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> Yes, we've "essentially" just gone back in time, but it's not a positive regression.

I agree, but with the way this thing has been reported you'd think we've gone back to the dark ages rather than where we were just prior to the election. I don't recall a lot of discussion on HN about which proxy to use because "OMG my ISP is going to sell my browsing history!!!" back then.

That's all I'm getting at. Wondering why the reaction to going back to the status quo of not long ago at all is seen as some assault on civil liberties.
An endless supply of low-skilled, cheap labour is great for some industries, but not for your average citizen.

This is particularly true when public services are stretched, and there is a chronic shortage of housing.

That is the perception, at least.
It's true that globalization is raising the average income of people in many places in the world, but it is also causing an increase in inequality within most countries[1]. It's not fair to the middle class of a country when it needs to compete against a country that doesn't have the same environmental or labor laws that it has. This leads to a race to the bottom and tanks the quality of life for most people, though the capital owners get out ahead. Why can't those countries form their own industries?

[1] https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2007/02/pdf/c4.pdf
Trade pacts don't really cover what the EU does. The EU goes well beyond traditional trade pacts in services. Take for example passporting for financial firms. Also it provides a much better legal framework for disputes than arbitration tribunals. Unless you think it's a good idea for your judge one day to be your lawyer the next.

Comparing NAFTA to the EU shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how far reaching the EU is. We are only at the beginning of the economic integration. Take for example the recent progress on the digital market. One advantage US startups have is 350m consumers immediately, something the EU is only just starting to bring in.

As for peace you might dismiss it but Western Europe has experienced the longest period of peace in its entire history by a massive margin. To put that on NATO and the UN but not the EU seems odd considering conflicts outside that involve NATO and UN member countries.

Your analysis of democracies seems very limited. Why did you exclude Germany from that list? Why don't you include Greece on you list of small democracies?
You've noticed more details than I have, but I keep using firefox over chrome because Firefox's awesomebar wipes the floor with what chrome is doing in my daily workflow. I use a lot of intranet sites/internal web applications continually throughout my workday, identifying a lot of unique resoures, and firefox works great at me typing a few characters of a resource ID or URL or page title and finding it out of my history. Chrome feels terrible at it.
> I don't see how it's being blown out of proportion

Really? Where was all the hyperventilating about the status quo on HN prior to when the protection was put in place? That's all I'm getting at, the reaction to being back in the dark ages of late 2016 seems a bit overblown in my opinion.
The rest of the people knew about this vote and they didn't care enough to vote. What are we supposed to do about that? Should we force everybody to vote?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/29/is-lyft-r...

You may be right, but I don't think this is all as obscure as some people would like to think. That's an article that seems to recognize that many of its readers will be familiar with what I'm talking about.
> I'm confident the maintenance hassle will eventually outweigh my desire for privacy.

Nothing should outweigh your right for privacy.
Depends whether you think that 'black' as an ethnic classification has a separate literal meaning from 'black' as a color term. If you do, then yes, literally black. If not, then no, not literally black in color.
This is basically like having your mailman/postoffice sell the list of your to/from addresses.

Isn't it possible to challenge this on constitutional grounds?
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I didn't mean my response to come across so personal and pointed. Apologies.

I was pushing back against the wider phenomenon of telling people to clam up and stay disengaged when confronted with pain or discomfort in the people they care about. It's (perhaps ironically) a very narrow perspective that undermines people accepting and understanding one another.
I'm not sure how you arrived at this conclusion. As someone who started learning to code around 2004, I remember exactly what you are talking about. There were tons of tutorial websites (I liked spoono, anyone remember that?), tutorial aggregators (good-tutorials, pixel2life), and programming communities (phpforums, neverside, sitepoint). I learned coding by following tutorials to create an example project, then modifying features to my liking. It was nice, but there was a lot to be desired, and if you ran into an esoteric bug you pretty much had no option but to post to some random phpBB board or IRC channel and hope for a response. StackOverflow and GitHub didn't even exist!

It seems that nowadays it's easier than ever to learn to code, with many different resources and communities at the disposal of the newbie. StackOverlow is amazing and 99% of the time you google some esoteric error message you'll find a SO post; no need to post to forums or ask in IRC. GitHub is full of open source projects, tutorials, and example code. If you prefer learning with videos, there's tons of open source material. And in terms of guides "like this," there are thousands of new posts every day across the blogosphere by developers sharing their experience. Not to mention many old pieces of content still exist, the OP being just one example.

I really think that access to educational technical content has exploded in the past ten years, and I completely disagree with your conclusion that the state of this content was any better in 2004 than it is now.
The FTC was preventing them, until it was decided that it was outside their purview. The FCC took over, but that's just been reversed. Now no one is preventing it.
In this post the author links to one of her previous posts[0], where she wrote:

> As a proof of concept of unprivileged containers without cgroups I made binctr. Which spawned a mailing list thread for implementing this in runc/libcontainer. Aleksa Sarai has started on a few patches and this might actually be a reality pretty soon!

Does anybody know if this made it into runc/libcontainer? I'm not an expert on these technologies but would love to read through docs if it has been implemented.

[0] https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/getting-towards-real-sandbox-...
Im mostly vegan when eating out since Im unsure of meat used. And I like to cook hence it turns out when you cook meat dishes at home its a real bargain.
> The performance is fantastic, literally feels like a desktop application running in the browser.

We are so relieved to hear this, after 3 years work this was always front and centre of our goals.

> I couldn't see use of any framework or library, is this all custom?

Yes, all custom built

> What platforms will Construct 3 support exporting to

Exports HTML5 games, which can be wrapped in various ways to run on Win/Linux/Apple desktops, iOS, Android, Steam, FB etc etc. List goes on!

> plans for supporting the Nintendo Switch?

Would love to, but we know as much as anyone else about the Switch at this stage. If anyone from Nintendo reads this please reach out!
I'm not giving them a free pass, I'd prefer the protections to be in place. But I'm just putting the situation in perspective. My observation is just that I'm perplexed about the amount of "sky is falling" reactions here when you couldn't find a peep about "which VPN do I use to keep my ISP from selling my data" on HN say, a year ago.
Yep, exactly. Since zones were inspired by jails, FreeBSD works in pretty much the same way. For device permissions though, we have rules support directly in devfs. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/etc/defaults/... — there's a default ruleset for jails that makes sense (allows log, null, zero, crypto, random, stdin/out/err, fd and tty stuff).

By the way, I couldn't find this anywhere on the internet — is there a simple way to just run something in a zone on illumos, without the installer stuff? Like on FreeBSD you can just do this:

jail -c path=/my/chroot/path command=/bin/sh

and you have a jailed shell. What's the Solaris/illumos equivalent of this?
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> get an actual law passed ... the previous president could certainly have done this, but chose not to.

Right, the Republican Congress was very happy to work the prior President on sensible legislation.
I've found something pretty interesting myself when using redshift. If I set the display directly to 3000K or so, it looks really weird. Same if I fade from 6700->3000K. But if I set it to 1000K and then to 3000K, it looks fine. Anybody else do this to "prepare" themselves?
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It just makes you feel more foreign though...You also have to consider deportation if the political environment changes or for some reasons you fail to extend your visa. That may give you a feel of insecurity and shortly said you may no longer feel "at home" anymore.
Sure, but there's a cost to exercise that right. Right now, the cost of protecting myself from my ISP is quite high. I need to maintain DNS and VPN settings for every device in my home... many of which are personal devices of other family members with little patience for such techno-babble.

I want a product that reduces the cost of exercising my right to privacy, and allows me to pay that cost with money instead of time.
I can't get a British passport yet, even though I lived in UK for 7 years now. The earliest I can apply for one is in 3 years,so after brexit happens.
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The human rights act, IIRC, is bound up with ECHR membership - a non-EU institution.

I agree the EU was a lock on this but it's a bit more complex than just changing the legislation.
But what that means in practice is another thing entirely. For example, the DPRK and the ROK are still at war with each other, but that just means that they stare down each other at a border. The UK could be officially outside of the EU but to the banks, universities and import-export companies EU cooperation is as much of a reality as ever.

Really powerful entities want to keep their shareholders happy by avoiding complicated regulations on international activities, and they have a lot of political influence. The people of London for example are mighty pissed.
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Great question!

I don't think either one was true the case after after WW1.

Russia, though large, was not regarded as a serious military threat to Europe. When attacked by Russia, Poland (!) beat the snot out of Russia in the 1920's and gained half of the Ukraine and half of Belarus in the subsequent peace treaty.

An although a European nation was no longer the world largest economy, they were still regarded as the ones that mattered. The world at the time still revolved around Europe and the actions of European powers. To be premininet in Europe was to lead the world.
>I would argue that the withdrawal is the core problem and the money is the symptom of that problem.

Upon what do you base this hypothesis? Because history shows otherwise. The oligarchy/aristocracy has always had disproportionate influence in the US. It has always been an uphill fight for the average citizen.

>I believe the British government forms the best model the world ever produced, and such has been its progress in the minds of the many, that this truth gradually gains ground. This government has for its object public strength and individual security. It is said with us to be unattainable. All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second, and as they cannot receive any advantage by a change, they therefore will ever maintain good government.

-Alexander Hamilton, Farrand's Records of the Federal Convention, v. 1, p. 299.1787-06-19
Yeah, I know, thanks :) Somebody actually released a treestyle extension yesterday which I found a few hours ago, and it is really quite decent already! https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/15332/tree-tabs/14
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We need to laud people who change their positions for the better, not continue to becry them. It's harder for people to admit they are wrong than be right in the first place.
Your wondering why was just answered succinctly in the comment you posted your reply to:

> There were some ISPs which were selling people's data prior to this order (Verizon was one, IIRC, and a few others were actively injecting ads and JS into non-TLS traffic), and many more were considering it.

edit: spelling
Since the founding of the EU there have been several steps towards common military work. In the mid 2000s EU battlegroups were created. In 2009 SAFE laid the foundations for a EU military. Since then EU forces have been involved in peacekeeping missions.

The EEC was very much just an economic body. Since then the EU has been taking steps in multiple areas beyond just it's initial economic competencies.
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Why on Earth would this be set at $500M, and why on Earth would people trust a random person on the internet with that?
No, that's correlation, not evidence. :)
what does it take to become a congressional candidate? Do you need party approval? How wide is the Overton Window that a candidate can exist in?
I read 10-20 articles a day, don't really read too many comments.
What role does technology play in business?
Technology affects all of us. No matter the size of your company, technology has both tangible and intangible asset that will help you make money and create the results your customers demand. Moreover, advanced technological service and processes can increase productivity and reduce costs.
Below are points that will help you to understand important about technology.
Real Time communication with customers
In today’s busy business, it is mandatory for a business to interact with customers quickly and clearly. For that business must have some platform which helpful to provide 24*7 support. Advanced features like live chat can help increase the interaction with customers. Excellent communication makes a stronger public image. Companies which apply this technic are getting ahead in building a large user.
Easy payment and refund policy
In early days where we used to carry loads of cash to for payment.Technology has set up most of the payment systems that we use nowadays. Technology helps payment and refund policy easier, which is very important for every business. customer's faith highly depends on these tech factors.
Research capacity
An organization that has the technological scope to research new freedom will stay a step ahead of its competition. For a business to survive, it must earn new opportunities.
Helps business to make better decisions
Good decisions in business are based on solid market research. This can be done through engaging teams through video conferences, Real-time chats to get customer feedback. This is useful in making future planning.
Information technology has improved marketing
Online marketing using online advertising methods (SEO, PPC, Facebook Ads) are far more accurate ways of finding target customers, finding their needs, and making a marketing campaign to persuade them to buy.
Time to roll up our sleeves and get to work. I've watched the tech community battle back many times: PGP, SCO Unix vs Linux, WebStandards.org, etc.

How do we fight this using software? Remember that many of the innovations came from single individuals. Is there a way to have a fully private, fast communication between two computers when we know everything we do is being saved and analyzed? Because that's all the Internet really is, whether one of those computers is a web server and the other a browser or any other infinite combination.
I'm pretty sure a mass political movement could in fact stop it. But it would have to be every Remainer out on the streets shutting things down kind of scenario. Our political autonomy extends beyond the proscriptions of those who govern us, whose express purpose is to create illusionary limits about our courses of action. Ghandhi and the Civil Rights movement demonstrated this, we've just been convinced into forgetting.
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any title with the word 'change' in it suggesting that after reading the article is going to have a marked impact on my life usually has the direct opposite effect. I thought a clickbait wasn't really a thing on HN?
I did skip the article considering it's New Yorker article (i.e. very long). The title is however "Greenland is melting", and the link provided by the gp shows that year to date (from 1-Sep to today), Greenland has acquired more surface ice mass than 2 standard deviations above the mean historical rate (over the last 24 years). So, no, Greenland is not melting.
I couldn't agree more! This course features has slides, which many will prefer.
I've heard two different versions of this.

The first being that the Royal family actually makes the UK money because they cost less to maintain than what is made up for in brand image and tourism benefits.

The second is that because they don't pay tax, it means their enterprises are not as efficient and the return on the crown lands is about half of what could be expected on a normal enterprise.

The source for both these viewpoints are videos on YouTube. The first is from CGPGrey (I think), while the second is a reply to that video.
One idea that I have been running through my head for awhile is a Tor like onion router that could be funded by a special cryptocurrency. This would mean each relay would get some amount of money for passing a packet on to the next relay. Ultimately this would solve two problems with Tor: speed (as it is paid there would likely be more relays with faster connection) and issues with spam (DOS over the network would cost a lot more.) Obviously it would suffer from some anonymity issues that would need to be solved as you are paying and it could be traced. I don't know if this idea would solve the issue in this case but I figured I would mention it.
> Except "the experts" were predicting terrible things immediately, not later on - remember the punishment budget necessity?

As a matter of fact, I do remember the "punishment budget", the one which was mocked up for 2019-20 [1], around the time that the UK would actually leave the EU.

No one expected the UK economy to crash the day of the referendum. The projections are all projections for AFTER we have left the EU, not before. The reason exports get that title is because they know enough to at least make their projections from when the changes actually happen.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/15/revolt-of-6...
> they would pass legislation to correct the law on which the court relied striking down FTC regulatory authority in this area

The FCC rule is being struck down using the Congressional Review Act [1]. CRA provides "an expedited legislative process" [2]. Giving the FTC authority in this area would require passing a real law. (That said, I agree with you regrind the explanation of motive.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Review_Act

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150402230759/http://assets.ope...
If Greece could have solved their problems the same was Iceland did, they would have done so. The reality is Greece was economically dependent on a lot of business that stopped when the Credit Crunch hit, but Icleand had relatively small problems with three banks defaulting after a bank run and loss of access to credit, about 10% reduction in real-terms GDP.

"Relatively small", because UBS was warning the Greece faced hyperinflation, military coup, civil war — and that was just from leaving the Euro and revaluing their currency in an orderly default where they didn't have to repay everything.

It's not just the EU that told Greece what to do, the IMF is part of the Trokia.
Turnout was amongst the highest for any vote in recent history.

What do you propose? Compulsory voting?

Many were genuinely undecided and made a conscious decision to abstain.
What you have there is an l-value, which is an expression that evaluates to a location into which a value can be placed.

A variable is a single name and is the simplest example of an expression that is an l-value.
Just because you're not using their DNS servers doesn't mean they still don't see the DNS requests as its sent through their pipes and log them.
It might not be difficult to get one, but I'm fairly certain it would make me feel unwelcome. Right now I feel like I belong, thanks to EU freedom of movement I can come and go as I please - with a visa, it's never this easy, you are always questioned at the border, because you are not a citizen. My other concern is what will happen once my mum gets older and I will want her to come here so I can take care of her - I might get a visa as a working professional, but would they let her come? Again, I can live in any other EU country and just not have this problem, so it's definitely something I have to consider.
My point is that the more people feel detached from the political process, the less responsible they feel to take an active part in the process. This is why I believe that a regional government is to be preferred over a centralistic government.

I'm aware that not all problems can be solved on a regional level, but those that can, should. This is especially true on a cultural more diverse landscape such as Europe compared to e.g. the US.

Regarding your second question, lack of democracy: one thing that comes to mind is the lack of binding referendums and initiatives, as it happens e.g. in Switzerland on a regular basis.
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I've only tried Construct 2 for a short time, but the output for the HTML target was running amazingly smooth, and the tooling was very, very nice.
> but also how I got there and where I went

The tails project experiments with this in Servo and browser.html:

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/lossless-web-navigation-with...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13518919
Rusty the organizer here. I'm trying to reboot the Hacker News DC meetup after a very long hiatus caused by startups and child-rearing.

All are welcome, hope you can make it. Looking forward to a great event!
I don't think I met anyone who didn't use curse begrudgingly.

- - -

If they are seriously aiming to compete only with Blizzard App, then I'd imagine them planning on failing then.

Besides, Steam and Origin also have VOIP and streaming capabilities, And Steam also has mod management systems too, so Curse is closer to steam than to battle.net

Besides, the UI is fairly close to feature parity with discord (much like how curse was) which is adding screen sharing soon http://i.imgur.com/SPPLZhi.png

So it does seem more closer to trying to compete against Steam+Discord than a battle.net
Because it is an assault on civil liberties?

The status quo was wrong, which is why we passed the law in the first place.

The difference, of course, is:

* [thing isn't thought about, so isn't made illegal - making it implicitly legal]
* Hey, this thing they're doing is bad - now that we know about it, we should make it illegal.
* Repeal: Hey, let them do this thing.