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Indeed! The frequency of Service Packs post-Windows 10 will be key for remote users. I haven't looked into this recently, I wonder how easy it is for end-users to roll their own.
Maybe they can't do 11 because they have legacy code which looks for "11" in version strings due to Windows for Workgroups.
Maybe a continuous flow of changes will ingrain the process of adapting to changes into them a little more.
Thanks. If only everyone did that on HN... Someone should teach people they're supposed to upvote stuff based on how useful it is, not on how much they personally agree with opinions expressed.
It's wrong. He ignores that political candidates have their own preferences and strawmans that voter's preferences directly coincide with candidate preferences. He also strawmans that preferences are static and coincide with some sort of fundamental values.
This is a client-side tool. You do not have to deploy it. Any such tool would have zero dependencies server side. Client-side you can pip install most things in a few seconds.
Early history provided is not very accurate. And it is missing religions not generally believed any more.
Well, a resume, a phone conversation, a look at any code you've posted online, and a review of sites/apps you've worked on would paint a pretty good picture. We might ask for references not so much on character (though that too), but to know what problems they experienced in working with you at that distance and given the constraints you list.

Bottom line, your location and its limitations would not inherently eliminate you. If we were hiring and wanted to move forward with you as the lead candidate, we'd also need to check with our attorneys for tax and legal consequences of sending payments to Somalia. But presuming those issues could be resolved satisfactorily, you being in Somalia would not be an insuperable obstacle .
Analyse Asia Episode 28: Airbnb in Asia with Jia Jih Chai
> Do you think it's OK for a city to tell a neighborhood that they need to accept a certain set of non-discriminatory zoning rules based on land use, even if it's not what the people there want?

Residents answer to their neighborhood, neighborhoods answer to their district, districts answer to the city, state, and so on.

How to respect individuals, communities, and a plan for the future across all of those lines of responsibility isn't answerable with a simple "yes" or "no"; however, the onus should be on the individuals requesting the change to 1) justify its necessity and value, 2) quantify its cost to existing residents, and 3) recommend mechanisms for remediation or renumeration for externalities imposed upon the local residents by whatever project is imposed upon them to the benefit of the broader populace.
Similar for Africa(n) which leads me to believe that the periphery covers only what is extant and only the roots of those are traced back to their origins.
Synopsis: Chia Jia Jih (aka JJ Chai), managing director of Airbnb, Southeast Asia and India sits down to discuss the story of Airbnb in Asia from how they started in a diverse market and gradually build themselves into one of the important players in travel and hospitality industry. We also discuss the challenges for US companies coming to Asia from payments to regulatory issues, and how they have to adapt and evolve with the local market conditions. Lastly, Jia Jih shares his thoughts on how the sharing economy has evolved in Asia and whether the ownership centric culture in Asia will change in the next decade towards an asset light culture.
> Maybe, but live by fitness, die by fitness. Conditions change constantly, changing the selection algorithm.

If you look at human history over the long term, the role of the state has only expanded over that time. I'm not saying it's the only possibility, merely that it's the most successful we've ever come up with to date.

> If the state goes down tomorrow and chaos reigns, would it be reasonable to argue against trying to change the status quo because Mad Max had been selected?

Maybe. Ask me again when all states disappear entirely and fail to re-arise.
Ron Wyden Threatens Filibuster Over NSA Bulk Data Collection
Then your assertion was also tangential, as whether or not people have been successful at producing complicated software with OOP has very little to do with whether or not it has been discredited. People have been very successful at producing complex software that uses goto, but goto has been discredited. This is not because people thought that goto made it impossible to produce complex software, but because people thought that goto did not promote local reasoning well, which is similar to my objections to OOP.

Either way, my point was that there are many other paradigms that have been equally successful; that suggests that we should be looking at its other objective downsides in determining whether or not to add it to a programming language, rather than simply assume that it should be there.
Springer charges for some open-access papers, unless the journal refers you
You still need the land to farm, something that can be taken away relatively easily[1]

Especially now, with police force having citizenproof MRAPs, drones and all that lovely toys. Or they could tax you to hell and back and then use the toys.

[1]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
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Too bad you stopped reading. Just after this paragraph:

> Some clustering of logically unrelated beliefs could be explained cognitively—for instance, by the hypothesis that some people tend to be good, in general, at getting to the truth (perhaps because they are intelligent, knowledgeable, etc.) So suppose that it is true both that affirmative action is just and that abortion is morally permissible. These issues are logically unrelated to each other; however, if some people are in general good at getting to the truth, then those who believe one of these propositions would be more likely to believe the other.
Voter preferences affect votes - not political platforms. Political platforms espoused by candidates are reflective of the candidates preferences - not the voters.
It seems to be incomplete and inaccurate in a lot of ways.

For example, Christianity borrows elements of Zoroastrianism and Judaism is actually derived from ancient Babylonian polytheism. Maybe I just didn't see it, but Confucianism seems to be missing too.
The same thing that stops people from lobbing rocks through your windows or hammering your head walking down a street.

Everyone is always a few seconds away from having access to terrible crimes.

The mere introduction of new forms of crime does not necessarily lead to an increase in criminality. Nor does reactive policies to specific criminal narratives necessarily reduce it.

In other words, it's going to happen, just like every other crime already does. Existing infrastructures of human society can easily facilitate this new form of misconduct.
That Snowden document advocates doing that, but there is no indication it was being done or had been done or that policy had changed after the report was issued. That is far different than what the parent said:
"...the NSA is trawling the whole worlds commucations looking for commercial and economic inteligence, to be fed to US companies."

If there is evidence in the Snowden files that the US DOES do anything like that, please post a link. Finding that there is someone in government who advocates doing that doesn't mean much.
With that many servers, they should throw away the big friendly icons and just serve the labels. It's not like you couldn't recolour the labels to match and attach your number-of-alerts counter.
Wow. Nice taxonomic work.

It sure is a good thing there is only one true religion eh? /s
Nice try, Grady.

(edit... y'all, please let me have a little joke)
There's a whole depth of abstractions that people imply when they talk about OOP in JavaScript. In my mind they go something like this.

1) Using object literals for values.
2) Using object literals with functions.
3) Using object literals with functions and calling them in contexts (`this`, `bind`, `apply`).
4) Using the `new` keyword.
5) Designing objects with inheritance hierarchies or prototype chains.
6) Designing mutable and stateful objects with indefinite life spans.

I don't understand the arguments that classical-ish inheritance in JS is bad while prototypical inheritance is somehow better. I've worked in codebases that liberally extend objects into different types of objects with long prototype chains, and IMHO they suffered from the same problems that people complain about in classical inheritance: tight coupling, premature/wrong abstractions, gradual violations of open/closed, etc.

Personally, I go through 1-4 liberally and 5 and 6 conservatively. IMHO, complaints about inheritance mechanisms seem to have something in common with the people who talk about the special needs of "large-scale applications". Why not just make smaller apps, or make smaller things that compose with less knowledge of where they are?

NB: It's entirely possible that I haven't run into the kind of complex requirements where liberal inheritance is a good fit. I'd be interested in hearing stories about when that worked out well.
+1 for StoryWorth — a few members of my family have really taken to it, and one answers the questions each week. My sister and I are learning fun stories about our parents which would probably never otherwise come up in conversation with them.
If given sufficient distance and if they saw them. Mostly they go around.
Are you sure that you can get the 520 for the same price in Senegal as you get it in US or Europe?
Timelapsee: less video, more moments
So the universe was written in Logo?
I can see this in the consumer space perhaps.
They would need a lot of marketing to get people to pay up for a monthly / yearly subscription though. I figure that is how they will make money.

I can see consumers being annoyed have to pay every month to use the computer now. With the current versioned releases the consumer has a choice whether to pay for the upgrade or not.

In the enterprise space I dont see how this will work.
There are plenty of reasons that some companies are still clinging to Windows XP. For a large company to give up control over exactly what is on each computer and be able to plan long term is a non starter. Would we then see yearly "cumulative packs" being offered that can be tested prior to release?

Would there be a central tool provided by Microsoft for the enterprise customers that will allow them to control the exact feature versions, fixes etc for every computer centrally and that way to cumulative upgrades?

I would love for Microsoft to come out with a new Next Generation Operating system that breaks compatibility even more than Windows NT did back in the day. I think its long overdue but unfortunately i don't see it happening anytime soon.

They are investing a lot now in trying to use as much of the codebase as possible across all of their targeted devices. I
I really like that one, those tools are so foundational it seems easy to take it for granted.

How do I confirm that I've paid my due?
"In the meantime, several issues still need to be addressed. It is not yet clear how insurance companies might cover self-driving vehicles, for instance, or where blame would be attributed in a road accident."

Who is responsible is going to be the big make / break for all self-driving vehicles. I get the feeling this is going to be very messy.
Very interesting. And how much money would someone like you make and what is the cost of living for you in SA? I mean, if you do not mind me asking.
That's a very interesting section. There's a citation on "There are three reasons why I disagree with this explanation. The first is that value questions are objective, and moral anti-realism is completely unjustified" which cites http://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/objectiv.htm

A page which does not, at present, exist -

The requested URL /~huemer/objectiv.htm was not found on this server.
Apache Server at spot.colorado.edu Port 80
On a metaphysical level I think Grant Morrison touched on conventional counterculture in The Invisibles. Counterculture is just another, essential part of The System expressing itself. Things happen because of The system you're inside The System, and your "individualism" is an emergent property of it. The example I think he used was the police. Was there ever a year when nobody decided to become a police officer? If society was made up of free people making free choices, there would always be catastrophic upsets like this, but it doesn't ever happen. So to that extent, I think the article is incorrect because while you may feel more "authentically counterculture" the further away you are from "conventional counterculture", you're still just a slightly rarer perturbation in the tank.

Your counterculture is only useful if it combats or shields you from a dominant paradigm that is offensive to your values, and if you're alone in the suburbs being hardcore, you're probably losing. Unless your real goal is to feel cool, I guess, then by its own standards yes you are more counterculture than "counterculture". Establishment countercultures may be hypocrites because they don't recognize they're establishment, but they may also be creating systems that ultimately comfort the people in them. But it's probably not sustainable because your primary definition for a culture cannot be one of contrast to something else. America is a nation that has was born in and has internalized rebellion. This is probably the worst value we have, because you can't actually build on that for very long, it's "meant" for the tearing down phase of a bloated bureaucracy. As a nation gets settled if it doesn't abandon that value it will start turning inward and attacking itself, which I think is exactly what is happening.

Did I read too much into this essay?
Let's face it, political parties are designed to divide the people. Why that ? Because political power like every power seeks its own limits. It looks to increase its own power. In a (so-called) democracy, government negociates the boundaries of its own power with the people. One way to get more power for the governement is to weaken the people by dividing them. Now you see the people divided in many different ways with engineered and/or mythical social struggles : poors vs rich, women vs men, young vs old, native vs foreigner, religious vs non-religious, black vs white, gay vs heterosexual etc...

Everybody want essentially the same things, to have their essential needs fulfilled : food, home, health, family, freedom

A minority divides the majority and acquires dominion and prosperity, achieving an effortless and comfortable life.

That minority has essentially created the initial Ponzi Scheme and they need division, wars and struggles so that they can maintain their dominion.
Confucianism can be found near the center. It's the thick brownish-green branch that goes left near 0 AD.
I never hit the section that satisfactorily explained that there is irrationality. I just found a lot of circular logic and bare assertion.
How does airplane mode restart the phone?
Inheritance is no fundamental property of OO systems, and JavaScript has always supported it anyway (it just did not provide syntactic sugar).

JavaScript always has been an object-oriented language - arguably just not a partcularly well-designed one, and not a pure one (as not all computation happens through message passing).
Well self-hosted to me implies that they don't have anything on their end that has to run per-instance, which is the usual reason to do invite only betas.
Are things progressing with the Amazon Cloud Drive (Unlimited Everything) support? I think would get you a bunch of new users. I'm really eager to try it out.
Okay, that was a bad example. It's likely to be small, obscure features that break (assuming that major stuff will be caught by good automated testing). Not many people will rely on that specific functionality, so not many people will be affected.
> the language is progressing so much faster than

Because it was a haphazard design.

A lot of the progress is just Javascript catching up to thoughtfully designed languages like Python. That's a good and necessary thing, but the fact remains.
"This is where I stopped reading" is supposed to be some kind of intellectual badge of honor? "I found what appears to be a point I disagree with, and rather than reading on to see if my disagreement was addressed, I started looking for the comment button."
When a third-party is paying all procedures are recommended.
Anyone knows what software was used to make the visualization?
The best thing I've read about political differences is the book Predisposed http://www.amazon.com/Predisposed-Liberals-Conservatives-Pol...

It makes the argument (supported by copious research) that there are biological correlations of conservatism and liberalism with disgust reflex, taste in food and art, perceptual cues and threat response. I'm not convinced that they have the direction of causation settled but it is interesting research. Conservatives and Liberals literally see the world differently. No surprise that logic doesn't work to help either side sway the other.
That's demonstrably false. See, for example, the English NHS where there is clear guidance about what tests are appropriate.
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Is irrationality in politics a bad thing? The article seems to assume so, I'm not so convinced.

If you follow the "opiate of the masses" theory then the bigger the spectacle the better people are fooled into thinking their votes matter etc resulting in theoretically less social unrest, and the more yelling and sloganeering about politics, the less demonstrating and violence.

Another way to look at it is something that is rational is by definition no longer political. We can't have a political discussion about that subroutines memory leak, or how to fix it. Perhaps its not possible to have a rational discussion about an irrational lifestyle subject, aka a political topic. If it were not a non-actionable non-relevant opinion based evidence free discussion topic, by definition it wouldn't be political. So worrying about politics being irrational is like worrying about cats being excessively feline-like. Its not a bug, is the definition of the topic.
For people that aren't getting the joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc
Does this not also happen with most acquisitions in general? Look at all the companies Google has bought; how many of them have the actually done something with which has turned into a profitable arm of the business?
I think there are many inaccuracies. Many branches are dead but seems to be alive. Some branches are actually should not be separated. Nice try tough.
Short googling - Lumia 520 costs R1,1549.00 and 1549 South African rands = 129.886748 U.S. dollars
I checked some random branches and found a lot of errors and inaccuracies. Nice visualization though
Autonomous trucks will be there probably earlier than autonomous cars. For cars it would be a feature for people, but for trucks you would be able to save tons of money with it.
Just run it on another cloud...
> Judaism is actually derived from ancient Babylonian polytheism.

That isn't true. At best, and even this is debated, there are some traces, but it's not in the slightest "derived from".
> Humans are yet to master building cities on land let alone a floating one.

Last I checked people living in cities have a better quality of live than those who don't? We have the longest life spans and are happier than we have ever been in part thanks to cities.

> Dealing with the logistic and infrastructure of a floating city will most likely make it too costly.

I think you're missing the whole point of seasteading. It's about freedom from government. Which will include tax avoidance, even if it's 10 times the cost of a normal city it's still viable if the rich want to move there.
This hackathon is a good example of the hypocrisy of the progressive movement. Because the hackathon is clearly motivated by progressive politics (making fun of what is considered to be a White cishet male dominated startup scene), they get to break all their own rules regarding appropriateness or decency. Note that the hackathon is sponsored by Mozilla SF, so it can't be claimed this is not an industry event.

Here are some examples from the previous New York hackathon [0]:

Sexual content (ordinary nerds would be told that any sexual content is inappropriate during work/industry related events):

Golden Bitcoin Pasties, Focus Tools, Collaborative Fuck Bike, E.T. Strapon, Sado-Masochistic Macrame Planter, Tinder For Babies, "ok glass, vomit"

Making fun of mental health/development issues:

Stupid Font,

Body shaming and objectification:

Intellectual Babes Calendar

And here are some prize categories in the current hackathon that are similarly offensive:

Peter Thiel, Scatological APIs, Targetting The "Hikikomori" Space

[0] http://www.stupidhackathon.com/
Apple's move a few years ago towards yearly OS releases has drawn a lot of flak on HN for allegedly decreasing software quality. I don't know to what extent this is an inevitable result of the cadence versus simply Apple not having a good process at present (and to what extent the effect is mere confirmation bias...), but I wonder if people will start saying the same about Microsoft.
So a bit like Chromebook's constantly updating Chrome.

If people can opt out of automatic updates, the only difference I see here is the update mechanism and its default setting. Apple has to change 1 thing on its iOS updates to do the same.
why dont they just buy a cruise ship and set sail already?
There certainly are tech events that not shy away from such things, as much as there are hackathons that do not like such projects.

Also, most hackathons don't select the projects beforehand, whereas other events have to explain why they selected "bad" content.
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Not that I disagree with your basic point, but I also see no reason to assume that using something new/trendy like React or Angular 2 will be any better a year or two from now. It has always been the case that building around a framework trades off quick initial development and having reasonable defaults for a lot of common tasks against often making more specialised tasks harder and the risk that within the lifetime of your project the framework you rely on will no longer be supported and developed as actively as it was when you first adopted it.
I don't know how to continue this discussion, because I don't see the part in section 3 where he talks about voter preferences directly coinciding with candidate preferences, nor the part where he says preferences are static. Paul Graham says[1] people should quote the thing they disagree with before they argue against it, and I think that would help here.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Yes. Youtube-dl and ffmpeg. Code will be posted on github.
Same here. I'd love to start seeing it appear in various projects on HN, so we can have the discussion of pros and cons as we have had for the last 18 months on Rust and Go.

The Rust developers have done a fabulous job of posting here and answering questions in detail, and I hope the Kotlin guys at JetBrains will eventually start doing the same thing.
whose national security? you forget you do not live in the only country in the world.
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The obvious question is, how are we going to pay for this?

With no periodic releases of new versions, it seems that Windows 10 will either be a subscription based service or, in all likelihood, a collection of subscription based services and extra features with a free, but spartan, core.

It's an interesting move, but I suspect MS is severely underestimating the backlash that will exist against monthly OS subscription payments.
Hackathon certification, what?