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You're right - for a professional it is more expensive and it absolutely was a move by Adobe to capture more of the value of their products (read: increase profit).

The flip side of the argument, of course, is that more profitable companies have more room to innovate and experiment (Bell Labs, Kodak, Google, etc.) and Adobe isn't exactly resting on its laurels and allowing their products to stagnate. There is a valid argument about the additional engineering time being devoted to the necessary anti-circumvention and subscription services instead of better products for customers, but I'm not sure those criticisms stick in this particular case. I don't do much design work, so I may be wrong here, but my understanding is that Adobe products are the industry standard because they are unquestionably the best tools to accomplish most tasks.
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In other words, if it does appear idiotic for all the technical reasons, it would follow other reasons are at play. (Call me a cynic, but "pork-barrel" immediately comes to mind.)
I feel like I am being mislead with a sensationalist article. The tool has already been discussed on HN.

Software engineering is extremely unlike bridges in that bridges get constructed once. Software gets constructed (from source to machine code) every time you build and run it.
I somehow missed the headbar, it wasn't until I got to these comments that I realized the author was Mark Cuban.

I thought he was spot-on even before I knew who he was.

I think one of the big problems is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act implemented after the fall of Enron due to accounting problems. We wanted to make sure that there were no IPO's defrauding the public, but the regulations went too far and made sure there were no (or very few) IPO's, period.

And the IPO's that do happen are much much bigger. This is bad because much of the wealth that's created by a new company is created during its growth phase. In the 1900's, you could have simply bought shares in the young Microsoft or the young Apple -- at least there was a chance for some of that wealth went to regular folks who invested in the stock market. In the 2000's, the young Google and the young Facebook were only accessible to the rich -- VC firms and accredited investors with the right connections.

This isn't just bad for regular investors, it's bad for companies too. A public market has a lot more counterparties and is more competitive -- so (in theory at least) a publicly traded company shouldn't have to give up as much equity to raise a fixed amount of cash (because rather than being limited to making offers to a few private investors, there's a continuous bidding war for the stock in which pretty much anyone can be a buyer).
ST3 took me a bit to get set up, I stuck with 2 for a long time, but I would say the upgrade was worth it. Faster, more stable. Big fan.
I would use race to the bottom to describe a lot of items that Walmart sells. I don't feel like I benefit from the sacrifices to quality they make in seeking their prices.

Of course their success with this strategy tells me something about the market, but I think it is still a sensible, pejorative use of the phrase.
>A piece of software like text-editor only has a shelf-life of a few short years before you need to start from scratch and write a new one.

A piece of software like a programming editor, which until now leaves a lot to be desired, even in the most popular implementations (Vim, Emacs, ST, Atom, etc), sure needs constant reinvention and refinement until someone finally gets it right.

Atom would be close to that if it was not fucking based on web technologies. ST3 would be that if it was open source (so the APIs/internals could be improved faster). Emacs would be that if it wasn't based on a 30+ year old UI model and elisp. Vim would be that if it was more extensible and not 100% focused on the CLI experience.
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Working from home for foreign clients I'm a bit cut off from the rest of the industry - and I don't work with games. Does the gaming industry have the same white/male slant that the rest of the industry does?

Is there any reason to hope that the game industry being on the margins and outside the old corporate structures that will appeal more to young black South Africans?
I can only give my perspective as a US citizen. The best way that I could explain it is with the phrase "out of sight, out of mind." Issues have much less of an impact if a person doesn't see and feel the direct consequences in their lives.

Lets take the Snowden case. He released tons of info regarding the US spying on it's own citizens, but how does that directly effect my life today? To put another way, how do I FEEL the day to day impact of these programs? The answer is simple, I don't.

I have no idea whether the NSA has a record of every website I have viewed. I have no idea if I have a file on some government server detailing my porn preferences based on my google searches. I don't know if the government knows of my relationship status based on listening in to my phone calls. Essentially, unless and until the government decides to use this information that they may (or may not) have to blackmail/arrest/detain/publicly humiliate me, it doesn't impact my life in a noticeable way

Now, lets compare that with the gun issue. When the federal/state/local government passes a gun law, if I am a gun owner I FEEL the impact of that law. If someone wants to buy an AR-15 and there is a threat of banning the weapon, that person feels the direct impact of the issue in his life. If someone wants to carry a concealed firearm in public (something completely legal in the vast majority of states, btw) but they live some place that does not permit it, they FEEL the impact of that law.

This is also why for people who don't own guns and have no interest in doing so, gun restrictions me nothing to them. Banning assault weapons have no negative impact on the lives of people who have no desire to own such firearms.

I am certainly not saying that the right to firearms is more important than the right to privacy from government surveillance. What I am saying is that it is FAR easier to find and organize people who have felt (or would feel) the real life impacts of gun restrictions, than those who have felt the impact of the NSA's surveillance program.
The opposite of stupidity is not intelligence.

It's just as stupid when politicians use "stick it to the man" as justification for their bullshit.

See Maduro's endless struggle against the evil neoliberal conspiracy.
Jeez, you're talking about something designed and built in 1982-1983 (over 30 years ago) and meant to run on something with 128KB of RAM with no hard drive and a 400KB floppy disk.

You try fitting all that plus a GUI those constraints.

What's amazing is that it had the features it had and that it worked at all.
What I don't get is how they couldn't see the wood for the trees...

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-05/economics-c...
Wouldn't be so bad if the platform actually led to job interviews. Currently it does not for the vast majority of users.
If it wasn't possible I would not have met my wife 12 years ago. Well, at least if you count IRC as text messaging :-)
I'd like an invite. The email address is in my profile.
You can save your cookie options by setting an option in lynx:

http://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/README.cookies

As the poster below me points out, you can navigate links pretty fast in lynx when you get the hang of it and learn a few shortcuts.

I don't use it everyday, but do use it kind of frequently.
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I'd love to know what you mean by "over-complicate". It can be as simple as `docker run --net=weave ...`.

We have a PR open that would let you connect Docker's bridge to Weave Net - https://github.com/weaveworks/weave/pull/1955
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Americans have always had a distrust of government. That's why we fought a war for independence against Britain even though the eventual peaceful federalization of former colonies like Canada and Australia provided that violence wasn't necessary.

Then consider how our constitution was created: it was designed to protect people from the tyranny of the state (which is why gun rights are so prevalent) but also tyranny of the mob (hence the survellience state approach to preventing conflicts from getting out of hand).

I think much of the democratic west is moving towards autocracy, not because of cultural preference, but because of concentrated power from industry and wealthy individuals whose interests dominate politics and so nothing changes.

I think the solution is for more direct democracy, and I believe that many of us on the right and left would prefer that to the fear of powerful top-down implementation of a way of life preferred by one side or the other.
Do we know that yet?

The article is based on this admission from the Danish minister of Justice (in Danish):
http://www.ft.dk/samling/20151/almdel/reu/bilag/163/1596061....

It just mentions the "American government".

Freedom of information requests have shown that FBI (Department of Justice) asked several countries to be notified should Snowden pass through their airports.

Also, it is believed that the plane is a privately owned gulfstream with ID N977GA.
This is a common refrain and it sums up my attitude, too. Then I heard a discussion the other day on the radio about earthquake alert systems, like the one they have in Japan and one that I guess is in the works for here in California or the US.

I don't know if it currently works like this in Japan, but the idea is that with a reliable enough warning system, vital infrastructure could automatically respond to the few seconds warning an earthquake alert might provide.

Hearing that, an Internet of Things suddenly seemed to me a little more serious and useful. Of course that doesn't excuse poor security or sloppy design. It only makes it that much more important.
And the 2 degree climate change over the next 50 years is likely just the trigger needed to justify martial law (much of coastal Florida is expected to flood, the North East of the US will have the extremes of weather that we've just started experiencing, much of the farm belt is expected to undergo drought).
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Well, it does depend on the width of your terminal, of course, but the title could be abbreviated, there's no need to repeat "ago" in the time column and, as others have pointed out, the submitter's name is pretty irrelevant. I'd go title, domain, votes, comments and try to fit that on one line. In fact, now I compare that to the actual web home page where it's impossible to easily compare things like comments or age, I just want to redesign that ...
It might be a English translation of a Danish way of saying "business jet". Talking about the type of plane. As opposed to bigger commercial jets. E.g. a Gulfstream V is a business jet often used by business people. Even when used or owned by government, some people might keep calling it a "privatfly" - private plane.
>Reading these things makes me angry. There are people in the world who uphold economic wealth and ownership over life itself.

And the name for those people is: Everybody.

Every time I buy some nicety, something I want but do not need, I am spending money on myself that could have gone to some better purpose. It could've gone to pay for some man's surgery, to go feed some starving child in a third world country, or even to just help out the local domestic abuse shelter. My donations are less than the maximum I could give, and that is true for almost everyone out there.

While some definitely engage in worse behavior, it is important to remember that it is a difference of degrees and not a difference of kinds.
The baby boomer generation grew up before computers, and most of them don't even know how to check their email. They are very patriotic, and very insular. They believe that God gave America to white Christians, and the government is defending it.

In short, they understand guns, but not computers.

Young people grew up with the internet and are better informed, but they have no control. District lines and campaign financing have made it impossible to make an impact.

The numbers are reaching a tipping point though, and you should expect to see a very different America in the next decade or so.
You end up with a lot of similar issues - cost of materials, requires a lot more expertise to install/repair, damage may require replacing larger areas than a few tiles, slick roof surface, etc.

But at least you're not driving on glass or dealing with car accidents on the roof (hopefully)
>I haven't actually gotten a license for 3 because of that, I'd rather not pay for beta software or for software that I know will hardly be maintained once out of beta.

Those names are arbitrary BS.

ST3 hasn't felt like "beta" software for 2+ years.

If he had released it as ST3 2-3 years ago, nothing would have changed. It's been release quality for ages.
I think for casual users of any age, having a desktop at all has become atypical.
That sounds like a failure of cat more than a failure of markdown. There isn't a command-line argument for cat to break long-lines at the last whitespace of the line instead of mid-word?
I'd start with Sonic Pi and see how you go. It's a small but useful subset of the bigger and more complex apps. If you want to take it further you can move up to SuperCollider, because the syntax is similar.

sc is probably the biggest and most open and developed sound language. pd is in the same ballpark, with a different culture.

It's also worth learning web audio, because then you can build toys for the web.

The others are more niche. I'd written off Csound, but I discovered recently that some of the newest Csound music has better than usual production values, which makes me wonder if it's having a revival and breaking out of the academic ghetto these projects tend to get trapped in.
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Luckily this seems not easy. Mechanical parts do not like being unmaintained for decades, while being stored in a damp/sandy/cold/hot environment. Batteries, solar cells and other means of stored energy are not to fond of that either.

A virus on the other hand that inserts itself for example into source code could very well live a long time.
I see a couple workarounds to their problem.

1. They could stop broadcasting their network's SSID.

2. They could change their SSID and spoof a different MAC address every day. Their ISP sent them a new router, but I imagine that will be sucked up into the databases quickly and the same problem will happen.

3. They could put routers in the surrounding homes so their home is never the one selected.
The law involves confiscating valuables and money, but it does so much more than that, including, but not limited to, increasing the waiting period for family reunification.

People put it in quotes, because they think it gives them an excuse to use the misnomer, which is bad journalism on their part.

It’s basically in the interest of the administration that people only thought the bill concerned jewelry confiscation, as it distracted from all the other heinous things in the text.

The former bill, which has since become law, is L87 (ie Bill 87).
Only one of posts got any attention and it was 7 months ago. I hardly call that "significant attention". Which, by the way, is completely subjective and thus the opposite of "quite clear".
Despite being a US citizen who also enjoys guns, I don't understand this rationale at all. What kind of government overreach would private ownership of firearms stop? It obviously wouldn't interfere with any sort of targeted attack on an individual (that's what drones are for), and I have a hard time believing it would deter even ground attacks. A few guys in the woods with AR-15s aren't going to be a speed bump for any concerted effort by a nation-state, let alone this one.

*Disclaimer: I disagree with our use of drones, don't think anyone should come to take away private guns, and don't believe any of this is a real risk. I'm just trying to understand the large group that believes their guns will protect them from the military.
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Yes. On last week's story, a commenter mentioned how they decreed that web pages which showed a full-page ad on landing would be penalized in search, yet they themselves continued to show a full-page ad in mobile GMail for the GMail app, and it remained the first hit for "e-mail".
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Because being impotent and having a short penis doesn't make people want cryptography to compensate, but it does make people want guns.
I used to collect these too! Thanks for posting!

I'll have to look to see if there are any familiar boot sector viruses - the kind that propagated via floppies. Those made the rounds at work.

I enjoyed disassembling them and seeing how they work. It was an education that kids miss out on today.

Come to think of it, back when I was teaching a Perl class one of my first assignments was to create a "virus" that found Perl scripts and copied itself into them. Good times.
The article is saying "too high". While it doesn't go out of its way to acknowledge the sorts of needs you refer to, the specific barber example it gives is:

"In Nevada, according to Politico, barbers need more than two years of training to qualify for a license; that’s a high bar to anyone looking to break into the business."

Again using the word high, and it's hard for me to see needing quite that much training to cover the hygiene issues as well as a minimum of technique and practice.
No, it's much better to avoid posting sarcasm at all. It nearly never scans, and it doesn't really fit the HN culture in any case.

Also, your underlying point is practically offensive to the hacker mindset. Though there is nearly a cult-like devotion to the editing tools of yore, the devotion is not universal.
I'd love one if you still have any.

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Sure, why not? There are people out there that would happily have their communications monitored in order to catch murderers. Tax cheats, maybe not - no-one lives in fear of a tax cheat.

I'm not saying this is a wise or sensible opinion, but people still hold it - not everyone is just "ill informed".
Not quite, I'm saying that from a utilitarian perspective, importing wives for US citizens is not better for the country than importing high skilled workers.

I'm also saying that from a justice perspective, banging an American and getting him pony up for marriage doesn't make a person intrinsically more deserving of citizenship than working hard and creating (potential) value for the US.

Again - I'm generally an open borders proponent. What I say we should do is stop using violence to prevent peaceful people from entering the US and engaging in trade here. (And we should make whatever economic adjustments are necessary to prevent an increase in state-induced violence/threats of violence, e.g. eliminate the welfare state.)

But if I accept the logic behind restricted borders (e.g. "we can't handle too many more" and "immigration should benefit natives"), that logic doesn't really support nepotism based immigration.
That's kind of my point. The 4th Amendment is really quite plain and clear. So why do the "shave it until it's transparent" thing that US courts and lawyers always do? Why change the plain meaning of the words into something that only a lawyer can understand, and only a mildly shady law enforcment officer could love? Stick to the plain meaning. If that means the AG and police have to work harder, then so be it. Otherwise, change the words so we can all understand them.

Oh, I guess that wouldn't work, because it would invalidate Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American ('Cause at least I know I'm free)".
Sorry, what I meant was, with the previous implementation of Homejoy, could you get the same person every time?

I realize their issue was people just went around Homejoy and paid the cleaner directly. I'm wondering if people did this because they liked the work the person did and wanted them back but Homejoy didn't offer this feature.
This is a lazy cop-out for people who don't really care to spend any time thinking or looking at evidence. Which might be emblematic of the real problem. Knee-jerk anti-Americanism isn't a bit more sophisticated than knee-jerk pro-Americanism.
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tldr: seems to be some browser thing.
I tried to manually review all ads. But my experience was that this is not possible with the given tools. It would take hours per day.
Tarmac is cheap and easy to apply, other than that it's a poor road surface. In heavy use coupled with poor conditions Tarmac can need resurfacing in as little as 5 years (10-20 is more common). Worse, it can significantly increase fuel consumption for heavy vesicles as the road surface deforms.

Concrete is better for fuel consumption and can last 2-4 times as long, but needs regular gaps for heat expansion which can cause noise issues and poor ware patterns. It's also far more expensive and end of life roads often spend long periods in poor repair.

Glass is actually a fairly competitive surface. Though, to expensive for most uses, people have used to for see though driveways etc.
> Why aren't we talking about those implications?

Assuming I've understood your question properly, my suspicion is that there isn't an easy, one-line, (ideally rhyming) sound-bite defence against accusations of disloyalty.

When you question aggressive foreign policy you get accused of everything from "not supporting our troops" to being "soft on terror", take your pick.

It's a little like how Obama's drive to address economic inequality seems (to an outsider at least) to have collapsed because of repeated accusations of "class war". There was no snappy defence.
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The article you've cited discusses the FBI and a single terrorist. I'd like to see the citation for most attacks being staged by the FBI.
The US did plan to put missiles in under-ice bases in Greenland, without telling Denmark:

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

They didn't do it because it didn't work - the ice moves too much, rather than the Danes complaining about it.
[citation-needed] for both - not least because of the dramatically reduced power output in winter.
Like Nixon said: "If the President does it, that means it's not illegal."
I agree that what the NSA did was bad, but I really don't understand your anti government stance.

The main problem with those NSA programs is not that spying is evil (it's necessary and it's part of defending your country against many different types of threat), the problem is that this spying program, as a tool, could be used for other things than security purposes. This is in fact very worrying and it's what Snowden complains about: this massive chest of data was not encrypted and could be read by many government operatives by means of bribery, or even by individual with political goals.

So the problem has been about how those tools has been designed and managed with very sloppy consideration, and that politicians are not able to fix it because as always, technology is beyond what democracy is about.

What I understand about this scandal is not about trivial corruption in government, it's more about what sort of political problems, technologies can create.

> an almost no reaction from other citizens

I think every citizen who use computers for sensitive purpose, or people who might be the target of spying, are now aware of the NSA, and might have taken precautions that made NSA's job a little more difficult.

I don't think you can really have a protest against the NSA. It's not a simple issue, especially from the technical standpoint.