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You would seriously ban a subreddit with bad jokes and a 14-year old's idea of a cult of personality while far, far worse subreddits promoting pedophilia, bestiality, and rampant racism exist?

Since when did terrible jokes and politically incorrect opinion become reason to ban something?
> Without having to resort to managed code.

Which was already partially possible in the last decades by the lines of Algol family of languages starting on the Mesa/Cedar and Ada branches.

What is more exciting about Rust is that a new generation of coders is rediscovering the ways of system programming before C took over the IT industry.

Also how their efforts to adopt Cyclone regions are influencing Swift, C++, D, ParaSail and Pony designs.
There's a very distinct experience of being conscious and having completely no thoughts in the mind. To treat thoughts as some kind of basic element is a mistake that neither neuroscientist nor meditator would ever make. Look up default network mode and how it can be 'turned off'.
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I think I can answer that one for you - very very few.
>>Django gives you the most options to work around the framework

So Django stands in my way and its' advantage is that it is easy the work around it?
Really cool. I'm a big Trello user, but it has some shortcomings so I'm always interested in new offerings.

Have imported one of my organisations and will work with a bit to see how this works out. The first thing that jumps out at me is the lack of Markdown support in the descriptions.

Also, why is there no select field / list option for custom fields?
When merged into the navigation system, the erroneous information generated an estimated altitude that was negative – that is, below ground level.

I wonder if this was a sensor fusion problem or a pedestrian integer overflow.
...No, but a comment about the consistancy is wholly deserved, imho.
Correct (in the philosophical sense)

However hindsight is 20/20 and you can't make rules for everything

Wanting to make everything an universal law is missing the trees for the forest.

Because things change and situations change and what has worked before may not work anymore or have a detrimental effect.

Violence might not be moral, but it works.
> In a foggy/dreary climate (think UK) it doesn't make sense

Sure it does, this is a tired old anti-solar trope that gets sillier every time it's repeated. UK does fine. Germany does fine.
Like every market, it is bound to reach saturation. That is, there are more supply, or in this case, services than there is demand. Not that there is a service for every user looking for love or a hookup, but services have to fight hard now to keep a sustainable user base.

Dating services are also, kind of, designed for failure. If a dating service is 100% effective, every user signing up would find someone, then stop using the service. Of course, we know that never happens, and that people leave each other again, but it also means that the user base of such services are fickle as the use of them are temporary and fleeting. This means a service has to have a really big user base to stay relevant. Users will flock to the service with the greatest promise of success.

Lastly, dating services have a terrible reputation these days. Too much fraud and games have been committed both by the services themselves or by it's users against other users through the use of the services. Trust in online services in general is at an all time low but even more so for dating services.

Hope that explains a few things?
Just this Tuesday I could observe, what happens when Google is down (their routers were throwing away packets from Prague peering).

So, without further ado:

- obviously, services like Search, Youtube, Gmail are unavailable. That includes searching from the address bar in your browser ;)

- people, who have their DNS set to 8.8.8.8 should reconsider their settings,

- too many web pages use assets hosted on Google CDN, including analytics or fonts, and when unavailable, the pages will load very slowly, waiting for timeouts from CDN.

- Android phones will say, that Internet is unavailable, even if it is.

Otherwise, everything is fine.
...You didn't get it.
Do you really think it's possible to de-educate any further people who think the moon landing was faked?
Is 'Marxist' simply a term of abuse now? When I did Sociology is was perfectly respectable school of thought that was studied and discussed.
It's not all bad. We're here, aren't we?
All models are wrong. That much is entailed by 'models'.

There is no Zuul.
But true.

I sure as heck hope that everyone doesn't join me in my communities: the magic would go away.
I get really annoyed by comments like this. The comments was that there may be a systemic risk. Pointing out that there are mitigating controls available is simply not sufficient to refute the concern. To refute it you'd need to show that enough repos do have sufficient backups and are capable of recovering adequately from the loss of github.

If I asked a colleague at work if a project was properly backed up and they said 'well there's an enterprise backup solution that is appropriate for it', I'd metaphorically kick their but into next week. I'd want to know that they are actually backing it up and that the backups have been verified, not that they could be backing it up.

If you'd said something like 'there are options available to mitigate the loss of github and projects should be taking advantage of them, and here they are' that would be a good and useful comment, but I don't think a practical concern can be reasonably dismissed with a theoretical counter. I find it dismissive and lazy.
> Can you give an example of how this capability in CL is used?

Common Lisp for example can extract/set a byte given its width and its position:

CL-USER 145 > (write (ldb (byte 11 2) #b1100101011010110) :base 2)
1010110101

(byte 11 2) is a specifier for this: 11 = width, 2 = position.

Historically this comes form a DEC PDP-10 instruction 'load byte'.
Regular toasters are just a funny example (reductio ad absurdum), although I did find a toaster that can print pictures on your toast [1].

An internet connected fridge could be really useful if it integrates with grocery lists, recipes, expiry dates, automatic deliveries, etc. These fridges are still in their infancy, but we're moving towards a fully automated kitchen. I've seen a lot of fridges that run Android, and people like to make fun of them because "Why would you need Twitter or YouTube on a fridge?". Those are just apps that you can install on anything, and it didn't take any additional effort. It's weird when it becomes part of their marketing, though.

Anyway, this is the future we are heading towards: http://www.moley.com/
I believe the technology is already here, and it's just a matter of lowering the cost and improving the software.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/258723592/toasteroid-fi...
Can you please explain why you think /r/TheDonald should be banned? Should they be banned just because they have different political view than you do? Or is it because such opinions are not allowed on reddit as whole? This touches something that is bothering me when sites like reddit look like they are apolitical but clearly that is not the case. They picked side (which is completely fine) and in very non transparent way are punishing anyone who doesn't share their opinions (which is not). For the other side it then looks like its all part of hidden conspiracy when in fact it is just people running the site who cannot accept that not everybody shares their view on the world.
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Being concerned about children is not a wack job. With yesterdays arrest in Norway and allegations about UK elites. Why do you think same can't happen in America.
See, this is what I don't understand. They don't have to trust each other to use traditional consensus protocols.

What does it mean to fake a transaction?

What does it mean to verify a transaction? With Bitcoin it's possible to do because the balances are public. But once you start making transactions private that deal not in value that exists on chain, but are merely promises for some externally held value, then who can verify its legitimacy?
So many words, so little to say.
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Maybe next time have a better system design so one instrument/sensor error/failure/loss doesn't lead to total loss of unit.
> What does ["Fuck You, Pay Me" talk] have to do with the fact that many, many freelancers don't have $1250 to spend?

Then they are not in a position to conduct freelancing and they risk starving
and/or getting homeless.

A freelancer usually cannot assume stable 40 hours per week for four weeks per
month. He/she has to have a money buffer that allows to live for weeks
without additional income. $1250 is not an expense too big to be covered by
this buffer.
Look up "analogy" in the dictionary

Oh I see you're just trolling
> This seems like a strong case of false equivalence.

> To me your statements sounds strangely familiar to "I'd rather be reading both Mein Kampf ...

So to clarify, you think that someone who disagrees with third wave feminism is like Hitler and want to discuss false equivalence?
Wheat doesn't have proteins and fats - those are more expensive. And processing wheat is fairly laborious, you'd have been better off comparing it to flour (about 12kg of flour a day for the median US income after taxes). And there is also the other costs of living - like shelter (more costly if you want shelter with access to jobs).

Food costs can be quite cheap and still be nutritious with the right choices, but not 700kg of wheat a day cheap.
From the FAQ:

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>We do ask your e-mail address in order to verify the registration process but never save that email on our servers.

...

> The emails we process are saved encrypted on our servers so there is no way for us to track you back.

???
I've been to the -chans, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression (my opinion is more complicated, but I'm simplifying). So while I think they're awful, I still think that people should have a place to say them, whether or not that is reddit.

Also, while I think it's awful, there may be others who do not.
You're right, that does sound like a poor reason to ban a subreddit. Then again, maybe that's unrelated to why I would lean towards banning them?
The best example I can think of is implementing certain cryptographic algorithms, particularly symmetric ciphers and cryptographically secure hash functions, which are often defined in terms of 32 and 64-bit chunks and mod 2^32 and mod 2^64 arithmetic.

Why not just use C? Because the C language spec has "features" that allow a C compiler optimize away parts of your code that you really don't want optimized away in crypto code. For example, if you do this:

int secret_key[SIZE];
...
for (int i=0; i<SIZE; i++) secret_key[i]=0; // Clear secret key so attacker can't read it

A C compiler is allowed to get rid of that code if it can prove that it doesn't contribute to the final result (the "as-if" rule). Forcing a C compiler to not do such things is generally very tricky.
I wouldn't say it is. Look at the Games or Mobile sections, and it says "Pay what you want" for the cheapest tier. At those tiers, you can pay $0.01 and have them make a loss to provide the content, if you're OK with doing that. It's very clear at the top of every section exactly how much you have to pay to unlock each tier of content.

The books don't have a $0.01 tier. When you look at the page, the first line of content that isn't a headline makes it clear that it's a $1 minimum. When you hover over the "Pay what you want" text, it clarifies that, on this page, it's "Name your price of $1 or more." When you attempt to pay less than $1, it displays a warning that you won't get any content if you pay less than $1. The fact that you're here moaning about it makes it clear that you understand that it's a $1 minimum. So where's the deception?
There's also a third problem, which is that capacitors typically don't have constant voltage. Unless there's something special about these capacitors that they're not mentioning in the articles.
There are several problems with ebook textbooks. I have problems concentrating with them too. But also, I need to use my computer while I read the textbook. I find it much easier to have the book on the desk and the thing I'm doing on the screen.

The typesetting and layout of textbooks is also very important. It's not just free flowing text. This means they are simple not compatible with the screen sizes of computers or ebook readers.

The ability to flip through a book is surely one of the best features of the format. When I'm familiar with a textbook I can find the page I want in seconds based on some vague intuition about where it will be (for some textbooks I can do this with my eyes closed). I'm not aware of any electronic formats that offers such fast random access.
No, because that would rewrite everybody's messages. And it would be noticed immediately, so it wouldn't even matter, practically.
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I think it has become impossible to run a social site without any central moderation today. You will attract a certain group of people, and they will act more and more horribly and brazenly (generally harassing third parties) until you just have to delete something. Then they will accuse you of censorship, and the rest of the community will side with them, not you. The harassment will turn on you. Eventually you will snap, and then you are in a world of trouble. It doesn't matter how much free speech cred you have built up over the years. It happened to the founders of Reddit, Twitter and even 4chan.

Of course I am painting site admins as too innocent here. Ultimately they brought it on themselves by letting the community norms fall off a cliff. Back in 2000-2010 being the rough underbelly of the internet was fun, but that period is definitely over.
I have just started working as a freelancer / contractor. It's a pretty nice deal working for a client whom I used to work for when I was in a consultancy.

Anyway, while I'm sure you-are-not-a-lawyer, if you have any advice regarding what to put in a contract I'd be keen to hear it.

The bit I'm most concerned about is the fact that it's a pretty legacy codebase, and there are almost certainly vulnerabilities I'm not aware of. At the moment I have a loosely worded (and accepted) email where I basically say "you put everything into production once you've tested it, as it's a legacy system without decent test coverage". However, I'm paranoid I'll make a mistake / it'll get hacked and then I'll get sued. Admittedly I live in a different country from the client & I am doing things through an LLC so perhaps its safe enough.

Still, if you have any advice/pointers from the trenches, I'd be keen to hear it. I honestly don't care too much about loosing a months salary, so much as loosing the shirt off my back!
He's almost certainly still the asshole he was then, but there's a pretty large gap between abusing access to a website you run in college and abusing access to a website you're payed to be the CEO of in your 30s.
They doxxed and physically harassed reddit moderators of subreddits they didn't like.
Filtering isn't the same as editing. If you filter, it's automated, and thus fairly obvious. If you edit, you are actually changing somebody's perceived opinion.
Your people are doing 12-hour shifts every day, and only get sick at weekends?? I call shenanigans.
'securities, vulnerabilities, copyright' - yes, he can remove comments, or edit them, so long as he is indicating he is editing them.

But editing them without notice, putting words in other people's mouths is a serious breach.
'Sovereign Invidual'[0] makes a good case of how all the hacks and leaks across the board will eventually drive the adoption of encryption, which in turn will lead to the gradual transition of power away from nation states (mostly in the economic sense).

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transi...
In other words: the advantage of frequentism is that it gives you better plausible deniability when you get the wrong answer. Did I get that right?
No it didn't. People were banned, but nobody edited message text. That's a huge difference.
They are never releasing the full source code. Apple strips the ARM architecture, blocks of code for features they do not want to be open source, and the internal documentation before throwing these dumps over the wall.

Here are some hints of what they are doing to process the original sources:

https://opensource.apple.com/source/hfs/hfs-366.1.1/make_ope...
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He was also joking about it a little bit later in the IRC.
They clearly and routinely fall outside the bounds of acceptable discourse, which are already wide on a site like Reddit.

Edit: and routinely
I am really impressed with the Hololens myself. I bought one. It is still not quite there. The FOV is way, way too narrow, the Resolution is too low for serious work, and gestures are not very accurate.

I've also found that the device itself becomes uncomfortable after wearing it for a short period. I have however worn it for more than 2 hours in a row once or twice.

My niece (6 years) loved it so much she kept playing with it for hours also; She played Roboraid or just placed holograms in the living room like little dolls. Took me 10 minutes to clean up :-).

Not everybody I've had try it, were as impressed, and I think most people I've shown it to, think of it as a gimmick.

I don't think a lot of 'lenses will find their way under the Christmas tree this year. Too expensive. But if they got the price down around the cost of an iPad, it would blow the success of iPad away -- Even in the 'lense's current form...

It is another one of those things that indicate that Microsoft is on the right path as a tech company. Now, where is Apple's AR product?
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Something similar was proposed in Kenya a few months ago. Some kind of certification for "ICT Practitioners".

There was a huge backlash against it.
It can happen and if you treat your email with that level of seriousness it is a possibility to have in mind that it could have happened.

The problem here is people taking an entertainment site so seriously, oh they are blatantly fucking up and btw have been in the past other shady things, so stop using it.
Yes, Cake is wonderful, however, I had great problems bringing it to work due to a lot of issues with NuGet v3 (UTC positive offset bug, looking for msbuild.exe to restore packages, ...). Luckily, I could switch to NuGet v2.

Bottom line is: CAKE is great, but if the project depends on things that are not covered by dotnet core one is still screwed.
The fact that you made an analogy doesn't make it meaningful or relevant. Oh I see you're just stupid.
"Ton of source material...but I haven't looked at any of it for more than 30 seconds so I can't be any judge of it,"
Isn't that like saying, "There may or may not have been an earthquake. Tons of seismometers around, but I haven't looked at the readings so I can't say."?
Skyscanner is a fantastic service. I'm really hoping CTrip don't bring their dark patterns, spam, and generally scammy behavior to it.

My experiences with Ctrip includes regular price revisions after booking (and after they ensure they have all of your personal information), added fees for "discount coupons" which can't be removed and are only included after they have your payment information, regular spam despite opting out, and various other deceptive behaviors.

Unlike most booking engines, they often advertise firm prices for hotels, flights etc, but don't actually have confirmed inventory and often take days to confirm (or cancel or revise) the booking despite having taking your payment information already. This is only revealed after taking payment info.

There are also reports of them illegally selling children's tickets as adult tickets and trying to sell tickets purchased via mileage. [1]

[1] http://www.shanghaidaily.com/metro/society/Flyers-left-in-lu...
Except Facetime, was really not the first of its kind -- We already had video conferencing before it.
Business has very clear objectives. So it does not matter who controls, whether it's Indians, Jews, Chinese, or Americans. They are all in it for the money, and they pull founders along. Do your due diligence. Assume money makes everyone into a sociopath. Go from there.
Two definitions I found:

- a thing that is comparable to something else in significant respects: works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature.

- a process of arguing from similarity in known respects to similarity in other respects.

I don't really understand your analogy because I was not saying there should be no limit, like you implied I did, I simply asked for the limit to be defined.
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The problem for me is OSX still takes less maintenance than Linux and provides a higher quality experience than Linux.

I have complaints about the UI changes in OS X sometimes but it's still not as bad as half the Linux applications I'd use in place of OS X ones like Tower

And every time I try Linux i still have issues like the "sleep of death" and NVIDIA Optimus support being in poorly documented limbo (your dedicated GPU is both in use and out of use until you run a graphical benchmark and measure the current draw of your laptop)

And I prefer Homebrew to apt. I've never had Homebrew fail to install other packages because I had a package install break previously, which is always something that drove me nuts about apt.
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Yes, I believe that at least the edit mark should be set
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>> This definition of “social media” is quite narrow. It doesn’t include, for example, individual blogs, or discussion forums, or homegrown sites like Hacker News — as these services haven’t been massively optimized to colonize our cognitive landscape.

I know many people who are dismayed about how much time they spend checking Facebook, but (to my secret disappointment) I’ve never met someone whose claimed the same about Study Hacks.<<
What are the bounds of acceptable discourse in Reddit?
Going totally OT here for a sec, but you guys are awesome. Seriously. This is one of the only places I feel I can come where people are, for the most part, respectful and polite to each other. Nobody is pushing a personal agenda with religion, politics or ethics. Nobody is trying to convince you the world is flat or that aliens built the pyramids. Nobody cares if you're male/female/trans/whatever. Just a bunch of folks talking about their passion without the overhead (for want of a better word) of the everyday web.

Places like HN are rare these days. If there is anything similar, please let me know.
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We will reformulate that. What we mean is that we never save user emails on our servers in clear text. The emails are encrypted on the clients before being sent to us. We want to know as little as possible about our users.