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If you're particularly worried about a specific post (for instance, you're uncertain of the right word when there are several words with similar pronunciations/spellings, or it's just longer than a normal post), I'd say just ask in that post. And regarding off-topic conversations, I say "meh". Most threads get derailed by far less productive side-discussions. I usually like to tuck corrections into actual conversation anyways. Respond normally, and then as an aside (may be first or at the end) comment on the correct spelling or usage of a word.
Dumbphone ought to be an adroid mod. I'd work on it.
You, on the other hand, are amazing.

The entire post is satire. Guess you missed that.
The biggest part of the story, somewhat hidden, is that only after expert intervention can a charge for $1,400 be reduced to $112.

But he was shocked when the pharmacy said he would have to pay $1,400
out of pocket for a 90-day supply. ...

"...If I've got to pay $1,000 more dollars for drugs ... then it's
not worth it," he said.

Fortunately, Hurd called his doctor and was able to switch to a
cheaper brand of insulin and ended up paying only $112.

Please do glance at http://www.truecostofhealthcare.org/
As much as I dont think it will happen, I would love to hear Graydon Hoare speak on the matter. As a fairly high profile (creator of Rust) Mozilla developer that has spoken out against Mozilla in the past about its policies regarding workplace harrassment and discrimination, I wonder if he is as concerned as many of the HN commenters here.
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I totally agree.

The reason I'm referring it "so called" is because I'm an engineer who didn't read any material on the subject. I don't have enough knowledge to assume it's fact or not. And I don't think it's right to believe anything without reading varied sources.

And the denial should be taken as a political issue that is decided and said by government.

I pointed it, because it's not right to assume all Turkish people think the "armenian genocide" is fictual, in the same way not all the Turkish people want to block Twitter or Google DNS.
I understand your posture and I totally support gay marriage, but you're mixing politics with work, and you're taking a personal issue to a professional level. It's Brendan Eich that supported the prop 8, not Mozilla. That's a very very very VERY unprofessional stance. From now on I will be very careful in buying/getting anything from your company because of huge lack of professionalism being shown here.

This said, I wish you the best luck in your personal life and I hope you get that gay marriage bill ASAP! All my support from Morocco!
That's not blackmail ... "wash you hands or I'll tell your sister that you killed her pet fish" ... is blackmail. What your describing is more like extortion.
The uncontrollable part of the cost come from Visa/Mastercard/Amex. Until these are decreased, fees will not drop significantly.
Generally speaking, the more culturally and economically homogeneous a group is, the less painful and divisive (and more echo-chambery, of course) discussing national politics is. You have to keep in mind that "national politics" in the US has largely devolved into a list of wedge issues in most people's minds; most of the things people might be able to find common ground on isn't even part of the national political debate and gets handled by either local government or the Federal civil service bureaucracy.

There are neighborhoods which are fairly uniform in their political leanings where politics is commonly discussed, mostly in the "us-vs-them, go us, evil them" way; pretty reminiscent of some religions, actually. There are families like that too.

There are other neighborhoods, and families, where having that sort of discussion all the time would mostly serve to make people upset at each other, precisely because it would so quickly devolve into an "us-vs-them" argument but with both sides represented. People generally handle this by either being miserable and fighting all the time or by agreeing to disagree and moving on with all the many other aspects of life that don't involve Federal government intervention. Does it really seem bizarre to you that people would pick the latter over the former?

> Do you never talk about politics with people who's views you disagree with?

It depends on the views, the person, and what the point would be. Generally talking about positions people decided on with their brains is worthwhile. Talking about positions people decided on with their guts is less likely to be so. Figuring out which is which can be hard.

> What the hell do you talk about, the weather?

Well, some people handle this by self-segregating in echo chambers and then "discussing politics". ;)

For me personally, I do talk to people about the weather, books I or they have read recently, local politics, parenting, food.... National politics is pretty far down the list of things that are interesting to talk about with most people I end up talking to.
You are making a lot of assumption about how time might be used, nut I will ignore that because I have no clue if that is what really happens.

Let me repeat my point clearly. All clocks will drift away from the actual time. All the physics involved and measurements done are not depended on the current time - they will work the same at 14:07 as they do at 23:51 and they will therefore also work the same when the clock of the system drifted away from the actual time and believes it is 12:34 while it is 12:35. Important is only that all parts of the system agree on what the current time is and that the clock does not drift at such an high rate that all measurements and calculations done during a brief period of time become invalid, i.e. the clock should not report that it took two seconds for the incoming missile to travel one kilometer while it took only one second.

And the article gave the impression - at least to me - that the failure was caused because the system believed to be up for 100 hours while it was up for 100 hours and 340 milliseconds longer due to an imperfect representation of one tenth of a second. This makes no sense and is not what caused the failure. The failure was caused - as detailed in the other linked article - because one part of the system believed to be up for 100 hours while another part of the system performed more precise time conversions and knew that it was up for 100 hours and 340 milliseconds and this time difference between two parts of the system caused the failure.

For example one part of the system may have decided that the missile should be launched at 12:00:00.000 and the system responsible for doing so did that according to its clock but because of the time difference it was at 12:00:00.340 according to the clock of the system that made the decision.
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We are in the process of launching a service that would utilize a marketplace feature and currently looking into options available. I am wondering how is Stripe Marketplace different compared to Balanced marketplace with the escrow feature. I believe the escrow functionality is pretty much the same with what Stripe has to offer as "Dashboard?
His donation re Prop8 quite literally made international news, which is why it's on his Wikipedia article. It's probably the thing his name is known for outside tech circles.
If they are promoted to CEO, then... yes. Hence why we were building apps for it knowing full-well that he was a homophobic CTO. CEO is a whole other level, and was our personal line.
Also - thank you for the new Twitter bio. You've motivated me to be a better person. I shall never forget you Mr. 5-day old HN account...
I find it hard to evaluate something with an open mind when the first thing I see is a statement such as "The Web is Broken", when the web is successfully used by billions on a daily basis, including that very webpage.

I'd rather skip the hyperbole and just get to the value proposition.
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"If Eich supported Prop 8 in California, then clearly he's a homophobic tool of the Koch Brothers."

The Koch Brothers have given money to support gay marriage. If you intend to slander people at least be truthful on what they support or don't support.
There's a difference between petty bikeshedding politics between republicans and democrats and world changing, need-to-be-done politics.
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Oppression is a very strong, and inappropriate word here. It is a boycott of the products that are led by someone who has put effort into doing something you are against. CEO is more than just another employee. They are the leader, the face of the company.
"By using Arabic numerals you are helping terrorists."

As long as Mozilla products do not feature a "Not to be used by gays" warning, whatever Eich does in his time is irrelevant. He's free to spend his money in any way he likes. What prevented the authors of this article to spend $1000 to counterbalance Eich's contribution if they are so concerned?
Fair enough I could see Apple doing this. Although if batteries last as long as indicated here they would have to up the cost nearly twice as much per battery to keep profits steady.
Would you also reject Tomas Jefferson as a founding father of America because he owned slaves? Should Martin Luther King also be rejected as an icon of the civil rights movement because he plagiarized material and had extramarital affairs with women. What people do or think in their personal lives and the value they add to a company are two different things. What about Nelson Mandella? Bill Clinton? Or all the other men with weaknesses, sins, mistakes, and flaws?

Sit down with me for 5 minutes and I'll find a whole bunch of personal things about you I don't like either, but should that affect weather or not I employ you?
Why do we need manned missions, is there something a drone can't do?
How is it "joining" the winter batch? Isn't that batch just about done now?
Any timeline on when we can use the transfers API to send to bank accounts outside the US?
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The purpose of the test is to figure out what direction to go in in order to improve the conversion rate.

If I understand you right, you question the reason you generally control the variables and want to figure out why something converts better than something else and not just observe the results.

Well, firstly, if you figure out what exactly people like about one design versus another, it's easier to reproduce a higher conversion rate in other parts of your site. It also goes towards a further understanding of your customer and what exactly they want from you. If you have a bunch of services on a page and you change several of the offerings at once, as well as the content describing the services and the pictures displayed with them, observing a jump in conversion as you do so, what does that tell you?

Do people not want some of the services you offered before? Not necessarily. Do they like the new photos, or does the copy better explain the services? Or is it that they like some of the new services listed? Do they like all of them, or just like some so much it doesn't matter that the others are there?

What if you change your price at the same time you change the design of your page and see conversion drop. Was it wrong to change your price, or was the redesign wrong?

Controlling your variables makes it so that you don't have to go back to answer all these questions. You get a better gradual understanding of your customer and can more accurately predict performance changes based on future redesign, making you more likely to increase conversion with each new test.
The average salary for a "software developer, applications" in San Francisco is about $111K a year. In San Jose, it's a bit higher, at 116K a year.

http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-developer...

The median price for a 3br house in SF is (I used zillow's numbers for this) 1.1Mil.

(btw, check the pay for the other "top 10" professions in high cost areas like SF. It does make economic sense for top students with good options to choose other fields).
CloudFlare aren't the Free Speech Police. It's clearly not their job to guarantee everyone's right to free speech. However, it would appear that they have decided that they will not deny their customers their right to free speech unless they're breaking the law. I respect that approach.

You clearly don't and you're entitled to your opinion.
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Ah they look pretty good, I guess the API issue is with putting them in the main window? I can't blame Google for that choice, but the Firefox one looks a lot neater.

To be honest I use Chrome most of the time. My laptop's not particularly great and tends to slow to a crawl to tell me to control my tabs long before I get to a major problem. That's not to say I manage them well, I rely a lot on Chrome's history search and recent tabs, I close a lot of tabs I wish I hadn't.. the slow down really annoys me.

I answered your poll btw, looking forward to seeing what you come up with! :)
Interesting. This month I got my first ever smartphone, and only because I found out about Republic Wireless and their $10/month plan with unlimited talk/text everywhere, but data on wifi only, using the awesome Moto X.

So now I can go for a walk/bike ride/drive and be off the grid for an hour or two, but I'm never far from a wifi network if I need it. I also save a lot of money each month.

To me, this is the best of both worlds.
An equally relevant link to Eich's response to the backlash: https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/community-and-diversity/
Those responses so well sum up the modern internet.

"Sure someone donated a thousand dollars to taking away the basic civil rights of others, no problem. Glad he was being so "christian" in his love of all others, except gays, since we all know they aren't people who deserve rights."

"But man, did you see that guy who made a tweet about how he was offended by this??? This has turned into a Christian hating, bigoted witch hunt!"
How is this different from my HyperJuice? That gives me 50Whr, too, and also has a USB port. It pretty much doubled the life of my Air, and slightly less for my 13" rMBP (Haswell i5, with 16GB).
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The point is, at least in the case of Twitter, they switched from Ruby to Java/Scala because they needed performance. Before that you could have been forgiven for thinking twitter was just a static page displaying the fail whale.
Irony at its best.
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Calling this a "form of oppression" is a bit silly. How are Brendan Eich's rights being denied here? How is Brendan being prevented from acting on his own beliefs?

These two people decided that they don't want to associate with an organization where the CEO is, in their opinion, anti-gay. That's entirely within their rights, isn't it?

As others in the thread said, action have consequences. One consequence of being publicly perceived as anti-gay is that gay people and their supporters may not want to associate with you.
I think the word "never" should never be used for any problem that could be solved algorithmically.

There is no doubt about that we'll have robotic cars. But when, thats a million dollar question.
I don't get it, is this just native apps in some sort of sandbox?

Creative marketing though, "Personal Cloud Platform".
Speaking out against bigotry is not 'oppression.'
I super disagree that this is a form of oppression. They're a small company who made a mobile game, and they're voicing their disapproval peacefully. Calling this 'oppression' is pretty melodramatic.
And Mozilla chose Brendan Eich to represent them as CEO. There is a distinct difference between being an employee, and being the CEO.
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I am first year electronic engineering student from Poland. I really like web development, had worked on handful of small projects and I feel I could start doing software for local customers.

I have moved in here six months ago, currently I have no business contacts, except for rather large network of software engineering students.

Dear HN, where should I start to get at least mildly successful?
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I think you're right that this is the actual question. Perhaps to my original posts detriment, there obviously does come a time when holding a particular position on an issue is unacceptable. For example, as pointed out many times here, being against interracial marriage in modern times.

I think in America the issue hasn't crossed over yet, but those in favor of gay marriage wish it has, because it's always nice to be on the superior side, and makes the argument much easier when you can just call your opponent a few names to send them scurrying away. Essentially, those who agree with gay marriage ran out of patience with those who disagree. I think on 'live' political issues like the gay marriage debate, this is bad.

I also think those against gay marriage would do better if making an honest argument about their reasoning. For example: "Gay marriage is morally wrong in my opinion, and I believe the government should legislate on moral sexual issues." It's legitimate to think a government can and should have the authority to legislate on moral issues.
Not counting the salaries of the operational team.
I feel like YC would have enough snake oil radar to detect if this was bogus before backing them. They don't back just anyone after all.
Cigarettes are pretty good too, as a matter of fact there are more things that I miss from my tobacco days than from my smartphone days.

I was obviously exaggerating, still I think a better objection to myself would be that smartphones are not as bad for your health.
No way. It would require poring through so much more raw data to take raw tcp traffic, structure it somehow and pull out email messages (option a). Compare that against going through structured data in the gmail storage system (option b). Option B is much, much simpler.
>Being able to say NO is not a matter of where you work, but rather one of actually saying NO.

That's been my experience. Companies will push and push until you say no. After that they may not give you 30% raises every year, but they're not going to fire a productive employee who refuses to put in long hours.
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If a categories feature existed , what types of categories would you see Hacker News having?
I hope I understand you wrong because it seems "acknowledgement", "money" and "excuses" makes a genocide ok.

And I don't imply it as not a fact, I imply mine knowledge doesn't have enough variance on the issue and being a EU member doesn't require clean records.

Turkey is not a follower of Ottoman Empire, it's a modernization and revolution product of it.

This deserves an equal judgement as numerous other countries with violent histories already have.
> What prevented the authors of this article to spend $1000 to counterbalance Eich's contribution if they are so concerned?

Outrage is cheaper and gets more attention. Kinda like when a toddler throws a tantrum.
Sure. What does that have to do with what I said?
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But what if you are worried about governments reading your email? Getting your own server won't help you in that case.
And, none of that is from the post you replied to; it is from my first post two levels up. The post you replied to is the one where I pointed out that my claim that it feels "sloppy" is based not merely on a few failed installs but also on a whole lot of bugs that have nothing to do with the hardware. Why you would reply to that and imply that it was my fault for not researching the hardware I was purchasing is a mystery to me. Your post would have made some sense (if you ignore the fact that I already stated that the hardware was certified for Ubuntu) in response to my first post, but seems really odd where you chose to put it.

> I can't see anything that you mentioned what wasn't hardware related.

I listed five bugs that have nothing to do with hardware, and you didn't address any of them. I really think you replied to the wrong post.
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Anecdotally, I see few people replacing their apple device (for an other one) because of battery life, and conversely stories of apple stores replacing batteries/devices because of battery life issues are regular.

All in all, I don't think they'd care. Their biggest business these days is phone & tablet, and battery life (and the failure thereof) is not the primary upgrade driver.
It's like when in the sixties the army prepared a report trying to asses a risk of an accidental nuclear detonation. They have concluded that since no such detonation ever occurred, the risk is 0%.
Gotta be extreme to get any attention. At least give Brendan a way out other than stepping down. Maybe he will apologize and try to make amends in light of his new responsibility.
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Thanks, and sorry about the misinformation. I got my info from http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/, which was the first result for a search for "Macbook Pro dimensions". Didn't realize that was apparently obsolete info.
> That's a very very very VERY unprofessional stance.

I do not recognise this definition of professionalism, and am happy to be called unprofessional if it is the accepted one.

Mozilla is an organisation that is dependent on community goodwill and support, and if the person they choose as a figurehead is one who has taken direct action to alienate a large segment of that community, then it seems to me entirely proper for that community to react as they see fit.
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The Nokia 515 is pretty good design-wise. The only problem is that it has some support for email (even Exchange).
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Anxiously awaiting Aaron Greenspan's inevitable troll-sesh on this thread :D
WTF are you talking about? TRIM refers to only one thing: the ATA TRIM command that gets sent to the drive by the OS. TRIM isn't the same as garbage collection or wear levelling, though it makes it easier for the SSD to do both. It is however completely unnecessary for the drive and filesystem to work together to correctly store data. It's just a performance hint, and one that isn't even that important for many drives and workloads.
It's like CoreOS, but designed for your own personal server instead of some massive cloud provider.
I agree that the copy is quite off-putting (not just the "web is broken" bit), but damn if I'm not intrigued by the concept.
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I think they will reserve 10.0 for when logical replication is done.
And then we find it shocking when companies do amoral things. Maybe more people should care whether they're run by moral people.
I've thought for a while that an interesting question is, "What would be the perfect way to deploy an open-source, distributed twitter/facebook/whatever replacement, where you run your own server and own your own data?"

Docker seems like a great step: give people a docker container image, and they can spin it up and hit a web interface to configure it with almost no extra knowledge needed.

Sandstorm seems like a great step too: now you can imagine a network of applications/plugins that know how to talk to each other, but all run on the user's server. And it can be made very friendly to non-techies. Nice work.
Great success story. @matevzpetek would you mind sharing more detailed steps on how you seeded the app at Santa Clara University? Impressive stats - Inside 4 weeks, 30% of the University’s students – 1,200 students – signed up for Povio