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You know, libertarians have been saying for a long time that it's best to keep government as local as possible, so you could choose how you wanted to live, and live that way to the greatest extent possible, without having to worry about what happened in other states or in the federal election. You decide how you want to live and others can decide how they want to live.

Liberals responded with a policy of moving as much power to Washington as possible, explicitly to enforce a policy of, No, we will decide how everyone lives, and enforce it federally to minimize others' ability to escape our reach.

Libertarians have been saying that judges should do their best to interpret the meaning of the legislators, so that whatever laws we had would be those written by legislators elected by the people. Liberals said, No, we want judges to interpret laws to mean what they ought to have said if they people had done as we wanted, so that the laws will be what the political elite want them to be, regardless of what the know-nothing rabble choose for themselves. So now, we have the precedent established and argued for for years from the left that the law is what the court wants it to be, not what the people said. Nice work.

All along, those promoting local government rather than central, unescapable authority have been derided as fascists by liberals. Now the chickens come home to roost. Do you think now that maximizing and centralizing and moving out of reach as much power as possible was a good idea? No? Want to change it? Why didn't you in all the years you were in power and advocated the opposite, because now you've turned that power over to another group. It didn't have to be this way, but you wouldn't stop. Probably still won't and will instead just fight to regain control.
True, but now I realize we're getting far afield of the original point of contention.

The issue is that US rural men are unemployed. But the US rural economy will continue to decline until it reaches a balance with global commerce; protectionism, at best, is only a temporary measure. The US rural economy has even more to fall over the next decade.

Can we really think a solution is to teach rural men to find value in contributing nothing? A sinking economy gives nothing to do; even family-raising is a dismal prospect with poor schools and declining healthcare. The best and only plausible scenario is that rural men pack up their familes and move to the cities where jobs are plentiful. Indeed, this is the worldwide trend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization
"Are you seriously making the claim that censorship in the West is literally at the same level as it in China?"

No I never made that claim, what I said was that the OPs post was not a false equivalence and that the west had no shortage of similar things done "in the name of national security."

There was no hyperbole or any superlatives used in anything I wrote.
Before its too late? Its been too late for years!!!
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I just wanna point out Windows Defender DOES have online protection, and it's gotten in my way pretty frequently. Whenever a new steam game is released it interferes with the download (goes from nearly a Gb/s to zero) while it scans the files being downloaded. And then when you start the game up loading times are in the 10 minute+ range because it's analyzing the binary.

You can disable these features though by turning off real time protection (which I had to do).
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We should do a web-to-mardown thing since so much websites are unreadable.

The funny thing is that chrome for cellphone already has something like that with the "make this website mobile friebdly".

Anyway, nice project!
In no way was it clear to me whether or not the images were the renderings that was produced, I'm aware of photogrammetry and the limitations of the underwater photographs (hence my question), I even have experience doing computer vision with underwater ROVs and their limited cameras (though ours had good field-of-view). The problem is that with their captions, I first assumed that it's a photo used for photogrammetry. Or rather, I thought it was a mosaic of photos, all of which were used for photogrammetry. If I were the NYT and didn't want these to be mistaken for photographs, I'd label them as "renderings of a photogrammetric model" or such. As it is, a "photogrammetric image" could be one of several things.

In retrospect, there are some tell-tale signs (like the edge of the model where the ground is discontinuous).
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Who thought making decent autonomous cars was going to take as long as 2020? I mean for regulations etc maybe, but not for the tech. Earlier this year I expected it to be done later this year.

Edited for clarity (I hope).
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I deeply respect the humility of your response, even though I personally would have responded with a simple downvote.

I was curious about what you do, so I visited your HN profile to find more details. As a HN user - and a Muslim - I believe that it would be more useful for yourself and others if your profile listed something about you and where to contact you, rather than a wall of text arguing for why Islam is evil.

Anyways, I hope you have a nice weekend :)
I use Trello and Google Calendar. I'm particularly happy with Trello (straightforward, powerful UI and apps for iOS and Android).
With respect to his point that Uber requires passengers to identify themselves, I think a completely anonymous transportation system is not what is needed. Why do conventional taxi services and public transit systems have cameras? The answer is ostensibly to provide safety not only to the rider but also to the driver and other passengers [1]. But I'm sure Stallman would say "ban the cameras everywhere, Big Brother has no business tracking us!" If I were a cab driver though, I would feel safer knowing that a video of the transaction was at least being captured. And as a passenger I would feel less violated if I knew that the video was stored offline and took some amount of effort to retrieve, could only by accessed by certain individuals, and even then only with proper oversight.

What is needed is a balance between privacy and safety. Uber violates user's privacy, but fully anonymous transportation, especially in a one-on-one ridesharing situation, is unsafe for both parties. Law enforcement should be hard, not impossible.

[1]: http://taxi.vic.gov.au/drivers/taxi-drivers/driver-safety/sa...
> 1) It's 'hard' because you need a lot of 'training data' in order to train models etc.. It's hard to get.

Also, I'd imagine that the data could be bad/incomplete, e.g. data was collected in an inconsistent manner or in the wrong areas, leading to an incorrect solution that fits the data, but doesn't solve the problem.

This is the biggest concern I have in using the data that we've collected to come up with a solution using ML: no one ever intended for the data to be used for the purpose for which I would use it, and is incomplete or incorrect.

However, I think the chance of good things coming from inadequate data outweighs not trying to make use of the data.
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What is the minimum set of data Uber must collect and store about me in order to know that:

* I will pay for the ride

* I won't assault the driver or commit some other crime against the driver and Uber

* I won't make a mess in the car

* I will be courteous and civil

How do we shift the competitive environment so that Uber/Lyft et al see minimal privacy invasion as a feature customers value highly?

Answer: it's bullshit. pretty much nobody cares. that's why Stallman felt he had to write that article in the first place. the vast majority of customers don't give a crap about these questions.
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Why would documentation about docker include basic fundamental knowledge about deploying services in production? This isn't docker knowledge, this is service based architecture 101. Why is it docker's responsibility to teach you general software engineering concepts?
I share your frustration, but the fact that people have waited too long makes it more urgent to get the work done now. Antagonizing the recently convinced doesn't help that goal.
I'd like to quote another comment of yours:

> Bias, bias, bias, and bias.

And also share with you a special kind of bias you might be victim of: confirmation bias.

Also your quotes:

> Racist and misogynist are very heavy terms

> On misogyny - she (Clinton) has never attacked a woman's character before?

So, misogyny is a very heavy term, but you consider it's ok to attribute it to someone who simply attacks a woman's character (which actually has nothing to do with any definition of misogyny).

Also, if you need proof that those terms weren't used lightly, I urge you to read another of my comments [1] where I posted videos of Trump proving he deserves being called that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12932570
While a lot of people were never able to move beyond Trump as a laughable buffoon and despicable human being, a lot of the harm is going to come from him advancing the mainstream, everyday Republican agenda.

Repealing Obamacare, dismantling the EPA and CFPB, appointing judges to the Federal and Supreme Courts who are friendly to rolling back gay and reproductive rights, privatizing Medicare -- these are all mainstream positions.
Sure, what I write may be good, but it is polarizing. Its much easier to get karma writing the obvious answer that OP may not know as compared to writing about controversial things like worker protections & how their destruction hurts everyone, or how Soylent is unhealthy and we know very little about nutrition overall, let alone anywhere near enough to try to engineer a product to replace food entirely.
What "it"?
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a.k.a. denying basic economic theory about externalities while pretending to believe in the free market
Those institutional barriers are less effective in the face of those who do not respect them, and/or feel that disregarding them serves greater ideological goals. Couple this with both of the other branches of government being in the hands of political allies, and the normal system of checks and balances is no longer present.

It is a fearful recipe. The calculus pre-Trump wherein corporations were considered threats as you described has changed: now the government is far, far more dangerous.
One of the things I remember about moving to Mac was dialogs without a "cancel"-button.
> I suspect he could have made a very profitable business off of GCC in the 80s—it was a remarkably good compiler for several chips back in the day—but he preferred to focus on writing more free software.

The irony is that if he had made a business out of it, he could have had much more influence.
"Outta" is frequently listed in dictionaries. "S--t" isn't. Try again.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/outta
The Facts:
Justdial used to generate total 1000 leads a day across 10 industries(realty,services,transport etc) in one city.

Number leads per day
Nov 1st :986.
Nov 2nd: 977
Nov 3rd: 956
Nov 8th: 705
Nov 9th: 403
Nov 10th:212
Nov 11th: 156

Remember more than 200 companies are effected because of this in one city alone. India has 2300 small towns n cities. Imagine the scale of business lost.

Lost business or leads not created because of demonetisation is huge. At this rate more than 70% of business turn over will be lost and this will kill small business completely.
Is slate.com then a "real news source"?

Is news.ycombinator.com a "real news source"? Should it be renamed to "notnews.ycombinator.com" or such?

Who decides what is and isn't a "real news source"?

Perhaps the judgement:

"breitbart.com is not a real news source."

is an example why so many people were astonished at the election results. After all, if you only talk to people who agree with you then you'll certainly be unaware of those who don't. And when there's a vote, you'll really be surprised!
> you wanted them, you got them

We did not "want them", in contrast to rest of Europe we Germans just upheld our moral obligations. About the only thing Merkel did right during her term. And I'm proud that the general population is doing their best to help those seeking a space safe from war.

What I'm ashamed of are the actions of the minority who attack refugess and their homes though.

> We celebrate independence from being occupied by YOUR country among other parties.

That's no excuse to let fascists march.
Plenty of coal plants are/were too old to maintain and upgrade. If memory serves me right, 2/3 of coal plants were constructed before 70s.

I find it odd to require that they continue to operate, while more effective options for energy generation emerged in the last 50 years.

Yes, let me iterate it - so many coal plants were older than 50 years, that it is a miracle they operated for so long.

Obama's administration did not change their age; they were on their way out.

It is hard to separate technology and policy, but I find it hard to stipulate a policy to deter an upgrade of a 50-ish year old to be good policy.
Quite a few others, to the point that they put on a job fair:

http://kuow.org/post/amazon-hires-homeless-workers-and-every...
Electoral systems can do little for democracy other than promote majority rule. STV and related systems do this well and also provide proportional representation on non-party matters. Civil society also has a role to play in keeping democracy healthy.

Instant Runoff Voting is really only suitable for single winner elections like presidential, gubernatorial and mayoral elections, and not for the multi-winner legislative elections it is used for in Australia.

There are better forms of STV than that used for the Australian Senate, but I'd take any form of STV over FPTP.
So we can all appreciate what immigrants that leave their country in search of a better life in a distant place make.

Being able to and wise enough to move, is a survival instinct that all living things have.
Just for reference, footnote (7) in your quote is a link to http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/11/10/us/ap-us-world-ch... .
Just so I understand this right - from my reading of the article, the researcher is saying that the Earth is currently in a warm interglacial phase and the warm temperatures make it more sensitive to green house gases.

From what I can find the article didn't define what it meant by "more sensitive"
It is a good a idea to reduce the damage surface now.

Conversely, that damage surface would be significantly smaller, and less of it would remain now that it can only be shut down in haste, had it been reduced back when the administration in charge was one that gave SV warm fuzzies.
Yes. I have found (when I was looking for a co-founder) that many people like the idea of running a company, but do not really want to sacrifice the time and money it takes to make it succeed.

Lots of people are also not self-starters. They need a boss telling them what to do or they will do nothing or surf HN/Reddit all day.

One partnership I attempted had this result. It ended up being a boss/employee role where I had to dole out the assignments and 9 times out of 10, if I didn't push my partner, the projects wouldn't actually get done at all.

We actually did end up finishing the project (which is the only reason I stayed), but ran into more roadblocks. My ex-partner then ended up telling me that he just wanted to get a job and that he didn't want to work on the company anymore.

It's been a year and he is still unemployed and living on savings in his parent's basement (before working on our project, he was an engineer at a large company for over a decade).

When choosing a co-founder, the person needs to be a self-starter and have skin in the game (lots of time or money). If they don't, they will not feel compelled to stay and will most likely leave during the bad times.
So you're saying you'll blindly trust anyone with a weapon so long as they haven't explicitly told you they'll do something bad with it?
May be unpopular opinion, but I think that's the correct criticism here.
When I decided to move off Gmail,I had the paranoia hat on, and looked for something rock-solid. ProtonMail sounding so good on paper, fails to live up to sone common sense questions. If the encrypting infrastructure is closed and under their control, it boils down to trusting them on their pinky promise. False pretense of privacy and security is worse than being paranoid and defensive.

I chose Fastmail. I pay for my email service and don't expect them to sell me out. Get to use a functional email system that lets me search my emails(ProtonMail lacks this ability).[0]

Being aware that my emails could be snooped on by some government somewhere.. so nothing sensitive goes in there. That's what OTR or other personal encryption systems are for.
[0] - https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/search/
Just because he subscribes to a different ideology doesn't mean he isn't also very principled. I mean, his "manifest destiny" ideas (as you put it) led him to give his competitors open access to Tesla's patents.
Follow the link to the description of the New York City surveillance system. There you will see that he actually shares your viewpoint:

"New York City has a long history of oppressive surveillance. Taxicabs in New York transmit the passengers' photos by radio to the thugs, so I never take taxicabs there. By contrast, car service cars only store passengers' photos; that system is tolerable since, if you don't attack the driver (something I never do), the photos are ignored."

https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#10_August_20...
So this really only builds a game exactly like Hearthstone? I was hoping it was more of a generic game builder.
what is a PM? you're the prime minister?
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It was never acceptable to many of us. But the threat of unbridled autocracy was less present under Obama than it will be under Trump, for the reasons stated in the article. It is possible to oppose these programs with some but not utmost urgency, and then be catapulted into utmost urgency by an event such as a minority of the voters electing a fascist.
You can also use https://developer.uber.com/docs/riders/ride-requests/introdu... to build an entirely open-source uber client, if I understand their api correctly.
I guess you didn't actually read the article, because it says that too.
Sure, they occasionally help out Mary's Place and the like, not disputing that. Many other companies do so too.

From what I've heard from Amazon workers, from drinking with them on Cap Hill, or from my own neighbors who work there, or my Cousin who was a higher up there & left, or from my friends, on average its not a great place to work. There are good teams, but compared to what I've heard from IBM or Microsoft employees it sounds worse than working at either of them, and on par with working at Adobe Seattle over in Fremont.
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Actually, it's not hard to google.

And the Bush administration's decision to tell residents of Lower Manhattan that the air in that area was save was the first decision of that kind.

By the end of that administration, it was practically official policy.
On top of that, Target has the best video surveillance and most cooperation with police of any large retailer. Their surveillance group even spends a good chunk of its time doing work for various police departments who don't have resources to process the evidence themselves. One should never use a target for anything privacy-related if the police are in the threat model.
Interesting to see where this goes. I've always felt like spreadsheets could do a lot of things I never learned to do that sometimes a script or whatever is overkill (or inefficient)
This was one of the reasons why Hillary lost. It WASN'T ok that Obama got, expanded and strengthened it. Still today come to light uses and misuses of it under current administration. And Hillary would had kept that trend for sure. It is one of the things that should change, and for sure she wouldn't do that.

Yes, Trump could make things even worse, or not. Is not the same people that actually set things as it was in the last years, unless the people behind both sides on this is the same, of course.

In any case, shutting down/disabling/destroying all dangerous things that US may have in stock or running now (nuclear, cyber, biological, foreign interventionism/destabilization and so on) that the narrative on Trump could misuse could finally give some meaning to Obama's Nobel prize.
I wonder if the machines back then were just as capable of using an accordion pattern, but mapmakers and printers thought there were advantages to the patterns they used, either practical or aesthetic?

When I was a kid, family and friends marveled at my uncanny ability to fold up a map perfectly. The secret was simple: I let the map fold itself.

I'd find the one fold that went the same direction all the way across the page, and start there. Then the one fold that went in one direction across the folded map, and fold it next. And so on.

As long as no one had mis-folded the map before, it seemed pretty easy. But I'd see everyone else ignoring what the map was telling them, just going at it arbitrarily and making a mess.

Later I got into ham radio and applied the same principle to my wiring, especially when I wound my own transformers. Instead of pulling and twisting the wire every which way, I'd let the wire show me where it wanted to go. And instead of holding the transformer core still and forcing the wire around it, I would rotate the core like a spool to take up the wire.

This principle still serves me today, as I seem to be one of the rare people who never has any trouble with MacBook Pro power supply cords!

I cringed when I watched a colleague wind up the cord for a brand new MBPR. He opened the ears on the charger, grabbed the cord and pulled it hard around them all the way. So he was not only stressing the wire from the extra force, he was putting a twist into it through its whole length.

Instead, I wind it the way I used to wind transformers: I let the wire dangle loosely, and then I rotate the power block like a spool with one hand, gently guiding the wire with the other so it wraps loosely and without any longitudinal twist.

So that's how map-folding saved my power cords.
Is that something that can be cheaply done in software (with low latency - like less than 50 ms)?
Isn't vehicle insurance or medicare similarly securing respective businesses? Remember, India is a welfare state and it can mandate laws for greater good.
This isn't really a big deal. You can get Ethnicity statistics about specific areas of a country and just target your ads accordingly.

Other advertisers have been doing this for decades and there isn't really any way to stop it.

People here always talk about annoying online advertisements. Is it fine now that you will most likely get ads on Facebook for products that you will never buy?
This looks very interesting. I've been thinking about replacing an increasingly complicated home-grown state machine in something I'm working on with this. Anybody have any experiences working with it?
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How much money do I owe Google? How much would a company charge for the same services as Google if data wasn't a source of income?

Some of their services I could see being free/cheap and still almost as good. Like Gmail for example.

But stuff like Google Maps? Things that leverage all that data to do things no one else can? I'm not even sure someone else could do it as well without all that data, let alone do it for free.