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I tend to agree. Naming is important and if you target masses (non-engineers, non-geeks etc.), you should name your product so that even a 5 years old kid would understand it without a second thought and memorize instantly. An anecdote, but I have harder times convincing people to use LibreOffice than OpenOffice for no reason other than a name.
The far majority of the tech companies are on the west side. Most north of LAX, but there are a few in El Segundo, which you probably know already. Culver City is a good halfway point, especially if you want to avoid the expensive westside and the bad commute if you live much eastward. The Expo Line serves Culver City.

I personally avoid the westside, so I can see why some of your colleagues would too.
Yes. We changed it to a shortened version of the article title. Submitters: the HN guidelines ask you to use the original article title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

(Submitted title was 'Free money for all: Finland launches basic income experiment with Jan. 1 cheques').
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I agree that people need something meaningful to do, and don't always find it for themselves. I'm afraid that forcing people to a job might feel more like a kind of slavery than a stepping stone.

It could work if the jobless are "socially placed" into existing workplaces. Creating gangs of unemployed people to paint roads, however, would only enforce the low status of the jobs and the people doing them. There is no motivation and strength to be found there.

If basic income is low enough, then people could choose themselves to either scrape by (which is nigh impossible in Finland for 560 euros) or find additional sources of income for themselves. It's always better if your job is by choice rather than forced on you.
Could you give a bit more background to this? E.g. moved from where, what is your experience level, salary range maybe?

The general advice seems to be that a university degree is almost always required. Having another data point would be helpful!
Judges like to see how other judges have ruled in similar situations. A generic SCOTUS opinion on a topic doesn't help too much.
I'm surprised that Coffeescript is still actively developed. Either there are still lots of legacy code out there to work on or some people just really love the language.
I'm assuming you've never held classification before. Talking to the press without being expressly permitted to is a one-way ticket to a dismissal, at the very least. Anonymous sources are a cornerstone of the free press.
From a quick google search it seems like the surf is pretty flat and not suitable for surfing, is that correct?
Actually you could be right with your friends.
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It's a political talking point soundbite (a PROVEN FALSE one, at that), not classified material.
Honestly: be really careful with that charger / cord - that could likely easily start a fire or spark and ignight something nearby. If you haven't the funds to replace it - may I suggest at least insulating it with either some non-conductive heatshrink or electrical tape to keep you going?
> It's about people who want to socialize but frustrate themselves doing so.

Where does it say that? I read it as you should just embrace your introvert gut-feeling and not attend social events just because it would be "abnormal" not to. I struggle with this myself and think it's a great advice. Some people are just not the social type and there's nothing wrong with that.
Amendment updating is done nightly, and the results are on "congress.gov", which is the user-friendly access interface. The XML dump is the raw data, made available to the public.

The user guide for the XML data is on Github.[1]

[1] https://github.com/usgpo/bill-status/blob/master/BILLSTATUS-...
Isn't the real problem that Macbooks consist of less and less of their business year over year? The iPhone is where Apple really puts all the pressure to innovate.
> The state has a duty to protect the health of people in its custody

Few duties are observed as selectively.
Maybe there was record sales because there was a record number of years since the hardware was last updated.

Latent demand = sales.

It's certainly not due to the effusive praise of the press.
In some circumstances you can certainly blame the user. Any remotely feasible charger cable can easy be broken by repeated abuse. The real question is what percentage of users break their cables. If that percentage is very low, then I think you can blame the user (or, rather than blame, sugggest they just be a little more careful). I have no idea what the percentage is in this case.
Among the advantages of basic income would be making it feasible for both parents to choose to invest time in a child instead of money.
Very true. So perhaps regulatory reform, rather than BI, is the policy we should adopt.
As always SpaceX and it's mission is just _cool_ (in a geek sense). However, to be honest, Python + rocket code in the same sentence perturbs me somewhat. Python is great for web automation tools and simple scripting situations, but for the love of humanity (seriously, because space travel & exploration), I shudder at the idea of Python being used in a complex rocket control system. Does the team use other tools for embedded or distributed controls?
Except immigrants also increase demand.
When my tax dollars get redistributed to pay for some poor person's medical expenses, I am actually paying an incredibly modest amount for the enormous benefit of living in a society that isn't plagued with sick and infectious people.

I place a high value on living in a city where there aren't hoards of sick people dying from malnutrition because a simple injury has made them unemployable. And it is nice to know that the person making my latte isn't likely to be a carrier of tuberculosis or cholera.

Hi, I'm affluent and highly taxed, and redistribution is awesome.
> My suspicion is that Apple is hitting a level of software complexity where the development and maintenance costs of correct code are too high.

Nope, just a lack of solid engineers. Anyone worth anything bailed years ago, and they're left with a used car salesman running the show (Craig Federighi). Holy Jesus is that guy a tool.
Some regional airlines use turboprop planes which are basically that speed. They're slower, but cheaper. Thing is they're only suitable for shorter hops.
Apple should spin off the Mac division to be its own company so theoretically the management might give sh*t about competing.
Nexus/Lexus?
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Well, for the german law, there is https://lawly.org, the result of a recent bachelor's project at my university.
That's not a direct quote of that I said, the sentence I wrote is phrased in the past tense with the intent (and you'll just have to take my word for it) of surprise and / or previous thoughts on the matter up until the time of writing it. When you quoted me there you actually changed the construct of the comment to become an argument or judgement which was not the intent.
> My suspicion is that Apple / Tim Cook knows something BIG that we don't that they are going to get PERFECT while they still have the cash fire hose of the iPhone to drive the engine.

Possible --- but it seems to me much more likely that Apple is just another big company suffering from the classic combination of innovator's dilemma and big company internal politics. What special immunity would Apple have to the problems that bring down every big tech company in its old age?

Tech companies are like people. They get old. If they don't die suddenly, they eventually succumb to general systems frailty and self-aggrandizing cancers. Sure, Apple might be one of those rare 80 year old marathon runners, but why would you expect it to be?
> Now its just incremental phone updates.

Don't forget the watch, and the advances in dongle technology.
I just got a Google Home speaker and for me it feels like how the iPhone felt in 2007; a revolution in computing!

But Apple is so far behind with the horrid Siri it's laughable. I've used Siri almost daily since 2011 and after using Google Now I cant stand to use Siri as her accuracy is 90 percent if lucky vs. her competitors 100 percent.
Indian Judiciary System has its own online repository of court orders. http://www.judis.nic.in/
I don't think the study is really sure what effect it would have either.

Sure they have "discourages people from taking entry level jobs" under Costs (and they don't really elaborate much more in the main text), but they also have "Removes disincentive for beneficiaries to undertake part-time work" under Benefits.

At the moment when you're on the unemployment benefit there's a lot of pressure to look for and acquire a job. The lack of that pressure might be a factor in reducing the incentive to get an entry-level job. Or it might be the opposite - an incentive - because you won't lose your benefit when you get one!

It's complicated - the sort of thing that probably needs to be tested in a real-life trial. Too bad it'd be so hard to set up (and potentially revert) at a government level. If only we had a perfect computer simulation of a country.

There'd be so many knock-on effects. Like say you get your $300/wk, and you don't have a job with a company - is there going to be a big exodus from the cities since it's too expensive to live there on a UBI scheme? And you only NEED to be in the city if you have a job there.
How do you figure there has been a "shift" like you said?

In 2007 Jobs was using the phrase "post-PC", and by the time he died in 2011, more than half of Apple's revenue was iPhone/iPad/etc.

To me it seems that Cook is just continuing the trend.
You really expect a mac user to value function over form?
Missing Node.js which has 30k stars and 5.4k forks... Second to Swift.

https://github.com/nodejs/node
Isn't one of the theories that the "something BIG" is Apple becoming a payment processor/bank/whatever financial entity, supported by the presence of a fingerprint reader & secure enclave in all their mobile devices (including laptops courtesy of the Touch Bar)?
The MacBookPro now seems like a sideline for Apple. They put a lot of design and development into the iPhone because they sell so many of them. It makes sense from a business standpoint, but it's disappointing if you're a developer or power user.
> The key take out here is "faster"

Even that part is mostly wrong. A fast horse can run more than 40MPH which about all you can expect from a car in a city. The main reason most people don't own a horse isn't that a car is faster.

Users ask for things that are obvious. No kidding faster is better. Can we have it cheaper and more reliable too?

If you ask most people in 1870 how to improve those aspects of a horse they'll tell you all about horse breeding but that doesn't get you a car.
Hahaha I feel for your downvotes but cheers for saying something that probably needs to be said.

PHP is the COBOL of web application development. It's built for an era of websites that's no longer relevant. As with perl, unless you're building onto an existing project there's better options now for almost anything.

I don't know of of any major dev consulting shop building stuff with PHP anymore. The likes of C#, Java, Node, Python, Go, and Ruby makes PHP an afterthought.
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Yeah, interesting - that's certainly not and never has been my use case (ultra / daily portable), there must be some sort of rating for number of insertions / connections similar to the varying USB standards over the years - I wonder if that's published somewhere, if so we could probably do the math and come up with a - moves per week rating for a charger?
My last full time job was coffeescript. I could take or leave most of it, but returning to C# for a hobby project has made me really miss the null soak ? operator.

I'm sure the craving will go away with a few more days of messing.
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So if that blog post can be dismissed as mere speculation because, well it's just a blog post, right? Then on what basis can we give Martin Gottesfeld the benefit of the doubt? As far as I can tell, the Pelletiers did not release the relevant medical records, either into the public domain or through private channels to Mr. Gottesfeld. Nor does Gottesfeld mention having a medicine-related degree, or even having observed Justina in person. It appears that he made his decision based on reading blog posts sympathetic to the family, and not based on any firsthand or otherwise privileged observations of his own.
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You know, there's a reason people go through hoops to avoid posting their full email address, so it'd be helpful if you didn't go ahead and post it anyways
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.. isn't "the voice of the white house" the voice of the nation?

You seem to believe the White House wasn't voted into power and somehow does not have America's best interest at heart.

Don't forget to remain just as critical when the next president takes office.
It was a very confusing news article.

The best I understood from it is that they were not happy at releasing reports of someone who was ultimately cleared.

And I can kinda see their POV on that. If they are cleared they are cleared, releasing the full report after that seems intrusive and implies that they did something wrong even if cleared (which may be true, but if that's the case then don't clear them).
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I'm surprised they aren't trotting out a fiscal justification - eliminating wasteful regulatory bodies and whatnot.
I am currently at my first software engineering job, and a few mistakes already:

- Debugging before thinking enough on the subject

- Over-engineering even the simplest things

- Expecting normal people (ie. support team) to know know about tree/graph structures
Another thing about Amtrak is, they do not own their tracks. Instead they use tracks from other companies and have to yield priority to them. The American train system will always be much slower than necessary because of these system delays.

There is a very good youtube video on this subject.
Totally - there are actual tables, and trains are seldom as packed as planes consistently tend to be.
No, even this step-by-step tutorial is not easy for "normal" user. It's plagued with obscure terms and concepts (keypair, keyserver, public key, web of trust, revocation certificate etc.). Sure, for us, developers/engineers/geeks, it looks trivial, but try to send this link to your grandma and see how it goes.
The idea that we will soon control everything seems akin to other inaccurate prognostications.

The combinatoric explosion of interactions between new "control technologies" alone will introduce many new, unforeseen variables.

The world will still be uncontrollable in new unforeseen ways.
Fair edit and comment on my own, thanks for the clarification.
This sort of analysis just screams post hoc fallacy.
> Perhaps I'm completely cynical at this point, but I think recently I have seen altruism used in the sense of "please contribute large amounts of free work to this project I'm heavily invested in."

A bit cynical in a way you put it, maybe, but what you saw is true. But it's just what comes out when you consider helping someone and actually getting an effect over helping to just get warm feelings in your belly about how good you are. It so happens that in a technological civilization, spending our time as specialists to earn money and giving it to different specialists is a better way to help than trying to help directly in areas we're not specialized in. It's how professional specialization works.
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Please don't post this here. It's about hiring, but this thread is about who is hiring.
welp, was about to apply but this string of comments just changed my mind.
Most of these languages are also bootstrapped!

I wonder when we'll see Swift written in Swift. And I wonder what kind of monstrosity a PHP written in PHP would look like.
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Probably, because Node.js is a runtime environment for Javascript and not a programming language?
Sorry for your loss. I lack the words to describe the level of empathy I feel when I read your story. Happy to hear you managed to bounce back.

Any advice for people going though a very tough time you'd like to share?
This is not an acceptable place to post attacks about something extraneous, so please don't do that here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303953 and marked it off-topic.
This is not a basic income experiment. This is an experiment to redefine and simplify unemployment benefits.

Specifically, this experiment eliminates (much of) the problem that earning a few hundred euros will cut your unemployment benefits by the same amount. It allows people to take part-time jobs without being penalized. It's not perfect for the reasons you give and more, but it might be significantly better than what is currently in place.

The premise that one can find some universal income amount X and do away with all other types of benefits is a pipe dream anyway. For some, X will be enough to scrape by. For others, X will not be enough for their medical care necessary to survive for two weeks. There will always be a need for some extra needs-based benefits.
When I was working on evolutionary dynamics in the late 90s, a group of us from across the world were trying to build an evolutionary model that showed the emergence of altruistic behaviour.

It was really really difficult. Even knowing exactly the kind of behaviour we wanted to show, it wasn't trivial to stack the dice enough to roll that outcome.

I have since read a lot of arguments, a lot of post-hoc reasoning that justifies why altruism might be a positive contributor to fitness. It is no coincidence they are almost all hand-waving, narrative arguments.

I don't buy them. Show me the math.

Evolution is a perfect subject for handwaving and post hoc rationalisations. I do not think all of evolutionary psychology is bunkum, like some have claimed, but I do think a lot is unfalsifiable, motivated reasoning. My advice would be, unless it comes with good predictions of evidence from the historical biological record, or good experimental evidence from mathematical models of evolution, it was too easily come by to be considered knowledge.
We don't know whether or not it's classified, but I think it's safe to assume that it either is or is being handled by people with classifications. That puts it firmly in the domain of "off the record or without my name, please."

I don't think it's been "proven" false. I don't think it's very likely, but that is a different question.
For UBI yes. But for this Finnish experiment, only a group of unemployed people are getting it.
How does the current Apple identify the correct idealised user when they don't seem to share the required taste?

They need to relearn and engage in user discovery and questioning until they realise what niches they occupy and their use cases and needs.

I doubt Apple's former lead would ever have put out a Mac that needs a dongle to connect to iPhone but not Android. I doubt he'd have killed Apple monitors as an iMac sat next to a black LG is just so damn ugly. iOS, MacOS and current hardware shows, oh so clearly, that once notorious sense of detail and overall direction is long gone.

As is, their idealised user is envisioning all the wrong gimmicky things and missing most of the details. They're trying to play "what would Steve do?" but not being him they can't play that game well.
Thank you, HN peeps. Nice to see the loyal opposition appear on HN once in a while. I accept the site's left-of-center leanings, but it's heartwarming to see a different perspective hit the front page every so often. Speaks well of the mods and audience here.
They increase demand for products (certain products that are local only to the destination country, not things they would buy anyways like a cellphone), but not jobs. Increased workforce will increase supply of labor much more than it will increase demand for that labor (which I can't think of a direct route which would cause that, except for general economic boom leading to more businesses, but that's pretty indirect)
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Biggest surprise: "Developers are paying $100 a year and Apple doesn’t even host the extension themselves."
If we can appreciate inexplicable medical tragedies - can't we appreciate a mans emotional response? If he was wrong was he yet not caught in a tragedy?

>their information technology infrastructure is unexpectedly cut

You are attributing offence of a kind which is far removed from his case - he never attacked the kind of critical systems which you indicate with the Newyorker article.

He pestered and temporarily disabled a medical company website to highlight the maltreatment of a patient, now he is facing many years in prison for the protest.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-i-knocked-boston-chi...

" I also knew from my career experience as a biotech professional that no patients should be harmed if Boston Children’s was knocked offline. There’s no such thing as an outage-proof network, so hospitals have to be able to function without the Internet. It’s required by federal law, and for accreditation. The only effects would be financial and on BCH’s reputation. "
Many distributed databases supporting linearizability fail to provide consistent backups.

MongoDB's docs: "To capture a point-in-time backup from a sharded cluster you must stop all writes to the cluster"

Cassandra's docs: "To take a global snapshot, run the nodetool snapshot command using a parallel ssh utility ... This provides an eventually consistent backup. Although no one node is guaranteed to be consistent with its replica nodes at the time a snapshot is taken"

Riak's docs: "backups can become slightly inconsistent from node to node"

CockroachDB's docs: "The table data is dumped as it appears at the time that the command is started ... there is no guarantee that NOW() is monotonic in transaction order"

Does TiDB support consistent backups? Are there any docs covering how it is implemented?