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Well I hope I am not one of the ones who've been unhelpful here :)

I am sorry to hear that you've experienced this and it's frustrating for me from my position especially. I am fascinated by the kernel and determined to become a regular contributor (I'm working on a driver atm), but also would obviously vastly prefer a positive and helpful community.

As an outsider looking at how hard it is to move from trivial patches to non-trivial it seems like even getting there is a real challenge, let alone to come in with an attitude that I'm going to stand up to cultural issues, so I wouldn't presume on the latter, but not because I think being abusive or toxic is ok.

I am enthusiastic about becoming a part of the community and always try my best to treat others with respect, so hopefully if I am successful at becoming a regular contributor I can help even in some small way to improve things :) and hopefully as you say there are others who feel the same way.
I'm in Chicago and was impacted.
> "How else is anyone supposed to litigate trade disputes?"

In a court system with public oversight, just like the rest of us.

> "Shouldn't it be immediately obvious why a company that ostensibly had mining rights in Canada can't expect a fair result to a dispute with Canada by suing in Canadian court?"

This is the reason why ISDS clauses came into being, to discourage governments from changing rules that may affect their profits, even if the choice was made democratically.

Whilst I understand why companies would want it, I see democratic decisions as having precedent over company profits. If there's a situation where one side has to lose out, then I'd want that to be the company rather than the people of a country.

It's a risk investing in infrastructure or products that can cause problems with public or environmental health. Why should the people of a country have to carry the can if a company chooses to make a risky investment?

Here's another example of a ISDS trade dispute, El Salvador being sued $301 million USD by OceanaGold, with El Salvador resisting the gold mining that OceanaGold want to carry out because of the risk of poisoning their water supply...

http://www.equaltimes.org/will-el-salvador-be-forced-to-pay?...
Glory days, can't not smile when I remember tech decades old. I still have two buckling spring Model M keyboards and they are really made to last. Oh and bought them when they were new and selling, that's how ancient I am.
I really wish IBM starts doing complete PC line again.
The "enabling bill" refers to the phase after the TPP has been signed, when US law is changed to enact the TPP.

The 60-day review period occurs before the Fast-Track vote which can authorize or deny the signing of the TPP.

From a comment by kahirsch: http://i.imgur.com/k6Je0Dz.png
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From what I understand, you can't rate people anonymously. Of course, this probably doesn't prevent someone from going to the effort of creating a fake profile, but I don't think anonymity is the primary factor here.
> Then how do you explain the success of Yelp, which is basically the same thing but for businesses?

Yelp is successful as a business, but I consider its impact on businesses to be negative, because Yelp has a perverse incentive to let businesses influence Yelp reviews. Naturally, businesses complain about Yelp, even though consumers like it. For the same reason, people would complain about a rating system for people.

> Or the school system, which is already designed around rating people?

This is perhaps the most toxic and least successful part of the modern education system.
> I don't like how invasive our security agencies are but if they end up preventing major crimes or terrorist attacks I can't say what they do is wrong.

What if they're just using the information to further their own personal power and fortune and forestall any potential rivals?
Was it ever real? Starting to think the answer is 'no'.
I keep the battery out at all times, even when I'm using it. Just to be safe.
I'm not muslim but did live in Saudi Arabia for many years (aramco) and have to say that the saudi government is very devout when it comes to hajj. When accidents happened, the entire country was upset regardless of the news blackouts. The ability to provide hajj underpins the royal family's authority. They take is very personally.

But a few things...

(1) The ban on non-muslims is not as tight as portrayed. More than a few westerners have been to mecca, many to advise on hajj matters. There are also legendary stories of non-muslim children being brought on hajj by saudi families. I heard stories from neighbours, things more than rumours, but never met anyone who actually witnessed this.

(2) Lots of the people sleeping rough do so by choice. Many simply do not want pillows and beds during hajj. For them it isn't meant to be comfortable. More hotel-type rooms may help, but it will never get everyone off the streets.

(3) Security is a huge issue. Religious extremists have caused plenty of trouble. The Saudis have large numbers of soldiers hidden just out of sight to quell any repeat.

(4) The clockface is horrible, but that is the style in the country. People who go to Vegas sometimes remark about that style, but it is just a matter of taste. If you were living there it wouldn't seem nearly as bad. The clock itself also serves a purpose. Many pilgrims do not wear watches, most all are suffering jet lag and much of the process is now indoors. So like vegas, it is very easy to loose track of time. The various clocks are all big and horrible, but do serve some function. (It also has to be a mechanical clock, else everyone would insist on arabic numerals, which I've never seen on any digial wallclock.)

(5) The King actually does hajj each year, during the appropriate time. He has guards, but they could do nothing for him in a crush. For a man his age we have to give him some credit.
I would be surprised if Apple has let a vulnerability of "send text message, pwn phone" linger for very long. Article doesn't mention brands or versions, but it is quite important to fully understand.

Or does this work at a lower level? I've heard the radio chips themselves are untrustworthy, but how would they control the main OS on another chip?
This sort of mindset is what is hampering India. Be Indian first, then think south or north. Soldiers at the border are from the entire country and they are protecting our entire nation, not "south" or "north"
"carbon reinforce plastic is ultimately just fancy plastic"

NO, it isn't.

That is a very erroneous and dangerous assumption.

Carbon Fiber Composite is an Engineered Material, which is very different from ordinary plastics or metals, in just about every important way.

Please see my comment above and do some research, but do not spread this false concept.
Can anyone discuss the ergonomics of the Kinesis? It has MX Brown Cherry switches which are easier on the hands, for example. I've often wonder if its unique shape had proven benefits. Many people have tried using it but have given up. Is it better than an ErgoDox, for instance?

http://ergodox.org
That's right, and the only cure, really, is smarter, more informed customers. I'm not blaming developers, especially cost-optimized offshore developers for not taking a client-protective advisory stance with their customers. They are not paid to do that. On the contrary, as you point out, the more agreeable they are to even the most harebrained customer requirements, the better for them.
Snowden isn't "rolling out headlines over time," media companies are.

Although it's obvious Edward Snowden is consciously trying to leverage media (and now social media - his Twitter account is obviously image-conscious) to his advantage in keeping the narrative alive, let's not act like he's actually running things. The linked article seems to be as much advertisement for Snowden-related BBC properties as it is an attempt at maintaining awareness of the subject of Snowden's revelations themselves.
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It says "~1700 mutations per neuron", not "up to 1000 mutations".
even in the 90s people would half joke half serious comment about how the government watched all online communications

The 90s actually had one of the most visible examples of NSA intervention, that of the Clipper chip.

They assume hearing repeated information wastes the time of everybody.

The issue isn't really repeating things, as much as the fact that it took up until Snowden for people to start being legitimately shocked, when they bluntly dismissed decades of prior art.
I like it, and I would like to be the first meta comment about the topic. Please reference my proposition from 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=10274226

I actually have been thinking about this for some time and while there are many things to consider, this is a problem Mozilla could get behind. My assumption about them is still unsubstantiated, but given enough research, it is a solution that is in serious need.

I might do a write up on my detailed thoughts on the subject.
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Hi HN-- Michael from Nylas here. We're super excited about this launch, and happy to answer questions about N1, including plugin architecture, design, features, etc.

A few Nylanauts will likely hang out in this thread today. Would love to hear what folks think! :)
They did say "non-scaling." Though that's a bit like saying any competent shipbuilder could build a non-floating boat.
The question I have is the issues around crashing a device via texts[1]. Was that part of this scheme? Was it put in there on purpose?

1. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/55893/20150527/one-text-me...
Trackpoints are fantastic once you're used to them. Particularly for reading long documents - they had a "scroll mode" button that would let you use the trackpoint to scroll through a document one-handed without moving from the home row. I miss that thing.
Is this really what "people in 1900" thought? It looks to me (and the article says so) that it is what artists thought. Although interesting, I think it is worth noting that most artists are not technologists today, presumably weren't in 1900, and so can't really represent the best, or even in general (as the general public don't consist of mostly artists), of what we think about what the future holds.
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> Getting things installed and set up is where 70% of your time goes when you’re starting out. (...) I remember whole days dedicated to just installing a damn module. This is normal.

It's not normal to struggle with installing modules / libraries. It's just Python sucking. Normal programming languages rarely give you this kind of headache.
You can look at it this way. When the WTO agreement was passed, opponents worried that it would lead to a massive transfer of manufacturing jobs to China, which could undercut the US with lower wages, laxer safety and environmental protection standard, etc.
Supporters claimed that it would benefit the average American, not just the wealthy, and that the spread of a market economy would bring democracy to China, which would then pass labor and environmental protection laws similar to our own.

What actually happened is that the WTO led to a massive transfer of manufacturing jobs to China, inequality in the US has increased, China has shown no interest in democracy, the working class there still enjoys low wages and poor working conditions, and they are now the largest polluter in the world.

On top of that, the US as a whole has been weakened, and the fact that we have thrown away any chance of conditioning access to markets on the implementation of air pollution regulations looks ever more regrettable given global warming.

I think it is reasonable to look at that and adjust your priors to trust TPP opponents more and TPP proponents less, even in the absence of any TPP-specific information.
I see the mechanism you're talking about, but as I said, this doesn't seem to happen with technical information. For example, if some one writes an intro to AsyncIO, there are basically never comments like "this should be obvious to anyone who read the PEP," or "there's nothing here that you couldn't infer from the source." It seems to be something about privacy/security stories.

I think that it stems more from a nihilist-chic then a borderline autistic inability to understand that other minds contain other information.
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Source: https://github.com/nylas/n1
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I'm super excited about this. I'd love to see a serious collection of apps/extensions for the platform. I love the ecosystem around gmail, but I despise using their web-ui. I'd love to have the flexibility baked into a modern app. I've tried every email app and none of them cut it. They start off promising, but quickly degrade into feature-bloat (Airmail) or development is discontinued (Sparrow, Mailbox?).
Aren't there a bunch of old SCOTUS cases establishing that Congress can in fact delegate, and that the Senate process doesn't have to be followed when the administration is acting merely as a negotiating agent for Congress?

As you can probably tell, I did some quick Google research, and the constitutionality of TPA doesn't see to be a particularly contentious issue, despite being discussed frequently. Got a better source than any of mine? (I can only assume you do.)
To generalize. If a change occurred at a [hot] path of a [deeply nested] map, then only [React] components that depend on the data at any subpath would perform the dirty check (i.e. executing shouldComponentUpdate) to re-render the component.
Is disabling Javascript or cookies equally selfish? Because it seems like the same thing from where I'm standing.
Almost certainly. Twitter's user base is not growing, and their product basically hasn't changed in 5 years. They have a valuable brand, but they need to figure out how to fundamentally improve the ease of use of the whole thing and make a decent value proposition. Photos, messages, videos, search... make the app not suck.

Snapchat and Instagram are very quickly taking over the celebrity/new/sports one-to-many angle from Twitter. Once celebrities depart, Twitter will have only news, and that's not enough most likely.
The WTO did accomplish this for several decades, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_World_Trade_... and it would be worthwhile to understand why public interest stakeholders have been excluded from TPP.

Excluding public stakeholders from the development of legislation will not make their issues disappear, it will only force those concerns into alternate vehicles of expression, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent_of_the_governed
How "natively" does this deal with GMail? My experience with most non-google mail clients is that the GMail support is almost always broken or ugly in some way. Does it archive correctly? Label correct? Does it make use of GMail's IMAP extensions for doing the right things? If not, how does it work? What level of integration into the GMail workflow is there? I have for a long time desired a good desktop client for GMail, but all of them rely on an unacceptably bad mapping between IMAP and GMail idioms that I still have not found an acceptable one. How does N1 differ?
Probably a dumb question but why did the world need another SMTP solution? What was OpenSMTPD supposed to do better?
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He's the one who provided the evidence.

The evidence was there for a while. Most people could not suspend their disbelief long enough to take it seriously.
It's a whole lot more than 'sensitivity'. It's an anonymous abuse engine which holds no merit to begin with. What, exactly, would be the benefit of such an app?

"Hey, I just met this great girl and she seems nice - oh, here on Peeple I see that 27 people in high school said she smells funny and one person says she murdered a baby."

With no verification or checks, what exactly is the point of this app, other than to be used to abuse people to suicide, ruin marriages, get people fired or other similar nefarious tactics? Are people really going to be all that interested in using an app to say 'hey this dude seems swell'.

What's going to prevent people from accusing random men of pedophilia, or random women of cheating on their husbands, or saying some person uses cocaine all of the time at their employer, without proof of any of these things or even a real connection to someone?
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Neato! Thanks.
The translation to C would be * const, not const *. Const is strictly better than let because it prevents a certain class of bugs - use it everywhere possible instead of let/var.
It's a lot simpler to setup and configure than Postfix or qmail. It promises all the nice privilege separation of those daemons too. The appeal for me initially was that it would be small, simple, and very secure.
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Yea, it would be great if we could debate the actual treaty.
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"Describing the relationship between GCHQ and its US counterpart, he said: "GCHQ is to all intents and purposes a subsidiary of the NSA.

"They [the NSA] provide technology, they provide tasking and direction as to what they [GCHQ] should go after." "

This is the juciest part. This is the confirmation we've been suspecting for a long time: CGHQ is the NSA, and all of their programs are shared. This means that we can pin the worst abuses of GCHQ onto the NSA, and also confirm that US citizens are directly targeted by even the most outrageously invasive surveillance efforts-- there is no exempt population, proving the NSA's PR lies once again.
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No, Helvetica is not a fascist font
You describe a tech problem, and not a really intractable one.
It already has "real time communications (as, yknow, the main purpose of the service)", it can already do GPS coords, and expect payment integration soon.

I'd love to see Twitter become a "command line of the web". Add voice integration on top of it via siri/google/etc, and it come become the plaintext glue between a lot of services.

What we have here is a pub/sub message transmission layer that just happens to be used by a lot of people for personal communication. Having machines use that for other things is something that's already been experimented with - using it as a de-facto API layer is a logical step.
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Could people have just improved the configuration or setup of already rock-solid qmail?
It is extremely unlikely that the brain encodes information by introducing controlled mutations into DNA. Random mutations would add noise, not information.

It is likely that some mutations affect the efficiency of signal propagation, and encoding might adapt to this, so that equivalent inputs would create more or fewer or "stronger" or "weaker" synapses to generate the same output from the second neuron. But this could be detected functionally, if you could observe the signals and responses of neuron pairs.
Hi, congrats on launching!

The FAQ sent me to the README for a completely-local installation instructions that I would like to try out, but they're not there. Where can I find them?

Thanks :)
I ran my own mail server using OpenSMTPD and Dovecot for a little over a year, and found OpenSMTPD to be very easy to set up and configure. I needed something light, that I could easily tweak to fit my needs. I mostly got things working reading the man files, and asking for help in the IRC channel (thanks Gilles). I also looked into Postfix, and I'm sure it's great, but the amount of configuration options were a bit daunting.

I think the project deserves more contributors and more eyes to look at the code. A fantastic foundation has been laid, but we can't expect Gilles to be able to do it all alone. This is a diamond in the making!
I'm sorry you neither know how to respond nor understand the meaning of the term non-sequitur; a clear line exists between one comment and the terms found in the next.

You may find this article helpful or simply search for "Nondelegation doctrine" for more detailed analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondelegation_doctrine The TPP far exceeds the setting of tariff rates and negotiation of agricultural imports and in fact borders in several areas on setting legislative policy imperially.

For those readers interested in what "fast-track" authority means from Congress' perspective [pdf] https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43491.pdf is an excellent resource.
Exactly. We as people are not inherently predisposed to steal, take for granted or abuse. While these are strong words and they may not be related to all cases uniformly, we want to participate without taking anything away from the other party.

Google Ads is the embodiment of leveling that relationship now, and seeing that the conversation has shifted towards supporting creative processes which make the web great.- we need this. We just don't need Google Ads or ads in general to be the medium for transfer.
Yep, it does all the right things. All the "heavy lifting" here is done by the Nylas sync engine which works natively with Gmail labels, actions, search, etc. and those same semantics are exposed in N1.

We've spent almost 2 years building the sync technology, so it's very stable and flexible. You can check out the IMAP code here: https://github.com/nylas/sync-engine
I'm a big fan of immutable data structures, but I will caution people to blindly adopting them just because they've heard they are "fast" and it's something that has been popularized by companies like Facebook.

The vast majority of apps, when properly designed (and using things such as paginated datasets, and properly managing memory/cleaning up after themselves), do not need immutability.

You should first ask yourself, is this a problem that can be solved with immutable data structures, or why do I need to have huge data structures in the browser for my frontend? Unless it's a very special case, you can do more for frontend performance with lazy loading, and some good old fashioned performance analysis (take inventory of event listeners, look at a heap dump from Chrome dev tools, etc) than you can from adding the significant developer and cognitive overhead of immutable.js or its ilk.

It may seem nice to say if obj === obj2 and if any deeply nested things have changed it's just a pointer, but as others have mentioned this is not the primary use case for many UI's that are constantly recomposing and creating different kinds of data structures from other data structures (think map, creating a hash from an array, etc).

There is no silver bullet and premature optimization with a highly specific design pattern is the root of all evil. Don't worry about performance until there is a legitimate performance problem that needs to be worried about.
Yes but fortunately the last two letters of SCOTUS means it doesn't apply to 96% of humans. Peeple is/was canadian.
Looks similar. Keys are straight up and down which is the same. Biggest difference would the lack of curve and built in no wrist rests.

Oh and it is missing functions keys which means I could never use this.... The kinesis has crappy function keys but at least it has them. Can't program with an IDE without then.
Hmm, not specifically, but if I was being pushed, maybe a little bit more about how you found the f/e with clojurescript/om.
And it's sent as part of the host, hence plaintext.