skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If we assume that wages and productivity are correlated, then while reducing wage floors sounds like a good idea, what actually happens is that we're encouraging employers to use low-skill, low-output-per-hour labor in place of machines that have a higher output-per-hour but a higher up-front cost and no ability to externalize maintenance expenses (ie: between the cost of keeping a machine repaired or a worker fed and housed, we currently allow employers to externalize the latter but not the former).

Humans aren't capital that is produced to industrial demand; if humans aren't employed productively, they still need to be fed and housed (or, alternatively, the externalities associated with their not being fed and housed must be accepted.)

So its somewhat inaccurate to say that we allow employers to externalize those costs, as they are cost that exist independent of the decision of employers to use labor, and which low wage payments, while not completely offsetting, mitigate somewhat.

If industrial machines were produced independently of industrial demand and produced negative externalities if they weren't maintained whether or not they were productively employed, then it would make sense address them differently with policy than we do now, too.
If you claim to master 30 languages you can of course hammer a nail, but not to be a professional piano player. Is very unlikely. Days are just too short.

In any case reading the link provided seems that the journalist translates directly 'how to do something' as 'its great' and 'you can do it!'... Much hype, few substance, as usual.
It's not even just an opportunity thing. Becoming fluent in Spanish has really changed the way I think, particularly on political, social, and emotional issues. Spanish is really preferable for expressing many ideas--it has a richer vocabulary for certain topics and forces word patterns that encourage different ways of thinking. Thinking in Spanish changes not only how I think, but what I think. Being able to think both ways gives me the ability to approach problems from more directions.
Interesting. Never heard the term before.
Note that there is a difference between isolating devices and firewalling in the sense of packet inspection. You're still going to want selective routing and packet forwarding (like port forwarding).

Firewalls will continue to be useful for complex devices that connect directly to the internet (like laptops on public wifi), where all sorts of things you wouldn't want others accessing are exposed by default.
Eh, I don't know. Lots of people would swerve their car into a tree to avoid hitting a person. They put themselves at risk to avoid killing someone.
But if you already in he area, it may work. Some people own houses, live with family, are students or have some arrangement that takes rent out of the equation.
1. a hosted chat service with an UX people really like. https://slack.com/

2. A framework for writing realtime JavaScript applications. https://www.meteor.com/
In Facebook's defense, I doubt they have many minimum wage folks on staff. These are forcing their vendors, cleaning, catering etc. to pay a livable wage (undoubtedly Facebook will pay for this increase however).

Its not something you normally pay attention too. I have a 8 person office in SF that I get cleaned weekly. I have no idea what those individuals are getting paid of the amount I pay to the cleaning service.
Interesting article. What I see is another failure of industry to solve the root of the problem: different GC strategies work for different applications and should be selectable. Might even allow pluggable GC's. This is the path taken in JX Operating System and certain academic works on improving Java runtime. JX's first tier of memory management just gives a certain amount of resources a component/process/app can use. The second tier is its GC, which can be different per application. So, you could partition your application into components with associated GC's that focused on throughput, low-latency, or productivity. Then the problem shifts to making an optimal scheduler for the app and GC runtimes. There's already good schedulers, strategies for building them, and even tools for automated planning of scheduling strategies. Any of these might be integrated to optimize that aspect.

Overall, using pluggable garbage collectors, feeding a planner some constraints, and compiling the result sounds much easier that this person's day job. Embedded Java already does some of this while some systems did it in hardware to avoid most issues entirely. Enterprise Java should adopt such a method. Meanwhile, reading of these nightmares, I'll continue avoiding such GC-based tools wherever possible in my work.

JX Operating System for reference
http://www4.cs.fau.de/Projects/JX/publications/jx-usenix.pdf
No inherent protections, just different incentives. Storing a 4MB image at 80 bytes per $0.08 OP_RETURN transaction would cost you $4000. Why would you do that when you can use namecoin for practically free?
Assuming my theory is true, because they wanted to encourage funding via Kickstarter. Offering exclusive perks is a pretty effective way of doing that. It's worked for every campaign I've backed, anyway...
I'm exactly in your position. Any help or advice would be great.
Slamdance: inside the weird virtual reality of Google's Project Tango
You don't have to create an account. Just google the title. WSJ breaks enough good stories, and it takes all of 2 seconds to view the articles through google that it would be counter productive to suggest "banning" them.
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...and this "bunch of scenes" exactly how a lot of 80s movies/animations were. Watch an episode of Thundercats/He-man/Dungeons and Dragons/Mysterious Cities Gold [1] (I loved that show).

tl;dr the homage to the 80s is not just the visual style but also extends to the story telling.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ki99YBVKyw
I wonder, isn't it working on the stack much faster than working on the heap anyway?

So when you query data on the heap, shouldn't you just query larger objects to put it on the stack, and work from there, instead of using the heap so often ?

With that in mind wouldn't that render garbage collecting almost irrelevant if your code is well designed, by not working too much on the heap ?

It's true that more ram makes the GC more relevant, but if it's an excuse for negligent software design, maybe GCs are not such a good idea. It's good to have features that make the job of the programmer easier, but if it only save the time of the skilled programmers who knows a little about how it works underneath, is it such a good idea ?

You can hardly convince that simple tools and predictable behaviors in machines are not the safest way of having fair results.

A programming language is already a big shortcut to work faster, and I doubt you should try to work even faster if it means creating new drawbacks.
Snapchat is doing well. I sometimes get on the bus around the same time when the local high school is dismissed, and watch in amazement all the kids pull out their phones and work through their accumulated snaps for the day. Some have hundreds. It's a 45-minute ride to my stop and they’re still watching when I get off.

Few months back I got jealous and installed Snapschat myself. It conveniently scanned my contacts, and found that none of my friends are on it. (I’m late 30s.) To this day, the only snap I received is the default welcome message they send to everyone.

They’re doing a good job of confining their appeal to their target age group. The minute I and my peers appear on Snapchat, it's time to get worried.

And then there's snapchat.com, which is another enigma. I consider myself a reasonably competent technologist but Snapchat makes me feel like an ape trying to figure out a mysterious monolith.
Nobody in the thread has yet called it what it is: retrowave. This was a musical genre first. It wholly appropriates the aesthetics of a subset of 80's media and condenses it into a "historical fantasy" world that is easier to digest than the authentic thing.

You don't enjoy retrowave for its writing or storytelling, generally speaking. Treat Kung Fury like an extended music video and it makes way more sense.
> AV

How does Anti-Virus play into this as a counter to "minor tactics?" Are you expecting all end-users to personally verify all of their software? No matter how secure the network connection is, end-users need software to use their computers to do work/have fun/etc. Unless you have a completely closed system of 100% trusted software. If you're part of an organization like the NSA, that might be doable, but home users don't really have this luxury unless you advocate for a walled-garden type system.
Stored github in btsync for a startup before. It actually worked ok. We stopped doing it because btsync was trivial to crash with basic fuzzing and was closed source
Windows 10 will include desktop apps in the Windows Store: http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/29/desktop-apps-are-coming-t...

In the meantime, I'd drop $5 on Hitman Go: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/hitman-go/5fa3bb...
Via this page, I discovered several gestures I didn't know about. In particular, that you can double-tap and drag to zoom on Android without using two fingers. That's convenient when operating a phone with one hand.
Shrinking Economy? No, but It’s Not Surging Either
> You can focus on collecting revenue faster, offering new customers less generous payment terms, demanding payment up front or in advance,

It's worth adding that these in particular are good business practices with or without VCs, because:

1. It demonstrates that people will pay for your product. Nothing is worse than spending money making something only to discover nobody will pay for it.

2. It's aware of the 80/20 rule. Up-front payment does a good job of limiting you to the 20% of your client base who will make you 80% of your money. The clients who want things most on their terms, who will nickel-and-dime you, make unreasonable demands, and review you poorly to other clients, are going to balk at an up-front payment and go elsewhere, and that's a good thing. You don't need them. They'll weigh down your competitors and leave you more efficient.
Probably makes sense from a founder's perspective, but investors eventually need an exit( long-term or not).
I'm having a hard time to understand if it's some kind of joke or a true project. Could someone explain what's it all about?
It's also interesting that the parent path https://www.google.com/atap redirects to project tango, https://www.google.com/atap/project-tango/
Not only that, but a quick search for GIMP on Slashdot turns up absolutely no discussion about the hijack. There was an <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/11/07/2328228/gimp-citing-a... in 2013 that GIMP was moving</a>, and <a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/11/14/2036200/source... a week later</a> about SF's ad policies (LOL!), but absolutely nothing from this week. Color me unsurprised. I knew /. was heading downhill, but this is the final nail in the coffin.
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> 'US removes Cuba from list of enemies' is what actually happened.

The US has lots of different things that amount to "lists of enemies", so its important to distinguish which list we are talking about. The individual terms in the names of the lists may not be meaningful in the usual sense of the words used, but the names of the lists still serve as (potentially opaque) unique identifiers for which list (and thus, which associated legal consequences) is being discussed.
Similar to Gitchain http://gitchain.org/ ?
I'm not sure I understand what you're proposing here or what your problem is with what's currently being done.

Are you saying there should be a single class that teaches both Essentialism and evolution? It seems reasonable for the same school to teach both, but they belong in different classes. The former would be in a philosophy class, while the latter would be in a science class. Are you saying that facts shouldn't be taught at all, merely the history of thought? Or, again, is it just evolution?

You say that religion is of particular importance here, but the whole point of this is that evolution is not religion. It's just science, like any other science, and belongs in school just as much as Newton's Laws or Maxwell's Equations. What's disturbing about a governing body saying that school science classes should only teach science and not religion?
It may just be people who eat ramen all the time are more typically stressed out, don't care about health, etc.
With all due respect, you appear to have 100% consumed your understanding of the conservative position through liberals describing it to you, and appear to know basically nothing about their actual positions or arguments.

Yes, they have them. If that's a shock to you, or you think that no they don't because hurr hurr they're too dumb, well, that would further prove my point. Yes, they definitely exist.

(I'm not a conservative in the modern political sense, but I'm also not a liberal. You are greatly less informed about your options than you think you are.)
Someone once said that you can fool some of the people all the time and you can fool all the people some of the time. The crowds can be fooled; worse, when they insist on something that isn't true, almost every public figure will give in and tell the people what they want to hear. Generally I'm more interested in questions from people who study these issues full-time, and are skilled at handling the evasiveness (and sometimes plain old deceit) of public figures.

The wisdom of the crowds is a great tool, but like all great tools it's not a universal one. It doesn't replace expertise, for example. I don't want my medical condition treated or my war planned by amateurs. The public figures are professionals at this PR game. That said, the crowd-based interview may complement the professionals.
GitLab CEO here, thanks for mentioning us as the open source alternative. We think in the short term multiple organizations hosting their own GitLab is the way to go. It is hard to do issues and pull/merge requests in a decentralized way (the OP is impressive but it shows distributed git instead of distributed GitHub). I would like to see federated merge requests http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions...
> No. Reddit's user base is extremely liberal and hostile to conservative candidates and values as evident by the echo-chamber that is /r/politics

> which fails to meaningfully report on pro-conservative news like the recent Conservative Party win in GB.

/r/politics

Rule #1 - Articles must deal explicitly with US politics.

Given you mean:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/world/europe/david-cameron...

"Great Britain" is not the 51st State of the US, just fyi.

It appears you are showing a lack of reading comprehension and fundamental ignorance of the purpose of /r/politics and then using it to make accusations. This being the case, you are a prime example of what any reasonable person would consider someone with an extremely strong bias that colors your viewpoint.

You are exactly what you accuse Reddit and /r/politics of being, except Conservative, yet failing to realize the fact you are so biased you assume the basic requirement of a discussion being "on topic" is evidence of bias.
/r/politics is a forum for US politics. They wouldn't normally report on UK politics regardless of which party it was about, unless it had meaningful implications for US politics.

I don't think Reddit as a platform inherently appeals more to younger or more liberal users. I think it's just that users who pre-date the Web are less likely to become active participants. A generation from now when even the older part of the population has been using the Web forever, the relative appeal of forums like Reddit to those of different ideologies won't be correlated at all with technology and will be all about social factors in those specific communities.
I once put up a YouTube video of "Auld Lang Syne." I was playing this song myself on guitar, double-tracked to provide a backing track. I got a copyright claim from YouTube.

The lyric we all know was written in 1788, although he may have adapted existing folk lyrics. The actual melody is probably borrowed from an older folk melody. And of course since it was my performance, I held the copyright to it.

In this case as others have said, the copyright is on the recording. But YouTube's automated copyright-infringement detection is legendary at being somewhat dumb.
Simon Singh's excellent book also recounts this fairly remarkable story.

I was actually studying Maths at Cambridge when Wiles gave his seminars. People were buzzing with excitement after the first one.
(Author here.)

Yeah! I was a Gitchain backer. The difference is that Gitchain stored the actual git commits in the blockchain, and I leave the actual commits on the hard disks of each BitTorrent seeder.
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The remaining hard part is the adapter layer to enable the extra applications such as the issue tracker to use the Git repository for storage. Joey Hess has a good article about Git "databranches" here: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/databranches/
Satire requires some kind of political statement or social criticism. Kung fury isn't a satire.
Yeah, this is pretty impressive. I assume the production team probably has a lot of experience. Thanks!
I have to admit that I started reading this post feeling a little snarky about the concept. However, I think Chris makes an excellent case for the concept.
I completely agree. Percentiles are a very unintuitive way of thinking for this sort of data. It's really easy to know how much one made last year, but it takes a while to figure out what percentile one's income was in. Differences in Percentile vs differences in Income is even harder.

I felt strongly about this the moment I read the article on NYTimes - I reproduced the data set to the best extent I could and actually went about plotting against absolute income:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jD87QN3pPZjoefrAm4E_...

That's a far more intuitive chart, that a lot of us will understand better. I also graphed how much these children actually go on to earn against absolute income. I compared these results in a blog post - http://unside.t4you.in/data/intuitive-axes/

HTH.
Anachronisms are a no-op when the whole film is build around time travel.
Debt overhang-takes a long time to work through.
So artificially increasing the demand for automation is bad, but incentivizing people to have more children and artificially increasing the population is good?

> Giving someone work experience is progress for her.

Progress is getting to the point where people can have technology provide the essentials, so that these repetitive jobs are just for fun, rather than a means for survival. It's like in DS9 where Sisko's father runs a restaurant--for pleasure. If he'd been sick or no longer interested in working, he wouldn't have to worry about starving or finding a place to live.
Post new articles to your GitHub-hosted Jekyll blog via web
Can I clone GitTorrent with GitTorrent?
That's weird, because I'm a member of an org that Github explicitly requires you approve this access for apps like this.
Yes, and they've done some work on automatic uninstall so that there's less work required by packages to support uninstall: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/CommandsUninstall
CyanogenMod is an Android mod that has customizable Android permissions (Privacy Guard).
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One aspect is that with reddit, candidates can completely avoid uncomfortable questions.
No surprises here. Reddit can do quite a lot of things better than traditional media. So can bloggers (if you filter out the major part of the blogosphere, which now is another money making machine).

Basically, people genuinely, intrinsically caring about a particular thing will produce better results than people pushing agendas and using that thing as a tool to get money and further careers.
Say there are 10 people in this crowd. The optimal solution for the 11 of us is obviously to have my car drive off a cliff to the right, not into the crowd on the left. However, for me, the optimal solution is obviously to not drive off a cliff.

However, your argument omits a couple of interesting details. First off, if a car can have uncontrolled acceleration, it can likely have any number of glitches. It may for example think it's accelerating uncontrollably, and try to throw me off a cliff. Or it may think that the cliff is a small ditch. Or it may think that a bunch of balloons tied to a mail box is a crowd. If you are a programmer, what would you rather debug: code that prevents uncontrolled acceleration or code responsible for killing the driver by recognizing crowds and cliffs?

The other details is whether the metaphorical crowd should even allow me to buy a car that has logic built into it to drive over them. What if instead of a cliff and a crowd it's actually two different crowds of different sizes? What would a human driver do in these cases?
It was fun for the first 10 min or so. After 20 min, it was quite stale, and by the end I was sick of it. There is talk about them extending this thing into a feature-length film, but I think that would be terrible.

What might work instead is to perform a dual-parody, of both 80's tropes and the modern trope of giving away the plot in the preview(s). In this format, instead of 30 min of formless memes, they would publish 2-4 "previews" of the movie, and that's it. Same content, just published as previews.
Agreed that the argument is a bit weak, but we would still end up with a major centralized repository for a decentralized protocol. And the changes to make Gitlab more like the proposal would probably be more work than just making the proposal a new project.
The next OS update isn't really "adware", or an ad, especially when it's a free update that will most likely be updateable to the RTM build (based on how smooth build-to-build upgrades have gotten). If you're going to apply this standard, OSX does the same thing now, it'll prompt you to update to the latest 10.X. Ubuntu does it too, it lists it at the top of the software upgrade.
100% this. The desired outcome should be baked into every law passed, and all laws that don't achieve their desired result should be able to be invalidated by the lowest court fit to rule on them.
You may want to checkout my repo https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job
Slowly but surely it is becoming possible to "consume" nothing but Internet for entertainment, even if you demand video. It's still got a ways to go. But Hollywood probably ought to be more scared than it is. (Hollywood qua Hollywood isn't necessarily going anywhere, "the best" are always going to congregate somewhere, but the "current regime" is probably going to very shaken up in the next few decades.)
There are some GUI-enabled CADs, but their users still prefer to script their designs instead. This applies to the specialised large-block CADs, like those for plant building, ship building industries and such.

Increasing the level of abstraction makes it more rewarding to express the designs in code instead of dragging things with a mouse.
Not just federated merge requests, but federated one-click cloning. Given a "home" GitLab instance, you should be able to click a button on any GitLab repository (or on repositories elsewhere, based on some spec), and end up with a clone of that repository in your "home" instance.

That should be possible via browser support for site-based URL handlers; for browsers without such support, you could also have a URL on the main GitLab site that people can register with to redirect to their "home" instance.
IRC and XMPP have the same weakness: no server side persistence.

Don't answer "bouncers" for IRC. It is an ugly hack. With XMPP the server MAY provide history, which makes it unreliable.