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Honest question, because this comes up reasonably often in PL discussion. Do people genuinely have a hard time with Boolean logic? If I was to make a list of things I found hard when learning about programming I'm not sure Boolean logic would make the cut.
As someone who lived through apartheid that's just silly.
Interesting video but when Tom was demoing the system there is no display of the demo. Is that a glitch in getting the video on YouTube?
Depends. It might require the telescope to be pointed at just the right angle at just the right time.
That happene when the likes of you become mods. I went back far enough to check. But hey, don't let that make you wonder.
It allows victims of 911 to sue the Saudi regime.

It may also allow victims of US drone strikes, civilian casualties in Iraq etc. to sue the US government?
Past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6875125
not at all my intention to poke fun at anyone though, it's hard to judge if something which is common knowledge for oneself might not be well known in general
Yes, they've deliberately killed it [1]. Page Rank itself hasn't been that useful for some time due to the fact that Google changes its algorithms regularly to weight a multitude of different factors.

[1] http://searchengineland.com/rip-google-pagerank-retrospectiv...
This is something I think about a lot. No matter how much time we spend on software design and doing things "right", in 5 years it's all going to get thrown out by someone who thinks the codebase needs "modernizing".

It's actually a bit reassuring to me. Things only having a 5 year lifespan means you shouldn't spend a lot of time worrying about them. Code is meant to be disposable, and the less we treat it so, the more we hold ourselves back.
And the 12 million Dutch citizens using DigiD.
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Yeah, they will dump $750 billion into a reasonably free market. That will work!

There are other things that would concern me before I would worry about Saudi Arabia essentially crippling itself...
> The West certainly should help the ones that show the desire to improve. That's different from making the worst offenders the biggest allies though.

No shit. The ancient Athenians invented democracy but I believe the US has made exporting democracy all around the world a vocation. So many successes: Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Morocco.

As a European I would like to ask to stop exporting democracy for at least a decade, the world needs a break, really.
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Promising signs for growing gaming sector in the MENA region
The vice article is way better than all the other coverage.

As a bit of additional background context, the historical rule has been that foreign nations cannot be sued in each others' courts. In the US, that rule is subject to the whim of Congress, and Congress is allowed to create exceptions.
I am an absolute cultural relativist, and I do think that there are no morals preset.

The culture of theirs is sure unbearable to you, and to me (I'd be beheaded for atheism before I could ever talk about women there), but its their problem. And when you utter the words barbaric, primitive, idiotic, be sure that you can logically answer the question: to whom?

And stop confusing the state with the people, and making blanket statements.
When social and political phenomena are examined more closely, they need classification and designation. Disliking a new term for an old or previously unexamined phenomenon seems curmudgeonly.
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isn't that a quote by Voltaire?
Can I ask why you'd love to get rid of it? (Not intended as a challenge to the idea of getting rid of it, just curious why)
> But SA is not an ally, it's a back-stabber.

I can assure that whatever SA is doing is under explicit or implicitly allowed/permitted maybe even planned by the US long time ago.

It's like being pissed with the 6-year old kid for acting like an idiot when you should really blame the parent for giving him fireworks.

Maybe the US/NATO interests in the area are not the ones you think?! Just saying.
Once upon a time I dated a very good looking girl. I got to see the "before" and "after" as it took her two hours in the morning to get ready. It gave me a theory which I call the "two hours a day" theory. If anyone (even a self-described "2") puts in 2 hours a day trying to look attractive, they will have some level of success.

That might be 2 hours a day picking your clothes, 2 hours fixing your hair, brushing your teeth, whatever... short term things.

That might also be 2 hours a day in the gym (physical appearance), or 2 hours a day practicing public speaking (confidence, crowd control), anything which helps radiate attractiveness, draw people in so they can see all the things that make you attractive which don't appear at first glance.

If you're not spending 2 hours a day trying to look attractive or be attractive, you can't really complain because the most attractive people I know spend (invest) on the order of that much time to get there and stay there.

If it's a weight thing, hit up the weight loss subreddits (/r/loseit, /r/fitness, /r/progresspics, etc) and talk to a psychologist about it. When you don't take care of yourself it can manifest as weight gain, but the core is not taking care of yourself which is fundamentally psychological. (ie: rating yourself as a 2 on a scale of 1-10 doesn't bode well for positive self-image and self confidence).

Talk to a psychologist about it, seriously. May is Mental Health Awareness month so it's a perfect time to look into it and take action.

If it's anything else cosmetic (hair, teeth, skin, clothes) that's an easy fix and a lot of times can literally be resolved in an afternoon if you have the right instruction (/r/skincareaddiction, /r/malefashionadvice, /r/streetwear).

My email is ramses0@yahoo.com if you or anyone else wants to continue the discussion (news.y.c messaging isn't the thing I check the most) and if you're in the Bay Area I wouldn't mind meeting up some time, hanging out and just talking.
I do not really think that execution is justified by its reason. So execution for atheism or execution for treason etc., all count the same: A political system killing the very people it is supposed to serve.
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I thought ClarisWorks was the suite, and Claris Word was the name for the word processing component? I could be misremembering, of course. I haven't used it in 20 years or so.

But yes, I'm aware of the history of the product.
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I like how you did not use external dependencies.
> the historical rule has been that foreign nations cannot be sued in each others' courts

You mean, most countries abide by this?

Why is that? Is it possible this type of behavior is viewed as a gateway to sanctions at best, or stifled communications and war at worst?

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with the proposed law. I'm just curious what the consequences might be when one developed country (Saudi Arabia) inevitably rebuffs another country's (USA's) judgement of it. I mean, that's point of separate countries right? Sovereignty.
Well you are right that it is certainly not an absolute truth. Some people do select mostly on appearance. However, since appearance is so subjective and the way we are seen is not absolute, attractiveness loses a lot of meaning.

I think it is also dependent on age: younger people tend to go for appearances far more.

Nonetheless, confidence is not as subjective: it really has a positive impact when all other things are held equal.
sorry i didn't recognize the name. hello again :)

definitely look for the announcement next week for help on this front.

currently the std method would be users to ssh to the shared server and run their own beaker server with a shell, and then connect to the port/URL that it prints out. not exactly the easiest UI, but that's something we are working on...
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Apartheid refers to the idea of 'separateness', the state treating a particular group differently in a significant number of ways purely because of some identifying characteristic.

Clearly, there are ways in which all states do this and for different reasons. Men having to work longer to get a pension is a historical relic, and one which most countries are moving away from.

The laws covering conscription in the US also date back to the early 1980s. Since there has been no involuntary draft since the 1970s, it has hardly had an effect on life for most Americans.

Compare this to Saudi Arabia where women continue to be severely punished for breaking laws that apply only to women, have much curtailed rights compared to men, and clearly have very 'separate' lives to men in Saudi Arabia. Whether you call it segregation, apartheid, or whatever you want - there is much greater gender inequality in Saudi Arabia than there is in most of the EU and USA.

Women in Saudia Arabia are subject to severe repression, in the same way that blacks suffered from severe repression in South Africa during the Apartheid era, and in a way that few people could genuinely complain in the USA or EU.
I've worked with several different county or city planning boards, and have found them to be reasonable and diligent. It is possible for local government to function, even if there are many examples of it not doing so.

On that topic, don't even get me started on the wastewater agencies. At both the state and local levels, they have repeatedly failed to accomplish anything fairly or effectively.
If we treat software as permanent, we hold ourselves back from making risky changes that wreck it.

If we treat software as temporary, we hold ourselves back from worthwhile improvements that will have enduring value, especially if they are fairly difficult.
"Sorry mate, but the Restart Page only works in desktop computers. We think that in order to reproduce the original rebooting experience you need to be seated in front of your personal computer, as we used to do back in our beloved Amiga Workbench days.
Press the button below to email yourself a reminder to revisit The Restart Page."

Meta and whiny trigger warning.

Not a chance. I don't do any casual browsing on my actual computer. Reading this has just made sharply aware of that, which is interesting in itself, so thanks, I guess!
>Countries don't have values

This is correct in an extremely narrow sense, in the same narrow sense that "there is no such thing as a country." This is because countries are political abstractions, and do not exist as a physical entity, like say, a chair, or a pomegranate.

If we understand "country" to instead refer to the group of people who organize under that system, then you are completely mistaken that "countries don't have values."

You can see this for yourself right now. If it's not too cold, you could strip naked and take a walk in your town for an hour or two.

As you are almost in a country where this is against the local values, you will very likely be asked to dress, or even arrested.

But why?

You said "countries don't have values, countries have interests." So whose "interests" is it for a man (or woman I guess) not to be naked? Well, right, the people living there.

This is just one example of how you can easily see that there are certainly values that are represented by the population, municipality, country, etc.

it's kind of silly to argue that there are no such values. I've just given one example, but I could easily list dozens if you don't find it convincing (just ask me to).
As your username would suggest.
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Once you treat a model as a black box, how can you hope to interpret it?
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Honesty that may be part of your problem. Think of Tinder as meeting someone in a virtual bar — you're not going to spend a hell of a lot of time on what you open with. All you're going for is something just interesting and personal enough to actually start a conversation.

If you're regularly sending opening messages more than a sentence or two long, you're probably investing way too much effort to start out.
At my place of work, we are heavily invested in a web application hosted by a vendor who insisted QT was needed to play all the little sounds on the web interface that the user hears. It was literally the only reason we had to bring it into our environment, and they insisted we have it and there was no other way they could play sounds through the browser. This should be interesting.
I think there's a lot of ambiguity in valuation. P/E for a public company is very much a matter of confidence and perception.

Culturally, different groups will perceive a company in different ways. The same group will perceive similar companies differently. It's all over the map. In public markets things stabilize to a common view. That's the effect of liquidity. But private markets without that liquidity can have divergent investor perception.
That's why the copyright term should be flexible. A natural way to achieve this would be to tax copyright (why not? many other properties are taxed, why not IP?) progressively over time. For example first three years zero tax, fourth year $1000 and doubling every year from that. When copyright holder is not willing to pay the tax anymore, the piece of work moves to public domain. This solves also the orphan works issue automatically. (Obviously, there are some international details to be sorted out with this idea.)
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Well, either the Obama administration is composed of puppets of anti-gay fundamentalists (puppets who lit the White House in rainbow colors upon the SCOTUS deciding that gay marriage bans were unconstitutional), or perhaps their relationship with Saudi Arabia is motivated by reasons other than supposedly shared religious fundamentalism, and in fact religious fundamentalism has nothing to do with this.

(Incidentally, the majority of wars, adjusted by the number of victims, as well as the majority of repressive actions against citizens by their own states throughout the last century were initiated by people whom you could more accurately describe as anti-religious fundamentalists than religious fundamentalists. It could be that religious fundamentalism, bad as it is, is not necessarily the main theme in every bad event in history, but just one of the many variations on the main theme.)
Finally! everyone knows they (Saudi Arabia) sponsor terrorists. US maybe finally will end with hypocrisy, you are against terrorism with zero toleration rule? or you are against it only when it's not against your interest. Democratic, western values are much more important in this case than couple of $.
In terms of fundamentalism, Saudi Arabia is practically ISIS, if ISIS made it and decided to buy off the West instead of fighting...flogging for bloggers, death penalty for adultery, Christianity, etc. If someone doesn't respect your culture but views it as an evil to be eradicated, at least within their borders, saying so seems perfectly democratic. In fact calling it like you see it, fact-based discussion are part of the essence of democracy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/opinion/saudi-arabia-an-is...

People pointing fingers at the wrong folks for something like 9/11 for political purposes is more of a problem than offending a culture that doesn't respect our culture or basic human rights.

(Suing Saudi Arabia over 9/11 does seem like opening a can of worms, and there sure are a lot of anti-Muslim bigots in this country. But whataboutism should have a limit. You can tolerate a religion and still say some things people do in its name are effed up and not consistent with democracy and human values)
If that's the case, why wouldn't the ex-post-facto clause in the constitution (Article 1 Section 9) nevertheless protect anybody this bill is meant to open to liability?
Yep that stood out to me too http://postimg.org/image/kho7l7pyl/
A system where no candidate has campaign money does not produce an even playing field. It gives the incumbent and/or famous candidate an even bigger advantage than now.

Indeed, I think the best explanation for the campaign finance laws of the recent decades is that they're intended to protect the incumbents that enacted them.

Your argument rests on the idea that the candidate with the most money always wins. This is the "common sense" model, but it's not supported by empirical data.

In reality election victory is related to money the same way individual happiness is:

Without money a person will not be happy, and a candidate will not be elected. But once you have enough money for a comfortable life/campaign, more money does little to improve things.

Once you've made all voters aware of who you are and what you stand for, your campaign has done the advertising it needs. Telling them again and again will change very little. Jeb Bush is the latest of many well funded failed candidates showing this.
61 out 90 million pounds of e-waste were recyclable materials. I think that's a more interesting number.
Yeah, but nobody set out to make dentistry easy for them, or to coach them through it when clearly they have no natural ability to learn the sciences required. Some people just don't get it.
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Please not. When I have a problem with a program I want to know what to type into Google. I'm using LXDE and in some apps you won't even see its name in the about window.
San Francisco wants to collect over $3.3M each year from Uber, Lyft drivers
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The U.S. is not a Democracy; it is a Federal Republic, so demos is not applicable to the U.S.
Yes, capital punishment is capital punishment, however, I don't know of a mentally-ill woman, or man put to death for a possible self-defense killing in the U.S., but I have not researched it fully. Murder is different than killing by law. The point is that Siti Zaenab Bt. Duhri Rupa, the Indonesian domestic helper who allegedly killed her employer's wife in Saudi Arabia had ZERO chance of a fair trial. The execution was carried out without informing the Indonesian government, or her family. I have worked in SE Asia and I have been to Qatar and Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and stories of domestic helpers being abused by employers there are typical, and numerous. I would wage the employer's wife abused her, and she may have had some mental illness, or at least it should have been made as a case considering the evidence, but NO, she being a woman, a foreign woman, stood no chance. I have turned down job offers in the countries I have mentioned, because I do think their cultures are not current with human rights as most nations at least profess them nowadays. For the record, I am against capital punishment, so I don't even want to debate the difference between lethal injection or beheading, but emotionally, having seen a broadcast of the beheading without knowing what I was watching at first, was shocking in the manner it was staged and carried out.
Maybe the author wasn't wrong in the facts presented. But maybe he wasn't giving the another perspective that would alter your perception or understanding of whatever picture he was trying to paint. If you aren't given the full context, then you haven't fully understood the situation.

If partial truths always lead to the correct conclusion, we would never have wrong convictions in courts caused by incomplete evidence.

Or to bring the analogy closer to home, if we know only some (but not all) of the use cases, we can't know if our solution truly and completely solves whatever problem we're trying to solve. Maybe Floegipoky knows of another "use case" (insight) here that Dan Lyons happened to leave out.
That first map, at least, is fairly inaccurate anyway. I've been to central Pennsylvania. They don't speak anything like the people here in southern Missouri. I mean, their speech is recognizable as English, but one couldn't say more than that.
No, it's cheaper to buy 1 legislature then 50.
You have to sign up for "Selective Service" so that, if suddenly the US government did want to conscript all young men, they have a record of who's eligible. Only men are required (and are even allowed) to sign up for Selective Service.

As you can imagine, some politicians do everything they can to maintain the status quo, while others try to get the legislation banned by the Supreme Court.
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this article seems to confuse speed reading with skimming.

i took a full semester class back in high school where all we did was train speed reading. i was able to get to 800 wpm with 90% comprehension on tests. that was from a baseline start of ~150 wpm with 80% comprehension. (the tests afterwards weren't easy "what was the name of bob's dog?" questions)

i've, of course, lost it all in the past 25 years of no practice, but i remember the keys being swallowing entire lines instead of words, achieving "flow", and dropping the subvocalization of what you're reading. (when you pronounce words in your head)
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Yes. Women job seekers and job providers. We'll work with both. Thanks.
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Values don't play any role in politics[1]. It's just the way it is. Whether this is good or bad is debatable and depends on the circumstance.

[1]Except in the rarest of occasions. edit: they also serve as a means to pretend and extort, too, but that's besides the point.
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They need to "program," not program. The difference is key—people who can't write email rules just aren't "computer savvy" and that's not such a large issue with the new generations.

What seems to be happening is people trying to figure out how to make teaching programming easier—like the guy below who works as a TA. I wasn't a TA but I did help a lot of people in school with programming and other CS assignments, and I definitely noticed lots of people in the field for the wrong reason. Either because they thought they could make a lot of money or because their parents wanted them to do it—but they had no natural interest or talent and didn't understand anything. Some of them declared many times they "hate" math or science.

Why do we have to go out of our way to teach people like this computer science principles or programming? They aren't interested in it and don't think the right way. There are many other professions and schools out there, surely most people can find what they really are cut out for, right?
> Use private and public keys encryption

Yeah, sounds trivial.
Yeah, I agree completely with you. SA is much worse than US (incomparable, really). That's exactly why I'm objecting to using the same term for both. Or rather, I think Wikipedia's definition is... fucked.
The "thehackernews.com" domain is a spam site. If you have "show dead" enabled in your HN user profile, you can see that just about everything submitted to HN from that domain is '[dead]'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=thehackernews.com
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The US has interests in every square inch of the planet.
I replied to another guy, but it addresses your answer too.
Sounds like we need to seize those assets that the terrorists are threatening to sell.
It's the technologist equivalent of having a mutual friend that insists that "no trust me give it a couple more dates"
There is the International Court of Justice to handle cases like these, but US has never recognized it, I think.

Probably because other countries might have similar complaints about illegal US behaviour.
Can anybody point something like this but specifically for React Native?
The only thing I like about Trump that he calls out SA on terrorism. Other politicians and media are bought by SA money, they will never call out SA despite the extremism it breeds killing innocent people all over the world.