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If "the system" you're referring to is the USA, then no, it's not designed for that.

We elect people based on ideology and character. They may have a few central policy platforms, but there are so many laws and resolutions passed that they cannot pre-advertise their positions or poll their constituents for every one.

Hence, why we are a republic (or representative democracy, if you will). We elect people on the basis of trusting they will do the right thing, because noone has the time to track municipality, state and federal votes.

Among the many experiments on local organization early communist China had was essentially a pure democracy (for local matters), and the inevitable result was there were so many votes that people were overwhelmed and disengaged.
I think it was a response to how often we have heard that peaceful hunter societies _were_ different from today
Brazil and Catch 22 both describe dealing with tortuous government bureaucracy. There's a long tradition of government being miserable in this regard but it's still a public institution that's accountable to its constituents. In fact often the bureaucracy is because of its public nature.

Comparing this to private Silicon Valley companies that are't accountable to anyone for their behavior towards individual users actually illustrates the problem neatly.
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This is so confusing. I have to put some research into but I'm afraid of buying into a dying brand (thus no updates).
I've been wanting to create a system that is more equitable but concluded that humans would rather take advantage of one another than be fair when it comes to paying.

I think freelancers are a major part of the problem, especially those who are very desperate for work. For an equitable system to exist you must be someone who is ready to say no at any point of the getting to know the project phase.

As a designer i find it easier to close deals on the phone and imagine other experienced freelancers operate the same way. Unfortunately a call based system is inherently wrong for an online platform that aims to earn profit on project fees. The reason upwork has been successful is because it charges fee on a project vs charging the customer or freelancer a flat fee and sadly such setup is not ideal for a freelancer who may be looking at projects in the tens of thousands range.
I don't have a solution other than whitelisting or blacklisting, which is what I use the ad blockers for.
Vorrath.
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For customers, liquidity and price accuracy, ticket availability, and the chance for discount tickets (in the case where brokers make a bad call or execute badly, which happens often).

For venues and promoters, guaranteed attendance and immediate cashflow (sell 50,000 tickets at an average of $80 immediately instead of spread over 9-12 months, that's money that can be invested back into their business or something else, and reduces risk).

For artists and promoters, the capability to hold back chunks of inventory for later sale on the secondary market at increased cost. This allows them to take advantage of a functioning market to make more money while also avoiding fan displeasure at high ticket prices. Also, the ability to say they sold out X size venue in Y time, which can denote popularity (or be used to claim a level of popularity).

Brokers take on risk for a possible reward. If you're buying tickets that aren't intended for immediate resale, and are holding them for 9-12 months (common), anything can happen in that time period. That artist may become less popular, or even just get sick and cancel much of the tour (in which case you just had your money tied up for months, at best losing out on other investments and at worst paying some percentage on a credit account), which is a loss.

It's not really all that different than other financial markets.

Edit: As much as some artists like to complain about the secondary market, there's a really simple solution that just works. Increase supply. Garth Brooks plays twice a night and multiple days in a row in the same venue at each stop on a tour. Kid Rock will play seven consecutive days in a row in Detroit. The downside? They move the risk from the brokers to the venue, promoters and artist, because they may lose money if they don't fill enough seats. This itself is an illustration of the role the secondary market plays, and indeed heavily bought events with inflated prices often get additional dates added which depress the market prices.
The laws align pretty well with Ethics. Most things that are unethical are also illegal and hence won't be built by any legitimate company.

How often do you think a company chooses to build something that's unethical but legal? Have you ever heard of a engineer who said to the PM or boss, "hey, i'm not going to build that because it's unethical". I've never seen that happen. have you?
They're getting increasingly rare now that storage costs are so low. Why hobble something with an 8MB flash chip when a 1GB flash chip costs almost the same? Maybe you can shave some fractional pennies on not having to wire up so many address lines, but even that's marginal.
In an IT-related class I had in High School, part of the course was a lesson in ethics.

Part of the "lesson" taught that if you have a good/unique idea, you should patent it, lest someone else get the value from it before you do, and that you should keep your software closed-source lest someone pirate it.

There was no voice for free software or against the absurdity of software patents outside my own vocal retorts.

This was part of a district-wide course, and probably contained popular ideas used by many other districts.

Another thing I see in schools/colleges is that Microsoft will give free licenses to the school and students for their software so long as it is used and taught. Free software takes a backseat, and people are taught to use - and prefer - Microsoft's proprietary tools. Microsoft gets to control their target audience, and be seen as doing something generous, not abusive.
To call that a solution is generous.. it is unlikely the average person could follow the Glacier Protocol.
>This is why our judges mostly do not get to tinker with the rules.

They mostly don't tinker, not because they aren't allowed, but because rules are designed to capture the base case, so most cases are anticipated by the rules.

This is why most reviews and reporters do not list every banal dispute.
This is a good philosophical question, but the answer the governments of major powers came up with is that to limit the atrocity there must be rules even in war. So people came up with mutually agreed conventions. It was agreed that violating these would be worse then killing "by the book". Germany was a party to the rule prohibiting chemical warfare: https://verdragenbank.overheid.nl/en/Verdrag/Details/002422
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From wikipedia:

HMD is headquartered in Espoo, opposite Nokia's head office, and the company is largely staffed by former Nokia executives.
> Black Mirror, Altered Carbon are both terrific and dive into tech ethics to different extents, and the outreach there is many millions of viewers.

Also Electric Dreams.
A Google R&D team wants to bring Smart Reply to all your chat apps
Skype needs a rewrite. I don't like saying "rewrite" but I also hate Skype's messaging system.
> as well as a special tax cut for companies using employees with the title.

This is an interesting point in-between zero intervention and over-bearing puritanism codified in law. I'm having trouble finding more information. Could you share a link?
I object to both.

The whole-word method is required for Chinese languages. Phonics is obviously proper for Spanish and Russian.

English is not so extreme. Phonics is useful, but it falls short. I've seen the disaster that is pure phonics with English, leading to a kid who mostly couldn't read at age 14. On the other hand, it will be hard to develop a decent vocabulary with the whole-word method. A hybrid approach works nicely.

See phonics fail on The Chaos:
https://www.learnenglish.de/pronunciation/pronunciationpoem....
What about that Captain Underpants crap? I hated it when I was a kid but it seemed pretty good to the other kids and kind of acceptable to the adults.
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> But we hardly have a representative sampling of former Atari employees to determine what people think of the culture in retrospect, or whether they’d be willing to live like that again

All of the evidence we have at this point is positive towards the Atari culture. If the standard is "it was shitty unless you can prove a negative," then there's not much point talking about any of this. Burn the books because we already know everything we need to know.
Ask HN: Was Called to Speak in My Daughter's Junior School – Any Ideas?
The principal wants me to speak for the kids, 4 and 5 graders about online safety, perhaps given I am a founder of an application security startup.

Anyway, I would appreciate your ideas about topics and content. I assume smartphones, App Stores, et al, are as important as web browsing, perhaps even more given their popularity amongst the kids.

It will be 45 minutes and I want it to be interesting and useful!

Thanks in advance for your advice.
Uh, they moved all of Windows into a single git-repo. It used to sprawl over 40+ Source Depot repos but now it's one gigantic monorepo [1].

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/02/03/scaling-g...
Nokia has no ownership in HMD Global who licensed Nokia brand for 10 years to make phones. Nokia gets license and patent fees from the deal.

The future prospects of Nokia stock are tied to 5G network deployments. 5G deployments start already this year, but they will be slow at first. Things start move along 2019 when first 5G networks and devices (including phones) start to appear. 2020-2022 will show if Nokia is the winner in the battle for market share.
Get another job. “Stopped being a good hire for other reasons” makes it sounds like you’re experiencing a lot of rejection. Finding a new job is a numbers game, but also the more you search, the better you get at interviewing. Don’t give up, treat your job search like a full time job, be diligent.
Is always connected to a VPN a reasonable way to be secure?
Why? Can I ask why you feel entitled to know what other people are worth? And where can I see your name and net worth?
You’re conflating memory with consciousness.

As for the illusion question, it’s missing the point.

It doesn’t make sense to call it an illusion. Your conscious experience may accurately reflect reality, but that doesn’t change the fact that you are experiencing the phenomenon of consciousness. That our consciousness is more fragmented than we at first think is similarly irrelevant to the hard problem; fragmented or not, the subjective experience lacks explanation.

It’s very well possible that consciousness is unnecessary for thought. I strongly doubt that it is totally useless altogether, but that’s certainly possible too.

Even if you believe it is probably useless, we investigate things of dubious utility all the time, often discovering unforeseen uses along the way.

So the question remains: why are you so eager to dismiss the defining feature of the human experience?
Whilst the point about this stuff being well known is sound, I shall just point out that FTPS alone is quite likely (according to circumstances of course) to be not enough. I know of at least one system that already used FTPS for a decade or so that now has to be modified to use GPG encryption as well, for GDPR compliance. Security of data once they have arrived is as important as security of data that are in transit.
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I've worked in that industry as well and I have a very negative view of it still, even discounting the bad actors. Everything you do can be above board and still be douchey
> destabilized the Middle East

I don't think pre-1990 Middle East, where Iraq had just invaded and occupied a neighboring state (Kuwait) was exactly a stable place, either. Remember also the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War.
> > Activists expressed prior desire to bring the #MeToo movement to the video game industry.

> I'm not sure why this is highlighted as a bad thing. People should be free to speak up about these sorts of thing in any industry, and there's not going to be any industry totally free of incidents.

It's not a bad thing to have the video game industry able to call out sexual harassment when it occurs. It is a bad thing to paint something as harassment that wasn't perceived as harassment by the "victims", in the name of getting #MeToo rolling in the video game industry. Essentially, it's false accusation in order to advance the movement. That's not going to end well.
Speaking of which, do you think you could support more ontologies than schema.org? It's easy to use schema.org without understanding the rest of the RDF ecosystem, so I'll elaborate in a minute, but I'm on my phone right now so it's difficult.
Nokia used to be where apple is today. They had a majority of the smartphone market share. It was a smaller market. They also dominated the feature phone market. It just shows you how fast things can change.

This graph is pretty awesome in showing how big Nokia was:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8GCu9SVwAE_n4N.png:large
From what I understand, the problem was because the second burn was when the rocket was going tail-first through the atmosphere at hypersonic speed, and much faster than a Falcon 9 booster.

That's a problem because the amount of igniter fluid depends on the air pressure in the rocket chamber, and it was not possible to determine this exactly beforehand through either testing or modeling. So they took a guess and it turned out wrong, but they got lots of data on the rocket chamber pressures, and will adjust accordingly in the future.
Facebook isn't a good contender, not on its main website, but YouTube is falling quickly and this talk just motivates competitors more.
Stick with a 6S, no regrets versus the 7, 8, or X.
I believe this is a time when a lot of software engineers are asking the hard questions about their careers.

Here's why: The technologies have become simpler and the barriers to entry have become low. Once upon a time, if you knew the mainstream languages (C++ and Java) it meant you paid your dues learning the hard stuff. Today, with nodejs becoming mainstream, and the cloud at the backend, developers who come from an "html programming" background can now build scalable and enterprise grade applications without breaking a sweat.

That leaves the "hard core" dev in a little bit of a fix. "Where do I go from here?" The front end is where the complexity is today. Its hard to compete in the AI and machine learning roles when there are phds doing this for ten years who are on the same table. Devops is also simple enough for someone with 3 years of experience of be on top of the game.

Now add to that the fact that the number of devs with 8 years of experience (what I consider the senior dev) grows bigger and bigger each year..

The next slow down I believe will be brutal to our industry.
It is interesting but this is in direct opposition to "make money fast and do whatever you need to do." When shareholders come first there is no way ethics will ever be involved.
Back when I was in High School, I would boot a floppy with UnetBootin (the BIOS did not support USB boot), and boot a flash drive with TinyCore, then put the floppy and flash drive back in my pocket. I would end up with a working browser before anyone else was able to login to Windows XP, and my computer wouldn't freeze, crash, etc.
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Yep, my CPU (i7-4790K @ 4.7 GHz) smokes my dual GTX 780s in hash rate for Monereo.
Only on used market though, last I looked Apple even removed their gimpy 8GB version of the 2015 MBP. Why don't they keep producing maxed out versions of both 13 and 15 inch (16GB / 512GB SSD) to pave over the issues people have?
"Erecting walls between genders" is extremely loaded phrasing here.

Would women like to return to a workplace atmosphere like early Atari's? I don't have a poll (and I hate to speak for them) but I would be very surprised if more than a small percentage of the women I know would say "yes".
Windows Phone 7 was horrible. No native apps, no background tasks, no globally accessible storage, no serious graphics API, no API for audio streaming, no API for anything!
It got slightly better in WP8, but bad impression remained.
Ancient people almost universally suffered from severe childhood trauma and abuse. A majority must have lived with deep psychological problems. They did all kinds of messed up stuff, including perpetuating the cycle of abuse all the way to today. Impaling a few skulls is (sadly) the least of it.

Children being born today are some of the first to have parents that even understand what child abuse is. Which means it's possible that there will be a drastic reduction over the next generations.

It's likely that this would result in a markedly different global society. Maybe even one that eliminates most forms of abuse and needless suffering.
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I'm not sure I agree with much of that. I still think there is massive complexity in this industry.
> > The thing that separates rape from sex is consent.

> That's not true, but I'm sure a lot of people are trying to make that seem true.

What do you think the difference is then? And why do you think that your definition of the difference is more correct than the definition that the difference is consent?
> Their social lives depend on it. Just as yours does.

It definitely isn't true that my social life depends on this sort of technology, and I suspect it isn't true for most adults. I suppose you may be using a broader definition of "technology" than me, but my social life would be unaffected if I had a text-enabled phone and a computer sitting at home all day while I'm at work or out doing stuff on the weekends. I don't do that, but not because of my social life.

Having said all that, insofar as it comes to kids, I think your point about the may be a good one! But the fact that this isn't the world many or must adults live in may give you insight on why they don't view this in the same way you do. I think it is hard to come to terms with the fact that your kids live in a different world with different requirements than yours.
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Your definition of "enjoyed the culture" is from Kotaku anecdotes and at least one of the women interviewed has taken issue with their framing of the story.

Really bad comparison on my part in GP but I think my point stands. Just because something was "common" back in the day doesn't mean it's acceptable today and we shouldn't be rewarding people for things that today we see as harmful even though they weren't considered to be in the past.

Rewarding shitty past behavior is how we remain stuck with shitty behavior.

And again, you really need to evaluate whether it's a "vocal minority" or is actually a majority with a vocal subset.
Engineering ethics takes two forms: "what should I build" and "how should I build it".

I tend to prefer "engineering ethics" courses that focus on the second question because the first question is completely parametric in more general ethical and even political considerations.

It's true that engineers should take a course of study in pure ethics to learn how to think through questions of the first variety, but I'm not sure if engineering departments are the right ones to house/teach that particular course.
Yeah, but the prices are ridiculous. The O'Reilly books in the recent years were clearly priced taking into account that most people would have taken advantage of their perpetual 50% or periodic 60% discounts.
At full price they are absurd.

I've been following the eBooks.com newsletter for several months, but they seem to have at most rare discounts of 20% (understandable since that's probably close to what they get paid).

Even if I managed to overcome my distaste for O'Reilly since their move and if worthwhile new titles kept being published, I would be very reluctant to spend those sums for a single ebook.

Personally I've been "lucky" enough to spend thousands of dollars on them in the last years and there are few titles that I'm still missing.
Is this standard practice in the US (forcing people out anonymity when they win at the lottery), or is this in this state only?

Here in France you have the choice (the lottery is not even encouraging you that much to go public).
"I don’t see your point."

Well, part of my point is that Atari isn't "them". It is, for most of HN, "us, only fifty years ago". And not just "us, as in Silicon Valley is like really racist and stuff, but not me, oh no, so us but not the us that includes me", but literally us. These were the direct ancestors of Silicon Valley liberalism.

I'm saying that if the moral harridans of 2018 are going to be going back in history to the 1970s to condemn people (and beyond), I'd like to see some sort of reckoning with the history of what's going on here, if for no other reason than to perhaps convince people to slow down a bit and dampen the wildly swaying pendulum before rewriting the social contract willy-nilly again next week. It honestly blows my mind how the direct lineal descendants of the Sexual Revolution are now putting forth a morality that is actually stricter than what conservatives have stuck too, a morality in which even if everyone is adult and consents it can still be condemned if it isn't 2018-approved, with just-barely-not-nonexistent examinations of how that happened and whether it's really a good idea. Where will the pendulum swing next?
Yes, sorry, was referring to the phones. I can't count how many times I've dropped my headphones on an airplane (or they've slipped off when doing something physical), and I'm easily able to retrieve them by grabbing the cord.

Can't imagine dropping an airpod bud on the plane, then having to try and figure out where it rolled. Also, there are times when my bose headphones have died, and at least I've been able to use the free shitty ones they hand out.
Honestly I bet it doesn't matter what products or setup you use - sounds like you as parents made words and reading a ever-present part of the environment. I'm 98% sure that general atmosphere is important and has big results, regardless of the fine specifics of technique & etc. But that's just my intuition
i am somewhat bemused that this got 38 upvotes in 16 minutes. i have no idea how hacker news' new page works.
A very interesting exchange in the comments section. I actually find Vivek Wadhwa's explanations (in the comments) reasonable and convincing. He seems like a honest guy who did the homework and asked the right people (contrary to what he's accused of) BUT he didn't give them the final version of the article to read so that they could correct errors and misunderstandings. This is actually common practice and I hate it - they interview you, you do your best explaining what you're asked, and then you see it in print completely skewed. Technically, sometimes these are your own words, but taken out of context they make little sense or can just be completely wrong. That's the case here, I think.

In light of Vivek Wadhwa's responses, Aaronson's attack seems really petty. I'd love to read a technical summary of all mistakes made by Wadhwa though.
Maybe swearing?
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Honestly single sign-on is just a no brainer MVP feature for Canny. Your users shouldn't have to make a separate account to give feedback for your product. That would be like Intercom making your users make a separate account to live chat...
Hahaha, can you post the video?