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>reasoning to justify poverty reduction __leads to__

This is slippery slope argument.

You are essentially saying that using economic argument for taking care of poverty can be used to justify not taking care of poverty and we should not use it.

It's hard to connection between importance of supporting disabled and old and economic argument for reducing poverty. Reducing overall poverty is net positive also for disabled and elderly.

I thus think that you have succumbed into logical fallacy.
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Yes, exactly. You don't get the output of a big Apple or Google without them existing initially as startups.

Mark Markkula funded Apple.

Andy Bechtolsheim funded Google.

These didn't happen by accident. They weren't inevitable.
Sacca seems to thinks he's putting his fortune to good use by complaining about politics.
I quite like the fact that programs written decades ago are still in use. In the web development world there is so much churn. Anything you write now will have been rewritten a year later. It is quite disheartening.

I like this quote from https://teuxdeux.com/purpose

> On that note, why the heck does every app need to change all the time? Can’t something on the Web be more or less finished?

However I have no idea what COBOL is like to work with so I am probably being unrealistic.
Then I'd bet you're not in the target market for a camera that can record you when you're trying on new outfits.

But if you were, I'd be willing to bet that you have a laptop in your bedroom or phone-cradle that can hold your phone in a position to record you so you can instagram today's outfit to your friends.
You sound like someone who has never set up a margin account. General margin accounts are almost no questions, and varying levels of options trading only ask you questions like "how many years have you traded options", with no verification. There's basically 0 barrier to entry except for having money to trade.

The only difference is that Robinhood is charging a subscription for access to margin whereas other brokerages do it for free.
This is a brilliant product, and right in the corner of a "brilliant product/things hackernews hates" graph.

Most people aren't that concerned by privacy and will love features like the ability to see different views and short videos. Everyone knows that feeling of catching a glance of themselves in a passing mirror and how it's a different feeling to deliberately evaluating your look in a mirror. If they can recreate that feeling, and combine it with product recommendations it will be a massive success if they market it right.
If you search his name in the iOS podcast app (and I imagine others) you'll get a list of podcasts where he is interviewed. I highly recommend it!
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Leaving the investing scene and liquidating their positions aren't the same thing, and Chris didn't say anything about selling his stock.
From 38 years to Angry Birds is 2.6 orders of magnitude. Population has increased by a lot less than that since radio. It's close to 400, so a radio population of one billion would have to be 400+ billion today to scale linearly. You are correct that it would be somewhat less dramatic, but it would still be impressively dramatic.

I'm just doing some Fermi estimates here to give a sense of what sort of change we'd get in reaction to your idea in the spirit of fun, not anger, because I enjoy this sort of thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
Incorrect, Kees Cook, who more or less founded the KSP project (kernel self protection) has been working on this for several years to enhance the security of ChromeOS while working for google. He started some of it when he was working for Canonical and has been doing this non-stop. The problem is that getting things into small individually testable components is literally anathema to the Pax/grsecurity model. They have very specific "chunks" of functionality which are quite invasive, by design. This goes against the model the Linux kernel is developed, so the two development communities are simply mutually exclusive.

https://www.linux.com/news/google-developer-kees-cook-detail...

He's been working on this for a very long time.
I've used Vimium for some months myself, and wasn't really happy with it. The reasons why mainly boil down to how VimFx/Vimium are quite limited in what they can do. For example:

- They can't change the user interface at all - qutebrowser has a much more minimal UI.

- They can't spawn external processes. In qutebrowser, you can simply hit ctrl-e while editing some text input, to edit it in Vim. Or you can use `:bind ,v spawn mpv {url}` to add a keybinding which spawns mpv with the current page, to watch YouTube videos in a real video player.

- As soon as you are on some special page (like the Chrome extension store, or the "new tab" page), they stop working, because they can't intercept keypresses there.

- In general, qutebrowser is much more configurable and extensible. You can easily integrate it with shell scripts via userscripts (https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/blob/master/doc/u...), and soon there'll be a Python plugin API as well.

As for Vimperator - as mentioned, that probably won't be around in its current form much longer.
I've noticed that too, and though I think there's maybe a tiny bit of wanting to counteract the public perception of nuclear as more dangerous than other sources, I think that it probably has other tech related ambitions.

Science fiction commonly has nuclear reactors at the core of energy for space travel. For extremely long hauls it's compact in terms of volume and weight. As far as I can tell.

So nuclear has a history of being the "future." So tech-related people like it for that reason. We're not going to get personal jet-cars for transit either, most likely. But there's that hint of a dream in tech culture.

Any reasonable carbon-neutral energy plan that I've seen uses at least a bit of nuclear. It won't be the backbone, and it's unlikely that its performance characteristics or cost will change much, but the rest of the century will likely see a consistent amount of nuclear energy, given the longevity of existing reactors.
I've recently built a Slack Doorbell using a Cheap D-Link Webcam and a AWS IoT Button. The one thing that surprised me was the lack of a good internet enabled camera, the D-Link basically has basic AUTH and for capturing photos is the same username and password as for remote. Does anyone know of a good and secure RESTFUL Internet Connected camera?
Canvas is trickier! There's some add-ons out there that disable it in various ways so they're your best bet I'd say (assuming canvas not working gives away less information than it does normally, it's hard to tell). For character sizes I'm not sure if there's many useful defences against it, I would have thought it'll depend on a number of things, the Tor Browser might defend against it well, you'd have to give it a look.
Considering Ford is on the list is sounds like he's more of a corporatist.
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Solar and wind weren't all that practical until relatively recently (the past five years or so?). If you've been following this stuff a long time, nuclear really was the one hope for getting away from fossil fuels. It takes a long time for people's thinking to readjust once something like that changes.
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relevant dilbert:

http://dilbert.com/series/34

http://dilbert.com/series/59-Tube-Clothes
I guess that's one of the advantages of interpreted languages over compiled languages.

I spend no time waiting for compilation to happen (ruby). I used to spend a lot in my previous job (C#), where the time was utilised (wasted) in going through blogs/articles.
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Very nice write up n thx for sharing ... I had done similar but at the end ... Linux took over ...
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I would suggest this card, it should work, it is SATA based as opposed to NVMe. I have installed a few of these in on several older systems (x58 based and others) and saw a very large performance bump, even versus SSDs connected via aftermarket PCIE SATA-3 controller (running at 500-550mbs). YMMV if attempting to clone an existing drive - I have had this problem with add-in PCIE cards, older motherboards, and various operating systems - a fresh install to one of these drives will likely be easier.
If I worked in an industry, and a new competitor came out that was initially more expensive, but killed less people, I'm not sure I'd be that surprised if my work started to dry up in favor of the less deadly alternative(s).

If at least one of the alternatives was cheaper too, then I would surmise the game was up.
How is that a failing of the person reading the email? They have no control whatsoever over who uses which method of communication.
I do not need a lesson on empathy.

"We need less workers to meet the demand for coal." "I don't believe you."

Either one is lying or the other is ignorant.
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The point of this project is to not use the user-agent for fingerprinting.
I'll miss him on Shark Tank. Hopefully Ashton doesn't become more of a regular
Same here. In disbelief after reading the product specs, I asked Alexa via my echo dot what the date is, and I can confirm it's not April 1st.
> so that's effectively opening up new easy to get credit vehicles for unsophisticated investors. How could that go wrong?

Not really different than what's currently available and which by the way, is heavily regulated as is the service that Robinhood appears to be offering.

From their FAQ https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/213262686-Ro... :

You can use your full Gold buying power when buying stocks, though sometimes you can’t invest it all in one, single stock. Let’s explain. This is because US federal laws require all brokerages, including Robinhood, to have common-sense safeguards to prevent customers from losing too much money on a single, high-risk investment. Some examples where you can’t use your full Gold buying power on a single stock include leveraged ETFs (which are already leveraged) and newly-IPOed stocks (which can go up and down in price very quickly), stocks priced at less than $3.00 per share (these securities are at greater risk of getting de-listed), and others.
My 2007 MacBook Pro had insomnia. It would wake up randomly and refuse to go to sleep. What killed it was it woke up in a plane's overhead bin causing it die from overheating in my laptop bag.

My 2012 MacBook Pro would just refuse to wake up sometimes.

My 2016 MacBook Pro is sometimes slow to wake from sleep, but no major issues yet.

My 2007 Mac Pro would cause a kernel panic when putting it sleep.
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"(Likely an overabundance of trust or a lack of understanding of all the real implications and potential for exploit.)"

I think that's a lot of it. People aren't trading privacy for convenience... people are taking convenience. It makes a lot more sense when you think of it that way.

You can do an experiment yourself to show this; take 5 non-techie/non-HN people and explain to them exactly what this thing does and how it works. You'll find people's attitudes change, rationally or otherwise, which I present only as evidence that they haven't thought about this and incorporated it into their worldview, not that they are right or wrong. Or watch this: https://youtu.be/XEVlyP4_11M?t=24m54s John Oliver on Government Surveillance.

Perhaps ironically, mere nude photos of myself aren't really what I'm worried about. I mean, I wouldn't be happy if they got out, and since I'm not in the habit of texting them about I have questions about where they came from, but by and large, nobody would care and it would affect my life only briefly. I'm far more worried about the government scraping everybody's postings on Facebook and building up a GoodThink/BadThink database, which I know basically already exists, because our political parties (let alone our intelligence community) build voter databases that are probably at least 90% accurate on that front. A concrete list of Everyone Who Disagrees With Me, one accurate enough for someone powerful to decide the rest of the inaccuracy is acceptable collateral damage, is scary.
I think people might be missing a use case... It will map your exact body type and then allow you to try on clothes with AR through your phone screen.
Finland net imports of electricity in 2009 were 15%, so about the same as it is today. They have a lot of hydro power and little reason to stop using it. Countries are ok with risking 15% of their generation from external sources because you can get by on 85% supply with minimal disruptions and you can ramp up supply in the short term.

Solar in the Sahara is an example, but countries already spend a few percent of GDP on safety, being less efficient but more independent is generally an excepted trade-off. Further, Sahara solar > desalination > farming is probably a better use of that space vs transmitting it.
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I don't think that really applies here. For example in NYC you have almost no white collar crime in Brooklyn, Queens or the Bronx but you do have hotspots up in Stamford and Greenwich where there are many fewer people.

If you zoom all the way out, sure, it's just a population heat map, but this is intended to be (a satire of) a neighborhood-level map.
The reason that Linux is what it is today is the GPL. Otherwise it would be just like BSD, and bundled into the OS for worst of the worst for propriety shit, Apple.
I don't have them all memorized, but you can Google. This little guide came up.

http://www.wikihow.com/Dress-for-Your-Body-Type

I had a friend once who walked me through all this while she was shopping. It was interesting to me that there could be, essentially, an algorithm to define what patterns people should use to select clothing. I remember it really wasn't all that complicated... but I'm sure it's a bit more nuanced than the first Google result explains. Anyway I'm pretty confident Amazon will get it mostly right, and be able to grow into the space from there. I think it's pretty cool they are trying this... dressing better is something we can all do. (=
> the effort of disrupting which would be unavailable to all but state agents

It's a good thing then that there is a long history of all state agents in northern Africa maintaining friendly and stable relations with European governments.

(Yes, said Europeans also carry a great deal of responsibility for this situation, but that doesn't make the situation any more tractable).
I'm pretty sure to program in Javascript you need to understand that primitives are passed as values, while objects are essentially passed by pointers, and if you modify one inside the callee, the caller will see the modifications.

Understanding this fact does not strictly imply having a basic understanding of memory, but it gets pretty close to it. I would personally be weary of some who calls itself a programmer or software engineer and couldn't write this article themselves.
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And why is that a bad thing? If I make a couple of $100 trades in a day and make $10, what do I care if the pros used me for liquidity? I believe the same would happen even if I was paying $7 at Fidelity to make the trades.

Not trying to be argumentative, just want to make sure I understand the conversation here.
I'm just hoping I'm dead before it's mandatory to own one of these.
Crystal ball: this is the Tesla self-driving car strategy. First deploy the hardware, then figure out the software.

In this case the real point of the depth-sensing camera hardware and machine-learning image analysis isn't hands-free selfies and robo-fashion advice. It's building a 3d model of your body to show what you would look like in different clothing, creating a clothes shopping experience that is competitive with shopping in person, and letting Amazon take on a big chunk of retail where it's not currently an appealing option.
There are actually things like peat moss[1], which are a semi-renewable energy, which I see being far more useful in a "dark age" scenario.

Not to say, it's not good to keep coal in the ground for the same reason. Just thought I would share another tid-bit lol

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphagnum
Perhaps to establish a "beta" period for earlier adopters, with a plan to lower the price in the future?
Ah yes, Golden State Foods! TYVM.
However the other online Brokers don't call themselves "Robinhood" and claim to be the champion of the little guy while simultaneously encouraging you into a strategy that has been proven to lose over the long run.

Use the advisor (robo or human) services of any of the top online brokers and they will recommend you put your money in index funds.

Also, putting together a "long term" portfolio of indexes at Robinhood assumes that Robinhood will be around offering free trades for the next 40 years. Otherwise you're looking at hefty capital gains taxes to transfer when they pivot or go belly up.

There once was a company called Zecco...
I can very much tell you this was not sponsored.
Worst, or best?
They are doing the exact same thing that other brokers do. The difference is they are trying to drive the trading fees down to zero and hope they can make up revenue on all the other avenues, like selling order flow. I don't know if that's a sustainable model or not, though. They need to deal with a lot of fraud associated with their platform which takes revenue from the top line.
Damage that takes a few hours to fix is not going to destabilize a country. If you can scale it to keep up 24/7 disruption you already have an army and far more useful approaches like destroying ports.
>By selling order flow to market makers

All the discount brokers do this.
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I give you data, and you give me discount on your other services

That's not what rebate means in this context. It is, in fact, actual money.

Robinhood also isn't just giving someone data. They're sending order flow to various market makers. Not data about the orders but the actual flow in need of execution.
To summarize failure modes:

(a+b)/2 fails if |a+b| is too large to represent as a finite floating point number (overflow/underflow), also bad for a,b = +/- infinity.

(a/2 + b/2) can be inaccurate for a/2 and b/2 subnormal; also bad for a,b = +/- infinity

(a-a/2) + b/2 is good for most cases, but you should precede with checks for a=-b and a,b=+/-infinity to get best results in all cases
Huh? You need a mental model of your language and runtime.

If your language treats things in terms of numbered cells and nicknames, then you need a mental model of that.

If your language treats things in terms of reverentially transparent values, then you need a mental model of that.
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"Make your own decisions" and "choose what is right for you" are often euphemisms for "get thrown to the sharks" but give the illusion that you are really being given control over your own destiny by those who will likely take advantage of you.
Higher speed is absolutely more dangerous than slower. Yes speed differences are dangerous as well, but hitting a wall at 40 mph is a lot better than at 80. Higher speeds are also much more dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists, someone posted the numbers in another comment.
I'm not saying they're the same thing. But there is the appearance that they are effectively "getting out of the game". Not mentioning he is selling stock doesn't mean he hasn't sold some of it. Especially considering Sacca has a lot of Twitter stock and he's ridden the rise and fall from $90+ down to its current levels.
Yes, for several reasons.

(1) This device is absolutely sealed and opaque. It can't (easily) be analyzed to see what it's running, doing, or sending. It's even more opaque than a phone. It has enough processing power to do local image analysis, object recognition, etc., so just looking at bulk traffic won't prove anything about whether or not it's watching.

(2) The camera in this device is part of its core functionality, is always on, and is situated deliberately so as to watch you.

(3) The device is literally an Amazon sales rep in your house. Its primary purpose is to represent Amazon and sell you stuff.

I've always thought Alexa and the other cloud-connected voice-activated things were completely insane. I will never own such a thing. Period. This takes it to a whole new level of creepiness.
I probably could have said it better, the point I attempted to make was that without the support network most of that other stuff doesn't help. I have seen many people get clean, get their life back on track, and then a disaster happens like they lose their job or get kicked out because of a break-up and there is no one to help them. This leads them right back to drugs and other destructive behaviors. One of the most important privileges of being wealthy is that you almost always have a built-in safety net whether that's friends or family. If I lost my job and all my wealth today, there are a dozen people that would welcome me into their home. That's something a lot of people have and take for granted.
What's the lesson?
> The handling of this issue by the Go maintainers was exemplary. They had no security problem but accepted that so many people misusing the library was a security problem and that they could do something about this.

I disagree with the author here. A poorly-designed API that encourages rampant insecure misuse is a security vulnerability.

Documentation is not an excuse here.
> You weren't asking a question, you were making a statement about how foolish it was that banks are running COBOL.

I've only asked questions and in return, you're being rude to me. I've made no statement about "foolishness"; in fact, I've made no statement of fact at all, outside of what I already know: A COBOL stack isn't cheap.

I'd like you to get off your high horse now.
The thing is, Pinboard can decide to just shut down and there it goes all your saved webpages. Besides, if you want to save the webpages and have full text search, you have to pay the premium package every year forever.
Because that person is the person reading security@golang.org, which advertises a PGP key for encrypting emails sent to them. This is the security channel for golang. They should be comfortable using PGP and if they're not then they either need to learn it or they're the wrong person for the job.
I feel like a more accurate analogy is that you are going to start breaking into poorly secured garages and destroy people's bikes so that the owner can't ride them anymore.
>We tell the poor that they have the chance to escape if they just work hard enough; that we are all equally invested in a system that doles out rewards and punishments in equal measure. We point at the rare rags-to-riches stories like my own, which seem to play into the standard meritocracy template.

I don't know anyone who "tells the poor" that. I think most people understand that capitalism is a rather brutal, territorial game. And being raised in a good household is a massive advantage.
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