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I came here to post the same book, I'd highly recommend it.
You can't eat money though. If they (the 6 most wealthy people) cashed in all their stock and re-distributed their wealth as best they could, the value of money would plummet since so much more is in circulation. It would crash the global economy and cause even more poverty.
> This is a weak argument to not participate in GSoC

Hey, at least have the courage and in integrity to tell them directly how to run their project. On the mailing list. Not here.

Open source drive-by project management is one of the most fascinating (and sad) phenomenon to me. How can people who have no association with some other group of individuals have the audacity to tell them how to spend their time and how to run their project. It's bewildering.
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This isn't an academic issue, the same is true of almost every white collar profession.

To apply standard numerical management techniques you either need to know exactly what a person needs to do as part of the process, or be able to evaluate the output, ideally both, and generally neither are true.
The money they have isn't in some vault somewhere. It's already in circulation through various investments and whatnot.
The authors themselves admit that NCLB was a mixed bag: "Specifically, we find that NCLB generated large and broad gains in the math achievement of 4th and (to a somewhat lesser extent) 8th graders. However, our results suggest that NCLB had no impact on reading achievement for 4th or 8th graders."

You'd think that you can employ drill practice to improve results in mathematics, but that approach won't work in English. American math instruction feels quite alien for foreigners, the emphasis is on the application of algorithms, not on understanding why and how they work. Equipped with plenty drill practice, an Amarican child can fill in the correct bubble on the test, no matter if or not it understands mathematics. Any understanding of mathematics gained in that system is purely incidental.

That's all a hypothesis and would require further testing.
> Yes. Of course, I do not have data nor the foresight to claim that its short or long term effects are negligible, but I really doubt if it's not the case.

And what if people see your solution and try to build an end-user thing out of it so that millions of users could run it at home?

When building something in a P2P network you always should consider whether it would still work if the majority of the network behaved like that.

> If BitTorrent DHT survived those, surely it is more resilient than you tend to think.

Yes, the rain forest is also quite resilient. Nothing wrong with logging a few more trees, right?
I'm saying your kind of reasoning is responsible for tragedy of the commons outcomes. You're not even trying to make your nodes a good citizen in the network because "others do it too".

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Anyway, such behavior can be detected and if it becomes more common other clients will probably implement blacklisting for it.
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I'm wondering if it was a concussion and not drugs. That can cause the wooziness feeling as well as amnesia around the event.
> If your medium relies on traditional ads, there's an increasingly large chance that your audience won't ever see those ads in the first place.

Often I don't care about ads. What I care most about is performance and usability. I don't want to wait the five seconds it takes the ad network to serve up an ad. I do not want hundreds of tracking scripts served from some ancient pre pentium box to make this worse. I also do not want to close 20 pop-ups.

Give me a nice eye catching traditional ad that just sits in the corner and leaves me alone any day. The cancer that is used for ads currently can just drop and die.
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I would caution against trying to drive anything serious from an IO solution whose inputs are not interrupt driven. Please use a real time operating system for jobs like these and communicate with your windows box on a higher abstraction level than directly driving outputs.

If you don't do that you risk your machinery not responding to critical inputs resulting in machine damage or worse.

If all you want to do is play around with lights and switches then this is fine.
No it wouldn't.

The global economy is tens of trillions of dollars. Drop a couple trillion in there and it just gets consumed.
Uh, maybe consider changing the styling/colors of that image slider at the top of your website: http://imgur.com/a/EY3sU
Hit piece rerun.
Please explain how you would do truly decentralized bootstrapping?
They don't pay anything like jobs of the past used to. There used to be a large middle class that could afford things like housing, new vehicles, vacations, and hobbies on a regular basis. Service jobs generally don't provide that quality of life.
Well, it is decentralised but not truly/completely distributed.[0] I guess a distributed system would allow clients to search the network right from the querying machine instead of a server.

The adjective truly meant that you can actually start using it right away. Starting a traditional torrent website/tracker is not hard and there must be open source implementations as well, but the problem is (as in all social systems), they suffer from the trap of initialisation: there is no content because you have no users, and there are no users because you don't have anything to offer them, and so on. magnetico discovers the torrents so it's a truly decentralised solution that you can actually start using right away.

[0]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Centralised-decentra...
My wife works as a teacher at one of the largest schoolboards in Québec, and she can tell you that the solution "hire good people, pay them the going rate and tell them to do the job to the best of their ability" doesn't work in a unionized system.

Complacency a systemic problem. When your union protects your job, you don't need to actually put effort into doing the job. Of course, that doesn't mean ALL teachers are lazy; but it does mean that a teacher who works hard and gets better results than average is not rewarded for it. It also means that bad teachers cannot be replaced by good ones.

Of course, preventing public school teachers from unionizing will simply allow the government to exploit them. Perhaps the solution would be to replace unions with a professional order, similar to how engineers and lawyers are regulated.
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Keep in mind that TuringNYC did not even MENTION the main issue that trips up most startups...

ie - they are unfamiliar with how to secure, (and KEEP), FDA approval for their products. It actually comes as a surprise to many of them that they even NEED FDA Approval. Then they are further shocked by how invasive the process is, and how long it can take. And don't even get me started about the look on their faces when they realize that, despite all of that, you're still held CRIMINALLY accountable for any bugs in your software. (Stay away from anything that might injure anyone if you are unsure of the ability of your process to reliably prevent bugs. Things like RTP are no-go areas for all but the most meticulous medical software developers.)

Don't get into medical software unless you have an extremely long, and very well funded, runway. This is not an industry where 2 guys in a garage can innovate and side-step the regulations. And whatever you do, stay away from anything that could actually harm the patient if it is wrong.
1) Distance of the SE Utah playground is just as far to SLC as Denver. So it's a moot point.

I can also confidently say the drive from Denver to SE Utah trumps the drive from SLC to SE Utah
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Aren't you great. As a java developer I am well aware of them too. For most people java == java applets; or "hello world" with `javac Hello.java` and then `java -cp. Hello` followed by some interminable wait while all the apparatus of the JVM is marshalled for the sole purpose of emitting a static string and then exiting. And by interminable I mean 2 or 3 second but still.

Even in more enlightened scenarios a REPL on jruby is just eye-wateringly painful unless you've all the "secret speedups" enabled.

In many more modern development cultures such secrets are generally looked upon as "Yak Shaving".
Drill practice is easy for English. Read.

The hard part is motivating people to actually do it.
>First, "libertarianism" is a highly misleading, US-centric label for certain brands of liberalism. It's not a coherent political position and instead used by very different people ranging from the right-wing authoritarian to the right-wing liberal spectrum to endorse a diffuse and internally inconsistent mix of cherry-picked elements of classical liberalism, general anti-federal government sentiments and individual anarchism.

I'll give you that "libertarian" is an Americanism. But I'd remind you that the term became necessary because the term "liberal" was co-opted by left leaning politicians, FDR chief among them, and is now used in American politics where "social democrat" would be used in Europe and much of the rest of the world. And, insofar as any big-tent political movement can be internally consistent at all, "libertarians" in the United States are leagues beyond the Republican shotgun wedding of traditional religious social mores with unfettered corporatism and the Democrat morass of supposedly aggrieved parties jockeying for better position in the pecking order of protected groups. Even to the extend that libertarians disagree with each other, we're able to work together because the state has grown to such an extent that our internal differences pale in comparison to that commonly identified problem.

Separately, a more strict criterion for distinguishing the good nudges from the nefarious ones might be: do people who become aware of the nudging object to its happening after some contemplation? (i.e. is there an objection emerging from the "slow" system two?)
Not that I disagree with your sentiment, but it isn't quite so black and white.

6 men owning as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the planet doesn't actually mean much while ever they aren't keeping their money under the bed away from everyone else - it's still in distribution.

They still go to sleep at night, get up in a morning, have a shower and grab a cup of coffee then go to the bathroom, eat dinner, watch a movie and go to bed I would imagine.

The wealth that they have is an illusion even for themselves.

Now on the other hand, that six individuals have the power to control how their money is distributed is a very real problem, but the wealth itself isn't.

I haven't really been a fan of macroeconomics since the nineties when the whole thing was proved to be an illusion and then confirmed yet again in 2008.

It is a crisis for sure.
I feel as though Django is described as 'magic' quite a lot, and frameworks with apparently little magic (like Flask) aren't accused of it so much. The 'magic' trend has carried over to Common Lisp with frameworks like Clack supporting similar 'magic' to Flask.
I really meant "graybeard". I think "neckbeard" has a negative connotation, whereas "graybeard" is just supposed to mean somebody of older age who is knowledgeable.
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Very neat hack! Although I thought most people turn off the WIFI when not using it.
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From the article: "Intuition can be an effective strategy for debugging but requires extensive experience and, when used as the only strategy, leaves the programmer unprepared to handle new, unfamiliar bugs."

On the other hand, I don't see how you can keep experience and intuition from being a factor in any instance of the scientific method.
How about strengthening privacy rules instead of gutting them because it's not fair that google gets to exploit people more than the telecoms...
Hung on as long as she could. Now she and her two dogs live in a car in Carlsbad
... and that's when you reach for the pitchforks along with the others.
So I go out and order a nice coffee from expensive beans, grinded & brewed with love -- only to see that they put UHT milk in it instead of fresh milk ... that spoils it for me!
There are a couple companies tackling this problem. Ripple uses peas and is on shelves now - I tried it and it was pretty good, better than soymilk but not as good as real milk.

What I'm really excited for is when milk is being produced in vats with a combination of cow gut bacteria and grass - in theory a mechanical cow's stomach could produce milk that was indistinguishable in taste from real milk but cheaper, cruelty free, cleaner, etc.
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Because the unemployment rate is a lie. It is denominated by the "labor force", which, if one excludes those who are no longer seeking work or chronically unemployed, it's basically being dishonest with statistics. One does not have to feign ignorance as to why there is a disconnect between the statistics and the reality.
One I frequent is https://hashnode.com

It's still not very big but seems to be growing. And it's completely bereft of political talk, which I find refreshing.
Large existing codebases are always a handful. But it's the small embedded environments where you might not have a debugger that I've experienced. Or the problem is inherently realtime so cannot be slowed down sensibly. For example when debugging a USB endpoint, it would be nice to stop and examine a packet, but not responding in time causes the host to un-enumerate the device.

Twice I've had to use the technique of "write values continuously to uninitialized SRAM, then on reboot print out what you find there" to investigate this kind of thing.
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I actually grew to like the taste of UHT milk, after living in Panama for many years where the fresh milk just never lasted longer than a week in the fridge. But I prefer pasteurized still.
is there a way to accomplish this while being peer-friendly?
or the nature of this software is possible only by violating the spec and also being "rude" to other peer in the network
Usually I search with an aggregator find the cheapest carrier, then book directly with that carrier. I've found booking sites to be a bit hit and miss - often they add extra booking fees that make the chosen flight more expensive or you miss out on certain options. In Europe I usually use a combination of Momondo, Skyscanner and Kiwi (formerly Skypicker).
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We don't need to go farther than 19th century New England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_vampire_panic
I would replace "own" with "control". They don't hoard production facilities and buildings in their locked cellar. The things they own are still being used to produce stuff consumed by other people than the owner.

No, but they control the economy. They decide what projects to start, and since they are so rich they only think in hundreds of millions at least. So we get less local control - which are all small projects - and more mega-projects/corporations. Which are better at producing at scale, but are (much) worse at providing a satisfying work environment. So we end up producing more than enough stuff, but much of it not actually needed - here you need clever marketing to convince people to consume stuff they don't need, from drugs to insurance to a new shiny car.

I think much of the discussion and the picture a lot of people have in their heads about "the 0.1%" is Scrooge McDuck, with all the money right there only for himself to even see. But in reality capitalist ownership is more a matter of control of what, where, how.

Apart from the means of production, the "body" of the economy, they also control a large share of the "blood" of the economy, the money. Wherever that flow is directed things grow, where it doesn't go lights go out.

While the rest of the population still has quite a bit of money taken together, there is another problem of psychology: Money is no problem for a rich capitalist. They can easily finance billions. But for the people who don't have such easy access to the streams of finance money is much more static, money is much more valuable for the majority of people. Also, "credit" has different meanings for someone investing in a small venture and a billionaire: The latter has financial instruments so that he ends up carrying little to none of the risk.
> on the other hand, that six individuals have the power to control how their money is distributed is a very real problem, but the wealth itself isn't.

I wouldn't say the wealth is the problem, but wealth inequality is. Our current system allows for a few people to make millions of dollars a day while others can't even get jobs or afford a house. A certain amount of inequality is required to incentivize high performers to create more, but the current amount of inequality is obscene.
Someone suffering from late-stage plague looks like a rotting, moaning, stinking pile in a bed, it's not mobile. It's possible that this was a result of the difficulty in determining the difference between near-death, and death, but honestly lets be realistic... this was probably just the usual terror and anxiety.
>It's fine with me if these people live like kings and the rest of us have enough resources and all the free time in the world to do whatever we want and not be encumbered by trivial work.

One problem with this that springs to mind is that historically, relative numbers of young, bored, jobless men and crime rates are tightly correlated.
Only 3 of those provide high-end ip.

* NVidia Tegra - possible
* ARM Mali - possible, but would not allow for much differentiation
* Qualcomm - has never sold its GPU IP seperately
"In the case of a 97% vs. 3% battery, the call should be exactly as it is currently. Who is going to be the more lucrative for the driver."

Well, I disagree. I think they should optimize for Life Time Value (LTV) of Customer. So If a customer (with 3% battery level ) has been a uber user for more than say six months and have no history of cancellation and likely to be using it for next six months . He should be given prefrence over the one with less Life time value .
Huh, it's already in distribution. Presumably those shares are held by institutions who use those for investments in projects.

That only the few can control which projects are invested in and compounded by [lack of] any semblance of "altruistic transparency" is the main concern not the wealth itself.
I think HUP is best framed as a consequence of matter as a wave coupled with the observer effect.
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I did something similar at my previous workplace with wifi (and wired connection) to keep track of attendance. The one person HR department still loves (/me thinks) me for some automation I did back then.
I guess I wasn't very clear in my comment. I don't use OpenBSD, I don't subscribe to their mailing list and I am not a contributor. Hence, it will be nonsensical of me to go and criticize their decisions there.

Also I can't tell if you are directing the last part of your comment towards me or towards Google, but I certainly respect their decision to not participate. They participated previously and decided that the payout in terms of new contributors wasn't worth it (and I agree with them there) - at the same time there is a second angle to look at GSoC from and that is what I pointed out in the last part of my comment.
I have to admire the European love of sophistry as an end in itself, for surely you have not advaned the argument.
not limited to medieval times at all. prehistoric tombs also revealed tribes that used to bind hands and legs and feet of the dead probably for the very same reasons.
Punctuation would be part of orthography which is usually considered distinct.

Consider you can have multiple writing systems for a single language, that single language would have a single set of grammar rules, but would have multiple orthographic rules applied to it.

Put another way, if I was to invent apostropheless English which was exactly like English but just omits all written apostrophes that wouldn't change the rules of English grammar, possessives would still be possessive etc.
It's not "imagining the measurements".

The UP is not only: "You can't know position and momentum together." It rather: "Position and measurement _cannot be defined_ together."

In classical mechanics, you can imagine a particle being at a certain position with a certain momentum. In quantum mechanics, you cannot.
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Gaming. Virtual reality. Virtual reality porn. They can be hooligans there. You want somewhere to prove yourself do it there. We should in fact create a de facto virtual reality simulation to take over lots of useless social things we do with material goods and services like expensive cars, clothing, and whatnot. All the conspicuous consumption can happen in virtual reality. That's much better for the environment too. Leave the actual real world alone and focus on implementing our imaginations in the virtual world.

It's already happening: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-video-games-jobs-e...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/13/gamer-prefers-virtu...
Journalists in large media markets (NYC, DC, etc.) can literally not make a living with their paltry salaries. It necessitates that they come from rich families (ex: Anderson Cooper) to be supported. It is classism. The middle class choose to become doctors/engineers instead.
It would be great to see Nassim Nicholas Taleb's response to this. He's been working on a draft called Skin In The Game.

Overall, I think that the GP is right but seeing that requires us to consider that nebulous ideas like character and cohesive culture need to be at the forefront more than market reasoning.
Inflation occurs when the US government adds around $10 billion of money to the market every year though (they print money to replace existing / lost currency, but always over produce). The money gets "consumed" but the value of each dollar goes down. And that's just with $10 billion.

That point aside, my original point was that just because the 6 richest people have paper value of more than half the planet doesn't mean there are enough resources to keep everyone alive just because they are born. (which is ideal in a theoretical world obviously)
> the current amount of inequality is obscene

Can you back this opinion up with some arguments?
It's not a lie, it's a technical measure that people misinterpret.

If it was a lie you'd expect suppression of the further data.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
Syncing of the encrypted store file between devices or your home server when they're in the same network.
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In the GPU space it is impossible to not infringe on the IP of other vendors.

In fact it is the major reason GPU vendors give for not having an open source driver.
I have spoken to the CTO (Jem Davies) of ARM about the GPU drivers and open sourcing them more than once. And every time I've gotten the reply: "No, we can't, it opens us up to IP infringement suits."

Full disclosure: I used to work in the ARM GPU division.
Have the teachers rate each other anonymously. The cream and dross will emerge, as will hard workers and shirkers.
There is nothing bad about it as long as one is aware of the limitations. A $25 hobbyist IO module is perfectly fine and fully appropriate for a fleeting appearance on HN.
I think that instead of creating pseudo-jobs to counter this, perhaps we look into the 'bored' aspect. Can we provide stimulation to avert the negative results seen historically? When we say that we have and distribute the resources needed to survive, do we include entertainment among these resources?
I was about to give some snarky response, but a quick Google reveals it's actually terrifyingly dangerous and there are good reasons never to drink raw milk. Thanks!