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> The US government can get into your home, do you refuse to live anywhere because of that?

Not the OP. That feels like hyperbole: there are actual legal restrictions on "getting in to your home". When uploading data to a 3rd party the protections are much more limited.
But is your intention really to read every post by every site you're subscribed to? Someone subscribed to over 1000 sites isn't trying to avoid missed posts - they're just dipping into the stream of sites they're interested in at any given moment.
I enjoyed this. Could have just as easily been called "Being an experienced developer" because age doesn't factor in to his message that much.
"My quote was simply to point out the absurdity of getting yourself elected the head of a country - one that prides itself on being free from corruption - just so you can get rich from it. Both Lee Hsien Loong and Lee Kwuan Yew are very capable people who no doubt would be far richer had they applied themselves to the private sector rather than public."

That's not absurd at all. Our politicians in U.S. do it all the time while pretending the campaign contributions are just companies and individuals supporting our political system. Many private sector people have also gone into politics or government positions for the image and power. Running an entire country has historically attracted more tyrants than true, humble servants of their citizens.

In this case, it's even more obvious something is up. The country's turn-around started with a revolution of sorts by dissenters who took control of the government. It's turned into an economic powerhouse with the culture put in place but mostly in terms of cheap labor, etc. The problem is that the party cemented this into place by taking control of the media, filling schools with propaganda, blocking rights to dissent, and jailing/torturing dissenters that might cause next revolution (or even evolution).

A leader that uses legal and police might to force everything in one permanent direction where the many benefit a rich and powerful few, some local & some foreign, is almost by definition at tyrant. He's highly likely to be on a power trip. Otherwise, he should pass laws protecting speech and press freedom with a strong, independent press allowed. Keep other stuff the same for now but let new ideas percolate into system to improve it.

So, Loong and Yew are more likely to be tyrants oppressing a people than innovators continuing to protect them. No term limit is a natural extension of that. :)
If that's what you want, then don't use predictive echoing (or w/e it's called exactly).

I've been using Mosh for years on spotty connections and this feature alone is an absolute game changer. Sure, when you're trying to `jjjj` and your network hiccups, it may look weird for a moment, but no more weird than not seeing any input imo. And when you're not `jjj`ing, but instead typing in edit mode, you don't notice anything, it's flawless.

Also, Mosh shows a blue banner on top if there is prolonged connectivity issues, so it's not like it is tricking you or anything. The feature merely smooths out the UX, and it does so amazingly well.
what goes up must come down at some point..
Why EU is going after Google not Apple
Updated Delphi Data Access Components with Support for RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin
Well, they either have to rewrite Thunderbird's UI, or maintain a fork of Gecko that still supports XUL. I have no idea which one of these would be less work.
Agree, no; Respect, yes (that I have an opinion). Its called being civil. I've been dinged for "not being civil" based on someone's subjective opinion (BS), but the way HN does things, its "Mob Rules". Down-vote all you want, but people who do without stating why are cowards.
If you enjoyed that, you might also enjoy It's Behind You (http://bizzley.imbahost.com/). It talks about porting R-Type (side-scrolling space shooter) to the ZX Spectrum... and similar fun around squeezing down high-end (for the time) arcade games to run on hardware that shouldn't really support it - a great read!
I think the issue with 'white privilege' as a term is that people forget that the vast majority of people are not 'alright Jack'. It feels like an attack, like saying 'you have too much, give me some'.

Warren Buffet and Bill Gates might have won the game. Someone with $5M might have.

But your average 'privileged white male'? Even if we restrict it to the middle class, there's not that much to give up, you know? It's not as if we're all paid up on the mortgage with the retirement fund sorted and now we're just drilling away for more hookers and blow.

I have real issues with the rhetoric that seems to be cropping up as of late as it seems to push the focus away from the capitalist elite that own everything, and on to those who are in the same order of magnitude of wealth, battling away to keep their lives together.

We are friends, not enemies.
463 here, of which 238 are for Linux.

I was actually quite happy when Linux made up half my library; it really put paid to the idea that Linux isn't for gaming. If a publisher doesn't release multi-platform, I just don't buy it anymore. But those deals sucker me in for just about any game that says it's on SteamOS.
Sorry, I'm not too familiar with India; why is Agra such a bad place?
Compiler what? I simply said that I enjoyed writing fast scheme interpreters.
SQL gets a bad reputation from programmers that have a strictly procedural understanding of problem solving.
When you are dealing with large amounts of data a SET based approach to data retrieval will likely be the better solution. The problem often comes from trying to bridge the procedural world with the set based world.
AFS worked pretty well over the internet, WAN was an important use case.

But it was just an early one (1988!), many others followed. Coda, SFS, recently BackFS for FUSE, Sun's CacheFS and Red Hat's FS-Cache for NFS etc etc.
Fun fact: automated elevators were considered to be "unsafe" and "taking our jobs", too. Somehow we got past that one!
How's the editor support? I'm open to any editor or IDE.
You picked a poor use case to support you claim.
If you change "35-year old black woman" to a "35-year-old white man", the 25-year-old still gets the job.It is about a "culture fit" (or, most likely, ageism, in this case) , not race.
I think you should have left out the question altogether, or phrased it as an assertion: "nothing justifies torture".
You really don't have to worry about that, imo. The predictive feature doesn't overlap connectivity issues long enough for you to ever wonder "Am i connected or not"?

Not to mention, it shows you in two ways that you have connectivity issues.

1. All echoing prints underlines, so you always know if it's predictive output or not.
2. Any prolonged connectivity issue displays a blue bar at the top of the session, showing how long you've been disconnected for.

edit: And of course, you can simply turn off predictive echo if it's a feature you hate. but man oh man, is it something to love, imo.
I'm highly unlikely to provide an email address in exchange for content. I'm even more unlikley to provide one for the purpose of someone figuring out if they want to generate content. The best way to gauge interest in a newsletter is to write good content and make it available and see if people will read it.

Good luck.
>>Eating really spicy food is a form of culinary masochism after all.

>Not if you like it.

Masochism means pleasure from pain.
The problem with debating it on a practical level is that it sounds like you're haggling over what kind of ends are required to justify the means.

Even if it were 100% effective - every person tortured did exactly what the torturer wanted - it would still be unjustifiable because it is so morally repugnant.
And before that, everyone's reaction was: "Wait, isn't Nokia a tire company?"
Looking forward to having this integrated in geiser/emacs. I worked with chez recently, and it is really a high quality scheme implementation.
World’s Most Dangerous Consumer Product [video]
In your example, it's the cop that's committing the infraction. And yet, I'm the one that is expected to improve the situation, despite the fact that I've never been racist.

You're not expected to fix it, or even feel guilt about it! Honestly. Seriously.

I don't feel "guilty" if a white cop murders a black person, just like I don't feel guilty if I see somebody in a wheelchair. I do hate it, and I do try to consider how lucky I am, and maybe hopefully think about how I can make that situation better, or at least not make it worse.

The idea is literally just to recognize that the inequality exists.

Obviously the hope is that once we recognize that inequalities exist, we might want to address them somehow. Maybe as a society, maybe just as individuals being more mindful of how we treat others.

Like if I get resumes from "Edmund Smith" and "Jamal Brown." Should I automatically hire "Jamal Brown" because he "sounds black?" Hell no. Should I take an honest look at myself and make sure I'm not making assumptions based on what I assume to be Jamal's race and what I assume people of his race are like? Yes. If I work at a large company, should I maybe even look at the data and see if we as a company are rejecting "black sounding" candidates more often than "white sounding" candidates of equal qualifications? Probably, yeah, because it's the right thing to do and our company is only hurting itself if our hiring process is being compromised by inequal hiring practices.

Anyway, even if you hate those examples I just gave, know that the goal of recognizing privilege is awareness.
First of all I am sorry for your loss. I formed a group within my own city to prevent traffic deaths from happening here.

I agree with you; drivers need more sensors to alert them and stop them from killing people. However, computers can still fail - we need those sensors and maybe automatic brake application to prevent this sort of tragedy - I doubt if we want to trust a computer entirely for this sort of thing.
This story is 3 weeks old, was there a new update to this?
It is an existential horror SciFi novel, but BlindSight by Peter Watts is the only book I've seen talk about this idea.

Avoiding totally spoiling the book, it asks the question: "Is consciousness really a survival trait in the long term?"
So those of you who make purchase decisions for software used in-house... what are your turn-ons and turn-offs? If I'm trying to sell you a product that you find technically useful and exciting, how does pricing play into it? What would drive you away from a buy decision on an otherwise great product?
Just use google image search for Agra. Outside of a complete war zone, it's easily the most vile place I've ever visited in my life. Hell on Earth.

Type "agra filth" in Google search. That is how the ENTIRE surrounding area looks.
I found it interesting how different the BBC story was slanted from the Guardian story. As an advocate of nuclear power to my friends it was also interesting (although not scientific) to see who sent me links to which story.

The clear cutting story is interesting. It would be interesting to get a read on the lumber they pulled from the forests in terms of how much Cesium it had in the wood.
> I haven't made assumptions, demanding group guilt or deference, based upon a simplistic caricature or stereotype.

Ok, the reason privilege is taboo in this society is because it often gets mixed up with prejudice and injustice. Privilege is both real and collective, prejudice tends to be collective but may be overriden individually, and injustice is always individual.

If we consider privilege to come from the unthinking assumptions of people in general (aka. their prejudices) you cannot do anything about it. It is there. You can choose to keep your unthinking assumptions in check, but cannot force the others to do so. You just enjoy when those assumptions work in your favor, and workaround/overcome them when they get in your way.

On the other hand, injustices do happen when individuals choose to manipulate those unthinking assumptions (either in themselves or in others) to gain unfair advantage. So, the "group guilt" you talk about is guilt by association; e.g. a logical fallacy.

By example, there are such things as beaten wives. The reason for this is that their husbands are violent jerks. IF male privilege would not make women a convenient target, the same jerks would go out and look for someone else to beat. So, if you are a decent male, you have the right to refuse taking any blame for wife-beating, while still acknoledging that this is a real problem caused (at least parcially) by male privilege.

And if people wants to still blame you after exposing your case in such a way, it means they are themselves looking for someone to hate. Don't let them bring you to their silly games.
> I'm from an Eastern Europe and my family never was rich

Yes, you earned your success, but being from a poor Eastern Europe family doesn't say anything about whether or not you experienced a "white privilege". Try imagine yourself being a colored female from a poor Eastern Europe family might help a bit.
> and you can do `du -sh` and see that all the files are taking up zero space.

That seems wrong to me. It would violate the assumptions of software that does stat() on directory entries and not only verifies presence but also non-zero size.

So it's risking buggy behavior to gain a latency edge over other networked filesystems. I think smart prefetching while preserving correctness would be better.
Those numbers can still mean it's easier for a women to get hired in the industry.

They can make the entry level for women lower and get those numbers simply due to the lack of women applying in the first place. That would mean it would be easier for a qualified women in the industry to get a job than a man of equal qualification. Which is
ManlyBread was saying.

Reality tends to change when you, you know, actually understand logic and statistics.
Some people seem to think that getting swift on android would solve the portability problem of apps. Don't be mistaken, if you are going for the native experience, you will still have to write your ui and io layers twice, since there won't be a UIKit or CoreFoundation on android. (And even if someone made a uikit-esque translation layer, android's activities+intents+services model is not a 1:1 mapping to uiviewcontrollers...)
Good to see you are enjoying your stay in SG, Phillip.

Hacker News comments on Singapore are always a great reminder that a majority of opinions on social media are laughably misinformed and ignorant. Being verbose and decent technologists != able to source accurately and provide cogent arguments without letting personal biases get in the way.

The last time this happened, people were quoting Kenneth Jeyaretnam, James D Ross and Roy Ngerng as credible sources. In fact, it is happening right in this very thread.

Don't waste your energy, Phillip. :)
> Calm your tits

What the fuck, Stephen.
The point is way more important. Like I said, I do suspect that the term is actually hindering the effort at this point.
Why not operate trucks like drones?

Why does the driver need to sit in the vehicle all the time? Have rotating drivers, no need for rest times of the machine enforced by the limitations of the human body operating it.

You can then gradually phase in auto-pilot modes on highways, so that one operator is responsible for multiple vehicles. Already happening in combat drone space.

As they're not transporting passengers it is an easier sell.

Semi-autonomous drones with remote pilots/drivers/captains should change the game in trucking, shipping and freight trains.
Maybe Elon Musk can establish civilization on Mars before Apple can sell an iPhone to every man woman and child on Earth.

The annoying thing is all the pundits predicting Apple doom for the last 9* years will all be saying "I told you so!".

* Make that 19# years

# Actually, make that 32 years
Your question is poorly formed because the basis of my comment was asking how you defined "work" in the context of waterboarding. You didn't provide any sort of definition, you just said "Well, maybe it worked for other people".

But if it doesn't work reliably, for whatever "work" means, then it doesn't matter if it's successful sometimes and unsuccessful other times because if you don't have a way to distinguish the success from the failure, it's impossible to measure.

That's why I asked you to clarify what you mean when you say it might "work".
Finding Product/Market Fit with the Ghostbusters
Our meritocratic society? Which planet are you from? Here on earth, we have no meritocratic society, but we do have a lot of people who confuse the advantages of their birth + not dropping the ball with pure merit.

80% of humanity lives on less than $10 per day. Do you not believe that among those billions of people, there could be many who are just as smart and hardworking as you, but have no access to the physical, social, and cultural capital they need to rise above subsistence living?

If your so-called meritocracy only applies to 10% of the earth's population, it isn't much of one.
I use MacVim + the Janus extensions[1] and it's great. I hear good things from people using Atom and Sublime too.

[1] https://github.com/carlhuda/janus
Hah, good luck with that. One of the reasons the CIA is so effective is that it essentially self-funds the activities it doesn't want the public prying into. The agency makes its own investments and uses the profits as needed.

We usually think of this as a drugs-for-arms Iran-Contra-type of affair, but for most spy agencies, real estate is the way to go: it's easy to obfuscate ownership, the value tends to hold or rise, and nobody's gonna steal your condominium when you're not looking.

Sarasota FL has an interestingly high concentration of expensive property and people with clandestine connections. (It also has one of the highest rates of climate change denial, a thought for another time) "He works in real estate" is a common implication.

So to answer your question, how much propaganda does the CIA fund:

You will never, ever know.
No, she doesn't understand why. Maybe you can enlighten us. She used to pay hard cash for access to Netflix (the US version), and watched US content legally. Now she's being prevented from that.

If the content creator doesn't want to sell access to the content for you, then you have every right to access it through other means. They never had to cut off access to these non-US customers: they were paying good money for this service, the same money as someone in America. Why shouldn't they be allowed access? Why is their money not as good as an American's money?

Don't forget, we have a Free Trade treaty between Canada and the US. They're not practicing free trade here as the treaty states, so she has every right to work around it.
Indeed! I was looking at using Tahoe-LAFS in a similar manner as this dropbox feature, and happened upon a lot of information about those unpleasant surprises:

Starting from https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/FAQ#Q23_FUSE with links to https://plus.sandbox.google.com/108313527900507320366/posts/... and http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/... on the subject.
> I said this elsewhere but I will say it here too - our best of the best software can't tell a zebra and a sofa in a zebra print apart.

Really? I find this surprising. Do you have any links or sources? I'd like to learn more.
Can people please stop telling everyone about Elixir, at least until my startup is built in it.

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
I think their discussion of "learned helplessness" is interesting in this context. I think it also applies to most Americans in the feeling that this will occur in our name, without our consent or approval, regardless of what we do. I don't think this is truly the case but it is hard to shake the feeling that it is and be as outraged by this as we absolutely should be.
In U.S. South near big cities, you can easily get a whole house with 3 bedrooms, two bathrooms, living room, kitchen, back/front yard, electricity, and high-speed Internet all for about $1,300 a month. Cheaper if you are about 10 minutes out into rural areas.

Either people make serious money in Singapore or their poor are pretty crunched in terms of living space. I don't have data to answer that.
Still no proper IPv6 support. I use v6 almost exclusively to get to all my servers.
Even with negligent homicide the perpetrator's mindset is still taken into account. It is only negligent homicide if they should reasonably have known that their actions could cause the death.
New Grad? Forget Strategy and Business Development
James Corden and Gwyneth Paltrow Take Somewhat Difficult Dance Class with Kids
What's the reason for the iPhone sales shrinking? Cheaper competition has been around for many years.
> I have never heard a single Singaporean show strong confidence or trust in their government

This is oddly phrased. Have you ever heard a single Singaporean express the converse?
I do currently have multiple todo lists, but the experience of going through all of them can be kinda tedious. I'd be curious to try something more intuitive, if it existed.
You still use same language (that is not java) for everything else and that can be cross platform.

Also for games this should be even better since you will just draw on surface mostly- that problem is already solved by Haxe language with great success however.
After years of using netflix, since long before it was even available in Germany, I canceled my account the moment I couldn't access the US library anymore. The German library is just not worth it and titles were often missing English subtitles, even for movies which were available on US netflix with subtitles. As I usually watch shows with english subtitles (including shows in english) and original audio, this really bothered me and made the non-US experience even worse. Never really watched many of the German shows on there, maybe one or two.
I lean towards "No".

For example, this was never merged: https://github.com/SpiderOak/Encryptr/pull/180

I eventually closed it because I keep an eye on https://github.com/pulls and it was unnecessary clutter.
So about as long as people have predicted an Apple television ;)
The mention of hiring a recruiter from a brand name like Facebook or Google is a great point that I imagine may historically be overlooked by founders. For hiring engineers, the theory of "good enough for Google, good enough for me" may be applicable due to Google's vetting process.

Success in recruiting for those companies might be much different, and perhaps the equivalent of being a salesperson (who actually has to sell) vs taking orders. The salesperson who has the commodity or the most recognizable product is simply taking orders, whereas having to sell a relative unknown is much more challenging.

The mention of writing skill was also not something many think about. Recruiters are using written communication as a first point of contact much more now than in say the late 90s (when finding an employee's phone extension was easier than their email address), and candidates are getting their first impression based on the personalization as well as the professionalism and writing quality. Poor grammar and spelling or even the wrong 'voice' can scare off candidates.
Nokia Lost Billions exiting Consumer Devices now it's back for more?