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"It feels like the biggest concentration of assholery in the entire US."

I guess you haven't been to San Francisco. Take what you hate about New York, and wrap it with a thick layer of smug, futurist, "we're saving the world" self-adulation. At least in the 80s, the leveraged buyout assholes weren't trying to convince people that they were making the world a better place. Gordon Gekko was a satire. Now he's a "growth hacker" at a unicorn.

I have never in my life met so many people who are excited about the idea of creating systemic unemployment as I have since living in bubble SF. Self-driving cars? Man...when Uber can fire all of those profit-sucking drivers, we'll be living the dream, won't we? And anyone who questions the premise of our glorious, pure capitalist future gets:

"If people are riding in Ubers and if people are working for Uber, then, hey, maybe it's not such a terrible "soul-sucking" idea."

OK seriously, dear HN: just because consumers want something doesn't make it good. Consumers want dirt cheap electronics, but don't want to think about the Chinese kid who is getting lead poisoning from his "side hustle" of pulling e-waste apart with his teeth. Consumers want to pay a bit less for their burrito, but not worry about the illegal immigrants who cooked it, and are being evicted from their five-man hovel in the Mission to make room for luxury condos. Capitalism doesn't optimize for "good". It optimizes for profit.

Shitty jobs have always existed. These "gig economy" companies are celebrating this lifestyle, and trying to make it more prevalent and less lucrative for the labor. That's what sucks.
Consider for a moment that it might be better written and explained than man bash.
I was not living in the US during the Iraq War debates but wasn't that the situation that the mainstream media projected pro-war views? In that sense the debate panels were arguing with the state propaganda basically, weren't they?
I agree, and it is by no means exclusive to the US. It's lucky for the US that it's still in a position to easily lure people from almost every country.

And this won't chance too soon, most TV shows and films, e.g. Big Bang Theory, Mr. Robot, do nothing to normalise the perception of these kinds of jobs. Workers are always portrayed as weird/quirky/dysfunctional. The closest portrayal to normality has been the workers in Westworld. But those jobs weren't exactly aspirational either...
If you look at cantonese, an older chinese dialect, you will find 9 tones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_phonology#Tones

Particularly useful in that section is this graph:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_phonology#/media/Fil...

And I think that's a great way to visualize it. Each word has it's own tone contour and it just so happens that a lot of them could be clustered and curve-fitted to match a small number of tones. But the number of curves you choose is arbitrary just like how choosing the number of clusters in k-means is not well defined.

So if you treat the pinyin as authoritative you will sound robotic compared to a native speaker who learns each word's actual tone curve naturally. Just like how if you believe english is a phonetic language you will pronounce lots of things wrong. (e.g., as an English learner once I learned how to spell "doubt" I kept trying to enunciate the "b" since I thought the pronunciation I learned from hearing, "dout", was wrong)

Disclaimer: I'm a native cantonese speaker so my knowledge about tones is bullshit. Just hypothesizing why text-to-speech and people learning to speak it always sound funny.
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Interestingly, Medicare is a slight counterexample to your comments, because you can -- given motivation to sit down and collate the necessary public data sources and understand the rules -- calculate what rate Medicare allows for a given procedure. And since providers who accept Medicare have agreed to those rates, it means that for Medicare, at least, you can find out the price (or the ceiling of the price, which is what people often want to know anyway).

Note that this doesn't mean the same procedure costs the same at every provider, though; Medicare rates include a geographic adjustment, among quite a few other factors, but it does mean you can work it all out for yourself.
In my experience the ordinary user is no longer able to distinguish between a native binary that is running on their OS (example: the windows update feature of the win10 control panel) and data presented inside a browser window. witness the number of people who have fallen for the bsod scam sites and given away their CC info.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bsod+scam+site&num=100&prmd=...

Even when people see a scam where the UI obviously doesn't match with the OS, ignorant non technical people fall for it. People get those scam sites in safari on OSX and still click and pay.
The project lead is in Latvia. Is anyone in Europe sunsetting 2g? Any network that does 2g GSM will work, and if it's pin and AT command set compatible with the SIM800 then any other GSM module will work. If not, it's a straightforward setup to adapt.
Switch from X to Wayland won't happen in a Debian point release. So far I haven't heard anything about Debian's Wayland switch although a test Live CD ISO has been made available back in October 2016 -> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RBOS-Octo...

Right now, the only Linux distribution ships Wayland display manager by default is Fedora 25 (I am running it on an old Latitude D630 with NVIDIA GPU -> KDE Plasma 5 ;-).
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Indeed, the IMEI is on the SIM800 board, which is hooked up to the Pi's UART.
Uber is getting a lot of its "efficiency" over regular cab companies by side-stepping regulatory burdens.

People are riding uber because it's cheaper or they can deliver a better service at the same price point because they have the comparative advantage of lower regulatory burdens.

You can't infer from this that people are voting with their heart. They are voting with their wallet, which is to say they are existing within the framework of capitalism whilst at the same time Uber exist outside parts of the framework for taxis.

I do agree there are bigger problems, but I don't think that precludes criticising these companies.
> if a bill was introduced to reform the legal immigration process to permit more highly skilled workers to immigrate more easily, neither of the houses (nor the public) would have a problem with it

When the Democrat leadership argues for "comprehensive immigration reform" they are shooting down separating skilled from low-skilled immigration.

"Senate lawmakers who are most involved with immigration legislation--the so-called Gang of Eight--would prefer to see a comprehensive deal. That's also the position President Obama has taken. The trick lies in corralling enough Republicans to support a total-package process, as opposed to striking a set of smaller agreements. Carving out skilled immigration might lead to an easy bipartisan win, but it would give ammunition to piecemealers and risk fracturing the Gang of Eight."

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/democrat...
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To be fair, there was no loss of life in this incident.

If it were to have happened on a manned flight, even with nobody was on-board during the test, then I doubt we'd be seeing return to flight so quickly.
That's backwards. If you want to attract the best and brightest through any program - and you do, every country wants this, it's such a big win - drawbacks will put them off and defeat the point in the program. It then becomes self-filtering, and attracting only the people who are willing to come despite the drawbacks. And you probably don't want that outcome.
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I got that. but the first thing I can think of is to have a client that syncs files :)

even applications that syncs files already treat them as "objects" as you need decisions on which side has a more up to date version for conflict resolution and such.
What was achieved in the 60s built on what had come before. Goddard worked out the principles of liquid-fuel rocketry in the 20s and 30s, John Clark (and presumably others, but he wrote the book) developed rocket fuels in the 50s and 60s, and Von Braun took Army money to build large rockets based on science other people had worked out between 1940 and the 1960s. Setting aside a certain amount of arguing about whose developments were more important, it's probably safe to say that most of the impressive developments of the 60s were actually developed earlier.
The delivery receipt is the message that is directly sent after the message has been delivered. Not too hard to distinguish those from other text messages.
Might not be appropriate, since when I see "谋" I associate it with "conspiracy".
Where did all of their jobs go? Also, aren't they experimenting with self driving vehicles so that those people don't have to work those kinds of jobs?
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Curiously, I can't eat yams. When I do, I often end up with some kind of nasty burn on my tongue. I have the same response to citrus fruits (my favourites), and sweet-and-sour sauces.
>Haters gonna hate, man. It's fine to correct misinformation, but in the long run -- and whether they say so or not -- there's much greater respect earned in taking the high ground and not dragging oneself down into the muck of name-calling, ascribing malicious intent to others, and other ill behaviors.

This is a naive perspective that doesn't bear out in the real world. It's important to know that by taking the "high road", you are putting yourself at a competitive disadvantage. Someday, those with fewer scruples may have to pay the piper and their dubiously-maintained prosperity may disintegrate ... but then again, maybe not.

Most often, the truth is that large companies are pretty ruthless, and have consolidated such a huge amount of control that it's extremely difficult to do anything about anything they do or have done. They control the messaging, they have a reputation that supersedes any complaint an individual may make, etc. Those companies do slowly atrophy, but usually it's more because they've lost sight of the founder's vision that originally connected with the masses than that they're engaging in questionable tactics.

If you're taking a position out of principle, that has to suffice for itself, because it probably will cost you in material terms.
What exactly is the alternative? What's the proposed solution? Agrarian utopia? Creating artificial jobs for people whose skills are no longer needed by society? Basic income?
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PHP is legacy, but we teach it as a first server side programming language and then goto rails, then golang. MySQL is not legacy. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166585 it's still the database used all the time and it's very very good. Because there's no ROI on taking VC money and putting into a startup that's going to use that money on IIS servers. I am selling my product here. Do you want you apply? Free this year.
> :!make

IMO, :make is (usually) better, because it adds errors to the quickfix list, and put your cursor on the first error location.
Basically, China.

In circa 2012, Amazon, likely bowing to monsterous bribes and other pressures, allowed China to list items as 3rd party. In the 4 years since, counterfiets have increased by around 70%.

It will be the death of them. But hey, Bezos has his rocket ships, right?
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Fair enough, that said, if your biggest customer and source of 99% of your revenue said, "Hey, we want you to put a special something on your satellite the next time you fly one..." do you think they would say "No way!" ? :-) Not saying they did or they didn't but if they asked I'm sure Iridium would have accommodated any request from the customer.

Edit: Iridium would have accommodated their customer.
It's more of a way to be able to commit without having to exit or suspend vim. I typically type the commit message while checking the diff. If I find an error in the diff, I'll switch to the vim window with the file, correct the issue and run :!git add %, delete the original output of the git status -v command I ran earlier and I re-run that command (which I can pull up by using q: to bring up the vim command history window).
My point is that the developers of the sites that are so slow should be figuring out why and not leaning on the crutch that is AMP.
the Automaton interpretation sounds like something I would enjoy reading. But considering that I do not have the time this week nor enough knowledge in the subject, could you perhaps provide me with a quick summary as to what it is about?
I think we should cut this at the source. I never like taxing bad things where alternatives exist, let's just stop banks creating money. They should be intermediaries of funds not creators.

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/06/30/banks-are-not-inter...

I think it's not possible to stop land speculation so it should be taxed to pass the gains onto the people. As most money is issued against land let's have a land value tax.

Secondly let the state decide how much money can be created each year via an agreed growth target, set by...look away now if you are a neo-liberal zealot...the state. Thirdly use LVT to provide an efficient basic income and to do away with income tax. Why do we tax work? We tax carbon to stop people emitting carbon.

The current "system", if one can even confer such a name on such a dog's dinner, is insane.

Regarding US M2, do we really have step jumps in productivity? Is it not reasonable that we see this trend upwards in a smooth(-ish) fashion? If so then bank issuance tracks productivity gains, no?

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Will have to stop posting now as whenever I post about finance and question banks hacker news emits a fake "you are submitting too fast" message which I just got now replying to a different thread about zsh on a different page.

I also cannot edit my top level comment two above this.

What a great platform for debat HN has. Clearly they are confident in their model of lending and taking a cut and someone posting conflicting information that questions usury is no threat to them at all!
I added this to the page: BTW This is not saying we will not teach you. We still want you to apply. And installing linux on your pc is a great first assignment. Seriously, our teaching style is we through you into a working web company as an intern. If you were to show up for your first day with a windows laptop, your very first assignment would be put linux on it. You will learn a lot doing this. But <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13399445">this thread on hackernews</a> makes it seem like I hate windows people and don't want to teach them. This is not true. Just complete assignment 1 and you can apply.
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> I don't disagree with you, but there are so many bad websites that something should be done.

Yeah, we should not be visiting those sites. Give our attention and currencies to the sites who care about their users.

I guess one good thing about AMP is now I know what sites to do my best not to use.
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So what happens when Debian runs out of Toy Story characters?
Go has a http server, so does python and javascript.
It is more difficult to see the positive effects of expert workforce in large economies such as the US, but it is easier to observe how smaller but rich economies rely on foreign experts to compete: Switzerland and Singapour being two of such example. Those countries create strong incentive for expert immigration, in various fields, financials, engineering, academia, healthcare. A large portion of the workforce was not train in the country, and innovation both in academia and the private sector is often lead by multi-national teams. It is a classic pulsion of conservatism to try and severe the ties prone to increase the flux of information and people, but in the long run it will hurt the economy. Because if you are not doing it, others will do it and reap the benefits of freely trained experts and innovators. One key example is the migration of scientists during WW1 and WW2, which benefitted the US immensely and insured its supremacy over the second part of the 20th century.
Nice.

I'd change it, though, so it would disallow both Windows and OSX.
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>Also, take a look at the example for /zhun/ that I give above for pinyin neglecting to show the addition of an entire syllable of a schwa.

Can't edit anymore, but I just wanted to update this to reflect that there isn't actually a second syllable here.
rich people get away with illegal stuff in all countries, i don't think that's up for debate. i was talking about normal people that laws actually apply to.

but i mean, yeah, i guess you're technically correct, rich people break the law all the time in saudi arabia without any consequence. film at 11.
One of the innumerable problems with advertising is that you can't "unsee" it. For instance: can you unread this reply to your comment? To suggest that it is the responsibility of an individual to ignore advertising in their environment, is to suggest that it is their responsibility to not pay attention to their surroundings, or read any signs. I think it is a perfectly natural reaction to see something that you understand to be a sardonic misrepresentation of a reality, and respond negatively.
How about instead we use something similar to the existing framework for minimizing charity fraud?
Came here just to say that book also. It's amazing. My favourite non-fiction book.
Opening it in a text editor is not sufficient. With clever use of 'sleep' you can even have the server return a malicious payload only if it thinks its getting immediately piped to sh[0].

If you're opening it in a browser to check, you've also got to worry that the server may be looking at curl's user agent to decide whether to serve up a malicious payload[1].

[0] https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
[1] https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/one-way-curl-pipe-sh-install...
"The Gun" by C.J. Chivers is about the history of the AK47 and how it changed war. The AK remains an affordable, durable piece of technology that anyone could use, and effectively do so with minimal training, while in the process disrupting structures of power.
Citing a 150 year old example is hardly a compelling case. And Lincoln had other things going for him. Like the fact that he was president. If Trump died I'm sure his opinion polls would go up too.
Interesting that you should bring up Medicare.

I'd encourage you to read pages 23-28 of the following paper from the Mercatus Center. You'll find that prices for Medicare reimbursement are set by a committee largely stacked by the AMA, a de-facto lobbying group for doctors. They aren't likely to support any schema that cuts reimbursement rates for their members.

https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/Feldman-Medicare-Role-...
I'm neither an anthropologist nor a historian so my weak grasp on the details is probably going to get me in trouble if I get much deeper into this argument.

I'll just say that personally, I feel that such sentiment is primarily a construction by the same people who are trying to sell us the need for every adult couple to get a new mortgage, to have six figures on loan for education, to pay $75k+ for new cars every 6 years, and so on. I believe they see the citizenry as an asset that should be exploited to bear interest throughout its working life, and longer if possible. This effectively makes the costs of all durable goods 2x-3x more expensive than the already-high sticker price.

Obviously I don't deny that indeed there have been fiefdoms, slaveholders, and other undesirable living conditions, and I'm not advocating for that type of thing. However, I don't think the sentiment that it was nearly-universal is anywhere near correct, nor do I think that a lot of people in a more traditional culture would view their situation with the same suspicion or contempt that the modern Westerner would.
you get "delivered" and "read" notifications before the recipient sends you a text response, so they must be independent.
It's also really easy to get a package on npm.
To add to your points, Uber is currently operating at a loss (1) due having so much runway. Once they've smited your local cab company, do you really think they're going to maintain bargain fares?

(1) http://www.businessinsider.com.au/uber-2016-losses-2016-8
I do believe this is the first positive comments on this thread! 3 points here we come.
Routine health care, like your yearly visit to your doctor, are more like food, but the important, expensive ones like getting cancer, which are the vast majority of health expenses, are occasional and unpredictable, so are more like buying a refrigerator when yours unexpectedly breaks down.
Let me give example why physics is hard, using most simple example.

Ever encountered term observer (like observer in inertial frame)?

Well, it turns out, observer in physics means whole laboratory with established procedures of measuring time and length, not observer as you would mean in everyday life. And established procedure, what is that? Say, how do you measure time when certain event happened? It turns out, you can measure time only locally, and for this you need to have synchronized clocks spread out in your lab in points of interest. Some more philosophically inclined physicist would say that time means synchronized clocks. And how do you synchronize clocks? Well, it has to do with speed of light but I will stop here.

And this is for the most simple term. Imagine something more complicated. Now imagine hundreds of people writing papers and books with only partial understanding, and signal to noise ratio :-)

End of rant :-)
> If coming out of a CS program with internships and I still don't have the skills maybe these companies should invest in training me as an entry level worker.

Why is it the company's problem? I'd go after the university first, for providing a worthless degree, rather than a company's unwillingness to pay for (in their perspective) a worthless degree.
No, they don't have to prove any of the character assasination attempts. They just have to prove Snowden committed a crime, which even Snowden has admitted to.
> OK seriously, dear HN: just because consumers want something doesn't make it good. Consumers want dirt cheap electronics, but don't want to think about the Chinese kid who is getting lead poisoning from his "side hustle" of pulling e-waste apart with his teeth. Consumers want to pay a bit less for their burrito, but not worry about the illegal immigrants who cooked it, and are being evicted from their five-man hovel in the Mission to make room for luxury condos. Capitalism doesn't optimize for "good". It optimizes for profit.

I think that's really worth thinking about. And I guess that was kind of my original point. Startups like Seamless are around because everyone in NYC is kind of a dick, maybe self-absorbed, etc. We should focus fixing that root problem, instead of solving it with some panacea.
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People in Massachusetts see a Republican governor as a check on the power of the Democratic legislature.
Genuine question: why?
But what about the look and feel, ie the lighter characters and the rhyming sound?
I believe the commonest circumvention is to redirect to another URL and back, thereby making this a "new" page visit and reset that checkbox.
> Or I suppose use terminfo

What do you think terminfo does?!