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Blocked outside of the USA it seems. For a video about smuggled footage out of North Korea I find it a bit ironic.

Quite frankly I find those regional restrictions as big a threat to the internet as all the net neutrality issues discussed lately.

The internet shouldn't have borders.
With De Castro's exit Mayer has 'aided' a massive transfer of wealth from Yahoo! shareholders in less than 2 years to people who appointed her, as well as people she appointed.

Dan Loeb, who helped appoint Mayer as Yahoo! CEO, made a killing on his investment thanks to Mayer: http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/22/4545072/yahoo-dan-loeb-lea...

Then there's De Castro, who Mayer handpicked as one of her early and critical hires. He apparently made $109 million, not $60 million: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-15/yahoo-chief-operati...

One almost thinks his compensation was designed to maximize his earnings were he to fail in the shortest possible period of time!
Right to roam was introduced into England in ummm - the 1990s, I think.
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Thats the company and shareholders problem and certainly not for you and me to decide who is at the right place or not.
"I use my judgement" is the cop out. Crazygringo asked what the underlying principle is to provide justification for an otherwise arbitrary-sounding rule. The underlying principle you provide isn't actually an underlying principle at all - it's just pushing the arbitrary-sounding rule one level up.

You might as well just say "I use my judgement" as a (non-)answer to his original question.

Your suggestion that people asking for a (moral/political) philosophical justification of a law is a "cop-out" is simply anti-intellectual. You might not carefully think through your views, but some of us (i.e. crazygringo) at least try to. I know the idea is a little threatening (you run the risk of discovering your views are wrong, omfg!) and suggests possible tribal disloyalty, but please recognize that crazygringo basically agrees with you [1] and is just trying to understand intellectually why.

[1] I'm interpreting this from the first and last lines of his post.
Yeah, while the rent in San Fransisco may be outrageous, and other prices may be expensive compared to the rest of the US it is still pretty cheap compared to some other parts of the world.

Overall, the prices in the US for many commodities and services are ridiculously cheap compared to many European countries for example. And don't get me started on the gas prices...

You can't get a coffee and a toast in a cafe for $6 in my home town (in Europe). You'll be paying $8 to $10 at least.
Steve Jobs owned billions of dollars in Apple and Disney and after 2003 earned no salary or other compensation from either (aside from the cost of operating his aircraft which was a few hundred thousand dollars a year). He is a bad example as I was talking about salary.
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You can certainly get a full breakfast for $5-7 in San Francisco. You just can't go to the techie-hipster-yuppie places.
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Depends on the way you think about it.

People earn $x. They spend it on products. $x worth of fancy bread style thing vs $x worth of plain bread style things, I'd guess the plain bread uses more physical resources.
I think you are fooling yourself by constructing a more complex scenario that is therefore more impenetrable. The story already says that the light flashes one second before you press the button, or rather no matter how hard you try, you can't press the button sooner than one second after the flash - consequently you wouldn't be able to knock the device away. You could already say "if the light flashes, you press the button within 0.5 seconds, therefore the story can't be true". But the story says you can't do that.

So by inventing your mechanical device you haven't added any information to the puzzle, only confusion.

I think Searle's Chinese Rooms employs the same fallacious way of thinking to refute strong AI.
You seem to be assuming that "random" must mean "uniformly at random". A weighted die that 99.99999% of the time comes up "3" is still random, but not uniformly random. The outcome of the die roll is nearly certain.
The FLO (Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International) sets a floor price of $1.40 per pound of coffee, which is supposed to be a "higher than market" price, but is actually hardly more than what growers were being paid to begin with. This is like assuring an employee that she will be earning more than the $7.25 minimum wage entitles her to, and then only paying her $7.26 and a lollipop.

In many cases, growers can make three or even four times as much per pound if they don't sell within their Fair Trade contracts. This is like a Blockbuster clerk being able to earn more cash if he just takes all the videos home and charges admission to his living room.

For a nonprofit organization working to combat the exploitation of impoverished countries, the FLO makes a rather tidy sum from licensing fees. For every pound of Fair Trade coffee a retailer sells, they have to pay the FLO 10 cents -- that's like Drew Rosenhaus collecting 50 bucks for every Terrell Owens jersey that gets sold (this is hypothetical -- we are well aware that no Terrell Owens jerseys are being sold).

In 2009, the FLO had a budget of $10 million, 70 percent of which was funded entirely by those fees. In short, the anti-exploitation organization is using Third World coffee growers to generate revenue, which as you may notice is very nearly the literal definition of exploitation. This has led many in the industry to argue that the FLO exists primarily to market Free Trade coffee, rather than to protect the interests of growers. This is the same relationship that Disney has with children.

On average, retailers are charged 65 cents more per pound of Fair Trade coffee. That might not sound like a lot, until you remember how retail markup works. Take a look at the $1.40 that the growers sell their beans for, and compare that to the $9 or $10 you pay for a pound of decent, non-Billy-Bob-Thornton-poop coffee. That's a 700 percent increase. If the retailers are being charged 65 cents more on average for that Fair Trade label (almost an additional 50 percent), then you can guarantee that's going to mean an additional 300 to 400 percent price increase for you, because retailers need to have a large enough markup to make a worthwhile profit. Otherwise, they'd just filter day-old coffee from the break room through the manager's sock, call it something with "Nicaraguan" or "Colombian" in the name, and sell that to you.
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> I think if you spoke to people who grew up in an authoritarian regime

Oh, hello!

> you'd be surprised by how large a role the totalitarianism of ideas and complicity of the population plays in comparison to direct violence from internal security forces or control over food.

The complicity of the population usually plays an important role, but only when it comes to the implementation of major policies. Not in the sense that there's civil disobedience about small-scale measures, but in the sense that authorities ignore how people feel about it. Even if they disapprove, what exactly are they going to when the government decides to take their cows? Stand by them and let the policemen arrest them? Yeah, that's pretty much why they're for.

Civilian informers were doing just fine at the downfall of every major communist regime in Europe. In fact, their number might have been at a peak (I don't have a source to back this for every country, unfortunately), so you could say the complicity of the population was, if not at its highest, at least in a stable, well-paced rhythm.

Direct violence played a big role, but only to the extent that it showed the threats of the agents weren't hollow. Control over food played a hugely important role in the more rural communities, or those that had deep-rooted education issues; these communities were largely untouched by the lack of freedom which they wouldn't have exercised much anyway, but when their ability to satisfy their basic needs degraded, things went awry quite quickly wherever armed control wasn't firm and steady enough.

The idea that North Koreans, by and large, are fanatical followers of the regime is fiction, especially so late in the development of their regime.
I had the same reaction!

Coffee and some good toast at a nice Cafe in Brisbane (Australia third largest city) would also run around $10.
>Super helpful comment. Thanks. Definitely, the transition from calling public figures "vile idiots" to calling individual commenters on HN threads "vile idiots" is sure to produce a productive discussion.

The point I wanted to make was that "vile idiot" is problematic in itself, and by my meta-use of it, I hoped the parent would obviously see why.

How calling public figures "vile idiots" is any better than calling individual HN commenters the same?

>Whereas you just jumped in to call someone you disagreed with a name, and nothing else; your writing had no value.

Did it really seem like a called him a name just for the fun of it? Wasn't the meta-context obvious?
As long as it interfaces with anything else, it does.

If your software is completely isolated and self contained, sure, there's no practical bitrot.

But the Internet changed the software world - software rots out in the wild.
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This isn't a SF problem. It is a problem everywhere. Heck the much widen range between the rich ( or the average in SF ) and the poor.

And you see this in much worst from in India, China. Luckily these place have many other areas or choice for the "poor" to choose from.

Another example would be Hong Kong. Where NO ONE could afford to buy a flat. I would love to see Rent compared in SF and Hong Kong.
Luckily you can customize the lenght of that Avatar-II cable.
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Vote with your wallet. Good or bad, you don't have to pay for it. Make toast at home if you are really that into slightly burnt bread. It takes what, like 3 minutes to make coffee and toast at your house. And I really doubt that the tech industry is ruining San Fran. Even if they were, toast prices at one place you went to one time wouldn't be the first metric I'd grab.
I would say the same of Sydney.
> If everyone bought $4 toast then all the coffeeshop workers would earn more and the tech workers would have less to spend on houses. That would be a good thing.

No offense but that's just naive and wishful thinking. Instead, the increased prices would inflate corporate profits even more without having any impact on real wages: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/05/05/wage...
Man, think of everybody else we could blame for this. Why limit it to just the Fed? Let's be more generous.

The 1%, the poor, the black, the racists, the gays, the Jews, the immigrants, the socialists, the liberals, the neo-cons, the Kochs, the healthcare cartels. Everybody's at fault.
I think if prodigal_erik is worried about autovivification then perhaps locking the keys might be a good idea?...

use 5.016;
use warnings;
use Hash::Util 'lock_keys';

my %a = (B => 100); # B but no A defined
lock_keys %a;

my $x = 'A';
++$a{$x};

Above now throws an error on the last line - Attempt to access disallowed key 'A' in a restricted hash...

Alternatively autovivification can be switched off - https://metacpan.org/pod/autovivification
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Would you be as kind as to provide me with some resources to learn the ins and outs of this?

I thought PG's explanation in "A Plan for Spam" was pretty good: http://www.paulgraham.com/naivebayes.html

Also, I feel like akinator.com is using a Bayesian tree. Would you confirm this?

It's possible, but I doubt it.

What algorithm do you think they are using?

A plain binary search tree would work perfectly. I guess it could be broken by people entering deliberately wrong data, but..

It's clearly some kind of search tree, because the questions are influenced by previous answers.

You could do a Bayesian version, but I'm not sure it would perform any better.
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Squatting in commercial property is a real problem in London. There's a lot of hot air about homelessness but your typical squatter is simply a criminal scumbag who's taking advantage of a loophole in a law originally introduced to prevent slum landlords from forcibly evicting tenants.

Check the photo attached to this news article for en example of the sort of damage caused by "squatters": http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/7087
It's a super bad timing regarding recent "Window Resizer" extension snafu — this extension requires for some reason even more permissions, including activity and history browsing...
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I once spent a rather long time trying to get Linux to work like Windows, but in the end gave up because it still didn't "feel right" to me.

I think *nix has an awesome CLI, but dismal GUI options, while Windows is just the opposite.
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By 'worth' I mean 'ought to be compensated'.
The OS itself might not be broken (though I find 7 way better) but for some native app developpers like me the continued XP support is not welcome at all, since it means some of our customers will probably still not upgrade which means we still have to support them. And that means we cannot use all C++/C# features we want or have to resort to ugly workarounds. Just compiling C++ for XP means having to set a flag in Visual Studio, and if you want to do that for multiple projects automatically you've gotta do it system wide. Thats' not nice. Worse is .Net 4.5 is simply not supported at all, so no new goodies which are quite welcome.
Its certainly not for us to discuss this very thread given that argument.

But that's not the point.

Its almost like saying, if some one finds a clever way to cheat in an exam and manages to never get caught it must be perfectly acceptable.
And don't forget they're actually stripping out tons of features from the newer versions too, and in the process also making it require more resources at the same time.
The beauty of the US, compared to many places I've traveled, is the higher-than-average wages and lower-than-average prices.

This is why you can pick almost any suburb in America and see middle-class folks with giant houses filled with two cars and a mountain of junk made in China.
> I always feel like I'm at least seven or eight layers removed from anything I can relate to when I read about category theory.

I'll think, "Hey, let me check this out on Wikipedia..." and I'm six linked articles deep trying to understand the first paragraph of the original article, and I'm no closer to anything concrete.

I feel like that with most Wikipedia math articles.
One of the things that occurred to me was that flooding the market with cheap Android tablets/smartphones would be pretty interesting.

Even more interesting would be if they came w/ Chinese/South Korean sim cards w/ data plans - I assume that if you're close enough to the border you'd be able to get reception and you wouldn't have to worry so much about your data being intercepted on the NK network (I doubt they'd provide a data gateway anyway).

You could preload Kakaotalk/Webo accounts and like some sort of secure chat to communicate securely w/ the defector network. You could have some sort of anonymous/pseudonymous Twitter like app as well, although the most important thing is to recognize/warn people that it'd be completely infiltrated and not to post any identifying information. A mesh 4chan-like message board might be perfect.

You'd want to provide preloaded media (and like a dump of Korean Wikipedia?) and also have USB OTG adapter for those devices as well so they could easily load new pirated media... Heck, as long as those devices had MicroSD cards that'd make all that smuggling a heckuva lot easier.

Google says North Korea's population is only 25M people. That's tiny. At say $100/pop you could produce devices for say 20% of the population for $500M. You'd have to strike a balance of trickling in devices so it doesn't get immediately cracked down vs getting to that critical mass where so many people have them that it can't be.

Anyway, that sounds like a relatively cheap way to topple a pretty terrible regime/uplift a society, to me, but well, it's never been tried before.

Maybe double that price and include smuggling in some guns and ammo w/ the devices just in case it does come to a violent revolution though...
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Mugging is an act of violence. It violates the victims freedom of action and causes great damage.

Squatting is a non-violent act. It provides shelter to someone who didn't have it before. The owner of the shelter can be unaware of the fact that his property is being used for several months, emphasizing the lack of damage by the act.

Evicting a squatter, on the other hand, causes damage to the victim in fact, it removes a shelter from someone.

So mugging and squatting are two very different acts
> instead of vanilla JS in a project you want contributed to

Not sure what this means? If there is a existing project, it would probably be better to do JS. If you start a new project, or you want to change the language then you move forward with the new language and slowly replace or just keep using the old JS.

> (Oh, am I tired of Promises)

Insted of just adding Await and Defer, when you switch to ClojureScript, you will get full CSP semantics, full first class channels, essentially what Go offers on the server.

Check out this blog, it mostly talks about the difference between different ways of front end programming, callbacks, CSP and so on: http://swannodette.github.io/
I think invading is too strong a term here because it implies force and violence. As your link indicates, squatters can only move in to a building which is 'unoccupied'.
OK, so Dr. Knuth is alive and well, and reporting a bug. Is there more to this that I'm not seeing?
I also listen to these when I am coding. Repetitive techno-like music can be also good, it depends on the mood.
WoW, I'm an avid soundcloud user, and this may be the right time to make an account on Spotify (since it also has beautiful smartphone apps, unlike soundcloud)
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Fairly sure it's not shitty machines keeping XP alive... it's shitty custom software that only runs on XP and shitty IT departments.
If you've grown up with opera it probably fits into your culture. But if you're now much wealthier than your background (as is the case for many tech folk), better to spend that money on high-quality versions of what you like than try to ape the tastes of people as wealthy as you.
Number stations are always so creepy. Now I'm scared to get out of my room.
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It looks cool, but very expansive compared to Visual Web Ripper, which you pay way less for (but has to host yourself).
I think it's rather more limited that the Scottish version:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam#Right_to_roam_i...
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He doesn't even have his own email anymore and has to borrow someone else's?
Instead of wondering why he was paid that much, we should be discussing how to get from where we are, to where he is?
What does it take? Why is it that so few of us are doing that?
Reminds me of Comed-Tea in "Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality":

"If you drink it, something surprising is bound to happen which makes you spill it on yourself or someone else. But it's charmed to vanish just a few seconds later"
Lets consult the Oxford English Dictionary: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/109061?redirectedFrom=literall...

"c. colloq. Used to indicate that some (freq. conventional) metaphorical or hyperbolical expression is to be taken in the strongest admissible sense: ‘virtually, as good as’; (also) ‘completely, utterly, absolutely’.
Now one of the most common uses, although often considered irregular in standard English since it reverses the original sense of literally (‘not figuratively or metaphorically’)."

Of note the use by Twain: "1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer ii. 20 And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth."

You may not like this situation but it is way too late to complain about it.
It arguably became accepted practice after the compensation of top execs in publicly listed companies became public knowledge, after which said compensation skyrocketed as these execs suddenly had a drastically better bargaining position.

Whether they're worth it or not is another matter. But clearly boards tends to think they are.
Dr. Knuth doesn't do email quite like you might expect.

"My goal is to do this communication efficiently, in batch mode --- like, one day every three months."

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
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Tech workers funneling high wages into consumption (thereby raising prices) is precisely what all the people whining about the changing character of SF are complaining about.

Consumption simply does not reduce income inequality. All it does is reduce wealth inequality (since a dollar spent is a dollar not invested) while increasing consumption inequality. And consumption inequality is what most of the anti-tech activists are complaining about.
It's not as extensive as the Scottish version though. It basically just applies to government owned land (Forestry Commision, National Parks) and uncultivated moor/mountain land.
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And here I thought it was some technical explanations about how they can stream all that amount of data in so many places in the world.
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I don't think the author meant literally or exclusively the opera. The point was that people are spending money on vacuous things like the quality of toast they eat, rather than on meaningful and intellectually nourishing experiences.
This thirdhand piece of information comes courtesy of something my mother read in the autobiography (?) of a Japanese woman who came to the US some time in the past.

Supposedly, in the course of cleaning her new home, she pulled the piano away from the wall and was shocked to find that that part of it meant to sit flush with the wall looked completely different (different wood, say) than the rest of it. To her, the piano should be viewable from any angle and any direction, no matter how it was intended to be installed in the home. To the American manufacturer, the appearance of the piano was of course highly significant -- but only the appearance of the parts you could see.
Interesting. Does anyone know whether this applies to Spotify on Sonos?
I think that in the NK scenario, meeting offline would be one of the last things that would happen. Just being able to anonymously communicate with each other would be pretty revolutionary, as so much of the way the society functions is based on lies that unravel once people can access/share/discuss outside information.

It seems like once there's enough popular support, it'd be a lot easier - there are a lot more of the populace than the ruling class?

Cory Doctorow actually writes the most plausible scenario (and pitfalls) of bootstrapped online/offline coordination that I've read in Little Brother... based on how NK works, infiltration of any group, infiltration is probably a given. The real question would be whether the gov't could respond if the majority of the population were all conspiring in groups. Are there enough secret police to execute/arrest everyone all at once?