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I think it's fair to provide incentives (either fixed cash payments across the whole country, or other incentives) for poor people to move to areas where labor is relatively highly valued relative to living costs. A lot of US/etc. welfare policy, because it's funded locally, actively discourages that.

A national basic income would solve this with little overhead, but a more conventional policy with actively marketing cheaper areas to poor people (and, marketing areas where labor is in high demand; maybe providing transportation/transitional housing/etc.) would be a way to help people out of poverty.

People used to migrate for jobs; this happens a lot less now.
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Thank you for the answer.

Like most things, people were ok with it happening to others and only had an issue when it happened to them.

Bravo! People today will say that slaves were in pain and suffering. Their masters knew that.

The idea that all slavery is wrong is a far more modern idea.

Yes. People today are like those parrots - just repeating what everyone around them believes. It's like a religion. Religion people adopt is heavily influenced by parents and environment, not critical thinking. That's why I wrote people who are against slavery are not critical thinkers and introspective.

Unlike the OP I do not present that as a bad thing.

I do not think of human slavery as good or bad. I am NEUTRAL about it. I don't think that anything is inherently right or wrong. When people use those terms, they are expressing their personal feeling, not objective feature of the world.
I think gchat had a horrible ux.

Slack is better compared to a simple to use irc. In fact the only thing it really has over irc is UI/ux.
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Germany has the lowest birthrate in the world. It seems like the German government should create policies that encourage men and women to have more children like free/heavily subsidized daycare, tax incentives, and maybe even payments.

Here in the US I can see how the Ehler's financial problems would became significant with a 4th child. But given the low birthrate in Germany it seems like Germans could be more generous to those who are willing to have more babies.

[source:] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32929962
Conflating child abuse and the subsequent government cock-up in to investigating it, with an institutionalised implementation of slavery with the full weight of the judiciary behind it, requires quite some imagination.
They buy them for their own purposes, not necessarily for the "greater good".

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/google-facebook-amazon-lobbying...
A much better attack is the timing channel: A page which accesses resources from disk will be faster if someone else has accessed it recently. I don't know why they missed that...
Excellent question; thank you. I'd like to know, but I don't. At least one of the Supplemental documents, from the City of Santa Cruz December 2015 City Council meeting, mentioned microtrenching. I've also seen mention that they may have right-of-way via existing railway. That's about all I know.
I loaded this in Firefox on a Raspberry Pi 3 (don't ask), and never got to see below the fold--burned CPU for a minute or two before I gave up and closed it. I had pressed page-down once--don't know if it ever got around to processing the scroll event.

Don't know the root cause, but the worst most sites get on here is annoyingly sluggish. Between the site and Firefox, something's definitely triggering pathological behavior.
It is for all but UTF-32. And even in the case of UTF-32 if you are indexing for what a user would logically consider a character then its O(n) there is well because of combining characters.
> A type system that rejects your code is like a teacher looking at a proof you just wrote, and tells you "this doesn't even make sense, and here's why". It may be frustrating, but this kind of feedback loop is tighter than what you would get from a REPL.

I've been trying to port a personal project to Rust recently.

Sometimes Rust's type system is too limited to understand why something is safe. Here are a couple examples:

* in C++ code, you can have a class in which one field has a reference/pointer into another which came earlier in the declaration order (and thus will be constructed first and destructed last). This is often a useful thing to do (one example: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/struct-containing-reference-to...) You can't do that in Rust. They have to be separate instance variables on some thread. If there's no thread running to own it, you have to use referencing counting (Arc or Rc) or unsafe blocks. Or maybe instead of keeping a reference, have all calls take the outer struct as a context argument and use some sort of struct/lambda which knows how to find the thing you're referencing given that (this is what I'm trying in my code). Someone proposed a language change for "self-borrowing structs" (https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-February/00...) but it didn't go anywhere as far as I can tell.

* in C++ code, you can loop over one instance variable and then call a private method on self which mutates a different instance variable. In rust, you'll get errors about self being partially borrowed. I think you have to restructure the other method to not take self, which probably means grouping things into child structs. Basically Rust doesn't look across functions boundaries to decide if something is safe so it has to consider this an error even if it isn't for the particular method you're calling.

Fundamentally, I think the choice is between these three options:

* use a garbage-collected language and not have to be explicit about these details. There's no possibility of buffer overflows or use-after-free errors but you have to pay the runtime overhead of the garbage collector. Go is clear about the costs involved: pauses up to 10 ms, 25% of all CPU cycles, and 50% of RAM (see http://golang.org/s/go14gc). Other GCed languages likely have similar costs even if they aren't stated as clearly.

* use an unsafe language like C/C++, enforce these things manually in your head and with comments, and occasionally have security problems when you screw up.

* use a safe-but-explicit language like Rust/Swift and have to "show your work" to the compiler quite a bit more, finding a different way if safety is too hard to prove.
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Why make more babies when you can just take immigrants?
Sounds like something similar to "cloud to butt" converting "economics" to "sewage dynamics"
Ugh. God. Why the fuck would Google buy, and then immediately kill the first American robot company?

I swear to fucking god.

Assholes need to put aside differences and make shit work.
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I love Gmail and wish Hangouts got more love. Obviously Gmail is hugely successful in email, and an email address is identity for most services. On the other hand, mobile is where the puck is going, and the base identity for mobile is phone number. Hence, Allo and Duo.

I am loyal to Hangouts because everything I read and write becomes easily searchable. I don't want to lose all that history. And it also sounds like an interesting corpus for Google to do the machine learning thing. Obviously, it's also simultaneously terrifying.

Allo and Duo being new apps not only means shedding the extremely unrewarding work of migration / SMS integration / normal legacy from Gchat/Gvoice/etc, but also users immediately understand the Google Assistant is present in their non-incognito conversations. Google might sometimes be creepy, but more often than not Google will be helpful in the chat. I was wondering when I could have my search history be viewed as chat history, and I predict I'll use the chat interface more than google.com.
The only thing Slack has over IRC is a better web client and history.

It really makes me sad that it's 2016 and we haven't just updated IRC. Text is cheap: storing every byte every written on an IRC server would cost, essentially, nothing.
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You're right. I only read the announcement, which implied that they would be rewriting all links. I didn't see until just now that this was addressed in the comments.
Where are you guys getting these numbers? The top 5 cities in the US have 19.2 M residents, and the top 10 have 26 M.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

This one is more sensitive to noise, but still pretty different than what you quote: The top 5 metro areas have 56.9 M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_metropo...
Ah, synthetic benchmarks. Are you really sure they're consistently twice as slow? Your link shows otherwise.

mandelbrot 17% slower
fannkuch-redux 34% slower
fasta 38% slower
fasta-redux 39% slower
pidigits 44% slower

So much for predicting my next argument.
You can do this with a lot of gamecube games because the system would set to default what ever values the system was receiving at bootup; turned out to be a great way to avoid costs by having different manufactures make the controllers
My only concern would be that everything currently links to steam and itch.io - sites which almost certainly offer better exposure than yours (no offense.)

So why, if I'm a developer and I already have a Steam or itch.io account, would I even need Game Hunt? What can your site do that they don't do better, either for a developer or a consumer? I feel like maybe you're trying to compete against the wrong services.
We had a clean, functional chat app in Gchat that supported XMPP federation, a reasonably good file transfer protocol (IIRC it could be implemented by others) and a even emoji.

When Google dropped XMPP, it was pretty much the death knell for interoperability. Facebook followed suit.

I don't get the politics that drives the internal chat product development, but it feels like there's a lot of NIH-related "burn it to the ground" going on there. Nothing they do in this space makes sense to me at all.
Strongly correlates with socioeconomic status. This research is telling us: wealthy children grow up to be wealthy adults.
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Looks like something of an update to Stephenson's Mother Earth, Mother Board (and way overdue). Hoping the arstechnica article is as good.
I may be a resistant one, but I prefer and still use gtalk/gchat/hangouts over slack or any other tool. Slack requires either another tab, a new mobile app or a desktop app, which isn't that great when switching between organisations. At least on my Ubuntu Linux.

Gtalk on the other hand, although searchable, it's not that easy to find what you want. Usually the search result points you into the middle of the conversation and you need to use the damn infinite scroll. And chats in hangouts (video/audio) aren't stored.

If Gtalk could evolve to get the benefits of Slack while keeping it simple, that would be great IMHO.
It mentions in the Guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) that sending email to hn@ycombinator.com is the best way to raise questions about moderation. If you send polite email, you'll probably get a polite response.
It doesn't say it didn't (that I can see). I think it's saying AIM brought the concept into the mainstream, and I think that's probably more or less true in the US.

Interestingly (to me, at least), this seemed to be pretty reasonable. No one I knew in Canada had AIM, except if they talked to Americans regularly. MSNM was very very popular, though. And ICQ before it.
As a workaround you can go to "View > Page Style > No style". It honestly reads just fine without CSS.
> high-speed internet and cell service are seen as luxuries and not basic infrastructure

I would never want to live without high-speed mobile Internet (which can provide the equivalent of cell service), but is it really a necessity to live? I was a boy before cell phones even existed, and anyone outside academia and a few tech companies had the Internet, and life was fine.

It's certainly extremely convenient, but I don't think it's a necessity.

> plus some who believe that the poor ought to be excluded from using basic infrastructure anyway

Do you have evidence for that statement?
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Wow. The Motorola patent portfolio pretty much saved Android.

One might argue that he should have been more aggressive in purchasing other IP portfolios - maybe Nortel (although that may have been before he was at Google) and Sun of course.

But Motorola gave Google exactly what it needed - a mature patent portfolio which other companies would have to cross license.
> The only thing Slack has over IRC is a better web client and history.

I'd say that there's a lot more to it than that. IRC isn't intuitive for new, modern users. Take login and password recognition using one of the many NickServ options, for example.
I'm in the same place - I probably got 12 hours of gameplay out of it before I unplugged mine. It is exhausting and frustrating to use.
My guess is that it has to do with compatibility with XMPP, but I've never worked with the technology myself so I haven't got a clue. If it is compatibility, then both companies likely continued forward after their products had matured to a certain degree. Perhaps they wanted to go forward, but were constrained by XMPP.
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The removal of XMPP interoperability was the moment I realised "Don't Be Evil" was just another marketing puff, and not actually a statement of values.

But I think the termination of Google Wave (which was also federated and built with XMPP) was the real moment Google gave up on team communications.
botbot.me does just that (store every byte that goes over the IRC server).

I agree -- I was extremely happy with my all-in-one IRC / XMPP app many years ago. Now everything is fragmented to the point of uselessness in the name of a few bells and whistles. Or maybe it's corporate greed. Either way, it's infuriating.
Good thing tuning's a thing. I always knew friends' controllers were not equally matched and it was not a level playing field. For this reason alone wanted my own system. Well described concepts and illustrations and I enjoyed the humor in the writeup.

"With controller age and abuse, this area will grow, shift and distort.
Every value within the inner dead zone is mapped to zero, giving us a reliable origin point for the game logic."
Yeah, you needed aim if you wanted to chat with some americans when I played utopia. Meanwhile the big IM breakthrough among my less technical friends was msn. I quite quickly found a stand along multi-protocol client and I've stuck to that mode of managing IM since when I could control it.
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But you can abstract that stuff in the client with a few lines of code and the user never needs to know! All the IRC web clients do it. mibbit used to be great, and then they mysteriously disappeared...
The "Don't be Evil" is so vague that it was obviously just for show right from the start.
Google is seeing the writing on the wall about web ad revenue and is thrashing around looking for a replacement cash cow. Reigning in their moonshot attempts is reasonable but I think they're throwing the baby out with the bath water on a few of these.
I don't know about the law of other countries, but my home country (Austria) does not extradite its own citizens, no matter what the crime is. However, it is possible that you end up in front of an Austrian court, even if you commited the crime in another country. This will only happen in cases where the crime is actually a crime in Austria. Furthermore, the court will use Austrian law, so US law would be quite irrelevant in that case.

There might be an exception when the extradition request is issued by an EU country, but I'm not sure how this would be handled. Afaik the EU requires member states to extradite citizens and non-citizens to other member states. However, (afaik) the law that prevents Austria from extraditing its own nationals is at the constitution level.
Exhausting in what way? Is it too heavy, or is it somehow cognitively expensive?
As a Scot I'm deeply embarrassed about how these men were treated. Unfortunately, although Scotland has a devolved parliament, immigration and border control isn't a devolved power. I'd like to think that if these powers were devolved, or in an independent Scotland, the Scottish equivalent of the UK Borders Agency/Home Office would have treated these folks far more sympathetically.

Whilst nowhere near as horrific as Azad and his colleagues experience, there's currently a high profile story in the press about an Australian couple and their son who've lived here since 2011. The UK government changed the visa rules and now want to kick them out:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-3638...

One day I hope we can gain these powers and treat law abiding guests in our country with much better respect.
To this day, ICQ is still the best messenger I've used.
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> And there are even still some holdout users on old-style Gchat.

I'm not sure if I'm one of those holdouts? I've been using gchat, mostly over XMPP (using adium), and sometimes in Gmail. I frequently search chat history in Gmail.

I didn't realize that gchat had such a tumultuous history.
What has Valve done that's so bad in terms of "exploiting their monopology"? I honestly don't know what you're referring to. They do not even request store exclusivity from developers. If a developer or publisher decided to require Steam, that was their decision, not Valve's.

I guess you could point to Steam's DRM, but it's always had that, long before it was the de facto standard platform and before any monopoly existed.
Yes - US law is pretty irrelevant for most people who live outside the US and who don't do business with the US.

How relevant is China's law for an US citizen who doesn't leave the country?
That's not true but if it were: why isn't AMD's marketshare so great? Good products win, AMD proved that with the Athlon. They don't have good products today.
The Vive is an infinitely better experience currently. Hand controls and sub-millimeter tracking precision in a room up to 12x12 makes all the difference.
For what it's worth, I love reading HN, compared to other news sites.

It's a refreshing change from say, Reddit's technology subreddits, which are a continuous regurgitation of the same old Comcast, Google, Apple and Microsoft opinions every single day; a thinly-veiled political and astroturfing soapbox at best, where anything remotely interesting in regards to what we're learning about this universe and how our technology applies to it, barely gets above 50 points.

"Tech" is not just computers.
> I'd wager that the short term (~10 years) consequences would be vastly superior service for every day citizens. In the long term, not certain

I think that you'd see the same phenomenon as in any country which socialised an industry: at first things are — as you guess — much the same, because the same people keep coming to work in the same buildings, operating the same machines according to the same processes &c. But the rate of innovation lowers, and eventually you get the equivalent of a Soviet grocery store (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOBFMMbUFI8): something much better than what you had before, but nowhere near as good as you could have had.

So after a decade or two of municipal broadband, you can expect that you'll have better broadband than when you started, but far, far, far worse broadband than where there is competition.

Now, if the debate is between a public and a private monopoly, I honestly don't know which is worse. Possibly the public monopoly, because its employees are unfireable, but — I don't know.
Apparently I can't read this article due to using adblock. Neither visiting the article nor the "web" workaround work. http://i.imgur.com/8LN6ec0r.png

Fascinating. I wonder what the web will look like in a decade.

On-topic: I was one of the original backers of Oculus, but missed the opportunity to get a free Rift. I guess it didn't matter much.

It seems like what happened to the Oculus is what happened to many platforms throughout history: No killer app on launch day = no uptake.
Yeah, it didn't make any sense.

It also didn't make any sense they dropped XMPP in favour of Hangouts. XMPP has its share of problems, but it's designed as an extensible protocol. Google's Jingle addon to XMPP was actually quite nice, although it took quite some time to get polished.

Once they had it right and it was gaining some traction, they drop it in favour of a proprietary solution...
I'm delighted that my three boys and one girl have grown up or are still growing up in a house full of books in English, Chinese, German, and other languages. Sure enough, my oldest son makes a fine income as a hacker--but wait, I grew up in a house full of books too, and I've NEVER made as much money as he already makes.

A correlational study like this can't show us the path of causation, if any. Any behavior geneticist worth his salt would immediately ask, "Do the boys earn more as grown men because they had the home environment filled with books, or perhaps they gained genes from their parents that prompt both collecting books and pursuing more lucrative occupations?" And the answer to that question, of course, is both,[1] but anyway the genes will matter.

[1] http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/three_laws.pdf
> The headset doesn’t always fit quite right, and the experience can be straight up exhausting

I agree, moving your head around all the time to look at things does get really tiring after a while. I hope - and believe - that as game devs get more experience with VR, they'll design VR games differently to take into account its strengths and weaknesses. This is actually one of the reasons I think Oculus has a good chance at succeeding in the VR world - they've had the tech for quite a while and have had time to figure out how to make a good VR experience. The camera on a rail in Lucky's Tale is a good example of Oculus Studios thinking in new ways about how to design VR games. It's a new medium, and it's going to take some trial and error before we figure out how to use it correctly.

> telling them to spend $600+ on a headset right now would just be madness, given the relatively small scope of the software at present

I think the author should have expected that there's not much software out there, after all this is a totally new market, there's not going to be many games for it after all. I remember the day the PS3 came out there were very few games for it, and that was Sony's 3rd console. Give it some time.

Overall, I think VR has enormous potential. Give Virtual Desktop a try, or a deep VR game like Elite: Dangerous, or even something simple but polished like Lucky's Tale.