skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This argument breaks down in a couple of different ways but lets just look at one:

Assuming there is no wealth redistribution then you had Joe and Jane have $19.128.28 and $69,330.20 respectively. Lets say they both die on the same day and leave all their wealth to Joe Junior ($19,128.28) and Jenny ($69,330.20).

Now it turns out that Joe Junior works hard and is really smart. He can get a 5% per annum return. Meanwhile Jenny is a bit of a flake but can still get 1% per annum from her investment.

After 50 years Joe Junior has $219,351.63 and Jenny has $114,022.65. So the hardworking Joe has turned his more modest beginning around and overtaken the less hardworking Jenny. The total wealth pool is now $333,374.28.

However if we had equalised their wealth on the death of their parents so that they had both started with $34,816.57. Jackie would then have ended up on $57,260.44 while Joe Junior would be on $399,255.53 for a combined wealth of $456,515.97 - significantly more than if wealth equalisation had not taken place

So that is one way it makes sense for the economy a a whole to redistribute wealth. Another is the fact that both Joe Junior and Jackie may have seen fixed costs (Medical bills?) on their life journeys. Jackies initial capital advantage measn she could weather those a lot more efficently then Joe Junior even if the return on her wealth she is generating is less.

And of course the same is true without having to wait for the next generation. Just because person A made good use of their resources for 10 years is no indication that they will always continue to do so and so are going to generate the best return on those resources - and the opposite is also true. That said while past performance is no indicator of future success it is a whole lot better then nothing.

TL;DR While completely flat wealth distribution is obviously a daft idea a simple argument shows some level of movement seems to be in the best interest of the economy as a whole.
What about react-easy-state stops you from transpiling to ES2015?
>Subscribe to read

Can we get an actual readable article?
If it's only one year I would keep working. But spend much more time on my own projects to start a business with. If it's indefinite, like basic universal income, I would release more open source projects since money would be less of an issue.
All over.

We use smart pointers over raw pointers.

We have probably hundreds of data types defined as classes, which have only very controlled conversions to other data types. See things like DFG::AbstractHeap or B3::ValueRep.
I think you are adding extra steps that are not needed. The programming model requires the JVM there are a few tools that compile Java directly to native code. There are tools that compile it to java script, and there are beta quality tools that compile it to WASM.
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I can get behind this description. Though it does mean that even the most communist and/or totalitarian governments have internal markets if source-agnostic-budget counts. I'm not sure how people with an anti-capitalist ideological bent would respond to that framing.
Hold up. There seems to be a non-sarcastic statement that schooling too early stunts development and the author references a The Onion article.

To those not familiar TO is a parody newspaper printing fake news that is comedic in nature. They are known to make comedic fake news for decades.

I think this shows that the author had terrible research.
Yeah, breastfeeding can take 4-6 hours a day. It's no simple thing. And if the mother is working, it's hard. Even pumping milk takes time.

Women who can afford to breastfeed exclusively are at least middle class, usually upper-middle class. That comes with a whole set of advantages and other correlations. Studies that try to figure out breast feeding advantages have to try and control for these things, but it's hard.

Here's what we know for sure: Breast feeding reduces infections in the child. It's a small, but detectable amount. And I do mean a small amount. Between six mothers that exclusively breast feed an infant for six months, on average one of those children will have one fewer infection during that time.

Everything else is up in the air, and if it has an effect on anything else (like intelligence) it's tiny. Save your energy for reading to the child and playing games with them, which definitely helps intelligence.
Indeed. The counter argument, however, is the suggestion that Jane's higher returns are at least partially due to her ability to extract favours from the government. Perhaps her mis-managed bank was shored up in a crash, while Jo's better managed construction business went bankrupt.

Now, some heretics might suggest that it's better to stop the government doing people favours, instead of semi-blindly taxing Jane's gains for Jo's benefit and hoping most of it came from government favours (never mind that Jo is now extracting a kind of favour from the government herself), but such ideas don't get a lot purchase.
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My experience is that I remembered how to solve all the puzzles, so all the challenge was gone. It was basically an exercise in nostalgia.

As for the Babel fish, while the actions required seemed nonsensical, they were each clued by the previous press of the vending machine button. It was an interactive Rube Goldberg machine. But yes, if you didn't think in exactly the same way the puzzle designer thought you would, you had to resort to combining every object in your inventory with every object in the room in order to progress.

More modern IF games are actually a lot better about not being Guide Dang It, so it's really a shame there's no market for them any more. Nelson and Plotkin are pretty good about trying to make things sensible and solvable, most of the time. For instance, there are many different ways to open the pill bottle in Curses--ways based on common sense--not just the one where you find the pill-bottle-opening-machine in the goblin lair, insert the "E" battery that you removed from a malfunctioning weather radio, and press the "open pill bottle" button, instead of one of the 999 "kill player horribly" buttons, because you read the goblin language primer at the public library that only had two books in it. (That is not in Curses, it's just an example of how Infocom might have scripted it.)
People will prefer plain language - as someone famous whose name eludes me at this point said, if you can't explain something to a grade schooler (or something to that effect), you don't understand the problem. But if you know your field, and if your audience knows your field, I'd argue that you can convey ideas more rapidly, and more accurately than if you were using plain english.

It's like using strings when a more specific, constrained type would provide more type safety I guess.
If I knew beforehand it would only be for 1 year, I would keep working, maybe a little less (80% of a full time position for instance).

I would save/invest a certain amount, give a fair amount to charities and go out more to restaurants...
The existence here on earth of fungi growing within the melted down Chernobyl reactor and possibly using Gamma radiation for it metabolism, makes me a bit more optimistic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus
Apart from claims of positive IQ impact, breastfeeding has many other proven benefits (as widely reported by WHO and in Sweden): "Breastfed children are at a lower risk of infections such as acute otitis, gastroenteritis, and respiratory tract infections. ... Women who have breastfed also receive health benefits through a somewhat reduced risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer and diabetes type 2."
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> fits better in a tweet

I wonder how much Twitter influences which new slang catches on. 'Bae' is a convenient three letters. For that matter, 'SJW' and 'MRA' are nice and short. You can get each term into a tweet, twice even, without using up much space.

Start throwing around 8 or 10 letter terms and no one is going to tweet them enough to quickly force them into culture.
None of those companies handles actual monetary transactions in JavaScript. That would be insane.
These aren't even exploits. This is just normal OS functionality. There is no security flaw here.

It's meant for post-compromise use. You need admin rights before you can use it.
I seriously doubt it is anything but a quid pro quo arrangement.
It is without doubt a repurposed TP-Link router. For 5 GHz hardware you could take a look at mikrotik.com site. They use a proprietary OS but some models can be reflashed with OpenWRT.
https://mikrotik.com/products/group/wireless-systems
https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start
...because the music is the problem with Simpsons these days? smh
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No scheme can eliminate the evils 100%. However, overall it had pretty strong positive impact on economy. Many of the roadside merchants who used to be exclusively cash only, have started accepting dizital payments. All those on-record transactions are now part of formal banking system, instead of earlier don't-bother-about-tax approach.

Combine this with the recent roll out of GST, we are on a very progressive path and with good momentum.
I played through _Deadline_ recently, as part of a project to play through a bunch of detective games. The last time I'd tried it was in the late '90s (so not quite a 30 year break, but still substantial), and at the time I could literally make no progress at all. This time around it went a lot more smoothly; except for one particularly unfair bit that I had to eventually look up, it felt like the there was tangible progress at regular intervals.

But Deadline is maybe a special case; it's not really a game of traditional adventure game puzzles using wacky dream logic. It's one half figuring out exactly what made each of the NPCs tick and manipulating them into doing things that advanced the plot, and one half doing mundane investigative work.

It also has one of the most brilliant uses of a text parser ever. When interacting with a certain item in the house, you're naturally going to use a specific verb. This will just give you a bland and generic result. But if the player has discovered a specific bit of evidence and realized what it implies about the crime, it's obvious that you could use another verb on that object to verify the hunch. It's also not a verb you'd ever just randomly use on an item, so even people trying to brute-force their way through the game would miss it. It ends up as a really cool way of making sure that it's the player rather than the character solving the crime, and something that would be very hard to replicate in a graphical adventure game.
> a market for governments

This is the myth of the Free Market Fairy - https://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/The-Free-Market-Fairy

And the ways that "everything is a market" distorts and destroys are covered in this long read:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/aug/18/neoliberalism-t...
Author here. As sigden mentioned, ES6 Proxies can not be transpiled. That is one reason why they are not yet commonly used. You can find out more about them here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen... (They are pretty awesome).
That's cool too. Enjoy the rest of your day :)
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Seconding the recommendation for The Mind Illuminated. It's the distillation an enormous amount of Buddhist meditation knowledge from several lineages into a modernized, relatively scientific format.

Yates also makes the admirable choice of retaining traditional terminology and outlook in cases where modern science wouldn't have anything useful to add (he resists scientizing, in other words.)
Which means you cannot answer my question.
If your country is conquered, you are ordered at gunpoint to open the safe full of gold. The same thing would happen with bitcoins - you're ordered at gunpoint to send them to the winning party.

To be honest, if your country is conquered, the last thing the winning party wants is a couple of bits and bytes on a hard drive. What's far more valuable is the natural resources, workforce, factories, etc.
An alleged shooting an entire day earlier doesn't seem like much of an emergency.
Sightly offtopic, but recent or prospective parents on HN may appreciate the book "Expecting Better" by Emily Oster, which takes a critical economists eye to advice and studies about pregnancy. Sort of in the vein of Freakonomics.
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Good one. The EU as a whole can barely fight against Google as an entity, and you ask (relatively) smaller countries like Romania to go at it alone. Or maybe that was sarcasm?
Up again/resolves fine for me now (Norway).
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1xf7GB...

utterly terrible idea. I was in india in Dec/Jan and the amount of chaos resulting from demonetisation was immense. The outcome was obvious - noone was ever going to let a high value bank note become obsolete. Worst case is you sell it for close to face value and some poor person stands in line for 6 hours to be able to deposit it.

It really speaks to the masochistic nature of the indian people that despite the whole exercise being pointless and stupid, they still supported Modi here because his heart was in the right place. Sorry but when people were literally dying as a result of the chaos, having good intentions does not cut it.
Discussion from last: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14920664
Non-Paywalled version: http://www.popsci.com/china-launches-quantum-satellite-in-se....

"Importantly, though, quantum communications can be compromised by vulnerabilities in physical equipment or personnel or when other forms of communication link into the process." - It is just a matter of time before one of this happens.
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It was your choice to use this particular argument in your post, where it is an amusing non-sequitur, regardless of whether it has any relevance in any other context.
What skills do project managers need to lead several projects at the same time?
Cc'ing another post:

I work at Amino. Here's a blog post from our hiring team that expounds on this a bit: https://amino.com/blog/a-letter-to-amino-candidates/

Not related to the subject at hand but still worth reading: https://amino.com/blog/struck-by-what-bizarre-diagnoses-in-m...
The only thing that any good producer feels compelled to, is to create the best possible record.

There is nothing inherently good or bad in music production, no timeless rules as to how much treble or bass, compression, distortion, reverb or anything else you need. It has all been done to the extreme and what is deemed good is subject to constant change.
Banks are rolling out cryptocurrencies to move funds between them
Found a bug, I think.

I tried it with the company logo image pulled from our website[1], which happens to have a bunch of text in it. (It's more like a combination logo+wordmark, I guess)

The circle which should contain the uniqueness metric score was blank[2], even though the script claimed to find 145 similar icons (which aren't at all similar!)

[1] The logo file: http://www.sequentec.co.uk/application/files/3714/2375/7226/...

[2] Screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Wx6pDNYe2_bkVrejFvbFBFSjg...
Google worked with some of the major publishers to create AMP just like facebook did with their instant article. So I wouldn't call it blackmail, more like a collaboration.

It's a way for major publishers to get a dominant/favored position and crowd out "fake news" and it's a way for google to get a monopolistic publishing platform.

So it is a "win-win" for google and some of the major publishing industry. It is a lose-lose for everyone else.

Publishing/media has been waging a war against social media and decentralized internet. They have to losing audience due to the fractured nature of the internet. And they are trying to get back their "captive audience".

Whether it works or not, we'll see.
I would dedicate the whole year to trying to find employment in I.T...currently I work in construction. If I found work, I'd put any remaining income into courses/certificates that could help me with work in I.T, those things are expensive.
When USPS first launched Parcel Post in 1913, people would "mail" their kids to relatives. No joke:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/24...
I assumed that that link itself was kind of a sarcastic joke, itself, and that the author is fully aware that The Onion is satire.
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Satire.

And while the linked article was probably fictional, it contained more Truthiness than any other news source.

> "I don't want to go to school," Bolduc told his parents, the crushing reality of his situation having yet to fully dawn on his naïve consciousness. "I want to play outside with my friends."
Now that there are nice tools like Process Explorer, it's less of an issue. Back in the day, you'd pull your hair out.

Even so, the original premise of performance doesn't hold water to me. I load a process that has 10 services inside so I can use two of them, and that's somehow reduced memory compared to just running the two, just in case I want to run the other 8 later? Some of those services I have disabled and never want to run. It's still taking up the memory.
A pretty well-recognised truth. J.S. Mill on 19th century Britain, via Hans E. Jensen:

First, the universities were given the task of providing an unceasing supply of ideologically correct candidates for vital positions in government, church and business. The state was able to make the faculties of the "'venerable institutions'" of higher education, or rather indoctrination, assume this duty because it controlled appointments and held the purse from which "emoluments" flowed into the coffers of academics. Hence the members of the university "hierarchy" made it their "business, the business for which they . .. [were] paid," to "uphold certain political as well as religious opinions," namely those of the "ruling powers of the state" (Mill 1981: 429: and 1988b: 350). Thus the universities pursued with vigor their assignment to inculcate in their students those political and ideological views that were cherished by the power elite. The graduates of the ancient universities were, therefore, well prepared for employment in, and by, those institutions that were instrumental in perpetuating the existing maldistribution of income. All of this might come to naught, however, if the masses of the underclass should achieve anything approaching success in potential attempts at throwing off their fetters.

The state devised a second educational strategy in order to prevent such a calamity from occurring. According to Mill, the "elementary schools for children of the working classes" were given the task of ensuring that the poor would continue to accept docilely their dismal station in life. It was very easy for the state to force the public schools to assume this role. It did so simply by failing malignantly to allocate sufficient funds for the operations of what Mill identified contemptuously as "places called schools" (Mill 1982: 200; emphasis in original). These places were therefore understaffed. Moreover, the few teachers who were actually employed were completely "unfit for their work."

Hans E. Jensen, "John Stuart Mill's Theories of Wealth and Income Distribution". Review of Social Economy. Pages 491-507. Published online: 05 Nov 2010.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00346760110081599
coldtea was unable to come up with a single example of where WebKit is a twisted mess or even needs effort to avoid becoming one. No matter what kinds of semantics you throw at this, I think it’s the case that these arguments against threads lack basis.
> I'm all for everyone commenting so at least it's well known how far this FCC is going against public opinion

From where I'm standing, I don't see a huge opposition against this move apart from a vocal minority. I believe it's due to the fact that at this stage the arguments are academic, and as such highly debatable. If they kill net neutrality and people see substantive impacts on their wallets or service, that will be the time to take up arms. At this point in time, I don't see it happening.
The article, and the parts of the study I skimmed, are appealing if you already agree with the conclusion, and they're full of holes if you don't.

The value or(/and?) harm of school is such an emotional topic for almost everyone, so it would be useful to be much more rigorous when writing an article like this. The authors might have gained by hiring a statistician to poke holes in the research, and then scale back conclusions or plug the holes.
> Why should FP be slower ?

It's easier to move an object 1 cm to the left than it is to bootstrap a universe where the object happens to 1 cm to the left.

> Why can't the runtime automatically leverage multiple cores and speed up the process ?

That is more related to proper dataflow analysis than immutability, and this is much more mature in VM runtimes that are actually used (hundreds of man-centuries vs. the odd PhD thesis).
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> “We have 90 seconds more of commercials in the show today than we did 20 years ago,” Simpsons music editor Chris Ledesma previously told me. “Think about it: a two-minute song, which by song standards is very short, but a two-minute song in The Simpsons today would represent nearly 10 percent of the entire air time. You’re not going to get a two-minute song like you did back then.”

Then you better make that two minute song a damned good one, no?
More important is sound-blocking than visual-blocking
You want to use something better than javascript, go ahead and use it. Use Smalltalk. Use Erlang. Use whatever you want.

The difference with Trump is that you can safely ignore javascript.

I don't understand the purpose of this rant.
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No one (except, possibly, the monopolist) is better off when monopolies exist

How well have [effective] monopolies on internet or cable services worked-out for you?
I can't connect with my mobile (3G/4G) connection but can connect with my fixed line (VDSL) connection. Interesting...
I've always heard it in more of a political sense. An example for the cuck insult would be, Foo is a cuck because he likes to watch others come over to his house and fuck his wife.

When applied to political situations, Foo's wife would be the US and the others would be illegal immigrants. So Foo is a cuck because he wants illegal immigrants to come over and mess up the US.

And I do believe that many of them are aware that it's a fetish, with many jokes about Foo's wife's boyfriend.
the things i know are not as certain as i am.

universities teach myth and research profit.

"Here they lie."
But states (at least in the USA) can't fail as they are back stopped by the federal government.

So failed states become a drain on everyone & at the same time the most economically challenged within the state pay the brunt of that failure as they cant move.
yeah it doesn't really work for word-based logos. It's based on thenounproject, which has mostly square-ish icons.
Related question: What does one need to do before they can downvote posts?