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>More importantly people of all castes religions races are working to achieve this none of whom have any special love for each other yet everyone benefits.

Well, "everyone benefits" is the Disney version.

Oil producing countries and their citizens are usually royally fucked over, either from foreign powers invading/meddling to take control of the oil supply, or by their friendly lackeys (royal families etc) in power.

Ways of living (farmland, hunting spaces etc) are destroyed along the way, for pollution, extraction of resources etc.

Workers leave their villages (which are often ravaged from modernization, their previous jobs, commodities, commerce etc drying up) and are forced to seek work in large industrial towns in Dickensian conditions.

And all for "disposable spoons", which will merely save "10 seconds washing a steel spoon", end up in huge piles of other plastic garbage in dumps, oceans, etc.

Even those "10 seconds washing a steel spoon" saved, and most of the other savings due to such products, will end up being eaten up completely by the modern life and modern pace that makes those products possible in the first place -- the average working person in the US having less free time than comparable professionals (even CEOs) in the 50s or 60s.
There could still be truth in advertisement and labelling requirements that take civil suit for a court to award and fine, then gov't action if they don't comply with court rulings. This wouldn't take a bunch of specific legislation, committees or investigation teams from the govt.
It is a bit weak on some of the more complex of economic issues, such as the role of contract law in the emergence and functioning of industrial societies.
I highly recommend the podcast that is sponsored by econlib. Its called Econtalk and it one of the best podcasts that exist.

He had many great economists and other people on his show, like 10 nobel price winners, both Friedman and Coase shortly before they died.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives.html#date
What exactly was unsubstantive about the parent's comment?
I am curious do you have any recommendations for replacing the brick and mortars for grocery/drugstores online other than Amazon or?
I see it as an example of both market and government failure.

Edit: FTFA "There’s no watchdog assuring that aloe products are what they say they are. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration doesn’t approve cosmetics before they’re sold and has never levied a fine for selling fake aloe." OK so I'm wrong, it's just market failure, the government isn't even involved in this.
Could a feature be added to name the digital agency responsible?
2 and 3 are both doozies. #2 makes that setup basically unusable.
Lovely.

Very simplified interface, easy to share your published story. Does the edit feature work based on IP address or can anybody edit the story I've created?
How to solve it: the book is definitely teaching a generic way to break down problems.
The fact that you chose a relatively benign falsehood (the earth being flat) reveals that you, yourself, understand that it's "wrong" for it to be shared in a way that incorrectly reflects its truth value.

It shouldn't be our concern if conspiracy theorists decide to share misinformation among themselves. It becomes our concern when they take advantage of human emotions and insufficient algorithmic filtering to manipulate their way to the top of the newsfeeds of major social sites.
The app is intended to encourage lateral thinking and make connections.

James Burke was a hugely popular scientist in the late 70s and 80s. He predicted the Internet in the 80s and made a series "After the Warming" also in the 80s that seems to have been off by about 10-15 years on runaway climate change (Really well worth, and quite chilling, watching again today with our current awareness of climate change. It's on YT).

He made a fascinating, award winning, set of TV series - Connections. That showed how much progress is a series of interconnected events. Often stemming from apparently unconnected accidental events. Got me fascinated in science and technology as a child and set my course for the next 40 years!

Here's an article he produced in a book "Impact of Science on Society" for NASA in 1985 along with articles from Jules Bergman and Isaac Asimov: http://history.nasa.gov/sp482.pdf

Some of his TV series are on the web - Youtube and TPB. Not sure how well they've aged! :)
What positions are you looking at where you're seeing WebGL and Unity frequently?
Ah, you are correct. My apologies, and it was not meant as an attack on you personally.

I agree with your examples, of course. I'm not against common sense restrictions. But, I think these should be decided upon up front with a transparent review process for adding new categories. To leave that open ended would inevitably lead to abuse.
If a salt matters, that means you can look it up in a dictionary of hashed passwords. Which means its in a very small search space. Which means a exhaustion search would find it quickly anyways.

Far more relevant than "salts" would be using a PBKDF (See PBKDF2, SCRYPT, BCRYPT - which come with a salt for free anyways) with an appropriate number of iterations.

What was the last year that Rainbow Tables were relevant anyways - 2010? Earlier?
The problem with that is, which keyboard? USA, German, UK, Japanese?
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true, sry
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"/s" means he was being sarcastic. Perhaps the joke was in poor taste, but I think you're overreacting a bit. No need for name calling.
It's a strange one indeed
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HR: What languages do you know?

Programmer: I have a really solid base in OOP and functional langs so I can pick up a language pretty quickly.

HR: Right Right, but what languages are you most experienced in.

Programmer: Do you ask a carpenter which brand of saw he uses or doctor which type of mri machine he prefers? Give me a few weeks, I'll have whatever language you want down.

HR: We want someone who can provide value from day 1.

Programmer: There's your tech shortage.
All the more so when my phone died 2/3 through.
The leaders and many civilians on the ground knew what was going on.

The US didn't fight WW2 to end the Holocaust but they did fight because they saw Nazi Germany as evil and didn't want it as the super strong ruler of continental Europe.
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/copyclip-clipboard-history/i... seems to work too, and it's also free... Will try Flycut out as well though.
I wouldn't say a large part but definitely some. Having lived in China for ~5 years, most of the censorship seemed to be targeted at internal scandals and politics.
I would say talented Technical Writers are definitely in demand. I've seen both full time and contractor positions. I concur with itamarst, if you have portfolio pieces already just go for it.
Oh I see. That's rediculous. Not only are we professionals it's one of the hardest professions.

The amount of knowledge it takes to grok a full stack software system is equivalent to the amount of knowledge a doctor has to know easily.
By this logic, should they pull out of the US too because Google (and Facebook both) has been completely pwned by the US government? Not meaning to be snide.
Nate Silver says "bad news when a finding can't survive a basic sanity check like this."

https://mobile.twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/801222961541...
The only "hacking" going on in the election was done when voting district boundaries were drawn. Gerrymandering is an endemic problem in the U.S. as most recently evidenced in Wisconsin[1]. And it's a more effective way to steal an election than any behind the scenes subterfuge involving individual ballots.

[1] http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/307176-court-strikes-do...
As a counterexample, Kirkland Signature's extra virgin olive oil fares really well in independent lab tests, while still being low cost:

http://www.laweekly.com/restaurants/best-bargain-extra-virgi...

But you're right, brands are supposed to promise consistency, not quality. A McDonald's burger should be basically the same at any rest stop, that's one of the reasons they took off. Some brands don't even offer that though.
How did your year go?
Did you accomplish your new years resolutions? Any plans for the new year relative to your professional life?

I really think this community should have more warm discussions, hacker news is ultimately, merely us. There is no leaving it, it's an affair for all the years and decades, a part of S.V. life. We cannot fear it, we must embrace it.
Meritocracy is a nice goal, but it's certainly not Silicon Valley (or any other place of which I know).

The universe has no even playing fields, and it's hard to win friends by contradicting that.

Does hard work matter? Of course. Does it determine success? Not as much as it would under a meritocracy.
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Several reasons.

-Simplicity: The Z80's instruction set is dead simple, and thus easy to wrap your head around.

-Availability: Z80 chips are dirt cheap (and if you want to build a computer around it, designs are readily available).

-Ease: As a new assembler programmer, Z80 assembler is considerably more high level than, say, 6502 assembler.

-Other Factors: GBZ80 is hugely useful, especially to me, because I've got a Gameboy.

Some of those other architectures are on my list as well. Like m68k (and its cousin, the 6809): if only I could still buy the chips. 6502 isn't on your list, but it's on mine.

Also, ARMv4T, for the ARM7TDMI: GBA hacking could be fun.
It does seem scary if they screw it up, but I can see how it could be done right, at least for the low-hanging fruit. How about a simple dialog?

"This article is mostly false according to Snopes. Are you sure you want to share it?"

Then if you think Snopes got it wrong, you can post it anyway.

Or how about: "This article is satire. Are you sure you want to share it?"

There's nothing wrong with posting satire if that's what you meant to do. If that's not what you meant, it saves you some embarrassment for posting it as fact.

Seems like that's what a (semi-)intelligent assistant should do, right?
I'm in Quebec, so all of the Change.org controls appear to me in French. There is no option to change this unless I log in (never a problem on actual Canadian websites which typically have a language button in the corner)

What a terrible design decision.
> > One of the nice things about Silicon Valley, is, you all have worked next to an idiot who has gone off and been successful

> That sort of under-cuts the meritocracy message by a lot.

What meritocracy message? If there is one thing Silicon Valley ISN'T it's meritocratic. Success here is a function of luck, access to capital, personal connections and shameless self-promotion. Nothing meritocratic about that. We HAVE all worked with idiots who have gone off and been successful. It's an encouraging message--if you're an idiot.
Laugh aloud, so long ideological America, welcome to the era of pragmatism!
Not exactly on point, but in general I've seen concern
for voting fraud rise, even from people who formerly said concerns were overblown and racist.
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He just flat out won, word on the street is apparently HRC did not ask for a recount because it would show the extent she cheated.
> The invisible hand...this is Adam Smith being misquoted. Adam Smith did use the metaphor of an invisible hand - Smith said the invisible hand was something that blocked free trade, not facilitated it.

You're wrong about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand. Adam Smith is not being misquoted.
You can easily control logging level with slf4j etc, you can run maven in quiet mode if you want to see only errors. I don't think these are java lang issues, its more of a people problem that they don't quite understand the language and the tools they use in depth.
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It's... Upwork. What did you expect?

It's the flea market of development talent. I'm sure there are a few good folks on there, but for the most part it's a great example on how commodifying technical services is just a race to the bottom.
Yeah. It wasn't quite that. I was exaggerating for comedic affect. But if you say "full-stack" and don't follow it with "web," there's an obvious connotation. So I took it.

Also, "all the software stuff" still means down to assembler. So that'll be fun.

Yes, I know that's not what you meant, but why stop the fun now, just because I couldn't keep my terminology straight?
Univision buyout as others have mentioned; this article reads to me as straight-up agitprop:

http://www.theonion.com/article/female-presidential-candidat...
Didn't google axe the 20% program?
Thanks for your thoughts! And for your offer to talk—I'll absolutely take you up on that.
There's the Midwest Student Exchange Program between 7 states and other tuition reciprocity agreements that probably skew the data too.

http://msep.mhec.org/
This, and also the fact that once you've been maintaining an application for a short period of time, you quickly learn to recognize those "framework classes that are always there" in the stack trace and skip over them quickly. They are not really a burden, and as long as you're viewing the stack trace in an editor that responds to your mouse's scroll wheel it's no big deal.

I will agree with vbezhenar that Java stack traces are extremely useful. When something has gone wrong with an application in production, it is useful to know the call stack that led to the problem. I know that I didn't just fail in the method `Foo.doFoo()`, I failed in that method which was called by `Baz.doBaz()`. I know these two pieces of code are interacting which is a big clue as to the problem.

vbezhenar also offers good advice that logs of production software should be empty of exceptions and stack traces -- that the presence of anything is the sign of a problem, and thus rare in well-maintained software. Honestly, well-operating production software shouldn't emit any logs at all. Metrics and activity records if you need them, sure, but there's no need for logs. Logs can consequently be used to quickly pinpoint unexpected things happening.
You guys really love cop-outs, huh?
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Ain't nothing here... please correct the post.
My drama with my ex-co-founder ended with him fleeing the country to England after he was taken to court over not paying my old coworker Liam Simard, apparently he can be banned from coming back to the country. I think this is the route we are taking.

Other than that I hope to get hired at a company in the SF Bay Area. I learned the most about programming, epistemology, and just everything in this year than I ever did.
I don't think video is very efficient way to educate, specially for coders, do-by-learning is very efficient I think.
Yeah, sorry, didn't mean to come off like I was denigrating other bootcampers for wanting to make money. Just meant that I didn't get into developing for the gold rush—that I care about the work itself.

And thanks for the advice! Building small things sounds good; I should set some goalposts for myself to that end.
Those boundaries are fairly irrelevant to the presidential election process. I believe only Maine assigns electors based on who wins a particular district versus who wins the overall statewide race.
I didn't say it was impossible. But do you want to implement it?

Besides, the 704 had some helpful features the micros didn't. Also, it was a 36-bit machine. That's a massive advantage.
Too convenient and the term can be way subjective.

"fake news" for who? For the Chinese government?

For the company that denies that their new phone explodes?

This is getting very ugly
>Just because his family is managing it (IE: employees) doesn't mean they own the assets

Blind trust is not about whether you own the assets or not, it's about NOT knowing what the assets are (hence "blind").

He and his family know what the assets are, which is what brings all the potential conflicts of interest.

>HN is an insult to my intelligence.

Not judging from the above comment.
对于一个企业来说，这是一个长期的计划，这个世界是公平的不成长就倒退，无论是初创企业，还是已具规模的大公司，所以任何时候我们都面临着成长，只是成长阶段不同罢了。
在长远角度来考虑，我是非常认可这篇文章，我尝试从两个问题来说明理由：
1、企业的核心价值是什么，在初创期间产品不成熟的原因可能有很多，最常见的是资金短缺以及团队问题，但从长远来看，想要激流勇进，必须做出一个令客户和自己都欣赏的产品，在刚刚起步时，即使做不到这一点也必须有充分的意识以此保证你的产品在不断地渐进的优化，如果没有的这种意识，你的企业又能给别人带来什么价值呢？

2、企业的服务态度是什么，在前期你的产品可以不完美，但一定不能把客户当做你的小白鼠，一旦他们觉得你不靠谱，他们将会离去，永不回头。即使你的产品不够完美，但请一定要尊重你的客户，告诉他们完善的产品的努力以及计划。
China's social network is WeChat. I suspect it's too late for Facebook to enter. With censored contents, what's Facebook's attraction to ordinary Chinese people? Without censorship, it would be a huge attraction.
Nebraska too I think, but yeah pretty rare.
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I just tried to sign up for an Object Storage account. The form assumed I was from Canada so I couldn't fill it in.
I have this and Sublime installed...until the editor gets rid of fuzzy fonts when scaling resolutions, I unfortunately have to stick to Sublime even though I reaaaaaaaaaaaaally like VS Code.
I appreciate your responses.

>It was Japan's aggressive expansionism that led to conflict with the USA (The greater east Asia co-prosperity sphere, an ironic name if ever there was one). The direct action leading to war was the US oil embargo against Japan.

This is more than I have found most people know. However, I don't agree with your conclusions -- this is overly simplistic interpretation. You don't mention any of our awful history with Japan, for one, but I think the bigger picture is missing. One Japanese official famously said, "The West taught the East the game of poker, and after winning all the chips declared the game immoral thereafter." That's a truly elegant quote in it's explanatory power of what happened.

>Trying to punish Germany with crippling reparations was known to be a bad idea at the time

In my experience we were not taught this in any class in any of my history classes (in the US). Anyways Germany's economy was such that the country was suffering a humanitarian crisis, and it wasn't exactly fair or right that this was happening. So what could they do about it - They couldn't exactly just write a strongly worded letter to better the situation, either. This is why Keynes predicted WWII. Whether this lesson was remembered in the Marshall Plan like you say, at least it was never taught to me in school, and in my experience with talking to other people, it has not been taught to them, either.

>something in US history that is actually hand-waved away talk about post Civil War reconstruction. The Confederate leaders should have been hanged. The war was about slavery, period.

Actually, don't take this the wrong way, but this particular comment is opinionated. The fact is at the very least there is a debate about the origins of the war, whether about State's rights, slavery, or a combination of both and a need to preserve the union. What I don't appreciate is the (ironic) hand-waving my example away when talking about what really should be discussed as an example of hand waving history history away. Anyways, debating the origins of the civil war would derail the thread--and I think any reasonable person can agree that many people did not need to die, whether it be to preserve the union or defend the civil rights of African Americans (England freed their slaves with no war) -- another tragedy of American history that should be learned from to never happen again, not upheld as an example of excellence.
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I would not go so far to call it atrocious, but it has demonstrated how a collection of rules, each (for the most part) well thought out, can lead to a combinatorial explosion of complexity, together with some highly unintuitive corner cases. The strong desire for backwards compatibility all the way to C, together with some expedient principle-breaking, has made things more difficult. All of this has been thoroughly investigated and well-documented by Mr Meyers, and I would like to thank him for all his books and articles on the language.
Yeah, censorship is really bad, but one positive aspect of FB available in China is that someone can now challenge the sole monopoly of WeChat, which Alibaba has been trying very hard but hasn't got much real outcome.

Talking about Google, as one living here, I really want Google to stay in China, for me I know Google from its early days when there was no censorship and the whole internet is freely (in terms of freedom) available, but looking at the kids these days, within 10 years, they live in a kinda dark age that it seems Google never existed. For me and people at my age, we can use whatever tools/costs to be able to access the whole internet, but for most of the young kids, their internet is much smaller than the real one, and I really feel sorry when they have to rely on the EVIL baidu to search for things, and baidu is infamous for all kinds of scams it relies on for its huge cash flow, which it pursues without any ethical bottom line.

The existence of Bing makes things a little better, but far from what Google can (or used to) bring if it's available in China, that probably will also relief the monopoly issue of WeChat, which is much worse than the similar issue with FB in US and other counties due to the absence of Google and related medias.
Complete with fake information and scams!

"You seem pretty sharp. I airways wanted to date an app developer! You seem pretty trustworthy... Let me tell you about an amazing opportunity/app idea..."
You can be certain that it will be used that way.
It actually isn't this way. In the control panel you simply tell the updates to install when you're not using the computer. The only time it forces you to update is when you have ignored or disabled the updates for a period of time.
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I'm absolutely certain it's not you, but some lingering record in Google that thinks there's some mismatch when I go to accept.
> Also, lets be real... even with more libertarians elected, the bulk of the govt won't be thrown out any time soon... but the goals should be, minimizing govt, encouraging competition and transparency. This can be done through more strategic legislation.

This sounds more like Goldwater Republican ideals than the libertarianism I've been exposed to.