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However, there is a bit of a problem problem when people like, say, teachers, police officers, firefighters and can't afford to live anywhere near an entire big urban area which needs them. Rich people depend on non-rich people to do things like stock groceries on store shelves, teach their kids, police the streets (protecting all those riches), put out the fires (protecting all those riches) etc.
Or reflex.

We act on an input on a lower cognitive level first before a higher level function even has the chance to intervene.

If someone is throwing a ball at my face, my body hopefully reacts before my higher level functions had the chance to evaluate if the ball will really hit the face and if I may look silly if I wave my hands in the air while no actual danger exists. Because it actually IS on a trajectory to my face the benefit far outweigh the risk of looking silly
> A significant number of Google apps are mandatorily uninstallable on all Android phones (including Pixels),

Point taken and conceded.

Although I'd point out a small subtlety in the matter that they are definitely not mandatorily non-uninstallable on all Android phones, namely those that do not ship Gapps to begin with.
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> By refusing to answer upon the clear hypocrisy pointed out in your argument

My only argument in this subthread was that the charge of Whataboutism was correctly made, and cannot be rebutted with a claim of pointing to hypocrisy, since Whataboutism is exactly the fallacy of pointing to hypocrisy to avoid the topic of debate.
Perhaps some sort of logging standard that is enforced across all systems? A black box of some sort?
I think it's because Cargo was the blessed solution baked into the paradigm from the beginner. Rust get's credit for a lot of things it shouldn't (well, not credit for being the first), because it pulls many well done things together nicely. It might not be novel in a lot of areas, but is seems like it's got a lot of polish.

Or, perhaps it's brought up as example because Rust occupies a space a lot more similar to Go than Ruby does.
That's a patently false statement.

Inflation has been 3% a year for decades and wages have stayed flat.

Your example of home furnishings has been improved by industrialization.

Property value have skyrocketed, vehicle prices have skyrocketed, college, healthcare...

Things you NEED have become way more expensive. Luxury goods have gotten cheaper.
It also destroys disposable income and savings potential, thus reducing overall quality-of-life.
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The Graphics Card (HGC) was essentially an MDA-compatible monochrome card with an added all-points-addressable graphics mode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card
First you would have to crack Google public key system or modify your Android to not check signatures on installed packages.

There are easier and sneakier ways to install malware on a phone you control completely that do not require messing with cryptography at all.
The plummeting costs of technology over time make it a poor barometer for measuring wealth.

Instead of mobile phones and TVs, look at bigger items like health care, housing, and education, all of which have gotten more expensive (in the case of education, astoundingly so) even as inflation-adjusted wages have decreased.
As a fellow non-American, it took me years the realise there is no America. It is the Unites STATES of America, where the states are all very, very different.

As an example, last I looked the GDP per capita in San Francisco is $48K, whereas in Miami it is $24K. That is a pretty massive difference, and leads to very different outcomes in a lot of areas.

The best way to think of the USA - and China BTW, which has an even worse demographic spread - is to compare it not to one country like England, or Croatia or the Czech Republic, but to the EU as a whole. Luxembourg is Washington DC, Switzerland is Connecticut, London is New York, Seattle is Berlin, Croatia is Alabama and New Orleans is Barcelona. Those are not exact comparisons, but just a framework for understanding how aggregate US results are so weird.

Because even healthcare, if you combine the population Conneticut and Massachusetts, it is the same as Sweden's with very similar outcomes. Alabama and Mississippi, on the other hand, aren't doing quite as well.

TL;DR, The average for the USA is really misleading, as the spread is much larger than it is in smaller (area and population) countries.
Professionally you'll be put into situations that you are just not cut for, so you better tell them before they get disappointed.
I mean, I'm doing this programming for more than a decade, somewhat expected by the boss (who I worked for before I realized me being an aspie) to guide a team in a nice and friendly manner (I don't know, is that all just about sending smiley faces on slack? I work remote, with language and timezones between us).

Back in the early naughts I had programmed a blog-software (before know what blogs are) and used it for my ramblings. Someone from my class (I'd say he was in my circle, not sure if he'd considered me a friend, in retrospect) discovered it and one day said something like "suicide is a form of self-critique". I don't think my writing was that bad.
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I’m just hoping that in the next election cycle, both candidates are afforded the same amount of outrage over the Facebook data they use. Because the hypocrisy revealed by the outrage over Trump’s use of years old data vs. the celebration of Obama’s vastly more extensive use is appalling and shows the very worst of partisanship.
> What I want to know is why isn't Google allowing users to uninstall some of the apps that come with the devices? You can only disable them.

Other people already responded and stated the reason, that wasn't directly stated. In addition to those apps being on system read-only partition and not being easy to modify it you should also know that the app doesn't take any extra space from your data partition (obviously, when app is disabled and all its data was cleared)

What is annoying me most are those apps that you can't disable :/ also they could either make it easier to disable or make it diabled by default and on first boot offer user to enable it if they want it, but that won't happen because they want to ham fist those apps to us.
Some sources mention a three-week training course. [0] It certainly costs some money to put an employee through such a course, but Uber have the deep pockets here. I'm not saying Ms. Vasquez should be fired before an investigation is complete, and she may be exonerated entirely, but presumably any investigation will take at least three weeks?

[0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5532129/Uber-pilot-d...
I think it's just bad. I use Lineage OS on all my devices -- I just bought a Tab S2[1] because it's among the initial round of devices supported by LOS15.1. It kind of feels like being put on notice.

Chances are it'll be cracked sooner rather than later, but installing a custom ROM[2] is difficult enough as it is. It seems super unlikely to be a reaction to imports from China, which remain a niche phenomenon. And it's pointless anyway if they end up cracking it.

At that point it'll only affect people who sideload the Google stuff on devices they only have limited control over, aka Amazon customers.

[1] Which presumably won't be affected since it's a certified device; my phone's not, though.

[2] Previously known as installing an operating system.
It's a pretty ancient impulse. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_AiI9_XIAA67_t.jpg
There's nothing wrong with being thifty, but there is a lot of wrong in using "you're not thrifty" to explain systemic income inequality
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they're usually bullshit because they fail to emphasize outside income and support.
"Sociologists have long understood that people rely on elite cues to form their opinions. It’s difficult to understand the nuances of every issue, so Americans generally adopt the views of people who share their values. "
I guess this will always be the case, that cue being religion, politics or other ideology.
I read it as a pretty fair comparison within the context. They're not comparing windows vs linux. They're comparing the challenges their repo faces vs the challenges the linux kernel repo faces. And within that context, I really hope the windows repo is substantially larger, else the linux kernel is going very very wrong.
Here after about 10 seconds: https://www.ft.com/video/414f079b-a63d-4b0f-8dcf-b14f66e5ab2...
> just want to have fun writing a fancy dependency graph solver

There is no graph solver, that's the whole point.
What if we were to combine both methods? Try to put an electromagnetic containment solution into space? Could we possibly find a medium between electromagnetic forces and gravitational forces that would allow us to make it hold together without having to actually have something as massive as a star?
Not sure how you got there, unless you mean that the new competition on the demand side (rich weekenders) has already been fully discounted by the market somehow and the high prices are actually reflecting material cost rises the rest of us don't know about, say. In other words, I think you're gainsaying, and that doesn't help me figure it all out.
For glue/app/ux code that's mostly autocompleted, sure. But for domain-specific, algorithmic, magic-formula type stuff, comments are sanity made manifest.
The bloatware is the Samsung apps. If Samsung wants to go that route, they could choose to use the open source version of Android along with their own apps.
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I'd guess merge support in case of conflict and web GUI access.
What I don't understand is why Go is not simply copying something from another community. And yes it will be incompatible with the "old way", but what is the "old way" with such a young language anyways. But then at least you don't need to learn the basics again that have been solved a hundred times already. Just copy&paste and then move on to other topics.

And while you are at it, also add real exception handling instead of asking people to reraise exceptions under each and every function call. And instead teach people to actually handle most of the exceptions from underlying libraries, maybe reraising a more context-appropriate one on the current abstraction level.
OK, props for quoting Pulp.
> Even in Germany, there is a social price to pay for not having a Facebook account.

I often write here at HN that there is no "objective" status in society, but rather status in various, often vaguely defined groups in the society, where the individual status symbols can even contradict each other.

It is not my impression that all in all I had to pay a social price for not having a Facebook account at any time (quite the opposite). Rather in some groups this lead to a social malus, but in other groups it gave a large social bonus.
It's more likely that there are a lot of false negatives in CircleCI's hiring funnel. The issue isn't "there aren't enough good developers." There are plenty of good developers. It's possible that this sample of 1000 developers came from really bad sources (there's not enough information provided to determine the quality of their sourcing). For example, referrals convert at a rate of 57% to the screen (compared to 13% when sourcing). Recruiting agencies convert at 59% (although you'll be giving away 10-30% of first year salary for that). It could be that this sample is purely inbound applicants, which convert the lowest at 13%. [1]

We have benchmarks to understand how well a company is converting at each step in their funnel. CircleCI is converting well in 2 of their funnels, but the other 2 are underperforming significantly per my other comment in this thread.

[1] http://qr.ae/TU1sB2
Honestly? I don't! I've done the freelance thing, I've worked for several startups, and the lack of structure got to me. Fast. I'm able to let my job be my job, and my home life be my home life. I like it. I have time for my hobbies. I can actually schedule stuff.
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Not at all. People are rather easy to manipulate, if you control the flow of information. Hypnotic power is not required.

The formula is simple: promote emotionally powerful events that support your agenda, ignore events that inspire feelings counter to your agenda, deify supporters, demonize opponents, censor and ostracize anyone who speaks against the agenda.

That formula has led nations to war, sent innocent people to prison, changed laws, overthrown governments, led to acts of terror, and caused hundreds of millions (perhaps billions) of deaths throughout history.
And before that, Opera has had tab stacking and sessions saving for years.

Don't remember if they were shared, and there's no way to test now that the cloud for version 12 and earlier has gone offline.

(Moral of the story: don't rely on clouds for things you want to have in five years)
If you were a resident before everybody started moving in, wouldn't you want to have a say to how the land is used in the city you own property in? Playing devil's advocate, a lot of SF natives didn't want tech to be here in the first place. (I'm born and raised in SF but also in tech. I have a lot of family and friends who complain about the "gentrification", and they have every right to)
Yeah, and part of the reason we have cheaper stuff is because of outsourcing/specialized firms like this.

Take the hotel example, it's probably much more costly to hire (and interview and vet etc) all your own bartenders and cleaning crews and all that piecemeal. Then you also have to train them and figure out a replacement when someone calls in sick or something. I'd imagine a company that's specialized in hiring and training bartenders could do it much more efficiently than a single independent hotel owner.

Those efficiencies (you specialize in bartenders and so are able to train them with less resources than other places) result in lower room rates and more money customers can use on other things.
I'm actually hoping they get more draconian. Before when people tried to make FOSS smartphone software/hardware it lost momentum, because 1) it's hard and 2) people could just use Google's stuff for free. My hope is that by them becoming more Apple/Microsoft-esque, they push people to make better alternatives. But it's really hard to get people unhooked from "free".
On most linux systems, "read-edid" or "get-edid" will give you this information.
I think that the parallel is Snowden. Before then, people largely shrugged at the tech community’s assertions about government dragnets. Now the assumption of a dragnet is taken as a granted.

This moment for Facebook, I think, is that same moment for the private sector.
"git log" was yesterday, "git lol" is the new hip thing. Give it a shot: https://github.com/erikbgithub/dot-files/blob/master/.gitcon...
This is a really dangerous trend that needs to end ASAP.

With this reasoning, one can slip anything into a bill with a nice name. This has already done a lot of harm.

(After all, how can someone oppose the PATRIOT act when the nation is in danger? etc)
5 can probably be done. (assuming "average" is average for that city, not national average). NYC, DC, Seattle, SF, Boston, Chicago... Naming 10 is probably way harder.
You're assuming they aren't enjoying working. I tried not working, it was boring. I'd rather be productive.
I was perusing Anil's archives, and came across this post:

http://anildash.com/2001/09/terry-wallace-a.html

Sadly, the hyperlinked findings in his blog post were 404'ing but luckily were previously archived. Enjoy.

For more about Terry Wallace:

http://web.archive.org/web/20021202032952/http://www.geo.ari...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Wallace_(geophysicist)
when you account for taxes in everything (not just income taxes), I think taxes are pretty much everyone's biggest expense. then housing
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I joined the military for a few years after my degree because I wasn't ready for a 9 to 5 life either.
Author here :) I cannot answer for Uber, but the grand reason why we cannot put deterministic parts into the AI is the same as for humans - we do not control the internals of it, the complexity is too high. Although we can build systems that are composed of both AI and deterministic collision avoidance (as seen on new cars today). It is what I also suggested in the article.
Ah Hacker News, constantly downvoting people into the void for the smallest of reasons. :) Cheers.
Thanks everybody for your responses. Food for thought :-)
>Supporters of the bill think that by making prostitution more difficult, it will be more rare.

Is there any evidence to that? The best the legislation can hope for is going to pre-Internet levels. Are they actually lower?
So then is there a problem? Probably not. Just a way to grab headlines.
The outrage is over the illegal data sharing and how that was made possible, which happened in only one of those two cases.
No one's talking about hating the rich here but you.

We can all care about societal inequality, and how it probably suggests that the levers of civilization need to be jiggered a bit, without hating anyone.

I think housing in the PNW is way unaffordable but that doesn't mean I hate either the developers, the planners, or the numerous other social and geographical factors that have led to this situation.

In short, please don't bring up things like "hate the rich" when no one else is.
As a CTO at a European SaaS company I don't particularly find 'The Nightmare Letter' nightmarish at all. If you're doing your job properly then this stuff isn't hard.

It's had very little effect on our day-to-day - yeah, it's cost us real cash money in lawyers, and additional training for GDPR, but most of what is going to be legislation we were already doing. As an individual I welcome this legislation - it should really help to stop the shoddy practises that clearly go on (based on the amount outrage I've seen on this issue). GDPR seems, to me, to be proportionate and reasonable.

I don't see this helping US SaaS companies, because once GDPR is in-place then I'd consider EU SaaS providers to be more attractive. It's a real selling point that your data isn't leaking or being mismanaged.

If anything I see this as a potential boon for the SaaS companies doing their job properly, because the companies that have in-house systems (or have their own bespoke solutions) are going to have to prove those systems themselves - and have all the answers to The Letter. Whereas a good SaaS company can take those problems off their hands.
> This is about buying a cheap alarm clock and finding out it's recording videos of you and your girlfriend and selling them online.

Not really, no. It's more like buying an alarm clock with an integrated video calling feature which will also optionally integrate with your home's existing audio/visual systems, if the user explicitly agrees to the very clear, plain-english description of the feature.
In a technical role, or as a grunt? If the former, what branch and how was it?
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I sat in on about 100+ onsites where I was involved in collecting feedback from the onsite team. I asked each candidate if they would like to receive feedback before they left the building, and most of the time we told them on the spot we wouldn't be moving forward with the reasons why (sometimes actionable, sometimes not). The candidates appreciated the feedback since it occasionally helped them perform better in their future onsites. Some of them wrote positive Glassdoor reviews, and we even received referrals from a couple. It's uncomfortable as a hiring manager to do this, but in my experience, it's a net positive.
But I’ll bet usage statistics are right in line with their norms. It’s true that the deluge of headlines from liberal media sites this week has hurt their public image, and it at least cracks open the door to a competitor possibly having some success in attracting users. I’m not sure what that competitor would look like, but it would have to be vastly different than today’s concept of a social network.

But the point is that if usage stays normal, this hasn’t affected anything at all other than the fact that people don’t feel as warm and fuzzy toward Facebook as they once did.
Just start doing the stuff you want to do! If you have a project or something interesting you want to pursue, dig into what you need to make it happen. You'll learn a ton along the way and get a better understand of what you like and don't like.
You can't (at least not in the computer/web dev field). You could work odd/not normal hours but you will still be putting in the same ~40 hours a week. That's all unless you have some kind of passive income/wealth from parents & relatives.
What is your actual issue? Is 9-5 not enough? Or is it too much? Or do you want flexible hours?
Why not apply the existing rules against monopolies and anti competitive actions, what changed since Microsoft almost was broken up?

IMO is not competitive to have Google with it's advertising money get involved in 10 or more different activities and killing the companies that were or would have appeared there just because they have money and can run without profit.
the best managers that I was working with always seeked to understand. Whether is was dealing with clients, or something technical were our hand was forced. There was also a level of trust that she had with us, were she gave us autonomy to build as we needed.

10/10 manager, would love to work with her again.
Interesting idea. I usually code with languages that have lib packaging and depencency management systems. Recently I have went back to code on linux C and I quite miss them now. We have pushed the version management to the dependency or build management tools, but it would be awesome to be able to add that meta in code and those tools could also automate the tasks. BTW, wouldn't it be import foo.bar in both? It would be more logical to keep the name of the lib, import it twice, but with different version metadata.

Thanks for the link as well! I would love to see that experimented somewhere and see if it works.
I think it's a circular logic

People think voting with your wallet doesn't change a thing -> they keep buying from unethical companies -> nothing changes -> voting with your wallet doesn't change a thing.

The problem is that it's always the same small group of people who actually change their commercial choices based on companies' ethics. I've avoided Lenovo like the plague since superfish, but I know people who've bought lenovo laptops even knowing quite well about the superfish issue and understanding what firmware level malware means.
I don't think the author is being nasty. He's comparing the Linux kernel to Windows on the axes that are relevant here: number of files in a single repo, and number of commits per day.
> With a professional saying that they have a condition that's beyond their control, and labeling it for them, it helps them say "I'm different, but it's not my fault."

I consider the mistake rather in the assumption that there is free will. If you simply get free of the dogma that there is free will, something like "fault" simply does not even make sense to formulate anymore. EDIT: And you surely already found out beforehand on your own that you are different.
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Businesses like Costco have supply chain dynamics as complex as any hotel chain, if not moreso, and they still manage to treat their employees better and more equitably.

I don’t disagree that technology has changed these dynamics, but the way power and wealth has been distributed in response to these changes is almost exclusively upward and to fewer and fewer people. Nothing about that is neutral or organic, unless you’re talking about the trajectory of wealth and political power under some Marxist analysis of Capital accumulation.