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> Seriously though, what is wrong with people these days that they can't even have a dialogue?

Postmodernism. Seriously.

When you teach that there is no real truth, that "truth" is merely a sociological construct, that all speech is only about power (because it literally cannot be about truth), and a bunch of impressionable 18-year-olds listen and believe you, and start to act on what they believe, this is what you get. Why would you expect something else to happen?

[Edit: slight softening of language, so that it was not unintentionally accusative.]
You raise a good point that I hadn't thought about.

I suppose the lesson is to keep an open mind, but not so open that our brains fall out.
Because the person I was responding to was saying that capitalism didn't include a group of "loosely affiliated" people competing for business. It obviously does.

State Capitalism would be if the government started a dentist company and, in this case, didn't offer new services in order to keep the profits artificially high.
If the students articulated a reasoned response instead of acting out an emotional catastrophe; they would be ignored. The real issue is the 'viral promo' culture which encourages ridiculousness and outrage.
Because there aren't enough black men in jail already...
Because it costs 1500$ perhaps?
eBay bought Shutl for similar reasons. If you want to see what a bankrolled start-up looks like doing last-mile deliveries then Shuttle is a good test case. I personally don't think this model has legs.
But right or wrong is what is of actual importance. Your attitude of relativism is at the heart of anti-intellectualism: the belief that there is no difference between right and wrong, it's all just opinion. I do believe in right and wrong, and I believe you should fight for what is right using the best techniques you can.

Saying that effective tactics should not be used because bad people also use them only disempowers those under attack.
SC2 needs a game mode where one player is run by 2 casuals.
I wonder if the author thought the same thing I did looking at Bill Gates' picture. Oh, look, Bill Gates is in the original Facebook.
I found one quote in an op-ed in the Yale Herald regarding the controversy especially surprising and revealing.

> They [Erika and Nicholas Christakis] have failed to acknowledge the hurt and pain that such a large part of our community feel. They have again and again shown that they are committed to an ideal of free speech, not to the Silliman community.

It is simply incredible to see anyone criticized for having a strong commitment to the freedom of speech. It's all the more amazing that it happened in a newspaper and on a college campus. The paragraph (as well as the rest of the piece) also seems to acknowledge that the demands of the protesters are at odds with the rest of the community's right to free expression. At a minimum, it acknowledges that the Christakises' position is one of principle, while failing to respect that fact.

The newspaper is offline now, but the op-ed was located at http://yaleherald.com/op-eds/hurt-at-home/. It's still available in Google's cache.
I'm not saying it's the right thing. I'm just saying this is the reasoning I hear for this kind of thing most often.
Most of what you describe can be subcontracted to a property management company, and you can still make a healthy return.

One of the problems with the rental market in urban centres like London at the moment is that even totally inept landlords can stay in business and make a profit through capital gains alone.
Automated delivery in the last mile is definitely the future, but it will be largely commoditized. Nothing in the value chain is especially difficult to do or requires proprietary technology outside of the vehicular platform. The maps all pull data from open source databases like OSV, and logistics networks have been operating successfully for decades.

Regulation is going to be the thing holding everything back. I'm not talking about the disparate and protectionist taxi regulations that Uber just ignored until they were successful; I'm talking about real safety issues like air traffic control when everyone and their mother is flying things over populated areas. The regulatory environment around how all these drones will communicate needs to be developed and standardized -- that alone will take at least a decade because adequate bureaucracies need to be built up to develop, steward and enforce the regulations. Self-driving cars are even further off because they're going to be carrying human passengers.

We're at a point where the technology has overrun our ability to regulate it, and there really are things that need to be regulated -- Who is liable if two drones crash over your house and damage your roof? Do you force drone operators to carry insurance to cover damages in the event of mechanical failure? How do drones report their position to each other to avoid collisions? What data formats, units and auditing is required when communicating with other drones? There are thousands of questions, and none of them have even made it into the sphere of political discourse, much less legislative action. Current politicians don't even understand this stuff, so we have to wait for people who do to become old enough to get elected.

I'd say we're at least 15 years off from this future, if not 30. We'll probably see it happen elsewhere in the world much sooner than it will in the US and Europe. So any business starting up today will not be able to rely on self-driving cars or autonomous delivery to prop up their business model: it has to work with human delivery or it won't survive long enough to make it to the drone era. And for the ones who do, it'll become a race to the bottom with razor-thin margins.
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WHERE IS YOUR PROOF??? It's more likely that ease of access to the Communist Party's information is more directly responsible in his progress than corruption. Why are you equating your family's experience in the USSR to what the Chinese experience anyway? These are totally different countries, experiences and philosophies.

The Atlantic has published several articles on Chinese society and government. Maybe you should try and read them.
How does it compare with Brython? http://www.brython.info/
> the smell of bits of it cooking

Can you explain this part? I'm considering my wisdom teeth pulled out.
There comes a point, though, when you may have to say that they are disrupting the proper functioning of the university enough that they have to go, for the good of everyone else...
These are fairly typical anecdotal comments made by people pushing Vitamin C cures / treatment, often in conjunction with mention of 'miracles'. Oblig xkcd:
https://xkcd.com/1217/
Lots of ad agencies employ programmers--Olson, Periscope, Mirum, etc.

There are several business-y software companies like Concur, Lawson Software, Code 42, Dell (their cloud manager software is developed here).

(We're hiring software engineers at Concur, by the way.)
Agreed. I've been using this on my phone: http://hackerwebapp.com/

Works pretty well.
Hell yes. I don't answer the phone (not that anyone at work has my phone number, unless they copied it from my initial job application), I don't even have the capability to check my work eMail account; from the moment I step off company premises until the moment I step back in, they don't exist.

The workplace started this game of paying for my time and they're getting what they paid for and not one second more.

I must say, it's worked out rather well. The suckers who make themselves available all the time at the drop of a hat get abused and certainly don't get any respect or extra thanks for it.
History may show that we are digesting something akin to McCarthyism right now.
grellas isn't mentioned on here? He writes some of the highest-quality posts on HN.
It seems the trend with everything, people want to close the door behind them. They should have only allowed 16-bits of user ids on slashdot.
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The application I work on is rendered entirely in JavaScript. The website is just a big JavaScript application that acts as an API client to the REST API that I write.

Because it's all rendered client-side, the flow of the application (which is basically a single-page app, but with lots of fly-outs, modals, etc) is very fast and responsive.

The initial startup of the app is a few seconds, but once loaded it is more responsive than a server-side rendered page.
Undoubtedly true in one sense of the word. But "social issues" for today's Yale undergrad probably pertain more to The Patriarchy and racist microaggressions than to the things that most self-professed communists discuss.
If you mean the students, they'd call it violence when it was done to them, and not violence when done to the administration (or others they disagreed with).
Not all. I hope to die broke, having perfectly timed my expenditures.

I joke. It's really because as I age I will be able to afford the comforts and convenience I've grown quite fond of. I will be able to take care of myself and loved ones in emergencies and afford insurance.

But in the end it answers OP's question. And since my life is different from yours I gave a different answer. If you feel my answer is inappropriate feel free to engage me in conversation and learn more about the mistakes I've made, the things I cherish, and my ethnic/cultural back ground.
It is better to spend that 1500 and make sure to send the right person to jail (even if it is redundant) than take a chance with eyewitness testimony. 1,500$ is nothing compared to the life and freedom of someone.
The problem is that if you negotiate in public, pressure groups have the ability to influence or sabotage and sabotage the deal before it's even complete. This can happen even if the the deal would overall be good for the public.

Keeping the negotiation process secret allows it to be analyzed as a package.
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Sure. But as a cultural liberal, I think the burden is on actual liberals to disown authoritarians. Otherwise the same thing will happen to the left as what happened to the right in the early 2000s: the end of rational thought, and everyone who disagrees 'hates America' (now 'hates minorities'). And similarly a whole bunch of bad things will happen as a result.
Why should students without cars subsidize those with cars?

Also, some schools try to discourage car ownership due to the number of student deaths associated with drunk driving to and from parties.
So if it emerged out of the New Deal, it's got about 80 years worth of becoming entrenched in standard usage.

You quote James Watt. That was 30 years ago.

This ship sailed a long time ago. You aren't going to change everyone else's usage here, no matter how hard to tilt against that windmill.
Considering the reactions here to this incident, I wonder if at some point there will be a counter reaction by certain colleges.

I wonder if some universities will start advertising that they don't care about "safe spaces" and "puppy time". In the end, in the US, universities are in it for the money, and there seems to be a market for students who want to learn and not have to deal with this BS.
Of all the family vacations I have ever taken, visiting Disney World as an adult represented, by far, the worst ratio of relaxation and entertainment enjoyed per dollar spent.

It's one of the few places on Earth that makes me wish I was back at home, working all day.

But it is such a massive black hole for tourism that I was still somehow find myself there against my will sometimes. Then, when we're all back at the hotel, thoroughly miserable, someone asks, "Why are we even here?" And no-one knows. Clearly, someone thought that it would be fun this time, but it never actually turns out that way. Nobody even remembers planning the trip. We all thought we were going to a beach up on the Florida panhandle. But when we arrive, it's actually Clearwater, near Orlando. Every road we take, trying to get back to the beach, twists around like a Moebius strip, and ends up right back in the Disney World parking lot, under the monorails.

So we say to ourselves, "Ok, we'll just get one pineapple whip, and then we'll leave, and try to get to the vacation we actually wanted." Then we trudge up Main Street USA and hang a left, then another left, and another left, spending 20 minutes to go from the park entrance to the nearest place in the park that sells the cursed treats, when I know damned well that the employee utility corridors underneath us, on the first floor, are straight and efficient. So we think, "As long as we're here, we might as well go on one of the rides, right?" And we get into line. We get through that line, which leads to another queue. And that takes us into a vestibule, where we see a short video with a group of other guests. After it finishes, the doors open into another queuing labyrinth. When we wait long enough to get through it, there's just one more line, and after that, we're on the actual ride. We get into the ride vehicle, and sit through five minutes of something that may have been considered to be good, clean fun in the 60s, but is now disappointingly dated, racist, and sexist. Afterward, we are deposited in the gift shop, which stands between us and the exit. After escaping, now we need to pee, so that's another unnecessarily long journey across the park and possibly more queuing. By now, it would be too late to get to the beach before dark, so we just decide to finish out the day there.

Again, how the heck did we even get there in the first place? Was it a Groupon? Maybe a neighbor couldn't use their vacation club passes this year? We won the trip in a sweepstakes? Booked by Satan's own travel agency? Nobody knows. We just end up there, being milked of our hard earned cash, like cows with udders overfilled with silver nitrate solution.

Nobody actually wants to be there. They all just show up one day, and are too exhausted to fight their way back out of the parking lot.
Instead of yet another .js to run * in the browser, maybe we should return the web and browser back to it's pure days of marked up text documents with images and move "web apps" to a generalized, native runtime designed explicitly to run dynamically fetched untrusted code. Might be better than the current mess.

Edit:

And to all those thinking "but that's the browser", that's my point. We have the browser and while it works, it's incredibly broken in a lot of ways. I'm proposing a system designed from the ground up to do the job that the browser has currently been hacked and add-on'd into doing.
By "contributors", the linked post means article submissions rather than comments, and grellas doesn't submit a lot of articles.

I wrote an overview of the 20 users with most total karma points (submissions+comments) about two years ago, which he is on when you count that way. Maybe still interesting: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/hacker_news_posters.html
There has been a cultural trend in America, for the past several decades at least, to believe that how you feel is the most important thing, regardless if those feelings have any rational justification. I feel it is just another manifestation of anti-intellectualism. Seeing a display such as this from students at Yale is especially disturbing.
FedEx lost on that issue in California and Kansas, with other states to follow.[1]

[1] http://fedexdriverslawsuit.com/
You should go to college. You can keep writing software and working while you do it. For someone who loves to learn, college can be a lot of fun, even if it's not "applicable" or perfect.

> college is not a place for smart people

I've never met a smart person who didn't go to college. Also, all the smartest people I know went to college. I'm positive there are exceptions to this. I think I've seen them on HN. The problem is that they're very, very rare.

None of those smart people think college made them smart, nor do they think the college system is amazing. But they knew that their degree would prove that they could do... something. What is that something? It depends on who looks at that degree. I agree with you that it doesn't mean as much as people think, but to most people, it means something.

In a country where most people go to college (and almost all smart people go to college), I don't need to hire people without degrees because I have alternatives. I'm never that desperate for employees. Colleges are nonprofits, and they can take a chance on you. I don't want to be the first one to take a chance on you.

College may not be a place you liked, and it may not be right for you, but it tells employers that [insert college here] thinks you're smart and capable. It's social proof that you're able to play the game.

From your post, it seems like you have yet to learn that, if you want to succeed in society (get a job, have an interesting career, etc.) you have to do things you don't want to do or don't find valuable. That's life. You don't have to do absolutely everything that other people do, but there's a balance.

Hopefully someday you'll be an employer who doesn't care too much about college. You can help change the system.

(As a side note, your writing and language skills are very poor. I hope that your cover letters, resumes, and emails don't look like this. This is one area that college helps to improve: writing skills. From the language quality of this blog post, I'd have trouble believing you did well even in high school.)
It does seem like any business that relies on labor being its one and only way accomplish its business better be able to answer the question if it has employees or contractors.

I do not like the idea of the future where no business has employees and everyone is a contractor. Something seems wrong there.
Duplicates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10519180

For the keynote, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10519578
I did explicitly mention cost savings in my comment....

You'll easily be spending 100x that much on the trial and imprisonment. Spending an extra 1% to get some hard physical evidence seems like cheap insurance.
Reminds me of the "In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas" NYT op-ed [1] that lists a lot of similar scenarios to the one at Yale.

I have no problem with an NA group asking participants to respectfully focus on recovery and minimize talking about all the crazy shit you did as an addict -- participation is voluntary, after all. Imposing a similar "safe space" in the real world is obviously impossible. Attempts to ostracize those who dare suggest that a university campus should model the real world instead of a safe space is really insidious.

[1]http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/judith-s...
Seriously.. To agree with a sibling poster, $1500 is a paltry fee to pay to be sure that you imprison the right person. Especially since it isn't a trivial charge either. $1500 is also dwarfed by the amount it will cost to imprison the suspect for the duration of their sentence should they be convicted.
Those prices sound reasonable... per person. Unfortunately the link is broken for me (403).
What can I say, it works for me and few more people I know.

But the argument you are giving is quite pointless - vitamin C has no side effects and it is dead cheap so there is no harm in trying it out for several months and deciding on your own if its good or not for you.
they all look so happy
Wasn't there a site years ago that hosted images of bar codes for just about any common item sold at chain stores? I seem to remember the idea being that you could just print out something with a lower price that's still believable and stick it on the item before checking out. The idea was that if anyone caught on, you would claim ignorance and apologize.

From what I remember this didn't work out well for anyone and was handled as you might expect. I'm definitely not someone who would try to give himself a $500 discount on an HDTV but it got me musing about the scam when it crossed my radar. It always seemed to me that in order to be worth the risk and hassle you'd have to do it on a scale that dramatically increased your chances of getting busted. Like you couldn't give yourself a big discount (obvious at checkout) or give yourself lots of little discounts (more chances to get noticed) so aside from the "heehee I found a dirty trick" aspect, it seemed like kind of a terrible scheme (not even counting the fact that you're engaging in fraud).
NT 4 was fantastic. It may not have run games particularly well, but it was so much more stable than Windows 95, and gave me my first introduction to networking.
At the beginning of a career?

I'm not saying "don't learn Haskell/Scala" or "never work at a company that uses Haskell/Scala". I'm saying that early on, you want to have widely-used technology on your resume, and then you can start to find a niche.

If your first and only job is at a Haskell shop, it's going to be much harder to get a job at a place that uses something more mainstream.

Does that make sense? This reflects popularity only, not the quality of the technology.
It's not that simple, and Australians love to paint the country as a backwater when it's not. It's hard for a lot of B2B businesses all over the place to get that first customer. And Australians go for tech as much as anyone else - as someone else mentions, NFC is way ahead of the US (as was chip and pin). Similarly polymer money was adopted very early here. Tired of being treated like a backwater given media release cycles, the general public adopted torrenting like a duck to water.

And then there are regressive forces like the last PM, who gutted science funding in permanently damaging ways.

It's a complex picture, but I think it's unfair to say Australians shy away from tech. Tech startups are harder here because of both government red tape and small market size, but that doesn't mean there's no real appetite for tech here. And frankly, given how much people here on HN say employee options are worthless, it's not the Australian regulations on options that would be holding anything back.
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Except it's nothing more than American slang, plain and simple.

You may not believe that words have meanings, but I actually put value into semiotics and semantics.
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At $150 per test there would be no backlog and rapists might not be allowed to become repeat offenders.

This is not just some situation where as long as it is eventually done, that is all that matters.

Time is critical. This was failure.
So you're tipping for what you expect will be good service?
Instant payments. It takes 0-4 seconds, no pin, everyone saves time
> WHERE IS YOUR PROOF???

Do you really need to capitalize and use 3 question marks to ask a question? Yes, let me get on a plane to China and investigate this guy, I'll get back you. Had you used only a single question mark I might have skipped that step, but you know 3 show you are serious....

> Why are you equating your family's experience in the USSR to what the Chinese experience anyway?

Because corruption work surprisingly similar in a lot of places? It is the unifying common ground humans have. They seem to corrupt in the same plain old boring ways.
The "right to never be offended" is pretty much accepted as being part of the bill of rights :)
I'm not sure which issue you're referring to. Both FedEx and UPS have a partnership with the USPS to have USPS deliver a large percentage of their parcels for which they pay a fixed rate. They deliver the parcels in bulk to a mail distribution facility and USPS brings them to your door.

More detail can be found here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-mail-does-the-trick-for-fede...