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I think we have very very very different views of what a utopia would be.

In no way could a society where I have no privacy be a utopia. Not to me. I value my Freedom and Privacy above all else

What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

You clearly are not a person who studies history. Most of our progress as a nation is a direct result of people breaking the law in various ways. Would there have been a Civil Rights movement at all if an all knowing protector would have stopped Rosa Parks from even getting on the that bus? Or the Woman's Rights movement if an all knowing government was able to eliminate the movement before it got an mass attention.

You want to see a complete conformist society with no ability for any person to exist with out the "approval" of that society. I shutter to think would have happen to LGBT persons if your vision of a "utopia" existed

Today we are locking up people based on what plants they choose to grow, and are raiding home because they happen to throw some loose leaf tea in the garbage after shopping at a gardening store.

How will giving these incompetent morons more power going to make things better, going create a utopia. That is unless North Korea is your view of a "utopia", where the politically connected, the politically correct, and the conformists are rewarded by government and anyone that speaks out, or has an opposing view is simply disappeared.
> I see it more as people wanting to experience everything they can.

I call this the buffet approach to life. Some people seem to want to cram a tiny bit of every thing onto their plate, nibbling at everything there is to offer. The alternative being a full course dinner with superbly executed dishes that compliment each other. Or you could just eat steak, whatever you prefer.
When the market fails, the state has to chime in. Oh wait … nevermind.
Expects to make "substantial revenues"...how?
It's awful that you are thinking about this, imho, as am I. I signed it, because I'd prefer not to live under an unaccountable surveillance superpower.

Being in Australia, I'm at best, someone that kowtows to a surveillance superpower. Sucks to be me, I can't even vote to not be surveilled.
I would suspect this is only because they don't know any better. There is very little defendable reason for suffering with Eclipse for basic Java work when IntelliJ is free.
> There's probably some sort of way to make a system that can learn from very few examples and at a very short time, like we do ourselves.

Maybe. I wonder if we can pick up identifying platypus with only a couple of examples, because we spent a long time identifying bird or cat as a toddler. We have a complicated model of the world, and we can take short cuts, because we just identify the differences compared to stuff we already know.

You may be right, no one knows for sure. I think it's one of those P = NP kinda problems. Lots of clever people have thought about it for years. Maybe there's a trick. It seems unlikely there's a trick though. Absence of evidence starts to become evidence of absence.
Precisely.

And even as a non-U.S. national I worry if it would land me in trouble if I wanted simply to visit the U.S. on holiday again.
I can recommend Three Corvettes by Nicholas Monsarrat - the author of The Cruel Sea - it is his account of his experiences at sea during WW2.

One of the few books that has moved me to tears.
Even with a official pardon, I highly doubt he could ever return to the US. At some point he might just disappear, or gets into a car crush or things like that. Accidents happen.
Tonic is seriously cool and the long-term vision would be amazing for Node development however...

> Stripe decided to take a bet on our vision and our team

I feel confident to make a prediction that Tonic will eventually ride off into the sunset.

After seeing what happened to Parse, I sadly feel this is going to end the same way. If a company as large as Facebook could not keep Parse going, how will Stripe manage.

This is a good acquihire for Stripe, and a new opportunity for someone else to make a web repl.
Well, as far as ambiguity goes, a CS or CE's job is to fit that round peg into our square hole, with mathematics and neural networking as our hammers.
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And then there are people like me, who don't see the situation as black&white, i.e. I am not signing that petition. In my opinion, for the sake of security, it is necessary to "cache" the whole Internet communication to prevent terrorists attacks and other dangers. Like what the Brits are doing and currently they didn't have any big attack after the London bombings.

I am not an American and I don't have a motivation to defend NSA or whoever, I just think that what Snowden did was partially wrong. Of course, caching the Internet like NSA and others are doing has human rights consequences, and those should be discussed publicly. But question the very existence of such practices is unreasonable in the situation the world is in nowadays. There are LOT of people in the world today who would want to wipe off the whole Western civilization, if they could... there must be a protection from them.
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I Love the idea behind Airbnb, but I hate what they are doing recently. They are deregulating the market and making it worse for everybody except the tourists.

Thanks to them it will be harder for you to rent or buy a place to live. At the same time they are putting registered businesses out of business thanks to the marketing of "sharing" economy, which is a huge sham (see Uber).

I hope that countries protect the regular Joe's living in cities and demand payment for professional renting services, just like any regular apartement / hotel.

Thanks for ruining it for everybody else, so you can make a boatload of money.
Room and board is just a cost of life. You're paying it whether you go to college or not and it's easily affordable with a part-time bar job (obviously it'll be a crappy room and you won't be having steak for dinner but still not something you should need loans for).
Вот с этого бы и начинал.

Эмоций надо поменьше, а то заклюют ни за понюх :)
Seriously? I've never heard of this in the UK. How can a college require that? It's outrageous.
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May I ask why you want to learn OOP? You don't need it at work right now, and you'll probably never need it. Not even in interviews.
Are you able to say anything about the scale of their hardware? It says "3x hardware" but I'd love to hear how big that ends up being, at either the Oracle or Postgresql size.
You can always check out Object Oriented Analysis and Design by Head First (http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfooad/). Their books are more about learning the concepts than the theory so they employ a lot of games and learning activities. They are a lot more interesting than a textbook on OO, even if the format seems a little juvenile at time (I mean they have word-searches and crosswords with key terms).
if you define success in terms of wealth (which is a decent way to do it for most people). But these 'wealthiest countries' are doing some pretty scary stuff in the world, and on massive scales which threaten the potential for future generations to even inhabit the planet comfortably without massive restrictions and compromises.
I agree with you that he should stand trial. That's what we do in law-based democracies, however justified we consider the individual's actions. The best, but unlikely, outcome is that he is given a fair trial, and a fair sentence if he's found guilty. But there's the rub - there's no way he'll get either a fair trial or sentence (or indeed a pardon). Whistleblowers everywhere would be encouraged if they believed they'd get fair treatment after leaking state secrets.

So we'll continue with what we have. Some people saying he's completely innocent, others saying he's completely guilty, and he himself will probably spend the foreseeable future right where he is.
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So? The majority didn't care for slavery either (if it wasn't in favour of it).

Whether the majority (or a minority) merely likes something is not a justification for it.

As to whether its not harmful, just, etc, that requires argumentation and further inquiry.
May I ask what petition?
I hope that was sarcastic.

Otherwise you are implying that the humor value of a comment is determined not solely by you, but partly from the intentions of the author.
Agree. But I think they made the right call. Monetising Tonic seems quite difficult, and this will give them time to not worry about fund-raising, burn rates, etc. and continue building their product for a while at least.

After their two years at Stripe are up, they can go back to working on it if it still makes sense.
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I look forward to using Swift in a couple of years when it is all stable. It looks great. Thanks to those of you using it now and contributing to its improvement.
Fwiw this used to be a major concept in American political discourse as well, regarding both Jews and Catholics, although it typically didn't extend to actually arresting people, just keeping them out of political positions, and "sensitive" employment like schoolteacher. There was a widespread opinion that they had "divided loyalties" because while they were Americans, they also might feel loyalty to (depending on who you asked) foreign leaders or movements like the Pope or "International Jewry". The first serious Catholic candidate for U.S. president (Al Smith in 1928) was widely accused of being unfit to be U.S. president because his religion meant that he had a religious obligation to follow the infallible guidance of the Pope, a foreign head of state.
And that's perfectly OK. Somedays I survive on food from 7-11 (open all the time).

You could also buy food off your neighbour. Since you only care about now, there's no point worrying what they will think in the future.

"I'll give you $10 for that packet of pasta".

What's the difference between $10 in your pocket and theirs?

What is the price of peace and contentment?
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>Having grown up in the UK I've always felt guilty about not doing anything in my free time. Partly because everyone else seems to be living such a busy and rewarding existence

In the UK? Have you been to Yorkshire?
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"Socialist" is too general a descriptor, and has been deliberately ruined by overgeneralisation. The distinction should be between "Social Democrat" and "Communist". The former believe in normal multi-party states with free elections.
I think this is a wholly narcissistic point of view .. moreso, I believe that the reason adults are so busy is that they realize that none of the luxuries they've gained can be attained without the help of other people working for them and so in order to maintain a fair life, adults work just as hard as others need to - on average - in order to maintain civilized life.

Where civilized life is defined in the regions between childhood and adulthood.
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I agree. I survived a few years of war when food shortage was a real thing. And all we had to eat was white pasta and rice. Occasionally we would get meat/fish cans and similar and a bit of vegetable oil. Sugar was non-existent, you could have bought it on the local market for what is equivalent of $40. So it was there for special occasions only and not your daily poison. And guess what, we were all healthy, people with up to moderate blood sugar issues had no problems at all, back to their healthy selves. I was fit and healthy and feeling great. After that, the food came in and I gained 60 pounds in time span of few years. :)
I don't think you have to go so far as big investments in extra teachers and curriculum to serve gifted children. Just get out of the way and let them work ahead, or get their busy-work done fast and read on their own. Don't waste their time, and turn school into a prison that they have to shuffle through for eight hours a day, bored to tears.
And yet people in certain European countries and tons of other parts in the world with different work attitudes can have tons of free time, despite having children et al.
I "love" how China actually tried to formalize this some time ago. Every citizen would get a citizen score, like our credit ratings, but grading how politically loyal they were. There was quite a bit of outrage on the western internet about this.

The "funny" thing is, our governments are probably doing very similar things (though still to a lesser degree, and secretly). A big difference is that China often doesn't have a sense of tact when it comes to not sounding dystopian, and happiliy uses phrases like "citizen score", "criminal elements" and "reeducation". Also Big-Character posters are still a thing [1], though slightly modernized.

Although, we are getting there. At O'Hare airport in Chicago I remember seeing a poster urging me to "be vigilant", which has a nice ring to it...

[1] http://justinmccandless.com/files/beijingSpirit.jpg "The Beijing Spirit: Patriotism Innovation Inclusiveness Virtue"
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momondo.com is the best I found. Not sure how it works for US flights though, since I mostly fly in Europe.
About 3 years ago, a story broke up about a three-letter agency requesting from Twitter (subpoena IIRC) the list of handles who were following a particular Swedish Pirate Party politician.

I remember reading the article via twitter and after a while watching a tweet from the politician in question appear in timeline.

I didn't even recall following her, but at some point in time I did. I froze and panicked, my twitter account is eponymous.

What will happen to me when I cross the US border? Hopefully/Probably nothing, but the thought lies in the back of my mind.
I'm not a historian, but consider that the "medium" if you like, the Internet, all it's awful mudpie history of protocols etc, is ripe for the plucking by both sides.

Do you stand idly by while the hostile ones (whatever that might mean) use it to their advantage, or do you get your government with their huge funds to help in this regard?

The latter, of course. Trouble is when that agency becomes rogue, which it certainly seems like the NSA have, with rubber stamping.

But we still need some form of accountable defense I think. It's just gone horribly wrong.
Does anybody know if there's a plugin for unreal, like this, but supports creating geometry inside the game?

If not, is there a way of generating levels with code?
> The only way to ensure fixed widths without int_leastX conventions is to be intimately familiar with the platform while we are declaring our typedefs, or creating makefiles for our projects..

int_leastX_t doesn't give you fixed width types - that's the entire point of them. They are not fixed width.

> And to that extent, we use only fixed with types.

I don't get it. You said this:

> We don't use uint8_t or other such things, we use uint8, uint16, etc. These are typedefed to compiler-specific types that guarantee a required minimum size.

You are using uint_least8_t, uint_least16_t, just with different names. As I've said - I don't really care what things are called.

Semantically, there is very little that is different between "uint_least16_t" and "unsigned short".
I am from Yorkshire. Take the point though.
By that definition France is a socialist country. I suppose you could say that to some extent but France isn't what one usually thinks of when it comes to real-world socialism. I think socialists in particular will argue against that notion.

Even worse though: Most totalitarian countries fit that description, too.
Easy, have less stuff. Save time shopping, save time on security, save time on disposal.
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I miss forums. You could talk about a subject, and people you don't already know would join in with different opinions - more or less intelligently, more or less civilly, depending on the forum and its moderators. They had sophisticated ways of tracking where you were on each topic or sub-forum and showing you only the new content. There's nothing that checks all of those boxes any more. What forums are left are full of trolls, or they're severely topic-limited, or their interfaces are absolutely unusable. I follow literally hundreds of sites, mostly via RSS, and all of them together yield maybe one comment thread a month worth participating in. So people turn to Facebook, only to find that they can't pierce the walls of their own private echo chamber to get the kind of conversations that used to be everywhere - from Usenet to BBSes to M-Net and its ilk to any number of Invision/vBulletin forums. The OP might be incoherent, but the point that the internet isn't a real communications medium any more has a certain truth to it.
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Yes, learning Spanish is tough and July/August is pretty hot, so much so I returned to the UK for 2 months.
I don't need to be able to drive at work right now. I'll probably never need to do it in an interview. Does that mean that I shouldn't try to get better at it?
Swift is a young language. That it breaks some things now means we won't be stuck with its early mistakes forever in ten years.
Even if life outcomes are the same, if G&T programs make those kids happier while in school, the programs are worth keeping.
It points it out as being an unwise regulation with bad price consequences.

It does state that other governments set price controls in various ways - like the UK refusing to pay for a drug if it doesn't meet cost-effectiveness.. though I'm not sure how exactly that winds up affecting which drugs are available and which aren't.

Then the actual reason for the listed example is that it makes sure folks are covered for some things. Rules for coverage in itself doesn't raise prices. And when these are the things they highlight as soft spots in the regulation system instead of focusing more on the non-negotiations, the systems itself, the money on advertising, and other such things, to me it comes down to having a weird slant or poorly thought out.
Would like to know if there are some good language-agnostic resources?
The UK's "peak 'socialism'" time was in the past. Depending on how you apply metrics to socialism it would either be the good parts (Attlee/Bevan establishing schools and NHS after the war) or the bad parts ("winter of discontent" 78/79).

UK surveillance is part of the permanent state and is imperialist in nature.

In some ways, the UK is less authoritarian than in the past - the Human Rights Act has had a real effect, along with the Good Friday Agreement. There are no longer troops deployed in the streets with live ammunition nor elected MPs who are forbidden to speak on television.
It would be illegal for the article to call lobbying a bribe, because lobbying is a legal form of bribery, while bribery is illegal form of the same. However they can argue that really there is no difference between the two, and that would be legal. The issue is that the majority thinks that lobbying is ok, while bribing is not. Once you fix that, then you can call it "bribing".
I never realized how much free time I had until I started blowing my responsibilities off and watching TV series or playing video games.

The point is, a lot of the things we do in our adult lives are bullshit errands that exist only because of habit, custom or societal expectations. I'm in progress of trying to get rid of as much of them as possible (and automate others), to reclaim some free time for actually productive endeavours.
>why would Russia or China or the US want to take down everyone's internet? //

No-one's "internet" would work except for states that had a backup network. In the event of war such a tool would be useful, imagine the panic, chaos.

Another situation could be a major power trying to destabilise another's economy, fiscal warfare?
> This sort of interpretation makes me question the objectiveness of the article itself.

Why does disagreeing with the article make you conclude that it's not objective? Can't you just, you know, disagree, without questioning the other side's motives, intelligence, objectiveness, etc?
It's easy. We are busy because we stay at work too much. Also todays jobs are not so fulfilling, which means you need more time to recover. Make the work day 4 hours + meal and things will be better.
It would make sense, though, in a twisted way - it would send the message "Nothing you did has had any consequence whatsoever, and to show you how little we care, we are not even sending you to jail for it".

(I consider that highly unlikely, though.)
Holding off on learning much more Swift for now, until things stabilize and stuff stops breaking. Its not much fun to go back to learn some Swift only to discover things have changed since last time ..
Well Turkey at this point in time looks like THE MOST dangerous place to be if you're not pro-government. The witch-hunt Erdogan set up is crazy.

I used to travel twice a year to Istanbul. Now I don't see myself landing foot there for a very, very long time.
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In principle, yes you are right. However, there is only so much hedging and differentiation I can put into a post without turning it into an essay.

What I wanted to say is "realsocialist" a la former Soviet Union or East Germany. I think part of the confusion is that I live in Germany, where socialist always means that kind of one-party authoritarian system. By this definition, e.g. Bernie Sanders would be a (left-wing) social democrat, but not a socialist.

I know for example in France, the middle-left-wing party calls themselves socialist... I believe they are slightly left of what you'd call "liberal" in the US.
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There was a very good radio programme on BBC Radio 4 about busyness:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07v07pb

In a nutshell, we're busy because people value things based on the perceived effort that goes into them. This is why people are frustrated if it takes you 1 minute to update their website but still want £100. So if you appear to be very busy, you appear to be putting more effort into your work. The same applies to parenting - we think busy parents are perceived as better parents. At least, that's the argument made in the programme.
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