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It's mostly about Windows Phone, which needs apps, which means the store needs users. If it gets users then people will bother to develop cross phone/desktop apps. Of course no one uses the store still, even as Microsoft tries to force/trick you into logging in with a Microsoft ID.
banning gas stations isn't a ban on new gas vehicles, it's a ban on all gas vehicles. very different, and the people will never vote for it until we are in a very different place than we are today.
I think this will be very successful. The roll of storytelling in business is becoming increasingly important, especially for consumer companies targeting millenials. See: http://blog.hubspot.com/opinion/why-storytelling-will-be-the...
You have much to learn. You should be reading more of this stuff, not less.
This isn't "hacker news", this is "corporate news". It's amazing that some people consider themselves "hackers" when all they use is VS and Office programs on Windows and actively stay away from any process they perceive as difficult.
> when someone comes forward to make an accusation against the CEO, no one even argues against it. The ladies (and some men) however, are expected to provide evidence, pictures, videos, statements, DNA tests, rape kits, etc.

While I agree with the general sentiment of your comment, I think it's very important to consider the social and legal repercussions of the accusations when taking into account the level of proof required. Being an asshole in general with regard to business is not the same as sexual harassment, much less sexual assault. One can get you labelled as someone bad to work for, but in general many might not care because they are focused on results, while the other can get you ostracized from friends and family or convicted of a felony, depending on circumstance. Regardless of guilt. The burden of proof should, necessarily, be higher when the punishment is so much greater.

This doesn't excuse the behavior of publicly stating guilt or that one party is lying without evidence. That's horrible behavior and happens on both sides.
It's all the same. Otherwise, you're going to increase taxes even more for people making more than the UBI to compensate. This is simply pushing numbers around on the page - either you're getting the UBI and paying it all back in taxes, or you're not getting the UBI and not paying it back in taxes.
Using dark UI patterns (like dialogs without cancel button) is disrespectful to users. They bought Windows to get stable and reliable operationg system. The system that updates at night and gets drivers or software broken is nowhere near stable. Even linux (which is awful as desktop system) doesn't autoupdate.

It might be acceptable if Microsoft gave their product away for free: many free products (e.g. Sublime or Skype) include annoying autoupdate popups for non-paying users. But Windows is quite expensive software.

Microsoft's motives are just getting more paid services, getting more telemetry (for free! they do not pay for it) and maybe adding some kind of subscription in future. Recent Windows versions like 7 or 8 seem to be 'good enough' for most customers so they do not want to upgrade for free let alone buy newer versions.

And subscription is as bad as DRM.
Wouldn't they stop funding it if that was the case?
This is actually a great time to talk about this stuff, but maybe easier on email (firstname.lastname@gsa.gov) than HN. Drop me a line!
I guess an overabundance of enthusiasm from the wider Matrix community, i guess. Speaking on behalf of the Matrix core team, we genuinely wish the XMPP community the best - for as long as Matrix & XMPP end up interoperating nicely, we're working towards the same goal of open communication. Hell, I spend most of my life atm wandering around wearing an XMPP hoodie!

If you like XMPP's philosophy of passing stanzas around, XML and XEPs, then use XMPP. If you like Matrix's philosophy of eventual-consistent synchronising conversation history, JSON and a monolithic spec, then use Matrix. Different tools for different jobs.

It's like SMTP and NNTP. You can use both of them to have conversations. They look kinda similar. You can build bridges between them. But they are totally different architectures and philosophies however and there's room in the world for both :)
> Is there any evidence at all for the beneficial effect of bioactive dairy products on the gut microbiome, beyond yoghurt commercials for middle-aged women?

1) Considering that the original article is about autoimmune disease, it's possible that there is a critical time period during early age (<3-4 years) when it is important to consume a particular substance, and beyond which the substance is completely ineffective---i.e. marketing to middle-aged ladies is great because they have money to spend, but the fact that this marketing exists is besides the point. 2) It wasn't my goal to present a finding for which there is lots of available evidence, but rather the opposite---to suggest a possibly under-explored area.
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This is a good time to mention selling Windows to a non-profit foundation, so that Windows would truly be actually free. I remember a comment mentioning retirement funds.
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If you would update to 8, which is more of a TS interface with an ap store, why not windows 7? You could have a 64bit OS with a nice quad core+ cpu which is impossible in XP. Then you could virtual machine xp on top of that and have the latest and greatest. XP is rather dated to say the least. The only reason to run it is if you have older hardware such as a pentium 4 single core processor on board.
How many of those people left the country permanently because of constant harassment by government agents? How many lost their girlfriend when she got freaked out because a guy with night vision goggles was spying into their apartment in the middle of the night? You're writing this off like it's a simple statistical unlikelyhood without making any consideration into specifically what has happened to Appelbaum before.

I'm not even defending him, I just think you're doing a crap job of dismissing the concern.
I understand that fighting spam is difficult; I ran public email servers for years, and I think that Github does a great job at it.

My gripe here is that they didn't notify me before or after hiding my account. I don't expect a human to review the flag and I'm not suggesting they do. I agree, that doesn't scale. But it doesn't take a human to send me an email that says "Your account has been flagged for spam. Please contact support to resolve this issue."

The issue is that if I hadn't happened to log in this morning I would not have known that my account was hidden until I started getting complaints about broken links. Github was returning 404 errors for my repos. That means no one could download code or releases, read Wikis, file Issues, etc. It was like the repos had just been deleted.

My projects are pretty small, comparatively. But imagine if you went to read some docs on Angular or Express or any other large, open source project and you just got a 404 for the entire project? It's pretty scary.

My only ask here is that they notify users that they flag. Nothing more. I think it's a pretty reasonable request. I have since exchanged a couple more emails with them and they have said they'll raise the issue internally.
React itself is just the view. You can replace your template language without redoing everything if you want. Khan Academy, for example, still has some Backbone views that render with React. We also have some Handlebars templates that we haven't converted over yet. That's all peacefully coexisting, though we'd love it if all of our views were React and more of our data handling was just pure functions.
But you still can't click a link in a comment or hit a buy button... Why? My wife follows tons of fashion labels- it's a no brainer for her to pick up a dress with Stripe in Instagram. Why not have users opt in to ads since they're already following companies they love! Seems like a missed opportunity for the company and the user, but perhaps I'm missing something.
What are you arguing for? Censoring the declaration of someone as a *-phobe? Censoring the criticism of people who say certain things? Censoring the cries of "shut up" leveled at them?
Implication is it's happening in a "general public" forum, or so I infered.
They cheat.

Edit: they ignore a lot of the rules that GSA (among others) mandate the rest of the government follow. One great example is cloud.gov, operating on the public Internet without finishing the fedramp approval process. It also doesn't comply with the TIC requirements GSA pushes on the rest of the .gov.

The hard problems in government IT are being able to pay enough to attract top talent and dealing with all the authorities and oversight that parent refers to. If you remove those two legally-required obstacles, you're cheating. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but comparing GSA's pet project to normal government is disingenuous at best.
Tabs get clobbered (turned into spaces) when you copy-paste them, especially between different environments. Spaces always get preserved.
Apple maps is beyond awful where I live (Romania), it's not even worth mentioning it as an option. The problem is not only with the maps, but also with the points of interest.
I think its even more important to treat them with respect. I understand how frustrating it can be and the urge to say "you idiot" but I find it counter productive. I think its best to let the light shine on that sort of ignorance, even if I am group "x". I want the contrast of cool calm and rational against the heated ignorance.
The fact that folks in the comments are complaining here about Clojure's error messages here tells me that the implications of this post might not be obvious. Up to this point, it has been really really hard to give good error messages from macros, and a lot of the core functionality of Clojure (let, defn etc etc) are from macros. What Clojure.spec means (if I'm correct) is that in the future, not only will the Clojure language itself be able to have sane error messages, you'll be able to easily create sane error messages for yourself from your own code. This is a HUGE HUGE deal. It is quite possibly BETTER than any type system. http://clojure.org/about/spec Also, the idea that you'll be able to get generative testing FOR FREE, is just totally insane.
Interesting, I've found Clojure-Java interop to be really smooth.
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Golang uses tabs and not spaces though.. I actually thought everyone used spaces instead of tabs till I had to use it.
Benefit I saw to Riot was that my app's minimized size was one third what it was with React. And not to mention RiotJS was so much simpler than React...
Windows 7 is solid. I had Windows 10 on my laptop and downgraded because it provided zero benefit. There are ways to prevent Windows 7 from from nagging you to upgrade.
> Name one mammal besides humans who drink milk as adults?

I'm sorry, but your comment is completely irrelevant to the discussion. The original article is about autoimmune disease that develops at an early age. Whether you drink milk as an adult or not would have had no impact on the development of the disease. If you like your non-milk diet, you can keep your non-milk diet.
If the company only has 5-10 employees, it is pretty safe to assume they will not have a dedicated IT function who would worry for them about volume licensing, domain joined systems, etc. They likely just buy a laptop on Dell's website which comes with whatever version of the OS Dell tells them is good for them.
Benefit of the doubt is something we all struggle to give. I don't mean to single you out personally, and if it seems like I am it's because I know what good, reflective comments you're capable of.

No doubt there's a socio-physiological function to saying bad things about the rich and powerful. It feels good, and you can say literally anything in that genre and get applause (on HN, upvotes). So it's inevitable. But it goes against the mandate of this site, which is "gratify intellectual curiosity". Note how that excludes both other forms of curiosity and other forms of gratification.

There's no political or ideological dimension to this (e.g. pro-VC or anti-VC). For present purposes, none of that matters—what matters is the form of the comment: is it reflexive or reflective? Or, to use your term: is the blood rising? That's what seems to determine discussion quality. If there's a better principle than the Principle of Charity for encoding this distinction in an actionable form, I'd love to know. I haven't seen anything else that comes close.
That is certainly correct in many cases but I don't think you can get around gizmo's argument in the general case. The father could not simply leave the mother but for example die in an accident. A one size fits all solution seems really problematic considering the huge differences between personal circumstances.
Yea, I know many of them probably don't know this.
> but it fundamentally can't go into a runaway process.

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

The basic summary is that you can make a CRISPR construct that will copy itself into the homologous chromosome in a zygote/embryo. Thus, any progeny resulting from mating with an individual with the construct will be homozygous for said construct, a runaway process.

This is being considered as a way to eliminate deadly pathogens, and obviously could be used to wreak immeasurable ecological harm. I still wouldn't worry about it for humans, though, as simple genetic testing and further editing could counteract it.
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What's wrong with letting the work be done at a market rate lower than the current (ideally abolished) minimum wage? I'd pay someone $5/hr to pull weeds, but I won't pay them $10 or $15/hr.

Now, in which system can a neighbor earn an extra $20 a week for a morning of work? In which system does my front garden look nicer from the sidewalk? Someone (probably a teen) gets some walking around money, the whole neighborhood gets a nicer sidewalk view, and I don't have to do an optional job that I dislike. Sounds like a winner all around to me, but no way is "pulling weeds" a full-time, live alone and without additional support career.
What I find interesting is that the health benefit (or non-benefit) of milk for adult humans is completely irrelevant to the discussion. Autoimmune disease (the topic of the original article) develops at a very early age.
Surely you're joking?
"Click here to change your upgrade schedule" is in such tiny font of course no one will see it.

If Microsoft cared about its users, that option would be way bigger than it is.

Edit: They purposely put in all that information because they know people won't want to read through all that. That dialog is purposely designed to trick users because they've been taught that if they want to cancel, hit the "X" button, not find the tiny link to change the scheduling of this thing you don't understand.
There is a difference in our timelines and thus your long story does not exactly apply. The key is that you're saying something to the effect of "Why should I keep quiet?" (_after_ the trial). I am saying we should not be slandering this guy until after a trial. AFAIK the only evidence at this point is TOR saying they have heard rumors and the slander website. That is not justice, its closer to a lynch mob or witch hunt thus far.

I fully agree with you that a not guilty verdict is not identical to innocence. But its the current system we've (as a society) have agreed upon for deciding what is actionable or not. The makers of this website have taken it upon themselves to be judge, jury, and "executioner" (actor of justice).
I wouldn't be so sure it's just an algorithm.
Apache Windows?
Turn off the screens and stay outside
A naive question, can you do picture/images inside xmpp?

I hope irc can support inline images especially for web clients.
Good luck with that. I was only a government contractor and the amount of blue badges that argue how the other agency is doing it wrong / stupid and they would never use their stack is insane.
Thank you, rushed for time and grabbed what I scanned off of Google.
It seems to be a problem across many agencies, this disrespect for the law. The FBI was recently busted again for submitting illegal requests that were ruled such back in 2008.
Uninformed is not the same thing as "stupid".
I think it's the four chords that start at 00:45. The radiohead song is one of their best and the Lansky sample plays a key part in that. Lansky's piece is 18 minutes long and ... fascinating.
Few. None.
And if you retain the SSA, one of the biggest arguments for UBI (dismantling wasteful government agencies) gets defenestrated.
Yea, WinSE does cost money too and I think I saw a mention that it is considered a cost center.
> Vital to getting votes will be keeping the amount received steady and high. And that might mean printing money if necessary.

Maybe, but that's very different from what you said, which is that '[difficult times] means less income to spread around, the solution, print more money = inflation'.

> With land tax the system is self correcting and balanced.

Er, no - if anything, a property tax would reinforce inflation.

> With the taxes you mentioned you'd eventually get the inflationary spiral as a market correction.

Maybe you meant to respond to someone else? I didn't talk about any taxes. I only mentioned tax cuts as an actual example of expansionary fiscal policy to address the 'less income to spread around' problem, not as a proposal for funding income redistribution.
Rushed for time and stressed from work, it went over my head.

I'm annoyed that the parody showed up before details of the "misconduct" did.
Some clarifications needed:

1) So, someone who has 8 kids gets the same exact income as someone who has 0 kids?

2) What happens when health insurance costs escalate?
Their firm opposition of others' justice mobs and then their uptake of one for their own purposes is a hypocrisy and IMO a little more repugnant than at least a consistent moral stance.
The idea that The Glass Bees is "little-known" is ... curious. It was republished by New York Review Books, not exactly a small little press no one's ever heard of.
Certainly makes you wonder if Brian Williams being outed had something to do with his interview with Snowden
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"After GZip the original file was squeezed down to just 132 bytes, however GZip took my technique down to just 99 bytes which saves a further 33 bytes."

When you want speed - every byte counts right?
Until they cross the line of advocating for laws banning males from speaking about feminism, they are fundamentally not advocating censorship.

An individual yelling at you to shut up because they think you are an idiot is not censoring you. They're exercising their own right to free speech. You have the freedom to react however you want in response to them -- yell louder yourself if you want to.

Yelling at them that they're censoring you, however, is factually incorrect.

And if you equate their actions to censorship and the assassination of journalists, then be prepared to have other people point out that you don't know what you're talking about.

And feel free to downvote me as much as you like...
I fear the question will be answered with some very dark times. Indeed what will people do, when most of them aren't actually "necessary", and what will they agree to, given that most of them will also be driven by fear of becoming one of those unnecessary ones?

As things stands, politically, and culturally, it's more likely to become som dystopian story of cleansing. Walled communities of elites keeping the poor outside of civilized society, and perhaps even death camps.

So I really do hope that we, along the way, not only get data on the economics of it, but also a new ethical mainstream regarding entitlement. Capitalism will be a rather dangerous as framework of ethics in a world where economic value is derived entirely from capital. Only the elite can justify their existance on that framework.

I'm currently aligned with the geo-libertarian view of things, as an example of a dissenting UBI-proponent. It seems the "mainstream" UBI thinking at the moment is rather socialistic in nature. Don't really see how that can fare much better than the capitalistic views when faced with the proposition that 10% is supposed to pay for the other 90%
I disagree with your premise. Plenty of people demonize(d) Apple for it, too. I generally hear what Microsoft is doing with Windows 10 described as "moving to the Apple model."
Thanks and this is very insightful. Yes it looks like typescript will be an essential part of the js-ecosystem sooner than expected.
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More realistically than administering some kind of test would be to force people to opt out of basic necessities care. So a person's UBI would be portioned off for food, health, state living facilities etc. so they would always have the bare minimum to survive. If I happened upon a person in need I would merely need to simply bring them to the nearest grocery store and their food needs would be taken care of. Since its opt out, they likely won't have the facilities to opt out.

My biggest concern is how you logistically provide money to people. What do you use to distribute it? Some sort of state owned bank? What about identification?
The description reminds me of Suspended (1983) – also a game in a sci-fi setting where you control a few robots using text commands. But instead of a text adventure puzzle game like Suspended was, the gameplay seems to be something of a mix between the more recent FTL: Faster Than Light and Five Nights at Freddy's.
> Even linux (which is awful as desktop system)

I disagree. Linux is great as a desktop system precisely because you're in control, not some third-party. And in terms of desktop functionality there is no meaningful difference anymore.
Which site? I searched for "female tor devs sexual claims" on DDG & Google and didn't see anything relevant beyond a link to this thread.
I will grant a great quote however "Justice delayed is justice denied"[1] .

That is why its important for victims to goto authorities IMMEDIATELY. Not 40 yrs later, not after the next victim speaks up. RIGHT NOW.

I'm sure there are complications I'm glossing over, having never been a victim of sexual assault. But the timing is imperative.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_delayed_is_justice_den...