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Hey yeah, the Spanish Conquistadors were all up on Central and South America’s grill and Conquistadors translates literally to Conquerors.

Why’d ya leave out Spanish Conquerors?
Why is this on top on Hacker News? The comment is not even about the article. Those are somehow 5 levels down with people talking about Windows Vista.
Maybe the liberals are on to something about diversity when comments like this can get to the top because too many tech-industry American-Indians are voting up anything anti-Pakistan in a tech forum when said comment is NOT about tech OR the article. It just contains the name Pakistan and out comes the venom and in come the upvotes supporting the venom on a platform designed to suppress unrelated content.
Funny enough, that ban stunt is the first thing I thought of when I read the part of the article about pitching front page takeovers to brands.
" [..] given enough surveillance, companies can sell us anything: Brexit, Trump, ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, and successful election bids for absolute bastards like Turkey’s Erdogan and Hungary’s Orban."

The same as the author, I have serious problems believing this but it has become a common place now even in mainstream media.

In a way, I worry more about this, than about the others dangers that we can read in the article (I agree with those also).

It seems that, now, whenever people vote for somebody or something that they are not "suppose" to vote, they have been "manipulated" and it's the fault of Russian bots.

I'm not saying that, like always, there are not forces in play trying to move things their way, but I find worrisome how easily that narrative is accepted. It's a kind of mainstream paranoia conspiracy or, maybe, a too convenient excuse for not finding the real reasons why people feel disgruntled.
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> There's no sign of anyone else leaving yet

Italy is helmed by Eurosceptical parties. They're committed to playing nice for now. But if their economic policies hit the rocks, it may be easier to blame the EU than structurally re-organise the Italian south.
Superficially a high up enough executive would see their business as "accept money, emit 'food'". However that does not work with bartenders or womens hair dressers.

My guess is there's great piles of money to be made in the near future not by automating personality-free transactions, but by convincing people to cough up extra money for personality-added transactions. Note that personality-added transactions are not necessarily in opposition to tech in general, only in opposition to automation. My wife's hair cut lady accepts all sorts of crazy payment processors and social media interaction (I should ask if she takes bitcoin... yet)

Likewise today, getting a fast food burger TODAY is all about turning the personality dial down to zero, if not negative, such that automation is a huge threat, but I suspect in a decade getting anything beyond a glorified vending machine will look like the personality dial is turned up to 10. The future being very unevenly distributed, look forward to the McDonalds dude who flips your burgers in ten years having a similar or larger social media presence in your life than a Food Network celebrity chef has today, or maybe it'll be like "food truck groupies" behave today, but for all prepared food. I'm not sure I want my best social media friend to be the produce manager at my local independent supermarket, but what people get usually has little to do with what they want (and both are usually orthogonal to what they need, LOL).

It's going to be a really weird world when the first thing out of the DMV clerk's mouth is "Have you subscribed to my Instagram yet?"
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Finally a comment about the article and not about Pakistan.
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Nope. There is no such thing as morality apart from God. The universe doesn't care (it can't). All morality then is man made. To say something is morally wrong is to create an absolute. No one has the power to do so. The best you can say is that you think it's wrong, which means you don't feel something as positive.
I think it may also have to do with release timing. Leopard to Snow Leopard was 24 months and Snow Leopard to Lion was 27 months. That gave time for the 10.6.1, 10.6.2, etc patch releases to stack up.

Most people probably didn't upgrade until at least a few of those point releases had been out, after which they could have enjoyed almost two years before another major OS update was released. I think much of the fond memories revolve around these later versions, and there were probably plenty of people continuing to run 10.6.8 long after 10.7 was released.

Now MacOS is on a yearly cycle like iOS. Stability is probably still pretty good if you wait and upgrade until about the time the new OS is announced, but Apple definitely pushes users to update sooner than that so people are spending more time running on versions that are more fresh from a major release with major changes.
I don't know if a personal echo chamber is such a bad thing in a pseudo-anonymous internet community. Look at what happened to 4chan and voat, where a bunch a racists decided to take over those sites and it was relatively easy for them to do so. They destroyed whatever community was there before their takeover and now both of those sites are known as racist sites. Compare that to hubski, which has a built-in echo chamber mechanism (I think you when block someone, they can't respond to you), and it's much harder for the site to be taken over by an outside group. The community just blocks the outside group and the outside group just ends up talking to each other in their echo chamber.
I read the first half of this. I can't decide if I think Doctorow is dancing around the more important idea that goes unsaid, or if this really is the best way to present it so people will accept it.

Everyone is a whole lot more susceptible to propaganda than anyone admits. Doctorow presents this as Klansman getting the message that Trump is their guy. Mao, Goebbels and any other obvious-baddies are perfect for making the point. By pretending like it doesn't happen TO YOU, you'll accept that it can possibly happen to humans (that are not you).

But it happens to everybody, all the time.

The only propaganda we notice is the stuff that is so far from targeting us we see it's comically incongruity. But propaganda isn't meant for the hard sell. Propaganda doesn't change your mind. Propaganda gets you to cross the threshold and do something you were already positioned to do, by giving you meaning for doing it.
"Make game of that which makes as much of thee." They are playing you, manipulating you, and not dealing with you as a person. They are treating you like a factor to be optimized and played with. It is entirely a moral response to respond in kind and out-play them.
Or tax everyone else's produce to make it artificially more expensive until the one with lower CO2 footprint is cheaper

Same for packaging
FTA :

>>> Facebook isn’t a mind-control ray.

Cory is fine but here, he's wrong. FaceBook is a mind control tool. It is a mind control because when you send it some information, you know that friends, facebook employees, facebook algorithm, potentially marketeers, potentially state agencies, etc. will read read it. So you inflict yourself some degree of censorship. You basically alter your behaviour. So, in a sense, it is a mind control machine.
Sorry, the website is mostly from 2015 and pretty out of date. Here is a dashboard showing currently running hosts: https://codiushosts.com

And here is the announcement with links to some tutorials on how to use it:

https://medium.com/coil/codius-smart-contracts-made-from-con...
Show HN: Research misaligned skill expectations in the tech sector
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So you really don't understand what systemic oppression is
Very true. If something could be automated it would already be offered online in a user portal. Most things left are supposed to require some kind of human judgment... or needs to put extra obstacles between the customer and the action eg cancelling.
> Bootloader definitions are available for many boards—Novena, A20 OLinuXino, BeagleBone, and even NES.

I'd love to see somebody try to run GuixSD on a NES.
Clearly we need to make a machine code (de)compiler to JS.
It was a nicer release, but all of the praise/hate for versions is a little too loud.
> merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions

Well technically that is a hate speech, that justified genocide again native Americans later. So yeah good call Facebook
This is, yet again, the EU trying to legislate for the whole world.
Good job.

Why did you prefer using the HTML format instead of HN API? https://github.com/HackerNews/API
I double Hamza Shahbaz or Mariam Nawaz even know how to use Word on a normal PC, let alone get and install beta software.
The FAA is right not to approve this. How can Boeing think they can ship this without knowing what the bug is?
I think this is more of a brainstorming tool to get ideas.

For instance, I found phishfish.com which I would have preferred over what I went with for my phishing simulation service.
I wish facebook could be outright extinguished from the internet. Then a lot of people would realize that those barbarians were a kind of solution.
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Somewhat unrelated to the article, but one thing I learned about all Apple products is this: Never upgrade their OS. Doing minor updates is fine, but any major version upgrade will doom the device.
I have a long string of <2 year jobs on my resume. 1st was a startup that failed after a year a half after several products we made didn't make back the money the company invested into them. 2nd was a year working for the university while I went back to school and finished up my degree (I literally couldn't keep working there after I graduated). 3rd was a year long at another startup that failed after we put out a few apps that couldn't steal attention away from other apps. 4th was a year and a half at a small company that was growing really well and then proceeded to have its worst year ever (lost most of its clients, including its cash cow) and ended up laying off almost everyone. 5th was a contract job where the manager decided to outsource our development after the lead developer quit (there was only three of us in the department) and they terminated my contract as a result, after just 8 months.

The 6th is where I'm currently at, and it's another job where they were doing really well, got purchased by a large corporation, and then the corporation started slashing and burning to save money. I've somehow survived here for 3 years, survived multiple layoffs, and we're down to just a handful of developers (and losing our office here in a few weeks, yay), and part of the reason why I've stayed is I know the last 5 jobs look bad to people who look at resumes, even though I was laid off or terminated from each one after the company or department fell apart, and I apparently just keep picking companies just before they fall on tough times. Meanwhile I've had to endure them getting rid of bonuses, freezes on raises, multiple reductions in benefits, etc. at this current job as I wait for a good time to jump ship for greener pastures.

Just so I have one stable looking job on my resume.

It can be difficult sometimes to stay with companies even when you try to. I have a bad habit of wanting to stay until a project is completed and out the door, but that's also when they're most likely to make layoffs.
They moved/expanded it in the updated physical function row too :-/
We have started our research by acknowledging that the so-called "skill gap" exists - especially for the tech sector. Fresh graduates are usually missing some skills to perform properly at their first job.

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> 1) No, land is not expensive. In agricultural areas, land is quite cheap. Organizing shelves of crops vertically solves for a problem that isn't actually a problem.

Land is cheap but we're running out of it in a lot of places. We need to stop razing forests to make more farmland, and we need 100% more calories by 2050 to feed the world, and yields are only going up by 2% / year over year, which won't even come close to 100% growth in the next 30 years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/07/01/this-...

All that means that the vast amounts of land required for field production are going to get more expensive. The way I've seen folks pitch vertical farming is as a member of a diverse portfolio of food production investments. It is not going to replace field agriculture, especially of cash crops, but it might free up some field space by moving vegetable and insect production off the land we already have.

> 2) The sun is free and electricity isn't cheap. Putting plants indoors and then buying electricity to create light is going to be expensive compared to using the free sun. (The absurdity of putting solar panels on a roof to make electricity to beam LEDs on plants, losing 90% of the energy along the way, shouldn't be lost on anyone.)

Absurd indeed, but I think the argument that you could just use the sun has the situation backwards. Indoor and vertical farming is about reliable quality that comes from control, and to get that control without spending too much, you need extreme density to keep rent and HVAC costs low. To get extreme density you need to go vertical and stack plants, and sadly, the sun only shines in one direction instead of nicely in each aisle/shelf. You can use something like the Zipgrow tower in greenhouses with the sun only (http://www.zipgrow.com/hydroponic-farming/) , but most people can make more money by going indoors and denser. You spend the extra on electricity, you grow vertically and higher, and you have lower labour costs from less walking about. Solar is also not the only renewable energy source that could power LEDs -- much of the farm land where I grew up is speckled with wind turbines and at night when vertical farm lights are on all my area's energy is provided by nuclear.

> 3) Shipping is cheap. It may make us feel good that a salad's greens were created on a roof-top in Brooklyn, but using some of the most expensive real-estate on Earth to save a few cents on shipping is beyond economically irrational.

Brooklyn rooftops are for amateurs. The successful vertical farms are all in the peri-urban areas right next to the grocery distribution systems where land is pretty darn cheap and transport costs are super minimal. It doesn't make any sense to use the most expensive real estate on earth without a doubt, but the big boys don't.
whats the economic/theoretical consensus on optimal amount of frictional unemployment? (invert that and you approximate the amount of time the average worker should stay at a job).

Say frictional unemp is 3% a month and so "Employee Lifetime Tenure" is 3 years. Given how inefficient the search process and job market is, shouldnt we encourage more searching especially at early phases of life? What is the theoretical upper limit to that?

I wonder what research has been done to model this admittedly very theoretical question.
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This is just such a weird world for me as a Swede. Here, the universities are under the same transparency rules like government agencies, meaning that you can even ask to go through your professor's inbox if you want (if they work on classified stuff, they need to keep that stuff separate).

Also, we have laws mandating how you can portion admission policies: 33% from high school grades, 33% from our version of the SAT and the rest they can negotiate with the government about what they want to use but it has to be transparent. You can also freely check the government's website and see, for every year, on what basis people were admitted for every university program in the country.
“This is also the kind of stuff that you C programmers write bugs with all the time, by mistaking = with ==; to the point where most C compilers these days would just flag something like if(a=1) as a warning with default settings.”

No it isn’t; we’re not beginners.

I learned Pascal before I learned C. Hated the retarded := as superflous.
Maybe people would not leave these positions if you gave them a promotion of more than 2-3% from time to time.
Can I be the first to say that I hate that even more ?
> It’s also a not giving a shit problem in many cases.

Sure, not as an alternative to a distribution problem but as the reason that exists/continues in many cases.

> Everyone starving isn’t in a war zone or subject to epic corruption and seizure of goods. Some people starve and go malnourished in the US and other wealthy countries for lack of anyone really caring.

The idea that the capitalist core of modern developed economies isn't itself a form of systematic seizure of goods is somethingnthat the critics who gave capitalism its name would have issue with.
How much do you actually "do" as the remote farmer? Are there a lot of digital tasks you need to accomplish from the app?
Doctorow is right, of course, but it’s lamentable that he declares the ugly rise of Trump as only a feat of media influence, when in fact it’s also a reaction to it. No one had a problem with the Obama campaign’s heavy use of social media, a strategy that harvested racial tensions just as much as Trump’s did.
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Regarding #2, it gets harder to not disclose a range if you're on the higher end of the locations pay scale. I've been through a couple interviews attempting this strategy only to find out 5 rounds in they're offering a substantially lower salary than my current and it unfortunately was a waste of time for myself and the potential employer.

You can definitely talk about your value but most of the time the company has a set budget for the position.

/anecdotal
You're talking about a company that's motto use to be "Don't be evil" and who has been referred to as the Chocolate Factory (a la Willy Wonka). Google isn't historically a military contractor or a systems contractor in general. All of their advertising, keynotes and press conferences center around connecting and helping people, not helping to develop weapons. Culturally they're a friendly company trying to make the world a better place. Presumably their employees didn't seek employment with Google under the impression they'd ever be developing technologies to aid the military in carrying out it's mission. So why is it so difficult for you to comprehend the backlash or cultural resistance to this?

This would be like Coca Cola announcing it's new chemical weapons division.
It is not less complex. It is definitely more complex and is harder. My point was that financially it is more sustainable long-term.

Can you set up a duplicate infrastructure that’s close to your international facilities worldwide cheaper? Even support would be cheaper because you can have one central team manage your worldwide infrastructure. Netflix moved their entire infrastructure to AWS. You’re not taking into account the cost of enploying people to babysit and do the “undifferentiated heavy lifting”, the cost of over provisioning just in case, the cost of the red tape to provision backup hardware for failover, etc.

* And once your org is bigger, dedicated Ops team gives much more peace of mind.*

You can easily outsource netops to a dozen companies that can be cheaper because they can manage multiple accounts and they can outsource the grunt work to cheaper labor. I know, I’ve worked in two companies that outsource day today management of netops.

Whoever is on shift flips 3 switches and things are back to normal in 2 minutes, 99% of the time. That is not always the case even with a huge provider like Amazon and Google.

You’ve never had to deal with a colo center. Have you ever dealt with AWS support as a representative of a large company?

Disagreed. Periodically, there pop up articles here in HN that prove with numbers and historical timelines that AWS only saves you time and white hair while you are smaller. Once you start to scale up and/or use more of their services, bills start to pile up quicker than before (people have mostly analyzed the exponential growth of their billing).

If the fixed cost of your infrastructure is growing faster than your revenue...you’re doing it wrong. Even if you can get simple VPS elsewhere (and yes you can). Thsts not where you get the win from AWS. You can host VPS anywhere and still take advantage of all of AWSs services.

Good for you, many of us don't however. I honestly have no intention to either. It's a very specific vendor cloud system with a huge amount of proprietary tech baked in, and I have no desire to entangle my career prospects with its success. Career preferences. ;)

That’s just what the original article said. You always tie yourself to a specific technology and risk that technology becoming out of favor. The trick is to stay nimble and to keep learning. Right now, there is a lot more money and opportunity in being a “Cloud Architect” than knowing how to set the same things up on prem.
I don't think people grow out of the need to follow moral rules as much as you imply. Sooner or later, there comes a time when it is overwhelmingly in a person's interest to lie (or some other transgression). If they are purely rational, they will do it. If they think deeply about morality, they will rationalize why it is right to do what is in their interest. The point of inculcating honesty and other virtues is so one is habituated to the point that dishonesty is preempted when it really counts. Reasoned moral judgement is not an unmitigated good, because it opens the way for bias and hinders the operation of trust needed for relationships.
6 months to a year and a half before Boeing thinks they'll have a software patch... That seems silly long
This is not a new thing. In a former company there was the legendary story of how, in the early 2000s, a failing project to do signature recognition OCR was turned around within half a year by a new project manager. Only on audit of payroll a few years later was it discovered the 3rd party tech demanding highish annual licence fees was infact a team of around 10 people doing a mechanical turk. It would have worked would it had been a truly 3rd party service, but since this was customer data, governance rules required employees.

This was in finance, where regulatory controls tend to be quite strict.

Today, where lines are much more blurred, it seems governance of 3rd party human access to individual data seems woefully behind.
That's where some sort of syndication feed would come in, like RSS or ActivityPub.
This sort of thing is always interesting to me. I love how by using the analemma and the equation of time you can figure out the times of sunrise/sunset anywhere on the planet for any time of the year [1].

Another interesting thing to read about is the problem of longitude, it's amazing how clever we've had to be to solve such problems in practice. In Florence there is a Galileo museum which showcases some of his ideas on how to compute longitude, namely by using the orbits of Jupiter's moons as a sort of universal clock to make the calculation possible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma#Times_of_sunrise_and_...
"Boeing’s responses to the FAA are due by 30 June."

Article is a month old, response was due to FAA already but I can't find it anywhere.
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