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significantly different in the sense that now it's ok to be repressed and marginalised?

First, what of religious groups?

Second, there's' a bit of a slight of hand here.
Many political groups claims to be representative of "demographic" groups, or at least the distinction isn't clear. Are pro-Israel groups demographic or political groups. What about about demographic groups that disseminate political opinions and actively get involved in political discourse?
How we did data visualizations before computers
The cookie law is not even relevant to 99% of sites.

It doesn’t apply to session cookies, login cookies, technical cookies, etc.

It only applies to tracking cookies, which most sites just don’t need.
It seems that professional programmers have little understanding about the limits of human endurance in skilled labor. Junior doctors work 100 hour weeks and 36 hour shifts so busy they often don't have time to visit the bathroom. It may slightly harm your productivity by working more (almost certainly will) but to say you can't do anything on your own time except for watching Game of Thrones is overly pessimistic.
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There is a term called "global care chain", coined by Hochschild in 2000, that describes the migration of poor families to rich countries, and the outsourcing of childcare labor to poor families. Now it has budded into a rich area of academic discussion.

Also, anyone who has participated, even just as a customer, in the child care / afterschool education / extracurriculars industry, can see some the ways that parenting logistics differ from family to family.
Haha Wasn't expecting that, very cool! How did you do that? Have you some code somewhere? Thanks for the praise :) A big part of pushing forward with this was seeing the quality of @jart's hiptext[1] renderings, I find it creates much more aesthetically pleasing ASCII images than libcaca and libaa. It only uses those block elements, like your webcam video.

[1] https://github.com/jart/hiptext
> - Linters: did not use. Most of the LOC were simple enough to just be obvious.

I imagine an hlint like linter might be useful, and could give you information about common programming patterns. (Ie hlint tells you when you could be using foldr instead of an explicit recursion.)
"ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS—EXCEPT EUROPA

ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE".
...
http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
Interesting. What's fancy about the Go garbage collector?
If I were uncomfortable with a co-workers religion, should they be fired?

I can't see this as any more than allowing punishment for having certain political beliefs...

> Why must all issues be treated the same? Some issues are more complex than others.

These issues are complex, they are just oversimplified to binary "with or against", "good or bad" by activists.
Does anyone really care about a recruiter thinks? You can read a few paragraphs to understand how you get recruiters interested (even though they spam everyone on linkedin anyways). It can take years of effort to land the kind of jobs you want.
I'm well aware of how contract law works.

The law requires that knowingly enter a contract and understand its terms. If this contract had been written such that they didn't realize he could reallocate investments after the fact, then you might have a point.

The law does not protect you from making bad decisions and entering contracts you probably shouldn't, provided you understand the contracts themselves. That would mean a huge majority of contracts are invalid because people frequently and routinely enter contracts which are inadvisable. (For example, subprime loans.)

Not understanding a contract and not thinking through the implications of said contract are completely different things.
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With my unlimited fibre connection on my MacBook Pro, I'd prefer to have a web experience that looks amazing - even if it's 5MB per page. Saying 'the smallest amount of data possible' is a truism, but it's not particularly helpful.
> Apart from the RTG

You stated the problem: radionuclides used to supply said RTGs (Pu238) are in shortage (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1132236...) because with the fall of the Soviet Union there is no (big) demand for new nuclear weapons, and Pu238 was a "waste by-product" of producing nuke cores.
How is this not a relevant story ? This same issue made me decide not to move to Quebec on a job offer in Embedded Systems last year. Paying taxes US income taxes on anything over $80,000 (I forgot the actual threshold) while living in Canada for the next 10 , 20, 30 years pissed me off. Moving my hard earned money and NY State house sale money to Canada was to be taxed too.

For that matter I worked in California for 4.5 years but had a house in NY State. For the first year in California, I had to pay Both NY and California state income taxes.

It is a very real problem for us Engineers who need to move a lot for new work. I could even understand paying a very minimum "US citizen Maintenance" fee"
Except there is no real evidence of it existing... LARPers, D&D and Victorians aside.

It's a profoundly stupid kind of weapon to use in any kind of medieval mass battle, where quarters would be close and room to swing such a thing would be at a premium. There's a reason the Roman gladius and the seax were short little blades, designed for stabbing people in the groin underneath their shields.

With bizarre Asian weaponry, I can't help but be skeptical about whether it is real, or wildly over-inflated flights of whimsy designed to impress some foolish Englishman.
I try. Can't focus for literally more than 10 minutes. What works is actually doing some sports, but you can't run or lift for 4 hours - hence vegging out in front of the TV after the workout.
Ok yeah wow, hiptext's output looks pretty fantastic. :)

I'm using my own text webcam thing: https://github.com/dhotson/txtcam .. not too fancy, just using greyscale with some shading characters to do some basic "dithering".

Also, if you're on Mac OSX and using iTerm2 version 3, you might be interested in its 24bit colour support. It's not that widely supported yet in other terminals unfortunately though: https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
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In addition to writing what you've learned from all the tasks you've done professionally for a good reason -- and since that reason is good, people who hire will care about your ability to do it -- you can also write (in a positive and professional way) about things you've done for no reason. Five years ago I had a boss with a, shall we say, keen eye for backwards compatibility. One of the strange rabbit holes we went down was building a jquery widget to implement the input[placeholder] attribute for browsers that did not support it. This turns out to be bizarrely complex if you want e.g. the cursor to focus before the placeholder text. And that _could_ be seen as a waste of time, but it would be perfect for a blog post talking about how to build something we all are familiar with (and likely transitioning into a discussion of the Shadow DOM) that establishes a reasonable amount of credibility.

[Edit: that's not even the most interesting one from that job, either -- while I didn't work directly on it, a clever coworker figured out how to write a client side collage builder that supported both download AND IE6, which is bordering on genius. I've heard him explain how he did it, and it would have to be a series of blog posts, there's just so much there -- obviously the median boss would have let him just use imagemagick on the server.]
I'm looking forward to having an OCaml version that looks more like Haskell. :)
I like the way you protect that Kings's particular right to own land of these people.
I'd still like unadulterated HTML with some images sprinkled in. Content > presentation
I doubt it (perhaps smaller players might get hit though). Google apparently measures for page speed but I don't see any evidence that the worst offenders (e.g. major news sites) are losing page rank for having "heavy" pages. It seems that if you have a powerful brand, you can operate above what Google suggests webmasters do. At least that's how I see it from my perspective.
How is that the other way around? I think it's more like the other side of the coin.
Another alternative is the Prebake filter set [1] for uBlock Origin.

[1] https://github.com/liamja/Prebake
Just look for "Reason OCaml".
Government workers produce fake social media outside of China too. Public opinion outside of China is very important for business and strategy.

Present China as an improving progressive regime, smooth over its human rights problems, and china can gain more influence internationally. If you are dealing with China, keeping one eye closed can be very profitable.

The UK gave Hong Kong back to China, regardless of what people living in Hong Kong wanted. They are now heavily mutually invested underwriting loans for nuclear powerplants: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-34306997

In case of invasion, this kind of thing makes a big difference. Invasion aside it continues to shape Taiwans influence - why do you think Taiwan is not a UN member state and China is?
The doctor's job is not exactly equivalent. After a day of programming, I feel I could still put in a couple hours of light manual labor or say drive for Uber, but I'm unable to focus intensely any longer. Doctors probably use a much greater variety of skills (and not just intense focus on 100% abstract problems for 8 hours), hence I think their resources deplete slower.

I know that when I've worked at jobs which weren't all about focusing on abstract problems (such as an analyst or a consultant or a project manager), I could definitely put in more hours.

EDIT: Also, air traffic controllers (a job that I feel is more similar to programming than being a doctor) are restricted by law to work no more than 6 hours. From what they say, after their shift is done, their brain is often completely fried.
And why should that matter? Your take on his opinions should only be influenced by his opinions and not by his employer.
If you are building a bridge or a skyscraper, yes, you absolutely do. If you are building a house for your dog, then no.
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Surprised to see an Apple related thread with so few comments!
If 'you' will not, China can get control of that thorium in that sands.
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A lot of the technology we have on earth wouldn't work in space due to radiation flipping bits
If you use an app infrequently enough that it updates between each use, you'll see an alert every time you open the app! 5 seconds isn't that much, but many 5-second inconveniences add up. Plus, if you have to read a bunch of text to understand the features of your app, most people are going to miss the features anyway.
It seems to me that treating the frame containing these components as just another module is reasonable enough. That said, the battery is the number one item I want to be easily replaceable. Not only is it a big help to be able to carry spares, but Li-ion batteries degrade over time and put a limit on the useful life of a device even if its capabilities still suit the user.
You get right-associative function application (in Haskell) by putting $ in between your functions.

(And if you are using composition instead, it associates in both directions.)
You're referring to cars, or in general?
In theory a lot of things. Depending on how much hardware you could synthesize, you'd only be limited by your IO and size. You could have a module that is able to be modified by software.
That's a valid complaint for new untested syntax that people came up with yesterday.

The paren-less function invocation has been around and tried for ages in the ML-family.

(The main downside is that variadic functions are hard to express this way. For fixed arity this is a clear win, also makes partial application nicer to read.)
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May be image quality could be improved by using whole unicode set, rather than just plain ASCII. E.g. braille-fonts, like in blessed-contrib[1].

[1] https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib
Yes, in German we have a saying like "One kid is no kid". The increase from zero to one kid might feel like you mastered a big step (and it is!).. But a second kid is a total game changer. I am hard pressed to find some time for Netflix and a bit of guitar playing every once in a while. Do I want to exchange that for coding for some bigger cause? Nope.
The next generation just wants to flow.

What does that mean?
Oh, that textcam code isn't too complicated and you get a really good effect from it.

I never even knew that there was true colour support in terminals, let alone how many terminals support it! Hmm, so I'd need to figure out if SSH sends the terminal's ability to render true colour. And then also update hiptext. It would make a really big difference to the "readability" of the texttop output.
This is my understanding of how the problem is framed:

Causality is local even in quantum physics. The "Spooky action at a distance" is just correlation

This leaves the "acausal action at a distance" aka nonlocal correlation. There is no controversy here. There is no superluminal messaging and there are no need for hidden variables and things like that.
Entangled quantum _state_ of two distant entangled electrons has no coordinates in space. Quantum states are treated as ghosts.

For the authors there exist discord between instant correlation and special relativity. I have no idea what comes next. Somebody else should explain how Trace Dynamics works.
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Yes but the resolution of those "some images" depends on what kind of connection/device you're on. It's not adequate to say 'just send the lowest bandwidth experience', because then every desktop browser on a 5mbps connection would get blurry low-res images and Arial/Times New Roman text intended for iPhone 4 on a 2G connection.
There seems still a long way to go.
Write some deeper documentation on language philosophy, implementation and interesting examples to show its strength in solving a particular problem.
Get the language features stablized and then allow other contributors to develop libraries as Go and Nodejs went.
Choose a niche market to create a community.

Get working regex and networking libraries out first, GUI/3D later.

I expect to see it first useful in scientific and engineering domain. I wish to see an example for easily solving constraint optimization such as hospital staff scheduling. If it can demonstrate easy problem solving in AI/machine learning/data science, then it would be a good start to attract followers..
Nice read. Google's been working on AMP (https://www.ampproject.org/) to deal with this. They're applying a pretty strict policy to speed up rendering on mobile pages by trying to be as specific as they can upfront to determine the layout up front.
I haven't used the app, so I am curious. Does the feature also suggest responses for different sentiments? Like,

> Want to Hang out?

>> I'd love to!

>> Nah, I am busy.

In that case, I don't think anyone should have a problem.
Their evangelists doing talks at developers's conferences.
A robot using unsupervised learning to help forgetful humans
The language of science is mathematics.
Where can I read about medical science having been more focused on understanding in the past? I think the focus on small increments in (relatively) unimportant medical knowledge is perhaps the greatest tragedy of our time.

Also, who calculates dietary intake that way?

"Confusing statistical significance with practical significance" -- that's a great phrase!
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Wow, that world map looks really good. Good suggestion, thanks.
Putting aside the hip cussing, it's actually a pretty good list, though I take issue with the call to not have children. For me, raising children is absolutely the biggest contribution one can make to the future of the world, if one is mindful and responsible.

Anyways, over the last three years we have gone from living on 3000€ to 2000€ (mainly by moving to Europe), and now plan on going down to 1000€ (by buying or own house in the countryside). And we're a family of 4.
IME, outsourcing works because you get (most) management onus placed on the outsourcer. Remote workers with in-office management doesn't feature that.
But it's more useful to the ecosystem as an unmaintained code dump than being kept closed. If there's interest, someone will pick it up partially or fork it. In the worst unmaintained, unused case, it's still potentially valuable for code archiving/history purposes.
oh man. I have a connective tissue disorder that messes with my joints pretty bad but I had _no idea_ this was a concern!
In late 2015 the US has demonstrated new production of PU 238 for RTG use at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory High Flux Isotope Reactor. This was undertaken in 2013 with NASA funding.

https://www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-achieves-milestone-plutonium-...
> Private businesses are free to fire whoever they like for almost any reason

At-will, american businesses in certain cities and states, under certain restrictions. I don't see any reason not to condemn it - just because in may not be explicitly illegal in some places.

If he were an active gay-rights supporter, and fired for that, would you refuse to talk of it since in many place this isn't illegal?

Also, I'm no expert, but I'm not sure if executives are usually at-will, I was under the impression it was often contracted.

> Everything past that is just you feeling hurt that people don't agree with your opinions

Feeling hurt =/= feeling at risk of being fired, a valid concern.

> one of the most anti-conservative things i can think of

Is it?

> yet here you are claiming to be conservative

No I'm not. Plus, voting prop 8, and the vague distinction of "being conservative" are different things. Whatever my personal beliefs, I dislike the idea of this guy being fired for his political activity, I don't think you need to agree with his beliefs to take that position. Ever heard "..but I will defend to the death your right to say it"?

> and yet complaining that the government is allowing companies too much freedom

I feel there would be uproar (in the valley) if the guy was fired for supporting prop 8. In truth I don't have so many complains on what the US government does, I don't live there; I do care about political ideologies that often get transmitted across the borders though.

> Losing a court case isnt 'speech'

Where does that distinction come in? Or the constitution. I never mentioned it.
Freedoms and rights exist outside of the US constitution, in other countries for example.
I don't understand how people can cash out if the ETH are stilled locked in the DAO's tokens. They can sell the tokens, but no one is receiving any ETH.

Once they start spending money on proposals, I could imagine more ETH getting into the market, but this would happen slowly, since proposals pay out over time.

There is some talk that a single shareholder could, theoretically split his portion of the unspent pool of ETH into a new DAO, which he has full control over and could then sell, but such a process would be complex (he'd have to split it, then form a proposal and vote on that proposal to send the money to an address he controls, all through a command line interface, interfacing with the Dao contract directly. Not impossible, but over most people's heads).

Instead, I'd think they'd rather than just sell their DAO tokens on the open market for ETH, BTC, or whatever else. If they sell it for ETH, they'd be effectively putting even more buy pressure on ETH, which may increase the ETH price even further.

Here is more information on how The Dao can be split in order to get ETH funds out:

https://forum.daohub.org/t/how-do-we-get-our-eth-back-from-d...
No, what exactly am I looking at ?
When is this preferable to using a VPN or SSH tunnel to carry VNC/RDP/Spice to a local native client?

It seems to me that either you have the ability to install such a client, XOR you don't trust the local machine enough to want to use it.
As long as there's no regression with a new release.
Except that if I tell you I have "a million people" in my secret facility manually hashing and in reality there's a single GPU crunching, I'd still make more. How would you audit this?
You are comparing software developers with truck drivers or sailors, professions that require traveling long distances.
That's ridiculous.
Are you shallow? Or is Google's "Intelligence" deep?
Probably when you want to use the browser (from computers you do not control) or when the user is not that computer literate.
Reaching a point of competency even in playing Mozart on a violin takes a lot of time, and that doesn't change a bit for the next decade. Most people don't reach a level competency in their whole career, because they don't put in enough effort.

Additionally have you spent some time without coding? Because I was upgraded to project manager I haven't actively coded in 4 months. I feel I'm significantly slower now. You forget the small details. Like yesterday I had to think about how to call "git mergetool". That meant my brain didn't think about why I would need to solve a merge conflict instead of doing something else (like ignoring one branch, or writing feedback on the pull request) but instead I've spent the time thinking about how to type the command. That doesn't directly slow you down, but that decreases your output significantly.

We are talking "top developers", not average developers right? Yes most people think of themselves they are "top developers" but in truth most are "average" which is (arguably) less than "mediocre". If you are fine being "average" the whole discussion thread doesn't apply to you and I agree with you that slacking off for a few years doesn't change that status a lot.
One thing I haven't heard in discussions is whether these things could have been meant to spook the horse that the opponent was mounted on. I can see the flail being an unpredictable weapon that would smash down on the opponent, or failing that, his horse, which would spook the horse and potentially toss him off it.

Come to think of it, how is there not a whole class of medieval weapons that were focused on taking out the horse rather than the rider? The only one I've heard of is the caltrop.
Not in my experience. I've pulled some very useful things out of tiny projects on GitHub, most recently a friend and I fixed several performance issues in a great voip.ms SMS client for android.

Tiny, obscure project but it was just what we needed, after a few fixes for our use cases.
You're appealing to "Fear of Missing Something Important (FOMSI)" from an article that was posted to HN a few days ago[1].

Yes, there's a very small chance that I might miss a feature that I care about. However, there's a 100% chance that if I read your popup, I'm not spending that time doing something else that I know I want to do because I consciously chose to do it.

And let's not pretend that it's just 5 seconds this one time. Website and app behaviors like this eat up 5 seconds load time on a slow phone, 5 seconds to read, 30 seconds to remember what you were doing before your attention was hijacked, 3 minutes and $10 to add data to your phone plan because you used up all your data, over and over and over again. Because lots of sites do this, and that time and loss of attention adds up.

So frankly, I don't care about your ad for your new feature (and let's be clear, it is an ad). I'd rather have the 5 seconds and other things you're taking from me with that What's New section, and if you do this kind of thing consistently, I'll go elsewhere.

[1] https://medium.com/@tristanharris/how-technology-hijacks-peo...
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Turn sideways?