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This and the cell phone roaming and the single currency really makes you think the EU is doing some outstanding things that benefit normal citizens.
> sometimes people get seemingly randomly unsubscribed from channels. No explanation from YouTube for this.

I heard the same from a few YouTubers. I cannot say if true or not, but there are multiple complaints from small and large channels. These YouTubers only knew this happened because subscribers wondered why videos of those YouTubers stopped popping up in their feed. When they checked, they found they were unsubscribed. In one case, the dad of a YouTuber was randomly unsubscribed from that YouTuber.

As far as I know, YouTube occasionally runs a spammer purge program. They always claimed no real accounts are affected. But how can they know?

On one side, YouTube tries to foster original content, but how can people trust them with their livelihood if they constantly have to fight an uphill battle against YouTube’s purge and ranking algorithms? And if something happens to you as a small-time YouTuber, you have nowhere to complain at YouTube.
I believe that this is partly for ergonomic reasons, it's hard to track a grid changing instantaneously, animation allow for "analogous" traceability.
Instead of making sites that try to predict the unpredictable, I'd rather ask the question if TCP is still the right tool to use.

There shouldn't be a reason for a big page with many resources to not load - it should just be slower. Yet I can make the same observations as soon as my mobile signal drops to EDGE: the internet is essentially unusable as soon as there's packet loss involved and the roundtrip-times increase. Interestingly mosh often still works beautifully in such scenarios. So instead of focusing on HTTP2 or AMP (and other hacks) to make the net faster for the best-case scenario, I'd rather see improvements to make it work much more reliably in less than perfect conditions. Maybe it's time for TCP2 with sane(r) defaults for our current needs.
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Ask HN: Why is internet access so expensive in Germany?
Their neighbors crush them in access per dollar. Why?
Javascript engines are fairly speedy compared to CPython; not only are they industrial-grade JITs (as opposed to CPython being a naive interpreter), but JS is an easier language to optimize. Further, WebAssembly has overhead.

5-7x difference seems reasonable to me.
I agree, and I can't imagine how much Chomsky is cringing about it right now[0]. But the sad truth is that psychological phenomena only become identifiable by the general public once they've entered our lexicon under catchy names, i.e. 'fake news'.

I recently help but couldn't feel confused why 'fake news' is a new concept to people; why is everyone going on about it when (as you say) we've been subject to propaganda for as long as we can remember?

I think it largely comes down to social media and how (as other commenters have pointed out) its utterly widespread use only now warrants the spread of misinformation as 'propaganda' — because it reaches so many people these days. The Internet™ was — to a layman — seen as ubiquitous with truth and objectivity... and now that it suddenly (well, duh) transpires that our social network feeds are chock-full of misleading content from untrustworthy sources — everyone's going nuts about it.

[0] - http://www.salon.com/2017/01/03/noam-chomsky-you-cant-educat...

--Edit, added Chomsky source, as proof-of-cringe
I'm not qualified or interested enough to investigate this but I can tell you that on Windows Trend Micro have blocked keybase as potential malware. It's reported on github and keybase have requested an exception but reading your post one starts to wonder why Trend Micro would get that idea.
Some of those costs are general accountancy that you would have to do anyway, as long as you try to sell anything.

AFAIK the big problem with VAT, from a seller perspective, is the fact that most governments, knowing full well that 90% of businesses fail in the first 2 years, ask for big upfront payments on estimate VAT remittances in that window, to make sure they don't lose out. After 3 years, as long as your accountancy is correct, it should be smooth sailing.
This isn't about the technical problems of assigning and distributing payouts. It's how it turns one of the most successful altruistic communities into just another domain of capitalism.

There's this story from Freakonomics: A Kindergarten in Israel started to charge a fee for parents arriving late to pick up their children. Result: More parents would arrive late, because paying a fee was less of a burden than the bad conscience they had previous;y had when they made the employees stay late.

This would work in reverse. That good feeling I get when I contribute a patch for some random project I improved at the margins would be devalued by whatever $0.29 I'd get wired at the end of the quarter.
Are you arguing Chinese death sentences are less humane than US ones?

A pretty weak point to make.
How would the tenets of Free Software prevent the US government from demanding the account passwords of international travelers?
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They probably don't but still kind of hard to be sure. In principle they could introduce it at any given time without anyone noticing for a while. Of course, once someone does notice, the shit will hit the fan.

Anyway, I share your nagging doubt and I'd never paste any text containing sensitive information into any text pane on a web page, not regexr, not JSON formatters, not anywhere.
Just related to the source, but today in the news was that Wikipedia no longer accepts the daily mail as a valid source.

The thing in it may or may not be true.

First result searching for daily mail Wikipedia:
https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/09/wikipedia-bans-daily-mai...
I wonder if you read the last line from my post, which addresses exactly that.
Related - map of Physics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZihywtixUYo
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For the record, I also see delays with messages that primarily contain text, though many or all of these messages also contain a URL somewhere.
When I worked with law enforcement, in Australia, the onsite admin got an alert every time a device was plugged into a secure-access machine.

It also alerted if in the last hour more than 80gb was moved around.

I would have thought that the NSA would have similar policies...
You would spend a bit under 2 hours charging en route, but it'd give you time to grab breakfast in Corning, and lunch in Springfield.

That being said, having done Seattle to San Diego recently (while passing thru Gilroy), I should have spent a day in Oregon or Norcal, 13hr days are just not my jam when it comes to driving.
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Funny thing is that I have yet to see the other side of argument - when people had a bad experience with Elixir. It seems so nicely fit into its problem domain that basically everybody that starts doing it is happy with results. I guess that says something.
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I've written all my Advent of Code 2016 puzzles in Rust that I've then compiled to asm.js and WebAssembly and both asm.js and WebAssembly always outperformed the idiomatic JavaScript solutions by a factor of 10x and sometimes even up to 40x. Firefox has the best asm.js and wasm support, with Edge being the second fastest browser and Chrome being the slowest (I only tested those 3). WebAssembly is always faster by about 10% in all the browsers than asm.js. However asm.js supports vector instructions and wasm doesn't. So when your inner loops are vectorized your asm.js even runs as fast in Firefox as the same code compiled as native code.
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Or computer science, which also deals with sets, logic, coplexity and groups.
Yes, Tesla stated that the 35k is before the discount. So effectively it is 27.5k after the discounts, and they might offer further rebates for Tesla employees.
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3 rejections is a fairly small amount. dont get discouraged. There are many reasons why you might not have been a good fit for them. Keep trying.
You can see the videos on thoughtmaybe are BBC watermarked. AFAIK, the BBC never released them outside the UK, although this is mainly due to copyright and the special provisions the BBC has inside the UK that enables them to produce such high quality material. So while they may be "freely" available, I doubt it's legal. I'm not sure how much the BBC cares about enforcement.
> Tesla is Silicon Valley bred, they're a software company through and through

Are they, really? I'm not impressed. Software is very central to their cars, and I think the end user experience is pretty abysmal. Which is par for a car manufacturer, of course, but I had other expectations given their Silicon Valley heritage. Get Apple involved already! They don't seem to be going anywhere with their own car investments anyway...
I couldn't find an english version of the article but their site is down already.
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My hippie parents used to talk a lot of crazy paranoid shit when we were growing up. All of it has since been proven true.
For me (working at a large(r) corporation) this hits then nail on the head!

>> Gratitude-ware is not constrained by what you are selling.. only by 1) what can pass through corporate accounting 2) how convenient it is.

I've bought support contracts and promptly shredded the support contact information effectively to just make a donation for software we use extensively but is free.

Make it easy for us to pay you. Finance departments will not ask if the license or support contract covers all aspects etc so it's easy to buy those (PO number please!). But the last time I tried to do a straight up donation, I spend months before giving up.
Unfortunately for me the wazzock who wrote the code is me, 4 years ago. What A DoucheBag.
> The first model is called inclusive fitness, and it relies on the notion of the “selfish gene”: (...) Your genes don’t care if you survive to reproduce, as long as they do (...) So they might lead you, their host organism, to sacrifice yourself if it sufficiently benefits your family members, who share many of your genes. (...) And in studies of suicidal thinking, people frequently speak about not wanting to be a burden.

The article lists two models, and perhaps they are not exclusive, i.e., they might coexist in society at the same time.

I have examples that would fit very well in this first model, and thinking as a society... depending on the age, social role, social position, etc., I can see that the society wouldn't lose too much if suicidals exist in a low rate. I'm not talking the impact in family and close friends. In ancient times, by the way, perhaps it wasn't even easy to know when someone just disappeared as part of the normal life at those times.

If we don't consider the more recent world (let say, 3,000 years ago?), depression might have had a major role in the past.
> I'd rather see an easier sell for simple "support packages"

There's an idea for a service, there. Have something that developers can use to generate "support packages" or "freemium" offers, and get a cut. Basically, a sort of appstore for developers to developers. You could even offer a white-label service that people can integrate in their own websites.

These services exist already for generic commerce, we just need something slightly more focused on the needs of developers.
I had trouble getting through GEB because I felt like I couldn't quite grasp logic/set theory/whatever beyond the first section or so. It's good to hear that perhaps they're not as well-explained as I thought and that perhaps other avenues make it more accessible to me.

Do you have any suggestions where to start? Are there perhaps online 'starter kits' that would guide me through what courses/books/whatever to work through? I find that one of the most difficult parts of self-learning: there's often no clear syllabus available.
I am saying that a government that gets accused on a regular basis of things from religious discrimination to organ trading, on occasion even by credible sources, is unlikely to be better than the US government.

Most Chinese people I work with would agree with that too. They left China, they know why, and they're mostly not looking to get back.
The main issue for us was support of JOINs (note that this was a while ago, not sure what's the status now; I did find this relatively recent discussion, though [1])

[1] http://www.metabase.com/blog/Joins
> I wonder if people would be interested in it.

you serious? post them already!
And that's for a sequential scan over all of those tuples?

That'd be very impressive. Does SQLServer support parallel execution? Or how come it be so fast?
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The biggest counter-example is RedHat.
I have all of those as well, and AMP takes < 1s for me to load pages.

Sounds like either a configuration issue on your end or maybe your wireless carrier.
I'm surprised Chrome doesn't manage to be the fasted in any of these tests, considering the focus Google has put on performance and the resources I thought they were devoting to Chrome.

It appears as if they'd come out ahead on average, but not by a definitive margin. Especially surprised by FF which I thought had somewhat dropped the ball (and/or simply been overrun once Google's business objectives aligned with the users' interests).
IBM frequently hires graduates from my university.

I was offered a place, but there was a caveat. I have MS, and stairs are my personal demon.

As the building was heritage listed, they couldn't alter it. So no lifts or elevators.

They offered me a remote contract.

I didn't take it at the time, but others I know had similar deals.

This will probably affect them. They might be made redundant, to bypass the problems of firing them.
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Its a nice looking site. Why is it better?

1) I had a look at 7 cups and yours. 7 cups looked to identify then solve a problem for me as a talker (ie find out what was wrong and relax me while waiting, offering free or professional help) while your just had faster listner to talker connection potential.

2) Using 2 computers to connect to myself your service didn't allow voice?

3) Being random instant connections I connected to my other PC and tried various swear words and told myself to go kill otherself type thing. Nothing flagged the system which means this system is potentially opening depressed people to troll. Something that could have serious consequences.

I'm not taking the piss here. I'm marketing side and was intellectually curious to consider how I would market this. But I'm not feeling any USP of note and curious why you feel your is such a better offering? Could you expand on this? Personally it feels to me you need to go back to the goal of the projects and evaluate how and what your are trying to achieve and does this do that. I dont feel this is ready for significant marketing efforts.
Having principles and enjoying a sense of belonging aren't mutually exclusive.
> bring back the 1999 frame side bar. what was wrong with that?

That's funny. Back in the day, every Real web developer learned that frames are Evil and must be abolished, because they are breaking the back button and now the poor user can't provide a link to the view he sees, because the state of all the frames isn't encoded in the URL.

Then web2.0 happened and all the Cool web devs knew it's the time to start abusing ajax, use modal dialogs, break the back button, and turn simple websites serving text and images into complex stateful web apps and in doing so, ensure that people don't have nice URLs that encode the view they see, for linking.

Hello??
I agree that this is the most likely reality, but isn't it just good 'due diligence' to make sure that this is properly hammered down in the ToS?
People in India and the rest of the third world all want to go to Europe or the U.S. It is the rest of us you have to worry about.

As an engineer in Europe who has often toyed with the idea of going to America, that idea is all but dead, mostly because I would have to enter a legal no man's land (U.S. border security) where anything I have ever said might be used to hold me in custody and/or expel me from the country (including a comment like this one, were I dumb enough to post it on a forum tied to my real name).

For people who have a choice, America is looking less attractive by the day.
Find Evernote's technical take on their series of blog posts:

- https://blog.evernote.com/tech/2017/02/08/part-1-evernote-se...
The bad side

1) no support from mega corporations
2) not that many developers to choose from
3) while based on BEAM it's still too "new"
4) too slow for raw money crunching
There is some suspicion that one of the issues at play in the subscribing issue is a visual/front-end problem.

The already-subscribed user is presented with a "subscribe" button instead of "unsubscribe". They think they aren't subscribed, click the button, which then actually unsubscibes the user.
Is there at least one thing that Atom is better at, than VSCode?
> but is using one of the major cloud services cheaper than running your own?

At list prices? Pretty much never. Nobody sane with installations like Evernote are paying remotely close to the published prices, though.

The cloud providers rarely make sense in terms of cost for smaller businesses unless you heavily rely on batch jobs (spinning servers up/down) or other of their more advanced services. There are many valid reasons for smaller companies to consider cloud deployments, but I've yet to see one where it was the cheaper alternative.
To be honest the piece reads as Godwin's Law disguised as an article so I am not surprised.
How long are you willing to wait?
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Is that really so surprising? The same biases and assumptions that influence our software must surely influence our politics. It's all systems design, after all.
Perhaps phrase the question differently, to challenge the premise it is 'cheaper':

"Could they set up a datacentre as an independent subsidiary that they were client to, but that was run on a commercial basis for other customers too?" i.e. commercially viable.

If the answer is "Yes" as it was for Amazon years ago, then it seems like a no-brainer - do it yourself. Otherwise, such decisions calls for greater scrutiny. For example, should HR services be run internally, or outsourced. Outsourcing some functions don't work even they're more expensive on first analysis, like the network effects internal HR can have, or the answer may be "No" for some services, Payroll a common example.
It's all legal and fine, it's just how do you get it approved? You're not actually buying anything, nothing will stop working and no projects will be impacted without the PO. In a large company, this effectively makes it impossible.

The solution is to just pretend you're buying a minimal support contract and that'll get approved no worries.
Isn't that "The Non-Profit Open Software License"?

https://opensource.org/licenses/NPOSL-3.0
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Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how these issues are related. One is a compatibility workaround, the other is a vulnerability that exposes server memory to a remote attacker.
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In Valencia, but this was around 4 years ago and I had a data plan that was also 3-4 years old because I used wifi almost everywhere. As I was a student back then the only problem was the bus from my home to the university and back.

I was with Hacker Paradise for 3 months through SE Asia and I totally agree. I have screenshots yet-to-tweet comparing the great packages from Thailand with the prices in Spain and it's absolutely ridiculous.
Exactly. It's a difference of will, not of resources. America could easily do all of this if our government and people cared.
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Two minor points: GPRS is 36-112Kbps and EDGE is faster still, so the 90s modem comparison seems apt to me. Latency is terrible so the player page loading slowly but the actual video playing is entirely plausible since that's the best case network traffic profile. Other technological improvements help, too: H.264 is much better than the codecs like MPEG-1 used for things like the infamous exploding whale video.

The bigger point was simply that people will wait for things they want. Not being able to load instantly changed the style of interaction but not the desire to listen to or watch things and there's far more content available than there used to be. Tell teenagers that the cool music video is available and you'll find a lot of slow downloads over their entire day at school, work, etc.
There's two things: 1) it's the first time anyone's found anything beyond the initial discovery 2) it's in the wrong place, which is huge.
This has been done to death, with Patreon being the most famous example.

The problem of this model is that it's still basically B2C, a sort of charity for free work. What we need is enabling more B2B, i.e. a flow of invoices for some nominal "premium" work.