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I hear this argument a lot, and since you seem sincere in making it I have a serious question. I'd honestly like to hear the answer from you or anyone who agrees with your sentiment.

Is it also important to be accepting of those who think black people should never marry white people? What about those who think black people shouldn't have the right reproduce? Or live in the same neighborhoods as white people? Or live? How about when they start taking action to make their views reality?

Is there a line where you stop being accepting of "diverse" views and instead oppose them to stand up for the people those views oppress? If so, where is the line? If not, why do you prioritize someone's "right" to oppress others because of their beliefs over the rights of the victims?
Maybe in SF, but not in the rest of the world. Even here in Silicon Alley, we're a small piece of a very large pie.
Discussion on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10939306
I have no data, only the observation that whenever this kind of discussion takes place, there are always people who claim to be unaffected by advertising. I don't think that people are a good judge of their own biases, and that we tend to over-rate ourselves.
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This assumes that we value leisure over status, a prosperous future, living in a nice house, and putting our kids through good schools. We work 60 hour weeks because if we don't someone will work them instead of us, and we'll be part of the hollowed out middle class whose prospects are worse than their parents. Basically you can have time or you can have money, but not both.
Isn't that the available balance? At least here in Portugal, we have three balances: accounting (based on all non-pending transactions), authorized (accounting plus all pending transactions) and available (like authorized, but just with the pending debits). The latter is the amount actually "yours", which you can use without paying interest on.
Hacking, to me, refers to modifying hardware or software.

Actually having to deal with people would most certainly not be considered hacking, under my definition.
Developers.Google.com is the 2nd most curated url on RefreshBox, and the First?
During the time Obama was a lecturer the conventional wisdom on the limits of the second amendment weren't so clear cut. Many believe there was no individual right to bear arms. Certainly many professors believed that too. Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the most respected constitutional scholars thought DC's handgun ban was constitutional before Heller.

I bet President Obama's conlaw course didn't even cover the second amendment. Mine didn't and I went to school after Heller and Mcdonald.

In fact, when SCOTUS finally acknowledged the individual right in 2008, four justices didn't agree with the decision. If Scalia or Thomas dropped dead, you'd see a whole new line of cases tightening gun rights.

>Note: My guess is that he, like most sane adults, question the need for possession of a or multiple military-grade rifles or sub-machines capable of killing considerable numbers of human beings in a short space of time.

Our problem is pretty much the opposite of this. It's the handguns that are the scourge of America.

If you want to solve gun violence in America you would have ban (and successfully confiscate) all hanguns and semi-auto rifles and shutguns. Cheap handguns are the source of essentially all gun crime if you round to the nearest 10%.
As in real life.
A lot of value comes from being written our of passion or a desire to share and not a desire to have me click on ads.
This article is really great. Yes, Meteor is still one of my favorite platforms, but every library / framework / platform always comes with its pain points. I have had a great experience with it so far and I have to admit, I did get to a point recently where I was having trouble recommending it to other people and companies due to the various points stated in the post.

But, having said that, there is still a very bright future ahead for Meteor. The people at Meteor Development Group have identified these pain points and have plans to improve some of it. There are various tasks that they are working on now that will change Meteor a bit, but also make it a better platform (in my opinion). Things such as better NPM / module support, support for multiple different types of databases, faster build times, better testing support, etc.

The platform has been around for awhile and I still think that it can reach the goal of being the go-to JS platform for building cross-platform applications.
Agreed - the Rift consumer version is designed with comfort as a primary focus. I've seen a lot of first impressions mention how premium the Rift headset feels compared to competitors. I think Oculus has prioritized comfort over even basic VR features like room-scale support.
Ask HN: What is the best programmable drone, sub $400?
I'd like a nice, simple API where I can set relative XYZ position so I can program indoor flight paths. Here's what I've found:

• $3300 DJI Matrice 100, nice API with XYZ support, but pricey

• $550 Parrot Bebop 2, decent API but only supports yaw/pitch/roll setting

• $300 Parrot AR Drone 2 cheaper but API is ancient, docs are from 2012

• $180 Crazyflie, API looks quite rough, doesn't seem to have as nice stability stuff as other drones mentioned here.

• $179 CoDrone, kickstarter project with nice Arduino api not available until April

Would love any input on stuff I might have missed!
1. ISIS doesn't kick people out, they just kill them.

2. I doubt they'd "downsize" just because some of their recruits don't speak Arabic well. They need and want all the bodies they can get. I'm sure there's enough overlap in language skills for effective communication.

3. They want to present the image of a civil government, but really it's a jihadist bureaucracy based on what most would consider barbarism.
Not that improbable. I recall that the discoverers of exoplanet Wolf 1061c, when journalists asked for a picture of the planet, gave them a screenshot from a simulation called Universe Sandbox 2.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10843900
No, you're conflating two things.

The 'cost' of bitcoin the system, is in the inflation of its money supply. That's indeed about $1m a year. (let's not try to do an equivalent calculation for the many billions of dollars of value that are lost from dollar inflation per year).

But recognise that it's $1m a year whether there are 0 transactions or 1 trillion. It's not a transaction cost, it's not related to the amount of transactions. It's a fixed system cost in the form of inflation. Calling it a transaction cost is misleading straight away.

The actual transaction costs are a few cents or so on average.

Of course, it's still costing money, but not to the person making the transaction. After all, if I send you a bitcoin and you forward it, you pay 5 cents. You don't pay for any inflation, only bitcoin holders do, which don't have to necessarily be those who transact. Similarly I, at times, make payments in dollars on dollar-denominated financial systems. I pay transaction costs, which are completely separate from the cost of dollar-inflation which I don't incur as I don't hold my wealth in dollars (european here). These two things are not the same.

Do bitcoin holders lose value due to bitcoin inflation in the form of unrealised gains? Absolutely, but then also recognise it's the best performing currency of the past 5 years, or indeed last year, and that they don't really care. Further also recognise that in the code of bitcoin it's written that the inflation will permanently drop to sub 1% levels pretty soon, a level of inflation lower than any major currency.

Actual transaction fees will probably rise somewhat to compensate for mining rewards dropping over time, but not by much. For one miners are deemed to be overcompensated from the perspective of the level of security they offer, and if you scale transactions by 10x or 100x (which from an economics point of view is pretty trivial, although the political ramifications of bigger blocks aren't) you can keep the transaction fee really low while massively scaling fee rewards to miners, further compensating a drop in mining rewards. (and if bitcoin doesn't scale, who cares if it's economically sustainable, if it doesn't grow then it'll stay trivial and I couldn't care less).
> "The big question is - who is Square competing with."

Anecdotally, tons of other people. Looking at the coffee shops and smaller stores in my area there's a pretty wide array of iPad-POS systems in use that aren't Square. In fact where I am (NYC) I'd wager that Square holds a plurality of that market rather than the majority.

Most of their frontends (in so far as I have to interact with them as a customer) aren't quite as slick as Square's, but they do get the job done, and presumably vendors use them because they're cheaper, which only underscores how fragile Square's business is.

These third party solutions aren't as sexy or slick as Square, but ultimately when it comes to payment processing sexiness is very, very far down the list of priorities.

It's also worth noting that there are big juggernauts moving in on Square's territory of physical transactions - PayPal being one - who already run enormous electronic payment volume. Stripe also has a big piece of the electronic payments pie and can potentially move in on Square's territory, while Square has so far been unable to branch out beyond physical payments.
That's what every generation says, but I would contend that they are usually mistaken - perhaps clouded by nostalgia and fear of change.

Look at the progress of medicine, science, human rights, rates of violence, access to information, etc. All have improved dramatically and continue to.
I don't think they're "condemning" the documentary. They're just pointing out realities.

>It's either sheer hypocrisy or the entire argument is asinine.

A bold declaration. Everything doesn't boil down to right and wrong. There is nuance in the world and there is nuance in the article.
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That's a great use case, thanks. Do you keep one? If so, how often do you find yourself going back and finding a solution from your journal? I feel a lot of my bugs are one-offs, maybe I'm not seeing a pattern because I'm not documenting them properly?
Even the Earth still has Lagrange points on its orbit that it can't clear. 2010 TK7 is a known asteroid in Earth/Sun Lagrange point [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_TK7
I'm curious, can you use Oculus Rift without glasses? I tried google cardboard without glasses, and can see clearly even though I'm near-sighted, because the image is only inches from my eyes.
One discussion on that topic is that Ted Cruz wishes to initiate a Constitutional Convention over various perceived issues. Given the recent contentious passed bills and judgements (PPACA, Gay Marriage, et al.), a convention of this type would split the country into factions.

If that happens, I have a bad feeling about this country, and that goes along the lines of a civil war. Everything seems already so factioned already, and that their candidate is of the devil.
Totally. Investors are probably just moving to gold & treasury bonds as safer assets in anticipation of a global slowdown.
Netgear has a cheap 5 port switch (GS105e, IIRC) that can do VLANs and trunking. There also have larger models.

You'd configure the switch port that the router is plugged into as a trunk, and then configure the other 4 switch ports as untagged in different VLANs (say, 101 for port 1, 102 for port 2, and so on).

On the router side, you can use vconfig to create VLAN subinterfaces for each VLAN. You'd end up with eth0.101, eth0.102, and so on.

You then just ignore eth0 on the router, and use eth0.# interfaces as stand-ins for the various switch ports. You can put them in Linux bridges, route to and from them, and so on.

This is internally how most cheap wireless routers work. The CPU has only 1 or 2 ethernet interfaces, and an small onboard switch chip.

Link level things like LLDP and STP may or may not work right with this config, depending on exactly how the switch chip (on board on a cheap wireless router, in the netgear switch for this DIY version). But most home and small business routers don't support LLDP and STP anyway.
>As we continue to automate things, we reduce the time and effort required to manufacture the things we need. This creates an immense amount of leisure time.

The first sentence has been very true as we progress with technology and the economy, etc. The second has not followed and there is no reason to believe it will. Less time and less effort will be required to produce, but that will not translate to leisure time for the underclass (it never has -- benefits go to the people who have the power to decide where the benefits go tautologically, i.e. capitalists), it will translate to more profit for the overclass.

So long as wealth inequality continues to get worse and we dive wholeheartedly into capitalism progress will just mean centralization of wealth and a stratification of the overlords and the peasantry who work until they drop being paid nothing for someone else's profit.

Embracing socialism a little more will help, and failing that the wealthy may realize living surrounded by unwashed hungry angry violent masses is unpleasant and set up some kind of charity for those who behave according to their wishes.
I'm really sick of seeing articles about this guy's book. He identifies a trend and claims that the trend will continue. Yet the existence of the trend itself has no inherent predictive value.

Current income inequality does not tell us anything about tomorrow's policy environment and its effects on future income inequality. Demography considered in isolation does not predict economic growth. Decreased labor force participation from boomer retirements may in fact reduce inequality by restricting the supply of labor and raising its price.

Not to mention that he blithely refuses to consider what technological advances are actually in the R&D pipeline and how they may affect economic growth. Any one of the long list of potential tech revolutions over the next 20 years could reverse the trend. Fusion and miniaturized fusion (e.g. what they're developing at Skunkworks) could completely eliminate emissions and completely crash energy prices. Self-driving cars and trucks will drastically reduce transportation costs. Imagine the effect of fusion-powered 99% automated ships on the cost of global supply chains. Biotech is increasing quality of life and the length of time workers are able to participate in the workforce while cutting down on time spent out of the workforce due to disability or illness. And that's just scratching the surface.

Gordon fails to realize that innovation tends to happen in bursts. Information technology did not have as much of a direct impact on productivity as previous technological revolutions, but it has impacted innovation itself and will increase the frequency of those bursts.
Agreed. Presumably they don't preload on mobile? Not sure, frankly.
You mean Bitcoin? Probably best to refer to it unambiguously.
The central issue is economic growth, not some wague "progress". You should read Gordon's research paper, not articles about them if you want more rigor.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w18315

>Even if innovation were to continue into the future at the rate of the two decades before 2007, the U.S. faces six headwinds that are in the process of dragging long-term growth to half or less of the 1.9 percent annual rate experienced between 1860 and 2007. These include demography, education, inequality, globalization, energy/environment, and the overhang of consumer and government debt. A provocative "exercise in subtraction" suggests that future growth in consumption per capita for the bottom 99 percent of the income distribution could fall below 0.5 percent per year for an extended period of decades.
I don't like ads at all (99.9% of the time not their target), I do respond a lot to efficiency arguments a lot. I felt delighted to find better adblockers (less lag, less heat, more battery).

The ad problem won't go away, unless you're top tier brand your business rely on it. You may tame it but it's like weed, it comes back.
Sorry to disappoint you but I am my IT department and I'm not having any issues...and neither are the IT departments from several companies that I work with.

And as a steady reader of that sub and of the Microsoft multi-sub, I heartily disagree with your observation. Both Win7 and Win8 had loads of "horror stories", just like WinXP before it. People are pretty much going to complain about any new Windows version.
Per the linked article, effective Sept 23, 2016:

>> Virtually all types of ACH payments, including both credits and debits, will be eligible for same-day processing. Only international transactions (IATs) and high-value transactions above $25,000 will not be eligible. Eligible transactions account for approximately 99 percent of current ACH Network volume.

Also of note, same-day is not real-time...it is disappointing that we are not pursuing real-time transactions.
From all of the accounts I have read the HTC Vive has already reached that point. I seriously can not wait for it to get released in just a few months!
It's hard to compare now to the past because there are so few similarities between the post-war era and today. The world was a different place in time when 20 million people had died and the whole of Western civilization was in shambles outside of the United States. Work had a different meaning, a different tone. That will (hopefully) never happen again. While it looks good through media in hindsight, keep in mind that the "glory days" didn't apply to the 400,000 dead Americans.

A lot of the policies, morals, and ways of thinking about work are vestigial elements in our society from a time that no longer exists. The way we work, what we do, what we consider "productive", how we distribute wealth… none of these things really make sense when you sit down and think about it. But we are so wrapped up in the past that we continue to sell that dream and use "capitalism", "freedom", and the "market economy" to justify policy, morality, and ethics.

We are entering an era of technological progress and innovation with a mindset from a time before the transistor existed. There will be a point in time when we will have to move away from what we think of today as free market capitalism. There will be a point in time where we have to rethink our ideas around individuality and what it means to be "self made". We are already butting up against this transition period, and it's being met with firm resistance. It will be painful and I don't see it happening in my lifetime, but it will happen. And we can't look backward to the way things were unless we want the world to go back to the state it was when those things were true.

If we ever want to live in a Star Trek universe we will have to completely reprioritize… everything. We will have to refocus and science and education and realize that 9/10 current jobs are completely unnecessary.

America has a real hatred for "freeloaders." We are raised to believe we are special and unique and possible of doing great things on our own. Raised to believe that if we are smart and work hard and make it, that we earned it. That we deserve to live a better life than others. It's mostly bullshit. When you think about it it's obvious. But we don't think about it, we just do, because the alternative makes us uneasy.

I have only ever met a handful of extraordinary individuals in my lifetime. They are few and far between. Most people, including myself, add very little value to society. The amount I get paid relative to what I actually do is so wildly out of whack it's hard to stomach sometimes when I wake up and look at myself in the mirror. I do not deserve the life I live. Then again, neither does anyone around me. But we all pretend we do, and we move forward. Some (most?) probably never stop to think about it and believe they deserve it.

TL;DR
The economic, political, moral and ethical models that emerged in the post-war era no longer apply. We should recognize this and start to rethink them, as they were really only designed for that point in time. The past is, hopefully, irrelevant.
Unless you have another way to subsidize content or are willing to pay directly (= micropayments, subscriptions, donations, taxes, purchases), then yes, it would be a massive problem for universally accessible internet content.
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A house is more than just an investment, though. It's, you know, the place you live. The catchment area for the schools your kids go to. The hospitals you have access to. And so on.
I like it. Something I see in music tech in particular is a growing number of hardware controllers interacting with specialized software; the marriage is really powerful and makes for a very pleasant and productive experience. Native Instruments Maschine (sic) is a great example.

More 3D printing will only increase that, and I think we'll start to see ever more task-specific hardware devices augmenting (and replacing in some cases) traditional keyboards and mice.

The tangible nature of a real physical controller just can't be approached by multitouch devices.

EDIT: thought some more about this. I'd be worried about weight and slipping: what anchors it to the desk? It'll be frustrating and fatiguing to use if you have to keep pulling it back in place every time you grab a knob.
Solarflare isn't the only option for OS bypass. In fact, no major cloud vendor uses Solarflare NICs even for applications where OS bypass is critical because Solarflare is way too expensive for what you get (the retail price is substantially higher than Mellanox, Annapurna back when you could buy those publicly, etc., without discounts, and the volume discount you get with other vendors is more than an order of magnitude larger than the discount Solarflare will give you).

The advantage of Solarflare is that it's easy to use, but at the scale large cloud vendors operate at (millions of machines), it's much cheaper to just have a networking staff that can properly operate another vendor's NICs.
In the past the over-class needed the peasants and serfs to mind the farms. They no longer need the peasants and serfs for anything. The capitalist class needed them to produce goods they could sell for a profit. We basically need some role for the elites to play to justify giving money to other people that they no longer need.
Sorry, but there is only a very small minority of individuals that want the complete elimination of guns from society by confiscation. In contrast, beyond whether the victim of a sexual assault or medical necessity dictates violating one's beliefs, there is essentially no nuance to the Abortion debate. There are people at all parts of the political spectrum who (rightfully) believe that our current system is woefully inadequate and needs a major overhaul - without invoking images of jackbooted thugs and concentration camps. A suggestion elsewhere in the thread seemed like a reasonable middle ground to me, and it doesn't involve firearm confiscation or anything of that nature.

Before you go any farther, let me just state that I own several firearms myself. But I also feel that the idea of not regulating devices designed to penetrate materials, rend flash and snap bones from a distance(with great accuracy, over and over) is foolish.
Perhaps the main problem is treating a team of professionals like an assembly line. Execs and PM dream up the idea, throw it over the fence to design who mocks it out, who throws it to the backend to build the api, who throws it to the front end to piece together. What could go wrong with this process? Oh, maybe you have a meeting so people get their input in, but the problem is you don’t really know the important parts you are missing until you start building. This isn’t the way to organize an elite team. Good people don’t want to be a cog in a machine.