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"I think this will be very successful. The roll of storytelling in business is becoming increasingly important, especially for consumer companies targeting millenials. See: http://blog.hubspot.com/opinion/why-storytelling-will-be-the...

Agreed. I think this combined with Snapchat advertising could be the first steps in the direction of changing advertising from the intrusive and unwanted interruption of your daily life to something people actually browse through in order to discover interesting stories and experiences.

However, I also think as social media has proliferated, the definition of the word "brand" has expanded as now more than ever, people are seen as "brands" - often with hundreds of thousands of followers (more than many actual brands and even media companies). As everyone becomes a brand, I believe increasingly the line between marketing and storytelling will be blurred and marketing will become deeply embedded into our culture. Product placement in movies, celebrity endorsement, "native" posts: all these are the first indicators of a culture in which everything is meant to sell something. Whether this is a good thing or not is up for discussion.
Ah, i did not realize they did not email you.

That is something to which you at least deserve an answer to, though i expect they don't do it because sending out that email would alert the owner of the bot which would otherwise never be any wiser. It's a cousin of hellbanning, something which even HN does.

Though i think it's also fair to point out that your post only raises that issue as an aside, while that is the most salient thing in it.

Also, a bit of github background: Personal accounts are meant for small personal things. They expect anything big and important to happen in organizations, which i suppose are treated slightly differently.
He probably couldn't without raising alarms. As administrator to the SharePoint site he had many means to access (and copy) the files contained therein (from the servers themselves) but to make a big copy of his emails would require very risky operations on his personal workstation. A device that is probably intricately monitored.
no.they need their users on messenger because they have big plans for that app. there are already businesses connecting with customers through messenger.
Different ideas affect different people in different ways.

For example, not having affordable healthcare affects people directly and might very well be a death sentence to some.

Often, popular left-leaning causes are like that - causes where people are left vulnerable if they lose: Equal rights for LGBT people, gender, race, and immigration issues, etc.

So of course, people are going to react very strongly to someone who is against that, because they are deeply and directly impacted.
I'm going to guess you either bought a house you can't afford or have more than 2 kids or have a lot of student loan debt. (Not judging at all) Correct?
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". Perhaps we'll find the same is true about life itself. We'll live twice as long, but we'll be twice as cautious, twice as likely to say 'tomorrow'.

Everything has to end. Even the human race. For me the deadline gives our activities meaning. Ironically, even your eager desire to extend longevity only has a sense of urgency and interest because we die. But the actual lifespan itself will always be arbitrary, a number picked out of a hat. So why isn't 80 years ok? Why is 160 years really better?

In fact, wouldn't faster generations make the world even a bit more interesting?
> That always struck me as lame.

That's bullshit. Wearing the same outfit added some mystic to Steve Jobs. It may not work on the public persona of every CEO but it obviously did for Jobs.
Do they claim anything like "we employ the best"?

(It's probably better that they don't: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html)
I believe it also upgrades itself. Not sure. I really don't want to risk it because it could brick t he car's ecu (not cheap).
Money cannot bring happiness, but lack of money can certainly bring, and most likely will bring, unhappiness.
Maybe for minor ailments but absolutely no way for real hardcore autoimmune disease. Usually there are several objective abnormalities in blood results, on x-rays, colonoscopy, MRI etc. Have a look at some images of the hands of someone with rheumatoid arthritis - there's a lot more going on than placebo/nocebo/anxiety.
> I see an opportunity where people will start charging to watch an ad, charging to read someone's email, charging to see this thing.

In some way we're already doing that. Companies that don't get our attention spend time money to reach to us with no return. But those money don't get to us.

To be paid to receive means that part of those money should go to the recipient, which requires to link the recipient to a bank account or equivalent, so to a verified identity.
Alternatively we need to start making optional frameworks. Essentially a way to do many of the usual things you use a framework for (like model binding) but will work, without changing the code, when using just about any framework.

I hate taking the basic things that are not hugely different in concept and workflow but end up using very different code so I can't port it between frameworks. Working on the start of this in my msngr.js library (shameless plug) because I would like to use it but also because I think it's important.

A new framework every couple of weeks is daunting but okay. Not being able to reuse code between them is awful.
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Scala doesn't have operator overloading technically. It had two orthogonal language features that give rise to operators:

1. Methods can use symbols

2. Single-arg methods can be called infix

Scala doesn't have operator precedence rules. All operators (infix methods really) are left associative unless they end in a colon in which case they are right associative. Examples

2 + 1

Is

2.+(1)

2 :: 1 :: Nil

Is

Nil.::(1).::(2)

The colon thing is the sort of thing that on paper seems hacky but in practice Just Works and is seldom used. But when you do use it it really helps a lot.
It is in the normal font size for that system, compare it with the window title. The "this is recommended" and the date are the only enlarged bits in that window.

> all that

I don't know about you, but to me and most anyone i know the amount of text in that window is miniscule. Difference in perspective i guess.

As for what users are taught to: What i and everyone else i know have been taught to is "Read everything the computer prints on the screen unless you know exactly what it is."
But the drivers problem isn't really behind them. I just purchased a lenovo laptop after reading similar comments noting the progress of linux desktop, and can't get the laptop to connect to an external monitor, despite the device being on ubuntu's certified list.
jabber.at is pretty good in my experience
Gotta be a joke, right?
I think you are probably right that a welfare system that does not consider the cost of dependents is likely misguided.

And we're in agreement that properly raising three kids is a tremendous undertaking that demands either a whole bunch of money or almost all of your time.

I take issue, though, with the idea that a family of 4 living on other people's money should spend so extravagantly. You do not need a car. You need a 2-bedroom home within 2 miles of a school. Housing will almost certainly be more than half of your expenses. Food for 4 people is a few thousand more. Clothing, entertainment, and diapers cost almost nothing (do not use disposable diapers except on special occasions). If you want to work part time then find another mom who will swap days with you or pay you to take her kids while she's working. I could see $10k turning out to be slightly less than what's really needed, but it shouldn't be considered "cruel joke" territory.

In the spirit of not paying people more than they need, I could suggest paying the young adult who gets free housing from her parents only $3k per year, but that opens a huge can of worms that'll have kids pretending to rent their own apartment to get more UBI while really living at their parent's house, etc.

Again, I think we're in agreement on the flaws of this UBI proposal. But I assert that, until such time as our society reaches a level of technological advancement where no one needs to work, the amount of extra work that working people are required to do to support nonworking people should be no more than the minimum amount to maintain their health and physical comfort. If you think people should get more than that, I'd like to know how you propose to decide how much.
I would be happy with 100% tabs or 100% spaces, but in practice it seems like allowing tabs inevitably leads to source files indented with a combination of both, either by accident or because someone wants to have intermediate levels of indentation (for multiline conditionals for example).

Once you have mixed tabs and spaces, everything goes to hell because now that code's formatting is tied to a specific person's idea of how many spaces should a tab display as, or whether tabs refer to tab stops or just a fixed number of spaces.

I never had strong feelings about it until encountering some really pathological code bases, which had gotten to the point where there was literally no valid tab->spaces setting that would make everything look correct.

Ultimately, though, these things really just don't matter. I use 4 spaces per indent level, but it's not like I'm incapable of reading and writing code that uses tabs, or 2 spaces, or 8 spaces. Really the only thing that matters is that there is a standard and that it is consistently applied within a project.
Assuming the father is a living US citizen whose identity and whereabouts the mother knows, of course.

Either way, that doesn't really affect the argument that a BI payment supposed to be a minimum for one person to live off is unlikely to stretch to paying for the food, living space and private health insurance costs for another three, even if another parent's minimum payment is also being garnished to help.

The author's arguments you've cited essentially amount to the view that children of single parents should be punished for their parents' life decisions. It looks particularly crass in the context of accompanying arguments in favour of spending money on adults who choose to "idle away their time" and including those fortunate enough to be "already living off other people’s money".
> This doesn't excuse the behavior of publicly stating guilt or that one party is lying without evidence. That's horrible behavior and happens on both sides.

Agreed. It just gets my dander up that people will resort to conspiracy theories before giving an entire group of women the benefit of the doubt.
Not for all Linux distributions. A lot of Linux distributions give you lots of control at the expense of reading an excessive amount of documentation just to tweak things to your satisfaction.
Could it be that culture chooses to exists offline and out of the boundaries of HN?
Point being that EVs might be the wrong thing to promote. Perhaps that market would decide to get rid of commuting altogether, or improve other means of transportation like trains. Perhaps an infrastructure for EVs turns out to be worse in other areas, but now a new dependence on its existance instead of oil, again crests a situation very expensive to get out of?

That was what I meant with betting, the reason we have free markets in the first place (as opposed to central planning) is because we simply can't plan such things without them, it's to complex.
Spending on social security (most programs, minus food stamps...I think) is in the neighbourhood of $930 billion. Right now, that's delivered to 65 million people. Of 330 million people total, ~80% are over 21. And it would be safe to assume 50% would qualify (because 1 in three households make between 50k-100k and 1 in four make less than 24k).

That leaves 132 million people drawing from $930 billion, which means everyone gets $7153. For everyone to get $13,000, 71 million people would be allowed to qualify.

This doesn't take into account the taper at all, so it could be stretched to reach more people. But even if 60 million people receive 13k, which leaves ~2.5k for another 60 million, that's still less than 132 million and doesn't align with the author's 6.5k number.

All this is to say: I find the idea appealing because it reduces the cost of bureaucracy and creates autonomy, but I'm not sure if it's feasible.

Sources:
https://www.ssa.gov/finance/2015/Overview%20SSA.pdf
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts/prog_highlights/i...
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/16/156688596/what-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_programs_in_the_United_...
That is a strawman and you know it. He is not saying that people need to stop labeling others as *phobe. He is merely saying the consequences shouldn't be life ruining.
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Linux might be great if you have enough free time for learning how to set it up, experimenting and fixing bugs. Also you'll need time to optimize it. For example out-of-the-box Debian boots slower that Windows. And latest Ununtu is maybe 2 or 3 times slower than Debian, I don't remember when I saw such a long operating system bootup. Maybe it needs SSD but I don't want to buy it.
Events + callbacks are great for keeping with the conventions of the existing (ancient) DOM APIs, but I was hoping that a new, 'modern' framework would be a little more ambitious by making everything promise-based.
"Sorry, no vacancy" was the standard line for hotels who didn't want to rent a room to blacks.

But I think there is some kind of persepective that has to be maintained. For something that isn't an essential public accomodation, let the money talk. If your baker won't bake you a cake, give your money to one who will.

I think there is room to tolerate different points of view on who a person should be forced to accept as a customer. If you run a web development business and were approached by a customer to build a (legal) porn site, but pornography is against your personal values, should you be obligated to accept the job, when there are countless other web developers who will gladly take the work? Or be forced to choose between earning a living at your craft vs. compromising your values?
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And in my case there is the added frustration that I will have to switch to another platform which has its own problems (linux). I guess for IT professionals learning linux is a good thing anyway. But I am not an IT professional and I have little appetite to dedicate some time to relearn the basics.
http://blog.hubspot.com/opinion/why-storytelling-will-be-the...
> whack-a-mole with microsoft's privacy settings

Indeed, their ever-changing "Get Windows 10" dialog is appalling. It's like a real life version of Cat Facts[1], or those stupid Best Buy emails I started getting after I bought a memory card from them and made absolutely sure I wasn't sharing my email address or signing up for anything. Hitting the "unsubscribe" link in the email resulted in more frequent spam from them, rather than actually unsubbing me.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/rsQ93.png
I am all for Basic Income but the way the author wants to implement it would be a disaster.

My mother is fully disabled and unable to work as a result of her stroke and she relies on Medicaid, Food Stamps and SSI to live. $13000 per person would be lower than what she gets right now and that's without considering the insurance issues. These changes would quite literally kill or leave homeless a large amount of America's disabled, poor or elderly population.

If Basic Income is to work then it needs to be actually liveable and adjusted based upon the CoL in each area.
> Expansionary monetary policy reduces the costs of loans and investments

How does it do that?
Suppose I want to borrow $1M to build a factory, but nobody (banks, venture capitalists, whatever) can afford to invest in my endeavor.

So the fed prints a bunch of money, causing 5% inflation. Now the bank can more easily afford to loan me $1M, because that $1M is worth less.

But now I need a $1.05M loan to build my factory.
Let's compare the number of countries that Russia has subjected to energy blackmail to that of literally any other country, for starters.
If only all of the things that needed doing for the common good were actually being done now, either by robots, or by a small number of people with machine assistance, this discussion might make more sense.

Once the roads are fixed, and the parks are clean, the disabled are cared for, etc, etc, etc. THEN maybe we should have a discussion about "Basic Income".

Our current technology is NOT "The Culture". There is still work to do, it is "simply" (not so simple) a matter of clawing back some cash from those who benefitted most from a stable society.

The WSJ's "10K" plan just sounds like a scam to cut more government jobs while throwing out a small consolation prize to prevent outright rebellion.
I remember when the scandal first broke I asked a friend whether he thought Snowden had truly tried to follow proper whistleblowing channels before going rogue. To which my friend replied, ''Do you really think the NSA would have shut down a multi billion dollar project because a young kid in Hawaii raised some Constitutional objections?'' I know a lot of good people working at three letter agencies but I do think they take on a life, mission, and momentum of their own sometimes.
Oh it does? I am trying it today! I wouldn't believe browser integration until I try it...
Let p-prime. Consider 3 "probabilities": a) p+2 is prime; b) p+4 is prime; c) p+6 is prime. Obviously p(c)=2p(a)=2p(b).
Probability of p+30 being prime is even higher.
Am I the only one to find it odd that the country (or other well-known positional reference) isn't stated anywhere in the article? (I'm assuming Bolivia)
Looks like a good move for all, especially Mark Cuban.
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People saying why they think he is guilty isn't the same as being treated as guilty.

In this case, the people did talk to his superiors, and they appear to have done as little as legally possible about it until there were public statements.
We can have either basic income or open borders/mass immigration -- but I don't see how we can have both.
>because you're in control

Realistically, who reads and reasons about every line of code that their system runs? For the most part, people don't ever really consider software beyond just installing it. In that case, maintainers have control.
Yes, it's definitely the user's fault for closing a pop-up window. Those always contain essential information.
I tried to get rid of people under 21 by reducing the population from 320M to 300M, but I guess I should look and see what the actual numbers are.
And France's African adventurism is... You guessed it. Made possible by massive security guarantees from the United States, as well as the US troops on European soil.
I LOVE learning new things by engaging with people I disagree with (and sometimes change my mind!) The way to succeed at that process is to avoid asserting nonsensical extremes. Of course there's a correlation between hard-work and success, but it's not a strict one. There are lots of cases where two people worked equally hard and intelligently and one succeeds where the other fails. That luck factor is separate from all the systematic things that put people at all sorts of different privileges already.

From everything I understand about the world (from personal experience and from reading and learning from others), there's a strong correlation between success and unearned privileged that is at least arguably a stronger correlation than the one about hard work. So, the most success comes from all three factors: luck, privilege, and hard work — put together.

It seems like you think even acknowledging luck and privilege is tantamount to denying the significance of hard work.
How many dumb windows pop up all the time that you close out without really considering? I'm constantly getting "Apple Software Update", "Java needs updating", "Adobe creative cloud needs updating" and about 4000 other irritating update windows. Nobody carefully reads those because nobody has time for that many distractions.
Extreme right having a majority government seems pretty exceptional.
What about a child? Are they supposed to somehow know better?

I can't believe you would use the word "permission" for giving in to torture. Maybe in some situations it's as simple as submitting vs. being immediately killed or imprisoned, but that's certainly not the only such situation.
(And yes, sending a resume is how you get started.)
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No. I love all of my colleagues, but we don't claim to have superpowers.
I mentioned that in another comment, there are certainly a lot of cases like your example where it makes no or not much sense to apply a minimum wage. I want the minimum wage to target specifically normal (full time) employment. An employer should not be able to pocket most of the money for say selling relatively expensive cloths but pay shitty wages to its sewers. You might argue that employees are free to negotiate wages and free to not accept bad conditions, but that easily fails if, for example, there is a surplus of possible employees. Sure, it is an important mechanism to reduce costs for consumers, but that should in my mind not come at the expenses of the employees.
Yeah, I've certainly seen some of that. Hopefully, though, we can share and spread ideas, if not exact policies.
good, but long

>And my hypothesis, stated plainly, is that if you’re part of the Blue Tribe, then your outgroup isn’t al-Qaeda, or Muslims, or blacks, or gays, or transpeople, or Jews, or atheists – it’s the Red Tribe.
Not many airliners are lost, so how is your pedantic answer relevant to to answering the question about cost?
Steve Gibson is one of the most trusted developers of the past few decades. His SpinRite software is a life saver.

Please read about him before dismissing him out of hand because you've not heard of him. There's more to the world than what's inside your box.
Presumably because GhostShell didn't want to leak every bit of accessible data, but merely a subset to illustrate that this wasn't hot air, and shame parties involved into action.
The current government deficit is more than 500 billion. We can't currently pay for current government spending - not sure why you think the government would try and pay for a huge new entitlement when the political firestorm from that would probably kill it.