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considering Adobe MAX 2016 Resources about 8 Billions AIR Applications installs, I would not call that a flop

see here for more numbers and details
https://discuss.as3lang.org/t/adobe-air-by-the-numbers/476
> How is capitalism ever not personal?

A review of the works criticizing the dominant system of the mid-19th Century industrialized West by cobtemporaries who coined the name "capitalism" to describe that system would answer that question.

> At it's core, capitalism is simply the codification of a win-win transaction between two or more parties.

No, at its core capitalism is the arrangement of government, property rights, and legal system to preferentially serve the interests of the holders of capital over others. Hence the name.
Indeed, that was attempted, but it was vetoed by the judge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,...
That's redistributive taxation, not socialism. Socialism is ownership of all property and business by the government. Per Marx/Engels:

"The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State,"
"Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable. 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. 5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. 6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. "
It's great to see so many choices for IoT infrastructure.
Very cool initiative! The more support that comes to recognizing the open source projects and research that go into so many useful tools -- the better.
> I was expecting Stallman-style advocacy against closed-source as a principle; pleasantly surprised by the arguments.

Is this a problem?

Ostensibly one should hope to be able to communicate online in the same
manner that one does offline: without paying an intermediary

Further, if the 'natural trend' of economics is towards commoditization
of products, why then are we abandoning those things which facillitated decentralization in order to support another entities profit motives?
...Really? I'm more willing than most to be skeptical of Musk and his ventures, but this is just silly. Tesla is in a make-or-break phase of their business, and I'm sure that employee parking, while important, can't be at the top of what must be a very long list.
> IRC also has the multi-login problem - it gets confused if I log in from my phone and my laptop. To get a persistent history of IRC requires running an external service which is way beyond most users.

This part I really do find annoying about IRC. I use IRC by far the most but this still gets me. Even if you run it in a screen somewhere it's a hassle from a mobile device. There's solutions for all of it, but you have to string a series of things together to get to something just about every other option offers you out of the box. Unless you have a particular need for IRC or have used it for a while and know how to deal with it, the other options are more appealing to newcomers. Depending on how young your project or community is that can make all the difference.
I buy books faster than I can read them, so I get it.
>>backdrop of news reports

And films, don't forget the films. That is probably how most people know of The Pentagon.
>It's especially true with a chat system where the most important feature is that everybody on the team can get access.

That's a complete other story... All that big open source movement for decades and in 2017 we are still depending on proprietary systems to provide a chat(!) for a company.
If you can fit your use case into DynamoDB without any struggling: the performance and ease of scaling is a massive bang for your buck.

It's actually pretty easy to use too if your use case makes sense for it.

However, if your use case does not fit what DynamoDB expects, you are better off using another DB rather than try to bend DynamoDB to your will.
Have you ever worked for someone you liked? Or have you ever been offered a job or promotion because of a good personal relationship?

Most things sold in the business world are sold by personal relationships and conversation or personality.
It's really hard to describe how all of this works without going into extremely detailed scenarios and edge cases. Simply put though hiring more people doesn't do anything.

Those extra people still would have to be sitting on call somewhere. Once they receive the call they're sent to where they're needed which still results in this situation. It's simply unreasonable to think they would have spare flight crews in every single possible destination. Unless you want about 1,000% increase in ticket prices of course.

I'm sure the other flight was delayed. Not getting a crew there on this last flight out for the night though would have likely meant cancelling the flight in Louisville or delaying it at least 24 hours. Stranding a plane in a city like Louisville would cause major ripple effects down the line resulting in probably another 10-15 flights being delayed. If they cancelled rather than delay now you have a plane full of passengers that need to be re-routed on multiple other planes that are likely already full.

Re-location of flight crews is simply a necessary option for the airlines at this point of time. Maybe down the road we can remotely pilot airliners and then situations like this won't arise.
We are talking Open Source Project Communication not small group communication.

IRC and FreeNode channels have been the standard for communication and not for archival purposes. I use an IRC bouncer with my home server and I never look back through the thousands of communications except to see a reply to my question.

Why does a Open Source Community channel need archived communication unless it is just a few developers only chat?
The good old side channel attack. Kudos.
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I've been IRCing for 24 years. I know about bouncers, different clients, etc., and I still prefer Slack to IRC.

I like knowing that it's going to handle unicode properly, in all cases, for everyone on the Slack channel. I like that it handles right-to-left text for everyone reading.

I like not having to ever think about, is my bouncer down? I also like not having to think about, where am I going to run my bouncer? It's nice not having to think about that stuff at all. I've got a lot on my plate, keeping a bouncer up and running somewhere (just so I don't lose history!) doesn't need to be another thing I do.

I like the plugins, the integrations with various other services. I like the convenience and polish. No IRC client compares to Slack for integrations and polish. It takes friction out of my daily chat experience.

I've even moved some private irc channel chats to Slack channels, because it's just a more pleasant experience in 2017. No regrets about any of that.
I am taking the following measures:

1. Not fly United again until they offer an unconditional apology and compensate the passenger.

2. Sold off United stock as of this morning.

3. I am not trying to make this about Twitter for now. (Also I am way under water on my stock that I will lose too much if I sell them now)
Perhaps they can dump it as a torrent, so any hacker could build a valuable service with it.

See e.g. SciHub.
> You're never seen a breaking news story come out through twitter in a way that's not possible without instant social media?

The same thing is possible via facebook or reddit or even yahoo.com which not only gets more traffic than twitter, but has a more homogenized front-page which would have a bigger impact on how many eyeballs see a story.

> I mean, nobody needs newspapers either. A lot of unnecessary things are very important.

And? Should the government force the newspaper to print or remove specific content (outside concerns with the law)? Now that sounds like a dystopia. If you don't like the content of the paper, you can call it a rag, pick up an alternative paper and move on with your day, that is like the quintessential example against your position.

> Look at walmart. They have half a trillion dollars of money flowing through them. In terms of GDP they would be the ~25th largest country in the world. You think that money doesn't have ridiculous amounts of power just because they don't have a standing army?

And? What's your point? Twitter has 2000 employees and can barley turn a profit, Walmart is the largest employer and the largest distributor of foodstuffs and textiles in the U.S. The differences are pretty obvious. Twitter is irrelevant in comparison to walmart.

> Imagine for a second that twitter grew to become as important as an ISP. Let's say 90% of the alexa top 10000 required a twitter login to use. Or getting cell phone coverage from a national company required a twitter login. Would you still say they're entitled to discriminate?

Well that extreme hypothetical is obviously completely different from reality where nobody needs to use twitter for anything. Literally nothing requires twitter, certainly not something as important as getting phone service or having access to literally ANY other website. Your contrived scenario is a great contrast to how irrelevant twitter actually is.
> It's been a LOOOOOONG time since I worked on a laptop where I experienced noticeable performance problems...

Really???

Because personally, I keep having performance problems on all laptops I have. Don't try running on battery saving mode, seriously.

I stop counting the 5+ years old laptops that have to be upgraded, they can't watch a youtube full HD video in good conditions.

----

Fun Anecdote: I had to trial an entreprisey SaaS solution not long ago. A coworker gave me the name and I opened the site on my laptop (on the move outside of work, just taking a quick look).

Their site froze my firefox for 30 seconds because these idiots put a high quality full screen video of a surfer in the background of the main page. Looks cool, doesn't it? https://www.wavefront.com/

Couldn't see the site. Had to be at work to read it, on my top end workstation, the video played smoothly there. Needless to say, didn't take the product seriously.
From the guidelines:

> If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

The mods have been pretty good about making edits when appropriate.
'all acts are moral if they are in your own self-interest.'

I believe it's more, "All acts are moral when transactions are conducted fairly and consensually between the involved parties."
European here. Never even been to the US.

I'd say that as famous buildings go, the Pentagon is up near the top of my passive vocabulary - instantly recognizable and nameable. Washington, D.C. is rich in those.

But actively? No. If tasked with naming ten or twenty world famous buildings, I simply wouldn't think of it. Eiffel Tower, Sydney Opera House, the Pantheon (oh yes), and somehow, Word Trade Center, even if it is no more, but no Pentagon would occur to me.

[Edit: The usual typos]
Blame it 100% on Micky Mouse and Disney that is where all the blame belongs.
I was a huge Ayn Rand devotee until I realized it tried to see the world in black and white...and we don't live in a black and white world. This is my view of her philosophy after reading Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead multiple times as well as all her other essays and smaller fiction books. Like most other philosophies such as communism, it can sound good in theory and works on a small scale if everyone agrees to play by the rules. It would never work in a country of 330 million people.

The idea is that the free market is able to solve every problem. Businessmen will serve their own self interests but that is OK because in the process - others will benefit via the goods they produce and the jobs they provide. So businessmen will always offer fair wages and benefits to their employees because if they don't, those employees will go work for another business owner that does offer them and will get the benefit of more motivated workers. The best workers will always be offered the best wages, again because this benefits the owners bottom line to have the best employees. (collusion between businesses to depress wages, people stuck in locations with few employers and no competition for wages, the reality of businesses paying off politicians - are just a few real world flaws here IMO)

As far as regulation goes - the government does not need to be involved there. The free market will sort it out! Businesses that offer dangerous products will not get any customers so the incentive is there to only provide safe products (of course, what happens to the people that initially buy those products before people find out how dangerous they are or never find out about the dangers at all until it is too late? How do you fight a polluter that ruins the water source in your town, especially if they are also the main employer?).

As far as social programs - again, the government need not be involved there. All the rich (as well as the other people just trying to get by) will help their neighbors out of the kindness of their own hearts. Or not! Being forced to be altruistic ruins the whole point and regardless of the benefit to society, is one of the worst sins to a Randian. There are many references to money being taken from the wealthy via force - at the end of a gun. How a society handles the disabled, the poor, the elderly - if everyone doesn't out of the kindness of their own hearts - was never really addressed and was the final flaw for me. Just let them die I guess?

I'm sure I'll get some flack for this from the true believers and many will say I have it wrong. I guess I'd say that it is a great personal philosophy if you want to use it that way, but to try to apply it to governing or to any large scale modern society is impractical and, in the end, just downright cruel. Just one man's thoughts.
If there was a large-scale quiet-down campaign in force at Twitter, it would almost certainly be a shadow ban. Offending tweets would still be visible to everyone, they would just simply not show up in feeds.

Considering Twitter Moments ran a wildly negative story for the whole day yesterday about this, I think we can safely rule out collusion.

Someone else mentioned an army of flaggers marking these tweets as offensive and automatically get pulled, which makes more sense to me.
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> Socialism is ownership of all property and business by the government.

Socialism is the control of the means of production (not necessarily all property) by the public at large (Marx/Engels view of the State as the agency by which this control is exercised is not the only Socialist view, Socialism is broader than just Marxism.)
Yeah it doesn't make a lot of sense. I feel like the author must be doing something wrong with CouchDB in the first place if his binary uploads are being converted to UTF-8. Not to mention that that kind of thing should always be checked application side anyways.
He skips all the numbers where the hex-encoding has an A-F as the least significant digit. This makes everything bizarre.
I recently got the Surface Book, and it's pretty fantastic. Both the keyboard and touchpad are great. I like the keyboard even better than my late 2012 rMBP's keyboard.

I have a SP3, and it's nice, but I didn't like using the type cover. I much prefer being able to keep it in my lap, with the screen suspended from the keyboard. I'm sure it works great with a dock, but I haven't use one.
> What's the alternative? As an EU company, if I need to do business in the US then I can't say "let's schedule a meeting in a year while I go on a boat cruise". Virtual meetings only work to an extent -- they lack a human interaction touch.

That is one way to look at it.

Supposing we said, physical meetings only work to an extent -- they pollute the atmosphere. Therefore there is no alternative but to make virtual meetings work.

I put it to you that virtual meetings would work well - if the technology isn't quite there yet, it would be rapidly improved - if we took the attitude that we have to make them work, instead of taking the attitude that we have to travel.
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Nice one.

For those who haven't read Atlas Shrugged: amongst the group of protagonists in the book, the granting of favours or donations is clearly outlined as immoral, as per Rand's philosophy. All goods and services are to be traded for fair value.
I think the issue Marx points out isn't an "original" quality of capitalism, but rather an "eventual" (steady-state) quality of it.

AFAIK, capitalism is the idea of investment of capital. Marx's issue is that the capital pools in such a way that most people don't have it, or don't get to spend what they do have in a way that gets returns.

In an ideal situation, I am able to "spend" my "excess capital" - my excess time, skills, drives, etc - to improve my own situation. This is personal.

However, in practice, many people can't or don't do this. Maybe they're missing that drive towards self-investment. Maybe they're minimum wage and literally don't have any excess.

Marx's issue of "praxis" - that you do not own (literally or emotionally) the product of your work is an emergent, rather than inherent, quality of capitalism. So it seems reasonable that a society could exist with other factors the confound that emergent quality, so that you can have you cake (the core bits of capitalism) and everyone gets to eat it (everyone can actually take advantage of those core bits)
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Don't bother reading, waste of time. No mention of why cleaning is important, just lots of repetition about Jewish people using candles to see crumbs and sweeping them with a feather.

I haven't been this disappointed reading something in a while.
The forums I visited all died, but none replaced them (and I kinda miss forums). There are still some active forums that I know of, like Factorio's (a modern game, not one from 2001 when forums were still hot). They have a subreddit which is active as well (though less), but the forum format still works fine for them.

New services replaced many things that forums were used for, but not all.
The page updated with "will be released around April 25"
I don't think so. TFA references a rewrite that cost $750M over five years. Paying three or four experts $800k/year to keep it running is chump change in comparison.
I think that we agree on the facts.

I just think that focusing on human impacts has the best chance. Indeed, your examples are all about human impacts.

When I read "kill the planet", it seems about much more than that. Maybe that's just my ecohippie spiritualism ;)
Your characterization is fundamentally unfair.

It's not as if they found a legal way to destroy it after the work had started. That legal way has always existed. How one can enter a profession where you're paid to make art and not know the rules is mind boggling. I know lots of famous music artists who've felt exploited, but those contracts are likely a lot more complicated than what these developers deal with.

If you're a carpenter, and I hire you to build something, and you don't know that I can stop the project at any point and destroy it, you've got serious issues. Ask any carpenter.

If Michelangelo was paid to produce a masterpiece, I'm sure he knew he didn't own the work. I should probably look up famous artists like him and read up to see if this was even unusual: Getting paid to make something that would be destroyed by the owner.
Check out the timeline! I've written quite a lot about Indie Hackers from the beginning: https://www.indiehackers.com/timeline. The meat of the content is in the monthly review posts.
Linking to /newest appears to many HN users to just be a way around directly linking to their article.

I don't know enough about the voting manipulation detection implementation on HN, but I'd imagine a bunch of accounts hitting a direct link to an article and upvoting it could potentially be more suspicious than having them all click the article from /newest or just upvote from there.

FWIW as an anecdote, I've seen HN voting manipulation kick in quite hard when people link directly to submissions.
Thanks for chiming in. One of the joys of HN is seeing people Doing The Real Thing show up and be candid.
Really - what is sooo unusable about IRC?

Get a good GUI client, enter some parameters into a text bar, click 'ok', then chat. exactly the same process as a web browser..

The real problem is the 'endless summer' of tablet-era people who confuse the 'interweb' with the 'internet'. There used to be much more general community advocacy and understanding of promoting open communications 'baked in' to the internet culture which has been eroded by crass commercialization - this is the real problem that needs to be attacked...
It's not terribly hard to think of good uses for Google Books[1]. It's just, the legality was a bit murky, and what are the incentives ?

One idea(among many, surely): many people prefer visual explanations. In many subject areas, books offer better visual explanations. If when searching for something, Google would have also linked to some visual explanations from books(in the main search), and used machine learning to find the best - that may be really great, may really improve the experience and value of the web.

But is it legal ? it's unclear.

Can Google monetize that ? probably no.

Or am i wrong, is there some way Google can monetize that?
Best case scenario wouldn't you have to do both without knowing the length?
>Yes, and probably stop enriching anyone.
But again, i could argue literally the same thing about startups or anything else HN cares about, and it makes about as much sense (since you haven't said "why" this makes sense)

What, you mean we might live without internet connectivity in my toaster, or the ability for a distant CEO to brick my garage door opener?!

As for lobbying, you're going to have to point me to the lawyers lobbying against trial law on an equal footing with the trial lawyers lobby; I wasn't aware that AAJ had any serious competition anymore than the NRA did.
Super cool & congratulations.
you don't get the end of chain thing do you ?
Speaking of her other books, I found The Fountainhead to be a much better story with less preaching than Atlas Shrugged. The ideas I took from it were to work hard, and expect to be compensated for your efforts. The lead character was also very much an idealist, doing things the 'right' way in his mind and going through periods of wealth and poverty because of it.
'all acts are moral if they are in your own self-interest.' Is obviously wrong.

The villains of the book think that charity takes precedence over everything, or that they are intrinsically entitled to something just because they exist. In other words, if we're both starving, it's my moral obligation to feed you first.

Abandoned civilization? By the end of the book the main characters had their wealth confiscated and civilization had fallen apart. And it's not just the heroes. There's countless references to regular workers "abandoning civiliation," giving up work and roaming the countryside stealing food.

I would love for you to point out a passage where Rand says that the only law should be the free market.
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Are you saying capitalism cannot exist without government?