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I have worked on the premises of the AU roughly 10 years ago (for a couple of month). I knew next to nothing about it before I worked there. They are pretty advanced from what I could tell. There's clear French and English blocks (+the Maghreb but they tend to side with the French block; +Angola which tends to side with the English block) and it's somewhat hilarious to see how these need to be balanced for most important issues but at the end of the day it's the same in the EU...I just never saw a system like that close up before.

It was very notable that almost all people I spoke with were very passionate about the idea of a strong and united Africa. Having talked to some EU people there are a lot more bureaucrats and I get the feeling for some politicians it's the wasteland/failure if they get moved to an EU role instead of a national one. In the AU I got a very strong feeling that everyone was very happy to be there (and thought they could change things) and it was probably seen as more important than a role in the own government.

Unfortunately that's the state of about 10 years ago. It's also notable that the difference between AU and surrounding country (there's also a UN complex in Addis which is similar to the AU) is rather strong. There's two amazing hotels in Addis (Sharaton and Hilton) and most of the city is fairly poor. The contrast is stark to say the least.

The article also mentions a consultant from McKinsey...one of the things that I found very bothersome was that you basically had to work through consultants or local contacts to get anything done. I have met some rather shady characters and the big consultancies have carved out a nice little niche of "exclusive access".
No. I know what endemic corruption, tax evasion, abuses to the social state, refusal of investing in economies beyond tourism and construction, have done to Southern Europe's economies, which have the same low interest rates than the healthy economies in the EU.
Good site. Privacy needs to be main focus. What is the level of privacy used?
> that's not what the reddit community thinks is happening, leading to the current social climate on reddit.

I... don't care? I guess you're making some kind of assumption that this conversation needs to know what you think the climate of Reddit's community is. I'd ask "Why" but, I care even less about that.

Shadow-banning is for spammers, full stop. I don't care if you think other people think otherwise.
This exactly. At my current employer, I feel I can oppose pretty much anything my managers tell me - technical or non-technical. I can say "I disagree because X", and the reply might come back as "OK - that makes sense", "Let's discuss this in more depth because Y", or "I'm going to overrule, you must do Y".

If you have a functional relationship with your managees, they need to know they can disagree with you and that you know you're fallible and just need it pointed out. I always make sure that when I give technical feedback to others (whether higher or lower 'ranked' than me), they can come back and argue any bit they disagree with, and so far almost everyone has at some point.
I was of course discussing the semantics of a C-like language, especially in light of the C++11 memory model.

Being memory safe at all cost, java (and any other shared-memory memory safe language) must guarantee minimum of safety to concurrent reference updates. A JVM which uses reference counting instead of a proper GC would be interesting to implement...

You can't currently put a shared_ptr in an atomic<> variable as it does not meet the concept requirements (Trivially constructible and copyable), but, IIRC, you will in C++17 and, yes, even relaxed loads will be expensive (in practice implementations are expected to lock a spinlock around every operation)
> The question is will we iteratively destroy each job until 5% of the current workers still can afford an opulent living while the other 95% are crushed by misery

If 95% are crushed by misery, where will the 5% get their money from? I'm guessing money will only be exchanged between the 5%, meaning the economy will be a lot different.

Also, what will keep the 95% from revolting? That amount of people will surely form a formidable army. What will save the 5%?

> Seeing how most politicians paint unemployed as subhumans that barely deserve to live, I am not that optimistic :-/

Changing the way we treat unemployed people is surely a necessary step forward, but it's not black and white. There are people who don't want to work because they're lazy or incompetent. There are people who want to work and are very competent, but can't find a suitable job. There are many types of people in between.
Imagine the headlines if Google did not remove the blog :

"Google hosting child porn site."
How do you know if it's a tested fact? And even if it was, why not experimenting without human constraints?
Maybe it's the same in Europe. I have Italian credit cards with PINs (one even contactless, no choice). I don't remember the PINs because it's chip and signature everywhere I've been, even outside Italy. It's very rare that somebody asks me for a PIN. I say that I'll sign and it's OK.

Contactless, no thanks, I don't want somebody to swipe my purse without me knowing and as far as I googled it's not clear that Faraday bags really work. Contactless passports too.
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Reading the title I thought: Because you're a hipster.
And his rationalizing reasoning have proven that.
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The strongest argument is to support a sort of poor man's const-generics. Consider a function like strchr(). This locates a character in a (const) string, and returns a (non-const) pointer to it.

The idea is that you can use this on both const and non-const strings. Call it on a const string, you get back a non-const pointer (which you better treat as const!) But call it on a non-const string, you get back a non-const pointer, with which you can mutate the string. So a single function serves both const and non-const uses.

If casting away const-ness were disallowed, the compiler might conclude that strchr()'s returned value cannot alias the input string, and its optimizations would defeat this design. Anyways that's the original rationale.
Playing devil's advocate, shouldn't this work in reverse? Providing their IP address, shouldn't someone be able to send Facebook a cease and desist order to stop trespassing on their system by running Facebook javascript in their browser (via like buttons) when visiting non-Facebook domains?
I used to have problems on my Pi2 with N64, but enabling overclocking fixed those issues for me :-)
Even if one of those parties is out to commit fraud and would never agree to a reversal?
This is my pure-functional Katamari "game" (more of an outline / example, than a full-blown game):

https://github.com/fccm/OCamlODE/blob/master/examples/katama...
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Shouldn't we say Marsshot now? :)
Will Hacker News ban you if you post the kind of material that Mr Cooper hosted on his "beloved literary blog"?
> You'd think they would move to a better hash function by now

MD5 is (relatively) fast, and a (relatively) small datapoint to store. You're definitely wanting to store a lot of data points too; it's so so much easier to scan and de-scope OK images.....

The MD5 catalogue's intent is to allow quick identification of suspect material to drop to manual review (little bit of inference there from what I have read about Google, but I'd be shocked if that wasn't true - false positives in this context are not as bad as true positives [of course] but accusing an innocent person of having child porn is damaging).

From the GP:

>That has to be the worst job ever.

It is. I did it for a while working for a computer forensics firm. Not even slightly pleasant. We used to go through millions of images - to be honest, 99.999999999% of it was "normal" (if often slightly wierd) porn.

You do become detached from it after a while.

To be honest; the chats/emails grooming young people were the worst.
Logical const and expressiveness.
Right now western societies could easily go on with 30 hour workweeks. It would reduce unemployment and people who are working would have more time for their families or to do voluntary stuff. Another idea is a basic income which allows a simple and good life. White old men in suits are part of the problem why there's no real progress on these ideas and education is part of the solution.
Where do you get off making a statement like that? In fact I have been there. Not only have I been there but I have spent a significant amount of time there. I know Rwanda very well, additionally I've spent much time in neighboring DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia, Burundi and the Sudan.

Please provide evidence of Chinese bribery then? Where is your citation?

If they were bribing officials they wouldn't be building infrastructure, they would simply exchange cash for natural resources and that is not what's happening. The Chinese have laborers, boots on the ground working 14 hour days, undertaking large scale infrastructure projects.
The various hqxx algorithms are still there, personally I don't like the look of them, but what's advanced a lot in recent times is TV emulation. A programmer called blargg has released several NTSC filters which really make games look how they did when you first played them, how they were intended to. They've been integrated into many emulators.

Have a look at the screenshots, to me they look way more attractive than traditional hq-style upscaling filters.

http://slack.net/~ant/libs/ntsc.html
I am quite the critic of the EU but by and large it works surprisingly well given the history of the continent and the cultural/language diversity. Specifically the Schengen model which I believe the AU one is loosely based on is a great success imo. The rest of the EU...kind of debatable on all fronts.
I even think the general idea of a Brexit is a positive thing...at least compared to the USA where secession from the union ended quite differently. There's a bureaucratic monster and a lot of warts but I'm surprised it's not more of a catastrophe. My point of reference is basically that the EU is a much harder to execute USA of sorts so I'm sorry for comparing it to the USA.

In theory the USA is built on a model of competing states or a laboratory of ideas where you can attract people from other places to your state. I like that idea a lot but I feel like it's been hollowed out over the years. The bureaucratic monster seems to be pretty huge at the federal level as well so I'd say that's just a given if you try to keep members somewhat together.
Haha! I'll take bitcoin seriously once it can actually process a useful number of transactions without choking.
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You can do boring work with clay and steel, and you can do cool work with clay and steel. Saying you're doing cool work with clay and steel doesn't imply that "it's cool because it's clay and steel".

There's two ways to read it definitely, but I have a problem when someone decides to read it one way, and complains about that particular interpretation of what they're reading...
Not really. All the low-level pieces simply don't exist as usable code yet - yes, you can pay money in a convoluted way (compared to buying almost anything else) to have a piece of data added to a globally distributed ordered list, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to build every piece of interaction on the network on top of that system. "Pay 5 cents to send a tweet!"

You also need a decentralized publish/subscribe system and a useful decentralized search system, both resistant to attacks. The former has some good solutions buried in people's PhDs, the latter not so much. Then you need a lot of UX research and people working on the low-level protocol, high-level domain logic, and the UI.

It'd be a project on the scale of one of the largest open-source projects currently in existence, IMHO.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts/experiences with right click menus in web apps
I am programming an ASP.NET web application at the moment and part of the functionality is to allow file uploads. It will have drag and drop functionality as one method of uploading and the traditional open file dialog button as another but I am torn on using right-click instead of or in addition to one of the other methods.

Now, we will all be familiar with right-click in a native application at least, however, this isn't something I routinely use in a web application, except on outlook.com (which I think does it quite well). On a tablet, it would be a long click to simulate right click.

I would love to know the thoughts of others that have done it and how the users took to it (if they were even aware of its existence). Also, any examples of it done right (and wrong too!) would be appreciated.
That's a very interesting point - I'd very much like to read a well-cited article/study on this if such is available, or is it just a personal observation?
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> Worse, a language that forces people to Do The Right thing, might be acceptable for experienced programmers who want to work within that limitation. But when given to student, it just encourages closed minded rule-following.

Citation needed. I find the safety net of that kind of language empowering: I can concentrate on thinking about the actual problem, and be confident that the language won't let me shoot myself in the foot.
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As an EU resident he can simply fire off a subject access request (referencing the local Data Protection Acts) to Google and they have to tell him everything they have on file about him.
The funny thing is that would probably require a fb cookie on the machine
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In the UK, Ireland, and France I've only found a couple of places that wouldn't take a signature card -- Automated service stations and the Autoroute toll plazas in France and a toy store in Ireland. Everyone else has been ok with a chip+signature card from the US.
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Feels like its something useful. But will companies sell it?

More here: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep18005
This sounds good. One of the big problems with Mill CPUs is there is that they don't have working silicon yet. I would say getting as much people as possible to play with it, is crucial for a new architecture to get traction.

Even better than that would be a open architecture like RISC-V. Though, open architecture has its own drawbacks.

Also, as a side note, what do you think about the possibility of using Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning to generate more efficient types of interconnect architectures.
Philippines does. It is not uncommon for a foreign entrepreneur to marry a local citizen and make them the co-owner. I have this anecdotally at SME level. I don't know if it holds true for, say, SM Corporation.
Your fears are mostly unwarranted. Even if they could get close enough to clone your card (and their are cryptographic safeguards that make this difficult) they would be able to do a limited number of transactions before it asked for the PIN (which can not be read directly from the card, so they should not know this).

Then, when you tried to use your legit card, the on-card transaction count would clash and the card and clones would be frozen. You, as the obvious owner of the card, would be free of all liabilty and due a refund (the bank would not kick up a fuss about this, it is in their interest to reduce friction in these low amount cases to drive technology adoption).
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I think some people would enjoy life more if they didn't think passive-agressive all tbe time.

Passive-agressiveness exists but reading everything into that context just makes for poor workplace performance IMO.
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Yes, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCqQ7ciCHcI for a demo! Check out the actual video simulation for the games. The bezels are nice too :)
You need feedback, yes.

But perhaps not (or not only) on the annual review level, but rather solicit feedback from peers and superiors on a per-project level (or if you work in a Scrum team, per epos or something).

If you get such feedback maybe every two or three months, and then you get a bad annual performance review, you might even use the feedback you collected privately to influence the annual performance review.
There are lots of parties to any financial transaction. Transfer agents, exchanges, clearing houses, regulators, central banks, et cetera. Various combinations of the above, along with banks and the "buyer" and the "seller", can reverse transactions.
I don't know, that's why I'm asking!

And even if it was, why not experimenting without human constraints?

Who says they didn't? Really, all I'm asking is: why is everyone assuming that Amazon/Kiva didn't think about these things? Because unless one has a good reason to think they are taking a wrong approach, it just seems like hubris to flat-out claim so.
As a manager, I tend to frame my feedback/opinions as 'Have you considered <something>?' or 'Can you explain your thinking behind this <feature/function/design>?'

Doing it this way, I get an understanding of their rationale and if I still think my idea is good, I can debate the worthiness of it against my employees reasoning. I feel this approach fosters a 'best idea wins' rather than a 'manager opinion trumps all'.

I agree with Derek's implied point that 'manager opinion trumps all is bad', but think it's a discredit to his staff if he doesn't challenge their ideas if he thinks he has something more worthwhile.
I realize that it's not possible to live as a vegetarian in a survival situation. This is because plants have almost no calories, you can't digest them without fat, most don't have enough protein, they take too much energy to gather and cook, etc.

This book claims otherwise, and without resorting to grains (note I've only skimmed it a bit, starting a garden is a next year thing for me): https://www.amazon.com/Grow-Die-Guide-Survival-Gardening/dp/...

Nuclear War Survival Skills says you can almost get by with grain, but that includes sprouting it for vitamins (and making yeast might be better for that). BUT children will not thrive without fats.

As for hunting, I am not only a gun owner, but my father's favorite/only hobbies are hunting and fishing (the latter of which I don't like, whereas hunting was OK, if he offered to take me on a hunt I'd go).

While we didn't hunt anything that we didn't eat, it's generally not an efficient way to gain high quality protein or fats. To do that, you need to cheat with methods that as I vaguely recall don't involve guns, e.g. use big nets to catch fish (or raise your own catfish, for example, although as I recall most fish we in the US catch aren't good oil sources). For animals, "poaching" and trapping methods, e.g. snares: http://www.snareshop.com/departments.asp?dept=14

As for not being able to label yourself as a prepper, I'm an old school nuclear war/economic collapse 60s-80s survivalist, and as others have noted, if you aren't able to protect you and yours, including the stores of materials and food you'll be needing to survive, well, why bother unless you live in a completely rural low population far from the big cities areas where you can depend on others in the community to do that in general for all.

(And, hey, try one out some time, they're lots of fun and not very dangerous if you follow the 4 Rules (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cooper#Firearms_safety) and for your first time or three, have a formal or informal coach.)
At first because the incentive wasn't there; merchants -- who'd be the ones needing to set up chip-enabled terminals -- didn't bear the cost of fraudulent purchases.

Last year, the major card issuers changed their contract terms to impose the cost of fraud on the merchant if the merchant didn't have a chip-enabled terminal, but:

1. Merchants are suing to have this overturned because they don't want to pay for an upgrade if they can get a court to force the old terms to stay in place, and

2. They're pushing hard on a narrative of "chip transactions are slow, so slow, you have to wait so long because it's so slow, wouldn't you rather just swipe your card quickly than deal with the slow slowness of these slow chips with their slow transactions, and did we mention they're slow" to try to turn the public against chip cards.

3. Probably the next big upgrade will actually be to support NFC-enabled devices like cell phones, bypassing the need for a separate physical card entirely.
- In some case implementing both "const" and "non const" methods cause a lot of code duplications and cast can help.

- Compatibility with old libraries
While you have a valid point, I think it comes down to a matter of how one likes to run their business. Facebook could definitely use this case against other parties in the future.
That's cool! I don't know much about chemistry or metallurgy. I can see a connection from making gold for real to alchemy to chemistry. So perhaps gold is partially responsible for creating science? If for no other reason than its a really good motivator.
It is everybody else's fault but the people who wrote the emails.

I doubt it was Russian. So far it looks like there was disgruntled democrat leaker - the allegedly "russian" breech was quite bigger in scope.
> When those services then use that access to do the things they were authorised to do

Reread Animats' comment more carefully. As Animats pointed out, the accessing service wasn't authorised because authorisation had been revoked by way of the cease and desist letter.
It's all about the liabilites - the shops are allowed to accept swipe and sign, but the fees and liability are massively shifted to the merchant. A lot of places do have this as a fallback for PIN damaged cards though, you are right. They judge it to be worth the risk to not lose the business.
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Really like projects like these. Nice building block that'll make like easier for people to share information about boards in the future. Awesome.
Ugh. This reeks of "safe space" nonsense.

Part of working in a team is receiving comments and criticism from others. If you take these negatively and as attacks to you, rather than collective construction towards the final goal, then you have a problem and need to consider changing job.

I find that when I design something I become accustomed to early design choices and then eventually become blind to them. I need someone to come along with a fresh pair of eyes, see the whole thing and nitpick it. It's absurd to suggest that it's either perfect or needs to scrapped entirely.
I literally would close my account if the bank didn't offer contactless. It's so much better. To answer your concern - the only way for anyone to "swipe" your purse is to have an authorized, authenticated terminal which can communicate with your card using the proper key from the bank - which means that the terminal would get invalidated by the bank straight away after people started reporting fraud. Contactless cards literally won't surrender their information to regular NFC readers. But even assuming they could - the most you can be charged is relatively small amount, and only 5x a day until you have to type in your pin - and if that happened your bank would refund you instantly. So seriously, I can't imagine not having a contactless card.