skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Productivity is measured in cash value produced per hour.

So, what happens when the products people make get cheaper? I daresay filling station employees have declining productivity right now under that measure even if they pump more gas than a couple of years ago.

The people at Micron / Crucial are similarly less productive. I can buy a shiny new 4GiB RAM stick for $20, when two years ago it was $80. It's just as good, and that company is a good one. But still, their products have less cash content to them.

In a decade when energy cost/use patterns are in flux, are we mismeasuring productivity? In an age when human population is very high indeed, does it makes sense to use a productivity metric that encourages more-more-more?

I wonder if it makes sense to measure productivity using some longer-term measure? How many hours must a person work to gain an hour of artificial light at night? (There was a study about this a few years back, but I can't find it.) The advent of LED lamps and solar charging has caused this measure of productivity to soar, especially in developing cultures.
Wildly diversified and large society?

As far as I remember Germany has 1/3rd of the population of the US – and a social democracy very similar to Denmark or Sweden. And Germany has large immigrant populations as well.

Could you explain why this concept can work with 80 million people in Germany, but not, say, the 40 million people living in California?
Great way to tie three products into their lowest common denominator.

User who love Cortana but dislike Bing and Edge, gone.

User who love Cortana and Bing but dislike Edge, gone.

User who love Cortana and Edge but dislike Bing, gone.
well I suppose my employer adds some sort of value to what I create or it wouldn't be enough to keep them in business either. I suppose I question the value of capitalism a lot anyway, but that doesn't mean I have to justify the money I make (in fact saying I should justify the money I make implies I should not question the value of capitalism when employed by capitalists).
So Cortana is only good for porn searches now?
Bing and Yahoo still advertise freeware with toolbar/adware installer
> The worst thing that can happen in programming is my application throwing an error (assuming PHP/Python or similar).

This is not remotely true at all.
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Just make sure you don't mention that the edge of the visible universe is 46,000,000,000 lightyears away, making 8,000 lightyears feel relatively (arf!) close.
The Employer does not "steal" from the Employee. There is an employment contract, the transaction is voluntary. Being an Employer has greater risk, and half of society hates you.
Economics 101: How much are you willing to pay to live?
At least in germany.

Same problem with searches for "google chrome", "filezilla", "7zip", "opera" and "vlc player". It could be more.

Duckduckgo is using yahoo adnetwork and shows the same adware/toolbar installers. Google banned the ads for this search terms years ago.
Automation's Role with DevOps and Continuous Delivery
Thank you for checking it out! Yes, your feedback is well-placed; it does need additional game-play elements (e.g., power-ups, shields, variation, etc.) that would give it a higher replay factor.

Again, thank you for taking the time to play and provide feedback. This was my first game, and it's clear that I have a lot to learn!
It reminds me of the electoral college system: people complain about it and realize it is outmoded system but it will never get replaced because the people with the power to actually change it won't since the system got them the power in the first place. Academic publishing isn't quite that bad since it is slowly changing but I think it is similar.

Established faculty largely don't care because they are established (there are exceptions of course). Some new faculty would like to change it but if they do set up their own system it won't be taken seriously by the administration or senior faculty in charge of tenure review. There are also new faculty who don't know or care about these things so they just do what they know which is traditional publishing.

I was at a faculty development session a couple months ago. There were 20 faculty members there from various departments and the topic turned to open access journals. Some people were arguing that they weren't worth publishing in because tenure review boards haven't heard of them so they don't take them seriously. Then one guy - remember, this is a college professor - asked "where are these papers stored?" He wanted to know where the actual servers were physically located. And then he said, "This whole online thing seems like Big Brother."

That being said, things are changing and in some fields open access journals are seen as reputable and accepted but they are still new and in some fields (non-stem mostly) they are seen much more skeptically. So if you are in those fields and you want tenure you are going to try to get published in the old journals first.
With a market cap of half of Apple's they made ... 1/20 of the profit. For the first time ever.
My local cable provider (Verizon) displays pop-up ads while I'm trying to navigate the channel guide. Worse, the ads are modal -- you have to read and dismiss them before you can continue. One more reason to cut the cord.
Rovi acquires TiVo in $1.1B deal; ‘TiVo’ will be the new company name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blacklist_(TV_series)

It's almost as if this TV series was written with Le Roux in mind.
Only thing I can add to all the other reasons already mentioned is the most obvious one that gitlab has received a lot of press and exposure during the last 2 years and this in turn has made the number of eyes on the code grow.

As with any software project; there will be bugs.

As with any open source project; there will be eyes on the code.
I wasn't being reductionist, that is not my world view; I recognize many different hierarchies. But wealth is an extremely important dimension and the one under examination here. Simple example: people with higher income hire literal wage slaves to do their gardening and cleaning. Low income people don't have nearly such authority.
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Goddamit, I downvoted you when I meant to upvote. Sorry.
So does Shopify or other e-shop services run on AWS? If so, doesn't that essentially mean Amazon's competitors are paying Amazon to undercut them?
If ever a person wonders whether or not they're being paid fairly all they need do is imagine the scenario where they quit. The difficulty and financial losses felt by their employer should strongly correlate to their pay.
It was painful, but there was a time when they actually defined equations for the earth being the center of the solar system which matched observations. The equations were a mess, but they managed to force the math into their hypothesis. Then Copernicus came along. Do you still believe the earth is the center of the solar system?

I'm sure you can twist the math upside down and get the same results defining gravity as a function of matter instead of as curved space time using some modified newtonian mechanics or such, but do you really believe that's correct?
Well, the nearest known black hole...
Industry conference names top eight Ukrainian startups
"Project Dropboxen"
New rail-based gravitational energy storage project begins in California
So, it's an 'information' black hole, right? But matter, energy, whatever is trapped inside it with very high density and does not simply vanish right? .. Or am I completely wrong?
Dropbox? No thanks, no integrity there. I'm looking forward to protonmails comming equivalent. Security and integrity for the win! It does not matter that I've nothing to hide, nsa etc has no right to prive in my personal life.
Discounting the fact that some programs execute within the "heaps of metal" you speak of. There are also programs and solutions out there that affect millions of individuals, and could absolutely have far-reaching consequences in a "worst case" scenario. E.g. The recent citizen information leaks.
The employer risks their money in return for the possibility of more money back
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Yes, absolutely! It's the tenet No 1 of a market – when people freely exchange something, both are better off. (No 2: there's some stuff that you can't do without cooperation).

But in the potato-case, all the potato-value and great-fence-you-have-there-value gets added to GDP, where realistically, output only grew by whatever the increase of efficiency was.
...but demand profile resulted in supply of articles of different variety and quality.
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> To say that Facebook is "doing good" is a vast understatement

Superman does good, Facebook's doing well.
Where does this style originate? I see it sometimes and it baffles me why some people do it this way.
Microsoft Experiments with DNA Storage: 1M TB in a Gram (2016)
They compare SciHub to Napster. I have news for U.S. Corporate giants - this is no Napster. For one, this isn't downloading what is essentially entertainment. This is downloading serious content without which researchers and students couldn't help the world progress in positive and vital ways. Secondly, a lot of this content wasn't funded by the ones publishing it, and it shows in the comments every time this gets broached because almost every writer whose work is published tells the same story - they didn't get paid by the publisher and all they are doing is preventing their work from being distributed to the widest audience possible.

Thirdly, this time the bullies can't touch those who are distributing the work. One of the consequences of the pervasive reach of the Internet is that if pirated material falls outside of the jurisdiction of a nation that strictly endorses its copyright law then there is virtually nothing that nation can do about it.

When Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann prosecuted Aaron Swartz they thought they had struck a blow for copyright holders everywhere. And they did for a few years. Under three years later, however, the rules of the game changed and this time there is no one they could easily prosecute, because they are outside of their grasp and there is no way to persecute them, or make an example of them.

The established order has changed. Those who should have known better, who should have put conditions on publicly financed research to be open to all instead allowed greedy and amoral companies like Elsevier to take the hard work of others and sell it for a profit, giving almost nothing back to the system they are pillaging. Too late they choose to open the door slightly ajar to make those on the outside think they will be granted access, only to slam that door shut before they can get inside. Too late do they realise that a gentleman thief has broken in and distributed their ill-gotten gains to the ones they stole from.

Those who ruthlessly pursued the Aaron Swartz's of the world have finally been undone. Their arrogance and rapacity blinded them to the reality that they cannot deny information to the world. They did not heed the words of those who enabled the digital revolution. This struggle was predicted by Stewart Brand in 1984, who said to Steve Wozniak at the first Hackers Conference in Marin County, San Francisco:

"On the one hand, information wants to be expensive because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is lower and lower all the time. So you have these two things fighting against each other." [1]

That tension continues, but the old guard is now fighting a rear guard action. They will fight back, but they will remain in retreat until one day they give up, or are forced to and information becomes free. On that day be thankful, because the bindings of the ones who wish to shackle your mind and creativity will have lost the power to do so, to the incalculable good of humanity.

1. https://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge338.html
No, firing and resigning are clearly different things (as is laying off). If your analysis were correct, then nearly every time a person parts ways with a job, it would be via being fired by their management.

The issue here was that the entire workplace isn't going to be reformed for a single employee. It's clearly a mismatch. The employee can then choose to adapt to the way things are done, or they can choose to move on -- which is what happened. In a firing, the employee has no choice, the decision has been made for them.

This is pretty clearly not firing. Firing comes with an entire bag of other things that resigning does not. For example, a person who was fired might be able to collect unemployment while looking for a new job. A person who resigns is not. A person who is laid-off is automatically able to collect unemployment.

Companies also are called by future employers to find out the nature of the split, and the way the separation happened will be in the employee's file. Many companies will also keep a record of why the separation happened.

In the first case, convincing somebody to resign is a favor to the company, because companies must pay into the unemployment pool. In the second, it's a favor to the employee because being fired can have long-term career consequences to them.
Classical inheritance enforces that a method can only be overridden by another method in a subclass.

Prototypical "inheritance" allows different types of values to be assigned to the same symbol.

E.g. if you have a method bob() on a prototype, you can set object.bob = 'astring'; and it isn't an error.
haha! I like it!
No, no, Google is infallible. Besides, Microsoft is betraying us after they open sourced several of their most popular libraries and toolkits. They just can't have it both ways. /sarcasm
Yes, ARC is a great example of how a PG project should be open sourced and run by the community.

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API is read-only; API should be "full service" and the first interface to HN, not a supplement.

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Yeah, whole ARC (aka PG) thing is an issue too; FYI, those install direction are dated, here's the info:
http://arclanguage.org/user?id=akkartik

PG doesn't even appear to be actively involved in ARC anymore:
http://arclanguage.org/user?id=pg

Find it hard to believe if YC funded a startup like HN that they wouldn't require an explanation of why ARC made sense as the language of choice.
That's an interesting point which has very little relevance to the guy who just wants some oxygen.
> Would I be eligible for unemployment benefits? Severance?

No.

People who choose to terminate their own employment are general not eligible (in the U.S. at least) for unemployment benefits and most employment contracts will not provide severance unless the employee is laid off.
Seed money spent on shares isn't a subsidy because the investor retains the value of the shares. I'm not aware of any implication that SpaceX gets subsidy funding from any external source. Anyway, they have submitted audited accounts of their cost structure to the air force.
In reaction to Infinite's reaction to Dropbox's action, I announce my "Reaction".
Delete Your Dead Code (2016)
US Supreme Court approves expanded hacking powers
Complaining that Cortana uses Bing is like complaining that Google Now uses Google. What prevents Google from writing a drop-in replacement for Cortana on Windows like how MS can promote Cortana on Android as an alternative to Google Now?
I have an old friend who works for social service in the UK in a deprived area.

Without wanting to be too crude, he told me that partly the reduction in teen pregnancy is down to the prevalence of porn and how it ends in a facial rather than a vaginal ejaculation.
Infosec's Jerk Problem (2013)
Here is a response from a Microsoft employee:

> […] Edge itself integrates with Cortana and offers various options that other browsers may or may not. Those integrations and options are likely to grow over time. Basically you can think of the search as a single end-to-end transaction in terms of the feature design, meaning that handoff to an undetermined browser or search engine doesn't produce the desired experience for the feature.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/04/cortan...
It could be that the industry the jobs being created aren't more productive. A server at a restaurant wouldn't add a lot of high productivity value.
> I work in CS

You 're fortunate. I bet sci-hub is mostly used by life scientists.
This would not be a blacklist. What Dylan16807 proposed would still be a whitelist. It would just use different criteria.

The reason facebook offers those filters is because a lot of posts are public yet facebook still offers a way to limit the audience.

Filtering the audience using circles is what Google+ did and proved to be unpopular.
> And that's why it's a bit silly to have ideological positions about currencies

Indeed. I think Bitcoin would be given the time of day by a lot more people if there was a lot less political whackjobbery surrounding it, and more sane, informed discussion from people such as yourself.
There's more to it than that. Firing an employee has more legal consequences to a company than having them resign. For example, the company will likely have to pay unemployment taxes to cover the unemployment benefits an employee is likely to receive.

Resigning a position also allows an employee to save face and will be documented in their employment file and provided for reference checks from future employers.
Yes they are. He negotiated market rate for the actors.
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Benchling (YC S12) is hiring engineers to build a platform for life science R&D
Do you really value books based on the price of wood pulp & the cost of shipping ?
An artist was given 6 months prison sentence in Sweden: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/22/swedish-artist-...

Similar things happen in France, Germany, Austria etc. It's usually for challenging anti-racist dogmas. In Germany, it can be for making fun of a foreign leader.
How do they do it in CS? People there communicate with arxiv links, not dois.
This has been done so many times already. One example is Coffitivity:

https://coffitivity.com/
My theory is that it's the other side of the dual universe. (as opposed to multiverse).

It goes something like this: membrane theory, universe a broke into our universe, big bang, but from a single point, causing quantum entanglement on all matter in this universe, which seeks a return of it's original state in universe a, and therefor gravity is actually a second teir effect of matter seeking to return via building up and entering a blackhole. Eg, quantum mechanics and entanglement are stronger than gravity based upon the fact it works at longer distances.

Thats my non-physicist version of the grand unifying theory, but I'm not sure how to create a falsifiable by humankind version of it. I suspect dark matter discoveries will be the key.
You're right, actually -- it's not more readable. Java developers already understand nulls, comparisons, and if statements.

However, the second version is a lot more brittle than the first. It's relatively easy to change the code and still get it to compile, whereas you'll have a lot more trouble doing that with the first. For example:

1. If you forget to check 'order' for null, it'll still compile fine, because null is a valid value for type 'Order'. But if you try to feed an Optional<Order> to OrderEngine, it won't compile.

2. If you forget to check 'result' for null, it'll still compile fine, and then throw an NPE when you run 'result.succeeded()'. Again, if you try to call check ProcessResult::succeeded in the first example, it won't compile unless you deal with the empty-result case specifically.

3. Say that later on you want to get your stored values back out of the database... and you find a null in there. Where did it come from? If you forget to check 'result' for null and don't do the 'succeeded()' check, you can put a null in the database. Then your program will work fine until you try to call a method on it, at which point it throws an NPE far, far away from the point where you store it. By using Optional and dealing with the empty case, your code won't compile if you try to store null in the DB.

So unfortunately it will be less readable until Java devs adjust themselves to using this new type, but the benefits do exist.
So, still just the kind of stuff where you get more for your money over time even despite inflation, thanks to technology developments. Why would the impact of messing with the money supply outweigh that of the technology in any other way that forcing a change in scheduling? And how is inflation beneficial for those who need to save money for a long time for large investments?

Inflation would only really make sense in a model where everybody already have access to all the funds they need to purchase what they want, but where they postpone all purchases to see if the can get more, AND where it is these delays that hurt the market by making it hard for the makers of these goods to survive. And this effect has to be the single most dominant one.
Employers take on risk. Risk of employing you, investing in the business, market research, risk of market down-periods, etc. Additionally, they're an intermediary that makes finding/retaining clients easier and more efficient.

So no, I wouldn't call it "stealing", rather an exchange that is not immediately obvious because it's not entirely monetary/transactional in nature.
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This is one of my favorite blogs on the Internet. For some reason, browsers decided to abandon the standard and useful RSS meta tag, but medievalbooks does indeed have one if you wish to subscribe: https://medievalbooks.nl/feed/
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I don't blame a company for taking out unpredictability. It is what conservative programmers do.
Your concrete example doesn't work.

In a system of equal wages you'd still get paid for developing your steam engine even if it didn't work - the safety net means that engineers won't have to take a risk (beyond wasted materials) in order to develop new designs. You'd need a central bureacracy [which is the problem] so you could apply to a group akin to the InstMechEng and they would asign finances for your project or not (or you could self-finance if the costs weren't too high).

It also however means that when they make the new design everyone can benefit rather than just them. For sure, some people will consider it only worth working to improve things for themselves and so refuse to work to make new engineering advances.

A better example you could give IMO would be something like coal miners. "No one would want to work in a coal mine, as it's high risk, if the reward is the same as working in an office as that's low risk.". I don't think it's true, some people will still want to work manually, despite the risk - people take risks for pleasure so the economics are far more complicated than "people only take risk if there's greater financial compensation".

It's a source of sadness for me that one might feel the only reason to do something is to have more than other people rather than to give more, to make everyone's world better. Greed is hard to combat, I certainly haven't managed that, but it's not the only motivation to work.
All ~1% of them. As stated by plenty of lawyers, prosecutors and researchers who know that those groups prefer physical cash.