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> My default reaction would be yes, a curated internet, fact checked for accuracy would be better.

The biggest issue is, who decides what's true. Did the Tiananmen Sq Massacre happen? Did PRISM exist? Are my thoughts and rants about how the TSA and DHS are evil and vividly represent the wrong in the US, correct? (What does correct even mean here?)

> My own feeling is that the issue at its root is societal in nature - how do you get people to care more about being right than about holding opinions that fit their narrative of the world, or their own ego? I'm not sure there's an answer to that.

I agree that it's a social issue. It's the same reason Trump can say Muslims need to register themselves with the state and be cheered. Most people are just idiots. We, as a society, need to (attempt?) to make most people less idiotic.

(Yes, I consider myself an idiot much of the time as well. I'm not as well versed in politics and current affairs as I should be. I try to keep up, but part of the problem is the amount of energy and time it requires.)
Yes. Atleast I have seen this a lot with me and my colleagues. console.log brings in lot of additional monitoring, time lag etc which can affect debugging.
I surveyed my own VSTs when I went to implement a synth UI knob and discovered that most actually behave like a y axis slider. A few, like Synth 1, will teleport the cursor to an actual slider as you start dragging. The ones that try to make you literally "turn" it are by far the exception.

As for other feedback... it's unusable for me. Notes are triggering unexpectedly or get stuck, the interface goes unresponsive for seconds at a time and then suddenly catches up. I haven't been able to see what the knobs are like on this program because of the unresponsiveness. Tested Firefox 42, Chrome 46.0.2490.86 m.

I can play a few chords, at least. It reaches hard clipping distortion easily when I do that.
Normally we charge fees around access to the network as well as analytics, but in order to promote the service and prove its value we have made it free through the end of the year.
Please don't rewrite history. There was a usability hackfest in England to decide on what the desktop should look like. Canonical designers didn't agree with the GNOME designers and went off to do their own thing though didn't really communicate much (never said they'd go their own way). This was way before GNOME 3.0 was released.

I have no clue who you mean with "they scream". You mean GNOME contributors? Then again on history: Canonical committed to developing Wayland. Then changed direction, didn't communicate and came out with Mir 6 months later. This included all kinds of incorrect statements plus left out that they committed to develop some things for Wayland. The backlash has been documented many times, was pretty logical, was not limited to GNOME and mostly: it could've been avoided!

I quite appreciate Canonical, but there's a fair bit of "wtf" that went on over the years.

You seem to like speaking on GNOME's behalf; you're so terribly incorrect that I ask you to stop it. Further, mjg59 doesn't do much at GNOME. In his own words: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2014-Ma....

Now on Unity: to package Unity for many years you had to apply lots of big patches to various other components. Unity was pretty much a Ubuntu-only thing and not meant to be shared easily across distributions (I asked).
The big takeaway is how ubiquitous mobile phones are. Everyone might not have water or a toilet, but they will have a cell phone since a cell phone is cheaper than anything else.
> an app

You overestimate the depth and breadth of the spread of always-connected devices.

> Church bells are not interesting or even musical.

Not true! A few kilometers in town we have this church:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=aegidienkirche+...

It has a very nice set of bells that play various songs throughout the year: http://marktkirche-hannover.de/wp-content/uploads/MK_Aegi_Gl...

It is not very loud though, so i cannot hear it from my apartment.
The sender maintains cwnd as a completely separate parameter that does not go in any packets. It doesn't "know" anything; the value of this parameter is arrived at by some set of heuristics.

See for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion-avoidance_algor...
> Is there research how certain periods of the cycle would affect women shopping behaviour (or behaviour in general)? I am asking this to understand how much value is in such information.

If someone stops having periods, that might be a sign they're pregnant. That's valuable to retailers (famously, some can spot when you're pregnant before even you know, by tracking purchases).

Also, mood swings and specific cravings might happen, and that would affect consumption? (Don't have personal experience here.)
> The end result is that web is more spammed, my advantage disappers, and the new solution probably costs more than the old one, but now no one can go back.

These are not the only players in the game like you believe. Those who advertise more effectively on the web have more of an advantage over those who advertise via other media and those who don't advertise at all. And, as ads are more spammy and in-your-face, the advertised products get bought more whether all competitors are spamming or only some. Advertised products are bought more than they would be if the ads were mild or there were no ads at all.

PS: Thanks for the blog link it looks very interesting, I'll read it later.
Sliders are far less buggy to implement and more intuitive on a 2d surface. Check out Roland's 101, Juno 106, Juno 60, Jupiter series, Arp Odyssey, 2600, etc. etc. etc... You won't be breaking any analog rules.

Knobs are mostly en vogue because modern modular and Moog, but sliders are still on new products (Roland System100 modular revival/re-invention stuffs)

There are variations on how a knob "works" with a cursor and this leads to guessing, if not bugs in the implementation.
No, I'll pick the next next one.
The stigma is almost certainly connected to misogyny. By stigmatising the bodily functions of most women, you stigmatise them.
Show HN: Recreating the “This Also” Loader in SVG
I am from Brazil, I had never heard of a taboo in the open, but after I started to have long term girlfriends, all of them tried to not use the word "menses" in Portuguese, from methods that I think are stupid (writing only "m" instead) to the outright infuriating (using ambiguous and hard to understand euphemisms), it annoyed me a lot, and I argued with all of them about it, never worked, they never explained that behavior and continued it.
The major cost of bring a drug to market is not the manufacturing cost, it is the testing required to sell it. This is why except for a few very old drugs all generics (out of patent medicines) were once patented drugs. The whole purpose of the patent is to allow the pharma company to charge enough initially to make a profit before they are faced with competition. Without a patent you just can't bring a new drug to market.

In regards rhinos I was responding to the claim that if the rhino horn had real medicinal value it would be farmed. It could be possible (very unlikely) that rhino horn does have real medicinal value, but there is no way of ever showing this without a patent on rhino horn. Without a patent you can't farm rhinos for medicinal purposes because you can't ever show rhino horn has medicinal value (i.e. No pharma company will invest the money required to show this without a patent).

You can't use the fact that rhinos are not farmed to prove that rhino horn has no medicinal value when there are other possible reasons that rhinos are not farmed for medicinal purposes.
Since most people have their console running behind a firewall, this should not be an issue. Unless you expose those ports to the outside world...
That is explicitly mentioned in the article.
During the period being discussed, the constituency of the communities participating in the Internet has completely changed. The percentage of non-paid contributors has drastically declined; the percentage of professional contributors has drastically increased. The percentage of active or contributing participants has greatly declined; the percentage of passive or consumer participants has greatly increased. The norms, laws, and conventions are increasingly made by politicians and bureaucrats and less and less by community members. The majority of interaction and activity on the Internet is now mediated and tracked by commercial interests. Even if you disagree with one or two of my points, I think you'll grant me the general point.

In a strange twist on things, where in the traditional body-politic one says, "It's the economy stupid", in Internet-politics it's actually the politics. Who participates. What are the power relations. Who makes the laws or enforces the norms. I think this is because, where as in traditional economies money and goods are scarce and so we must have a healthy economy to eat and have shelter, in the information economy scarcity is fast becoming a thing of the past and so a democracy is being replaced by a do-ocracy. Whoever builds it, makes the rules. The law is always two steps behind. So as corporations and governments increasingly hire and direct all the professionals and bureaucrats that produce the Internet, it is created in their likeness or in their interest. So participation, power dynamics, and participant empowerment become foundational.

Unfortunately, the tech industry often superficially dismisses traditional politics. When it does engage it often claims the ideology of libertarian or plays the part of technocrat, seeking purely utilitarian approaches. Libertarianism, you'll please forgive me for phrasing it this way, is rather sophomoric. It's rather like that guy in college that had the Che Guevara t-shirt, but really didn't know what it was all about. Like it or not, we're in a highly coordinated, interconnected, interdependent society, and just as fully realized communism was a very romantic notion but would never get the job done, libertarianism just won't get the job done. We need each other, and we need participation from each other. And this is, in a nutshell, a political issue. Technological, disruptive, efficient "solutions" will not solve this problem. Or worse, the tech industry might engage purely to satisfy its commercial interests. Think about the idea that, a start-up creates a product, and then hires lawyers to "legalize it". Then the start-up claims that it is libertarian or not participating in politics.

We need the equivalent of "The Federalist Papers" for our time. Something contemporary, but grounded in history. Something academic, but pragmatic. Something plain spoken, but inspiring. Instead, we've created the TPP.
Has Square's Future Already Been Determined?
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Apparently you didn't read the article (It was not me who downvoted you, though). It's mentioned there that most apps come with a fat warning that it's absolutely not reliable.
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RHEL6 starts upstarts, but doesn't make use of any of the functionality. Everything is sysvinit scripts and zero (upstart) jobs. I was administrating a few RHEL6 machines and had to read elsewhere about the change to even notice it.

The person you responded to is correct though; a large factor in starting systemd was the CLA of Upstart. Above even highlights this; you cannot really say that RHEL6 used upstart in any way.
The best example that the Internet Dream as she sees it is near the end, she published her essay on medium.com instead of using her own system.
I really like this idea, but one of the big "improvements" for me in the scavanging system (given that I didn't play New Vegas, which I believe implemented some of this) is that it's no longer just about weight to value ratio, and it's also about rare components (screws, gears, etc.) for weapon mods. For this to be useful to me, it would need a customizable "hit list" of crafting components as well.

Am I the only person who collects lots of stuff early in a quest, runs out of room when I find better stuff, then drops a bunch of it in a locker/cigarette machine/corpse near the front door in the hopes that I'll stumble across it later (current return rate = 0)?
I got the month wrong. It was mid-March, not April.
A very related TED talk:
The way we think about work is broken, by Barry Schwartz [1]

I found the book in a bookstore this weekend, and I ended up buying the audiobook [2].

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_the_way_we_think_ab...

[2] http://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/Why-We-Work-Audiobook/B...
I am on a phone, no wonder it looked like a site that failed to load...
I really dislike "induced demand" as a reason to maintain a terrible experience of a desired product or service. Increase fuel taxes or even do demand charging, but don't have this thing where you make a car trip take three times longer because it discourages people from using their cars.
No I competed with them and basically pushed them out of the Mac OS market. But OS X came along and mine was no longer necessary.
Introduced by Claude Shannon, the father of modern information theory, as we know.

Ahhh Shannon. The guy who invented the entire field of digital freaking electronics for his master's thesis [1], and then moved on to even greater things. This was it seems five years after his Master's thesis. He was 25 when he proposed this.

The bane of every grad student. "Shannon invented digital electronics for master's thesis. Come up with anything interesting yet?" Add to this, he also appears to have been located at Medford. The shame. What have y'all been upto lately, Boston/Cambridge area grad students? : (

I wonder if our obsession with profits and quick returns and 'hacker culture' is distracting people like him from making similarly great contributions?

[1] http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Shannon_MS_Thesis.pdf
No one at Groupon knows I’m writing this
I don't know about most per se, but you make an excellent point.
Why is there a stronger stigma behind menstruation, though?

In many societies, people who had recently menstruated were seen as "unclean", yet defecation did not have the same stigma.
The Travis-CI core appears to be under the MIT license, so it would be both open source and free (the definitions mostly overlap).
To someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s like me, this seems like a strange regression in some ways. The overwhelming majority of girls were on the pill pretty much when they became sexually active, and when I look at my age group right now, that's still the case to this day. The pill was considered normal, safe, and liberating. Many said their menstrual problems were greatly reduced, and of course there was a completely reliable schedule that came with it.

Just two decades ago, period trackers would not have been all that useful to most people. That's a big culture shift.
I don't necessarily agree with how mjg59 chooses to resolve his issues, but it's hard not to get the impression that he's a little right about this. The problem is precisely this:

> With Ubuntu and any other software, you get the source and it is up to you to deal with the replacement of any trademark strings.

(Emphasis mine)

That's not true of any other software!

I'm not sure how things are for RHEL, but I imagine they're basically similar to Fedora. Fedora doesn't fuzzily require you to "remove and replace all trademarks". It explicitly requires you to remove the branding -- i.e. repository information, change logs and logos. They even provide a nice list of what you have to remove. Everything that you must replace is in three packages.

Now, I'd normally just suspect mjg59 of bitterness, were it not for Canonical's PR dance around the issue.

The accusation is clear: mjg59 thinks that Canonical is intentionally keeping the wording vague so that they can have a word to say in who is developing products based on Ubuntu. Anyone who wants to use something based on Ubuntu has to ask for approval. Otherwise you might end up in court because you didn't remove "Removed spurious call to foo_frobnicate() to fix crashes on Xubuntu" from an upstream changelog.

Canonical has been handing out these approvals for free so far, but I don't think any requests came from current or future competitors. There's no reason to believe that Canonical would be as eager to approve a direct Ubuntu Phone competitor.

Yes yes, it's in their interest to not be as eager, but if this was such a big problem, they should have thought twice before basing their business around a bunch of GPLd products.

It's hard to suspect Canonical of good intentions when every single answer they handed out managed to answer another question. The dialog so far has basically been:

Q: Oh hi guys, look... I'd like to make an Ubuntu derivative, can you tell me what I have to remove?

A: All trademarks.

Q: What do you mean by all trademarks?

A: Or you can ask us for approval instead.

Q: I get it, but I'd rather just remove all trademarks... what exactly do you mean by that? Do I have to remove e.g. mentions of Ubuntu from an upstream changelog, or the @ubuntu.com e-mail address of a contributor listed in an about dialog or a CONTRIBUTORS file?

A: Look, we get this is important, but we have to make sure Evil Hackers don't impersonate Ubuntu so we have to ask you to either remove all trademarks, or ask us for approval.

Q: But I'm not an evil hacker!

A: Then we'll approve your request.

Q: BUT I DON'T WANT TO ASK YOU, I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT TO REMOVE!

A: Look, we get this is important, but we have to make sure Evil Hackers don't impersonate Ubuntu so we have to ask you to either remove all trademarks, or ask us for approval.

It kind of gets in an infinite loop at this point.

Canonical could clarify the wording without opening themselves up to Evil Hackers. Their unwillingness to do so is (somewhat insultingly) veiled in arguments that are about as childish as they're trying to imply mjg59's are. It's hard to suspect them of good intentions under these conditions.
I understand what you're trying to say about patriarchy, and it's a problem, but that said...

I and 100% of people have a few completely natural and necessary processes that we go through on a pretty much daily basis that are so stigmatized they have a special room in our houses dedicated to making sure we can do them in private. I'm talking about defecating and urinating.

Can you imagine if--once a month, like clockwork--you got really bad IBS and couldn't help but visibly leak diarrhea into your pants? Would you celebrate "I have monthly track marks", or would you develop coping mechanisms to try to hide it?

And before anyone complains about "you can't compare pooping and having a period", uh, poo is brown because it's mostly dead red blood cells. It is a process for expelling material my body can no longer use. About as comparable as apples and oranges, which is to say, fairly comparable, because they're both sweet, round fruits that grow on trees and contain their own seeds.

We generally don't share the details of what we do with our bodily fluids with other people. I mean, we call public toilets "restrooms" because we can't bring ourselves to admit to what is going on in there.

Should our culture be so prudish about bodily functions? I don't know, but that is certainly the case as of right now. And it's applied pretty evenly, regardless of sex. So I would say it's easily "understandable".

[0] I usually leave sweating and fatigued, so I don't know how much "rest" I'm receiving in there. Suppose I need to lay off the Chipotle. Which brings up another point, severe abdominal cramping isn't unique to menstruation, either.
This is getting a little out of hand. "A back door that's only for the Good Guys" is not a fundamental impossibility of computer science, it's SSH. Already most of the devices you own can only be upgraded by someone in possession of the correct key. In any case, we should not use technical impossibility as an argument for why something should not be done, in case someone figures out how to do it.
The spirit of free-software has died now, it no longer has the spark that did during the time of Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds.

As a result, rather than working towards a united goal of empowering users with the power of FOSS tools, we started having these ego battles of "mine vs your distro", "gnome vs unity", "systemd vs upstart", etc.

Its true that Linux has choice and FOSS is all about having choice. But that has gained quite a negative reputation now. Earlier, choice meant: "If you need more features, use X package instead of Y".

Now it means: "Since I have got choice, I'll keep switching my distro every couple years, and since I'm a unity fanatic, why should I keep it compatible with other distros? Everyone should use unity and ubuntu."

Unity and Mir are no doubt open-source, but if you build a automobile engine that fits ONLY to your car and call that engine open-source, what use is it!
You think it's a good think that the majority of women were resorting to a drug to cope with a normal healthy body function?

I think it's good if more women are able to cope without the drugs.
I think that's not entirely correct. In those same societies, the left hand is considered "unclean" because of its association with wiping.
I run Linux at work because I have to. I run OpenBSD on my personal servers and deskstops/laptops because I like it.

This is really good news because now I can move my VM host to OpenBSD.

OpenBSD is a clean simple user friendly OS.
You still didn't answer the original question though. Why can't he do business with you?

Perhaps you are not legally obliged to give a reason, but it would definitely make you look a lot better then simply saying "uhuh, not here buddy".

I think you can't have it both ways, ignoring support questions and not having to deal with backlash like this.
>The point is that every game has winners and losers.

If so, then the point is wrong, because Game Theory[0]. With very few exceptions (e.g. futures and options contracts, IIRC) trade - that thing markets do - is a positive sum cooperative game, that is to say win/win.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game#Non-zero-sum
I don’t know about operational speaking, but epedemiologically speaking, the two are very different.

One of them is associated with e. coli, a lethal bacterium that even in modern times and developed nations kills people on a regular basis, e.g. Walkerton, Ontario, where seven people were killed by improperly treated drinking water in 2000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkerton_E._coli_outbreak

It’s easy to see why humans have developed behaviours and social stigma around defecation.

Menstruation is very different. Our social behaviours around it may have more to do with our social behaviours around genders, sexual availability, and other stuff. I’m not an anthropologist, so I’ll just stop here before I dig a hole for myself.

I’ll just note that the two are very unlike in very important ways.
Absolutely, we're talking about a really lucrative segment here...

> To marketers, the average Joe’s online data is worth around 10 cents. However, a pregnant woman’s data is worth fifteen times that: $1.50.

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/28/one_womans_attempt_to_hide_h...
> Patents and IP have lost their bite compared to the 80's

isn't that what the tpp is supposed to fix?
It looks awesome, but it's unusable under my chrome + ubuntu. Any parameter tweak i tested results in a huge lag, sometimes making the tab stop responding.
MP3 does not work unless explicitly installed for many GNU/Linux distributions. I would not install it.