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Don't have a port, and user will be forced to buy the new headphones => profit for the market. Implement some "genuine accessories" program that'd start spamming user with alerts if the connected headphones won't pass Apple-style cryptographic handshake and they'll have buy it from you => profit for yourself. Also allows for vendor-specific proprietary extensions that weren't easy to have with analog plugs (but still existed), but easy to have with USB-C. Oh, and tell users that it's all for them - improved audio quality (in earbuds, yeah), thinner smartphones, and whatever other advantages marketing division could invent - and users'll eventually accept it.
As of now, virtually non-existent.
I totally agree, the demand & the means exist. However, the intent of retail providers is anything but enabling simple, automated controls. Everything is about grabbing the data cash bag and, as an afterthought, let's personalize your experience. I have been pondering this and the only conclusion I can come up with is the market controllers(more than mere "forces") have much to gain by selling the perception instead of reality and their treasure troves of patents(from commercial side) allow them to maintain this position. IMO, the digital revolution of ours has transformed sharing into one way collecting and the consumers into commodities. Both of which I find quite offensive, and sometimes, outright hostile. Alas, our money is our only true vote. Vote accordingly.
> look at all the other legacy ports we’ve abandoned

I miss a lot of those ports. A lot of people do. Fumbling around the office for an Apple-compatible video cable is a relatively frequent event, in my experience.
Welp, a proposition in chemistry is cleanly falsifiable, so we can gradually (as we have historically) delimit "chemistry proper" from what we could call the general phenomenology of matter. Of course, taken to a metaphysical limit, it's not even the case that things are embedded in a context, but that they're the context itself (as Derrida famously put), but this is completely irrelevant to chemistry.

I don't believe this is the case with psychology or linguistics. Of course, I could be wrong; in particular, they may work as "applied pseudosciences" (much like economics, which is really useful) even though we will never arrive at their foundations.

EDIT: More succintly put: the objects of interest of chemistry always arrived as abstracted from context, while the objects of linguistics and psychology are the context themselves.
Interestingly, it looks like a very large apartment building, with several police officers clearly visible near doorways on StreetView.
Huh, must have to do with my FB session. Still shows as missing from my account but loads fine in incognito.
Eh, you pretty much do. If you want to use any apps to interact with websites, Apple's aggressive upgrade treadmill forces you to upgrade your iOS to upgrade your apps to continue using what you're already happy with.
I've never heard of that before, pretty cool.

But now I've got the idea of trying to write lyrics for "Lenin Was A Mushroom" (to the tune of Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog) stuck in my head, but I can't because I have too much work to do today.
I know. Java and C# have primitives as well, which are also values and not references. I was speaking broadly. :)
Whether the charges are currently filed isn't important; they always can file the charges later.

The U.S. has claimed the right to kidnap people off the street, detain them indefinitely, or kill them as it deems necessary. I'd be very surprised if any of those tactics would be used on Assange, but in that context pressuring/asking another country to deport him to the U.S. to face charges seems within the realm of possibility.

If you were Assange, would you want to gamble life in prison on your odds, whatever they are?
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It doesn't bridge directly to real IP, there will be a 'hub' somewhere. You can't talk directly to the devices from any PC or mobile on the network, which is less convenient but reduces the attack surface to just the hub.

(It's also much more power-efficient; you can't really use wifi on battery powered devices unless you charge them frequently)
saying such things to this particular audience will result in massive downvotes.
Even in a distant-future fantasy world where everything works perfectly, charging your headphones still sucks.
To those who have quit on spot, Bravo and i envy you really. Not many have the luxury to do it.
There was:

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Авторское_право_в_СССР

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

Anyway in 2012 Russia retroactively applied rules of the Bern convention to all RSFSR works by becoming the member of WTO.
When I grew up in Germany almost everyone seemed to believe that the moon landing was a hoax. In fact I was usually labeled as the crazy one by my peers for believing it actually happened.
I couldn't edit the text in Firefox.

[edit] Personally, I already knew I had clicked a link on HN. All the popup banner did was distract me from the content...well ok, it annoyed me a bit too.
7 years after getting into Linux, I still prefer Nano to make fast edits to text files. Coming from a Windows history shortcut keys are fairly natural to me, and although I disagree with some of the mnemonics, I've got the improtant ones memorised. There's enough features to even do light coding in it (syntax highlighting, auto-indenting etc.). Basically, I can pull up, edit and save a file before vim has even entered Insert mode.

Don't get me wrong, I understand the need for a feature-complex editor like vim, but I have never, ever gotten on with it.
How are you getting a "theoretical pure black" without having a rigorous theory of color? If you're just going to call some things black and some things red, you'll find that a lot of things that people call black are lighter than a lot of other things that people call red.
Another item to add to the list of things/ideas explored by Star Trek before being discovered/invented.

A somewhat related and interesting read: http://www.physicscentral.com/buzz/blog/index.cfm?postid=792...
I've owned a few dozen phones for work and personal use, including some old flip phones. All of them had headphone jacks, and none of them failed due to the headphone jack. I've never even heard of a headphone jack being the point of failure.

Along those lines, I've had several waterproof phones with headphone jacks (and no rubber covers, either).
I suppose in most countries, one cannot sign away personal copy rights. You are always the author. But one can easily give right to use the work because of author's economic rights (and one must obligatory specify the fields of exploration in such agreement).
With a record like that I think he should be allowed to do whatever he pleases with the project.
This happens a lot. The GPL remains enforcable, but just because you have a copyright doesn't mean that people will bother to comply with it.
"Most ideas are mediocre down to bad" -- and mine certainly have been.

Beyond ideas, I would do some process things differently, especially those that could have been done better if I had been able to understand people better.
I've seen this happen like twice or maybe three times before. They always fix it pretty quickly too.

Does anyone even know where to send that error log too?
* Like the gen_statem new state machine.

* mnesia_ext : means a whole set of new possibilities to scale Mnesia. I think Klarna started that work and was using it in production. LevelDB was used for the backend.

* 3-5x faster open_port means being able to start and execute external executables. Forking was basically moved to fork a special process as opposed to main VM.

Tracing should be a lot faster as well. This is the one I mostly exciting. Been using tracing instead of adding log statement but if it is faster, it means can do more in production with it. Saw they have lttng as well. Also worth playing with.

* Code loading is now parallelized. So hopefully startup should be faster.

* Domain sockets. I know some people wanted this for ages. This should be nice. There were external project which did it, but it is nice to see it in the VM.

* os:perf_counter/1 function. Probably a read out of rdtsc or such instruction. That should be fun to use.

* ++ operator for lists now uses a single pass, so should be faster (before used to use another pass to check if list is proper).

* Observer now has configurable update frequency and length for graph windows. I'll be using that. I like observer.

Very impressive. Not a lot of 30 some year old languages make such kind of updates (yes Erlang is 30 years old this year, that is probably older than most HNers here).
This would be sustainable iff:

1. The party who did not want to be involved in the situation was considered the defendant (as opposed to the current default-inversion where they likely have to go on the offensive in court).

2. The only outcome from 'losing' such cases was enforcement of the original order, rather than fines and jail for noncompliance with the original ambiguously-fraudulent order.

3. The defendant was given gratis legal representation of their choosing.

4. In the case that a defendant did something that was not required of them due to a misrepresentation by the aggressor, they were automatically and fully compensated for damages (more relevant for individuals vs the police).

Without this, those who are less disincentivized to engage in legal battles (eg those who don't risk jail time for losing, are getting paid a salary, and are funded by public money) will use the complexity of the legal system to bully those who would simply rather not get involved. Since the costs are borne by those who would rather not be involved, the complexity of the legal system will grow without bound - the current de facto requirement for the average person to employ a lawyer to interpret the law is already a violation of "equal protection".
It's getting harder and harder to avoid, though.

Every single day, my iPhone pops up a box asking if I want to upgrade to the latest 9.whatever. It does this in the morning, when I'm tired... or at other seemingly-random times of the day.

It offers 3 options: "Install Now", "Install Tonight", and "Ask me Later". There is no "Stop asking me" option. One of these days I will slip up and hit Install Now, and probably lose the use of my phone for the next hour.
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I don't know WTF "Drake" is, but I'll assume it's some kind of crap music since you mentioned it alongside Rihanna, which at least I've heard of somewhere. Where you got the idea that I would like crap music, I have no clue. A Mozart concerto is far, far superior to any kind of modern pop, though I'd also really like Bach, Handel, or Vivaldi.

But sorry, I completely disagree with you. Ham radio is absolutely a nostalgia hobby. It really offers nothing in usefulness over internet-based communications, unless you're one of those wackos who thinks civilization is about to collapse any day now. Normally, I wouldn't care much about it, because your second paragraph is mostly correct: a hobby doesn't necessarily need to be useful or have a point, and can offer a way to learn lots of useful things. My problem is that, for me, a hobby does need to be useful and have a point usually, and I don't see it here. I like electronics and all, but if I spend a bunch of time building a radio, WTF am I going to do with it? Chit-chat with a bunch of old men thousands of miles away? Yippee. I can't think of anything more dull. But what really annoys me are 1) expressing this opinion and being told I'm wrong (I'm not: it's an opinion), and 2) the constant whining I hear from ham radio enthusiasts about how the hobby has lost so much popularity, which is the only reason I even offer my opinion. I never hear disco fans whining about how discotheques playing 70s disco are all gone, but the hams are constantly whining about it. And then when someone explains from their perspective why they don't find it a worthwhile hobby, they get all defensive about it, as your post clearly illustrates.
> Assigning copyright to the FSF is very much unlike assigning copyright to a for-profit company. The terms that you sign and agree to with the FSF are very reasonable and they protect the developer from having the license changed should the FSF be taken over by people that would want to abuse your contributions.

This does not comport with my understanding of how copyright works. Once you transfer your copyright to someone, the creative work is entirely theirs. So what standing would you have to object to what they do with it? It belongs to them now, not you.

It doesn't matter what an agreement says if you don't have standing in court to enforce it.
So everything it does, it does badly? To me, that's not 80% of the way there, that's more like -80%.
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That's an interesting read thanks.
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That is surprising. I live in India, and there's no regulation around renting it out or asking tenants to vacate. As long as both landlord and tenant adhere to the agreement document, all is good. No government interference.

Government enforcing regulations asking a landlord that he can or cannot use his home for letting out to a person of his choice seems very regressive to me.
I really like using email newsletters, specifically the ones that aggregate items. You can usually find very specific ones, but there are also general ones.

These get sent out weekly, so you do not have to worry about missing the big items in that specialization.
I've had Bluetooth headphones for years and still prefer wired headphones unless my phone is charging.

BT headphones discharge very quickly, have terrible audio quality, and are somewhat uncomfortable due to the added weight.
Except when the FBI hacks an iphone. Then we all get mad
You have the right to remain silent, and you have the right to have an attorney present, at least in one country.
I don't keep track of them ...
Correct me if I am wrong here, but it sounds like GNU project requires that either all code is assigned to FSF, or none and then the project need to enforce copyright themselves. In this case, the current maintainer want to assign copyright, the new co-mainter don't, and thus the project got an internal conflict between the maintainer and co-maintainer. The hostility is thus primarily between the two maintainers, rather than between GNU and Benno.
Is it? I think his point is that key repition may not be a relevant factor when a gzip can be presumed.
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There's a lot of historical context you're missing if you think axiomatic proofs are meaningless. Around the late 1800s, a few contradictory proofs started popping up because people weren't being rigorous enough (the example I know involved proofs about pointwise vs uniformly continuous functions just being referred to as "continuous"). Then a few paradoxes were discovered (like Russel's paradox, the set of all sets that don't contain themselves) and the Mathematics community realized formalizing their assumptions and reproving everything from the ground up was necessary. So Whitehead and Russel started to write Principa Mathematica, and everyone was happy in the Math world until Godel came along and proved that Principa Mathematica would either have contradictions or have unprovable theorems.
Ironically, I switched from Android to an iPhone 6 partially due to Apple's high-quality headphone jacks, after having two really bad experiences with expensive Android phones.

I'll be happy enough to switch back if Apple really shoots themselves in the foot like this, but despite the rumors, I still think it's extremely unlikely.
Right point.
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I like what Sam Altman is setting up and fostering
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If it's not connected to the Internet, isn't that just a Network of Things?
> ‘the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak’ being translated to ‘the vodka is agreeable, but the meat is spoiled.’

This is great!

The way I heard it: "out of sight, out of mind" translated to "invisible idiot."
Copyright assignment isn’t actually required by the GNU project. It’s the maintainers choice whether to require it for the specific project or not.
None of my peeves are "pets"
You forgot ESC after making changes ;)

nano file_foo

make changes

ctrl-O-Enter - save
ctrl-X-Enter - exit

Simpler, I think?
Alan, is this the right direction we are looking at?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cobalt
DETS is supposed to repair itself on startup. I think most crash-only systems work that way (on startup, start reading from end and find last consistent bit and chop off the rest). But there could obviously been a bug there.
That's what volumes are for -- put a volume on NFS and have your DB persist there.

Even with docker you still need roles for servers; your DB class of servers will have a cloud-config that inits the correct mount points.
Not true of Nexus and some HTC devices. Moto phones used to be the same way, but I'm not sure what Lenovo's doing with that brand. My original Moto X was my favorite phone ever.

Android has a lot of choice, but that also means extra work to find the phone that works for you. I won't even consider a phone that isn't "vanilla" Android and backed by a guarantee of upgrades (so basically I'm stuck on Nexus).
Isn't it the better UTF-8 support what is in favour of Elixir?
Alleged rape happened six years ago. There was enough time to investigate, and make trial in absentia. Stretching this case for years (possibly decades) is not fair to his victims.
Sucks big time
I had a tiny mp3 player for my car, with an audio out and a usb charging port. It still couldn't charge and play at the same time. I was pretty upset after buying a cigarette lighter - USB adapter for it.
Was it really necessary to also publish their email addresses?

--

Edit: I know the addresses appear in the Git repo. But they are not accessible to web crawlers over HTTP. Most code hosting services require a login to see them as a spam control measure. Which is also why I think they should be obfuscated at least.
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They don't seem to do much of that kind of kidnapping to put people on public trial, do they? The only case I know of was Eichmann's extraction to Israel. I assumed (but I'm not sure) that those kinds of operations were kept secret.

All that to say, I doubt they'd secretly kidnap Assange to put him on trial in the US for... publishing documents given to him by other leakers? It's not exactly a clear cut case, I don't think. It'd be more politically agreeable to kidnap some terrorist for that kind of thing.
A recent episode of Limitless (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5146006/) had this as a subplot.
Super excited! I really want to dockerize our deployment. Hopefully I get into the preview. I am so happy Microsoft is becoming more open and really showing some great engineering.
Wow, that thread is impressive. I think I've never seen a Github thread that long, complex, and yet with such politeness.

The internet may have ruined me, but I somehow expected the thread to end up in insults and nasty things after a while; and here I am, amazed. Really well done.
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I replaced a 500 line buggy maven nightmare with a 50 line SBT file that caches build targets.

I won't go back.
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I'm not sure why you tagged that as sarcasm because it's 100% true. They're creating a market that didn't exist, and they'll be the ones licensing/manufacturing the products.
They set conditions (we will keep it free) just like any software contract where you only get the software if you promise to adhere to some rules.

I don’t think the FSF ever violated the condition, so there’s nothing you can do to test whether a court would follow that interpretation.
So if the US wanted him, they could file the appropriate charges and just ask the UK to extradite him here instead of Sweden? Then what? He leaves the embassy and how does the UK decide where to send him first?
> There is theoretical pure black in any modern representation of color. If the term confuses you, you can replaces it with #000000. If the black vs red comparison still confuses you, you can replace it with #600000 vs #FF0000. You might also want to address my actual argument, instead of irrelevant technicalities.

So you're using a numeric representation of colors (RGB) to prove to me that black is darker than red.

By doing this, you're basically proving my point.

1) different people may have different opinions on "obvious" statements

2) the simpler the statement is, the easier it is to accept or reject it

If you give me two color plates, one is black, and one is red, I might find people who disagree which one is darker.

But if you give me photo measurements, I will say that one is objectively darker with respect to a specific metric (e.g. visible photon energy flux, YCbCr luminosity, CIECAM02 luminosity).
I am not sure that Kotlin competes with Scala in any way. They are trying to remove the pain from Java by providing a concise and safe language (see the quotes from their website below). What are "all the things" they reinvented that were discard in Scala?

> Kotlin is a pragmatic programming language for JVM and Android that combines OO and functional features and is focused on interoperability, safety, clarity and tooling support.

> Being a general-purpose language, Kotlin works everywhere where Java works: server-side applications, mobile applications (Android), desktop applications.
Wow, I've never heard of avocado-flower honey. What kind of flavor does it have?
In most countries law does not `see` GPL. Law sees authorship. And in open source projects the authorship is not clear. You can be 5% author of the code. So be careful what you are doing with the code.
“similar in spirit” is a pretty strong condition, since there are lots of philosophy texts on the GNU pages which make it clear what “similar in spirit” means. A court would likely rely on these to decide a case.
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Beyond the dinosaurs being the big spenders on TV, there's no way digital advertising as we know it today will replace TV advertising. Creatively, you really can't even compare the two. A TV spot is the opportunity to make someone laugh or make someone feel something – anything. A banner ad or a spot with a "skip now" button is not going to do that. You really can't tell a story (as cliche as that sounds, its true). Digital advertising has less creative opportunity for the people making it and basically no reason for anyone seeing it to care.

This is why Snapchat and Facebook starting to really figure out video is so huge in adland. As attentions shift there and it starts to house real content, advertisers will have an actual digital channel to create content people might actually care about.
I would go straight to vim and type: "/section_start<cr>", which navigates straight to that line. Then navigate to the line, "i" to enter insert mode, make edits, and "<esc>:wq<cr>".

It is absolutely a learning curve, but the power of vim is insane. "dd" deletes lines, "A" appends to the end, "I" inserts at the beginning, "<lineno>G" jumps to a line number, all little tweaks that I use nearly every day in editing files quickly. It's especially nice when editing known_hosts where it tells you the line of the offending key, just "<line#>Gdd:wq" and it's done.
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