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>Maybe I'm just being very philosophically naïve.

Possibly, more culturally naive than philosophically so.

World War 2 and the Holocaust had a profound impact on Western culture, and Westerners have identified that symbol with the Nazis for almost a century. The impact of Buddhist or Hindu symbology in the West, in comparison and response, has been practically nil.

For Westerners, who may never have been to an Asian country prior to Japan's Olympics, to see a manji and mistake it for a Nazi symbol is perfectly reasonable, if that is the only context in which the symbol exists for them.

The change in icons makes sense, if you (you being some hypothetical Japan) want to communicate specifically to those tourists and encourage their engagement with local businesses and culture. Why use a symbol on maps specifically for foreigners to use which would probably confuse them?

You could just keep it there and say "those ignorant foreigners just need to learn what it actually means" ... but that would show hostility towards to your guests, be bad for business and an impractical way to design a map.

Edit: Apparently they decided not to change the iconography for the maps. It will be interesting to find out what impact if any that appears to have on engagement during the Olympics.
The threat model is that google and cell phone networks are untrusted adversaries. So your same concern can be said about Signal messages going through Google servers under the surveillance of the NSA. Either way the adversary sees a bunch of suspicious encrypted messages, but can't read them. But if the user has proprietary google code installed on their phone (i.e. Google Play Services), then the backdoor which this blog is warning about is the fact that now your phone software is/could be potentially compromised.
It said "Checkout the world's most popular apps built on CloudBoost" before. We just fixed it.
>I'm a big believer in learning for free via the internet; if you have internet access, you've got everything you need to learn anything...

anything, that is, which doesn't need a lab. So much for physics, chemistry, biology, everything that depends on them...
I really dont understand a society forcing 18 year olds to sit in classrooms for 4 years at 6 figure cost for a 50/50 shot at a 5 figure job. Theres gotta be a better system.
nobody censor your private communication in western apps. WeChat does. nobody delete your anti government rant on Facebook. wechat does.
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Must be possible with the new Ubuntu layer whatever its called. Edit: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-o...

They say WSL apps can not interact directly with Windows apps. So yes and no to your question. I would say it would be similar to running in a virtual machine but more integrated.
They (Richard Barnes) did, according to the comments.
Not sure if it's just me but Slack's notifications just aren't good enough. I want something stickier like pretty much every other native IM client that existed before Slack
Hello! Lyra encourages respect for language by providing editing tools, and display tools, that respect language. For instance, we never truncate comments (like Facebook). We offer users the chance to write a nicely formatted message rather than a "poke" or emoticon. We use paragraphs (an exquisitely tuned tool for guiding the eye across a section of text, evolved over several hundred years.

We are basically saying: your words are important, and we won't hide them.

Another massively important way in which we value language is that we don't build tools for the viral spreading of clickbait into our platform.

Moderation is a separate issue from whether you respect language or not. Lyra is carefully designed to be harrassment-proof without the need for moderation. We do this by prioritising people rather than online spaces (like forums or subreddits).
> Nintendo 64 style games.

Are you sure you don't mean NES/SNES style games?
Even computer science would suffer from pure online learning: learning to effectively work in groups, and to design and implement software together is a skill that is trained at university. Remote collaboration is entirely different and less applicable. Add to that the loss of any opportunity for lab work for embedded computing.
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Being 0.x could also just mean "we're not 100% certain we don't want to change any API" yet. Semver is about stability guarantees (promises), bugs is somewhat independent for a widely used and well-maintained library.
This is an excellent point. When you go deep into debt to go to college, you want the experience to be as nice as possible. Not to mention that as states push their public colleges and universities to be more businesslike and rely more on tuition, they are doing so, by making themselves more appealing to a broader range of customers.

The flip side of this is that student loans are guaranteed by the federal government, and when tuition goes up, so does loan availability. If financing is guaranteed no matter the cost, then no one should be shocked when customers lose their price sensitivity.

It's also important to keep in mind that the graduates coming out of college in the time period mentioned have entered the most challenging job market for new job seekers in 70 years. It's hardly fair to expect them to be able to live up to promises they made in the mid 2000s when everyone running the economy promised it was in great shape, while those same people were building the house of cards that collapsed on the millenial generation. There's lots of blame to go around, but very little of it should land on the students who took out these loans.
Python 3.0 was released in 2008. Python 2 will EOL in 2020. You've had about 9 years to start the transition to 3.0, and you still have 3 more years before EOL. A 12-year upgrade window sounds pretty reasonable.
FYI, this is a fallacy. Money cannot "go into" an asset, in aggregate. Every buyer is always matched with a seller. For example, I have heard people say that in the crash of 2008 there was more selling of stock than buying of stock. But that would have been impossible. Each time a dollar was collected from selling a stock, there was a dollar spent buying that stock. They exactly equal. Money cannot go into assets, in aggregate.

This is of course different from personal experience, where exchanges are essentially one-sided, not two-sided. An individual can exchange money for property. But a closed economy cannot.
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If you attempt to call your representative's office in DC, either nobody will pick up, or someone will pick up just long enough to quickly talk loudly over you and tell you they do not take calls about your district's issues there, and to call your district's home office.

So you try to find a number for your home district office. If you can find it and call it and try to talk to someone, you will usually either be put on hold, or they will try to find someone for you to talk to, who usually won't be there. So they take a message. The message, written on a post-it note, is filed under "feedback", and not looked at again unless they need to compile a list of popular talking points.

If you are seriously involved in local politics, there are opportunities to meet them in person and tell them about your issue. People with enough time to travel to where their rep is just to tell them how they feel are called "people with no life", unless they do it for a living, in which case they are called "lobbyists". But lobbyists talk with green pieces of paper, and reps hear that a lot louder than people in their district complaining to an intern on the phone.

Yes, it's true that enough vocal opposition can turn a rep toward doing what people want. But it takes too much time and energy and special attention and focus to constantly have to hammer one specific point home to a rep just to get them to do what they said they were going to when you elected them. If they are doing the people's will, usually they lose their re-election funding, or are undone by their party's political machine, or a different one.

The best you can ever hope for is that your party, who is not in the majority, will back your rep, who is not the head of any important congressional committee, on an issue that is against the interests of people with a lot more money and influence than you, so that someone can say they tried to pass a bill. All of that hinging literally on the word of a stranger who told you they'd give you everything you want if you would just give them a job and trust them.

The ethics committe thing is a good example. Everyone, on both sides of the aisle, got flooded with calls because the very superficial idea of limiting or removing an ethics committee seems like a bad idea. What it turned out to be was newly elected officials trying to remove roadblocks to getting changes made so they could reform the system, but people are reactionary and stupid, and that change sounded bad, so they stopped it. What's funny is the party leaders who had been there forever predicted that reaction and told the junior members not to vote that way, because they're good at reading popular sentiment and predicting reaction. Now the old stalwarts look good and the newly elected reps look bad. All because citizens got involved in politics.
i don't use neither of them, neither does my father, so how exactly are they gonna win? Western environment is way too fragmented
If your a bright kid form a depressed area working in the tail arms to get get an education is probably better than staying.
An interesting aside, I was reading my local news this morning and there was a story about Yellen. She was reporting the unemployment figures. In the comments, someone disagreed with her unemployment numbers and labelled the article, "More fake news." I live in a red area.

I'm wondering why the NYT would even push a piece like this. I'm not sure it's even newsworthy. This has been going on since our inception (check out Andrew Jackson's election). Are they trying to cast it against their own reputation? Are they worried about it?
It difficult to see how a service that ties to your phone number can make any claim about privacy halfway seriously. This is reckless.

And worse tie itself to a company whose business model is based on creepily stalking you all over the internet and getting users psychologically accustomed to the fact they are under surveillance. These are serious escalations that go unnoticed because SV has become a magnet for those who want to profit from it.

A half way serious and sincere effort will be open source, not tied in any remote way to known surveillance companies, and based in a country that genuinely respects privacy.
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Can we please stop calling these types of vulnerabilities "backdoors"?
tl;dr: this is stupid.

People seem to love analyzing security of tiny corners of systems while ignoring the rest of the system, and entirely avoiding figuring out a scope for the security.

The post complains about Signal using a Google service, that Google could utilize (either now or through an update) for malicious activity. A Google service that without a fair share of poking around is only available on Google versions of Android. I mean, what.

While this is a more serious problem than the usual whine about GCM (Yes, notifications can give a lot of info, but in case of Signal, the info given is "You received something from some Signal user while you were offline"), it is still amazing how blind the analysis seem to the environment. If you cannot trust Google to provide a "non-evil" Google play services, why the flying fuck do you think the Google-provided (or manufacturer-under-tight-google-control-provided) OS is fine? They could backdoor the process isolation and poke around at Signal memory if they felt like it.

Now, if you are security conscious and willing to let go of the conveniences of selling your soul to Google, you would be running a non-Google'd version of Android without Google services. Your only valid complaint in this case, is that Signal depends on Google services to operate, which makes you unable to use it (without hacking Google back into your Android version, but if you do that you might just as well stick to a Google version).

Oh, and what about the black box binary drivers you are using on your super-secure handset? Baseband? CPU (ME anyone?)? SIM card?

Before you talk about security, figure out what you are trying to protect against, and start from the top. You look like an idiot if you complain about breakable windows but do not notice that the door is open.
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Having only read the abstract and key points: The question is if video games have a better positive impact on cognitive abilities than other things you could do in the meantime that may also improve other abilities as well.

I write this because I quit video games almost entirely a year ago. I played probably 500-700 hours of video games in 2015. I played occasionally simple games on my phone in 2016.

The major downside for me was that I felt video games only improve my ability to play video games. I favored online games over single player games, but at the same time, I felt the addiction behind it. I can't play video games "for fun". I want to be good and that costs time. Video games have the downside of giving players easy rewards. I think it does something bad to your brain. Not necessarily altering it forever, but at least turning one into a little dopamine junkie.

In 2016, I spend about 40 times 3 hours in a private art school. I improved my drawing and painting skills a lot in merely 120 hours. That was a much better investment of my time than video games and I wonder if the forced concentration of looking at objects and colors for 3 hours straight had comparable improvements of cognitive abilities.

Anyways, what I want to say is this: If you feel that you're wasting too much time on video games, despite what research tries to spin positively about it, try to quit them and see what happens.
Show HN: hide i3 notifications, workspaces during pomodoro, timer on i3bar
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Hello! Adblock doesn't take care of the fact that everything Facebook does is built around the concept of serving ads. Even if you block them, you're still using an ad network.

Lyra isn't aiming to move into Reddit's space. Reddit is a machine for sorting strangers' comments by interestingness.

The UI is constantly improving; can you tell us some specific issues you have so that we can look at them?
Things may be changing, but the recovery rates on defaulted student loans used to be 120%, meaning that the government was collecting an additional 20¢ on each dollar in default. This is in comparison to programs like SBA that have recovery rates around 50%. When you factor in an already high interest rate, this state of affairs is profitable.
i3-gnome-pomodoro uses dbus to integrate gnome-pomodoro into i3. Currently it supports the following features:
- View timer status in a terminal, and therefore
- Show timer status on i3bar
- Control pomodoro state in a terminal, and therefore
- Control pomodoro state using bindsym (keyboard and mouse shortcuts)
- Optionally suppressing dunst desktop notifications while a pomodoro is active and showing them when the break starts
- Optionally disabling specific workspaces (such as instant messaging) while you are on a pomodoro. - You can still access those workspaces, if you pause the pomodoro.
- Optionally displaying a nagbar warning if you try to access a workspace that you have disabled during your pomodoro.
Oh I definitely am not trying to imply you should use a project just because it has more stars -- maybe the right term was "hype" instead of word-of-mouth
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ah well, it was just a geeky way to say etc etc etc.... no python3 stuff intended to be used there. Sorry :)
This one then, althoug it sort of works in python 2 as well..

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And as people continue cutting the cord and ESPN will actually have to start charging what people will pay for sports coverage, that money will disappear.
well LibreSignal was shut down because Moxie didn't like them using WhisperSystem's servers. I guess the libre community could figure out how to setup and fund an alternative server, but since Signal's server code isn't federated, then I don't believe there would be a straightforward way to send messages between the two systems.

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
I was asking what the difference was because I wanted to have a discussion about hyperbole in the news; what's acceptable, what isn't. I think a lot of news outlets sensationalize the stories through insinuation and salacious headlines. I think that is just as bad as fake news because fake news is easier to spot. Sounds like a lot of people got their feathers ruffled about it. Either they are die hard Onion fans, or they are emotionally married to the argument.

It's just politics man, everyone is full of beans. The second you become tribal, you're the sucker.
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For example, when you order something new in a restaurant – perhaps anchovy pizza — you should learn whether you like or dislike anchovy pizza, rather than attribute the pleasurable experience to the particular table you’re sitting at. Or when crossing a street, you should pay attention to the speed and direction of oncoming traffic, while the colors of cars can be safely ignored.

So in these two examples it's pretty obvious to most people what we should be paying attention to. But worth remembering, perhaps, that the same problem of 'what is relevant here' also occurs a lot in situations where it is not so clear what is the relevant factor. e.g. You have problems with asthma, you change your diet, the asthma gets better, was the change in diet actually the relevant factor?

And even in those two 'obvious' examples it's possible to get this wrong. e.g. You decide you don't like anchovies, but actually this is just because you went to a bad restaurant, the anchovies were much too salty, and another time you try better quality / better prepared / better dosed anchovies, and like them.

I guess my point is that the deciding what is relevant part of this is not trivial, and strategies and mechanisms for achieving this effectively are important.
> China, who asks not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country

China doesn't ask, China tells you. And if you don't like it, well, too bad. If you really don't like it, they have plenty of prisons you can rot in forever, or until your organs are harvested and sold.

> your nation is run by engineers

No, it's run by corrupt, unelected insiders who don't give a damn about freedom (speech, religion, assembly - take your pick) the environment, or much else than maintaining their positions and enriching themselves through shady deals and helping out their friends.
Motivation is like fire
Digging into beam, is there a example where one loads csv data, does some basic transformations and sends results to bigquery?
The reward of seeing a nicely-formatted message which you wrote, and the reward of seeing replies to it which are obviously valued by the platform (as opposed to subsumed under a torrent of irrelevant notifications).
Surely, "people over process" means, when people say process needs to be modified in some instance, you trust them rather than beat them over the head with process.

"It doesn't make sense to test this" - "well do it anyway, that's the standard process".
>This code is included by calling the createPackageContext-method together with the flags CONTEXT_INCLUDE_CODE and CONTEXT_IGNORE_SECURITY. The latter is a requirement as the android system would deny loading code from untrustworthy sources otherwise (for a good reason). The code is then executed in the Signal process, which includes access to the Signal history database and the crypto keys.

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Glad someone points out the technical details of why many people had doubts about signal. Unfortunately, Moxie will dismiss it, and his following will claim "it affects other apps too" as if that makes it any better. "Other apps do it too" is not the standard a "privacy" app should aim for.
What's in 2020?

EDIT: Nevermind, figured it out. The 2020 Summer Olympics are in Tokyo.
> But lurking behind every statement was an existential dread

That sums up the mood in the media: existential dread.Not real. Not tangible. Not verifiable. Existential.

I doubt the Donald is going to mess with making the awful process of dealing with government easier. Existential is non-tangible for a reason I guess.
That's great, but most people don't separate personal and work email, and even if they do, they still build up a work-related attitude to email that comes across in personal emails too.

Plus, the main issue is that email isn't nicely formatted or hierarchical.
Ask HN: What is the cheapest Cheapest Cloud Rack Server for general purpose use?
Processor capabilities and prices vary a lot , Intel , AMD , ARM based Cavium Octeon, Qualcomm 24 core ARM, Applied micro Xgene, Sun Sparc , IBM Power7 and so on.There are many bench marks available to check the performance, for example http://www.eembc.org/coremark/index.php

Same goes for Cloud Rack servers , how can a startup select cheapest cloud rack server hardware for general purpose SaaS hosting ?
I'm not going to port to tkinter. I like KDE, I like Qt Designer, and I have a working GUI. If tkinter is the only thing that works in Python I'll abandon the language (I mostly work in Scala these days anyway) and find one with working Qt bindings.
Why mental health is a political issue (2012)
Honestly, I didn't get it at first - I thought it was some kind of matrix reference about the red and blue pill (in hindsight, not even for a particular reason), not about democrats and republicans... Even though I'm not american I feel stupid not having thought of that first.
Those of you who think WeChat is innovative for doing these things while other messaging companies like Facebook can't:

WeChat can make these moves because they know they have their back covered by the government. Even if Apple wants to do anything about it, they know they need to play nice with the Chinese government, and overall it makes more sense for them to let WeChat do whatever just so that they can sell iPhones in China.

Facebook can't do something like this easily. If Facebook went a bit too far to do something like this, Apple will definitely stop them.

With WeChat it's not that simple.

My point is, there are many reasons why something works or doesn't work, and many people tend to just see a single facet of the entire situation and decide. Like how these American VCs idolize WeChat and other Asian tech phenomenon and try to emulate them. "Who's the WeChat of America?" is the stupidest question to ask when trying to build an innovative company.
Your entire comment is based around the "but there are bigger problems" argument.

That's like saying you shouldn't fix your leaking engine, if your brakes don't work.
Either that or Aliexpress. Not into clothing brands. My brother who works for a startup always wear t-shirts that are given by his company.
This sort of scare mongering is just plain weird.
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It's always seemed weird to me how in some countries the student housing is actually owned and run by the university. I studied in Sweden where there was student housing run by a non-profit foundation (cheaply priced and well-maintained, they renovated it my second year there). Some people chose to live in the student housing, others chose to live in private or public housing. Many stayed with their parents to save on costs (I commuted by bus+train for 45 minutes a day until I scored a student housing room).
I hope so or Lumberjack is frighteningly skilled. :)