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Cisco has been strong in the enterprise market because they are good at marketing to the enterprise market, and providing certifications so that they can ensure a labor pool for IT departments.

Part of the marketing is talking about security. It's unclear if the reputation matches reality though.

I say this as someone who has become super disillusioned with Cisco, as the thread originator has. But this is mostly because of their switch products, pricing, configuration management, and end user software. I don't have much experience with their security. Though I have no reason to suspect that it's the least better than any other companies' security based on the amount of patching and their default configurations.
To say that work is like "slavery" shows little understanding of what slavery was. If I don't go to work, I'm not going to have my feet cut off, be chased down by dogs or hung.

I've quit plenty of jobs over the years. My livelihood is not based on my job. My livelihood is based on my having marketable skills so if I do get laid off, I can walk to my car, call a bunch of recruiters and have another job in two weeks tops. It's been that way for 20 years.

Also, a factory job only "enslaves" you for 35 years if you don't live below your means and make life choices that allows you to save and get out of the rat race. My dad knew he couldn't work in a factory until he was 65 or 70. He saved, and lived below his means for 20 years and both of my parents retired at 55, young and healthy enough to enjoy life.

I won't be able to retire that young because of stupid mistakes I made in the past, but that's okay. I can honestly say that I enjoy my job and have enjoyed my jobs for 20 years. Once I don't enjoy my job any more, I find another one. I could easily do this for another 20 years.
Yes, that's true. But now people are aware of multinationals slipping sops to themselves into trade treaties. Every single bilateral agreement gets voted on in Senate for treaties, and both houses (?) for laws. Stakeholders like the bulk of the populace can be heard multiple times, once on each deal on these issues. One, fast-track vote on TPP where McConnell could stifle all debate procedurally is kind of a farce when nobody but multinationals negotiated it.
Except that Apple and Facebook managed to largely nail all of the spaces with a single app.
This is awesome. I'd like to support yimby efforts. Do you have a link where I can see how I can contribute as developer?
Yes, it's sure hard to beat the sensory and esthetic experience of putting pencil to paper. No digital method can come close to it.

OTOH drawing on the computer has a whole new set of features to offer that are completely novel and can't be accomplished in other ways, certainly not easily.

So like in most things, different "tooling" involves tradeoffs, no single solution ever covers it all. We usually have reasons to go one way or the other. In any case, not tool can make up for dearth of talent, how well I know the truth of that statement!
You should understand that different drug delivery methods will have different impacts on a drug's half life and effect (intensity) on your body. Inhaling is more powerful than taking orally. Shooting up is more powerful than inhaling.
Net neutrality advocates want very limited technological progress: they want faster speeds but no other "innovation" from ISPs. So regulation is the perfect tool.
China just made VPNs illegal
There's a big difference between "reading research papers" and "doing research." The former is expected. The latter generally is not. Most professional computer scientists do not write peer-reviewed papers in top academic journals during the course of normal professional development. (There's a big difference!)
That may be true, but the final vote tally had every Republican voting against.
It's pretty divisive. Some people dream of living a place where they can wear a light jacket all the time. Other people love intense heat.

But it's hard to argue against an average of 1 day of precipitation per month in June, July, August and September...And if you live in the right neighborhood, it's also sunny from 10-4 every day in that period as well...
This a million times over. Aetna makes huge money in the group business. By allowing insurers to take all the healthy people in group business, but absolving them from taking the sick people in a market, you essentially create smaller pools of "unprofitable" customers. But essentially it is a giant subsidy to the group insurance providers.
If he ever decides to leave Google and start his own company / start consulting to software development shops, I don't think he'll have any trouble finding customers.
This reminds me of how Google does nothing about AdWords frauds: try to forget disabling third-world countries and your website will all of a sudden be most popular in Nigeria and Afghanistan (that's what they said when I confronted them about it, that people in Nigeria where interested in the content even though it was in Italian).

I guess when a big percentage of a company's profits come from fraud, they're not incentivised to fix the problem.
You are the first one to say it has "3D mapping issues". I can send you links with experts saying Hololens is the holy grail of 3D mapping and tracking.
Here's a case that proves Planned Parenthood's unique function. PP offers rapid HIV testing. I get a test every year because you catch that shit early, the available treatments give you a nearly normal life.

Now this last year, I didn't go to PP for my annual lady check up for reasons that are long and boring.

So I asked my primary care physician during the annual everything else check up for a rapid test. She didn't have it and was surprised PP did. So instead of a finger prick I got a blood draw and waited. Weeks later I got a test report for everything else tested for (liver / diabetes / etc.) except the HIV and other STD tests. I ended up having to call to get the results.

So compare the 10 minute HIV test with immediate results versus the 8 week odyssey for finding out my sexual health status.

Planned Parenthood is brilliant at what they do. They do it well. Primary care physicians are shiat at reproductive health.
> the Hamiltonian is invariant under rotations

Yes, but that doesn't contradict what the article said. The article said, unpacking slightly, that the Hamiltonian operator does not commute with the "angular momentum of a single electron" operator. It only commutes with the "angular momentum of all the electrons taken together" operator.
SF zoning map – so much wasted land
It only causes a fire if there are other factors. But it's very easy to find on an intact battery being examined for flaws.
It is true that the US has a very large illegal immigrant population, but a very large portion of them are migrant agricultural workers, and previous analysis by the state of California has worked out that the state receives a net benefit from their labor, even including ER/medical care visits.

This may not hold for other forms of immigrant/refugee, but the agricultural laborers are a net boon to the state.
I pay $19,200/year for insurance and another $3000+ for medical supplies. My 5 year old didn't ask to get a lifelong illness (type 1 diabetes.)

I'm lucky to be able to afford it, but it's highway robbery.
Thank you Microsoft for being awesome
To expect CRT/Williams Tube memory is a slightly bizarre assumption, it's a technology that was only very briefly used (developed in 1947 and used only in machines in the early 1950s, all but disappearing by 1956). It's also pretty much unheard of now.

While magnetic core memory was dominant from 1955 until around 1976, when silicon went mainstream. Machines with MCM were in general use for a long time after that too.

It's possible the interviewer confused the widespread use of CRT in pre-flat screen monitors. (Shrug, maybe CRT was very briefly mentioned? who knows?!)

Williams Tube memory is pretty interesting BTW. Worth taking a look at Selectron memory too. You know, for fun.
> The ACA was not passed because it was better than single payer, it was just the closest thing that could possibly get through Congress.

The ACA was deliberately modelled on Republican/Industry plans with the hope it would have been a bipartisan solution. This was, of course, a vain hope as we now know, but it was fundamental to why it had the shape it did.
What if you need more than you're allowed?
I don't really know much about SF or local utilities. I know agriculture takes up most of California's water supply. But even though a relatively small amount is consumed directly, would there be enough water to substantially house 2x-3x the current population? How much would price spike?
>The big plus with nicotine is that it doesn't have the after downer that the above stimulants have.

What do you mean by this? Caffeine withdrawal over nicotine withdrawal seems like a no brainer to me with what I've seen from smokers, but I don't smoke so I can't say first hand.
It's not the same believe me.

A cost center literally puts a stop to how much you can spend, it doesn't have the flexibility of a profit center.

It's a very different world where it's possible (for some) to get the latest treatment because it exist vs. a world were it doesn't because there isn't money for it.

I am no fan of private insurers but it's very different.
Hugo Barra Leaving Xiaomi and Returning to Silicon Valley Next Month
New DirectX Shader Compiler Based on Clang/LLVM Open-Sourced
> It's interesting that you can basically reap all the benefits of nicotine without any of the carcinogens. Do you feel at all like it's difficult to step away from?

I have a somewhat armchair biologist theory (based on anecdotes and light research) that much of addiction is based on genetics, social, and timing. I wasn't exposed to nicotine during my formative years and thus (just guessing) that I do not feel any addiction what so ever to nicotine (if it isn't nicotine but tobacco that causes it I have smoked cigars so I have done the raw stuff as well).

That being said I almost cannot go a night with out having one or two drinks and I have to have my morning coffee. I really wish I could stop drinking alcohol (calorie reasons) but I like beer and wine so much for the taste.
I guess I would sacrifice the look of my city so that normal middle class people like teachers, policemen, firemen, artists, and minorities could live beside myself and fellow engineers and doctors.

The whole "we need to preserve the architecture of my city" is a first world problem. What comes before that is the ability for the middle and lower class to survive in the city. Cities are living dynamic entities and should be capable of change.
I have no doubt, but how do you deal with it? Thats the question. How do you determine how is a net benefit for the country and who isn't?
Hey, sorry if my writing wasn't clear: The post above mine said they thought Rolex screams "expensive" and my response was it's "not screaming expensive" these days and that really most people wont even recognize it or care, so I'm not sure how that came across as agreeing.

Anyway this is just my experience. Rolex don't "scream expensive", but maybe to a few folks they burp that message. Not a perfect comparison but my old well-worn running shoes cost like $200 (fancy I know ;) few people recognize them, from the ppl who do some think that's expensive ($5 of leather for $200 ZOMG!), some people don't think that's expensive. Just because something is expensive doesn't mean that product "screams" expensive. Just shoes. Just a watch. YMMV
Quality, maintenance, cost of ownership, style, comfort, physical construction, actual innovation, accessories, existing brand preference; all the things they differentiate themselves with today.
I can't help but wonder (in the sense of curiosity, and in the sense of optimism) of the impacts of Tesla's battery and battery manufacturing technology, particularly in the wake of Samsung's recent battery quality issues. AFAIK, US manufacturing is known for higher costs - and higher quality.

Between all the new* uses for batteries, and the Gigafactory....

I wasn't enough of a webdev back then to being paying attention, but, does this feel like Amazon's AWS early days?

* Off-peak storage for on-peak discharge isn't exactly new, but why hasn't it been as big a thing? Is it just the sexiness of Tesla causing it to make the news, finally?
Try TrueOG.
Then it would just be the HN crowd mad that an organization is secretly passing data to the authorities...
Seriously, 9-5 is the dream. This article is so filled with naive melodrama. Does this person realize how much effort it takes to kill, pluck, and dress a single chicken? to grow a single ear of corn? Things you might eat in a single meal? Someone has to "slave" themselves away to grow that for you. They can't just quit and become a poet, if they did the author would starve. That attitude is the definition of childish because it always assumes that someone is going to be there to provide for you, whether it is the state, some rich patron, or your actual parents.
> cause remote makes people think isolated

Which, of course, it is.

Isolated: "separated from other persons or things; alone; solitary" [0], "separate from others" [1].

Remote: "far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away" [0], "separated by an interval or space greater than usual" [1].

[0] - http://www.dictionary.com

[1] - https://www.merriam-webster.com
Free form paper still fills in the gap where computers/tablets/phones are too cumbersome and just slow the process down.

Sometimes the simplest tool happens to be the most effective tool (paperless office hasn't fully happened yet).

Another aspect to consider is the process of writing often leads to insights that you may not have stumbled upon whilst using a keyboard/touch screen for writing the same message. This may be due to the speed of writing relative to the speed of creative thought. It may also stem out of less distractions encountered during the paper writing process vs a busy computer screen.
> they also bring Democrats on board so both parties have a political stake in success.

Republicans and Democrats in government (not necessarily in the electorate) now (this was not as obviously the case before the ACA was proposed) have fundamentally opposed goals on healthcare. So a bipartisan compromise is improbable.
I think we ought to be very careful about blaming wage deflation on double income families since there are much larger factors related to wage deflation:

1. Free trade and aggressive foreign monetary policy. The ability to manufacture good with much cheaper labor.

2. Automation.

3. The shift in the workforce to skilled labor. This has some overlap with 2. Even if the manufacturing industry that enabled the heady economic days of the 1950s and 60s return to the US, the people who get them will need some education. This problem was laid bare after the housing crisis. The problem of the "unemployable male", a man with a high school education who was doing fairly well working low skill labor jobs in construction. When all that came crashing down, those men were left with nowhere to go. One of the ironies is that, at least where I am, we are very lacking in some jobs. Skilled labor, such as carpenters, welders and technicians of varying kinds are in demand. There's still wage deflation, but certainly there are jobs.
I guess you don't plan on retiring early in that case.
You're probably right. Just looking at their site and applications they're touting makes it sound legit.
You would like to think that forced sterilization is an old timey problem. It's not.

The state of California forcibly sterilized ~150 female inmates as late as 2010 [0].

More to read up on... [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization#Unite...

[1] http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/health-info/forced-sterili...

Edit: would love to know why this post was down voted. Is there a wellspring of support for sterilization without consent? Completely mystified at this point.
Google could have, indeed. We were aiming at instant loading, though, and for instant loading we needed to do pre-rendering, and the only known way to do that does not allow for changing the origin (has to stay https://www.google.com).

We are working on a few ways how to both make access to the base URL easier and how to eventually even get the right URL in place.
Hey, I'm currently using Clojure too and I feel the same way!

I think the reason it feels more natural is its emphasis on process instead of things. You think of computation as series of transformations, and that makes easy to establish causal relationships among events and thus help reason better about the system. (I think Steve Yegge first complained about Java, that it is a land of nouns)

I think the failing of OOP for me is that I never got what an object is! To me, an object always felt like a weird plane in a n-dimensional axes(because an object contains other objects), and it was hard to reason about that. For example, my first (atleast in my latent consciousness) reaction about Abstract classes was, what is it abstract about? If it is abstract about a bunch of things, that are only related because of the flow of code, I guess I wasn't smart enough to crack that effectively.
For all that is wrong with the US system it at least have access to almost any possible treatment in existence.

So yes the individual insurances are limited to various degrees but there are for some access to he best of the best.

In my world the major problem in the US is that you can "go bankrupt" by being too sick too long.

It should be so that everyone pay to go to the doctor for minor things but no one go broke if they happen to be sick.

Why this balance can't be found baffles my mind.
I think that @agentgt was talking about "coming down" from the high (or effects of the drug), and not withdrawal symptoms.
Show HN: Galaxies – forget likes and comments. Beautiful photo sharing on iOS
I recently read a printed book for the first time in ages and had a really weird experience. I wanted to find a particular passage, but muscle memory took over and I found myself pressing Ctrl-F on my leg. For a fraction of a second, I thought that the book was broken. It took me a moment to remember to look in the index.

It really threw me for a loop. Electronic texts are so pervasive in my life that I had half forgotten how to interact with a printed book. My automatic familiarity with print had faded enough that I was consciously aware of the properties of the medium. I was frustrated by the inability to zoom in on diagrams or copy and paste. The margins weren't big enough for my notes. There was no autogenerated list of highlighted passages. I felt like a child confronted with a VHS tape or a classic Gameboy.

I grew up obsessed with books. At the back of my desk drawer, there's a little envelope containing the membership cards for eleven different library services. For most of my life, I rarely went anywhere without a book to hand. I spent a large part of my adolescence digging through the dustier shelves of second-hand book shops. Still, I can't shake the feeling that print is largely obsolete. I don't feel nostalgic about books, I'm just frustrated that so few of them are available in digital format.
As another ADD-diagnosed person, my understanding is the current consensus is that ADD is simply a different manifestation of ADHD. That is to say, same underlying root cause, so treatment can be similar.

Didn't know about the nicotine angle though, kind of interested in the research on this.
If you can afford a huge house with specialized rooms for entertaining then you can afford to hire a catering service for your parties. :-)
It was a dramatic metaphor, and a lazy one at that.

However, there is a grain of truth in the idea of freedom.

A slave could not choose who they worked for or what they did with their lives.

The metaphor points out that those of us who think we do may be deluding ourselves to a certain extent. There are very few people - proportional to the population - who get to do anything they want all day long without consequence.

Freedom vs. slavery may be a scale rather than a "vs.", and in that, I think there is a point.

And yes, you're right, if you are being paid but not saving, you are in essence enslaved to another master, that of consumerism and desire. If you can avoid being "on trend", it's possible true freedom is yours a decade or two earlier than the next chap.

But it tells you a lot about society that this is hard to achieve for many people.
Scammers in a foreign country used Western Union to steal from my grandfather. Glad to see a penalty that will hopefully encourage W.U. to put better controls in place going forward.

Chose to post this comment because I see a lot of people in the thread effectively asking "does this really happen" or "who are these stupid people that get scammed" and I figured letting the HN community know that at least one or our members has been personally affected might bring a different level of consideration to the topic.

Edit: Seeing this headline feels great. I can't describe the feeling of frustration at not being able to help my family solve the case when the fraud happened or the extreme anger I felt that the scammers pretended to be a grandchild calling my grandfather for help, using one of our names to legitimize the scam. Ever since, I introduce my self by name when I call my remaining grandmother and I worry when she tries to recognize me before I have a chance to introduce myself. I hope no one else has to experience this.