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I don't understand this ideology. In a country like the US, who cares what the riches n percent own, pay, use, etc.? Really.

Mark Zuckerberg was just a kid in a dorm. Look where he is now.

OK, don't like that example? Here:

https://goo.gl/uEUtKE

Don't complain about what others have achieved. In the US you have the opportunity to reach for the stars (literally). If you want it bad enough, with a little luck and hard work you can get there.

There will always be far more wealthy people than poor or middle class. Why? Because, outside of inheriting wealth, making money is very hard. Some get lucky and it seems to happen easily. That's not the norm. Becoming wealthy is hard perilous work. It requires incredible focus, dedication and discipline. In some cases it can cost people their family and health.

I don't like a culture that vilifies the wealthy or creates divisions along these lines. In a country like the US most people aren't rich due to a lack of opportunity, oppression or some grand plan to keep people down. No, most people are not rich because they either don't have what it takes or are not willing to invest the time, effort and sacrifice required to get there.

If 80% of the value is held by the richest 10% it is because they made money and continue to risk it in investments such as the stock market. I have friends who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on investments in just a few months. Nobody talks about them taking those kinds of risks. They do talk about the new Ferrari they bought with the proceeds of the 1 out of 100 investments that actually panned out.

Funny how you never see articles during market crashes to highlight how much wealth that same 10% lost.

Or how they pay the bulk of all taxes collected.

This ideology is not aligned with a sensible reality.
well, it is our job as programmers is to waste ... err ... utilize all that hardware power/bandwidth that Moore law has been showering us with...
The 180 series of busses served/serve Fremont BART (haven't lived in the Bay Area for a year).
You don't get rich (in an acceptable timeframe) by investing. You stay rich by investing (if you do it well), and you keep a good annual yield coming in by investing well.
They have inter county busses, just see Fremont BART.
Very cool trick. If interested, there is a node cli module which tests against W3.

npm install html-validator-cli -g
cd "$HOME"/Sites/mysite
html-validator --verbose --file=index.html
Interesting. I have the same conclusion and working on my idea. Which app are you working on?
You're confusing the fund level return with individual portfolio companies. This entire thread has been premised on the idea of getting a 10x on an individual investment. The instant matter of a 3x is a 3x at the fund level, which I'm trying to say is no slouch, and if it's consistent would generally be considered outperformance.
'old' vs 'modern':

I run a search engine. It is big enough that it needs drives, caches, firewalls, VMs etc.

The front end is php. No classes, no phpadmin, etc. Just pure vanilla php.

Sometimes I tail /var access logs. People try all kinds of urls routinely fishing for weaknesses.

It's 2017. It is slow to code and keep the attack surface that minimal.

0 intrusions so far.
I just did the same. Aaron is equally deserving, but this award will be put to better use by a living person.
I retired early and have stocks, real estate, and cash. I'll reduce holdings when my cash runs low. Until then, I'm making no changes come hell or high water. I'm not financially savvy and would probably sell at the wrong time anyway. I have more cash than I need (3 - 4 years worth), but I'm fiscally conservative and the extra buffer eliminates stress.
The article you linked has the same text, but a better title. "Secondhand marijuana smoke damages blood vessels more than tobacco smoke"

The title by sciencebulletin is more linkbaity. There is no evidence of permanent damage, or any damage, only some temporally problem. They conveniently use "may" in the title, but with the same method they can claim that marijuana smoke may summon UFOs.

I don't like first or second had smoke, but I also don't like clickbait and fake science.

PS: "Somewhat related We Used Terrible Science to Justify Smoking Bans" http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13759947 (27 points, 11 days ago, 30 comments)
ShatChat – The Opposite of an Ode to Facebook ‘Messenger Day’
Not quite what you are asking, but if it's written in React-Native or Xamarin, then it can be pretty close to the same codebase from Android to Windows Phone (or I guess they like it called Windows 10 Mobile)
TLDR: Use active voice instead of passive voice.
Is scrolling through source code really faster line by line?
Full text of the study referred to in the last section:

http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(17)3...
Art meeting Power is the rule, not the exception.

Art at best is critique, and as with the street art, art finished behind closed walls once it got bankable, and for rap, punk, comics, even worse emasculated.

And NY books forget all these country like France where like in the USSR, IIIrd Reich, mussolinian Italy there are still a minister of the Culture to tell the people what is the right Culture for them. To be an artist, don't piss the government else you lose funding and possibility to expose/sing/dance/perform.

And modern website design, is looking like the Nazi propaganda with their always clean looking smiling workers thinking of a brighter future shaped in the form of the ideal society.

It is creepy how we can see what was wrong in the past but suffer short sight.
There is also drag to edge to get half of the screen. (only for left/right edges)
Mark Zuckerberg is a particularly bad example, since he was the son of two white-collar professionals, went to an elite private school (Phillips Exeter) for two years, and then went to Harvard. He was probably eligible for little to no finanical aid, so it's likely his parents paid for almost all of his education. Zuckerberg's father also hired a professional software developer to privately tutor him.

There are obviously exceptions, but from what I've seen most tech billionaires have these kinds of backgrounds.
>Idris won't reduce partial functions at the type level, in order to keep type checking decidable.

Totality precludes Turing-completeness. Specifically, functions that don't terminate are by definition partial, and if you can't express functions that don't terminate then it isn't Turing-complete.
This sounds somewhat aligned with the culture that my manager has fostered where I'm working - just spun a different way:

We come up with a target that we plan on achieving in 6 weeks and then we have said 6 weeks to execute on that plan. For example, if our goal is to add four features to a product we write it down and the intent is to deliver in six weeks.

That being said, no excuses. When it comes time to deliver we should be able to deliver on anything that we committed to. BUT - and I think this is what Steve does a poor job of spinning - it's not that we have to have our original plan fully executed; rather, if we found a problem along the way it's expected that we raise the issue and course-correct. If one of those four features turns out to hit a snag we alert the PMs and generally just cut back our scope.

The thing is that we are accountable for our work. Accountability does not mean that you'll necessarily accomplish everything on your plate - it just means that at the end of our timeline we don't throw up our arms and say that it didn't get done. We've been transparent with our stakeholders the entire way and so when something goes awry they knew about it well ahead of time and could do their own expectation management with whomever their stakeholders are - thus putting everyone in a much better position.

While I would refrain from calling this a "no excuses" culture - which sounds really dickish and annoyingly managerial - I would say a culture of accountability is an extremely strong and empowering thing. It puts the onus on you to execute but enough latitude to express when execution is no longer feasible within the expected window.
It has some of the best food in San Francisco, though.

I think SROs make a lot of sense. It is too bad they have such a bad reputation (justified in SF) of being sketchy places. I wish there were nicer ones.
Yes, we've heard this message before. As is the case once again, what is suspiciously absent are any real proposals.
And in the 80's people were still getting pensions too. I got my first tech job in '86 and it featured a stock purchase plan and a pension. No tech job I've had since had a pension.
This is an argument against DST, not clocks.
From what I heard, MIT Media Lab is a bit of a free electron in the MIT behemoth.
Idea for anyone who wants to make it:

Make a website where any person or company can donate a fixed amount (one-time, periodically) that gets donated to open source. The website integrates with or links to as many open source projects as possible. Perhaps the website donates to each project once a month, pooling all the money together, to keep from having lots of transaction fees.

To be more advanced, write a tool that scans all code bases and automatically tells you what open source products you use. So if I work for a company, I run the tool against all of our repositories, it determines which products we use, and it syncs with the website. Then, say we donate $100 a month, it gets split between all of them automatically in some sort of proportion.

Then github open source projects can sign up with the website and become automatically tracked with the tool, so if someone or a company uses them they can get paid.

I simply do not have the time to pursue this, but if I had the time I would. I believe it will vastly improve the open source community and help finance it.
I'm using Arch with kvm/libvirt. Most of the configuration of guests is done via virt-manager. Since a lot of this is moving relatively fast, I recommend using some sort of a rolling distro. I believe the libvirt devs mostly use Fedora.
The VTA is undergoing a complete overhaul of their bus schedules [0], in anticipation of the Milpitas and Berryessa BART station openings, which will happen later this year. After that, there'll be express buses from both stations to Downtown San Jose, and, of course, existing connections to light rail.

[0] http://nextnetwork.vta.org
In other words, you got old and slow. Happens to us all :)
I recently re-read 2001 and there was a forward by Clarke that explained something I hadn't known before - the screenplay and the book were developed simultaneously, in a joint collaboration between Kubrick and Clarke. Kubrick wanted Clarke to come up with an epic space story and put it on the screen, but didn't want to burden Clarke with having to write a screenplay.

So I don't think you can really call the book a "novelization" because both worked on it.
According to the article, this is the case for slightly over 50% of people. Hardly good enough odds to suggest that someone who doesn't experience this is just 'doing it wrong'.
Just posted 5 hours prior, 49+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13847042
Where is your hometown? With the cost of land, it seems crazy to build a 1 - 2 bedroom presumably ranch style house in San Francisco. Those style of homes in the Sunset used to be had for $500k or so ten years ago. I think they go for around $1M these days.

I agree that 1 - 2 bedrooms houses are the perfect size, though. I currently live in one (not in CA).
On our radar to get browsers to change and they have been receptive to our proposal.
Window Maker was one of the reason why I decided to start using Linux back in 1999. I was running Windows 98 back then, and I was so taken by the style of the different window managers available for Linux. I marveled at how flexible Enlightenment looked and fvwm either looked like crap or like a work of art depending on the time the user spent in his configuration file.

But by far, my favorite look was Window Maker. I liked the large icons, the blocky menu, and the intriguing dockapps. After I managed to install Linux (that was a hard task for a 16 year-old who couldn't read English), I used Window Maker for a number of years. It was fast, it was functional, and it was really cool! These days I use LXDE with Openbox, but I'm always thrilled to hear about new developments in Window Maker.
> You don't get rich (in an acceptable timeframe) by investing

In realistic terms, you don't get rich in an acceptable timeframe by any means. You could found a billion dollar business or you could lose your shirt. You could win the lottery or waste a few bucks. You could marry or inherit money, or you more likely could not.

There is no reliable path to wealth except investment long term. And even that is infeasible if you aren't fairly high income.
I just don't want to have an algorithmic test handled to me at the border and risk deportation if I don't get the answer "right". Canada is fine.
The BART union contract only allows employees to bid on station postings twice a year.
Career advice from successful entrepreneurs
> everything keeps going up

Except real wages for the vast majority.
If you accept that (1) there are economies of scale in Bitcoin mining and (2) miners are rational and will only mine when it is profitable, then doesn't this suggest that large amounts of mining power should become concentrated in the hands of just a few major miners? Doesn't that seriously undermine Bitcoin's validity?
This isn't about Aaron. It's about the next person who downloads too much free stuff doing it emboldened by the thought that MIT will have their back when the feds come knocking. If only because not doing so costs MIT 250 thousand dollars.

That would be a much bigger contribution to society than any one person walking away with this award.
Their most secure devices use FIREFLY, a variant of Photurius protocol.
There is a difference between subjective and objective measures. We can say something is "good" because we like it, or we can say something is "good" because it meets some objective criteria. The two do not have to be aligned. People can like something even if it doesn't meet some predefined criteria. People can dislike something even if it meets that criteria.

It is often said that those who measure on objective criteria are snobby. It is often said that those who measure on a subjective criteria are crass. People who take such extreme positions are blind to the other position, which is unfortunate.

But you can acknowledge that something with problems from an objective perspective is very popular. You can even admit to liking it yourself and there is no shame in that. One the flip side, even if you have entrenched personal preferences, you can educate yourself as to why the objective measures exist -- or at least admit that some people get value out of them even if you don't.

Putting someone down for enjoying something sucks -- no matter whether that is a subjective or objective thing.
> 1) confirms they do have data and the ability to turn it over

Not necessarily. We don't know what they handed over. For all we know right now, it literally could be a single request to start a timer or check the weather.

The use of the data seems dubious assuming that Alexa has to hear the trigger word before sending data to Amazon. Judging by the traffic on my network, I'd say that's the case. I don't see a persistent stream coming from my Alexa device beyond periodic pings.
Well yeah, why would you do anything else? When recruiters and job postings are mostly concerned with what languages and tools you know over software development ability and computer science knowledge why would you voluntarily make your life more difficult?
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Personally i see it mostly as self-validation. I'm in an odd position in that i learned computing with an Amiga, meaning a computer that has a mouse, but was also still unadvanced enough to require lots of keyboard interaction. Nowadays i find that which i use depends a lot on the current context. Exploring things and browsing documentation particularly is done almost entirely with mouse and mouse gestures. Editing text is very keyboard-centric and the mouse only gets to act occasionally.

There's a balance there and it goes beyond even the task you're engaged in. I often find myself annoyed at the very same piece of software for providing too few keyboard shortcuts, or providing too few mouse interactions, depending on whether i'm working on something to the side, have one of my hands occupied, or just plain are having pain in one of my joints on that day.

People who proclaim one or the other as the alpha and omega seem to me stuck in a mindset that's strictly binary and refuses to see shades. (Granted, i am speaking with decades of entrainment. I can absolutely see how for a sysadmin in their 40s there may be little sense in trying to get comfortable with a mouse.)
I've done quite well in the market since Jan 1st alone. Blaming big money and then not even participating in the market is a stupid comment. Stop blaming others for your financial situation, take control of it.
But we're now using "Agile development", so I guess we have to use those things.
It should also make a thwump followed by ringing ears sound so it's like getting knocked in the head.
I use stop-loss orders to protect again downside at this point since everything I own is in the green.
On a similar note, I always find it ridiculous when I have to do things like

apt-get install npm && npm install bower && bower install ...

Why can't we just use apt-get and Makefiles for everything?

Why can't npm be turned into ppa:nodejs and pip be turned into ppa:python?
Whats the advantage to buying into a Bitcoin ETF vs just buying the same value directly in Bitcoin?
I don't know why Vodaphone are doing that, but you shouldn't go around telling people that it's because of "the U.K. surveillance state" because other UK ISPs don't do that.

The "server not found" errors sound like DNS blocking, which they can do without MITM.
Enforcing commas in JSON parsers wastes time and watts
Accessing Data

1. The following will give you access to the same data instagram provides.
https://instareproxy.herokuapp.com/<user>/media/

2. Limiting the amount of images to be sent.
https://instareproxy.herokuapp.com/<user>/media/?count=10

3. Using jsonp
https://instareproxy.herokuapp.com/<user>/media/?callback=fo...

4. Using pagination: Each response has url links to the next and previous page, you can use that to traverse through the results.
If I were doing a build today, I would be sorely tempted by Ryzen, mostly because it would be new hardware and the AM4 platform. That said, having a server board has turned out to be really nice for a lot of things, such as ECC memory and nice virtualization features. It looks like Ryzen has some issues with kvm passthrough so far[0]. My favorite resources are [1] and [2].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/5yo83m/ryzen_pcie_pas...
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO
Increase App Store downloads by designing better screenshots
Again you have to pick one. If they get results, why does it matter if they play games? I have a guy who plays Warcraft on breaks, he says it pissed all his old bosses off, but this guy writes incredible code. He'll spend half his time not coding, but doing mindless tasks as he thinks. Then he writes code without running it for an hour right before leaving and hits run at the end and it all works. Never seen anything like it.

Everyone's different. I only intervene if they aren't getting results and a lot of the time when they are having issues it's never because of the surface things you'd notice if you were managing time.
Getting your drug "facts" from Anslinger is like trusting what Jerry Falwell says about homosexuality.
Also a good year legally for the start of the long fight to end the involvement of child/slave labour in the production of cocoa. See [the Tariff Act of 1930](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/19/1307).

Unfortunately, this fight has yet to be won.
This is the problem with the HackerNews libertarian streak. You're in favor of legalized drugs, prostitution, etc. But no one wants their daughter to grow up and be a crackwhore.
> overly clever programmers who thought they'd "help" by filtering out noise and volume and whatever else

I used to work at a CI manufacturer. Just thought you should know that this isn't what happens: all the features are developed by researchers or experts before even getting to the engineers, and go through clinical trials (usually several) to prove their effectiveness. They don't, and can't, add new sound processing on a whim to be 'clever'.

If the sound processing on your device is making you frustrated you should definitely discuss it with your audiologist. A lot of features can be configured or disabled completely.
Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill
In Santa Clara County they have a pretty strong vision for more transit-oriented development, for the Milpitas and Berryessa Stations [0]. We'll see if that actually happens though, it seems like a lot of those East Bay stations are just meant to be driven to.

[0] http://www.vta.org/News-and-Media/Connect-with-VTA/Milpitas-...
Like how the Japanese will send a bill to the family of someone who commits suicide on a train line?

I prefer my government to absorb the cost of human despair rather than bill for it. Don't write policy based on outliers.
Three challenges for the web, according to its inventor
There's really no legitimate reason why twitter allows follows via their API[1]. I'm not sure if they see some benefit from allowing spam-follow bots to run wild or what they could possibly be thinking.

[1]: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/post/friendships/crea...
And according to the article, it's been this way since the late 1980's...

So, basically, all that's changed recently is that stocks have been going up.

And when they eventually go down, 80% of the losses will be held by the richest 10% also.
> In the US you have the opportunity to reach for the stars (literally). If you want it bad enough, with a little luck and hard work you can get there.

Not true. The US ranks very poorly compared to other advanced economies when it comes to income inequality and social mobility [1].

Also most of the examples you give prove exactly this: Mark Zuckerberg was just a kid in a Harvard dorm, and so was Bill Gates (one of your "examples"). Ted Turner went to Brown, and all almost every person in the list you gave went to a very good school, if not Ivy League. And yet most Americans claim that they can't afford college [2]. It is naive to claim that "most people aren't rich due to a lack of opportunity", because that's exactly what's happening.

[1]: "How to get rich in America", The Economist -http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/02/ec...

[2]: "83% of Americans say they can't afford college", Edward Jones study -http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2015/05/13/83-of-americans-say-t...
Tim Berners-Lee calls for tighter regulation of online political advertising
Read the book, please. It shows how (non-rich) people do it. It's going for $.25 on Amazon. Anyone can afford it.
Different tools specific to their job, they wouldn't be good to combine together. apt-get only exists for linux, requires root and is designed for that, npm doesn't. apt-get installs the latest version, npm expects more specific verisons since it's for code. npm is built for node's ecosystem and apt-get is better for system packages.
So, basically, Gopher with user style-sheets?
It was long time ago
Can't speak to the implementation, but the idea seems pleasantly cheeky, lighthearted, and perhaps even useful.

As for myself, I find the use of the mouse to be its own punishment.
There's a home screen for everyone. #myAndroid
That's one disengagement every 5000 miles on average last year. It sounds like California is right on time.