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>> And I really don't see what's so special about them compared to people in similar conditions in India or Uganda or some other poor region of the world.

Or in developed parts of the world, for that matter. People are living on the streets sleeping under cardboard boxes or in the bushes in almost any major city in almost any developed nation, eating whatever they find in trashcans, with no access to healthcare or sanitation either.

Note that I'm not trying to downplay the misery the immigrants in Calais are in, or the terrible things they've endured. It just strikes me as odd that whenever some humanitary crisis occurs that attracts a lot of media attention, they forget about the misery they can find at home every day...
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There is more auditing for bitcoin than almost any other store of value, because every transaction is broadcast to the entire network. Crowd-sourced auditing is essentially all bitcoin is.

Like bitcoin itself, the anonymity of bitcoin is also a chain. Bitcoins can be mined anonymously, and therefore transacted anonymously. But any point where they are converted to other stores of value will create connections to real-world identity. For example, cash has to be picked up in a physical place, or it has to be transfered into a bank account, which creates an auditable transaction record. Purchased objects have to be delivered somewhere. Purchased services are interacted with in some way. Etc.
Very glad to hear that :)
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How do you write an oracle for something that complex?

You start with a much smaller problem and incrementally build up.
Looking at their comment history, "trolling" is a safe bet.

And I would assume anybody accusing the man(ual) command of being gendered is being disingenuous until proven otherwise.

(That said, growing up in the American South, I've seen enough disgusting attitudes still persisting that preserving established replicated systems terminology is not a hill I'm in the mood to die on.)
I agree, recent versions are preety customisable. I hardly use the mouse and I didn't have to do much to make VS comfortable to use.
I had forgotten about Wagtail.io. I had a look a while ago and it was still pretty new; looks interesting at first sight. Have you worked with it?
I suggest you have a look at this article we wrote about Slack as a platform: https://medium.com/inside-birdly/there-s-no-app-for-that-sla...
If Facebook is commercial, does that make it legal for you to post a CC-NC-BY document you didn't write as a Facebook Note? If it's legal for you to post it, is it also legal for Facebook to display it, thus drawing people into their site to view advertising? What if I set up a paid-subscription-only Facebook clone called Flone and you post it on Flone, so that you have to pay Flone to see the Note? Does it matter if Flone charges per pageview instead of per month? Does it matter if Flone charges more for certain pageviews? When Verizon sells you a data connection, are they in some way different from our hypothetical Flone?
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I don't see why this is a problem. I am reminded of a comment that a friend once made to the following effect: information theory tells us that redundancy is the only way to guarantee transmission of information across over a noisy channel.

I think he said that this came from the preface of a mathematics textbook, where the author used this to criticise what he therefore viewed as the unhelpful parsimony of many textbooks, but I think that the point holds in general.

Of course, the style in which repetition is done may still be criticised for poor aesthetics, but I don't see an aesthetic problem here either.
The answer is no, we should not be monitoring everyone all the time in the hope that we catch those few small people. I don't want to live in a world where the government is just big brother. We've already seen lots of abuses of the monitoring, like the government targeting reporters of sensitive national security issues (this happened even with Obama). I see surveillance by normal means (phone location, email) getting so pervasive it really will be almost impossible to have anonymous contact with reporters to become a whistle blower - it's almost that today. Maybe only computer programmers will have enough savvy to even attempt anonymity.

Of course there's a purpose in having a government that looks for terrorists - but it is too easy to turn those capabilities into suppression of dissent. Did you see how in Paris they used their new emergency powers to PREEMPTIVELY put people who had protested against climate change in house arrest. Before they even had their convention. That was horrible.
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> Another reason would be speaking English and not French

Just an aside: Only two countries on the top ten countries for asylum seekers have English as an official language[1][2].

[1] http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/77922000/gif/_...

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24636868
It seems he is saying that they are not the most important group, everything else is your wild assumptions.
You don't speak for "gun owning America," though, so don't presume to. Not every American with a gun is a violent neo-reactionary.

I don't know what message you're actually trying to get across other than "hga will kill you under the following circumstances." Are you trying to create a chilling effect on this forum? Threaten people into not even discussing gun control? That is a very toxic way to behave in a medium meant for discussion.
The first 3 seconds made me tell myself this UI/UX is annoying. After the remaining seconds, I was like "Dayummmm, that is sick"

They do need to work on the responsiveness of that site.
Interesting, apart from longish compile times on big projects I've never had speed issues. Installing Resharper, useful as it is, made it crawl so I abandonded it, but I feel productive in VS on its own.
If the graph is not centralized, does that imply it is public? Or could segments of the graph be private to individuals, groups, companies, nations, etc?

E.g. the industry currently has FreeBase/Wikidata (public) and Google/Facebook/Microsoft semantic graphs (private). Would client endpoints arbitrate between these non-intersecting graphs?
There is one problem with the whole story which is that from the viewpoint of a refugee it does not matter what agreements European countries make amongst each other if that knowledge does not make it to the intended recipients.

The various EU countries that agreed to this tried very hard to make the whole refugee problem 'somebody else's problem'. By making the Southern countries ('first country of contact') the ones where they should apply for asylum. But there is no mechanism in place that stops people from moving and of course - conveniently - it would make it a non-issue for any of the Northern countries since legally no refugees would be able to apply for asylum there (that didn't stop anybody).

The exception is the UK, and that's where this particular camp comes into play. If the UK would not be an island then this camp would not exist. The fact that so few people end up there shows that borders in the EU really are all about physical barriers. Once in the Schengen area nothing stops you from moving about.

On another note: not all those that land in the EU are aware of these agreements, it's nation states that agreed to this, but they forgot they needed the consent of the refugees themselves as well, who - smart move - do not necessarily want to overstay their welcome in Spain, Greece, Turkey and Italy but would rather spread out a bit. And those countries really are already stretched to the breaking point when it comes to their capacity to accept newcomers so it is actually a good thing that there is a natural tendency to spread out over a much larger surface area.

The Calais camp is a simple artifact of the fact that the North Sea exists, without the sea it would be gone in a few days and those people there have nothing to lose trying to get to the other side. They risked their lives to get there they likely will not stop simply because there is a bit of water.

See the daily run at trucks trying to hide on them to get to the UK.
> While I'm sympathetic to the basic emotion, it's hard to see what it would mean within a legal framework.

One way of doing it would be shift copyright to a short free-and-no-required-registration period, with longer protection requiring registration, declaration of stated value, and payment of an annual ad valorem tax on that value; during the extended period, any individual or group could buy the work into the public domain by payment of the declared value, which would be forwarded to the copyright owner.
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If they do it might make projects like https://jasperproject.github.io/ a lot nicer. It sounds like at least in their demo they were using a top of the line GPU to run the network though.
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A lot of items at Wal-Mart have anti-theft RFID tags on them, though, and it would be a pain to say "oh you can't buy this shirt or that video game through the app".
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Looks like Walmart doesn't take Apple Pay or Android pay after a quick Google search. After the whole CurrentC thing, I don't think I'd trust any store owned payment apps. I thought the whole goal of Apple Pay was to simplify things, then all these stores want to make their own versions. To much fragmentation in the mobile payment space, better to just carry a regular major credit card, at least it's accepted almost everywhere universally.
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I apologize, I was going for humor. No aggression was intended. Humor is hard in text.

What I meant with the "period" is that our schedule isn't tied to features, if a feature isn't ready, it just misses the release and goes into the next one. I can say, unless there's some kind of catastrophe, that Rust 1.6 will be released on the 21st of January.
Somewhat interesting and different look at what different types of foods do to us by focusing on our guts and those little things that help us digest. His recommendation seems to be more complex carbohydrates, less sugar... same old conclusion, different way of getting there I guess. It's still "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."
Dictionary definitions inherently lag behind practical usage; I would have no problem classifying harassment as a non-physical class of violence.

Especially given cases where it can be more damaging to a person than physical assaults against their meat.
What if the developers... forget to password-protect the server that hosts the source code, installers, etc. Can the law touch cases of... negligence like this?
Everything can be bad, even water can be bad. You need it to live, but then my America, sadly tortured people with it (waterboarding).
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At a quick glance, it doesn't seem to be common but not absolutely unheard of either.

http://www.alljobs.co.il/Search/UploadSingle.aspx?JobID=3720...

You can sort and search by salary here:
http://www.jobmaster.co.il/code/check/search.asp?headcatnum=...
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Actually, what you call "calling people out" is literally indistinguishable from bullying. You justify bullying another person with "bullshit" qualifiers from a imaginary moral high-ground while in reality being no better than the bullies you grew up with middle school.
I don't see where anyone has proposed we "ban" any words at all. What I see are people who suggest that we use a different set of words, that accomplish the same ends as "master/slave," except with words that aren't associated with slavery.

> "Masters and slaves have always existed in human history and will probably always exist"

I don't understand this argument. I'm not saying your statement is wrong, but I fail to see how this is a justification for using the words in a technical context.
'stdcredzero made a pretty straightforward and neutral point about the interplay between activism, outrage, identity politics and cliques. He didn't single anyone out and was at pains to point the finger up and down the left right spectrum.

'danharaj responded by cherry picking a quote, calling it "fucking garbage", and then writing a short essay about why 'stdcredzero is a bad person.

Just because a comment doesn't contain the string "LOL UMAD" doesn't mean it's civil. There are very few occasions where a comment whose purpose is to single someone else on HN out as a bad person will survive, and I'm glad of that.

I'm glad I found this weird little thread, though, because I think those 'stdcredzero comments are great.
YES! I'm insanely sensitive to this too. I have to interrupt group TV watching to play around with the TV's menus and turn off the "automatically simulate 60fps" setting that so many Smart TVs have on by default these days.

My mother can't tell the difference at all. I'm pretty sure this is just something that only a subset of the population notices enough to care about.
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Are they just generic RFID tags or do they identify the items? If they identify the items there has to be an easy way to match the items in the cart vs what has been paid for, no?
Yes, I hate this too. On my desktop, primarily Fedora, I often open applications by pressing hyper and then typing the partial name of the program and then pressing "enter". This takes way too long on windows, and doesn't always work.
Why would I the start menu to search? I have a web browser always open anyway!
That's fiction, Foster. Some guy made it up!

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Gladly, the course notes from the author is freely available. The book closely follows it:

http://goggle-db.googlecode.com/files/DATABASE_in_Java.pdf
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and no way to skip - it's fullscreen, I see no website.
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I maintain that I never received an email from them. Not in spam or otherwise.
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You seem to think he is implying something about go. I'm pretty sure whatever you think is being communicated in the original comment was not the intention.

Try asking for clarification rather than stating your interpretation of what someone said as fact. Try giving people the benefit of a doubt. To my eyes, the only one being aggressive here is you, when others are just trying to correct what appears to be your misinterpretation of the original statement.
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It'll get there simply because the language is doing pretty well and lots of people write web servers but it's not there yet. Once someone figures out "the way" to do an internet-facing async http/http2/websocket server I think we'll see a lot more motion in the Rust web dev space.
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>When people refuse to behave themselves, they get shunned.

and who decides what behavior is acceptable? you? don't make me laugh.

you, and those like you, are bullies. plain and simple. cut and dry. black and white.

some might even call you "thought-bullies."
Yeah something like that.
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Then why doesn't the interface reflect the building blocks of the structured content?

Where the video says "The Django CMS interface", the interface is clearly page-centric, not structured content-centric. It has building blocks like "feature-visual", "bg-home.jpg", "feature-content", "container", "row", "column col-md-24" etc.

How is that structured content?

Perhaps it can do structured content, but then why doesn't the video put that front and center? Is this perhaps an "also" feature, for building landing pages? Then why does the marketing talk about "content editors"?

So perhaps it's just the marketing that oversimplifies things? :)
I mean if we're going to use that definition, then the shirt itself was harassment.

Or is it just if I'm oblivious to the harassment I cause & don't care to find out, then it's somehow morally superior to someone repeatedly and strenuously asking me to stop?
No, not really. At least in Germany you can return the article if you didn't like it - for example, if it was dirty clickbait garbage.

I use Blendle nearly every day, so far I only got good and interesting articles, a lot from newspapers I have not read before.
Yes. Good point. I don't mean to suggest the content marketing won't work.

Priceonmonics' bests posts (say, over 30k views) have a strong data-driven component combined with great writing.

One of Priceonomics' tag lines is "DATA. LONGFORM CONTENT. ANALYSIS." They excel at data crawling and visualization. Combine that capability with talented storytellers, give those writers the freedom to explore a variety of topics, and you've got a winning recipe for repeated virality.

A plumbing company is a great example. You can write great plumbing content, (and definitely still accomplish your goal of getting people with plumbing-related pain points into your funnel or driving awareness for your business) but it's tough to make that type of content spread consistently, even when well-crafted.

Combining the data gathering + analysis/visualization + great writing for homerun content that generates leads on a consistent basis is the challenge I'm talking about specifically. Moreover, the plumbing company does not likely have a marketing department with all 3 of those skills sets represented.

Priceonomics just announced their 'Data Studio' offering to help companies in that position (and there are plenty of them!).

btw, not sure if anyone posted the 6-page summary of the Content Marketing Handbook yet:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/pix-media/The+Content+Marketing+Han...

Obviously a great guide for duplicating what Priceonomics does at your own company. Interested to see how the Data Studio works as an outsourced content service.
I would be shocked if they didn't roll their catalog. Maybe not the whole thing every time, but pulling their sources and re-encoding the complete suite when a new bitrate/codec combination comes on line seems like a sensible use of resources.
Hi there. Very interested in your topical treatment for compartment syndrome. Frankly, I am very sceptical that (a) it works or (b) you had compartment syndrome. Can you provide further details?
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Nobody is saying it works perfectly, but finding a good risk adjusted price is the point.
Emotional tone is communication of values. If one does not allow people to communicate their values verbally, then they will communicate them in less productive ways. Like downvoting/upvoting people based on values. Even worse, it selects for people who argue without acknowledging their values. Even worse, personally, if one personally doesn't acknowledge their emotions and their value systems, then they risk hobbling their self-understanding. It contributes to the introspection illusion[1]. I think this happens a lot on the Internet in the 'rational discourse' communities (like HN, or LW, etc.): You can't choose not to be emotional. You can merely fail to express your emotions, which of course I believe impairs communication. After all, if I thought my own writing was objectionable, I wouldn't write it.

I think there is a similar trend in such communities (cf. Yudkowsky's Politics is the Mind Killer) to pretend to be apolitical, but insisting that one is apolitical merely obfuscates ones political values. Civil tone and apolitical politics are a popular sentiment amongst the type who seek to align their values with rationality.

You can be perfectly logical and also completely emotional. There is no antagonism between the two. Logic is emotional. One wouldn't bother writing out a logical argument without feeling it has some worth, right? Value is fundamentally emotional. Emotions are logical: They are responses and interpretations of stimuli that are predictable and behave according to rules that vary from person-to-person but have a common basis in all human beings. They have meaning, they can be analyzed and synthesized, and they can be communicated to others just like logical propositions and proofs.

Failing to communicate emotionally can lead to strong emotions on two sides of a discussion. One can think of it as boosting a signal to try to get it through. If one or both sides are unreceptive to the other's emotions, then this leads to a death spiral for the conversation. I think it is this phenomenon, the failure to communicate emotionally, which is being conflated with the presence of emotion. The solution isn't to maintain politeness and throw out emotions altogether, it is to learn how to spot breakdowns in communication and bring them into the conversation so they can be resolved.

Breakdowns in logic happen all the time. If one values rational discourse highly, then these are considered important to resolve, not ignore. God knows I've stood in front of a blackboard trying to get a mathematician to explain something to me, with the explanation failing to get through to me. I once spent 2 hours trying to construct the tensor of two vector spaces because I was a wee undergrad and constructing such widgets was new to me, but I had a patient grad student to guide me along. The breakdowns in logical communication were immense, and certainly there was communication of frustration and reassurance. Ironically in such a dry, logical matter, the emotional communication was excellent and the logical communication-- not so much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introspection_illusion
I work on Roslyn and would love to use Vim for all my editing but you're right -- the UI-blocking extension model Vim has just does not work.

I also have high hopes for NeoVim.
If you want to discuss, mail me corey AT pop DOT co. We built on top of the DO API to automatically spin up optimized WordPress droplets based on ansible provisioned base machine snapshots. Bunch of custom stuff in there, but it's not something we were ready to scale as we never opened up SFTP/SSH.
I don't accept that we can't use words that accurately describe a concept merely because some people find that concept unpleasant.
Exactly why Slashdot is a great domain ;)
How on earth do you determine which jobs are worth applying to, then?
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I love this observation! I would be interested if anyone could dig up what text book that came from.
How about kill(2)? Why does the POSIX committee endorse murder?
Doesn't matter. That's how most people are going to react. And as I said, the major reason is that I don't want to create yet another account with credit card info that I have to worry about, and that I'm not really going to use for anything.