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I am 100% against regulation of Drugs, and the War on drugs so I would say no..

But even under current laws, if you make a new drug the government must go through a process to make it regulated and classify it. It is not automatically illegal.

By default all things are LEGAL until they are made ILLEGAL, not the other way around. The one exception to this is Medication, where in order to claim it treats as specific illness it must be approved by the FDA to treat that illness, the drug itself if not illegal per say, it just can not be proscribed by a doctor to treat X until it is approved to do so.

Further even in the regulations of Dangerous drugs they do not prevent someone from finding a market in other nations for them. There are a whole host of medications that have been not been approved by the FDA that are sold in other nations.
On the contrary, I find that with pervasive mobile maps and GPS, I can feel free to wander around and get completely lost and never have to worry about not being able to find my way back to my hotel.
You don't have to move outlets, just combine them.
Quoting from the article you are referring to:

> He recommends a global wealth tax and, for the United States, top income tax rates of 80 percent on income above $500,000 or $1 million to combat inequality and 50 or 60 percent on income above about $200,000 to combat inequality and grow the government.

First of all I haven't read the book yet so can't comment on the numbers.This limit can very well be a million or a few millions. He is arguing is that effective tax rate on multinational companies is lower than small and medium scale businesses. This isn't good for capitalism. In fact this will just hasten the process towards concentration of resources in the hands of few organization or groups. Will it look like a capitalist society anymore when a few big groups own everything and others compete for minimum wages?

> The violence of Law should be applied exclusively against those who violate the human rights of others. It should not be used to take property from one group to give to another.

You are circumventing the basic question. From where property came from? Did individual said "Let there be property" and property came into existence?

No, property is a result of individual's or an organized group's utilization of natural or human resources. Piketty is not arguing to take it away with force in communist fashion. All he is arguing is that tax should increase with income which is contrary to what is happening on the ground nowadays[1][2].

> I grab some clay, and create a nice figurine. You give me some sea shells in exchange for it. No one has a right to a share of my sea shells.

We are discussing taxation of higher income not some petty transaction between individual player. However, if we take your argument to its logical conclusion and imagine a billion dollar Multi-National making the same argument that I am just bartering few thousand tonnes of clay with few hundred tonnes of seashell so we aren't responsible for soil erosion and extinction of species.

Only reason not to tax large groups was that they generate employment and moves the society forward by investing money into research. This is not true research [3] as well as jobs[4].

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/10/why-we-need-a-global-wealth-t...

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/04/news/economy/buffett-secreta...

[3] https://www.ted.com/talks/mariana_mazzucato_government_inves...

[4] http://www.truthfulpolitics.com/http:/truthfulpolitics.com/c...
The way we currently have it has worked for at least 30 years and takes at most, a few seconds of explaining and everyone I've ever met understands the file metaphor.

There's this anecdotal story about how people in the early 80s couldn't figure out that the mouse should be intentionally rolled around on the table without a demonstration but once shown it was clear.

We shouldn't have some visceral animosity against something if it takes non-zero time to learn; especially if we are talking about under 30 seconds.

Many major common things take months of time to figure out; literacy, basic arithmetic, cooking, any mode of transportation, relationships, temper, finance, and time management; infants even take a significant time to figure out sleeping.

Anyway, what we have is fine - no further simplification required.
You can see if your message was sent to the server and if the message was sent to your friends phone. I haven't really had any problems delivering messages apart from one time when they had servers problems.

No need to use Chrome if you don't want to, Chromium also works.
Does Logitech make a USB-C receiver for their wireless mouse yet?
we only allow linear switches(clear,red,black) at our office.
Totally disgusting to drag Robin Williams into this.
Show HN: Dist – Manage and distribute essential information (on any webpage)
Where "violating human rights" apparently means "not using government violence to enforce exclusive control of resources by individuals".

I'm not against capitalism as an economic system, but I find this moralising of its means rather than its end to be very distasteful.
Just in case you don't know this still, there is a latex package for braille. You can write a .tex file in english an put \usepackage{braille} in the preamble of your tex files and your output will be translated to braille automatically. The pdf can be then raised printed with the appropriate hardware. You could find it useful for documenting your software (tutorials, faqs, manuals, etc...), in both languages even if your collaborators don't know a single word in braille.

You will need to have the package texlive-fonts-extra installed.

You could want also to contact with the maintainers of brltty, cl-brlapi, ebook-speaker or brailleutils
That's a bit short, it would probably be more productive if you said what was wrong.
Hi HN- looking for feedback and crit of this initial product and service. If you have any questions or comments, I'd be glad to field them.

PS: here's a 3min read on Medium on why I built Dist:
https://medium.com/@distHQ/why-i-built-di-st-dfff0f1ba3de#.r...
Connections in a world you won't work in and four years of studies in a maybe free educations system yes but where you will have to pay rent without having an income.
I'd say tools change every couple of days and often introduce breaking changes.
I believe it has exceptional value, in the form of not spoiling the whole thing before you even click on it.
This is some amazing writing. I couldn't care less about what kind of keyboard I use, but I kept reading and reading because this was just so easy to read.

Can anybody explain why what made this such a good read? Or point me in a direction where I can improve my own writing?
I'd argue that if someone wants to get a flip phone for privacy reasons they should be able to not download shady apps and give them permissions without thinking.
> It made it easier to share the feeling of joyful discovery the author experienced.

I gave up when the author's tweets, which were already a bit painful to follow, gave way to random comments by others or the author himself and disappeared.

So, I just learned that this is a guy who, when in front of a traffic sign, stops to take a picture of it, and needs to waste time with Google Map to find his path because OMG-I-don't-have-Internet-on-my-phone-what-am-I-gonna-do-I-feel-like-an-adventurer-now, instead of just following the sign, which is why the sign is made for.

I can't wait for Twitter to collapse, honestly. It is a nightmare of usability, of usefulness, of readability and a dozen more *-abilities. That someone purposefully chooses to write on this medium is beyond me.
If we followed that idea though (keep it as it has been for 30 years) then Google Drive or iOS would have you browsing through hierarchical folders like Windows Explorer.
Yeah. It's recurrent in contracting firms.

But it makes sense for contracting firms. People get billed no matter whether they do (or can do) anything. The ability to execute is not part of the job.
It's interesting that the Broadway play opened on January 16, 1964, just 16 days after the starting date for automatic renewal of copyright set by the Act of 1992. Had it opened just a couple of weeks before, and not renewed¹, it'd be in the Public Domain by now.

¹ Only 15% of works were renewed after its initial 28 years of protection, which just goes to show the insanity of the current default duration.
Exactly the reason that many people are wise to hold off on installations. The long term cost savings are wasted if future products are exponentially better in the short term. Non-financial benefits aside, naturally.
>What makes your claim to own the things you own correct and someone else's invalid?

The fact that I made it, or acquired it from someone else through trade.

>Or more generally, how do you go from a world with no property rights, to one where everything has a defined owner, in a way that is simple and obviously fair?

The homestead principle is based on the notion that if something is unclaimed, and someone adds value to it, they should be able to enjoy the full benefit of that value-added thing.

The only 'artificial' private property is scarce natural resources, most importantly land, and that is because much if not most of its value comes from its natural form, rather than anything added to it by its original homesteader, and it is this class of property which society has a moral right to create rules/taxes on.

With respect to this latter class of property, once the rules on its use have been established (say a rule asserting that a property title owner must pay a rent equal to 1% of the value of their land to the government each year) anything the title owner earns in accordance with the rules (e.g. anything they earn on top of the 1% tax) is theirs by right.
, and . is another one that really needs to just die.
I just picked up the Sellout based on the hype from the Booker prize. I haven't gotten too far into it yet but the hype is certainly well deserved.

I usually don't like jumbled stream of consciousness novels, but I like this one. It reads like a really good standup comedy routine where the humor is sitting just above the surface of deeply unpleasant truth.

I'm glad a publisher finally took a chance on it.
I thought presenting a list like this was sub-optimal, because people see it and remember the written statement, not the myth.

Thus, people remember "stock photos enhance user experience", and not "stock photos harm user experience".
They simply publish them to a book, and send the book....

ITAR is unconstitutional on its face, sadly the courts have upheld it.

Phil Zimmermann and MIT Press showed everyone how to get around ITAR, 1st amendment trumps all

Information should be free....
I have got the same Thinkpad USB keyboard and I love it. I think it is very close to the keyboard of the X230 generation of laptops. While the layout has some flaws, I actually prefer typing on this compared to the "classic" pre-cliclet keyboard built into my X220 laptop. It has a very nice tactile response and my fingers find the right keys very easily. So it's "clicky" and "precise". The trackpoint is very useful, compared to the older model of my X220 it is much easier to comfortably travel long distances on a big screen. Only the trackpoint buttons are a bit too mushy for my liking.
Minimalist python backend stack:

Django, gunicorn, Django Rest, Postgres (psycopg2), celery, redis, requests, nose, factory_boy, freezegun, raven

Building good applications for lots of people requires lots of stuff. Using vanilla JS to build web apps is as much fun as using vanilla python to build a backend.
Do you take it bad when an exercise is to print numbers from 1 to 10 (inclusive)? :D

Then repeat, with a function to print numbers from 1 to n (given as argument).
Duly noted, thanks.

Hardware has long been a mystery to me, but it never really clicked (the epiphany never really happened) that the direction to go in to solve that mystery was to mess around with writing a toy OS. I get that now (and finally understand the raft of almost-useless toy OSes out there).

Thankfully, I have an idea of the simple UI environment I'd want to build on top (I've actually been noncomittally noodling a few ideas for some time), and would very likely be able to nicely make do with cooperating multitasking, etc - so it shouldn't be too hard. Which is nice.

Some of my ideas involve working with a number of different architectures, too (ARM, 68k, etc), so I'd finally be learning asm for several different chipsets, as well.

Stares at atrophied discipline muscles

...Eventually.

As an aside, I have a possible startpoint that may be interesting: a GSoC project got Lua running under SYSLINUX a couple years ago. One of the examples showed how to call VBE to set the graphics mode, and plot pixels. SYSLINUX does UEFI now. If a Lua-callable EFI graphics library became available... ooooo. Literally all CPUs are so fast at 2D, you could write whole UXes on top of that. (Maybe add AC97 too, and finally put the MOD/WAV player in gfxboot out of its misery.)
Alternative route is to build a VFIO capable computer and run OS X or whatever your heart desires in a VM with real hardware (read GPU) passed through.

You can even run several VMs with several GPUs at the same time. Essentially you can have 2+ computers at the price of one.
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> missing a GPL requirement doesn't imply it was done on purpose

This doesn't sound like the typical "junior dev who doesn't understand licenses added a GPL dependency" situation. Especially considering Wix's reply.

If you're arguing that nobody at Wix understands the implication of software licensing you're arguing all of their senior developers are unfit to hold senior positions.

A basic understanding of software licenses (i.e. at least Unlicense/CC0 vs MIT/BSD/Apache2 vs LGPL vs GPL/AGPL) is one of the first things I expect every junior developer to learn when working on a company product that involves third-party code.

This is either a rookie mistake (in which case Wix should have owned up to it and fixed it), malice or ignorance. And I'm not sure ignorance would save them any more respect than malice.
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Maybe the fact that he has written "4 books and 10 million bloggy words" helped?
Sections 2 and 3 contain the most readable man pages out there. The pages in sections 1 and 8 are often terrible, being the result of some texinfo->man filter.
While I agree that Twitter is terrible for this kind of thing (I actually struggled to get back to reread the beginning..), to play a devil's advocate:

Maybe he wouldn't write a blog post about it. Maybe in the beginning, he just thought, I will post this little story that surely will fit in 140 characters. And then, as he uttered first couple tweets, he just started to, kinda naturally, add interesting things he found in the museum. And voila, a blog post.

On the other hand, if he thought, let me write a blog post about it, he could also think, ah scratch it, that's gonna take an afternoon.

So I think twitter simply needs an interface to convert a series of tweets into a blog post. (Or maybe Medium needs a "Smallium" which would work like Twitter except it could convert a series of nanoposts into a Medium post.)
One server would not be nearly enough. PI is running on 14 dedicated machines, and even this is not enough to handle the load without a caching CDN. Source: I'm with the team.
First of all, without the principle, human economic activity would simply be impossible. In fact, it is the most central principle of all human rights. Without homesteading, we cannot own our own bodies. Appropriation of natural resources is the process by which we assert a right over the bodily material that food (originally unclaimed natural resources) turns into.

Second, if the government merely stopped protecting private property from aggressive seizure, that would be one thing. But communism advocates the government being the primary instrument by which people aggressively prevent others from existing as independent economic agents (homesteading natural resources).
Because the reality is not straightforward and to break many catches 22 it is required to make decisions that not everybody happy about.
Flip phones have some of the best protections available: the sensors aren't there. You can't leak your location if there is no GPS module in your phone, you can't have your camera hacked if there is no camera and so on.

I'd prefer all this stuff came with physical switches so it can be enabled/disabled in a hack-proof manner.
> Also love the revisionist history that welfare has in any way grown. It hasn't, in fact it's been scaled back dramatically since the 90s, and the consequences have been horrendous:

You can see this is action in UK right now with respect to NHS spending.
The main argument against The Intercept is a technical journalistic point.

It's very good practise at a news organisation for investors to have zero editorial control. This is especially necessary for investigative journalism, since the main aim is to dig dirt.

The Intercept doesn't have this - Pierre Omidyar has influence over what gets published. That makes it difficult (probably impossible) to publish stories that reflect Omidyar or his business interests in a negative light.

For contrast, note how Pando has publically attacked its own investor Peter Thiel over his secret funding of the Hulh Hogan/Gawker lawsuit.
I think no.

I think they changed because search became affordable enough to become a valid strategy, not because some genius figured out people are confused by folders.
Treating it as something else won't make it something else. It will just require a "minimal" stack of 10 other technologies.
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Hi,

I am posting some links of tiny projects of mine related with Enigma (that now I am making public) for anyone hooked on this old rotor cipher machine:

- An Enigma Machine library (M3) good to be used on simulators (https://github.com/rafael-santiago/libeel).

- A minimalist Enigma Simulator for ANSI/TERM environments. I have compiled it on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD (https://github.com/rafael-santiago/ansiterm-enigma).

- An Enigma Machine implemented as a (weird...) UNIX char device (for Linux and FreeBSD). So when using it you got a "/dev/enigma" in your box to play with (https://github.com/rafael-santiago/dev-enigma).

Well, maybe it can be interesting for people who like cryptography, WWII, UNIX, etc...
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I don't see what that has to do with monetization, assuming people are indeed still using the service
If it's encrypted, possibly?
It's still copyright infringement so you might as well just torrent the shows.
To be fair though, emojis are not central in their marketing messages. People like you and me can view it as a passing gimmick. Remember Ping? The belly-up mouse? We can forgive a few flops, right?

Or how do we know emojis are not the new language of some sort?

There is still a lot of good stuff going on. Logic Pro X now includes Alchemy (acquired by Apple recently) and to many music producers this is huge. The fingerprint scanner on laptops is also huge I think. "Huge" is on a relative scale of course. And most importantly, the macOS is still UNIX we know and love, with added security and a seriously good GUI.

What is the problem then?
I found flights to Bangkok on flychecker at 476 €
Vehicles with rollover cage are forbidden from driving on public roads in most of EU.
Be glad you don't work in my office, then. We've got 2 Model Ms and about a dozen cherry MX blue keyboards rattling around. Pure bliss.
That would be wonderful!

I've had many non technical people ask me how to create folders in those systems...

People can live with a flat file structure; Early versions of DOS were like this. Maybe we should go back to line editors too... So much prettier and simplified! No menus or dialogs! You don't even see a pageful of content at once! Just a blinking cursor and some brief commands. No messy interface...

(I can unfortunately actually see this happening)
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And sure, these are reasonable answers, but they're starting to show complexity, and people aren't necessarily going to agree that they're obviously fair.
This refers to out of spec cables, not the incorrect type of cable. As long as your cable is within spec, you wont have issues.
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Traditionally, that refers to the computer named "ycombinator" on your local network, and the domain directed the networking stack to some external network. Eventually, the community recognized that everyone should agree on what name to use for each network, and domain registries were born, along with the traditional TLDs.
Have you done any research at all into the topic?

Here I am, asking myself why smartcards aren't so hot in modern 'hacker' community...
That's why it's called a "viral" license. If your code directly links GPL code, your code is now GPL code too.

This is different from the non-viral LGPL (and MIT/BSD/whatever) which permits linking without "infecting" the linking code.

There's a handy workaround that is 1) never actually distributing the linking code or 2) putting the code behind a network interface and talking to that instead of linking to the code itself.

Both of these mean you're not "distributing" the infected code, so the requirement to publish the source code is not triggered. The second workaround is addressed by the Affero GPL which also requires source code to be published as an interface rather than as a distributed binary.
Well if they come from a web design background they know the css selectors which work with jquery.
Unlike your example, which doesn't work as written.
You are 'circumventing copyright protections' by changing the code. Something somewhere in these systems is supposed to stop 'tampering' avoiding that breaks the DMCA just like breaking the DVD encoding broke it.
I'm spending my weekend with 20 people working on OpenStreetMap. While the administrative boundary fixes or UTF8 issues or test failures for libraries might not sound exciting we know our volunteering has an impact around the world, e.g. https://hotosm.org/projects

Subscribe to http://blog.openstreetmap.de/ (weekly newsletter). At some point there will be project or local meeting interesting enough to participate.

Also check out http://codefor.de/ (German) http://codefor.de/en/ (English) for local groups of technical (but not exclusively) folks working on community projects.

If you're into networking have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk with many local chapters https://freifunk.net/wie-mache-ich-mit/community-finden/
I'm afraid I don't have hard evidence. The logic is for normal cell phone use it's more friction to swap a SIM than to have the phone automatically switch network profiles (non-roaming) or for the user to switch network profiles via software setting.

For IoT cellular the logic is it's more effort to recall a device and swap a SIM card than to reprovision the SIM profile via a software dashboard.

I'm sure we could put our minds together to come up with a robust user study. Thoughts?
Having a fingerprint scanner all that's needed to open & unlock a password manager seems like a really terrible idea.
The "... from scratch" part made me think of actully implementing a Javascript based browser environment from first pronciples and not just of a list of random third party libraries.
Flash is evil is a UX myth? I guess I am mything out on this one, as I don't even have it installed on my mac.
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