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Off by 1 hour seems to me like a timezone issue. I interact with people from an organization that uses Exchange heavily and I haven't had problems on invites I received or have sent. Note that Outlook 2000 and Outlook XP/2002 have problems and email clients like Thunderbird can treat that. You should contact FastMail's support though.

You are right that FastMail doesn't send out invitations when using third-party clients. FastMail is mentioning it on their page [1] promising they'll implement it, however I think this should not be the job of FastMail, but that of the client. For example this works fine in Thunderbird because Thunderbird sends those invites by itself, all you need to do is to specify which email address is linked to which calendar. Thunderbird sends invitations by itself for regular CalDAV accounts, but with a Google Calendar it doesn't do that because it is Google's Calendar that it is special. In this case it is the CalDAV-Sync integration that should send the invite.

Mobile Firefox is new and it doesn't surprise me that FastMail's compose doesn't work in it, because it has weird behavior when I interact with text boxes. I also use Firefox on my Android, but not for mobile web apps. It's currently too unpolished for that. But I'm sure that some bug reports will help.

One thing I'm happy about with FastMail is that things improve. For example they weren't supporting CardDAV for family accounts before August. Now they do and I'm pleased with it, though I wouldn't mind some extra functionality.

But that's the thing we are missing in the consumer / producer relationship, the direct relationship between the parties involved, the feedback. With Google there's nobody I can talk to, because they are too big to listen to individuals like myself. Usage of Google, Apple or Microsoft products leads to much like what happens in agriculture ... the rise of monocultures, the end of diversity and ultimately we end up with disastrous consequences for our own health.

[1] https://www.fastmail.com/help/clients/applist.html
I had leading positions in the past.

I saw two problems there:

1. Most people don't want to make any decision.

2. The few people who want to make decisions, do it only for their personal gain. Deciding for stuff they like or they just like the prestige a decider-role brings.

I ended up in such roles, because I know 1. can be a big problem and before nothing happens, I just tell people what to do.

And I often quit jobs, because of 2. and the bigger the institutions get, the more of 2. you get.
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Communism has executed exactly 0 people. Communism is just an economic system, don't confuse it with the totalitarian dictators who may have used it. America has murdered, tortured, and committed genocide and terrorism against countless people, but that's not directly related to the economic system.

Capitalism has been responsible for slavery, sweatshops, child labor, pollution, etc. On the other hand, it also brought us the iPhone, so it's not all bad ;)
Everybody eventually dies under all these systems.

How many people were executed by organs of the state, including prematurely dying in forced labor camps, is a much more relevant metric.
Well one of the best is Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism".

Also worth looking at the concept of inverted totalitarianism, by Sheldon Wolin.
I suppose its just the way humans are wired to function. New ideas won't erase millions of years of tribalistic instinct.
"The rise of communism in China, although violent and of the state-socialist kind, also brought hundreds of millions out of poverty. " - Modern China's rise has come Capitalism, and liberalisation of the markets.

Before the market reforms china, wasn't... great.
Welcome to America, where petty crime is a life sentence if you're not wealthy.
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$ aws firehose help

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DESCRIPTION
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Redshift.

AVAILABLE COMMANDS
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This is a massive exaggeration. I'm aware this is anecdotal but I work close to the centre of a large city with 18000/sqm density (according to wikipedia) and I honestly can't recall the last time I heard a siren or car horn.
Can definitely confirm issues with touchpad drivers.

Lack of basic features such as ignoring a thumb that's resting on one of the buttons (which works in Windows) makes using Linux on a laptop a very unpleasant experience.
I read this like you're just trying to find reason to hate MS and/or Windows... IMO
It depends on what you meant by pathway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_resistance#Mecha...

The mechanism can be encoded on a plasmid, for example:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC514751/

So in that case, a bacteria could import the mechanism wholesale from a resistant population.

(Plasmids are fragments of DNA that bacteria can swap back and forth, even across species)
Assuming that you were an evil mastermind, how could you hide the fact better that human rights are violated, but still be able to argue the converse?
It's complicated because it's based on 200 years of case law. That's how American (common) law works: the law itself states a broad principle and is refined through the courts.

It's worth remembering that Americans have generally a pretty solid right to avoid self-incrimination. In the UK, for instance, your silence can be used against you in court.
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There's nothing in your statement "it is against human nature" that would imply that it was just an expression of your opinion. You stated it as clearly as possible, yet you have no basis for this. It's very sad to see the standards drop so low when the discussion regards human behaviour; it borders on religious faith. People believe X regarding human behaviour in the same way other people believe in baby jesus.

> the challenge to find a counter-example to my argument is called proof by contradiction.

I don't think "proof by contradiction" means what you are "expecting", really. Look it up. You'll see why and how fallible it would be as a method for human and social sciences.
I like nearly everything Microsoft is currently doing, except for their attitude towards privacy, which means that I'll be making efforts to move away from their platform out of principal.
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After reading the page it looks like a lot of communism and very little libertarianism.. Why is libertarianism mentioned? To me libertarianism requires at least giving people the freedom to buy and sell while this libcom site argues "the problem is that everything has a price".

Are we going to have to start using the words "classical libertarianism" soon? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism#Meaning...
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The world needs this - there has to be something that stems the excesses of the US and the world needs that changes happen in that direction.
I just transitioned to a new job that uses Exchange for email, and it feels like the old Microsoft. The only way I've found to get Thunderbird to connect to Exchange's IMAP is by using a proprietary add-on. A lot of .doc and .xls files get passed around that I can't modify in LibreOffice without screwing up the formatting. The hardest part of getting work done on a Linux desktop isn't the drivers, it's interoperability with MS Office.

So it is good that MS is been moving in the right direction, but there's still a lot of legacy crap holding back innovation.
This definition of Libertarianism should not be confused with what is called Libertarianism in the USA.
It's not complicated in the common case. Look at the flowchart again. "If an agent of the government is questioning you, then, to each question, state that you are invoking your Fifth Amendment right and then do not answer the question".
Europe doesn't eat as much (butter flavoured-)popcorn so the risk might just be a little lower.
> including prematurely dying in forced labor camps, is a much more relevant metric

No, it's a metric that perfectly reinforces the argument if that's the only metric you cherry pick and insist people use.
Cooperation is one of the pillars of markets, because markets are based on exchange. A buyer and seller cooperate to make an exchange.

Coase's question was: why don't we see the free market structure that linear algebra predicts? Why do firms exist?

His answer was fairly insightful. Markets impose search and transaction costs. To buy something from a market, you must search it for a seller and come to terms.

Inside a firm, that search cost may well be zero. Need HR services? Call HR. No need to look for a provider, negotiate a contract and so on. Need IT? Ring the support department. No need to weigh the virtues of IBM vs HP vs the corner store.

But sometimes it's the other way around. Need pens? In some companies the process is so onerous that you'll just go to the local store and buy your own.

That boundary moves around (consider the impact of IT, for example), but it's always there. If search and transaction costs fall to zero, the firm would in theory become unnecessary.

Comparing a market -- or a city -- to a firm is a mistake, because they are different structures emerging from different pressures on the same free agents.
Wow, this guy sounds like a tool- zero remorse whatsoever for what he did, zero indication that he feels anything but completely entitled to a hand wave and a fine. No indication that he learned from his mistake, and no indication that he wouldn't do it again if he got fired from another job.

25 years is ridiculous, for sure. Honestly, prison time at all seems like crazy overkill. However Matthew Keys comes across like the definition of whiny entitled millennial.

Any law-types able to weigh in on precedent in this sort of case? That might help to explain why they're pushing for such a ridiculous prison sentence.
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Do you have reason to believe it's simpler in your jurisdiction? If so, why, and which jurisdiction?
Communism is system that via implementation details tends to result in totalitarianism.

If you have a central place to plan the economy to distribute via need, that place is going to be heavily concentrated in power. And due to human nature that tends to be abused.

Capitalism, and markets don't have a central place to plan to economy. Power is decentralised via companies, and production controlled via market incentives. You can have evil people as heads of organisations but their power tends to be limited.
Why is this drivel on top of HN?
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Ask HN: Looking for robot toys/kits for young ones
hi, I'm looking for an educational toy for my 11 year old boy and 8 year old girl. They both like coding and have had a go at electronics at some of the maker events we've been to.
They both go crackers seeing things spin and lights flash in response to their Scratch and Python programmes, I think I might have a couple of little control freaks in the making - lol.

I've had a look around for programmable robot kits in shops and online and I'm overwhelmed by the choice and levels of complexity.

Is there something anyone can suggest I have a look please?

thanks
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> their browser, at least by version 3, was superior in speed and vastly superior in stability

IIRC, Microsoft were using hidden APIs to accomplish this, putting Netscape at a disadvantage.
Now you've basically made people wary to respond to you in fear of being labeled commies ;)

HN is supposed to be a forum for entrepreneurs but many of the visitors here are hired workers doing stuff for BigCos and that means trading our ability to close tickets for money. As a junior engineer you are told: "here is this nagging bug, go fix it", and as you become a senior you may hear something more glorious like: "ok we are going to expand to this new market so our system needs to scale tenfold. go figure how to do it" and reap some substantial material benefits along the way but it's really the same thing. Sure the whole process requires creativity and novel ideas in the small but nobody cares about your ideas in the large. I guess much of the sympathy for the workers' ideals of old comes from growing appreciation that we are in fact the lever - wielding great power but unable to do something meaningful with it.

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." - Jeff Hammerbacher.
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This definition of Libertarianism should not be confused with what is called Libertarianism in the USA, which is an extreme protector of individual property rights. It is confusing because this definition arose originally in Europe and understood to be a form of socialism, not at all like the American definition.
Most companies already have code of conducts.

A quick google search will give you : http://www.volkswagenag.com/content/vwcorp/content/en/the_gr...

Maybe I am jaded but I honestly don't understand how having a SW code of conduct would change anything practically.
I wonder if they've considered using libjpeg-turbo instead of libjpeg9a, which comes with a lot of SIMD optimization and is regarded to be 2x-5x as fast as IJG's implementation.[1]

[1] http://www.libjpeg-turbo.org/About/Performance
Name one.
Aaaa....why not use IMAP/POP3 ? If the server administrator only allows that dumb proprietary protocol, you can't really blame Microsoft there.
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/651895735105929216
This does not explain how the client-side cache is kept up-to-date. Cache invalidation matters. You want instantaneous updates on the client if the data has been updated on the server.
E.g. What if the like count has been updated?

Curious what solutions GraphQL offers for this. If it doesn't solve this itself, then what do GraphQL apps do today to solve this?
I find it interesting that betting houses have gotten the winners right for a few years already.

http://www.ibtimes.com/pulse/nobel-prize-2015-betting-odds-w...

Something similar to the DraftKings affair maybe, where someone or several someones with insider information are using it for their advantage?

She wasn't a dark horse to win though, she's been favored for at least a year now:

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/nonfiction...

So it might be a case of a Prediction Game doing right

I remember from some years ago the Hollywood Stock Exchange ( www.hsx.com/ ), an online game where people "invested" on movies, was used as a "crowd wisdom" source for decisions on whether to fund movies, etc, and was fairly accurate IIRC.

Maybe there's a similar opportunity for other fields? A Startup Stock Exchange game? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Stock_Exchange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market
I don't hate them, I wish they'd become real competition. Competition and diversity in this industry is fundamental to its success. Unfortunately I only see the same old irrelevant, boring products almost no signs of innovation. They're one of the largest companies in the world and the best the best they can do is a tablet with a bendy keyboard running the same old OS with a new theme slapped haphazardly on top? Poor effort.
Yeah, sorry, edited. It's mainly the ability to resize RAIDZ or RAIDZ2 zdevs that would be really helpful.
While this is true similar practices around patents and technology is undertaken by every large tech company. Why do you think Google are so interested in self driving cars? Not because they want to be the next Toyota but because they want to own all technology and patents behind it which they will happily let Toyota use for a small (ok very large) fee.
He's not actually facing 25 years.
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Can you name one example of a communist system, where that metric is so small, it's negligible?
I think a lot of people attribute a lot of Microsofts success to malice. In reality they have invested heavily in improving development methods, and it shows. One only have to read "I.M Wrights Hard Code", to understand exactly how many resources they allocate to improving the development cycle. And mind you this knowledge was distilled into text more than 10 years ago, but was part of the company for far longer.

Re. Netscape, IE on Windows surely helped, but Netscape did the no. 1 mistake and tried to rewrite everything from scratch - I can not think of any working product where it is better to throw everything out and redo everything "the right way", rather than iteratively improving the code. It's knowingly throwing out all business knowledge improvement and bugfixing you have ever done. It killed them, and would have even if IE was never bundled with Windows. In contrast, Windows 10 and Office 2016 contains code that can be traced more than 25 years back, and as evident with Vista development, MS is not afraid to accept when something has gone horribly wrong and throw it out and try again. Note that is not the same as rewriting, it is accepting that you spend a lot of resources making a prototype that ultimately showed no promise.

Not that MS does not do terrible things as a business. They do, exactly as any other business with that size. They have to or they will cease to exist in a few years.
Could you add screenshots for that too?

Sounds interesting! :)
The qualitative difference is that today it is trivial for a "knowledge worker" (which includes a software developer) to control his or her own means of production (basically a laptop and an internet connection).

In Marx' time, the means of production was a factory or large areas of arable land, and those weren't, and generally still aren't, possible for individual workers to own. This situation gave the owners of those means (capitalists) undue negotiating power over the workers -- hence collective ownership of the means of production by the owners.

In the first paragraph, I'm purposefully steering clear of the word "own" since there are grey areas, what with binary driver blobs on the computer, and especially the fact that you never meaningfully "own" your internet connection and many of the services you rely on. Yet I would argue that this is a very (quantitatively) different situation from the worker/capitalist class struggle of Marx' time.
I didn't say it was right. Just interesting that MS are still the pantomime villain while everyone else copies the script.
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Your search query needs escaping for the pluses, otherwise it will match 'implemented-in::c' as well (aptitude's matching is weird).
Generally speaking, you don't get financial poverty at all as a result of density. You get wealth. London is wealthier than the rest of the UK. NYC is wealthier than the rest of the US. Hong Kong is the wealthiest city in China. Mumbai is the wealthiest city in India, unless Delhi has surpassed it since I last checked. I haven't checked, but I'd bet 5:1 odds that Dhaka is significantly wealthier than the rest of Bangladesh.

The California drought is primarily caused by inefficient use of water in agriculture. City usage of water is pretty much irrelevant.
And a lot of case law arises from the desire to create specific prospective incentives for the parties in different situations. But a lot also arises out of judges trying to distinguish past precedent to get an end-result they want.

I think this happens a lot more with the 4th and 5th amendments because they're so politically dicey. Like, okay, the cops shouldn't have searched that parked car without a warrant, but now you're the judge who has to exclude the gloves spattered with the victim's blood they found in the trunk.
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I'm actually surprised there hasn't been more complaint about amazon using their hugely dominant position in web retail to get into streaming video. Forced bundling of a bit player video service with prime seems to be a particularly cynical way of pushing yourself into a market.
The fact that he's going to to have a really difficult time finding another job seems to be punishment enough..
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-08/msg0001...

A similar story, with `cp` doing "nice" cleanup on exit.
> The problem is that everything has a price.

No, the problem is that everything has a relative value and someone needs to figure out what that value is. In free-market capitalist societies (and I'd argue in the other ones as well), money serves as an important heuristic for value.

More concretely, do we, as a society, produce more fuel efficient cars or do we produce electric ones? In a free market, it's clear the one that sells will be produced. In a controlled economy, the process is murkier and runs through bureaucracies (and therefore lobbyists) and possibly lawmakers (and therefore more lobbyists).

So free market capitalism is really a form of crowd-sourced decision-making. Alternatives would need to invent a working model that can prioritize (in the face of difficult facts, even) in an egalitarian way, balancing the needs of different interests.

I read through the linked page. I didn't see anything describing how that would work, even in the Chomsky link.
You dont necessarily need to. I still use MS Windows from time to time and my perception is that fundamentally they still dont know how to write software properly: in windows 10, opening a folder full of large video files takes a painful long time, while all it needs to do is to list some file names. I understand that it must be trying to extract some extra "useful" information from those large files, but the keys is that it shouldnt block your UI from showing the basic stuff. In their outlook, if the network is having connection problem, the UI will become unresponsive. These might be silly easy bugs to fix but it exposed that fundamentally they still couldnt figure out how to separate things properly in software.
The FDA has jurisdiction but they are not the ones enforcing the rules. And yeah the sales rep main role is promotion but there are electronic tests that are given to each sales rep that are not given by the FDA but by the pharma company. These tests are about getting signatures and information sharing. ie there are rules how they can promote the drug and most of those rules are about getting signatures and revealing key information about the drug.

I would say almost all of the compliance issues are sales reps forgetting to get signatures or getting the wrong signature. This is not what the other pharma companies tattle tell on as its a minor issue that is waste of time for the other pharma company to go to the FDA with.

Lets say the pharma company is unrolling a new drug or wants to try new sales tactics.. they will use use the signature compliance issue to fire sales reps. They will threaten the employee that they can report them to the FDA. Bare in mind that they collect these electronic signatures. And this is a serious termination that benefits the company since they don't have to pay various taxes (as opposed to laying off people).

I'm just curious refurb are you in the industry? I could be wrong that this is done by all pharma companies and this was just an isolated issue (ie bad apple).
Details about the backend are often vague or missing in every article that covers GraphQL that I've read so far.

Where are guidelines to implement it?
How do we make our existing business code integrate with it?
How do we make sure a client cannot access data from another client?
Does it work well or at all with relational databases?

Is the backend a second-class citizen in this approach?