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See here, for example: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1155/what-is-the-...

BTW, I learned English in school, too, but have never heard of such a rule. Still, I dare say I intuitively would follow this rule. At least all the "wrong" examples do look wrong to me.
> The UK has had 2 female Prime Ministers (1979-1990, 2016-), Canada has had 1 (1993), and Germany (2005-) to name a few.

> your country also looks comical from an outside perspective,

That difference is not statistically significant. If both the US and other_country have the same probability of electing a female leader, the results could easily be exactly the same. 1 female leader or 0 over 30 years, that's purely chance.

Especially given that there are many other countries to chose from to cherrypick positive results. To do it properly you need to average all countries as a comparison.

Lastly some countries don't elect leaders directly, but indirectly through votes by elected representatives. Which could maybe produce different outcomes than if the general population voted.
Asshole Personality Disorder
I'm confused, are you referring to the answer to the thread question or to the article's explanation?
Must be a regional thing because I've never heard of cities like NYC or SF referred to as towns. I would also say "get out of town" is a saying that means "I need to get out of this specific place." Whether the place is a town, city, region is besides the point.
I concur, that is the dream. To work on my own project, without worrying about finances. To have other people handle hr, sales, most of clients support, taxes and regulations, all of the crap that distracts for the interesting problem that made the project worthwhile long before there was money to be made.
From Wikipedia:

> According to Trutter et al.: "It is highly probable that wherever olive oil existed, a simple preparation of oil and egg came about — particularly in the Mediterranean region, where aioli (oil and garlic) is made."

So, no. What you are talking about is some imitation Mayonnaise-like sauce which should be law not be allowed to be called "Mayo". Because that's what the legal system is for: protecting the traditional definitions of foods from people like you who think some sort of cheap Canadian imitation flower seed oil should be allowed to be used in a traditional recipe like Mayonnaise.
My experience with AirBnB is opposite.

The higher the price I charged, the nicer, cleaner, more-accomodating, courteous, and non-demanding the clientele.

The lowest-price guests were rude, uneducated (scratching non-stick pans with forks, for example), noisy, ungracious, and otherwise a huge pain.
...and then of course you end up with To Sail Beyond The Sunset.

Heinlein, both during his early sane and latter mad years, was an utter genius story-teller.
What would your reaction be if the Greenpeace founder said ""I can't sympathize much with those coal miners, since they are helping to ruin the environment. They all deserve to be without a job. However, that doesn't excuse the way the coal mining company treats them."

Uncompromising indeed. Maybe a bit unsympathetic to wish that people go unemployed. I doubt however that Greenpeace would described as "less stand for something valuable, more that they wants to use their principles to be a dick".
Governments also have only one interest in mind: continuity of power and welfare of the government members. Or somebody still thinks that governments serve the people?
Commuting is part of work as well.
I loved it so much that I still haven't seen the film. I don't want the book spoilt. :(

(and I'm a life long sci-fi reader!)
Dune is very close to a revenge fantasy. I read it for the first time a year or two ago and was not particularly impressed.
> I trust Google to operate a secure and reliable email service much more than I trust myself

This sentence has got nothing to do with trust. You believe (maybe rightly so) that Gmail is more secure and reliable than any solution that can be cobbled-up individually.

Simply replacing "believe" with "trust" doesn't really mean the same though. English is a funny language. But then again that's what you probably meant when you said "Trust is a complex thing". Hmmmm... :)
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software was one of the most formative books for my programming self education. I've tried to loan it to several of my friends more than once, and it was a gift to me.

Also had a strange case of loaning out C# 4.0 in a Nutshell and never getting it back, but I would do it again (with an updated version). Albahari is good at writing a reference without being too boring, and C# has some legitimately interesting sides in how it does some things, like it's dynamically compiled regexen.
I don't think it's considered evidence for current behaviour, just evidence that the behaviour is repeated.
YMMV, but I've noticed that you can actually read books in foreign languages quite enjoyably without a perfect grasp of the language. If the book grips you, words or even paragraphs you don't understand stop to matter. Sometimes it will take a couple of pages of "oh shit, I don't know what this is saying at all" before you get into it, though. (Reading it on an e-reader for the instant dictionary does help, of course.)

One of the interesting things about Monte Cristo and actually about a lot of 19th century French literature is that there's very little archaic French in there, and I found it easier to read (though still not easy!) than many modern novels that use French street slang / argot.
Davis can sometimes be found posting on HN if you turn on dead comments in your settings. Sometimes his comments are interesting, at other times incoherent and racist. Mixed bag. TempleOS is an incredible achievement.
AdTech in its early years was filled with scumbags
That doesn't seem bad at all. That may be roughly the same as the relative percentage of women that are interested in going into politics.
> you have the 1948 elections which the communist/socialist coalition won but which was fixed the other way

The left-wing coalition (which was actually missing a piece of the socialists) didn't even get close to winning. It got 31% of the vote.
The danger is where inequality in rates of improvement in material outcomes leads to inequality in moral outcomes. To borrow some rather loaded language, the more the 1% can buy themselves legal advantage, the more unjust the world becomes. If the rate of legal advantage is affected by the absolute difference between the 1% and the 99% (which I'd argue is demonstrably true - beyond a certain point you've got regulatory capture, but even before then, paid legal representation is the lever that matters here), then it's trivially true that a more materially unequal world is more morally imbalanced in the absence of a somewhat socialist government.

Yes, the poorest and the average now are doing better than they were. That doesn't make defensible the disparity in gains between the richest and the rest.
Food startup Deliveroo raises $275M as Uber eats into its European market
Foundation is a great story, but am I the only one who thought the prose to be absolutely awful?
The problem is of course that moving things from http: space into https space, whether or not you keep the rest of the URI the same, breaks any links to. Put simply, the HTTPS Everywhere campaign taken at face value completely breaks the web.

Tim Berners-Lee is certainly an authority in the area, but I (an amateur) fail to see any major problem here, let alone one that "completely breaks the web".

Can someone illustrate a use case where either this fatal link-breaking cannot be solved by a simple HTTP->HTTPS redirect, or any other scenario where the user is so much worse off?

In a way it is arguably a greater threat to the integrity for the web than anything else in its history. The underlying speeds of connection of increased from 300bps to 300Gbps, IPv4 has being moved to IpV6, but none of this breaks the web of links in so doing.

I'd venture to say that IPv6 probably wishes it had the traction that HTTPS Everywhere has...
I never said Just Mayo includes palm oil.

And I'm not really impressed by your made up statistics. Again, if you actually cared about animals you would actually care about the numbers, and not just make up fake percentages to make your decisions seem better.

It's not hard to find vegan diets that destroy more habitat per calorie than many meat-based diets. Look at hunting for example, which is often a net positive for animal habitat.
Fairly awful stuff but it would be fascinating to keep that experiment running for a decade to watch AI evolve.
because it gives the capital-S State a motive for constant countrywide warrantless surveillance?
Delta System Outage Triggers Delays Worldwide
how about
$ echo "password" | md5sum
286755fad04869ca523320acce0dc6a4

$ echo "Password" | md5sum
29f33cab54c2a8858885b95d8fbb7ff1

$ echo "PAssword" | md5sum
20a68cafb28eb68e306be529a29a8a62

$ echo "PASsword" | md5sum
2ed0aec406faee855f7739bc94fa60d0
And before that everyone was locked in into pen and paper ecosystem :)
While I agree that it's painful seeing evidence thrown out for procedural reasons, there is certainly logic behind it, as it provides a check on the power of the police. It may well be the lesser evil (as intended). Simply disciplining an officer who doesn't follow procedure may not be sufficient incentive to prevent people's rights from being ignored. That's especially true if officers cover for one another so it's not even possible to determine who is responsible. Unless the punishment is extremely harsh (which would unfairly penalize legitimate mistakes), it may often not be effective anyway, as many well-meaning officers could accept punishment in order to put (who they believe is) the bad guy away. The problem is, when you start going in that direction, innocent people's rights will be infringed as well. You already see cases all the time where innocent people go to jail due to police bending or breaking the rules. I have to think that allowing all factual evidence regardless of source would make that worse.

That said, it's obviously not a just result in an individual case like this. It would be nice to be able to have justice in these situations without losing the overall disincentive. I'm not sure that it's possible, but would love to be wrong.
The article already states that he has a line of up to 100 people to eat his food. I'm not sure finding customers is his problem.

He will likely be able to raise money now though
(To complete my above comment...)

This would have the benefit of bringing that initial certificate negotiation outside of the TLS black-box. For years, TLS deployment was held back because you couldn't have multiple domains on a single IP, long after the problem had been solved for HTTP.

Later, SNI was added to TLS, but the change wouldn't be rolled out to Windows XP users (except Firefox which used its own TLS implementation).

By using HTTP, you'd have the Host: header right away and could even introduce new certificate formats by looking at the Accept: header. This sort of thing is built into HTTP but had to be retrofitted with much pain and anguish into TLS.
I've been scrolling through all the comments, seeing if someone mentioned the late great Mr Banks. His Culture books are almost perfect hard sci-fi in my opinion, and his contemporary collection contain some amazing books (The Wasp Factory, and The Bridge immediately come to mind).
When your only tool is a hammer everything starts to look like a nail.
The problem with allowing illegally obtained evidence to be admissible is that it sets a legal precedent. There are no one -offs in common law countries. The DA can use this case as an argument next time, effectively incentivising police to breach protocol in other more egregious ways like tapping into your phone calls without reason.

It saddens me deeply that Chahal is getting off on a technicality but ultimately there is no such thing as an objective spirit of the law. All we have is the literal text - the letter of the law - that's in the books and two sides arguing the best way to interpret that.

Writing warrant laws that protect good citizens and good citizens only is impossible. Sometimes bad people slip through the cracks as a result. It's a tragedy, but not one that is easy to remedy.
> unless you're someone in high society, in which case it is just 'Town'

Please give us an example of this usage.
He indicated in his address that an elderly emperor can sometimes leave the society itself dangerously paralysed (an oblique reference to the pre-war period) and that the emperor "must always be with the people". It's actually a pretty powerful, if careful, statement from someone with no legal influence on the country. We can agree that he wants his son to succeed him (though "want" hardly comes into it) but I think the timing of this abdication has more to do with securing a path forward for the Japanese people. That's something the current political system has failed to do.
“Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders”
Likely because people paying higher price points have ample cash and aren't watching every penny they spend.
I enjoyed the first Dune book, solely on the amount of world building in the book. But I never read any of the others other than the 3rd one, as Herbert seemed to get a bit long in the tooth with all the grandiose plans involving the god emperor after a bit.
The argument generally goes that the president is beholden to enact the policies and direction that are set by the groups that funded his campaign and rise to power.

I'm not saying it's necessarily true, but it's definitely something many people believe to be true.
Up to 900m Android devices at risk #quadrooter
What's new in Deveo 3.12
And it was repeated numerous times throughout. Really detracted from the overall article.
"ideological assumptions" or - less biased - "premises".
For free usage, we still offer some seats: http://try.deveo.com/free

comments and questions welcome. will be monitoring this thread.
This is an awesome API! Was looking for something simple like this for a small side project. Thanks Ed, and of course, I will give you a shoutout and link to your API.
> Upon launch, gping.io will show you your distinctly private-but-shareable monitoring URL.

This is bad for privacy if you will be using short URLs similar to TinyURL/bit.ly since short URLs can be bruteforced[1]. Additional authentication is probably a good idea.

1. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.02734v1.pdf
> leads them to think that the best course in life is to give away their best work for free.

As much as I like and use Open-source software, as someone who is trying to bootstrap is own "thing", I think I can now understand the two sides of the coin.

For one, if we didn't have open-source languages, or open-source frameworks, we couldn't have built what we have built in the last years. Lots of startups and small businesses out there rely on open source frameworks, open source libraries, etc., and some of them could have never reached profitability or growth if it wasn't for the reduce costs that open source allow for.

On the other hand, if you give away too much things for free, you won't have anything to sell, unless you are being sponsored somehow. For instance, most linux kernel developers are being sponsored to work on the kernel, the author is being sponsored to work on his constraint solver, etc. By the way, this is one of the cases where I think something like the Universal Basic Income would be making a huge difference..

Personally, as a single developer trying to make a living, I've given enough thought if I should open source my own software. The way I see things now is, if you are working on "infrastructure" software (software that others can build upon, such as protocols, servers, browsers, OSs, etc.), it may make sense to open source it, either because it is a massive task for a singe developer or because you need mindshare and free marketing for it. If it gets to be widely used, you can eventually build a consulting business around it, or get sponsored to work on it.

But if you are working on small projects that are hardly going to be used as infrastructure, the chances that you are ever going to be sponsored to work on it are quite slim. So, if you think that you will ever be able to sell something based on that kind of software, maybe it does not make much commercial sense to open source it and give it away for free. On the other hand, it may make sense to open source it if you think you'll benefit from the exposure (such as getting a job because recruiters can check your code).

Please note that I'm mainly talking about open source making commercial sense or not, and not if it is the right (as moral) thing to do. If I was being sponsored by someone, or didn't have the need to participate in the market economy, I would give all my work for free. Unfortunately, I live in _this_ world..
They keep them in symbolic roles only. They have no real power. And even then there are movements to abolish them for consuming public tax dollars. Not every country had a violent or sudden change to democracy. But supporters of democracy still won in the West. Despite massive resistance at first.

I mean that the monarchs themselves favor the upper class. They are, after all, members of it, and exposed mainly to their issues and their side of things. Europe has a terrible history of a ridiculously unequal and unfair aristocracy.
The source is at http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/08/07/quadrooter/http://blog... but that one is unreachable ATM.
Desert Storm: F-16 dodging 6 Iraqi SAM launches on Jan 19 1991 [video]
Rio Olympics: Nigeria Beat Sweden 1-0 to Maintain Top Spot
'could' will be 'should have'.
As the article explains, that's not yet a certainty:

> Then again, the judge could conceivably allow Chahal once more to avoid incarceration, depending on what the probation report recommends.
Global computer glitch grounds all Delta flights
Completely unrelated but as a British English speaker I was amused by one of the linked articles - http://www.inquisitr.com/3341656/pokemon-go-accident-man-acc... - I think the writers don't realise how many asterisks they actually need to use in this article, given some of the more localised swear words being used in the quotes.
I've seen quite a bit of criticism of it for mail servers [1] because an attacker can simply block the 'STARTTLS' message and (many) clients will silently accept that.

[1] https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/starttls_considered_harmful
Notice that your list is made up entirely of Open Source products built and maintained by for profit companies.

Those companies are not doing that out of charity. They all have well thought out strategies for what they are doing, so you can be certain that it makes business sense to them.

There are in fact useful, valuable Open Source products built by starving developers as a full time labor of love with no thought of personal reward. But in the context of the ones you mention, doesn't it seem a bit silly to do so, producing so much value for the software industry as a whole yet capturing none of it?

You don't see many people voluntarily spending their days flipping burgers at McDonalds for no pay, alongside other people doing the same work for a salary. But for some reason we're indoctrinated to think that doing the exact same thing for, to choose at random, Firefox, is somehow a noble trait in a software developer.
DEPUTY SENATE PRESIDENT, IKE EKWEREMADU, WILL PRESENT THE 2016 VERSION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONSTITUTION DAY LECTURE, ENTITLED :”INFLUENCE OF THE U.S CONSTITUTION ON AFRICAN DEMOCRACIES”......
Some differences from Eiffel contracts: no class invariants, and postconditions don't have access to previous object state.
For internal purposes, a 64 bit GUID will be sufficient. Look how Twitter uses Snowflake - https://github.com/twitter/snowflake - that's a scalable way to generate unique IDs which won't ever be revealed to the user.

For default user names, I quite like how gfycat does it - http://gfycat.com/about - AdjectiveAdjectiveAnimal - so a user is given a default name like "ReluctantCandidWombat". Fun, unique, hard to iterate, and hopefully provides an incentive to the user to change it later.
I have given away ~20 "Who Moved My Cheese" by Spencer Johnson over the years.

It is a great little book, which deals with how we handle change in our lives (work and other) and how we sometimes fail to see, when it is time to move on.

My favorite one-sentence takeaway from the book is the question: "What would you do, if you were not afraid?" - which has helped me make hard decisions many times over the years.

https://www.amazon.com/Who-Moved-My-Cheese-Amazing/dp/039914...
Putting the scientology stuff to one side for a moment, L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth and Mission Earth books are fun pulp sci-fi, good for summer holiday reading.
I Peeked into My Node_Modules Directory
This kind of thing reminds me of people trying to teach pointers through clumsy analogies to envelopes and letters, or parcels and addresses, or cars and door handles, or some other awful mess.

As with pointers, when it comes to caches, a clear explanation without analogies is far superior.
With the sale of most of Yahoo!, I'm going to miss the Register's "Yahoo! Exclamation! Headlines!" style...};-)
>While I agree that it's painful seeing evidence thrown out for procedural reasons, there is certainly logic behind it, as it provides a check on the power of the police. It may well be the lesser evil (as intended). Simply disciplining an officer who doesn't follow procedure may not be sufficient incentive to prevent people's rights from being ignored.

Then escalate that punishment as needed, still without throwing out evidence? E.g. fire the officer outright, don't just "discipline" him, and impose a penalty to his whole department.
Not only is it in incredibly poor taste, but it's not actually funny anyway. What an odd thing to include.
I would recommend looking at the emulator platforms, specifically RetroPie and CoinOPs - if you find the right Distro, those seem to come with a lot of pre-built UAE configs you could adapt.
Co-operatives are great for bringing services to the underserved, but they require the input of a particular kind and level of political engagement from the public that seems to be rare.

Other examples: http://b4rn.org.uk/ , various community buyouts of Scottish islands like Eigg.
"The Body Electric" by Dr. Robert O. Becker. Everyone in healthcare, medicine and especially the wireless industry should read it. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Body-Electric-Robert-Becker/dp/0688...
Nobody wants war in Asia. The question is how and at what rate the United States withdraws from its ultimately unsustainable position as pacific hegemon. China would like it to happen sooner. Most of the rest of Asia would like it to happen later, and to share more equitably in a post-american security coalition. To make that possible, Japan and South Korea may need to show more strategic solidarity in the short term.
I don't think that is the case.

http://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2016-08-06...

> The quiet discussion reportedly started about five years ago, around the time he had health problems

This is before Abe became PM. From this, I think the people who don't want to change the constitution is using the Emperor politically.
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
https://mises.org/library/economics-one-lesson

It's focus is to get people thinking about 2nd and 3rd order effects. It's very simple and well written.
Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior can't go wrong with that one.

Also, International Karate+

And finally, Dungeon Master, just because. :)