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I started using Bluetooth headphones last year without special reason. I am not coming back to 3.5mm headphones, wires are so annoying when you are doing something else and they are in the middle.

So you have people like me and a lot of people that never use that connection. And I guess a lot of people buy the phones based on the feeling when they catch them, and thinner phones feel better and people are more likely to buy them. Thus say bye to the 3.5mm connection and loss the hope for bigger batteries. Buy trends is what matters for business.
Yawn. Another piece from the lying MSM attacking bikes and trains and transportation for the poor.
This is a concept that you learn in an intro to economics class in college. People will abuse a free, limited resource. A sharing-based economy doesn't work.
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> That takes more than "slinging some code" around. Enough that it would qualify as not "blue-collar"...

No, it requires solid craftsmanship using tools and methods that are well-established. You may want to check out a woodworking conference and see if you feel the same way about skilled blue collar work afterwards.

> Pretty sure that's an oxymoron.

I've built 2D games in a weekend, they're as difficult as you want them to be. If a company wants to build a simple promotional web game using Phaser.js, that's a pretty straight-forward task.
Isn't it already possible to pay for fake reports which results in takedowns of legitimate youtube videos and similar content? I'd put good money on these services being offered today.
> YOU have unmasked yourself as a far left "liberal" ideologue. So fuck off, and take your ideological bullshit with you.

Please don't post ideological rants to HN. Regardless of how lousy an article or a comment may be, all this does is poison the commons and degrade the discourse further. We're trying to avoid those things here.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html.
Bretton Woods was over in 1971...
Was that before or after it murdered millions of Russians through poverty and gulags?

And was that before or after American industrialists and corporations built up most of the Russian-USSR industrial foundations pre-Stalin? Because post that, the USSR was barely able to feed itself for four decades.
Note, the whole purpose is to game sanctions the US has on Russian trade and other hostile regimes. But how profitable will this be?

"...Russia's 2013 nominal GDP was $2.1 trillion, and Italy's was $2.07 trillion, according to the World Bank. ... Italy's 2013 GDP per capita (per person) was $34,619, and Russia's was $14,612.Jul 27, 2014..."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/jul/...

Sounds like China is backing the wrong horse[s]
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I read your 2nd sentence as "the view library needs to become a framework".

Integrated state mgmt is out of scope for React JS per se. Some ppl feel mobx is a better approach than redux. They're free to mix n match libs to suit their prefs. The React ecosystem is a set of libraries; by definition that entails more choices, more "fatigue", more combinations of approaches, and more innovation, compared to all-inclusive frameworks like Angular. Don't get me wrong; Ng gets some things right, and there are valid reasons to deliberately limit choices and go all-in w/ a framework. But I respectfully disagree thst React "needs" to integrate state management.
> supremacy of capitalism

Efficacy is more the word I would have gone for, compared against other systems we have historical evidence for.
"China's move will allow exporters such as Russia and Iran to circumvent U.S. sanctions by trading in yuan. To further entice trade, China says the yuan will be fully convertible into gold on exchanges in Shanghai and Hong Kong."

It is not clear if the gold conversion can be into physical gold and shipped out of China. I would tend to doubt it, but would be a big deal if true.
I was really irked by this line too but in the final paragraph the author seems to mention capitalism again with less enthusiasm.

I got the impression that the author was genuinely surprised to see that our economy is woefully bad at distributing wealth fairly. The fact that many academics still don't appreciate what a terrible social system capitalism is - even though academia is one of the only places where you can be supported as openly anti-capitalist - shows just how out of touch they are with the ills of the world around them.
It was a crappy title, but please don't rush to the thread just to rant about one of those. We usually replace them with a better phrase from the article; occasionally we don't get to them in time. If you notice a particularly bad one you can always alert us at hn@ycombinator.com.
The American Empire had a nice run. Continuously rising inequality at home and anti-hegemonic strategies (like this one) abroad signal that the end is nigh. What remains to be seen is how ugly things get during the transition.
> ...And that’s a good thing

I was expecting some kind of persuasive essay that would try to convince me why technology "getting political" would be a "good thing", which I may or may not agree with. Instead, it was very short post that basically boiled down to a plug for their WIRED Live event. A misleading title and a waste of my time.
Definitely. China accomplished that by specifically disabling large aspects of Communism in their economic model and shifting substantially toward a greater free market model. Capitalism enabled the greatest poverty reduction in human history, at hyper speed.

Jack Ma, Pony Ma, Robin Li, Hui Ka Yan, Wang Jianlin etc., and all the technology and industry - all were impossible under their former Communist economic model (as conveniently demonstrated by every other Communist nation that has previously existed, including Mao's China).

Nearly every prosperous nation on the planet heavily utilizes the free market, including all of Scandinavia. The post WW2 benefits of the free market system globally have been truly extraordinary, resulting in the lowest rates of famine, war, violence and poverty in all of recorded history.
Another possibility: someone was doing testing (and at thr stage too lazy), they made it public, and forgot about it even after they implemented authorization at the application level. Could have used trusted advisor...
Yes agree, but incident like this usually orginatrd from laziness/ forgetting about turning the switch off.
Original author of the original article this person is responding to. Saw this response earlier today which made me a bit sad, but mostly excited that people are having a crack at it themselves.

It's currently Father's Day here in Australia so I don't have a chance to respond right now. On the road all day.

I'll have to do a follow up next weekend, I'm absolutely flat chat both in and out of work at the moment.
I'm using a Motorola Defy from 2011. The thing runs Android 4.4.4, gets about 4-5 days / 7 hours of screen time on a single charge. It does not get slower 'as every Android' which is not that surprising given that Android itself is not susceptible to slow-downs like e.g. Windows is. I'm careful not to heap too many background-active apps on the thing to keep it nimble. I don't use live wallpapers, widgets or other such trickery. I also try to keep storage (internal and external) from filling up as those do get slower the closer they are to full.
If they were going to do this, they would have pulled the advertising out of google.

This would drop what Google makes, but would also reduce what Google can be fined in the EU.

*edit, I mean the legal entity that sells the ads. DoubleClick, adsense,...
Regarding your second part: Shouldn't this be just "how do I delete anything I interact with people?" Emails from privately run email server means you still have to find everyone and have everyone do the job (but I bet you most won't).

If you don't own the server, say no more. What about caches? PDF?
If there is money tied to rider's mannerism, I would be confident to predict that almost all the observed issues will be resolved.
It's not unethical to not donate. It's unethical to direct their research. They're an independent entity.

Even more important than that though is that think tanks are supposed to produce objective truth through rational arguments. It is unethical to interfere with objective truth. Google can argue the subjective validity of what New America produces, but they can't just block things they don't agree with. By influencing New America to avoid statements condemning Google, that's what they are doing.

I'll admit it's a fine line between withdrawing funding and using it as a threat to influence a think tank, but I think the difference is obvious.
They've been "on the way out" for a long time. The cost per GB on SSD is still 20x the cost of platter drives.
Pthreads seems to be getting a bad name here, but compared to other low-level threading APIs it's excellent. It has a proper join operation, which is weirdly lacking in some other libraries I've used, and it has a good choice of key synchronisation primitive: condition variables. Other choices are possible, like semaphores, but those are fiddly to use for some applications. Building semaphores on top of CVs is pretty easy, building CVs on top of semaphores is very hard. Likewise Windows events.

Higher-level systems have primitives like message queues, thread pools, and channels. Those are all great but they can't always be used to build the exact system you need without a lot of overhead.

C and C++ are all about emphasising speed and flexibility over safety. Whether you think that's a good or bad approach, it is what it is, and pthreads is the right design for that approach. Once you come up with the high-level multithreading abstraction of your dreams, what else would you rather implement it in than pthreads?

The one thing that was missing from pthreads was atomic operations for modern lockless data structures, so it's great that those have finally been added to the standard library in both C and C++.
I suppose that would be one way of looking at it.

I prefer to see it as restricting information flow to that I am strictly interested in, or has a potential real-life impact on me (local news). It's a bubble of my choosing curated by me.

And I would try and escape the bubble not by expanding my online exposure to dis/information, but by getting out into the real world and doing more stuff there.
There is no such thing as permanently delete Facebook or Google account :)
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The medallion was a safe investment until Uber broke the law and got away with it.

It makes no sense to "build equity" in a car since the car is depreciating very fast especially if you use it a lot for example because you are driving it to serve your debt to Uber.
Kinda, yea. NINJA / no doc loans are more expensive, so if you have the paperwork to qualify as a prime borrow, you should probably do so.

I need to sit and read the paper really, but my initial assumptions going in: growth in subprime lending increased prices, and what made the crisis was how vast swaths of Prime America refinanced at those inflated prices, effectively withdrawing equity it had built up. I'm having trouble squaring a relatively small percentage of subprime borrowers causing a 20 percent decline, so perhaps its time I shutup and read the paper.
The Psychopath Code is a fantastic reference for how to deal with toxic people, but Hintjens (as he readily admits) had no knowledge of modern psychology or psychological research and no training in that field aside from self-teaching and "in the wild" experience. His definitions for who a psychopath is and how they behave are thus completely out of sync with how the rest of the world identifies such persons. He does not distinguish, for instance, between different kinds of personality disorders - Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, etc. - and psychopathy, even though they are quite distinct. It is not accurate to call the people Hintjens describes "psychopaths," but simply "toxic" or "pathological."

That doesn't mean the Code is not valuable - it is extremely useful. But it is not a good reference for learning about psychopathy in particular.

(Full disclosure: I personally had some brief communication with Pieter Hintjens a few months before his passing, where we discussed precisely this issue in the context of some family members of mine diagnosed by professionals with certain disorders, none of them psychopathy. While the conversation was fascinating, it ended when I suggested that it was valuable to ask not only "what does this person do that harms people?" but also "what motivates them to do this?"; a psychopath does not share motivations with a narcissist or someone with BPD, for instance, and it didn't seem he was willing to accept that distinction.)
Call it what you want, but it is most definitely not even close to on the same level of rigor as a hard science like physics or chemistry. Nor can it ever be even comparable to a field like psychology because economics is inherently political.

The commenter said that capitalism is unequivocally the best system, and to say otherwise is like denying that the earth is flat. Under what metrics is capitalism the best? Unless we can all agree on the exact same set of metrics with the exact same prioritization, then the question of whether or not capitalism is the best system is an inherently political question.

The commenter mentioned maximizing GDP (as would most economists). GDP is a heavily flawed metric that gets way more attention than it should. Apart from broken window fallacy and such, it says nothing about distribution of wealth, living conditions, happiness, effect on environment, non-monetary output (eg. open source software), technological advancement, social mobility, etc. It would be impossible to reduce any of these into a single meaningful metric.

The "rigor" you speak of in its models are comically oversimplified to the point where they're often completely divorced from reality and useless. One only needs to look at the atrocious track record of economists to see the uselessness of them. It's called the "dismal science" for a reason.
Incredible short sighted decisions on Mozilla side, destroying their legacy plugin & addon platform. It's like Microsoft would switch off WinAPI support and kill thereby their platform. Firefox is all about "legacy API", Windows is all about "legacy API (WinAPI)" - almost no one gives a shit about WebExtension or UWP, there is no advantage over better competition Chrome / iOS or Android. Good luck with that.

Wouldn't it be better to offer a legacy addon API shim - old addons would still work even on new Firefox.
Does this delete private messages? Or can recipients still see your messages and name.
We have a system here in Hamilton Ontario where the bikes require a credit card to access and they include a cellphone/GPS system built into the bike so every bike knows its current location. That seems to reduce the abuse.
Really? That's disappointing. Good old bad old NDK strikes again. I really don't understand why Google doesn't seem interested in fixing it.
Seems like a pricing issue. Tag the stations by elevation and make a price hike for trips that start at a high station and end at a low one, and vice versa. Does SF not have an organization manually rebalancing teh stations? Here in Hamilton you see pickups with trailers full of rental-bikes being redistributed.
Have you seen what enemies of Capitalism do to their own people? USSR, Mao's China, Pol Pot & Cambodia, Castro Brothers & Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, East Germany, Vietnam / North Vietnam.

Maybe you mean China. Which the US provided massive amounts of capital to in free exchange, which they used to lift hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty and jump start their collapsed hyper poor nation that had failed in nearly every possible way under Mao's Communism. The US also prevented the Soviets from murdering millions of Chinese through pre-emptive nuclear war, by telling the Soviets that the US would respond with a nuclear attack on the USSR if they went ahead.

You mean Vietnam? Which the US has had good trade relations with for decades and increasingly has good political relations with.
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Nationally they have > 1,800 tonnes[0] of the stuff as of 2017 – fifth in the world behind the US, Germany, Italy, France. Is that enough? Probably it would be simpler to do the transaction electronically in yuan but I would understand if people wanted something a bit more tangible. So the question is then, are there precedents to this flavo(u)r of trading setup/arrangement?

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267998/countries-with-th...
How does that help in the case of the DPRK?
We, humans, are general intelligences, and we are incapable of creating AGIs on modern hardware. What makes you think artificial variants would be any more capable?
During a partial eclipse, part of the sun is hidden behind the moon. So the overall amount of light reaching the ground around you is indeed less, in direct proportion to the amount of sun that is eclipsed.

For example, if 90% of the sun is covered by the moon, then only 10% of the usual amount of sunlight will light up the area around you. So it is quite a bit darker than usual.

However, the portion of the sun that is still visible is just as bright as it would be on any other similar day. If you stare at that remaining portion of the sun, or aim a camera at it, it will cause the same damage as it would any other time, only in a smaller crescent-shaped area instead of a full circle.

The danger to your eyes is even greater, because the overall darkness tricks your irises into opening up wider and letting even more light in than usual.

You're pretty unlikely to stare at the sun for 30 seconds on a normal day. But people do that during a partial eclipse, and that's the problem. Similarly, people don't usually aim their cameras directly at the sun with the lens wide open and no solar filter - except during an eclipse.

A total eclipse is quite a different thing, of course. During totality, the sun's bright photosphere is completely hidden, and only the much fainter corona is visible. This is only about as bright as a full moon, and it's perfectly safe to take pictures with any lens, and to observe directly with the naked eye - even with binoculars.
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First person? That area has been inhabited for more than 10,000 years!
"widely known" is useless in science. Anyone can claim that they know something is X, i.e. pretty much every one of Trump's statements is him claiming that "I know <insert subject> is bad, therefore we must do <insert solution>". His statement isn't any more true than merely stating that he's wrong without anything to prove his falseness. Science and actual studies do make it true that he's wrong.
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Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
Amazon is working on “a massively multiplayer, open-ended sandbox game”
Just because something is controversial doesn't mean it's journalistically valuable. For instance if a host does something that the company considers unethical (eg a controversial statement that may or may not be true but is definitely damaging), they have an ethical responsibility to pull their business, even if it's actually against their own self interest. If you instead consider truth to be more important, then companies are also justified in pulling their business if they think the controversial statement is obviously false.

The unethical part of what google is doing is that there is very little chance they are not acting entirely in their own self-interest. There is an entire additional stratum of arguments underneath that which are about the real truth, freedom of speech, and whether it is okay to block what people think based on your opinions.
Meanwhile, back in reality, the US median income is among thh highest on earth, US disposable income is among the highest on earth, US economic productivity is among the highest on earth, US technology advancement is among the best on earth, US unemployment is low, US wages have been typically climbing twice as fast as in the EU, American companies dominate the planet (outside of China), and in the last ten years that Europe has been mostly treading water economically the US added an economy the size of Germany.
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Or more likely downhill.
I think that's what the person you are replying to is arguing for...
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I hear what you're saying - it's about signal to noise. Reduce the noise and you become better informed, not worse.

I stopped using Facebook and I don't follow mainstream news. I don't hear much about Trump or North Korea but I read my subreddits (I dropped /r/politics) and learn about Rojava in Syria, talk with my friends about the Diversity Memo and work hard to hear a detailed woman's view on the matter, or hit my YouTube subscriptions to find a lecture on physics or social issues.

I still 100% have a bubble but I don't think adding Facebook or MSM back in to my life would in any way improve the fidelity of my view on the world.

In my opinion MSM looks like garbage from any angle and Facebook just began to feel unhealthy (for me).
Potentially more limited, but less manipulatable.
when I first deleted my Facebook account, I decided to keep tabs on it(letting a friend check if she could still see messages we exchanged). For a while, my name was shown as part of the message(but it was black, so you could not click it like a link). I made her check later on and it just said "Unknown user" or so, I cannot recall the exact phrase. Our messages were still there
I bought Nokia-shares for 2000€ in 1992. While it was dirt-cheap, I thought it cannot fail, because so much of nations infrastructure depended on it.
Thanks, I didn't know about "about:profiles"! Might be a reasonable substitute for Chrome's functionality.

I'm a FF user since the days of Phoenix but the profile management is something I've relied upon Chrome for in recent years.

That "create as many arbitrary profiles as you like!" feature is awesome for testing some kinds of web applications. Last year, I worked on an in-browser chat project. At some points I really needed to have 4-5 different users logged in simultaneously so I could send messages back and forth and track down some bugs.

Another common scenario: suppose you're developing, testing, or supporting a web application where the user experience differs depending on a user's permissions. Can be a lifesaver to have multiple browser windows, each using a different browser profile + app login, simultaneously. Rather than repeatedly logging in/out with a single browser window.

FF's Container Tabs are an interesting feature. They could get some adoption. Similar underlying technology I guess, but different (more restrictive) UI meant to guide users down a specific path. That's cool; hopefully it can be extended at some point to allow a set of arbitrary accounts to be created by devs, testers, support folks, and others.
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