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And then you can also donate much more to the various party committees, and you can do it as a "directed donation", so that the money is credited to Politico X and the party committee immediately forwards the money back to Politico X.

But corruption talk that centers on the individual donations made to politicians is mostly wrong. That's not how corruption works. That's a reflection through a mirror of the actual corruption happening, which is mostly about influence, not money. Politico A and Entity B have made a deal to use their influence to support each other, and that is reflected in some puny $1000 donation somewhere, but it's not mostly about the $1000.
Absolutely agree.

> "My accountant was called on Friday morning," she tells the BBC. "Someone said: 'You're going to get an email from the president, and she's going to give you instructions to conduct a very confidential transaction and you're going to have to respond to whatever instructions she gives you'."

This should have thrown up so many red flags for anyone. Crazy.
There are two issues I still have with this.

1. Obviously, people working in politics believe in it as a vehicle of change, by means of self-selection. A person who doesn't believe in politics will go somewhere else.

2. I wonder just how much real influence can an individual have, especially as they gain more power. Power is gained through deals and friendships, and the more you entangle yourself in the exchange of favours, the more autonomy you lose. I theorize that the people at the top positions are mostly just puppets with no real power and autonomy - because a person that looks uncontrollable will not be allowed by their party to reach higher positions.
A better argument would be, as the NV consumer advocate asserted, that the way they reduced a previously agreed-upon rate is illegal: http://www.utilitydive.com/news/nevada-regulators-will-consi...
Looks pretty nice actually ;)
So far as someone fairly new to linux, I'm liking Linux Mint Cinnamon.
My second choice would be Elementary https://elementary.io/ but it was running a little slow on my laptop.
They also are hiking the fee for being attached to the grid.
Site says you can boot it from an USB stick. So should work in a VM, too.
I might be wrong but Redmonk list makes more sense to me too.
On the other hand, do you have experience with Android tooling or its APIs?
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I know the term, as well as Marx's class theory. Pointing me to a Wikipedia article doesn't change the fact that it's insensitive hyperbole.
> This right is also suspect since it could be seen as censorship. What if a newspaper uses your name in an exposé about you, can you use your right to be forgotten to wipe the slate clean? Google would love your input here.

This has been happening in the UK: searches for figures who have been convected of crimes are removed from Google results under the EU law. The public's right to know is being superseded by the individual's right to have their crimes forgotten.
The reported distance is basically fiction, of course. It's not a GPS device. It's an estimate based on how many steps it thinks you took, and the average distance an average person goes in that number of steps.

As far as I can tell, steps/calories is roughly accurate (eg, not off by much more than, say, 10%) compared with other devices (my chest strap HRM+GPS device, stationary trainers, bicycle computer). Close enough for consumer use.

I echo the poor battery life. I forget what it's rated at, but I get barely 3 days. My old Nike Fuelband was rated at 7 days but I could push it over 2 weeks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor-state_dispute_settlem...

While in some sense that corresponds to the words I used (by which I mean, I see why you mention it as relevant), it definitely doesn't come close to applying here, as that is international law.
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Surely you mean Go? There is one for Python, but it's not official.
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It has created a nice software ecosystem by being a good target for developers because of its (massive) user base. It has a massive user base because Google works hard to make it a good, user-friendly consumer product and they work hard to get manufacturers to get (many models of) handsets to market. It helps that the average person needs and can afford a phone, most of which are now smartphones. Linux never made the effort required to be a serious consumer grade product (well, Ubuntu gave it a good go).

This is not so much a technical issue. Sure, the technicals need to be there, but when the average consumer goes looking for a computer, they don't start with the question, "How stable are the apis for this OS?" They do not know what an api is. And developers will not develop just because of stable apis. The Windows phone has not been a resounding success, but if ever there were a product that I, as a developer, would target due to expectations of stable apis, that would be it.

Appification is why my dad uses the iPhone. He can do cool things by hitting squares with his finger, and then get on with the rest of his day which will likely include a lot of mentally draining tasks. It's the same thing that gravitated folks to Apple's first graphical operating system. The user friendliness. The approachability. Not the cutting edge object oriented software behind it. But the mouse and a picture of a garbage can.

In that context, it's not foreign at all. I'm mean, the first time I saw the command line, that was foreign. But now it's not. But hitting a picture of an envelope to send mail, not so foreign.
Agreed - it would likely be trivial to come up with a list of 52 tourist meccas that everyone's heard of. Washington, DC, London, Moscow, etc - I mean you could probably visit the 52 largest national capitals and have a great tourist experience.

It's nice to see a list with places I never would have considered, even if it is odd to see ND and St. John on the same list.
That's funny, my first thought was to fire the accountant as well. Then I thought about it, who has more experience with these scammers than the accountant that screwed up? I would wager they would never fall for it again if they were any sort of reasonable human being- whereas a new accountant has probably never even heard of this scam and you're vulnerable all over again.

What I would do, though, is get my lawyer involved to write up a new contract that would make them liable for every last penny should this happen again.
This sounds like an absolute disaster for technology businesses in the EU, especially ones that do not rely on code they wrote.

I'm all for privacy, but most of this doesn't really do anything to enhance it.
A Personal knowledge base, where I can collect my resources and organize my thoughts without having to rely on multiple programs.
To be clear, my point is and was that that is a terrible line of argumentation, not that there are no possible good ones.
You "know the range", but not necessarily in terms of concrete numbers. Often, you iterate over variable size data structures, for example. All you know is that it won't be larger than the C implementation it's being compiled with allows--which usually roughly means that it won't be larger than the amount of memory the processor it's running on can address. But how much that actually is? Well, depends on the processor, and there also is no upper limit, as you always can invent a processor that can address more memory than any processor before. That's why you should usually use appropriate abstract types (such as size_t in this case) that the compiler will make sure are large enough to be able to iterate over any data structure you will encounter on that target.
It's never too early if you really hate it. You just don't want to get in the habit of leaving companies after working there less than a year. A lot of companies get turned off by that. The advice I got from multiple people was to stick with your first company at least a year. I am not suggesting staying a year, but you should plan to be at your next company 2-4 years at least.
The "who pays you" FUD reminds me of the subpoena Personal Audio sought for a list of EFF donors in the podcasting patent case. The EFF is not a front for your competitors. People really care about this stuff.
gcc has `-flto=n` to use n cores for the link-time optimization. clang doesn't like that syntax though, but I think it does parallel LTO automatically.
As someone in the games industry, I don't see anybody moving towards either of these languages over C++, or really even any excitement over them. I'd be very surprised if Rust displaces C++ here, and put the chance of Go doing so at pretty much 0.

If anything, the current trend is moving more low level (rather than higher level, which these languages both are), as techniques like data oriented design becoming more mainstream.
A Core i7 outperformed a Samsung Galaxy. Fascinating...
This is a strange comment that starts in one place, and ends with your musings on the collapse of Mozilla.

First off, Mozilla didn't have FF "fall into their lap" from Netscape. Netscape spun it off and gave birth to Mozilla. They absolutely do not consider Firefox legacy software and you'll need to back that up somehow for me to believe it.

They may very well be a better company at $2M than they are at $300M, but the back half of your comment sounds bitter and angry at what appears to be Mozilla's recent announcement on Thunderbird.
The continued interest in YIFY 720p encodes (YIFY stopped a couple of months ago, and their encodes target small file size, not best quality) show that many people either can't tell the difference, or just don't care about the difference.

When I read movie critics I never see anyone saying "Not sharp enough" or "I wish there was more detail". Maybe I'm just reading the wrong critics? But when I'm watching a movie the quality of the image is about the last thing I care about, so long as it's above a fairly low minimum. (EG, Clint Eastwood often gets comments for his poorly lit films; a bunch of Youtubers could buy a tripod).
> Use:
> ptrdiff_t diff = (uintptr_t)ptrOld - (uintptr_t)ptrNew;

The casts to uintptr_t are not needed in this case, as the result of subtracting two pointers already yields ptrdiff_t.

Also, the mere subtraction of two pointers that do not point to the same "array object" yields undefined behaviour as per the standard.
I hope they keep going on this resolution kick. There is a pretty big gap between the max resolution that really makes sense for flat images and the minimum resolution for holographic displays. The higher resolution that sells to videophiles, the smaller that gap becomes and the more likely we are to eventually bridge it.
I can't believe 15000 firms have fallen into that trap. Shouldn't you first verify who you are paying to. Accountant should've verified with her by calling her. No transaction is that urgent that it has to be done in an hour.
With something as innately interconnected as a power grid, its not that simple.

In the states where they investigated how much value was provided by the rooftop solar, the value was higher again than net metering (e.g. it might save money on uprating grid connection). This means Nevada was effectively taxing rooftop solar and wasn't getting the optimum amount installed. With this change they've raised that tax and destroyed even more value.

Another specific angle is the retro-activity, this means no consumer in the US can commit to rooftop solar without worrying that all their calculations will be rendered moot, after the install. This puts a big cloud over things.
I often can't tell between 720p and 1080i source material either on my 46" 1080p set. About to buy a 75" 4k set though. The size means I'll definitely notice 4k from my couch distance (~8ft) and the sheer size will come in handy when watching TV from the kitchen table (~15ft away)
It's just a numbers game. There are suckers born every minute. There are an unbelievable number of accountants out there who couldn't put together these obvious signs.

A phone call from a stranger and an email from an account that has her name in it... it was probably CEO@imstealingyourmoney.ru
What's even more appalling is that he so vehemently refuses to acknowledge the throttling of data throughput even after EFF reached out to TMobile separately and the company confirmed it. HIS OWN COMPANY CONFIRMED IT!!!

That's just comedy.
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Maybe we can do it the way protagonists of the book Makers did? They figured out a way to make some IP lawsuits against Disney look profitable enough that it attracted VC investments and suddenly all the power of startup funding industry was redirected to destroy Disney.
Consensual incest between adults who don't make babies is illegal in the UK. That sounds like another "hate the perverts" kind of law. If it was about bloodlines, we'd be doing eugenics but we aren't.
Fair enough - but in that case would you agree that writing C and not doing regular profiling is stupid? I see far too many projects with that combination.
What is "verbal intelligence" and how is it measured? Why can't yours be measured?
I'm not that overweight (around 77kg for 1.81m). Last week I went for a trial at a gym and tried a treadmill for the first time in my life, I got to 180bpm in around 30secs at 5kph. I don't do much exercise besides walking 5 to 10km almost everyday and the rare (and slow) 10mins run. The bpm were measured by the treadmill itself, not sure how accurate that is.
Yeah I find it hard to believe that Amazon isn't #1.
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It will be great if there is a similar guidance for C, i.e. CCoreGuidelines.
I think there was the added wrinkle of "programming language made by the company that also makes Chrome" vs "programming language made by the company that also makes Firefox". Google's and Mozilla's browsers were/are competitors, so why wouldn't there programming languages be? Obviously, the two companies have completely different reasons for the development of the new languages, but I think that was overlooked at the time that Rust first came out.
Is this really that shocking? Just seems like the natural evolution of business scams, we still get the people trying to sell us warranties on our company vehicles and trying to sell us toner for printers we barely use (paperless office woo!).

You know the part that makes me laugh is if these people put their ingenuity into doing something useful for society, they wouldn't need to be stealing from everyone all the bloody time.
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If you have anything of actual substance to say I'm open to debate. I see from your comment history you have specialized financial knowledge which might offer valuable comment on this economic theory.
If you go to St. Louis, make sure to visit the City Museum (http://www.citymuseum.org/). It is an incredible, unique playground to explore for children and adults alike. It is hard to explain what it is and explanations don't do it justice. To this day it is our fondest memory from the trip to St. Louis.
Malaga during the 3rd week of August is crazy, during the Feria de Malaga. I confirm that it's a good place to stay for short trips around. If someone likes nice beaches without a lot of people I recommend to go to some beaches in the Cabo de Gata-Níjar natural park.
Nah, just use CGo to link to a lower-level Rust library :)
Everyone I know carries a cellphone. They track you everywhere you go, even when the gps is off. Ever wonder how Google provides its live traffic info? New cars have gps and cell radios. If they don't already report vehicle position I'm sure they will in a few years. It's probably already used by the three letter agencies. License plate scanning cameras are a commodity now.

Google, AT&T, Ford, and the NSA already know where you are at all times. What's one more?

Sure you could leave the cell phone at home and drive a 20 y/o car but that will become increasingly difficult and conspicuous. "Why are you driving that? Do you have something to hide?"

I don't see this trend as stoppable. I think the best we can do is to implement strong laws about how this information is stored and used. And honestly tracking where everyone drives can do a lot of good. It could allow for much more efficient and fair transportation taxes and eliminiate hit-and-runs for example.
How about when I'm standing in front of the screen and drawing on it with my Apple Pencil? I want to use my TV as another screen for my phone, tablet, computer, and Rasberry Pi. Sure, if watching a movie video is your only use case, your needs are much less.
If you were able to pay with coins, they would just be able to tell that the goofball who always only pays with coins used the vehicle.
No bad that chart is in arcane units of measurement.
Mexico City as #1? Really? Having been there recently, my main objective was to get the hell out of the teeming city and its pool of horrible smog without being killed by the crazy drivers. The rest of Mexico is quite nice, but stay out of the cities.
Next logical step - Yahoo should hire Elop as CEO ;-)
Pros and cons, that's for sure. My current house is from 1974 - it's built very well. There's a comment below about new houses being built poorly - there are builders that cut huge corners but still stay within code. The new builders will clear cut pristine forest areas, build houses and plant little twigs called 'trees'. My current house...I had to cut down an oak tree as it was getting a disease..I counted the rings and it was 90 years old. Same for all the houses around my old neighborhood. The houses are about 40+ years old but you can tell the trees are older than. Builders, and people cared back then. I love walking in my old neighborhood...tons of trees, you don't even feel like you're in a big city but I'm 15 minutes away from downtown Atlanta.

The new house is a open floor plan, 2 story foyer/family room, tall ceilings etc, 50% larger more square footage. The outside looks beautiful.The funny thing is, the price of my current house and new house are very similar...old is valued at $330k, old was purchased a $363k. But my old house is closer to the city in a nice area.

I am moving to a newer part of town. It's closer to work for both me and my wife. All houses around there are no more than 20 years old...most are within 10 with new construction everywhere.
As someone who has written a lot of C++ (and essentially no rust), I think you're mischaracterizing C++. It has a lot of magic that the compiler does for you under the hood, and even more if you are using libraries.

If you want to understand what is actually happening on the machine, I do not think it is the best choice. C would be much better.
This is a great report from 2012 (using 2010 numbers) that outlines gov subsidies, loans, and contracts by industry: http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_as...

Energy is the 5th most subsidized sector, counting both grants and tax expenditures (exemptions), with $34.5b in total federal subsidies. Compared to the $743.5b we subsidized healthcare, this is pretty small stuff.

Energy makes up the 2nd largest share of direct federal loans at $48.4b, behind education at $87.8b:

The energy sector contained the second largest number of loans, with $48.4 billion in loans, about half of the amount of education loans. These loans were administered by the U.S. Department of Energy to promote advanced technology vehicles and energy efficiency through innovative technologies and by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, for the purpose of improving electricity transmission in rural areas. The energy sector’s loans made up 31 percent of all loans in the nine sectors in FY2010.

Good breakdown of competed vs non-competed contracts by sector as well, with transportation and national defense coming out on top in terms of nominal size of contracts as well as ratio non-compete to compete, unsurprisingly.
Thought it was only me who followed the link thinking it was a metaphor.
thegeekpirate mentioned in the "Why I Love Rust" discussion that TIOBE filters out false positives for Go by only matching it along with "Google":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863654
I know they don't, I'm saying they should. They are currently vulnerable to bad sellers screwing over buyers, but that's just because of how they chose to structure their business, not an inherent problem.
> It still does, because it future proofs you against a change in the future that separates the allocation from completely filling the memory, and saves you from future programmers who don't realize that only half-filling the memory could have catastrophic security or correctness consequences.

But how does replacing that radioactive waste (neat analogy) with zeros improve correctness here?
As a Swiss citizen myself, I am not convinced that hosting in Switzerland is any better privacy-wise than e.g. in Germany. New laws like BÜPF and NDG seem to get us closer to where the EU is in terms of what the government is allowed to access, and what providers are forced to log.

This talk is a good intro on what's going on in Switzerland right now https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7205-netzpolitik_in_der_schweiz#...
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A good tip, they provide an IPv6-to-IPv4 Web-proxy. That you can use to test your v6only site from a v4-host.

Given that you have a DNS record for your site ofcourse.

And just go http://yoursite.tld.sixxs.org :)
Date: 1999

Attitudes toward failing startups seem to have changed a bit since then...and toward founders' behavior under stress.

Probably easier to raise big capital today too.
Sorry, I'm a bit of a pedantic in discussions here.

To simplify the situation let's claim that children do not go to school unless prompted by their parents. This is then an influence attempt by the parent to make the child follow with their directives.

Such an attempt has usually three possible outcomes: commitment, compliance or conflict.

Just because coercion can be used as an influence tactic does not mean it's always necessary to do so. Also, it seldom leads to the most preferred outcome (commitment).

The point was - not all influence tactics can be categorized as coercion - not that the hypothetical child would not need external influence to attend school.
I don't think they're after customer money. They want service provider money.

If what telekom is trying in germany is a any indication, the plan is to move all traffic to the BingeOn mode. After that, they degrade services that are not paying them and zero-rate + allow higher bitrates for services that pay them.

But "paying" is not cash if the talk in our startup scene is to be believed. Telekom is pulling out of startup incubating (after failing miserably) and are trying to use their position as an intermediary to get equity off of every new startup.

How? Imagine a new startup "meflixtube": growth is good, funding is secured, everything looks great. Telekom notices and says "would be a shame if something degrading would happen to your service, ey? give us a few percent of equity and you'll get zero-rated, undegraded access to our customers". Now instead of getting a few $$$, they are in line to get a few 100 million $$$ when a few of the new startups take off. They can even make sure that the startups they have "convinced" don't get any competition by refusing the same deal to competitors.

tl;dr: Telekom is not after customer money, their customer base is the market they "offer" to companies and zero-rated, undegraded data is their gate.
With my assumption, it will be defined as an unsigned char, as it should be.
> -only- distribute their app via Google Play

And even if after much begging you get a .apk from them, it often still won't work on a Google-free Android because it uses the damn Google API that requires the Google binaries that you don't want to soil your system with.
This is a duplicate.

See other discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10864553