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I can't believe there are so many people starting to use Pascal/Delphi around 14.

I started at that age too. It was around 2002. I was told that a good way to start on computers was to attend in local IOI competitions, and that's what I did.

During the competitions, our team chose Pascal for its clarity. The official IDE they gave us was Turbo Pascal, which was really a decent environment (though I hardly realized this until I tried out other dev tools later). The friendliness in Pascal/Delphi towards developers can really date back to those days, and is laying deep in the language's genes.

Unfortunately, the previous "graphical" programs I wrote, before I got a hold on Pascal, was some simple Logo drawing dots and lines. And I had a terribly wrong impression that building GUIs are boring. So I skipped the chance of digging into the Delphi world, until I was in college. But then the Pascal/Delphi ecosystem was already decaying. I still feel bad for missing the golden era.
>closing the fuel cycle loop in a way that is proliferation resistant

Isn't simply using a non-PUREX reprocessing method sufficient? Realistically, a "nuclear club" nation like the US/France/GB only needs to ensure that the reprocessed fuel contains enough non-Pu239 isotopes that any attempt at a bomb with stolen Pu would necessarily fizzle. The fact that the nation itself could (theoretically) produce Pu239 via the process and cause "proliferation" seems far fetched in the absence of the Cold War level rivalry that was the original proliferation impetus. Warheads are expensive. Nobody who already has a bunch of them already is really interested in making more.
I don't know much about developing markets, but I feel like most phones have for years come in 16, 32, 64, and 128 GB sizes. In any event, I'm not sure someone in a developing country with the absolute cheapest smart phone available is necessarily the kind of user Uber has in mind. I'd be skeptical of the idea that reducing app size is the most revenue-driving thing they could do to their app.
S3 transfer inbound is free, from anywhere. You'd use several dedicated servers consuming a queue of urls to warc package and push into S3, no vpc or IPSec tunnel required (random S3 key prefix ftw to prevent creating bucket hotspots).

Then you'd hope someone came along with a big chunk of AWS credits to use snowball to migrate your bucket(s) of data to the Internet Archive when they could safely accept said data.
Yep. In this case one is really in another league than the other.

We are not talking about the Russian. We are not talking about the Arabs. We are talking about the Anders Bering Breiviks, the Timothy McVeighs, the real nazis of 2017 and of course ISIS.
How do you know for that sure it will reduce the number of animal lives and reduce CO2? Farming the plants needed to produce this fake meat takes up land, potentially (and most likely) more land needed to produce equal amounts of meat.

Unless they are running a completely solar operation and managing their farms using a system of rotational grazing that sequesters CO2, they most certainly are emitting it.

I see this as only mildly better than CAFOs. Employing holistic management techniques is still the best, and unfortunately, under appreciated way to produce meat in an ethical, sustainable way that also generates new fertile soil and sequesters carbon/methane as a side effect.
The lesson I got from Fukushima is that, if we have a reactor, we need to take care of it. I think Fukushima was neglected because people didn't like it. I see this as more of a political issue. The lessons learned summary[0] hints at this.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK253923/
Budget has always been their disadvantages, yet in the pre-Chrome days, they were core product focused and won many developers support. Their vision was once inspiring and admirable. This was how they won over IE. However, ever since Chrome was introduced, most of their innovations are either catch up or gimmicky features - not to mention the political turmoil/non sense. I really wish they can focus on their core product again.
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> SVG graphics are clean, result in NO blur at all. They don't even need any Truetype-style hinting. You've probably looked only at early non-conforming implementations using bad approximations.

This huge wall of text but apparently you don't understand the subject matter all that deeply. Why wouldn't SVG need hinting? Truetype needs hinting and it's a vector format as well.
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Vimium-FF <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/> is the only Vim-keyboard-binding plugin I know that will work with Firefox 57 and above. I haven't noticed any scroll jankiness as you describe, but it's possible I have my key-repeat-delay set low enough that it doesn't affect me.
Doxxing means sharing people's relevant personal details that you gained without the targets consent.

In the case of malicious scammers, doxxing them so they can be cut off from other code repositories seems less like "vigilante justice" and more like "a public responsibility."
I wonder how much a publicly traded company could act upon their values, as opposed to the primary value of seeking value for shareholders. For instance, if an Apple or Amazon takes a stand and ends up having to pull out of China, would that be grounds for a shareholder lawsuit?
That's going to be up to you, the Amazon employee.

Personally, I'm able to distinguish myself from the company and I my identity isn't the company's, so I wouldn't see a need to quit my job over something like this.
Not true at all. The battery isn't replaceable, other parts are more likely to break, and it's not clear to me that the Apple Watch even has a high quality quartz crystal inside it for accurate time-keeping. It might simply be grabbing the time off the linked cell phone, which grabs the time off the cell network. Do Apple Watches work well independently of linked phones for months on end? Years? Because that'll be necessary if you want to keep using one decades down the line long after they're no longer supported by whatever phone replacements have come down the line next.
I believe Firefox Focus (on Android and iOS) uses the OS native web view (effectively, Chrome or Safari), but the actual Firefox for Android uses Gecko.
Carl Ichan is just angry that vote-free shares aren't useful for corporate raiding and pillaging. No casual investor cares about voting power.

This move is bad for employees and founders, and good for Wall street. Don't buy into the narrative.
How is the Apple Watch that inaccurate? Does it not have a quartz crystal in it? Even mediocre mechanical watches do better than a minute per day.
If you do have a platform for such discussion let me know, I would love to talk a bit more about the idea. It has been a burning concept in my mind.
You put the two agents in a game situation and watch the score. If they fail to communicate effectively, they won't be able to cooperate.
What is the goal in discussing something if there is no proof? I just don't quite understand.

If there was evidence of such loopholes, people could demand change from their representatives. Without proof, I guess the only thing someone can do is repeat it in any IC-related thread on HN to get some easy karma points (Seens to work well!).
I don't believe it does. Last time I was using it, we had to free memory manually. This was probably 2008 or so. They may have added it since.
Somewhat agreed, maven is a build tool and packages it downloads do not execute code through maven. This does not preclude malicious typosquatting packages making it into applications built using it, but does provide some option for reducing the attack surface.

In practice I think most developers would be running their project on the same exact box as they use for building it, which nullifies the separation of build/runtime environment. The reason that we don't typically see egregious typosquatting in the Java ecosystem is that Sonatype has a manual check on the claimed namespace for the organization publishing a project (among other checks). npm, Inc. could do this, but they so far have chosen not to.

Edit: Typos/clarity
While I don't recall any leaks specific to piracy investigations, there were numerous leaks proving NSA involvement in cases which could in no way be described as relating to terrorism.

Off the top of my head:

- NSA surveillance of the semi-public Brazilian oil company Petrobras: http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents...

- NSA tapped the phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/merkel-calls-obama...

- NSA spying of Indian diplomats to uncover details about their nuclear and space programs: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-among-top-target...

This article is a decent compilation of Snowden-related stories from the first year after his leaks: http://www.businessinsider.com/snowden-leaks-timeline-2016-9
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Eventually they will find out that the cost is too high and the profit is too low. The make deal with Satan
It's no surprise. Even if Apple or Amazon wanted to resist this, they won't get any competent support from the current US administration. The strategy for the time being seems to be "don't rock the boat" for US businesses right now.
Two 1/4 lb. frozen patties are around $6. I've never been a fan of veggie burgers, but these really do taste excellent and the nutrition profile is great.
Could you expand on this point?
I haven't heard of any such lawsuit against Google.
It's per serving.

Obviously, it's easier to compare if they are all relative to 100g, but arguably per-serving is more useful when making eating decisions. When I'm buying a food, I'm not trying to do science; I'm trying to figure out how much of a particular nutrient I'm personally going to get when I eat that item.

For example, if I have soup, there's no way I'll have as little as 100g of it. If I have tea, there's no way I'm going to have as much as 100g of tea leaves. The mass of a serving could be 1 or even 2 orders of magnitude different depending on the type of food.

Serving sizes are required by law to be "based on amounts of foods and beverages that people are actually eating" (see https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocument... ).
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ZTC was a fantastic compiler, that is until it was purchased by Symantec, renamed, and become slow and bloated.

I could even say something similar about turbo c vs turbo c++, but that was more due to the language issues with c++ vs c.
Yep, the splcenter page mentions and links to https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/28/speaki...
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I'm sure they've spent plenty of time running the numbers
If you connect to my resources and use my systems to hurt other people, you don't really have an ethical leg to stand on if I share what details about you I have with law enforcement and other service providers.

It's absolutely an attack, but it's an "attack" of a kind that is acting to end misuse and widespread tampering. It's difficult to imagine a coherent ethical system that gives the author of malicious software an expectation of privacy as they attack other people, violating similar rights.
My /dev/random sometimes outputs poetry. How's that not endearing?
And doesn't load at all with cookies off too (javascript on). Looks handy though.
IAU is made of astronomers (i.e. People who study stars and stuff), not so many planetary scientists (who specifically study planets).
Well,

You can't really say "it's the safest kind of energy of all - except when you don't do the right thing, then it's scary" because the chance that people are going to do the wrong thing has to be an inherent part of any risk analysis.

Nuclear might be safer than coal and oil but coal and oil are established and nuclear is marginal most places. More people might die falling from roofs installing their solar panel than die from nuclear power "done right" but hey, if they'd installed their solar panels right, they too wouldn't have died either.

But finally, renewable allow relatively incremental development - you can gradually add solar panels and wind-generators and see if the investment pans out. Nuclear requires vast gobs of investment and you only learn if it's a good idea, provides good total positive returns, over a long time frame, just as you're expected to store your pollution over a large time frame.

So nuclear's prospects don't look good, don't seem like they should be good, etc.
> I seriously doubt the NSA was tasked with working a non-terrorism related piracy case, but that's me.

There are many examples of NSA and Five Eyes spying that have absolutely nothing to do with terrorism (though afaik none specific to copyright infringement). I linked to a handful in this other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14907667
At the time, music devices were using serial connections if you can believe that, and FireWire was the fastest thing on the market, only available with iPods.

Can't remember that. Mine had usb, was available before iPod and the speed never bothered me.
Not necessarily. You should be able to write a halting computation to determine whether a number is prime in a Turing complete language. It may be stupid hard to encode, or take a really long time to run, however.

The halting problem says that you can't write a halting decision procedure that takes an arbitrary program as input and determines whether that program halts, for any program. That doesn't mean that no programs halt. On the contrary, most programs in Turing complete languages obviously do halt and it's often trivial to tell if a particular program halts or not (e.g., `print "hello"` obviously halts). A Turing complete language can compute anything that is computable. So if the type system is Turing complete, you should be able to type a function that only takes primes... in theory.
That's fine, but gpg signatures would do nothing to prevent this and widy scaled webs of trust don't exist.
Erm, how does taking money off the table when raising a round work? (just never heard of it)
> many Muslims

There's the problem. Many other Muslims also have a representation of Muhammad on their walls on home so clearly have no problem with it.

Why should we take any position at all?
The actual planet itself is very active geologically and has a whole system of moons. The only reason you'd say it's very unlike the other 8 is due to orbital dynamics, i.e. due to other bodies besides itself. This is a strongly anti-planetary-science bias, IMHO.
That is correct as long as you don't hit the corner cases.
"Wearable Fitness Devices Don’t Seem to Make You Fitter"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/upshot/wearable-fitness-d...
And it has a market cap of just over 200 million dollars [1]. Makes me wonder why Apple wouldn't simply buy the company. They can more than easily afford it.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VHC
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It's an interesting question. "Intellectual terrorism" may not be that much of a stretch.

Nuclear power, for instance, received the same degree of FUD from uninformed commentators for decades that we're starting to see applied to ML and AI now. As a result, we clung to the precautionary principle and burned fossil fuels instead. The human toll associated with that decision, in terms of premature deaths and disabilities, will eventually run into the millions if it hasn't already.

I hope Elon Musk has thought his anti-AI arguments through farther than the activists and journalists of the 1960s and 1970s did. His voice is a powerful one with far-reaching influence. He could do a lot of good with it, or a lot of harm.
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That's going to be up to you, the Amazon employee.

Personally, I'm unwilling to work for a company who's values are in severe opposition to my own, so I would probably quit my job over something like this (if I felt strongly enough about it).
Some may be bigger than Earth, yet still classed as dwarf planets. Therefore, I think the definition is BS as it has nothing to do with the planet itself (such as its geography, size, etc) but only the bodies around it.
Are you sure? Cows eat plants. The footprint from cows is largely due to the fact that you need 14 pounds of grain per pound of cow, if I remember correctly. Unless these burgers are somehow taking 14 pounds of grain to produce per pound of burger, I think we're in a better place.

That said, eliminating cows I still don't think will help the environment. That freed up land will be bought and used for some other purpose. It's natural capitalism. If you want to fix the environment, you need heavy penalities / taxes for nonsustainable resource usage. That's the only way.
The last watch he/she had, got broken when they broke a stool and fell over at McDonalds.
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Strategy has always been dont rock the boat, just as during dismantling of US car industry, or TV industry.

Frontline: Coming From Japan [The Fall Of The US Television Industry] (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aesJTsZqm6c
Most bloggers are not experts. Most experts are not bloggers. I wouldn't sweat it. If you have something to say, say it.
They do have influence here (in US) and there (in China). They should certainly comply with law and push for change together with US government. If change is not happening and laws aren't just then they certainly should leave.
You are quoting me out of context. I originally said i3 is simple in a reply to a post complaining about KDE and GNOME, both of which are hugely complex installations of numerous libraries and services. So complex in fact, that they cannot be made to work reliably. Granted i3 provides substantially less functionality, but this comes from being simple.

Your examples above are mostly common configuration issues, easy to find with Google. Even a Windows user would likely need to Google many things (e.g. disabling forced updates, privacy settings, registry hacks).

I'm also skeptical that Gnome or KDE will make it significantly easier to solve such configuration issues. Do they even allow settings to be easily moved to another machine? Unfortunately Linux in general will always need some tweaking to work with specific hardware.
I unconsciously love my Watch. The battery life has improved MASSIVELY since Gen1, the fitness stuff is groovy, being able to control music is handy, alarms and notifications are brilliant.

Just being able to not take my phone with me when I go for a (admittedly half-arsed) run, is worth the price of admission.
At this point I'm really thinking that Atom, Sublime et al are lost causes. If plugins makers will add their own telemetry I'll just go back to vim and be done with it.
Definitely a middle ground but that's not what is being occupied here.
All of this seems fixable by just providing decent UI protections. Error when typo-squat domains near-alias more popular packages; force them to pass a flag to override.

Is there a reason this isn't done, or has it just not been allocated the time to build it?
Technically Mossberg was in the photo: he's out of focus on the right side facing away from the camera.
>potentially (and most likely) more land needed to produce equal amounts of meat

Please explain this in more detail.

>and sequesters carbon/methane as a side effect

I have not heard of a farming practice that sequesters methane released from ruminants. Can you provide more information?
How do recruiters know about your blog that your conversion rate went up to 30-40%?
One man's Freedom Fighter is another man's terrorist.

[edit: Or for a different point: does this mean that US airfoce reqruitment videos for drone pilots would be censored by Google in Yemen?]
Ouch. I refuse to do coding assignments. In this case, they're likely using your work to make money with their clients.
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> Dealing with hardware versus software is vastly different.

I agree; it's important not to read too much (which may be anything!) into the analogy. I just meant that there's a trade-off between flexibility and optimisation, and mentioned the first example of that trade-off that came to mind.
If you are software engineer, then you are spoiled for choice. When I left Bing, their censorship in China (unlike Google) was a minor reason for me leaving. So, while it wasn't the reason, it did contribute to my decision to leave.
And, again, we (SWEs) are spoiled for choice, hence taking issues like this into the account is certainly possible.
Agreed. In China, the government controls the flow of money. Sadly, there's a saying among us Chinese netizens: "China is now powerful/rich enough, that no one can actually save us from it."
Cows don't need grain. Grain feeding is part of industrial meat production that is highly detrimental to the environment. Feeding cows grass (and rotating them) though has the total opposite effect. It creates soil that can hold more water and sequester carbon. So it eliminates the need for grain production because cows simply eat grass while naturally fertilizing it.

Huge fan of a carbon tax.
If you think that outcome is likely to happen, you might make decisions not to put yourself in that situation. Uncertainty around US immigration and borders would be a very understandable reason to not start a startup in the US. Why start it here when you might be legally prevented from running it next year?
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You are making a way bigger deal out of this than it is.

Exchanges can quite easily protect themselves.

All they have to do is increase the confirmation time before they "accept" coins.

The longer you wait, the more secure your coins are. I would suspect that a day is easily enough time to be confident that a double spend won't happen.
It seems like an arbitrary criterion and God forbid Google starts investing into future growth a la Amazon, but you're right, as long as the profits are rolling in, the interests are aligned. When the music stops, it's yet another GRPN or ZNGA.
They are looking better. Or, maybe I'm giving into the design?

That said, I see so many for sale on CL.

The iPod was revolutionary because it took all that stolen music, and put it on a very slick device. I don't see the comparison. Plus, we were all sitting around with so much music on our hard drives. Being able to listen to music while outside was great. Hell--I even miss the original ITunes.

I'm a big watch guy, and considered buying a broken iwatch. I would never walk into a Apple Store and buy new, but might but a broken one, or an older one, but for no more than a C note.