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No one actually cares what some sign on a building on a leafy campus says

They do when the name is John frickin' Calhoun, increasingly.

Like Nickelback, we all thought he was cool at the time, but you look back and see that if he wasn't That Guy, somebody else would have, and at any rate the ideas he's known for are played out.
Pretty sure you don't need to be uber-rich. Anyone can get their house censored if they ask nicely.
Isn't this much ado about nothing?

If not for slavery, the African American population that enjoys 1st world comforts in the USA today would be languishing in some underdeveloped African country. Even for the time, slaves who were not in the USA might just have been slaves in Africa or Arabia.

To prove that slavery was categorically bad for African Americans, we need to prove via counterfactual that a better possibility could exist. I've never seen anyone prove that.
> Windows is a legitimate cash cow, but because of server installs. Office makes a lot of money; SQL Server and other datacenter products make much more.

And yet on the server Microsoft does not have a monopoly.

Consider that the main reason Microsoft has a profitable business selling server software is because of their desktop monopolies through many diverse paths.
One of my favorite books is the "The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes" which describes a technique called retrograde analysis

https://www.amazon.com/Chess-Mysteries-Sherlock-Holmes-Recre...
This is so silly and yet so awesome. I might actually use it in the future.
You can't make a statement like that without backing it up.

The evidence to the contrary is in greater favor until you provide support.
Support applies to both. Maintenance cost for these two alternatives is zero, since updates are free.
I reckon you got downvoted not because you're wrong, but because it makes people uncomfortable to consider that.
I read the article and it just glosses over the political difficulties, which will be extremely hard to overcome. Basically, when the most engaged citizenry also happens to be homeowners, legislating any measure that reduces home values will be akin to political suicide.

Even while it acknowledges the hypothetical nature of its arguments, the article doesn't consider negative factors - like the massive number of middle class middle-aged homeowners, whose mortgages will be underwater in case home prices were to drop. Is there going to be bailout of all of them? If not, we are looking at a repeat of 2008. If yes, who foots the bill?

Maybe, this idea would have been interesting at the beginning before homeownership was entrenched with the personal wealth. Now? Not so sure.
Fuchsia can't some soon enough.
A state actor wouldn't even break a sweat getting around 2FA, individually or at scale, if the 2nd factor involves SMS (or the phone system in general) (which, for 99% percent of the 1% of people using it, it currently does):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishfire

It's not even out of the question for malicious private actors who don't have total control over the whole system:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/the-limits-of-sms-for-2-...
That's been obvious from the start. Trump is going to destroy the Mexican economy so they're going to flood the States looking for work. NAFTA kept a lot more Mexicans out of the US than any wall ever will.
> 365 starts at $99 a year, per user.

And at $150/yr it includes Exchange/SharePoint/Skype/Teams. The latter three aren't particularly exciting but not having to worry about email/calendaring is a big win.
Calling Bullshit Syllabus
Most REITs are built on the assumption that commercial property loses value and follow IRS-provided guidelines on depreciation.
So they're smart enough to hire illegals for cheaper labor, but somehow not smart enough to realize that Trump was completely serious when he said at every speech he gave that he planned to deport illegal immigrants? Does that not sound fishy to you?
I wonder if this includes google accounts (since you know, google plus).

I mean, the whole notion is horrific and abysmal, but in today's OAUTH world you're not just giving up the facebook goods, you're giving up co-logins to lots of other sites too. There's other technical issues too - I use 2FA everywhere. So, do I disable the 2FA or have to give that up too? In perpetuity? I mean, I don't trust law enforcement to not go around murdering people, why should they have access to passwords?

The very thought or suggestion that this could someday happen would make me cancel any and all trips to the US for the foreseeable future (if I weren't already a US citizen who lived here, that is, and as it is I'm seriously considering emigrating in response to this administration).

The brain drain effects will have to be enormous. There's already a company focused on helping startups use Vancouver to base their remote employees. [0]

On so many levels this is bad. I'd heard the notion floated under the Obama administration, but I trusted them to be adult and see all the possible ramifications. I do not trust the Trump administration to even be in the neighborhood of rational, let alone adult. I mean, they dumped the immigration executive order with no actual warning whatsoever (besides repeatedly saying he'd do just that, I suppose). So now we have no real choice but to take them at their word.

0: https://techvibes.com/2017/02/01/true-north-establish-vancou...
Exactly!

>But only 9% of California's 74,000 farms have actually received subsidy payments and nearly two-thirds of the money since 1996--$1.8 billion--has gone to fewer than 3,500 farms. Most of the crops that fuel the state's $29-billion farm machine--grapes, peaches, plums, nectarines, strawberries, almonds, walnuts and vegetables of every hue--don't get a penny of aid. They aren't eligible.
Rather, the bulk of the money goes to support giant fields of cotton, rice, wheat and barley--crops that exist in surplus. Of the top 20 recipients in California, seven are big cotton growers and 11 are big rice growers. On average, they take in $596,000 in crop subsidies a year.

http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jun/10/local/me-subsidy10
Yes, those people will simply be denied entry.
No, because if you refuse to help them access your account, they will detain or turn you back.
I think you need to use some PDF package to have the encoding set correctly. I had the same issue in the past, but I don't remember how I solved it.
Does anybody know how this is different from Spark? These Distributed Immutable Arrays sound suspiciously similar to Spark's Resilient Distributed Datasets. Is it just the choice of C++ as opposed to Scala that would make this more efficient?

Also, I wonder if and how they implemented the concept of lineage (unless these DIAs are not really very resilient)... I thought Spark relied on Scala's delayed evaluation to do that, though I may be mistaken.
I disagree. One, property taxes didn't go down materially in my jurisdiction despite housing prices dropping precipitously. Two, schools have already been hit hard with horrible admin teams and the rise of open-enrollment. Three, jobs don't have as much of an affect on home prices as they once did. That is, investors|flippers|NAR shysters| and the government control far more of the housing market prices than we give credit for.

I am not a boomer, but they have been in charge for a while and have really messed things up.
Word for word blogspam of

http://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2017/02/feeding-frenzy
Wait, was this actually classified to begin with?

If so, it's a case study in how that power is misused...
In the presentation they directly contrast the performance of the two.
http://panthema.net/2016/1206-Thrill-High-Performance-Algori...
Depends how much the border officer likes you.
* Pokémon Go shouldn’t have full access to your Gmail, Docs and Google account — but it does | TechCrunch || https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/11/pokemon-go-shouldnt-have-f...

Got fixed I think... but how many people cared?

Every try and roll out 2FA for an office and get the majority of people -- C-level folks included -- griping and giving pushback that they hate it because now they have to do one more tinsy little thing to sign in? After a while it's just sort of like... "Well... you've been warned you should care more about security, you have been given every opportunity to learn about how technology works, and bottom line I don't really care about your privacy if you don't..."

It's so frustrating is all I'm saying.
Yes. And the corn subsidy in particular has really thrown off the market, encouraging huge numbers of foods in the US to be made with some sort of corn byproduct. We quite literally are subsidizing the fattening of the US with Coca-Cola getting a cheap sugar.
Word for word blogspam of

http://news.rutgers.edu/research-news/rutgers-researchers-de...
There is no legal obligation to be truthful in what one places on their Facebook profile, however, so it's not perjuring. You can out on whatever you like and it's up to the border agent to make of it whatever they will.
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Yes. She's the single aspirational figure people push, most of the time, and it's a bit ridiculous.
Here's the question I want answered. How does this type of thinking affect the future of Snapchat. The future of Signal is easy to predict. Back door. Snapchat? This type of thinking seems like an existential threat to Snapchat.
Maybe not, but that number doesn't tell the whole story. This is revenue. How much are they spending on R&D, infrastructure, marketing, etc. for their cloud business? How fast is that spending's growth in relative to the revenue?
http://cm-unicode.sourceforge.net/
Here's my favorite, "Is God a Taoist?": http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTao...
Many of the examples you present are considered unlawful or, at the very least, unauthorized use.

I'll risk an analogy (I know, I know) and compare your examples of digital trespass to examples of physical trespass.

If someone can physically enter your (perhaps unlocked) home/place of business/doctor's office, etc. and expropriate copies and originals of documents associated with you--documents that are very likely protected by law as they are in the case of digital documents--would you also assert there is no such thing as something being "private"?

Your argument, to my mind, seems to blame people for having reasonable expectations of privacy and absolving criminals who violate that privacy.

EDIT: Recast caveat/second paragraph. Readability.
Today's first time homebuyer is typically 35 yr old[1]. Assuming people older than 35 too have (typically) purchased homes by now, you are looking at boomers + genX + genY, invested in the real estate market. In other words, falling home prices would devastate a broad portion of the society and would wreck the economy.

[1] http://www.zillow.com/agent-resources/download/todays-first-...
Apologies if I'm being too academic here but not all memory bottlenecks or communication bottlenecks are the "Von Neumann Bottleneck".

The term was originally focused on both data and program memory being on the other side of a shared bus from the CPU, which meant you could only do one at a time. If you were trying to figure out your next instruction, you wait. If you then need to data, you wait. It wasn't a problem back with slowly executing EDVAC code [0]. Based on this definition most architectures today do not have the Von Neumann Bottleneck as they are not Von Neumann architectures [1, 2, 3].

A slightly looser definition of the Von Neumann Bottleneck refers to the separation between CPU and memory with a single bus. This likely originated because fully Von Neumann architectures are so rare but that the general problem is similar enough to share the name. GPUs dont have this issue because they employ parallelism thru multiple memory ports talking to off chip RAM. TrueNorth also doesn't have this issue because it has 4096 parallel cores with their own localized memory and no off chip memory. There could certainly be other bottlenecks in the system, even with the memory system, but those wouldn't be the Von Neumann Bottleneck [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture#Von_N...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2645652

[2] http://ithare.com/modified-harvard-architecture-clarifying-c...

[3] http://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/24599/which-architectu...
Easy fix: Delete your Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Uh, no? People vote against their best interests all the time.
Some companies are smart and run EU & US operations completely separately. This is exactly why they're doing it.
I think, much like when the ACA was implemented in the US, there's no real way to quantify beforehand how significant the changes will be (that's not saying we should do it and wait for the fallout). Yes, lettuce might go up to $20 a head--we'll eat less lettuce and it's no longer assumed to come free on burgers and people move to something else. We can offset that by offering farmer's more subsidies, importing more lettuce from somewhere else, or incentivize loans for better farm equipment/irrigation.

We'd need to decide to stop exploiting workers and work on finding solutions from there (I don't actually see that first part happening).
What happens when a competitor creates a substitute artwork (i.e. one that competes for market share with the original artwork) and sells it at 24¢?
I was just thinking today about Thomas Jefferson's idea that the constitution be rewritten every 19 years (every generation).

I arrived at that thought while thinking about how Dropbox Paper is more modern than Google Docs (which turns 12 this year).

Sometimes it's better to start over from scratch.

It lets you do things you actually couldn't do with lots of small changes.
I saw a video interview with the CEO of Hotspot shield vpn the other day, he had a quote ready that went something like 'The first 3 companies to hit 1 billion users did it by selling private information, the next 3 are going to make it by protecting private information.'

I wrote it off as a nice sound bite, but maybe he's right...

Hey I'm sure I'm not the only one to think of this, but to everyone trying to build the next social network, how about putting in a feature where a second password will open your scrubbed profile? You'd choose what goes in from your main account, and not have to build entirely fake accounts. There's a way to get some quick traction, should the Trump administration succeed at making a policy of asking for passwords!
I'm going to be built it with nedb & angular2.
I'll probebly use P2P aproach at first phase.
How far off do you think we are from that? It'll be here within 5 years. To get a visa, you have to have the visa pre-scan app that requires every account you own to share data with it. They'll run that through some magic black box and it'll show the TSA's glorified mall cops a green or red light when you walk up to the scanner.

Fucking terrifying, and 99.9% of the people won't bat an eye before logging in. Thought policing is "for national security." That same percentage of people would be ok with the government raping their own mother if it was for national security.

This is all so damn frustrating.
Perovskite looks like a cool material! Here's to hoping solar energy will solve energy problems (including obviating problems of long-term energy storage), smart grid and all. Maybe eventually solar kilowatt-hours will be valued like labor (human kilowatt-hours), and we'd get some kind of smart blockchain for energy -- who knows?
Definition of an "average home" changed though, which is why real estate industry uses $/sq.ft.

Beyond square footage there are also expectations on the innards of the residence - e.g. try to find a new construction listing that does not have "designer appliances", "hardwood floors", "cat-5/6 wiring" and a ratio of bathrooms/bedrooms closer to 1.5-2/1 vs 3-4/1 that was common decades ago.
I'm sure scores of them will be getting past a heavily guarded border, dodging a rapidly expanding ICE, and getting employed when e-verify is required nationwide.

NAFTA caused the illegal immigration crises by destroying small farms in Mexico with heavily subsidized American corn.
Ask HN: Ionic, ReactNative, NativeScript, Xamarin
All cross platform mobile app development frameworks, each with their own pros and cons. Which ones are people moving away from and over to, and why? Where will each be in 5 years?
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When I was an undergraduate I met Raymond at a math conference in Minnesota. We talked about logic, religion, and philosophy at the reception the first night. The next morning he sees me and runs over to me. He said,

"I invented a new religion for you last night. God has a number in mind. If the sum total of all good acts minus the sum total of all bad acts exceeds this number then everyone goes to heaven. Otherwise, everyone goes to hell. Imagine then. Something you do could send everyone to hell."

I'm sad to hear of his passing.
There's also a problem when SmartPerson runs NormalPersonVM(6.0) because that runs at three times NormalPerson speed. SmartPerson knows what NormalPerson is going to say a half hour ahead of time and gets bored easily, plus NormalPerson catches on that they are being anticipated consistently and that's bloody annoying or scary for them. Running NormalPersonVM at the right speed for the right person is tough. Raising children gives lots of practice with this, though.
We're talking "mirror neurons", btw.
> The real solution is to entice global companies like Google and Facebook to start building employment centers in areas like the Midwest.

Why should they do that when the best engineers want to live in the Bay Area? The talent can come to them.
I only write simple letters and, while I do actual accounting work in Excel which is just a little more than simple lists, I'm not using Excel as a database either... as I use databases for that (i.e. don't ask me how to do a VLOOKUP). Even in these simple tasks, MS Office is simply superior in terms of function and productivity if you are performing those simple tasks frequently enough.

Could I get by with LibreOffice or OpenOffice, yeah, and did so for a couple years straight and off/on before and after that time. I use to be annoyed to no end by the bloat and heaviness of MS Office... and then after prolonged use of LibreOffice/OpenOffice (yes, both), I came to greatly appreciate MS Office. The only part of office which I use regularly which I'm not very happy with is Outlook (OK, really only use Word, Excel, and Outlook... can't comment on the other parts of the suite as it's been more than a decade since I regularly used things like Access). I'm also disappointed by the Office 365 cloud integration/features: feels very much like a philosophical approach to technology that has lots of Microsoft servers in your enterprise's data center and the outside world is kept at bay rather than collaborated with... Google does that much better... LibreOffice not at all.

The number of quirks that caused something to not be quite right or the performance differences I experienced (noticeable in spreadsheets) makes free LibreOffice look very expensive and $99/yr MS Office look cheap. Much more productive in MS Office overall. Having managed IT operations in the corporate world, same experience there: the only place I would (and did) deploy OpenOffice (LibreOffice didn't exist yet) was to the field and the field being to retail chain store personnel. In the chain in question they only wrote simple letters and used spreadsheets for simple lists, generally had very little/no computer experience, and they didn't do office suite work with any regular frequency at all. In that case, the productivity hit was drowned out by the noise of overall lack of computer literacy and they didn't do those tasks with any real frequency, so the Office licenses really didn't make for good investment... but I can tell you that I deployed MS Office to all of the HQ staff and middle managers and glad to have done so.

In the past few years, I would probably rank the desktop office suites (meaning available for use on the desktop) as MS Office, G Suite, LIbreOffice. I have Office 365, but tend not to use the online versions of the apps so won't comment on them.
I think the comment was downvoted because it was unnecessarily rude, and the examples were almost all illegal. I don't think anyone argues it is possible to violate privacy by acting illegally.
I was born and raised in Spain, and now live in the US. In my experience, the coverage of news about Israel in the US and Spain are about as different as black and white. What you describe about The Guardian seems like normal coverage in Spain.

The experience mase me understand that, in practice, all sources have major amounts of spin where you might not expect it, and that it is very difficult to figure out which spin, if any, is closer to reality. It's not about fake news, but about how wide the journalist's sources are, and how much did they care about digging for what is real.
> They probably moaned about the quality of the quills 100 years ago.

My understanding has quill usage declining more like 200 years ago.
The "$20 head of lettuce" argument falls apart when you examine it critically.

Here is how I deduced that a $20/hour rate for farm labor, vs the assumed $8/hour rate paid now, would add no more than 5 cents per head of lettuce to the cost, and (assuming various middle-man markups in between farmer and supermarket) a retail difference of perhaps 25 cents.

1. Go to youtube, search for videos of modern lettuce farm operation. IIRC, I looked at the Iceberg Lettuce section of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxbJVqfIK1U

2. Count all workers you see working on the tractor-towed rig, figure each makes $8/hour. This gives you the total hourly labor rate (e.g. if there are 10 people = $80/hour).

3. Watch carefully and figure out the total time spent handling/processing 1 head of lettuce. Figure out the per-head cost, assuming the people are working 50 minutes per hour (bathroom breaks, tractor changing the wagon, etc.)

3b. Note that when it is stacked on the back of the truck, it is ready to ship to the supermarket; so there is no further labor needed aside from warehouse/trucking.

Now do the same per-head cost, assuming $20/hour labor (i.e. multiple by 2.5 the amount you got at $8/hour).

* There, now you have answered the question for yourself and you are not relying on my biased opinion. *

In my area a head of lettuce is about $2.50. Assuming the 25-cents increase, the cost for a head of lettuce would go up no more than 10%.
Perhaps I'm not understanding something. Why wouldn't an information-hungry regime simply ask for both passwords given that this would be a known feature?
I don't understand the comments here. OP wants $300k/year. They don't need to justify why. If that's what they want, then why not go for it? There is absolutely no reason to settle.

I especially don't understand the folks that ARE making this salary but are dissuading the OP from doing so. That's kind of like saying "don't move here; we are full."

As for OP, outside of starting some passive income generating business that generates enough income to meet your needs, you will probably need to start looking outside of making software to hit your goal. While it is possible to command this much as a developer, your skills have to justify this level of pay, and current market forces are strong enough to make this difficult for you.

Most of the people I've met who are making or have made this much either started their own business (risky), went into sales and did well at it (also risky) or had great networks and exploited the right opportunities.