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"the principles the country was founded upon"

Principles held by a group of people including Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, who later wrote another pamphlet entitled Agrarian Justice wherein he proposed a stipend funded by a land value tax.

Some of Jefferson's writings also had a mildly Georgist flavor.

I don't think the principles are as far opposed as you seem to.
I only use it for one-liners or a-few-liners now, for unixy data-munging. (I'd still recommend the book by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger, because it's full of great examples.)

20-25 years ago I wrote many more things in Awk, up to a Lisp interpreter and a parser generator; but Python/Ruby/etc. have replaced it.
No one is going to use it for 35 minutes without the ability to either (a) stand or (b) use the toilet.

Ever fly in a light plane?
There are already American companies in China which replicate all the ideas from the US and apply them within China. They've been doing so for 5+ years. Nothing wrong with a little home-grown competition. Certainly people in the US would be up in arms if the opposite was happening to them.
Ask HN: Should I learn a niche language or something more employable?
I have been doing iOS development for a few years now and would like to branch out a bit professionally, specifically into cloud web applications. I work on personal projects in Clojure, Haskell, and Go in my free time and I really enjoy languages on the static/functional/concurrency-first side of the spectrum, however I'm afraid to commit too much time to them since there are barely any jobs for them. I'm also concerned about how closed off and proprietary the iOS ecosystem is.

I'm still fairly early into my engineering career, so I have a few questions about how to balance learning these paradigm shifting languages vs maintaining an employable repertoire of skills

1. Ideally I would like to dive deeper into Go. Do you think that there will be more jobs available in a couple years for Go? Could I get hired doing ruby on rails if I mostly have Go experience?

2. Should I just learn rails and then learn more obscure things later? This seems to be the de-facto web application framework with the biggest community and number of jobs.

3. Should I just continue working professionally on iOS, learning whatever I think is most interesting on the side without regard to practicality?
The pods weigh something like 0.0X% as much as a train, so stopping them may in fact be far easier due to their tiny mass, regardless of their crazy velocity.
But it's not like they influence any big parts of culture as opposed to Latin which influences pretty much everything since then.
Oh wow that's annoying.
> "Complaining about downvotes without replies makes it seem like I'm not open to dialogue?"

No. Treating disagreement as a sign that people need a "reality check" and that they're "in a bubble" makes it seem like you're not open to dialogue. Like you don't even acknowledge the possibility that someone disagreeing with you could have a valid perspective.

> "it is ... completely valid for Android"

Yes, but the broader context of the thread was about iPhone piracy. Also note that he claimed he knew people "too cheap" to pay $1 -- not people "too poor" to pay $1 -- for apps.

I get that $1 is a big deal to some people. I live in one of the poorest zip codes in my state. I've taken in three poor families in the last two years (a divorced mom, teen parents, and a single woman working through community college). My church runs a fairly substantial food bank and clothing bank. I'm connected to a ministry that rescues young women from polygamy (FLDS, AUB, and related groups) and they often have 3-5 children, no money, and a 6th grade education at age 20. I taught in a school where 95% of students qualified for federal free/reduced lunch. Some of my family members do charity work out at Navajo Mountain in southern Utah, which is one of the poorest places in the US.

The people I know in deep poverty are not major app pirates. Most of them don't have smartphones, and the ones that do have $40 or less grocery store phones running Android 2.2 on a pay-as-you-go plan, with either free games or no games.

Conversely, everyone I know who pirates $1 apps is either a college student whose parents pay for everything and they just can't be bothered to ask mom for iTunes credits, or they're a middle-class adult who thinks "I can get it for free if I jailbreak my phone, so it's not stealing." They have adequate dollars to pay for apps to go with their $500+ phone and $100+/month plan, but choose not to. Hence, "too cheap".
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This is really a rant about the vim community and your experience there, rather than a write-up of why neovim is better than vim.

As an end-user, the only reason you gave me was "some new plugins," and didn't even speak to the power or improvements those plugins make.

Retitle "My Bad Experience with Vim contribution and Bram M."

That said, it was a pretty interesting read.
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It sounds like the people in the bullpen were defining the work products for the engineers. If your current "customer" (for lack of a better word) is used to working in a bullpen, you had better be in the bullpen as well, if you want to get anything done.

Lately, I've been doing two sorts of things: short turn-around bug-fixes and enhancements and longer-term major development. If I try to do the short turn-around work without being in the same room as the customer/tester/what-have-you non-developer, the latency of email/IM means less work gets done, which is frustrating for both sides. On the other hand, if I try to do major development while in the same room as the other people, my work simply won't get done due to the interruptions and general inability to concentrate.
From experience, it's the people who admit others into the U.S. who need the IQ test.
These companies have golden egg-laying geese products and 15% more or less productivity won't make a big difference in making or breaking the market for them. Think about it this way: did Google beat Altavista because its employees were 15% more productive?

Meanwhile, Microsoft, Google, etc. have whole huge divisions that don't make any money.
Don't forget Seznam!
It is. And yet... has true basic income ever been tried, anywhere? If not, the best guide we can find is to look at the closest thing to it that has so far been tried (hopefully recognizing that the example is not completely equivalent, and therefore not completely relevant).

If the new idea takes into account the experience of the old, and has revisions to specifically deal with the problems that the old system encountered, then the question is whether the changes are actually going to fix the problem. (You want to avoid "We painted it orange this time, so your previous experience doesn't prove that our approach won't work!)
It appears to be similar in Taiwan, where I've visited for business twice now. There are rarely ever signalled cross walks. As a pedestrian you just have to gauge the best time to step into the street, and after that both the cars and people do their best to avoid collision. As an American I think it's crazy and dangerous, but given the population density here, there might not be a better option. On the bright side, most vehicles here are scooters, so they can swerve in and out of the pedestrian hordes with ease. And it seems to keep both the pedestrians and drivers aware of their surroundings at all times. Which is in stark contrast to the common, oblivious moron drivers in the U.S.
>when the Milky Way and the Andromeda will collide they will in fact mate

Only inasmuch as two groups of people walking past each other in a desert counts as "mating". Galaxies are very sparse, so their collisions don't actually involve much colliding but do a lot of passing by.
In the US that is called "discovery".
I am not sure I understand the article or the findings or whats it's trying to claim.

My oldest son is in a charter school the most hotly debated one of them: Success Academy. Its biggest problem is not attracting kids but building more schools and making sure they keep getting funding. His school is in Williamsburg and some people come from upper east to attend the school (the kids meet at 7.30)

Furthermore of course distance is always going to be an issue for some but I frankly don't see it in real life as most kids don't get to choose at all.

Maybe there is something I am missing.
Sorry, you're badly confused about a lot of things, but it's not worth the effort to me to educate you. I'll just let you have the last word.
> ...and seeing someone using React without a DOM should be inspiring.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this basically become client/server socket programming from the 80's and 90's, using UI widgets for display?
There's probably more jobs in PHP than rails, but I'm guessing it won't make your list.

I'd say build some small application in rails, so you can point at it and say "I'm not an expert, but I was able to build that in two days."

Then go ahead and learn Go, or whatever you want.

In my experience, most people care if you can code, and don't care as much if you're good at Ruby/Rails.
Glad to see this! I experimented with Octopress a while ago, and I've been meaning to try it out again.
In China, if you hit a pedestrian with a car, it is your fault no matter what. So a lot of poor people will camp out in a road waiting for a car to hit them to make some money.

On the other hand, a dog (or child) running out into the road in China is less likely to be struck by a car because this happens so often that the drivers are hyper aware. Still, I've seen a girl on a bicycle struck and killed at a Beijing intersection (the light was green for the car). You never forget that. Also, yielding on a right turn is a western myth.

It is really not that great; I mean, the cars have to go slower overall, the traffic gets congested, everyone is out for themselves, there are no courtesies, and people die. There has to be a middle ground between pedestrian friendly streets and sanity.
We are in fact supposed to be constrained by the constitution (at least until we amend it). But, as you asked, where in the constitution is that? Where specifically?
Sort of, except JSON is a fair bit worse since you can't have comments to explain why things are the way they are.
Most "finance people" are indeed the very definition of clerical work.

Are the certified professional accountants treated the same way?
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Taking data in one system or format that is already in a computer, and manually performing one of, or a combination ofm transformations, filtering, aggregating, moving to another system, etc.

Like I have gone through voter mailing data for a political candidate and filtered it, removed individuals who's addresses were outside the area or who hadn't voted in the last election, combined individuals with the same last name and the same address, then transformed it into a format suitable for address printing.

All that is pretty easy to do with code. If you wanted to go through several thousand by hand though in an unsorted list, that would be a pain. Businesses will have similar requirements... like taking sales data that is already entered and formatting it for a report.

Where non developers waste money is doing a repetitive time consuming rules based task on a computer without automating it.

Ancedotally, non developers also tend to undervalue their and their employee's time. If you are paying an employee to do a task, if it's not absolutely essential or doesn't have a ROI that's higher then money you are paying the employee per hour to handle it, it's time to consider how important that task is.

Finally, again ancedotally, non developers often won't invest in maintenance costs, and instead end up paying for time sensitive repairs or fixes, because they are easier to reason about. A coder is more likely to expect things to break, code to rot, etc. This can be in objects, services or in underpaying trained individuals so that their is a high turn over rate, where better pay might reduce that. Costco for example makes money despite it's higher pay because they have to train employees less. I think high pay also tends to reduce employee pilferage.
What is this magic doing?

$(cd "${0%/*}")
It is. In terms of community size it's probably Clojure-jvm, ClojureScript (Clojure compiled down to JavaScript), then Clojure-clr.
Can we call the conscious cultivation of this attitude the JFDI Mind Trick? :)
No I am not missing your original point it's just not a good point. A super human AI wont have any reason to have the same morals as you and you are still assuming you can control something that can program itself.

Thats where you are going wrong in this. You are assuming a control there is no way you can ensure we have. Even with dumb systems that do exactly as we say they don't always do exactly as we say.

You are portraying a misconception about control of systems that there is absolutely no basis for, why I don't know.
Only if you're prosecuting. If you're defending yourself, all you have to do is make it sound believable given the circumstances. A jury can find you not guilty just because they don't like the law. To defend yourself in a U.S. court you technically wouldn't need any evidence to substantiate any of your claims just so long as the jury buys it.
The sharp drop-off of means testing is precisely the thing that a basic income is intended to fix. The example cited isn't "basic income" any more than Welfare is.
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I use http://hn.premii.com/ to read HN on mobile devices. A handful of sites every day aren't compatible with whatever technology they're using to scrape page content. If the comments don't indicate that the article is worth visiting or there aren't any comments yet I don't see the content.

Now this is just one anecdote about one pair of eyeballs but I'm a old-school PC full browser using pair of eyeballs, I suspect more and more people and machines are consuming web content in new ways, including without a Javascript interpreter mediating the web experience for them.
Maybe it's better to help that one guy work on cbsd? http://www.bsdstore.ru/en/about.html
Differences between entry-level and early-stage engineering
Murder always requires mens rea. Crimes that do not require mens rea are called "strict liability crimes" but murder is definitely never one of those.

>In some cases, murder does not require mens rea, when the accused shows "extreme indifference to the value of human life"

In such a case, the extreme indifference IS the mens rea. The prosecution must prove the existence of that extreme indifference. Murder without mens rea would mean that the prosecution wouldn't need to even discuss indifference.
"signed with DNSSEC" is an ambiguous statement. You need to take into account that, while nameservers may enable DNSSEC, resolvers may:

(a) validate (include the AD bit) but strip the RRSIGs (i.e. regular DNSSEC resolver)

(b) omit the AD bit but include the RRSIGs (i.e. you have to validate yourself)

(c) omit the AD bit and omit the RRSIGs (i.e. regular non-DNSSEC resolver)

(d) validate (i.e. include the AD bit) and include the RRSIGs (i.e. alleluia!)

My own study [0] (using the Atlas network [1]) found 30% of resolvers doing (a), and 65% doing (b), including some overlap. There are people way more qualified than me doing this kind of stuff, namely APNIC's Geoff Huston, see [2] for instance.

[0] https://www.os3.nl/_media/2013-2014/courses/rp2/p14_report.p...

[1] https://atlas.ripe.net

[2] http://www.potaroo.net/presentations/2014-06-03-dns-measurem...
Here's the offending shell script code:

# figure out the absolute path to the script being run a bit
# non-obvious, the ${0%/*} pulls the path out of $0, cd's into the
# specified directory, then uses $PWD to figure out where that
# directory lives - and all this in a subshell, so we don't affect
# $PWD
STEAMROOT="$(cd "${0%/*}" && echo $PWD)"
[...]
# Scary!
rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*

The programmer knew the danger and did nothing but write the "Scary!" comment. Sad, but all-too-familiar.
I have dabbled for a bit in social work associations (some sponsored by local authorities, some not) and if it's a myth that basic income would allow our strawman to become a (good) (and successful) (and well paid) writer it's also a myth that most people would chose to try that. Most would/could just go on being useful to their communities.

Many jobless people are still doing things everyday, they just don't get paid for it.
I doubt that China will have a stronger software industry & a bigger startup scene than the U.S. in the following decades.
Why do you consider a job guarantee superior?

A basic income system helps people who are mentally ill, sick, caring for family, or otherwise have difficulty holding down a job. Without demeaning them by forcing them to demonstrate that they can't hold down a job right now. Thereby leading to endless arguments about whether they are truly incapacitated or simply lazy.

To me that's a pretty good social reason for preferring unconditional handouts.
My point is, everyone is talking only about the consequences. I'm perfectly aware of them (and so I don't see a point of mentioning them in my comment; everyone else keeps bringing them up). I'm definitely not advocating pushing blindly for more data collection. But then again, while authoritarianism is a real threat that needs to be addressed, some level of "privacy" people are so afraid to lose could probably be relinquished, yielding more benefit than harm.
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Its not counter it just a way to take advantage of the surplus technology has given us.

With UBI it will always be financailly beneficial to work more even if you don't do it year round. Its in many ways exactly the kind of systems a society who bases more and more of output technology should be in a possition to implement.
That's awesome, thanks for the description!

Sadly I never got into assembly on the Z80, I guess I didn't realize it would be accessible :-(

Cheers for reminding me of the Epson MX80 which I also had. I loved the programming manual for it, embedded with funny comments like how to forge the Mona Lisa.
Yes, suburban streets. Those are included in that 81%.
>(eg being a woman)

It is amazingly courageous how you manage to go through life with such an inescapable handicap. It must be so hard for you, having to contend with the possibility of encountering strangers and having to deal with them by yourself in a public space. What has the world come to, when such cruelty is not opposed? Something must be done! Now where are all those useless, good-for-nothing men?
A lot of people live in places where a telescope is literally useless (for astronomical purposes, anyway). Does that make it a worthless product?
if you followed the story closely there is essentially no reason to believe the owner ever attempted to have anyone killed. The substantial evidence points directly to him bluffing in order to scare someone. I wrote a short summary on reddit a while back that you can read here https://www.reddit.com/r/silkroadnews/comments/1nndtk/ulbric...
A civil responsibility-tested income would be another reasonable alternative. That is, if you do your taxes, are not currently a criminal, vote in some elections, obey basic health and safety requirements, exercise responsible finances, recycle, etc..

There are lots of things worth considering along this line of thought. You are essentially being paid to be a responsible citizen.

EDIT: When I said there are a lot of things worth considering, I was not advocating stupidity, but consideration. I.e., thought. For one, it wouldn't have to be all-or-nothing. Surely if you have to pay a traffic ticket, it will already be coming out of your income. But if you chose to gamble your income away and you have children to feed, why should you keep getting it?
$0 is the path of the script. ${0%/* } takes $0, deletes the smallest substring matching /* from the right (the filename) and returns the rest, which would be the directory of the script. So this changes the directory to the directory the script is located in.
I think it's just meant to be assonant with "carnivore".
I find that utterly incredible.

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” - Blaise Pascal. It's true. I have never gotten in trouble sitting quietly in a room alone.
Good points. A better codebase and community typically mean a better experience for users, but I avoided talking much about concrete benefits because I thought the post was getting rather long. There are a lot of opportunities for improving the responsiveness of plugins. Many currently block the UI in Vim: autocomplete, search, ctrlp-style filename matching, etc. The list of Neovim-only plugins isn't huge yet, but it's only going to grow longer as plugin writers take advantage of Neovim's improved API.
If you tell me an action is either physical or political (how you define it), I get no new information. Why waste words on it?

No science is necessary for anything I've said - you havent actually made any falsifiable claims. I don't know why you keep bringing it up.
Bitcoin :)
If the image is correct, then I must be misunderstanding something.

If the arrow is where you made you change to blog., what was the penalty? A very, very slight downtick in traffic from July -> August?

Maybe you meant to say you made the switch in June?
Ok (although I might have a bit of a disagreement), but what if a state implemented it?
We used to call them "a toilet hymen" when I was on the road. SANITIZED FOR YOUR PROTECTION.
What exactly makes privately run VCs more efficient than government run VCs exactly? They are both centrally managed and entirely top-down. There are plenty of examples of horribly run, crash-inevitable private VC.

I can think of two possible differences but perhaps there are more:

A) For independently wealthy VCs, the money comes directly from personal funds, so investment is presumed to made carefully

B) For VCs where a panel/firm decides how to invest capital provided from someone else's fund, commission on success and legal contract may provide incentive for firm members to be careful

In theory, similar leverage (bonuses, legal trouble) applied to those making analogous top down decisions in a governmental organization would produce like incentives and therefore competitive efficiency.

Theoretically the public/governmental investment model could have other benefits. For example projects like Wikipedia, which provide 'social' income rather than 'financial' income, can be invested in. Another benefit is that the VC is more free to ignore investment bubbles (hyperlink, ad space, 'social', big data). Finally, since private VC circumvents the IPO process and is able to capture the majority of growth value of new businesses, it highly concentrates wealth. This caustic side effect may be side stepped by public programs.
And many suburbs are deliberately designed with tree-like roads, maximizing cul-de-sacs, and minimizing the probability of rat-running and other through-traffic.

Of course, without shortcuts and bike lanes, the same road pattern destroys walkability, because such road networks involve a trip to and from the trunk to get anywhere.
A historic American term related to China this is not racist... that is a surprise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander#Architect offers a shortlist and here's a gallery I found from there of many of his projects: http://www.katarxis3.com/Gallery/nav.htm

It's one of my life's goals to build my own house using that book as a rough guide. I'm sure I'll write about it when it eventually happens.
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Hour and a half bus ride each way, NYC.