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"Funny how everyone sees people who make money as undeserving purely based on how much they make yet have no clue what it may have taken to get there and can't be bothered to ask."

Funnier than that is how most people assume that the capitalist earned his/her wealth and thus deserves to keep it, when in actuality wealth is accrued largely through chance rather than skill. Should one be allowed to keep all winnings in a game that are due to chance? Or should one be limited to that portion of the winnings due to one's skill plus a bit of the portion due to chance (and let government take the remainder)?

"Wealth condensation in a simple model of economy
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Marc Mezard":

http://lptms.u-psud.fr/membres/mezard/Pdf/00_BM_PA.pdf

As jivardo_nucci said once on this very forum:

* The simulation studies of Bouchaud & Mezard show that, regardless of initial conditions, wealth distribution ends up a Pareto distribution with a small percentage taking almost all of the goods. The take-away of Bouchaud & Mezard's studies: the very rich aren't rich because they earned it (i.e., because they are skillful or knowledgeable), they are rich mostly because they are lucky.

All my life I've assumed that, when people had a going concern or were rich, that they _earned_ their wealth. But Bouchaud & Mezard says they're, for the most part, simply very lucky.

If luck, rather than skill, is the source of one's wealth, then has one "earned" that wealth? How can one lay exclusive claim to something given by chance? I would contend that no such claim can be made.

In particular, I would contend that income gained through luck is fair game for government acquisition through taxation, and if it is possible to distinguish that portion of wealth due to skill from that due to luck (and such appears possible), then the "lucky" portion is open game for acquisition to be spent or redistributed as decided by the powers-that-be.

Wealth Condensation: Why the Rich Get Richer (and the poor poorer): http://iwillknow.jesaurai.net/?p=387 [old broken link]

The Mathematics of Inequality: https://www.austms.org.au/Jobs/Library4.html

FWIW Bouchaud & Mezard are not the only researchers whose models say this:

Chance helps the rich get richer, simulation study finds: http://www.world-science.net/othernews/110722_chance.htm
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It's unfortunate that SSDs and the disappearance of HDD activity indicator lights has made it harder to notice things like this. Massive filesystem activity 10 years ago would be immediately recognisable from all the drive noise, the slowdown, and a solid indicator light. Now it's maybe a barely perceptible slowdown.
This is airbus's attempt to come up with hype to fight the real advantages of the 787, 350 and CRFP - most notably greater pressure and higher humidity. I'm in a much better state coming off a 787 in economy plus then a 380 in business (assuming that I don't sleep on both). Boeing introduced the lights on their sky interior a few years ago, and it didn't really make a difference.
Yeah, but if advertisers pay Brave knowing Brave pays viewers, then the advertisers know they are paying users at the end of the day.
Individual reefs probably would not have survived. The polyps would have taken root elsewhere (probably closer to the equator in ice ages). The organisms have evolved over millions of years and are clearly hardy to drastic climate change. The issue is that the reefs themselves will certainly die and big, new ones won't form for thousands of years. So from our point of view, they're "extinct".
As an avid BMX rider during the mid 90's to early 2000's, Mirra was one of only a few greats, along with Lavin and Nyquist, I looked up to. This saddens me greatly, but also helps me understand a lot of my own inner turmoil growing out of my own x-games centric life. From aggressive inline skating everyday in Texas, hitting jumps in the woods of Nor-Cal on my BMX, to bombing the streets of San Francisco on a skateboard, I now better understand the feeling of thrill separation as an older, risk-averse, adult; thanks to some of the insights in this article.
I used to be in this camp, too, but beware of DVT if you knock yourself out cold in a cramped position for hours.
How are users supposed to know whether they can trust a desktop app with near-unlimited access to their computer? Generally they don't, but blindly install it anyway because it seems to do something they need.
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If only it were that simple. Consider the end goal: to write a program that causes your monitor to invoke a certain visual experience in the viewer. It's not simply "To show blue" or "To show a certain shade of purple." Those are all meaningless terms without context. Their results are entirely relative, right? If you put some purple next to some blue, whether or not it looks good depends on the background color (called the "surround").

The trouble is, "whether or not it looks good" is also determined by your environment. Some people have crappy monitors, some people have perfect monitors, sometimes it's nighttime, sometimes your room is being lit by the early morning sun. When you look at a screen, all of these factors combine, and leaves you with the impression that something looks good or looks bad.

It gets worse. When you look at a monitor, what's behind your monitor is usually the most important thing. I.e. is the wall in front of you white, or green? Is it dark, or lit by the sun? That's going to affect how you see what's on the monitor. What's behind you is irrelevant, because you can't see it! It doesn't matter at all if the wall behind you is white or black, except insofar as it affects the colors of the wall in front of you. So not only do you need to account for all of the factors outlined above, but the damn thing needs to be aimed properly. I'm pretty sure that the right answer will look something like a sensor that mounts to the back of a laptop screen. But it also needs a sensor pointed at your face, and another sensor pointed straight at your monitor. Only at that point do you begin to have enough information to start writing a program that can make correct decisions.

Fiendishly difficult, no? Quite fun in any case.
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What I don't understand is how can any malware get installed on a server storing critical hospital data? And why is it running Windows? Do hospitals store their data on workstations used by employees?
I'd like a warning. Or software to track the number of changes to a file in a given period. My mp3 and jpegs will rarely change so they could be locked in some way. There are a number of approaches which could be taken. The file system/os should provide the user with enough functionality to defeat the attacker.
In addition to shifting my schedule and getting sun in the destination, I've found melatonin to be extremely helpful in reducing jet lag. When flying to Asia, I start taking 5mg the evening before I fly and try to go to bed early. In both Europe and Asia I take it for the first few nights.
Sadly, many (thought not all) corporate executives see their sole responsibility as maximizing shareholder value. Coordinated government action would likely be more effective than relying on the goodness of people's hearts. The problem is that those who behave responsibly handicap their own financial performance; it's hard to ask people to voluntarily act against their own economic interests.
Well you can always peel it off the tips of your pencils.
Agreed. I recently took these as an intro into Redux. Really well done courses.
As good a time as any to switch my workstation to OpenBSD.
i am the original poster :p

and the 'sub' was misplaced, i actually asked instead of editing the original in case this was the reason i was called out so i could explain my typo

for clarification the original should simply read 'polynomial time'
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I think you're on target. The hardest thing here is getting this the incentives aligned here. Our incentives for the couple need to be need to be more focused on ease of use/process, less on being cheaper. We may steer that way in our messaging as we iterate.

On the vendor side, one thought is that we may need to consider being less of a market place and more of a tool that allows couples to quickly iterate and pay for services with any vendor. So the discovery of the vendors could happen outside of our service, and we help with the pain points of initial iteration and payments. Eventually we could open up the market place as an addition to our services.

We're super early, so your thoughts and others are helping us shape our development. Thanks again.
> And why is it running Windows? Do hospitals store their data on workstations used by employees?

You are aware that there are server editions of Windows right? And that they don't exist for the fun of it?
Indeed, one thing I initially liked about Prolog was that you can't deeply nest expressions due to the way evaluation works. Simple examples looked nice and explicit. But, you quickly run into the problem of having to name 15 intermediate stages of a harder computation, and suddenly all your names are L3, L4, L5, ... which makes the code hard to understand again. So, complexity is complexity in the end, and you can pick your poison.

The same issue arises when factoring Forth code into tiny "words" (one of the advantages of a concatenative language): you have to name sequences of operations that don't have an obvious problem-space concept behind them.
If “maximise skill development” were really so central, I would be much happier with the working environment.

I think that would involve some combination of:

* Choice over what kind of tasks you work on

* Freedom to spend some extra time on a task, both to get it to a level of quality you are happy with and to use the opportunity to learn the domain in question a little better

* Blocks of time to work on a maker's schedule; to read, concentrate, and work with minimal interruption from coworkers

These things benefit not only the happiness and well-being of a software engineer (which is where I'll focus since that's what I am and this is hacker news) but also his/her ability to learn and improve over time.

In the short term, these things might make you less valuable to the business by not being at the constant beck and call of others, and taking longer on tasks.

In the long term, I think they would more than pay for themselves for all concerned. If I were offered these sorts of improvements to the working arrangement in exchange for a pay cut, I'd be very very interested.
All other bazillion USB devices ever made are not designed to deal with security, and exposing them over the internet will blow up spectacularly.

Which is why the devices have to announce they support WebUSB to be exposed to any web apps, and can even restrict their usage to specific domains.
They're virtual with no real energy, and would normally cease to exist. The fact that the escaping particle is prevented from rejoining the captured one forces it to become real, and for that to be possible it takes energy/mass from the black hole.
I wasn't trying to be unfair with the analogy, my apologies.

My purpose was to drill into what phrases like "not having a destination in mind", "new experience", and "not caring" mean and expose the assumptions about human behavior under pinning them.

It's a thought experiment. The scenario is simple and concrete and reduces the likelihood of wishful thinking about human behavior. By lowering the risk/reward ration, it is easier to see the economic model.

The first question then becomes, why would Ubering to random restaurants work or not work?

And the second question is, how is the market Wanderlust wants to tackle similar to and different from the Ubering to random restaurant market?

A third question, if Ubering to random restaurants is a viable market, given the greater economic activity and higher recurrence of restaurant dining, would it be a more scalable model, and if it isn't what makes Wanderlust's market more scalable?
The freedom to drill an oil well on land you own, for example.

And by the way, I'm very used to "not being treated with respect" from the opposition on this topic. Usually they aren't so eager to keep mentioning it, though. What's the deal?
While I have sworn a vow not to write specifically about the US election, it is clear that one of the things buoying certain insurgent candidates is the feeling of less-educated working class white Americans that their position in society has been declining.

The thing is, they are right; their relatively unskilled labor is no longer valuable to the system (especially when equivalent labor is available at a fraction of the price in other countries). Where they are wrong is the belief that isolationist and anti-immigrant policies will restore a happy time when blue collar workers without a college education or special training could have secure, well-paid jobs that would allow them to live a comfortable middle-class existence.
>How much "brain damage" is caused by the psychological and physiological effects of a sedentary life-style?

According to your uninformed comment, perhaps some?

CTE is not a joke, and isn't the product of a few head bumps. The fact that you put brain damage in quotes, as if the brain isn't actually damaged from such things, is beyond ignorant.

Maybe start here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/league-of-denial/
Chrome's model is based on OP, which is a high-assurance-style model. If interested in secure browsing, look up OP2 Web Browser and IBOS Illinois Browser OS. Gazelle from Microsoft is also interesting.
reduce was not a keyword, it was a builtin function. So:

reduce = 0

is valid. But really it doesn't matter.
I think there should be a small distinction between AAA and indie game development. Not all indie games need the level of specialization and optimization that AAA's do, and so they can get away with more reusable abstractions that let you move faster.

But I've seen the rationale that games require too much optimization by a few indie devs as to why higher-level abstractions aren't used (not all, of course, and in some cases it's true), and that's where I think some indies that think in terms of reusable abstractions can gain an edge. It's a culturally held belief that I think sometimes gets adopted by new devs who then won't end up spending the time learning the abstractions.

I'm no design pattern purist by any stretch, but you can often find ways of cutting corners while still keeping things abstract enough to be reusable. Documenting goes a long way towards that too, as does a culture of automated testing, and a better package manager with dependencies.
I try to do the same thing, except I'm continually fighting flight attendants that insist all the cabin windows be closed and dark for the entire span of the flight, so they can then flip the cabin into full blasting sun and overhead light 90 minutes before landing when the breakfast service begins. I shoot for a window seat and try to crack my shade a bit, just so I can get morning sunrise light as we cross over.

I realize this darkness is what the majority of the passengers want on their eastbound transatlantic flights, and I'm sure the crew wants the passengers asleep and inert over the 4-5 hours, but IMO that just generates more jet lag than less. They want their sleep NOW even if it means screwing up their sleep for the next 2-3 days.
Sadly, this is true around the world. Job protections tend to help incumbents, and result in an "underclass" of "temporary" workers. This even affects public sector jobs in the United States.

It's like squeezing a tube of toothpaste; squeeze in one place, and the laws of economics cause the paste to come out in another.
We already have such functionality in the form of automatic updates.
As to why all the hate, it's easy: middle class people with any "artistic" or "creative" inspirations (and I use the term loosely) will jump at the first chance to feel more sophisticated than the great unwashed masses.

This statement is itself a sweeping, unsupported generalization, a stereotype-based bit of elitist snobbery in exactly the fashion that it itself describes. Perfectly self-reflexive. Could it possibly be an accident?
> despite the lack of appreciable results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics
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My first work flight to Europe (about 30 years ago) I was upgraded to first class upon getting on the plane. First class at that time was in the nose of the 747. Business class was on the 2nd level. I walked into the nose and found that I was the only one there. Because the nose is basically a triangle, one of the results is that one seat is isolated all by itself. I choose that seat and thought "cool, I'll be like Captain Kirk on the bridge". Being young (~21) and inexperienced, jet lag was not on my mind - I was looking forward to my time as Captain Kirk.

A few other passengers can onto the "bridge" and the a stewardess came in and asked me if I'd like a drink. I had about two drinks before passing out. I slept all the way to Europe and was somewhat miffed at myself. But upon arrival I found that I did not experience any jet lag. Over a year I did the same trip a couple more times, was not so fortunate to be placed on the bridge, get free drinks, and be comfortable. On those trips I did experience jet lag.
I would argue that as a design it has nothing to do with inflation (I'd be happy to consider any evidence that this is its purpose but I am not aware of any). Rather it is more to do with the "bunching" of income when assets are sold. If I earn a return of 10%/yr for 10 years and sell and asset I have to consider all of those gains as income occurring all in the year I sell it rather than 10 years of income.
Local peripherals won't be exposed unless they specific declare they support WebUSB.
The single mother in Somalia is a very different problem and it has nothing whatsoever to do with an entrepreneur in the Valley becoming wealthy because she pitched an idea to YC that got traction and worked her ass off to execute.

Let's make sure we are discussing things that are actually related.

Yes, we have to do more for people like the woman you describe. And, in some cases, they have to do something for themselves as well. In your hypothetical scenario (and that's all it is) it would be fair to ask why and how she ended-up with three kids before being able to provide for them. Is there a limit? Should anyone be able to have eleven kids, or fifteen, and we still look at them as responsible individuals?
As someone who is in the scenario you describe (new city - don't know many people), I really love this idea. I would definitely use it if it were a big thing, but it will be a less than ideal experience in the early stages (not many prospective friends/groups).

I think one of your biggest challenges would be getting enough users to start. Also, it seems like you'd run into problems that face online dating, where if the service is successful, your users will no longer need you. Have you thought at all about how to deal with that problem?
Ah, ok, now I understand. The problem might be that we aren't using machine translated texts, but human translated. So when matching translations, often sentences don't have a 1-to-1 matching. Translators often change sentence structure to better suite the new language (there are even instances of translators adding new characters in the book).

In any case, it's a very interesting problem
Like dropbox? I would expect the malware to encrypt it like any other folder, you will just have encrypted files in the cloud. Unless your provider gives you incremental backups.
How do you find these fares and connections? Seems like a non-trivial amount of work to look at every possible route combination between two cities. I do Lisbon-SF twice a month and would gladly upgrade to business at 2x cost of economy.
He seems to have had that in common with Fischer then.
Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
tldr; Don't treat backend and frontend the same, they have very different concerns, also learn the things that came before frameworks, and why they were useful/included in frameworks to begin with.

While your intended backend and frontend are both javascript, they have very different concerns. I suggest you learn them in as much isolation as you can, before attempting to mix the two.

I would highly recommend that you do NOT start from learning react. React is a line in a very long story that the JS community has been living. Please strive to understand how that story started, and where react fits in, and what methodologies are being used in the libraries/frameworks that are popular today.

Rather than starting with and binding yourself to react, I'd suggest you start with the minimum you need, and progress to different libraries as you need them, and realizing the actual need/niche for frameworks.

A progression might look like this:

1) HTML+CSS+JS - Basic static, well designed pages

2) HTML+CSS+JS+jQuery - 1) + simple interactions on the page, note that too much jquery will quickly become hard to reason about

2) HTML+CSS+JS+Databinding - 1) + declarative databinding (with a framework like Knockout) will introduce some structure into DOM updates over the jquery approach

3) HTML+CSS+JS+Databinding+Routing - 2) + a realization that knockout generally aims to work on one page at a time, but obviously sites have many pages, and SPAs can be beneficial in delivering instant-feeling user experience.

4) HTML+CSS+JS+Databinding+Routing+Components - 3) + realizing the need for separation and isolation between components to keep your sanity (both knockout.js and react offer components)

5) HTML+CSS+JS+Databinding+Routing+Components+Data - 3) Handling data from the server is obviously important, backbone has an oft-praised model system, and you could also flux pattern since you're interested in react.

5) Framework ? At this point, including x libraries to do all the things that you have found make your life easier may be less preferable to using a framework. Of course, this means you'll have to deal with the cognitive overhead of a framework but at this point, you should know exactly WHY you are using a framework, and start to distinguish the difference between how different frameworks bundle the parts.

Ex. the distinction between how knockout.js does databinding, how react does it, and how angular1 does it.

Ex. The difference between react's rendering methodology and backbone's (they both use a render function to determine what will be shown -- how is react different?)

I might suggest redoing a small app like TodoMVC with all these options (you can change it up by styling the frontend differently every time or something), I think a process like that leads to a more well-balanced understanding of frontend JS.
A solution that 99% of us can't utilize, unfortunately.

It's like if someone suggested how to improve public transportation and you answered "I found the best improvement - just take a cab everywhere."