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China hasn't been Marxist in decades. Authoritarian, yes, but not Marxist. Note that they didn't become a significant international player until after they scrapped the Maoist stuff. Before that they were having famines. Just as Venezuela is now having a famine.

And yes, I'm aware that on some level China still describes itself as Marxist, just as the United States still describes itself as a democratic federal republic.
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An italian expat colleague studying in Belgium explained to me that Italy is so beautiful that it has to have severe societal problems just to maintain homeostasis; otherwise everyone else would move there. If it's any consolation, there are people in colder, rainy countries, with worse food, and with cultures where next door neighbors don't even know each other's names, looking at Italy and wondering if they should accept some boring job there for the other benefits.
Ask HN: How do we pick an user ID while building a social-platform?
We're a team of 20 and 22 y.o. building an idea-sharing platform called Meraki. This is our very first try at building an app and also the very first try at building a social platform. The platform that we're building - Meraki - uses only Facebook and Twitter APIs to signup and login. The new users are then asked to pick a username. We want to provide a functionality to users to change their usernames later on.

Now, the problem is that we cannot use FB username, FB email, Twitter username or Twitter email or the Meraki username as a constant user identity for their actions on the app because it may vary as user can change it anytime.

How do we or what do we choose as a User identity? Providing numbers-identity to newly signed up users doesn't seem that attractive to us.
Yes, this was my thoughts also. I've got a hunch that concerns have been incorrectly mixed here, leading to unnecessary complexity. But it's too soon to tell for sure
You mixed up 1 and 4, but that's no problem. Doing your best means that you will never be 100% perfect in following up on 1, 2 and 3, so make the best of it and forgive yourself if you forget to follow them.

For me 3 was very important, with many small things that annoyed me, people getting in my way etc. They don't do that to annoy me, and of course I know that, but to fully realise that was important.

Be impeccable is the most important for me. This is more about shouting at yourself than about shouting at other people. Most of the time we shout - silently - at ourselves, and these little punishments that you often don't even notice, take you down and can make your life a lot more miserable. And if you shout a lot at other people, try to figure out why you need to do that.

In the last five years, this was the most important book for me. Whenever I'm having troubles with someone, reading this book helps me get through it.
What is the rule here (I learned English as second language and I know that this ordering of adjectives is commonly used, but don't know the rule behind it)?
It's about the intent, not about scientific and factual proof. Skip the first chapter if it annoys you. You don't need to read it to profit from the rest of the book.
My wild guess, however, is that many of these three-star places are in some ancient / traditional / cultural towns.
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Has the Queen even spoken about whether she approves of Brexit or not?
I live in a constitutional monarchy. But my Queen and her family don't even live in my country, and she is rather more attached to the one she does live in.

I'm sure she chooses what is "best for the country", but it's not always clear which country that may mean.
The boycott is supported by a former deputy privacy commissioner of an Australian State, Anna Johnston.

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/why-i-wont-be-filling-in-the-c...
"Growth as a result of consumption is destructive. "

I'm sorry, but this is completely ridiculous.

'Consumption' is the primary driver of economic growth, and it will always be thus.

Without 'consumption' there is literally no economy.

If people want to work 10 hour weeks, they can do that, though I should point out, most kinds of work activities, especially the high value ones, don't work that way.

Better to work 40 hour weeks for 10 years, save everything, and retire.

Surely we need to find a way to clean up after ourselves and solve the problem of fewer resources and more garbage, but in general 'consumption' is good, or else there is no 'work' and no 'jobs' - even 10 hr/week jobs.
In the middle of off-topic complaints about Barcelona, there are some objectionable observations.

- Air pollution is a problem in many parts of the city, but it needs to be addressed with the promotion and imposition of cleaner engines. Reducing car use is only a secondary objective of a plan to reclaim streets.

- Bike vs. obstacle and bike vs. pedestrian accidents are much less dangerous than car accidents.

- Like in other cities, there's plenty of quiet corners with few tourists and few cars. Noisy people concentrate in the city center and traffic in the appropriate wide streets like everywhere else, despite the great number of tourists it isn't hell on Earth.
HN and Twitter (sometimes) seem appropriate to share ideas. But Facebook and other such platforms doesn't appeal to me as it need not always have the right audience. Hence building Meraki with the right kind of user-base who would be interested into sharing and also in knowing more about others' ideas about product, world, politics, and many other areas. :)
Time Enough For Love was my favorite Heinlein book.
I find it bizarre that Japan is having an contentious debate about if it's appropriate for a woman to ascend to a completely powerless role while the US just nominated its first (viable) female candidate for president.

edit: Wow, apparently this is an offensive comment. I'm having a hard time twisting my brain to see how, but my point was simply that the it seems odd that there would be contention over a powerless role for a woman in any part of the world when (arguably) the most powerful political position that exists today has a female candidate. One would think that if the latter is true the former could not be.

edit 2: Oh, I think I get it. Posters are assuming I'm American and am boasting about how progressive my country is. Huh. Nope, that wasn't what I was doing. (Though I am American, and not voting for either mainstream candidate.)
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AFAIK several language package managers have looked at implementing TUF for their repositories, but the only live implementation that I know of is Docker Content Trust.

I kind of think it's an important part of secure management of libraries. As the Fosshub breach last week showed, software repo's are tempting targets for attackers...
Different strokes.

I think maintaining the LAMP Wordpress stack, extensions, admin panel auth security, whatever versionpress is etc. is more hassle than editing a text file and pushing code. To devs, this editing is second nature.

Also, I'd take my desktop editor to a contentEditable any day.
On the other hand, consider the example of France. The fourth republic had a symbolic president, and the fifth republic has a very powerful president, because DeGaulle demanded executive power as a condition of assuming the presidency during the Algerian crisis of the late 1950s. That's why the fourth republic ended and the fifth republic began -- DeGaulle had a new constitution written.

The situation in Japan is pretty stable. Why mess with success? And if the emperor has no power, why does it matter if the position is hereditary?
Exactly:
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2014/Jasaypython.htm...
"Growth is not a very beneficial situation to be in."

Again this is false.

There are so many financially illiterate people here on Hackernews.

Growth is a great situation to be in. When there is growth - there is money for projects, hospitals, infrastructure etc.

When there is no growth - everything goes out the window, and the first thing to go are longer term things like 'sustainability'.

You want to switch to solar - then you need a lot of 'growth' - why? Because the US cannot function on 40 cents/kwh electricity.

Now - growth by 'adding bodies' - which is where most growth comes from in the West - is bad. Immigration is where 80% of GDP growth comes from and that is definitely a Ponzi scheme.

IF you normalize for growth across US and EU countries, it's much more similar. The US simply imports people to grow the GDP whereas EU does less of that.

So, to your point, measuring GDP/capita would be a good start for 'sustainable growth'.
Enders Game was on my list of books I've given to people too. I've lost how many copies of bought, but at least 10.
Well, there's also the fact that Volapuk is rather hideous and imports most of the worst features of its source languages wholesale. Nouns and pronouns inflect into multiple cases (genetive, dative, accusative...), verbs have literally thousands of conjugations, gender is retained, etc. Even Esperanto is often accused of Latin bias, but Volapuk takes this to a whole new (well, old) level.
The Center for Economic Policy Research has a great free pdf ebook on Secular Stagnation from 2014 which has essays from a variety of economic heavyweights discussing the possibility of lower growth going forward.

http://voxeu.org/content/secular-stagnation-facts-causes-and...
Definition of "idea" here means - any intelligent thought/opinion about any particular field. But much more focused on yours "idea" and a collection of those ideas at one place. It could also work as a very valuable portfolio (of ideas) apart from your CV. Even though, execution is the key; ideas are also worth something. :)
I bought a MBP in 2012. The motherboard went bad after a year. And after a year the cable to the hard disk had to be replaced. Also I feel the upgrades we do on OSX causes the MBP to slow down. It is sleek, elegant, battery life is great (actually I need to replace it now, its dying), great design etc. But I feel the more perfect it is designed to be, the more vulnerable it is.

I say this when I compare this to my HP pavilion sleekbook which did not have any trouble so far in the last 3 years.
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Being specialized in .NET stack you're likely like me in your 30s or 40s. Life in our 20s was simple. Java or .NET or PHP, specialize in one or the other, and there we go, we can build a career on top.

I share many of your feelings. I live in Spain. The markets are common. But honestly, I think it's not a matter about Italy being shitty at anything. The IT world has changed. There is no three platforms any longer. There is no one single deployment paradigm any longer. Things are much more complex now and it's truly impossible to try to take on everything as it was 15 years ago. I found that myself frustrating many times. Thinking, heck, 15 years ago I could study this, this and this and be an expert pretty much on everything software related. Now this is not true any longer and it can be very frustrating for all of us that come from that world.

I think the key here is holidays of course, but also to adapt to the new software world. And learn that not all what appears in HN is shiny and great, not all that is done in the cool places like SV is shiny and great, and not all those frameworks and languages that pop up are shiny and great. Rather than a matter of focus is a matter of taking it easy. Do something that you like and that you enjoy learning and learn to let things pass on. You don't have to be a master of react, golang or angular to be a competent software person, there is more choices than ever. Focus on the models, patterns, problems and solutions. That's where the value is today.
You use a GUID or counter as a user ID, and add a username field which resolves to this ID?

You would then have to enforce username uniqueness when assigning/renaming usernames.
The Black Swan is on my list too.
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Containers are not isolated from host system. They are separated. Isolated containers will have performance and features similar to User Mode Linux.
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"The US has greater inflation-adjusted GDP growth than most of the world,"

A) If you normalize for immigration, it's not that good. US imports bodies to grow it's GDP

B) It's maybe 'better than most' - but it still stinks.

I'm 42. Most of my life, 4-5% growth was the norm. No more.

We are in a new world for sure.
This may be because I have always admired John Carmack, and because I love video games - although I am drawn to all kind of different book genres, but "Masters of Doom" had a profound effect on me.

I read it every few months, and I have gifted it to family and friends, and most of them loved it as well.

It’s not the writing, nor the story per se that stand out, it’s not just about how it beautiful highlights and highs and the lows of the Johns’s symbiotic relationship and their accomplishments, it’s not even about how their skills, strengths and weaknesses play into their success and failures (which I am sure is typical of most co-founders stories).

It’s about empowering the reader to believe that everything’s possible, and how smart, hard-working people can build technologies that affect the lives of many.

This book works wonders for when I am going through burn-outs, or I am not motivated enough to pursue a problem or a project.
When I am done reading the book, I am excited and eager to get back into the game. I can’t recommend it enough.
The president of the united states is arguably also a powerless, symbolic role.
i used a p4 until this year and upgraded only to save power.
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In most places in the US ambulance service is contracted out by the local government.
All the crying wolf from the left about Bush being a fascist is one of the reasons why, now that we have a real wolf and many conservatives are calling the Republican candidate a fascist, lots of people aren't listening.
Robots might destroy jobs, but also create new jobs for us.

It's like innovative products - which might make some products obsolete but also makes space for more innovation and other products that would've not existed otherwise. :)
A good solution for HTTP sites is to load the https version after first loading over http. If they have similar content, show a bar at the top of the browser with a message along the lines of "A secure connection is possible, click here to go to use the secure version of this page".

Then it would be good to remember this setting and always pull the HTTPS.
While this link is the expected joke, it is not joke at all.

I'm writing software updater right now. Security is one of major concerns. Target platform, both client and server side is Linux. I write most of the code in Python. Looks like great opportunity to use TUF. But it is not. My updater has so many specific requirements that TUF is not nearly what I need. More than this, TUF is not subset of what I need and cannot be foundation for what I need, even from security perspective.
Not publicly, and she never would. If she took sides in political arguments, she would undermine the justifications for the existence of the monarchy.
You took that out of it's context. The "that" in that sentence refers to the previous sentence.
The poster is mentioning US and Israeli companies as places where quality is held to higher standards.
I remember years ago reading through the Vyatta Firewall Linux Distribution's docs & thinking about how well they were written. Haven't looked at it for nearly a decade by now though.
"The idea is that people don't need to go work, because robots do all the work, and thus any economic value attached to labor, either real or nominal, converges to zero. "

This is entirely theoretical and will never happen.

My friend, the industrial revolution represented a vastly bigger shift to automation than anything we are witnessing today.

Imagine a 'magic machine' that could do the work of 10 000 horses (i.e. 10 000 horse-power) - and move people from Penzance to London - on coal - no horses or drivers needed!

It was called a 'train' :)

Same for farming, factories etc..

Automation has been ongoing for 200 years.
No it isn't. The president of the US has a lot of power. More than the framers of the government allotted to the office.
> In some countries, like Germany and Italy, the head of state is an elected president, usually an fairly elderly politician.

In Italy the only people elected by the citizens are the members of the Parliament.

The head of the state is elected by the members of the parliament every 7 years.

The head of the government is chosen ("invested") by the head of the state after a round of consultations with representatives of the political parties after the parliamentary election (basically the president asks "guys, who would you like as your own leader?"). The appointment of the head of the government is then approved (or, often, refused) by a parliamentary vote.

It was customary (before Berlusconi's times) for the winning party to elect its own representative as the head of the higher chamber. At the same time the losing party would get to elect the head of the lower chamber. (Yes, "lame duck" by design.)

All this complicated dance of indirect elections (that the current parties would like to remove) has been put in place after the WW2 to avoid too much power being in the hands of these high-profile figures or of a single party. "You have not been elected. We, the parliament are those who reign here." The head of the state cannot even address the parliament or get physically near the discussion hall without a written request from the MPs.
This really, really, is not true at all. Only people who aren't doctors tell themselves it's all about passion. If you remove the financial motivation you will have far less people going through the rigorous schooling and sacrifice of youth required to become a physician.

I would also argue that the vast majority of engineers became so because it was a "good job" not because they're fueled by some extraordinary passion.
We have flatness and straightness. The 4D beings would have 3-flatness, 2-flatness and straightness.
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good text!
I find it bizarre that the United States only just nominated its first (viable) female candidate for President while Sri Lanka named its first female Prime Minister almost 60 years ago.

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

Or the UK almost 40 years ago.

Or Germany 11 years ago.

:)
Yeah, it is why we (Linux Users) hate proprietary software.
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This whole thing is a result of imperial household laws passed in the late 19th century, to imitate similar laws in Europe. Before then, many emperors retired before they died, and there were several woman emperors.
I agree. The "deal" I speak of here is purely symbolic.

However, I'm sure if you asked all the royalty across the world, I am certain that almost every single one of them wants to remain royalty and find the very institution quaint and traditional and wholesome. Do you think Akihito does not want his son to succeed him?

If the monarch him-/herself suggests that maybe it's time we rethought the whole thing, I'm hopeful that would get people talking about it a bit more. Maybe that could end up being the true power held by the office?
'Growth' can continue every year from now until infinity.

The capacity for human innovation is unlimited.
There is a big difference though. The power of the Pope has been restricted over a period of centuries. The power of the Emperor of Japan has only been restricted for about 70 years.

At this point, neither party can really "make decisions with consequence", especially the Pope. They can mutually make declarations, and people may or may not respond to them. In that regard, they are as equally weak as all of the various monarchies of Europe and Southeast Asia.

However, Japan is fairly unique in this set of players. They have a highly homogenized population and culture. The changes to their cultural leadership are only 70 years old.

When I visited there in 2010, I left with a feeling that I visited a sleeping country/culture that was literally missing some polarizing goal to reignite it. That doesn't necessarily mean warlike, but it does mean ambitious.

Don't be quick to think of Japan as some tamed tiger or lion. It definitely is not.
What do you mean "help with Brexit"? Is there a reason to believe she should have come down on one side or another?
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Australia voted against the chance to replace its constitutional monarchy because of ambiguities and uncertainties about these questions. People know what they are getting with the existing systems and the constitutional monarchs have no real power. If you're changing that you have to be very careful.
This is exactly why browsers warn about such redirects. That said, this reminds me of a similar discussion on mail servers. There, STARTTLS sees much more use.

The main problem is preventing downgrade attacks. With mail it is easy to just remember the setting for every server. Not so with websites.
What about "data curator"? It's a term I came up with.

I prefer being called a Software Developer over Software Engineer or Programmer. For a long time, my work is more to do with developing solutions related to capture, parse, enrich and visualize huge volume of data. Data Developer sounds weird.

What do you guys feel?
I think people thought you meant owning a Jeep in the Houston area was a mistake
Then maybe Britains Queen could resign, she looks like she's eaten a wasp whenever she appears in public or on TV.
I was "enlightened" many years ago when I asked a colleague (a great electronic engineer) why we didn't do fast task switching by having two sets of registers. His reply was that this would require every regular access to a register to go through an extra gate (to decide which bank of registers you want to hit), making every access slightly slower.

Larger registers/caches/memories are slower because they need more address decoding, that time scaling approximately linearly as the storage doubles in size.
Are you operating from the premise that a non-monarchy is strictly and uniformly superior? Or that figurehead monarchs are bad? With the former I beg to differ, having lived in the Middle East for a significant portion of my life. With the latter, well, maybe, it's a marginal cost to keep many traditionalists and culturally conservative members of a very proud people sated.

Strangely (to me) people sing the praises of democracy and disparage their existing democratically elected government with the same breath. And most citizens of countries led by monarchs have far less to complain about governance (and not, as many keyboard pundits may guess, because of something crass like they'd get executed for voicing dissent).

I'm not going to claim either system is superior to the other, but I think it's a stretch to call the existence of monarchies "embarrassing"
My take - the emperor is well educated and knows what's coming. Continuous tensions with China, printing money for some 35 years now (correct me if I'm wrong), a demography that's unsustainable, a treasury and stock market controlled by the central bank, ...

1920s/30s all over again with first a collapse of the yen and later on a war to distract the blame from the failed monetary policy and funnel the anger into some nationalist ideology.

I certainly can't blame him for not wanting to take part in that.
Have you been following what's been happening in British politics lately? Eating a wasp would be a step up.
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