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Well, its pretty simple. Why should people be against open-sourcing it?

I think 90% of those who are against it, are against it, because they want to forget flash and never see it again.

So somehow, they must have made so bad experiences with flash, that they do not want to get it for free or even someone else to get it.

So you next question is probably: What could have been such a bad experience? Probably not a just one. From my own memory:

Good experiences with flash:

- youtube, etc.: Flash was overcoming the codec problem we had in the past. By providing a minimal set of supported codecs it was setting a defacto standard for video streaming. But that problem is solved today.

Bad experinces with flash:

- Flash menus (please install that macromedia plugin before you can actually use this website)

- Flash menus (please wait until this uber cool animation finishes to render before you can click on that link)

- Complete 'websites' in flash (Please install that plugin before you can see if this website is of any use at all)

- Header logos with large file sizes, as they are animated like hell

- a laggy computer just because some website embeded a flash animation which uses all of your CPU power

- Contact forms which disallowed copy and paste.

- Websites which you could not find again because the search engine could not find them.

- decisions about being vulnerable vs. actually seeing flash content at all

- tracking cookies beyond normal cookies

- extra applets which are there just to make sure you are a real browser.

So I think nobody has a real problem with those gift cards or the games. But given the history of flash we would better not receive a gift, just to make sure we will never have to experience those moments again.
To spin up a full system container in a second or two requires a filesystem like ZFS. Its not a moot point, its a requirement even if you are not aware it is under the hood. The first thing you do when setting up LXD for your containers is feed it a ZFS pool.
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Can you elaborate why/whats horrible?
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Mute the whole channel because slack won't just let me mute a user? That's ridiculous UX.
They're working on it, the plan is to fake subscription by subscribing to channel RSS feeds. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/pull/620
This is rather hilarious, as most of Sweden's IT sector learned over a decade ago that outsourcing is worthless
On the passphrase front: https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover may be useful
Development golang has very reasonable requirements
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>I realize that scientific consensus is that gene editing should not be permitted to enhance human performance

I'd like to know what's scientific about it and who reached that consensus. There are a plethora of things to define before we even begin this discussion. What constitutes an enhancement? Isn't removing recessive genes aka "curing genetic deceases" an enhancement? If some people already have these "superior" genes, is it just to keep others from getting them? Who decides what genes are good or bad anyway? What's fundamentally different between trying to improve the germline by these means and the "natural" way of choosing best mates? We are choosing genes in both cases, in case of CRISPR we are trying to do it with better precision and certainty.
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OK, maybe I generalized too much. What I said reflects my experience of some snowy places. Probably depends on how big snow storms you tend to get.
What's the problem? I switched my asus chromebox to dev mode and installed ubuntu and didn't notice anything. I think there was some small tweak to get rid of the warning and hit f1 to continue or whatever it was.
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If it's worth so much to so many people, why can't people simply accept that there are also people who find all of it useless and highly unimpressive?

Yeah, I would like to market pre-Facebook. In exactly the same way I wouldn't want to advertise with Stalin, no matter how effective his apparatus. I bet you there were people who couldn't understand that either.

My life is a painting. I already have brushes and paint, and while I could of course use more and better brushes and paint, there are also those offers to shit all over my painting for a truckload of generic, lame colours, and thousands of stamps with all sorts of shapes designed by "professionals", because making those with your own brush is just too hard. I say no to that, that is a net negative value for me. I don't live to earn money, I earn money to live. FB is right out. As the song goes: you might win some but you just lost one. Nothing more, but also never anything less.
I dunno, my friends (in their mid-late 20s) are much more active on Snapchat for stories. Most of the people I follow on Insta aren't my friends, so their stories aren't very interesting to me
Curiously, there doesn’t seem to be any of those hockey puck robots in this facility.

Any idea why not?
Not sure how you came to this conclusion - women are indeed competitive and men can, and do compete with women.

What I'm saying is that higher levels of testosterone in men increases their competitiveness and appetite for risk.

Depriving boys (and men) of an outlet for that competitiveness is folly. Expecting men to take up crocheting just because equality is folly.

I support giving men and women equal opportunity. I support any individual's choice. If a boy wants to play with other boys who are we to interfere? If a boy wants to play with girls or crochet, who are we to interfere?

FORCING equality, equivalence and absolute parity onto women and men will lead, I think, to societal problems. Androgynous sameness. History, and experience, has shown me that anything in the extreme is a recipe for disaster.

Who knows. I may be wrong (I've been wrong before), but I have yet to hear a compelling counter argument.
I've been using linode for everything for the last 10 years, AWS has always been something to look at.

There is value in the simplicity of just getting root on a Linux box and setting up from there yourself.

New employer has dedicated machines on site which definitely helps.

Once I give the main system a kick it will scream on a few year old Xeon.

I've seen far too many 'shove everything on AWS' approaches fail to undertake it lightly.
I definitely think that an apartment in the suburbs of a big city or a international REIT are the best options. Or perhaps pick a city, read up on future developments that are planned there and position yourself close to large retail and business developments.
Although maybe look at other investments, property doesn't really create wealth, it just benefits off the increasing demand for housing. You'll make money for sure, but be mindful, many young people like myself are stuck, we find it hard it own a home in home town due to over investment in the areas we grew up in and want to live. It's pretty anti-social in many ways. I feel investment in property is quite divisive.
I'm not some long haired socialist either, I'm a 32 year old working in computing for a while. I just don't have a stockpile of wealth. I also have no debt and good credit, but getting a mortgage for $400k+ is outside my capacity.
I think a decent investment option are cloud computing based ETFs, they have decent returns, and are essentially a 'tax' that is levied on some of the largest internet companies.
Just a thought.
Java, really? I'd rather gouge my eyes out and fill them with lava. Phoenix/Elixir/Erlang seem the natural choice. However those whom seek constant churn of language fashion don't care about utility and instead lionize popularity and novelty because the "grass is always greener" somewhere else with unicorns.
Now, how do you fit feminism into this plot?
Good article! Interesting concept, and relevant.
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Can't include both interest and inflation. It's one or the other, not both.
I think you need good regulation and that is difficult to achieve. Seriously you can ask the consumer to be a little knowledgeable but you can't ask all consumer to have the equivalence of master in Biology, Chemistry, Material science ... and conduct testing on their food, water, car
... when you have sophisticate actor with huge budget and can make profit by tricking consumer.
the effort required to write boilerplate code over and over again with no standard way I would guess...
Using new SO questions as a metric for popularity is kind of weird. I mean, if people keep asking questions and getting answers, at some point people looking for something already have an answer, right? Even when accounting for duplicates, you can expect the amount of new questions to lower with time.

I guess a better metric would be the amount of upvotes over time for questions and answers about a topic.
Money laundering is knowingly assisting criminal activities. You're actively hiding where the money comes from, exactly because you know it comes from illegal sources. (If the source were legal but embarrassing, all you'd need is standard bank privacy, not active laundering.)

The car-related analogy isn't a car manufacturer. It isn't even an anonymous, stealth rental car service (although plenty of crimes could benefit from it).

The analogy is a taxi service that advertises itself as willing and able to crash through police barricades.
Visa and MasterCard I guess
Their making overpriced sandals and are now surprised everyone can do the same, for cheaper, and get a piece of their pie. Well, doh.
Provided you can code all the necessary unsub/bounce/report modules and display logs yourself, AWS SES is the cheapest and it works well.
For us it takes too long for the messages to be received with mailgun.
Personally I'm fan of Google's Office Suite because it works so nicely via web browser, regardless of device type. It makes the device and OS irrelevant.
I am on mobile now, can't google efficiently, and the statistics here are lacking either way, but Swedish policy is to accept anyone who claims their are a minor and has no documents to prove otherwise - as a result, young people lose their docs and claim to be less than 18.

This was made widely public when a 23-year old who got asylum as a 17-year old killed a social worker at the asylum about a year ago, and investigation showed that at least 10% of "minor" asylum seekers at that place were above 20. Google may give you more details.
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So, be inconvenienced in every aspects important to a dev but gain a bit of confidence in your machine (as long as you trust Big-G)?

verified boot seems like the only advantage here. You can buy an ebay business-grade laptop with TPM for 40 bucks USD readily, and they don't require reliance on Google or the requirement that one uses a neutered OS. (yes, yes, it's secure. It's a users' platform. Development on chrome OS at this point is an act of masochism.)

If secure travel is your thing, stash your data on a cloud provider and pull it later after you arrive at your destination. Go whole-hog and travel without an SSD and buy a cheap one at your destination with cash. Sprinkle in some libreboot for more confidence.

It'll still be cheaper than a 200 dollar chromebook, and you probably won't have to deal with some of the worlds' worst chicklet keyboards.

P.S. don't travel with a yubikey that isn't partnered with another. Would be a bummer to lose.
There are a whole bunch of issues discussed here in paralel. Most, like all the back-channel stuff, are contractual issues and aren't really relevant to the consumer. Consumers can benefit from Amazon seeking product back channels.

Trademark violation (counterfeiting) is a different story. Unlike copyright or patents, trademarks are not there to protect the "owner" of the trademark in principle. It's there to protect consumers. You shouldn't be tricked into buying at a fake amazon. You shouldn't be tricked into buying a fake Toyota.

Amazon's tolerance of counterfeits is (very possibly) harmful to consumers, who can't reliably purchase the products they want.

Birkenstock have their own interests. One is competition from counterfeits.

The problem here is that this is a grey policy. If Amazon believes these counterfeit products are valuable and customer friendly, then label them as Birkenstock-imitaion or somesuch.
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Oh, cryptocurrencies, not coins; and lineage, not map.

Was really looking forward to a comparison of the historical range of the shekel vs. the denarius.
That is surmountable. You can use annotator agreement, and, algorithms don't need perfectly labeled data in order to improve.

Any effort to create additional medical datasets would probably help enhance machine learning diagnostics.

The data that you want to be perfect is the test set, which is smaller than training sets.
Ask HN: Why is installing things still so cumbersome?
On Ubuntu every time I want to install something I have to:
1) Google the installation instructions for whatever I'm trying to install
2) Collate all the steps I'm supposed to run
3) Copy all those instructions lines by line into the terminal, which most of the time boils down to adding a ppa / key, running curl to get some other script / binary etc

This quickly gets repetitive especially when setting up several computers. I apologize in advance if it's a silly question, but what's stopping our system package managers from cutting out all these steps? Why can't we apt-get / brew install everything yet? Or why doesn't websites just give a `install.sh` file with all the relevant instructions in it?

Relevant side note: I'm collating a bunch of these install scripts over at https://github.com/zweicoder/asd and https://github.com/zweicoder/asd-modules - very simple and preliminary but would love more feedback and input on this issue before I spend more time on it
I suppose that it's not meant to deal with errors normal to the use of the application (like not entering an email in an input) but rather to exceptions and JavaScript errors. I'm imagining stuff like receiving data of an unexpected format from the server, which might break your application in unexpected ways (i.e. put it in an undefined state that is hard to reason about and would make it better to just "show a generic error").
The screw-up was initiated by Alliansen (not the current government), by outsourcing this to IBM.

I'm not saying current government are free of blame here, but please stop trying to fit this into a "feminist" argument.
High level != Superset

Actually we often give up features and specialize with high level languages. That's why there are things easier to do in Ruby than in C++ and vice versa.

They are all (usually much more convenient) subsets of assembly.
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Only way to launder BTC - break the history chain, so to speak - is to first pull it out of the network - which requires either an exchange, or like a street deal (cash for BTC). Exchanges require identification so either there's a dodgy one that doesn't ask for that, or you get a mule.

Anyway, then you have cash money, you buy BTC back. Or keep the cash, I mean I wouldn't want to keep BTC if I had stolen it. It's pretty much worthless on its own - as proven by pretty much all media always going about $4 billion instead of 600K+ BTC.
Wireline telephone is without a doubt a utility. If they say wireless replaces wireline that means wireless is a utility as well.
Haven't done any calculations but I would guess half of the Earth circumference? because if you want to minimize the length of the rope then you have to maximize distance between those two points.
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Thank you. Here goes the 2 or so hours of me doodling away.. :)
Don't be so sure they aren't. They have every incentive in the world to lie. They already violated international law once by seeking refugee status in Sweden instead of first peaceful port.

Either way, even if they are just 16, it does not change the fact that two years later, the vast majority of adult refugees are male.
Since you said its for a pet project, I am not really sure why you need a company but if you really want one why dont you open in our mom's name in your own home country (assuming its an online business)
I partially agree...but...
I would say that Ruby/RoR usage is really regional and that is visible in the US,UK,Japan and bunch of other places. Remember that Java/C# were really popular even before Android and mobile platforms. Java was the obvious choice in the Android era, C# slowly caught up with the Xamarin and new initiatives like .NET CORE and CoreRT.
Javascript / NodeJS got really popular because of the low barrier and huge community and fast adoption rate by large corporations.

Ruby(VM) is unfortunate for not attracting critical mass of users and capital. I mean cmon you can't really compare jvm.clr,v8 and ruby vm. It really is unfair. Ruby supports a lot of magic,different paradigm and the runtimes mentioned earlier received billions in funding over decades. Of course they are "fast".

I mean you need really expensive ingredients to succeed in 21st century in tech. You can be fast and elegant (Crystal,Nim) but what does it matter if you are not mature enough (java,c#,js). Or you are mature enough (ruby and its ecosystem) but you are not fast enough and you did not try enough to cover other markets (adoption by big companies was fairly low, Rubymotion was a poorly executed project so no Android/iOS coverage because of the high costs and lack of interest from community)
Is that word from the same root as arquebus?
The members of the merchant navy were the most ill-treated group of service people in Britain during the war.
These were the seamen who crewed the cargo ships
transporting food, munitions and fuel across the Atlantic, and e.g. to Murmansk in Northern Russia, etc.
Their casaulty rates were higher than any branch of the armed forces except bomber command.
As civilians, on shore leave it was common for them to be abused for not being in uniform.
After the war they were given no recognition and did not have any official representation at commemorations.
But one of the most unfair aspects of their treatment was the fact that the day their ship was sunk was the day their pay stopped.
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I don't know why they are making such a big deal out if it?!

I always thought Sweden is such a transparent society with open insights into how much everbody is earning and so on.

What do they have to hide? /s
Separating credible transfer stories from fakes in soccer using machine learning
Day and night, like every other soccer fan out there, I keep listening to all kind of rumors from reliable and unreliable sources. Yesterday, I came across this funny video from DreamTeam guys(they have a fantasy app) that kind of elaborates on how these transfer rumours are created. Here is the link:

https://www.facebook.com/dreamteamfc/videos/1609663819052536/

To solve such problems, We have an elaborate discussion going on in our /r/ChelseaFC subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/chelseafc/comments/6p8sv5/transfer_news_reliability_guide_ver_20/) as well. Another very sincere effort is being done by the friends at WeAintGotNoHistory with their transfer tracker (https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/chelsea-fc-transfer-rumours-news/2017/6/12/15780950/chelsea-2017-summer-transfer-window-tracker).

However, these are all manual and it must require lot of effort, plus the it's almost impossible to have all the data and consider all the aspects.

I was thinking of implementing an algorithm that would consider all the aspects regarding the player before predicting whether a transfer is viable or not (or atleast give it a probability score. 10% means not happening. 80% would mean it's hot).

Aspects can be loyalty of the player towards the parent club, relationship with the manager, happiness index, salary that the bidding club has to offer, age, role that he is playing right now and role he would play in bidding team, ambitions, sources reporting the story and other aspects that we can discuss in the comments. Using machine learning, it would be possible to analyze this kind of data and create a transfer probability chart.

What is your feedback? Do you think this kind of system would be useful and solve few of our problems? Do you already know some app or service that does it? Also, if you want to collaborate on this for providing any kind of input (regarding building a solid algorithm or coding it), please let me know via comments.
> If anything, if they're scared of counterfeits, they should have listed the genuines even more aggressively, to get more of the views that would have gone to the counterfeits.

It's ultimately the responsibility of the market place to ensure that illegal, possibly trademark breaching products are not on sale. That is their job. Amazon failed, and continues to fail to do that. From this perspective I can understand why makers don't want Amazon to sell their stuff. Which may raise enough attention to finally do more against counterfeits.

In the end, it benefits us all.
1/10th of what you expected is close to nothing though.
I am not saying you're wrong but I'd like some advice on what to buy. The x220 I've never seen dip below $100 with 4GB RAM and a hard disk or at least a caddy.

Thank you for your help.
This argument doesn't make much sense to me. Running is hard on your body sure. Lots of load on muscles and joints.

But then you use as argument 'extremely biased towards aerobic capabilities'. This argument doesn't make any sense. People have only very limited capability of anaerobic exercise. At the same time people are build to exercise aerobically almost forever.
Consumers don't need to be experts to discover organizations that use experts to create standards for safe food, and only buy products certified by said organization.

Regulation is about controlling what other people buy, which I find to be absolutely unjustifiable. If you don't want unsafe food, you should deliberately avoid it. The problem is no government or private company provides any kind of certification on this.
We've had quite a lot of experience using Amazon SES, as we run an email marketing platform on it. We run both our marketing and transactional emails using it for https://emailoctopus.com.

If you're already using AWS then I'd definitely look at SES. I appreciate the price may seem too cheap, but the service is now used by huge companies for their transactional emails, the likes of Netflix rely heavily on it. As long as you configure your set-up correctly with DKIM/SPF I'd be surprised if you ran into too many delivery problems. Also worth noting they now offer dedicated IPs, for a not too costly monthly fee.
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Through, any enhancement to GPL code that one author oneself can be independent licensed under any compatible license such as BSD. The only code that a BSD + GPL project that can't be used under BSD is the GPL code that other people wrote.

So to take an example, someone could write a GCC patch that is licensed under BSD, and then later use the same patch in clang.