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I take your point. Last fall we drove for 8 hours, from Austin, TX to Big Bend National Park. We'd have to drive several more hours before leaving the state.

On the other hand, there are many subcultures in America. Just going from an urban environment to the countryside will yield a big difference in the perspective of those living there.

And having just recently moved to TX from the East Coast, I also now realize a marked tendency of those on the coast to ignore the fact that the country covers 4 time zones. Today I'm booked in meetings from 12-2, as east coasters overlook the fact that my lunch schedule is an hour off their own.
I have little doubt that (some of) the students were childish assholes. I also have little doubt that the professor handled it poorly. Probably, he treated them like children. This is incredibly insulting to the majority of students that do care, and it does not solve the problem. I have seen that play out in university classes. In the end, rather than telling the assholes to get the fuck out, he throws a temper tantrum. No one is in the right here.
I wish it had a notification system too. I don't live on HN and sometimes I forget to check my previous comments to see if there was any replies for at least a couple days.
>The high rates in the US have nothing to do with area size, it's due to monopolistic services

That's an opinion not a fact. There are four major carriers and several MVNOs in the US. That's competitive with a lot of European markets, where its easier to break into considering the much smaller population/size. Heck, the entirety of Finland's population is about half the Chicagoland metro area.

>Free roaming in Europe has many problems to face, but infrastructure isn't one of them.

I don't see how someone with a budget plan in a highly dense country is going to be entitled to have the same economics roaming in countries with low desnity where the cost, per sq kilometer, for 3G/4G service is much, much higher.

A lot of the cost for US service is making sure people out in the boonies have service as well. That comes at a higher cost than some of the more ultra dense European markets. Its subsidised nation-wide, which makes sense, but if you have a cheap Finnish plan because your tiny country is easy to wire up, well, don't expect those rates in rural Bulgaria or on a Greek island.
And I like HN for demanding explanation. Shout-out to all the skeptics!

I focused the problem with his argument into one sentence that made it intuitively understandable. Then I stated my opinion. I thought that'd be enough explanation.

Free market value is often obviously unfair.

For example, in many companies the highest managers receive a hundred times the average salary in the company. Nobody works for one hundred persons. They just get so much because they can take it.

Prices in the market are heavily distorted by - among many things - incomplete information, time delay, entry barriers, racism, stereotypes and criminality.

That digital distributors agreed on taking 30% doesn't make it necessarily fair. It is fair if it includes so much work such that so much money is necessary. However, I doubt they have so much cost to make their income per employee fair.

Why is it not fair if they earn so much? Because they don't do so much more for the society than for example the average firefighter and therefore shouldn't earn so much more money.
What they thought wrong about the student licenses is that students typically don't spread a word, but instead get used to the software and will (if they like it) ask their employer in the future to buy licenses for the company, so that they can still use it at work.

The cycle from student to employee takes a few years - so you would expect gains from giving licenses away for free to students earliest a few years from this offer.
Ugly and somewhat reminiscient of the early 2000s
Thats covered in the article by a quote:

“The administration is all about passing these kids through and making as much money as possible,” he said.
Heaving dealt with Valve customer service a few times, the 30% is definitely not going into training, hiring more or providing responsive and helpful customer service. Valve only get's away with it because they run a de facto monopoly.
Horwitz acknowledged that “a few” of the best performers might not deserve an F. But the school wouldn’t let him teach just those students, so he had no choice but to flunk everyone and leave the course, he said.

Wow—as a teacher myself, I went to this story all prepared to root for this guy, but can't. "[T]he school wouldn't let him teach just those students, so he had no choice but to flunk everyone"? Who knows what's going on inside the classroom that we don't know—but, whatever happened, regardless of the provocation, comments like this [0] are a stain on the profession of teaching. It is our (teachers') job to deal with our students professionally, and that professionalism on our part becomes more, not less, important when it is not demonstrated by our students.

[0] Assuming that it is an accurate representation of what he said. I was once the subject of a friendly story in my local paper, and, even with the best of intentions on the reporter's part, I was amazed at how different what she wrote was from what I meant (and, I believe, said).
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Let me guess, the software you write runs on desktop computers, web servers and such?
> Most people seem to be born that way.

>Look at the Stanley Milgram experiments.

Milgram did experiments on newborns?
Reddit is better if you want to focus your attention to certain topics such as /r/javascript or /r/reactjs, for example, and you'll be certain that you'll get all the relevant news (along with some noise).

HN is for general news, and new new things with deeper discussions. There's lots of noise on HN too, if all you want is news or programming related things. Lately, I think, 'intellectual-porn' has increased on HN (such as Wikipedia articles of mildly-interesting things), which I think are no different from cat pictures.

Quite often I spot something on Reddit, and then search HN for additional discussion.

(obviously you shouldn't follow the default subreddits, which are optimized for maximum addiction for general population)
My screenshot is from a PC with AMD A10-7850K with integrated Radeon R7 graphics. I always download the latest AMD drivers and check for updates every month.
Leave to it to modders to choose, if they want free or paid.

If you have financial incentive, more modders will come on to the scene and do it full time.
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And so it was accepted and merged. That something good came out of kdbus is excellent, but that's no justification to merge in the whole package. A ton of proposed kernel additions end up like this - a few good ideas refined and accepted, and the rest thrown out.
Looking good! I really like the list of features in your roadmap, those will be some big wins that will really set Caddy apart from other web server software.

One recommendation I would make is the addition of some simple load balancing, even round robin would be great.
i am having a hard time believing you are serious. are you actually saying that reason their are no pictures is because your possibly fantastical tree tractor was made in the 70s and google was made in the 90s?

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Awesome! I will try it for my personal website
echoing others I suppose, but I'll also recommend running a Linux VM as your dev environment.

at my dayjob I'm using an iMac and managing my virtual machines using Vagrant which loads an image of an Ubuntu Linux machine (same distro as used on our production servers). its a convenient setup in several ways. This keeps my dev environment a close match to the prod environment, and it lets me install packages quickly and easily for development using the usual Linux tools. I also get to continue using the superb desktop interface that OSX provides.
In the higher education it is not a lecturers job to convey the material to even the slowest of the class. The responsibility is entirely on the students side.

Education is selective and there is nothing wrong with it. Self-education is a very important part of it, and the only thing teacher really must consistently do is to help the students to identify their flaws as quickly as possible so they can go and address them.

But, yes, everyone must be able to retake any course any number of times, until either passed or pissed off.
Unfortunately you haven't. This is an oil rig. It's dirty, stinky and dangerous, but it works. :P

* Buy new instruments: thanks, that's in the pipeline, we'll hopefully roll these out next week or the week after.

* This is a good idea. :)

* Yup, our rating graph is quite interesting. We have a lot of people who absolutely love it, and we have had a lot of people who for whatever reason (mostly in the past) hate it.

Thanks for your thoughts.
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What a cunningly well-hidden secret! I shall attempt it myself at my earliest opportunity!

But wait! Surely there are multiple possible orientations and degrees of freedom for a horizontal human body? Even collapsing left-right symmetries, there is still a half-circle of potential orientations between supine and prone. And even that ignores the multiple possible limb orientations.

Obviously, more research is required.

Also, if the monkeys sleep lightly for fear of predators, I wonder how thoroughly the researchers disguised the human presence for the monkeys held in captivity. Both chimpanzees and humans are, after all, known predators of monkeys.
You were fooled by randomness and a poor analysis of prior probability.
I wrote options software for 4 years (and was in FinTech for 12) and I am just writing this to say that this is right (in case you are wondering).
That quote is from the professor (Horwitz). John R Shaw Jr is apparently one of the students.
One thing that I've always imagined but haven't heard much in these discussions is the real potential behind the Apple Watch being the near-magical NFC interactions that could be achieved with its position on the body. For example, paying for groceries, opening locked doors, starting cars, etc. I feel that someone would only need to see a Watch user wave their hand and magically do something once before wanting that same "power".
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The problem is these guys probably have full time jobs as well as modding.

If you had a decent way compensating them, the more popular mods could have full-time people.
This sounds like a deeply emotional issue for you. Do keep in mind that other people have a wildly different history with GPG than yours.
While I in no way condone censorship or dictatorship I can remember a few pieces.

Triumph of the Will is still looked at as a millstone in cinema, and the soviets produced very memorable sculptural works such as The Motherland Calls to name two. Both regimes also had some of the most memorable (propoganda) posters ever made, that are still awesome visual works to this day (even though the content they communicate is abominable).
At least one of Horwitz’s students, senior John Shaw, disagreed with the professor.

“Just ridiculous. I had never had a problem in the class. I thought I had done pretty well, done pretty well on the first test, and then I get an e-mail saying I am going to get an F in the class. It was overwhelming,” Shaw told KPRC.

I don't blame you for not finishing the article but they did get a comment from at least one student.
Do you have an Apple Watch? Is this review based on your experiences using it for some time?

I think in practice some of your guesses about notifications and interruption are proving wrong for most people because of the phenomenology of the Taptic engine.
Reminds me of this game.
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No, they aren't the same. But they are similar in that a lot of members of both will pay.

I lumped them in to the same bucket to highlight how mindshare can translate into value other than direct pay per view.

As for there being no excuse?

Sure there is. It's possible to do.

End game is really simple:

a. We make it a perfect, closed, trusted computing only world. That's draconian, and very likely not possible.

Suddenly, mindshare goes way down. People only get what they can actually pay for. What do you think happens with pricing, etc...?

b. We recognize that it's possible to do.

Mindshare stays high, and people compete for revenue, and or ways to leverage mindshare for value / revenue.

I'm in the latter camp, and am not judging people one way or the other, instead focused on getting the maximum value out of the activity and mindshare.

And here is the hard truth. They don't like infringing. Who does? But they absolutely do like the massive mindshare their work got them. So it's one or the other.

In the perfect world, getting mindshare might involve what? Say giving it away? Maybe allowing people to share it?

Interesting, isn't it?

Simple as that.
If you are on a VPN, who cares.
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> In order to discover merits of an argument one needs to really dig into the evidence on both sides regardless of so called consensus.

One of the links in my comment was to GENERA[1], a large database of peer reviewed GMO studies, feel free to "dig" away.

> 15 years ago how all my peers and many experts in the industry said the "consensus" on building web services was to use SOAP BPEL

First of all that's just generic use of the word consensus[2], not quite the same as the concept of scientific consensus[3]. Scientific consensus can certainly change over time (you wouldn't want science to just assume whatever if previously thought was right, would you?) but that doesn't mean we should dismiss the current collective judgment of scientists because they might change their position X years from now.

[1] http://genera.biofortified.org/

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consensus

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus
"I hope he can get the help he needs."

That appears highly unlikely given past experience:

"Speaking with the Houston Chronicle, he added that the university wasn’t responding to his complaints about their behavior"
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Such an awesomely stunning number. Waiting on a repatriation holiday. I wonder if it affects the currency exchange rates of the countries where it is stashed :-)
od -t x1, much?

As somebody who had to generate and read back tokenized files decades ago, I can vouch that little endian sucks.
Why on earth would anyone number the bytes right to left? Do you want strings to appear backward as well? But only the portion of a string on one line, the fragments will still be in correct order. Or do you advocate numbering from bottom to top too?
Thanks for the heads up. They had apparently put the balloon into stratosphere. Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32384570
Those are some big companies, and not a lot of them at that. I've had friends who've done 30 applications with only 2 offers. Don't be too hard on yourself, and apply like crazy next year. In the meantime email a ton of startups and ask if they're still hiring :)
> But Bethesda who developed the actual game that brought the modders and gave them a platform to derive their work on, not to mention creating the actual game and game engine and putting it in the hands of the actual customers; they should just get nothing out of this whole deal?

Mods represent value added to the game that wasn't provided by the original publisher. Each mod "fixes" a deficiency in the game, adds, changes, or removes something the original developer did not do from the baseline game. The changes add value to the publisher's bottom line by increasing the value of the game, thus stimulating additional sales.

Thus the idea that modders both increase demand for the game, increasing the publisher's sales, AND want the lion's share of the money paid for mods is repugnant.
Could you please support ZQSD (azerty keyboards)? You just have to alias Z=W, and Q=A.

It's a very simple thing, but almost no web game does it, which makes them unplayable on many computers. I shouldn't have to switch my keyboard layout to use a website :(
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I see the difference in the "means" (and one is way faster\efficient), but not in the "ends".
...where the media is completely unable to fend off relentless attacks on its sovereignty?

And in many cases, unwilling to do so. God forbid they lose the opportunity to attend the White House Correspondent's Dinner or be prevented from conducting a fluff interview of a person in power.

How many times in the past year have you had to go to non-American press services to read about something going on in this country?

Much of the Fourth Estate in the U.S. has rolled over and ceded any 'sovereignty' or moral authority. They have brought this upon themselves, by failing to call it out again and again and again.
>Can I build a watch face? No

Wow, really? I just built a watch face from a photo of my son on Android using some app. It took 2 minutes. I was expecting Apple to do this better; not block the functionality.

>Can I access the users Heart Rate? No.

This is bewildering. You'd think support for third party health apps would be a priority. This works on AW right now.

This product seems rushed. I guess Apple didn't want AW and Pebble to continue being the only smartwatch game in town. This seems to fall into the Apple conventional wisdom of, "New product? Wait until Rev A." AW isn't perfect but its kind of what I expect for a smartwatch platform. Its lightweight and somewhat of an accessory to your smartphone (not another app/ad platform), but still feature rich and developer friendly.
> Note that 25% is pretty generous when you're creating a derivitive work off of someone else's IP

Your opinion is in the minority, I'm afraid. By and large,the gaming community (on reddit at least) has spoken, and Valve took heed.
You can do bi-directional notifications between host app and extension with MMWormhole, which uses CFNotificationCenter: https://github.com/mutualmobile/MMWormhole
I think overall Apple has done a fantastic job of v1 of this product line, it's pretty polished. As an App developer who has been working on a watch App, while there is a lot you can't do I understand why you can't do it, it will come in time (native Apps later this year), and what is there right now is pretty good. Shameless plug, the App is currently in review: http://napkin.io
Interesting that they are using a separate process on the iPhone. Is that to prepare for a future where the whole extension will actually run on the watch itself?
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> What a colossal waste

How expensive do you think endianness-swapping is?
At least two of these are available for free download (as in "not pirated"):

http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/

http://www.projectoberon.com/
Three UK have infrastructure in place to DPI traffic to detect tethering and if it's not enabled on your Three UK account plan then the tethered device doesn't get internet access.

Three Ireland currently don't do this for Three Ireland accounts, though tethering is prohibited on All You Can Eat by policy, not by network infra.
The math is still wrong!
A million to one odds and a full USA population database means the 300 people are perfect matches, open and shut convictions! There was famous case that actually won (for the good guys) by taking this math to court.

These forensic anyalses do bad statistics (wildly wrong priors) and compute wildly wrong posteriors.
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You are referring to the report about Malmö & co.? I'm having a hard time finding an english-language analysis which isn't frothing-at-the-mouth xenophobia. If you know of one I would very much like to read it.
Fair distribution is one of the situations in which rationality breaks down. See the ultimatum game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
Personally, I'd suggest using something like Vagrant instead - more lightweight in my opinion, in terms of being able to instantly destroy & create a new one with 2 commands.

Although, saying this, there's no reason the OP can't just install Linux over (or alongside) OS X.
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Love the idea. One of my long-term goals is for Caddy to be able to connect with other instances of Caddy, both for site deployment and load balancing.
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Reddit caters to a broader range of people, so it is less focused. If you go to specific subreddits you can find great content and intelligent conversation. I've learned a lot from /r/swift and /r/learnpython.

HN would fit in as a subreddit on Reddit. In fact, I'd wager that if there was a subreddit /r/hackernews it would look almost exactly the same as this website.
> dismissing the anti-GM crowd as 'anti-scientific folk' might be unreasonable

As I pointed out in another comment[1] there's a wide gap between "what the public thinks and what scientists know" regarding GMOs[2]. Having an opinion that is the opposite to scientific consensus is by definition anti-scientific.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9451873

[2] http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/theres-a-gap-between-what...
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>If lone hobbyists can improve a game so much, can you imagine if a studio of 5-10 could make a viable living from modding?

If this was viable, you'd think that studios would consider paying small teams to continue patching and generating content for games for some years. </?>

Obviously this has happened with a few games, but one minor argument I've seen put out over the weekend was something along the lines of "why don't $studio just hire these guys?", and some sadness that it might happen even less often.
I don't lack the required technical understanding. The headline is correct; Linus identified several embarrassing and obviously stupid problems with kdbus, including security concerns, in that thread.
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Shuffling bits around takes basically zero effort, there's often a CPU instruction to flop them. Re-doing everything to be the opposite polarity takes tons of effort.
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Reddit seems to have a larger number of users and a broader range of topics. I don't enjoy the discussions/comments on HN, the answers are fairly predictable, and I mostly visit this site because I'm forced to.
I always work with utf-8 strings that get passed around from native C code to python. So far I have never had an issue. The argument for me for unicode support seems weak. Is there anything else beyond string encode/decode/manipulation? You mentioned tooling... like what?
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"Your Apple Watch app acts like a separate process running on a separate device, however behind the scenes the OS runs a ‘skeleton’ like version of your host application on the user's iPhone and the Apple Watch extension in tandem, both on the iPhone"

I totally missed this limitation until now. So the iWatch works only if you have an iPhone and the phone is in communication range with the watch?

What can the watch still do if the phone is offline or too far away?