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Exactly this.

What is it about gold that triggers wild conspiracy theories from seemingly rational people?
For standard school papers and reports there's no reason the standard text editor on whatever platform (e.g. Wordpad, or its Mac equivalent) should not be acceptable.

About 6 years ago I showed my oldest son (in 8th grade at the time) basic LaTeX to write papers and he would turn in the PDF files.

Sure it's all moved to Google docs now and that's fine, but the requirement for office suites never made sense.
Washington is behind India’s brutal experiment of abolishing most cash
This is a red herring. OCB --- which is possibly the best "mainstream" authenticated encryption construction --- has a blanket patent license for open source software. It applies to any software licensed under any license recognized by OSI, and its only restriction is that the license is withdrawn if you initiate patent litigation.

OCB should be far more widely used than it is.

Meanwhile, configurable "cipher schemes" have in practice been a disaster. They are, for instance, the reason we still have RC4 in TLS today, despite knowing for almost 2 decades now that RC4 is broken.
Or, more likely, the term is so effective at misleading that 99% of people hearing a reference to it assume it means software they don't have to pay for, and don't ask what it means at all. cf Open Source, which is unlikely to be misunderstood and likely to be the basis for a discussion on why access to source code is important with anyone that isn't familiar with the concept.

The whole article reads like parody tbh. Also like the argument that true software freedom involves not being free to use proprietary software, because politics, and the bit about treating non-free software users as heretics also being important for "a society that stands up for what is good"
Yep. I can't help but wonder how people will get it off their shoes.
> It's a company though, I don't see how diversity is important.

Sure, lots of people don't. And that's why they do the kind of things that the author talks about that signal "we're all like this here and we're looking for people just like us".

But, when you do that, you should be aware that that is exactly what you are signalling.
Wrapping up Java 9 new Features
I think Nokia could have done both Symbian and Maemo and even something else still (if the leadership had not been complacent). But that is all water under the bridge.
Thanks! This is something we are trying but because of the complexities with the legacy, it is getting hard and expensive. Often, they get pushed down the priority list.
The tooling is just arriving to enable as rapid a development cycle in C++ as with managed languages. I was having multiple issues, only optimizing portions of a traditional (W/L)AMP stack or node.js solution with C/C++ components until I found Restbed (https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed). Now I can create a complete self-contained REST API server in a 100K executable with no (W/L)AMP stack or other infrastructure required. Compiling C++ is fast, and unlike the typical (W/L)AMP, node.js, or other "conventional web stack" one is not compiling and/or executing through gigs of data and executable - the re-compile and execute/debug cycle in C++ for Restbed is instantaneous on modern hardware, and the execution speed runs circles around any managed language.

Such a development solution is faster, consumes exponentially fewer resources, and is a great idea for much more than startups. You just need good C++ developers that also know the web - a bit rare right now, but the savings are too real for the situation to remain that way.
Maybe you use a smaller glass?
Off topic, but what is up with comments on zerohedge.com? Not this article necessarily, but so many of the articles on that site it seems the comments are just ridiculous alt-right bot armies arguing back and forth, peppered with links to obviously newly-invented sites touting crackpot theories.
To clarify: this is the Tcl interpreter compiled to webassembly. Not a Tcl program or the language.
Well, if you'll allow me this oversimplification, this is a spectrum. There are degrees of capitalism and socialism, and which you call which largely depends on your upbringing.

For instance, many US citizens here in HN would say France is a Socialist country. But we're neither a command economy nor a dictatorship (yet). We just put more money in public services (most notably health care and education). Some countries redistribute even more, and they're still quite far from full blown communism.
Except this plays into the mythmaking.

Apple would very likely _love_ to have a second or third profit generator. If you examine the profits taken on iPads, MacBooks, and everything else Apple does (see http://www.asymco.com) relative to the iPhone, it is a one trick pony.

Hard to peel apart your "focus" when 85% of your business relies on it.
Europe signs its own death warrant
Right, I didn't put in "and the few remaining accounts that can't be moved can stay on the old system"

It was more a suggestion of how to move to a new system at all.

What happens if the bank closes before those 50 years?
That's still a real estate issue; you're just saying that the three important factors in real estate are "location, location, and location" and that those factors aren't stable over time. Tell that to the Carthaginians.
Gold sort of works for sovereigns. It's crap for individuals. Any situation where you need to rely on physical gold is a situation where someone else will take it from you by force.
Just looking at the nutrition label, I doubt anyone would think that. An apple is basically sugar plus a bit of fiber. A chocolate bar is probably healthier (just for balancing out the mix with fat and protein) except for the fact that people rarely binge on apples.
Venezuela: Increase in ‘witch-hunt’ of dissidents amidst political crisis
By clones I meant multiple applications doing similar functionality running in Production managed by different teams, code and data.
Sure but the journey has a value of its own. I find preparing food, particularly monotonous peeling and chopping to be almost zen like.
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Apple is $750b company built on one product (iPhone). Their business hangs on a thread. What happens if they have a big recall like Samsung had?
Juicing fruits and vegetables will always result in a product where the sugar:fiber ratio is much higher than just consuming the food whole (or blended in a smoothie).
Ya, the young people were overly picky because they wanted to.
I consider dismantling environmental agencies criminal in the ethical sense, but US law obviously does not consider it criminal.

Does Erdogan ever actually violate Turkish law? You call what Erdogan does criminal, but I'm under the impression you're using "the letter of the law" as a measure for Trump, and "what's ethical" for Erdogan.

As an aside, Trump and his staff have removed press from press meetings and refused to let certain question be asked. Those actions aren't arrests but they don't particularly cultivate a climate of open debate either.
Let's be honest, most of the best studying time is still spent using pen & paper and exercise sheets. Even in 2017. Let's not fool ourselves, apps don't make you understand things quicker. The exception are very few select educational videos and some Wikipedia pages. Or programming on the PC, since that is much harder to learn without actual tools to run code.
I would of loved to have ditched Android for Windows Mobile but the hardware options were poor. I couldn't find a phone that had any challenging specs to the Android options. I care mostly about battery life these days, if Microsoft would of released more phones and with competitive specs I would probably still have one of their phones. I only saw one option on my carrier, and it had 8 hours of battery life, compared to phones that boasted 22 hours of battery life it's not very impressive.
Turkey: journalism is not a crime
"I've still yet to meet someone who actually prefers Cisco over Juniper MX. I wonder who is buying these?"

You have met my ex-boss.He had no reason to necessarily prefer Cisco other than that's all he was accustomed to.
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Despite (or because of?) the fact that quite a surprisingly high number of my friends read zero hedge, I've always referred to it as a "gold standard flat-earther conspiracy site."

I will say that, like a stopped clock, it generates something meaningful once in a while. But so does a Markov model.
how is this even on hacker news?
this is a crappy repeat of: are you not doing/believing something we all used to believe? gasp you must be doing it wrong.

did the atlantic hire bill orielly or something?
In contrast, for me "open source" literally means opened sources, i.e. one can read the source code. "Libre software" or FLOSS may be better alternatives for those who care.
Where are you going for lunch?
Systemd technically does include rudimentary image management through systemd-importd and machinectl.
If anyone were seriously developing an educational app they would make it browser based so any computer could access it.
"Open standard" doesn't really mean anything. It's standardized, in that there is a standard (actually, multiple compatible standards) that you can code to and end up with interoperable OCB. The complaint upthread is that OCB is patented, which it is. But for many years now, OCB has been free for open source software.
LMDB is one of the backends that you can choose. BDB is more common in my experience. http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/backends.html
https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-dns
> You wouldn't call OCR an "AI algorithm", would you?

It depends on how it was implemented; if it used a neural network for example, then yes, I would
Only if you grant them access. It's not required to use LinkedIn.
A large distinction needs to be made between juice you drink within an hour of the fruit being crushed, versus drinking stuff a few months later, stuff that's been preserved via various bizarre tricks to keep it safe from oxygen.

Without intervention, the oxygen in the air will break down most of the healthy stuff within an hour or two. If you juice carrots and drink it immediately, there are benefits.

What you see in the USA, with the stuff called "orange juice" often makes health claims that should be disallowed. "All natural" and "contains Vitamin C" are highly misleading, considering the actual process that the juice is put through, so it can survive for months on the shelf in some store.
I have alluded in other places of the benefits of a meditative practice. One I have experienced is being "awake" in my dreams. Having a continuous stream of consciousness through my nights of sleep.

I am able to control my actions during and the outcomes of the situations I dream about, and fully recall them after waking.
Don't like spinach? No worries, I'll put a bunch of sugar on it.

Wait, that's even nastier!

How about we just realize spinach actually tastes pretty good and we feel better when we eat it instead of sugar? Still, some people just won't like spinach and that's ok. But it's not a good idea to teach kids to hate spinach and love junk or assume that's just how it is naturally. Because pooping our pants is natural. But a little training and habit sure makes us feel better and get by with less problems.

If presented properly and as a matter of custom, preferring nutritious food over empty calories comes naturally and is overall better for the person and their society.
Fine, 6x. $300bn. Considerable amount of money, but still comparable to the value of a handful of neighbourhoods' real estate in Manhattan.
Yes, you can, but my question would be why would you want to? I don't know anyone personally who uses Office or Adobe for anything but work. Even then, the vast majority of professional use of Office is handled perfectly well by their online offering or Google's Docs.

Image manipulation and video editing are the only reasons I can think of someone would want something other than the hardware of a Chromebook. If Google opened up the Linux internals or made it dead simple to dual boot they would have a perfectly good development environment for web developers as well.
Lots of software have been licensed under Apache, BSD and MIT licenses for two decades...why do we need another decade for this doom to arrive and what are the early signs we can see now?
Fake news.

I haven't downvoted your post above.

If you claim that the EU is ruled by Germany, the refugee crisis has clearly shown the opposite. Most countries did not follow German policies. Actually the press in Germany talked about being isolated in the EU in the refugee crisis. You also seem to be unfamiliar with how decision making works in the EU.
A detailed study clearly shows that you are wrong:

https://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html
In Germany sure, but not in most countries. http://www.unzcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/map-turke...
Settings > Communications > Emails in the iOS app

You can turn them all off.
The Problem with WikiTribune
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I put down the school that I attended, but no mention of a degree. Do they still let you do that?
> TLDR: In many Germany's neighboring countries it is common to know German on a decent level - at least if you plan to work in Germany. If there was I second language from a neighboring country in which work should be accepted, this should rather be French (for France and Belgium) instead of English.

Sure, e.g. I did myself one year of German courses (I forgot most of it, because it was long time ago). In my opinion the point is to make attractive world-class talent for working in Germany, even for short periods of time. I.e. the "nationalist barrier", that is still very strong in Germany and also e.g. in France, in my opinion hurts badly IT companies (fortunately, now is a much smaller problem versus how it was 15-20 years ago, when it was very difficult to work in Germany or France with just English).

In my opinion, unless European Union countries become more pragmatic, accepting the English as the "IT language", or the handicap for hiring world-class talent will still be a issue, for both the internal EU job market, and also for getting international talent (e.g. a talented Indian would try first to work in the USA or the UK just because he already did English in the school, being ha handicap having to learn French or German for a temporary job).
All within certain cultural modes, all to confirm certain paths they are already headed down. The collapse of the ability to communicate across cultures doesn't bother you? Doesn't make you question whether or not this approach that we've all been patting ourselves on the back for while so many are lost to its blind spots may actually not be the right solution, no matter how deep our investment in it goes?

The arrogance of assuming that you are correct because what you argue has references that you appreciate is much greater than me trying to develop an idea that permits a new approach to an old problem.
Free Software makes people think of "freemium" software.
>> It’s not really about Freedom at all, because >99% of computer users are non-programmers.

> Free Software gives us as a society the freedom to control our computers. And it gives us as individuals the freedom learn how to program them if we want to.

Most people are not car mechanics yet they benefit from the rules that require 3 party products and repair shops to be allowed to operate.

And the ability to rapidly build upon the work of others reduces the barriers for new, interesting products to be built, which benefits everyone, even non-programmers.
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Yes, I was referring to that reference. Sorry for mixing up the pro- and anti- positions. But now I'm even more confused - what's the joke, and the ring of truth?
What The Font has been good to me in this past.
Except some Open Source software is not, in fact, Free. Then there are sneaky variasions such as "Open Core", that indeed looks Open Source if you squint just right, but is pretty far removed from the original Free Software philosophy.

Thankfully, Most languages don't have this problem, since they have 2 distinct adjective for "gratis" and "freedom".
And because it's effectively a coin toss, the average number of passes through the machine is just 2!

Just a remark from a Lego nerd: it's attaching arms to bodies, not heads. The neck has a stripe on the front, so that is where the camera looks at to determine which side is facing up.
Whole grain bread is very healthy.
I'm not seeing it, just an uptick in usage. I find most places that previously used MySQL just use MariaDB instead.
How do you get notified of open CFPs in your field?
This has always been the case. Every interaction with every other human is just some sort of 'game' where you have to make things witty and interesting etc. You can't just pour out the bland truth. People will be alienated and bored. Like a waiter in a restaurant, you have to serve the dish nicely so that it appeals the other person. That doesn't mean you have to be dishonest, it just means that presentation matters a whole lot more than engineers and scientists want it to. In fact, presentation is absolutely crucial to success.
For most people in the first world the primary needs (water, food, health) are adequately satisfied, but the dopamine system doesn't stop there and requires further stimulation. That's why we have things like coffee, nicotine, alcohol and other drugs, theme parks, consumerism etc.. Most are never satisfied with what they've got, it's just human nature.
Interesting question indeed. E.g. myths such as everyone using either vim or emacs... I wonder how common are "sane" IDEs, e.g. someone who uses C++ using Visual C++ IDE, Windows instead of mac/Linux, etc...
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are you lamenting today's mainstream culture in contrast to previous decades' counterculture? seems like apples and oranges. i'll posit that today's counterculture is more vibrant than ever, and 60's-90's pop culture was as vapid as today's.
Uh, no thanks.
Messy, sure, but 'a great deal of time an effort'? Really? It takes a matter of seconds to peel an orange.
We're a species of primate where evolution pushed a lot of our innards to optimize to eat fruit.

We've got the binocular vision and dexterity to climb trees and identify and harvest and prep fruits. Our livers are tolerant of relatively ridiculous intake levels of fructose and ethanol (by non-frugivore standards). Our ancestors were so successful at exploiting fruit as a food source that unlike non-frugivores (hand wavy mostly) our bodies don't try to generate our own vitamin-C nor do we try to store it, we just pee it out because surely we'll get a meal of vit-C fruit tomorrow, which leads to scurvy in humans that don't get fruits or supplemental sources. Non-frugivores are somewhat more frugal (ugh) with bodily vitamin C stores. Our digestive tract is long enough to digest fruits reasonably effectively but not long enough for cellulose sources (like how cows can graze), much longer than we need to solely eat meat. Our taste receptors are calibrated to sugary fruit juice which in 21st century makes us really fat when provided with unlimited sources of HFCS.

Pre-historic fruit consumption is pretty much baked into the cake.

Our ancestors were pretty much frugivores, although its a spectrum, there's not a binary yes/no like adult lactose metabolism for example. So being a spectrum you can make a strong argument for "omnivore with a heavy addition of fruit" or similar wishy washyness. I'm trying and failing to think of a class of omnivore that doesn't eat fruit, solely does bbq chicken breast on caesars salad type of thing... There's probably some class of omnivore that doesn't eat fruit, but maybe not and its a reasonable argument that the concept of omnivore is not really meat+plant but more like meat+fruit. There are likely scavengers that can live off meat and veg-only although not preferentially...
Hi, I'm Ben, CTO of Academia.

Everyone who works at Academia would love it if we were able to make advanced search free.

When we first decided to build a premium account, we also made the decision to not take anything out of the free account. Strange as it may seem, the free account never had full-text search because we couldn't justify the cost of building it (full-text search of 20MM PDFs at our traffic levels is expensive to operate). We built it for the premium account because people asked for it in our initial research - and we would love to be able to eventually move it into the free account.

On the team we all agree that we want to keep building premium features in order to make the platform sustainable. The author of this article takes the view that advanced search is not a feature that should be paid-for. My view is that we intend keep building features until we have something that is worthy of his support. The support of the academics who use and enjoy the platform, both in free and paid accounts, is what will keep it around and growing for the long term.
I don't think postgres is the default over mysql.

I think WordPress and php guys default to MySQL.

I think python and Django guys end up defaulting to Postgres.

Rails and node.js I am less sure what the default is, maybe mongodb?

I don't think either camp has really changed since Oracle came along. A lot of momentum in different stacks.
Cyberpunk is an aesthetic, Cypherpunk is sociopolitical.

Thematically there is very little different between cyberpunk and steampunk.
I have used its JSON features for real-world stuff and loved it.

I have stored procedures doing a bunch of stuff and returning a nicely formatted JSON object that makes the job of the application code a lot easier.

One thing I dislike is that the friction for initial development and prototyping is a little too high.

You have to have scripts lying around to re-create the functions when you change it during dev.

And logging/debugging/etc is harder and not as flexible.
Sounds like an introductionary paragraph from the biography of a serial killer. Good job, daddy.

On HN lying to your children is a good thing.