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I would never put a closed source hot mic in my house. You can trust big brother all you want, but I'm going to stay clear.

<strike>I can't really help you on bank API's</strike>. My bot uses webdriver.

Actually I can help with that: https://openbankproject.com/for-developers/

>It's challenging enough to translate simple trading systems into machine code

I can attest to this from my experience with a bot I'm trying to build to handle my personal finances. When I sat down to try and encode the seemingly simple decisions I make like whether to pay a bill now or wait until the next check, things got really complicated really quickly.

Different Strokes for different folks. My personal feeling is that a company should allow employees to do what they want. If the company has an office setting and an employee wants to do the office thing then let them. But if you have an employee who is telling you that they work better from home take them at their word and let the results the judge of whether or not they're telling the truth.

Having a hot mic in my house that there is data to servers that I don't control really doesn't appeal to me. Although I know my Android phone is essentially the same thing, I'm actively looking to replace my version of Android with something different soon as I can.

In a similar vein, CNBC quietly turned their comments off in the last couple of weeks.

I disagree. If a person truly believed a bullshit answer was true they'd pick it over I don't know. The experiment shows that given an incentive to not think in partisan talking points, people will admit they know that what they would normal espouse as truth is, in fact,bullshit.

Here's what I'm not understanding about Uber. There' nothing they provide that couldn't be cloned. It's clear there's no way to grow into profitability so once the VC subsidies go away Uber will have to significantly raise prices to survive, putting them in the same price range as traditional car services. At that point, what's to stop Yellow Cab from creating their own Uber clone and eating Uber's lunch?

>The end game is a company with self driving cars,

As it seems that is their only chance at profitability, then they should be plowing a lot more of their capital into driverless R&D.

My 2 cents. I would consider myself a JS expert as I have writen AngularJS and RequireJS clones. Personally, I don't agree with the path that OS JS dev has gone in recent years. The reliance on build systems and transpilers are fundamentally anathema to the spirit of simplicity and low barrier to entry that attracted me to the language and ecosystem inn the first place.

I understand that as we have moved from web pages to web apps the increase in complexity was inevitable, but I question a lot of the tools being used now. For one thing, once we moved to creating full applications using JS, one of the concerns that tooling moved to address was maintainability. This is why MV* caught on and destroyed JQuery as a viable option for many projects. That being said, Angular pretty quickly swapped one kind of maintainability problem (refactorability) for another (over-abstraction and cyclomatic complexity).

As for the dev tooling (webpack and company), one of the reason I avoid a lot of them is in my experience they can get in the way of maintainability. For example, I recently tried to pick up a 3 month old project in Android Studio and it took me around 3 hours just to get it to compile again because of updates and other tooling complexity. This NEVER happened using Eclipse. The same thing is happening and will happen when the apps being built today get dumped on some poor sod 3-5 years from now.

Lastly, an example from my job. I was recently asked to update the verbiage on a sign in form built ~13 years ago. The devs decided to use some java framework that had buzz at the time named JATO. Jato literally doesn't exist anymore and building it is basically impossible. This is to say nothing of modifying it as all documentation has literally disappeared from the web. The devs picked JATO b/c they thought it would be easier to modify and maintain. Exactly the opposite has happened. They could easily have written the form (literally two input boxes and a submit) using plain JSP. If they had, that code would still be useful today.

Here's a little lighter reading from ars on the subject http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/how-an...

Decentralized applications and infrastructure.

The subtext to this (at least why this made it to the front page) is "github is lighting money on fire, can't last forever, but github is infrastructure-status now what if it disappears?"

I think this anxiety is why there's a lot of work being done in the decentralized space right now. The UX-side of "web 3.0" is sorely lacking but I think it's only a matter of time before people begin to crack it.

I'd love to see some research into what it would take (in terms of network size) to provide robust, decentralized replacements for service-as-infrastructure products like Github.

Thanks for pointing these out. I tried using the --inspect flag like your article pointed out but I couldn't get it to work with Chrome 54.

I can't really give a compare and contrast between what I'm using and the --inspect flag. From the article, I feel like I'd like --inspect better if I could get it to work.

Yes, this app launches a chrome devtools windows (as part of electron) and lets you inspect your code using the dev tools gui which I find much more productive than the text-based CLI debugger.

If you want to use chrome devtools without changing your version of node, I'd recommend this implementation of node + devtool that uses electron (https://github.com/Jam3/devtool).

It literally changed my life. Thanks whoever is responsible for this project.

Enablers will not be forgotten.....

I would argue NPR is as impartial as it gets for a U.S news source. Could you name a source with less bias? I sure can't.

Am I missing something? Why would they build an app to consume a twitter feed? I guess that's what someone who actually knew what the heck they were doing said when they asked why they were spending a bunch of money on the app. It's amazing how much money can be wasted at a corporation because it's other people's money.

I'm dealing with something similar to what the article talks about. I've been with my company for 3 years. I wa shired as a "new college hire." I am ~6 years older than a typical grad and had worked in the industry prior to joining my company.

Ever the course of my time I've:

1. Learned C# in order to rewrite an app I wrote in Java 2. Self-organized a team to implement a UI in HTML/CSS using a JavaScript tool I wrote myself that allowed different team members to work on components a layout and have the partials dynamically reconstructed. 3. wrote a connection pool class in C# from scratch that has been in production for 2 years without a hiccup.

The list goes on. I suppose I've been rewarded by my manager with substantial raises and he always says he notices my work but in 3 years the only responsibility I've had was when I took it on myself to bring coworkers together to implement the UI (which we delivered in 2 weeks as opposed to the 3 months they had blocked for it).

Am I wrong to feel slighted when far less capable people have been promoted to leadership positions? My boss does stuff like take me to events where I'll meet big wigs, but I don't care about that stuff. I just want to be in charge of producing good, maintainable code.

This is incredibly relevant to me rn. I recently cut the cord and quit FB. I legitimately do feel much happier. My FB feed was just a stream of things to get pissed about and MSNBC was just filling my head with other people's opinions.

Here's my daily routine:

skim thehill.com, politico.com, reddit.com/r/news for headlines

zerohedge.com when I want to see what's going on in right-wing land

newsblok.com if I want to see what the crazies are talking about without giving them clicks

thenation.com and theatlantic.com to see what liberals are pissed about today

slate.com for mainstream opinion pieces

verysmartbrotha.com for a laugh

salon.com and rawstory.com for the lulz

truthdig.com and counterpunch.org for neoliberal bashing essays

cnbc.com to check the markets

So who's down to make an open source Uber and get paid for consulting with municipalities that want to implement it (a la VA Linux). Anyone?

>though you're doing it a bit yourself upthread

I know, and I do feel a bit guilty lol. I suppose I should've just let his comment sit in the greys. You're right, there wasn't much point in being nasty.

From tmptmp's profile:

>Am I against Muslims? No, I do have many Muslim friends...

"I have many [insert ethnic group here] friends" is always a red flag. I'm just trying to figure out how you managed to get 700+ karma on here?

There are most definitely better places to wage your Internet crusade. Please don't junk up HN with this copypasta drivel.

DT's "victory" has encouraged a lot of folks to feel like they can speak their mind freely. For many, the "victory" is a symbol. It says "you are not alone." It's not that there's any more of them than there were last year; now they feel like they're on the right side of things and are feeling confident.

In hindsight, I observed the same thing with Obama's two terms. A lot of talk about rape culture, safe spaces, etc. Everyone who didn't agree was out of step with where America was really going and was gonna be left behind. So they thought...

That side felt really emboldened and overplayed their cultural hands. Now it's the right's turn to over estimate how much everyone agrees with them.

I don't think the kind of person that says things like that are cord cutters (which you have to be to stop subscribing to ESPN). These are just run of the mill assholes trying to make a point. The real reason ESPN is losing people is young people just aren't signing up for cable anymore.

EDIT: I should point out that WaPo is pretty much a magnet for right-wing trolling b/c of election and being Bezos-owned. Incendiary comments from the right are par for the course on every WaPo article.

The head trauma is what made me stop watching football. I used to watch 8 hours of football every Sunday (on Red Zone). At some point this off season, I began to think about what I was really watching. I also got the sense that the NFL was taking the fans for granted. The major rule changes every year really bugged me, especially when nothing was done (except trying to reduce the amount of returned kickoffs) to alleviate the concussion issue.

At some point I just felt like I didn't want to watch old dudes "own" young men while they tried to kill each other for America's entertainment. It started to feel like real life mandingo fighting (from Django Unchained) and I decided that I didn't want to be a part of enriching that.

I finally cut the cord thanks to Kodi, Amazon Instant and a DTV receiver. I realized last earlier this year that $150/mo. for TV when everyone in my family was literally watching one channel a piece was a massive waste of money.

I love it. The only things I watch are things I want to watch. I don't have my thoughts and opinions shaped by talking heads anymore. Most of all, I'm spending over $1000/year less. The money I'm saving is enough to pretty much cover the note on the brand new car I just bought. Can you believe that? I literally could buy a car with what I was paying to fill my head up with nonsense.

>we have a deep conceptual usability issue here.

yes, yes we do. All this stuff seems easy if you have the curiosity so spend hours and hours reading dry documentation about how it works. This is to say nothing of actually getting your hands on the tech and inevitably having problems that require more hours of forum searchs, IRC, and other time drains.

It's not that "regular" people are too stupid to do this, they just don't see the value proposition in it. Even when the privacy issue starts to negatively affect regular people (think Black Mirror "Nose Dive") many still won't be interested in the technology to do what I wrote about above.

I spent a bit of time in the crypto community and immediately I realized there is a human resources problem. the communities, for the most part, have no one that understands or care about how to dumb the UX down enough to make the value prop work for regular people.

I've said the exact thing on multiple occasions. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12892550. this dude created something that opened a port and listened for commands that would control your OS. He hadn't spent 5 minutes making even some basic form of authentication and came straight to HN for the high 5's. People tried to flame me for pointing out that it seemed irresponsible to be promoting software in such a state.