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> That's your evidence that WSJ is run by a bunch of conservative shills?

No, that's my evidence that the article contained sloppy reporting which conveniently aligns with the WSJ's anti-China bias.

There is plenty of other evidence that the Journal is run by a bunch of conservative shills.

Climate Science Bias at the WSJ
http://www.forbes.com/sites/petergleick/2012/01/27/remarkabl...

One example of that bias
http://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870393940457...

Under Murdoch, Tilting Rightward at the Journal
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/business/media/14carr.html

"Does Ownership Matter? The case of Rupert Murdoch's purchase of the Wall Street Journal"
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17512786.2014.882...

And for more examples, see here:
http://mediamatters.org/tags/the-wall-street-journal
It's also interesting to note that Germany (and elsewhere in Europe) also have the degrees of Doctor of Engineering or Doctor of Technology. If one believes that PhD's should be more philosophical/theoretical (and I'm certainly cool with that), you should also add a new, comparable, degree for people who really want to spend few years digging into the hardcore technical side of their chosen field.
It seems to me that English is more prone to it due to the easiness of turning nouns into verbs (as opposed to French for example).
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This article, about scurvy on Scott's expedition, is also fascinating [1]. I've seen it posted on HN before as well as other (excellent) articles from the same blog, but I think it deserves re-posting.

It makes me wonder how many other diseases might have been 'cured' without being fully understood, only to reappear later.

[1] http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
Sounds like human sentence parsing is better fit for handling predefined definitions and additive sentence building, and isn't fit for recursion.
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I had a friend/college from Russia, he told this is the case there. During the thesis defense there is a section reserved for Philosophy (of life, meaning etc). Any Russians care to elaborate?
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Solution that works for me is to add the ppa from this page:

https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Everything else requires having to turn off lightdm service or having to ssh to the machine to reinstall the drivers when something goes wrong.
Yep, I see. I was asking because Serbian Ministry of Health just signed contract few days ago with as it appears to be the same company that did this sw in Macedonia.
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if you're seriously concerned about this, then the answer is to backup your notes periodically. There are a number of ways to do this - the one I use involves installing Evernote locally and then periodically exporting the database into Dropbox. Of course, this doesn't guarantee that your notes won't fall into the wrong hands. To avoid that you'd need to either encrypt your notes or run something yourself.
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Yeah I know, the card uses a lot of energy, and the potential crossfire issues are not nice. Still, it is an answer to the 980 Ti (or rather, the 980 Ti was an answer to the 295X2).
Is that true? I may be off base with this, but as I understand it if the encrypted traffic you're trying to crack was encrypted using a certificate chain not descended from this root certificate I wouldn't have thought having this root CA would help.

As I understand it the vulnerability is that anyone who can obtain this root CA from a Dell machine can sign their encrypted traffic to appear to be trusted and secure, even if it's not, to other Dell machines with the same root CA. You can pretend to be someone you're not to those other Dell machines, but it doesn't give you a backdoor into chains of trust that don't descend from the same root CA.

I suppose this might allow you to do a MITM attack, but not decode traffic you've passively snooped. Otherwise this root CA would have just totally compromised all internet security.
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I can just answer that myself.

At first I didn't find a security contact on the Dell webpage. As I'm a journalist and as I investigated this issue to write an article (for Golem.de), the media contact was my logical next point to contact.

Around a week later without a reply I saw that hackerone had a list of security contacts for large companies and found that there was a contact address for Dell there.
> For one thing, it involves actually shutting down the site so isn't really a viable vector for mass censorship.

automatic DMCA abuses showed perfectly well how with cooperating partners we are all screwed.
NVidia proprietary drivers are slightly less terrible than AMD's but basically unusable on laptops. Desktop is a far smaller niche. There is nobody that is getting these bugs fixed in distros in a timely fashion, because NVidia doesn't care about laptops and distros don't care about proprietary drivers. See eg this 2+ year old unfixed bug in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/1220426 (hundreds of comments and subscriptions)

AMD open source drivers are on the other hand are pretty stable and work quite well for things like WebGL, light gaming etc.
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I find it interesting that we have solid grammatical fixes for this problem in some cases, but not all. For example,

The horse raced past the barn fell

should never be written like that. The fix is:

The horse, raced past the barn, fell

But:

The old man the boat

really can't be fixed, other than rearranging the sentence altogether.
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Can't elaborate on the thesis, but prior to enrolling for a PhD program you indeed have to pass a philosophy exam. This is usually considered the most difficult. Passed it in summer.
> Converted to Islam in the last few decades.

Uyghurs have always been Muslim. Infact their genetic makeup is Turkic as opposed to Han/Hui Chinese.

I'm aware of the PRC's attempts to remove any sign of self-identity by force-feeding them during the Islamic month of Ramadan, and banning beards, etc.
"wo" is definitely o in Hepburn. It is in ISO 3602 too, but that has an exception for wo.

I did some research on Japanese wikipedia (四つ仮名) and found that most uses of di and du were changed to zi and zu in 1986: ふじ(mountain) and ふぢ (flower) are now both written ふじ.

There is a list of words that have changed and ones that haven't.

The government decided that the particle wa should be written ha in 1955:

助詞のはは,はと書くことを本則とする (an actual law)

I don't really have a point, but I now know a lot about kana usage.

ISO 3602 makes a lot of sense to me because it is unambiguous in principal, but also allows phonetic spelling when necessary.

With the number of variations of romaji I have seen, even in official usage, it's a wonder why they bother.

I have found Japan to be a place that makes a lot of rules, then makes following them optional (then saying "there is no excuse" when you break them and get caught.)
At least you live in a place where DST makes a difference. It doesn't help a bit in northern Europe, I'm pretty sure we only do it to keep time parity with central Europe.
Good point. A lot of parallels are being drawn with Superfish, but the Dell issue appears at first look to be just incompetence. Further investigation might finger Dell for more than that, but it's clear that Lenovo/Superfish was intentional subversion of customer privacy and security in full knowledge of exactly what they were doing and what the consequences were for customers.
In a shooting war with multiple players in a relatively small region with no buffer zones this was bound to happen.

And I'm worried about the consequences of a conflict,
even a low-intensity one, between Russia and a NATO member.
> While it's true that AMD has "better" open source drivers I would not go as to say by far, because they are usable and that's about it, you can't use them for gaming no more than you can use the OSS Geforce ones

That is wrong. Since a few versions (since Gallium3D arrived, if I got that right) at least you absolutely can use them to game. I played Witcher 2 on them last week. Also many easier games work fine and stable (Kebal, Mark of the Ninja, Mount & Blade… not hard stuff, but still needing working drivers with 3D performance).
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Good point, like "Ypres" or "Orleans". Thanks
Public agencies face a different process. One can't just sue such an agency for damages directly; one makes a financial claim against the agency instead. Then, if the claim is denied and not settled, then one can sue.
A cynic would say it's a case of the carnival folding up the tents and leaving town before the locals figure out that the midway games were fixed.
In other words when your money is worth more (compared to other currencies) you can buy more with it.
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Han Chinese were implanted in there to prevent Uyghur homogenity. So, why do "Anti-Terror" efforts involve force feeding muslims during the Islamic month of Ramadan? They have a Chinese flag affixed inside Masjids, and a lot more, but I'm sure you get the drift that not many of us are ignorant about the atrocities inflicted upon them.
Propaganda is a tool to start a war. It has nothing to do with the reason to start a war.
> I would like to see the daylight savings time abolished and going to permanent summer time here.

Daylight savings time is summer time. Sounds like you would like to run on daylight savings time year-round (as would I).
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Yes; the mob mentality is unfortunately something much harder to fix than even trigger-happy governments. (I am thinking about the recent hoopla about Trump's remarks. For me, the problem isn't what HE is saying - the problem is the fact that he finds people who agree with him.)
You might be right. I just went to one comparison site:

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/amd-radeon-r9-390x-review/1...
With declared types programmer is still guessing the meaning and IDE doesn't care anymore.

I think that's the reason dynamic languages work because guessing types is easy for people. Guessing meaning is the hard part.
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I can't say much since I don't work at Apple, but I've noticed this past year that any time I need an appointment they are booked at least 4 days in advance. This is in the US, not London.
I tried to dig out the references from my mess of bibliography (I worked on this topic long before Mendeley and alike appeared), unsuccessfully.

I remember that I ran into this technique independently first (in a context of encoding expression trees) and then found a number of other examples in the literature (e.g., encoding the neural network topology, etc.).
980ti wasn't an answer to 295x2, more like the nail in the coffin, it came out couple of weeks before the Fury at a lower price and at about 1000 times more availability and just pulled the rug under AMD's feet.

NVIDIA was smart enough not to get into the fight with dual GPU cards it's a loose loose situation.
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We have a webservice where people can create their own web stores, we are hosted in Europe.

Issue is that many of our US customers can not browse their new created sites. Took us long time to figure out that the issue is with carrier AT&T.

Getting desperate here, have tried to contact AT&T many times without success.

My hosting company (OVH France) of course tells us the issue is not from their side (which is not) and I am running out of ideas, they have also tried to contact AT&T without success.

Only answer could get was this from their forum: https://forums.att.com/t5/DSL-Routers-Home-Networks/DNS-Issu...

Right now what we do is to bypass all the connection through cloudflare. This is not a long term solution since we use subdomains and there's a limitation, also those who use custom domains won't work.

Does anyone have a proper contact to AT&T?
Does anyone had the same issue?
Thanks for any help!
ps: sorry grammar spaniard here
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And Uyghur muslims massacred their way to homogenity there before that. Somehow the fact that islam was spread there by century-long extermination wars never gets mentioned anywhere.

So why don't you tell us why this one massacre is so much more deserving than the other ?
The artist created something for the limitations of the technology they were working with. It's unfair to look at it through a different technology, where careful effort will end up looking worse than someone who threw it in. E.g. good pixel art often looks worse when upscaled than sprites where the artist didn't pay any attention to the pixels.
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I want to post a useful comment, but all I can think is that this is pretty awesome.

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Nice to term separatists as Terrorists. Uyghurs' have always wanted self-determination and are culturally different from the Han Chinese, hence the resettled Hans in Xinjiang to prevent ethnic homogenity in the region.
I concur about the grammatical fixes.

As a native British English speaker I didn't actually have any trouble parsing any of the sentences save for the "The horse raced past the barn fell" because it was written without the customary punctuational scaffolding.

'The old man the boat' seemed fine to me too, not sure why.

I'd be interested to hear if other British English folks had much trouble with these sentences. Perhaps it's a by product of being exposed to too many 'dad jokes' (Fruit flies like a banana) but perhaps it's a more general condition of British English humour that made me feel familiar with this type of sentence structure.
Sure, though a substantive adjective followed by a noun-verb homonym will almost always cause this phenomenon (to varying degrees):

The crooked defect home.

The hot lead the cold.

The quick pace themselves.

The wet tear off their wet clothes.
Very interesting to see where this goes. I expect there are some seriously brassed guys sifting over satellite data at the moment. Hope the pilots are OK, and really hope this doesn't go any further than this.
Most probably the developers working on Linux port run 32 bit Linux themselves because of compatibility with some closed-source programs. ;)

I have no idea about the real reason, it's just a wild guess.
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Even with British Summer Time the sun rises at 4:30 in the summer here in Scotland (and we're not that far North) - what's the problem with it?
That the default posix socket API is in blocking mode by default was a decision that was made lots of years ago and for some specific reasons. If the reasons at that time might have been different, then it could now also be async by default. So I don't think that tells us whether one or the other model is the more natural or a better one.

Look at the LWIP library for embedded for example. There the async API is the default one, and you have to take the extra mile (and some performance hit) to get the blocking behavior. The midori OS prototype also seems to have implemented a pure async IO subsystem.

I also think it depends on the use-case whether one or the other model is more appealing, but I don't think it's only for performance reasons. A lot of people here think about IO mainly in terms of http request processing because web services are the usual domain here. For this such applications I think blocking abstractions come quite naturally, because you there you read the input stream once, then do a sequence of intermediate processing steps and then write a response. If you instead are working on other domains (writing a message broker, a gateway application, http/2 library, realtime sensordata processing system, ...) where there is no linear sequence of read/write operations and where you have shared state between your IO endpoints then your needs and the preferred building blocks might be different.
Yes, and using the 'nohup' utility you can effectively block the delivery of SIGHUP to a particular process, to ensure it does not terminate when you close your SSH connection.
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Being capable of running a game and being viable for gaming are 2 different things, i can run Witcher 2 on a MBP13 with Intel Iris Pro on medium settings at an acceptable frame rate.
Neither OSS drivers are going to be viable for a gaming machine e.g. SteamOS Box when It's actually intended to be a gaming machine rather than a machine that occasionally can run games older than X amount of years.
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What AnimalPuppet said. Essentially, it's easier to finance the development of infrastructure and the education of people with low-margin work than with nothing.
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On the other hand in countries exporting oil - currency is positively correlated with the oil price.

I think it's because they try to maintain the earnings expressed in domestic currency from smaller amount expressed in international currency (because oil prices went down).

See Russia: http://assets.bwbx.io/images/iaPrrgKBoRbc/v1/-1x-1.jpg
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First : can we stop conflating ethnic makeup and religion ? It is an ugly, racist ideology that muslims keep pushing. Race and religion have nothing to do with eachother.

Obviously Uighurs have not "always been muslim" (aside from the obvious: the ethnic group is far, far older than mohammedanism). They "converted" when they were conquered by a foreign state, who called themselves "the black Khans", supported by other foreign states. In practice, few doubt that it was the muslim way : convert, slavery or die.

Since muslims force people to convert, and have the death penalty for conversion out of islam, it seems extremely hypocritical to criticize the imposition of foreign culture. What is your argument against it ? It's not nice when others do it ?
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You could get a big improvement by switching to React :p

Babel and ES6 should be fine too.
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Stop reading right there.
A similar phenomenon, at least in English, is that you can (technically) infinitely embed subclauses without using complementisers ("that", "who" and "which"). So you get unparsable things like:

The dog the cat the mouse feared loathed barked.

...punctuated and complementised makes it slightly better:

The dog, who the cat, who the mouse feared, loathed, barked.

...unwound makes it readable, but changes the semantics subtly but significantly:

The mouse feared the cat, who loathed the dog who barked.

I say "technically" because there's nothing stopping you from doing this, but in reality, even one level of embedding can be borderline nonsensical (e.g., the "The horse raced past the barn fell" example).
You want to argue history? Falsifying history are we? Islam spread to China through trade. But I guess you don't want to hear stuff that doesn't fit your narrative.
The article catches one core point well: the resolution plays into it. When we go to higher resolutions than 1920x1080, the R9 gets a boost. But it has a very strange way of presenting the data. http://www.computerbase.de/2015-06/amd-radeon-r9-390x-390-38... shows it easier (1080p Performance).
If you're in for the long haul (say 2+ years) I'd go with scala - it's ultimately a better language with a much more complete and powerful type system than typescript. It's also good to learn at least one functional language to pick up the functional techniques (which are ultimately valuable in any language), so if you've never learnt a functional language before I'd recommend it.

But typescript will get you most of the "quick wins" of type safety and is very easy to migrate to, so it's probably a better choice in the short and medium term (at least in terms of immediate productivity).
Yeah, but the rest of the countries will afford less of what you produce, so the demand for your products will decrease.
That's why China kept its currency artificially low for several years - to be able to sell more of its products to the rest of the world.
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> NVIDIA was smart enough not to get into the fight with dual GPU cards it's a loose loose situation

Uhhh... well, look, I don't know much about video cards these days, but that's not quite true: http://www.t3.com/news/nvidia-is-about-to-launch-a-new-monst...
You're almost right. Take out the phrasing "compared to other currencies" and you're there. When dollars are worth more, the dollar-denominated price of everything is lower.
You know the sound of very old records, most people today can't listen to them. Now, imagine there were technology to make them sound clear, and that therefore you hear errors by musicians. It can break the illusion you had about the music of that particular record, but it actually reflects more exactly the event that was recorded.

It's the same with the films. With our new algorithms, what was once flickering "action" suddenly becomes "some people doing something that is obviously in studio, and wow I can see how sloppy their make-up is too." Which is something that we can more easily see even in the movies actually fully produced with the modern equipment and from the start with the higher frame rate: we see them more like they looked like at the set where they were filmed (not counting the CGI that now tries as hard as possible to remove or modify that).

So it is somewhat the opposite of your pixel artist example: it's that the production then didn't have to care for the details we easily see now as they were unnoticeable because of the limitations of the presentation then.

An exception to that "we don't have to worry about the details" approach: Kubrick producing 2001: A Space Odyssey. Looks great on Blue Ray with as many frames as it's possible, as it was produced to look good in high resolution. And today it would be extremely hard to organize that projected "as it was produced to be shown" (Super Panavision 70, using 70 mm prints). Other examples welcome.
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> AMD on Linux is infamously slow

This has actually changed during the past year, and the open-source drivers are now actually quite good.
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Very worth watching. I loved the way Shackleton changed his objective from getting to the South Pole to getting his men back home alive. A fitting name for the expedition.

And the trio of Worsley, Crean and Shackleton heading off on their own to a row boat to cross the Southern Antarctic Ocean to get help is simply legendary and worth retelling throughout history.