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GitHub: https://github.com/samcfinan/Angular-4-Material-POS

A basic point-of-sale demo application built in Angular 4. This project uses Angular Material UI elements (https://material.angular.io) and a Firebase Cloud Firestore and Firebase Auth backend (https://firebase.google.com).

The purpose is to demonstrate a simple POS using modern frameworks. Users can perform transactions, add/modify products (with image upload), create new user accounts, and see a paginated transaction history. Adding/removing users and products is restriced to Admin users.

DEMO: https://angularpos.samfinan.com
>So I think the extra details are important. [...] This is also why I didn't summarize everything at the top: that would encourage people to just read the top and stop there.

There's an opposite way to look at it: a good summary acts as a "hook" and entices readers to read the rest of 15000 words. I wasn't suggesting you delete the extra details. Instead, the bullet points at the top give the reader a "road map" to the rest of the long article.

>They can do that with project management advice anywhere on the Internet.

Well, you said the other articles out there are contradictory ("doesn't work and makes things worse") so there's your hook: you have a superior method.

If you prefer to write in a style that "unfolds" that's understandable. A writer can hold an opinion on the best way to present his ideas.

That said, I'll offer some counterpoint. A web surfer may have 20 browser tabs open as a "todo list" of unread blogs. The email inbox has a bunch of unread messages. There's also a stack of new candidate resumes he's supposed to read. That random person then clicks on your blog and sees the shaded rectangle in the scroll bar get real tiny which visually indicates it's a very long piece of text. 15000 words is ~1 hour of reading.

Since you're not a household name among famous authors, a lot of people just won't start reading it on faith alone.
They don't trust you enough yet that it will eventually unfold with an amazing insight. Instead, many busy people will just ignore it because there are so many other items competing for their attention. In particular, the project managers and business executives you want to reach and internalize your recommendations are especially prone to skip long articles. One hour articles are really making a huge demand from multitasking managers so they need a nudge to see if it's worth their time.

There's a glut of information overload out there and long articles can act as "RADIOACTIVE - DO NOT ENTER" signs to the people you most want to convince of your ideas.
That remains one of the arguments against this action.
"Food insecure" is a very strange way of describing this situation. The people described are spending far more money on rent than they are on food. The real problem is that the rent is too damn high.
Please push Congress to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to stop the FCC order.

Do whatever you can.
> Would we better off focusing our efforts on increasing competition among ISPs?

The answer is, of course, yes. But people like to think in terms of black and white, ingroup and outgroup, friend and enemy. The public is now thoroughly convinced not only that the reclassification had the intended effects (and it's not clear that's the case), but that reinstating the reclassification is the only way to address the issue. Anyone who says anything against this norm will be hounded until they shut up.
the alternative means accepting that net neutrality is dead, so... yes.
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when did the FCC fix monopolies in TV or Radio? Never. When did they censor them? Every time.
Just so we are clear this is what is happening. Removal of regulations that prohibited broadband providers from blocking websites or charging for higher-quality service or certain content.

Did they do that before 2015, there are cases of it, but not really that much. Providers mostly want to slowly introduce it now or at least the option to introduce it. I don't think they want to switch it quickly, but giving them this power is very dreadful.

So saying it will go back to 2015 (basically not really an issue), is looking at things a bit closed minded.
(I work at Triplebyte.) Yes it was a good way to get started, though we've since grown to the point that the majority of companies hiring on our platform are non-YC companies.
yeah....i mean i feel a big part of this is because these people made it without the internet and feel it's not as necessary as people rely on it today.
Net neutrality wasn't instituted in 2015. It was made law in 2015. Prior to that, Net Neutrality was the standard since it was classified as an information service. It wasn't until telecom companies started blocking VoIP traffic that it changed.
Ask HN: What price should I charge for corporate DevOps and Big Data training?
I used to do backend/frontend web dev training a little over $1,000 a day. I've since then I've been doing a lot more work with Docker and Apache Spark. I'm beginning work with a new training firm, and they want to know what my daily rate is. I know I can charge more for my new topics, but I'm not sure what number I should give. Some insight would be much appreciated!
I abstained from voting. I'm still happy with my decision. People actually care about politics again [1]. Maybe next time don't railroad my candidate (Sanders) during the primaries. I will never vote for a neoliberal or corporate Democratic candidate, even if you hold my country hostage.

[1] Alabama has a Democratic state senator for the first time in decades.
Comcast board meeting (RIGHT NOW): "First things first, how do we charge more for netflix streaming."
> We aren't a bunch of robots - our productivity is influenced by what our colleagues say.

Indeed!

That's why it's so concerning to some of us that our colleagues are apparently children who blindly parrot misinterpretations of source material and call for blood over their own fabricated outrage.
Would anything stop the next administration from re-instating net neutrality?

Money from the even richer companies that want to prevent it from happening.

Think of the ad campaigns: "Since have been able to charge content providers for their use of our network, we've kept our costs low - that's why you pay only $99.99/month for your ultra fast 10 mbit connection , f net neutrality comes back, your rates will skyrocket"
He brings shame to the Indian tech community.
Black Book of Communism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism
I don't like the Ultrawides, for that exact reason. I have a 16:9 4K that works wonderfully. For Window management, I just put windows where I want them...not really an issue for me.
I really should get the paperwork going for my wife's Italian citizenship, the US national archive sent me an un-certified copy of her grandfathers naturalization papers even though I requested a certified copy and I've been too lazy to try again.

Anyone have advice on tech hotspots in the EU that are willing to put up with English-speaking engineers? I've thought about Finland a couple times, good schools for my daughter, ample hunting and fishing opportunities and from what I can tell pretty good broadband infrastructure.
“Old Baron Rothschild’s recipe for wealth winning applies with greater force than ever to speculation. Somebody asked him if making money in the Bourse was not a very difficult matter and he replied that, on the contrary, he thought that it was very easy… “I will tell you my secret if you wish. It is this: I never buy at the bottom and I always sell too soon.”

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscences_of_a_Stock_Opera...)
Not having to put in money directly is one of the advantages of the approach. Aside from just convenience, hiding the true cost in this way will make it a lot more palatable for most people - if the device loses a bit of battery faster or gets warmer, it's not a big deal, but being forced to think about it in terms of direct payment will elicit more reactions of opting to just not go to as many websites.
The Case Against Net Neutrality (Ben Eater with 3Blue1Brown)
We're really not.
No. Give me a candidate worth voting for, and I will vote. The current "pick the lesser of two shitheads" is ridiculous. Both parties in the US are to blame.

The two party system in the US today means that voting for anyone that is not a Democrat or Republican is a complete waste of time.
I don't think people from different regions or types have different IQs, but as a thought experiment, suppose it was proven that (to pick a random example) all Capricorns born on a Tuesday were below average intelligence. Should discussion of that fact be suppressed?
Oh, God yes - the same on Linux. I'm thinking that what I ought to do is go down to my local BoA branch and discuss (and demonstrate!) this to their branch manager. I can't help but feel I'd just get a brush-off if I tried to deal with this online or over the phone.
It's funny, the FCC's mandate isn't to poll the public and do whatever most of them want. Strange how people seem to think it's a numbers game, at least when they feel the numbers are on their side
> No, nor will the next congress (likely Democratic or leaning that way) be prevented from passing laws that reinstate it at the legislative level.

Merely leaning Democrat isn't enough when the president can veto legislation. (I'm also not so sure it will be leaning Democrat in the first place, but that's secondary.)

Edit: To everyone downvoting: what did I say that was wrong...?
Irrelevant to his original point. That Southerners do the same does not justify San Franciscans doing it as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
Just a comment to chime in with some interesting info.

QE in the UK seems to have actually kicked into the inflation cycle. Commodity prices (butter was a big one, if I remember correctly, at >20% yoy) have been jumping alongside service costs (insurance). I'm sure that Brexit is _some_ sort of variable in this equation but I won't pretend to make heads or tails of how beyond that inflation is in fact happening in some places. [0][1]

Given the level of concern there is over the "missing inflation" in USD that causes so much headscratching by the Fed WRT rate raises, I think the OP is fair to say that we should be at least somewhat concerned about the state of currencies during QE (My intuition as someone not in finance is that it's simply been "absorbed" somewhere in the system that doesn't trickle down to normal consumers, such that it doesn't manifest like the inflation they're looking for; would be curious if someone more informed could speak to this.); and more importantly, the position that a multi-year ZIRP regime puts us in to respond to the next crisis.

Bitcoin is an obvious outlier for sure, and a correction would hurt. But compared to the populations currency exposure, bitcoin's pain would likely be much less widespread.

[0] (because I trust reuters as a source) https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-economy-inflation/...

[1] (more fine grained breakdown from sketchier news site) http://www.trustnodes.com/2017/12/13/inflation-spikes-britai...
Is anyone working on market based routing over mesh networks with crypto currencies? Would that have been disallowed under the network neutrality rules?
but the power that this gives the service providers is very bad.
Ah, sorry. You said "results of this debate disagree with you", so I took that to be the debate's results (the vote), not the debate itself.

(And as a side point, no to the straw poll question - there are certain statistical guarantees on the representativeness of polls as long as they're drawn from a random sample of the public, with debates about how far you can deviate from a random sample and still have results that are useful. Self-selected polls, on the other hand, pretty much mean nothing.)
but is bitcoin really a monetary system if it's not being used as a currency, but as a commodity?

The increase in dollar value of a bitcoin does not bear any resemblance with an increase in use of bitcoin as a currency.

If anything, there seem to be less hype about using BTC to pay for things these days than a few years back.
bi-partisan? Pretty sure the vast majority of Republican candidates came out against it last November. People knew what they were voting for.
Slightly ironic that ESPN itself has significantly scaled back baseball coverage/studio shows this year, yet they now own RSNs who have rights for 16 (by my count) MLB teams
Joke? If not, source?
Except it was a disaster. The only reason the rule got put into place was because Verizon was found to be throttling Netflix. There's no reason to suspect they won't go back to it as soon as they can.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
A relevant and interesting discussion on net neutrality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKD-lBrZ_Gg
A lot of politicians go to Washington wanting to drain the swamp. They quickly discover that it isn't a swamp. It's a jacuzzi with free champaign.
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Criticism: Helps to create a healthy society.

Toxic environment motivating you to move to another town: Tends to create an unhealthy society.
FCC can't fix monopolies. But what they can do is prevent monopolistic abuse and encourage competition by removing anti-competitive garbage like state laws that ban municipal networks.

Net neutrality was helping to curb monopolistic abuse. Current FCC basically made the market worse by giving monopolists free reign to do their evil stuff unchecked.
I killed a man in Reno, just to watch their family start caring about the justice system!
Yes, they believed him. Despite numerous examples from his history that he shouldn't be believed.
Do you feel that you care about politics if you aren't making your voice heard by voting?
Dsd
R.I.P. innovative America, everything there is dying for people to innovate :-(
You could have voted for Evan McMullin, a CIA officer for over 10 years and all around stand up dude. There were plenty of other candidates. If you threw your hands up and did not vote, you're part of the problem. Period.
Democrats had a chance to when they controlled both, and they didn't. This problem may not be as partisan as you think..
In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada all of the basements I went in were solid pours. I only saw cement blocks as a foundation for cabins with no basement.

In coastal BC most places don't seem to have a basement at all.
But what if A said this:

There are obviously genetic differences between races. That's how AncestryDNA can tell where you came from. So if there are obviously genetic differences, why can't I talk about the pros/cons of being black without being hateful? Some differences are going to be objectively better or worse, why I can't we talk about them without going into full blown racism? If we acknowledge the fact that there are physical differences due to genetics, maybe there are mental differences too (that's a real touchy one)?

Pro: some localized African phenotypes make for world-class athletes in certain sports- a single tribe in Kenya is vastly over-represented in marathon running.

Con: Africans are worse at living in the Arctic Circle compared to Nordic people. Their dark skin isn't suited to producing enough vitamin D with limited skin exposure.

Con: Black people with high blood pressure don't respond well to beta blockers and ACE inhibitors. Instead they need to be prescribed diuretics and calcium blockers, but these have worse side effects.

It seems like today if we mention that there are actually genetic differences between races it automatically gets shut down because they assume we're going to start making the conversation about hate instead of what we can do to fix some of the cons.
A strong litmus test as the one given by Andrei (creator of D for those not paying attention), settles the definition well enough. I'll even back off that claim because some absolutely refuse to accept a litmus test to meet definitions of things, as they're so hellbent on not being excluded. Unfortunately that's how language and the world works, not everyone gets their way.

So we'll just settle on once there's a commercially successful operating system built in a GC'd language then I'll eat crow but till then they're all going to be C/C++/D/Rust or built on similar abstraction layers. Go ahead, wash away Linux, iOS and Windows in the competitive landscape with something written in Go. Let's see it, that's believing after all. It'll never happen because it's unsuited and inferior for that purpose.
I agree with you. Sorry if I wasn't clear, I just using the language in the wiki article. I guess the point is more that with a normal vaginal opening any male physically strong enough can impregnate a female. With the Hayena configuration my understanding is that the female has to consciously retract her clitoris to make impregnation possible at all.

So yes the male could still coerce, through emotional manipulation or threat of physical force, a female to comply without direct physical force but I don't know how applicable that is to hayenas (or most non-human animals).
Alabama's new Democratic Senator won because the choice was literally "this guy or a pedophile?" That seat'll almost certainly go overwhelmingly red again in 2020. Sessions won the seat in 2014 with 97.3% of the vote.

There's probably a Democratic wave happening nationally, but the Alabama special election is really poor evidence to use for it.
Despite how my above comment appears, I really don't want to turn this into partisan shit-flinging. I am no Democrat, I fall well to the left of where they live, and I disagree about gun rights and a number of other things.

That being said, I think it's pretty clear that more harmful policies proposed in recent times have come predominantly from a single source, and I think it's more important to work in opposition to that harmfulness than to find a group that perfectly represents you. Especially with a first past the post electoral system in which fractiousness dilutes the value of your vote.
I donate to campaigns I'm passionate about (I max out my contributions per FEC regs). My dollars are more effective than my votes.
My thoughts are similar to yours, but not due to innovation but rather a functioning, humane welfare state. My wife and I have been eyeing up Sweden or Denmark for years. If family wasn't here, we'd have left already.
This doesn't describe my experience of the Bay Area (2004-present) at all. Here's a sincere tip: start attending the Seminars About Long-term Thinking organized by the Long Now Foundation. Take a friend or two. Sitting in those (packed!) theaters, listening to big, bold, and really very challenging ideas -- not just presented and left at that, but also opened up and interrogated -- I really don't think you'll feel you're surrounded by people in "pursuit of ideological purity" who don't value interesting new ideas.
I remember reading an article about Trump v. Clinton, and how no matter who won, it would reinvigorate the opposition for a generation.

I'm not quite sure if that was true if Clinton had one, we'll never know, but one thing is for certain: The opposition to the current government and policies seems reinvigorated, and the generational aspect of it could be true as well. Perhaps this country really did need an enema.
What do you consider southerners?

As recently as two nights ago I helped entertain some startup founders from SF who were genuinely suprised that Houston (the 4th largest, soon 3rd largest city in the US) wasn't just a few strip malls.
It's an analogy to "heretical" ideas from history.
A historically vulnerable position? Vulnerable to what? To an invasion by NATO?

There's two ways you can answer that question. The first is, no, it's not vulnerable, because there are exactly zero NATO members who have any interest whatsoever in invading Russia. That is simply not going to happen.

The second answer is to remember history. Napoleon invaded and captured Moscow. Hitler invaded and made it to just outside Moscow. Both of them started from further west than NATO could start. So, yes, from the perspective of history, Russia has less of a geographic buffer than it had in the past.

But I think Putin isn't really afraid of a NATO invasion. What he's really afraid of is a color revolution. He therefore is building grievances against the West, not because he fears NATO, but because he fears real democracy. (Yes, I know, the democracy in the west has problems, and is less "real" than it should be. It's still miles ahead of what's happening in Russia, though. And Putin wants the situation in Russia to stay as it is.)
Let's get one thing straight: Torrent sites do not host content. They host community.

The only thing thepiratebay.org, what.cd, kickasstorrents.cr, etc. did or continue to do is the same that a forum or news site like reddit or hackernews does: provide a community with a purpose.

While hackernews is a community for discussing news or interesting things, etc. WhatCD was a place for discussing music, quality releases, and sharing good encodings, rather than the transcoded lossy->lossy formats you see flying around most places. Naturally, WhatCD's as a community wasn't concerned with things like copyright owner's profits, etc., even though many of its users certainly were, but simply couldn't find an alternative, as a lot of music is not even to be found, let alone sold in particularly high quality lossless formats.

When what.cd was taken down, none of the copies of copyrighted content were deleted. The community was broken up.

If piracy is to be considered such a serious crime, taking down torrent trackers is like going to a meeting of known criminals, and - rather than arresting them - evicting them. It has only a minimal effect, as they are free to gather elsewhere.

What bothers me the most is that the only thing being dismantled is the thing that clearly contains the most value to individuals, and society at large. Community is a good thing.

When WhatCD was taken down, a countless amount of valuable data that could be found practically nowhere else was suddenly destined to be hidden from society at large, and the community it had cultivated was scattered, without a care for what that meant.

Sure, quite a few people find that, while using copyright enforcement as a business model, piracy significantly detracts from sales. Sure, there is a culture that undervalues creators, but it is not a black and white problem, and most popular solutions have serious consequences that go practically ignored.
Lul, railroad. Maybe next time "your" candidate will actually get enough votes? Maybe he'll pull out when it's completely infeasible for him to win?
If "nothing is going to change" then why the repeal? What benefit will this repeal actually bring? Either they pushed for this to be petty and undo an Obama era bill or something dastardly is in the pipeline.
Keep in mind the FCC is not accountable to the public – we don't vote them in. However, we as the public still have power to push our representatives to encode NN as law. Now that NN has unfortunately been repealed, we can cue in Congress to act.