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I wasn't of investing age during the 80s or 90s but from what I can see it seems to have been a time of massive investment in single stock or what are today called "actively managed funds."

Here in 2014 my feeling is that the average investor is much more savvy, with the majority of their holdings in diversified, low MER, index tracking ETFs.

So the question is, are these ETFs simply the rich's way of duping the masses this time around? Or has competition and the Internet helped lift the fog, disseminate information and arm the average investor so that he won't succumb to the tricks of Moore's evil faceless rich?
Is the functionality even needed? Doesn't take much to type..

ksm `pidof cupsd`
I have had the same takeaway about him, and feel the same as him, or at least similarly. I suspect there will always be unfairness one way or another, but things have been reaching a whole other level lately. I expect it will get better, but not before it gets worse.
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It was bizarre then. I was very skeptical the first few pages. I did not understand that the adolescent cheese was tongue in cheek until the second chapter.
He makes a valid point about the seemingly unnecessary ties between components during an upgrade.

The same pattern can be seen when updating Office for Mac. Every single time the Office updater insists I close all browsers, including Chrome and Firefox, to apply a Word or Excel update. Nothing from any other vendor exhibits this pattern on a Mac (a Unix system BTW).

The author may have an anti-MS history, but he is spot on in questioning these unnecessary tie-ins. I use Mac, Linux desktops, and Windows regularly, and these simple user interaction failures make the latter a pain to work with.
For a number of readers of HN, Moore's prediction will be false, but for the typical conservative, this hits the nail on the head. It's not going to win any hearts and minds. No one is going to welcome his realistic pessimism, but it's true and is a useful insight on the reality of conservative talk radio audiences, libertarians, and Tea Partiers. They are their own enemy.
Shouldn't we all be afraid of the opposite, namely war, like with Japan 1941? After all, one of the major reasons for trying to retain control of Ukraine was for the energy resources and pipelines; the rout in oil has shown how important energy is to the Russian economy and I would expect that losing control of Ukrainian energy assets would permanently impair the Russian economy.
Wow, thanks for such a succinct yet informative reply.
"When I was poor and complained about inequality, they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and complain about inequality and they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm starting to think they just don't want to talk about inequality." - Russell Brand
FWIW: This is entirely solvable, it's just that the worlds search experts are not working on legal search, because it's not a large enough market :)
By far
I suspect that if you ask them they will say that there are network effects in that a) you can travel and use other wework spaces with a single membership and b) you get access to a community to hire from, seek advice from, network with, etc. For me those would not command a large price premium and so am incline to agree with you that it's not very defensible.

That said, a capital heavy business like this doesn't need as much defensive power as a tech company. Very few challengers will have access to the capital needed to compete with wework at scale (and there are scaling benefits here) so the competition won't be crippling.
Every computer that run Firefox, and every Android phone, iPhone, iPad has a copy of sqlite.

BDB are used a lot on the server side, but you can't beat the consumer devices.
Except that it is possible to have lots of someones reliably do A through C with a defined environment and get the exact same output every time they compile it. It's referred to as 'deterministic' builds. Bitcoin and Tor are doing it, for example.

Most of the people that dismiss the security advantages of open source either don't understand them or are trying to sell you some closed source code.
I guess there is that distinct difference between rich and wealthy, where wealthy means you have just reached the point where you can live off of your investments.

I guess rich is just lots of money, regardless of what you do with it?
Not as long as you have not synchronized your phone with a cloud service (ICloud, Google drive, etc.) on which your PC/MAC is connect too.
OftenType – iOS8 keyboard app for productivity geeks developed on Swift
If you want a physical cookie analogy, its more like going to a real estate open house knowing you have no interest whatsoever in buying that house, yet still eating a free cookie. You walk in, the house reeks of cat pee, no Fing way, but those are tasty looking cookies...

I wouldn't break into your house and steal your cookies, but if you put up signs all over advertising your open house with free cookies, if you twist my arm enough I'll cave in and show up and eat a cookie. Just don't be annoyed at me when I don't buy the house. Practically no one purchases, anyway.
Summary: Author created a Stash-based visualization tool that takes the output of git log --graph --oneline --decorate --all and renders a pretty diagram.

Quite nice, actually. Not open source, as it is a private side project of the company, but examples are available on GitHub (cf TFA).
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I've had the privilege to write an article for the Dr Dobb's journal (print edition) Hard to describe how proud I was of that (of course, I received a ton of help from awesome the coworkers I had at the time.)
> Unless you build you computer yourself from silicon

And the chip design, and the fab control software, and the tools that make the tools that make the tools.
And descrete components won't help you because transistors are large enough to conceal a mircocontroler emulating a transistor and listening for high-frequency handshake signals.

Relays are probably safe since you can make those yourself out of iron and copper (rods, springs and wire), and conveniently those are the same things you need to build motors!

You're still probably screwed though.
One group dominates the second round of FCC net neutrality comments
Come on, the Preview is not even close to beta! That's why it's not pushed to everybody, but offered to enthusiasts who are fine with things being broken for a while. I mean, you can be upset all you want, but blaming an early preview for being unpolished is reaching.
Thanks for your response! You guys will be missed for sure. Maybe the group (editors and contributors) could start a spin off?
You should read about what goes on in countries that don't have this rule, even countries you'd consider otherwise functioning western democracies.

The police "know" you're a pothead so they break into and search your house. The search is entirely illegal but you go to jail anyway, after all they found some evidence. If they didn't find some evidence that's just a fine paid out of taxpayer money (police are similarly unaccountable almost everywhere).

By having the fruit of the poisoned tree doctrine police have a direct incentive to follow due process to the letter, least they get evidence or their entire case thrown out of court.

As other commenters here point out this doesn't always work out well in the US, but at least it's better than nothing.
The secondary goal was to give party members high up enough a way to get perks in terms of western goods.
congrats Danielle and Kevin (and team!), you guys are awesome :-)
>the banks can borrow at low rate, sell rubles for dollars into sliding market, wait for ruble to slide more, then repay the loan with cheaper rubles and make a big profit.

don't forget that even according to Russian government 60% of currency trading is insider based, ie. those banks and big traders are tipped (it is Russia after all - 137th place out of 170 rated in world corruption index) when for example Central Bank is to perform a ruble supporting "intervention". SEC and Fed cozying up to Wall St have nothing on how things are done in Moscow :)

>Increased demand for domestic goods due to higher import prices is a good thing

That would probably be the case for any normal country, yet not for Russia. Due to food import sanctions self-imposed by Russia, the price of foreign foods has increased, and the domestic foods prices immediately followed it as a result thus directly increasing consumer felt inflation. And there is no way Russia can noticeably increase food production, at practically any food prices. Instead the only option is to buy in other countries like Brazil, which means paying dollars which would mean even higher ruble prices for these foods on Russian market.

Like during 199x years, for the next several years Russians will be back to dollars (and "black" accounting/contracts/salaries/offshoring) while government would implement significant obstacles to such "dollarisation" of the economy. Which means an immense business opportunities for BTC and other forms of money infrastructure allowing to perform "point A" - rubles in Russia - to "point B" - dollars in a Western country - and which are less subject to the [Russian] government control.

It is kind of surreal - i was inside USSR when it collapsed due to the low oil prices of 198x. I didn't understand it back then. Now i watch this, similar, collapse of smaller, Putin's, version of USSR from comfortable "orchestra" seats (Silicon Valley) and can't stop wondering how things haven't changed a bit.

Edit: to the "twelve40" below - i lived in the USSR/Russia the first 28 years of my life. One can write a huge number of PhD dissertations on the problems of Russian agriculture - legal, social, historical, economical, climate-related, psychological, etc... About the same question is why Russia can't produce a good car, at any prices :)
I was reading an article that until recently, iPhones cost less in Russia vs the nearby EU countries so there were lots bought in Russia from other EU countries.
Hmm..thanks .. quick follow up... So would a company at any stage be able to answer this ? Do they decide things only after getting seed / Series A ? ..or are these things decided upfront ?
"Dave, is there anything we can do to improve your experience as an employee? Anything we can do to help you take your skills to the next level?"

Then listen to Dave. He probably knows his work isn't as good as the rest of the team.

I worked on a team where I was Dave. The manager tried to avoid uncomfortable talks by making very indirect statements involving me, to my team. and my teammates would never, ever talk to me about my work. They all talked about it, though. Avoiding it created a _lot_ of resentment.

Getting laid off that team was, to date, the best thing I've experienced in my career. Talk to Dave. Listen to him. Practice the conversation with someone else, first.
Security flaw lets Delta passengers access strangers' boarding passes
Actually I think the biggest reason to use jQuery is the plugin ecosystem. Think about it... if you want to do _anything_ there is a jQuery plugin already written to do it.
Vernor Vinge is another great hard sci-fi author. "A Fire Upon the Deep" is a space opera epic if I've ever read one. Currently finishing up "Rainbows End", and wasn't sucked totally in until maybe 1/3 through, but now I'm hooked :)
But then best practices say you should be doing cert pinning. That will block your CA.

Although for most apps modifying that check to look for another cert is probably not too hard. (But of course if the app is obfuscated and does integrity checks on itself, it can get arbitrarily complicated.)
I would be very happy if instead of preventing me from installing apps which require a given permission, Android would let me install them at my own risk in a sandbox which provides the app with dummy data and interactions (whether from a sensor, contacts db, camera etc).

It would be even better if the framework explicitly supported running apps without the necessary permissions and simply threw some sort of PermissionException. This would cripple some functionality while preserving the rest.

Developers could of course write the apps to not work under such reduced conditions, but Google Play could reject such apps.
I hope they don't work too hard to making it compatible with PGP (and probably shouldn't at all). Just through Gmail and Yahoo alone adopting it, the end-to-end encrypted e-mail user base could increase by 100x. So it makes little sense to make it backwards compatible, especially if that creates potential security issues.
Yeah, if you any problems with the governance of our economy, intellectual honesty requires that you go forage in the wilderness. /s
Yeah, but back then they had two generations that never saw any dollars or iPhones or anything luxurious.

It will be a bit more complicated this time.

They might not have any other option though.
>Is using the term undocumented immigrant supposed to be the PC way of saying illegal immigrant?

Yes. But if you give them drivers licenses then they are documented.
The leap from robbery to armed robbery is quite a large one, and really deflects from point at hand, which is that the justice system (in the US and certainly elsewhere) favors the rich.
I also get the impression that they have been handing out promotions like candy recently. I know that the system was broken before and people were withe leaving or threatening to leave to get promoted, but the flipside to fixing the review system too late is that you may be promoting the wrong people.

Put another way, many of the level 64 SDEs I knew are now Principle (65+) for some this is long overdue, but for others it is unwarranted.

Over-promotion can do horrible damage to a team, particularly when it moves someone into a broader decision making position than they ate capable of handling. Some of the QA issues may well stem from this
Stack ranking is very present and very real at Amazon, but if you have a politically capable manager you will find yourself (as non-manager) able to ignore it.

That doesn't mean that you or your manager are necessarily doing a great job though, or that other people aren't being hurt by the system.
Someone endowed of clue should get going with a kickstarter for at least a film version of TDA, if not a lot of what was described therein :)

Damn, I'm going to have to read it again now. Still, it's about time for a refresh...
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Do you think that no one at UBM, a company with more than 30 publications, thought of that?
Have you read R.A. Lafferty?
> Yes, and if everybody will do like you you'll soon find nothing interesting to read, because every free content website will end like DrDobbs.

Ad-blocking is a necessary form of protection from corporate stalking.

It wouldn't be necessary if advertisers would restrict themselves to tracking what's necessary to create a functional ad (browser, capability, etc.). But they are bound and determined to mine for every possible bit of information they can and that's where I draw the line.

If you wouldn't want an individual doing that, why on <deity>'s green earth would would want some anonymous company doing it in an automated fashion such that they can almost guarantee a far more exact picture of you? Does this not completely subvert the idea of privacy? Especially when security is not absolute guarantee?

I think if people really, truly understood just how easy it is to collect the data, store the data and then still manage to get it wrong, they'd be horrified beyond belief. I'm sure a lot of people here have some inkling of how that's done, but if that could be communicated to the people who aren't as tech-savvy ...

Well, sad to say, there'd be a lot of pitchforks and torches and still nothing would be truly done about it.

But it's nice to think about burning down some corporations and lining up a few executives against the wall.
> In technology as elsewhere, it seems life is ultimately based on trust in someone.

trust is a function of control.
With free software it is distributed trust and control.
With proprietary Sw it is centralized trust and control.

Real life proved that centralized control is a bad idea, that is why we invented democracy and free software.
I think you misunderstood. I believe Dr Dobbs has been very successful.

My point is that "success" for a company does not mean billions of dollars or hundreds of millions of dollars. Success can mean hundreds of thousands or even less. Success can mean a business that supports its employees for years and years and years. Dr Dobbs is a good example of a success without all that craziness.

Unfortunately, HN and the tech scene as a whole focuses a ton of attention on these massive massive valuations and exits. This distorts what "success" means and places it on an near impossibly high pillar.
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Actually, I-1351 was a Washington State citizen's initiative, not a bill passed by the legislature.

http://sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/initiatives/FinalText_57...

...whether these citizen's initiatives have been captured by special-interest groups is another question.
In practice you can disassemble Java apps to pseudo source code anyway. I've done it several times to APKs to see what is going on under the covers. Deliberate obfuscation would be immediately suspicious.
Like the concept, I could see this being used in classrooms to show how stop motion works. Would you consider adding sounds in the future (even if was just a few bongy sound effects)?
They hedge their currency risk so it's unlikely they have much exposure to the Ruble.
More lawyers would first have to understand that Microsoft Word is a regression from plain text first!

Contracts are code. Many of the concepts are similar (defined terms / includes / gotos) so the tools don't need to be changed that much. The challenge is getting others to adopt them.
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It may be a scam for most cards, but I work for a company that does multi-currency cards that settle in the currency of your choice and our exchange rates are better than anything offered by anyone else in the card space. Just a bit more than interbank ForEX rates.
Mentors who aren't in management and can meet regularly to go over tasks and offer one-on-one customized training.

Also, the mentors themselves can benefit from this in terms of people skills.
Thinking like this is what led to so many terrible '90s windows apps eschewing the Common Dialog box for file management.

We all eventually accepted that you should let the OS do its native thing. Android is no different.
"Recommending interventions" is a piece of what Knewton does. But we don't need PII or demographic data to do it. We are integrated with the digital course materials (Pearson, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Cengage, etc.) and work inside those products to provide real-time student recommendations, predictive analytics for teachers (intervene ahead of time), and content insights for publishers to change content or create more where it's needed most.
I am confused by this article. I had always been under the impression that Beaglebones were not approved for use in commercial products. I'm almost positive that I've read that in their documentation. But here is the creator of the project happily pointing to companies using what I assume are off the shelf boards in their products.

What gives?
What if your life was like your social network? New web series explores.
You can relatively easily MITM most applications by uploading a custom root certificate to your phone, and doing SSL termination + re-establishment on a router your phone is using.
You know your currency is fucked when Bitcoin is seen as the more stable option.
I've also seen it suggested that the oil price drop is a "stealth" sanction against Russia, but I don't follow the logic. Why do the Saudis want to sanction Russia? Unless one presumes some unspecified quid-pro-quo conspiracy between the US and the Saudis, I don't see it. I thrink driving the volatility up like this slows the investment rate in US shale oil significantly, and that's what the Saudis are doing.
They're currently selling version 6 of their developers DVD for like $75, also containing TPJ and sysadmin and dr dobbs up to -09 or so. I paid for my copy. Historically they've been civil about upgrade policy from old versions.

I would guess if that revenue stream dried up...
Ask HN: Whatever happened to Offer HN?
I remember every once in a while a few years back, a group of folks would offer their services, gratis, to startups, for a couple hours a week or the like, in exchange for exposure, potential for future paying work, or simply experience.

I've got a good friend who is just getting into development (and hell, even I) who could benefit from this sort of thing again.
I got a review copy of the book. It's a really interesting read and lives up to the Priceonomics name!
Android had a hidden feature in certain iterations of Android 4, called "App Ops," that would let you do this but it never made it to prime time. Though Cyanogenmod does leverage it for their "Privacy Guard" feature.
The problem occurs with children. Imagine you spent seventeen years of your life growing up in the USA and then someone tells you you are not here legally.

You consider yourself american in every way and know no other country.

Committing a crime requires you to have awareness that what you are doing is likely something illegal. Children like these have no idea.
Just a plain log would do.
Nice, really simple to use. One thing i would say is that it could probably do with some styling to make it look better.
I had the same feeling when started working with angular, were you don't need jQuery or anything else to manipulate the DOM. It is spoiled, I agree, but it feels good to be "free" :p
I understand the comparison to Tinder (swipe left / swipe right) but I was kind of confused at first because it's not like the restaurant is also rating you to find a two-way match. Good job on the execution none-the-less!
I wish it was that easy in all cases.

For VLC on Android, we need the READ_PHONE_STATE permission, in order to stop the music when a phone call is coming in. We just use it to make pause on incoming call. (VLC on Android is also an audio player, with a background audio service).

The catch is, this is not an Intent you can send or request easily. We tried so many other ways, but none work.

But on the play store it's written "read phone status and identity" and that's really really scary for the users.

And even if we're 100% open source, so people can check the application, and even people recompile VLC, this is a complaint we receive a lot...
They'll assay them to see the ratio of different carbon isotopes. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-rover-finds-m...
I don't really consider Schema to be a type system, as it only works at runtime. It's more of a data validation library. Still very useful though.
Bitcoin, however, was still a worse investment over the Ruble for all of 2014 (So far.)

http://qz.com/312598/bitcoin-is-the-worst-investment-of-2014...
True. If I remember Hattie correctly, he argues something akin to that reducing class sizes is mostly a political move (it's certainly not research based) — and after spending huge amounts of money on that — there is no political incentive to spend at least as much on retraining teachers.

Also, if some of the money had been spent on professional development instead of reducing class sizes in the first place, his research shows that the effect of that on student achievement had been much, much higher.