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> This famous Volkswagen ad, which was perceived as gay-friendly, is incredibly subtle. (video clip ~3/4 down page)

This ad seems so subtle, that I have no idea what makes it gay-friendly? Is it because there are two men driving around? Can anyone point out what I'm missing?
Google translate had this to say:

Revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, not so refined, so leisurely, "gentle", as "温良恭俭让." Revolution is an insurrection, a class overthrows another act of violence.

Is that text profound beyond the literal meaning or am I missing something?
Ever? I'm hesitant to invoke Godwin here, but do you agree that at least in boundary cases, it's morally permissible to directly force a change in the internal politics of another country?
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The Chinese do not control China. The Chinese Communist Party controls China.
Exactly what claim are you disputing about cloud chambers? According to Wikipedia they were extremely useful to the discoverers of the positron, the muon and the kaon.
Intel has a massive R&D budget. They'll probably be the first to achieve post-silicon tech if nothing dramatic happens. So the question is whether they'll be quick enough to innovate before generic chips eat their lunch.
The article is aimed at a modern reader so uses modern terms. It's really no different to how we have terms like "classic rock" and "oldskool" when back then they were simply just "rock" and "house" music.

If people are not familiar with your subject then you have to use language what is familiar.
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It's interesting to realise how animations are still visualised on paper.
Japan is a strange case. On one hand, if you ask an average person a simple question in English, something like "What did you do yesterday?" they won't be able to parse the question let alone produce a response. On the other hand, if you ask them to translate a bunch of tricky words from English to Japanese or Japanese to English they will happily churn through them. "Politician", "weapon", "credit", no problem.

It's all an artifact of their teaching methods and tests.
> we're largely reading only views we agree on [...], all read the same news with different conclusions and come out thinking that we're right all the time.

If not the premise, this is at the very least a nasty side effect of Twitter: users choose who to follow, and the overwhelming majority follow people they mostly find themselves in agreement with.

IOW Twitter is a self-satisfying echo chamber.
Also pilots: highly technical people are confident they can handle it without dying.
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I don't doubt that they are a front-runner for post-silicon tech. The question is whether they'll be able to sustain exponential growth in performance. I have my doubts. Radical new technologies are far less predictable than iterative ones.
China definitely has its problems but my point is that there are problems everywhere and we shouldn't single-out any specific country because we think that their problems are worse than ours (maybe they have the opposite opinion).

The reality is that no one has the moral high ground; we are all competing for resources and relevance and every country is willing to resort to dirty tricks to get ahead.

China has the Great Firewall, the US has the NSA...
First order logic can express precisely what relational algebra can express. And what Datalog represents is First order logic with least fixed point, in case if there is linear order on the data (cells), it could represent P-solvable problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_complexity_theory
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Personal experience doesn't always reflect averages: According to the EPI Japan is #30: http://www.ef.edu/epi
I've noticed that many official k-pop videos have English, Japanese and Chinese subtitles, a clear sign that they are reaching out to fans oversea.

However, most J-pop isn't even available on YouTube.

I'm surprised to hear that daisuki.net is a free site. Have been watching rips from there.
I suppose you are using GitLab.com. We're working on improving the speed [0]. If you are willing to run your own instance, it should be fast.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42
And in Eastern Europe we had a system of dedicated STEM schools that took kids with aptitude to extend their abilities and now the region is an IT powerhouse. YMMV.
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Despite the best intentions I've seen quite a few organizations crippled by having a directory service die. I'd much rather have a push based service (like configuration management) where downtime means people can't change their passwords. Having every login fail because a directory service is down seems silly. Not like the mapping of users <-> systems is particularly large, even for the largest organizations.
P.S.

As to observing failure, it's even more complicated than just a matter of which proposition to express in types -- which may be hard in and of itself -- but also some failure modes may be very hard to express using types altogether because they don't naturally lend themselves to denotational semantics (e.g. time and space complexity). Not that those are easy to express in Clojure's spec, and not that they are necessarily a problem with types, only with typed LC, but still (they're easy to express in TLA+).
There are no hard problems in web design, other than that browsers are a really shitty platform for delivering software, and there's never been a concerted effort to start from scratch and solve it properly once. Just loads of proprietary solutions which are security nightmares and poorly supported, and endless frameworks.

Start again. Burn it all down, and do it properly this time.
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I think programmers overestimate the value of programmatic problem solving. IMO it's slightly under understanding how cars work (something I have no idea about and as a result, I waste money on new leased cars so as to avoid maintaining older ones), nowhere near as useful as literacy or basic arithmetic. The reason is that contrary to Alan Kay's opinion, computers not just aren't, but can't be usefully applied by most people without a lot of professional programmers providing them with software for the task at hand.
even the wiki entry on Edward Bernays is very interesting :D

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
The assistant language teacher programme has to be blamed in part for these teachers. For those who don't know, Japan imports lots and lots of young people to be assistant language teachers for 1-5 years. They provide them with very little training and the quality varies wildly. Some are excellent teachers and essentially run classes. Others are "human tape recorders" and just provide pronunciation models for pupils.

After this programme was found to be not having much of a positive effective, the government decided to double the number of teachers they ship in from other countries.

I think they could improve English education in a number of ways: Either train up the teachers from abroad more thoroughly and give them a chance to stay much longer or send all Japanese people who teach English to study abroad for a extended period.

Edit: auto-correct glitches
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Toggling dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled in Firefox has fixed this on every implementation I've seen apart from the PoC here.
It depends on the client, and whether you're going to be on the hook (phone wise or legal wise) for the future of whatever you create.

The $2k prototype/hack has a way of becoming a business-critical thing when you're not watching.
I feel like there's 20 CSS frameworks being made a day, so only the few lucky filter through to HN...
Oh, thanx for the product! One question, I just read here on HN that Nylas stores certain data on Nylas servers. I actually thought it was just a local mail client like Thunderbird (only better looking and more modern). It's not very clear from the website what exactly happens to my mail and login credentials, do you have some pointers?
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Not all children will grow up to be programmers, but more and more will be information workers that will need to know what kind of tasks can be solved with programming.

In a previous company the requests from non-developers ranged in complexity from simple string processing to multi-year research projects that still might not bear fruit.

You wouldn't ask a mechanic to build a flying car in an afternoon, but people still ask programmers to perform such tasks.
Kind of odd to even bring ethics up when discussing how websites make money. It doesn't matter at all. Ethics is normally used to discuss other people getting harmed by actions, but when all that harm can be removed simply by closing the browser and doing something else it's barely worth talking about. Is it ethical for a shop to advertise its products in the shop windows when the people running the shop know that there are higher quality products available in a competitors store? Who gives a shit?
It does qualify for me as ASCII art, since I often see the term used loosely to encompass any art made from typographic characters.

I am a huge fan of these two experimental pieces from 'ASCII' artist Raquel Meyers and chiptune/electronica musician Goto80:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y82QTBMBX4o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=054vq9Sd8Ow
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Seems natural extensions of nocaptcha, which seems to get little traction so far.
Ehm Docker did not invent anything. They polished an existing technology and made it better (not that it's a wrong thing). Many companies / teams do this.

And btw this is a big problem in OSS. We have a lot of good stuff and underpaid people / teams / companies. Because of OSS zealots and leeches.
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If you ever need to think through the design process for your product this helps
I like how simply checkboxes and radio buttons are styled.
As I understand it, the complaint isn't that the term is "offensive", but that it's "disparaging". Here's the USPTO decision for "Washington Redskins Potatoes" (quoting https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140319/11225326627/uspto... ):

> "Registration is refused because the applied-for mark includes matter which may disparage or bring into contempt or disrepute persons, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols," the decision, handed down on March 17, says. It concludes: "Given that "REDSKIN" in the mark is a derogatory slang term that refers to, and is considered offensive by, American Indians, registration of the applied-for mark must be refused" under the Trademark Act, a 1946 law that prohibits the trademarking of offensive or derogatory terms. The examining attorney's decision cites dictionary definitions of the word "Redskins" that say it is "usually offensive" or "offensive slang," and it also notes that groups like the National Congress of American Indians and the Oneida Indian Nation regard the word as a disparaging slur.

To my limited understanding, it appears that if the term "Viking" were a disparaging term, with a long history of being used that way, then the Minnesota Vikings could not trademark their name, even though the Norse are long dead, so cannot be offended.
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Oooh, I wonder how hard it would be to make a VB6 compiler with Roslyn...
Personally, I can only provide the anecdata of noticing many more DevOps jobs postings mention Swarm lately, albeit often in the same breath as Kubernetes. This doesn't mean any of them are running Swarm in production, of course, but it certainly does mean Swarm is beginning to gain mindshare as a potential alternative.

The results of Docker's recent survey also seems to align with my observations [1], but of course we should probably take their findings with a grain of salt.

[1] https://blog.docker.com/2016/03/swarmweek-docker-swarm-excee...
Serious question. Is immigration subsidized? If so, how?
In a previous post, we found that apps now have on average 16.4 SDKs, which could have something to do with it.

https://blog.mightysignal.com/new-app-report-2b2c686da209#.9...
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I'd argue that a factory backdoored RNG would be infinitely more dangerous. An AMT exploit wouldn't be passive, and it wouldn't weaken every crypto operation proceeding the time of the attack. Between the two, which do you think an entity with a massive surveillance network, and a history of intentionally weakening security infrastructure, would prefer?
I think you're probably right, but at the same time, Google does have a history of killing off projects for reasons that make sense to them but seem kind of arbitrary.

Of course, Angular is OSS and is likely to live on into obsolescence no matter what Google ends up doing with it.
afaict, there is no mail server in sandstorm. Where did you read this information?
Actually in Japan, I could easily see students being mocked for correcting the teacher.

A little story from a Japanese friend who was fluent in English: He, of course, had to take elementary English in school. The teacher was teaching family members and asked "What do you call your grandfather's father?" He replied "I think it's great-grandfather" The teacher laughed at him, causing the whole class to laugh at him. "Of course not, it's grand-grandfather" the teacher replied.

Being a humble guy he assumed he was wrong, but checked it in a dictionary after class and showed the teacher. "Oh, well then you can say that as well" snapped the teacher.

I'm not suggesting this is every teacher in Japan, but from the mere fact that a child fluent in English has to take a class where they learn "This is a pen" shows you how rigid and ill-thought out the system is.
I think you are spot on with that. The amount of training I received was very very minimal. My current company gave us one day training - most of that time was doing paperwork for the company. While I'm experienced(just over 4 years now), there were quite a few first time teachers.

As an ALT I have seen some pretty badly run English programs in the school(eg I turn up, and they have no idea what class they want me to assist with, or leaving me for hours without work to-do - I generally try and make worksheets, lesson plans or extra material for the students to read around the subject matter, but that very rare gets used at some places.

I have even been at a school where all the English teachers were on holiday, no one really spoke English in the school and had no classes for 4 hours. It can get a little depressing.

But other English programs are amazing, one of my current schools I have written at least 40 pages of material to assist the students/extra study(voluntary), and they have informed the students, who contacted me directly for copies of that work. (I wish I was at this schoolfull time!).
I'm a programmer too :-p does that mean I can make double?
Yes and it does the job. If it's unmaintainable as alleged then that's a refactoring job which is a lot easier imo than starting from scratch.

Joe from HR has given him his UI and undeniably laid out everything the code needs to do.
Mr Real Programmer should just then get on, stick in his tests, refactor and quit whining about Joe's code.

After all what's he there for, did he expect Joe to do everything?
I can't believe vim allows executing commands when pasting text. Who on earth thought it was a good idea?
That is a genius idea. I might float it past one of my head English teachers!
https://github.com/duilib/duilib
No mention of kundalini anywhere... Seems he went a bit deep too soon with no guidance. Electrical currents, spasms, sexual thoughts, digestive issues, etc. Classic kundalini symptoms.

Aypsite.org has some good info on it and how to avoid or deal with it.
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Why would you switch to a system that relies on NDA-protected chips when there are free ones available like the BeagleBone?
I'd like to see some high performance ruby implementation for backend stuff (even if limited to some extent ...) sort of like what RubyMotion is for iOS/OS X.

I can imagine a lot of stuff that could benefit from this on the other hand I can see why it has not been done (costs, complexity etc).

Anyway I am sad that RubyMotion is not just as popular as Rails is. That is...very surprising...
I just used it today to run 200 commands I generated from Excel.
>You should file a bug report. This should in fact, work, and did, in fact, work, when i stopped working on it.

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14319 (12 years ago, status: suspended)
I'm going to look into this, thank you. I am always interested in learning better ways to teach the students :)
Maybe it doesn't work. I've always wondered why, among so many long-ruling authoritarian regimes, China is almost the only one with such strict censorship. Yes there was the Arab Spring but look at Saudi Arabia, Russia, Belarus, Vietnam..., they don't ban Facebook yet the incumbents' rule do not face exceptionally greater challenge than China. Maybe all censorship does is to give the Communist Party is false sense of security. Maybe it's something else that's working and censorship is simply free-riding.
There's no indication in the article that David was having religious or spiritual problems.
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> Instead they would start buying US goods through centralized marketplaces like Amazon and Apple store

Both totally available in China already via their local forms (store.apple.cn and amazon.cn). My wife orders from Amazon a lot.
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Probably a pragmatic choice. High school kids schedules are absolutely packed with focused study for exams and then more after school homework and cram schools. If you told parents and students they were going to have less study time to get ready for university exams they'd probably be a lot of pushback.

Elementary school students have much more flexible time, and university seems like it's a long way away. Taking a chance on computing in school won't seem nearly as scary to parents.
I have seen this in person. I was even told once by a teacher than anything the ALT's say must be true (even when it was defiantly not).

It actually came about as i was a bit nervous about teaching a subject i hadn't done in a long time, and didn't want to mess something up.
The true alpha of the group will build his or her own framework or transpiler.
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I tried the demo in Safari 9.1.1 (11601.6.17) and got "not evil" in the Terminal.
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I have some notes somewhere around here as I was half way through writing a text book before I went back into programming. Give me a shout at my username @ gmail.com.
1. My beginners class in Uni taught Java for the 101/102 sequence, so as far as that goes you can use it to implement most beginners projects just fine. It even compiles to something if you want to deal with that experience.

2. I'd say the set of programs can be pretty sparse in that it doesn't tend to play well with its native computer environments (partially be design), so it's more work to generate stuff with a GUI, somewhat more work to handle CLI programs (but not that much more), and it has an interesting set of web tools that have hopefully been updated in the 8+ years since I played with them.

3. I have no idea what Google is doing, but it doesn't matter as Java will live a very long life in Enterprise land if nothing else.
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WML is used to build the Debian website, which is the only time I've seen it used in the wild:

https://www.debian.org/devel/website/
It was intended to be a slightly snarky remark: “Oh, you tell me you implemented a subset of what Prolog can already do out of the box?” But apparently, it wasn't interpreted by others as such. :-|
There's always the non x86 path.

I have recently purchased a pi-top which is basically a 3d-printed laptop case + laptop battery + keyboard + display + raspberry pi 3. The keyboard could be better and I'll swap out the pi for a beagle bone black (pi comes with a binary blob) but it's a surprisingly useful package. I only bought it to experiment a bit with ARM assembly on the go but it's actually powerful enough for a lot of day to day stuff (mail, surfing, libre office, programming). Not great but good enough.

Of course you have to be willing to trade speed and availability of some programs for that control but in theory a beagle bone + input and output devices is a nice little open machine for a lot of day to day stuff.
Here is a general argument for giving more criticism to countries (or, in general, bad actors) who do worse things: It provides a better incentive gradient to avoid doing bad things than complaining equally about all countries that do at least some of a bad thing.
There are two men who don't look to be related to one another. They make a mutual decision about an item of furniture. They're comfortable being silent with each other. There are no outward signs of especial masculinity.

"Heterosexuals who saw those two just assumed they were friends or roommates, whereas the gay community assumed they were boyfriends." - Robert Klara of Adweek, quoted here: http://www.npr.org/2014/06/29/326524942/advertisers-come-out...
One of the way to achieve encapsulation in C, is to have a certain definition of a structure in the implementation file, that you use internally, and a different (usually smaller, sometimes no structure at all, just a handle), exposed to the public (in the header).

As far as I can see, this would break this approach, (if this strict type aliasing would also be used at LTO).
On basic human dignity:

> "Yeah that’s fine. We did that in Canada years ago"
It is responsive since few months now.
One is allowing free information while the other has the great firewall and random arrests for people writing negative comments about the party in power.

Although the US is not as democratic as it should be your comparison is not even laughable.

I find it hard that people can be so misled, or maybe you are just trolling. China has a brutal dictatorship that executes people for trying to get more power and were responsible for the Tiananmen massacre and still will not even admit it happened.

If you think you could live in China and even write anything about the party the way you write about the US government from your comment you are delusional. The US has a very free press and free speech for everyone.
What percent do you estimate of AirBnB landlords would withdraw from AirBnB if they were further encouraged by AirBnB to abide by the law?
That should lead to bizarre even/odd generation effects, as two parenting traditions interleave.
That would depend on whether those medications only reduce strong allergic reaction or reduce all allergic reactions, even small ones.
> If you're charging for your app - which you should be in a lot of cases

I think it really depends. Many of the most successful businesses thrive purely on ads. Also you'll have to consider which market you're targeting. In the US many people maybe are used to paying a reasonable amount, but in many developing countries people just won't use it if it's a paid app.
9,99 times 28 million = 279 Million

I'm guessing the rest is subscribers actually buying the songs?
Wow. I wish if more Americans would think like that.