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This is a very thoughtful comment. Thank you.

To expand a bit, I see business success as balancing the needs of four groups, whose needs are naturally in tension:

(1) Employees, who want the best pay, work conditions, job satisfaction, etc.
(2) Investors, who want the best financial return
(3) Suppliers, who want to be paid on time and want repeat business
(4) Customers, who want great products at the minimum price possible

I'm American. One thing I've noticed reading economic histories of the US, such as Reich's Supercapitalism, is how shareholder/profit-oriented US business became, around say, the late 1970s/early 1980s. This was the heyday of leveraged buyouts, and I can't help but think that, in terms of operating quality of US companies, there was indeed much trash to be taken out. Business was too cozy; customers and investors were getting a raw deal. You hear all these Mad Men-esque stories of sexual harassment, two-Martini lunches, expense accounts, and I can't help but think, man, the customers and investors must have gotten a pretty raw deal that employees could get away with that stuff (working so little, being distracted, wasting capital, making shoddy products).

I also think Japanese and German capitalism are more employee/manager-oriented than the US for various reasons.

In the end I think it depends on which group (of the four above) are culturally privileged. We hold investors in pretty high regard in the US vs. employees; it's very "capitalist". I have no idea whether it's right, but I think it's a useful insight. In the end I think it comes down to culture, and that US culture is pretty capitalist compared to say, France.

It didn't dawn on me that investors are only one constituency. For owner-operators, investors and managers are the same person, so of course, businesses would be operated (managed) for benefit of their investors; they're the same people.

But you're right, investors are only one group, you need to keep them happy, and that's done with profit. It's not a very important insight when investors = operators (most small businesses), but as the two groups diverge, such as when entrepreneurs use a lot of outside funding, I think "permission to continue" is a good way of looking at it.
Well said, in Colorado we have farmers markets during the summer which allows for farmers to directly sell to consumers and make more money while the customer gets a better deal as well!

However during the winter I go to Natural Grocers, or Sprouts because the price is always cheaper (here at least it is much cheaper then Whole Foods).
That's also a great visualization of how we build our society.

Don't fall off the track.
You’re not a liberal–you’re an extremist wearing trendy causes
First I want to say this is really cool. Thanks for taking the time to make it and I'll definitely give a test drive. That said, it's not zero configuration and your title is kinda misleading.
I agree, in the "heat" of the moment nobody remembers if the video end up being shared with somebody else without consent.
I you are physically present when you grant access you can ensure they do not record with something else via the analog hole. If you're at work and they're at home and would like to view it then sure, there's a plausible covert copy being made if you agree to let them view it.
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Google is in the US. The rest of this post is left as an exercise for the reader.
According to the dictionary, terrorists are people who engage in premeditated violence to achieve political ends.

I know that the media doesn't usually use the term to describe left wing white people [1], but I prefer to use the same term regardless of the ideology or ethnicity of the terrorist.

[1] My favorite euphemism comes from TechCrunch: "illegal armed groups". https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/ubers-colombian-speed-bump...
Why does every app need to get funding?
Work Better Hours, Not More Hours
For years I've used (and I'm most likely not the first to have coined this) the "Gravity Well of Fail" to describe situations that become increasingly more perilous due to badly chosen decision paths as time passes. I didn't actually know about the term "Incident Pit", or perhaps only vaguely remember this or a similar term from a couple of pals who are scuba divers.
This is advice for busy, working people to whom you cannot say "rethink your entire workflow" or "don't have a phone".

The goal is to provide practical security advice that people will use, and that does not make things worse.
Great idea, I know it's hard to enforce 100% due to the analog hole but I think it has a future. Even a little enforcement is better than none. My suggestion is to give each video a time to expire. You should also get someone, with a good security reputation,to do a security audit on the encryption that way you can claim 100% encryption security.
I don't think so. I use Spotify a lot on the go, and YouTube is not suited for that. (can it even play stuff if your screen is locked?)

Also Google doesn't want to cannibalize their own Play Music sales.
> I don't really see why the whole foods hate is so hip.

I think there has long been a resentment of them.

20 years ago I did some technical work for a natural foods broker. They knew the wholesale price for all sorts of organic and alternative foodstuffs. They were just astounded by Whole Foods markups as compared with other vendors. If I recall rightly, the Whole Foods marketing also rubbed them the wrong way; it had strong class-based elements, taking the natural foods industry from a "power to the people" feel to a "this is fancy and high class" feel.

In a business sense, they've clearly done well by it. They're at the intersection of rising inequality and rising concern over what we eat. But that limits them too; trying for "mass-market luxury" is a precarious position. You end up resented by the true luxury fans as cheapening something they care about. And other companies, ones not constrained by luxury, can go after the mass-market end of things. Plus they still have the essential contradiction between commercial exploitation and the natural do-goodery of the organic foods types.

So the hate seems pretty plausible to me. Their old shtick is working less well; the grocery market is really different 20 years on. They'll need to find a new shtick, but I don't think that will be an easy transition.
We're quite spoiled on the JVM when it comes to stream processing frameworks. Just a few off the top of my head:

- Apache Spark (especially Spark Streaming)
- Apache Flink
- Apache Storm
- Apache Apex
- Apache Samza
- Apache Ignite (also includes other things)
and now Hazelcast Jet.
Eye to eye with pikachu
Thank you both! I'll fix this.
From what I understand after watching true video, I think this abstraction could work for extremely simple implementation details, but once the implementation gets even slightly complex, the scale of complexity of coding it with this system balloons.
> and a full blown ORM, which IMO inevitably leads to sillyness like doing inner joins at the UI level.

What ORM was this that made you do inner joins in the UI layer?
That auto full screen thing is infuriating.
There is some debate as to the correct name for this convention: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11273282/whats-the-name-f....
Our local Krogers has taken Whole Foods and Trader Joes head on offering a broad line of oganic, vegetarian and vegan items. I'll go there for the price and basics, then to TJ for variety.
GitHub should stop making these abrupt changes to their ui.

It makes me at first worry am on a phishing site.
Well, the next sentence explains.

Basically, if you are that badly off that spending 3 bucks for pop tarts is a splurge, either that's the only thing you splurge on or you buy something more economical.

With some hyperbole used, buying a pop tart or equivalent when you're poor is like buying soda when you're poor. You either sacrifice for it, or you use something cheaper that does roughly the same thing (water), or you go without.
You can check how SLIME [1] works to get an idea of that.

[1] https://common-lisp.net/project/slime/
Checkout performance is key. It's one of the main reasons I shop there. Even at peak times, the wait time seems to be an order of magnitude less than checking out at Safeway. Also, the person checking you out at Whole Foods is usually happier and nicer than the person checking you out at Safeway.
Zero configuration usually means it doesn't have to be configured, not that it can't.
No idea on their pricing, but I've seen a fair number of audio software companies using iLok (https://www.paceap.com/).
Forgive me, nmat, but 'Snapshat' sounds like a niche spin-off app and a missed opportunity for those wanting to share something else of a private nature. :)
There's this (edit: 2012 Google Tech Talks) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZK0tW8EhQ "The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away" by Ron Garret. IDK how similar it is to the 1998 talk by him you refer to. I guess he's around here by the nick "lisper".
>Houses are also bigger now

The cost of square footage is low compared to its price. Concrete is expensive per SF but that's about it. In the past it took a lot of labor to put up lathe and plaster walls and real hardwood floors, but today it's mostly screwing up drywall and rolling out carpet.

>safer due to many construction regulations

Not a lot has changed in this regard for single-family homes. Roofs are tied down, better protection against sheering forces, and materials that resist fire, and none of these add much to the cost.

>more energy efficient (at least per sq/ft)

Windows can get expensive, but overall insulation doesn't contribute much to the high cost of housing.
$5.49 a month seems reasonable to me. I'm sure you could find something cheaper, but not much cheaper.
The misspelled purpose.
Just came here to say the same thing, sounds interesting but I bounced soon as I couldn't view outside of fullscreen.
In eg the US, a domestic wire will cost you $30. In the US and EU I believe, credit card fees are much worse (1.5-3%). If paying internationally cross-currency, you'll often lose quite a bit in the exchange.

Though I see that you said "modern fiat transactions", so maybe payments in the US don't count :)
This is so f++king cool. But it will never work, like wonderfully explained by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13629076
Opening the Software Heritage Archive
I recently switched to SoundCloud free and the ads are really not that bad (only con for example if your playing off your phone and it hits a video ad you can't lock your device till the SD finishes). However if the device screen is locked you'll only get audio ads (short and sweet at that).

Like YouTube though it will suffer from take down notices on some stuff you book mark, as well as mainstream stuff you can only listen to the first 30 seconds (but I've never been big into what's radio popular).
Some security problems are theoretically solvable, some are not. This one is not solvable, you can't get closer to solved as there is no "solved" state.

For example, sending a message between party A and party B so no party C can read it is possible, given that party A and party B have some way to pre-share key. Sending a message from party A to party B in a way that party B knows it is from party A but is unable to prove it to any third-party is, again, possible under some reasonable conditions, see OTR/Axolotl. Sending a message from party A to party B in a way party B can read the message but can't resend it is impossible under any conditions.

In most cases DRM-like functionality is a bullshit. Secret sharing is known to protect against outsiders only. You can use it to split backups so they are harder to steal [1]. The scheme will never work for cases when malicious party has the whole secret at some point in time.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/07/dnssec_root_k...
This doesn't seem true to me at all. Where do you live? My biggish (100k) crazy-for-organics town has one that is only open on one weeknight and one weekend morning, only in the summer. My medium (25k) midwestern home town only has big box groceries.
WFM taught people to value quality and a food shopping experience. The quality has improved in absolute terms. However, in relative terms, other national chains started adding up-market stores and gourmet product selections in regular stores, dampening WFM's differentiation.

To challenge another of your assumptions, though WFM does well with households with >$100K, it also does well with other income brackets including "working class." [0] WFM targets specific customers in all demographics. WFM's prices aren't necessarily higher, and you can certainly overspend at a Safeway. Also, notice how Safeway has high affinity with WFM.

[0] http://infoscout.co/retailer/whole_foods
The tone is pretty consistently contemptible towards the hypothetical asker, culminating in calling the asker "dumbass" and "imbicile".
A white guy, seven indians, no job and the H1B Visa Scam
I'm white, Seven Indians and the H1B Visa scam

I happen to be white and I happen to be a computer
programmer. I went to 7 interviews this month and all of them
turned me down, even the ones with that had
me sucessfully do their tests and programming exercises.

Something is not right folks!

Now I like all people, and I am only stating a fact here.
All of them were Indian. And ( And I am only stating a fact)
everyone in the department was Indian.

The other thing is, when applying for a job on indeed
indeed tells you how many other people have applied
for the same job. I am in new york and some of these
jobs get 150 applicants.

Again, I like all people.
Why are there so many Indians coming here on the false
premise that there is a skills shortage? There are
too many programmers WITH SKILLS chasing few jobs.

H1B skills shortage ? I don't think so.
I have skills coming out the ying yang.

C#, Nodejs, Golang. sql no nosql, Angular, front end back
end my skills list goes on and on. 20 years experience
and I can't land a job. And I tried to come across as
nice as pie in the interviews. Even though their English
was atrocious.

Too many applicants. Baloney! ( There is NO skills shortage
and the H1B visa is a scam ) Indians have taken not some of the
jobs , but ALL of the jobs. And I am only stating a fact
here. They only hire other indians. Don't believe me.
Go into these companies and you will see with your own two eyes.
I'm screwed.

One other thing before I sign off my life. Go look at any open source project
and see how many Indians, have created an open source project
or even contributed to one. Don't believe me, Look at the empirical evidence.
No great software craftmanship or contribution.

Am I wrong ?
True. I couldn't find another example for comparison of casual labour. They also do simple gardening like tasks like tree planting or cleaning up hedgerows or weed eating or picking 1200 lbs of cherries tomatoes in one day. Landscape companies/gardeners will charge between $25-$80/hour for specific jobs. Sometimes when you are 4-8 hands short..everyone pitches in..and if no one at home will, you have to get whatever help you can..because tomatoes ain't going to harvest themselves!! Vegetable production is brutal when it comes to planning and certainties.
Even though web beacons / trackers like Google Analytics are fairly harmless, I still wouldn't trust them in this app because they often sit close to the main app's code and can be MITM'd to do bad things like send back snippets of a recording, or metadata about a recording like the name of the video file. That is, of course if this app has such beacons. I haven't sat between the traffic of this app (ab)using Burp Suite or Fiddler[2] to give a proper opinion

[1] https://portswigger.net/burp/

[2] http://www.telerik.com/fiddler
Don't forget "oflag=direct"
These are less convenient because they aren't open at most of the times I might want to buy groceries.
This is aside from the organic thing, but probably plays a part.

I've had two friends work there for over a year, one in the 90s and one in the past couple of years, and in both cases, management was just grinding through employees. The recent run ended when they cut employees and expanded duties for the remaining folks (two or more jobs now in one), with no increase in pay and no increase in technology at hand to justify the ability of one person doing what used to take two in full-time shifts.

Yeahhh he quit soon after that. I tended to avoid WF in favor of Trader Joe's, Sprouts, Natural Grocers, and straight from farmers, but after hearing how they treat their employees, again, that's just one more reason not to give them business...
How Alexa can change the way we interact with government
Not really. Strictly speaking Google Play Services is a rootkit. One that can be used remotely. And it contains heaps of invasive user tracking code. Is is pretty much malware.
>They have no constraint on this as when they advance credit they do so by creating it.

It blew my mind that this is how money is created.

What would be the downside of banks having to buy this money from the government instead of creating it for free?
"the OSF's mkLinux, which is apparently a predecessor of Mac OS."

Apple worked on MkLinux, but it isn't technically a predecessor to Mac OS X. The two do not share a single line of code; if they did, Apple would have to license Mac OS under the GPL.

XNU, the Mac OS kernel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU) isn't a real microkernel; the functionality of a microkernel is there, but quite a bit of code was added that, in a true microkernel, would live in userspace.
The classic big leap would be augmented reality. High bandwidth through the eye and not blocking out too much vision.

To feel like a real sense this has to be augmented though, not just a heads up display. Only with the (low latency) feedback from movement to a change in the sensation can we learn to use it like a sense really well¹.

¹citation needed, but there is one somewhere
Retail Marijuana Sales Top $1B in Colorado
The best part about these types of projects is also the worst: Anything that is java.io.Serializable can be used for keys/values

This means you can immediately save / load / stream your applications objects. Just tack on an "implements Serializable" to you class header (or "implements Externalizable" if you want to be fancy and do it yourself) and you're good to go. Plus with the native Map<?,?> interface writing code against it feels natural.

In practice this also means that you end up serializing arbitrary Java objects and get stuck in serialization/deserialization hell. Your data is stuck tied to a specific format, on a specific platform / language. It's somewhere between impractical and impossible to get it into an agnostic format usable by any other language so you're stuck in JDK land forever.

Anything that involves getting data into some other system or language requires you to also write a Java app to read (and possibly write back) your data.

Do yourself a favor and stick to something language agnostic for your data stores. You'll thank yourself many times over down the road.
One might. And its not inconsistent with the sentence. There could be several days of disorientation prior to being able to form the memory that they had a stroke a few days ago.

Tangentially related, https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_strok... is about a brain scientist who had a massive stroke and she talks of both the shutting down of the brain along with the starting it up again.
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>Houses can basically last an arbitrarily long amount of time and still remain functional.

Not anymore. Contemporary houses only last about 40 years.
>I don't really see why the whole foods hate is so hip.

exibit A: Whole Foods' $6 Asparagus Water Is Just Water With Three Stalks of Asparagus in It

http://www.eater.com/2015/8/3/9090797/whole-foods-asparagus-...
I believe your data is out of date, here is Wikipedia's summary:

> In 1971, 1 percent of U.S. citizens described themselves as vegetarians.[104] In 2008 Harris Interactive found that 3.2% are vegetarian and 0.5% vegan,[105] while a 2013 Public Policy Polling survey of 500 respondents found that 13% of Americans are either vegetarian or vegan—6% vegetarian and 7% vegan.[106] U.S. vegetarian food sales (meat replacements such as soy milk and textured vegetable protein) doubled between 1998 and 2003, reaching $1.6 billion in 2003.[107]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country#Unite...

There is a strong trend here, as shown both by that data, and by the other factors I mentioned (startups in the meat-free space, etc.).

Of course, a trend has no guarantee it will continue. But it is plausible that it will.
I've made this point before. If you're starting a new project of any size today, developing for those low end devices probably doesn't make much sense because what's now high-end will be mid-range or low-end in a year or two. I.e., by the time you ship.

The problem with Android for the past few years has been that it hasn't really followed that rule: single core performance on current Android phones is not significantly better than it was on the phones of 3 - 4 years ago. This stands in stark contrast with the iPhone.

Now clearly this isn't just about raw processor performance: it's about the software running on those processors and here Safari clearly wins over Chrome.

Say my iPhone 5S, which is still my everyday phone after more than 3 years of heavy use, is (or should be) about the equivalent of owning a low-end Android device. Well, the problem is that in terms of performance, at any rate, it's not: it's streets ahead.

Now we all know that sooner or later Apple will run into a single-core performance wall and will have to scale outwards and, hopefully, when that happens they'll invest in a way that gets a better experience than developers and users have had with Android to this point.

(Also, hopefully things will significantly improve on Android - the article suggests so - because enough people have certainly been bellyaching about it, including me.)
"I expected my colleagues to respect the things I do in private and realize I'm just human."

So basically, you bet that people would overcome millions of years of human psychology?

While I agree with you it would be nice if that happened (really nice!), i wouldn't expect that to happen for a long long time.
Do you also believe Snapchat hasn't made a difference in how nude photos are shared?
They probably wouldn't, as it would create a huge hassle for them when the government starts investigating.

Also, proximity in time to an event is admissible as evidence of intent.
A couple of weeks ago you believed you'd blown the interviews because there were "random" questions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13518208 - what's changed to make you think there's a scam going on?
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Please get this vetted by real security people. The fact that you mention PGP suggests to me you haven't.
Depends on whether they decide they want a reason to get you out of the country later. How much do you speak against the regime? They won't be interested in most people but they will target their efforts.
> How can you sell travel writing to a Brexit market?

It was people of 70+ who voted for the Brexit; I doubt that they're more than a tiny part of the market for travel writing.

With all of the hysterics people seem to have forgotten that both Trump and Brexit were won by small majorities, both essentially being won by the age range who consistently vote (I assume because younger people don't have the time, and in the UK at least belief). I don't think that either would have won had 100% of the electorate turned up.
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> Travel writing is for when you want to read and be assisted in understanding what the world is like somewhere. Not when you want to see what it merely looks like.

Travelling to a place also informs you of what that place is like.