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> All I can do is look at Singapore from the outside and be in awe (look at their neigbhours.. then look at Poland's or USA's neighbours and compare the amount of fear).

I look at Singapore on the Press Freedom Index (rank 155 out of 180) and am not in awe at all. It scares me that people who grew up in liberal democracies find something to admire about its model.

Perhaps it's just that our life experiences are different.

I grew up in the shadow of the Iron Curtain. My mother's family fled East Germany shortly after WW2. My father's home was within a couple of miles of the inner German border. I got to visit East Berlin before the Wall came down. My memories of explicitly government-regulated speech are negative, through and through.

All I can say is that I never want a government to have that much control over speech. The hypothetical use of that power for good does not offset the damage it can cause in the wrong hands, and in an authoritarian country, there is no way to peacefully remove the government from power if it chooses to abuse that power.

> Freedom of speech has really come to mean outright lies, slander, fear mongering, FUD, bullshit, conspiracies and so on. What value does speech have if the only defense is "it's not illegal" and not "it's right".

There are a number of fallacies here.

* One is the assumption that in order to restrict harmful speech, it has to be ordered from above. (Seriously, Hobbes's idea that you need an authoritarian ruler to protect liberties is a bit dated.)

* Another is that having an authoritarian government would fix this. The worst offenders when it comes to speech aimed at undermining liberties are people already in power. An authoritarian government would exacerbate that issue. Whatever side "won" would also get the power to suppress any speech they don't like.

* We don't protect potentially harmful speech because we like it, but because of the dangers if we open up speech to government censorship. While one can argue that maybe Brandenburg v. Ohio went a bit too far, the underlying idea – to keep the government at a safe distance from regulating individual expression, even expression that you strongly dislike – is sound ("freedom is always the freedom of dissenters"). If there's a role for government, it would be to ensure that valid opinions aren't squeezed out (Fairness Doctrine and such), not to ban harmful speech.
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Somebody appears to be making a pretty penny stealing.
Also put "AI" in the title. Upon reading the title, I thought it was about genetics/breeding a superhuman.
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I think that if I was able to afford to buy time, I would be happier, but not necessarily because I was buying time.
A dull knife is fraud? Seriously?

Knives are meant to me sharpened. The cheapest knife can be sharpened to razor blade sharpness. Sometimes new knives come sharpened somewhat, but in my experience all mass-produced knives need sharpening when new, even $250 knives.

I genuinely can't comprehend the complaint. What next, buy a new car and complain it didn't come with the tank full?
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I think this is the best news all week! Congrats to the Elixir team. I love working with Elixir. Hopefully I will be able to contribute to the ecosystem soon. Excited about the future.
I don't think this is true anymore.
But companies wouldn't give commit access to somebody they just "hired" over the internet that "wants to help", and they'd (hopefully) have multiple layers of code sign-off before it ends up in the repository. Having worked in PCI-DSS environments, it would not be easy to get code into production without anybody else noticing.

Open-source projects often have random people "from the internet" working together with a great deal of individual autonomy (authority doesn't go down well when you are contributing for free). This ad-hoc style works well for open-source development, but it does make some kinds of code/system subversion a lot easier and we'd do well to keep that in mind.

Besides, I'm into open-source and security exactly because I don't want to rely on the goodwill of Apple, Google and Microsoft. ;)
Crappy jobs still bring some income that can then be spent on consuming, often with the leverage of bank loans, keeping the wheels of the economy spinning. Who could be more striving for buying and consuming than a person who can hardly afford anything?
Your question is a bit cryptic. But yes, I believe tragedies on the scale of the the holocaust and the american civil war are a regular occurrence in human history and we've not seen the last of them yet. I think conservative estimates of climate change related deaths are already in that ballpark.

The death toll for the Iraq war was about a million dead for example, and likely only happened due to the influences described in the article, taking advantage of 9/11 (e.g. the surveys showing that Fox News viewers were more likely to believe Iraq perpetrated 9/11 than people who watched no news at all).
The American right and the French revolution right are competly different things, which is another good reason for me to believe the categorization is a joke. They've lost meaning, and serve only to avoid talking details, they naturally lead to partisanship.

From what you said, we could have a reasonable conversation, but you sound more libertarian then the current American right. Here lies the issue of affiliation. You sound reasonable, but if you affiliate yourself with breitbart, fox news, and the rest of the leading right, you're associating yourself with a lot of unreasonable people in position of power. And since you've mentioned soviet communism and german fascism before, you might know that's exactly how reasonable people got tricked in the past also.
"again" ?

Was there a real alternative to WebKit in the embedded browser space before? (genuine question)
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I find that this article's contention of nickel-and-dining millennial is one instance where technology has enabled a huge change in social mores.

Nickel-and-dining was a problem in the days of loose change, where counting small change was a huge hassle. With Venmo this problem simply does not exist. On the other hand, I would say that payments and reimbursements between friends accurate to the penny on Venmo reflects well on you as a conscientious person.
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>It's actually these anti-government, anti-establishment people usually spreading completely irrational fear.

Those groups don't have access to the mainstream channels and platforms to spread their influence like the establishment does. More often than not, that same establishment will paint those groups as the perpetrators of everything that is wrong.
This links to the proper release announcement.

Previous discussion from the github link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14846359
It seems to me that Windows users have a different idea of what constitutes a problem, because I always hear that Windows "just works" and yet whenever I have to use Windows I run into all sorts of issues. This isn't an isolated incident, it happens to me all the time.
Some things I would like:

- See fees (including deadlines for each phase ?)

- Subscribe (by email) to tags (new conferences with a certain tag) and/or ending of Early Bird phase (or other phases)

- Have rss feed based on tag(s)

- See similar conferences (based on tags)

- Button to add a conference to my calendar (or maybe have Google calendar feed, based on tags)

- Filter by region; I do not mind flying a few hours, meaning anywhere in Europe for me. But I will never go to the US and not easily to Asia.
https://reprog.wordpress.com/ is a great one i discovered recently.
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This is HN. This gives AI a slightly higher Bayesian prior than genetics.
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I'd suggest that for "things you like doing and are bad at", "use time and money to get better at them" is another valid approach.

Particularly if you like doing them more than any of the things in the "things you like doing and are good at" quadrant, or if there are other ancilliary benefits to the things that you'd be learning.
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Grandma will first search paint in the start menu. And then she will open the highlighted entry labelled 'Paint 3D'. Then she will promptly close the abomination that appears on screen after 10 seconds.
Crypto mining is not "graphics" though and bypasses X11 (it talks to the GPU via CUDA or OpenCL). You can happily mine without ever having an X server running.
Even if I accepted these calculations, I still have to work a 40 hour week. I can't optimize time spent on my profession, time spent on life maintenance, and leisure time. So I just work with what I have left over, and given these constraints I choose not to change my own oil, sure as I am I could do it.
If you need to make money right away, I strongly suggest you reconsider upwork (don't know the other sites you mentioned). I know a friend who worked on it as a dev. I use it as a client. The money from initial contracts might be bad, but it has the potential to turn into a more lucrative deal with a particular client (if you prove your value). This is a great way to build up experience as a consultant .. you can then say you worked as a consultant for X, Y, Z big name brand. Here is the thing .. pick your customer carefully. You want to make sure you are working with a customer who is as tech savvy as you. I work in deep tech so was able to communicate very effectively with my upworker, we were able to estimate things similarly, etc. I have seen postings on other free lance sites where someone wants you to build a highly scalable version of twitter for 50 bucks. You want to be able to avoid those people.
It's almost like a cookie, yes, in that you could say "trust this browser". However, the problem comes when you ask for the second factor for a new computer. A TOTP approach would give the second factor to the phisher, whereas U2F does not.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure that's a problem with the cookie and not with TOTP.
It's a fast-paced development! That's pretty great. I hope core team would consider slowing down a bit and catch up with Deployment, Monitoring(which Phoenix team working on it) and Platform(e.g. http/2) departments.

v1.5 seems to have a bunch of bug fixes and deprecation (Hah! I'm not sure if it's like move fast and break thing). It is potentially the case.

In every important part, there seems to have a solo smart person working on it. E.g. Cowboy(I know it's erlang but Phoenix depends on it significantly), Distillery. That could be a good thing. Less people may catch up with each other faster. It also mean a load of works! And also mean some convention are out of sync (e.g. configuration which I think Conform is the proper way lately)
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But what if you're good at multiple things, but just don't have enough time or foresight how to prioritise to maximise happiness?
Companies using this library may have access to bloomberg or reuters so an API to interact with the bloomberg or reuters API may be enough. Otherwise you would probably need to charge for access to market data.

But to offer this commercially, you will need to support quite a few currencies, market conventions, customised terms, formats for the trade representation, etc.
I think you're already thinking too much about software, it would be good if you read about other topics to expand your mind and make you a better programmer.
Running a Tor exit node can land you in pretty serious trouble in some countries. For instance:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/austrian-man-raided-for-operati...
Windows 10 is the last version of windows.
I hope dang does not feel more pressure as HN becomes an ever-more precious forum on the whole internet.
No, that maths is way off. If everyone went to work 4/5 of what they did now, the economy would contract by 20%, one of the biggest crashes in history.
That's just a type of response the author could come up with based on leftist social currencies. He needs to respond in a matter which reflects values of the people who are currently opposing him.
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The same exploits that are used to jailbreak the device can be used for installing malware. There has been remotely exploitable bugs in iOS, for example in WebKit, but luckily there hasn't been people exploiting them. iOS is very safe but not perfect.
Elon Musk response: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/889743782387761152
From the article: "It’s not like they’re bumping it by a buck and making a little bit more money. They are really tanking sales and it kind of has a ripple effect to us, being a small company trying to do demand planning"

The relevant Econ 101 buzzword isn't "supply and demand," it's "agency problem".

Amazon is "tanking sales" unilaterally, while the supplier manages stock on assumptions of higher sales at the regular, lower price point.
I agree Amazon has dropped the ball, but I still prefer to buy from Amazon compared to literally every other site because of the superior UI.

Compared to other major retailers (Walmart, NewEgg) the experience is just so much more smoother on Amazon.

Sometimes speciality items are cheaper on manufacturer's website. But that requires me to make an account and fill a bunch of forms! Some websites allow guest checkout, but there's often some fuckup happening with that and then I can't even complain properly and/or have a good reference number without an account. And even without an account I still have to fill all those terrible, terrible forms.

Plus it always takes longer to receive my merchandise from random websites than amazon. Even if I pay for the super-quick option, which, by the way, is usually more expensive than the equivalent option on Amazon, I still get my merchandise later because the small store will more likely ship tomorrow while Amazon will gladly do night operations.
Business is about filling other people's wants in exchange for money. This is questionable advice.
It was relevant to its parent comment about venues being perfectly able to refuse Rammstein for whatever legal reasons they wanted.
As others have pointed out, there is, but I have "showdead" on, and there's been a huge uptick in deliberate spam lately. They do get blocked very quickly, so hopefully they get tired of it, but it's a big change from how showdead would mostly show cranks, bad jokes, and the (very occasional) overzealous moderation.
I'm not convinced that progress has continued to accelerate. Compare the past 70 years to the previous 70 years and ask yourself which period of time experienced more radical progress, upheaval, and scientific discovery. My suspicion is that there was more from 1877-1947 than from 1947 till now.
Indeed. Why isn't Microsoft thinking of its enterprise Paint users?
Interesting, looks like they are using something similar to Wine to run it on Linux.
It's OEM. There was some crapware, I have removed most of it, but to no avail.
It is extraordinarily unlikely any of my ancestors were ever rich.

And even if some of my ancestors were rich, my life today as a worker is economically better of by, oh I don't know, a factor of 1000.

If we also take in to account things like decrease in child mortality, clean running water, modern medicine, the internet, Wikipedia, Khan Academy, disposable computers, my life today as a worker is better off by a factor of at least 10,000.[1]

Additionally, despite what Jubal Harshaw might have us believe[2], it is infeasible that any given person should hope to be proficient at a wide variety of tasks.

While I certainly can do most automotive servicing myself, I lack a few specialist tools that would make the tasks efficient and enjoyable, so I outsource some / most if it as I choose.

1. Deirde McCloskey bangs on endlessly about this in her book Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeois_Dignity

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competent_man
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If it's easy to criticize it's also easy do dismiss. Learning a new language is a lot of work, if said language has a tiny amount of speakers and there are some obvious (albeit subjective) flaws that you're unhappy with, why would you bother with it?

Invented languages are like social networks, it's all about reaching that critical mass where the network effect is self-sustaining. Getting there is extremely hard however, especially if, like the parent points out, it's incredibly difficult to actually make a language "objectively" superior to the hundreds of existing languages which already have millions of speakers.
What are you trying to achieve here? What would you like me to say?
There are ads in the Windows UI. I've been an iOS user for 9 years and can't recall seeing an ad in the OS. So it does not seem "just like" iOS, at all.
> v1.5 seems to have a bunch of bug fixes and deprecation (Hah! I'm not sure if it's like move fast and break thing). It is potentially the case.

It is definitely not the case. :) If anything breaks, please fill in a bug report and it will be fixed immediately.
Thanks. I've always struggled with this and only now realized that Delay-option in Snipping tool.
That was one of the most fascinating videos I've seen in a good long while. Thanks for posting.
Well, I guess such a response is somewhat expected from someone who chooses to name a mirror that in the first place.
Not necessarily on HN but on the internet as a whole, though this applies heavily on HN:

Like a coin, every story has 3 sides. Hear them all before making judgement, and in general, opt for internalising judgement rather than publicising it.
Obvious in retrospect but a very good suggestion. I mostly go to geeky meetups and usually lament how everyone is the same. When I go to the odd business meetup, I find a very diverse crowd. Finding the right business meetups can be hard though. Any thoughts on how to find them?
Snipping tool is not UWP. So someday some dev in Microsoft will convert it to UWP and you'll have Snip 3D. And snipping tool will become a download from the store. It's fucking sad because the UWP apps are almost always garbage.
to be fair, how hard would it be to have feature parity with an app as simple as MSpaint?
When it takes two hours for a robot/machine to do something that would take you five minutes, most people will think that's one hour and 55 minutes wasted, while it's actually five minutes saved
Not quite. It's actually used to refer to anime characters that have the physical characteristics of young girls. You know, weeaboo territory stuff. The theme has become increasingly prevalent in anime as of late.
It's not particularly surprising since Esperanto borrows a lot of vocabulary from Romance languages.

Even citing from the same Wikipedia page:

>According to the results, preliminary Esperanto study led to a 25% improvement in acquiring Russian, 30% for German, 40% for English, and even 50% for French.

It seems to clearly show a greater similarity with French (a romance language) than the others.

I'm French myself but I must say that I never really got the appeal of Esperanto. Sure, I might be able to learn it relatively easily. I could also learn Italian pretty easily and I'd gain access to around 64million native speakers and a very rich culture.

If you want an international lingua franca then there's already English and if you think that's too difficult to learn there's Spanish. Not as easy as Esperanto? Maybe, but call me when Esperanto reaches half a billion speakers.

Also the "10x easier than English or German for French speakers" surprises me because it seems to say that English and German are roughly equally difficult to learn for French speakers while it seems pretty obvious to me (having studied both languages at school for many years) than German is very significantly harder.

English has many cognates thanks to the large influx of French words in past centuries, a very simple grammar for the most part (trivial conjugations in particular), no real case system (only a few leftovers like in Romance languages), no gendered nouns. The only thing that's a bit more difficult in English as far as I can tell is the pronunciation.
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Thanks for the nostalgia trip. We must be about the same age and I remember hitting up local corporations that had WEP encrypted networks and offering them my help in improving their security.

Felt like a real security expert then ;) I'm out of that loop now but security sure did seem a lot easier to get a grip on at that time.
It is not that open-and-shut.

Unauthorized access to a computer system is a different legal category than IP licensing.
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Yes, I also love OrmLite. It's so good and I miss it when doing dev in other languages, and as you say works perfectly across different SQL backends (unlike EF which tends to blow up horribly at the worst possible time with some obscure bug).
We gave people small, test projects to see if they could deliver and communicate effectively (they didn't know it was a test .. we paid them of course). Been having a decent experience on Upwork so far from the hiring side (we started this year). If you found resources on how to use Upwork more effectively, would appreciate pointers :)
"Are there any good general global news sources that don't try to manipulate my emotions as I read them? Paid or free"

I enjoy the Economist. There is some delay as it's a weekly publication but to me that's only a bonus. I'm not an investor or a public policy figure. I can wait for a few days for my news if it means it's higher quality.

That said, Economist has a pretty strong political voice - but they don't try to hide it in any way. Generally they voice their opinion in clear tones, get their facts correct, and publish dissenting views to their own in the 'Letters to the editor' section.
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Definitely when it comes to gaming. I probably have as much fun playing Street Fighter II with a usb-snes controller + emu as I do playing with the GearVR, modern games, etc.

As long as it isn't holding you back from productivity - there's no real downside to being held back by nostalgia. If keeping old tech is holding you back in any way (security flaws, being out of touch with your industry, unable to collaborate, etc.) - then you'll find the happiness quotient goes up if you upgrade ;)