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> The quality of the content on TV seems to have been in a steady decline for many years.

You are too kind... it largely sucks.

I have Sky+ here in the UK and there are a not-insignificant number of programmes that are on 3 channels at the same time.

In addition, the same shit gets shown over and over again: A case in point is the ITV Bourne channel... which then switches to become the ITV Matrix channel and over and over again (It's actually ITV4 but they keep showing the same stuff repeatedly.

Also, take the Discovery channels (I mean all the others too like History and so on). They used to have actual decent content but now it's all reality crap with the odd programme about nature.

When you add in other shows about Kim Kardashian or <celeb of the week> and 24 hour news then there isn't much left.

I don't watch much in the way of TV these days (over a week it probably averages out to 30 mins a day or something) but I do record some programmes to watch later: My favourites being Columbo and anything to do with dinosaurs or outer space :)

That being said, I always forward through the ads...

I fail to see how advertising on a channel that just shows repeats actually brings any significant value to the advertiser!
Ancient warfare: anxiety as one anticipates impending war, which may be known months or years in advance (armies were slow), and very bloody melee combat which probably left survivors with PTSD.

Pre-modern warfare: relatively few people lined up and shot each other to death from long distances. People on the front lines knew they were likely going to die.

Modern warfare (WWI and beyond): constant artillery fire inflicts chronic and acute shell shock [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_shock
I am a user. I switched myself and my family from Skype a few months ago and it has been great so far. Quality of video and audio is great, Android app works very well (better than web based desktop versions). And it also works in a browser, which is great for me (Linux user).
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We need a social network designed from the ground up to be a public square for civic discussion between people who disagree. We need mechanisms to agree on facts, and tools to create arguments supported by those facts.
Plone, while written in Python, should be considered as a packaged app. These small units of govt and edu mostly just install it with a few modifications/installed plugins.

No offense to disqus but they are relatively small.

So I believe my statement still holds true.
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A new engine: https://github.com/withoutboats/notty
Spot on.
Many companies try experimenting with remote working by hiring cheap and not skilled enough labor from countries with low average salaries and then blame remote working itself, or "cultural and language barriers" for the failures.
Very wrong sounds absolutes while my statement clearly generalizing the situation, which means there will be rare exceptions. But those are just rare exceptions.
That's a nice GPU, but the price is just too high.
It doesn't require it, but in my experience is vastly more effective; teleconferencing (even with all the wiz-bang tech aids available) is vastly lower bandwidth and reduced options for interaction, and a lot more opportunity for distraction/interruption, either physically at any of the involved locations or because of tech failures.
Similarly to your dry aged steak anecdote, I has two bottles of the same brand of port, one aged 10 years and the other 20. The 10 year tasted great to me, but once I had it alongside the 20 year, I realized the 10 year had a somewhat unpleasant aftertaste which I hadn't noticed drinking it on its own.
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The best example of such a network is Wikipedia. Draw from that any conclusions you want.
Why have you submitted this? Did you write it? Do you maintain it? Do you work for them? Do you use it for betting?

Are you simply advertising it?
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We homeschool, and buy things off TPT all the time.
Where is Windows client source code?
Tax rates are pretty meaningless to compare because of differences in credits, deductions, and methods of calculating tax base. And, for that matter, different sets of taxes affecting the same entity with different names.
> advertising-as-interruption is on its last legs.

It's stronger than ever in the Internet, which provides new ways for ads to interrupt you.
I don't think there's anything to see here. Google now tags it as "safe." The mechanism worked; the website administrators removed the malware, and the warning was removed.

See! Everything works in a rational way. There's no conspiracy.
"Name your own price" and "Humble" in the name are just marketing gimmicks. It's just a business like any other - they want you to be generous, pay more than other people. If you take "name your own price" honestly, they try to block you. Under $1? "Sorry, minimal name your own price is $1." Paying under average price? "Sorry, please try our captcha roulette or increase your 'name your price'". I can't believe they don't require scan of passport and utility bills to "assure better quality of service".
Often though, the people who disagree are themselves the biggest hinderance to a useful conversation... right?
> Virtually every time, remote working doesn't create new issues but reveals and - embarassingly - exposes existing ones.

Indeed remote working exposes poor communication e.g. relying on random water cooler conversations instead of having proper communication channels - and many companies prefer to kill the messenger.
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I would like to know how much out of 21% are for scripting/shell/utility, how much for services, how much are truly part of the real products.

Calling scripting/shell/utility for "backend" might give wrong ideas to certain crowds who might have thought that backend is more important than front end product sensitive code that 1Billion users interact with everyday.
As of approximately 1000 EDT (US) on 07/23/2016, the link above gives the status of wikileaks.org as "Not Dangerous".
Syntactic sugar? But `createClass` is a lot worse syntactic sugar than ES6 classes.

React.createClass (and angular.directive or similar guerilla solutions) are harder to analyse statically. And without static analysis you won't have proper tooling (IDE autocompletion, "go to definition" feature, dependency graphs, linting etc.).

So. Welcome language standards or goodbye static analysis. I'm seriously happy that both React and Angular go into ES6 classes and resign from guerilla coding...
By "TV" in the US do you refer to the service or the physical medium, in general ?

I think "physical" TVs have still a way to go, I'm in my mid-thirties and haven't plugged in mine to an aerial since at least 10 years, but it still sees extensive use plugged in to a console or to an HTPC.

But 10-15 years it's lot of time in tech, maybe by that time we will have holodecks :)
Remember when over night VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, the Bank of America and Western Union refused to transfer money to Wikileaks? When Wikileaks mirrors were thrown off of Amazon servers? That was 2010/2011, 2½ years before Snowden.

Not saying your explanation is wrong but it did not take Snowden to make such theories plausible.
It was done via a script in this PR. :)
The descriptions are not in terms of business value. The most horrible thing I see is that the first engineer holds the new hire in contempt.
We don't have cable at home, which means no cable news. My parents on the other hand have the habit of running CNN as background noise. The mindless blaring repetitiveness makes it hard to be in the same room.
My biggest fear about FB isn't regarding privacy, but its enormous ability to spread misinformation.
This article fails to address the growing divide between east coast and west coast technologist and entrepreneurs. Many of us in New York are ashamed and embarrassed by the valley, and are looking to change it via negation.
It should be clear that this conversion was primarily done via a script. So it is mostly an automated conversion.

If you are running forks of ThreeJS, like we are with https://Clara.io, you can run the same conversion script on your repo and then merge in the new ThreeJS.

I haven't done it yet, hopefully in the coming week, but it should mostly work.

Next up I hope is moving ThreeJS to full ES6 classes. :)
I completely disagree with #2. It's incredibly valuable and helpful to be able to use source control to track API key updates. Unlike environment variables, this forces accountability whenever a change to your configuration is made. If you're worried about security, you can always encrypt the individual keys.
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Works in Chromium, doesn't work in Firefox.
Why single FB? Internet in general gives anyone an enormous ability (well, potential, really) to spread misinformation.
Yes. This begs for a port to Rust, to see if the fine-grained memory support there pays off. While Rust can do anything, it wants to be bare-metal Haskell.
Your wish will soon be granted: SIMD is a stage 3 proposal for JavaScript, already implemented in nightly versions of FF and Edge, coming to Chrome as well.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I guess it would be possible for someone to add a layer on top of ImGui that would perform diffs on the UI model, similar to React.

Having said that, while ImGui is pretty simple, I still think there's a lot of implementation details that leak out when you're coding (the stuff with the double hashes for instance). I still prefer Qt for regular UI work, but ImGui is deliciously lightweight though.
I gave up on Hacker News a long time ago. Go ahead and vote me out of existence. I could care less.
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> What MacUpdate spam?

It took me a year and threats to file complaints with the FTC&FCC to get unsubscribed from their bullshit emails. That's what spam.

> It allows you to distribute apps to OSX machines without an internet connection

This seems like a pretty rare situation these days, but even in that situation, if those machines can be given internet access once to authorise them (e.g. via a phone hotspot) you can just copy the .app bundles.

> it allows you to rollback versions or choose not to update

The Mac App store doesn't force you to update either. Admittedly it doesn't allow rollbacks, but you can always restore from a backup and then choose not to update. You do have backups right?
I gave up on Hacker News a long time ago. Go ahead and vote me out of existence. I could care less.
I think you're describing a dialectic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic

The problem with such a project (which I think could succeed without solving it) is that it is not merely the case that people disagree on the facts.

They also disagree on the frame of reference. That may not be solvable.
I'd be happy to verify my phone number if it meant I could buy anything with Bitcoin afterwards. There are other payment solutions that work, too, I just really really like the UX of Bitcoin and the fact that it's pretty much cash. I don't need permission from my bank to transact.
<StlIsTheWrongName>If writing "modern C++", why do you want to use a really old library, STL, why not instead use the "Standard Library"? </StlIsTheWrongName>
FB has definitely made it easier; it's just a matter of a button click. (Share button)
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The problem with Wikipedia is that is that it creates a huge barrier to seeing things that a regularly edited out as well as no means to verify whether things that were removed may have been verifiable.
A nice ideal, but likely to be very difficult in practice, because in reality almost nobody disagrees on actual provable, scientific facts. The toughest disagreements usually arise around things which are not facts, but are presented as if they were.

All human subcultures carry with them a large baggage of "facts" which the group accepts in order to promote social cohesion, avoid conflict or sometimes simply to advertise membership of the group. Try convincing a highly religious person that their religion is entirely fact-free, or that God doesn't exist using logic, and you will get nowhere: they prefer to believe things that other people don't because believing these things grants membership to a group and the benefits of that membership are perceived to outweigh the benefits of being a person of pure rationality.

Indeed, a genuine belief that you are entirely rational is simply another form of group membership signalling: probably that you want to be seen as a member of the group "intellectuals" or "scientists" or possibly "educated people". Being unable to recognise the difficulty people have in being entirely rational is itself a form of irrationality.

So to get back to your proposed social network, here's what would happen: it would very quickly become dominated by a particular pre-existing social subculture, probably "male internet geeks who believe themselves to be supremely rational" and their baggage of pseudo-facts would come along for the ride.

This is NOT an argument against doing what you want to do. Even if the goal is unattainable, creating better discussion forums with better tools for raising the level of discussion is never a bad thing. Just don't think it'd solve the 'friendship paradox' discussed in the paper.
In the US especially (and also a large extent in Europe) companies bribe/lobby themselves to favorable laws, so in many cases the effective tax-rate is much lower.

For example, Apple pays an effective tax-rate around 15% (US 'official' corporate tax is at 35%).

Apart from tax-payers loosing out on revenue it also distorts competition, since smaller firms cannot lobby and evade taxes to the extent larger firms can, leading to lower ROE and thus less investment.
LessWrong, perhaps? If you can tolerate the smugness of course, but that's usually a side effect of most people who tend to be too logical, not just members of LessWrong.
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Social networks are by default designed to circumvent reasoning.

True reason based system would require claims based on science - and nothing more.

There would be no discussion.
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In addition to the already mentioned explosives, modern helmets and medical care have increased the odds of survival. Dead soldiers don't have chronic health problems.
FFS "Rollup", I gather there was not enough choice in this area, so why not create YET ANOTHER ONE.
I like science fiction author Dr. David Brin's idea of "Disputational Arenas," where issues are exhaustively and respectfully discussed in all their complex glory.

http://www.davidbrin.com/disputation.html

The Economist will host something like this, where an issue is presented in an online forum and thoroughly debated until a consensus is established.
A game can't have everything the first day of launch. They released this to test it against the market. Now that it is a success, changes will come to increase retention and purchases. Now the next biggest events will be promoted also with Pokemon things to do in the place, like "get this rare pokemon on the Vegas Electronic Event. The game is a real success and the mechanics described by Richard Bartle proved that people loves to collect, it is the Diogenes syndrome but in mobile version.
Magnetotorquers are used for desaturation. They are not good for fast maneuvers, so you need the reaction wheels for that. Most small satellites are in low earth orbit with a magnetic field.
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Yes, but it's also generally a non-disparagement which would stop former employees from speaking negatively about their former company to the press.
Naive question: even so, what's the advantage over using, say, a const std::array<MyStruct>?
A related article that does a good job of explaining why Thiel supports Trump:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/21/peter-thi...

EDIT: (to explain why)

No other analysis I've seen anywhere of Thiel at the RNC takes into account this very, very important attempt at explaining Thiel's reasons:

"""
Now, in 2016, Thiel has finally found a politician capable of seizing that opportunity: a disruptor-in-chief who will destroy a dying system and build a better one in its place. Trump isn’t just a flamethrower for torching a rotten establishment, however – he’s the fulfillment of Thiel’s desire to build a successful political movement for less democracy.
"""

Thiel doesn't want less government, but he does want less democracy, because he can achieve his aims more easily if this is the case (or so he believes).

Lest anyone read the above and somehow believe I'm a Trump or Thiel supporter/advocate/etc, I'm solidly NOT.
How is Rust type system helpful? If the codegen produces valid Rust, the Rust type system will not give errors. If it doesn't, I'd say it is a bug of the higher level language - and at best the user is going to see a type error of Rust, while working in X, which is not the best user experience.

Really, these kind of checks belong to the frontend.
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This really doesn't matter. The kind of people who are concerned about the information revealed by wikileaks, Snowden, Manning and the burgeoning surveillance infrastructure have little reason to trust what Google says or does.

What seems off is the default kneejerk response especially in places like HN where one would assume a far more informed audience - working in the industry which is spearheading this - to brush things under the carpet or make discredited, desperate and increasingly irrational references to conpiracy theorists.

There have always been conspiracy theorists and always will be, but the current narrative on surveillance has moved so well beyond that point that to have this discussion tarred by these tired and banal references to conspiracy theorists is completely disingenious and makes those making these arguments look out of touch.

If you know what has been revealed so far it should not be difficult to engage with some degree of seriousness at the issues at hand without immediately resorting to strawmen.
Does the Wire licence agreement allow you to create a standalone server though?

https://github.com/wireapp/wire/blob/master/README.md

"Additionally, if you choose to build an Open Source App, certain restrictions apply, as follows:

a. You agree not to change the way the Open Source App connects and interacts with our servers"

Even if the company behind Wire seems trustworthy, if I cared about security I wouldn't want any interaction between clients to go through a server I didn't have control over.
I saw it, interesting reply.

But in the end what you get is a kind of compiler plugin and not a generally purpose library, right?
From http://fortune.com/2016/07/22/wire-open-source/:

... the move has two main objectives: transparency and building an ecosystem of secure services that can talk to one another ... there is scope for organizations to design Wire-based apps that are tailored to different use cases, such as enterprise communications and digital health, and even automotive and the Internet of things ... "You can register with email and it doesn’t require mobile.” He also pointed out that the apps don’t need to be interoperable, though federation at some point would be nice. “It’s a shame we have so many islands in the communications space,” he added.

HN comments from Wire marketing: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Siimteller
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Completely concur with you. The ITRS reports indicate that if 3D integration hadn't become the new mechanism for increasing transistor density, that gate-length reduction cycle would have run out of gas around 2028 - so about 12 years out regardless.

It remains to be seen we still have that 12 years of efficiency available to us after building 3D chips. I can easily imagine that heat distribution would be a real problem.
For really small satellites, magnetorquers seem to be a better tradeoff.
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A co-worker of mine accidentally published a large chunk (well over half) of the backend code for Twitter on their Maven repo one day. It was pretty awesome! Apparently he was the first to notice and no one downloaded it. ;)
Consensus agreement would probably not be the goal of such a project, and there's no reason to expect or desire that (aside from the old idea that public reason leads to truth in political questions which by now seems rather silly).
From Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past: The Dangers of Friendship
> civic discussion between people who disagree

Unfortunately, you will find only a small minority of the population would be interested this, and therefore the network would have a strong self selection bias.

You might find that people who are interested skew heavily liberal, for example, which would strongly reduce the diversity of political opinion.

There's plenty of recent psychological research that suggests that people in general, and conservatives in particular, find uncertainty and disagreement to be actually threatening:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/calling-truce-poli...

"Psychologists have found that conservatives are fundamentally more anxious than liberals, which may be why they typically desire stability, structure and clear answers even to complicated questions. "
My short list:

* elinks: https://bugs.debian.org/797968

* Python before 2.7.9

* Python module httplib2: https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/pull/13
I like it thanks for the details.

Now I need to find one for python to tinker with.
> (look at Rust's battle for Windows for some perspective!)

Or in other directions, there's some instances where Windows support is _better_ than other platforms, like stack probes.
I was thinking about this the other day. In the pre-social network days, it was obnoxious to blast your political opinions out to your friends and family. You had to create or forward an email, and very few people did. Mostly grandparents. Now it seems that everyone can and will share their political views through a social network. Is it just that it's easier, or is there something else about the platform that invites that type of sharing?
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JRPG's yes, roguelikes no (or at least not the "pure" ones like ADOM, Brogue, DCSS, Nethack, etc. which have permadeath and require a good deal of skill).

Maybe you meant MMORPGs and JRPGs? Because MMORPGs tend to fit to that template.