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Don't speak for everyone. Personally I think the idea that we need wealth concentration at all is bogus. Investment is already performed by teams of skilled experts on behalf of the wealthy. We don't need individuals who simply perform the function of owning things and reaping the benefits for literally doing nothing. There are better ways we could be allocating capital. We also don't need wealth concentration to encourage people to work. The vast majority of productive people act in the economy for modest rewards and the hope of a middle class life.

The wealthy are obsolete and dangerous; we need to move on as a society from the forms that enable them.
Dark matter may have been detected streaming from sun's core
"For Life" is in the same way that SCOTUS justices have an appointment "for life". It just means they can't be fired or deposed, not that they can only leave in a box.
As a european, I can go more than 100km, but I very rarely do go anywhere near that far - our towns are based on the assumption of walking rather than the assumption of driving, so anything more than a 15 minute walk away is "exotic"; on the other hand, the architecture I walk past between my home and the office is just about to celebrate its 1000th birthday :)
New Zealand / Chile / Peru / Vietnam / Brunei / Malaysia / Singapore / Canada / Mexico propose; United States / Japan oppose.

International agreements are always negotiated privately before being submitted to legislatures for public comment and ratification.

Domestic laws are done the same way. The terms of any major bill before the U.S. Congress, for instance, are first negotiated in private among a smaller group of legislators before being introduced for public debate and amendment.

Business deals are usually done the same way. Two companies considering a merger negotiate the terms in private first, then present the deal to their boards/shareholders for approval.
That's a really good idea, thanks :) it's on our todo list now.
HP WebOS Services Shutdown
How's that Kickstarter and series A funding working out for ya?
Why you have to create an Experience, not just a Product
A Pump War?
The prequels turned out great.
This is the same method we use in studying grain boundary formation in materials science. Atomic lattices align at different angles and are colorized accordingly. It is so cool to see the same idea applied to maps!
The name of the app are like extra keywords (outside of what is already defined in keywords). They help with search discovery.

To be honest, we are still not sure we want to keep it this way - I know the name sounds a bit spammy, but then it helps us rank better on those search-keywords (and also have more keywords outside of the name).

Do you have any experience on this trade off? I'd love to hear others' view on this.
Totally agree. I took a class last year and learned a lot, but finding a job was extremely difficult. I finally found one in the early part of 2014, but now that I'm looking again it has been just as hard.

Everyone wants more senior people which is understandable. The problem is there's just such a shortage of talent. I argue that if you find someone who possesses the passion, curiosity, and ability to learn quickly and train them for a couple months, you'll have a decent developer. Unfortunately, I haven't come across many companies who share this viewpoint.
A) The sales pitch to get rid of the tax was super slick. No denying that. The substance was thin, though.

B) Like I said below: the function of a tax is not to bring in revenue, and counting it a success or not because it brought in above "X" amount of revenue is staggeringly dumb. Taxes are there to disincentivize undesirable behavior and clamp down on inflation, not raise funds. Governments sovereign in their own currency are not revenue constrained.

C) The effect removing that tax had on jobs was almost negligible. Look at overall unemployment during that time. Didn't budge.

>The economy's too complex for us

Hm. Apologetics for the ultra-wealthy...
Primarily reference, although I recently read the Daemon/Freedom series on it and it was sufficient for that application, my wife much prefers the Nook e-paper device for fiction. I agree it can be heavy for bedtime reading but for commuting I usually have my bag on my lap and read with the ipad on top of it so I don't get any weight at all (other than the bag of course)
Release of libxml2-2.9.2 (fixes DoS vulnerability)
> An estate worth $5M, which is then taxed at 40%,

That's not how the estate tax works. The first $5 million (or so) is not taxed.

> where you're expected to pay for your own education, health care, and retirement

You can pay for your kids' education directly, no estate tax involved. You can put significant amount of money into 529 savings accounts for your kids and your grandkids, effectively increasing estate tax limitations if (like most upper class) education is a place where you will expend significant resources.
Fire Fox 32.
Or like a venture-backed Ask MetaFilter.
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Thanks for replying, I was always wondering if marketing/shipping reasons or other reasons (tax, bureaucracy) keep developers from just checking all country boxes when they submit it to the store.

Another mystery resolved!
Gack! No! Nearly all of the recommendations are a really bad disservice.

Learning to code is relatively straightforward. Learning to do it well, applying the fundamental principles of computer science, is a different kind of horse (transportation device). People in the industry KNOW this. It's obvious. You have to put in the time to really know what you're about, and bootcamps & MOOCs don't really bridge the gap between 'ignoramus' and 'junior professional' as a rule of thumb. Of course, if you subject yourself to a diet of these things and study the field for some time (months at least), doing serious investigation of the fundamentals, I don't think you'd be much different than a particularly motivated intern or new grad. :)

That said - if you are, e.g., a marketing person, learning coding to help do your job and simplify your work will do amazing things for you, I hear. Learning source control will drastically make "copy 1 of report final 1" type problems go away. As patio11 often says, automating business process has huge value. (Which, by the by, doesn't make you a professional software developer if you do it).

Coding is a great skill, applicable in many places, but professional software creation with the high salary comes at the cost of serious competition with people who have seriously studied this topic for a long time.
>They're not taking on the high functioning hipster who smokes weed on the weekends.

Actually, they are, insofar as they advocate laws that make no distinction for that case, regardless of how much the users are willing to eg pay for the costs associated with such a setup.
https://www.drupal.org/documentation/version-info#when once a month rather.
They didn't create the underlying technologies for containerization on Windows, either. Docker is just providing compatibility with the new container API in Windows Server so that you can use the same tools regardless of the OS. It's no different from what they already do, which is wrap the LXC API.
because it sucks and always will?
"Double tax" is a phrase that needs to die in a fire due to it's preposterously disingenuous use.

I work, I get paid, my money is taxed.
I buy a chocolate bar, the sale is taxed
The money that is spent on the chocolate bar goes in part to the shop who makes a profit (that is taxed) and to the company that made the chocolate bar who make a profit (that is taxed).
The company pays the worker that made the chocolate bar (that is taxed)
Etc, etc, etc.

Transaction are always being taxed - that's how the tax system works.
Just saw that myself, thanks for noting it. One feature I want to add at some point is the ability to "flag" a job ad as either misleading or inappropriate - but this would have to be implemented in tandem with basic CRUD functionality, in case the creator made an innocent mistake. In this case I shall contact them and find out whether the ad criteria needs to be adjusted.
And now they know we can't handle an attack of any given scale. I think it is safe to assume that we all thought we were more than ready to deal with ONE patient. Not the case. The President just said we are learning and making changes. Really? Now?

You are missing a very important point. It is my fault for not making it explicit. I've been using bio/tech attacks as a general term and yes, there's an immediate association with terrorism. The problem is far deeper than that.

What do you think is going to kill us all?

Here "us" isn't an egocentric "USA" but rather a "humanity" us.

What will kill us all?

Nuclear bombs?

War?

A meteor?

Nope.

Evolution.

Not ours. Bacteria and viruses.

We have built a world that makes it easy for these organisms to quickly move across the globe. We already have bacteria that cannot be killed with most antibiotics. And while we spend billions developing weapons to kill each other we seem to be neglecting the reality that we are not the enemy, evolving bacteria and viruses are.

In that context terrorism might not be a factor. If viruses or bacteria get past that evolutionary "click" that turns them into, well, weopons of mass destruction, terrorism will be the last thing we have to worry about.

Now, what we, the world, have to do is take a 100+ year view of humanity, grow up and start moving towards the things that really matter. I would be shoveling, no, trucking money into programs to develop all manner of systems, products and organizations to fight a war that could be an existential threat to our species.

So, you see, when I worry about e CDC or government wasting over a decade getting ready for patient one of an unknown killer event I am thinking well beyond Ebola. I am thinking we've squandered thirteen years of work towards understanding how to effectively protect our entire species.

Let's put it this way, we are not going to solve the problem by building more churches. We need to enter an age of intense scientific enlightening and stop building smart bombs and stealth fighters. We are not the enemy.
I had a few kids in college talking about how nice their Apple whateverbooks were...I'd just laugh and mention my Indigo2 and O2. Scrubs.
I understand your point Kalium but I'm afraid I'm not persuaded on this 'selling a fantasy' idea. For many people that come to us, the decision is something they think long and hard over before making that leap, being fully aware of what they will learn and what their continued learning will have to be in order to gain employment upon completion of a course.

Many of our students want to improve their overall job prospects, knowing that with tech skills (basic knowlege of coding, for example) their overall market value is significantly increased as every industry becomes more and more reliant of those with this knowledge. And not just developers. Hiring managers, CEO's, designers. The list goes on and on. Of course for those who do want to become developers this is an excellent start.

I'm not sure how the idea of teaching people valuable skills is in any way troubling. It's fairly discriminatory to older learners, or those who simply did not have the opportunity to learn at university to say that there is no hope for them now. Online programs like ours give people who haven't been exposed to programming a chance to learn in a supportive, mentored environment. Our mentors, who work the rest of the time as freelance developers, are able to pass on their knowledge and experience to their students in a similar way to how an apprenticeship would traditionally work.

And if our students do decide to become developers then learning coding languages is a pretty good place to start, I would say. It is a start that will, with the right experience and learning curve one day lead to a job. We all have to start somewhere and personally I think it's unfair to ostracize talented people simply because they haven't been lucky enough to have been exposed to a specific skillset earlier in life.

Many thanks for your comment.
They all have netflix. I'm specifically referring to stores here. Each has its own store with its own proprietary media stream. Maybe you're right for Nexus Player, but as an owner of an Apple TV in one room and a Roku in another, there is no way for me to purchase something on either device and have it available on the other.

If I obtain on my desktop, however, it very easily streams to every device in my house.
Both those parties spend a lot, but you are begging the question of how much effect they have.
It's not evident in Gates's review, but one of Piketty's arguments for a wealth tax is just so we can get a better picture of wealth. He goes through great lengths to try to get data on it -- if there was a tax, even a small one, we'd have far greater transparency.

He then thinks that this would lead to changes -- because his data, no matter how good you think it is, is arguable and possibly wrong.
I haven't an opinion on boot camps as they currently run (but am entirely self taught and having a great time architecting and building APIs and front end applications); however, I wish that the " Interested in learning to code, but not so keen on leaving your current employer?" section was the focus of the article and the boot camps.

A buddy of mine told me about the cascading discounts that he and his coworkers calculated by hand. They all know how to do it, but he wanted an quicker way. A little recursive function later and I made him a simple little calculator he could pull up on his phone. It saves him—and his coworkers—time and would completely be within everyone's grasp to create with a little bit of training.

I wish there was a push for practical programming and automation for everyone. Boot camps to help you improve your work through simple programming.
But those allegations just doesn't make sense. Does anyone seriously believe botnet operators to be paying customers of No-IP?

Why else would they give them advance notice? Out of spite? No-IP has absolutely nothing to gain from it and everything to lose.

It just doesn't make sense. Has there ever been any real indication that this was the case?
Ask HN: Any UK startups that have used SAFE instead of Convertible Note?
Was curious if any UK based companies have used the YC SAFE documents (with adjustments for UK) instead of the more traditional Convertible loan notes with maturity and interest. Any experiences to share?
Residential Roofing: 5 Tips for a Leak-Free Winter
Displaying a range for the salary/rate is certainly a good starting point. Obviously the final number is going to be decided based on experience and after some negotiation, but at the very least I'd like to not waste my time applying for jobs that pay a maximum of $50k if I'm looking for a minimum of $75k.
Good stuff. Explore the use of custom navigation controller transitions. Tapping on a cell can expand into the new view rather than the default slide in animation.
> They acquired a court order, did they not?

This is what I don't understand. How can a private company get a court order to simple assume the operations of another private company?
"And whenever someone accuses IQ of being inadequate, and they come out with their More Complete test, it turns out that their measurements and predictions are insufficiently distinctive from IQ, which even further supports the idea of a "general" mental ability."

Here's the thing... I'm criticising IQ tests, but I'm not suggesting we create a more complete test, I'm suggesting the whole idea of measuring intelligence numerically is fundamentally flawed.

There are a few reasons I believe measuring intelligence numerically is flawed, but probably the central one is that I don't believe it exists as a fixed entity, I believe it's adaptive depending on the circumstances we find ourselves in.

As with any debate on human traits the tendency is to go back to the nature vs. nurture question. I believe you can have a natural aptitude for something, but the environment you live in is what helps your intelligence develop, and this is the largest differentiator in what we perceive as intelligence. Put simply, change the environment and you change the intelligence. Therefore scores like IQ do not measure someone's true potential, they only hint at what they've already been exposed to. That's why to me such tests are a waste of time.
Happy to say that as of now no new "Company confidential" job ads will appear on the site (existing ones will still remain until they expire). Company name and URL are now mandatory.
I think it's more about cultivating culture. It's almost impossible to build culture with 80% of your staff working remotely on different timezones. There are ways around it but it's just way better to see your team.
> Service like Taplytics allow developers to test variations of their app interface and code, and to make those changes without going through the App Store approval and update process.

What is the risk all these companies get wiped out overnight by an app store policy change? I have never used any of them, so perhaps their capabilities are so limited that it's not an issue -- but subverting the review process sounds like a risky feature to build a business around.
If your primary cost is engineering staff, why would you make them %50 less effective when they're working and on top of that take 2 hours out of their day each day for a stressful commute?

Because the engineers are not the ones doing the accounting or managing. The accountants and managers do. It's similar to how social events tend to be planned by socially-focused people, which is how a shy and/or introverted person can end up being dragged to a noisy bar for their birthday.
It's true that most sales taxes are regressive, but you can have progressive sales taxes as well. A few examples:

In New York, there's no tax on clothing and shoes under $110 (at least that was the number when I lived there a few years ago). If you're buying stuff that costs more than that, then you can probably afford the tax, since there plenty of completely fashionable and functional items that cost far less.

In many (most?) places, there's no sales tax on most foods you'd buy in a supermarket, but there is on prepared foods and restaurant meals.

You could probably take these even further by raising the taxes on more expensive clothing items. If you're buying a $1,000 purse or eating a $500 meal, you can probably afford a higher tax rate.

It would probably be challenging to apply a progressive sales tax to everything, but it's certainly possible for many purchases.
Scrot, slop, maim - I really hate the names that people pick for open source projects.
I suppose drill-and-practice is adequate for young learners, but boy are mathematical DaP games thick on the ground. This looks like a good implementation of one, but it's hard for me to get excited about it. Still, I'll be interested in hearing how you're testing whether it has an impact on what students know.
Is that sarcastic? Can't tell on here ;-)
Yes, the state is a more efficient investor of capital. Counterintuitive as it may be, just taking money and giving it to poor people is a very good investment in terms of the public good that results. A rich individual investing into a funded company is much more visible, but that same money spread more widely might launch hundreds of "lifestyle businesses" that would ultimately be more productive.
You're assuming the estate tax needs to exist in it's current form- ideally it would allow for me to deign money out to specific aspects of government or approved (need to avoid abuse here) charities of my choice. That would still serve to dissuade the multigenerational family/genetic lottery while leaving the individual with some say in how their (now former) assets are used.

On your last point- a traditional corporation won't fail if one person dies as the issue of ownership is inherently divested from any individual person. Stocks are one of the easiest assets to liquidate on this planet- I'm not seeing an issue there. The restaurant? It would be sold. If I have a family member who I actually think could run it adequately they would be able to purchase it like anybody else and I would encourage them to do so while I was still alive.
:) Glad to be of help.
> instead of seeking a secret court order

The blame here must reside with the justice system. There will always be companies attacking their competitors by legal means, it must be the responsibility of the system to not let them get away with it.
Taleb starts The Black Swan by criticisng people for using anecdotes to justify their position. He then uses a series of anecdotes to justify his position.

As far as I could tell this wasn't done as some kind of meta-commentary on anecdotes - just a massive lack of self-awareness
What if you already have an account?
In a broad sense, I think these agreements and increased integration are a threat to classical liberalism-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_integration#Stages
Devolve as much as we can. Split federal programs into state programs, then county-level programs, where the money is collected and spent on a much smaller scale.
One thing that always bothers me about wealth distribution is that you can't simply move wealth around and expect things to get better. People who have wealth are going to be better with that wealth than people who don't. They grew up with wealthy people, have managed the wealth for a long time, have witnessed mistakes and successes, and overall have spent a lot of time contemplating wealth.

If you take that wealth and move it to the average person, even if their fundamental intelligence is equivalent, their experience, education, and exposure is going to be a lot lower.

"They're worried about maintaining a democratic society, where everyone gets roughly an equal say in how things go."

It's an unpopular opinion, but I don't think that everyone should have a roughly equal say in how things go. The average person isn't as well equipped to deal with large problems as the elite are. Everyone has different specialties, and different volumes of abilities. You wouldn't let an intern have an equal say as a senior engineer when designing the core infrastructure. You especially wouldn't let the janitor have an equal say - he's got no experience in desiging such things!

I'm always very uneasy about equality talks because all people are not equally suited to make global policy decisions. Nor are they equally incentivized to make the most informed and rational decisions.

I'm not saying that there isn't a problem or that we shouldn't do anything about it, but I am saying that I disagree with an egalitarian approach. We want the majority of decisions to be made by people who understand what they are deciding and have lots of experience, not to be made by individuals who mostly understand the topic from a single reddit thread. We want to make sure that the incentives of the people in power are aligned with the people who are not in power, but leveling the playing field is not an approach I find valuable.