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Did you consult the plugin author before blogging about the vulnerability? Is there a reason why you blogged about it a year later? I am guessing that you waited until the old version of the plugin wasn't (widely) used any more.
I think this potentially ignores the needs of disabled shoppers who rely on supermarket workers.

What if you have mobility issues and need someone to grab items for you? What if you have vision issues and need someone to read an ingredient list?
Then they would need to get some hot actresses to present the awards. Sort of like the Oscar tech awards.
I wonder if the answer to the "runaway apprentice" problem is a subsidy of some sort. Give the employer a monthly stipend per apprentice to cover the cost of time, tools, part of the apprentice's wages, and a bit leftover. The employer is incentivized to train the apprentice regardless of whether the apprentice sticks around, because if thee apprentice leaves, they potentially still earned money during the training. And if the apprentice stays, they have a ready-made employee on someone else's dime.

This could be combined with something like a below minimum-wage for apprenticeships, with the reasoning that an apprentice is being paid in both money and in training they would otherwise have to pay for themselves.
blog author here. Thanks for your feedback, I appreciate that! I'm gonna edit the post with it. And don't worry about your code... it's the best crate I've seen so far ;)

By the way, shouldn't msys_tty_on_handle be marked 'unsafe' too? I'm wondering if what happens I pass in some garbage as a handle...
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My eye caught this start to the third paragraph: "More specifically, the charge is usually of “Islamophobia,” which feebleminded thinkers equate with racism, though Islam is neither a race nor an ethnicity," and that's when I nope'd out.

(Saying 'Islam is not a race' is about as meaningful a statement as 'it's a trilby not a fedora')
I've usually found it more effective to go to a tradeshow where they might show up. They're usually in an exploring and deal making mentality at the shows, and usually at least one senior person is present. A lot of deals get started at tradeshows.
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China has many laws but many of those laws are ignored and unenforced.

The same goes for the US.

China doesn't have "rule of law" so much as it has "rule of context"

The same goes for the US, just to a different degree in different contexts.
Apprentices in Germany spend part of their work week in school. The €500-800 aren't really for 37.5 hour weeks.

Apprentices are however exempted from the minimum wage.
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Do you know this for sure or is it a guess? I was wondering if it might be your phone proximity to the items for a period of time but I guess that would be easy to tamper with.
Economically it makes more sense to buy cheaper and faster. But this eats into the fabric of society and offers nothing in exchange.

The same could be said of many previous innovations going back to the industrial revolution. We've always found new jobs for people and generally raised the quality of living.

Then there's the centralisation, control and privacy part - amazon gets to decide what products your area will be supplied with, it gets to know your eating habits, your walking habits, etc. Will pretty much own you and the neighbourhood.

This is true of many grocery chains though already. They can track that information based off rewards cards and purchase history. I'm pretty sure Amazon won't be the only company to do this technology will either be replicated by other companies or turned into a service for other companies to leverage.
I currently live in Spain and completely understand your point of view.
But, I am from the UK and the difference is of many orders of magnitude.

Supermarkets are not great places to shop or to work. Most employees are working far less hours then they want to on an income that is dependent on welfare top ups in one form or another.

Since there is no chance of UK supermarkets adopting a Spanish philosophy I think these people would be happier, and no worse off, if they were put out of a job tommorow.

For evidence just look at how many people opt to queue in the self service aisle, even when there is no queue at the human alternative.
Not just trade barrier, infiltrating other culture, by itself, is hard to achieve. SV companies has many analogues in many other countries as well. Japan has Mixi, Rakuten, Line, Russia has Yandex. They also have things that do not exist in SV
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It would be interesting to know how IQ distribution relates to the distribution of males and females among those with PhDs and other advanced degrees, perhaps across various fields. Male IQs tend to aggregate at the lower and higher ends of the scale while female IQs tend to aggregate around the average. If IQ is a deciding factor in who lands a job in academia, I would expect the male to female ratio to be exaggerated in favor of males the more selective things get, at least in an idealized case. In practice, other factors may dampen that effect or exaggerate that effect further (e.g., females outperform males in school, fewer women may pursue academic jobs than men, etc).
It is typically found in very large stores. I only have only seen this in two Tesco stores.
Almost all the 10M jobs created since 2005 are temporary
They're only in big stores, and you could easily miss them if you weren't looking. Also most people don't use them.
> those with the means of production have hoarded the benefits

And, behold, we see someone rediscovering the central tenet of Marxist economic theory.

(Entirely serious; not an insult. HN readers could really do with a more balanced economic diet – reading more Marxist theory and less Chicago School...)
Indeed, separate from the question of livelihoods (which could be supplemented via ideas like basic income), and less some meaningless greetings, the engagement I would up having would be far more meaningful if employment was a matter of satisfaction rather than utility.
I have three girls. I swear to God, the first two were fairly difficult with getting them to eat healthy, each in their own way - but hey, we are smart & informed, we handled them!

The third one broke us. We got to the point where both me & my wife were begging her, "come on, eat this, it has lots of chocolate!"

All these kind of advice works... until it doesn't. Yes, many parents don't know how to handle their kids. It's also often genuinely hard - I learned to not judge people for "not doing the right thing", without knowing the full story.
I agree completely.

People are too ready to leap at results that say, "Well, machines can never do X, and I can do X, therefore human-level AI is impossible."

In general, my counter to that would be "you probably can't do X either". It's just that you can do it well enough. You don't encounter the weird cases where your ability fails. But if that's allowed as an argument, then of course machines are more powerful too. I can absolutely solve the halting problem if "solve" can be interpreted as "almost always come up with the correct answer for the kinds of problems people encounter in the real world".
Just a note, if you have F# you can install Mbrace. Which means you can actually split workflows arbitrarily from inside the notebook. That's really, really powerful.
Improved efficiency is a subjective term.

If your goal is to create a society where relaxed human interaction is prioritized, then it would be deeply inefficient to accrue the majority of surplus resources to a tiny few.

If on the other hand, you are a member of elite whose interest is in competing with other members over resources, you would define efficiency in a way that minimizes the value captured lower down the hierarchy.

So yes, I am essentially saying that, but I don't want us to fall into the trap of using a single definition of 'efficiency' based on the assumptions of a particular system, but recognize that it depends on what is being optimized for.

I don't think that relaxed human interactions work against the elite's goals per-se - they just don't contribute directly to their goal and so are optimized away wherever possible.
Flynn does go on in the book and explicitly state Islamic (don't recall if it mentions Islamist) culture is "evil", etc. I specifically mention a country rather than a extremist group. So he's not really hiding behind much.

> how do you measure the morality of something as large as a "culture" anyway?

Well, you can't. At least, not without being in terms of your own culture. That is, culture defines morals, in my opinion.

But I see no problem in pointing out these problems--as long as you don't go as far as pre-emptively accusing individuals or demanding they account for them. Eg., accosting Scientologists over Scientology.
What I do not understand is: Why do they need to know that it was me who got something off the shelf?
They need to know when something has left the shelf, so they can refuel, and they need to know when something leaves the store, so they can charge.

But do they really need to know when you pull out an item and then give up buying it?
If my assertions seem improbable, you have two options:

* Research and decide, based on evidence you find.

* Ridicule and discredit the evidence you asked for.

It seems you picked Door Number Two.

You mentioned you're from the heart of Walton-ville (You lived by Store #002? how interesting!). Have you spent any time in the midwest ghost towns surrounding their local Supercentre?
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> It looks more like Smalltalk, which actually isn't known for being easy to read.

That's sort of one of my points though. They're going to come up with basically one of two things:

A) Something that's conceptually simple (so the average person can understand it without needing to take a bunch of programming classes) but which leads to most programs being very hard to read because they have to implement all the complexity in the program.

or

B) Something that's conceptually complex (and which will require a bunch of programming classes to understand) but allows for simple and easy to understand programs (once you understand the language).

All the horrible Excel and Access code out there (not to mention some of the worst Javascript out there) are basically the first category, while most serious programs and programming languages are the second category, or somewhere in-between the two.

Smalltalk is somewhere between the two. It uses a number of relatively complex concepts but tries to hide them behind some fancy tooling. It was a hugely influential language and pioneered a number of interesting, although perhaps ultimately misguided, concepts and abstractions. Personally I think the message passing concept Smalltalk pioneered (the predecessor to todays actor model and one of the originators of the OO concept) is going to go down as an evolutionary dead end that's poorly suited as a model for general purpose programming (it has certain niche uses that it's very well suited for but shouldn't be applied to the general case).
I did not drop a zero. He paid cash.
New York was a green forest and a nice river before people came and will return to this original state if people leaves for any reason.
i believe this is it too, mainly because of their mentions of machine learning and computer vision in the post.
>https://www.stilldrinking.org/things-i-send-to-recruiters

Or how to be an asshole to recruiters. As problematic as recruiter spam may be, sending a childish retort is not the solution.
Thank you for this valuable counterpoint. It is all too-easy to boil down a system to a single purpose and ignore all the little side effects and externalities. Their influences may be subtle and slight in the short term but in aggregate over time make a large difference.

You may be accused of being overly sentimental. And yes, grocery shopping is not always fun. But just by being out in the world and interacting with humans is worth something. Take that away, and at some point, these little brushes with humanity have to be replaced or we starve as social creatures. It is the increasing lack of social contact in many areas of modern life that drives many of us to social media platforms that promise to fulfill these needs.

We talk all the time about filter bubbles. What about physical interaction bubbles? Soon you won't have to see or talk to anyone outside your friends and coworkers if you don't want to. What does that do to empathy?
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Ask HN: Constant pain in my hands, any advice?
Since September I've been experiencing some mild but very uncomfortable pain in my hands, especially in the right one. It is becoming more and more painful to type and to hold a mouse. I'm very concerned because my hands are, with my eyes, my main working tools.

As anyone experienced this? What can I do?

When I look it up online, I find things about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, but there doesn't seem to be anything actually useful to do to make this go away besides maybe getting an operation (that feels extreme).
Sure I do.

1. Automation wasn't a major political issue behind Trump's success.

2. I can still think someone is wrong even if they hold the majority opinion (although in this case it was a minority opinion since Trump lost the popular vote).

3. I do think something should be done to help people who lose their jobs due to automation. I just think that's the government's domain, not that of private companies.
> "the idea is that as more and more job get automated, prices should go down until the point where people will not have to work full weeks anymore"

Fallacy; apart from a short break thanks to syndicalist wins, we're just working more and more since the industrial revolution.

Reading suggestions: "A People's History Of The United States" by Howard Zinn, and Noam Chomsky.
As someone who has worked behind a checkout till it is not a job I think anyone is dying to do.

For you, as the customer, maybe it seems cute and fine as a job but from my time in the job it's basically hours of mindless labour that teaches you little and offers no room for growth.

Your opinion on this is actually kind of despicable. You want people to perform robotic menial jobs because you feel like it adds humanity to your shopping experience but you seem content to ignore the fact that the job in question is a boring, tedious slog.
Apprenticeship is useful mostly for craftsman professions. But craft-driven paths have been hammered relentlessly for over a century by two related forces - the relentless advance of technology, and the Taylorization of jobs from complex work that required skill and experience to documented "scientific management" processes that a monkey can do if it can follow instructions.

In other words, either jobs become dumber, or jobs become obsolete.

I don't know what can be done about either of those forces. This isn't about college, it isn't about some lost art, it isn't about microeconomic market forces. It's about craftsmanship becoming much more rare.
Couldn't agree more. My wife and I did the math and Instacart saves us money. I have no idea how long they'll stick around or if they'll continue being so cheap, but it blows my mind how convenient it is. The biggest benefit imo is having them shop at Costco. Every quarter we do a fairly large oder for house hold restocking and Instacart makes this something I don't even have to think about. Before it would have essentially consumed my entire Saturday.
Like self checkouts, these technologies will not work well in high crime areas. By requiring customers to have a cell phone and an amazon account they can avoid a lot of the higher risk customers at least.
The guillotines will be warmed by those uttering this--"let them eat cake" for the modern world.
It was an investment property that needed some work. He had to put about $10k into it, but it's good to go now.
Perl has such a feature, it's called "taint mode" [1], it marks all variables receiving external data as "tainted" and disallows their usage in sensitive contexts.

PHP has an inactive proposal to implement it as well [2].

[1] http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html#Taint-mode

[2] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/taint
... and yet billions (?) of dollars are moved around every day using this technology "from a bygone era" (transferring CSV files for ACH transfers, etc.).

I'm not a big fan of FTP and hardly ever use it any more, but it does what it was designed to do and still manages to work pretty well considering how much everything else around it has changed.
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Perhaps my example was a bit too extreme. But someone else replied to me with a better example of notifications on an app, or warnings that items are still in their cart but did not pass the store threshold, etc.

Seems like the maximized value could be somewhere in the middle, maybe without trying to sneak in replacement costs for items left on other shelves..
Unfortunately phishing is a social problem, not a technical one. Users will happily put their password into any random webpage which tells them they really really need to, regardless of how much you train them only to put it into a specific application.
I don't think you understand. The critique itself, whether constructive or not, is something to learn from.

Just like breaking changes in Babel 6. There is a lesson waiting to be learnt, namely, don't make breaking changes to existing software.

As a matter of fact, I honestly don't understand why you take it so personally. Sometimes I do stupid things and people call me an idiot, and it's helpful to know that. Sometimes it gives me a perspective I haven't thought of.

Look at how Theo de Raadt and Linus Torvalds manage their projects. It is kind of the same.
I am not a hacker, but other remarks here have cast light on how hackers do that. Those remarks fit with what I know about fraud from when I processed insurance claims for a living.
This is the right question to ask. The laborers in question could all be productively employed as artists, homemakers, social workers -- whatever. To the extent that we get lots of new workers in those categories, and still get to have groceries too, that's a net gain for society. But it's up to society to get us there, and right now society doesn't seem even remotely up to the challenge.
those 10 jobs lost mean 10 people that will need support from the rest of society, just to survive.

If we have the technology to replace those people and we don't do it, then we as a society are already supporting them just to survive. You're talking about artificially maintaining inefficiency. If we're going to go down that road, we might as well start paying people to dig holes and fill them back up again.
Probably. There's already a _lot_ of phones. The question is how new of phones everyone want.

The issue imo isn't how many resources we have, but how much capital we're willing to devote to phone production.
XBox and OxyContin seems to be the current trend.
> "around 90% of the listing Zestimate is “Within 20% of Sale Price” of the home"

Yes, this sounds pretty good to me. I spent some time trying to do something sophisticated for the estimates on my site https://houseprices.io/ using repeat sales of similar properties weighted by distance, but I wasn't getting anywhere near that. I gave up and just used the Land Registry index for the county in the end. There are just so many potential local factors which you're never going to capture algorithmically, not least of which is how much the current owner might have spent doing it up. Although I do get the occasional irate message in my Contact Us form telling me exactly how much!
I went to the Angular 2 docs and was thinking "this is nothing like Angular 1, looks like a completely different framework." Then I read from them "this is nothing like Angular 1, this is a completely different framework."

Should they have gone with a different name? Probably. But my guess is that they kept it for 2 reasons. The first is the name recognition. The second, more important one, is that they're letting us know that development on Angular 1 is winding down and this is the place where their new resources are moving to.
I'm not sure about the USA, but here in Australia apprentices pay rates are different from the adult minimum wage rate.

The current national minimum wage in Australia is $17.70 per hour[1], where as the 1st year apprentices in our metal fabircation workshop are on something like $12 an hour, the minimum is $10.31 for a first year in our trade. If the apprentice is over 21 they rates are different again. Apprentice pay rates increase each year.

Edit: as a sibiling comment mentioned, apprentices in Australia spend part of their work-year in school. This can either be weekly, or more typically in one or two week blocks.

Also, I should add: at least half of the 1st year apprentices I've worked with are useless for about the first six months, they're a massive time sink if they're not doing something completely repetative like cutting a thousand pieces of steel the same length, and then they'll still find a way fuck that up if you don't keep a close eye on them.

1. https://www.fairwork.gov.au/how-we-will-help/templates-and-g...
Here's one:

https://ilsr.org/walmart-charged-predatory-pricing/

Admittedly, I'm only taking 30 seconds to search for these things, so the quality might not be 100% accurate. I've held these opinions of wal-mart for over 20 years now, and it's difficult finding old corroborating links via the google bubble. They did exist, but 30 points of karma lost is not worth going through six pages of google search results to find that perfect article to satiate the person from Arkansas.
Looking purely at local transaction costs neglects externalities and can lead to very bad outcomes.

I don't see a huge difference between valuing interactions vs. having workplace safety standards or requiring that employers provide health insurance. Both of them raise transaction costs and eliminate at least some economic models because we as a society have decided we don't like the outcome. The sticking point is usually how to do it fairly.

Edit: clarification of point
Why announce this 3 months ahead of the scheduled opening?
And textile workers were put out of work in the 19th century because new machines rendered their jobs obsolete. But would you really argue that we should roll back back 200 years of progress in the textile industry just to employ more people? What about the fact that textiles would be vastly more expensive and of limited quantity? Do you choose to have all of your clothes hand-woven or do you let technology take those jobs?

The only real difference here is that it's a technology you didn't grow up with that is putting people out of work, so it's seen as unusual to you. We make this choice of technology over manual labour in virtually every industry every single day. But it's normal because we grew up with it. And the kids that grow up with this technology today will see this as normal too. Eliminating cashier jobs in supermarkets isn't fundamentally any different to eliminating textile worker jobs in the 18th century.