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I recently changed my credit card. That solved the issue with Adobe.
Turns out "May I please speak with your supervisor?" are the magic words to get out of an early termination fee from Adobe. If only it were that simple with Comcast...

Thanks for the tip OP!
> How is this "strong-arming"? If we keep devaluing the meaning of words, we won't have any left when something serious actually happens.

In the age of click bait headlines, don't expect anything to change.
Saw this too late to edit my other reply; an interesting overview of what you may or may not do:

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/01/format-shifting-101-wha...

Also backed up by:
http://copyright.com.au/about-copyright/exceptions/ - which states we're allowed to "space shift" music.
Maybe it's just because the custrep was confused and maybe English isn't the custrep's first language. I mean personally that convo was kinda confusing. But nothing in the conversation looks deceptive, just another long, annoying, and boring process of canceling something.
Where did you find that 2.7m number? The most recent data is the Credit Suisse 2015 set, which you can see here:

https://www.credit-suisse.com/uk/en/about-us/research/resear...

They put the 1% line at $760k, and that's net worth: include the value of your home, subtract your debts.

I'm pretty unhappy about this oxfam article. It talks about "the richest 1%" and "the billionaires" alongside each other as if these groups were even remotely similar. This is furthering the myth of some kind of group of "shady rich people" who are behind the global financial conspiracy. Reality check: if you're reading this, you're almost certainly in the top 10% ($68,845 in total assets). According to the same data set, the median wealth in the US is $50k, so about half the population is in the top ten percent. You are the rich people this article is talking about.

Comparing the "richest 80 billionaires" to the bottom 50% is similarly misleading, because the bottom 50% has about 0.5% of the global wealth (which I think roughly answers your question about the top 0.001%). If you lined up the top 80 billionaires, shot them all, and redistributed all their wealth to the bottom 50%, then those people would still be in extreme poverty.

There are serious global wealth inequality problems, and this oxfam article doesn't really talk about them at all, and instead tries to perpetuate a popular meme. I strongly suggest that people skip it and read the Credit Suisse report instead - the data tells a much more interesting story.

Here are the numbers which the oxfam article doesn't mention, and should:

85.65% of the global wealth is held by the top 10% of the population, which is 477m people, of which 113m are in the US, with second place going to Japan at 58m.

32.3% of global wealth is held by the middle class (defined as $50k to $500k wealth); 92.4% is held by the middle class or above. 37% is in the US. Africa, India, and Latin America together represent about 4%.
Went through a similar process when I cancelled by Creative Cloud. I got an email that my credit card had expired, so I put in the details for the new credit card. I hadn't even realized I was still paying for Adobe CC, so I then called to cancel the service. Support agent went through this same script, I was forced to pay the absurd termination fee and thought that was the end of it.

I got an email the next day thanking me for updating my Credit Card information and that my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription had been renewed because the charge on the new credit card info went through. I had to call Adobe yet again and jump through through many, many hoops but eventually got it taken care of.

What a terrible experience, I'm going Sketch all the way from here on out.
"Safety-enforcing languages like Rust are going somewhat off already by definition, as they're focusing primarily on safety, which is not the focus for most game code."

I don't really agree with this assessment (I think rust's "safety guarantees" really amount to amazing compile time programmer assistance), but that's their stated reason.
> Amazon starts to charge you extra anytime you exceed restoring 5% of the data.

Isn't one way to get past this... increasing your data usage by 20x? If OP used less than a $1 a month, then if he uploaded $20 of junk data, he can get the 5% original data back "for free". Sure, it's $20, but it beats out $150+.
The point that's not stressed enough is the massive amounts of good data that is needed to fuel these kind of systems. Data collection, cleaning, aggregation and other processes itself are humungous tasks.
It's "strong-arming" because the rep lied about this person being responsible for early termination fees.
I get where that comes from. I surely did have the disconnection some years back, but think I'm on a better track now. Thanks for the link.
i'd say it was pointed very much.
Many times I see commenters on HN making statements to the effect of "users cannot run their own servers" and spurring a "debate" in the context of someone trying to innovate away from the current asymmetric, client-server, "calf-cow" internet.

I saw one such commment earlier today.

Thought experiment:

What about exploits like this one, among so many others over the years, in Microsft Windows?

In many cases it sure looks like the user is "running a server".

There is a port open and listening, waiting for connections. And some remote client can connect and issue commands.
I would take a close look at feedback loops from wealth. The very poor is to poor to change anything, while the very rich can change laws and dictate world wide sentiments.

In the end the inequalities of power destroys any linear correlation between skill and income that might otherwise manifest.

Traditionally we've been looking at the lower end of the power distribution to mitigate this (unions, minimum wage, micro loans and so forth) it might be prudent to look at the other end (property laws, corporations, finance and so forth) with similar intentions.
So it sounds like you can lower your subscription cost from $50 to $30 per month just by asking to cancel. Has anyone done this?
I don't think you do.

The median income in the USA is $52,000. Assuming that a middle-class job pays 3* that amount, and that someone can reasonably save 30% of their salary for the last 20 years they work, that amounts to about $1m saved. Probably a lot less because a person's salary isn't at it's peak for much of their career. Even factoring for a household with 2 incomes at that level you don't get to $2.7m.

I imagine the people you know are members of the elite as you say, but they got there by by having elite jobs and by investing their elite incomes. If you think they're in the "middle-class" you have a somewhat distorted view of the world.
>Yet poverty as a whole is decreasing according to numerous measures.

Yep. You lift people out of poverty through growth, something capitalists are very good at.
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> Crappy admins shouldn't be administering critical systems and crappy developers should be writing neither security-critical code, nor code that runs as root.

I don't think you have a firm grasp of the state of the real world.
That's not necessarily so. If you invest in real estate (and many do), wealth and income can grow even without any physical improvements, just due to supply and demand. National income will grow (since it includes rent) but it doesn't create any new jobs.

Here's an analysis showing that capital is earning more than labor mostly due to housing prices:

http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/bpea/papers/2015/lan...
Only responding to one element of your comment -- but I think that Rust's safety features are over-marketed in my experience. The safety Rust offers is only part of a package that provides high-performance high-level abstractions over functionality that is normally very bit-twiddly in C. So far, my favorite thing about Rust is not its safety, but how easy it is to write good performance software using abstractions that are as convenient as Python (or another high-level language). The safety is just icing on the cake at that point (for me at least).

EDIT: Re: pointers -- Rust is a lot easier to write if you just ignore pointers. Really. Either pass small structs by value or pass references (either immutable or mutable), and let the compiler handle the actual pointer manipulation.
The World Bank also has a political agenda. Are you not worried about the accuracy of their reports, too?
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> That said, if you're breaking backwards compatibility to move to _proprietary_ technology, you are not working to move us to a new standard.

Agreed. And it's likely not technically or physically superior anymore with the new USB 3.1 plugs.
>These are fairly outrageous claims, and it all smells of total burnout, and losing sight of the forest for the trees, to me.

Maybe, I don't know. I have been a lot happier with C though, while still writing some C++ code during the year.
Heh, sorry. I was trying poke fun at your post by doing what you did, regarding the article; focus on the wrong thing and disregard the the entire article/post because of a small, arguably unwise choice (gifs/misusing "literally").

The article is actually quite good.
Apple, in Refusing Backdoor Access to Data, May Face Fines
Isn't Nim (and almost all of its standard library) garbage collected by default? I've been very intrigued by Nim but it seems that while it has nice native/C code generation, it opts into my least favorite element of "high-level" languages.
Actually, straight up hoarding would be helpful to the economy, IMO. If the money isn't being used to build some ridiculous yacht or 40 bedroom house that no one is going to ever make full use of, then the people that actually would have done that work now are freed up to do stuff the benefits the rest of the community.

Why all the downvotes? HN'ers like yachts and empty mansions, huh?
They call this Industry 4.0
That's true, but it'd be true if all that money were divided between 1000 people's bank accounts or if 50 people bought $1m yachts too. And that way there'd be more people enjoying the wealth rather than just one. Some people think that's better.
Developers on macs, you have lots of alternatives! Affinity Designer and Pixelmator, for vector and raster graphics. Apple Motion is still in the app store for compositing.
Just in case you are confused, the person above you is talking about the cost of the music ON the CD, not the CD itself.
I rather have both.
Come on, don't downvote someone for learning something (you think is) well known for the first time. Especially when their response is "that's great and I'm going to use it". https://xkcd.com/1053/
I think GP does know some people like this, because the boomer generation experienced tremendous asset appreciation across all sectors (public equities and real estate in particular) during their earning years.
They had. In the 1990's I worked frequently into the night and owned a CRT with color profiles. After the sun went down, I switched to a more warm profile.
OP here. Some updates and clarifications are in order!

First of all, I just woke up (it’s morning here in Helsinki) and found a nice email from Amazon letting me know that they had refunded the retrieval cost to my account. They also acknowledged the need to clarify the charges on their product pages.

This obviously makes me happy, but I would caution against taking this as a signal that Amazon will bail you out in case you mess up like I did. It continues to be up to us to fully understand the products and associated liabilities we sign up for.

I didn't request a refund because I frankly didn't think I had a case. The only angle I considered pursuing was the boto bug. Even though it didn't increase my bill, it stopped me from getting my files quickly. And getting them quickly was what I was paying the huge premium for.

That said, here are some comments on specific issues raised in this thread:

- Using Arq or S3's lifecycle policies would have made a huge difference in my retrieval experience. Unfortunately for me, those options didn't exist when I first uploaded the archives, and switching to them would have involved the same sort of retrieval process I described in the post.

- During my investigation and even my visits to the AWS console, I saw plenty of tools and options for limiting retrieval rates and costs. The problem was that since my mental model had the maximum cost at less than a dollar, I didn't pay attention. I imagined that the tools were there for people with terabytes or petabytes of archives, not for me with just 60GB.

- I continue to believe that “starting at $0.011 per gigabyte” is not a honest way of describing the data retrieval costs of Glacier, especially when the actual cost is detailed, of all things, as an answer to a FAQ question. I hammer on this point because I don't think other AWS products have this problem.

- I obviously don't think it's against the law here in Finland to migrate content off your legally bought CDs and then throw the CDs out. Selling the originals, or even giving them away to friend, might have been a different story. But as pointed out in the thread, your mileage will vary.

- I am a very happy AWS customer, and my business will continue to spend tens of thousands a year on AWS services. That goes to something boulos said in the thread: "I think the reality is that most cloud customers are approximately consumers". You'd hope my due diligence is better on the business side of things, as a 185X mistake there would easily bankrupt the whole company. But the consumer me and the business owner me are, at the end, the same person.
Page wants just a tiny bit of explanation about what's going on. Firefox 43.0.4 doesn't play the movie; it just sits there with a black box.
Well the richest 1% have definitely lost more than the rest (proportionally) over the last 2 weeks as well...
You found a singular NEJM paper by the celebrated "checklist champion" Atul Gawande for a method that applies only to one specialty, surgery. How can you be sure that this generalizes to all medicine?

Given that doctors in most other fields spend a ridiculous (by some metrics, 7:1) ratio of time doing paperwork or data entry vs. seeing the patient [1], I would suggest that there is serious opportunity cost in adding more self-measurements and checklists to most doctors' workload. Surgeons are likely an outlier that perhaps benefit most from being regressed to the mean.

[1]: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/for-new-doctors-8-m...
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Looking at the web services today, they feel just as cheaply cobbled together parts from node.js or whatever.

Cheap beats quality in soo many cases.
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I suspect H1Z1 to run its server-side phisics simulation on GPUs. Definately not ASIC / FPGA, but still a co-processor ;)
>Zynga pioneered this approach to such a degree that they were essentially the BuzzFeed of interactive entertainment. Later, many AAA games would follow suit embracing the Free-to-Play model.

Just wanted to point out one thing -- the pioneers of the F2P model was not Zynga. It was South Korean gaming companies. (didn't know about this myself until I heard about it from Jon Van Caneghem)
thanks for the &replies ;-)
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tbh, Go vs. Rust for the, "i wanna write a Docker-thing!" use case was pretty much the question i had in mind.

the Rust ppl are looking toward static linking [links]...

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/static-binary-support-in-r...
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-buildbot/issues/24
Why don't you Google real Texas or California standardized tests (as opposed to hypothetical badly designed tests) and then list some explicit techniques for "teaching to the test"?

That would be far more convincing than merely claiming teaching to the test is real and can be done in all cases.
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>There must be market distortions that fail to share out the vast wealth of the Russian oilfields? Similarly for not sharing the license fees of MSWord or the markup on Amazon books.

Network effects. Microsoft being a textbook example of a company built on them.
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Ask HN: Why do I constantly feel that I am not good enough or doing enough?
I work for a company in bay area for a miserable salary of $105k. I am 30. Although salary is peanuts I work for reputed company.

I constantly feel that I am doing enough and also I am not good enough. I am trying to get a solo project started and eventually I want to create my own startup but I don't know front end design.
I have some really cool ideas , I am good with analytics and working on latest products.

It seems that everyone else is doing startup and becoming multimillionaire but I am at rock bottom. Anyone else feel same ? What did you do beside keep trying for it ?
It does. The built-in firewall will by default block any program from listening on any port, unless authorized by a rule.

The article did not touch on this subject, but I believe that for this to work, the admin will have to either switch off the firewall or create a rule authorizing the program to use the port (or the port to be used by any program)
I thought you were making a sarcastic joke in reference to "Web 2.0" till I saw this: http://www.zdnet.com/article/industry-4-0-its-all-about-info...
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Americans don't have a food-culture. Simple as that. That's the problem.
meh - imo, even if C++ is a ridiculously bloated beast, it has some things that are indispensable for game programming that C doesn't. vector math without operator overloading is gross. being able to have generic containers with templates is really useful, even if templates are gross. encapsulating functionality in classes is always useful, and you can get a lot of use out of inheritance without overusing it.

these things are really codebase readability and maintainability concerns, and to me they're orthogonal to "data-oriented programming", things like optimizing for cache locality, SoA instead of AoS, not calling virtual methods in warm or hot paths, throwing away malloc and using purpose-built custom allocators, SIMD/AVXify all the things, etc. etc.

it's a lot harder to handle the insane, byzantine complexity of a game engine in something as pared-down as C.

with that said, i don't like C++ and i definitely don't think it's a beautiful language by any means.

jonathan blow's new language, jai, is very interesting. purpose-built for game programming. check it out if you don't know about it yet. it's looking really promising for all types of high-performance, game-like projects.
So they have to power them back up. But why would they care whether you then download 1gb or 1tb?
MUD came out about 5 years after Adventure. It's not really a tech limited genre.
If gaming the metric is a useful behavior, the metric is useless.

Secondary infections in hospitals is a good metric. If you game it, it's still a net win for everybody.

Pass rates in schools is a bad metric. I can improve my metric by getting my lowest students to quit.

Rather than trying to "anti-game" a metric, simply observe if the metric is being gamed. If it is, the metric is a priori bad and should be removed.
I work in the vfx/animation industry and I have to say that I find Adobe's Creative Cloud billing is horrible for studios. The idea that you have to commit to a year is terrible for post-production companies because they scale up and down wildly. Need 10 artists for one week? Sorry, you'll need to commit to renting 10 licenses of Creative Cloud for a year! Other software that is even more expensive than Adobe's Creative Suite (like Autodesk Maya) have also moved to a subscription model, but Autodesk allows you to rent Maya by the month, if you want. Adobe is getting the best of both worlds here by not allowing you to own their software and at the same time not giving you flexible rental options. Linux support at least for After Effects would be nice as well, if you're reading this Adobe!
Your criticism is valid. Believe me, our heart is in the right place - our execution needs to be improved, and I will use feedback such as this to do just that.

I love coffee and our education is ongoing. We will do a better job of better educating our audience.

As for the non-profits, we are on-boarding 5 new non-profits and will present their information on the site soon.

Thanks again
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Here you go - https://projects.apache.org/projects.html

Use case for each project is not apparent unless you check it out individually.
Proud to see my alma mater on HN. Zot zot!
Net worth, that includes your home. And don't forget returns on investment.

Saving $30K/yr and getting a 5% return on your investment gets you very close to $2.5M after a 30 year career. Sure that's in the upper range of middle class, but it's by no means wealthy.
Mid market is a tough place to be in any business. During recessions you get eaten by cut rate competition, and during good times your brand strikes people as being too downmarket.

Besides, there has to be an easier way to make money than competing with companies like Ikea, which has spent decades wringing out costs from one end of the supply chain to the other.
That's pretty meta, if anyone else got that I congratulate you.

But to be honest, I did hesitate before posting because it was off-topic. However this is HN, not the author's comments section, so I feel it's my prerogative to comment on any aspect of the article not just the content.
I appreciate Finland for NOT pretending to fix social welfare
That's great. I'm glad to see most recent datasets have a time series classification. Should be good for time-series databases domain. At the end, it comes down to what questions you want answered with available data. Take this one for example.

http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/ElectricityLoadDiagra...

I know that the Bay Area police used to analyze power load curves to figure out people growing weed :)
My thoughts were exactly the opposite when reading these comments. It was more like "Amazon should really stop people commenting on articles they didn't buy". Those comments are getting old pretty quickly.
A 7% return on savings will exceed $2m after 20 years.
like affinity designer, affinity photo is pretty nice
Sure, but being in the right time and place to benefit from a massive housing boom/bubble isn't "busting their asses".
what are your thoughts on using D? I find it to be a better C++ and a step up from C.
Ikea has done that for quite a while now and is ramping it up this year. The PAX wardrobe system [1] has been an IKEA staple for many years and people are very happy with it (what I hear around me). They starting to take this concept into the living room with the BESTA storage system [2] which allows people to create their own entertainment unit or cupboard. Not to mention their kitchen systems because kitchens are always a "design your own" purchase.

[1] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/bed...
[2] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/liv...
If you're talking about personal data, why not just use backblaze and amazon's consumer unlimited cloud storage?

That gives you 2 backup providers that can durably store everything and it's free and quick to access. Why deal with all the harddrives and glacier?
... and unpython, spyke .... all very cool and with their own spin. What is a little worrisome is the rate at which these get abandoned and how many of them target some specific subset of Python. I particularly liked unpython's take.
Definitely deeper. The U.S. worker has seen 35 years of wage stagnation. Economic growth is fairly restricted to those with college degrees. And those aren't free.
I'm imagining they detonated it so it wouldn't do something unexpected and potentially even more dangerous, but I came to this thread to ask because I wasn't sure.