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Europe is much, much stabler, at least right now. I follow the political polls in Europe and what you say is... mostly not true.

> AFD in Germany in the 15-20% range

According Wikipedia, no poll ever has given AFD more than a 15%, with the vast majority giving it around a 12.5% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_German...). Even if AfD would get to 20% (which it's very far away from their predicted results) it's very unlikely they would get to the government.

> Le Pen might win in France

She might, but right now is very unlikely, much more than a Trump victory or Brexit. The problem is that she is losing in the polls by... a lot. For the French presidential election, all polls predict Fillon v. Le Pen. The only two polls conducted since Fillon was chosen candidate give him +34 and +42 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_French...). 42 points was the distance between President-elect Trump and Johnson, the Libertarian candidate, in the last election.

I'm not saying it's impossible. Just very unlikely. The errors in the polling for the US Presidential Election and the Brexit referendum were much smaller.
What an inappropriate article for HN. Same old boring 1950s fear-mongering, same old shitty hatred for socialism, same old "American Exceptionalism" bullshit from the 20s. Next.

This interview needs a TL;DR and the interviewee needs to get in a cemetery.
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Legality and gov't sanctioned is one and the same to many people.
Regressive left?

I was taught the left represents progress and equality, whereas the right represents stagnation and oppression, and by God and wishful thinking I intend for this to never change!
I'm a noob and yeah antennas seem crucial. I wish there was some book I could read on the subject or some recommended websites. Maybe HN can recommend something. There are many tutorials how to build an antenna for specific purpose, but I'd like to gain some basic understanding of how do you design it.
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they ask some of the most ridiculous questions trying to trip you and make you say stuff you don't mean or isn't true.

Like, "do you know any foreigners?" turns into "why didn't you disclose that telationship, did they pay you money?"

No matter what you say it opens up a new line of questioning for the investigators. That's why lawyers tell you to never talk to them, not even to try and clear things up.
> Who's going to stop it from becoming the next paypal?

As in market share, or support/development annoyances?
By using the word 'standard' you're trying to legitimize something that's fully encrypted, impossible to code-audit and fully under control of Intel, while pretending to be your property and controlled by you.

So yes, it's a standard. I believe there was also a standard on how to tie a noose for hanging a human, but that didn't mean much to the one getting hanged.
Last weekend I published my new app for time tracking and invoicing on AppStore.

I will be happy to get some feedback.
Obviously this is something you care about. I suggest you take some time, do some research, and spend some serious time thinking of concrete steps Facebook could take, and more importantly what you can do to help make the changes you want to see. At the end of the day, it's people that make changes. Expecting others to make those changes for you is likely to lead to more frustration for you. Be well, and good luck!
The point of having "fuck you money" is that you have money enough that if your kids are more important to you than your company, you can tell your board to fuck off and hire someone else to run the company.

You don't have "fuck you money" if you are still dependent on being CEO to maintain the lifestyle you want. You have fuck you money when whether or not you work is down to what you want rather than what you need.
I think part of the reasoning was down to there being a lot of Unicode characters that look identical to ASCII ones, and that it would make creating legitimate looking domains for phishing a lot easier.
> The only thing I don't like is the management tool requiring java for the browser but it's pretty simple to figure out.

You don't need Java to work in the browser. The management tool runs on a Tomcat webserver. That requires Java. I don't know if you need to install Java to get that working, or if Java is included in the tool itself. But you don't need the Java plugin in your browser for the tool to work. To test this, disable or remove the plugin and see if the management tool keeps working!
Thank you! It's too late to edit my comment.
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If you have proper security on a higher abstraction layer you don't care at all how the data gets transmitted, who can listen to it or modify it.
Not aware of any cards specifically (outside of European chip-and-pin, but I don't think those usually work online), but this is the big argument for things like android/apple/firebomb pay.

Make a purchase, then sign off on your phone (or fingerprint reader on your laptop).

It obviously won't resolve the issue posed in the article, but it is definitely a step in the right direction and many of the major CC companies are integrating more and more. In five or six years I can easily see Chase and the like giving an option to only let the physical card be used in chip-and-pin mode and to require the use of an approved service for any contactless/online orders.

Obviously the approved services thing is a concern, but not a huge one.
DropBox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Your link has a further link to what it describes as the full text of the bill, http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Lan...

There's absolutely nothing in the text about pronouns, and absolutely nothing about the presumption of innocence. All it does is simply add gender identity to the usual list of things (race, religion, age, sex, etc) covered in hate crime and anti-discrimination laws.

Am I missing something here? Is the alt-right staging some Pizzagate-style hysteria-fest again?
> Right now, there's no startup visa of any kind.

They've been over there a while I believe. The Collison bros have for a long time been known as valedictorians - could well be they found some other means to get a visa.
Ignorance has always been a problem. But today it gets much more exposure, and is being manipulated along with anger to screw up democracy.
It's a "K3773" as far as I can tell.

I was actually trying to use it from inside the Medtronic system, after the graphical depictions had indicated that it had connected OK, so I'm reasonably confident the software side was setup correctly. I just couldn't connect to anything.
I don't know their story, but I imagine that they took similar route as others:
- start on ESTA or B1/B2
- switch to E2
- once successful-ish go for O-1

Actually these days there are lawyers specialized on obtaining O-1 in a pretty short period of time (3-5 weeks) for founders that get into incubators or raise >$300k.
There are 3 additional ideas that are important, but I didn't see you mention in your comment.

1) You praise the heck out of the child when they do accept the choice. This is hard because you have to remember to notice NON-drama, which is typically not noteworthy to people. You over-remember when things went bad and under-remember when things went fine. I do too--everyone does. (Politicians exploit the heck out of this BTW.)

2) You don't defer your whole life to arguing with the child. If it's time to go, you go, sweater or not. The key thing is that it's not punishment. It's just Life... or The Schedule. Don't act mad, just calmly firm. If the kid won't wear a sweater, they get cold. Bring the one you prefer as a backup if you want.

3) (Hardest) You model the behavior you want. Play a pick a sweater game when it's NOT time to go and there is no pressure. If they do it right or sort of right, praise the part they did right and do it again.

None of this is easy. FWIW I have a young kid and would grade myself at around 50% or less on these. But it's a model to work toward.
I'm one of those immigrant children that arrived in SF in the early 90s, now having grown up in SF and found success here, I'm actually looking at moving back to work in tech in Moscow. There is an energy there that I haven't felt anywhere else, hopefully the geopolitical situation will settle down over the next few years to make it a reality.
> Now to anybody who thinks he can control the internet and what people read/think/discuss I say good luck with that.

Well Facebook _is_ doing that as we speak, but they don't consider it controlling what people read - they're just giving their users what they think they want. For their bottom-line. Which is their business.

But there's no harm in pointing out that a for-profit entity isn't behaving in a socially responsible manner. Even if you or I don't use the platform.
Digg reader can combine RSS feeds from various sources for you (similar to what Google Reader did; RIP).

The foundation of the web is open source.
I am interested in using a SDR for exploring the PHY in software. This includes having to sniff the GSM, bluetooth etc. I have a Nooelec SDR USB dongle but I am yet to experiment with it. I have used to listen to FM radio and that's it.

I am thinking of starting decoding FM radio by myself to understand the basics.I do not want to use GNU radio except for better understanding. I would like to learn and have an understanding of things from scratch so that I get an intuitive feel when I am developing sniffers. Is this a good way to start? I really love wireless protocols but have worked from link layer upwards and would love to understand wireless PHY implementations.
You can still use Uniscribe in Windows 10 but as you said it has been superseded by DirectWrite (used in Microsoft Word, WPF, etc).
Isn't it up to the viewer not the publisher to decide what is trustworthy?

Perhaps when major media get so many real stories about democracy wrong and the alt media get them right it's time to stop trusting the people getting things wrong and start trusting the people getting things right.

Fuck, even the NYT had to recommit itself to journalism their reporting this year was so bad.

'As we reflect on the momentous result, and the months of reporting and polling that preceded it, we aim to rededicate ourselves to the fundamental mission of Times journalism.'

When you publish articles saying that the support of a candidate is more important than reporting the truth... well... people stop trusting you as someone who tells the truth no matter how politically unpopular it is, and start thinking of you as the political hacks that they are, and openly admit to being.

'In any normal election year, we’d compare the two presidential candidates side by side on the issues.'
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> They sell ads. If "news filtering" aligns with their bottom-line they'll do it, if it doesn't, they won't, that's business.

Yep, that's what is said when saying "Facebook [...] kills democracy for their own benefit". They provide a discourse perceived as the public discourse for a profit.

Some people are considering that this exercise is a threat to democracy, and even though you seem to imply that you are more versed / cynical / aware ("Give me a break"), that's precisely the for profit part that ruffles some feathers.

> What kills democracy is people incapable of convincing others that they are being mislead/wrong without insulting them with all possible -ism .

Offering a platform for misleading news does not help and actually plays an active part in this.

> What kills democracy is people on both side being so extreme they just can't talk to each other anymore. Facebook isn't responsible for that.

Building a bubble is the prime example of how you can stop separated communities from talking to each other. You can say that the separation existed before Facebook, before other online communities, it does not make it any less salient that these bubbles exists and that it is in the monetary interest of Facebook to further them in order to sell better targeted ads. They whole business plan, their whole point of existing is depending on practices and behaviors that are currently a problem in our democracies.

This means that as of now, Facebook will fight for these problems when they fight for their business. Even if you don't use Facebook or other social networks on the Internet, this means that as an individual citizen your country / nation is being influenced by these products. Even if you choose to not use them, it is perfectly reasonable to go out of your way to tell people to stop using them and to fight their influence in your country.

So, people can perfectly continue to blame Facebook for these problems. No one says that they should be alone in being blamed on this, no need to exaggerate the critics to make them appear ridiculous. But acknowledging these problems is absolutely critical these days.
> Give me a break. It's not Facebook's job to tell the truth from the lies. They provide a social network, for profit. They are not a charity or a non profit. They sell ads. If "news filtering" aligns with their bottom-line they'll do it, if it doesn't, they won't, that's business.

This is a technology forum, so I'll warn beforehand that my opinion, although it has political conclusions, is from a systems perspective and not meant to cause a flame war.

Your position, above, is a very common defense of capitalism. Each agent should act on its best interest, and disregard all else. Distilled like that, it's the purest form of capitalism.

While that position has its merits, we should understand its limitations. It prevents capture of companies by the power struggle. On the other hand, in this case, it is failing to act on FB's exploitation of a negative externality.

FB, by keeping users in their comfort zone is preventing society from improving. And is profiting from it. It gains the profit, sheds some costs to the society at large.

Capitalism is the best society optimization mechanism we know. It is not perfect, though. It creates local maximums, it is short sighted and we must always be careful about its limitations.
If they ask "do you know any foreigners" and you say no, and then they can prove you know a foreigner, that's it: they've got you guilty of a federal felony (lying to an FBI agent about materially relevant matters in the investigation), and since there were two FBI agents one will act as the witness for the other. Then they don't need to investigate anything else; your career is over and you're going to prison.
> Having kids in college is at least 30 years out

It takes 18 years for kids to grow up and go to college right? Do you mean that you know you won't have kids for at least another 12 years?
If you're using a service like MailChimp, they'll actually show you industry averages for click-throughs, even on the free plans. It depends on the industry, but 8% sounds quite reasonable.
Funny that, I've played all week-end with a RTL stick[0], and a £30 'weather station' thing from amazon[1]. Using rtl_433[2] it took no time at all to be able to receive what the sensor pods are sending over, it's really pretty cool!

I've also ordered some 433mhz wall/light switches, I hope to be able to receive/transmit and log all of that stuff, from what I can see, with a bit of tweaking you can integrate quite a few vendor's kit, and even integrate it with amazon Alexa for voice control.

Also started to 'explore' the spectrum using gqrx/gnuradio, I can see how it could become addictive :-)

[0]: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/152142033580

[1]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00SIZZBDK [ whoops sorry went up in price, cyber week is over :( ]

[2]: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/using-rtl-sdr-rtl_433-decode-various-...
Try becoming a citizen of China. And even if you manage to on paper, try becoming a culturally accepted citizen of China. China is a terrible example of what it should be like.
Where/How would you start looking for a job there?

Do you know if Skolkovo is still a thing there?
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We've been pushing hard on some parts of Docker, and it's working pretty well. For example, reconfiguring iptables depending on what game you ask for. And it works fine to test things like that on my MacBook and then deploy to Kubernetes. Amazing.
Kids will call their parents the worst things they think will get a reaction without getting them in too much trouble.

My son would never go that far - he dislikes "bad words" to the extent that it frustrates us because he'll tell us off for relatively innocent things, and insist on at most spelling out words he consider bad....

But he'll still on occasion try to say something he knows is hurtful when he is angry and want to get a reaction.

So if it sound crazy that someone would call their parents "bitch", it generally just reflects what they've gotten away with before and gotten the right reaction from.
How is this different from news sites? They also earn the most of money from advertisers and the main criteria for those advertisers are page views. We still completely lack a viable internet business model that would strongly encourage the quality and not quantity...
The more likely explanation is that she is not properly applying her own methods, because it's harder to evaluate something that one is personally experiencing, as opposed to something happening to another person. The article even talks about this.

This is not unique to kids and pets. It is why even experienced athletes have coaches, for example.
Good report!
On #4, have you considered a client-db-server approach? Where your server just listen to changes in do and act accordingly. Is there something in your specific case that prevents this approach?
WoW I would be very surprised by. But all the MOBAs and esport FPSes and the like are fair game.

Mostly because, with the latter, improved AI means better competition and a deeper understanding (which boosts sales). With the former, improved AI means improved automation which means imbalanced economies.
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Thanks! I've added an update now.
While I agree that its an extremely complicated problem to solve, I would be more inclined to believe they are trying to solve it if they took responsibility for (at least some of) them, instead of saying:

"We don’t favor specific kinds of sources — or ideas. Our aim is to deliver the types of stories we’ve gotten feedback that an individual person most wants to see."

Of course they could be working behind closed doors, while PR spins its yarn, in which case I wish them best of luck. It would be interesting to see how they solve it.
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> My 4 year will always ask for a 3rd option that isn't there, or just reject the framing entirely.

Exactly my situation. My 2 year old just keep on it until she feels otherwise. Though one thing I have seen to work is to employ her into something adult like allow her to stir the liquid while making scrambled eggs :)
Yep, you can definitely still use it all, just like you can continue to use the even older APIs too - hooray for backwards compatibility.

Just pointing out that the technology for Notepad has actually changed and improved since 2005.
Isn't it up to the viewer not the publisher to decide what is trustworthy?

That's difficult if the publisher (Facebook) only shows them untrustworthy material, and the viewer is not aware that this is the case.
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Pfff. I missed that one.
If people in China can figure out that the state is lying to them, I'm pretty sure we can figure it out that random sites on the internet aren't trustworthy.

The alt-media links extensively to MSM to point out their lies and inconsistency, I'm sure someone has realized that CNN, and MSNBC, and NYT are a thing.

Even if you're not right wing, you'd probably at some point heard of Noam Chomsky who goes on similar rants about how even highly regarded NYT publishes articles that are pretty much propaganda. And then there's Jason Blair...
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Here and reading :)
It exists and is called Blendle
I just got my Ham license a couple weeks ago and picked up an updated version of the SDR dongle he's using a few days ago[0][1]. I've just started playing with it but even if you're not that into radio, it's worth $20 and a couple hours with to explore the invisible radio frequency world around us.

[0] Be sure to get one with a TCXO (Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator) which reduces frequency drift.

[1] His link actually goes to the newer, improved, Mini 2+.
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> Ignorance is killing democracy.

No it is worse. Misinformation is killing democracy. And that's exactly where Facebook is a problem.
Someone ran a VR arcade of 2 HTC Vive units at my local suburban shopping center during the last school holidays. They charged $15 per game, and while there weren't long queues, there was lots of interest. So I sat at a cafe next door and started counting players - they were doing somewhere between $200 - $300 an hour in revenue, and that was during a slightly off-peak time too.

They disappeared after a couple of weeks (it was only ever a popup shop), so I don't know if interest trailed off or not. (I never got around to playing it myself either.) But considering many of the VR games sell for just $5, it made me feel the money right now is in running the VR arcade, not developing the software for it!
From the interview:

> The other thing that’s built into this law and the surrounding policies […] they’ve changed two legal principles. It’s not ‘innocent before being proven guilty,’ it’s ‘preponderance of evidence,’ and it’s not intent, it’s outcome. Those transformations are so far reaching, it’s almost unimaginable.

From a legal standpoint changing the law in such a way that well-intended social behaviour ("Excuse me miss, did you hand in your term paper on [topic] yet?", said the professor to the female student) would become punishable by law in case the observer of that action was offended is pretty draconian.
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> What tradeoffs are worthwhile that ensure an overall positive experience? And still be a profitable business?

Facebook is a business, and real life is not always profitable. When people interact with real life through facebook, they only get to see what's profitable for the company. So yes, fb inherently destroys democracy. Not necessarily on purpose (that's conspiracy territory), but because well-informed people go against their business model.
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