skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While no-one would dispute the need of proper design, there are workflows like refactoring React/HTML-subtrees, where time is wasted having to fix imports whenever you cut something out and put it into a new file.

Or having to manually write "import React from "react"" on top of every single new component.

Or having to write "import _ from lodash" whenever you need to access _ for some function.
First of all where does NATO come from here? Why would he fear NATO? It sounds to me like you just added that in because it's something that puts the UK in the same group as the US.

Where would you suggest he should go?

UK courts have a long history of letting extradition cases take years and/or denying extradition, and UK courts have a history of reacting to political pressure by standing firm rather than yielding. There are few places where I'd trust the legal system more.

Which other countries do you think have courts willing to stand up to political pressure, and where the US can't or won't just pick him off the streets without causing a major diplomatic crisis, and that would be somewhere you'd be able to get visas and where you'd want to live?

I can't think of many countries that'd fit those criterias. Most of the places I can think of where I'd believe the US would be unlikely to be able to get at someone are places I'd rather not want to live.

But the UK would be high on my list of places where I'd feel the risk would be low.
On the other hand, it blocks 0% of people who have the intent to access that content so it doesn't really work at all for the people it's supposed to stop.
According to stats I found, it prevents <71% in China. https://www.statista.com/statistics/301204/top-markets-vpn-p...

Edit: another one is pretty close as well: http://insight.globalwebindex.net/chart-of-the-day-90-millio...

And that's just people who explicitly use it. With that kind of market penetration basically everyone knows what to do, or who to ask if they want to access some geoblocked service in the future.
Less politically noteworthy bail skippers generally wouldn't have the connections/money to avoid bail by hiding in an embassy for years, but I would say yes.
I feel absolutely the same. I went to Canada.
I was busted selling MDMA in a nightclub.
The Chinese 'Golden Shield' project should not be confused for this one; they have different goals. The primary goal in the Chinese case is economic protectionism and it's succeeding beyond their wildest dreams. Google, Facebook et al might dominate the rest of the world but they are solidly locked out of the Chinese market.
Sorry I still don't get it. That thread explains some uses for expanders, just not after compressor or limiters in the same effects chain. Surely if you need an expander after a compressor then you've got your setting wrong on the compressor, or maybe you need a noise gate before it.
Yes, the grammar of Japanese has a very simple internal logic and is easy to learn, although quite different from European languages.

The problem is all the words, and there are no cognates.
The more and more Theresa May talks about the internet, the more and more I think I should start a VPN business, it's going to be a big sector in the UK once the great firewall of the UK goes live.
I agree with everything you said but I failed to see how that is a problem (from the perspective of the GFW). Again what you said is exactly the intended effect of GFW.
One major issue is that Android only supports java 6. All the nice things java 8 brings aren't available. With Kotlin officially supported in Android, you can finally have nice things.
With the "unusual persistence" I was not referring to keeping the case open, but with e.g. continuing to refuse not to interview him for four years for no good reason, while giving reasons that she eventually proved were false by finally agreeing to do it anyway.
Given that he was trapped in the same narrow space for 5+ years, he legitimately saw the US exercise unusual power (re-open investigation, pressure on Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal, etc) it is understandable that Wikileaks evolved as it did.
The liberal democrats, the SNP and the Green parties (in England & Wales, and in Scotland) do not support policy such as this.
A long discussion as a Github issue: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/4737
If other countries did that to US citizens we all know the uproar it would cause in the US. Incredible hypocrisy.
I want out but I'm not sure my partner will leave. Every day living here makes me more depressed and anxious. And I worry that we'll leave it too long and stand no chance of moving to an EU country.
Or don't.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

There is a story of mysql as a company who had an employee who was not reachable for a few months.

Yahoo got there workforce back at the office.

I personally like to have the option to work at home when necessary and i might get more stuff done at home i also might just not work.
I think this is a similar problem to that of net neutrality: a majority of people don't understand how the internet works (in any way, shape or form), and therefore are easily swayed by the loudest parties - often the ones trying to make a profit, not protect the internet.
That's arbitrary. And scary.
A brilliant film, on so many levels. A tip of the hat to writer Munshi Premchand, who wrote the short story which formed the basis of Ray's film.
The only purpose it ever served was entertainment.

Now, without one of the biggest draws, people aren't going.

On one hand, I'm happy to hear that they'll no longer be mistreating animals but on the other hand, let's not pretend that those of us who wear fur or leather or eat meat are somehow less responsible for animal cruelty.
Ask HN: How can I do social good through programming?
Say I want to apply what I know to better our chances as a species and/or as individuals. What problems do i work on?
Fast google search. Nr 1 hit:
https://www.svd.se/valdtaktsfall-tas-upp-igen

Here is 3 more thats been reopened.
I must admit I thought it was going to be about SJW types wanting to free us from harmful independent thought. I was surprised, but then I don't have a lot of context for British political parties.
Does that make it any better?
> I just hope internet companies stand up the UK and refuse to do business here

Honestly, as a techie my impulse is to go "fine, have your shitty internet" to legislators who repay the advances the tech revolution has given them this way, but -

The reality is that tech companies are all still businesses hungry for bigger marketshare and willing to follow the money. The "internet giants" have all bent over backwards for China (or just been supplanted by chinese alternatives); I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same here.

After all, not doing so means you're leaving money and mindshare on the table for your competitors. It sucks, but that's what'll ultimately drive corporate decisions. The "ethical choice" is usually just a deferral of the eventually "more profitable" choice.
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a) Tor/VPN
b) A fake ID
c) Bitcoin
d) Mesh networks/Torrents
Some tech. that aid in privacy/anonymity yet to be invented etc.

It's impossible to regulate the internet. The common people will be at disadvantage.

Running awareness campaigns are the best tool the govt. got which will be much more positive & effective than these non-nonsensical unethical monitoring and controls.
Kotlin Programming Language Now Supported in Android
Was fun finding this out during a random server cycle. Turns out, Caddy doesn't appreciate the ACME server being down, and refuses to start :)

https://github.com/mholt/caddy/issues/1680
My advice is find the best candidate you can for your first employees. Understand their strengths and weaknesses as compared to your own. As far as day to day operations go they will be almost like a cofounder. Don't hire friends unless you think you can fire them without losing sleep. Absolutely no friends with families.
I really don't see my future in the UK. It's pretty depressing living here at the moment.
"To show just how complex this can get, let’s take a simple English phrase – “I love you” – and dissect the many ways in which it can be said in Japanese. Spoiler alert: it’s not such a simple phrase in Japanese. One of our course contributors, Sho, estimated and found that there can actually be as many as 248,026 ways to say “I love you” in Japanese!"

These kind statistics are a kind of lie in themselves. You can say something like "omae wo aishiteimasu", but that's no more a normal way to say "I love you" than "I'm bonkers for that shithead". That has nothing to do with the grammar, it's lexical. "omae wo aishiteimasu" has a different meaning from "anata ga suki da yo".
> > 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?

No, how I understood it, it means that you can decide to have stuff deleted if you wrote it when you were a minor.
It's good to see May's government is really focused on those all-encompassing Brexit talks it needs to do.

> "We will put a responsibility on industry not to direct users – even unintentionally – to hate speech, pornography, or other sources of harm," the Conservatives write.

Because they've done such a bang-up job with folks like UKIP and things like Page 3 girls? Is there any other English-speaking nation that has had such open pornography in a daily newspaper?

As for hate speech, the English make a sport of deriding the Scots, Irish, Welsh, French, Spanish, Polish, Pakistanis, Americans, and who knows how many others. Getting rid of hate speech properly would take out a core part of the national character.
3,000 mile oil changes hasn't been a standard recommendation in the US for at least a decade, probably longer.

These days, most (all?) cars have an idiot light that pops on every 5-10k miles, based on usage patterns. Some have a more robust algorithm than others. Either way, in my experience, my last 3-4 cars (Jeep, Lexus, Volvo, VW) have all gone about 8k miles between services, as indicated by the light.
UK ISP's don't have much of a choice. There business would be over. US tech companies do (especially ones that aren't publicly traded) as they have a huge market outside the UK. Think the SOPA action but on a more impactful scale.
That's a bit like saying that only those who bought lots of cotton were eligible to criticize slavery in the USA.
According to my observations now here in China, your stats are wrong.

Edit: Just to substantiate, many people I spoke to vaguely know what they would see if they get unfiltered internet, so there's not really much motivation to bypass GFW.
Oh, interesting. I didn't know about any project like this; thank you for the link.
"We will give people new rights to ensure they are in control of their own data,
including the ability to require major social media platforms to delete information
held about them at the age of 18"

Doesn't this mean that it is a choice, not a requirement to censor?
I wonder if he will now pay back the people that put up bail for him:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/08/julian-assange...
I've a contrarian view on this. Not all IT jobs are amenable to remote work. Some work benefits from tighter collaboration than current technology offers. Sometimes that collaboration is with folks other than IT staff, who may be less comfortable using technology solutions for collaboration.

If the inputs and outputs of your job can be delivered entirely over email and version control commits, then work from home is a good idea. However, how do you deliver more value than someone from a developing country if your pipes are so narrow? I think there's still a lot of room for the value provided by teams working closely together.
Huh? The whole point of distributed algorithms is that a set of local algorithms create a global behavior. I received this message so I send that message, etc. The SPARK contracts you write would check that local behavior, and the TLA+ would check that that local behavior results in some global behavior.
I think the UK we don't even have the same 'lube shops' that you do. The dealerships change your oil at the yearly service.

It's a whole industry that you have that seems to be entirely redundant!
I did not imply anywhere that the UK is a bastion of freedom and liberty. For starters I don't personally consider the UK a democracy at all because of the electoral system, and I do agree with you there were certainly plenty of abuses related to Northern Ireland.

But the question here is where Assange would have reason to feel safer in the UK than in Sweden, and just like many other places through history, a place can both be incredibly safe for one group of people and unsafe for other groups of people at the same time.
Page 82 of the document (the 2 pages before the conclusion paragraph).

PDF link: https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/manifesto2017/Manifesto20...
WannaCry Ransomware Hits NHS
I think WFH is a great idea, but until we can do multi-user video conferencing over the average home internet connection, it just isn't going to be as good as in-person interactions. However, once we can reliably see one another's faces in HD and share screens at the same time, it might even be superior to sitting next to someone and having them try to look over your shoulder as you show them something or ask a question. WFH is all about communication tech. If it's high grade, WFH works. If it's low grade, it doesn't.
A good book about is "Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK".

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/computer-scien...

Ada/SPARK has parallel computations defined at language level, known as tasks.
That's because you're going full power and the car driver isn't.
On the plus side, as a side effect to this event, most of libraries shall start handling this case in better robust ways..
> in the sense that it serves as a deterrence

Absolutely not. I argue it's effective, as in, it provides an extra tool for the government to go against you if you cross some gov. defined line. I think it provides little deterrence. Same as the law against murder is more for definition of the crime and punishment than for deterring people from killing each other.
Java on Android is not the same as the latest stable Java from Oracle. Example, there is no complete Java 8 support on Android, only a few things were ported and these are only available on latest versions of Android. The problem is that on Android land people don't/can't upgrade as easily as on iOS, so as a developer you are stuck on Java 6/7.
Yes, but Guantanamo is outside the US and so the Constitution doesn't apply.
>Why'd you get a BRZ?

Good looking (subjective), reliable, quick, fun to drive?

Why did you buy your car?
Qualcomm patents the 'Internet of Shoes'
While I agree this would also put a burden on tech companies to police their platforms more and, likely to build backdoors which could put their companies in jeopardy. It might be more financially viable long-term to fight.
The hypocrisy is stunning. Chinese or Russian governments harassing whistle blowers and leakers on this scale would be met by a frenzy of hysterical global condemnation by the media, human rights orgs, governments and citizens with their domestic courts systems summarily dismissed and pay a price in global reputation and even sanctions.

Yet here we have Snowden and Assange being harassed brazenly for years with little respite under the cover of 'process'. If Snowden or Assange were Russians and defected to reveal global Russian surveillance they would be legends feted by every single media organization, university, NGO and government every single day. Why the double standards.

It appears some are more intoxicated by the moral high ground than committed to it.

Kangaroo courts, secret processes and harassment of whistle blowers and journalists are the tools of trade of despots whether used brazenly by unsophisticated tinpots or covered in process by governments and their courts in the UK, Sweden and the US. The end effect is the same. Simply covering inherently despotic and corrupt action with law and 'processes' does not make it lawful.

But the big difference is chinese or russian citizens are under no illusions about their rulers while we see a dissonance in our citizens, media and organizations rushing to condemn others while completely failing to hold our governments accountable in any meaningful way.

How have Swedish and UK citizens, the media and all human rights orgs from western europe experts at creating global frenzy against despots worldwide held their own governments to account, or helped Snowden or Assange in any meaningful way all these years? So ultimately there is no accountability. Only blatant self serving hypocrisy.
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I am as left wing and anti-authoritarian as they come. I read the digital bit in their manifesto and I don't see what all the fuss is about. It's simply stating the laws of the land should be respected and reflected in the online landscape. What's wrong with that?

Britain is a deeply divided, but pluralist country, where the majority are conservative. This is broadly in line with what I would expect that majority to suggest or want.
This article essentially boiled down to: I want X. A few companies already offer X. You should offer X too.

There are sometimes advantages to offering full or partial work-from-home options to employees. For some projects and company cultures, it can work well. But honestly, this blog post was a rather shallow argument in favor of it.
Are you talking about gross? At 75k/yr you'll easily clear $1M after 15 years. Staff scientists at national labs easily make that.
I like the idea of the digital land data at the top of that page! Thanks for the reference.
>It is much more fun driving a lower powered car at the limit than an overpowered on at 25%.

Motorcycle enthusiasts understand this concept. Driving an overpowered (for your experience) bike isn't fun compared to throwing a smaller bike around.
> prison is way different then jail.

That's interesting, I wasn't aware there was a difference at all. Care to enlighten me?
Turns out that in the real world, conservatives are far more dangerous for your freedoms than "SJW types".
The very vaccine vs. versilimitudinous, vacuous vermin is voting.
This is the research I think https://threatpost.com/netflixs-https-update-cant-combat-pas...
This is also why you don't wait until the last day before renewing. (But no-one does that, right?)
Not to mention the target you paint on your back by being in the minority of people who dare to try and circumvent the government "protections".
A big part of the problem is public misunderstanding about what it means to be an atheist. When people find out I'm an atheist, they often take it as a personal attack on their belief in god. Coming out of the closet as an atheist opened me up to all sorts of social problems. People defriended me on facebook, others started attacking me in comments, and I still get books from relatives who think I'm an idiot for not believing in god.

But I don't walk around all day thinking, "There's no god." The concept of god simply isn't something that ever factors into my thinking. I believe in science, rationality, the Enlightenment. I believe in all the human beings all over the world who I rely on and who make my life wonderful.

But I am also painfully aware of "Religious Privilege" in America. I must carry the words, "In God We Trust" on my money. My children are forced to pledge allegiance, "Under God" every morning at school. At the Coast Guard base where I used to work as a contractor, our group lunches and other gatherings were opened with a prayer to "Our Lord Jesus Christ." I was even asked to resign from our moral committee shortly after I requested we change our "Christmas Party" to a "Holiday Party."

Is it any wonder people are reluctant to admit they don't believe in god?
Challenging someones mental health is the modern means of invalidating that person, completely, and removing them from the narrative.
Dart. The GWT successor.
Should someone that's starting to learn native android development switch to Kotlin, or is it better to learn Java first?
I guess I'm at the other end of spectrum by simply following what the manufacturer proposes: I change my oil along with the filter every 18,000 miles, and so far, after 100,000 miles (and then some) have not had any issues. (My car is rather cheap, or in EV sense practically free, so I'm not all too concerned, either.)

The engine does not consume too much oil, either, so a single 4L bottle – about a gallon I think – is easily all that the oil I need between changes. With European prices, that is the equivalent of a single refill (even with my modest tank size), which makes you simply laugh and wonder at all the people that (always) bring up oil changes in the discussion of ICE vs EV. I can't but wonder how many of those actually own and maintain a not-imaginary vehicle.
This is nothing new. We comply with the US because it's politically good and vice versa for those other nations. However the UK does have a decent record denying extraditions to the US from what I've seen (Gary McKinnon for example).
One thing about learning languages that works for me. Don't look at them as a bunch of rules to memorise. The article is talking about thousands of ways of saying "I love you" to indicate how complicated Japanese is. In reality, this complexity is somewhat artificial because you are considering way too many rules and variations, the vast majority of these combinations are almost never actually used. To use an crude analogy HN might be comfortable with, a Japanese language compiler could optimise away most of the language.

I'm glad the course seems designed around this consideration. It's goal-oriented: talk about everyday human things, clothes, weather, food, family. It's never been helpful for me to memorise vocabulary lists without a context to say them in. Instead, putting myself into situations where certain things must be said or understood greatly improved my competence.

After a while, your language instinct kicks in and you start to generate your own internal rules for the language, which will approximate or match the rules that native speakers have internalised.

I suppose this is can all summarised as, well duh, of course immersion works, but I wanted to say it anyway.
>But no-one does that, right?

Sadly, reality is not that nice and I can already feel a disturbance in the force in form of "Why Lets Encrypt is bad and you should by 1 year certs" blog posts all over the place.
I guess I'm misinterpreting all these antifa videos. Here I thought it was just a human thing, and both sides have the capability of pulling dumb, dangerous ideas out. No it's just conservatives right?
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Basically every piece of useful information that can be encoded using your voice can also be encoded using an email - and in a much more efficient way, since you don't have to keep deciphering emotional cues. Of course, expressing emotions, for example, can be harder, but I don't think engineers should be relying too much on expressing their emotion as a way to do a good job.
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> Example. If hate speech is illegal offline in the UK, if somebody reports me for online hate speech I'm already in troubles. No special rules are needed.

UK law enforcement is having trouble getting US court orders, because the crime in the UK isn't a crime in the US. Thus people commit crimes in the UK, using US companies, and are evading UK law enforcement.

Mostly this doesn't matter so much (certainly not enough for Conservative's measures to make sense), but there are a few people making credible death threats or organising vigorous campaigns of harassment, so it'd be useful if there was a way to stop it happening.
Sorry, but this is an anecdote. Do you have a source that shows some usage? I'd love to see that, whichever side it agrees with, but personal experiences rarely generalises to nations.