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Learning a new skill or trade is capital. Capital is not just hard equipment. To the extent that was an acceptable approximation in the 20th century, it's less so today.

To forstall the next likely objection, no, of course it is not the only form of capital. And "less so" != "completely the opposite of". And further, obviously, learning a trade isn't millions and millions of dollars worth of capital, nor does it instantly catapault you into the leagues of the wealthy, just because you learned how to fix plumbing or write code. And it obviously isn't liquid.

But it is a form of capital.

If you don't understand this, you can't understand unions. If labor doesn't have this capital, then unions can't work, because if labor really are just interchangable cogs that bring nothing but mere clock time to the equation, then labor has no bargaining position whatsoever. Unions only work because labor has this illiquid capital to bargain with.

(There are some obvious further elaborations on this theme, such as the way the capital gets devalued by increasing the supply by globalization, and the continuous importation of cheap labor via illegal immigration. IMHO there's a certain amount of contradiction in being shocked at how labor is devalued in the market place and being pro-"open borders". It may not be the only cause and effect, but it's certainly involved.)
Any medium sized company probably shouldn't be using Visual Studio Community Edition... also it goes pretty far in what it can do from what I've seen.
Then open-source the algorithms and give security to people!!
Sorry If I wasn't clear, I was trying to say that the article in itself is bullshit, and that from credible sources, and if you do some HTTPS/HTTP snooping yourself, you'll turn up with evidence that suggest it does the same thing that Spotlight does.
The target is not illegal malware which, as you say, would do anything. But there's a vast amount of detrimental foistware doing malicious things (e.g. injecting ads, tracking) under legal cover because the user somewhere forgot to uncheck some light-grey box in an installer. Anyone tried to install something from Sourceforge lately?

Modifying the Firefox installation directory would get flagged by any anti-virus, but software using the defined extension points does not -- the user "agreed" to it.
The "downvoting brigade" might have a point, since you're pathetically derailing in a classic fashion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Instagram and the like will ensure the future proliferation of shitty images, no matter the technology.
Wow. This is even more exactly what I was looking for. =)

The polyfill looks amazing too. Looks like it polyfills both the picture tag itself as well as the srcset property on img that mrbig4545 mentioned.
Yep, my restore disk set had a bad disk (and I paid for them too which sucks) so since it was the Home version and I thought I might need stuff that Windows 10 Pro has I went for pro, cost me $200 bucks. I got my license on Amazon. I thought about getting an MSDN subscription but not sure how the licensing works these days for the OS's it includes (it used to be fairly complicated years ago).

Edit: I used smile.amazon.com so money is contributed to my charity, the American Heart Association.
parent thinks the industry will flee to safer European shores, because the local legal climate is much more liberal than the US when it comes to software (for example, patent trolls are very rare over here).

In practice this is unlikely for a number of reasons, in particular the fact that Europe is way too expensive for the industry that spearheaded third-world "offshoring".
I installed Fedora 20 ( with the standard Gnome 3 desktop environment ) onto my parents PC a couple months ago. They love it and rave to other baby boomers how hassle free it is to us. I definitely recommend going that route. All they do is use the web browser and open office occasionally.

Edit* fedora 20, not 22. ( that was the only ISO I had at the time )
Sure you can - you expose for the highlights and then you push the shadows in post with a crazy exponential curve. I do it all the time on digital. People used to do it via print manipulation too (filter grading, split printing, dodging and burning), except back then you exposed for the shadows and controlled the highlights (since you were capturing a negative, not a positive).

What would normally have been indistinguishable blacks are pushed into the midtones and you get a flat, grainy image. It just looks like garbage because noise gets out of hand and you lose all your color depth, but there's more dynamic range there in the sense of there being more stops of light crammed onto the final image.

There is a physical limit of the camera or the film where you cannot actually squeeze any more accuracy out of the ADC, but standard conditions are nowhere near that limit.
I find the German speaking side has a more striking (but also darker, more severe) beauty.

Geneva. You know, I have found that this city is the /only/ place that helps with nyc withdrawal symptoms. Magical.
No idea why you're being downvoted:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/22/ferguson-warrants-p...

A more interesting one is here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-robinson/the-shocking-f...

In Ferguson -- a city with a population of 21,000 -- 16,000 people have outstanding arrest warrants, meaning that they are currently actively wanted by the police.
Digital Ocean is down?
An official iOS app already exists.
We live in an age where technology is always progressing, and it constantly make engineers and technicians obsolete. I think the bottleneck in our economy is teaching higher level of scientific knowledge. The money has always been into technology being a big lever for profit, but it has never been accountable for the social cost.

I do think that people today can't cope with the fact that their work position can be made obsolete and that they should be asked to learn new things again. Obviously it's not anchored in how labor works. I think even workers should spend some time learning new things to not become obsolete, something like 1/20 of their time.

I guess MOOCs will be one solution, but I kinda doubt it. I don't think that most people really like to work in tech, but it's going to be a transformation that will keep happening, and I don't think there will be a stop to it.
I signed up for robinhood on a Nexus 4. I'm currently in India. (Though my accounts are American.)
AFAIK you should be able to get your money from the recruitment agency. If they have charged the client a higher rate this includes their cut and your wages. As you said you did not sign anything with the recruitment agency as such you did not breach your contract.

Contact the recruitment agency, explain the situation and ask how you obtain payment for the services you have rendered. If they have received their cut it should be an administration process to pay you.

The more reputable the organisation the easier it will be. A small boutique agency will find it easier to lose the money on their accounts whereas a larger legitimate agency will need to account for that most eye at some point.

Call the agency first nd plan from there.
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Just to confirm, I have all of these set, have rebooted and this traffic still occurs. If you really don't have it, I have no idea what you did.
He's not relying on the UK, but on Ecuador (which doesn't have such a great track record either). Then again, Snowden is relying on Russia.

Enemy of my enemy, and all that.
With all the headlines about the $4000 figure the last few days, I was completely mislead about what that actually meant. Thanks for explaining it.
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I thought that videos and lectures were always known be a supplement and introduce concepts and ideas. The real learning is the hands on labs, assignments, and real-world experience which you gain the most value from. But I still think the lecture has its place. Nowadays, video production is cheaper than it ever has been so I don't understand that argument either. There are people making feature length films with a 1000 dollar camera and 500 dollar software.
That's a great idea - we're quite early stage just getting the tech side of things working nicely. I guess it is probably completely wrong, building something and then looking for problems to solve...
Robin Hood is dangerous for the young millennial. Short term trading is really risky and if you have some cash saved up it can make a big difference in the longer term if you don't blow it up or lose it. Being young matters.

If you're in Australia and looking for something longer term access to Berkshire Hathaway shares or ETFs https://getfirststep.com is another service too [no individual shares] its more like wealthfront/betterment/acorns.

They fractionalise the investment so you don't need huge amounts which is quite nice.
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I can't find any primary sources for the witness statement quote. Do you have anything with direct citations? Obviously googling for this is almost impossible.
Website responding but hangs. Probably a database lock.
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I never said capital was simply hard equipment, but I'd like to hear what your definition of capital is that "learning a new skill" falls under that? I mean, we're talking economics here so there's a level of interpretation for definitions, but I've never heard of someone claiming that skills are capital.

It feels like you're going with the "Everything is capital" route, which devalues the word in the first place.
Yes, but if I understand correctly, unless those images occur at the same time (or really, really close) you run into issues involving subject and camera motion.
They are taking small steps one at a time.

"dotNET's openness does not extend to the actually interesting parts (WPF, WinForms)."

Well I disagree with this, there is a lot of good stuff in what they are opening. The new version of Asp.Net, Roslyn, CLR and more are all interesting things that you can use to make real products without WPF and WinForms.

Also they release other really cool things like TypeScript etc...

I no Microsoft fan at all but you gotta give them some credit for what they did this past year.
The most depressing part, to me, is if you asked anyone who "owned" Java back in the Sun days they would have told you nobody. Since it is OSS and aside from Microsoft's J++ lawsuit, Sun was pretty liberal about how people used Java (as they mostly profited from value adds, rather than the core language or libraries).

If Sun were still around, I suspect not only would they not be suing Google, but they would be actively involved in the Android development scene, producing tooling and other assists and offering enterprise support.

Oracle are just evil™
I can confirm: I bought a Surface Pro 3 the other day, and when I first booted it up, the setup screens explicitly asked me which privacy settings I'd like to enable.
They probably wouldn't but then again, they're taunting the lawnmower (mentioned above) and seem to forget that the lawnmower has a lot of money and willpower.

I'd say it's time they dumped that lawnmower and came up with something to replace it.
At the very least, organizations should offer unpaid interns subsidized loans.
Hah, I mentioned this a few days ago. Glad to see someone picked it up and ran it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10037753
> And you aren't cringing at Google Now/Google Drive/Chrome? Why?

Because there is a difference between "can voluntarily use" and "is rammed down your throat".
Our friends at http://www.bustle.com/, http://vine.co/, and twitch.tv (http://www.twitch.tv/directory/) ... (lots more) have demonstrated this to be acceptable for there needs.

Traditionally those sites may have also consider
I am sure they will continue to be happier as the byte size shrinks, but in the interim they are able to deliver what appears to be a great user experience, in-light of your concerns.
This is a very simplistic view of capitalism and ignores larger issues.

One ignored issue is inflation itself. Although it had a profound impact in the middle class, it has nothing to do with 'evil business owners' trying to make more money.

Then, unions shouldn't bargain with monopolistic corporations. Why? Because monopolistic corporations shouldn't exist 99% of the time. That's the root of the problem, not the lack of analogous monopolistic labor unions.
Even if this is a part of capital, it is so less in worth compared to land or investment capital that it is meaningless.
> I don't understand how exactly he shaped America?

From the link: "Thoreau’s love of nature and his advocacy of a simple life have had a large influence on modern conservation and environmentalist movements."

Beyond Walden, Thoreau's Resistance to Civil Government (also known by the title Civil Disobedience) has been cited as a major influence by civil rights leaders in the United States and abroad.

I don't think it'd be fair at all to say that Thoreau is forgotten in America, even if not everything about modern American life and culture conforms to what he might have wanted for the country.
Running away from the firepower effectively means living the digital life of Stallman.

Writing as someone who has been the victim of a data-driven screw-up and spent several months of having life turned upside down while trying to fix it, I am increasingly wondering if Stallman has been right all along.

More practically, privacy is not a binary measure. We all interact with other people and organisations, and data gets shared as part of those interactions, and often there's nothing inherently wrong with that; some degree of communication is both desirable and inevitable. That doesn't mean we should just give up and condone covert collection, arbitrary sharing, and unrestricted use of personal data by whichever disproportionately powerful organisations can get hold of it.

For example, Facebook can't effectively follow me around the web. I have installed simple browser plug-ins that mean it is not technically possible using the usual techniques like phone-home Like buttons. The sites I visit would have to actively and covertly send data about my visit to Facebook behind the scenes, and most sites aren't going to do that.

For the record, I do also have a problem with the likes of Google being able to operate a mail service that is actively scanning things I wrote or even blocking messages I've sent to colleagues, which they can do if a recipient of my message uses their service. In effect, they have co-opted someone else to provide data I might have sent that person in confidence, just as mobile apps scan my name and number from a friend's address book often without even their knowledge never mind mine. (Of course that kind of action is probably already against the law in my country, but that doesn't matter very much unless the relevant authorities have the resources to enforce that law effectively.)

I believe almost everything is better when essential infrastructure is neutral and serves a specific purpose. Organisations like Google don't so much blur that line as totally erase it, and because I have no way to know that I am participating in their system in the first place, in practice I can't even choose not to send that e-mail to that recipient. I'm sad that Microsoft now appear to be joining that group.
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No, instead of executing them, we just throw them into a kafka-esque system which slowly drains their income and will to live. You know, when it's not raping them ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_rape_in_the_United_Stat... ).

Besides, the tools becoming available allow for much more subtle oppression, and that's the point being made here: you point at gross and obvious abuses of the past, when we can do much worse much more quietly.

Your jury, for example? Why care about skin color when what you really want is employment history, or socioeconomic class, or whatever other advertising criteria best help a prosecutor win a case?

EDIT: At least post counter-arguments before downvoting, folks. Rayiner used a strawman and distraction "oh ho, but but but ~executing thieves~!" as a way of discrediting a reasonable opinion "You know, little by little we can end up in a Minority Report sort of world". I was merely responding in kind.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10051613
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I bought a house from a newly minted millionaire who had decided it was time to spend his new money on a bigger home. He had been an electrician who heard a buddy of his complaining about a new DOT regulation on semi's hauling oil pipe that required pipe restraints that no one had. He looked into it, toyed around with a prototype, went back to votec to machine shop school. Made his prototype and then patented it. Then secured some financing for a tiny machine shop where him and a few buddies started cranking out this bracket for pipe hauling companies.

He was lucky in hearing about the need for the bracket at the right time. But he was not lucky in being able to go to votec or to secure a minor loan for the machine shop. Everyone else around him could have done that.
There's a concrete dispute mentioned in the article. Assange says the Swedes can interview him any time in the embassy, the Swedes say they've asked, and been waiting months, for permission. The article blithely quotes these conflicting statements and makes no attempt to find out who is telling the truth or what the details are.
This highlights what we really lost when consumer operating systems started replacing enterprise-grade operating systems. I would have never imagined this kind of things happening on something like Solaris or Irix, which were the base operating systems of many workstations. At some point when Linux became popular it suggested that the regular consumer would benefit from the robustness, focus, reliability of an entreprise grade OS. Not so..

That large companies accept this state of affair is extremely surprising.

That we accept that our electricity and communication bills are being diverted to serve the interest of an operating system's creator.. that sounds crazy. It's like letting the creator of your fridge eat your food and drive your car.
This is my point. I do not care one iota under what sort of black-box privacy scheme they maintain they employ. It's a black box and through it all generated information can be passed to Microsoft. "Trust us" is not a good reply by someone with their track record.
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My interpretation of his comment was that it's not just 'capitalists' who are incentivised to keep labour costs as low as possible. Could be wrong though, was pretty vague.
It's not everything you type, just bits and pieces stripped of sequence, and most of what's saved is on your device only. They specify that what they send is only "some," and logically, everything typed into the billion devices they're shooting for would be too much data for even Microsoft to handle.

Passwords and the like are probably identified by the type of field they're entered into, as Windows forms and websites have explicit identifiers for passwords, and it would be easy not to record this. I think this analysis is more for things like analyzing the frequency of terms and which characters tend to follow other characters, but I don't have much more information, and I agree that there needs to be more shared about how this works.
In the US, we have a long history of dismissing women's complaints about harassment or sexual assault with "she asked for it" or "she didn't fight back hard enough" or "she's making it up".

I'm simply taking the radical step of actually taking women at their word when they say these things, instead of carrying on with the tradition of assuming the woman's lying or embellishing a story.
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So essentially, eye motions during REM sleep are not directly related to visualization of dreams. Instead, it's linked to another set of neurons.

"The eye movements are not actually scanning your dream - they're reorienting
your visual thoughts," Prof Horne told BBC News.

Further, the study delves into the connections between REM sleep and wakefulness. This could lead into lucid dreaming, as other commenters have remarked.

"This study endorses other findings that REM sleep has many similarities to
wakefulness.

Others are using the new findings to dig into evolutionary causes.

Prof William Wisden, a neuroscientist at Imperial College London, was also
convinced by the similarity of brain activity between awake and REM states -
but he said there are bigger questions still to answer.
"The most fascinating question of all is why do we have to have REM sleep? Why
does our brain have all this circuitry to do that?
Many people welcomed the apparent change of course Microsoft made under the new management and they're probably a little disappointed. Anyway, I try to handle more sensitive content (production ssh keys, customers' information) on my laptop (running Ubuntu) and not a mobile device precisely because I only have weak control over the phone.
>> In areas where violent and property crimes are high, it will be a blessing. In places where law enforcement is used mainly for supplementing municipal revenue, it will be a curse. And where the government uses the law as a weapon against dissent, it will be a nightmare.

This is true of almost any police tool. I mean you can apply to guns, pepper spray, probable cause, etc. As a blanket statement reply: It really comes down to implementation and training.

Really though, i'm not arguing for or against face recognition in local law enforcement. As a biometrics researcher i love to see real applications that actually work for the community, but as someone who disagrees with mass collections, outside of the obvious, such as a license photo or voluntary admittance to a NEXUS/TSA pre-check/Global Entry program, i worry.
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> Set the AllowTelemetry string in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection to 0

AFAIK, setting this to 0 only has meaning in the Enterprise edition. In the consumer edition, 0 has the same meaning as 1.

Here's a screenshot from the group policy editor of my Windows 10 VM:

http://i.imgur.com/3s3AT9p.png

as you can see, 0 only does something in Enterprise builds.
Because companies haven't failed to anonymize data before with the general public being left to pick up the tab.

If Microsoft was a known moral bastion who had perfect security might not be a problem. But it isn't and it doesn't, so there is only one response: NO!

(OK, there are more responses, but I'm not sure if they are allowed with HN's code of conduct.)
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I guess we won't be seeing any more of those Scroogled ads.
> Cool hack!

Thanks!

> Why did this horrible language become so popular? Why has it not been replaced?

I don't know. Maybe just like other tools in POSIX systems -- it works :)