skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The workers and capital are just part of the equation. The more fundamental part is the consumers. The current trends will eventually kill that too. It is a loose loose situation.
I had a Psion Series 5 in my high school days -- also something I saved my shekels for. The thing was basically the closest you could get to a DOS computer in your pocket with an amazing UI and full on device programmability. The thing had a full keyboard (!) and word processor which I even used to type out whole essays on. The little computer was a work of engineering genius -- even ran for a month on one pair of AA batteries.

To this day, I still have yet to find anything that comes close to that same reliability, stability, or feature standard.
You could tax assets, e.g. land-value tax.
That's great, lots of big talk and little evidence.

Since I've used JS apps in mobile Chrome on a mediocre Android device and it didn't prove unusable, I have to wonder whether this article includes some hyperbole.

IE8 and Opera are better than desktop Chrome according to this article. The former still clings to attachEvent and cannot handle SVG without a hefty polyfill, and the latter is a fork of Chrome, so its higher rating seems nonsensical.

Of course, these statements wouldn't be quite so nonsensical if they were quantified.

Chrome has problems that need to be worked out. You would have to be a bit of a crazed Apple supporter to get the browsers on the table and rate them in this playground way, all but glossing over Apple's problems.
If you're looking to install Chromium OS on a laptop or netbook, check out Neverware's CloudReady: http://www.neverware.com/
>> "Instagram makes money because it shows ads. Are people going to buy Pepsi t-shirts for their Bitmoji and make Pepsi money? I don't see the path to money."

Why would Pepsi want you to pay to wear their ads on your character? They pay Bitmoji to create a shirt with 'Pepsi' on it, users wear it and send it to friends, and now they're sending your ad to eachother.
Also, trivially embedable into game engines and a modern(mostly well thought out) language make it an obvious choice.
Every random piece of software expects some kind of file in the root directory of a project - this is not acceptable and leads to messy project layouts.

Could developers of these tools please stop dictating where people have to put the "Blahfile" dsl config files and finally allow people to configure these kind of details.

Also I would like to propose a common standard directory "projectroot/config" for these kind of files, NOT the project root directory itself.

Thanks for your attention!
Have you read the article? Its a guide to ASDF 3, a CL build system, and features that help with scripting. There's nothing "no code consultant" about it. Its not even a philosophy-methodology piece.

The above comes across as outright dismissive.
A fad by definition is short lived. Instagram has been around 5.5 years. I would not call that short lived.
The Edison's a closer comparison in terms of target market. If you have source, porting to ARM isn't hard enough to make Intel boards serious competitors in this space. If you don't have source, you're more likely to need to use "Windows IoT" or whatever awful thing they're trying, rather than Linux.
A Test Case for Internet Governance
Be sure to see http://re-bol.com/rebol_quick_start.html and http://re-bol.com/short_rebol_examples.r . The first Red versions of these document are available at http://redprogramming.com
I just wanted to day thank you for posting this! I had no idea.

Can you plug them into a wall socket or do you need electrified rails?
Would be fun to have a tracker of how many clicked the link from HN as well
Why would selling houses en masse be necessary condition to call the owners wealthy? The mere ownership makes them wealthy, not their selling activities.
I, very recently, began writing a suite of tests to go along-side a complex mobile app. During a stand-up meeting I (somewhat) proudly announced that for a particularly onerous piece of business logic, I had 100% coverage with tests that run in less than a second.

The project manager in the room was worried about the time it was going to take. All the developers in the room piped up to say "oh, no, this actually saves time"

The next day, I found myself in a private meeting room with the project manager and my line manager.

Both were trying to tell me that unit tests are not part of the scope of the project, not were they approved and, that I was to stop writing them.

Manual QA was the way to go at the end of the project.

Yesterday, I was in the office from 10am to 2am on a national holiday addressing issues arising from QA.

It was unproductive to spend the day wondering how many of those defects I'd have been able to catch months ago if I'd been writing tests all along.

When you're the only one on your team who respects the tests, the world feels like a very bleak place.
"Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about."

Atwood jumped the shark a very long time ago; there was a time when he knew what he was talking about, but his role morphed from being a programmer who blogged about it to being a blogger who talks about programming, with predictable results.
See http://re-bol.com/rebol_quick_start.html and http://re-bol.com/short_rebol_examples.r first, then http://business-programming.com . The beginnings of the same docs for Red are at http://redprogramming.com/
It also has no audio/video output, no ethernet and no SD card.
Does this sit on top of existing AirBnB profiles? I'd love to take on students (for coding) or stay with a teacher (for language learning) with existing airbnb profiles, and backed by the airbnb guarantees.
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Let's say you could double the wealth of everybody in the country in 20 years, but the top 1% (or 0.1% or choose your most hated percentile) would have their wealth in crease 10x. I don't really see wealth accretion as a problem.

If that incredibly wealthy person goes and spends his money ostentatiously -- basically why we generally hate the rich in the first place because of the social stratification caused by them have bigger and better things -- then a sales tax with luxury tax or high profile items would quickly bring them back into the category of those most taxed.

If that incredibly wealth person didn't spend a lot of money and lived well below his means, then why do we care? He is basically producing for free for the rest of use to consume. If he invests his money or just puts it in a bank account, he is helping to increase capital formation and drive society forward. Even if he just burns his money or buries it, he is basically giving everybody else in the world more purchasing power -- and in this case he literally is working for free. I never understood this who argument about the rich sitting on their money: it means they are working without consuming and that means they really aren't being paid.

Income taxes are okay to an extent too. But they are just so much more difficult to get right. Defining income is difficult, and some people have very volatile income streams earning $200k one year and $50k the next. Should they really be taxes more (and a great deal more) than the guy who make $125 in two years? A sales tax or VAT is just easier from an implementation point of view. And there is nothing stopping you from excluding items like food and medical bills and nothing stopping luxury taxes either.
Consider if I was an expert in databases. Why would the appearance of a site dedicated to databases matter? It'd be completely unrelated to the topic I'd be sharing information on, and time I could spend improving the site could be time I spend improving my knowledge even further.

As for this Lisp scripting site, for all I care the author could've shared the information via a Pastebin site and I would've got the same value out of it.
Have you talked to any Alzheimers groups or associations? They probably have discussed this problem.
Can I ask what your scripts do different to one of the existing auto-renewal systems (including their own tool)?
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I'd assume he takes issue with Canonical's practices, like the Amazon search tie-in, etc.
People have expanded the definitions to mean all sorts of bullshit to fit their agenda.
You're expecting us to take your definitions at face value, that's laughable.
Instead, add it to your package.json yourself with the exact specific version you want

Unfortunately, the same problem then arises for your dependencies. If any of them don't specify exact versions, you are still vulnerable to getting uncontrolled changes.

This is why things like npm shrinkwrap exist, but it's still crazy that NPM's default behaviour is the uncontrolled case.
Why are modules allowed to be unpublished?
I hope he doesn't look at HN HTML code.
That's exactly my point.
That is still a tax on capital and like to cause a lot of social issues. Property taxes tend to drive people out of their homes and out of business too easily. Plus then you taxing inflationary effects probably more than anything else.

Real estate for example is very inflation sensitive and your tax bill would be all over the place if you taxed the capital gain on that. Then what do you do when the land falls in value? Do you really think the government would give a rebate? And then when it rises again, hopefully they wouldn't tax it again (the basis for the last taxation should have been raised), but I wouldn't put it past legislators grabbing for money by saying you can only back back 5 years or something to determine the tax basis.
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Largely I agree with this article, except the point that most developers think there is "a constant feeling that things that other people make are better than" their own. One of the most common traps is Not-Invented-Here-Syndrome, and it is one that many a programmer falls into, whether it be through arrogance or ignorance (both of which I have been guilty of). I don't know how prevalent it is in the industry, but for amateurs and hobbyists, it can be a real issue.
Very cool to see this (I worked on Hero Academy). When you say the randomness was removed, does that mean player's hands were a specific fixed shuffle or something else?

How does it fair against good human players? Would it do much worse with randomness added back?
We heard the same things about Obama 7 years ago.

Sanders is still part of the Democratic party and, like Obama, there's only so much he can stray from general party policies. Remember, this is the party that favors Hillary as a presidential candidate, a known liar, anti-encryption, for-surveillance hypocrite.
It actually would be better if the 1% earned even more. They are the only group that really has any motivation to fix the environment.

The rest of us spend and try to claw our way ahead. How many of you are worried about CO2 production? Yet I very much doubt you have done much at all to fix the problem, besides some symbolic gesture like buying a fuel efficient car.

The 1% could fix it. And if they became rich enough, they will. If you had so much money you had everything you wanted in the current environment, the only way to improve your life further and those of your descendents would be to improve the environment itself.
I agree most of the tests one writes before integration only capture the most trivial stuff that seldom breaks. Now I write tests after a bug or some weird condition arise as not to fall in that trap twice. Capturing bugs as test before solving them also ensure the fix is proper and doesn't regress other stuff. The real issue is to make sure if anything happens, tests can replicate that
"projectroot/config" it's too common and already used in different ways that will produce conflicts. If something is established it should be done in a proper way through a spec like semver was established.
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Then surely, so is this http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
I could have been clearer. I did not mean to suggest that everyone in the 1% cheat, but merely stating that whatever natural/inate advantages that the top 1% possess can be (and frequently is) enhanced using less than legal/ethical means - whether it's sports, business, or wealth. Society needs to address this unfair advantage (analogous to doping).

This is not a new idea, the penultimate paragraph addresses this directly by quoting Smith:
Smith warned against local trade associations which were inevitably conspiring “against the public…to raise prices,” and “restraining the competition in some employments to a smaller number than would otherwise…occasion a very important inequality” between occupations.
For minimal introduction to Red -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_(programming_language)

Coming up next -> https://trello.com/c/11bblhBn/133-0-6-1-android-gui-support

Come chat @ https://gitter.im/red/red
I didn't realize GPU were this powerful "12 NVIDIA GPUs could deliver the deep-learning performance of 2,000 CPUs."

And the drop from $8Billion per Gigaflop to $0.08 per Gigaflop.... :D
The main problem is the "^" default.

This is true.

A secondary problem is the culture of having so many dependencies, which has been much discussed this past week. Even if you lock everything to a static version for consistency, how many people really know which packages from which sources they are relying on to build their system today? Presumably you trust your direct dependencies, and they in turn trust theirs, and so on, but all it takes is one package five levels deep in the tree where the developer was in a rush and npm install'd something vulnerable or malicious to compromise the entire tree.
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> > ● pre-install/post-install scripts should require user to accept or refuse.
>
> Presumably this would be unnecessary with 2FA for each publish operation.

2FA still doesn't mean you can trust the install script. Not running scripts automatically gives a chance to audit before they run.

And even with 2FA a worm could spread: It could manipulate the local npm installation so whenever you want to upload a package it will modify it during the publishing process giving you a 2nd-factor-request right when you expect it.

The only way to prevent that I can come up quickly is to over a chance to verify the package between signing (which npm doesn't support) and publishing.
The assumption there is that a regressive tax policy "lifts all ships." Piketty (and plenty others) have demonstrated that this does not happen.
you could avoid conflicts by not naming your project files "Dockerfile" or "Jenkinsfile" or "travis.yml"...
As far as i know only dev-kits are out and the Hololens is not consumer ready. The screen size is something they need to fix before then, i totally agree, but that problem is of a "beta hardware" type of problem and something time can easily solve - I believe.
Not bad. You have basically broken value down into 3 components. Ultimately it does not matter too much provided the total value offered is significant. Of course finding a niche with a high total value that is not already being occupied is hard.
Prepare to spend half time writing test or double time fixing bugs - the mythical man month
Tax land use and tax raw material use. (i.e. aluminum in a can). Eliminate just about all other taxes.

Don't tax "capital" in the form of money, certainly don't tax labor.

Why punish productive effort? Punish use of resources. This will make people strive for efficiency and go a long ways towards eliminating problems like pollution, encourage recycling etc.
Npmsafe: use npm safety
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> Right, you can legally redistribute the software, but can you ethically do so?

Yes, you can. If you're sharing your code with the world, that entails certain responsibilities. You're telling people that they can depend on your code, and you should not be allowed to violate that. Open Source isn't just about getting attaboys for being such a cool dude—it's about working together to build a library of code. If you don't want to be part of that, if you don't want to take under consideration any of the people who will be using the code you're sharing—then don't do it. Just don't release your code. Find something else to do with your time.
Red/Rebol is basically LISP without parentheses (highly dynamic and homoiconic). Syntax is weird but easy to grasp. Red/Rebol is basically a All-in-One Package as a tiny executable contains a lots of useful functions for which you would require the use of big, heavy libraries in C/C++.

Red/Rebol allows for very clean (subjective term!), short and concise code, which allows for easy long term maintenance and also leads to more work done in less amount of time.

The syntax is a big deviation than the imperative C-Style languages people are used to. But if you ask me, then well, it is for the good.
Do people do this? It sounds unmanageable, especially if you publish packages depending on other packages.
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Ubuntu 1604 lts is on the road. I guess we'd better prepare for it.
I had an Acer C720 for one year in 2014-2015, and ran elementaryOS on it. It was my primary dev machine.

Resources were pretty limited (dual core Celeron, 2Gb RAM, 32Gb SSD) but it ran fine for most of the things (like normal browsing, js and Python development).

Things you CAN'T do on it:

- Java. Just don't even think about it.
- the former point implies all the Java IDEs (Eclipse, Intellij)
- Android, because of disk space and everything else.
- Games.

Why I loved it:

- really small and light
- AMAZING battery life
- having so little disk space made me pay attention to my usage of it, make backups, and move on a server things I didn't really need.

However I upgraded to a Dell XPS 13 since then, life is much much better now :)
Depending on the chromebook, upgrading to a bigger ssd is pretty inexpensive.

I have a acer c720 with arch installed alongside chromeos on a $50 128GB ssd: http://www.amazon.com/MyDigitalSSD-Super-Cache-Solid-State/d...

All together I spent $150 for a surprisingly performant on the go machine. The battery life is pretty great as well.
Back in 2012 when I was sure I wanted to master some dialect of Lisp but wasn't sure which one yet, I read about 80% of Practical Common Lisp before I noped the heck out of there. The whole reason I was drawn to Lisp was for its semantic and syntactic purity, simplicity, and consistency, and out of the three popular Lisps at the time, CL felt like it had these the least. Ultimately I ended up going with Clojure after a year of flirting with various Schemes.
I believe the terms and conditions for the Alexa SDK state you can't activate the Alexa Voice Service via voice, your user has to purposefully interact with something like a button to use it.

EDIT: I'm wondering if this is a legal thing, i.e. they don't want any tom, dick or harry creating "always listening" devices associated with their brand, or they just want to differentiate their Echo product and not have competitors
> "That is still a tax on capital"

What's your definition of capital?

"and like to cause a lot of social issues."

Which parts of this article on land-value tax do you disagree with?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
They are actually pretty close to the FoV limit that the display technology they are using can provide. Magic Leap is going to have the same problem unless they have found a new technology since their original hints. Also long term use will probably burn your retinas out, they are likely running those lasers at the barely safe limits for brief exposure.
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Yes that's true, the 0.1% percent is phenomenally richer by definition a bigger contributor to inequality, and for the most part enriches itself entirely differently. That said, just as inequality is deemed unfair (I understand that's not the reason to oppose it), protectionism of these "guilded" industries can be deemed unfair in its own right. More practically, the inflation of doctor's compensation could inflate healthcare costs to the the point of contributing to inequality more as a leech on the poor than boon to the rich.

tl;dr, the things this article points out are definitely bad, if only for the immediate justifications given rather than the article's thesis.
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I'm usually not a fan of Brookings articles. They are okay, but this one is actually pretty good. In the end the author calls for a couple things.

His goal is to increase competition in ALL aspects of the economy, not just the low end, and he rightfully points out some of the paternalism of current laws have helped create this economic gap.

1- Open up all investment opportunities for everybody. Get rid of the wealth and income requirements to invest in certain vehicles. The one he points to is hedge funds where by law you need to be an accredited investor: $200k income in last two years and expect the same this year ($300k if married) and a net wealth (excluding your home) of at least $1mm. This law was made because the government literally thinks that poor people are too stupid to invest and gauge risk.

2- Slim down the need for professional associations. While many like to decry the necessity for a hair braiding license and see the stupidity in that, fewer are willing to see the same issues with, for example, the onerous and unnecessary qualification needed to be a nurse or home care provider. These associations create artificial barriers to entry that artificially boost wages.

These are the true rent seekers. Oddly enough, a couple of the groups he decides to call out, such as the financial services industry are the most egalitarian. Anybody can be a trader, even high school and college drops outs. My industry has no cap on the number of traders that work on the floor. We have no special club. Sure you need to get your Series exams if you work for a broker/dealer, and that can be a pain, but that the government making you do it. Most non B/D firms encourage you not to take the exams if you don't need to.

For all the crap people give working in finance, it really is based a lot of hard work and skill.
1. Doesn't work either for me.

2. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LWgWzFI...
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How much is en masse? There are enough people relocating to my town buying homes with cash, from the sale of their much more expensive homes, that it makes buying a home for the current residents very difficult.

I'd say they were more wealthy for their property value and converted that value into liquid wealth by moving locations.
> we generally hate the rich in the first place because of the social stratification caused by them have bigger and better things

The rich aren't hated because they drive nicer cars, they are hated because it's their greed that causes a lot of suffering.

> it means they are working without consuming and that means they really aren't being paid

Our economy relies on consuming. And even if they never consume their assets, they do consume the interest it generates. Sometimes for generations.
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I think sin taxes are marginal, ultimately. I have nothing against them, but I don't think they change the game in fundamental ways.
I love this. The idea of introducing the model of a travelling journeyman to programming really excites me.