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I'm won't be the first HN'er to note that the business of aviation has evolved a culture much like the ideal being discussed.

You can see it when you read NTSB AARs, TSBs, even the regs (FARs) themselves. Even the language is chosen so as to avoid shame.

When blame is ascribed it's explicit and for the purpose of explication of root causes, but, more generally, the tone of the narrative is always, "we've critiqued _the process_ and here's how we see to improve it."

People are only seen as participants in the process and aren't targeted for blame or shame.

The amazing safety statistics of commercial flight speak to the efficacy of this philosophy; software project management would do well to adopt much of these strategies, I'd argue.
A friend of mine made a service that does this. (Iirc it's called HNwatcher)

I follow a small number of people with it and periodically get emails about their new posts. I think some companies use it to track mentions of their company or product as well.

A follow feature would be nice but this is currently filling the gap for me.
He did specify certain caveats that would reduce the cost vs your estimate - adults over 21, and it would reduce as you made more, to a floor of 6500/yr. But yeah, probably still missing some piece.
React can be fast but is the slowest amongst pretty much every virtualdom libraries
The people who are likely to drop out of the labor market are almost certainly not the motivated, high-productivity workers that actually benefit society. High achievers tend to be motivated by things like passion, creativity, need for recognition, etc, not purely income.
You forgetting the IoT devices coupled with distributed computing server side as well.

Specially with the increasing focus on saving battery and making them as small as possible.
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Why would one need a vps if using Jekyll?
In the context of this article, it is very much about libertarianism (the strain of it that is willing to admit that we're facing a jobs crisis, at least). Check the article's author. They want to throw away any sort of a public social safety net, reduce taxes on the wealthy, throw the rest of us a bone and say good luck.

I'm very much for a UBI, but as a part of a comprehensive progressive agenda, and certainly not how the right-wingers want to do it.
You can check the technical details https://www.grc.com/never10/details.htm

It basically does what Microsoft would do in order to keep Windows from upgrading.
I have a good friend that does exactly this, he very much makes "modern folk music", lots of acoustic guitar.

Regardless of what you think of Kesha, she went into a bathroom and recorded a Bob Dylan cover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNCEV7ZSNFo

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/amnesty-international...
Is Java being used at all in HPC?

Apparently the GPGPU support is still on for sometime after Java 10.
The link was originally just talking about bubbles. It was swapped out with a link to the podcast, so I haven't listened to it.
I imagine how well people tolerate what they shouldn't has something to do with being Authoritarian Followers. And something maybe connected with those who glory in hazing culture. And we must grow past that kind of idiocy.

If I worked for someone who treated me like that and then, decades later, I heard that they'd finally died, I'd say IT'S ABOUT FUCKING TIME! and have a little party.
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> it's like one of those dreams where you enter into a wing of your house that you didn't know existed.

Wait. How common is this?

(I've had these dreams semi-frequently over the last 3 years, but no one else I've told about them has volunteered that they've had any similar experience.)
I don't think it is written in stone that you must have a job to receive a negative income tax. That would be one way to implement it, but you could also have an implementation that was based on some arbitrary level of income, where if you didn't reach that income, the government gave you the difference, even if it were the full amount (this would be a bad way to do it, but nonetheless). For sure, a negative income tax that required employment would not be a UBI. So they may overlap is a better statement than saying it falls under the umbrella.

It's also the case that a UBI is only pretend universal. There are people that will see either an increase in their effective tax rate or a decrease in their buying power (the latter if you fund it by printing money).
10X programmers are unicorns.

If a 5K of 12:57 was really "10X", an average runner would take just over two hours. That performance is nothing like 10X.
No, and I suggested nothing of the sort.
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I think Clojure and ClojureScript are really very nice, and a good contender to Scala if you like dynamic type systems.

I think the biggest potential competitor to Scala may be Swift, now that it is open source. If it becomes as multi-platform as Scala is, and good back-end libraries become available, then Apple's support may be very hard to compete against. There were even rumours that Google was considering using it for Android.

It is nice to see that Scala will soon be available for mobile development too. In a short time, there will be a nice overlap of platforms supported and language features, which will provide for interesting competition.
Which comment is misogynistic or racist, and who is 'calling it out'?
It's a cheap win on the customer service front, when a plane goes down.
13k is still poverty level, I imagine most would not be fully content at that level.
But Telegram is still based on another proprietary, centralized server. I don't see how this solves anyone's problems.
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" In the mobile era, all messaging is based on push notifications "

Says you. I'm perfectly happy not knowing about my FB messages until I go look for them. I DON'T WANT them pushed to me. If they want to send me something that needs to be read quickly, use email. Or gasp phone/text/whatsapp (I use the latter begrudgingly because whatsapp has pretty much replaced texting in lots of Europe).
Yes, first rule when you go to Thailand - don't say anything about the king.

It's strange when they talk about the military presence over there. I was over there for two months at the start of the year, (3rd visit in the past 2 years), and as usual didn't notice any military except for when I was close to the Burmese border (they were checking everyone for papers), and around the Kings palace.
I'd love to use them. Going to the source will reduce latency because the mitm is removed. Now it's just the man. Seriously, I'd switch from DO.
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Depends on the state, but I don't think you're correct.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
> She responded to comments the police say are defamatory with the Thai word "ja", which translates as "I see", or "ok". The police say she should have condemned the comments.

The definition of a dictatorship is they dictate what you should say. That's how they keep control.
This will track inflation?
But we're not talking about 'most' people. We're talking about all people. What about the people who think to themselves, I don't want to work, I want to live off welfare. Now there will be more of those people (especially since technology satisfies more and more leisure needs for just the price of an internet connection). Also as people grow up in such a society, they don't have that driving motive in the back of their mind that if they have to eventually find employment to survive. How will such people turn out as adults?

The promise of UBI is saving money and unlocking more human potential (by allowing more risk taking, or letting artists pursue their art, or whatever). But if you think of the need to be productive (for survival) as a force/pressure that has shaped the complex system we call society since the dawn of civilisation, then I can imagine that removing that force in a large nation could result in something extremely dysfunctional or even horrifying.
> The people who are likely to drop out of the labor market are almost certainly not the motivated, high-productivity workers that actually benefit society

The people who are likely to drop out of their job are plumbers, dishwashers, garbage collectors, miners, mail carriers, highway maintainers, taxi drivers, manual fruit pickers and the rest of those performing soul-crushing jobs that actually allow society to keep running.
The cut is gradual (so that each extra $1 you earn, less than $1 is reduced from your benefit). So you will never end up with a paycut by making more money.
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> The size of the downloadable cache alone puts it at one of the largest breaches this year -- but it could have been far larger, given time and resources.

> "The worst part is that this is barely a fraction of what I could get my hands on," the hacker said.

So why didn't GhostShell release everything he could get his hands on?
I like how javascripters use `const` everywhere they can except actual constants!

https://github.com/trueadm/inferno/blob/master/src/DOM/mount...
There is no such thing as culture of "DO fuck up", only cultures where avoiding mistakes is secondary to other goals like hitting the schedule date.
I would end up with about 10% or less like you said. I figured if I'm going to start deleting people I'll just delete FB wholesale. Just helps me get spied on anyway.
56/2 actually.
Apples to oranges.

PC gamers are tech savvy. They understand the real danger of running random crack.exe files and pirated software from the internet.

You're not going to get a virus from playing an audio or video file.

The value of services such as Spotify or SiriusXM is really dependent on listening habits. I drive very little, so no matter how cheap SiriusXM offers their service to me, it's still not worth it. And I love their service, too. It's a fantastic service. But it's not something I'm going to pay for.
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The vanilla way tends to result in state spread out throughout your JS and DOM. React UIs act like predictable functions: you describe the UI you want with your current state as the input and React makes the visible UI match that.
>This'll sound a little harsh, but if you have to work at burger king to fund your living then you aren't a very good hacker.

>There's no lack of opportunities for those with talent.

I read it more like "We choose to lead a meager lifestyle -- even with our tremendous abilities -- because working for someone would direct our efforts towards their goals rather than allowing us to pursue our own novel research which is fueled purely by passion for the subject."
> The problem there is that what has been in the best interests of both the consumer AND the artist has been the death of the old, crooked, music /distribution/ industry.

I don't suspect music distributors have much longer to go really.
What if they just said "ok everyone born before 2017 will get the old system (social security, etc), and everyone born in 2017 or later will get the new system. This way everyone alive and voting isn't losing anything they were expecting before. There would be a period of 80-100 years during which both systems are intact, but this somewhat inefficient period would end, leaving only the basic income system.
This proposal decreases benefits between $30k and $60k. The total delta in benefits would be $6.5k. Assuming this decrease occurs linearly, this comes out to a marginal tax of 21%.

The current marginal tax rate for someone (unmarried) making between 37k and 91k is 25% [0]

This means that over this $30k interval, people would be facing about a 46% effective marginal tax [1]. The current top bracket is only 39.6% and does not kick in (for unmarried individuals) until $415k.

While this proposal does create a silly marginal tax rate, it is still below 100%, which means that making more income still leads to more money in your pocket. Our current system, if you count the value of non-monotary aid, often exceeds a marginal rate of 100%, which is a far more serious problem.

I agree that the UBI should be flat, because anything else is equivalent to changing our tax brackets; and if we want to do that, we should just change our tax brackets.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rp-15-53.pdf

[1] This number might be slightly different if the two taxes interact with each other.
There is nothing in that method that accounts for the possibility that the test may be flawed in some way. I suppose that the assumption here is that the test is 'perfect' in that each question is worded in such a way that there is one and only one 'right' answer. But, as a taker of this kind of true/false test, if I am only allowed to provide my assessment of my own confidence in my answer without an explanation of "why" I assigned that value, then there's no way to answer in a way that I will not be penalized for a question that I don't feel that I can answer as asked.

Consider assigning an additional value of '1' to each question initially as a representation of the author's confidence that the question is not flawed in any way. Then, if a significant segment of the test taking population indicates that they believe that the question is flawed in some way, then, the "author's confidence" for that question would be reduced by an amount that wouldn't penalize me for identifying that flaw while still allowing for less 'partial credit' to those who answer incorrectly without being aware of the flaw, or more specifically, not giving as much credit to those who answered 'correctly' in spite of the flaw.

It's also possible that the question I think is a 'flaw' is really a 'trick' question and that in order to answer 'correctly' you must discover the trick -- this would still allow for a better result in that it more accurately assesses whether I really understand the question or not.

It also occurs to me that if the test administrator wants to give a test where they can assign some manner of partial credit to an answer, then they shouldn't give a true/false test in the first place.
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You can use the stats without the league's permission for sure. Check out http://www.bitlaw.com/source/cases/copyright/nba.html if you want the actual legal grounds for why you can use stats.
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Hi HN,

I have this problem sometimes of what seems like excessive Internet bandwidth usage. Sometimes I have to use a metered connection, so the issue becomes more important. Leaving aside things like malware (which may happen, and for which I do have anti-virus software installed), what are ways to reduce Internet usage (other than that directly initiated by the user) to a trickle, so as not to waste money? Thanks in advance for all answers.

I'll mention one way that I am exploring: NetBalancer for Windows. A friend also told me about nethogs for Linux. Not tried yet.
Performance is not the point of React. Predictability is. Bunches of bugs are eliminated and others are easier to find.
If I did not misread the article, the suggestion is do drop the benefits from 13k to 6.5k in the income range from 30k to 60k. That means you lose about 22 cents of benefits for every additional dollar of income so you will still have a net gain. I can not see how an increasing income can lead to a reduced net income unless the combination of decreasing benefits and increasing taxes exceeds one Dollar per additional Dollar of income.
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The problem here is the assumption that everyone on Medicaid, Social Security, etc is capable of spending money responsibly. Take away their benefits and hand them some cash.

This will result in millions of vulnerable seniors and mentally disabled individuals being scammed out of their money each month. Whether it be "tech support" scammers or local fraudsters or even simply not being able to budget money (at a basic level) these folks will be in trouble.

I live with (and care for) a mentally disabled individual (IQ: ~60) that receives benefits through Social Security, Medicaid, and other government programs. If it were not for our help in managing these benefits she would spend her money (which is supposed to be for food/living expenses) on Amazon on $100 anime-themed coffee cups and similar widgets the moment she receives it.

Not to mention the fact that she will never understand how to sign up for such services or know who to trust when receiving services. If someone in a lab coat told her they were a government doctor and she "had to pay" for her upcoming appointment she'd likely just hand over all her money. There's no way to "educate" her out of this problem. I've taught her all sorts of things... many times and I'll have to teach her again and again.

It's not so dissimilar to walking an old person through accessing a web app/site over and over again ("no, that's the search bar"). Handing vulnerable people money every month won't solve their problems.

It's a great idea for the economy in general though! Just don't do away with government services for the needy. Especially medical care.
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It is. All she did was acknowledge something. I've seen another instance where a Thai man liked a photo on Facebook. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/10/thai-man-arrest...

Pretty sad this is becoming more widespread in Thailand
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"Well then cut down working hours instead of having half the population work full time and pay for the other half" That doesn't work. The reality is, and I'm sorry to say, but the required IQ to be economically relevant is increasing every year. Your plan doesn't work because you can't spread out the work that way.

Increasing minimum wages will only just accelerate automation and exacerbate the problem.

My concern about UBI is that it won't properly track inflation and will quickly become not enough and all the welfare programs are gone, so people are doubly screwed.

Other than that, I like it. I'd like to see more "pay to go to school" programs, though. We'd end up with fewer Trumps...
I can't make comparisons to Angular as I've never used that library. However, the point of React and the many virtual DOM libraries like it is to simplify UI code.

You write a function that takes the current model state and returns the DOM tree that should be displayed in that state. If you want to change something on the UI, you swap in a new state and the whole thing is re-rendered -- at least that's the abstraction.

It's a programming model that's easy to understand and hard to get wrong. That's the great thing about it! The bad thing about it is that if you implemented it naively, by actually re-rendering all the HTML for your single-page app on every state change, the performance would be awful.

Virtual DOM diffing is a solution to that performance problem, and it makes applications written this way perform adequately. You can't read about React without the DOM diffing being mentioned, and library authors love to compare benchmarks, so it's easy to see virtual DOM as the feature. It's just a means to an end though.
You're being incredibly unfair. I read the article, and found the parent's comment to be almost a verbatim restatement of what it said.

Your observation that A16Z's tactics were presented as more nuanced than this strategy is also true, but that doesn't make the parent comment wrong, or even "uncharitable". The investment thesis, as presented by the article, is pretty much a truism. I don't find it to be interesting or insightful, and like you, I have to make arguments in my head as to why it might not be inane.

It seems to me that you're carrying one set of opinions about the subject, using them to interpret the issue in the most positive light, and then bludgeoning people who take a more critical view. You can call that "uncharitable", but it seems to me to be a literal interpretation of facts: A16Z's thesis was far less interesting than the tactics needed to get the deal flow to make it work.
> I'm trying hard to figure out why someone want to use something like this or React

There are many reason why one would want to use framework X,Y,Z instead of writing his own (because at the end of the day, any large application will need some form of framework/toolkit to be maintainable).

The first reason I guess is that in practice the code you depend on is the code you don't have to maintain and test.

The second reason is politics. You work with 50 engineers. You decide to write your own toolkit. I'm pretty sure you'll end up having endless debates about what is the right architecture. Now if you tell the rest of your team or the management "Facebook/Google is using that, they can't be wrong", It can save a lot of time.

The third reason is "laziness". Many "engineers" using React or AngularJS actually don't know how the DOM really work, like many people only know jQuery and not standard DOM API in order to perform a task, or many "engineers" don't know how to write CSS so they use Bootstrap. Yet the same engineers are writing 1 million dollars SPA for Fortune 500 companies ...

Frameworks are a trade-off. By learning one, you expect the investment to save you time, maintenance cost and not to be leaky(i.e. not having to understand the internals of a framework in order to use it). In an era where engineers are asked to be backend engineers, front end engineers, DBA, UX/UI specialist,data analysts, statisticians, server administrators, to know the OSI model from top to bottom,to know 10 languages with 5 years of professional experience in each of them and what not, some engineers don't consider learning the fundamentals of the DOM a worthy investment.
I was in Thailand in December, and the political situation there is really not great at the moment.

The 90-year old King, whom Thais regard on the whole with a great deal of respect, is dying. He is in hospital for much of the time, there are rumours that he now barely speaks, and he is hardly seen in public at all anymore. The military is nervous about what happens when the King dies, as his son is not held in anywhere near the same high level of esteem with the public. The King's popularity stems from being seen as a 'unifying force' through many of Thailand's political crises. Fearing a constitutional crisis when he dies, they're now clamping down heavily on any dissent.

Which makes the atmosphere on the street a little strange. I was there on the King's birthday in December, and the whole country (people included) were decked out in yellow, the King's colour. There are icons of the King every 300 yards or so in central Bangkok (less so out in CM). While I was there someone was sentenced to several years in prison for a Facebook post about the King's dog. The laws re: insulting the monarchy have been around for a while, but are now being much more widely applied and strictly enforced.

It's very very hard to work out if the public affection for the King is for real, and no Thai will speak openly about their feelings. I spoke to a taxi driver on the way out of the country and said I'd been in the country for the King's birthday. His response: 'Yes.'

I left the country fascinated by the experience of a population living under authoritarian military rule, but really hope that for everyone's sake Thailand is able to resolve its difficulties and get back to regular elections soon.
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I'm about to join 18F (in a few weeks), working on cloud.gov.

I worked on the Google Cloud Platform team around the time Compute Engine and Big Query were launched (but spent most of my time on App Engine).

A few weeks ago at the Cloud Foundry Summit the folks from cloud.gov.au gave a keynote. Cloud.gov got some nice shoutouts - the Australian counterparts reused a lot of the cloud.gov work, thanks to the transparent open-source approach.

Listing of cloud.gov related Github repos:
https://docs.cloud.gov/ops/repos/