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This is just not true. Android manufacturers sell huge numbers of high end phones that cost the same amount as iPhones. I have owned both, and found the Android to be a much better user experience. iPhone has the worst keyboard I've ever used, the screen on the 5 was way too small, and I just find the whole UI to be really clunky and badly designed for the way I use devices (eg. The lack of a back button and inconsistent way apps try to deal with this limitation)

Sure, plenty of people like iPhones and plenty of people would swap, but I know a lot of people who really don't like iOS and are far happier with a high end android
This.

It is not that the editor is in bad shape. The periods of of inactivity made me feel like the editor could be abandoned or discontinued. I went back to Emacs.
Reading this reminded me of how incredibly annoying it is that new OS'es don't always underline the shortcut key. It's maddening! I can't seem to get it to work in Unity; auto-mnemonic true or false makes no difference.
Actually it looks like that the pages themselves just take a long time to load: for example clicking on 'extreme programming' shows the title 'extreme programming' and a blank page.
Initially I assumed there is no content, but if I wait 5-10s then the content will be shown. This is very confusing: why show the title and empty page while loading the body?
Do you mean severe? Bad has ambiguous connotations (edit to clarify: I mean that in a straightforward way, not critically).

FTC sanctions aren't necessarily an end, I remember watching Matt Lauer glad hand Kevin Trudeau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trudeau ) on the Today show several years after he had been banned from selling products through infomercials (thus forcing him to sell free speech, books). It was one of those things where you realize that the people on TV aren't embarrassed about anything, because Lauer should have been mortified.
"Garbage in, garbage out" tells us that since the algorithms are made by irrational humans, the algorithms will too be irrational.
"Over the years, people have informed me of websites that they felt looked similar to mine."
That sounds like a bum package, or a corrupted install. If you are using Package Control you can copy the Packages/User/ folder to a fresh install and install Package Control to try fixing it. PC will do a fresh reinstall of missing packages.
Thanks for the link, I was wrong on the legal point, but it's not all bullshit.

From that thread: "They don't get punished for not maximizing shareholder value. But it is true that maximizing value needs to be their goal and they may not be negligent in the pursuit of that goal."

It also confirms that a corporation must in general make an effort to maximise profits, if that is what the shareholders want. So, we should make it clear to the corporations and the shareholders that reducing their profits by increasing the quality of life of their suppliers is an acceptable loss and may actually increase value and therefore something that the directors should aim for. That shareholders have to be confident to tell their directors that they will not be negligent if they try to improve sweatshop conditions in their suppliers.
Virginia's DMV offers a ton of its services online. It can take a bit to get around their site, but it is overall a much more friendly experience than needing to go into a brick-and-mortar for plate renewals and the sort.
I wonder if minimum wage can be increased if the economy isn't pretty solid or at least growing fast.
We had tutorial rooms for that sort of thing. We were expected to be quiet in the library.
All of the sudden I have no problem waiting for my town hall to finish upgrading in 2 weeks in clash of clans.

Looks like some people use that same 2 weeks time to do far more important things.
It's not that they're exploited. Cambodia's economy is just really, really inefficient. Food prices in Cambodia are really high (ep 4), higher even than in Berlin [0] by 21%, not to mention Eastern Europe (2+ times Warsaw's prices, 4x if you shop around).
The sad thing is, the wages in sweatshops won't go up much. Sooner or later automation will advance to the point where even $3/day for sewing garments will be too high and they will all be fired.

[0] http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun...
I'm guessing:

To reduce the memory use, the old threads have only a flag to signal if they have comments or not. The comments are not loaded and the system doesn't know the comment count.

For the recent threads and when someone open an old thread, the comments are loaded and now the system can display the comments count.
Another one might be Indiana Jones who "cuts the Gordian knot" by whipping out his gun and blowing the sword-fighter guy away rather than going through with the big fight scene. Always look for a quick way around a problem.
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> Consider how cheap a t-shirt is in the U.S.

you mean how cheap it can be. T-shirts range anywhere from $1 to $100 and probably more, but that money doesn't trickle down to the people making those shirts in the end.
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> [...] the human volunteers ended up IIRC needing a few millilitres of liquid oxygen injected [...]

Citation urgently needed.
Also there's a review of the book here:

http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/sheban...
I think reacweb is talking about the assembly line numbers on the right side.
Unless you are talking about the embezzlement issue - i.e. employees pocketing single bills paid by the customers, which may get harder when you actually have to give back the change - your exercise has greatly outran my capabilities.
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I haven't used Medium, so I can't speak to it, but in my experience the most frustrating instance of this behavior is from Stack Overflow. Keybindings such as `Ctrl`+`k` and `Ctrl`+`b`, which are native to OS X, behave completely unexpectedly in Stack Overflow textareas, to the extent that I sometimes just give up and compose my text in an external editor.
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vim would open multi-hundred megabyte files in seconds, if only you can invest in learning its modal editing mechanism (which, to be fair, is fairly arcane, and is proven to be a worse UI than free form editing).
> poop

It's a brave new world where vulgar and scientific words are replaced with baby talk.
The argument here is that the middle class acts in self-interest while feigning sympathy for the working poor. Maybe so, but the argument neither affirms nor denies the necessity or utility of sweatshops.
Main thing is to be aware of where your products come from, and if labour is involved, how they are treated. That's often hard to find out because the companies like to keep it hidden, but journalists can often find out.

Another thing you could do is specifically look for clothing / articles made in the US or wherever you yourself live. It'll probably be more expensive (both due to higher wages and because "Proudly made in the US" or similar phrases increase the price), but then that's kinda what you're implying should happen.

Anyway "Made in the US" isn't a guarantee for better treatment of workers, iirc there's not much of a minimum wage anymore. People working in the Amazon warehouses are probably the closest thing to the Western sweatshop (and there's a few articles about that around).
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I submitted this so that HN readers can see what is returned when I try to visit eg katproxy when I'm in a UK Starbucks.

The court ordered blocks are one level of censorship faced by UK Internet users. There is a list compiled by the Internet Watch Foundation which every UK ISP (apart from Andrews and Arnold, A&A) complies with. https://www.iwf.org.uk/

And then there are the ISP provided optional filters.
Yes, fair enough, learnt something new today.

I was wrong about it being legal in law not to maximize profits.

There is still an obligation of directors to maximise value if that is what the shareholders want (and most of the time, all shareholders want a corporation to increase profit). But it's not illegal for a director to be negligent in the goal of the shareholders. They might lose their job or get a civil lawsuit, at the worst, I guess.
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Something that bothers me is the fact that even though they have cried on the show and said that they were going to do something to help, if you search for them on the internet, its clear that they aren't doing anything about it! Even the girl who has a fashion blog, she is still writing about the trademarks that use this kind of abusive job to make their clothes...
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any link for those of us that refuse to install adobe flash?
If I am not mistaken the two Google founders have majority of the controlling shares so it would not really matter what wall street demands.
That's very close to what the SMART program is. I'm a SMART scholar (PhD level), it's been a good experience so far. http://smart.asee.org/
That's why I keep clear of "ecommerce import from China" businesses.

I just cant do it knowing people suffer while I profit
That's human nature for you. It's very difficult for most people to put themselves in the position of someone else.

An example from my own life that I find striking is a janitor at the hospital where I'm employed. He grew up in Thailand in a remote farming village. While there he lived in complete poverty (bamboo house, no electricity, drinking rainwater) since he was born to a multigenerational family of rice farmers. He worked hard in school, spent time as a monk, and then eventually had an opportunity to immigrate to the US where he's been for about 10 years now. He speaks four languages and seems very intelligent in all the conversations I've had with him- it seriously pains me when I see people talk down to him.

With that said; It's just ignorance- best not to dwell on it and just keep moving forward. Focus on self improvement, then when it's you with the 100k+ income try not to forget where you came from.
I'm not talking about T-shirts here, which are usually extremely price sensitive, but high-street brands that sell a shirt for $30 or a pair of trousers/pants for $50-100.

A change in cost for suppliers of these products doesn't move business from one country to another. And the margin a supplier makes varies greatly.

A lot of products sourced in high-street brands comes from a variety of the same global suppliers (some of which sub-contract, some do in-house, and some sub-sub contract). One month from one supplier, and another month from another (varying by continent, country, to in-country location), for a pretty much identical product. One supplier may make 10% margin, and another 25%. It is of concern to the purchaser that a supplier doesn't make much of a margin, as they're feared as being pushed under, but puzzlement that these suppliers stay in business for decades. What is more important is turn-around time. A high-street brand needs a design idea to go from cat-walk to hanger in weeks, not months. That means logistics have to be extremely tight - design sent (electronically), prototypes mocked and air-mailed back, BOM sourced and often imported (at least in part), and the super-price sensitive suppliers just can't deliver here, whatever the margin, let alone the Q+A. A day turnaround and assurance of delivery time can make a difference more important than 5-15% on the quote.

When it comes to cheap textile production, or production of the lowest quality product then yes, price sensitivity is important. But when it comes to delivering mid-level textile products logistics trump jumping to the lowest margin location (where lack of logistical facilities, bribes, un-predictable delays).

I agree things can often improve, but minimum wage has little to do with it. A functional port and road to a factory are far more important in being competitive than how much a worker costs (except for the cheapest of cheapest textile products).
We're working on it as we speak, should have it within Feb.
By watching normal non-programmers people like my girlfriends and programmers people like my colleagues with whom I worked closely. Former just don't do any Ctrl-anything during the writing.

[Dr. Watson's voice] He does that thing again!
I'd argue the Germans have the best solution. Employees must be involved in running the company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-determination
Thanks for posting that, very worthwhile (and entertaining) watch (though maybe a little too honest for the other people involved!).

For those who have worked in both types of environment (those that promote making things better vs those that punish you for doing something wrong) it's all too familiar.

After having spent a little too long in one of the more negative environments I made the mistake of attributing blame after a slightly disastrous event (while working at a much healthier company). My boss, rightly, told me that any blame was totally unacceptable in their culture. That's a lesson I've taken with me and I'll never forget. A culture of punishing honest mistakes will get you nowhere.
Do these kind of personal sites help in finding/attracting leads? (for programmers)
Has Jon Skeet reached one million yet: http://www.hasjonskeetreachedonemillionyet.com
Not quite this year, but soon.

(Ps, add your own id to see when you reach it:
http://www.hasjonskeetreachedonemillionyet.com/155689 Mine is in quite a few years)
That's not the real reason. There's no shame here in copying even if it's a total ripoff.

We copy assignments,lab reports,project work , designs , everything. We get the job done.

Originality ? Who gives a shit.
This is probably the normal animal/human reaction: to react only when something is hurting you right now. If you take the pain away, the motivation vapors.

This is one of the design flaws of the human mind inherited from animals that causes procrastination and lack of willpower.
> From wikipedia: "The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand American culture, and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries."
> WTF aren't we doing this for technology?

It's frustrating that the national face of US technology for so many years now is the NSA and related intelligence agencies.

It would be very, very cool if something like the US Digital Service were externally philanthropic, showing the States is more than what sells newspapers.
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Being 'mean' to the deceased can have at least two impacts that I can think of:

- Hurting the living family of the dead person
- In the case of notable figures, altering public perception of the individual and their deeds. On a macro scale, if enough people talk up the bad elements of, say, Gandhi's life, it has the potential to sour society on his worthwhile points of view too.

Actually my impression of Steve Jobs is pretty negative in many ways, but I do think twice before being mean about the dead.
Nice one! I think I'm gonna write part two. More ideas are warmly welcomed :)
In a general election, a leader that most people find acceptable is preferable to a leader that most people do not find acceptable.
with regards to the numbeo figures: these are pretty offset by the high price of Milk, Bread, Cheese, Apples, Wine - all of which are non-native foods and would have to be imported to Cambodia (and which wouldn't be part of an average diet there). In fact, most of the foods there are non-native - potatoes? No-one's eating these either.

Local food types (rice, noodles, veg, SE Asian fruits) are ridiculously cheap in Cambodia, though could still very well be expensive in comparison to the wages..

edit: reading further, I'm not sure they've sourced those figures well at all, they don't ring true. 0.43€ for a bottle of water? Come on, that's nowhere near the local price unless you're buying it at your western hotel
Any chance of a link to some of these. I have started volunteering at a coderdojo and we have plenty of RPi's I just need some inspiration for projects, or more accurately I want to inspire the kids and would like some examples we could work on while they think of their own.
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So make it opt-in, and highly visible to the user when it happens.

I get a nag screen when videos in the browser go full screen, telling me loud and clear that expected behaviour is changing and telling me how to get control back. When a website overrides keyboard controls, the first I know about it is when I can't scroll properly, or switch to another tab, or go back, or close the window that's yelling at me and making my machine thrash ...

Disruptively changing modes without notification violates fundamental rules of interaction design, affordances and basic security. How is that okay?
> It should be mostly transparent to the user that they are in a browser.

Even if the browser is providing your entire desktop experience, you should be able to switch applications or close them in a predictable way.
Netmap is for writing fast code in userspace. With this you get to run the code in kernel space, in a more limited environment, but which may be sufficient for many tasks.
It seems to me that ST would really benefit from being open-sourced, but I guess it depends on how much cash he's getting out of it, and whether he can afford to give that up.

I stick with ST because the plugin ecosystem is vibrant, it's hackable in a language I'd actually want to write, there's as much time-saving juice as Vim without me having to learn non-standard keyboard commands for the very basics (sorry, I like my arrow keys and Ctrl+x/c/v, and - god help me - my mouse), and it's not a sluggish, half-complete rip off of itself (cough Atom). I know enough Vim to get around a log or config file, but for serious work, Sublime and my brain are partners for life. (Unless Atom improves dramatically, anyway.)

I don't suffer from the slow development cycle, but I'm sure others do, depending on what it is they need.
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Interesting that you mention the maypole. In the Caribbean the tinier islands(The Grenadines) that still follow some older European customs burst out the maypole for weddings and in other festival seasons.
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Is there actual clear evidence that global warming has truly prevented an ice age? It's certainly the first time I've seen that assertion put forth and I'd need some actual scientific evidence that's the case.

I do agree though, an actual ice age would probably have a much more severe impact that global warming...but I'd definitely prefer that neither occur.
It doesn't have to be the shareholders responsibility to tell directors that, the directors can even just assume that - as they should. Big companies don't all set out to ruin the world just to make money, and I'm not saying that is your opinion, but I get the feeling that this is sometimes implied when discussing how to maximize profits.

Companies even donate money to charity, without any concern for short term profits.
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>It's interesting to note that we're expected to lose our minds over the first human death with New Technology Y, when Old Technology X is typically killing humans all the time.

Exactly, call me when they're killing 1.2 million people a year[1].

The number of people killed by automobiles is completely fucking insane and the only reason we're cool with it is it mostly doesn't happen to someone a large number of people care about and if it does we can hum, haw and then lay blame on someone (who is probably dead).

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...
Maybe it will be as good as Google's Facebook compeditor
>Local food types (rice, noodles, veg, SE Asian fruits) are ridiculously cheap in Cambodia

What's the price for 1kg of rice there?
>scarcity would eventually become a thing of the past - at least for everything needed to meet normal human needs.

We're really there aren't we. Almost everyone in the industrialised parts of the world have access to food, shelter and other basic human needs. Damn, in Western Europe even the romanian beggars have iPhones.

Even the poorest have a less poor life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdDkF0Lw-ag
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I don't get why more people don't think this way.
Humans as they are today will probably never be able to thrive in space or even on other planets similar to earth, that is without a lot of genetic engineering or something of that sort.

Create intelligent self replicating machines and a large part of the problems related to space travel just disappear.
If creating an AGI is possible I would be surprised if the universe isn't already full of artificial life.
You don't have to wait 5 years, you can request them yearly. They just go back 5 years (I think).
Is this not more of a general problem where as a software engineer you need to think of ALL possible outcomes rather than just the expected ones?
Not that it is related a lot but reminded me of this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8274084
Google has an insane level of motivation to wring out any and all bugs from a driverless car. Even a single deadly accident in one of their cars could potentially destroy their entire business. Comparing that type of software to a Wordpress plugin makes no sense. The potential cost of a bug is huge in this case thus you will get very good software with any driverless car.
Thanks for the fast reply. Will order me some Rpi2 to test with.

Does resin.io handle the differences in GPIO-pins btw? I have both rev1 and rev2 Raspberry today, and make sure to not use the GPIO-pins that they have mixed around between the different revisions.
I'm really happy about the 4 USB ports too. It was a pain having to use a USB hub on my Model B to get keyboard+mouse+WiFi.
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Andrew Gerrand mentioned some other nice projects as well at FOSDEM:
http://golang-sizeof.tips

This shows the memory layout of your struct as well as any padding