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We support free speech, obviously. And we're happy to fund people with all sorts of different political views.

We do not allow harassment, for which Andrew unfortunately set a new bar in our community. You can look at his Twitter or Facebook for plenty of public examples, to say nothing of what he's said privately.

As per our previous comments, when a founder violates our ethics statement, we remove them from the community.
> It's hurting the people who are forced to pay $600 for a $60 item because they need one (e.g. a must-have gift for someone).

LOL at the privilege of this being a real problem for someone. If we were talking about price gouging on food, medicine, or housing then I might agree with you. But luxury gifts? Come on, man.

> It's hurting the people who wanted to buy one for $60 but cannot afford to buy one for $600.

LOL at the idea that they can't just wait for them to manufacture more of them. I mean, the games have been out for nearly 30 years now, right?
How would this fix the problem? Botters would just bot the list instead.

It worked in the USSR because USSR.
When I was younger, half the fun was trying to obtain the limited availability consoles!! Now it's no longer fun, just refresh a page and hope resellers don't buy up inventory before you can grab one.

I'm still impressed that my mom somehow managed to get me an n64 for that first Christmas they were available! I was in disbelief since I was certain they were impossible to get. 13yo me had all the local toy store #s memorized and I'd call every day asking if they received any shipments. No dice.

Shadows of the Empire on Christmas morning was so awesome! Tripping up those AT-ATs that morning was one of the more memorable moments in my gaming history.

A few months prior, for my best friend's September birthday, his mom took us to Toysrus and let him pick either the just released n64 +1 game OR the on-sale SegaCD and a bunch of games. He chose... poorly.
Amazon should do popular items like this using a lottery system to hurt the advantage bots, scripts, and people with lower latency have.

- You can enter the item lottery for a longer period (e.g. 60 minutes).

- Lottery winners are picked at random, not based on entry time.

- Max one entry per household (remove entries with duplicate mailing addresses, duplicate credit cards, and duplicate email addresses).

- Once someone wins they have a window to purchase (e.g. 3 hours). If they fail to purchase then the lottery picks a new winner.

Now obviously cheats will still exist, but at least they're all on a fairer playing field with normal purchasers.
They have a right to the artifacts of their production - their specific footage of the event. They don't have a right to all possible descriptions of those events. That would be absurd - someone could sing "old MacDonald" and have it claimed that it is a codified description of the events of a game. But of course, they only have the rights to their description of the game.
> But the accusation doesn't make sense

I disagree. Having no "life" doesn't mean this.

First, inanimate objects can still be influential. Comics books, for instance, where one claimed to encourage violence, anti-social behaviour.

Second, The religion lives in those other individuals, much like any thought, meme, or ideology. Even the inanimate influences are often created by such individuals.

In the case of Islam, there are some fairly authoritative objects and people.

Are you suggesting there is no such thing as religion? Islam seems to be pretty serious about standardisation.

> The whole thing has a guilty-until-proven-innocent feeling to it

Not to me.

> Anecdotally..

In context, I can't really see these anecdotes as in good faith...
These days he seems to actually be pretty careful about not crossing the line. But one day someone will be annoyed enough to suspend him anyway.
Fortunately, the U.S. legal system does not afford corporations the right to a business model.
There is a difference between inherent difference, and difference in the meaning we assign to things.
I hadn't seen this before and after looking at it I suspect there's some selection bias going on. There probably aren't as many new Solr instances going out but I suspect there are still many legacy installations
Regarding Bluetooth/external keyboards: The last time I tried an iOS terminal app, iOS had limitations on many key combinations, such that I couldn't effectively use Emacs with normal mappings (or Bash with default Emacs-style keyboard shortcuts). Has Apple changed this and if so, does Blink or any other app work properly in this regard? I'm not concerned with changing modifier keys, just want standard Ctrl and Option as Meta like I do in macOS.
It is true that many consumers would benefit from such systems, but unfortunately, drumming up demand by trickling supply into the market is Nintendo's modus operandi.
I thought I knew a thing or two about linux, but I had no idea about /proc. Neat!
The even simpler explanation is that Google's Algo changed and that there's a lot of websites about encrypted email.
My assumption is that production is concentrated to a small inner "scene", just like the warez scene. If you have enough connections and perhaps money, you could get the material from the source, and then use that to gain access to other sites that require contributions, which is analogous to how elite private torrent trackers work.

So again, uploading does not imply production capability, at least the way I see it.
but then his "extremist site" would have been in their browser history

Even in the debates it was obvious both candidates were talking about keeping the act. I thought it was bizarre they didn't acknowledge that to each other.

"Fix it"

"Repeal it and replace it with more competitive state exchanges" so like fix it?
Trump, for better or worse, is currently vastly more powerful than both McConnell and the rest of Congress. If Trump frames them as corrupt politicians standing in the way of 'Greatness' they will lose all support from the Republican base. They will talk a big game, but will have to back down if Trump forces the issue on anything.

While it may work to get some populist laws through, this dynamic also makes us extremely vulnerable to an autocratic power grab.
I read a post where someone actually set up a honey pot without actually hosting CP. There was an application system where the pedos thought they were going to get cp via an application process or were a big enough part of the "community." I feel like the FBI could have implemented something similar without actually hosting the images. I feel like there is no excuse for distributing cp, even if it is to catch pedos. You shouldn't become a pedo to catch pedos.
Take a sport like snooker and replace the footage with animated board which perfectly represent how the match is played. Would it be interesting enough to compete with the actually broadcast with video of the players and commentators?
Plenty of third-party sites which don't hold any license from MLB, for example, will tell you "Currently 3-1, runner on 2nd, top of 8th inning, Smith, B. batting vs. Doe, J. pitching, count 1-2, last pitch 90mph called for strike on lower inside corner". And they'll update it with each pitch and each play.

The facts of the game are not copyrighted and not copyrightable, which is why sites can do this. Similarly, the moves of a chess game are facts which are not copyrighted and not copyrightable, which is why sites can tell you in real time who's playing and what moves have been made.
Freedom of speech also only applies to the state. The government cannot suppress your free speech.

It says absolutely nothing about what private parties (or companies) can do about speech.

e.g. If you come into my house and start shouting racial slurs, I don't have to honor your "free speech". I can rightly kick you out of my house. The same goes for any private company.
Honestly, I'd rather hire someone at a reasonable wage, train them, and turn them loose without my supervision, or spend 10k and automate part of my production, than have to supervise people. It's likely a bit different in dairying than it would be for something like vegetable production - I don't have lots of repetitive, low-skill tasks (sorry, vegetable farming people!) like weeding or harvesting that I could safely unleash untrained people upon.

I have a hard enough time finding reliable paid help (and we're well above minimum wage); managing people with even less incentive to put in a day's work isn't that appealing. :)
It wasn't about math, but the mythology of a mathematician.
Filming a football field is also uncreative, isn't it?
Agreed. It's quite sad that the impetus is on Nintendo to flood the market with product. As of this post, there were 3,800+ posts on eBay[1]; there's at least an entire page-full listing Buy It Now @ $1000 or more.

[1] http://www.ebay.com/sch/?_nkw=nes%20classic%20edition
That's what this is.
You can't just take any product, mark it up 10x, and call it a luxury good. People would laugh at you and buy the regular one. A luxury good has to have some reason to justify its luxury status.

In this particular case, the $60 NES Classic is already a luxury good. Marking it up 10x doesn't make it more of a luxury good, it just either means people who actually want to use the damn thing can't afford to, or must pay exorbitant prices.
I wonder if these things are timed for release once a target audience hits a certain age? What is that age?

It was about 8 years between 1st gen consoles (Atari, Intellivision, Colecovision) and 2nd gen (Nintendo). The retro-rerelease of 1st gen was about 8 years ago. I am 45 and am nostalgic about 1st gen. I was in high school for 2nd gen; no nostalgia, uninterested.

So do these retro-rerelease target those in their late 30's. Mid life crisis yearning for nostalgia?
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not? Wells and septic tanks don't really scale if you have a lot of people living in an area. If too many people dig wells in the same neighborhood, the water table goes dry. Not to mention the need for everyone to buy and operate their own individual water softeners, water filters, and pumps. Septic tanks can leach into the ground (and probably into the aforementioned wells) or clog unless they're properly maintained at all times, by every neighbor. And someone needs to come by every single house and manually empty out the septic tank periodically.

So yes... I guess it is a pretty good analogy for C++. Hundreds of stinky septic tanks, right near hundreds of wells, along with a guy arguing indoor plumbing is overrated. And a buggy, informally specified reimplementation of half of Common Lisp ;)
I care more about the less privileged than you do. You satisfy your own selfish desires thinking its empathy.

You couldn't even make it through this comment without calling me sexist, and stating that you shouldn't have to listen to me, without making any arguments.

Thank you for your ignorance, you are only hurting yourself.
You are not getting a very important distinction: no creative effort (not even a kernel of creativity[1]) is embodied in telephone numbers.

There is something though about the creative expression of chess board positions: they are EXTREMELY limited in terms of entropy. In coordinate notation 64*64 = 4096 choices would define either side's move, so given a dictionary of 4096 words, any typical chess game would be under a few hundred 'words': they're very very short creative expressions.

I would suggest that you compare them with musical melodies. they have about as much entropy. the database of existing melodies (or slight variations) is similar to the database of existing chess games.

in some cases melodies were held to be protected by copyright, so that you could not reproduce them in any form. I am not a lawyer, no. I researched many areas of intellectual property extensively. In general a basic melody might well be a "fact" about a song - yet a fact that you cannot use in your own song. (Similar to a patent.)

The judge, sensibly, chose not to extend the same protection to chess games. I agree with him! I just disagree with your reasoning. There's a reason the judge didn't advance it.

[1] https://copyright.uslegal.com/enumerated-categories-of-copyr...
It spikes demand. Crazy parents run all over the place looking for it.

The winners are Nintendo, who gets sales in the 1Q, which is normally death for this kind of product, and the retailers, who get parents visiting daily and buying other crap.

My brother spent weeks looking for the "cream pie in the face game" last year. In the process, he picked up a half dozen other board games.
I hereby prohibit you from commenting on Hacker News unless you send me $10 every time you access the front page.
Re your edits:

The first one asserts my point instead of yours (steady year-to-year growth).

And the second one is the review of a book, whose author predicts what you claim but for a completely different reason (no more great technological leaps, nothing to do with demographics, globalization, or China).
I hope he challenges Republicans and tells them they can create something better than ACA/Obamacare. Get them on board with that. Then challenge them to send him something better than ACA that genuinely takes care of people. Replace ACA - don't gut it without replacement. If he can do this it could humanize him, the Republican party and do the country good. The problem is 'social' and Republicans don't go together... but perhaps Trump is not all that Republican. Perhaps we need an egomaniac to get things moving. Fuelled by the party hate to get anything Obama related erased.

I know, I ask and hope too much.
Good (and fair) article on comparison ... https://dzone.com/articles/10-reasons-to-choose-apache-solr-...
Whenisbryancranstoncomingtocanada.com
You seem to think that business is the public interest. You are incorrect.
That seems really weird and illegal. It sounds like hospitals are placating to the family. I understand that they'd want to hesitate though-- the people who might sue them are the surviving family.

Living wills are legally binding documents: http://info.legalzoom.com/living-wills-binding-documents-220...
Arbitrage does not help consumers. Arbitrage helps the subset of consumers that can afford the higher prices, but it hurts the consumers that can't. Your example with concert tickets only makes sense if all consumers have the same amount of discretionary income, but that's not representative of the real world.
End H1-B immediately.

Americans, many who simply cannot move to other countries, need to be first in line for access to economic opportunities in this country.

It's utterly disgusting to make American workers second class citizens in their own country. How many more Disney's, Qualcomms, and Southern California Edison's do we need to see before we realize that the program is harmful to Americans?

Then there's the matter of non-profits being exempt from the caps on H1-B visas - this is a significant reason why PHD graduates have trouble finding jobs in their field.

H1-B is bad for America. In my mind, ending H1-B is a matter of social justice for Americans, just like marriage equality.

( Before anyone thinks that I'm a Trump supporter, please be aware that I'm a gay man, and life long Democrat, who is absolutely horrified at the thought of what Trump's choices for the Supreme Court could mean for marriage equality and social justice. Just to be clear: I don't support Trump in any way, shape, or form. )
There's a lesson there - making software easier to build and install goes a long way. Go has that advantage too.
Digital age Beanie Babies?

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
A major problem is that Congress mandated the medical ration between young adults and the elderly to be 1:3 instead of 1:6 which better reflects the true costs of care meaning the young would be paying 75% more than they should for their age category. Many have complained that young, healthy people are not signing up for health plans but this is the reason why. The youth are paying 75% more than they should in an efficient market. Fix the medical ratio to be 1:6 and there will probably be a lot more healthy young people signing up for insurance.

Much of the health care costs of the elderly are from chronic disease which itself is from smoking and obesity among other causes.

Other countries such as the UK, France, and Canada have tobacco taxes at least $5 to $7 per pack. The high cost of tobacco has more than half the effect to help people to quit and helps to ensure the young never start smoking. The tobacco taxes can also be used to pay for the higher health care costs that smokers have thus helping to reduce the subsidy in health care that non-smokers pays for smokers.

When the ACA was put into place, they should have raised the Federal tobacco tax to be $5 to $7 per pack (today it is about $1).
No, I don't think that. Maybe I was ambiguous. My question was whether we want law enforcement to become purveyors of illegal material in order to prosecute people seeking that material. That seems a little circular to me.

And since the analogy was dealing with illegal drugs I was wondering whether these tactics are in fact more effective than just prosecuting at the level of "selling loose cigarettes".
Sorry, get someone other than Glenn Beck who didn't go off the deep end on the right-wing side.

If indeed Beck is the "reasonable voice", don't be surprised when people who think he was nuts don't listen to him now.
Why was this downvoted? I found it to be a pretty interesting perspective, although I do think the equation of letters in a sentence to moves in a chess game is pretty weak. Moves made in a chess game are events that factually happened in the past - copyrighting them would be akin to copyrighting a certain historical event, such that only a copyright holder is given privilege to state information about it. Letters, words, and sentences are in a creative space of expression that has its own rules and regulations.
That's actually the point. You've defined "being a dick" as "supporting Emmanuel Goldstein, who wants to reverse all the great work the Party has done for the proles."

I understand how you get there, logically. But perhaps Emmanuel Goldstein actually thinks the Party is bad for the proles? Maybe it's not that he hates the Party, because he hates the proles? Maybe you could ask him why he hates the Party, which as we know has done so much for the proles?

But if Emmanuel Goldstein is actually an asshole in the normal sense of the word -- someone who's rude and unpleasant to the actual people around him -- it's hard to argue that there's a difference between these very different concepts.

Pretty much guarantee you Peter Thiel is never, ever rude and unpleasant to the people around him. That's the difference.
Google has already been getting away with giving unfair priority and treatment to their own properties for years. Why not take the next step and just start outright hiding competitors?
Does Mosh itself not depend on any other GPL'd code?
Let's not forget protonmail.com was previously protonmail.ch. Moving domains can make a tremendously negative impact on search engine rankings. The "fixed" comment could have been properly assigning protonmail.com with the ranking data for protonmail.ch. This detail was in the previous HN post, but looks to be left out of this one for some reason...

Disclaimer: This is speculation. Take both this article and my post with a grain of salt.
It might have been more faithful to the meaning of the article to remove "scientists warn" from the end.
Where at? I'm in Croatia and I really wanted to buy one!
Narendra Modi bans big bank bills to force declaration of unaccounted income
While I'm generally rather suspect of you folks and your moral authority, this is an example of the behavior you're referring to:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxAg4AXXcAITru4.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxAbtwQUcAApPQa.jpg

https://twitter.com/torbahax/status/797110760556167168

From a pure business standpoint, fuck that guy. He didn't really articulate his views in any way that could remotely be considered constructive, and if the rest of his behavior matches that, it's difficult to imagine keeping him around.
What good is your brand if everyone hates it?
"The microcontroller AURIX™, one of the world’s most powerful minicomputers, also contributed to the record-breaking effort: It is one of the essential elements that enable autonomous driving."

I do not think the term 'minicomputer' was intended to mean... a microcontroller.
Does 'safe' actually mean 'safe' or does it mean something else now?

How would a sane adult feel like they were in some kind of danger by someone wanting stronger controls on immigration?
And when you have almost a million lines of code dating back 10 years; about 3% test coverage; and an executive team breathing down your neck to implement the features that should have been prioritized 5 years ago by the "leadership" they bought the company from?

When you have 3 engineers, one of whom is working full time on bugfixes and preventing everything from catching fire and one of whom is working full time on applying the second of 8 major versions' worth of upgrades to your framework (along with third-party dependencies that have to be version-compatible) just to catch up to a version that's still maintained with security patches?

When every framework/library upgrade, let alone language version upgrade exposes subtle backwards-incompatibilities with your external services, so you have to upgrade those too, and then spend 2 weeks understanding and solving the resulting forwards-incompatibilities?

Just because it was easy for you and your codebase doesn't mean it's going to be easy for everyone else.

I'm not saying we'll never doing it. I'm sure as hell not saying we (being the engineering team) don't want to do it.

I'm saying we haven't done it yet because we can't do it at all until we complete the other upgrades. We can't do it at all without spending a week or three months or however long finding or writing replacements for crappy (and in a few cases not so crappy) abandoned third-party packages that aren't and never will be supported under Python3. We can't do it until we can spare 3 months from our timeline to exhaustively click-through test the damn thing and verify we haven't broken anything.

And saying we had 15 years to migrate is bullshit. Our major dependencies haven't been stable on Python3 for more than about 3 years now.

By the way, did I mention before that we have other business priorities? Python2 is still supported. It'll continue to be supported for a few more years. Why should we spend valuable time converting to Python3 now, when the other things we're working on could be the difference between whether or not we're still around in a few more years?

No, it won't be more costly in 2020. It'll be less costly. We'll have a larger engineering team because we solved more business problems and customer problems, so the business earned more money and could afford to hire more people. Or we'll already be out of business and it will have had nothing to do with which version of Python we were using.
We're not talking about "smart and clever individuals" here. We're talking about scalper bots gaming the system by buying all of the product literally seconds after the seller flipped the switch. This isn't fair for the consumer at all as the product has literally been taken hostage by some third-party with unfair advantage. It's the 21st century equivalent to plundering trade routes.

Also, I don't think the nature of the product has any influence on the morals of the practice, I find it despicable no matter what is being sold.
> Moving domains can make a tremendously negative impact on search engine rankings.

Only if you do it wrong. If you do it write, there should be negligible impact.