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> What you described as its weakness is actually its strength. It's the natural mechanism that balance demand and supply...

I understand how markets balance supply and demand and I consider the injustice of its methods to be a necessary evil for which I have no substitute. That wasn't my original complaint, however. Rephrased in terms of supply and demand, my complaint was that the market's insistence on weighting demand according to wealth made it inherently inept at addressing unweighted demand (i.e. the actual needs of the people). I have no trouble believing that the market will continue to meet wealth-weighted demand. I am much less certain that it will continue to meet unweighted demand. We've seen it fail before, but only in pockets. I fear that automation may eventually see it fail on a much wider scale.

> monopolies aren't all created the same. The kind of monopoly that Facebook or Google have is not the same kind of a state-enforced monopoly which rules out competition by force of the law.

We are in agreement then. Perhaps not on the relative magnitude of the various problems, but it's a start.
Can you suggest a debate where he does get into details of things?
Who knows. You won't like my advice though: leave the country if the surveillance state reaches a crescendo.

As a tech worker, I'm employable anywhere in the world, and can have my family and all of our belongings out of the country in 12 hours. My heart goes out to everyone who doesn't have such flexibility. It's not fair to those impacted that these are the times we live in.

That's not to say we give up. We try to fix this fuckery until the very end.
I'm guessing that when you're the BDFL of Octave you can negotiate a compromise.
It costs ~ $100k / lb and takes ~ 2 years to get a nanosat into space. But you can't have just one, you need a constellation, so how long does it take to get 6 satellites up and how much will it cost in the end?

What if you could get a nanosat into the orbit you want, when you want it for about the same price?
Can confirm, I remember downloading anime clips at 6 or so hours apiece! Not even full episodes, clips! And it was amazing!

And before there was YouTube there was flash videos/animations on Newgrounds. The people I hung with back then were into animutations.
You're not. Similar age bracket, similar feeling. I've gotten to the point where I honestly feel _bad_ about doing "leisure", even activities I used to enjoy, because I feel like I'm "Wasting time". It's become a bit of a problem, because while I feel like "I can do this as long as it takes" Part of me worries eventually this mythical burnout thing will kick in with no warning and render me unable to even keep a basic income. Or maybe it already has kicked in, and this fear/stress is what it is? Hell if I know, and that's half my reason for posting, to let you know you're not alone in feeling worried about this shit and unsure as to the answers.

The only logical hypotheses introspection has given is that it's reasonable to recognize that compounding value is probably the #1 reliable way to greater wealth/freedom later, so by not generating that initial compounding value early the time is "doubly lost". That combined with newly minted billionaires significantly younger than me off of photo apps makes me feel like I missed the train somewhere as I crank away in a corner on some insane analytics SaaS. The only pragmatic response I've found to that is to just keep cranking, and if this doesn't work change my approach, but that doesn't really help with the mental conflict of if I should enjoy the time I have now but shared with work, or 100% myself now for the purpose of "buying" myself more 100% free time later on.

I realize I gave more of a braindump than anything else, but I hope it gives you a window into the thought process of someone else in a similar sort of mental tumbleweed.
If he actually did it, I believe it may have been for present documentation and future accountability. Nothing at the time, but over time it became a habit. Which might have explained how quickly he admitted once confronted with the original evidence of 6 documents. But anyways, see my other top level comment for what I really want to know.
I think support for butterflies is what turns a text editor into a code editor (xkcd#378) XD
I agree this type of plea isn't sustainable, but going to work for MathWorks is just a ridiculous suggestion. I can't believe you even seriously suggested it. There's such a giant conflict of interest you might as well suggest RMS go work for one of the remaining legacy UNIX vendors.
If your reaction to this news is "something more is going on here" then I think you need to take a step back and re-calibrate your bullshit detector.

Could there be more to this than meets the eye? Yeah. There could also be more to the moon landing than meets the eye.

It seems to me we all must, in our attempt to be rational, do our best to check our biases. For a lot of people on hackernews, that means second guessing your immediate "NSA cover-up" reaction to any item of news involving the NSA.

I think the most likely scenario here is that the government is making an example of this man. I don't think that's right, and I hope he gets off with as slight a punishment as possible, but it is a fact that governments have secrets and have enacted laws in order to try to keep them.
There's something fundamentally broken about the open-source model when you can invest so much time and npt get any sort of economic return. This seems like a huge limiting factor on open-source development. As I've pointed out in discussions on copyright issues, artists value copyright because the patronage model sucked - you're essentially dependent on people's charity and having to beg just to maintain basic economic security is inefficient, demoralizing, and unreliable.

I think services like Patreon etc. are quite worthy but they're also dysfunctional. Nobody has solved the micro-payment problem yet and it seems like people have just given up trying. In a saner world this person would be rewarded for the enormous technical contribution with a reliable pension of some sort to remove the distraction of financial anxiety.
The GP probably meant that people are more than willing to pay for Matlab but they don't realize that Octave needs funding too, and possibly that if you use Octave it's probably worth around the price of a Matlab license, on average, to you.
Like other have said, the #1 reason is probably just being part of the python ecosystem. But there were other reasons as well: there has been a big push in academia where MATLAB was used extensively to use Python when it became available (because its free and open source; but also many licensing restrictions around MATLAB). So there has been a significant investment in the python/numpy ecosystem from both academics and industry players who don't want to deal with these licensing issues (e.g. Oil and Gas companies).
Right. So RS needs to focus and reduce their physical presence. Select the best locations that can perform and shut down the rest.
My point is that current situation where Iran is ruled by the religious authorities and the oppression that exist thereof -- cannot be blamed on the US. That is all Iranians' doing.
Just donated to the J W. Eaton Consulting. Thank you for octave. I used it throughout the Andrew Ng's ML course.
Was Wine not working with the previous builds of WSL? If so, does anyone know what has changed that allows it to run flawlessly now?
I used to be the type of driver who would impatiently zoom around, until one day I noticed several deer beginning to cross the freeway. I slammed on my brakes, but the driver behind me honked and swerved around me and, at over 80mph, took two of the deer with him. He left the scene in an ambulance and his car went to the scrapyard on a flatbed. No one ever told me what happened to the man, but while we were waiting for the ambulance and while he was being loaded, I never saw him even wiggle a toe or blink an eye. He was breathing but completely unresponsive. I don't know if he survived or not.

It's moments like that one that can change your outlook on life in an instant. That was four years ago and I haven't intentionally broken the speed limit since then. Even if it means other impatient drivers are zooming around me. I have, however, been rear-ended twice since then.
Not to be rude, but how does that address the parent post's point?

Your example is extremely niche. I don't see how one could reasonably claim bitcoin has any involvement whatsoever in mainstream online retail. It really has gone nowhere on the scale of "somewhere" assuming "somewhere" is anything past niche exchanges (and contraband)
Because shorting is done by borrowing shares from someone, selling them and then buying the same number of shares at a later point to return to the party that had lent them to you initially. Since private companies by definition have their shares held by a small number of shareholders, there is no source of shares to borrow and even if an existing shareholder decided to lend them to you and you sold them to a third party, you are quite unlikely to be able to find the same number of shares on the market when the time comes to return those shares to the shareholder who lent them.
While if someone asked, I would likely disclose my startup experience, generally speaking I leave it off standard requests for information like YC's app; more interested in being judge on the matter at hand than my past.

My guess is that my pitches might be too off the wall or they have a bias against anonymous users. Or more likely, my pitch is not a good fit for YC. Who knows, as anyone that applies knows, they do not say why they decline to interview a given founder or fund them, and no one really should expect a reason for why either, that simply is unreasonable.

As for why I would apply, I am positive that I would get more value out of it than what they are taking, that I would provide a return on their investment, I love doing startups, and enjoy being around talented founders. Most of all, given I would be taking on funding, it would force me to change the way I normally fund & run startups; that being I normal do not have the objective of selling the startup or being a multi billion dollar company.

As for VCs, while I do not have anything against them and believe they provide value based on a well defined situation, I prefer to focus on doing startups, not building businesses; meaning all of my startups make money while I am working on them, when I am done, I move on to the next startup, since I value my time more than the money I would make finding a buyer, dealing with all the due diligence requests, and supporting the handoff too.
I was under the impression that electric cars had a lower cost per mile, but the electrics have a higher up front cost.

If you have a self driving fleet (eg. Lyft, Uber, GM, etc.), you'd want to optimize for the former, not the latter. Uber has proved that if you can get a car within a couple of minutes at a low enough price, it's a valid enough substitute to car ownership, at least in cities.
Except since it's paid, you'd get an SLA.
It makes sense for artists, designers and painters included. This simulation looks like oil paint, and this type of color picker is like mixing pigment to get a hue and then mixing in black and white to change the saturation and value. I guess that makes sense seeing as this is a paint simulation!
The current climate in Iran (being ruled by religion) cannot be blamed on the US at all.
Honestly, I think i've built an instinct on what works and what doesn't. Simple statements do work, as do some simple questions. It's a bit of trial and error but if it's a simple fact check, it's most likely you can phrase the question in a manner that gets you an answer.

E.g. I randomly tried: What do I do when I burn my finger? and it answered.
Same for: How do I get ink stains out of my shirt?
Interesting parallel that both Jobs and Jean-Louis Gassée started hardware computers after Apple and that each retreated to operating systems, which they tried to sell to Apple.
OP here, thanks for the heads-up (I didn't realise it was an old article), I have fixed the title.
> 300 years

$ echo 20*10 | bc
200

Funny counting indeed. <g>
And so the centralization of our tech industry continues...
Steps for Cleaning a Shark Vacuum Filter
Matlab has always been a quirky language. It has good libraries for common math operations, good visualization tools, good documentation, and toolboxes available for many special tasks. There are a number of common pitfalls, with well-known workarounds, that cannot be fixed without breaking backwards compatibility. The performance of a "for loop" is usually dog slow (some special cases were optimized recently). You often spend hours figuring out how to vectorize your code so it runs decently fast. OOP and other techniques have been bolted on in a workable but unusual way, and they are not widely used. Licensing costs add up.

People looking for a free Matlab replacement often gravitate to a full replacement, rather than a clone. In the past, this meant learning something like C++, a significant hurdle to migration.

Python is generally seen as a much better general-purpose language than Matlab. It is building a much larger developer community. It is no harder to learn than Matlab, and it supports similar interactive development. Tools like numpy start adding easy support for Matlab's core strengths. Python is free, even in commercial deployments.

Matlab's primary competitor used to be Excel. Python is emerging as a very real threat. Outside of the core Matlab user base, preference for Python (or Go or ...) is building fast.
Not being a democracy makes this sort of thing vastly easier.
Trump will lose his legal battle over the 'Muslim ban'
This looks really neat! I'd love a minimap feature (a la Sublime et al). Something that could give me a high-level overview without enormous detail, but that also doesn't require me to zoom out.
When everyone has such free access to content which shares and affirms their views, then even without publishers/facebook/whoever pushing targeted content this effect sort of happens regardless of if it's an algorithm pushing content or people simply choosing what to read/not read -- doesn't it?

Objective/Non-Biased content is great and essential, but I fear we're in the minority as people who consume content from both 'sides' of any given issue.

That makes me think if people naturally flow towards content which affirms their views/biases, how much blame can we put on sites for displaying 'relevant' content to such a users if they simply ignore content which goes against their views anyway?

Can you blame facebook that a hardcore trump supporter doesn't click on an article about how beneficial obamacare is simply because an algorithm knew they wouldn't have clicked on it anyway. for not showing it?

We're all going into little silos, I'm not really sure how to fix that.. Perhaps this is a natural evolution.. If it is, it seems we're being outnumbered by isolationists lately, though..
Why doesn't this seem to be in a release?
The last release of the client was back in October: https://github.com/keybase/client/releases/tag/v1.0.18
I didn't realize that keybase is open to everyone now. The downvotes gave me the information subliminally.
Wow, very surprised to hear that. I definitely recommend taking Marten up on his offer and sending him an email (this behavior—of the CEO reaching out to hackers—is much more in line with my own experiences with them).

Good luck with everything!
This article would be greatly improved if they connected actual double-blind sound evaluations with the physics. Who cares what the physics show if it's not connected directly to what people hear.

I hardly think hearing impaired musicians are any sort of gold standard for how audio sounds.
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Yes it does, when used in combination with the other data points.

That said, I always get "unique" on those fingerprinting tests. You can't be "extra unique," so I guess I don't mind it.
No way.

I don't know what the relationship between MathWorks and Octave is, but probably the last thing MathWorks wants to do is give the creator their biggest competitor access to their trade secrets and proprietary information.
If you're hand coding it either way, maybe but, at least in my personal experience, it's much faster/less effort to drop bootstrap and jquery on the page and get to something acceptable looking then to hand code just the 50 lines of js/CSS I actually need. Obviously there are many benefits to the latter approach, especially in the long run, but it's definitely not the lazier approach.
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Hey Sam this is Matt, thanks for your comment and your help a few months back! And for anyone else reading this, Sam is great at getting back to filed issues about installing tensorflow on a Pi: https://github.com/samjabrahams/tensorflow-on-raspberry-pi/i...
Suddenly all these people communicating among themselves in a strange language that sounds like nonsense to me. Must be what it feels like getting old.
Still have a dial up failover at home, it gets used for testing that it still works (i am a little amazed each time) more than any actual use. I am back to an oldschool external now, as it is still compatible with a dongle.
This article conveniently redefines the definition of blue collar work. By similar thinking, are typists, receptionists, data-entry folks all blue collar?

> Coal miners are really technology workers who get dirty

Really?

I even agree with the premise that were going to see an increase of 'trades' style programmers assuming a certain classification of programming jobs, but the article is sensationalized.
I get the technical reason. I wonder if ex-employees or ex-board members would be interested lending their shares and create a secondary market to short if they don't believe in the company.
> In a video message to her troops, seen by The Register, chief marketing officer Michelle Peluso said "there is something about a team being more powerful, more impactful, more creative, and frankly hopefully having more fun, when they are shoulder to shoulder."

Sounds like a lie. If it's clearly a win for everyone, then remote employees wouldn't be working remotely to begin with...
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Very cool, how did you build it?
Great interview with Adam Curtis (HyperNormalisation's creator) on Chapo Trap House (a leftist comedy podcast which has been my primary source of sanity since November 8th):

https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-65-no-future...
I don't think it's centralization - it's just another excuse to terminate people, especially older, settled employees.

Current IBM could power a large city if they could harness the energy of the Watsons spinning in their graves.
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"The decoupling provided by eventing is often illusory; if there's a higher-level semantic that's supposed to be implemented in terms of the outcome of coordinated event handlers, then the dependencies still exist - they're just implicit." - I've experienced the same myself and converted my "events" into coupled calls. More expressive.
I wonder if you might be able to improve wine by running programs side by side in wine and without and observing call differences.
Hell yeah, stresses me out too. It probably even gave me hypoglycemia a couple of times

When I was studying organic chemistry, I had some pretty cool dreams about aromatic molecules.

Bank finance class gave me an extremely revelatory nightmare about interest rates once.

Dreams about stuff you're learning are almost always constructive though. It's a good thing.
If anyone wants to hear more from the creator, he was on an episode of Chapo Trap House and they interviewed him about this film:

https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-65-no-future...
Color me impressed
> Nobody has solved the micro-payment problem yet

what is this problem?
Here are some more if anyone wants one.

https://keybase.io/inv/579179852b

https://keybase.io/inv/f6062cd09e

https://keybase.io/inv/dd1b318f03
> because the patronage model sucked - you're essentially dependent on people's charity

Also with copyright you are essentially dependent on people's willingness to pay.
Can you get academia to give you funding to continue the project? It's a common model in the bioinformatics world.
I really enjoyed the book, but suspect (with no authority other than a gut feeling based on experience) that it's in the same genre as Guns, Germs & Steel - an attractively complete system that would not hold up to an expert in the field.
Thing Explainer is good because it is fun to read words which explain a thing that you already mostly understand in a way that you would not usually see. It can also help you see things from a point of view that you wouldn't usually have. However, when used to write about things that you don't already know about, it will probably not make it easier to understand, and may just make it less clear what is being written about.
Yeah, seems fairly ridiculous given how much they push being a security company. Apparently hard-coded 3DES key that anyone can reverse engineer = security.

I'm tempted to pop their Android app up in IDA and see if it's really as bad as it sounds.
There are maybe 30 families in the zip code...

"Shields' population peaked in 1920 with 250 people"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shields,_North_Dakota
> There's something fundamentally broken about the open-source model when you can invest so much time and npt get any sort of economic return. This seems like a huge limiting factor on open-source development.

The problem we have is that OSS creators don't realize, and often willfully ignore, the fact that nothing about opensource says you can't charge for delivering value to people. Sure, their ability to copy it themselves and do stuff might reduce your leverage, but I can almost promise you that a company which generates $10,000,000/year of revenue and relies on your software, will throw money at you if you ask. Especially if you say something like "You know, since you're not paying me for this, I can totally stop maintaining it at any point and then you'll be fucked because your business relies on this".

But many engineers don't like to be business people. So here we all are.

It's really not that hard: Do people's livelihoods and businesses rely on your work? Are you improving people's lives? Charge.

Doing it for fun and no interest in making a business? That's fine, but don't expect to make a living off of a thing you're not charging money for.
Maybe as humans we should be thinking bigger than things like secrets
This is an extreme example, but I do think that having lawmakers out through the same process as the plebs would lead to better laws.
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Bring it up! They're newer to development then you are, they're newer to life. They're far more likely to have always have had high speed internet growing up, and not have had that visceral experience. The initial reaction will probably be negative, but initial negative reactions to perceived increases in scope/work is basically a universal human trait, it's surmountable.