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Since no-one else mentioned it yet in this subthread, the phenomenon you are discussing is called a sociolect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociolect

Basically, since class is culture, and cultures have language, a sociolect describes the language of a class, the ways you have to talk to perform that class.

And, naturally, this goes both ways. Someone talking the sociolect of a certain class is seen as performing that class, and therefore belonging to the class.

It should also be noted that the original article is itself a class performance! The author uses more complex words and grammar than necessary, thereby signalling academia or professional class. (Someone in the comments on that page wondered why this article had a more complex language compared to other articles by the same author, but didn't connect the dots...)
That reasoning make some sense for objects in a museum, but for public art in the street?

Something that it's not clear to me is if this "public art" has been paid with public money. That would make all this even more crazy.
As an outsider I was perplexed when the Greek people chose a generation of depression instead of leaving the Euro. If they had left the Euro they still had hope of building a proud independent country. My guess is that Greeks had so little faith in their leaders that they'd rather take the punishment from Europe. Now the country is ruined and young people have no option but to leave. It's sad.
And the child porn charge doesn't really matter to the prosecutors. They offered to drop it in return for espionage data.

The insidious part of all of this is that everybody is guilty of something. And for a sufficiently connected person, you can find a sufficiently broad law that you can charge them with a serious crime.

Combine that with selective enforcement (witness the absence of charges in the wake of the subprime crisis), and you have an utterly arbitrary criminal justice system that only functions to protect and advance the interests of the 1%.
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According to Google, actually. They're just very deceptive in their marketing. Google reported to the California DMV that across 424,000 miles driven, Google cars would've been in 13 accidents (10 of which would've been their fault) without human drivers interceding. Even if you only count the at-fault accidents, that's an accident every 42,000 miles. Which is a terrible record.

Meanwhile, insurance companies estimate humans average about 250,000 miles between accidents. Factor in unreported incidents and we get a safe estimate that human drivers could be closer to 150,000 miles between accidents.

At the most generous factor I can provide, humans are three times better drivers on average than Self-Driving Cars.

...But wait. During the same 424,000 miles, the cars' automated driving system had a system failure, reverting to the human driver, 272 times. (Roughly every 1,500 miles.) Without a human driver to take the wheel, who knows how many more accidents they could've caused.

The secret to the Self-Driving Car's safety record isn't their software. It's humans. Google's "1.4 million miles driven" isn't a really useful statistic, because it ignores all of the "hard parts" of driving where humans had to take over and save the car. Bear in mind, Google's test drivers are trained, and are attentive and alert at all times to quickly take over control. The human test drivers, therefore, are better than the human average, and that's where your safety figure comes in.

Source: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/...
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Very cool! I was just saying how hard it is to get someone to deploy a quick node app. Trying it with a React + Express app right now. Taking a while to deploy but I assume you are getting hammered.
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The highest paid jobs, without disproportionate barriers/gatekeepers/high-bars are jobs that become desired; demand = X, but where supply is low; supply <~ X.

Which means job that used to be either low-demand, low-paid, or (usually) both. Otherwise demand has to keep rising, because without barriers, an increase in pay will cause a delayed increase in supply (as people are attracted to the field) which then meets the demand, or at least evens it out, reducing pay in turn, unless demand keeps increasing.

My own 2$ ameteur micro-economic theory there :-)

Anyway, the point is this; Is hard to predict which jobs will pay well when you start on that path. well paid jobs now might be lower paid by the time you and every other chaser-of-the-dollar goes into the same field, increasing supply, pushing down pay. The opposite can happen too.

Builder/labourer might not be seen as too lucrative in the past, yet in some times it certainly has been. And I wonder how many BAs actually fail to get high paying jobs?...
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I argue they should be charging their customers what it costs to supply them a safe system of water and sewer instead of trying to pass off the blame if not responsibility to other parts of the state. If they are worried about the burden on the poor they can certainly adjust rates to cover that need, essentially writing off usage below a threshold and then getting it from the big consumers of water.

Do please note that income taxes don't necessarily fund water system improvements unless done with bonds. That imbalance of taxes between areas of NY is simply the result of concentration of wealth.

The question that should be asked, is the money that is being diverted going to truly more important use from a public safety concern and was the money allocated specifically for the tunnel or just into general?
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Well, in San Francisco it's actually never bikini season, but otherwise this makes sense.
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Curious about performance of npm install, seems like it's one thing that could make it not so snappy. For compiled modules, does it have a decent amount of memory/CPU on the instances? How about connectivity? Does it use a mirror for NPM? Might it in the future?
Was about to reply that the URL is actually ahkscript.org, but it seems like the current developers finally got a hold of autohotkey.com last year:

http://ahkscript.org/foundation/history.html
They take a lot of pictures of the same place and in any case they can replace or blur out single cases of uncensored material. The question was what if the place itself can't be photographed.
You are right, I was thinking colo more than dedicated.

Also, I'm not sure if everyone knows, you can get dedicated from AWS now. It is expensive, though.
Supply and demand are in equilibrium. As the supply increases the price will drop and the demand will increase to match. This is exactly how we want it: more solar panels sooner for cheaper.

While that's what we want from an ecological perspective, this price drop will also drop the manufacturer's profits (possibly down to a loss), and from their perspective it really is an "oversupply".
This is very cool. I'm excited to use this in my next project. I like the zero setup, no fuss, secure by default features. I guess 4 more questions:

1) Does "Dynamic Realtime Scaling" mean you spin up more clusters and do load balancing automatically?

2) Can your $15/month cost cover this? Or is that what the 50GB bandwidth cap is for?

3) The nature of this service means we need to use a DB service like mLab (mongoLab) or run our own DB server right?

4) What about production logs?
Maybe I'm misinterpreting it, but it sounds like there's no problem since Facebook is a commercial enterprise. The problem is when a nonprofit does it. (Which seems... wrongheaded, to basically ban nonprofit websites from competing with for-profit ones.)
This is a problem that's bugged me for a long time - it's good to see people working on it. Deploying and managing most traditional CMSes is a nightmare, IMO.

MODX has had something similar for a while with Gitify[1] for the site structure and VersionX[2] for content, but I haven't had much of a chance to use them.

[1] https://github.com/modmore/Gitify
[2] https://modx.com/extras/package/versionx
It's a pity the reporter doesn't have enough savvy to give us the details we all want.

I mean, it's one thing to find the stuff in Downloads, along with browser history indicating it came from, oh /b/ on such and such a date, and with atimes` that make some sense.

It's another thing entirely for it to be in Downloads, with no browser history. Did he go into incognito mode?

But 4 drives? With no encryption? And no browser history? WTF?

Yeah, he;s convicted. By 12 people who probably have a blinking 12:00 on their microwaves.
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I'm not sure its any worse for the consumers than Netflix itself. I'm also a software developer on the side and looking at the landscape right now, I cannot help but think the App Store concept has failed. I don't think the average user would stick to 1 or 2 utility apps if given a choice of having an App Store worth of content to play with.
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The past does not predict the future. Even if all the "ifs" were true, then it is still a bad idea and scary thing to do.
I've been switching my personal sites and clients over to Flywheel. It's a really great service (that's surprisingly affordable).
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This is an okay article, but not a great one. I expected this to be the entirety of the first page, and 3 or 4 more pages to follow. Instead, I am left with a very simple question: what is the proposed treatment, if we conclude it is a learning disorder?
> but they never really published much justifying it

Not that I'm trying to defend Optimizely (I'm not a huge fan, but for other reasons...).

I can't vouch for the quality either, but they did publish something about it[0] - that at least looks quite scientific. Happy to read any critique of course.

[0] http://pages.optimizely.com/rs/optimizely/images/stats_engin...
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A person does not have to sign anything to accept a contract and be subject to its terms.

Anyway, I don't believe that U.S. citizenship is literally the same as a business contract. My point is that people who do try to make that equivalence, usually don't understand contracts well enough to make any sort of logical point.
Societies can handle x amount of difference between the wealthy and the poor. We're nowhere near any point of revolt, regardless of what hyped up manboys on reddit and HN think. Low unemployment, high gdp per capita, high household income, high human development index rating, etc.

If anyone's revolting its the Greeks and the Spanish, not Americans. And not because of "the rich" but because the feel good socialism they can't pay for is destroying a generation of wealth, work, and prosperity.

HN/Reddit unicorns like Brazil, Russia, Finland, etc are also all underperforming:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-11/meet-2016-...

Gee, maybe low regulatory environments, easy access to investment cash, entrepreneur culture, freedom of speech, honest elections, a real judiciary, capital protections, etc matter to an economy? Naww, keep ignoring the facts.
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Agreed, and this is what keeps me off the dominant social networking platforms. I'm not interested because the "show-off" culture seems so normative that even otherwise self-secure people can be dragged into it, either by participating themselves, or being misled into a feeling of inadequacy based on this exposure.

However, I do really like the ability to share recordings of experiences with specific people for which there is a shared personal context. So I use sharing tools whose features are biased toward this use case.

I've noticed that a lot of folks I talk to about this don't see the difference between these two use cases.
I don't know, I kind of like the tipping aspect. I've lived in US too long perhaps.

It is part of the app checkout, so don't have to pull out your wallet or do anything like. Still just jump out and say 'thank you'.
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> The drug of choice there was/is alcohol. Here it seems to be prescription opiates (in addition to alcohol).

These situations are not even remotely comparable.

The fraction of Americans who abuse opiates is tiny compared to the percentage of Russians who abuse alcohol.

As a rough approximation, about 2.5 million Americans have an opiate abuse issue in 2016[1], out of a population of 319 million. This is about 0.8% of the population.

Statistics from the Soviet Union are hard to find due to the government's indifference to the problem, but even official news sources -- which routinely greatly underreported the true magnitude of social problems -- put alcohol abuse rates at 19% of the population.[2] Also note that the amount of drinking you have to do to be considered "abusing" alcohol is far, far greater in Russia than in the US.

[1] http://www.asam.org/docs/default-source/advocacy/opioid-addi...
[2] http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/content/34/6/824
> when I am trying to control the size of the C: of machines I control, Acrobat is the Creative Cloud product that is the most universally useful AND one of the absolutely largest thus making it the hardest decision.

Alternatives here: https://pdfreaders.org/
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When it comes to security, the main test where all major file sync services currently fail is: Can they have access to our files if they want to?

For them to not have access to our files, they need to support client-side encryption with the private key provided by the client. And, open-source the client part so that the security community can verify that the client indeed encrypts with the said key.

As far as I know, all major services only encrypt files during transfer, but not at rest (ie, on their server). This means Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, SkyDrive, etc can access all your files.

You can use an encrypted file system (ex, EncFS+FUSE or TrueCrypt if you still trust it) on top of one of these services (esp. Dropbox because it supports block level sync), but TrueCrypt is inconvenient as you need to remember to mount/unmount it after use. And EncFS+FUSE is error prone (I've had some files become corrupted) and not that secure anyway.

Services that do support client-side encryption (AeroFS, BTSync, SpiderOak, etc) seem to have other issues (Closed source client, poorly performing client, etc). As far as I know, Box's KeySafe also only claims that Box won't have access to your keys. They will still have access to your files (which is what the keys are supposed to protect anyway).

In the open source world, people have mixed opinion about ownCloud. Syncthing appears perfect (if you're willing to setup your own VPC as a hub). The only issue is that you want the files to reside on that hub in encrypted form (treat the server as untrusted). Currently, the files are exposed on the server, and if a hacker can get into the VPC, they have access to everything. Git-annex and Unison can be made to do file sync, but as far as I know, that's not the main use-case those tools focus on. I am not sure if they support an untrusted server either.

What file sync solution do you use today? What kind of issues do you have with it?
Personally, I think racial issues are too often far closer to the social class issues mentioned in the article, than economic ones... or even genuine full blown racial hatred. A lot of times, it is more mannerisms -- how someone speaks, how someone dresses -- that seem to be a huge amount of what is described as "racist".

So many times, when you hear racism of any kind, it's more complaints about mannerisms. Stuff like: That black person, dressing up in "gangster" (read: hip-hop fashionable) clothing, playing "gangster" music (also read: general hip-hop), well, to the racist, he must be a "thug". Regardless of how rich or poor that person is, regardless of the actual lack of "thuggery", etc.

Put a similar black person in a business suit, adjust the mannerisms to be more "professional" for a lack of a better term, and the person becomes more acceptable to the "professional" type classes. (However, he might be an "Uncle Tom" to some of his black peers, and he probably won't impress the "blue collar" social class either.)

You can go on from there. I do think there are general "I hate everyone who is xyz race" people out there as well, but I almost would be willing to say that a lot of racism is more the sort of social class issues identified in the article. The race is almost more of a side note as a way people over-generalize, kind of like the "Southern accent = hicks" over-generalization mentioned above.
The tagline of the article is

"But none of the presidential candidates is offering a solution for the growing millions of independent contractors without social safety nets."

But Bernie Sanders is running on a platform of single payer healthcare which would provide social safety nets to all people regardless of their employment status.
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Has anyone tested it with react? It messes with my routes for some reason.

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This is doubtful. Nobody buys a new furnace when it has a problem. Ovens, fridges, and dishwashers are all generally far cheaper to repair with a local repairman than replace.

A lot of house or condo sales now come with "home warranties", where a flat fee guarantees your appliances for a year, and repairs only cost a $100 deductible.

Computers in most cases, even, are now appliance-like. They get replaced less often, and it's often more affordable to repair them than replace them.
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I'm assuming digging in and going full prepper isn't fashionable in this circle, so where are you planning an exodus to when the inevitable undeniably occurs? And why?
Red Hat Openshift has a solid free tier, free SSL, git push deployments, node / ruby / python / java / php / etc., mysql / postgres, redis. Why would I use this over that?

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I agree with you that Lawyers and Doctors have to deal with moral issues, but some programmers have to deal with this as well. In the past, I've worked at companies that built software for check cashing/payday loans services and I can tell you first hand, that I felt disgusted with myself on a daily basis when I left work.

It wasn't that I wanted to do it, but I had to have a job to support my family. Needless to say, I quickly found another job.
>>> More like, it has become like that. Because of complete disregard/disrespect for the US constitution.

Which has infected every level of government.

From the president's "executive orders" every time he wants something done and congress refuses to do it, so he simply writes a new law and enacts it.

From supreme court nominees who believe more in "social justice" then interpreting the constitution which is their job, not to dole out fairness when they feel their has been an injustice done to some party.

From the do-nothing congress that simply doesn't work at all in the completely divided partisan environment they've created. No laws get passed, there is no working together for their constituents - which is their job. You can also toss in there the Republicans stone walling the supreme court nominee which has become high theater now - on both sides.

Our government is being run like a fucking game now and its infuriating and depressing all at the same time. Remember those days when the two parties would work together and pass acts and laws that were good for the country? Remember when the economy was shit and both parties worked together and solve the problems?

Yeah, I don't either.
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I may sound like an old fart, I am one too, but you sound like a very young one. Peeked at your profile and I see I'm right. May you grow up without troublesome times in your life.

May I add to the list of 'excuses':

- Getting hit by a bursting tech-bubble (as I was, we're talking a significant hit in terms of employment as well as retirement accounts, stock market and having to drain existing reserves)

- Living in a region where rising rents exceed salary increases without changing jobs (I saw the light only 3 years ago when I left NYC for NJ after 20 years). Living in PA, I think you may lack some perspective on the latter.

- Having a child didn't just cost $$$ (as others have mentioned) but made me realize that traveling 50% of the time for 30% more money just wasn't worth it to me. It's something else entirely to be responsible just for yourself (I love peanut-butter sandwiches!) and the resulting 'pressure' one may feel to provide a stable, but not salary-maximized, situation for your family. Don't forget health insurance needs. It also makes you more risk-averse.

All of this hampers your career/salary. Sure, they're all personal choices, but not easy ones.

Glad I made mine though. Soon enough the kid will be gone forever.
I'm a TextExpander user since 2010. I have been buying "major upgrades" as they came out, without caring much for the features.

I would be very happy to switch to subscription-based pricing. I think we should finally abandon the idea that software can be "purchased" once and used forever. It's unrealistic. Developers need money to fix bugs and adapt the software to new operating systems and environments. Users will not keep the current OS version forever. And yet we still play that silly game where developers have to announce "major features" in order to justify getting some money once every several years.

There are several essential utilities that I'd gladly pay a subscription fee for. I don't want new features, I just want the software to be regularly polished, I want bugs to be fixed and I want it to work with newer OS versions.

That said, I consider $48/year to be too high a price. I'd be willing to pay $20/year for TextExpander. So for now I'm not subscribing, and I'll see what happens. If the price doesn't come down, I'll have to look for other solutions.
This is presumably why Facebook bought it in the first place, though. They don't need to see anyone's message content for this. They get all the info they need the first time you use it; confirming phone number 123-456-7890 belongs to person@domain.com, so they can tie together your facebook usage with whatever customer surveys, browsing etc you've done. I don't see this as remotely altered by the recent encryption work, other than the latter will entice more people to use the app.