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Great read, thanks. My wife is a SAHM, and so far I haven't had any negative comments about it, but would feel exactly the same as you do if/when I do run into the same situation. Can't say the same when it comes to comments regarding our parenting choice, but that's a different matter altogether. People love to be 'right' (and come off as horribly judgmental) when it comes to certain topics, parenting being one of the worst. I've gotten good at comebacks to those kinds of people.
Linux needs to be sold in department stores like Walmart and Best Buy to explode. I think this guy seriously underestimates how disconnected everyday people are with tech. Everyday people don't understand the point of installing Linux when they have Windows. However when shipped on devices out of the box people don't need to question the purpose. (Take android's success as the key example of this.) Even Linus addresses this as the key problem with Linux's market share (or lack therefore of).
I love the idea of knowing exactly what I will get. And I could do without the long lines and the need to get to the counter asap. Who needs it.

And only $5 to refill is a service that is finally priced right.

But the price is a bit high and I am okay with a much cheaper car.
diydrones.com, flitetest.com, /r/multicopter and /r/fpv will help you out :)
I keep hearing this in the thread but be realistic guys - never going to happen. Best you can hope for is early release on Linux.
I don't know why this is being downvoted; it's simple fact. The security firm is either offering this neighborhood a loss leader (which will be temporary) or overstating the amount of service it intends to provide. $8000 for 4 months implies $24k/year, which is considerably lower than the average salary for a security guard (which is not that much to begin with).

Something doesn't add up here.
It looks like there's two types of answers in this thread, and the difference between them is whether their infrastructure is cloud-based or running in a datacenter:

- Cloud: "Who cares? Name them after pokemon or dinosaurs, you can always reprovision and they won't last very long."

- Datacenter: "But what if the name doesn't make sense 16 months from now??"
The first point, getting to know people online before meeting them, is super helpful. It's nice to be able to instantly know a few people right when an event starts off.
From the article 'I really believe we are in a great position right now," says Michael Needham, the 31-year-old president of Heritage Action, the lobbying arm of the nation's largest conservative think tank. By "we" he means the Republican Party and the conservative movement; their "great position" refers to the potential to win the political battle over the government shutdown.

Is the guy a total cynic, clinically insane, or just pathetically intoxicated by his own rhetoric?

The slight possiblity that he might actually be correct in his assessment of the situation gives me indigestion.
I like using weird names but having them also be unique by first character.
Coincidentally, I had run into it recently. I wanted to ask pg the following:

- Around 12:30 you say that there is a combination of 3 things that drives hackers: 1) the desire to get rich (so they could be "free") 2) the desire to "make something" 3) the desire for "power". If that is still your observation, then how does it relate to the change in YC focus to admit a nonprofit startup? I mean, by definition, shouldn't the hackers doing a nonprofit startup give up on 1) above?
How is the education there? I found locals to complain about the talent the schools produced.

That said, it's a wonderful country. Avoid the tourist traps and you miss much of the sleazy side.

If I were 23 I would take it over Iowa ten times out of ten.
I've had similar issues renting cars from Avis at SFO. Once reserved a mid-size and ended up with a Toyota 4-Runner that flat tired after five days. Ironically we got the flat tire on 101 800ft from the airport exit as we were returning the car. Spent 30 minutes on hold with Avis when calling for assistance, only to give up when a free NPO road-service vehicle spotted us and stopped to help.

Another time I went to Avis at SFO without a reservation only to be told they had no economy cars at all available, only large, sporty or high-end cars with a price tag to match them. I declined, got to the back of the line and booked a Toyota Corolla on my iPad at half the price I was quoted for the other cars, and ten minutes later I was driving out of there with a car they supposedly did not have.

I booked the Corolla for five days, but called to extend it anther two days. They never charged me for those two extra days though, which makes me wonder what state their car administration is in.

I'm done with Avis.
Are there any similar programs for people in developed countries?
Linux has been hacked on by some of the most brilliant men and women of our generation and powers an enormous amount of the world's network infrastructure. Calling this an "amateur" project just demonstrates a staggering level of ignorance.
I think Facebook had the same problems. Maybe a bit bigger ;)
Very cool. I especially liked the "I'm an engineer, not a navigator" line and response.
I would also suggest volunteering for conference setup/take-down, if possible.
great resource thanks. Looks like the first test with legs is going to be in FL.
But downpours = bad internet in Thailand :-)
Well, it does seem unreasonable to call Hensher ungrateful; like anyone Hensher has no duty to write except when it pleases him.

But Hensher does talk about how this would affect those with aspirations to be writers and I don't think we should do anything to encourage young people to become professional writers. Yes, let's encourage them to write, but don't sell them on the dream of making their living that way, because for all but a few people, that's just not possible.

Simply, there are lots of people that want to write, but the number of people paying for writing isn't enough to support very many professional writers. No different than anything else. I may be a Tai Chi master and want to teach Tai Chi (I don't even do Tai Chi, this is just an example), but Tai Chi is something people enjoy doing and there are many other instructor level Tai Chi practitioners. But that doesn't mean there are enough paying Tai Chi students to support all of us.
Depends on the program, but generally it ranges from 0 to 20%, most being right around 10%. This changes when republicans win on their "voucher" planks, when suddenly the overhead skyrockets because there are for-profit entities in the loop.
1. Are the lives of the people who work in these factories better or worse as a result of these jobs existing?

Are the benefits short-term or long-term? Foreign demand for the products and short-term uplifting in quality of life is artificial, and could in fact serve to hurt the development of the country in the long-term. For example, high availability of low-paying jobs could distract the country from focusing on education. People might start optimizing for the current situation, by preparing kids to work in the factory as young as possible, instead of realizing that education and investment in human capital is the only way to long-term lift oneself out of poverty.
I think the context is super important here. "gave cash to groups of young people so they could learn a trade and start their own businesses." In Uganda.

These people were pretty much starving before.
“These were mostly farmers who had work 10 to 20 hours a week and earned about $1 a day,"

With different people, culture, attitudes, environment the effect might be completely different in America, for example.
The Obamacare website that we can’t use only cost us $634 million
The logic is that of choosing to respect her identity rather than going out of your way to disrespect it.
You're correct, and Excel for Mac also doesn't support the PowerPivot addon either. However, that still doesn't mean you can fault Excel for barely being able to cope with a use case it isn't designed to support. The fact that it can handle it at all is a testament to the versatility of the program, not the other way around. It simply isn't the correct tool for the job, and shouldn't be faulted for subpar performance in a scenario it wasn't designed for.

Writing code in Word is completely possible, but would you fault Microsoft for the ensuing bad experience? You can also use Eclipse for writing a resumé, but would you fault it for not supporting that use case very well?
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I realized that, I think my comment just got a bit off track. I thought your post was thoughtful and appropriate. Even if design were a million years in the future and as good as it could get, we still have a finite amount of time and resources so decisions have to be made.
The idea that people need to be told to buy food for their kid rather than a big screen TV is paternalistic, yes.
Why not north?
My life would be so incredibly difficult if my wife didn't stay at home. When I come home our 20-month old is ready to play and I just don't see how she does it all day, keeping up with a never stopping, never slowing, ball of energy.
I hope CD Projekt Red will get to the point of releasing the Witcher 3 for Linux.
The point of Flipboard isn't to give publishers "reach"
Also strongly suggest not doing anything related to body shots (see recent HN postings for details...).
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That's a very interesting use case and I can see how that would be valuable. I share a similar thought on bookmarks as in right now they are very permanent things when what I really want is like a temporary scrapboard that automatically disappears when I stop adding stuff to it. What do you think would that be useful ?
I think these kinds of questions should be handled on a case-by-case basis. There's an incident with private security personnel, and this gives rise to an oversight board, etc. I am not at all convinced that the large, complex, troubled, oft-compromised, well-meaning bureaucracy that you mention is directing its resources towards the right things. Just as likely to my mind, it is engaging in a thousand small acts of self-preservation and defense of turf, because of all of the overlapping jurisdictions and poorly delineated lines of authority.
For anyone finding the syntax of list comprehensions a bit confusing (like me), I found this comparison to be useful if you're familiar with the more readable (usually) Python equivalent:

[expression(element) || element <- list, conditions]

is the same as

[expression(element) for element in list if condition]
Thanks! That makes a lot of sense. It's great to hear that that transition strategy worked.
I'm all about skipping lines when renting cars, so I like this idea. I have Avis preferred through work and at most airports I just get on the Avis shuttle, they ask my name, and drop me right in front of the car - no lines or signatures required.
Yes it is sexy, but it has the smell of a dangerous rhetoric flower.

The CPU is a machine, it is deterministic, same input yields same output.

The legal system may try to be as predictable as possible, it is still a human production built on human language, and cannot be deterministic, not even asymptotically.
I'd be intrigued to know why despite the fact that microsoft.com and bing.com are with markmonitor (along with much/most of MSFT, IIRC), live.com is with corporatedomains.
works good enough for me. I'll give you $15MM for it.

-Marissa
so, you could even skip the math and just append the string representations of the primes.

It seems the really difficult part is finding a good simple fraction to express the string. Perhaps that's the key here. maybe the primes summed in the sequences are a subset that produces a relatively simple fractional representation.
Installation of OpenERP 7.0 on Ubuntu
Oh I meant to be more of general statement... I'd be as frustrated if it was odt if use case wouldn't warrant it.

Though docx has its own problem -- a lot of free implementations do not handle it correctly and MS implementation of OpenDocument is largely incomplete (as far as I know from 2007's implementation...) Honestly, using LibreOffice day to day with other users being MS Office users, ironically doc seems to be most complete interchangeable format with these users.

I think some of those come from ambiguity of spec so I guess there are mulple parties to be blamed.
Sadly, some people absolutely need to be told to buy their kid a jacket vs. a large bag of cocaine.
Just curious, what social networks are popular in Germany now? And what led to the declining usage of studiVZ?
Really both work for this situation I think.
git is something I'm working towards. Ideally I'd like github to be our learning platform.
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Well, there's http://www.nbcnews.com/business/2-800-month-every-adult-it-c... . I wouldn't donate to it, though -- Switzerland doesn't need the money.

(And if we're performing a comparison, neither do other developed countries compared to the people being targeted by Give Directly's program. We should give to wherever it will do the most good, right?)
> I don't buy exclusives.

With all due respect, most people don't care.
When that works, anyway. For me the success rate on actually walking into a car at SFO (with Hertz Gold) is below 50%. No idea why, but my coworkers have had similar experiences at SFO.
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Although it is true that you can probably wring savings out of using private security personnel over unionized police, I personally don't think the higher costs for the police are a problem -- it's hard to live on wages less than what the police in San Francisco are being paid, even in Oakland. A real problem with the legal and law enforcement systems is that they're bureaucratic and unresponsive. I do not mind more money going to them, but I also want to see them enter the Internet age and do things like answer emails.
I'm just a young cloudy-headed incipient leftist, what do I know?

Not as much as you would if you wrote a bit less and read a bit more.
This is exactly my experience worded better than I could have.
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Prostitution is actually a bad argument. The places where it is legal, prostitutes get things like health care, readily preventative measures against the spread of STDs and forgo the need for pimps.

The "war on drugs" is really pre-crime. Its the notion that everyone that does x becomes an addict. That everyone eventually falls down the slippery slope of needing to commit crimes like stealing to get their fix, which I think we can agree just isn't true.

As a Christian, and this sadly should not be but may be hard to believe, I follow the path of free will. You are free to destroy the planet if you so choose. Its not my right to determine which poison you wish to ingest is right or wrong for you. While I do agree that some choices do have societal consequences, a "one size fits all" approach with prohibition is complete bullshit.

I do agree that measures should be taken to protect myself from others, when my actions actually do affect them. Take DUI laws for example. There's clear evidence driving while intoxicated can lead to incredible lapses of judgment. Does it mean every time you're behind the wheel with any blood alcohol count you're gonna kill someone? No but there's a severely increased chance. Yet even then I may be able to handle a higher blood alcohol content than you, so this argument is also brittle.

I guess my main point is other countries have legalized a spectrum of substances at a much less threshold of pain than we have. Its as if they seen what a colossal waste of time, energy, and resources it produces. Yet in America we let our pride get in the way of every fucking thing. We'll continue this "war on drugs" and equally our "war on terror" until we're no longer a nation. Both have pushed us close to oblivion because consistently no one is seeing any positive results. The rest of the world recognizes our folly, repeatedly calls us out on it and what? We continue business as usual? I'm sorry, I don't wish to be labeled as that incredibly dense, stupid, moronic, retarded, juvenile, or whatever other petty words I can come up with. I think we're smarter than that but if you (and by you I mean second person you all) wish to continue this farcical charade, knock yourselves out.
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Google wants to pay Linux and open-source users to be 31337
The one-time grant model seems like it could be important; you don't develop the whole cargo cult dependence when it is a one-time windfall only.
It absolutely is right wing spin. Yes, the bigger number is the total awards to CGI. But the story being pushed by the right wing is "we spent $650M for a website that doesn't work", which has confused a lot of people.

$94M for a website is absurd, and reeks of incompetence and bureaucracy.

$650M for a website would be downright fraudulent. It's not a coincidence that it's the latter number that's being talked about.
This seems preposterous. I'm mainly interested in how this "fact" became a talking point, and how far and fast it spreads.
> The group of people known as the "popular" is much larger and generally more diverse.

Yeah, no, that's really not true, by "popular", I'm functionally referring to people "popular enough to get elected". This specific subset may also be restricted to the intersection of the common definition of "popular" and "narcissistic enough to try".

We may choose to really examine those individuals who have a day-to-day operational control over the work of the state. Here there are also complicating factors like bureaucrats and mid- and high- level managers in the state apparatus not only are unelected (so that to properly describe this group we should re-qualify popular as "favorable to the elected") but these people also tend to be less accountable - "qualified immunity", not often do you hear of government officials going to jail - though I suppose that's true of wall street, too...
The best place I've seen yet is Fort Lauderdale's Hollywood International Airport. Shuttle straight to the huge car rental station, pick a company, get a car. The drive to Miami is short, too.
Well, the original comment by L_Rahman is saying basically that. Except that it's phrased more like "while not everything is ok and you cannot just ignore the way the workers get abused, you also have to to consider that having money is better than having none".
That's awesome, because I almost never rent clerks. Ba dum dum.
All javascript ends up looking like Finnegans Wake after awhile anyway.
I've used Asana and Atlassian's jira. Jira is far and away easier to use and has much better control. It's always clear to me which issues I need to work on first and which versions of the product they'll impact.
With a Microsoft OS you're not pegged to versions of 3rd party software for the duration of the support life. Using the LTS version of Ubuntu on a daily use desktop/laptop would leave you with a very frustrating application availability experience.
Increasing tank pressurization would mitigate it, but I suspect it's a lot easier to plan to control the spin.
This made me laugh. And $15m is big enough for me.
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In what circumstances would USA/GB have been the fastest route between two points in Germany ...
Do you object to a specific part of the research methodology in the article, or are you just showing your classism off for fun?
Don't the police watch the security guards? If they commit a crime, they'll go to jail, just like anyone else on this side of the thin blue line.
Visa's corporate website http://corporate.visa.com/about-visa/technology/transaction-... suggests that the quoted numbers, "40M of the 200M+", numbers are wrong or misleading. Possibly they are based on the highest volume day?

"VisaNet authorizes, clears and settles an average of 150 million transactions per day in 200 countries and territories."

Either way, the best way to prove an assertion based on numbers is to source it.
I'm curious how diligent the neighborhood citizens were in soliciting their local government to increase police presence. Did they write to the police chief? Attend council meetings? Voice their concerns to elected officials?

I believe people are inherently lazy. More often than not people will take the path of least resistance. What would happen if the volume of support for the crowd-funding were directed at the local government? It seems like people would rather "one-click checkout" (tm) than make the effort to fix their own government.
presumably, the services that the firm provides don't necessarily have to be everywhere within the area at all times.
In addition...

<blockquote>To get the cash, applicants had to form a group with others in their village and submit a proposal showing how they planned to use the money</blockquote>

It's not clear how selective they were, but it does sound more involved than just "fill out this form and get your cash." So it's a group of people that were selected, or at least self-selected, for some minimum amount of initiative and ambition.

The title of the article invites comparisons to social safety net programs in the developed world, but this sounds more like a combination of the educational and small business grant programs. It also seems like it would not be broadly applicable - you couldn't just carpet an area with $400 grants and expect the same kind of success rate.
> Porting something Linux -> Windows is likely much easier than the other way around.

True I'd say (though I have no experience in porting huge software projects), but why is this? Isn't it just because the Windows platform is so much larger? I guess Linux will still keep things open since it's not part of a for-profit company, but easy portability to Windows in the future is no given unless Microsoft starts to make things that way.

And I mean "future", like, when Microsoft's lock-in products like Office and Windows have a <50% market share. After that it'll be over soon altogether, or Microsoft must come up with something brilliant.

Hmm, something brilliant that must be. In the past they bought stuff they didn't have themselves. Good luck buying (and selling) LibreOffice or GNU/Linux :D
chrome isnt translating this for me. What up?
I would add a minor footnote, namely the only part of the story that can be concievably considered morally relevant to us: what can be done here? And by "here" I mean the countries to whose jursidiction these multinational giants belong.

Just take the recent Supreme Court ruling [1] that made it even harder than it already was to sue corporations for human right abuses overseas. The ruling is already being used as precedent [2] to dismiss overseas abuse charges.

[1] "Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co." http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/10-1491_l6gn.pdf

[2] "Al Shimari v. CACI et al." http://ccrjustice.org/ourcases/current-cases/al-shimari-v-ca...
And the article is back up on the original link.
Do you honestly believe those prostitutes enjoy sleeping with people like you?
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