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That's my concern for the Christmas period.

A lot of Nintendo fans are early adopters, that's why they're buying a console with one significant game in March. For the general public they need to have more on offer than that.

Here are new AAA games which we are assured will be out by Christmas: Zelda Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Skylanders, NBA 2K18, Arms, Splatoon 2.

There's tons of indie names (e.g. Shovel Knight) or older games (e.g. Skyrim) but those aren't "system movers" as they're already out on every other major platform. Meaning people won't be buying a Switch to play those.

No doubt you're moaning about me leaving out Super Mario Odyssey, but at the time of writing SMO has no set release date only a vague "TBD, Holiday 2017." As does Project Sonic 2017. Nintendo games overrun their release date as much as other publishers, therefore one cannot be assured SMO will ship before the big holiday period.

If you look beyond 2017, it remains pretty slim pickings for the Switch. Likely until at least summer 2018 we won't see more than perhaps half a dozen exclusive AAA games on the console. We still have no assurance that the mainstream Pokemon franchise will be developed for the console.

The Wii U also sold fairly well early in its life, but sales dried up and never recovered with publishers avoiding it due its poor sales performance. The key thing for the Switch to do is to consistently sell, to give publishers enough confidence that when they target the platform that the effort will pay for itself.

It all remains to be seen. I'll be paying close attention to Christmas 2017 sales figures because it might be the life or death of the Switch.
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Because it's a societal level adjustment to an existing market distortion -- ie, adjusting the market incentives to work better with existing laws and regulations.

Society's interest in the market for arts isn't to just make money, and adjusting the pay structure as part of balancing competing interests (in this case, mandatory free use) is reasonable.

Even people who aren't directly interested in a particular work have an interest in the overarching production of arts.
Bullshit.

Explain how it's not true.
People like you gravely mix two very different concepts: not giving even more help to someone with being at fault for that someone's problems.

We can/should help those in need and in fact we do help those in need, but don't put the blame on us for those people grave conditions in the first place.
The article is factually wrong in a few places. USAir did not merge with United.

The NYT has slipped so far.
Huh, it's that bad for you? I used to work in the Openstack team at Yahoo, and thanks to the efforts of my colleagues, the first thing we got out of the way was upgrades. One of my friends made Anvil[0] We stayed with the community till the SVP decided it was time to move all of Yahoo to AWS.

I always wonder if one of Openstack's weaknesses was also the same thing that was it's strength, it's openness and need to support everything, as well as remaining agnostic to users. Nearly every company I know needs to register VMs on a local DB of some sort, and has patches on Openstack to do that. But every time I went on IRC and asked if we should think about a nicer way of providing this hook, I'd either be redirected to a different project, or get some rude replies.

I also wish there were some more modern companies behind the project; a lot of the developers were probably under pressure from penny pinchers in the management.

That said, it was a terrific project to start my career on.

[0]: https://github.com/openstack/anvil
Well then your exposure is limited. Boeing's corporate information security organization has around that number, as do several of the other major defense contractors.
New airlines can usually undercut older airlines because they don't have the same liabilities (pensions, debts from bad business practice over the years, etc.) and so they are usually great for a few years but then they evolve into the same shitty carriers that they compete with. In JetBlue's case, they were initially given a large tax break by NYC/JFK. When that subsidy expired they immediately started to charge for bags, reduce perks like better snacks, etc.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/30/pf/jetblue-checked-bag-fee/
Absolutely. You get it.

It's frustrating to read people comparing container technologies or worse container schedulers with OpenStack. Apples and oranges.

If you are planning on running containers on premise you need something from managing the IAAS side of things. OpenStack is excellent at IAAS and is the foundation for running higher level abstractions and services on top.
Why is it wrong?

If you reject the null hypothesis with a 99.5% chance it is not a type 1 error.
The new Zelda is amazing. Not only the best Zelda game ever made, I think it's just one of the best 3rd person open-world adventure games ever made, for any system, period. Definitely a system seller.

I'm interested in nothing else right now though - the rest of the available games seem like Indie shovel-ware or re-releases. Shovel Knight. Come on, that's like 2 years old by now.

I'll still buy every Nintendo game they make for this, but highly unlikely I'll end up with a sizable 3rd party collection on it. Got a PS4 Pro for that.
The reasons are pretty clear. Some just refuse to acknowledge them.
I think it's improved a lot recently. We're using kolla + ansible for deploying, and it seems pretty seamless.
https://github.com/openstack/kolla-ansible
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Lots of people are saying this is absolutely awful but I really don't get it.

> There are currently no quotas on how many crabs one can bleed because biomedical laboratories drain only a third of the crab's blood, then put them back into the water, alive.

If it's just a needle insertion, why is this such a big deal? The crabs shouldn't be bleeding after, and I don't see why they would be very damaged.

It's saving human lives. I don't think it's ridiculous to say that human lives are worth more than some momentary discomfort for crabs.
This article chronicles the move of a factory from Britain to Poland and is a great intro to current Polish politics with regard to the EU: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n08/james-meek/somerdale-to-skarbi...
Robin Hood has more reality to me than grogenaut does. Funny how that works, considering that presumably you have a human body and Robin Hood never did.
As with a lot of other things, the US is simply a child.

A child slowly learning what it is to be a country, a government, a society.

You can see it in many areas, especially in ones other, more mature countries and regions, hold as vital to the public good.

Health Care. Transportation. Communication. Environment. etc.

Just look at how the EU governs passenger rights. None of the utter SHIT that is ok in the US would fly.

Same with data privacy - look at the upcoming GDPR law and compare to what ISPs can do in the US. And look at the stick they attached to it - a fine of 4% of total, global revenue. Boy I hope Facebook and Google have their checkbooks ready.

The citizen comes first, never a corporation.

You can't skip a couple hundred or even a thousand years of development though. A society needs to learn its lessons, takes ages. That the US is fueled by immigrants from less developed nations does not make it easier, those lessons need to be re-learned all the time. Societal memory does not exist as it does in say, Germany.
Personally, I can't stand XXX as a comment prefix. It is semantically null as far as I am concerned. Just looking through the comments here shows several different possible meanings: FIXME, HACK, TODO. But I've seen it alongside all of FIXME, HACK, NOTE, TODO, BUG, ATTN, as a complete separate and distinct type of comment prefix.

Is it an actionable indicator or a explanatory indicator? What is its relative priority or importance among the others?

At least with all the other prefixes I listed it is dead clear what is actionable and what is explanatory. Better still there is an obvious priority albeit slightly ambiguous. Is TODO a higher priority than FIXME? But that can be addressed in a section of the README if necessary.

The other problem is allowing XXX in the code base allows for a catchall cop-out. Instead of giving the comment some semantic meaning just use XXX and let somebody else figure it out. That somebody could even be you in a few years. In one particular code base that had a few other prefixes the XXX were by far the dominate prefix, presumable because of a catchall cop-out slippery slope.

In any case, I think XXX should be dropped in favor of prefixes with some semantic meaning.
Really dislike this style of commenting.
This.

However, I am having a lot of fun with Graceful Explosion Machine and Fast RMX. They don't have the depth of BOTW, but they are good games that are worth the price tag. If there can be more games like those, the Switch could do well in the long run.
Specifically, regulation and deregulation are not inherently good or bad. They're about managing tradeoffs.

Sometimes markets have incumbents with so much entrenched power that regulation can actually make the market more capitalist and create more choice for consumers.

American politics however is poorly structured so that corporations who have economic incentive to game regulation/deregulation have concentrated power and the broader public or smaller competing interests do not.

Corporatist regulatory capture and the status quo biases that come with it are the source of some of the biggest problems in our society - booming healthcare and education costs as well as entrenched oligopolies in infrastructure markets like telecom, internet and airlines.
Turkey took the refugees before the deal. The deal was to keep them from crossing the borders to Europe not to take them in Turkey.
> I think YOUR perception of Perl is what is outdated here.

Next to no one uses Perl any more. You won't find people to maintain your homegrown stuff - and aside from maintaining an OTRS instance I have not seen Perl code in a decade.

> Most things can be done in 1/10th of the LOC and OOP etc won't matter when your Bash script is one file and 150LOC instead of 5-10 files, objects an methods that are called just one time etc, 1000+LOC PHP.

Well good luck with Bash if your batch script involves stuff like parsing JSON/XML or interacting with databases. I prefer to write quick one-offs in PHP than wasting hours with Bash scripting; and even if it's no one-off but a script that needs to be run regularly (e.g. via cron), you'll find a competent PHP programmer for maintenance way easier than a competent Bash programmer.

> And come on, for "job control" type scripts you should be fired for using PHP over Bash.

For plain job control, like an initscript, I fully agree with you. But not for anything more complex, for the reasons outlined above.
Governance / control also a big big part of enterprise Docker sale along with usual DevOps move faster stuff.

Surprised how little messaging has moved on though and microservices still treated as a panacea for all ills.
"Democracy is just the train, but not the final destination.", is a AKP slogan I remember from a documentary on Erdogans long road to power.

I would also support the opinion that Erdogan used the EU integration process to selectively weaken the kemalist/military grip on Turkey's institutions. While you could point out that the EU were a 'useful idiot', IMHO there was never a realistic chance of Turkey joining the EU. The reasons are multifold, most important ones being the resistance of the EU population in major EU countries such as Germany, France and Poland. In that regard, I think, EU politics were not on an honest basis and just a game.
I've never stayed at an AirBnB but this is the exact issue I have with using Uber - the quality is so incredibly inconsistent. They seem to encourage any random yahoo to sign up and start driving with minimal (no?) training.
Why? The poor who benefit from cheap energy don't give a fuck about tourists loosing their fancy attraction.
If you're at a big company and paid decently well, I suspect that you'll not have a problem finding an equivalent job sometime down the road. I had those concerns going into my own job search last year (plus at 40+, ageism) but found none of them were valid. All companies care about is whether you can code, and your ability to deliver.

Still, sure, push for unit tests. Be careful though because everyone has a different idea of what a good unit test pattern is. You might paint yourself into a corner where you have to have 100% code coverage measured by some tool or mgmt sneers. Or dev time goes up temporarily and everyone blames you for it. Know the end game you're pushing for. Unit testing is a means, not an ends.
Check out their front page: https://www.rackspace.com/

Their own cloud isn't mentioned on it. They've obviously been putting their eggs in the consultancy basket for 6 months now,

Hell, even if you go to cloud in the menu, they're only advertising other clouds: https://www.rackspace.com/cloud You have to go through the 'Infrastructure' menu to find their own cloud offerings.

I'm wondering how long before we get notice we need to migrate away from them due to impending shutdowns.
After reading, the author makes some valid points, and also some not so valid points.

one of the particularly valid points is that airlines shouldn't be allowed to overbook. By offsetting this with no-refund policies, it seems like a win-win negotiation. It may not be "free market," but it makes logistical sense as it takes resources to re-route passengers and deal with the negative PR from booting passengers.

One of the not-so-valid points is the author's statement that "It makes no sense to allow airlines to charge an astronomical fare just because a flight is nearly full, and a dirt-cheap fare for an advance booking." The fundamental idea of supply and demand is that when supply is high and demand is low (when a flight is immediately listed), prices are lower than they would be when supply is low and demand is high (last minute interest in a semi-full flight). While most economic models have varying degrees of subjectivity, this is not one of them.

Ideologies are brilliant for discussion, but in practice, they fail to capture every possible variable and account for the impact when arriving at an outcome. Some amount of procedure (i.e. regulation) improves operations and efficacy. By the same token, too much regulation stifles operations.

Transportation is less of "creative" business, and more of a "procedural" business. As such, it can benefit from regulated procedures. The key is not to hide behind a wall of ignorance and ideology, but instead try to find the procedures that optimize the output for consumers and businesses.
I've been using rnu for fairly long time and it has never slowed me down. Ctrl+D/Ctrl+B for forward/backward paging combined with /<search> is very fast in Vim. Maybe because I don't use any heavy plugins.

On the topic about plugins, does anybody know of a plugin which allows me to give "names"/"tags" to files so that I can jump back to them with a shorter "name" instead of the full path?
This is obviously a problem that will be difficult to solve for social and medical sciences, but surely for the life and engineering sciences a general stance towards openness would be beneficial to the disciplines?
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The trick here is defining "smart" versus "needless" regulations. It's not always an obvious difference. For example: lots of excessive state-level occupational licensing which effectively just creates cartels was passed with sensible arguments about protecting consumers from harm and poor quality. It's fairly easy to rationalize lots of regulations that don't work very well in practice. So just saying "it should be smart and not mindless" isn't really a solution to anything without a rigorous definition of what a "smart" regulation looks like.
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Isn't that how most larger conferences are?
Given that beer industry funds campaigns against cannabis legalization and that cannabis is beneficial for people with Autism I would call any efforts like that sinister.
Schumer said "for every blue collar dem we lose we'll gain middle class suburban whites." That didn't work out, R's turned out for their candidate, as they always do.

The answer is not to suppress the leftist vote and care about the working class' concerns.
Idk - you can say that we're in a state of "anti-regulation" but I don't think that it's any worse than it has been for awhile. It basically amounts to who's looking out for who for regulation. Republicans are generally more about removing regulation (which can also be considered "smart regulation"), and Democrats less so, but the overall trend has been toward increasing regulation. It's very difficult to get rid of regulations once they are in place. One man/women's "smart regulation" is another man/woman's "overregulation/deregulation".

For example, people say that regulating the coal industry should be done, and is common sense. I largely agree, but they say that without taking into account society's responsibility to provide for these people if we're going to essentially ban them from their jobs. If you spent 30 years working in the coal industry, you've built up expertise in that industry and regulation effectively destroys your ability to leverage that expertise to make a livelihood. We can say "oh they should retrain/relocate" but to me that's just abdicating responsibility for decisions. If we're going to do something that benefits society as a whole, we need to make sure that we're minimizing the harmful impact that will have on others. In other words, regulations can be very bad depending on who you are.

Another example from a recent Planet Money podcast rerun. Because of state regulations she wasn't permitted to perform braiding hair in African style for profit unless she went to school for it. Businesses successfully had lobbied to create regulations that protected their interest. Fortunately (as far as I'm concerned) these laws were repealed. BUT at the same time, this regulation (let's say the whole thing was repealed) would have made the barrier to entry into that industry, as well as the time/money spent going to cosmetology school virtually worthless. Regulations are hard. It's incredibly difficult to get them right.
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what did the author of the article say that suggests to you that he is a Marxist?
I love watching the evolution of HN sometimes.

Outrage of the Week (TM) story, nothing to do with hacking or technology - 62 points in under an hour. Mind bending.

Let the circle jerk begin.
We have actually part in creating the Syrian war, and we are also one of the sources of why Turkey makes this political swing now.

For instance we should have known that if we don't consider Turkey as a partner, that they will at some point say "x you" and look for support from others. We could've also considered how we can take care of the refugees instead of dropping them on weaker governments. And we could have also considered how to treat Greece like a part of our community instead of sucking them more and more dry, which leaves all other fringe EU countries wondering how they will be treated if they ever get weaker.
Per the HN posting guidelines:

>anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Did anyone have their intellect gratified by reading this? The post seems like an emotional/hateful rage rather than anything of intellectual value. Not the type of thing I care to see in a place like HN.
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Here we go again with the regulation.
Considering how easy email is to spoof, why bother using a unicode domain which is only similar to the target domain? Why not just use the real domain instead?
Cant find the source now, but I read a theory that the origin of XXX is due to old movies and cartoons that shows poison in a flask with the "XXX" label, and it was used in programming to mark "poisonous code".
Pain might be one consideration for an ethical argument against the status quo, but there are plenty of others:

* Environmental - Are we diminishing the horseshoe crab population in a way that'll adversely affect the environment?

* Sustainability - Will our current methods be able to supply indefinitely increasing demand for horseshoe crab blood?

* Practicality - Are we using a natural resource as a way to avoid a more responsible or practical engineered solution (compare: whale oil)?

I don't claim a satisfactory answer to any of these (I just don't know enough about horseshoe crabs), but a "yes" for any of them represents a plausible ethical concern.
Southwest has a fundamentally different business model involving standardized fleet sizes & limited routing. Plus, if he's complaining about stopovers + layovers, Southwest has these on almost every flight.

He's stating a lot of things that would be nice, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of people still fly Spirit Airlines - despite their constant low ratings - because it's costs $50 bucks.

The real discussion should be about fare transparency as a bunch of airlines are rolling out basic economy fares that don't include food, limit space even further and don't accrue points, etc. Instead of making a new, nicer tier class, they're taking away items from the basic economy fares and maintaining the same pricing.[1][2]

The fact that none of these pieces are talking about this makes me think these are outrage opinion articles by talking heads rather than people who regularly fly

[1] https://thepointsguy.com/2017/03/is-basic-economy-really-a-d...

[2] https://thepointsguy.com/2017/02/united-selling-basic-econom...
I haven't used PHP for a number of years, but I have to disagree on the documentation. I found PHP's docs to be heads and shoulders better than other languages. It has expressive, sane examples, and allows comments that may help others with repeated questions regarding certain functionality.

Compare PHP with say, Python. Tell me which one you would rather refer to.
People are talking a lot about safety regulations, as in, "well, if you're willing to take the risk of sleeping in someone's house, you should be able to," but what gets me is that safety's just one of the things hotel regulations ensure.

Another is access for the disabled. I've stayed in a few AirBNBs that would absolutely have been off-limits to someone in a wheelchair, but the number of times I've stayed in a hotel that wasn't disability-accessible? Zero.

Yeah, choice is great when you're talking about saving some bucks and taking on the risk of sleeping in an essentially-unlicensed hotel, but what about the people for whom the regulations guarantee them access to commerce or travel at all?

Like others have said, regulations develop out of a reaction to a lousy status quo. I think it'd be a shitty world to live in where people with disabilities were being shut out again, to the extent they used to be.

(Am I saying that, if you're going to let your room commercially, you should make it ADA-compliant? Maybe so. It's at least worth thinking about, instead of saying, by default, screw those folks in wheelchairs.)
The airline industry is crippled by its debt load. They borrow money to buy a plane, and hopefully make money flying it around to make the payments. When the plane is finally paid off, it's ready to be replaced.

I had an anecdote about a Hawaiian Airlines' maintenance problem:
http://www.taxiwars.org/2015/03/airplane-maintenance.html
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