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Telemarketing isn't "make work." They are providing value to their employer.

You are hitting on one of my concerns, though: make labor cheap, and people could be hired to basically annoy other people. I want to keep it simple, but there are certain categories of jobs that need to be ineligible for wage subsidy: anything that involves attempting to grab someone else's attention or time. So no sandwich board walkers, no demonstrators, no telemarketers, no door-to-door salesman, no picket walkers. Those can still be employed by businesses if they want, but without subsidy.

If you don't trust employers, you can bid up the wages of labor yourself by hiring people. Think what a non-profit interested in increasing recycling rates could do with access to cheap labor. In fact, all sorts of environmental issues are reduced by cheap labor. We can stop dumping old VCRs on China to disassemble. A local environmental group can collect them, and then use a disassembly line to teach workers the basics of technology repair while breaking out all the components for responsible disposal.

If you want to keep people employed but not willing to risk employers possibly benefiting in any way, well, it indicates that improving the standards of living of the workers wasn't your real concern. Keep in mind that "the government should take care of paying for health care" would fit in with my recommendations but run afoul of your objections.
>You give the example of trucking jobs which will be 90% wiped out. This hews to the conventional wisdom you find on HN, but you'd be hard pressed to put out real evidence that this will be the case on any identifiable near-term timeline.

Are 20 years a "near-term timeline"? Because all it takes is for self-driving cars to be approved for market, and today they are under heavy testing, and we even have some (Tesla etc) where while not "self-driving" they are very close.

It's not like some feature cpu/storage/battery/etc technology, where some lab breakthrough or another frequently gets reported in tech outlets, but it never arrives.

This is a mature field, with multiple multi-billion investments and heavy activity.
I don't think you're taking into account the inevitable regulatory and legal issues that will slow or halt the progress of self driving trucks in the coming years. The moment a robot kills a family with young children on the road you will see policy banning their use show up in the halls of congress so fast it'll make heads spin.
>Anyone think recent board games are becoming unnecessarily complex and deeply strategy based?

Nah, both simple and complicated board games are more popular than ever. This particular list is focused on the complicated side. But off the top of my head some great and recent simpler ones:

Codenames, Bring Your Own Book (free if you print your own copy), Potion Explosion, A Fake Artist Goes to New York, Spaceteam, Colt Express, HABA Go Cuckoo! A Wobbly Nest-Building Game (Jenga-esque!), Wits and Wagers.
There's an endless search for blame, but it's almost always about food intake. Types of food, amounts of food, level of activity.

In modern society, people generally eat ridiculously calorie dense overprocessed garbage food that ravages insulin sensitivity and then they remain inactive for 23+ hours a day, barely shuffling from a car to a desk to a car to a couch. Unsurprisingly, they gain weight.
I think what happened was that Bowie and Alan Rickman both died in the first two weeks of 2016 so the meme started then and everything after was just confirmation bias.
Bootstraping a slightly more secure laptop
No, I answered the question directly in the first sentence, then gave a critique of "best of the year" lists. I've played a thousand games; are you seriously interested in what I happened to play from this year and I liked, or do you just want to criticize people who criticize best of the year lists for board games and explain why?

I don't communicate in product recommendations.

edit: Looking at the list above, though, I did forget that Medici got a reprint. It's another of the Knizia auction trilogy with Ra, should always be in print.
A friend of mine had to fix this recently for PowerShell, which had a regression that caused arguments you passed to programs to be incorrectly escaped to executed commands.

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/2182

It is extremely common to get this wrong. Apache Portable Runtime even gets this wrong :/. (I haven't submitted a patch for this yet, but I intend to: I ran into it a couple months ago and then got distracted after working around it in my program by predicting what incorrect escaping might be performed by APR and compensating by adding quotes and escape characters to my input to their open process function... my build is statically linked so I don't feel bad about this temporary hack ;P.)
>And 'the Force' is fictional and does not apply to Carrie Fisher.

Its a metaphor for spirituality, and its pretty obvious that the strict deterministic materialist worldview is far from proven and that many people have spiritual beliefs that they feel 100% justified as having.

Not everything is horrible because we don't have immortality. If anything, we'll hit our extinction event well before then, assuming its even possible for complex mammals to have. No, we're not flatworms and can't have the aging solutions of flatworms.

I think its okay to feel comforted by death. When my dad died, it hurt, but I was happy his suffering has ended. I was happy he had a long life and raised three boys who loved him. You absolutely can accept and even welcome death in some ways. Life isn't all roses and chocolates. Death is currently the only solution we have to terminal suffering, for example.
Rudeness is cultural.

And yes I'd prefer whatever you consider "rude" that happens Europe, as I've never experienced anything near what I would consider rude in Europe. I'm looking to eat dinner not get a lap dance.

Admittedly, I've never been to France specifically.
It's an MSDN article. Most of the articles on Apple's developer site are equally inapplicable to Windows development without explicitly saying so.
Hypothetically, if I was tasked with recording everything, I'd just add an internal buffer and then ship chunks of that data along with the regular queries.
SafeRails – no more falling from the bike after getting stuck in the tram rail
What are you asking me to cite? Did you mean 'explanation'?
>It depends on their form. People aren't on drugs because they don't have enough money. People are on drugs because their lives lack meaning, and simply getting a government check won't change that. A man cannot provide for his family by simply being alive to cash a check.

That's a cultural issue. A man can very much provide for his family "by simply being alive to cash a check" and not think twice about it.

Unless the culture finds meaning only in the workplace -- and not in tons of other activities and pursuits.
This past year at work friends and I made a little board game and your complaints were our top requirements. We wanted it to be setup in minutes, explained in 5, played in about an hour, with turns lasting just minutes at most and with a high degree of social interaction and yet still have a fair amount of depth and strategy.

We ended making a little stock game called "Day Traitor" where on your turn you play one of your three cards that let you see the future of two stocks, followed by selling and buying stocks, and cash out for gold. Get 10 gold and you win.

The amusing part is that on the back of the card half of the information (either the stocks or the amount they will change) is visible so everyone else around the table can see this partial information. And to go with that you might have just bought a bunch of "Red" stock further leaking information that you think it will go up and so the person going after you might also buy Red. When you buy a stock it gets a bonus $1 bump in price (as well a negative $1 bonus when you sell). This all combines to create many situations where we try to convince each other the now is the time to buy/sell something to great amusement because doing so might help you. Over the course of the game you need to cash out for gold, but the more gold you buy on a turn the more expensive it is so you want to acquire gold at just the right speed for however the game plays out.

There is a little bit more, but that is the meat of the game. It has been a lot of fun designing it with our group and just need to get some art and then I will stick it up thegamecrafter.com or somewhere so at least we can get a copy. We went through a lot of design choices where we found something fun, but would cause a turn to take twice as long or double the explanation time or setup time. We ruthlessly would cut anything that didn't add fun or broke our requirements of fast quick setup and explanation and in the end created something pretty fun.
Come back in 2019 and an informed list will be available.
"Alexa, remind me to murder John tomorrow evening."
I would be the first person you might ask to admit my complicity in war crimes perpetrated by my government. I am involved in anti-war and pro-human movements but I readily admit that my quality of life is built on the backs of many innocent lives and deaths.
I disagree. It's OK, and better than most, but it still has lots of problems.
I don't disagree with you, necessarily, but the other factor is that everyone has less time and attention to divvy up among the many more celebrities and niches. That's why newspapers and network news will never reach the mindshare that they once had, not even if you resurrected Walter Cronkite and cloned him, because people not only are fine getting their news on Facebook, they're spending a lot of time on FB that might have been spent on other media consumption. Hell, there's a lesson within the old days of newspapers: Afternoon newspapers, almost without exception and regardless of comparative quality, died out compared to morning rivals with the onset of radio and changes to American life schedule.
my list (not op)

1. Scythe

2. Pyramid Arcade

3. Hands in the Sea

4. Energy Empires

5. Mechs vs Minions

6. Medici (reprint)

7. Via Nebula

8. Millennium Blades

9. Power Grid: The Card Game

10. Yokohama
> disingenuous and misleading propaganda [...] anti-intellectual shit

This is the kind of thing the HN guidelines refer to as name-calling and ask you to edit out: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Indeed if you did edit it all out, this comment would arguably be reduced to nothing. Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN.
I also was impressed with Tarkin, but once I realized what was going on, I saw the flaws. That said, for casual fans, they may not even notice because it took the realization of "Hey this guys dead" to open my eyes to it.

That said, the CG Leia was poorly executed, which was a surprise considering how well Tarkin was done. She really looked like a video game character. I would have preferred showing her head covered by her scarf and only showing her hands, like her intro in Episode 4. Maybe the production was worried casual fans wouldn't know who it was if they didn't show the face and goofy side-buns?
Your change of subject does nothing for me. It borders on Godwinning.
I suspect that what you are seeing is not a change in the market but a change in what your friends are interested in. Many of my friends who play board games regularly no longer want to play the simpler games available.
So why aren't people in hot countries all obese?
I don't disagree with what you've stated, but I think the disconnect with what you've stated and what the GP stated is that a specific unit of money doesn't buy/pay for the same amout of jobs when applied in different areas (whether "area" be geographic or sector). For example, taking money that previously was applied to 1000 coal miners and applying it towards a software company yields far fewer software engineers.

Additionally, people are a resource, but a very finicky one. You would expect them to move to where there is a need for them, and to do what it takes to make themselves usable, but there are many external factors that make that far less likely than it could be, such as family, property, and various features of human nature. So, as money flows from labor-intensive industries to non-labor intensive industries, or transforms a previously high-labor industry into a low-labor one, what happens to labor as it increasingly loses value? What happens when the value of labor falls below the threshold required for human survival for increasingly more segments of the economy?
The real deal with technological unemployment is that the list of things humans can do and machines can't keeps shrinking.
MultiPath TCP – Linux Kernel Implementation
> I really don't see what the fuss is about about 'replacing' it really. It's a sharp tool, requiring care and attention.

I really like the take on the "sharp tools" analogy here: https://www.schneems.com/2016/08/16/sharp-tools.html . Your tool might be sharp, but that doesn't mean that you can't make it safer to use.
I disagree: telling consenting adults what they may and may not do _in private_ (because 'public smoking bans' have so far almost been bans on smoking in private establishments) is never good for society.

And anyone who thinks that smoking in actual outdoor public spaces is a health threat is simply incorrect.
Do you have numbers that prove me otherwise?

Of course I am repeating a common talking point of the critics of Social Security. I am ok with her having received more than she contributed, monetarily.
I like Ada. It's nice. It's actually beyond nice. I don't like working at/for the places that use it.

Just in terms of "I'm used to it, and it (mostly) works everywhere I want it to be", C89 + your UTF-handling would be super. I can (and have) construct support for CJK if/when needed, but, gosh, at this point, I wouldn't mind relegating it to some standard run-time.
I'm confused. Who said he wasn't?
And retail stores are now putting Christmas holiday items on sale before Halloween. At some point, you have to plant your feet, grit your teeth, and hold the m-f-ing line.

You can recommend 25% of the total if you want. Heck, recommend 40%. But as long as the restaurant business continues to operate with respect to employee pay in the same fashion that is has for decades, I will continue to consider 15% of the pre-tax total to be a reasonable tip for median-quality restaurant table service. If that ever becomes such a bad tip that servers can't be arsed to work for it, I guess I can pay higher percentages with proportionally higher service expectations. If you want me to tip 25%, you can bet your ass that if I so much as order a burger, I will be asking my server what the cow was named, how old it was at slaughter, and to identify the stockyard where it was finished. (Note: My grandfather actually asked one of those questions. At a diner.)

Of course, according to my brother-in-law, mine is "the most stubborn family that has ever lived". Recommending 18% on my bill is a great motivation for me to calculate exactly 15%, to the penny, instead of estimating and using the ceiling function to the next whole dollar. People like me are just one of the many reasons why tips are not now 80% or more of your bill, and why you can't yet buy Christmas decorations in the seasonal aisle of your local retailer on Memorial Day. You're welcome.~
> spew your horseshit

This sort of attack will get your account banned from Hacker News, regardless of how wrong or trollish another user was being. When replying to a bad comment, it's important not to make the thread even worse.
I think there's a stronger mental disconnect here in a lot of consumers. Detecting the wake word is easy to do locally; doing natural language processing on the resulting audio recording is what must be offloaded to Amazon, as it's too computationally heavy to perform that process locally.

Because the wake word is able to be processed offline, there is no need for the Echo device to record and transmit audio all the time. While the hardware is physically capable of doing this (and therefore, it will never be possible to fully eliminate doubt in the device's security) it would not be in Amazon's or the customer's best interest. Talk about a waste of resources, and a privacy nightmare!
Unemployment is not the problem. The problem is that the surplus / wealth created by technology is controlled by the 1%. Redistribute that wealth and the majority of the workforce will no longer need to be truck drivers, or farmers, or laborers. Then, we can start paying people to learn.
So, you're just as much of a hypocrite as Rand? She also dedicated her life to ending behaviors she hated in the US government, but was nevertheless subjected to the consequences of her failure to stop them.
This depends on how closely your designer's ideas can be mapped to existing Bootstrap components. If it's a very conceptual project (maybe an infographic or product advertisement) it may be better to start from scratch.

Most of the time though, I try to limit the extent of my designer's vocabulary by having them use a sketch template and see how far they get. There are iOS, Android, and even a Bootstrap template that they can start with: https://www.sketchappsources.com/free-source/349-bootstrap-3...

All of those usually resolve into components that can be mapped to something in Bootstrap or Foundation. If your designer can't solve an interface problem with something from those templates, that's often a sign that there's a bigger problem in your app's structure.
Carrie Fisher dies – 2016 strikes again
We already pay around $5 per click - I think that's more than enough! However, it's true our business is tiny compared to that of large corporations - but I don't think that excuses the abysmal 'support' I and others have received from Adwords.
> So, now we suppose that would work for human "wetware" too

Why do you think it wouldn't?
I'd suggest that it's still "its time", but not for daily use for most people.

Hardware is cheap and fast and there are safer languages (I hear Rust is good; I'd use Java if I wasn't carpal-tunnel concerned), and often a VHHL is more than sufficient for time/speed trade-off s or even obligatory (e.g. Python, client-JS respectively).

But that said, C is _great_ as a teaching/learning language -- not much magic, small --, as a "I have very specific/strict goals" tool, and as a very well-tested underpinning for making languages that are safer/magical (e.g. CPython).

Would I pay 60 people to write C for a .com/.io startup where 10 people writing NodeJS could get something out the door faster? No, but I'd love it if a couple of those 10 had a solid C background so when _shit gets weird_ or a framework's magic starts barfing on systemd's magic, the engineering team doesn't decide it's time to switch to golang.
danielweber,

Interesting idea, I think to some degree we already do this in an roundabout manner. We provide subsidizes (corporate tax exemptions for R&D) and billions of dollars of direct grants to scientific research for example, that can be thought as a wage subsidy for scientists. We definitely need to increase the EITC, and expand it to singles and couples without children. The EITC is probably one of the best ideas to counter an increasingly automated economy.
Because being an elite in this sense is not about one's net worth, but how inline are their views/etc with the general population.
To me, something also worth noting is that prior to the Duck Dynasty show, none of the people behind the company had their well known "bearded outdoorsman" looks. There's a widely circulated photo where they look like your average upper middle class suburbanite.

The point on the Democrats celebrity endorsement is true, but I'd argue that the GOP celebrities, including the Duck Dynasty people, are of the same vein and aren't the rural everyman they portray on the show.
Rand was extremely influential to me, but you're absolutely right on this. I stopped calling myself an Objectivist long ago because I kept getting into arguments with others who took the label over things that Rand did that are blatantly against her first principles, but that Rand held a contradictory position.

In particular, Rand supported US foreign aid to Israel in her later years despite strongly denouncing the concept of foreign aid in its entirety prior.
She was against it. She specifically did NOT give the government her consent. But she was forced to pay it anyway under threat of jail.

If you threaten to kidnap people and put them in a cage, you can't go around saying you have their "consent" when they give in to your threats.
Crashes every time in several unique ways using desktop Chrome Version 55.0.2883.87 m

Although the main site has a cool webgl interface that rotates with mouse motion left and right and zooms in and out with mouse motion up and down.
Yep, sorry about not good link. Here is better one:
http://www.tippingresearch.com/uploads/managing_tips.pdf

Yes, there is a correlation, but it is extremely weak.
Their opinion? Which is what matters in a democracy.
Could you give a few details as to why?

I run my personal server on DigitalOcean and it has been pretty good. At work we run a series of tier-2 services on DO and it's been great for our use cases. We used to run a cluster of 100 machines there and it was stable and cheap.

I realise it's very simple, and that isn't good for a lot of production services, but I don't understand the hate?
Have been playing Codenames yesterday and it's surprisingly fun for a game that essentially just consists of 25 words during gameplay.

Exploding Kittens and Love Letter are two other games that are quick to explain and fast to play (and that we play somewhat regularly). Basically, a good list might be Board Game Geek's list of Party games: http://boardgamegeek.com/partygames/browse/boardgame?sort=ra...
s/substantive/unsubstantive/ ?
Never tried it on AWS so can't comment on that. It works very well on GCP however. We send over 1M request to their API to rescale the stack every single day (they had to up our limits because it was always timeouting on us).
The successors need a new name. I suggest "Public Phone". The trademark is available.
Regarding point 2:

> Dec. 21st ... plenty of time before the holidays

"The holidays" are not just "Dec 25" "Jan 1" and "maybe the time in between". A lot of places slow down in the weeks leading up to and the weeks after these "official" holidays. I'm not going to push out a major release in December unless I have to, because I don't want to deal with a fire the week of Christmas. Also, not going to push out a major release until after I get back from New Year's and have a chance to thoroughly go over things.

Maybe some people are different religions that have different holy days in this time frame. And that might not directly affect me, but indirectly, because a vendor or coworker is out for their own reasons.

You may have been working diligently 24/7 right up until christmas day proper, but that is not the case everywhere. And being slow to respond that close to Christmas is completely reasonable.

Also, I don't really see his comments as any more hostile than yours. IE: not insanely aggressive, but clearly not intended to be friendly either.
Oh, huh.

Well, that does explain why she looked so realistic!
>Eleven years ago Ginsparg joined the Cornell faculty, bringing what is now known as arXiv.org with him. (Pronounce it "archive." The X represents the Greek letter chi.)

Been pronouncing it "ar ziv" until now. :P
With the "env" command it’s possible to set environment using key=value for anything (it just means you have to say "env a=x b=y cmd -arg1 -arg2" instead of expecting "cmd a=x b=y -arg1 -arg2" to be valid).
wrong domain: Gitpay is gitpay.org.
Compared to C, the number of employers looking for rust developers is so close to 0 that it's essentially a rounding error.

I really like rust, and I think it's worth learning, but it is definitely in the early adopter stage and not something that has really made a dent in the embedded industry, let alone taken over.