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Even your modified interpretation has dangerous side effects. We can probably modify the access to computers line to only over computing hardware you own, and that probably works, but the other two lines you comment on are often in opposition.

If all information is free, then it's also free to access to authority. Authority can do a lot of things with information that few hackers would like: Read on what full transparency leads to in a place like Bridgewater. Once it's clear that we don't want authority to have free access to our information, it's clear that the 'all information should be free' line is not an idea, it's just hypocritical. What it really means is that hackers should have access to all the information they want, but they should be able to hide all the information they need from authority: Enough of that, and now you have a new authority, which happens to be the people that have access to the information.

All information should be free is a phrase that gives permission to developers to creates databases that are better at predicting election results than pollsters. It's what allows people to tell if someone is pregnant, has an undisclosed mental illness, can list everyone's favorite kinks, where has their cellphone been since it was purchased, and everything they've bought on the internet the last 10 years. When it comes to information quantity has a quality all to itself, and I don't think that hackers in the 70s had really internalized this.

This breakdown on the hacker ethos builds two camps: One that finds privacy more important, and doesn't really want information to be free, and those that put the freedom of information first, and are happy to hand tremendous guns to authorities, whether they are governments or silicon valley corporations.

And this is why the hacker ethics breaks, and we should be careful about the future. There's a lot of uses to all that centralized, free information: A lot of things become very convenient, computers systems are capable of pretty much reading our mind, and fraud detection algorithms become so very good that many things become cheaper. Unfortunately the same tools can be used for far less friendly uses.

This is a question we'll all be wrestling with for years, as choosing privacy would make most tech giants collapse, while choosing information freedom is just waiting for the right kind of authority to show us that East Germany's Stasi was just a small scale exercise.
All this is concluding is that of recreational activities spending time in the sauna is less harmful than the likely alternative ways people would fill that time.
information should never be more free than the maturity and tolerance of the society its embedded within permits at any given time.

I'm not sure what you're talking about here. It sounds like you're justifying censorship, and I'm not sure why.
I Cntrl-F'd the article, keyword: "woman"

2 matches.

Instantly closed the page.
Sometimes I get the feeling that those who control industries that profit from climate-altering human behavior believe that it's okay to alter the climate, because whatever they have caused, they will assuredly be able to override, and undo, through similar force of will.

Too hot? Cooling something is easy! Block out the sun, somehow, until things cool off!

Too cold? Simple! Pump up those greenhouse gases again! Earth has a thermostat, and it's easy to mess with!

I think this is why there's so much willful ignorance and obfuscation, deliberately muddying the waters. They want control, and no one else must tamper or meddle with such grand designs.

Of course, the world is larger than they are. And what if they aren't around to help fix what they've ruined.

It seems their answer is:

If *WE'RE* dead, who fucking cares about the rest?
Well, the meaningful way for UNIX (and Linux) to succeed as a popular product, according to the aspirations of its proponents, was on the desktop. It wasn't just about the server side back then (late 90s, early 00s) it was all about taking over Windows.

If somebody uses some hardware product (e.g. set top box) and doesn't know its Linux, then it's no big win for the Linux community.

And it's not just necessarily that users don't realize it's there because "it just works", either.

The set top box, for example, can be buggy or crappy but just not provide neither a way to dive in and fix it, nor branding related to Linux.
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That kills the concept that people will eat meals while charging. What will restaurant operators who were going to allow Tesla to install charging points, such as this chain[1], do about this?

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/30/12076172/tesla-supercharge...
UBI is a terrible idea. Anyone who thinks that the government handing out money to everyone is a good idea needs to snap out of the propaganda machine. Those who fund you, control you. There is no way around that. When the people funding everyone is the government, and the people do nothing in return, that places huge amounts of power in the hands of a single entity, and removes all power from the people.

Large companies are getting larger. There are only a couple of choices in any category, and single companies own many different markets. When you combine that with UBI, you have the government handing you a check, and then you have a choice of a couple of companies to spend that money. The difference between this world and communism is almost nothing.

I have never heard of any group of people who were happy on government welfare. Whatever the supposed problem this is supposed to address, it is not a solution. People who are not working at all are not happy.

If I were to guess, I would say the real problems that need to be addressed are:

too many extremely large companies, often supported by laws they lobbied to create.

corrupt government that has no interest in its own country

population increases.

I mean, many of these people proposing UBI are living in countries where they are actively increasing the population. If you have an unemployment problem, why are you increasing the population?
I fully expect someone to claim this is completly different because of detail xyz, but this has been done before. It worked out better than expected.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/10/25/240590433/what-...
there are open source software made to provide flash compati!ility already
Kitura is mentioned in the slides since it's an IBM talk, but there's also http://vapor.codes/
This looks very impressive. Are there any kinds of kits that let you make your own (micro)processor in real life?
They do, and a certified one at that.

Android phone's doesn't, as Linux is not technically a UNIX (doesn't derive from the original UNIX codebase in any way.
People who buy 100k cars did not have 100k to buy a car by being wasteful with their money.
The article says they will continue to get they money even while earning money elsewhere. They are just selecting jobless people to start the program.
Makes sense.Thanks for the feedback.
I roll up some aluminum foil to combat static. Reusable and cheap.
I've been using XVim as well. The only downside is that it hides the cursor in Swift Playgrounds, so they can't really be used.

No problems inside Xcode projects though.
Why would anyone be pissed? If someone else does well how does that hurt you?
I wonder if this extends to hot spring usage as well, in Japan for example.
Removal of the plugin may be increasingly common among technical users, but I don't think many average users are removing it. The thing that is really killing it is deprecation by browsers (click-to-play initially).
>Sounds like a lot of people here have never washed their hair with something besides common brands.

Few of us have experienced the magnificent sound of $1000 Monster hi-fi cables either...
Heat shock proteins are really a response to abnormal protein folding (generally speaking) and are found upregulated in a number of stress response scenarios; including cold, heat, and oxidative stress
This is s good observation. What is the point of introducing obsolescence cycles into the human species? The associated envy and anxiety alone overwhelms any benefit.
You're going to get down voted for your comment probably but this article is definitely a type of toxic femininity.
I have the same problem with hair conditioner, I've been using it for years and my (long) hair is gotten worse and worse, got tangled and really hard to cumb the next day after washing. I then read an article about hair conditioner and how it becomes a layer of silicon over your hair which first makes it nice and soft but starts to stick together, etc.

I was sceptical but really tired of that problem, so it was either cutting off the long hair or trying something else, so I stopped using hair conditioner. In the beginning it got worse, but after a couple of weeks it got better, mich better. I was able to go for days without washing my hair and still had no problems to comb it, and it was still shiny and all. I never looked back and still had long hair for a couple mor years.

Perhaps it's just not for my hair, but advertising on the telly during my teenager years said that you have to use it, so I did.
I point out fake news, suggest that possible crimes should be investigated and I am not part of nor a crony of any political establishment. Are you suggesting that truth, law and order and having honest, transparent and competent government are not things that hacker news should love?
I'd expect it to be 23.
That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks. Found them on abebooks.com easily. Awesome 1980s neon covers.
They also say shame on you if you're using XML, so I suspect some adolescent. Ain't no shame in using XML kiddo
Glad you like it. I think people should really spend more time challenging their deepest held beliefs to find out the truth, or lack thereof behind them.
The last version before subscriptions came in, it was cheaper to fly return Australia -> US and purchase a copy of Photoshop, than it was to just purchase one locally here in Aus.

Adobe can stand to have a rougher time of it, IMO...
This reminds me of the early history of street parking meters: They were introduced not as a source of revenue, but rather because retail store owners complained that their customers had nowhere to park. In one famous instance, one side of a street was metered and the other not, and the merchants on "free parking" side of the street immediately started lobbying to have meters installed on their side too, since their potential customers were parking where space was available... and not crossing the street.

People tend to think of metered street parking as being a matter of raising revenue, but in terms of the revenue raised per square foot it's one of the least profitable uses of real estate around; but even a nominal price works wonders to encourage drivers to plan on vacating their parking spot promptly once they're finished at the local stores.
Any particular sign that he's being deceptive, besides "that wont work for my workload"?

>but I really don't like 'lets pretend iPad can replace proper computer' approach.

Isn't that irrelevant personal preference?

I like that approach, and it could have totally replaced "proper computer" for me (which it does) on trips and elsewhere away from work, if I wasn't also a programmer.
This is a great talk, and I loved the discussion and criticism of the roots of hacker culture, and also what the author describes as "logical positivism." You can look at something like Bitcoin as a textbook example. The thinking was that by making a simplified model of money, money can be replaced, and the government (authority) circumvented. In reality, money is not just numbers in a ledger, and when you take away one authority you institute others.

That said, mistrusting authorities such as governments is a valid and valuable position, as is standing up for the right to tinker with hardware on principle. Some of the bullet points that are bulldozed in this talk seem to have a philosophical kernel that is sound, if controversial or subversive. It's pretty interesting to me that computer tinkerers in the 70s, before personal computers, couldn't own a computer or take one apart. Is that the lack of "access" the ethic decries? Properly contextualized, is this point just about the inherent value of freedom to tinker? Or is "access should be total" a juvenile rationalization for breaking into computer systems, and "information should be free" an excuse to steal or expose secrets? (And is this ambiguity real or an artifact of Levy's formulation?)

I would separate "philosophy" from "culture." If in a particular subculture like hacker culture, "all that matters is how good you are," this is equalizing in a way -- for example, a man and woman with equal skills will have equal status -- but it can also lead to phenomena such as arrogant rockstars and frequent pissing contests. And what about the people who aren't so good, how are they supposed to feel? So this "ethic" can generate a traditionally male sort of culture that is off-putting or toxic to many people, male and female. The fact is that creating a diverse and inclusive community is its own value and doesn't follow from anything about hacking.
Even a development tool like .Net core phones home to send telemetry data.
Capitalism is 'designed'? So who were the 'Marx and Engels' of capitalism when folk were trading with each other out of their caves?
Japan has a large percentage of senior dementia patients so this study seems very doubtful.
We're here also maintaining some big platforms using Adobe Flash.

Even I mostly agree on the need to reduce unnecessary Flash usage on the public web, there are some features Flash provides that can not still be replaced by HTML5, like audio recording on browser which is not available on some still widely used web browsers.

If there is a need of providing support for those features on relatively old browsers in corporate environments then the best (the only?) choice is Flash Player.

I can also argue on the far less number of development and testing hours needed compared with HTML5 equivalent, where you know that content will render perfectly on all browsers that include Flash Player.

IMO, before killing player itself we will should focus in killing all those old browsers versions to provide developers a real alternative for these features.
protects? thats not proven, this studies implies onlY correlation and it could still be very much a random result or there coulf be multiple factord not taken in consideration
Not sure why this type of thing keeps on popping up as "news". The fact that jobs requiring no skill will be driven down to bad conditions/pay/whatever is sort of axiomatically obvious and inevitable given how capitalism and a more-or-less free labor market works.

Having held one of these shit jobs in the past to get myself through college, I understand how much it sucks, but complaining/negotiating when you have zero leverage simply does not work (in the sense it is very likely not the highest expected value use of your time -- IMO a good way is education, get yourself ready for a slightly better job, repeat until happy).
>Why? There's never a convincing argument why I would want to do this.

Lighter. Longer lasting battery. Dead easy app management. No "blue screens". Apps designed for direct manipulation. No configuration and maintenance hassle or sys-adminy stuff. Works great on a desk, on your lap, on a sofa, on the bed.

But best of all: if you're a writer/journalist/etc, and mostly do writing, web, email, reading, IM, etc, it does all you need, and nothing you don't.
People are jealous and have been pretty good at coming up with reasons why certain people don't deserve nice things for quite some time.
If somebody uses some hardware product (e.g. set top box) and doesn't know its Linux, then it's no big win for the Linux community.

I have to disagree there. It may not be a marketing win, but that doesn't mean that there are no other benefits. The fact that the PlayStation 4 runs FreeBSD has resulted in a large number of improvements becoming available to us; whether Johnny knows that his games are running on a daemonic operating system is of very little relevance.
Note that I'm a seasoned software engineer, versed in the ways of web services, iOS apps, desktop apps, and web apps, having shipped numerous of these for the various companies I've worked at during the years. Some of these skills would need some dusting-off, but I wouldn't be intimidated by that.

I had a New Year Resolution that I would make any software, on any platform, using whatever stack, that someone who never interacted with me personally would pay at least $1 for. This resolution meant a lot to me.

It's December 18, and I'm failing it miserably.

The reason? I've been thinking about what to make, almost every day of the passing year, and I still have zero ideas. Yes I've Googled for things. I've asked people things. Everything seemed either too complex for a lone full-time employed programmer with a family and a kid, or was simple but didn't seem like anyone would pay money for it.

In the meantime, I got a promotion where I work for successfully shipping projects.

What gives?
Sadly I felt that it was the POSIX compatibility that killed it for me. Before that there were several wonderfu applications purely written for the OS. After we got ports of Linux apps which were far less interesting or as well configured for the multithreaded nature of the API.
Tumblr does not display ads on pornographic content. It is not something that Yahoo is willing or able to monetize, and yet it represents a substantial amount (perhaps the majority) of the cost of operating Tumblr.

Maybe a future operator of Tumblr would feel differently -- but I think it would be difficult to monetize both sets of content simultaneously.
>Are we really so comfortable with, unencrypted, cloud storage now that we don't even mention the potential for warrentlsss access and other abuses?

Most people use the same cloud storage on their desktop or phone anyway too.
"Multiplicative" basic income (i.e. government gives you x * what you'd get otherwise) would do that, but basic income is additive.
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Owning a Tesla doesn't mean you're rich. I know people who saved up, used tax breaks, work bonuses, etc to bring one into affordability. Just because they spent money on something they want doesn't mean they don't care about money.
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The whole article seems to have only the argument of, "Hackers as a whole should think the way I want them to."

This is the new authority to be questioned.
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If Flash was killed, then virtually all of Homestar Runner, and much of Newgrounds, would stop working properly. That cannot be allowed.
Actually, configuration space have an infinite number of dimensions. Current physics, (or at least QM) doesn't describe our universe as having 3 spatial dimensions. That's a projection, the classical illusion —which is a logical consequences of the underlying physics of course.

Imagine 2 pearls on a thread. You have 2 ways to represent them: the obvious one is 2 points on a line. A less obvious (but just as valid) is a single point on a plane: the X axis would represent the first pearl, and the Y axis would represent the second pearl. Similarly, 2 billiard balls on a billiard can be represented by a single point in a 4 dimension configuration space. And the entire universe require many many more dimensions than that.

There are many more subtleties. I suggest you read the Quantum Physics Sequence for a comprehensible explanation of all this mess. http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/
Neither snark nor downvoting is an appropriate response to your disagreement with the consensus of others. The original commenter doesn't need "punishing" because other people appreciate his contribution more than you.
This kind of "optimisation" has been around for over a century, starting with Frederick Taylor. Dehumanising, mechanistic management is not new, nor is the backlash against it.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)
Most smartphones designed in the past few years support GLONASS. Russian law requires GLONASS support to be sold there, so manufacturers have generally added it across their model lines since that's easier than producing different SKUs for sale in Russia.
My own hypothesis is that sweating helps the system get rid of heavy metals, which seem to play a part in dementia (e.g. aluminum > Alzheimer).
This is entryism at its finest. It feels like an attempt to subvert an already existing culture to another ideology.
Dunno. Looks promising.
Any hard numbers about this "never caught up"?
That is fixed in an open PR: https://github.com/XVimProject/XVim/pull/1016
Wat.

- UBI's lack of criteria is supposed to remove distortions. The population is minimaly incentivized.

- Employers loose leverage with UBI; large companies are major employers.

- Everybody loves to hate on population size, but shrinking/aging populations are dangerous for the economy. It's a much more complex problem.
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For a good example of this, if you don't want to read the entire thing, try ^F gender.
> Firefox only after version 52 do they finally support Widevine Dash, otherwise no EME prior to that.

What's your source for this?

Firefox shipped EME support for Adobe Primetime on Windows in Firefox 38. Firefox shipped EME support for Widevine on Windows and Mac in 47 and on Linux in 49.
>Noawadays developing software also involves using IDEs... just in case the author forgot that part.

It might for you. There are tons of professional programmers, many who run circles around you and me, that don't use IDEs, but Vim, Emacs and the like.
Linux doesn't give a fuck :|
> ssh -X is hardly "everything".

It's damn close. How many apps do you exclusively use locally? A terminal emulator, maybe a web browser?

There are engineers out there who are expected to never have work product on their laptop. The age of one computer per user ended a long time ago, and I'm worried how Wayland has been handwaving the normal use case.
H.264+MP3 in MP4 in HTML5 tends to work in non-Apple browsers.
>And... by definition when you work on a remote server you are not developing on the iPad!

The same way I'm not developing on my laptop either, since I use a remote build server?
We tried this. It went poorly. [0] The currently favored approach is to require developers of new (usually luxury, since that is the only kind of apartment building that gets built) apartment buildings to provide a percentage of units at far below market rents to people on a lottery/waiting list system. But there aren't nearly enough such units (or units of any kind) to take care of everyone.

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35913577
List of YC backed companies by region
I was wondering where I could see the list of YC backed companies by region / country. I wanted to talk to some YC backed founders.
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>I want to develop in Haskell...

Professionally? Then you are a bigger outlier than "programmer not using IDE" is.
Nonsense. There are social programs that have been incredibly successful. And pointing to the USSR is a shameful strawman.
I've never even heard of mithril. Very easy to be a developer and read threads like this and suddenly think "oh crap I don't know ANYTHING!"