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"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."

For many people, it's about the relative ranking of their worth as a person.
That's why you shouldn't make foolish and quick decisions like this and at least give it some forethought.
The "higher earners" would receive an even larger increase in that case.
Good info!

If the technology is cheap, as you point out, then the next logical step might be a collaborative project to get a network of inexpensive, miniature, buoyant craft's out to sea - for the purpose of actively measuring levels of cesium 137; sharing these results for everyone to see, to graph, and to check on at any given time of the day.

One-time results from a fish is useful data but to have a whole swarm of devices actively monitoring levels in various locations would be ideal.

Thinking ahead, the next hurdle could be the logistics of internet connection - maybe they could connect to each other in a mesh-network that daizy-chains back to an internet connection closer to shore. Oh, and power (solar panel maybe?). Navigation. Yeah - some challenges for sure, but it all seems within reason.
Well the assumption is that the old salaries reflected what you were worth to the company. So bringing those who were previously compensated as 'less important' up to the same as the 'more important' people implies that the relative importance of those who were previously paid more has decreased, acting as a sort of 'now all your years of experience are worth no more than the minimal experience your colleague has.'

Whether you agree or disagree, that's how I think those who are offended by this sort of change see it.
The reaction to what seems like an unalloyed good are dismaying.
I think it's more along the lines that slackers that are lower pay scale getting huge raises that could equate to a 200% increase, whereas top performers, people who get paid above the threshold already, get nothing really.
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm, but it's not clear to me that it's not actually a potentially good idea, in two ways.

The first, important, way is that a tool that offers solid theoretical foundations does not (necessarily) require those foundations. You mention algebra, for example, and it's fair to assume that most school students (and probably their teachers!) don't really appreciate the theoretical grounding of algebra—but they can still hopefully use it with proficiency. In the same way, pure functions and referential transparency need only be difficult to apprehend if you insist on investigating their theoretical foundations; they can just be the way things work, and, if this is a first programming language, then there are no habits regarding mutable state to unlearn before being able to handle immutability.

The second is that, as nine_k (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9982600) points out, learning these concepts before algebra could make understanding algebra itself easier. There are deeply mathematical ideas in the foundations of most programming, even if they are (and even when they should be) hidden, and learning these ideas can help one to come to grips with abstraction in a context that encourages play and experimentation, unlike (unfortunately) the usual mathematics classroom.
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No matter what system you pick, there will always be edge cases that slip through. Some wealthy people will be able to "take advantage" of any system that can be devised, even a tax credit based system. ("How is income defined? How are savings handled? How long do you get the credits for?")

The way you throw that link out there in conjunction with "helps a select few," would let an uninformed reader think that rent-stabilization is an even split between people "milking the system" and "worthy recipients". I find that hard to believe. New rent-stabilized units have strict income limits during the application process [1] , and individual existing units have income limits. When that income level reached by the occupants, that unit falls out of the rent-stabilized category. Furthermore, looking at that link suggests that the "luxury exclusions" are working as intended: all of the requests for deregulation due to income were approved and the rents returned to market rate.

By no means is the current system perfect, but the sentiment here seems to be "kill it with fire."

[1] https://a806-housingconnect.nyc.gov/nyclottery/lottery.html#...
We're nicely dressed chimps, obsessed with hierarchies and status. A lot of our sense of value doesn't rest with how we're doing in absolute terms, but in how we are compared to the people around us. And even recognizing this, I'd be pissed off if I busted my ass off and provided lots of value to a company for a couple years and a new college hire ended up getting paid more than me, which has happened before.
That's very nice to hear. I was seriously beginning to fear that PySide was dead in the water.

I'd love to have a decent GUI toolkit for Python I could use with Apache or MIT code (without having to isolate the GPL bits), but I was nervous about being stuck on Qt4, so I was never terribly sure about PySide.
The article mentions that the change was phased in over 3 years but it was easy to miss.
Missed an opportunity to demonstrate that since make already knows how to make quite a lot of things, you can start w/ no Makefile at all, e.g.:

$ echo 'int main() {}' >foo.c
$ make foo
While I commend his desire to help people afford to live, I agree with you.
You'd be surprised how much of a limitation one has to suffer. I'm working in just 5 minutes away from center of decent sized city in the states (well, Bellevue, WA) and struggling to find a better replacement to Clear (that's dying this November) -- though, in case of network infrastructure, I don't know I'd be comfortable calling the US a first world. :-p

That aside, I've seen the same type of limitation in Australia, albeit was a while ago -- their hotel connection was paid and was metered (something like at 350MB), which I haven't seen elsewhere in countries I've visited. I wonder if it's something common in these regions.
I'd like to see cPython without a GIL first. It would be really nice to take advantage of multi core CPUs without having to use subprocesses.
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You're splitting hairs. Most of Comcast's last mile infrastructure was government subsidized, exactly because no-one was "jumping on it".

So you're saying that it's okay to ignore net neutrality (charge Netflix) when the government isn't there to help subsidize last-mile infrastructure? When you could just as easily provide a capped alternative?

That's the point and splitting hairs doesn't change it.
I think incentives like this [0] could help achieve this affect.

[0] - Tax Credit for Businesses That Share Profits - http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/16/profi...
"There is a reason for everything"

Scott Meyers, talking of the various… quirks of C++.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48kP_Ssg2eY
Entering and retrieving data is the easiest part of an EMR. A functional interface is the hard part. I don't think anyone has really solved this yet. I'd love to see an open source solution rise to the top.
Rent-stabilization, in it's NYC flavor, is not a hard price ceiling.
Anthropomorphize much?

Are the crabs aware of their situation? Are they actually consciously preventing the other crabs from escaping? Or are they just trying to grab on to anything they can get get out of the crab-pile?

Seems like a deeply flawed metaphor that will likely lead you astray.
This is like asking "who's looking for a boyfriend/girlfriend"?

I've had many co-founders over the years and finding one that will actually work out in the end is like finding a unicorn.
Your opt-in point is a powerful one, because it's not actually countered by the intuitive "but no one would do that".

Amazon's "Recommended for you" page is pretty good, and it's shown me some products I'm glad to own. If we imagine that model on steroids - a carefully cultivated webpage of products I want - I would check it regularly. Just a list of products with text and (optional) video explaining their features and why they're valuable to me.

If buying product X for Y dollars will improve my life, tell me and I'll do it consciously. The evil of advertising, then, is that every appeal to emotion, urgency, or social pressure is an implication that buying product X <i>isn't</i> going to improve my life, or at least that I should be prevented from deciding that rationally.

Modern advertising is a horrible combination of poor targeting and a race to the bottom.
I'm only vaguely familiar with clojure, but why would you want to use clojurescript over clojure?
This is the "Squall is dead" of LotR fan theories. Tom Bombadil exists outside of the struggles for control Middle-earth because he, like the world, is far older and more inscrutable than any of the persons or races contending in those struggles.

Alternatively he is the spirit of "Just repeat to yourself it's just a story, I should really just relax".
I'm the author, thanks for suggestions on improving the charts, especially regarding the marginal histograms.

Just a couple of questions:
What color maps would you use for those kde plots?

I know seaborn by default uses the Freedman-Diaconis rule to create bins for the hexbin plot. But, what suggestions do you have for binning?
Oh man I wish I could love tup. That syntax is great, it cleans all by itself, and figures-out dependencies all by it self - even the source file often! But it was a total no-go when I tried on FreeBSD. Basically it does those awesome things by leveraging FUSE and makes all sorts of assumptions about how FUSE operates which are not true on FreeBSD. More over those assumptions would need to change as some of them are bugs and others are honest to goodness differences for good reason. So it boils down to, tup is just too clever sadly.
“The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.”
I love posts like this that never fail to remind me that the Hacker News intelligentsia has more respect for efficient markets than it does for poor people.
This reminds me of a few months ago when gas price was down to a mere $2.00 . It was wonderful for the public, but all I heard on TV is how bad it was for the economy.

We shouldn't let this be the norm, these employees complaining or those who quit are angry that their "inferior" coworkers are getting the same wages.
If it bothers you that your peers are going to have more financial security, then you're a self-centered asshole.
This is the main argument I hear from people who are against the push to raise the minimum wage to $15.

Question to you: how does others who used to earn less than you now earning the same as you affect you?
You're overthinking it. They're doing those things because they're fun things to do. If someone gave a programming workshop and had a games room where you could play arcade games, air hockey, shoot pool and play pinball on your breaks, I certainly wouldn't complain. I'd even like trying yoga and cupcakes!
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Link to the HN thread when the raise was first announced:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9371854
What about the billion dollars that Al Gore made from his carbon credit company or the fact that he tried to get alws passed that would require most major businesses in the US to by credits from his own organization?

Since we are talking about the "Economics of Climate Change", we should start with this.
Well - no, not in my opinion. Instead it could encourage ISPs and Microsoft to reach a financial arrangement per-packet proxied via the consumer and the ISP on MS's behalf.
This is what lithium primaries are for; they don't leak.
Congratulations, you got yours. Bragging about how nice your life personally is does not constitute good economics.

In terms of anecdata, however, New York is famous for its shitty apartments and byzantine lending process. I don't recall ever being shown good, affordable apartment in the area where I live--and I have a good job. Bug infestations, code violations, warped walls and floors, heating systems a century old, wasteful lack of insulation running up the A/C bill and wasting energy--all these are the norm in a part of America many times more expensive than usual. If you have an everyday middle class job there's not a chance you will be able to enjoy a good apartment near the city.

But I'm glad you're happy. You obviously deserve being rewarded for randomly renting the right apartment at the right time at no economic risk to yourself. It's only fitting that you use your lucky position as an excuse to exclude others as much as you can.
While I have no idea whether this will work (or if it's a good idea), the most interesting part of all of this, to me, is the backlash from people calling it "unbridled Socialism."

I'm still not sure how a CEO of a profitable company electing to pay his employees more becomes a political debate. If it fails, perhaps it's a failed experiment in Capitalism? It's not like anyone is forcing the business owner to do this.

Theoretically, economics would dictate that by paying people $70K who would get paid $40K would make them fight like crazy to keep their jobs, wouldn't it? And if that's the case, wouldn't one conclude that their productivity would increase, and the company would be much better off? Unwise investment? Perhaps. Unbridled "Socialism?" Definitely not.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/04/15/ceo_buys_short_...
The Kubrick analogy is a bit misplaced as film isn't an interactive medium, although a good film has a "replay-ability" factor.

But if you're looking at what's being done in games today one might find rewards looking at the work done on animated films which do involve world building and character design work. And keep in mind that those animators had to draw every frame that you see in a film (and then add to that all of the work that never made it to the final film).
I don't have the link handy right now, but IIRC there was a mention of some system level differences in how Go might like to change things in the toolchain under the language level which could move in a fundamentally different direction from the C toolchain. An example was in the area of how stacks were created and operated.

I think one could foresee making more changes in the future in that area. It's sort of exciting to think that these fairly low level foundational details which much of programming relies on, could be rethought and maybe get us to a different place than we are now.
I've been wanting to get into ClojureScript (to clean my development practices, etc) but I'm wondering if I need to be a Clojure user. Does it make sense for a Javascript developer to just jump straight to ClojureScript?. I've seen PureScript also.
For your first game, you'll probably want to pick a topic that either is not hindered by the draw distance or is even helped by it. Like the way the early Silent Hill games used the limited draw distance to create a spooky foggy town setting.
Sincere question: bad from whose perspective? How do you balance these perspectives?

Real estate regulation in its current form, especially in NYC, derives from the legacy of over-crowded tenements and massive blocks of slums. Sure, the overall quality of life has improved in NYC due to building codes and public sanitation, but totally removing rent "controls" (the general term, not the NYC term) seems like a slide towards poorer living conditions for the lower and middle classes.
$500 is laughably low for a rent controlled apartment in the neighborhoods where apartments are $3k.

Try doubling it. For starters.
Talking about "cost of living" in a place like Seattle, as if it were an ordinary economic issue, masks the real problem, which is that liberal US cities have made it very difficult to construct new housing. If a million families want to live in a city, and the city only allows half a million houses to be built, then a lot of people are going to be forced out. It's not a question of economics, it's a simple question of arithmetic. It doesn't matter how much you pay people or what minimum wage you have or what other policies you enact. It's like a giant game of musical chairs - if there are more people than chairs, it doesn't matter what else you do, because someone's going to wind up without a chair. Increase salaries, and rents go up to compensate. Subsidize housing for the poor, and landlords will charge more. Enact rent control, and watch as everyone converts rental buildings into super expensive condos. It's like trying to squeeze Jell-O to death: you can't beat the fundamental law that, if there are houses for X people, only X people can live there.
On the other hand, many of those stabilized units are have market rate is less than the legal rate, and so are not effectively subject to price caps.

Of course those units aren't in Manhattan south of 96th street or hip Brooklyn, so the type of people who write blog articles don't care.
Already being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9982917
Anyone know how to cross compile with cgo?
Sneaky and resulted in me not wanting to touch this OS with a 10 foot pole. Companies are getting away with way too much these days just because they can.
The amount of energy is not directly comparable if the efficiency of its use is very different. A kerosene lamp is multiple orders of magnitude less efficient than decent LEDs, so while you might have to lift 2KM to get the same energy, you'd have to lift much, much less to get the same amount of lumen-hours.

A kerosene lamp has an efficiency of 0.1-1 lumens/watt, while a white LED has anything around 80-100 lumens/watt.
Does this mean I could use compile and then require clojurescript modules in node? Today I use babel to "transpile" es2015 to es5 and then load those in, could I do something similar with clojurescript?
Well, raycasting is supposedly trivial to parallelize, right?
I didn't really like him either. He clashed with the overall feeling of Fellowship while at the same time breaking its logic. If he just clashed, he'd be comic relief. If he just broke the logic, he'd be a mystery wrapped in an enigma. But by being both at the same time, he becomes the big-lipped alligator moment of the whole series.
For what GP mentioned ("systems automation") depending on the JVM (as one would with Clojure) is kind of a non-starter, due to the long startup time. By contrast, Clojurescript (essentially the same language, but compiled to JS instead of JVM bytecode) can run in something like Node.js, where startup times are considerably faster.

Edit: this new development (CLJS compiled with CLJS) is remarkable because previously, compiling CLJS required a running JVM. One could still compile automation scripts and run those, but that wouldn't really be true to the "scripting" style anymore.
I'm in the "whatever works" camp. If someone were to create a "guy's programming workshop" with weight-lifting and sports-talk, I'd welcome the experiment. It's all fine as long as the market demand for programmers is going unmet.
More a matter of cost per cubic foot.

Have to find someplace where the seafloor is close to the surface, then dump enough volume of dirt on it to reach a viable altitude.
Can someone kindly explain how the photo of Norio Kimura and its caption relates to the article?
Regarding the energy of lifting a 10KG weight 2 KM high is not a 1:1 comparison with the tech here. It's using an LED which much more efficient than a Kerosene powered flame, since most of the energy in the flame is spent in infrared.
Yes it is informal, but the overuse of italics makes it come across as mocking, which is what I was referring to.
> You need to lift a 10KG weight about 2 kilometres to get a teaspoon of kerosene's energy, so it's not a great replacement on that front

This says nothing of light output. If you want light, and most of kerosene's output is heat, your energy calculation is not helpful.

> and having 10KG weights dangling around at variable points between ceiling and floor sounds if anything even more of a liability than a lamp with a naked flame

This seems like an incredibly contrived "problem". What's the liability? Somebody may bump into a somewhat heavy object that is moving downwards at a barely perceptible clip? Somebody may tweak their back lifting the weight? That seems lower risk than my housing burning down with me in it.
Nothing that Microsoft has comes close to the functionality of ffmpeg. Apple, either, for that matter. Last time I checked neither OS even supported reading Matroska containers natively, and containers are pretty simple compared to codecs.

$ ffmpeg -codecs 2> /dev/null | wc -l
396

ffmpeg and libav are simply the most comprehensive collections of video codec software in existence.
And most of the time also work at a day job! And take care of their kids! I'm simply amazed.
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Maybe they can't spare the computer power to create an acoustic signature? How complex is the algorithm anyway?

By the way, I agree that the same song can be sung by the same artist in multiple versions, especially if it is a "signature song" for the artist. Just Acoustic vs. Rock beat can totally be different, and they are both worthy of having in your music library and not wantonly purged because the metadata is the same.
Yes, the <1.8% of us with _actually low_ rents (most stabilized apartments aren't nearly that low) are the reason you can't get an affordable apartment.

Keep dreaming.

Also, it's not just a matter of "I got mine." Living where I am afforded me class mobility that I likely would not have had in my life otherwise. I've been _dirt poor_ for most of my life, even in this apartment. What is your alternative to that?

Why are you so focussed on what other people have?
> Physical parcels are nearly always delivered nowadays by a system where a driver will turn up on a working weekday, at an entirely undefined hour or in a very wide time window, and expect a signature or at least a human to accept the parcel, immediately, or they take the parcel and go away again.

Really? Most delivery services either default to no-signature-required or provide an option; requiring a human or signature seems to be the exception not the norm.
I think this is half the problem for the backlash:
"“What’s their incentive to hustle if you pay them so much?” Ms. Brajcich said they asked."

It relies on the assumption that the only motivation people would have to work, is that they will be homeless if they don't. I think the idea that you can work towards something bigger than you is a foreign concept to the majority of people.
How much of that energy of the kerosene is converted to visible light?

This is some LEDs, a weight, some gears and an alternator. Is a solar panel and a battery going to come anywhere close in price?
A bit of this is apparently over my head, but I'd love to get other's reactions or tl;drs as it seems kind of timely and important for tech and business.
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> I know liberals like to try to make unicorns exist but economics cuts through most of the lies and bullshit of politics.

The irony of advocating for a liberal housing market, then turning around and claiming that this is not only apolitical, but also politically opposed by liberals, is delicious.
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Well ok at least I got it generally right. It was a long time ago. In fact, might be time to reread LOTR and the Silmarillion.
'“The essential manner of delivering education has not taken advantage of technological innovation in the way we’ve seen in other universities,” said Josh Wyner, the executive director of the College Excellence Program at the Aspen Institute, told me.'

I find the first sentence hard to read. I believe that it means that a few universities are far in advance of others in using technology.