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To add to the anecdotal evidence, the winners of the Coursera/Stanford startup challenge were French: http://www.goopil.co/.
You're definitely right - I chose to mention the "VLC" project instead of Videolabs in the subtitle, as I felt people would recognize it more. Hence the explanation in the text.

The list is in no way complete, nor indicative of any 'ranking' - I think I could write a similar list once a week for the next year and not give everyone their due respect.
There is a reason why eg. Scandinavian countries re-distribute wealth continuously and not just once.

I am not sure why you would think that wealth wouldn't skew back into in-equal distribution.
That they have sold so many is a good thing. Unlike Tesla, they don't have the advantage of selling into a market where people have a large amount of disposable income.

I would say that when cars like the Leaf, the sub 100 mile range club, get under twenty thousand after the government rebate then sales should really take off. I have no problem subsidizing the purchase of a reasonably priced electric like the Leaf or even as a stretch the i3 but once you pass into luxury pricing those people don't need the payout from the public
I recommend not focusing on that frustration because it will only hold you back. Things will become more "smooth" as you advance in ability. Practice makes perfect, as they say.
I don't think I misunderstood you.

If users of damaging substances (including for the sake of argument, big macs) are required "carry the cost those habits cause" indirectly via taxes, we are taking a step towards totalitarianism and away (in my opinion) from the democratic value that brought about the public health care in the first place.

Education is a publicly provided good. We don't require people who have children to pay more taxes (the opposite, in fact). In any case I've heard that life prolonging habits can actually be a bigger drain on public purses as 100 year olds have spent many years living on social welfare payments and using up expensive medical resources. Most medical expenses are at the end of one's life and everyone dies eventually.

To the extent that socialist/social welfarist policies/ideals are incompatible or at odds with democratic values, I think we should lean towards democracy. In this case, that is fairly simple: stop saying cigarette tax pays for lung cancer drugs. It doesn't and it shouldn't. The right to make ones own judgments and maintain the responsibility oneself is an inseparable part of individualism and democracy. I also think its an important part of secularism, but thats going into a stretch.
I wouldn't call it ugly. Rather, it's a bit nerdy looking whereas the Tesla is all Luxury. I'd rather be seen driving the Leaf than a fancy Model S. I hope Tesla makes a design that is a little less expensive looking.
Your "pic" also shows us half a dozen of your friend's names (in the right column) and one conversation mini-window (at the bottom, in Dutch) under the Facebook overlay.

I advise you crop/blur those parts.
The anti-vaccination groups didn't exist at the time, so it's quite likely that Wakefield was just as startled by paranoiac monster he'd nurtured as anyone else. No member of the public (before or after Wakefield) actually knows anything about vaccines, other than the story about the Swine Flu vaccine killing more people than it saved... since any individual member of the public does not need to care about vaccines very often in their lifes, and therefore has little direct personal advantage in knowing more, vaccine safety is a very fragile exercise in blind trust.

Ironically, those who have lived and breathed vaccines for years (i.e. experts) seem to know nothing about that enormous trust placed in the vaccination process by the public---the public assumes it works and assumes it's there to keep you safe, but knows so little about them that even simple questions of safety will be translated into "vaccines bad."
Thanks for posting this. I wish it had gotten more up-votes.

This whole "some words are BAD" thing is ridiculous. I allow my child to swear, but of course, with a warning that some adults will take offense, because those adults are overly sensitive about silly things. So my child knows what to avoid around those silly people, but that it's okay around me.

I teach my child that words are tools, and tools are not inherently bad, but we may use them in a bad way. Similar to steak knifes, which are neutral tools, and can be used by people for good or evil.

I cringe every time I hear a parent tell their children that a word is bad.

In the end, my child doesn't swear any more or less than any other child of the same age. Interesting, that.
>power-over-yourself is the most fundamental thing about will-to-power (in an enlightened sense).
>There's no point getting power over others if you have no power over yourself- then it's merely your appetites that have power over others, not you. As Da Vinci put, no man can have any dominion greater or lesser than over himself.

Yeah, now you are talking about a different kind of power, which is really a different and nearly unrelated thing. "Self control" or what have you. The ability to control and direct your mind and body. Sure, it's a great thing, and can be a great tool... but it's not what I'm talking about here.

I'm talking about the power to live where I want to live, and to be secure in my person and my property. To work when and as much as I want to. To obtain the goods and services I want.

All of these things require convincing others to do things for me, which is to say, power over other people; so to have a reasonable degree of power over your own life, you need a reasonable degree of power over others.
I smoked a pack a day for about 10 years and have quit for 2 years without using anything special or e-cigs. The quitting process took 3 days.

If anyone who wants to try and quit here's what I did:

1) Make sure you want to quit because if you don't seriously want to quit then you won't no matter what.

2) Smoke less and less every day until you get to zero. This will vary for everyone, I personally did it as fast as I could handle it which mainly consisted of only smoking after meals after I went from 1 pack a day down to half a pack a day.

That's seriously all there is to it. It'll be a little difficult for about a week but then it's pretty much smooth sailing with minor urges.

You'll likely end up creating other habits in the process and afterwards because at the end of the day smoking was a habit to you. Try to pick a less destructive habit this time!
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Do you really think that the user's ability to see things from the technologist's perspective is any better?
"Jobs only was capable of focussing on design because countless Wozniaks did the plumbing"

As an EE-type dude Woz's design work was pretty impressive. He's in no danger of being worshipped like a Williams, Pease, or Widlar (much less a Tesla) but he's at most only one tier down. Lets say he's in the top ten, or in serious competition to be in that class. Multiple independent people repeatedly come up with the phrase "elegant" to describe his electrical design work.

So calling a highly skilled stuffed suit the designer and the guy who did all the good design work a mere plumber is somewhat historically revisionist. For that matter I don't think either of them would have gotten as far as they did without teaming up, so other than some desire to dominate, there's not much point in placing one higher than the other.

What it is, is a highly effective social commentary. A genius grade stuffed suit gets all the credit. A genius grade designer is a mere plumber to be used as a resource by the really important person, that being the stuffed suit. In other words, it sucks.
I expect a critique of Krugman's Bitcoin derp to be forthcoming.
Definitely agree that the eBay example is a stretch (i wrote the article); however, I grew up in the Bay Area around French families (mostly engineers), and there was a certain French culture retained - not sure how you feel with respect to that.

The greater idea was that there is something inherently 'French' that produces great entrepreneurs - not that these particular ones owe France anything, but that it's worth reflecting on.
Do we know what the next LTS kernel release will be and when it is expected?
From personal experience I really hope this thing isn't Wake-on-Lan ;)
You can. I did.

http://medconfidential.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/careda...

"Once uploaded, you will not be able to get this
data deleted by the HSCIC. So if you want to
opt out, you need to act now"
That is an interesting one I hadn't thought of. Artists creating art (or other creative works) and making it big. Good one! It doesn't all have to happen as a cut throat business transaction sort of thing.
Well, to be frank, if you want 1,000 MRR, you're going to need to put in the work. You seem averse to the 'upfront work' part of things, but money isn't free. Well, unless you're already rich.
By far the greatest adaptation of A Comedy of Errors ever committed to film.
Totally true (author here); however, when they started, they were a startup. And when they were a startup, they were founded by someone French.

Most of the list are current startups; VLC is also only somewhat a startup (VideoLab is more of a startup; VLC being the project).
Warren Buffet's dad was a member of U.S. House of Representatives, which was a huge advantage to have as an investor.
There was a rich man who went up to a woman at a party and asked her, "If I gave you a million dollars, would you have sex with me?"

The woman laughed and said "Sure!"

The rich man asked her "Would you have sex with me for a hundred dollars?"

The woman gasped, offended, and exclaimed, "I'm no prostitute!"

The rich man said "Ma'am, we've already established that you're a prostitute; the only question is as to price."

Power is the ability to induce others to do what you want. Wealth can induce others to do what you want. Therefore, wealth is power.
>I expect better from Krugman.

lol
Is there any level of computer security that can match the human AIS?
I was always fascinated by molecular biology and the how the cell worked. It was easy to understand and grasp some things at once, because I was able to see a direct relationship with computer networks. But the molecules continue to astonish me, due their incredible level of complexity.

Apart from other things, it's part of my study material for my next exam (Pathophysiology).
I am not sure why you would think that wealth wouldn't skew back into in-equal distribution.

Maybe you didn't read what I wrote very carefully.

I said: "The redistribution wouldn't vanish back to the original situation for a long, long time, and quite possibly never given the precedent set."

Let's break that down.

"The redistribution wouldn't vanish back to the original situation for a long, long time" - hey, looks like I do think the wealth will skew back to in-equal distribution! I simply think it will take a while to return to a handful of people holding half the world's money, and given that the rest of my third point is about what would happen when some people with no money find themselves surrounded by people with money, it seemed pretty fucking clear to me that I was talking about an in-equal distribution.

"and quite possibly never given the precedent set." - because once it's been made clear that at the point a handful of people hold half the world's money it all goes back again, nobody will be stupid enough to get that rich because they know they'll lose it all.
There's a building body of evidence which indicates that returns are increasingly going to capital and not labour, however not as a result of "power-grabs" but rather technology (the same thing happened during the early part of the industrial revolution).

It's actually the cover story of this weeks Economist:

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21594298-effect-todays...

If you're a fan of harder data, you can read the UK Government report about how technology is responsible for driving the destruction of middle-income jobs and pushing up inequality:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

[Edit: Given the number of up-votes this is getting I've submitted the Economist link as it's own story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7089531]
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World's richest 85 people own 50% of global wealth
Sure but the fundamental question is.

Is it fair that some people make proportionally that much more money just because they happen to be born in the right country?

Again I have no problem with it happening. I am simply questioning the underlying "system".
Even Buffet claims (and knows) that he was VERY lucky to be in the places he was, with the connections he had, at the times he was. The formula for success requires a great deal of luck. There is a really interesting section of Thinking, Fast and Slow — By Daniel Kahneman which addresses this in great detail.
coinbase.com definitely has this feature[1].

1. http://i.imgur.com/ZvLEsvO.png
It's a blog post...he's allowed a more casual tone.
You hit it right on the nail.

Once of I kind of get the hang of a language/framework, I end up copy pasting the heck out of everything until job done, then move on cause I'm bored.

Often I move on before I've "mastered" something, because I get bored, generally having an idea how everything is working, and put it on the shelf of nice2know tools.

>It's the deploying, that perfect minute customization that you really, really, really want, scaling, and long term maintenance that's going to be tough.

If it is a client project it will go to that stage, otherwise I'm happy to learn something new just to learn.

So whatever. In every language you pick you will have your "wow" and "meh" moments.
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I have seen this movie so many times I can nearly quote the whole thing. Definitely worth watching if you haven't seen it before.
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"The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal. Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not."

-- Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning (1946)
He called American Hustle heavy-handed at times; I find his parallel between the DPR case and that movie very heavy-handed, the whole time. Talk about a stretch.

It seems he's happy to have found a criminal proceeding involving "libertarian derp". Besides this implied negativity (not familiar with Krugman, but his language reveals his standings) and a poignant "amazing stuff" reaction at the bottom, Krugman actually offers no analysis, opinion, reaction, or addition to anything at all on the DPR proceedings. His quoting of this[0] story was entirely framed as an example of why being in the FBI "these days is a lot more fun" than in the setting portrayed in American Hustle.

Judging by the title, I was really hoping for a disection of bad opsec decisions. Guess I'll conflate 'krugman' with 'rhetoric' from here on out.

[0] - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/business/eagle-scout-ideal...

tl;dr - Krugman watched American Hustle, then drew a half-hearted parallel between the movie and the criminal activity in the DPR and Silk Road case. He did this without saying much of anything about either subject while insulting libertarian belief systems with the use of the word 'derp'.
Don't be so presumptuous! I've been using it for years.
Yes, but when someone is a nice guy - like Wozniak - there are always around him people who will let us know how nice he was ... as with Woz. No one ever pictured Wozniak as an egomaniac workaholic, although his skill-set was (apparently) extremely above the average programmer at the time and an ego-centric behavior would (probably) be acceptable by him also.. Since he was the one who crated Apple 1 and ][ after all :-)
Wow, never thought it would be such hate on HN against kim.com?

I think he seems to really fight for internet freedom in more ways than the angry commentators in this thread probably will ever do.

Who cares if he had a dark past. He's already been to jail for one crime in my knowledge and I think he really deserves his money.

It seems you're gonna buy the songs you want to listen to directly from artists with this new service. It can't be anything like pirating? He is really pushing it forward and completes his products with the touch of quality.
Warren Buffet himself admits that he won the "ovarian lottery" and acknowledges a lot his success is up to luck in that way.
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Seems to be a confusion of terms.
80% of the population is not normally the same as 80% of households.
I like the use of graphics on the site.

To make the home-page a bit nicer you could include a list of examples to try out in the search bar. Right now it is hard to decide what to type into the box.
Look at Uruguay. Since some years ago, the government started giving free money to below-poverty-line people. It has been happening complete the opposite. As people receive money, they don't feel the need of working and progressing in life, including when the are offered to work in street cleaning duties or similar. The thing is that the tax payers are starting to feel that their money is not been well spent, until nobody knows.
And it's been suggested in almost every git talk/slides I've seen. But I'll admit it's so easy to overlook ..
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"pay attention to the problems they mention having"

Pay attention to the problems they don't mention. You'll learn more from grumbling and swear words than from an interview. So... your test subject is doing something, and apparently not having much fun with it... This also applies to UI design.
Did you read my post at all? I'm pretty explicitly not talking about all religious organizations, but rather religious charities, and like I already pointed out:

'My source counts charities as religious if they identify their cause as being for "Religious Activities" or "Religious Media and Broadcasting"' A small fraction of that would be the 400 million dollars spent lobbying by religious groups every year, you know lobbying to restrict women's rights and against same sex marriage.
I can read, so no need to be snarky.

The question is whether we are discussing the same here.
Producing one ton of concrete outputs 1 ton of CO2. If China wants to build ghost cities they should build them out of wood. At least then, assuming you regrow the trees you're cutting down, you're not turning the planet into a greenhouse gas bubble
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The "the French don't have a word for entrepreneur" is supposedly a quote from George Bush [1], and he's ridiculed for it because we all know "entrepreneur" is French.

[1] http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.asp
I once offered to help work on some docs to make them a bit more user-friendly because at the time they were quite obtuse. Theo responded with something along the lines of requesting I please go away, as this project doesn't need people like me, and then a liberal sprinkling of lots of rude names and insults suggesting I was from under a rock/an idiot/etc.

I offered help and enthusiasm for the project. He called me a lot of names and suggested OpenBSD wasn't for people who weren't like him.

That's just me. Fine, I'm a big guy, I can take it. But I then watched for months as he did the same to countless other individuals. Newb: "Hey, we could do 'X'" Theo: "No, go away, I hate you", is pretty much the tone.

Then there is the more public stuff. The stuff that is historic but a little larger.

He created OpenBSD because the NetBSD core ousted him for his attitude and demeanour towards other developers.

There is a whole section of his Wikipedia page dedicated to his "Outspokenness" which is a polite way of calling what is actually his "Obnoxiousness":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt#Outspokenness

Nobody doubts he can write code, and that OpenBSD - and OpenSSH in particular - was a bonus to the open source World, but my point is that he and his inner circle are hostile to the rest of the community who aren't quite like them. It's a clique.

And cliques can't ask outsiders for help once they're established: they made up the rules, and they will live (and die), by those rules.

Theo had a choice: compromise, and be nice to people and understand other people's needs; or, don't compromise and be a bit of a jerk and piss people off but stay true to your own values.

He chose the latter. Fine. He should not be surprised that they are not running to their wallets when he needs $20k for electricity bills to continue running the project in that same way.

I'm not being rude about this, I'm being pragmatic. I don't particularly want to see OpenBSD die, but I can't see many people rushing to save it, and that's because the top hierarchy are perceived as - and are documented as regularly behaving as - complete jerks.

If Theo had been a little more temperate to more people, it's quite likely his $20k (and then some) would have been raised in under an hour. I know some FreeBSD guys have raised similar/larger amounts for smaller projects in the past within a day or two. How? By being nice people that other people want to support.
I should be clearer with what I mean; the problem with rich people is that, relatively speaking, they don't spend their money. Poor people spend all their money, fast. Rich people seem to have a lot of money tied up in swapping things with each other (for exmaple, stocks, which are not investments in the company except for the first time they're bought).
It's interesting that an expanding government in America has seen a rise in the income-gap.
Ed Catmull said the best thing Jobs did for Pixar was stay out of the way. Literally, not interfering and instead letting Catmull and Lasseter get on with it; yet providing support when needed (via introductions and so one). He was more VC than founder.
I am really not sure how to make that distinction. It seems to me that to prevent "wealth turning into power" we would need essentially complete transparency on spending of the wealthy.

Also, I would probably much rather nail some risk (by limiting personal wealth to some reasonable amount) than risk "a leak" between wealth and power. Most founders, it seems to me, don't start overly wealthy; they would probably still risk starting their own business even if the "supergains" had zero probability (as opposed to really small probability).

Coupled with a good social and liability system (that will allow you reasonable life in case of business failure), financed from taxing of too much wealth, this can even increase the risk people are willing to take.
Indeed. The $7500 federal + $5000 state tax credits combined with being able to drive solo in the HOV lane make it a pretty good buy (or lease).
Overly misleading title: they own as much as the poorest half of the world, not half the wealth in the world (which would be hardly identifiable anyway).