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Sorry, but you're just 100% wrong. You're describing some version of China from the 1960s, not today.

People in China are not told where to live, or what job to do. The government makes use of various macro-economic tools to steer the economy much more forcefully than in Europe perhaps, and perversely, the market forces (w/ Chinese characteristics!) are also fairly brutal and fast-changing, but people mostly choose their own professions and locations and in many respects, society behaves pretty similarly to the US/Europe.
The "vote" was mostly a load of crap. But I do have one issue:

is if they had liked the Site Governance page and therefore seen updates from that page; if one of their friends voted and clicked a box to send an update to their profile’s news feed; or if they happened to notice a promo for the vote that was mixed in with the ads on the right side of the page… I never saw a promo, but that’s because I ignore the small ads and other items on the far right. I suspect most people do.

I was notified via a massive box at the top of my news feed - one that spanned the whole feed and had a big call to action.
I am against inheritance taxes because they privilege corporate ownership above individual ownership. Corporations never die, so they never have to pay these taxes. Small family farmers OTOH... well they will be extinct under such a plan within a generation or two.

What I'd like to see is a 100% exemption from inheritance taxes for productive land and property (family owned businesses, business assets, office space for family or individually owned business and land contained thereon, farmland, etc), and a tax on income derived from renting out land and housing (this is designed to make it harder to make money from buying up housing to rent, and thus tilting the balance towards home ownership rather than renting). It would also help tilt the balance from corporate ownership to individual ownership of productive assets.
I think morsch means supermarkets, farmers' markets, high streets, and shopping malls.
This is why putting most of VC and most startups in one geographic location is stupid.

People in the bay area have a low sense of self preservation.

I hope all those landfill lofts come with life jackets.

Bay water is cold.

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Are we talking 100 years out? Because you'll still need engineers to decide where to put a building, what it should look like based on financial restrictions (a robot reading your bank account to decide how much building you can afford?) and future demand projections.

The robots aren't doing the financial decision making in the next 35 to 50 years. Assisted analysis (software), sure.

A robot isn't going to understand civil codes when it comes to laying down power lines (humans barely understand the civil codes). A human would be required to follow such guidelines and then could perhaps instruct a robot toward the actual labor.

Maybe one day in a very far off future civil laws will be understood by robots, but I'm betting that's not going to be very high on the list of things to get around to automating. It would also likely require extremely advanced AI, because the robot might have to negotiate civil code conflicts based on decisions made (and this just seems far beyond the next few decades). Who takes responsibility for a robot failing to navigate zoning laws properly?
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Do you think these foreign workers would be better off without these programming jobs available to them?
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Uh, the US has increased their manufacturing output since 1980 by 218%, and it's still head-to-head with China: http://business.time.com/2011/03/10/can-china-compete-with-a...
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> Why should a person be rich just because their parents were rich?

That's the problem with many policies and tax schemes. Their goal is not to make us better off but to manipulate or enforce someone's vision of fairness, often just thinly disguised envy.

Which in turn leads to all kinds of exceptions for politicians' pet projects, tax breaks for selected industries and just plain corruption.

Also, inflation is a wealth tax only on those whose wealth is in dollars.
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I think robots are great, but I'd prefer if China had time to transition to an economy less dependent on exports, as they are trying to do.
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One recently open-sourced contender that emphasizes CoffeeScript is:
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In theory, yes. In practice, no. The C emitted from compilers is usually an awful mess that looks like Assembly code and it might not have sane function entry points so it could be used as a library. Then you need to get the runtime system (garbage collector, etc) up and running to run your code. It's by no means impossible but it's very impractical.

Historically, C was used to implement many (functional) programming languages because it provided a convenient compiler back end and a well-defined intermediate representation between the front end and the back end. Not because you could compile to C and use your code from C.
Thanks for that link; the article was solid.

It's the scale of China's monopoly on rare earth metals which scares me. I'm -very- happy that mines are re-opening in other countries, and I hope that they're around long enough that home-grown manufacturers become reliable customers.

But they simply won't have enough mines and production capacity to secure the supply. Molycorp is small enough that China can flood the market with cheap rare-earth metals just long enough to mess up their $753 MM investment in that mine and knock them out of business again. This has happened before:

http://www.ndu.edu/press/chinas-ace-in-the-hole.html
"The Mountain Pass rare earth mine in California, owned by Molycorp Minerals, was once the largest rare earth supplier in the world. Through the 1990s, however, China's exports of rare earth elements grew, causing prices worldwide to plunge. This undercut business for Molycorp and other producers around the world, and eventually either drove them out of business or significantly reduced production efforts."

Of course Chinese manufacturing temporarily loses that "access to rare earth metals" advantage if mines ramp up exports again, but if doing so can cripple foreign mining operations it may be strategically worthwhile in the long term.
Hi - no you would not take these to an interview. You would use these to prepare before going in. Maybe it's not for everybody, but for people who are really bad at interviewing (and I've worked with a few of them) structuring their answers and thinking about them before the interview can help. There's nothing magical about cheat sheets other than the fact that using them forces you to think through and structure your answers beforehand. Maybe you already do that - in which case this product isn't for you.
I think something does force taxes to be complicated though and that is the fact that taxes are a useful tool of public policy and it is often one of the easiest ones to use. For example the federal government in the US can enact income and excise taxes to accomplish things that are otherwise outside the general powers of our federal government, such as heavily restricting machine gun ownership.

I think as soon as taxes become a political tool, or a tool of public policy the question isn't whether they will become complicated but rather how complicated they will become. The floor here seems to me to be based on the willingness of the average voter to put up with the complexity vs the desire to see their public policy goals enacted.

I think that these play out in two ways:

1) Local taxes tend towards less complexity than taxes which are national.

2) Taxes which everyone reports tend towards less complexity than taxes which few people report. Consider the current trends in state sales tax reporting vs trends in state income tax reporting...... There's no question that sales tax reporting on average is more complex now than income tax on a state level, and that its becoming more complex faster.
Thank you, that sounds very interesting. I assume you would use known images with plants in them as the training set.
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yes, but obviously that's not the comparison. shipping services have much longer distances to travel, they have the overhead of the entire system (trucks or planes for the long haul, trucks driving to your delivery address and from the pickup address, the associated costs of all the time spent by all the people involved) to overcome. i'm not sure who exactly wins in the end without real numbers.

and again, packaging should not be underestimated either.
Well if it where possible to use python in such a case there would probebly be demand.
Did you use Haxe for the iOS and Android versions as well? It wasn't quite there yet when I checked it out a couple of years ago.
>> Personally I'm on call 24/7.

> Except when you're sleeping?

24/7 is by definition when you're sleeping. As in "call me when I'm asleep, and I'll get up and take care of your emergency".
Let's say that's the case.

To what end? Selling them to the West and putting their own garment makers out of business?

Or using them domestically to put their own garment makers out of work? Do their garment makers then build robots? Does the math equal out? (I have no clue)

The labor dislocation would be extreme initially either way, and would be resisted. Take China's agriculture for example, they intentionally hold down productivity gains in agriculture to keep enough work available for the huge agriculture worker population and limit labor disruption.

It wouldn't take very long to severely reduce garment making in China and Vietnam once robotics gained a foot hold. The country with the least to lose in the robotic shift, that is highly capable of making that shift, would win very quickly.
Well, anonymity over bittorrent is hard(er, at least), and that is probably the reason why the hackers didnt distribute the data in that way. But for us who didnt do the hack, distributing the files is not as bad to be caught doing.

So while the hackers release the data in an anonymus manner, we can easily create a torrent. I would be surprised if one didnt already exist, actually.
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My father started a small roofing business in 1980, selling it just recently to an employee; that tax break was absolutely crucial to getting work going again. Luckily, my father's now-sold business had the bankroll to take full advantage of it. The credit others needed wasn't trivial to come by.
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> By selecting against our “worst” genes, we may run the risk of losing our greatest gifts.

So why don't we assume that our children will have similar genes to us, and provide an environment that would have nurtured these particular set of genes?
He writes also that he has a positive opinion on Scientology. The guy is a cop, so he should know that Scientology is a criminal "organization" and shouldn't support them with money. The whole system Scientology is a huge fraud.

He also write her with his work mail account, which should be another reason to fire him.
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So here's an idea:

Pretty much every site with a login facility has an "I forgot my password" option where you put in your username or email address, and it sends you a link to reset your password. This is effectively a second form of authentication - the ability to receive email at that address implies the ability to log in to that account.

So what about an authentication mechanism that works as follows:

1. You type in your username

2. The site emails you a one-time authentication token (as part of a link)

3. You click on that link and then you're logged into the site

Of course, there are a few obvious problems with this: it's a bit cumbersome to have to do for every login, email is unencrypted, and message reception uses a pull-based mechanism.

So I could envisage a standard, incorporated into browsers, as follows:

1. When you first launch your browser, you log into an authentication server S, supplying your password (either manually, or automatically via a saved password)

2. When you want to log in to a site, you type in your username, and the site sends an authentication token to the server S

3. S sends a push notification to your browser with the authentication token

4. Your browser passes this token to the site, and you're logged in

This way, your (hashed + salted) password need only be stored on server S (in the first example, this corresponds to your email server). This means that apart from S, none of the sites you use need to store any password information at all.

I'm sure this basic idea has been implemented previously in other contexts. Why are we not using for all our web logins?
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Ask HN: Why does this search not work?
This search: [0] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3Ashit&sortby=create_ts+desc

does not find this item: [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4084603

It's over two days old, so surely it's been indexed by now. It has an unusual word in the title, and I'm specifically searching for that word in the title.

Why does it not turn up in the search results?

This has wider implications for all web and mobile apps: Trust. If you provide demonstrably wrong, poor or misleading results, your customers won't trust you, and they'll be reluctant to give you money.
[0] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3Ashi...

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4084603
Something that a shift to robotic manufacturing plays to is the theory of inflection points in systems. In this case, the inflection points are very very long markers in time.

1) You start at highly domestic manufacturing for most goods (mostly the case right up until the mid 19th to 20th century).

2) Global outsourcing brings huge efficiency gains through specialization and optimizations with regulation and labor costs.

3) The inflection swings back to domestic manufacturing of most goods. If the US could automate the sewing of its clothing, why not most every other country? There's no reason Italy couldn't buy enough materials to then sew all of its own clothing domestically; ditto Spain or Belgium or whomever.

The swing back also brings all sorts of benefits for security when it comes to being less dependent on other nations for your basic goods. If you could make your own clothing at a cost parity with outsourcing it to China, why wouldn't you do so? And even more important than a cost parity, is a net value parity: the capital kept domestically, the jobs kept or created domestically thrown into the value calculation.
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Vpn, gre, whatever flavour you like. That's for replication between sites though. Internally there's nothing wrong with direct connection.
A clarification of the second point 2: The site needs to know the address of server S, and your account name on that server (i.e. just like username@domain.com with email). So the system doesn't have to be centralised.
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That's how revolution is born. I really wish for this.
And for the poor, well they can do as the french did hounded of years ago. History repeats itself for the Chinese, the greedy didn't learn or thought themselves to be invincible.
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I really wish for this.
So they didn't advertise it well, and now they are planning to implement the new regulations because of lack of participation?

Facebook is turning out to be an unethical company. This is really unacceptable behavior from a company I rely for social connections and sensitive information, including my private messages and contacts.
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Edit; will probably move over to http://guides.joosy.ws/ as it's better documented and isn't broken like Batman.js

I can't believe in this day and age, master branches are undocumented and broken. Seriously, if you're pushing code to Master, at least have it documented. If not, let it be in dev branch.
Woah, thanks. Seems like what I want. And unlike Batman, it isn't broken.
Exactly. In fact they are worse instead of "equal" because although you pay the same financially you're waiting for your product for twice as long.
I lived in SF for nearly 2 years immediately after college graduation and just left a few months ago. I think the OP's question, although pretty vague, is interesting and conforms to my experience- life in SF, although good, is not even close to what you're paying for. (in other words, if SF were a stock, I would sell). 3 quick lines of evidence:

1) Weather is a huge influence on quality of life no matter how you cut it, and SF's weather is surprisingly bad. Not in the Nome Alaska objective sense of it (awful climate), but it in the 'oh its 49 degrees and rainy in July' sense of it. Sure there are some beautiful weeks in september and may but on balance its just gray, rainy, and temperamental. Oh and if you liked seasons, too bad.

2) SF is in the midst of a huge financial and commercial real estate bubble that has turned the city into a generally overrated, overpriced, and ultimately overcrowded bedroom community (you would think higher prices would drive down demand but that's not the case because other folks from around the rest of bay and entire nation are still flooding in).

3) Public transportation is just awful for a city of its size and density. Goes along with point 2) about overcrowding but buses are extremely slow and you hardly have room to breath. Muni and Bart are great but only services 1/5 of city or so. Obviously its not car-ridden like LA but we are talking about entirely different scales here. For a better comparison look to NYC or DC, SF is just leagues behind (I realize there are geological constraints here, but that's a whole other can of worms)

I'm not trying to paint SF as a bad place- yes, it has charming victorians, nice little micro climates/neighborhoods (I lived in Hayes Valley, one of the better ones), a lot of cultural diversity, great food, and I enjoyed my time there. That said, I would absolutely not move back-- SF is unprepared for the growth it will continue to get in the next couple years with a huge startup/employment diaspora. In truth, comparisons between SF and the world's great cosmopolitan metros like NYC, London, Paris, are really silly; due to a variety of financial and geological constraints on building future infrastructure, SF will basically remain the bay area's wealthy bedroom community for years if not decades to come.
sadly, Keepass is not very Mac/Linux friendly, because it's built on .NET, so it's only an option for pure Windows users.
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Why migrate to a completely different environment? I'd recommend just installing some version of percona server (mySQL flavour) instead. You get both better software and upstream version instead of a repackaged one.
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No vacations? Family time? Socialising? You never drink? Ever??
That wasn't how I read it.

It sounds like they were casting the result of a memcmp to a char. A char only has a range of -128 to 127. The resulting overflow means that an arbitrary password hash has a 1/255 chance of landing on 0, but you still have to try a bunch to hit one.
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Well, this is the thing about science -- if you want to, you can go observe the real world, and see how things actually are :)

Which may not produce results you like; lack of taxation/regulation does not, empirically, correlate with strong economies, strong businesses and high standards of living. In fact, rather the opposite; it is precisely those places which have the least regulation/taxation that tend to be the "third world messes" you warn against.
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The point is that it is regarded as a religion here whether Germany likes it or not.
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You're right, they've been there from day one when it comes to robot manufacturing.

"The Japanese company Kawasaki Robotics started the commercial production of industrial robots over 40 years ago. Approximately 700,000 industrial robots were used all over the world in 1995, of which 500,000 operated in Japan"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_robot#History_of_ind...
You are kind of reinventing BrowserID (https://browserid.org/).
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Yeah, this whole "standing on the shoulders of giants" thing is unnecessary to people of your immense ability. There is no faster or more certain road to mediocrity than hiding your work from the scrutiny of others or refusing to look at what others have done first.
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That's a funny definition of dirt cheap.

No, it's perfectly accurate, unless you think that the cost of a developer is measured by his net revenue only.

I don't know the tax policies of every country, but the real cost of a developer will be at least twice his net revenue.
Actually that's exactly what we do with LedgerSMB. The database is the final enforcer of security matters and the authoritative voice in authentication (the web app logs into the db with user-supplied credentials). A lot of traditional middleware functions are pushed into the db (as stored procedures) where these can be reasonably represented as set operations against the database. As an ERP application, this means that this includes just about everything except generating printable invoices or HTML.

This works well. There are some things we are still working on improving, but it's getting there. Moreover it means multiple clients on multiple codebases are possible and we don't have to worry as much about the implications of what happens when someone writes a secondary client to hit the database.

At the same time, we use PostgreSQL, which I have a bit more confidence in than MySQL. Of course I would still suggest limiting access only to those IP address ranges where that is necessary.