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I'm from LA and didn't realize the unprotected left turn was anything unusual...
Maybe I am cynical or naive but if more automation and other things are causing fewer jobs. And then the remaining employees are getting paid more but there are fewer paid workers overall. But that'd cause a rise in compensation of those employeed.

Shouldn't this be done differently?

Tl;dr; let's fire/automate half the workers. Pay the rest more. And worker Compensation will skyrocket!
If I have to choose between a society where 11% of the population does some pointless work (and anything that doesn't pay at least what could be consider a 'basic income' is pretty much pointless) or one where 1% does amazing stuff in their spare time, and 10% does nothing. I'd prefer the latter.

Don't see how criminality would increase with basic income, if anything I'd expect a decrease (fewer people in hopeless situations = less crime).
Why would would you want to do that? What kind of shit parent would want their child to be "other person" let alone Zuck. Even Zuckerberg would probably (rightly) say, idk guys that's probably not a good idea.
It's okay to rewrite whatever you want in off hours.

Just deploying it without consulting with anyone in place of the original production system would be a poor quality behavior.

If you think you have something, make an isolated test deployment of it for internal evaluation, and so on. No matter how the existing system sucks, at least it has some mileage in deployment and has been through some QA.
It was better the last few years because my otherwise-marginalized point of view won out, on a level, relatively-ban-free playing field. Your weak-ass memes couldn't compete.
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Hah - yeah, I don't know what's up with that. They edited away from my original title as part of publishing.
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The Peculiar Longevity of Things Not So Bad (2004) [pdf]
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Correct. What the author seems to be missing is that a different approach was already tried in the "fixed-function pipeline" era. Two issues were encountered:

1) Fixed-function utterly failed to capture the explosion of features as graphics card capability took off, having to fall back on nasty APIs like the OpenGL extensions system (where at a certain level of sophistication, more of your code is calling Glext functions than core OpenGL functions---when everything is an extension, nothing is)

2) Compile-time-checkable behavior was accomplished via function calls, but it turned out that making a lot of function calls created significantly non-trivial runtime overhead, and performance is king in graphics. It's hard to get good static checking on a model of "Rip a bunch of bits into a binary buffer and then ship that whole buffer to the GPU," but that model is a lot faster than many-function-call-based alternatives.
You seem to hate capitalism because your argument against ABP was basically "they get revenue."

ABP is in fact a capitalist solution. It gives advertisers an incentive to tone down their ads so they can be seen by more people.

Absolutist ad blockers are actually the ones exploiting the tragedy of the commons. Without advertising, the content which you're viewing without ads would not exist.

> Revenue will be generated, only that it will eventually have to come from consumers directly to publishers and content creators.

Why? That's your personal preference and political position. Reality isn't forced to adapt to your preferences and in practice advertising has existed for thousands of years—it's unlikely to go away anytime soon.

Moreover, I suspect that if you asked most people outside the HN echo chamber they'd actually rather have advertising than paying through subscriptions.
Independent of social context, this type of act is generally viewed favorably. Machiavelli claims that "nothing makes a Prince so well thought of as to undertake great enterprises and give striking proofs of his capacity." [0]

How this would go down in your particular workplace all depends on the surrounding political and social context. It could either be interpreted as "Wow, that guy is such an amazing programmer that he was able to refactor our whole legacy system in his spare time! We should definitely keep him on board and learn from this kind of work, even if we can't do a full-scale replacement." or "Wow, that guy is so self-absorbed and unwilling to cooperate with his teammates that he went home in a fit of anger and thought he could replace 10 years of work in a few weekends! What an abrasive blowhard. Let's fire him next time he gives us an excuse."

The halo effect is going to be the primary determinant here. [1] If your colleagues and superiors are predisposed to interpret your actions favorably, they'll probably do so until you give them a reason not to, and vice-versa. It takes a lot of work to maintain a good halo, and it should be considered your primary job duty if you wish to have a fulfilling career as an employee.

Humans are social animals and will evaluate everything about you, including your technical competence, by the social signals you output. Successfully managing these can get complicated in the workplace due to the competing interests of the people you come into contact with during the course of your employment.

[0] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Prince_%28Hill_Thomson%29...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
> I think we'll see a lot more language like this in the coming ten years.

?? Why? What's special about the coming ten years?

FWIW I've always seen this kind of language, it's not in the slightest new. You could go to most any point in history and find similar things.

The problem is you can only tell what needs [needed] the money in hindsight. In 2002 did you know we needed the money for this? Did anyone?
DreemGL [1] [2] addresses these problems by compiling JavaScript code into shaders.

"DreemGL is an open-source multi-screen prototyping framework for mediated environments, with a visual editor and shader styling for webGL and DALi runtimes written in JavaScript." [3]

[1] https://github.com/dreemproject/dreemgl

[2] http://docs.dreemproject.org/docs/api/index.html#!/guide/dre...

[3] https://dreemproject.org/
They just meant they only revealed the new salaries determined by this system and not the salaries from the old system.
Dupe, this story was posted with significant discussion 1 month ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11341494
No you don't understand. Apple's business model is broken because the macbook is too expensive for my tastes.
its also pretty much the same solution colleagues and I came up with a few years ago for a migration tool we were working on. It's kind of abandon-ware at this point, but this version is pretty far along: https://github.com/jdc0589/mite-node
I'm sorry but isn't this just Darwinism in play here? You get natural selection, and various species that are selected against become extinct.

But it's not like it's going to turn into some sort of desert, the area, after forest fires, will be replaced by another species that is presumably resistant to the fungus, and life moves on.
It's true that there's no law of nature that dictates housing depreciation. However, I will say that all of America works this way, and has for at least as long as I have been alive - houses hold onto their value. That fact may be culturally bound, but the point still remains that no one decided that this should the case, nor is there some law or policy that keeps homes from depreciating.
The one big benefit I see over Let's Encrypt is the wildcard certificate. This allows me to use virtual hosting to host my sites over a single ip address. The domain name doesn't matter as it's only used for backend.

I do wonder how trusted the root certificate is. Will I be able to access my server directly without that big red screen?
I used to carry a multi-tool on my keychain. I would routinely forget to remove it when going to the airport, and it was never flagged or even noticed. Amusingly I lost it when I was going to a club in SF and a bouncer found it during a pat-down and wouldn't let me bring it in.
That is the case. I personally love Crouton for development on a pretty old chromebook.
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http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-29/consultants...

>"Fidelity's 'Unicorn' Valuations Were Just Proven To Be Bogus," writes Dan Primack, and while I sympathize with his annoyance, I disagree with him a little. Primack's main point is that one shouldn't take too seriously the private-company valuations in big mutual funds' monthly holdings reports, because those valuations are not market-derived but are instead set by valuation committees that may not have much in the way of financial information. Which is fair enough. But he also tells the story of drug unicorn Stemcentrx: Fidelity invested at a $5 billion valuation in August 2015 and had marked down its holdings by 37.75 percent as of this February, but then AbbVie agreed to buy the company for $5.8 billion plus billions more in potential earnouts. "If Fidelity was so wrong about Stemcentrx," asks Primack, "why would anyone trust its carrying value of Pinterest or Zenefits?"

>But that's not quite fair. Public company acquisitions normally come at a premium. Heck, the stock market values Yahoo's core business at negative $8 billion, and it might sell for positive $8 billion, a premium of double infinity. (There may be flaws in this math.) You shouldn't think of Stemcentrx as having some true permanent value that Fidelity got "wrong" and AbbVie got "right." Instead, Fidelity's monthly marks were a rough effort to approximate a public-market price for Stemcentrx. Sometimes those prices go up, sometimes they go down, and sometimes the company is bought at a big premium to the last price. It's all an effort to recreate the appearance of public markets in private stocks. It's more bogus than public pricing, sure, but it's a sliding scale; public markets don't always reflect true permanent value either.

See also http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-03-04/unicorns-ar...
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What if we phase UBI in with increasing automation. Maybe the opposing problems caused by both will cancel each other out?
Makes as weird a sense as any in this whole thing. Suppose you support the theory that Satoshi is actually a collective rather than individual. In that case, the Satoshi keys could have been formed in such a way that none of the individual members of the cabal have direct access to the actual keys (as they were formed by parts split amongst the cabal and require collective effort to make use of) and with compartmentalization of efforts none of the members of the cabal necessarily know the full extent of the cabal's membership, either...
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Sadly, this isn't the only fungal pathogen attacking american oaks. Oak Wilt is dealing similar damage across the south and central plains states: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/fidls/oakwilt/oakwilt.htm
I think this is sort of the apotheosis of the concept that money is the universally effective solution to all problems.

Money is not the universally effective solution to health care in this country. We already spend double, as a percent of GDP ,compared to any other country.

I think we're going to run into some problems on the supply side with a universal basic income. Some prices will rise due to increased consumption. This will make capital investment (e.g Research and Development, New Factories, Upgrading Production Equipment) more costly. Eventually you'll burn the furniture to heat the house and then things will start to fall apart and get into an inflationary spiral. It does have the benefit going for it that it is less complex to administer though, while our health care system is enormously complex and grows ever more complex with the more money that gets spent on it.
I learned a lot about how WebGL works by studying the "twgl" library, which is basically a thin wrapper around WebGL that automates all the boilerplate stuff. It's true to the WebGL way of doing things, and doesn't add much beyond that.

"This library's sole purpose is to make using the WebGL API less verbose."

https://twgljs.org/
I assume Lambda is affected? According to http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/current-supporte..., Lambda functions have access to ImageMagick-6.7.8.9. I'm not sure how you can specify a policy file in such an environment.
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Most people I know use it all the time, except if a black cab happens to be right there on the street.

Worth noting that ubers in London are all licensed minicabs, it's not like some American cities where they may not be insured for commercial use.
To two digit accuracy: Today, May 3rd 2016.

This is relevant in the case of disasters as you don't have time to meaningfully increase the number of Generators available etc.
I'll run it better. Turn it over to me. There's gold in the database that got censored on the site. I'll assume all legal liability.
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Yeah, I know, more power means you can process a bigger swath of the field faster with one pass. But I've driven a ~15hp tractor, and it could still do a lot more than you'd think.
That's unclear given that Fidelity is a major investor and would likely have information rights. If there are investor updates (and I assume there are), Fidelity likely gets them.
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If you actually want democracy and fairness, make the whole thing a co-op.

Sure, it's good to reveal salaries. The "don't tell the others what you make" common thing from management is actually a way to keep employees disconnected and powerless so they don't organize. I'm not sure the revealing of salaries has to go along with this complex political system they've invented. Co-ops already have worked out ways to deal with these things. We don't need constant wheel-reinvention.
Multiple Security Vulnerabilities Found in ImageMagick
Pretty strange to describe Bethanye as a "Reddit veteran", especially leading the title with that. She worked at Reddit for less than a month.
ImageMagick Vulnerabilities (including one RCE)
>The Evening of Chaos: We scheduled a 2 hour marathon session one late afternoon to meet with everyone. The goal was to get everyone’s numbers decided, finish the whole process and just move on with our lives. This however turned out to be much harder than what we’d expected. It was chaos.

What a terrible idea. I feel for everyone involved.

I love the arrows that say "component", "attribute", "attribute number" on the salary spreadsheet. It's something that just doesn't make 100% sense, but sounds fancy enough to make the reader second guess their own intelligence.
Unless you plan on passing a universal benefit program that completely supplements the income of everyone relying on existing program then you are going to have to keep existing ones while cutting the benefits under those programs by a matching amount.

For instance if you currently get $1100 a month from benefit X then you would get $700 BI and $400 from benefit X.
To anyone trying this: make sure you warm up first and stretch afterwards. One minute of instant-on full-intensity exercise of any kind is just begging for an injury.

Especially if you're not eighteen any more like me.
> The issue is that every driver implementation ever ships with a slightly different implementation of that complex parser. That means (every mobile device)X(every OS update) and (every PC ad-in card)X(every driver update) all have the potential to misinterpret/reject your shaders in slightly different ways.

I can confirm this happens a LOT. (At least with ESSL) In it's defense, it usually is a mistake I made, but some implementations are definitely more lenient than others.
Fundamentally, the biggest problem with the fixed-function model and the vertex-plotting calls in the "red book" is they don't scale. They just don't. :(

There's a reason OpenGL ES threw most of that baby and bathwater out---it's not to diminish the footprint of the library on storage (even in an embedded device, memory's cheap for long-term storage). It's that those function calls are each a stack setup, library operation, stack teardown.... Per function call. You're more-or-less tripling the cost of describing your vertices.

We can ignore that cost on desktop machines (well, we COULD, if people didn't want to play the latest and greatest games in CRYENGINE or what have you ;) ). The cost was not ignorable in time-constrained, power-constrained architectures.

Simpler to reason about, but flatly the wrong solution for performant graphics on a coprocessor.
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https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/08/msg00...
It seems part of the story was crystal production getting ahead of demand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycrystalline_silicon#Capaci...

The price graph a little lower is interesting.
While solar and wind reduce peak demand, they have problems where they can suddenly loose a significant fraction of their output capacity (lull in wind, clouds) and that capacity has to be filled in by traditional peaking power plants, otherwise the grid will fail. Also the amount of power generated is not very predictable[1], and peaking/load following plants are needed to remain in standby to cover the shortfalls as the base load plants can take quite a while to respond to shortages in the supply of power.

[1]: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/downloads-englisch/pdf-file...
No, that would amount to double-counting the returns. Yes, you need to time-discount future returns, and you may need to risk-adjust, but that's already taken into account.
Maybe his big mouth got the better of him, and/or, like many compulsive liars, suffers from strong denial. He spent so much time pretending to be SN to impress investors he believes his own BS.

All I'm saying is people are looking for some rational master plan, perhaps there isn't one. Maybe this lie just snowballed out of control.
We try our hardest to make it work for the right candidates. A valid F1 is doable.
Matt Levine's column should be required reading for HNers.
> Leadership at the company is by invite only. We’re always looking for more leaders - so you can rest assured that you will be personally invited to formally join the leadership team.

Is this not just the performance management you we're trying to get rid of? I mean, fair enough if this is more palatable/workable. But still, it's not a huge difference from the old way?
Eh, Idk if it's that bad in US; if anything the other countries are worse. If you want to scratch that itch find a startup that uses latest and greatest stack.
This. I don't think you can fly direct out of IND to anywhere without going through ORD. And if I had to guess, to fly from IND to ORD I bet you have to route through DET. Obviously this is sarcasm but it is very frustrating. It is easier to just drive to ORD and fly from there. By the time you get to IND x number of hours before your 45min flight and then land & change planes in ORD, it is just easier to start in ORD.
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When you make someone do a 9 hour coding test and they solve it, you could at least take the 5 minutes it takes to write them a rejection E-mail :(
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Or maybe research level mathematics is actually really difficult.
I feel like the ", in Reversal" is a bit of linkbait here. It's tantamount to saying "S&P 500, in Reversal, went up in March and April". All that's happening here is standard volatility around an incredibly noisy set of guesses on private company values.

Fidelity (and others) feel they have to (now have to?) publicly state what these holdings are worth. They don't get to just say "Well, the market decides" like their other holdings. Besides, even with public companies, many firms / analysts are tasked with guessing a price target.
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> Nobody but nobody wants their cabby to be a guide

That's not just wrong, but unimaginative.
Take a step further. Let's say on day 1 of the basic income age all the bread merchants raise their price to $100.

One smart bread merchant will probably say "Hey I used to sell this for $1.50, I can do better than $100" and prices it at $90. Now everyone buys bread from him.

The other merchants feel the price pressure and the cycle continues, with the price settling down to something likely higher than $1.50 (to reflect the increased price of labor input as a result of basic income) but not so high that it totally eats the increased income.

So yes, things will cost more after basic income (after all you'd likely need some sort of inflation to find the money to give away). But in an efficient market they will not cost so much more than people are not still effectively richer than they were before. It does not change the intrinsic value of most things, it just makes certain inputs (namely labor) more expensive.