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Good riddance.

I've never liked the circus.

1) I know it's very individual, but when it comes to the arts (as opposed to work), I've always liked soulful performance over replicability. I'd rather take Bob Dylans or Tom Waits terrible singing (while excellent songwriting), over kick-ass scales and guitar riffs of Dreamtheater (the circus in this scenario).

While I can appreciate the skill behind Yngwe Malmsteens playing (or more current examples), or doing flips 20 feet in the air between hanging in rings, it's not something I enjoy watching/hearing.

2) Clowns are creepy, and I don't like slapstick.

3) The concept of the circus is 250 years old (in its modern form), and just in the last 10 years you can see more impressive feats on youtube (or some street corners), where everyone can get a venue.

4) Animal cruelty.

TLDR; It's antiquated and serves no purpose anymore (IMHO).
What's really interesting is why US officials still not investigating the fact that media companies (like Bezos' one) are actively trying to undermine every action government tries to take and jeopardize its foreign relations at all costs
Stars align in strange ways.
Chelsea Manning walked free from prison a couple of days ago. so will Assange honour promise made an Jan or will he weasel out of it.
If he said, then it wouldn't be a secret.
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Well he was accused of rape, or, more accurately, sexual assault by other countries' definitions. Those charges have now been dropped, for what I can only assume "a preponderance of the evidence suggesting the defendant is permanently insanity".

But he may have committed other crimes in his attempt to flee the rape charge (not sure if 'failure to appear' is a crime in the UK, that differs by jurisdiction).

None of all that has anything to do with Wikileaks, by the way. A person's good deeds in one domain don't make him immune to criminal charges for unrelated matters. The idea that two average Swedish women are somehow recruited by the CIA to smear him with (rather weak) rape accusations is rather preposterous.
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BBC also reports "Cannes Film Festival said: "This incident was entirely the responsibility of the Festival's technical service, which offers its apologies to the director and his team, to the producers and the audience". So maybe "Cannes Film Festival Booed during Netflix Movie"?
What about them?

That wasn't wikileaks.
You can disable those. The thing is: smartphones are more than dumb boxes that listen to you all the time. So you don't want to remove them completely from your life, yet still want to keep your privacy.
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Classic. Our supports operative just happened to promise full IE support (we promise only Firefox) just like that.
I've been watching Star Trek my whole life and to me this is the natural extension of technology.

I can see some people not wanting this for themselves, but why care if I have one?
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Doesn't the US Bill of Rights talk in several places about "any person":

Fifth Amendment to USA Constitution:

>nor shall any person [...] be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;

Sounds like quite a strong right.

FWIW this contrasts with the pages referring to "the people" which are limited and not universal, "any person" means any person.
Also their OCSP server seems to be now having intermittent problems, making pages unreachable.

In Firefox you need to go to about:config and disable "security.ssl.enable_ocsp_stapling" and "security.OCSP.enabled" to get through.
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A few years back I was kinda in this role: I was contacted by an old professor of mine who didn't know I moved out of academia and into software. He had recently won a grant and wanted to hire me as a post doc.

In the end we arranged things so I would work 1-2 day a week for them, while keeping my day job. I ended up helping a few other postdocs with their code. I do have a PhD in physics, but in that position I was free to ignore the deeper part of the science (like reading literature, figuring out hypotheses) and I would mostly concerned in helping them set up their numerical experiments, or symbolic computations.
Those are for calls. They need a microphone, you cannot do calls without that.

I'd argue that those (should not) transmit audio data to any random company, but then I've never understood what Google Now/Google Assist or whatever it's called nor what Siri is about..
So with python I have virtual env. With elixir I have mix. For javascript I have npm.

What do I have for kotlin?
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yes. heaps.
Scala is undeniably more powerful overall (beauty and importance are subjective).

It's also used by companies like Verizon, SAP, IBM, Walmart ... not exactly hipster research labs.
But now the UK government can surrender that right to prosecute him if they want to. The political responsibility is pretty clear at this point.
Re: parking spots

My family keeps growing (in numbers, age and size) and as I'm approaching midlife affordability I would love a decent large SUV, like the Volvo XC90 etc to replace my ageing Ford Focus estate.

But for the life of me, I can't imagine the pain of owning such a large vehicle. Parking would be a nightmare. At home, in town, anywhere. I live in Hampshire in England and the parking spots around here are all designed with 1970s Golfs and Morris Minors in mind it seems so not SUV compatible at all.

I already frequently can only open the door 1/4 of the way and really squeeze my stomach in to get into the car. With a large SUV, I would surely have to enter via the boot all the time. They may only be 5-10cm wider on each side, but that is totally impractical around here.

Tesla-esque self-driving/summoning would really solve this as I could just ask the car to reverse a little before I get in, so parking tightly would then not be a problem. For me at least.

Thankfully SUVs would be 4x4 as I also would surely have to go partially off-road when meeting other cars on the lanes around here.
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I think it's the Atom default dark theme, or similar to it. The font used is Operator. https://www.typography.com/blog/introducing-operator
Cirque de Soleil is still around, but they cater to people who want a classy, but more kid friendly, and arguably more consistently entertaining alternative to theater.
> In 1984 people were freakin' forced to have one.

Huxley always seemed to have a better handle than Orwell did on what makes people tick.
Driving 500 kilometers without stopping is terribly dangerous for yourself and the people around you. Please be considerate.
It doesn't have to be "the prosecutor's ambition"–it's just an unwillingness to let someone skip a trial just by fleeing, and the precedent it would set.
I suppose the ball is now in the US' court .

Assange is a strange case, hes (Wikileaks is) really a journalist, and should be protected by laws and conventions protecting journalists. But he doesn't seem to identify too strongly with the press and presents more like a political dissident.

I used to live in Melbourne (where wikileaks is sort of based). I stopped to sign a petition in his support. The petition mentioned Assange at the top of a long list of dissident left issues: release off-shore asylum seekers, withdraw from afgahnistan, free palestine, jail Blaire & Bush, stop Tasmanian timber harvests, overturn some ruling on Aboriginal land title... They were also inviting people to a dissident-socialist gathering later on that day.

Now, I don't want to misrepresent the situatoin. This wasn't Wikileaks petitioning. It was a local activist group promoting their agendas, headlined by the Assange cause. That said, I do think it's kind of indicative of how present themselves & why the Assange debate is associated with the Manning or Snowden cases. They were US operatives "gone rogue." He wasn't. He was just a journalist receiving and diseminating leaked information.

I in now way suggesting the protections of a free press system are mooted because he doesn't act or present recognizably as a journalist. But I do think that statements like the CIA Director's (Wikileaks is a hostile non-state actor) would be a lot harder to say if he presented as " Senior Editor of The Wikileaks Times."
Yea, sorry this gets confusing. There are good reasons for why we do this, but it can be annoying in blog posts.

Here is an explanation:

https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/m...
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> we could just "drive to St. Petersburg" or "just drive to Transylvania" or whatever, and otherwise smart and interesting european friends would look at me like I was a crazy person

Well, yeah, do you know what the roads are like? There are no interstate or federal highway funding. And a train or a flight is faster…

I would compare your US story to AU; I did multiple Adelaide <-> Nowra trips with my parents as a kid, and at uni we'd think nothing of driving 2 hours to a party (4 for a 21st).

Why? Because driving was way cheaper than flying, and way faster than trains; and because we'd still need a car at the other end to get around Nowra since the public transport there was non-existent.
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The problem being that no one can actually define what agile actually is. (Or rather everyone can, but there is no consistent definition).
I realized that it's pretty fruitless to discuss these things on HN, but since you responded I will give you a response.

This isn't something that is generally happening, at least not outside mobile connectivity where certain services are sometimes included. It's not really about what you, or other 'heavy' Internet users wants, but about consumers. People who want net neutrality have to have a response to normal people why it's relevant to them.

More and more people are getting access to broadband, yet it's still quite expensive. The idea, which you will have to defend against if you ultimately want net neutrality, is that companies could pay for the bandwidth. So you as a consumer would pay for connectivity, say 10 mbit. But instead of you just having access to 10 mbit, other companies would be able to pay to deliver to you at full speed. So when you pay for Netflix part of that money might go back to the ISP. This is to some extent already happening, but through various transit and peering agreements.

> I don't get your question about "why consumers are paying for both installation, the bandwidth itself and the services they access". I don't pay for "installation", but rather for access, by month. I only pay for a few services, and never see ads. For the most part, I only pay for the unmetered 100 Mbps uplink.

You do (usually) pay for installation, it's just that it's "baked in" to contract time and fees of your connection. That's why you usually can't get a really cheap connection on a wired installation. A 1 mbit connection would still usually cost you a fair bit, if it's even available. With something like electricity you do also pay for installation, but since that is largely universal it's really part of the overall cost. Point being that a lot of people lack broadband because they can't afford the installation cost and that is a big different between Internet access and other utilities which are much more universal.
The reality is not that we don’t want to support TS, but that its pipeline is significantly different from what we use at FB, so we neither have the expertise, nor can integrate the other tools we rely on. This might get better as AST interop between tooling improves.
From the article: "In the year since the elephants left, Feld says circus attendance dropped precipitously."

This is a great lesson to businesses in general - know if your critics are actually your core customers. The overlap between people who protested elephants and the people who attended the circus was pretty small. The company ended up listening to a very vocal minority and then lost a lot of business from the quiet group of customers for whom the elephants were the major draw and who then stopped buying tickets.

This also applies to open source projects and brings to mind DHH's article http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2012/rails-is-omakase.htm...
May I ask why that makes you angry? I see that you might not understand other people's motivation, but why does that cause this emotional reaction?
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I'm not a US legal scholar but I wouldn't be surprised to know the US Supreme Court might have ruled that such rights do not apply to non-US citizens.
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i think assange is a victim of an effective smear campaign, probably organized by the CIA.

He addresses this specific issue in his reddit AMA:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5n58sm/i_am_julian_as...
On the other hand, I had not heard of them until now, but had grabbed one that my nephew had the other day and felt it was a neat feeling widget. Would I buy one? Im not 7 years and have already held different balancing objects so it's not that novel to me, but I can see why kids like them.
It‘s not just about offline, but about serving assets instantly on repeated visits (while they update in background). You don’t need to wait for request at all.
Except that's not how it is used. For instance one person who was arrested, tried and convicted like this operated a UK based betting company that US nationals used to bet.

Instead of going after the betters a secret indictment was passed which was then used to arrest an exec of the company because of course American laws apply to any business done over the internet...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carruthers

The general view of people in that industry was that it is A-Ok for Americans to gamble, but not ok for them to gamble abroad.
Well, at least in that case, I think the Russian translates more literally to "ineffectual fool".

On a more serious note: did Wikileaks actually release the Macron files? I seem to remember they were only cheerleading it. But if they did, it's probably the nail in the coffin for their reputation, considering it was obvious for even casual observers to see that the dump contained altered documents, and that the leakers only had the intention of derailing the democratic process, willing to misinform people on the way.
Is it hyperbole when it has actually happened before?

Surely a precedent means the suggestion is not hyperbolic?
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Agreed! How joyous!

I work with children and I'm used to a barrage of questions from the inane to the stupendous. It's so easy to shrug off the 47th "But why?", but it can actually be interesting to at least try to answer - "We breath because we need Oxygen... because we convert glucose…"

Eventually you inevitably end up at the metaphysical or epistemological - "because if truth wasn't…"

The mind of a child is (and ought be) infinitely inquisitive!
Because I'm a human, not a robot. Because I deeply care about society. I care about the world my child is growing up in. I want it to be a good place to live.

Other people not caring about privacy equals governments not caring, equals big brother for everyone, like it or not.
Wouldn't automated reverse parking create problems for others? And leave dents and dings in your door?
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I've been watching Star Trek as well, but that's a local instance running on the very ship you rely on - and more a 'utility service' kind of thing.

I wouldn't compare that to Google Home (or Alexa or whatever).

1) The current solutions are plain stupid. They impress me about the same way that speech recognition to type a letter in the early 2000s impressed me. Some things work. Most don't.

2) The current solutions are backed by corporations and (as someone that really dislikes all things Apple) among these three only Apple might be considered somewhat trustworthy (they aren't a shop that tries to sell you every product this planet has to offer nor are they the biggest and scariest advertisement company).

I like the Star Trek visions. I'd also like a replicator and a holo deck, but won't argue that a 3d printer and Google Cardboard are kinda there yet.

(Obviously it doesn't make sense to complain about YOU liking these products. I assume the GP feels just cornered by the inexplicable mass appeal/success of these products)
Why? He had the opportunity to appeal all the way to the UK Supreme Court who ruled that the extradition request was valid. Those who pledged surety over his bail were ordered to pay £93,500 back in 2012. This absolutely should not be about politics but about the rule of law.

There is a serious point as well that bail needs to be enforced otherwise its effectiveness is reduced, which in turn makes it easier for the arguments limiting the right to bail to be made. Assange has made it more likely that future defendants will be denied bail.
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As I wrote above:

Other people not caring about privacy equals governments not caring, equals big brother for everyone, like it or not.
You know, I harbour a lot of anti-American sentiment too (US government that is, the American people seem mostly fine) and I frequently speak up about it.

Does that make me a Russian agent/mouthpiece/troll too?
To be fair though, BDB is hardly a poster child for databases. It's very fragile and extremely prone to corruption.

I agree filesystems are underappreciated for database duties, but it depends a lot on usage patterns.
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I think they were describing different societies, and the one you're living in just happens to resemble Huxley's more.
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So how about informing said parties?
That's my whole point: you can't say "everyone" as it's not accurate description. OP and my examples use different "everyones" to prove this point and both are valid. Saying that mp3 is dead just based on your own anecdote is wrong.
Oh my god. If Trump would introduce something like that the entire internet would explode.
Article in English, by a Swedish newspaper, about the why
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/swedish-prosecutor-drops-ca...
No, that's not how it works. Showing up for a trial (and being represented) reduces your chances of a conviction. Sweden could have held a trial in absentia leading to a conviction if they believed they had a case to begin with.

I always wondered why they did not do that.
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I suspect that he's spent longer in the Embassy than he would have in a Swedish prison if he'd been found guilty of the things he was accused of.
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I'm a bit skeptical of this whole report.
> I keep a piece of bike chain on my keychain

Here's a fidget toy made from keyrings and a bit of bike chain.

https://youtu.be/tzXUznrgdbw?t=38s

This one has slightly different threading of the keyring.
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Yeah, they're not for me either, but at least they're trying to evolve the concepts.
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A file system is essentially a single node document store indexed with a key that is the file path. It's a database!
Julian Assange: Sweden drops rape investigation
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Do you believe that whatsapp is not storing your messages now ? They said they are not doing it to begin with but there are good reasons that they might be doing this. Fb and whatsapp have shared enough information to be fined by an EU court this week for 100 million euros. Although 've to agree that data with US is better than Russia.
I suspect you don't. Google didn't understand any of the questions in the article. This is as much about a child's patience as it is about their curiosity.
> This absolutely should not be about politics but about the rule of law.

But it is about politics. No other bail-skipper in recent memory was ever granted the attention and resources that the UK police granted to the Assange case. It's also pretty clear by now that the Swedish charges were overblown, with very strong suggestions that it was done for political reasons. Hiding behind procedures will not change that.

A "strong and stable" government, relishing its independence from foreign states, would drop this in a second and reconsider its procedures for future cases, so that other countries cannot abuse UK law to enforce bogus prosecutions. In the context of Brexit and the noise about "security cooperation", this would also be a strong message.
I have one, it's convenient and lets me control my home in what feels like a natural way. Personally, I don't see the downside of having it.

Note; I mean I don't acknowledge a downside from my perspective. I'm fully aware that it's always listening and sending data home when it hears a keyword. According to Google, it will only send voice data back when it hears the keyword. Now if it explicitly goes against its own stated privacy policy, that's a breach of trust I would not be happy with. That said, if they explicitly stated they send all audio back, I'd actually be fine with that too.
"All he did is use political asylum to avoid facing charges of a sexual assault."

All they did was use sexual assault charges in order to force him into political asylum.
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Just mentioning, i didn't knew Google Cloud does the .Net stack also. But i haven't had any bad experience with Azure ( small webapps, not huge ones). ( i chose Azure over Amazon)

I just publish and run. Some web apps have been running for over 4 years, without me touching it and paying customers ( 1-10). I only had one small "downtime" moment, but it was over after 15 minutes.

I wouldn't expect anything more from where i host it. The biggest annoyance i had was the redesign of the dashboard, which had me confused for a while ( it changed a lot, so that's normal), then again, i don't hate change. I switched to the new interface asap.
Did someone spend some cash on 'promote this link' for Kotlin today? It seems like we've had a flood of Kotlin links.

I mean, the first one I saw was Steve Yegge's so that lends a bunch of credibility but still, this is more than Baader-Meinhoff.