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How does it integrate into the web of trust?
Wow. These are all great responses. It's funny...I've installed Ubuntu, messed with Kodi and Plex, and run a personal website on it, but at the end of the day, I think I might just actually donate it.
It's not targeted at entirely non technical users. That's why it's on Hacker News ;)
Or maybe, they want out of the EU, but retain the level of funding they get (which should result in lower costs for the UK government, which was a net payer to the EU)?!
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It we still had true capitalism somewhere I would be surprised. With the dearth of regulation and coercive behavior of politicians many governments border on fascism. The factor many forget is that politicians and those invested in keeping them in office are adept at making you blame the opposite of what is truly at fault.

No, what has really sunk public opinion of government is that the internet has let anyone expose all the skeletons in the closet. Just how invasive and controlling governments have become and worse how far they want to go.

Don't blame a political style, congratulate freedom of information and that is a very good thing
after sophomore year. yay dropouts!
Sorry, I should have been clearer that it's not all anti-growth advocates who are incoherent.

If you were born somewhere and are attached to the way of life you've known since you were born, it's certainly an argument. I don't agree with it, but it's not incoherent.

I'm referring to the people (particularly in SF) who moved there a decade or more ago yet are virulently opposed to "tech workers" doing the same thing.

And yes, I understand voting for self-interests. What's irritating is when people try to frame their self-interests as a moral crusade, as though tech immigration is somehow inherently evil.
Really cool, it'd be nice to have a few more screenshots or maybe a video of the usage. It's not fully clear if Felony actually sends the message or only encrypts it and allows you to send the encrypted message in another medium.
> I don't think running companies and worker rights are mutually exclusive things

If it was a co-operative then I'd agree.
The essay "Authority and American Usage" [1] is an essay concerning prescriptivism vs. descriptivism and the relations between grammar and class/power which (somewhat) masquerades as a review of Bryan Garner's A Dictionary of Modern American Usage [2].

This topic naturally includes discussion about the use of Standard Written English (SWE) at university/college level.

In one chapter the author talks about how he teaches a remedial English class to instruct students in Standard Written English (SWE), and always begins by stating that while there is nothing incorrect about their own dialects, the fact is (and whether they are happy about it or not) SWE is the only way to communicate on a level playing field, and if they were even to consider trying to change this fact they'd have to argue their points through SWE in the first place in order to be taken seriously.

[1] http://wilson.med.harvard.edu/nb204/AuthorityAndAmericanUsag...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garner%27s_Modern_English_Usag...
Sure. That's probably a comment on the level of racism against African Americans (and the distinctness of the dialect) compared to the other forms of bigotry out there.
I'm always amazed how bad time drift is with non NTP synced systems. I have a couple very inexpensive Timex Quartz analog watches that manage a month without any drift that I notice (they get reset when I need to reset the date wheel).
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Have you considered that maybe event-driven programming is problematic?

As I see it, its basically letting you ignore the context code is called in, but the issue with that is, well, IME failing to understand that properly is where nearly all bugs come from.

It's true that rusts rules about aliasing are frequently, well, annoying, but its hard for me to think that poor support for event driven programming is that bad of a thing.

... FWIW, you should possibly take a look at servo. Browsers have to support some level of eventing, so it seems like they probably have a system for this.
Funny thing is that FX-9590 max temp is 61C. In comparision 61C is consider "normal" on i5-6500 with stock cooler under heavy load.
tweet: "Radar tunes out what looks like an overhead road sign to avoid false braking events"

That's what puzzles me. I don't get how overhead road signs can be a problem, and it couldn't detect something at car height. Its just really odd.
It mentions "OpenOffice", which is now defunct.

In any case it is good. Future procurements will show how well the law is applied.
Lots of languages use multiple negative words to reinforce the negative meaning. Whether it makes sense depends on whether you interpret words like "not" as Boolean operators that "toggle" a binary value or whether you see them as indicators of a negative state that reinforce each other to serve as indicators of intensity or certainty. Since "standard" Engliah doesn't use "double negatives" anyway I feel it's more of a clever overloading than a logical paradox.
Feynman on set theory, new math, bad vs. good pedagogy and precision vs. clarity
But in contrast to 100 years ago, nationalism now seems to be a reaction to an external threat (non-EU immigrants), as opposed to intra-European tensions.
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What we are doing is all digital. You buy credits on a website which you can use to call someone on a landline/mobile phone number.

Our only infrastructure are VoIP servers.

The infrastructure is not different than Spotify's. It's all just servers.
Tell that to Elizabeth Holmes ...
Standard English probably refers to what is taught in schools and written down in dictionaries. Germany has the Institut für Deutsche Sprache, France has Academie Francaise, but English seems to lack a formal governing body.
with some luck they will cause some real political reform in those two countries.

Currently it looks like the most likely outcome is an independent Scotland trying to remain in the EU (with a vaguely social-democrat politics) and a chaotic / far-right England. Northern Ireland is waiting to see what will happen; the peace process there was dependent on the EU and there are some possible disastrous outcomes that nobody in charge has bothered to rule out yet (border closure with Ireland, end of Human Rights Act).

Maybe Labour will implode and leave UKIP with ~60 seats in the north of England.

In some ways this Brexit is a victory for the longest newspaper campaign in history. It wouldn't have been possible without the Daily Mail, Express and Telegraph posting anti-EU and anti-migrant stories for decades.
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This is the theory, the practice is that there will never be scarcity since if the real alternative for these people is unemployment, they will still accept punishing conditions (long commutes, long hours and barely making the ends meet).

It's one of the cases where the market is working as expected (low wages since the offer is high), but it doesn't really translate in benefit for (some of) the people involved.
Giving goods vs. giving money
A language is a dialect with an army.

The commonly accepted - but rather tenuous - criterion for distinguishing between language and dialect is speakers of different dialects being mutually intelligible to each other when making the effort.

That can be said for Scouse, Southern American, Geordie, Cockney and Hiberno‐English, even though understanding speakers of those dialects talking among each other often is difficult for an outsider.

Unlike these varieties, AAVE technically isn't a dialect but a an ethnolect and sociolect, so race definitely is a factor here. Maybe, AAVE can some day become a generally accepted dialect that's not dependent on speaker ethnicity.
However, I think it's more likely that AAVE influences other - considered more standard - varieties of English. In fact that's likely already happening to some extent through culture, music in particular, and of course people just talking to each other and taking up linguistic quirks and habits from each other.
The slide about watching other people getting $1-$20 million payouts while you get nothing because you joined a few months later is the worst part.

This also happens outside of Silicon Valley but perhaps not to such an extreme extent.

The current system is far from a meritocracy because a lot of unlucky people fall through the cracks.

Given how hard I've worked, I've probably fallen through a lot of small cracks (but thankfully no major horror stories as described above).
Although the name is ironic, it will reinforce the common vague notion that encryption is something politicized/controversial/illegal, and that's not a good thing for infosec.

Looks great otherwise.
The UK is only a net payer if you discount the benefits of being in the largest free trade area in the world.
Thanks for the report, and I don't know what caused that.
>The English I am using to write this comment would be incomprehensible to my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents.

Not necessarily. For example, take this: "Harold is swift. His hand is strong and his word grim. Late in life he went to his wife in Rome."

That's grammatically complete and fully intelligible Old English. It would be perfectly readable to anyone from 1200+ years ago who had mastered the modern alphabet and spelling conventions.
Nor does it help the cause of explaining to the general public that encryption is something they do use and should use in their own lives.
Mistakes are possible but language variants with different rules are not "mistakes" no matter why the variation came about. Intentional thought or planning is behind about 0.5% of our standard English. Why hold other dialects to a higher standard?
Thanks for the improvements and the github suggestion.

I have used your line height and font size suggestions and correctly included the meta charset utf-8 tag. It does look better. I'm too cautious to use a B64 data uri font. Is it hosted somewhere?
What does that have to do with anything? Are you implying there is nobody within the EU that works more than 48 hours, or that somehow magically people who call it a day after 40 hours have the same career perspective as those who don't?
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It seems really cheap, do you think it's sustainable at those prices?
"multiculturalism, unrestrained immigration, Islam"

What do those three things actually mean though? And what would it mean to end them?

Immigration is only unrestrained within the EU; EU free movement doesn't apply to either refugees from Syria or non-EU immigrants.

What does it mean to end multiculturalism? Formal ban on the teaching of minority languages, as in the bad old days when the UK tried to stamp out Gaelic and Welsh?

What does it mean to end Islam? An end to freedom of religion? Making muslims wear large yellow crescents so they can be easily identified? Remember the Bataclan attackers weren't immigrants, they were French or Belgian nationals.
That hasn't been my experience. Worked a few tech support jobs and the big ones wanted the call finished in 8 minutes no matter the outcome. Now, they would tell you to resolve the issue, wink wink, but your performance was based only on call time.
The dialects are easy to understand, so to speak... not necessarily a matter five minutes, but orders of magnitude easier than learning, say, Dutch.

A former co-worker told me about moving from one (dialect) end of the country to the other, and working as a teacher. For two days the children in her class basically didn't understand her, then they had learned to map her phonemes to theirs and it was okay.
I can't reply to your comment as its too deep :)

It comes down to people. Some people are good people and will run a company well. Regardless of its tax status. Some are bastards and will act accordingly. This kind of thing, as cliche' as it sounds, starts at home. Bastards are cultivated, not born. The thing is by saying to someone you can run your company but I'll take 90% of your profit comrade, you are basically telling them not to bother. And to those that already bothered you're saying - stay as you were. Do not attempt growth. Besides, why stop at 90%? Why not just take it all?
From their FAQ:

> Where is my data stored?

> Your data will be stored in our fallout shelter, located 25 meters under the ground in Paris, France, starting in September 2016.

So where is it for now? And like Backblaze, a single site storage solution means you should only consider this as an extra backup (not primary storage).

There's a note that in September they'll also be expanding to offer multisite, but don't have pricing yet for that (hopefully just 2-3x depending on number of sites)

I'm curious about the 40 TB per archive limit. Is that some sort of equivalent to a full back blaze storage pod? I can't imagine an S3/GCS bucket restriction like that, so I'm curious how customers will be expected to work around it.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but not on GCS).
I am not saying I am a good developer. I don't do any development at all anymore, I used to do web dev that is all, and I wasn't that great at it.

I looked up the javascript/JQUERY in the docs and hacked together a front end that took notes off a checklist that then generated a note that users could put into the ticketing system.

To clarify what was happening. They had 2 apps that were separate. One was the one that allowed us to log into their modems etc. This is where we wrote the notes for the client. It was just a text field that we could write what we did on the ticket. That was all. Most people didn't write good notes, so the company got tired of that and developed a second app. Which was basically a html form with check boxes that you could work through. At the end of the work flow there was a button which generated text based on what you checked off. "Answered customer call about MODEM SUPPORT. Customer claims INTERNET NOT WORKING."

Basically something like that. We then copied the text it generated and pasted it into the other software which was on their account. So when I say it took them 4 months to develop the call flow and note taking app. I literally mean 12 call flows with about 4-6 check boxes that generate text to copy and paste into the other one.

The issue is they had the call flow you want to go through on the top, say MODEM DEAD or something. After you took in the customers information in those fields: name, phone number, company, problem, etc. If the customer was leading you down the wrong path, and it was actually internet being slow not modem dead(which happened all the time). Then you could have to change call flows by selecting the right one from a drop down box. What happened then is it cleared the entire form of all the information you had placed in it. Their name, number, all your previous steps everything.

So all I did was hack together a duplicate version of this that when you changed call flows it kept your notes and said ---> changed call flows to ---> and then let you paste all that information, so if the call was 10 minutes because of this, it was noted. So am I saying I am an awesome hacker, hell no, but it isn't hard to make check boxes on a form print out words to copy and paste, why did it take them that long to do it. When I first started there they told me they had just started working on it in my training.
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The search function in gmail sucks donkey balls. Since a lot of stuff gets buried under the sediment of new emails, being able to search it properly is valuable.
The quote between the "thinking beanie guy" and cars stuck in traffic.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-normal-working-day-for-a-sof...
Black Americans are constantly being held back by leftists like on this school board denying them a real education. Being an 'AAVE' speaker severely limits your economic opportunity. Black Americans need to fully integrate, and academics need to stop justifying the existence of a culture that attacks anyone who makes something of themselves as an 'Uncle Tom'.

The linguistics here are fascinating, but telling young black Americans that they can talk like hoodlums and expect to get ahead in life is cruel. Think of these children's futures. The way they talk is not an endangered species that needs to be preserved in the wild, it is a hindrance to real people trying to improve their lives; which should be the only purpose of public schools, not anthropology.
> How about discovering a flaw in human crypto systems?

Very good point.

As for stock market I'm fairly confident that there won't be strategies that AI can figure out that people won't catch on as fast as any other strategy. I think that's because stock market has very narrow API, and more complex strategies would involve piling up operations, doing multiple steps. Every problem that involves any probabilistic element (or uncertainty) quickly becomes unpredictable as number of steps grows. I don't believe AI can be better at stock market than us because it's a simple game of chance.
Looks good, but the frontend is buggy on Chrome.
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I am looking to run windows 10 Desktop securely in the cloud (remotely, RDP, ssh?). I probably need this machine for 8 hours every month. Security, reliability, and a good price are my major concerns. Any recommendations?
Time to chime in with my own experience;

The climbing gym is definitely cult-like, and ive chugged a tall glass of kool-aid. The very nature of climbing is social (you need a partner to belay you) and people (at least at my gym) are all super friendly. Everybody climbs differently based on their own anatomy, and you can learn alot from watching and speaking with others. Normally I prefer training alone, but this is one instance where having a climbing cult definitely helps motivate, not to mention build trust in your belayer. I highly recommend joining this particular cult, or at least giving the kool-aid a taste.
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> Most people "going to the gym" at one point have to come to terms with that it's to some extent a waste of time.

This is precisely why I stopped going. Altogether I was spending probably 2 hours at the gym (this includes time spent commuting and showering). I wasn't seeing any substantial gains and was getting increasingly annoyed by how full the gym was and how I couldn't leisurely do my work-outs without somebody making me feel uncomfortable for occupying a certain machine.

I wouldn't mind going back to the gym, but I would definitely have to avoid peak hours for it to be worthwhile. Best thing would be for me to buy the machines outright but my apartment is small and I don't have the space.
Two things:

1. You don't need closures at a language level to do event callbacks. Just the ability to refer to functions by reference and call those references. Closures certainly make it syntactically nicer, but you can work without them.

2. You don't need event callbacks in a webserver to make it performant. The memory/CPU overheads needed to make closures work are essentially identical to what's needed to make blocking threaded code work, as long as the threading is done in userspace and you have support for expanding stacks. Even if you don't have support for those niceties, modern kernels and hardware are perfectly capable of handling thousands of OS-level threads.
A cynical definition:

Elites = rich people I don't like

Neoliberalism = rich people I don't like making money in a way I don't like
Pseuodo-random generators are not purely random - they are based on a seed and an algorithm. For stock market nobody can have a clue what the algorithm is and what meaning the seed has in it.

The reason nobody can predict the next value is that at some point something unpredictable happens that can wipe out all your previous gains and some more.

Market can remain insane (meaning not behaving according to a model) longer than you can remain solvent.
Looks like it's back down, at least for me, none of the examples are loadable. Edit - user signup is down as well.
EU removes duties on IT equipment (no more 30-minute video limit?)
One of my language books offers a serious-ish witticism as definition: A language is a dialect that has a capital.
I responded to the other poster. I hope this clears it up. There wasn't any backend to develop on this ticketing system. It was simply a html form with checkboxes to print out a note to paste into the real ticketing system.
Absolutely horrible choice of a name. There's so much BS regarding the use of encryption and it keeps coming up in criminal cases, that normal folks are going to avoid using a think that might somehow be linked with a felony.
Sorry but I really don't think "chaohuan" is a Chinese word. I don't like the author's writing style, use measures instead of the content to gain readers interest. Also I agree with some fact in the article, but it overemphasizes the bad side and neglect the good side. I agree the "Good fortune is that wherein disaster lurks", but I don't think we should stop progressing because of the afraid of the disters. There is also another Chinese saying "Righting a wrong must first Overcorrect", although it's saying overcorrect but I think it's saying all the cost of doing right. And the bad side can be seen by the public is because the Chinese government is doing something to deal with the bad things.
As someone who grew up in the rural South, most of the distinguishing characteristics of AAVE listed on Wiki are present in my speech when I'm speaking to people who live where I grew up (Arkansas).

It's mostly unconscious. If I'm in Memphis, TN and someone on the street asks for me change, I'd probably respond "I ain't got none." If I were in Richmond, VA and someone asks me for change, I'd probably respond "I don't have any."

I learned "proper" English quickly because the dialect spoken in my home wasn't far removed from it, and a result I had a much easier time with grammar than my peers. I also have far less trouble communicating with a broader audience online.
"eapecially with end-to-end encryption on the horizon"
https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.1.0.html#end-t... ... unfortunately there is nothing there yet ;-/ ... this is a sign, encryption will be placed on top, which will weaken the idea, as it is an optional addon not a first class citizen.
Fully agreed. The name sounds 'cool,' but may end up being the thing that leads to the project's early death. Completely counter-productive.
This is Bulgaria. We treat laws as something below "vague recommendations".
Properly: "A language is a dialect with an army and navy."

But I like the original Yiddish, because it illustrates the point rather clearly (transcribed to the latin alphabet): "a shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot"

There's a nice, relevant discussion of the origin of the quote on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...
Indeed, Norweigen, Swedish and Danish are actually the same language, linguistically.

In this situation, it is said: a language is a dialect with an army and navy

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3328218-the-story-of-huma... - is a great and enlightening read
I could not find any source confirming this, but item 080 on the list is "Television cameras, digital cameras and video camera recorders".

If this indeed became effective July 1, 2016, wouldn't it mean that the 30-minute video recording limitation which is in place on some consumer devices to avoid a small duty (around 5%) can now be lifted?

The WTO document:

http://www.heise.de/downloads/18/1/8/4/2/5/4/3/25.pdf