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> from Old Norse

Isn't that just a fancy way to say they're from Old English (Anglo-Saxon/Englisc)? This shouldn't be too surprising considering the other main influence of the English language was Old French and the letter combination "sk" is far more common in Nordic languages than in French.
Hahah thanks ! You saved me a good rant session !
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I used to feel the same way until I was recruited into the coffee business ;) Our coffee is most definitely not American but it's also not Vietnamize for the reason mentioned in the main post: trafficking. We have personal relationships with all the plantations we use to help ensure a direct trade product line. But in all honesty your first statement is exactly the kind of customer we want to target and further educate. If you were an average Joe content with Starbucks what do you think would make you switch to something new?
Steam, at least, does not seem to have a issue sending me emails. Sure it annoys me to use their app or whatever, but i can choose to only receive emails. Which is really all i actually want :)

But i agree on everything said
> Proxying all API requests through your servers might work, but only with low-volume and if the service doesn't have rate limits per IP.

No paid api (intended to be used by a server instead of an end-user) has rate limits per ip. If it's a free api you are either using it in a way they did not intend, or the api secret is generally not truly secret (granting you special privileges) just a way to identify developers.

As for low-volume, obviously you should have servers to handle the traffic from your app. If you aren't low-volume I'm sure you can afford more servers.
What is an intuitive explanation of Bayes' Rule?
I've read that thorn and eth were replaced with Y because printing presses were imported from Germany. They had Y, but lacked Þ and Ð, so Y was used instead.
If affordable that would be interesting indeed. If i could own it on similar terms like a domain and just choose my provider, but still _own_ it for most part.

Right now it is usual that you can keep your number with other providers, but you still never actually own it.
I've been planning to get into GO this spring, would this be a good start? Or is there a possibility that it goes out of date?
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Not at all. Decode performance is generally a very important consideration, as it has to go in all kinds of devices. Unbounded decoding time would be terrible (it would "lock up" embedded devices), and it's almost certainly an oversight.

You probably have encoding performance in mind, where there's much more liberty to make things very heavy.
I would think they mostly disappeared because the same sounds could be represented by combinations of letters in the Latin alphabet which was used and recognized universally throughout Western Europe.

They didn't have standardized fonts those days, but the method of reproducing literal material by manually copying manuscripts still encouraged towards a simpler set of characters, resulting in much the same kind of thing. I Guess the slightly simple Brother Jonas was told that "oh come on, you once again messed up your ð and now that parchment is ruined, why don't you just write th instead?"
Could you provide me some insight into why optical storage is a better solution than standard HDDs? Is it just the cost, or is cooling / form-factor a big part of it?
Much like djb's code it's forcing the most error prone parts (string handling, memory) to go through a library, or simply forbidding the error prone constructs entirely (static buffers).
You can change them, you just have to change them in those services too. Same as with email, or any other authentication mechanism, really.
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Paying commentators would immediately destroy the quality of comments as people tried to exploit the system.
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Three distinct phases:

1. I don't know what I like. Help me out? Make it easy to taste a lot of different coffees, grinds, preparation methods... and take notes on what I like.

2. I know what I like. Make it cheap and easy for me to get the 2-3 things I like consistently over a long time period.

3. I know what I like, but I'd like to try something new. Make recommendations for me and make it easy to try the recommendations.

Some people will go through all three phases, some are in phase 2 forever, some will cycle.
My guess is that the ratio of false positives is extremely small and hence this may be a very low hanging fruit when it comes to spam filtering.

Having an honest reason to belong to a minority that is on average very dishonest is one of the worst things that can happen to you.

This is a real dilemma, not just with spam filtering.
As a developer in Europe, moving across countries isn't a particularly crazy pattern I believe :)

Also in some countries keeping your number isn't cheap. And even when it's technically easy, your phone plan might be provided by your employer, in this case it might be very tricky to get your number migrated when you change jobs.
This is what wikipedia has to say on the topic "In addition, numerous common, everyday Old Norse words were adopted into the Old English language during the Viking age." I think I understand what you are hinting at but regardless, I'm leaning towards no, it's not just a fancy way of saying that.
I shouldnt have mentioned banking, it seems that this is what most people agree with that numbers make sense. And hence i agree to that as well.

One of my banks offers the following 2 alternatives:

* Paper TAN (which most likely will go away in the next years)

* Card reader that scans your EC card

Both completely valid for my situation, my other bank does none of both. Both however are completely valid just not as confidient for the bank i guess.

My whole point is having alternatives, or at least a workflow to fix this issue for people who do not have a fixed phone number (anymore). Its sucks to have way less security as everybody else (because i cant enable 2FA) when email was always there and pretty much just as good. It sucks even more to not be able to create a account because somehow they dont want your current number (I mean how crazy is that that you can not make a Twitter account with one of the most popular Thai providers? How is that not a huge issue?)
Here in Germany we get a Digipass 2FA device from our bank (something like this [0]). For every transaction, you put your banking card in, hold it up to the flashing pattern on the screen, and it creates a TAN for you. Very convenient and secure.

I thought this is more common in Europe, but apparently it's not? Although, our banks are increasingly pushing towards App-based 2FA because it's cheaper.. but I'm very confident they'll continue to support as it is the common way to do online banking.

0: https://www.vasco.com/products/two-factor-authenticators/har...
I bought this when it appeared on HN around xmas, can recommend, its a pretty great introduction to the subject
Telemetry doesn't require anything near a self-driving vehicle. I'd wager that almost all new cars on the road today are logging extensive telemetry. Ones with advanced features like lane-keeping are definitely doing so.
Probably the same way the kaiser stole the word "twenty".
For the love of god, just use the official angular-cli.
You mean near-minimum-wage jobs: would employers lower pay for near-minimum-wage jobs to minimum, because employees would be willing to take the pay cut since it is balanced by the basic income? That's a good question with an empirical answer: What happened in Alaska when the pipeline payments started? I'm sorry I don't know. I'm also not sure how a drop in near-minimum-wage pay plus the basic income would feel to workers in those near-minimum-wage jobs.
I'm very confused why would it be undercutting the local workforce. I certainly would not accept to be paid any less than any of my British coworkers. I didn't move here for work - I came here to university, finished my BSc, then MSc, and then I got a job - I don't feel like I'm being paid any less because I'm a "foreigner".
This is totally not similar to JHipster, which has an immense array of possibilities and customization.
Although this is a great Bootstrap project for an AngularJS frontend + secured Spring backend, it is vastly inferior in terms of features, possibilities and customization over JHipster.
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This kind of thing is why every programmer should at least once try to build something fancy using only variables and GOTO statements.

The classic make-your-own-game engines ZZT and MegaZeux had a lot of this; the scripts for in-game objects had no function calls or well-managed events, just GOTOs and per-object vars, and could get interrupted at any time by GOTOs triggered by other in-game objects.
You should have a look at Spring Boot, which makes the Spring backend much easier to bootstrap/customize.

https://start.spring.io is your fastest way to production using Java/Spring
> Let's be honest - internet users are cheap. They want stuff for free.

Web users are not cheap. They expect stuff to be free because this is what the web has been designed to: sharing knowledge for free between people. But truth is it is not free, we are paying through privacy invasion and the reason for both of these is google. Google provides whatever you want with no immediate price to pay, though we actually pay in the end, and you can compete with google especially since google has established dominance.

The reason I say we pay in the end is not obvious but self-evident when you think of it, google gathers personal profiling data, exploits it to sell ads paid by advertisers, advertisers include the price of advertising in the product, we buy the product thus paying for the content in the end. The trick is we may have bought the product anyways though now we pay a bit more to pay the advertising costs. That's how we pay google to provide us with seemingly gratis stuff.

> Ads seems to be the only model that works (thus far).
You're starting with a bad assumption. There is a model that worked for years even before this assumption became rampant: do not expect revenue by having a website or webpage that is not an online shop. example: www.debian.org

Then if your content is good enough your audience will pay for you to make more, see the dice tower getting its funding on kickstarter [1], or the webcomics with patreon, and so on. The point being, there are models that work to get a revenue from publishing online outside of ads, but you need a sizeable audience first.

[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomvasel/the-dice-tower...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomvasel/the-dice-tower...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomvasel/the-dice-tower...
So Pelican fits 1152 WD WD6001F4PZ 6TB disks in 52U (Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/rethinking-st...).

I wonder if microsoft going to publish specs (like opencompute?) to pelican servers?
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It's hard to point at one exact thing.

http://www.goodfood.com.au/drinks/coffee/deconstructed-coffe...

That's kinda where Melbourne is at. It's almost post-hipster.

More seriously, there are a lot of places that do make really nice coffee. Beakers optional.
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I didn't mean this for scenarios where the user has an account with private content with the third party (e.g. Twitter), but for e.g. a common backend resource such as sending an error report to developers for user-facing errors.
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the idea that uber is not viable is a bit of a stretch. it is certainly a good service used by many millions of people.

you seem to lack a solid grasp of economics. the reason uber is "losing money" is because it is competing in an oligopoly and tries to get rid of its competition. the reason it is being funded to "lose" billions of dollars every year is because it is clearly valuable, not because some "hedge fund idiots" dont know what to do with their money.

once uber turns into a quasi monopoly, it will be able to fix its pricing structure. if it goes too far, it will be regulated. uber is already more of a public utility than "just a company".

calling something that millions of people love "not viable" has never worked. and never will. uber and airbnb are solving the major problem of "you have to own a house and a car". thats a major achievement and costs a lot of money to establish. especially due to regulation trying to prevent people from becoming more mobile and less enslaved.
There are a few points wrong in this article.
First of all the <y> of <ye> does not come from <ð> but from <þ>.
Secondly in Old English the letters þ and ð are used promiscuously, voicing has nothing to do with it. In other languages this is different, but the article seems to be about english specifically.
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Foreign leaders need to meet with other foreign leaders. If US president were to never leave the US, requesting that all foreign dignitaries visit him, that'd be great loss for US foreign policy.

Y'all are all overstating the impact of visits on local communities too. It is done the way it is to minimize risk and expediency for both parties...
Valid arguments indeed. Many roll well with not allowing common mail providers (there are available lists) and as i own my own domains i welcome that.

If they require telephone number i would at least expect them to support a wide range of providers and not only some. Like i really cant get over the fact that Twitter locks out the most popular Thai provider.

They however could also send me a letter, or have me auth with Authy/Google Auth to make a single identity system. Maybe even requiring my passport number + name. Its not like phone would be the only solution.

And yeah i see that may is hard for small providers, but it shouldnt be hard for bigger ones. Or like in Twitters case, its not about having a single account anyway, you can have hundreds with the same phone number, but not a single with a thai phone carrier.

Edit:// To clearify i personally have no issue with initial confirmation over SMS, i mean i own a phone number most of the time. I just not own it for longer than a month, so it is not valid for me for further authentication.
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I'm pretty sure that the "Y" in "Ye olde" is a thorn, not an eth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

since after the loss of wynn, the thorn was drawn to look like wynn (which is basically an uppercase "Y" with the left ascender in line with the descender and a loop on the right ascender).

If you're interested in discarded letters, this list has 12 letters (although the definition of "letter" is a little looser):

http://mentalfloss.com/article/31904/12-letters-didnt-make-a...
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Is this book relevant only to beginners? Do you think a programmer with about 7 years of experience (in C, C++, C#, Java) will find it useful?
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I have read lots of critiques about the Born rule derivations but I've missed this one. Thanks for the pointer. He is only attacking one attempt, the decision-theoretic one.

I have trouble finding his point in this paper because it's so rambling but he seems to be saying:

> It seems prima facie surprising to claim that mathematical analysis could show that Born-weight mean utilitarianism, or any other strategy, is the unique rational way of optimizing the welfare of one’s own, and other people’s, many future selves in a multiverse.

Okay, sure - but it's also just as ridiculous to say that you can prove with no assumptions how a rational agent should act in a classical world.

Actually there is no explanation of probability in the classical world that's as clear as that in a multiverse, where you have actual proportions of outcomes.

All you really need is to assume that branches of equal magnitude have an equal chance of occurring and the Born rule becomes obvious. That seems like a safe assumption to me but you can't prove it beyond all doubt without some axioms of probability.

EDIT: I found a critique of his paper you might also want to read: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.2563.pdf
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Yeah, I get what you're saying.

But for every new system/feature/mechanism a service provider builds to accommodate every increasingly narrow edge-case, there's a huge additional cost and commitment in development, maintenance and support.

So the reality is it just comes down to dollars. If you're in the mainstream, you'll be looked after. If you're in the fringes, well, you're in the situation you're in now. That's how the world works.

Whilst complaining might help you to feel better, it's not going to change much unless there are big dollars at stake for the service provider.
In this talk touches upon an interesting hypothesis that the purpose of junk DNA might be evolvability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcD_L6_iBLU

The idea is basically that junk DNA contains a memory in shape of a distributed representation of the past of the organism and its environment, akin to how neural networks encode information. It basically provides a basis for fast adaptability by introducing noise into the gene expression and morphogenesis process so as to have more versatility and robustness to explore alternatives (very similar to dropout in neural networks).
The author's concerns are well justified, however they suggest to provide an alternative.
> Can someone enlighten the audience about what happened to Beall's List?! Another suit?

Trying to track this down. People are taking cache copies right now, ready to put up at a second's notice (or just do so anyway).
The whole thing brings to mind the hermetic expression, "as above, so below".

It feels like every layers of computation logic ends up mimicking both higher and lower layers.
This guy smells Mormon. Most of the kids likely interrupted their college with 18 month (girls) or 2-year (boys) proselyting missions. I envy his discipline and dedication.
The convention of referring to an ex president as President is peculiar to United States presidents, AFAIK.
This isn't a fully formed idea by any means, but here's my experience with coffee:

Grinding at the time of use is the single best thing one can do to improve their coffee, and probably matters more than the brewing process, the equipment, the beans used, etc. Most people (in my experience) tend to buy pre-ground beans.

First thought is can you include a grinder in your subscription? A grinder is pretty expensive, so probably not, which means either some creative marketing to get people to buy one up-front, or maybe repositioning yourself as "you've bought a grinder/cafetiere/aeropress - now what?" sort of educational brand, and market in shops where equipment is sold?

Alternatively, the gifting market might be a good way to sell a grinder with a small subscription, people more willing to pay $80 up front for the grinder if they are paying for 6 months in advance.
the author should've used insurance companies instead of the police, then it wouldn't be that far fetched :)
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You live in Switzerland. If you can create a phone number with a Thai carrier from there, I am sure you understand why Twitter refuses to deal with such a carrier.
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One of my banks does this, paper TAN is more confident for me as i dont have to carry a additional device and worry about driver support. But i surely will change to that as soon paper tan is over.

The other bank only offers different phone based solutions. Clearly my fault for not checking first, and also not a issue for me as i dont actually access that account.

If i could use that with other websites, Twitter, Github, whatever, i would happily carry that device with me :)
This is awesome, since I'm currently working on my own (toy) language! Thanks for making this public!

On a side note, to anyone interested in an overview of high-level language features and what their implementation requires, I can wholeheartedly recommend Michael Scott's Programming Language Pragmatics. It doesn't go into implementation details, but tells you a lot about the historical choices and implementation possibilities of (mostly) mainstream languages.
The ING smartphone app can now also be used to approve payments (https://www.ing.nl/particulier/mobiel-en-internetbankieren/i...), but that doesn't exactly remove the phone dependency.
> Xcode

That one's going to be a hard nut to crack...

> Forklift / Transmit (That does dual pane file browser / sftp remote browser)

MC anyone? /semi-s
Why is that uncivil? That's an odd reading.

And, I wasn't complaining about down-votes. I was enjoying it. Get it right.

It's just my statement that millennials appear to be a soul-less, impotent, irritating generation.
Yeah, that can happen, it's one of the reasons why I don't recommend Google accounts anymore. Hardware/software factors ("new devices"...) trigger their automatic security checks and can easily lock you out of your account, even if you did nothing wrong.

Big providers are more and more tailoring to the lowest common denominator (people who can't manage passwords, get malware...) and pushing for mobile authentication.
So if you're someone who can manage passwords and is willing to accept responsibility, you get annoyed at best and locked out of your account at worst.
For those who can't/would rather not look for it:

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So W won, and Wynn lost? FTW.
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Thank you. I dont really get the however. Do you mean i missed to provide a solution? Thats true, other than my github example i did not provide any solutions.

My current mission is to plant this thought into peoples heads, especially those who implement such systems (why i posted on HN). All i really want right now is a workflow to help people having similar issues, if a company is aware when they build such a system they will also be able to find individual solutions that fit into their market.

Like my bank can offer paper tan, Github can offer private key authentification, and Twitter should not ask for a telephone number at all because they allow multiple accounts per number anyway. Also 2FA should be possible with Email and not only SMS.
Those of us outside the US would still see some usages; "encyclopædea" in particular isn't uncommon.
They are getting "better" though. The ratio of civilian deaths seems to go down with the years.
English: though
Swedish: dock

Makes sense now. The Scandinavian pronunciation is one step harder on the scale with German in the middle.