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My comment didn't assert most of the things you attribute to it.

The existence of climate change is not an issue of priorities, but of facts.

> academic knowledge

It's just knowledge about reality; reality doesn't change depending on where the knowledge comes from. Academia happens to have far smarter people and far more resources for examining the world; it's a pretty good resource. Rejecting knowledge because it's from academia is exactly what I described, putting ideology (anti-intellectualism) over fact.

> stability (economic and social)

They voted overwhelmingly for massive change and some made calls for revolution if they don't get it. The policies they favor, including radical changes to government and social programs, would greatly reduce stability.
A big difference compared to programing is that you can't really define functions and objects, so a big win in readability comes from learning the common idioms and applying them consistently (e.g., index match).

Then learning to think in units of tables (RDB theory is actually great for this) helps a lot for modularity. Once you have that, basic discipline in color-coding inputs vs. links vs. outputs and using proper headlines and comments (write them in an adjacent cell, not in the pop-up) will get you really far.

Then if you really need to be crystal clear, you can obsess about having all the inputs to a formula be in one screens worth, using good named ranges (periods are valid characters!), tables, etc.

While I'm at it, I should mention my personal pet peeve: blocks of cells where all the formulas are the same except a random handled it ed one 4 rows down. The next time you edit that formula you can be sure you're going to clobber that hard-coded adjustment.
Quantum physicist, nah jk
Agreed, and I opposed the Bush expansion of executive powers and the Obama expansion of executive powers. Perhaps not everyone has been ideologically consistent throughout this process but there are those of us who have.

And as you have pointed out, the major difference is temperament. Obama has not exhibited a temperament that has led me to believe he would use these powers to round up run-of-the-mill opposition. Trump's opposition to protests and potential unwillingness to concede an electoral loss leads me to believe he would mobilize the executive apparatus into dictatorship, unlike Obama or Bush before him.
I'm guessing you're talking about https://metacademy.org

It is awesome indeed:
https://metacademy.org/graphs/concepts/determinant_and_volum... and the graph browing even works on mobile!
Have you looked at the teardown of what this product actually is? Its using a very cheap Allwinner chip inside a plastic case, a similar board can be had for $7[1]. I highly doubt Nintendo is producing much in house, they probably have PCB manufacturing and final assembly outsourced, there isn't much to this device[2] physically.

[1] - https://liliputing.com/2016/11/orange-pi-zero-7-quad-core-de...

[2] - http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/11/08/nintendo-nes-classic-...
Nice design, I must say. Clearly made with "<3".
Talking about Hillary and the Saudis.
I would be; email in profile.
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Saw Hanselman post this and took a look. I think it perfectly fits the bill for a number of our systems and hope to stop using our old hand-crafted solution instead.
I agree completely. I did reread GP's post later and notice he probably didn't imply what I thought he did.

There are few things more vital than education, and that will pay back to society at a higher rate, so by all means spend a ton on teachers and schools (there's a pretty obvious candidate for reallocation of funds in US discretionary spending).

But, I think the approach to education that I glossed over earlier affords its own distinct cost-cutting opportunities, for instance the textbook mafias being rendered obsolete by digitized, open-source equivalents. And teachers will have some of their time freed up too by letting problem kids like me find my own educational pursuits, because I did that naturally as a kid. I also intensely hated sitting in desk 7 hours a day, frequently reprimanded for caving to my compulsion to talk to all the other kids around me. And then there are the many American kids with serious problems at home, who would've benefited moreso from just talking more casually with a teacher and watching Youtube videos all day, rather than pushing them into a classroom. Watch behavioral problems in general improve if you have kids exercising and socializing more, freeing up more time for teachers to work in small groups or individually. And you really don't need experts for anything below 10-12 year old kids.
I never thought about the "working class resents professionals but not the rich". But looking back, I've gotten a lot more snide remarks when people find out that I live in the affluent 'burbs "without doing a hard days work" than I do about being Black.

All the while admiring Trump....
No, cool startups don't have any code issues, so there's nothing to track.
NSA surveillance predates the Obama administration. Limiting it now is a good thing, isn't it? Regardless of when it started or who was responsible?
yes! great, thanks a lot.
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This is the problem with the Right/Left terminology but it is what we are stuck with, for now. But Trump's repudiation was wider than just the GOP establishment. All stripes of those who reside on that end of the political spectrum, i.e. GOP, conservative, neo-cons, religious-right, libertarian-right, "moderate" conservatives, etc. all distanced themselves from Trump and called him a buffoon. Until he won. Now they are all claiming "victory" for their brand and racing to join his team which reveals the truth; they just want political power and are no better than the power-lusting Clintons.

Ultimately we will get communism or fascism and how or who are just historical details. Rand showed these are just different expressions of collectivist ethics which is driving politics. But ethics is not a primary -- it derives from epistemology, which is why validating reason last century was a major turning point in Western thought and the OP's question.
The Reason Foundation is funded by the Koch Family Foundations and David Koch sits on its board of directors. Koch Industries includes plastics manufacturing.

http://reason.org/trustees_and_officers/
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Family_Foundations

There is no disclosure of these facts in this report.
HN really does have a soft spot for scathing denunciations of the SIGINT Enterprise written by people who have absolutely no clue what the Enterprise does, how it does it, why it does it, and the results consistently delivered.

It's very interesting to me. I get that this is an EFF-friendly crowd, and attitudes here skew hard toward the maximalist end of civil liberties. But the fact that articles like this continually get upvotes is a bit embarrassing to our community, isn't it?
I have had good support from them. Maybe it's because I'm a paying customer?

What they are doing, both from the backend side and the multiple clients side, is a lot. Chances are they are just really busy with the number of employees they have.
Your assumptions on typical behavior do not match my experiences. I normally bring my own bags, and because of that, I pack the bags while the clerk scans the items (as opposed to having that person do both tasks). This greatly increases the speed to checkout. And more often than not I see the same behavior from others who also brought their own bags (and at least in SF, bringing your own is very common).

Also, I worked in retail when I was younger. Most bigger stores keep an eye on the lines and will move more employees to the checkout registers if the lines are getting too long.
Growing your own is now 100% automated? Sick
This conversation badly needs concrete examples. "Workers rights" sounds like a nice thing -- but what, exactly, does it mean? What specific policies are we talking about?

For example, you can have an interesting argument about minimum wages. You can have a different interesting argument about workplace safety standards. But you can't have an interesting argument about both of them at once.
I certainly believe it. Given enough voices anything can change.

With your attitude, I would say Lemming, not serfs. <a href=" https://youtu.be/AOOs8MaR1YM?t=57">lemmings jumping off cliffs</a>
"If we don’t take steps to bridge the class culture gap, when Trump proves unable to bring steel back to Youngstown, Ohio, the consequences could turn dangerous."

Steel isn't coming back to Youngstown because the steel industry moved South to break the unions. The industry built new plants, and automated. US steel production is about where it was in the 1980s. But it's gone from downtown Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cleveland, Youngstown, and Bethlehem. (Still at Gary, though.) [1] The growth has been south of the Mason-Dixon line. Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, North and South Carolina now have big steel plants. Wages are much lower than in the union days. Plants employ far fewer people. There's much more steel recycling, too; most US steel plants run on scrap now, not iron ore. About 40% of steel is recycled.

US steel imports are about 30% of US internal sales, and mostly from Canada, Brazil, and South Korea. China isn't even in the top five. Trade restrictions are holding China down there. The US exports steel, but less than it imports. Stronger import restrictions would either hurt Canada or be ineffective.

Appliances, though... The US could have an effective push to make more appliances of all types in the US. Some US appliance makers that used to outsource have already moved production back to the US. But anybody who builds a new appliance plant is going to make it very automated. Only old plants are labor-intensive.

[1] https://www.steel.org/~/media/Files/AISI/Public%20Policy/Mem...
Not to mention that, since you did robotics in the 90s, there might just be another point where the entire field of AI falls off a cliff, again.
Generally, PM does not need to understand user needs and drive product. It's a job for other people (product management, ux/cx analysts etc). The PMs primary function is to facilitate communication in the extended team, so that it will achieve the desired goals in given time, and this means his focus is internal, not external.
Trump did not start in 2010. It had been a long road to the White House for Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxf1XmVZ9qY
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How about this from none less than Senator Feinstein of California. She also happens to have been the head of the senate intelligence committee which is supposed to hold the intelligence departments accountable. They (CIA, NSA, FBI, etc.) always ask for more powers, it's her job (and the job of the entire committee) to protect Americans and their privacy and protection under the law.

Senator Dianne Feinstein Urges Senate Support for USA-Patriot Act Reauthorization
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-relea...
Try the 3DS port. I ground through the N64 version when it was first released, due to a sense of "I paid for this, so I'm gonna darn well finish it," but the 3DS version adds hints/accessibility that make it a lot more enjoyable.
You're not crazy but your math is wrong.

Calculate the opportunity cost of doing this in dollars. That cost is REAL.

People seem to think opportunity cost is an abstract concept. It isn't. Your retirement and your personal situation will be less $Oppurtunity cost.

Other false assumptions I see in your thinking:

1. Underestimating the difference in competition in engineering versus PM

2. Large error in the number of years of low beginner status in programming

3. Your personality as a PM puts you at a disadvantage when trying to get technical buy in from other engineers

Investigate other paths:

1. Study on the side.

(If you can't do this for 6 months, you won't be able to sustain it full time either.)

2. After Work 1-on-1 face to face engineering coaching

Use the money you make now to have a full time tutor who sits right next to you (I.e. they only have 1 student and thats you and you sit side by side and code) after work. I think this is a much cheaper and much more effective way to learn that isn't available even at bootcamps. You keep your optionality but you also learn more/faster than at a bootcamp.

(Ping me - I'll do it for $150/hour. :)
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If you are doing a small to medium scale product or are just starting out with a product you hope one day will be very big I would skip China to start. You are much better off using a company like CircuitHub or MacroFab. If your product becomes really successful you can always transition to China later but there are a lot of pitfalls to doing that upfront.
Oh please. As someone who grew up poor, whose parents had to climb up and deal with racism. I'm just going to spit on this when they say, this isn't about racism.

Look, everyone else had to work differently, and accept things like education, creativity and sensitivity as values. Why does the WWC think it's entitled to keep on going as they are? You like directness? Well I'm just going to say it for what it is.
Im not even american, and I've constantly seen articles from mostly liberal sites complaining about the surveillance state, for the past decade+ now.
Are we capable of existing outside time?

Imagine instead of living in an [array of time-frames], moving in one direction, i.e. time, in a single frame only, like a snapshot (even with the possibility to observe the whole [array of time-frames] at once). Would you have any words to describe it? I think all our mental models would just collapse.
Ensuring that the housing stock of a city serves residents over visitors is protecting people from harm.

The analogy in your case would be GM sponsoring a law that says that if you want to build cars, you have to e.g. include seatbelts or not pump carbon monoxide into the air. That is a perfectly good law for GM to be sponsoring, even if it does inhibit competition.
If so, that would be a good explanation for some of the publicly funded research that finds climate change nonexistent or unimpactful.
sure, if it's about a topic that I have knowledge in. Do you have other examples?
Not everything is costly. For instance a wordpress.com is free and takes unlimited traffic but your own wordpress instance costs money and has limited traffic.
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Yea but it involves finding and purchasing a (most likely) used Wii. I'm a casual gamer and never heard of virtual console. A dedicated retro console would fare better and be cheaper IMO, just like this one (without any such features) which sold out in seconds on Amazon.
A lot of money and time goes into naming products, logos, color schemes, etc. (Believe me, I know :-)) And I strongly suspect that, aside from exceptional cases in one direction or the other, very little makes much of a difference except at the margins. Of course, "at the margins" can still represent a lot of money but it's rarely what's going to make or break a product or company.
"Basic fairness and equality is much more important to me than my paycheck size."

That may be because your paycheque affords you a comfortable enough life on that front that you don't have to stress over it. As you said, it cuts both ways. Where you worry about the social issues that could rob you of your marriage, some of the working class worry about the economic issues that appear to be imminently robbing them of their income that feeds their family.

Yes, the straight white male tends to not care about social issues because he isn't affected by that inequality. Similarly, the upper-middle class tends not to care so much about job creation because they're afforded enough education and job security that they don't have to stress over the prospect of not having an income.
No, billionaires pouring money into politics is not a good thing, but it is the status quo. As long as it's the status quo, I'd like to see that money being used to oppose autocracy. But I'd be happier to see money out of politics entirely.

And I really don't think there's been a 180 on surveillance. I think the only people who were supporting the surveillance apparatus were the same people of an authoritarian bent who are now supporting Trump.

You are seeing ideological inconsistency where there is none in an effort to make your political opponents appear as hypocrites.
I'm failing to see what's wrong with this. I also don't see how an organization like the NBA or FIFA or whoever can make a claim to "own" the events of a game.

The sale of exclusivity rights seems like the scam: The premise that one can copyright an event itself and not just a particular recording of it.

If someone is there and recording I say that should be OK. If another person aggregates the views of multiple such recorders then they would need to obtain permission from each.

Reconstructing the entirety of a game with virtual players is already legal and amounts to an original work. Where's the problem?
You could probably do it for stuff like country reasonably easily with some kind of steno setup.
I wish I can combine Magic Leap with AR glasses.
> I think multidisciplinary classes are great, but that you need a strong base before you can implement 100% cross-/multi-disciplinary classrooms.

I think the perceived separation between subjects is largely artificial. English and math seem pretty separate, until you get into discrete math and algebra and you realise formal systems are just languages with grammars, syntax, etc.

Nearly everything we learn is multidisciplinary. Sometimes it might be an advantage to focus on specific topics in isolation, but it should always be placed in a wider context to properly understand it.
I outlined an alternative on that post, have a look http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CommentView.aspx?guid=A642B575...
In other words, you can never escape having to understand pointers. ;-)
I think it's somewhat helpful to take the author's angle to "raise awareness", but the root problem is still education. If I'm starving to death in a wheat field, teach me to make bread. Retraining programs and better k-12 are the solution, not assuaging a bunch of literally too-stupid-to-help-themselves white dudes.

I get that they don't like being too stupid to help themselves, it sucks. But cheap access to a community college and some kind of "displaced worker" program that helps keep families fed while someone gets a degree would be so much more beneficial than trying to reboot a bunch of dying industries.
I suppose the logical fallacy you're employing is a variation of the argument from authority, isn't it?

Why don't you present an actual argument in support of "SIGINT Enterprise" instead?
Or maybe already get a Magic Leap!
"Taxis typically charge for making them wait. But that regulation is set by a city agency which is at least somewhat responsible to the people."

I thought the whole reason that Uber gained traction initially was that city agencies often suck, are not responsive, and preside over crappy services such as regulated taxi business, which if you venture outside America's major cities tend to be absolutely atrocious.
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Congnitive dissonance at its finest. Thank you for this.
> I spoke as a White Male, not as a representative of all White Males

>> And speaking as a White Male, the idea that the deck is stacked against us

You literally wrote the word "us" so, yes, you did speak for all white males or at least a significant enough fraction of them to make the distinguishment irrelevant.

> Your position appears to be that nobody should speak for, or even attempt to understand, anyone who does not share their own particular experience. That is obviously fallacious and suggests trolling.

You have no rational basis to define my life experience through your little lens using as specious a basis as group identity. Your argument is the fallacious one. You do not know the tiniest insignificant fraction of the people you are presuming to judge yet you pompously shoot your mouth off which is the height of hubris. If you think that is wrong or trolling then, again, you have learned nothing.

> Perhaps you could in your infinite wisdom educate us poor unenlightened seekers of wisdom as to the true state of world affairs?

You aren't seeking wisdom. You think you know everybody's experience already from the comfort of your computer. You don't. There's your enlightenment.
Blueprint is an open source project developed at Palantir.
Quite frankly, neither party has truly addressed public reeducation in a way that is economically viable for adults losing their jobs. We aren't even providing it to young people who ostensibly need it.

Until we have a way to offer adult education in a way that is financially viable to individuals AND preserves their dignity and aligns with American distaste for pure subsidy, this issue will be nothing but a token talking point for both parties.
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Never seen this before, but sounds really interesting.
It happens a lot.

Hard problems are rarely just one hard problem, but until you solve the first hard sub-problem you won't even know what the other hard sub-problems are, let alone what proportion of difficulty each contributes.

It's like climbing a mountain in the fog: you've found the way forward and if it holds out you can extrapolate when you will reach the top, only to find you dead end at the face of a sheer cliff...it will be awhile before you find the next way forward.

It's progress but the destination remains further than it seems.
Nobody knows if the tech exists yet!
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12938407 and marked it off-topic.
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Hey I do use that;) But actually I was talking about a peer-to-peer ride selling and ride wanting matching system that cuts out the middle man. I use Uber but I cann't help but think the drivers should get a larger share of the fare.
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Sorry, so criticizing the article puts the onus on me to write you my version of what the article should be?
> When you're young, nothing has consequence - so I don't think you can put together A + B = some outcome that matters.

But that's where these multidisciplinary approaches would shine, because the theory is intimately tied up in a broader application kids can see in their own lives. Education starts to take on real, personal meaning.
It's similar in the movie, the writing is very beautiful and alien. Whoever invented it did a fantastic job.
I'm not sure why you think that account was banned for a single comment. When we ban accounts we almost always do so after repeated warnings, and then we post about why we've done it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12703655.
Laudable sentiments. Are you willing to extend the same to Hillary?
You could argue there is no event per se: it's all just ripples.
I have no problems using credit/debit cards its Paypal I have a big issue with (As per my post)

I just tried it again and see its a credit card form and no mention of paypal anymore, great i can actually use it now!
I'm not talking about getting rid of copyright. Of course I want copyright protection for my work, and of course I want other people to enjoy that protection as well.

I don't see any reason, however, that I need that protection for every single thing that I create. What purpose does _automatic_ copyright serve?

I stick a copyright notice in every software project already, but when I don't want the copyright I also have to explicitly disavow it. Why shouldn't the model be flipped to claiming copyright with a simple attached notice, instead of disavowing it?
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