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That the writing is subjective and hence too colorful and wordy is evidenced by the remark, "what I find most interesting about them".

Edit: It is however not as long as I derided in another comment. At least there is a link to a relevant paper in the beginning, although further reading didn't appeal to reading that paper. The text is almost half as long as the paper, that's too long for a summary. I'll refrain from more critique as I'm far from an expert on literature.

Your comment is ironically very wordy as well, but I concur.

Edit2: I am not seeing sources for the images.
I don't want to sound too negative but doesn't this look like they were in need of volunteers even by risking the repo's integrity by allowing total strangers commit access from lack of commitment from the real core team?

It almost sounds like perl6 is a publically writeable repo.
As a matter of fact, Nintendo added it back to GameBoy Micro, so before DS was released. It's mentioned in the article too.
>Because he's Jim Motherf#%king Sterling, Son. And the irony embedded in that catchphrase just makes it that much more delicious.

Most people here probably do not know what either of those things are supposed to mean.
This is true, but that's not what I call "conspiracy theory". To see the difference, take Chomsky (or Assange, to an extent) as a good example. They are very critical to U.S. foreign policy, yet they never claim something without evidence (they don't claim for example that 9/11 was inside job), and as such they are not conspiracy theorists.

The problem with people that have conspiracy theories is that they ultimately defend same or worse atrocities, but done by some other party or even themselves.

> And that figure of 10 000 people can't keep a conspiracy secret is predicated on the idea that it's some kind of active plot

It's just a rule of thumb, where you should set a canary and deeply rethink your beliefs and evidence you have for them. You see, in order to maintain belief in conspiracy theory, you have to categorize all contradicting evidence as coming from either co-conspirators, or people who are "naive" and somehow manipulated. This means that over time, number of people that have to be involved in conspiracy will grow.

Of course there can be conspiracies of 10k people or more (e.g. NSA), but they are very difficult to keep secret in practice (there was on average one whistle-blower per 2 years on NSA spy programs). There can also be situations that look like conspiracies on the surface, as you correctly state, but those don't have the property that they can actively suppress dissent (which is required to sustain belief in conspiracy theory, to reject the contradictory evidence).
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Even brother is joining in the refillable tank brigade. No need to get a cartridge based printer in 2016 :)
Seriously? More shit on the iPhone headphone jack?

>> What brings this to mind is the introduction of the Apple iPhone 7. One of its highly touted 'features' is the elimination of a headphone jack. Taking advantage of this 'feature' requires the purchase of optional wireless earbuds (AirPods) that retail for an additional $159.00. Plus, the AirPods need their batteries charged independent of your smartphone on a dedicated charger (each charge lasts a maximum of five hours) .

1. The elimination of the headphone jack is not touted as a 'feature'. The bluetooth alternative using the W1 chip is and that's not actually related to the phone.

2. AirPod's are an optional accessory. Just like a case. Or any other pair of wireless headphones. Standard headphones still ship in the box as always and connect to your phone with a wire. Complaining that they are 'required' to use a feature of the phone (which again, they are not) is like complaining you need to buy a Car to use the 'CarPlay' feature or that you need to buy a lightbulb to use the 'HomeKit' feature.

3. Of course they need charging. Just like most other wireless headphones. In fact charging AirPods is more convenient than most because the carrying case doubles as a charger and stores 24hours power. So when they're in your pocket not being used they can be charging.

When is this circle jerk going to stop? If you're going to waste time keeping it going at least get the basic facts right.
The Gamecube example is interesting.

From the Wikipedia page:

> The only cables that can output a 480p signal from the GameCube are the official Nintendo-brand YPBPR component cables, available in both RCA[note 1] and D-Terminal[note 2] variations. These cables are equipped with a unique digital-to-analog converter developed by Nintendo which has not been reproduced by any third party company.

So the adapter is proprietary and I'd imagine wasn't exactly manufactured in huge numbers back then, which attracts such a high price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GameCube_games_with_al...
That's much worse and far more hypocritical than Comey's remark.
Only if the rats have Therapeutic Use Exemptions!!

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They were memorable only for the media coverage of the controversy that other people's money was spent on them.

This is lottery money, not taxpayer's, but that finite pot of money has plenty of other, legitimate, causes it could be funding.
I understand the point you're trying to make about the stress on frugality at Amazon and I agree with you, but your specific points are more accurate for past Amazon. These days Amazon has become significantly more accommodating.

The door desks are more of a tradition. You can request more expensive automatic standing desks easily. The soda/food is not subsidized day-to-day, but we do get coffee and tea (and if you stay late due to work you can get reimbursed for dinner depending on your team). The hardware is perfectly fine as well. I have 2x 1440p monitors and an i7 13" Retina MacBook Pro as well as a cloud desktop (courtesy of AWS) with scaling hardware as I need it for development.
Why? The elements are still there in the DOM and presumably in an XML infoset you create from the DOM produced from the HTML parser.
>>While vendors (like Apple) can still get around it by bundling an adapter in European markets

Apple most definitely does not bundle an adapter in European markets.
The author talks about Bluetooth headphones as if it was an invention of the evil Apple...
I've been exclusively using Bluetooth headphones/earphones, with my phones, since 2009, when the NOKIA BH-905 came out. And its price was around $300.

The liberty of movement a Bluetooth pair gives you, either running, around the house, or in your commute, made me never go back... I'm already on my 7th different Bluetooth headphone/earphone.

You can critique the design that Apple chose for its Bluetooth hearbuds, but don't say Bluetooth headphones/earphones in general are unjustifiable consumerism and that wired is the way to go...
That's interesting about the students. Were they geeks? Also was it definitely a case of 'we don't want them' or was that just a cover for 'we can't afford them'?
Android development is generally disgusting. Its an over engineered mess that you have to devote your soul to learn.
XPath is defined as operating on an XML infoset, not a DOM. And there's no defined mapping from a DOM to an XML infoset anywhere. So really we're in undefined territory.

In reality in browsers, that coercion to an infoset never actually happens, and XPath is matched directly against the DOM, which leads to differences in edge-cases (notably, adjacent text nodes, which the DOM allows and the XML infoset does not).
Consumerism is good, if it binds for limited ressources great amounts of consumer time.In this time, the consumer does not spend, the consumer does not buy, the consumer does not destroy. Minecraft is a great example for destructive consumerism. Selling a game for 10 $ which would take a large part of the audience for up to five years partially out of the game industry market.
I write HAML. It's confortable, resumed and strict. It outputs nice-formated HTML.
Does this also happens with laser toner cartridges ? I really have no idea why people even buy those inkjet printers anymore, price per page is lower with laser printers and prices even for a color laser are in sub 200€$ range.
I took issue with many of the points:

Firstly San Francisco isn't America though the same way that London isn't the England. They are aberrations and not representative of the majority of the country.

I took issue with some of his other points:

"Blindingly white teeth. The burrito that was so huge it felt as if it would break my wrist. Police officers covered in tattoos."

I don't even understand these. White teeth are not a salient characteristic of San Franciscans, neither is a police force covered in tattoos. I think the burrito he's referring to is Pancho Villas in the Mission and that is no way a normal portion even by America's generally larger portion sizes.

"I’m confounded how to explain to my two children why a wealthy society allows its most vulnerable citizens to languish on the streets."

He could be equally confounded on how to explain how a Buddhists society could refuse to help the Rohingyas drifting off the shore in the southern part of Thailand. Or why Thailand doesn't do more to keep its young girls from being stunted and exploited by the sex industry there. Paradox is not the exclusive domain of either S.F or the US.

Then this overwrought closing:

"I stood in the checkout line and watched milk-fed Americans unloading their carts onto the conveyor belt. My mind flashed back to the diminutive workers in a factory I visited in Tianjin, China, who for a few hundred dollars a month stitched leather boots and who giggled when they thought about the giant feet that would one day fill them."

Milk-fed? Why is that relevant? Dairy isn't as common in Asia because the majority of Asia is lactose-intolerant. Diminutive? What is that a reference to? People in Northern China have the same average height as do people in the US.
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It seems less of a critique of the headphone jack, than of $160 AirPods that easily fall out of one's ears. As the article concludes, the saving grace is the lack of a jack will lead to the proliferation of cheaper alternatives from other manufacturers.
+1 mentioning the project
> I'm not a physician, but I suppose a "cancer of the mind" is a sort of 'mental illness'?

No, it's a metaphor. :-) I mean if unchecked, then conspiracy theory will consume all your rational thinking about some issue and maybe affect other issues.

Nothing against irony, but you should first understand that "belief in conspiracy theory" is not about having a particular (contrarian) belief, it's solely about how you process evidence. As I explain above, Chomsky is a dissident (or contrarian), but not a conspiracy theorist.

Edit: I should probably also point out that there can be conspiracy theorists within the government as well, that is, not dissenters. Near the end of the cold war, there were people in U.S. government who believed that Russians have invisible nuclear submarines in all oceans, and I am pretty sure there were similar nuts in the USSR as well.
Life insurance fraud of killing yourself and making it look like it wasn't a suicide in order for your beneficiaries to get the payout. You would very much be dead.
Your comment reminds me of a story in a book called Shantaram. Guy feeds a mouse visiting his cell every now and then. Before being relocated this prisoner tells the new inmate to take good care of Mickey. Next thing he knows, his little friend is on display with two pencils piercing his body. Crucified.
In modern money, my razor handle cost ~us$70, but the blades code around 20c each.
Hint: it isn't.
This article just made my Sunday. It was a great 25m read on cognitive development stages. It definitely wrapped up a lot of loose thoughts I'd had on the subject.

Would be very interesting to hear where HN'ers place themselves. I suspect the estimated 5% of the population that reaches Stage 5 would be well represented here.

*edit - needed coffee, wording.
Inspecting is probably fine.

I did something in-between. But applying the principles is probably more important.
What do you think the risk is? That some sociopath gains access to the perl6 repo and replaces all the code with a shellscript that "sudo rm -rf /"'s?

Sure, that's possible, but good contributors will vastly outnumber bad contributors, and such a person's commit access would be revoked instantly. There's still code review for everything, and such a change would not go unnoticed.

Just look at Wikipedia. That's the equivalent of a publically writeable repo and hasn't turned into a total shitshow as a result.

As the Perl 6 ecosystem demonstrates you get way more out of inclusiveness than being paranoid about some hypothetical bad actor getting access to your repo.
The question is, where do we figure out market salaries? Glassdoor is hardly the final authority.
A flaw in the F35 will ground the USAF, USMC, US Navy, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, the West's two most-capable air powers. That will leave... France to defend Freedom.
Probably not the best choice of word, but I have seen a friend (smart programmer coworker, he studied physics) going (over couple years) from relatively harmless libertarian beliefs through disagreement with U.S. foreign policy and agreement with Ron Paul to being 9/11 truther and eventually believing that U.S. army is causing global warming. Just because he didn't like the government... So, be careful, it can afflict lot of people, not just Muslims.
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I'm saying that the diversity of the USA is not so large as to make irrelevant a comparison between a part of it and women somewhere else in the world.

This does not require the destination to be diverse, simply very different from the USA.
Or those Christian extremists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
Oh total pish!

I'm not going to start that war, but please at least reason from a factual basis.

It's a silly war, Ubuntu reaches parts of the Linux (and other OS) that Debian doesn't target. If you think Debian is better you should value Ubuntu for being an on-ramp. Honestly, dividing FOSS (or Linux) users is a bad play - we're all part of the same family, there's more that joins us than divides us.
Speaking for myself: Berlin has a special kind of poor-is-sexy culture and this would not be too unusual. Lived there for 4yrs, most of them without a smartphone (had a 20eur burner phone for communication and to receive monitoring alerts). Had an absolute blast and didn't feel like I was missing a thing.
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> It almost seems that we have created needs so that we can cater to them.

I think this statement sums up the type of consumerism we have today, across the developed world.
I'm really disappointed that I had never heard of it until now. That looks like something I would actually join.
Google's thing is 'tech', and they control the worlds biggest websites, so they're doing that _they_ can uniquely do. There are plenty of other people, organisations, and governments with money that can be spent on 'education'
>> "AirPods that easily fall out of one's ears"

Fine, but they haven't even been released yet. EarPods are the best fitting earphones for me. However I'm sure for others they fall out all the time. My point is that a paragraph based on the assertion that these 'expensive' earphones will fall out is ridiculous when the author hasn't tried them and their fit will differ from person to person.
Smartphones are quite affordable in Germany even for students. I'm not a student anymore but I don't own a smartphone for the same reasons, even though I could afford one.
Some people do everything there. They tend to be very vocal. Others just edit text with it. They tend not to be. Most are somewhere in between. We usually try not to be too annoying.

From the perspective of usage, while Emacs has a great deal of functionality, you need not use any of it that you don't want to. Indeed, Emacs is so shy and retiring about all it can do that you really need not even know about anything beyond text editing, unless you decide you want to.

The main drawback from my perspective has been interoperability. Org mode is brilliant, but when everybody else uses Evernote or OneNote, Org can't be the only thing you use unless you want to be that guy.

And using Emacs at all makes you likely enough to be seen as "that guy" anyway that it's worth not living up to the stereotype. I wish I were joking when I say that, in adult life, I've been the object of far more unfriendly regard as a result of my choice of text editor than as a result of my homosexuality, which I've never really been at particular pains to hide. It is easier, in the modern tech industry, to be gay, than to be an Emacs user. That's not Emacs' fault or that of its users, but it is real, and perceptions matter; if you're averse to the occasional funny look, this may be worth taking into account in your consideration of whether to try the editor.
> The most unfortunate thing about conspiracy theorists is that they can occasionally turn out to be right.

Well, them being correct from time to time doesn't justify the method they use (pure logic ignoring empirical evidence). What I call "conspiracy theory" is an unproven claim, or something for which there is contradictory evidence. Once proven, it's simply a "conspiracy", and there is nothing wrong with belief in existence of (proven) conspiracies.
I think they genuinely believed their own hype. And then instagram/snapchat happened and stole away an entire generation who cared more for narcissistic photos and sexting than snarky political jibes in 140 characters or less.
There are no fines large enough the ACCC can serve that will stop them from this practice. ACCC is pretty toothless again big companies like this.
I think the article is missing an important point. Why are there foreign transaction fees in the first place? Also I think that any large service is semi doomed because of the governments in each of the countries you plan to do business in. They want to protect their own banks.
Additionally, note that pretty much all help for homeless people is heavily tied to a requirement to keep off drugs in many places, with zero tolerance policies in place. I don't know if that's the case in San Francisco, but it's a large part of the reason many homeless people are unable to access support to get them into housing.
Yes, people are using their phones to make phone calls but I still don't think it's in the top 5. That's what this discussion is about.
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If your central infrastructure is down for many days you have other problems. Buffering logs on disks. Rotating and zipping files doesn't take much space. You can buffer a lot before you run into trouble. That's my point. You sound like buffering on the node is only possible for seconds whereas in real world scenarios log files are written for days, weeks or even months. Even in very large deployments and lots of logs. You would make the decision to don't use this advantage and throw logs away for no good reason.
But will quantifying "spare room" be a loophole? For instance is a studio a spare room?

Also if you search AirBnB right now for "whole apartment or house" for Berlin there is 300+ properties.
What issue is that?
All people really need is food and some basic shelter.

The way economics began is the farmers create the food, and non-agricultural workers trade non-essential goods and services with the farmers. Over time, the percentage of people working in agriculture declined. In less developed places like India, 50% of workers are still in agriculture.
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Lesson learned: don't have a rug.
Look past the airpod hate train in this post and I think you'll see a valid point. Post-Jobs Apple is shifting towards being a technology fashion company. It was always in their DNA, but if you look at the Apple Watch as well, the trend is clear. Since fashion is practically the platonic ideal of a marketing induced want, Apple fashion products will be useful examples of marketing's power to change our behavior.
They are so desperate for revenue that the narrative and what is allowed to stay trending is something that can be bought. A good example of this is BLM (regardless of what you may think of the cause). I don't use twitter primarily because of its obvious censorship and the blatant propaganda use (BLM and arabic/islamic spring).
Interesting. I've only spent a few days in Berlin (about a year ago) and I definitely got that anti-consumerism vibe. I quite enjoyed it and people seemed pretty happy just hanging out and having a drink and some conversation in grimy bars that probably wouldn't survive in London. I'm generalising probably as it's a big city but in the area I was in I definitely got that impression.
If side project == freelancing, i just had my first (and only) month $1k. This was though Upwork. I negotiated hard and got 75% more than the initial offer. It felt more like negotiating a commodity (my day-job) than a specific skill set.
I won't knock Upwork too much though, as I got my first freelancing gig through them without much effort.
I am from India and I can tell you that there are 2 things that I find in India are very much unique and exotic.

1. Indian culinary skills are something very rare. I have travelled around of the world and seen the culinary skills everywhere, nowhere I have seen such a great usage of spices and variety of dishes that can be produces with mixing different ingredients. You can have variety of Roti's or parathas(which are indian breads) by combining different ingredients with breads. Most people know the India has so many languages and the dialects change every 100 miles, but only few foreigners know that it is true for food as well. Each state has its own set of foods. The food habits in North, central, south, east & west are completely different. There is so much to explore when it comes to food. we not only have diversity in religion and languages but also in food.

2. The train journeys in India are most exotic. There is no where in this world(im talking about developed countries), where you can have open train cabins. Just take a long cross country train journey and you will feel more satisfied and contemplated in the end. You might feel a bit uneasy about so much crowd around you, but just forget everything and look outside the window and see the passing by mountain and the setting sun. You will feel satisfied and have the best sleep in your life in that train journey, if it happens to be an overnight journey. This is when you will realize there is peace in the midst of all the chaos.
Bluetooth Capable Headphone Sales Surpass Non-Bluetooth Sales (in dollars, not in units) - https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/news/press-releases/20...
It does on the last point.
I'm wondering where the legal boundary lies though, port scanning might be a grey area but mostly fine.

Connecting to an FTP service (i.e. logging in), even just for 5 or so seconds....I'm not so sure.

Especially when big companies with lax security and aggressive lawyers might see this is as a "hacking attempt"
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Lauri Love wasn't merely communicating, he was hacking into US government computer systems and stealing credit card info.

If you are just opposed to all instances of extraposition, then ok, but that has nothing to do with this specific case.
This literally only makes sense if money/the economy is the only thing you care about.
Right, it's not very fashionable, but both Google and MS are using Perforce for their own work... Normally the industry just slavishly imitates whatever Google does!
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