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> I too miss when you owned a copy of the software, licensed to a single machine, that was on a physical transferable medium.

I only purchase music on CDs and vinyl. In each case I legally have the right to listen to the music forever, and even can sell the album if I tire of it.

Digital downloads are not that way at all and because of that I will never buy one. Likewise with ebooks.

I also will never personally purchase software on a subscription model.
And in the case of Japanese, the extra field seems to be utterly essential, because the same characters in Kanji might be pronounced in radically different ways.

http://www.localizingjapan.com/blog/2011/02/13/sorting-in-ja...

There are four Japanese women whose names you have to sort: Junko, Atsuko, Kiyoko, and Akiko.
This does not seem difficult, until they each show you how they write their names in kanji:

淳子 (Junko)
淳子 (Atsuko)
淳子 (Kiyoko)
淳子 (Akiko)
I do not think China using violence over, or on Taiwan would go over well.

Taiwan can do anything it wants without repercussions inside Taiwan, thus ‘monopoly on force’.

China using force in Taiwan would just be a declaration of war.
It's crazy how South Park episodes play out in real life the same week they are released.
If the Australian Telecommunications Act were strictly enforced, would that result in banning US companies that refused backdoor access to encrypted systems?
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How would the breakaway province of Transnistria in Moldova be classified in this context?
Well. we wouldn't have TESLA. or SolarCity. or SpaceX. Modern genomics may still be a decade out. There would be no Silicon Valley. We would probably have something sort of like the internet, but it would be a pay per packet and net neutrality wouldn't even be discussed; we would probably just be kvetching about how expensive it is to email stuff between PRODIGY and COMPUSERV.

There would be no interstate highway system, only a collection of toll roads that went between los angeles and new york. There would be no rural phone service; heck, there probably wouldn't be an electrical grid in rural areas.

There would be no enforcement of labor laws, so there would be no weekends (not that there are weekends now...)

Each bank would be issuing it's own currency, but it probably wouldn't be TOO horrible, cause it's in each of the bank's best interest to publish exchange rates between east coast and west coast banks (probably on PRODIGY.) And yes, the federal reserve is not perfect, but manipulating monetary policy to avoid credit crises and to at least try to encourage full employment and low (or at least stable) inflation is sort of cool.

We could all use bitcoin, of course, but deflationary currency is even worse than fiat currency.

There would be no affordable medical insurance for the poor, sick or old.

No national parks, but maybe there would be land trusts. Hard to say if private land trusts would be better or worse, but they would certainly be more expensive to consumers.

And sure, Xe/Blackwater are great, but if I'm going to have someone fight a war, I'm putting my money on the Marines (and begrudgingly, I have to admit the Air Force is pretty ossm as well.)

There 'aint no way anyone on wall street is going to police themselves, a "privatized" SEC is sort of laughable.
For me? Absolutely. I hope no one is judging me based on my great grandfather's sins. That would be highly unproductive to treat people as if they were born having done humanity a great wrong.
Kroger, Walgreens to stop sales of e-cigarettes amid U.S. vaping crackdown
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Dev work has a few issues that people find difficult to deal with long term. I'll list a few:

1) Constant deadlines and the pressure that comes with them

2) Group collaboration, many people dislike the lack of control over the project

3) Technical deficits, lack of control over what you deliver.

4) Being in an office all-day, every work day.

Many people can deal with them others may even thrive but not everyone. I suspect that at least one of these items is a problem for you.

If I were you I would look for a completely different type of job and do it for a few months. Call it an extended vacation. It will give you a chance to look at your job from a different prespective. You'll get a better view of what you dislike about your career. Also focus on activities outside work. You can join a club, date more, learn a new hobby or what ever. The idea is to try new things and hopefully you'll find one that you really like.
damn that sucks................. i loved that font D:
I'm amazed at how fresh they've stayed - testament to Matt and Trey I guess. Most comedies are beating dead horses within 5 seasons.
The Saudis are defending their nation from direct attacks by violent forces just across the border, fully supported and instigated by Iran. Iran recently wiped out 50% of Saudi refining capacity (5% of world output), which is basically shocking.

Now - Saudi Arabia is not keen on human rights in general, and does not play very nice with their weapons, but the clear reality is that they would be happy to stay put at home.

The Saudi Government is not actively trying to destabilise the region or the world, they play nice with the West, and work closely with the US etc. to hunt down terrorists, and of course they have Oil which they sell freely on world markets, with no strategic dealings with others (i.e. China, Russia) - that's why they are an ally. So yes, democracy is obviously not the entire motivation for US sanctions, but it's part of the equation.
I love CLI tools like these. Great find!
> Adobe doesn't really have a choice here.

The problem is this seriously undermines their business model in most of the world which the US may in the short term decide to levy sanctions against as part of its bullying process. Venezuela and Syria have never harmed the US or threatened us in any way whatsoever, yet find themselves on our "shit list". Turkey may soon be there as well, and they are a member of the EU. Who knows which EU nation may be next.

If you buy US software it's not yours and we can take it from you at any moment.

Who wants that sort of software upon which their data depends?

Not a single person in the world with the least bit of sense.

Adobe should fight this as it undermines their business model.

That they are cowards who choose not to means they get what they deserve.
If you read Animal Farm, there's a reason why Orwell made the pigs the most clever leaders of the farm.
Yet the user experience is a mess.

Podcasts need to be published on so many different platforms manually. Ratings and reviews appear to be non-existant outside of the Apple ecosystem. You still can't export your subscriptions from some major applications, and good luck exporting your listening history from any.

I feel like creating something 10x better is such a low hanging fruit, I'm surprised nobody has done it. Make a player that syncs across devices and platforms, exports/imports to/from other podcast apps/platforms (using scraping if necessary), aggregates and gather reviews, provides a basic recommendation system, allows subscribing to keywords (people, topics), etc. If it supports audio books, YouTube subscriptions (those channels with long talks and conversations and lectures that aren't strongly visual), and saved bookmarks/Pocket/Evernote article via text-to-speech, that's even better.

When I commute, walk, exercise, cook, wash dishes, stretch, brush my teeth, take a shower, do laundry, mow the lawn, shovel snow, stop looking at a screen and go to bed 1h before sleep, I want to hit play and be fed a customized audio diet.
i wonder if China has copied SP and if so how they would portray the USA. Has anything been made like this? And is it just as funny?
This suggestion is stupid as suggesting killing yourself. Giving offsprings, taking care of them and enjoying them growing up is the reason to live first place.
Trek makes 99% of its bicycles overseas.
I think it’s about time China gets the chance to make good on this promise, or gets defanged when it turns out they don’t have the stomach for it (they have a good thing going, shame to let it be ruined by war).

Everyone is tiptoeing around them for fear of waking the dragon.
> Entropy running low is a frequent and actual problem for me on virtualized or headless servers serving https content. It slows everything, including ssh, to a halt.

Entropy running low is not an actual problem. AES-CTR doesn't "run out of key".

If your OS's "entropy estimator" is producing small numbers and your userspace applications are using /dev/random, yes, that will degrade your performance. That's the actual problem.

The solution is for the developers of your software to stop using /dev/random, wholesale.

Saying that the actual problem is "entropy running low" is like saying "water is flammable". That might be true in extreme cases, but isn't in the general case.
The thing that really impressed me in Amsterdam was how freaking polite the drivers were to both pedestrians and cyclists.

..coming from a city where cars will speed up if they see you crossing the road, and regularly muscle bikes into the gutter.
If it was chickens they’d be doing the killing instead of you. They don’t call it pecking order for a reason.
Also things like sales taxes or even DMV fees can be significant percentages of lower income's taxes.
I do recall a changeover around 2009 — was this a presentation more recent than that? I’ve had no problem with this and have used Keynote since it came out (and was a paid application, not free!)
You said it, todays top post on HN is Apple complying with the removal of Taiwan from their OS.
Yes the good 'ol "Their lives already suck, let's make it suck more until it stops sucking"
$6 billion to build 16 miles of light rail, is not the first step in a sustainable program of building transit in the suburbs. It’s a once in a generation boondoggle.
I wonder if Adobe is prepared for other nations on less than friendly terms with the US to start some probing around the Adobe perimeter.
I wasn't a huge fan of the last season, but the current season seems to be a true return to form. I really hope they can keep up the quality for the rest of the season.
What is the process by which one goes from a cad file to actually something that can be 3d printed?

I recently got a new ipad pro and got this app sketchr3d and I was blown away by how intuitive it is to design really sophisticated structures. I tried blender on and off like 4 times over 5 years and found it basically impossible to use.

After making some really cool
designs in s3d I started to wonder how easy it is to just print it with some kind of decent 3d printer model.

Is it really plug and play/drag and drop your file?
Well, free but with lots of ads, like network TV.
I'd like to see what Adobe's plans are for the profits they receive in not refunding their clients (however small). A donation to a Venezuela emergency appeal would go down well.

Edit: deleted "Can't apologise after you drop a sales nuke" in favour of a more measured comment.
Indeed, that's kind of the point.
This 'journalist' is clearly biased for the protestors.
For those interested in helping to make Rockbox on new hardware a reality checkout this earlier comment from the PinePhone developers:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21021001
Relevant thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20977788

Again, as mentioned in the original thread: the idea is cheap, light+small, Free/Open, extensible hardware. Sansa were on the right track with the Clip. Not everything has to be touchscreen/hi-res display. It just needs to be reasonable in price and robust enough to withstand adventures, sleeping and some water.
The provisioning was a PITA and I only use the WiFi access point, not their router, but at least for me the WiFi reliability and signal quality is night-and-day compared to my "old" (2015/6-era) TP-Link Archer C7 router/WAP. I'm not sure what design details lead to this -- poking around via SSH, they're just running Linux with hostapd controlling Atheros interfaces (perhaps just solid engineering on antennas plus choosing a well-supported WiFi chipset?) -- but qualitatively there is definitely a difference in my experience!
Saudi Arabia also does all of the things you listed, except perhaps desecration of cultural sites. Just because a country does things you don’t like doesn’t make it not a country
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I think the point of GP's comment, though, is that it's arguably straightforward to bootstrap some degree of electricity generation without there necessarily being a working energy supply chain (e.g. building one's own dynamo with a magnet and some wire and hooking that dynamo to a windmill or watermill or steam engine or other turbine, or salvaging bits and pieces of broken solar cells to build a new one from almost-scratch; then it's just a matter of building capacitors or batteries or flywheels or elevated weights or whatever to store that electricity). Yes, it'll be absolutely painful (and will offer nowhere near the energy production/distribution capability to which we're accustomed as a society), but it's survivable.

It's also possible to bootstrap some degree of computing power without an electronics supply chain, but it's also much easier to cannibalize from existing devices (whereas for the current energy supply chain there are fewer things to be cannibalized, besides perhaps electric motors to turn into impromptu dynamos).

Realistically, both will probably go hand-in-hand: we'll use primitive, cobbled-together generators to power primitive, cobbled-together computers; which we'll use to control more sophisticated generators to power more sophisticated computers (and the more sophisticated processes for repairing/building those computers); and so on until we're eventually back to where we started.
There is Fuzix.

[1] http://www.fuzix.org/

And Symbos.

[2] http://www.symbos.de/

I wonder if he knows about them?
The Syria issue is about a gas pipeline they want to run across their territory.
I would think it was a little bit later, but I can't say for sure.
Wow. I have to believe things are worse for women in England than in Los Angeles, where I live. Do you have something like high school cross country for girls? I think here there are more girls running XC than boys.
How do you recreate them? On FPGA? Fabricating a chip is not cheap.
It's hard to give advice without knowing more detail but I would suggest putting a CDN (like cloudfront) in front of it to reduce bandwidth costs, and potentially storing the images themselves in S3 instead of on your server to reduce storage costs.

Other things like making thumbnails of all the images can also help reduce bandwidth but depends on how the site is structured.
I loved my Sansa e200 and installed Rockbox. Just pulled it out of a drawer and remembered what a great piece of hardware it was - hadn't been used in years and the battery still had a charge. The hardware wheel selector is a lost piece of tech that needs to be recovered, perhaps for use in car stereos and TV remotes. Rockbox was a great idea, well executed. However I'm baffled why it's still seeing so much recent activity considering how few MP3 players are still in use.
> so they can beat the crap out of those inside

Except this is speculation based on anti-China propoganda
> Department of State, and its counterparts in Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, Brazil and Japan

Anyone in these departments of state is aware that Taiwan is a separate country. They’re just not able to say it.
Uh, Turkey is not a member of the EU..
> Meanwhile, on the world of facts and data, we see that car commuting is a privilege of the wealthier classes.

98% of all commuting is by car. Driving is one of the most egalitarian and universal experiences in the US. There is a small minority of urban poor reliant on mass transit, but that doesn’t even account for the majority of poor people. Meanwhile, rail transit is heavily used by higher income people. (Median income for DC metro is $115,000.)

> The answer is to build MORE of this great thing so there is enough for poor people too.

I agree. The problem is that at current prices, a new rail line is a once in a generation project. Metro’s 2040 plan doesn’t even contemplate a new rail line.
I'll get the phrasing wrong here but "What is easy to measure will be deemed important what is difficult to measure will be deemed unimportant."
I "audited" one of the Coursera Econ classes on Pricing Strategy, and it was pretty good. I noticed (but did not take) their basic macro / micro courses. I would be willing to bet they're pretty decent.

I love the Freakonomics podcast for their extensive discussions on the limits of traditional economics and how viewing econ through a behavioural lens is sometimes warranted.
looks for an app named iTunes...
Such a strange article.

It has two facts:

1- There is a shortage of pork due to recent outbreaks

2- Large pigs have been breed in China.

The article then seems to insinuate that 2 is due to 1. But the article offers no stats or even any evidence that there is a causal effect.

Worse, the article seems to imply large pigs are a Chinese thing, when America holds the record for large hogs. Mostly large pigs are bread as male breeding pigs and to compete in local events (as therefore as part of a pig breeders boasting status). As far as I'm concerned, large pigs are not breed so much for consumption (though they will be consumed eventually)

Just very odd. Absolutely no journalism in that article. It just mentions two facts and draws fuzzy conclusions from it filled with innuendo. I'm not sure Bloomberg was ever a very quality source (as say the Washington Post or NYT), but I'm quite surprised at the trash rag style they are putting out lately. I also wonder why it's making the front page of /.
I'm not saying they don't have a political leaning, but they often focus their energy and 22 minutes on showing just how wildly absurd a situation is. For me, that's a big ingredient in why they've stayed so entertaining.
Couldn't get ReactOS to boot on any hardware that I own. HaikuOS boots with GFX disabled, but is not anywhere near stable.

Will try the other two, I guess. Not holding my hopes up.
I found this application the other day, and despite its look, it really is great.
Needs a [2016]. Some info is relating to npm@2 package structure which is long out of date.
the mechanical cash register sound effect is still used to represent money in media despite the fact that the kids these days have never seen a mechanical cash register and have no reason to be able recognize that sound from real life.
I would love to have a speech synthesizer to play with where you could programmatically replace all of one sound with another. Like replacing all 'r' sounds with 'b' sounds, or swapping a few IPA vowels, but only when they follow a certain other sound. You could invent and test out novel accents.
This is an extraordinarily well-written, informed and useful guide. Bookmarked for future reference.
I understand you're taking a critical stance but I see pollution taxes as one of the best forms of taxation, as they 1) obviously cut down on pollution and 2) increase efficiency and productivity.

Obviously who receives the taxes and how they are distributed is a very big and important question. But that question does not itself invalidate the idea of taxation of pollution.
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I suppose it could claim that, but I suspect it would be a tough sell with the regulators if Microsoft is uploading large amounts of data the user probably didn't even know about and some of that data turned out to include sensitive personal data.
In regards to 1. I’m a bit confused. Are you claiming China is landlord to the entire world?

Or that if they were, coercing all the population to say white is black would be the normal state of affairs?
Interesting how Apple's phones are a marriage of Taiwanese and Chinese manufacturing when the two countries are bitterly divorced.
Oh not even that. The older GenXers like myself (born 1970) have "Silent Generation" (1925-1944) parents that were born before or during the war (a rather small generation as the Depression and war weren't great times to have kids in). My parents were never hippies nor did my father face the risk of being sent to Vietnam -- they were too old for either.
Unlike China, Americans make enough fun of themselves, and are not censored.

SNL is exactly what you're proposing.
Good to know. It's actually related, as gas is both another important energy source and plays a part in the more advanced oil production techniques.
While I think it's clear that ISIS was/is evil, I'm not sure that its as clear that those actions (or at least all of them) were terrorism.

I'd define terrorism as something along the lines of "using guerrilla tactics against civilian targets in order to achieve political ends". I would differentiate that from atrocities committed against a state's own people in order to keep them in line (for example Stalin's purges), human rights violations (e.g. witch trials or killing homosexuals), ethnic/religious cleansing, or guerrilla attacks against targets with legitimate strategic value.

My understanding, although I am definitely not super informed on this, is that ISIS's atrocities were mostly keeping people in line, human rights abuse, and religious cleansing. Therefore I would not consider those acts to be terrorism. However, that doesn't make them any less evil.
A 2 hour break seems a good amount of rest; much different from _"little breaks here and there"_

My assumption is that GP routine would be 4 hours studying + 2 hours resting + 4 hours studying. Seems ok and most people could endure it for six weeks I think.

If it was 5+2+5, might be a little harder, but feasable.
Both ways, I think the long break in the middle would be the secret for me
Such a good episode. South Park seems to get better with each season.
I think I agree with you, at least in principle. But there's a lot of ground to cover, and powerful forces who would like to remain in control, and new bad actors looking for new ways to gain control. Nothing's going to be as clean and easy as we'd like it to be :(
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.”

— James Nicoll
Nothing offensive, it will just be misspelt all the time.
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