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>Democracy is a form of government that holds regular public elections

Democracy is a group of people co-operating in a system through equal representation. This does not require a state apparatus or government.

>It might be argued that democracy is a necessary condition for liberty, but it is certainly not a sufficient one.

Solely sufficient? Absolutely not, that's what I'm saying, but yes it is a necessary condition. It's is the sustinence on which liberty grows.
> just-press-Win-and-start-typing experience is much better.

Despite the non—stop bickering, this has been the killer feature of Gnome 3 since it's inception. Most applications can be launched just by hitting win, the first one or two letters, and enter. The whole DE is streamlined for efficient keyboard driven operation and makes multitasking and launching arbitrary programs lightning fast. It doesn't have as many customization options that some other DEs have, but I highly recommend trying it out.
I think people are attracted to "quantum consciousness" because it's currently the only plausible physical mechanism of free will. Essentially all of society is structured around the assumption that the participants have bona fide choices to make.

That could be wrong, but it's certainly not a fringe belief. Combine the belief in free will with the belief that physics is mostly on the right track, and it leads directly to quantum phenomena being a necessary part of the explanation.
> Now before you dismiss me, I'm not defending socialist states, they are far far worse than liberal democracies

The countries with the highest quality of life are Social Democracies. Places like the nordic countries and the 'new world' anglo countries excluding the US.

It's bizarre just how much the US has demonised the concept of socialism in its political dialogue.
Hi, please report any issues to the repo at http://github.com/turbo/js. The more hardware combo test data I have, the sooner I can debug these faults. If you have any friends with exceptionally weird configs, please get them to test, too :-)

BTW: If you get the "Ah snap" error, there is some diagnostic data in the console. Please include that in any issue report. Cheers.
> You fundamentally misunderstand what I'm saying here. I'm not proposing elected slavery, and truly fail to see how you reached that conclusion. I don't know what part of my pro-democracy comment implied I believe in forced labor, but I'm interested in hearing what process you went through in your mind to reach that point.

This is an unproductive comment. If you say something and you aren't understood, the better response would be to explain.

(I, for one, also have no idea what you might mean by a "democratic economy".)
How to compromise PLC systems via stealthy Pin control attacks
Ah snap! There was no error compiling the test kernel or running it, but the numbers don't check out. Please report your browser (+ version) and hardware configuration to us, so we can try to fix this. Deviation was 0.3373333334457129.

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Values are:
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Chrome on Ubuntu on Intel NUC
That's why real democracies have more than 2 [real/major] parties. Governments are a lot more interesting and concensusy when they're made up of 23%, 27%, 24%, and 26% for example. Suddenly there's no single majority to ram its will down everyone else's throat.
Anarchy (and some of its branches) value very much the values of democracy, with the added benefits of stressing the search of compromise.

In my opinion, anarcho-capitalism is merely feudalism, with some brainwashing for people to accept their fate. There's a reason some prominent anar-capitalists want to be differenciated from anarchists.
Ask HN: Can a human society exist without insecurity?
Can a human society exist without the insecurity that seems to be present in every individual. By insecurities, I mean things like, fear of being ostracized, fear of rejection, fear of death (as in "how will my death affect others", and not as in "A car is coming to hit me, let me get out the way").

It seems that the current society is sustained by the presence of these kinds of fears in every individual. If this is so, do you think it can be reason for a lot of insane things that is going on in this world? and should it be changed?

Thoughts?
French teen gets suspended jail sentence for naming Wi-Fi network after Isis
Please report to http://github.com/turbo/js. I can't track issues on HN.
> That is, science -- knowledge -- doesn't arise on the authority of any one person's voice, but on the fundamental testability and verifiability of facts.

This is what I call "real science". I call it so because it can only be found in books and movies. /sarc

In reality, we are told that "the science is settled" and "the consensus is that...".
I used Xfce for a while but I still prefer vanilla Ubuntu, Unity feels more polished to me. It's the little stuff like vsync being enabled by default (no screen tearing when you move a window or scroll a web page).
Sure, Anarcho-Sydnicalism is a book by Rudolph Rocker the founder of anarcho syndicalism. For other approaches there's mutualism a market based approach, for that I'd see the works of Proudhon, Participatory Economics. There's also anarcho-communism. Here's some books that flesh out the ideas:

Participatory Economics: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Published%20writing/Alterna...

What is Mutualism? : https://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/what-is-mutualis...

Anarcho-Syndicalism https://libcom.org/files/Rocker%20-%20Anarcho-Syndicalism%20...

The Conquest of Bread (Anarcho-Communism): https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-c...
This is awesome but if Chrome and Firefox both supported UDP then we could build things like this in userland. Is that happening?
Winsdor, Ontario is the town you are thinking of.
Examples of useful reasons to use?
The bicycle is the most efficient form of human-powered transportation.
There is a lua widget in spring rts that allows for units with at least one farsighted unit to automatically stay out of los. Sneaky army will wriggle through all defense lines.
I do not enjoy watching Black Mirror , yet I do watch it.To make me realize that all the technology boom/bubble right now can go bad too. One of the my favourite parts about the series is that it focuses on one technology at a time. Had they focussed on multiple advancements of tech,they would be as unbelievable and superficial like other sci-fi shows.

But the real world has multiple technologies intermingled with each other. The point I am trying to make here:

While we think Black Mirror is bad enough (I cannot watch watch more than one episode at a time),what will happen in reality could be much worse.
Social democracies are not socialist states, and I 100% agree, there is no way I'd be able to argue against capitalism without prefacing with that statement because everyone would immediately think I propose something like the USSR.
Sounds more like fuck you Python developers, apparently zero of whom are willing to contribute to getting common Python packages into an apt repo.
Apple to developers: There is no escape
>In my opinion, anarcho-capitalism is merely feudalism, with some brainwashing for people to accept their fate. There's a reason some prominent anar-capitalists want to be differenciated from anarchists.

There's also a reason all anarchists want to be differentiated from ancaps ;)
Maybe now that the oceans are set to die, scientists will dump CO2 eating algae into it?
The US has millions of undocumented immigrants, mainly from Latin America, who work as migrant agricultural laborers, factory workers, restaurant staff, and many other low-skill jobs. From what I remember (it’s been a while since I looked at the numbers and I don’t have a link off-hand), they are involved in crimes at a significantly lower rate than native citizens.
Yes. When we were doing pre-project work we looked at the growth statistics of all the marketplaces, what kind of themes gets downloaded, if there is pattern, and which prices are they likely to succeed. There, of course, you see the number of new themes added, update frequency and popularity as a side-effect. Overall, in whole eco-system there are around up to 200 themes added daily for various platforms when we did the study, with TF pushing the most out for wordpress.
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"

Winston Churchill
I am not certain the author of the article has identified the true cause/root of the problem. To me, the need to be needed is certainly important, but, I do not think that that need is the true cause of the anxiety described in the article. The way the western world has reacted to immigration and socio-political landscape currently obtaining is not well explained by the need to be needed as explained in the article.

To me, the need to be needed/fear of being unneeded takes a back seat to the idea of 'other'. The otherness of the migrants, of the new persons, the lack of 'connection' with them certinly is a better explanation than the feeling of being superflous.

My view is that if we, as humanity in general, could only see each other first as individuals and secondly as persons with intrinsic worth - basically treat each other as we would a treasured member of our family, their troubles with the same sense urgency with which we would treat our close friend, brother, sister in the exact same circumstances, then the world would be a better place for all.

But, it feels like this is naïve, not 'realistic' or 'practical' there is too much standing in the way, at least thats what it looks like to me when I attempt to do so. It gets overwhelming, emotionally anyway. To me, behind our anxiety, as humans, is the fear of what would happen if we truly saw others as though they were ourselves. Really and truly. I am not sure we can do so, because we would realize just how fucked up the world was. I for one would rather not, the shame, fear is too much. I would rather build a wall and tell myself there is not much I can do, I do not have enough to help, I would be disregarding my responsibilities. But I know the truth. I am just scared.
First, thanks for taking time to write essential blog posts/documentation.

Here would be my suggestions, I hope they are useful:

1. Its about error handling. Options are conceptually similar but they're not error handling. Options can go somewhere else, maybe a previous chapter.

2. From what I understand from my almost zero experience of rust, the match/deconstruct with a Result type will do 99% of error handling -- even though it might be verbose or ugly to some. Its also the basis for the combinators. This can be the short and simple error handling chapter.

3. The combinators are nice constructs to make code more linear looking and are convenient when working with the std library. If they are stated as an optional convenience then they become less scary. Error handling is so fundamental that I should not have to learn about combinators to do it.

What I suggest is a rearrangement of the material. The documentation itself is clear -- its just too much.
This is the truth, we've come a long way from a technological and materialistic standpoint, but we've also heavily, heavily stolen from the future, we've stolen from others.

People are losing their homes and livelihoods to deforestation, islands are being inundated with rising sea levels, fracking is polluting water tables and mass animal extinctions are a thing.

At some point the debt needs to be paid off, or we're probably going to be next.

Looking for a purpose? Give back to the natural world and I'm sure some happiness will come out of it!

God knows she needs our help.
What you speak of is backwards. The answer to disagreement isn't for both parties to walk away in opposite directions, nor is it for one party to kill the other party. Disagreement is valuable in that it provides the world an opportunity to learn something. Your solution is to run away? That's seriously very sad, and I feel like crying that we still have people who think like this. The solution isn't crying, either. Many people are observed to get along with people who have different ideas, culture, and ethnicity. Perhaps a better solution is in education and learning.
I have suspicions that most world leaders are aware of the work done on the various geo-engineering mitigation strategies and are willing to risk it.

Such a terrible prospect to consider but that hasn't stopped scientists and engineers planning for the worst. An ill-conceived quick fix scares me, yet seems to be more likely than global agreement to reduce emissions in the fractured world of international politics.
So you are saying if I show up in a coffee place with a bulky black laptop running a cheap imitation of OSX people will think this is cool?

Elementary will never be cool, in fact you will be "bullied" by both cool kids with expensive (good looking!) OSX MBP and geeks running some obscure Linux distro on a Thinkpad.
I was going to say that when a dryer is taking too long to dry, but it's still heating up, it's not broken. It either needs to be cleaned because it's blocked up in the lint chute, or the ducting from the dryer to the outside of the house is blocked somewhere. It probably only took them 20-30 minutes to refurbish the old dryer and it will be good for another 5-10 years.

What I shared above is very common knowledge in the repair industry, so odds are the Sears person that came out was either on his first day of the job or didn't even look at the machine. Sadly this happens a lot.
its solvable by using consensus democracy rather than majority democracy.

The literal consent of the governed is necessary for government to be legitimate.
Starting long distance relationship with loved product
My thoughts on a product I love - yet which I feel gradually more disconnected with.

8tracks fueled my work for so long, let's stay together. Close.

https://t.co/lnPL6DCyqY
It might sound vain, but all I really want is the Rose Gold on a non-touch...
I second this. As far back as I have been a Linux user ( back to Slackware 4 ) I was very pissed by the systemd ideas.

Nowadays I think it's priceless when I can just create a unit file for my NodeJS and do journalctl -fu my_app.

I think the criticism goes to the leader of systemd, who has exceptional arrogance ( as far as I have read ). Maybe if there is a competition between systemd and you name it, the init system will feel more natural.
Scaling Spark in the real world: performance and usability
Good reference. I have the book as well!

The other book I like is "Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion" by Elliot Aronson and Anthony Pratkanis
Player attention as a ressource modeling. Ai will abandon battles that are no longer cost efficient much earlier
I meant as a mass phenomenon. For most of history, an 18 year old was a fully grown man, capable of military command, albeit inexperienced.

Now we are mass-infantilizing those men in their most fertile years.

(Rare mavericks we've always had, of course, and a few may turn out enormously 'lucrative', so to speak, for society.)
They are merely chroming gtksourceview - the same engine used in, for example, GNOME's (and Ubuntu's) default editor gedit.
Is $43k per story a normal salary for journalists in the US? If so, journalism is a more lucrative even today than I had imagined.
nation states fight over borders to increase tax revenues. wars are governments jockeying to get bigger pieces of the pie.

the solution is to make the pie arbitrarily large.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
The ambassadors are, but all of the politicians and pundits back on the Island might not be. Or, they're "aware" of the nuances, but don't really believe them.
Microsoft code contracts for c# is pretty cool.
I don't really understand how this is better than just running a small webserver. The discoverability feature is nice, but I think you could do the same with a port scan in the local network. Can someone explain?
That's really interesting.
Goodbye to 8tracks after 1000 hours?
In my experience the more common result is some kind of compromise that fails to solve the actual problem and leaves everyone dissatisfied.
Can you give more details on this? I've been using Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora (as well as OSX/macOS) for ages now without any issues like the one you describe.
Hacker News bubble.
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Has anyone used Aurelia with succes?

I'm currently looking into what our next client side framework should be and I have a really good feeling about Aurelia. It feels like someone finally got it right. It's the same feeling I had about ServiceStack, which is by far the best web framework I've ever used.

My main criteria is ease of use by backend devs and going by the tutorials I've done so far, that certainly seems to be the case. I am however myself a backend guy and it's quite likely that Aurelia is missing something important or that the niceness breaks down once you cross some complexity threshold, and I can't see that due to my limited experience in that field.
Ask HN: What's your web development setup for vscode?
what extensions, tasks, etc. do you have installed for working with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and various front/back-end frameworks?
I use it when i'm walking / driving.

I only use it around friends when checking a disputed fact (usually for a bet)
Ok, this is cool and I think finally Mozilla have hit on something innovative. I'm going to check this out soon.
Great points. We are a profession that would rather use Python instead of more principled choices such as OCaml/Haskell, because it is superficially easier. I chose Python as an example here as that is what Knights Capital were using. I'm sure even the folk behind Python would admit it may have problems scaling to large complex algorithmic trading systems.
Yeah.

I haven't tried it but Elementary has always seen like a clone of OS X. And like most clones likely to be a bad clone.

Gnome is a bit crazy these days, I'd recommend kde.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/03/ber...

Why stubbornly claim capitalism is a failure when America is not capitalist? It is not laissez faire capitalism, like Chomsky says, it is a nanny state, where government bails out failed business. That is not capitalism.
or just very sophisticated economic warfare
"Intranets are totally underutilized. How many people do you know who can reliably transfer personal files over a local area network? Not nearly as many as those who know how to use google or send an email... that's absurd to me, given how ancient of an application file sharing is."

It's crazy to me that there AFIAK aren't AirDrop clones. That application alone would make this awesome, and it will probably just one of the big use cases for this.

I'm also really pleased to see Mozilla producing this kind of innovation. I'm a Firefox user at home, and am starting to get really excited about Rust, but it has felt to me like the organization has been flailing for a while.
Aurelia has more features.
But vue is around for 2+ years. Hence vue is arguably more mature.
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The show is called Primitive TECHNOLOGY. If you haven't noticed he builds stuff, why do you need him to go hunting?
Ask HN: Why are the US election Databases online for hackers to hack?
See, we actually do agree here, given that the SF Bay Area has lost its diversity and become so monolithic that you can no longer draw a comparison anymore.
I think there's an alternative already available and sparingly in use today: certain decisions can require 2/3rds, 3/5ths etc. majorities.

For instance, any decision that will last for generations and impact profoundly in everyone's life, like secession or a "Brexit" should require slightly more votes than a majority one. Unfortunately it's only typically used by parliaments, courts and senates for constitutional change, never for popular vote on issues.
There seem to be two parts to this. One is a way to inventory your LAN using multicast DNS and find all the web servers on it. (There may be one in every lightbulb.)
The other is to run a web server in the browser. These are independent functions.

The first seems useful. The second seems to need a more compelling use case. Also, opening the browser to incoming connections creates a new attack surface in a very complex program.
The response from systemd guy was laughable. I can't believe this is 1) an adult 2) developing a system-critical software 3) that is included in almost every Linux distribution. Pathetic.
Traditionally perhaps, but as we've moved into the age of evergreen browsers things have picked up substantially. It's now feasible to start using new APIs weeks after they roll out, sometimes with a polyfill to fall back to.
Elementary is fine, it doesn't strike me as a bad clone of macOS, but I recommend kde too. For a tech savvy person by far the best DE right now.
"Under the relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial—but Democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit."

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (1958)
I agree rape is an incredibly emotional topic and sometimes bad things happen as a consequence of good intentions, but in this particular case Rolling Stone were found guilty of malicious intent in their reporting.

This is not a simple case of "shit happens". We need to ensure that cases like this don't occur in the future by holding everyone involved to account to the fullest extent the law allows. The victims of rape deserve nothing less.
I guess the example assumes the data is already somehow in AWS. How is the total cost affected if I wanted to run this setup on a 10TB dataset?
It's practically out of control. How do you educate a whole population on how it all works to help them avoid the mass surveillance trap?
What about scissors paper stone? An AI can be trained to have >50% odds against a human player, given a copious amount of games. Humans have predictable patterns and they can definitely be exploited.
elementary is a fine system, but nothing special for developers. As a developer I would always use an Arch based distro (Manjaro, Antergos, etc.) or Arch itself - of course.

Everything a developer needs is in the repos, no fiddeling with ppa's or downloading packages from websites.
Would disagree. Using Gnome with Fedora and it's rock solid and does everything I need as well as looking good.
capitalism is a failure because it destroyed earth.