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Looks like YOU did not read the blog post.

Minimum wage went up by $0.31 on January 1. That's a 3% increase; not the 39% the post is whining about.

It will go up to $12.25 on May 31.

And to $15 in 2018; which is a significant jump, I admit. But long overdue.
San Francisco has strong rent control rules. You can pay $1000/month for an entire floor of a Victorian if you've lived there long enough.
And who are you to demand they get put down before them or their consenting workers might be ready?
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The Chicxulub impact had global consequences, but far enough from the crater would have been survivable in any bomb shelter. http://users.tpg.com.au/users/tps-seti/climate.htm gives an estimate of the damage radius, with 1 psi overpressure to 4000 km. While it says there was a global firestorm, the most recent analysis believes that that wasn't the case, see http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_430274_en.ht... . It does says that being on the other side of the planet would have been worse than North America, in terms of heat flash, so the Canadian Shield would be survivable, as would most nuclear bomb shelters in the world.

It's very hard to model those risks. A non-terrestrial habitat will certainly be more fragile than one on Earth, and easier to fall prey to a malicious computer attack by rogue AIs. A gamma ray burster would be more survivable in a shelter 1,400 m underground[1] than anything we are likely to build soon on another planet, or Ceres. A "Dark Star" scenario as in Fritz Leiber's "A Pail of Air" feels more likely than an unexpected stable artificial black, and in that story, access to nuclear fuels, along with a stockpile of liquid atmosphere and frozen materials, helped keep civilization going. Or perhaps the Free Peoples of Ceres will send an asteroid killer our way, to keep the solar system from being infested by flatlanders.

So while there are scenarios where separation is important, there are also scenarios where separation won't help, and might end up taking funding away from something which would have helped. With probabilities that low, and with such high error estimates, it's hard to tell which approach is best. The cheapest is self-sufficient here on Earth. If that works, then there's the base knowledge for how to set that up off-planet.

([1] I refer to the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, which is a neutrino lab. While not the deepest lab, it's one with an access road instead of an elevator. Very handy if you want to supply your colony.)
> You are out of your mind.

This comment would be better without that first sentence.
Personal attacks are not ok on Hacker News, regardless of how wrong someone may be.
Very cool! Does this use Lob[0] for posters (the size selections line up)? I've been wondering about their quality for a few side projects and am interested in any feedback about their quality.

[0] https://lob.com/services/sps/posters/pricing
"End of the license text...."

Just about exactly that was proposed by someone, and implicitly rejected in the redraft :-(.

Erk, I think you're interpretation is "right", as in that's the clearest way to read those sentences. I was going by one reading of the intent from the historical discussion, which matters less than the actual legal language.

His intent might be exactly this, a Shen distribution cannot include GPLed code you write because of what he believes about the virality of the GPL, and the very bad behavior he's noted from RMS/FSF/SFLC (that I personally attested to/added from the '80s). As I recall, he also was unhappy with how GPLing Qi V1 worked out, or didn't, but you don't really need all that to treat the GPL like garlic and holy water, e.g. I've noted that the most successful implementations of niche languages have less severe licences.

Yep, "run it by legal", which just isn't going to work when there are so many competitive languages, e.g. other Lisps including the very tasty Clojure, and non-Lispy functional languages which Shen is trying to make Lisp competitive with.
Visual programming has interested me for a long time because it is amazing how many times it has been tried and the result been unusable.

If I had the time and resources, I'd very much like to try developing a visual programming system that uses a user interface change that I think would greatly change things. Basically, using the middle mouse wheel to zoom in/out. If you've played the Supreme Commander game series, you will have the best idea of what I mean. As it is, you end up with absolutely everything trying to be jammed in to one gigantic flat space. That's terrible. Better would be zooming in on a 'box' (function, data structure, etc) and having its guts become the new 'context' you're working in. So far as I have been able to find, this has never been attempted.
I'm familiar with the philosophical differences between Free Software and Open Source.

But in this context you seem to imply that there are practical differences i.e: Not all Open Source licences are considered Free Software in the practical sense.

If that is the case, could you provide an example?
> The problem with the Hawaiian shirt is that shop keepers will assume you're a tourist, and charge you extra.

Absolutely cannot tell if you're fucking with me, or if this is an actual game mechanic - and if so, why this shirt would be desirable.
Vivek Wadhwa's response to his book's critics
It's a problem with no ideal answers. On the one hand, without any regulation it will be wild west rules- you can do whatever you're able to do. On the other hand, it's territory outside the ownership of any nation on Earth, and it shouldn't be subject to any nation's control.

Some sort of independent authority would be great, but probably impossible in practice.
"It's not even the first one ON THAT BLOCK"

--actually the one that left the block relocated to 24th St.
They are divorced from the core os. Windows is a microkernel and the drivers run in userland since vista.

It's a completely different matters.
Doesn't deserve a downvote, but it doesn't solve the "now" issue of the question.
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> The median household income in the United States is $51,000, tech worker salaries are are not the norm, they are 6% of the population ($100,000 for a single individual). Their effect on society is negligent in the purchase of everyday goods as they are only 6% of the population and purchase affluent goods and upward.

I think it's fairly safe to say the the effects are considerably more pronounced in San Francisco than they are nationally:

http://www.spur.org/blog/2014-02-27/forecasting-san-francisc...

But since you brought up the median income, let's use that to talk about my point: $51k is about $25/hr. The hike under discussion moves minimum wage up to... well, from just under $10 a few years ago to $11 as of this year (so, less than half that). But wait, that's national median. San Francisco median is closer to $70k ($35+/hr), so we're really talking about a motion that's all below 1/3 median.

Again... this is a primary driver of inflation? We're talking about a roughly $2000 yearly boost in the bottom quartile that almost doesn't even keep pace with average monthly rent increases over the last 5 years.

If minimum wage hikes aren't even successfully chasing cost of living increases, it's pretty hard to argue they're driving inflation.
If you believe economists and budget experts then you're absolutely right, there is no problem. But economists as a whole do no (or a tiny margin) better than chance at predicting a lot of things. So I'm not sure that their confidence that everything will be OK is terribly reassuring.

http://www.automaticfinances.com/monkey-stock-picking/

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/jul/08/this-much-i-k...

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/12/05/everybodys-an-e...

If I build bridge after bridge and they all fall down at some point you're going to have to wonder if my engineering degree is worth even the paper it's printed on.

An expert whose expertise is little better than chance can't really be called an expert, no matter how impeccable their credentials or how long their career.
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Do eggcorns inevitably become standard usage? Usually the replacement has some advantage, but here the original phrase is neither awkward not obtuse, and it makes more sense.
I use FreeBSD on a Thinkpad x201, I really love it.

Newer thinkpads will probably be a bit problematic, or so I've heard. Currently on a zenbook w/ Linux because of problems related to UEFI boot.
That's what I'm finding, the ability to break things down into smaller "sandboxed" components can be incredibly powerful. It still comes with it's own pros and cons, though I've been really enjoying it so far.
Programmers and lawyers are not most people.
While not baked into the framework itself, I've found a few repositories that aim to make CRUD a bit easier: https://github.com/aldeed/meteor-autoform/ https://github.com/aldeed/meteor-simple-schema/
Sweet! Make sure to allow typing in repository address without the http(s):// protocol
You don't know the half of it. Hopefully people are understanding and try again at a later time. Runs flawlessly when the user load is under a thousand :D.
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The answer is that nobody will support it as-is... they would just use the source to make or improve other things. Because this is what would be in the interests of the users. Even if it meant Windows got buried.

But this is strictly imaginary because I doubt that 20 million lines of code are all under the unilateral control of Microsoft.
It almost sounds like a farce:

1. US Gov. passes Executive Order permitting: a) the Depart. of State to identify individuals/organizations as "terrorist/terrorist organizations"; b) the CIA to put individuals (including citizens) on targeted kills lists; c) the FBI to put people on a Terrorist Watchlist;

2. There is no oversight to the process and the Government is not required to disclose who is on the list(s) or even the criteria to get on the list;

3. When the first (known) CIA targeted killing of a US citizen failed and the US Gov. was sued, the Court dismissed the case finding the Courts can not perform a Constitutional review, because such an Executive Order falls squarely within the Political Question Doctrine;

4. When the Government successfully killed the US Citizen, using a military drone strike, in a Country the US was not authorized to use the Use of Force (under International Law)...no one cared because the individual was Muslim and the Government assured us this was a guy with ties to Islamic terrorism. In fact, you can see in this article the such an attitude permeates all the way to the EFF, where one of EFF's Senior Staff Attorneys says he wouldn't have issue if Hammond had ties to Al-Qaida or Islamic State, but this is solely concerning to them because it is likely Anonymous;

5. Now the US Gov. has again extended their new found powers and now people are split...but what is really alarming is the people who think, well this guy was a piece of shit, so the Gov. got it right...no harm no foul.

This is not end of the World, sky is falling commentary, but wake up. It is never OK for any Government to have secret lists of any kind much less kill lists...and it is even more telling that the US Gov. refuses to disclose the lists (in full, certainly some lists are public) or the criteria/process.
Amazon Web Services security team is hiring.

Locations: Seattle WA, North Virginia, Dublin Ireland (EU), Sydney Australia

We're looking for security-minded engineers at various skill levels. Our positions range from support engineers (who we expect to have a good technical depth, but not necessarily a security focus) to principal engineer (capable of running a security campaign across 100s of thousands of servers and 10s of thousands of employees.

[edit: linebreaks] Key focus areas include:

- Recognize, adopt, utilize and teach best practices in security engineering: secure development, cryptography, network security, security operations, systems security, policy, and incident response.

- Collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer. When none of the proposals is the obvious winner, you are still decisive, able to disagree and commit to the team’s decision

- Demonstrate high capacity and tolerance for extreme context switching and interruptions while remaining productive and effective

- Participate in efforts to promote security throughout the Company and build good working relationships within the team and with others across Amazon

- Partner with teams throughout the Company to develop pragmatic solutions that achieve business requirements while maintaining an acceptable level of risk

- Solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context

- Maintain an understanding of the Internet threat environment and how it affects the company

- Find and fix flaws in existing company systems and sites

- Leverage current state of network and application security tools and how they can benefit the company

- Maintain knowledge and skills required to keep up with the rapidly changing threat landscape

- Participate in efforts that create and improve the company’s security policies

- Work under extended, extreme pressure, handle situations calmly and lead incident response teams effectively

- Proactively support knowledge sharing within the team and across the company

- Help recruit the very best people for Amazon through active participation in the overall recruiting process

- Large-scale security engineering Cloud security experience is obviously a plus, but not a firm requirement. Listings are available here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/jobs/ref=j_sq_btn?jobSearchKeywords... Or reach out at aws-itsec-hacker-news [at] amazon [dot] com and I can provide a professional reference.
It looks like you can exclude certain files, did you try excluding the licenses?
It could be a shock to you, but not everyone loves Mac OS X. There are (imagine that) other OSs that have terminals too.

Oh snap! I must've stroke a chord. What did I say? I mean, he asks how to grill a steak, but some suggest how to cook brats.
The gun shop makes more sense to me: the average sale price is much higher and unlike the case of a bookstore, you're talking about highly regulated market which happens mostly offline and, I suspect, a higher percentage of customers like to physically inspect something before buying.
You do realize that in the world of boardrooms, "retiring" is just the reason somebody gives when they need to save face and they don't want to cause an incident. Incidents typically effect stock prices...

Now, I'm not saying you're wrong, or that he's for sure not actually retiring (he's close age-wise, after all), but I'd argue most retirements aren't.
Terrence McKenna explores this hypothesis in his book 'Food of the Gods.' Part speculation, part historical account of the role of chemicals in human culture. Great read if you're interested in this kind of thing.
There are a number of ways, the most obvious being that you can build that smaller, isolated project incredibly quickly using flow-based programming. The thing is though, if you find traditional approaches quicker and easier then they're probably the ones you should be using instead (I'd still recommend trying FBP).
Velocity?
Only for simple, boring UI.

Any non-standard control requires GDI+ rendering, which is not very maintainable.
WPF offers a far superior composition ability.
from the OP: "2014 was the best year we've ever had". Serendipity yes can be found online - no recommendations I've seen have ever approached Amazon's (once I fed my data into them), especially a quickly-shuttered (too creepy?) and now not-remembered program that harvested recommendations via pairing you with folks who'd rated/owned/purchased similar things. That said, it was mostly the experience of physicality that I was referring to, although there is something distinct about browsing physical shelves, a hard-to-capture mix of weight, quality, and visual-imprint – spine design and relative length of titles being nearly invisible online; anecdotally one can see reports of authors captive to Amazon's self-publishing ecosystem writing shorter and shorter books in order to capitalize on per/title payments from their Prime lending program.
This American Life has an excellent exposé on this topic, from 2013:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/490/t...
> I think the types of problems each programmer tends to confront make up a large part of the disconnect between the ones who "drink the koolaid" of a programming paradigm or process and the people who are unimpressed.

Sounds a lot like selection bias.

Even in games there is a growing movement to stop the OOP paradigm and focus on data-oriented or "data flow".

It's hard to know whether there are universally-applicable truths in a given paradigm... but it's rather nice to have the option. Flow-based tools are becoming popular in procedural content generation, have been in audio/music/dsp for some time, and are probably quite useful in other sort of "pipeline" analogies.

But certainly past experience will play a large role in determining which tools you think are applicable to a given problem.
> it optimizes generally in the opposite direction of Functional-Programming

Really? It strikes me as exactly the opposite - the output of each discrete component is solely dependent on its input. There is no shared state between components, only what is passed between them.
Maybe you should read again what you wrote:

> Instead of saying 'fuck' they say 'frick', instead of 'shit' they so 'shoot', instead of 'damn' they say 'dang'.

And focus on the logic, not the implied naughtiness of my fictional example that's got your panties in a bunch.

You want to practice restraint? Then don't say anything instead of swearing. It's as simple as that.
I see where you're coming from, but then, I also don't think it's a fair judgment on yourself. Who gets to decide 'the amount of pain, baggage to be taken on'? Would you be okay with getting torture-level pain, instead of say, lesser pain?
From the article:
>Aldous Huxley concluded from his psychedelic experience that the conscious mind is less a window on reality than a furious editor of it.

What does it matter if your editorial is less strict about filtering reality in? Again, as the article asks:

>Psychedelics open the valve wide, removing the filter that hides much of reality, as well as dimensions of our own minds, from ordinary consciousness.

Is that really that much of cowardice?
Redesigning the traditional Chinese shoulder pole
DX9 support is still experimental and requires an unstable Wine fork to make it run.

I have to say I managed to have it working and I got a 50% increase in FPS in Steam/Source games running under Wine.

There's the "old" DirectX -> OpenGL translation layer in Wine but it is not really efficient or performant, although it may be enough for GUI applications.
> Piracy of Windows is already rampant, so they're not really in a worse position from that (plus I think that most people who can pay for Windows do so already).

I seriously doubt piracy of Windows is a huge concern in most markets; MS will still be making a lot of money from Dell, HP, Lenovo, et al selling their stuff.
Generally? That doesn't sound like an argument against the basic idea. If they only contest when they fins a specific error, I would agree. If they contest everything hoping the police won't show...it's a short term hack. If a service makes every ticket contested, cities will change the process.
Thanks! It was a fun and rewarding moment when it generated a poster from its own code this morning.
My research was perfectly legal, yes. I have passed on the information to Netflix.
They weren't paying their people much, were they?
Yes, there is operator precedence, but it only matters for infix notation. Or rather, function application has highest precedence, so there is no ambiguity using it.

My broader point was that the space is the most common symbol in English because the function that it performs is the most fundamental action of the language. And since Haskell is a functional language, function application is fundamental, and thus you gain a lot of terseness by using spaces to denote it.

Lisp does the same thing: `(+ a b)`, it just puts parentheses around things to make the parsing rules simpler. If you parse it in a different way, you won't need that many parentheses.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it, but SFML works right out of the box though.

The bgfx examples seem to contain a lot of boiler plate code... It seems to be an impressive engine, it's recent so everything is up to date with recent graphics API. Pretty cool.

I'm more about making something simple and quick without the bells and whistles.
A ZUI would be great for working with the FP paradigm, but good UIs are hard to make; I think it's one of the way that NoFlow is gaining the traction it is, the UI is pretty good.
> De-Ballmerization and Microsoft is oozing delicious developer love.

Kind of ironic, what with Ballmer's "Developers developers developers..." spiel.
It's usually not a first choice, but the tourist starts the game wearing it.
You don't need to actually murder someone to be considered a terrorist, nor to actually effectually cause people to die. If you advise and encourage others to do so, to a strong degree, then you are just the leader of the terrorists rather than the foot person who actually blows himself up.

This person has no respect for government, and maliciously and repeatedly breaks laws put in place to protect the citizens.

Terrorism literally means to cause terror. People get pretty terrified when people steal and abuse all of their information.

Also, hacking can and does cause death. Consider what happens if you hack into the computers at a drugstore and change the prescriptions to give people the wrong drugs. Terrorism?
Sounds fishy to me.

Radio Shack tends to have old leases in 2nd tier shopping centers. Why would they buy a marginal retailer with poor footprint, when you could just lease stores yourself?

There was a time when getting space in malls and strip shopping centers was tough. This isn't one of those times.
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Makes sense, you should keep some high resolution pictures on the front page as examples (ones you could zoom in on to see what they really look like). That way people can get an idea of what these look like without unduly stressing the servers.

Other than that, looks great. Well done.
Your previous point was about marginal businesses rebounding. My point was that if a marginal business is likely to rebound, they should be able to secure a loan or investment to get them through a price shock, such as an increase in the cost of goods sold, or a fall in demand, or an increase in overhead.

Perhaps we differ in our understanding of the meaning of "marginal business"? Do you anticipate that a book store operating at the margins of profitability will weather all price shocks, legislated or otherwise, indefinitely? I do not. I would consider a marginal, struggling business's demise to be inevitable unless it is able to recover and become a thriving enterprise.

A particular price shock may be the last one the marginal business is able to weather, but it's more like the last wave in a long storm drowning a business, not a bullet to the head. You can blame that last wave, but the truth is that at some point, you need to be able to float.

Regarding the impossibility of predicting how long this business might continue with no meaningful profit margin: I would argue that Poisson distributions are pretty well understood at this point.
These guys: https://system76.com/laptops have laptops that will run either FreeBSD or Linux. I run Ubuntu on a Thinkpad T430s but looking to upgrade it to a Thinkpad T450s but I want to check out the keyboard first.
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