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> he would have them pay for his dinner or he wouldn't go

I assume this means he was not paid for his intervention otherwise? That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. In my city, there is a big punk squat/concert room which does not pay bands for playing, but they provide them with shelter and food. That's like, the minimum when you ask someone to come.

Also, I wouldn't see myself inviting friends to my place and ask them to pay for their food.
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Ah, censorship by robot, where we have to watch what we say in public for fear of triggering people's assistants.
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>Of course I'm not arguing against feeding the needy, or against social nets in general.

Of course you do. You just concat a nice relativizing clause to the end, to not feel like a monster.

Sorry, but in a world where people are starving, because the likes of you want to shirk responsibilities, noone could ever be not on guard. What a nightmare.

To constantly have to live with your back to the wall. And the irony, is that after you paid for the gated community guard, for the area to be exclusive, for the medicine and for the weapons- you paid more then European taxes for a "welfare" state - and got less.
Curious, where do you suggest they look? FWIW I'm all for getting merchants and their tech teams on the right platform for them - no solution works for everyone.

As for us (Magento): Our velocity in handling GitHub issues and PRs for M2 has been really, really slow. This is partly due to the volume of reports, and partly due to some inefficiency in our own house. We're fortunate that we have a huge, engaged community who have continued to be patient with us - however, we know that patience has worn thin. People have work to do! Merchants have customers to please!

Starting a couple of months ago, the factors around this have started to change for the better. We've dedicated a large portion of our team to working on issue support, and I've been having calls & conversations this week which indicate further shifts for the better.

In the next week or so, I (@benmarks) and/or our new SVP of Product & Technology (Jason Woosley - @jasonwoosley_mg) will post more about the current state as well as upcoming changes.

Hopefully in the future you will be able to recommend Magento 2 when appropriate. Of course, it is on us to demonstrate real improvement.

In the meantime, my inbox is always open: ben@magento.com
Also on the search for something like this book for Go or Rust. I liked the book. An easy first step into the language. Sadly i don't want to write everything in jvm and somehow i got hooked on safety concepts like type-safety or even more like ownership in Rust (also when i dont really understand Rust till now).
If I'm honest with myself I have to admit that a general purpose human level, strong AI would shake my world view significantly.

For that reason, I find it difficult to have a completely unbiased opinion on our current state of progress.

But... while we seem to be making great progress, it seems like we're a long way off understanding how the human mind works.

AlphaGo was an amazing achievement, but I think it's unlikely that the human mind tackles Go in the same way.

It's obviously possible that there are multiple routes to a general human level intelligence. But I think it's still unclear if the way AI is currently being developed is one of them.
I think no,

Lilly = Swan, Swan = White, Bernhard = Green, Greg = Swan.

Color of Swan or Greg = White
Perhaps those reasonable people are making a moral judgement when they decide to use proprietary code in a certain circumstance: they're deciding it's morally acceptable.

And maybe it isn't morally acceptable in some circumstances. Like when transparency is required in order to facilitate accountability and peace of mind.

It's immoral to have closed-source voting machines. But is it immoral to rely on closed-source search algorithms? The answer to that is less obvious. Either way, moral issues affect code all the time.
Twitter is a content generation engine with a seed of 140 characters. Then everyone interprets it in their own way, preferably by being outraged.

Unless something tangible appears all this exercise is a big waste of time.
A plain list of almost all IP cameras with default passwords you can control
String theory does not currently have any testable predictions. That's one of its major issues.
The WSJ one I couldn't read in its entirety but it opened by calling
him a liar and a thief, so I'm not sure how impartial we can consider
it to be.

"Impartial?" I'm not seeing "liar"/"thief" or any such innuendo in the opening. Here's the full article [0] -- which is an extract from an upcoming book. This pokes holes in Snowden's narrative, i.e. How Snowden Escaped Hong Kong Exclusive [1], and, if true, would fill a lot of glaring holes (i.e. How did Snowden get on an Aerofloat flight out of HK almost a week after the manhunt started?).

Also, a big concern raised is the breadth of information Snowden walked off with. Allegedly, it wasn't just privacy/surveillance info, but also national security and military secrets. From an audit of the 1.5 million docs Snowden walked off with, "most had nothing to do with domestic surveillance or whistle blowing." This raises eyebrows.

[0] http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fable-of-edward-snowden-1483...

[1] http://news.nationalpost.com/features/how-edward-snowden-esc...
Yep, I'll have to take your word for it regarding the BB3, as I'm not too familiar with the BB3. Going forward I'd really like Bizon to make better quality/priced products and add more competition to the eGPU space. I'd love it if the general direction of 'everyman' PC gaming were eGPUs.
Do you use an equivalent of the Brown M&M's contract condition?
Why would you pay for other people's food? Are you kidding? Cleaning up a corpse is much cheaper than feeding a poor person her whole life.
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Is that a valid headline, more from an English usage point of view. LG didn't threaten to do anything really. It is just that it can have bad unintended consequences.
That would make it a classic logic "puzzle". I think these Babi tests are meant to incorporate more fuzzy concepts. If you read this sentence to a 4-year-old, she would probably answer 'white', right?
Corrupt government gets insufficiently bribed and grabs traders lousy goods with any sad excuse available.
Actually, the (East-) German plant in Lubmin provided district heating for the city of Greifswald. It has been shut down and the district heating is now provided by---wait for it---a gas burner. NPP Gundremmingen, which is still operating, provides district heating on a somewhat smaller scale.

Besides, while most natural gas consumed in Germany may be for space heating and/or industrial heat, it also provides about 9% of the electricity, which is still a good chunk of money for Gazprom Gerhardt.

By the way, who is the "we" in "we had to force him"?
>Because it is a moral question: Should you be able to control all data about you, and how it moves?

That's not the argument Stallman actually makes here though. Note that he doesn't list 'propriety software running on Google's servers' as a reason not to use Google, even though that has far more of an an impact on your ability to control information about you (or to modify the software that you are using) then the comparatively small amount of client side javascript that runs when you use Google.

The general FSF/Stallman position is that non-free software is fine as long as you access it over a network. So clearly control over your own data isn't why RMS is morally opposed to non-free software.
Win32 actually accepts both. :)
Enjoy this metric: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11548816
Have you tried making some games ?
That add is genious
In this particular case it could be argued that Google's unofficial "don't be evil" motto explicitly framed this as a moral issue. Tongue-in-cheek, to be sure, but certainly an appeal to happy squishy emotions.

That said, RMS's stuff is showing up in a few posts today, and framing as a moral issue is certainly a large part of his standard toolkit. Considering any situation from an ethical viewpoint tends to make my eyes roll and skin crawl (ooh, the moral dimensions of public hygiene? yes please!), but appealing to hearts and minds is pretty basic old-school rhetorical technique.

If nothing else, coming from a technical background, it's occasionally useful to come at the problems from a different, squishier, direction.
Because GNU/Linux is the very core you need to have even a remotely functional system, i.e. you need both GNU and Linux to even have an OS of some sort, the other parts are used to make the OS even more useful, but they're not the parts without which your system will fail to boot into a reasonable state to even get these other pieces working.

In Windows there is lots of software not written by Microsoft, then there's the NT kernel, (which by itself does not make an OS) and the userland (which together with the kernel makes a basic OS that you can install all the other nice pieces onto to have a great experience, but the core is NT + userland)
He's a reasonable man trying to change the world though. He's more a Mandela, King or Chomsky than a Trump or a Hitler. Sometimes people try to change the world to be a better place. It's unreasonable not to.
You've missed out another benefit (of Gentoo specifically): the ability to conveniently apply your own patches – just copy them to /etc/portage/patches/category/package-version and then re-emerge the offending package.

Most users will probably never need to do this, but I find it invaluable.

I maintain my own patches for dozens of packages in order to fix quirks/WONTFIX bugs, add features that upstream refuse to touch, remove intrusive/unwanted features that piss me off, etc, and being able to do this without also having to maintain my own deb/rpm/<some other package format> makes it much less painful.

It's also nice for applying emergency security fixes without waiting for your distro to pick them up.
I'm always excite to hear about companies who are using rust in production. OneSignal team has done an excellent job to bring out the strengths and weaknesses. Would like to know more about the Unit Testing practices that OneSignal and others follow.

BTW - I have all the motivation now to plunge into the rust-world
What's the difference between an official fork and an unofficial fork?

Watch this project fail in X months because the project owners care more about publicity than work.
My phones run Java/Linux and Windows Phone.

The Linux fork used on Android and the set of official NDK APIs, make it so that Google can at any Android release change the kernel for something else and only OEMs or devs using forbidden APIs will notice.
I can't figure out what mkfont_bdf is doing. Converting TTF to what kind of glyph?
I'm not sure where do you live. It is cheap even by Hungarian standards, where average wages are around 800 euros.

You must see that public toilets are seldom used by the individual, usually one can serve such needs at home, at school, at work or at a restaurant, where it is usually free (for guests at restaurants). When one is in the (usually unexpected) need, then prefers cleanliness to freeness.
This Exactly.. I am really afraid to connect advanced skillsets like Uber on my Echo - for that there is no authentication methods on Echo.. To add to the rant, the Amazon Alexa is one of the worst android application with constant unresponsiveness and I am not sure they can deliver on a method where the authentication can be through the Alexa App for the advanced skills
Nice content but had forgotten what the site looked like. It literally kills the eyes and gives a headache when the green on black index page suddenly changes to black on white text file page.
How do you know sanitation's affordable? How much do you have to pay workers to clean those public toilets?(anecdotally, these toilets have always been dirtier than the private ones I've used) Will those cleaners be unionized or require full-time benefits? How do you analyze toilet usage and concentrate cleaning resources on those toilets which are used more? How much funding do you dedicate to these analysts? How do you budget for future expenditures? Can you tell me how it is more efficient do this with a bureaucracy rather than a paid system?

As for the public health interest - how many homeless/low income/cheap people will be forced to shit in the streets as a result of pay toilets? Will it realistically lead to cholera?

It's completely reasonable to use pay toilets in some locales and public toilets in others. Believing in a definitive answer without analysis is not going to lead to good policy.
People in this topic are arguing for free toilets paid by the government. Now what is that if not a top down control of economy?
Went to Academy of Art University in SF. Dropped out in 2011. Got a job as a Graphic Designer but switched it up and became a Software Engineer this last year. Honestly LOVE design, but not worth it to go to school. Same with Computer Science... everything is online for both of those disciplines and I wish it were for other disciplines as well.

There was another post about what you would do differently if you could and it would be more creativity but with a scientific twist to it, I don't know... maybe science fiction? Maybe teaching. Maybe sailing like those kids 'la vagabonde'. So inspiring.
You are free to skip the chapter and there is not a single reference to emacs in the rest of the book. I did it with another editor, I think the emacs chapter could be an annexe. It's only bonus and I can only be grateful as the book is free
I wonder what the legalities are for the companies that run CCTV cameras in such an open fashion like this. I know you're in a "public place," so your right to not be recorded is waived, but surely there's a degree of negligence on the part of many of these businesses for not properly securing their CCTV cameras.
We need some meta analysis done on these threads for sure )
No, because you appear to be missing some important facts.

GCC became relevant when UNIX vendors, initially Sun, decided to sell the developer tools instead of bundling them for free.

So the 80's hipsters that had largely ignored GCC, decided to contribute to its development instead of paying UNIX vendors for their tools.

Long before Linux was even an idea.
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> It's the most obvious counter-interpretation.

More obvious than many worlds?
I have a degree in studio art. My thesis was a mixed media triptych oil on canvas and digital art printed on canvas.

I started out as a graphic designer, moved into web design and then into programming.

My degree, and study of lithography, painting, sculpture, etching and more has made me the professional I am today. Studying art is all about the need for rigorous process and attention to detail in a creative workflow. This is what programming is. I have no doubt that my education and experience as an artist has improved my ability to think critically and solve problems as a programmer.
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Congrats on your successful transition.

May I ask what do you mean by evergreen apps? How did you pick what to work on? I'd love to read more on this subject.
Btw if anyone is looking for Raspberry Pi Zeros, they are easy to get hold of now. Microcenter stock them in the US and http://stockalert.alexellis.io shows other locations and quantities.
Exactly that is being tried... somewhere in Europe right now. Saw the story on HN last year, and it seemed be cost effective.
Lovely to see USB-C, I hope it will be plug and play for all USB-C phones as well!
It's totally valid and was obviously written with tongue firmly in cheek - the author (or their editor) is just having a little fun and suggesting that adding wifi to e.g. a stove is a consumer-hostile move.
Except that "any discrimination on grounds of nationality" is clearly NOT prohibited, the obvious example being Scottish University Tuition Fees.

These are free for Scots, free for other residents of the EU, reduced rate (not Free) for Welsh and Northern Irish, and a special higher rate is applied solely to students from England, i.e. those with English nationality.

What was that about discrimination on grounds of nationality again?

Strictly, yes, I know, it's discrimination on nation of residence rather than individual nationality. Nice trick. Guess where the English tend to be resident? Yup. England.
> I think it's unlikely that the human mind tackles Go in the same way.

This is very certainly true, which is what makes AlphaGo interesting to watch and study. The human mind, even one that has trained on Go for years on end, will still work with abstractions and ideas that do not relate to the game. AlphaGo and other computers lack this attribute, as any and all abstractions they may have learned relate entirely to the game.

Any ideas about the "human perception" of Go they may have gleaned from games that are included in the initial training dataset, I suspect have long been supplanted by novel notions gathered during the phase where the Neural Nets played against themselves. These phases are documented in the AlphaGo blog from Deepmind[1].

I suspect that we may reach "human level intelligence", but that this intelligence will not arise in the same way. That is to say, computers will at some point match us in most tests of intelligence, but the solutions they devise will be completely novel.

[1] https://blog.google/topics/machine-learning/alphago-machine-...
is there any rhyme or reason to the order of the links on that page? the welcome post is bottom left.
I think the physiological and the logistical aspect of Westworld is more interesting than the AI
>Is using the toilet a human right then, and if so, whose duty is it to volunteer to clean it up?

It can be paid for with land value taxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

Indeed, it effectively used to be - they typically are and were paid for with property taxes, which is a proxy for LVT. The political decisions to decline property tax revenue is the reason why many closed.

Landlords' entitlement to an ever larger stream of rental income that includes the value of land which they had no hand in creating or making valuable is largely why state/city budgets are in such a mess, why the 1% steadily gets richer and why property values keep going up.
> Of course you do [argue against feeding the needy, or against social nets in general].

No, I really don't.

> And the irony, is that after you paid for the gated community guard, for the area to be exclusive, for the medicine and for the weapons- you paid more then European taxes for a "welfare" state - and got less.

You're incorrectly assuming that I'm not European. I'm also not living in a gated community, and there is no one guarding me personally.

> [...] to not feel like a monster [...] the likes of you want to shirk responsibilities [...] What a nightmare [...]

You're seriously overreacting, and you're making extreme, unfounded assumptions about my opinions and motivations. That's not the way to have a factual debate. I won't continue this discussion under these conditions.
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I can't believe you're making an argument against public toilets.

> But another way to tax things is to directly tax the thing itself - like in this case, taxing the use of the toilet.
That is not really Tax, but more so a Fee.

> Of course you can appeal to emotion and say "what, we'll make poor people not able to use restrooms"? Clever as that is, what about the alternative appeal - are you really comfortable with a poor person's taxes going to support the public toilets of the 1%? The areas they live have public restrooms too, and I'm sure they cost a hell of a lot more to maintain than most public restrooms.

I find it hard to think how the poor would use public restrooms less often than people who are more well off, considering the work environment, public transport dependency, and other factors.

> I don't know. I'm just saying, the view expressed by Stallman is not nuanced, doesn't provide any data to back him up, only goes for a totally surface-level idea of the morality, and supports it with emotion.

Access to public toilet in a civilized society is a matter of dignity and should not be only afford to those who can pay for it. Period.
i don't even believe a free-software world is desirable without a new way to structure our society. I don't know if i want that. I am also very critical of RMS and his "propaganda"-style of writing.

But this doesn't mean that what he is doing is bad for society or not important. I respect his work and what he has achieved, i just don't share the vision. It's often important to be somewhat crazy to achieve greatness.
If you ask me, the GIMP-vs-Photoshop debate has become so much of a dead-horse-beating exercise, to the point where I no longer believe that it is fair to compare those two programs as being anything similar. The only comparison I can draw is this: As with any large and old programs, they both will suffer irrelevance in the coming years anyway, and hopefully become displaced by newer and better products. Disclaimer to make me not sound like a complete idiot: I haven't used Photoshop in many years, but I use GIMP infrequently for mundane image editing tasks.
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Wikileaks used to be a platform for venting information. Data that was secret and had power was laid open for consideration by anyone interested.

Now it is a platform for some insiders pushing an agenda. Data is solicited, filtered and used to push in a direction. Wikileaks has become a player.
Agreed, given the amount of damage the Hosts seem to receive each day it doesn't feel plausible that they could collect them all and do what seems to be a manual operation on each to return them to perfect condition overnight.
Oh wow. That's a neat ad, but kinda creepy... What if someone was already using their phone hand free? Listening to Pandora to their cars BlueTooth? Or even if they weren't using their phone at all - the fact that Siri is being activated without them doing so could be a distraction.

Or maybe even stop their turn by turn navigation... So then they have to try and drive while restarting it. Maybe they don't even remember the address, so they have to open the app and go to recents or check their email(Not Sure if Siri handles that part too).

I wonder if they'd be prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act if they did that same thing here in America. Hacking people's phones from the radio it feels to me.
Consumers have the luxury of voting with their money.
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Is there a chance you could reconsider and try sharing some of the details of your setup? I never imagined one could try doing something like that, and even now that you triggered my imagination (and after reading the link), I have hard time picturing how to even start building such a setup, not to mention a practically usable one???
You have to work with the data that is available. Lists of most influential or most powerful people are also based on data available and possibly some subjective assessment. Some times when I scroll thru them I get the feeling they are far from the truth. Not that I know exactly what the truth is.
Just create more hosts and have them do it.