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If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power.

I'd modify this statement as the program can potentially be an instrument of unjust power.
I like to believe that the opposite of this will most likely occur. What if such a program manipulates people's minds towards the good, what if it can turn terrorists against terrorism.
Whenever we think of something outside our brain taking control of our lives, we only think of negative outcomes. Why not positive ones ? Sure distraction is bad, but how bad ?
I don't buy the argument that the short doses of of social media engagement is equivalent to consuming heroin or smoking. It is an addiction for sure, but why is addiction bad ? All through history, we have always looked for means of getting high - from alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana and what not. Ever since we discovered that we can get high, we have embarked on finding new means that can give us that high. Why do people want to be rich ? So that they can show off. Showing off is an addiction. Social media is just making that addiction available to every one. To use some silicon valley terminology, social media is democratizing showing off and we are just getting started :).
I say this because, Whenever we friends got together for a beer or a social hangout, most of the conversation, at least 50% drift around to showing off. So I've realized that social media has just become an extension of our behavior. It has become just a tool to express our collective narcissism. The root cause of the addiction is not social media, it's our own self.
I am generalizing, and there are many many exceptions to the above stated collective behavior.
I think that misrepresents Stallman's concerns. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html for instance. It is clear that free software is a tool for political ends not merely an end in itself.
There is also the risk that your manager might not believe that you did not intend to leave. The whole plan sounds fishy. I don't know if I would believe someone who told me they were only interviewing to find out their market-rate salary. So, the whole thing could end up being tantamount to giving notice anyway.
This is a great breakdown. Are you using any specific cognitive techniques or patterns/habits that help you do this?
As far as I know, .NET Native isn't really something you're supposed to be running for development; just a target you compile to for maximum performance that should produce identical results (think of it as an uber-release mode).
These are really cool - I wonder how the artists actually managed to do these - did they get official maps? I wonder if there are any exposing the many layers of stations inaccessible to the public, as described here:

http://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk/blog/tflhiddendungeons/in...
Your list of features seem to match up well with goals of my language. If you made mention of type-inference, then it would sound like a description of it.

https://github.com/GordianNaught/Juicy
Depends on your choice of distribution. Some distribution will distribute compiled binaries for each architecture. And there are flatpaks that are distribution agnostic.

For your own applications you will most likely use a container anyways and that gives you fairly reproducible builds.
Why is it incompetence if Fed increases shareholder value?
Just... go away.

Thanks.
That's a fair point of view.

But evidently, lots of people disagree with you and, and, for one reason or another, do want to pay for some products before they are made.

I'm sometimes one of them - I will pay for a prerelease. Sometimes it's to help (e.g. I'll buy books on preorder to help authors I like), sometimes it's to help get a product made, sometimes I get benefits (it costs less than it will later, at least supposedly).
In addition to what others mentioned, they were heavily promoting the bizspark program, which was free licenses for the MS stack for the first two years or something.
They heavily promoted it in interviews and their other marketing channels, so I'm sure there was some extra kickback from that.
If any of you who found this interesting also know Prolog, I am working on a compiled language you should check out (The compiler is written in Prolog).

https://github.com/GordianNaught/Juicy
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> people with lots of money don’t spend it.

They do, they just spend it on buying things like factories, companies and real estate. This is usually called investing and will also get money back into the system since the things you buy when investing were built by workers as well.
> If you give notice, you're saying "I'm at the end of my rope, I'm leaving".

No not usually. I don’t get why a group (techies) that fancies themselves so rational can’t understand simple economics. Giving notice means I have leverage with a better offer no more less. The reason for that may be hard for the current employer to fix or not. Often it is not hard for them to fix, especially in larger organizations. And often coming with a better offer in hand is the only way to signal that. We can wank about ideal managers and all that but that is not how the world works.
Ask HN: Safe?
Everyday a new data breach is reported.
Is our personal information safe online?
Redux also has sort of time traveling :)
Danish Police Find Severed Head in Kim Wall Submarine Case
Some examples: XNA, Silverlight, WCF, etc.
There's right and there's right thing. The right is something that if you go against it, you are violating the law and can be punished by the police, courts, etc. But the right thing is much wider - there is myriad of things which are legal but not the right thing to do. The right thing is regulated by community norms and culture. Responsible disclosure is that kind of thing. It's not unlawful, but it is a becoming more and more a community norm.

Now, people that try to legislate community norms - outside of obvious cases like prohibiting murder - usually make things worse. But ignoring community norms is also not a smart thing to do.
Yep, http://qira.me/
I just tried googling for:

Is the stock market a scam?

And the first hit is a youtube video of someone explaining that it's not a scam. If we agree that the stock market isn't a scam, that's at least a false positive for your test..
World Economic Forum is in January. Google was founded in September of 1998. It is difficult to imagine it had executives that would be invited to WEF at that time and certainly nobody feared it yet. I am actually old enough to remember using it in early days and while it was great, it certainly was very much an underdog.

Interesting story otherwise.
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Lol. They didn’t get away with anything. Unless you were sold as a slave you negotiated some terms mutually. Why the fuck would any party in a business transaction voluntarily pay more if they have no reason to believe that is necessary. Do you tell amazon that Walmart is selling the same item for $10 more so they can raise their price so you don’t “get away” paying a lower price than most likely what some people are paying?

There’s no bluff being called. This is simply the normal way for transaction participants to act rationally and in their best interests.
Porsche almost DID manage to do just that!

Fascinating stuff: https://priceonomics.com/porsche-the-hedge-fund-that-also-ma...
Damn, is he actually that humble or is it just a persona?

Skip to around 4:15 for the actual content.
Fifteen? I read that by 1991, latest. It’s nearly thirty. And it’s just what I thought of here: this article has the same simple clarity.
That's just not true. It's not how economics/capitalism works. It's possible for both us "over here in the west" to benefit from "cheap labor" elsewhere, and for the people providing the "cheap labor" to benefit as well! It's a win-win in most cases, which is why over the last 40 years more people have moved out of poverty than at any other point in human history.

"if I were a garment factory worker making 100$/month under terrible conditions and long hours, then things might change -- I'd personally take my chances out in the wilderness."

Maybe that's true, but I think it's a bit ridiculous to suggest you would simply not be able to live in the same conditions 2 billion people live in and accept (they don't go out to the wilderness). Are you really so different that for you this will be such and impossible situation that you'd throw yourself to the wilderness?
This opioid epidemic has made me question my position on legalization of drugs. I had believed that, in general, legalization of drugs would be a good policy -- it worked fine for marijuana where it has been tried, and I doubted that very many people who don't take hard drugs would start doing so if they were legalized. Now, I'm not so sure.

It seems to be the case that some opioid addicts transition from using prescribed medication to illegally obtained medication, which is sometimes illegally produced and adulterated with other drugs. So, it seems that legalizing the recreational use of opiates would enable people to use the "authentic" version of the drug, which is safer.

On the other hand, there are tons of overdoses from prescribed opiates, which are legally obtained; and the overdoses are increasing. Contra my earlier belief, it seems that as access to opiates became easy and legal (via prescriptions), the number of addicts increased dramatically.

This seems to be a situation in which tens of thousands of people will die every year via ingestion of legal drugs unless some kind of intervention is made to remove their access to those drugs. It's hard to see how legalization or decriminalization would make a big difference.
Unless you're very bad at investing you take out more than you put in to the system...
We learned this in my tech writing class back in school and I still call it to mind when laying out slides and things. Seemed silly at the time but it's very memorable!
I have Knuth's series on my bookshelf. It looks great!... especially since I haven't broken the bindings by actually reading any of it...
what kind of memory and performance footprint does the webview imply? is it similar to using electron, to some extent?
Somewhat, yes, I suppose it’s just making the point that ‘the west’ doesnt have a monopoly on foundational intellectual achievements.
but at least in society in the worst case I have police, medicine, insurance.. people working for money to help you
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I've never had to make a context switch between clojure and clojurescript. If differences in semantics means I have to change how I think about solving the problem at hand, then that has been pretty much non existent in my experience. Of course with one you have browser APIs and the other is java, but when it comes to building up and transforming datastructures everything I've been doing works the same on both.

This is also why most the time you can just tack on a "c" on the extension and you have something that works on both clojure and clojurescript.

Performance is not an inherent problem of clojurescript. It was just the way you coded you prototyped your app. Your experience is valid but don't blame the problem on the tool when it was the way you solved your problem before you optimized it.

I absolutely mean no disrespect to you but I don't want your comment to dissuade others from trying out what has essentially been a utopia for me. It has allowed me to build non trivial webapps without having any familiarity with functional programming or lisp. The feedback loop is so damn tight that I was productive without knowing much of anything.

But maybe that's okay. If the everyone else is constantly updating their build tools to every flavor of the month and having to learn new versions of javascript, that gives the few of us who are mastering clojure/script a bit of an advantage.
A large portion of the deaths are from prescription drugs:

https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/index.html

> Opioids (including prescription opioids, heroin, and fentanyl) killed more than 33,000 people in 2015, more than any year on record. Nearly half of all opioid overdose deaths involve a prescription opioid.
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Yeah, it's illegal in the U.S. so they had AUS do it for 'em.
I guess it's little too much overblown ... As a professional importer as you may sound. Airfreight unlike ocean freight ridiculously varies for instance you can ship the same load for $2/kg and if you choose EK Emirates they may charge $3/kg. I am not saying you are wrong. You would have paid more than with FEDEX also at this point I am not sure what Origin and Destination were involved .. was it an international shipment? China to US?

But I also feel they need to give customers options of pricing choice in their dashboard... It normally tends to be via one Airline only. And it does result in confusion... Traditionally freight forwarder offer at least 2-3 airlines options with varying pricing, routes and transit times ... For a good insight you should have mentioned actual transit times comparison for both services too.

However I do humbly disagree with you giving an impression that are kinda not hardcore guys they are beast ... And I have been in this industry for the past 20 years. Yeah they do need to improve pricing options in their dashboard... And very quickly. They should give customer 2-3 options based on slower faster and service reliably of air and ocean carriers.
I hear suits are making a comeback.
Backwards compatibility across releases of the same product, sure. But some products hit their end of life and that's it.

If a product is deprecated, it may not receive security updates or fixes and such. As a user that puts you in a tough situation.

Unfortunately as a user there's not a lot you can do to influence the governance of those products or try to do something to keep them around. If the vendor decides to sunset a product that's it. That's all I am trying to say.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7201645
> The first thing most of us do when we wake up is roll over, grab our phone, and look at some software

The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

-- Konrad Zuse

I recall Joseph Weizenbaum mentioning something like that in an interview before his death, too, about the difference between using technology to empower people, or to exploit them.

But hey, Wikipedia so what do they know... ask the mediocre for permission to learn from the great at your own peril, that's my motto.
> The problem is (and probably always was) people with empty minds.

And of course you think you’re in the other camp, don’t you? How cute.
In my opinion you are conflating two roles for technology. I quote from the article itself:

"Finally, Eyal confided the lengths he goes to protect his own family. He has installed in his house an outlet timer connected to a router that cuts off access to the internet at a set time every day. “The idea is to remember that we are not powerless,” he said. “We are in control.”"

In an admittedly handwaving manner, there is tech that gives you time (think dishwasher) and that steals it. I tried to write this down a few days ago: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tech-craves-our-attention-ann...
My view has been prevent it in the first place. If my employee was seeking work elsewhere, then we have failed them. If you are unhappy then you should be in a work environment where you're able to address that successfully and in a mature manner. If your concerns aren't aired, they can't be addressed. Air them and we will do what we can to keep you from needing to move elsewhere.

Anything else means having failed the employee - with some exceptions. Some folks do have unreasonable requirements that will not be satisfied.
I implemented an auto-screenshotter for my app that takes a screenshot every time the app launches after a few seconds. It works really well to give a visual progression of the apps style and features. I'm at 3k screenshots over 1.5 years of development. The idea is to make a timeline when the app is done.

I liked it so much I will add it into each app I work on from now on.
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I think there are a lot of different ways to "legalize", and the particulars of how you do it amplifies the results when it comes to hard drugs, especially highly addictive opiates.

Putting aside the more libertarian approach to legalization where hard drugs are left to the market and profits are made off of their sale, there are other options.

For instance, where drug use is legal, manufacture is illegal, and addicts are able to get free doses while under the supervision of medical staff. The free availability undercuts any potential black market, supervision severely reduces the potential for overdose, and the medical staff is able to have a regular conversation with the patient about options for getting clean.

Moreover, by turning drug use into a medical and welfare issue, it's my belief that it will prevent addiction by removing the "romance" of hard drug use for first time users.

Marijuana is a totally different story, it's benign enough that market legalization works just fine. But for opiates and amphetamines and the like, you need a very different approach.

That said, the opiate epidemic has shown that we have a problem of overprescription that stems from the pharmaceutical industry, and that's something we'd have to address if we were ever to move towards this approach.
I think you’re fundamentally failing to interact with the scale of the problems arising from the attention economy, basically handwaving with the word “just”.

Even if I were to grant—though I don’t—your claim that addiction isn’t necessarily bad, it wouldn’t follow that it’s perfectly fine for businesses to boundlessly seek more effective ways to capture more human attention more of the time. ”Just” run the simulation in your head, and gradually turn up parameters such as:

- amount/quality of information about how the human brain works

- % of humans addicted to addicting-by-design software experiences

- number of unethical people who realize the financial and political opportunity a pathologically distracted electorate presents

And then maybe take another look at what’s happening in our world today.
One fascinating aspect of this that I only learned recently is that the artificial "banana" flavor in candies mimics the flavor of Gros Michel bananas not Cavendishes, which is why it may seem a bit un-banana like to modern sensibilities.
An increasingly relevant followup: how to run NPM packages in a React Native app?
Maybe they'll get money back in the system, but peoples' debts grow exponentially faster than the wages purported to trickle down. And you don't need to have debt personally to pay for it. My landlord, for example, like many landlords, has a mortgage. We pay her interest and her principle. We pay for the debt she locked the house behind.
> factories, companies and real estate

One of those things is not like the others. Inflating the value of real estate is one of the ways "people with lots of money" use to 1. tax wealth creation, and 2. devalue the wealth of "people without lots of money".
The title is a bit clickbaity. The bug doesn’t cause data loss by itself.
You found a video review of the stock market?
Here is a newer book about such patterns: http://buildz.blogspot.de/2010/12/parametric-design-patterns...

Recursive pattern expansion is the most powerful. Think of Lindenmayer L-Systems to generate plants or fractal image compression. Graphical pattern matching would be a breakthrough way to simplify usage if such a tool. This was studied in the late 80ies.
Take out what, precisely?
It could be for instance that if people stop reporting crime, that either the crimes are not occurring or that people's faith in the government to provide effective policing is undermined.

The murder rate is used as a proxy for the overall crime rate, precisely because murders are more likely to be reported (plenty of citiations available for this). And the murder rate has dropped since the end of apartheid.

How can you claim then, that more South Africans have access to electricity? Were white people hoarding all the electricity and now it is more evenly distributed? It seems more likely that more people would have obtained access in name only.

It is well known that the apartheid government overinvested in generation capacity in the 1980s and a lot of capacity had to be mothballed. Of course, the opportunity cost caused by this failure of central planning is less visible than the later failure by the post-apartheid government to provide for expanded capacity. Furthermore, electricity-hungry aluminium smelters were built to soak up excess generation capacity. So yes, in a sense, it was hoarded by the apartheid government.

I wonder how electricity access can be provided “in name only”. It would suggest a vast conspiracy that an ostensibly incompetent government would be hard-pressed to execute.

if South Africa experiences significant increases in real wages and life expectancy goes up, then it is successful.

Life expectancy is ticking up already.(http://www.mrc.ac.za/Media/2015/1press2015.htm)

>According to this Rapid Mortality Surveillance Report 2013, issued by the council’s Burden of Disease Research Unit, South Africa’s life expectancy has escalated to 62 years in 2013 – a staggering increase of 8.5 years since the low in 2005.

Also real wage growth has been “rapid” in post-apartheid South Africa. (https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/31/Rea...)

I'd suspect though that most right wing South Africans would have left 20 years ago, so the people left in SA must be the more Liberal and Left of center portion of the population, or those unable to leave

This is an interesting point, and a bit of a sidetrack, but my experience with adult SAn emigrants indicates that they tend to be in a bit of a time warp, reflecting contemporary attitudes at the time of their departure. I expect that many were pretty much centrist or even somewhat liberal at the time of their departure, but white South African society has shifted towards a less racist position while many expats are insulated from this, and thus appear to unreconstructed apartheid apologists today.
Never forget the nightmare of broadcast "Hogan's Heroes" and "I Dream Of Genie." Imperfection looks good from here. Scale information insecurity will remain a real and costly problem. But 1-way broadcast funnels were structurally only problems. Graphs of us are mostly better.
Why do you think so? Compiled Common Lisp can be quite fast.
Uh... do we all agree that the stock market isn't a scam?
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Great article, especially for us living and working in London!

Bastinjn beat me to this (and got my upvote of course): https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2015/07/12/3d-maps-of-every...

My favorite one is Bank/Monument.. such a maze!! pick the "wrong" exit and you may walk an extra 15mins for no reason!
Ask HN: How is the Go scheduler different from NodeJs(libuv) event loop model?
GNU emacs certainly isn’t a Lisp-based editor like the various implementations of Zmacs were, or like Hemlock is. It’s an editor with Lisp as a scripting language.