skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As CEO of GE, Jeffrey Immelt earned $17,744,236 last year.

GE has 330,000 employees.

If Immelt decided to take $0 and share his income equally with the remaining GE employees, he'd increase each worker's income by $53.77 per year. That's not going to do much to close either the wealth or income gaps.

Part of what we are seeing is simply that corporations are getting so much larger than they've ever been in history. Therefore, the pay granted to the CEO is for he or she to oversee larger and larger groups of people.
I wouldn't want to try and mount an 8 foot by 4 foot piece of glass on my wall, and I'm guessing the contrast would be a lot worse than the recommended material in the article.

All I know is, you can walk into any Home Depot and for $15 bucks, walk out with the supplies you need to easily amount it onto any wall in about 5-10 minutes.
There's also the SWEBOK [0] guide which is a useful document that attempts to catalog what other engineering disciplines refer to as, the state of the art.

[0] https://www.computer.org/web/swebok
Probably better than the cheap Radio Shack iron I've used to do all my projects.
I think we're talking about offshore turbines. Who can hear 110 db from 30 km away? :)
This is already happening with the free services we are getting from Google and Facebook.
At least with Verizon you get something out of it. AT&T just charges you extra if you want privacy.
I used ReactOS at the past for automated builds, command-line stuff generally work (almost) perfect. But using it for actual development might be a problem since the GUI bits tend to glitch out even with very old applications.
I think we know what Sun wanted, they wanted to make money from Opensolaris and ZFS by building a community around it and selling services and products around it. After a decade, all that's left now is the source code, and if Oracle wants to wait until ZFS becomes bigger to sue Canonical or Netgear, well, that shows their intentions as well.

As this timeline and some Googling shows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenZFS#History
Sun did work in good faith with Apple, and the Linux community to get them to adopt ZFS, unsuccessfully (successfully with FreeBSD). Additionally, the fact that Sun did successfully open source quite a few things (virtualbox, jenkins, openam, solaris, staroffice, netbeans, etc..) and relicense Java from SCSL to GPL, makes their intentions towards the open source community pretty clear. Yes, they wanted to make money, but they probably open sourced and created more open source communities than any other company in SV history.

Now, about modification, any open source license listed by the FSF will grant modification rights to users. I don't think compiling is making a derivative work. It's like unfolding a chair to sit on it. It's just a part of normal usage of software, you can decompile a binary and learn from it, also normal usage. The compiler is a tool, like a screw driver or paint gun that will let you assemble a chair or paint your car. Reading and learning from source code is usage too. Modifying the actual source code would be a real modification and could be making ZFS work on an Raspberry Pi, which is allowed by open source. Given that Sun wanted ZFS to be widely adopted in open source, they adopted the CDDL to let people modify ZFS so it could be used by OSes other than Solaris. This is what the OpenZFS community enables, and is completely compatible with GNU/Linux or Apache open source norms. Oracle might come knocking for money, but that's not the history of Sun or current ZFS contributors, who are just out to make better software using the open source process. They would probably not disagree with what Netgear or Canonical did, and if they did, it would be on the OpenZFS mailing list and in a news story or two. It's not.

You can't copy books and sell them, and I can understand you can't modify an original artwork and not affect the copyright owner's rights. You can correct an error in a book or claim inspiration from a painting to make another. You can't claim copyright if someone uses a binary in a VM when you didn't intend it. You can give others the right to modify source code, and ask that others do the same. That is open source and the GPL. OpenZFS, FreeBSD, have as much standing as Oracle, which is really none, to actually stop someone from porting ZFS to anything they would like and distribute it along side proprietary or open source software.

https://youtu.be/6F9bscdqRpo?t=5m40s
You'd be using some sort of filecoin-like storage system, where you pay people for distributed storage.

If I've been following the whole Ethereum thing correctly, as an outsider who kind of looks down on it, this is right up it's alley. You write some sort of smart contract which allows for the uploading and downloading of music blobs, charges for the service, and if insufficient coins are garnered for storage deletes the least used files.

I don't think you need a server or any such thing, and the only way to force a take down would be to take down the underlying services.
I'll be blunt. When you break compatibility with Classic Theme Restorer, Status-4-Evar, and QuickNote, I'm switching over, 100%, to Pale Moon. Between Australis and WebExtensions, Firefox has been moving farther and farther away from a browser I want to use. It's really getting to a point where I'm happier using Lynx.
This is the exact us-vs-them mentality that we should avoid.

"Republicans [...] hate gay people"
"[If you're not on my side you're on theirs]"
That's actually not true. A lot of thought has gone into healthy community building -- both on- and offline. But, yes, it can be easy to get wrong. Takes work. Which online communities (especially) oftentimes seem either unwilling or unable to do. (Or they're oblivious that it needs to be done at all.)
Seems like an abuse of power
You're changing the subject.

My original assertion was that there's nothing magic about taxes that makes them unusually civil, it's simply that austerity is not an issue in US politics because the government has never tried to balance its budget. I cited the UK as a counter example.

You suggested I had never engaged with their arguments because I described them as based in hatred.

I proved that my description of these opinions was entirely accurate. You can find endless articles like that in the left wing press, or banners at protests that say exactly the same thing. This resolved the point you raised.

Whether these articles have merit or not is irrelevant to my original point.
Voyager 1, Humanity's Farthest Spacecraft, Marks 40 Years in Space
Probably not as old as working 2 jobs for 17K. Perspective.
They are not saying those prices would reduce. There would be more people with more money competing for the same housing pool, landlords would raise their prices accordingly. I'm not sure if it would have the same effect on food, but it would likely increase housing prices.
I don't think that's a tiny nitpick, 'bc' shouldn't be aliased unless the user directly does it.
That's an interesting choice of metaphor. What is the point of yelling at a hurricane?

In more concrete terms, do you expect that isolating them will make them see the light? Isn't engaging them and talking to them respectfully more likely to make them change their mind?

I grant that hating and being angry is easier. But don't fool yourself and think that you are virtuous for doing so and that you should be emulated.
A powered device that can pull somebody up a rope
Krebs research suggests that Hutchins may have been engaged in the malware industry five to eight years ago.

Eight years ago, Hutchins was a teenager. Five years ago Hutchins was a teenager. Teenagers tend to do stupid things. Maybe Krebs was a statistical outlier in his teenage years and only made the most prudent choices. A bit of self reflective exposition might add some context for his unempathetic perspective.

Krebs finds no evidence that to support the governments allegations. The idictment [1] is based on a sting operation involving $2000 back in 2014. Basically, beer money. Not a even a MacBook Pro.

[1]: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912524-Kronos-Indic...
youtube-dl = fightclub

Rule #1 ---- No one talks about youtube-dl!!!!!!
Microsoft Bob:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2008.07.windowsc...
5: no. Sometimes an idiot is an idiot and if you have a real one in the team, sanity requires either of you change job
It'd at the very least damage the inverters.
At least it's optional
I had plenty of liberal atheist friends in school in a small town. They were fine. A gay guy was a candidate for homecoming king, even.
Wouldn't that remove the incentive for investment over speculation?
Guess I'm the only one that thinks you should just keep your money if you earn it? The article begins by talking about Romney's character and how he didn't try to take every possible dollar, then tries to attribute this to progressive tax codes. Maybe the "problems" we have are due to the erosion of basic virtues, and trying to make an airtight "system" where no one trusts anyone and we assume total greed and power hunger by every citizen is doomed to failure. Also there's little evidence that charging higher taxes is helping anyone (note highest spending by government in history, wages and income stagnant) -- guess its a given in this forum that higher taxes are assumed to be good...
If you're after something lightweight, similar enough to be vim to be useable, and lua built-in checkout vis: https://github.com/martanne/vis

The structural regular expressions are also pretty interesting.
My personal version is this:

1. Everyone is ignorant of something, so don't be condescending.

2. Everyone does stupid things, including you, but it doesn't make them stupid.
One of the over-the-air TV channels in Los Angeles seems to be run off a YouTube playlist, which I know because it was stuck displaying the video unavailable message for most of last Saturday.
He obviously touched a nerve. Maybe you should think about why rather than continue with this ridiculous overreaction?
Kidneys are Hard
Have a look at what Mozilla is doing with Gecko (Project Quantum) and Servo. Even Microsoft is moving in a much better direction with Edge in the recent years, doing a lot of work and opening up parts of the engine.

I don't know why parent put Mozilla into the same bucket as Apple and Google, they are not comparable in any conceivable way.
It's nice to see another editor that uses straight ansi escapes instead of the bloated legacy database of glass terminal incompatibility & its associated clumsy library. :-)

I did a similar thing, but it's more or less vi with some subtle differences that would make any vi user mad.
I don't think the parent poster is saying 'don't try,' as much as countering the very real propaganda from the rich about how "We're the new enlightened rich, are we're not greedy or dangerous, and we're not hurting the working people at all."

Claiming 'nothing has changed' in this regard is mostly true. There's some more red tape to get through but we're very clearly moving towards a Gilded-Age level of corruption and inequality in the US. Heck, we even put one of these 'enlightened' billionaires in as president!

Wish I had more to contribute to this conversation, but its pretty hopeless as the wealthy can simply propagandize people via their media sources to vote against their interests and can successfully lobby politicians to give them almost anything they want. Trust me, the Koch brothers aren't funding reason.com because they're academics, but because the libertarian philosophy it sells lines their pockets the most. I suspect this is the norm for later-stage capitalist economies that pride themselves on low regulations. High regulatory European economies seem to have a stronger firewall against this compared to the US. This isn't going away barring a massive economic change, perhaps when we can't continue to hide what automation and wealth hoarding are doing to working people. That could be anywhere between 10 and 100 years from now depending on how its handled.

I suspect deep automation will simply lend itself to a new economic and social reality. I just don't envy our kids and grandkids who will have this fight against the status quo. The 'enlightened' wealthy aren't going to concede on anything that affects wealth and status easily.
I think this is vendor implemented (or maybe vendor crippled). It does not appear on Huawei android 6.0
I've always thought that the central problem with a progressive tax code - though laudable - is that it takes the view that people don't deal with money in absolute terms.

For example: If I go hunting under my couch cushions I might find $1.50 in change. By that logic of a progressive tax code if I do the same activity on Bill Gate's couch I should find 3 or 4 million dollars.

Obviously that's insane. I would argue that it's insane because on some level everyone looks at a million dollars and thinks "That's a lot of money".

On top of that anyone encountering the sticky end of a progressive tax code is always confronted with the calculation of the cost of avoidance vs. the cost of the tax. And there's always a price you can pay to avoid a tax. It's generally based on the price of lawyers and the price of politicians.

Which isn't to say a progressive tax code isn't a good thing. Frankly I'm all for it. But to be equally frank how we raise the money for Government in this country is over thought. An unfair tax code that raises a reasonable amount of money is loads better then a fair one that raises an unreasonable amount of money.
Justin - when are you guys going to put out another Techzing episode?
Except the content makers aren't getting revenue since YouTube Red pays for engagement. I LOVE YouTube Red I only use youtube-dl for special use cases.
Unlocking the secrets of life with Biopython (Interview)
Simpler isn't always better. The simplest rule would be "no violence" but then the court system would have to make a bunch of decisions. is it literal? so is everyone that harms an insect in criminal jeopardy? So, now that we've introduced complexity we need to argue about degree not absolutes.
What does conservative mean? Some people say that conservatism includes things like gun rights, support for anti-immigration and lower taxes. As well as Christian values, which for a decade or two, has meant something around abortion, homosexuals, and recently transgenders.

What are these viewpoints that are claimed to be conservative in nature? I have read the Texas GOP platform. Is that representative of conservatism?

https://www.texasgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/PERM-PLA...
Potentially problematic for those who want to check your findings in 30 years time?
I really loved the movie The Congress, directed by Ari Folman, an adaptation of The Futurological Congress.

Like Blade Runner's relationship to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, it was a lot different than the book, but shares some deep ideas, and stands on its own as a great movie.

The scene in the USC ICT's motion capture studio was riveting, with Robin Wright playing a partly fictionalized version of herself, and Harvey Keitel playing her agent, baring their souls to the giant emotion capturing machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rNSTizOsws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPAl5GwvdY8
On one hand, they easily could have just left this in their ToS and the average person wouldn't have been any wiser about it. It's kind of a good thing they're at least offering something for our personal information. So many companies just take it as a bonus on top now, and don't catch enough flak for it.
This is interesting. I know that some TLDs have very antiquated, 100% manual management of registrations and transfers, although I wasn't aware that .uk was one of them. So to be fair it might not be eNoms fault.

The timeline with over 122 days before any useful action was taken, coupled with the apparent misunderstanding and LOCKING of the reporter's account, still reflects extremely poorly on eNom's support department.
I've heard stories about the outernet but it's a weird imperfect place
Show HN: Greasemonkey script shows [hh:mm:ss/HH:MM:SS] for YouTube page titles
I never learnt my times tables when I was little I just learnt how to do the multiplications in my head on the fly.

Years later when I worked in a shop I used to cost complex print jobs in my head and co-workers though it was magic.

The way maths is taught in the UK is largely how and very rarely why.
Counting references to a record in a table via Foreign Keys
If you could afford to eat more than just what you could find in the dented can buggy, would you?

I am pretty sure it will have an effect on food prices. Though, probably not as much as on housing.
Are you home schooling? If not your daughter must be bored out of her mind at school.
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A nice bookmarklet based on that:

javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
I really like it, but I don't know if it's worth the hassle. For example compared to ninja it isn't that much faster and it's missing a good configuration system anyway. Definitely better than Make though.
Quite the opposite. The Unix userland <-> kernel and IPC interfaces are enormous: hundreds of system calls, often overlapping, a dozen different socket types, multiple different kinds of magic filesystem interfaces (some of which take complex datastructures in arbitrary unstandardized text formats)... Whereas the interface between a VM and its host is pretty small.
Scanning the Future, Radiologists See Their Jobs at Risk
How big do you think that my backyard is?
Out of curiosity: Is youtube-dl something that can be prevented from working? Does a download from youtube-dl look different to a Google server than a legitimate view?

I guess it's kinda surprising to me that it still works after all this time, that there isn't some sort of authentication involved to prevent it.
Using Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations
Really? It would seem that:

Happiness, Health, Money, Marriage, Kids

would be the correct order to process these tasks? Without the previous item(s), the latter item is harder to obtain and maintain at full functionality.
If that were true then we could sue this USA company for breach of contract (the Constitution) whereby the company was never authorized to own all the land or use its corporate power to attract more occupants.
It's how all rights work. Freedom of speech? You can yell all you want, but it will never be equal to a rich individual able to buy adds and have recorded messages played over the internet. 2nc Amendment? You ever see the prices to own certain guns? Voting? While there isn't a direct poll tax, you have to be able to afford the opportunity costs of the time spent to vote, as well as being able to afford access to the place to vote.
Building an Interactive Game of Thrones Map with Node.js, PostGIS, and Redis
Not the case, Google for example are looking at using the Linux Kernel Library: https://netdevconf.org/1.2/session.html?jerry-chu
The only success stories I have heard about with respect to dome construction do not use any sheet material at all.

They use inflatable forms, flexible basalt fiber composite rebar or basalt reinforcement mesh, spray foam, and gunnite (sprayed concrete).

As far as I am aware, even those still have moisture problems.

As mentioned by parent, the article includes cutting patterns for rectangular sheets. All the edges and corners are waste. Every edge is a cut. If you make a dome shell out of panels, you have an incredibly high amount of joints and cracks for that volume, and every one of them could move water or air through the wall. The article itself mentioned that polypropylene breaks down in UV. Maintenance.

So I guess the intrepid geodesic dome builder should sew a big balloon out of pentagonal and hexagonal nylon panels, inflate it with one of those bounce-castle blowers, and spray it with gunnite. Then saw through the top of the shell and add a stick-built cupola for ventilation control and roof pitch. You lose the portability, but if you really need that, most people make do with a tent. Those come in dome shapes, if you really need your living space to be round.
How Mushrooms Could Repair Our Crumbling Infrastructure
With principles based legislation you can introduce rules that make it illegal to find "creative" ways only to circumvent restrictions.

Read: Arbitrary and capricious legislation what will be abused in creative ways. I'd prefer laws remain as objective as possible, and I'm a lot more concerned about bad legislation than 1%ers moving their money around.
Tup solves this: http://gittup.org/tup/
First income tax in the UK was in 1842, first income tax in France was 1789 - could you find one that has been going since 1017 AD?
It would require some custom manufacturing, but the bolt problem could probably be solved using a channel connector that runs all the way along the panel edges. Roughly something I-beam shaped, probably angled, probably with some kind of snap-on cover for the corners. Probably made of extruded metal or plastic, or maybe molded plastic but it'd be a big and expensive mold. It would be easy enough to caulk during assembly, if you're not worried about easy disassembly and reassembly.

Of course, this almost certainly exists already, would raise his parts count (though assembly would probably be easier than with the bolts), and couldn't be home-made. It's also not really frameless anymore, because the channels become the frame. (Not structurally though, so this is sort of a middle ground.) I could see this as being a pre-made kit which you'd add your own panel design to.
>but those colleges will become a black mark on one's CV and so the good students would choose not to attend those colleges, right?

How many colleges can you name off-the-cuff that you'd never hire from? Do you actively follow every college to figure out if/when they water down their requirements?

There is no information exchange other than the press and word of mouth for what you're wanting the market to fix. The other metrics, graduation rates and job placement rates, supposedly wouldn't be reliable statistics in your view.
That's fair but as we keep seeing from radical Conservatives, you can and possibly will be attacked for holding certain views.