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Communism is anti-worker because it leads to rampant rent-seeking by political organizers responsible for coordinating the provision of collectively owned capital goods, which is a necessarily a complex problem, since a capital good could refer to any manufactured good which is 'durable' and not immediately consumed.

However the base means of production for any economy as recognized by the Physiocrats and all classical economists is land and natural resources, which are non-produced resources of fixed supply that are a wholly distinct factor of production than capital.

While it is not necessary or desirable for the state to seize capital or private interest payments paid for the use of capital, it should sieze the 'ground rent' which is acquired from private enclosures of natural resources, as unlike interest on capital the surplus ground rent paid to landholders does nothing to increase the supply of land, and is collected even if the land were to remain idle and the landholder invested nothing in its actual improvement.
> Besides your anecdotal observation about laid back engineers, ...

Who said "engineers"?
Would you please stop using HN for ideological battle? It's emphatically not what this site is for:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Same in Scandinavia
this has made participating in public media much more important.
What you are saying is as a top performer it financially was and is better for you to charge based on results? (i.e. as a consultant)
WHO NEEDS a ETHICAL HACKER?
I never knew hackers could improve a low credit score until i met one on a discussion forum when i googled how to improve my credit score, i read a lady’s comment on how capable the hacker is of solving any problems that has to do with hacking. So i sent him a mail and asked if he had the ability to raise credit scores(all 3 companies) and also eliminate eviction off court records. Then he replied yes and asked me to provide him some info of mine he’ll need to run the hack. when i did just that, he completed the hack within 72 hours at a price that’s worth it. I give thanks to the ethical hacker for coming to my aid when i needed him the most. Reach the hacker at spystealth.org at gmail dot com and you’ll be amazed by his skills.
Yes I was affected, just less than others. I still had to think about the issue whenever I changed hands or adjusted my grip. Having to keep something front-of-mind is being affected because it's consuming part of your focus.
Trump is 100% GOP. You don't vote for him in the primary and general elections then get to claim "oh, he doesn't represent us really".
Back in March, 265 members of congress voted to reverse an FCC privacy rule [0] in exchange for bribes (whoops, it's called lobbying). I'll leave it to you to figure out whether they had a "D" or an "R" next to their name. Then after that, tell me with a straight face that this isn't a partisan issue or that both sides are just the same.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp...
There is no clear reason for it to take so much space to represent so little data.
I think it is but for a more base reason. If they cut it, no man hours have to care for it. Simple monetary explanation. It sucked when they cut it.
Wow, this looks really great for things like modular nodes in remote areas! It does seem like this is sort of a weird comparison to make, though:

>It needs about 3% of the RAM found in a traditional Arduino like the Duemilanove, and it processes each heartbeat message in about 256 instruction executions (about 30 nanoseconds on a 1.6GHz N3700).

The Duemilanove uses a 16MHz ATMega328, so...16 microseconds? Still pretty good for a power-efficient setting, as long as you have separate listening/caching hardware for each individual high-speed signal.
I don't understand the relevance. That's also bad.
Genuinely - can someone TLDR this? I read it and don’t grok.
Seriously, every time I read a story about how some company is hitting hard times, when the company is worth $billions and made their founders and investors $millions, I think to myself, boy, if only I could do that bad for myself!
om.next does a similar thing
I've never understood the Iran hate. Iranian culture is very distinct from Arab culture. It is truly one of the oldest and greatest human cultures, and it's a shame that more people don't get to experience it because of this irrational hatred and suspicion
Religious flamewar is not allowed on HN. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do this.
I'm the author of that post. The goal wasn't to mislead - like I mentioned, I'm learning these things myself and definitely could've gotten several things wrong.

I meant file offsets are per process, not that every process gets its own table entry.

> when two processes perform reads through a shared file table entry for a regular file, the order of reads will matter as between the two processes because of the shared cursor; the sequence of data each process reads could differ based on random scheduling latencies.

Not sure I follow. won't the two processes still have their own descriptors which point to the same file entry but maintain their own offsets? I think what I understood from your comment is that descriptors are _shared_ by the parent and child with share by reference semantics? So both the parent and the child _are using the same descriptor_ which in turn has an offset in the file table entry.
Should have stressed that it was sarcasm!
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I found that comparison pretty funny too.

To me it was more amusing to see open source from... presumably the automobile recovery and monitoring industry. A first for me, to be sure. :- )
Well, why not? Ideally, we think that this would allow users to interact directly on our platform thus positively influencing adoption and retention.
Personal attacks like this will get your account banned. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
Using ML models to explain other ML Models
You could, you know find out if it was true instead of dropping unsubstantiated information in here.
Where I come from (France) and where I live now (Japan) the laws are quite similar in that, as a driver, you have to be "in control" of your vehicle at any time. Meaning that you need to be able to stop it to avoid any unexpected event. Quite sensible if you ask me.
USA, Russia, Japan, UK are all doing this kind of things, but the West would rephrase themselves as cultural exchange or blessedness transmitters just like they named their acts on Tahuantinsuyo, Congo etc as civilizing.
Totally. Thanks for the TL;DR.
Hey yeah, good point - I'll bet they do have a high-speed central processor for the whole engine-control/user-interface stuff, but they also probably have a lot of far-flung modules operating in very rough environments for a signal going over a long wire. And I guess the figure does say 'Car' and 'ECU' a lot...

Pretty cool, whatever the reason!
15-20% margins is by no means slim.
I think Dijkstra established the case for using Zero based indexing strong enough: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...
I've lately seen some interest in RSocket: http://rsocket.io/

The Java and C++ implementations seem to be the most active. Which makes sense, coming out of Facebook-land.
ZFS and CentOS are not a good combination, in my experience. The Red Hat/Oracle feud doesn't give RH much incentive to be ZFS-friendly, and the interaction between DKMS and weak-modules is a fiasco.

ZFS woes, and Red Hat's penchant for yanking hardware support (like a PERC/4e RAID controller I encountered this spring), have brought me to the point that the only new CentOS installations I'll make will be KVM guests.

The last straw for me was the 1708 release, when the ZFS modules failed to build, leaving my home NAS stuck on the old kernel. Out went CentOS, in went Ubuntu Server. No regrets.
1. Your script crashes when it is given input that does not parse as an integer. The awk script does not. In this way, the awk design favors robustness over correctness, which is a valid choice to make at times.

2. How would you modify it so it parsed a tab-delimited file and did FizzBuzz on the third column? With awk it is a simple matter of setting FS="\t" and changing $0 to $3?

3. How would you modify it so instead of being output unmodified, rows with $3 that are neither fizz nor buzz output the result of a subprocess called with the second column's contents?

Now you might say that this is all goalpost-moving, but that's the point. AWK is more flexible and less cluttered in situations where the goalposts tend to get moved, but where the basic text processing paradigm stays the same.
"They'll sue us if we're not assholes" is a common rationalization/excuse from assholes. Every time I've done a deep dive on one of these (only a few times, not a lawyer) I've found them to be a complete fabrication and on one occasion the actual inverse of the truth, in that the activity being rationalized was in fact illegal.

I'm sure there are plenty of cases where the claim is legitimate, but there are more than plenty where it's not.
Sure, I can see how an argument could be made there. There's a lot of material goods that don't have software. Real estate, houses, food, just glancing around the room there are many things that don't incorporate software. How do you see these no longer being considered private property?
People are regularly unnecessarily traumatized by their interactions with the police. I wrote about one such person in Ordinary Rendition: The Public Servants' Quagmire [0], which touched on some of the same issues as are discussed in this piece.

Thanks for the link.

[0] http://www.taxiwars.org/2017/10/ordinary-rendition-public-se...
There’s that word “just”, here used to broadly denigrate anyone who might have an issue with how those topics are approached in the real world.

Not very conducive to discussion, and quite ironic in a thread about divisive echo chambers.
I was affected by the `data.loading` bug. I really like the Apollo ecosystem, but bugs like this are highly visible to customers (and often embarrassing to explain). But I'm glad that these problems are slowly being addressed.
Thanks this was interesting info :- )

Yes comments are sorted by like votes, or rather, like votes + also taking into account how many people actually read the comment. (A comment that 5 people read, but everyone upvoted, is probably better than a comment with 10 likes but that 1000 people have read.)

Sorting chronologically is something I've thought about enabling too, as a config value. I think I'll add that eventually, ... maybe not in the nearest future though.

Ok yes a simpler editor, maybe some WYSIWYG editor that auto-converts Markdown to lists, bold, headers etc immediately directly in a write-a-reply editor directly in the comments iframe, would be nice & better in some/many cases. There were some HackerNews posts about such editors, recently.

Hmm what does this mean?: "the google like icon of the letter" — which letter(s)? :- )
It’s not. I’ve tried with Relay Modern. See the API I want elsewhere in the thread.
I did it for two other side projects. A simple connect four game that I made right when I was learning javascript and an old handlebars.js site I made. I got a lot of positive feedback regarding it from interviews though. Seemed like it worked well.

Glad you found it entertaining!
That's the copyright license, which is orthogonal to patent issues.

Edit: Apparently not, GPL v3 has clauses regarding patent grants in it.
Wait until you get old ; people waiting behind will resent you too. The thing is you should be able to walk at any pace you like or can. Others waiting behind should get a less stressful life.
I think there's a misunderstanding here.

>A rule that prohibits a person from getting paid to represent other people

That's not the rule. The rule is you can't get paid to lobby. An executive drawing a salary when his job is primarily talking to congress people is obviously lobbying. To put a finer point on it you're making a distinction between (1) a corporate executive who receives compensation from his corporation speaking to a congress person because it is in his personal interest to advance the interests of his corporation and (2) a Sierra Club executive who receives compensation from the Sierra Club speaking to a congress person because it is in his personal interest to advance the interests of the Sierra Club. They're the same thing, if one is affected so is the other.
I respect Democracy Now for covering recent events in Mogadishu. It would be more egalitarian if such news were handled with equal importance, regardless of place on the planet, because we are global citizens of the human race first and the world can, and should be, as "flat" as possible.

EDIT: here's an interative map of on-going genocides: https://www.click2map.com/v2/H3llo/Genocide_Prevention
A lot of people are paranoid about the malicious case: "the company is trying to screw you over."

I don't think it's that hard to identify malicious employers even without knowing everyone's salaries.

The non-malicious case then boils down, to me, to: who do I think is less biased in evaluating my value vs my peer's value? Me, my peer, or a third party that is neither of us? The answer to that is pretty obvious, and so what am I going to gain except being overly focused on me against my peers vs me against my past self?

I would be very interested to know how many people who want full transparency are managers who've had to deal with things like "there's a mismatch in these people's salary because they came in at different levels but are now performing equally, but if I give a massive raise (say, 30%+) this year am I setting them up to be disappointed when the size of that isn't duplicated in the future vs spreading that across 4 every-6-month slower-paced bumps?" Or with employees who are radically wrong about how valuable they are compared to a peer, because they're focused purely on code and not noticing how their peer laid a bunch of ground work in negotiating with product and other stakeholders to eliminate some requirements that would've made the project take several months longer?

You can be transparent about the why: "we're going to be doing some market adjustments to your pay, but here's how many people we've seen get disgruntled and leave in the past if we do it too fast," and "the next step for you is looking beyond the tasks in front of you to see the bigger picture of these projects, and building a relationship with people from the rest of the business," without the gut punch that "here's how much less money you're making" is.
Why is there no user associated with the github commits? I've never seen that before.
But, did that interest lead directly to a job offer? My guess would be no, knowing the industry and given no other information about your situation.
Yes, and as of current, and the Xbox One X is the fastest selling pre-order in Xbox history. Each generation has sold faster than then next. I think this is largely attributable (in the XB360 -> XB1; PS3 -> PS4) to the fact that there was such a large gap between generations, so there was pent up demand. Don't mistake "faster selling" with more overall sales by the end of the generation.

As for the PS3 being a bad experience for Sony, that only applies to the first units. By the end of the generation, Sony was almost parity with Microsoft on units sold. So too has Xbox One started to catch up with PS4 (in the U.S.) Microsoft still sells more software per unit though, if I am not mistaken.
Multi terabyte heaps would move the bar for Big Data way to the right and let most of us just ignore the whole thing.

Basic space versus time trade off. In eight years we’ll laugh about how stupid people were for doing it, and in another 8 laughing at the people who didn’t.

One of the reasons things like memcache became a thing is because we hit a point where same-switch tcp/ip round trips were smaller than average seek time for your hard drives. I gotta say, it’s a little crazy that it was faster to ask another machine a question than to look it up yourself, but there it is.
Perhaps a digression, but how does something like compare with individual movers like "Guy with a Van", "Girl with a Van", "Brothers with Van" type single person operation?

Quite a few of them seem to be in business for many years and seemingly doing well enough to not close shop. What are they doing different to stay profitable?

Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=guy+with+a+van
This might sound a bit cynical but it seems we are at a stage where using the words - data, ML or AI seems enough.

The post while being vague constantly throws around the word - "data". What data really? If the Anti Portfolio discussion from yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15547136) is any indication, it is difficult to predict growth - data or not. For example, there already was Friendster. What data will help in deciding whether to invest in early stage Facebook? Or what data will help in decide investing in Uber? Today's startup are about growing, engagement and then possibly trying to make money. The truth remains even the best will fail at the last step.
Please don't respond to a bad comment with an even worse one. That's exactly the wrong direction to take.

Charges of shillage against other users are not allowed here unless (in some extremely rare twist of fate) you have actual evidence thereof. Treating such accusations as a routine internet tactic is poison, so please don't do it again.

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These Are the Happiest Cities in the United States
You will still be competing against everyone else who does the same, and your competition will be vastly increased. It will no longer be profitable for other nearby land holders to hold on to idle, vacant, or under-utilized land. For instance, if someone is holding on to a vacant building, a parking lot, or low density commercial development such as a strip mall, it may no longer be profitable to hold on to these under a land value tax.

The vacant building may be replaced with several small town houses, the low density commercial buildings may be replaced with multi-story mixed used buildings with additional housing built-in, as property owners seek to increase the value of their buildings relative to surrounding buildings in order to acquire a profit larger than the land value tax. They would pay the same tax regardless of whether they left the land vacant or put it to use, so there is a strong incentive for them to put it to the best use possible.

When land is actually improved and put to use, this increases the demand for labor and raises wages so that wages increase faster than rent. When land is held idle for speculative purposes, rent increases faster than wages and the average worker becomes poorer even if the output of the economy is increasing. Nominal prices may change in reaction to market condition, but what is important is wages relative to rent.
Another hiring manager here who reads GitHub profiles and loves to have a candidate walk me through what challenges they experienced, design decisions they had to make, etc.

One question I have for the grandparent post: what would a meaningful question be? Is the description I mention above seem like a meaningful way to discuss the work you took the time to share with me?
Interesting, can you point to an official document that says that?
For the lazy (Google Translate):

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
> which is that the cost of those benefits should be added in when comparing salaries.

If any of my past companies are any indication (outside of La La Land California), most of the additional "benefits" are wiped out by my monthly premium for my health insurance "benefit."
So predicting earth in a controlled environment, something which might have been generated using a pseudo random generator code? How will this hold up in nature?
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I've had to jump through those terrible "online coding challenge" hoops for jobs that didn't even involve coding! Tech companies far and wide are currently obsessed with them, to their detriment.
Reading that, at first it's just "oh that doesn't sound good" and then later it's "oh that's bad", then "omg that's horrifying". All in very polite language.

So the ship was not properly maintained, never did drills, did not verify maintenance that was done to life rafts, the "load limits" were not updated when major modifications were made, it had improper sealing against water, it was loaded very poorly with insufficient oversight, there were insufficient tie-downs for cargo, entire rows of cars were tied to a single chain instead of individual tie-downs, it routinely ran with too-little oil, the captain assumed weather prediction is perfect and plotted an aggressive course extremely close to the hurricane, the captain went to sleep during the critical hours the ship approached the storm and blew off course change suggestions, captain failed to get up in a timely manner, failed to recognize they were in an "oh hell no" proximity to the hurricane, failed to realize they were taking on water until too late, steered almost into the Cat3 eye while trying to fix stuff, did a turn which caused the oil to slide to the side of the tank and turn off the engine, still optimistically thought they'd get it together instead of calling for help, and generally ditzed around until it was too late to abandon ship.

The company which owns this ship needs to die.

Also, there was some fine smell of corruption. Coast Guard did a surprise inspection and found serious issues on a sister ship. They got called by their home base to stop that. The CG then flagged the type of issue on the ship and noted that the rest of the similar components needed to be checked. The Certification Agency performed the inspections and said "no it was just the one that was bad." Then the GC does another inspection a few months later and finds that every one of the components was rusted through.
Yes - I think clean reverse engineering is still possible in this model, but it really limits a lot of what software re-implementation people do day to day. For example, if I were making a spreadsheet application like Google Sheets, I'd have to build a repository of customer Excel documents and validate that my formula compiler output the same data as was present in the document, without ever opening Excel to quickly check an output or asking someone to open Excel and produce a spreadsheet containing specific inputs/outputs - because either one would be considered EULA-breaking reverse engineering (at least by my reading). That's scary and I actually think it has broader implications for "normal" products as less EULA concern is applied there than in obvious legal minefields like emulators.
My connection to France and really any European country is about the same as my connection to the countries in Africa. Why do you assume average Americans have some inherent connection that is much stronger than to other continents?