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This sounds like good news to me, hopefully not short lived when the new administration comes in.
A few years ago Silvio Berlusconi used his position as prime minister of Italy to get laws enacted that granted his person immunity in various ongoing bribery and corruption cases, which then had to be dropped.
Have you considered Pinboard? I got big into Evernote for a while but the poor app quality and losing a couple of notes' contents was enough for me just to move to KISS pinboard.
Its also a good side by side graphic comparison of both OSes.

With a bit of effort, Unity could look much better.
"To clarify; software talks about objects with increasing amounts of complexity; as you proceed up the abstraction stack into increasingly abstract topics, you need to be able to efficiently compress the topics you're already supposed to have implemented."

What I'd expect to follow here would be a statement about how your abstractions should be terse and verbose in the right ways. Terse in the implementation specific handling and verbose in the explanation of your abstract solution.

"Software is for experts that have mastered the lower levels of the abstraction layer. You cannot study any subfield of systems programming without having understood the basic implementation of the underlying software. No amount of syntax rewriting is going to change that; those definitions are not going anywhere."

I don't see how that statement would make any sense. I expect to be able to give anyone with the most basic of understandings of computers a piece of any code (from Assembly to high level Lisp code) from widely used software like the Linux kernel all the way to stock trading applications and I expect them to understand it by looking at it for a few seconds, reading the comments, and reading the names of the variables and functions.

If the average person cannot do that, then it's bad code. Understand-ability is the only point of programming. To be understood by the computer and by a maintainer.

I'd never say that obtuse notations for an abstraction should stay around. I'd replace the obtuse notation with a better abstraction.
Why wouldn't taking anyone intelligent and capable result in more diversity? Are you claiming white males are somehow inherently more capable and intelligent?
So, how long will it be before this is overturned? Being from the UK, I don't fully understand the way the US legal system works... I know Trump has said that gay marriage is not under threat because "it's a law", so how is this different? (if, of course, it is different)
"Keep off grass" :D
(Try updating an ubuntu with lots of package installed)

Always do and don't remember any issues.

Mostly, Ubuntu is Debian with some niceties thrown in like AskUbuntu, Unity, PPAs, or a release schedule.
Although I would love to see governments taking environmental issues seriously, I just can't fathom this legislation not being discarded by the next administration in the months to come.
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When you say "Google and Facebook", you are talking about their employees. But how many new companies / jobs have been created using their ecosystem (How much additional sales and jobs are created with those platforms?). That number is a lot harder to establish.

Do you have any estimates or references about _that_ number?
So if you are at speed, the car starts engine-braking (with no proper brake force distribution between front and rear wheels), and the power steering isn't working, right?
I would also suggest Paprika.
Imho the differences are rather subtle. Ubuntu comes more consumer ready and pre-configured whereas Debian is "raw" and needs more initial setup effort.
Barbara Liskov:

-- ACM Turing Award, "For contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing"

-- IEEE John von Neumann Award, “For fundamental contributions to programming languages, programming methodology, and distributed systems.”
PPAs are really a distinct advantage over Debian. Wish this would get backported.
Step 1 - Learn a new technology.

Step 2 - Use it until you find its achilles heel.

Step 3 - Learn a new technology which doesn't have that achilles heel.

Step 4 - Goto Step 2.

To break this cycle, you need to appreciate that every language and library has its strengths and weaknesses. Learning what they are, and tailoring your architecture appropriately is better than jumping from one place to another every time you hit a new problem.
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> log every IP connection

wonder how long before people abuse this to setup redirects or malicious code to connect suspicious sites/ip addresses and render the whole thing pointless and get everyone on government shitlist

would be easy to provide "evidence" against someone who has no knowledge of said sites simply by presenting logs

i guess a way to avoid this would be surveillance on all online accounts (read: making logs mandatory on everything ever); including search history, browsing habits etc, (not that im a fan of having my life and every interaction on display to others) but that leaves you vulnerable to anyone trying to impersonate you for whatever reason
> The customer is still paying for the delivery, even when it is zero-rated.

I don't think I understand what you mean. If it doesn't count against their data limit, they're effectively not paying for it.

> It comes down to the fact that the ISP is incentivizing users to use the zero-rated service over its competitors.

Which is no different from any other company providing financial incentives for their customers to continue using their products. Net neutrality is about addressing secretive and coercive disincentives to use competing products. Conflating the Zero-Rating issue with NN dilutes the argument for NN.
See Firefox keyword bookmarks.
Personal favourites:
My Neighbour Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
How is who your employer was private? I would never expect that to be confidential nor upset if it became public. Surprised, yes, but what's the harm? Your workmates all knew you worked there and could have tattled on you.
I saw a presentation about REST and it included the concept of 'on demand code'; why do we need to serve up all our react components in a js blob? Can't we serve up minified and compressed components preemptively on the wire to keep load times small? Would this offer a benefit or am I missing something?
Maybe you are an exception but from my experience most people in management don't have the depth to really help their people. They are too busy surviving themselves. In addition most companies have no interest in developing their workers' careers. They want them to perform better within their little box but that's it.
However, blacks being racist against whites is an odd statement, like homeless people being classist against the rich.

And it indeed would be classist. You are neglecting this because you think that homeless people can not have any influence.

But consider this, group of homeless people ambush and attack people they consider rich. Would you still think that it is acceptable?

If we want to root out some behaviour then we can not tolerate it in any form.
knee-jerk tribalism a difficult trap to avoid. Even on HN, which is supposed to self-select for high intellect and curiosity, politics seems to short-circuit otherwise reasonable and intelligent people's rational thinking. I've fallen prey to it a number of times without even realizing it.
Satoshi Kon was an amazing director and all his movies are great. I hope they manage to finish his last movie.
Gay marriage was determined to be a constitutional right by a conservative Supreme Court (judicial ruling), versus this being an executive order from Obama. Trump has previously said he plans on throwing away all of obamas executive orders, which he can do on his own. That said Obama is now working with trump to transition govt and taking a much more active role in it due to trumps team being under prepared, so who knows. Maybe pieces like this that trump doesn't really care about live on. Hard to say, it's a brave new world in US politics.
Not sure how this would replace a bulldozer, what is the purpose? Transportation?
> Always do and don't remember any issues.

Have you ever tried updating an old Ubuntu (say, 14.04 LTS) with lots of -dev packages installed?

I have had this issue several times, which made me force to switch one of my client's system to Debian.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1659619/
This. It sounds like the author used a queue and worker pool with the Go version. There's nothing stopping you from doing the same thing in Node.

I think a lot of people forget this sometimes and just spawn off unlimited multiple simultaneous requests in Node apps. Doesnt matter what language you're using, that's never going to turn out well
I also got started writing assembly by looking up opcodes in the back of the orange-book which came bundled with my 48k Spectrum. Writing programs on paper, and filling in the offsets for (relative) jumps once complete.

Happily the format of z80 and Intel assembly were very similar, so I didn't find it hard to move to PC-stuff when I arrived at university. (Not a surprise given where the Zilog developers came from.)

Z80 was the first assembly language I wrote in, and even if I mostly just hacked games for infinite lives I had a lot of fun doing so. Cracking protections on tape-based games was a challenge without the internet, but the lessons learned eventually applied to PC-stuff when I discovered +fravia. (Though we don't talk about that kind of thing any more ;)
I suspect it has to do with the video being sped up the same as the segments on the Benny Hill were, which masks one of the challenges of the self driving car.
From my experiences, at least the northeastern us, driving the speed limit, in the traffic density shown in the demo, almost instantly attracts tailgating drivers who want to go faster.
How Steve Bannon Sees the Entire World
"This article is fine, move along citizen, nothing to question here."

Who checks the checkers?
Well, depends. Debian has so called "tasks". If you install one of the desktop tasks (e.g. task-gnome-desktop), it's as complete as any other pre-configured distribution.
Clearing land. You use them to pull ball and chain setups to clear hundreds of acres at a time
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I'll add: Automate everything that can be automated.
> Debian is "raw" and needs more initial setup effort.

For some while I have been trying to write some hacky scripts[0] that would help users to configure their Debian systems really easily (consider the script as pre-alpha).

[0] https://gitlab.com/sadiq/systemconf
I switched to the XPS 13 in 2015 after ten years of Apple. In my opinion, the Macs look much much nicer overall. But after getting used to the super thin bezel on the xps 13 screen, sitting in front of an MB feels like working on an archaic machine to me.
It is a shame. Their hand was kind of forced by GNOME 3 at the time but the damage was done either way.
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There's that, or use something like python-react[0]. No js on the server required ;)

[0] https://github.com/markfinger/python-react
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I don't understand why any machine has to be involved in the public voting part.

I've worked as a volunteer in elections here. All paper, no electronics or even mechanical systems involved. It's relatively hard to compromise such a process, you would need to corrupt all the volunteers at one voting place, with different party backgrounds etc., and even then it would only affect a tiny portion of votes and probably wouldn't make a big difference.

When the count is done, you see the paper stacks for each party.

The per-district counts from the central counting places are published, so you can easily see if something is wrong compared to what you saw at the voting place.

Also from it's trivial to verify that the totals match on the higher levels, it's just addition. So from that point on, it doesn't matter if they use computers or not.
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Trump has threatened to overturn Obama's executive orders, which are not law. They're just orders passed down to federal agencies instructing them how to conduct their business within the framework of the law. In this case, however, the law states that a denied application has to be reapplied for. The last application took five years to complete.
Certainly. That's a completely unrelated debate though.
The main problem is that the supposed violation of momentum conservation. This law is very deeply ingrained in all the current fundamental theories of physics, from the standard model to general relativity. These theories are extremely successful in describing phenomena all the way from subnuclear scales to cosmological scales, as well as nearly everything in between. This leads to two issues:

(a) If these models break down somewhere I would expect it to happen under much more extreme conditions and not with a 'table-top' experiment like this one.

(b) As far as I can see, giving up momentum conservation is not a feature that we can simply 'bolt onto' the existing models. It would require a radical rethinking of the very foundations of our current physical models.

So my personal attitude is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and this paper is not remotely convincing.

This experiment reminds me very much of the faster-than-light neutrinos. The authors of that experiment also seemed careful enough to not overstate their claims but this did not prevent a massive public interest in an ultimately debunked result. I expect the results in this paper to go the same way.
Well, you can be sure that it will be discarded, because the person most likely to be responsible for energy is either S. Palin or some other oil companies-friendly professional.

Republican administrations tend to be "good for business", which translates to "bad for consumers", so get ready to be shafted.
The web paradigm also supports accessibility for people with visual disabilites.
Building in C++ is completely rational after you've hit such scale that server costs outstrip the engineering costs of using a low level language. It's not like fb, google and amazon don't know how to scale a service.
So you think you elected an autocrat
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NASA seems to be minimally involved.

The group has been working five years in their own time in this small laboratory with shoestring budget. White has a day job in NASA and he and others are working with this project in their free time. NASA don't seem to be involved in any other way but "NASA Eagleworks Laboratories" makes it sound like official NASA organization.
In French too: pardon/permission

Very nice indeed.
If you are curious like I was why this wasn't a bigger issue during the election, turns out the other candidate wasn't in a position to take the moral high ground on this either.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/bill-clinton-laureate-...
Relevant book: https://www.amazon.com/Would-You-Kill-Fat-Man/dp/0691154023/
Was the listed amount of force enough to overcome the friction of whatever your hypothetical device is sitting on? It isn't like vacuum chambers don't still have gravity to contend with.
Yes, that's what's done but also you want the page to be server side rendered for SEO and may be for those who have js disabled.
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> The Left doesn't lie and manipulate on an industrial scale like this

I think you are wrong about that. There's also the issue of the underdog not having the institutional control (media, fact-source institutions) to really build an effective counter PR scheme.
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This C compiler is compiled at the same time the C compiler compiles your program. In other words, it compiles C at compiler compile time, where with other C compilers the program's compile time is the compiler's run time.

Hope this helps.
A few months ago I red about researchers using GTA V to train some self driving algorithms. I googled it and it looks good
It's fairly complex even for executive orders; depends on how they were implemented. Some are purely the president's prerogative, in which case the next president can do whatever they want as well. But quite a few are Congress having delegated to the executive branch implementation of some provision (Congress loves to craft fairly vague laws and delegate the details to administrative rulemaking by various agencies). In that case there are certain required rule-making processes that have to be followed, such as public comment periods, cost-benefit analyses, appeals, etc. The president can direct an agency to implement a particular preferred approach, but it has to make it through this process to become binding regulation, and a subsequent president would have to go through the same process to reverse it.
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The Amazon "thing" is most definitely enabled on the sidebar by default in 16.04.
I've had this specific problem and solved it with Dr Sarno's book. It changed my life. I was able to create a startup (that I longed to do..) and I've never been happier.
And its NOT RSI. It's TMS.
Old computer tech: delay-line memory
And this guy solved the trolley problem in a very elegant way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_RZJUAQY4
There are two problems with fake news.

- One is fake news outlets. Astro turfing the internet. It became a lot easier to set up new sites. And there is a big funding machine behind it (yes, Google, looking at you). The key challenge is that fake news is so much more clickable. It is constructed to be alarming. It stands out in our mostly balanced reality. The currency on the internet is attention. It got self sustaining - people were making money of it.

- One is social news. Viral forwarding. Facebook may think they are not a publisher but they build a big publishing machine ready to be taken over by the biggest bully in town. Building nukes and leaving them laying around is not responsible (yes, FB, Twitter, looking at you). There is now power with zero accountability. A feast for any bully.

Systems with almost infinite amplification are bound to blow up. We need feedback mechanisms that effectively push back. Drop fake news from search. Inform recipients that got fake news that it was fake. Decrease ability to forward fake news. Decrease ability to spread fake news by persistent multipliers. Promote properly vetted but more boring/slower stories.

Trump did not only get more attention in the MSM he also was able to use the digital airwaves in a way that drowned out any more balanced messages. His team and fans were able to use a huge lever.
I just updated Ubuntu last night..and it's no longer working. I would switch to Openbsd but I need VMs. I guess it's time to go back to the good old Debian
Oh, fair enough

Still, I would be particularly interested in anything exploring the extent to which people did or did not actually believe their 'official' faith throughout time.
I suspect that in most cases time spent loading the initial data is dwarfed by the initial app payload and turning the data into html.

Server-side rendering solves this by sending you a full 'screenshot' of the initial app, even before the app is downloaded and 'fresh' data is requested.

The clever thing React does in this use-case is that even though the initial load is 'finished' html, React won't have to re-render the entire thing once your app is loaded and requests new data. Instead, it will be able to seamlessly take over and update only what's new, and do its usual thing from there.

One issue you could run into is that users start trying to interact with your app before React has taken over. I'm not sure if that's a problem in practice though, perhaps others can chime in.
Maybe you should make a business? But I guess working for someone else is just too damn easy to feed your family...
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It isn't legislation.

And while this is sort of pedantic, it is an important factor in the next administration being able to easily discard it. If it were legislation, congress would have to be part of getting rid of it.
Did those places have a strong rule of law, free press, legislation giving human rights freedoms, very open government. We're not really talking about information control either, it's data gathering. I hear you on the chilling effect but can't really believe that anything i say in my lifetime will be sufficient to prompt a judge to allow a warrant against me.

Sure, with a huge regime change this sort of law could later prove troublesome but we'd have to have changed our entire way of life first it seems.

Your reaction seems reasonable if you're in a malevolent dictatorship, despite its problems I don't find the UK being anywhere close to that politically.
Still the Desktop task is imho by no means comparable to what you get when you install Ubuntu Desktop. Ubuntu is more "turn key" ready what some again would consider as bloated. It's a lot about personal preference...
Ok... I'm officially old now. I've been keen on the idea of self driving up until now. Watching this just makes me want to grab the wheel... too much traffic, too many people on the side of the road... nope I don't think would I be comfortable.

Oh well... I guess I'll have to wait for the mini-van style with blacked out windows :)
Obama banned certain new leases through 2022.

From a related report:

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/11/18/obama-administration-b...

Even if the economics of Arctic drilling improve and a Trump administration wants to reopen the area to exploration, both oil company officials and environmental groups say, Trump would be unable to toss out the five-year plan immediately. To undo the Obama administration’s ban, a new administration would have to prepare a supplemental report, which could take as long as two years, depending on whether it needs to prepare a new environmental impact statement.

After that, the federal government would have to organize a lease sale for companies interested in drilling there.
Those are scripting languages.

If you bothered to read why DLR was created, you will see why CIL wasn't enough.

Or why Java following the same linr of thought had to follow DLR changes to the CLR and introduce invokedynamic byte code and its related infrastructure.
I must be forgetting something, or something is in the sequels - what mental handicap? And I thought the entire point of the Sophons was to have the computers lie to us.

(Versus, say, blocking out all light from the sun and freezing us to death. Or reflecting more and burning us alive. Or slicing through every human's spinal cord. Or detonating nuclear devices. Or whatever.)
> If these models break down somewhere I would expect it to happen under much more extreme conditions and not with a 'table-top' experiment like this one.

I agree and I'm skeptical myself. But note that models just barely break in this experiment. The deviation from theory (if real) is so small that it's almost unmeasurable. The models might break in a more severe way if extreme conditions are applied in a correct way.
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I wonder if this even matters after the huge shale discovery in Texas.