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> Why would a government that has "sold out to corporations" restrict the sale of lipstick and alcohol?

Governments are groups of people that are at least partially restrained by the wills and opinions of other, much larger groups of people. People are very complex. If you are expecting the government to have rules that it follows 100% of the time, you will be disappointed.

A rule such as restricting lipstick sales is something that is mostly inconsequential that the government can still point to and say "See, we don't just blindly do what megacorps tell us to!"
This impending-collapse of Hacker News thing has been a recurring theme for most of the existence of the site (while this account is only half-a-year old, I've had various accounts on here since the very early days).

The only recent trend that has diminished this site is actually this very submission, and the related self-righteous comments that appear in virtually every story now (one single fresh account drops a negative comment and the whole discussion gets sidetracked into how disappointed someone is in the community, so now everyone has to stay inside for recess. It is incredible how many "why all the negativity" comments appear in discussions with little to no actual negativity).

Meta is the curse of all communities, and HN is currently mired in a lot of meta.

The longer form version of this - http://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2013/06/02/hacker-news-isnt...
> Which is really the problem. People keep arguing about Go's merits based on no substantive understanding.

They are not arguing, they are asking questions to improve their understanding.
Supply and demand. The system is pricing their labour as if they are fungible, so numerous that they are worthless. Because they are that numerous. But you can't tell people not to breed without taking away their rights. Really, was a "right" to reproduce a good idea? You can't talk about overpopulation without being called an ecofascist.

So I suppose it's good that goods won't be scarce much longer and will all be made with printers, robots, nano-assemblers.

I assume that eventually people's families will be rich enough to sue over employee deaths?

China makes few lines of products that are luxuries. It makes many that are necessities at almost any price. I need them. If people don't have enough money to buy more expensively and carefully made things, it's because governments have let inequality go too far and because the 1% have hoarded it.
It doesn't say what he told them. There is, by itself, nothing unethical about a lawyer's wife suing a company who is a client of the lawyer's firm in a different practice area, as long as appropriate measures are taken to maintain client confidences. It's not 1870 and husbands and wives aren't considered the same person anymore.
I have a friend who decided to stay in the area he grew up in for a better quality of life (North Devon). He is 25, now earning £35k and looking to buy a second house. No way you would be able to do that in London :) Kudos and good luck!
> I understand that most of the serious Racket developers use
> Emacs, I just haven't gotten into the flow of using it yet.

You would be surprised how many of the die-hard Racket programmers use DrRacket for Racket programming. Nothing beats Emacs/Vi for normal text editing, but since DrRacket was written with one purpose only, namely editing Racket code it has a few tricks up its sleave.

Syntax checking while you edit your code, means that any errors you make are highlighted immediately. This also catches misspelled identifiers.

After syntax check you can right click any identifier to rename the identifier (which automatically changes all occurences of the identifier in the file). The renaming even respects lexical scope.

You can easily jump to the file where a identifier is defined (I love to see how things in the builtin libraries are written).

DrRacket will display bitmap and other image values directly in the REPL. This must more convenient than seeing <struct: bitmap>.

You can even change the default REPL printer, to print your own user defined values using gui elements.

One of the most impressive features is how precise the error messages are reported. This goes for both standard errors, but not the least when macros are involved. If you compare the error reports you get from a few errorneous macros in DrRacket and in a standard Racket implementation, you'll see that you can save a lot of time if you use DrRacket.

And while at it, don't forget to try the macro stepper...

Oh! And syntax objects are clicable, so you can see "inside" them. This is gold when debugging macros.

A recent feature: String constants are now spell checked. (if you have ispell/aspell installed).
Best of luck! If you can 'prove' that you can create more value for a SaaS startup than the traditional BMC then you should be able to sell your product without too much problem. $20 is not much if it can generate a lot of value for the buyer.
> Yet a democratically-elected government made a decision in the name of the people to replace this park with a shopping mall.

No, it appears rampant corruption in the construction industry (with the perception it is privately benefiting the Turkish PM and his political party) led to a decision not 'in the name of the people'. [1]

> People protesting against that by blocking the construction process (i.e. stand in front of bulldozers etc.) are effectively overturning democracy in order to protect their personal interests.

If we assume the reporting so far is reasonably accurate, they are protesting against the erosion of democracy by an increasingly authoritarian PM and corrupted political party which he leads.

It is darkly ironic that you'd attempt to portray their efforts as anti-democratic.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/01/erdogan-grip-tur...
Least reliable service that I pay for by a long shot.
Thats not true, with CVS/SVN you can not commit, log or do anything while the server is down.
With git you can still commit to your local tree, push it to another server or send patches.
While it might slow down workflows using github.com for push/pull its not that complicated to temporarily push/pull via another server.
The problem with this "forcing" that go does is that it ALSO includes _, which means it's inevitable that lazy developers will get tired of handling error and just shunt it into _.
Like a major protest?
It might have been repeated ad nauseam for ever (at least in Norway), but I think there's some truth to the suggestion that we just have it too good. As someone graduating university with a masters degree in CS soon, and seeing the ridiculous amount of relatively well paid jobs out there waiting for us -- along with the pressure from recruiters that inevitably follows -- I can see why people take the easy way out. This, coupled with the Law of Jante[0] deeply ingrained in our culture, i think explains a lot.

On the other hand, the amazing safety net of the norwegian welfare state should push people to be more entrepreneurial and take more chances if you ask me.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
You are mistaken. There were countless tablet pcs on the market that didn't have physical keyboards. They called them "slate" tablet pcs.
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Can't say I understand your comment. RT published an article saying AI said something so I went to AI to verify if they really said it and they didn't. What's your point?

If the idea is talking about reliable sources then we will have a hard time finding one when even the NYT was able to justify a war with false data... Sure, noone's 100% reliable and that's why you check several sources. That's actually what I did on this thread, check my other comments with more sources.
I lived in South Wimbledon (the not so nice part, but still better than surrounding areas - i.e. you won't get stabbed) paying £400 for a double bed in a shared house. It is zone 3, so 30 mins to get to zone 1 on the tube, but I liked it.
By the way, can anyone tell me how a Revolution or occupation anywhere in the world has any link with Hacking that the news featured on HN?
FWIW: It wasn't the case for me, even in situations where my trades were regulated :)
> Well, for example NUL, "start of heading", "start of text", "end of text", "end of transmission", and all the other now meaningless ones

When ASCII was developed, those were far from meaningless codes. They allowed ASCII to be utilized as an "interchange" format (the word associated with the final I in ASCII) between systems (i.e., the communications language) to delimit fields of data being transmitted between the systems.

While it is ancient history now, both CP/M (and later DOS) utilized control-z (0x1a) as an end of file mark. For CP/M, the control-z flag was the only way to determine the true byte position of the "end" of a text file on a floppy disk, because the file-system did not store byte length, just disk sector length. DOS was half and half, control-z was used, but DOS also stored an exact byte length for the file external to the data within the file.
> I just think it's important to stay grounded in the reality that what's best for them is what _they_ want for themselves.

That's a baffling comment.

(https://secure.flickr.com/photos/george-photography-pictures...)

(http://www.indigenouspeople.net/garbage.htm)

(http://oliver-vaccaro.com/index.php?/root/pepenadores/)

People are trapped in this lifestyle, but feel that it's better than the alternative. That doesn't mean they truly want this. They just don't know what else to do.
So, what's better than Unicorn ?
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How is it at all odd? Github offers a convenient platform for using git. People use it.

If Github were to explode forever tomorrow, active projects would just take their locally cloned repositories, and put them online somewhere else and carry on committing (albeit sans github's awesome social tools). That's the real power git offers us.

It's just a fact of reality that most projects centrally organize through a few bottlenecks. It's easier for people to remember where to go, if there's only one place to go to. But if you're really concerned about it, i suppose you could build a tool to automatically sync a github repo w/ another 3rd party host if you wanted (or visaversa).
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Citation needed.
As mentioned a few times, the article makes a bare assertion that he told the law firm, and it's not clear if this is what one of the people said, the author's personal view, or what.
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Must not pay for very many services? https://status.github.com/graphs/past_month
I am a developer and I have been impressed by other developers many times.

That being said, I don't care much for "show off" posts like "Look everyone, I made a functional web server in Brainfuck!". If you're trying to impress other developers, it is certain that you won't. It is not a worthy goal in itself.
As a friend of mine once said "In Turkey we have free markets, not free speech."
Turkey doesn't fluoridate their water. Just sayin'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoridation_by_country
My favorite quote from Steve Jobs:

"Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?"
We [the west] didn't understand it either until people started dying. Sometimes lessons have to be learned the hard way.
Nowadays its more frequent than ever.
Nope, no joy - 30 seconds or otherwise.
> People protesting against that by blocking the construction process

I think this is serious misunderstanding of what is now going on in Turkey. The 'mall in park' thing was just a trigger. I understand that you are somehow comparing this to Stuttgart protests but from what I read about it I think this is totally different situation.

Example: I was born in a country occupied by Russians. And there were some protests (even violent) triggered by things like our hockey team beating Russian team at the Olympics. Of course that this had nothing to do with ice hockey and everything to do with the tension and unhappiness that builds up for years.
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Via wiki's list of turkish newspapers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Turkey):

http://www.zaman.com.tr/ Democratic, Islamic, Liberal ENGLISH: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/

http://www.posta.com.tr/ Populism

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/anasayfa/ Nationalism, Kemalist, Centre-Right ENGLISH: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/

http://www.sabah.com.tr/ Liberal Conservatism, Center-Right

http://www.sozcu.com.tr/ Nationalism, Kemalism, Secular

http://www.milliyet.com.tr/AnaSayfa/ Kemalist, Nationalist, Secular, Center-Left

http://www.haberturk.com/ Nationalism, Conservatism, Right-Wing

http://www.turkiyegazetesi.com/ Conservatism, Right-Wing

http://www.stargazete.com/ Liberal Conservatism, Center-Right

http://www.gazetevatan.com/root.asp Kemalist, Nationalist, Secular

http://www.bugun.com.tr/ Conservative-Democrat, Nationalism, Center-Right

http://www.takvim.com.tr/ Center-Right

http://www.aksam.com.tr/ Center-Left

http://yenisafak.com.tr Islamism, Conservatism, Right-Wing

edit: added some English links above. Also http://www.goodmorningturkey.com/
Certainly, current tablets are still too slow in keeping up with a stylus but I'm sure Apple would love to have their own stylus in the market considering they already have 3rd party accessories. The iPad's smart cover is very popular as is.
What? I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say. Might want to edit it to make it clearer.

Anyway, I think you are wondering why this news is on Hackernews. I'd say it's because there are a lot of politically conscience people here, who care about what's going on in the world.

One point I think people miss is that the content of this site does not necessarily have to be related to tech (though usually is). I personally come here for the discussion that results from the submissions, and world news like this is important to me. And I'd like to be able to discuss the news/situation with other people of similar educations, vocations and mindsets.
And none of them lasted all day or offered the average user much over a laptop. And they failed miserably at market. The main selling point of the ipad is certainly not the lack of a keyboard.

I'm not sure what your point is re: windows slates/tablets. They certainly did not meet the criteria above.
Is it the number of applicants or the quality which is the issue?

Would it help if you targeted CS students by running web dev workshops? That way you could attract developers who haven't considered applying to a startup and might not otherwise teach themselves web development. Student salaries are also lower.

Maybe you could look further geographically too. We had an ItMegaMeet in Bristol yesterday which sponsor companies used for recruiting.

I too would be surprised at how little some CS students know about web development and testing-- if I hadn't sat through a web tech unit so outdated that those of us with some experience could easily have done a better job. I helped the lecturer improve the course for the next year, but think these kinds of things need a different and more collaborative teaching model.

Thing is though- some things are easier to train on the job than others. So while I would hire my peers, I'd personally see it as a bonus if they used TDD not a prerequisite.
I cannot speak for the grand-parent but simply being on HN marks something, having contributed and some karma shows that the community has read your comments and approved.

Agreed, an application from an account created ten minutes ago tells you very little, but even that amount is an order of magnitude more revealing than a mailgun reply from a Monster ad.
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Clearly from my comments you would see that I am interested in learning facts so don't act so wounded. However, so far all you have presented is the idea that if the US sponsors some protests against an Islamic government, all protests against Islamic governments are created by US sponsorship. It's not very convincing without evidence.
Yes, but Github is not just about Git hosting, it's about all those awesome social tools. If you use Issues as the main bug tracker, for example, you've got a problem.
"We" don't really do anything consistently. When it's Hollywood or SOPA or NSLs or wiretaps "we" are passionately anti-government, when it's AirBnB or Uber flaunting local restrictions, "we" are very skeptical and when it's Google not paying enough tax, "we" are government cheerleaders.

That said:

> A dying model of Governance could take things to a rather unprecedented level of nastiness and cruelty.

You haven't paid much attention these last 250 years?
https://status.github.com/

If anyone is wondering about some stats, git repository access is back up.
My only recent issue with the "Who's Hiring" threads has been the repetitive nature of the posts. It is starting to be that the majority of the posts are the same 95% of the evergreen positions that were in the previous month's post - from accounts created mostly to post in that thread.

sigh Why did we think it was wise to brag to HR & recruiters about how well this mechanism is/was :)
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What is the significance of being Kemalist?
I was thinking more about the direction and size of the light source, actually (with contrast coming in third). I can always throw on a cut of CTS or CTO to get a near-match to the predominant ambient, and that, too, gives me a known colour temperature so RAW processor presets (or batch applications of adjustments or stored camera profiles if I'm using, say, a Color Checker Passport) can work just fine. The flash makes the diffeerence between taking your subjects to where the light is "good" and making good light happen where your subject happens to be. (Completely killing ambient means losing the context, which may be a good thing or a bad thing.)

A more sensitive and efficient sensor may make portable continuous light sources more practical in the field (modulo photon shot noise — no sensor can make light a less probabalistic phenomenon), but it doesn't eliminate the need to make good pictures under sometimes unfavourable circumstances. And unlike the stereotypical landscape photographer, an event photographer can't just pack it up and come back later when the light is better.
> I am trying to make the point that precisely because we live in a world that is unfair, defending unfairness when it is obvious will not help improve things.

When, at any point in human history, has the world ever approached anything resembling "fair". The reduction in poverty and increase in quality of life in western countries has all come at the exploitation and subjegation of people in poorer countries. Certainly we've shifted the massive inequality from local to global, but just because you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Put another way, until we find some infinite, inexpensive source of energy and material resources, no one will live in relative comfort without many more being exploited. That is the way of the world
Yeah, that makes sense. The US annual death rate is 8.39 per 1000[1]. The newest ship in Carnival's inventory holds up to 3,690 passengers[2]. I can't find crew capacity, but some googling suggests there ought to be more than 1000 crew on a loaded cruise that size.

So if you're floating around with 4690+ people, naïvely, about 39 people should die on it every year, or one every 9.28 days.

On a 10-day cruise of that size, somebody is going to die. I bet once you control for the unusually high average age of the passengers and maybe other factors (how many drunken idiots fall over the side and drown every year?), 3 people in 10 days would be pretty normal.

[1]https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_Breeze
I don't know you can say for sure that the primary stake holders in the companies did not help advance the situation. Certainly they are backed by significant capital investment, that capital came from something. I doubt it traces back to gifts from faery god mothers.

Then there are such questions as where did they get the ships built? At what rates? What type of paint is used? Where does the metal come from?

But even saying that some cruise liner magically appeared from some virgin source of capital - it is somewhat disingenuous to imply that choosing to employ people at what could be considered slave wages is anything but exploitation? It might be called arbitrage if the differences in wages where slight -- but they're not, are they?
Nice - I must check it out then!

edit: in case others are interested, that link is - https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/gervais-prin...
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They'd rather just pack and leave. Jobs are not life-long entitlements.
The relation between volume and mass for most solid in asteroids are:

* mostly water or ice: 1 g/cm^3

* mostly rock: 5 g/cm^3

* mostly iron or metals 8 g/cm^3

So density range of the usual solid material of asteroids is only ~10. This asteroid has a very low gravity. So maybe jumping from it can put you in orbit.

The easy way to understand what is imagining that you can turn off the gravity force between the asteroid and its moon. Now you have two independent asteroids that are orbiting around the sun. Both have almost the same position and velocity, so both have a very similar orbit. They will travel together for a long time, but the differences in the orbit will began to accumulate and they will start to slowly come apart.

Now turn on the gravity force between them. It's a small correction to the independent orbits but they are not separating very fast so a small force can keep them together. If you stand up in the bigger asteroid then the bigger asteroid will look like a moon.

(A better method to calculate the apparent orbit of the moon is to use a reference system that is fixed to the center of the asteroid. It's accelerating, so most of the gravity force of the sun cancels, but there are some tidal and centrifugal effects.)
You can also add multiple urls to your remotes. When you push, it'll go to all of them. I do this at home with a tiny server on a mini-atx box and github. Set it and forget it.

There's no reason you can't do the same thing with a small box in the office and get the best of both worlds.
Yield support is buggy:

def f():
n = 0
while n < 10:
yield n
n += 1
print(n)
g = f()
print(next(g))

This prints 0, 1, ... 10, 0 instead of just 0
If you can get bbc iplayer look for a radio programme on vertical farming - a similar concept (mono-culture plants grown indoors in warehouses in cities in hydroponic environments).

Ok not Herero-environments but still similar
You misunderstood my point. I didn't saying that they'd go bankrupt, I said they "will just stop hiring foreign workers", the keyword being foreign.

If you force them to pay a decent wage, then the workers from developing countries will lose their competitive advantage, losing the jobs to local workers. This means the money remains concentrated in developed countries, instead of raising the wages in developing countries (as it's been happening in e.g. China).