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>Capitalism Is Collapsing

but it isn't really - it's a pretty robust system that's been through worse challenges such as the great depression and rise of communism. The author moaning about things like washing machines not lasting like they used to doesn't change that.
Compromised? Not much to do, but it also wouldn't hurt much. A rogue DNS can mishandle your queries, but in this age of HTTPS and SSH and whatnot, you should see right away that you're not connecting to legitimate endpoints: certificates aren't going to match.
> episodic economic collapse since Reagan started deregulation

The Great Depression was before Reagan and there have been many recessions before Reagan. Why do you think it is due to deregulation?

Capitalism has done much better than socialism, empirically.

How does capitalism only serve a fraction of the population? It has served all of us; and it's done a pretty good job.

Socialism and communism only serve a fraction--lobbyist groups who can make the government do what they what. Indeed, that's what we're seeing with industrial protectionism and farmer subsidies.

That's because socialism is based on centralized control and force, while capitalism is based on individual freedom and mutual cooperation.
Do the agencies themselves realize the subtle benefits of UI/UX changes to websites, TLS, etc? I don't know exactly what all 18F does but it seems like those are among the features I see changing (and appreciate).
I mean, I can't even try to convince you that our method is good if you aren't acquainted with it but already found flaws in it :)
Sounds like a case of road rage by an "agent" who abused her position.
This is one of those cases where middle management is harming the company's long term interests for personal benefits. An annual review or resume benefits from saved X$/year as long as other costs are hidden. Many managers also just like walking past the cube farm to their office.
For woodwork in particular, it's sometimes difficult to find anything close to the same quality as some old solid wood pieces, except maybe as a veneer, at any price. Flawless long runs of thick oak for a thicker-than-is-common-now banister, for example, are waaaaaay harder to find than they used to be.

And good luck finding someone capable of fitting it all together such that it's still perfectly tight after 100+ years of winters and summers with no AC and poor heat. If such a person still exists I'm sure they charge a fortune.
Modern Android: Ditch Activities and Fragments
Amazon Hands Out Over 4,500 Bananas a Day in Seattle
I'm sorry for him, but I can't overlook the poetic justice of him losing a silly game (the Google interview system) that he was inadvertently enabling.
Through many experiences I think you're right. However that is an issue that could be solved by being better at measuring productivity.

If I can produce better results while playing games for 4 hours and working for 4 hours in a closed office than I could while "working diligently" for 8 hours in an open office, then it's hard to argue for the value of visually supervising someone.
The PandwaRF RF analysis tool
Hi, I recently shifted from US to Canada and now wanted to work for a US firm, as bored of low paying salaries here in Canada with low quality work. Can you please connect me to some recruiters. Part=time/full time both will be ok.
My email is panbhatt attherateof gmail.com
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Yeah, and this should be encouraged by everyone, not only managers. You should definitely tell your workmate to go home if he is sick.
What is the race to the bottom? And if so, it's a great thing. Lower wages mean cheaper products.

Powerful multi-national corporations often lobby for anti-capitalistic measures (protectionism, subsidies). Socialism only increases the influence of corporations via a bigger government.
The standardization and cloneability of the IBM PC cost IBM a fortune. Nobody is going to make that mistake again.

Allowing interoperability on your system allows other vendors to drive down your margins. That's why we're in the mess we're in. It's part of the problem with IoT, too. It would be great to have a secure, interoperable set of home automation parts, but every manufacturer wants you locked into their cloud and buying new devices every few years to maintain the revenue stream.
That's one of the main takeaways from the story tho. In an open office those who need silence cannot get it, even if there are private rooms available: "Some of us even feel that escaping to a quiet room is a sign of weakness" and "it can feel as if we’re not pulling our weight if we’re not present"
You'll have to forgive the author for not going into every variable in human beings. Perhaps the purpose of the post was to give people a scaffolding to start developing their own thoughts on the matter? Maybe you have a post you'd like to share that takes others to the next level of understanding that you have?
The MongoDB hack and the importance of secure defaults
I agree with the other poster. Either your point of view is tautological, or you aren't really talking about depression.
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Its more the idea of rendering the HTML code in this fashion does not make sense to me. Maybe print the code to the page instead of rendering it. Anything would be better than rendering the code; I can't even come up with a possible use case for that functionality, can you?
Reaching and harnessing consensus with ArangoDB
Wow, is that right?

I do block searchui.exe at the network level, and that works. Unless you block it, Win10 talks to MS with every local filesystem search, even with Cortana and web search integration disabled.

Only telemetry and windows update is whitelisted in the kernel?
> We're going to keep going from crisis to crisis because banks can't say no, and the government(s) deems them too big to fail

Consumers can say no, and if they had better financial education and/or financial prospects, maybe they would.

The elderly woman in the article initially refused the $50k renovation to her 5 bedroom home, but then agreed because she thought the government was going to subsidize it for her.

The contractor was able to sell her the loan because she needed to reduce heating/utilities/energy costs in her massive (for one or two people living on SS presumably) home, and she thought the savings from the PACE program would pay for the solar panels, smart lightbulbs, etc.

I don't know the exact details of her situation, but it seems like perhaps the correct decision would have been to sell the house and move to a smaller, more efficient house if the current house is too expensive to maintain given the number of occupants and their age/level of income. I'm 24 and currently rent half a large house in the suburbs from a single guy in his 60s who needs the extra income to maintain the house which he bought when he had a larger family.

Unfortunately it seems like the loan was misrepresented to her by the contractor when she agreed to go into debt, and obviously many will do anything to avoid moving out of homes/communities they've been in for a long time. Others have no family to rely on or go to even if they do want to move.

I'm not a huge fan of Wall St. and big bank loan & derivative making and selling culture, but it's not entirely to blame, nor was it entirely to blame during the financial crisis of 2007-08 as many consumers took on home loans they had no intention of ever making good on (maybe there was some fraud/misrepresentation on the part of the contractor in this case, maybe not). People have always been greedy since the beginning of time - we are just struggling overall at the moment to raise financial literacy and strengthen altruism: family/community/country-wide ties (patriotism) due to poor economic conditions for the majority of Americans.
I think there's a sizeable pro-socialism portion that's at least 50%. Just look at the comments here.
Twitter’s 140 characters limit has different meanings for different languages
Actually, while HN is certainly strongly pro-capitalism, I regularly post lengthy comments here about socialism and have gotten plenty of upvotes from comments that have quoted things likethe Communist Manifesto to make my argument.

It's more likely to have been flagged because there's always some that flag political discussions of any kind not directly related to tech, and even more that flag political discussions that they expect will get heated because they don't think those kind of discussions belong here.

I'm strongly left wing and have not noticed any particularly strong bias either way in terms of what type of political articles get flagged. Specific subjects are more likely to be a trigger.
The line that struck me most powerfully was just tossed in offhand: Riverside's government collects 15% of its annual budget from PACE loans.

The headline here was overhyped. The total volume of PACE loans isn't anything like the mortgage crisis, and total volume shapes secondary effects like bank failures and property value crashes.

But if PACE is becoming a large portion of local government budgets, that causes its own problems. We've already seen the kind of abusive practices which arise when towns get their funding from speed traps. No one likes taxes, but tax revenue is generally a shared burden, and positively correlated with growth and population. When the incentives for financing are to operate against a smaller group of people, things go to hell really fast.
You are incorrect. You can already set telemetry to "basic" on win10 Home and Pro. Basic telemetry still sends tons of info.

What we want is "security" level, which is only allowed on Win10 Enterprise and Education.
I can't trust the DSM because so many studies, experiments, and results regarding psychology and psychiatry simply cannot be reproduced or repeated with any degree of reliability.
I was watching a talk of his the other day and thinking "he's old enough to be my dad, but damn, he's cute..." ¬_¬

Throughout my life, I've found that the best lecturers aren't necessarily the smartest or the most credentialed, they're the most apparently passionate and enthusiastic — so much so that their enthusiasm has a tendency to "rub off" on their audiences. Enthusiasm leads to engagement, which leads to attentiveness and self-motivation for learning. Even a mediocre teacher can be a great lecturer, and I've had a few in my lifetime (though unfortunately I can count their number on one hand).
local market sucks here bigtime. Even 100k seems them to like ripping there finances off badly. I can't even understand. Despite of that cost of living is very high.
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Chipotle Burrito : US: 6.75$ CAD: 10$
Subway: US: 6.75$ CAD: 10$ >

I am really so pissed off these tech companies, who doesn't pay well but wanted you to take full responsibility as your are a labourer rather then a software eng.
I'll outline an approach of mine:

Step 1: Offload the initial selection task to the hype machine. This gives me a smaller set of candidates to work with.

Step 2: Go through the language guides/documentation to understand the core ideas and USP of the languages in the above set.

Step 3: Try to guage the long term viability. This is usually based on some data points but mostly intuition and experience.

Step 4: How does it feel to work with. Is it suitable for the kind of problems you want to solve? Does it provide some technological leverage for the business problem you want to solve, if you are looking for such leverage.

Step 5: Start tinkering with the language(s) that made it past step 4, and be open to update your evaluation during some probation period.

If you want to know my reasoning behind those steps, feel free to ask. :)
Bitbucket is having problems
Cannot use Google Authenticator. Can't even use Duo Push; this is the SMS functioniality.

I do plan on getting in contact with the schools OIT for enabling alternatives
How Functional Animation Helps Improve User Experience
Suggestion: Change headline from "Bootstrap 4.0 includes a powerful mobile-first flexbox grid system" to "Bootstrap v4a6 uses flexbox by default".

I feel this much better conveys the meaningful change that HN is discussing here and that's otherwise not mentioned clearly on the current link to the docs (vs the blog post linked by another user below).
Seems a pretty naïve description of Engineering types. Not only is there no data to back this up, but it makes it seem like hard divisions: I can anecdotally tell you about junior engineers who over-engineer in the wrong areas, or experienced engineers who `under-engineer` due to time|pressure|issue-critical requirements.

Nonsense.
Facebook, Nodding to Its Role in Media, Starts a Journalism Project
Sounds reasonable. I don't know about US politics, but in the UK the civil service is (meant to be) independent of party politics and civil servants are meant to impartial and work with whoever the government happens to be (indeed, it's even a half-joke that the civil service actually controls the politicians who are merely public figureheads).
Multipurpose Advantages of Local Search Directories
Contacting MS servers for functionality inherent in the application being executed is perfectly fine by me.

I expect Spotify to know I just listened to "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence. I don't expect MICROSOFT to know that too, unless I use a Microsoft music service.
regarding cache lines:
if i understand correctly, the scenario you are optimizing for is that your engine carefully needs to be in control of all cache lines to met the performance requirements. any "rogue" component like a dialog system, can destroy this cache layout and hence the performance guarantees are not met ?

regarding data-driven vs lua.

my point of view is data == code. except that the guarantees you can provide when using code are less but you get more powerful expressions and flexibility in return. ( ==> turing completeness ) the more you are willing to give up turing completeness you get to the "data driven" side. The stricter and less powerful your data is, the better you are able to guarantee performance and other requirements. however this comes are the cost of loosing flexibility and agility.

i agree. what i am proposing works in a small team (<10) where everybody does everything. this doesn't scale to large teams. (or rather i haven't seen this in working in large teams)
eg: the only valid use of tables is my valid use of tables
"Avoid success at all costs."
Just because HN happens to use the simplest thing that could possibly work doesn't mean that the objections to tables being used for layout aren't valid.
Eh, it's pretty much the same stuff over and over again that gets posted here when people try to categorize engineers into types.

Maybe saying the same thing over and over again has merit to nail in the idea but eventually it becomes stale.
"I consider grain to be noise"

Grain = resolution. Do you consider your 72DPI monitor to be noisy?
I suspect lots of people here have little or no higher education. Mine was 10+ years ago, so an occasional refresher can be nice; I remember the general concepts, but not necessarily the details.
HN does have quite a few left wing commenters, but also a very large liberal and libertarian portion that often express concern about where capitalism is heading without necessarily wanting socialism... But in either case I think this article's comment-section is a bad one to judge by - the headline draw in a specific subset of commenters with a specific interest in the idea of the collapse of capitalism, which I suspect will disproportionally include left-wingers.
I once interviewed over a video call. I asked, "I notice you have an open office there. Where do the developers sit in relation to the sales and customer service teams?"

They cut the interview short, and I never heard from them again.

They know we don't like sitting next to someone yapping on the phone all day. They just don't care.
That's not what the person I replied to said. They said

>However, depression is a disease independent of external factors.

Which sounds like "all depression is a disease independent of external factors". Further supporting this interpretation is that they "completely disagree" with the person they were replying to, as if their comment stood in contradiction.

If we are weakening the parent to just say "There exist cases of depression not caused by external problems" then they don't really contradict what they are replying to. The person they were replying to said "When you are depressed, see if there's a serious problem in your life" because they acknowledged that potential causes of and contributors to depression were numerous and heterogeneous.

When I'm debugging a program, the bug can come from lots of places. When I see a bug, I should definitely see if I'm failing to validate input. If someone told me "I completely disagree. Bugs are caused by hardware failures" I would tell them "if you are saying that all bugs are caused by hardware failures, you are simply wrong. If you're saying that some bugs are caused by hardware failures, then that in no way contradicts the wisdom of seeing whether I'm not validating my inputs".
Unless I'm missing something, you weren't the person I was responding to, right?

I'm not saying that the startup environment is great for everyone, but it has produced a compelling critique of the corporate environment. Clearly.

Shared music, late nights, open plans, families, ping pong / pinball, and so on... These aren't per se the mark of a "boys club" in contrast to a "professional environment," they are a critique of the industry-style work environment, and one that has been enormously successful in two the most economically active cities in the USA.
You see it in the U.S. as well, as you go from east to the west you can see the influence of the automobile on city layout and infrastructure, with possibly the epitome being Los Angeles. Ask most any 60+ year old in any of the larger American cities so designed (Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Seattle and so on) defends the idea of road widening to the tooth. Rip out the boulevards. Rip out these silly bike lanes. Rip out sidewalks. Make room for more cars! I've not seen much in the way of a road widening project that a baby boomer didn't love.

As a 45 year old, it's one my examples of how my elders aren't infallible, don't always have good advice, and have made very poor choices that cannot be unwound except through great expense of time and money. Mistakes have consequences and they can (and will) last generations.
Hi, Can you please help me with some of the contacts to get work at US based companies. I am based out of TORONTO and believe me, its really hard to find what I use to get at US. I will definitely appreciate your help. My email is panbhatt attherateof gmail.com
okay but this is not 'I've got an SLR with a prime lens in my pocket wherever I go.'

Resolution, noise, soapy effect on border of the object separated from the background etc.

'Being able to do it quickly' is exactly what I called fun. No point comparing in to SLR of any price range.
Huh. I just tried it on this article and it failed for me as well. It worked recently but they must have closed off that loophole.
SPECTRE: A Fast and Scalable Cryptocurrency Protocol [pdf]
The problem is you spend most of your contagious time feeling alright. By the time you're actually feeling ill, you've already infected everyone around you.
React best practises question - At what level should event handlers be installed? At lowest level components or the highest level?

How are events in React supposed to be propagated from low level components to their parent components when the low level components should not have any knowledge of their parents?
Be careful. Depending on where you live, refusing the breathalyzer or roadside test results in a mandatory 1 year license suspension regardless of what comes up in the test at the police station. Arizona here.
Totally curious, unfortunately it'd probably go in one eye and out the other since I'm not involved in the Uni's implementation.
I haven't seen anyone closely investigating the telemetry added in 2016 to Windows 7 and 8, now that you mention it. All I've seen are reports it's "the same as Windows 10".

I would be very surprised if MS allowed users to disable the newly added Win7/8 telemetry, as they do not allow it on Win10.
Certainly. Lots of agencies have to process forms submitted by the public, and when people have trouble filling out forms it makes processing them much more difficult. We've been able to show that better UX leads to better quality information. Like with our work with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/09/08/reimagining-the-immigration-p...
That's sad to hear. But I want to learn more. Can you give some specific examples of what gave you that impression?
My guess is soon after the first company releases this they will show statistics on how much safer their cars are and governments stop sales on new cars that are not level 3 in whatever situations their car handles. (this to repeat again as we move up the levels)

Even if you are right because of the above all manufactures would be stupid to not have a significant investment: the day when they have no choice might be out of their control and if they are not ready they go out of business (or confine their business to poor countries with loser laws - but these countries tend not to sell many high profit new cars).
Yes, I suppose you are right.

And today, I have moved on, retain equity in the company, and am proud to watch projects that I started there continue to grow and expand.

They're doing great; I'm doing great.

What's the problem?
4 to 5 years depending on company depreciation cycle and it also serves as general support end for most of the OS/Software unless you want extended support. And tech refresh is generally aligns with finance depreciation cycle for server type asset. Desktops -- 3 year
Github Pages is free and extremely easy for a static site, especially for someone with no skills. (I've used it with non-technical students to host their first simple web pages.) You don't even have to use Git -- there's a drag-and-drop interface to "Upload Files".
I share your gut feeling. It sometimes appears as if technologies that lack the opportunity for some to advance to magician status also lack a certain type of following.

That doesn't mean all technologies that have the necessary properties to allow some people to appear super human necessarily become popular. It just makes these technologies more sticky if they manage to somehow stay afloat for long enough.

I'm not sure whether or not these obscure sides of technologies are generally a bad thing. If a language provides opportunity for those who really understand it very deeply to come up with much better solutions, then that is a good thing. I would say this is the case with maths for instance, or rather with particular fields within maths.

But there are other much less favorable examples where it feels that these supposedly smart solutions shouldn't be necessary in the first place and getting even trivial things consistently right requires memorizing book length lists of rules and exceptions. CSS and C++ come to mind.
Almost everything in tech is a trade off. Usually between Fast, good & cheap.

In saying that there certainly was some accuracy in my career between under engineering early on, then over engineering later. Nowadays I usually get a good balance (though it often depends how the problem is communicated).
Well the way I see it they did disclose the agent there is a signature there.

But you have to wonder why the FBI simply doesn't use aliases for real people's names in any letters that they issue. Seems to be a safer alternative to asking that something is redacted later.
Well, I wasn't saying it has bad camera, just not nearly as good as any SLR with any lens, not for now at least.