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Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear.
Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.

But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil or sinful, it's that they're unconscious. They are default settings.
They're the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that's what you're doing.

And the so-called real world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings, because the so-called real world of men and money and power hums merrily along in a pool of fear and anger and frustration and craving and worship of self. Our own present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom.

The freedom all to be lords of our tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the center of all creation. This kind of freedom has much to recommend it.
But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about much in the great outside world of wanting and achieving and [unintelligible-- sounds like "displayal"]. The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.

DFW, 2005.
Is that really best-case scenario? So you're saying that among the retired football players who do TV today, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Michael Strahan, Cris Collinsworth, etc. 90% of these players have CTE and will have decades-long dementia? So for the older players we should start seeing that very soon, no?
thats not what i said. I said if emerging complexity is at the core we are on the right track. I am willing to hear arguments against complexity at the center of this but then that should be what we argue. The star comparison doesent work in this vontext anymore than random does in evolution.
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At the high end, there are no substitute US citizens. Imagine trying to find an American-born replacement for Yann LeCun. At the low end, the H1B abuse train definitely imports a lot of people with close to zero skills.
But people still use it in general libraries that simply count something. Unlike angular or react which makes zero sense in non Web environment.
I love family trees: they're interesting, complex, data-driven, and beautiful. There are some very challenging decisions you need to make to make a tree readable, like whose ancestors to show, whose children, and how far back. To give you a sense, I have ~3,500 people in my family tree. I want different trees to show, say: a) all descendants of a root ancestor, or b) all of my ancestors.

This is reasonably easy to use and build out a simple tree. Here are two opportunities:

1) There are some UI areas that aren't totally intuitive (e.g., double click to add name), and generally it feels to "clicky" (e.g., too many clicks to get to the action I want). I think your goal is super-simple and "delightful" vs. full-featured.

2) The 1:1 relationship lines get complex, as every parent is linked to every child (so you end up with 2n lines that all overlap).
Deduction is types. Induction is testing. Abduction is program analysis
Everything that Elon Musk is doing has a foundation on First Principles:

https://medium.com/the-mission/first-principles-and-the-art-...

tl;dr --

1) Reduce the problem to a question answerable by a hard science like physics, chemistry, or biology, and pay attention to the theoretical limits.

2) If you can, find data on related industries and see if you can find long term trends. (Example: http://rameznaam.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Lithium-ion-... )

3) Extrapolate into the future.

4) Think of some way to exploit the information you've uncovered to gain a market advantage.

Other helpful techniques: Is there an industry which is subject to some form of bureaucracy which is distorting the market? How can technology be used to disrupt this?
The narrative that information distribution was more accurate in the past because of "traditional journalism" has always struck me as self-serving.

> Journalism — the historical counter to propaganda — has become the biggest casualty in this algorithmic war for our attention.

Is the best solution really to fight propaganda by leaving our information distribution to a selected elite that we have to trust to follow some standards? Journalists are humans just like everyone else, although we've been taught to think of them as super-moral heroes.

Is there a trustless way to implement journalistic standards such as sourcing?
If you learned something, it wasn't worthless.
You're focusing on the wrong part. Increased margins for corporations at the cost of engineer pay. Companies don't need their margins nearly as much as individuals need a higher salary.
In my very limited experience with companies that hires H1B to fill programming jobs, it's because they can't find qualified local candidates.

All the really qualified people are in the bay area working for tech startups, etc...

So a company outside of the bay area would have to bring in H1B workers who are willing to live in the area.

I am not sure if there are costs concerns for the company in making that decision, but I figure if they were willing to hire me, they probably don't have a problem hiring local candidates if possible.

Edit: Since people want more details, I'll elaborate on the VERY LITTLE that I know. Right now consulting agencies in Sacramento, CA need Senior Ruby Devs and they can't find any. I am not 100% sure on what salary is being offered, but I am guessing around 100K. A junior dev fresh out of college can make about 40K (remember its Sacramento!). (I want to make it clear this is all hearsay, don't quote me on this)

I was told an agency that hires out H1B workers can get paid as much as $50/hr. I have no way to verify this, but this is what I heard.

Another thing is, these are short term, project based, positions --- not very attractive to people seeking a career.

They also have a constant need for .NET and Java devs.

That being said. I am very much against outsourcing jobs that could be hired locally. But Sacramento has a very small developer community, so I don't blame them for using H1B to fill the gap. But who knows... maybe it's all a ruse.
I see no problem in a "monolith" using different kinds of databases.
My biggest struggle is people want to use them. I can't tell you how many junior devs I've ran into who dream of every single function call becoming a distributed read/write in the message bus.

It's tough to fit this in a small comment, but I would say avoid microservices until you know they are the right solution. They are often the right solution when you have multiple teams with independent development schedules. They are often the right solution if you have daemons that have fundamentally different characteristics (web server vs message consumer).

They are often not the right solution when you decide you need another module in your app.

Distributed systems are moving parts. Moving parts break. You shouldn't have more than necessary. Deciding what "necessary" is is a pretty tough task.
This is something we desperately need in the western world in order to combat Chinese hacking/spying offensive.
> also an aspect of a single-payer healthcare plan?

Note: single payer healthcare systems are about who pays, not who provides -- it's even in the name. So here, hospitals and clinics provide healthcare while the government pays those hospitals and clinics. There's no reason for the government to know John Doe's enlarged prostate medication because that's between the doctor and patient.

> if/when single-payer healthcare is implemented in the US, data leaks and breaches will occur often

Can you provide numerous links to stories about Medicare and Medicaid personal data being exposed to the public? And if so, do those breaches outweigh the cost of (in the single payer case) millions of people without healthcare, increased costs, and worse health outcomes?
Amen.

AS3 is one of the best languages I've ever used. Easy to use, dynamic but also statically typed when you want it with many of features from Java and C# which still aren't available in JS.

I wrote this a couple of months back:
https://medium.com/@Pier/ecmascript-4-was-too-ahead-of-its-t...
Is there any situation that you would consider a "shortage"?
What're your goals? Thinking about what you really want out of side projects may help. It gets the blood pumping to think about building a project that is finally the one that makes you millions, but creating a highly profitable business is a very different set of skills to building the technical side of a side project.

I'm in a similar boat, you are doing FAR better than I ever have (many "plans that come to naught, or half a page of scribbled lines" over here), but lately I've not been too disappointed.

I stopped caring if I failed to complete a project once my initial burst of interest disappeared - usually as I'd learned what I wanted to learn and my curiosity was best directed elsewhere rather than slogging on with a project I'd lost interest in (plenty of those you can get paid for, this is supposed to be hobby time!)

The new skills I learn for fun have led onto new jobs, better ability to function at my day job, friendships, collaborations, a fun summer at ITP Camp in New York, etc.
Did Facebook ever consider building out their video product outside the newsfeed to keep people on the platform? YouTube seems like easy prey with FB's reach.
Discussion is ongoing! Some of these recurring security issues just seriously annoy me, so I'm posting more references and discussion to that thread to document all the flaws of EVM and its languages, and the solutions to them that have existed for literally decades at this point.
Here's the real announcement, not this regarbled blog spam with no technical details: https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-up...
> The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

What is the argument for why this is better than the alternatives? Self-sacrifice can also be a worship.
I work with Edtech but I will like to know more details on the premise of this question. What specifically are you interested in and what is your background ?
It just means you think that people from other countries
are less deserving of job opportunities than people from
your country.

Society is a hierarchy of loyalty. Unless you're a self-absorbed, autistic, single 20 something, you have loyalty to others in various degrees. You support your family above my family. You support your company above my company. You support your neighbors above my neighbors, and yes, you should support the citizens of your country above the citizens of my country.

It's very fashionable to virtue signal that you have no loyalty to your country and that we should all live under a one world government.

I do not share that wish. I love that we do not have a mono-culture of government in the world, but have 195 different decentralized experiments happening on how to best run the world. I would hate to have a single experiment running with nowhere to look to or flee to, if it all goes awry.

But I live in one of those 195 experiments, and my fellows that share that with me, my countrymen, I support above the other 194. That's called being human.
They are related, but there is not a strict dependency. You can put a new airport into a place without worry about local transport significantly. (edited for grammar and post structure)

Most airports just put in parking and sometimes a shuttle bus to move people around their massive parking complex, but even as large as those systems are they peanuts compared to the Airports main concern, Air Travel.

Why are tunnels different?
Launch HN: D-ID (YC S17) – Protecting Identities from Face Recognition Tech
Hi all,

We are D-ID (http://d-id.com/), part of the YC S17 batch. We protect people's identities by processing face images in a way that denies automated face recognition, while keeping them similar to the human eye. We’ve just launched on TechCrunch and signed our first pilot, so here’s some info about us.

With the advancements of face recognition technologies (both in accuracy and growing use), the data in face images must be protected, because unlike passwords, you cannot change your face.

We came upon this idea after experiencing it as a personal pain at first, while serving in the military where we were not allowed to post to social media for reasons of information security, later to realize that it has become a worldwide issue where we’re all losing our basic right to privacy.

At first it was meant to be a B2C product, but we then understood that businesses are in greater need due to their responsibility in handling personal data of their clients and/or employees.

Since we use image manipulation techniques, it's clear that if all goes well it will probably start an arms race with face recognition algorithms. Would love to hear your ideas as to how to win in this battle :)

Our approach helps companies which handle images (cloud storage or even just profile pictures of their employees/users) to comply with privacy regulations, such as the GDPR (an EU regulation, nearly worldwide in its scope, which addresses face images as Sensitive Personal Data).

This gives companies a way to keep using images but without the responsibility of protecting the sensitive data they carry, helping them build their brand reputation for caring about the privacy of their clients/employees. We also enable security agencies and governments to protect their citizens and employees.

We’d love to hear feedback from the HN community! And we'll be glad of course to answer any questions you may have.
Adobe now has "Adobe Animate" though.
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This is tediously rehashed in every. single. thread. about tabs (someone's always gotta have a problem with someone else), but the fact is that some people have lots of tabs open while others don't. For me it's because bookmark management is such a forgotten child in all browsers, so I leave tabs in order to read them later.

The address bar used to be pretty helpful in calling up bookmarks (10+ years ago), but now there's too much featuritis there for me ever to rely on it again.
What happens when the thieves acquire the police? Who is going to police content, and for what purpose now? We already know that Facebook has profited tremendously from the freebooters.
Why not? Some people are actually seriously trying it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/annefield/2017/01/30/turning-co...
A while back I remember seeing a less-nuanced ESP8266 wifi jammer, it announces a huge number of APs with random names, making it hard for devices to connect to real networks:

http://ruralhacker.blogspot.pt/2016/01/esp8266-jamming.html
However, one has to see that many countries that are considered "real" democracies have quasi cartels as well. The most famous example being the US, however it's certainly not limited to that. Other candidates do get rejected by other than grassroots style media. Even opposition within certain movements is sometimes suppressed.

However, I don't think that any of this does make a country a non democracy, as long as you are not having a hard time making the cross on the opposition.

You can maybe call the level of democracy lower, the less information you have, which includes things like history, or public education of how the democratic systems work, or low level of transparency or scary things like secret laws, interpretations of laws, etc.

I don't think authoritarian democracy makes sense. It's a democracy that has an authoritarian party ruling, but the system behind it currently isn't exactly authoritarian itself.

That difference is important I think, because without well defined words and phrases everyone will use that phrase against critics as well making these terms very hard to use.

I am sorry for using the US as an example here. It isn't meant to be a "what about", but I chose it as a country that most readers here likely know enough about when it comes to politics. So I chose it to have a hopefully good example. Similar problematic areas for democracies exist around the globe, probably in every democratic country. I think one can always work on developing democracies through increasing transparency, education and information.

EDIT: Oh and it's certainly also not meant to defend what is going on in Turkey. Authoritarian parties are likely to reduce the transparency, education and information and also likely to transform it into an authoritarian system.
Sadly yes...

VMWare is one large one.

I know of a very large company that has been over the last couple of years moving from Java to Flash, so it will be amusing to what their reaction will be to this news.
Exactly! Thank you!

Assuming these are real, not nominal rates, who cares? I'd rather maybe miss out on the extra 2% than definitely miss out on the original 5%. Why be jealous?

You can also hedge your bets by gradually increasing your investment (maybe even "dollar cost averaging" or some other strategy)

For solar, that could mean getting a small system like the OP describes, trying it for a year or two, then expanding it a little more every year or two with the latest cheapest most effecient panels. This should work even better than dollar cost averaging does for securities, since you know it's unlikely the cost of panels will go up.
Thanks for all the work NFL put into React-Helmet
> This is all to say that Esperanto is genuinely better as a second language for Europe and the Americas if not the world.

But the value of a second language isn't in how easy it is to learn (that's just saying it's low cost.)

The value is in the pool of people it lets you communicate with that your first language does not, and on that measure, Esperanto is particularly poor, compared to whichever of (in no particular order) English, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, French, and several others you don't already speak.
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If they would have open sourced flash player I think we'd be in a much different place today. Not like they'd lose any ground on their actual profit center - the Flash animation tool and development environment, which is still seriously something fairly unique.

Maybe they can still reach that state if they invest serious effort in making their tool able to export HTML5.
> At the high end, there are no substitute US citizens.

What? Many brilliant engineers were born outside the US, including one of the founders of Google, Sergey Brin.
Hey, I have to disagree here. Let's look at what we know prior art. The best phishing attacks are the ones that are so obvious that only the unsuspecting, the vulnerable and those insufficiently skilled would fall for them.
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Elon Musk says Mark Zuckerberg’s understanding of the future of AI is ‘limited’
Your own error code
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That might be the "easiest", but it's not the most portable, and would be a nightmare to navigate. I'd recommend he work in a software package that can export to GEDCOM. That's a structured data format used by genealogists to track relationships and metadata. The current version is 21 years old, and the original spec was designed in 1984. It's robust and industry-standard. Every single genealogical product worth its salt will be able to work with that format (and export to it).

I hate to recommend them, but ancestry.com has one of the best interfaces in a SaaS product, with a ton of data on the back-end if you are doing research. An actual application (Family Tree Maker comes to mind, but don't quote me or take that as a recommendation) might be better for just "documenting" research.
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> Adobes stance on backwards compatibility in Flash has always been "Don't break the web".

Flash wasn't the web. Opaque, unsearchable blobs break the web. Screwing around with controls etc break the web.

Adobe's hope was to replace the open web.
You can tell there are many devs and designers on their team that take pride in their work! Have you seen those articles that say, "guess what the rate is for X over the years", and you fill out the graph with your mouse, and once you are done you can see what the actual data looks like? It's refreshing
Since WW2 at least the USA has achieved a tremendous global cultural hegemony. To give you an example many of my friends and I agree that it's easier for us to understand spoken "standard" American (i.e. TV and movie american) than british. Let's not even mention the scotts or irish.

Obviously if you're in a ancient british colony like Hong Kong or parts of India then you owe much of the english heritage to the queen's servants but elsewhere english has been pushed massively by the powerhorse that are the USA.

The american entertainment industry plows through all cultures, all demographics and brings you Mac Donalds, Toy Story, Rihanna and Coca Cola even if you're lost in Kazakhstan. Dr Who and Fish and Chips can't compete. Or is it Fish'n'Fries?
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The problem is that the new API are not and can not be as powerful as the XUL based system. It is impossible.

The new Chrome Replica Web Extensions can never be as powerful as the old system.
Ha, somewhere around 15 years ago I've implemented an e-mail routing system that forwarded the incoming e-mails (typically complaints or questions) to the corresponding official in a small-town government office. It was able to learn from redirections. I do hope that they no longer use it though, looking back it was really crap tech. But the concept was fresh!
I don't get how that could be a control against assuming genetic causation. Fraternal twins still have similar genetics, right?
I must say that Firefox's last couple of version feel blazing fast.