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The short time I spent in Amsterdam makes me agree with you. Stoned (and other highs), wondering around acting inappropriately and causing trouble.
I understand the sentiment, but you forgot to include the rest of the paragraph:

>> She said that she suffered from seizures and fibromyalgia, and her husband from post-traumatic stress, but that the couple had not been able to get medical marijuana at home. “We’re thinking about moving here because of it,” she said.

Maybe they're just making up excuses, but doesn't sound like these are a couple of 20 year olds just looking to get high in the middle of the day.
Women joined the workforce, supply went up, price went down. Toss in globalization (trade), more immigration, automation, and it was inevitable.
Who gives a damn about destroying the master's wealth if you're a slave?

In this situation, even the slaves are pretty damned wealthy.
> If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe.

There's plenty of room between "justify everything from first principles" and "perform an ad hoc 5-minute search of the web for research that confirms what I already believe." I'd also say, the closer one is to the former, the more justified one is in feeling certain about their beliefs.

> It's pretty difficult to have a serious conversation if you have to fully define and prove every single piece of content in a comment.

That's good, because nobody here is advocating that!

> Common sense is getting to be pretty rare around here.

Well, as they say, "Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen."

What's "common sense," here? That women are more risk-averse? I disagree, at the very least until one defines "risk" and "risk-averse" very precisely. My "common sense" tells me otherwise. Shucks. Ain't that the problem with "common sense?"
Haha well there we go! We'll be launching our APIs at least publicly around late February, so stay tuned! Also going to change the name FYI, but haven't settled on what.
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An essential course. Personally, this is what inspired me to become interested in programming in the first place. I think everyone should have that opportunity, so take it upon yourself to share this course- you would be surprised to see what some people can create when given the ability!

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Well, I was wrong then.
Yes, the ones I've noticed are youtube and other video services.
Thank you guys :)
> Yes but people who come explicitly for the drugs don't tend to be the best tourists.

This is a jingoistic view of "drug users" that really needs to die. Marijuana "users" are normal people -- with a slim majority supporting marijuana legalization and a significant fraction of that openly admitting marijuana use, the old stoner/loser stereotype is hopefully on its last legs. Paul Bucheit's comment above is really right on the nose.
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I read your comment. And the article you were commenting on.

To be honest I found your comment shallow and mean spirited. You didn't present a true criticism of the article. You simply alleged that it was lame.

Ironically, whilst you may be correct that being an entrepreneur will not give a person insights into philosophy, he happens to have a degree in philosophy so perhaps that gives him some insight. More specifically, he has a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Cornell University.

As for his achievements not giving him insight into 'anything else he writes on' that appears to me to be patently silly. A good deal of what he writes on is about entrepreneurship.

All in your criticism smacks to me of small minded jealousy. It's a familiar pattern - small petty people trying to boost their flagging self esteem by trying to tear down those who have achieved.
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I've been building http://DoerHub.com for about a year and I am realizing it may be too much work for one hacker (the site is growing and I am splitting time between UX, backend, bug fixes, user acquisition features, sales, fundraising prep, and natural language processing/people search in Neo4J and Node). Looking for someone who enjoys backend performance tuning, machine learning, payments, and/or (soon) mobile. DoerHub has a dual stack (Rails on MongoDB and now adding a second stack for relational searches in Neo4j and Node). Located in the East Bay and traveling to the peninsula often.

The site is an execution hub - feels like a humanized version of GitHub that involves no code repository, but enables crowdsourcing and collaboration (from teaming up, to advising, promoting, task contributions, etc) on projects between hackers, non-hackers, subject matter experts, etc. We are seeing YC startup school folks and students in different departments at top universities are using it to team up around niche projects, startup ideas, and research. Ping me at founder[at]doerhub.com if you are interested.

Dog-fooding: http://www.doerhub.com/for/doerhub
What if anything could be a domain name?
How does that explain the rich getting richer? The top 1% got a better raise than that.
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And to bring it full circle, the WSJ employed a former The Verge writer (that had left The Verge for ABC).

I'm actually excited to see where the WSJ tech section goes.
Unfortunately, the Kickstarter platform does not allow you to change the descriptions for reward levels once you've pushed the project live (you can add new rewards, but cannot remove or modify old ones).

This KS policy makes sense: they don't want people doing switch-n-bait on rewards.

But the very real consequence is that if the wording on a reward was not 100% clear, the only option Space Monkey had after publishing it was to add text to the product description on the main page, in the forums, or in updates. This is how Kickstarter works. Our hands were tied from changing that text, even though we wanted to.
>It’s still 24 bytes because c cannot back into the inner struct’s trailing padding. To collect that gain you would need to redesign your date structures.

Well that's disappointing. Is there any [nonstandard] way to get a compiler to take advantage of that space?
I'm curious what happens to the people who were surviving on the cash from selling it illegally.

Some of them are poor slobs. Some of them are organized crime.

Are they just going to try to sell it at a lower price since the police cannot tell where you got it from and might not even care anymore? Tax savings alone radically reduces the price.
"By end of 2014 Obamacare will be generally accepted as a Good Thing as people actually start saving money. More people quit their jobs and start companies in 2014 than expected because they no longer fear having to lose employer insurance."

Who is saving money? The small minority who have existing conditions are, but not the majority of healthy people.

Sounds like you don't run your own business or buy your own insurance. Small and healthy business owners like me just had a massive increase in the cost of doing business. Health insurance costs are much more and the benefits are much less.

A doubling of health care costs in my case, and a much higher deductible.

These plans are incentivized to keep people tied to their current employers. The costs of self-insurance is now just shy of a mortgage payment. Self-employeds are looking for a job, so they can be covered by obamacare.
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Population growth has slowed fairly dramatically and for most of the 90's the concern was underpopulation, based on the finding that as economies develop fertility drops.

It's called the fertility transition (1), and the current below replacement fertility in countries like Spain and a few others were seen as the future. For a while the US was thought to be exempt from this trend, but recent headlines suggest otherwise (2).

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition

(2) http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/06/news/economy/birth-rate-low/
Developer with some design chops looking for other developers.

Have few floating ideas that we can chat about. If we gel, can start with collaboration on some MVPs and then see how things go.

If you have some ideas, more than happy to discuss and work on them as well.

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What's interesting is that US people claim their lifetime+70 years terms were forced onto them by Europe. I suspect there is some manipulation going on.
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Just a feature idea: I'd love an IDE plugin (for something like visual studio or eclipse) that would show this sort of information. Sort of like a disassembly, but for structs instead. I can imagine lots of industries where they'd pay for that sort of thing (IE, game programmers or OS developers, etc.)
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God is perfectly just. Thou shall not covet, you wicked fucker.

China went up and we went down. What did you think when we have them manufacture? Why should we pay you more than a Chinaman?
Many countries have seen median salaries increase. It's not really a global phenomenon.
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Encrypt and tamper-protect laptops and smartphones.

The news from CCC shows the tip of the iceberg of capabilities including injection-molding hidden radios, JTAG, i2c and hd firmware.

I would also desolder and epoxy over any ports that aren't necessary.

This year, I would expect to see tools to check for hardware tampering (HIDS for hardware) that can checksum firmware and other non-user data areas. I've forked O-S Tripwire (mostly C++) in case anyone wants to take a crack at it.
Etoile: a GNUStep-based Linux GUI written in Objective-C
I find it odd that in a world where people can configure two-factor authentication for their email, we're not doing it universally for money.

My Australian debit card requires a PIN for anything over AUD 100 at a store, and if I'm buying online I get an SMS from my bank to provide a confirmation code. Seems sensible.

Additionally, even though it's a debit card, transactions are generally left pending for 4-or-so days during which I can call the bank and have them blocked.
Median salaries can't and don't show anything about inequality in salaries, though. If the salaries of the "top 10 percent continued to grow", while the "median salary" is roughly the same, then that means the salaries of the bottom 80-90 percent have dropped by a lot more since 1969, and there have been other charts showing this.
Not really an equivalent scenario. If all you want to do is get drunk, there's no reason to go to Napa to do it, so while the average level of intoxication is probably higher, it's much less so that it would be if it was the only place you could legally buy alcohol.
Anybody in Atlanta? I am working with lasers [1], starting a science show with some PhDs (heavy biochem, biophysics) aimed at the HN/hacker/programmer demographic, and considering *coin/blockchain services. (Pizza ordering service? Utilizing extra transaction info for meta exchange/escrow/conversions?)

I can only work nights/weekends ATM unless we get residual income or investment. I do Unices, JS, Python, C++(11). Renting a nice decently large place in Midtown and might be able to allocate space for a cofounder if work ramped up.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x034jVB1avs#t=0m15s
Chip and PIN should be better, except they fucked up the crypto such that anyone who stole your card could use it without knowing your PIN but still make it look like a PIN transaction - so you'd be liable for the fraudulent transaction since obviously you didn't take sufficient care to keep your PIN secret.
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> Women joined the workforce, supply went up, price went down.

There's some truth to this. A while back Mother Jones declared the '00s to be a "Lost Decade" because household income had flatlined. [1] However, on page 36 of the same census report cited by that MJ article [2], you can see that real median income earnings (this is after inflation adjustment) of fulltime individual workers increased 2.6% for men and a very significant 8% for women during the '00s.

[1] http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/09/our-lost-decade

[2] http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p60-236.pdf
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Australia has different rules. In the US at least, the PIN is not required for small purchases.

It's interesting you mention Australia because they've taken a different approach to the fee issue. They regulated it away. Cards cost merchants very little. Didn't need bitcoin to do it, just passed a law.

Also interesting: it did not result in a lowering of consumer prices. The merchants kept the windfall.
Not sure if that's an attempt to troll but I'll answer.

Just take stuff on TNN with a grain of salt.

The supposed holocaust denial is in the first Wikipedia paragraph (and I admit that these accusations are usually used to stop discussion), but keep reading...

He's had a few run-ins with the government including threatening three federal appellate judges and being generally "provocative". The website seems to have an anti-government sentiment in general and reading some of the other stories (US West Coast uninhabitable by 2016/2017 afair - if true, good bye SV and YC) I'd take this with a grain of salt.

That said, I bought iodine pills in 2011 and kept them around. Steam from reactor 3 is probably not good and neither is the radioactive wastewater that runs into our oceans.
Technically jQuery normalized the DOM between browsers and added some stuff like QuerySelectorAll that is now standard so you don't really necessary need it anymore for anything.
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> It just depends on whether the towns are happy to put up with a few stoned idiots roaming the streets causing trouble for the extra money it brings in from the people not causing trouble.

Most places already allow bars, so this is something they have to deal with anyway.
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For people like myself who need a short reminder what a "cache line" is:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache#Cache_entries

* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14707803/line-size-of-l1-...
I don't know what your idea is, but most people have objections that are simply not realistic. You cannot create a social network and hope to become a billionaire without knowing what people want/need or at least hitting a tangent. You maybe thinking of Zuckerberg, he hustled hard to get there, really. People simplify what he did, because they don't want to believe that success is either luck, vitamin C (connections) or hard work.

I'm soon available and want to work on some projects for fun anyway. Let's chat on https://vline.com/ about the idea and vision, if you want.. I'll do it, if I believe in the idea, otherwise you can create a profile of what type of developer you need and what needs to be done and post it here or on some job board. (post your email or other contact info on your profile so that people can reach you)

Look, what people here are telling is almost completely true. You've heard that ideas are cheap and execution is hard or that ideas are pipedreams and don't mean anything without "proper execution". The essence of this is true, but there is a part to that picture that is missing. Insider knowledge and making the product so that it's effective and efficient at what it needs to do is what ideas can't offer. That is what you shouldn't share, except with those who you need to share it with.

Nobody will steal your ideas and become a billionaire with it without putting a lot of effort into it. And if they do that, it doesn't mean that they will be any successful by a long shot. That's because there is only so much that can be winners, the rest is doomed to work or to become "the losers" in this race. Someone needs to believe as much as you do into the idea to make it.
Are benefits included? The article isn't coming up for me, but I'm betting "no."
Because cheaper labor helps people who depend on hired labor to make money. The rich tend to depend on hired labor.
Most languages get overwhelmed by cruft as they evolve. It is almost revolutionary that Python3 is missing some of the warts of Python2. Right now I use a mix of Python2 and Python3--but new projects which have a long-term horizon are in Python3.
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"In 1969 the median salary for a male worker was $35,567 (in 2012 dollars). Today it is $33,904. So for 44 years, while wages for the top 10 percent have continued to climb, most Americans have been caught in a ”Great Stagnation,” bringing into question the whole purpose of the American capitalist economy. The notion that what benefited the establishment would benefit everyone, had been thoroughly discredited."

I don't believe this analysis (which appears to be the central point of the piece) is meaningful. What is the author trying to compare and why? A male worker in 1969 could not buy a smartphone or a flat screen television. They would pay far more for air travel. Does it really make sense to quote their salary in 2012 dollars?

I would be interested to see the price of basic necessities over time. I would imagine Walmart, etc, would have caused a fall in food prices; I am unsure of other factors.
Good heavens, and he didn't even get around to foreign policy, making no mention of assassination, torture, or infinite detention without trial.

I'm going to play devil's advocate and point out that the system does incentivize productivity - that is, it offers power to those who can produce the most, or the most innovative, products. It's true that Ivy League institutions churn out smart, loyal suits to staff these productive juggernauts once they get going, but "they system" still doesn't quite understand the magic that goes into getting them going, and so the startup world does exist, and it really is a full blown meritocracy (well, at least once you factor out information asymmetry particularly about finance, ownership, and the law).

So yes, the system is corrupt, but the people who are taking advantage of this corruption are, at least, normally not vetted by bloodline, but rather by the result of their actions. And this, perhaps, is the best we can hope for - and pray that these people have some morality (which is not selected for at all - the market seems perfectly willing to accept amorality that isn't illegal and which doesn't endanger profit).