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Sure. But why this urge to rewrite history then? Just because Foucault is the grandfather or surveillance studies? Why forget all these older and more fruitful discourses?
Why is it that European governments seem to act in the interests of their citizens and just about all other governments default policy positions is to act against the interests of the citizens?
Okay, well then, thanks for pointing that out.

I retract my previous statement and substitute it with something more like:

The discount investors apply to conglomerates is linked to perceived lower risk.

So while it might not be accurate to say investors want smaller, nimbler, more focused companies without specifying which investors, it can be accurate to say something like investors looking for a higher rate of return (which implies greater risk) want smaller, nimbler, more focused companies.
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Most UK HN readers yes, most UK citizens wouldn't have a clue though, sadly. I imagine the prevailing attitude is that encryption (i.e. messages that the police cannot read) allow terrorists to plot things in secret. In a month with three terrorist attacks, it's easy political capital to clamp down on such things.
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I am a bit over 30, a leading engineer in one of the cool German companies. There is a good environment to work, areas to grow technically - I am very picky when choosing a company to join. The problem is I am unhappy about the idea of corporate hierarchy (that looks to me like feudal system), and working on building someone else's ideas. I do not like the whole idea that I have to work hard for many years to potentially grow into any higher management position to be able to be heard, have a bigger impact.

What would you suggest in my situation? I think to build my own project initially in my free time, so would it be better to a pursue management position at the current company or become an engineering consultant / a freelancer?
As much as I wish they did, I am not sure they will.

A large portion of the UK has no idea how encryption helps them and believe that criminals and terrorists should "have nowehere to hide".
Parliamentary systems in general are more responsive than Presidential ones.

Also, most of us EU nationals don't see EU structures as very democratically responsive. Fairly sure most of us only send the B Team to the EU parliament. E.g retired national politicians, or people who couldn't get elected for national parliaments. Also, it gets a lot less coverage than national parliaments, so members are free to vote on random things without the same amount of scrutiny.
This is a very nice window into the mind of Chinese citizen, thank you!

A few ideas/memes/modes of thinking stand out and are quite similar to what I see in Russia (I believe it's basically a mix of coping strategy and a deeper level of propaganda):

- "western democracy" as something homogenous, as something that can have "an alternative". In reality "western democracies" are very different between each other and are a spectrum (compare the US, France, Sweden and Japan), but every dictatorial regime that I know bundles all those countries up as "western liberal democracies" and contrasts itself with them as a whole. This makes sense from a propaganda standpoint, but precludes from seeing a multitude of futures free from oppression. It's always either "the West" or "our own unique way".

- "we have a different way. Is it better or worse? Hard to say" — this is very typical sentiment in Russia, too. However, it's a moral cop out: if you pick your moral principles and stay true to them, it's very easy to say if one system is better or worse than other. Do you think that citizens should have free speech or do you believe that citizens are hapless children that must be cared for by their government? As soon as you decide that the answer to "is state censure good or bad?" becomes trivial.

- "see, we have ways to change things for the better, too! Here are a few cases: …" — every oppressive regime that wants to be stable has some controlled outlets for people's anger. People are angry over corruption and inefficiency? Execute a few low-level/out-of-favor scapegoats, censure transgressions of the rest, kill or imprison dissenters and continue business as usual. It always works like that.

- "it's the way our people are [except a few dissenters who did that to themselves]". I see a clear contradiction between your tone in "Thousands of years of political wisdom have taught Chinese people to balance between different ideologies and maintain the peaceful life of themselves" and all that euphemistic talk of "controlled channels" and "learnt to respect the bottom line of the CCP". Do you?

- "yes we do have all that propaganda but we are wise enough to not pay attention to it". That's exactly what a lot of people who lived in USSR say! What they miss (and what became obvious when USSR fell) is that good propaganda is multi-layered: there's always a superficial stuff about The Glorious Leader that may impress simple minds, and there is deeper unseen influence. Those memes of "our own way", "West as a whole", "it's the way our people are", "we are impervious to propaganda", the over-arching cynicism are all pushed into public discourse as a part of propaganda and they affect everyone.

And yes, the cynicism disguising as "wisdom". That is perhaps the mightiest propaganda weapon from at least Soviet times.
Sorry but this still bothers me. I'm not going to wade into the gender war so let me put it this way: we are also 'different' in other ways, so misunderstanding is generally not just down to one factor. So is it right to just simplify the attribution to male-female differences? Normal vs neurotypicals. Secular vs religious. White vs non-white. East vs West. Old vs young. Urban vs country. And so on it goes, plus the greys in between, and life experiences and assumptions and beliefs. Every person has a unique combination of these factors, creating a very grey (or colourful if you like) identity.

Then combine this with the time, place and mood the misunderstanding occurred in. Then you will realise that it's too fuzzy to just put it down to a factor such as gender differences ... so what to do? Simples: try not to judge, because at best it is inaccurate and at worse it feeds into the prejudice. It would be far more helpful to take the benefit of doubt while being honest and empathic, because that's the only way the two parties can meet at the centre. If one party refuses to budge, then perhaps just give in! Victories are ultimately a bit petty.

By the way, please don't take this as a holier-than-thou speech, and I'm not condemning you for being so 'simple'. The reality is that all of us are like this, because it's so deeply ingrained and easy, a shortcut in our search for explanation. But for the sake of peace, we can definitely try to rise above it. Honesty and empathy - without the tree-hugging tone.
Don't forget back in the 90s when IBM was also cranking out its own x86 chips.
yeah I am wondering if there is any research on that particular matter.
Sorry bud, that just isn't the case.

CSS is not turing complete, is not a programming language, etc. It is a declarative, presentational language with no processing capabilities beyond extremely basic math.

There is no if, and, or but about it. Are you a web developer?

* edited to sound like less of an asshole
I'm not sure how it works in Soundcloud but usually you are not entitled to get a payraise just because
the requirements of the insurance payout would be proof that you had adequate external api monitoring in place.
If there's one thing that stops criminals and terrorists, it's making the things they do illegal!
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I like that I can let the cat go out a few days, knowing he's a born hunter/killer and will be back when he decides a bed is more comfortable than a tree/bush.
Maybe they are not part of the same club as the other politicians.
Have the design decisions been reviewed by a cryptographer yet? According to the presentation on youtube, it had not.
Entirely unrelated to the Slack discussion, but I wonder if that could be a positive pattern for a mail client: only allowing you to define the recipients when you have written out the full message.

Also, when replying to a long mail thread, showing you the previous list of recipients and requiring you to select those that you want to include in your next mail. Could limit CC sprawl quite a bit.
In The Netherlands, the majority of the premium grocery stores have started a home-delivery option, probably in no small way helped by the density over here.
It seems there's a perennial tension where miniaturisation is judged as either a premium feature or as an indicator of low-end-ness.

I felt it when I unboxed my M.2 NVMe SSD and it weighed as much as a potato chip.
Yeah, a baseline font size of 11px is far too small. These days I tend to advocate for 18px or 21px for body copy (Medium is 21px).
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Other countries primary concern is to give big business and the rich anything they want.
The x86 emulation is completely irrelevant. Microsoft didn't want win32 applications to be recompiled to run on Windows RT. They now changed their mind. The only benefit of emulating x86 is for software that is no longer supported. If it's mission critical then those businesses that rely on x86 backwards compatibility will stay with x86 hardware because paying $600 more for a computer doesn't even register on their radar. The only reason I'd care about x86 emulation is to run old video games.
And just like YouTube, that will evolve into "Skip ad in 3 seconds", then ratchet it up 3-5 seconds at a time until it's 30.
The 15 minute free trial is cute. If only ctrl-w didn't close a web terminal tab!
99% of the startups are not loyal to their employees. Why would employees be loyal to the startups?
If so, please write to your MP saying you've changed your mind! https://www.theyworkforyou.com/
Same as drugs. Making them illegal really sorted things out and now no-one takes drugs and there's no more criminal activity because people fear the outcomes of breaking the law.
This is not the European government in the sense we understand normal government.

In the USA the federal government is seen as the "real" one and the States are the also-rand. In Europe it's the other way round. MEPs are elected really as proxy popularity polls on the home parties. And they undergo very little scrutiny of their actions at home. It's only when EU runs counter to a home country "third rail" that it gets reported - for example changes to agricultural policy. this is its strength and weakness (if every road and job susbsidised by EU was branded with EU logo on the pay packet (1,045 euros this month came from EU!) then it probably would be looked on differently.

The EU is mostly a positive boon for the world. But the lack of scrutiny leads to no system of checks and balances - which is not good in the long term.

In tech policy there are either no home country policies entrenched, or the different sides are not deeply entrenched (Security agencies love spying on email of course but it's only a decade or two)

So a sensible policy wonk can lay down really useful guidelines that help everyone. Because it so early in the game.

Being a sensible policy wonk and trying to fix agricultural subsidies where there are centuries of ingrained compromises is much mich harder

Trust me the UK gov is not down with this idea
I think your hyperbole is unwarranted; if you're building a "hello world" application, you don't need to use a bundler, or any of the "latest and greatest libraries".

Pick tools which you are comfortable with and which solve problems you actually have. Otherwise, you'll be left complaining about some vague "community" that is "forcing" you to adopt the "modern standard", even though there's nothing "standard" about the apps this "community" develops as a whole.
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> Why is it that European governments seem to act in the interests of their citizens

Note that this article is about the European Parliament, which indeed acts very often in the interests of us, the European citizens.

However, that one is not the "European government". More precisely, it is only one part of it (depending on how strict you want to draw your analogy).

This is really a pity! There should be more power to the European Parliament.

On the other hand, if the European Parliament had more power, lobbyists would engage with it much more than they do now. So maybe it would then become as biased as all the national parliaments. However, I really hope that the European Parliament is able to retain its quality if it gets more power, which is why I'm a strong supporter of giving more power to the Parliament, and consequently taking power away from the Council and the Commission.

While we are at it: If you haven't already done so, you should go and become a regular supporter EDRi. It is one of the very few civil rights organizations that act on European level (not just national level). They achieve astonishingly much, given their low budget. Imagine what they could achieve with a real budget!

https://edri.org/
Best thing is to just jump in and do it. You don't even need hardware to start with.

If you're seriously interested, download Octave (Matlab replacement) and write a program from scratch to simulate a BPSK system and generate a "waterfall" (bit error vs. noise) curve. Don't stop until you can get your curve to perfectly match the one in a text book [1]. By doing this, you will learn about modulation, demodulation and and "Additive White Gaussian Noise" (AWGN) channel models. If you can get the waterfall curve to match exactly, you will also be covering concepts such as "energy per bit". A BPSK should be quite doable for an amateur.

Once you have the BPSK simulation, try extending your simulation in different directions and matching the textbook curves. The following challeges are roughly in order of increasing difficulty

1) Add a block code, such as Hamming or BCH.

2) Replace the simple AWGN channel model with a Rayleigh or Ricean model

3) Add a convolutional code (with Viterbi decoder)

4) Implement Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)

5) Implement an LMS receiver

6) Implement a Low-Density Parity Check code (use the one from the WiFi standard)

7) Implement a complete 802.11a simulation

8) Implement a complete DVB-T simulation

9) Implement a MIMO system, assuming perfect channel knowledge

10) Implement a MIMO system with channel estimation

Get to number 10, and you will know more about radio signal processing than most engineers.

[1] eg. "Lin and Costello" Error Control Coding or "Proakis" DSP
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"Those who use the term 'content' are often the publishers that push for increased copyright power in the name of the authors ('creators,' as they say) of the works.

The term 'content' reveals their real attitude towards these works and their authors."

I only use the word sometimes as a form of sick irony and to bring light to the issue. "Nice content, bro."
The world need more photo sharing apps.

Thank you.
I think that Whatsapp does not understand how the diehard users use it.

I live in India, one of whatsapp's biggest markets. I am stunned every day by the level of penetration that whatsapp has achieved here. From people in the slums to people over 65, everyone uses whatsapp. I regularly see long-form, local language content on whatsapp. I wonder who is writing all this. It reminds me of the early email days.

Whatsapp has wasted way too much time trying to cater to the snapchat demographic. But the snapchat demographic, either has not heard of Whatsapp (average US user) or thinks whatsapp is what you use to talk to grandma (the average Indian teenager).

They announced their intent to work on digital payments a full four months after demonetization was announced in India. No release yet (8 months and counting). They have probably squandered a massive opportunity here.

To my knowledge, they do not have any presence in India, their largest market. I wonder if that would have made all the difference.
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"Fun"? I incidentally starting writing a RFC-like spec and it's sooo tedious to define all the little details. (I don't mean that it's not useful. It helps me very much in putting my ideas on a more rigorous foundation, but damn is it tedious.)
> creators of Ether have already got their share

Ether at ICO sold for 30 cents and raised around $30 million for development. Compare that budget to Mozilla or similar organization.
I think (at least a lot of) those of us that voted remain knew there would be a massive watering down of civil liberties and protections should we leave the EU.

The UK has never suffered occupation under National Socialism or Soviet Union like most of Europe did so we don't have the same fear of authority creep, which is unfortunate because it absolutely is happening here.

People in the UK are infuriatingly trusting of their rulers.
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And he didn't get to drive one of the cars? I would be flippin' tables and causing all kinds of scenes!
And another soul sold to the devil.
I have tried to explain this to many people and I agree. People are entirely ignorant. I have actually given up now. I will have to vote with my feet at some point.
I use restricted mode a lot.

It's fucking hopeless.

What YouTube really needs is something for parents with reasonably well defined policies and reasonably good enforcement. This mode should not include alcohol or gambling advertising, and should not include too much swearing. (No "fuck" and no "cunt", for example.) Or granular controls.

(YouTube Kids, which is sometimes offered as a solution, is mobile only.)
I'm not sure i have fully understood your question, could you rephrase?
Yeah, the EU works surprisingly well... I mean given how little attention it gets the EU institutions makes a lot of good calls.

Granted, it would likely change it more controversial topics was handled by EU.
The leap you're making is that turing completeness is a requisite to call something a programming language. Not so.

You need to do more editing.
I'm curious; what's the point of competitive programming? It strikes me as opposite to our actual goal of programming in collaboration/the metrics applied do not seem to further the
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Yes, they were bought by PTC.

However I don't know what they have done with the PicoJava offerings, since PTC isn't as friendly as Aonix regarding the making the documentation available.

As for the market, it depends on which one the products built with those CPUs are actually being sold to.

My Cisco phone and the Ricoh printer around the corner both are running some form of embedded Java.

Maybe you think they are part of the remaining 10%, however Cisco and Ricoh though it was worthwhile for their sales.
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"But the reality is that tools encourage specific behaviors. A product is a series of design decisions with a specific outcome in mind. Yes, you can use tools as they weren’t intended, but most people follow the patterns suggested by the design."

Reminded me of "our writing tools are also working on our thoughts". Our brains are pretty plastic and will adapt to 'the rules of the game' and I imagine that these days, those rules are defined by the affordances provided by the software.
That's why I love Firefox's Reader View button on the address bar. I click it even before the page loading completes and instantly clean view.
I'm using uBlock to pick and hide all those elements that steal space on the screen of my phone. It's a much better browsing experience. I won't use those buttons anyway.

It's one of the reasons I'm using Firefox even if Opera has text reflow. Sometimes I wish there is an Open in Opera addon.
Not sure how (or when) it started, but I often catch myself asking why. Just that, about anything I might be doing - from being annoyed with my son to holding the door open for a janitor.

The answer is never just there, but it materialises a day, a month or year later.
I sincerely doubt that anything that places the 'panopticon' in the center of the analysis will be able to point us the path that leads us out of the problem. The discourse of ubiquitous surveillance (or less political: observation) is a discourse of weakness, a discourse of lacking alternatives. The only normative proposal they make is: watch us less!
Aren't these sent from noreply@github.enterprise.tld?

In our team, some mails are not delivered because Outlook sometimes accidentally autocompletes `John Doe <noreply@github.enterprise.tld>` instead of `John Doe <john.doe@megacorp.tld>`.
It is not only business, they need a way to bring those XP users.
Yes, but there are differences between taking hours to dry on a clothesline, taking an hour to dry in a dryer, and taking less than an hour drying in a clothesline (in the shade even).
> most of us EU nationals don't see EU structures as very democratically responsive.

Whilst I got the same feeling, this really needs to be backed up by data. Do you know any reliable polls about it?
To be honest, Facebook is the owner of WhatsApp (Signal's end-to-end encryption) and they've incorporated end-to-end encryption in their core product too (Messenger's "secret conversations"), albeit not by default.

If I didn't know any better, I would say that Facebook did make a line between private and mining data, but there are countless examples beating that theory: their experiments with crashing the apps, showing only sad news, mining data from messages, WhatsApp and Messenger making web requests as you're typing the URL...
According to a comment[0] on earlier discussion[1], this legislative process was even initiated by the European Council and European Commission. I'm curious about more details about that, though.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14578358
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14577828
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Do one thing at a time.
Do it slowly and deliberately.
Put space between things.
Turn chores into meditating.
I miss Sheldon.

I also miss the web that was full of sites like Sheldon's. Individually tailored to their creator, quirky, and packed with valuable information.
I'm wondering how much of that crime can be attributed to the following circular thinking:

> the bike crime level is so high, no sense in buying half-decent bike

> no way I buy a lock that costs more than bike

> [the lock can be cut by bolt cutter in a few seconds]

> [the lock gets cut, the bike gets stolen]

> omg, they stole my bike! Gotta buy another cheap one
The main idea consists of implementing sort of a "latex-like" templating system using python. Lax goal is similar to what markdown is for html.
Sheldon passed away back in 2008. It's a real testament to his writing and website that it remains so relevant 9 years after his death.