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They were compensated based on whatever they agreed to. What beyond that should they get? And who would decide such an arbitrary thing - what government panel of bureaucrats should that be left to?

At the very front-end is the founder, who typically works without pay as necessary, and typically works far harder than their employees, while shouldering far more responsibility. Millions of businesses get started under that exact scenario every decade.

Employees get paid for their labor. An entrepreneur doesn't have such legal protections or guarantees and is paid for their risk (it's critical to note that 95%+ of all new businesses fail over five years). When I create something, I do so without taking a paycheck initially - perhaps for a very extended period of time. Try convincing an employee to do that at a routine job bagging groceries.

If the employee didn't like it, they were welcome to go through the extremely difficult process of starting and building a successful business instead. It's dramatically more difficult to build a business to the point where you can earn $60,000 per year, than it is to get a job making $60,000 per year.

Sam Walton didn't start out being rich. If his 37th employee didn't like the terms of employment, they were welcome to compete with him if they could. He contributed a million fold more to the business succeeding than any given grocery bagger, and also took on drastically more personal risk. Beyond that, the morality of it is such that the property of Wal-Mart belonged to Sam Walton, and there's no need for entrepreneurs like him to apologize for that ownership, it belongs to them fair and square (the sole counter argument is to say that violence should be used to steal property and to mostly or entirely abolish private property rights). If an employee wants their own property, then let them create it, and let them provide the money to pay employees for their labor.
I don’t hate Comic Sans and never understood all the hate, it a rather nice font actually.
The rest of the ocean might be balanced precariously on how acid they are.

Slight increases make it impossible for some creatures to create shells. Those creatures are key parts of the food chain, which means that fisheries (already under sever pressure from over-fishing) risk total collapse.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140502-ocean...

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/What+is+Ocean+Acidificati...

But not all species are going to be vulnerable to this. Some grow thicker shells. http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/ocean-acidification--a-r...

> Under very high experimental CO2 conditions, the shells of clams, oysters, and some snails and urchins partially dissolved. But other species seemed as if they would not be harmed, and crustaceans, such as lobsters, crabs, and prawns, appeared to increase their shell-building (see interactive).
That would be very annoying to overtake on a single lane road.
> I think if economists can state how the wealthy are getting wealthier, in a granular way, then maybe the masses can find a better way to fight back.

Actually, I think the refusal of moderate, science-literate professionals to "listen to the people" unless it's parsed and vetted by a professional like an economist is part of the problem. It takes urgency away from the problem, makes it some interesting thing to ponder on breaks from working on an app for a yuppie consumer, rather than a big ominous issue that requires vast amounts of thought and dedication.

This Marxist academic (from UChicago I think) had an eloquent blog post [0] about, from which here I take some highlights:

> My problem isn’t with numbers, pie charts, and databases as such. My problem, rather, is with this celebration of a depleted epistemological ecology—not because I love epistemological diversity as such, either, but because I think poli.sci’s ongoing and dead-on impression of an epistemological wasteland functions as a prophylactic against the immediacy, urgent, and (as Bartels would admit) valid claims made in other epistemic registers.

> But that’s what liberalism is, really: the absorption of the immediacy of a political sense into the studied, slow time of useless intellection, the conflation of taking-time and having-a-(truer-)thought.

> I used to giggle at the scientism of early Marxism—Marx and Engels, Lenin and Luxemburg, Lukacs and Althusser, on and on. But now I’m beginning to think that this scientism wasn’t supposed to achieve any kind of scientific positivity, that Marxism’s valorization of the scientific didn’t intend a valorization of positive knowledges. (Stalin, we might say, wasn’t part of the plan.) What Marx desired in seizing hold of the term “science” was to create and defend a space in which plebeian forms of knowing could be entertained as knowledge—a knowledge that doesn’t require validation from positive or theoretical science, but rather productive transcription into it.

[0] http://clrjames.blogspot.ca/2014/04/ideas-whose-time-has-bel...
"For ages (probably still) Windows lacked any decent headline font"

There are lots of decent fonts on Windows suitable for headlines. In fact, a decade ago (2005), Microsoft released their clear type font collection: six fonts designed by well-known type designers (the fonts are Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, Corbel)

So the choice is certainly there, but Comic Sans is popular among non-designers because of it's informal, friendly handwriting appearance.

I think the original article is unfair to compare Comic Sans, an informal script font, to a formal Serif and Sans Serif font. It would be better to choose another informal script font for comparison and to explain why one is better than the other.
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Oh, sorry! I am idiot! That was wrong link.

This is correct one - CS61A 2008.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmYqShvVDh4&list=PL6879A8466...

Too much garbage on youtube. I am so sorry.
If you don't like auto-tracking dependencies, then tup certainly isn't for you.

For me, it is a killer feature -- any system where dependencies are maintained manually inevitably gets out of sync with the code. Some systems have special compiler hacks (like gcc's -MM flag), but you still have to find the magic option for each program you use, and link them into your compiler. That's also very hard to do in dynamic languages, where you don't know what libraries you have loaded until you've run the program.
No. Golf is a game where the winner has the lowest score. It's reused as the term for a programming challenge to implement an algorithm with the fewest number of characters. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Perl_pastimes .

This is no more indicative of Perl than the Obfuscated C contest is indicative of C.
This might work on short flights, but short flights generally don't give us serious jet lag.

On long flights (e.g. London to San Francisco), I don't think any amount of fancy lighting will be able to compensate for the fact that your day has suddenly become 32 hours long and you've been awake for 24 of them.

Do you suddenly feel refreshed if you see another sunrise (whether real or simulated) after having been awake for 24 hours straight? Not me... at least not since my early 20s.
Maybe the NSA thinks they don't have enough control on our machines? "If only we could control their USB devices too"...

Then the FBI asks/orders Yubico (or others) to help bypassing USB dongles remotely?

I think I won't trust such a thing...
Like buffer overflow or bash injection?
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WebGl actually exceeded my personal expectations regarding security. This may actually be alright.
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Parsing a few bytes of extra text pales in comparison to sending anything across the network. For example in the time it takes to call an uncontended futex() on Intel Xeon, libxml2 can parse about a kilobyte of XML
The problem is that every website you give USB access to can keylog anything you type. Nobody here cares about foreign ports or whatever.

I can already use all my three USB devices (mouse, keyboard, flash drive) in conjunction with websites. Where is the supposed utility? Beyond some niches like connecting an arduino and a gamepad I can't see this being useful.
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I had understood Terry Hughes comments [1] to be that he _expects_ up to half the corals that bleach to die. Has their been follow up surveys already? The final mortality could be much worse, particularly among the ornate, fast growing species, but it will be tough to know for a little while yet.
[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-28/great-barrier-reef-cor...
The strength of Craigslist is control and providing the total user experience. Craigslist converts the sale on its own.

Visiting the website, the first thing that came to mind is why limit the service to mobile apps?

Esobo's call to action is a link to another web site owned by another company. Onboarding the user is out of Esobo's control.

Craigslist does not require an app.

Good luck.
And this would be all right if the pay would correlate with the possibility of enjoying this "graduation", much like CEOs get paid a lot for their work and paid a lot when sacked supposedly because the risk for a CEO to get fired is much larger than for normal workers.
Those "deliberate dead ends" often include throughways for bikes and pedestrians, which means Berkeley is one of the most pleasant places in the bay to get around.
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I'd like to know too, because I just can't accept that the answer to security issues is just "Don't do that"...

It really looks like they are doing this right. Fully behind permissions that are already protected against clickjacking, very limited scope, requires HTTPS, and is being implemented with security as a first priority.

People are acting like access to USB is something that no PC should ever do...
> banning plastic bags in California to help the ocean

They were banned because they don't decompose, so they end up all over the place. Not just in the ocean, but on the beach, in creeks, lakes, anywhere near a highway, etc. As an example local to Silicon Valley, Stevens Creek used to be completely clogged with plastic bags. It's gotten a lot better now.
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No, it reflects how much tolerance you have for laziness.

The point of grammar is to be understood. Good grammar shows that the writer is trying to help the reader. Poor grammar shows that the writer doesn’t care, and the reader is forced to figure everything out.

Arguably, mistakes that don’t affect understanding can be overlooked without any comment. For example, some words are pretty unique; you can seriously misspell them and still recognize them. On the other hand, you have to be careful with changes to words or even punctuation that can drastically alter the meaning of a sentence.

I can also forgive things that are frankly inconsistent in the language. For instance, although I know when to use "its" versus "it’s", I certainly get why someone would think that "it’s" may be correct for possession; and, since it is very unlikely that "it is" will make any sense as a replacement, I can also figure out what was intended every time. No big deal.
The spec is explicitly not for keyboards:

Standard device classes include keyboard, mice, audio, video and storage devices. Operating systems support such devices using the "class driver" provided by the OS vendor. There is however a long tail of devices that do not fit into one of the standardized device classes. These devices require hardware vendors to write native drivers and SDKs in order for developers to take advantage of them and this native code prevents these devices from being used by the web.
Its not meaningless. Its millions of tons of plastic less, it may be the 2% margin that matters.
Sorry, what do you mean by "graded sentence level translations?"

Also, this article is really supportive of our project, thanks!
When all you have is a hammer then everything looks like a nail.
i dunno, i'm on the side of Prof. DeNero (who runs this course website) in this rap battle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTcWL2AfT7k
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No, they're claiming that Lockheed is lying about the efficiency gains their technology can or will produce. Specifically that Lockheed's claims are impossible (that assumes the referenced theoretical calculations on energy requirements are correct in the first place).
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-lockheed-martin-graphene-i...

I have a feeling this is very much like their announcement of commercial fusion power.
Works like charm. Only if laymen can be convinced that CLI is far easier than GUI.
Why shouldn't we? Security on the browser level is actually stricter than that at the OS level most of the time. Any app you download from any random place and run can access your webcam - but a webapp has to request it.

I don't think the web makes Trojans or security flaws any more likely, it just changes where they sit. For the OS you've got buffer overflows which have been common for years and bash injection vulnerabilities.

The issue is if someone can break out of the sandbox. I think it's perfectly acceptable to make a web technology that can be the OS. I don't see any reason that such progress should be halted.

The browser was an application to view and consume content. Basically a book reader where you could access thousands of books just by putting in the right URL to the book.

Now it's the same thing but for applications. For features, functionality. With the right standards it's cross-platform - write once run anywhere. With improving specs and browser vendors caring about speed and UX it can begin to reach the same speeds anything "native" could.

I don't think the security risks outweigh the benefits, and even with those risks we can work hard to mitigate them.
Being dehydrated makes people more susceptible to headaches, and many people don't even realize they're dehydrated or think dehydration just means "dying of thirst".

How often do you drink water? Try having a water bottle with you so it's easier to hydrate rather having to get up and go to a water fountain a lot.
Depends on what you're using it for. The Boston Dynamics jobbies were intended for search and rescue, or accompanying soldiers on foot; they'd need to go for hours or days without access to resupply.

My point was just that this thing isn't quiet because of better engineering, it's quiet because it's made for a different job.
I think the point is that if you're a factor 2 or 4 away from the theoretical optimal efficiency, you can't make it a factor 100 easier, as this article claims. The best you can do is to reach the theoretical optimum.
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Hmmm, I think the premise is way off-base here. People don't even hate Comic Sans... they hate how often it's used inappropriately.

The article tries to construct this huge overwrought analysis of the font itself, but the font is fine. It's the tone-deaf way that people use Comic Sans that causes ridicule.
I agree but we've already done that argument to death (eg the Plan 9 vs GNU debates about code "complexity")

This sort of line counting is just for fun.
What about the ways this could improve security, such as by really making hardware 2fa easy to do online?
If you want to wallow in ignorance about how and why "the climate constantly changes" and what that means for our civilization, that is your prerogative.

But don't expect to be treated with respect.

You're making a pitiful excuse to dismiss trends that threaten trillions of dollars of inherited infrastructure investment that is at risk of being made useless, and that threaten the comfort and safety of billions of people.
An interesting partial survey but I'm confused. If it's going to include future tech like anti-matter and fusion I'm really surprised they'd leave out currently feasible propulsion systems like electrostatic sails or fission fragment rocket engines.

And ultra dense deuterium? That's not even verified peer-reviewed science. That's fringe.
Those were my impressions moving from the open source / web world into games too. It surprises me still how little is shared in terms of reusable libraries, and often how little attention is given to reusability beyond a single project's scope. Automated testing too.

Those habits feel like a super power now, because at this point I naturally think in those terms and build accordingly.

We have quite a decent toolkit for VR at this point, but now I have the challenge of how to share any of it, because we do use a couple commercial libraries from the Unity asset store, and I don't know that there's any way to mark those as dependencies.
Android and iOS apps tend to require "explicit" user permissions when installing them. I quote explicit, because it's really implicit: accept these terms or don't use the app.

How many people actually look at these before clicking install?

They're not fine grained enough to allow the user to weigh up the security implications of them, which leads to apps requesting every permission under the sun, or just outright refusal to use the app (by a small minority who know the script).

We can see how this will pan out in the browser: The browsers will initially offer the "allowed devices" set that is described here, but eventually users will find it "too confusing", and they'll reduce it to "Do you want to allow this website to access any USB device?"

The common user will get fed up of this popup appearing and the browser vendors will happily oblige by having an enabled-by-default option: "Allow websites to access my USB devices".

Then some giants (ie, google) will provide SaaSS to filter which devices can be accessed from which websites for you. Browser vendors will be quick to use this service, turned on by default, much the same way as they use google for anti-phishing and whatnot now without asking the user.
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the industry was never able to deliver half correct default ICC profiles, and you'd like to alter these badly calibrated screens dynamically?
The extraordinarily high prices commanded by homes in cities suggest the market disagrees with you.
What's next, WebFirewire? WebSATA? WebPCIe?

USB is enough of an attack surface locally. I don't think I'd ever trust a web page (or app, as the case may be) with access to my USB devices.
I'm not getting it. Why did he leave Unity? Is this about crappy working conditions in game dev?

I feel like I'm missing something.
Discussed yesterday : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11457265
I make educational content for a living, so am fundamentally quite interested in this. A couple of questions from me...

Why would I use a platform like this when I've already got my own site which attracts lots of users/customers?

Would the site be free to use? Would you pay the content providers? How would you make money?

How will you maintain the quality of the videos on the site? If I'm a creator of videos, I want to make sure they only appear alongside similarly high-quality videos. But the higher the bar, the fewer videos you'll have on the site. Where do you see the balance between quality and quantity?

There are /surely/ other people out there who make platforms of this kind (right?). If so, how do you think this will be different from any of the others already on the market?

[Note: I'm sorry if these come across as a bit blunt. Just some questions that came to my head as I read about the site, and I typed them out quickly. If I were a potential customer, I probably wouldn't beat around the bush with niceties...!]
You're right, Comic Sans hatred is partially motivated by a designer's desire to advertise their refined taste. And Comic Sans, reeking of diapers and toddler saliva, is also offensive to a freshly urban-outfitted adult.

But the masses also use Times Roman and Helvetica, a lot, which are okay choices, and you don't see hipster movements against them. The above critique is totally solid on the reasons why Comic Sans does have real flaws, even given its design goals.

When desktop publishing met a mass audience, none of the other fonts met these users' needs. Comic Sans has open counters, which is good for legibility. And many home users want signage or communication with a more informal feel.

To their credit, Microsoft figured out that their users needed these things and polished up something that they were already working on. It wasn't a perfect job, but I'm not sure what other options they had used at the time. At the time, I think Adobe and MS were still in a format war, and few fonts could meet Microsoft's demanding requirements for on-screen legibility with low-end computers.
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Find another way to access that kind of security hardware. That's the kind of thing that should be mediated through a strictly limited API in the browser anyway, where standardized UI can be provided.
Interesting - can I ask you how what you do with the images of your pads? Do you just keep it in folders or do you insert them in to some note taking program?
You're basically describing this: http://whitelines.se/link/

I've bought the paper, which is nice, but haven't used the app.
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He alludes to his goals at Unity being done while as the same time finding less enjoyment in what he did day-to-day. There’s a lot missing but the last two paragraphs shed a bit more light.

> To really improve this industry we need to upgrade our culture, not our hardware, comp-sci curriculum, or office arrangements.
Fine with the NGOs, but weren't some of the other imitators just going profit (I think I read that correctly)? It seems they were more attached to the "Bento Box" aesthetic than the sucesss idea of the original government service to make infant hood more uniform and healthy. Turning it into a product flips the original egalitarian goals on their head.