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> There is a huge difference between police state and letting dodgy products on some store's 'shelves'.

Yes, but the point was that people do not always realize the consequences of their choices, not that there were no differences.

> Do you support Amazon allowing sellers of counterfeit goods on Amazon Marketplace?

I don't support the Amazon 'marketplace' at all, Amazon should take full responsibility for anything sold through Amazon.com and if they allow counterfeit merchandise on their store that should be their problem, not the problem of their end users. And there is plenty of counterfeit merchandise on Amazon so I do not get what the point is, unless you wanted to make the point that in spite of being curated Amazon fails horribly at keeping their store in good shape.

> Besides the walled garden of Apple is not so walled - you can install any app you want on your iDevice, as long as you have access to Xcode (which is free).

That's fine, but for your regular end-user this has been made so difficult that it is something only developers will use.

> It is the access to the marketing and reach of App Store that Apple denies.

No, it goes much further than that. To all intents and purposes if your app is not in the app store then it doesn't exist because iDevices users think that that is the only way apps can go on their devices.
You don't need the transponder; multiple of our highways already read the plates. Then if you don't check for outstanding payments, they'll send you a letter charging it plus and administrative fee - often higher than the toll itself!

It's literally highway robbery :|
Ah! Very interesting! TIL. Thanks!
When I was using OS X, I used to compile my own version using Brew that behaved like a native application.

There are flags to do just that, but it's a very lengthy process, because you have to compile GTK and other libraries first.

It works well, although there are occasional bugs, such as the shortcut keys using Ctrl instead of Cmd, if I recall correctly.
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> I'm not sure what the VW eGolf clocks in at over there

Ca. 35 000 EUR in Germany (which means less in the rest of the world, for whatever reason).
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You're looking for brackets, not slashes, since you're giving a phonetic discription, not a phonemic one.
Has anyone reproduced the results from this study of 49 people back in 1979?
The Leaf is $40 - 45.000 in Denmark, so that's within range of most I would think, it's just that you can get bigger/better cars for the price. The Bolt isn't available in Denmark, it's under the Opel brand here and Opel won't sell it in Denmark because they priorities countries with an "ambitious policy".
I am not a good programmer, and never will be
Elixir is again in the spotlight. This time – flight booking
You might like checking this out, similar to what you've outlined. (doesn't hit all your points, and more of a vacation destination, but some people live there year round)

http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/urbanism-planning/ho...

We used to go there every summer. Now it's getting more crowded and losing some of it's charm.
Would be nice to have this productized and then miniaturized to fit under an engine cover: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.htm...
Actually I believe that now with OS X on one side, and GNU/Windows on the other, the year of desktop Linux will definitely never happen.

And while ChromeOS and Android make use of the Linux kernel for the time being, for a browser, ART and the quite constrained NDK APIs, whatever talks to the underlying hardware is kind of irrelevant.
"I don't see the Linux eco-system as being more prone to malware..."

Did you count Android amongst Linux? It is after all...
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How is it any worse than the current tax on gas, though?
I'm Polish. I google translate even from Slavic languages that are very close to Polish (Ukrainian, Slovak - it's like 50% understandable without translation) to English not to Polish, because X -> Polish google translation sucks.
It's a good point. Economics as practiced today is very "transactional" vs looking at the long term.

It's pretty obvious that we've morphed into a poorer country over the last 30 years. We've also shifted our thinking about prosperity from employment to GDP.

Also there's no concept of nationalism in modern economics, and many advocates for the current way of doing stuff inject revisionist social agendas to the mix. (I.e. Why should Westerners be privileged?)
> This kind of hyperbole isn't helpful.

It is helpful in the sense that it points out that people will often do things that have far reaching consequences out of their free will because they do not realize the long term effects.

> The differences between voting in a police state and using a walled garden app ecosystem run by a private company should be obvious.

Yes, but in the one case people vote with their ballots, in the other the vote with their dollars. In both cases the long term effects are negatives but since those effects are still safely over the horizon we can pretend that they don't exist. By the time those effects are felt it is too late to change course.

> What about the freedom to choose an application platform?

That would be fine with me, but only if the hardware were 'open' enough by default that third party application platforms would have a chance of making it to single digit percentage penetration.

> Since I'm sure I need to make this disclaimer, I don't own any Apple (or Windows) devices aside from my work-issued macbook.

I don't care what you use or why, what matters to me is that there is - at least in the mobile space - the choice between Google on the one side and Apple on the other and that both of those have substantial shortcomings when it comes to the freedoms they afford their users.

With Google you'll be tracked from here to kingdom come and with Apple you're going to be handed a smart terminal. Neither of those choices appeals to me.
I'm not sure what the VW eGolf clocks in at over there but it's probably in the neighborhood.

In Sweden the eGolf is about SEK 400k ($45k) compared to about SEK 220k ($25k) for the Zoe.
I'm not in any way connected to DigitalNatives or promoting their work. It's just interesting to read about one more successful Elixir use case.
Easy, it would be as Atari, Amiga and Apple systems were.

The PC landscape only happened thanks to IBM's mistakes.
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After a 18 month long wait it did load. Totally worth it.
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That's disingenuous. The fact that the Linux kernel powers Android is totally besides the point.

The Android eco-system does everything it can to bury the fact that it uses Linux under the hood, and it is relegated to the role of a fancy HAL.
Sorry, poor wording on my part, I meant in the neighborhood of the Leaf. But still, it seems a bit more expensive.
If it makes you feel any better, the Bolt was designed here in Michigan and won't be on sale here until later this year because they're targeting California and other markets first.
> "Proportionality" adds no value

I think it helps improve readability of the code.
That's why regulators need to be smarter.
Strawman. It's your opinion that sarcasm has been "effective and appropriate" in communication. In domains of importance, like law, is is notably absent.

> I was not aware..

Not the case, just more sarcasm from you. Those who argue unproductively are silenced in some ways, btw, in the form of mod restrictions and bans. Most of us are able to communicate more effectively and agreeably without sarcasm, and care to do so - why waste peoples time otherwise?
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...probably do negatively impact QoL.

With all due respect, there are about 5,999,999,998 people on Earth who didn't ask you or the grandparent poster.
I always thought it was the opposite of K.O.
Thanks for this: I didn't know about Designer, and was similarly let down by how less pleasant Inkscape was on Mac, coming from a lovely experience of it on Windows.
Every law does that. And sprawl does have negative consequences on others, it's not a simple sin tax.
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Like the objects dialog in 0.92 ?
No need for diceware - use lines of poetry. They're made for people to memorize and use strange connections between words. Plus they often have odd punctuation.
> but it's like saying we went from general-purpose computers to toasters you can't program.

Give it a few more years, we're getting there.

> iPads aren't computers in the sense you're talking about.

Of course they are.

> They are appliances that run a limited set of software titles to do a limited set of things that the manufacturer allows.

No, that's just packaging and marketing.

> It's frustrating because they could be really interesting general-purpose computers.

For want of a single bit switch they are. And that's no accident.

> But they aren't, and never have been.

Of course they are. It was a conscious decision made by someone somewhere to not allow their use as general purpose computers, in other words something was added in order to take away the rights that you would come to expect.

This causes tons of these devices to end up in landfills at the end of their obsolete-by-design life-span and forces people into eco-systems they might not be using out of their free will if there was a choice to do so.

As I get older I feel I'm more and more in Stallmans' camp, I used to see him as on the money for the long term but that in our lifetimes it likely would not get that far. Now I'm starting to think that Stallman might have been an optimist after all.

There is an outside possibility that there will be a point in the future when suddenly old hardware that allowed you to run any program (just imagine!) will become very valuable.
I wonder what the cost breakdown is between driver salaries and buying/maintaining the actual buses for bus routes today. I suspect that just getting rid of drivers won't save huge amount money, especially since driver-less buses will no doubt cost a lot more than 'normal' buses.
Lichess tries to use (in this order): PNaCl, WASM, asm.js.

PNaCl required almost no modifications to Stockfish (https://github.com/niklasf/stockfish.pexe), supports multithreading and is still the fastest.

WASM and asm.js require the same patches (https://github.com/niklasf/stockfish.js). Most notably WASM does not yet have multi-threading. In the original Stockfish one dedicated thread is listening for new commands. Instead now the main search thread (since it's the only thread) has to check for new commands from time to time, which costs a bit of performance.
I don't know how it in in Denmark, but wealthy people often live in nice houses in the suburbs and commute by car. Here in Berlin at least that is the case. The fuel taxes are offset by tax deductions for commuter miles though.
0.92.x does not use gtk3 (there is an experimental compile flag to use it, but it's still experimental)
I just bought a VW Caddy, but was also struggling with the decision as I thought about going electric. However, what I personally need is a minibus form factor to sleep in the back, 500km range to go to the alps and back and preferably at less than 30k Euros. Like many other city dwellers in Europe, I don't need a car in the city, prefer to take my bike or public transport, I only need it for weekend trips and vacations. I guess quite a lot of people in my part of town act similarly, even though we should be the most interested in electric cars, all being eco-minded and such.
How about driverless taxi-cabs then? You could call them driverless rentals.
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Yahoo was in "the ditch" long before Mayer. They had the opportunity to buy Google for $1M, they passed on it...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CoNYEe0WEAAGC0P.jpg:large
I've used https://app.moqups.com/ for diagramming/wireframing for a few years, and it doesn't feel sluggish to me at all. Feel pretty snappy, in fact.
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If the car was registered in Sweden they'd be paying tax there. If the per-mile tax is similar and there are a similar number of Danes driving in Sweden and Swedes driving in Denmark it evens out.
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> Depends on who "we" are. Some people also wanted a hassle free device, which only runs curated apps, and that keeps the whole experience more secure, unified, private, etc that a "open for all" environment.

To serve this kind of users I think what Apple does is perhaps all right. What I criticize strongly is that there is no option for experienced users (besides jailbreaking) to free themselves (also completely) from this walled garden - ideally in a way that allows users to free themselves only for certain security aspects so that they still have the security advantages of the prohibitions that they don't deactivate.
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My only adult trip to the ER a few years ago was lower, but similar-ish.

Ambulance ride, afternoon in the ER, an MRI, an X-ray, and no treatment needed, came to $9,000, of which I paid $6,000 after insurance.

That said, I know plenty of people who go to the ER dozens of times a year for minor things like colds.
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That's the most heartwarming NY "hustle" story I've ever heard. Working long hours at a carnival, in the NY summer heat, pre-air conditioning (he started in 1896!) to save thousands of lives for no recognition. He did this for half a century, and for no profit either: he provided free medical care to the parents!

This man is a damned hero. Stories like these are why I could never sympathize with eugenicists, who prevented incubators from being introduced in hospitals until the 1940s.
Yup. I used to host .git on a server but it ended up being more complication than it was really worth. Now I just have a “deploy” script that uses sftp to push all the build artifacts (and nothing else) to the server.
When pedestrians start killing drivers at the rate drivers kill pedestrians, your comment will make more sense.
That's very close to my experience.

Wikipedia suffers horribly from "inofficial ownership" of articles. People love to be the authority on issue X, and "I have written the article" is close enough to that.
Same in Germany, in 2014 it was 59%.
In 25 of 28 EU states fuel was even more expensive than in Germany.
Because the comment raises an important point.
Just wait until you have a tweet-reading bot that picks out the items most interesting to you. Arguably, we already have that in the form of Facebook's like-driven echo chamber algorithms. But it would be nice to have a version whose parameters are under your control rather than some large organization with questionable motives.
For young people today, their computers are their phones.
you don't need Google play services to use signal already for months
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Did they ever consider that any number of web browsers can already execute javascript?
We don't have to imagine. Someone has made a clone of Sketch for the web: https://app.designer.io/. There's an app to download as well.

It doesn't match the performance of a native equivalent, but doesn't seem unreasonably slow or bloated either.
Somebody took 'undefined behavior means that your compiler may optimize out large swathes of code in favor of execve("/usr/games/nethack"); way too seriously" :-)
No, this is a case where hard to change regulations are preventing progress.
It's interesting to note that Marx's concept of exploitation (which is a much, much broader one than the examples you're using here, though they certainly qualify) does say that it would be within the best intersts of the working class as a whole to rise up against such a system and indeed to illegalise (well, prevent in some way) hiring.
For the first 10 years of mobile phones, they came just with the apps that the vendor offered and no APIs, or very limited crapware (e.g. in mobile Java)

The first ten years were 1983 (release of the DynaTAC 8000x) to 1993. I don't think they came with any apps at all.

If you mean pre-iPhone, then it's not true; I was running my own Python scripts (which could use the GPS, camera, etc) on my S60 before that, using an interpreter provided by Nokia itself.
In Android O Google plans to separate HAL, OS and customizations.

This is a move from the "move fast and break things", which has allowed Google to make huge changes to Android but at the same time caused all kinds of problems for vendors, to a more "have a stable base" mentality.

Do you think we will see more fully open platforms due to this change?
Thank you for finding that, that is interesting. You will have to spell out the connection (as they might see it) with a UK audience being able to consume the content their subsidiary companies produce, though, as I can't quite make the connection.
> Bazaars allows remotely fetching one single revision from a repo, without requiring to download the whole history. You can't do this with git. The best I found was to loop "git fetch --depth N" with an increasing value of N until the "git checkout <commit_number>" succeeds. This is a pain, especially when working with submodules.

There is also `git clone --depth 1` but you have to use ssh+git protocol
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Right? Plus it looks like there's a seasonal increase towards the end of the year- should probably be compared against ice cars.
Last I saw, it broke when trying to use multiple monitors. This was a few months ago, 3 monitors, Fedora 25 I think.
But how is this relevant to HN except as a curiosity?
I suggest you check out http://www.appstorereviewguidelineshistory.com/

Sure, you may agree with most of them, but what if you're the developer of an app such as a cryptic watch app for the Apple Watch, and then Apple decides to block all apps on the watch who's main function is displaying the time (like they did)?
I'm on a T430s too and battery life is still quite good after nearly four years on the first one (I foolishly had it plugged in most of the time which has brought the capacity down to about 80%). I gave it an additional battery in the Ultra Bay that extends overall battery life to over nearly 5 hours of light use under Linux.
In one form or another, this is something electric car companies need to build into their expectations.

Petrol taxes (exempt by default), sales taxes, road taxes & such add up to a sizeable tax revenue source. In many places they are linked to road/transport budgets. The tax breaks that electrics have been getting were implemented when the segment was so small that it didn't matter. Once electrics reach double-digit market share, they are probably unsustainable. They will probably need to find a replacement for petrol tax too.

Rebranding these as "externality taxes" is well & good, but it doesn't change the fact that government departments need the revenue, externalites or not. Countries can easily afford to "subsidize" electric to get from 0.4% adoption to 4%, but 40% is almost out of the question.

Then there's the regressive tax problem. Yuppies in Copenhagen will be driving tax free Tesla 3s while single mothers pay thousands to drive a Peugeot 206. Many countries implement new-car promoting policies (eg emission tax) of all sorts which are regressive. I doubt this will kill subsidies in itself, but combined with budget holes...

TLDR - Tax breaks are for infant industries. Tesla is launching a mass market car. This is no longer an infant industry.
Model 3 is $35,000 before incentives.

https://www.tesla.com/model3
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Drag layer under pointer and Drag selected layer are two options of the move tool. You will find them in the tool properties pane.

All in all, I've always found Gimp more intuitive and easy to use than Photoshop, probably because I learned it first!
On iOS there's basically only one browser available.

Besides, Javascript has been allowed for quite a while for things like React Native.
It's one mistake for crying out loud. If you're at all interested in a brand new Macbook you aren't going to be considering a laptop from a decade ago, so it also is completely immaterial.
But remember that Bitcoins are not anonymous. Read for example https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/is-bitcoin-anonymous-a-...
The article doesn't really emphasize that glacial Lake Missoula filled and drained multiple times over the years. In the Missoula valley, there are multiple historical beach areas on the mountain sides as a horizontal topo feature. Each one is at a slightly different height.

I have a book in storage on this (helpfully titled "Glacial Lake Missoula") -- The craziest statistic that I can remember is that the calculated outflow through one of the canyon choke points was a mile wide, hundreds of feet deep, and travelled at 60mph. There are scars from passing icebergs on the walls.
Except his gates are not regenerative, meaning they lose their function after a few stages.
> Easy, it would be as Atari, Amiga and Apple systems were.

None of those were locked down, none of those required manufacturer cooperation in order to run other operating systems or whatever application their users desired.
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Well in many countries you are required to show and submit ID to the provider that ties you to a particular sim/number. While I see this more as a control mechanic than a security measure, it does give some reason as to why organisations tie identity to a phone number.
I must assume that the USA does not do this?
I think there's a definition of waterfall that includes a longevity requirement; i.e. as there are some "waterfalls" which only exist shortly after rainfall, then dry up again, and thus can't be called waterfalls. I'll try to dig up a reference for that half-recalled fact...
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Leaf is about $37k here in Sweden.
I don't really understand what he means by this. Just beacuse you're choosing to have a certain job, or because you can leave, it doesn't mean you're not entitled to compensation. If that were true, anyone with any choice of job wouldn't receive a wage in exchange for his labour power.

Of course the people under him get paid (perhaps not by Satya himself), so what does he mean? That the leadership is unpaid? One would expect that leadership means a higher paid position, because leaders are applying a more specialised labour.

Am I looking at this the wrong way round, or being obtuse?
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As Ola and Uber tweak incentives, drivers say that it is driving them to suicide
Sure, but how does it compare with gtk 2 vs 3? We're already talking about replacing a working toolkit with a significantly different one.
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Many of them are also working on game engines. Source: look at notes on every UDK release.
I haven't looked into this at all, but isn't the point of Xposed to hook into APIs and fake the result? Or otherwise modifying apps? Isn't there a module that just fakes SafetyNet? Probably not, or this wouldn't be a problem, just curious if anyone knows why not?
I've been using Gimp forever and I have the opposite experience: to me it's much more intuitive and powerful than Photoshop. I have used both in the past, but I always come back to Gimp because for me it's so much better.
No. The only way would be to check "openURL" for known ones, but that's limited. Or from some webserver update a list of known scam ones and just tell them to uninstall them.
> more native to the platform

For a specific platform, or multiple?