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Privacy is great, but I feel that when a terrorist attack happens it's too easy for governments all over to start dismissing its importance and say "Come on, do you really not want to give any of your privacy away so we can keep you safe from terrorist attacks?! Really? REALLY??"

Now it's going to happen in Europe, too. We need to focus the discussion more on data protection. Because then the compromise isn't as obvious, and they would be talking about undermining data protection with their anti-encryption and anti-strong security legislation. People do want their data to be secure, even if most don't understand all the intricacies of it.

The US government (and UK, and France) currently holds the position that if you're a company you shouldn't be using encryption you can't decrypt. So basically they are also arguing against future technologies such as ZeroDB or homomorphic encryption, which could help a great deal against data breach.

That's just crazy. When companies get hacked left and right and millions of people's data is exposed each time, how can they possible hold that position? I think that's how we should argue against them.
VERY well done!
+1.

It boggles the mind how we don't seem to get this, and how the idea of economic growth seems to be directly opposed to sustainable living. This has been voiced for decades (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful ) - wonder how much time have left to get it.
I've already written it in another comment: a different way of solving the problem would be to build a tool that allows developers to mark releases as safe. (public lgtm) Every package would have a safety score and you could decide yourself if that's good enough for you.
Next step - replace the avatar with an AI employee bot trained on your in-work responses, and we can all go off to the beach.

And never come back.
Having five Xeon servers on your desk is not much fun when it comes to noise, but if you have some sort of server area yeah I agree you can get some good deals.
Just to share, there is an issue about uglifyjs https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2/issues/936
Is it just me or HoloLens sounds a bit like a Hooli product?

All jokes aside, given that the rendering quality improves, this could have interesting applications for scientists researching facial and body expressions in certain environments. It would enable them to replay scenes and emotions which current 2D/3D video fails to capture, especially because it allows you to change your viewpoint.

I doubt this will be a game changer for teleconferencing, mainly due to the oversized device you have to wear, but then again all these gadgets tend to look a bit creepy in their initial phases (e.g. the Google Glass prototype).
But that's not the argument they're making, the argument they're making is that the amount of passed genetic information is halved, because they fail to take into account that every offspring has two parents in sexual reproduction.
"These regulatory advantages have allowed hedge funds to consistently outperform stocks and other assets by roughly 2 percentage points each year"

Ummm... what? hedgefunds vs the S&P is a terrible investment

http://www.businessinsider.com/hedge-fund-relative-fund-perf...
Personally I hate it when ads get in my way. Like anyone else, I do like money though. So I'm struggling with trying to monetize this. I don't want to annoy developers.

This being said, I will consider trying carbonads. Thanks for the tip.
That still doesn't justify suing him out of app stores.
Main point is such individuals and corporations act like unregulated States within regulated States. They reap all they can without having to worry providing welfare and managing affairs in the manner regulated Stases do. They are in the very fact pirates or mafias that seize ridiculous amount of monies out of regulated economies, shield that monies in fiscal havens and starve regulated economies.
No, but that lone dev 'invented' a game branded around the word 'candy' with very similar gameplay elements, graphics, and wording. Candy crush saga is a ripoff, and 99% of objective observers will confirm that. In king's defence, that's perfectly legal; whether it's moral or not depends on the compass of the beholder. CCS also appeals strongly to children and makes heavy use of IAP; again, you can draw your own moral conclusions from that (and King are obviously not the only company behaving that way).
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The Koch won't fund a direct competitor, so there goes your access to capital markets.
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NPM needs to be disrupted. But seriously, I would really like to see some decentralized package manager for Node.js
The uglify authors should use 'uglify' per the naming conventions and can easily reserve uglify-js and uglifyjs as empty / legacy packages.
Not sure if you parsed my comment incorrectly or you meant to reply to someone else :)
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How more short term would you want it to be? The trait doesn't have to be advantageous every single generation in order to spread.

It's two generation with or without selective breeding. The first generation will have individuals with three or four beneficial mutations, the second will have some with five. (assuming the traits are dominant)
I personally had used WoSign several times: https://buy.wosign.com/free/

Besides Chinese origin of this CA, haven't found any caveats so far.

Free is better than cheap (at least in a way you haven't to disclose any of your real data).
Absolutely! How vindictive to think otherwise. It's bullshit, but I can understand the "we're going to take your money because we can improve society with it" argument. But I can't understand the "you have too much, so let's take it and burn it" mentality
There are a lot of differences between Odroid/Dragonboard and the AMD A1100-based Cello. The former boards are essentially Android phone/tablet chips with the minimal amount of support circuitry to put them on a development board, and the result is of course very cheap, owing to the sheer volume of Android chips being sold.

However boards like the AMD Cello, the Gigabyte MP30-AR0, the Huskyboard, have server chips in them, external DIMMs (the Gigabyte takes up to 128GB of RAM), real SATA, PCIe slots, multiple ethernet (Gigabyte has 5 x ethernet, 2 running at 10Gbps), IPMI and so on. They also conform to the SBSA/SBBR standard so you can boot RHEL and (in the near future) Windows on them.

The cost of this is significant - a fully equipped AMD Cello (with case, RAM, SDD, etc) is going to be US$600. A fully equipped Gigabyte w/32 GB of RAM and an SDD will set you back US$1000+, but you're getting a real server for that money.

More about the Gigabyte board on my blog: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/?s=mp30
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Okay so it's yet another programming language to add onto the other hundreds of them, it can make GUIs that are Windows 7 era sort of. The syntax looks way off from most other programming languages.

Honestly, this looks like a mess and I don't understand the purpose of it if it's meant to be used by real users. Why would anyone prefer this?
> even the limits on high fat foods - which research is now showing is not as bad as some other older research thought.

Sources please.
I'd like to see more details about that claim, just to know how they were able to reach that ("via a combination of C-Band and L-Band transmission" it's a bit generic) using more than 170 channels on the same fiber. Btw, cool stuff.
There's no free lunch, that high interest rate has to be considered against the currency risk from the weak and unstable ZAR. In the last 5 years a 5% interest rate will have compounded to a 27% one. In the same time the ZAR has weakened against the USD by 125%.

You will not find a combination of a stable currency and high guaranteed interest rates anywhere.
According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11341142 , in at least one case, now, this is not true.
Don't get sad, charge double. (Or whatever multiple makes it okay.)
> In the US and Western Europe there is an oversupply of unskilled or low-skills labour, driving their wages down (relatively to skilled labour).

You're right, but the reality is that even skilled workers rarely make it to the top 1%. In fact, they might not even find a job in their field.

Even if you're super-high-skilled and work in Silicon Valley as a programmer, your net income probably doesn't come close to the entry bar of the top 5%.
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Why not use location.hash and URL shortener? That way no upload is needed.
Yes. So King uses the engine internally, right? The tech is driven by the Blossom Blast Saga team and by another 5 internal teams using the engine. In fact, the engine team and the games team reside in a same room, and are isolated to a separate building from the other teams. A close collaboration in a very productive environment. From where I am ;-)

Oh.. so the art/assets pipeline is pretty much dictated by the internal teams. But feel free to use the engine and explain on Defold forums of the good and the bad. We'll be happy to listen.
Holy shit I need to try it out. The syntax is extremely intuitive imo. And a 0.5 MB interpreter to top it off..
>Money, power and connections are used at every level of government, from local to state to federal to subtly and not-so-subtly tilt the pinball machine

Who, specifically? Who is taking bribes, in what form, from whom, and to do what? Give names, instances, and evidence. You're making very serious allegations with all of the intellectual rigor of Fox news.
How does your statement correlate with the subject actually?
Why didn't they just parse the output of Tay and map the meaning of the words against Wordnet and filter for things which had negative meanings?
Gigabyte MP30-AR0. However, a fully specced system with case, 32GB RAM, SDD and so on will set you back US$1000+. It's a nice system however, the first server of any variety I have had which has fully working, stable IPMI.

More about it on my blog: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/?s=mp30
Who's "cheating"? If they're actually cheating, let's take away their unfair advantage. But let's not fuck over everyone making over $x because we don't like how some percentage of that group do it

This vague idea (which seems to be incredibly popular) that "everyone with more money than me took advantage of poors and cheated" is unfounded
If a human said the things Tay said on twitter, the police would be all over him. Why isn't the police then logically all over Microsoft?
It is worth considering the source: Brookings.

When looking on the increasing difference between the 0.1% and the rest the author makes the observation that the latter can't participate as accredited investors in some schemes. Everyone laughed about Bernakes helicopter money idea. However right now helicopters are circling the casinos where only the 0.1% have access. The solution is not to let everyone in. Maybe also the copters are running out of fuel. It is worth noting that a lot of hedge funds are getting clobbered these days and it is tempting to look for retail investors to take and hold the bag.

Lots of data in the article showing the differences between different branches of labor. Then an argument that unions increase pay differences. All correct. But ignoring the elephant in the room the "pay" difference between labor and capital. Regulation (like blanket leveling of price/labor in WWII), unions, merit based access to education and hard limits like death/estate tax are forces that help to restore a level playing field between labor and capital where everyone competes.

Capital enables investment and we need capital accumulation and probably on broader scale. Part of that capital needs to be accumulated from labor through saving and ingenuity. Inequality between jobs, industries and maybe even tax can be healthy. It provides signals collected by many looking to better themselves and others. Capital breeding capital and being increasingly the only source for investment means one sided and less effective steering of investments. It is not surprising growth slows when the Gini index becomes larger.
For others who are curious about this: according to Wikipedia, the game in question is http://www.candyswipe.com. While it has the same theme, the core mechanic of the game is very different (swipe a path through candies of the same color vs swap candies to form lines of three). Candy Crush isn't a rip off of this game.
This is an ambitious statement =] But yes, the engine at the current state may be decent for certain use cases. We're working to make it better, obviously. Give it a try at a game jam neat you. Or at the upcoming Ludum Dare.
I'm not trying to dispute that a problem exists, only that semver is a red herring here. It seems like the problem that you describe doesn't have to do with semver, rather that it has to do with npm lacking something like lockfiles.
That also depends on the namespaces used by the language. E.g. auto-completion in Clojure works a lot better than in JS, because every symbol has a unique resolution, known statically (or as unique as in many typed languages). True, you get less helpful suggestions, but OTOH, the error messages can be much clearer than in the typed case. The former can leave error reporting to the DSL, while the latter is restricted to the cryptic types of the host language's compiler. I'm not saying this can't be resolved with some clever compiler plugins, but if we're comparing options available now, the advantage is not so clear-cut (I do favor types, but only as long as they don't get too complex).
Or give it a try (hey, a free software with decent tutorials that doesn't require install/deploy) and return with a facts-based feedback ;-)
A wrapper over something like this...

git clone https://[repo]/[module].git node_modules/[module]

...and ability to provide dependency resolution along with custom runscripts?

Yes, we can. Not a rocket science. How many paranoid freaks will actually switch to it - that is the question.
Close, but dispersion compensation is now very easy to do digitally, and has very little impact on system performance now. As for power, it is actually the opposite, optical systems are ultimately limited in reach by nonlinearity, and so you can not just increase the transmit power like you might do in a wireless system, even if your amplifiers were very linear.
Since it's impossible to fully track the wealth of the worlds wealthiest people, I'm just going to go ahead and speculate.

0.0001% of 6 billion = 6000 people.

I would say that 6000 people easily control anywhere between 20% and 50% of the worlds wealth. Especially considering that if you research "How many billionaires are there?" You come up with something like this:

"A total of 1,645 people made the 2014 billionaire list, representing combined wealth of $6.4 trillion."

So taking the top 1000 billionaires, or perhaps even the top 100 or so, and then you have the families who really have enough money to control things. These would be the people that are impossible to get much information on, but who definitely hold a lot of sway over the planet.

I think these families are the ones we should be concerned with. Either them or once again a small proportion of them, numbering anywhere between 5 families and 100 families.
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It would be much better if the developers realised that they've got an alternate stream of revenue to capitalise on.

How much of the official Minecraft merchandise do you think was bought for/by kids who don't have a license/machine capable of playing Minecraft but watch any of the huge number of YouTubers producing content in Minecraft?
We've (we=some of the Defold core team) spent a good time with a bunch of Cocos2D core devs at GDC. Each tech has strong sides and features in development. Currently Defold is a young free tech mostly used at King. But this improves at a pace of a solid couple of hundreds per day.
> "CCS also appeals strongly to children"

This is nonsense. Nor King, nor other "big" companies do that. Look at the numbers "https://www.enolalabs.com/blog/archives/grossing-and-gaming-....

Companies also need to do games for kids like Nintendo, that does it in the most awesome possible way. But King does not do that.

If any marketing person is reading this. Please, take a look at King advertising, take a look at our branding and our merchandise products. King doesn't market casual games to children nor you should you do it.
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In reality markets are not as competitive or as simple as the model. If you want to set up another Walmart say, it is not that easy to get it funded or make it a success, not as simple as just hiring a bunch of people and putting them to work to make money, as any entrepreneur knows.
Is there a Rust equivalent for Concepts?
Except the exact same code was republished, so the point still stands.
No it doesn't justify suing.

Just because you make a shitty phone and puts an apple on it doesn't mean people will be buying your shit hands over fists.

Quality speaks for itself.

I think companies should be less territorial about names. Unless it is a direct copy, I'm sure the average people will be able to figure out that "candy smash" is a ripoff. After all only it won't have 20billion downloads.
It's a Darwinian bottleneck.

Evolution selects for immediate survival. Because intelligence is expensive, competitive species evolve enough intelligence to compete with each other. But the extra intelligence needed to guarantee successful long-term management of an entire planetary ecosystem is at the far end of the bell curve, and most individuals won't be capable of it. Likewise for effective off-world colonisation.

So you get a race between the self-destructive effects of short-sighted individual intelligence pursuing the usual goals of fighting, fucking, and accumulating resources, and the amplification effects of whatever collective intelligence mechanisms a species can evolve.

At the moment we're not doing so well with the latter. It's going to take a phase change to move collective intelligence up to a level where the likely default is long term survival.
You're assuming there's a shortage of labor. Avoiding the situation you describe is why owners of capital are almost always pro-immigration.
Well, you've just asked an eternal question - why yet another programming language? So - do you suggest ppl should refrain from trying their new ways? :-)

And yes, Rebol like syntax might feel kind of weird, when coming from other environments. But it is clean, unnecessary punctuation free, and once used to, very obvious and productive.

As for GUIs, Rebol featured custom one, Red uses binding to native widgets. Both aproaches have their advantages/disadvantages. You can bet, it will improve and I am the one, who would like to see "Metro" supported as far as Windows is concerned ....
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No because there is a trade off between always getting the latest patch of your dependencies (for bug fixes, to maximise security) and not getting the latest patch (because of potential bugs or malice, to maximise security).

I am thinking of both compile time code dependencies and runtime dependencies (e.g. Windows updates).
It's not limited to Windows 7 era GUIs by design, there are plans to have GUI support for OSX, Linux, Android, etc...

Furthermore, don't get confused between styling and layout. The code is focused on layout, the styling can look just as modern as any other GUI framework.

Lastly, as to why anyone would use Red, it enables you to create full graphical apps in a small amount of code, and is designed to be compact (runtime under 1MB) and fast (native compilation). Once you get familiar with the syntax (which is easily done by reading a short tutorial) then you have quite a powerful tool at your disposal.
Kind of quick of judging something you don't know. I too find the syntax alien to me, but I don't automatically assume that means it is a bad thing or a bad syntax. If you look at smalltalk, LISP or forth they all have very different syntax which will seem alien but usually they are all quite simple below the surface and quite quick to learn.

Plenty of languages with familiar looking syntax which are horribly complicated. E.g. like C++ ;-)
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> The real cause of elite inequality is the lack of open access and market competition in elite investment and labor markets..

I stopped reading after that, because that's not the real reason. The real reason is the way these people think.

(then I went back and read the article anyway and still think it misses the real reason)

Most solutions to the "1% problem" are based on building these legal cages of rules, regulations and taxes, where the "wild, untamed, mad" entrepreneurs are allowed to work.

But here's the catch - they are the ones who are supposed to build the cages for themselves !

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We need a new 1%. We need a third option besides Karl Marx and Adam Smith.

Both those theories are based on incomplete understanding of human psychology, sociology, information technology and so on. In simple words - both "capitalism" and "socialism" are old and wrong.

For example, nowhere will you see a mention of "advertising" in the theory of supply and demand. Not a single mention ! Check it out on wikipedia.

But advertising is a demand producing engine, which in turn generates supply and with some more advertising produces more demand and so on. There is no "economic equilibrium", there are marketing and PR budget limits !

We call it "economic theory" or even science, when in fact it's always been economic ideology with math added on top of it.

And any ideology is a consequence of learning and regurgitating the same half-truths until everyone deeply believes it to be the only truth.

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We also need a new Dale Carnegie and Napoleon Hill. The whole "achieve your full potential" idea.
If achieving means earning and hoarding things, then this leads to a whole bunch of heartless, selfish assholes - what we have today.
"But I've worked hard for it, so I deserve it!"

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So how do we do it ? I don't know, but I know that we have to do something about it if we are to survive as a species - the state of the biosphere is another manifestation of the same problem - the 1% god so rich at the same time as the planet got polluted, mined and abused.
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> npm lacking something like lockfiles

`npm shrinkwrap --dev` will give you a shrinkwrap file, with dev-deps also locked. Still, it took me 3 months of heavy Node usage before I found that out. Over in PHP land, while Composer has its own set of faults, it's at least generating a lockfile automatically.
The OP has clearly drunk the hedge fund kool-aid, and has no idea how investment really works. The funds have been trying to get wider access so they can sell their largely extremely poor returns to a wider audience.
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It is semver compounded with the "^x.y.z" version requirements for dependencies that NPM uses as a default when a package author `npm install --save` something.

When someone else installs that package it will bump y or z if `x > 0`, and z if `x == 0 && y > 0` for all dependencies.

You can manually freeze deps to 'x.y.z'.

The main problem is the "^" default.
So let's leave the cold-blooded killers in prison and put the inmates there on nonviolent drug offenses under house arrest or something.
> It is not surprising growth slows when the Gini index becomes larger.

Are you sure you are not mistaking correlation for causation here?
I think I may be turning into a machine myself, because I had to google "cowboy code" thinking it's probably something from the Jargon File. Like, an apocryphal list of error codes and things, hidden in some obscure part of a posix filesystem etc.
Duplicates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11360242 .