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One of my high school math teachers decided to offer a course in BASIC programming, I took it, and was hooked for life. It was in the early 80s, and I was also interested in electronics, so I devoured Byte Magazine every month -- especially Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar. My dad read an article in the Wall Street Journal, about this guy who had the audacity to sell a software app for 39 bucks, and got it for my birthday: Turbo Pascal. One of the great things about TP was the manuals, which were comprehensive yet readable. There were corresponding manuals for electronics, such as The Art of Electronics and the IC databooks.

I think things have changed in ways that will make it harder to learn programming from manuals, or from any other compact source. BASIC and Turbo Pascal had what, maybe no more than 20 keywords, and the capabilities of those packages encompassed everything that could be done on a limited platform such as MS-DOS or Apple II. Expectations were lower: A text display and menus were good enough for a lot of apps -- even successful commercial ones.

Today, I think that programming has gotten harder in some ways. The systems that we have to program, and the tools, have utterly sprawled. I don't even know all of the keywords for the languages that I use today, much less the libraries. I think we have to get used to using systems that we don't fully understand, and how to do so without creating a train wreck. That's more like how the rest of the world lives: A chemist doesn't know every possible compound, or reaction. They learn some solid foundations, and how to approach the vast space of possibilities.
Something that got my attention is that they compare Annualized Failure Rate as-is, i.e. "whichever is higher". From statistics viewpoint, that sounds not quite right, because that number may happen just as a random fluke.

Instead, every statistician would try to disprove the null-hypothesis with a predefined p-value. P-value is not a holy grail, but it's better than just comparing means.
it's not my opinion, clearly they've driven customers to behave in an insecure. Clearly their customers hate the ads and the updating mechanism. That you happily tolerate it just makes you a tiny minority.
From the article:

> And finally, there was "reading code."

This is what I did. A lot. And typed-in the code (found in magazines) I didn't understand. The reading code bit is I one of the two* important skill that I don't see exercised/exhibited by a lot of folks who are learning now. Reading lots of different styles of code found in the "wild" i think helps you appreciate more the underlying concepts a lot better instead of focusing on the particular style of you language of choice

* The second is the basic concepts behind "relational algebra" which I also learned by doing using Quattro Pro 2 (long before i knew the name of it) back in the day. I'm not talking about the syntax of SQL but more the modeling of objects/tables and their relationships to each other. Knowing when things should be 1-to-1, 1-to-many or many-to-many seems to be a lost concept sometimes. </rant>)

Edit: Quattro Pro 2 is probably not right.. it was a DOS based relational database package similar in features to Microsoft Access. You designed your schema with DOS based forms but could make links and queries between forms using a foreign-key concept.
I think they are doing it right.

Just find a niche and work at it progressively through life. No need to raise $100M D Rounds, no need to have an explosive exit, whatever.

I think it would be nice to just steadily have six figures, work on something I love and live life (a la Basecamp). Most of all: Have complete control of your destiny. No investors, no bosses, etc.
EDIT: Ok, examples of listings

Here's one: http://a.co/iHNIttV

Some links in here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546

Pic used to sell fake Snuggie here: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_bills/2016/12/how...

Screenshot of knockoff diaper listing: http://jenniferlabit.com/2016/07/21/counterfeit-baby-product...

Knockoff phone case: https://learntogrowwealthonline.com/does-amazon-sell-fake-pr...

Examples of stolen art listings: https://www.fusionidol.com/pages/artists-unite-against-amazo... and http://theartofvikki.com/stolen/stolen.php

Fake chargers: https://www.dailydot.com/news/amazon-marketplace-conterfeit-...

Knockoff pillow case: https://www.geekwire.com/2015/amazon-to-face-trial-over-knoc...

This one is just amusing: https://the-digital-reader.com/2016/07/20/amazons-counterfei...

Mini PCs with pirated Windows license: https://www.howtogeek.com/267701/i-got-scammed-by-a-counterf...

Fake Apple chargers: http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/counterfeit-apple-adapters...

Fake Birkenstocks: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/08/amazons-chinese-counterfeit-p...
You should try out a Thinkpad x100e for your normal laptop, the keyboard is miles ahead of the Asus. Looks like there are some for around $40 on ebay as well.
It still might not be a great idea for Google to routinely shut down APIs in favor of other APIs if they want people to actually rely on its cloud services. It doesn't look like Google is interested in trying to make the migration particularly easy either:

> Q: What will happen with my existing models?

> A: You must recreate your existing Prediction API models using Cloud Machine Learning Engine. To learn more, please read our documentation about creating models on Cloud Machine Learning Engine.
> Programming language books are and were often very bad.

They still are, and there's a downward pressure on them to be at best mediocre--because that's the audience. I wrote a sample chapter and TOC for a large book publisher a year or so ago and got back feedback from the editor that amounted to "I enjoyed reading this despite not knowing the topic, and I think I have a good grasp on it now, but the prose is too complex for our average reader." (Which implies some really unfortunate stuff about their average reader completely separate from their technical acumen.)

The best books I recall were actually For Dummies books, of all things--well-written, engaging, and conversational. As I recall, Wallace Wang, the author of the ones I remember most vividly, was/is a stand-up comic, and his prose stuck with me twenty years later. About Visual Basic, of all things!
Yes, you are absolutely correct. There was the collapse of an Interstate Highway bridge near Albany NY, the collapse of a bridge in Minneapolis, MN, and other cases. Since people die because of the lack of proper inspections, I wonder why management isn't held accountable for manslaughter or whatever charges.
Generally agreed, which is why I support the fairly wide authority a captain has.

But the existing solutions might fail, as in the Germanwings case. As a passenger, you definitely have a stake in the safe landing of the plane.

Just to be clear, I'm not advocating this as a realistic proposal. I'm just saying that it might have addressed the Germanwings (and possibly MH 370) case, without lending itself to compromise as in 9/11.
The thing that makes kneading annoying is the flour on the counter and all the little pieces of dough left in the mixing bowl when taking the dough out on the table. So in a sense, this doesn't solve the problem of kneading for me.

Will I get a better bread if I knead this recipe?
> I would like to find a white hat site that prepares a report on what they can find about you.

To me there seems to be an inherent catch-22 involved in that. To be responsible, you have to confirm the person requesting the information is the person that wants doxxing. In providing evidence you are who you say you are, you're seeding that company with information to better find you that might not be easily found otherwise. It would take a strict separation of the sales and operations teams, to make sure this was a useful and accurate service, and with all that work it likely wouldn't be cheap.
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Pen island? What was it supposed to be?
Now this is going to be a moneymaker, this is a sensible business move.

People misunderstand Google: they offer things for free because it lets them collect data (search, gmail, etc.) or it drives competition out (1TB free for BigQuery, for example).

For everything else, they either shut them down or charge money =)
This applies to _most_ disciplines, not just math or math related fields.
Really helpful link. What's the current state of tooling to directly write WebAssembly? What assembler/editor/debugger you would you recommend?
Maybe the wannacry people had more profitable ways to invest their resources, but the cost of pursuing this guy is much lower now.
I don't buy this argument. Its fully of fallacies and misconceptions.

Microsoft offers a very similar ecosystem.. You can use office online, One drive, bing.com, skype, Cortana, Outlook.com and many services free for use with advertising (or no advertising)

MS doesn't "take your money" either, you buy something with Windows 10 on it or you buy a mac with OSX..

iOS updates aren't usually optional, as they quickly spam the crap out of you to upgrade and stop allowing publishers to post apps for the old release ergo "forcing" upgrades.

Android has the inverse problem.. handsets never getting upgrade so people flock to versions that do and happily upgrade away..

which is why I don't understand anything you have said. :)

oh and MS doesn't sell your privacy data to advertisers..
More impressively they also maintain older instance types such as m1 they rarely pull them off the shelf completely.
The only people who get free tech support from me indefinitely are my mother, my father, and my sister. Realistically it's mostly my mother, as the other two are good enough with computers to not need help most of the time.
The debuggers would need to be modified to support it, but I don't think there's a reason that you couldn't debug wasm inside a browser, if they were built to understand the debug annotations in the wasm code.
i'm firmly in the SO generation. self/on-the-job -taught. web dev. i enjoy and take the journey of grokking problems, but many of my peers don't. slows me down a bit at first, but then i'm a local expert. feels like these people weren't taught how to think critically, or weren't able to apply that skill to code.
Interestingly, in my small midwestern US college town, I have the opposite experience. The college-associated people who consider themselves educated/intellectual/cultured gravitate toward grocery shopping at Kroger, while the "townies" and not-particularly-academically-serious undergrads go to Walmart. I choose Walmart because Kroger "feels" much more crowded and the members of the crowd seem to exhibit much less situational awareness.
Again you only have fact free smears like the he use of "islamic pressure group".

People have rights, even if Britain doesn't recognize them. Right to silence, right to disagreeable opinions, etc. thinking someone deserves release is no crime, even if you are wrong about it.
Vicky
hey anyone have a real unique niche..not scummy..more upscale, but fun
I agree, the spontaneous reboots make my wife furious. But I think the only real solution is for MS to enhance Windows to allow updates without rebooting. This is obviously a huge engineering challenge but it should be achievable, at least for the vast majority of updates.
I wondered that exact same thing on Friday; thanks for pointing it out.
Effing Worms 4
They removed these settings. That's exactly the point at which i just started losing interest. I still have a huge pile of stuff i meant to list years ago that i just don't have the motivation too now.

Too many crap bidders, no way to block them. Ebays logic was that they "didn't want to discourage new users" or some nonsense.
The rise Of a political class bred by the technology capital.
How is this NOT a new phenomenon worthy of interest for anybody who's into technology and its impact on culture and society?
Right. The point being, the first person was wrong.
AI playing GTA 3
I'm strongly with 'Zak here; there's little I hate more in the domain of Internet conversations than people deleting things their wrote. In fact, I believe there is a strong community interest in all (not killed by moderation) comments remaining up as long as the whole discussion exists. I don't mind if someone unlinks their post by e.g. deleting account; I care less about who wrote something than about what was written. Deleting posts ruins the discussion for those who come later.
To me what justifies ownership? and income inequality at that point?
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It may be a little to much to hope for, but I really hope that things like that will stop in the future with Windows on a rolling release schedule.

It's mind boggling how much bad software is available for Windows. Microsoft is doing a rather impressive job maintaining backward compatibility and yet some vendors manage to lock their software to specific version or even "patch-level". How do that even happen? Actually I know how that happens, developers that don't give a shit about the platform they're developing for.
If I had built a commercial product on that API how much money would this have cost me to move to the API. Also would the new API allow me to provide a better service to my customers or would it just be a pointless upkeep task.
Electric Man 2
A joke - a "domain hack" avant la lettre.
This explanation really helped, thank you.
The Predictions API costs money. The replacement also costs money. What are you trying to say?
Rebooting in the middle of a game or what have you is the worst feature. It happened with 7 too but was easier to disable (and doesn't get re-enabled when you update anything). It makes me think that malware often tends to be more respectful of your computer than Microsoft. Sure there are cryptolockers, but if you have backups those are an inconvenience. Keyloggers? Bloody drivers ship with them now. Becoming part of a botnet sounds pretty benign compared to Windows' update process.
> I'm not trying to be rude, but I think you have a misunderstanding of how third-party Prime eligibility works.

I work for a distributor and e-commerce retailer... we've been involved heavily with Amazon (both AFN and MFN) for about 7 years... I'm intimately familiar with how Amazon, Prime, FBA, et al work. Of course it's impossible to know everything about what Amazon does... but I am in the trenches, so to speak.

> There is a very new initiative called Seller-Fulfilled Prime

That's not new... it's been around for years. Big retailers have been doing it for a long time, as they already have their own fulfillment network (see my original post regarding companies that do nothing except fulfillment). It was invite only for quite some time... perhaps that's why you thought it's new.

Another thing you're not accounting for, is of the claimed 42 million SKU's in the Prime program... the overwhelming majority do not sell. This became such a problem, Amazon had to start charging for "dead stock" to motivate sellers to remove dead inventory or not send "slow-movers" in the first place.

You also didn't account for Walmart's drop-ship vendor program. Walmart will take an order, and you drop-ship it on their behalf (Walmart being your customer, not the individual making the purchase). Walmart doesn't need to store all the items in their warehouses...

Amazon has a similar program, but instead of you drop-shipping the items, they buy them from you up front and you ship the inventory to Amazon.

All this doesn't say Amazon's warehouse logistics aren't impressive... because they are... but the FBA mechanism is not something special, and it certainly can be replicated fairly easy (and already has been for the most part). What is unique is the fanfare Amazon receives for every new warehouse that's opened... most companies just open new warehouses as business-as-usual sort of things... no articles are written about those things.
a thriving stackoverflow is a sign of underdeveloped primary documentation

it's also a sign of a thriving developer base with lots of people interested, but i still want a moment of crankyness about basic questions of "how do I _X_ in _Y_?" where Y's documentation is crap
Great service for selling used electronics, renting out an apartment, or sucking a strange man's penis.
heck, in Windows you know get the freedom of what Linux you want to run now that Redhat, Suse and Ubuntu will be supported ;)
So everyone seems to agree that low-skill and manufacturing jobs are going away and will never come back. Thus, we need a basic income.

So then why is it a good idea to import hundreds of thousands of refugees and "undocumented workers" who are by and large destined to work in these very industries that are going away? It sounds like we'd pretty much be setting BI up to be a "congratulations on making it to the US" lifetime annuity.
Do you have a real world example of a politician that was elected recently without support of the rich?
> There were programmer sites/mailing lists before that where knowledgeable people gathered

Agreed. I remember using https://www.codeproject.com/ a lot, back in the day. The quality was often variable, but being able to search for function-names and see them in use was very useful.

Especially when the only alternative was years-old MFC books in the local library.
Quality. I might be out of touch, but I think a coming consumer focus on quality will change retail and manufacturing.

> because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time. … [I]n our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that’s going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery; they want vast selection. [-Bezos]

Quality is more important than price, delivery and selection for a large, and increasing, number of goods. If you buy an air-conditioner or t-shirts you want good quality, but only need reasonable price, delivery and selection.

> Amazon will only be brought down by ... a paradigm shift in how we consume physical products

Buying clubs that focus on Quality are the future. Consumers will be freed of toothpaste brands and marketing, and instead get a cheap, effective, quality toothpaste selected by their buying club. And the club will focus on protecting the customer and auditing the manufacturer, rather than enabling marketing and an irrational focus on price.

Amazon won't be able to compete because it works against every system they've built. Instead of a variety of manufacturers, brands and sellers, buying groups will go down the path of vertical integration: work closer with manufacturers ignoring brands and marketing, buying manufacturers to reduce costs, internalizing fulfillment, etc...

If the buying clubs are merely brand selectors, or discount clubs, or product reviewers, they can be easily integrated into Amazon systems. But if buying clubs are focused on the best product for their members, Amazon and Wall-mart (and everyone else) will have to change their business.

Wall-mart optimized for price, Amazon optimized for price, delivery and selection, but optimizing for quality is the future. (Or I'm out of touch :)
That's assuming there's no trivial single-core advancements possible at this fab size, which there might not be. The run up to Ryzen had a lot of AMD types cheering about "lazy" intel getting beat but Ryzen's per core performance is on par with a 2600k from 2011 and is consistently edged out by a 7700k at the same, or below, pricing.

Also Intel's gains have been modest, but very real outside of power savings. CPU passmark benchmark:

2600k (2011) : 8484

7700k (2016): 12196

Both are 4 cores so its a one-to-one comparison. A ~30% increase per core is pretty impressive this late in the Moore's law game. If it wasn't then we'd see Ryzen doing much better per core, but its not. My workloads cannot make effective use of 8 cores so its academic that I can buy a 8c chip now. It would literally be downgrade from my intel for me.
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Not always - but the idea is to make linking separate posts more difficult and time consuming. Not making reading an individual post impossible.
The population of the US is 360 million.

The total Federal tax revenue is ~3.5 trillion.

That means that if 100% of total tax revenue were redistributed equally, each person would receive $10,000. That's only if the federal government stopped all other spending. No medicaid, no social security, no defense spending, no interstate highway funds.

For a person making $100,000 and paying $17,000 in taxes (after deductions), they woild lose $7,000. For a person with no salary, they'd make $10,000. For reference, the poverty threshold is around $12,000 for one person. So you aren't really living a great exiatence. Only around the $50,000 mark does the taxes out equal the taxes in. (anything above that and you're paying more in taxes than you receive in UNI.)

And once you take into account the fact that the federal government does have to spend money, the required tax revenue is probably much higher than it is currently -- at least 2x or 3x higher. This would make the breakeven point higher as well -- anyone making less than $100,000 would pay more in taxes than received by the UBI.

So, essentially, any article that discusses the "benefits" of a minimum wage should discuss it in the context of how much it costs, because the world where everyone gets a $20,000 or $50,000 universal income has to be radically different than the world we live in now.

Will the middle class want higher taxes so that they can receive little to no benefit? Seems politically unlikely to me.
Is there scope for a more open distributed app or service(which wont make much money for itself, but more broadly available like craigslist) to coordinate local sellers, rating services, insurance, delivery companies which any one can opt into? Customers see all available local options for products and sellers. A seller doesnt just have rating but can also optionally be backed up by another company who ensures against product failure.

Amazon, for business reasons, wont commoditize some core functions, which the above website can.

Analogy would be to locked in social network vs email as an open protocol.