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Culturally flavoured emojis are not problem. There will always be gestures, context, emotions which differ greatly between different parts of the world. I don't have a problem with that. As you said, the emojis come from japan and there are some emojis I seldom use because I have no cultural need for them. I think this is different from skin/hair color and gender and actually contributes meaningfully to the conversation.
"Blob kneeling to beg for forgiveness" might not be used where I live but contributes just as much as a "shrug" which I use more often but does not get used in japan.

My main point is that it does not contribute anything meaningful, or in my opinion can even be counterproductive, to explicitly express "brown colored, female thumbs up" instead of a more neutral "thumbs up".

I see your point that there are some emojis where might be too stereotyped even in the blob form and that there are already many preconceptions about how some blobs are understood. The police officer blob or the flight attendant blob are good examples.
That yellow skin is considered a default for white or that people automatically see a blob with a police hat as male is a difficult subject and I'm unsure how to solve this perfectly in a general way.

It is in no way perfect, yes, but I argue that it's a better direction than going the other way by introducing more and more ways to individualise them.
Hmm, what would it take for the major "Internet companies"(which are primarily American) to "cut the cord" to Britain rather than complying with this kind of outrageous overreach?

Genuinely curious.

EDIT:
Also,

> The laws would also force technology companies to delete anything that a person posted when they were under 18.

sounds quite literally insane, censoring the speech of people just because they are minors?
Thank you, I had heard otherwise. Upvoted.
To put it into more perspective, I live in Orlando and Kotlin has been the new growing language for Android since before the announcement. Developers wind up trying Kotlin for themselves and enjoying it for themselves, the rising numbers and the fact Google realized it's popularity and adjusted their support for it shows that Kotlin is a reasonable solution for Android development. It also doesn't help the fact that Java is hostile against Android, and that Kotlin is working on native compilation, which could make it one day one of the most powerful assets of Android if they go full on for native compilation for Android, a benefit that afaik Java doesn't have.
I guess they are saving this as a secret weapon for election next month.
Suggest you pick one in Europe while it's still easy to do :) I think most EU countries let you apply for full citizenship after being there a while (e.g. France lets you apply after 5 yrs, less if you're married to a French national).
> You mean the politician-lawyer Claes Borgstrom who was subsequently fired by the woman in question because he wasn't representing her and "he just wanted to be attached to a high profile case"?
>Yeah, nothing suspicious about that

No. I mean Elizabeth Massi Fritz, the lawyer who is currently making statements on their behalf that it is "a scandal that a suspected rapist can avoid the judicial system and thus avoid a trial in court" and that despite the prosecutor's latest decision her client "can't change her view that Assange has exposed her to a rape", having frequently issued statements calling for a trial over the past few years.

The fact they sacked Borgstrom and hired someone else to continue to pursue the case against Assange actually undermines the Assangist theory that actually the whole thing was a conspiracy by the authorities that his accusers had no agency in.

Yes, it is entirely unhinged (or staggeringly ignorant of how legal systems work) to suggest that a case based entirely on apparently-reluctant witness testimony being reopened on appeal by a more senior prosecutor after an appeal from the hitherto-reluctant accusers' lawyer and interview with the suspect is more likely to be evidence of a conspiracy than a properly functioning legal system.
It did - I had to use plus signs to force them to use them.

Normally it ignored those words. I am fairly certain of this detail. I must have found a list of those words - how else would I have found the string "from what it is to a"? I had a list of its stop words.

Edit: for proof, here's someone's screenshot of the same - http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2270/2201828252_45a32da7f4.jp...

As you can see, it is Google saying it is ignoring a word because it is too common. It has a list of every site that has that, but that list is huge and it doesn't usually use it.
I'm torn between getting out and staying and trying to make things better. If we get another Tory government (particularly if they increase their majority) I'll have lost hope.
There was a massive scandal over UK complicity in US extraordinary rendition over here a few years ago.

The UK government was roundly condemned and the practice stopped (including refueling US rendition flights from elsewhere).

This will not happen to Assange.
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That was something that tipped me off too. They're very specific.
Yep, and we (Babel) are trying to work with TS on integrating it into Babel similar to how flow works with Babel (parser support + a plugin/preset to strip types). Again, limited resources so if the community really wants it, we would appreciate help in reviewing PRs and testing!

https://github.com/babel/babylon/issues/320, https://github.com/babel/babylon/issues/523
It works "well enough". There will always be a 1% or 0.1%
of the population who will be able to circumvent the blockaid, and China will keep arresting the ones it catches in the act.

But the point is it works for the other 99%. The thing about censorship is that you don't know what you were supposed to know. 1% of the population may see those censored articles before the governments gets around to censoring them, but what about the rest of the population? They'll keep living in ignorance of what was revealed and think the government is still great (with some help with the 24/7 propaganda bombardment from the media).

This is also like saying "(in-app) ad-blocking works on Android" - if you know how to root your phone and install it from F-Droid. But for the vast majority of people it doesn't.
I don't see the tension between saying that the government's intent is to create an all encompassing censorship machine based on what it defines as social harms, and saying that such an endeavour is doomed to fail.

One is about intent, the other is about ability to execute on that intent. In law, we punish people for intent to commit harms if they have gone some of the way towards planning those harms, even if the intended harms do not come to pass.
The Great Firewall works amazingly well, if not perfectly well. It is a little leaky at the edges, but certainly influences how a very large proportion of Chinese users experience the Internet.
Well it prevents 99% of the people who don't know how or don't bother setting up VPN from accessing prohibited content, that's the intended effect. So I would say it's working well.
No, both can be right. Censorship can be ineffective, but circumventing it may still put your name on some list. And once you do get charged with something, that fact can easily come up.

Also, VPNs are usually leaky. You can trivially identify many protocols, even under encryption. There was some researcher recently (sorry, can't find the link) identifying which movie is being streamed over encrypted link. Some networks are better at injecting noise than others - Tor has some benefits here for example.
I don't feel as strongly as you do about the man himself, but he isn't my political cup of tea either. But, I think his persecution relates entirely to his work as a journalist IMO, regardless of how he sees it himself.

For that reason I support his freedom, even if I don't really care too much about his cause. The free press is important to me.
The idea of Brexiteers is to cut Britain of the European court of justice to control the people. If you thought it was about immigration - what would Brexiteers win from that !?!? - think again. Cui bono.
Has anyone got ideas for the Security and Distribution sections? I'd say they're arguably the most important for a new language but he didn't spend time on them.

Back to internet argument territory - as a double quotes user, prettierjs surprised me by changing everything (that could be changed safely) to double quotes and I was glad to discover Crockford likes them better too.
Nice blog post.
That restriction I can understand, though I think passwords should not have to be typed twice. If you enter the password incorrectly, you can always reset it after the fact. But if you enter the incorrect email address (and subsequently forget the password), it will be harder to access your account since you presumably do not have access to the (erroneous) email used for registration.
It ultimately can't be, though. All it takes is for those governments to push for international enforcement of their laws for their own citizens (which already has precedent) allowing foreign subpoenas for IPs, or limit VPN use to require corporate/private licensure, or any number of other avenues of legal or technical attack, at least one of which is likely viable and already known to the Chinese as a contingency.

People who chuckle at "hurhur dumb legislators" ought to be scared shitless of the forest they're missing for the trees - the precedent that's being set as an impetus for further action in the future.

"But we still can now" is just that "first they came for the X" recitation all over again. Hyuk it up now, and by the time your avenue gets shut off, everyone else will have already been cowed into submission. It's the basic freedoms that are important to defend, not the loopholes that defer your fate.
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They are competing with batteries, not combustion engines. That's because the hydrogen must be generated somehow (and stored).

If you go and generate the hydrogen from natural gas (so you have a natgas powered car, not much gain) you'll have to multiply those by a 40% to 50% conversion efficiency. If you generate it from water and electricity, your equivalent battery will have that 30% efficiency multiplied by another ~30% efficiency of electrolysis.
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For all those who started out as a micropreneur with a "lifestyle business", and decided to grow a company with employees - do you have any regrets?
Says the socialist The Guardian who cherry picks who writes for it lol
Louis CK had a great bit on this that really captures it.

https://youtu.be/BJlV49RDlLE?t=94
A couple of PB per week, I'd guess
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He's a narcissistic sociopath that has convinced hismelf he is making the world better, when all he is doing is polluting it.
That depends. Should the Swedish authority care more about convenience than about seeking justice?

If they care about justice, and they are unable to get the person to Sweden, then it would seem the prudent recourse is to interview that person wherever they are.

You'll note that they finally did end up interviewing Assange in London, so they have conceded that it is possible and acceptable to do so. So the question is not whether or not Swedish authorities can or should do so - they've answered that question.

The question is what was served by waiting four years to do so. Certainly not justice.
Everything is tradeoffs. Time spent educating outsiders who may or may not be useful can be spent doing other things, like work that moves the ball forward.
> Also, the 1984 comparisons just don't bear fruit. We're not living in a violent, single-party totalitarian regime.

... But we could be one day, and some people are. The transition to cloud listening devices in every house and the transition to totalitarianism each only need to happen once. The thing Orwell missed was that these devices could be made useful enough to consumers for that transition to be first.
"I just hope internet companies stand up the UK and refuse to do business here."

I wouldn't bet my money on it, since UK ISP companies were quite happy following government's agenda (see porn filter and Internet history collection).
So you're confident you know the minds of a 'huge section of the UK population'? Well done! Watch out because a lot of organizations will now snap you up in return for mouth watering sums.
L for rest (lower-case for a single turn stood still, with shift to rest until health recovered), or the 5 in the middle of the numeric keypad if you have the right keyboard layout, I guess. Sadly 5/the numeric keypad diagonals don't work on my UK keyboard layout.

There are some alternative keys but I keep mixing them up with (the more traditionally roguelike) vim keys, which they are near but not quite similar enough to.

Looks really beautiful though! Enjoying bashing my way round; I don't know Dart but I'm looking forward to taking a peek at the source later.

(My favourite actively updated roguelike is Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup. There's a new version due next week...)
I don't think he swung. He and Wikileaks were politically fringe people all along, and they were rude and confrontational all along. All of that may make you dislike him/them, but it doesn't make him a criminal or an enemy (as the CIA director labels him).
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They aren't quite economically feasible now but they are getting darn close. Also, how long do electric cars last? I assume they would last longer with the simpler drive trains (except for stuff like battery replacements) but I'm not sure because they are so new. If they can make them last longer that also would solve the economic issue pretty immediately
Hard to say. But we need more censoring to mainstream the usage of TOR
Like every newspaper ever?
That is my experience as well with Xamarin.
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Always-on isn't required. The deciding factor is what the general public expects.

If the public expects that a home might be recording their speech and sending it to a 3rd party - and thus theoretically has the opportunity to not speak or employ some sort of defense being recorded - then then Kyllo v United States suggests 4th Amendment protection no longer applies.

Just look at how many people here on HN already claim to no longer expect privacy.

> voluntary element

That's my point - your choice to voluntarily normalize surveillance impacts my 4th Amendment protections.
Staying and trying to make things better never worked (if you're the minority). Leave, duck and come back build up when this regime has fallen.
It is much easier to squeeze support out of Xamarin than Google.
Duolingo uses spaced repetition. It's like Anki, except that Duolingo will give you some time after you successfully remembered a word or expression in an answer.

Don't know if that is your case, but if you get the "the cat is black" sentence and translate it wrongly, it assumes you are having difficulty with this expression and repeats until you get it right.

When you come to the point of commiting some words to you memory, it uses them to incrementally build grammatical concepts over there (like adjectives and verbs).

It's a pretty complex system going on behind that simple interface.
Right. So we can say that Chinese government has bad intentions. But based on your description, surely Chinese people do enjoy freedom of speech and access to the information, since such censorship efforts are doomed to fail? Why is that I see the the opposite conclusions in Human Rights reports?
"The plans will allow Britain to become 'the global leader in the regulation of the use of personal data and the internet', the manifesto claims."

It is so sad that a government thinks this is something to be proud of.
To tag onto this, my father made my sibling and I read Fahrenheit 451 at one point before he would buy a flat-panel TV.
Do you think they spend as much money on less politically noteworthy bail skippers?
Yeah, my 79 BMW 528 was positively tiny compared to current models.

I also greatly preferred its' handling. Newer BMWs feel (to me) similar to driving my parents' Crown Vic (a comment that irritated the BMW dealer considerably).
Which page are you referring to? I'd like to read but don't have time for the whole manifesto right now and I couldn't find it!
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The problem is that it suppresses the majority of ordinary people but the people who actually want to do the stuff the government is trying to stop can still keep doing it anyway.

> Btw, censoring of keywords and blocking of websites are two different issues. VPN solves the latter, not the former.

So in China, they block access to foreign apps like Twitter, Facebook and so on, and so people gravitate towards the home grown alternatives - which are required by government to censor keywords and content.

Also, China does dynamic blocking of websites based on keywords and other things.

It's both very sophisticated and trivial to bypass.
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This lifestyle is not unique to the US, but the big, inefficient car thing seems to be. South Africa is on a similar scale to the US and probably much more mountainous in general. Yet most of the cars there are European sized. And it's not just because they can't afford bigger ones; many of them can. It just seems that if they are going to choose one vehicle they choose the one that makes sense for every day of the week, not the few times a year they drive for 8 hours across multiple mountain ranges.

I live in the UK and I'd been told by Americans "you just don't understand" many times. But I can tell you now that it's perfectly fine to make day long road trips across mountain ranges in something like a VW Golf. You don't need a 3L+ monstrosity.
Anecdotally, it seems true, even if only because learning Kanji is a gargantuan task.
I hate to repeat myself, but 1984 was not a how-to manual. At least in the US we have the pesky Constitution, which at least makes this sort of thing more difficult, but of course not impossible as we are seeing with the FCC.
So a politically significant person should be able to leverage their celebrity and status to avoid a rape charge?
Yeah, I think one can create application with lets say preact + polymer, or vue.js + vue-web-components just fine.
I see these solutions working together.
Or every business?
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Note that the posts in question where in Maltese and were shared about 1000 times. So it's most probably just local mods team collaborating with Maltese government.
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Sure, there are multiple options, one or two way bindings, virtual dom solutions etc. Pick your poison.
Part of the anti-competitive behaviors were anti-Linux and open source which I feel is "bad for coders".

http://catb.org/~esr/halloween/
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Why did we need the databases in the first place?
That's meaning-less - Use police as an analogy.

Police forces are unable to prevent people from committing crimes.

True - But police forces are phenomenally capable at both stopping a lot of people from committing crimes, and dissuading people from even thinking about committing crimes.

They also raise the barrier of entry (so to speak) for being criminal.

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In today's day and age, a great firewall will work. The average person does NOT have the patience or inclination to go figure out a VPN. Heck I couldn't be arsed, and I am dramatically more capable than the average person.

But there's an additional risk you should consider.

Great firewalls are content to let the minority get away with accessing other sites, as long as they don't make themselves a nuisance.

Instead, they train the Average person, and the average populace to behave in a particular manner.

And that shift means that future generations of tinkerers, thinkers are the ones which will start out far removed from a natural set of ideas.
b.length on a nullable type wouldnt compile in Kotlin.
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So basically you are arguing that censorship is still effective in the sense that it serves as a deterrence and the base for other forms of tracking. And that would certainly harm freedom of speech in certain ways. So you are still supporting the idea that censorship is effective.
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I owned a pizza shop while I worked a fulltime job. I bought a second one. I eventually had to sell them. I wish I had quit my job and made the shops work. I had an idea to build a system to weigh every ingredient for every pizza that went out the door because food cost was out of control. Just didn't have the time.
The British appear to be working hard on implementing a Putinesque information and media control policy. Just instead of acting openly totalitarian they attempt to play the role of mother that knows whats best for all the poor silly adult children. They are forcing their moral values on everyone whether they like it or not.

This is ironic coming from a state that is so loath to offend that they ignored Rotherham and similar incidents.

They are actively working on killing their financial industry via brexit and this policy if implemented will go a long way towards accomplishing the same in regards to their technology industry.
You see too much into this. It was the same wave of HN interest when Swift was launched, back in 2014. Or when RubyMotion was announced a few years ago.

People are simply excited about being able to use Kotlin as an official alternative to Java on Android. I'm also pretty excited about this ...
"In effect, they were relying on Mailinator’s proven ability to receive lots of email."

No, they weren't. Mailinator's ability to receive email had nothing to do with it.

This blog post even admits this itself two paragraphs down: "We noticed the activity early on, and shut down the inbound stream of emails to the hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh inbox. Unfortunately, this did nothing to stop the attack. That's because nothing about the attack was happening via Mailinator."
Not entirely true - you get things like shadow dom with them - which means "proper" encapsulation.
And modern XML parsers aren't full of vulnerabilities anymore. You're missing the point.
I am what they call a Dilbertish Java Developer and I really like what they've done with Kotlin, wanted to jump ship to .NET ecosystem just because of C# but now I changed my mind. Articles like this are focused on syntactic sugar and kool-aid. What I really want to know is the following:

How different is idiomatic Kotlin in respect to Java?

How complex Kotlin Native will get? (I know that they want it for iOS, IoT, games, data science but something like this will require some types of manual memory mechanism, at least for gaming)

Will Kotlin Native work in Android NDK (calling it from JVM in general)?

Will Kotlin Native support WebAssembly?
> you still have to have a "main" app

Well, it has to be organized some way. It happens to have the organization that gives you more flexibility, instead of forcing something that only fits very small sites onto you. That means you'll have an extra directory on your tree.

Anyway, nobody uses only the main app. The article creates a big amount of problems by trying to only write on it, but I bet that even them use the Django's builtin apps.

> AKA imposter syndrome

Oh. Dunning-Kruger study detected that one too. It's within the effect: people tend to self evaluate into a small band near (but often under) the top, whatever their real evaluation is.