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Not only due to socialistic ideas. Even big private corporations have a tendency to grow organizational pockets and positions of no real value. If you have worked there you will have noticed them.
It also makes dealing with voicemail a great deal better. I despise voicemail at my work because I have to call a number, listen to the message and clear it to make my phone stop blinking. On my cell phone it just pops up as a text message, I can read most of it to get the gist and clear the notification easily.
You seem to know your stuff so I'm reluctant to challenge you on any of this but what is "medium income"? You use the term multiple times above so it doesn't seem like a typo...
A basic income guaranteed as long as you stay on birth control makes sense to me. Start paying a small amount at puberty. As soon as you have a child you lose access to it until your children are adults. This will work for men once we have reversible sterilization.

This would solve so many problems in this world.
but they solder memory on to boards now, and that doesn't even harbor the same benefits as on-die.
That's kind of the OP's point though: these articles, including the academic one, are all rich in anecdotes and poor in anything resembling hard analysis. We learn that people are warmly nostalgic bout experiments which gave their community more money from outside, that Dauphin residents saw improvements to their general health relative to other areas, which admittedly may have been helped by a relatively new hospital, and that withdrawals from the labour market were small, though people knew the programme was a temporary experiment, the payments weren't that big and labour market conditions were very different then. Major hypothesized downsides to universal BI such as effects on local inflation (of housing costs in particular) weren't recorded as part of the original study.

I've always found it strange that Hacker News, a site populated by mathematically-inclined people responsible for all kinds of ingenious micro-optimizations to maximise customer lifetime value by market segment or optimise the ads displayed to demographic X, has so much love for the idea that the optimal formula for distributing benefits intended to tackle poverty is as simple as $WELFARE_BUDGET / $POPULATION_SIZE. Especially based on evidence as thin as these articles
Here on HN: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
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First time I've seen someone recommend Brackets. I've been using it since some of the early sprint versions and really like it.

The Extract and split screen updates have been fantastic.
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I'm not that's the point.

You don't have children, this is a thought experiment to demonstrate an argument. You just have you. You're dodging the question.
>...But, I also think the use of language is interesting; there is no discussion of the
>science, merely a response of crying "class warfare" and dismissal of the video...

Yes, I find this quite interesting and a possibly a significant new variation on the way groups maintain coherence by avoiding disruptive information.

In the past I suppose the approach employed to avoid ideas that challenge preconceived notions was an authority figure would simply produce a list of banned books and forbidden topics. Maybe this process is a little deprecated in this era of greater easy access to information.

So this new technique seems to be self imposed and seems to work by marking undesirable ideas with keywords instantly recognizable by the group. In this case apparently either to warn the viewer not to look at the material at all or to stimulate a rage filled attitude to the matter before viewing and thus eliminating any potential impact.

In essence this new process seems to use the web to essentially add metadata to objectionable ideas signaling what attitude to have about them and that viewing the information is to be avoided.
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On the flip side, other fairly recent claims of classified evidence from US officials have proven to be unfounded -- most notably, the claims of active Iraqi nuke and chemical weapons programs which were the stated basis for George W. Bush's invasion. And other more recent examples, like Clapper's lie to Congress about bulk data collection, seem to indicate that the culture of US intelligence hasn't changed since then in any fundamental respect.

It's your choice whether to take these guys at their word in any particular instance. But some of us don't take their word alone as evidence for much, unless it's backed up by evidence which stands up to independent review.
yep, but those will crush financially at the end. They will have to improve. Governments not, they'll just take more taxes.
No, it's not dead. It's relatively easy to build from source. I've been maintaining a large project myself and I'll tell you one of the most time consuming aspects is keeping up to date builds. They are, however, having a very hard time keeping up with the accelerated release cycles of firefox lately. For example, Pentadactyl won't work with Firefox 36.0a at the moment.
I read that ten years ago, too. Not that your wrong about this ten years, but damn have I been patient.
If you see one that doesn't account for labor dropout under a UBI scheme, ignore it. It won't be a realistic model.
90% of the time when I call, I know there are alternative methods to reach my contact (either a mobile number if I calling a desk or vice-versa, or email, or if I know it's a work mobile, I'll freely SMS my contact)

Leaving a voicemail is a last ditch effort, that often results in some feeling of action being taken on my part, that could very well sit un-listened for weeks or forever. I try very hard to not leave voicemail without essentially transcribing what I left as an email as well.

It's a trap.
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Honestly I think this is why unemployment is so high. At first they had to let people go during the recession, and then they were like, "oh hey, we didn't need a lot of those people in the first place.."

I wouldn't call myself a marxist, but I do think we're entering an era where something like a universal basic income might make sense. Nothing against people getting wealthy off their labor, but it seems apparent to me that the job market will continue to shrink as things become more and more automated, and shaming people that don't have some distinct skill-set that can't be automated doesn't sound like a recipe for a great society...
You can limit the scope of the damage though, and that is an understated benefit of a framework. Architecting solutions for a team is about risk management in many ways.
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This article is detailed and scientific.

However, anecdotally speaking, the concern I have with evaluating high-frame rate in film is that we have very little context—most of us have only ever seen Peter Jackson's Hobbit films in HFR. In other words, I have never seen how other directors' work would be affected by HFR.

Speaking exclusively about the Hobbit series in HFR, I too observed an uncanny valley that traditional films intrinsically avoid with their low frame rate. The Hobbit films felt more like a play than a film. A play with elaborate stage effects, but a play nonetheless.

In fact, my chief criticism of Jackson's directing with HFR is that the feeling of watching a play is amplified by how he mixes the sound and directs his extras. The extras routinely just mumble nonsense in the background, leaving only the character you're intended to be focused on speaking clearly. It's the same thing you see in a play when there is background dialog, and it's completely unnatural. You find yourself sometimes distracted by the characters in the background and realizing they're not actually doing anything meaningful or having real conversations. For example, in the most recent film, I found myself more distracted by the unnatural audio in early scenes (such as the beach scene) than the HFR video.

Combine that with the poor acting by the minor characters in the first 45 minutes of the recent film and I think HFR gets a bad rap in large part because the Hobbit films alone are our point of reference.
Obviously, body cams are not a panacea. Cases of possibly criminal police violence should be handled by special prosecutors who do not normally depend on police cooperation in their career.
I've definitely encountered both. Having someone fail to pick up the phone to resolve an issue is frustrating. Sometimes that's the best solution.
I don't have any problem with advertisements, but I don't want to be tracked.

That's why I don't post my favorite books and movies.
Well that's one nuance - another against voicemail for Doctors is that if you truly have an emergency, then it's possible practitioners are liable if you suffer while leaving a voicemail (or as a result of no one listening to that voicemail in time).

Consequently, none of my doctors have a voicemail, so I'm forced to use their app to communicate with them, even if I just want a "you and/or kids are probably ok, come in if things get worse" confirmation.

Very few have an "answering service" that has a real person transcribe and page the doctor (and advise you call 911 if it sounds like an emergency) but I imagine this is too expensive for most.
On a laptop, the regression in battery life switching to Linux or Windows is just a no-go. Also, it's not like Linux is famous for "just working" when it comes to suspend/resume.
Not all of the Vertex 2/Agility 2 drives which were bricked were due to firmware issues. Around 25% of drives which failed were due to NAND failures and the lost firmware or corrupted firmware fixes often only fixed about 50%-75% of the drives which they were applied to.

Edit: FYI these numbers are purposely not very accurate.
Definitely don't set up LDAP for hologram... but if you already have LDAP set up, it could be worthwhile to modify your setup to support hologram.

But then again, if your org is large enough to have LDAP set up, getting LDAP policies changed to support something like hologram would generally be a non-starter in my experience.

In large enterprises, the LDAP service is a core security service that is rarely if ever modified except for periodic maintenance and upgrades.

Messing up the LDAP service for any reason will compromise or disable all authentication company-wide. It's not fun when the CEO comes over and says that his wifi and email logins aren't working anymore...
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Sure, one could merely be annoyed by having to speak in real-time with people with whom one wants or needs to communicate somehow. But others are likely to find that annoyance strange, so that such a preference (or the exposure of it) is likely to also be a source of anxiety.
I'm sorry but the UX on Flash and Java plugin-based apps was horseshit. They were sluggish and encapsulated clumsily within the plugin sandbox so the integration to the browser was terrible.

Yeah people did some amazing work on those proprietary platform when they were the only game in town, but it really doesn't hold a candle to what we have today in terms of a fully open and native web tech stack. If you want to be reductionist why not just say we haven't been on the bleeding edge since Lisp was invented and declare everything else derivative tripe.
It all basically comes down to the question of how much of our spending is due to zero-sum games (or at least things that trend in that direction).

That, I tend to think, depends to a significant degree on where you are. In many areas of the US, housing (for example) is very cheap, and much of the cost is down to the construction of the building and its amenities. On the other hand, in parts of the UK with a decent jobs market, there's a shortage of available land, and housing is very expensive indeed. I spend three times what a friend in Wales spends for his (otherwise similar) house, and three times less than some other friends spend for their one bed flat in central London. That difference in cost has little to do with the difference in intrinsic value of our properties, and lots to do with the fact that the land they sit on has differing value, thanks to the UK's shortage of residential land in places with jobs.

In the south of the UK, I would tend to argue that if everyone cut an hour or two off their daily work, we might be affected a little less than you might normally think - because everyone below a certain class has a lot of their income tied up in an area that approaches a zero sum game.
Also depends on the voicemail interface; American iOS users get a fancy voicemail interface in most cases, whereas many of us elsewhere have to go through pure voice and dial, which takes forever.
What about RIOT [1], Contiki [2] or TinyOS [3]?

[1] http://riot-os.de/
[2] http://www.contiki-os.org/
[3] http://www.tinyos.net/
There's also a high-level processing aspect. The brain excels at extracting relevant information, which includes discordant information. Back in the days, a solo violin was tuned slightly off to allow the audience to hear it over the orchestra. Barthes also came up with the "punctum" idea, whereby an odd detail in a picture will generate an impression.
What I'm saying is that higher-level processing is probably responsible for a number of "impressions" that might have little to do with fps.
jQuery is a library; not a framework.
Adium has had a huge decline in users, though, since then, so the percentage isn't as informative.

For example, if you look back to a couple years ago, we had ~180k stats pings for the same week period[1] as we do now at ~20k[2].

I think what you're seeing/reporting here is that users who still use Adium are not entirely upgrading. That's probably true, but has more to do with Messages.app in newer versions supporting iMessage than anything else.

(I was one of the Adium developers for years. I don't even use it anymore because of the prevalence of iMessage and the decline in general IM.)

[1]: https://www.adium.im/sparkle/?year=2012&week=01&graph=bar
[2]: https://www.adium.im/sparkle/?year=2014&week=51&graph=bar
Was "partage" a typo? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay
YMMV, but I find that audio-books and audio-courses are a superb way to make an otherwise boring commute more tolerable. I hate commuting as much as anyone, and thankfully my commute isn't long, but even then, it's much more fun "reading" a book while sitting in the car.
How do you know that my preincrement and postincrement are the same? ;)

Well played, at any rate.
Unless you're coding a hello-world app, if you aren't using a framework, you are writing your own. If you're working on a 50k+ line frontend app, there's no way you're not gonna come up with a structure, standards, conventions which eventually is gonna become something like the frameworks we already have out there.

Frameworks are not built to deal with browser inconsistencies. At least that's not the main selling point, unless you're talking about the jQuery only. You mentioned Angular and Ember which provide a lot more.
But you can also get om in javascript with something like omniscient[1]/immutable[2], or fynx[3] for flux with immutable.

Though I agree both clojurescript and elm look nice, I'd bet you a lot of money they won't be _the_ technologies in 2015.

[1] https://github.com/omniscientjs/omniscient
[2] https://github.com/facebook/immutable-js
[3] https://github.com/foss-haas/fynx
I think one of the biggest problems with the morass of client side code in many large code bases is that it's written, by and large, by engineers who are trained and focused on the shared-nothing world of http server side development. The art of managing state, and the goal of a stateless application is lost on you if you've never had to mentally run a program that runs longer than a few seconds. Yes, there are many fad frameworks. But I totally disagree that the answer is "fewer frameworks, more raw js." I think the answer is building tools to help better manage state (eg React), and over time strengthening the skills of your average "full stack" web engineers from 75% server side 25% client side to a more 50/50 split.
Regardless of the currency paid in, guaranteed refunds pegged to an exchange rate at the time the refund is issued will be a potential vector for manipulation. Consider these two cases using relevant historical data.

Case 1, Bitcoin refunds are pegged to the USD price at the time of sale and refund (your current strategy): It is currently 12/7/2014. The price per Bitcoin is approximately $380. I purchase a Christmas gift for someone,which just so happens to be exactly $380. I pay one Bitcoin, and my package is shipped. I receive the package on the 18th, at which point the exchange rate is approximately $310 per Bitcoin (about a 20% drop). At a 3% fee, I decide it would be prudent to ask for a refund, so I initiate the process and send back my gift. I am refunded $380 in Bitcoin at $310 each, and therefore receive 1.225 Bitcoin in return. I have effectively short-sold my Bitcoins while simultaneously locking the USD value in at the higher exchange rate (the value of the gift). This is a no-risk hedge, and is effective at any point the exchange rate fluctuates downwards more than 3% over the maximum refund interval. If the price goes up, I don't get a refund, and keep the gift, effectively locking in its value.

Case 2, Bitcoin refunds are pegged to the amount of Bitcoin initially spent: It is currently 11/4/2014. The price per Bitcoin is approximately $320. I buy a really nice bottle of Scotch from someone, that happens to cost exactly $320. I pay with one Bitcoin. On 11/13/2014, the price has risen to $420 per Bitcoin. I decide to get a refund, and as the amount of Bitcoin I spent is refunded, I receive 1 Bitcoin in return. This is again a no-risk hedge, as if the price drops, I keep the Scotch (or sell it, and increase my net Bitcoin holdings).

The only way that I can see you guys not having a financial risk as a counterparty, is if you do refunds in a way pegged to both USD and Bitcoin. You could achieve this by refunding an amount of Bitcoin equal to the product value in USD pegged to the exchange rate at the time of refund if the exchange rate rises, and refund an amount of Bitcoin equal to the amount initially paid if the exchange rate falls. This (rightly, in my opinion) puts all risk of exchange rate fluctuations solely on the person requesting the refund.

I understand that in charging a 3% fee on each transaction, all users of Stripe are in effect insuring your company against anyone attempting to game the system in this way, so my point may be moot (you can eat the losses from the malicious <1% of users), but I am of the strong belief that any system that can be gamed for a profit, most likely will be gamed, by some unscrupulous individual. Your company is effectively able to be used (currently) as a hedge against falling prices (scenario 1) in what is, at the moment, a year-long bear market for the exchange rate. This doesn't really feel to me like the smartest road to go down. What are your thoughts on this?
You mean the literal usage? http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally (#2)

* long sigh *

Happy festivus!
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Toshiba NAND has an extraordinarily low failure rate out of the factory. Bad NAND in general is a QA problem which is expensive to fix (because it involves throwing away a lot of usable product) but is eminently fixable.
On TV you see high frame rate content every day (well, if you still watch traditional television, that is). It's just that big Hollywood movies (and fictional films in general) were not shot in HFR before. But all sports content, many documentaries and most news are 50 to 59.94 Hz (depending on where you leave) on traditional TV (not when viewed over the web, of course).
> Bah Humbug! Then why am I - as the consumer - should want to foster the growth and strengthening of unions?

You're welcome to do whatever you like. The way you continue to phrase things is a little odd, though. If you define yourself purely by your role as a consumer an awful lot of stuff in life is going to look pretty odd because it's a limited point of view.

> As a consumer, I am supposed to help create more unions and enable this kind of behavior?

This is such an odd question. I don't think anyone in the world believes it's your job to create unions. In fact, that's what we all decided at the last meeting. "It is absolutely not wozniacki's job, in his role as a consumer or otherwise, to create unions." We didn't tell you because we were worried you might be offended.

> Looking at states like California, it is not a stretch to extrapolate that unions - once they reach a critical mass - tend to indulge in a cycle of voracious self-fattening with their growing influence, election cycle after election cycle.

Are you claiming that union participation among primary school educators correlates strongly with lack of achievement among students? I'm pretty sure the top achieving states in this regard - Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia, New York, and so on - have teacher unions.

I lived in California for years and I'm sympathetic to the fact that government there is completely insane. I think an explanation like "it's because of the unions!" is reductionist and too simple.
> Mozilla is the only independent vendor pushing technology and principles focused on people over profit.

That it is the only independent vendor doing so is categorically false.

That it always puts people over profits is questionable. It's relationship with Google and reliance on ad revenue runs counter to those principles. Perhaps it is doing so as a survival tactic only, but they do compromise on the principle.
Those two cases are not typical. Not every defendant has millions to spend on lawyers.
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"I think it is safe to say that most people, given the opportunity, will opt for this "lazy" style of life."

This seems to be the one "fact" that makes all the difference in the entire debate. My question is, how come all of history shows man's drive to explore, build, conquer, discover, organize, etc...yet you conclude the "safe" bet is the oppisite?
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Nice proactive job on improving product! :) Can we chat via email? greg [[at]] whttl doterus commerus
This was using my live mode keys. I was able to perform transactions in and then refund, using my Circle account, so they're live transactions. Those transactions are showing up in my live mode in the console, next to live CC transactions, which of course don't have the "test" banner.
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No, they don't crash. I see this happening in big coporations like IBM, Cisco, and Coca Cola.
THIS IS TERRIBLE.

How can news agencies make any money if they can't scare people into hysterics that keep them glued to the TV screen?

How can gun companies and home security firms sell product if people aren't afraid of everything around them?

THIS KIND OF RESEARCH HARMS THE ECONOMY AND MUST BE STOPPED.

Sincerely,
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I don't want to sound rude or heartless, but, about "Let's exclude those who cannot learn enough to function in society. If anybody wants these people to starve, I haven't met them", I am curious as to why one would choose to support them, if they serve no purpose to society?