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So, remove features -- even incredibly useful ones like f'ing drag & drop, no drag & drop across the entire interface! -- and kick back in Prince'ly fashion enjoying the cries of the masses.

What he's suggesting, depending on which of Machiavelli's kingdom types the author is referring to, is actually either the wrong approach (the people revolt [leave Gnome]) or the ruthless tyrannical approach (crush [ignore] the cries of the masses and force the prince's system on the people without any lenience [concessions]).

Blog poster basically comes across as a bit of a sociopath.

Gnome 3 is not "all" bad, BTW, but some of the (missing) functionality is a daily PITA.
Yep. I laughed that their response to users complaining about removing features is not to question if the feature was useful or not, but to claim that it is simply the world raging against this idea of its freedom's taken away without any acknowledgement that the feature may have actually been useful.

While I understand gnome gets a lot of hate and that they might take up that tact as a defense mechanism instead of actually dealing with it, it bodes really poorly for their user interface.
I realised this not long after signing up with them. They don't even have a separate 'phone password', the one they ask for (and sometimes read back) is used for DPA as well as email (gmail based) login.
I really don't understand why dl.google.com isn't just running Nginx or some web server. It's just serving files. Why does it need software written in house?
I would really like to know where this bizzare attitude has come from. At what point exactly did the gnome devs decide that they were at war with their users?
Oh of course, and that also explains the use of GADTs since they are one route to dependent types in Haskell. I'm not sure what he's done there is fully legit, but maybe not as loony as at first thought.
I didn't went past the first paragraph before opening Chrome DOM inspector and checking if some "text-transform:lowercase;" had been forgotten somewhere, but no it's apparently on purpose.
My Indian friend who spent ten years in US went to visit his parents, he said he was going to buy bottled water while there and boil it before drinking. He was genuinely anxious about catching something.

So yes, the low mortality rate after surgeries is actually a surprise for me.
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) is a better measure
Google Core Reporting API - Ken vs. Ryu Easter Egg
Spot on! The majority of grad students I've met thought that getting the sheepskin will solve all their problems. You are from a top department so you will surely get a tenure-track position, and that will materialize into an associate professor job in no time. The first time I realized that things were not that rosy was when I started applying for faculty jobs and read the book "A PhD is not enough".

One key reason for all this pain is very simple - too much competition. If we had large institutions like the old bell labs (being funded the same way), that would create demand for fresh PhDs and reduce some of the stress.

Academia is also considered by almost everyone I know to be a one way gate. If you get out, you can't come back in (unless you have achieved massive success and popularity on the outside). This is a sad state of affairs.

All this said, I think there are some very good results of getting a PhD. My social circle is full of ridiculously smart people. I think I'm trained to be unsatisfied until I better understand things, and I have more critical thinking today than when I started grad school.
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OK, but if you have a game console, your experience is more than good enough (and already includes HBO GO, Amazon, Hulu, MLB...). Also, if, like many in the US, you own iOS, Airplay more than makes the Apple TV worth the extra $60 (for streaming music to your TV and beaming photos/videos). Roku is also a great option for a few more bucks - it has about any service you could think of plus a nice "universal search" that shows you if something is on Netflix before you rent.

Chromecast is nice - and novel in a few fun ways - but I just don't see it changing the world, especially since most of its target demographic is somewhat tech savvy (smartphone owning Netflix subscribers) and therefore quite likely to own at least one of the above.
Scroll to the bottom for a fictional example of API usage pitting Ken vs. Ryu.

Good sense of humor.
...they're complaining about paying more than those who are at a similar level

But Australians aren't at a similar level. Australia has a price level 144% of that of the USA.

So the local pricing seems about right given the local distribution of wealth (the US has a much higher Gini coefficient of income/wealth disparity), which makes the price elasticity of demand much lower.

there is zero cost difference to the vendor

No market participant has a moral obligation to keep their price down.
100$ per linode for backups + sys monitoring. Wondering how they will handle the "co-managed" components, particularly "tuning" and "services". This is where it can get messy with conflicts of interest. Wouldn't take a lot to eat up that 100.
Stopped me after the first 2 sentences.
Alcohol is a poor example because of special taxation.

The Big Mac index is better for many reasons, one being Mcdonalds is large enough to mostly optimize everything wherever they operate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index
It sounds that way if you're a short-sighted conservative type or a hospital union rep, and makes sense until you realize that there is a glut of hospital beds in most places in the US. Care is shifting from institutions to outpatient environments, and has been for 40 years.

That excess capacity tends to be filled up with old and poor people on government health programs, and people needlessly hospitalized are likely to get more sick as a direct result of their unnecessary hospitalizations.
One solution is to write something really fucking great. Doing so is left as an exercise for the writer.

Those economics are not restricted to stories about politics. Remember the days when the front page would be flodded every time the MacBook Pro got longer screws, a couple of megahertz processor speed, and a bigger base hard drive?

There have always been cheap and easy stories. There always will be. If you run a zeitgeist, it comes in the box.
Simplifying OTR Deniability
Ah, the medical version of the "fixed lump of labor" fallacy.
It's always interesting to see game console programming. On a similar note tonc http://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/ is a great intro to homebrew GBA programming.
People located in Australia vs Australians. No, there is not a big difference. Australians are beginning to get mobilised about being discriminated against, and the Australian government will start doing things to end the ripoffs when the outrage gets too much.
How the Huffington Post handles 70+ million comments a year
Why Nate Silver Spurned the Times: Numbers Win
The font is also hard-to-read :\. http://contrastrebellion.com/
If HN wasn't interested in politics, the threads wouldn't make it onto the first page. If you don't like the post, then downvote/flag it. If you don't like the post, but your peers do, which appears to be the case, then suck it up. That's the whole point about crowdsourced moderation, you might not like what you see. Crying over the content of crowdsourced newsfeeds because it's not showing what you want is ridiculous.

Politics has been extremely important in the past several weeks to many Americans. It turns out that our hacker peers have been using technology to circumvent the Constitution. This isn't something done by lazy, government-level programmers. If you look at some of the other IT projects commissioned by the government, like consolidating government datacenters, those projects have all essentially failed. Instead, as Snowden demonstrated, you have a very, sophisticated mechanism to view everything about anyone. The programmers at the NSA are the very best of our peers. And they are working on arguably illegal programs that have made the US a worse place. It's certainly a worse place for foreigners who want to use services like Google, Facebook, etc. If I were a foreigner, there's no way I would use those services, since I have zero protection or privacy against the NSA. And if you are one of the 0.01% startup success stories and become billionaires, you will now need to face the US government and hand over all your user data.

Forgetting about politics, forgetting about things like the Constitution, and living in your bubble of a life is great if you're a kid, but the world doesn't work like that. Things like DefCon that remind people that sometimes you do have a reason to be paranoid is important. I was talking with an Ivy League 19 year old, and he didn't care that the US government was potentially reading everything about him. He said he had nothing to hide. This is the type of fate we need to avoid, having the seemingly best of the best being uneducated on things like like politics and ideas of simple freedom.
In some ways I like it as I've always learned better on a self-paced system. But no computer will ever inspire anyone to reach outside themselves and become someone new. The best teachers are the ones who move their students in directions they never even considered. There is no big data algorithm for that.
Depends on how effective the legal department was on their medical consent forms. Also if the other surgery had a proven record of being very deadly there might be some wiggle room with less deadly alternatives. It would be a very precarious position for the hospital/surgeon though.
this isn't new - it was several years ago - imo this goes back at least 10 years.
I'd be interested to see if you can rope in people from the non-CS departments at GT. In my time there, my impression was that the culture was dominated by the old-school engineering departments, so there was a definite bent towards working for big corporations (e.g. Lockheed Martin in the city) rather than doing startups.

That said, I think Atlanta would be a phenomenal place to do a startup. Good local engineering talent, low cost of living, and solid complement of supporting professional services. I don't know what the VC/funding situation is down there though.
I think that this...

> One of the most admirable things about hackers is their ability to accomplish great things without - or in spite of government.

... is really a pretty sad, small statement. If anything, government is of more importance to us because it is the hacker mentality itself that is under attack right now. The reason, I think, that so many of the recent issues have salience with this community is that what various governments are trying to do is to shut down disruptive economic and social activities, the lifeblood of the hacker community, in order to protect entrenched and well-connected interests.

At some point we all have to stop saying "well I'm a {baker, hacker, librarian, truck driver,...}, why should I worry about these problems?" and realize that this is world-altering stuff happening, and if you want your little corner of the world to survive, you have to mobilize to protect it, even if that means doing a little less of the things you normally do.

So I'm OK with more political posts, as long as something actually comes from the emotions they generate. Frankly, I've noticed a change in myself. Twelve months ago I didn't care one bit about cryptography and networking, they were just useful plumbing that worked (or didn't). But now I'm moving to learn more about these topics because of recent events and a desire to at least better understand what is happening. HN was partially responsible for this shift in my attitudes, so good on you guys!
Major opinion shifts, in the US and Congress, on NSA surveillance and privacy.
This looks like the changelog: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/6342
Really? A pocket change? So why the US don't just, you know, pay the debt with the pocket change and regain its financial independence once again?
That looks like Internet Explorer. What version are you running?
You would need 2 competing sites.

One for the HN alternative, and one for the sub-optimal HN alternative. When people flood the new HN with poor material you send them over to the less moderated site.
Free market also allows arbitrage, allowing people to buy your goods cheaply somewhere else and reselling in Australia. Even if you don't like it as you want to charge a higher price in Australia - a free market proponent can't really argue that they deserve government intervention to forbid others to import&sell the same goods cheaper than you.

It is perfectly fine to charge wealthier segments more, but others don't have a duty to protect or facilitate your desired way of segmentation; it is also perfectly fine for a community to facilitate a marketplace that is less favourable to you and more favourable to their citizens.
On the contrary, Clash of Clans is a game of patience. The premium currency (gems) get traded for time, that's it. Since matchmaking is randomized, it makes no difference to you if you fight someone who gem-boosted to their town level or who spent the several months per level to build without gems.

The skill comes in choosing which troops to take to battle and the order and placing to deploy them. The best players internalize troop AI making their attacks seem laser guided, while the worst players just spam troops and fail.

Clash of Clans, unlike Candy Crush that alters difficulty based on your spend, seems to me to be extraordinarily effective at getting players to want to spend gems for time, while remaining ethical in that a free player can play the entire game up to max level without spending a dime and remains on a level playing field.
The real issue isn't just the NSA but having a secret court than makes secret laws we can't even be told about: this is what is fundamentally inconsistent with a democracy (or republic).
Meta-interview with Ryan Slobojan about his InfoQ interviews
Of course, his list of rules on when not to be pragmatic are subject to change at any time.
firefox actual version ... this happens after clicking the button!
2. Skip the drawings

Except if they are flowcharts !
Yes it's amazingly patronizing to assume that the people were wrong given I rarely see any statistical evidence or usability studies behind GNOME changes. It's quite possible they were right and the GNOME devs were wrong. Or, even more likely, that they are both right for two different groups and that feature X could perhaps be removed from an icon bar but not from a submenu.

Too often in the past GNOME removed the availability of a feature entirely. The people using that feature "owned" it, thus following the first quote the removal impinged on their "property", and then the GNOME devs would insult people for wanting it because it was "wrong", impinging on their "honour". It's only through assuming GNOME devs are infallible and the people are wrong that allows this guy to use the second quote, which boils down to "children want their toys", to cancel the first and then "smilingly fall back in my chair and enjoy reading mean comments with a bag of popcorn".

Also I agree with the others regarding the lack of capitalization, but I suppose we are all "wrong" on this.
But Australians aren't at a similar level. Australia has a price level 144% of that of the USA.

In terms of standards of living, not price!

No market participant has a moral obligation to keep their price down.

Yeah, they often do. Medicine, food and essentials should be kept to a reasonable cost. And I suppose you've never heard of price gouging?
One Week In. Seven Million Dollars. Keep On Pledging
That's definitely the plan, and it's something I've put a lot of thought towards. I really believe that hackathons are a great way to get people involved. Even if they don't code, a 10 hour bus ride with our hacker community is going to convert anyone :)

ATL is absolutely booming right now for startups - Atlanta Tech Village, Hype. I feel like VC funding needs to innovate a little, they seem to be a bit stuck in their ways. Cummings is doing a great job though, and he's really giving back to the community
Your suspicion is correct. It is the price charged to Medicare. Medicare only reimburses $26,898.
Perfect Your Product - Three Ways to Test and Perfect Your Mobile Apps
All of those are, obviously. Don't try to avert the issue by redefining words.
The phrase 'Australia Tax' is in quote marks because we all know it is not a tax. It is an economic phenomena caused by all the factors listed in the article.

Those factors have combined to make it very noticeable that there is a non free market operating.

It's very Australian to refer to something by a nickname and that is what's happening here.
I don't think I get the new grid system.

<div class="col-12 col-sm-8 col-lg-8">.col-12 .col-lg-8</div>

What's going on here? If I were to guess, I'm assuming it's going to be 12 columns if its a mobile, 8 if a tablet or a desktop.

In what situation would that be useful? It looks like you'd end up with some pretty complicated mark-up quickly like that.
It's great content, relevant to our readership, and it's new (dated July 27, 2013).

It's a cool "aha! moment" when you realize that using Look-Up Tables you can implement any Single-Point image transformation entirely using array lookup operations (no if statements or nonlinear math).
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Australian voters desiring a free market for Photoshop in Australia indisputably is a good reason for that.
To be fair you can get the cheap supermarket brand for about $1.10.

I would agree though that you can be looking at around $4 for something decent.
Ask HN:  PythonHackers.com Valid idea?
The top 8 reasons you have a fraud problem - video of my talk at Balanced
Politics is popular now because the hacker news crowd are like a bunch of geeky high school kids who obsess about the gang that's been bullying them. Their brilliant intellectual life is decimated by thoughts about the bully gang.
Perhaps amending to that a filter to that which gives less upvotes for submissions that are repetitive based on url, page title and article keywords during a certain period of time. Though the only problem with that would be if early submissions are of less quality and get upvoted while ones that come slightly later are of higher quality.
No, Git is required on the server(s). It's used for a few things, the most important being the creation of each delivery clone.
Really, It was super slick on my Retina Mac Pro with 8 gig of RAM. :)
A $35 bottleneck between my laptop and TV?

I thought HDMI-out was becoming standard.
"Blog poster basically comes across as a bit of a sociopath."

Seems like it represents the general view by users of the Gnome team. He points out that the perception of the Gnome team is anti-user, that they are tone deaf and don't care enough about the community. He doesn't argue against it, mind you, and then goes on to largely reinforce the correctness of the called-out viewpoint. He was reading The Prince and now he gets what all those dumb serfs were rioting about.
Poe's law applies to the OP - I'm genuinely confused as to whether this blog post is a subtle satire of the uncaring aloofness of Gnome developers, or if it's the real thing.

The no capitals thing is just icing on the cake. "Capitalization is pointless so I removed it"
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Can we have a discussion about the content rather than the appearance or how quickly the page loaded?
> If a subject comes up which ignites the passion and touches them, they will get worked up about it. It’s not a unique feature of HN.

The unique feature of HN is that those topics are explicitly mentioned as things that should not be posted here.

(http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html)

> A crap link is one that's only superficially interesting. Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.

> What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, then perhaps it could be.

> The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting. Gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news site, it will push aside the deeply interesting stuff, which tends to be quieter.
So you're not connected to them at all, you're not a foundation, and you straight up copied their name?
No, he said "usable".

Joking aside, he is obviously aware of KDE and didn't mention it for a reason, presumably because it's not what he wants to see.
GNOME developers have been well known twats for a long long time. They tinker and remove things for the better all the time, usually sighting some crap UX survey or some such nonsense. They also have a passionate hatred of giving users choice.
The bit about psychology is "obvious", but the argument falls apart when trying to get from that to the conclusions.

It's true that taking away something that people count on makes them unhappy. To declare, however that this is the sole or main reason for the widespread rejection of the Gnome changes requires more evidence. It is definitely false in the case of many users (myself included).

It's really just a variant of the old line "you dislike this only because it's different; but try it our way and you'll find it's better". This is a dishonest, and frankly an offensive rhetorical trick. It presumes to know the reader's mind better than the reader does; implies that familiarity is the only reason anyone ever prefers one thing over another; and assumes that all change is always good - all of which is absurd.

Similarly in the linked article, the author pretends that there is no objection based on the actual merits of the software: in other words, users object that the removal makes the software less useful, and the writer pretends to misunderstand the complaint as "we now have n - 1 features instead of n features". He even arrogantly says that some features they "shouldn't have had in the first place" - when in reality, people complain because they were using the feature for something they cared about and aren't satisfied with the new way.

The really important hidden premise of apologists like this is that there are no intrinsic merits of one design over another - that it's only a matter of style and fashion and what's familiar, and there's never any factor of one way being intrinsically better or worse suited to the interaction of human and device. That's a big assumption, but once they've put in a huge amount of work based on it, they can't even admit that anyone could have any intelligent objection, and defensively blame any dissent on an irrational emotional response.

The same observations apply in the case of Ubuntu Unity and Windows 8: the root cause of their failure is a sort of paternalism where the GUI designers disregard what users actually prefer, and can't even admit that the preferences are based on practical workflow considerations rather than emotional reactions.
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So this seems like an odd statement: "Bitcoins are, in many ways, the ultimate underground currency. They’re even better than Visa gift cards, since they don’t involve a credit card company or a bank at all, and since they exist only as untraceable strings of letters and numbers." (keyword being "untraceable").

Especially as this person specifically mentions Tor as only doing a "fairly good job of keeping its users anonymous."
The CSS/JS on the website is broken.