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It rather is the argument! The problem with your perspective is that it's completely undefined and the words you used are so pliable, they can be used to suppress more or less any kind of speech.

For example, in the UK recently there was a notorious case where a Muslim teenager posted on Facebook that he hated the soldiers who went to Muslim countries and killed women and children, and he hoped those soldiers would go straight to hell. That is 100% pure political speech .... so what happened?

Well, a woman who was the mother of a soldier saw the post and was of course terribly offended. She reported him to the police, on the grounds that nobody should be allowed to criticise her boy's choice of career. The police arrested him and he was tried in court. The plods said, "He didn't express himself very well and that's why he's now in a spot of bother". Sounds so pleasant, doesn't it, except he was found guilty and sentenced to community service. It would have been jail but he agreed to renounce his heresy in public.

The moment you say "I support free speech but not if it upsets someone" you don't have free speech. The entire purpose of protecting free speech is to ensure ideas that some people might find ugly or insulting can still get heard and debated, and thus to keep flexibility in the political system. It must be possible to enrage other people with your speech.

I'm not an absolutist, there can be some exceptions - for instance I don't consider publishing a list of people's passwords to be "free speech", but the definitions of what's not acceptable should be incredibly tightly defined. And no countries laws even try, really. Especially not in Europe.
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Spot on. I am very reluctant to try supplements from unknown brands, because I've heard previous scandals (in my country) where the amount of supplement has been way off (both too much and too little), without any serious action taken against them.
I thought the actress who played Mima in the US dub of Perfect Blue did an amazing job. I can happily watch that film in English.

On a slightly different note, whilst trying without success to find the actress's name on IMDB, I just found out that the film's director Satoshi Kon tragically died of cancer 5 years ago. We lost a film making genius.
Any system will be gamed. In this case, you are encouraging making coworkers happier, which is often not done by being a more productive worker.
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What was Einstein trying to solve when he came up with relativity?
I don't think technology has some dark magical power where we can put our scruples into. Those scurple coming from that absurd job struggle.

Are we so bored with the struggle for life? Is that game really fun?
Well I had this issue with mercurial 2 years go.
You think market conditions will make taxis safer? Why do you think we have OSHA? Why do you think selling products with lead paint in them is illegal?
I would love to throw those quote at any programming class that promotes OOP.
I'm playing devil's advocate but a lot of the reason why places refuse to take Scottish notes is that in the early 2000s, the English notes had been updated with tons of security measures, while the Scottish notes had not, so forgers targeted Scottish notes (since they could produce very believable replicas) and the market got flooded with them. So for every

Thus why the bridge series was introduced in 2007, to add much needed security features and to make Scottish notes respectable again.
This is clearly going too far.
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What I meant was that fax machines are still in widespread use by all demographics in Japan, so getting a lot of faxes doesn't indicate much about the age or aversion to progress of the senders.
The prime difference between Uber and, say, factory automatization is that it's not certain that Uber is strictly better.

All things considered, full-time drivers make less with Uber, have less benefits, and are generally worse off. There's huge amounts of literature concerning the effects of, say, not having health insurance on general job performance (spoilers: it doesn't make them better at their jobs).

So in the end we get lower quality rides, even if they're cheaper (which they aren't always due to surge pricing!)

Obsession with lower costs inevitably bring about generally lower quality goods, empirically (already happened with food and consumer goods, compare a French supermarket with an American one).
Additionally, it's not a religion. Every programmer should be exposed to Unix style programming just like every programmer should be exposed to functional programming. 100% purity in either case is just creating unnecessary problems.
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> And just as The Gang of Four gave us AbstractedTangleMessFactorySingleton.

Hey, not funny. I actually googled that pattern just to make sure it was a joke.
yes but... as stated, current taxi drivers won't sweat a bit to actually improve their services, which are generally deemed as sub par to be polite. but they will go great lengths to hurt any sign of competition, even users who show interest in it.

how much more rotten their behaviour must be for you to start caring about customers more than them? of course it's not black & white, but this industry is in grave need of disruption, and one is coming. i don't care about them any more than they do care about me, fair deal.
it doesn't work this way. Taxi license are free. A finite number of them were issued by the state.

Taxi drivers are willing to pay $250k to get a license from other taxi drivers! It's a token that get passed around.

The day these license are worth $0, the last owners will be screwed. Ponzi ?
I mean, seriously. It's hard enough to come up with an innovative technological idea that people actually embrace and to turn it into a viable, sustainable, profitable business. In fact, that's SUPER hard, it's one of the hardest things there are, that's why there are so few people who successfully manage to pull it off. It's also why we reward them so seemingly disproportionately.

Through all of this, an entrepreneur is responsible for all sorts of things - industry regulations, business regulations, local regulations, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, investor satisfaction, life/work balance, keeping the environment clean, etc, etc, etc, in addition to the actual product or service and the long-term success of the business.

Now you want to also make me responsible for the social norms that I'm disrupting? Thanks, but no, thanks. This is NOT my responsibility. That's what governments are for. Governments are by definition socialist structures responsible for the well-being of the "working class". I am the opposite of socialist. I'm here to disrupt - don't ask me to step on my own toes.

I mean, soon you'll be asking me to compensate the bankers that my fintech startup is disrupting...
Five years? According to wikipedia it's been around since 1996.
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Curious if you think someone will ever step in and really displace Adobe and Autodesk in any meaningful way?

Or is the feature curve too steep.
Ian is linking from twitter for the images so your company is probably blocking twitter. Evidently, however, not the equally large time-sink that is Hacker News!
>Living in a more sparse city, the only way to get a cab is dispatch. It's terrible.

Isn't Uber basically dispatch? Or are there extra fees involved? Serious question
So you think the managers should just look around, say "yup, we deserve to fail" and give up?

No. That's not the way it works.
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Hello Hacker New, I've been on a quest to find a corporate cloud data storage platform for over a year now, and have yet to come up with anything that fully meets an enterprises needs. Here is a list of what a true solution needs, anyone know of a company that I do not?

Centralized File Storage not tied to any one user, but to the company account.

Admin controls over folder permissions, regardless of who uploaded the folder/files

Individual file vesioning. Most providers have this.

Folder level versioning to allow an entire folder to get rolled back to a previous version, instead of each file individually.

Functional LAN syncing between clients on a local network in order to avoid massive bandwidth usage on active accounts.

File Locking! This seems to be the Achilles heel to cloud storage? I can't believe a company would roll out a product as enterprise ready without file locking. We use to have a cloud storage provider who had file locking, and it worked great for us, however they took the feature out because it caused problems for other clients.

No Maximum file limit, Size limits are ok if we have the ability to purchase additional storage, but onedrive for business has a 20000 item limit per site, and a 5000 limit per subsite. Meaning nearly every one of my clients cannot use onedrive for business.

Please HN, help me find something that works!
No, I'm (foolishly) responding to an Onion article of all things. The claim is being made that the U.S. is the only place where mass killings with firearms happen. I'm merely stating this isn't true.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll give it a go. I've just downloaded it and a few small details give me pause (non-native UI, inconsistent high DPI resources, okay but not great localisation), but it also looks legitimately useful. Does it learn from past transactions how to assign categories, or do you always have to do that manually?
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You can't hail a taxi in France. Either you wait at a designated spot that bears a Taxi sign, or you need to call for them.

There are a few apps that work great in Paris like 'Taxis Bleus' and are more convenient than Uber since you can get a taxi to pick you up in a few minutes (they are usually more taxis around you than Uber cars).

Having said that, I'm all for competing cab services. The French taxi system has been games to protect a the taxi drivers at the expense of the users, resulting in high prices and an less convenience (can't hail a taxi).
The saddest thing is that Java never implemented support for Objective-C 'Categories' so Java programmers are forever doomed to write classes called StringUtil full of methods that really should be on the String class. After 20 years of Java programming this still annoys me.

That and making 'byte' signed.
The same happens in the Netherlands. However, that doesn't mean that it's legal. It's just that it's so convenient for both parties and IT contractors are so well paid that nobody challenges it.

I assume this is the same in most countries. IT contracting in it's current form is only viable because it's well paid and IT workers are rarely organised.

(And there's a major vested interest in keeping it this way, hence the rapid removal of this excellent article from the frontpage of HN yesterday: http://socialistworker.org/2015/06/24/class-capitalism-and-t... )
> instead of being better to keep their business, they just want to keep their business by being the only players, leaving no choice to customers but to use them.

At least in the states it's impossible for traditional taxis to compete with Uber because they're so heavily regulated and Uber just like transportation laws don't apply to them.
Germany has a law about this, with some exceptions that would specifically apply to cases like this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_§_86a

When a movie like Iron Sky has no problem being shown in German cinemas with the swastika left untouched, because it's clearly art, then it should be fairly obvious to Apple that banning historically accurate representations in historically accurate interactive art is far overreaching; though not legally, but ethically.
The most important requirement for the testing methodology is double-blindness. Only someone familiar with proper scientific testing procedures would know that, and even scientists who should know better have gotten this wrong. Most people would probably think that single-blind testing would be enough to confirm whether this works or not (assuming you couldn't judge its plausibility on pure physics principles), but you would be amazed at the ability of humans to pick up informational cues unconsciously. The way dowsing works, in general, is through ideomotor responses[1]. The stick moves due to unconscious muscle movements that are amplified by the instability of the rod itself. The muscles move unconsciously based on what the person believes.

Even if the person who is operating the device doesn't know if the grenade is present, they may be able to pick up unconscious physical tells from the person who does (if he is present during the test). When the person who knows sees the tester approaching, they may unconsciously reveal this knowledge through body language that could be picked up by the tester. A similar phenomena occurred with a horse[2].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_phenomenon
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
Banning the symbol will only add credit to and strengthen the idea.
There really doesn't need to be any other comments on the thread either. This sums it up nicely.
I thought the Union flag had somewhere around 35 stars.

It's Apple's playground, they can do whatever they want. This seems ham fisted to me, but i understand the desire to simply eradicate all evidence. They're not in the business of historical accuracy. They're in the business of selling stuff. bad feelings about imagery interferes with selling stuff.
I can't find this pattern on swiss bank notes. Any idea if the swiss bank notes can be copied on xerox machines? Or do the swiss banknotes use a different pattern?
I have paid subscriptions to the legal streaming services and own a handful of the anime series I watch on DVD/Bluray. I still almost always download releases off of websites - some of which are actually just the legal streaming release repackaged into a form you can watch offline. I'd be happy if the services I paid for gave me a reason not to hit the shady fansub services.

Why?

* There are specific fansubbing groups that have a well-earned reputation for quality. They consistently do a better job on translation where even major shows will have glaring translation errors on the paid services. Some of these groups even manage to do it quickly.

* The video encoding is superior in both size and quality. (Sometimes video quality issues are down to the original broadcast looking awful, due to how HDTV works these days.)

* I can download an entire season of a series I've paid to watch, and watch it at my leisure on a laptop or tablet. If I wanted to stream it off Crunchyroll I'd need to have a stable network connection at the time and hope I'm not exceeding my 4G cap (on a mobile device). In practice the streaming players will break, too...

* Often the paid services release an episode days or weeks late (to be fair, usually due to negotiated agreements). This is a pain since it's very hard to avoid spoilers from people who watched it day-of in japan or quickly via fansubs.

* The viewing experience is better. Most of the paid services still use a flash plugin, which is pretty much a worst-case for watching 24hz video content - judder, tearing, dropped frames, bad upscaling/downscaling, etc. Worse still, the paid services often butcher the color-space and framerate of the video. When you combine all those small mistakes together, it's REALLY distracting to watch an action scene on these services. Sometimes the color-space issues render entire portions of scenes invisible.

Aside from a discussion of whether the localization is being done 'right' - dubbing vs subbing, 'literal' translation vs natural translation - occasionally the paid services treat content with respect and I have no reason to use a fansubbed version. Those are great moments, but they're extremely rare. The last time I can remember this happening was the (FYI, pretty gross) series Kill la Kill, where the translation was supposedly provided by someone hired by the animation studio. There were no errors in translation, the script felt natural, and the video was good. Those occasional successes are part of why I still pay for the services I rarely use.

FWIW the manga industry has this same problem, but far worse. It's a miracle official English localizations of manga sell at all. Every company in that chain seems to be inept or actively taking steps to hinder their sales. Manga piracy is an actual business online, unfortunately, where anime piracy is more of a casual thing - there are dozens of websites out there that make money running ads on pirated manga. Naturally, the pirated manga usually ranks #1 on Google.
I'm not an SEO expert just asked around around the office, Googled it, and then acted. I was just a backend dev and this (a part from a couple of vague forum questions) is not that well documented, so I don't know how this works exactly.
I agree. It's one thing to stop selling actual Confederate flags, it's another to try and scrub any mention of a historical event or depiction of a certain symbol in context.

Apple is certainly within their rights to do this, but I think it's silly and impulsive.
> They have all the power they need to develop or implement modern messaging protocols. Granted they can't charge for it

And they do, at least here in europe: https://gigaom.com/2014/02/20/oranges-libon-messaging-app-le...
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Looks like these are all gone. Shame, given the lack of both points and comments.
While Neal is good the type of people Alex staffed while at Yahoo are insanely good. I only worked under Alex for a few months before he moved to Yahoo but he can staff very strong teams. For example, he bought out Leaf Security to work for Yahoo.
This is absolute BS. Using a flag in a historical context should not be censored. Did they sensor history apps? Once again, app developer take a hit while "real authors / artists" don't have to deal with this crap.
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Please - do enlighten me.
There is nothing that says "the standard is longitude,latitude". If you want to be picky, most implementations say "easting,northing" and in a geographic coordinate system (e.g. EPSG:4326) that means longitude,latitude. There are so many "standard" coordinate systems out there (see https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Geo-Projections and http://spatialreference.org/) and many times the units are different (e.g meters, feet, etc using a cartesian coordinate system).

To be fair, if you look at most geo APIs (e.g. GMaps) and you just blindly copy values around without paying attention, you are more likely to be right if you were copying [y,x]. Mind you I say most and not all, since there are very popular geo libraries (e.g. Leaflet) that use [x,y] instead.

I would just pick something, make sure it is well documented and clear and just go with that.
It is certain that Uber is the superior alternative. People are not stupid, they wouldn't drive or ride if it wasn't their best option. Anecdotally Uber is 300% cheaper and arrives in 5mins as opposed to 55 in my city.

You've referenced literature and empirical evidence, citations please.
The conspiracy theory version of this is that the people responsible are really just fighting against the larger nation states. The type of bomb that these things are designed to detect are mostly used by people rebelling against such nation states. So in a sense, McCormick has stuck a blow for the "little guy" in a way that a reasonable person would think impossible.

A true anti-patriot... Possibly the most effective anarchist ever...
Check out the Beluga Razor from Beluga Shave Co., problem solved. (Drops the mic)
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This is one reason why pounds on TV shows and in movies is often bundled. They cannot legally print both sides on one sheet of paper, so they print one side on one and one side on another, and then put them at the ends in wads. If you ever see both sides of a note in TV or film then it is the real deal (at least as far as UK pounds go).

A lot of "stage money" has a washed out fake on the other side just in case it gets caught on film (so at least the colors are right). Same colors, the words are nonsense, and none of the detail remains.
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Author here; the non-vector loop still has a branch with a less than check if you do it the straightforward way.

The whole benchmark is artificial, hence my warning.
Mind you, The Verge is a publication that has loudly and aggressively defended its biases, saying that biased journalism is better than unbiased journalism.

As far as I'm concerned, The Verge isn't a real journalistic outlet and shouldn't be seriously. They're half an Apple shill blog and half a left-wing political publication. That's not journalism.
So what about all WWII games that have a swastika, or any number of historical flags that are simply referencing history rather than supporting an ideal?

This is plain ridiculous.
Incidentally, this is what neovim does.[1]

[1]: http://neovim.io/doc/user/msgpack_rpc.html#msgpack-rpc
Personally I found it disappointing as it seemed to take the view that the only UNIX in existence since 1992 has been Linux.

A better title would have been the Art of Linux Programming or the Art of Open Source Programming.
For a while, Linux mostly had the philosophy that your software should come with a text interface, optionally a GUI, and a C library. That library part is for solving the messes created by tangled text interfaces.

But nowadays lots of things only come for the GUI.
I can't help but notice you managed to write something approximating the length of a short essay without once pointing out any "bullshit" in ESR's technical writing, let alone explaining how said "bullshit" must derive from his wrongthink.
It is a historical reference. This clearly was not well thought out.
Are Siri and the Wikipedia app next on the list ?

I don't understand the ban on the historical apps - the civil war did happen and the confederate flag was used.

Are nazi flags and symbols banned from ww2 games ?
There's a pun in Azumanga Daioh about a cat's tongue. In Japan the expression "cat's tongue" means one dislikes spicy food; the joke would not have been translatable without some flavor text explaining the expression.

A lot of anime is like this: full of dualogue that should be translated as-is to capture the immediacy of a joke or expression, but that has context that doesn't make sense to a non-Japanese without explanation.
You don't say! New rules for entrepreneurs: sit down and consider the disruptive consequences of your new startup. Next, take on the responsibility of simultaneously incubating and encouraging the social reform necessary to prevent such situations. Oh, and don't forget to spare some time for the startup. If you're a journalist or someone benefiting from the new startup, you're 'pushing it' so you have a job to do as well.
Will they also remove WWII games with Nazi flags?
Two days ago it occurred to me that I hadn't watched cable in approximately two months. I watch TV every day. I watch Netflix that much.

If I could get AMC and FX as standalone streaming services, I'd probably drop cable entirely. The few network shows that I watch come in great with a digital antenna and the rest is streaming content.

Things are going to get very interesting when we cross the tipping point.
Of course, we're pretty proud of our git support. We also support "connected repos" where we keep a repo in Cloud Source Repositories in sync with a repo you specify on GitHub or BitBucket; if you make a change on GH or BB, it's reflected into GCSR and vice versa. The idea is that you should be able to integrate with the features we're building on top of GCSR without making you move away from GH or BB. Useful?

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