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Yawn. You trumptards are so tediuous, stay in The_Donald, the rest of us are trying to have a peaceful internet and don't need you all lowering the tone.
I love my WSJ subscription. $50/year for students. Much better quality than the clickbait journalism you get elsewhere for "free".
It's just... fractions of a penny.
There is no such thing as "European tax law" as every European country has different tax system (i.e. some tax estate, some don't). Though some EU wide regulations apply. Furthermore, European countries are among the most equal countries by wealth in World[0], so it's not fair to to call it "red herring".

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
For ones (like me) wondering what Snap is, it is the company behind Snapchat, they apparently changed their name few months ago (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_Inc.)
> I eventually gave up and installed the painfully large (~1GB) IDE from TI.

Is it still C++98 only?
There is a penalty box for accounts that are determined unsavory, like mine, where they have a finely-controlled quota of commentary beyond which they are "submitting too fast" and told to slow down. Everyone has this limit, it's just for some accounts it has been set significantly lower. I suspect with that system you'll see this more, rather than less.
> I would hope this is just poor execution on the manufacturers behalf and will eventually realize that making the battery an upgradable module would be a great selling point.

Older phones, e.g. Nokias would commonly had standardised, replaceable batteries. Sadly, this trend has gone by the wayside. I can imagine EV makers going the non replaceable battery route. Maybe in the future we'll have some popular open source EV+standard spec battery pack, the "build your own computer" version of an EV.
I've heard a similar argument before but I'm skeptical. As a science-trained person with only a little exposure to philosophy, while philosophy uses rational arguments, etc., it seems like it's all too easy to bullshit your way out of.

My question: what does graduating with a degree in philosophy say about one's abilities, and how can you show it? (I would argue the types of problems that an upper-level science/math/CS person is expected to solve very clearly shows analytical and creative ability to anyone with a little knowledge of the subject)
If making fun of windows phone is wrong I don't want to be right.
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It's simply not possible to test that. This much is obvious if you've thought deeply about the nature of rocket testing.

You MUST fly to _really_ test.
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Irony: Richard Spencer (the alt-right/white nationalist that got punched) is an advocate for open borders. He actually has a famous speech where he says Israel should open its borders and says that "Jews exist because of closed borders." And while immediately after he says he wants that for "his people" he isn't actually saying this, earlier in his talk.

Of course, recognizing this would require logic and reaso... oh I can't even go through the motions anymore. Folks like you don't even care what Spencer is saying or doing.

The guy wants to organize racial purity squads with test kits. He wants to subjugate anyone not "white" through violence or intimidation. He calls the falling white birthrate "genocide" even though it's a side effect of educating women, and then calls on women to stop having access to birth control to make sure he can have a genetic legacy to secure a racial empire.
Windows does use a HOSTS file as well (located in %SYSTEM32%\drivers\etc\hosts), however, (since around Windows XP) Windows hardcodes certain IP addresses and hostnames related to updating and other Microsoft services into dnsapi.dll (located in %SYSTEM32%). This is checked before the hosts file is checked, so any entries in this DLL will override the corresponding hosts file entry if it exists.

The safest way to block suspect IP addresses and hostnames is to simply not trust the OS and use separate hardware to block the traffic.
I said this in another thread, but I wonder if Kalanick saw the writing on the wall that Trump and his administration could not be reasoned with, and these protests against the immigration EO (and Uber's snafu) gave him an "out" based on external pressure.

I'm reminded of Eliot Cohen's response after trying to work with the administration in good faith:

After exchange w Trump transition team, changed my recommendation: stay away. They're angry, arrogant, screaming "you LOST!" Will be ugly.
https://twitter.com/EliotACohen/status/798512852931788800
More like "used the Nazi partys resources to do what needs to be done while all other people in the galaxy say 'what? There's a problem? Can't see it, can't hear it, go away, you bother me.'" Does it suck that you have to work with Cerberus? Yeah. Does it pose an interesting ethical dilemma? I think so.

After all, the question if it's right to use the resources of people you profoundly disagree with (if you do! You can be a mankind-first person in ME after all) if you have to to stop a greater evil is far more interesting than having all the resources you want without any strings attached.
Car and Driver looked at the reports and say much the same thing: "Waymo looks to be way out in front."[1]

[1] http://blog.caranddriver.com/in-the-self-driving-race-waymo-...
> It looks very LGPL-like in spirit. It's hard to know if you can use it in something commercial or not, though.

You can, as much as you can use any copyleft license - ie. you have to make the source code of the files available. One thing to keep in mind though is that in EU the distinction between strong and weak copyleft (ie. GPL vs LGPL) probably doesn't exist - it hasn't been explicitly proven in court, but there is a past case which shows that the most likely interpretation is that there isn't such a distinction and in EU merely linking does not create a derivative work (you can read about this in this page from the official EC EUPL site https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/eupl/news/why-viral-li... which also explains some issues the current wordings have and why the case is not 100% clear).

You can read more about EUPL and how it can be used here: http://www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr/article/view/91/164
It's all about leverage. Clearly, the #deleteuber customers had it. This is also why the various boycott-Starbucks protests from the left and right always fail.

On a smaller scale, a similar social media backlash forced Rep. Chaffetz (R, UT) to withdraw his western public lands sale resolution (HR 621). This bill had bad implications for hunters and other outdoorsmen and the hunting media reacted strongly on social media, setting off a large outcry amongst public land-loving Republicans. In truth, both the right and the left opposed this bill but it was the outcry from his constituency that had the leverage and forced him to kill it.

This got me thinking last night: if this was 1982, politicians would do what they please and it would be months before the public found out about it. Now days, a congressman or president can make a bad decision and face immediate backlash from their constituency. For all of the problems that social media has created, this increased accountability of public servants is world-changing.
> In other words, take off your hijab and silence your adhan. Assimilate. Effectively abandon that which makes you Muslim, or face the consequences.

Or go away to Muslim countries.

Too bad: They are either unlivable because you made them so, or do not accept fellow Muslim. How much refugees did SA take again? Tunisia for that matter?
Yes! If you have gained a bit of experience in Perl, you will feel a lot more productive and proud of your work. At least, I do. Also Perl is actually not about the hype. The Perl developers I know are usually quite humble and just want to have fun developing software and expanding their horizon. It is the ultimate hacking language! Because it is not so popular (because of lack of Marketing...) you might have to look a bit longer to find a Perl job, but they do exist and the search is worth it!
That seems like a lot of people, especially when they buy infrastructure from Google.
As someone who has zero experience with this kind of thing, if someone complains "Hey, why is it taking forever to release/update [INSERT GPU-HEAVY APP/GAME HERE]", I'll just point them here.

So many data types! With such long-but-similar-yet-I'm-sure-very-differently-performing names!
They'll exist, doesn't mean they'll be relevant, or profitable. If I were asked to bet against the stock, I probably would. Everything about their valuation and IPO smells to high heavens.
I also got confused (I was wondering "who is Snap, and why is he investing in Google"), Snap is not that popular at the news sites that I read (which is mostly Hacker News :), at least after their name change.
> The bigoted modern-day fascists

Let me guess, it'll get downhill from here.

UPD: Actually it didn't. The rest of article is reasonable and not finger-pointing. I don't understand why they felt the need to drop the BF-bomb right there.

But the parts about Russia are hilarious. "You know nothing, Jon Snow", and not even pretending to. Instead there's a lot of weasel.
I'm sorry I read this?
> Like what?

The things I just spent a post complaining about.

> I'm sure there is a way if you care enough.

I'm sure, too. But why bother? The benefits of the OS aren't worth the work, between researching work-arounds, implementing them, and maintaining them in perpetuity. It sounds like something I might've taken some enjoyment from 10 or 15 years ago. I think my best move now is to stick to 7 and Linux.

The netbook can keep 10; I've hidden some of the more annoying "features", and it basically runs a browser, a couple games, and almost nothing else. Doesn't matter if it gets rebooted randomly, starts whirring at arbitrary times because Windows decided to peg the CPU while the machine's "idle", etc.
I don't really mean for app development to be in raw c, just the core libraries so that bindings can be made available for a number of languages (go, rust, c++, .net).

Lately I've been playing with gtk in c and now rust and it's fantastic how simple gui development is.
Well if you really do not care, what you use and what you develop, you could look into embedded programming. If you have gained some experience there (a lot of companies are willing to give a newcomer a go in this area, since developers are hard to find) you can make a lot more money than beeing just another Java dude. That means mostly MISRA C and sometimes Java as well.
afaik job postings are aimed at a specific team, have a hiring manager and a few engineers for phone screening and interviews assigned. There is even a system for tracking candidates, and an effort to blind screener for bias.

So spare me the baseless accusations.
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By the way, most employees and jobs at Mozilla are distributed.
Nobody on my team shares time zone with more than one co-worker on a team of 7 engineers :)
"Majority" hmmm...
> Facebook has dabbled in it and even made some improvements to the GHC compiler but I don't think they are replacing swaths of their tech with Haskell.

Their anti-spam and messaging evaluation system, for the whole system, is written in Haskell.
If you're referring to the civil action that just occurred there... no one died? So far the only critical injures outside Milo's speeches have been his supporters shooting people, last time I checked. Did I miss one?
Interesting, I'll keep any eye out. The main renderer we use (Hydra, part of Pixar's USD[0] project) would need to be ported to run on the AMD GPU, but it's designed to be backend agnostic to a degree so it should be possible.

I'm pretty sure AMD also has the ability to H.264 encode the screen at 60fps (with low latency) which is really important to us—our "workstation" is entirely in the cloud, with a Pi 3 running the display/keyboard/mouse.

[0] http://graphics.pixar.com/usd/docs/index.html
Yes you just browse it. It has public posts and comments. Most of the popular images become popular on Imgur first, then they make their way to Reddit.
Being open doesn't mean only for white people.
> Snappy is an Ubuntu/Canonical project and FlatPak is a Fedora/RedHat/FreeDesktop project. Snappy and FlatPak are remarkably similar and kind of mirror the DEB/RPM spit.

This isn't actually a good analogy, because Flatpak was designed from the ground-up to be vendor-neutral. For example, the "runtimes" that provide the virtual Linux distribution for applications to work in are built with packages and tools from the Linux Foundation's Yocto project. Similarly, the code is deliberately hosted on GitHub with no CLA so that all contributors are on neutral ground (there is at least one Debian developer involved). The main developer is a Red Hat employee, and could have used Fedora or CentOS packages, tools and infrastructure, but explicitly chose not to do that, to protect Flatpak's neutrality. He also builds Flatpak for Ubuntu, Arch and other distributions, so that people can freely use Flatpak on their systems even where it isn't currently supported by their distribution of choice.
> > "After the immigration order against refugees and seven Muslim-majority countries, many staff members wondered why Mr. Kalanick was still willing to advise the president."

> That's exactly why someone should want to advise the President: to have the opportunity to advise the President against such things, or at the very least temper them.

Nothing about the last 18 months should make you think that he thoughtfully weighed input from advisors on both sides of the refugee issue and came to a reasoned decision. He used fear and demagoguery to appeal to xenophobes from the start.

To help him tread water for 4 years and eke out a reelection would be some really bad short-term thinking. We have a unique moment to teach voters that electing a reality TV host has negative consequences.
I saw a band recently called The Social Animals and they were awesome. Pardon the tangential relation.
For me it was the exact opposite with ME1 to ME2. Sure, ME1 was more sandboxy, but it was an empty sandbox. 90% of ME1 simply was empty, so all you did was drive around, drive around, drive around and find nothing. ME2 was far more focused with the sandbox parts (planet scanning + finding anomalies) leading at least to something with a certain regularity.

Exploring a sandbox is only interesting when it's actually filled with something to find. Still, I think the game play of both ME1 and ME2 (and ME3) actually fit their respective points in the story line.

ME1: You don't really know what's going on, you have a vague feeling, but it's mostly "let's stumble around and see what we can find"

ME2: Okay, you know what will happen, but almost everyone else is in denial and doesn't want to help you, so you have to be laser-focused to fix the immediate problem with whatever you have at hand.

ME3: Denial is over, the problem is squarely in everyone's face and even if some people still want to ignore it your focus is more on showing people that your way to deal with the problem is in their best interest as much as in yours.
> However, #deleteuber seems to have been remarkably effective.

That's great... but it's not even clear Uber did anything wrong.

They disabled surge pricing, and people interpreted it as trying to break the strike.

If they hadn't disabled surge pricing it would seem like they were profiting off the protests/strike, as has happened in the past.

Should Uber, the company, have forced it's drivers to strike by disallowing pickups at JFK? If so, why aren't people equally upset with Lyft for also not doing that?
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Keep in mind it's highly unlikely that all of those employees are engineers, probably lots of sales/marketing/customer service people. Still, with benefits and stuff I'd estimate maybe 100k per on the low end.
I don't disagree. What spencer really wants is a system a lot like what we have now but with very clear limits on what not-white people can do in it. He isn't an advocate of a North Korean system.

I'm not a fan of him, but I won't misrepresent his position either.
I see your points.
What do you guys think Google Cloud's margins are like? Presumably, Google is able to run a data center more efficiently than Snap could, meaning that the savings of running their own data centers will be strictly less than GC's margins... thoughts?
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From the original source: "Stated differently, being the descendants of the Bernardi family (at the 90th percentile of earnings distribution in 1427) instead of the Grasso family (10th percentile of the same distribution) would entail a 5% increase in earnings among current taxpayers (after adjusting for age and gender)."
http://voxeu.org/article/what-s-your-surname-intergeneration...

So 5% extra as the result of being related to a wealthier family 600 years ago. While definitely remarkable when considering how much happened during that time that should have destroyed wealth, it's far from apocalyptic.

There seems to be no implication that the descendants do not have to work either, just that they earn slightly more.
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I don't think this is a good fit for HN. The article isn't even written very well, and the comments will inevitably descend into ideology wars.
If you're starting from a position where the police can't take any action against you without more evidence, and they need you to provide that evidence, sure. In that case, there may be no benefit to you to cooperating. But that's not where the parent post was.

He was a juvenile, carrying a rucksack, walking alone at 5am. He is already starting from a position of being detained as a potential runaway. His encounter can get better (proving that he's just a birdwatcher and being allowed on his way) or worse (if he's carrying anything he can be arrested for). If he's just carrying a camera and a pair of binoculars, it seems like its worth the risk. The officer has better things to do with his day than ferry around kids who clearly aren't runaways.
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I really don't see Uber as leading any sort of moral charge for anyone on a variety of levels. And I say this fully recognizing that Uber was unfairly treated in this last round of hashtags (they did exactly what Lyft did).

There is a non-zero chance Elon Musk might have a positive effect here, but I think the problem is not Trump. I actually think DJT can be reasoned with and he's just not used to the gravity of his office. I think the problem is some people in his inner circle that have flagrantly admitted to using him for their own personal gain to advance an agenda of white nationalism and racial purity politics.
Lack of history is a clue system was wiped or reinstalled from scratch.

Its very difficult to make windows appear to be an old actively used install. Encase (or new software, I havent done forensic for >6 years now) will tell you everything about timestamps and what that means.
Do you really believe that.
I use mine probably very much the same way as you do. It's configured to look 99% the same as my Win7 installation had been.

But frustration comes from the fact that Win 10 is just so random. I've had two installations (the second after the loss of my primary HDD). The first was great, it just worked. The second however keeps doing things I don't want.

- Initial installation immediately downloading video driver during initial updates, locking me for hours from installing the correct Nvidia driver. So I was sitting there in the default low resolution unable to really do anything.

- Disabled the annoying language bar? It'll be back tomorrow.

- Disabled fast boot (which causes my pc to shut down on startup every second startup)? It'll be back next week.

There's a number of other smaller things as well. Overall I don't hate it, I just wish it would stop trying to mess with itself/me.
Ask HN: What will Trump's attitude be towards foreign entrepreneurs?
On the one hand, Trump has an 'interesting' relationship with foreigners. On the other hand, he does like small business.

It's already possible to start a business on the E-2 visa. Additionally there's the startup visa that Obama was spearheading. It will be interesting to see if the startup visa goes ahead, and if there will be any changes in volume / difficulty of obtaining the E-2...
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I'm surprised by the number of comments about how much money they've been losing. Their finances right now are completely irrelevant to their eventual success or failure. All that matters is getting a huge number of highly engaged users.

The attention of many hundreds of millions or billions of people is a very valuable resources that they will have no problem selling. Keep in mind that there is a limited amount of human attention in the world, and it's a zero-sum game to control it. As Facebook has discovered, owning a huge amount of attention gives you a ton of leverage over advertisers who want to buy it. Being in the long tail of smaller attention-holders gives you much less.

So Snap will either grow to compete with TV and Facebook as one of the top attention-holders, or else they'll fizzle out into irrelevance, burning through gobs of cash along the way.

I mean, sure, they could aim to be a nice $500 million company that builds a product that makes people happy and makes their employees comfortably upper middle class. But that's clearly not their ambition so there's no point in discussing their finances as if it were.
Correct. That's why I said "to be fair". I'm saying the playing field is quite level, so we shouldn't judge a comment on whether we recognize their username, but rather on quality of content.
Exactly, it's a google domain. And yet, "googleapps.website" is up for grabs right now.

They have thousands of these domain variations. googleusercontent.com? picasa? googleplus? gmail? googlemail? ...
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$5000. Use a domain broker like sedo.com to negotiate so the seller doesn't know who you are and how significant the domain name is to you. Bought several sub-$2000 domains this way. Don't assume that the broker can find the domain owner if it's a years-old registration.
What does it mean for an orbiter to support circumpolar orbits, and why is it crazy?
>where they have an illicit monopoly

Not in any legal sense of the word.
Indeed. From where I stand Mozilla is working hard at making the transition it's just:

- it's a hard problem

- they don't have the resources of MS or Google

- they have a much bigger extension culture and must support it

- the current work is not sexy and visible and hence get little advertisement

Mozilla created an entire freaking language to level up their game. And in a few years it became one of the most promising technology of the decade, with a vibrant community.

If it was a movie, this period of their life would be the scene with a small outsider named "Moz" training by night in a dirty gym or during the night under the rain.

Next one will be the training paying off and him kicking the other guy's ass in the ring.

But you need the unsexy and hard training first.