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I read "Why there is a culture war"[1] by John Fonte about 10 years back. It made the whole political correctness thing make perfect sense.

http://www.hoover.org/research/why-there-culture-war
In the US, the terms basically mean Repub/Dems, not what the right and left actually are in most of the rest of the sane world.
Nobody forgot. Nobody was shilling there. This is a blatantly incorrect statement usually put forth by the tinfoil hat crowd. Technology's mods had automod (a bot) nuking a bunch of terms automatically because those submissions were overrunning (and reducing the quality of) the subreddit. That's a far cry from "there are government shills on their mod list".

Plenty of subreddits do the exact same thing. Some use automod to remove racist slurs, memes, and others use automod to remove all political terms because they have a "No Politics" rule. It doesn't mean the mods are shills.

And now that the terms were restored, take a look at the subreddit. It's absolute crap now. Quite literally. It's supposed to be about technology but it's now /r/Politics2, with every other submission about Comcast, Tesla, and the FCC. Seriously, go look right now. there are 10 submissions about the FCC, 5 about Comcast and a couple about Tesla right now on their front page. This isn't just a one time thing, it's been like that every day since.

What happened to actual technology?
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I would actually argue that the Left is far more ideologically consistent. The Right is badly split between the fiscal and the social conservatives; half of them couldn't care less about abortion and gay rights, and half of them couldn't care less about the economy. In contrast, while they disagree about how far left to go, the Left is mostly pretty consistent on the fundamentals of their platform.
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I don't think the message is that those 1% of people are themselves a problem, more that it's a problem that wealth is distributed as inequitably as it is.
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What CoffeeScript did was lodge the idea in people's heads that JavaScript can be treated as an assembly language to compile higher-level languages into. I'll bet many programmers' attitudes toward ES6 are: someone will write a compiler for my language, and I'll just use that.

It seems better to treat JavaScript as admittedly not being the most powerful language in the world, and to treat the standard as a kind of RFC that only compiler writers have to think about. For most programmers it works to just use CoffeeScript (or Lisp or anything) without worrying about standards, just as JavaScript programmers don't need to worry about how their processor works.
It strikes me as odd that you would think that your kids are "unlikely to ever earn" as much as you have, or even less than a third as much. I'm curious about your basis for that assertion. Perhaps you're American, and it's grounded in the increasing concentration of wealth. Or perhaps it's just probabilistic. But in any case, isn't it better to share all of that with them?
Let's face it; the submissions guidelines are a joke due to the first line:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

No matter the topic, anyone can bring up that line and effectively ends any question that the topic is fit for HN by claiming that they find it interesting.
Bill certainly is a great human being and great inspiration.

However, at this point I feel he is speaking from 10000 ( or more) feet higher. Sure, there is technological advancement day by day but robots and AI taking over human , I don't see it happening for next 25 years at least.

AI assistants such as Siri, Cortana , Samantha, GoogleNow are still in infancy state. Reason why Cortana or Samantha was born is, because Siri was born in rich corporate home.

There are people right outside SV ( ever heard of Oakland?) who struggle for food, home, healthcare and due to mental illness every single day. These common people can't satisfy basic need. Just 15 -25 miles outside best innovative tech hub.
All these people know and do every day is to try and fulfill basic needs.

Why would they be concerned with AI when there is no food itself ?

Elites like Bill would certainly think that what if a machine comes out and wipes out stock market , well guess what, its not going to happen.

Unfortunately, we live in society where we don't innovate for betterment of human lives but innovate for gaining more capital. Rich people simply buy these innovations.

If you spend 10000+ hours and come up with innovative and you are poor, there is far greater chance that either your innovative will be sabotaged or will be bought for pennies.

I feel like Bill could try to be more realistic sometime.
Boohoo, things change. People have a right to live and set up shop in any part of the country they want if they have the cash.
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Don't say anything - they already chose what's best for them.

They left one of the bullshits camp and hopefully they will be more careful next time before they will try to associate with another.

People learn on mistakes.
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I know what you mean! I've been a supporter of gay marriage for my whole life. But when the Brendan Eich thing happened, I was stunned. The "good" side of this fight was acting more evil than the "evil" side. What terrified me most was reading the ArsTechnica forum and seeing the majority cheering for his downfall, and totally ignoring the dangerous precedent that a person could be fired for donating to the wrong ballot proposition.

I tried arguing that allowing people to get fired for their political activity, even if that activity is misguided, is far more dangerous to democracy and society than Prop 8 ever was. I was slammed and downvoted waaaaay into the negatives.

That event really changed my outlook on social liberalism.
My argument is the insider's edge is far more dangerous to Mr. Schmoe, than the professional's edge over Mr. Schmoe.
Don't forget that Microsoft was iterating on Windows Mobile at the time that the iPhone released.

IMO, Microsoft (and other handset makers) focused a lot of their energy on the enterprise market. Looking at screenshots of early handhelds show productivity as one of the "bullet points on the box."

Apple had the luxury of approaching the phone market from the other direction. They've spent several years making the iPod, that a consumer-oriented phone was a natural evolution of that. They also knew how to sell it.
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I think quite a lot of why Apple overtook was focus as in the Jonny I've quotes below:

"There is a clear goal and it isn't to make money. The goal is to desperately try to make the best products we can. We are not naive - if you trust it, people like it, they buy it and we make money. This is a consequence."

"We won't be different for different's sake. Different is easy... make it pink and fluffy! Better is harder. Making something different often has a marketing and corporate agenda."

Over a long time focus on the best products and user experience can be powerful. Meanwhile Microsoft were doing things like killing the start menu which not many users were keen on.
One of the benefits of growing up Jewish is that business talk at the dinner table each evening drowns out even the TV. Of course, you learn pretty quick that not all families are like this.

I'm happy to give lessons but I'll never give an exact net worth. Stealth wealth FTW

http://www.joshuakennon.com/stealth-wealth-why-americas-rich...
Pretty much my thinking.

I think Apple offers a big walled garden for computing.
Everything becomes a joke if you disrespect it enough. You have to make a conscious decision to add value instead of subtracting it.
Cars are the most highly regulated consumer product on earth. Brake systems nor Tesla fly under the radar here.

I felt that way too, til I watched few of the talks from the people that were doing the testing of Toyota electronics after all of the unintended acceleration problems.[1]

Did you realize, for example, that while there are coding standards that one should adhere to while doing embedded systems-critical stuff (like MISRA guidelines), there are no requirements for automotive companies to adhere to any such software standardization, and that it's left up to the individual manufacturers to decide upon standards?

The US automotive industry is unique in that it doesn't have a rigor requirement for software. Planes and heavy equipment do have such requirements within the states.

Toyota didn't even use bug tracking or source management, and used their own software guidelines. That's scary given the complexity is so high that the entire system cannot be fully tested in a feasible way.

Atop the software issues, the hardware ECM was made in such a way so as to make the secondary 'cross-checking' processor basically useless. Both CPUs were checking the same I/O, if that was the fault then BOTH would read bad data, and the hardware was made in such a way as to make that impossible to work around.

An old Camry isn't anywhere near as complex as a modern electric car, and I personally have more faith in Tesla than I do Toyota, but it makes me want to push US legislation into requiring US auto manufacturers into following the strict software guidelines that are available to them.

Fun trivia: MISRA guidelines were originally pushed by the automotive industry in the early 90s/late 80s, and now they are one of the only critical systems groups to not follow them.

[1]:http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_s...
"This car will never speed in construction zones anymore"

"This car is now property of pWnz0r. Pay 20btc to {address} to reclaim your car"

"This car will only fill up at TSA approved electric stations"

"This car will not turn on for anyone with a recent DUI"

"This car will not turn on during the Snow Emergency"

Some of these are probably not risks given the current capabilities of Tesla's, but future cars might have enough cameras and sensors to enforce such updates.
Shame can be (and has been) a tool for positive change.

I grew up in the South. Many of my peers never heard racist comments until they were adults, even though many adults in our community were deeply racist. That made my generation far less racist than older ones.

So why were the racists so quiet? Because it stopped being socially acceptable to be racist. Those people were ashamed of publicly stating their views. Racism become something you might believe, but didn't say to a child.

It's not a pleasant tool, and it's often abused, but there are definitely shades of gray there.
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The 1984 commercial wasn't about "openness", it was about the looming x86 monoculture in personal computing and the market dominance of IBM. Before showing the commerical at the 1983 keynote, Steve Jobs said: "Will Big Blue dominate the entire computer industry? The entire information age? Was George Orwell right about 1984?"
In contrast, left wing politicians just want to throw more money at the same things.

That's not quite it. They're also perceived to be for the expansion of government, more spying, less local and state autonomy, fewer guns, more regulation of businesses, more taxes, more diversity, more equal redistribution of wealth, and less prosecution of criminals.

(Now, we'll ignore that on at least the last three points, that's patently false, because their supporters and backers have no interest in such things.)

The thing that is probably biggest difference, though, is the way the two sides' members treat each other. I'd say that the right-wing folks view the other side with fear, because they're worried that they'll ruin everything. Their talking heads tend to treat the left with outright hostility and use very nationalistic notes and basically try to show that while they are the enemy, they are a legitimate enemy.

The left seems to view the opposition as backwards and deserving of contempt, as a group of bumpkins and idiots and sometimes subhuman. Their talking heads tend to appeal to how smart the reader/viewer is for following the party line, and espouse philosophies that require a strict adherence to lest one be considered ignorant and hence non-left.

It's hard to side with the left, for me anyways, because they seem to encourage a sort of arbitrary and baseless smugness I've never seen in the right. And that's unfortunate, because change is needed and some of their positions are unquestionably correct.
"Currently [...] teachers [...] occupy a strong position in the social order. So do government dependents." [Emphasis added]

Interesting --maybe I'm misunderstanding your claim. Can you clarify what you mean by "occupy a strong position in the social order", and outline your evidence for such a belief?
My family, from a Chinese heritage, has a similar thing. We talk about business, our salary, our financial plans etc within ourselves, but silence outside the family. I heard similar stories from other families. I always wonder how pervasive that is in other cultures.
I put more stock in the idea that traditional vendors are terrified of any kind of pathway for frequent/easy access to the onboard engine computers. Just look at the kerflufle around stuck gas pedals; imagine what the public will do to the first vendor whose ECM is maliciously modified OTA, or who pushes an update with an unnoticed key regression or new bug (hardly an unusual thing in the world of frequent updates)
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It was awaiting moderation. I'll answer also here.

I meant when I'm already logged-in and have an active session.
This is just an idea, but it sounds like you have a hindering emotional reaction to large sums of money. I wonder if you could "disable" that reaction by using a new representation that your unconscious mind wont recognize. Like if you think about money with scientific notation for instance.

>I earn 1.5E5 units per year. After 20% taxes that's 1.2E5 units.

>My mortgage is at 4E4 units.

etc
I'm playing it on Debian testing - works fine, except for that XFS bug.
Ask HN: As a founder, what assets/registrations should I be sure to control?
For the past 1-2 years my close friend and I have been working on a hobby software project. Some new friends are volunteering to help us hack on new ideas and set things up. I am starting to see how this project could become a profitable business someday (although not everyone in the group seems to look at it this way; some just see it as a short term fun project).

At this point the collaboration is very informal and we have not done any kind of legal/administrative paperwork.

Right now different team members are individually taking initiative to set things up, like registering domains and CA digital certificates, etc. I think it's great that my teammates are taking the initiative since it means that I don't have to figure out everything myself, but I want to make sure that if someday there is a conflict within the team, or if a new team member attempts some foul play, that my original partner and I do not lose control of any essential assets. For example, if a new member of our team has admin access to our NameCheap account, then in the event of a conflict, they might wrest control of the domain away from us.

What assets and registrations are most critical to maintain control over? (Versus, which ones can I more or less recover if I lose them.)

Here are some I can think of:

- Domain registration
- CA certificates (HTTPS, software publisher)
- Trademark for our project name
- Registration of our corporation

What do people here think of the above? What are some other important ones?

(For context, we are in the US.)
Sure, maybe. It also can be read as a statement that those who disagree simply don't get the nuance. So I politely asked for clarification, which I guess is not tolerated.
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There is a reason why I explicitly pointed out I was discussing the US. I'm pretty explicitly sticking to places I'm familiar with (USA, India).

But right wing types elsewhere in the world (e.g., Modi) are not exactly looking to preserve the status quo either. Hindutva (probably spelled wrong) is hardly about preserving the status quo, nor is economic liberalization, getting closer to the west or "toilets before temples".

What parts of the world are you talking about?
I could just as easily write:

"It's worth remembering that one disadvantage left-side politics have is that they are defending the status quo, and mounting such a defense is trench warfare, not a campaign that captures the hearts and minds of the next generation. By comparison, right-side politics are passionate for change. And it's when people are passionate that they get into disagreement. But because the right is so far away from achieving its goals, the passions inside the movement aren't as heated. Also, the right tends to be suspicious of political correctness and ideological litmus tests."

I suspect if you hung around Americans for Tax Reform, Heritage, Family Research Council, Eagle Forum, etc. for a while, you'd find that they want to overturn the status quo on taxes (perhaps a flat tax), government spending (reduce significantly), third-tier government agencies not mentioned in the Constitution (abolish), abortion (overturn Roe v. Wade), obscenity and indecency (remember the horror called the Communications Decency Act?), religion (erode church/state barrier), United Nations (get U.S. out, or reduce dues), federal regulations (dramatically roll back), Obamacare (repeal), Second Amendment (enforce RTKBA post-Heller), voter ID, marriage, home schooling (defend), public schools (vouchers), and so on.

Look at the 1968 Democratic Party platform. It talked about Head Start, Upward Bound, more federal spending on education, Medicare expansion, creating the Department of Housing and Urban Development, more regulation of industry, increasing Social Security spending, etc. [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29604]. It's been nearly half a century since then, and all those policies have been enshrined into law; the question today is not whether to eliminate them, but how much budgets will increase year-over-year.

Liberalism has won the culture war as well, as both conservatives and liberals have acknowledged for quite some time:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/14/1291965/-Liberalism...
http://theweek.com/articles/469079/culture-war-over-conserva...
I am not sure which country you're describing. To say that "government dependents" "occupy a strong position in the social order" does not accurately describe the U.S. in any meaningful way.
I think you mean Bettie Boop.
Vis-à-vis Eich (it's Brendan, by the way), you're undoubtably not a bigot but simply incredibly naïve.

Imagine an organization appoints as its head somebody who believes very strongly that blacks should sit in the back of the bus. So strongly that she spent her money to amend the constitution to keep them there — successfully. The organization itself does some work that you believe in, but would you volunteer your time as enthusiastically to that organization knowing what its head has done? Would you be a little more likely to donate your time elsewhere instead, even if just to feel less uncomfortable around your black friends? Now imagine that most of the people who volunteer for this organization hold progressive views and have the same decision to make. It's not hard to see that this appointment could threaten the continued existence of the organization.

Now replace blacks with gays, bus position with marriage (which, I'm sure you agree, is a far worse restriction), and she with he.
Hell, even if you like to believe mistakes only happen to some people- Musk clearly falls in the group of "has made mistakes". SpaceX is proof his ventures are not immune to error.

Which is fine, but I'm unnerved hearing the people who seem to consider Tesla infallible. 'They'll never make a mistake like that, they're Tesla!'
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Like, when they all mysteriously start saying "I'm not a scientist" at exactly the same time?

I'm not suggesting they all adhere to the same ideology. I'm saying that they have better party discipline.
Mathematically speaking applicatives are less restrictive since more things can be applicatives than monads. A monad is a "very special" kind of functor and that is why a composition of monads often fails to satisfy the monad laws. The least restricted thing in this hierarchy is the functor since composition and other kinds of operations always give you back another functor.
I felt like this article actually begs a bigger question, why don't we tell each other how much we make? I get the sense that because we keep this so extremely private, it makes it so much easier for the class division between the wealthy, the 'middle class', and the poor to continue to grow.

If everyone truly understood just how much less the 'rich' people they know earned than any of the 700,000 or so folks in the global elite, would we still be having the same sort of disdain for progressive taxation?
So the response from Apple is that is expected behavior, and the applecare contact suggested I use the hack proposed at http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/01/why-dns-in-os-x-10-10-i... (which I sent to them)

At this stage he doesn't know if it will ever get fixed.. no indication from engineering..
Yes, you're missing something.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
You can't just jump into a late-stage Moldbug article like that. He's very...talmudic, perhaps, is a good word. You have to read all his stuff from the beginning, which is probably too much for anyone to do at this time.
Brendan.

Wasn't fired; resigned, but could have stayed on.

Everyone has the right to choose their leader (if they even want one).
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The cofounder of a company whose product was a vapid, unoriginal piece of nonsense that no one cared about for more than 5 minutes steps down.

Good fucking riddance, hope this insipid service as a whole is soon to follow. Only lamentable thing is that investors dumped $35m into this garbage.
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Case you've never visited in person here's the famous Apple garage:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Garage.jpg
Who's the target audience of this exactly? I already see a language pragma, do notation, liftIO, parser combinators.

Hamming has this great set of lectures on how he became a world renowned scientist and in one of the lectures he explains why Ada failed and other languages succeeded. The difference was that Ada was designed logically and most successful languages were designed psychologically. Even when government contracts mandated Ada people still wrote in Fortan and hand translated to Ada. You can watch the videos and take from it what you will.

A minimal bash file is`#!/bin/bash`. A minimal turtle file is already way too long and logical.

The set of videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30.
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