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This usually applies to commodity work, and there's a long history of Taylorism.

It makes a lot less sense in knowledge work, where the problems are not standardized and often solutions are unknown. In these cases, the uniformity desired through these surveillance measures makes no sense. It's fundamentally not the same as a McDonald's burger, no matter how much management wishes so.

Worse still, even if you did want homogeneity of software design output, the best way to get it is to give workers conditions in which the environment supports their productivity. Taylorized fast-food kitchens support certain types of productivity and are a rational response to that business need. But it's more of a cargo cult superficiality to try to impose the same idea on a knowledge domain where quiet and privacy are fundamental to the product.

On the other hand, if instead of productivity the employer cares more about having a visually fancy-looking space, as a means for status signaling, or cares about having a good staff on-paper to heighten an acquihire valuation, then open-plan makes more sense. It's bad for the employees though, because of course the employer can't admit to hiring people just for status, show, or credential, so they have to at least feign concern over productivity, thus putting knowledge workers in the bind of having to be productive in a fundamentally anti-productive setting.
What publication is this affiliated with (or: who is paying for this)? "The Atavist" seems like a platform for self-published journalism?

The writing style is weird; this looks more like someone's smash job. Why does www.atavist.com go to a sales page? And where's the nutgraf?
Microsoft needs to kill the Lumia phone for Windows Mobile to survive
There's also gratipay, which doesn't take a cut. Still the credit card's cut, but gratipay offers bitcoin payments, which, if they implement it right, would eliminate the middleman (unless you count miners as middlemen) when the financee cashes out using bitcoin. If they implemented it wrong, then coinbase is the middleman.
Well I know Apple has that turnaround potential - up to 16 days I think is the wording - but I've had very good success with 24-48 hour turnaround time on most of my material. I'd have to double check, but your point is a good one. Spotify, Amazon, Tidal, Google, YouTube all have the content up within 24 hours, and some even quicker it seems. If the lag is a bit of an inconvenience I understand, but I find the results worthwhile in my use case.

If SoundCloud does essentially 'legitimize' the remix and DJ set market and corners it, with revenue, I think the music industry will be pretty happy with that outcome. As a customer/content creator I do like competition, even if it means managing more outlets.
"Arch Villain or Arch Agent?"

http://journal-neo.org/2015/06/12/paul-calder-le-roux-arch-v...
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Have you tried doing code reviews? If a refactoring sucks you should be able to catch before it goes into master(or however your main branch is called), and educate the programmer. Teaching our coworkers to write better code is part of our jobs.
Good insight into the engineering that went into this. Functionally, is this "MaxMind-GeoIP-as-a-service"?
Any other data sources?

http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/
The crux of ownership is having the right to determine who has access to something and under what conditions.

You own your body and can use force to prevent someone from having sex with you against your will. I wouldn't say that you're going around not having sex with random strangers at gunpoint.

We as humans need to decide what sits best with our own consciences.

I can agree with that. It's just that our consciences are different.

I feel a visceral sense of injustice at the gross inequality of today's world

It's not just today's world. There has always been inequality and injustice. It used to be far worse. You won't be thrown into debtors prison for not being able to repay the usurious loan you had no choice in accepting to feed your starving children. You won't be executed for illegally killing a deer to feed your family. You won't be worked to death on a chain gang for stealing a loaf of bread.
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I can confirm. My gran still has (she's not using it) her original TV bought around the time. From the stories my parents tell the SABC (think BBC) initialy broadcast a test signal and the early adopters would crowd around their TVs just to watch that.
There's a piece missing from this argument: opioids were inappropriately prescribed to start with in many cases.

Think of all those folks with back pain. Back pain is complex and difficult to treat, but huge components come from 1) the stupid chairs we sit in 2) at our stupid jobs that encourage hours of sitting 3) in our cities that discourage biking or walking to work, all in the context of 4) a food system that gives us crap to eat that makes us mildly addicted to sugar and salt and makes us unhealthy.

So the real cure for back pain for a lot of people is to go back 20 years in time, make a commitment to taking care of their physical selves, aligning their eating, transportation, work, and recreation with health. The second-best cure is physical therapy. Physical therapy right now! But that costs money and time and no one believes it works (it does!!!) so the pain med is seen as the proximate best answer.

Brings us back to the original original post, actually.
There's a pretty big difference between speculating about what information to look for and actually tracking it down and publicizing it.
When do you think Le Roux first knew that you where working on this story?
> France (... is) in or going to be in population decline.

French INSEE (national statistical institute) doesn't seem to predict any decline here (although it reports a decrease in the rate of growth, and ageing):

http://www.insee.fr/en/themes/document.asp?ref_id=projpop055...

> If recent demographic trends continue, France’s population will reach 70 million by 1 January 2050, 9.3 million more than in 2005.

I'm curious to know what are your sources?
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> in which the supreme power is vested in the people

We don't have that. We get to pick from a closed set of possible representatives and they aren't bound to follow our desires. (Or even check...)

It's not the indirection of the representative, it's that they aren't required to even try to represent. Your vote in the USA essentially elects a mini-tyrant who theoretically wants to be elected again so much that they'll pander to you in exchange for that but only so far as they can use you. As soon as they'll get enough money by selling you out to compensate for your lost vote, they will.

And worse, this is how it's supposed to work.
Ask HN: Statistics for programmers?
I am trying to learn more about the statistics which is needed in day-to-day programming jobs like distribution, percentiles, window rates, deltas, etc. I never paid much attention to math and stats classes in college but I feel that was a mistake. :) Knowing all this seems especially useful when studying how the new service you deployed is behaving by monitoring a bunch of key metrics and deriving numbers (distributions, etc.) on top of them.

Does anyone have good suggestions of comprehensive resources (books, online tutorials, etc.) to learn more about statistics specifically useful in programming?
I start many of my letters from the bottom, and everyone tells me I write opposite-handed. This recognizer definitely had problems with the way I would naturally write a lot of the letters...
I've had similar thoughts and I'm very curious about the HN community's thoughts on this. Something definitely needs to be done to make OSS more sustainable and equitable. Right now it's very hard to build a business without locking everything down, and so open software is the province of only those with the disposable time and/or income to dedicate to it.

I was very heartened to see the same observation being made on this site:

"Fair Source has the power to promote diversity within the developer community. To date, contributing to open source has been an expensive proposition for developers. You have to have a stable income and a lot of extra time to work on side projects for free, which means talented developers from underprivileged backgrounds often aren’t able to contribute. Fair Source allows developers to monetize their side projects, which means more people can afford to join the ranks of developers who pursue these initiatives."

That's a bit different from how I would frame it, but basically the same idea.
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Japan's government estimates there are 500,000 adult hikkikomori in the country who have not left their homes in the last 6 months. Far more people who meet more lax definitions of hikkikomori. I see the Kakuhido (translates roughly as the Revolutionary Alliance of Men that Women Find Unattractive) as a group possibly similar to Christians circa 40. Once it becomes the Revolutionary Alliance of People Governments Find Unattractive the recruitment opportunities are pretty obvious, right?
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The thing that differentiate Soundcloud from all the competitors you are mentioning is the social network that it's build on. Hence the size of the catalog that is by far (3.5x) bigger.

In other words, if you want to find something completely exclusive and never heard before, Soundcloud is the place to go. If that content is good quality or not, is another topic :)
If copying the APIs is only valuable for compatibility, why did Google do it? Android isn't compatible with any Java apps.
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Nothing in that link says pharmaceutical research is 60-70% public money.
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Savings are passed on to consumers, in part. Airline fares are near all time lows.
Even if you constrain the type to be something you know is a class, it won't work. [1]

The typical workaround in Java is to either pass around .class instances, or to do tricks with anonymous subclasses to create a type token. [2]

[1]: https://ideone.com/th18eh
[2]: http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/g...
And yet the bona fide purpose of economic competition is to always be lowering prices through optimization, the technology sector being the strongest (most meta) example of this. If the deflation doom sayers were as prescient as they purport, we'd all still be using 386s waiting for Intel to announce they've created the fastest chip they will ever be able to.

In fact, the system is bistable. Inflation has the same self-reinforcing spiral, and we're living it! The moneyprinters' metric (CPI) has become the goal unto itself - anything technological keeps getting ever-cheaper, so anything that can be financialized (the quickest feedback path where printed money returns to the CPI) shoots through the roof.
Wouldn't want a novelist to strictly follow that list, but I wouldn't mind a technical writer doing so.
> Hoarding causes general deflation; to capital, as well as wages.

Eventually causes general deflation. The whole problem with deflation is that it isn't evenly distributed. If the price of everything whatsoever increased or decreased by the same percentage at the same time then there would be no trouble.

The problem is the period of time between when people start being paid less and when things start to cost less. Or between when things start to cost more and when people start to be paid more. And during that period of time, companies hoard yet more cash which perpetuates the cycle.
The question isn't are profits too high...but rather, where do profits come from?
Fair counter and I was being a bit more tongue in cheek, sorry about that if it came off as sort of ignorant. I agree these deals are massive to construct, and the back-end has to be really interesting from a tech / rights standpoint. It has been, without a doubt, one of the biggest riddles for the instiutional players (re: rights & revenue). Again, sort of trying to be joking about the subject, but I bet it's a lot easier for SoundCloud to get 100% cooperation with major labels/societies by catering exclusively to them, and basically ignoring any potential compensation for the independent content creators (however minor it might be) - yeah I'm kind of slighting Merlin for only capturing its market, because I think there's probably a single digit percentage of content creators unaffiliated...not much, I know...

It just kind of feels bitter, like SoundCloud built their honest business on original content (not mashups), and then really is pivoting to the major monied players and hand-waving off the rest. If it's true I can understand it business wise, I can. I just...well, don't particularly like it on a personal level.
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No mention of medians. So it could as well be just one guy saving a lot of money.
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> That American made $24 billion last year without passing on anything to consumers shows that that is wrong. Pricing websites are under full control of the airlines at this point.

You misread the article. That actual quote:

> The profit bit of the picture, though, has changed a lot. Last year America’s airlines made $24 billion—more than Alphabet, the parent company of Google.

Which is a ridiculous comparison. They're seriously comparing an entire industry to one company? If anything, the complaint should be that Alphabet makes too much money.
> but the first argument becomes `nil`

s/first/last/, the arguments will be shifted to the right. But yes, it can be annoying.
Yeah, lots of custom data. See https://ipinfo.io/data for an overview
> And ultimately the protagonist selfishly endangers his entire crew because he refuses to accept his physical limitations.

I think we watched different movies. Sure the scene on the treadmills showed that he could barely keep up, but he still kept up. To say that he "selfishly endanger[ed]" his crewmates is a bit hyperbolic.
It depends on the method. I don't think I've ever met someone who likes condoms, and IUTs can be painful if something happens (personal experience). The only method I can think of would be birth control medication, which I know a lot of women use for hormone regulation. However, that's not fail safe. Some of my family member got pregnant while "on the pill".
The question isn't 'are profits too high?' But rather 'where do profits come from?'
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This link might be useful for answering your question: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v514/n7522/abs/nature13...
Let's suppose you were an expert in optical design for space systems -- lenses, mirrors, coolers, detectors, electronics, thermal design -- and worked at NASA on a space telescope.

When that space telescope (say it was Hubble or Spitzer) was launched, you would be looking for another project. That's a small world. Maybe you would talk to a friend who works for intelligence agencies and find out what they are looking for.

And the reverse happens too. If you've explored the design space for an intelligence agency, you would be well-positioned to re-use that knowledge for a space telescope. You mention the classification barrier, but the basic physics drivers will be more apparent the second time around.

Case in point: Larry James (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/about/bio_james.php), who is the Deputy Director for JPL, but who used to be Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance at the Pentagon, and who before that was a Shuttle payload specialist. He's a technical executive, but there are pure technical examples as well.

OK, and a second example, of a segmented mirror demonstrator: http://www.nps.edu/About/News/NPS-New-Home-for-Giant-Segment... ("NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, named for the former NASA administrator and scheduled for launch in 2014 [erp!], will deploy the next generation of SMT technology on a mission to image light from the earliest galaxies in the universe.")
> I did use the word redemption, but in a completely different context than you.

I didn't use the word in any context except quoting you. Anyway, it seems like the problem here is that you are using words according to the Humpty Dumpty principle: they mean whatever you want them to mean. I can't follow your shifting meanings, so I'll just bow out here.
How does one deal with complex if-else statements in a concatenative language?
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Fascinating story!

The funny thing is, if someone wrote a novel with this plot, I would probably dismiss it as too far-fetched. Sometimes truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
Sometimes traits are related, or negative traits are only manifest in a recessive manner. In such a way positive traits can be selected for, which have a consequence of a negative trait being present in a population.

The example frequently citied in this area is sickle cell anaemia, which can be inadvertently selected for in areas where Malaria is common. Having one 'bad' gene protects the person from Malaria, having two means that one has sickle cell anaemia.

This means that people with a single gene are more likely to survive, and hence pass on their gene, but this sometimes manifests as someone with sickle cell anaemia. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease#Epidemiolo...
Figure 1D is said to show "Detection of Cas9 protein by Western blot analysis", so what does "bp" stand for in that figure (above the ladder)? Usually it stands for base pair but that doesn't make sense when looking at protein.
I was the lead engineer on this project--thoughts and feedback welcome :D
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While I don't agree with the abstract, I have to disagree with you as well. Men who have had a vasectomy can still have sperm removed for use in an artificial insemination process. In the vast majority of cases sex does not change at all for them after the vasectomy (except for taking the 6 weeks off immediately after the surgery)

Edit for circlefavshape's comment:
You are right, I got numbers confused. It is suggested to use alternate forms of birth control for 2-3 months after the surgery to verify the success.
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Related: http://www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-org-charts-2011-6
I believe this to be one of the primary causes of stagnation of innovation by larger companies. The bottom line on the balance sheet _now_ is more important than long-term viability.

It's a bit depressing, honestly. A myopic focus on the self's now without regard for the future of what could be.
Would you rather third world countries have no medicine than medicine that doesn't check all the FDA's (mostly pointless) little boxes?

And yes, medical equipment in the US is absurdly overpriced due to extreme overregulation.
I'm surprised to see the amount of negative comments. Widespread adoption of this kind of technology will likely to be one of the best things to ever happen to the human race.

The author might be off on timeline but I'm pretty sure this will become common practice before very long. Some people won't like it, some people will resist, sure. It won't matter. Eventually they will be like the anti vax crowd. And everyone else will say "look what you are doing to your kids!".... there ought to be a law! And then there probably will be a law. And it will be I'm pretty sure, in the end, a huge gain for the human race.
> informed consent

Our servants have been shown to be lying to us, and have continued lying to congress when called to task.

That's directly subverting our democracy. Treason.
Some cool stuff combined with very scary stuff, like eugenics and large scale food chain modifications with unpredictable effects (already being planned with mosquitos).
Libraries, though.
Does this disclosure requirement apply when the work is contracted to a third party? I have a hard time believing security companies would ever work for the government if doing so required them disclosing the vulnerabilities they use to the manufacturer. If the disclosure is not required of third parties then all such a policy does is incentivizes government agencies to ostensibly farm out such work to compliant security firms. This is how we end up with private firms as extensions of government a la Blackwater. Seems ill advised.
Thanks for the tip. I used rdio, currently spotify, and pandora. My method in finding songs was going to Pandora and adding songs I loved from their to spotify. Pandora seems to be great at finding similar sounding songs to what I request.

The whole finding people to follow is what is the problem for me. It takes time finding accounts to follow. Friends dont have similar taste in music. Apple has the right idea in picking songs/artist you like before you get to start the service so you get something you like in your feed.

someone make an app to connect users to awesome playlists based on songs/genre/and more
Both Bootstrap and Foundation support using their styles with SASS mixins, so you can create your own semantic classes, rather than slapping their classes on your markup.

See an example here: http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/layout/grid/#sass-mixins
No riceful window manager is complete without some good old anime. Looks great though. Sircmpwn seems to pump out some quality code all the time.
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also not trying to be starky... but if it's your workload that is burning you out, adding the stress and 'workload' of planning this might be adding more fuel to the fire. Why the need to build more workload into your already overloaded workload? I think AznHisoka is on the right track.
>This is also the reason too low inflation in the eurozone for example, is so destructive.

There is no evidence whatsoever that "too low inflation in the eurozone is so destructive". You're mistaking dogma with fact.
If there is any interest I can write more of a detailed technical explanation in a future Blog post. Let me know if you have any questions.
I did not claim anything about hate crimes. Only that a black female will get treated much differently than a white male in a situation like this given the art defense. Art should be consumed independently of its creator imo.
Should be one of the laws of "economic thermodynamics" Money that isn't moving doesn't exist.
The only thing better than throwing more engineers at an already-late solution is hiring a mass swarm of engineers and turning them loose on a only-semi-bounded new problem.