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I don't think so. I think most successful entrepreneurs continue to reinvest their profits. They may not do so at the scale of Musk individually, but collectively, the activity of millions of business owners across the U.S., reinvesting their profits and continuing to risk it, has a huge net effect on the economy.
You won't be able to refuse receiving it. Did you read the link? People had been forcefully sterilized in the US all the way till 1970s, even without public healthcare.
> the country should not tax its citizens to redistribute wealth.

The army is also a huge wealth distribution machine: Raytheon or Boeing
are businesses, and army personnel presumably is paid, too.

> tax its citizens to protect them

For example, from life threatening conditions.

Same statements, different cherry picking -> entirely different results.
thanks for the references, I'd like to start using it at some point. Would be cool to check the client's device capabilities/run a specific event based on conditions met.

I finally used memcache(d) so that's cool.
>>That sounds like the definition of a bribe, which is a crime.

It is. It happens all the time. I get similar offers regularly in my growing startup. It's usually couched better than that, but it's not rare.
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It would be hard to find a country with worse food than UK, so no big surprise here. Just my personal experience reflected by many friends acquaintances living there.
As an example, the Dutch "pension fund for government and education" aims to have 128% coverage. They still haven't fully recovered from the 2008 crisis, because they currently still have only 102,5% coverage.
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Found where I saw the cake analogy specifically: https://blog.intercom.com/start-with-a-cupcake/
Why shouldn't your entire application be a widget? Sometimes it's nice to embed one application into another, multiple times. I find your reasoning here short-sighted, since there's often no clear point at which components should bottom out. You can always add another layer.
... to other AIs.
Maybe the point is that it is not about gathering information - but rather about negotiating how much the company would bend to the customer will.
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Could they do the same to HaikuOS?
You're right, they are simpler in fact. They have the same cost as free-standing functions.
OK, I don't really know who you are but apparently you're "famous" in some circles. However that doesn't give you right to barge into a community and within minutes pass judgement of it. Otherwise you come off like a dick. Just saying.

When you posted this comment, there were a lot of thoughtful and relevant comments. What gives you the right to "delegitimize" their words? You're not better than anyone else here.
What makes you think that Gates and Bezos were created by tax loopholes? And, what do you even mean by tax loopholes? Is postponement of capital gains until a sale event a loophole? Most of Bezos' wealth comes from his ownership of Amazon, which won't be taxed until he sells his shares. Changing that rule would mean Bezos might be less rich, but it would also mean that you would have to pony up tax money every time your house appreciates in value ...
Sonic uses AT&T's networks but provides their own service on those networks. The modem is not an AT&T modem and it's not the one in the article.
Most if not all major browsers let you style scrollbars, but the problem is that styling for built-in widgets is not standardized, i.e. it relies on vendor prefixes and worse, not all (sub) elements can be styled at all depending on browser. E.g. <select> has poor support for styling.
Ask HN: What's the worst Oracle can do to OpenJDK?
I've recently started a project using Java. From a technical perspective and after careful analysis of alternative technologies, for what I am doing it currently is the right choice.

But with the Google-Oracle lawsuit, Oracle laying off the Sun team, and my professional experience, I really have to convince myself building anything on top of a technology stack where they are such a powerful player.

I understand that OpenJDK is GPLed with class path exception, but is that enough? Could Oracle somehow sabotage OpenJDK into oblivion? What's the most probable steps Google, IBM and RedHat could take if Oracle pulls the plug on Java, or worse, plays some dirty legal tricks?

I know my concerns are vague but I wonder if people who know better could share their thoughts?
What you describe is "relative poverty". Statistics indeed says this will always exist. This is about inequality. That's not very relevant here.

When talking about homelessness, you're talking about "absolute poverty": the lack of means necessary to meet your basic needs (food, clothing, shelter). In this case, by definition, you can't meet at least the need for shelter.

There's no reason that homelessness (or even absolute poverty) should always exist.
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>[…] not to mention using animations to convey meaning, which do wonders to make apps and the web look much better

I'd argue most animations today degrade the user experience because they're not done right. Typically, animations have too long durations, transform annoying properties, catch my attention when they should not, and too often just make common interactions more time-consuming, laggy and hence painful. If I could selectively disable CSS animation/transform properties in Chrome, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
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So the design approach that lacks any theoretical support to begin with is less functional?

I hope too much effort wasn't wasted on the study but thanks for posting. I'm sick of this stuff.
Rewind 50 years, and it would be highly typical for a janitor to support a wife and 3 kids on HIS salary - families were larger, and mothers didn't work. The fact that a working single mom can't support her four kids today is indicative in and of itself.
Oh boy.

Public housing: Section eight has been closed for years. The sign up list has been closed for years now--in many counties. Of yea, the current lease for Section 8 housing is 47 pages in my county. 47 pages of "can't, and do this!". It's beyond petty.

Food Stamps: Requires a degrading elegabily approval. Designed so people just don't even sign up. (Clinton made it very degrading, and cut people off after a certain time period. Obama had a heart. Who know what Wonder boy will do to the program.) Then finding stores to buy food. Then being told you can't buy orange juice. Why--I don't know, just overheard the demeaning conversation. Another one that stuck with me. A mom bought a cheap birthday cake for her child. The Checker "schooled" her on how to bake a cake from scratch. The women said, "I need to buy 10 ingredients for one birthday cake?" Cashier, "I don't make the rules lady!". Yea--I wanted to pull the guy across the counter. She walked out in silence, with child looking perplexed.

Public Education: great if you live in the right district.

Medicaid/Medical: It's almost like having no insurance. So much is not covered. So many doctors don't take it. 30 day supplies on a very restrictive Formulary. I imagine it does when wheeled into the emergency rooms.

So many of our Welfare Programs are purposely administered so people just give up. Personally, I think we need to open up any available federal, state, and county land to allow homeless to at least pitch a tent. Right now being homeless is for all practical purposes a crime. We are beyond finding solutions. Americans shouldn't be forced to sleep on the sidewalks--just waiting for a ticket, or being the victim of a random crime.

We have a huge problem in America. And it's the way we treat those that don't fit in. Tech community should take notice. When the balloon pops; you just might see the misery first hand. I know Willie Brown is wondering out loud what San Francisco will do when Iwasfired.com happens.
At the end of the day, it's pretty unlikely AT&T will suffer any significant losses for this, but there's a decent chance some consumers will.
There's still a tremendous imbalance of power. I don't see why people wouldn't want to leverage their collective strength by unionizing...
The militarization of the U.S. police force has been going on for decades.
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They have a section on this very website, called "Ask HN". It's not uncommon for people to ask for opinions/input on tooling.

That also gives you more context, because it's answering your actual question, rather than trying to answer your own question with a bunch of vaguely related data.

It also handles the dependency issue. Someone asked why imagemagick is so popular, but its probably actually just a dependency for language-level bindings (e.g. php-imagick), not that people are using `convert` or `identify` directly on the CLI.

Heck, consider the case of front-end developers who have a toolset that depends on nodejs. They may never write any server side code, but if they follow recent trends they probably need nodejs for their css/js "toolchain" - the stats don't tell you that though. They just tell you that nodejs is installed a lot.
This is an incredible accomplishment. Congratz guys.
Not just capitalization. Yahoo! Inc includes an exclamation point.
Right. As is speech -- free.
Well there I was, thinking that maybe rejecting the free upgrade might have been a bit petty after all. I'm not a big hater of flat UI but phew, Windows 10 is ugly. Flat UI should have high contrast but with a feeling of lightness. For some reason Windows 10 went for a super dark palette: black, magenta, navy, blood orange etc. Sorry, not for my workstation.

On the other side of the spectrum, plenty focus too much on being neat and consistent that they become greyish, bland and sacrifice usability. Good ones use colours, shadows and placements wisely so that navigation does feel lighter and the experience is more content-focused.

Excellent ones do all that but without burdening the audience with that nasty aftertaste of pretentiousness.

Learn the rules, then break the ones you can't agree with. It's the designer's privilege to be able to do this more often than developers can ;)
For movies you need even more extreme ratios, 16:9 is a compromise that suits nobody. A4 or Letter with some extra on sides is better for most productivity.
That "sometimes" quickly breaks down when your application starts to grow beyond trivial. Some things that are rather application-specific like routing and dependency management don't quite compose well in the widget model. Or at least, Polymer at the moment doesn't have proper solutions to quite some edge cases that you'll be running into.
Well, I think it's easier to be honest when you are in a position of power (economically or socially) as you can probably absorb the repercussions without too much of a harm
The poster "reductio ad absurdum"ed after he "non sequitur"ed. A valid reductio requires applying the principle of charity first though.

We do need a Latin phrase for the principle of charity!
To be fair, have you read about the VA system? That is a system with limited scope, understood problems, strong bipartisan support, that can easily pull the public's hearts for budget. And it still falls way too short in its mission and regularly fails to provides adequate care.
Yes, vector math with a bit of number math and symbol math should do the trick.
add a block for pmd.cdn.turner.com (small video) and cvp1.cdn.turner.com (big video)

Blocks the video without breaking the page
'non-design' a better way of describing what's happening here
Colorless icons do have some merit though. You should always design your icons in a way that an outline is a good indicator and that a greyscale version works too. Relying on color to convey meaning is hostile towards the colorblind. I have had several users complain because we have used red and green lines to indicate correct and incorrect connections.
It's a great symbol for socialism really, the whole country is starving to death whilst the literal fat man at the top makes some nukes to threaten America with. Great success!
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Doesn't that kind of make "universal health care" a meaningless word? What about people who need surgeries?
Farming is a very localized activity as it greatly depends on a climate, soil type, irrigation, demand etc., so I doubt anybody from outside can help you with that. See what neighboring similar sized farms are growing, chances are that they have been doing this for years and have already optimized for the best value.
Chrome has a great mute tab feature, just right click the tab bar and mute the offending tab.
If I wanted a newer version of Perl (or Python, or anything else that ships with macOS), I'd use homebrew, if only to keep everything in the same place. By doing so, for example, brew upgrade would update everything. That's the whole point of package managers, having a discrete package manager for each package defeats the purpose. This is also a reason why I dislike npm and the weird practice of distributing non-js packages with it.
So a scenario where the key is long-lived, but the process communicating is transient? I suppose that makes sense, although I struggle to imagine the use case.
Steve Jobs and Scott Forstall had a huge advantage, they only had to care about a 320x240 (and later @2x) canvas. Crafting backgrounds and textures is easy if you know the pixel resolution, however now with multiple sizes and high dpi screens, what you want is a flexible and adaptable UI. Flat design makes UI development easier. This does not excuse using simple labels instead of buttons but iOS 10 has backpedaled quite a lot on that.
How often do you handle files large enough to observe a difference between grep, ack, ag and rg ?

I'm willing to bet (and happy to lose) that most people, even in the subset who use grep "a lot" (defining "a lot"...), wouldn't see a significant improvement. They are people (I'm betting fewer) who need speed above all other concerns, and those people already make it to the top 1000.
The layering inside the kernel is completely different...

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Facebook’s primary motivation was to gain access to the un-encrypted bytes
in kernel space. KCM is used to decode the framing, and make intelligent
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is able to reduce the total number of thread migrations of an individual
request
So why does the typical American live within 18 miles of home? [0]

Do they just happen to agree with the society they're born into, or is it possible there are stronger forces than political preference that constrain their movement?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-f...
My oldest, while in second grade, learned enough calculus to determine the _location_ of a train given it's acceleration and since it started. That's because she was interested, and asking questions, and luckily I had explained to her the slope of a graph just a few days before the train ride. She didn't learn the formula to memorize, but rather the concepts. Only then did we do the calculations the long way, on paper, pen in _her_ hand.
I'd be more inclined to think of it as an "enemy of my enemy is my friend" kind of a relationship. The USSR has historically supported North Korea as well, so the expectation and past relationships at various levels are still going to be there regardless of what the Russian government looks like these days.
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Nice stats, also the single software version update frequency should be considered. For example I installed both node and vim, the latest only once.
Ask HN: Gender diversity
I have stumbled upon the databricks leadership team page by chance: https://databricks.com/company/leadership-team.

My surprise was that the entire team of 15 is composed only by male persons.

Until now I have only noticed big companies advocating gender diversity.

Is there a specific reason why this doesn't happen also in smaller companies ?
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It has been around 10 months since we started and our ideas had gone through many changes. (finalized 5 months ago) When that happened, there was another guy.
We decided to develop 2 websites and 1 server for our app, plus 2 servers for 3rd-party social-media ads. we planned for late September.
I initially disagreed the change of plan because we lose all work until now and the 3rd party API documentation said the normal expected time for development would be around 6-9 months.
The reason why I agreed was:
1. We hired contractors who would develop the 2 websites and 1 server.
2. Business guy (bg) insisted that this was the only chance at making success (He is financing the operation, I helped out with 5K)
3. Others were responsible for the logic for 3rd party ad APIs. I was in charge of documenting and supporting the contractors.
About 3 weeks ago, the other guy just disappeared. This forced me to cover for his project.
Bg has already signed contracts with a few customers and he says he will somehow bring more money in because he wants to extend our contractors to develop for his new changes and for future expenses.
But I realized that, now I am working on a project that I disagreed and never liked to begin with while bumming at my girlfriend's house with no money. Also, this whole thing doesn't keep me up at nights anymore. I am not allowed to say I am exhausted after only 10 months, but for past 2 months, I have been taking only two 2-hr naps a day to be working in day-time, and night-time (to support contractors).
Most importantly, I started to question whether I will ever be happy under his management. (He is a good friend and human-being regardless)
I really want to leave and I also have an idea that I want to develop next, but I do not want to burn any bridges. There is 3 months notice for the cofounder agreement, but I don’t want to keep contributing without any future promise
I don't know what to do, but I don't want to be doing nothing.
Facebook's like button code generator tool[1] includes the entire SDK even if you configure it to only show a like button with no other social graph features. I guess there is an argument that having every site that uses Facebook's API having the same .js file will take advantage of browser caching better but it's still irritatingly wasteful.

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button
I agree with a lot of this. But I still disagree with:

> With classical physics, you can reason based on your lifetime of observations of everyday objects. [...] QM is abstracted so far away that it is incredibly hard to test anything intuitively.

Most intuition that people have about physics which comes from everyday life is wrong. Even momentum is not intuitive; that was not figured out for thousands of years, and children and laypeople still get it wrong all the time. Gravity is not innately intuitive, especially with orbits. Electricity is not intuitive. Magnetism is not intuitive. But you learn the rules and you work through problems, and you start to see how the rules play out. And you develop an intuition for all of these phenomena that arises from your deep, high-level understanding of the rules, not from everyday experience.

An electrical engineer could look at a circuit diagram and tell me the gist of what it will do, even though she has no direct perception of electricity. An aerospace engineer could tell me without solving any equations what would happen if we gave this orbiting spacecraft a little push in this direction, even though he's never been to orbit. And so on.

QM is just another branch of physics like all the others in which to learn the rules and gain a conceptual understanding beyond merely cranking equations. It is not special in that way.
The introduction of copious amounts of whitespace is a very common design tool that is not limited to just websites. Have a look at an average art gallery or museum and you will know what I mean. And there's a reason why using whitespace is a good thing, as outlined in this article[1] for example.

[1] https://boagworld.com/design/why-whitespace-matters/
Lets put paranoia aside for a moment, how would this even be feasible? Firstly the browser has to ask permission to use the camera

Hey maybe you're the one in a million that uploads videos direct through webcam so they have that permission anyway - Would people really be ok with sitting there as their webcam light flickers on and off to make sure they're watching adverts? No, they would not. Literally any rival tube site could milk the heck out of that to start pulling people away from YouTube. I'd put money on seeing people vlogging on an adult tube site before we see eyeball tracking on YouTube.

Besides all that you could just unplug your webcam..
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It's still bad.