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I know why political topics are banned. I too am going to go off topic.

Skilled immigrant here, not in America. Could you guys (Americans) please get on with leading the world. This is a tough one. We leave our countries because conditions are not good (to generalise). The root cause is typically bad government. A dictator, corruption or just bad economic decisions. I do think the most sustainable solution is for all countries to attain a level of acceptable governance. Rooting out a dictator is hard, predicting what happens afterwards is harder. I still feel the world is giving dictators/corrupt governments an easy ride.

Before you start saying all governments are corrupt. Again I have to generalise. There is a joke that does the rounds every once in while. I am paraphrasing. African and Asian guy study engineering in the west. Both become ministers of transport in their governments. African guy visits Asian minister. He notices the Asian minister has property and cars well beyond a government salary. He inquires, Asian takes him to window, points at modern highway, winks and says 10%. African guy nods knowingly. A couple years later the Asian guy visits his African counterpart. He too notices the African guy is rich beyond a government salary. African guy takes him to window points at highway, Asian looks hard but cannot see highway. Confused he looks at African guy and says he cannot see it, the African minister winks and says 90%. That is one of the reasons I am an immigrant.
A what? A "social media influencer program?" It's a program that employs people skilled at pretending to be someone they aren't, whose goal is to influence the views of people who would prefer to be someone they aren't.

"Social media influence" is jargon for lies. Proof? When was the last time you saw a famous actor flogging potatoes? The reason? People actually need potatoes -- they don't need to be tricked into buying them.

Even more worrying is the recent rise in lawsuits against anyone who posts a negative product review in social media. The idea is to squelch anything but controlled advertising copy, recited by young, attractive employees. And ... it's working.

My favorite advertising slogan of the last 20 years: "If you don't buy a new car, the terrorists win."
Wasn't Hillary the one who was advocated for more access to education? I'm looking through her old website and there's a lot that could help the average American.

I'm not one to truly believe that she could've created a miracle, but it seems to me that it's better to be sober and encourage retraining sets of people into new jobs related to say, solar energy engineering, instead of attempting to abolish regulations on dying industries (coal) or encourage more industries that are likely to have little job gains due to automation (e.g. manufacturing).

Also, given the access to affordable, if not free online education and incredible resources online (photocopied textbooks, discussion forums, insightful blog posts, step-by-step instructions, high quality videos), I'm left somewhat less sympathetic to people who are completely unwilling to train themselves in other industries that are in demand, when my own dad who truly struggled in an extremely poor family in the middle of nowhere, Asia, and earned a scholarship to study medicine.

I feel this odd dichotomy where some Americans have this 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' mentality (and consequently, dislike things that could benefit everyone like single payer health insurance), have access to an incredible environment(free resources online, no major civil war, clean water and food), and yet don't take advantage of it to its fullest.
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>While this trend is likely one of many that has resulted in Trump's ascendence, the solution isn't necessarily for the Democratic Party shifting rhetoric on social issues - the stances that the Democratic Party generally espouses on social issues are meant to help those even more disadvantaged than white men.

I said "working-class males", not "white men", but your overall point is correct. The problem is, the Democratic party places a higher priority on helping the disadvantaged and downtrodden citizens of other countries over the ones in the US. The fact that low-skilled immigrants are taking jobs that the "Men Without Work" who are US citizens could do is apparently of no concern to them. Nor is the fact that an unlimited supply of low-skilled labor will drive down the cost of low-skilled labor in the US, and hence, the standard of living for those citizens who are not cut out for white-collar work.
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> if you expand the scope of what people consider an OS

You mean expand it beyond "currently mainstream OS with a big installed base" rather than in any technical sense.

> While OSes have been written in Lisp, no mainstream OS people actually use has. Experimental research OSes don't really count. People have written such things in all kinds of languages, even Java.

Lisp machines were shipping production hardware.

Who has shipped hardware programmed in nothing but Java? Java code taking interrupts, programming DMA controllers, managing memory, etc.
Youtube is used horribly by advertisers. Don't make a video ad that plays before the content that people can't wait to click Skip. Just make a video that's entertaining/informative and post it to youtube. People will share it for free and watch it willingly.
Why is a restriction of 3 inches reasonable again? Why not 4 inches or 2.5 inches or some other length?
This had to happen, but I weep for all the great tech created at Google enabled by these ad dollars that may not have existed otherwise. Hope they can transition to an alternative business model relatively quickly.
While I agree with the notion that in many fields it helps a lot to agree upon a common vocabulary for speed/shorthand, accuracy and clarity in communication, in this case I think that learning the vocabulary is learning the wrong thing.

Shorthands also have a couple of obvious pitfalls. One of them being in this case that neither party might recognize particular leakiness in a generally agreed-upon abstraction.

What you (IMHO) should be learning--and the vocabulary sort of comes implied with this, but is not necessary--is how to recognize the shape of such a concept or structure (in this case, fallacies) and how to "disarm" them, deal with them, in the context of an argument. Pointing out the fallacy by name should only be done maybe after disarming the fallacy in context of the argument, as further clarification.

If doing that is too long and convoluted, it really goes to show that learning a common vocabulary is training for the wrong thing. Instead, train to make your ways of dealing with fallacies shorter and to the point.

Say you know and studied all the moves in karate; During a match, your opponent comes at you with a certain attack, and you know the perfect defence / counter attack to it because you studied it all. You call out the name of your opponent's attack and shout the name of your counter attack. Having agreed upon a common vocabulary, your opponent knows they are defeated by your counter. A shouting match ensues.

I'm not saying that having a common vocabulary is not useful, it's very useful. Imagine two karate trainers sharing tips on what techniques best to learn students of a certain level. Imagine how they are even able to talk about "students of a certain level". But that's all meta game. In a real fight the moves have no names, and in a real argument neither do the fallacies.
sorry will stop this here based on your other comments i assume you are just trolling.
It's funny, I sort of agree with your description, but entirely disagree with your judgement. What you describe is in my view enormously valuable.

For a given article, I often think: Well, that's a pretty accurate description of the situation, the main points of contention, and some opinionated conclusion (maybe with a divergent viewpoint thrown in, but not always).

Sure, it's often some young kids from Oxford's PPE (Philosophy, Politics, Economics) programme writing the articles, but they've learned a bit at school and they have access to the best experts. That's what makes it so valuable in my view. I would not call it "banal", but then, I don't necessarily want great originality in my newspaper either.

And, mind you, the articles are typically just one page. That's a pretty good achievement for one page: get the best expert's condensed opinion on a topic.

As an equivalent, think about any info sec topic, and imagine someone sitting down with tpacek for an hour and then writing a one-page article about it. Even if they have not much clue about the topic, the article might be pretty informative, particularly for one page. Yeah, you can go and read hacker news for months or read Schneier's blog and books and the info sec stuff in depths - but most readers of The Economist don't have the time for that.

Providing a concise, informed overview (and view) on a broad array of important topics is what The Economist is good at.

Lastly, while I rant, they do have longer articles ("Briefings") and thematic clusters of articles ("Specials"), which give deeper insight.
Yes they do, and that is their main purpose. They also do service projects, etc.
We need a movement to compel the .gov to spend just ONE years worth of MIC spending on social endeavors. And see what would be possible....

We have the ability to defend ourself, we have the most powerful military and navy in the world many times over. Lets just see what the heck we could accomplish in one year alone with respect to social and economic services.
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Doesn't intent to commit a crime have to be shown?

From what I've read, possession of lockpicking tools are legal virtually everywhere in the USA, as long as one is not intending to commit a crime with them.

If I am mistaken on this point, I would love to be corrected. IANAL.
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Wikimedia has a telnet gateway with a TOR hidden service: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Telnet_gateway
Sure, because being better at Win32 than Windows really helped OS/2.

Or if you want to stay in Android, offering Android runtimes did wonders for the market issues from BlackBerry and Jolla.
I've been following this since launch, and the regular updates with subscriber/revenue numbers are honestly one of the more interesting parts of the service. It's weirdly meta, but watching you build a thing to help other people build things really gives me this itch to...build something myself.

Basically, I'm saying you've invented the perfect pornography for entrepreneurs. Keep it up!
Special education is a self perpetuating bureaucracy everywhere. Not to say the programs don't offer super valuable services to those in need, but my experience is it's really hard to get your kids out of special ed when they are ready to mainstream.

In my daughters case they fought us for two years, we eventually moved her to a charter school that mainstreamed her immediately. 2 years later she's made the honor roll twice.
Not sure what you mean - The Economist is often opinionated, but they lay out their arguments and don't hide their agenda. I find it much more palatable than the "he said, she said" or "opinions diverge on the shape of the earth" type journalism.
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Tried 5 of them randomly picked. None worked. Guess this is more for historical value.

There's also what looks to be an Apache SSI error at the top and bottom of the page: [an error occurred while processing this directive]
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My favorite bit of nonsensical marketing speak was the following "It re-creates elements in photos where they didn’t exist, by studying nearby pixels."

How can you RE-create something that did not exist? Also why?
Not trolling. You can't argue my point on facts, it's that simple. Jobs were taken from Americans and shipped to Mexico and Asia. Americans had all those social things you list when they had their jobs. Your model would mean those things return but with a more heavy handed government approach.
I would love to hear more about your experience working with the Economist, please, do share them!
I'm currently writing a list of things to consider when creating a UBI scheme (concerns that I often don't see addressed), and this is an easy way to illustrate one of them.

One simple way to implement "single payer" healthcare in the US would be to slowly expand the medicare (US program for people 65 and older) coverage by moving the age lower every year.

Very similarly, a simple way to incrementally implement UBI would be to lower the "retirement age" every year.

But precisely the opposite is happening. Per the article:

> In 2010, British women got their state pension at 60 and men got theirs at 65. By October 2020, both sexes will have to wait until they are 66. By 2028, the age will rise again, to 67.

How do people who think a feasible UBI future is possible square with this?
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Does anyone know where I can buy this an an e-book without DRM?
I don't want to see ads. Period. In fact, I pay for YouTube Red & Google Play Music specifically to avoid ads. Ads suck.
Is there a way to test for that browser without having to own a Samsung device?
This is being far far too apologetic for the completely rotten culture of driving. It starts with the traffic engineers. They call themselves that, but they are monkeys replicating designs from a 90s guidebook designed by older monkeys, with evidence never entering the picture. They care far more about keeping free parking spaces than validating the safety of their designs.

It goes on with the drivers themselves, but you have covered that well. I'd just add that if you are operating a 2 ton machine and kill someone doing it out of recklessness or a lack of due care (which is the case in the vast majority of deaths, even collisions), of course there needs to be a penalty or it goes on. Killing someone with a gun because you left a bullet in and knocked the trigger is a lot more dramatic but not very much different. Not even a criminal penalty necessarily, but maybe just a 5 year driving ban. Right now in most countries it is basically impossible to lose your license, ever. If you do, you just drive on because the penalty for driving without is laughable.

The final component are the car manufacturers, or more generally vehicle standards. Why exactly do cars need >70hp motors? I've driven a transporter fully loaded approaching 3 tons up the Tourmalet with that kind of engine. It did just fine. Nobody chauffeuring their breed the mile to school in the inner city needs a car an iota more powerful. And the engine is just the first thing in a long long list of issues. I don't think there is any other machine out there with a similar level of risk and damage caused that is so severely lacking in the most basic safety devices or generally designed and engineered with blatant disregard for these factors.
Until a few years ago, a lot of freenets (like the 'AzTec' one) were still online and publicly accessible. It was always fun to roam those in search of some forgotten gems.
There has been a microcode cache after the decoder since at least the Pentium 4. In the Pentium 4 it's called the trace cache. Check out "The Microarchitecture of the Pentium 4" if you're curious about the architecture.
Thank you for the video, very interesting. The time for what you mentioned is here: https://youtu.be/Hqw57GJSrac?t=1104 (from 18:24 to 24:00)
Along a similar vain please stop writing external DSLs. Especially in the DevOps ecosystem. I'm really tired of learning yet another syntax for (bash + ssh).
Now? It's always been that way.
"I'll write under a pseudonym and you'll see what I can do to him!"

I mean, the Federalist Papers "fifty-one!" sequence would probably have made a better refernce, but they're not too explicit about the pseudonyms there.
Given all the FUD around picks in the US, I like to refer people to the toool page, they've done a great job of distilling down what's legal and where.

http://toool.us/laws.html
>I used to drive way to fast on the highways, now I often find myself realizing that I'm driving to slowly.

That's called getting old.

>The next time you've left late, are running late, are about to miss something; you need to consider is that extra 2 minutes and the higher risk of getting in an accident worth it?

If it wasn't a pretty good trade-off less people would do it. Do you avoid swimming in the ocean because of sharks?
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The big problem is that rpcgen is hairy and not reeeeeeally portable (in my experience, if there's a feature you want, it's not supported on your Unix).

XDR is nice, though, apart from being big-endian and not having widely-supported 64-bit integers. It's a pity it's unfashionable.
That really sucks. It seems you are pretty upfront with what happened and the shortcomings of it. But I'd like to reiterate what you should have done, so you don't make the same mistake twice: you should have gotten a script for adderall/ritalin or some other ADHD drug from a doctor. It's not difficult.

I'm in the same boat as you. I have chronic pain and use both morphine and adderall therapeutically. But I have trouble reconciling that you've been using drugs for 40 years and still haven't switched over to legal ones. Street drugs are tainted, often cut, often not even the same substance you thought you purchased. I'm young and I've already learned this lesson. It's unfortunate that it took you 40 years but you'll get back on your feet.

Switch to prescription drugs. Street drugs will cause kidney and liver damage, other organ damage. All kinds of terrible shit in them.

Pharmaceuticals are exactly what you asked for. The FDA is stringent. There are regulations. Big pharma ain't evil, just get the pure stuff legally.

Anyhow, did not mean to preach from the pulpit. I hope you get back on your feet and find a better routine without the unnecessary risk.

Best, goldenkey
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Situation: there are now n+1 competing serialization protocols

https://xkcd.com/927/
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN. Please don't post empty nationalistic generalizations. And if you're going to comment on divisive topics, please do so thoughtfully, not rantily, as several of your recent comments have. "Go live in North Korea" and "don't bring your fascism" are examples of what we're trying to avoid.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14017679 and marked it off-topic.
Thanks for making this; exactly what I need. Good business model too.

I would pay for a global search filter / API across all feeds or within a segment. Also, offline support for local caching.
Thanks for saying that. There is this prejudice that they're right leaning, but for fun I've pulled up their US presidential endorsements:

1988: None
1992: D - Bill Clinton (vs George Bush)
1996: R - Bob Dole (vs Bill Clinton)
2000: R - George W. Bush (vs Al Gore)
2004: D - John Kerry (vs George W. Bush)
2008: D - Barack Obama (vs McCain)
2012: D - Barack Obama (vs Mitt Romney)
2016: D - Hilary Clinton (vs Donald)

They have fairly progressive opinions on health care, climate, government regulation in general, civil rights, drugs, prostitution, etc.

Yes, market friendly, sure, but well aware of the limitations of markets and the importance of good regulation - you bet.
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I'd really like to see the evidence for this. As I mentioned in another comment, from what I've read, possession of lockpicking tools are legal virtually everywhere in the USA, as long as one is not intending to commit a crime with them.

Please see:

http://toool.us/laws.html
I don't want anything. The point is that the pioneers did what they had to do.
My question is will there be a guarantee that the items are genuine and not counterfeit?

Celebs will probably not want to be associated with buyers of their endorsed products ending up with counterfeit goods.
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Riemann hypothesis gives better error estimates for the asymptotics in the prime number theorem.
> But I certainly would not call it justice to destroy yet another person's life in retaliation for being stupid and unlucky at the same time. One death seems unjust enough for me. Adding more misery to the pile does not make me happier.

I second that.

>Speaking as a person who has mostly given up driving (I have driven less than once a year in the last decade), I would prefer simply to make licenses almost impossible to get. Most people are not able to take the task seriously enough, no matter what the risk, IMHO.

Which just screws over anybody in a rural area
Yes, true - not diversity of opinion, they speak "with one voice". But pragmatic and not partisan, say.
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Thanks Doches! Glad you're enjoying the journey! I am too.

People really seem to like seeing the numbers and I like to share them. It keeps me accountable :)

I definitely recommend building something! If you're looking to solve a problem in a certain field, drop me a line - cory@oppsdaily.com and maybe I have something I can share!
Try libinput. I configured my XPS 15 with libinput and it's been a blessing in disguise.
Techniques like these were extremely common on the NES and other game consoles of the time, where packing as much code into the ROM (fixed-size and expensive to expand) as possible was important. Embedded systems of the same era, and even PC software would often contain them too.
Well this thread did a good job at making all the people with an irrational hate for cars come out of the woodwork.
I'm actually considering just buying a new battery for my Note 3 and S8+ is way out of my price range for maybe two years and the competitors are offering interesting phones at very low price-point. I'm amazed how ahead of time the Note 3 was and is such a perfect phone still. (For example a lot of cores for sharing network connections etc.) It only lacks the fingerprint reader and water-proofing that I'd like. And I'd rather have a phone that allows easily replacing the battery but we'll see.
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The short version is, usually. However, in some states possession of burglarious tools is evidence of intent. Helpful link, posted above:

http://toool.us/laws.html
I never see tools or articles like this discussing emulating bufferbloat, only static high latency. In the real world, satellite connections are relatively uncommon, and 500ms latency is usually instead due to excess buffering on a link that can deliver low latency when not saturated.

Also, don't the instructions in this article only apply to outbound traffic?

If you're trying to simulate poor network conditions, you need to have a better understanding than this of what causes poor network performance, and how to properly emulate it.
Despite being a programmer, I love reading military history books and visiting museums. Time to plan a visit to New Orleans. Riding in a real PT boat would be a blast. Much more likely than my dream of driving Tiger 131 (the one in Bovington used in movie Fury).
> Imagine if there were 40 competing and completely
> mutually unintelligible versions of html or text encodings

There are.

> There really should be a one size fits all minimal
> serialization protocol

There can't be.

> just the same way there is a one size fits all network
> protocol which moves data around the entire internet

There isn't.