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A minority of developers get the rockstar wages of Silicon Valley, the majority are paid typical middle class saleries from 25 to 35, a substantial number have been tossed away by 50.

Moreover, a substantial number work in such high stress situations that they have to get out after a bit and suffer serious burn-out as a result.

A union, professional association or better labor standards might be able to address all this.
You're touching upon a little of something called 'The Growth Mindset' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset#Fixed_and_growth

In the Bay Area schools my kids attend, they are working hard to emphasize this growth mindset. I think it's huge component in job mobility, whether it be upward or sideways.
I suppose the task at hand is then to differentiate between whether it is a software company or a company using software.
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Well... isn't that is whole thing about it? I mean, ICO is a vehicle for scams, just another way to nicely package a Ponzi scheme? This is why they exist.
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What I need is access to 'tier 2' support. Sure, put it behind me following or expressly saying not-applicable to the tier 1 tree. However when I actually /call/ instead of using an automated service I'm already saying: "I have made an informed decision; this requires humans making decisions to resolve."
You should check out Google's homepage sometime. One wouldn't expect that such a simple front would hide so many k of Javascript, but I guess it does a lot.
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And instead of getting a lawyer to resolve this, he says he'll just 0-day exploits for it. Seems like a poor negotiation strategy to me.
Increased spacing around interactive elements is appreciated when you have to use the interface on a touchscreen device.
Let's not forget that unions can also become detrimental to employees' working environment. In France unions are very powerful and unionists when going on strike, prevent non-unionists from working, and retaliate against folks who do not agree with their agenda - this goes against individual employee freedom and becomes another form of coercion. And unionists, no matter how piss poor a job they do, can never be fired (in theory they can, but in practice it never happens).
> I'm sure this could be the case but I'm not convinced that their license to the content would be so specific as to require the delivery of the content video/audio together, or must be played in the foreground.

Oh, it is. Licensing is extremely complex, detailing the medium, format, geography, etc. that you can use it on. A license for video doesn't give you any right to stream audio, and vice-versa.

Content licensing agreements are insane, with a nearly-infinite number of restrictions.
He felt intimidated and left the continent before he felt he could talk about things. This is some crazy spook level shit.
Could we rephrase your previous comment as "Maybe we should stop thinking government is the solution to anything"?
Apparently he passed 2 years after this was written. RIP. A great mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian-Carlo_Rota
It's simple - if the private labor market is failing to provide something, then the government needs to step in to make it happen. This could be via subsidies/grants, creation of research institutions (like the university in the article), and/or creation of state-owned enterprises.

Unfortunately we've all been brainwashed by neoclassical economists and such to believe that free markets should dictate everything.
Ask HN: Everybody lies. How do you deal with it though?
Often lying or not telling complete truth contextually becomes easier to have more efficient conversations and relationships.
I started with being bad at it in early twenties, but now as I have grown older it's become second nature to quickly cook up a lie to get out of an uncomfortable situation (usually of minor significance most of the times) and to maintain relationships (especially the long distance ones, not necessarily romantic ones).
Once in a while on some days, I get super depressed about having to lie so often though, even though they make life way more efficient and lower maintenance cost. On most days, I just accept it as a way of life to live better in present world...
Was wondering how other people deal with it?
(Asking in this forum, as I feel slightly more technical people will probably prefer to lie to quickly get out of a situation as it's more efficient use of time...)
Magic impedes learning. Magic is great when you know enough to be able to peek behind the curtain when you need to. But abstractions leak, and magic abstractions more than most.
> Yet we're the sole reason they're able to rake in that amount of money.

If you really believe in what you are saying, then go ahead and build your own company and grab the business for yourself.
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This and also the fact that implementing automation would cost too much in the short-term than employing human drivers, so nobody wants to do it.
> NeXT (which is consistently mis-capitalized)

In English, only the first letter of proper nouns is capitalized. "Next Inc." is technically correct. Be OS and Mac OS look weird but are correct because the proper name is Be or Mac, and OS is an acronym.
Most investors have the privilege to take risks because they have pre-existing wealth; but yeah their investments carry risk. Workers also carry risk; they invest resources to establish and maintain their employment with a company.
"Honest question -- how does the Austrian school reconcile the slow growth of the US economy during and immediately after QE with enormous corporate warchests such as Apple's cash stockpile?"

I'm not an Austrian economist but I don't know why it's so far fetched that Apple is simply saving the money for the inevitable fire sale ...

Why buy Disney today when you can buy Disney and Ford tomorrow ?
It depends on the area - not sure which region you're talking about (I guess Australia) but for example in the UK rail operators are private companies and there are multiple of them - they build maintain their rolling stock independent of each other, so the challenge would also be to convince/force them all to agree on a standard network/communication protocol for their trains.
>That we still have a homeless problem indicates that the reason for long-term homelessness is something else.

I presumed it was common knowledge that the vast majority of homeless people have mental health issues. America seems to lack any public mental health services. I was disgusted by the number of disturbed homeless people roaming the streets of California when I visited in ways you never see in most of europe. There seems to be absolutely no support for the most vulnerable in society over there.
I'll second that.

When I first heard about OS X, the idea of a widely-available Unix on PowerPC was very exciting. The reality of the first release was, from a performance and feature perspective, pretty underwhelming.

I'd guess the whole iTunes/iPod business put more wind in their sails in the early days.
My high school calculus teacher was really great at this. He didn't just teach a bunch of transformations to memorize. That was part of it, naturally, as you aren't going to use the definition of limits and the FToC in all your problem solutions. He actually made us construct volumes from pieces of poster board, measure the segments and calculate the Riemann sum. When we did function analysis, he didn't allow us to use the Cartesian plane at first. We had to show visually how a function deformed the one-dimensional real line. How x^2 squished values between -1 and 1 toward 0 and stretched the other values toward +infinity.

It gave me a good "visual" grasp of the concepts and made most of my higher math classes much easier.

I do agree diff eq instruction sucks. I got an A in that class and didn't understand a thing. "This equation has this form; this is the canned solution."
I'm not sure why the negative reaction to this post. I found it completely plausible and have no reason to doubt the author. It sucks that there are crappy people like this but unfortunately that's the real world. People will exploit you if you allow them to.

That said, threatening to sell exploits on the black market is a terrible way to fight back. Everything up to that point suggested the author had a case he could argue in court. If he does indeed proceed down that path he would likely find himself on the wrong side of the law.
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I used to be inspired by the Venus Project years ago. Unfortunately I realized it is extremely utopian and things needs to change in a more practical sense if we want a good chance of succeding.

I'm currently very impressed by the work of Prof. Richard Wolff, an economist that heavily criticizes Capitalism and tries to make actual practical changes in the lives of people starting from their workplaces.

Here is a talk he made in front of Google employees (the irony): https://youtu.be/ynbgMKclWWc
Your point is not entirely accurate though. The likes get displayed and used on Facebook which can help and your post to the top of other people's feeds.

I don't like them either but you'd be crazy by not integrating it on a website that you're trying to funnel organic, social traffic to.
I used HTC a lot and waited for the other browsers to implement it. XBL came around but waited many years until it became web components. Great post!
It seems to be a mistake on the author's part to allow himself to be exploited at first (working without having any of the promises in legal writing). It's unethical but not uncommon and alone wouldn't produce the outrage for an article detailing it.

The missing piece is why he doesn't feel pressing criminal charges and suing for IP is an option. The language seems to imply that the answer is for his physical safety. If he's writing this article because he feels safe enough to, then maybe he thinks battling in court requires people to be present and closes the distance safety net.

He's able to list pretty concretely his contributions but is suspiciously vague about the cause of his fear. I'm inclined to believe that it's because he might not think the public would unequivocally agree his fear is sound.
I wonder why they opted not to use the existing packet transformation code that is already in the kernel? The same code is used as part of linux ipsec implementations.
It may be ironic, however it's not unethical to engage in unethical behavior specifically against unethical actors.
More background [0], activity 1 [1] and the blog itself [2] below.

[0] - http://www.harrypigot.com/nepal/background/
[1] - http://www.harrypigot.com/nepal/activityoneled/
[2] - http://www.harrypigot.com/blog/
Personally, I think there's an important lesson here, and its the same lesson that polymer is learning as it stumbles around trying to convince people to use it.

Most people don't actually derive much benefit from writing custom UI widget primitives.

Certainly, that's a useful thing for a UI toolkit builder to be able to do, but tangibly, for most people, it's not actually useful.

I don't have time to invest hours implementing `ImageDropDownSpinner` as a custom element. <select> is good enough for me, and heck, maybe I'll use some 3rd party widget if I need something special.

That's not why react, vue, angular, etc. are winning the mind share of 'how to build web apps'; building UI widget is far less interesting than the ability to decompose your UI into a custom hierarchy of re-usable self contained units of functionality, that only at the lowest level actually involve UI components, is extremely powerful.

They might look like custom widgets, but <PageFoo> isn't a UI widget, it's your entire application; that's the difference.

It's easy to say this was a revolutionary idea, before its time, and it would have flown today instead of vanished into obscurity... but I think it missed the mark; it didn't solve problems people were actually having.

...but to be fair, it's easy to look at 'Web Component' efforts (like Polymer...) and go... yeah, this seems very familiar...
Well, there are "reductio ad absurdum" arguments - which attempt to show that an argument is bad because it leads to absurd conclusions. And as its fancy latin name suggests, its as old as the ages, and is often a reasonable form of argument.
> But if you want to use E2E encryption, the key exchange is really tedious.

Agree. But that part is still alpha in current release, so I hope they will improve over time.
> that doesn't make formula in any way comparable to breastmilk from a healthy, well-fed mother

Again without studies it's hard to claim anything.
The feeling was just that they pulled the rug away on another feature and didn't provide a solution. Periscope is brutal for this too, I want to listen with the lock screen on in my pocket but that's not happening..
Land footprint, yes, but they do have higher volume to surface ratios and that should play some role in heat absorption and dissipation I think.
Passive behavioral trait. Shyness, unwillingness to engage in confrontation, I can empathize.
Highly recommend Tensorflow for anything embedding related. The Tensorboard UI alone is enough make the switch worthwhile, unless you can develop a similar interface. Tensorboard's graph UI is very handy for debugging/presenting as well.
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I think this type of thread should probably be removed by moderators. There's like one every week or so.

You're basically just asking people to pump their favorite altcoin.

This is not a good way to do investing.
Some rescuers used plain walkie-talkies which were clearly visible in news photos. I'd prefer one of those in an emergency, since they don't depend on a central server.
The secret weapon is compassion and hard physical work, but that's apparently too alt-right for the WaPo.
I wrote NeXTSTEP.
> I am not the only one who got rants about the flat UI. It really should go away.

The article is poorly titled. The issue is not about Flat vs Non-Flat. It's about emphasis of elements in a flat context. The article highlights "flat 2.0" as a better choice given that it uses 3D shadows.
I think flat UI and colorless design have their own artistic niche. I don't think they belong in the mainstream website business. If you want to go buy a flight ticket, you want to find your buttons! no questions asked. On the other hand, if you know that you're visiting a more experimental site, say from an artist of some sort. You should expect alternative solutions to UI.
Exactly. Here are some bad designs, which happen to be "flat". QED
> my only way to get paid is by selling zero-day exploits for people who want to attack Aeternity.

It sounds like a typical situation where a startup screws over a key early employee. Typically there are legal avenues to pursue if the author truly was taken advantage of. Threatening to sell 0-day exploits smells of immaturity and anger though. I'm not sure how the tech stack works or how long it was developed but $3.5MM to keep working there exclusively sounds either like the author insanely overvalues his work and skills or the technology is revolutionary in which case, they'll likely get huge and he could sue them for far more.
Whenever you capitalize a company or product name "properly," you're bending the knee to their marketing department. That weird capitalization may be aesthetically pleasing for their logo but has no place in English. Writing "Apple's Iphone and Ios" may look weird, but it's technically correct. Proper nouns have only their first letter capitalized.
I guess my perspective is that a lot of physics is weird. When I learned Newton's First Law in undergrad, it was counterintuitive, because I based my knowledge on experience. The idea that throwing a ball out of the window of a moving car would have a velocity component in the direction of the car contradicted naive experience of putting your hand outside the window and feeling the wind. Not just GR, but even Newtonian gravity is weird, how is the force making me fall the same as the force that makes planets move in circles[0]?

May be "weird" isn't the word but "confusing/unexpected" is. I feel like a lot of the "weirdness" of QM is really due to physicists who were wedded to classical ways of thinking are confounded when x and p don't commute, and what that means. That plus not knowing about the delayed choice quantum eraser (not their fault).
Buying a stock on the secondary stock market is not investing in the economy. Buy that logic, high-frequency traders are investing in the economy.

> If that were true, banks wouldn't need deposits

That doesn't follow from what I said. Banks are required by law to back their loans up with reserves. So when they don't have enough reserves, they borrow on the interbank lending market or from the central bank.

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
I thought about the same. Apple should be the forefront of the UI game considering the design and UI always have been their strong suit. With that said, Apple has improved upon the "too flat" UI with subtle 3D and shade that actually made the UI generally more usable. The trick is to find the right balance.
I ran BeOS and NeXTStep on my PC back around this time. BeOS was impressive and I do not think anyone has come close to it's speed even today. The filesystem was amazing. That being said, I loved NeXTStep and was happy to see it live on. I wish the OS X version was more NeXT then Mac, i.e., I want my menus and shelf like NeXT.

I think however that Steve was a larger key to Apples success then the OS. Apple would have been dead without him.
Yeah am feeling quite the same. Nevada Energy is another such suspect company in his portfolio. Oh well, I think it's time to take a bearish view on BRK. Their main cash cow - vehicle insurance is gonna get upended very soon, probably in the next 10 years.
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Angry people do dumb things.
Seems like author is in a completely different part of earth where that court system will not affect him.
Agree. Unfortunately, this experiment has gone mainstream for the wrong reason.
> it's not unethical to engage in unethical behavior

OK.
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When iOS7 first booted up I honestly thought it hadn't installed properly, that I was missing button graphics and background textures. The app store design was a joke, with no defining separation between elements, everything plain white, it became a chore to intuitively recognise different areas.

From that point I have wanted a customisable iOS interface, where we are "allowed" to apply our own skins and themes. If people like flat design, that's fine, but it's unreasonable that the same uniform interface is forced on everyone.
Heck, I've taken enormous risks and lost the farm a couple of times. That doesn't mean I have a lot to say either.

I can tell you three things that will guarantee failure, but I can't say much for sure beyond that.
But Germans do know very well how they _should_ look like, because they see those characters thousands times every day.
My guess is that they need something out fast. The simpler the chip, the better. Adding features means adding test, creating additional circuits and software, etc...

For the first version, especially if you have investors who poured a few dozen millions in, you want something that works ASAP.

Then version 2 will receive tons of funds to have all the features one can dream of.
It helps that Watsi is not a traditional start-up in the sense that their investors expect a return so they are much more free to actually do stuff that matters.

Way too many start-ups believe their own BS when it comes to sentences like 'changing the world' when in fact all they want to do is make their own stash of FY money. Most of these are a net negative when it comes to the change they impart on the world.

If you really want to change the world in a positive way a non-profit is a much better structure. Unless you plan on using your FY money to change the world afterwards, Bill Gates style.
I really like your analogy, but what did you mean by "anything is better"?
You see it as enforced generosity.

Nah, it's not a matter of perspective, because that's exactly what it is. Citizens are motivated to pay their taxes through fear of the consequences of disobeying the law. Thus, generosity that is forced on a citizen via taxes is ultimately fear-based (not compassion-based) generosity.

Others see it as general societal obligation to take care of its members

Which is why we Americans have started and serve in hundreds of thousands of private organizations from churches to food banks to shelters to clothing charities and more, and many are quite effective at providing in times of need. If I was hit by similar circumstances, I would go to one of these already-existing institutions and seek aid.
And when this typeface was introduced, 3d printers didn't exist at all.
The only conclusion I can draw from this is that it is written by someone who is highly immature and/or unstable. I mostly feel sorry for their investors who purchased yet another block chain hoping to make a quick buck with likely little to no diligence on what they buy. The more I hear about blockchains, the murkier it looks to me.
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> I'm sure this could be the case but I'm not convinced that their license to the content would be so specific as to require the delivery of the content video/audio together, or must be played in the foreground.

The license a creator gives to YouTube might not require that YouTube delivers audio and video together (it clearly doesn't for YouTube Red) but the license YouTube gives developers definitely does, as pointed out above. Plus, if the video isn't played in the foreground, people don't see ads and creators don't get paid. If there isn't an explicit agreement preventing it, it'd certainly cause conflict if YouTube were found to be allowing it.

> Especially since it would require all of the content be relicensed every time they change their policies.

They've done it in the past, when they introduced YouTube Red for example: https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2015/01/23/youtube-removing...

> Sure, but you've just traded invasive technologies for invasive legal requirements.

Legal requirements are soft and barely enforceable on end users. I'll take those over technological solutions.
A link to the discussion would be good?

edit: https://lwn.net/Articles/725721/ has links, the paper has some discussion - one motivation is hardware offload.
Sorry about that, it works OK on my iPad and in the iOS simulator, if you want to help me debug your system drop me a line!
Finally! Some recognition about how this whole craze is not working. I am always confused when using google material design pages . And grey text on white ... cmon! Just make it black on white