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Using this definition of harassment, in combination with a prohibition on said harassment

Hence why I said that the discussion is needlessly complicated. But a single bad implementation does not prove a bad design.

I have seen many many many people claim others are "harassing" them simply because the other person expressed a dissenting opinion from their own.

So? The only problem with that claim is that it automically converts into a legal threat. Otherwise: stop asssociating with them. People who cry harassment are not interested in your argument anyway, whether their claim is justified or not.

I am a little puzzled though how my definition can be both "ripe for abuse" and cause that "no one can be harassed online"?

What is your definition of freedom then

My view on life is that every person is an amalgamation of the role they play in a multitude of social circles. Each circle may have its own norms and customs, and each person assumes those norms and customs to a degree each is comfortable with. For my definition of freedom it therefore follows that I don't think it is useful to consider a person in the singular, as everything we are is informed by the context of the roles we choose. A person in the singular is just that: a person, and a pretty uninteresting one at that.

The agency we have is to choose the circles we move in, and the degree to which we let each role subsume us. Interaction within a chosen circle is not always optional though: we can choose the circles but not directly its members. Freedom then, to me, is the ability to choose our roles and circles without fear of reprisal from other circles.

both parties should voluntary agree to interact and at any time for any reason either party can choose to end the interaction

Either party can choose? Yes, that surely matches all documented cases of harassment, both online and offline. It also perfectly matches the online model, where my browser is happily associating with tens of tracking networks for each single page I visit, and where my interaction with those trackers ends as soon as I close the page :/

To be more clear: I think it is myopic is because a) it assumes that all interactions are voluntary, and b) it assumes that all interactees have equal footing for negotiation.
Man I spent ages trying to get swipe right to work in my web/cordova app (in particular dealing with both url routing and animated back/forward transitions), and I was confused why I could find so few articles or discussions about it. Perhaps many SPA's just don't bother?

Maybe I should dust off my blog and do something about this missing bit of arcane SPA lore.
Won't self-driving cars require 3d LIDAR maps ? and in the process of getting those, 2D maps come as a side benefit ?
Why not hash the image on upload and store them with names based on hash? That way if one copy already exists it will just get over-written on next user upload
We used to get call center calls from India to our U.K. number, but then they where insurance scams of some type. "There has been a traffic accident on your street involving your car..." at a time when I didn't have a car. I would tell them and I kept getting the calls every couple of months.
That's actually a funny coincidence. I've got <Esc> remapped to my spacebar in vim, so the <Spc> f s is a lot like <Spc> w that I use.
Only an option in the US.
That's the point of this clone, it's based on the ZX80 which uses only standard TTL chips, all of which are still available today. The original 1K RAM chips and mask ROM are not, but modern parts have been substituted. The next version will incorporate an NMI slow mode circuit which will make it fully ZX81 compatible, still only using standard TTL parts.
Stubbornly insisting that your party of choice holds the moral high ground and the other side is morally reprehensible is only going to get you President Trump. You'd do much better to assume that your political opponents voted the way they did in spite of those issues you consider immoral rather than because of them and then see where you can find common ground to work with them.
Just skim it, and read pieces that catch your eye. It's well-organized.
Yeah there are probably more Patel's on the earth than Smiths.
Your question is rather tautological... You can pick a text book or even an online tutorial.

Understanding diagonalization (and more generally, spectral theory), scalar products, and norms would be a great start. Then you can pick any quantum information textbook.
What's the India's governments postion on this?
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I'm a little bit bemused by your description in #2 as the open source ecosystem as a zoo.

It is what you make of it. If you pick brand new shiny things from unproven teams at war with their sourcecode's origin community, you're going to see some churn. You moved from the relative stability of Ubuntu to the constant churn of Arch, which suggests you've missed the point of cadence distributions. Newer is often not automagically better.

We've been using and developing with and deploying on Ubuntu for years now. It's not the zoo you describe — though you are free to make it one with poor choices.
The list does include it: “Anyone with political views (however mild) that may be unpopular or discriminated against”.
>I also wonder if there are clothes build specifically for travelling (like, with special pockets or things like that).

Special pockets? Uhhh, how much do you like having bodychecks when someone notices a pocket?

Regarding pillows, I usually do layovers and am sleepy when I get to airport so that's why I'm love them, but if you aren't flying for longer time, no need then.

>I'm wondering though what the best backpack would be to travel in Europe, like one that fit exactly the size Ryan Air wants.

I've been thinking of buying a backpack that I saw my friend has, don't know what they're called. It looks like a normal backpack with a flap on top, but the top flap is actually part of it and extends a lot. Also it's stylish so I wouldn't look like I'm backpacking through russia, but perfect for traveling.
Thanks, I will check that out.
While on the topic of Inkscape. I've been wanting to post this for the programmer/gamer crowd. At one point I was able to do vector scans & then go in an fill them. I had a lot of interest from German gamer crowd, whom liked the backdrops. However, Inkscape no longer allowed this. Adobe followed with something similar (plug-in)- D3.js(code).Do to heavy memory use this would make a good isolated app. Here is an example . . http://i.imgur.com/20W2UBd.png?1
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I knew some peeps at Fog Creek who seemed to love the culture. I haven't worked there myself but Joel Spolsky seems like a thoughtful fellow.
What are you basing that on? I don't buy the idea that America can't afford basic food and shelter for every man woman and child for even a second.

Have you ever thought about how much poverty is negatively affecting the potential future of the US? I suspect the cost to society of children growing up in an environment with constant hunger is much, much larger than the cost of feeding that kid.
> Jan Dhan Yojana

I hate to break this to you, but most people don't actually have bank accounts, and if they do, they don't know how to use them. Most of those bank accounts that were opened in the Jan Dhan Yojana scheme have ₹1 ($0.015) or less in them [1].

These laborers mentioned in the article I linked did not have accounts which they could use. That's why they threatened to strike if they weren't paid in cash. You live in a bubble if you think lower income groups are rapidly adopting digital payments. Sure, the help at your place did, but I've met many people living in the heart of Bangalore who can't afford a smartphone. These same people also don't have a bank account. Or who knows, maybe they have a 0 balance account in their name somewhere.

Its quite easy to talk of "short-term impact" and "long-term gain" when you're not facing any of the short-term impact yourself. I doubt you or your family went to bed hungry on any day during November and December. Millions of Indian families did, while they didn't have to. This could have been executed better.

Lastly, you're citing an article from December 2nd to prove that a lot of money that was outstanding on Nov 8th hasn't been collected. I linked one from January 4th. Which do you think has more up-to-date data?

[1] - http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21707234...
Was there any study on video games and subjective well-being (i.e. does video games bring more happiness)? I'd be interested in that.
This has some interesting capabilities, but the big question is how well and how reliable?

I've been doing a lot of smart home things recently, and the biggest issue you run into is reliability. The level of reliability you want with your home is much higher than a lot of general-computing tasks are up for. Having your lights work 95% of the time is fairly annoying.

This device working off of AT&T's network, should presumably be fairly accurate if you have solid AT&T coverage. I find that home wifi networks are more prone to interface and intermittent operation than a good cellular network.

Is the humidity sensor in this device from AT&T accurate? Will a command from this device to another system work 99.99% of the time?

The other big issue, of course, is security. I couldn't find details about the level of security this comes baked in with.
FWIW I learned to use Inkscape quite productively without any tutorials. That was five to ten years ago though.
Although not a scam like this, my parents were tricked into buying an "antivirus" product from a phone call from India. The whole thing was a little bizarre as it wasn't an outright scam. I never got to see the program in working order but I believe it was an actual attempt at creating a real AV product, although probably bundled with spy/malware. By the time they asked me for help their laptop running Windows Vista was riddled startup errors, most referring to non-existing registry entries. My only guess is that the "company" or whatever it was hit some sort of kill switch, leaving their software in a broken state. It took me a while to clean everything up. In the end I think my parents spent a few hundred dollars on the product and nothing suspicious ever happened with their bank account.
I have still yet to find a trackpad that is even close to as good as Apple's. This has been the main thing keeping me on Apple's hardware for about 5 years now.
London-specific (and from a recruiter that is listing some of their own clients, so take with a grain of salt), from https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-software-engineering... (2014):

Large tech firms:

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Google, Deepmind

Facebook

Twitter

Microsoft, Skype, Yammer

Palantir Technologies

Bloomberg

Start-ups

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Improbable.io

Swifkey

Hailo

VisualDNA

Editd

State

Opengamma

Duedil

…and plenty more good ones in stealth.

Gaming:

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Mind Candy

EA Games (Playfish)

Playfire

Foundry

…and the list can go on forever.

Not software engineering firms, but have plenty to offer software engineers:

Investment banks:

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Morgan Stanley

Goldman Sachs

JP Morgan

Barcap

....and plenty more.

Tech-driven funds:

=================

Man AHL

G-Research

KCG (Getco, Knight, Automat)

…any plenty more you've probably never heard of.
Care to share some examples? I can't recall anyone suggesting ubi could work without seriously tweaking the definition.
I find language esoterica very interesting. The New Yorker uses diaeresis¹ with the prefix re as well, such as reëlect, reëstablish, and reëxamine.²

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-t...

We do change our style from time to time. My predecessor (and the former keeper of the comma shaker) told me that she used to pester the style editor, Hobie Weekes, who had been at the magazine since 1928, to get rid of the diaeresis. She found it fussy. She said that once, in the elevator, he told her he was on the verge of changing that style and would be sending out a memo soon. And then he died.

This was in 1978. No one has had the nerve to raise the subject since.

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¹ Or should that be diæresis?

² Speaking of style guides: Ooh, look! An Oxford comma!
Don't think £200 a month would make that much of a difference
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Also they popularized Chaos engineering.
Back when I used a Windows Phone (Lumia 920), HERE was amazing. I actually bought the Nokia over the HTC specifically for that feature. I switched to a Nexus 4 later on and Google Maps still couldn't compare.

The best feature of HERE, that Google still doesn't have? Telling you where to turn like a human would. Instead of "turn right at 7 Mile Road" (street signs are often difficult to see, or sometimes non-existent), it would say "turn right at the McDonalds". McDonalds is very easy to see.

And like other have said, back then LTE service wasn't as robust as it is today. Having offline maps wherever I went was important. Bear in mind, I haven't used HERE since the Nexus 4 came out.
As I'm completely unfamiliar with the subject, I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around what kind of impact a big development in quantum computing would have. From what I read in the Wikipedia article, it can destroy a lot of our existing crypto, and I can guess at the consequences of this.

Taking a very long-term timeline into consideration, would it be speculated that quantum computers would ultimately replace traditional computers? Are there categories of problems for which it would be worse to use a quantum computer?
Someone would still need to handle life-timing the objects in the presence of deletes. If the storage layer does it then it is one less thing to handle at the application level.

If you upload by hash then you need your own ref counting for deletes (or just don't support delete ... storage is cheap after all!)
I recently bought a XPS 13 Developer Edition and threw Fedora 25 on it without any issues. Now that there's a market for developer laptops, the chances of Linux working fine are much better.

Compared to my previous laptop (MBP 15" 2011) the trackpad sucks but it's small and fast. GNOME Shell has massively oversized window borders but the extensions platform makes it easy to fix with "Pixel Saver". Having the system package manager handle everything is nicer than each app having its own autoupdater + app store + homebrew.

I don't regret the switch.
What is the revenue-maximizing rate of taxation under the Laffer curve?
And how unmaintained Sourcetree is.
> The consensus changed almost overnight, anyone using Apple wasn't a hacker anymore.

FWIW, I've (snarkily, unfairly, wrongly) thought that for many years now. I'm not defending that, because — as noted — it's snarky, unfair and incorrect. But I really have wondered why people who are liberated enough to not use Windows use macOS instead of going all the way to Linux. If you're willing to break the social norm, why not go all the way and be free?

> Either you're on Windows wishing you were using Linux, or you're on macOS wishing you were on Windows wishing you were using Linux.

Some of us just use Linux, and are happy.
On Nexus/Pixel phones the Google dialer app seems to do this. Many calls for me now show up as "suspected spam caller" and after I answer a call from a number I've never seen before the phone asks "was that spam?".
No. You need to understand the economics of commodities opposed to individualized goods for this to really make sense. Greater access to a commodity will often reduce its costs as it means greater consumption and increased market penetration to satisfy (and thus stabilize) its demand and thus development.
Seems if that were true that they'd be pretty ineffective at their job as a cybersecurity firm and easily outcompeted in the market.
It would be nice if some sort of captcha could weed them out, but that sounds unlikely.

Is there any way of creating a hierarchy of users? Newbies would have probationary status and limited powers until promoted to standard level. You could also promote your best users to a higher level, and they could help police the probationary users.

If users are only dealing with your own staff, maybe an internal Reddit-style points scoring system would be a start. It might help if it made the "bad" users visible sooner.

But I expect you've already thought of these and similar ideas....

Thanks for the link: interesting story.
Maybe you decide to move from AWS to own data center to reduce costs? This way the cost of moving is cheaper, since you don't have to modify applications that rely on S3 before moving.
> So what else are people going to do with my home address? Send me a postcard?

I had a friend who got brigaded by 4chan in high school (I think she posted nudes and got doxxed, don't entirely remember, and I didn't ask for too many details).

Long story short: hundreds of letters over about a year addressed to her house, her parents' workplaces, our school, all with really fucked up messages. Telling her to kill herself and other terrible things about her or her family. Letters listing everyone in her family or including pictures of her family from myspace (this was just before everyone was on Facebook) with names, phone numbers, and other details. Phone calls to her parents insulting their daughter.

No "real harm" ever came from it aside from the threats, and her parents handled it very well, but still...

It's not so much one person knowing "your" address. It's an unknown number of people knowing you and your family's address.
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Yes, but it will increase the cost to the scammers and filter out the ones that can't figure it out.

Possibly have a reroute rather than a block so it's harder to detect. Reroute the calls to a voice mailbox that essentially saves to /dev/null.
I guess so; I found myself doing a few Renegade actions in ME2 and ME3 despite being pretty much pure Paragon player - harsh pragmatism, as you say. But in 1, it's harder (more black/white).

And the Council, yes - they worked hard to make me regret saving them in ME1...
You do know that there is no Yammer or Skype in London anymore? (we did have a fantastic culture though, so great it has been recognised. source: ex-Yammer.)
Living in London I've seen this many times for VIPs of the Royal Family and it's quite something to watch. The description of the Met unzipping traffic and then closing it up again is accurate.
Most of the time when a company wants to get good at something, there are more factors than just the data/software involved. The developers who created it.

It'll be more difficult to hire and train a completely new team of people, and then hope they're a competent team. It's easier to just get the developers who are already experienced with their tools.

This'll be difference if the skill set was somewhat popular, but it'll be difficult to find people who really are good at OSM and the surrounding software + who are willing to work for Intel.
>Uh... No? If I pay you, it's because you have something I need.

So you value it more. It has more utility to you. You are better off with it than with the money.
I hold doors for all kinds of people as common courtesy. If I get yelled at for it, I'll just assume the source of the audible insanity is having a bad day. Or is an asshole.

I'll keep holding doors for all kinds of people.
And why the curved screen?
'It works for me' is not an solid basis for the opinion that OP is posting FUD. Clearly the problem exists for some subset of people, or we wouldn't be talking about it. That doesn't meant that most people encounter it - but it's still a problem.
That's interesting. 8 solid hours of coding leaves me wanting to go for a run or go out singing with my friends.

OTH, back when I was paining houses and hauling ladders around all day, I felt like sitting down in front of a computer for the rest of the evening after finally getting home.
I seem to remember mine would crash every time the fridge turned on.
There is a memoir of a Security Service (Mi5) operator Soldier Spy and he goes into how they where trained to drive when tailing people.
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It's likely that at the time he'll become president, Facebook won't be significant anymore. That's probably what he's preparing for. He knows that his company won't last very long (because historically very, very few companies did), he lays the groundwork to start as a politician once Facebook isn't anymore what it is today.
koreader looks fabulous! Last time I checked, the Paperwhite could not be jailbroken. But it no longer seems true. Thanks for the link.
I... agree.

Many of the recent articles that have been posted about Apple's new Macbook Pro line have been very low-quality compared to the rest of HN. The comments here provide an order of magnitude more value than the articles themselves.

They're more or less serving as a "discuss this currently controversial topic" thread; the articles are irrelevant. While I think they could be easily replaced with a new feature in HN itself, the current solution is working. I'm OK with the article spam.
Surfacebook and Surfacebook pro are as good or better. The track pad is just as good as the one on the mac, and there's a touch screen as well. Plus it turns into a tablet.
Business wants stability, and generally cares more about policy than Joe average voter.

Clinton was a candidate with a long track record, Trump is essentially unpredictable. The billionaire vote in this election isn't particularly surprising, or indicative that they form a Sekrit Global Cabal.

Indeed, it's more worthwhile to consider prior times that sort of anti cabal rhetoric has been deployed.
Yes, but in your example you need to add that I have with me an inflatable pool that magically doesn't spill, and the federal law allows me to use it instead of hotel one - and I get kicked out of the hotel for actually using it (or worse, they make my magic water supply stop supplying water).
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