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> >Journalism — the historical counter to propaganda

Wow. Then they need a lesson in the history of journalism. They might want to read up on hearst and pulitzer and the founding of modern american journalism.

> "The good old days", except that never existed. Journalism has always been the tool for the powerful to paint a positive picture of themselves to the general public via "unbiased agents" called journalists who are "free to write anything" as long as it serves their masters.

Agreed. It's a credit to the media how well they do their job to brainwash that they fool us into thinking they are objective and truthful. At the end of the day, foxnews and the nytimes are just propagandists like any other. But somehow, we have been told over and over that our guys tell the "truth" and the enemy spreads propaganda.
I could probably write a script in 5 minutes that would scan the database and pull the products with 5 star only reviews like this one. No matter how good a product is somebody will always be unhappy with it because people are people and that's normal. We can't afford to be that naive to believe in a 5 star only product because that is the actual trolling.
Well one of the pitches of MMA is that its safer than boxing, especially in its modern incarnations and particularly when it comes to repeated head trauma.

Lots of the kids MMA events don't even allow head strikes and especially not the particularly dangerous elbow strikes while on the ground.

Boxing makes it hard to have that distinction. My prediction is that MMA will also go through this when people start realizing that the head trauma stuff is nearly as bad in MMA as boxing.
Thanks for writing this!
This is exactly what we are used to in FF!

Currently we are in a position where we'll push for devs to provide the necessary APIs going forward and I'll be happy to have more people along to push for that.

(Also, AFAIK Mozilla will provide a LTS version of the last version that will work with real extensions.)
They do! Fear, anger, and outrage create a rush that stimulates your reward circuits with dopamine, in the same way that a thrill ride or a good workout do:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/culture-shrink/201508/a...

They also cause the release of cortisol, that depresses your immune system, unlike healthy behaviors like spending time with your friends or taking a good walk in a park.
So much hate when Billy G's name is invoked. Freight forwarding is about as low-tech as it gets. Small commodity merchants, which can range from 1 person to "huge" commodity shops of 150 people, manually dial numbers of truckers to pick this up and haul it there, all the while making sure their peanuts or cotton or soybeans are in reasonable conditions as food an agricultural products are fairly heavily regulated.

It's a hugely complex problem with Djikstra's shortest path being approximated in a distributed system of humans interfacing with phones interfacing with other humans.

I assume they are working on an uber clone for freight forwarding. And now to start working on an uber clone for freight forwarding.
thanks! someone upvoted me because they understood my comment.
Sounds like the phased array approach would be expensive, complex, and incredibly hard to get working well in real deployments :)
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I totally agree. In the past week I deployed a new VMware cluster with vCenter, and found myself constantly wishing for the desktop client. A lot of the issues I had were related to bugs in the web interface itself, I had to SSH in to fix random things. Apparently, certain 'invalid' VM configurations can cause the web interface to error out completely until the VM is disassociated or edited, even on a brand new cluster. For VM stuff I can use Workstation to administrate them so I was able to change the VM settings from there, but for anything above individual VM control you pretty much need the web UI.
Hang on, let me get my crystal ball so you can feel safe and secure in the world again.
Berkeley’s How to Build the Future – Class Notes
I am super-stoked about the potential of Rust and Elixir, but there are some definite gotchas to be aware of. Especially if your Rust code is pretty expensive. Sonny Scroggin's talk about Rustler is really informative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSLTwWqTbKQ
Process optimization and standardization is the key to scalable growth. I have seen a lot of services businesses that grew big in short span of time and the only similarity I could figure out is standardization.
The Rise of AI Is Forcing Google and Microsoft to Become Chipmakers
Hadn't heard of Source3 before but would they potentially be the first investment Facebook has made in a Youtube-like Content ID program? Given the accusations and complaints of folks who find their YouTube content re-uploaded to FB without permission or compensation, maybe this will be a good thing (if you've more-or-less accepted the status quo of Content ID and its drawbacks).

A highly-upvoted HN discussion on a Slate article about YouTube videos being plagiarized by Facebook users: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9854160
If you use apps like Dropbox, Box or Evernote on your phone you've already used PSPDFKit - We released our Web product last year and with PSPDFKit Instant we want to connect all three.
Firefox Rocks! #FirefoxMasterRace
Video Playlist from “The Lead Developer UK 2017”
Which book, article or letter is this from?
Java and C# incur more much more developer complexity for web development than Phoenix.

And as the the sibling comment points out, raw CPU performance isn't the only measure of efficiency. The JVM loves to eat memory, and if you get 100x CPU efficiency but use 10x the RAM, you're still bounded on machine resource usage by that memory usage.
This. And I wonder how PG's philosophy about addictions factors into his advice to YC companies. On the one hand, you have to make products engaging in order for your startup to survive. On the other hand, if the only companies that thrive are the "stickiest", then our lives will be filled with products and services that have been specifically designed to make them psychologically addictive.
It's an acquisition/acquihire
You still can turn Flex and Adobe AIR code into iOS / Android app...
I would have expected a low power TI solution to use a MSP430 instead of the ARM. It would be an interesting to see the tradeoffs for a comparable MSP430 solution.
Google Fights Against Canada's Order to Change Global Search Results
Can you share some of the design houses you are recommending or are aware of? Thanks!
Most people aren't programmers and they (thinking of family etc.) sometimes use tabs as bookmarks. I don't argue against using tabs if you need them. What I'm saying is that people often use tabs when they actually want something else.
I fail to see what you're trying to point to here.

Are you saying a company shouldn't be allowed to use open source if they're not "contributing to open source and the internet overall"?
"I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings, and I hate people like that!"

The great Tom Lehrer: National Brotherhood Week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPNsr0mhcrY
Phoenix, a lightweight language that compiles to PHP
This is like every religious group taking credit for societal advancements.

> I'm pretty sure I'd rather live in a society with the technology of the stone age and today's understanding of law&justice

I'm sure we could conduct an easy experiment.. but maybe that's too empirical for you
Yeah "the act of opening a new tab does" I agree with. My original statement is based from my own behavior which I was projecting on to others (which I suspect others who are judging people in this thread may be doing), I don't leave my machine on overnight so the over 100 tab numbers being talked about freak me out.
I'm in the market for a cheap device that will detect this and a variety of other such attacks.

Bonus points and bonus money if it can somehow reveal the physical location of the attacking device. Perhaps in the manner of a Geiger counter (some sound or light changes as you approach the attacker).
The problem is that some people don't have just one thing they are doing at a time: they have long-term projects that overlap in scope. I am a teacher at a University, where I am teaching multiple classes and helping multiple students. I am also an elected government official, where I am sitting on multiple committees and making decisions on multiple topics. I am also a software developer working on multiple projects and doing research into multiple algorithms. I am also a human being having fun in multiple ways and talking to multiple other people. Do you really insist that I finish, shut down, and serialize the state of every single task I am working on in order to work on some other task? That is probably the least efficient process I think you could come up with; every single sub-task I have has its own working area, and each of those involves maybe 12 tabs... so the result is many hundreds of tabs. If you only own one table, which you have to share between work as diverse as soldering and cooking, I highly recommend trying out a life with two tables for a while, as you might be shocked at how much more efficient life becomes when you don't have to pack up everything you are doing every time you get hungry. What makes a computer interesting is when you then realize you have an effectively infinite number of tables.
If you're trying to say that journalistic endeavors occurred because of multiple historical factors and not just a shadowy cabal, which is what I think you were trying to say, you may mean borne out of, not borne out by. 'Borne out by' essentially means 'proven by,' whereas 'borne out of' means 'came about because of.'
> I believe the first step is the development of new design theories.

I tend to agree, at least in the abstract. But what would this look like, and how would it successfully supplant the old design theories?
It's called Adobe AIR and can also deploy to iOS and Android devices.
The Manifesto Club has been campaigning on related issues for some years: http://manifestoclub.info/category/public-space/

An interesting map of regulations on actual public space in London: http://www.bannedinlondon.co.uk/map.html
Well thats not to difficult. And besides, the main point is that you can opt to not use Google services.
But why is this on the bottom of the front page now after 3 hours and 169 points?

Is someone flagging this or has it triggered a flamewar-detector?
IIRC, the calculations from NASA says that for a trained individual, the value of a human life is around $50 million. 1/6 of that is $8.3 million.

It may be unethical to play russian roulette, but is it still unethical to choose to play if you were paid $8.3 million (given that much worth in utility) first? Why not?

On the other hand, mining for minerals also has risk. Miners in Australia are highly compensated for it, getting paid over $100,000 per year.

What difference is there between the scenarios, assuming everyone involved is fully informed?
Perhaps I'm overly plugged into political news right now, but I read your name as "Democrat - Idaho".
Quantum Cryptography System Breaks Daylight Distance Record
Risk assessment is literally the entire product is it not? Loans are not a technical problem to solve, and there's no inherent usefulness in it being a smart contract. A guy in a office is not a risk assessment strategy.
I've yet to see anything successful or promising.

Unfortunately, this seems to be far more of a human social problem than a technical problem.
I was comparing against farm workers, coal workers, auto workers, restaurant workers, care givers etc. STEM by far will provide better wages. Although the education system is not built for this (hence migrants). Politicians also would like to keep people in the above jobs because the owners pay theiere bills.
I would be lying if I said I wasn't internet addicted, am diagnosed with ADD, and open a lot of tabs. Original statement came from my personal experience, did not mean to offend anyone.
You don't have to do #3. At least many people don't and they don't seem to be enforcing it.
Fedgov absolutely knows. HHS CMS does elaborate data-mining on providers that take gov't money to look for fraud.
That's a super interesting concept. I'm also surprised by the complexity. Why does a low-power LED need a programmable microcontroller, multiple capacitors, a pair of mosfets and an inductor?
> - I want a way to stash away everything down to the position of the windows (no, I actually don't think I need that, but I really would like: the current windows, the current tabs, nested the way they are etc etc). Why? In case I want to switch to another task (e.g. urgent request).

You may want to give this extension a shot:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/session-manager/
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> So much hate when Billy G's name is invoked.

No comment has even mentioned Bill Gates yet.

> It's a hugely complex problem with Djikstra's shortest path being approximated in a distributed system of humans interfacing with phones interfacing with other humans.

huh? what are you talking about?
I have some anecdotes

1. A friend of mine had severe back pains, all what he got from a family doctor was some painkillers and some stories that his back pain due to to weak muscles and he has to exercise more and wait a bit (3-6 months) before he can get some tests done. Anyways he moved to the US and week later made some tests to find that he has cancer in some serious stage. He started treatment but it was too late.

2. Another friend had spend 6 hours in ER with his eyelid cut in half (he got a branch into his eye while hiking).

3. I had some troubles with my daughter in Canada as well, don't want to go into details.

I eventually moved to the US and while healthcare here is outrageously and ridiculously expensive it is still years ahead of Canadian when you have a good insurance.
Nice post and we definitely need more of these and in general a more normalisation of the idea that tech conferences need not be a gender biased stereotype. That said, one thing that I feel conscious about these days is how I speak with strangers about technology.

Irrespective of gender I tend to default to the most simplistic way to speak about certain technology before getting specific because at tech conferences the person you speak to might just be a newbie or might have written books on the subject matter and chances are their name, age, gender.. etc will be of no help in identifying this.

How do others handle this? For instance, how does one ask, without possibility of offence been taken, do you use Linux ? (... and to avoid answers like, the likelihood is higher of so and so if you are at such and such conference, let's assume I'm at a pycon)
What town, out of curiosity?
Esperanto isn't an asian language. It has nothing to do with asia or asian languages ( however you define "asia" ). Just because a meeting about esperanto is being held in asia or that there were some fans of esperanto in asia doesn't make it "asian".
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"When I grow up I want to hold an honest job, be an upstanding citizen, earn a strong wage, pay my fair share of taxes, and work on interesting problems, technical or otherwise."

If we can respect lawyers and accountants, surely we can respect people who have worked hard to grasp an economic opportunity, even if we wouldn't in a thousand years worked on the problem they chose.
Tech will not be able to stop people from saying what they want, even when they insist on lying to spread false narratives.
FYI it's "could not care less".
I may not agree with you on everything you stand for (or against) but I feel for your position the more I read comments that speak ill of you.

If nothing else, these people come off as sociopathic and it makes me wonder if they are in opposition to you because they feel something immoral has been committed or simply because they just want to let out their hatred into the world.
That’ll be fixed once Servo is finished, though, as that has easy APIs for embedding.
Can I ask why do living costs increase with years? I believe the general trend is people having less expenses after they retire.

The calculation in the link takes into account inflation, so that (massive) aspect of increased expenses is included in the prediction.

Edit - If indeed you are planning to increase your living expenses after retiring (bigger living quarters, more expensive travel, etc) that would certainly lengthen the amount of time of work needed to achieve financial independence.
I thought this was pretty obvious. The OP was implying that it's comparatively unacceptable given what's happened for other professions.

Also, let's not forget that there's accusations of a cover up by the NFL.
> LocalFavorite: A location-based tweet favoriting application. Made $10/mo until it was shut down by Twitter.

Curious. Why did Twitter shut it down? Was it from the updates to their API Usage TOS? Or something else?
Nor does it mean advertisers can't track your behavior after the fact.

A conversion event post ad impression without a click is called a "view-through conversion" and is a cornerstone metric of most display advertising because the bulk of performance from display is likely to be view-through vs. click-based.

Advertisers without "hard" conversion metrics can still measure uplift just as easily.
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Yeah - it's entirely not clear what the software does at the moment, or whether it's just snakeoil.
Advertising is a fact of life, though. Without it, there's no way to inform potential customers of a new brand or product.

I mean, imagine if it all disappeared tomorrow. Wouldn't people just stick to the megacorps and established brands they already know? Wouldn't this make it even that much tougher for a Netflix to compete with a Comcast, or an Uber/Lyft to compete with an entrenched taxi industry? How would Dollar Shave Club possibly compete with Gillette?

I don't like ads, either, but the alternative is worse. It just seems unrealistic. I know it could be done--I just don't think it'd bring about some post-materialist society. It'd just allow us to pat ourselves on the back while making it that much tougher to start a business and compete against existing businesses.
I think the biggest problem is that the media got dissolved within social networks
clickbait titles were existing before - just remember tabloids.

the thing is that when you see offline media you see:
1. the brand
2. you know how reliable is this media
3. you usually know the audience and think if you're part of it and trust the media

so in offline, they don't afraid that their reader will buy something else (well they afraid, but it's not a matter of click)

in facebook it's all just titles when reposted and people don't check where exactly it was published before clicking

so it's just like "national examiner" will have a version published in the design of nytimes or anything else - so they will not only have their audience but will try to get a slice of other media's audience

it could have been a quite complex thing to do for offline media as you need to actually print the edition, and pay money for it, but it's free for online, and you get money per view/per click

so i think it's definitely a war between media for this new spread audience on social, there should be a new way to re-establish reliability
Business model for you: Host a node yourself, and charge a micropayment in ETH to make SQL queries against the DB.
Consider how Facebook for instance has influenced the social problem. It's possible for tech to influence it in different directions—but much imagination will be required.
TL;DR: Junior Developers != Cheaper Developers.

You have to put time and money into training them; it's a responsibility more than an easy buck.
> It's easy to bridge from Arduino to Atmel AVR IF you know how to do board layout.

Design is half the battle: the other half is component selection and manufacturing. If you BOM is way off, you're SOL before you even start, and most people don't get this until it's too late.
It probably would have got further if they actually managed that properly.

eg, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738575

Once you make your 'x86' incompatible enough that it won't actually run glibc fully, you've negated the whole point of having x86 in the first place.

Intel's "strategy" with Quark etc has been to to sell you on the idea of a ubiquitous platform, and then provide a niche platform that looks "mostly similar" to the ubiquity you were promised.
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Because all that knowledge is now useless and does not apply to any other technology or approach to development?
For the same reason you might cajole others to perform regular backups. People who have too many tabs open are almost always using their tabs as bookmarks, or as an "I want to read this later" mechanism. Very few people actually have two hundred tabs open for a single train of thought.

When you do this, you're one crash + failed recovery away from losing those pages forever. Yes, you can go through your history and try to recreate the list, but let's be honest here -- Most of those tabs were from six months ago. Finding and opening those pages manually is going to suck.
It's all about knowing who you're getting your information from

HN is probably ok for highly specific technical discussions. Everything else is just going to reflect the people who make up the community.
>For what it's worth I consider Peter Singer (the philosopher) to be a man of strong reasoning who builds a tower of logic on top of a questionable and highly subjective statement of morality.

I rather agree. What I'm wondering is: if you're not trolling, why swallow Singer's premises, swallow his extrapolations, and then call it all questionable?

Because this is the position you're taking: that the United States has a moral obligation to invest its finite resources into immigration or outsourcing of jobs for skilled foreign workers over and above training and education for its native-born workers.

>I believe that these have come with a real, undeniable cost to American citizens and residents, and thus believe that an individual can justifiably be for or against such normalization of economic well being on a global scale.

I don't think a clear-thinking individual can really be for such a blatant violation of basic democracy. If we want America to be accountable to the Indian and Chinese masses, we should give them passports and voting rights -- then see what they want for themselves. Likewise, if we're going to invest American resources in improving the well-being of India and China, why not demand an EU-style relationship of open borders, common standards for human well-being, and residency-based voting rights?

I don't think one can really have humanitarianism without solidarity, coexistence, and shared community. To do well by someone just is to expand each-other's (legal, economic, etc) communities to include each-other. A charity/tithe of 10% or something is both traditional and good, but I think it's wrong to expand charity to the point where you give to outsiders at the cost of community ties (both within your existing community and between your community and outsiders).
Your description sounds somewhat similar to the concept of Ikigai:
e.g.
https://medium.com/@jantegze/finding-your-ikigai-17afa04d681

It adds "the world needs this" and "you can be paid to do this" to the four-quadrant diagram you are building.
Glad I wasn't the only one.
Social gamification.
> Thing I've found with embedded, is the pay is generally not as good as other work

And the tooling is WAY behind where cloud and mobile is at.
The solution should not stop people from saying what they want. It has to co-exist with that, and yet (maybe—just an idea) be better at funneling people to more objective sources of info, for example.
Looks like their own photos on the landing page are obfuscated.