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Existing welfare addresses the problems of unemployment. Not as well as welfare in other English speaking countries, but it still ameliorates the problem.

My position is that even with the current welfare system, technologies that increase productivity, but make some people unemployed, are still good from a utilitarian perspective. The trickle down effect (including through the existing welfare system), which benefits the entire poor population, makes up for the negative effect on the newly unemployed.

EDIT: as always, I have no problem with downvotes for my other opinions, but it's really sad to see downvotes for economic orthodoxy. If anyone reading this downvoted me, please educate yourself on mainstream economic thinking. You don't want to be remembered as an anti-vaccination advocate.
> The thought that a collection of gears can become aware of its existence seems, at least to me, pretty outlandish.

I mean, it's less exciting when you break that down into the what it means for a person to be aware of themselves. For me, it breaks down to neurons & symbols, well-known scientific domains. While I may not be right, it's not difficult to come up with plausible explanations for the phenomena humans experience. Most of the mystery comes from it being very difficult for most people to even define consciousness. Much of the syntax we have for it (in the west, at least) is cobbled together from various religions, spiritualities, and extremely, extremely dense philosophers read by few and understood by fewer.

You might find Richard Hofstadter's Book "I Am A Strange Loop" illuminating if you find my explanation meager.
DRM is technology. Don't confuse "anti-tech" with "pro-entrenched wealthy interests"
I found this article surprisingly clear. I expected to find an unreadable morass of legalese. Is the ill reputation towards legalese unjustified, or is the clarity of this article uncommon?
Nor do we have a law against hot coffee. But if you do something negligent or with foreseeable harm then you may be liable, as McDonald's was, in a tort.
They buy a ton of ad space, so they have outsized political power... Screw with the candidate, the ads get cut back.

With cartel pricing, they also employ a lot of people with decent pay and little qualification. Dealerships are great places to dump political and other friends who need s job.
Stateless servers with kubernetes seem like a great thing to do this sort of thing with.
It's only one piece of the puzzle, but at my last company I wrote deploy_thing[1] for exactly this. An immutable config bundle and an immutable artifact tag combine to create a deploy that can be launched and put into production with an AWS auto-scaling group. Need to change a configuration, you burn down the auto-scaling group. This was a transitional step for us before moving to Mesos, but it's a good example, I think, of how to approach the problem from a minimum-viable level.

(I'm currently playing with moving it to OpenStack.)

[1] https://github.com/eropple/deploy_thing
I know a really successful, world-class, senior Google engineer who doesn't have a high-school diploma. He's very smart and incredibly hard-working, a great mentor and an inspiration to others. He's also probably been lucky.

Could that be you, the OP? Of course.

Could that be the right path for someone who can't stand formal learning environments and thrives on the challenge of real problems? Sure.

Is it very hard and risky? Yes, in all sorts of ways. You need great mentors and people that will show you how much you don't know. If you accidentally end up surrounded by mediocrity, it's very easy to fall prey to Dunning-Kruger effect. How do you get to work with world-class engineers? It's a catch-22 although not impossible. Universities, on the other hand, are by design a place with many smart people, and you're not expected to have anything other than potential to join.

(And yes, absolutely, if you decide that you're done learning after graduating, good luck with your future hardship. Unless you first learn COBOL, in which case you might still be able to comfortably ride on it for another 20 years)
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What about auctions? Or lunch trades among school children? I believe that in both of those it is common for the seller to ask the buyer to make the first price offer.
> They're really going to claim that the Edge sandbox is better than Chrome, with no basis?

Edge has yet to be exploited at Pwn2Own and Chrome gets exploited every year. Clearly that's a better record. ;)
> I'm not in favor of shifting the blame, in an accident between a 3-ton vehicle and the 200lb union of human and pedal-operated-device, to the more vulnerable.

I agree strongly with this sentiment, even if I think you're putting words in Volvo's mouth that simply aren't there. Although historically blame has transitioned that way.
It's been awhile since I've done Cocoa, so the specifics are a bit fuzzy. Stuff like CGRectMake makes more sense than NSMakeRect.

I also enjoy the pre made view controllers.
I'm going to be making my first Ruby Gem. It's going to enable easy lookup of weather forecasts. I want to unite geocoding APIs and weather APIs, basically.

It started from a simple "whats the weather" app I wanted to make to learn Sinatra, and then I realized I could turn everything I was doing into a gem and that would be kind of cool, and definitely new for me. It's simple, but I figure if I do a good job it will be useful to someone, as there don't seem to be a ton of (well-documented) options for this kind of gem out there.
That's good for you, and I fully support your decision, but I wish to posit an argument about Sony and their numerous "debacles" over the past decade starting from the CD Rootkit.

Do you remember when Sony went after GeoHot, George Hotz, and fail0verflow for his and their reverse engineering of the PS3 and the outrage and virtual pitchforks that were raised with others touting that they too would never purchase a SCEA/SCEI product again?

Remember even more outrage that was raised after PSN went down and it was revealed just how incompetent their internal network security was and how they allegedly stored unencrypted user information and used significantly insecure and broken cryptographic hashing algorithms?

In both instances, people said that they were done with Sony. Yet, the Xbox One has had significantly less adoption than the Sony PS4. Please note, I'm not going to argue that the people that said that they were no longer purchasing Sony products are the very same people that bought a PS4 over an Xbox One, but I am arguing that these people had a minuscule to nonexistent effect on the overall repercussions against Sony as to not matter.

Searching for "Xbox One PS4 Sales" brings up hundreds of articles ranging from just after launch up to this very day with month-by-month numbers landing from a 1.4 million unit difference in January of 2014, to a 1.7 million difference between the PS4 and Xbox One in the second quarter of 2014, and estimates at that time of 9 million PS4s sold globally versus 5 million for the Xbox One. An article from October of 2014 pegs the PS4 at a 40% lead over the Xbox One. This is a significant difference. Apparently, no one else cares how draconian or insecure a company treats their data, because only a few people remember the short term disasters over the long term entertainment value they receive from the products produced by these companies.
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Really? I think writing code is way easier than reading it.
Where's the source? It's not that I don't trust unsourced quotes from boingboing, but I don't trust unsourced quotes from boingboing.
Meh, I'd rather work with objects that enforce immutability and model monadic sequencing than this sea of continuation passing.
A personal banking assistant you communicate with using natural language. (Using speech recognition, NLP, and ML).

https://www.wealth.ai/

Will launch in a few months.
I would approach it from a little further away conceptually.

A deck only makes sense in the context of a game, a draw only makes sense in the context of moving the card from the deck to some other container (hand, discard pile, arbitrary pile on the table).

I also like to model games as sequential actions (because that's how they work) so my API would be more like:

GET /game/<id>/turn/<index>/decks/<id>/card/<index> <- 1 or 0 for top card, other numbers to view more than one

Then your draw action is a move the card from the deck to one of the other places, either with a POST to the new place, that redirects you to the next turn of that place, or with a PUT to the card itself if you have some "location" field on the card that can be updated.

The question that strikes me though, is whether it makes sense at all for a client to be controlling the draw in a game of CaH, as it's not an optional step.
Why not just have the model automatically put cards back in the players hands when they make their moves?
Even with 2x straight preference, valuations don't matter much, provided the residual value of the company on failure is close to the amount you're investing.
No, not exactly. People behave differently when they believe there will be consequences for their actions. I may troll because there is almost zero repercussions to the action online. You see the same action in large crowds. A few people in a large crowd can easily start a riot by realizing their individual actions are not likely to be punished.
This isn't a fucking throw away, I created it because your comment showed so much immaturity as a developer that I almost threw up in my mouth. Geniuses do not recreate shit, they piece other cool shit together into a solution that works good enough. Also not all Xml libs are bad, but yeah the default .Net one is, what your really needing is s StreamReader instead of loading the whole damn thing. So yeah not a throwaway and I promise to rile you up a lot! This site has become a fucking circle-jerk lately.
Cool. Are you going to make a Deku Native for mobile development?
> basic SQL

That was easy. Think of it
as close to set theory!

I needed to get through all the
overhead stuff since I'm using
SQL Server in the server farm
for my startup. So, I have
code for Web pages
with ADO.NET and also some
stand alone programs that
do SQL Server queries.
Again, the only difficult
stuff was the overhead stuff,
and it would appear that the
Khan course would not cover that.
Hey, love the feedback. Any chance you could flick me your email to mark@gamestarter.io

I want to get future phasing right, dodge buzzwords and drive simplified messages.

Would love if I could run future messaging past you.

Feedback like this is why I posted on HackerNews
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DPS and the local PD used to race from the center of our town to the 24hr diner on interstate in our town at 3 am. Why, no one ever reported them.
It's less unfortunate in the startup world where a rainbow chasing deathmarch has at least a theoretical possibility of ending at a pot of gold. It's the deathmarch on the corporate culture treadmill where the carrot is climbing the ladder at best and keeping your health insurance more typically that really sucks.

On the other hand, a big push can be worthwhile when the timing of milestones is outside your control. Sometimes a December 26th ship date might as well be November 1, next year. Likewise, ramen is cheap but not endless and the pace at which leases burn through capital is calendar days not hours worked. The alternative isn't irrational.

I'd even go so far as to say that there is a certain buzz that comes from the occasional all-nighter...always 8-5 is the life of a shoe clerk. None of which is to suggest that balance isn't good and a worthwhile pursuit, but if the muse never visits, it's just a job not art.
pg touches on this in his Blub essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

>The first thing I would do, after checking to see if they had a live online demo, was look at their job listings. After a couple years of this I could tell which companies to worry about and which not to. The more of an IT flavor the job descriptions had, the less dangerous the company was. The safest kind were the ones that wanted Oracle experience. You never had to worry about those. You were also safe if they said they wanted C++ or Java developers. If they wanted Perl or Python programmers, that would be a bit frightening-- that's starting to sound like a company where the technical side, at least, is run by real hackers. If I had ever seen a job posting looking for Lisp hackers, I would have been really worried.

I think it's a valid recruitment strategy, though it does sometimes cause languages' hype to outweigh their actual value, which many would argue is the case for Go (even though Go is generally a nice language).
For reasons of backwards-compatibility, it's basically impossible to design extensions to C++ that make the language memory-safe by default. C++11/14 are admirable best-effort approaches to doing so, but they provide only tools for helping to enforce memory safety without providing any actionable guarantees. Rust guarantees memory safety, with the only possibility of unsafety being relegated to blocks of code specifically denoted as `unsafe`.

In addition to memory safety, Rust's other goal was to improve the ability of programmers to reason about low-level concurrency, motivated by the enormous pain that both the Firefox and Chrome developers are currently experiencing by trying to adapt their browsers to a multicore world. The serendipitous discovery was that the same mechanism used to guarantee memory safety will also statically guarantee that your program is free of data races.

TL;DR: Rust's goals are guaranteed memory safety, guaranteed freedom from data races, and zero runtime overhead relative to C++.
This is what libertarians would like.

We would also like that the "consent of the governed" be unanimous. Or at least very high.

Just because %60 of the population, for instance, wants to ban gay marriage, they should't be able to. IT should take %95 or something like that.

We no longer have the multi-week latency between our hometown and washington. Votes can be instantaneous-- and in the 1990s MIT made software that would allow anyone to audit an election and prove it was legitimate, and prove that their vote was counted, electronically. Everyone could do a recount in a few minutes. Things like the blockchain might even be a better way to do the same thing.

So we no longer need "representatives" that don't even represent us-- because they are picked by the two party heads in a system that keeps any other party out, structurally with "election rules"-- not even getting into the shenanigans that keep them out of debates, and off the ballots in many cases.

Frankly, I think our election system is deeply compromised (whoever controls the software controls the outcome) and representational government is no longer necessary.
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Lucking out with repairs? A 5+ year old car won't be offered under a certified pre-owned program, but a 2-3 year old one will. That gets you another 5 years (7 years from the in-service date) and 100K miles under warranty. My last used car needed a new transmission, serpentine belt, water pump and alternator... and all of it was replaced under warranty, with door-to-door pickup and rental cars. When that 7 year warranty came to an end, I sold the car, took $2K and bought another 2-year-old car with the fully loaded trim. That works out to ~$400/year, with the same benefits of buying used versus new, but having a factory warranty brings a lot of peace of mind.
Make yourself findable.

When I need something I'll look for it.

I actively avoid any product or business whose ads keep following me. To me that is even more annoying than a persistent telemarketer.

hope this helps
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What possible reason, from anyone's perspective, is there to say it's not OK for Tesla to sell their own products to people?

Is this literally 100% because the US is so corrupt that car dealers are just making laws that make them money? Or is there a sliver of an argument here that has merit?

I neither live in the US nor own a car, so the idea that Toyota can't tell you a Toyota or whatever is bewildering.
That's why you pay attention to the people in the media that are good at distributing this kind of stuff and pass it to them.
This is just marketing puffery. The defense would be "Microsoft was the first to implement ASLR and DEP on Windows, and Edge's sandboxing is the best sandboxing technology available from any Microsoft browser product." Just like AT&T stating they have the "strongest" signal (which is a meaningless metric by itself), or car makers calling their car gets "40% better mileage!" and the * tells you "compared for a 1978 AMC Pacer."
That sounds very much like some of the recruiters or HR folks asking "what will you work for" while sounding all shocked if you ask them to pay market rate or even worse if you ask what their budget is..

There must be some sort of way to disrupt this whole price negotiation shenanigans. Whoever has more information should be obliged to name the price.
This is true. The buyer has all the power in a car purchase, especially for a sports car or motorcycle which are nonessential to daily life. I'll tell you two stories of acquaintances. One wanted a Lamborghini, so he researched what he wanted, drew up a letter to the dealer and included a cashier check for the price he was willing to pay, and a return envelope. Initially the dealer responded in the negative, but without returning the check. Six months later his car arrived.

I accompanied another friend to a motorcycle dealer. He had previously negotiated the price of the bike and brought cash in that amount. He puts the cash on the counter, and the salesman starts running this game about how the owner really likes that bike and doesn't want to sell it, except at a higher price, and all this. The buyer reaches into the giant stack of cash -- thousands of dollars in $20 bills always seems like a lot of money -- counts out a thousand dollars, and puts it in his pocket. He says the remaining amount of money is the most he's willing to pay after hearing the salesman's story. The salesman disappears, comes back and desperately tries to close the deal at the original price, but eventually has to settle for the money that's literally on the table.

There is almost nobody more desperate than a car salesman, so dealing with them is actually pretty easy.
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>Not a whole lot of thought went into the validity of the data or its analysis.

They may not be able to analyze the data themselves, but there are third party companies which have the expertise to make something of that data.
Well, I didn't vote you up or down, I'm replying instead-- but SOPA was passed... when they tried again and called it "net neutrality". Everyone was for it, but did you read the 800 pages?
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True, though as anecdotal counter-evidence I will say I picked up quite a few hitchhikers while driving Alaska->Argentina, some of which stuck with me across multiple states and countries!

One almost swapped continents with me :)
Make a dockerfile, make sure it works and you understand it. Then go into Elastic Beanstalk and click new application and there is an option for loading a dockerfile, boom. For you this may work, for me it's more complex.
Fair enough. I will offer $10 million for a demonstration that this technology works and has a scientific basis, with the proof being the successful resuscitation and revivification into a whole functioning human from any human brain that is in cryogenic storage at this company. I'll even give you a generous whole year to demonstrate it, since you have stated the only problem is insufficient support and funding, well here it is, your big chance. And of course should the year pass and there is still no evidence, just like each of the last 40 years this has been claimed to be a viable technology without a shred of evidence, then you will pay $10 million, to be used for anti-cult deprogramming efforts. Looking forward to acceptance of this offer, followed by either your verifiable evidence or your payment.
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Now that you mention it, that certainly does seem to be a pattern.

Perhaps, as a class that get a lot of practice in price negotiation, their land tends to be the most expensive to buy, so it's the last to be sold for development.
If so, that has to be some sort of record.
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not long ago, I read the SF Bay Area emergency dispatchers are requesting that the public not dial 9-1-1 when Facebook goes down.
Engineers who don't want to try new things.
Missed a couple other goodies.

--> i.e., "Bake newsworthiness into your offering so it can court attention on it's own" and others.
They don't seem to want to open source it. When I asked, they told me that they had no plans to and now they are hand-selecting companies to contribute code to their engine.
> You should revisit your first three paragraphs to understand why people are okay with Carmax's prices.

It's pretty simple, they're willing to pay extra to avoid negotiation

> Buying a car should not be war, it should not be a hassle, and you should not have to wonder the entire time how you're going to get screwed.

Why not? If you have a business idea ("it shouldnt be a hassle!") then go for it. But if you think negotiating is unfair, well, yeah, of course it's unfair. File that next to "The Spurs lost" and "I'm not married to a supermodel."
I agree that Germany has problems, too. However, I don't think the points you listed are the most important problems.

Some in the MAD tried to start intelligence activity against the press, but the responsible official denied their motion.

The BND is not properly supervised, but the government already acknowledged that and said that they are going to solve it.

What I found to be the most outrageous thing is that chancellor Merkel said that her goal is to enforce german law on german ground, and that they are working towards that. This doesn't sound like she is really convinced to be able to do so. I expect the government to say that german law will be enforced and that they will fight any activity not adhering to them.
Here's the industry voice defending it (with admittedly weak arguments)

http://wardsauto.com/industry-voices/answers-faqs-about-why-...

Manufacturer, in theory, could pull out and close down the shops during financial downturns (which with US companies seems to happen every few years), leaving a bunch of owners stranded on service and spare parts (in pre-Internet days). A local dealer would be financially independent from the manufacturer, and provide needed liquidity for the car maker, the theory goes.
The worst is when I get taken to the back room and they beg and plead for me to get some extra insurance on the car for $1000 or so. Hate the process of having to buy cars.
My solution, looks pretty similar to your second.

I think this should work:

0 Z2
1 Z3
2 I4
3 J0,3 -> 5 // If r0 != 0, jump to add it to r2
4 J3,4 -> 9 // r0 == 0, force jump to check r1
5 I2 // add r0
6 I3
7 J0,3 -> 5
8 Z3
9 J1,3 -> 11 // If r1 != 0, jump to add it to r2
10 J3,4 -> exit // r1 == 0, force jump to exit
11 I2 // add r1
12 I3
13 J1,3 -> 11
14 exit

Phew that took a while. The simple case was easy enough. I guess exceptional candidates would be able to crack that out in an interview, otherwise they'd move you onto the balls.

Edited!