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>But rather than move to a progressive tax on capital, as Piketty would like, I think we’d be best off with a progressive tax on consumption. Think about the three wealthy people I described earlier: One investing in companies, one in philanthropy, and one in a lavish lifestyle. There’s nothing wrong with the last guy, but I think he should pay more taxes than the others.

Investing and consumption should be treated equally.

Investing is not inherently 'better' than consumption. Both create jobs. Both are done for selfish reasons.

The only difference is that shifting the tax burden to consumption instead of investing is inherently regressive - since the poor spend more than they save and the rich save more than they spend.

Saving is its own reward. It doesn't need added tax incentives. Having added tax incentives is just another way of covertly favoring the rich.

Who do you favor with the tax system? The guy who successfully invested in the startup and reaped massive rewards AND the guy who invested in a pets.com? Or the guy who blew all the money on cocaine AND the one who spent it on a private education for their kids (tax treatment: consumption)?
Piketty does not consider philanthropy as a means to correct some of capitalism's imbalances

Oh, please. The poor don't benefit from philanthropy. The poor benefit from a more balanced system. This reeks of justification.
I don't agree with your premise that travel is unconstrained, especially air travel (I don't have a terrific understanding of the land borders, but they are fairly long and I guess much of it is wild, completely eliminating travel across them seems impossible).

The first limit on travel is that a large portion of the population in the outbreak countries can't afford air travel. Then there is the Visa system. Then there is screening prior to boarding the flights. There is proof that this system is not 100% effective, but I don't take it as obvious that 100% effective is an attainable standard.
I'm probably in the minority, but on mobile I use i.reddit.com

What's the future for that?
Breeding is successful in some sense, but certainly not without its issues. For example, by breeding pedigree dogs we've left them with a number of genetic defects that are hard to remove due to the reduced gene pool, e.g. Dalmatian deafness, Bulldog respiration, King Charles Spaniel syringomyelia, etc...

I agree the research would have to be gradual and aware of those issues. I doubt dog breeders really care for those.

Addressing the article, I find the idea of quantifiable intelligence to be one of the dumbest ideas we ever came up with. What does an IQ point mean, really? From my understanding, testing it basically boils down to using a specific subset of symbolic puzzles. Intelligence can be quantified numerically in the same way love can be quantified numerically, i.e. not at all, without losing the essence of what you're looking for.

IQ can be measured, there are many tests that do so. More time you spend checking more accurate you can get. Not infinitely accurately but good enough.

Also, intelligence by itself is not a goal in its own right, it's the purpose to which it's applied that matters. If super intelligent people exist, what would we have them do? The same things we do but faster? No thanks.

That makes little sense. Speed is not a requirement for new research and discovery. Original though is. That is what we should strive for.

Instead of wasting our time trying to group ourselves into categories, we should be looking to bring out the best of the talents we find in the people around us. That seems like a better goal than chasing a 1000 IQ person.

Eugenics could do exactly that.
Thanks for the question. MySQL actually hasn't been the default for a while, I think back before Rails 2.0. The default database for testing and development now is SQLite; in production, the tutorial uses PostgreSQL at Heroku. I recommend eventually learning how to run Postgres locally as well, but when you're just starting out SQLite is much easier, requiring essentially zero setup.
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>This is somewhat important, because much of what would have been the "old money" in the US was effectively disrupted by massive technology changes.

This is the point I am trying to make...if this old money had been reinvesting in technology over the past 150 years, it might have been possible to maintain it. Fortunately in the US, the mechanisms were not in place for the government to help these rentiers maintain their wealth, and they weren't reinvesting in technology, so they are no longer wealthy.
Must be some American specialty. At the end, Bill Gates sees Philanthropy as (part of a) solution. This must have something to do with the US-American history and background? I heard that opinion so often and we are in deed in an era of big philanthropists (like Bill himself). But I (no American, and maybe missing some genetics for it) can not see any solution in it. The biggest philanthropists today are in the US, but also the US is one of the countries, where inequality rises fastest. So, by this viewing alone, there must rise some doubts about it.

Also, you could compare philanthropy with the "foreign aid" that western countries give to poorer ones for decades now. Did it help? In many cases, it made things worse, because the money did not help the people to help themselves, but made them addicted to the aid.

The point is also that philanthropy -- as it might silence the own conscience -- is often the overflow of the overflow. We give, because we have more than we need and than we give what we need least. But what people really need, is not somebody that throws pennies in your hat, so you can buy some old bread -- but what they really need, are equal chances -- to be able to visit the same universities, to have the same jobs and to earn the same money as other people with the same talents.

You might argue: But Bill also fought his way from "rags to riches" -- no, that is not right. Bill already was born in a well being family and visiting visited Harvard College. With such a background, it is much easier to come from rich to riches, as if you come from Uganda slums (or even Harlem).
I'm thinking this may be an illusion. Is there any evidence that this route works?

I know that the effective programmers I work with, have similar life stories. They love programming, have done it since they were young, do it for themselves and not just for work.

The guy who gets a CS degree because there's money in it may get a job somewhere, but not in the circles I travel in. Which is architecture, design, backends, libraries and embedded solutions.

So what is the real opportunity to a part-time online-course student?
Surely you should only foreach() if you're working with a hash/map? Would a classic for($c=0, $l=count($arr); $c<$l; $c++) suffer from any similarly-exploitable problem?
I would posit that it is also a cure, but for the person's conscience. One of the reasons people engage in philanthropy is because it makes them feel good about themselves. This especially holds true for Bill Gates. He was a ruthless capitalist for decades before he realized that's not the kind of legacy he wants to leave behind. (I don't say that to cheapen his efforts -- on the contrary it makes me respect him more.)

You pose a great question though: would philanthropy exist in a well-designed system? To answer this we must first decide what "well-designed" means, but I'm sure everyone could agree that it would involve a system in which poverty does not exist (since poor people are the primary recipients of the vast majority of philanthropy). So then the question becomes: if there were no poor people, would we have philanthropy? I think we still would for the reasons I described above: at the end of the day, helping others makes us feel good about ourselves, and there are a lot of people who need help for whatever reason above and beyond a wealth transfer.
Then you're not applying to job boards and are not applicable to this conversation.
They do a 635 with LTE as well.

I've owned a Sony android device (Xperia SP) Never again. Total bag of crap. Sold it and got a Moto G which was crap too. Neither devices could handle more than three tabs open without losing one and refreshing. The 630 can with half the RAM. I think NT scales down better than Android on handsets.

I'd have got the 830 if I wanted a camera phone but I lug a Nikon D3100 around.
Regarding your last paragraph. It's a problem if too much money is given to causes that don't really benefit society as a whole. There is also the fact that there are no instances of philanthropy ever being at a high enough amount to provide for the general welfare of all of the poor. Only government programs have ever been enough to do this. Government programs scale better than philanthropic ones.

It is true that philanthropic organizations can focus on areas neglected by government (society). This is a good thing. However, relying on the good will of others to do this voluntarily does not make for good public policy. I know you weren't advocating that a society use only charitable giving to provide for the needs of the poor. I suppose it is the case that I believe that government is more efficient than charities in terms of scale and sustainability. Hence my desire to rely more on government and taxation. I don't advocate relying solely on this mechanism and I'm not opposed to someone being very wealthy per se. A balance is needed and I don't know where the sweet spot is for the optimal solution.

The free rider problem in question was the issue of some very wealthy people deciding not to give anything to charity to help others. To avoid this particular free rider problem taxation can be used. This forces participation so to speak.
Philip Greenspun has written a whole series of posts reviewing this book: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2014/06/17/book-review-pi...
I saw a study from Google in 2012 about the influence of internet on technology product purchases. It had many insightful nuggets about internet in India (my area of interest) - such as explaining the degree to which internet had spread in smaller cities in India, how people in those smaller cities use the internet in their purchase decisions, the fact that query volumes from mobiles phones in India for the same category were growing 3 times faster than desktop..and other such insights.

It felt that the insights were coming from Google's unique vantage point - i.e. their domination over search. I believe that there are many areas in which a company like Google can add great insights to the world (e.g. how to build a great company from scratch) and that when they share them, it ought to feel like "only Google could have come up with this".

If I read a book from someone senior at say Apple about best practices for managing a global supply-chain - then I'd be very curious to understand their unique point of view.

So my first comment about this being "disappointing" is coming more from that angle - Are these insights only Google can give? I am not sure (although it doesn't invalidate the insights themselves). Now, my second comment that I found them shallow, could be because like you say "I already get it" (although frankly, I don't think so - I feel that I don't get this stuff :) I am just always super curious to learn stuff from Google et al).
You remember one password... and then can access your master password list.
Based on the awesome feedback I got yesterday, I've put up a brand new design. More comments welcome! - http://gini.io
Images and content are retrieved algorithmically from various places (Flickr, Wikipedia, etc.). Planning to monetize later by letting people purchase specific categories (like "romantic getaways"). Right now, all categories are free.
"Eugenics" is actually currently practiced, but described as pre-implantation diagnostics. This allows parents who are carriers of a deleterious mutation, such as that causing Tay Sachs Disease, to avoid having children with the condition.
The screen is a deal breaker for me too. I was super excited for this phone. It's a Moto X with all the stat bumps I really wanted. Sure the camera and battery are the weak points but both better than what I have in my 1st gen Moto X. But I don't want a phablet, so i'm out of luck.
I fear that 'coder' is akin to 'lab geeks' for scientists etc. It suggests that all that's needed is code (or pipetting test tubes), rather than it being part of a larger engineering discipline.

In my experience, those terms are mostly used by people who don't understand what you're doing (or in this case, the domain was available)
There could not be another Silicon Valley, it’s the market rule
"Boscovich remembered a case he’d seen argued back in his Florida days. A maker of designer handbags had been granted the right to seize the bags from the counterfeiters. Because its brand was being harmed by the infringement, the court gave it the ok to seize the bags. A year after Waledac, Boscovich used this argument to seize the Rustock servers."

This is fascinating. This is an actual, tangible case where intellectual property law had more teeth, and more negative side effects, than the existing cyberlaws. It's evidence both that trying to take law that applies to physical goods and apply it digitally is not trivial (if even possible to do fairly), as well as how much cyberlaw has lagged behind the evolution of technology, in a context completely separate from the usual ones (DRM, copying = piracy?, etc).
UK People might be interested to know that the Ordnance Survey is now all open: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/prod...
As an example of that theory in action. Rupert Murdoch bought Fox broadcasting and both makes money from in and puts forth his personal ideology. Arguably he might have made more money with other investments, but it's been a vary solid investment. Monsanto is not just a major agricultural company they actively lobby for stronger patents. At a more pervasive level 'Climate Change' is not just science it's become a political debate with well moneyed people and organisations actively trying to influence things.
Hey, thanks. I already had a theme, just hadn't got around to using it. But I've updated the homepage now - http://gini.io
Thanks for your suggestions. I've updated the homepage with a new design now - http://gini.io
> now suddenly put thousands of installations at risk

There's a solution that goes with the advisory. You cannot provide a patch without putting sites at risk.

Furthermore, the vulnerability was present since the Drupal 7.0 release, several years ago. There were no exploits seen in the wild. What are a few weeks then?

The team decided that speed to patch sites asap _after_ release of the information was critical. This is the reason why it was released after a pre-announcement and after a conference tying up most stakeholders.
Philanthropy is many things. It includes emergency aid, which by no means makes people addicted to aid. It includes schools and scholarships which are doing what you ask - leveling the opportunities.

Where philanthropy fails is when its not matched to cultures. Building schools for girls in countries that won't tolerate that - they get closed soon after you leave. Or educating local doctors, who immediately leave the country for a better job in America.

But what can philanthropists do? You can't make people change to suit your goals.
This might be an interesting source to follow: http://healthmap.org/ebola/#timeline

I rather like the interface.
It was an unfriendly conversation. Microsoft was willing to hand over No-IP’s domains, but only if the company met certain terms. Microsoft’s specific demands are protected by a confidentiality agreement, so we can’t say exactly what they were, but Durrer says that, if he had complied, they would have put No-IP out of business.

This should make anyone scared to death. The fact a company with little or no oversight can simply lock down a companies servers and then hold them for ransom is quite freighting.

Add in the fact No-IP had no say in the issue and this was all done in secret is rather unnerving.
Cool, then say that as your headline.
Seems like a desperate attempt to drum up book sales. Whomever created this could have just found motivational posters and pasted them in all 50 slides. I found nothing in this but same old tired cliches; try hard, don't give up, think big. "What's different now?"
Very true. I was limited by time and also didn't want to add in more integrations until I obtained some feedback. At the moment RemoteCoder is a small experiment - now that I'm getting feedback I can take it in a more fruitful direction than I would have been able to otherwise.
The difference between European and Japanese old cities, and American 'new' cities is incredibly obvious. As a European, something like Chicago just doesn't look natural, like it's not a real city. On the other hand, I'm sure our cities look like a chaotic mess to Americans :)
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/scrot-patched has nice options to just screenshot the focused window. I like exec, I use it to then upload my screenshot to s3.
>I work a lot of hours and my payroll taxes are much higher than capital gains taxes--as Buffett and others have pointed out, that's what's unfair but it won't change as long as the people who get their income from capital gains have the most power to influence politics.

They only have that power because the rest of the country is disorganized/divided and un-unionized. There's more than us than there is of them. Ultimately they will cede this power at some point - the question is simply when.
I got stuck on a weird screen that said No definition found with no buttons to get back to the app.

Interface is nice but app feels too sales-y and light on content.
Nobody's saying the story isn't worth posting. The issue is solicitation of upvotes on Twitter.
Guess, parent meant form factor of a typical mobile Android device. An external display and HID devices aren't mobile.

Yes, I know, one could move their phone between docks and that would be mobile, but bet this is a very rare case. If one has stationary terminals, I think it would be very unusual if they're used solely as a dock station — one's likely to also have a stationary computer attached to them.
Can you clarify, what you mean by "differentiator between current and new token requests"? Currently I don't exactly know which attack form you mean and how it could be prevented by such a "differentiator".

(an example would be nice)
Wired: Stop making cursor keys initiate navigation!

This drives me nuts!
Exactly, edit that up a little and put it on the homepage, first thing user sees.
I work remotely for many jobs; have for years. So yes I could be interested in this job board. But its built to suit others I guess - targeted at a subset of opportunities. That's all.
I think you're being a bit too harsh on couchand. First of all, I didn't interpret his comment as attacking Shinkei. I think he posed it as a general question for the audience. Secondly, I don't see it as nitpicking. It's a reasonable discussion to have. Piketty himself spends a fair amount of pages discussing how a global wealth tax might be implemented, and people's attitudes towards taxation in general have to be part of that debate.
> We legally mandate airbags, abs, esr, and a host of other safety features in cars ... you simply don't have the option to turn off ...

That's incorrect. New cars can't be sold without some of these safety features, but as far as I'm aware, there's no law preventing a buyer from dismantling them. I think that's an important difference--it's one thing to regulate what a large industry can sell, but a completely different thing to regulate someone's activities with their own property.
Thanks, that is on the todo list. I was trying to get this done in a short space of time - and because the initial list of jobs was going to be short I felt that I didn't need it for now.
If a Rolex stops keeping time, it's conceivable it would still be worn. But if a BMW no longer starts up, the driver's not going to sit behind the wheel.

Whether it's the (mostly) info-appliance market of iOS, or the productivity market of the Mac, Apple's products are much more like BMWs than Rolexes. The luxury is intertwined with the functionality.
Hey Peter, just updated the design and copy - http://gini.io
America has these cities too - old East Coast cities like Boston are a mess. Because they were built in the days of horses and carts too.
Is the corollary that one should not raise less "better" children? If this what we come to practice as a species, I would definitely hope that a superior one wipes us out soon.
Don't think of it as marketing, think of it as talking to your users (talking to us). You explain things much better here in HN and in your writing than on your website.
The images were distracting, the text was not prominent enough and slide 29 is religiously and humanly offensive to several billion people.
Weird. I've never encountered that issue (and I've done a lot of beta testing). Could you explain how you got to that page?

Sorry to hear that the app was too sales-y :( What gave off that impression?
I'm not maintaining there is no genetic effect. I see plenty of indicators around me pointing both ways. I think it's a mix of things. I wished someone would have pointed out Plato's writing to me when I was a kid. It would have accelerated my intellectual development tremendously.
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I just want to say that I agree with you in a more weighty manner than an upvote.
Thanks. It's good if companies are respecting that checkbox. On other job boards I've used (e.g. weworkremotely) remote often turns out to really mean "remote within country X" or "telecommute". This was one of the frustrations that led me to build this board (plus, I thought it would be a fun thing to build!).
Really nice design. Playing around with it now and want to offer some minor feedback:

1. Onboarding screens seem unnecessary. I've already read the description and decided to download the app. Unless you're teaching me something I don't need to be sold again.

2. The images in the tables seem slow to load for me. Are these being fetched from a server and if so would you not be able to keep the images for at least the first screen local? Also you need to implement some sort of cache as when I scroll and the cell is reused and I scroll back it has to reload the image (slowly, I'm guessing from the server).

3. When I click through to a category (e.g. South America) your table has an activity indicator and loading text plus there is a HUD with activity indicator. Only seems to happen when going form top level to next level. Doesn't happen on the third level.

Overall really nicely designed app with some good information. I'll be keeping it installed. Do you plan on making money from it?
True. Humans are exactly the same as a lab rat ethically and in terms of biologically complexity.
3D barcharts have a longer history than I thought!
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New text is better. This part "See a list of all your customers and a profile for each of them with all their information on one page." just says the same as the header, instead say what the benefit is: "Make it easier to give customer support etc. etc."

Plus needs a screenshot above the fold.

Your demo link is broken. Your learn more link doesn't really tell me much http://getgini.com/#features
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My airbag has a button on the dash to turn it off.