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Meritocracy exists once you get to a certain class. Prior to that, it doesn't.

In IT/computer science world? Sure thing. But most likely you had a lot of advantages to get to that point.
Western cultures do the same thing though, they give nods and other visual cues, go "uh huh", and if they've had a course in active listening, they'll go "I HEAR WHAT YOU ARE SAYING!". (I have a friend who had a colleague who'd do that. Very annoying but it gets the point across).
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I get sick; I go to my doctor today and get treated. A system that makes me wait for weeks for something 'not serious' meaning almost everything, is a broken system. Sure it costs less in Europe etc; its not doing anything useful. Id've gotten better (or died) on my own by the time I got seen with wait times like that.

It's not cognitive dissonance (unless on the part of public-health-is-better folks). Its a different metric. If cost is the only measure, then sure, 3 week wait for a free aspirin is 'good'. If its timeliness, then other systems win hands down.
> Not everyone equals public healthcare with socialism.

I don't understand your assertion. Why would anyone do that, and what would they call public healthcare instead? Even social-democracy has socialism as one of its components.
Cuba does not have an effective healthcare system. I, for one, would like my hospital to have air conditioning and stable electricity, two things Cuban hospitals don't often have.
I receive a lot of password protected documents regularly - bills from utility companies, bank and credit card statements. It's a pain to input the password every time. So I created this software to remove the passwords from a bunch of documents at once. Others like me might find it useful.
No, it's not fraud. Yes the car is now worth €11000, but it's not taxed on its ticket price, it's taxed on what it is. It's a car, and a car includes seats, a car stereo (albeit now a very expensive one), an engine etc.

Nobody's trying to undervalue the car as costing €1,000 with a €10,000 stereo, that would be fraud.

The point is that by introducing differences in what sort of taxes you have to pay for certain products you trivially open yourself up to legal tax evasion in the form of simply bundling higher cost items as part of products in lower tax categories.

Perhaps a better example: Let's say you have a 200% tax on cylindrical metal tubes, but a 10% tax on bicycles. A lot of people would now legally import bicycle frames, cut them apart, and evade the import fees without the authorities being able to do anything about it. There's nothing illegal about buying a bicycle frame, and there's nothing illegal about cutting apart your bicycle and re-using it for parts.
> occupational health and safety risks of working primarily from a laptop for an extended period of time

This is news to me, can you explain a little more why using a monitor is better than working primarily on a laptop?
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You are going to have to provide some references to support such an outlandish statement (of pro-Chinese discrimination being prevalent). Unless you mean that real estate agencies employ Chinese people to sell to Chinese people?

Otherwise, I'd say you're talking out your arse.
Fair point. I was exaggerating.
We can't answer accurately without knowing the name you're using and which jurisdictions each company operates in. Even then, it's just speculation unless it goes to court.

That said, don't get legal advice from internet strangers. A lawyer can do a name search for you for less than $200. You should start with a name search in the future.

From the insufficient details and with the caveat that I'm not a lawyer, I don't see any way you can use this name.
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What a lot of people miss is what advantages they had to get to that point.

People in a lower class still work hard. They might work harder than you. They just might not have had 2 dedicated parents, or a private school, or a good school system (because they were in a poorer area, so they get poor students, poor administration, poor fellow students). They don't have the freedom to take an unpaid internship to get college credits or a shot at a full-time job.
> Things just... get done without a direct measure of productivity anymore.

Curious what you meant here.
I would add utilities to that list, at least to a certain extent. It's impractical to have multiple electricity/water/sewage grids in the same city.
So what are all these medical researchers in the EU doing? I have a suspicion that much of this stuff is fully international and it's the final steps of trial, patenting and bringing to market that happen in the US, causing research to be over-attributed to the US.

There's also the question of what kind of research is prioritised by the profit motive.

(Human Genome Project is probably the flagship example of such international public research)
There are quite a few of these about on the internet, they make a nice little pet project if you're trying to pick up a language or methodology.

Full disclaimer: I made one as a toy a while ago (http://whenwillcronfire.jordanrobinson.co.uk/) but never really did anything with it.
This is interesting, because when I'm in front of an empty station, the app would tell me when I get a chance to have someone park a bike. With an app telling me it should happen in less than 2mn, I can wait confidently.
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It's not the lack of monitor, it's the fact that the monitor and keyboard are inseparable. If one is well-placed, the other isn't. You can fix this with either an external monitor or with a laptop stand and external keyboard.
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The time I spend waiting for my dvcs is trivial compared to the time I spend interacting with it. I use git, and it gets the job done, but I'll still lament that fate chose git over any of the superior alternatives.
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You paid for your own uniform but you were provided a uniform allowance unless you were an officer, correct? Well line employees are like enlisted except no ones getting an allowance here
I'm going by e.g. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/salim-lamrani/cubas-health-car...

"The infant mortality rate in Cuba is lower than it is in the United States and is among the lowest in the world"

Not perfect, but far better than you might expect.
You're correct that secrets shouldn't be stored in source control, but it's a problem from management's perspective:

a) how do you search a repository's history, along all branches (including undeployed development branches, which may nonetheless contain production secrets) to find secrets mistakenly stored in version control?
b) what happens when somebody stores a secret which isn't easily rotated (because legacy systems have hard-coded the secrets etc.)? How do you deal with trying to rotate secrets which aren't well-managed, because the real problem isn't that your teams are storing secrets in source control but that you don't have proper secret management set up across your organization?

The simpler (and more correct!) way to deal with this is to stop using version control for deployments and to start using proper package management and deployment tooling. Version control is not designed as a deployment tool; it is a poor replacement for proper deployment tooling; and teams which think they only have hammers to hit what are not nails but screws, need to learn that sometimes they'll have to go out and get a set of screwdrivers too.
I use it all the time, and wakatta or wakarimashita in Japanese, too.
People are productive in C too.

C (like git) It's very good at what it was intended for, but everyone and their mother using git on the command line for VCS now is as if everyone had just used C to do every website, game, app etc since 1980.

Git, like C, is a solid core but by now we should have better abstractions to help people be even more productive.
Yes! He was featured on the cover of a bicycle magazine back then and quicky became a nerd-hero of my youth.
I don't want to change it, I like it. Plus they added the possibility to add other email accounts and so on. It just that they had a good product and now with the rewrite the product is not as good which you would expect to get from a rewrite.
How does Washington state still allow non-compete agreements?
Crikey, what a strawman. The article isn't about making individuals feel guilty. It's about what it says on the tin: stop pretending you're not rich.

The median household income in California is $64k; across the US as a whole it's $52k. Half of all households are below these figures. If you're earning six figures, you are rich. It doesn't matter where you live, or what you spend your money on, you are rich. You're earning a minimum of 50% more than the median household income in a wealthy state. "Yeah, but my rent is high!"... well, go and see how the poor people live. Your rent may be high, but that's because you choose to live somewhere nice.

The article isn't about trying to make people feel guilty, it's about trying to pierce this bubble that the US upper middle class has (and HN has it in spades) that they're hard done by and kinda poor.
It's not about opposing guilt to anger. It's about pointing out that many of the public policies which most increase inequality are sops thrown by the very top to the broad class of well-off salaried workers immediately below them. Read the fine article: it's talking about things like restrictive zoning laws, 529 college-savings plans, and the mortgage-interest tax break. These are state subsidies for the well-off.

(Hell, my wife's parents saved up a 529 plan, and then she went to a state school on a full scholarship. Now we're apparently allowed to spend the 529 money to put a down payment on a house as a young couple, without any tax penalty. How is this allowed!?)

The question isn't, "Should people on HN feel guilty?". It's, "should people on HN receive a state subsidy for being fortunate?". Should we first make a nice living in tech, and then have the government write us extra little checks for all the ways we can pass our class down to our children?
Um.

In what way is Dropbox more guilty of this than any other tool/service provided by a third party?
> Wealthier people skew Republican

This depends on your state's economy. "In poor states, rich people are much more likely than poor people to vote for the Republican presidential candidate, but in rich states (such as Connecticut), income has a very low correlation with vote preference" [1].

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1010426
What is more broken: a system where everyone has to wait some weeks and get attended, or one where some can be atended in a day, and others will never be attended?
Yes, to some extent.

I don't have kids yet, but when I do I will send them to public school. I had the massive advantage of being able to afford buying a house in a good school district. The money spent on housing tends to be directly proportional to the quality of schooling, which has a massive impact on income mobility.

Even if you discount better teachers and the like, going to a school where everyone's parents are invested in their kids' futures will produce very different outcomes from where parents aren't there (working multiple jobs, in jail, whatever).

So even though I am not specifically putting a boot on someone's head to keep them down, I am a willing participant in a system that effectively does that.
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My employer is legally required to supply me with an external monitor, keyboard and mouse and height adjustable desk and chair. If I worked from home, they would also be responsible for ensuring that I have these things, and use them. This is precisely as you say because it's a health and safety risk to work on a laptop for extended periods of time.
That argument would be much more effective if we didn't have groups like ISIS taking the piss out of the US.
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That isn't a bus, that is car hire.
Busses and other public transport work well because you have a route which makes it predictable people know when and where they can get onto a bus, and where they can get off and how long the ride will take.
There is no point of using 50+ people bus as an Uber.

A small car service would be better for that, it's also the reason why taxis do not use larger vehicles unless you book a special ride upfront.

Even with ride sharing it's often more efficient to have point to point transport when you are not using a route, or at best have only 1-2 stops on the way; in such case a bus is unnecessarily wasteful.

But yet again this isn't anything that cannot be done now without a driverless bus, you have GPS nothing stops public transport companies from implementing dynamic routes now the driver isn't the problem.

Most bus lines do have "dynamic" dispatching already BTW, peak hours tend to have more busses on a given route than off-peak hours, what you are suggesting is to have dynamic routes, which is basically Uber.
Ah! I was wrong; I was thinking 'net worth' not income. And the net worth of the top 1% is around 35% of the total national wealth. (Which is curiously close to the income tax number of 40%)
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Is there anything that would prevent someone to clone your project and then compile and install it on he's own device?
Viharo only quotes the RW article's preamble. The body of the article is more than ample in providing detail and citations to back itself up.
By what objective metric does France have the best healthcare in the world?
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By what metric are we measuring? Total healthcare delivered in a timely fashion? Then the system that delivers at least some timely care wins again.
On top of that, it allows for 9-seater minibuses with flexible, custom routes that largely replace cars.
Not entirely sure I caught your thought about "..direct measure of productivity."

Butts in seats is an indirect measure of productivity.

I find that (typically) being remote forces you to make tangible, valuable progress as there is no room to hide behind "showed up on time, sat in a bunch of meetings."

There will never be a perfect system for all people in all roles, so YMMV.
And in Edinburgh when I lived there you had to pay for the permit, IF you could even get one because all the permits were taken up by the people who lived there already. Edinburgh has a lot of tenement housing (long rows of flats built before the car existed as a consumer good) so there isn't 1 space per domicile. It is common to drive around for 10 - 15 mins looking for a space.
Not sure I understand. What do you mean by proper sharing?
Yes, I look at the people I grew up around in a poor-to-working class neighborhood in Chicago and I feel guilty that most of them didn't get the same opportunity I did to do better. I was bused to better schools because of my test scores, I had a family that really cared and was relatively stable so while we didn't have a ton of money we had that. It's definitely not fair and not a product of anything I did other than being lucky to be born intelligent and into a caring stable family.

I'm not sure whether I should be blamed for other people not moving up the ladder, I don't have kids or a house so some of his critiques don't apply to me. But it does feel like in many cases the upper middle class stands in the way of progressive policy.
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Yeah, I figured as such. I assume you are trying to learn about NN?
There are no easy way to solve SAT as the size of sudoku. Modern day SAT solvers are very large and contains years of experience, containing 10s of heuristics and complex structures. If we can simplify using neural network, I think it's a great step.
The story also talks about IBM and Yahoo and how they are doing the opposite of Automattic, this is where the quote is from and what I am talking about.

While the headline is about Automattic the actual article covers more than just them
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Have a look at the period 1950-1970. If we were to tax corporations at the same rate as they were in that golden period we would not have a national deficit.

>Where's the evidence that this solidarity ever existed?

https://web.stanford.edu/class/polisci120a/immigration/Feder...

1950, 1960 again.
Have you been to Cuba? It's more decrepit than one might expect.
> 1M games were generated using generate_sudoku.py for training. I've uploaded them on the Kaggle dataset storage.

No need to do that. It would suffice to just include the random seed in the script so that its results are reproducible.
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I was really shocked at that ruling, and especially at the court's unanimity regarding it.

Perhaps there's some deeply technical reason that it makes sense, but the conclusion seems absurd to me based on common sense.
i_cant_speel> Not security when there's an apocalypse.

One man’s apocalypse is another man’s civil war. I will let the more knowledgable reference history here.

On what we’re speaking about:

korrachs> I was wondering how long it would take for the attack on the solidarity of the precariat:

korrachs> The rich cannot be ruined. I can.

taneq> within a year or two you would have far more security than the $30k household will ever have.

Although you could argue that I’m cherry picking to make my point, I will so bold as to allude that perhaps we are missing the larger argument here.

The solidarity of the precariat under fire is an excellent way to consolidate power amongst the influential. A little something called divide and rule.
Ah, yes. Stock vs flow!

I noticed that curiosity as well. Not sure it means anything in particular but it was interesting.
Slightly OT: I'm really glad my parents raised me not to judge my "quality of life" based on how much money my peers spend. This way I can save hard, and get off the wage slave treadmill early.
Their research is only possible because they know they will be able to recoup costs in the US.
Yeah but look at the different in what you're left with after rent and taxes. It's not even close.
> I find Safari superior to every other browser on any platform

I can't really disagree with you, but Safari is exclusive to macOS...
We did use a library for the SAT solving. Hmm didn't think of that though.
I stand corrected on the reproducible builds. That's great. It would be greater if they worked with F-Droid so I could download a verified build from there, instead of making me choose between Play Services or APK sideloading.

I don't buy any of the arguments on that SMS page. In particular, all the hand-wringing about metadata rings hollow when OWS has simply arranged it so that they have access to it all, instead of a federated network of telcos, making themselves a single point of failure. The only argument that rings true is "iOS does not have APIs that allow us to programatically send/receive SMS messages", but I don't feel I should have to suffer for Apple's failings.

I applaud the offering of APK downloads, which Moxie has historically resisted calling them "insecure" (I can see his perspective but when the alternative is giving Google root, I'm afraid we're going to have a difference of opinion on what constitutes "security"). Unfortunately, when using Signal without Play Services, as I understand it battery life is much worse due to the implementation. I appreciate that "push notifications" without a central service is a difficult technical problem to solve efficiently - this is a large part of why I regard the dropping of SMS support, which solved it, as a screwup.

Lastly - if I seem like I'm giving OWS a hard time unfairly, it's because of their repeated insistence on centralised services (both Google's and their own) and resistance to any sort of federation or anything that costs them control or information. I'm glad that the situation is (slowly) improving, but these are indicative not just of technical difficulties, but a deep ideological difference. I am not afraid to say that I am mistrustful of this One True Encryption solution when its authors seem so willing to compromise on fundamental issues.

I am also mistrustful because whenever a "controversial" decision is made, the real reason is always accompanied by copious FUD. The SMS thing is one example. The F-Droid affair is another (Stated reason: F-Droid is insecure. Real reason: F-Droid strips analytics).
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That's Uber+, the sad truth is that with current economic model most of these "ride sharing" apps use the driver isn't that expensive.

Uber et. al are going for for the driverless because they know that the current exploitative model which ignores nearly every regulation isn't sustainable.
Soduku is trivially directly solvable for puzzles that are not in the hard/ultra hard level by propagating constraints.

For cases where that's not possible, iterative approaches can be very effective -- with not particularly optimized python, the worst solution time I ever saw was 1 sec on a 1st gen eeepc netbook. That had about 6 layers of iterative backtracking before it came up with the solution.
It isn't, though. I suspect you have only read Viharo's defense, which, tellingly, doesn't link to his RW article. It simply quotes from the preamble. The rest of the article expands significantly on it and cites his own words from Wikipedia talk pages.
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The author didn't pluck a number out of the air as a cutoff point. $200k was mentioned only in passing, as it's the average wage of the top quintile.
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