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What does the year have to do with it? 2014 isn't the year Google fixed Android fragmentation. It isn't the year it managed to get OEMs and carriers to start shipping timely OS updates. It isn't the year Android users started actually buying stuff. I'm an Android user, so I'm just as frustrated by it as you, but it's a problem inherent to Android, not to the developers.
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"Protect marine wildlife" is not the same thing as "ban harvesting of a species that is not endangered."
I bet if I said that 14% of the US population drinks alcohol, you'd say it was way too low.

What about your "basic math" argument applies to pot but not alcohol?
It was brought by the Canadian forces, but open to all. (the Germans brought some weird commercial PX; the French had a nice cafe; the US brought BK/Pizza Hut and a clone of starbucks, Green Beans Coffee). It's the only TH I've ever visited, and was pretty good. (I preferred the kebab shop, though.)

http://www.timhortons.com/us/en/corporate/tim-hortons-kandah...
You are detailing a consequence of an international crisis, not so much some novel concept in the US.

This problem is also starting to show up in the EU, since there is pressure to adopt monolithic policies across member states.

But the concept is not complicated - you should give people mobility, so that they can go wherever there are policies they most agree with. That is it.

The problem is that international mobility is crippled by bureaucratic immigration policies in addition to the classic cultural and language barriers. Thus, postulating that states should be more independent in their policies is right, but it needs to acknowledge that fundamentally it does not matter if it is states in a country or individual countries or something like city states or homesteading, all that is required is the ability for individuals to migrate where their ideologies and the states match.

And the modern world is often simultaneously the best and worst time for such mobility. In terms of real physical barriers, there are pretty much none - flight has advanced sufficiently it is not prohibitive in cost for many people in the world to realistically save up enough to fly anywhere else. Simultaneously, in the past it was much easier to just "cross boarders", where the bureaucracy and monitoring of citizenship was much reduced.

Hopefully we progress to minimize or remove the latter, because it is the best outcome for everyone except those who want to prevent mobility to hold power over groups of people who would not stay if they had a choice.
Chinese lanterns from a cruise ship maybe. Someone should check to see if any were in the area.
I'm confused. So is this the same technology/project, or are they completely different?
Also, Netflix now works natively in Linux if you just change your user agent to Windows.
This is perfectly sensible, and exactly what I was looking for. It chooses the most relevant and least confusing identifier for the context it was used in. The question then becomes, "Is this acceptable to the transgender community?" and "Is this in common use?"
Read the whole post, everything sucks. It is Salinger + PK Dick + Vonnegut + Allan Watts.
I don't think they mean literally a hologram. As far as I can tell, they're checking to see if the universe is actually a 2d sheet like an infinitely thin piece of paper. It's like a computer game displayed in 3d, but all the data exists in a 2 dimensional structure (ram).

Or maybe I just don't get it at all. (I know next to nothing about quantum theory)
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Some prisoners don't even have access to books... [1]

It reminds of an inmate diary I read some time ago (he was in a French prison). Not only he didn't have access to books. But even clean underwear or blankets were luxury items. I think he could only shower once or twice a week. I can't find the link anymore.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/24/ban-books-pri...
> which is very bad and opens articles in default browser or embedded lynx browser inside Emacs.

The readme implies you can use `t` to open inside emacs. Did that not work?
What I like about the project is that it is written in JavaScript and open source.

But this:

a Sublime-like file sidebar

You could as well say, a VIM like sidebar if you install the proper plugin. There is nothing "Sublime-like" about a sidebar, TextMate had this earlier, other editors too.

What is with the proliferation of these "Sublime-like" editors lately ? Can't they just stand on their own ? This really looks like a nice project and I don't see the need to pitch it with "Sublime like" features.

Also, I assume that a "Sublime-like" editor has at least some of the Sublime Text plugin capabilities. I've seen no mention of plugins on the project page.

Love this quote too:

... many other features that will make you leave nano, vim, and emacs behind
I have not read the full article (pay wall), but I have definitely experienced this in professional settings. I'd be interested to hear other people's thoughts on this, especially with startup's desire to build "killer teams"!
This is so freakin cool. I assume you will receive a lot of criticism from VIM die-hards for your key bindings. But I love it.

Good job!
Neither do the Sublime Text developers; even the main release of Sublime Text 3 is listed as beta, and the download link on the front page of their website is still Sublime Text 2.
The law says that opiates are legal to use medically if the right conditions are fulfilled. The law provides no legal uses for marijuana. That's why cancer and surgery patients don't get thrown in jail for using opiates.

If you're asking about the logic behind the law, don't. Looking for logic in politics is a fast way to the crazy house.
What? The connection between gmail.com and outlook.com is exactly what the GP is talking about.

I agree that user confusion might result in a false sense of security, but it's ridiculous to assert that because there may be other weak links that "there's very little utility" to ensuring that email is sent over an encrypted connection between servers. In fact you could make the same claim about the TLS lock icon in the browser, as all you know is you have a secure connection to that server, you have no idea how they're actually treating the data you send to them.

I like the GP's idea. Have a little secure red/green based on an attempt to negotiate a connection with the destination server(s) while you're writing the email, then, if the server says it supports encryption, only send the email over an encrypted connection, else show an error message of some sort. Not for all users at first, maybe, but SMTP over TLS is obviously getting common enough now that it should be more or less required soon.
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A fascinating document, thank you for the link. As a Canadian, I'm quite disturbed by these numbers, since the "trickle-down" theory that these tax rates are based on have been proven false by Thomas Piketty's work.

Ironically, McDonald's and a few other large corporations have recently been in the spotlight for hiring Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) in urban areas with very high unemployment rates.

The Canadian tax payer is beginning to understand that giving corporations a free pass to make outsize profits doesn't help them in the slightest. Canadian income tax is comparable to NY state, but apparently our oligarchs get a free pass (7.2% effective income tax!).

Truly absurd.
They're not saying the universe is a light hologram like the one on your credit card, they're saying it might be holographic in the sense that our 3d space could be a projection of a 2d boundary.

The idea came about as a way to resolve the black hole information paradox in a way compatible with string theory (the idea is that information can never be destroyed, but black holes appear to destroy information). One interesting consequence would be that our universe could be the result of a black hole in some other universe.
People are imprisoned for evading taxes, not for avoiding them. If the law says you don't owe a particular tax because you moved to Canada, why would you pay it?
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Some of the smaller shops including solo founders and two man teams only have the resources to build one app at a time. If they're building something in their spare time, it's even harder.
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Requires node.js ...

EDIT: oops I'm getting downvoted, sorry for mentioning the platform. For the record, I think that JavaScript is the perfect choice of language for a terminal text editor. I can't think of a single better language and platform.

:|
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Australia is basically like many African nations, where foreigners run the resources sector and the locals hope to get a piece of the pie through employment/wages.

However, Norway's resources are completely different to Australia's. Norway knows where the oil is, they just have to dig it up. So, they can just have a state-owned company pump it out of the sea and keep the profits for themselves.

OTOH Australia's minerals are hidden across a barren landscape the size of the continental USA. Projects are very speculative and require huge investments. New discoveries are being made every year all across the continent.

Hancock Prospecting (company now owned heiress Gina Reinhart, one of the richest women in the world) was created when its founder crashed a personal plane somewhere in the outback and discovered resources in the dirt (or something like that).

Even when you do know where the stuff is, tens of billions often need to be invested before anything is produced, like the new LNG wave.

There is no way the 23 million Australian citizens could invest this kind of capital into speculative projects. One failed project would bankrupt the nation. So, foreign investment is required.

But, even with minimal resource taxation/royalties, Australia is becoming uncompetitive for many resource investments, with the AUD and commodity prices where they are. Iron ore at its current price is now unprofitable, basically. As well all know, corporations require a certain ROE to do anything. Nobody is going to risk $10 billion for a possible 1% return. Massive LNG projects are getting shelved left and right.

There's oil hidden all across Australia and her waters, too, but there is very little infrastructure in place such as pipelines to transport the product to terminals/refineries, like there is in the US. If Australia was to nationalize its oil industry, would its people be willing to shell out tens of billions of their own tax dollars to build this infrastructure? All speculatively, knowing that their type of oil production is not profitable at all if oil once again goes below $70 a barrel, which could happen overnight (see Sept-Nov 2008)?

While I could see some sectors of the resource industry being nationalized, broadly it's just not sustainable. With costs where they are, there isn't a ton of room for more royalties.

Best thing would be for policymakers to just move on from relying on mining and start focusing on educating the population and competing where it counts on the global stage.
So I commented on your first paragraph just to make a joke, then I read your second.

There is no reason to believe that cross-party unity would solve anything, and plenty to make us think it would make things way worse. Two parties that are friendly and cozy with each other are equivalent to a single party. That will leave US voters with no real choice at the ballot box, and remove the only real repercussion to a politician - the fear that their opponent will take them to task during the next election.

Partisan politics is the most powerful tool we have to preventing politicians from running rampant with power. Heaven help us if they ever unite against their common enemy - the people.
Personally, I really wish numeric types supported more than just unsigned/signed <minimum bit length>. Generic range types at a minimum, perhaps even "a type is defined by a pure function that returns true/false for if the value is a valid instance of that type" - want to specify that the input must be a Gaussian prime at compile time? Sure! (Or, for a saner example, want to specify that the input must be a normalized quaternion? Sure!)

For generic range types, you can just specify "this stores a number in this range" (with negative infinity/infinity being valid values for the bounds) and let the compiler figure out the best way to store it (with overrides, of course. Just because you have sane defaults doesn't mean you should make people fight the language). Especially if you could specify wrapping rules. Exception on under/overflow / wrapping / saturation / "won't happen" (read: compile-time error if the compiler can show that it can overflow/underflow) - exception being the default.
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Nobody can give you shipping charges without knowing your address. The credit card step exists because most of the time the billing address and shipping address are the same.
> "the flip side the alternative is that they don't sell their goods here"

That's a silly concern. Businesses do not forgo profit simply because they'd prefer if there were more. They always prefer if there were more. And yet they still seek the profit that's available. So long as cost/benefit suggests the US is a profitable market, they will continue to sell their goods here.

The only "risk" of corporations "taking their ball and going home", is if the United States pursued a transparently self-destructive tax rate on foreign-based corporations. Which there is absolutely no reason to expect would even enter rational conversation.

Imagine a husband and wife are talking about what car they should buy next and they disagree on the budget. The analogous case to a tax rate so high corporations leave the US market, is the husband deciding to burn the house down so that there's no garage and no money at all.

While that's certainly a possible alternative to negotiating their differences, discussing that alternative is, at best, silly. And attempting to ascribe serious weight to the possibility is downright intellectually dishonest.
It is actually pretty unlikely that they won't sell goods in the US. Burger King is not going to pull out as that is a major market for them.

Not saying the US tax situation doesn't need fixed though.
We throw people in prison for evading taxes. Avoiding taxes is legal.
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Ryanair don't do that. The price they advertise at the flight choice time is the price you pay. THey then try shove extras down your throat, but you're not obligated to buy travel insurance, rent a car, use their jet ski etc .
> "... during transport"

> Who cares?

uh, the more than a billion (maybe more than two billion) people who use email and get their email swept up in casual dragnet surveillance otherwise?
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If i fill in just a 'username' & password fields on a forum, who owns it? -is that my data or is it more analagous to the key cards my employer provides me with to gain access to the building?

also..
I believe the safest way to maintain a 'never email me again' list is to keep just the email address indefinitely.
A hologram is literally 3d information encoded in 2d surface. It's actually mind-boggling technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography

If you cut a hologram (a real hologram), no matter how you cut it it still shows the whole image, just smaller.
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I suggest unfollowing/unfriending people who post those kinds of content. It sends a clear message that you don't want to see it, and you won't waste time ignoring them.
If "employing someone should really be a long term commitment from both parties," then employers need to start treating it as such again. Right now this is simply one among many, many imbalances between employees and employers: the loyalty demand is, in my view, a one-way street.

Employees are not to expect long-term loyalty style commitments from employers these days. Training, retirement investment packages, career paths and other intangibles that make a long-term commitment at a single employer potentially a good move don't exist anymore (at least not in any significant numbers).

Long-term investment with a single employer carries risks for the employees: opportunity costs, skill stagnation or over-specialization, far lower long-term compensation without internal "job hopping" up the management ladder (and even then it's not nearly the risk-free move it was even 20 years ago, let alone 30 or 40), etc. Employers don't acknowledge these risks the employees take, though, and simply demand loyalty without wanting to make an investment of their own other than a begrudgingly given compensation package (that is often below the actual value an employee provides).

Of course it's not fair; and that's just the way it is--it's something serial entrepreneurs and "job hoppers" should just be prepared to deal with.
Do you trust these people (and especially the MP)? I'm always suspicious when I hear about startups with many partners, none of them apparently doing anything. Who are those 6+ people and why are they on board? What value do they bring? I'm also suspicious when wives get shares.

That being said, you are using the wrong metrics: 1% @ $20K is not what you should focus on. Neither is your argument to split equally, your $100K discount is not real cash you are putting in.

What happens in a year when your software is not finished, do you continue to develop and improve it for free, or do you send a new quote? That will tell you whether you consider yourself a founder or a consultant. I'm guessing you feel like a consultant.
The ability for the general public to use this today without weeks of rendering time is pretty impressive in my book.
i was pleasantly surprised that the article called out specific, high-profile companies. all too often the writers simply pussyfoot around that part.
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That's because it is written in JavaScript and you need a way to interpret JS on your machine.

I suppose it should be possible to build a self contained executable, similarly with what node-webkit does.
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The August 2014 issue of Scientific American had an article by Afshordi, Mann, and Pourhasan entitled "The Black Hole That Birthed the Big Bang" on a holographic theory of the universe.

The article [0] is paywalled, but the preview contains a note from a reader suggesting "the holographic principle shares the same problems of all Idealist notions: rather than relying on evidence, it puts the elegance of the model first as an argument in its favor."

I hope the Fermilab experiments provide some useful data.

[0] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-black-hole-tha...
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I'm a "shill"? Really? This is the level of debate?

Also, none of your links in any way prove that the NSA stores all phone calls. None of them. 1 is hearsay from someone, another talks about metadata, and another says that the NSA can record any phone call (yes we know that). Nowhere is there any proof that all calls are being recorded.

This is what I am talking about. It doesn't seem possible to have a conversation about the NSA on Hacker News that is based on logic, reasoning or sense.
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You can print your passes between 15 days and around 2 hours before the flight. I don't get your point.

I've flown with Ryanair plenty of times and, if you are able to ignore the constant bugging with booze/parfums/car rentals onboard and can stand the small seats, they are the probably the best thing that there is.
The statistical likelihood of two disasters happening to the same airline must be insanely low. They either have the worse luck or deserve to be out of business
I had to stop using Google Plus for just this reason. At some point they decided to add a "hot" category of stories to your feed in the mobile app. There was no way to disable this 'feature' or avoid these spammy stories while still using the app. I can't say I've really missed much.
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I disagree. This shouldn't need specific regulations, they should be treated as plain fraud by small claim courts.

This just underlines the brokenness of the system.
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The US and Canada have both avoided any 'curse'.

Erm, consider the massive amount of environmental and policy issues that we've had due specifically to oil. Had we not had so much of it in the early 20th century, we probably wouldn't have had the automobile boom of today and the long-term sabotage of public transportation.

There's a curse, all right.
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Eh, depends on how you frame it. Is a troop transport taking US forces over to Iraq barbaric? Depends on who you ask.
In 1999, Portugal had the highest rate of HIV amongst IV drug users in the EU. There were 2,000 new cases a year - in a country of 10 million. Almost half of new cases were among IV drug users.

Gotta understand something about Portugal: 'til '74, it was a dictatorship. Then it was a military junta. It finally became a democracy in '76. Then, a little under a decade later, when cheap heroin flooded the world. The US saw it in the 80's too.

But it was much, much worse there.

> What was it like before[,] beaten by the cops and robbed 10 times a day?

Had nothing to do with that. It was about 'the population has an endemic drug problem leading to widespread ennui and HIV/AIDs, and even some of the harshest drug laws in Europe are doing absolutely nil to quell it.'
To be honest, Dunkin is borderline inedible. I really do see a very real quality difference between it and TH. To each his own I guess.
"Livermore is home to two of the fasted supercomputers in the world"

I think it means "fastest".

Don't people proofread any more?

sigh
Getting a bit of hyperbole out of this (shocking, I know).

Stabilization is not something that costs $15k, at least at this quality. Yes, it's interesting on a technical level (both with Instagram and MS), but there are low-tech solutions that handle this aptly.

So in essence we're talking about a video accelerator (and presumably decelerator)? This doesn't exactly wow me, but then again Instagram was founded on applying filters to photos, so I should recognize the value of hype (and subsequent audience size).
The term hologram is more of an analogy than anything else, you shouldn't think of it as a projection produced by light. The idea is that we're living on the edge of a high-dimensional membrane and that our 3 dimensions (+ time) form the surface of that membrane. One of the interesting thing about membranes is that the surface encodes a lot of information about the interior structure, or stated differently, the interior determines the surface. That's what they mean by hologram.

The other replies here reference a 2D encoding of a 3D space. That's a simple example of this kind of holograpy but it's not the one being tested for. Most of hte holographic theories reference a much higher dimensional space on the inside and a 3 dimensional surface.