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I think some of Gates criticisms fall in the arm chair category of criticisms on this, honestly. (And to be fair, I know mine do.) I have no desire to silence any of them, and I am excited about seeing them debated. But, I am fairly skeptical about how good they are.

I am genuinely interested in any discussions on this. Though, I will probably duck out of it soon, as it is beyond me. Please keep it going.

Regarding the investments, I am really talking about individual investors more than the companies. Find me someone with a couple hundred k in investments, and I posit you have found someone that will remain wealthy for some time. Probably long enough to pass it on to their children. Find me someone with a million in investments, and I am even more sure. More, they are in a position to make it so that most dollars they spend directly relate to some more dollars they will make.

I believe you are correct, historically. However, in recent times the wealthy are more and more made up from people that invested well. Pretty much period.

Consider your average home buyer. (Well, scratch that, consider your average successful home buyer.) The banks and lenders gain more from the purchase than the purchaser does. By a pretty large margin. If we look at the ones that go bust, this is even more true.

I agree that we don't need to tear down successful folk. I'm just not sure I've heard any plans that successfully help the less successful ones.
Hey thanks! I appreciate it, I put quite a bit of work making sure their purpose was clear so people wouldn't just label it as another drop in an ocean of screenshot utilities.
>The other option is to limit the power the government has to control the flow of wealth.

That's one of the core ideologies UNDERLYING the great shift in wealth from poor to rich: that politics should have no say in wealth allocation.

What that ultimately means is that the rules of wealth allocation are decided by the wealthy without democratic oversight.

Hence here we are.
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Some of the fonts need adjustment, in particular the header and the titles in the search bar (screenshot from Firefox): http://imgur.com/VTLLn5I

Also desperately needs a way to search or filter job listings by keyword.
It would also help if the "Apply for this job" button actually worked. I clicked on that particular position, just to see what would happen, and got "{"type":"Error","msg":"Hostname/IP doesn't match certificate's altnames"}"
I don't say, that philanthropy is bad.

What I mean: Philanthropy does not help, when the reasons of poverty are not removed. Biggest philanthropy will not help, when it is the result of extreme redistribution of money. The philanthropy of the monks in the middle ages did not help, because the monks where part of the system of inequality, where few owned all and the rest had to live on .... sometimes philanthropy.
Gates, and Piketty, would benefit from considering the insights of the Austrian school of economics, instead of accepting then regurgitating Marx & Engels with a veneer of civilized discourse. Neither seems to have read a single page of Ludwig von Mises or Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. Piketty certainly quotes Marx ad nauseam.

George Reisman has offered a thorough critique [1] of Piketty's arguments -- arguing across a range of topics, from David Ricardo's insights in the role and formation of capital to the meaning and value of inequality in both income and wealth.

[1] http://georgereismansblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/pikettys-capi...
> "Never forget that hiring is the most important thing you do."

Uhh.... I think at least a hundred commenters on HN who've gone through Google hiring would disagree with you.
Perhaps but beyond vague allusions there haven't been any facts provided that I can see that show that is the case.
Great comment. Also, those of us who fight against inequality are not fighting for equality at all.

What we say is simple - if you have a million dollars and 100 people to share it - rather than 1 person have 990,000 and the remaining 10,000 divided among 99 we want the 1st person to have 800,000 and the remaining 200,000 to be divided among the 99. That way, the first guy can have his $5,000 wine without paying any extra tax while we have our $50 wine. In the first scenario, the first guy still gets his $5,000 wine but the remaining can barely afford two meals a day.
"Superintelligence" by Nick Bostrom is well worth the read on this topic. Thanks to Elon Musk for recommending it.

Roughly speaking, Nick suggests that human biology does have a limit, and AI will jump far ahead in the time that it does take to use eugenics to boost human intelligence.
Taxes, among other things, can be used to discourage "bad" behavior - like smoking, or burning carbon, or other stuff that has costs for society at large ("externalities").

By and large, the more you tax something, the more you discourage it.
The elephant that everybody pretends that isn't in the room is that what you just called weapons is the ability to create wealth. Do we really need to take it away from everybody?

Recently, capitalists aren't the ones disrupting the economy in the US, here in Brazil, in the PIIGS, or any other place that I looked. That position is always held by people with power, but little capacity of creating wealth themselves. At general, I think Bill Gates is right, and there's little scrutiny over the distributive phenomena in an economy.

If I had to choose, I'd tax consumption (with a VAT) and redistribute a fixed rate of it by a basic income. But that's mostly because of procedural simplicity and resistance to corruption. I don't think Piketty's ideas are complete enough to base a taxation system upon them.
Thanks so much for the feedback. This is why I love HN <3

To reply to your thoughts:
1) Good point. I'll consider removing it for the next release, but from my beta testing, some users felt that an onboarding flow would be nicer. I figured making it short and sweet wouldn't hurt.

2) The images are fetched from the server, because the entire app is very API-driven. You're right though - I could architect it so that the images for the initial page are stored locally and I could use some special category-key to fetch the right image.

3) Yeah, I realized that pretty late when Apple had already approved the app. Fix coming in v1.0.1!

Thanks so much for giving it a try. I do plan on monetizing it later. I replied below on how I plan to do that, but the most important thing for me is to make a quality product that people like using. That's what I'm tracking right now.
Diet has changed a lot over a few recent generations, a child that should be a bit shorter than its parents due to genetics may still be taller.

Other multivariate genes may provide a better example of regression.
>Tech should not be an elusive industry - especially when their is such a huge shortage of skills.

1) If you consider tech to be an elusive industry because of this, would you consider the same for biology, chemistry or other industries/sciences that require a degree to effectively get a job in the field? Why is there no counterparts to "learn to code" for those fields?

2) Is there really a shortage of skills in the software development industry in comparison to other fields?
That's OK. As long as there is a large enough population using Bitcoin to create a small economy, that's fine with me. Right now, I get paid in Bitcoin, and pay for about 40%-50% of my household expenses in Bitcoin (and increasing monthly).

For people who are attracted to Bitcoin for ideological or technological reasons, mass adoption would be nice, but it's not as important to us as it is to the massive wave of "to the moon!" speculators who came in last fall.
You are missing my point. With a small outbreak (not sure you can even call it that) we are seeing just how disorganized the response has been. A nurse that was caring for the index patient was allowed to get on an airplane? Really? And how about that NBC reporter on quarantine who decided to go for take-out? Really?

We are lucky we only had one imported case of Ebola. Had we had twenty these people would be running around like chickens with their heads cut off. That much is obvious today.

The truth is they've been sitting around not dong anything of substance to prepare against a bio/chem attack. And I phrase it like that on purpose.

If there ever was a wake-up call to get ready for events with potentially massive impact that call was 9/11. The threat of a bio/chem attack could not be dismissed. And agencies should have prepared for swift and effective response. They, obviously, are not ready. They wasted thirteen years of our time and money. The consequences could be dire. Do you think terrorists are not watching our news?
For anyone else wondering http://www.mobygames.com/game/microsoft-decathlon/screenshot...
Just look at Boston versus Berlin in the article. Even the "messy" Boston looks unnaturally organized for me (I'm German, though not from Berlin).
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I'm about to start a new job. They offered to supply a computer at my office. I'd like a cheap Linux box, but all Google's suggestions for a manufacturer (System76, ZaReason, etc.) are from articles that are several years out-of-date. I also wasn't wowed by the price point for these manufacturers -- they seemed to demand significant markups for things like SSDs above what they'd cost separately, when all they're doing is plopping the hardware in the box.

Is it silly to go the route of a non-mainstream manufacturer? I'd rather not get something pre-installed with Windows, both for security reasons and for the idiotic added expense.
You want history? I'll give you history. The bottom line is that Microsoft used it's monopoly position to destroy Netscape, who -- really, let's be honest -- made "the web" a thing to begin with at all.

If Microsoft would have made Internet Explorer a boxed piece of software to sit on the shelf beside Netscape Navigator, and if they had priced it similarly, and if people had voted with their wallets in IE's direction (because it was actually a better product for the money), I wouldn't have had a problem with IE taking over the world. As it was, they bundled it, and it was crap in comparison (at least to start with, and many would say up until recently), but Netscape couldn't compete with free.

THAT'S what a lot of us still remember. It was a perfect, easily-visible example of a lot of business moves they have made, and for which they ultimately -- not only weren't punished -- but actually were allowed to prosper because of. THAT'S why people like me are still sore about it.

They won because of BUSINESS SAVVY and LEGAL moves, not TECHNICAL MERIT, and people in the software development world (and everyone else) have paid the price for it for 20 years. (I can't get Sametime in the web version of Lotus Notes to work unless I use Internet Explorer, and in "compatibility mode", to emulate their non-standards-compliant behavior that everyone was forced to code around, as one immediate example.)

All the touchy-feely "openness" they're trying to foist on the world now is going to have to be everything they hope people will interpret it as for the next THIRTY years for me to believe they really want to interoperate with the rest of the world like Linux always has.
>The reason the rich get to choose is because it is their money.

This presumes that most, if not all of the money gained by the rich is justly earned. I would take serious issue with this.
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While everyone seems to be focusing on the issues of distractions, I have found myself in the habit of using one screen due to a particular testing issue. All of the devs in my group were using two screens, and so were the testers, but the majority of our customers used one screen. Customers would run into issues which the devs wouldn't be able to reproduce. It turned out that the issue was pop-ups ('foo is bar; click ok to continue') which would appear normally if you were running the app in your right-hand screen, but which would appear off-screen to a single-screen user. Being the only single-screen user in the development group enabled me to solve the bug and prevent many future cases of the same bug getting through into production.
Maybe they'll dial back some of the quirkyness. I use it, but some stuff that should be really easy is messy, like subscribing to reddits. And their iOS 8 update (which was the first update in forever) has all sorts of "unique" interface ideas.
ffmpeg and slop work together nicely to record your desktop (record-my-desktop is great too), but I don't know of anything that streams the recordings.

Check this out for some more information on slop and ffmpeg: https://github.com/naelstrof/slop#practical-applications
There doesn't seem to be an obvious button for me to click to edit the headline once submitted??
My recommendation for phones (not sure about Tablet versions)
- SSH: JuiceSSH (simply the best i have used so far) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonelli.ju...
- Twitter: Falcon Pro (works on tablets)
- RSS: Press or why not Google Newstand or Flipboard ?
- Office: QuickOffice, MSOffice or Google Docs
Most of those people (IME) need the lenses to correct for short-sightedness, which if anything would make them better rather than worse at discerning phone pixels.
Right, but now we have investment vehicles where you can effectively invest in investments alone.

No longer must you invest in a rail company and do all you can to make them do well. You can literally invest in the volatility of said rail company. Further, yes, you can invest in manipulating the government to make sure that company does well.

But, without the government, you could likely also just invest directly in competitors to keep them down such that said company still does well. I know, this would still be preferable to keep disallowed, but the hypothesis was an abstaining government. What level of activity counts as abstaining?
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I had this problem and created http://skimfeed.com as a solution. No comments, nothing to follow, upvote, tag, or retweet. Just straight up news catch up in 15 minutes for morning and night.
It doesn't switch inputs back when it's done, so I'd still need a phone and two remote controls to go from casting back to watching TV on my TV. Its use of CEC doesn't help solve the input/remote problem at all. The 2010 Google TV already did everything the Chromecast does except tab/screen mirroring, minus ever having to switch inputs or use multiple remotes.
Yahoo was a bit of a freak case. They literally had NO way of telling what people were doing. I don't mean 'they didn't have a system that monitored every keystroke', I mean they had NOTHING. Not even a way to say "did this person complete some problem tickets?" Not sure what happened with Reddit, I hadn't heard of them getting rid of remote workers. Odd because Reddit is exactly the kind of site I would expect to benefit massively from having pretty much the entire staff be remote.
This is one of the biggest problems with the industry now; a lot of people learning to code without learning computer science. Coding is applying computer science fundamentals and without those fundamentals, you end up writing terrible and unmanageable code. Bootcamps are one of the worst ideas because they charge a lot of money, waste a lot of time with overzealous promises and, worst of all, hurt the industry by cranking out sub-par developers. Don't push people to learn to code, push people to learn computer science, math and algorithms.
Terrorists have been watching your news for 13 years. How many attacks have you had since then?

Spending time, money, and effort on combating ghosts is a ridiculous waste - just look at the TSA for a perfect example of this.
This is very confusing for Ruby developers for more than one reason:

- The name implies this has something to do with Ruby on Rails while it has nothing to do with Ruby on Rails.

- The repo name is react-rails, which is identical to the official gem[0] a lot of Ruby on Rails developers use to include React in their Rails projects.

0 - https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails
I would imagine that there are a number of different ways a particular brain could be more successful than another at performing a particular cognitive task. I do believe you are right in thinking that some of them are better thought of as algorithmic, but some of them are perhaps simple and independent (such as better memory recall). Neither algorithmic structures in the brain nor simple characteristics like recall/speed of language parsing can explain everything if we are to believe that the human brain is as complicated as evidence demonstrates.
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>This presumes that most, if not all of the money gained by the rich is justly earned. I would take serious issue with this.

Case by case, you may or may not have a point. Is the alternative to have the state take the money and spend as it wishes? In such a case, is the money "justly earned" if it was taken by force?
>In theory I like the idea of a "tax on consumption", because it suggests a penalty on conspicuous consumption and wasteful spending.

If you want a penalty on conspicuous consumption then simply levy taxes on items which count as conspicuous consumption - yachts, private jets, houses > $2 million USD, super cars, etc.

It would probably not be a huge list and it wouldn't be a complicated rule. You might miss one or two exceptions, but that's okay.

It would be a LOT simpler than going the other way - taxing everything consumed in the economy and then making exceptions for conspicuous consumption.
+1 I believe this is a pain point across all platforms, not just iOS. Shockingly, I've had trouble bringing up the sidebar on tablet versions as well.
2) Is there really a shortage of skills in the software development industry in comparison to other fields?

A shortage of skills is often the interpretation people get (or at least voice publicly) when they think labor costs are too high.

e: Not that I'm arguing that it's the case (or the alternate). You'll run into business politics, politics politics, lies, lies people tell themselves, and statistics before getting any actual insight on the issue.

The only convincing argument I've heard is that wages aren't increasing to match the reported demand. Which doesn't indicate anything directly. It suggests sufficient labor pools but rests on the assumption that if there are insufficient talent pools employers would pay more to attract talent.
Was it a simple fix? Certainly an elegant one. Excluding Drupalcon, I'd imagine it took some amount of time to determine the scope of the problem (was this the only avenue?), best method of resolution (there might have been a few ways to patch this that were more complicated before settling on this one), and then testing to make sure additional problems were not introduced on possible fixes.

This was a pretty critical part of Drupal core, so it would be irresponsible to rush out a patch without proper testing and analysis. Could it have been done quicker? Maybe. But I don't think this is a completely unreasonable period of time.
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At this point, she likely has a pretty good routine for screenshotting death threats. Click the notification (OSX notifies me on an OS level immediately, and I personally typically click immediately if I'm at my computer), see it's nasty, Command+Shift+4. 12 seconds is entirely doable and feasible.
InteliShake – Smart sports drinks bottle + built-in storage, like it?
Would you pick this product from the shelf compared to a basic shaker bottle?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1593175966/1002071867?token=56fd5a61
"I don’t see anyone on the list whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since."

What you do see though, in the same Fortune 400 list is that 6 of the top 10 people on that list didn't build their companies (in the sense that Bill Gates did), they inherited them.

I don't know how much the current crop Kochs or Waltons are responsible for the current success of their ventures, but this is the type of thing I believe Piketty had in mind as much as the "parcels of land" approach. Also rent seeking is a problem distinct from a rentier class.

Can you argue convincingly that these people would have been just as successful without the advantages of their births? I suspect that would be quite difficult.
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Please, don't be nervous. The v1 will be sold and maintained for a very long time.

Cannot talk about details, but New Relic doesn't want us to lose a single customer during the transition. Not only one.

So please, bear with us. No plans to discontinue anything, and with the upside that now we have a lot more of horsepower.
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That was super interesting! Thanks.

The most interesting part to me is that it might be coming to an end!
make && sudo make install would do the trick (For both slop and maim), but you should try to see if you can get your package manager to install it somehow.

For example Arch Linux has slop and maim in the AUR. I'll add an install section to the README.md
Their Java IDE for Android development is also nice. Amazing to be able to write Java on my phone.
Fair enough, I've edited the topic name to clarify, thanks for your feedback!
This really depends on where you live!

For startup hubs such as San Francisco, New York etc, I think the best job boards are https://jobs.github.com/, http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/, http://www.authenticjobs.com/, and https://angel.co/jobs

Angellist as mentioned on another comment is also great for just finding startups.

I also used to find really good city specific sites with a google search like "startups [CITY NAME]" or even "startup jobs [CITY NAME]"

for berlin for example one of the first hits is: http://berlinstartupjobs.com/

Also, there is a huuuge list with job boards, currated by the guys from underdog.io -> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AlOCi7qqICWzdEh...

if you are interested in remote jobs, and dont want to wade through all those job boards yourself, subscribe to http://remoteworknewsletter.com and set a couple of filters to only receive jobs that are relevant to you
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It's a mistake to think that states 'spend' your taxes. They don't really.

It helps to think of states as machines that print money which they spend at one end and run an incinerator into which they put all of your taxes at the other.

The clear implication of this is that:

* Spending is inflationary

* Taxes are there to clamp down on inflation.

* Taxes are there to change behavior in a socially conscious way (e.g. tax cigarettes to reduce smoking // tax breaks for wind farms).

Your cash is debt. It is not something you own like a house. It is a social relationship subject to intermediation by the government under democratic oversight.
The diagonal post context menu "ribbon" is such an odd design choice to me. I suppose it's for using it left handed given the context toggle at the bottom, but still. Seems like something much simpler would also be much more usable.
Yeah you're right. My bad, I've changed the readme to reflect that. I did mean commandline screenshot utilities, but I was completely unaware that GUI screenshooters have the ability regardless (because I don't use any of them).
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