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So things we disagree with now can just be labelled as idiocy?

And no matter how much you and other statists hate neoliberalism and how it's taken over the world, thing is the world has never been so rich, so peaceful and people have never lived so long and so healthy in the whole history of humanity. So, if neoliberalism is having a bad effect on the world, I wonder what it would do if it had a good effect.

I would also add that the countries that are doing better in this world are all pro free-market such as Switzerland and Hong Kong. In fact, as someone who has lived in Peru for 5 years, I can tell you (and numbers will show), in the 90's, Peru and Venezuela had similar economies. Then in the 90's and up to today, Peru has liberalized its economy and privatize a lot of industries, Venezuela has gone the opposite way. Today, Peru is prospering more than ever while Venezuelans unfortunately have to wait in line for hours to buy toilet paper, flour and meat. I think reality is on my and Andreessen's side.

Statists are obsessed with inequality gaps and how some people are so much richer than others. I and people like Andreesen are obsessed with fewer people dying of hunger, violence and disease. Once we get rid of that, maybe we can work on reducing that gap you're so obsessed about, but right now, let's help people not die of hunger at least and make make enough of a living to support themselves, and nothing is as efficient as free market economies for this who have lifted billions of people from extreme poverty from China to Peru.
Exactly this. Lockheed tells its employees to be very careful about discussing the F-35 in public, lest information be inadvertently disclosed. Obtaining and maintaining a security clearance is a condition of employment in the defense world, so those who know and could clear up many of the disagreements cannot really say much. Even disclosing that you work on the program is not encouraged.
What has been your experience with Ember? How would you compare it with React? I realize that they are for somewhat different purposes.
So, now that there's a fan club, do you have a mailing list or get togethers?!
No, the reason you can't install extensions from third-party sources is to stave off crapware and worse from being installed by other programs, which is a real problem.

And it is only applicable on Windows, and not applicable to developer or enterprise channels.
stealth still gives you the edge BVR. if anything, even if you'd be out of range of AIM120's you can choose to turn back if you know where the enemy is.

close combat its IR missiles anyway.
An affordable safety net could be possible with cheap renewable energy and magic hydroponic farms that make food even cheaper. Anyone could have a small farm in their room! Then you just need housing. Maybe we'll make some fancy new materials in the next tech bubble, so that you can put up luxurious, energy efficient, 10 story housing with the ease of a trailer park.

These technologies were promised a while ago, we just need to make them work well. Any day now. Then tech progress can continue unchallenged by the needs of human sustenance.

On the other hand, the Amish approach has its own merits.
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I think there's a general disconnect between HN users and how the defense industry works.

When you are designing a weapons system designed to kill people, you cannot just design something 'in a hackish fashion'. No, this shit has got to work correctly all the time.

The cheapest Predator drone cost about $5M and top flight Predators and Global Hawks cost between $20M-50M. This means flying 100 of them is not reasonable. UAVs are also not autonomous and need manned pilots. Even if you were to build 100 drones, are you going to pay for 100 extra pilots, create some kind of airport that can house 100 drones, keeping them all fueled and maintained in the desert?

Kinda naive to think that you can just use SV start up philosophies in this application.
This is a Common Sense Fallacy[0].

Playing devil's advocate, the result could have been that CEO pay was very well correlated with performance. The company doing well can justify a higher compensation.

Of course, this is probably the argument that gets used.

[0] http://corkskeptics.org/2011/05/03/the-common-sense-fallacy/
I would sure rather have pmarca pulling the levers rather than people like {politicians, bankers, ...}.
Same day delivery from multiple, name-brand stores. Peapod ships food in giant trucks from central warehouses. Instacart sends drivers in cars to Whole Foods to get apples, and then those drivers come to our office --- 1-2 hours after we order.

We use Peapod somewhat regularly at home. Instacart is very different.
The worst of it is, the F-35 is a lie. It's not one aircraft with 3 different roles. It's 3 entirely different aircraft sharing some elements. There is only 30% commonality between the different F-35 models.

Also, the F-35 was sold as being worthwhile because it was cheaper and easier. In reality it has been vastly more expensive and vastly less capable than alternatives, with far more maintenance per hour spent flying than most other aircraft.

If there was a hint of sanity in the USAF they'd shit-can the F-35 program and start a new round of competitive procurement for separate fighters for each role. It's worth remembering that some of the best aircraft in history have come about as responses to failed development programs. The F-14 grew out of the failed F-111B program, for example.
When SSL gets broken, there are built in mechanisms that generally demonstrate 'something' is being screwed with.

With JS crypto, that goes away - if the JS is shipped over the wire, it can just be silently replaced.

If you're relying on SSL to protect the JS crypto, why bother with the JS crypto in the first place?

When vendors ship some kind of client-side pre-built verification capability (i.e. code that DOES NOT come over the wire), much like the existing SSL stack, things will change dramatically.
Longest I've been able to resist is about 6 months, sometimes I just crave a good sandwich for which there is no substitute to two slices of bread or oven baked mac & cheese or pho with it's delicious rice noodles. It's such a slippery slope, I have one sandwich and next thing you know I'm in some run down motel itching for my next fix, haven't seen light for days other than the crack through which the delivery guy slides in a large pizza or baked lasagna. Kicking my grain addiction is harder than anything I have ever done.
Technological innovation is driven by consumer demand to a much greater extent than the "decisions and whims" of billionaire VCs. If only it were that simple, r>g might actually be true.

This is crap.
Is there any documentation for that api, from the url it looks that they created it specifically for their official mobile app only?
I think there are probably more efficient ways you can get to making an interesting piece of software. Building on the work of others, maybe?
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You say you have 50,000 registered users. Can I ask how many visitors you receive a day? What type of server structure you have? I'm currently building a webapp and would like to know what hardware you have running it.
Can you clarify what you mean by "the left"?
Even if it were the same, it would still be news.
I'm with Alex generally, but disagree with this sentence: "We could make the choice to pay for universal health care, higher education, and a basic income tomorrow"

In the last sixty years, a tremendous amount of money has been poured into education. Much money has been allocated to increase college enrollment. But, IMO, for the vast majority of people, college education is a luxury social club. Spending more money on college is just a wealth transfer from tax payers to upper middle class teachers and administrators. I do not agree with Peter Thiel when he says that kids should start businesses instead of going to college. But I think there is lots of room for designing some sort of adult-life on-boarding process that was far more cost efficient than having the government write a check to subsidize teenagers getting black out drunk every weekend. I'm not sure what this system would be, but there are lots of options - could be some sort of apprenticeship, or a co-op mixed with classes, or a light-weight, low cost online education combined with assigned mentors.

The real issue is that any form of labor that is a commodity, and that does not have union or legal protection, has been screwed over by the trifecta of globalization, immigration, and automation. But, I disagree with both the neoliberals and progressives in that I do not think it is possible to educate the great masses and enable them to find non-commodity career paths. There are only so many content marketers, enterprise salesmen, management consultants, and product managers that the world needs. Those jobs are going to go to the genetically and socially privileged. Therefore, the only solution for the normal person, who will be at a commodity job in customer service or doing sales at a Verizon store, is collective bargaining.

One form of collective bargaining can take is democratic politics. My policy preference would be a law that creating a universal wage subsidy of $7.75 an hour, thus guarantees every worker a total wage of at least $15 an hour. I would couple that with a "job of last resort" program that would replace long term unemployment and disability insurance - everyone who wants to work can get a job, no matter how blighted their city, no matter what kind of disability they have. Even if they are a quadriplegic they can be assigned to monitor security cameras or something else.
If you think using pngs instead of fonts is going to save your oh-so-precious mobile device's memory, you got another thing coming.
I know other apps can install Plugins, but weren't they thinking of making the user confirm about newly installed extensions?
What makes you think pmarca is different than {anybody with lots of money and are human being with desires}
Yep. Its passing attempt at economic analysis seems to omit the government's fingerprints all over the latest recession.
> it harkens back to WW2 with the P-47.

Also true of the Hawker Typhoon, built as a balls to the wall interceptor turned into a very very good light bomber.
Yes, I heard that one is expensive. Just out of interest, what are you using it for?
Neoliberalism (of the Milton Friedman kind) hasn't taken over the world. It gained traction in the mid 70's, peaked in the 00's and is now, thankfully, slipping back from its extreme heights.

Also, pmarca's particular interpretation of neoliberalism is what I was referring to as idiotic, not the broader concept as a whole (which I think is also very flawed but can at least respect).

Let's not confuse well regulated free-market capitalism and a dollop of social state support (which I think together represent the best model the world has so far come up with and is the one followed, more or less, by the best economies) with pmarca's extreme interpretation of how an economy should be run.

Edit:
Oh, and finally, "people like Andreesen are obsessed with fewer people dying of hunger, violence and disease." It would be nice if his investments better reflected that apparent 'obsession': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreessen_Horowitz#Investments

To my eye he seems to care solely about making money for himself and whoever A16Z's LPs are. Nothing wrong with that (he runs a VC firm after all) but let's not pretend he's a saintly figure obsessing over the plight of the world's poor.
And as I've been reading in Fire In The Sky: The Air War In The South Pacific (http://www.amazon.com/Fire-In-The-Sky-Pacific/dp/0813338697/), also many other 2nd generation US WWII air superiority fighters (2nd generation are those after the Wildcat and P-40). Could also fire rockets, and the author says in theory (and assuming you hit the target, a bit of trick back then), a salvo of 5 inch ones would roughly equal a destroyer's broadside.
Anti-market bias seems to be the unifying constant.
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Your first paragraph is interesting but your second one really jumps the shark. The article is nowhere close to being "kneejerk status quo bias, based on nothing but a distaste for the idea that someone might be making money off of making consumers' lives better".
In the US they are effectively deregulated in close to every way the actors care about (aka regulatory capture).

Additionally, enforcement of the few regulations that exist is close to nonexistent.

Edit: downvotes, so here's some references:

On Regulatory Capture:

a growing number of respected commentators now argue that regulatory capture of public agencies and public policy by leading banks was one of the main causal factors behind the financial crisis of 2007–2009.[1]

OTS consistently referred to the banks it oversaw as its “constituents.” They favored asking banks to correct problems rather than enforcing regulation, even though the banks rarely followed through on the agreements.[2]

On lack of enforcement:

Not a single executive who ran the companies that cooked up and cashed in on the phony financial boom — an industrywide scam that involved the mass sale of mismarked, fraudulent mortgage-backed securities — has ever been convicted.[3]

[1] http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/files/chathamhouse/public/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_and_the_Financial_...

[3] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-stre...
Trying to build a Hubot script that broadcasts goals.

How can I know if a goal was scored? Save the last call and compare?

At what rate should I call the API?
He isn't backed by the coercive power of the state, for one thing.
Just a clarification: Cab drivers are protesting Uber because Uber takes away their business and there's nothing they can do about it. It's not because they feel pressured to become Uber drivers and take less money - Uber drivers make a shit ton of money. It's the cab OWNERS who are really fucked.
Seems that both authors don't really see strong AI as a possibility (at least within say next 50 years). I wonder what HN readers take on that is, but to me it seems quite likely. Not necessary designing one from the scratch, but "uploading" human brain (once we have good enough resolution and technology). It changes quite a bit about everything.
It is using 3rd party APIs server-side to check wallets' balances, converts doge to btc and then converts the sum of btc to USD. I like the obfuscation idea but I'm not sure it's worth the complexity in this particular use-case.
It won't. Those custom fonts you speak about not only use characters which aren't, and never would be in the unicode database (such as trademarked logos), but also draw from the private unicode blocks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas

Which means there's no sanely written font that would use a "t" for an icon. Wingdings is not a sanely written font.
What does this have over AniDB? I'm seeing MyAnimeList mentioned in the comments, but not AniDB?

Do you guys have an API checking file hashes/fingerprints against episodes to add to your list etc? That's one of the biggest draws for AniDB (for me).
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> What would it take to make an SSG appeal to a broader set of users?

I don't think the SSG, as they largely exist today, will ever gain widespread usage by mainstream users.

But one thing that could drive greater adoption would be to develop an aesthetically pleasing web front-end that lets users write content using familiar WYSIWYG tools, but save the content to local files instead of a database. From there, the process would be largely the same as it is now: transform this directory of lightly marked up plain text files into raw HTML.

So, to answer your question: Make it more like Wordpress.
We need more of both! I know more than one anthropologist in training whose "field work" involves lurking on online message boards and fora - guessing that online anthropology will become an increasingly hot topic in the next couple years.
Right, the fallacy of the excluded middle is a particular kind of argument to moderation.

EDIT: nope, I mis-remembered argument to moderation. Sigh.
tl;dr: Rich assholes abuse language to protect their power by rah-rahing the weak into spirituality-based causes. Business as usual.
How do you handle ipv4/ipv6? Seems this is listing my ipv4 address, but not ipv6...
Or they get a gun and start robbing you and kidnapping your kids for ransom.

When people can't eat, they get desperate. When enough people can't eat... well, let's just say Egypt's government didn't fall because people wanted freedom.
No, please, belabor.

So, I do do that, by investing in equity (as much as I do) with high dividends, since that is orders of magnitude easier to dig up than to find the few companies that are both interesting as a business and also have sufficiently transparent quarterly statements. Time is valuable, after all.

However, to get back to the original point, the current environment of board and c-suite self-dealing will not change until many, many more people invest and think the way I do. For that to happen, the current bias towards capital gains, which your generation grew up on, will need to be wiped out conclusively.

We shall see if that happens.
I'll expand on my comment. I had often thought when the new warehouse innovations are announced, like the potential use for Google glass, that humans are becoming more and more like an extension to the platform the software runs on. Almost like we are a peripheral for the software. Go there, pick that up, take it over there, put it on that shelf, grab this item, get this sized box, wrap in plastic, too much!, tape box... Very dehumanizing :|
What I'm most curious about is WTF happens to the bikes that are stolen? Are they just resold locally or is there some sort of international bike theft and transportation ring sending high dollar bikes to Guatemala?
Wordpress is not falling out of favor. If anything it's eating the lunch of a lot of previously custom or nonexistant CMS solutions. For small business, it's just getting started.
It would be great for one or more of the founders to do a postmortem write-up once any dust has settled. I had high hopes for Ink, seems like a shame. I'd imagine this comes at the end of a lot of work to get things transitioned so it is understandable that it is a bit light but it would definitely be good to hear more detail.
>Of course they aren't saying that, it would be political suicide to say it. But given the stubborn resistance to even using the credit card readers forced on them by utility commissions, do people really think that cabbies are aching to have apps between them and their customers that would thwart their ability to skip inconvenient fares or grab an easier ride on their way to a call?

And why should they? I'm against micromanaging any sector to death, and getting them to work with the smallest margins possible. If they can hold their own, all the better to them.

When does "applying technology" stops and abuse starts? One can imagine employees in offices fitted with colars that give them electric shocks (or automatically reduce their paycheck) everytime they slack even momentarily (e.g check HN or think something of their own outside work).

Would we go for a automated hell of surveillance and micromanaging of every action and transaction to get everybody to work as a maximum productivity machine?
Facebook sees the writing on the wall. They replaced Myspace. Myspace (sorta) replaced Friendster. They know it's only a matter of time before someone else replaces them. They are trying as hard as they can to make sure it's an app built and controlled by them.
So the fascists are those with "pro-market" bias?

If we are allowed to use terminology like "left" willy nilly.
To the quote above: wages are determined by productivity, not negotiation leverage. The moral implications of "barely scraping by" don't factor in.
How about neither of the above :) I'd prefer that.
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> Also, adding political glyphs is a sure way to ruin the universality of Unicode (I'm looking at you no-piracy).

As someone else pointed out, it comes from Wingdings, for which there has been an effort to fully get into Unicode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdings#mediaviewer/File:Webd...
> I'd love to see virtually all crappy jobs today disappear, and we could find new and better things for those people to do

I agree with you, but I won't share your optimism until I start seeing way more ideas for what this future would look like that are way less hand-wavy than what I've seen so far. Vonnegut's "Player Piano" feels a lot more familiar than Star Trek's no-scarcity-or-need-to-work-but-everything-is-amazing.
Shareware can't because it is banned by Minecraft's "you shall not make money from mods" edict.
He's fundamentally a nerd, and optimistic about humanity. That's enough to be better than 95% of people in power.
I feel like both the left and the right are trying to take us back to some idealized version of the 1950's. I want a political movement based on creating a new and better future, not hanging on to shreds of the past.

We now have the technology and resources necessary to provide everyone with adequate food, housing, healthcare, and education. That's what I want, not more "job creation" or preservation of obsolete jobs. The future could actually be BETTER than the 1950's :)
> They call during work hours

Honest question: Should recruiters call during non-work hours when -- presumably -- no one would answer?

Side note: I prefer email, and it is mysterious to me why a significant portion of recruiters simply must insist on a telephone conversation when an email would suffice.
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I believe your concern is a valid one, end-points of single page apps should respect authorization requirements, and assume the client is always compromised.

Unfortunately, I believe you may have missed the point of this library and blog post. It merely simplifies the developers life when implementing the client side flows and interactions associated with authorization with one or more auth providers.

This does not preclude proper API authorization or loading sensitive modules post authorization from an authorized end-point.

As someone who has implement many very related flows, I am glad to see an effort to unify, share and simplify this experience.
I haven't found any documentation and, indeed, it was created for their mobile app.

What I have heard from a guy on Twitter is that if you get the number of the match then you can: http://live.mobileapp.fifa.com/api/wc/match/300186492/en

Also if you put /blog at the end of that URL you get the latest news regarding that match.
This is like asking who makes the world's best coffee.

I think there are physicists working on weather, LHC, astrophysics problems which probably blow-away any of the commercial guys.