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Well done to you for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, and doing well in life.

The stereotypical example of what I'm talking about is the child who grows up in a poor area with terrible parents, terrible schooling and little in the way of a good example to follow.

So who's teaching the kids 'financial responsibility' and the 'virtues of hard work'? And when they grow up without those values, who's to blame? When they have kids of their own, and the cycle continues, who's to blame then?

You're lucky that you had good parents, as are your own children by the sounds of it. But not everyone is as lucky as that, and simply lecturing and blaming those who grow up without that kind of luck doesn't solve anything.
It was a dynamic website, mirroring it wouldn't be a trivial task, and a snapshot of a site that adds new stuff every day will become useless with time
I guess you'll have to pay more than bananas then.
Ordinary torrenting is also blocked in China. You need to run your torrent software through a VPN.

Last I was there, Astrill seemed to be the way to go. But the situation evolves.
It's not a different view, it's actually reinforcing my quintessentially banal point that parents and social environment are factors that are hard to influence by governmental policies. I'm, by the way, a similar example, having become an academic despite having a non-academic family background.

The basic question is, where did your father get his wish to become an academic from? How did he manage to maintain the belief in himself despite having no academic role models?

"diligence and hard work" is just scratching the explanatory surface.
> treat those customers as second-hand customers...

If I look at content available at these services, I feel more of a third or fourth hand customer. And that is the reason I have left them for good. Scorched earth is what is left for me.

But you would not even have to go to these streaming "services". I really love my classic tv shows. Take for example "Quincy, M.E.". I love this show and would pay good money to have it available at home (in DVD or BluRay format). And for my significant other have the synchronized version. The whole series was synchronized for German TV. But is it available as DVD? No it isn't.

Our only chance i to wait for the reruns on any network, program our HDD recorder and ripp the low quality TV stream.

If I would still be illegally downloading, I would already have the whole show at home, with self printed DVDs and such. But being a good and law abiding citizen I am pretty much fed.
You probably see a lot more English than other languages, so you'll see a proportionally higher number of mistakes too.
Not my intention to bikeshedding but I think it is possible to change the configuration so the server has a valid certificate for Orkut.com and not just for hello.com
I'd happily bet big money that orders of magnitude more people are pirating because it's free than because they'd invested in 7.1 surround system and a 4K 3D TVs.

Everyone I know who pirates is doing it because it's free. Although almost all of them pay for something (Netflix, Amazon Prime or Nowtv), they just don't pay for all of them. And these are all grown adults in their 30s.

Say you pay for Netflix and Amazon, but they don't have everything. So GoT has to come from somewhere... And movie releases are still over-delayed to streaming services. You see a DVD in the shop? You can stream it for free rather than wait 6 months more for it to maybe turn up on Netflix.
Go look up what topology means, I think I'll like it. It applies to more than just networking and some people find it fascinating.
Why I hate Spring (2014)
Bold move to launch it without a web frontend. I browsed the 'best of' gallery which looks nice, but I haven't seen anything yet that would entice me to grab my phone and go through both a sign up and an app installation process.

From the outside it looks like a Reddit meets Imgur type of application, perhaps like Pinterest. None of those have really strong communities in my opinion, not as strong as for example Facebook friends are. How are the community members connected to eachother?
I've lived in both the Bay area and NYC. I can tell you the culture in NYC is very strong and hard to match. My spouse and I often look back fondly at the fun times we had in NYC. Chicago also has a very fun vibe depending on where you are. The Bay area is weak in that department IMHO.
A web search found http://www.calpoly.edu/~ceenve/enve/jsczechowski/enve436/pro... .

> Based on these results the use of the UV/Ozone/Peroxide, especially the modified UV/Peroxide system, proved an effective process for removing and containing VOC contamination in the groundwater. The system was designed to treat 30,000 m g/l and the average influent was 25,00 m g/l. Along with the high contaminant removal, the system design conditions were met. The modified UV/Peroxide process replaced the UV/Ozone/Peroxide system, because the initial system, containing ozone, required lots of maintenance on the ozone generator and the delivery system. Ozone leaks were discovered (causing downtime) and the residual ozone proved to be corrosive in the reaction chamber.

This supports the description that Lowe gave.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=UV%2FOZONE%2FPEROXIDE+TREATMENT&t=... seems to be a fruitful search term.
Sounds like an issue with the Chinese government basically forcing you to use a vpn to use the internet, not the American companies.
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>The EU is working on it, it just moves at the speed of bureaucracy

I would guess the speed is more limited by 27 governments having to agree on everything.
We use XMPP + OTR internally @Infoxchange and it's been really fantastic for us.

It's cross platform (although the Windows clients aren't that pretty to be honest, but we don't have many machines running Windows anymore), it's reliable, we can run it on site and ensure that secure chats are not logged (i.e. 1 on 1 chats aren't logged, rooms are just for history when someone joins), it integrates with monitoring / alerting and general operational notifications such as alerts or notifications from Nagios, GitLab CI builds, Application releases, Errors discovered in logs, Changes to oncall rosters, 'interesting' stats from load balancers, global notifications, secure file transfers and the list goes on.

One thing I keep meaning to get around to implementing for everyone is a web interface for say people that are volunteering / on a temporary device etc...
Clojure never really caught on with me. It's not the ideas, so much as the really complex ecosystem that the JVM mandates. Which is why I tend to avoid the JVM like the plague.

Now Scheme on the other hand...
I'm the age Of Snapchat and Instagram Stories I'm not sure how a Facebook clone can be successful
> Claiming it is all about taxes and transfers is severely twisting the facts. Look up the difference between the lowest paid workers and CEOs in nordic countries compared to the US. It is a huge difference.

But that's likely due to the system of taxes and transfers. The government subsidizes low-end jobs in the form of minimum wage laws; and it makes far less sense for a company to continue to hike the pay of its CEO when 75% of that money goes directly to the government in the form of taxes.
> From the chart it looks like third party API clients were generating two thirds of total traffic. That is a lot.

Around the time they banned API access they removed distance evaluation from the software (after having had it broken for a few weeks), initially the game included three distance ranges shown as steps in the UI, there's no distance information left whatsoever now.
I prefer Scheme to Racket. But that's also lisp.

And scheme and racket are far closer together than Common Lisp.
"disrupt the industry"

A better "disruption" would be to find a cure, or at the very least slow the progress so people die from something else. There will be over 100 million people with dementia by 2050.
Torrent sites have huge advantage over streaming services is that they can distribute all content.

If streaming services had everything, people would pick one based on price and quality of the actual streaming gladly pay more than current prices are. There is no change in hell that customers pay for Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and Amazon at the same time.

There is obvious business solution for this. Content producers should provide their shows and movies for all streaming services for same price. Streaming services would just exist to stream data and distribute payments from customers.

Current business model of streaming is working against "the internet" and torrents are way to get around it.
I'll just butt in here to add a huge caveat that almost never gets brought up in these sorts of articles: Denmark is small, really small.

It has a population of only 5.7 million, if it were part of the US it would fit in between the 11th and 12th largest cities (Atlanta and Detroit).

So imagine, for example, reading an article about the state of things in Detroit, Atlanta, or Houston, and imagine the author attempting to make big, sweeping conclusions based on that data. I suspect you'd likely take any such conclusions with a grain of salt much more than you would when you hear about what's going on in Denmark, because we all know Denmark is a huge and important country. Denmark is neat and all, with plenty of reasons to justify people who don't live there finding it interesting, but it isn't necessarily a land that one can directly map onto the entire nation of America (across a gulf of about two orders of magnitude in population alone) and expect them to be comparable.
The American Dream includes things like everyone having rights and opportunities to move towards being happy and successful, not necessarily whether or not they do better than their parents or not. It seems that it is more that they do, indeed, have the opportunity to do so. Instead most folks find themselves a victim of their circumstances which takes away from opportunity. I find the entire framing of the article to be misguided. And as a sidenote, I never felt that was possible living in the US.

Then I moved to Norway. Similar to Denmark, with a lot of shared values and history, but of course there are differences. Even as an immigrant, if I work at it, I have the opportunity to become successful. The definition of success is a bit different, and it seems at the higher rungs it can take a bit more work to mirror what Americans found 'successful'. The term is very different. I most definitely have the opportunity for happiness, despite the monetary "success". It might be less important for everyone to go to college proper, even, due to some specialized training happening before folks reach 18. College depends more on if you do the work to meet the entry requirements, and if you didn't, there are still ways for you to go later on. It isn't a bad thing to work retail for the rest of your life - and you won't be as poor working such a job. A lot of this "socialism" folks complain about make it easier to reach a version of the American Dream even if you aren't 'successful' by american standards.
Bit disappointing it's not available in my country.
So you always go for the guy who requests the highest salary?
It doesn't matter much. The treaty signing countries will just treat the non treaty signing countries as if they had signed the treaty.

If you claim the moon for Latvia, the rest of the world will refuse to acknowledge it. If you put nukes in space, it better be enough to win the war you just started. And if you damage some equipment in space, your country will probably get embargoed until you pay for it.
Logic can tell you, to a certain extent, about cause and effect. It can tell you how to achieve objectives and what likely risks there are. Perhaps you can assign probabilities to possible outcomes.

It can't tell you what objectives are important nor what risks are acceptable. Those are both transitive properties: something is important to some people, something might be acceptable to some people.

There's no objective morality and no objective politics. Even if we try to limit discussion to "facts", things fall apart fairly rapidly once we start talking stochastic events and statistical morality. Controversial subjects get bogged down with duelling sets of statistics each making subtly different claims about causation.

One of the useful things about legal training is that it forces you to separate facts from law. Facts may be true or false but only law and ethics can make claims about what is right and wrong.
Feel slightly sorry for ello
Python had better libs. And they wrote web.py. Which is just barely less cool than Flask.
Thanks for pointing that out. Maybe I read it wrong, or maybe the article was changed in the meantime. Whatever the case, I still want to point out that a conviction murder carries with it a life sentence and possible death penalty.

> Also, this is said by someone who considers abortion to be murder, so isn't surprising.

The article actually does a pretty good job of convincing me that she doesn't consider it to be murder as such, she just wants people who do it to get the same punishment, because she feels they are throwing something away that is unattainable to her.
SICP is phenomenal, but I'd recommend "On Lisp" first.
To get stubborn people to try new tools for a change.

Of course their goal is conformity, easier management (e.g. everybody gets the same linters, code formatters, etc), but the above is a nice side benefit too.

There are tons of people using some antiquated editor and swearing by it, that get amazed when they are forced (by a job) to use a modern IDE and see what it can do for them.

And I'm not talking about Emacs etc -- which can do a lot if you set it up right, I talk about people coding e.g. Java with Slickedit or whatever. Heck even Vim users are sometimes surprised of the convenience (and turn-key use) of embedded debugger, build system, actual AST-based auto-completion, refactoring tools, etc.

Because when we code, actually editing text is the least of our worries, and yet this is what most simple "programming editors" focus on -- it's not like we're building huge ASCII art paintings...
You would think music, film, and games would be comparable, but I find that these fall into distinct categories for me.

I am totally okay with paying a monthly flat fee for films and series (mostly watch once and be done with it).

I am also okay with paying once for a game and not keeping the downloaded files around after I finish it. Rather, I let Steam or the HumbleStore handle that, and if these go belly-up one day, I don't feel like I've lost much; the value I get in hours of entertainment is in balance with what I spend there, and I am okay with the limited risk of losing access to some games.

For music on the other hand, I absolutely want the files on my hard disk. Music is replayed over and over, and losing access to what is essentially the soundtrack of your life is something I would like to avoid. I'd love a service that allows me to download, say, up to 8 hours of music (any genre, in an open lossless format) a month from a universal catalogue for a reasonable flat fee (like Netflix), but this simply doesn't exist. It is either streaming or paying way more than I find reasonable.

Interestingly, for games the existence of reliable, affordable legal channels for digital delivery means that I have not felt the urge to illegally download any game at all for over a decade, and the same seems to hold true for many colleagues and friends. People are totally fine with downloading films, series, and music for a variety or reasons, but why bother with games? The money you pay, say, Steam or the HumbleStore seems to flow back to the developers in a fairly fair fashion, there are good deals to be had, and it is all very convenient — for games it just seems like a solved problem.
They'll all change your life, but Scheme will change your life more, and better.
Inheriting a modest family farm can also make it hard for you to acknowledge that not everyone has it that easy.
Getting 27 countries to agree on something sounds like bureaucracy nightmare to me :)

So, I just looked up the word "bureaucracy" in a dictionary and it says "a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.". I always thought that was what a technocracy was.

The secondary definition is "excessively complicated administrative procedure, seen as characteristic of bureaucracy" which is the only usage I can remember seeing.
What is cloud computing?
I'm fortunate, or not, for having lived in western (Seattle) and eastern Washington, Bay Area, Portland, Toledo, New York City (well, Westchester County), Vicksburg MS, Boca Raton, Salt Lake City, Austin (some for a few months, many for a few or more years).

There is nothing wrong with the other areas of the US, and Americans are mostly the same, but I find the laid back style of the left west coast just to be the most suited. Well, Californians can take that a bit too far...
Wait, so the guy's name means orgasms? Oh dear oh dear. This must cause problems for Turkish men in Finland. Kind of like the unfortunate Indian family name Dikshit.
Orkut was our go-to social network as teens, before we all moved to Facebook in 2009. I'm was going to join this out of sheer nostalgia, but it appears to be lacking a web app.

I'm curious as to why they went with ONLY native Android / iOS apps. That will not only drive away people like me, who prefer to use things from a desktop web browser, but also people in developing countries who might not have access to a smartphone. That sounds like straying away from "I want to help connect people" to something more like "I want to help connect people who own an Android / iOS device".
It's certainly very positive and full of repetition, a native speaker would probably watch out for that. Very interesting.
I'm just sitting here wondering how much they paid for the domain name hello.com
To be fair, they got in power mainly because of the economical disasters generated by the neo-liberal governments in the nineties and early 2000's.

Argentina was led to the worst crisis in its history. So, most people here are really tired of the political class, both left and right being perceived as equally corrupt.

Yes, there are fanatical groups that support one or the other, but the vast majority just vote for the lesser evil... Kind of like how some people who I've talked to feel right now in the US, having to choose between Hillary and Trump...
SICP should be mandatory. It only happens to use Lisp, but is a very fundamental text about programming. So it is an important read, even if you do not plan to use Lisp in your future.
Embulk, a pluggable bulk data loader
Based on nothing more than 30seconds looking at the page, it seems to be attempting to connect strangers via common interests than by being a facebook clone which connects already established friends.
Exactly.

As for welfare: "adedptness at accessing" is what is also driving inequality within the group of welfare-recipients. While the college grad, that can't find a job has a rather easy time figuring out what forms to fill out how, the typical poor kid coming from a family of consecutive generational poorness, won't even know about the majority of services he could get from the government.

It's why I find welfare-reactionaries (people who oppose welfare reform) often to be subconsciously devious: They oppose reforms that would simplify welfare, even if it means more money for those who are poorer than themselves.
How is that different to normal IDEs?
This really is a great piece of affectionate satire. Lisp evangelism is annoying, even to Lisp programmers.

In any case, Lisp may be the best language, but it's not the most powerful.

What is the most powerful? The language from which god wrought the universe.(https://xkcd.com/224/)
In most cases enrich is a more correct word than support in these cases. Also replace creators for owners. Individuals and small companies I support well (buy every blue ray, CD and t-shirt they sell), large media conglomerates I do not.
Ad agencies usually present their plans to the client for approval before filming, and present the film to the client for approval before broadcasting.

It's not like this got broadcast without Apple's marketing team's sign off.
Spot on. I would also say that one of the most important traits you inherit from your parents is your propensity for taking risks. For example, my parents are very risk-averse which also means they understand next to nothing about investing and the economy. That rubbed off on me, and economics was a huge blind spot in my knowledge until I educated myself in my late 20s. I think being surrounded by risk-averse people also increase the social cost of failure. I.e. lose some money on an investment or start a business the fails and you'll never hear the end of it.
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(Or that would be, if it even was an oath. But "Oh my god" is NOT an oath. "On my God", or "In the name of my god" would be that).
I can't wait for the video of one of these straddling buses trying to pass another one while a third supersized one straddles the two of them
Maybe I'm just being cynical, but I see a large dissonance between this message and the 'hello' presentation.

He laments that "we stay with locals when we travel abroad but we don't even know our neighbours at home", yet the new social network seems to push more in that direction (it talks about connecting people based on their interests, not their proximity). He says "we are afraid of what we don't know [...] we are hateful toward what we don't understand", but hello's "folio" feature seems to dig in on that by carefully filtering out what's not "relevant to your interests".

And then there's the gamification ("leaderboards, milestones & rewards") which to me at least seem prone to encourage empty activities that don't really help with the loneliness mentioned in the message.
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I'm not a social networking fan, but this is very interesting. We'll see where it goes.
You seem borderline vitriolic about this.

Nobody including Niantic would ever have dreamed that Pokemon Go would be as huge a sensation as it has been. Nobody. And they have smartly realised that this opportunity is potentially fleeting and so they need to capitalise as quick as possible i.e. grow into other regions.

To expect them to do accurate capacity planning is ridiculous. Likewise it is ridiculous to assume that they can react any quicker than they can. It's very hard to scale quickly whilst still maintaining a high level of uptime.
And the average person or state doesn't exist.
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businessman

Am I the only one disheartened had by the fact that all of the comments on the article are people angrily calling the author a misogynist and racist?

Does it matter if Kushim was male or female? Is it not enough that they were human, and had a name?

Or do we have to keep at this until one gender or race "wins", whatever that means?
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Sure, but this is not the same as a core product Apple makes...
Citizens benefit from any taxes paid in other ways though, so directly equating VAT with a higher net price is not completely fair.
I don't know if this is a spoof or evidence of a slippery slope. Soon we can extend this to a larger and larger part of the population.

If you can't limit the freedom of the press, you can limit the access to it.

It seems wrong on an absolute level.
HN capitalises the first letter of the title if I remember correctly
They should put dev page at www.hello.com/world just my 2c