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Why not let the market decide what needs to be built?

Edit: Built too many luxury apartments and those come down I price and are the new middle class apartments. It's the developers loss. Built tons of tenements and either people are happy over cheap housing out no one moves in and they get upgraded or even cheaper. It's magical!
And Glenn Beck's "I looked into his eyes..." trope reminds me of George W Bush looking into Putin's soul. Facebook trending topics had/has bias the same way any mainstream newsroom has for the last 60 years - made worse by the fact that it's filled with low-paid 20-something liberal arts majors.

Yet Beck can't say that. He runs a media site. Getting cut off from social networks would be a death sentence. He has to go to Zuckerberg for the publicity and he has to stay positive after the meeting... due to the real possibility of retaliation.

Remember, 1984 was a warning, not a how-to manual.
I'm still waiting for Google Hangouts to actually use WebRTC and not require a plugin (or NaCl). Like they promised several years ago.

Google has been really dishonest about their moves to the Open Web.
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Agree. It's a very honest post. TBH I often feel the same, from the other point of view: when did "being a leftist" started meaning "pitchforks on Twitter on the slimmest excuse"? But it did -- because, in the end, any group of humans, no matter how well-intentioned, will eventually encounter the same old problems with groupthink, enforcing rules and so on. Any group.

So it's really nice to see the occasional individual going "hang on, we weren't supposed to do this!" and self-criticize a bit, show some real doubt. Even if it's fake (it might all be a play to score honesty points, who knows), it's still nice to see and I wish more people on all sides could do it more often.
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This is the usual privacy hysteria knee-jerk reaction: "Watch out, the big companies are going to get data on you!".

And people are going to react exactly like they've done before: if the service is worth it, they'll be happy to trade a few bits of privacy about themselves in exchange for the benefits.

Also, I'm not sure the author of this piece understands what encryption is about since he laments that most people don't search with https on. Er... what? If you want Google to search something on your behalf, they have to be able to read the words you type. Encrypting these words so Google can't read them would be comically useless.
Wow, I'm glad this was posted.

I think the way we use technology today will be looked back on the same way we look back at naive cigarette smoking in the 1950s.

Modern app design isn't about creating things that are good for the user, but about creating want in the user. This is a problem.

For example, there are several studies showing that using Facebook in general makes people less happy. User happiness just happens to not be be necessary for Facebook to be a successful business.

Go to a developer conference by one of the big tech companies, and speakers generally aren't talking about doing good things for the user. They'll use euphemisms like "increasing engagement". There's concepts like "permission priming", psychological tricks to get the user to do what you want. There's books written about how to maximize app addictiveness. It's stuff that mildly screws over the user, and it guides the product designs that affect the lives of billions of people. It's not good.
> Sincerely, people should just stop going there.

You should watch the TV series 'locked up abroad' all kinds of people get locked up in all kinds of countries.

People who got locked up in North Korea were breaking their laws and the country is within their right to punish them.

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Don't go to a foreign country and break their laws.
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Very, very well done... Thank you for creating this.
Um... pkill chrome, still prefer bash/gnu tools. The bazaar has far more tools, you just have to find the right one.

> and sometimes the text-based nature of Unix commands means you have to do a lot more reg-exing.

That's a feature that has far more upside than downside.
Sugar and corn syrup seem like glaring omissions, given that a lot of recent data suggests that sugar is much more of a leading cause of obesity than we once thought. It would also have been nice to see some indication of the processing involved - for example, wheat is there, but what part of the wheat is consumed by humans
> I have never worked as a journalist but even I know

Curious, and how would you "know"?
Its hilarious how this comment alone exemplifies exactly what he's talking about when he says that conservative voices are being marginalized in silicon valley. We need to make sure we brand the post with his name so us cushy liberals can be protected from these mean and different viewpoints, right?
bah, yea, thanks.
I guess it's the proverbial "Simpsons did it" in which case, I don't care and I like to see people tinkering with ideas rather than just settling.
Do you have any proposed solutions to these issues? I'm asking because I can't think of any that aren't extremely liberal in character, like government putting limits on these businesses or affirmative action for conservatives, as Beck discusses in the article.

Perhaps he's wrong but your complaints of being "marginalized" and against the "money and power" of big business don't sound traditionally conservative. The traditional conservative line would be that you should stop complaining. Mark Zuckerberg et al are more talented and deserve the money and power they've attained because they worked harder and smarter than you have. If you would just work harder and smarter you would easily overcome these problems on your own.
Flash is garbage, yes! I agree, I am talking about these blocking changes as a whole.

Flash while it is indeed a piece of garbage, has done a lot for the internet, there are many places of the internet that are flash dependent.

Some companies are still using flash in their internal systems, how do you justify breaking something that works for so many people?
That doesn't give you access to saved stories. Saved stories are stories that you voted on and are "private" to the user.
In NYC, most soda drinkers are stopping by their corner bodega/deli and buying a bottle, then walking/taking the subway somewhere. I feel like in this particular case, the goal was to force soda manufacturers to sell 16oz bottles rather than 20oz bottles, thus reducing the amount most people consume in a single purchase.

EDIT: I'm wrong, a reply below clarified the intent and also that bottles were exempt.

Back when I drank soda regularly, I often felt like 20oz was a little bit too much. A 12oz can felt about right, but in NYC it's a lot less convenient because you must finish it immediately upon opening.
The big surprise for me is how little things have changed when viewed in this manner.

The majority of the diet is taken up by the things in the top row, and those haven't changed as dramatically as I had assumed.

In my mind there was this exponential explosion in sugar since the 70s, but the big change seems to be the drop in consumption of whole milk.
I actually don't have trouble believing that they had failed to carefully consider the (broader social) implications of what they were doing.

I think I find that more believable than attempting to build an elaborate system for manipulating user opinions.

If anything, I think they are biasing the feeds in ways that garner clicks, like discussed here:

https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/733397126026297344
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True, but Manhattan, where people think it the most packed, hasn't. The population has gone down.
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When I first saw the article title, I thought it might be about all the building materials and specialist skills required for construction that are no longer available or practical, not to mention the cost of building with those materials and techniques now. Zoning issues aside, I bet many of those building really couldn't be built today.
Actually SWT was one of the most pleasant experiences I've had coding GUI stuff. I always found it such a shame that it's only possible to use within the Java ecosystem. I really wanted an interface to the SWT binary libraries from other languages, I looked into it but it seemed intractable to port. If this library takes a similar approach it's probably doing something right.
>Tourism is a good chunk of that, and the proceeds likely go towards building more missiles and nuclear warheads, not anything good.

Most tourists are from friendly regimes like china, south asian countries. These people don't get detained because they have the common sense to no break their laws.

There is no way 1500 western tourists are funding their nuclear arms .
And management? How do they get all the nice graphs and data they like?

Scrum makes it possible to give them an almost daily data input on how the project is going. That is the real benefit.
Yep, that's the idea: You're tried by a "jury of your peers" so you can't claim that you were fitted out by the aristocracy ... at least in theory
What about all the programmers who can't code simple things in interviews I see mentioned here?
It is so frustrating to see a lot of the “solutions” being proposed by the administration: wanting to hire more screeners, blaming passengers for bringing too many pesky bottles of water and pocket knives, etc. They are missing the obvious solution that should be at the top of the list, right in front of their faces: we must REMOVE “safeguards” to speed things up.

The probability that a bottle of water or anything that looks like water will cause an airline disaster is effectively ZERO. It is not a risk, and not even slightly concerning, period. This is not worth checking even once, even at random, much less millions of times a day.

And pocket knives? They SERVE FOOD WITH KNIVES on planes. They literally give you a knife in first class. If it was someone’s goal to obtain a knife on board, they would not need to bring it through security. And frankly, one could argue that knives are the opposite of risky: a few passengers with knives to defend themselves may very well be able to prevent a handful of hijackers from doing anything. Either way, I am strongly on the side of “teach people to band together and defend themselves”, not “cower and be fearful of everything”.

And don’t even get me started on having to take off shoes. It is frankly sad that we have been so fixated on ONE piece of clothing, for years and years and years, as a reaction to ONE passenger out of millions who couldn’t even carry out his “threat” successfully.

Besides, the entire concept of “prohibited items” does not eliminate risk. There are human beings who are powerful enough and skilled enough to cause serious damage or death all by themselves. They don’t need “prohibited items”, they simply are deadly. A group of passengers that knows how to band together and fight back can subdue anyone, even a passenger that is deadly all by himself.
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Slight nitpick - they're asking him to enter the password, not disclose it. I'm not sure how much difference it makes but the distinction is specifically mentioned in the article.
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The reason those commutes are awful is not because Manhattan is unaffordable. The areas around New York City are among the least functional urban zones I've ever encountered. Total, utter, abject mismanagement of resources——and I say that as someone who used to live in Sheldon Silver's district of Manhattan. It's unreasonable to expect Manhattan to be affordable, but it's not unreasonable to expect the surrounding areas to be safe, able to operate trains, have reasonable housing, etc.

I'm sorry if I offend anyone, but New Jersey and Long Island are a toxic trash fire compared to somewhere like Tokyo. I wouldn't send my worst enemies to live in a place like Jersey City or East New York.
> but the fact that they seemingly curate based on political agendas is the real controversy

Why is this a controversy? Every news media outlet since the birth the United States (and probably world wide) has done this, it's youthful hubris to think otherwise. Especially in 'walled gardens' such as facebook.
Are they really programmers then ?
I've actually had run-ins with Alex Hultman before and his tone here seems to follow what I've seen elsewhere.

This project looks nice, but I would need to vet it pretty well before I trust it as the lead maintainer continually acts like a child on Reddit and promptly deletes all his comments shortly after. I'm surprised he is on hacker news as he won't be able to delete his juvenile and argumentative comments here.
I think you're parsing things a bit. We could all say there are at least as many narratives as there are people...

The point is only one narrative is allowed success any usurper with too much notice would get suppressed.

Sure, you can find, if you look hard enough, you can find like minded people, just don't make it obvious, don't appear as if you could pose an ideological threat incompatible with the goals of the CCP or PLA.
While the question you wanted to answer is a great question to be asking in the era of Trump, that's not the question that Beck was asking.

"What happened to us?" in this context was, "Why are supposedly conservative groups telling Facebook how to run their business, using many of the same tactics and arguments they've objected to when used by their ideological opponents?"
Whereas the right has had a long history of old-media control, especially in the UK: http://leftfootforward.org/2013/06/everyone-should-know-who-...

The US has the Koch brothers: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/27/koch-brothers-media...

"Narcissistic, self-righteous, power-obsessed business leaders" are something of a universal problem which the 'left' has often campaigned against, in the interest of a more level playing field. Here the US conflation of 'left', 'socialist' and 'liberal' becomes a problem in describing the politics, because while 'liberal' and 'progressive' can reasonably be attached to wealthy men in some circumstances, 'socialist' really can't.

It's also interesting how the "right" have traditionally been in favour of the right of businesses to pursue profits regardless of the negative consequences to others, but now that involves throwing extreme right-wing media under the bus this comes into question. Glenn Beck manages to stick to his principles here.

And I agree strongly with sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11737943

The media situation is not symmetrical. It's not so much left vs right or even true vs false, it's "well-thought out" vs (there is no nicer way of putting it) "bullshit". The "Views on shape of Earth differ" style of journalism is irresponsible.
That header issue is especially jarring to me too, and it's one of the reasons I don't use space to page, because it doesn't work consistently everywhere. Two-finger dragging always works, as does scroll wheel.

I do use paginated reading on my Kindle, which always gets it right. It doesn't quite work properly on the web often enough though.
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Housing is oversupplied because those areas are experiencing negative growth due to shitty economies. I would think the shitty economies are the cause of both the housing oversupply and the crime.

You sound just like the people in my neighborhood who oppose any new apartment or mixed-use construction because apartments bring transients and transients bring criminals.
This would be even cooler if you could expand a specific branch and continue going into further and further detail. IMO the TLS section would be one of the most interesting pieces, but it gets near-zero attention.
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I can't see a way for this style of design to be feasible that doesn't rely on a subscription-based business model.

As long as users allow free + advertising generally be the way to for build a dominant tech company then I would assume anyone that tries to compete by not optimising for advertising (eg. reducing friction for users) will lose. Which is a damn shame.

Based on my limited knowledge of the history of news media, theres a cycle between free + advertising and paid + high quality. Intuitively it should apply to other verticals too, and I hope that, in reality, it does.
Just by quick browsing I see missing a lot of network and server-side: what if name server doesn't have domain record, routing protocols (BGP), what happens when request hits Google on their side, there's load balancer for sure -how do they work-, there's probably CDN -how do they work, anycast etc-, there's HTTP to HTTPS redirect...
While no doubt terrifying, the actual procedures and interrogation methods here are little different than in western nations. US agents are free to grab people as the leave the country. And 10 hours is nothing. A US court won't think anything of a detention lasting less than 24 hours. Even the questioning seems to follow standard law enforcement procedure, with teams of age-diverse interrogators being rotated in and out periodically. So while I have great respect for Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and will continue to do so, he should talk to those who have been detained at other airports on similar accusations.

North Korea surely has a more dramatic penal system, a deadly one. But as this reporter feared the labour camp, those at US airports faced with FBI agents accusing them of terrorism see Gitmo and the black sites.
They sometimes hold Master's in CS degrees, but can't do FizzBuzz.

Trust but verify.
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Apparently google has an Ethicist.

Ctrl-F: Ad

Huh. Zero mentions of the thing that manipulates people by design.

I guess I don't blame him, because even with a blind spot to ads it would seem Google still doesn't give two shits about his input. He explicitly calls out a problem YouTube feature, which he certainly would have voiced internally before externally. And he doesn't work at Google anymore.

Google must want results from ethicists the way tobacco companies of old wanted results from in-house scientists.
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I submitted this for Nassim's article but this whole site is pretty great. Check out their "big questions" on the left hand side where they get people to weigh in on them:

https://www.edge.org/contributors/what-do-you-think-about-ma...

https://www.edge.org/contributors/what-scientific-idea-is-re...

https://www.edge.org/contributors/what-should-we-be-worried-...

https://www.edge.org/contributors/what-is-your-favorite-deep...

And to be honest where else can you find Nassim Taleb weigh in on any subject but keep himself to writing only 500 words:)
EME is a huge advantage from a security perspective because it avoids pulling in a massive platform (Flash, Silverlight) just to play video. We can debate other aspects but from a security perspective moving to a small, tightly-scoped module is a big win and that's important when the cost of vulnerabilities is in the billions per year.

It's also somewhat good for the web since both of those platforms are competitors and companies often reuse things they've already invested in.

It is unequivocally bad that it poses a risk to Mozilla but the real problem isn't EME but rather the fact that all of the DRM opposition since the 90s has failed to move public opinion much. As long as customers happily pay for DRMed content and three of the major browsers are made by DRM vendors, the most likely alternative to Flash is a proprietary interface. The fact that EME is standardized at least gives the EFF better grounds for demanding consistent treatment.
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I dont know about Gregg, but in Pitman shorthand, the position of the consonant's outline (as the symbol is called) relative to the line dictates its associated vowel. Above the the line is "ah", on the line is "eh", below is "ee", and so forth. You can adorn the whole outline with dots and/or dashes for vowel sounds on all consonant outlines, especially since its written cursively (ie a whole word is writtent together). However, in practice, you get what the word is from context and experience. My father who was a stenographer made me learn it when i was a kid and to this day I remember the outlines of words quite easily, even though I've never used it professionally.

Edit: A more appropriate question to the part of the article you referred to would be: How do you differentiate between "cot" and "got", for example, because it would be the same outline for c(ie k) and g. The official answer is that you wrote one thinner and the other thicker (which is possible when you use a pencil, which was what was used to write pitman shorthand, anyway). The practical answer is that you get it from context - not all sentences could have both those words equally viable.
You mean these CEO's narcissistic, self-righteous, power-obsessed business leaders? Pretty sure they are.

You mean they aren't helping the US Gov't spy on us? Pretty sure they are.

You mean they aren't throwing their economic weight around in the USA to oppose republican measures while cutting deals with oppressive totalitarian leaders (China, Saudi Arabia, etc.) in order to sell product? Pretty sure they are.
I got a chuckle out of this one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11699860

More accurate would probably be to say, given the power of a vote, people with no sense of humor will use it to punish humorous comments. I feel like the larger majority typically rewards comments that are both humorous and provide content to the discussion.
Yea the graphs are terrible there without flash

Site even says when viewing without flash:"For the ubercool interactive charts, you need to install the Adobe Flash Player"
This very much matters in the era of Trump. The reason there's no ideological consistency is that the publicly-stated ideology is backformed from the private, unacceptable ideology of maintaining racial and economic inequality.

That's why suddenly these people are in favour of "affirmative action" when it benefits themselves; there's no principle at stake other than self-interest.
I think the more apt metaphor is lead in Roman pipes. They knew lead exposure made you crazy but they still used it in their pipes, on their plates - and it drove them mad.

After the planet has warmed beyond a point of no return, after antibiotic resistant bacteria make routine surgery a life-or-death decision, after we have squandered away our resources and used what little we had left to wage futile wars, we will find ourselves looking back at these Bernaysian psychological tricks of mass consumerism...and I wonder if we will use the same excuse then as we do today:

"But it was good for GDP!"
I'm glad they didn't because my own bias likely would have caused me to skip it. I was pleasantly surprised by the blog post.
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We have 10" which is the affordable option (4GB RAM, 64GB SSD, Intel Atom Quad Core).

We know that prices are a bit high, but to maintain some supply chain stability we currently have to go this way. Once we would hit bigger numbers of orders, things and prices change quite a bit.
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