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> Have you actually tried sitting in front of Emacs or vim for more than 30 minutes, to the clock?

Not the parent, but I've spent a significant amount of time with pure vim. I use vim bindings in everything from my web browser (vimium, vimperator) to my WM (i3 & kde vim navigation bindings), to my text editors & IDEs (atom, VS, sublime)

Despite all that, I still find using pure vim to be ineffective relative to just using Atom, Sublime, VS or whatever with vim bindings. I may have internalized the most basic navigational concepts, but the more advanced / esoteric shortcuts that are essential to use vim as an exclusive editor are still ones I need to look up - and that's not counting stuff specific to vim packages liked nerdtree.

At the end of the day I'm sure you could always argue that I should have practiced differently / better / more or whatever - but to what end? There are plenty of full featured text editors on all platforms that do everything I need. Why on earth should anyone force themselves through dedicated practice just to learn the intricacies of a 20 year old editor?
"How a team of astronomers embezzled crowd funders into buying them a new telescope by making them believe they will look for a 'Wow' signal explanation"
Is there objective evidence that government is "too big" in all cases?

When you look at health care as an example - the US seems to have a rather inefficient system when compared to single payer (government) in other western countries.

I think we need to give up our dogma (capitalism == good, government == bad) - and look at the objective evidence.
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An argument I've heard for income tax progressivity is that the very wealthy have far more to lose if the state crumbled and society devolved into a state of nature.

In other words, the state, by upholding the rule of law (particularly property law), is providing the ultra wealthy with a service of far greater value than that which it provides those with lower wealth/income.
The Haskell community could silence the critics quickly by pointing to some real world open source applications which prove the practical usability of Haskell. So far there aren't much. Most of them deal with DSL. There are only two Haskell IDEs written in Haskell: Leksah and Yi. The only good native IDE (AFAIK) is EclipseFP, and that is written in Java.

Perhaps some Haskellers should take the effort and develop a really sophisticated Haskell IDE which Haskell beginners could follow and use to learn and advance in Haskell. Theoretic knowledge about Haskell is good but practical application is another thing.
It's a good analogy, but the general push for engineering quality comes from larger feedback cycles (say root cause analysis, or even economics itself). The "omg racists" take on this topic is hoping that checking the schematics more will guarantee a good outcome.

FWIW user stories inherently passivize the user. The thinking that makes sense for a singularly-designed product most likely does not work for decentrally-emergent society.
New Jersey is an utterly incompetent state when it comes to fiscal matters, as the last paragraph starts to hint. If this state wasn't propped up by its proximate location to other big cities and states, I imagine it'd be a backwater comparable to Mississippi.
> The thing of UBI is that it will be paid by your average person who isn't wealthy, it will be paid by the upper middle class.

That's generally how all taxes work. The people with more money than average pay more than average and the people with less money than average pay less than average. But the people who make $1 more than average are only suffering a net loss of $.20, whereas the people who make $100,000 more than average are paying net $20,000.

> That's why I think a better test is to select a group of people to self-fund their own UBI -- some people pay $140 and receive $100. Others pay $20 and receive $100.

In other words what you think we should do is to actually make it a law somewhere?
I'm not very up to date with tax policy or politics but it sounds reasonable to me that everyone pay a fixed percentage. That or just have a consumption tax. Are there good reasons not to do it that way??
Seems unlikely. If undiscovered comets were this prone to putting off such strong signals, there should be a lot more unexplained "wow!" notations in notebooks from them.
I recall when early developers would make it so you couldn't right click and view the source. You'd get some silly alert() dialog saying hey your not allowed. You even had users who would attempt to "obscure" the html by converting it to a encoded string that anyone could easily decode because it had to be for your average browsing user to actually see the page.

If this trend were to come back I would hope to see it quickly fade away because it'll just become a game of cat and mouse in which ultimately if you want your average user to see the content you have to give them the keys. Hopefully this type of locking becomes a thing of the past like it has before.
I agree entirely. I just moved to a tech city and make totally insane amounts of money. I looked at my tax burden and it's close to 30%..and I'm totally okay with that. My take home is still insane, even after the insane housing costs.

It bothers me a bit though. I'd actually rather earn less and things be more affordable. The homeless situation in the city I moved to is truly insane and unsustainable. Tech companies drive up prices. I have a friend who lives in a neighbourhood where all the homes were around $100k when she was a kid; and now the same homes can go anywhere from $500k to nearly a million!

You see some of the average working class taking those big payouts and moving further from the city (and potentially driving more; increasing the traffic problem).

I'd rather earn less, my housing be more affordable and things be more equal for everyone. Supply and demand for housing really drive these crazy swings in gentrification.
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I mostly run Linux, but I maintain a Windows machine for the purposes of games / music production etc.

Most of my work is done in Linux, but my laptop runs Windows (hence my use of the phrase "Windows workflow").

I'm completely competent in OSX, and have regularly used it since it's release, but I don't really like it, and don't own a Mac (this choice is purely personal, and I don't hate Mac owners).

Hope that makes sense! Sorry for the ambiguity :-)

EDIT: With both KSP and Snow (pretty much the only games I play) having Linux builds, it's really Ableton that keeps me away from a pure Linux experience. Ableton 9 doesn't really run that well under Wine!
By the way, I have thought about online courses. I think I'm gonna try MIT course.
FED raising interest rates is going to drastically lower inflation adjusted housing prices. This can be a good thing for people that owe a lot of money at a fixed rate or new buyers, but variable rate mortgages will crush some people.
> Surely I won't be jailed for calling anybody -- even our president -- a goat fucker.

If you called a judge a "goat fucker" in their court room, I suspect you would be in some hot water.

One could argue there's not a huge leap between rules/laws requiring respectful behavior towards judges in a court room and a law requiring respectful behavior towards world leaders...

Edit: Not sure why I'm being downvoted -- I'm not defending the German law, just pointing out that it's not that different from contempt-of-court punishments in the US.
This is revisionist history. Jordan was signing 1 year contracts for 30+ million and that was 20 years ago.
I did not. These were just typical examples to illustrate what I had in mind when asking about any homegrown Irish luxury food (I don't know if Ireland has any). Hence the « or something like coffee beans ».
The only one off the top of my head is Serious Sam: https://github.com/Croteam-official/Serious-Engine
Owning $300k of stocks is better than owning a single $300k property for the reason you give. The question becomes a lot fuzzier when you overlay your own need for housing on top of it.

What I mean is, if I had $300k cash in the bank and I was renting an apartment I enjoyed, I'd be smarter to invest the $300k in a diversified portfolio than spend all of it on a single rental house and playing landlord.

Equally if I had $300k cash and nowhere to live, I might very well be better off buying a house than renting a home and buying the portfolio. A vast amount depends on individual circumstances and stage of life.
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't the appeal of the React/Redux stack that it is simple?

Does one really need to read dozens of articles as a starting point to get into this stack? Or is the learning curve to the latest and greatest patterns actually significant? (Note: I'm not trying to shoot this down, I'm legitimately curious about the perspective of those who are starting to learn)
But there are many more loop holes (or call them creative financing tricks) that allow you to avoid paying taxes on capital gains.
Fair enough. I'm not partial to anything, but UX designers gotta eat.
Wowsers wrong.

Why are you trying to test both the motor AND the battery at the same time?

Test one, then the other. Isolate the variables; change as little as possible at a time to test your hypothesis, which in this case is: Just giving people guaranteed money for a long time is the best way to help them.

Thing I'd be most worried about is protecting those communities from other violent people and/or mad influx of people trying to join those communities. Island cultures might be better - more isolated.

PS - I did think of an answer to "why not cash?" but it's something that's also addressable: Bulk purchasing advantage. AFAIK, it's more cost-efficient to feed 1000 people all at once than one at a time.
Is this the URL http://www.bountysplit.com/ ? I see a godaddy parked domain page (or with adblocker an empty page)
Rand only used money as a scorecard and only when convenient. If you'll read "The Fountainhead", Howard Roark ran far and fast away from money.

Rand was constructing ... essentially Russian novels against the concept of collectivism. It's not particularly complete work. It's essentially propaganda.

And like it or not, her side in the debate mostly won. But that has nearly nothing to do with our present state of affairs - the headcount of Randians among SiVa is probably higher than in the economy at large.
I know.

Problem is: until at least 2012 not even Apple was consistent about it.
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> Is there any evidence that the deployment of the nepalese soldiers had any ill effects at home?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

Take their travel expenses and peacekeeping salaries and repurpose those as a practical domestic training program or foreign aid.

I only propose this as an alternative to the status quo, which apparently features useful practical lessons about sanitation, but only through trial and error in someone else's backyard.
Minors ride Uber and Lyft all the time. I have never heard of a driver denying a ride to any minor that I know. Like I said, it works for minors, de facto. You are not informed how the world works for the masses. Kid needs a ride? Parent works? Parent is going to stay at work and the kid is going to take that $5.75 ride, bottom line. That's the real market
There's ten people in a room. Nine of them have $1, one of them has $1,000. You need $10 for some shared project. You take 10 cents from each of the nine, and $9.10 from the last person. He looks at his remaining $990.90 and says, "I'm getting screwed!"
Wow, that's amazing to read, having served as a de-facto SRE (like every other SDE) at an unnamed competitor to GCE, where I was expected to stay up all night if necessary to resolve an issue (relatively few teams had follow-the-sun coverage). I swore I would never carry a pager again after that, but maybe Google really is different.
That's so nastily uncharitable.

I understand the fun in painting what people are doing in the blackest possible colors. It's a parlor game and gives a buzz to both the writer and reader. But in doing so, you smear black paint all over the parlor. We're trying to make HN a better place to be than that, so please don't play that game here.
Hey, as long as they buy a new telescope and do their best to make the measurements they're proposing then there's nothing shifty going on here as far as I can make out. Obviously nobody has to give anyone any money. (I am always a little extra skeptical of GoFundMe funds for specific projects though since the funds are transferred even if the goal is not met.)
Ireland – the world's most litigious society
The law[0] in question specifically says that the federal government has to authorize the prosecution.

[0] http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stg...
I guess it's a good thing that Western Digital and HGST (which should now be thought of as a WD variant) have introduced their own 8TB drives too. Seagate also has "Surveillance" and "Enterprise" variants of 8TB size.
The Rust team has been in constant contact with the Dropbox team (I should know, I coordinated and attended the original meeting), and I can say for certain that feedback from Dropbox has helped to prioritize and inform the stabilization of several features.
It makes it clear that there is a step function: either you are rich enough to make money, or you aren't.
I just read something similar to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11473426 what's so different about yours except the obvious fact that yours uses resume to match and theirs used profile? Can you expatiate on prib?
> Yes but how much CPU and memory are you willing to spare?

Hell, I'm using 50% of my CPU to have 60 fps animated 3d fractals as my wallpaper. Surely I can spare some to parsing.
Oh wait, you used 'APPLY HN', so it's still at idea stage.

Is your application one sentence? Other use a format like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11482593
This vuln probably also exists on imgur
I know an electrician who has been close to, if not in the 1%. And then there's the bad years.

I've had this conversation three times:
"What'd it take to get you to move to California?"
"More than you have."

So there's that.
Wait, what? I'm pretty sure it's called 'progressive' because the rate of taxation 'progresses' as income increases – not because of any association with progressivism per se.
Wikipedia has a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games...
I like how your interpretation of 'do things' is 'set UA string in java spiders'. Einstein visited bohr to rap about the speed of light and larry page asked a mailing list how to use java libraries.
NOLF: https://github.com/osgcc/no-one-lives-forever
Merkel gets what Merkel wants: free speech is silenced, and she's made an example of this comedian so that other writers, entertainers, journalists, etc, will get the message to keep their ideas about Islamism to themselves. Sure you can say "he'll have his day in court", but it'll take years and millions of dollars (Euros, or whatever). The TV network has already pulled the offending joke off their website. The comedian has had his show cancelled. Anyone else out there thinking about doing something similar has got the message about what happens when you disagree with the government. Yeah, he'll win his freedom in the trial, but "the process is the punishment". No free country tells a comedian that he and his employer are going to be forced to defend themselves in court for... writing a poem.
Well if the problem is general excessive consumption, then a tax on consumption will help. But consumption tax is not necessarily progressive (or at least not sufficiently progressive enough to warrant the label) as its impacts on the poor (as a matter of marginal welfare as opposed to % of income/consumption) are usually much greater than on the most wealthy.

See this 2009 IFS report for the nuance in the context of UK VAT - in particular figure 10.1 and 10.2 (http://www.ifs.org.uk/budgets/gb2009/09chap10.pdf).

Often VAT regimes will not tax certain basic good such as bread, eggs, or essential household products, but in the UK most goods including many that you may consider basic have 20% VAT.

Someone being taxed say 20% on their consumption when their typical yearly consumption is $1 million has a much smaller impact to their marginal welfare than someone with a typical expenditure of $10k taxed at 10-15%. If someone has an income and consumption of $10k, then you probably don't really want tax them much or anything at all (you probably want to give them money/job/training/something!).

Provided you offset the increased taxation by consumption with increased services and benefits to the poorest, then you can mitigate most of the worst regressive effects.
It's just not the same as with Eclipse. I'm not sure what it's called or if it has a name, but the Eclipse equivalent to VS Pro's IntelliSense, in which it's actually aware of code that you've previously written in other files or third party libraries, and it pops up as a little list next to what you're typing--is it possible to have that level of functionality in Vim?

It's the actual awareness of code you've previously written, the detection of possible issues before you compile--IDEs tend to read your code with you and help out a lot in many more ways... I suppose it's not "autocompletion" but I was hoping to successfully use that as an umbrella term.
Core Wars!

http://www.corewars.org/
For those wondering, you can get around this globally by listening during the capture phase and stopping propagation.

document.addEventListener('DOMSubtreeModified', function( e ) {
e.stopPropagation();
}, true );
Cool story, meanwhile Uber and Lyft drivers just look the other way. Works really well
If the Pareto distribution is true, then "reducing income inequality" devolves to "reducing income."
I wasn't being snarky, really. I was suggesting that if upgradeability is in your list of priorities, then you would be better off with another notebook rather than a Macbook.
I don't think this is true any more. If you buy and hold index ETFs you'll outperform the majority of professional investors due to the very low expense ratios. Some people with lots of influence like Warren Buffett or David Swensen @ Yale have access to slightly better risk-reward adjusted opportunities but that's a very small group of folks. Even Warren Buffett has instructed his estate to keep its assets in SPY the S&P 500 index fund after his death. Every time you hear about wealthy people earning a huge return on an investment just remind yourself that risk-reward is baked into almost everything in the markets and what you're not seeing is the many other investors who chased similar investments but lost.
They should borrow from block chain. Let 2 people agree to defend each others land and let people sign one house at a time. The larger it gets the more people with consensus. That should get it big enough until enough people can contribute a small amount to register and a central registry can be created.
So, do you think you should pay more for Internet service if you consume more bandwidth?

Or is it just a commodity that we all utilize and is payed for with a flat rate, regardless of the value/un-value is provides?
How to make things go faster: Do fewer things.

"no code is faster than no code"

[0]: https://twitter.com/davecheney/status/715421274722271232
From the article: "Average adjusted gross income for filers in the second-highest fifth dropped by about 1 percent.... Adjusted gross income in the second-lowest fifth declined the most, 9 percent".
Yeah, because of the exact 'free' trade policies which propelled this offshoring:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/mexican-farmers-agr...
Sir the website clearly states I have 20 million in my account, attached is a screenshot with same.
> One person's wealth does not come at the expense of another's.

Not sure I agree with that. Even in the US, we can point to slavery or even more recently discriminatory housing/zoning laws.

I'm sure someone with more knowledge than me can provide a better argument here.
So if you come to a bar with the flu and get me sick should I hold you responsible for fuck ups? Or maybe the bar? What if one of their workers is the one with the flu?

I'm not sure it's comparable, flu only kills 4x more people as cholera and honestly I'd personally like it if I could sue people for getting me sick by going out to public places when they know they are sick. (A friend of mine just gloated on twitter that he probably got 100 people sick by attending a meetup with the flu.)

That said, since most people don't seem to agree with me and just take it as normal that sicknesses get passed on with a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ type attitude I guess I'm unsure how to hold the UN any more responsible.
Yes. No taxes except for the flat tax.
I haven't made that transition, but I can say from experience that (for me, at least) hobbyist side projects are a lot different than working on software full-time. When you're coming up with your own side-projects or picking FOSS to contribute to you get a lot more freedom in what you're doing and how you do it than if it's handed down to you filtered through managers and other more senior engineers. Unless you're lucky, there's a good chance you'd end up working on something that doesn't really interest you or stimulate you in the way that solving your own problems can.

That being said, I work full time on software that doesn't always align 100% with my passions, but it hasn't dulled my interest or excitement in programming in general or my side projects at all.
Here's a video montage from Der Spiegel of the the program: http://spon.de/vg9uR. In a typical Jon Stewart fashion Böhmermann says things and "check" with his "producer" which ones are illegal to say.
The `.lock` function takes two optional parameters: `alertMessage` and `customHandler`. `customHandler` is a callback invoked when a content change is attempted. `alertMessage` is a convenience function that calls `alert`; it could be trivially implemented by the client programmer using `customHandler`. The author is ostensibly suggesting that `alert` is a common use case. I think he's trolling us.

EDIT: Just saw that the author is a company. There goes my theory.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only_software
This is not how it works. First, citizenship is not important in front of a German court barring very few exceptions. Second, there is a law which specifically protects foreign head of states. Third, German courts ruled before in the past this specific provision is part of international law in the German legal system.

You don't need to be a German citizen to be protected by German law (why should you?).
> Comet 266P/Christensen will pass the Chi Sagittarii star group again on 25 January 2017, while 335P/Gibbs will make its passage on 7 January 2018. Paris plans to observe these events to look for a recurrence of the mystery signal. But time is not on his side for using an existing radio telescope – they are all booked out.

Can someone explain why he needs to observe them when they're passing in front of those particular stars?
I have a counter-example. I worked at a small SaaS company where I built the foundation web service and performed query optimization that took from them a highly-inadequate non-scalable product to something that handled scale gracefully. A substantial amount of this work was done in my first month there - in my opinion, my domain knowledge ensured that what I did for them in this month would have taken them a lot more hardware and many months to even get close.

You seem to be very dismissive of turning-point ideas and crucial features that make or break companies. Archimedes' principle, the foundation of modern naval history, was a Eureka moment thought up in a bathtub. Should we ignore this contribution because it took moments to come upon this insight?

I am not taking sides here and wish to let the courts work through this complaint without casting aspersions on either side.