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Maybe. I just can speak from those politicians, I saw going there. There are some very incompetent instances in between. I can not see, how they (which I know) could be dangerous -- in spite being dangerous for the whole EU because of their decisions in Brussels.

It also seems, that many politicians just see the EU as a way to get much money very fast. The best idea is, just to cater the interests of the lobbyists.

But maybe the real problem is, that we only have incompetent politicians left. When I see, how the Germans stick to the "most competent women-leader" we have ... it is a disgrace.

Today, leadership in politics in reality seems to mean: Don't do anything at all and wait, until "the market" will do it right. How anybody could trust such leaders, that never solve a problem, but just shift things into the future (ultimately making the troubles worse) is just beyond me.
They probably did a mouth swab or drew blood. Not hard to do without hurting the turtle.
My point was that it's not enough to just build housing - you need to make sure the supply of public infrastructure increases accordingly. This is an existing problem in London, hence section 106 agreements and all that:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_gain
On an individual level I don't blame him, I blame the governments that didnt stop him. It's nothing personal, but if your culture and religion have ruined the place that you used to live, wanting to come en masse to a new, much better country, and practice your culture and religion there shouldn't be an option, you'll only ruin that one too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10424276
Yep, its brutal. No matter how hard you try, you can't convince anybody that 95 year olds are just as creative and productive as 25 year olds.
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Users with spending limits are not Apple's target demographic. If you have to ask how much data costs, you can't afford an Apple product.
Just as Europeans fleeing largely inter-European issues and inter-Christian disagreements in Europe shouldn't have been allowed to come to America? As we know nothing good came of that.
Completely agree. I can only hope that the day after an electronic voting general election, the new Prime Minister is Edward Snowden, because a result that looks kind of ok is not going to throw the whole thing in the bin.
abathur already got the gist of the subject.

If I asked her what women generally don't understand about men, she was unable to answer.

If I asked her what men don't understand about women, she replied with the standard feminist propaganda.

She had no special insight why women do things the way they do. (makeup, skirts, etc.) And she was unable to spot any non obvious differences between the sexes.

She's really not stupid. Just lacking perspective. Just like I am, but from different point of view.
It seems that also in this situation, money is key. Does this mean that most refugees that make it to northern Europe were rich people in Syria?

Also interesting that he left his wife behind. Is she not in danger? Or is the reason for going to Europe mainly for prosperity, with the idea that family reunification will allow his wife to come later?
The key to spinning-disk performance is to access it in a sequential manner. The effect of firmware that does things like transparent sector remapping is that you can never know what, exactly, is sequential and what is not.

The problems I have with stock firmware isn't that the stock firmware isn't good... it's that the stock firmware hides a lot of information that the rest of my system could use to make the access to the disk more sequential. It also makes the assumption that I want this drive to function by itself without complex zfs-style software on top of it that can handle errors.

The idea being that the drives are setup with a firmware that makes the drives okay in a configuration where it's a single drive running ms-dos. In a multi-drive, redundant configuration with something like zfs doing the raid, a lot of the "features" there (retrying for a long time on errors, remapping bad sectors) are problems that are handled far better at a higher level.

So... if your point is that I could just spend the money and get a storage appliance from emc or netapp, you are right, but those things cost on the order of 10x what local storage costs.

If your point is just that I'm being cheap, that's fair too, and that's probably why drive makers don't want open-source firmware; with closed source firmware, they can charge extra for the feature-set that is optimal for a RAID configuration, and less for the feature-set that is optimal for a single-disk configuration. Even though both of those feature sets might be pretty good for what they do, they are largely the same drive, physically, and even if they weren't, I'd be happy to have a somewhat less-reliable drive that reliably returned errors rather than hanging, if it saved me the rather large difference in price between 'consumer' and 'enterprise' drives. - right now, I'm paying the extra for the 'enterprise' drives even thought the overall reliability of consumer drives would be just fine for my use.
I hope you apply the same logic to the homeless that move into your local parks and community areas. They are just trying to seek economic advantage, wealthy people have more money to give. It normal to strive for maximum return on minimal output.

It just makes him human.
It does have that reputation. Presuming that being considered insincere is undesirable, I think people are keen to counter that urban mythos.

There's a combative culture here against the busybody with the bluetooth and latte discounting the people around them as an aberrant narrative.

LA has a culture of listening and compassionate attention if you reach for it. I was reaching for it for years in the bay but mostly found people pigeonholing me, not as an engaging human being but as a self-entitled bottomfeeder.
Well, technically, but when the startup fails he may be unable to retire or send his kids to college (or both). Risk appetites change. Someone that age should have savings, but not necessarily savings they can afford to lose.
I work with regulating entities just like the FDA. I know what I'm talking about. I doubt you do. Especially if you think my post was so difficult to understand that it required mental gymnastics.

Getting more than you give is the very definition of profit. It doesn't mean you don't give. It's a relative term. It is possible for both parties of an exchange to profit, from each party's point of view.

The letter you posted was the last in a series, where the FDA, after numerous attempts to explain what they needed, gave up and pulled the plug. It's like a divorce, there are often many attempts at reconciliation before the plug is pulled, but if communication isn't working for whatever reason, the papers are served. And usually pretty easy to understand at that point.
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The map resembles one depicting the route taken by a Germanic tribe of the fifth century, only with the directions of the arrows reversed: http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/151026_r...

This "refugee" became an economic migrant shopping around for benefits as soon as he transited beyond Turkey, a modern, prosperous, 99% Muslim country into which he could have easily assimilated.
You're right. Let's say it's a failure to consider the universe of possible explanations to select the simplest, by restraining yourself to the one you already like.
Ironically this is exactly how C++ itself started out: With a compiler that compiles C++ code into C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront
No, but a five year old could understand the fundamentals of why a paper ballot is secure, even if they do not evaluate the complete implementation. This system is a little tricky just to understand conceptually.

And here's the thing: voter fraud is very rare. IMHO, fear of voter fraud causes many more problems than the fraud itself. It is therefore critical that people understand and trust the voting system even if a more complex system is otherwise safer.
Great, I want to know more about it. Do you have some references on that?
I must be missing something. I from the resources I read I didn't find an indication that these laws mandate that traffic prioritization is must allowed. As I gather they just don't specifically forbid prioritization.

If I'm wrong please reply. Not having a law that mandates true net neutrality is a shame. Having a law that forbids net neutrality is a totally different matter !
European immigration to the Americas is pretty much the poster child for immigrants completely wrecking a place, taking it over, foisting their culture and religion on everybody, etc.

I have a lot of sympathy for people fleeing the conflicts in the Middle East, but European immigration to the Americas is probably the worst imaginable example.
We changed the URL back from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Fairchild, because the original story seems fine, except for its buzzfeedy title, which we replaced with a representative sentence from the article.

This one seems like a good candidate for reposting; please check your email for a repost invite. (This is an experiment we've been running lately.)

Edit: looks like someone else already reposted it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10445919.
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Incidentally, this is exactly what I am working on, grammar and parser are mostly done (the grammar is _regular_ and programs can rewrite themselves starting from their AST, because I really want something like `go fmt` one day), doing the transpiler at the moment, it's... interesting to say the least.

(it will be foss of course but nothing is published yet)
Sometimes you've got to speak a language that both parties understand. A dumb comment gets a dumb response.
If you care how much the other party pays, then you still have incentive to second guess their bid.

For example, in an auction fantasy football system, it is in your interest to make your opponents pay as much as possible for any bid they win. So if you believe they value a player more than you do, it could be in your interest to actually bid more than the value you place on the player in order to force them to pay their maximum bid.
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As much I know, you are right.

But you also must see, that when something (so profitable) is allowed, than it will be used. Such a loophole was long time awaited by the internet providers. They want a legal loophole, so they can better sell their services.

I guess, they are already in the starting blocks to sell "better services" to the highest paying bidder. How this will end and if the nightmares will come true, nobody can say.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10441742
The article trivializes Stallman by labeling him an extremist. The author seems to say, hey, Stallman may have a point but is still a bit too weird to emulate. Hey, if RMS is right, then most of us are severely ethically compromised when it comes to our computing decisions. If he's wrong in part (maybe it's OK to enrich and empower Google / the Government through our choice of systems?) then why is he wrong, and what does that mean for computer users and hackers?
Have we verified that it was actually AirBnb who posted these ads? There's information floating around which indicates that the ad creators were actually an anti-AirBnb party and were well aware of how offensive and tone deaf the advertisements were/are. [1]

However, it's hard to tell if that's just AirBnb covering itself in light of the negative public reception.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100700506082939&se...

EDIT: after poking around a bit more, looks like it is AirBnb. There are a few quotes about the advertisements from a spokesperson here: http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-takes-down-san-francis...
Use existing C++ (template) libraries? Does not seem that easy to me, seems that would impose quite a bit of complexity on the new language.
That's not how I interpreted the comment you responded to. I thought it meant that you didn't mean IT staff, which is true. When you use cloud services, someone else is yanking dead drives and replacing them, someone else has a 24/7 on-call rotation for dealing with power outages and fiber cuts, someone else is responsible for hardware at all levels and lower-level software stuff. That's how I understood that comment.

Now you're talking about DevOps, which is short for Development Operations, which is a developer role, not an IT role. DevOps people automate your buildchain and that kind of stuff. No one is saying that using cloud services means you don't need DevOps, though there are some cloud services that will handle at least part of what is traditionally in the realm of DevOps for you.
You're way overthinking it. Most voters belong to a political party, which is a public record that anyone can look up. Same for campaign contributions. DNC and RNC and various private entities maintain databases of voters' political leanings.

One wouldn't need to compromise the voting system to get a list of who (likely) voted for whom.
Always. I like upbeat foreign music (e.g. Korean pop) that I don't understand the language so it doesn't distract me. And Deep House.
HTTP's not inherently centralized either. What's your point?
Wait, what.

Am I correct getting this impression that what's being said is that auto mechanic work is somehow not "brain work"? Because for solving a lot of car problems it takes brains. If you're good at troubleshooting car problems, you will actually probably be good at programming.
mamon wasn't correct. Quite large number of people don't own the properties. Only 3-6% of people in Poland rent apartments. Others own the place or rent from a cooperative.

During communist times local factory provided flats for the workers. After factories were closed, government formed cooperatives to manage real estate. Currently, buildings are in complicated legal state. There was one period when current tenant could purchase the property for 10% of market value, but it was blocked (possibly by developers lobby). On top of that, some buildings and land have unknown owners because of WW2.

I'd love see an experiment when income tax is replaced by land and property tax.
> I would not call him a hero because I think that cheapens the word.

This is a blaming statement and is judgemental. The point here is that someone else thinks he's a hero. Heroism implies bravery, which is an emotion. You don't get to speak for other's feelings or emotional responses (like mine) in that regard just because he was homeless and your relatives fought in a war. Those arguments are biases and ad hominem in nature. I would note that you will be unable to present an equivalent valid logical argument without the introduction of biases. The biases are the 'tell' for the misapplied logic.

Heros don't need to be well spoken, socially normal or face danger. All they need is to display the characteristics of a hero, which includes someone who, from a position of weakness, displays courage. This describes RMS perfectly given the guy has stood by what he believed (courage) while being homeless (a position of weakness).
thanks. the successor to jffs2. as you can see, I haven't looked into this for a while (thus not knowing about NVMe until very recently) so I don't think it existed or was stable then.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic but yes you could apply the same logic to homeless people. But minimal output? You can't prove that.
Nope, point remains. If it's very clearly a BS email from a recruiter or some sketchy sales person you're still going to get marked as spam.
The same was once said for modems and audio adapters...
Interesting! The examples show a single master and single slave, but etcd blocks when half or more nodes die. How does Spilo deal with that?
That one didn't work out too well for the natives either, of I recall correctly. Is that really the example you want to use?

At least in that case, the invaders came from a more advanced (by every reasonable measure) society and once they were done killing and imprisoning the natives they built a more advanced society in place. In this case the invaders come from a backwards society and religion which has already turned the cradle of civilisation into a hellhole.
I had a similar idea for weighing pot, at least you dont need a scale.....
Lebanon is a tiny country flooded with refugees.

At ~10,000 km^2, it's only 50% larger than Delaware. There's close to a million refugees there, in addition to the existing population of over 5 million.

Not staying there is just common sense.

Also, is HN really the place to criticise someone for seeking economic advantage? This is a forum where people regularly discuss how to skirt US immigration laws e.g. to do YC on a tourist visa... There's that whole "ask forgiveness rather than permission" trope that startups swear by -- aren't illegal immigrants risking their lives in that spirit?
Growing old the Silicon Valley way is a prescription for loneliness
The fact that so many people thought is was a hoax is an amazing illustration of how terrible these ads were.
I am currently homeless while pursuing something I believe in. He has nothing but my deepest respects and it was meaningful to me to read his bio while on the street myself.

I didn't say other people were wrong to call him a hero. I said I would be unlikely to use the word and explained why. I think you have misread and mischaracterized my remark.
And this is why a lot of engineers fail in management, thinking people are like computers
“How is an alliance with Homeland Security and ICE is a good thing for Bitcoin?”
I guess it was just supposed to tap into general anti-tax (or anti-government) sentiment. I think you were supposed to read it as, "these tax dollars aren't going to benefit you directly" or "the government is going to waste the windfall from this tax so they don't deserve it."

Hard to say for sure. It's a pretty terrible ad on many levels. Even if I were sympathetic to the message, it seems like it would be a bad idea to remind me about the tax-funded things I enjoy when I'm deciding on a tax.
I certainly agree with the author's concluding sentence: "Forget the smart drugs and supplements; put on your shorts and go exercise." When he set up the opposing viewpoint earlier in the article, it made me cringe:

"I know, exercise is work, so you undoubtedly want to know if there is a smart pill, like Adderall or Ritalin, that will do the trick."

What an awful idea.

The mathematical and geometrical genius H.S.M. Coxeter lived to age 96. He attributed his continuing mental agility through old age to never being "bored", and to doing 50 push-ups a day.
Have you ever moved somewhere in order to improve your economic prospects? (For a job, or school, for example.) If so, what makes you any better?
America is the country that sends the most on health for the worst outcomes

America is the country that spends millions/billions/trillions invading desert countries and does not fund public education

America is the country where politicians have to publish in a register the bribes they take so voters know who they really represent (it is not he voters!)

America is the country that would not regulate derivatives and off market trading

America is not unique in any one of these things. But it is unique in being so rich and so dysfunctional. So smart and creative so cruel and failure prone.

And they have more military than the rest of the world combined, and they are quite will to use it for the indiscriminate slaughter of millions. Sending uniformed psychopaths all over the world to kill and maim was quite risky, so now all those smarts are turning to robots! Killing and maiming by remote control. Evil.

My hope? The USA elects a Tea Party slate of candidates and goes isolationist.

They can keep Elon Musk if they put their seven (or is it nine?) carrier groups in port and leave them there.

In a word (or two): Fuck Off.
A lot of you reading this are probably in your 20s, thinking that age 40 is impossibly far off. Secretly (whether you would say it out loud or not), you may be thinking that you will be rich at that point, possibly the VC that gets to judge and fund the 20 and 30-something entrepreneurs of the future.

The likelihood of this happening is extraordinarily low. The question you should ask yourself is, what kind of tech industry do I want to be a part of in 20 years? Are young people really smarter, or just more manipulable to the (likely non-technical) MBAs looking for lots of cheap labor and ebullient attitudes?
Especially when you have a concrete goal like winning a ballot initiative instead of just "raising brand awareness"
I think gp was refering to doctors being the white-collar of the three... and even with engineers they are not blue collar, mot legally at least... Exempt from overtime pay (salaried), no time and a half for OT hourly, etc. IT work is definitely white collar legally speaking.. even if considered at blue-collar by management types.
Looks like turtle soup is back on the menu, boys.
Classical music. Mozart, Bach, Chopin, etc.
Damn I was not aware of that toe thing.. Still, the man is a necessary figure in my mind, he's our "Dark Knight"
And actually for the whole world, not just one country...
I don't think so. I don't have an iPhone (at least, not in a long time), but my grandma does. And my neighbor, the driver of the taxi I was in yesterday, the mailman... I might buy that argument for their laptops and desktops, but not the iPhone.

Part of their appeal is making a phone that make the average person feel like a high-roller, but those people are just as much part of the target market as the wealthy and fashionable. Since the iPod, Apple has been pretty savvy about leveraging the appeal of their actual high-end products to increase the appeal of their more affordable offerings. At least, that's the only way I can explain the ridiculous gold Apple Watch.
I think part of the problem, at least that I've found, is how do you properly articulate to and galvanize a young crown on the concept of relinquishing convenience? To adopt Stallmanism is to sacrifice conveniences like the iPhone, and kids/teens/young adults are flocking to Apple/Google.

How can you get a kid to say no to an iPhone, when what you're asking him to do is extrapolate a vague and possibly non-existent threat of privacy loss? It's incredibly difficult and honestly without some real-world event to bring it home for these children I fear it can't really be done. Without an event, you'd be reliant on a cultural tidal shift -- it would have to be "cool" to be anti-Apple, or anti-tracking devices. It would have be cooler for kids to own burners than smartphones because they don't track you.

There will always be a subset of people who truly understand what Stallman is saying and will probably adopt his behaviors. But to actually appeal to younger audiences and disseminate that message effectively to a mass amount of them seems to be too difficult.
The assumption that a 45 year old must have a wife and children, and must require a higher wage is itself ageist.
At risk of down votes I prefer my heroes to be a bit more sanitary :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
Fantastically the UK just signed an agreement with China to let China build a fission plant in the most populous south east, with the usual capital cost and total lack of realistic decommissioning plans, and still the price planned for the next thirty years is already above all our other sources

Nice to know the govt. is still on the ball

/sarcasm
It depends, I've known of people to "break in" by offering to work the first week or two free, then negotiate. Generally you aren't going to work for a fortune 500 company as your first real job... but there's plenty of businesses that need someone to get work done, and can't afford market rates...

Beyond that, the self-starter is often a safer bet than a fresh college grad.