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For whatever reason, not many people speak English in Russia, especially outside of big cities. They have a completely different view of world affairs and the world situation from you, since the only information they can digest is from their own controlled/manipulated sources and most people have no way to detect any falsehoods - it's not like they could just read Reuters/NY Times.

I'm originally from a very small, insignificant country that also uses Cyrillic but people adapted to the early days of the internet just fine.

English was relatively widely taught and at least understood on some very basic level, and people adapted the Latin alphabet to type out words, there's even a "phonetic" standard for using the Latin alphabet to write Cyrillic.

Most of my friends from that era never even used the (poorly) localized early Windows/DOS, it was all the US version of everything.

So Facebook for example is still the thing, and very well localized, although there are (for whatever ungodly reason) "local" versions of sites like YouTube (although YouTube is also super popular).
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I built this to learn React Native and it quickly grew into quite a large project.

Its my solution to the question I'm constantly asking others: what are you working on?
Interestingly, the main description of AlphaGo v2/Master's play by the Go players & experts on /r/baduk & commentaries elsewhere is exactly that: compared to the human Go players, it is very willing to disengage from a local fight to make a move elsewhere globally, often ending josekis early just to get in the first move elsewhere.
What parts of any dystopia are well designed?
You probably meant to direct that to the original poster, not the person you responded to. That person was clarifying the subtext.
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The entire article is about society putting too much trust in computer systems. So yes, it is about trust.

Beyond that, I was answering a question about subtext, not discussing the article directly.
I do not recollect with precision, but there is an article posted on HN few years ago, showing the 80s archives of New York Times, in it NYT was squarely arguing for harsher sentencing and so were African American civic leaders.

May be there is racism that is institutional, but the point is most people even those who are against harsher sentences today thought it was a remedy. We will be failing ourselves if we cannot examine that fact and simply hitch and re-assign every "fucked up" decision to racism.
> I'm not even sure what "defining it as a tuple" is meant to imply

Yeah, in a computer science situation it's needlessly obfuscatory. It's literally just an interface with a "plus" method and an identity value.
Python can produce extensible solutions! It can!

(Edit from sillier comment.)

def fizzbuzz(n):
outstring = ""
outputs = {5: "buzz", 3: "fizz", 7: "bar"}
for x in sorted(outputs.keys()):
if n % x == 0:
outstring += outputs[x]
if outstring:
return outstring
return n

Then all you gotta do to add more prime numbers is stick them in the dict (or factorize composite numbers you want to put in). Which is more idiomatic in python than endless if elif elif elif elif.
I don't know if employees care enough to risk leaving a high-paying job with great benefits, even if they agree in principle. I empathize with the employees it's not like they have any control over Google's lobbying strategies any more than other large companies.
And the majority could just as easily have done the right thing and refused to pass the laws, while lending a helping hand and attempting to preserve these communities.

You're going through this thread and blaming victims for their misfortune. It is, to say the least, unedifying.
I hope this one goes to the Supreme Court, as that's the only place this will be resolved. Otherwise, U.S. Criminal Law is clear: searches and seizures at the border are exempt from requirements for warrants or probable cause.

Multiple circuit courts have upheld the Government's right to do this, and that this right extends to electronic files and information. Only the Ninth has disagreed (United States v. Cotterman).
It's possible they're trying to tank Kapersky but considering all the backdoors the NSA injected in American software (RSA[0], PRISM[1]), it seems very plausible the Russian government does exactly the same thing to Russian software.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_BSAFE
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4403868/nsa-fbi-mine-data-...
I'm not sure of your point here. Not sure why multiple implementations is a benefit for users. Audio is generic and hardware is cheap enough that the operating systems just implement and include drivers. It's a cross platform library that meets audio needs, including 3D/spatial audio, much like (and designed like) OpenGL.
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> In first year you'll have a math lecturer who knows a lot, but you're just starting out. They'll at times ask you to take their word on it,

Math is perhaps not the best subject to illustrate this. Math lecturers tend to prove everything they teach.
Maybe their preference should be taken into account, but I don't like my speech being dictated.
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Yes, Ibogaine is literally 10x more effective than Methadone. It's risky if you've weakened your heart with stimulants though.
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> in abstract algebra we have a whole, complex edifice that builds upon semigroups and monoids. But computer science doesn't have the same edifice (or anything resembling it)

Have you heard of applicative functors and monads? These are part of an edifice of concepts that builds on monoids that we do indeed have in computer science.
Based on the commenter's first comment in this thread, I'm assuming that they already know who Chelsea Manning is. Unfortunately the content of all of their comments seems aimed to inflame/offend rather than discuss.
But what if there isn't any big incentive to do that? It's profitable to take away people's privacy and there's not that much money in letting them keep it.
I'm lead to believe there is a large chance of racial profiling being involved.

On whose part? The border patrol, so that the pool of potential plaintiffs is large? Or by the EFF and ACLU, choosing a diversity of plaintiffs to represent?
Iboga can help people quit heroin overnight. And Kratom is a great 'maintenance therapy'
* SPOILER *

And Sherlock.
Why does Beanie Babies stay around vs Cabbage Patch Dolls? I imagine that's because the marketing and other mechanisms for popularity they mention in the article.
A world where poorly designed software denies you access to your property because you are an "edge case," and humans who could help just shrug and defer to the computer? I don't know, it sounds to me like a dystopia that somebody might have written about a few decades ago.

Also, I don't think that's the full extent of her point here. She's just offering an example of how our pervasive reliance on computers (which often have poorly designed software) has caused trouble for her personally.
This was a fascinating thread of a product I would possibly have used but now won't...
Never mind people who get addicted after being prescribed medication for an injury, then? Never mind that the new generations of opioids were marketed as safer/less addicting when they probably were more addicting, and thus prescribed even more out of perception of their safety?
I am very lucky myself, as I have mostly watched kratoms story from the sidelines. I've never had an opiate addiction and I don't have any chronic pain or anything like that. I tried it originally just out of curiosity after reading some of the research, and still occasionally use it in small doses for the energizing effect. I don't find larger doses useful to me personally. But I've encountered many people that have had their lives saved due to kratom, and witnessing the way some politicians and authoritarians just so rabidly pursue anything because it's LIKE something else is disturbing. Milk has opioid receptor agonists in it. And we give milk to babies. The opioid receptors in our brains are not there as some sort of evolutionary boobytrap to enslave us to poppy plants. And there are a variety of different receptors to boot, with them not being equal.

I often do not mention kratom in public forums intentionally. It's odd. I do not hold my tongue about hardly anything, I am very talkative. But I am always afraid that one message about kratom will get read by a busybody with an axe to grind and they'll spearhead a movement to have it banned. I am glad to have seen the multiple places around the country where states tried to ban it but were met with both doctors and police stepping up and telling them "this is not a problem. Stop trying to make it one for your own aggrandizement."

But when I come across someone who deals with addicts, I always try to explain it as best I can.
>"they just needed people to believe wholeheartedly they were using one."

>Don't they mean "seeing one" instead of "using one"? Or am I missing something?

the "they"s in the quote refers to the researchers, not "people"
I would remake the site exactly as it was in 2006/7.

Exactly. Down to the customizable HTML/CSS for profiles.

It would be such a hit of post-irony nostalgia that nearly everyone who was on it would jump back to it. We would get millions of users in a week, easy. All it would take is one Buzzfeed-style article "Remember the MySpace of your youth? It's back"

Then, showing the hockey stick growth, I'd sell it next week.
I thought there was a pretty hard rule of using the name of the article only, Even when it makes no sense in context. What are the exceptions to that rule?
We have had thought crime and precrime punitive actions and enforcement already through the invention of hate crimes. we already have guilt by association, including both involuntary and voluntary association. how that is going to be any different in a computerized world is beyond me, other than it might become less influenced by people which removes power from those exploiting it.
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$100 says nothing is going to happen. This is selection bias at its best, as you only hear about the people getting their devices searched not the ones crossing easily. The chances of this happening to you are slim to none.

I am not saying no one should be worried, I am just saying OP should not.
If you mean "you need to have a materialist metaphysical frame for science to work" then I agree. Theists often adopt that frame while pursuing scientific inquiry just like a physicist might presume point masses for the purposes of some reasoning. But they still ask and answer scientific questions.

In other words, it's extremely rewarding and useful to know how things work assuming no miracles. Just because you believe in miracles doesn't mean all the science is pointless.
Amongst the things they do is that they sometimes make things a bit nicer in a completely generic way which is reusable across many problem domains.
I'm surprised this is not getting as much traction... sexual harassment, possibly lying to investors, making custreps underwriters...
Maybe, but I think that all this speculation is understandable, specially for commercial reasons: what other software companies can do to not be banned.
I would agree about it being racism, more like classism.
>That doesn't mean I'm not allowed to feel regret for society's past (and indeed ongoing) failures.

Agreed. And there is no reconciliation for the damage that has been done (and continues to be done). Politicians don't take this seriously enough. It won't be enough just to reform drug policy. It won't be enough just to free people who were wronged by the system. It's going to take society changing heart and supporting people who have been hurt for years. And the people who were hurt trusting a society that threw them and their family away...
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I simply don't have a strong reason at this point to believe it is sufficient. That everything is information is, IMO a tautology, and citing it as an explanation is like citing matter and/or energy as an explanation. But is it inherently conscious, or is there a minimum necessary condition in terms of arrangement, data flow, or other physical evolution of a localized system?
Ars knows what's useless better than people who spend their own money.
So what you're saying is that black people can't be trusted to have their own opinions because of institutional racism? Words fail.
Annoying how this 538 article immediately bemoans the lack of regulation -- as if the only solution is to grow the government and pass more laws.
So, basically a hotel mini-bar?
The article is about the alarming amount of information we've granted to private companies, Chelsea was imprisoned for releasing classified documents. How are the two related?

Your argument would still "apply" if Chelsea had cheated on a lover; "hey, she betrayed someone's trust so how can she talk about trust?" Basically, nothing's she's done invalidates or even weakens her points.
I'm not assuming nobody accepts a lower offer. Just that sellers will overpice FMV by some margin (as you confirm) and eventually accept the highest bid under list (seems confirmed too).
Current Status - from the readme:

This is still a project in its early stages. The Mac build has basic editing functionality (it was used to write this README), but looks very spare and is still missing essentials such as auto-indent. At the moment, it’s expected that its main community will be developers interested in hacking on a text editor.
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> Please use your imagination and try to imagine one of infinitely many other streams that I could make at runtime that are not easily made with the built-in toy oscillators.

Somebody already did. Check out Fourier Theory. The oscillators (well actually just sin, the rest will give you some help as well) can be used to make any stream, technically.
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Ah, "blaming victims for their misfortune." You seem cool.
It's totally understandable that people speculate. We're humans, and we're very uncomfortable with incomplete information. Our brains are wired to fill in gaps like this.
It's not your speech being dictated, per se; it's about being polite. Like, there's nothing stopping me from hurling fanciful insults at everybody I meet, but I also wouldn't blame other people for considering me wrong to do so.
Yeah, you do make a great point about when to mention something or not.
Is there really a conference about transitioning to direct sales?
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Reminds me of the magician who goes through drive throughs in that costume.

I like the idea of an indicator showing what the car is 'doing'.
>she

Call it what it is, a guy who was so mentally broken by the CIA he thinks a dress will save him.
It's hard to put my finger on what exactly unsettled me about the fidget spinner craze, but it seems related to this article. All the hype seemed ad hoc. For Beanie Babies, in retrospect, it felt like a coordinated center (the manufacturer/importer and its marketing arm) surrounded by a bunch of people jumping on the bandwagon. Fidget spinners just felt like every click-baiting view-monger jumping in with their hot take. There seemed to be, from the outside, no central brand or centralized messaging. The closest thing to the latter seemed to be the urban legend that these things were good for ADHD, somehow.

Even Baudrillard's hyper-reality seemed to be orchestrated from a center; his assertion that the Europe experience at Disney World was "more real" than Europe itself at least required Disney to have built it.

Spinners just arose out of the background radiation, with no apparent proximal cause.
I don't believe they can. But they are also a common carrier, unlike ISPs and similar. Once ISPs become defined as common carriers, then the argument will have more merit. But expect that to happen anytime soon, because the big guys like Comcast and Cox don't want to allow anyone and everyone to have access to their infrastructure.
This is some great news that I've been waiting to hear! 7.4 has been a huge undertaking and I'm quite pleased that they've managed to get it out so quickly.

> We had a record number of missing build requirements (that is, things required to build the release that are not actually in the distribution to run the released packages). These packages are not part of RHEL proper and each one has to be researched and an appropriate package found (usually from EPEL or the Fedora Archives) to build the packages. In the 1708 release, we had 11 of those source packages to find. In the previous four CentOS release cycles there were a total of 5.

There was a large amount of software in RHEL 7.4 that was rebased to much newer versions (much more than is typical) which is a very welcome change. I'm glad to see that Red Hat (and, by extension, CentOS) are willing to put in the work to provide newer versions of popular software in point releases (and not just major releases). This makes using RHEL/CentOS an option for those who prefer newer software over long-term stability.

HN'ers, particularly, may likely be interested in the new versions of OpenSSH, OpenSSL, libvirt, and rsyslog (along with their new features) that are included in 7.4.

There was a separate announcement [0] regarding armhfp. Links to new (7.4) images (e.g., for the Raspberry Pi) are included in that announcement.

N.B.: Those who use vagrant will want to skim over the list of "Known Issues" [1].

[0]: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2017-Sept...

[1]: https://seven.centos.org/2017/09/updated-centos-vagrant-imag...
You're engaging in a whole lot of assuming your conclusion, there. I have never thought there was any moral equivalency between anti-fascists and fascists, and my view on that has not altered substantially. You can easily confirm this via my comment history, which barely (if at all) refers to the 'standard left reading magazine stand' of your imagination.

I'm not alone in this outlook.
Hopefully poster is ok with this, but this guy would know as he was one of the first DAWs for Windows. Cakewalk/Sonar.
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> It's a higher level API

As the title of the post asks: "I don't know who the Web Audio API is designed for".

The high-level nodes are not featureful enough for professional audio production, and too slow and underspecified for game engines like FMOD / Wwise.

The low-level bits fall somewhere between impractical, deprecated, and useless.

Who is it designed for?
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> ... and avoid the negative psychological behaviors which disconnected individuals typically exhibit.

Please explain what you mean by "disconnected individuals" and what are the behaviours. Genuinely interested.
> studied the crack epidemic

Your bias is showing. Crack arrest spree is more accurate. I was politically active while it was happening, so no, this isn't a recent observation.

Can I just add how incredibly rude "slurped up some recent liberal political journalism" is? You should be ashamed of the way you talk to strangers on the Internet.
After a little investigation[1][2], it seems things get weird with an OS, as would be expected with virtual memory, et al.

[1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16360620/find-out-whethe...

[2] - http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/anatomy-of-a-program-in...
In my view that's a misconception, one that's quite common in the tech world (and also to a certain extent in the broader culture). Robert Kennedy commented on this (in a different context) in a speech in 1968:

> And this is one of the great tasks of leadership for us, as individuals and citizens this year. But even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.

https://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Refe...
Getting acceptance was much easier than I expected. We used coffee-script a lot before which has a bit of an overlap with Ruby/Crystal, which helped.

We've since moved to using typescript on the front-end and crystal on the back end and both type systems have a lot of similarities. They both also help catch many more errors earlier which gives us a lot more confidence in our code and simplifies the scope of tests which are needed. You can get to a point with a javascript application when you feel you'll create a new bug just by looking at the wrong way.

Crystal as a languages feels really cool. It's very low on boiler plate, which makes it really easy to read and doesn't take a lot of explaining. It takes the best bits of Ruby, so has a easy to follow logic which allows you to understand how everything hangs together. There is also very easy to get hypnotised by the 3ms response times when you're running it locally.

I'd say the only down points at the moment is the size of the community. The lack of 3rd party libraries and inability to 'google for a solution' could be an issue. However crystal's community makes up for in energy what it lacks in size, the gitter room is very active - https://gitter.im/crystal-lang/crystal

Web dev is not the most complex of programming tasks and our team is small, so your mileage may vary, but so far so good.
Google tells me "Intellectual Yet Idiot." The #iamverysmart police seem to need new cover, IMO.
Sorry, it is very early in the morning so I'm still waking up. I didn't mean anything by the groggy 'vs' other than a rosetta syntax comparison to Python.

With that being said, I don't think my snippet lost clarity and is functionally (har har) equivalent to the Haskell.

I believe where Haskell would shine is if the mappend operated on a more complex type than a regular string, but honestly I've only started reading learn you a Haskell two days ago so maybe I'm missing something deeper?

Edit: I guess you could say Python strings are monoids and maybe works on ''.