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Not the poster this comment was in reply to, but I feel they made a fair explanation that you simply chose not to consider; perhaps because of how they phrased it? Allow me to rephrase.

The trend this thread is related to (Lyft downloads surge because of #deleteUber) is a blatant hypocrisy. Neither company complied with the taxi boycott, and Uber only removed surge pricing after the strike was scheduled to end.

This leads more pragmatic bystanders to believe that the people involved in this trend aren’t earnestly invested in finding a rational solution. They just want to hop aboard the first petty public trend that superficially signals that they’re backing some side of a divisive debate; even when that bandwagon trend may ultimately turn out to be counterproductive to their professed ideals and objectives!

This is not a problem for one side of the aisle or the other, but both. That tribal group-think is the EXACT same problem that led to a Trump presidency to begin with.

So the only way to move forward in any meaningful sense is to stop this childish nonsense. That means calling a spade a spade (or virtue signaling) when it comes along, and not wasting time/effort with those who are only interested in self-aggrandizing (you, per your comments).
Your usage of "slaves" seems way too strong to me. From my perspective, most immigrants are seeking economic opportunity voluntarily.

This phenomenon is a sort of "global labor arbitrage" and it is perhaps right to argue that industry is exploiting this. Also, there are indeed also certain pockets of immigrant labor dominated industry where the conditions for workers have been so bad, "slavery" might be somewhat applicable. But calling migrants universally slaves to capitalism? I can't see that.

Furthermore, at least recently in the United States, not all immigrants are of the "cheap" variety. (http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2017/01/20/the-to...)

And, even if you want to fix this global labor arbitrage, figuring out how will be hard (at least, to do it without making the problem worse). Historically, government enforced attempts at egalitarian economies have worked out rather poorly.
We're in quite a pickle if de-escalating language is interpreted as rude.

Please take this in the manner it was intended: Avoiding an unnecessary argument.
I think "Trump's Travel Ban may be the first step to implementing Muslim ban" would be a fair headline for the topic. I agree with 'alva that news reports should make a clear distinction between what is, what was meant by that, and what some people say it might be.
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If that talent is really that much difficult to find locally, they'll pay it, don't worry.

And if they don't, that doesn't make the situation any worse. It's impossible to get a H1B VISA right now and they have zero chances to get one, because the quota is ridiculously low and they are all taken by the Indian sweat shops, on top of requiring 1-2 years ahead for the procedure.
I feel like that makes for the best corporate culture ever. I've made so many good relationships even better by getting to know someone over a joint.

And much better than all the places where people go out drinking after work. I wish this were more socially acceptable.
No, it's not but good job reciting the talking points. There are 46 other Muslim majority countries not affected. GC holders are not affected as has been clearly stated by WH.
I completely agree, with one caveat. Even while you're older than average at such companies, make sure you're current with hot trends and tech. Better yet, get on those teams in the company (R&D?) that are exploring those cutting edge techniques, ideally, to serve mainstream business needs that won't go away. A good example right now is machine learning or data mining.

When working for a Fortune 100 company, it's easy to do the same thing with the same tools for years. Then one day you awaken to find your skill area there is in decline and devalued. If your skills (and personality) are not already seen as a hot commodity within the company, then when you leave, you definitely won't be prized by other companies either. If you're also older than average, that's a bad combo.

So don't let yourself fall behind technically, and try to stay toward the forefront of your skill area. But I recommend you don't get too far ahead of the curve and jump blithely into a high-risk/high-reward role, since blue chip companies are often slow to adopt novelty and do so clumsily, which often leads to false starts and poor rates of success in new ventures.

BTW, I'm almost 60. Nobody calls me kid any more. :-/
Yes, as mentioned in the article, Lee Bo and others, some in HK, one even in Thailand, apparently.
A portion of the the First Amendment is protected by media litigators. It's got more than a few important protections that deserve defense. Besides, are you really complaining that there are too many organizations working to protect our civil liberties. Seems an odd complaint. If Second Amendment rights matter to you then, by all means, donate to the NRA or others fighting to protect that right. Doesn't mean the ACLU and others don't do important work as well.
Dang! Eve looks good, especially for the price.

I have Foobot (https://foobot.io/) and looks like it cost twiec as much as eve but probably does the same thing. Though, it doesn't say if eve uses wifi..I just see it say bluetooth. I like how Eve is battery powered, you can bring it wherver you want - whereas Foobot is plugged in.

I have UNI-T UT-338C for on the fly readings. I like how the UNI-T can be portable, or plugged in and has a display. I get similar readings between the UNI-T and Footbot so I can somewhat trust it...
Where's the part where they donate to Let's Encrypt as a thank-you for making all this possible?
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> A lot of people I know recently got sick after living in Seattle for a few years and it ended up being that at least a portion of the cause was severe Vitamin D deficiency.

But vitamin deficiency is a relatively simple test, and often done in northern climates. Both my wife and I got one done as a standard blood screen by our doctor; my wife was much more deficient^ than I was, and was told to take a fairly-high vitamin D supplement for awhile. (I was just told to go outside more often.)

^one of the few times I get to say that
What a petty and pointless distraction. Use Uber or not, I don't care, but claiming that this is a protest thing is just useless feel-good drivel.
When the other side is proposing to reduce the liberties of those it disagrees with, you're darn right it's not acceptable. It's not like conservatives are forced to get abortions, change gender, become homosexual, or have a different religion, but they complain mightily about other people who want to do such things for themselves, while conservatives present themselves as victims of...well, I'm not too clear on exactly how they've been victimized.

the bullying and one-sidedness is as bad as anywhere on the internet

Really? I read a lot of conservative forums and have done for years. I'd quickly be banned from HN if I were to start cutting and pasting the sort of personal attacks that are considered kek-worthy there.
It's not clear to me whether the anti-corruption drive arises out of a genuine antipathy towards corruption or as a means for Xi Jinping to consolidate personal power. This is especially hard because it seems likely that every Chinese bigwig is at least somewhat corrupt, and high-level Chinese power politics is opaque enough that it's not clear if only Xi's rivals are being targeted.

I really don't know how to unpick that knot, but I don't think it's an angle that should be ignored.
While "as safe as possible" is certainly the goal, most of the research is centered around first clearing the low bar of "safe enough to even make it there and then do some science". "Earlier death" might mean "on the way to mars", which would end up being a much bigger waste of money and effort (to say nothing of the political capital). Those are the questions we're trying to answer right now.

The other side of these things is that the research being done is not single-purpose. The lunar missions were an amazing human achievement, but their lasting legacy can be seen much more clearly on earth. Our radiation work has homeworld implications for understanding radiotherapy. Heavy ion therapy is a rapidly emerging technology that has the potential to make some previously-mortal cancers tractable, and understanding its full biological effects is critical. By exploring new worlds, we hope to be able to improve the lives on our own as well.
> Using technology to bypass the expensive outreach vectors traditional candidates are stuck with.

This is a huge frustration of mine. It is nearly impossible to get the attention of politicians unless I'm willing to spend a vast amount of my time on the phone, because they don't pay attention to email, social media, etc.

It would be awesome to have a social media platform that is dedicated to political communication. And with ample features related to communicating about policy. Like for example:

1) The ability to search for a pending bill based on the text of the bill, highlight text, and comment directly on it.

2) The ability to +1 someone else's comments in a meaningful way.

3) The ability to publicly challenge a politician's claims through research, data citations, or other types of analysis.

4) The ability to find the appropriate politicians/appointees for a specific concern.

5) The ability to facilitate directional communication from politicians on specific issues. It would be great if a politician had a common platform to explain in detail why they voted yay/nay or abstained from voting for something, with quick crossreferences, data visualization, etc.
All portable hdds die quickly, no fans and they're moved a lot.

My photos are a) still on my sd card until it's full, b) on my raidz1 and raidz2 drives on my nas, c) backed up to flickr, free 1TB storage using https://github.com/richq/folders2flickr

Having only 1 copy of something that's easy to perfectly replicate is very silly.
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it's super popular in France, at the very least.
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Mossad abducted Adolph Eichmann in Argentina and took him to Israel. US Navy Seals raided and killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. Indian army stormed across the LoC and destroyed terrorist camps in Pakistan occupied Kashmir. Chinese police captured Xiao Jianhua in Hongkong and took him across the border.

When are these actions justified? Only when someone is a killer or a torturer or a terrorist? Or are they okay in case of (allegedly) corrupt billionaires as well? Tough question, imho.
GPU vendors invented an entirely new programming language for drawing triangles. Creating a new programming language to a solve a task doesn't mean that task is overly complex.

CSS has its problems (I'm the first to admit that), but on balance I think it's the best layout language that has been devised for documents.
It is totally false to say Trump has enacted a law to ban people from entering the US based on their religion. Totally false.

Is it true that Rudy Giulani has said this. It also true Trump has said in the past he wants a Muslim ban. It is also true that many people believe this action is a step in the direction of a Muslim Ban.

But this is not a Muslim Ban at this stage and presenting it as such is a lie and misleading.

I agree that alarms should be going of all over the place in the mainstream news about this action and would encourage all of the opinion pieces to stress this could be a step towards a full Muslim Ban. That is for the Opinion pieces however.
I think it is awesome that your company allows you to use infrastructure to test new ideas and learn. It sounds like they have trust in you. Do they encourage you to experiment and try new things? Are these new things ever totally different from what your company does?
In my country most cell phones are on pre-paid plan. You can buy cell phone credits at a gas station, then that credit gets used up as you make calls and send messages.

When the cell phone companies came up with a service to transfer cell phone credits to other users, people started using that as currency. Only problem is each company runs its own proprietary system and there is no way to send credit to a someone who uses a different cell phone company.

If you think about it, phone companies have the best micro-transaction infrastructure on the planet. They are constantly charging people fractions of a penny per second per phone call.
If capitalism is not political because it's just a system of economic organization, then it's not political to dismantle capitalism and institute a socialist economy.

Economic systems are SO radically political that people used 'socialist' as a slur against Obama. McCarthyism. CIA overthrow of democratically-elected socialist governments. Not political?

Not to pick on Peter Thiel, but he's a convenient and recent example. He donated $1.25M to Trump. He wouldn't have had $1.25M to donate to Trump if people didn't earn that money for him. You can cast it as wishy-washy, indirect, etc. but at the end of the day that check cleared.
>I've set a goal for myself to get a specific number of friends and acquaintances to run

Do you plan to run yourself?
The entire world became much more political in the past year. Looks like 2017 will increase it even more.
sad this is flagged to the bottom yet it's a valid concern
Here's a whole list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_named_after_...
Exactly. It's a special administrative region with contractually guaranteed freedom to run its own affairs in all aspects (law, immigration, currency, economic policy, etc. etc) except for defence and foreign affairs.
Democracy can be improved by having democracy in the workplace.

Modern corporations are run like totalitarian, authoritarian regimes with top-down orders being barked down. If you disobey, you're out.

People in Western democracies are no longer putting up with non-democratic control of their political institutions, but are completely oblivious to non-democratic control of their economic institutions and are perfectly willing to take orders where and when it matters most -- every day, 9 to 5.

When employees can directly vote and democratically elect the CEO/CFO and other executive and managerial positions, across the wide range of industries and in majority of organizations, it will be a huge win for democracy, and that will spill into a much more engaged population politically as well. Also, at that point, employees are no longer employees.
Where do the people who can no longer afford the high end go? And what about the people they displace when those people move into the "medium end"?

There is only one market for housing - over-paying at the top end causes a ripple effect which impacts everyone.

Aside from that, a lot of foreign money is buying existing property and not adding to the supply. In many cases properties are left empty, i.e. they are reducing supply.
It's worse than that - people don't care. I've seen people admit that something they post is fake, then say that they'll go on spreading it anyway. Even respectable, well-known members of the tech industry whose names most people here would recognize.
But if you do shave your head, you must get some of those stylish glasses. So says the fashion guidelines of the Programmers of the Middle Age.
Good, CTS is an appalling sweatshop of a company and should be barred from working in the US.
Apple removes its Activation Lock Status checker
That's probably why they forcibly moved him across the border, taking a step to normalize the behavior, before moving on to more sympathetic targets in the future.
I am a little ambivalent about this. On the one hand the intent is probably good but on the other hand companies like YC and Silicon Valley are drivers of a lot of developments that led to the current situation.

- Silicon Valley is a great example of growing inequality. Most of the rewards go disproportionally to a select few at the top

- A lot of VC companies are killing a lot of previously relatively stable jobs. Uber is giving its drivers a job for a while but it's pretty clear this will not be sustainable and they will soon be out of a job again

- The biggest companies like Facebook and Google are pretty much aiding "fake news" because in the end the only thing they care about is impressions and fake news sells better

Don't want to be too negative but technology is not only a force for good but also causes problems for a lot of people. Maybe these people are looking at the wrong guy for solutions but their concerns are valid.
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All currencies, all are as volatile as can be.
There isn't much volume on a sub-category like Social Networking apps on the Mac Store.

A top 30~ Grossing app on iPhone in the US grosses around $4000 per day, on the other hand.
I have to imagine it's pretty easy for the PRC to have a public (i.e. regular type) arrest and extradition carried out in HK?

Makes me wonder if the real purpose the objective here was to keep him from naming names in public/open court?
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This [0] tracks issues for a vagrant macOS setup. Not official, but its technically allowed if you already own a mac that runs the version you want.

[0]https://github.com/AndrewDryga/vagrant-box-osx
I have a feeling part of why they don't use tech solutions is that the 'cost' of making a statement is valuable information: if a ton of people are willing to spend 10 minutes to make a call, that tells you something. Having 100 people, half of them Russian bots, click on a "+1" button, might not tell you as much.
Being on Hacker News does not make someone a "he." (Which is a good thing. My husband and kids would be a bit taken aback otherwise.)
One of my favorite "public good" websites is in the UK and called "theyworkforyou.com"

The workflow is that you punch in your postcode and get a list of all the people who represent you. From house, senate, european parlaiment.

You can then fill in a form and send a "constituent letter" to all the correct people for whom your opinion should have an impact.

After a reasonable wiating period, a survey comes to your email asking if they replied and some other questions.

Those "roll up" into a report on the member's responsiveness to their constituents.

Of the times I used it when I lived there, I always got responsiveness and only once was the response rude / unsatisfactory. (a member of european parlaiment was a total dismissive jerk)

Anyways - as far as ideas go, I think that would be a useful "start" - I also think there was more they could do to improve that further.
I've left money on the table for flexibility. I've been WFH for a long time now, and I'm far more effective than in the office. They don't mind errands, and I don't mind working the occasional evening when out of time zone calls come up. Some weeks it's most evenings till 11, but I can balance that with working out in the mornings.
Still, diplomatic passport, although a shady one.

I guess we could go an lock up all Chinese diplomatic representatives then?
> What do you think is more likely, that Google genuinely cares about the immigration of farmers from Libya, or that they have a couple physics PHDs from Iran driving huge amounts of search revenue?

Why not both? If Sergey Brin joining the airport protest is any indication, the leadership genuinely cares about the injustice of the ban - but they're more inclined to act when issues affect them directly.

Nonetheless, Google did support Black Lives Matter, if not quite as loudly. For example, in November 2015, Google.org donated $2 million in grants for racial justice, part of which was supposed to "fund a tech-savvy, grassroots solution to end police violence against communities of color":

http://ellabakercenter.org/in-the-news/googleorg-invests-235...

Also, @google tweeted in support:

https://www.twitter.com/google/status/751174648855928834
It's actually to make money. Not save money.
There was another post today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13529792
> Many other industries rely on foreign talent, and many cannot pay 130k, but 100k would be fine IMHO.

They can hire local talent then. All the American brogrammers that are about to face real competition now will be most likely willing to take those 100K after they lose the jobs they got thank's to "cultural fit".
That is the I am at my company too! It is important for me to make a difference in work culture. I think that when something that fits your lifestyle and life goals provides you the ability to do it for work, it does not really feel like "work" and it is very motivating and moving personally. I think you are in the right spot if that is the way you feel. :)
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What's the disparity from top 30 to top 10? $4K/day doesn't sound like much if it's only going to be for a couple weeks.
That this is being downvoted is extremely telling of the audience here. Engage in a discussion if you disagree. Downvoting unpopular opinions into oblivion is how you get a SV/liberal echo chamber.
While nice, neither of these strikes me as truly disruptive. The downside is that to achieve the best educational environment, you'd have to open a school which doesn't scale nicely unless you plug into existing "world APIs".

I guess you could start by opening a co-working space with a supervising adult (not teacher, this adult will be there to ensure that the kids aren't killing each other).

There would be teachers accessible via video calls but most of the time would be spent reading or doing work, not passively listening/watching. If you pool these teachers together, you will be able to teach even the most obscure subjects.

In this system, everyone is literally going at their pace.

I think that fundamentally the main objection to this system is that some people learn better in a classroom setting, to which I reply: 21st century education needs to make a transition to turn graduates into self-learners. This can only be achieved with a system that fosters self-learning from very early on.

It's not like you can create self-learners by making students go through a process that's fundamentally as anti-self-learning as possible.

This will also make switching schools extremely painless. You will transition to a new desk. It's like a gym membership, you can totally have two if that's convenient for you for whatever reason.
Nope, wasn't trying to bait any flames, just making the point that virtually everyone has to deal with some sort of -ism, even straight white males will find it eventually with ageism.
It should be clear from that term that the parent is hostile to anyone not buying into their progressive extremist ideology.
Hi, almost 60. I hope I can ask this in a kind way.

What about retirement? Are you that excited with your work that you don't want to retire? Or were there personal issues?

Ugh.. not super kind. Hope you don't take it the wrong way, but it is super interesting to somebody who is mid-career like myself and interested in retirement (whether that means gaming all day or just working on stuff that is "actually" fun.)
Céu looks really similar to Esterel. The thesis (http://www.ceu-lang.org/chico/ceu_phd.pdf) has a section titled "III.7 Differences to Esterel". (edit: removed explanations, the other comment is more detailed).
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While thinking about it:

My claim was really totally unsubstantiated, because I have no idea how much is spent on human safety. I just assumed because I read about that regularily.

It might very well be that the actual investment is miniscule when compared to the technology spending.

Your other points are definitely valid as well.