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>There is the idea of universal income, but then that theoretically just keeps this sort of insanity going longer.

Yeah, that's the real issue, at some point, AI will likely render capitalism as "unmaintainable" - but humans aren't very good at changing, and switching from capitalism to some kind of post-scarcity Star Trek economy is going to "hurt" too many of the rich and powerful for them to agree to it - so it will be fought. It will be fought with the armies that the rich and powerful control - and it will be very, very bloody. I don't think I'll live to see it (I'm almost 50), but I think it will happen.
No, it's not a fine line, it's a thick line that's visible miles away.

You don't tell people you want to fuck them at work.
It's as much about breaking the power structures of the existing political parties as it is about changing government, both have to happen to get real change thru - and I'm not too picky on the order.
I don't understand any of these three sentences. Can you reformulate your argument as a sequence of events, like:

T0: Bob->Schwab: Market BUY 100 ISSX

T1: Schwab->Citadel: Forward Market BUY 100 ISSX

... and so on? I can't even tell if you're talking about market or limit orders.
they're not pennying the order; they're SUB-pennying an order for $.001 improvement while leaning on an order they've paid for. they are stealing fills at the expense of the guy who took the risk / quoted the market.
Here's a comparison by emissions: http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/electric-cars-green

2015 US electricity generation by source:
( https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3 )
Coal = 33%
Natural gas = 33%
Nuclear = 20%
Hydropower = 6%
Other renewables = 7%
Biomass = 1.6%
Geothermal = 0.4%
Solar = 0.6%
Wind = 4.7%
Petroleum = 1%
Other gases = <1%

I've written before about the higher weight of EVs (a Tesla S weighs ~4600-~4900# vs some 80s cars weighing under 2000 or much lighter modern cars), drag coefficients (tesla is better but there have been other vehicles close even a decade or two ago), recycling of batteries, etc. The article I linked puts the EV equivalent mileage in the low 40s, which is the same as we can get with efficient ICE vehicles already. I'm not saying that their math is perfect and their picture complete (e.g. You also need electricity to make coal mining equipment and diesel to power oil tankers) but it looks like they did quite a bit of research and found that it's roughly the same right now.

I'm personally annoyed at all of the people thinking they're totally saving the environment by driving their Prius / Tesla / Leaf / whatever. I think it's ignorance at best and greenwashing a lot of the time.

The gist is that driving is bad for the environment regardless of what your car runs on. Bicycles or walking or living closer to the things you do every day is a better idea, and I wish more people would promote that vs ~don't change your habits, just buy a new car and Earth will be saved.
This is the correct answer to the questions posted. Collect facts, review evidence, have the conversation or fire.

Then follow up with female employee to inform her that he has been appropriately dealt with, and to inform you of any further transgressions.

AND FUCKING DOCUMENT EVERYTHING
It's an acronym. It can't transcend its literal meaning.

The amount of convenient and false assumptions you made in your post is indeed baffling.
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This may not specifically fall in that category, but you may still want to email if you don't get your answer here.
> automation has not eliminated jobs and that wealth transfers cause people to refuse to work.

One of those statements is meaningless and the other is flat-out incorrect.
Since you seem to have no education in economics aside from some libertarian drivel you picked up elsewhere (going only by your resume), I'll explain:

1. Automation has obviously not eliminated all jobs. It has eliminated some jobs, which have been partially or fully replaced by new, higher-skill jobs. There is an ongoing debate on how many of eliminated jobs get replaced and whether they get replaced in full at all. This isn't even an economic argument.

2. Welfare is a transfer of income, not wealth. Wealth is by and large capital, means of production and generally does not get transferred as it would be a violation of property rights - a literal theft of assets. Welfare occurs in the short term, whereas if you gave poor people stocks that were taken from investors - that would be a transfer of wealth.

> I'm only arguing about facts in this piece.

But your argument has nothing to do with automation. The arguments you presented give a case for some regulations being harmful to creating additional low-wage jobs.
The simple reason for mathjax is,that it is the only one that has many of the required features and it works across browsers. MathML can't deliver any of that...
Have these jobs existed in the US in the first place? Was it commonplace for people to have cooks for example? Not to nitpick but is it really a matter of jobs disappearing or a cultural/societal difference?
I'm having trouble thinking of a situation in which calling someone a milf would be anything but a "crude work-inappropriate remark".
I was actually referring to girth. The vaginal canal is fairly elastic, but I've known women who complained that they were physically unable to have sex with a guy I knew because of girth.
I am delighted by this. I tried hadoop in past and found it quite complex with badly designed APIs which changed drastically between ver 1.x and 2.x. I see Hadoop as a manifestation of Java culture: big, complex, memory hog.

Since Pachyderm is written in Go I hope it promotes a Go culture: Simple, consistent and not a resource hog.
you're confused. timberhill PAID ib for the order. they're not quoting anything unless it's relative to their receipt of said order.
Block 3i patched so AESA lasts 8h without reboot, ship it
This would be very interesting to analyze. Any way to get some data about all these planets in the same place? planet Mass, planet orbit radius, star category, etc?
I disagree strongly as too strong barriers on non TSO hardware (such as say, armv7 or armv8) will just cause even more of that memory contention for no good reasons.

Also on a contended lock, there's a very strong possibility that you will decide that the lock can be taken right before you block.

On intel of course, it doesn't matter.
Picture yourself, as an owner of the company, explaining to a jury how "Mother I'd Like to Fuck" doesn't constitute a hostile environment in the course of a sexual harassment lawsuit. Maybe with a jury that includes someone your grandmother's age. And maybe not as a result of this particular conversation, but the next time it happens.
A quick Google around shows that 38% of people have dated a co-worker, so it seems unusual to call it uncouth.
Please keep updating this as you learn what's happening. Salesforce is opaque at the moment.
Did you link to Coase because he's a "circle jerk echo chamber of cliche", or for some other reason? Coase is obviously famous for advocating specifically the auction of the wireless spectrum.
Peter Thiel Is Now a Delegate for Donald Trump. WTF?!
Misleading headline. More tire and brake particulates because of higher vehicle weights. Not engine exhaust! Furthermore the increased brake particulates reported in their model are in question because regenerative braking eliminates a lot of friction brake usage.
This comes up a lot. And like the similar "poor people in America are richer than medieval kings" thing, it weirdly always seems directed at the lower ranks in society, when it applies much more so to the wealthiest.
First BitKeeper commit
This only gives part of the picture, economic wealth is only a partial proxy for quality of life. The poorest 5% in the US are e.g. disproportionally affected by disease, mental illness and various forms of economically oppressive arrangements such as high debt or the requirement to work multiple minimum-wage jobs.

Your link is interesting from a pure economic wealth perspective. But it is certainly not correct to claim that the poorest 5% of the US is better off than the richest 5% of India, which is easy to misread from these statistics.

In a sense, we are all kings compared to the Middle Age. This is truly wonderful and well worth remembering. But not everyone is living the life of kings.
You've posted a lot of unsubstantive comments to HN. Please don't do that. We're hoping for a higher signal/noise ratio here.
>I had a young (pre-teen) boy who filed copyright claims on several of my tutorials, and they where taken down instantly and took months to resolve via email.

I have a feeling no (big) video hosting site will be immune to this. This is a legal problem not a technology problem.

>Beyond that, YouTube is taking a ~50% cut of your ad revenue AND any donation revenue on the site which seems pretty extreme.

Yeah, I'm not sure what a 'fair' split is, but hosting and serving video is heavier than apps, and app-store collect 30% of revenue. With more competition that ratio may change in favor of content creators.

>They also don't do good when it comes to new content discovery, as the YT search promotes mostly popular content

Again, I think this is less YouTube and more the nature of the beast. You're in a typical long-tail market - where you compete with millions of other creators, with low barriers to entry. No search or discovery is going to get it right.
He reads only one HN comment per day, but it is always the correct one.
I think andreygrehov not only one who want to know the answer.
This is technically the second changeset, it seems, but I posted this one since the first is just blank: https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/commit/a082174a1b...
Exactly these questions also came to my mind when I read the article. Subscriptions can get very tricky. Sometimes you want events to be synchronously fired, sometimes it's better when they are deferred into another eventloop tick. Unsubscription can also get quite tricky as you said.

I really wonder if Elm got a generic solution that fits all possible usage scenarios.
Did you not read my post? It does not literally mean "I want to fuck you". You'd have to be pretty dense to think it is a literal come on or proposal. It's a mainstream pop culture term. Turn on any random X-Factor type show for 3 minutes and you'll hear Sharon Osbourne or someone use it.

> So sexual harassment is only a US thing?

If this occurred as OP described, I don't see how it can be construed as sexual harassment. He ended contact upon her making it clear that it was unwanted, so by the very definition of "harassment" he didn't harass her.

Again, I'm not saying that it was appropriate or that it doesn't warrant action, but I'm flabbergasted that people are suggesting he be fired.
In some cases this is excellent advice regarding a story or essay re-write as well.
Something like this might help - https://github.com/redspread/localkube
the critical self talk is normal. you should watch seth godin's talk "quieting the lizard brain" https://vimeo.com/5895898

i just had a similar conversation, but it dealt with music instead of code. this person felt they couldn't improvise/ create.

the problem isn't with their abilities, it's that they were taught to follow instructions - like the notes on sheet music. jazz musicians play off what they hear instead. however, they first internalized the rules and then forgot them.

you've already got the rules down - so the next step is to "forget" them.

a time constraint like going to a hackathon is a good place to start. you're pushing yourself to create in a short amount of time.

here, you'll focus on shipping...drowning out the critical voice in your head.

it's much like a muscle. the more you build and struggle through, the stronger you'll get.
I know I have the makings of a political platform. I also have experience as a community organizer (event planning largely) - but I dont think I'm the man to lead a major political movement - its not impossible, but I dont know if its what I want.
Can you explain what do these results mean?
Hello, I'm the author of the post. Thanks for all the interest! AMA!
Don't know why you got downvoted. Your comment is both admirably terse, and completely valid!

SL is an entirely distinct language. People who are fluent in multiple languages switch from linguistic context to another when they speak different languages. They don't translate from their native language. So it makes sense that you don't do this either.
I think there is a high likelihood that machine creativity or thought will be different from human creativity or thought.
Please don't react to a bad comment by making the thread worse.
I agree with this philosophy as well. If is a project or program that will be worked on more as time progresses, typically it refactors itself after the programmer has a better grasp of the big picture. Often the bigger picture can only be grasped after there is some momentum with the project. I'd say this works 90% of the time, where the other 10% needs more upfront design and research done before any real work is started.
CSS Flexbox: Guides, Tutorials, Examples and Other
Seeing as he's new and she's not - kick him to the curb. Get rid of him before he causes more headaches for you.
Teen finds possible Mayan city in Yucatan jungle
They didn't say it was all or nothing.
Mozilla launches Test Pilot, a Firefox add-on to try experimental new features
and it doesnt end there, after you build the stuff, you need to make sure that the stuff solves a problem, which to me is a much more harder problem.
1. While you need a lawyer for advice and to cover your ass, lawyers can’t lead. Lawyers offer advice and dot i’s. Weak leaders delegate their responsibilities to lawyers.

2. You need to assess your culture. Is this one bad apple or is this something larger. The work hard, party hard, live in the office startup culture can be a breeding ground for this. Not that you can’t have this environment and succeed, but you need to understand it and put checks and safeguards in place. One option is to designate a sexual harassment rep and make sure everybody knows this person’s roll and that they can talk to them, possibly anonymously.

3. Talk to your female employee and let her know you have to do something. You can’t ignore it as that effects the company and thus everyone. Get her opinion about how much of a problem his continued presence in the office will be. She may not want him to be fired as she may feel partially responsible (not saying she is in any way, but we don’t know how she’ll feel).

4. Talk to the bizdev employee. Document the meeting and any outcomes or remediation. Is this a problem of just being junior and not yet having the ability to separate barroom behavior from the work place. Why did you hire this person? Are those qualities still there and does this person have potential? Only you know.

Talk to a lawyer, but remember, you are the leader, they are not. Walk through the steps and make the tough decision about what is best for everyone. Reactionary firings can be almost as negative on your culture (not your liability though) as doing nothing. Be the type of leader who talks to their people and tries to come to a decision that is best for everyone. Don’t be the leader who makes reactionary decisions behind closed doors.

Also, don’t talk about ‘kicking someones ass’. As a leader, this is almost as bad as calling someone a MILF. Step back from your emotions. After a decade in the military, part of it working in legal, I’ve seen a lot worse: rape, child porn, attempted murder, grand theft, fraud. While obnoxious, calling someone MILF is pretty far down on the scale. This makes it tougher in some ways since firing isn’t automatically the only response.
Senate Kicks Off Debate Over Reauthorizing Controversial NSA Programs
+1 for Beej. I barely knew C when I enrolled in network programming, so trying to fill my C gaps alongside learning network programming was challenging. Someone recommended Beej. Then it was just a matter of C.
I'm not sure. Probably a few hundred.
> With that said, aren't we potentially overreacting here? Quite a lot of romances spark in the office. The guys tried it on, he's been rubuked, hopefully he got the point and will settle down.

I see your point, but if you're an employee and you're sharing that "so and so texted me this <shows phone>", what's the motivation behind that? She said she doesn't want to cause problems, but if it's something between two adults and not involving work, I would imagine she would just not say anything, particularly to management.

OP needs to read into their conversation, it's hard to armchair quarterback this over the internet. At the end of the day it's ultimately easier for us to say fire for a multitude of reasons, many of which are likely valid.
I don't see Apple ever opening up iMessage for any device other than their own. iMessage has some neat features but nothing that is totally unique from things like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, PushBullet, etc. Apple isn't making any money directly off of iMessage, its a feature of their platform. Opening it up would just increase Apple's cost for running it and remove one of the last things that makes an iPhone unique over the other major flagship phones. It's their killer app in a world where all phones look alike and all run near identical hardware specs.
I seem to recall at Watson project that analyzed recipes and discovered unconventional or unlikely combinations of ingredients. Ah, here it is: https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/community
I find this is a problem when I lack control over what I am building, so I focus on the act of building it which is in my control.
1) indeed there are a couple of barriers that could be optimized

2) in addition to what Phil already said (which is that there's no priority inversion for Safari/WebKit to have as all threads taking these locks have the same priority to boot), the private lock you're talking about, named the handoff lock, has terrible unlock patterns, and is why it performs so poorly when WTF::Lock benched it.
It's an option that just defaults to the system ANSI codepage. After clicking Data > From Text, in the "Text Import Wizard - Step 1 of 3" screen, change the "File origin" to "65001: Unicode (UTF-8)"
If the issue is that "C++ compiles stuff that may or may not work at all" then I don't see how those guidelines will help the situation. A C++ project may or may not follow those guidelines and then we're back where we started.
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considering the projected expenses for Swiss proposal - something around 220 billions of CHF per year (~=USD), and if I recall correctly only about 1/3 of it could be saved by reducing social programs and other savings, rest is a necessary steep taxes hike - not likely. It's ridiculously high amount for this tiny, albeit wealthy country. And it goes in exact opposite of what made this country consistently great over last 800 years - belief that you should be successful only if you put in hard and quality work. citizens are given more rights than elsewhere, but also more responsibility over their own destiny.

it's ridiculously expensive social experiment. vast majority of people around me is very skeptical since we all know plenty of people (ie from childhood) that live whole life on social help, and they don't contribute anything back. their full time job is slacking, drinking and finding a way to screw system and others more and more.

but boy would I wish to see it work! I just don't consider it possible in this century. not even in this great country
I understand that it's an acronym. You mustn't be thinking straight if you feel acronyms can't transcend their literal interpretation. Spend 10 seconds thinking about it and you'll think of many nouns which originated as acronyms.
There have been a bunch of posts of this so far, but I don't think it clears the interestingness threshold. Maybe if Thiel said something about why, it might.
One thing C does is force you to think about how the computer actually uses memory. So many languages abstract away the memory management and you end up with stuff like java programs that constantly and aggressively thrash the hell out of the processor cache by creating and (later) destroying objects for everything they do. Cache misses are one of the biggest performance killers on modern CPUs. You also see programmers do stuff like add characters to a string one at a time, even though each addition creates a whole new string and discards the old one.

If you do stuff like that a lot you can easily end up wondering why your program is so slow even though the profiler says that there are no standout slow parts. Everything is just uniformly slow because their coding style doesn't consider the amount of work each statement maps to at the machine level.
also: do you use any special tools to help monitor comments, or just https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments ?
I have a universal theory about this which is "spam and abuse make everything suck".

This is why we can't have an open libertarian Internet, and instead have walled gardens and moderated forums - ordinary users don't want to deal with the crap.

It's also why we don't have open API's, and why the API's that the big providers do give us tend to be nerfed and then discontinued - they're constantly abused, which imposes a maintenance cost that businesses have to justify.

It's why an email server is so difficult to run and email delivery is so unreliable. It's why you can't (or shouldn't) rely too much on Paypal. It's why governments effectively outsource Internet policing to big providers.

And so on.
Consider the case of a small startup with only one or two female employees. If OP does in fact fire him and provide training to staff it wouldn't take much deductive reasoning for the rest of the employees to figure out who was involved with the incident. Maybe the accused was favored in the office and some employees take his side. Maybe some employees have a bias that is set off by what they deem to be necessary sexual harassment training.

Just to be clear I think he should be fired, but it's a shitty situation to be in with a small office and a small number of, presumably close, employees.
There is a quote from Louis Nizer that applies here:

"He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist."

Its that last part that is hard to bridge for a lot of engineers. The thing that did it for me was sitting through a LOT of formal usability studies. Seeing folks actually use an application you made, where they make mistakes, get stuck, will change your relationship with your code. Even if you work purely on the back end building APIs, you have customers (other developers in this case).

Focus on the what the code does, and why someone would use it, care about your customer... the how only matters to your fellow engineer, and if it is that bad they are going to give you grief for it and you can fix it.
exoplanets.org has data on all known planets. You can go to the table and filter by "Kepler".
I applaud you for this comment and how you handled your situation. Hopefully the man in your story also apologized to you.

People are people and in a moment of idiocy can make stupid comments. Every single person has said something stupid at some point. It is how we handle things afterwards that matter.