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Um, no, let's not fuck that. The way to help people get off the street is to help them access paid work instead of begging and instead of charity. Charity does not buy one a middle class lifestyle. You get that by working for it.

Why is this so very hard for so many people to comprehend?
Governments are distinctly different than most other organizations, primarily because they can force you to do something you don't want to do. Corporations can't do this (unless there is a monopoly on a needed utility (water company, etc). Even cartels and gangs are terrible because they act as a government in small/local areas, but have incredibly unfair punishments when people don't comply. Governments are ultimately far more dangerous than almost any other organization.
Good point. Most importantly, that's the far less annoying use-case: one can imagine a simple UX with a list of applications bound to LISTEN on an external interface for you to whitelist for an hour, a day, or indefinitely. I think browser exploits are still a slightly more common attack vector, but that's certainly an option.
To add to that, and as an example, I live in a (moderately) low-income immigrant enclave in a (very) expensive city with (very) poor school outcomes. There are lots of families with little kids on my block. Just about every night, weeknights included, those kids are out in the streets/sidewalks playing until 12-2am.
Honest question: why don't you charge enough for your freelance work so you wouldn't be homeless?
There is a form of #2 (a poverty trap) that afflicts people in category #1.

This is probably the most easily "treatable" condition.

Basically, you can be smart and motivated, but not have the resources (family, friends, money) to pull yourself together. You may not even have a computer, a car, or a house. You can't shave, let alone get a clean set of clothes or transport to an interview. You can't put together a resume and so on.

This is sad because a few months of housing, internet, food, and basically time support could turn this person's life around.

Of course, people who have mental illness or have paid their due for a crime and so on also deserve help. I am not arguing they don't.

I just mean that it costs so little for so much good in the former case.
It's really odd to me that people read an article like this and jump to the assumption that the article is putting the responsibility for alleviating poverty solely on the poor. When you actually read the article, it doesn't imply anything of the sort (the closest I can come is the fact that the title has "instead of begging" at the end, but even that is stretching a bit). Particularly when the source is an organization whose About page says things like

"Helping secure legislation in the US, Canada and EU on transparency in the extractives sector to help fight corruption and ensure more money from oil and gas revenues in Africa is used to fight poverty."

and

"Successfully advocating for official development assistance, which has increased globally by $35.7 billion between 2005 and 2014."

It's pretty hard to draw the conclusion that they're some kind of bootstraps-only ideologues. Every time I see someone make a claim that an article about someone getting themselves out of poverty somehow implies that society doesn't owe the poor anything, I can't help but think it says more about the person making the complaint than it does about the article.
Was more users doing that via FB Video, but yes.
You can add meteorologist to the list of scientists that think they understand Global climate change.
O-locks are pretty much just a nice place to keep your keys while you're biking. Everyone I know goes for separate chains, usually on the pricier end. From what I hear the ones that look like round padlocks are ridiculously easy to break, and the ones with the square lock part with two pins is considered among the best (but sadly also annoying to use).

But that's what multiple bike shop owners told me and they all wanted to sell me a lock, so I don't know if this is true.

Edit: Oh, I forget. O-locks are also very convenient if your bike is still within eyesight and you just want to avoid run-by-thefts. Perfect if you're popping into a shop for food or cigarettes or whatnot.
this, Just this morning I was thinking perhaps a startup can auto generate fake but interesting news using a 'Watson class' machine learning system. If we could saturate the internet with such 'real fake news' then perhaps there will be return to actually paying for news.

the value we used to get from old media was the due diligence behind reporting. unfortunately with the rise of internet the anybody can aggregate thereby the difference between blogs and nytimes is blurred to end users. the thing that I find rather insidious is news aggregators like FB or google dont use even a fraction of the revenue they siphoned off the old media to support anything remotely like journalism. hence the rise of fake news. That was my key take away from this election.
Why? Just because the shows are delivered through Snapchat?
NEO has open source OpenPGP applet (in contrast of 4) but if you read the link carefully they provide rather strong points why it doesn't matter and closed hardware can even be more secure.
Valid point.

https://github.com/HainaLi/horcrux_password_manager

It is in JS at least. Underhanded C is likely an easier trick to manage.
This is what I have been thinking lately. Homeless rarely add value.

I know that is some gimmicky terms ... but it feels true.
I regularly bike 65 km roundtrip 130 in a day, it is a good workout but nothing extreme. Flat ground really helps.
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> True, in theory, though in practice, i know plenty of capable people but almost none of them bothers to read the openssh source (or even a subset, like recent changes) before updating or recompiling.

Then they aren't paranoid but normal folks, eh?
If there is no documentation, the feature doesn't exist. If the documentation is misleading or outdated, it's even worse — like a productivity sabotage, stealing many work hours from your fellow developers (looking at you, Docker).

I understand that expecting something from free and open source software beyond bare necessities can sound like being entitled. And yet, I believe that documentation is not optional. Software with better documentation wins. All the time.
I mean, i could see this being attractive to me if they have daily stories of behind the scenes. Basically just short clips of actors goofing off or sets/props being made and tested.
Big fan of calibre. Really appreciate your work. Have converted many books to put in kindle! Flawless.

I have worked on document formats (office, pdf etc) and I understand these standards are simply tedious!
More on this:

https://robm.me.uk/ruby/2013/11/20/ruby-enp.html

https://robm.me.uk/ruby/2013/12/03/argf-ruby.html

https://robm.me.uk/ruby/2015/10/31/dollar-underscore.html

and his book:

https://pragprog.com/book/rmtpruby/text-processing-with-ruby
This is all impressive, but the PDF format is what makes all the magic possible. Among its features that make such a thing easily achievable:

- The relevant table-of-content of its data is located at the end, unlike most other file format. (You can put it near the begnning too, known as "optimized PDF" to make displaying the first page faster when downloading sequentially.)

- The PDF format is, surprisingly, text with embeeded byte streams which can contain any data.

- It does require a !PDF marker near the beginning, but it doesn't need to be first.

- It support natively ZIP compression, so embedding a ZIP inside is easy.

- ZIP allows "cheating" by not really compressing data, thus allowing data verbatim and allowing large chunks of arbitrary data, as long as you can control the first few bytes.

With these technical freedom, building a PDF that look like multiple file format is more accessible.
Here in the UK, savvy bicycle commuters buy an extremely heavy chain [1] and leave it locked up outside their office. Bicycle locks are a compromise because they need to be light enough to carry. If you don't carry your lock, you can use a massive lump of metal.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lDcViM1EKc
I think this really ignores the difficult problem of disseminating information which was much more challenging before the internet. We weren't limited by how fast we were printing books but how hard it was to find information already printed. A book on its own is useless if nobody knows about it.

The real idea here was that the internet would be a game changer. Not only would information be available immediately - but you could actually find it. When it became cheap to find "correct" information the idea was that would dominate. The implicit assumption was that people actually wanted correct, accurate and truthful information.

In practice it turns out people prefer information that validates their opinions, regardless of accuracy.
At least this article gets it right in identifying this as an industry-wide problem instead of narrowing responsibility to a single company. I can only attribute this to the fact that this article was written by an HR professional instead of a journalist, who often confuse cause and effect according to their own personal biases and agendas.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/08/the-murray-ge...

Correctly identifying this as an industry-wide problem means that all HR departments get appropriate scrutiny instead of focusing scrutiny on one specific HR department, which has the unfortunate effect of causing society to ignore problems that exist in practically all HR departments.
Since i went into fp and recursive function, i felt the need and drive to do this as well.

I'd love a group
This seems to have some overlap with Henry Warren's Hacker's Delight: https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-2nd-Henry-Warren/dp/0...
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Flash poll; how many of you have been homeless? How many for an extended period (more than 6mo)?
What's your opinion then on such white identity speeches like the Confederate Corner Stone speech, delivered by the Vice President of the Confederacy?

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/cornerst...

"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."

It seems that even a century earlier than your 1950's monoculture, the white people of America were not just calling themselves white, but in fact, were creating political philosophy centered around their white identity.

Not their polish, German, Irish, Finnish identity.

Their WHITE identity.
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Bet it's fake - saying you are going to spend $100m ad actually doing it are two v different things. Snapchat has already had all its features ripped off by the Faceberg empire and has a fraction of their eyeballs...
That is likely true. My experience with it was in 2011/2012 ish. Their FAQ[1] claims memory leaks have been fixed over time.

* http://lxml.de/FAQ.html
Instead of personal attention, what if there were a kiosk in every (or many) airports, like a RedBox, where you could get your tickets, SIM card, or whatever predictably before arriving? Or perhaps even a locker where someone gets all your things and puts them in the locker for you for when you arrive? That might keep the costs down.
I wish people will start using alternate social network like ello more to share, at least they have much more privacy protections built-in.
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> Generally speaking if a attacker has an account on your system you are already hosed.

Isn't that just saying "I don't believe in multiuser systems and/or their security models"...? If so, what specifically do you have against them?
Sure, and then Intel discontinued it. Just like the i860.
Yeah I think the main benefit of using two locks is that a thief will just go for an easier option. IIRC similar rules apply to home security. It's not only about deterrence; making your house more of a nuisance than other houses is important too.
Criminalizing something doesn't mean you've "done something about it". It just means you've applied a traditionally flawed approach to fix a systemic problem that could be better handled through education, training and awareness. However, those things are much harder to do than to simply write something into the legal code without the public being any more prepared to deal with the situation.
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Yeah, I cry for my young children. I have no idea how to prepare them for the hell that is the always connected life. I have no idea how to teach them, that most of it is noise, and that being purposely unavailable is essential for mental health, let alone productivity, even if it feels like you've missed vital social interactions while away.

Maybe it'll work itself out, and they'll naturally adapt. I just suspect it's totally antithetical to the human condition to constantly be available to respond to people, and psychologically we're not adapted to fight the urge.
Yes. A typo on my part
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Thanks for the information, curious how it will turn out to be.
We can have programs looking for our interests while researching the newest celebrity gossip online. Instead, we only have ones looking for Facebook's interests.
Only for the same origin they were installed on. So a generic solution like this one wouldn't really work as a service worker.
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I was homeless twice in my life, both times for more than 6mo. The entire time I was a “knowledge worker” employed in hardware and software.
I might be missing something, but can you show an example of calling the API from javascript?

You seem to be writing it in python and then calling it from within python in the example.
Hear hear.
And bikes reallybare a better sollution for traffic density (when possible) than counting on people carpooling.
as much I say I fight it, I fall in that boat, albiet with HN, reddit, Ars, and I guess even Google news. Its all curated in some way, and of course even CNN/Reuters is a curated news aggregation by deciding which stories get run.
Which is exactly what happens with all those HTML, CSS and JavaScript extensions.

Some get adopted, some dropped and others stay browser specific.
> Having up to date Android and iOS zero days plus the rootkit / RAT software is not something you can get open source or find easily commercially.

You might be right about not being able to find 0days that target the latest versions of iOS or Android so easily, but there are dark web markets stuffed with 0days that target specific versions, or a range of versions. Not sure about pricing, but they're typically cheaper than the exploits that target the latest and greatest.

It's by pure chance that the owner of a device is using an out-dated O.S on their phone. Others may argue it's not by chance, but by design, and that some phones can't upgrade properly and remain locked to a specific version..You know, because governments sometimes demand that phones are deliberately left unpatched so they can do interception or do ex-filtration on them?
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The x86 platform that they currently own, is mostly due to intertia and fab facility advantages

This seems like an accurate statement. Intel basically owns little at this point except their fabs, which themselves are a peculiar variety of very expensive real estate that only becomes less valuable over time.

These modules were an unsuccessful attempt at capturing the Raspberry Pi user base. It was a good idea on Intel's part to offer an alternative. The rejection of that alternative is a bigger deal than it sounds like. Those users are largely in high school and college now, but they won't stay there forever.
Wow. From multiple sites releasing reviews it's clear that an embargo was just lifted.

And anandtech couldn't bother writing a proper article? Sentence after sentence just hard to read, with extra commas and just poor sentence structures. Did they not have time during the embargo?
I see it as somewhere in-between.

There's probably some kind of ideal form of government intervention that will take the most out of poverty; and then there's probably some form of minimalistic form of humane intervention for the hopeless.
So on the front page [1] it looks like there is a extremely similar deal with CNN and Facebook. And CNN isn't that keen on playing ball with Facebook. The revenue sharing seems to be because the fact that Snap isn't playing from a dominant position. What makes this different revenue sharing?
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-19/media-com...
Much larger attack surface => far easier to find exploitable bugs.
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That's a great one and while I've seen a bunch of weird bikes, I've never seen that one. I love the pointlessness of it!
context.eval runs JavaScript, which in the example is calling the Python API. expose adds an object into the global JavaScript space.
And the flip side of the coin is that the government needs to be willing to provide services, presumably because the government sees a correlation between choosing to help yourself, subsequently finding a resource that can help, using that resource to get help, and finally being helped and back on your feet, where the cost to provide sufficient help is less than the opportunity cost of having another person on the skids.

Everywhere has homeless. But places that offer little help have a lot more.
There's nowhere that teaches you this lesson except hard experience. I found out when I was accused of theft by security at my office.
A thread full of whining and angry Middel-Managers, CEOs and StartUp founders.
Well at least the ability for self-pity and denial is not reduced.

If you read on after this, not rambling that im a evil traitor and enemy of afuture empire - have some nostalgia. I sort of miss the old english arts of self-distance, beeing able to take a step back, to laugh even at grave personal calamitys and insults, and by laughter master them.

"If only all CEOs would have studied the sociological-sciences, and all sociological scientists would have shunned the archieving of power. Im sure the wulfes would have been able to taste the diffrence in brain structure. The aroma, of specialisation absent, with a slight tinge of utopian dream come true. And they would have formed a society, holding human cattle - and philosophize in studys, that only naive cattle could hold the assumption true, that what my mirror cells define as standard, must be a standard everywhere. Howling to the moon, that eating man, gives you the madness of one-size-all-fits."
I do a lot of international business travel, mostly in business. 3 figures of flights last year. I would use this service, but you're about 2x as expensive as I'd pay for it.

For example, you want £140 for landing at Suvarnabhumi. This gets me Fast Track immigration, but I already get that if I'm landing in business, and help with onwards transportation, but as per most airports, the place is swamped with good quality limo transfers for maybe 2x the price of a regular taxi. So I'd be paying £140 for a cart from deplane to immigration, plus perhaps shortening priority immigration, and help with luggage. That definitely has some value, maybe up to £70, but £140 is way too much.
>The US has mild and flat cities

What cities are those?
For Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and The Hague; yeah, just get a beater. In the rest of the country, just lock your bike to something stationary (lanterns, fixed bicycle stands, bridge railings, etc.).
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Though it does syncing
That being true doesn't mean I can't lament the fact that these shitty people exist and are able to get away with it.
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Prime-time TV adverts apparently cost about $75k[1]; $45k for a 5-minute show doesn't seem so unreasonable in that context.

[1]: http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2014/advertising-...
> Most likely the changes they measured are good for the group's survival

Why is that "most likely"?
Nice! I hadn't tested it yet, but I remember trying to run V8 in Python and it was a real mess - I think that even building it was problematic. I might use this project one day. Did you compare your bindings to alternatives?
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> Isn't that just saying "I don't believe in multiuser systems and/or their security models"...? If so, what specifically do you have against them?

[Core Services] + SSH is generally something you can harden effectively against attacks.

[2903429034902323094230 binaries] is something you generally struggle to maintain security patches/etc on.

The simple fact is, there is just too much attack surface on a vanilla Linux box once you have an account that you can reliably do EVERYTHING you need to do to secure it 24/7/365.

At least imho, given my time constraints/budget.
Probably it's me, because as you said there is nothing in the article that suggest a general idea like the one I exposed; probably I'm too pesimmistic.

It's always nice (and interesting) to see how different people interpret and feel histories differently.
Hm.

Feels like a whole lot of companies are jumping on the Netflix bandwagon with original content.

And here's the thing that concerns me: Netflix, on a tech level, is pretty much a solved problem. There's stuff left to be done for sure, rust never sleeps, but they're pretty much good to go tech-wise. The content side of their business is an existential struggle, and getting original content right is IMHO a do-or-die proposition for them. They did a pretty damned good job because they have to.

All these other guys, they see Netflix doing a really good job on original content, and they want to duplicate the success. Which is understandable, but can they devote the focus at the top level that is necessary to do the job? Or are they going to half-ass it with the expectation that running a content studio is something any idiot liberal arts major can do?

Snapchat, for me, isn't in the TV game and shouldn't be. Nor Apple. And the results of their experiments are about what I'd expect out of a couple of big companies messing around with original content.
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How exactly are FPGAs, a technology far more arcane and less cost-effective than GPUs, going to save Intel's hegemony? Any suggestions for further reading on that notion?
a lock is 10 euro and a front + rear light 3 euro in a dutch supermarket.
About the weather, it snows in winter and rains a lot during the year, you dont need special clothes, just whatever you would wear daily
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So you're saying CEOs have trouble relating to the average person? ;)
Microsoft is really getting desperate. Saw similar propaganda recently with Chromebooks. Guess going back to their old MO.
No, because there really aren't any alternatives... There is PyV8, which last I checked does not compile on recent versions of V8
My favourite answer to that is: because the hole they are covering is round.