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The downvotes are because your point of view is that of one who conveniently ignores the facts that don't fit the narrative they want to be true.

>The Ecuadorian embassy upon last request denied the Swedish prosecution entry to question him.

This is simply not true. Ecuador actively worked to persuade Sweden to get the prosecutor access to the embassy to interview Assange, and they were successful in doing so.

>Do many formal police interviews occur telephonically? Why should an exception be made?

How many police interviews take place with someone who is under political asylum to be protected from the UNITED STATES for a very real fear of being put to death or tortured because someone is politically motivated to make it happen? How often do they have to interview someone who the UN has officially declared as being illegally and arbitrarily detained? These are all tremendously good reasons for an exception, and obviously Sweden finally agreed since they did go to him in the embassy as a last resort.

How often does Sweden try to extradite someone over or go through these lengths for an allegation (with no evidence) of sexual assault? Never. Why did they make the exception for Assange?

>He faces allegations of sexual assault - I could be wrong but I'd assume this a serious crime in most places. Do you really not think the alleged crime is serious?

I am not going to try to be an apologist for sexual assault. The facts are that the alleged assaults were non-violent and the involved women that had consented to sex with him, just not the exact way in which sex was allegedly had. Not using a condom during sex when you said you would doesn't rank anywhere near murdering someone (a serious crime) in my opinion. It is not an allegation worth trying to fucking extradite someone for questioning who is currently being protected by asylum for political reasons.

A woman going to a police station and saying "he didn't use a condom when I told him to" should not be carte blanche for the nation of Sweden demanding someone be arrested and extradited from anywhere in the world. It is beyond ridiculous and transparently politically motivated and that you would argue otherwise is why you're downvoted.
Loads of languages have old functions that could be better with hindsight, I'd probably say all of them. Some of them even have security implications (mysql_real_escape, anyone?).

C isn't going away any time soon, and there's no value in decrying it as a response to being told about a feature that makes it safer!
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I think this hits the nail the nail on the head.

You said it eloquently.

Less scientifically stated: I personally see it as more of a point & click gesture coupled with a lot of 'Alpha' tendencies. It's a simple as "this is wrong. shut up. Make it this way which is the right way, and, do it now."

speaking as a bad-tempered, high earning person.

relevant part of the article:

> The truth is, pondering the worst has some clear advantages. Cranks may be superior negotiators, more discerning decision-makers and cut their risk of having a heart attack. Cynics can expect more stable marriages, higher earnings and longer lives – though, of course, they’ll anticipate the opposite.

also shout out to Elizabeth Hurley who was mentioned in the article :)

> To his ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley's friends he was apparently known as ‘Grumpelstiltskin’.

> Hugh Grant may be famed for being moody and a little challenging to work with. But could a grumpy attitude be the secret to his success?
Here is the one thing that will make or break Steemit as a Ponzi or Killer App
Modern Engines take advantage of every cores usually.
https://github.com/SamHasler/Chrome-Bookmark-Exports/blob/ma...
GPS coordinates change depending on continental drift (they are fixed in space). You need updateable parameters to transform to something like NAD83.
> the labels apply to countries

That's an opinion I think? Take Brazil for example; the difference between middle class suburbs in Sao Paulo and a remote settlement in an Amazonian state straddle our concepts of First and Third World. In fact the middle classes in the southern cities pretty much don't ever go to the north precisely because they view it as the Third World.

For many people in American cities, their access to healthcare, education, sanitation is not different, or in fact worse, than it would be in cities more conventionally thought of as third world. America's lack of social safety net is causing it to be accurate to refer to parts of America as Third World.
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Yeah it also seemed like a weird analysts of what games would need from the CPU.
> 3. You don't leave memory corruption vulnerabilities in software to preserve backwards compatibility. It is better to break software briefly than to leave memory corruption vulnerabilities in it.

I know nothing about FreeBSD updates. But my reading was that there is a concern that a misguided patch could break the update process itself, leaving a lot of systems unable to fix themselves. Updating the code that distributes updates is risky.
For the 1-1 and head-to-head team events:

Silver: You lost your last match, finishing on a low note.

Bronze: You won your last match, finishing on a high note.
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I am no security eggspert but I think if you encrypt them while they are waiting on disk to be processed then decrypt them in memory only to process them anD then delete from memory and delete from disk, you will have a better claim to privacy. Also, must transport over SSL.
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Cette jpg est pas une pipe.
Why is this even a thing? Copying and the like is such a common operation. Why don't chip providers offer a single instruction that gets decoded to the absolute fastest way the chip can do? That'd even allow them to, maybe, do some behind-the-scenes optimization, bypassing caches or something. It's painful that such a common operation needs highly specialized code. I know you can just REP an operation but apparently CPUs don't optimize this the same way.

This is too obvious an issue, so there must be a solid reason. What is it?
>A CPU for games would have very fast cores, larger cache, faster (less latency) branch prediction,

The CPU industry stayed on this path for as long as it were physically possible, even long after the time when it hit diminishing returns on single thread performance divided by (area*power). Pentium 4 was the last CPU of this single-core era.

If you look closely at the microarchitecture of the modern desktop CPU, the out-of-order execution, caches and branch prediction are already maximized (to the point that >2/3ds of die area is cache). Multi-core has become mainstream only after all other paths became exhausted.
Along similar lines: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/

Some of the PDFs also happen to be valid images, audio files, zip archives, etc.
I know that this is considered "bad style".

But I still disagree. I don't own a company (yet), but I would like to have employees, who are strong enough, to tell the truth, even though it might hurt some feelings.
And if they honestly can tell me, what they like or did not at their former place, it would be much easier for me and also for them, to decide, if they would fit in this (imaginary) company.

And if, later, my company would be bad in their perception, they may say so, in the next interview.

I just like solid facts, even though they are sometimes not nice.
The Chinese athletes get a nice reward for getting a gold. And I'm not sure they have the endorsement opportunities other countries have. The financial incentives may be the only reason they train.

Anecdote - In Australia, I see very, very few non-westernised Asians participate in exercise or sports.
I can when I get home, but I use a flatbed scanner to digitize and it just doesn't get much more detail than that. You need a drum scanner, which are expensive ;)
> She wasn't on the side of The Federation

She wasn't on the side of peace between the Federation and the Klingon Empire; her and her co-conspirators within the Federation would surely see themselves as on the side of the Federation, and the pro-peace group as not being on the side of the Federation.
Can you explain what you mean by "no longer a near ideal memory device." Was it at one time?

I realize the page hans't been updated in a while but there are references to NVMe on it so it can't be that old no?
Sorry, I don't follow. Are you talking about key generation in ECC systems? There's no prime involved there.
Not only did the user you replied to not mention Rust, as far as I can tell they are not an active Rust user. The Rust community has a clear policy against language zealotry. Your claim that "proponents [of Rust] [are] talking smack about everything else all the time" wants for evidence.
I've seen a page that just displayed a grid of images. It took seconds of CPU time on an i7. The page doubled its load time if you had CPU throttling. I'm not sure what the ultimate reason was, but the end result was that, as far as the user saw, the page did a fancier looking <table> and required billions of cycles to do so.
A few rants (mixed in with a few half-baked ideas):

1) Economic progress from the industrial revolution is about quantity. We learned to make a lot more stuff. The industrial revolution is not quite done, but the impact is less and less every decade. We may never match that quantity growth of stuff because we don't even want more stuff, we only want better stuff. And we're getting better stuff and more variety.

2) Info. tech. IS being mismeasured and it's huge. We're not all imagining it. The economics of info tech are REALLY good except in the official GDP numbers. And arguing that it's not counted in economic measurements doesn't debunk the mismeasurement claim, it supports/explains it. What's more, info tech decimates a lot of industries - music, GPS, newspapers, travel agents, etc. And self-driving cars are probably going to decimate the auto industry and wipe out a lot of logistics related jobs. Everyone(A) will be better off but official GDP will fall.

3) Wages aren't growing largely because the economy needs more skilled and more managerial workers, but we don't seem to be producing a lot of them(B). It's an awesome time to be a skilled worker. Good and growing pay and billboard signs desperately seeking talent. There's no end to work that needs to be done with the right skills. Meanwhile, unskilled workers aren't so useful anymore. They were well off when anybody could sit in an assembly line and produce a lot of stuff. But now unskilled workers don't really produce, they mostly trade their time for other people's time (e.g. by cooking their food) and they do so from a weak negotiating position. I don't see any of this changing anytime soon.

(A) Everyone = the vast majority of people

(B) Anecdotal, I could be wrong
This is very much more about writing a good hook. For example, I asked about small shops, but didn't use the right language it seems. It was ignored: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10314142

In contrast, this got 390 upvotes and made the front page:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065355

I have gotten articles onto the front page. My experience with that suggests it has little or nothing to do with when you post. It is mostly about posting something good.
Yep, my spreadsheet example was not great. Your example of FPU-for-CAD is perhaps better at making the case that the FPU was once a specialized co-processor, but of course is now considered an essential everyday component. The modern CPU evolved to support the set of workloads people found for them over time. They are now heterogeneous parallel systems that are really good at actual workstation and server workloads. They are quite specialized in that sense.
By what measure is Scala.js more production ready than ghcjs?
That seems like a way of changing a nice, convex problem into a much harder to solve NP-complete problem...
What sorts of constraints in our daily lives feel blindingly obvious, in terms of wishing for a solution? I mean beyond true life-transition concerns like finding new housing or new jobs.

In the past, I'm sure a clothes-washing machine must have felt pretty obvious even if people weren't sure what it was. It's always been a pain to do laundry and there had to have been a wish for some sort of contraption to make it drastically easier, even before knowing what that contraption would be.

When I think of real constraints in daily life, I can only think of things like - the effort of transition from waking to working, commuting, perhaps the convenience of having nutritious food that improves your health, and... what else?

What sorts of things do you think of when you say, "I wish I could just snap my fingers and..."
Author here. Rookie mistake! It's actually a golden-mantled ground squirrel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden-mantled_ground_squirrel

A chipmunk would have a stripe going across the eye.

(Today, you learned your first squirrel fact!)
Very cool. I think that this is reflected in a lot of physical activities. From my personal experience with martial arts, I've definitely seen some (anecdotal) evidence to support the notion that you move more efficiently and correctly when you aren't thinking your way through it. It's cool to see some experimental support for this.
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BT Home Hub 5 (Type A) Software version 4.7.5.1.83.8.204.1.11

But, false alarm anyway, nothing interesting is happening. The firmware had updated and reset parental control settings on the router. The domain is on some blacklist apparently so it was redirecting to a page to finalise parental control preferences.

Sorry it wasn't any more interesting than that.

Edit: the reason it took me a while to figure this out was that the settings page it was redirecting to was nothing to do with parental controls!
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For Scala.js there are a lot of resources, e.g. http://www.lihaoyi.com/hands-on-scala-js/ is a good start.
I wonder if this works for all cardio workouts that requires repetitive motion?

Like distraction might be bad if you're in boxing/mma but would it be beneficial with something like long distance running wherein you're distracted?
// Increment this number every time you end up here

// time spent = 30
Maybe tooling doesn't always go deep enough where it matters. For example, your spell checker didn't help you at all in that last sentence.
When I saw this thread title, I clicked and immediately Ctrl+F'd for 'amber.' Great read in general.
> when you leave that new job and now talk about the new company's internals

See also the other reply, but I seriously don't see why that would be bad for my (imaginary) company, unless I want to hide, that my company is indeed "bad"

> This is like saying you should tell everybody about the trouble you have in your marriage - because "truth"
And no it is not. You don't tell everybody, but your close friends - because they are interested and might be able to help

And having a potential employee telling honestly you, what he did not like at his former place, is a very good context for useful information, to find out, if he fits.

Because if he didn't liked it for example, that in the last company they expected results ... than you know, that he probably won't fit in your place as well.

But if he tells you, that they focused much more on formalities, than on results, then you maybe say "welcome home", we also like more the latter ...
350mbps on Google too...
Also haxe have nice features like scala.js bu have a c like syntax conservative and is more practical.
Big interaction with externs js with external types definition, dynamics and untyped blocks. And can interact with npm, webpack, closure and browserify.
Js code generated is really small
"Deployed on one out of four residential gateways globally, Cisco Videoscape OpenRG is the industry's most widely used residential gateway software." -- Cisco

At least we know a little about the software issuing this redirect!
Treating whistle-blowers well can be a commitment device.
There are plenty

- Folding laundry

- Setting a table

- Ironing shirts

- Cleaning the house

- Doing taxes

-.....
> I can't remember seeing a compiler tell me "maybe try this instead?"

What is next? Clippy? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant
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I apologize, I think I replied to the wrong comment.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8858778/why-are-complicat...

counter claims https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8683565
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More importantly, if there were criminal charges, it would mean going through the regular channels of the criminal justice system. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to treat Assange as an enemy combatant (i.e. no due process).
https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-clippy
Maybe they throttle Netflix yes... I do get 350mbps on every other test and when downloading a test torrent though.
The joke's on you:

Clippy – A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code
https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-clippy
I liked this recommendation a lot by vibhavs [1] (in your first link). Found the pdf thru Wayback machine [2]. Had a lot of really good tips to keep in mind.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=868102

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20090520234149/http://chaos.troll...
The problem with this is that the various data would be somewhat inaccurate and ephemeral. You actually need to store a history of facts contributed by multiple different people. So a delivery person could update the record with better information. Or maybe the drone would add a lidar point cloud of the approach to the window.

Perhaps you could have QR or NFC stickers tied to a GUID. They get stuck to things and then scanned by different users. They would contribute facts based on the GUID to various public or private databases. Not particularly memorable, but super simple to setup.
Ehmm. That's how the world has functioned since before humans existed; it's inbuilt into our evolutionary system. Competing for resources is what we have evolved to do, whether this competition is against other humans or other animals is irrelevant.

Nature doesn't have any inherent ethical system, so unless you can fault the universe for existing incorrectly, I don't buy your argument.
It is a popular topic here:
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> Sometimes I can't help but wonder how the world where there is no need to spend endless billions on "cybersecurity", "infosec" would look like.

A goofy example, but I suspect that the aliens in the Independence Day film lived in such a world; their system didn't seem to have too much security - and why would you need any, in a telepathic society?
The last few paragraphs of the article discuss that:

> So the researchers eliminated sports with that playoff structure, and looked only at events where gold, silver and bronze medal-winners were decided at the same time. They found the pattern held up.
> <xmp> is great when you absolutely, positively, do not want any entities rendered under any circumstances. It's unfortunate that it's being deprecated, since it has its uses.

<![CDATA[ here &entities; or <angle|<brackets>> will not interpreted ]]>

There is no need for special-casing xmp, when SGML and XML already define CDATA escapes.
The reason Moore's law failed to keep pace is as you start to pack the transitors close enough you get a lot more heat and current leakage, the amount of work spent doing error correction increases quickly and becomes prohibitive.
Neat idea. Here is a BMP I just threw together that is also a webpage.

https://mega.nz/#!49MnjKCJ!7HShAESfmM2R450x4z-zLmtCDotOhsLze...
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It's difficult to search for, since usually such comments end up in threads that aren't about Rust, criticizing the actual topic for not using Rust. I guess I'll have to write down whenever I see this for the next time someone complains about my complaint.

I do have one link handy, since I participated in this thread myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11620962
That's quite optimistic when you think about it. Most simple coding tasks are pure drudgery with no consequence to positive human values (other than “I have to do this to not starve”). Defeating most online advertising, on the other hand, is a noble community service to your fellow humans.
Why should anyone care about doing "REST properly"? I've never seen a convincing argument. I've used REST and "shoddy REST" and haven't seen much indicators in quality one way or another. In fact, far beyond the actual design is the question if they provide client code. That makes so much more of an impact.

Indeed the only real negative I've seen is people going out of their way to make it REST and in the process adding needless details, or requiring me to set a bunch of options on my HTTP request. Hint: setting a bunch of headers and a verb is not easier than passing some querystring params.
> Twitter ... 82 percent of MAUs are mobile. Weibo ... 89 percent of MAUs on mobile.

7 percent. Stop the presses.

Article then compares Weibo's growth with Twitters. More or less, Weibo is Twitter, X years behind. And then there's the kicker, which solidifies the click-baity-ness of the article:

> Twitter ... which is blocked in China
The parts of the CPU that are not in use can be turned off, so making full use of the vector units can raise the temperature of the CPU a fair bit compared to less demanding code.

He's also comparing 12 rounds of ChaCha with 12-round AES, which may be fair, but realistically no one uses ChaCha12, they use ChaCha20.
Ask HN: What do you use for password management and why?
Also, do you share passwords/credentials with a team?
You might be able to find help on Officehours. Perhaps in the Technology category: https://officehours.io/categories/technology
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Sure. I can't recall the last bug that brought this feeling (sigh, the circle continues), but I vaguely recall it being a weird interaction or behavior when interacting with some remote system, and it wasn't in fixing a bug that popped up, but in implementing a new feature or system that interacted in a similar way, but the prior implementation was either in a different project or had since been discarded. I know that's vague. That probably means I'll encounter this again and not identify it as the same problem. :/

I think I need to make a concerted effort to get more sleep.
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That's really what electronics magazines are for! Elektor still exists, but old issues can be even more valuable to get a feel for circuits. This resource should keep you occupied for some time: https://archive.org/details/radioelectronicsmagazine
> The economics of info tech are REALLY good except in the official GDP numbers.

Take Google, for example. The (economic) value that Google provides to me is far more than I pay for, which is zero. It's even far more than what Google makes from the ads it serves me. Google is capturing as revenue only a small fraction of the value it creates. That (and similar cases) are why much of the info tech economic/productivity gain doesn't show up in the official GDP numbers.
> Can somebody explain to me how this is better than Crystal Ball? Or am I missing the point?

have you ever had to actually pay for or sell an oracle product? or any other high end enterprise product?

usually you can sell 25% (or less) of the function for 10% of the cost. is that "better"? that depends on who's asking.