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You can pretend the conversation is about safety but there's more to it than that. There are legitimate safety regulations, which could be monitored with a $100 random annual inspection. And then there are the actual regulations which are usually just encoding the business practices of the incumbent into law so that other companies with other advantages are impossible to make legal, regardless of safety.

If it were actually about safety, the "hotel commission" would try to make it as easy and as cheap as possible to get inspected. The fact that they don't suggests it's more about gatekeeping.
> It's similar to your instinct of self-preservation, only on a longer timescale.

I haven't thought of it like that. But it would seem one is an unconscious reaction, spurred on by the autonomous nervous system, while the other is a (seemingly) conscious choice (if we don't get into determinism).

Then we get back to the beginning. You can influence the outcome of a sudden event, but not your own destined death down the line. Taking your "natural to want good experiences to last for as long as possible and to be at least a little 'pissed'," into account, doesn't that align with my parent comment? By consciously obsessing about how your days are numbered and that you have relatively little time alive, are you not contributing to your own state of being "pissed?"

Are you not being self-sabotaging?

> I guess you describe a kind of stoic philosophy where one shouldn't be concerned by things one cannot change at all, but that requires a lot of conscious effort, at least that's my personal experience, and the untrained human reaction to the fact that the good days are numbered is to be "pissed".

My response to this will sound aggressive, but once we identify a lapse in our untrained thinking, the practical thing to do would be to fix this.

In other words, as you mentioned, we can override such thoughts with sustained conscious effort. It may be difficult, but it would be a better use of time to make ours as good as it can be.
No, such companies can get a declaration exempting them from the tax, which they can then show at the time of purchase.
> "there is no present-day politician that I see as more sympathetic and admirable than Hitler",[1] while expressing his approval for the Night of the Long Knives—"what has humanity lost if the lives of a few imbeciles were taken"

HN: "wow; beautiful, thoughtful stuff. really makes me think."
Nobody looks at that when renting a hotel.
Funny you mention justice in France. There are very strong suspicions that the current president of France is using the justice system against his opponents, with a wave of investigations hitting his opponents immediately after his election and another one now, right before a major election.

A centralized presidential system does make it easier to have all sorts of abuse, from which no western democracy is immune.
The stuff on that list you linked to seems pretty minor...

(Disclosure: I'm running Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 on my Linux machine)
For the first time in years I’m considering Debian. Not because Ubuntu is bad in any way, there just seems to be less difference between it and upstream Debian these days. Many are praising this as a good thing and I don’t disagree. As an end user I’m just thinking “is there enough difference, why not run the original?”.
What other than computer science concepts can save us from slow software? Computer science concepts (Amdahl and Moore, maybe Dennard, maybe-maybe Landauer) have proven that hardware improvements cannot. Is there some aspect of the software performance that can only be understood through another domain of human endeavor?
I found that my friends and family didn't mix well, my crude friends were posting random garbage that my grandma was reading. Then there was family drama, backstabbing, angry political posts. The reasons for me to leave far outweighed the benefits of staying. I also don't like being a "product", I'm not interested in seeing advertising and the way they manipulate your feed now is also something I dislike. I pulled the plug and haven't looked back, I don't miss it at all.
This seems a bit idealistic, or perhaps I'm too cynical. Reproduction rates on soft-science papers are worse than should be expected of a junior high chemistry class.

Peer review, looking at it from the outside as a layman, appears to just be an enormous rubber stamp. I cannot believe that academics have time to rigorously go over the mountains of pages of dreck that make up most research papers, and even read the whole thing thoroughly, much less double-check the numbers. Not when they have a stack of papers to review a foot high, and another two feet of grants to write, their own research to do, not to mention what little teaching they haven't farmed off to grad students.
Well, Turkey represents the dream of what every muslim wants and been like that before attaturk denounced caliphat.

Just leave the people the chance to state/express what they want (democratically) without coups that we always suffer from. When the people choice doesn't go with the west the unleash their military pets and force a coup.
What security are you talking about?

Proprietary software gives you zero security against its owner/developer.

FLOSS is the only way we can have real security.
I mean they probably do somewhere, but not in any of the hotel gift shops, convenience stores, pharmacies, or dive shops where I looked.
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Yeah, seeing them lined up being drained is just nightmarish and barbaric. I thinks it's a good visual demonstration of how humans view the world: if we can derive benefit or profit from it, we'll exploit it.
If the legislation actually tests the safety, instead of a blanket ban, then I can see your point. Because many motels I've stayed at are unsafe. On multiple occasions I've gotten a key card to my room without showing ID (having forgotten it in the room).
You should invest in a phone line, those are great way to stay in touch with your family. Direct interaction works way better that going through a middle man.
Tourism amounts to about 5% of the economic importance of coral reefs. 35% of all fish species spend a part of their life cycle on reefs. Pelagic fish predate on reef and demersals, the system is fundamentally interdependent. reefs protect coastal infrastructure, and so on.

Thinking that the loss of coral reefs only affects a few rich playboys is... naive.
>I don't think the culture in technology devalues them ...

Why would it? They provide for free (or close) 90% of the infrastructure everybody uses to make money. The companies are glad those suckers exist -- but of course wont pitch in, except rarely...
But where to go?
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Is there some structural factor that prevents the assembly from being taken by Erdogan's opposition?
You are assuming that, without DRM, everyone would use netflix to download all the content, then cancel their subscriptions.

I doubt this would actually happen. Netflix beat out piracy because it is convenient. People that want to pirate netflix content already do (by sharing accounts).

When the music industry abandoned DRM it wasn't a big disaster. I don't see why video would be different.
Yeah, I answer nearly zero calls from numbers that aren't in my contact list. If it's important they can leave a message. If it's a local number I'll google it, and maybe call back even if there's no message and it seems to be someone I want to talk to. Out of state? No way. Most people I know—even my tech-unsavvy parents—have resorted to a similar policy. Multiple spam calls a week—more than calls I actually want to take, certainly—will do that. I'll start treating a ringing phone as necessarily worth paying attention to when junk calls drop to one or two a year, like they were for a while after the Do Not Call registry first came around.

It might be a good filter to find people likely to answer collections calls though, I guess.
Are you sure nanoparticles are reef safe? These particles break down too.
This is not a terrible idea, but the overhead of running an actual hotel business and the associated costs would likely make it less attractive than the current wild west approach.

I assume, naively, that a lot of ABB'ers skirt taxes and short-term rental codes/taxes. The advantage comes from not recognizing the state/city/town bed codes/taxes.
I just moved into an openstack development job, and I'm struggling. So many technologies and complexities you have to keep in mind, even within a single project. I'm hoping it comes together soon. I have not provided a ton of value yet just sitting here learning, and breaking so many things.
Maybe they didn't want to be RedHat? As in, all those projects are open-source and if Google invested in them, they'd be investing in something they can't fully control. Google's goal is to make money, not fight for user freedom, after all.
the basic idea of which is instantly shot down by the fact that language grammars are just more complicated than counting individual characters

I'm sure someone overly excited is at this very moment trying to make this a mathematically precise statement so they can see if you're right, and if so, if there's a way to change the author's approach to support more complicated computations on the text. Maybe you can help them along if you're not just guessing.
There are some, but in practice I suspect the real competition comes from the major public cloud services in one direction and from more traditional but tried-and-tested IT infrastructure in the other. So far, products aiming for the middle ground, like OpenStack, just haven't quite found their mark. After this much time and investment, in a market where potential is trumped by pragmatism, it's not surprising that major corporate backers might start to look elsewhere for their future strategy.
We already have a tax for content authors, this is supposed to be much more targeted. Instead all it does is make local electronics retailers even less competitive when compared to the online players.

This is also a travesty because you're supposedly being taxed for the privilege of enjoying something you are already paying for. In reality it's even worse because this is only relevant to extract money from those who are not buying your content. The ones who are buying your content already have a pricing relationship with you where more or less money can be exchanged for more or less service.

At the end of the day this was just a way for entrenched interests to extract money from the population that wouldn't normally be given to them because they don't produce content that interests them.
Needs (2009) tag in title please.
>>Huh? Why does he have to do that?

Because hotels are subject to those regulations. It's not optional for them. Why should it be optional for AirBnB hosts?
In my experience, I've found most AirBnB hosts' pricing on other fees has been reasonable.

Other services out there though, like HomeAway, are much more deceptive. I've had to actually email the hosts on HomeAway to get the full price, which turned out to be double what the stated cost was.
Openstack created a lot of possibilities for the way it "could" work or "should" work, but almost no methods where it does work.

The problem with Openstack is it had too many moving parts, and no standard/reference implementation. It was destroyed by it's own grandiose goals. The project wanted to say 'yes' to every permutation of software. Making it a disaster from an operational standpoint. Everything promised, but nothing verified.
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I recently booked on airbnb in SF for a few days. The actual nightly price I paid was 40% higher than the list price (service fee, airbnb fee, sf occupancy taxes) which was towards the top of my price range filter. I still booked, so I guess it worked in favor of airbnb his time. But left a stale taste for future endeavors.
Let's put it this way: posts are not made for you. They are not created for HN either. The author can use whatever title they want. They can make it funny, suspenseful, etc.

Maybe stick with "clickbait" where it originated and applies: to online media (especially news/gossip etc websites) making money off eyeballs, instead of some random person's blog?
Mesos isn't really a direct replacement for Openstack, but you're probably still right to be pushing for it. If you roll with Mesos you will still need to solve a bunch of lower-level infrastructure challenges: machine provisioning, basic system config management, storage management (if you want persistent volumes), fancy networking (if you want ip-per-container or any sort of network isolation), and so on.

Like Openstack, Mesos brings its own set of new complications.

Unlike Openstack, Mesos almost always increases efficiency of operations once it's in use. Openstack always seems to result in more and more effort spent on just operating Openstack...
So just because Turks opted for an "Islamist" government, Western media have been mourning for hours. Had it been someone like Sissy then everyone was going to praise about it.

I can laugh at the hypocrisy of Western media and it's support to.. Democracy.

PS: Thanks for down vote, I can understand this unexpected results are not making many happy, that's OK. I was not happy when Trump became President but then I respect the choice of voters :-)
Shouldn't it be the only sunscreen they sell there? It's in their best interest
I'm pretty sure that use of 'xxx' predates computers as a stand-in for "some stuff". Like a Kleene star before regex existed.

To me it seems uninteresting, and perhaps even misleading, to try and find the 'first use of xxx' on computers.

I started using "XXX TODO" in college 20 years ago and I don't remember ever seeing it anywhere, it was a natural thing to do. I occasionally had "todo" in comments and code I wanted to fix very soon, and adding the 'XXX' was the easiest thing to add to make it searchable with no false positives. For whatever reason it seemed like an obvious thing to do. It's possible I picked it up somewhere, but I wasn't reading much code, there was nowhere near the access to public repos then that there is now. I'm pretty sure I invented it independently along with many other people.

> Why he chose to switch to the rather inconvenient XXX from ### is unclear.

I don't understand this comment... XXX is easier to type than ###. Caps lock works for X's and not for #'s. Even when using the shift key, X is a shorter throw than #.
"Iran isn't a dictatorship."
- The 'Supreme Leader' begs to differ. "The armed forces, judicial system, state television, and other key governmental organizations are under the control of the Supreme Leader of Iran."

To be clear, Iran is not totalitarian, but definitely shades of dictatorship.
The majority of the papers citing it that I checked (including the two you have linked yourself) makes the citation for the idea of the method (using epidemiology models in the context of social media), not for the results.
I wonder how the domain displays on email clients like gmail and outlook, this is the scariest part, most people will just look at the domain and think it's a valid mail and follow the instructions of that mail, it could be catastrophic for companies, the ubiquity $40 million fiasco comes to mind.
> the “iOS First” release once again speaks to Apple’s priorities, to its vision of its future

I actually disagree about the reasoning behind this strategy. iOS may be more important to Apple at the moment, in terms of market value, but there's a better reason to target it first. iOS is deployed to constrained systems, iPhone, iPad, appleTV... this is easier to test because there will be less variance to deal with than on macOS deployments. It makes a ton of sense to start there for technical reasons so that they can validate it in more consistent environments.
Without considering the ability for the president in France to pass laws without a parliamentary vote - with the only way to veto being a motion of non-confidence which forces the government to resign.
So why don't they just raise their prices to 1.01 and not take money from people who have no interest in their content?
Maybe this is more true of countries like India, where I'm from, where I can imagine hygiene standards being more "flexible". But here in Western Europe for example, or the US, airbnbs are almost better maintained than I'd maintain my own house. And I think there's a good reason for this: the impact of reviews. Even in India, I can't imagine a place going far looking like a cheapo dorm room, because people will definitely look at reviews.
I think there's a danger today with intelligent people moving away from politics due to the mess they perceive it as being (IMO, rightfully so). The problem is that when you take a certain level of rationallity out of politics you let extremism flourish. We need to fix moderate parties, but I have no idea how to do that...
Similar business model to ULTRA Testing, a QA firm in NY that I regularly engage: http://www.ultratesting.us/

There's a lot of talent out there that's often overlooked, good to see companies starting to recognize this and help create opportunities.
Rust... that game where you gather wood in the nude for five minutes before somebody kills you, over and over? ;P
I can't help but thinking, for those of us interested in living the life we have until we can't any more, that this line of thinking is ultimately much more helpful. Death is a single, important, instant in our existence. We must give it the consideration it is due, but I also don't like the idea of being trapped by my own mortality. It will come when it comes, and I don't want to cheat myself of all the moments in between wrestling with its specter.
I agree with this. The USB consortium needs to come up with labeling/licensing standards for cables and do so ASAP. The utter travesty that is this space was entirely predictable, and they did nothing about it? This is exactly what happened with USB 1.1 -> USB 2.0 cables, and we're just making the same mistake twice.

It's so bad that Apple even ships a USB-C 2.0 cord with it's Macbook Pro chargers. What the heck?!

I've since replaced all the non-3.0 and non-thunderbolt USB-C cables I have so I have a universal set, but I shouldn't have had to do that and it was rather expensive (and difficult) to track them down.
You know that the average quality is lower than a hotel, with reviews on top of that. And if you don't want to risk a lemon then you can still stay in a hotel.

You have hotels either way and you clearly can't save the market for not-hotel rooms by prohibiting it entirely. Where is the harm in allowing someone to knowingly take a risk in exchange for a discount?
> Most languages let you cut corners and code in a sloppy way. This is not limited to PHP.

Completely true, but for years PHP made it extraordinarily easy to shoot yourself in the foot right out of the box. register_globals for example...

http://php.net/manual/en/security.globals.php
Then, I am sorry, you lack insight in this area. At least Poland is one of the most pro-EU countries.
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Isn't it the problem? They may care because of the $$$. We should care about our planet because is where we live! Harming any part of the ecosystem has more impact that only the money, and there are some problems that we cannot predict in advance.
A fourth point: The landscape in tech is changing. Career in tech also requires one to deal with hills that are caving in.
Funny... I converted Cream 12 for use in Apple II programs.

For the old-timers, it was a shape table and multiple draw commands of numbered (ascii value - 32) shapes would allow you to write proportionally spaced text to the graphical screen. It was the same format Take-1 used (we used their programmer's toolkit).

So, Cream 12 came down from Altos all the way to our Apple II+'s.
Openstack was supposed to be a vendor based consultant bonanza. It wasn't designed by or for the users or customers, if it was designed at all.

Instead it was a vehicle for hardware vendors to sell compatible product and consultants to build something they'd have to service forever afterwards. (Yes this is a cynical and half joking take, but it's also serious)

So what went wrong? Welll, If you're not going to build a product that teams can actually figure out how to use, then you need to have Cisco or Oracle level sales talent behind it. OpenStack didn't have that, and maybe couldn't have it because there wasn't one boss company behind the product.

Like I mentioned, there is a trade-off between the usability and required Sales Power. As far as usability goes, even consultancies that were directed to use and sell OpenStack solutions couldn't get their people to figure it out. A consultancy based technology has to be coherent enough that a junior associate can reasonably start billing hours for it. OpenStack will stymie a close-knit team of veteran "devops" people— And I'm talking about people who actually know systems administration and development, not a buzz word ninja.
>Good journals do have peer review, and they wouldn't have accepted this.

Most peer reviewers do not get to see the data in the article.
The extent of democracy in Turkey 1921-2017 is being rather idealized by a lot of these articles. It was for large periods a quasi-democracy with a strong role for the military (on a few occasions explicitly as military dictators, on many more occasions less explicitly). And beyond the military, also a strong role for paramilitaries.

In this referendum, for example, the ultra-nationalist party MHP played a strong role, supporting Erdogan. Along with their notorious neo-fascist paramilitary units, the Grey Wolves, which attacked "no" demonstrations, especially any linked to Kurdish groups. But these militias aren't a new development. They're decades old, and have had various political roles over the years, usually linked to the "democratic" establishment. Historically the MHP often carried out dirty work for the Kemalists, especially operations that the military didn't want to do officially, like attacks on leftist intellectuals and Kurdish cultural figures. What's changed is that the MHP has switched alliances from working with them to working with the AKP, at least for now, which is part of an ongoing reorientation of political alliances. A weird alliance though, since AKP are more Islamist and MHP don't really care about Islam.
In theory they can. In practice, impossible. Its the culture. We do not vote for representative, we vote for a party and its leader.
I've recently started using this Chrome Plugin to disable autoplay: https://github.com/Eloston/disable-html5-autoplay. So far works about 95% of the time, but it recently became unmaintained. It also does not distinguish between when you click on a video and the next link plays it, e.g. Following a link to a YouTube Video or Netflix show.
You say they're hypocritical but you're using a hypothetical (el-Sisi). Maybe if you want to say the Western media is hypocritical, you should use an example of a non-Muslim dictator being praised.

Besides, even if Erdogan had been Christian, the end result would be the same: he now has fewer controls on his power, fewer people he needs to make happy to stay in power, and more ways to entrench himself in the Turkis government.
Something related to artificial milking, as opposed to tangible production costs.
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Hasn't "Western media" been hyper critical of nationalist figures like Erdogan in the "Christian World" (e.g.: Trump, Le Pen)? I honestly don't see the hypocrisy, seems pretty consistent to me.