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It's definitely going to be interesting how things play out, and honestly I think China will adapt to the change far easier than the US will.

The US has major political dogma against communism and socialism. The only way out of this is going to be with major socialist programs. The only way to avoid civil unrest over unemployment rates will be literally paying people off. Basic income is inevitable.

The issue is, how long will companies be allowed to hold on to control. What happens when we start automating out jobs with AI. What happens when even the CEO is replaced, and investors are just AIs representing a portfolio. I find it highly doubtful the public will allow billions of dollars and control of corporations to sit in the hands of AIs with the intent of profiteering.

So how long until companies are taken over by the government. You said what happens when companies possess more power than the government, but I don't know any corporations with 10 aircraft carriers in operation. Eminent Domain seizures will be the way the government retains control.

How long after basic income would it take to see grocery stores become seen as a public utility? Or housing construction? When everyone can afford a house, we can't afford not giving people houses.

It's going to be interesting to see how much of our traditional practice's remain.
It does take some amazing images though. I can't think of any similarly portable alternative that can match it.
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You could make the same argument for most major cities in the world that have a strong developer community.
Well, so far, the general consensus seems to be to carry on as initially planned.
And presumably, they couldn't just ship the (still working) 32-bit executable because... politics.
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Spot on. Leica has made, and still makes, top notch prodcuts and I'm probably what you could call 'a fan', but some of the other Leica owners I speak to really seem to have lost all sense - remember those scenes where you have Donald Duck getting dollar signs in his eyes? Well imagine that, but with Leica signs instead :]
Not to mention Leicas were far more accessible in their heyday than they are now - there is a widespread misbelief that Leica has always been crazy-expensive, as a justification for their current prices.

The Leica M3 was $288 USD in 1955. That's $2560 in today's dollars. New Leica bodies are $7000.

The original pricing of the Leica, before they became a piece of jewelry, is in line with modern prosumer cameras, not the $7000 neurosurgeon wrist-decorations they are today.

Oh, and the 50mm f/2 Summicron was $159 in 1955 ($1400 today). They are now between $2400 and $8200.

I shoot a M6 also and have some pretty great, old glass. But modern Leicas are status items that are vastly overpriced for what they are.
Ok. Then my answer belongs to the first in the sub-tree. What I actually did not understand: What means TFA?
From an ideological standpoint, Labour policy has been very far from unionism for almost 20 years now, and there is an ongoing attempt to cut all remaining ties.
Do they not understand the internet provides free instant access to any news of that topic.

Doing the most lazy approach possible, google the title, will return hundreds very similar stories.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=More+Officers...
What about non-coercive force?

If someone scams your aging parents/grandparents into selling their house unfairly, do you think the government should stay out of it? After all, your parents/grandparents are the ones who willingly went ahead with the scam.

Do you consider monopolies a coercive force? If a local cable company (say, Comcast) holds a de facto monopoly over local internet, imposing high fees and bad service on customers, do you think the government should stay out of it? After all, no one is being compelled to buy internet; it's everyone's choice not to.
It looks like there were some layer composition issues on Chrome (nvidia gtx 780 on windows).
They are not buying the equipment; it is being gifted to them by the DoD.

It's like someone walked up to you and said: would you like a free hammer? And you think to yourself, I don't need one but hey! free hammer! So you take it. Then suddenly every problem starts looking like a nail...
Thanks for digging up those numbers. I was going to make a point about that, but couldn't find the original prices and didn't want to make any hand-wavy statements about how it used to be back in the 'old days' ;)
I've used one of these devices in my car for the last couple of years and have enjoyed really cheap car insurance as a result (variable based on my driving but usually $30-$35 CAD/month).

It is very true that if you are driving in rush hour traffic you have no choice but to appear to be a bad driver. The irony of this is that the accident happening in rush hour is probably minor, yet when I'm barrelling down the highway at a steady pace I appear to be a great driver whereas an accident would be very costly (fatal perhaps).

Also they normalize your infractions (sharp breaking, sharp acceleration, speeding, etc) by distance driven so long highway driving is even more beneficial (few infractions, long distances) than traffic jams (many infractions, short distances).
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Has anyone ever tried to push seriously to just have governments fund more open source software development? It just seems that open source software suffers from all the funding difficulties that go along with being a "public good" (in the economic sense). And there's a well-established mechanism for creating public goods: a government.
Why not? Intellectual property theft is a serious issue. If I can't impose an enforcement mechanism on your computing systems, that property is in danger of theft or misuse.
A quote: "Perfect White Pages"

This is doubtful. A comic book printed in 1938 on newsprint, a paper notorious for its acid content, is unlikely to have white pages 76 years later.
Microsoft beat you to it: http://hover.ie/
Ugh, newspapers. Thanks.
Established companies are notoriously bad at the pace at which they respond to users - so don't worry about the fast that you have an established company entering the space.

The bigger challenge in my opinion is that this is a two sided market (and building such business is very hard).
The fax number? How about that UUCP email address.

Kind of sad to see all those PC clones on desks.
I think I mis-spoke. I didn't really mean "rant", I meant "nit-pick". It's akin to the frequent complaints I hear about `len()` being a function rather than a method on `list` and `str` types.

This internal detail you focused on solves real problems; it's also a wart internally. OK, we get it. It's also not a hugely important wart, IMO. I don't think it's holding Python back.

But, like I said, I think the article was an interesting walkthrough of the internals. I enjoyed it overall :)
I'm a big supporter of Sen. Wyden, but I feel like he's mainly talk, not action.

As a Senator, he holds one of the most powerful positions in the US. If he wanted to, he could cause real trouble; as an example, by putting a hold on all apointments by the Obama administration. (I'm sure there are more ways to make a point in the Senate).

But he doesn't. Yes, he does bring some of the problems to light; but I wish he'd lace up and actually do something drastic to make the administration change its ways.
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The pinball game, by the way, is a stripped version of Maxis Full Tilt! Pinball. I had a copy of the game bundled with some other Maxis game.

That said, I had several other pinball games at the time and I thought that Full Tilt! was one of the worst ones, so I don't understand the love that surrounds it.
> I almost get the sense that upper middle class nerds have no idea how most of society actually operates and how strong a position solid income puts you in.

Much truth to this. Also much truth that pointing out to HN that most of them have no idea how the world really works is rarely useful.
This seems like one of those things that should've existed from the very start.
I like it but if you can give some more detailed examples on complex issues, it would be much better. :)
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1. Excercise. The more variety, the better. Excercise supports nuerogenisis.
2. Proper diet. Can't believe how much smarter I became in my 40's when I actually started eating vegetables, seeds, nuts, leafy greens, fish, etc.
3. Sleep
4. Hydration
5. Socialize

Lots of research for all of the above, but experiance is the best teacher.
> Though I agree with your basic argument, it must be noted that you have a choice to fork Firefox. You cannot do that with Chrome.

Except that in reality, no, you don't. Except if you are a team. And have funding. No one can possibly go through all those changes and apply them in a clean manner while having compatibility in mind. And even if that happens (waterfox), I (as a user) cannot trust them because I (and many more) don't have the time to search through all the commits to see what the fork is _actually_ doing (which in reality is just wasting time).

From one hand, I actually love how firefox is open and transparent and I trully believe the main devs and the whole project deserves so much more, but at the same time I consider many of their choices very poor and without thought.
Ask HN: What are some optimal places to live in NYC for 1-3 months?
I am planning to visit NY for 1-3 months while working on my startup and doing some contract work.

Now, what I was wondering is what would be the best place for me to live in terms of housing costs, startup co-working places, proximity to cool places (nice bars, restaurants, music venues), and overall interesting-ness of the area.

I'm not too familiar with NY, but heard Bushwick and Alphabet are interesting places to live that aren't too heavy on the wallet.

I've been looking on airbnb, but most don't offer monthly rates. Any suggestions or ideas?

Oh and if anyone is interested in getting together for drinks sometime, don't hesitate to drop me a line! My email is in my HN profile.
Anyone here by chance who has contacts at Sierra Entertainment? I'm reverse engineering good old EarthSiege 2 and could use some help from its creators :)
On the payments side:

Recurly might be what you're looking for. Though Stripe, Braintree, and Paypal all have options for subscription billing.

If you're looking for a more holistic CMS/solution:

Shopify seems popular (I believe they partnered with RecurHub to offer subscription billing). In my opinion SquareSpace offers the nicest designs/templates, but I'm not sure if they let you setup subscriptions or not.
The fact that the Commons can steamroll the Lords means the two aren't co-equal in power -- if they always did so, it would mean that the Lords had no legislative power, not merely the significantly-less-than-half of the legislative power that they actually have had since the early 20th century.
You could, although in Seattle they'd be joining Amazon (HQ), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and Adobe (among many others). I don't know how many other cities can claim all of those companies having a significant presence there.
Maybe add 2012 to the title?
Neither of this looks anything like the Hover! that actually came on the Windows 95 CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQa3OM6zBJ4
I agree with your general point, though I disagree with the history.

Japanese SLRs wiped the floor with Leica - Leica's competition wasn't originally with SLRs, it was with more cumbersome "portable" cameras of their time - TLRs. Leica was the first major 35mm player to actually make the cameras usable with the featureset professionals wanted.

Leica's Golden Age was in an era where 35mm SLRs didn't exist. SLRs like the Nikon F3 were in fact the cameras that ultimately toppled Leica from their throne.

People loved the WYSIWYG SLRs, they were cheaper to manufacture, and had lower maintenance requirements (rangefinders drift over time/use). Even pros practically completely switched over by the 80s - look at the cameras being used by journalists in the 50s vs. the 80s and you'll see a complete collapse of Leica.

Yeah, Leica was an original innovator who sat on their asses and got disrupted - but the SLR was the disruptor, not really electronics/CS.

That said, the electronics/CS component of it did contribute. After all, the M cameras didn't get an aperture priority mode until 2002. I'm not sure when Av mode was invented, but the Canon AE-1P brought it to the mainstream in 1981. Leica was literally 20 years late.
On a side note, I hope flash dies a painful and quick death.
That works! Thanks! Looking forward to the next round of improvements.
You have strong points. I agree with you about Python 3 "not cutting it" in terms of offering some fundamentally new stuff. But I also think there is something admirable in that.

You mention "a good async story" -- that has already been addressed with asyncio. A better multi-processing API has also been addressed in the concurrent.futures module. It's true that "multi-core" is still unsolved in Python, but most practitioners work around this problem by just using process-oriented parallelism instead.

Nonetheless, the frequent complaints about multi-core haven't fallen on deaf ears; they will probably come next! It's pretty much the primary focus of the pypy project and recent development work has begun on a Software Transactional Memory implementation that would remove the GIL.

GvR at PyCon 2014 said that he thinks pypy is the future of core Python development -- and that at some point in the future, pypy might become the reference implementation rather than CPython.

So, to conclude, I agree with your points, but progress is already advancing on many of the fronts you are demanding from the community.
It's not at all that. First of all, a good therapist will challenge their client to get out of their comfort zone and do things they would otherwise be uncomfortable doing. Second, you don't have to do anything as an adult, let alone pay someone.

What therapy is is a professional service. You go to a lawyer because you do not understand the law, and either have a problem now or wish to avoid problems later by changing your behavior. You go to a doctor because you do not understand your body, and either have a problem now or wish to avoid problems later by changing your behavior. You go to a therapist because you do not understand your unconscious, and either have a problem now or wish to avoid problems later by changing your behavior.

The main difference is that most people in developed nations today understand that they do not know know the law and do not understand the intricacies of their body. The idea that we don't understand our unconscious is a much newer development, and it's still very disquieting for most people. We'd like to believe that we are consciously aware of everything we do - but there's ample evidence that that's not the case, and people sabotage themselves without understanding that's what they're doing all the time.
The last 4 digits of the HK fax number is 1541, which was the model number for the C64 external disk drive. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1541)
> Just use a little sense... If you see some old lady get robbed, that's not coming back on you.

Unfortunately, "just use a little sense" may be dangerous advice. Here's a story from earlier this year about a guy who called 911 when he came across an injured person lying in the street. As thanks for his trouble, he was assaulted by police, arrested, and spent twelve hours in jail -- mostly in solitary confinement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7233730
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Front-end development is easier if (a) they are a designer (b) they know a designer. HTML, CSS and JavaScript are easy, but making a design is very hard.
Asking the first question is as silly as asking whether physics or chemistry is harder. It's a vague and loaded question that will be answered through a foggy personal lens of experience.

And asking which is more "fun and joy" is as silly as expecting an insightful answer as to whether football or soccer is more awesome.

My one piece of practical advice: learn JavaScript. With its massively growing presence on the backend, it's on of the few cross-cutting skills you can have in web dev.
That is absurd. I think I paid about $900/month for an 800 square foot apartment back in the late 90s. The situation today is probably exacerbated by Amazon's move to South Lake Union. But whatever the case, it definitely doesn't sound affordable.
To build anything non-trivial you really need both, but the frontend is generally easier to start out with and get enough visual feedback to motivate you to go deeper and deeper into the stack. The reverse is far more difficult for most people.

As you go deeper and get exposed to more concepts, it's only natural to specialize in either backend or frontend.
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Their Austin location is where they do their CPU design (or at least large parts of it), from what I've heard.
I'd say back-end. The front-end of any software no matter how complex it is it will always run on a single device, while a scalable back-end could imply a complex architecture composed of multiple components running across multiple servers, all working together to serve the front-end.
The Leica T has an outdated Sony sensor they used in one of their lower end mirrorless cameras (NEX 5). The NEX 5 was even more portable and you can use a large number of first party lenses and use many other brands via converters.

It's not clear that the Leica T's image quality is any better than an NEX 5, and I would expect the more recent Sony cameras to be better image wise. The Sony A7 would give you a newer, larger sensor for less.
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Breaking the print statement is probably a large reason for lack of adoption. It used to be much more convenient. They've lost sight of 'practicality beats purity'. What used to be print a,b,c is now print(a + " " + b + " " + c), or using the string formatting method. What used to be

print linewithnonewline,

with the comma indicating the lack of newline, now has to be done through print(line, end=""). Which is more practical and pythonic?
Many other cities have lots of really smart people. Sydney? London? Berlin?

Less competition too...
I think this is a bad comparison, because len() vs. foo.len() is just syntax, and isolated syntax at that. It's valuable to get syntax right, but this particular decision doesn't really impact anything outside of itself.

In contrast, the article suggests that the implementation of method dispatch slots (not __slots__!) actually constraints the optimizations you can make.

I get that you're trying to suggest that they're both small, but I think that this analogy only serves to confuse things.
Ignoring POSIX has its own pains.

The only way to maintain sanity is to use an abstraction like libev (or libevent) - when you find a bug, report it upstream and roll your own builds till it gets into CentOS.

Like the memcached proxy (Moxi) used a patched libevent to work fast (though the main server was rewritten in Golang - zBase).
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It's certainly cool, but it is kind of opposite to the whole idea of having Interface Builder in the first place.
While that newspaper has a decent reputation, that article is low on information and contains a lot of crap. One statement states that it took ages to provide a business mobile, because "first an external mail server needed to be provided".
That's not Linux related, that's random whining from a non-technical guy..

(The following argument, complaining about a missing alternative to Outlook might have some merit, alternatives exist but aren't quite there yet imo)
The first batch of photos are from Seattle (around the market). I don't recognize the second city, but it appears to be somewhere in Europe.
I find this article strangely unnecessarily specific without justification. Why not just say All Good Companies Should Open an Office In Every Major City?

What is so special about Apple and Seattle that notably that company should open an office in that city?
> If you called each and every one of them, do you think you could get a few interested in working with you on a trial basis?

This is a smart play, market validation. Your system solves a problem for the heads of Talent Acquisition and Human Resources. But a CTO/CIO might be the true economic buyer.
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Very brief summary of the article:

- Second Mayor Josef Schmid (CSU, conservative): "Every department I talk to reports user complaints. Our employees are suffering. The original decision to switch to Linux was politically motivated. We feel that Linux is not cheaper for us, because it requires a lot of software development. We're missing a program to handle email, calendar, and contacts in one place. The city will get an opinion from an independent panel of experts."

- First Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD, social democrat): "Linux software sometimes trails behind Windows software."

- Sabine Nallinger (Green Party): "Data exchange with government agencies outside of Munich does not work well."
Dart is awesome! I hope they will come up with something that fixes all HTML & CSS warts as well.

Don't tell me technology doesn't thrive on competition. Pigeonholing everyone into same set of legacy languages is simply not OK! (no transpiling suggestions please - it's crap)
No thank you. Plus, you just know that sooner or later, this data will be used by law enforcement.
Yeah but the more advanced fields of physics like quantum mechanics are way harder than anything in chemistry. It's actually a good analogy though, they are pretty similar in difficulty at the beginner through intermediate levels, but once you get into the advanced stuff they begin to differentiate.
There's a very well-defined interface between CPU and software; the instruction set. Sure, they do need to talk (figure out clever ways to optimize the whole stack), but not every 10 minutes.

I think it's quite smart to put all software engineering in one physical location. Physical distance kills cooperation so badly :/.
I am reminded of Yeats:

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
It would be interesting to understand what the complainss from users actually are. The only actual problem they talk about is data exchange with the "outside world" - which can be big enough, but is no fault of Linux.
Begin with a problem then start with the thing that your users will see and work your way down the stack. New students enjoy the immediate gratification from changing a color, moving things around on the browser, or animating a great looking turtle. I recommending having a problem to work within as it provides constraints and a set of mini goals. "I need to take user input" then becomes "I need to process user input" then becomes "I need to put this user input somewhere" and once your friend visits each part of the stack, he can decide where he wants to spend time.

I didn't answer the "fun" part because it's not so great a leading indicator of career direction. Both sides have significant depth and breadth in terms of technical challenges and skill.
You're assuming I am not aware why the system works the way it does currently which is incorrect. I outlined what a Python could look like, not what I want the CPython guys to implement. I am perfectly aware that this is not going to happen.