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Make the alternatives just as good. This is obviously a very idealistic thing to say, but I do stand by it.

In the field of Computer Science this is a very relevant statement. You don't need to go to a good CS school to get a job at Google anymore.

It's a matter of doing this across all disciplines, though. Not just CS.
"Free ourselves from scarcity thinking." Brilliant. Do not worry about the decrease in arable land, shortages of drinking water, decline in biomass in fisheries, scarce minerals, or any of that stuff. It's all in your head! Mind over matter, man.
These are mostly examples of inventions like the television that were not in practice some "out of the blue" discovery but instead a product of lots of small innovations at the same time. If the person who is usually acknowledged as "inventor" of these things had instead done something else they would anyway have come into use at about the same time but in a slightly different form and with some different person as inventor.

For your example of "the Internet" that's true only if you squint and choose TCP/IP as "the Internet". But if you take a step back the Network is a more or less an inevitability, I would insist on dating _that_ to at least the Treaty of Bern (1874) and perhaps earlier. Of course Bern moves actual paper letters, rather than just bits, but the central idea is there - the network effect, we must communicate with absolutely everybody, if we let national sovereignty get in the way of that we lose out.
> For example, I think in India a woman can finish medical school at age 23, whereas in the U.S. it would be age 26

Do they emerge with the same level of training & experience? Difficult to do an apples-to-apples comparison.
haha, yes :-)
It can be not native and still lighter-weight than electron
Dirty Jobs is full of great examples of people who've found their niche in this category of jobs, and are probably quite well compensated for it.
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They charge something like 1.10 per month for this ‘security check’. So it seems mainly a revenue motivated thing. Very persistent as well; they tend to turn it on after every contract period.
Happiness isn't a fungible commodity. It's not a store of value. No job can offer me happiness, just the possibility of happiness. When I go home, any unrealized happiness from that day is gone. Any unspent money, however, goes into my savings account.

If I work a well-paying tech job, I can save enough money that I don't have to go in to any job. My alternative isn't another job; it's no job at all. Then, if I love software engineering, I can engineer software on my own free of the constraints of the market. That saved money also provides potential happiness, probably in a more reliable way.

> Consider the job that you would do if you could no longer do your current work, or the job that would bring the most delight to your daily life. Does that job pay less? For most people, the answer to that question is also yes.

These first two are basically three different questions. If I could no longer do my current job, I'd hunt for similar jobs that pay more. If I could no longer do this type of work, it wouldn't be a good thing, and I'd try to find another high-paying career I'd be decent at. The job that would bring the most delight to my daily life isn't a job at all, and it's very weird to weave in the capitalistic assumption that life is determined by a job without also accepting the truth that in a capitalist society, money is actually the best way to bring yourself delight.
I take issue with "The reason for both of these is because delightfulness is part of what you are being paid."

Unless you would do your current job even you weren't paid at all, then that is not really true. What we do, is negotiate the balance between discomfort and money. It might be a good deal for you personally, but you are still giving up some satisfaction.
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I am only speaking for a single EU country here. In DK, features such as NFC are released for all banks simultaneously (that is, fully implemented and functioning) through the national payment provider, who is also the issuer for our national credit card type (which is a dual-type card by also being a VISA for international use, and is tied directly to a bank account). I don't think they have a choice, and they certainly gain no PR or image from it.

Now, the national payment provider (a private company) does it because they earn money on terminals, and want to fight to stay relevant in a world of emerging mobile payment solutions such as MobilePay (a Danish mobile payment solution of which over half the population are users).

The only exception to this rule appears to be Apple Pay, which is implemented by some individual banks. I am not sure if this is due to platform differences, or whether it is just the national payment provider fighting back. I'd suspect the latter, as Apply Pay just see our dual-type credit cards as VISA, sending them transaction fees that the national payment provider lose out on.

Other than that, banks here are only differentiated based on their financial solutions, and maybe in some rare cases by their mobile/internet banking solution (all have feature complete variants, but some are nicer than others).
Thx folks, it has been a awesome ride so far. That's only possibly due to the great Bitmovin team. (I'm one of the cofounders)
Mostly posting just because of this quote:

> Let’s estimate that Harmony is approved as ECMAScript 6 in mid-2012 and Internet Explorer 11 is released in early 2013 with support for all of Harmony’s syntax. Five years after that, in 2018, the Google Apps team can drop support for Internet Explorer 11 and finally use Harmony syntax freely.

We've finally reached the prediction from back in 2011 of when we should be able to use ES6 (Harmony) freely. Albeit IE11 isn't dead, but that browser isn't the controlling factor anymore.
hello GDPR, goodbye freedom of speech
Nice! However, looking at the screenshots... I wonder why developers so often seem to get UI paddings, margins and font sizes so wrong. Does it really need some special kind of sensitivity to notice and care about it? :)
How is this a surprise to anyone? Children require time and effort, and this usually means one of the parents works less or not at all. Considering 25 to 35 are prime child-rearing ages, the reason for this gap seems quite obvious.
Hey, does Microsoft sponsor H-1B?
Aren't single working women <30 on average paid 8% more than men of the same age?
I would guess it uses less memory: it claims generally <100MB, although in my opinion that's still a ridiculous amount of memory for a desktop IM client to use. Still, it's better than 800MB.
I worked the night shift at a hotel in college. I turned down a "SEE ID"-signed card once, where the guy started the transaction with "hey loser, got a room?" to amuse his girlfriend. Turns out that's an excellent way to get me to be nitpicky about the rules.
"problematic"

If you're a woman and you have non-standardized interests, you are "problematic" for society. If you're a woman and want to raise your own children, you're "problematic". If you're a woman and the number on your paycheck is not priority #1 in your life, you're "problematic".
I don't think that anybody should try to fix Facebook, because it's just not realistic.

Facebook simply needs to give way to a more evolved and humane way of "social networking".
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I never knew about deleted content. Is there any place you could buy a stack overflow account with 10k+ reputation?
My suggestion in the book is to go back to a distinction between "needs" and "wants." A distinction that capitalism has unfortunately erased. For a great treatment of that I recommend "How Much is Enough" by Edward and Robert Skidelsky. Here is my take on Needs (caveat: this section of the book is heavily under development, so YMMV) https://worldaftercapital.gitbooks.io/worldaftercapital/cont...
My rule of thumb is any job that has any "star" the general public knows and cheer for, don't bet your life's happiness on it. The more glamorous you see the star, the worse off the average person is/the more improbable an average person can make it. For example, rock star, movie star, star chef, star youtuber, star blogger, star athlete, star politician, star Hacker news story, star redditor, star 4chan memer, etc.

I haven't heard of a star lawyer, or star doctor, or star programmer that the general public knows.
You have a point (I'm the author). When I was young I had a few friends who were line cooks at Olive Garden, and they didn't believe they were going to have a great career staying in that kind of work. It was just a job that they were able to get at an entry-level without any training. But I also have multiple friends and family members who went to culinary school in hopes of becoming chefs at their own restaurants. Mostly this has not turned out very well financially for them. For the same amount of work if they had gone to trade school, any of them could have a job that pays well.

Note this does not mean they'd be happier.
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This is what I don't quite understand about the github atmosphere. How is it considered perfectly normal to introduce an application "...with enhancements" and not include a screenshot.
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I don't think that's reasonable. Stuff like this (delaying people) happens with strikes all the time. Besides, Uber has a history of ignoring laws and regulations themselves.

These people are being sent into a race to the bottom by an outsider. An outsider who just happened to have attracted a big pile of money in a faraway country.
The long process to becoming a medical doctor (or lawyer) plays a large part in why they tend to be high-powered careers. Not being able to start a career until later in life is a disincentive to follow in that path, and the fewer people willing to still go through with it, the more power those careers will possess. There are other ways to limit the numbers, like a lottery, but not all of those are given the same social acceptance in North America. We are socially okay with extending time in academia.

Not that everyone would become a doctor even if it were easier to attain, but to take it to the logical extreme, if everyone went through med school, doctors would have no more power than a sales clerk at Walmart. Power comes from scarcity.
I'd wager it's less an issue of the cards being commonplace, but instead the card readers and processing companies. I still regularly encounter stores which either don't have a card reader that can accept a chip, or there's a sign indicating that it's not enabled yet.
Estimates are hard enough in the professional world where one pays X developers to do Y. In a volunteer-ran open source its nearly meaningless...

Start to use it today, use extensions like Assembly2/3 to compensate for missing features and do your best to help out if that is not enough. Or have patience :)
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Unfortunately a lot of developers value aesthetic and polish somewhere deep down on the list of priorities and don't seem to comprehend that other people care a lot about such things.
When you cook at home, you decide what you want to cook and find a recipe. From there on out, you have the recipe. Just like restaurants don't magically appear when you decide you want a hamburger. You must choose one.

In the time it takes you to go to a restaurant, or order online, I can cook a meal for four at half the price you paid.

I hate when people downplay the time and cost involved in eating out as if there is none.

Last night, I made a two prime, strip steaks with red potato chips and a side salad. It took me less than 30 minutes. Admittedly, the salad came from a bag my wife bought on the way home cause I forgot to buy vegetables.

Most of that time was waiting for things to heat up. A few minutes for the pan. Longer for the oven for the potatoes.

This morning we had eggs with melted cheddar, english muffin and bacon. I bought the muffins cause it's harder to make than regular sourdough bread I bake. It took me 10 minutes not including opening up the packages and getting things out of the fridge.
> Research has shown other policies that would help: programs to help women re-enter the labor force; flexibility in when and where work gets done; subsidized child care.

I'm not certain what a 'programme to help women re-enter the labor force' would look like, so I won't comment on that.

Flexibility is awesome, and in many jobs (particularly our own) it's possible. But in many other jobs (the majority, perhaps?) it's impossible, or has extreme costs.

I believe that over time we'll find that children raised by strangers will have various physical & psychological issues compared to those raised by their own families; while it's necessary in some cases I don't think that we want to encourage it as a society.
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This makes me think of the Google SRE book. They advise that, if there is a problem this big, any SRE should have the power to turn off the production load balancers until the problem is fixed.

I don't think that TravisCI did anything wrong. However, if they had turned off the load balancers as soon as they realized that there was a huge issue, it might have protected customer data more. They optimized uptime over completely fixing the issue. Also, perhaps nobody felt that they had the authority to turn off the production service.
Is there any good alternative though?
> The telegraph companies eventually banned codes for that reason.

And as with today's spin machines, some claimed that the ban was to help their customers by reducing the likelihood of code related errors (mainly the effect of transcription errors when writing or reading back the telegram) causing significant communication errors. The past is not as alien a country as we sometimes think!
> Whose responsibility is it to make those cards more common, if not Mastercard's?

The issuers. Of course, Mastercard has some influence over them... But they certainly can't unilaterally dictate conditions to them beyond whatever contract they signed.

There's also the fact that, even if issuers handed them out, the machines and merchant processors also have to support them. Which was something that still hasn't completely happened in the US, even with the networks pushing as hard as they could. (Moving fraud liability to the merchants is about the biggest move they could make.)
Leap Motion: What do developers want?

Developers: Hand tracking on mobile and an updated Android SDK.

Leap Motion: Ok, here's the blueprints to a PC tethered AR headset.
Hey, thanks for the feedback. Your points are definitely valid and are something that I have given some thought in the past.

It seems really difficult to prevent arbitrage while still keeping the gas cost for price update low.
This is one of the reasons why I defaulted at a 3% fee (which is ofc changeable as preferred), this could encourage share-holders to trade their tokens with potential buyers instead of minting/burning them.
Another option could be to split the price into a "purchase-price" and a "withdraw-price" which are apart from each other to some degree.

The idea by dynamically minting tokens for me was mainly to reduce the chance for a premium. Many funds in the past, like the TaaS.fund and ICONOMI have had huge premiums of 30%+, which is not ideal for either party.

It will would defnitely be considered a security in the US I believe, but it was not my goal to setup a fund structure to avoid taxation. By being on the blockchain it is potentially possible to use it cross-borders.
In India, medical school is 5 years. In the US it is 4 years. Beyond that, I do not know. I will note, however, that when Indian doctors move to the US, do their USMLE and try to get into a residency program, they do not do any special training to "catch up".
Franz launches a completely new instance for every workspace/network that you add and these are based on their regular webviews.
Unlike Slack, it will not unload less frequently used workspaces from your RAM and with 8 Slack workspaces, Telegram, Whatsapp and IRCCloud it managed to permanently allocate more than 3 GiB RAM. That may be fine on my beefy desktop PC but not on my MacBook Air with only 8 GiB RAM.

In my case, just leaving the official apps of these chat networks in the background seems to be less resource intensive than running Franz. I really hope that https://eul.im/ will up to my expectations.
It's not similar to Electron at all. Zero web technologies involved in it, other than supporting JS bindings. Far more like Qt/GTK except trying to use native widgets as much as possible. The Linux support actually is GTK, but MacOS/Windows use the vendor UI libraries.
Like so many others, the article fails to acknowledge that some women (and some men!) don't mind earning less if that allows them to take are of their children. I could certainly earn more than I do today. But that would mean spending even less time with my children, so I don't. Does it hurt my career? Probably. But it's worth it.
I you are right, but I also think that there is an argument that our modern incarnation of capitalism has more in common with a planned economy than Adam Smith's capitalism.

In many key areas of the economy there are no free agents making economic decisions. This is the age of rent-seeking. The competitive markets for fuel, finance, retail and many other areas are increasingly being pushed to the fringe of the market.

If the answer to how to manage the economy is capitalism, than we need to embrace capitalism.
Disable emojis. Seriously, the animated emojis must be implemented with something like this

while(true) {
foreach(emoji) {
emoji.refresh();
if (emoji.since_last_frame() > 1/60) emoji.next_frame();
}
}

Slack can easily eat up one core with just a few of them on the screen. Never seen that.
The problem is that people don't fully mature until 25-ish.

I wouldn't trust a 23yo lawyer or doctor, no matter how smart they appear. Some things are learned only by experience, and not just by books.

Also, a huge chunk of tech's HR issues are mostly created by startups having very young founders and young managers that don't have real life experience. (to me, young is anybody younger than 30). Half of the firing/issues I have seen in real life could have been easily avoided if the people in the room had more experience.
The conflation of job types in this piece undercuts its thesis, which I think it pretty good advice.

Seeking out a career in a kitchen, the entertainment business or any other "tournament profession" is high-risk and likely to leave you with few skills the market will reward.

On the other hand, getting a Ph.D. in life sciences seems like a pretty fool-proof path to the upper-middle class. Sure, you may not be a Nobel Prize winner, but I'd imagine in the worst case, you'd be pretty employable by pharma companies.

The other examples are a bit weirder. The people who love to fly recreationally typically aren't the ones manning the red-eye, or ferrying air freight from Shenzen. In most cases, they're "Post-economic" if they can afford to learn.

Likewise, I'm not sure anyone goes into the forest service for money.

Anyway, the author makes a good point, but muddles it with poor examples.
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I would be very interested to know if there is a correlation to how often men file for divorce and the amount of time the wife spends on child care and related responsibilities. We already know that the rate in which women will file for divorce is directly related to the income of the husband, which would then make this a directly symmetric incentive model and possible a form of nash equilibrium which the solution that the article suggest are not addressing.
Even if you think it's worth the cost, you can't deny that there are still ongoing costs; doing something a less efficient way bears a cost, and more auditing, documentation, and overhead bears a cost.
If it's true that non monetary compensation replaces monetary compensation for these type of jobs then it's only good advice to not do them if that non monetary compensation is worth less to you than the average person doing those jobs. If that's all that was going on this advice wouldn't make sense unless you were motivated by money over prestige and job satisfaction to an atypical degree.

What's going on with these type of jobs is actually mostly just simple supply and demand. Supply of labor at a given price is increased by the perceived desirability of the work but that ignores both the demand side and the qualifications / requirements on the job. These help explain the examples that don't fit the overly simplified story in the article. Brad Pitt or Gordon Ramsay for example do quite well for monetary compensation in fields listed here because they are not easily substitutable. Doctors are still quite well paid despite the prestige and "helping people" job satisfaction because supply is restricted by licensing requirements.
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Ask HN: Types of Communities? Open Source, Walled Garden, Blockchain, others?
I feel like all of these communities have their pros and cons.

Open source: free rider problem, devalues creators.

Walled garden: concentrated power.

Blockchain: experimental, doesn't fix concentration of power.
Here's an image showing lynchings (what you call "disreputable histories"): Alabama earned it's disrepute, which is why I wasn't surprised.

I am not taking a cheap shot, unless you can prove to me that these "histories" are firmly in the past for Alabama, and that the attitudes have not lingered and that lady Justice is now color-blind in Alabama courts.

Edit: I've just realized your post is what-aboutism, I regret taking the bait.
The first four years in the US is actually not in medical school. Basically you'll need the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in biological sciences to go to medical school. Most students do 4-yr college and then med. A total of 8 years. Then residency and on and on. If the biological sciences requirement is simply folded into a five year course that's the Indian model. MBBS - Bachelor of science and Bachelor of medicine.
Where did you get that number?
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> The study found that over all, women earn $12,600 less than men before children are born and $25,100 less afterward.

If two working people have a child, and one is going to partially leave the work force to care for the child, who's salary would you pick?

The uneven salary, on top of the cultural biases we all absorb, mean it's practically a given the man will stay in the workforce and the woman will become the caregiver.

Equal pay for women means more men will get to take on childcare roles. Feminism is humanism.
As a Lithuanian, I feel an urge to give a full story of my day when asked "how is it going". Don't want to hear the long story? Ask if everything is OK..
Before I moved full time to the UK i was in the same position. The only bank I found that provided true chip and pin was Andrews FCU. https://www.andrewsfcu.org/personal/loans-and-credit/credit-...

I never got one though, I ended up getting married soon after and got a UK bank account.