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Tantalum capacitors are increasingly rare, and are trivial to substitute. Tantalum resistors I would say are downright exotic.

And other than lightbulbs, I've never heard of tungsten used in electronics.
I think he's making the case that it should be illegal to hand out food at certain locations. However, you can certainly donate food to shelters or food centers, for example. It does seem like a good idea to provide basic food services for the homeless so they know where they can get their next meal, rather than begging on the street. Medical services should be supplied there also. It would be a more effective use of resources.

I'm not sure if it should be illegal, but as a civilization that's probably what we should encourage.
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> It's been almost 10 years since I've had that experience with Linux. This is over 4 desktops and 3 laptops. Can we please bury this meme?

Maybe with desktops, but even just last year, trying to get wi-fi setup on my beagle bone or raspberry pi were hell. Multiple programs to do the same thing, and none of them work quite the same. So running scripts from the command line with the usual commands wouldn't work, so then the only thing that did work was the gui. But what if you don't want to use the gui, because you want the thing to reconnect automatically after power down (an option the gui didn't provide)?

Maybe running ubuntu, this wouldn't have been an issue, but beagle bone had archlinux, and then I tried multiple versions for the raspberry pi, most of them debian based.

So, no. This meme won't die just because most versions work out of box for desktops. It would have to work out of box for anything linux runs on.
Since it was written by a Japanese fellow originally i think that's where the unique names came from. Upcase and downcase were two that stuck out to me. Overall I like ruby quite a bit though.
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Except, you know, his sign out in front saying "This is the place for selling your illicit wares"
Fingerprints aren't passwords. They also aren't usernames. They're fingerprints, and they have different characteristics from both usernames and passwords.

Rather than try to shoehorn fingerprints into our existing terminology, let's look at what fingerprints can do and what implications they provide, and then use them accordingly. The article sadly fails to do this.
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1) Sounds a lot like slavery.

What? You are being spitefully obtuse. With slavery, the entire problem is you cannot leave your job, you are owned, and at the mercy of your owner. With my first bullet point, I am simply creating an option that does not currently exist.

#2 is the more controversial point. My gut and personal preferences say that the long-term utility gain to the general public plus the homeless person of moving them into dorm living exceeds the short-term utility loss to the homeless person of not being allowed to sleep on the street, and being forced to move into the dorm living (provided the dorm living is actually clean and maintained, and is not like awful shelter living).
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About 2 years ago, we brought Brooklyn Bedding online with the sole purpose of providing quality and luxurious latex and memory foam mattresses without the luxury prices of the big box stores.

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Would that fit under the wider heading of trade secrets? Interesting... hadn't thought of business process trade secrets, but that's a whole category I suppose.
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SR is a marketplace.
The postal services are excused by the same logic that manufacturers of knives are from their misuse.
On SR, however, the contents of each advertized item are public knowledge. SR is therefore accountable.
If the postal service knew any particular package carried contraband, they too would be obliged not to deliver it, and to report it.

Disclaimer #2 withstanding.
I probably should have added the "in production" qualifier. Academic papers will almost always precede production use, but Chubby was definitely one of, if not the, first solutions to handle a large-scale production workload.

Also, it could be argued that previous solutions to distributed consensus are only partial solutions without the work that Google has done to ensure consistent time across the distributed cluster.

Regardless, it's hard to argue the original point that Google is on the forefront of that kind of technology.
Unity sucks battery like there's no tomorrow; with Unity I'd say 5 to 8 hours, but with windowmaker and light low, I'd 7 to 9 hours is doable.
(React dev here)

I myself have been guilty of spreading this "React is just the view" mentality as an easy argument to convince people to try it. However, in reality, you can't really compare framework X's view with React view just because they're both called "view". React's whole architecture and paradigm makes it so that you don't need controllers or, very often, not even models.

In this regard, "bang per byte downloaded" is very misleading (it already kinda is?).
I get annoyed when people compare the multimillion dollar military UAVs, with jet engines and satellite guidance, with quadcopters that have 20 minutes of battery, can carry a few ounces, and use line of sight controls.

They should have different names. The quadcopters are really just RC planes, but everybody is calling them drones now for some reason.
Awesome :) I think then that the primary difference with Tug is that it can work in a "hybrid" virtualized/local mode if you haven't yet written a Dockerfile/Vagrantfile/other for your app. Tug can start by simply spawning dependencies like Postgres and Redis and let you incrementally move towards a Dockerfile for your app.
Joyent's response to the recently launched Node Forward (https://github.com/node-forward) initiative, I'm guessing.
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The DOT used to fine my (travel) employer 10-20K just for wrong text in a form.
Arrest me then.
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I would estimate (from a relatively well-informed position) that about half the serious issues that users face are due to hardware interactions. You'll remember that a few years ago the famous example was WIFI chip-sets.

The reality for the distributions is that if there is good support from the component manufacturer and the OEM then you can provide a good user-experience. We put massive effort into enablement with manufacturers such as Dell, HP and Lenovo [1].

As a user the best thing you can do is to buy hardware with components that will work. In the old days that used to mean looking at hardware component and comparing them to whether they worked with Linux. Now we have certification sites.

The second sort of problem is the general end-user issues. I actually think that Ubuntu is beyond the point where you need to open the command line for normal end-user activities. The big weakness there is that there's no equivalent of the 'Genius Bar' for Linux users.

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/
Does anyone know how/where I can back the crowdfunding?
"Sometimes I wasted hours and hours just becaue there is one charactor difference."
Oh thank God! I thought I was the only one.
Here's a great article[0] regarding different ways to accomplish to upsert in Postgres. I bring it up because the author adds his thought on why Postgres hasn't implemented it unlike the other open source RDBMS:

> As a final word – yeah, but why PostgreSQL doesn't handle it internally, as the other database?

> Answer lies somewhere between "developers have other things to do first" and "it's complicated, because there are many ways to do it, and the most correct one is slow – so there is a trade off decision to be made".

I'm not sure how upsert is implemented in MySql but given its reputation and the fact that it is open source; I would imagine the Postgres team has considered their solution and have decided it wasn't good enough for their standards.

Postgres may not have an out-of-the-box solution but there are solutions out there which are mostly pretty trivial functions. Although they may add a bit of bloat since it seems you'd need a function for each table you'd want to use upsert on.

[0] http://www.depesz.com/2012/06/10/why-is-upsert-so-complicate...
In brief, it's the same problem with the world of The Matrix. At the end of the day, that sort of life isn't "real" in some way. The masses are blissfully ignorant and patronized. It would be a robust (possibly unending) discussion to fully explore the philosophical implications, since it's an existential question at the end of the day.

The scene from The Matrix where Cypher enjoys a "steak" with Mr. Smith:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7BuQFUhsRM
Looks great! Can I sign up on this demo site and get a working account? Or is it for businesses only?
Not angry at the HN mob, they provide daily comic relief. They also remind me that some of the opinions I had when I was younger must have sounded just as moronic to the more experienced engineers and business people I worked with.

I mean, we are all pretty stupid and impressionable until somewhere around 30 years of age. By that time life has generaly done a pretty good job realigning young idealist thinking and opinions borne out of indoctrination.

Life experience is also a huge factor in this. For example opposite poles are found in people who spent twenty years working a government job (can't get fired, insane pension) vs. a bootstrapped entrepreneur (self reliance, responsible for own success and failure, no pension). These people reach 40-something years of age with vastly different views of reality. You come across these and other extremes here on HN.

For the record, I have nothing but contempt for people who live a life where they are not responsible and accountable for their actions and future. I think it degrades the human condition.

So, no, not angry at HN mobs or any other internet mobs.
These are two giants in science fiction, in political philosophy and in pop culture. I'm a big fan of both. Great to read a discussion between them.

First, there's the artistic stele of the books. 1984 has got this graphic novel, Noir feel to it, like Walking Dead or Sin City. Brave New World has this brightly colored surreal feel to it. It's hard to compare books that are different in this way.

Overall, Orwell's world felt more real to me, like it could have been brought about by real political circumstances. The system itself is evolved around the principle that whatever improves control survives. It feels like a political system that has devolved into its current state with the original vision or rhetoric of the ideology that brought it about remaining as a vestige, like Marxism in China.

Huxley's world feels a little more fake to me. It's like some political genius designed it head to tail and things went ahead as planned. It's like Canberra (If you go there, you'll see what I mean). That makes it feel more like a made up word to me, inorganic.

Orwell's "mechanisms," training society to gradually train their minds using language, euphemism, historical revisionism, social penalties for bad thought patterns and as much control over what people see & hear as possible… it feels real to me. We see that stuff at work now as Orwell saw it in his time. It feels possible, though I think Winston's are inevitable too. Euphemisms to control thought is stronger today than it was in Orwell's time.

Huxely's mechanisms of Soma, infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis feel less real. I can't count that against the author or the book though. Brave New World is distant future. That's inevitably more fantastical and less realistic. I think he's right though about using pleasantness over direct confrontation. Humans are pleasure seeking and denied pleasure, there will always be a force of instability.

The point where 1984 slips ahead though is the book-in-the-book 'The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, by Emmanuel Goldstein.' In particular, it describes how the system must allow some non hereditary class movement. If the class system is too rigid, pressure builds up as talented individual press against the ceiling. If some are allowed to progress and there are prominent examples the class system becomes less explicit and more stable. I don't know if it's some of my earliest political exposure being socialist, but that just rings true to me. I see it today. Statistically, classes are fairly rigid, but individually, they are malleable.

I'm very biased though I think 1984 is one of the most important books I read as a teenager. It shaped how I saw things.
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It's interesting Huxley addresses him as Mr. Orwell (a pen name) even though they knew each other personally.
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Nobody is contending that these workers had to go find apartments or pay for their own hotel rooms in San Francisco. If the company covered all their living expenses while they were here, the cost issue is a red herring.
That's a really bad comparison. Companies respond really well to financial incentives.
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There isn't a ton of human time needed for legal research as it is. The time is in the fact finding, analysis, and arguments, not finding the law.

I'm a junior associate in a law firm, which means the legal research falls squarely on my shoulders (partners don't do legal research). And even then it's not a huge part of my job. Probably less than 10%.

Better index searching could be of help, but it'll be hard to actually make it better. Legal research databases are a huge industry and they spend a ton on improving search capabilities, but it is hard.

I think the search capability will be evolutionary not really revolutionary. But maybe I'm underestimating Watson.
I dunno, there tends to be more than a fair share of anti-immigration nativists here who have some pretty loud megaphones.

Apparently I came here and stole a job that could've gone to a hard-working American, after all. And the local media doesn't want to let me forget it
It's a society where nothing ever improves. People are put in their place before birth and jailed in it by means that they can not even perceive.
allow them to choose
I love this guy, one of my favorite twitter accounts.
Should I be? Go to India for a few months, and ask again :-)
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Were they really happy?

Even a short interruption of soma led to a riot. You would get grumpy if you didn't have coffee one morning, but would you start destroying things? And it is likely a common thing, as they have a special police group just for addressing this scenario. So, to reiterate my original question, if even the smallest bad thing causes riots, are they really happy?
This is amazing and absolutely inspiring for entrepreneurs. It's just great to read what he have done in order to learn more about what he wanted to build.

"Musk "knows everything about what he's building," Cantrell says"
I once got yelled at by a pizza shop owner for buying a homeless guy a couple slices in the Lower East Side. It never crossed my mind that someone would take issue with someone feeding another human.
I think the Vatican was crowdfunded in the same way the British Royal Family was. Theft, war, deception, destruction; then some analogous leaseback deal to legitimize everything.

I'm not sure the Vatican's revenue but I suppose a lot comes from the Vatican Bank and returns on their massive assets. Most of their charitable work comes from $2+ billion from the US Govt.

If you've seen Vatileaks on PBS, you know how frighteningly corrupt it is. The Pope's personal butler was a whistleblower, went to the media and then was arrested for possession of "classified" material. Sentenced to 18 months in prison but he instead served it in the Vatican. Then the Pope pardoned him.
Yes, very much so. It's also a federal crime which means you're subject to those sentencing guidelines:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1958

18 U.S. Code § 1958 - Use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire

(a) Whoever travels in or causes another (including the intended victim) to travel in interstate or foreign commerce, or uses or causes another (including the intended victim) to use the mail or any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, with intent that a murder be committed in violation of the laws of any State or the United States as consideration for the receipt of, or as consideration for a promise or agreement to pay, anything of pecuniary value, or who conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both; and if personal injury results, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than twenty years, or both; and if death results, shall be punished by death or life imprisonment, or shall be fined not more than $250,000, or both.

(b) As used in this section and section 1959—
(1) “anything of pecuniary value” means anything of value in the form of money, a negotiable instrument, a commercial interest, or anything else the primary significance of which is economic advantage;

(2) “facility of interstate or foreign commerce” includes means of transportation and communication; and

(3) “State” includes a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States.
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I can't edit this original post, but it seems I can't invite people yet; will update when I do.
Another analogy is renting space in your strip mall to a doctor who prescribes pain killers to their patients. The doctors behaviors may or may not be legal (depending on the specifics of how he metes out his narcotics) but the strip mall owner shouldn't be held liable just because some of his clients are possibly selling narcotics in violation of the law.
I think the poster is serious. I do think what the company did was very wrong.

After going to India a couple of times I could see people from there not caring about the low wages just so that they could go to California.
> The mind blowing moment is when you're using boot2docker (or any case where Docker isn't local) and it still forwards the ports to your local (127.0.0.1) host.

That's easily achieved with a Vagrantfile for your Docker VM...
"What is the fundamental difference between a beggar telling a sob story and the woman who stops you to talk about the ACLU/Planned Parenthood/<charity of the week>? Or are you for banning all public requests for money for any reason?"

Well, given my druthers I'd ban those too.

Cities are very dense and, in the scheme of human existence, unnatural places. It takes effort and rules to make tens of thousands of humans occupy the same space and stay sane. That is why cities have the ability to pass ordinances to restrict all sorts of activity in public spaces. There is a right to freedom of assembly, but that does not mean you can assemble a crowd in the streets or sidewalks at any time, you need a permit. There is freedom of speech, but there are ordinances against playing blaring music or disturbing the peace. There are laws against unsolicited phone calls and spamming. There are ordinances banning neon signs on some streets, to prevent a race to the bottom where stores compete for the most obnoxious store frontage. Etc. etc. I view any form of asking of money to strangers on city streets to be a form of spamming. It is perfectly within the rights of a city to ban it.
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That was true of much of the Aztec written culture as well but there were some notable exceptions. We can thank Fray Bernardino de Sahagún for saving some important parts of the Nahua tradition despite his personal views:

http://beta.wdl.org/en/item/10096/#collection=florentine-cod...
Yes. Giving food to a fellow human being who might otherwise well starve has always been considered positive in probably most societies. A society thinking otherwise is very mistaken.
War against food :-)
SoCal is expensive. LA/OC/San Diego..

I moved to OC from Oklahoma. 1400 sq ft. home in OK = 130k, in OC, 500k. With variations depending on area, of course, but in general, yes very expensive. Taxes feel about the same -- I think CA has higher state income tax, but the difference wasn't terrible. Then there is gas prices...and traffic. And the toll roads are stupid expensive.

BUT, at least it's not San Francisco expensive :)
LOL, This entire thread has me in crying. I think the underpinnings of Color were very ambitious, but the way the product was released was not orchestrated very well.
According to the Delaware Public Benefit Corporation rules it requires a two thirds majority of share holders to change status. If that is held up by the courts it's some teeth but not absolute protection against change.
I think Huxley hit some interesting notes for those with lower income levels, especially if you consider consider cheap entertainment and junk food to be opiates. As far as sexual mores, marriage rates are at an all-time low, and pornography is basically free.
Boy oh boy. Well, the thing is it is a society that is completely in thrall to a system of basic pleasure orchestrated with the questionable justification that a life without real pleasure or pain is a better one. The people are oblivious to all art and real achievement, they have no desires and no ambitions, they create nothing and have no desire to, they feel no real emotions and all sex is mechanical, and they happily march to their own deaths at a certain age. If a vision of humanity as infinitely complacent, all advancement come to an end, a billion pampered babies with their unremarkable and entirely calculated lives engineered since before birth — if that doesn't strike you as a dystopia, an "inverted utopia" in which what is meant to be perfect is anything but, well brother, I don't know what should!
Yes, we all read that. It's obvious misdirection. To the extent these things exist, they are badly underfunded. Let them eat cake, while properly segregated from polite society.
Sure! So how did you go with running Windows or Mac OSX or Android on that Beagle Bone or Raspberry Pi?

Linux is the _only_ OS in existence that can run across the variety of hardware it hits. Whether it's from phones through to Supercomputers. Funnily enough when you get to different bits of the hardware spectrum you have to have different skills and capabilities - running on custom ARM hardware doesn't count as standard.
Android Wear's latest update adds GPS support and offline music playback
See https://github.com/combinatorylogic/mbase

Problem with two namespaces is, well, need to maintain two namespaces, in all your DSLs. Which in many cases may double the effort.

Of course, macros must have their own namespace, but that's an obvious thing, you cannot mix compile-time and run-time namespaces anyway.
I actually follow a very similar pattern when developing in both Ruby and Clojure. I particularly like it in Clojure because I can run `(doc function-name)` to get some documentation on the function I intend to use (I can never remember the order of arguments!!).
Because smoking harms you and those around you, while feeding the homeless actually help fellow human beings?
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Smoking poisons people who aren't participating in the activity, while feeding the homeless doesn't directly affect anyone besides the feeder and feedee. You could, of course, argue that the indirect effects are sufficient justification.