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I genuinely believe that people find meaning and contentment in themselves.

That helps me as much as asking me to breathe water, or see infrared though.

Those deep relationships you speak of; when trying to have these kinds of conversations the response is mostly "I don't know what that's like so I really can't help, sorry." Or you say, ok I need your help by being patient, but that only goes so far for so long, and then for their sake you just start faking it or maybe not just faking it but at least not dwelling on it, ask again everything looks just fine.

To extend the comedy analogy, very introspective comedians discuss this frequently. Marc maron, garry Shandling, Bill Murray etc... have all discussed (all with Charlie rose Incidentally) their impossible yearning for self actualized contentment only to not find it. I appreciate you taking the time to write that out.
Yeah, he annexed it covertly, denied it was him, his loyal supporters denied it was him, and then when it turned out it was him, suddenly his loyal supporters justified with "lots of history and lots of US meddling."

That does make you a Russophile.
If I understand the implementation correctly, this seems like it has a low ratio of complexity to performance improvements. It will be interesting to see if this ends up landing in MRI. I'm anxious to see some non-micro benchmarks against "real world" Ruby, which basically means the Rails test suite, start up time, etc.

My only concern would be what kind of impact this has on memory usage. Having all of those in memory copies of method implementations hanging around probably comes at a cost. But in general the world seems to be OK with trading memory for speed these days. If Ruby is twice as fast for less than twice the memory then we can easily consider it a win.

Anecdotally, it seems like servers these days have plenty of RAM to spare relative to CPUs anyway. A semi-recent Rails app that ran on AWS EC2 m4.xlarge's with 24 Puma workers only used 5.5GB of the available 16GB of RAM.

It also looks like the spirit of this optimization comes from the work Chris Seaton and others have been doing with Ruby and the Graal VM. It's great to see work like that having an impact on MRI.
Aside from the fact that Russia really does seem to be implicated in this...

That you're hearing so much about Russia this year is due to the fact that the Democrats have made it something of a theme of this campaign season [0].

I would suggest that, the Republicans having already "won" terrorism messaging, the Democrats have embraced anti-Russia propaganda so they can have their own bogeyman to fight against. With Trump's documented ties to Russia, the Democrats can "own" attacks on Russia without risk of retaliation.

[0] https://theintercept.com/2016/08/08/dems-tactic-of-accusing-...
The funny thing is that Tyahnybok is the one that tried to tone down the Parubiy's nazi-like styling. Parubiy was involved in pretty much all neo-nazi and ultra right groups. Social-National Party of Ukraine, Patriot of Ukraine, Svoboda, various paramilitary units, etc.

> Seeing swastikas everywhere is an important part of the approach, I guess.

That's a nice way to dismiss it, but it doesn't help the fact that they went to a great length to emulate the nazi branding. The name of the party, lovely evening torchlight parades [1], and even the decorations at speaking events [2].

1] http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/30/article-2616531-1D...

2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Second_Congress_of_the_Pa...

EDIT: some formatting issues
"Dude, You're Gonna Be A Dad" was pretty good. It's a little bro-ish, but if you can get past that, it's a good quick read. - https://amzn.com/B004XWDD8W

"The Happiest Baby on the Block" was a good practical guide - https://amzn.com/B00TCI48AE
The argument that new graduates will know Python and have an easier time with embedded systems never sits well with me. If they graduated in something to do with embedded systems then they will know C. If they have a general programming background then they will need some training anyway, as embedded systems often require a different mindset geared more towards low-level programming. So they might as well learn C while they're at it.

I think the popularity of Arduino with complete beginners shows that the barrier of entry is rolling the bootstrapping code and getting tools set up, not the language itself.
What this seems to say is that people shouldn't starve, but to get food people should demonstrate that they are starving. I am unsure why demonstration is essential, because either way others are still obligated to provide food so that people aren't starving.
Space itself cannot be quantized into a grid because it totally fails under special relativity.
Concurrency is hard, try to avoid anything that makes it harder. A lot of the functional languages have something we can all learn from here. For Java I recommend this:

- always make your class fields final, if they must be non-final, question why and decide what will happen across threads.

- use executors and futures instead of rolling your own threads. Most, if not all, concurrency patterns can be built around these.

- when all else fails and you need the primitives from this article, make sure you read https://books.google.com/books/about/Java_Concurrency_in_Pra... before writing a line of concurrent code.

By the way, that book is all about Java, but is excellent at getting across concepts that a practical for general concurrency best practices.
I've been told that the fewer times your die bounces, the more random the roll will be. The reason given was that each time it bounces, you give an opportunity for a slightly heavier side to roll towards the bottom. Obviously you should be wary if someone's roll doesn't bounce at all -- they are likely manipulating the throw (make them use a dice cup!). But a too-bouncy table can cheat you too by favoring the heavier side of the die.

So, your dice may be trying to kill you, but they're not working alone. Blame the table too!
If each prisoner randomly labels the boxes in their own (presumably independent) manner, then this strategy fails miserably. In fact, it's equivalent to each prisoner choosing 50 random (unique) boxes.

The solution specifies that "the prisoners must first agree on a random labeling of the boxes by their own names." This is necessary.
This is great advice. I'm a recruiter known for being critical of recruiter behavior, and when people claim that recruiters are mostly worthless to them, I encourage them to simply use recruiters for this kind of information. An experienced recruiter, specifically an agency recruiter with a wide variety of clients, should be able to give you a fairly solid expectation on your marketability and market value.

Instead of wasting the opportunity, a reply like this can be quite useful. If the recruiter doesn't reply, don't respond to them again.
It would absolutely shock me if they didn't exceed 1k/hr at times. Nobody really did what Ghengis did again, thank god.
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27 cents a gallon is quite a lot.
I would, if you ignore them you can get as low as ~8 cents per kwh hour before and ~6c/kWh after incentives. But, that's ignoring battery backup for night time use. Still, beating 22c/kWh TCO is easy in most of the US and your insulated from future price hikes.
http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=RUB&to=USD&view=5Y

First the illegal annexation of Crimea was "complicated," and now the Russian economy isn't in a freefall? Where are you getting your news?
This series of blog posts might be a good place to start:
https://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2014/08/08/toy-layout-engine-1.h...
Ask HN: How long should a partnership wait before legally organizing?
I am in a group with 4 members. I'm a developer on it - we've agreed to an equal 25% split regardless of whatever expenses we personally incur before organizing (pretty small stuff, a $10 subscription here and there - but also some medium stuff, like paying a contractor a few grand for illustrations).

Now we are about ready to think about launching and selling product - I was thinking we were going to be testing by giving away licenses for free to relevant users - but it seems like the plan is to charge.

This is fine because it's not too shoddily built for what I'd call a market-testable prototype - but I know that this means there's going to be potential liability introduced.

Also in terms of just protecting our interests and ensuring nobody can try to grab for more ownership when we do organize is important to me. I like working with these teammates in general, but we have clashed more than once - so it's not beyond the ralm of possibility that things might not be amicable at that point in time.

When should I put my foot down regarding organizing legally? Should it be before we launch to paying customer? Should it be before we even test with customers? Or should I just chill out and wait until we're making enough money that we know the fees aren't wasted?
By that logic productivity in all industries could be improved by introducing flogging / periodic executions of lowest performing staff.

What's more likely: someone takes a risk knowing that if they fail their kids won't be homeless, or knowing that if they fail, they will be?
>at least acknowledge that people have to demonstrate need to be the recipients of government handouts

The entire point of universal basic income is that no such need exists, and pretending that it does is the reason that our current system is failing.
Actually many of the red flags aren't really red flags. I already considered to completely ignore this article. But some, especially 8 and 9 are quite valuable to people who have never experienced that.

The ones I consider serious are these: 1 (hire/fire fast), 4 (given responsibility without authority), 6 (unclear product), 8 (weird money habits), 9 (law problems).

Others I consider quite important: too much money without backing in team strenght and professional attitude (either founders or investors are bullshitting someone), don't trust the team (when shit hits the fan everybody will cover their ass and taking care of others may be considered breaking your employers trust), act context aware (opinion is more important than actual facts, consider when to tell which fact/idea to whom, when everybody is happy because of a successful lie then you have low leverage for the moment).

In any case I think you need to have a few of these experiences to be able to survive in a business environment. When stakes are high, information is hard to come by, and you don't have years to learn to know the other parties, then people will do unexpected things (lying, faking success, spying, or simply not supporting you when you are under attack). Important resumee point: I survived X scams.
It will take a while, but with time the supporting infrastructure for charging will become widespread. Even better, the companies would introduce battery swapping outlets too all over, so you spend two minutes on the highway to get your run down battery swapped with a fully charged one and just drive on. The battery then is no longer a part of your car that you own, but just rent/lease with a specific performance guarantee. You pay the outlet based on some parameters they measure on your run down battery. It'd be an interesting future, and like another post here about the pre vs. post Internet generations, I look forward to seeing such widespread changes coming and changing what people think of as transport and maintenance of one's means of transport. :)
At least some of the budget would come from realizing reductions in bureaucratic overhead from eliminating the welfare apparatus and costs associated with crime (which poverty is the biggest predictor of).

We also always seem to have enough money to bomb the ever living shit out of brown people in all the far flung regions of the universe, so I don't understand why cost should ever be an issue.

I don't think need is either an important issue. The problem with your last sentence is that it "no right to income" implies "no right to feed one's self", i.e. "no right to live." Do people deserve to starve to death just because they are lazy?
PySide doesn't work with Qt5 yet.
barring overtly offensive/shocking material, do we really browse the internet with enough removal from the content we are viewing to consciously recognize (and take long-term action) when a website is making us uncomfortable? the position being put forward by this extension is 'no', though your point is valid in a general sense
How about nuclear power? It's the most viable energy source that we have. It doesn't emit carbon. It could power the world.

Funny that the people who get labeled "climate deniers" are also the most pro-nuclear, while the loud environmentalists are the most anti-nuclear.

I frankly don't give a damn what they believe or don't believe, if they're going to solve the problem anyway.
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Are states divided into two groups -- the givers and the takers? http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-st...

The sign on your tax return seems much less of a class divide than whether you spend every waking moment trying to afford food and shelter.
> those who are net recipients of government money, and those who are net contributors

Don't we already have this? Example: people working for the state vs people working in private companies.

> you imply that others are obligated to provide them with that income

I'm not sure that this is a consequence but let's suppose it is. It's already happened in that context for millenia, peacefully at least until everybody agreed that it was a good deal for both parties.

Is basic income a good deal for all parties? There are some experiments running or about to start. We'll see.
This is useful for reading. Without the capacity to comment or vote, however, it isn't suitable for anyone who contributes to the community.
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing this!
Perhaps there is evidence as others have suggested (as I am sure there is of US involvement in Russian affairs). In fact it would be surprising if Russia weren't at it. This is after all the age of cyber warfare so it is extremely unlikely that all major powers aren't trying to coerce the system to their advantage. That said it seems that most of the Russian scare tactics are coming out of the Hilary camp as an attempt to deflect from her own shortcomings. Every time something illegal she did comes up the Russian scaremongering gets ramped up a notch. Classic deflection tactics. It is also convenient given that Trump seems to be pro-Putin and many Americans have been conditioned to fear the Russians for decades. America has already lost this election regardless of the outcome.
That happened around 2008. Or even earlier; Linux distros were being distributed via Bittorrent back in 2006. https://torrentfreak.com/popular-linux-distro-torrents/
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It's extremely counterproductive to, as the article puts it, "take the question of the moral quality of the poor off the table."

The fact is that a large amount of poverty is directly correlated with "moral quality". Most poor people in the US (maybe Canada is different?) have low "moral quality", which I define as engaging in behaviors that are likely to keep a person poor. These behaviors include not seeking work [1], substance abuse [2], single motherhood [3] and crime [4] (including crimes with no economic motive such as intimate partner violence).

There are direct causal relationships between all of these behaviors and poverty. Not seeking work will result in not having a job, drug abuse will make you lose your job, and having no job makes you poor. Etc.

Why would we want to take the primary cause of poverty off the table if our goal is to solve it?

It's almost as if this guy's primary goal is to create a vote bank of government dependents rather than reduce poverty.

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

[2] http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/2013MHDetTabs... https://www.nber.org/chapters/c11165.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/adultsmoking/

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Promises-Can-Keep-Motherhood-Marriage... http://www.economics21.org/html/great-gatsby-curve-revisited...

[4] http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/hpnvv0812.pdf
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you're not cool if you don't drive a Tesla

Transport for the 1%! I'll just carry on with my bus. Some of them are already hybrid.
While I find interesting the idea of a new C (instead of a new C++ like D, Nim, etc), I'm a bit sad that there is both the Zig AND the Jay projects..
It reminds me why Pascal lost (IMHO): too many incompatible Pascal 'clone'.
There's good and bad there, if you need to patch a security vulnerability you may need to redeploy tons of packages on each host (each package that contains a copy of the bad lib code) versus patching it once. Depending on how you deploy that might be no big deal or it might be.
A hard fork?
I already knew about Academic Torrents, but didn't know about Kaggle, which was linked[1] from one of the 'popular' data sets on AT: https://www.kaggle.com/c/yelp-restaurant-photo-classificatio...

It looks like one of those logo-design-competition-sites, but for big data. Anyone compete in one of these?

[1]: http://academictorrents.com/details/19c3aa2166d7bfceaf3d76c0...
My main point here is: The whole Western democratic world is more or less saying the same thing about Putin.

You have answered two comments of mine without touching that.

(Also -- check the democratic peace theory. USA don't start wars against democracies. Putin just don't want to have prosperous democracies as neighbours.)

And so on.
People, like myself, don't want to buy into someone's problems. Sure you pay a bit less, but you also have a bit less car. 35,000 miles into a car, how long before you need to buy just another used car? I buy new, and then run it into the ground after the warranty runs out. Typically by then, normal defects have been covered. Change your own oil, filters, tires. Keep up with things like alignments, wash/wax, and keeping things clean. You'd be surprised at how long a new car will last if you take care of it. Conversely, who knows how the previous guy treated it, because most definitely do not care. This will be the seventh year with mine, and it's immaculate.
Isn't this technically warez?
>> the American and Russian media narratives evoke a polarized situation.

As it said in what you comment on: Not only "American" -- most every Western democracy.

I think you are very much aware of that you didn't touch my second point above.
here how it happens:

a company, that is not really a company, keeps applying for tons of h1b. they usually have some title like consulting.

they get the h1b and don't even bring the programmers from India. they become "visa holders" companies.

the h1b's then start to look for work on their own, or the holder. and once the programmer is hired, the visa holder company gets paid, take 70% (or 60% if the programmer found the position themselves).

and this is how most h1b contractors that work on Google and such live. they will endure it for the 10 years the us forces them to stay as h1b. always trying to get transferred to the hiring company directly, and almost always failing.

the final company pays much more for a contractor via a visa holder, but they have the benefit of paying it via a small consulting company, so it won't show up as head count for the investors. everyone but the programmer wins.
>The same ceremony will be repeated at the secondary master key facility in early 2017 before being used in anger for the first time at a third get together in Q2.

Is this a typo, or there some reason they're going to be angry?
That's some serious APM.
Maybe if they stopped floating their country up so damned close to our war ships...
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> Such a contract would have to surrender some control to the other co-owner

No, it wouldn't. You could easily structure this contract such that the person on the receiving end has no control until the original owner dies.
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You can't put a dollar value on a lot of contributions towards society. For instance artists, for now, need to try and sell their work but a lot of cultural works are not necessarily sell-able.

It also seems to me that, due to our racist and sexist history, there is a massive wage inequality geared towards industries that are dominated by white males. Who is paying for whom here?
You only get one life and anything that let's everyone and not just those born to privilege get a shot at doing more than just surviving can only be a good thing.

It may unlock a whole new level of untapped human creativity and potential leading to a happier and perhaps more dynamic and productive society.

There is a risk of focussing on narrower narratives rooted in the current economic context and missing the proverbial woods for the trees. Maybe freed of that bigger ideas can emerge.
Yeah, they do. The magic keyword is apparently "RCS enhancer".

F117: https://books.google.com/books?id=WaedCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA65&ots=...

F22: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/128js1/how_do_w...
> it's going to split the population into two groups

Isn't the point of UBI, that everyone gets the money? Not only those who don't work.
I've experienced a quite similar situation.
Moved to a new city with a promise of a nice pay and a good job for a startup. First month of the project CEO ended up in a psyc ward. Luckily I got out with my head and limbs still attached to my body.
> Private voting and public counting will be gone.

I may be missing your point or misunderstanding your comment, but what you describe there is a by-product of a successfully developed blockchain-based voting solution.

Everyone's votes are verifiably recorded, but publicly anonymous. You can still conduct public counts and everyone with access to the blockchain's ledger (or a trusted method of viewing the ledger) can confirm that the only votes that count towards the contest are those actually recorded. The additional benefit is that at any point in time, you can revisit your own vote to confirm it is still contributing to the outcome as it should.

I don't see how this in any way undermines or "forfeits the primary function of our government, which is administrating elections." This may be due to our differing opinions on what the role of government is. Generally my reasoning falls closer in line with Milton Friedman's (paraphrased) view:

> Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property.[...][1]

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[1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/578626-government-has-three-...
Only on road trips or if you have an extremely long commute. The vast majority of the time with an electric car it's much more convenient because you charge overnight. You never have to go to a gas station again.
Russia isn't the only country that violates international treaties and its own constitution...

Ever heard of Victoria Nuland, assistant Secretary of State for European affairs during the Ukrainian crisis? "Fuck the EU" she said: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
It's really not possible to have a coup in the US. Government is too distributed for a quick take over. Civil war, on the other hand, could still happen, but I think it would probably end up with just a few stand-off situations and be resolved quickly.

I believe that the population of americans that view politics as reality TV are the majority.

Also, Bush v. Gore, florida election results, 2000. AKA "The Hanging Chad" incident. Also happens to be the year that americans at large learned the words "enjoin" and "disenfranchise."