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Proposed Tweak to Internet Law Could Spur Seismic Shifts in Web as We Know It
I think that 'work' is good, we just need to shift our concept of what work is. I think of 'work' as being any activity that advances society; this could be art, science, culture, or fulfillment of day to day needs (producing food, clothing, etc).

All of those 'avenues of community involvement' are work by this definition. The only problem is if we only define work as something someone is willing to trade their own resources for.... some things are valuable, but don't fit into the realm of something people would pay for (for lots of reasons, in particular if they are public goods that are non exclusionary)

Our current system of markets determining what work is only is applicable for a subset of the things that are valuable to humanity; we use it because it is the best proxy we have at the moment. We need a better proxy in the future.
Maybe, though a more charitable interpretation is that more and more evidence came through for more Keynesian view points. There was the discrediting of the R-R paper, there was more and more papers critical of austerity coming out of the IMF of all places, etc.

As Keynes is reputed to have said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"
> If it was 20%, it means that person from every family (wrt. parent's incomes) has equal chance to end up rich or poor, meaning that there is nothing that parents could do to help their child.

That's not true. It would just mean that the parents' financial circumstances have no bearing on their ability to help their children.
Sad you got downvoted. That's pretty much what the author did -- list a bunch of serialization protocols, say that the ones developed in the 80's were good enough, and then recommend we all use MessagePack.
For those wondering, WTF stands for Web Template Framework: https://webkit.org/blog/6161/locking-in-webkit/
They did what society sanctioned them doing. Society doesn't sanction those activities anymore and if you don't mind your own buisiness it will lock you up.
The times have changed and you need more than just gumption to get the resources you want.
This is different from SMC since the instruction is not actually modified; AFAIK since the target of the jump doesn't need to be predicted, the processor can just continue decoding from there. The decoded uops aren't affected by overlapping instructions.

It's when modifying instructions that the cache/pipeline will get flushed.
True, but what if, although I do think the analogy kind of falls apart there, Coke was allowed to dictate any change to the recipe? That's the situation Samsung would be in if they relied on 'stock' Android. Google would have a significant advantage simply because they control both the device and the OS (the latter IMO more important), and Samsung would only be able to compete by device.

And that's even assuming that Google doesn't 'leverage' its ability to control both software and hardware.
Mormons do not believe that non-believers will "burn in hell for all of eternity". Mormons believe that the afterlife will be far superior to earth life for virtually everyone.

Only a tiny segment of humanity, who commit "blasphemy against the Holy Ghost", which Jesus described as the unpardonable sin, will have an existence of endless pain and misery. The belief is that very few people are even capable of getting themselves into this arrangement.

Mormons feel serious concern when someone leaves the Church for multiple reasons, but the biggest factor is simple human psychology. Fundamentally, you're rejecting a culture and a belief system into which you've been initiated, accepted, and accommodated for many years, and a set of traditions on which your family has based their lives, potentially for generations.

The fact is, this hurts peoples' feelings, and they're going to have a hard time coping with it, and it's by no means specific to Mormonism. It's applicable to anyone whose religion plays a major function in their lives. If anything, Mormonism's unique redemptive and compassionate doctrine softens the blow.

It should be noted here that, unlike some other groups, Mormons do not have a policy of shunning people who leave. It may be difficult for family and friends to accept the lifestyle change, but the Church preaches nothing but tolerance, outreach, and compassion to everyone, including, and in some cases especially, to those who've left.
I was a Mormon missionary.

Each missionary memorizes this to drill in their purpose: "My purpose is to invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end." https://www.lds.org/manual/preach-my-gospel-a-guide-to-missi...

Most of our activities were finding people interested in the LDS church and teaching those people about the LDS church.

I would have 20-30 45 minute in house meetings a week with people that were interested. We spent most of our time knocking on doors and meeting new people to fill up those teaching slots.

For service, probably 5-10 hours a week. Usually set up by the local LDS congregation or people we met on the street (ex. "I'm not interested but I could use help power spraying my roof).

I had an awesome mission experience. It was a lot of fun. I met a lot of interesting people, with tough backgrounds, looking for something new in their lives. Made me really grateful for my middle class upbringing and want to help people less fortunate than me.
For those on iOS and macOS, Apple provides Network Link Conditioner for this purpose.
I suspect the author hasn't read The Absolute Minimum ... about Unicode [0] (or why there's no such thing as "plain text")

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
IMHO you got down voted a lot for pointing out an aspect of human behavior many people (including myself) find very troubling.

The "odd" juxtaposition of compassion and community with racial, sexual, and cultural exclusivity and strict taboos is normal. It's how a tribe normally works.

Modern cosmopolitan culture tries to do away with the bad stuff, but many believe this also did away with the good. A major tenet of neo-reaction is that cosmopolitan culture leads to a kind of cold social alienation and lack of identity.

Personally I think there is some truth to this, but I can't embrace it. I find it completely unacceptable. If this is actually hard wired into us then the answer is genetic engineering.
I guess I'm not sure of the value of parsing these fine distinctions between good and bad ads. Doesn't seem like the good kind are winning out. And the solution is that ad buyers need to have kinder hearts? Hmm.
A religious organization subsumes state roles, providing social services as a way to reinforce social cohesion as well as the power structure in the religious hierarchy. The authorities dictate everything from clothing style to "volunteer" effort. Young men are exploited for their energy and lack of common sense to expand borders.

Guys, am I talking about the Latter-Day Saints or ISIS?

I'll bet you a beer that Megan McArdle (author of this article) was born and raised in the Mormon religion. How else do you explain the leap from social mobility to social services to yay white Mormons?

This isn't the first piece she's written cheerleading the LDS homeland:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-05-15/verily-i-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-11-08/mormons-p...

Now, I myself was born and raised in the Mormon religion. My view is that social mobility is high in Utah due to high economic growth which is fantastic compared to the rest of red-state America, and definitely due to Mormon influence, but not for the reasons Megan would have you believe:

Mormons breed early and often. Their workforce is the youngest in the nation and no surprise, this is a recipe for economic growth. They're having a baby boom in Utah all the time.

If government has done anything to help, they've carved more than their fare share out of the federal budget to support jobs in the state. Major exports include rocket parts and spying on you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiokol

Other than that, Utah's major industry seems to be pyramid schemes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_Skin_Enterprises

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-multi-level-marketing-companie...

Just google Utah MLM, theirs too much good stuff.

The reason I bring it up is that economic growth through high fertility is very much a pyramid scheme. At some point they will run out of room in the desert and then they will have to grapple with caring for an aging population like other formerly frothy reproduction based economies (Japan, China, most of the US).
> dogmatic

Disagree. They certainly hold several positions very dear, and you might say axiomatically, but I'd say because they've proven to be fruitful.

And they have changed their mind (sometimes reluctantly) on some issues, such as austerity.
It's almost as if aesthetics are secondary to the ideology and viewpoints being described. You realize most of the Futurists were avowed Fasicsts yes?
There's an oft-spoken of solution to this: more education. There's also a hidden requirement of that solution, that is namely that the person wants or is able to be educated.

The 'inclusion' narrative is something to be lauded for sure, but people are good at different things -- if someone is just plain not capable of being an engineer or doing whatever other white collar job du jour, what then?

What if they can't manage a vocational skill either? What if they can, but don't make the effort? Then what?
I think this is brilliant. I will take a transparent and open bidding process over the "show up to an open house with 20 other people and pray to god the landlord likes you" approach any day.
The issue with jumps/branches during instruction fetch is that the CPU doesn't 100% know whether an instruction is a branch or not. OK, how is this an issue? Well, the instruction prefetcher will end up fetching useless instructions!

So "modern" (1980s+) CPUs add a branch predictor[1] to the fetch stage. The job of the branch predictor is to determine two things:

(1) Is this instruction a branch? [2]

(2) If it's a branch, is it taken or not?

For the case of unconditional jumps, we can just focus on (1). Therefore, given that the branch predictor is never 100% accurate, even an unconditional branch can result in garbage instructions fetched into the CPU pipeline. So replacing some key unconditional jumps might in fact improve performance.

[1]: Actually, I was lying. There is also the BTB, collapsing buffer, and trace cache.

[2]: The fetch stage doesn't know what an instruction is; that's the job of the decode stage.
I don't think this is as big a problem as the article suggests. There are a substantial number of tradeoffs in serialization protocols, and each application/ecosystem can choose their protocol to get the best of these tradeoffs. As long as there are few enough that every popular protocol has a library in almost every language this isn't too bad.

One example of a tradeoff that is hard to eliminate is that you can reduce size and increase performance substantially if you pre-specify a schema like Cap'n Proto (and others) do. The downside is then if you just get a message without knowing what it is about it's difficult to figure out. The only way out of this tradeoff that I can see is having a global schema registry and every message having 8 bytes dedicated to schema ID, and that has downsides of its own, especially for small messages.

I do agree with the author though that we could do with more binary serialization protocols with tools to easily translate back and forth to a human-readable text format for debugging.
I wonder what the author dislikes about gRPC.
Ask HN: I feel as if I have ADD, how do I pick a field and stick-to-it?
The problem I'm having is picking a path.

I've jumped from field-to-field once every 1 to 1 1/2 years.

I've been a sysadmin, software developer, full-stack developer and I'm currently a software engineer focusing on Docker containers.

I read cons about the current "field" I'm in and suddenly jump-ship. It's hard to stick to one-path. I feel as if I'm spreading my abilities too thin.

I did DevOps but got stressed out from all of the paging/alerts.

I started my own business in VPS hosting, but found the competition stiff.

I program away all day every day in Go and Ruby; but yet I'm not as-good as those who've studied algorithms and data structures.

Right now Machine Learning has taken my interest, but I know I don't have the math skills to become an "expert". I know that after a year of working on it, I'll probably jump-ship to another area/field that interests me.

I love Docker and Kubernetes but feel as if I don't jump on the band-wagon of the current trend (machine learning), I'll fall behind.

How do I pick a path and stick-to-it?
Religious flamewars are not welcome on Hacker News. We ban accounts that do this.
Former FTC chief...now lobbyist for ISPs.

And the CNN guy is of course using the ISPs' talking point, that they should be treated the same as search engines.
The poster said "possession ... in public"
All the California transplants should take not before they become politically active and turn it into the kind of place they left.
This is a hairier problem than you make it out to be. Eventually, you end up needing to describe the state of a system based on input values you may not be able to control. Arbitrarily complex dependency graphs add another layer of complication. Being able to construct simple data structures can suffice for almost all use cases, which is why YAML is so popular. Eventually, though, you end up needing to programmatically generate those trees of structures and oops now you're Turing-complete. If the goal is to decouple describing the state and executing the actions leading to convergence, there's no good solution to bridge the gap between the two, so you end up writing a DSL or creating an unholy marriage of a data description language and an imperative templating language (YAML+Jinja2), or just doing it all in BASH and giving up on the idea of clean separation.
Southern Baptism is that dominant in many parts of the South.
If you spend much time around locksporters, you'll find that they'll take virtually any excuse to show someone how to pick locks. Generally to elicit this exact reaction.

Also, it's very possible that he didn't if he was training. I had two colleagues who once decided not to use keys for a month to enhance their picking skills.
At the end, it sounds very much like he's suggesting adding another protocol based on XDR, with just a few reasonable changes. It's like the article is a living example of the classic xkcd joke.

[]: https://xkcd.com/927/
Anyone know how Visabot has fared? https://visabot.co/
Cool, thanks!

If we were to dramatically over-simplify by assuming a city's economic mobility is a simple sum of independent Gaussian variables, is the following correct?

(1) Pearson and Spearman rank correlation are the same.

(2) Percentage foreign born is more important than all other variables combined (since they would contribute 39% of the total variance)
I like chatbots a lot, very useful for translating text quickly or reminding someone else in the group to do something.

The small games are pretty fun too, perfect for killing time when bored.

There are also things which would otherwise have to have been a separate app. I don't want to download another app.
I don't see his conclusion of "you have to get lots of smart immigrants to fill in"... he spends paragraphs talking about how there is a growing pool of able-bodied, middle-aged citizenry yet he advocates bringing in even more people to maintain GDP.

This is a training problem; we have a surplus of workers (and potential workers) with mismatched skills. He should consider retraining willing reentrants before further attempting to crowd a dwindling workforce with outsiders.
They were promoted to go with the current AI hype, but none of the bots deployed actually use any AI because the technology isn't there yet
2/3, you mean :)
You sum it up nicely.
I'm sure the apps are for leverage when negotiating with Google and/or Samsung harbors intentions to leave the Android ecosystem at some point, go Tizen-only and capture all the value up and down the vertical.

I can understand why Samsung finds the idea alluring, I'm not sure if they can successfully nurture a 3rd mobile OS in a brutally competitive field where Microsoft/Nokia and BlackBerry failed.
Just wanted to say +1, and that this stood out to me as well.
> That's called getting old.

Perhaps, though I prefer to think it's being more aware of the risks.

> Do you avoid swimming in the ocean because of sharks?

I don't think that's a good analogy. I can't control a sharks behavior, and I specifically try to ignore the idea of them when I'm surfing. But, if there's a shark sighting that day or week at my favorite beach, yes, I'll not get in the water.

In terms of driving, there's a lot more control you have over reducing the risk, than you do of a random shark getting you.

Also, shark attacks happen three orders of magnitude less frequently then automobile deaths. 30-40/year vs 30,000-40,000/year in the US; yes this is partly due to more people driving, but I'll take surfing to driving any day of the week.
You could have equal chance to end up in the top quintile when measuring income, and still do things to help your kids succeed. It would just mean that those things wouldn't depend on the family income.

E.g. people whose family is more educated than the average would have better chances to end up in the top quintile by income, regardless of how much money they make.
In other words, the left and the right are both wrong.

The left is wrong because it focuses too much on money and entitlements rather than real help. It also uses big government only, which crowds out local solutions, churches, and NGOs. Beyond that, many on the left are actively hostile towards religion.

The right is wrong because they scale back government without doing the hard work to build alternative solutions, and leave people stranded.

(Obviously these are caricatures and not to be taken personally.)

Sounds like the people in Utah have somethibg figured out.
This expands to the general case purpose of locks. They're not to guarantee security, but rather to raise the threshold. Much like DRM, they're all about preventing easy mass theft.
Across an entire state or city larger than 100,000 population? (not challenging you...just curious)
I love 'Comedy Writing for Late Night TV' by Joe Toplyn which is a 'behind the curtain' look at writing for late night TV and what makes certain lines 'work' and what doesn't. It's writing to be funny, but the principles you write to be funny are actually fairly similar to those you just use for good copywriting generally.

I liked his 'Surprise Theory of Comedy', used by the line above in fact.

https://www.amazon.com/Comedy-Writing-Late-Night-Monologue-S...

A lot of great writers end up writing for comedy shows - if you end up in a writing team you get both the promise of a regular paycheck and a constant creative challenge creating lines around new news stories. The 'magic' of copywriting is really knowing maybe twenty really useful mental tools inside out, and executing on them the best way possible.

What you tend to find with copywriting is that everyone recommends the same seven books - Cialdini, D&AD etc, I guess like with programming where everyone suggests you read Code Complete - but a lot of them are quite long in the tooth, and have an annoying tendency to just hold lines up and say 'here, this is great copywriting', rather than really break down what makes lines work. That said if you're really brand new to it I'd recommend Hey Whipple, Squeeze This as a good starter for 10.

Online, ComedyWire is probably one of the best examples I've seen both for seeing great writers at work and practicing yourself. It's kind of like Hacker News for Comedy - people submit lines in response to news stories and the best ones get upvoted.
I'm calling it now, we're heading back to #tipjartech
I thought of this immediately. Not sure why you're downvoted.
I'm also ex-mormon, but you seem to be letting your personal issues with the church get the better of you here. Yeah there are absolutely some cultural problems in Utah stemming from the LDS culture, but it is nevertheless true that there are a bunch of positives as well.

Your attempted explanation of high social mobility as being merely from economic and population growth is pretty laughable. The US in general usually has high economic growth and more population growth than Western Europe or Japan, for example, and yet social mobility here is definitely lower and inequality is worse.
"Very similarly, a simple way to incrementally implement UBI would be to lower the "retirement age" every year."

I suspect when many (not all) of the supporters of UBI consider it to be the most basic of subsistence payments, not something we would want seniors to retire with.

Think of the difference in amounts between SS and unemployment insurance currently.
There is a way to do ingress traffic manipulation, you have to divert it via virtual device. For years this was https://github.com/imq/linuximq/wiki/WhatIs a most common way to do it.
You can think of the Mormon Church as a second government in Utah that levies a 10% gross income tax on nearly everyone in the state and spends a portion on welfare programs.
It is easy to find it in Internet.
The problem is that a lot of US libertarianism is Koch-brother-financed astroturfing for the right (such as the Institute for Humane Studies, etc.).

So, I'd think that your left-libertarian position is somewhat rare, and most libertarianism is of the right variety.

Classical liberalism is a much better term, in my view. And mind you, Milton Friedman himself advocated for government intervention in many cases (natural monopolies, externalities, maybe even asymmetric information, not sure).
What kind of games?
Sounds like the "Fachkräftemangel" ("skilled worker shortage"), which is pushed into the media regularly by lobbyist groups (via "studies" and "statistics"). The goal is obviously to further reduce wages (even though they are already low here, Germany has some of the lowest unit labour costs on the entire continent) — many call it "cheap skilled worker shortage" now.
Turtles on the Wire: Understanding How the OS Uses the Modern NIC (2016)
I hadn't heard about the Zuckerberg's claim about authenticity on Facebook was surrounded by fraudulent ads. That's hilarious.

Also, I've never thought about it before but I think the writer's claim that modern ads are really direct response marketing is right on. There is a difference.
Sorry if I did not make it clear - the much-discussed horrors of WWI did not stop WWII.
'Those who want to beat us will be defeated': Israel's David's Sling goes live
This looks really interesting. Full search engines rank documents based on the similarity of a query to documents in the index, but it seems like there are a lot of opportunities to do more with similarities between content.

One thing I'm interested in is the ability to find the most dis-similar document to a query / other documents (perhaps within some constraints). I think this would potentially be really helpful for discovery. For context, on https://www.findlectures.com, I'd like to show talks on subjects I know the least about i.e., most dis-similar from all talks I've previously watched.
List needs to be amended with StarWars over telnet:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
(http://lifehacker.com/373571/watch-star-wars-in-text-via-tel...)
McArdle wasn't raised in the Mormon church.