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> Fun parts: There were a fixed number of variables. All variables were global. There were two control structures: if/then and goto

It's just like BANCStar! I forgot to mention that one of the most useful features of the LIST annotator was to generate a cross-reference listing. That feature alone made the practice of re-using working-storage variables much safer, because you could compare the cross-reference indexes of two different programs at a glance easily. I strongly encourage the development of that kind of safety/error-detection/error-prevention tool in any environment whenever possible.

Seriously, your Mike sounds like a wise person.
Though PCA triggering when it has been disabled by Group Policy is definitely a bug.
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An interesting counter-example to your point is the DC Metro system. There are human train drivers, but the driver operates a single switch varying speed/brake. The system automatically starts and stops when operating normally, and the centralized management system can operate the trains more or less against the will of the conductor.

In summer 2009, the outdated trains had a massive crash killing eight people, and there was a great amount of debate as to why, even if the driver engaged the manual break, the automatic control software failed to stop the train when a head-on collision was imminent. [0]

The fact you do not reference this event makes me think this was not headline news outside of the Beltway (where I lived at the time). But I do presume this will help support Luddite, anti-automation views in transportation industry, especially in other places where similar accidents occur.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_22,_2009_Washington_Metro...
I think the argument about "hobbies" is a long term one, not one that applies to people who just got laid off. If there was no automation and everyone had to farm, nobody can pursue their "hobbies", because everyone has to work to meet their needs. At present, because of automation, less people have to farm. Because of that, people with a "hobby" of filmmaking can go make films, and other people with a "hobby" of watching films are able to spend their time (and money) watching those films. The argument is that automation eventually frees up society into doing less essential things and increases overall happiness.

Also hobbies is definitely not the right word here.
Such poverty isn't necessarily a problem though. I live in relative poverty compared to most people in my city. Basically all I spend money on is rent (of a cheap apartment), food, electricity, and Internet. Yet I find this lifestyle quite acceptable, and a good trade-off as I can avoid the need to work. What do I care if my neighbours are wasting a fortune on cars, boats and overseas travel?
One has to be careful when applying the "invisible hand" idea. You can't just take an "ideal" situation (fixed point) and say that the system will evolve towards that. For an example, I refer to my comment on this HN thread -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6313482
I think this is the wrong way to look at it.

When you're in a constrained format like radio or cable tv you can only play one thing for your audience at a time. Because of that it's critical that what you play has mass appeal so that lots of people will be okay listening to it.

When you're in an unconstrained model that lets users pick what to watch or listen to, that mass appeal factor becomes much less important.

Sure, there's a HUGE array of music available, and each of us can claim that we think most of it's shitty. But when you actually start comparing what you consider shitty to what I consider shitty, I'd be willing to bet there are a LOT of areas that don't overlap.

This is the power that comes with being able to stream the content that the user wants. Mass appeal becomes much less important.

So yeah, there's a huge amount of music out there that I think is shitty. But there's an equally huge number of people that all have different opinions on what the shit actually is.
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Multiple benefits here. More often than not, they do not hire reps that only speak Spanish - they will most likely be bilingual, and will handle overflow calls in English anyway. Second, Spanish speakers are less common in India, so the Spanish speaking call-centers are usually located in the US - so when you get the rep, you will not have to deal with language barriers often encountered with the Indian reps. In addition, the wait is usually not as long.
SOURCE: I used to work at a title company, and this usually worked when calling large corporate banks."
FWIW, all the "2D extensions" asset store publishers have known about Unity's upcoming 2D features for a while (have been part of the alpha testing etc.). Yes, their toolkit sales will probably drop, but that's what you get when targeting a missing feature of a product - sooner or later the product will add that feature. They are smart folks so I'm quite sure they will find something else to do though; or will build even fancier extensions on top of base functionality.

"I suppose from the Unity team perspective, it looks like they can't do anything right" - I don't think we have this problem. If there's a big missing gap in features, we will close it sooner or later. Yes this might upset some asset store publishers, but that's how things are. On the other hand, many of them will have had several years of really, really good sales of their packages.

(I work at Unity. YMMV etc.)
Even if you switch phone numbers, using Hemisphere they can determine your new number. They look for a new phone number calling all your old contacts.
Unity supports wireframe rendering since 4.0.
"Unlike the N.S.A. data, the Hemisphere data includes information on the locations of callers."

Unlike the publicly known N.S.A. data.

Also, as if call status matters.
> forcibly taking the resources from producers and redistributing them by political whim

The producers are actually the poor bastards working 40+ hours a week on the factory floor. The entities forcibly taking resources from them are the wealthy, by controlling the means of production, increasing CEO salaries, and colluding with legislators to provide more tax cuts and loopholes that only the wealthy can take advantage of. The political whim is that congressmen get more dollars from corporations after Citizen's United.

It's fucking ridiculous to be an Objectivist. You can continue to assert that poors are able to fight their way into the "producer" class by "not being lazy" or whatever. But the reality is when you can barely support your housing, food, transportation, and healthcare you don't have many rational options for aggressive advancement.
How does it work in cultures or societies where the government issues stipends annually? I am thinking of certain Native American tribes in the us issue their tribe members $xx,xxx a year as their share of casino earnings (sans work).
Or aren't there places like UAE that have some sort of basic income to citizens?
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So i've been searching how to build a resume for a programmer and working on my github projects. I apply and show but it seems I cant get my foot inside one. I feel like the requirements recruiters ask for is to simple but yet I cant seem to get in. Is their something I need to show or say to land a programming job?
Upcoming 2D tools in Unity 4.3 aren't related to SpriteKit of iOS7. We support more platforms than iOS, you know.
That Richard White guy has a blog post of his thoughts on the topic:

http://rrwhite.com/on-the-inevitability-of-automation

And for a shameless self-plug I made a recent blog post on the same topic of automation a couple of weeks back (although from a different angle):

http://standardfuture.com/post/58571196148/a-fully-automated...

Automation in society IS something we (especially as hackers) should feel responsible for discussing, planning for AND acting on.

I know we are some fairly smart people, I just hope that we are all smart enough to take this seriously. :)
Often the staff you see "standing around" or doing menial jobs have more complex roles than one might appreciate at first.

People say "I wish a person was here" in emergencies and on their worst days. When a dress gets stuck in the escalator, when the disabled need assistance. When people are impaired or confused or just looking really distressed. When the station needs to be evacuated.

Some of this can be outsourced to the general public (although I find it a little callous to do so), some cannot.
Absolutely. But allowing/encouraging people to keep a single identifier sure makes things easier, and cuts down on your database joins.
Well...I used the word "environment" thoughtfully. It wasn't just the language, it was the dot-matrix printouts on continuous fan-fold paper (with no line numbers, you didn't want to get pages out of order), the hands-full of different coloured highlighter pens, the ring binder stuffed full of dog-eared photocopied pages (and pages and pages) of magic numbers, and the ever-present feeling of terror when you had to pick a "safe" working storage variable to steal the use of for a while.

God, I miss it.
Google (and by extension Jeff Dean) have made their greatest contribution in that they successfully popularized niche computer science with decent implementations.

I think a point that is often lost is that Google invents very little computer science; they take obscure computer science that in most cases has already been implemented somewhere and do a very good, high visibility implementation of that computer science. They may apply it to a somewhat different problem domain but the solution already existed for the taking. Core high-scale computer science domains like HPC traditionally don't publish shiny geek-friendly know-how but there are very deep existing pools of expertise out there.

Google has excelled at branding concepts like MapReduce, Spanner, etc that already existed in real systems for many years. Google has made people aware of these technologies but it is a stretch to say they "invented" them in any material sense beyond publicizing their own implementations. I think they receive a little too much credit in many cases for invention when their primary contribution has been popularization.
In fact, I do provide email.

But When I use chrome on iPad, there is no entry of recovering password
I could write a library in Scala that allows almost this exact syntax. Say...

val fooConfig = "config" ^ "foo"

Of course, there would be some config required. There are various ways to handle that, but it could be as minimal as a single line of code. I don't want to be critical of your work, but my own preference is for languages which are DSL-friendly. Although there are some disadvantages (possible lack of fluidity, mildly more verbose), I feel the advantages (lack of vendor lock in, composable with the rest of the language) are worth the trade-off.

Admittedly I've never had experience with MUMPS, but I have used PHP. Until pretty recently, that was a language which attempted to break down the barriers between its syntax and the runtime environment at the expense of the language. Reams have been written on the PHP argument, and I won't contribute further here; just noting that my preference for languages with a flexible syntax and a "do it in a library" attitude is based on having experience with the opposite.

Have you had experience with any of the embeddable-DSL languages (Ruby, Clojure, Scala, Haskell)?
OP is organizing something that might end up helping (or even saving) many Syrians. You're just bikeshedding.

This is HN, it's only natural to focus on programming. There are many here with the authority to hire programmers, not many people hiring nurses or mechanics. Besides, it's easier to get a visa if you're a programmer, and it's also easier to get remote work (e.g. in case a Syrian can't get a visa to US or EU but can move to Lebanon or Turkey).
But if you define poverty as "the bottom decile of the population", how exactly will you get rid of it?
What I find amazing is how recently things like germs[1] were given real attention.
I'd heard about Ignaz Semmelweis from a book I read and to think less than 200 years ago you would go to a hospital and they didn't bother to wash their hands between patients? Now maybe it was just the hospital in Vienna, but I imagine many were like that.

Just the things that are taken for granted as common sense now before they were.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease
I think the issue is the call to save() (I assume this is meant to be outside the comma).

Basically, it'll hit the database after each query.
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I have been using evernote and confluence to manage all my code snippets and notes. What are other alternatives? I like that evernote can work offline but I really like the syntax highlighting and ease of use of confluence.
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Ideally someone technical, extremely intelligent, UX/product genius, and interested in marketplace businesses.

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A basic income is libertarian in that it allows individuals to actually participate in the free market as rational actors, and puts control over use into the hands of many individuals instead of in the hands of the government.

I think eliminating the minimum wage is reasonable combined with a guaranteed stipend. However, I think you will find that "undesirable" jobs are (rightfully) paid quite well. Possibly even better than now since this system would better balance the power between employers and employees.

http://bit.ly/16o33Bp
> Hardware like this has been on the horizon for a while, but it is just now becoming available to early adopters.

Huh?

It's in most (if not all) "enterprise" storage stacks.. are you speaking about a specific type of nvram?
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You could do it, you'd just need the world's steepest tax rates- and not marginal tax like the USA, either, where the top marginal bracket is 40% but the effective tax will be much lower. We're probably talking you take home one dollar for every three you earn.

ironically probably penalise...

This actually brings a really interesting point to mind. When everyone gets 2500CHF, the people who are currently working for 1250CHF have in a sense had their incomes slashed. They go from being infinitely richer than the unemployed, to only 50% richer (on a monthly income basis). So instead of lifting themselves high above the jobless, the same amount of work now lifts them only a little bit. I am unsure at the moment whether this can be described as decreasing the marginal utility of the income they currently earn.
> However, the flip-side of the same coin is what about when someone moves to a more expensive location? Should we then say "this is the fixed salary and you choose where to live, and if you move somewhere more expensive that is your choice"?

I'd say that's absolutely fair, it's kind of the default expectation in my mind at least - I provide a certain value to the company as a remote worker, for which they pay me accordingly. (edit - as someone who just found a job via a HN jobs thread, I don't want to hijack this with a long response. Please see http://pastebin.com/4SrQJRj6 for my full response to this)
You called me a moron, but you did it in 'civil' language. Exactly what kind of deep analysis did you expect?
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Given the number of network connected machines that cash passes though (ATMs, ticket machines, counting machines, ...), I'd assume that such machines would be routinely scanning the serial number of each note. Couple that with an account number, or the CCTV that is usually pointed at any cash handling machine, and I'd posit that the anonymity of cash is eroding.
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Because deleting stuff at scale is harder than you think.

If you've got an age-based retention policy, and you've built in the capacity to delete the data, not really. Periodic purge. I'm not saying this is trivial, but it's not hard. The system was clearly designed not to delete the data.

Your theory #2 holds much more water.
I think they receive a little too much credit in many cases for invention when their primary contribution has been popularization.

That's being a little pedantic. Applying X for Y is definitely being inventive. That's how largely every domain works. We stand on the shoulders of giants etc.
I think you're being too black and white here.

I agree with you in principle on a LOT of the points, but the real issue is that most content producers (publishers are a different issue...) would LOVE to be able to do this:

"The recipe for dealing with piracy is ages old - increase quality to be competitive"

But realistically it's fucking HARD. Mainly because increasing quality to be competitive with piracy would generally require breaking tax and import laws everywhere.

Even if it doesn't require breaking those laws to be competitive, you have to at least pay enough people to be aware of them, for each and every country you want to be able to distribute your content in.

So decent* DRM isn't about stopping piracy, really. It's about slowing it down just enough that it's still worthwhile to jump through the hoops required to bring that content legally to other regions.

*: It's actually fairly hard to hit this goal on the head, and often I feel companies buy too far into their own bullshit and sense of entitlement with DRM. A lot of shoddy executives with poor understanding of software misuse DRM to the extent that it drastically lowers the value of the content (see: always on DRM) Please continue to bash them, they deserve it.
I'm not sure I understand your argument. I agree that in an unconstrained format mass appeal is much less important. Yet I don't feel some sort of 'good music' saturation point has been reached within the single subgenres (and subsubgenres) and I think that it will take a while for that to happen.
There's a pretty big difference in terms of employability between a toll booth attendant (whose skill set is probably largely fit for the same easily automatable jobs) and, say, an insurance adjuster (who may not have transferable general skills but is likely to be significantly more educated and more desirable as a worker).

That's the core of the problem that you're not really addressing: we'd be absorbing the unemployment of more people already only marginally capable of employment as it is.
I did a bit of Excel programming in Python; a tool to extract, and sanity check, data from a spreadsheet, send it to a server and populate results back in the spreadsheet.
The "Python Programming On Win32" book by Mark Hammond was a great resource http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565926219.do
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Another good (and slightly less flippant) introduction to the country and conflict from the WaPo:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/29...
Here is some anecdotal evidence that there is is still plenty of pressure in steam sales..

"We sold more copies in the first 24 hours of the sale than we had on Steam in the first three months since release," Fish said, adding that the two-day price drop yielded more sales than the game drew in its first month on Xbox Live Arcade.

All told, Fez sold 105,000 copies in the 48 hours the game was on sale. He also posted a picture of Fez's Steam sales graph to better illustrate his point.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-07-15-fez-sells-1...
that article suffers from the same fallacy as the ol 'back on your heads' joke:
--
a guy dies and goes to hell.
upon arrival, the devil allows him to pick one of three rooms where he will then spend eternity.

in room one, people are being devoured by horrible beasts.
in room two, people are being burned alive ( thats harsh).
in room three, everyone is up to their waist in the smelliest, most putrid, disgusting shit he ever encountered -- but they're chit-chatting away, drinking coffee and having donuts.
after a brief reflection, the guy chooses the room with waist deep shit, coffee and donuts.

a few minutes late the devil comes back and yells "alright scumbags, everyone back on your heads".
--

...in medieval times you got one of the three rooms with the occasional coffee and donut break.

nowadays, in our briefer vacations we can be ON A BOAT mf'er - don't you ever forget! :):):)
If you lack practical experience, you should find smaller companies to apply to, rather than recruiters. Recruiters are looking to satisfy lists of buzzwords and requirements, whereas the hiring manager of a small company is just looking for someone competent.

One of my recent hires was for a developer's first job and that hire was based mainly on the strength of a few projects he'd done and posted on github.
And now some of them work in the US.
I'm not sure I entirely agree with you. How do you define gameplay?

By personal experience, I was never able to finish games like Quake and Doom because I found them incredibly boring. The first FPS I finished was Deus Ex, which featured a storyline the likes of which I haven't encountered since.

What's more, I played the game at least five times, and haven't yet tired of it. I've discovered new elements nearly everytime - like a passage from a book lying around - that neatly ties into the theme of the game. The ambient music and the settings - although several years behind the cutting edge now - still makes for an incredible playing experience.
> no country has ever tried it, really, so there isn't a real-world experience case to look at yet

Canada tried it in the city of Dauphin, Manitoba in the 1970s. While it was not conducted across the entire country, there is at least some data to look at.
> Errors per LOC is allegedly constant, across all languages.

If this is true, then a more verbose style will have a higher error rate. (more LOC to do the same task -> more errors)
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What a terrible use of the browser history. I was trying to get back to HN and had to trace through every movement I took on the map.
It is worse than that. Ignaz Semmelweis did not come to broader attention. It was not until Joseph Lister (the Lister in "Listerine") independently discovered this and popularized it that the English speaking world became aware of how they were killing people.

I have encountered mention of memoirs from US surgeons who were most distressed to have learned, shortly after the Civil War, how their failure to take simple sanitation measures was responsible for the death of many of their patients through gangrene.

Within living memory we had a similar shock from antibiotics. I remember an older professor telling me about a doctor he knew who had been unable to save his brother, but would have been able to do so a few years later.

I am sure there are still things out there like this. Heck, I lost my nephew because my sister followed her doctor's instructions to have him sleep on his stomach...less than 6 months before the American Academy of Pediatrics switched the recommendation to putting babies on their backs to reduce the odds of SIDS. If you've taken a parenting course in the last 20 years, sleeping babies on their back probably just seems like common sense to you.