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Aren't most sports car owners in love with their cars?? I'm sure Tesla's cars are nice luxury vehicles, maybe even "objectively"(lol...) nicer than other sports/luxury cars. I have no clue, never driven, touched, or even seen one. By "worth the price", if you are someone that considers a 60k to 120k car "worth the price" then yes. But personally I would rather not fool myself and admit I have the money and I want something luxurious.

My point is.

They. Are. Not. Within. The. Price. Range. Of. The. Middle. Class...

Apple. Computers. Were.

Particularly if you look at it from a price-to-value standpoint of someone balancing a budget for a car. Luxury, ascetic, and cool-factor do not play a huge roll in that. Maybe they do in your life and then you are most likely either single, upperclass, or bad with money. The first two are ok, expensive luxury vehicles are ok. Am I touching a nerve here?
>But the idea of taking a bat to someone's head for betraying my trust in them is... Well, that's really the question to explore, right? How could someone actually do that, let alone approve of someone else doing that?

But, implicitly, you already do approve of that. Your government commits various forms of violence in your name, as all governments do - most notably in the form of military and police actions, some of which you may not agree with.
That's a really interesting perspective. I didn't know that Canadian internet providers operated that way. I wonder what the effect would be like in the US, given that we could muscle last-mile competition regulations through. That could change my mind about data caps.
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Look at him, smirking because he's got millions of people by the balls and there's nothing anybody can do about it.

He'd be one of the first people in the guillotine if there were ever a revolution. Which there won't be because he also owns a large news and media empire that keeps people pacified or angry about the wrong things.
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I have ridden my share of Greyhound's man. They are always very long and if you have a bad driver they are quite scary.

Where I went to college, flights were often canceled and cost around 300$ one way. Between cities in the US we do have pretty competitive prices for flights. Cars were definitely the preferred means of transportation and if you car pooled the cheapest.

Oddly enough we had an ok bus system, it was pricy but the fare was included in your tuition.
The slow startup from imports is my biggest annoyance with python.

We had a decent sized library at a previous company that pulled in modules that defined huge register maps, wrapped c++ libraries, etc.

I wrapped all imports in a lazy importer that was triggered by the first attribute access. It brought our script startup times from 3 seconds down to a fraction.

Blows me away that this isn't default behavior for ALL modules.
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Of course, in theory, web pages are supposed to have this separation of concerns, which allows for faster loading, and of course server side rendering of web pages is very, very well supported.
Surveillance is unstoppable - even if we don't let the authorities to have security cams it will be the population that will have them.
That's a great point. I was talking with Doug Schepers and when I noted the resurgence of SVG that's what he said... "oh, I think the Retina screens brought it back" - it is true, SVG is beautiful on Retina screens, there are SVG Test Suite examples where the raster "it's supposed to look like this" image looks very bad next to the SVG side on a retina display. But I think the ubiquity of SVG in browsers was clearly happening before retina screens were widespread. No doubt it is a factor in adoption.
It's right there, "condition for the import".

The text in question is just one sentence, but its meaning can be altered by any of the other 6000 pages. For example, this is how people who know more about this than me are reading it: http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/11/24/tpp-article-14-17-free-so...

Seriously, you can't blame ordinary people that they don't want to perform legal analysis of such a huge treaty as TPP, even if you somehow think they are able to.
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I didn't make the decision to prove anything to anyone. I just made the most logical decision (for me) based on trade-offs. If I'm unable to maintain control of my browser and my privacy on FF, then I don't see a point in using a worse product. And as I said, it's probably a minority opinion, but I believe that without those freedoms, FF is a poor browser compared to its major competitors.
I haven't read the book, but I believe one of the largest problems that centrally-planned institutions (like large corporations) face is that the planners tend to remove redundancy too much (in the pursuit of minimal cost).

For example, let say you have chain of 50 products that need to be made into a product. If each of these is produced by one factory and supplied into another, and each factory is late for a week, your new thing is one year late!

This was a frequent problem, that the planners tended to designate one producer of some product, in order to save costs. But the product wasn't good enough or late, and then you had a cascade of failure ending up in shortages of goods.

So there seems to be a tradeoff between redundancy and cost. What is optimal? Would you think it's optimal to say, send the cheapest possible rocket to the orbit, with no backup systems?

However, in the free market, you cannot control redundancy. It just happens through freedom. That pushes it out of the cost optimum but makes it lot more robust, and winning in the real world. A good example of "worse is better" indeed.

I also don't think the actual planning problem is very difficult. There are multinationals that are larger than some state economies and still can do that. So I think traditional economic textbook explanations of central planning failures are wrong, because they ignore the tradeoff.
Indeed! And once you're through with that check out Modern Money Theory by Randall Wray which puts the whole shitfight into a solid economical context!
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Building Firefox isn't so easy.

There are like 50 build options, any random combination of which is likely to result in build failure, and your only option is to try a combination, wait 10-40 minutes for it to fail, try to diagnose what went wrong and fix it.

There's also the matter that Linux distro maintainers know more about building than you do, and include things like exploit mitigation, which you'll be missing out on.

And of course you need to monitor Firefox for security updates, and rebuild every time there's an update.

It gets boring pretty quickly. Even GNU barely manages to update their IceCat fork.
A.f.a.i.k, asian in my mind is kind of similar term to nordic/scandinavian, that it describes a cultural/geographical stereotype. I.e, when someone says asian, I imagine peoples from china, japan and korea, maybe vietnam, but probably not thaiwan and singapore, and definitly not india.

So, I am not really sure if there is some more precise definition, that some administrator would use in push for greater diversity.
You're right it's the publishing platform, but it is also my laziness. I don't know if it's the Wordpress theme I'm using or the SVG plugin I tried, but I have yet to get fluent at using SVG in this Wordpress blog: ironically it seemed to work fine on desktop but didn't resize well on mobile. I'll give it another try.
I worked somewhere that had an 'open' policy - you could log into the email account of anybody in the company at any time. Inevitably, people stopped sending emails.
For you and I its fine, but I don't think most people have any concept of what uses their bandwidth cap. I regularly speak to people who are baffled that they're using all their mobile data allowance early in the month only to find out they do things like using YouTube videos as a music player when out.

Either data caps need to be way higher, or they need to go away. I find it bizarre that mobile operators can still get away with 0.5-1GB plans as the standard.
Since I learned farsi and live with my Iranian wife, I actually can't speak french fluently any more. After 3 days in France, the reverse thing happens and I talk to my wife in French, which she does not understand. Somehow, French and Persian occupy the same area of my brain.
I also find that native French/Farsi speakers have a similar (not equal) accent when talking German. I always say " when someone calls and has a French accent, but the name sounds Middle Eastern, he's Iranian"
> Look at the team chats and emails

I parsed this as group chat rooms and emails, not the team's members individual mail. As in reading the mails everybody is CCed to, Slack channels (vs direct messages), ...
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I think I'm going to try to think of Bob Ross when I have a program error. "Well there's a happy little uncaught exception..."
Thanks, I am aware of tricks like that, but it gets tiring really fast, so I don't use that in practice. Why can't they just add another flag to tar to call a program that would produce the ordering, just like they have compressor flags?
Until Intel ships Thunderbolt as part of all future Intel CPUs, I see no reason why Intel even bothers spending money on it.

None of the computers I want to have Thunderbolt have it, and the one device I don't need it on has it (a MBPr), nor can I add it (very few mobos support add-in Thunderbolt cards, and Intel refuses to allow a generic PCI-E bridge card to be sold).

Intel's strategy is idiotic.
Common Lisp is the standardized most powerful language with high-performance implementations in the world.

Which, for some inexplicable reason, almost nobody uses for real work.
First, I am not looking for optimal solution, good approximation is perfectly valid solution.

Second, what you describe is not the best you can do.
What's crazy about undercover agents ?
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Looking at these two comments, perhaps we may be reaching an agreement. There are only a relatively few numbers that really matter, although there's tons of complexity. Bandwidth should be a number giving sustained symmetrical throughput over a month + burst capability + download cap, all using the same units. All of those numbers should be 5+ hops away, and should be over a backbone to a server owned by somebody else besides the ISP. In addition, there would be some QoS to show that things like the burst number actually exists for the user 5%+ or more of the time (or some different metric). Heck, there could probably be a bunch more detail you'd add under there, but 3 numbers + access_to_wider net probably covers it.

So in the college example, they're getting (perhaps) .1/100/300

I think if we could just agree on a way to advertise it, we'd be ahead of the game. Net access is becoming like buying PCs: full of jargon and product differentiators meant more to confuse the buyer than assist them.
I'm a large contributor, yet not the creator of the original library. That would be Martin Sustrik. The project today consists of hundreds of projects, and a large community which I've steered since the start. So in that respect I created ZeroMQ.
vertical integration!
Sybil is a real pain, and HashCash (via I2P, which had it as an anti-DoS option) was the first obvious attempt at a solution that worked. It would be better done with Argon2 now, but it still burns coal and is a bet that evil nodes don't have more power than all the good nodes put together - it seems we aren't always going to win that bet.

Will proof-of-stake would be any better? It doesn't feel as suited to things other than currency to me, because: what value does the deposit have? We'll see how it turns out when deployed, it's hard to predict how people will react.

There's a surprising amount of heat in the field now. Lots of activity, like this interesting work, some very strong opinions. Please don't eat me! I'm quite happy to leave it be and move onto other things.
Of course. But consider:

- Over a 5 year period, ~40k is ~8k/year or around 22/day for the French revolution, with a population of ~26M around 1790.

- Over a 29 year period, ~20M is ~700k/year or around 1.7k/day for Staline, with a population of around ~102M around 1950.

Not discounting the horrific nature of getting your head chopped off of course. But all things equal the guillotine and arbitrary executions during the French revolution was nowhere near as deadly as Staline or other 20th-century mass-murder regimes. Humanity made great "progress" in between the two in its ability to industrialize murder.
I'm assuming this was rescinded shortly after because I'm in St. Petersburg right now and not only are competing ISPs plentiful, but the net is unmetered and fast as hell. I think we're paying about 650 rub a month for 40-100 mbps (they do the tiering weird where the more you pay the higher your minimum speed guarantee is). That works out to about $10 USD a month, or for perhaps a more reasonable comparison, about .9% of a monthly salary of 70,000 ruble (not unreasonable if you have some skills)
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> (I expect the same for Nim). This has an impact on its future ecosystem.

What do you expect from a future ecosystem?

Nim has seamless integration with C as it compiles to C anyway, so there should be no concerns about that.

It's amazing that really powerful languages are never mainstream. Lisp, Ada, Ocaml, D and Nim will go their way in the future, they are just not as much in the focus of public attention as modern trends like Rust and Swift which are advertised by big organizations like Mozilla and Apple.
Thanks for this, explains my own behaviour too. Only after I reached my thirties I became more thoughtful and analytical before speaking and with that came less blaming. It's still in my brain though but it doesn't come out much.
As a free market capitalist, I actually completely agree with this. Comcast, etc, actually impede the free market by forcing competitors to go through a monopolistic choke hold. Moving data around is a different thing that actually providing the data. If would be like the airlines actually owning the airspace. Or Ford Motor Company owning the roads and restricting Chevy's access to the roads. Under net neutrality, Chevy must be allowed on the road and be able to travel at the same speed, however under this analogy, Ford would be able to have a quota as to how many Chevys could use the road before paying a toll.
The author is talking about publicly viewable emails and chats (e.g. mailing lists, IRC, Slack). I think the surrounding context makes that clear:

"When talking about a team that is not producing work fast enough, look at the records. Look at the team chats and emails, look at the tickets, look at the repository code reviews and checkins."
Trust has to be earned once it has been broken.

This wasn't a one off mistake. It was calculated business decision that is a part of an industry trend.

Turning a blind eye to this is a recipe for getting perpetually reamed so others can turn a larger profit.
> This kind of negativity is really common on HN and it makes me sad.

> "This group of people did something I don't like, and then they changed their mind and stopped doing it. But rather than being happy about fixing their mistake, I'm going to keep criticizing them for making the mistake in the first place."

You mistake negativity for the keeping of and referring to a tally sheet.

You would -no doubt- find little to object to in the following hypothetical statement:

"I'm still dreadfully concerned about my abusive spouse. My spouse has backtracked on the terribly bad policy of random bouts of unfocused rage followed by sporadic, intense emotional and physical violence directed toward my person. Good on my spouse for backtracking, but I still remember the long-standing pattern of similar behavior in our relationship. This pattern saddens and worries me. I'm still strongly considering walking out the door. I wish my spouse the best, but I'm fairly certain that I cannot trust my spouse and that my spouse does not have my best interests at heart."

Please note carefully that I'm not comparing poor corporate governance to spousal abuse.

I am -however- making the point that it pays to remember when people or companies fail to behave in a way that indicates that they even try to have your interests at heart. A momentary shift in strategy or behavior often fails to either turn into a lasting habit, or happens far too late to undo past harms.

If you allow yourself to get strung along by the latest olive branch, without considering the history of the entity making the offer in order to judge the offer's sincerity, you're gonna get played, time after time, after time.
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Ahhh, another one from the Authors Guild
Generally when I'm using a new framework, I like to scan the code to pick up on style, undocumented features, etc. Sometimes this results in a few typo-level pull requests.

I never though of this as being resume line item grubbing behavior, now I can't decide whether to stop doing this or start putting it on my resume :)
That behaviour feels to me like it may result in faster startup, but would also result in less predictable performance for code bases with somewhat random access such as web applications.

You could I suppose do some cache warming to make sure the first user request isn't slowed down, but its one more thing to think about.
I can confirm this, too.
Except that in the windows example you gave the .rsrc section is part of the main data stream. It is counted in the file's size when doing a dir command. When the file is copied by all command line and shell tools or sent over the internet the data in the .rsrc section is copied/sent just like all the other data in the exe/dll.

None of this is true for the resource fork in the Mac case.
I think the future of popularity voting algorithms will have to include blame. I wan't to be able to blame and plonk someone who inserts Native Ads in my News Stream. Voting Algorithms are currently doing the opposite. Reputable News Outlets can shift blame to anonymous voters for pushing Ads.
How is this different from motion estimate in HEVC?
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This would be outright stupid. While I do not want any default ties to external services like Pocket in the browser I for sure hope that such a data harvesting and customer acquisition effort at least yields money for Mozilla to further fund open source development.
I just poked around the launch, the landing, the initial EVA, and the splash down on return. This is simply a beautiful historical reference.
I agree. The idea of "wiring" of the brain is very old school. Would have been more interesting if the article (maybe the research did) asked how this wiring came to be: instinctive or nurture. Not a lot of our wiring is instinctive.
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Apple's best marketing are the product themselves. In fact, if you look at the money Apple spend on advertising, it pales in comparison to Samsung or even Microsoft who constantly spend almost twice as much as Apple on Ads (from 2008-2012):

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His definition of the dimension is quite similar to the definition of the dimension of a fractal.

His definition also works better than euclidean dimension, e.g. for a grid on cylinder euclidean dimension will be 3 and his definition will give 2. I think a modification of the definition above to allow minimum dimension of non-euclidean space will be same as Wolframs definition for the cases when dimension of the graph is not fractional number.
I've recently rekindled my interest of space flight by watching the series When We Left Earth (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233514/). Loving checking out some of this site too!
> Why can't they just add another flag to tar [...]?

You are "they" - you can add that flag. If it turns out that it works well, it'll (probably) be taken and added to whichever `tar` implementations you submit patches for.
Different people will want different sorts for different needs, you can already feed tar the list of sorted files so it only takes another program to provide the specific sorted order for you.

I actually do not really know why they bothered with the -z -j and such compression options when you could already pipe to a compressor of choice.
The idealized "free trade" view you propose, always makes me think of the idealized "people owned" view of Communism. I think this view, of "free trade", is very popular among my crowd as well as popular among Sci-Fi authors. So I like to try to point out its flaws, as I think it could lead to some scary future consequences.

First the most poignant issue with it is; "power begets more power" or "money begets more money". For the most part the rich get richer. Also the truth of the matter is the market can never be "free", there will always be someone clever or rich enough who will seek to exploit and control it. Thus you need regulations to keep these individuals and corporations in check. You then need a strong government that can stand up

Second the idea that the money you earn is the money you deserve is wrong. I come from a middle class and stable family. They have provided a world of support to help me succeed in this world. Do I deserve this? No I got lucky. The self made man myth, is utter bullshit. People that "succeed" in life have been helped along the way by the community. Do you really believe a poor person is poor because they don't work as hard as a wealthy person? What about people with mental disabilities, or physical ones? So people who acquire wealth don't really "deserve" it, I put that in quotes because they certainly deserve the money but so do a lot of other people that don't have it. Thus we impose taxation, to serve as a form of wealth redistribution and to create a safety net. This pays for public schools, public roads, transportations, military, etc. Basically the world is not fair and our governance should work to fix that.

Third, maintaining a "free market" is also equally important. You need good level of competition in society. Something for people to strive for and to power the whole system. Honestly this market would not be any freer than a libertarian's "free market", as stated previous the idea of a "free market" is a farce.

Fourth, think about the world you want to live in. Do you really want to live in a world where poor people are never given decent opportunities? Where they have to struggle and get by purely on corporation donation? What about if everything in your life goes bad, would you want to end up in the gutters or be able to rely on some form of assumed social aid.

-ps I don't know very much about TPP, I am just responding to what I perceive is your world view.
-pps Clearly neither of our views are how any country operates, but I feel like we should be striving for something that works and not extremism
-ppps Sorry if this seems a bit indirect, I'm not necessarily addressing you, but the numerous libertarians on the web in general and this has been partly cut and pasted from another convo.
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