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You are not alone. I suspect some of the strongest opponents of "technology" are now "technologists", i.e. people who work in technology can be the most opposed to what the general public see as technology.

In my view it isn't the technology that is "evil", it is the monetisation of the technology, or more specifically the people behind the monetisation of it.

I'm sure I'm not alone in saying how disappointed I am with how the internet has turned out, for example. From the initial optimism around things like "information want to be free" and "disintermediation" we have moved to "When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive" and the "reintermediation" of the big internet giants.

And I have a terrible feeling that in a decade or two we'll see something similar with some of the new technologies we're getting excited about now. For example, blockchain and cryptocurrrencies facilitate an "the internet of money" with e.g. frictionless cross border transactions, but could in future end up allowing authorities to track every transaction by every person.

So what can we do about it?
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The need for humans to code will gradually disappear for all but the most specialized situations.
Platforms will enable humans to describe in natural spoken or written language what they’d like
computers to accomplish. The coding will occur behind the computational scenes. We won’t code so
much as direct and request

LOL, somebody at QZ got ahold of a '90s-era CASE brochure.
Sounds like project templates in Visual Studio - which can populate your project with vast amounts of stuff. This can good or bad depending on the context.
They should be careful though: excel allows a maximum of 1,000,000 rows. I have seen more than one major crisis occur when a spreadsheet ran out of space, yet all of it was needed together to do daily business.
It's similar in effect, but Erlang's ultimate response to the errors is redundancy instead of trying to salvage whatever was left by the process that crashed. I think the transparent distribution of Erlang nodes over the network is what enables Erlang's "let it crash and forget it ever ran" approach. Joe Armstrong said that they want Erlang to handle all kinds of problems, up to and including "being hit by a lightning" - so I think hardware redundancy is the right path here.

The OS[1] I've been talking about was primarily concerned with a single-machine environment, which resulted in slightly different design.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EROS_%28microkernel%29
Without net neutrality, the internet will become just another source of TV where you only get to see what the advertising industry and the regulators want you to see. At that point the phone in your pocket will become just a tiny TV set, and cord-cutting will become internet-cutting.
I like The Economist (weekly print magazine)
Facebook’s ad system shown failing to enforce its own anti-discriminatory policy
>No. No person owns an infinite number of dollars.

you've never heard of billionaires huh?

Bill Gates can do nothing right now and his net worth would still increase.
> https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/timeline?y=ci ... That is just a mess of unimportant info.

That screen contains all and only the information I want to see. (No surprise, since I wrote that screen.) I would very much like to read more details from Xwattt about what he (or she) finds messy, unimportant, and inadequate about the timeline view of Fossil and to perhaps see examples of better presentations of development history.

I wonder if Xwattt has tried clicking on two of the check-in circles in the graph from the link above, in order to get a diff between the two selected check-ins? Is that information not useful?

What of the filtering options in the sub-menu? Is clicking on "Files" to see all the individual files changes in each check-in not helpful?

Is clicking on a branch-name tag to see a timeline of just that one branch not something that other people ever want to do?

Seriously - I'm not trolling here. I honestly what to grok what it is that Xwattt finds inadequate about the Fossil web interface, as understanding this will help to make the interface better.
>I disagree with you.

Okay. Well, you're going to have to provide practical examples on why decades of testimony and support for various policies (or the reps that push them) is somehow not a product of the electorate's own volition.

You have hypotheticals and a general model for what might alleviate the support (or implicit support for these policies). But you fail to address what I actually stated: the electorate IS voting for this. They have voted for this. They will continue to vote for this. You provided no evidence to negate this historical record. You provided an example of "two options vs many options" which completely and utterly misses the point I'm making.

>Pointing out people as idiots is not a solution.

Your words, not mine. I called them unqualified. However you've brought to mind a favorite quote that I'm going to modify:

"There are idiots in the market" -> "There are idiots in the electorate"
Democrats support FDR and he built internment camps. They praise Margaret Sanger and she supported Eugenics. The praised Robert Byrd and he was a KKK leader. C’mon everyone has baggage and no party is exempt from racism. Remember Hillary called young black men dangerous predators when supporting the crime bill in the 1990s. Let’s not conflate Robert E Lee with Republicans supporting slavery or racism.
The European Union does everything in French and German too, though. As does Switzerland.
Do you have any examples of how the iPhone is insecure? Genuinely curious.
It would be hypocritical if I were to hide that I eat meat and admonish others for doing so, but neither of those are the case. I care, but I also care about the substantial harm being done to humans by the past 50 years of low-fat diet craze, so in my mind, as much I respect vegetarians, it'd be harmful to go around blindly pushing everyone to eat less or no meat.

For me, I see the greatest impact I can personally make as continuing to work to become successful and then investing a ton of money into lab-grown meat.

Anyway, it's something I'd like to help do something about, but it's not my life's focus. If I had a magic "make everyone stop eating meat" button, I'd be tempted to press it and figure out a way to personally adapt, but ultimately I think that would cause more harm than good without a market-ready drop-in replacement that fits the same macros. That's not the same as not caring or being unwilling to make a sacrifice; it's just caring about multiple things to varying degrees and being realistic.
Yes, it is very dangerous. How many people are doing dangerous and stupid things like smoking, drinking or eating too much, climbing cliffs, ... At least there is a small chance he gets some benefit.
>Relatively it listens more to donors and lobbyists than the average people.

People vote in representatives that listen to donors and lobbyists. It's not some magical event that happens. They are being voted in.

>but it's not the whole story.

Alright?
Precision is how fine a measurement is (i.e. being able to measure temperature to thousandths of degrees versus tenths), whereas accuracy is a measure of how closely your results much the objective truth. So you may have a very precise thermometer that measures to thousandths of degrees but it may not be accurate because it's calibrated such that it always reads exactly two degrees higher than it should. Meanwhile a thermometer that can only measure to a tenth of a degree is more accurate and less precise than the one just mentioned if the shown figures reflect the true temperature.

In common usage, these words mean the same thing, but scientists often give words specific meanings in order to make their research and ideas less ambiguous.

Definitions are even more important in non-scientific fields such as philosophy or math where meaningful reasoning of abstract structures and ideas would be next to impossible without giving them concrete definitions and stating your assumptions.

Remember that definitions are arbitrary, so to understand an author's argument or idea, you must seek out the author's definitions.

Hopefully that clarifies some of the discussion going on in the comments here.
It'll be combined with recent substantial efforts toward facial and voice recognition systems in China. When a hit occurs, it'll be recorded for time and place etc.
Ask HN: How do you generate award certificates?
Is there anyone here who generates certificates for a course? A website training? A corporate education or learning process?

Example here: https://www.creativecertificates.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/award-of-excellence.jpg

How have you solved or tackled this with tech?
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This is how I like to explain functional programming to developers today. When you say "Functional Programming", a lot of devs think "scary complicated thing". When you say "Basic excel spreadsheets" they go "anyone can do that!".
An empty ASP.NET core application contains ~35,000 lines of code.
I mean... Honestly, if I were Chinese - given the governments past I'd feel safer in SF than China[1][2][3]. Basically, it's similar to Iran or other states where you have to praise the government publicly & constantly - or they will find you, capture you, and probably imprison or kill you.

I think one interesting thing I saw at GTC two years ago, was a Chinese firm was building software to watch / track where everyone went through a city. Including what they were doing. This is not a "safety tool" it's a surveillance tool. Sure it can be used to _maybe_ track down attackers after it happens. However, it can be used more effectively to track potential or known dissidents or track what the average person in the population is doing.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/china-billio...

[2] https://thediplomat.com/2016/06/china-the-us-and-extrajudici...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/17/china-behaving...
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That's fair but you also have to ask what's in it for them to screw their users in this way.

Why would an ISP want to prevent some small, unrelated startup from gaining exposure?
> (By stupid act I mean entering unpermitted airspace, the pilot's actions are irrelevant)

> America, f\\k yeah!

(I'm European, not French, but was pro-US during the Cold War.)

Yeah, my response was the same, until I read the context which the original quote lacks [1]. These 2 quotes are to me the most relevant from the story for the context of the original quote. Feel free to read the story in its entirety.

"The French refused to allow us overfly, so our mission profile was to refuel off the south coast of England, a Mach 3 cruise leg down the coast of Portugal and Spain, left turn through the Straits of Gibraltar, refuel in the Western Mediterranean, right turn into Lebanon and fly right down main street Beirut, exit along the southern Mediterranean with another refueling over Malta, supersonic back out the straits, and return to England."

Furthermore,

"We completed our pass over Beirut and turned toward Malta, when I got a warning low-oil-pressure light on my right engine. Even though the engine was running fine I slowed down and lowered our altitude and made a direct line for England. We decided to cross France without clearance instead of going the roundabout way."

The earlier quoted story lacks these nuances. Sure, you might still find it rude but for me it made a big difference that they weren't just invading French aerospace for no valid reason.

Its just typical that they opted to increase speed during the encounter with the Mirage while previously they decided to lower speed due to low oil pressure on the right engine. Although at that point they were much closer to home which was at the south of England. At some point, I just gotta stop being skeptic and trust these guys know what they're doing with their super expensive toy^H^H^Haircraft. Its easy to judge on others, claiming you wouldn't resort to this behaviour. But would we? Really?

[1] https://hipandthigh.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/blackbird/
Interesting but the prices are absolutely ridiculous (a 2GB instance of Postgres will cost 290$ a month !).
I deploy my websites on my own VPS at DigitalOcean, but with a simpler setup then the TFA.

I simply have a Travis-ci.org setup that does an "rsync" after "jekyll build". And in case I'm not in the mood for waiting on Travis, I simply "rsync" from my localhost after build.

Having an automated build system has advantages though - if you get a PR on your website repository with typos and so on, you just have to merge it and the content will get published, so you can do it over your phone. And yes, I had PRs, since I publish 2 project documentation websites this way.

Also folks, you don't need a CDN or Cloudflare, or any of that — you just need a healthy Nginx setup hosted at a decent VPS provider. I've had my websites withstand Reddit and HN level traffic just fine, paying $5 per month for hosting about 4 static websites, plus other stuff.

I also hate Medium, Blogger, Wordpress and any of that crap, I hate their bloat and trackers and I do think having your own website published in a Git repository is worth it. Yes, there is a cost in maintaining my websites, but I do so willingly, because they are mine.

PS: shameless plug — https://alexn.org
This looks similar

https://github.com/dgorissen/pycel

or perhaps

https://github.com/xuri/efp
I've been looking for a paid alternative to Github Pages and this is looking great. Thanks for the tip.
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Do you have any suggestions on where to get started with Pandas? I already know Python, but every time I try to get into Pandas I have a really hard time getting any traction. I'm particularly interested in using it to migrate Excel workflows.
Bitfinexed is interesting. They remind me of Marc Cohodes, who often uncovers fraud but lacks the diligence to back up his claims and lacks the prose to convey his findings precisely.

Re Tether-Bitfinex-washtrading, the paper trail indicates that Bitfinex and Tether have the same controlling interests. Dividends aren't the deciding factor - figuring out how both businesses can generate income (Tether via issuing unbacked USD; Bitfinex by driving real volume via pretending to have fake volume).

Unlike the issue of unaudited bank accounts, the wash trading issue isn't as easy to point out, since it requires (a) knowledge of trades taking place behind a black box, (b) high volumes capital to test these trades that requires sending that capital to these exchanges you're skeptical of.
i use linux mainly to write latex these days, i don't want my kernel to panic, I do want my machine to stay operative and not corrupt my work.

The kernel (for my intended usage) should intentionally panic only if there is a risk of corrupting my .tex files.
Jim Rogers says Bitcoin 'looks and smells' like all other investment bubbles
I (with my background on the Mercurial crew back in the day) definitely think Git is ripe for disruption -- I've done some thinking on things you could do.

(1) Good UX -- steal more from Mercurial here. No "index" or staging area by default, or at least a way to disable it. Being smoother about branch handling between local and remotes would also help significantly IMO.

(2) Network protocol and probably on-disk compatibility with Git and maybe Mercurial -- essential to gaining adoption.

(3) Better support for binary files, perhaps through using a modern content-defined chunking mechanism like FastCDC.

(4) Good support for narrow and shallow clones, maybe even making new clones (somewhat) shallow by default.

(5) Write it in Rust with a good modular architecture: good (including startup) performance, safe/robust and easier to reuse key parts (see also Facebook's Mercurial server stuff in Rust). The lack of a coherent/reusable architecture in Git has also been a key reason AFAICT that Git and Facebook are investing in Mercurial-based tooling.

(6) Use the inotify/FSEvents/whatever the windows equivalent is APIs to keep a daemon and have much faster status responses plus potentially record every change to the files on-disk -- sort of like Git's reflog, on steroids. Could also do smart build system integration here?

(7) Better support for very large trees (a la bup's midx extension to Git's storage format). It should really support Google/Facebook monorepo scale.

I have thought about starting something like this -- but I'm not sure this is the kind of thing where crowdfunding would afford me to build it out; and also not sure the big tech players would be willing to fund something like this (if they are, let me know though!).
There was a time when I thought of regulations as progress killers, but I find myself shifting on that and getting nervous every time I hear about self-driving tech.

It's great stuff, but I really do not want my family to be the brave eggs we had to crack to get to the omelet of a driverless future.

I now _like_ that someone somewhere has a book listing chemicals that aren't allowed to be shipped on an airplane, and I wish there were a way to jump right to that mired, bureaucratic point in car tech.

Similarly, I used to view lawsuits as a menace to free enterprise, but I'm a tiny bit comforted by the fact that everyone working on car tech knows they're extremely exposed to litigation if they aren't diligent.

The idea of code from Apple or Google driving on my roads is switching me from classical liberalism to "help me, big government!"
>Just run "fossil open" on the repository file once and from there on out any fossil command in that directory will run against said repo.

During my testing I never encountered that command much, though it doesn't really relieve the problem of having to double-open a repository; open folder, then open repo.

When I change a directory in Git, it automatically `fossil open`'s the current repo.

If no repository file is specified there should be an automatic fallback. Or even better, make using a non-default repo file a special flag, just like in git.

I don't really want to have to deal with opening something or connecting something when changing directories should be sufficient.
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Indeed, I've read on and off about ISPs lobbying local US government bodies for probably a decade or more.

I'm not sure what we are discussing, or if there is any point of contention between us that I can't see.

Perhaps you're not as much replying to me as simply being informative for posterity. In which case I'll thank you again, and stop writing now as to not drown out the information with drivel :-)
Laura Ingalls Wilder's books include very detailed descriptions of how things were built or constructed back in the day. One gets the impression the author would've loved to be a carpenter but wasn't able to because she was a woman.

You will need to provide historical context, and point out and countervail all the racist, nativist, etc. parts.
Well if they're using the same 2013-compiled firmware as the millions of IP cameras China dumps on Amazon, eBay, etc, I imagine it'll be hackers monitoring them.
Interesting little article. I just read about Jeff Bezos initiative to push for all departments at Amazon to be accessible as service interfaces. Could there be real interdisciplinary growth by having academic fields concepts and data accessible in the same way? Maybe starting with papers. But then if every model developed was some kind of living running service in the cloud or hosted on .edu you could query or interact with
It seems that Uber has only paid the infiltrators to say they have deleted the data. Putting aside, for the moment, all the legal and ethical issues, why would anyone at Uber imagine that this would be in the slightest bit beneficial?
Is it possible that a large part of the back and forth of mixed article opinions is to drum up volatility? Because if that were the case it'd most benefit people who make money buying and selling on exchanges. They don't just make money when it goes up.
How to get the traction as a travel business? *TIME SENSITIVE*
Hey everyone,

I recently launched my company American Fun, and because my business side is coming from Europe, currently trying to find out the best practices.

We're creating lifetime adventures in Europe, 18-35.

We started advertising a couple of days ago - how can I increase user experience on the website?

Link - www.americanfun.com
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I'd guess there is something like 50% cutoff point.

Less than 50% of hires stay: "oh geez, more meat to the grinder."

More than 50% of hires stay: "A new guy came, do you play ping pong?"

But my cut off point might be way off. And there might be some elasticity between those where people are more iffy about the whole deal.

I'd suggest testing this. Stack slightly not so promising new hires to one team and more promising in other. Let's hope there is different retain rate. Now you can measure the performance changes of both teams and see the net effect.
Is there the usual kind of database on the backend for your system?
My thoughts exactly. Regardless of whether HIV is a "death sentence" or not in this day and age, it's at best an extremely undesirable illness that many would give everything they could to be rid of forever.

What they did was obviously stupid, but desperation makes you do stupid things.
I didn't read the link I posted directly (as I said, I will not give them the clicks), so I didn't verify that it was exactly as I recalled. The article I read definitely did mention the airports (since I spent quite a bit of time staring at the satellite view trying to figure out what they thought the third airport was), so it's possible I found a cleaned-up version of the article when trying to find it again.

(FWIW, the town is Champaign, not Champagne).
most of the health care cost is NOT due to doctors salaries. the reason health care costs are so high in America is due to the way Providers (Hospitals, small clinics, and large Systems) charge insurance companies. Several decades ago when insurance really started getting big, they realized they had huge groups of people they could send to "in network" hospitals. they choose which Providers are in their network. therefore they have leverage over the Providers, and use it to negotiate the price they pay for all claims (the bill the provider sends the insurance company). They negotiate huge discounts on the "listed" price for a claim. Therefore, every year for decades, hospitals have been jacking up their prices in order to actually be able to stay in business (given that the large majority of costs are paid for by insurance companies, who are getting a huge discount). So 2 tylenol go from $3 to $10 to $100 to $500 over time, as the insurance companies negotiate bigger and bigger discounts. This is why the "cost of healthcare" is so high, even those it's not really the true cost. Unless you're not insured, in which case you have to pay the "actual" rate (ie $500 for 2 tylenol).

Here's an article that explains further http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/15/36406408...
The network switches and storage actually improved through acquisition which replaced their flagging HPE lines. Aruba & Nimble
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They tried delivering food with a drone
They used to store funds.
Web extensions express the architectural decision to remove power from the user. The extra API's are better for the user in the sense that a sharper knife is better for the user when their hands are cut off.
Where Brexit Hurts: The European Nurses and Doctors Leaving London
Salaries make for a great distraction though, like hosepipe bans in California when 80% of the water use is agricultural.
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