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> China will continue to work 6 or 7 days [...] and the reserve currency will be the yuan.

You suppose that wealth production is proportional to the number of hours worked. This used to be an oversimplification, and now becomes simply false. Countries lead by people who keep counting on this falsehood will fail.
MBA-to-be here. I am into computers since early childhood.
Mainly, I enjoy topics on Programming (especially python), Linux and entrepreneurship even though chances are I'll always suck at the first two items (though I am good enough to use them as "secret weapons" occasionally) and never do the latter.
"Who here has an idea of the size of a grain of barley dry and round?"

It's about a third of an inch.
>My main criticism is that TrueNorth implements networks of integrate-and-fire spiking neurons...Spiking neurons have binary outputs (like neurons in the brain).

Isn't this better. LeCun is looking at this only from a machine learning perspective.
The whole point of advocating for fewer work days is that we are just as productive in fewer hours. That's why overtime doesn't work long-term; you wear out and do less per unit time.
Or the one where they unscrew rocket mounts from helicopters to make them civilian machines, while the said mounts lie packaged next to them, being shipped 'somewhere else, for completely unrelated reasons'.
How about more than two people working together peacefully? How about many? And what if it was the employees instead of the employers? Maybe call it something like.. a union.
My old coworker worked with movie studies (Valley of Elah was one) as a consultant providing military like training to the actors. (Enough to make them look like military personell) if the business he was in didn't fall apart they had a hind helicopter on the way.. shipping and certification was more expensive than the chopper... besides that, it was mostly WW2 era jeeps, tanks, etc..

Still that APC looks pretty fun :-D
The Grunt Fund - How to Split Startup Equity
The diminishing returns only applies to creative work, not physical labor. (Yes there is diminishing returns there too but clearly you're still getting additional useful work done)
A collection from 2008 with some criticism of the variations: http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/154/ The author has a strong feeling that the White Guard lost the civil war in Russia just because they were incapable of effective design—all their posters look helpless compared to the propaganda graphics by the Red Army.
I thought the Cold War was over!
Panama with the Panama Canal has at least significance in the maritime world and a visiting Panama City is possible.

In the case of Liberia, the country has no relations to shipping and the ship and as well as the corporate registry were given to an American company called LISCR (Liberia Ship Corporate Registry Football) whose employees have probably never been in Liberia's capital Monrovia … most Americans of course would not want to spend any time in Liberia – too much crime and violence, and now there is Ebola too.

In the banking world, the US is on a crusade against other offshore locations such as Switzerland while protecting its own offshore locations. In the naval world, on the other hand, the two major offshore locations – Liberia and Panama – have already been under (at least) strong American influence.
R Forecasting as a Service
It does but have you tried it in an aggregated store from 30 machines? It took 46 minutes to extract a single named (last 8 digits of a guid) error ID as it has to scan the entire log.

Syslog on a Linux box and some front end indexing using a python script and sqlite: 0.04s.

I could probably have built that for windows but it wouldn't be 55 lines of code including the error query page Python CGI and taken me about 40 minutes end to end...

(And I'm naff at python)
Haskell isn't like most languages people have used. You can't dive into the sort of things you're talking about unless you've used at least OCaml and even then there's going to be a fair bit that's unfamiliar.

It's more like learning to program again, not just a language.

The course I lay out is because it's what I've found to work best. Part of the priority is minimizing dropout rate.

Trying to shove people through a 'practical' project had one of the worst dropout rates of any of the approaches I tried.

Just accept that you're going to learn some basics before dazzling the world with your web app and you'll be much happier for it.

It doesn't take long anyway, if you have a well-designed course and/or experienced people helping you. [1]

I've been thinking about writing a book to address some of the pedagogical problems. I don't know if it'll work out, but I have a few ideas.

So far, the course I recommend not having enough "practical" examples has been pretty far down the list of problems. I'd rather focus on the rough edges that I've observed tripping people up.

Are you learning Haskell right now?

[1]: http://engineering.imvu.com/2014/03/24/what-its-like-to-use-...
How many Scrabble racks are there?
Ayn Rand's crack pipe.
The first one does the population mistake, which I acknowledge. (but is necessary for context)

The other maps are normalized by % of comments sent, which mitigates the population impact.
For your use cases, perhaps not. But I'm a writer on the Internet, and links are important to things I write; I'm already up to at least 559 links to Internet Archive copies of webpages, and that's with me trying to find live copies of each link and all my writings being fairly recent. Am I glad the IA exists? You betcha.
The 10 Commandments of Landing Pages
Well, yes and no. The price can be allowed to fluctuate and it can be held at one level while encouraging people to buy during a deeply discounted sale (the Steam model), and that captures some of the consumer surplus through segmentation based on availability. Though most of the gains there are actually in volume (during the sales), especially since it's a virtual good. In terms of capturing the entirety of what everyone would be willing to pay, it falls short. Compare the amount of revenue per sale on a hardcover novel vs an e-book, for example. On the one hand the publisher and author may take home tens of dollars, on the other it's unlikely to be more than 10. With e-books using the Amazon model basically all of the consumer surplus from anyone willing to pay hardcover prices is lost. Is that made up for by volume? We don't know.

As for alternate e-book models, as you point out, there are many. And actually crowd funding is a major way to capture that latent consumer surplus (which is one of the big reasons behind its success), but even that is not necessarily a panacea.
We already have the leisure society - the bottom rung of the income distribution (in the US) lives in that society. People below the poverty line in the US work very little and have consumption and disposable income (after taxes/transfers) of about $20k/year.

http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/taxes-and-cliffs...

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2012.pdf

I don't know why people refuse to acknowledge that we are already there.
This kind of has a nice Team Treehouse look to it too.
I find the whole economic system to be quite bizarre. Nobody's salary seems to correlate with much except their skill at getting a high salary. For instance, my sister (elementary education) makes even less than I do as a grad student. The difference is that she wakes up at 5:00 AM and works all day teaching and taking care of little kids until 7:00 PM, whereas I wake up whenever I feel like it, head to a coffee shop and work on research (which is basically a computer game for me), and mix in bike rides and whatever else as I please. The difference in salary will be even more extreme once I get my PhD.

It really doesn't seem fair, and when I think about the vast majority of the world population in other countries, it seems even less fair. I used to have a more conservative stance that if you want to get more, you just have to work harder, but now I've reversed my stance completely: I think it's mostly luck -- where you were born, who you know, what your social skills are, and if you just happen to be in the right place at the right time.

Many jobs seem like they exist solely for the sake of creating more jobs. We have managers of managers of managers. A lot of people don't put a lot of effort into their work (they spend their day browsing the internet), and the ones that do put in an honest effort don't seem to be rewarded for it. The hardest-working employees are rarely promoted into administrative positions. And the best way to increase one's salary is to job hop instead of remaining loyal to one company (http://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2014/06/22/employees...).

I feel like many people have this ingrained notion that you're just "supposed to work" for so many hours a week, and no one is seriously pursuing the goal of creating leisure time (or at least work that's personally enjoyable). We have more than enough technological capability to provide basic survival needs to everyone on the planet, yet we're nowhere close to achieving that goal.

Again, I don't know why it's this way. But it is, and it just seems wrong to me.
Because two 20 hour employee are worth considerably less than one 40 hour employee for all but the most menial jobs.
> Why not? Because capitalism.

I believe you're mostly true. I can only see one slim chance for things to turn out better than expected: most capitalists get rich by making not-so-useful crap that can only be bought by plebes enjoying some disposable income. Ford vitally needs most American to be able to afford an SUV.
Sesame Street – What is a computer?
My house is 100 years old, and having some construction experience myself I take care of small maintenance issues. I'm European but I grew up with both imperial and metric systems side-by-side, so it was easy for me to pick up American standards on things like stud distances and so on. It is convenient to have some things like that standardized, although the particular standardized measures themselves are highly arbitrary.

However, because my house is old nothing is perfectly standard any more - all the angles are off by a degree or two, different parts of the house have slightly stretched or compressed over the course of a century, and so on. So whenever I measure something I end up noting both metric and imperial - imperial because I am going to be forced to deal with it at the store/supply depot, metric because I want to get the numbers right and I would way rather work in base 10 that mirrors my 10 fingers than juggling fractions of an inch (a unit which is divided into 16ths instead of 12ths because...er...um...).

Unfortunately, I don't expect this change any time soon.
They had something very similar to that moored on the Thames estuary near London (UK) and it was about £400,000. Less than a decent house around here!

I genuine considered it for a bit but the wife wasn't impressed when I told her the fuel tank took £22,000 to fill up :)
Still a huge issue in much of the US.
This looks promising. It would be better if the documentation was a bit more exhaustive[0]

[0]http://toga.readthedocs.org/en/latest/internals/platforms/de....
This guy seems to have a big inventory of them for $120:

http://sacramento.craigslist.org/syd/4584307735.html
Maybe I'm parsing your comment incorrectly, but do you mean that you used to have clients that allowed you to make your own schedule but you no longer do? Out of curiosity, what caused the change?

I firmly believe we'll see more people move to a consulting model where they work far fewer hours, are more productive and make as much or more money as before.
Western workers are very productive per hour work but we still have to work some hours.
Publishers can choose what to charge Amazon, but publishers have no right to choose the retail price.
Yes, every bit of that is wrong. If managers put upward pressure on velocity numbers, they will get numbers that go up via point inflation. The right managerial question is: "What can I do to help you solve problems identified in this week's retrospective?"

Sadly, modern MBA-style management has some fundamental notions that work against Agile approaches. So you are probably in for more difficulty as they decide what has a higher priority. Feel free to email me if I can be of further service in discussing this.
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>China will continue to work 6 or 7 days.

While taking multiple multiple-week holidays each year, where many employees never return, making the first few weeks after Chinese new year very slow.
More like how not having a heartbeat message that confirms Twitter-based notifications are working killed the fish. And why Twitter? Seems like any of email, IM, or SMS would be a better choice.

This is like not starting your emergency generators on a regular schedule and then being surprised that the fuel filter clogged.
A Brief History of Amazon.com's ReadersUnited.com Domain Name
Very interesting. They have other tools which are rather useful looking as well: http://pybee.org/ (debugger, test runner, coverage visualiser etc)
I guess the real issue is which units get names. Yes, you can do with 12cm exactly what you can do with 12in- but the latter gets its own named unit. The Imperial system has a preference for scaling its units by some slightly more practical number of sub-units- 12, 60, etc. I can imagine someone saying, for example, "why name 1000 centimeters as another unit? Can't I say 'thousands' using the same number of syllables? What's worth naming a different unit is 240cm since that's used a lot with timber..."

Someone strictly advocating the metric system would say "that's the point, kilo is another way of saying 1000 no matter where you live in the world or what you're measuring. Feel free to call 240cm a 'frob' if you like, but please, only do so in private- don't order 14 frobs of lumber, order 33.6 meters." (edit: which is a perfectly valid point. It's the slow accumulation of frobs that made the imperial system untenable. We trade a little bit of efficiency at a local level for greater global efficiency when we adopt metric.)
I agree with you here.

But I've found it semi-refreshing to be confronted with something that is different enough that I have to sit down with it regularly to practice. It isn't just another language, and it really isn't amenable to just fiddling with things until they work.

That said, the gap from newbie to competent is big, an I feel like this is mostly a documentation issue. I've only started very recently and I have awhile to go. You can't expect to grok the implications of monads, laziness, immutability, and pure functional style immediately. But hat doesn't mean they aren't worthwhile, or interesting.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to harass, er, ask for help on some Haskell I'm stuck on. (BTW: the community is really helpful. There are no charlatans or self-promotional jerks like you'll find elsewhere.)
Moving from Critical Review to Critique
I think there are two separate issues in your comment...

You make more than your sister doing "less" work because knowledge and high level skills are a value multiplier. You may come up with a world changing idea that generates billions of dollars. No kindergarden teacher could achieve that. Pay matches accordingly.

Your second point is that there seems to be a lot of people with useless jobs and I couldn't agree more. We're RAPIDLY approaching the point where most people are employed to do basically nothing of value. How many people's jobs could be replaced by the mythical "script" written in a day by a good dev?

I'm glad to see us get to this point. People should learn and practice useful skills. So as not to cause a violent revolution, I think we do need some form of basic income though. That would also enable creatives to experiment and produce without economic pressure which I think is great. I also don't care if 99% of people mooch off this model as most people are just wasting time at work as it is anyway.
I agree that things won't change instantaneously, but I also don't think change will happen or even could happen as quickly as most of the talk on the internet thinks it should.

These articles make the rounds on the internet every few months, which gives the impression change should happen quickly. But, given the enormous costs that exist to switch over, I think it's more likely we'll see a gradual change over our lifetime.
You're already had major discussion about blockspring, multiple times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8104352
Some of the dates are 2012 when they should be 2014.

This suggests the site isn't even read by the people named?
BMI tends to not work that well as you get taller. From Wikipedia: "Because the BMI depends upon weight and the square of height, it ignores basic scaling laws whereby mass increases to the 3rd power of linear dimensions. Hence, larger individuals, even if they had exactly the same body shape and relative composition, always have a larger BMI."
Depends. The crew are usually from poor countries that don't contribute much if anything to anti-piracy efforts. The captain or owners are sometimes from powerful countries that will do something about it.

In some regions, specific countries or groups of countries have taken it upon themselves to fight piracy in the area. For example in the Somali region, protection and rescue generally comes from a U.S.-led coalition, regardless of the nationality of the ship/ownership/crew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Task_Force_151
More accurate title would be: How I Killed My Fish By Mistaking Twitter For A Reliable Messaging Platform.
A liter of water weighs a kilogram and is 1000 cm^3 (.001 m^3). These units are easily related. That's what GP is referring to.
Looks pretty cool! My daughter is not yet 2 years old so it's a bit early, but I can't wait to introduce her to programming. (I myself started at 13)
This is one of those comments that relies on hindsight to sound smart, so it's frustrating to me. The author surely can also think up a solution now that he knows Twitter can't be trusted. In fact, as he explains in the comments, he switched to SMS months ago.
It seems like the typical ploy of the new age pseudo-scientist is to begin referencing people's internal experiences, jump from there to the point that people highly value their internal experiences and finally claim that the things explain the outside world couldn't possibly explain these internal phenomena, that the intensity of internal experiences makes them "inexplicable".

But the entire "argument" is purely psychological. An intelligent being having internal representations seems very logical - computer programs often build a variety of representation of the things they modeling. Memories can seem vivid but my recall is that the brain doesn't reconstruct full movies. But even more, the vividness of internal movies is pretty thin argument to the leap halfway into Chalmers video where he speculates "(maybe) even a photon has consciousness".
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Assuming a 500ml beer... (500ml / 1 km) = 0.5 square millimeters.

For interpretation advice, see also: xkcd. https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/
I'm curious, are you generating these tactics by hand or with software?

My guess is that it's software generated because there's a report button, and its function is probably to learn about bad tactic examples.
Domoticz works well for me. 433mhz lightswitches and a home cinema happily controlled from Roomie Remote.
Sure: http://jsfiddle.net/6dx92o9c/2/embedded/result/
Founder here: we support over one hundred cryptocurrencies. The application supports real-time alerts sent via email, SMS, and push notifications to your Android or IOS device.

Let me know if you have any feedback, questions or comments!
And that is a fine example of why you don't rely on such a Rube Goldberg machine for stuff like this...

A poor engineering decision killed the fish.

I see all sorts of crazy contraptions people have rigged up over the last 5 years since the appearance of the 'maker movement'. Surprised that fish are the only victim so far!

Sure you can wire up your coffee machine to listen for a tweet and have coffee ready for when you get in... then when you get there your flat is on fire...

Excuse the cynicism but as a professional engineer it scares me how dangerously and poorly thought out some of this sort of stuff is.
As per my other comment - Audacity can do this. The representation is called a spectrogram.

Edit: Oh and here's a JavaScript one. Haven't tried it as I don't have a microphone. https://github.com/sebleier/spectrogram.js/tree/master
I wonder if Apple could have used anti-trust law to void this portion of the contract.
Bro on Brails – Framework to create frameworks
Bro on Brails is an open source framework that's optimized for brogrammer happiness. It lets you create new frameworks for Ruby and Scala.

(We are working on a Sublime Text plugin)
As we find out about different use-cases, we like to post articles that explains how we solve that use case.

Other posts were about the general use of Blockspring. This post is specifically about how we created R Forecasting as a service.
I would like to know about OSM process for separating good contributions from bad ones. Similar non-map projects could benefit from learning how they did and how they do.
Realizing that Twitter is not reliable is not hindsight! It is blatantly obvious! In terms of reliability, it's one step above putting a message in a bottle and tossing it in the ocean. If you didn't already know this then you're not paying attention.
The problem with de-cluttering is that a large portion of the workforce depends for it's livelihood on institutional clutter. They become professionals at navigating, maintaining and extending said clutter and moving this group out of the way is very very difficult.

See also the article on 3 day work weeks posted on HN. This one of the largest reasons it ain't gonna happen just yet.
I want a 3d printer / wood router hybrid. All I've managed to do so far is a 3d printer / laser cutter hybrid, but it takes forever for it to cut wood.
Rhetorically, the author asks "Why would governments worldwide keep such a profound[ly beneficial] fungi out of the reach of their people?"

Good question. Because governments are evil, of course! That's what she invites us to conclude, right?

But here's a better answer: Because we don't really know whether psychedelics are profoundly beneficial, and we don't know this because there is no scientific consensus as to whether they are profoundly beneficial. And yes, we don't know this despite all the anecdotal evidence that her and Joe Rogan present us.

So why don't we reserve judgment until we know these things, and stop writing articles that imply that we do know and that the big bad Government is holding out on us?
Honestly, it's not fair. The whole idea of capitalism is to encourage people to work jobs / obtain certain skills that there is a demand for. If we didn't have enough people to available to be teachers, salaries would start to go up.

The example I see thrown around a lot is plumbing, or garbage collection. Presumably not very many people want to become plumbers, so they get paid accordingly.
From the Twitter terms of service:

"The Twitter Entities make no warranty and disclaim all responsibility and liability for: (i) the completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Services or any Content; (ii) any harm to your computer system, loss of data, or other harm that results from your access to or use of the Services or any Content; (iii) the deletion of, or the failure to store or to transmit, any Content and other communications maintained by the Services; and (iv) whether the Services will meet your requirements or be available on an uninterrupted, secure, or error-free basis."

Clearly it was never meant as a reliable communications channel for any sort of M2M application where failure could result in significant economic loss or a threat to human health or life.