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Poverty is valuable to politicians. Extremely valuable. If you understand Spanish I urge you listen to what Gloria Alvarez has been saying now for many years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkYEXS16dZA

Latin America has been waking up to the realities of Populism. This, to a large extent, due to Gloria quite literally risking her life to speak-up and educate the populous about such topics.

In the above lined speech she delivers a line that is right on point (translated):

"Populism loves the poor so much it multiplies them".

That, right there, is the root of much of the evil keeping the poor down.

In another passage she reads a definition of Populism penned by another activist:

"The shortcut through which politicians play with the passions, dreams and ideals of people by promising what is impossible, taking advantage of their misery while leaving out logic and reason. It plays with their needs to impose dictatorships."

You see, in the US, Democrats need poor disenfranchised blacks and hispanics. Guaranteed votes. And Republicans need poor disenfranchised bible-thumpers and low education folks. Again, guaranteed votes.

Writing that was disgusting. Yet, it is the truth.

And so, both sides, through Populism, have every incentive to NEVER fix the problems of the poor. If the poor are elevated it is likely that both sides would lose votes. Politicians don't want to work hard for votes. They'd rather promise the impossible and play to your needs and fears and just get you to vote. Once elected, they drop you on your head.

Want to point a finger at evil? Populism.

All four of the top contenders for the Presidency of the US today are populists: Clinton, Sanders, Cruz and Trump. They are all playing people like a finely tuned violin. All of them. Nothing good will come out of electing any of them. Regrettably, there doesn't seem to be a way out of this one. Not voting will only play into the hands of whoever promises more free shit and gets more people to support them.

Poverty isn't hard to fix. First you have to fix the fact that poor people are far more valuable politically while they stay down and remain poor. Imagine a political system where politicians are actually rewarded for fixing problems like poverty. Not sure what that looks like. You'd have to take Populism out of the equation.
The problem is that the US system doesn't view software as a series of mathematical manipulations. Rather software is considered a thing like a tractor. The internals are therefore patentable.

The US system does prevent math from being claimed. Others have tried to explain the inherent math nature by making products with function languages of varying purity. These claims fell on deft ears.
This is the old epic circuit switching vs packet switching religious divide dressed up in new clothing.

The reason why data networking is done in "declarative" mode rather than "imperative" aka centralised mode, is that centralised systems can't scale - or they can scale - but not to the degree required for planetary communication of seemingly infinite quantities of cat videos. Mathematically, it's not just that the difference in the available real time information capacity is orders of magnitude, but that there is a reachable capacity for very large distributed systems, while all centralised systems are necessarily limited by the centre.

The tools are light years ahead of where they used to be, but you still have to able to use them, and deal with users who at no time want to acknowledge that their application has to be a good network citizen. Just like real life really.
This seems generic. Here are a few phrases from the article. For X, substitute "security", "quality", "user satisfaction", or "revenue".

- The cultural transformation must start from the top

- X often regresses and team members either don’t know, don’t care, or find out too late to act.

- Blame is one of the most common responses to X problems

- Performance tests swing wildly, cannot be trusted, and are generally ignored by most of the team.

- X is something one, or a few, individuals are meant to keep an eye on, instead of the whole team.

- X issues in production are common, and require ugly scrambles to address (and/or cannot be reproduced).

Unexpected performance problems typically are not that hard a problem to deal with once you can measure and find the bottlenecks. This tends to be local, rather than global. The other kind of performance problem is scaling - traffic is up, things are slow, and the architecture needs to be scaled. That can be hard.
I think it depends. Not having access to temporary credit at all is better than pay day loans. Of course, I'm saying that from my proverbial ivory tower. Philosophically I don't support banning those things, but I'll be damned if they're not fucking evil incarnate.
At what point should a piece of software have a bug bounty? It seems forcing bug bounties would cause them to become purposefully convoluted to obtain
I am assuming you are not directing the last line at my comment, since I know the difference between melting sea ice and land ice; you should read the article I referenced as it addresses sea vs. land ice, salinity near an iceberg, and many other topics. The main point was to say it is not a universal rise in levels. A lot of people, even technically-minded people, do not grok these points. Like me: I didn't know the land rebounded back up, but that make sense once you hear it. The weight compresses the land, and when it diminishes, any recoil in it acts.
One way to influence politics is to spread the culture of being habitually green. The big gains may all be political or require extensive city design, but changing the mindset to 'people want green; and superficial won't cut it' is a big part of making that happen.

Do I want to give up my car? No. What if I did want to; how would that change my outlook? I'd want cities and a job that accommodates those desires. What if everyone wanted to? Those cities would be built and politics might make cars more restricted.
And "entertaining myself" is not a worthwhile project? In a nihilistic way, it's hard to argue that anything's more important.

"Go now, and die in what way seems best to you." - Denethor
Don't most people sleep at least 7 hours continuously almost every night?
I think it's kind of funny how Mongolian and Jin show up prominently in the word cloud.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_dynasty
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_dynasty_(1115-1234)
>indentured servitude.

No, it's not. And, I wouldn't dismiss out of hand what can be "enforced by contract law". The contract itself represents the willingness of two parties to adhere to certain terms. If a company pays you a million dollar signing bonus and asks you for a three year commitment, then you should expect them to demand that bonus back if you leave in two years for reasons not set forth by the terms. And, you should expect claims of "indentured servitude" to fall on deaf ears in court. You can leave. You just can't keep the money.

Similarly, companies wouldn't enforce that the person continue to work for them; simply that they must repay their training costs if they don't.

This is currently done by some companies, for instance, with MBA sponsorships. They're sometimes called "loyalty contracts".
They take extraordinarily high margins, often involving mis-representation to their customers along the way (largely by illustrating their fees as flat numbers, which obfuscates that if you translate it into actual APR terms - to compare to other lenders - they're asking for what equates to absolutely ridiculous interest rates).

Generally, if there's a demand for a service, people should come flooding in and reduce the marginal profits through competition. In this case, people came rushing in ... and profit margins went up over time. This alone, in a big picture perspective, suggests shadiness (though not by itself guaranteeing it, since you could argue for growth in demand outstripping the growth in supply).
See if you can model the problem mathematically/computationally.
This repo has seen no changes for over 2 years. What am I missing? What's interesting here? The fact that this exists?
Swapping racks may not be possible if you don't own the racks. Lots of datacenters are built with their own racks. You might be able to ask for extra deep racks but that's it.
Oh wow, we have to get rid of tipping. What a revolutionary concept! Except that the rest of the world has never had it and their restaurants are fine.

There is still to this day a big line outside of Momofuku for his overrated ramen, everyday. So why is his ramen $19* and not $28? Because he knows he gets $9 of advertising from each customer because of the hype they create looking busy and popular, plus word of mouth and more yelp reviews. Traditional advertising is a huge no-no for a trendy restaurant, so they have to spend their marketing budget this way.

* he conveniently left off the tip even though he said the price includes everything
Can you please list some alternatives? That will help us understand the situation better.
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How can back end developers 'practice'?
It seems everyone says to build something if you want to learn a technology. This is an issue for me because I work on server side code, mainly working with databases and how to optimize their performance. I am not a UI/UX person at all. So to build a website or project just feels... disjointed for me. I care a lot about the whole product, but I don't want to do front end work. So what sorts of things should I be considering as side-projects to boost my skillset?
If it really matters this is probably a good question to ask dang, the moderator. Just use the email on the contact link at the bottom of the page.
Yep, any useful compiler support for fence/lock intrinsics will prevent optimizing out those intrinsics.
Is it so terrible that GCHQ referred it to the publisher rather than the police? I'm sure the publisher could have handled contacting the police if it had been legitimate.
I thought this was going to be a counterpoint about "so, pilots don't fly this way -- why should developers?" or something.
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EncFS is specifically not safe to use in situations where an attacker has multiple versions of your data.
What options would those be?
However, the site that gets the most front page links is actually github.com

(a friend of mine scrapes the front page)
Pow, pow, powerchip, power makes it go!

:-)
I don't think we have enough information to even speculate about what the answer to that question would be. Is there a particular answer that would make you happy?
Huh; from the title, I assumed this was going to be a service that acted like a blog editor (with accounts, draft posts, rich-text WYSIWYG editing, etc.), but where there was no index for the resulting posts by author, instead just giving you "floating" pages accessible only by their URL, like Gists/Pastebins are (but nicely formatted, like regular blog-posts are.)

I've always wanted such a thing; it'd be perfect to combine with a microblogging site like Twitter or Tumblr, where instead of posting long things to the microblogging site, you post links to your "floating" essays amongst your short posts. Your microblog would then be the canonical "blog"—the canonical index of these articles—rather than people assuming they could subscribe to your presence at whatever article editing+hosting service you chose to use (which might, after all, change with each article.)

Too bad this isn't that.
On my death bed, my only regret will be that I didn't work smarter, harder and longer. That's why I work so hard now; to minimize the amount of regret.
I also use EncFS - on Dropbox/GoogleDrive/JottaCloud - but be aware it's got known flaws, don't rely on it if your data might be of interest to a nation state or high level law enforcement: https://defuse.ca/audits/encfs.htm
There's another question for your attorney.
>However, that didn't work out too well.

When was communism actually implemented, that it didn't "work out too well" in your opinion?
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The project has been consistently updated this past few months. I don't get why you've said it hasn't changed for two years.
I am not a J guru, but that is just the concise implementation. There are others in the references previously cited. J is an interpreted language, and when doing db stuff, it memory maps files for speed. I know this is not the same, but I will now look into it, since I haven't done any J tracing unless a program blows up.

I also use Dyalog APL,and I don't have a special keyboard. The symbols are MORE like mathematical symbols to me. It's just that it is easier to share code in J's plain ASCII text. Some systems still don't show APL characters correctly, or the user doesn't know how just yet. I was also trying to study K and Kona, so J was the better fit.
If you had to learn ASP.Net yesterday, how would you start?
I'm a Python/PHP/Ruby developer that has to pick-up ASP.Net is a pretty big hurry to support a project that has gone off the rails (hehe).

I'm not so worried about my capability in learning, but the time in which I have to do it. I've spent the last few evenings reading as much as I can on C#, ASP.Net versions (WTF! Seriously. v5 then Core?).

Anyway, if you have used a particularly good course/resource to learn ASP.Net, please share it. Thanks!
You hear this refrain so often it must be true. Comparing the "litigiousness" of countries is not easy due to different legal systems. One of the best metrics in my opinion is cases per capita. Germany and Sweden are at the top of the list. I think the U.S. comes in at 5th or 6th.
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Sounds a lot like the original Blogger.
Get some land off from the existing land-owners who have it in excess over some threshold (by legislating some "ceiling on land-holding" act). Of course, that should not be done entirely in the "communist style" though, i.e. it can be done by giving them reasonable compensation.

I guess, some "ceiling on land-holding" act is a must if we want reasonable check on inequality. Currently the US economy stinks of the problems of feudalism - some kings and barons with a lot of land and then some more people down their rank with some land while the rest of the people with almost no land and perpetual poverty.
I assume that the 'coincidence' you mention is just hypothetical, but that would be a pretty interesting topic to research.
Please go blog for this. I can read a blog anywhere. I don't need headphones. I can pause just by looking away. I can read text at my own pace and look things up. I can even print it out and add notes.

You can add the investigative process you used to get there, and note what didn't work and why.
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An excellent read, Haoyi is a great Scala engineer. Additionally, if you love using the Scala REPL, he has a entertaining and compelling video here:

https://youtu.be/dP5tkmWAhjg
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ARM instruction set is pretty mature but the system architecture for servers is less so, IMO. I think there's little commonality for bootstrapping the various SoCs.
And Scratch Beginning by Adam Shepard is a good illustration of how a hard working person can work his way from homeless to middle class in under a year.

http://amzn.to/1RZZHhf

There are apparently good choices and bad - Erenreich illustrates how making the bad choices keeps you poor, while Shepard illustrates how making the good choices can you out of poverty.
There's no guarantee that you'll be old or senile when you're ok your deathbed. If you are, great. If not, the regrets will sting a lot more.
Citizens can't build a case against other citizens based on their photos. They also can't photograph tens of thousands of other citizens, tracking their exact locations and movements over hours and days.

We should forbid our government because they have power, and it ought to be limited.
Curious: Is this not what is exposed by the ETW CPU counters?
>That money was already spent on basic necessities of life and can't be recovered

Presumably, if the training were significant enough to be worth the company pursuing it and the now ex-employee found it economically better to use those skills elsewhere, then there might be significant enough income against which to make a claim.
Do you drink a lot of caffeine at home? I was always getting headaches on a long flights before realizing that it was a caffeine withdrawal.
Not relevant to your post, but I kept getting asked by data engineers who are interested picking up scala (thanks to spark): how shall I learn scala? Do you happen to have any advice for them?
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To be fair, the author addresses some of these points at the end:

> The only two reasons this system is not widespread now are regulations and unions. I'm more than convinced had regulations allowed for such a system and had not the unions had so much power, you'd see this happening already.

…… of course, he's ignoring the fact that many of these regulations are there for very good reason.
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They are going up against the coming Xeon E5 Broadwell + FPGA.
Power9 do offer more memory per Rack. But I dont see how Intel cant adopt with better memory controller.

To simply put, what are the incentive to switch over to Power9 platform?
If this market were wealthier it wouldn't exist. The tenants would be getting mortgages or renting nicer apartments, not living in trailer parks. And, because governments like to have higher income residents, they would have more choices of where to live, as trailer parks are exiled to the fringe. Some of these market dynamics exist precisely because these people are poor and the landlords have no incentive for their customers to be better off, just like Walmart would not be better off if its customers got more money and started going to Macys.
I'm sure there's a special feature that makes this valuable to some, but how is it different from creating your own static pages (using Pandoc or a similar system) and uploading them to a web server?
> Not an easy decision, and I think the publisher is speaking out of turn by mentioning that such events have been considered.

Such events have already been publicly confirmed. Here's two:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Natalie_McDonald
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I'm sure they will eventually. Right now we're in the very early days of unmanned and manned aircraft sharing the national airspace system, and its still administratively easier to use a manned aircraft. But I'm sure in 10 years they'll be a ton of surveillance drones.
I think you can just build some webapp (front end can be very simple, just use angular.js with no styling at all) and focus on the backend?

Or if you absolutely don't want to touch front end at all, perhaps building API backend will do? Although it'll be much harder to showcase your skills
What about adding something like transferable shares mechanism - so so you could use your ownership stake in another house if you want you need to move?
We've gotten off track. I'm not arguing whether the market exists or how basic economics in a perfect market work.

If you look back at my original comment it's WRT the assertion that these landlords would love to upgrade their properties and charge higher rents. I was simply saying that's largely untrue. These landlords are aware of the market dynamics/demographic when choosing to invest and have little-to-no desire to "upgrade for higher margins".
Interestingly, I immediately considered the use of FLiR looking for their modified exhaust systems - I wonder whether the current inexpensive Lepton FLiR modules could "see" the difference between "normal" plane and these ones with (presumably quite large/hot) underslung mufflers?
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It worked pretty well in the USSR - housing was generally not a problem. Heck even after the collapse of the USSR economy, people still had a place to live. Can you imagine how hellish it would be if it happened in the US , when everything is private and most don't own?
The point that "rationalists" have trouble with media aimed at "regular people" (quotes implying my characterization, not the author's words) is interesting. Most "regular people" are compelled by stories, narrative and elements of "Type 1" (in the Kahneman sense) thinking- and I wonder if it's possible to shift into "rational" thinking without a transitional metaphorical/story-based rationale. Are "rational" people built that way, or can books like this help them shift their thinking?
It's telling that they forgot to mention that their 'interventions' ultimately failed and that the book was leaked online anyway.
Because we are in a wiki, it's 95% standard text where () are frequently used (like that), not for bracketting S-expressions. I choose braces because they are rarely used in a standard text. So you can write things like {b Hello {u (brave new)} World} without any conflicts.
Having viable options to Intel would be very helpful for Google when negotiating bulk rates for the Xeon processors.
Yep, another example of people in the US saying “X would never work”, when X is already is already working perfectly well in other parts of the world.

Other examples of X: decriminalising prostitution, decriminalising drugs, converting to the metric system, banning assault rifles, getting rid of copper coins (pennies), universal health care
Either existing parks should be bought, or seeking out new land, i think., but i'm just guessing.
>Wealth inequality is good for all in a lot of ways, so I hate it when people talk about it like it's an inherently bad thing.

It's not the wealth inequality that's good for all, it's the capitalist incentive structures. The wealth inequality itself is a negative side effect of those incentives, because it represents an inefficient allocation of resources in terms of utility created.

The question is to what extent the efficiency benefits of capitalist incentives offset the inefficiencies of the resulting wealth inequality. Personally, I think the extent of inequality we permit is far far more than is necessary to incentivise wealth creation. People would still want to be rich even if the alternative didn't suck.
Find something you want to do, try to do it, find out what you don't know, and learn it.

You could try learning from a book or a course, but personally I've never found a better way of learning "what I need to learn for X" than trying to do X and then googling all the things I don't know.

Sure, you'll forget a whole bunch of that stuff, but if it's at all important you'll find yourself re-learning it again and again until it sticks.
One supposes he could invest in an anerobic digester[1] and start turning all that manure into electricity for the grid. Honestly, any farmer not doing this yet is leaving money on the table.

[1] http://www.energy.ca.gov/biomass/anaerobic.html
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Remember that the mainstream media made billions by figuring out how to match content to specific demographics. They hit as many political and emotional buttons as possible in the process. Human nature, esp the emotional brain, applies even on Hacker News.