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I was going for sarcasm. The slow steady death of Malls (the home of nearly all JC Penny stores) has been going on for over a decade now, and pretty much all of the articles I see about JC Penny's or Malls blame Amazon and people shopping from home for stuff. Given our current President's speech tonight and his preference for seeing things in an alternate light and his issues with estimating how full or how empty an aerial photo can be I thought "What would Trump say?" and well it just came out.

My apologies for those who were offended or missed the joke.
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People do all kinds of dangerous things. They ride motorcycles, go skydiving, some even climb into rockets and fly into space. Are they all stupid? Or did you just pick this one activity out arbitrarily?
alright. I'll bite. I have made almost no money in the past year, and my bank account is nearly zero. I had a relatively middle class upbringing (but for reasons I'd rather not go into) my family is currently bankrupt.

Capitalism (in the free markets sense) is great. The problem is that gobs of money are stolen from poor people like me by the government through various processes, the biggest of which is inflation. This money is largely redistributed to cronies - the easiest of which to see are the big contractors. Less obvious are the banks and directly profit off of low-interest loans by flipping them to higher-interest borrowers, and even less obvious is wall street (whose coffers are filled by middle class people pushed into protecting their assets from inflation).

This is Capital-ism (in the marxian sense) -- the philosophy deciding that the pursuit of capital is a good unto itself. Unfortunately, the state has decided to attempt to 'harness' capitalism for its own idea of 'social good' which of course basically taints the non-zero-sum nature of free exchange with the zero-sum game of political hierarchy. The more this happens, the greater there will be inequality. It's a direct consequence of the first principles, and is unavoidable.
Don't be rational with your easy fix.
It's more bitter than funny. Yet... the bitterness itself is funny.
The way I understand it, historically geo restrictions originate from physical goods, and are usually driven by distributors, who want to reduce competition and control certain regions. I.e. in order to monopolize the market, they require those who produce some goods to restrict distribution through them only for that region, and in return they offer better pricing and assistance in that distribution. I.e. this basically makes it impossible to make global distribution rights.

This logic falls flat however in the digital world, where distributor isn't limited by region. I.e. you can open a digital store, and sell worldwide (like for example computer games stores like GOG, Steam and etc.).

So in the pure digital world, geo restrictions sound like nonsense, since they reduce reach and profits, both for creators, and distributors. My guess is, this creeps into the digital sphere, because of the influence of physical distributors, who see digital ones as a threat to their local monopolies. I suppose strong grip of some regional cable TV companies, forces creators to limit their distribution through any digital stores as well. The problem is, this approach is pretty nasty when applied in the digital space. It basically becomes xenophobic. Translating it back to physical goods, it can look like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbiacSD13qk

Hopefully, the weaker regional monopolists will become, the more likely we'll have global distribution for video too.
Maybe it's just me. But this sounds like Trump.
You need to directly link to this because this apology does not actually show up on https://newsroom.uber.com/ . http://i.imgur.com/9fiFNJx.png
Sorry for that incomplete description in my article. Because of GIL of python, python application could not make full use of machines. Of course, some libraries like gevent/asyncio could fix it well. I will have a test to find out which one is the best, include docker.

Thanks for your comment.
Which is unfortunate, because government involvement in business is a socialist idea, not a capitalist one.
Calling the virtual DOM
Why would they want greater capitalism with less globalization? Wouldn't that be de facto less capitalist?
Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTEDYCkNqns
My grandfather had to live under communist rule. Capitalism is fantastic compared.
If you have a bank account of almost zero, inflation can't possibly be stealing money from you (unless you also have gobs of cash under a mattress somewhere).
You have an extra 's'.
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog (1993)
Did we not learn that Capitalism failed a long time ago? Why else will we have an Insurance system that is deeply incentivized to not cover your conditions? Why else will we have an Education system that is deeply incentivized to profit off your education and put you in debt for your life?
Could it be some fallout of the story[0] posted on reddit 11 days ago in regards to the shilling? I know that personally that has increased my time spent on HN.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/5une6u/reddit_is_be...
So much no true Scotsman about capitalism in here it's not funny.
Your first paragraph manages to sort of dismiss both sides without really engaging with them. No one wants to be typecasted, even if they have legitimate biases. There's plenty more nuance to contribute to the discussion than simply characterizing most of the participants the same way Upton Sinclair would: by their salaries.

I think you do raise a legitimate point about echo chambers, but how does that observation on its own help us? It's pessimistic. In my opinion, you've not really contributed to a resolution here except to be cynical.

I support capitalism, and I admit it has done very well by me. I don't come from a privileged upbringing whatsoever, but it's now likely my children will. But your binary characterization of the inevitable functions as sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy here - will my opinions on capitalism be viewed as coming from someone who benefits from it because that's the way you framed it? By starting the conversation off in the way you did, I believe your framing antagonizes it prematurely. Why not decry an echo chamber when it actually emerges?
To be fair, people who understand capitalism will still debate what it is.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2503660/

A few queries resulted in this, which is pretty informative as far as cannabioid treatments go. You're right, the benefits and potency aren't very clear cut, but, unlike opioids, THC-based treatments can produce desirable side benefits, which result in overall better outcomes (if we treat patient satisfaction as a major factor)
> Because it takes time to write a fix, test it, test it some more to make sure it doesn't break any of you 1 billion users, then ship it, then wait some more because people ain't updating that often.

Why does IE have a problem with this whereas other popular browsers do not?
Except that the prices of everything rise every year.
Ask HN: What's the single best piece of advice you've ever heard?
If social media wants his head, I'm sure they can get it.

I think it's bad for tech and the country when we don't support people who say they made a mistake and are seeking help. If you do that, you only end up with really good liars in charge.

Allow someone, somewhere, to admit a mistake and correct it in a leadership position.
are head and motion tracking not inputs to determining the eye position/orientation? Are they things the develop should ever have to interact with directly?

for controllers you will need the position/orientation information as well - but that's not much for an API to do.

Again, I feel like I'm missing something
They deprecated their alpha search api 2 years in iirc
Thank you for this foo101.
>Kalanick: You know what?

>Kamel: What?

>Kalanick: Some people don't like to take responsibility for their own shit. They blame everything in their life on somebody else.

I think that is a very insulting and superior thing to say to someone.
Hey so for what it's worth those horse tranquilizers will leave you totally unable to diddle, or even stand.
Colon and rectal cancer rates are rising sharply for Americans under 55
>Because the way the bill apparently reads, anyone in a protest could end up with their property seized.

I didn't see anything like that. Perhaps you can cite a particular clause?
YouTube Announces Its Own Streaming Alternative to Cable TV
Sorry, this is TheirTube, not YouTube. The whole point of YouTube is democratization and sharing of personal videos.
Blog post lists more: https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/02/finally-live-tv-made-...
Who enforces capitalist property rights?
They did used to have HDMI actually.
I see. This is a good example showing the limitations of neural networks and LSTMs, thanks.
Not just that but the YouTube App is just abysmal on pretty much any device other than a web browser. PASS.
This is like those surveys that show a majority of Americans oppose Obamacare, but a majority favor almost all of the individual policies that comprise Obamacare when the word "Obamacare" does not appear in the survey.

What I would like to see is a survey that asks people their opinions on certain characteristics of capitalism, without mentioning the word "capitalism." I think the results would be very different.
Sorry for the controversial question, and I probably raised my eyebrow if I saw a candidate choose XML over JSON when taking on a recent project... but really, why JSON? No comments, no multiline, no schema. I understand that XML is bad because ____ (not cool, verbose, old school, only enterprises use it?)
I am not a huge YAML fan but it seems this is the only human readable form of JSON.
The lack of self describing human readable scheme is mind bugling. So SOAP and XSD is bad (?) so instead we got swagger (?) is it really better?

Was ditching XML for JSON just due to cosmetic / trending reasons?

We still use HTML for markup. Why did everyone ditch XML for JSON beyond just treading reasons is an interesting question.
Reject taxation and monopolization, not capitalism.
Have you seen https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web
> We've gone through this apology ruse any number of times, and yet here we are again.

Not to this degree. He said he intends to get help. Companies don't change their culture without the CEO being involved in the process. A CEO saying this is a big deal.
Blaming wage stickiness relative to prices is different than blaming inflation. And, outside unions and jobs with competitive labor markets, the best advocate for wage un-stickiness many workers have is government involvement via the minimum wage.
> To be honest I'm struggling to come up with too many recent sci-fi shows that don't entirely suck, irrespective of where they're being made.

I'd have to disagree. Westworld, Rick and Morty, The 100, The Expanse, Black Mirror, Stranger Things, Outlander, and Sense8 come to mind as great recent Sci-Fi shows in active development. That's without mentioning the numerous high-caliber super hero shows recently released/coming soon.
It's more likely to give you money unless you're a lender and not a debtor.
It is not their call to make whether the apology is sincere or heartfelt. It is for others to judge.
Something that made filling rentals cars easier: there's a triangle on the dash that points to which side the cap is on next to the "fuel" symbol on all the cars I've been in.
Because the concept of hardware specs is alien to most designers?

Why would people buy a new thing that performed better if it still looked the same?
...who had an awful lot of good stuff to say. :-)
Historically property rights were defended by the owner.
If even 250 people are taking cannabis (not physically addictive, limited health impact, no tolerance buildup) over opiates (highly addictive, rapid tolerance buildup, very risky) then that's a good thing, right?
In my honest opinion, this kind of tools should not be monetized through its core functionality. My opinion as a user/developer, this is awesome, but 16? I would build one myself. Try to search another way to monetize, some ads on your landing page or additional features, but would not go to limit the core functionality. Good luck!
Android's color management problem, and how it ruins HDR devices
Thanks for your comment. Great article for networking. I'm not so familiar with NAT of linux, so could you post more details about it with python or docker, performance/advantage or something else?

Thanks again.
> it seems that on this, Sir Doll was wrong.

Ummm, did you read the article? Its whole point was that the dangers of second-hand smoke had been greatly exaggerated. So Sir Doll was right.

Despite the mounting evidence that transient exposure to secondhand smoke is more an annoyance than a mortal threat, smoking bans have become widespread and politically entrenched.
Surely not because you thought it had anything remotely resembling a chance of being taken seriously in industry?
Not always, at least from 2006-2010 there were few Windows laptops that were comparable on both specs and price (could get the specs for more, or the price with reduced specs). I stopped comparing them after that though, these days I'm inclined to agree but I'm pretty much sold on the platform thanks to a few pieces of software I don't want to give up yet.
I find myself between the two ecosystems quite often and I have to admit I find it hard to know how to represent both sides fairly in discussions. It is definitely not a bipartisan issue. There is no us vs them, it is simply one big group of people where those on the bottom of the system are struggling to affect the smaller changes needed to make life more sustainable for them.

They aren't big changes either, small incremental policy changes make huge differences to individuals. Those individuals just don't have the capacity after work, or the connections, to advocate effectively for themselves.
I was expecting a mention of the little tank-and-arrow icon on the gas gauge that tells you what side the filler door is on. Years of renting cars and randomly switching directions at gas stations before someone told me about that...
Honestly I don't see how a low-level paradigm takes over a field when every other trend is towards ever more abstraction. Sure, wasm has its rightful place, like DX12/Vulkan, but it's a tiny fraction of apps/projects. Most likely we'll see js-to-wasm preprocessors of sorts to invoke optimized calls when it matters, but most devs won't touch low level (much like most game devs don't touch engines/middleware).

There's the 1% edgy companies built on node+rust/D and what-have-you, and then there's the 80% wordpress crowd who longs for a human-readable programming language a la Star Trek. I think the latter is a future that will come unimpededly over this century, as far as the majority of the industry is concerned.

More pressingly, people are waiting for async and other cool multi-threaded features in JS, and ES6 really is a second coming of sorts in that regard. Long gone are the days of horrendous paradigms once we adopt the 2016 spec, really.

Economically, because that's the true judge ultimately, we have to consider the existing JS ecosystem: actual prods, skillsets, experience, actual needs of businesses who fund the construction of the web currently solved by JS, and so on and so forth. It's a giant thing, that JS. If we had a better alternative today, we'd still be writing JS in many projects in 2020 and maintaining some of it late into that decade. Let's face it, JS is here to stay, there's no turning back now --see how polarizing Java has always been for another historical case, and see how it's still top 3: can't suddenly undo all that cash poured into production, can't instantly retrain hordes of programmers.

I'll say one thing about wasm though: it's a formidable effort that paves the way towards a truly 'next-gen' web paradigm, most notably suited to be actuated (viewed) within a VR/AR environment; it's also a prime candidate to run on the smallest devices at the heart of an "ambient"/IoT ecosystem. I'm considering a superset of low-level networking protocols that go beyond the web, obviously. And I haven't researched anything about it yet but I suspect the low-level hooks of wasm could be hacked to do some fancy ML stuff on-the-spot (thinking low-cost online algos and reinforcement learning here, if we are to make our 'ambient' IoT ecosystem able to 'learn' about us as users and map the physical world semantically).

Ha, fascinating times, really. Let's just not lose sight of how the real world operates, though, if only to improve on that. In due time when ideas become feasible under the right circumstances. Low-level programming is very much not how we've trained the bulk of tech people since the smartphone era / mobile paradigm essentially. It'll take time to shift, if we ever did. I don't think we will, in the grander scheme of things.
It would be easy for you, I doubt it's easy for the personality type we find in him.
I have cable TV even tough I pretty much never watch it. I don't want it, but to remove it is more expensive than to keep it. I don't have a good incentive to pay more to have more TV.
Personally, I'm okay with two of those.
i have had problems integrating apache spark using google storage. especially because s3 is directly supported in spark.

if you are api compatible with s3, could you make it easy /possible to work with google storage inside spark?

remember i may or may not run my spark on Dataproc.
Uber's position is that its ride sharing, and that's why the drivers are employees. Arguing that they have a reasonable expectation of privacy now that it would benefit Travis is just arguing out of both sides of the mouth.
Not intrusive, thank you for the question. I'm a self-taught hacker/coder. Before medical school I made a Facebook application, when those were a thing, called Quiz Monster, which had about 3 million DAU for a few years. Thankfully earned enough through ad revenue to pay for my medical education. I see myself as a clinician first, but will always be a hacker and plan to return to software after residency.
You may not like capitalism, but it is an indisputable fact that capitalist societies have higher standards of living, including for the poor, than societies that use any other economic system. By that standard, it's more successful than any other system, and hardly a failure, despite what other problems is has.

By the way, the problems you describe about insurance (I assume you mean health insurance) and the high cost of education are not characteristics of most capitalist economies. The United States is an outlier in those areas. Plenty of other capitalist countries have universal health care and free education. Plenty of others have universal health care and non-free education. Only the US has the double-whammy of expensive health care and expensive education.
Verify me.
If I was ever asked "why are you sitting around on the computer all day instead of going and doing something productive", I'd say that I was gaining exposure and experience. Limiting that exposure means less of a general ability to easily orient yourself when dropped into unfamiliar circumstances or situations.

Driving around randomly uses gas and contributes to maintenance costs, but gives you an irreplaceable spatial idea of your environment that you can't get from scrabbling through a directory, and which you definitely can't absorb from Google Maps or a GPS.

I only grasped these ideas quite recently, and have been rather motivating to get me to learn more about the academic aspects of CompSci.
The cold war branding of anything communism/socialism as evil is being seen through as rhetoric, and more people are seeing merit of using blends of governance than pure free market. People 50 years ago had to support one system of face real consequences.

We can now debate the merit of concepts like "privatise luxury, socialise necessity" without being a 'commie bastard'. With the irony being socialist policy was far more in place and accepted 60 years ago when people were so anti-Russia and communism/socialism.

I really hope nations leaders can hear this because if they keep pushing people down with income disparity, access to a reasonable living and opportunity the pressure will build up for a bigger push-back, and potentially something dangerous if driven by anger/desperation rather than a common will to succeed.

I feel this is one of many strengths of democracy where it should allow pressure values to pop safely and society realign much earlier and easily than other government styles.
The past week and a half has had some pretty incredible postings. Uber has dug itself into an epic PR hole from the taxi strike to stepping down from Trump's advisory panel to revealations that their office resembles Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Then you have a SHA-1 collision AND Cloudbleed on the same day.

My personal favorite of these is the NASA discovery of 7 earth-like planets in the goldilocks zone of a red dwarf. The little kid in me is imagining Tattoine with a binary star system AND 3 or 4 garden planets that would appear as large as our moon. A lot of them are within .005-.008AU of each other. For reference, the moon is ~.00e AU away (closer, but smaller).

AND SpaceX announced that they would be flying 2 private citizens to the moon. I'm surprised that isn't in the top ten. Maybe HN is fatigued
At this point who can have empathy for the management of this company? This overvalued, overinvested company.
For me the video humanizes Uber drivers - the people who have the most to lose when Uber brass damage the company through scandal and mismanagement. The fact that Kalanick dismisses the driver's opinions on what might be good for the company reveals the fragility of his ego. If he'd listen to the opinions of the people who actual make Uber work, he might learn a lot.
Please, people, let's push this to the top weekly posts just for the sheer pleasure of watching this thing go full meta!
Simple Connect for AWS SES by Pepo Campaigns
That's why this poll isn't very useful.
It's an expression. When I write something like, "My deepest condolences". I'm using a fairly standard expression. Same with, "My most heartfelt apology". Yes, the veracity of those statements will be judged in time, but it's still a common, and idiomatic, way to say things in English.
Seems to have gotten flagged off the front page fairly quickly.

(Actually a lot of stuff seems to do that lately - I find myself doing a daily check of the second page, just to see which big stories got flagged down before I saw them.)
Damn it. I misread the spec sheet and thought they were lacking hdmi just like the Air.
Treating chronic pain has less to do with pain relief and more to do with mental health. Sometimes people just want to forget or feel different for a while. Also, opiates suck!
That's why I love the pumps at Costco. They can extend so it doesn't matter if you have left or right, they can reach it.
Opioids reduce, but don't block extreme pain so much as make you not care about it. They work really well for short term, less extreme pain, but they become less effective over time and they side effects are nasty.

So my guess is people with long term pain are probably better off with canibis long term even if Opiods work really well for post operation pain for example.