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We're talking about different meanings of the word "guaranteed". I'm talking about guaranteed in the sense that supports leaking private emails to the public by people outside the organisation (as opposed to an unbiased whistle blower). Article 5, Section 4 is the type of thing parties put in, but only as a way of making sure the backroom politicking doesn't become so egregious that it leaks into public view.

Again, I prefer Sanders, or even Johnson or Stein over Clinton; but with Trump on the other ticket this election is far too serious to let Russian fuck around with the other main side. We need to fall in line and support Clinton. Pulling the not-an-idiot vote three more ways between Sanders stay-at-homes, Johnson / Stein protest votes is going to lead to a disaster.
You sound exactly like the state-level Republican politicians in Louisiana blaming everything bad on the federal government. As a result, a slim majority of Louisiana Republicans blame Obama for the slow Katrina response.
> Do you think they are malicious and exploitive?

A governing body could just as easily be ignorant or wasteful and the country ends up in the same position. Either way, you get rid of the cancer.
The iPad Playgrounds uses a new bundle format called .playgroundbook

I have been exploring it in the past week and am very impressed.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ontouchstart/status/7584320300362...

Since Swift3 feature list is now finalized (https://apple.github.io/swift-evolution/), many of them will go into iPad playgrounds soon.

I am sure it will become great tool to learn Swift language as well as UIKit at many different levels.
Emphasis mine. Can you cite a source for the above?

When I say something like "I'd venture ..." then my "source" is simply my opinion. Nothing more rigorous than that.

You get a better display, better battery life, in a smaller form factor that weights less

Yes, together that list of items can make for a compelling upgrade. But (IMO!) CPU and GPU performance improvements are less important than the other stuff you mention.
Made my own. http://asl.am
That was my point. Maybe I wasn't clear enough.

1. You may be able to do 2 weeks there without learning the language.

2. That doesn't mean you can live there without learning the language.
The video itself was meant as a joke, everyone knows that ;) - it was on a popular dutch show
It's funny how people have different dreams - I changed jobs to one that's a 10 minute bike ride (or 25 minute walk) from home, and that was my dream come true, not being stuck in a car for 2 or 3 hours/day, worrying about whether or not traffic is going to make me late for my morning meeting, or add another hour to my commute home.

Do you really get enough benefit to living 1+ hour from work to make it worth spending 500+ hours in a car (~60 8 hour days)?
The countries in the EU prospered on their own before the EU. The EU open border policy comes with a draconian refugee policy. That's unacceptable. Citizens of a country deserve autonomy. And if that means at the expense of open borders and less draconian rule, so be it.
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From my point of view not bad, I'm over forty and took me 2 weeks to get a job here, also it's really hard to find good seniors I guess due to salaries being lower than other start ups hubs.
Until we create a form of government where money and politics can't mix, a country's economic system and form of government will always be complementary.
Ask HN: Cofounder and CTO of a Hardware Startup asking how to leave gracefully
Hi HN, I am a Co-Founder and CTO of a hardware startup. We had a seed funding a while ago and the business is good enough to just keep the company running. We are planning to raise next stage of investment:

Reasons to leave:
1) My expertise is in a coding, and I joined the team because they lacked it. In initial days, electronics, mechanical and software was split amoung us. But now one of the Co-Founder has shifted to business plans and other to operations. Now I am the only one responsible for the entire mechanical, electronics and software. WHich is not my expertise and my output is very low when doing things out of my expertise.

2)We are working on an outdated product and technology and I am not excited about the work. I am not learning anything new. The product we are trying to develop, is there in industry for about the last 30 years and the market is already dominated by huge companies. We do this just because it was the first product we sold and there are a couple of customers.

3) Non scalability: The product is non scalable and each must be custom made as per the requirement of the client.

4) Co Founders not looking into the future and big growth. They are not aware of what is happening in our domain. One of the cofounder is concentrating in business. He never talks to any of customers. But spends his entire time making business plans to impress a couple of mentors and to possibly raise money.
This is grossly irrelevant, but now that you’ve posted this link here, let me quote from the article:

"[...] sex crimes accounted for 1.1 percent"

"The report stated that the vast majority of migrants did not commit any crimes."

"Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis - the three biggest groups of asylum seekers in Germany - were high but given the proportion of migrants that they account for, their involvement in crimes was "clearly disproportionately low", the report said."

"The number of crimes committed by migrants declined by more than 18 percent between January and March"
In addition, the Blue Card (in Germany at least) can fast-track you towards permanent residency. If you can prove German language skills at B1 level, then you can apply for permanent residency after just 21 months (see the section on "level of language skills):

http://www.bamf.de/EN/Infothek/FragenAntworten/BlaueKarteEU/...
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Surprised that this wasn't about the RNC.
Not only "was" but also "is".

Here's a list of canal aqueducts in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_canal_aqueducts_in_the...

The newest aqueduct I saw listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqueduct_(bridge) is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathur_Aqueduct , which was built in 1966. It's meant for irrigation water .
Lag between keypresses and screen response would infuriate you, probably.
> However, many of the Leavers won't say anything about it publicly now, for fear of sustained attacks or even losing friends over it

Unfortunately, it has become dangerous to hold conservative opinions publicly in certain places. There have been too many highly public witch-hunts, and not toeing the line on the established orthodoxy will result in being painted with the brush of racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, idiocy, bigotry, or whatever the latest outrage of the week is.
You can fiddle about in the config file of redshift a lot, and take control of gamma, colour ramps and backlight at different times of day. Maybe it's possible to make it play nice with your set-up too?

I just wish I could save some presets and quickly switch between them from the GUI, like how I used to use f.lux' ember and darkroom modes for late-night reading.
> You cannot compare these. You relocate once and after that it is done. Learning a language is on going process that has a lot of phases and you need to do it continuously every single day.

Living and working in a foreign country with foreign language/culture is an ongoing process continuing every single day, too.
Both of them "fought" to keep using Blackberry phones which the NSA had warned were insecure.

Cluelessness, luddism, unwillingness to learn something new... pick one or more. "Tech-savvy" definitely is not an option here.
Most big Asian cities.
Long life
"The argument that an ostensibly political appointee must be held to the same IT-savviness standards as , say, an enlisted (wo)man are specious."

Wait: you are seriously arguing that the Secretary of State of the United States is in a less-sensitive position than an enlisted member of the armed forces? Seriously?
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Ah, I think I understand now. My intent was to contrast the official campaigns (and advocacy from foreign leaders) with the discussions among real voters, not to contrast one official campaign with the other. Apologies if that wasn't clear.
Is 2016 really one of the worst years in history?
Back in the early days of XML, Internet Explorer would insert "+" characters to fold nested sections of XML. And was the default program to open .xml files. Guess what showed up in the documents I got from an integration partner?
The exchange program depends on synchronization of university syllabi. Without an institution to synchronize them among universities, having Erasmus is more effort.

Therefore, no, keeping the exchange program without EU membership and free movement is not easy, if possible at all.
Isn't that kind of expected? I mean, if you move to Shanghai I wouldn't expect you to live only speaking English. Or, if you apply to startup Chile, and decide to stay there, at some point I would expect you to learn Spanish. Learning any language takes time and effort and it's integral part of adapting to your host country culture and people. I would even say it's key for a successful relocation.
They probably ought to recast ballots until the desired outcome. You can't let people make the wrong choice.
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About "2)": Is it possible to identify some common cases. Perhaps a 30% of the orders are very similar and you can make a common superset that is not much bigger that what they want.

[Remove the spaces before "2)" ... so the post is easier to read.]
Cluelessness might cause you to pick a bad password, or use Yahoo for official mail.

It won't cause you to set up your own private email server "by accident".
Because Polish and British people are of the same race (white/Caucasian).
The link does include car costs, it cites them as 10% lower than in SF. Gas prices are 77% higher though.
Well, start-up means a new company that is after ultra fast growth.

I had so much interviews at plain old small to middle sized companies in Germany which called themself start-ups just because it was cool. But most of them were just generic consulting shops.
Last time I checked PV was only supported on i386.
> But our huge rules of grammar and special word cases makes it ridicoulus

I'm German but living in the US for the last few years.
I've had American friends in Germany and from what I understand, most things are pretty "regular" compared to other languages. Not that many exceptions. People tell me that pronunciation is usually pretty straight forward compared to e.g. English.
There are also some weird rules that I don't recall ever hearing before.
e.g. everything ending in "-chen" or "-lein" uses "das" as an article.

Not sure if German learners can confirm/deny the learning complexity compared to other languages.
The sheer amount of sites that produce badly formed RSS feeds is staggering, the whole point of a feed is to make your content accessible to everyone, a bit like meta-tags. Why have it if you're not going to at least implement it properly?
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I'm not sure about your engineer "cannot wash their hands" comment. Let's reframe it about seatbelts.

Seatbelts are a safety innovation, which save lives. They also kill and injure people.

It's not clear to me that an engineer working on making seatbelts work better is the best person to decide when they reach the point that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. It's a totally different skill set.
This is all valid analysis, and I agree.

But we as engineers have to recognize that the socialization of technology is squishy and illogical.

Even if we're correct, and that dispassionate analysis will move society forward, not everyone will agree. And they will have strong arguments, made stronger if we aren't contextually aware.

Demonization of tech is very possible. If we want driverless cars and a host of other things in our lifetimes, we have to be approach the socialization with some sensitivity.

Brashness is fine, but risky. If it's just a website going down in flames, no one cares. But cars kill people. Brashness will be rewarded with regulations. Possibly shortsighted regulations that do more long term harm than good, because politics.

Today, drivers (and mechanical failures) kill people and we have a social structure to deal with that. Tomorrow, cars will kill people in situations where drivers would not have, and where everything is operating according to spec.

That's a big change, which not everyone is ready for. And snotty tech billionaires will not be sympathetic characters in the ensuing press/political discourse.
As a French, I'm the only one who can speak/read English of my whole family (regardless of the age).
AFAIK it's only a work permit if you apply for a job. You have 6 months to find one and then go with the work contract and get the extension, renewable almost forever (or you get a permanent residency permit). I works great if you are looking for a job in the areas they consider strategic.

The thing is that it doesn't cover people wanting to come here to found their own startups.

Also if I understand it correctly the "high skilled" part means having a degree in Germany, that's why I mentioned the "have an Engineering degree" in my other comment.

would love to get more experiences from others, all my friends that used the blue card were for Engineer jobs and they had degrees.
Indeed, but what I wanted to say this kind of article creates an impression Berlin is cool place with a startup scene where anyone can move and work there and a lot of people ignore their quality of life will decrease because they don't know the language.
Why would anyone choose to use XML over JSON, other than for RSS?
When I moved to Germany I got one native advice: "Speak English. If you speak broken German, everyone assumes you are an idiot and behave that way towards you. When you talk English, everybody tries to impress you." While I were in Germany it held...
This sounds like fear-mongering. Is there reason to believe that foreign researchers will have a hard time getting into the UK? This surely is not an issue for the US, which is not part of the EU.
I thought Neural Networks nowadays use ReLU instead of Sigmoid? Especially in the context of deep learning
His demos only work with small amounts of code, scale up to the size of a real codebase and they all become infeasible, as well as not really that useful.
I mean, most programs run an installer as the alternative, which is still code being executed on your machine (often as root), doesn't piping bash have the same permissions?
I was thinking how useful it would be to have some "bilingual districts" in at least the top EU cities - areas where you could expect everything to also work in English (including doctors, shops, schools, etc.).

For example, I'm considering relocating with my family from Rome and would prefer to stay in the EU, but the UK isn't an option anymore. I'm not planning to move permanently, so, being sure to be able to do everything (not just work) in a comfortable enough way without having to learn the local language would be great.
> I think that the swiss government should focus on p unishing salary-dumping because that's what most people are afraid of when they think of foreigners: he's going to do my job for less money. I heard it's a big problem in Tessin.

How exactly would you "punish" this (or otherwise prevent it)? I mean, it happens due to market dynamics, so it's either salary dumping, no free movement of people, or no capitalism!
Yes, there definitely is.

The difficulties of getting non-EU nationals into the UK to work are already pretty much top of the complaints list of folk I know who run significant IT companies.

I don't know about the academic sector, but in general UK immigration law is already very harsh, and the exit from the EU was largely driven by a desire to limit immigration.
Are there any gay startups or gay people in startups in here? I've been living in Berlin for the past two years and cowork every Thursday - so if you are keen to make some new friends, shoot me an email at hi@(myusername).com
Like the UK prospered at a time it was making Leyland cars? It is a misjudgment of history to call that time 'prospered' - words like 'persevered' and 'survived' come to mind, definitely not 'prospered'.

I remember a political guide - "glorify the near history, in 20-30 years ago. People had forgotten their problems for that time, and associate the time with a positive feel. This happens regardless of reality. Any time earlier than that would not yield any memory whatsoever, so stick with ~20-30 years ago."

Unfortunately, you misjudge history and put a false spin on it. Please, don't lie to Hackernews readers claiming people prospored.
It leaks memory all over the place. Is it intended for tiny, short-lived programs that don't generate a lot of garbage?
I had no idea there's such a beast called "XML 1.1". That sounds fun!
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Why Growth Will Fail
Shouldn't it just downregulate brightness and then slowly crank it back up? I could not stand anything below full brightness.

Giving up on the cool hacker look and changing my Emacs and Terminal to black on white is one of the best things I've done. My desktop background is pure white too.
If they uploaded at the same time, then both are guilty of conspiracy. If they uploaded at different times, then at minimum the second one is guilty.

There might be other factors to take into account that change that result slightly, but it's not really different from a crime that doesn't involve computers.
"Migrants committed 208,344 crimes in 2015, according to a confidential police report that was leaked to the German newspaper, Bild. This figure represents an 80% increase over 2014 and works out to around 570 crimes committed by migrants every day, or 23 crimes each hour, between January and December 2015."

"Further, many crimes are simply not reported or are deliberately overlooked: political leaders across Germany have ordered police to turn a blind eye to crimes perpetrated by migrants, apparently to avoid fueling anti-immigration sentiments"

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7470/germany-migrants-cri...
Yeah, that is how we manage now. We have a base model with the essential features. But the clients request customizations to adapt it to their systems. Ironically, purchasing an off the shelf product from the market leader and customizing it would have cost lesser than developing our own entire system. Also the off the shelf systems available in market are having about 3x performance. We still manufacture the same because one of the Co-Founder believes that everything must be built in house and wants the company to be a production company. While I believe the company must be innovative.
> most people who graduated high school in other countries know this

Really? When traveling, I've often found myself surprised by the history that others don't know.

Granted, as an American I had indeed not known any of what you just said before, but I would be rather surprised if your perception of what most people know wasn't skewed.
What's that number after the income tax ?
Frank McSherry was a researcher at MSR Silicon Valley; when the office was closed in 2014, most (all?) of the researchers were also let go. Frank was a member of a research group working on differential dataflow; not long before the office was closed they released a really awesome open-source library, Naiad [0], which looked extremely promising as a means for efficiently implementing certain stream-processing tasks.

The team had a nice blog [1] going too, explaining how different aspects of Naiad make it more efficient than other stream-processing systems (at least, for certain classes of algorithms).

[0]: https://github.com/MicrosoftResearch/Naiad/

[1]: https://bigdataatsvc.wordpress.com/
I think if you select/copied what was displayed you'd get the plus and minus signs. If you saved that wouldn't happen.
I agree that both official pro and con Brexit campaigns were ... not good. I just think that there is clear difference between them in terms of how bad they were.

In political opinions, particularly for US politics, you see a lot of ritualistic opening with words to the effect of "both sides are terrible", "they're both equally bad", which is facile even-handedness, and unhelpful when they're differing kinds and degrees of bad. Knocking it back as facile is also becoming a trope, though probably still a necessary one.
The car is the one that I was thinking. But can that single project use up that much R&D budget? You need time to scale any project even R&D. A quick check suggest Tesla's 2010-15 R&D budget is less than 3B. I guess Apple has the money to spend but still its a surprisingly big amount for a single project specially since in the other department the lack of innovation would suggest lessening of R&D.

Could it be that they are also not as efficient with their R&D spending since they have money to burn? Despite my misgivings about a lot of thing Apple, one thing I would like to see happen is actually to use the money they have and do R&D that can improve the state of the art. There is really few companies that have the budget to truly go after some lofty goals.
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Some of this (avoiding pretty printing, mainly) is just dealing with XML's insanity. The rest is pretty solid advice, but fairly obvious for the most part. Then again, I've already done a lot of Scheme programming, understand common sense, and I read Steve Yegge's The Emacs Problem, So I already looked at XML as a tree structure, and crawling a pre-existing tree to turn it into XML is just the most natural way to deal with XML in Lisps.
http://www.erasys.de/ is kind of gay.
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If you're actually marking up text, JSON doesn't really work. XML works alright for its intended use as a language. (That doesn't mean I hate it any less.)
I can parse/print XML (using either in memory parser or streaming parser), use XML Schema to validate XML, XPath expressions to select necessary parts, automatic object mapping, and that's all with standard library without a single external dependency in Java. I don't know why would I use JSON over XML, unless I have very good reasons to do so.

For me the only thing that JSON got better is that JSON is directly mapped to commonly used data structures: arrays and maps.
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Depends on how you see the world. I know many people who don't speak German and as germans say "fühlen sich wohl".
Great. Any comments on GtkD vs. DLangUI, in terms of ease of use, features you need, look-and-feel on the different OSes, etc.? Planning to write a few small GUI apps in D to try it out as a platform for that. Mine will be only on Linux and Windows, though, since I don't have a Mac.
OK, then how do we separate the data that is his versus data that belongs to somene else? Maybe we would have to look at what is being sent from the app?
I've read a ton of libertarian stuff, and my impression is that they generally oppose dishonesty from one party in a commercial transaction.

It's not very different for a cigarette manufacture to claim their product is healthy than it is for a construction company to agree to build you a house but then stop halfway through despite receiving payment. I think it's pretty clear that both would be opposed by most or all prominent forms of libertarianism.
Gwene's rss-to-nntp converter: gwene.org. Which has been down for the past couple of days, and I'm missing my fix!
For one, JSON didn't exist 15 years ago.

For another, JSON didn't have validation or schemas 5 years ago.