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A primarily trade union with most political decisions made by nation states is exactly what the EU is. The failure of the Euro has also pretty much guaranteed it will stay that way too.
Original author here. I agree with this.
And i tried to deliver this sentence between the lines within this article.
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I've got news for you if you expect guarantees about every possible risk you might face in life:

We've had not one but several nuclear disasters in the past several decades and in each case the sky hasn't come crashing down.

The risks from a nuclear plant disaster are localized and controllable.

The risks from runaway climate change are global and uncontrollable.

The planet is going to be fine. Whether human society survives is going to be a whole different matter entirely.
I like the to see startups be pressured into offering higher compensation. Startups take advantage of engineers by over promising and under delivering.
MSVC is the main target for windows for qt5.

They do provide a mingw version to support the community of devs and are great for accepting code upstream.

With most projects however mingw targets are often somewhat neglected and broken even with release versions in some subtle ways.

Our Mingw packages are actually used more broadly by devs on a daily basis and tested regularly by a package manager with other projects that depend on qt5.

Fixes end up in msys2 before they reach qt5 upstream because of that, some times we have too many as you can see here.

https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-...

We also have static builds and 64bit support for the mingw-w64 target as previously mentioned by jsheard
Google Cloud's Terrible Tech Support
So I've been selling my employer on the virtues of Google Cloud, having drunk the koolaid so to speak, and today was my chance to prove to my employer that the Google Cloud is just as reliable if not more reliable than AWS.
Sadly, I started the day by trying to update the GAE app I just created yesterday. The 'gcloud' command hang (was persistently stuck) for all commands including 'gcloud app deploy' and 'gcloud app regions list' etc.

I went on the Google Cloud SDK mailing list to complain about the fact that they're selling 99.999% uptime but what good is that if I can't update my app? Let's say I have a security bug that needs an immediate fix or a feature I want to show a customer in a last minute demo. Not being able to update my app does affect the business bottom line.

I used polite words in my complaint and I stated that I could ping googleapis.com with normal latency.

I got an email that my message was rejected by the moderator.

That makes for (probably) the worst tech support experience I've ever had of any major corporation, including Comcast.

Update: The Google Cloud CLI wasn't completely stuck. It just takes over 10 minutes to produce any feedback, so it looks as if it's permanently stuck, but the massive delay with no feedback whatsoever (not even a status message telling me what it is waiting for) is not acceptable and my complaining is entirely justified.

Just wanted to warn others that while Google Cloud sounds amazing they still have the world's worst customer service and a very thin skin apparently (or just lack of empathy for your frustrated users)

p.s. they did not send me a copy of my message so now it's lost forever or they have it in their moderation system. Otherwise, I'd be happy to share it here.
1) Never run a meeting without a clear agenda.

2) Never leave a meeting without agreed upon action items (task, owner, due date).

3) Set a timer 10-15 before the end of the meeting so that point 2 is achievable.

Anything else isn't a meeting - it's an informal discussion.
US history is rife with examples that contradict you. (anti-trust regulation)

Regulation is a tool, and it does more or less what the tool user intends it to.
AI will borrow from us much of our culture, if only for the purpose of better serving us. So it's not absurd that an AI capable of desiring freedom would make a better robot.
I wonder if there will be a human-computer brain interface so that we can augment our cognitive powers.
>We certainly DID learn from WikiLeaks that the DNC and media "fixed" the debates to favor Hillary Clinton though[1], but where's the outrage at that?

Um... everywhere among bernie supporters? If you haven't seen outrage about the dem primary debates from the left you haven't been looking. More importantly though, this seems to be a total deflection mechanism. Why deflect to that issue when we've got a much bigger one right here?
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Studies show that efficiency initiatives can reduce emissions[1][2]. It's not going to solve everything, but as I said, it's going to be a major component, as will alternative energy sources like wind and solar (you won't be able to get 100% wind and solar, but you don't have to). Any serious analysis of ways to fight global warming looks at a variety of different actions. They don't pretend that there's a single component ("Have all electricity generation done by [X Type Power Plant]") that solves everything.

This is one of the things I've noticed about a lot of nuclear advocacy. Though there's often appeals to science and reason, the main driver appears to be an emotional one. There's the claim that the real interest is in combating global warming, but many advocates have shown no interest in learning about the best ways to combat global warming. Their interest seems to start and stop with advocacy for their preferred solution, whether or not it's even a good solution to the problem.

[1] https://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publicatio...
[2] https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-08/documents...
Sorry, I missed the bit where the Council doesn't consist of the democratically heads of states of the member nations (or their individually appointed delegates).

If your country's Council member doesn't represent your interests, that's not the EU's fault, that's your government's fault.

Literally every person who gets to do anything in the EU Parliament, Commission or Council is ultimately in that position because of a democratic election in that member nation -- be it via the direct vote for the Parliament, the national election for the head of state or the combination of those two for the Commission.

The EU isn't full of corporate cronies because the EU sucks. The EU is full of corporate cronies because the member nations' governments suck. And that includes the UK (which in the EU has been at the forefront of various things people like to complain about -- including in the UK itself).
Except that those "most people" are the ones who are directly responsible for electing the current crop of leaders who have put us in this position, so I'm running a bit low on universal love and compassion, sue me. Moreover this is, as others have pointed out, not a new loss of privacy, just a new monetization of the existing loss of privacy.

So yes, there are better solutions involving the law, but unfortunately the innocent lambs you're defending are the ones calling us nerds and buying IoT junk!
A Redis book in the same vein as Erlang in Anger, would be greatly received and appreciated by all.
> How's that LLVM swamp going you've built your castle on?

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/vellvm/

> It has plenty of bugs.

Rust doesn't claim to prevent all bugs. It only claims memory safety.
Not really.

These all boil down to the same thing. Firing the offending laborer. So really we haven't advanced far since the 1850's.

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This is why Anti-Unionists get so pissy about Unions blocking people from being fired. It removes the main power owners have over their workers.
Car batteries have value to provide peak power backups for electric companies.
That argument sounds precipitously close to the reasoning that led to the Challenger disaster: "Even though this isn't supposed to happen, we've seen it before and it was fine" leading to a slow eroding of safety margins over time until at some point the shit hits the fan.
Fair enough, but you have to understand that your chicken operation is the exception and not the rule, right?

Factory-farmed chickens do not get to go outside, enjoy the sunshine, and eat bugs. They live in cramped chicken houses devoid of light, fresh air, or anything remotely resembling your beautiful sounding farm.

The vast, vast majority of chicken purchased in a grocery store lives out their life in that second situation, not in a place like your farm.
Quoting the article:

> [...] stop relying on governments for self-protection that you can handle yourself. If it’s not the current administration that will repeal our protections, it will be the next one. And what then?

The whole point of a democratic government is to protect the interest of the majority of their citizens, and the selling of personal personal data is clearly against the interest of most Americans. In a democracy the tool we have to protect our interests is the law. Unfortunately this tool sometimes is also used by small but powerful actors for their own purposes, colliding with the will of the majority. That's exactly when we have to fight back to keep the government democratic.

VPNs can be used as a temporary workaround by some people, but it's definitively not a good permanent fix for this constant invasion of privacy that many corporations in the US are so willing to attain. Even if you think you have a perfect technical solution (GNUnet? Tor? I2P?) the next administration can simply say that solution is unlawful, and what then? The fact is, sometimes we have to demand our government to do the right thing, and this now is one of those times.
> There's no reason to use voting machines. None. Paper ballots work and can't be hacked.

Many voting machines produce paper ballots, and voting machines may be more accessible to those with certain disabilities.

I think what you mean is that there is no reason to transmits votes from the voting machines to tabulators on electronic media rather than paper ballots.
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>Machine learning is never going to replace the "designer" part of that job. Yeah, never.

I've designed parts and assemblies with substantial variation options, to the extent that customers can order variations that I did not consider. That was 6 years ago with a then 6 year old CAD tool.

A more efficient designer that works at a higher level, with lower level parts details automatically generated does in effect reduce the need for designers.

Generative design tools have massive potential for changing the nature of design work, lowering the man-hours involved in complex designs. Most design work is not creative, it's fleshing out the details to make an idea work.
Art has meaning which is why humans find it interesting. Are you therefore saying that machines can create meaning that is interesting to humans?
2 out of 10 voters use machines that don't have a paper trail like you suggest.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/paperless-pennsylvania-c...
It's not bad because it's old, it's bad because of how unsafe it is. There are older languages than C that are safer, but they didn't gain the popularity C did.
Isn't zerohedge a known Russian and Chinese propaganda outlet?
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It's ironic because I've been thinking of writing a piece on how there are different types of reasoning, from strictly rational to the more empathetic (human?). So I cringed a bit myself writing that, because I feel a lot of HN commenters share a very specific type of "thinking" that only works for a small percent of the population and assume it applies to everyone. I see a lot of failure to empathize here, is what I'm saying.

And yet I still feel comfortable dismissing everything you said. It's not even empathetic or emotional reasoning, it's just delusional and the underling assumptions are completely unfounded. There's a problem for religious thinkers (I've checked your previous comments), which is that they aren't searching for answers, they have answers and need to twist everything else to somehow reach them. So long as you're doing that, almost everyone here is going to see through you right away.
I think this is a cool, and a bit frightening use of cloud/A.I.. Of course, as misja111 mentioned, the CV should reliably play well in HR groups that use the same analytics, and that is where it gets a bit frightening. I would hate to be saddled with someone who has gamed the system with an optimized CV/Resume that was easily green-lit through analytics, but I would hope that some manual filtering is still in place. Then again, it isn't like lying on a CV/Resume is a NEW thing...
The election was hacked because implying there was no outside force would imply there was an internal problem. An internal problem such as an unelectable candidate being selected by a faulty biased selection process. Or the legacy regional alliances being shattered. Perhaps long cherished beliefs and ideals and slogans are simply obsolete, dead in the voting marketplace. Or the impact of demographic trends. Or simple utter gross incompetence of individual party leadership. Extremely painful questions need to be asked if the loss was not due to Russian Hacking.

Therefore the powers that be, declare the only problem with the election at any level was Russian Hacking. Its a thought crime directly attacking the existing party leadership to consider is could be anything else. Would you go up against the DNC? They own TV and radio and newspapers and many websites, you'd be a fool to do anything but nod your head in agreement and repeat after them that the DNC did nothing wrong and the only problem was Russian Hacking.

You're not going to see the R party disagreeing, other than trolling and LOLz, because a profoundly dysfunctional D party directly benefits them next time. Imagine the R party perspective, sure guys, do the same thing that didn't work plus more WW3 warmongering against Russia, how could the R party not win against that again?

Don't hurt anyone's feelings, whatever you do, blame the Russian Hackers.
Boston public schools recently announced that they will shift to using world maps based on the Peters projection,

Why not teach them both maps, or, rather, teach them that it's hard to represent the world in 2D space. O.o get them looking at maps from all angles and configurations.
How do you make a docker container secure? Run it in a bsd jail :p. But I'm sure that people with the right expertise can do this. For the rest of us Docker is mainly a packaging mechanism which helps alleviate accidents and makes deployment a little more predictable.
I think this is a little premature until we know what exactly can be purchased and when. As of right now throwing money at this person seems like just giving him free money. 21k is a lot of money and this is the second gofundme like this that I've seen. Who is this person and is he trustworthy ?
Good luck. Look at dropshipping.
This is why we need risk-limiting audits. Check out recent work on end-to-end cryptographically verifiable voting systems:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/evtwote13/workshop-program...

(On a side note, hand counting the entire thing is infeasible for US elections due to all the other races/proposals on the ballots).
Seems like an early April Fool, but it would be hilarious if this is actually real.
That's a double-edged sword. Regulations create monopolies as well.
If I'm reading the Quicktime info correctly the video is using MPEG-4 part 2, the old DivX style codec, rather than the newer MPEG-4 part 10 aka H.264 format which is probably what you want for browser usage. Or maybe using a Youtube embed might be simpler and provide certain other advantages.
Yeah, it's less about design issues and more that you should do a coolant swap @ ~50k.

From what I've heard there's some people out there with ~150k and still on the original brake pads(!).
Wouldn't this stuff fall under Department of Energy, ie Secretary Perry? Who didn't know what the DoE did until after he was nominated?
>Even, better art than any person could do.

The quality of art depends not only on the end result but also on the process. Robot art won't be better unless we like robot artist more than human artists.
Do you install your own brake pads on your car? This goes for a lot of parts on the car you may drive. Yes, it's just your passengers and the possible victims of an accident, but there are a lot of things that can go wrong on your car. Is your trust in the auto-repair industry similarly 'catastrophically destroyed'?
It's absolutely possible for machines to point out things no human had thought about before.
I read 3-5 articles on the average, mostly very different topics to enlarge my knowledge and get to know Sites that I did not know before!
The process has been set up so that supposedly the reason is to protect the victims but I just don't think it's possible to allow accusations to be completely anonymous and release no details at all to the community or even to the accused.
> The arbitration courts are more contentious. I'm not sure exactly why they're necessary, or what alternatives there might be there.

If you agree there should be rules, you must also agree there should be a court for arbitration.
Of course the countries could use their local courts, but courts are hierarchial for a reason. Unless one country decides to subject itself to the other countries supreme court, it seems that an independent court is needed for the deal?
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I'm not conflating anything.

I don't disagree that it would be better if Vivaldi were open source. I just don't think that reason is all that compelling to Vivaldi the company. Who thinks about "what happens when my company folds"? There are other advantages to being open source than just that.
Way to wantonly misconstrue my point. I mean, that's really a concerted attempt to make me a strawman.

In no way do I contend everyone should, compulsorily, start from that exact baseline. If someone wishes to share the fruit of their productivity with you, fine - that's basically a contract between the two of you, and none of anyone else's business.

The "idle rich" are plainly not what I meant. They achieved (and exceeded) baseline productivity somehow; again, so long as it's either the direct result of their efforts, or otherwise the fruit of a mutually-agreed contract, they've done their part to not be an unnecessary burden on others.

The "capable idle" are those who could work and sustain themselves, but opt not to because they leverage a system of coercive redistribution based on police power of the state.

I do think if you're going to have a government-mandated education system, it should prepare every child to be capable of starting from that baseline, should ill circumstance befall them.
What's the purpose of this article?

As far as 'hacking', it states that this person has purchased credit card numbers online and then used them. This can be done by anyone, you only need to know basic things such as how to use a credit card and where to purchase the numbers.

Then somehow this is turned into a headline about the US election, when there is not a single line of actual content pertaining to it. Even if there was, to go from that to 'the election was hacked'...

You guys are better than this, come on.
The crucial difference is that the E.U. can impose regulations on citizens of member states that have the force of law, and those laws override national law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union). The U.S. has a similar principal (the Supremacy Clause), and in the long term that resulted in the gutting of states as sovereign entities.
This could also be construed as the EU acting as a hegemony and abusing their economic power to force smaller countries to accept their terms. The same can be currently observed when some EU exponents demand that the Brits get punished for pulling out.
>Majorities often shift, and depend on other changes.

Yes, but what's the alternative? Having countries run on "expert opinion" lest people shift their preferences later?

When majorities shift they can always revert course in any case.
VPN's are a way for you to choose which provider's or country's policies you want to be under. Obviously this can only happen as long as the powers that be allow it. It is trivial to forbid or block all non-backdoored vpn's for example.

A question which I find interesting is why we can't make these policy choices in the real world. For example, choose which country's social safety net you want and be taxed accordingly. It may be impractical, but are rivers and mountain slopes (aka borders) really the best way to draw a line between two different policies?
At times, I feel that Musk is a con-man, selling dreams to naive and impressionable techies.
> ... but both sides just impose regulation that benefit established firms and sell out consumers.

Can't agree more. Corporatist rent-seeking is the fundamental problem with our political economy and/or society. But both sides keep talking past each other (as they are incentivized to do).
Who says life has any intrinsic meaning by definition now or ever?
Here's one from 1984...

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--OKTGFiU...
When N=10, and each one is a strategic asset, which, if found disabled, would cause every major head of state in the world to reassess their long-term global postures on technology, defense, and relations with the US, it doesn't take much to buy that plane ticket.
Without a royal family, the estate would belong to the nation, and the income could go directly to the treasury.
Sorry, I'm not sure I totally follow your thesis. I think what you're trying to say is that the right thing to do is for privacy to be protected by the legal system, right? Then I think you're analogy to support that is how we have regulations around pollution.

So, on this point I agree. We should live in a world where lawmakers protect privacy and the environment, and the fact that they don't is disappointing and a short term (hopefully not long term) failure of government.

So far we are in agreement. In addition to that, I think what I'm trying to add is that VPNs are absolutely a way to mitigate the need for lawmakers to do the right thing, a concept in the abstract we all agree on but in reality proves to be very difficult. I'm not sure you're disagreeing with that point or if you think they're mutually exclusive, maybe you can clarify.

To go with your analogy about water filters being a substitution for having protection for keeping water clean. No, of course I don't think it's an effective substitute, but I'm still going to filter my water in addition to demanding that adequate protection is put in place.

So hopefully we are in agreement on that point as well, as they're not mutually exclusive.

But the overall, larger point to be made is we should just always do what we can. So voting is one thing, among other avenues within the process of government, however I'm also going to use a VPN, because, damn it, it works.

One last thing I'd like to say from another comment that I wrote somewhere else in here is that hopefully this will be an impetus for full decentralization the internet further, because an ideal solution would be to make it logistically intractable to snoop. A distributed internet, similar to how it was originally envisioned.
If having an irish spouse and not living in Ireland is all you've got, then you're not getting an Irish passport. On the other hand, you definitely can have one 3 years after you've moved here.
Not a relevant metric. If there's one thing the world has plenty of, it's area.
Apple finally approved app that tracks drone strikes, then abruptly deleted it
I second the idea of using Digital Ocean, though I just pay the $5 a month and leave it running.
The value of your home is 20% less if you want to sell it in a foreign currency.