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>But it would be completely foolhardy to say you're going to "bring back coal" when that's just not going to happen.

Coal is done (except in China where we send a lot of manufacturing), even the coal workers know that. Subsidizing solar and "solarizing" middle America would create quite a few jobs, including long term jobs maintaining the solar panels, etc. Haven't heard any proposals along those lines though. I believe Obama had mentioned it a few times, but nothing concrete.

>stop with this "Dems have no plan" narrative. It's entirely false, and it's quite dishonest to bring it up when even a cursory Google search will prove it wrong.

Look, I like the Dems, I vote for them quite a bit, but I'm not going to blindly say they are great and have a real solution to this problem, because they don't, at least none that I've heard anyway.

Anyway, I Googled it like you said (I found it odd that no one could actually name any though) and here is Schumer's (and therefore the Democrat's) idea:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/opinion/chuck-schumer-emp...

First, we’re going to increase people’s pay. Second, we’re going to reduce their everyday expenses. And third, we’re going to provide workers with the tools they need for the 21st-century economy.

None of these is going to solve the problem. I'll go one at a time.

- "First, we’re going to increase people’s pay." Increasing pay is great in the larger cities with a good knowledge and industrial base, but closes a lot of small town stores and restaurants with not a large customer base. Cost of living varies greatly from region to region and even city to city. In summary, this will improve the minimum wage workers positions in already prosperous cities, but hurt them in small towns (which is the target of this discussion).

- Lowering household costs by providing paid family and sick leave. This is nice, but it attacks a symptom rather than the problem of few to no jobs and even fewer ones that pay enough to live on. I assume it's an attempt to lower the cost of living, but I don't see how it does, unless you are sick and already have a job.

- We’ve already proposed creating jobs with a $1 trillion infrastructure plan. I've always thought this was a good idea, but it's temporary, unless the US commits to building and maintaining a hell of an infrastructure forever. Based on how our elections work and the GOP not liking this sort of thing, I don't see how it could be a permanent solution. I mean it's something though.

To solve the middle America problem will require something a lot more radical, I just don't know what it is. I'm hoping to hear it from the Democrats though. I haven't yet. I certainly haven't heard anything from the GOP either.
That's brilliant. I love it. Though it would benefit from more different photos. So far I already had countries with just 2 motifs on five different pictures were one of the motifs was just the countries flag.
One of the things that I have learned the hard way is that if you don't have a channel to get at least initial customers by some means besides PPC advertising, you're unlikely to succeed.

One of the early competitive advantages you need to have is in "finding customers to talk to".
Which sounds like the "corporate profit maximizing controlled at higher-than-governmental levels" explanation.

I think the argument in recent coverage like this is that it's no longer "has made their society far more open" but "HAD made their society far more open." And then it really exposes the financially-opportunistic, rather than principal-guided-as-advertised, nature of how the West deals with different countries like Cuba vs Iran vs China vs etc.
> you can assume that it's being wiretapped/monitored.

This can be assumed with any technology stack that is popular, domestically-grown, and well-established in China.

I have WeChat installed. Would I use it to converse with people outside of China? No. But casually, it's what's accepted there, what people ask you for, and what everyone's using.
http://pressurewashr.com/tool-industry-behemoths/

Here's a list of which companies own which brands. A lot of them probably come out of the same assembly lines with different names slapped on.
In addition to what ManuelKiessling already said, I can also report that in my bubble this is not the case, but it is hard to accurately judge our bubbles.

According to this bar chart on wealth distribution in the EU [1] there is a huge difference between the average and median wages in Germany, so I would expect the group of poor workers to be much larger than we think it is.

Of course, being poor in Germany might mean something different than in the US, since we still have better access to healthcare (at least in my opinion, I don't know enough about the US system to be 100% sure).

[1]: http://media0.faz.net/ppmedia/aktuell/wirtschaft/831437975/1...

\EDIT: I should have cited the source accurately, the chart comes from the FAZ, a huge and respected German newspaper.
No problem, I'm happy to address concerns.

You're right that the ENVKEY still needs to be protected. There is no getting around the need store and protect some sort of key.

You definitely should not be keeping it in source code--it should be set in a gitignored .env file (in development) or as a server environment variable (in staging/CI/production).

It's true that you are essentially trading out multiple secrets for a single one, but there are a number of major benefits to doing this, both for security and ops.

1 - It's much easier/quicker to cut off access.

2 - It's much easier/quicker to rotate secrets when they need to change.

3 - It makes it trivial for developers and sys admins to get access to the latest secrets so they don't resort to sharing over email, Slack, etc. in order to get their work done.

4 - You don't have to worry about keeping secrets in sync when they're stored outside of source control. In my experience, this is a frequent cause of bugs, and it slows down development.

I would also have to disagree somewhat that managing encrypted data isn't hard. Just encrypting data and sending around public keys isn't particularly hard, but unless you are implementing your own web of trust logic to verify that public keys are authentic, you are leaving yourself open to all kinds of man-in-the-middle attacks. EnvKey does the hard work on this.
I lived in China for many years and you are right. Most Chinese people reaction will be "Meh.." and they will move on with their life and just use a VPN if they really really need WhatsApp.

A lot of western people are now probably frantic to get the WeChat addresses of the Chinese people they only had on WhatsApp, so they can ensure their production line or development people are on track.

We need them more than they need us. That is the problem.
I think the sounds effects blew out my speakers in my headphones... well at least my ear drum. I was not prepared, and I was listening to music loudly ;-) . Warning to all to turn your sound down before playing.
So the issues noticed so far:

* Missing syscalls

* Wrong syscall numbers

* Wrong calling convention

* Links to source are to wrong version

Does the table get actually anything right? I mean this is pretty spectacular cascade of failures.
I’m a single-person sole proprietorship, and I have two seats of Windows Enterprise with Software Assurance as part of an Open Business agreement; “volume” doesn’t imply “high-volume”.

Bringing this back to the the story, one is assigned to a Mac Pro, where, per Microsoft’s bizarre licensing terms, it qualifies as an “upgrade” to the bundled copy of OS X (upon which I run it under VMware, permissible via further licensing gyrations).
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> their middle class are now sending their children to western schools and many of them will probably go back to China

I disagree with the "middle class" being the ones sending their children internationally. The Gini coefficient in China is higher than that of the United States. Even if it was the same income distribution, America's middle class cannot afford to send their children to private schooling in other countries.

These people are not the middle class -- they are quite far away in income away from the median of the income distribution, even in urban areas. They are the upper class. Maybe the lower upper class, but it's a stretch to say they are middle class.
I would be happy to see those kinds of works get made. Perhaps the notorious faddishness of Hollywood and TV means that nobody says "let's do science fiction" without meaning "let's do a lot of special effects." It would be great to see that change.
The only users of WeChat have strong ties to China, and use it for those ties (e.g. WePay). Even in HK and Taiwan, WeChat is not used outside of those reasons.

WeChat working in the US is like UnionPay working in the US. Ya, its great if you are a Chinese tourist or an expat with a Chinese bank account, but it is irrelevant if you aren't, UnionPay isn't going to start taking over the American ATM card market.
Or rename a file with different casing
Good point. I have my Dock hidden, so I tend to forget most people will have that space available. :D
According to your article (unless I misread it) the lower class is 68% of the population. While it has greatly improved, there's still a huge gap
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The Fog of War – Forgetting what we once knew
Look, someone asked "Why would you work" and then made an assertion that paints alimony as some kind of cushy free ride for life. I am saying this is not true: Even if a woman gets alimony, she probably also needs to work.

Comments like yours are essentially twisting my intent to an extreme degree. I did not expect to have people pile on and act like I am some overentitled lazy bum for explaining some of my reasons why I also work, in addition to getting alimony. Geez.

Edit: It appears you are that someone. So, which is it? Alimony is a cushy free ride? Or not?
After the initial round of product launches, most Japanese car companies started designing unique products for the US market. Many of the most popular "Japanese" cars in the US were designed and assembled in the US, and aren't even available for purchase in Japan. There are a few exceptions like the Prius, but overall the "Galapagos Island effect" is a good metaphor. It's a very isolated and unique market.
Haven't read the article yet, but these slides (from HOTOS 2015) are beautiful: [PDF] https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protec...

That article is https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos15/workshop-program/p...
"Middle class", "upper class", etc. are not defined by percentiles. Otherwise it would mean nothing when we say a particular country has a "growing middle class".
I loved his solution until this. This is a deal breaker. Time to go back to the abbacus. ;)
This is the last woman who knows how to weave sea silk
I could see that, or else maybe it's not "vanilla" if you start using something like angularjs which expects to mediate basically the entire lifecycle of your application. But I think in general the concept is ill defined.
It sounds to me like you're saying that the vast majority of internet content isn't valuable. (And I agree!)
To hell with it. Let's just ship it with a miniature Babbage engine and finally give it the practical application it deserves.
I like all of those ideas, especially medicare for all. I think that is one that will help middle America. One of the main reasons people don't just quit and start their own businesses is because they can't afford to lose health insurance.

I think blocking all these M&A would go a long way too. No one can compete in an industry with just one or two giants who enact huge barriers to entry, etc.

Who proposed that? Bernie?
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Is the story that 68% of the traffic is naked laundering or that 68% of the traffic is people buying into ICO that are not already enfranchised in ethereum?
New Foundry Opened in San Francisco
"...but because they agree with it on one or two policies they don't want to compromise on."

The book Democracy for Realists calls this "folk theory of democracy".

"With the US two party system, you can either vote somewhat more left wing ... right wing..."

You're ignoring the polarizing effect (hyperpartisanship) of gerrymandering.
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At least based on our IK12/YC experience, it was pretty rare to run into EdTech teams with no classroom experience on their founding team.
Sure, I might use it myself if I'd return to China, but I'd hate for it to become the default chat app outside China - that's what I meant with "please don't install it"...

> This can be assumed with any technology stack that is popular, domestically-grown, and well-established in China.

Agreed.
It's an ETH mixer, it helps you obfuscate ETH, the same exists in BTC and all other crypto currency systems without inherent privacy.
Good to see this reported, I've definitely been experiencing this on my 6S.
I remember reading about Diamond Foundry on HN via this: https://qz.com/630512/would-you-propose-with-a-diamond-grown...
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They're doing hard work, just not scientific work. It's not "better" or "worse" than science; it's just something completely different. Science doesn't have a monopoly on the word "theory". It's been in use long before science (at least as we know it since the 17th century) existed.
I can't speak from personal experience, but based on my fiance's feedback they are great tools!
I may have over-stated how firm this is on legal grounds, as the supreme court has not ruled on this scenario specifically and two appeals courts have made contradictory conclusions. But, there is clear precedent showing that you can absolutely be compelled to decrypt something in certain circumstances. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Stat... for some reading.

Generally, the Fifth Amendment provides protections against producing documents only if the very act of producing them would be incriminating. The relevant term is the foregone conclusion doctrine. The government has to show evidence that the documents they want you to produce exist and that you are able to produce them. For more information, see http://federalevidence.com/blog/2013/january/applying-forego...

The interpretation in favor of allowing the government to compell encryption under this doctrine would be that the government simply has to prove that the encrypted data exists and that you are able to unlock it, and they have to limit the scope of their search to specific documents.
I'm curious about Webrtc vs WS with binary protocol?
Has any such case ever gone to Supreme Court?
Actually, they literally do have a moral and fiduciary duty to their investors to spend money wisely. The article describes it well.

I'm not a lawyer, but that's what I've been advised. You must adhere to good judgement when spending the company's money or people can and will come after you on a civil or criminal level.

That's a pretty broad scope, and corporate hot tubs are probably not beyond the pale, but you can't take investor's money and put it into your bank account and say "Sorry the company has folded". Embezzlement and fraud are real crimes that you can get real convictions for, and investors can file civil suit for much less than full on embezzlement - witness Benchmark's suit against Kalanick/Uber.
> What is "China" in this case? Its government is the Communist Party. It's not going to abolish itself!

I've read that something close to 1/3rd of the Chinese population is a member of the party or whose livelihood directly depends on it in some fashion where they are essentially a member.

So this is a very good question.
I don't know that the United States has any legal mechanism to prevent an online Chinese company from holding the top position and doing what American-native companies do with the data. At least I can't think of any such mechanism? Perhaps someone here is a legal scholar?
> And of course, if the single-threaded implementation is faster, then you could presumably just do "X in a cluster" by doing "X on a single node" and using the rest of the nodes to mine your CPU bound cryptocurrency of choice.

As the author hi,self points out, amusingly.

These numbers are for sure more interesting. SEED does better than any number I can actually achieve on my laptop. That demonstrates non-triviality, in that their system isn't just a laptop computing the answer and 156 cores mining bitcoin.

I really enjoyed the snark in this, and the series of blog posts he links in the beginning. I tend to be nice to a fault myself unless someone has shown themselves to not be acting in kind (and even then I confirm), but I admit I take quite a bit of voyeuristic pleasure in people being assholes in smart and interesting ways. Vicariously living and all that, etc...
The idea is to create crimes that they can apply to anyone. Technically they apply to everyone, but they can then use selective enforcement based on criteria that the general public would never have openly tolerated as a law.
China didn't invent communism but somehow they were able to adapt it to their society.
Chinese oversea student here.

Just taught my gf how to use WhatsApp on her phone last week because we were tired of the poor video chat quality on WeChat and the video call on WhatsApp was surprisingly good. We planned to have another video call this Wednesday. This news is so frustrating.

I just can not make sense of this kind of censorship. It is so sad to see China slowly drifting to a similar direction of North Korea. At first it was YouTube. Then it's Google search. That's understandable because yeah, there really is a lot of fake news bashing the Chinese gov out there. PPTP, L2TP never had worked. OpenVPN got filtered out. SSH tunneling got detected too, even with obfuscation. I had my best experiences with Cisco's VPN protocol, but it was hard to find a provider with that option and I suspect the traffic was monitored as well because the gov had actually worked with Cisco. There was then a protocol called ShadowSocks, which served me well until I moved to study abroad, but the original maintainer was then threatened by the gov and moved away from that project.

I support my government fully for all their effort on making the country and economy stronger and its people's life better. I understand the censorship of neo-nazi propagandas and the like, but is this much censorship really needed? Very few people in China use WhatsApp. Those "bad guys" will always have resources to go around censorship. Good citizens with lawful needs don't.

I suspect China's AI ambition has a lot to do with more advanced censorship. When still using ShadowSocks, I stumbled across posts on how the GFW (Great Firewall) was implementing machine learning to detect ShadowSocks traffics. Looks like China's global "inter"-net firewall is really slowly changing into an operation based on whitelists.
Boycott WeChat!
The number of ways this could possibly go wrong - It's true. It could end up being a disaster. But there are also probably unimaginable ways it could go right.

Lower-income students being punished - Lower-income students are already being punished for living in poor neighborhoods and being forced to go to terrible schools. Parents are already competing for good teachers by moving to wealthier neighborhoods. It wouldn't bother me one bit that some kids would get better teachers than others because I believe this system would provide better education for all students in an absolute sense.

Abuse by parents - I'm not sure what mean by "abuse". I am certainly not advocating for physical violence. I wouldn't use the word "abuse" for teachers having to be responsive to parents' demands.

Racial barrier - I'm not sure why anything in this proposed system would inherently be racist.
There's no issue with having an introduction to computer classes and the fundamentals to some, but the original comment was more in the line of making it a mandatory class. They need exposure, but it shouldn't be forced on them. Fostering an interest is far better than demanding kids sit in a 40 minute class to learn functions.

Also $22.50 may seem cheap, but it is quite expensive especially if a family has 2-3 kids that they'd like to enroll.
You're just moving the problem around... Access isn't "cut off" by revoking an env key. The actual secret has not changed.

I think, just like vault, this is missing the point wrt secrets management for services. Sorry to be the negative nancy but this is something I've spent a lot of time on and feel pretty strongly about.
CHIVR meetups are centered around a panel where a few people talk about how they use VR (usually split between ad agencies and creators / video game designers / content). There is networking before while people eat food and after. There are a demos before and afterward by people. Its actually really interesting.
>In clinical trials when taken this way it is shown to be no better than a placebo //

What levels of effectiveness is that. Placebo's are reported as being pretty strong medicine: no better than placebo is pretty good if your placebo is effective in 40% of cases for example.
> So if the strategy is have-our-cake-and-eat-it-too why does the rest of the world play along?

As opposed to what? Economic sanctions have a wonderfully consistent track record of making things worse for everyone. China is too powerful for 'destroy the country and slaughter its people in a fit of pique' to work the way it did in Libya and Syria, which is just as well because that also makes things worse for everyone. The one thing that consistently works well is to maintain a free society and demonstrate a better alternative by example. Okay, granted, we should be doing more of that.
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I do not believe it is a scare quote. I think it's an actual quote. The more complete quote from the show follows immediately afterward: “It would be unwise to confuse race and culture.” I believe "culture" is used to pull out that one term for further discussion.

The review assumes that the reader has watched the show. I have not. I cannot comment further on this point, nor on the "deeply racist portrayal of its Klingons". I can point out that http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/07/star-trek-discovery-trump-politi... says:

> “The Klingons are going to help us really look at certain sides of ourselves and our country. Isolationism is a big theme. Racial purity is a big theme. The Klingons are not the enemy, but they do have a different view on things. It raises big questions: Should we let people in? Do we want to change? There’s also the question of just because you reach your hand out to someone, do they have to take it? Sometimes, they don’t want to take it. It’s been interesting to see how the times have become more of a mirror than we even thought they were going to be.”

and various people have asserted that the new Klingons are supposed to be like Trump supporters.
looks like a quantum computer can train models better. Like, find gradients better or just find better gradients.
This would be great
Is wealth inequality just…math?
>teachers would be more inclined to provide the service that parents actually want.

Teachers are there for the children. Satisfying parents is orthogonal, and often conflicting, objective.
When it identifies an established terrorist and prevents a mass casualty event.