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From all angles the situation manifests itself as a gridlock. The article seems to have very concretely taken the harrowing position that the future is either default or inflation.

Now, let's consider the average American Joe in this new world. Things are looking pretty grim for him -- corporations are inevitably looking forward to even more automation (as opposed to manual labor), because it's in their best interest, so as far as I see, there just aren't going to be very many jobs for the larger majority of the people in the times ahead.

What then?

By application of the original position, a radical rethinking of the fundamentals of governing bodies and economic systems is called for. Unlike centuries ago, when all mechanical work had to have been purely supplied by the raw muscles of humans, we now have technology. We can do so, so much more than we could have imagined with only a limited amount of man's mechanical power. We are actually in a very technical sense within our capability to feed every hungry mouth in the world today. And by any reasonable ethical framework, this free capability absolutely bounds to service this obligation.

Thoughts? And please go easy on me here, these are just the late-night musings of a 21st century youngin. ;)
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From my experience that's hardly the case ... ActiveRecord (pre 3.0 at least) sucks big monkey balls compared to Django's ORM. And Rails also doesn't have anything like the forms API in Django.
>if you release a GPL licensed program then you have to comply by making source code available or showing where source is available, regardless of whether or not you have modified it.

This seems pretty arbitrary. If I haven't modified it can't I just point you to the repository and revision I'm using?
> And for some reason you think this is different from any other field?

Yes, actually. If we must really flog a tortured analogy: This is not like going to your local mechanic friend and asking for car buying advice. It's more like this guy named Karl Benz comes and tells you he's got a great new invention called the internal combustion engine and you should definitely buy it. So you go to your friend the steam engine mechanic and ask him for advice. Sure, he understands the principles, maybe, but this is something completely new!

If you must appeal to authority, consider you have two experts in this thread telling you that even they think the topic is too complex to draw useful conclusions. If you don't trust random people on the internet (not that I blame you), then go to the source. From the article:

There are valid scientific reasons for different estimates from different companies, such as: companies employ slightly different statistical models for making risk estimates; companies establish different criteria for the inclusion of associations in their reports; new associations are being discovered at a faster rate than companies’ development cycles; companies may test for an imperfectly overlapping set of genetic variants for reasons including the ability of different genotyping technologies to assay certain variants.

To be clear, this is not a case of Car and Driver favoring German engineering but JD Powers always skewing towards American manufacturers (completely contrived example, BTW). In this case the statistical models are the science, not just some interpretation of the science. This field is young. Too young. This money and effort would be better spent on basic research.

> The market seems to handle this just fine.

No, the market gives us homeopathy and snake-oil salesmen. Humans, especially when confronted with areas in which they are not knowledgeable, can be surprisingly irrational!
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The art shines and becomes visible only through the limitations; that's why many artists choose to limit their technique, be it pointillist painting, writing 6510 assembly, drawing 32-color bitmaps, or programming a computer which has limitless limitations for the programmer to choose from.

You could replace painting realistic-looking objects with simply taking photographs, which seemingly does the same: reproduce an original setting in most realistic-looking way. But that isn't painting anymore, that takes away the art. In fact, photography is a whole another art: while it shares many basic principles with painting, the art of photography is very different from what makes painting an art.
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The best thing you can start with is to always have simple-to-prepare, healthy snacks on hand. See this excellent, free minimalist "cookbook" - http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2010/06/a-free-e-cookbook/

Eat lots of vegetables. If you don't like them, there are ways to teach your body to like them, with calorie signalling - if you persistently eat something, along with a high calorie load, your body will be conditioned to like it. (As a reward system.)

Also, seriously, try the Shangri-La diet. Despite the redonkulous name, it's based on scientific research that really strongly suggests that the body's hunger/craving systems are controlled like a thermostat, that you can reset by giving the body the right kind of "food cue" as to the environment around it/food available. Research paper:

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You're not craving chocolate, nachos & soda because your body needs something - you're craving them because sugar creates an addictive cycle in some people. (Not all - SOME.)

You should also see a doctor and get your fasting blood sugar checked because it's entirely possible that you have a blood sugar-related disorder, aka Syndrome X, insulinimia/insulin resistance, glucose intolerance, and so on.
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It is just an attempt at disparaging the content. The more highfalutin language used the better. Of course things change, they change everyday. These kind of comments are often used to confuse the issue without saying anything meaningful.
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This is over 2 years old, and prompts more questions than it answers. Do your own tests.
> 23andMe told me that I'm a carrier for phenylketonuria. That's useful information to me, and strictly factual.

Quick! What's your chance of passing this on to your child? If you said that it depends on the genotype of your spouse, you win! If your spouse doesn't have phenylketonuria, what's the probability? If you said 1/4, your right!

Now, let's say you've met someone and convince them to get a genetic test, and they turn out to also be a carrier, what do you do? Do you risk the 1/4 chance? One of the really interesting things about the human genome project was that the scientists involved knew that these sorts of hard questions would come up, so they really emphasized the human and counseling aspect of the research, in addition to the hard science. These are the types of people who are upset that 23andMe has mostly undone what they were attempting to do by emphasizing a holistic approach to people understanding their own genetics.

Also, I just have to point out how ironic your example is. In fact, this information is rather useless. Phenylketonuria is a relatively easily managed disease, and all children born in the U.S. (and many other countries) are already tested at birth, paid for by the government who did the studies and decided this was a good test to do. You actually didn't learn anything you wouldn't have potentially found out anyway (and at no cost to you).
I like your analogy, so I'll extend and maybe fix it.

The economy is like a heavily layered enterprise Java program, where little useful work is performed by lots and lots of expensive layers of abstractions. There are so many abstractions that virtually nobody understands the program or where problems come from.

The bailout is not equivalent to throwing out the old codebase and starting anew. Just the opposite, it's the government saying do not abondon the old codebase, here's a $800 billion dollars, hire another 10.000 Java programmers to maintain it. If the government would let you abondon the old codebase, all the programmers who had jobs maintaining it would be unemployed, which is political suicide.
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nothing, imho. Imho the problem is all the sugar they add to their frappuccinos etc, not milk.
I seem to recall from Brays blog that he too shared Cantrills lack of enthusiasm for working for Sun, but was drawn in by the culture. It seems that Sun was an outlier in the huge-company-enterprise space in having a great hacker culture, and that brought in some people that would otherwise be more at ease in smaller companies.

Oracle can't/won't/isn't interested in keeping that culture around, and it is questionable what that culture actually brought about in value at Sun. After all, they weren't very good at making money. Oracle, on the other hand, is very good at making money, and perfectly happy letting the cool people work other places, acquiring their work if they decide they need it.
Interestingly, this is the same guy that in a discussion of open source economics coined a term for the point when your closed source vendor pushes you too far and you switch to open source and called it the Fuck You, Oracle Point

(though there is historical reasons for that name, not just random swearing)

http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/the_economics_of_software

random quote: "doesn't it strike you as odd that your operating system is essentially free, but your database is still costing you forty grand per CPU?"
>If you allow private corp to build the prison you're always going to get screwed, they can increase the cost per capita each year just short of the amount where it will be worth using another supplier or building your own.

isn't that just about exactly what happens in America? :-(
Perhaps they should turn it around: offer the applicant the choice, without stating a preference. If he chooses the hotel, it counts against him, because startups need to be frugal. The applicant should realize that they're not just interviewing him, but perhaps a dozen others and the difference adds up.

On the other hand, when he's hired, he should expect to be made comfortable: don't skimp on chairs, displays, airconditioning, etc. Whether that's the case should become clear during the interview: it's also about "do I want to work here?"
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It is properly good that they don't publish the names, but "information that could create additional security risks for soldiers stationed in Afghanistan" is outside what a newspaper should care about - it should be focused on getting news, not help or hinder a war.
Well, the overall unemployment situation isn't good but assuming the productivity boosts are sustainable[1] this would seem to be a piece of positive news.

[1] This is of course assuming that the profit gains are coming from productivity improvements and not for doing things like neglecting capital investments or cutting R&D to the bone.
Arguments are either about differences in opinion or one side trying to correct the ignorance of another party (aka educate). You can't have an "opinion" about facts. Facts are simply facts and if you disagree with them you are simply ignorant of them.

So to have an argument (at least the good kind) here you would have to either (a) make the case that one of my "We know" statements is wrong or (b) make the case that there is some moral ambiguity given (a). If (a) holds then that means the US attacked a more-or-less random country (or worse, a specific country for reasons which we have to hide). I think one would have a rather large burden trying to prove that to be morally ambiguous.
> Things are looking pretty grim for him -- corporations are inevitably looking forward to even more automation (as opposed to manual labor), because it's in their best interest, so as far as I see, there just aren't going to be very many jobs for the larger majority of the people in the times ahead.

> Thoughts? And please go easy on me here, these are just the late-night musings of a 21st century youngin. ;)

A couple thoughts. The first is that your top idea - "automation is coming, people are screwed" has been popular since the Industrial Revolution. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was about automation. The term "Luddite" to refer to a technologically-unsavvy person came from this group:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

They actually attacked, broke, and destroyed automatic machinery. They're worth reading about.

The reality is, automating things let humans get on to more and more interesting things. Being afraid of automation is like being afraid of Ruby and Python because now what will coders in C do? In reality, automating/streamling/improving one area of business opens opportunities for new things to do. Not too long ago, society was comprised of between 60% and 80% farmers - without machinery and automation, we'd be ploughing fields right now instead of discussing on Hacker News.

As long as any human wants or needs are unfilfilled, there's a capacity for almost unlimited amounts of work. And we're nowhere close to automating/obsoleting things - today's manufacturing and shipping is going to look pretty primitative in 100-150 years. I won't hazard a guess of when it'll become available, but this is one of the most exciting new areas that'll come to bear in not-too-long:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_engineering
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It's sad that your legitimate question was hijacked by purely political interests. I too would like to know if the data is complete and not edited and politically biased.
Everybody here is having a great time beating this mostly-dead horse, but I know for a fact that I have more productive weeks and less productive weeks, and in those less productive weeks I usually write way less LOC.

What's more, if you just slightly adjust this metric to "patch size", as in count lines added as well as lines removed, you'll get a more accurate measure, and also make the linked story moot.

Measuring developer progress is incredibly hard, but we have to do it anyway, and "use your gut" cannot be the only advice on this. At the very least, comparing this metric for the same person over different periods of time can give you a clue as to how they're doing.
It strikes me that the most important part is the footnote:

"I have an email from VIA saying they will be proactively releasing the GPL source code used in Wondermedia WM8505-based products like the Eken & Gome tablets."

If all these tablets (and phones) are based on a handful of chipsets then getting that lower level code straight from the chipset manufacturer should be a very important step in getting 3rd-party community distros onto the devices, much like getting Ubuntu etc. onto an Atom based netbook. You'd still have to watch out for SD card readers, touchscreens etc. but it's a great start.
The OP's company could spend an extra 100 bucks per interview and have
way higher odds of a good impression from the interviewee

If the startup you're interviewing at needs to make a good impression to be graced by your future employment, then your sense of entitlement is way to large.

I'd rather see them save 12*100 bucks, so they can buy me a decent chair when they hire me.
Well, if we're really doing this...

"It's not the daily increase but the daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential." - Bruce Lee

Obviously not hack as in hack, but when it came to fighting he was a better hacker than any of us.
Bullshit. It doesn't matter one inch. These people are still dead and the war is still going on.

Who the hell cares about procedures and rules when your loved ones are getting murdered?
> their best-alternative to a negotiated agreement -- aka their "BATNA" -- be it some competitor's software, or an in-house development effort, or whatever.

This one is important. Just because your product may earn/save a million bucks a year doesn't mean it's worth that. If they can build it themselves for a 100k then it's worth a 100k.
The world is building ever more complex things, and as such needs better abstractions provided by the programming language.

So new languages with different abstractions come along and things are simpler to do in it. That simplicity is then used to build even more complex things, which then expose how the abstractions doesn't work in the formerly new language.

Repeat ad nausum.
>One of the really interesting things about the human genome project was that the scientists involved knew that these sorts of hard questions would come up, so they really emphasized the human and counseling aspect of the research, in addition to the hard science.

How paternalistic of them. These questions are hard because they are personal, and not the sort of thing that should be regulated.

>Now, let's say you've met someone and convince them to get a genetic test, and they turn out to also be a carrier, what do you do? Do you risk the 1/4 chance?

That's my choice. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been. Though it isn't that important for phenylketonuria, it might have been a deal-breaker if I were a carrier of sickle-cell.

You're dancing around my point here. Some of the information they provide is iron-clad binary, and can be very useful. Most people may not get more out of it than slight increases or decreases in their relative risk, but some will find out things that are life-changing. The last time 23andMe came up, one HN commentator said that he found out that he was likely to be lactose-intolerant from it, so he changed his diet and it changed his life. He had lived with the symptoms for so long that he just assumed that was how life was supposed to be.

Here's what Sergei Brin got out of it: http://too.blogspot.com/2008/09/lrrk2.html

I don't understand your motivation for wanting to forcibly withhold this information from people.
That's a useful skill, to be able to speak for all the people of Afghanistan like that.

I guess you have the objectivity of distance working in your favour.
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So let them require BnB's to be registered and inspected. If I start a single-room restaurant, where people can join me at the dinner table each night (and yes, those exist: a few have been popping up in some European countries lately), it wouldn't be outlawed either, would it? I'm sure hardly any owner would mind paying $100 a year and allow random inspections (which usually means they'd get inspected once every two years or so...).
>To be clear, this is not a case of Car and Driver favoring German engineering but JD Powers always skewing towards American manufacturers (completely contrived example, BTW). In this case the statistical models are the science, not just some interpretation of the science.

Statistical models that are _far far_ more suspect drive decisions in areas of all our lives that have far more material effect than this.

>This field is young. Too young. This money and effort would be better spent on basic research.

Whose money? Mine? They aren't a non-profit.

>Humans, especially when confronted with areas in which they are not knowledgeable, can be surprisingly irrational!

Isn't that their right?
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Sure, but VGA only supported a palette of 16 colors at 640 * 480.

Lacking an official standard, 640 * 480 with 256 colors was usually marketed as a "Super VGA" mode in the early '90s.
At some point they will have to stop firing people or they can't produce enough to continue.
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tl;dr: Science can never predict with absolute certainty, therefore you can never take away my freedom!

There's also a weak thrust in a "What about moral responsibility?!" argument thrown in. My answer: punishment should be handed out only to stop repeated bad behavior from an individual and discourage others from repeating it, not for some "justice must be served" idea. This can take the argument to what constitutes bad behavior, why we should care, but that at least simplifies matters.
There are companies, like homeexchange, that have been in businesses for decades doing exactly that. Swapping, vacation rental, subletting have all been around far longer than sites like airbnb. Even craigslist has had a home swapping section for as long as I can remember.

Swapping homes is far more common than renting a room for a week. It's more common outside the US sites like gumtree, leboncoin, etc. have been doing this for years
Golfing aside (I don't golf), I guess this pattern struck me as being natural and not really trying to be clever.

Used in small doses and when you need something quick and dirty, it has been immensely useful, much like vlookup() in Excel.