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Can Silicon Valley take care of its own long term needs?

Basic math and science research now is the soil Silicon Valley needs in the future. But government budgets are cut, and there's a philosophy that predominates that government is not the answer.

So Larry Page has Google do research and development. But there is the beginning of a stockholder rebellion. The trend is toward focus on short term ever-increasing stock returns each quarter. The powers-that-be want funding for basic math and science research trimmed down to nothing - both government and corporate.

Plus treaties like TPP are being pushed. If Silicon Valley profits on the increased spread of information, the TPP tries to tie down information in rules which seem out-of-date.

Also telcos (read AT&T and Verizon) are using their last-mile land/airwave monopoly power to redirect bad DNS calls to ads, hijack sessions and place cookies on them, they want to use their monopolies to charge upstreams fees etc.

Then there's the Eastern District of Texas patent racket.

An example of this discussed recently - in the years after World War II, the transistor was implemented and Moore's Law took effect. As everyone knows, that has slowed down in recent years and soon the current methods will hit a brick wall.

If you look at constant non-military R&D dollars coming from the federal budget, they are less this year than they were in 2003. The population is growing, the economy is growing and becoming more complex, but federal R&D dollars are shrinking.

Also, you talk as if wasting human capital was not an intention of our current mode of production and economic system. Look at this 1999 Businessweek article, "When is the jobless rate too low?" ( http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1999-10-31/when-is-th... ). The worry by the people controlling the economy starts when unemployment gets too low, not when it's too high. Of course, if it starts climbing up to 25% like it did in 1932 in the US, turmoil starts to take hold, so in that respect they're against high unemployment on the other end.

Why do you assume wasted human capital is the concern of those making the economic decisions? By the people making the economic decisions, I mean the people pressuring Larry Page to cut Alphabet/Google R&D, who pressured Facebook to go public, who beat the drums for years for Apple to have a special dividend etc. Wasted human capital, unemployment - the existence of a reserve army of labor is a cornerstone of the existing economic system.
Yeah, this is what I do to a tee. I just say "well, can't credit them as a reliable source of quality journalism." Then I move on and find some coherent research on what I need to know.
it's not enough to live on. There's a plethora of data contradicting everything you say,

Why don't you cite some of it, then?

I can certainly cite plenty of data showing he's mostly right. For example, the poor mostly do not work, they mostly have good quality housing, and they have lots of food.

http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publication...

http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/h150-07.pdf

https://www.brookings.edu/2015/01/08/weight-and-social-mobil...

Concretely, what do you think he's wrong about, and where is the data supporting your claims?
Southeast Asia, Central America, and Eastern Europe.
Oh, you "suspect" that. How conclusive! Look at the data, and quit the horseshit about "these people" and their misguided priorities.

Food deserts. Lead paint poisoning. Lack of access to healthcare.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-hea...

"Take, for instance, Sharlene Adams who recently needed a blood pressure cuff. To buy one required no less than four bus rides, a stop at her doctor's office for his signature, a visit to two different pharmacies and a side trip to borrow money to make the required co-pay. The 55-year-old eventually got her hands on the $40 item in East Baltimore 5 1/2 hours after starting on her quest, the Maryland students documented."
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As someone from Bangladesh, I think it's utterly ridiculous that you keep talking about how much better poor Americans have it than Indians or Chinese. So what? What does it matter that people from countries were things are desperately bad are willing to trade places with people who are in a pretty bad situation in a great country? It's utterly irrelevant.
It's not just yet another listing. Nor it is about quasi-legal rental.

For the user, it allows to find room by location, enter in contact, book and prepay in a convenient way that is unprecedented.

For the hosting, it allows to easily rent, accept the money and reply to people.

There were simply no service that allowed to neither buy nor sell that easily before.

It had the side effect of attracting a lot of "black market" operations onto it but that doesn't make it about black market (even though it did play a role in the growth). AirBnB is about providing a great service to both buyer and seller.

(Anyway, there's always been a HUGE black market for property rental. The incentive to declare are not worth it. AirBnB barely make the issue more visible.)
From a business standpoint: play the game, check all the boxes. (And it never hurts to be flexible and open to different ideas, even those that seem counterintuitive.)
tl;dr; I have no factual objections to anything you've said, but I object to who you are!
I'm speculating here:

This could be a SHA256 or a SHA3 hash of a "commitment message".

I have seen this done by people who then some time later post the original message, to prove their suspicion of something since that earlier date.
I think your problem is that you live in Hyde Park. It is quite isolated from the rest of the city. I agree with you that CTA should step up service to the south side, but living on the north side or west side you would much more easily live without a car. Source: lived on north and west sides for past 5 years and don't have/don't want a car.
If you take cars off the roads, people will rebuild (well, reorganize) their cities to account for it. Public transit obviously needs to be better pretty much everywhere in the US, but people also don't want to pay to make it better.

I'm a proponent of simply wiping out parking in most areas. That will incentivize people not to drive, therefore to walk/transit, therefore to value the transit systems and the design of their cities.

It's a serious issue of sunk cost, but eventually we need to bite the bullet and start moving in the other direction.
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If I could downmod you I would. What is wrong with migrating to a city that has more jobs, support, help than staying in a small town that is dying?
This is a good point. Increases in productivity mean we can manufacture more goods per worker, which means we need fewer workers.

If increased productivity is a worker's enemy, that worker really doesn't have much to offer.
I think it's satire, not sure
Curious how people who have family members in Venezula are remitting funds to them? Do they have exchange funds at the official rate or is there ways to send Dollars directly.

This has to be a pretty common occurance.
>an obvious sympathizer to Putin's Russia

why did you say so? I hate Putin's regime, and have always been very critical about Russian state and its people.
> Talk about BIG challenges: how could this be fixed, assuming it can be fixed?

A military coup followed by a dictatorship, in which massive, forcible wealth redistribution would take place.

Silicon Valley, as the country's second greatest concentration of wealth, would not survive this.

The solution is dictated by the boundary conditions. Politics is a desperate struggle for who gets what.
Big cities also have an entirely different culture from rural America. It includes higher crime rates, higher prices, more commute time, and less sense of being connected to a community. I have lived in several cities (Seattle, Chicago, Dallas, Charlotte) and ended up hating all of them.

They are especially brutal if you move to them with little money and no connections to decent jobs. Then you have the worst of both worlds.
Thats really great advice, we're talking about it on Slack now.

Thanks
Probably was trained based on classification.
Perfect, thank you! Let's hope that is truly the case.
Requiring the called party to set up an account might be easy if she just happens to be sitting at her desk when the call is made, but it could be much more onerous in other situations. Regardless, this breaks the standard expectations that humans have for using a phone.
Ah, but this is only true about we, humans rather than earth/solar system.
It cannot be excluded that other sources of radio have been around here in the past :)
Really not a fan of the name – why name it BotKit when you know that the most popular framework is also called Botkit?
related discussion from 5 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12238402
Why would it be only one object? It could be a belt of random sizes and shaped asteroids that is between us and the star?
Thank you. Each day is a new opportunity to have to start over. Don't get me started on tech conferences, lol....
In a way, it sounds like they are issuing debt, the BFX token. The people "buying" the debt just don't have much say in the matter.
I feel the same way. I've invented a config management system which executes an environment-specific shell script based on some metadata about the instance it's running on. Most of these config scripts are <50 lines and contain no logic, just "copy this config file, mount this volume, grab this secret, restart this service". Works really well for our limited use-case.

We used to use chef-solo and keep cookbooks in a separate repo, which was fetched over git by instances at boot time. Now we have developers in control of bake and boot-time scripts, and since "it's just bash" and there's barely any indirection / meta programming, people generally just get it, and it works. Note that this is using an "immutable-ish infrastructure" approach. Chef worked OK before we went immutable, but we'd have problems where the instance would get into a bad state because someone "fixed" something and the next chef run wouldn't apply cleanly. Taking away ssh access would be nice, but we don't have all the log analysis / system insight stuff in place to make that a reality just yet.

If we had a more complex use-case, I'd totally use chef again. If our needs expand, I wouldn't expand our little bash "system", but replace it with chef or chef-solo.
Not saying that people shouldn't share such anecdotes, but for this particular case I added "until it's resolved" given what the story described.
Here are some factors you may not have considered:

1. It may be very hard to interview for a job at your destination. It's disingenuous to tell someone on the poverty line "Move, start paying out a ton of cash, and hopefully pick up a job". It's even harder to do that if you don't have the family structure to help you out.

2. Many people may have equity tied up in homes in dying communities. Yeah, it's not worth very much - but it's paid for, and way cheaper than rent in a much more expensive city.

3. The skills you have may not be in demand in cities. If you're a steel worker, moving to New York City isn't going to help you out very much.
Three pedal one here. Bought by accident but now happily use it with middle one to switch modes using Karabiner and outer two either Cmd/Mouseclick or pgup/down, left/right, scroll, space left/right etc.
Because the parent comment made the original assertion, and that's how the game works. "The earth is flat, prove me wrong!" no thanks.

Also, your second link is literally 642 pages, please point to the relevant part.
I would argue that federalizing education has made the problem worse, not better. Much of what passes for elementary and secondary education is silly fluff compared to what was required two generations ago.
I had found this as well, but it was marked as flagged and no solid conclusions were drawn from the comments. So I figured I would ask HN instead of trying to link out somewhere (there was no where to link to anyway). Probably should have included that in the related links. Anyone know why it was flagged?
From a CFTC action: "BFXNA Inc. d/b/a Bitfinex is a corporation formed
and existing under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, and has its principal place of business at suite 13/F, 1308 Bank of America Tower, 12 Harcourt Road, Central, Hong Kong, China."
Interesting, I'll have to read more about this. Thanks for the response.
Lack of access to healthcare actually probably has very little effect. See figure 8:

https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2513561

Or see the Oregon experiment: https://www.nber.org/oregon/

Food deserts are actually the result of people's consumption choices - poor folks choose not to buy healthy food, so no one sells it to them. Making healthy food available does not change this behavior.

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/giving-people-ac...
> I actually think if you cut off the trackpad I'd find the typing position more awkward.

I guess you could picture the TrackPoint like this: http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/4796.jpg
Do spaceships travel in a straight line? I thought their trajectories are heavily curved in really weird ways due to the garvities of stars and planets around them. Please enlighten me!
HM automatically deletes exclamation points from titles. Was curious (and because it's a lazy Saturday) and found that the title-sanitizer also deletes exclamation points from anywhere in the text (not just the end). I guess that makes submitting a code snippet with `!` a bit tricky.
There is nothing that would allow us to track him down, but there is plenty that would allow others who already know parts of this to "verify" claims of his behavior/perception.
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There is plenty of data, in the article you linked, demonstrating that the behavior and priorities of these people are indeed misguided and violent. That's not what I suspect, that's what I know, and there is no shortage of data to back this up.

The thing I suspect is that the violence these people visit on themselves contributes more to their situation than lack of access to government services. I didn't say that more government services wouldn't help at all.

By the way, the Baltimore Sun article you cited is not about poor white people. It is about poor urban blacks in West Baltimore. That's not really relevant to this discussion, because blacks have faced enslavement and discrimination for centuries in this country. Discrimination against blacks, especially in hiring practices, has helped the poor white people we are talking about. Having to now compete against non-whites for jobs is a significant component of the poor white anger in this country, although many don't want to admit that.
Seems cool :)
It's hardly irrelevant. My claim is that the Indian, Bangladeshi or Chinese will better themselves and move up in the world, while the American refuses to do so.

That implies that it's the American's choices, rather than his circumstances, which cause him to be poor. How is that irrelevant?
Are you suggesting a root cause for why they haven't en masse made the migration? Without that, I can't see how this amounts to more than a moral argument.
get the source here:
https://github.com/ryanckulp/product_hunt_upvotes
The page I gave is for July 2016. It states that a "user" is someone who have access internet at home, at anytime of the day. No matter what device is used.

Your page is old and complaining that the number of 485M given in 2012-2013 was overinflated. That seems about right given that the last numbers are still a bit under that by now.

On a different topic. Ut looks like only 10-20% of connections are wired (e.g. broadband). The rest is wireless (probably mobile data)

That seems important to know if going for that market. (red: target phone, bad bandwidth, bad latency.)
It's totally relevant, because it demonstrates that there are people in the world more worthy of help than poor Americans.
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Yeah, I must be getting old...
> "What people are really saying .. they believe there are too many cars"

No. While I'm certain there are some who believe that, it is not a universal belief.

Which routes are the most direct, the ones for drivers, the ones for walkers, or the ones for cyclists? If the car route is most direct, while the safe biking route requires 25% more distance, then the car has been placed ahead of other modalities.

If walkers and cyclists are limited in where they can cross the street, then the system favors the car driver.

If drivers aren't required to stop for foot traffic, then the system favors the car driver.

If there are 6 lane surface roads with a crosswalk, but no pedestrian island or other safe refuge for slow walkers, then the system favors the car driver.

Are there ways to run most errands without using a car?

Are the roads constructed to maximize vehicle throughput? Or minimize maintenance costs? Or minimize the number of traffic deaths?

How much of vehicle parking is subsidized? (Don't forget zoning requirements for the number of parking spaces.)

The more the system favors driving over other modalities, the more reasonable it is to say that "the city is ruled by the car", at least metaphorically.

> Rather, they are motivated by their dislike for cars.

This is not true. The "Vision Zero" plan, for example, is motivated by the desire for no traffic deaths, not from a dislike for cars.

Austin, TX is putting that plan into place. At http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2016-07-08/no-kill-for-t... you can see the logo for "Year of Mobility 2016", which includes all major transport modalities. It is not based on a dislike of cars.
There's a comment [1] in the other reddit thread that somewhat rules this out.

> That doesn't even make sense when you're flying within the Solar System. Stuff moves, so you have to fly towards where it's going to be, not where it is.

> The star is far enough away to be treated as a point source, with its light forming an apparent cone with the Earth's diameter. It doesn't intuitively make sense, at least to me, that the ship would stay within that cone as it corrects for the motion of our Solar System (and its own) within our galaxy. Remember that this dimming effect has been observable for several decades.

Then again, aliens don't have any obligation to make sense to us.

[1] : https://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/comments/4waozn/new_paper...
Cyprus did it not that long ago. They forced a loss on bank customers, although in a way that targeted non-citizens.
good points. so

1.) If you were born in the country, you gotta have at least 1 relative that lives in a rich state. (if you don't even have that, there are lots of charities and programs in cities like LA, SF, New York that can give you some initial help). And why would it be disingenuous? If there is a good chance to get out of poverty, why not at least try once?

2.) You can sell the house or get a line of credit against it and use it to see if you can move

3.) so learn a new skill then move, or just do manual labor for a while in the big city
In that situation, wouldn't we be the artificial intelligence? Kinda doesn't make sense to call our overlord an AI if we're the simulated beings.
Not every company has that filter. Many don't care if their employees went to college at all.
To be clear, the 'realignment' in Europe and to some extent the US is a function of the dissolution of the classical left.

'Left Wing' used to be a 'labour movement', i.e. workers rights, unions, social welfare etc.. In the UK the left is called 'the labour party'.

But modern left wing parties are 'intellectually left' or 'socially progressive'. They are interested in gender issues, abortion, identity etc..

The 'academic left' wants gay marriage, abortion, to promote ideas such as 'white privilege', they are often not 'pro law enforcement' or 'nationalist' (in the classical sense), they are 'anti Christian' - or rather secular when it comes to Christianity, but are actually supportive of almost all other forms of religious expression (i.e. Islamic head coverings etc.), going even so far as to create another religion: 'Kwanza'.

But 'regular lower-middle class white folk' are usually 'somewhat religious', they have varying opinions on abortion but are generally weary of it, are somewhat tolerant of gay culture but weary of gay marriage, are generally 'pro police', and somewhat nationalist. Ok with immigration but are very weary of illegal immigration, whereas the new left tries to equate 'illegal' and 'legal' immigration as the same thing.
They generally support more classical values. Boy/Girl Scouts. Joining the service as an act of duty. Valuing family. Christmas. Etc..

The leadership of left-wing parties around the world is utterly disconnected from their voters, which is changing the landscape. In the UK particularly.

In America - this effect is dampened by newcomers. Almost all African Americans and most Latinos vote 'default Democrat' and those two groups are growing quite a lot along with most other new immigrants, especially those who are visible minorities.

'Working class' America is shifting rightwards due to the lack of representation among classical Democrats.

Combine the fact that you have 'big corporate' Republicans as well as Dems in the centre, you have remaining the 'gun toters' and 'tea partiers' which can have a nastier element on the fringe, and you get Donald Trump.

There basically is no party to represent regular, working-class-ish white people, which is a huge demographic.

It's a crazy time.
As a developer, I'm trying to meet deadlines with good-enough code.

I'm not stupid and I certainly understand why someone would develop a general deployment strategy, and then each case can be described as a set of parameters. Again: the use case is clear to me.

All of this makes sense in a world where the ops team is world-class and responsive, and you have the schedule and resources to delay deployment for another 2 weeks while you lovingly craft an Ansible module instead of hardcoding a BASH script.

That does not describe business environments.
They'd have to buy transit from a provider. Peering is connectivity between two ISPs. Transit is connectivity between you and the rest of the internet.
I don't believe that. Do you have any data to back that up?
This may seem overly negative or (internet) contrarian, and I believe yours is a good comment, but these are subject to political forces as much as--or more than--any.

Put your time in (not bankers hours), move when transferred, whoa this is a lot of paperwork, climb the ladder, spend time at HQ and "make friends" at all your stops, go along and get along, now there are kids and spouse/house and schools, do your 20 so you can retire, start new job in security or back to private practice thanks to your well-tended reputation, etc.

Who's gonna stick their neck out anymore? (Besides Snowden.)
Right so it's just not liking big cities or manual jobs. Well, when you're dirt poor, you suck it up, and go to the city, do manual labor, save up money/learn skills until you can get out of being dirt poor.
Yes, double congrats.

And 'tech conferences'? Loserville. No offence. I like techies, and like talking tech. But getting drunk with nerds is not fun.