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> A side effect of the government guaranteeing student loans is that universities could charge basically whatever they want,

This is only true of private for-profit universities, not private nonprofit universities nor public universities. For public universities, the main cause of rising tuition is state funding cuts:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fancy-dorms-arent-the-m...
It seems like heat dissipation is one of the problems that will be with us for a loong time.
Humanity is a temporary situation. We're going extinct or going to evolve into something else eventually.
Yep, participation is a form of advocacy.
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CNN, what was the cause of that climate change?
With regard to your edit...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16683742
This also makes me wonder if the forces against our debt aren’t rooted in foreign lobbying/corruption or the government.
Oh, because of the internet I can serve a EU customer from the US without EU regulation. Why would a startup setup a nexus in the EU?
The biggest reason I can see now based on current rhetoric, is that it's a trap.

Once in, you can't get out, even if you want to. That doesn't even factor privacy or advertising or whatever, it's purely that you are attached to a specific corporation just to maintain relationships.

If you want to get out: ask for contact details of those you need to communicate with and advise you are working out a workaround.

There's no reason group admins and businesses can't set up a mailing or instant messenger list that doesn't depend on Facebook, G+, Slack, etc. In fact the owners of such groups and companies should be offering such things to help everyone decide, now's a good time...
HN routinely de-fang headlines, particularly on hot-button topics, in the interest of more informed discussion.
I know this is just anecdotal, but my friends and I do heavily use Hangouts.

It doesn't have enough functionality on its own, but I've augmented our experience with a chatbot powered by https://github.com/hangoutsbot/hangoutsbot.

Obviously I don't think that this experience is typical, not everyone is a programmer or has a server on which to run it.
Could you elaborate? VS Code is faster/leaner than WebStorm, that's for sure, but are there any specific workflows that you feel VSCode is better than WS?
FYI Google used gsuite internally for its 20k-or-whatever engineers and, in my opinion, it works fantastically.

(I'm a Google engineer)
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

http://web.archive.org/web/20180124044328/https://www.ftc.go...
Ummmmm, dinks? Seriously. Rackspace has legendary support. You call, and in three rings or less there is a skilled English speaking dude who knows what’s up. That is their entire value prop.
You bought a Samsung phone, why wouldn't you have Samsung apps? Apple phones have Apple apps. Everyone need not have a single company's apps shoved forcibly down their throats.
Facebook says you 'own' all the data you post. Not even close, say  experts
There will never a ideal society where everyone can eat and study for free. You're just removing one option for people ...
And when you re in trouble the more option you have the better.

First get an idealistic society where everyone can eat and have free education then we can discuss about removing this option ...

It 's like putting the cart before the horse
Eventually WebAssembly will allow you to use whatever language you want.

> When one thinks that we could have had Scheme

This may have been true 5 years ago. I'm probably the biggest Scheme fan there is. I've created assemblers, compilers, and even started an OS in Scheme. I've been using Scheme since the late '90s.

Modern ES6 and beyond JavaScript is quite nice. I really don't miss Scheme at all. Scheme, mind you, was incredibly limited in R4RS and R5RS, around the time Netscape would have adopted it anyway. It didn't even have a module system, much like old JavaScript. We would be stuck with the largest problem still facing JS: multiple sucky module systems requiring a webpack-like monstrosity.
Not at all. Just genuinely like it and 78% seems like the “sweet spot” for me. Where the 70% is a little too easy to over eat and the 85% is just too rich, almost as if it’s a different thing, not quite “chocolate”.
Which is what I was getting at, that intelligence and giftedness can function as a handicap in a lot of situations.
ERO and HSI are different directorates under the same organization. Confusing two departments of an organization for being two different organizations is like saying a programming team and QA team of a software development company are two different organizations.
the GDAX team will wait for additional regulatory clarity before we decide which ERC20 assets to support on GDAX. ... Coinbase will only list assets after they are listed on GDAX

Basically no.
I think 99% of comments are wtf... they should have copied package management xyz 5 years ago.
> Society has moved into a dangerous position [...]

> They use to happen all the time before we started focusing on safety standards [...]

Maybe it's seen a bit of a resurgence recently, but history (and the attendant selection bias) has always rewarded risk-takers whose risks paid off, while letting the rest die off-screen.
ooof. way to make me feel bad. hold out for successful universal income experiments, I guess
???

What about mining, or Walmart third shift stock work by "...adults who have no other choice..."?

Do you oppose them?
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Given the massive uptick in stories around Facebook, it would seem this statement would be true.
FedEx reserves 20 Tesla Semi all-electric big rig trucks
Local tempature variation is just one of the threats. If you want a fairly serious organization's take on what the major threats are here is the DoD:

) Persistently recurring conditions such as flooding, drought, and higher temperatures

) More frequent and/or more severe extreme weather events

) Sea level rise and temperature changes

) Decreases in Arctic ice cover, type, and thickness

http://archive.defense.gov/pubs/150724-congressional-report-...

One thing that short 2015 report does not cover is reduction in crop yields that frequently lead to conflict.
For email? Yet to find a situation that requires it.
In Canada, a certified Professional Engineer (a protected title not just anyone can use) would have had to sign off on such a construction. They would have had to certify it was safe. And if someone died because they ignored engineering principles and signed off on it anyway, they can be criminally charged and sent to jail.

There's lesser charges for lesser offences of course- lose your licence, be fined, etc. There are regular publications of who was found guilty of what. My wife eagerly awaits her monthly(?) engineering magazine to read "the blue pages" at the back that name and shame

This is all to day that the whole system here is designed to give very strong incentives to engineers not to assert something is safe when it isn't. And for the most part, it works pretty well.
Build Appliances That Combat Planned Obsolescence
I've been a long time lurker, so this is my first time signing up and posting. I've been debating with my coworkers for a while on this idea and if its possible. Most appliances these days are designed around planned obsolescence and if not, made so cheaply that it breaks after a few years. Obviously the reasoning is that these corporations are trying to maximize their profits. But what if you start a company (or non-profit) that's goal isn't necessary to maximize profit but simply to pay your bills and give your employees a fair wage. Imagine you start a company that built a microwave around repairability, longevity and simplicity. A microwave that only has two knobs; one for power and one for the timer. You can design the microwave for easy repair and publish the repair guides online. You also give a 20 year warranty or least sell parts. Since microwave technology isn't new technology, you shouldn't need to spend a lot on R&D. Also you wouldn't redesign this microwave over and over like current corporations. Maybe the most that would change is the external (allowing customers to swap externals like black, chrome, stainless steel, etc). Most of the cost should be in the manufacturing of the product. Now, you're probably asking assuming this works, you will run out of customers who willing to buy your microwave assuming your microwave last 20 years. As you establish your company selling microwaves, you can branch into other appliances. Build a simple toaster. Build a simple washer and dryer. Build them to last 20 years years as well. If the company built quality simple appliances, over time, it will build brand loyalty and you can simply provide an alternative to the current batch of high tech, planned obsolescence appliances.

Would be cool if the company was called Dumb Appliances. Maybe start off with a Kickstarter campaign selling this dumb microwave.
Have you never heard of LibreOffice? Google Drive and alternatives automatically can convert to open document format. It is pretty common. Surprised you never heard of it before.
Founder supported by Google is using blockchain tech to revolutionize healthcare
Keep in mind that, just because it's open source, and possibly hosted on github pages doesn't mean that the hosted copy is the same as the open-source. Referring to the IOTA seed generator hack that happened earlier this year. (https://thatoddmailbox.github.io/2018/01/28/iotaseed.html) (not my site).
What percentage of apps are available on third party app stores? Openness isn't zero with Android, it's just an obscene fractional portion that might as well be zero.
Honestly it's a pretty easy jump to make given how individuals interact with debt. I wouldn't attribute it to malice or subversion unless there was stronger evidence.
Very good compensation is one reason I can think of.
I think you may be over-simplifying the problem of homelessness. I agree that housing in itself is not a total solution. I also agree that healthcare and our social welfare system are a mess to some extent. However, there are many other things that need to be considered. Drug abuse, lack of willingness to seek out/receive services, individuals that choose to be homeless. Taking a long-term homeless person with a substance abuse issue to gainful, successful employee supporting themselves is not going to happen overnight and most likely not within a year. The support system required to solve the issue is massive at scale.

With that said, I do believe there has to be a better way to address the problem. One of the best solutions I have seen in a while came from HandUp (https://www.handup.org). They basically created a crowdfunding platform to help homeless people obtain the things/services/etc.. they need. This I believe is similar to what you may be envisioning. I think the best solutions come connecting the individual to the right services/programs and ensuring they remain connected. You have to accept you will never have a 100% solution, but if you can touch just 10% you have made a drastic improvement in so many lives.
Why are you addressing CNN as if they will respond to your comment?
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The only way you'll see real solutions is when we are allowed to see what spyware they have put into Windows for all these years.
I believe they have on-premises hosted azure.
A lot of longtime residents of Bay Area suburbs got to be residents in the first place because of redlining and other discriminatory practices. I don't think they have a particular right to perpetuate their communities' exclusivity.
> It is a way to reintroduce in philosophy the idea of a powerful creator.

First of all, I am not sure the super consciousness model is the same as the simulation. Because nothing is being simulated. The beings and the world is part of the same reality.

>As we advance the understanding of physics, it becomes clear that a creator is not probable, and not even necessary.

Physics? I think these things are way beyond the reach of what physics can reach. There needs to be another discipline that studies the nature of consciousness and I think mankind's next breakthrough ll happen in that direction...
Forget Self Driving. The Future Is in Self Parking
The Cambridge Analytica Data Apocalypse Was Predicted in 2007
It remains to be seen how much impact this will ultimately have on Facebook, but it's not ridiculous to think it could be significant. Trust is important; for a cautionary tale we need look no further than Uber, whose pervasive bad faith approach to basically everything has undoubtedly had a negative imact on hiring talent.
Thank you for your touching honesty.
> For instance, the involuntary manslaughter charge is going to be hard to proof when the evidence that he was planning on going on the ride the same day is presented. They have to prove recklessness which includes proving the person knew their actions were likely to cause harm.

Surf instructor sends novice who has never surfed before out to surf Teahupoo. In his defense, the instructor was planning on surfing it the same day.
Collab tools are fabulous no doubt, but sheets feels entirely neglected and basic.
Permissions model is clunky and gsuite governance is nonexistent - you have to buy a CASB license to do anything effectively.

It's not a bad suite, I just think it's confused on some areas (don't even get me started on the chat/conference systems tho)
> But really, can you blame them for that? If you were a homeowner wouldn't you rather have your house worth more?

I am a Bay Area homeowner, and no, I do not want that. I'm able to see the long term effects of that, and realize that in the end it will bad for me, bad for everyone around me, and bad for my community, when all the people that provide services in our community get priced out.

And the wages are only going up because of the housing costs. If the costs weren't so high, companies would not have to pay so much to get people to move here, which is the main driver in determining wages.

You hit the nail on the head though with "most of us who can afford that rent probably are still WAAAAY better off than the average american". Not everyone can afford the high rents. And eventually there won't be anyone left to provide any services, or the cost of those services will have to go up, and people will move away even faster as companies decide it just isn't worth paying that much anymore and start locating elsewhere.
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IE11 still has 75% share in the banking industry.

It’s far from dead, although we’re finally seeing Edge and Firefox rise a bit more sharply.

Slow-moving, heavily regulated corps with lots of internal legacy apps simply cannot use Chrome with its frequent feature deprecation, weak management, and constant desire to send telemetry and who knows what else to Google servers.
That bit is actually quite clear and right where I should have looked for it.

https://codesandbox.stream/docs/configuration#configuration-...
Amazon Is Really Serious About Making Healthcare a Part of Its Future
> Apple phones have Apple apps.

> Everyone need not have a single company's apps shoved forcibly down their throats.

So it looks like Apple is shoving their apps down our throats.
As others have noted, there has been another arrest. The operations director was merely the first. So, the question then becomes why him first?

According to the article:

> As investigators were looking into the death of the boy, Caleb Schwab, in August 2016, Mr. Miles, then the operations director, hid or destroyed documents detailing injuries sustained by riders, the indictment said.

I'd guess that this might have something to do with it. Even if it turns out that no one did anything actually criminal in regards to the building and operation of the ride itself, destroying evidence to impede an investigation is criminal. The criminal charges for this are probably also easier to prove than the ones related to the ride itself.

Furthermore, even if it turns out there was nothing actually criminal in the operation of the ride, so that none of the owners or designers are guilty of anything, he can still go down for destroying evidence.

In short...he's potentially double screwed. So indict him first, point out that even if he gets off on the ride-related charges (which is plausible...he can try to argue that he is not an engineer, so he trusted the judgment of the engineers who designed and built the thing), they've got him on the destroying evidence thing. His only realistic hope, therefore, is to accept a deal. Tell him you really want to nail the owners and designers, and offer him a deal.
Class action? Who would be in the class other than the family of the deceased?

Anyone else who rode the ride without being harmed has no grounds to sue...
Well the better answer would be that top talent either work on ads or server side infrastructure. For client side its user device, battery, RAM and money and they could care less once they have thrown a free app in the face of users.
The world is not black and white. Everything is shades of gray.

Some exploitation is more heinous than others.

If you’re chained to your 9 to 5, it sucks, but it’s not the end of the world.

If you’re a UN peacekeeper using candy to lure children into sexual relationships and then abandoning them and your resulting offspring (example taken from real world events), that is psycho/sociopath level exploitation.

If you’re a single mom and the landlord is harrasing you for sex to pay the rent, is that okay? Where do you place that on the exploitation scale?
Other package managers, including the ones mentioned in the OP, don't have SAT solvers either. This isn't a new feature of dependency resolution algorithms.
> I don't remember this being explicitly asked of me in any obvious way.

Maybe you didn't. The Facebook app does not collect this data. It's only Facebook Messenger or Facebook Lite. Here is a screenshot of the permission request: https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/opt-in_scre...

> Yes, and it's all encrypted and none of it is sent to third-party advertisers or creepy voter manipulation firms.

Yes, and this is all encrypted and none of it has ever been sold, or shared with any other third parties. So what is the difference again?

> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-cambr....

This is a completely different issue, and unrelated to the thread.
Thanks for the response. You make good points; I guess we'll have to wait and see what gets uncovered. The most I know that has been uncovered so far is the admission by CA heads that they bribe officials [1], but given that it wasn't exactly a sworn testimony (or even a statement about a concrete case) I could see them getting away with it legally.

[1] https://www.salon.com/2018/03/19/undercover-investigation-cl...
> He traded to get a 5-cent raise.

A five cent raise in today's currency or back then? Per hour or week?

Assuming it's hourly, if it's from "then" could you convert it to modern currency, or present it as an percentage increase so we can understand what kind of relative increase that was?

Five cents sounds like nothing today, but 70 years ago it would have been significant.
>because organisms wouldn't survive if their entire perceptual system produced only illusions.

Small correction. You should say "organisms wouldn't survive if their entire perceptual system produced only useless illusions."

The illusions here can also be replaced by an "abstraction". Color is an abstraction of wavelength. Sound is an abstraction of pressure differences.

So organisms who's senses produced useful abstractions for their minds prevailed, while others perished.

So again, obviously, I see nothing new but the premise that useless abstractions evolved but didn't sustain...
So "left center", as viewed by the liberal media, translated into "radical left wing" when viewed by, presumably, someone in the center? Sorry, I don't buy it. (And yes, I know full well that much of the media leans left, some rather strongly.)

For what it's worth, Wikipedia says they have been identified as "liberal-leaning", but also as "nonpartisan". It also notes that they were founded by a Republican.
> what's the issue with just running LibreOffice on your computer

The key advantage to Google Docs, an otherwise ordinary if not fairly lightweight word processer, is the ease of sharing (even if only with yourself on multiple devices) and collaborating with others.

I've never heard of LibreOffice online, but depending how well it does those things, it might or might not be viable.

As a word processor alone, Google Docs is nothing special and LibreOffice probably has more features.
I don't believe in facebook because I personally don't depend on it and nobody I know depends on it. It's a waning bubble -- people signed up because it was trendy/they got peer-pressured, and they now hang on to it with a vanishing sense of habit.

I also believe that we've barely scratched the surface in terms of insight into their internal surveillance and identity-tokenizing machinery. I believe that if we get to see those details in full glory (e.g. as the result of an investigation) we will be HORRIFIED. This applies to Google as well (or more).
No, they're all different, which is my point: there's a variety of schemes that all have well-understood pluses and minus, meaning new languages don't have to do the exploration themselves.
You're still focusing your attention on supposed bad behavior of the rich rather than the wellbeing of the poor.

If you think the poor need something, like say more funding for inner city schools, then say that and suggest a reasonable tax, perhaps a tax on luxury goods that would disproportionately affect the wealthy. Or if there's a specific bad behavior, such as pharmaceutical advertising, talk about that. But just complaining about wealth inequality sounds more like hating the rich than caring about the poor.
Location data, both user and friends, are part of Extended Profile Properties:

https://stratechery.com/2018/the-facebook-brand/

https://stratechery.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Screen-Sh...

https://web.archive.org/web/20130911191323/https://developer...
I rubber-necked and looked that up. In the case you're referring to the husband convinced his wife to shoot a book while he held it in front of his chest, believing it would stop the bullet. He set up two cameras to film it. So yes, this is arguably also poor engineering, but it would be more similar if the slide designer had been accidentally killed by the 10-year-old boy after convincing the boy to launch him down the slide.
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So the ISP/wifi network owner sells it to advertisers? Or the advertisers are able to get it from browser data they collect even when trackers are blocked?
Just slightly off topic, has anyone done an opinionated legal analysis of what GDPR means in the context of delivering a complex application. For example let’s say a recruitment company internal system. I think business people and lawyers alone struggle to grasp the meaning and spirit of the rules.
When it happened: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40438207

Now in jail: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43410816
I wouldn't know either. The reason your cite, status in tech, however, could be a real thing. FB was innovative in some areas like infrastructure and PHP.

If your career goal is to set yourself up as a PHP guru, some FB credentials could be useful. If you think about it, a guy who wouldn't mind his career being about PHP is exactly the type who wouldn't get why ('zuckerberg-couldn't-get-laid(a-busines-carries-founder-DNA)).

I also remember a time when FB was seen as cool compared to MySpace, because it hinted a higher social value because you supposedly needed to be an Ivy league student to have one.
Which means at some point, we have to switch from dep to vgo. although the transaction could be smooth, but the methodology behind it must have changed, and that would not be a smooth transaction for our mindset.