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My undergrad degree in literature might not have gotten me a high-paying job out of college, but it helped me live a life that I wanted.

I had the privilege of doing my final two years of college at a school where grades weren't given out for papers in the English department.

You'd write a one-page response paper to a Shakespeare play, where you'd have to make a cogent argument/close reading and in response, you'd get 300 words from the professor engaging with your argument.

My classes wandered across Irish literature, non-fiction writing seminars, 18th century literature, modern and post-modern theory, and hyper-text literature.

I learned to engage with the classics, learned to hear the poetry in James Joyce's initially inscrutable Ulysses, and was forced to confront the problems of loving Pound's words while abhorring his politics.

I learned tech later, as I went. I probably would have made more money studying computer science or cognitive science (which was fascinating mix of technology and theory), but I don't regret at all being a liberal arts major.

The world is big, fascinating and hard to think through -- and that's not getting any easier. I owe to my liberal arts education the limited skills I have for finding beauty in a true sentence or the mismatched typography of a local business's sign.

That education has driven me to understand why I need to live in the world an open heart, to understand things that I naturally want to dismiss and to forge a life built on an ethically-driven approach to politics, literature and art.

I've got lots of arguments about how our education system works - starting way before college.

But if the new reality is that college is only good for pushing out technicians and a liberal arts education is only for suckers, then we've just added one more depressing symptom pointing to a diagnosis that there's something deeply awry in our nation's economic system and social priorities.
The economy cannot be controlled nor manipulated by external means. Job Guarantee will only lead to people working in unproductive jobs such as brooming highways (ok, I know it's an extreme example, but you get the idea).

The productive economy assimilates a number of jobs naturally, and forcing it won't fix the issue, just like a basic unconditional income will only lead to inflation.
Maybe there should be an app for this?

HN coffee time app!
That's a good question. If giving meaning to our experience is an act of creation, then perhaps this is romantic originality. But honestly, I didn't really think about it, I just thought "romantic" and that's what came out.
Interesting. Looks similar to this project. http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/48-pandaboards-chained-to...
This would be my preferred solution as it would provide a clear benefit to both the unemployed and the employed!
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Progressive taxation has always been something of a hack: it's easier to get a greater proportion of someone's money when they're relatively well off than when they can barely pay for food and housing.

Perhaps for good reason. But one of the compelling parts of a basic income is that it cuts away the moral argument for progressive taxation: the basic income amount people are provided is enough to pay for the necessities of life, which is what progressive taxation tries to allow for. Replacing the progressive income tax with a basic income funded by a flat tax on all earned income combines the respective moral appeals of progressive and flat taxation while also being more economically efficient.
> some hopeless ideology

The fact that someone would say, on a forum called Hacker News, that the free software movement is a hopeless ideology is astonishing.

> irrelevant in the desktop space

Hardly. Ubuntu is about as popular now as Macs were a few years ago, or at least in the same league.

> hobble my computing experience

Ubuntu has many productivity advantages over both OSX and Windows. It's not necessarily the best for everyone, but the have taken a lot of good ideas from both Windows (eg. Maximise works properly, aero snap) and OS X (Expose), and added their own (HUD). If you consider Ubuntu to be hobbling your experience, then other people could consider using OSX as hobbling theirs.
I don't know anyone who thinks that a burglar is a "victim of society", but why shouldn't a burglar get a chance to better himself?

Whats the point of clubbing a burglar to death or breaking his legs anyway if he is no threat to me? If I wanted to live in an environment where people perceived "eye for an eye" as justice, I'd move to some country with sharia law like Saudi Arabia/Iran/Afghanistan.
I am glad that we have more civilized ways to deal with criminals here.
Amount of head on lager varies from country to country but it is hard to argue with a Czech given that they invented Pilsen lager. A good head has a different taste and adds a different texture to the beer and makes the carbonation (high in a lager) more smooth and less bitter.
Looks like you can fork the code on Github to get beneath the hood.
The transition is rough but I would like automation to reach 100% and nobody having any jobs.

At that point money is no longer needed, as long as there is an abundance of things (what the 100% automation is all about).

People spend their days doing what they like and the robots do the heavy lifting.
Actually it is, because it means that since they provably have no way to coerce you, anything they do can be shown to be petty revenge, and that's really the worst way to support one's case.

Governments are used to having a stick to support their arguments with; take it away, and you will find them very bad at making an argument.
The option key is involved in most of these hidden tips. If something doesn't work quite like you want it to, try doing it with option held down. 6 times out of 10 it probably will.
>While celery is quite useful, I just want to spin up an application and have it Just Work without external dependencies. With celery, now I have to run celeryd, run some sort of queue (redis, rabbitmq, etc), and just worry about all of these pieces simply to execute long-running background tasks.

You can use redis as a backend for celery (which you should be using already for caching, probably), and AFAIK you can use a database as a backend too (although I haven't tried it).

That means that celery is exactly one dependency.

You need some kind of persistent store so that it can recover the task queue from hardware failure. But it can probably use the backend you already have.
i guess your take is that to be effective, a person has to do the emphasis on the elements that are important, not a program. fair call.
> welfare/unemployment subsidies will disappear at some point.

Indeed, as a houseworker my parents employed discovered a decade or so ago (she had been completely out of the loop and on welfare for a decade or so, started trying to fix things by doing housework in order to "re-integrate") who one day found out she'd gone above the magical threshold and had lost a number of benefits including holidays subsidies for her children which her income wouldn't compensate by a very long shot.

Sharp cutoffs on welfare are a disincentive, because they create a serious discontinuity in which your effective income craters as you lose all benefits but your income doesn't come close to compensating, and thus you work harder but your quality of life declines.
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The only reason this is a problem is because, in the EDM scene, "producer" has somehow become confused with "artist"

Or to put it another way:

George Martin didn't write play a note or write a single song on the Beatle's albums but there was no taint attached to him being credited as the producer.

Language is a funny beast.
I'm not sure that programming is so linear that being a 'better programmer' translates to universal programmatic utility. It's entirely possible that things learnt about low-level compiler writing has little application to higher-level stuff.
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I don't think that house is up to code. At the very least there should be cement board behind the panelling.

But, I don't know anything. I grew up in Miami. A hurricane (Andrew) turned an entire town to kindling because the houses were so poorly constructed. Some of them had nothing but gravity holding the roof down.

One thing I do know is the next house I buy I'm building myself. I've rented far too many places that were so poorly constructed; it's indescribable. My last apartment was on 2 floors. Just walking around felt like there were giants over my head. The beams were so far apart you could feel the floor shift under your weight.
Philosophical perspectives on karma notwithstanding, I'm not sure I agree. You can ignore the less fortunate whether you believe in Karma, god or other imaginary friend.

Second, at times it should be your obligation to be a jerk to others. Not saying always, but where not doing so puts you into a worse place than you would otherwise be, you should.

To explain (followed by an extreme example): consider the most important things you need to accomplish in life (remember also that these will vary depending on what you intend to achieve with your life) -

1. Stay alive. You can't do squat if you're dead.

2. Love unconditionally, but take no crap.

3. And so on.

If being an arse to someone keeps you alive then this may give you the opportunity to save your child's life. There are many less-extreme scenarios that are just as valid. Why, for example, does the FAA suggest putting your own oxygen mask on before helping others?

PS. Everybody can be successful. Ref. Wallace D. Wattles' vol 1: The Science of Getting Rich
The problem with a flowery eastern concept misinterpreted and adopted in the west is that the original meaning gets distorted. Karma is merely a way of understanding "cause and effect".

> This kind of belief is what causes so many people in America to vote squarely against their own interests for their entire lives.

That is patronizing. There is a wide spectrum of reasons why one might say vote for lower/higher taxes between "they worked hard, so they deserve it" and "fuck you, I want mine".
I'm talking about clubs/nightlife specifically. And yes it's pure speculation. But I've always wondered - surely it must cross your mind, "is that aggressive drunk wannabe tough-guy packing heat? What if he loses control?"

Genuinely curious as I have no reference point.
Awesome demo...looks like a promising leap forward for 2FA within the cloud. Is this a managed service type thing?
Houses in the US are flimsy. Even brick homes are actually just 2x4s spaces 1.5 feet apart with insulation in between. The brick is just stack up on the outside with an air gap between. In Europe that entire space will often be completely solid.

I heard of a guy who built a German standard home in a hurricane zone in Florida (must have been insanely expensive). When the next hurricane did come the only damage to his house came from the shrapnel of broken apart american-style houses.
I agree that certain axioms can be verified or disproven, but larger questions remain arguable in both science and the humanities (if those can be truly separated). For example, you can verify that a linked list works, or that an operation is associative... but when you zoom out and look at whether or not a codebase with millions of lines of code is successfully doing what it sets out to do... The act of assessing that is similar to assessing Milton's motivation for his depiction of limbo. The interpretations defy a single right or wrong answer.
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Your point is really snarky. I also don't like that he tried to externalize his decisions, though. His dog made him do it? Oh, look - I'm being snarky now, but that's what I got out of it.

I actually respect him for explaining his motives and position even if I don't agree with him. Everybody acts irrationally and we rarely admit it openly.
This will get me down voted to eternity, but this entire thought is so wrong. Let me tell you if you act like a victim, you will be treated like one. My house is rigged up to look a lot tougher to break into than my neighbors houses along with an alarm (accompanied by stickers on all windows). If someone does break in I will go down the stairs. I will not wait for the bad guys to come up and confront me beside my kid and wife. I will make a lot of noise and switch on the lights, but I will not wait for anyone to come up to us. And yes, I have a very nice bat lying around upstairs.
Thanks for sharing!

We have made a lot of progress recently and have seen a surge of new users.
Facebook is no longer the social network it used to be. It creates too much features, too much products in order to please its investors and shareholders. Facebook is trying to compete with too much companies from various other categories and I don't think is doing a very good job
Technically, the rule is "no interpreters that download code". To get around it, it bundles a decent chunk of the if-archive in the app and then registers as something that can open z-machine game files (so you can use Frotz to open a game from Dropbox, after downloading in Mobile Safari, etc.).
or that people are engaged and want to help them have a great 1.0 by upgrading and finding bugs.

honestly, i can't think of a better use of something named HACKER NEWS, but maybe i'm new here.
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Right, in your EQ example it may be an envelope displayed as an appropriate graph with a particle engine (or 2d representation) which when manipulated modifies the audio output. The analog version is gone, which is just a bad mapping of "bands" of frequency anyway, when we can more closer approximate a continuous system.

As for the general case, I see something like the shadow DOM and web components growing into a set of observers implemented at the native level, instead of built on top like Ember.js. HTML gets the ability to do spreadsheet like formulas where the value of one element can be dependent on another element, express in javascript or a CSS-like "data markup" language. It would support databindings directly to JSON/plain-old objects.

Maybe there could still be a symbolic design language that approximates real-world objects, but that would be crafted on top of a more pure data layer, without CSS hiding of components, or custom display values to turn one thing into another.

Example:

* video

* playbackControl

* audioShaper -> GL/ES CL waveform processing -> audioOutput

<c:slider c:boundTo="playbackControl1" c:dataRole="seek" />
<c:volume id="v1" c:boundTo="audioShaper1" c:dataRole="gain" />

<span observes="jsval:percentage([#audioShaper1].gain/[#audioShaper1].maxGain)"></span>

dss:
#v1 {volume-maximum: 90%}

css:
/* turn red if we reach 70% of maximum */
#v1 [volume::=jsval:percent(audioShaper1.gain/audioShaper1.maxGain)>=0.7] {color: red}

Or something like that.
It's a difference in approach that is tied to time: suburban American houses were mostly built after forced air central heating, and in that kind of heating insulation is "less" important (the air mass is mixed and heated thoroughly, not the structure). Europeans still use radiators which means insulation is more important (a radiator next to an outside wall is radiating half of its heat toward the outside wall). But fundamentally it seems like a US apathy toward waste more than an improvement.

SF has historically shoddy construction due to the gold rush, mail order housing bought sight unseen, and a mild climate.

If I built a house in the US I would have it designed by a European.
No, it means that you understand current laws and enforcements thereof. If you want to have a philosophical debate about the appropriate limits of the state, then that's something you need to take up through the political process.
Can we drop this DuckDuckGo advertisement posts already? People who follows HN knows what DuckDuckGo is thanks to endless streaming of posts. We get it, a Bing facade with a promise of Privacy.
Completely agree. I don't want FB to be a newspaper - for that I read newspapers. I want FB to connect to friends and family.
Agreed. From September 7, 2001, on CNN:

European Parliament adopts 'Echelon' report

(...) the document lists several examples in which intelligence officers are believed to have interfered in a commercial contract. The report claims that European aircraft maker Airbus Industrie had its lines tapped in 1994 while negotiating a $6 billion contract with the Saudi Arabian government and national airline.

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/09/07/echelon.rep...
I can't understand the general hostility toward getting (financial) help from your parents or living with them until you are financially independent, even after 18/25/30.

I know I am biased as an italian (and pretty much adhere to the true stereotype) but I can't find anything wrong from getting help from the people that brought you in this world and which probably love you more than anyone else on the planet (and therefore have more reasons to do so). There's no shame in getting helped.
Its very simple, if I can take your money without your consent I control it.
All their recent moves point to this explanation, as with hashtags: http://danmaz74.me/2013/05/16/facebook-hashtags-when-monetiz...
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I'm just wondering if your username is a reference to Virek from Count Zero.
I believe the earliest program I'd have written was something on the school computer that printed profanity to the screen; probably rude things about a classmate. Good times.
If this was 2007 or so, maybe.
For the most part, with the exception of keyboards. Without a physical keyboard, you're either giving up screen real estate (i.e. text you can read) or the keyboard is appearing and disappearing (which I find breaks my immersion in the game). Games are still playable, but there are also interface annoyances, sadly.
Sure, it's not perfect.
Sketch was build by an, as far as I know, 2 people team. And how many people work on Photoshop? It's just a nice handy tool for managing some little projects. To manage big projects it's to laggy on my MBA. But as long as you have an MBP (> 15'') or MBPwRD (> 15'') you are fine with it. Or just use an iMac.

I never checked out Pixelmator. But the subscription-system is also a terrible thing. Beside this _many_ students or pupil didn't have a credit card (at least in Germany). And that is also a really huge waste of money on Adobe's side.
But if you are a student it just costs 29,99€ in Germany, that's a little discount for us pupils. But anyway the problem with the credit card is still there.
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>Meh, it's hard to undo heavy metal poisoning. You can lift the embargo against the rice with no permanent harm done.

I think I made the logical choice at the time, based on the info available, by stopping rice. For my wife, the inconvenience of replacing our primary form of starch outweighed the long-term risks of brain damage to the children (most people do seem to be short-term thinkers), and it was a hard sell.

I am now regarded as The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Even if, say, arsenic was found to be a problem in rice, it will be difficult convincing anyone else.

The harm done is the loss of credibility.
"As a visitor I no doubt avoided the nastiest areas of the city"

That was so blatantly obvious that it is a little weird that you thought you needed to mention it.

I think its mind blowing that someone could think that the general vibe in NYC (let alone friendliest city in US) was the same in 89, 97, 01-02, 06, 09? If you dont like years that is crack epidemic, Giuliani crime cleanup, pre/post 9/11, bull market, and housing crash.
Well, the big brand beers lik Bud and Coors are rubbish, but you can find more unique wheat beers and local beers in most supermarkets, I've found.
So you are a straight European dude in your 20s-30s in one of the most lucrative and in-demand industries in the USA in SV/SF. This might give you a slight case of rose colored glasses. You might have seen in your travels to other parts of the country that many Americans do not have this standard of living. To be blunt, it is likely that minority women in the deep south would have a slightly different expierence.

The realitiy of living in the USA is :
1. Don't get sick. We don't want to pay for you to go see the doctor, even if it would save $millions in medical bills for diabetes/cancer/chronic disease. There is the legal obligation for any emergency room to stabilize you, but then they kick you out if you can't pay.

2. Don't have kids. Kids cost a fuckton, and the governmnet doesn't really want to pay for it, but they partially do through a clusterfuck of programs (WIC/CHIP et al). There is no legally-mandated Parental leave or anything, that is for those lazy Frenchmen.

3. Don't be a woman. People will make rape jokes about you all the time (hello microsoft, E3) and that would be just the start of it. Never mind access to affordible healthcare like cancer screening and abortion.

4. Be christian, or if that isn't possible be Jewish. Just don't be Athiest/Muslim/Hindu/Bhuddist/....

If you aren't Protestat Christian there is no chance you will be president, JFK excepted.

5. Belive that USA = #1. Keep that flag flying and that coolaid flowing.

Disclaimer: I'm just a white guy trying to get a PHD/marketable skills so I can leave this country and move 140 miles north to Vancouver. Yes I know Vancouver has a bit of a heroin/prostitution/housing problem, but it's better than the current situation.
I figured it out myself that this is buggy, but if you work with it everyday I am confident with it now. I also figuread out that the scrolling over the canvas is (a bit) buggy, too. But I didn't care about it anymore, because I use SPACE+DRAG.
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> While this hadn't occurred to me until she suggested it, I suppose it could be partially the case, but I suspect the perceived easiness (as well as the actual relative easiness) of the average liberal arts degree does a lot to influence the type of student who chooses to pursue it.

This is true everywhere; there is nothing insightful about this. I found C.S. courses to be rather mundane, boring (and even sometimes uglier) than pure Math courses. There were people in C.S. who were there because they couldn't cut it in Math. There were also people who did C.S. because they were fascinated by it. People have different motivations why they do something.
California has one of the best beer scenes in the world. There is no kind of beer you can't find locally and lots of novel experimentation with the craft. Don't judge the US on Budweiser alone.

Stop by the Stone brewery or Russian River brewery if you want a mind-expanding beer experience. Although I find Europeans don't like as much variety in their beer as Americans.
It was a widely debated topic inside the Pirate Party during their heyday 1-2 years ago. They declared basic income as one of their core goals, which rendered them unelectable for many people and accelerated their downfall.
That's also not true - all you need is to bring down a high enough percentage of nodes, which will effectively take down the network through capacity constraints.

Combine this with auto-updating clients and you've got a crashing software bug that brings down the whole network.

Agreed however that the centralisation point effectively still exists thanks to automated updates.
> George Martin didn't write play a note or write a single song on the Beatle's albums

I believe he wrote orchestrations and played keyboard instruments on a good number of Beatles songs.