skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This (rocky flats) is the only case where on federal agency (FBI) raided another (DOE). It's a fascinating and terrifying story. Many of the employees who worked there died terrible drawn out deaths from radiation exposure during their jobs without any support. They just had 50 gallon oil drums of radioactive waste sitting in the open to the elements with visible rust holes in them for decades. They had multiple plutonium fires due to the buildup of plutonium dust in the air handling systems of the glove boxes which were supposed to contain it. They had manual machinists manually operating machine tools, mills and lathes, located within glove boxes to make the parts for the triggers. Also, on the less scary side they developed amazing ultra high speed film cameras to record the trigger explosions.
FYI, Auto manufacturers still have S/CKD plants, where a previously assembled vehicle is re-assembled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock-down_kit#Automotive
I appreciate the link! I find this all very fascinating.
And again that's the free market at work. There are enough people who have a different set of priorities to make Apple a very successful company.
All Lenin did was decide that the dictatorship of the proletariat should be headed by an actual dictator. It's kind of an inevitable conclusion, given where he was starting from and some of the realities of people working in groups.

You are, of course, free to say that the murderous regimes that have popped up again and again are not the true Marxism. But then you have to explain why the false Marxism has appeared so often, and then to explain, given that millions of lives could be at stake, how to prevent a recurrence.
Ayup, lets remember that the original councils of soviets in Russia were overthrown by the bolsheviks and dissolved when they came to power.
Without specifying the relative proportion of those who went up, in your experience, along with the massive amount of people who went down, your counter anecdote is weakly armed.
> So they could afford a Mac and internet access, but they couldn't afford the extra $74?

An old mac should be pretty cheap (the latest xcode runs on pre-2010 macs, even more so as they can be upgraded by hand — to a point) and if you're in SEA or eastern europe your internet connection is not $150/mo comcast. For instance in Romania high-speed internet is $15, but the average net income is $650~700 and minimum wage is ~200.
As an African, born and currently living in Africa where I develop and deploy ICT solutions to the most remote areas, I would like to say that what you are saying is utter uninformed bullshit.

The superstition that is prevalent is one person believing neighbors and relatives are bewitching them or using them somehow to fuel their success. Having come from such a background, that has not stopped my education. Secondly if you spent 1 hour in any African village, you would realize how highly people think of their own governments, white people and people from towns. The challenge we have is that due to corruption by our own people (who the multitude trust) who fail to bring us the books, pens and pencils, we fall victim to the west's kindness and sometimes propensity for such uninformed nonsense as you have written above.

Also, absolutely no one would take any of those South African students seriously, it's a joke. We are not as backwards as you think. Unless you also believe thoughts and prayers will stop your mass shootings.

Lastly, the west's general belief in the superstitution of praying to a guy who was nailed to a cross then resurrected after 3 days seems NOT to have had a negative bearing on your development. How do you suppose witchcraft has held back Africans?
You're completely right, but what a waste.

Instead of solving the spam problem and giving marketing/sales/recruiting people better tools, they just incentivized people to sign-up for mailing lists that they probably didn't care about.
Perhaps you not finding it concerning emphasizes the problem. As an American, it greatly concerns me. It’s also why populism and nationalism have taken hold in first world countries.
> How would you be enriching yourself by paying people to pick up trash?

You get to have nicer forests to walk in?
Mobile money interoperability is now being implemented in Kenya
Did Nike stop employing child labor for real? I thought people just stopped talking about it.
> Youtube does things that localized technology installed in the home doesn't solve and can't solve.

Are you talking about search and content discovery? Are you talking about replicating the most popular videos over many servers so that the system can efficiently serve all the demand to watch those videos?

Maybe existing, fully-distributed products don't solve these problems. But it isn't obvious to me that they can't.
There is also the factor that when you're bolting modules together you benefit from the fully engineered assembly process vs. when you are trying to repair something.

Say for instance that the alternator plug breaks (because it is made of cheap plastic), but a new part is available. But this means potentially removing everything that was installed after the alternator, and even then you may need to remove more stuff to get at the correct bolts. Some of the stuff you remove may be plastic clips that were only intended to be installed, never removed. Some of it may be rusty or had been replaced by some other third party part that wasn't exactly the same and now interferes. It's so easy for a simple part swap to eat up many hours of labor and additional parts due to the design of the engine.
If you're going to play that game, you can very easily make a case (and probably a much stronger one) that capitalism's body-count is much, much higher. For starters, you'd have to credit it with the extermination of the Native Americans, the blood-soaked history of 19th century European colonialism, and the First World War.
As someone who is both, there are times where you'd like to create a quick web application to do a task that is either very specific to one's needs or only needed for a brief period of time rather than going wholesale application development.

In this particular user's case, they just need some API features accessible to web and they'd be golden. As a user, if I have the ability to approve and later revoke the permissions (in the event WebAppX is a bit malicious in its permissions usage), I'm game. That's value added.
that's totally correct, Taiwan produces most of the wafers
> without Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing capabilities a very large number of Western companies would suddenly be without product.

Yes and similarly without Western markets Taiwanese semiconductor will suddenly without a big paying customer. There is a "demand" and a supply, none of them exist on their own.
But... sharp knives are safer than blunt knives, specifically because they reduce the likelihood of being cut. That's why they're preferred.

I see your point, though. I was just bringing up an alternative consideration in the debate regarding equality.
There are counter examples to India and China that resulted in high standards of living without liberalizing markets, generally from valuable natural resources and low populations. There are zero examples without access to cheap energy.

PS: The China boom looks 'good' mostly due to how terrible the country was run prior to that. Expand the time scale and compare to other countries and things don't look nearly as good.
> Remember, I don’t need your product, but you need customers.

Not all customers are desired. Some are enough of a hassle for support (both in developing for the idiosyncrasies of their platform and potentially dealing with the idiosyncrasies of their personalities) that they represent a cost rather than a profit.

This is why some are perfectly happy that Apple's policies effectively exclude Apple users from some of their output. It effectively means a bunch of self importants, who would complain that the moon is the wrong shade of grey if given it on a stick, are conveniently diverted away from bothering them. Unfortunately while Apple platforms seem to have more than their fair share, such self importants exist everywhere...

Similar arguments can be made for not supporting IE, particularly legacy IE: unless you are targeting certain industries (investment banks: I'm looking at you!) supporting users stuck on old browsers can be more time+hassle cost then they are worth.
I agree that for the vast majority of kids out there, study technology interferes with learning. I originally thought we were talking about college education rather than primary/secondary education, which was my mistake.

So is it possible to make education better with technology? Maybe not with laptops, but with other tools (smart boards, perhaps?). Has any evidence shown that it makes learning better?
I'm such a cynic these days.

When I see an article like this, all I can think of is that this is the angle the FBs and Googles of the world will use to give Apple it's own share of social responsibility problems.

Hey, yes, we collect all data, but Apple, you really should be doing something about phone addiction. Especially since you, Apple, have "system-level control across devices".

Definitely understand how that comes across as conspiracy theoryish, but the timing is too inviting.
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sure, Linus announces more lines of code were removed than added and the crowd goes wild, but when I do it people are all "who broke the build" and "how is the repository totally empty again."
How do you focus on open source and distributed platform when all the money - both investment, and revenue - is in centralized proprietary ones.

Money is focus.
> There is a reason the Microsoft Store and Google Play are absolutely filled with trash, and this is part of it.

It's kind of ridiculous to pretend that the App Store isn't also filled with trash.

There are some excellent things (especially in security and privacy) you can depend on Apple's review either catching or warding off, but poor app quality is definitely not on that list.

(and as others have noted, far more apps are built with web views than you apparently realize)
>We'd also need to avoid many of the privacy and security flaws that were rampant in the early internet, and for which we're still paying.

How many third (and first!) party trackers would you guess were blocked by my privacy and security flaws-preventing browser plugin when I clicked on the link to read the story?

I'm sure they "add value" to my experience and I am missing out on all of the incredible opportunities that they present, but that's a chance that I'm willing to take.

That website even (attempts to) logs when and where you click and what text you highlight, and then tries to send that info off to a third party.

The Vice President of Content Strategy for ORM, Inc. seems to be advocating against content strategies he has implemented.

Is "society made us do it" still a thing?
A native app to me is something that works independent of a network connection (with the exception of browsers and an email client, those are obviously pretty useless without and a browser is the 'gateway' to the online world), and without an interpreter. Most mobile phone apps aren't native by that definition, but let's stretch the definition and include binaries targeted at virtual machines.

So native apps that I'm happy to use: compiler, editor, whatever stuff I've written myself, cli tools, bash, ssh, openoffice, okular, Firefox and Thunderbird.

Your typical mobile app is just an extension of someone else's server. As such it should be a web app rather than a native app.
I'd advise reading the article I linked, the increases are far from modest in many cases.

I'll agree with you on the environmental issues, but I think we're well on the way to solving those too and largely via the same mechanisms, Chinese solar is close to pushing coal out of business on price. That's not to say there's no role for regulation in the environmental direction though, I certainly think there probably should be, but how to do so globally and fairly is a bit of a catastrophe.
We have found a large amount routers hitting our servers at my current job using routers with poor or no security. It seems as if they tend to be using email password dumps and just going through their lists through these routers trying to log into our site.
And isn't that 10% and 12 % growth assumption the reason all pensions are in trouble?
And Pandora chose that it was worth the trade off in time and resources to create a better native experience it seems like a win for users.
On the other end of that spectrum, it seems MS have had large teams of QA people doing proactive outreach for security problems. My family members have been contacted 6 times in the past 2 years, each time to let them know that MS had detected a security problem and they needed to help us install a patch immediately.
The same way you benefit from a successful startup. You don't.
I think it could be done without causing those problems. The device itself can store its usage time/location information. Retrieving the information can require a warrant (just like getting anything else off the device ought to).

As a black box type device, in this case, the logs should be undeletable by the user. Perhaps a rolling log that wipes itself every week or month (minimal data impact, maximal utility to authorities in cases of accidents and such).

By keeping it on the device the privacy concern is partly dealt with. The information is still collected, but no 3rd party has access to it until the user (voluntarily or by court order) provides access to it.
I hope Apple does provide the tools to help users control their usage. If they do, it'll be a prime example of the difference in philosophies (or marketing, if you will) between Facebook and Apple. Facebook would never help you curtail usage or take control of usage. They would want users to be oblivious to what's harming them and enable them, in the name of "engagement".
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I think on your first point there is something in the works: https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ -- if you don't, unlike me, use your phone for lots of things (like banking, work apps) that won't be developed for this platform, it might be an interesting option.
As our operating systems become more and more security conscious, I'd expect the ability to iterate other processes on the machine to go away.

When I've installed ethereal/wireshark I've needed to face down big warnings, and properly so. A promiscuous packet sniffer is something to be wary of.

With few exceptions[1] there seems to be no good reason for any application on my machine to see what else is running.

[1] - Good candidates include Anti-virus for those who run it, and those tools that help you keep your applications up to date.
> web apps are clunkier and provide a worse experience because they are not well supported by the OS

No, they are clunkier and provide a worse experience, because most "web apps" are ported version of desktop bloatware, targeting devices, permanently plugged into wall-mounted electric outlet.

What are "web applications" anyway? Something, that requires permanent internet connectivity? Something with DOM APIs? Something with built-in Javascript interpreter? Something with CSS support? The defining qualities of "web" have absolutely nothing to do with mobile devices. If anything, "web" has bad supported for OS. This is why all hybrid frameworks are about exposing additional OS functionality to browser, not the other way around.

Just accept, that you are looking at wrong tool for the job.
What's important is the reduction in functionality. I can't do nearly as much from my Watch as I can with my phone, and specifically I can't just browse through Reddit or Facebook. While I may interact with the same number of notifications, I interact with them for significantly less time (because there's not much to do with them from the Watch), and any such interaction is unlikely to cause me to browse my phone in a more general way.

So that's the key: the Watch frees me from the trap of "Well I'm already on my phone, so I may as well open up Instagram/Twitter and scroll through my feed again."
same here :\
Is the person's app going to automatically end up on your device or did I miss something here?

If Apple's review board feels the app is trash, it will be rejected as such. And the original poster wanted to just do a website instead, but they also wanted audio to be playable in the background (which makes sense when you're making a for all intents and purposes radio app).
I love electron and I've never built one and don't have any immediate plans to do so. I'm a Linux user and because of how easy electron has made cross platform, I am enjoying far more applications that support Linux because barrier is so incredibly low.

Are they resource hungry? Yes. Are they as smooth as a well polished native app? No. But, for many of these apps, the alternative is having nothing at all.

"Requiring a Mac." This most often bites me for testing Apple Pay. This assumes that writing an iOS is my primary responsibility. For some folks, that's not the case. This isn't a huge deal because I can just use a test device, but it is annoying.
About 10 years ago, A+ was just used as the communications protocol for fixed income. Nothing (that I knew of) used it, but C++ ceremoniously created A+ objects, sent them over the wire to another C++ process that decoded them.

Around that time, we moved much of the mortgage models over to kdb and q, which was fun. Lots of weird dark little corners in that language. (List of dicts? Nope! It's a table now! 'sum x' drop NAs, while 0+/x was NA if any value was NA, but maybe only for ints, not floats, etc. Ugh.)
Depends on your goal, statistics and probability theory are separate (though of course related) fields with different applications. For me I really needed the measure-theoretic bits because I was (am) working on modeling ergodic processes. This article honestly doesn't go into enough detail to be especially useful but I like the direction the author approaches it from.

I'm familiar with the text you mentioned, it's certainly good and would be better than this article for most, but comparing a textbook to a short web article isn't exactly fair.
Just for clarification, where is 10% interest coming from? Mutual funds? 401k? Something else?

Serious question, I am not financially knowledgeable but I know you'd never get 10% interest in a savings account (for example).
You can still use d3, but use a d3 charting library on top of it like nvd3 [1]. It gives you a prebuilt chart but you can modify it using d3 commands. It’s pretty useful and high level, but if you need the low level api it is there.

[1]: https://nvd3.org
> 2) some mobile platforms (read: Apple)

You mean Google. Android webviews are VERY slow. Tha comnpound with the overall bad android OS (terrible privacy and security, terrible overal performance).
WTF kind of fairy land is this? 10% is already a dream, but at least it's a round number, unlike the 12% you just arbitrarily threw out there.
It isn't Apple that needs to do better for its users the developers need to invest the time and resources so that the users have the best experience. If you aren't willing to offer it, I'm sure someone will.
That some tiny portion of the deaths in your country are from opioid overdoses? People voluntarily injecting themselves with drugs and fucking up? Why exactly does this concern you so much? It's hard to see it as representative of a larger systemic problem beyond the American drug enforcement and medical systems resulting in over-prescription of opioids and fenantly entering common usage. Not much beyond that, is there? I don't see a larger trend to extrapolate from that.
You are missing the detail that China is also a 'big paying customer' and that it's getting to the point where we need Taiwan - and China - a lot more than they need us. This is a problem that Western companies, countries, consumers and voters will ignore at their peril.
Well maybe the problem is that you own part of the company instead of the people who actually work there.
Disclaimer - taught GA part-time courses (data science)

My heart goes out to those people, and I'm guessing Web Development Immersive students?

I always described GA's programs as a multiplier in that your outcome is going to be weighted by your experience going in. And for the most part I felt GA managed that expectation fairly well for most of its immersive programs - except Web Development.

In WDI I would see students who had no background in CS, design, etc. hoping to go from no experience to a full-stack developer position in 12 weeks. With a broad curriculum that iirc was starting with html/css fundamentals and working through Rails/Node/... maybe Angular? I felt it was giving them a base to start learning on their own, but not enough to immediately start working except for the very-top students (who likely had some sort of helpful background coming in).

I do believe GA is at its core a good organization that wants to see its students succeed (can't say enough good things about the career coaching / placement staff aka "outcomes"). But I can see how with a lot of competition in that space, the sell may have gotten stronger than what the product supports - and that's 100% on GA to address.
>> I'm not condoning willfully damaging something

Yes, you are. By using it as a point against the landlord in saying they thought there was no risk in renting out property. The willful destruction of the property is the risk. The work comes in having to deal with the outcome of that risk as well as building up the capital to purchase the property in the first place. The person wasn't just magically gifted a property to rent out to someone who would just destroy it. The story you are trying to refute actually quite handily disproves the point you think you are gloriously making.

But keep going with this drivel, you are quite amusing.
If you agree that native apps on the desktop are a good thing, than I think you would agree that, for smartphone users, native mobile apps are a good thing as well, for the same reason.

That doesn't necessarily follow. The average mobile app is so simple in terms of both the data it's working with and the complexity of its UI that reasonably efficient code is unlikely to challenge a modern mobile device, whether it's native or running within a browser.
Sort of like the superstition that some populations of people lack basic human traits like normal IQ.
You make a fair point. Facebook does provide a lot more functionality for users than the comparison gives them credit for.

What I was trying to convey was that a social network doesn't necessarily need to move the mountains of money that Facebook does. Diaspora* is an example of a free open source social network platform. Of course it still cost people a lot of time and money to build and host it, but nowhere near Facebook levels.

I also think the business model of running specifically a social network as a profitable business is likely to lead to "perverse incentives". Making a profit isn't necessarily opposed to helping people connect (e.g. OKCupid's business model of being free to all but selling advantages to power users), but it takes both the willingness to align your business model with your users' interests and the fortitude to stick to that approach even though other approaches could be more profitable.
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I think the 'utility' phone you are looking for is The Light Phone.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2-design#/

It's a great distinction, the way you phrased it "utility vs discovery". I think it would be even better for their branding than their current strategy which is pitching 'minimalism'.
She doesn't.
Gambling won't kill you either, but we still try and encourage people to gamble responsibly rather than become addicts. An unhealthy behaviour doesn't have to be physically unhealthy to be an issue.