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I actually got used to and like Unity, sadly.

It's low cpu/memory usage on my 2 GB RAM laptop with a Celeron processor. (A Chromebook converted to Linux.)

It overloads a ton of meta keys for moving windows around, moving between workspaces, etc. Very natural once you get used to it on my small keyboard, small 13" screen, and 1366x768 resolution.

And once again Canonical is like... f it... after telling us Unity was the new thing and everyone had to get used to it... f it... let's go back.

Even if Unity was somehow worse, I still would have had more respect for them if they had stuck with their original decision. Now they basically look like they have no idea what they're doing and when anyone asks, they'll give bullshit answers they won't stand by in a year or two. All their arguments are just PR speak for "whatever I want right now."

Going back to Gnome proves to me that there is no grand design behind their decisions. Just hubris and condescension.
The internet is simply reflecting the society from which it emerged--a society where wealth buys power, where militarization is an unspoken rule, and where speech rights exist in name only. The internet could potentially help people organize, but unless used deliberately en masse, its inertia will lead for the common person very much in the opposite direction, as we have seen over the past few years.
> Besides the fact

The fact that he had to resort to careful pixel inspection of minute things like the position of the gear teeth, already tells you that the photo has no creativity behind it.

> how do you think stock photography businesses make money exactly?

By being creative in a generic sort of way. The Threshold of Originality is really not a high bar to meet. It doesn't take much. But it does take something.

> Feel free to use all the “non special” photos from Shutterstock without paying them a cent and tell me how it goes.

I rarely have such a need, but if I did I certainly would. People claim copyright all the time on things that do not actually have copyright protection. A great example is a typeface - it does not have copyright. But that doesn't stop people who make them from claiming copyright.

There was a post on HN a while back about someone who spent months carefully searching garbage in London finding examples of a really really old typeface. He then made a font out of it, and sold it. With declarations of copyright of course - but despite how hard he worked, that typeface does not have copyright protection. (nb. The font file may have copyright as a software program.)
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And also no Thunderbolt/Firewire, and/or has an IOMMU and the OS uses it.
The person who appointed the FCC commissioner

If you're referring to Pai, that would be Obama.
Yes, if you use nm-applet, with a tray icon (which GNOME threw out), as opposed to what they've baked into the panel, then it works.

Progress! /s
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I'm not opposed to zero-rating. It's a different end of the net neutrality debate I guess.

If we compare zero rating to traditional media, there's nothing stopping someone from giving out free books/magazines/dvds/whatever, and I don't think anyone here would be ideologically opposed to people giving out free print media.

It's a very ideological and academic debate, not really grounded in reality. In New Zealand, we had (possibly still do have) 0.facebook.com, which was free to access on mobile devices over mobile data. The sky did not fall, people didn't become indoctrinated zombies.

Now in New Zealand, you can also buy cheaper data plans, that only work for certain websites, it's about half price, and you can only use the data for Spotify, Snapchat, Facebook, and a couple of others. I don't really agree with this, and think that it's breaking NN, however, I don't know the specifics of how the deal works, does Spotify pay the mobile provider money for this? Or does the provider just do it as a form of load balancing?

And even if you don't agree with this on an ideological level when it comes to things such as free wikipedia access, I would argue that pragmatically, it is still a good thing. Good and evil are not black and white, increased knowledge is a good thing, decreased net neutrality (if you define free wikipedia as this, which I would understand) is a bad thing. It's a dimensional axis though, the good can outweigh the bad.
That’s funny given that deportations are down 80% since the previous admin, also far less wall has been built than the previous admin was able to build on a yearly basis...

Wouldn’t you characterize that as scaremongering given the facts?
I worked at a large-ish tech company for a while. I would frequently hang out with customer support people, and honestly stuff like this would come in from time to time.

You have to remember the whole world operates on systems such as slack. That customer service person can ask 10 people in a matter of minutes on how to deal with this situation.

Ignorance is no longer a tolerable excuse. If something comes in and it sounds like it might be meant for the legal team, then you should probably ping the legal team.
Netflix is 100% in the business of using copyright to charge for things. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Regarding point 1, that's now how copyright works. All they have to know is that they don't have a license for the photos. Regarding point 2, yes, that's how commerce works. People do things for other people; one saves labor and the other gets paid. Regarding 3, under US law the videotape is likely a "utility object", meaning Fuji can't assert a copyright claim.

As to your questions on copyright, there are many reasonable solutions, and I think our current copyrights are far longer than necessary to reward creators. However, I don't think anybody would suggest that photos have a copyright of just 3 years, as would be the case for these photos to have an expired copyright.
I'm not a runner so I don't have much need for NB, but all my shoes and boots are made by Thorogood, which is a unionized bootmaker from Wisconsin.
Nah, they'll just put you behind CGNAT and limit public IPs to business-grade plans.
Yeah, it seems like a stretch to call the biggest distro "just another distro".
I'm curious about whether a sale like this included full due diligence or if the extra-ordinary nature meant some other standard of accounting was used.

If SoftBank went in with eyes open, this seems business as usual. If they're rushing after the cool kid on the block, then this starts to sound like Theranos 2.0.
Like other people, I fully support the author here and do hope he sees fair compensation for this. But my eyes rolled out of my head at this part:

> "Initially, I was in disbelief for two reasons. I’ve not watched Stranger Things, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about it. Could it be true that my work has become a part of their product and I should be so honored to be part of it? The images I were seeing did not lie. They were my photos."

> "Then it turned into a feeling of betrayal. How could they, a large corporate company with day-to-day experience in handling rights-protected materials, use my material without so much as asking me for permission? How did they think they can get away with it?"

Dude, get a grip. This was very obviously the mistake of a (probably rushed) junior designer whose work wasn't checked over thoroughly, not a sinister plot coming straight from the boardroom. Assert your rights and get your due, but please avoid the histrionics.
Prefer smaller, more specific meet ups (eg functional video game programming) over larger, broader ones (eg Python meetup) if you can.

Even better, try to start your own meet up for one of your interests! In any reasonably sized city it’s not hard to get 10-20 people to get started.
Did Chomsky actually claim that the wealth of the evil Western countries is stolen? I don't remember reading that part. I only remember reading about grossly unethical interventions, mainly in South America.
.. and if she had two wheels, she'd be a bicycle! Your aunt is awesome! I've heard so many amazing stories about her.

The Washington Post interviewed 30 people for their original Roy Moore story. And they checked court records. It was a rigorously researched and thoroughly fact-checked story.

None of the women in that story sought out the Washington Post, who reached out to them first. That's why Jaime Phillips contacting the Post first herself raised some initial suspicions, and she deserved at least as much rigorous vetting as the other women who weren't actively shopping their story around, and who Roy Moore actually diddled.

In other words, it's not just that Project Veritas was extremely sloppy, but that their whole model and narrative about the "Liberal Mainstream Media" is deeply and totally wrong, but does apply to themselves, and they're not generally interested in the truth.

They believe their own lies, and project them onto their enemies. They were trying to prove something about the Washington Post that wasn't true, by assuming it was true, in a way that depended on it being true, but it wasn't true.

Jaime Phillips herself claimed on her GoFundie page:
"I'm moving to New York! I've accepted a job to work in the conservative media movement to combat the lies and deceipt of the liberal MSM. I'll be using my skills as a researcher and fact-checker to help our movement."

But her job was actually to "combat the liberal MSM with lies and deceipt". (Or "deceit", as it turned out.)

She fancies herself a fact checker, not a spell checker, and presumes the MSM doesn't check facts even though it's their job, because she isn't really a fact checker herself, she just said that to get a job, and presumes other people like the Washington Post reporters who call themselves fact checkers are also misrepresenting themselves and totally incompetent, just like she is.
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I have an offline copy of Wikipedia on my phone. It's only 10 GB. Storage is cheap.

Instead of arguing to get free network access that support some companies rather than others, why not promote offline apps?

Pay to get the latest updates (news, communications with friends). Store things that don't change often (contacts, music, maps) offline and locally.
Although I disagree with the premise of this site (it's too close to armchair vigilanteism for my taste), but would like to add a few tips anyway.

- It would be good to have a '# of accusers' in the person's data page. As it stands, Al Gore (1) is compared 'equally' with Weinstein (>50).

- categories of accusation: grope/rape/verbal/???

- categories for evidence or proof advanced

- ability to sort/compare

I like the list of sources, but again: Weinstein only has a single link, which seems very incomplete.
I like the Texas jeans from the madeinamericastore
Got some good socks also but cannot remember the brand.

One could also look on stillmadeinusa or on madeintheusaforever
The author seems to be confused on cause and effect. The newspaper example shows customers were better off 3+years with "The Times" pricing.

The whole thing needs to be understood by looking at how things actually started. Let's take the example of Uber. People weren't happy with the way taxi services were operating so it was ripe for "disruption". But, getting into a stranger's car for a ride was not really a solution.

So Uber had to create a two way market - entice people to offer their cars and entice people to take a stranger's car. They also had to offer up incentives on both sides of the market to ensure participation - offer drivers with perks and higher payouts while the riders got cheap pricing. Once the market was established and verified they had to find a way to make money. The only problem was riders or customers could not be inconvenienced, at least a lot. So, now the drivers had to bear the brunt.

But, this will lead to some unintended consequences. An example is that instead of trying to charge customers fairly Uber uses "surge pricing" - so much so that there are place which are mulling to ban this practice. Then there are cases of drivers trying to defraud riders too.
This invariably causes lowered customer experience.
"netflix lawyer" got me to this amusing story.

http://fortune.com/2017/09/20/stranger-things-bar/

I really think Netflix try to be the good guys and will handle this VHS matter pretty well. (once it gets to the right person)
It’s a big country, so it really depends a lot on which city you live in and and what you consider a normal house. It ranges from $20,000 USD for a rural house near a small town to $150,000 for a 2-3 bedroom apartment in Bogota which is the capital.
It is a difficult question.

One example that always springs to mind, was Australian friends online in the early 2000's who told me their ISP had linux mirrors - which was of great value to them, because they were charged less (if at all) for data within their ISP's networks. They were also much faster, since it meant the data wasn't trans-oceanic. Later Steam came up as another example of the same idea.

They thought this was fantastic. It solved a lot of problems (and expense, and speed) for them. But it's not particularly 'neutral' either, is it? Given the choice between a distro that's on my ISP's mirror, and a distro where I have to slug data from the other side of the planet, I'm going to make a choice based on my ISP's preferences.

Putting a wikipedia cache/mirror within the ISP's network would, in this example, render pretty much the same results as "wikipedia zero". Same benefits, same concerns.

I'm not really arguing this one way or the other. Just that it does muddy the water when we have examples that benefit the enduser, to counter the scarier examples we see elsewhere.
Yes and no. Purpose, structure, exercise/activity, nutrition, sleep, support and not constantly living in uncertainty, stress, misery and/or isolation help. (In my case, treatment-resistant depression is the default setting irrespective of circumstances, Maslow's hierarchy items or socioeconomic status.)

LA's skidrow and Cook County jail's mental healthcare system are quintessential consequences of deinstitutionalization (d20n). Institutionalization, as it existed prior to 1973, was certianly slavery illegal under the 13th amendment (Souder v. Brennan) and not about the panacea of meds or uncaring Reagan. If institutions had simply been funded properly instead of being capriciously abolished, the costs vs. externalities to patients and society would've been far less (ie self-medication, police costs, hospital costs, etc.) Simply, d20n diffused the responsibilities and costs for necessary social services everywhere else, but they didn't and won't magically disappear because people are still people. The moral thing to do is rebuild sufficient and various levels of mental care facilities with proper funding such that patients get services they may not know they need, instead of dying slowly and miserably at a bus station.

Another big failure of d20n was the canyons which patients fell into when they were sent to underfunded, poor execution of Kennedy's legacy for Community Mental Health Centers, which left many homeless and in limbo. Instead of a spotty patchwork of services, US counties must be required to coordinate services and provide any missing that comprehensively address: drug treatment, social rehabilitation, housing, work, training/education, health/dental/vision/mental health and social work without the patchwork of duct-tape, missing services and callous neglect that exists today. Homeless people are people.
I liked Meetup, I didn't like it enough to pay for it. It wouldn't give me information without paying so I stopped using it.

I also note that they terms of the acquisition have not been mentioned. If it is an all stock transaction it could be an example of Wework exploiting their astonishing valuation to buy companies with stock. This was something that happened a lot in the dot com boom and didn't end well. The other thing was startups trading services to each other and the overvaluing them in dollars. For example a startup I worked for gave a database company $110,000 in advertising on the web site in exchange for a data base license and some training. They both reported it as income (we got $110,000 in advertising buys!, we got $110,000 in database sales!)
You mean 5k elevation?
"They changed their contract, usually because Pepsi offered them a lower prices for the syrup, the dispensers and the CO2."

Oh no, they're so oppressed that they switched suppliers to get a better deal.
Starting my own is what I have in mind. I was considering doing so via Meetup. I am kind of flailing around, trying to figure out how to do that.
one last question will fuji cassette company or their designer get anything as it was their product, which was photographed
It's four years later, we should have some new information. If someone wrote a follow-up article on this topic I could see that being a worthy news item.
I have been a part of a few meetups, and I think that Meetup the application is great when you have an existing community that you want to bring online. If an email list isn't enough (and sometimes it isn't) meetup can be a great way of extending an existing community online. However, if all you're doing is meeting once a month, Meetup is overkill.

It may work OK for generating new community and connections, but as the parent said, you need to have some staying power, and that is either going to be related to some kind of revenue (leads, etc) or some really dedicated hosts that will probably burn out in a few years.
Does cash flow cover operations with existing technology? They will launch 18 or 19 times in 2017, most with paying customers. I could see new capital going to new technology like the Falcon Heavy and Human launches.
So if I understand you correctly..

you have a plan that has access to certain websites (spotify, etc) that you pay $X/month for.

That is violating NN, in your opinion.

But if X is $0, then it's not violating NN.

How does changing the price change the discrimination between websites? A zero-rated plan is still a plan.
If you start handing out money to every citizen just cause you change the incentive structure. Now the elites are incentivized for less citizens more so than they already are. That could exhibit itself in all kinds of interesting and cruel ways.
Funny, I often do ignore sarcasm if it serves no useful purpose. People sometimes get offended by answers they get or are just
dumbfounded. Personally, I'm more often than not irritated when someone uses it as it tends to derail discussions. This thread is a nice example ;).
I'm sorry, what?

Windows 100% allows you to use TPM + bitlocker and secure the keys on AD on any sort of computer, regardless of removable ram or not.
I had one of these wind tunnels for a while in the 2000s. A dual 1.8ghz model. It looked ultra-cool, beautifully designed inside and out. But it ran really loud even by the standards back then...

There was actually a high end water-cooled model that was notorious for developing leaks - doubt there's many of those remaining in service these days!
Guys? Wasn't sama supposed to be running the optimal capital allocation AI? Who neutered him with this egalitarian warm fuzzy friendly module? You've set interplanetary commerce back a decade.
As a frequent user of meetup.com, I feel like it succeeded at making people one-time acquaintances and failed miserably at making lasting connections. I'm a member of several groups and most of these groups do not see any single individual more than once. I won't even mention terrible attendance for just about any groups I've ever been a part of. I think there could've been a lot of improvements made here but meetup really hasn't done anything with the concept for years, which is a shame. I still think this space is ripe for innovation.
I spent a few days there a couple years ago. Ubud is a cool place, with incredibly good and cheap food and housing. But the reason that costs of living are cheaper may not be entirely disconnected from the fact that life feels cheaper in general. Not only is there currently a rabies epidemic among the wild dogs that are everywhere, but there are a million other random ways to get killed, everything from falling into giant unmarked holes in the middle of the sidewalk to getting hit by motorbikes.
"It's worth noting that in my testing, GNOME uses slightly more RAM and CPU than Unity on the same hardware doing the same things. The increase is only about 10 percent more on the RAM, and, let's face it, neither of them are lightweight desktops. If you want something light, try i3."

Best advice in the article ;) I did try i3 and like it a lot. I have it running on a Chromebook now as my main machine.
>>You can tell that to the people in Houston who lost their home overnight.

And yet how many Houston like situations have happened overnight? Or over the years?

Real estate is easily one of the best savings vehicles you can have.
The article relates to a question I've been wondering: when did the homeless crisis really emerge, and what, if anything, was "homeless" called before it was "homeless"?

The Google Ngram Viewer shows a massive spike in the term in the 1980s, which corresponds roughly to my awareness. Previously, there were "street people", "vagrants", or "bums", and going back even earlier, "hobos" and other terms.

The term "homeless" is used previously, but it is almost always associated with a specific event -- going through the NY Times archives, I've seen multiple headlines referring to a specific disaster or tragedy, almost always a fire, occasionally a major storm, with a count of those "made homeless", usually in the 2-3 digit range.

The article I've submitted here is the first I've found that clearly discusses homelessness not as a temporary and acute condition, but as a chronic one, and with the term describing the associated class of people.

The question I'm trying to get at is whether or not this represents a change in situation (though as the article notes, "How long has this been going on?... Long enough for someone to do something about it."), of terminology, or of awareness.
Reddit is one of the most systematically brigaded sites on the internet. Really bad example.
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The article doesn't mention anything about the author's visa? For indonesia you can get a VOA for 30 days free or 60 days for $50 but you can't stay longer than that without an APEC card or a KITAS (work permit - hard to get).

Visa policies are certainly more relaxed in SEA than the western world but you can't just hang out all year, working nonetheless, and expect no issues.
That's really common is some countries with limited or restricted internet access.

There was also a company trying to deploy a series of satellites to provide persistent, free (but low bandwidth) access to a small cross-section of the internet, with a focus on education and information. I wish I could remember that company's name.
And that I may agree with. I objected to the vague "people in jail is bad" argument, but there are more specific versions that are compelling.