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> Why "ideally"? That would be a recipe for broken, dirty cars.

Not necessarily. Granted, very few countries run a well-functioning socialist state, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible, more that many countries do a poor job when it comes to implementation.

The solution would be quite simple. These smart autonomous cars would contain security cameras that ensure passengers don't vandalise the vehicle. If they do, then it's a simple case of locking the vehicle and driving the passengers to the police station, where they would then get booked for vandalism of public property, and banned from using the service for a period of time. I should imagine that this would quickly curtail the issue.
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They actually look pretty promising. Will have to keep them in mind.
Since state electoral votes are mostly awarded all-or-nothing, the electoral count can't tell you anything about how close an election was or wasn't.

Looking at a number of swing states with significant numbers of electoral votes can, though. The margin of victory was just over 1% in Florida (29EV). It's less 1% in Pennsylvania (20EV) and Wisconsin (10EV). Michigan (16EV) was less than .25%.

That's 75EV won by that thin a margin. Half that could have swung the election.

(And yes, you can play this game the other way, but the only state Clinton won that was that closely contested was... New Hampshire, 4EV)

The election was quite close. Trump's electoral victory was very thin.

That's the state of affairs to be expected when the EC winner loses the popular vote.
Flash was so bad that it killed itself. Flux was so good that Apple implemented it. 2 different stories. You could compare this with Alfred though...
CI, sure, but on dev machines this means you're not throwing away the JVM and restarting it, reloading all the classes etc. on every build
I was going to visit Defcon this year for the first in my life, never been to USA before. I think I'll take a rain check.
I don't understand this idea that just because somebody lives in a particular state their vote should count less than somebody in a different state. That seems evidently unfair.
Property rights are basic human rights.

John Locke wrote of "life, liberty and property".
Money is an integral part of a social system and stability. You can't 'disrupt' money without disrupting governance, rule of law, accountability and systems.

We are far safer with governments and central banks that are accountable to us to varying degrees than self appointed shadowy crypto currency cliques with zero transparency and accountability. The monetary system certainly cannot be in private hands.

The 'solution' peddled in a frenzy by early adopters is tainted by self interest and infinitely worse than any problem with central banks and current monetary systems.
I bought it for a friend this year on Amazon, she still hasn't read it
> you cannot sell yourself as a slave even if you are willing to.

That's because human rights are inalienable, meaning they can neither be taken nor given away.
Yeah - display colour is an OS-level concern. This feature belongs in the OS itself.
I've bought some games (older games from years ago) on gog.com for os x, they were always just running wine
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Doesn't "not controlling one's own wealth" end up equivalent to "subject to arbitrary seizure of assets by a third party"?

I think you could construct a reasonable argument that this is a basic human right.
These bugs can be defeated by aerial spray of species-specific viral infection. But that weapon has to be designed first. In 70-ies, the USSR by such means successfully combated Lymantria dispar invasion in Siberia, which devastated pine forests on unimaginable scale. Though it took about 7 years and if memory serves, 3 research institutions to make insights into immune system of this species and make effective species-specific virus. The strain is still available.
I've done a similar thing, but getting people to review is like pulling teeth.

We've tried plenty ways to make this happen:

1. append a footer in the email asking for a review
Finding: People ignore it.

2. include custom copy in the emails asking for a review
People say yes yes, and then most do nothing.

3. The annoying rate us with stars popup and redirect to appstore.
People rate 5 stars inapp, and then close down the AppStore before they apply a rating

Getting reviews is hard for b2c - but the real issue at work is the amount of friction AppStore imposes. I've tried to leave reviews and it asks me to re-sign in to the AppStore, minimum character requirements (can't just leave 5 stars).
I see... Well, if you're sure that the battery is the problem, and you're willing to pay, you can have it replaced by a third-party, or you can replace it yourself buying a kit.

It'll be cheaper and void your warranty, which has already expired.
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The long term effects of alcohol on mental health are also not much fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_alcohol_c...
> In hindsight, that was likely for the best but it seems a misrepresentation.

Was it? American involvement created a decisive winner in what would have been a stalemate. Imagine if Versailles hadn't been so one sided?
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It's maybe a few levels above basic human rights, but nevertheless, it should be a fundamental rights.
Drag 'n Drop have always had shortcomings, as for AI...

I think this CommitStrip sums it up: [0]

The punchline for those that don't click:

> Do you know the industry term for a project specification that is comprehensive and precise enough to generate a program? Code. It's called code.

Programming may change, though I doubt that will be coming in the near future, but it will always exist.

Programming is the art of change a specification into a form that can be best read by a computation device.

[0] http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensiv...
That was really amazing...!
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Human rights are things that are important even if violating them is legal. Slavery was very legal and very wrong because people have a right to be free. The practical difficulty of violating a right is beside the point when discussing justice.
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As a data point, this little Racket server — https://github.com/coding-robots/iwl — served millions of requests from late 2010 until early 2016 (when I switched to Go) without any issues first on a smallest Rackspace Cloud instance, then on a smallest DigitalOcean instance.
I have sympathy with your argument, but I'm not 100% convinced. If controlling your own capital means having access to the economy so that you can buy food and housing, then it becomes a prerequisite for basic human rights like actually living; doesn't that at a certain point put it on the same level?

It's sort of like countries that take steps to ensure everyone has access to the internet as a basic right: they acknowledge that participating in the modern economy, and the things that flow from that participation (security, dignity, basic sustenance) require internet access to do it meaningfully. How else are you going to apply for jobs, when companies no longer sort through CVs sent in by post?

(As an aside, this is one reason I rage at people -- and this has been a strain of thought popular in Britain recently -- that make negative comments about the homeless having "luxuries" like smartphones. How else are they supposed to find work, be contactable to do that work, etc.? Being able to make and receive phone calls, SMSes, and emails is essential in 2017, at least in Europe. Madness.)

Anyway, point is, it's not enough to say that "everyone has the right to life and not be tourtured" and other abstract concepts. Having a right, truly, means being able to exercise it meaningfully -- just having it under the law is not enough. Therefore, the prerequisites to exercising those rights need to also be in place, and form at the very least a part of those basic rights, even if you do not want to classify them as seperate, also basic rights. (But I think arguing about Linnean distinctions is a little pointless.)
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Without money you are homeless. Another human right that should be a right is a right to a job. That is necessary to survive as a human with any level of dignity in our society.
More like 20, considering the years in which he passively controlled part of the political narrative.
Peter Thiel got the same treatment despite being gay and clarifying his position, which wasn't at all unreasonable.
You have not factored in the cost of service, which is substantial
You're doing it wrong. You should get Brave New World instead.
Yes some haematological diseases can be treated this way, but not much else. We really need much better delivery systems that work in all tissue types.
I don't see the phrase "alternative facts" (or even the word "facts", for that matter) in either the headline or the article. Nineteen Eighty-Four is very much about surveillance and totalitarianism (which is why, here in the UK, it seems even more prescient right now) so, while I disagree with Mikeb's political stance, I think your dismissal of their comment as not contributing to the discussion is unfair.
Even if that was true, this would not solve the issue. Consider if any Trump company decides to pursue a big new project in, oh, say China.

Consider that just the knowledge of that, which might not be more than he might read in the papers, could very well cause him to adjust his policies either in the hope of favours, or even just subconsciously to avoid causing trouble for them.

Beyond that there is plenty of scope for outright blackmail. E.g. what if some Chinese representative whisper in the ear of some Trump employee that significant legal problems might appear as long as China's relationship with the US is still strained over Trumps apparent lack of support for the One China principle. They'd not even need to mention his company, for that matter, or contact him.

A slightly pointed press release about how there will be a crackdown on companies believed to not represent interests that don't fully support the One China principle would work too.

Chances are we'll never find out how Trumps policies are affected (or not) by foreign interference, but it'd be naive to think that there aren't multiple powers that have people considering how they can take advantage of Trumps business ventures presence or prospective interests in their country to curry favour with him or try to pressure him right now.

I know if I was running a country, then at this point I'd have a whole team on looking into opportunities, because even though it'd be rather unethical I'd want something in my back pocket in case Trump were to do something unpredictable that'd harm our interests. I'm sure there are plenty of regimes with less scruples about unethical methods.
> I guess now is the time where everyone becomes a cynic.

For a transition of normative systems it seems that it is required that at some point people "don't believe in anything" anymore.
Oh you want to go with popular votes? Then Bernie Sanders should have been your candidate by a big margin but was prevented by the DNC's superdelegate system.
On his efforts to undermine a free press, just a couple that come to mind:

- he threatened legal action against the NYT [1]
- he said he would 'open up those libel laws' [2]
- he lies about falling subscription numbers at the 'failing NYT' [3]
- in his first press conference in the White House he attacked a reporter as 'fake news', and refused to answer questions by CNN [4]
- he tweets [5] incorrect ratings numbers about Fox vs CNN, calling CNN 'fake news'.
- he's been singling out and attacking/mocking individual reporters [6], [7]

All these actions are efforts to undermine and discredit the free press. They should be alarming to anybody who cares about the US democracy.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/us/politics/donald-trump-...

[2] http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/02/donald-trump-...

[3] http://fortune.com/2016/11/17/trump-new-york-times-subscript...

[4] http://uk.businessinsider.com/president-elect-donald-trump-c...

[5] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/82407841721374720...

[6] http://fortune.com/2016/11/03/donald-trump-katy-tur/

[7] http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/11/26/donald-trump-mocks-r...
> even after pointing out that your belief is wrong

Some people believe their arguments are so strong that the other person must have been secretly convinced, and is therefore lying.

Setting aside for the moment that people often believe their arguments are far more convincing than they actually are, people can and do believe anything, so a better reason than that is necessary to accuse people of lying.
>Very short-sightedly written. It sounds like the author just wants a language with a different philosophy

Which is not a priori bad to want, especially if a language has a broken philosophy (or partially broken) to begin with.
Federal funding. You are free to fund it yourself.
You don't get anonymity with a VPN…
Congratulations for winning a game that wasn't being played.
I have the original falcon 4.0, still in a box. Love the game. How are those "expansions"? Worth it?
> We will also consider more signals to use in exempting a page from this throttling

The main problems I have with background tabs and resource use is advertising iframes on otherwise inert pages. iflscience.com and sometimes imgur.com are two notable offenders here in my experience.

Advertisers will opt of anything that might throttle their content whether they need to or not, without testing if they need to, just in case. so if there is an opt out I expect it to be abused such that this pain point will not go away.

As well as asking if a particular domain should be allowed to unthrottle itself as others have suggested (or instead of if there is a fear that extra UI interactions will confuse the user) perhaps you could only allow it if the top level frame also opts out? This would give control back to the main page maintainer and if used in combination with the prompts could confuse less technical users less (the request for unthrottling comes from a recognised name like iflscience.com not content.idofmachineinfarm.r438957432t43.somecompanyyouveneverheardof.com)

> disable aggressive throttling when active websocket connection is present.

How is "active" defined here? I foresee advertisers opening a websocket that does as little as possible in order to get a prompt-less lifting of the throttle...

> Tabs playing audio are already unthrottled

I'd love to reverse this and punish tabs that play audio in the background! (or to allow for genuinely useful uses, such as message alerts, punish those that play more then 5 seconds of audio in a minute, unless tey are whitelisted).
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I think the parent comment is trying to say that 'basic human rights' are the ones that apply regardless of society.

The claim is that there are some rights that should be due to us because of the context we are in, and some rights that should be due to us simply because we are human.

'Right to a job' would definitely be a right based on context, especially since there are contexts where the concept of 'job' might not make any sense at all.

The question is whether right to property is of the context type or not.
> Gradle is adding support for Kotlin alongside Gradle, and comments by the Kotlin designers. The big difference of course is that Gradle is dynamically typed by default.

You've fallen for the trap of mistaking Gradle to be Apache Groovy, perhaps because those 10-line build scripts for Gradle are the only encounter most programmers have with Groovy. Your comment should read "Gradle is adding support for Kotlin alongside Groovy, and comments by the Kotlin designers. The big difference of course is that Groovy is dynamically typed by default."
Wow, is HN slowly going the way of reddit? First the creeping-in of CTR/anti-Trump pieces, now this. Where's the connection to technology? Why is this unnecessary purely political thread even allowed?

We need less religiosity to get ahead. And AFAIK it's not the Jews who want to push all Muslims into the sea, celebrate terror attacks or applaud the Holocaust.
23 more years and we were on the moon!
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> with decent solutions like AFAIK Jython.

>>- solving some of the issues would exacerbate backwards compatibility. Such as what?

Jython can't load native C extensions which should be GIL aware. Most programs, and the python interpreter itself, aren't thread safe so suddenly removing the GIL would break a lot of programs.

I agree with you that the concurrency story for python sucks, but claiming solutions could exist without breaking back-compat is just not right.
> The title, as presented here, is nothing spectacular, but it's not necessarily inadequate to the task.

I just see too many uses of "There used to be", which to me is a crude way to concatenate two stock phrases without reflection, but in a awkward way that grates on my ear. Also I think Strunk & White's concision emphasis still rings true.

> I also wondered why you might go with "There once were" rather than "There were once"?

Voicing the candidates shows the difference. I imagine speaking anything I write, which reveals phrasings that would be hard to say out loud.

> We all have our own pet peeves, though. I weep at the loss of the subjunctive in English (For most usages it's "I wish I WERE there", not "I wish I WAS there", dammit!!!)

I have a funny story about that. A depressed child enters the kitchen and says, "I wish I was dead!" The child's mother says, "Oh no! Not that! Don't you mean 'I wish I were dead'?" :)

> Also, the "all now gone" phrase in your alternate strikes me as somewhat awkward.

Perhaps, but in my view not compared to "They all disappeared," which suggests proactive agency (did they run away?) rather than passive fate.
I love how so much person focus on the GIL and multithreading, when GIL is much more a solution to make un-threadsafe libs safe to use, and that most people don't see POSIX threads are an inherently broken abstraction.
[1] http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-12-17-POSIX-close-is-br...

In fact it pretty much boils down to signals being broken on unices
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/683118/

Which even though I have a hatred for systemd, systemd is trying to fix by leaving the status quo.
However, POSIX signals are still a problem to systemd
[3] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1615

Having played with signal in python+C, I have the experience of python having some holes around the signals: no mask can bet set. I thought initially python sucked because of the most common denominator problem of system languages (having to make you support only small subsets of features). But, I am now thinking POSIX signal are just a broken OS level software interrupt implementation.

So going down the rabbit hole, after reading Stevens on unix/POSIX programming (a must read). I am pretty much thinking questioning fred brooks (hence K&R&T) biggest failure: OS360 followed by unices.

What if our quest for a multitasking portable OS that does not care about the HW is doomed?

It makes a darn good job for 99.999% of the case. The .001% remaining being the signals.

Look at it, what is a process meant to be?

A container running code.

A thread? Cooperative code sharing data. But how do you cooperate? You send signals.

The problem, it is in case of high use of signals the OS get "signal bound" in a way we cannot measure.

signals are like a huge software bus that is not easily measurable and at the opposite of a lot of primitive cannot be HW bound. It is basically a software bus that tries to convey the concept of HW interrupts that are normally handled with micro chips. Look at the MC2828 brochure and you can recognize the feature signals are trying to provide
[4] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Motorola...

So to wrap up, we may have a problem of HW architecture that results in a buggy implementation of a common API. Like trying to emulate MMU on a MMU less CPU.

And I would say that it is thanks to my experiments in python that I discovered that signals was an unreliable 1bit message delivery protocol. Python made it easy to experiment.

Python has problems. (mostly a weired mix of conservatism and progress on concerns I don't share and politics).
But overall it is a good system language that deals with problem. And poor support of signals, threading are not a bug from python.

A good system language does not try to fix system glitches, he let them stay obvious. All the hate against GIL/threading/signals/weired async IO may be better directed at the quest for a portable multitasking generic OS.

Threads (and implicitly signals) on the other hand are convenient fantasies that we would like to exist but are actually just fantasies. And to solve the problem, we invented the containers... based .... on cooperative multitasking system ... based ... on threads and signals.
"The worst kind dystopia story is one that's easy to believe"
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Well when wasn't the White House lying :-). I guess I've come to expect very little from govt officials. It still seems like bike shedding to me
Meh. I thought the ideas were no longer grounded in what's possible in this universe.
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No shop keeper can turn you down for wanting to pay with Dollars.

I do appreciate your point, although 'legal tender' is generally only a relative term with regard to payment of debts. A seller is not otherwise obliged to accept dollars.
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So, you are claiming that he looked into the future to see what happens with the Stasi?

But even if you want to get technical: He started writing in 1946 and the final manuscript was presented in 1948. The "Volkskommissariat" may have been around, but you really can not compare their activity to the Stasi. If you were talking about them, then your quote makes no sense at all.
the entire apple ecosystem is a non-stop barrage of notices, warnings, and requests, from all apps and the OS.

even if you try to turn it all off, they still come at you relentlessly. it's exhausting.
You're talking about two different "tail call optimizations" here.

Scala supports local tail call optimization for a single function. A lot of FP languages support mutually recursive tail call optimizations, where two functions recursively call each other (common in FP). Scala (and no JVM language to my knowledge) cannot optimize this and so programmers have to resort to workarounds like Trampolines.

In contrast, LLVM IR and .NET CLR support it, allowing language compilers to use it. F# supports it and there's plans for C# to support it. It might be supported in the LLVM Scala target (Scala native) at some point in the future.