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>"His supported policies include registration of minorities,

Do you have a source for this? What is considered a "minority"? I thought it was directed at "illegal immigrants", which I agree is a dumb idea. But saying it applies to "minorities" is a stretch.

>torture, curtailing of the free press, restriction of religious freedom, and reprisals against political enemies"

How much worse is it to openly support these things, than to say you don't support them, but do so behind the scenes? Because all these things have happened under the watch of nearly every politician I can think of.
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He does not explicitly appeal to or endorse white identity politics. Where's the proof for your outrageous statement?

And what exactly is wrong with wanting to "take back your country"? He's talking about enforcing existing laws like having borders.
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It is if you don't have any dietary restrictions. I'm a Vegetarian and have been living in Tokyo for just over a year now. Coming from New Zealand which is vegetarian friendly (you're guaranteed to find vege options on any menu) I have found this aspect of Japanese living frustrating. I'm not suggesting they need to change but it is something to be aware of. Vegetarianism is a foreign concept to many Japanese and you will encounter situations where rogue meat will end up in your food much less fish. It's not impossible though (provided you can ignore that everything is cooked in meat fat) but I would say that if there are any vegans here they'd be SOL.
If you move here, you get free classes for 3 years.
Interesting idea and execution. As mentioned above, I imagined a physical robot, not a chatbot, so might need some clarification in future messaging revisions.

Also interested to learn more about how you plan to utilise user data to make the platform smarter.
I missed it, plain and simple. But usually there's more.
I expect a drone with a low light and/or thermal camera to be immensely more useful for SAR.
Ask HN: You develop in an imperfect system; what would you do to fix the API?
This question is kind of vague, but I'm certain that there is a ton of "lesson learned" experience in the HN community that would be good to pass on.

What infrastructure do you code on top of that could have been done better. Actually, the name of the infrastructure is irrelevant, but please share the "fatal flaw" of a common design challenge you've come across.

I was thinking about OS services in particular (xwindows having to support networking, for example), but any library, first-party software, or even embedded code would be interesting to hear about.
It seems to me like it has been good advice to first try to just get an app working. Build all the features --- or at least most of them --- without fretting about elegance. Then refactor it. If I try to plan it all out in my head before writing anything, or if I am constantly refactoring as I go, then I just write in circles. Anyway, my premature optimizations often are revised out later or get in the way of other features.

It's not that I don't like elegant code. This way yields more elegant code, and I finish faster.

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I also liked the part where he warns against database abstraction:

"Either you completely dumb down your data layer (and struggle with delivering functionality), or acknowledge the database as part of your solution (e.g. postgres geo/json features) and throw away configurability guilt. Your stack is as much part of your solution as your code."
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diff for financial data, with attendant workflow for breaks, is an already existing whole market segment. Duco, the startup I work for, is tackling it as a service.
Perspective from a woman [1]:

> Men in their 30s are running around like children, sabotaging relationships and their lives without obligation or thought of consequence. Why?

[1] https://escapingpan.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/hello-world/
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> but in business as well

I think business is more ruthless. It won't let you waste too much time in a false belief that your product or science will become successful. That leads to faster iteration.
The author of the audit claims to be working on competing software, so I wonder if there is any alternative to bitmessage that achieves some anonymity.

Regardless of implementation details, the purpose of bitmessage is interesting and any secure alternative would make a great communication software.
Similarly, OSX can be configured so that a triple click does a dictionary look-up, which I find extremely useful for reading material online in German.
Or some challenge problems on SPOJ (http://www.spoj.com/problems/challenge/)
I would add something on the page to explain why the app needs camera access.
"Mr. Thiel is making his first donation in support of Mr. Trump’s election. He will give $1.25 million through a combination of super PAC donations and funds given directly to the campaign"

An essential ingredient for the breed of industrialists like Thiel, is the presence of tyrants to remove unnecessary impediments to commerce without dissent.
I did not see that option, no. The only option it currently has is to disable the wrong default setting to place new tabs at the top. And in the UI itself one can toggle autohide, which is very nice
In some cases, yes. This drone has its use cases too.
I'm in Austria, it was a disgrace. All of media was attacking the right wing guy with no dissenting voices, and you have to be afraid of personal and professional consequences if you endorse him or say anything against the Socialist candidate they are trying to push.

It's literally like in the Soviet Union, at least that's what my parents told me as they came from a Communist country.
> The last thing, really? How about, say, making

> cardboard boxes for a living? Flipping burgers?

Or working as a patent clerk, maybe?

Yes, pretty much anything outside the academic process was what I meant, so that your livelihood does not depend on the outcome of your research, because then you have to tailor your research directions towards the safe and accepted. And so your straw men actually would work, though suboptimally because the income is probably too low to allow you free time.

Also, misquoting me by leaving out the "really" makes your argument disingenuous, because the "really" made clear that the statement is not a 100% but a trend (if a somewhat overwhelming one), and 4 exceptions (names?) don't exactly disprove a generalization.

It would also be interesting if you see your four examples as holdouts from a different era, or general exceptions. I'd wager they're more of the former rather than the latter, and that their number is dwindling.
In term of patisseries, it's a matter of taste. Patisseries in Japan tend to be less sweet than in France so if, like me, you like them less sweet, then it's difficult to find something as good in France.

I agree with the rest of what you say.
Can't for the life of me remember where, but I read a study a few years ago which really helped me understand how social interactions contribute to language learning. Apparently, when children are learning a second language (the study focused on children who spoke one language at home and another at school, or who had recently immigrated), the children who advance the most are not the brightest or most studious, but those who manage to get their entire group of friends/peers/surrounding adults to feel implicated in their learning of the language. The group as a whole works together to help the child learn, group cohesion happens, the child learns better and everyone feels happy for them and proud to have contributed.
As an adult, I've definately found that asking one person in a group a question on, for example, the meaning of a word, can lead to a big group discussion where either everyone contributes to explaining it to you (and you get five explanations rather than just one), or everyone realising that they're not entirely sure and looking it up online, discussing it amongst themselves, and then explaining it to you until you have no choice but to have understood. Repeat this process as many times as is socially acceptable.
Worked for a while in a friendly lebanese snack bar. Some of the (non Arabic speaking) regulars would often ask my bosses for explanations of the meanings of words, or to explain the lyrics of the song. He would explain, and any Arabic speaking regulars (there were a lot) that happened to be around would inevitably offer their own explanation. Basic Arabic was picked up, falafel eaten, and some friendships happened. Find somewhere you can become a regular of!
As javascript has continued to crawl into many areas where nobody thought it would, my guess it could grow in the future. But it still lacks a good/popular backend framework (in node), as apposed to client frameworks.

At the same time I think PHP has a good future, where 7.0 made a really great progress in performance. Laravel is awsome for web development.
Great work. I've seen similar location apps (Tile) make great gifts to prospects and clients.
By eschewing an app/login client integration it also gives it a very analogue appeal as well.
You can't compare PHP and Cobol. PHP is insanely popular (#3 globally) and will be for a while. Cobol isn't even in the top 20.

http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html
That's great, thanks for elaborating - I had missed checking out what "Test Pilot" actually was.

That said, what will happen to Page Shot if it's deemed a good/decent UX and it's graduation time? Will it be an installable addon? Pre-shipped? Baked in?

I guess it's something to be decided in the future, yet it makes me curious today.
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Interesting concept. I'm not sure about the use of "What's the catch?" on the pricing page. Has a negative connotation when you want to be reminding potential users that the value you provide is greater than the cost.
Well, english is my second language, and I remember becoming fluent at it by reading comics when I was a kid. It was both fun and educational at the same time. Also, I was a 80's kid and it did help that the era/place i lived in did not have much access to computers, video games etc, and reading comics was still considered a fun activity (apart from playing cricket / sports ) !
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>And I have never believed in Globilization

Sorry to tell you, data is in, and it's helping to pull billions out of abject poverty around the globe.
So now you're angry when liberals exercise their right to free speech?
There's quite a dramatic claim on the website, "merge [...] changes efficiently and correctly days, weeks, or years later." How does that work? For example if you have two records saying userid 3's name is "ann" and userid 3's name is "jane", I don't see how you could merge those without extra information or human input.
I ditched my academics career and went into public service. I expected to do actual science, instead I ended up studying bad papers which cost huge piles of money. I feel sorry for the naive and the burnt-out young academics. Potential wasted all the way.
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I absolutely don't want built in features of my browser dependent on thirdparty services unless there is a standard way to attach it to alternatives.
Are there particular businesses you are looking for? Is your target business B2B or B2C?
Ah, a woman in her 30's blaming men. How unusual.

Do we need this misandrist garbage on HN?
Japan had several cell phone networks using an alternative to GSM called the Personal Handy-phone System. This was an urban only network with extremely small cells that let them make ridiculously small and inexpensive phones.
I bet YouTube and others will fight Min Vid because users will see less ads.
> You can show with cross-validation and test set performance that your model using these variables generalizes (around 0.80 ROC AUC).

It shows only that given set of variables (observable and inferred) could be used to build a model. The given data set is not descriptive, because it does not contain more relevant hidden variables, so any predictions or inferences based on this data set are nothing but a story, a myth made from statistics and data.
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I don't know, it seems to me that being grown-up (or maybe just old) means no longer caring what other people think, particularly about fashion.
Express seems pretty popular, it has stuff for routes, templates etc... Bit like Backbone for Client, without the HTTP stuff
> Any ARM hardware people care to chime in?

It's not really about the CPU architecture, but the peripherals of the devices. In the x86 world, the peripherals are governed by the "PC" standard, which these days is implemented by the chipset on your motherboard. They all have similar functionality, although you still do need some chipset-specific drivers in your kernel.

In the ARM world, the landscape is different. There has never been a de facto standard configuration of an ARM computer like the PC was/is for x86. There are ARM computers that are more like a micro controller and there are tablet/mobile devices based on ARM that have a system on chip (SoC) that's got all the peripherals, including GPUs, network adapters, etc. Every SoC is pretty different, there's a bunch of devices connected with i2c, spi and other buses. These are required to control the power and clock management and all the I/O devices.

ARM (the company) doesn't really design these, they just license ARM (the architecture) to a SoC manufacturer and call it a day. This leads to a very diverse and fragmented landscape.

The ARM world has been making strides to reduce the amount of chip-specific code. One good example is the device-tree configuration which, in theory, allows running the same kernel binary on different devices. With device-tree, you pass a config file from the bootloader to the kernel, which contains configuration (i/o memory maps, etc) of the peripherals (which you'd query from the hw/firmware in a x86 machine). This is a huge improvement over what was before it, but there's still a long way to go. And there's still plenty of older ARM SoCs out there that don't support this.

But yes, it's pretty much a mess. There's a lot of duplicate work that every ARM SoC manufacturer has to go through. Given that the mobile world is financed by a planned obsolescence cycle where they expect customers to upgrade every few years, I find it unlikely that this issue will be solved any time soon.
Ask HN: Are there any 8 bit computers still manufactured?
I'd like to buy a modern computer, i.e. one being manufactured in 2016, that uses an 8 bit Z80 CPU.

Is this possible?

I want to explicitly say I'm not looking for a hobby kit or to make my own. I'm interested to know if there is any sort of 8 bit computer still being made.

As I understand it the Z80 is still manufactured and used in a range of embedded systems - perhaps one of such systems can be bought and connected to with keyboard and screen?

If the answer is no, then what was the last Z80 computer actively manufactured?
Hitler was a Socialist, not a right wing politician. That's what you Austrians/Germans get wrong.

Hitler enacted a 70% income tax for the highest incomes, implemented a full welfare state, free childcare, free schools, free everything to force propaganda down their throats. He was an arts student (probably he would have done well with SJW's of today), a vegetarian, anti smoking, pro animal rights, anti religion etc.

The right wing wants to get rid of all mandatory welfare and government influence on our lives in order to make it impossible for authoritarians like Hitler to hijack the system.

German people in specific are culturally one of least capable in understanding what freedom actually means. That's something that makes them unique in Europe. (and btw the main reason why Benjamin Franklin was so critical of allowing Germans into the US - he feared that they would subvert the system and freedoms with their hive mind mentality)
I feel like a complete failure at "adulting" too. Then again, I don't want to succeed at it. I'm not done having fun. Same goes for nearly all of my friends. I've lost both parents, and had kids, and I get on with the kids in a way I doubt my parents could have conceived of. I want to feel they're friends until I drop.

By my age my parents were fully paid up members of middle age and led dull lives, as all their generation seemed to. They were very different people to how they described their 20s. I still recognise the me of my 20s. I'm not even becoming more conservative, I've got more liberal except in clothes!

What possible reason is there to grow up? I see no benefit to it, for anyone.
These new experimental features have quickly become my favorite part of Firefox. I've been enjoying Tab Center, Page Shot, Min Vid, and Tracking Protection immensely and have them installed on all of my Firefox instances.

I'd really love to see Test Pilot begin to sync these extensions (and preferably also their settings) across different Firefox instances through Firefox Sync though. Right now I have to enable them separately for each instance, and while it's not exactly the end of the world, it definitely is a huge pain point for me (especially the lack of settings synchronization) and a glaring blemish on the high standard of UX most of these experiments are obviously striving to provide.
In extreme corners of the state space that doesn't hold, but one would hope self-driving cars would manage to stay far away from most of those corners.

For example, if a self-driving car is heading towards a concrete wall at speed, the safest thing to do is decelerate just fast enough to come to a stop touching or just after hitting the wall. If there are pedestrians between car and wall, Mercedes' statement seems to imply they will use the pedestrians as an additional crumple zone, rather than to decelerate really fast in order to not hit them, even if that saves lives and only causes the passengers some bruises.

More realistic: a pedestrian starts crossing the road between parked vans with darkened windows; a self-driving car doesn't see him until 10 meters away. Should the car swerve into the first van or into oncoming traffic to prevent the collision with a pedestrian, just brake as fast as possible, or brake as fast as is safe for the driver and the passengers? If the car knows the passengers did not put on their seat belts and are carrying loose heavy baggage on the rear shelf, should the car decide to decelerate very lightly, pedestrian be damned? What if this is in a pedestrian zone, and the driver overrode the car's intentions to keep speed below 10mph?

Another extreme example: a Mercedes is driving to pick up its owner, and has to decide between lightly harming its owner and killing a stranger. What will it do?

I doubt Mercedes' statement ("zeroeth law of robotics: A robot may not injure its owner or, through inaction, allow its owner to come to harm") will hold up in court, and also whether they will really implement it to the limit.
> Do you have a source for this?

There are two different proposals I'm thinking of. One for making a national registry of all Muslims in the United States (a religious minority) and another for police being able to demand immigration papers at any time. The problem is that there isn't any way to look at someone and say they are an "illegal immigrant" so you end up with a totalitarian regime where police are stopping minorities and demanding to see their papers.

I honestly don't know how anyone can look at Trump and say he's not an authoritarian. He literally advocates stuff straight out of a comic book authoritarian regime: "stop and show me your papers."

> How much worse is it to openly support these things, than to say you don't support them, but do so behind the scenes?

Much worse. Openly advocating something so abhorrent pushes it into the room of acceptability and makes doing it acceptable en mass. It's the difference between the occasional hate crime and genocide. When something is unacceptable, you can't do it too much of it or you risk causing a scandal.

I also having a lot of trouble agreeing that these things "happened under the watch of nearly every politician I can think of." Has Obama thrown political enemies in prison? Has Hillary asked her supporters to violently attack enemies? Heck, has Bush tried to ban an entire religion from the United States? Citations severely needed.
To be fair, there's a lot of native English speakers who can't explain how to make a fire with any matches, and wouldn't know what tinder and kindling are.

That is a reasonably specific domain of knowledge.
Why doesn't someone just ask him why he's giving the money.

He's participating the democratic process, would be interested to hear his rationale rather than a bunch of speculations about what he may or may not believe.
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> GitLab is a (bad) copy and paste of GitHub, even the name is similar.

Yeah, the part of the name they copied is so shameless. That's just going to end up causing user confusion -- thinking that both sites are related to Git in some way. /s
He only talks about his network connection. It might very well be hosted on a different box.

"shell" means SSH, not the local shell.
Don't put your hopes up too much. GitLab does not even have half the community that GitHab has but their service is already a multiple times slower. From my experience if something already starts off really badly, then any attempts to retrospectively fix major issues in their core system rarely work out well. The more successful GitLab will be, the more their service will fall apart under its own weight. This is what happens when you aggressively undersell your service. GitLab are not magicians. Cheap remains cheap in the end.
Don't use sockpupets or friends to upvote the project.

Usually, in HN, don't make a small comment about your own submission. Reply to the questions in the threads, but try not to write a new comment. (Sometime it's a good idea to make a comment.)

Both projects you have submitted look like things that a good antivirus should detect and block. Do you have a project that is less controversial?

You submitted two projects in one day. If your plan was to continue submitting two projects each day, then I think it's too much. If your plan was to submit only one project per week, then I think it's ok.

I prefer an blog post about some interesting detail or technical problem of you project than a direct link to github. Both projects have a good readme.md, but a long blog post is usually better to get attention here. (But not too ling.)
Yeah there's no Russian populace wondering wait why am I in a different country now (I think)
Spent five years in the UK after 15 years practising from home, neither native nor perfectly fluent but understood the place and have found my own voice. I can even produce non-trivial poems ehehe. If you need business level only, you don't need to be fluent, just proficient within your field of expertise so grammar, pronunciation, daily vocabulary and deep into your industry slang. Good luck!
Seems like the kind of questions Twitter was designed for no? Has anyone asked?
Don't know.

I had a few people at my last company who were much younger than me and had children.

The only thing I noticed, was, that they started to "talk" older, but their actions didn't seem rather "grown up" to me...

I have the feeling, getting children switches people in the "Now I'm adult and need to be responsible" mode without giving them the needed knowledge how to execute this behaviour, mostly cargo culting around.