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blah blah blah how can we work less and say it is a good thing? Lets write an article about it and rewrirte stuff which is out there for years.

There is a difference if you work 4h a day or 8. 4h.

99% of Jobs do benefit of working 8h a day. A cleaning person can do way more in 8h than in 4h.

the construction worker will also do more.

But not the software engineere! Because he/she is doing 'mind work'. This is bullshit. Yeah we are privileged and yes we understand that there might not be a need to work 8h but than just say it how it is and not invent some bullshit.
Heat pump also costs thousands of dollars, while I already have a bunch of GPUs sitting idle.
It all depends on what the company that owns the trademark does to try to prevent erosion and maintain a strong tie between the word and the brand itself. A related Wikipedia article [1] specifically mentions the lengths Google has gone to in this respect.

All that said, there may be an issue of prior art, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

> "And are you not," said Fook leaning anxiously forward, "a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
My start as a professional programmer (freelance is one would call it now) was with end user applications. I am talking mid-80s.
What I took away was the required level off fraud that was demanded in the sense that each business I coded for wanted a way to cook the books. Driving schools, bookshops you name it. As soon as the program was about ready and they were happy with the interface and the reports, they wanted 2 distinct outputs: one for the tax office and one for themselves.
So yes, coding (parts of) Operating Systems is really relaxing and satisfying.
I have great respect for his ability to get shit done ever since Amiga days, so my thought was not "a hack" but rather - "how can he have this much patience and stamina?!"
I'd put Bob Edwards (former Morning Edition anchor, now on SirriusXM) in there as well.

Paul Kennedy, CBC, Ideas isn't strictly an interview programme, but it's exceedingly good long-form, and intelligent.

I'm surprised I'm not coming up with any British / BBC interviewers, though there can be good programming there as well, at times.

Brooke Gladstone and Bob Edwards of On the Media also make my list. Their subject range from friendly to collegial (other people in the media industry), to hostile. It's possible to tell the dynamic, but the demeanor is always professional.

I am quite the fan of Gross, and she's grown on me over the years.
Amsterdam is a very special place. You know how on HN everybody always complains about insane all kinds of legislation in SF? Well in that respect, Amsterdam is the SF of the Netherlands. So please let this taint your opinion of Amsterdam, and not of Europe or the Netherlands.

They really like rules and regulations there. More is better. Notably, the whole concept of a high school lottery is culturally alien to most of the country. Let alone a lottery with a 1000-page rule book and court cases.
Having distinct networks in different regions encourages you to architect your application in a fault tolerant way.
Well I don't consider Google's collection of my data to be a secure practice from the standpoint of my privacy. So the one remaining option is Apple.
There's many ways to do this, both offline and online. Attend local meetups and network and meet new people. The experiences you gain from meeting new people will eventually pay off either with a new job or transfer of knowledge which is invaluable.

You can also try contributing more to open source projects. Pick a project of your interest and just see where you can contribute. Employers love to see those who gives back to the community. For more on this, I recently wrote a quick piece that can hopefully inspire you and others who are interested in contributing to open source (https://medium.com/@tranvu/path-to-open-source-bec824af077d)

If you're specifically seeking for more freelance clients, one of the best way is to ask your people who you have worked with in the past. The majority of the consulting work I do stems from referrals. If you lack a network of connections, you can try some freelance gig sites such as Upwork.
Running Nexus 6P with Android Beta Program enabled. Got the stable Android Oreo in a couple of hours of the release.
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What did you think would happen?
Tolerating the remove of anyone's freedom should be fought. Even if they are not your bed fellows.
Do nothing, and expect more of this to follow.
> Bitcoin's mining reward halves every couple of years. When the Bitcoin block reward becomes negligible, as it certainly will in within a few decades, the only thing funding Bitcoin miners will be transaction fees, so the entire cost of Bitcoin mining will be borne directly by users of the network.

Just let everyone mine as much as they want. Don't limit the rate or the amount. All of a sudden, miners will have to self-regulate their output lest the currency become hyperinflated.

You might not like that outcome, but if you say that is going to be the endgame anyway after a few decades, why not let it happen now?
Yet in the UK government activity keeps healthcare costs very low by removing consumer choice.
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I think he's saying that the error is in the original assignment algorithm: it produces a solution that is not Parto-optimal. If it was, there would be no mutually advantageous trades. One way it could achieve that is by randomly doing mutually improving trades until none are left.
> And currency deflation is highly unappealing for those who don't have large amounts of that currency.

For an individual investor making a decision about which currency to hold, all else being equal, deflation is always better than inflation. Not sure what you're trying to say exactly.
I imagine there are plenty of instances where apps do not account for space well
The reason people don't do that is because VCs can't fund that. Disintermediating or removing the middle man means "you can't make money from this". Well your shares don't have value anyway, you as an individual might make some money though.

VCs tried to fund a bunch of dreamers decentralizing and modularizing everything in their blockchain apps. Many organizations conduct ICOs or token sales so they are able to secure funding in their one-time revenue event, and bring the product to the world. Is it a panacea? Nah. It is very Machiavellian and we'll see this evolve very quickly into something more efficient. But we aren't stuck in the limitations that require companies to become the same toll-taking middlemen as before.
You can use the VPN api, and run a local vpn server on the handset, with adblocking. That's what I do, without root on my new phone.
> For most of the time, the formatter did use dynamic programming and memoization. I felt like a wizard when I first figured out how to do it. It worked fairly well, but was a nightmare to debug.
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Especially considering that the person watching the tape probably didn't have a computer with a color display handy.

To view a PowerPoint, you would need some kind of digital equipment to run it on.
So happy to see this.

The Very Large Array in southwest New Mexico was also upgraded for the Voyager at Neptune campaign. The backup diesel generators are still very much appreciated, although the Sun workstations were already yielding to Linux kit when I showed up in 1999.

Here's to the telescope operators, they deserve more fame.
Yes, generally the response to first seeing the output is wonder at how elegant and professional it looks.
That was the inspiration yep.
...and that would reduce efficiency again. It's not at all clear that the loss of efficiency from false preferences is smaller than the loss caused by students getting each others preferences.

In fact, the article is a little too kind to the option of trading places. It presents a clean choice between fairness and efficiency: trading harms the former while boosting the latter. In fact, trading will reduce future efficiency due to strategizing; it may well be that trading is a straight-up de-optimization in all but the current round.
What we really need is a relationship advice app that treats the root causes of relationships problems:

1) Tells kids they should go to the gym instead of learning to code

2) Career change for optimal male to female ratio

3) Gets you fired so that you can spend more time with your family

4) Alarm when you've had too much/too little coffee

Any app that doesn't address these issues is purely for entertainment value
> let this taint your opinion of Amsterdam

Why taint? The judge gave good reasons for disallowing trading. In particular; if students know they can trade places later, they'll pile onto the most popular schools (rather than their true preference) knowing that if successful they can easily trade their place for another one (including their preferred school which may not have selected them). Add to this the possibility of paid trades, I think it's great they're keeping it fair and simple.
There is a config option to pick up your ~/.config/nvim/init.vim.
May be the great achievements the author talks about will feel different. Taking the example of Einstein, till his death he must be seeing the impact of his theory. I think that wont be as inconsequential as it seems.
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I never liked LyX, at the time I found it difficult to extract a standalone tex file from it.
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Contrast her to any of the Right-Wing talk programmes, where an "opposition" guest can't get a word in edgewise.

Gross does not berate her guests. She can and does ask tough questions, but she's not emotionally aggressive.

Classic instance is her interview of O'Reilly, where he cut the mic and left the interview. There are lots of online mentions of this, though I'm not sure the episode itself is. See:

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/terry-gross-soothingly-d...

http://www.npr.org/yourturn/ombudsman/2003/031015.html

http://www.metafilter.com/28827/Terry-Gross-vs-Bill-OReilly

(Her interviews are almost never in-studio, so guests are typically remote, as in this case.)

At the same time, it's quite obvious that Gross is a massive fan of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, to the point of schoolgirl crush. I find it endearingly charming.
This is more of a technique for learning than for practice... but one thing that I make a habit of when learning a new programming framework is deliberately typing out sample code that I've found in books or online instead of just copying and pasting it.

It's the equivalent of writing out notes by hand from a school textbook instead of just photocopying the pages... some how the process of actually re-typing it out causes it to stick in my mind better. And then later, when you're really "in the zone", you don't break your focus by needing to keep referring back to the book, it's already embedded in your muscle memory and you just keep plowing away.
Well yes, that's a reasonable use case. Personally I'm not convinced that all 4xx responses should be rejections, but regardless of that, you should have about as many `catch` blocks with async-await as you have with promises.
The pure maths technique you are thinking about is the Monster group [1]. Sadly, I don't recall the names of the two researchers involved in the chance meeting.

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-chase-moonshin...
The intolerant aren't enemies to be destroyed; they are the land to be conquered; it's the ideas that must be destroyed.

The beginning of every hateful ideology begins by seeing itself as the oppressed and removing its tolerance for perceived oppressors, from nazism, to communism, and others I shall not name.
As usual in any environmental debate, all sides choose deceiving stats. In most western countries, homes only account for about a quarter of total energy consumption [0].

So while people reading this headline would think "wow, that's the total energy use of a town like San Francisco!", in reality, it's more like the total energy usage of a town like Fremont. Less spectacular for sure.

Remember to use this! If you're pro-environment, always express your energy consumption numbers in terms of "homes", for a 4x more impressive result. After all, who care about the truth when the planet is going to shit (note: the anti-environment folks, or whatever they call themselves, do the exact same thing but I can't come up with a nice example right now).

This also means that if you see someone express energy usage in terms of N homes, you know they're ok with twisting the numbers to make a point. Read the rest with a grain of salt.

[0] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/DD...
I personally prefer Lindt chocolate bars in my smores, not sure how European style chocalates don't work.

Never really liked Hershey.

Cadbury dairy Milk is what I liked growing up, and still do, works great for smores 2nd best to Lindt (I love the orange chocolate).
Most people don't think about such things when buying (renting) a new phone. If you do consider it, you're an exception to the rule.
That's how it works in Europe where RDS is widely deployed. Even for the regionalized channels where the programming may vary a little your radio will keep you in the network.
Check out ABC Radio National.

http://abc.net.au/rn

They do some awesome shows also available as podcast.

Bonus: Aussie accent is a barrel of laughs (I say that as an Australian!)
Sulfur ->acid rain, radioactive elements in the smoke plume, mining deaths to name some others that can have just as big an impact. Not sure which, if any, GP was thinking of.
keep an organized notebook while you read this book. of characters, ideas, events (which happen non-chronologically), etc.

not being pretentious -- you will actually need it. I've been reading this book on and off for about four years now, and wish I had started with a notebook from the beginning.

don't get discouraged if some passages are boring -- make a note of them and just power through them.

it's so, so worth it. I think I'm probably really only "getting" 10% of this book but it's still incredible.
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Compare that to State radio and television in late USSR. It wasn't strictly obligatory. But there wasn't anything else, so you end up watching and listening to it anyway.

Imagine NPR as a giant propaganda machine, powerful and tuned up, but currently working in idle mode (or not?)
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If you're asking why Bitcoin mining had to be heavily subsidized at the start, the reason is that Bitcoin had little value and little usage, so transaction fees were generally zero and a large mining incentive was necessary. Obviously that isn't true anymore, but the exact time inflation should end could not be foreseen in advance, and the inflation schedule was fixed at the start.

If you're asking why the inflation schedule had to be fixed in advance, that's because otherwise there is no trustless way to ensure it stays in check. The genius of Bitcoin is the way it uses incentives to enforce rules in a distributed system made up of selfish and even malicious participants. As you say, miners would have to self-regulate against their own self interest, and that would not be stable.
Why would you get paid in euros? No tech company I know would do that.
Yes, Amsterdam loves regulations. But Amsterdam is quite uniquely positioned in NL. The popularity of the city with locals as well as tourists is of an entirely different level than the rest of NL.

Furthermore, the AMS lottery systems is precisely a regulation that is far from pointless. This article explains it very well.
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Note that even if everyone were equally able to strategize, doing so would reduce efficiency: after all, to strategize students lie about their preferences, and the lottery takes those lies into account. It's the garbage in; garbage out principle. Some of the stratgizing students will get into schools on their list they really only put there as a trading option.

So it's not just about fairness; it's also about ensuring the algorithm works in the first place.
I bet that typo gets them a lot of extra attention from investors. Even if they immediately correct them, at the very least they've got their attention to start a conversation.
If you look for a job / if you want to move to Zurich, let me know: "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in tech" https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...
>Are you claiming that dutch people have genetic traces that lead to higher IQ?

Yes? It's a homogeneous, white society; compare that to the US.

http://i.imgur.com/FhEZG1G.png
I think that any individual, who does some work creating/building a product/feature goes will identify themselves with the ideas presented in this article. However, the world actually belongs those who can get others to create and build. These usually are the people who have access to capital and use it to generate more capital.
And here is the source, along with some other Farbrausch projects.

https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public
Completely agree with the perspectives here, it is however when telling this to my non-tech friends and collegues a tough pitch: like I'm spoiled or am just living on a completely different planet.
Google Apps/whatever-its-currently-called used to be free for private use - this is no longer the case?
I was like most thinking this was an accident and she sank with the submarine. Now though, things are really starting to get questionable at best.
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I'm not even convinced it _is_ decentralized. Seems like mining is clustered around a few big operations (mostly in china) that have access to cheap electricity.
Probably highlight some interesting bits and pieces in relation to the whole "use boring tech" vs "use bleeding edge tech" argument that so many people seem to make.
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Thanks for the info and context!
You want a lot of people to do a lot of work that benefits you and pay them little to nothing.
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You might find Mixed Member Proportional an interesting option. It is directly proportional in the party vote and also includes electorate MPs. It does not suffer from some of the strategic voting problems that STV suffers from.
There's no hard timeline as we're an open source project, but hopefully in the next 6-12 months.

If this is holding you back from seriously Prometheus, then Prometheus is possibly not the right tool for you. Prometheus is about the here and now.
It's in progress, star this issue to vote: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35900034
what does the NG stand for?
But would you habe to pay the higher german taxes then?
The DEC system handbooks, which they gave out for free, were incredibly thorough and informative. Here's a link to the PDP-11 ones on Bitsavers:

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp11/handbooks/

It's harder nowdays to get your hands on a LSI-based PDP-11 system than it was in say, 2000 or so - but simh lets you emulate just about anything you might want, with less space and power usage.

Here's the student workbook to go along with the video:

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp11/Introductio...

I kick myself every now and then for getting rid of the garage full of PDP and VAX stuff when I moved from Austin to Houston twelve years ago.
And missing from all the analysis I've seen so far: some nations have baked "equality" into their approach to legal decisions. The trading policy was deemed discriminatory, enhancing some students at the "expense" of others.

"At the expense of" means "so as to cause harm to or neglect of".

The other students were not directly denied something, and did not lose their spots in school. What they would have lost, had the swapping been permitted, is an equal and fair treatment by their government and laws while being placed in school.

As swapping allows some "haves", thereby also creating "have nots", the government deemed that to be enhancing some "at the expense of" others who were denied equal opportunity and treatment under the law. They lost fairness, equality, and "freedom" (in American parlance).

I mean... "Whites only bathrooms come at the expense of civil liberties." is not a controversial assertion.

The judge ruled that everyone not being equal causes harm/neglect. ESL author Ronald de Haan was using the word and phrase correctly, I think it is being misapplied in most of this discussion by a degree of pedantic over-parsing.
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The point of all of this is to disrupt Uber, and not to be cool.
Well, then that's a real shame then for people without creative impulses and or skills.
I bought a series of Nexus phones.

The Nexus 5 no longer works.

The Nexus 4 still works, but its battery is puffing out.

The Nexus S has no hardware problems at all, but it's too underpowered to run modern software.

The model "phone vendors nefariously build products with short lifespans, regardless of what people want to buy, so that they can sell more hardware" has trouble explaining why the longest-lived phones are the earliest ones. It seems more likely that the phone vendors of today build phones with short lifespans because bitter experience tells them that building a robust, long-lived phone is all cost and no benefit -- the phone costs more, it's heavier, it's fatter, and all your customers replace it before the cheaper, sleeker, more attractive phone would have failed anyway, meaning they actually get zero minutes of extended lifespan.

It's the same reason animals age and die.
Really? I'm a German working in Germany and if you look at the timestamps on my comments, you'll see that a fairly significant proportion of those are made during work.

I've seen plenty of coworkers trading Facebook or whatever, and people chit-chat all the time. Well, not everybody of course, but for example, my own morning routine involves visiting the coworkers at their desks to check on their work and coordinate, and that includes some friendly banter, of course.
This is the irony. If people worked 4 hour days for the same salary, some would do two jobs to earn more, and then buy/rent bigger. This leads to an increase in rental costs a which means that working 2x 4 hour jobs is essential to get what 1 4 hour job used to get.

The same phenomena has been seen over the last 30 years. When a parent (usually the mother) stayed at home houses were affordable on a single income. After both parents started working prices shot up, now it's essential for both to work, just to pay the extra rent/mortgage. This pushes childbirth later in life, if at all, and means that children are brought up as a factory process rather than parenting.

In the UK this is explicitly encouraged by tax breaks for outsourcing childcare, taxpayer funded childcare, and penalising single working parents through the tax system (60% marginal tax on £50k household income with 1 earner, 33% on £50k household income with two earners, but no way to share tax subsidies)
I think there are a few that have tried. E.g. Primecoin calculates prime number chains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primecoin Looks like there are some protein folding coins as well - curecoin and FoldingCoin that contribute to folding@home
it just displays a "Blogger gear", because the content is dynamically loaded

I wonder why Google made that particular design decision?