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I think redirecting peoples attention is probably necessary. Perhaps pointing out how unimportant transgender issues are to me is not the best way to do that. But really, I'm just commenting about my thoughts on this (frankly, off-topic for this site) article because HN is my backyard. I'm not heading off to LGBTQ+ forums to harass people or searching for Transgender articles elsewhere on the net, so I don't feel that I'm actively opposing your issue.

You and I are actually on the same side. We both wish people didn't care very much if anyone switched genders. Beyond that, I think we all want to live in peace. In my opinion though, our common enemy are the very rude, petty and unintelligent people on both sides who turn social issues into a circus and present extreme narratives that make people fight and go to more extremes. That makes things hard for everybody on both sides, right? This article does not do that, but the reason it was posted (i.e. I feel a constant battle going on over the perception of the Transgender issue) does annoy me a tad bit and I talk a lot.

I once read that travelling helps people to be more accepting of foreign cultures. Too bad the Internet couldn't have done that instead.
You mean like desktops? That are unplugged? How many of those do you think are sitting around? How old is the version of Windows on them do you think?

If your recovery strategy is "drive as fast as you can to the thrift shop" then I don't know how effective "rebuilding" would be. This is fucking terrifying.
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I think one of the biggest issues is..

operating systems like windows give no indication to the ordinary user what internet connections they are making either legitimately themselves or

from software installed separately and giving users the opportunity to review and grant or deny access.

If ALL connections were transparent it would be much easier to see what was not appropriate.

Operating systems should say that a connection is being made and for what purpose and the user given the opportunity to grant or deny.

This is what i liked about Sophos' original interface sadly gone by the wayside.
"Economists and other experts have pointed to a range of possible explanations: The aging of the baby-boom generation has left fewer Americans in their prime business-starting years. The decline of community banks and the collapse of the market for home-equity loans may have made it harder for would-be entrepreneurs to get access to capital."

Self funding is not mentioned - the stagnation of wages and inflation of the cost of necessities like housing and healthcare would seem to be to be a major detriment to access to capital. It's been getting gradually worse for everyone, but see "Millennial housing costs at 3x higher proportion of their income then their grandparents" also in queue, along with trends like the lading of student loans onto that same generation. Bootstrapping with those kind of pressures is almost impossibly squeezed except for extremely low capital businesses.
Nobody was resistant to the idea of it being possible, they were resistant to the actual claim being made, which was based on the reasons that the victim cited for believing that they were infected. This lends no further credibility to that claim.
Why not just set navigation audio to alerts only (at least in Google maps)
Sorry, did they use a janitor at Kodak as the example? The job market in Rochester was an anomaly in that time period.
Stocks and real estate are a reasonable shield against monetary policy, but baskets of currencies, bonds and long-term-interest savings are all extremely vulnerable to inflation.

BTC on the other hand, is deflationary by design.
The HN algorithm seemingly took it off the front page fast, so no problem by me.
And did he achieve this stated goal? no... so you can't pretend like he did achieve it, and then somehow the failed outcome proves that the goal is itself invalid.

I don't think that what politicians claim is a sound method to understand the definition of something, especially when we _do_ have the definition already (again, what Marx described).

Just because Chavez made claim X, that doesn't mean that the original definition is somehow altered.

And remember, your original claim was that price controls are socialist, which still doesn't make sense; pivoting to something Chavez said doesn't correct this.

I am no fan of what Venezuela or Chavez is doing, and I don't support their policies.

If you want an example of something that is more faithful to what Marx described, take a look at the Mondragon Corporation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation which is a competitive worker cooperative based in Spain. Notice that this has nothing to do with the government.
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"In the silence and solitude, one only hears the essential"

He basically says that he does not want the pressure to preserve his 3-stars status, has no grudge with the Michelin guide that he thanks, and wants to continue his little business without caring more about rating than about the "art de vivre" of his region.
Is it possible that a high quality camera with a small sensor could actually be preferable to a full frame camera like a 5D in this particular case? My thinking is that it might be hard to get more than a sliver of the image in focus with a full frame camera. Does anyone with more experience know if this is true?
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> Weird seeing a repost on the website where a lot of the story unfolded on the same day.

Not only that, this nytimes story got bumped to #3 within a few minutes with no comments/votes.

Does the nytimes pay for preferential treatment of their stories?
this is why the term "competitive market" better captures what may intended by the term "free market".

"free" would seem to exclude regulation that increases market competition but would not seem to exclude subsidies that might decrease competition. All of the benefits of markets come from competition, not "free"-ness.
Well Venezuela has an income inequality of almost 0. I can’t look up the Gini coefficient but I can guarantee you that they are all equal save for the government cronies.

Income inequality is always parroted as the measurement for a healthy economy, but as my previous point suggests it’s not the end be all.
They're "packaged" "solutions"!
>an obligation to making a big dinner is not convenient

As someone who likes to cook (and has test-driven 3 or 4 of these services), I don't see them as that at all. Blue Apron, et al are paint-by-number compared to actually cooking from a normal recipe where you have to measure and prep. I liked having them as an option, but they didn't scratch my "cooking" itch at all. They were more like a convenient way to put a decent, healthier dinner on the table in almost the same time you could do Hamburger Helper or some frozen bag meal.
> Especially now that iOS 11's wifi-off button in the control center no longer actually disables the radio

I still can’t belive this decision. I keep my Bluetooth and Wi-Fi off as much as possible and it’s now difficult to to as a result of this change is ios11. Really bothers me.
Not logging in to your Google account is not enough. It's already been demonstrated that sufficient information is leaked by browsers to uniquely identify without login information. Create a hash of IP address, computer display information, operating system, and user-agent; and it's a pretty good bet that hash would match your most recent logged in session almost uniquely (especially if you're not sharing your internet connection).
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I don't see evidence of historically high levels of instability in America.
> Many profit from its ever growing influence and usually the political class is not strong enough to counter its push.

And then when the political class is strong enough to counter it, it inevitably turns to tyranny because it enriches the political class in the short term.
>"We apologize for the confusion", said Equifax

...

No, Equifax, apologies are not spendable currency in the real world. You can't apologize for your horrific and criminal errors.

This isn't business school. You don't fail the test and then apologize to the professor and beg for a C.

You guys are laughably incompetent and it is a shame that the government hasn't found a way to forcibly shut you down yesterday.

If you weren't a big and powerful corporation, you would all be in "pre-trial detention" like the rest of us.
The problem with a website such as this one is that they just compile a list of content, each of which is quite large/involved, and throw it at you. Not only is this kind of overwhelming, but I wonder how many people actually use a page like this to construct a curriculum for themselves. I doubt it's very many at all. There's too much friction: you have to continue revisiting the page after you complete all of these multi-week courses. And each course will probably have its own suggested next steps, which might be different from those in the original resource, which you might have already forgotten about by now.

I've had a different idea for a while. What I've always wanted to do, and would do if I had unlimited time, is create a kind of tech-tree of various computer science concepts, organized into subjects/tracks/courses, with each vertex in the tree being a clear and concise 4-7 minute youtube video (with accompanying downloadable code if applicable). Note this wouldn't necessarily need to be a real tree as things such as e.g. machine learning would need backgrounds in both linear algebra and statistics.

Then you could learn from scratch by simply traversing down the tree. If you wanted to learn something, you could search it and determine where in the tree to start watching about it by where you feel like your knowledge ends. So if you're looking up np-completeness, but feel you don't understand the concepts of p and np, you can watch those videos first.

It would take a long time, though.
Google definitely likes to punish VPN users.
I think the disconnect to be bridged here is the quality expectations between a meal kit ingredients, and just picking up ingredients at the supermarket yourself. I don't think the kits coming out of just reassembling the existing inventory a many supermarkets would quite be as attractive unless some additional logistics are added to make higher quality ingredients available.
If enough people don't flag low speed limit signs as signs we'll have faster self driving cars
Because GHC isn't a compiler for just "Haskell -- the standardized language".

It also implements a huge number of optional language extensions.
> If a worker is employed for less than six months, the compensation should be a 0.5-month salary. A one-month salary should be given to those who worked for six months to one year.

Is it too much?
You might have said this about Nokia.
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Extensive price controls pre-date Chavez, although he predictably gets accused of originating them for ideological reasons.
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FedEx Ground "contractors" are actually employees, just misclassified.
Cork or Screw top? Can tech solve the the TCA issue?
>The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.

Oh good, at least their incompetence is systemic.
Do you do your best work when someone is constantly hovering over your shoulder with a clipboard, their one off checkmark making or breaking your career?

Or do you do your best work when you are free to focus on the problem at hand?
Genuine question here, unless you're some sort of controversial public figure, how would you wind up attracting the attention of thousands of trolls?
The first time I saw that the site was not a sub-domain of Equifax.com, I was worried that someone would quickly create a copy and I would mistakenly enter my information on the site.

Subsequently, each time I had to go to the site - to check if my data was hacked, to enroll for the TrustedID protection (had to try multiple times), I would always first go to equifax.com and then follow the links from there.

It's sad to see that my fears of the site being easily cloned is true (although this was a proof of concept to show Equifax that they were wrong but who knows if there isn't a real malicious site that had already collected people's information).

Not only can you not enroll immediately they tell you that . your data was stolen, even when you return on your given enrollment date, you don't get to complete it that same day. You still have to wait for a few more days to get an email.

Equifax has really really messed up. I hope the other companies are using this as a learning experience and are fixing any flaws they have.
Haha this is 17 years old.
Audi and Mercedes have been in partnership with NVIDIA for a year or so now, interesting to see Tesla join up with AMD at this point.
The moment Lee Sedol has to leave the room is actually high drama. The story itself could be adapted to a great feature as well. Say in the hands of a master screenwriter. Was the DeepMind team 100% certain of victory?

Video: Lee Sedol Reaction to Move 37 and W102 vs AlphaGo

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"During our investigation we were provided an archive containing files that were stored on the C2 server."

I find that more interesting than the article itself. Some unknown entity just happened to hack the command server and drop a dump of it in their lap?
There was a correction:

> Correction: GlobalFoundries CEO Sanjay Jha mentioned Tesla as an example of a company working with chip fabricators, but did not specifically say that it was a GlobalFoundries customer.
Because a lot of three letter agencies demand these hardware backdoors exist, and AMD has no will to fight them on it.

They announced intent when they released Ryzen to "look into" disabling their ME (they call it the PSP), and then six months later made a backroom comment that it is never going to happen.
In a lot of places, that would be illegal.
> If you're saying that nurturing a market economy in Venezuela would have failed to diversify it's economy, then I have to disagree.

Then how would you explain the lack of diversification that survived through all previous regimes before the Bolivarians?
While UPS's motivation is obvious, their argument is valid. There is no good reason for FedEx Express drivers to not be covered by the NLRA.
The piece doesn't really articulate a problem, if anything the reverse is true more often than not: management chases short term performance numbers to the detriment of the long term success of the company and long term shareholders.

It's more just like "woah we're hip smart tech bros we need to fix the stock market!" even though none of their claims really have any merit.

IPOs are still stupid for a lot of reasons, but stratifying shareholders (why is the answer to everything from the Valley always more stratification?) is neither here nor there.
Hopefully other people more knowledgeable will answer, but there are a couple things that are pretty obvious off the top of my head:

- lazy evaluation
- type inference
- ridiculous amounts of programmer tools (it *derives* type classes for you!!!)
- lots of experimental ideas that are in the compiler but that people don't really use (it's a research tool after all).

The language is simple from a conceptual standpoint. Not every thing in the compiler is there simply to support expression of an idea. Quite a lot of it is there to help the programmer.

I think there is something to be said for the idea of writing a similar language which has a less monolithic set of tools (although, to be fair, I have not look at the architecture of GHC at all, so maybe it is really beautiful under the hood). The point is that I don't think that you can necessarily equate the simplicity of expression with the complexity of the tools.
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I use TripAdvisor and Google Maps. I don't know how people feel about their reputations, and I worry about TripAdvisor because they are pivoting more towards being like Booking.com.

But when I was in Havana, we wandered in to a string of terrible bars, cafes and restaurants over the first couple days. So we went to a hotspot and downloaded the offline TripAdvisor. We wouldn't go to a place unless TripAdvisor gave it a decent rating. After that, we had nothing but great experiences.
This is the first non-shallow critique of angular delivered from a place of experience I've seen. After creating 2 medium size production web apps, I found my self shaking my head in agreement.

If the author reads Hacker News, thanks for the write up.

When Vue gets first class Typescript support, it will get real consideration for our next app.
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To be fair, inequality levels were comparable in 1929, which falls outsize of the scope of that chart. Still historic by US standards, but not unprecedented.
Much more likely, this post got several upvotes quickly because users recognized the story (and its relation to HN) from earlier today. The algorithm heavily rewards early upvotes.
These attackers are after the IT blueprints of other organizations. So that they can build a hibernating bot inventory. They can then sell pwned corporate computers to 3rd parties for BTC. Phishing and Spear Phishing doesn't work well on pro users. But this does.
Quoting from the FTC page that I linked to:

> Nor can advertisers use fine print to contradict other statements in an ad or to clear up misimpressions that the ad would leave otherwise. For example, if an ad for a diet product claims "Lose 10 pounds in one week without dieting," the fine-print statement "Diet and exercise required" is insufficient to remedy the deceptive claim in the ad.

> …

> Most importantly, if you are concerned that a disclaimer or disclosure may be necessary to clarify a claim, evaluate your ad copy and substantiation carefully to ensure that you are not misleading consumers.

Obviously it's subjective whether this ad violates any FTC laws (and presumably, Amazon's legal counsel reviewed it and deemed it worth the risk), but presence of a statement in fine print (or as you stated, that "it is in plain text") isn't the deciding factor.
So for wines that are meant to be drunk young screwtops are perfect. If you want to age the wine you need a cork as it allows small amounts oxygen to pass. As a someone with a large cellar I have wines that I have opened that where bad because of TCA however it goes with collecting. The upside of of the cork are just to valuable to how a wine ages to move to a screwtop.
I've successfully done this as well in a smaller town. City Hall engineers sat down with me and looked at accessible routes to school, bus/train station, and the grocery store. They built 7 curb cuts; it cost the city 35K. Every time I saw someone else using those crossings for years afterwards it made me super happy. And, I could take my kid to school without going in the street, in the dark, in the rain... I don't think this works every time but it is definitely worth asking. Another interesting point I found out while going through this process, was that it takes some work for the city to find out who is responsible for particular streets and intersections (It might be a local or state transit agency rather than the city).
Is Google involved in the creation of this?
Because they're tuned to perform in a manner that delivers the maximum fuel economy in order to drag up the fleet average, driver experience be damned.
Just take it all and divide it up equally. Then when enough people start to run out, take it all and divide it again.
Is this meant to be understandable by people? Am I missing some context?
Thank you for highlighting this. I used booking.com a few years back when I stayed in London on a budget. I realised something about the site had made the review scores feel really useless but I never realised why until I read your comment.

In the end I just compared on worst reviews until I found a hotel where the bad reviews were about really unimportant things to me. The hotel I stayed in actually had one of the lowest review scores of all the ones I had considered but the lowest-scored reviews described an experience I could enjoy far more than the worst experiences at comparable hotels.
Me too -- this is a very important point. Often the hotel's direct rate will be the same as advertised on hotels.com. Of course you lose the ~10% rebate by not getting rewards points, but since the hotel is effectively earning 30% more from you, they're much more likely to give you a complimentary or discounted upgrade.

So if that sort of thing matters to you, I can also strongly suggest booking direct.

(Note: You do generally have to ask, but I've had good experiences. Do it on-site @ checkin, and I basically say the above -- "Hey I booked direct so you earned 30% more from me. Can you offer me an upgrade to an un-used room since I'm here now?")
The idea that individual property owners should be independently responsible for sidewalk maintenance boggles my mind. I had a hell of a time just getting a metal fire door replaced to comply with my HOA... I dread to think how much time and effort it would take to find a contractor who could put in matching paving slabs for an existing sidewalk even if you wanted to.
The AMT feature is not enabled, but I believe the ME chip is physically present on all Intel chips since 2006.

https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel
Yes, tools like Comodo firewall by default are set to be quiet and prevent end user prompts as much as possible.

Regardless the amount of components (whether it be OS, software or website elements) which attempt connecting is overwhelming for even a non-average tech savvy user.

For example install https://pi-hole.net/ and you'll no doubt realise that most of the DNS queries traversing your home network are not directly made by the end-user.
My experience directly booking from hotel websites has been really bad. I usually end up using a service like Booking/Priceline/Kayak/Google, just because the UI is nicer than booking directly from hotels, even if it means having to deal with stuff like this.
Good news for me, thank you!