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We don't need the Grauniad to refute stuff in the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail will print a full page front page, and then retract it in a tiny correction six months later on page 12.

From New Statesman

http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2013/12/man-who-hates-libe...

> In the files of the Press Complaints Commission, you will find records of 687 complaints against the Mail which led either to a PCC adjudication or to a resolution negotiated, at least partially, after the PCC’s intervention. The number far exceeds that for any other British newspaper: the files show 394 complaints against the Sun, 221 against the Daily Telegraph, 115 against the Guardian. The complaints will serve as a charge sheet against the Mail and its editor.

> This year, [2014] the Mail reported that disabled people are exempt from the bedroom tax; that asylum-seekers had “targeted” Scotland; that disabled babies were being euthanised under the Liverpool Care Pathway; that a Kenyan asylum-seeker had committed murders in his home country; that 878,000 recipients of Employment Support Allowance had stopped claiming “rather than face a fresh medical”; that a Portsmouth primary school had denied pupils water on the hottest day of the year because it was Ramadan; that wolves would soon return to Britain; that nearly half the electricity produced by windfarms was discarded. All these reports were false.

Here's another example: A columnist accused a muslim family of being extremists. That was libel. She tweeted her apology at 2am.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-twitt...

I think the apology for incorrect claims should take as much space as the original claim. If you print a 92point headline on the front page that's libellous you should print the apology in 92 point on the front page.

EDIT: And about libel in England. You need to be able to prove what you say is true. In the context of "false news" that doesn't seem to burdensome for newspapers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law

> Allowable defences are justification (i.e. the truth of the statement), fair comment (i.e., whether the statement was a view that a reasonable person could have held), and privilege (i.e., whether the statements were made in Parliament or in court, or whether they were fair reports of allegations in the public interest). An offer of amends is a barrier to litigation. A defamatory statement is presumed to be false, unless the defendant can prove its truth. Furthermore, to collect compensatory damages, a public official or public figure must prove actual malice (knowing falsity or reckless disregard for the truth). A private individual must only prove negligence (not exercising due care) to collect compensatory damages. In order to collect punitive damages, all individuals must prove actual malice.
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Building websites was more profitable 15 years ago than it is now. In fact, being a webmaster often was a full-time job in those days.
What are you talking about? I think you might have replied to the wrong comment. The suggested book is not under a libre license.
Have you tried using 3G of any service provider like Idea, BSNL, Vodafone, its very slow.
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https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues/14
More convenient but not as secure.
Usenet archives used to be covered by Google Groups, I assume they dropped it when being good was no longer paramount.
I have already fathered a child with Firebase and quite enjoyed myself

Our <scripts>, much like our feet, should be at the bottom of our <body>. Oh I just realised that’s why they call it a footer! OMG and header too! Oh holy crap, body as well! I’ve just blown my own mind.

Sometimes I think I’m too easily distracted. I was once told that my mind doesn’t just wander, it runs around screaming in its underpants.

Pure gold. :D
Really made me think...
I share you fascination ... I had a colleague with whom I had to work with closely who spoke much the same way. Novel sentence construction aside, it caused a lot of weird misunderstandings constantly. I found it difficult to fix meaning and predict how she might interpret something by her feedback.
The most important being to access mobile cab services. I used this too.
5. Don’t server-render HTML

This is exactly what I do and why the average render time for my e-commerce site is less than 200ms. I use JS for minor DOM manipulations, everything else is static.

The secret ingredient is using Varnish cache server that beats the pants off everything else and that can fill a 10G pipe while still have plenty of capacity left on a single cpu core.
I'm still waiting for "growth hacking" to become synonymous with dark-patterns.

When I encounter growth-hackers the majority of the time I feel like I've just been spammed, or tricked somehow.

"Growth Hacking" is the new "SEO".
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Greetings to everyone.
I'm not a computer professional, but I'll tell you if you can help me.
Imagine that they have emergency plans in pdf format (most of the content is text, although there is also cartography and images). In what format do you recommend transforming them so that a huge amount of work is useful and interoperable in the future? Are there tools that can make my job easier? All your recommendations are welcome.
Thank you very much for your time.
I don't think thats a good point.
I mean I can probably make a console application using .txt file on disk as the database and scale it to handle large websites.... if I had spent $100M on servers and 10 years of my life. Almost anything is possible with most of the technologies out there. But its about using the right tool for the job.

Stackoverflow is huge, its built with SQL server. If they had for example used mysql they would probably have had to hire 2x engineers + spent twice as much time tuning and tweaking.

All those top1000 mysql sites are heavily customized and tweaked to perform as well as they do. Using other modern technologies may had saved them 1000 of hours and money.
Well, with the "å"[1] it is :). Also in Swedish, I think?

Danish has "sprog" which sounds a lot funnier if you say it "in English". In Danish it sounds quite similar to språk -- just soften everything until it turns into a mush of vowels.

[1] For people not versed in Scandiwegian, there's this tradition of "å" -> "aa", "æ" -> "ae", "ø/ö" -> "oe" from the olden days... which is surprisingly useful even in these days of (one would hope) "pervasive" Unicode. :)
I love Blade Runner's design, too. The story goes there was an actor's strike that year, and they couldn't shoot any of the scenes. As a consequence the artists had far more time than usual and made the best of it.

It's supposed to take place in 2019.
Yes, lack of good internet is a problem here. But this is a new service from Google (collaborating with Indian Railways), which might be a bit better. Also, if you had taken a 4G sim card (in the last couple of years) in most cities you get up to 4G speeds in your phone.
Is this playing in the same sandbox as uship (http://is hip.com)?
The undercover police officer advertised as 19 y.o. and then hinted she was younger after which it turned out she was 15 y.o.

I find that quite a subtle difference between:

The undercover police officer advertised as 15 y.o.

Sadly the article doesn't cover this, but the quoted papers do (apparently not news worthy).

The reality of matter is that 15 y.o. girls (speaking about US and EU) generally had voluntarily intercourse. Almost exclusively with men older than them, yet around their same age. If you follow the law strictly thats crime as well. The major difference here seems 1) the man was a lot older 2) he wanted to pay for it.
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"your firm has bought your time for that hour." Tech workers have unusual amounts of wageslave mentality.
The Verhulst equation: dN/dt = rN * (1 - N/K)

Probably the most important equation in my field (ecology).
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Wouldn't call it must read, but I found Joyce's Dubliners quite entertaining and at least close to stuff that's recommended for serious reading.

The last book I thoroughly enjoyed was Scalzi's Redshirts, but it's probably less funny if you're not familiar with Star Trek at all.
There's also an interesting set of applications in statistical physics: many systems can be modelled by Markov chains whose rate parameters can change through time. Changing these parameters non-quasistatically (i.e. so that the system does not relax to the appropriate steady state) gives rise to distances on parameter space that are related to the amount of energy dissipated along the path through parameter space [0,1].

What's nice about this is that the derivation of a suitable metric allows us to compute trajectories that minimise quantities we care about (e.g. minimise energy dissipated), so this has clear potential to be useful. Some cool examples are in spin systems [2] and a harmonic trap [3].

For any differential geometers reading this: it seems to me that a good geometric way to think about this is as a fibre bundle, with the parameter space being the base space and the simplex being a vector bundle over it (see [4] on the simplex being a vector space).

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/0706.0559v2.pdf
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.4166.pdf
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.07425v1.pdf
[3] http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.86.041...
[4] https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2016/06/how_the_simplex...
If you're into social issues, Ursula Le Guin wrote several novels that combine sci-fi with social and political philosophy in a package that feels somewhat non-fiction-y. My favorite are The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. Meanwhile, a more recent novel of hers, Lavinia, is a fascinating reinterpretation of ancient Roman epic fantasy.

Margaret Atwood is another author who doesn't get mentioned a lot around here but whose works of SF(she prefers "speculative fiction" to "sci-fi") I've enjoyed a lot. Her MaddAddam trilogy is weird but entertaining. You'll probably either love it or hate it. Many of her other works focus on issues of sex and gender in various past and future settings, some fictional, some historical.

Of course, I as well as a lot of other commenters in this thread are assuming that you'll be into sci-fi and fantasy, because that's what most computer geeks like. But even if you aren't a sci-fi fan, Le Guin and Atwood aren't typical sci-fi, so you might find them interesting anyhow.
Excellent! I'm glad to see that this is on the roadmap :)
> 100ms cost Amazon 1% of sales

I wonder why we don't have free high-speed internet yet, financed by big companies.
Yes, indeed. Dune. Lets talk about the why. Its much more than an average fantasy because it contains a lot of angles. It is full with psychology, politics, and sociology. Specifically, it touches on subjects like discrimination & racism, oppression/tyranny, managing, infiltrating, warfare, and various eastern philosophies (since the Atreides are forced to suffer). Did I forget anything? Please, do improve my answer! :)
I wonder if it would be possible for the OS to consolidate "hot" memory into as few modules as possible and power down the ones holding relatively cold data when memory pressure is low.
Tax raids and White paper on Black Money by Min. of Finance.
The Adobe brand name is Creative Cloud.
The idea behind obfsproxy is that you don't want it looking like port 443 on the wire. You can infact mask the traffic using the domain fronting technique providing you setup obfsproxy correctly. I haven't tried it myself, but I have analyzed Tunnelbear's 'ghostbear' feature with wireshark and the traffic looks fairly innocuous which is what we're aiming for.

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/TrafficObfuscatio...
Two short stories:

- Rashōmon
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashōmon_(short_story)

- Three Questions
http://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/short-stories/the-th...
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But it's probably very reasonable to believe that people's expectations of a faster response time has only risen since 10 years ago.

If I had to make a guess whether the same studies performed 10 years ago were performed today, whether the drop in page views would increase or decrease with slower response time, Id guess that today you'd have even fewer page views than 10 years ago.
Well, "fiction" is an incredibly broad category (if it can even be called that). And "must read" is highly subjective ;-)

If you're just looking for some light entertainment, go for sci-fi or fantasy (Lord of the Rings, anyone?). But if you don't mind some slightly "heavier" reading, have a look at the classics. In some cases they can be a little tricky to understand, but they are called "classics" for a reason...

Specific suggestions (incomplete and in no particular order): Shakespeare's plays, Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", Harper Lee's "To kill a mockingbird", JM Barrie's "Peter Pan", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories...
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POVray does this too, but it's not part of UUnet, just a self hosted nttp group.
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I don’t believe it’s reasonable to assume that, having presented an alternative view that I find plausible in other comments in this thread. I hope that people’s expectations have increased, but I don’t believe it’s a reasonable assumption.

We need data.
"...in the 1900s"

First time I've heard that one (surprisingly).
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A bit longer than that in my experience, but yes, it isn't a major job. Unless you have lot's of settings and big backups you need to bring back...
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Most new things fail or settle to a lower level after a while. We need to know how many times he wrongly predicted success as well.
Shoul we raise some voice to draw attention and solve this in a peaceful way?
> Elixir has it all (well, almost). It's fast, it's [...]

Dude, Elixir compiles to BEAM, it's slow as hell. Have you ever compared its
processing speed with virtually anything else? It's not processing speed that
Erlang is sold about.
The correct answer really depends on what you're into, and what kind of person you are. There are a lot of subcategories in fiction (just like there are in non-fiction).

Lord of the Rings is much more than mere fiction. It is possibly interesting from a linguistic PoV as it contains an entirely new language called Quenya developed by Tolkien. It also contains a lot of subjects which are relevant IRL.

Without getting further into LOTR I agreed with another poster on Dune and attempted to explain the subjects it touches in another reply to your post.

Problem with both of these (as well as say GoT) is there are movies made of them.

You might also be interested in stories which are based on non-fiction, but are written in a story telling kind of way, greatly adding to suspense. In that category I read the books Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick and Kingpin by Kevin Poulsen [1]. If you're interested in following a suspenseful hacker story I can recommend them both.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13240924
"an extreme individualism has stepped in as the alternative—a go-it-alone perspective narrowly focused on getting an education and becoming successful on one’s own merit."

It's ironic. Corporations are anything but individualist. They're collectives. Almost always top-down authoritarian structures that resemble fascism closer than most fascist governments. And full of bureaucracies that have nothing to do with making products, like marketing & finance depts.

And in this article, "education" is a euphemism synonymous with college. Not talking about self-learning. Some administration that gives people certificates.
"As part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen, all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued no later than 12/31/16. The open source project and source code will remain available for anyone who wants to build CyanogenMod personally."

It doesn't say very much, does this mean that CyanogenMod will no longer be available? Or just the nightly build service will stop, therefore actual releases will still be available?
To put it into perspective, audio call quality is much better on WhatsApp by comparison. However due to my family member connecting to a VPN the additional latency would cause audio jitters. Calls would also drop after 10-15 minutes.

With this technique the jitters have all but gone, and no disconnections.
Where does innovation start?
That's an awfully big claim. Under what conditions does it do well? What does it do badly? Where would I consider using this instead of Redis?
The point was that the physical volume needed to store far more data is so small that you can fit it even the head without going to the lengths in movie, not that it'd be particularly pleasant. But certainly, smuggling things in body orificies has a long tradition.
I'd like to add "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned". Even though the book could be shorter and the idea is rather simple, it made me re-think how I search for ideas and how I decide what to work on.
Yes .. in many cases, because they simply cannot afford to have children.
+1 on Ghost in the Wires. You could also try On wings of Eagles, a narrative of a rescue of EDS employees during the Iranian Revolution.

Wikipedia tells me that the genre is called Non-fiction novels.
I'll extend the question: from what does it protect at all? (Answer: nothing, FIDO keys is a hype)
Well, maybe they could've proposed to used the non-breaking space character ' ' instead of '_', but few people know how to type ' ' from their keyboard..
"Overpopulation"-hysteria is a short-sighted, semi-genocidal ideology (see: People's Republic of China). The same people that a decade ago were worrying about overpopulation in Germany are now clamoring for more migrants from the Global South countries to keep up population growth ("these are our future engineers and doctors"). Proof of how unworkable it is.

European economies would simply collapse without population growth to feed social security. And aging populations are a ridiculously undesirable outcome for any country

Current projections aren't useless. The higher your socioeconomic status, the lower your fertility rate, period. The correlation couldn't be clearer. Geopolitical events could cause temporary changes but obviously wouldn't change the underlying trend. Bringing up the existence of Black Swans to disprove trends is logically flawed.

So there's a clear downwards pressure on fertility rates, in the West, which includes propaganda about "overpopulation" that obviously quite a few people believe in, and that guides their decisions; it also includes socioeconomic improvements. What possible trend could act as an upward pressure?

Is there anything more pathological (psychologically-speaking) than the belief that humans are themselves a pathology
Encryption backdoors are ‘against the national interest’
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Given that the entire plot involves someone chasing him to forcibly extract the data, it wouldn't seem it would offer more security than suitable crypto on a micro-sd card.
I was born in the last twenty years and understood the sentence just fine when I read it. Interestingly enough, youtube does static when your connection times out. (Though I grew up with CRT televison as a kid and definitely remember TV static. I also played a lot of classic video game consoles because my dad was a thrift store hound.)
"Do work only once, then use centralized caching and cache updating to skip ever doing work again."

It looks like their benchmarks are particularly friendly to their cache size.
To avoid confusion, CynagenMod will still be available, but I don't know how long it can continue without Cyanogen Inc. Cyanogen Inc. is what is shutting down.

But this probably means no more OTA updates for current OnePlus's
Yeah, as it turns out, when I installed it actually reported misleading info. (But then the official site misreported too.).

Uninstalled some of the tab extensions I had running and went for "Tab Center" from Test Pilot instead. I'm now running on multi-process and it seems quite a bit snappier overall. :)
I really didn't understand what this project is, then I clicked the link to the Firefox addon page and read this single line

> Open new empty tab with Markdown Editor

Now I understand.

Having to install something anyway, what are the advantages over Typora, which is an open source cross platform desktop application?
Honestly, I cringe everytime I read about gundb.

Db made in nodejs? Check.

No mention of multiprocess? Check.

No mention of persistence? Check.(lol @ s3 persistence)

All tests failing ? Check.

Optimizing if/else? Check.

Faster than redis? Check.

Store non-optimized json in disk(not sure but looks liek it)? Check.

I cringe at every page on their docs(like sharding). It just feels like the templeos situation. Upvoted for discussion though.
I'm confused. Isn't getting cash a problem only if you have a bank account?
> You might also be interested in stories which are based on non-fiction, but are written in a story telling kind of way, greatly adding to suspense. In that category I read the books Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick and Kingpin by Kevin Poulsen [1]. If you're interested in following a suspenseful hacker story I can recommend them both.

Another excellent book along those lines is "The Cuckoos Egg" by Clifford Stoll. (And he's awesome person too.)
> Use PTSD (Performance Testing Speed Development) to micro-optimize your code without getting lost in micro-optimizations. More on PTSD to come in the future.

I've lost friends to suicide secondary to PTSD... Maybe we don't overload that particular initialism...
how so? Aren't there bloggers who make money from their blogs?
Google tries with fiber and balloons, but it's a very hard market to enter. Telcos are terribly regulated and investment costs are high.
I tested the impact of page speed on ads about 3 years ago. The CTR impact was pretty dramatic - I can't recall the exact numbers but they were in the order of 50% CTR drop with 500ms delay.

That's obviously specific to ads, but there's clearly still some impact from page speed there.
If robots are doing everything, then that's an utopia.
And here I am paying $23.60 for just 10Mbps [1] ಠ_ಠ

[1] http://www.une.com.co/internet
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I consider developers senior if they can make trade offs between technology and business.
Here are some prior details on what is going on with the company: http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/12/01/steve-kondik-blames-...
> It seems an attacker with physical access still requires your password to unlock the disk. At that point, they'd need the Yubikey to login (assuming they haven't already decrypted the disk and taken your data).

Its just PAM (pam_yubikey to be precise). If they have physical access they can edit the requirement for Yubikey in PAM.

If there's FDE (FileVault) then I don't know. But I do know the PAM configuration must be read, and is therefore in r/w. It isn't in some kind of security enclave.
There is actually a similarly written book for wavelets. Conceptual Wavelets in Digital Signal Processing http://a.co/5rspz0i
Counterpoint - I really enjoyed the style. It was entertainingly over-the-top and chatty. I'd probably have given up on a very dry "just the facts" article quicker, and I'm fairly sure I'll remember this one better because of the stylistic touches.
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