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Umm, couldn't he just see which manufacturer made the best quality product, and work with them, and make a good profit margin? It may even be in that manufacturers interest to stop the other copycats.
I would argue that it is on par with a human being's right to be informed (read the news, buy books, etc.) Whether you call those basic human rights it's all up to you. The UN seems to think that it is a basic human right though.
Which is exactly why there is no risk of a shortage of people willing to exert themselves in order to get more than that. Lucky for them, they won't have to compete against those who don't.
> i was amazed how defensive most people in this thread became,

I should have prefaced it with that I really admire what they did. When we protest in the West we go out and draw large sign and march in front of the White House. Then we go home to our warm beds. Or we write angry messages on the internet from the comfort of our own homes.

I think what these people did is the real form of protest.
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But Trump is just as crooked if not even more crooked. He isn't going to change anything.
The photo samples are just bad photos. No camera would improve them.
It could be said about every one of us. Heck, I found myself being annoyed at Wikileaks during the past days because of the DNC leaks and I don't even support them or Hillary Clinton. Bias is one helluva drug.
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As someone who only uses Vim casually, what's an example of a bad default?

For someone who is new to Vim, they wouldn't know if the controls are bad, or tough to learn e.g. using jkl; instead of arrow keys.
Yep, and the day came and Assange's lawyer was somehow unavailable and they postponed it another month.
Endowments have very different requirements than many investors. They need the money to last forever, and they need it not to dip too precipitously during the downswings.
Yes, that's an urban legend.
not sure why instructibles doesn't have some kind of group buying feature.
The 20% rising up out of the middle fifth and the middle fifth being a fifth of total population are unrelated numbers. It's coincidence that they are the same number.
Since I've searched for the content, these are not ads but real content that match my search query which site owners have asked Google to render. If, despite matching my search query, the content is not what I'm looking for, then it helps me as a user to know that sooner rather than later.
You need an actual crime to extradite someone. That's why the rape case is so important.

That's the difference between "rendition" (kidnapping) and legal extradition.

There's no plausible crime to use for a UK extradition because Assange didn't hack into the systems himself, and isn't bound by our laws on the release of classified information.
I'm sure I could write a cronjob that would be naggy and demand to do what Windows does.

And I could even use SELinux so even as root, couldn't kill it. That's what "System" is, right?

/grrrr
If the entry barrier for GitLab is setting up/maintaining your own instance, you can always opt for https://githost.io/

The most value in GitLab today is that you have many things that requires you to setup additional integration with GitHub, as part of the product, and because of that you can get complex workflows mapped easily.
Oh I don't disagree there, given some of Booker's climate change pieces, starting with extreme suspicion is rarely harmful.
An anonymous source is vetted by the news agency which reports on the story. You're trusting the news agency to do their due diligence and think critically about the information they are given. The source is rarely completely anonymous as their identity is known by the news agency.

If the NYT says they got a tip from an anonymous source about Assange, it means more to me than if my neighbor Steve says HE got a tip from an anonymous source.
It's the professional standard while in public. Behind closed doors, it's not.

I would fully expect a CEO to joke about layoffs and whatever else during meetings with top executives. Doing it in front of the whole company would be horrible.
The preview for OP link on Facebook is broken, which is unexpected from nytimes.com
It's weird that it doesn't just grab the image from the article.
ICE cars are more complicated than phones, but I'm not sure pure-electric cars are that much more complicated.

One of the nice things about the electric car business is the the part count is a lot lower, they are basically much simpler devices, and thus should be able to be made much more cheaply.

We may see a Yugo level electric car for $10,000 in a few years.

This would allow for margin expansion, especially if Apple can innovate in the manufacturing side (eg: go one better on automating the factory)

Plus since currently a Toyota RAV4 level vehicle goes for $30k-$40k, if Tesla gets down to the low $30k, Apple could produce a car for the $40k price point and be making $10k-$15k profit on each one.

Lower gross margin than the phone business, but offers the opportunity of significant revenue upside.

Plus with Apple there would be follow on revenue as well.

Since people are in the habit of paying mid $30k for a car right now, while there will be cheaper electric cars at the lower end of the market, Apple wouldn't require people to change behavior to be able to afford a car that gives Apple the kind of margins it wants.

Plus I expect there will be several innovations that are things "only apple can do" that add value-- the interiors of cars and especially the electronics and instrumentation of modern cars are terrible. Even the Tesla which tried a new approach, I think has bad usability. There's a lot of opportunity there.
De facto standards are web browser standards - and react is not one. Web Components are. If your friends at work never heard about polymer than maybe its about time to read about standards and browser API's that are being implemented - it is part of the job to learn. Good engineers do this.

And lets remember like VueJS, Angular 2.x, Aurelia that use some parts of standards that polymer builds on are also popular.

React is very popular today, like jquery was in the past. It is already visible that things are in the flux. You just project a bubble around you.

Next 5 years we will be discussing the next cool thing, the trick is - most of polymer is being implemented inside browsers already. I've seen this pattern so many times over last 20 years...
Which broad problems did this enable you to understand or solve better?
Don't sell to someone who doesn't feel the pain. If the developers feel the pain but a VP has to be on board, get the developer to be a fanatical user of yours then advocate on your behalf. They'll have more sway than you.

See: Github, Slack
The anchor is tweeting about his side of the story: https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo . E.g., https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo/status/788025611730227201

I am not a lawyer but I'd say this is a legal gray area.

The leaker probably broke a law. E.g., hacking Podesta's private emails would have been illegal under computer fraud and abuse. It's alternately possible that the leaker had legal access but breached contract to release the data publicly.

Now that the information has been leaked, it's hard to say that it's clearly illegal for John Q. Public to access what Wikileaks has made publicly available. The anchor is unable to point to a specific statute in his tweet above and also mentions that it hasn't been tested in court to his knowledge.

A central theme of the leaks so far is that large segments of the media have been overly cooperative with the Clinton campaign in spite of feigned objectivity. This HN comment has curated some links to primary evidence https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12722664 . Take a quick perusal and you'll be about as informed as anyone on the answer to your question.
This is how math and science should be taught in school
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We should also value better the rest of the jobs that are needed for society to function.
> college was cheap

To be fair, that's largely because engagement was so low[1]. Under 10% of the population were college graduates. If we returned to those levels, costs would drop dramatically.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/1xUOimy.jpg

> home ownership was a given

But so was living in small town/rural areas, something that is completely unfathomable to most people these days. Like college attainment, urbanization is an upward trend. The difficulty of trying to fit more and more people into a relatively fixed area is what is largely responsible for the increased difficulty of affording a home.

The real problem here is that we think we can do what they did, with our own unique twist on it. If we actually lived like they did, those would still be true today. But we expect more, and that comes with a cost.
Oh wow, I never knew about that.
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Robots were fantasy golems wrought through hands rather than however you make a golem. They take up a vast footprint of needed resources that living things depend on, and get alot more care and attention than I guess even 40 human children might. They are a useful camoflauge for demented people to hide their sick practices.

How much human blood did my last refill for my SUV's neoed?

There is nothing wrong with robots, but people use robots to signal one thing to us that accomplishes the opposite. This is the concept of robots, not the reality. The fantastical mechanical slaves ready to serve our every need and fail to cut cakes even though they use a saw blade. This is a reference to the birthday party in Fallout 3. Like the infamously truthful "ceci n'est pas une pipe" featuring a painted image of a pipe, when you look at something through a computer, say a 'talking head' YouTube activist, you're really looking at a kind of android, it's a bunch of artificiality to produce a sequence of 'frames" that we 'know' but do not understand and end up deluded that we are actually 'looking' at another person.

They also oversimplify communication between humans, when we have our technologies 'mediating', especially across low-bandwith communication like text files and such, that it's pretty much guaranteed that one human on one side of the clod of machines will completely lose too much of some message to the lack of context.

I feel that the simplified communications' limits have their merits and are more fit for certain... interactions. It's dehumanizing... de- human-eyes -ing people that can't see each other eye to eye might have a vast hall of phantasms before them, in a masquerade pretensing more wholesome communication.
Because they're not being undermined. No private citizen is required to associate with any other private citizen except for the provision of protected classes in the course of public service or public business (and that is not an obligation of the patron, but rather an obligation of the business; a business is required to accept the custom of a black man, a black man is not required to patronize the Klan).

What I am saying only has become even slightly controversial as the reactionary right has lost power and the ability to exert their desired mores in society. Political activity earns political response, and if you want to make a case for the lack of ethics of such a thing I invite you to make it instead of just claim the end result.
> So a rejected presentation proposal may not have necessarily been a poor idea. Please do not take rejections personally.

There's also the case of having too many good talks and simply having to tailor the conference around a specific track of talks that might make the most sense for a given audience or for a given industry focus.
Upon seeing the headline I was hoping this was a reworked version of Vim that was more intuitive, that didn't require the user to learn all the secret handshakes and voodoo recitations to get things done.
The likely fallout of assassination is your own death. I'm not sure there is anyone who feels like Julian's death is worth their own.
> Assange has had his internet access shut down (probably true)

What basis do you have for the (probably true) rating?

The man literally told people he rescheduled his election-changing news conference from a balcony to a middle-of-the-night webcast, because he thought a sniper was going to kill him on the balcony. As if this was likely. Then it turned out his election-changing news conference was an advert for his book.

The man is great at marketing himself.
In order for the economy to work, human desires have to scale to the resources that the individual humans control.

For instance, Elon Musk has developed a desire to colonize Mars. Bill Gates has developed a desire to combat malaria. That is exactly the sort of thing that has to happen in everyone who acquires great wealth. After seeing to the needs of your immediate family, and possibly also your grandchildren, you have an economic duty to spend money, and not just invest it such that it comes right back to you.

Ordinary folks never have quite enough socked away that the economy has to worry about their non-circulating currency. But the rich, as a class, seem to lack the vision to "throw away" their money on grand-scale consumption. The middle classes have picked up some of that slack by buying phones and game consoles and affordable vacation packages, but that has largely served to make the wealthy wealthier, still with no corresponding increase in vision.

So the economy has two options. The rich start actually spending, like Gates and Musk. Or the government breaks the misers' fingers and pries the gold bars out of their grip, to spend on enormously expensive things like wars, welfare, and mega-engineering projects. The latter choice has become somewhat problematic, as the wealthy have discovered and developed ways to recycle the government spending back into their pockets before too much of it is lost to the hoi polloi--largely thanks to the military-industrial complex and corrupted political systems.

So what can a non-wealthy person do to unlock those resources wasting away as the immobile savings of the wealthy, or the tight-looped investments that turn only a few economic gears before returning to the coffers?

Try to get them all addicted to expensive drugs, perhaps? It would be nice if the rich folks of this era actually developed some sense of noblesse oblige, and decided to spend resources on developing the general welfare rather than increasing numbers on balance sheets. Depending on the scale of the wealth, this could be a patronage fund for local artists, or supporting donations to cultural institutions like museums and libraries, or underwriting improvements in the public transit system, or even collecting expensive items like classic cars or celebrity memorabilia.

If your only desire is to be Scrooge McDuck, and swim in your vault full of money, society is far better served by inspiring your heirs to have expensive dreams, and then arranging an unfortunate accident for you. If you don't want that, then spend some of your rassafrassin' money on isht you don't need, whenever you can afford it! If that cash doesn't move, some people out there might not be able to find work.
If it's a backhoe operated by the London Utility Commission, does that count as a "state actor"? :)
Fukushima was fifty years old. Compared to modern reactors, it's approximately as unsafe as a car from 1971 is compared to a modern car [1]. Which is to say, it's pants-shittingly unsafe and we should've replaced it 20 years ago but idiots say we're not allowed to "because it's dangerous oooh noooo".

If you want to badmouth nuclear by spouting off its worst-case scenarios rather than its average or expected scenarios, I invite you to do the same for the alternatives. Coal's worst case causes the Great Smog and Beijing and New Delhi. Oil's worst case causes the Exxon Valdez and Piper Alpha and the Texas City Refinery explosion and oh yeah global climate change. Hydro's worst case is the Banqiao Dam burst, which directly killed 200,000 people and forced 11 million out of their homes. Badmouthing nuclear over fukushima and chernobyl is like badmouthing cars because a Fluorine tanker crashed in downtown Seattle around 1935.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMK1WZjP7g
I haven't the faintest idea what your comment means and by the time I understand all this finance shit to even put together a comment like you did, I'll have given up all my hobbies and free time along with my job.

Fuck I hate finance so much. Googling for like a year and I still haven't the faintest clue what to actually do with my money.

Just going to keep it all in cash and call it a fucking day.
There are tons of enterprises using polymer already in production. One of the biggest companies in the world in their industry:
ING, SalesForce, Electronic Arts, Google (including Youtube).
Polymer community slack is growing greatly - there are a lot of components that people share, browser vendors finally agreed on shadow dom v1 API, things are looking really great.
Just curious, what editor(s) do you use? I was using Sublime Text, and for the hardest part of switching to Vim was feeling the huge productivity drop in the beginning as I relearned how to do everything.
Hah. I remember using those on MS-DOS PCs back in the late 80s, as well.

We put work-session data into the RAM disk, then saved it back to the hard drive at opportune times.
That was a good thread, good call.
>It's the professional standard while in public. Behind closed doors, it's not.

If an email leaked from my CEO with such a joke in a "private email" - I'd be looking for another job. Even if it was "obviously a joke". Just because it was said in private doesn't make it any less bad if the public hears it or change the standard people will judge it upon.
Edward Peck says it best:

In 1985, when I was the Deputy Director of the Reagan White House Task Force on Terrorism, [my working group was asked] to come up with a definition of terrorism that could be used throughout the government. We produced about six, and each and every case, they were rejected, because careful reading would indicate that our own country had been involved in some of those activities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_terrorism
One would imagine that he could get his hands on a cellular modem or a WiFi signal if he really wanted to.
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I don't know about the embassy but I enjoy the non-ironic claim that "The ambassador has not yet responded to emails."
You also forgot the part where Assange victims said they DON'T want him prosecuted, and only asked the government for help because they wanted a STD test.

So basically Assange is prosecuted for rape against two women that claim they weren't actually raped, while doesn't prosecute rape of someone that DID complained of being raped.

This cross outright into the non-sensical law land.
The scale to which they're referring is the scale at which optics/light/color are no longer used in the process of capturing the image. Coloring the subject wouldn't help at that scale, as light waves are too large to be used. Think electron microscopes.
Am the only one who is baffled by their explanation of correlation? FTFA:

"correlation in educational attainment between a parent and a child is generally around .4 to .6. This basically means that, if my parent has one more year of schooling than your parent, I will automatically end up with 4/10 to 6/10 of an extra year of school than you have, all else equal."

This doesn't line up with my understanding of statistics
Clearly you've never worked for a major UK bank. Sure there may be a handful of very specific developers who get full admin rights over their machines where whatever they're developing requires elevated privileges, but these machines are often sandboxed.

In many cases you're stuck as a "Power User" or whatever group policy the IT department deems sufficient for you to run Visual Studio (or IntelliJ etc). Been there done that twice in my career.
Bear in mind that your body always contains potassium (mostly non-radioactive, but a tiny bit is radioactive). Eating a banana just slightly increases your exposure for a short time.

If we take a look at our handy dandy xkcd radiation chart[1], we can see that eating a banana every day for a year exposes you to about 36.5 uSv radiation, slightly less than you get during a six hour airline flight. By comparison, the potassium naturally contained in your body already exposes you to 390 uSv radiation in a year.

[1]: http://xkcd.com/radiation/
Respectable organizations don't copy text from unsourced articles on partisan blogs, change the font to Courier to make it look like a cable, and then screenshot the result.
You can dig through some gems @ https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page...
> but in any case, the President cannot preemptively pardon people for future offenses for which they may or may not be convicted.

Well, in Assange's case, those would be past offences for which they may or may not be convicted. And I think that would be the same situation as Nixon when Ford pardoned him - he'd already done the deed, but hadn't been convicted yet.

edit: Though, since we're speculating already - does it even make sense for an American president to pardon an Australian citizen?
> My money is on this being an errant backhoe or similar, and Assange is just turning it into a big deal because he can.

With all the propaganda and accusations going around, please substantiate this.
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Here's my anecdata after recently attempting to move permanently from Windows to Linux Mint:

* No logitech mouse support = severely disabled experience. I can't use any of the extra mouse buttons in the way I want on my Performance MX. And yes I did spend several hours trying to get it to work but it seems that the button mapping works only for keyboard commands and even that I couldn't make work. And never could make the mouse wheel move at what I consider to be fast enough. Very frustrating.

* While it supposedly exists, I could not make f.lux work. This essentially prevents me from using my computer at all at night.

* The ridiculous amount of times I have to type in my password (and use sudo) is really user unfriendly. Yes I'm sure there's way to disable this or even use root but the average non developer user is going to be hugely turned off by this.

* Node is really, really good on Mint. A full stack MERN/gulp application took 10 seconds(!) to yarn. On windows it would take 2-3 minutes. And chrome just seems much faster for dev. While working on a multiplayer game with 5 windows open (MultiLogin) all of which are connected to livereload, it is about twice as fast for reloads vs windows and a bit faster than macos/macbook pro. Gulp itself takes about 20 seconds to start up on windows the first time is instant here.

So in the end there's just no way I'm going to use Mint for every day use i.e. websurfing and of course gaming. I'll switch to it when I want to do serious heads-down dev.. maybe. To be honest the fact that its a bit faster for node probably won't be a good enough incentive to go through the hassle of setting up a dual boot.
How is an absence of reporting meant to protect children?
Trump is just a different kind of corruption. Voting in a millionaire business man from a rich family and many years in the media isn't really the populist choice.
How sure are we that this isn't just a stunt by Assange? He can have visitors in the embassy. All that's required is for someone to hand the guy a burner phone and poof: twitter access!

So either he's in custody, or faking the whole thing IMHO. Surely his buddies in London should be able to verify the former, and if they can't they'd surely be screaming like hell that "We can't find Julian!".

The fact that everyone is radio silent tells me this is a stunt, honestly.
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It just may turn out that the embassy changed the wi-fi password and didn't give him the new one.
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