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So, the five star movement was originally born as a "green-party" kind of movement, the 5 stars representing: public water, sustainable transport, sustainable development, right to Internet access, and modernity.

The movement was entirely born on the web, and refused to appear on traditional media like television and newspapers, as they believe traditional media to be undemocratic and corrupted. The focus of the movement is participatory democracy, so they coded an online platform where citizens can propose laws, discuss, and vote on them. These proposals are then brought to the parliament by the elected members of the movement. These are not career politicians, they are common citizens elected on the online platform based on their CV's.
It's probably one of the first big experiments in direct democracy.

So, to answer your question, they "believe in" what the majority of citizens believe in. The only constant is they believe in the democratic power of the web.

I think it can be called anti-establishment as it was born from strong negative feelings against the current establishment, and it refuses alliances with any existing political party. It gathers people across the political spectrum, who are unhappy with the status-quo. It's a very interesting experiment, testament to the disruptive power of the web, as the managed to get ~30% with no presence on traditional media and no campaign financing.
I would be very interested in if you could find that paper. Briefly reading on piece chains, I can't see how they would be the preferred way, sadly. (I'm assuming the failing is on me, hence the sadly.)

Even gap buffers seem somewhat odd to me. I'm assuming the gap is only created/inserted when text is typed. Not just on moving of the point/cursor.

That, or thinking longer, I suppose that the contents of the file can be out of sync while the buffer is not saved. So, probably possible to easily insert and shift a gap periodically into the text, as needed. (I'm envisioning the rotate memory code from Programming Pearls to keep the gap where you want it.)

Similarly, the piece chain (which, I should add that googling that was a piece of hilarity), if it is possible to "snapshot" the base of the piece chain every so often to what is on disk, it would just mean inverting some of the change pieces. Which doesn't sound too hard.
You don't see intrinsic value in bitcoin as a commodity. But what if I told you that controlling bitcoin token gives you right to make a new data entry in a global, immutable ledger which cannot be censored and does not have to be maintained by a 3rd party. This can be used for example to do proof of existence, proof of publication or storing hash of important information "forever" (book keeping). This definitely has value for some. And this useful property is to bitcoin as conductivity is to gold. It does not dictate its monetary value, it determines its lower-bound value as a digital commodity.
I’m living in a carbon bubble. Literally
Thank you for this explanation!
Couchbase Lite was not something that we considered. Once we got PouchDB up and running it seemed to fit our needs well enough that we stopped considering alternatives.

I've upvoted davidbanham's comment because that seems like a more insightful answer to your question.
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I agree with the gist of what you're saying, but it sells better without the vitriol.
Secure Computer Systems: Mathematical Foundations (Bell-LaPadula, 1973) [pdf]
Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet [video]
Oh my - I'm not sure where to start. I designed 100BaseT and 100BaseFX equipment in the mid-90's and there is a very good reason Ethernet signals look analog on the wire ... We use the inductors and capacitors matching the drivers and receivers to the cable to round them off.

Nice, perfect digital signals (square waves) are built from all odd harmonics of the original signal. It would be impossible to meet FCC emissions form the cables if you didn't eliminate these harmonics. The good news is that the receivers are really good at turning the differential signals in an Ethernet cable back into beautiful square waves on the circuit board. The Ethernet receiver also uses a PLL to lock on to the main frequency of the driver, so it even adapts as the driver frequency drifts.

I can think of a couple reasons that one Ethernet cable might sound different than another but all of theses reasons involve increased error rates which would normally be caused by a bad cable, flakey driver or an overly sensitive receiver. Since the more complex and compressed the audio is, the more likely you'd break the decoding instead of hearing audio degradation.

TLDR ... You might hear differences when sending audio over different types of cables but if you do'it's not because the Ethernet signals are analog.
Artificial intelligence and the evolution of the fractal economy
Delaware.

http://statelaws.findlaw.com/delaware-law/delaware-corporal-...
So... this is one of my pet peeves about developmental psychology.

This "punishment doesn't work" mantra is rampant in the field, and it's totally unsupported by the scientific evidence.

What is true is that punishment on its own is relatively ineffective, and that you need to reward desired behavior to shift it from something undesirable to something desirable.

But if you read the learning literature, it's pretty clear that the most effective way to change behavior is to punish undesired behavior and reward desired behavior.

The article is promulgating this ideological distortion of operant conditioning that's common in developmental psychology.

Maybe there are better or worse ways of implementing punishment, and the best thing is to combine it with rewards; in fact, sometimes rewards on its own will work. But the idea that punishment is ineffective is incorrect.
Score your users based on attributes like whats in cart, IP reputation, browser/os, pages visited, source,3rd party fraud detecton providers etc. Score should reflect how likely the user is genuine or not. For well scoring users which should be 90% of your traffic, provide them with detailed messages.
802.11ac wave 1 is 1.3Gbps theoretical max, Wave 2 is 2.3Gbps or so theoretical max. But that's half duplex. And it's shared amongst every station on the AP, so it'd be rare to see consistent gig speeds for a station anywhere other than a lab or perfect test setup.
Something like that. It is a populist party, their main ideas are removing politicians' privileges, cutting costs and paychecks, only electing honest people and so on.
> A NES with composite compared to the AVS is a stunning difference in picture quality.

So one counter-intuitive complaint of many modern emulation systems is that they provide "pixel-perfect" rendering. I.e. what the console outputs is what you get on screen.

Except that's not how the games looked back then! The video artifacts of TVs at the time, composite signal and NTSC, meant you had color bleed and slightly blurry pixels that weren't even square. It's not just scanlines. For practical examples, see this Gamasutra article [1]. Most telling to me is the comparisons of Link (from Zelda 2) therein.

The AVS page doesn't mention any of this, so am I to deduce it forgoes emulating these artifacts?

[1] http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/KylePittman/20150420/241442/C...
Damage from high-speed neutrons is deal killer.
Periodically replacing neutron-damage magnets is too expensive.
I'm running Firefox 50.0.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. No emojis in the parent article display.
and unlimited time. So much advice of the form: "Really sit down with the child during a tantrum. Listen to their concerns, and make sure they feel heard. Only then engage with them in problem solving.". Uh. Sure. I'll just do that. I mean, dinner is going to burn, we'll be late for swimming, and I was on my way to wipe my other child's butt before helping my _other_ other child with their homework.

I can only assume that the people constructing the advice have a nanny and/or a housekeeper.
No and probably not. The biggest issue with wifi is almost always the station/client. Clever units may send de-auth packets to try to get you to renegotiate with an AP with a stronger signal but nothing is guaranteed and some client stacks can be stubborn
Skeptical doesn't mean distrust though.

Is there any evidence to suggest Wirecutter has refused to rate an item due to lack of affiliate links?
Having a flashback to Jon Stewart on Crossfire after reading your comment.
True. In that event though, there's little other options. Locking those variables individually like that is probably worse then other locking options though, so it is worth keeping in mind. but while it would be slower, it would still be just as 'correct' as using actual atomic variables.
I once wrote an HTML WYSIWYG editor for Windows 3.1. I had bid for a project but didn't check that the library I wanted to use would actually work with 16 bit Windows. So I had to do it myself. It took me several all-nighters to make it work.

The hardest part was rendering in a performant way. One page was fine but with several pages it got horribly slow. I had to invent some caching to avoid recalculating the layout all the time.

Definitely one of the most educational things I have ever done.
I think the affiliate model is far better than having ads everywhere on the site. The incentives are far clearer this way. By consistently making good recommendations, they will build a loyal audience, driving further affiliate sales.

Their product is their reputation for good reviews. Destroying that is clearly against their interests.
Choice among humans increases the likelihood of compliance. And choice isn't important, it's the appearance of choice that's important.

This sounds astoundingly similar to what software developers are doing when they remove features and customisability and then retort "but you can still choose between X and Y"l nevermind the fact that X and Y are still a horrible substitute for the A-to-Z that they replaced --- and more unsettlingly, it seems like it does work on much of the user population.
I've gathered from previous discussions of these devices that homeplug performance is not always good. I've never tested it though.
How was the bug discovered? Sounds like a fun story.
What was the solution?
> Texas is actually a lot more liberal than you might think and mostly does not care about it's history. It's even moving to the center consider Mitt Romney actually had a much wider margin in Texas than Trump.

You are certainly not from Texas. Stop trying to believe it is leaning center and will someday be democrat/liberal. Texans are the most prideful about their state and are proud of their rich history unlike other top states like California and New York.
There's a difference between knowing we need to stop, and having an alternative. The way you paint it... people should have just woken up in the 70s and said, "Yup, guess it's time to let my kids starve... I can't be driving this car to work any more... it'll be better for the planet if we all just die off since we inconvenience people on the coats."

What's kind of funny... North Dakota has a LOT to gain from global warming. Look at their location. A flip to what you're saying is... "Hey, maybe all those people who live on the coasts should move someplace that could stand to have an extra 4-6 degrees added to the average annual temperature." I say that tongue in cheek, mostly to point out how silly it is to mandate change.

People have to decide for themselves, right? Freedom and all that. Telling one of the poorest states that they need to forgo economic improvement because people in coastal states say that global warming is bad... it's exactly like me saying you should move away from the coasts. You don't get to decide how others live any more than they get to decide how you live.

It gets old hearing, "oil is bad" -- we've certainly heard all the doom and gloom for a long time. People need viable alternatives. Just saying, "Yes, it sucks for the people of North Dakota that their lifestyles are unsustainable..." you aren't going to get anyone to side with you. Not your point, but you also realize that the power of government derives from the consent of the governed -- right?

I split my time growing up in Seattle and North Dakota... and I'm quite purple as a result. It's important to see the big picture. The reason Tesla is tying in self-driving cars to electric cars. They know that as soon as more people start driving electric cars... the price of oil is going to tank. Even with amazing strides towards solar, wind, hydro... because of those strides even... we're faced with 50+ more years of oil. As oil prices fall... it's just that much harder to buy an electric car. They need a hook... and self-driving is just that.

But it's not like we have to cut off all oil use tomorrow. Especially in more rural areas, places that can absorb the CO2, places like North Dakota... the places that have too many people, where nature can't possibly hope to keep up... those are the places that need to stop using oil. Right? So putting the burden on North Dakota... cities, people in cities should bear the lion share because they're the ones causing the most damage.
This is the exact issue under law in Vernor, to wit: whether or not a customer who purchased AutoCAD had the right to resell his copy under the "first sale doctrine" (AutoCAD licenses are nontransferable per the EULA). Most proprietary software comes with a statement "This software is licensed, not sold" or words to that effect. You are not buying a copy of the software; you are buying a license to use the software. Because you must make a copy of the software (in memory) in order to use it, you are in violation of copyright by using the software without a license. So any use of the software is subject to the terms of the EULA and by using the software you agree to those terms. Violating the terms = no license = no right to use the software.

Pretty standard contract law really, and the 9th circuit agreed, finding in favor of Autodesk in Vernor. But hire a lawyer if you need to know for sure.
A long time ago, I set up a mesh with a bunch of WRT-54Gs and OpenWRT using olsrd for the routing protocol. It worked pretty well as far as I could tell, but I never setup a proper test to see if multi-hop routing was working well. (My setup was within a house, so basically all the nodes were in range of each other.)

For any large mesh, using a proper routing protocol is a good idea; the default behavior of ethernet it to construct a spanning tree and prune any links that would result in a cycle, which leads to suboptimal routing if you have more than two routers.

There's been a lot of interesting research in wireless routing. One of the more interesting ideas [1] is to use the probability of packet loss as part of the link cost metric, to discourage routers from always using the path with the fewest number of hops, which might be very unreliable.

It's been about a decade since I looked at any of this stuff, so I don't know what the state of the art is these days.

[1] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/grid:mobicom03/paper.pdf
Facebook's folly also has a MPMC queue:

https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/MPMCQueu...
I always enjoy reading articles like this. I am a .Net developer and recently did an application for parsing some of our B2B PDF documents (different vendors, different document structures) and loading the data into a backend db.

It was an interesting project. Text parsing becomes so simple once you have a logic. And there are so many things to watch out for e.g. Different versions of PDF are structured differently, some vendors had HTML documents, flat text, some totally not in any structure.

Thanks for sharing!
I don't really know what the anti-establishment movement in America is and what it proposes but I can tell you that what Five Star Movement in Italy believes in is yet to be understood. They have too many conflicting ideas in the same party. Some are in favour of Europe, others are not. Some are pro-Euro, others are not.
If there's a thing they are good at it's shouting. They have no political plans, but they shout loud. Very loud. Having zero experience in managing a country.
You were not very precise with your numbers. You say "99%", "9 out of 10" and "very rare". To a lot of people these mean "negligibly small". With dog training, child rearing and most everything else in life you increase your chances for success by a lot if you follow certain rules. But let's not look down at the people who fail. It may be their fault or it may not be their fault.
I use powerline adapters (like homeplug for ethernet) and would say I get about 99.9% uptime. I think I bought either TPLink or Trendnet.
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Artificially? How so?
More fences :) (and the overhead that came with them)
Looking at the map that shows Santa Cruz, I can't help but imagine how many more commutes there would be "over the hill" on Highway 17 if there weren't such a hilly, windy road via that commute. Eventually it might become economically feasible to physically "move mountains" so to speak for the purpose of unlocking greater personal transport... I wonder how much terraforming might affect future projects across all the world, let alone Northern California.
Realm looks very promising, but the lack of a version that can run in the browser is also why I had to cross it off my list of potential DBs for the project I'm working on. Is a browser port on the roadmap by any chance?
A mitm is an active attacker. If TLS fails, then the mitm could modify the code sent to the end user.
I don't get the point you're trying to make. Aren't std::memory_order's guarantees supposed to work with all support archs?

The code in the OP does use memory fences. Are you implying that their implementation are incorrect?
How is that different from a human or a dog?
I heard that this type of device was bad because of spectrum spread and radio interference, is this true?
GPL'ed code is probably legal in this case, because they don't distribute publicly. It would be a decently easy case to make in an international IP court that distribution within North Korea is not a public release. However, if a North Korean citizen demanded the source code for Red Star, they may be obligated to provide it, lest they are in violation of the GPL.
> you'd rather ship oil from over seas

You're the one that wants to ship oil overseas. The oil that Energy Transfer Partners intends to pump through the DAPL is not for domestic use. They promised otherwise, of course. They also promised that this pipeline would provide jobs, which conveniently ignored the truck drivers the pipeline would replace.

The DAPL oil is intended to be exported[1]. This has the convenient effect of allowing the very dirty shale oil to be sold to countries that have weaker carbon regulations. ETP (and those that fund them) is trying to work around environmental regulations for profit. The only connection to the US economy or oil supply is the damage their pipelines will do to the ecosystem.

I realize it's hard to break free from propaganda once it's affected you, but I recommend verifying the facts and investigating the larger situation before believing talking points that happen to align with big business profits.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2016/09/01/dakota-access-export/
No mention or review of Google WiFi [1]? Anybody try it?

https://store.google.com/product/google_wifi
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K means can also solve for k, but its a more opened ended and difficult problem. This is pretty good approximation
Punishable by jail time in South Korea.
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?action=browse;oldid=ScreenPl...
that does seem to be rather low for an expensive city and a falling currency.
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Is Evidence from Social Psychology and Neuroscience Relevant in Normative Ethics? [pdf]
We've been running PouchDB in production for ~15 months now. We chose it because it was a greenfield project and it gave us 2 things: Easy offline support and real-time syncing that makes it easy to create collaboration a-la Google Docs. Because the entire thing is a web app with app cache manifest deploying new versions is very little hassle.

In terms of architecture we have about 250 tenants with separate Couch databases per each. We're still running Couch 1.6. We have yet to evaluate Couch 2.0.

It's been mostly smooth ride for the most part but this being a very unusual architecture we had to tackle few interesting problems that came along.

1. Load times. Once you get over certain db size the initial load time from clean slate takes ages due to PouchDB being super chatty. I'm talking about 15-30 mins to do initial sync of 20-30mb database. We had to resort to pouch-dump to produce dump files periodically. That helped a lot. I think this issue has been rectified with Couch 2.0 and sync protocol update.

2. Browser limits. Once we hit the inherent capacity of some browsers (namely Safari on iOS, 50mb) we had to get creative. Now we're running 2 CouchDB databases for each tenant where 1 has full data and the other only contains last 7-8 days. Pouch syncs to the latter one. We run filtered replications between the full db and the reduced db and do periodic purging. On the client side if a customer tries to go back more than 7 days we just use the Pouch in online only mode where it acts as a client library to remote couch and doesn't sync locally.

3. Dealing with conflicts. This might matter or it might not depending on the domain but you have to be aware of data conflicts. Because CouchDB/PouchDb is eventually consistent multi-master setup and you will get data conflicts where people update the same entity based on the same source revision. PouchDB has nice hooks to let you deal with this but you have to architect for it.

4. Custom back-end logic. Because Pouch talks directly to Couch you can't exactly execute custom back-end logic when needed. We had to introduce a REST back-channel to make sure our back-end runs extra logic when needed.

5. We had some nasty one-off surprises. Last one was with an object that had 1700 or so revisions in couch and once it synced to PouchDB it would crash the Chrome tab in a matter of seconds. Due to the way PouchDB stores revision tree (lot's of nested arrays) Chrome would choke during JSON.parse() call and eat up memory until crash. We resolved this one by reducing the revision history limit that is kept.
I have to agree here. I lived in a tiny village in Laos for 4 months a few years back, and I have to say, the six year-olds were more mature, independent, and emotionally sophisticated than some 16 year-olds I knew back home.

Favorite slightly-related story: while teaching a class of 8 year-olds one day, a student in the back opened up his desk, and pulled out a machete. My heart stopped for a beat. He then proceeded to sharpen his pencil with the machete, then place it back in his desk.

Man, I miss Laos.

Anyways, the North American trend to never leave your kids unattended really seems to have stifled their independence and ability to strive on their own, and it's so evident when you travel to some developing countries.
Your notion, shared by Clinton, cost her the election.
But not, by a long shot, the Popular Vote.
> It seems like it might be useful for managing employees / colleagues too.

Please don't treat your colleagues/employees like a fucking child.
Does anyone know of a Windows tool that test various proxy setups for apps, like PAC/authenticated proxy/etc?
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