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Pulling out of Iraq (half an accomplishment, because the US had no business being there in the first place)

Not even a half accomplishment considering that there are still 5000 US soldiers in Iraq.

I was 20 in 2008, the first election I could vote in. I was reasonably politically aware at the time but still learning. One of my very basic litmus tests for being a decent, rational person is / was acceptance of gay marriage. I was quite surprised to find that Barack Obama, this liberal phenom who had become a household name overnight, was not publicly supporting such a cut-and-dry issue that would've been barely controversial among his constituency at the time. That was not the sole reason I didn't vote for him, but probably the jumping off point of being more skeptical of his candidacy. Of course, his change of opinion on gay marriage nearly mirrored opinion polls crossing the 50% mark, just like Clinton.
> Not sure if an appeal to emotion is going to work too well on HN.

Killing a human being is not the same as killing a process. We live in a society because it's safer. We have a constitution, rights, and laws to protect us (at least in theory). The optimal law would save as many lives as possible. I don't see how saving lives makes a poor heuristic for implementing laws.
The use of _ as a discardable placeholder has been present in many languages in the past, such as Haskell and Prolog. These aren't necessarily Scala-isms that Java is adopting; they have a much richer history.
How do you define a family pic? One option would be to use OpenCV and detect images with multiple faces in them.
I remember the story ending with "they sent back a picture of handcuffs, and so I sent the actual money"
I have a similar story with a different ending. I allegedly made a right turn on red without stopping. That's running a red light. My car was on video, which I could watch online. The front bumper of the car allegedly crossed the white line 400 milliseconds after the light turned red.

I paid an attorney $300. He took all the standard legal means to delay the trial so that if he lost, the ticket wouldn't affect my insurance until the next year, thereby delaying a price increase. He wound up getting me an acquittal because the driver (allegedly me) was wearing sunglasses. The judge accepted his argument that, due to the sunglasses obscuring my eyes, the city could not conclusively determine that I was the driver.
This is a tricky topic. I think I disagree with you. I'm certainly in agreement that there's ample evidence of justice being unevenly applied in this country, at least in part because there are humans doing the enforcing. Traffic cams are a great way to get around that -- in this case, it was the (human) bureaucracy that was unfair, not the camera.

However, the (main) reason I disagree is because, when you're dealing with people doing things that may not leave a paper trail, enforcement is contingent on supervision. It follows that constant enforcement is contingent on constant supervision, and I'd rather people just not get caught, to be honest. Otherwise we end up in a situation where the argument becomes, "Well of course we have to install tracking chips in all the cars, do you want people to be speeding and get away with it? Of course we have to let the government read our email, that's how people coordinate financial crimes!"

This is wandering a little farther into tinfoil-hat territory than I'd meant it to. My originally intended point was that it's a tough line to walk between consistent enforcement and pervasive enforcement.
It's great for designers! especially when you edit a photo on the left screen, and see the original image on the right screen.
Yeah do that. I mean I won't do that cause I have stuff to do but you guys here should totally do that.
Languages are for communicating, if there is ambiguity, ask and let the person clarify it.

In fact, zhuyin is equally bad resolving the Lion Poet as well. While in reality, no one really speaks like this.

> Now people who want to be seriously literate have to learn an additional set of characters

It is not left to you to decide what is 'literacy'. In a society that most of people using simplified characters, understanding traditional chinese brings marginal benefits, as you don't speak Shakespeare's english on daily basis.

More convincing counterexample will be nation like Vietnam and Korea, where Chinese characters have been long deprecated, are not illiterate in any way, and are doing absolutely fine.

Some traditional Chinese users often fall into the trap of associating language/writing system to their own identity, preventing themselves from thinking about the stuff they are actively objecting in a more rational and constructive way, such is this case. Simplified Chinese is here because people are happy with it and it is not limiting their expression. If the language serves the purpose of enabling communication between people, then it is a good language, and it has every reason to stay. I didn't see why a thriving language with 1 billion user base should go anywhere based on some niche group's agenda.
The braking distance isn't linear with speed. It goes with the kinetic energy of the vehicle which is proportional to speed squared.

A vehicle traveling at 30 mph has about 40% more kinetic energy than the same vehicle traveling at 25 mph.

It will also close more of the available braking distance during the reaction period (only 20%, but that's a lot).

So the collision speed for the higher initial speed will be greater than the difference in the initial speeds, not lesser.

That said, doing other things to improve pedestrian safety are likely to be more effective than sweating the posted speed limit.
If you think this is the same you haven't been paying attention to what's happening in the industry. Moore's Law as we know it is dead, shrinking the node size isn't cutting costs like it used to. A lot of people are still in denial over this, but it's going to have major repercussions in the IC industry.
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I have a milder form of the same phenomenon and find that workman's style fingerless gloves (I use DeWalt Technician Fingerless Gloves[0] and can vouch for them.) are enough to reduce it to a tolerable level. They are thick enough to retain warmth and highly durable but leave the fingertips unimpeded for mousing / typing.

In your circumstance, I'd look into USB-powered heated gloves as an option as well, e.g. [1]. If that alone isn't sufficient, some have removable heating elements that you could probably transfer over to the heavier fingerless gloves mentioned above.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/DPG230L-Technicians-Fingerless-Synthe...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/GoodBZ-Fingerless-Mittens-Computer-St...
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NSA trying to poison the well. Meh, keep trying, shill

https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
Turn that around to see why there's always a weak link somewhere. I'd expect the NSA to have reasonable OpSec too, but there's Snowden.

And they protect the US Secretary of State, too, but look at how hard Colin Powell made their job:

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/30324

It's in the PDF attached to that. There's always a weak link somewhere. When you have people like this in power, even the smartest spies can't protect them --

"Now, the real issue had to do with PDAs, as we called them a few years ago before BlackBerry became a noun. And the issue was DS would not allow them into the secure spaces, especially up your way. When I asked why not they gave me all kinds of nonsense about how they gave out signals that could be read by spies, etc. Same reason they tried to keep mobile phones out of the suite. I had numerous meetings with them. We even opened one up for them to try to explain to me why it was more dangerous than say, a remote control for one of the many tvs in the suite. Or something embedded in my shoe heel. They never satisfied me and NSA/CIA wouldn't back off. So, we just went about our business and stopped asking. I had an ancient version of a PDA and used it. In general, the suite was so sealed that it is hard to get signals in or out wirelessly."
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A close relative of mine suffers from Lupus and with that she has developed Raynauds. She uses blood circulation medication to help get warm blood flowing in her hands and feet. Open fingered gloves are also great for coding because they aren't as restrictive as full gloves. As many others have suggested, a cup of tea or coffee is wonderful too!

I'm sure if you talk to your manager and explain that you have a legitimate medical concern that they will help reach a solution.
Jonathan Pollard [1] got a get out of jail card. And he did extensive damage to our national security.

Private Manning should be pardoned. That poor kid has suffered enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
for that you have Furigana, which is essentially kana for kanji:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furigana
A quick look at shodan will illustrate why this is the #1 concern.
I helped start Prague's first internet cafe in the mid-90s. The digs were basic. Basement floor & in the winter that was COLD.

The founder's strategy was to hang french fry heating lamps from the ceiling, just a little over our hands. It worked great!
We stopped calling them wars and stopped asking congress to authorize them. It's pretty frustrating to see a line like that spouted on HN.
There's a couple of things to consider here.

First, the affiliates do this to get some extra money, they aren't making a living of that.

Regarding the 1% of the ltv, you should also think about the conversion rate. Let's say we get 1 final customer of every 30 prospects the affiliate has selected. He is making 52.7€ which pretty much covers a full month of what the client pays.

Also, the ltv of our service is more like 300€ (I wish it was more, but for now that's good enough).

Another point is that finding a prospect isn't much of an effort. It can take them from 5 to 10 minutes max. At 5 min that would be a minimum payout of 18€/h. That's without counting on the +7.5€ if it becomes a client. If every 3 hours they can make a client, they make 20.5€/h. I don't think that's a bad payout for something you can do whenever you want without any obligation.

Lastly, there's the fact that some affiliates are better than others and have better conversion. The better you do, the more money you can make. Taking it to the extreme, let's say 1 of 3 became clients and it takes you 5 minutes to find one, you would be making 48€/h.
That sounds pretty cool, but where do rules come from?

Suppose some author wrote some daemon. Is the packager responsible for writing the rules? It sounds like having packagers understand SELinux rules is a lot of responsibility, and if upstream is cross-platform, they might not care about such specific needs so as to provide it.

Also, what happens if I write some small app? Do I need to write its rules? If it has no rules applied to it, then it's basically game over, because SELinux sounds like it works ONLY if it applies to all processes.
I was sloppy in using the word "character" - strings are really sequences of codepoints. I've edited my post to reflect this. Of course, multiple codepoints may be needed to construct a single character, and that's by design.
The thinking is fine. The thinking is identifying a problem. Prop 13 was wrongfooted and created a new set of problems. We shouldn't ignore a problem just because someone else once royally screwed up a solution to it.
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Won't work. If I were Trump and my Twitter account got shut down I would look for an alternative.
Can you do that? Can't the judge say that you have to drop the individual suit and join the class action because they are similar complaints?

I have no legal experience and I'm thinking completely from the point that the judge would want his job to be easier.
Sikao (思考), one of the mentioned suggestions, feels decent for this (non native speaker though... would not trust myself on this). Xianyixiang feels too light hearted especially given the mood conveyed by the purposeful uppercasing of the original. Renwei seems like a really bad choice, in any case.
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I fail to see how getting the date a million times or even inserting it a million times shows how the system of sql in the browser can really scale.

It'd be better to load up some sample data from day adventure works from Microsoft or something similar and run queries more akin to production code for this benchmark.

I guess this article shows the upper bound of sql in the browser so I guess that's helpful.
“video” conferencing with 1% the bandwidth?
Could you make a different topic for this? It's extremely long and seems only tangentially related to fighting red light tickets.
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Left Iraq in a much, much worse state and still have 5000 soldiers there, so we never really left.
But pinyin isn't Chinese so your point just doesn't exist.
That's neat as heck. A mainframe on a M68K for under four grand? I'd have believed the emulation but not the price if someone told me. The RISC workstations were so expensive. Add the word mainframe to a lower price than that & I'd assume you were selling me a lemon. Haha.
The way Scala uses them is very different from Haskell or Prolog. They are used to create lambdas, not discardable placeholders. E.g. `List(1, 2, 3) map (_ + 1)`.
> Absurdly enough, the room temperature doesn't have much to do with it, because the air condition is working at full throttle and my room is close to 80-82 Fahrenheit most of the time.

Airconditioning, open windows, or bad isolation can cause an un undesired airflow.

> The doctor told me that it's called Raynaud's phenomenon and that I'll have to figure out ways to deal with it.

Wait, your doctor did not tell you how to deal with this? You're not paying anyone here for medical advice.

For people who work behind a desk for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week I recommend the following:

First of all, regular physical exercise. Its obvious but it has to be stated, and its even more so important if you don't do physical labour.

Second, for office work the following advice (in no particular order: based on own experience, pomodoro techninque, plus local laws concerning this type of work): put an alarm on your smartphone or watch or equivalent device, set it to one hour. Every time the alarm goes off, you take a walk and do some stretches, total of min 3 up to 5 min (more will cause drama with coworkers and/or boss). If someone complains, you tell them that smokers get to smoke in the bosses time (thereby having a walk, good for their blood circulation; smoking itself obviously isn't good for blood circulation and if you do quit ASAP; consult your M.D. for aid) and you need a small walk to keep your blood circulation going. (Of course, you could also try to plan meetings or grabbing a coffee together with your walk & stretch, tho I don't recommend 6+ coffee during 8 hours of work.) During this downtime, you can think of whatever comes up in your mind. It is actually rather likely that more often than not you get inspiration during your downtime, but that is a useful byproduct not the main goal (this is called the diffused mode of thinking). Oh, and if someone laughs at you, know that when you're both elder you're the one who's laughing because you cared about your physical health throughout your working career. I mentioned this is partly based on pomodoro technique. Its a variation on it. If you're self employed, I actually recommend the pomodoro technique itself (ie. traditional pomodoro is 25 minutes of focus, with a 5 min break, and after 2 hours, a longer break (there are variations, worth looking into this further)). But if you're working for a boss or in a team then a small break after 25 minutes of focus is frowned upon. I believe its a productivity loss, but this is the way the status quo of work force generally thinks, sadly. There's some excellent pomodoro apps available for macOS, Android, iOS and surely also for other OSes and platforms. Like I said, alarm apps also work.
>"A lot of Rustaceans don’t seem to grasp why, when the question is “where do I get feature X?” the answer “oh, there are 23 crates for that” is objectively terrifying."

This is a real problem. Here's a blog idea: "Consumer Reports for libraries"

(As an aside, the phrase "objectively terrifying" bugs the hell out of me. Terror is fundamentally subjective - it's a primal emotion. Please let's not let "objectively" become the new "literally".)
Start an exercise routine. It'll get your blood moving and the problem completely goes away. It's relatively quick too. You'll notice a change in a week.
In general, I'm just opposed to locked down platforms... I may never install a 3rd party build of anything on my phone, but I tend to buy phones that I could. I'm still pissed at Asus (and the FCC) for locking down my latest router (no tomato option).
As someone who spent time learning Chinese in Beijing, this article is very confusing to me.

I learned Chinese, like pretty much every other foreigner, via pinyin pronunciation -- and it's great for language courses. And it's also great for road signs that foreigners can actually read.

But I never heard of pinyin being used by/for the Chinese themselves (except, now, as one computer typing system among many, although it still outputs in characters). All my Chinese teachers explained that young schoolchildren were taught basic pronunciation with bopomofo (which uses special characters, not latin letters), not pinyin.

And increases in literacy in China are simply due to widespread schooling and massive efforts at memorization of characters by children -- pinyin has absolutely zero value for functional literacy, because everything is still written in characters. (There are no pinyin newspapers or books I ever saw.)

EDIT: I see from comments below that pinyin is used with schoolchildren in mainland China, thanks. But I still don't see how this has helped literacy, when all reading material is still in characters.
I agree with this statement. Especially if you look over a few thousand year timeline. Of course, the rate of technology has accelerated but also some of the earlier changes have been normalized though we still reel from them. Even the sense of community has been completely redefined (or minimized) by technology today, or the concept of society being focus on nuclear family only. Some are a direct result of technology, but some changes, like the concept of leisure time, come indirectly as we restructure our lives around this technology (capitalism and the industrial revolution).

Compare this to where we were 2,000 years ago or 10,000 years ago.
Any news on the Amber Chip? Hopefully it'll ready for prime time on the Raspberry Pi some time this century.
This is exactly his problem though. After having enough customers to validate the idea, using the same method doesn't help him to grow the user base.
In other words, doing what he did isn't working anymore for him.
Well, whose fault is that? I can tell you how to do it right, but it sounds like you're limiting yourself. If you prefer to do it wrong, feel free.
> Maybe they just don't like CS or STEM fields in general?

Well that's facially not true: women receive more than 40% of the bachelors degrees in physical sciences, mathematics, and biological sciences.

> The host of the documentary goes and finds some real scientists and they agree that biology plays a role.

The issue I have with the biological evidence is the half-assed conclusions people want to draw from them. For example, it's pretty well established that women place a higher value on social connections than men. So that explains it, right? That explains why Silicon Valley, golden land of open offices built on software for advertising and chatting with your friends, has such a hard time attracting women! And that also explains why medicine and accounting, detail oriented left-brain jobs without much of a social component, attract a high percentage of women?

There is also evidence that women place a higher value on concensus and cooperation. That explains why programming, which involves working together to build things, has a much harder time attracting women than law, which involves being the proxy for acrimonious disputes between people.
On the other hand, as long as the latency is similar, the SSH experience is pretty much the same regardless of bandwidth --- the exception being commands that produce plenty of output.

Which might not even be such a bad thing - I would not like going back to programming in an environment where I have to triple-check every variable to see if I can shave off a couple of kilobytes, either.

That might be part of why I've found newer programmers seem to write more complex and inefficient code than older ones, who tend to come up with simple and efficient solutions naturally. I think everyone should experience using and programming in a constrained environment, if only to train this skill of what's efficient and what isn't.
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Strength.

It is a connector, but you cannot fasten something using it. This is why they would have come up with a new connector. Hopefully it expands on USB C, as in the interface is USB C and they've just created a new fastener mechanism around it.
I get the vibe that the author thinks that AMD will just launch a 8c/16t processor.

But AMD will launch an entire lineup, from the 8c/16t high end processor to at least a 4c/4t model.

That said, 500$ for a 8c/16t CPU seems reasonable. The 6c/12th model must be around 350$ to be competitive and a 4c/8t CPU will own the market at a 200-250$ price point. The 4c/4t model must be below 200$ to compete with Intels i5 lineup.

I'm not sure if AMD has a response to the recent release of the Pentium G4560. For 64$ it offers the same performance we expected from a i3.
The ability to focus in VR using your own eyes requires a light field display - that is something which sends light rays from arbitrary angles into your eyes, and your eyes focus them.

Magic Leap has an augmented reality device that does that, although not launched yet.

My feeling is that light field displays will massively increase sense of reality - and reports of people using Magic Leap back that up.

However, I don't think it's necessary for lots of use of VR or AR.
I'm not sure what options does he have? Russia is one of few superpowers that can protect him.

He could surrender and suffer horribly for decades or take his life...
Respo is in ClojureScript too. I do hope I can get more attractions. http://respo.site/
His specific concerns might not be entirely valid, but it's not an attack. It's more like an expression of a deeper fear of the language not taking off and time wasted.
Yeah, but C++ doesn't really have a good, cross platform package manager. In Java land, for example, the lingua franca is Maven (even across different build systems).

As a result many libraries are close to de facto standards because any Java dev can easily get those libraries, regardless of being on Win, Mac, random Linux distributions, etc.