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I don't understand the claim that moderates have no voice in the United States.

I'm not American, but have spent quite a lot of time in the country. From my point of view, most of the media is moderate left -- and they have a very loud voice indeed. The extreme left exists but has very little visibility compared to France, for example. (That is convenient for right-wing press like Breitbart, because it lets them paint boogeymen inside the outlines of shapeless outrage-based movements like Black Lives Matter.)

American moderate right is a strange group. Polls suggest they have a lot of support, but their leaders seem to have decided not to use their voice. It's not like they're being silenced -- more like they're afraid to speak up. A few people like Senator Jeff Flake are a counterexample that shows what the American right could be, if they decided to stop pandering to an incompatible mishmash of base instincts at the fringe of their party.
Apple Watch sales are up 50%

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/01/apple-watch-sales-up-over-...

I’d say they are simply trying to grow their market.
> it's easy to live to 100 years old, just give up all the things that make you want to live until 100

Oh-so cool.

This makes me mull about the role that moderation plays in a person's overall happiness and success in life.
I think the title of the article does not accurately reflect the author's thesis, which is more like "trending tech may not be the best solution to your problem". I agree that riding the hype train instead of using established "mundane" tools is probably a bad idea for most problems, but exploring existing tech that might help you also qualifies as "tech-driven problem-solving" IMHO
> You can't tell me that writing Rust is as easy as writing Go for example.

Sure I can! I've been writing Go and Rust daily for years. Both come pretty easy to me. But that's because I've been using both for quite a long time now. Do I sometimes stumble and wonder, "How do I represent my data in the cleanest way in Rust?" Sure! But the same happens in Go too.

Rust was definitely harder to learn, and it took me longer to reach proficiency. With Go, I can't recall much of a learning period. It was pretty much off to the races on day 1. With Rust, there were some growing pains for a few weeks before things clicked.

However, I don't actually disagree with your larger point! I am only one person, and what I find easy or hard might be completely different for another person. For example, I had written quite a bit of Haskell and C before coming to Rust, which turned out to be pretty good preparation. Not everyone has that background, which might make the learning experience worse (or better) than mine.
+1 - one of my favorite books and one of the best books on the use of power in american government that currently exists. His series on Lyndon Johnson is also incredible.
One very interesting finding of the study is that woman and men are faring equally once the attrition is removed.

It seemed to me that the natural conclusion was that woman have lower confidence and thus performed worse at interviews.

And this is a deep realization for me, because it pushes me in the direction of current diversity policies. You see, if there is perceived bias against you, then you lose confidence. So we must, for a while, try our best to remove that perfection. That might mean hiring more woman even if they don't seem to perform as well as men, because, once we have done that for a while, woman will feel more confident and the good candidates will appear.

In any case - whether my last paragraph makes sense or not - the conclusion of the experiment interviewing.io did is that only removing gender perception during the interview process isn't enough, for woman may already have been affected by the bias and thus will perform worse than men during the interview.

So we come back to the conclusion that we must invest to bring woman to tech early - during college or even high school - and fight biases there.

It's a long road anyway, isn't it?
Spotify uses Chromium Embedded Framework, not Electron - doesn't change your argument, but it's good to know.

Source: https://www.quora.com/How-did-Spotify-make-a-multiplatform-l...
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They can refuse to answer questions

Which is what LinkedIn did, and what HiQ is suing them over.
OK, so the implication being that we need more democrats from the far-left, or a collective shift by existing members in that direction?

Neither extremes of the spectrum have a particularly good track record, so you'll have to excuse my preference for moderation.
Do you plan to add support for https://duckduckgo.com/ or https://www.yandex.com/ ?
>BLM look ridiculous too

Protesting that cops kill black people and face no legal consequences is ridiculous?
If you think the polarization of politics contributes to violence, it seems like a fair point.

Honestly, it's probably too soon to be making political points. But then people are looking for political wins in the aftermath (resignations and shunning I guess?), so I don't see how that sort of thing is on the table. Seems like uneven expectations about what decent people should do in the face of tragedy.
Personally, I do think it should be legal to decrypt them.
I thought Nosedive was more of a "Look what we might turn into" thing. The government didn't have much to do with it (except dragging her away when she has a knife). It was a defacto dystopia. For instance, that truck driver who ditches the system isn't getting tortured as a dissident by the gov.

China's vision is much worse.

* Everybody is measured by a score between 350 and 950, which is linked to their national identity card. While currently supposedly voluntary, the government has announced that it will be mandatory by 2020.

* The system is run by two companies, Alibaba and Tencent, which run all the social networks in China and therefore have access to a vast amount of data about people’s social ties and activities and what they say.

* In addition to measuring your ability to pay, as in the United States, the scores serve as a measure of political compliance. Among the things that will hurt a citizen’s score are posting political opinions without prior permission, or posting information that the regime does not like, such as about the Tienanmen Square massacre that the government carried out to hold on to power, or the Shanghai stock market collapse.

* It will hurt your score not only if you do these things, but if any of your friends do them. Imagine the social pressure against disobedience or dissent that this will create. Anybody can check anyone else’s score online. Among other things, this lets people find out which of their friends may be hurting their scores.

* Also used to calculate scores is information about hobbies, lifestyle, and shopping. Buying certain goods will improve your score, while others (such as video games) will lower it.

* Those with higher scores are rewarded with concrete benefits. Those who reach 700, for example, get easy access to a Singapore travel permit, while those who hit 750 get an even more valued visa.

* Sadly, many Chinese appear to be embracing the score as a measure of social worth, with almost 100,000 people bragging about their scores on the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.

From http://boingboing.net/2015/10/06/reputation-economy-dystopia...
Performance.

Windows 8 was also AOT compiled to native code, but using the old Bartok toolchain from Singularity(MDIL).

UWP is what Longhorn should have been in first place, if WinDev and DevTools actually worked together.

COM based OS ABI fully native, to the point only VB and C# are used in most Windows talks, even for the new UI composition engine.

C++ is still there for the kernel, device drivers, audio and graphical critical performance components like DirectX.

Everything else can enjoy the productivity of .NET languages and respective tooling.

Which meant that any of my WP 8.x and 10 devices run considerably faster than Android devices of similar price range, while having less overall memory requirements.
I don't think so? That doesn't appear to support escaping quotes by doubling them (instead, it only supports the \" variety), but doubling quotes is the standard escaping mechanism for CSV data.
Should businesses be mindless profit seeking machines, without care for the moral, social and environmental consequences of their actions? If the answer to this question is "no", then should they seek to benefit and protect particular communities constrained by national boundaries? Or should they seek to benefit and protect communities globally? None of these questions are easy. I do not have an answer, and can well understand those who answer "yes" to the first question out of fear of tackling the second ... but it is something that we developers will need to be increasingly aware of in the coming age of the DAO.
I've worked at a large financial services company and a large medical billing company who both thought they could use big data and machine learning to monetize customers(!) data. Niether had expertise with either. One muddled through with local talent, the other brought in a ph.d ML guy. Both spent millions and got nothing in return. Anecedotal, but representative I believe.
Bonds comprise the vast majority of assets on the balance sheet of the central bank, so why not?

When gold was the primary asset on the balance sheet of central banks, we said that their currency was backed by gold. So why isn’t it backed by bonds now, when they have replaced gold in this regard?
It's like sneaking up on someone from behind with a knife to slit their throat while talking about how they just "should" accept that, but since they won't, you have to force it on them. And of course people who say different things with different sides of their mouth don't see a problem with that. Of course people who identify with necrophilia more than biophilia don't see a problem with that. Blind people walking across paintings don't see a problem with that.
Google and GoDaddy are private businesses. They are allowed to not do business with sites they find repugnant if they like.

The current headline on the Stormer is "Badass Cop Expresses Full Support for Running Over Fatties Charlottesville-Style" by the way. If I was running the domain registrar I'd have little enthusiasm for Nazi enthusiasts encouraging murder either.
US demands details of 1.3m visitors to anti-Trump site in crackdown on protestor
"A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace. This is a book of magazine articles he wrote for various publications on a range of topics. His powers of observation are unlike any other. the articles are hilarious, sad, thought provoking, and insightful all at once.
As the title says, it took him more than 2 days to arrive at this marvelous revelation.
String. Coat hangers. Bits of wire. Sticks as fishing rods. We tried various ways and in the end I mainly used some conductive cotton thread that I bought from Adafruit ages ago. It was strong enough to take a lot of weight, but nice and thin too.

For the heavy stuff I just had to hold it and then photoshop my legs and arms out.
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What is it with business media fawning over SEALs? It has nonstop SEAL articles.

The articles all suffer from the same problem: they tell you the results, implying that reading about them will get you the results, at least partly.

If that were the case, SEALs would just read these articles. They don't because reading the articles doesn't get you results. Training does. It's like expecting to get strong by reading about lifting weights.

People who want the results would do better by training. You don't have to train like a SEAL to get helpful results in business, but you need to do more than just read.
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DreamHost fights government seeking 1.3M IP addresses of DisruptJ20
Which is why the crazies surround themselves with such a wall of ignorance and paranoia that they can no longer seem to distinguish academia, liberalism and islamic fundamentalism. The world must appear as such an undifferentiated wall of hostility and threat to them...
You're right about this and it took a few international responses to remind me of how messed up college is in the US. It's easy to forget that some countries have it much better off than the norm here.

What's more is the example I used for the US is on the low end.

The average annual tuition (with room and board) from the US Department of Education is $16k public and $42k private [1].

> For the 2014–15 academic year, average annual current dollar prices for undergraduate tuition, fees, room, and board were estimated to be $16,188 at public institutions, $41,970 at private nonprofit institutions, and $23,372 at private for-profit institutions.

What's more jarring is that these numbers are a bit cooked to blend 4-year and 2-year schools whereas most students don't consider community colleges (which grants Associate's degrees vs Bachelor's… I'm not sure if every country has something similar).

The actual average annual numbers in cureent dollars (as of 2014-2015) are $18,632 for 4-year public and $37,990 for 4-year private. For some reason the private numbers blend nonprofit and for-profit private schools whereas a figure excluding for-profit would probably be more accurate.

[1]: https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76
I shall henceforth read "covfefe" as "kerfuffle". Thank you, dear sir.
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He didn't aim to piss off all his coworkers, he posted a memo in an internal forum designated for that explicit purpose, i.e. "skeptics". It was the sjw-types clutching pearls who sent it around and who leaked it to the press.

Damore engaged within the reasonable rules of debate. The people who disagreed turned it into a witch hunt and the media piled on with misrepresentation.

Damore is not the only person with agency at Google. Pinning it all on him as a scapegoat is ridiculous.
Those were the days. Sadly, of the issues for which Candidate Trump was politically moderate, few have survived into his presidency. Actually, I can't think of any.
Yet Apple is #3 after Xiaomi and fitbit, with more Asian companies closing in.

I think Apple needs this deal more than they admit.
Most people I know that started business, cared about their company, not about turning the company into a product to sell.
Also known as "fad", "buzzword" or "solution looking for a problem". The blockchain and big data are good examples. Some past examples are the internet of things and the semantic web.
Dunno - I'm fine with opposing censorship apart from stuff like child porn. What's so bad about moral compasses?
You're equating racists crowing over the death of someone at the hands of a racist (that was in all likelihood a reader of their site) with "sites that talk about Google fiber".

I mean, I've seen some daft "whataboutisms" this past week but this is amazing.
Intel is chip manufacturing company. What can be more relevant than this?
How to use a custom local dev url without having to edit the hosts file
> If you think the polarization of politics contributes to violence, it seems like a fair point.

I'm sure it does. Now, who exactly is doing the polarizing here?

> Honestly, it's probably too soon to be making political points.

On the contrary, it is probably way too late. Now the question is how much damage will be done before the landslide is arrested. My sense of that: all bets are off.

> But then people are looking for political wins in the aftermath (resignations and shunning I guess?), so I don't see how that sort of thing is on the table.

Giving up on the administration is not a political win, it is damage control.

> Seems like uneven expectations about what decent people should do in the face of tragedy.

It depends on your definition of 'decent' how you read that.
It might be a good choice to switch to postgres, but it isn't like MySQL isn't innovating too. 8.0 will have a ton of features. This includes a bunch of "catch up" things like CTEs and SKIP LOCKED, but also stuff like synchronous replication built in.
I personally dont't think Trump is a Nazi.

But it seems he doesnt mind Nazi support and is not willing to piss them off if it costs him their vote.
> he co-authored a letter to FDR with Leo Szilard recommending that the US research atomic weapons.

That should clue you in about how this has nothing to do with "pacifism". It would be more pacifistic to not express disgust than to express it, and it would be more pacifistic for me to not comment. Yet here we are.

To oppose death and its apprentices, you do NOT have to march in rank and file, and you DON'T need "heroism on command". You have to organize, but there is nothing there that cannot spring from strength and cooperation. It doesn't have to be weakness and obedience under the guise of "leadership" and "team spirit".
This sounds like the perfect opportunity for a documentary project, well beyond just a write-up. What an awesome example to be so close to!
Thanks for your downvote; it substantially aids your argument.

As I've said, the book does re-package some millennia old ideas and adds couple of hundreds usages of the f*ck world -- because it's of highest priority to be witty for some, apparently. Hell, CBT essentially does the same -- but it doesn't feels witty as it should be, right? Witty is of utmost importance after all.
Well decaf does contain caffeine, just less of it.
Ask HN: Should i publish my fork?
I first forked language-java (https://github.com/vincenthz/language-java) without the intention of publishing it, i just wanted to add a few features and if it's useful create t pull request to the original project. Here is my fork: https://github.com/exemplator/java-parser

But then things got out of hand, i discovered significant bugs and realised that the features require a complete rework of fundamental parts of the library. I have since touched nearly every line of the project and completely broke backwards-compatibility. Since i think the bug-fixes and features introduced would benefit a wider audience, should i publish my project? This might be a personal thing, but i have to confess that i don't like trying to merge huge amounts of work upstream into private repositories. I like programming and a lot of thought went into my changes, so i want at least some recognition for it (even if nobody ever notices it). Also, the original project is pretty much unmaintained and the work feels wasted if it just disappears into an unmaintained project. So, what should i do?
The more you think like that, the less control you have.
No, my point is that moderate SHOULD mean somewhere in the middle. But if the geometric middle is moved 100 yards right, then "moderate" loses its meaning.

The "left" is moderate, the current right is something else.
So, what's your position then regarding:

- BLM

- Antifa

- the 'alt right'

- the Neo Nazis / white supremacy groups
Next thing you know you will pay higher premiums when you decide to have children with someone of whom some algorithm says is a poor match with your genes. Why should I subsidise your "inferior" child?
The gap is very relevant. There are literally hundreds of thousands more young men without degrees joining the labor market and few professions other than military, software and sales remain promising routes to a middle class life in the US for someone without a degree.

Many thousands of men without degrees are turning to software as the best hope for their future (and possibly that of their families). How could this possibly not have an effect on the composition of applicant pools for software positions?
Wish I could. I work full time at 12 bucks per hr as a pipefitter helper. I so wish we had basic income or some kind of help so I could do thid. There is nothing more in this planet I want most is to be a computer scientist.
It's possible to provide rich information and flexible error reporting using error combinators, which merge results from failed parser combinators. The error combinators are in some sense dual to the parser combinators.
Absolutely superb. The patience involved, that's what I can't get over about stop-motion animation – the ability to see the big picture while you're inching along frame by frame. Incredible job, it really is.

May as well put this here because it popped into my mind while watching your piece.

You know, if we do move as a society from the internal combustion engine to the electric drive train something of great beauty, mechanical logic, and engineering prowess will have been lost. Sort of humbling to think that these may only exist in the museums and enthusiast workshops of tomorrow. Kind of like steam engines today, see here: http://www.isvrally.com/ for a local example – “Innishannon Steam & Vintage Rally”
why not just ask the NSA
No, I don't think so. I maintain a popular command line tool that needs to be extremely fast, and Rust was an excellent choice for that. It's made it so much easier to maintain than equivalent C tools, and has made it easier for me to reach feature parity by nearly effortlessly depending on the work that so many others have done in the ecosystem.

It's not bug free mind you, but that class of bugs doesn't include things like buffer overruns, double frees or memory leaks (note: Rust does not guarantee absence of memory leaks, but RAII pretty much makes sure it doesn't happen in practice).
Wondering if Northern Europe has developed some sort of genetic immunity/reduced influence to caffeine. With the Netherlands having a an average of 2.4 cups of coffee a day, one would expect chronic insomnia, yet this is not the case.

I live in Denmark, where the average is 1.27 cups a day, and I oftentimes go over 10 cups a day of coffee, and I know a handful of people who're either up there with me, or drink even more.
More like 5%, but it's high enough that if you measure your coffee intake in pots/day then there is still enough caffeine for physical effects and dependence.
> But I agree that China so far seems to have little wish to dominate anyone else.

This may well change once the Chinese economy is bigger than the US economy. It already is at PPP, but at current exchange rates China will likely surpass the USA within 10 years.
Wow, that was really awesome, great work!
A small piece of critique, the last part of the video was really garbled/messy? and i kept trying to focus on the car parts, but was unable to due to it jumping around etc. So that part messed a bit with my eyes.
I disagree with your "too much ceremony" premise in general, but in particular I don't think it holds true for nom parsers. Here are two examples I've been working on:

https://github.com/djc/askama/blob/master/askama_derive/src/...

https://github.com/djc/tokio-imap/blob/master/src/parser.rs

If you look at the parsing logic that makes up most of those files, I don't think you can reasonably argue there is a lot of ceremony going on.
What is the point in quitting? You just went from some voice to zero. This is just virtue-signaling and is non-productive.
If you're generating the parser then you only really need to understand the grammar. Nothing can beat that.
agree - couldn't watch the pitch part as it was just too much noise

stop motion part was impressive though
Could you clarify what was needlessly political? I can't seem to find anything political there at all.