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Because people have no sense of scale in foreign countries, that is my point. Especially if you are viewing a map of all China trying to find Beijing, 100km is not much :-).

On 9/11 I was a kid living in Germany, but had relatives in California. My teachers were incredibly concerned and treated my like I was wrapped in cotton, or as if I had lost somebody personally. It's a weird thing.
And I drew it clockwise because I was using my right handed mouse with my left hand. ( That way I can rest my elbows on my desk... )
Things like murus[1] will still work although it leverages the first party firewall (pf)

[1] http://www.murusfirewall.com
That attitude is a sad artifact of a particular period of time. In future there will be fewer walls and other terrible methods of custom-enforcement.
When farm workers make a wage that can support a family of five without any government benefits, including paying health care premiums without subsidies, then we can start talking about a labor shortage.
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Getting rid of the nation states is the same as only having a single nation state.

Something similar occurred during the Roman Empire. There wasn't any practical way to get out of the empire, and no practical check on the power of the government of the empire.

If the policies of the empire happened to affect you negatively, there really wasn't anything you could do about it. You couldn't pick up an leave. You couldn't affect the government policy. You and your family for generations would just be stuck.
I'm against capitalism, so that would be a fair assessment of me. But if you really want a label, try geo-libertarian, I'm definitely not a socialist.

In any case, even hard core capitalists would recognize the value in controlling extenalities to help the market economy do its things.

If it helps I'm not a proponent of taxes per se. The tax I'm advocating could just as easily be described as rent. It is my hope that a fair, and effective, rent extraction from our shared capital (land, pollution rights, spectrum bands and so forth) could actually help abolish unfair and damaging taxes like income taxes.
Communities start with who's invited (or permitted) -- with Twitter, tech movers/shakers/early adopters; Facebook, students at elite colleges; Usenet... well, students and faculty at connected colleges.

Once the community expands, it loses some of its initial intimacy and collective mindset. Perhaps we should invent social networks that keep people in little collectives of positive feedback, rather than subjecting ourselves to the negativity of warring fiefdoms.
In most cases, the former encourages and sustains the latter.
Has anyone else noticed HTTPS Everywhere slowing their Firefox to a crawl? One day I got tired of FF being so slow and started disabling addons one by one, and page loads got ~6 seconds faster when I disabledd HTTPS Everywhere. Yes, it was that slow.
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Doesn't almost every popular character from American cartoons end up in the army in at least one episode? I mean, from Johnny Bravo to Bugs Bunny to Daffy Duck to Tom and Jerry... Go as far in the past as you want. I've never seen this in cartoons from other countries.
It does hurt. Examples in the article linked above.
I'm totally with this. Simplified build process will help people adopting newer/custom packages into stable releases. Better if a package can be generated from single definition file. Even Redhat has a simpler build system that relies on package "spec" files. The current workflow resembles the one in Redhat, but is more verbose and, well, dirty.
Can't you ask for a case to be heard only by a judge? So the judge actually has to understand everything and go strictly by the law?
How feasible would it be to have Duke Nukem Forever run on it (under Wine)?

(HURD and DNF have both been synonymous with vaporware for a long time, sometimes combined to "Yeah, X is going to be finished right after Duke Nukem forever runs on the Hurd". It would be a fun gag to make it happen.)
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Speaking of microkernels, MINIX 3 is open source, unlike the version of MINIX that inspired Linus to write Linux.

MINIX 3, unlike earlier versions, aims to be used in production rather than being purely a research OS.

MINIX 3 has incorporated code from NetBSD making it possible to run a lot of software on MINIX 3 from the NetBSD ports collection.

I have not used MINIX but I remain interested in it and think it deserves a mention.
My comment on checksums was a overall comment of shoddy and embarrassing hacked crap they call Ethereum.

They claimed again and again that the code is the contract and vice versa. That was proven not true by the VIP() function.

And seriously, if this protocol was given proper due diligence, there would be no reentrant attack on this. But that points back to amateur hour. And a lot of people here have money in ETH and can't come to understand this due to the extreme cognitive dissonance.

(The premise of Ethereum really is amazing. Too bad it wasn't given the same diligence as Satoshi gave it.)
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It's a political thing.

I've lobbied for accessibility, including explicit support for screenreaders, at every company where I've worked since ~2007.

Politically though, I'm wholly against laws to require this sort of thing. If a company wants to alienate 15% of their potential market (the blind and colorblind), more power to them.
Seems like an interesting project! Unfortunately it doesn't show any output for me. I can see in the network inspector that the GET to /stdout returns the text, but it's not shown on the screen.

I'm on Firefox 49 on Debian, by the way.
This case feels so closely to the very interesting case of Aviva France[1], where a not "well-futureproofed" life insurance contract is making a person very rich by the day.

Unfortunately for Aviva, their contracts are actually law in contrast to Ethereum where if the devs feel like it, they can do/revert anything.

[1]: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/02/27/2120422/meet-the-man-...
I don't know if Angular is really dwindling that much; if so, it's at least doing so slowly.

Even so, in terms of solid base frameworks, I think the rate of change is both reasonable, and comparable to other language ecosystems. The first major generation in the JS world was Mootools/Prototype/jQuery which started with a lot of churn, settled, and jQuery emerged as somewhat defacto. In between, we've had a minor mini-generation with a bit of Backbone, Ember and Meteor stuff happening, before this world of Angular/React/Vue. These are all changes that I think have taken significant time to come about - they're really not too​ difficult to follow. The massive daily churn of smaller add-on libs is more painful but easily avoided tbh.

Similar things have happened elsewhere - PHP's ZF, Symfony, Laravel, ?, Ruby's Rails, Sinatra, Java's many many complex evolutions, &c. &c.
You know you can buy health insurance, right? When you start a business, you will have costs. Health insurance, part of benefits, is one of them. You need to factor this into what you charge customers and clients.

It shows poor business acumen to assume that what you charge is what you make. You may be able to get away with that when you're doing side gigs, but if you start a business, you must plan for costs.

One of them is heathcare. If you can't afford it, maybe you shouldn't have gone out on your own in the first place.
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I'll look for references for my side. Do you have any for yours? When I see an acquihire and the price is clearly low. To the point where you know almost all that money has to go back to investors, how would the founders get a million a piece?
Something I'd add (as Arch user, but also as a Debian user for projects).

I found Arch has quicker updates to the kernal and overall is super quick to adopt the latest tech. What made me completely switch to Arch for every day use, was the day the GTX 1080 came out, I could set it up on Arch with the beta drivers. If I wanted to do the same on Debian, I had to figure out how to update the kernal to a version not typically used, then find or figure out how to install the beta drivers, etc. Etc.

Debian is more stable, so when I need to do something where I don't need the latest drivers, I like to use it.

Typically, my servers, my company laptop(s), etc.
This argument is like what we hear from drivers of really big SUVs. "I've got to drive a big SUV! Otherwise I would be run over by one! You're crazy for riding a bicycle!"
"TLDR; In my view, which is nominally more informed than yours, you are basically re-spouting a baseless or near baseless government sponsored character assassination."

Or you're describing him in his youth which came before his fame plus how he presented himself in discussions with people that like him. I speak of his actions during Wikileaks not theory I gained from speaking to him. Most of his collaborators that left him said similar stuff. They didn't say it about their other associates.

"required mastering networking"

That's funny given his network security was shit until he hired some engineer to help him. He also lied to sources about what level of protection he offered. It's what all good people do. ;)

"He created an encryption system to resist torture from authoritarian governments."

Wow. You're the first, intelligent person I've heard describe it that way. It was actually designed for the total opposite: a person having encryption under a torture-loving, authoritarian regime would give them either nothing or a series of somethings they wouldn't believe. In other words, they'd keep getting tortured until the other side was satisfied with what they found or what damage they did. It was a brilliant, but insidious, system I'd never use for that reason. Incidentally, I never saw any report Julian Assange used it himself for Wikileaks. Cuz being tortured is for other people.

"Isn't this perfectly generic slander? Couldn't you mount the same accusation at anyone intelligent as soon as they get an audience?"

Most of them acted differently. Nothing psychotic or destroying their teams for ego. So, no I don't say the same thing about most other people when they get attention. If anything, they usually do similar stuff to what they were doing before but with more attention. Makes me wonder about Assange.
Regarding your point in 2: do you store your docs in a directory called Documents or Document?
i don't understand what you mean by "merge"?
Ask HN: Why no foldable threads on HN?
Dunno if it's just me but I feel like navigating from a thread to another is a pain, since they just indent over and over and lower and lower, and keeping track of indentation to associate a reply with its parent is no fun.

Has someone implemented such a feature already? Even read-only I feel like that could be a little useful. I wouldn't mind building it if no one has done so already.
There is, but it has more to do with the people joining later and not understanding/respecting the unwritten laws of the community.

Here's an interesting essay about this effect:
http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
If you go to do that, they tell you your input won't affect the ranking of any page. So what's the point of giving feedback?
so many people seem to conclude that absent nation-states we must move to a global government. did you even read the article or the book that was linked therein?

The modern democratic nation state was widely ridiculed in Europe, by existing kingdoms and fiefdoms.

I feel like what I am watching on most of this thread is whatever future comes next being widely ridiculed by defenders of the current state of affairs. History repeats itself.
"If the policies of the empire happened to affect you negatively, there really wasn't anything you could do about it."

Depends. You could have used the influence of your powerful family/friends. Unless your family wasn't powerfull ... but in that case you can't do much today either.
>How is this different than having all ad publishers integrating with Google Token?

Presumably you wouldn't want to be locked into a proprietary platform that can raise fees once it has an effective monopoly.
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Here in Brazil you can start a company literally in one minute, without any cost or taxes and you will pay only ~15 dollars/month, and part of it will go to your governmental pension as monthly contribution.

You will have more bureaucracy to fill progressively, but most of the companies (and all startups except a couple) will probably not need it.
There is now a reply where he explains he's more or less switching to just using his laptop for any computing tasks he would have done from his phone.
Never mind I just found the button :)
I think some folks just went bankrupt and moved away. Larger plantations were often spit up and sold off, and a few took up a form of sharecropping with former slaves.
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Hillary thought that politicians like her get to make decisions like that. Precious! You work for the military-industrial complex, honey, not the other way around.
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The roaming rules are a bit complicated. It seems that only a fraction of the data plan can be made available under "free roaming" rules.

I suspect operators will make their money back from "I forgot to turn off roaming" to "I took too much from my roaming data".
React. A lot of demand right now, great for freelancing.
This comment has a point.

I'm all for a secure E2E for all private communications, but not through prohibitions encoded into laws. Unless it's wartime or similar kind of emergency, it's best to never let the government of any kind to be in control of what[1] you can create (and share with others) and what you can't. No matter how benevolent current one looks like, such capability will be abused by the next one. Better have a constitution-level protection that no government can dictate what technology you must or must not use.

Not to say that it's not uncommon for legislatures to be quite awkward when trying to describe technology. And stay up-to-date with possible future breakthroughs.

In my opinion, if someone has an idea (and implementation) of something amazing that won't be E2E, it doesn't make any sense to ban that. Label as "doesn't provide end-to-end security"? Okay, I'm not fan of this stuff, but knowledge gap is significant, so that may be well-justified. Prohibit advertising as "100% secure"? Sure, as long as that's not one-time pads stuff, that's most likely misleading advertising claims worth investigation. But banning the software or the service? That's nuts. And it impedes on freedom to create things.

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[1] Okay, as long as that's not a nuke. Obvious exceptions apply. (Cryptography is not munitions or a hazardous material, right?)
Capturing carbon is a valuable step, but only as part of a process that net removes it from the atmosphere. This project doesn't seem to have that goal.

> "China's new CCS project will remove CO2 from two coal gasification (syngas) plants and re-inject the gas into previously exhausted oil fields."

> "CCS "is an important set of technologies for reducing emissions from fossil fuel use, while enabling important resources such as coal to continue to contribute to energy security and economic objectives.""

They aren't net taking CO2 out of the atmosphere. They're using it to pump more oil out of the ground and using it to argue to burn more coal. The CO2 in the ground won't likely stay there forever but much of it will seep back into the atmosphere.

> "the world's first commercial carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant opened in Zurich, Switzerland with the goal of selling compressed CO2 gas to industry, basically re-purposing the gas."

The Switzerland plant isn't taking CO2 out of the atmosphere either.

The article doesn't mention how much energy the plant uses to capture the carbon. If not powered by renewables, the process itself may not even be carbon neutral.

Let's hope others find ways to sequester the carbon, and maybe this step may help that process, but I don't see it offering much hope.

Meanwhile, almost no efforts put into changing people's behavior to reduce their emissions.
> Sure... saying it is expensive isn't much of an explanation as to why. But the why isn't that difficult to come up with.

You're dodging the issue. You said there was no reason for people to criticize your comments because "I'm just explaining why Mars is expensive and likely not feaasible". I pointed out that that claim was completely false. You say "saying it is expensive isn't much of an explanation as to why" - actually, it's no explanation as to why it is expensive, or why it is "likely not feasible".

Then you say "But the why isn't that difficult to come up with" which has nothing to do with the issue of whether you're claim about what you did in the thread is true or not.

> I'm definitely getting downvoted for saying engineering reality is preferable to pipe dreams.

Even if you're getting some of those downvotes for that, look at how loaded such a statement is. What, again, is your justification for calling it a "pipe dream"? And anyway, pleanty of things that were once called "pipe dreams" have become reality.

Also, it's ridiculous to use "engineering reality" as the benchmark - because unless you believe that there's no progress or evolution in our engineering capabilities, then what is "engineering reality" will not correspond to the reality in 5, 10, 15, 50 or 100 years from now.

> Similarly, your attempt to call me out on a pedantic detail

You made a substantive false claim that all you were doing was "explaining why Mars is expensive and likely not feaasible" and I called you out on it. And it wasn't an "attempt". I called you out and you weren't able to show anything that backs up that claim.
As a new owner of an XPS 15, I will say HiDPI life is a big adjustment. But that's a first world problem I suppose.
There's quite a few in my company that are only there for the health insurance. It's cheap but their meds aren't.
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I haven't measured it, so this is somewhat subjective but yes, I could see a noticeable (although very small - nowhere near ~6 seconds) speed-up after disabling HTTPS Everywhere. In addition it was the most memory hungry of my addons (although I don't use much, just it, NoScript, uBlock Origin, Canvas Blocker, and VideoDownloadHelper), taking about ~12 Mb, as reported by Firefox.

Also a significant number of sites broke for me, and disabling the rule for that site would fix the issue. I think it's showing its age, and besides it's becoming less useful in an increasingly https centric Web. Am hoping the rewrite/refactoring necessary for migration to WebExtensions can help improve its performance too.
I use org mode to write what is in my mind when I wake up and when I'm close to go to bed. And I record some current stats too (like weight, humor, anxiety, etc). Have been doing it for 2 years. It helped me a lot to get back on track after a failed startup and set long term goals, like get and keep a job.
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Am I the only one to have a chrome warning about https://blog.ycombinator.com/ to be not secure/invalid SSL certificate?
>countries

You'd be hard-pressed to find a country that as at-will employment besides the US.
Last year, there was a popular hoax about a graffiti of a Road Runner tunnel: http://www.snopes.com/road-runner-tunnel-crash-rumor/
This seems similar to the situation the US is in with broadband and mobile. We already had this big decades-long investment in copper (cable and phone) and old cell towers, so it was easier to just keep using, maintaining, and expanding it while the rest of the world got (or is getting) affordable high cap (or no cap) 4G and fiber to the home.

Comcast is in the middle of rolling out gigabit everywhere after Google lit a fire under their butts, so I guess we'll catch up with the rest of the world eventually in our own stumbling, expensive way.
This has been working exactly the same ever since the invention of the media. This problem is not specific to Twitter. Actually doing something like this (creating something out of nothing) is PR 101.

If you are not familiar but interested in learning more. This book is a good primer: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0074VTHH0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
There are caps after that, which are not significantly higher than what many national providers charge within the country.
Do you have a source? I'm not a huge Hillary Clinton fan, but the thought that she would actually assassinate a US citizen by bombing another nation's embassy in London beggars belief.
Imagination is difficult. Ask a simple person what would happen, "if women didn't have babies." After attempting to think for a while, they'll just sputter, "but women have babies!"
My plan currently allows 5GB of roaming data per month, which under my current consumption pattern (I don't travel much more than a couple of times a month) is plenty.
Doing contract work isn't that hard.

I simply quit my job, searched for job websites which also had contract projects, wrote a few emails and got my first project.

This I repeated when I was half through the project.

Where is the big jump here?
Definitely positive for everybody. An example (Slovenia) is a new package from A1(Vodafone) with 15GB everywhere in EU without limits for 20€. Previously was like 22€ for 4GB local only.
Phone books were not eliminated. Minitel gave you access to the phone numbers in the whole country, whereas phone books were limited to your department (for foreigners: France is divided in about 100 departments).
HEADLINE: Easier way to create local packages

DESCRIPTION: My first distro was Debian. Then, for a while, I used Arch. But it kept irritating me with its total disregard for backwards-compatibility (symlinking /usr/bin/python to python3), coarse-grained packages (want to install QEMU PPC without pulling in every other architecture as well? too bad!), lack of debug packages (good luck rebuilding WebKit just to get stack traces after a SIGSEGV), and package versioning ignoring ABI incompatibilities (I once managed to disable the package manager by upgrading it without also upgrading its dependencies... and later cut off WiFi in a similar manner). So, when I finally trashed my root partition a few weeks ago, I decided to use the opportunity to return to Debian.

One thing I miss from Arch, though, is having an easy way to create a package. It's simply a matter of reading one manpage, writing a shellscript with package metadata in variables and two-to-four functions (to patch up the unpacked source, check the version, build it, and finally create a tarball), and then running `makepkg`. And it will just download the source code, check signatures, patch it, and build it in one step; it even supports downloading and building packages straight from the development repository. I took advantage of it to create locally-patched versions of some software I use, while keeping it up to date and still under the package manager's control.

Contrast that with creating a .deb, where doing the equivalent seems to require invoking several different utilities (uscan, dch, debuild; though ) and keeping track of separate files like debian/control, debian/changelog, debian/rules and whatever else. All the tooling around building packages seems oriented towards distro maintainers rather than users. I'd love something that would relieve me of at least some of the burden of creating a local package from scratch.

DISTRIBUTION: unstable, I guess
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I'm not convinced, even though I keep hearing this a lot:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Euro_health_consumer_index

Netherlands ranks #1, Belgium #5.
> CDNs are becoming a cheap commodity.

And then all sites are centralised again at Cloudflare and a handful of others.