whowalrus

I feel your pain. My all-time favorite phone was the Moto E2 (4.5-inch screen), and would still be using it if I hadn't dropped it in water. I don't think I'll ever get a budget or semi-budget phone that is as comfortable to use.

Is that a genuine question or a rhetorical one?

Another oft-cited reason is because vinyls can't have a "brick-walled" dynamic range, as it often happens with new digital music thanks to the loudness war [1]. So audiophiles tend to favor it.

From the article:

As explained earlier, due to the physical limitations of vinyl, there are limits as to how loud you can press a record, and because vinyl is “for audiophiles” – there is less incentive for record companies to compromise the quality of vinyl releases. As a result, many vinyl records are mastered differently to the CD release with more dynamic range and at lower volumes.

[1]: http://www.soundmattersblog.com/vinyl-vs-cd-in-the-loudness-...

> who cares if a VP at Google and VP at Xiami moved to Facebook?

Xiaomi's global vice president Hugo Barra is leaving the company [1] - 124 points, 87 comments

Hugo Barra is joining Facebook to lead virtual reality [2] - 99 points, 37 comments (as of the time of this posting)

So I guess some people DO care. Feel free to read through the discussion on both stories as to why those people care. If you're asking me why YOU should care, I don't think I can answer that question.

Also, sorry about the snark in my previous answer.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13461387

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13488837

Touche.

> Just think - the time you spent writing that snarky response could just as easily have been spent writing...

Is it better to feed fish to a person, or teach them to catch one?

I admit that I was snarky as a response to the entitlement I sensed in his reply to the LMGTFY link. When I come across a discussion on Hacker News (or elsewhere) talking about things I don't know, I take a moment to Google first.

Because asking "who is he, and why should I care?" (which is what the original question amounts to) isn't contributing to the discussion much either.

I'm on this site a lot, I know who it is and I understand why it made to the front page. It would help everyone (you included) if you try Google first whenever someone (or something) you don't know is mentioned in a discussion. Even if you search for previous mentions of Hugo Barra on Hacker News, you'd learn that stories mentioning his leaving Xiaomi have made the frontpage in the last few days [1]. As a person who is on this site a lot, I'm surprised that you aren't familiar with him.

Let's not even get into what is (or isn't) juvenile at this point.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13461387

Civil (and informative) comments like yours are why I come to HN.

Can you help me see how the title is clickbait?

Extremely fascinating. Seeing the alien-ness of the creatures, I wonder if any fiction writers have written well-researched stories set in this portion of the ocean? Seems like it would make for a fascinating setting.

Yup, that's what I meant too - I just mangled the sentence badly, sorry.

Ah. The post is using the correct 'its'. I started doubting my grasp of grammar after I saw your comment, and after reading through Merriam-Webster's article on the usage of 'its versus it's', was ready to punch out a snarky retort about how it was _you_ who got it wrong.

Good thing I clicked on the link before all that.

This news item is an eye-opener for me. As a Wodehouse fan I'd always assumed the Nazi broadcast incident was a small blip in his life. Did not realize it had such a major impact on his life.

FYI a lot of it was staged/planned [1][2]. 'Pumping Iron' was almost like a proto-reality show. Arnold "played" the role of a villain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumping_Iron

[2]http://spotmebro.com/pumping-iron-what-was-real-and-what-was...

Agreed, humanrebar explained it well!

I stand corrected.

Doesn't mean it is not marketing.

I do not agree with the death penalty either, but your logic seems flawed to me. I don't have to share ALL the morals/ethics/worldviews that my heroes have.

Now if he came out against death penalty at some point and then reversed his stance, your accusation of hypocrisy would be accurate.

Edit: I was wrong about what hypocrisy meant - please see humanrebar's reply below.

The "dark" part of it is if the dialog doesn't explicitly tell me that it will take me to the App store once I click on one of the buttons.

Otherwise I don't mind such dialog boxes.

While I agree that its an extremely complicated problem to solve, I would be more inclined to believe they are trying to solve it if they took responsibility for (at least some of) them, instead of saying:

"We don’t favor specific kinds of sources — or ideas. Our aim is to deliver the types of stories we’ve gotten feedback that an individual person most wants to see."

Of course they could be working behind closed doors, while PR spins its yarn, in which case I wish them best of luck. It would be interesting to see how they solve it.

> Now to anybody who thinks he can control the internet and what people read/think/discuss I say good luck with that.

Well Facebook _is_ doing that as we speak, but they don't consider it controlling what people read - they're just giving their users what they think they want. For their bottom-line. Which is their business.

But there's no harm in pointing out that a for-profit entity isn't behaving in a socially responsible manner. Even if you or I don't use the platform.

I see a lot of commenters bring up privacy viz. tracking transactions and tax avoidance. Now I'm all for respecting people's privacy; but I also don't see why the govt. shouldn't be able to detect and extract what is legally owed to them.

Raghuram Rajan, the ex-RBI governor was in favor of tracking transaction data too (and wasn't in favor of demonetization), especially since he felt that the tax rate in India is already reasonable compared to other Industrial nations. [1]

So instead of ending the discussion at "It invades people's privacy, full stop", can we talk about ways of ensuring greater chance of collecting taxes? Maybe examples of how other countries have successfully tackled it?

[1] http://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2016/nov/10/the-cle...

>You mean less useful and smaller denominations, not "newer". They are trying to make cash unappealing to use by requiring more bills to carry out a transaction.

They removed Rs500 and Rs1000 from circulation, yes. A newer _Rs2000_ is already in circulation and a newer Rs500 soon to follow. So this statement is inherently wrong.

> If the government came and said "Because terrorists drive cars between the hours of 1pm-3pm, we are banning all car use between those times."

The govt actually said "Because terrorists drive fake cars of model A and B, we're making it illegal to drive A and B on the roads. Anyone who has a legit model can take it to the manufacturer to get it replaced by a newer model." I'd still be upset about the discomfort, but at least the example used would be more accurate.

> The government is unjustly punishing the whole class because some individuals made the decision to break the rules, and as punishment, it is now harder to maintain financial privacy. Yay. Just what I wanted, less privacy in the age of everything is in a database and everyone is on a list.

It is currently estimated that just 1% of Indians pay their taxes [1]. I don't have any views on whether there will be a drop in financial privacy (since I see the govt tracking bank accounts, which they were always able to do), but I'll be glad to see that number rise from a paltry 1%. Also, cash transactions aren't outlawed, so you're more than welcome to keep you transaction "private" if you please. There are talks of a cap to cash transactions, but nothing has really materialized yet.

And finally, I'm not for or against the measures the govt is following. I'm glad _something_ is being done, but am also skeptical about how effective it will be in the long run. It will depend on what additional measures the govt. brings to curb further accumulation of black money with the new denominations, and the ability to buy and hoard assets bought by said black money.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/03/guess-how-many-people-pay-tax...

Thanks. So if I'm not wrong, what you're saying is even with demonetization and a transaction cap, they will barely make a dent in the state of black money in India. Am I correct?

From what I've read, I would agree with that.

> That could have been done gradually without banning notes.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but banning notes is to bring about a few changes like forcing people to declare black money and fighting the counterfeiting industry (just to name a few). Like you pointed out, the cash transaction limit could have been brought into force without banning the notes, but by combining both, isn't the cap more effective in deterring accumulation of black money in the future?

> Introducing higher denomination make even more less sense.

I don't quite understand this. Higher denomination or not, the cap is on the transaction amount, so how are they related?

> There will be a cap on the maximum transaction that can be done using cash.

Thanks, I've been hearing rumors about this too [1]. Would be a welcome step if and when the govt. implements it.

[1]: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/demo...

Genuine question, any official sources about the changes that are coming soon?

But what I don't see are measures to ensure that people will continue to deposit money in the banks / pay their taxes. While I appreciate the move to force the turnover of black money now, what stops someone from starting to accumulate black money again, lets say a few months from now?

I hope there are measures being taken in that account.

Exactly.

There are rumors of bigger and more hard-hitting changes by the Govt. down the line, but yes, as it stands now, the system is still broken.

A nice little article. I have fond memories of Nokia too:

- Nokia 1100 was my first mobile phone (the days when you would need to charge a mobile phone once a week!)

- The Nokia Lumia 620 was the first smartphone I immediately fell in love with, both for the OS and the industrial design (it felt so good to hold in my hands!)