quick search for "wayland remoting" and there still does not appear to be a well-supported story, so for me it's not even worth trying yet. In the age of IaaS and containers, who has just one computer?
Probably not, there wasn't much study of the D&D moral panic in the 80's at the time either. Academic interest comes much later, not in time to help.

For example, Elizabeth Loftus [1] was pivotal in discrediting the "satanic abuse" panic of the 80's (which as other comments say was related to the D&D panic). But she did so a decade later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Loftus
It looks like Pyret was first written in Racket. I think it's optionally typed, though.

https://github.com/brownplt/pyret-lang-resugarer
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> What do you mean scraping?

Web scraping. It is the process of using software to automaticly extract information from websites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping