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Not sure why this seems to be getting a lot of negativity. I really like this. I'm going to try it out with my next weekend project.
Marketing strategy: raising awareness to their conference by means of defamation of a fairly known person in the JS programming circle.
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Typical, HN censors views it doesn't agree with.
I think it is great that this question is asked by the wsj. Unfortunately the article is behind a paywall. Can someone with access please summarize the article?
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> knuckle-draggers

Such insults are definitely not OK on Hacker News. Please comment civilly and substantively or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> mobile OSes have deemphasized the notion of "file" altogether.

This to me hits on the real problem. Filesharing is easy when all files are strings of ones and zeros, to be freely interpreted by programs and stored in a generic filesystem. When your operating system treats files as atomic things that can only be managed by a specific program baked into the OS, filesharing becomes much more difficult.

This is a classic Apple dark pattern that spread to the rest of the industry and is now a poison that can't be easily purged.
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I found that this collection of Chomsky snippets expands on this quite well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPp69gKVe9o
> Does anyone have a link to a write up on this?

Here was a little insight:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/03/skype-protocol-c...
So the new face of mass incarceration is white rural conservatives, the same demographic that is largely responsible for the "tough on crime" push that led to disproportionate incarceration of poor people of color. Now that their fortunes are shifting, I wonder if the rural white conservatives will still be so gung-ho for harsh criminal penalties.
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It's not like this is pre-Brexit. The decision to leave the EU has already been made. The decision can't be ignored by the British government as it would be political suicide. I'm sure the Japanese government are aware of this. The question is then, why make these statements at all? The only explanation that makes sense to me is opportunism on behalf of Japanese corporations. Threatening to leave gives you bargaining power you wouldn't otherwise have.
I read the entire article yesterday, long before it was posted here. Not sure why you think I haven't read it, or how your quoted snippets contradict what I said in any way.

My previous comment doesn't take a stand in any direction, or make any normative statements. Simply pointing out that there are multiple valid ways of headlining the exact same facts, each of which would bias the audience in very different ways.
Not sure if the page was supposed to contain something. I just see a photo and submit email form.
Forget file sharing, offline backups & recoveries are a massive pain on mobile, cloud, etc.
It may be supported but it's certainly not supported enough to be a conclusion. The emotional resonance is powerful but it is not all that is needed to make a case.
> since English is not native to any remaining EU
> member country

Might be worth doing your research.
this has been submitted many times already, most comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12397246

Please check for duplicates before submitting!
Make the counties pay for the cost of sending their offenders to (state) prison and you'd see this "overconsumption" of an expensive resource self correct.
Does the bread filtering thing actually work? I just don't see how that could possibly work...
Norway is handling their oil wealth pretty responsibly and have a huge (U.S. $873 billion) government fund based on petroleum profits[0]. This American Life ran a podcast segment on it back in 2011 which was interesting[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/08/26/139972557/the-f...
It sounds like that while there may be a link between "having a family" and "owning a car", should not a delay in "having a family" have a noticeable correlation to a delay in car ownership?

Both of you seem to be describing the same thing in related, correct ways.
Because it conflicts with my sense of English aesthetics. Sorry for not supplying anything more interesting than that but it is what it is.

Edit: I thought a little further about it, and I can expand a bit. It's in the unhappy valley between too clever and not clever enough. Sort of like referring to Comcast as comcrap.
If you take this on, I'd also be interested in helping out.
I got your point but just FYI, TIFF supports 16bit per channel images. PNG and JPG do not. I think TIFF might also support floating point images. Those might be useful for raw manipulation and HDR. Safari supports TIFF BTW (or did last time I checked). No idea if there is a way to get access to the high res data in Safari though.
Touché. However, I will continue to think that it is completely normal, as will most scandinavians ;)
That situation seemed to be handled a lot better than this one; the first blog post actually detailed the offence as opposed to oblique insinuations. I thought Dawkins' response was professional and gracious: https://richarddawkins.net/2016/02/necss-executive-committee...
I have the opposite experience, I moved to Scandinavia (Sweden), and this is still one of the weirder things to me. I like the ideas of transparency in general that are prevalent, but I don't see how publishing the tax returns of individual citizens working in the private sector contributes to transparency.
I also wonder why Norway wants that model?
BTW, don't forget to check on the source for your comparative table: http://pmj.bmj.com/content/85/1004/316/T2.expansion.html

This shows that one skydiver dies in every 570 participants on average, per year. That's for average participation. If you jump more, you risk more. 0.006 deaths in 1,000 jumps is 1 in 167. So if you jump 2000 times in a year, your odds of dying are better than 1 in 100 for that year, assuming uniform risk distribution. That's playing russian roulette with a gun that can hold 100 bullets. Sure, it's safer than playing Russian roulette with 1 bullet in 6 slots, but only a single order of magnitude safer. I pulled that trigger once, and I think I'm done.

To put this in a more accurate perspective than howstuffworks is capable of, ~210 million licensed drivers in the US in 2014 divided by 34k deaths = 1 driver dies for every 6,176 participants on average, per year. How that works out to riskier than skydiving isn't a mystery, it's simply not true.
It wasn't clear, but I was talking about the lower resale value of manual transmission cars.
If that's the case, I have to wonder who "we" is for social media--advertisers, people communicating through it, share holders, or some combination thereof?
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12422148 and marked it off-topic.
> a library of data structures and algorithms

That's excellent, but I didn't say "program" for nothing. Programs are usually interactive, with temporal components. But if data structures are your thing, try writing and verifying, say a concurrent R-Tree.

> The only invariant I can see is that “y[i] has been assigned to” implies “x[i] has been assigned to”. From this, we can see that “all y[i]s have been assigned to” implies “all x[i]s have been assigned to”. But this doesn't involve any induction on N so far.

Your reasoning is OK, but it shows how much you're thinking in terms of the language rather than more abstractly. It's also not enough to prove the property.

The crucial state here is the hidden state in the program counter. The induction is not on the number of processes, but on the steps of the algorithm. Each step executes one line of one process (chosen nondeterministically). The invariant, expressed in TLA+ is:

Inv ≜ (∀ p ∈ 0..N-1 : Done(p)) ⇒ ∃ p ∈ 0..N-1 : y[p] = 1 \* (1)
∧ ∀ p ∈ 0..N-1 : pc[p] ≠ "L1" ⇒ x[p] = 1 \* (2)

(1): this is the simple property invariant

(2): this is the inductive bit; `pc` models the program counter

This is instantly verified with a model checker. A machine-checked proof is about 60 lines long (I try to avoid formal proofs as they are extremely laborious, but I guess that a more experinced machine-prover than me could do it shorter).

> Tests can verify atomic propositions. They can't verify that a predicate holds for all inhabitants of an infinite set.

Exactly, and each of those atomic propositions has a cost of verification. Moreover, we can prove (again, it's in my post) that we can't in general generalize from one input to another, so the cost of verification over an infinite number of inputs is infinite in the general case. Of course, it can be done in practice, but we can tell exactly how hard that would be: the cost of verification is proportional to the number of states in the algorithm -- the minimal algorithm that satisfies the full spec; not necessarily your actual program. Properties that are easily checked by simple type systems like those of Haskell and SML can always be satisfied by much simpler programs (in fact, a FSM or, if polymorphic recursion is used, then a PDA).
Isn't that the whole point of what it means to stand out?

Drawing attention makes a statement, but it's also a safety thing.
Why yes, perhaps the lack of a safe process for the transfer of kinetic energy is the real culprit here :-)
> The point is that, iirc, Mylan has a government-granted monopoly on the EpiPen via a patent for the injection mechanism.

No, they don't. The EpiPen's patent is long expired. https://www.google.com/patents/US4031893
>A 5% chance of killing 7 astronauts is unacceptably high at essentially any cost

Not that I disagree, but I find it interesting that this is "only" three times riskier than the Space Shuttle's empirical loss rate of ~1.5%
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I don't follow this too closely, so this is just wild speculation from me:

But could it simply be severity of the attacks? I keep seeing comments about a 2 week ddos attack last christmas - that's something that i would be shocked to see Google/AWS succumb to. Not that Google/AWS attacks don't happen, i just can't imagine them being down for ~2weeks

(I imagine it was just one datacenter from Linode, not the entire service, fwiw)
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FWIW, it was Democrats who pushed for severe mandatory sentences to create a hot button electoral issue:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/143/t...

> Eric Sterling: The Speaker convened the Democratic leadership, the Steering and Policy Committee, the chairs of the committees, and says we're going to put together an anti-drug bill. It is going to be a Democratic initiative and I want everybody involved. We're going to have a comprehensive anti-drug provision. And I want it out of committees before we go on our August recess, August 14 or 15. And this set off about a four week stampede. They were told, look, you've got one month to put together your anti-drug agenda and then you're going to go home in the middle of August and you're going to campaign the hell out of that agenda. And we're going to come back in September, we're going to take it to the floor, and we're going to vote on it. And this is what we're going to ride to electoral victory in November. That's the plan.
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Don't be so Swift with those downvotes^1.

You are suggesting, that Malta^2 is to command the ECB?

^1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio... -- working is not the same as official

^2 or Ireland for that matter...

Second thought: maybe English could merit a semi-official status though (if May succeeds). But most certainly not a working language (neither an official one).
I'm not a teen (22yo) and I've deleted all my social media presence years ago. Now, I only use text to schedule in person meetings. I am less stressed, more productive and healthier.
No, its because at one time the community actually liked and recommended it and then got burned and acts accordingly.

Linode has a bunch of great features, but after seeing them get hacked a half dozen times over really silly things, more DDOS's than you would be happy with, and frankly I have had interactions with their management (just online) and was sorry to have had said interactions.

You can also read a bunch of implications from former employees about their management, but you can feel free to discount that given how many times ex-employees are a bit pissed.

- Former Linode Customer
Norway is big on protecting children. In particular, some things that seem normal in some cultures - open-handed slaps, whipping them with a belt or other such weapon - are illegal.

There have been some cases recently where children have been removed from their families, and because Norway is so big on protecting children, they don't release to the press the details of the cases.

I suspect that some of the outcry might be because of these two facts; because "of course" it's ridiculous to take children from their families because of a little physical punishment, and combined with the information vacuum, rumours and supposition take the place of fact. There will also be a strong correlation between immigrant families (from physical punishment cultures) and the application of physical punishment, which will make the stats look odd at first glance.
Does the article support them catching or convicting more drug dealers? I didn't read it in detail, but it seemed like the point was that the sentencing was different more so than catching or convicting people.
My job is split between software/firmware development (mostly C in Linux on Cortex-A series or in a RTOS on Cortex-M micro controllers) and hardware development (mostly embedded systems, digital control, motor driving, etc., working with RF engineers also).

While I started out doing software and love it, for me electronics is just a whole next-level of awesomeness... Altium is actually in many ways a really good piece of software (yes, there are also some annoyances, but they are minor compared to any other electrical design software). It's true that it's stupid expensive but given the other options it is worth the price to us at least.

But I get to work on really cool stuff (mostly satellite tracking antenna systems), and our labs are on the side of our building with a full-height window down the entire length, so your milage may vary.

I actually don't get the solder fumes either, because we have techs who are much better at reworking tiny surface mount parts than engineers tend to be!
Thinking of fsnotify, know that it is configured to only be able to handle a given amount of notifications at a time. I ran into an issue where the number of monitored files exceeded that, and it silently ignored new files that were being created. Learned the hard way: check your OS for how to configure it and make sure you operate within its bounds. Or, said a different way, know your tools before you rely on them.
The CPC would deem their current position as on the road to Communism, with Communism as the goal.

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There is a third group of people to which I belong: Don't use car for normal work life but use it for weekend adventures.

I'm a bike commuter during the week but on weekends I drive more than 100 miles one way. Doing this with Uber or zipcar was cost prohibitive but I did consider it and even try it.
Oversight by whom? I agree that the UK government can be held accountable by the public, probably more so than many countries. However if the government agrees to pass a stupid law, there's very little the public can do about it.

Can you provide a specific example of something that you think has been over-regulated by the EU?

https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-facts-behind-claims-uk-influe...

(I'll take the downvote to mean that you don't have an example?)
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So tolerance and diversity are apparently only good things if they're applied to the Right People with the Right Opinions.
I don't think that person wrote his own assembler, so there must be existing assembler toolkits for GEN already.

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How about no?
did you try using your newfound powers for science as well? wage gap numbers are presumably drawn from smaller numbers in countries without public tax returns, actually computing this nationwide would be amazing
I thought you made a very well-reasoned critique. Always more than one way to interpret the data.
That's really great! I went to 'ThoughtWorks On The Beach' in Cologne, Germany, and there was this really nice idea to just print a dependency graph of your project to see if you can still grasp it or if it is getting out of hand.
Having built and given up on an app that did exactly this, I would like to learn more about your experience. I am in the process of giving away the app, back-end, etc. as a result of a flippa auction. https://flippa.com/6895313-curia
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This is gonna take a while. Maybe I'll learn Go while my cluster processes the tree...
> "There are two main groups of leavers, with some overlap - the working classes with limited education and low prospects, and the petit bourgeois, who are relatively poorly educated and uncurious but can be reasonably well off."

I fit into neither group, and nor do the other people I know who voted to leave.

> "the British press - the real source of many of the UK's problems - which has been stoking their prejudices for decades"

I couldn't agree with you more on this point. However, I suspect this had a role in your earlier summation of the two groups of Leave voters. You really should take what you read/view/hear in British mainstream news outlets with a huge pinch of salt, even when it lines up with your own opinions.

To give you one example of a group you overlooked, I'd suggest taking a look at the Left Leave website:

http://www.leftleave.org/
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You what? Can you tell what it does. Just genuinely interested to know that.
I do hardware engineering because I started my career when it and heavy math were required to get into software courses (and you first computer came as a bag of parts) - the camera itself is spherical build, wedging 26 cameras, 4 beagleboneblacks, a netswitch,IMUs,GPS, and batteries for the souls sucking multiamp drain into a 5" ball (OK, I gave up on the batteries for the moment :-) My primary "actual engineering" has been the control distribution circuits across 8 paired I2C/SPI busses at 4-8MHz and trying not to corrupt the bits in the process (a little bit of whining on Wolfram Alpha with the theoreticals, a lot of being very neat and tidy with the layout - the power distro itself with its various internal taps because power is analog and analog is proof that God hates us, the various passives and actives involved in everybody actually powering up in some more or less controlled fashion, etc - technically for the camera I use the Arducam FPGA against OV2640's and OV5640s, cause that gives me a nice (slower) pure I2C/SPI interface - the real goal is to feed the tensorflow stuff in the cloud, the camera geometry, imu, and gps provide enough correlations for the system to lock onto pretty easily, i.e. stationary spherical image reconstruction and spatial analysis is a no brainer (relatively speaking :-) ), and the back end system is now getting more betterer at using the IMU data stream as a primary assist when the camera is in motion (oh, and then there was the pesky little issue of delivering the GPS clock to 4 linux based computers to establish a common timebase cause we all know that linux is an awesome RTOS)
That's not really helpful. For anyone to make sense of it you need to put in more details or references.
>areas that [have] the least amount of immigrants that wanted to vote for leave

Ironic, isn't it? But absolutely typical. In Germany as well, the areas with highest anti-immigrant sentiments (and voting etc.) are the ones with the least amount of actual immigrants.

Which kind of makes sense when you think about it...
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> Not sure why you think I haven't read it, or how your quoted snippets contradict what I said in any way.

You seemed to be saying the article was generic and the slant could be changed by changing superficial aspects of the argument. I'm saying that this is sometimes true but does not apply here. In fact, I thought your comment was so out of place that I wondered if you'd read the article. Apparently you have. Regardless, I didn't want your comment to dissuade people from reading the article and making up their own mind; it's well written and well researched.
The transparency goes a long way in Sweden. You can call the tax office and say "I want this person and all his relatives' social security numbers, income statements, address history etc etc". They can't question it and you don't need any reason.
Rehabilitation? The parent post was about dealing - not using.

Someone who makes money off of the victims of drug dependence is horrible scum, and if you're willing to lock up con artists you should be able to work up the give-a-crap to lock up a heroin dealer.
This is perhaps my least favorite thing about Apple's software concept, but at the same time I have to admit they've made it simple for the masses, and it works. The iOS file concept seems to be closer to how people without knowledge of computers perceive things, and matches what I saw in computer learners 20 years ago. People would think their documents were gone if they couldn't launch Word, or were confused by getting a file on a floppy that they couldn't open because they didn't have the right program installed.

Technically, you have a generic filesystem, and individual programs can load files from that, there's no direct relationship between the files and programs. But in the mind of a typical non-tech user, files are something that belong to a program.
> how many systems have broken due to nohup no longer doing its job

Zero? As far as I know the change that defaulted KillUserProcesses to yes was reverted by every distribution that ships systemd.
Easy solution for problems 2+3: tiny USB sticks. For example SanDisk Cruzer Fit 32GB ($ 9) on amazon.

They have a tiny loop, but I prefer to always keep it plugged in to my laptop.

Always works.

Except with smartphones.