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If Microsoft was to buy Corel would it be anti competitive behaviour?

Microsoft stands to gain more than just getting corel's office package out of the market, they will gain ownership to Coreldraw and paint which are one of the few Adobe competitors.
Of course it's prescriptive and there are regional differences. As you say, it's just like spelling. "Colour" still looks wrong to me. Just like a different stroke order looks wrong to a native reader. The point is the differences are visible to the reader, it's not just an arbitrary set of rules for writers. The reader can tell if you're following the rules or not.
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Where do you think cancer comes from? Hint: all kinds of things, but some are caused by viruses. No one really cares about HPV other than the fact that it tends to cause cervical cancer, so I don't think it's cheating to call that a "cancer vaccine".
Are Uber drivers middle class?
That may actually make a convincing legal argument. I believe the appropriate doctrine would be "estoppel".
Looks cool.
I've tried most clients and been dissapointed - PgAdmin was very unstable on mac, object browser is good when it works but query editor is poor - Postico is pretty but has very limited functionality not suitable for large complex scripts.
The best solution I found was to use Sublime Text with it's build system you can run scripts and get results easily, it has amazing text manipulation features, snippits are powerful, it's rock solid and blazingly fast.
http://blog.code4hire.com/2014/04/sublime-text-psql-build-sy...
Oh ok - thought you had your countries mixed up but now you're just trying to dig yourself out of the gutter. You need to check your facts on multiple things you've written.

Its true that most refugees are trying to make it to Germany - but if Germany closes its doors, they wouldn't get stuck in the immediate neighbouring countries - they'd get returned to the point of where they were first registered in the EU. Since Greece is not doing that at all - this would for most of them now be Croatia. Which is for example what Slovenia is preparing for (google "border razor wire slovenia") under the pretence of "defending" the Schengen border (even though its just something like 70km through Slovenian territory from Croatia to Austria). So granting passage for Croatia is not an easy decision to make.

You dismiss granting passage as something any country could do - yet Croatia is the only willing/open corridor now since Hungary has closed it doors completely and they're clearly not welcome in Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia who openly oppose any EU quotas. No word on any of that in Croatia - who has already started building shelters for the EU quotas and has indeed already accepted refugees wanting to stay there (even though most of them want to continue on to Germany).

None of these have anything to do with your original claim that "Croatia wanted to ban all muslim". In addition to what I wrote I'd go as far as to say that Muslims as a religion are not such an oddity in Croatia - yes, its a predominantly Christian country but it does have a small and thriving muslim community inherited from its close ties with the neighbouring (predominantly muslim) Bosnia (made even closer by the fact that Bosnia and Croatia were mostly fighting on the same side in the last Balkans war against ex-Yu/Serbia).

"Several people told me" is just not a credible reference. Whereas its easy to google and confirm what I've tried to correct you with - again I think you're confusing Croatia with Slovakia (google Slovakia in relation to accepting only Christian refugees).
It's a very common misconception.

It's interesting to realize that you can create money in the same way that a bank. Just give your friend a promise that you will pay him in the future and he could use it as money with third parties. Most people wouldn't accept it, but that is a different issue.

If somebody is in the mood to destroy more preconceptions about economy I recommend Warren Mosler 'Seven deadly innocent frauds of economic policy', it can be a good introduction to Modern Monetary Theory:

http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf
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I read it somewhat differently. From my limited interaction with Chinese citizen as a resident of Singapore, many think more pragmatically.

"We do what it takes to get a billion people to first world middle class standard of living. Yes, there's a bit of collateral damage but you guys' industrial revolution was not all roses, read some Dickens. We can have the luxury of rights when we're there. You're telling me to eat cake since we ran out of bread."

In other words the majority of Chinese citizen (that I know - YMMV, selection bias, etc.) think that the government is doing an alright job considering its constraints, and don't feel particularly oppressed - the authoritarianism is population-sanctioned. Just like the new French anti-terrorism measures.
I guessed that would come up :-) Unfortunately, that book contains many fabrications and mischaracterizations of other work, which calls into question anything they say. A previous comment pointing this out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7889290

Another example of similar shenanigans from the same authors:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8157206
Basically at the backend this is pure GraphQL. For Relay we need to have some Relay specific stuffs. That requires, more time.

In the client side too, we had to work a bit more.

That's why we go with Lokka[0]. It's just a client for any GraphQL backend. It has a simple cache.

It also supports Relay like declarative data fetching.
Basically, you could build a complete app with it using Meteor's other tools like FlowRouter.

As a downside, you may need to fetch more data from the server.

As a benefit, you don't need to learn much to build a app.
May be can reduce the code compared with Relay. (But that's subjective)

[0] - https://github.com/kadirahq/lokka
Disregarding your other comments, which I think are irrelevant to the topic, I'm interested in this:

> changing platform APIs to make competing word processors and spreadsheet programs incompatible wasn't a fine thing

You claim that the only reason Word succeeded in competing with e.g. WordPerfect, was by "changing platform APIs".

Could you be more specific? What OS, application and exactly what APIs?
I think you are missing the point read the entire thread I commented to to guy who said that vaccines have a completely different (and cheaper) logistical process which isn't correct.

I know there are many causes for cancer, but there are also potential anti cancer (note anti cancer not cancer causes) vaccines as your body does develop cancer specific antigens.

The problem is that your immune system is too slow to react that that tumors have specific mechanisms that are intended to evade it (colloquially known as tumor escape mechanisms), there are quite a few generic therapeutic cancer vaccines in development like Stimuvax and Imucin both targeting various antigen mechanisms like MUC1[0].

But again this is "proving my point" as the OP claimed there cancer treatment and vaccination isn't comparable, as there are no wide spread vaccines on the market atm but they are a very promising area of study it's not the case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUC1
"Would there have been a non-lethal alternative protocol for the officer to follow, such as a different placement of the initial shot?"

Shoot to wound, you mean? That's only used on TV.

The problem is, an officer can use deadly force only when facing imminent danger of immediate serious injury or death (including risk to bystanders, hostages, etc.).

If an officer feels the luxury of shooting only to wound, then by definition the imminent-threat-of-death condition isn't there. I believe that tort cases have been won on this concept.

Instead, that's where nonlethal weapons come into play (tasers, beanbag rounds, water cannon, rubber bullets, etc.). Most urban LEOs are adding tasers, but this means the added complication of carrying two sidearms with mutually exclusive usage profiles.
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Because when you have a couple million rows in a table, you don't want to edit it à la Excel ;-)
I forgot to mention Sublime Text 3 has hundreds of powerful free packages which are simpple to install including postgresql sql keyword highlighting.
https://packagecontrol.io/packages/PostgreSQL%20Syntax%20Hig...
> "nowhere it says that the drug possession charges were dismissed"

Type "Carmelo Anthony drug charges dropped" into google [0].

Your statement is mostly correct, but the ways in which it's wrong are significant and relevant for this thread. As kbenson and I have both pointed out, ignorance is a valid defense in US law, and was a valid defense in many legal traditions of the past. You may have heard the phrase "harboring a known fugitive" -- someone who provides shelter to someone they know is running from the law can be held culpable for aiding and abetting, while someone who provides shelter to somebody who happens to be running from the law (unknown to them) is treated as a victim. The generalization holds -- a person who knowingly helps someone pull off a crime is culpable, while a person who happens to help someone but didn't know they were helping a criminal is innocent.

Without more detail, we don't know how much of the crew of the ship in question might fall into either category.

[0] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/nuggets...
> For me, Meteor currently occupies a strange space where it's the web framework I'm the most excited about, yet it's the wrong tool for every project idea I have.

You've precisely captured a sentiment that I've been feeling but unable to express for some time. I think Meteor has tremendous potential, but there are a few very problematic issues, coupled with a severely walled ecosystem (Angular also has this problem, React I'm not so sure of but it seems to have it less) and unclear best practices (React has this in spades).
Under your scenario, if a bank can lend out $900 for every $100 it collects in deposits, then won't we see runaway monetary growth? Consider the following scenario:

1) Alice deposits $100 in Bank X

2) Bob takes out $900 loan from Bank X and deposits it in Bank Y

3) Charlie takes out $8,100 loan from Bank Y and deposits it in Bank X

4) Eve takes out $72,900 loan from Bank X and deposits it in Bank Y

5) ... the cycle continues ...

Also, I would assume that the interest rates that my bank pays for my deposits would be a lot higher if it could lend out 9x as much as it holds in deposits.

The model where a bank lends out 90% of its total deposits still makes more sense to me and will result in $900 of total money created per $100 initially deposited.

1) Alice deposits $100 in Bank X

2) Bob takes out $90 loan from Bank X and deposits it in Bank Y

3) Charlie takes out $81 loan from Bank Y and deposits it in Bank X

4) Eve takes out $72.90 loan from Bank X and deposits it in Bank Y

5) ... the cycle continues ...

and if you sum the geometric series, which in this case is finite, you get $900 of total additional money created for the initial $100 Alice put in.
Not a substitute for your suggestion but what I found one thing that spread best practices at my last job was code review. I do something, the reviewer points out I could do it more efficiently, or use some library or solution in the project that already exists, or explains how the build system works and how my new rules don't quite fit and how to make them fit. etc....
So the past week and half I have been on holidays back in Italy (I live in Germany). At least here, in the South, your status still greatly depends on 1) if you managed to raise a family (single 40 years old ultra rich Corporate managers don't get much credit); 2) if you have a good network of friends (and people here don't look down at blue collars). My father was a blue collar worker and he gets a lot of respect for doing well 1 and 2.

While this is not ideal (I think 1 and 2 are part of the reasons many Italian lack the ambition Americans have), it's a very good way to live a very decent life as an individual. At a macro level I believe pushing on 1 and 2 will kill your economy, on a micro level (aka if I was a shrink), I would strongly advise them.

P.s. of course, 1 and 2 work well in a world where you have USA, where people do kill themselves to deliver loads of innovation to the whole planet (see: internet, space exploration, etc.).

P.p.s. of course USA works well because it attracted talent across the world to deliver loads of innovation (see: immigrants)
Funny that you call the details of a control mechanism used by moneyed elites, which is not particularly complicated, an "unusually technical topic". It's unfortunate if you are right.
> There are several empirical studies that indicate this is wrong. Google and ye shall find.

You're going to have to be more specific about what studies you have in mind. Considering the lack of a control group without major confounding factors, it'd be quite difficult to have a study on the efficacy of a patent system at increasing the number of inventions made available.

> Because a good idea is something that has value forever? Should an inventor not reap some rewards off that?

Remember that the purpose of the patent system (at least in US law) is to encourage more ideas; providing a temporary monopoly to reward patent holders is a means, not an end. At the time the patent system in the US was created, hundreds of years ago, it was believed to be a net win for the general public; at that time, it might even have been possible to read and learn from a significant fraction of the patents granted. With the current culture and wealth of inventiveness, of myriad people happy to release ideas for all to use, and the lack of any value gained by reading the firehose of patent publications, it's quite reasonable to ask if we still benefit from the tradeoff of the patent system, or whether we'd get more benefit by abolishing it. In evaluating that, not a single moment's thought should be given to rewarding patent holders as an end unto itself, only as a means to encourage more invention.

> How often has that happened?

Too often. I've seen far too many FOSS projects suppressed, features left out, or avenues unexplored, precisely because an area is a patent minefield. Cryptography, audio codecs, video codecs, compression technologies, encoding technologies, and numerous other useful code blocked because someone else staked a claim first.

What value is gained when someone pops up and sues some browser or device vendor over some ludicrous patent (in East Texas, naturally), and wins millions? Does anyone seriously believe that those browser or device vendors actually read the patent and said "that sounds like a good idea, let's use it and rip this lone genius off!"? Even if that random troll actually did happen to be the first person to submit an application to the patent office, they've provided absolutely nothing of value.

You can write code entirely from scratch, create something useful, publish it, be sued by someone you've never even heard of, and lose, all because of an artificial monopoly over ideas.

> suggesting we do away with patents entirely is being dismissive of the unpleasant realities of the world.

Patents are one of the unpleasant realities of the world, and patents are one of the main things making it necessary to acquire more patents, as a defense mechanism.
Meteor is working on it https://github.com/meteor/postgres-packages

I hope to see it soon.
> Is there any empirical evidence to the contrary? Do these studies show that the increased R&D spending, VC investments, etc., are there specifically due to patent protection, and would otherwise not happen without?

Many of these studies do attempt to support their conclusions as rigorously as possible. This is unfortunately not enough because of the lack of sufficient data or contextual information. But as an example, some studies take specific events in history, such as the introduction of patent laws (or strengthening thereof for a specific field) in a certain country, and compare various metrics (e.g. derived from industrial data) before and after these events. As you can imagine, it is almost impossible to show direct causation, but these studies do find strong correlations.

Note that this is true for studies showing positive as well as negative effects of patent systems.
8 is a special number - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GOqM18Bhhg
Dean Baker's comment:

If Patent Monopolies Bias Cancer Research, Why Not Have Publicly Funded Trials?

http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/if-patent-monopolies-bi...
> So, given that, we're doing what we would've wanted to be done if we were in their position.

Actually, I'd rather get any connectivity I could get.
"Haldeman, Joe The Forever War. 1974, Ballantine. An interstellar war is fought using black holes for travel between battles."

I've read Forever War half a dozen times. Black holes aren't a focus of the novel, but rather the effects of relativity on soldiers fighting far flung battles. By the time soldiers reach a battle, everyone they know on Earth is dead and several generations have passed due to time dilation.
pgcli is a good terminal alternative for psql with better autocomplete and vi mode support
When I still was using Windows few years ago (and was not very active developer), I though MS finally made app developers to use Windows native UI/UX design.

I mean that, I thought tabular design of complex apps was pushed to third party app developers from MS. IMHO tabular GUI is rather good, so I was happy user, where many big apps were rather similar and easy to use. Before MS Office 2007, every app had very cluttered UI and after many apps had similar design.

I cannot remember many, but I know AutoCAD [1] started using design as in MS Word, also MathCAD [2].

TIL it wasn't new Microsofts design language and many apps were/are living on the knifes edge and can be sued if they will get too close to MS's GUI design.

[1] http://www.softpedia.com/screenshots/AutoCAD_1.png
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathcad#/media/File:Top_right_...
So you think that because 30% of poor people work full time, your single mother working 2 jobs is representative? Um, OK.

Note also how that source defines "eligible to work" to get that 44% number (by excluding students/age >64/disabled, many of whom could be working). The single mother working 2 jobs is not even representative of this narrowly defined "eligible to work" category.
Not happening until you get the ETS and teachers on board.

Lots of students already use Wolfram for graphing, the problem is use in proctored environments.
Fair enough, although this seems like something which is ideally a company-wide policy from very early on. FWIW, I regretted typing that after re-reading it later. There are most certainly exceptions.
This one: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore.git/+/aab9...

-LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES += libart libnativehelper libdl
+LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES += libopenjdkjvm libnativehelper libdl

Replacing ART with OpenJDK JVM?!?
If someone leaves highschool "not suited" for academics then their highschool has failed them. No student should feel they are in any way 'not the type' for higher education. No 16/17/18 year-old should be so pigeon-holed.

How many of these kids are making these decisions based on third-hand accounts of what higher education actually entails, without even sitting in on a post-highschool lecture? How many are told not to bother simply because they don't look/act/sound the part?

Given the state of highschool education, the lack of basic literacy, nearly everyone would do well to attend some sort of 'academic' post-secondary education. Reading books, listening to lectures and writing about what you have learned teaches the basic communication skills useful in every field.
It's not stealing if you add value - see Kanye West, Daft Punk, etc.
There's a spec in development to make an origin's storage persistent https://storage.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-storagemanager-requestp... - at the moment Chrome only drops data from indexeddb and the cache api if the device starts running out of space.
The upper case keyword thing is annoying. In ALGOL-60, the keywords were supposed to be in lower case bold type. When algorithms were published in Comm. ACM, they were, but computers printers and displays of the time couldn't do that.

Displaying keywords in bold, and string constants in italics, would be a nice editor feature today. It would look better than syntax coloring. If you had an editor with enough smarts to line up the comments, you could even use variable-width fonts.
not all kinds of editing are changing a billion rows at a time. Sometimes, you just want to change a few rows and few columns.
I have actually used dbeaver as an order management system, while my front end caught up.
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One important note from this talk:

* RSA/DSA/ECDSA will all be cracked by 2022
My last math was in high school, and I'd like to spend more time learning in the coming year. I often read research papers, and the biggest challenge for me is the notation. I can understand the stuff around set theory, and a bit of the sigma notation here and there.

What I'd like is a proper introduction so I can start learning properly. Any book one would recommend? I'm keen on buying if it's not on the Springer list. Thanks in advance.
posted earlier today in original form from WP.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10802135
That's for the neptune duo which is some kind of end-all-be-all modern computing environment moonshot ...

Their first device, which I am referring to, is just a very, very small android phone.

I wish they had just continued to iterate on that concept, which is plenty unique and which they did very well with.
To add my own daily use clients:

- PG Commander (free): a lighter version of Postico - https://eggerapps.at/pgcommander/

- Sequel Pro (donationware): a nice native GUI browser for MySQL - http://www.sequelpro.com/
Duolingo war ganz neu wenn Ich beginne zu Deutsch lernen. Ich bin nur einen Datenpunkt, aber für mich war es ein gute Hilfe zu die erste wurde lernen. Es war ein kleiner Hilf zu meine erste Satse machen.

Duolingo was very new when I first learned German. I'm nothing more than one data point, but it sure was a great help for me in learning the first few words. It was helpful for making my first few sentences.

I learned English from watching american movies as a child. Unsure if movies or apps are more effective. For sure the only way to get proficient is living in the language you're learning, and not cheat by spending most of your time in a language you already know (like many here in Berlin do, complaining "it's so hard to learn - everyone speaks so good English!").
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It's great to see apt improving. I am still waiting for "apt-get update" to become git-pull-like thing to have much faster update (especially when no recent changes were made) though.
Meanwhile, I've had more "holy crap get me away from Microsoft!" linux installs this year than any other before.

Calculate Linux KDE and Linux Mint Debian Edition are the installs of choice, btw. :)
I like this thinking. Someone with a big export of code repos could do some automated diff/analysis on open-source code to find vendored imports that have been modified from upstream or is outdated to facilitate manual security audits.