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I think, what is important to understand in German law is, that you are not prevented from uttering your opinion. You are rather prevented from claiming false facts.

Let's take the example of the photo of Angela Merkel and the Syrian refugee, mentioned in the article. If you publicly declare, that the person on the photo is a terrorist, and the person is not, you are clearly breaking the law, because you are damaging the persons reputation with arbitrary false claims. If you mention something as a fact, which you cannot prove, you are held responsible for the consequences of the claim and you are prevented from repeating the false fact.

If you would declare "There have been rumours, that the person on the photo is a terrorist", the legal perspective is completely different. Because there obviously have been the rumours this is not a false claim. It now depends very much on the context. If it was known to you, that the person is not a terrorist and you declared the fact of the rumours, but in a way, that it nevertheless makes the person appear as a terrorist, you might be breaking law, but this now depends very much on circumstances and can only be deciced individually in a court case.

Saying "I completely believe the person is a terrorist, even though there is no prove" would most likely be covered by freedom of speech in Germany, because the claim is not presented as a fact, but an opinion. There are limits here (you cannot hide abuse and revilement in an opinion), but interpretation is extremely generous in those cases and makes, in my eyes, the biggest difference to systems like China.

I am completely fine with this approach. I think that a proper differentiation between fact and opinion is the key for a healthy social discourse.

How would anyone be able to defend himself against false claims, if any utterance of whatever was covered by free speech?
Their leaders are not as answerable as you might expect.
Structure is data
Interesting. Net-states is a useful term, but it might be useful to not make too strong a separation between them and all of the multinational corporations that came before. The Dutch East India Company, for example. Multinational corporations have always been little non-democratic kingdoms. It's my understanding that our modern view of sovereign states is due to the Peace of Westphalia, so maybe in some sense we are just reverting to the norm where states don't have all the power. Also, even with separate states, families like the Hapsburgs did really rule the world in ways Facebook never can.

Finally, the US (and other superpowers) have historically struggled in places where they don't have boots on the ground. It's too hard to uproot local traditions and you don't really have a base of support. These net-states have an even weaker claim to power. If ISIS can wage a guerrilla war with limited physical resources (and a much greater power differential vs the US), anyone can take down Facebook or Google. They are a massive, slow-moving target that is already under attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-state_actor
If you don‘t want other people to unlock your phone, don‘t give them your passcode.

Seriously. Consider the situation where this behaviour wouldn‘t exist. Your brother cannot login using FaceID, but he still can: with your passcode.

There is simply no credible scenario where any of this might matter.
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Since you stressed the point that WASM does nothing to improve the rendering model, it's worth noting I never wrote that it did.. but about replacing the UI with custom libraries (rendering to canvas), hence why I used Unity as an example, then mention the need to download UI libraries.

This is the only approach supported by WASM in the near future, although a browser DOM bridge is roadmapped for a couple of years on. ie ditching the (DOM of the) browser entirely for apps (in WASM) - apps that can run on ANY platform with a modern browser.

>> And why do we need a new bytecode format when basically all phones run on the ARM ISA?

There are in fact some good reasons

* It's an open standard, which it seems many vendors will get behind and it will become ubiquitously available, and as such stands a chance of competing with Html/JS for the crown of the 'everywhere platform'.

* Being sandboxed by the browser instead of running on bare metal has huge value for security.

* Being sandboxed as an abstraction layer allows ISA portability. You mention most phones run on ARM, but more than a handful of people want to use PCs running Intel too! Also not all phones run ARM, and there are future ISAs that don't exist or aren't mainstream yet (such as open source ones) and the abstraction of a runtime makes it easy. WASM has been design to be good as a portable target (ie easy to implement on a new ISA as opposed to writing full emulation).

The first one is the most important one, about being an open standard with enough industry implementation to achieve critical mass for users and become a sustainable 'any/everywhere' platform .. the technical issues could be addressed other ways, but that only matters if people can access your runtime (which is what killed Flash and Silverlight).

There are downsides too, such as performance, however the market has shown it doesn't really care about performance by choosing the bloated Javascript mess have today.

tl;dr; Runtimes are good for the majority of consumer and business software, and WASM is the first one all the big players are supporting instead of the competition sabotaging

>> I guess I don't get why games should run in a web browser with all it's security and privacy issues.

The question implies that native code has a better security and privacy profile than a hardened browser sandbox.. actually that right there is the issue. You actually get a far better security and privacy 'platform' on the browser, despite/because of the much larger attack volume.

With native you can do and access anything the OS allows, and find vulnerabilities in the entire OS APIs. Even on e.g. iOS the native code can do all sorts of things and call private hidden apis etc, Apple just tries to use static analysis to attempt to find these issues before you download it..
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have you looked at visualizations done in mathematica? LoC is not a good measure here. http://community.wolfram.com/content?curTag=graphics%20and%2...
The Giraffe chess engine?

https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Giraffe

http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=64096
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Ask HN: What is your preferred Python 3 testing framework?
I really dislike the site layout. It makes it quite difficult to read on a desktop computer.

Just scrolling to continue reading steals the article text and replaces it with an animated image or map. I admit it's really pretty, but I care more about the content than the presentation, and the latter makes reading the former difficult.
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> But the obvious answer for truly secure connections is your own CA root or a self-signed cert you manually install/enforce.

> Most decently-written software that supports SSL/TLS allows you do that.

Unfortunately maintaining your own CA and installing it on all your devices is no easy feat. On android it's not even possible without root, and most IoT devices are not "decently-written". So what you say is true on paper, but delegating your CA to an external service like letsencrypt is unfortunately the only doable way as things are now.
But arsenic is natural! /s
Maybe they could employ a programmer who knows how to turn unbelievably complex software into incredibly simple software that doesn't include constant relentless breaking changes.
Alas. The https protected videos can be fingerprinted as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14070130
Washington post title is "CDC scientists pursue deadly monkeypox virus in Africa", different from what has been submitted.
Every human has innate impulse to punish such freeloaders and pleasure coming from punishing. But it comes at material and often psychological cost.

I believe that there's so few freeloaders and so many wanting to punish them that I'm better off suppressing punisher impulse in myself and find my pleasures elsewhere, cheaper.

You could say that I'm freeloading on the backs of freeloader punishers. But same could be said about anyone not working for the police, justice or IRS.
Ask HN: Why is #e#x+e#s+e-e#l-e a valid number in Racket?
Eli Barzley pointed out that Racket reads #e#x+e#s+e-e#l-e as a number.[1]

$ racket
Welcome to Racket v6.10.
> #e#x+e#s+e@-e#l-e
16140901064495857664-50176i

Why is it valid? According to https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/reader.html, #s should be a structure literal.

I suppose this would be better as a StackOverflow question, but it's an interesting puzzle.

[1]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3146771/building-lisp-sc...
It won't be cheaper than in US either, more likely the opposite. My point wasn't specifically about Macbook, a lot of things are of the same price in every country. Buying home, local food or human services isn't one of them, but cars, electronics, branded food, clothes won't differ much.
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Oh, good to know - I guess these were mostly developed in parallel then. The 11.1 release notes specifically mentioned the 10 so I assume they were paired like each previous year’s hw+sw release.
Perhaps we should be talking about Catalonia rather than Germany then.

But the German constitution is a result of the Holocaust. We know that it is possible for unrestricted free speech to enable people to libel entire races and religions to the extent that it results in genocide. Every wave of mass violence or ethnic cleansing in the 20th century has been preceded by a propaganda effort to demonise the victims.

> jailing the actual conservative voters and politicians

It looks like in America they're going to end up going to jail for being unregistered agents of foreign intelligence services, and the good old standby of failing to declare bribes to the tax authorities.
I'm waiting for Kotlin-based React Native alternative without any trace of JavaScript (in mobile). Kotlin JVM for Android and server rendering, Kotlin Native for iOS, Kotlin JavaScript for Web. Makes more sense than JavaScript everywhere.
This is what I said 2 weeks ago, about China:

People who travel there report empty buildings ( cause : loans not paid back and the mortgage are the buildings )+ multiple articles about bank failure ( eg. Google China shadow banking)
I always thought China's motto was: Fake it, untill you make it ( their annual growth of 8% is based on a big part on empty buildings and not repaying loans. It is controlled by the governement and they try to eliminate the crisis by expanding influence in the world. Eg. Too big to fail)
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In short, the growth of China is artifically inflated to 8% per year, since many years --> huge internal debt. Now they are doing the same on a global scale. We are all doomed :)

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Can anyone elaborate where I was wrong or what the report says about this? Going to read it now..
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justforfunc - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySy3sR1LFCQ
Fecha is antother light alternative

https://github.com/taylorhakes/fecha
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iPhones were very late to the Korean market, due to domestic laws.

Similarly, Samsung has had a lot of traction getting into the Japanese market, and their autocorrect for Japanese is god awful.
I really like your analogy but I am concerned that analogies take you only so far. Human presence in digital world is simply unprecedented and deploying existing ideas without adapting them might prove to be difficult and ineffective.
I think you misunderstood something. You should use Gradle for standalone builds. You definitely don't have to use Idea.
I expect people to predict this will cause the downfall of China.

People had been attributing causes to the downfall of China.

"He is best known for his book The Coming Collapse of China (2001), in which he argued that the hidden nonperforming loans of the "Big Four" Chinese State banks would likely bring down China's financial system and its communist government and China would collapse in 2006, 2011, 2012, 2016, & 2017. Critics say that Chang has destroyed his own credibility by making wrong predictions repeatedly."[0]

Here, Gordon Chang predicted that demographics will be the downfall of China.[1]

Does anyone want to add other causes to the downfall of China?

Being an author trying to make some money off people's wishful thinking is not a bad idea though.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_G._Chang

[1]: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/chinas-self-inflicted-de...
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Você sabe mesmo quem é Sergio Moro?
Can you write down your statement in a formal language such that we can prove the negative to your statement such that you might get the idea to stop talking about things you do not understand?
I'm not upvoting because of the snarkiness, but I found myself in the exact same situation yesterday. Today it magically works fine again.

If there is any netflixer around here: please, please push for better testing to prevent that from happening again (i.e: firefox should be one of the test platforms!)
> They’re not even asking for their love to be returned though.

This is true love!
But Crypto currencies are not immune to hyperinflation. And you may lose your key which is worse than having a currency of depreciating weight.
True, but I don't think very relevant in this case. You can always link to a transcript on another service, or your own hosting, but it doesn't have to be on twitter. On the other hand, twitter adds an opinion almost by default. Which sentence you choose, how you cram it into 140 chars, what do you normally tweet about, where you tweeted from, who you are - these can be used to guess your opinion in almost every case.
What about mesh bags? Last time I went mushroom hunting in the wilds of a French wood, repleat with boar hides and beer bottle infested mini camp sites, my guide used mesh bags because he said that allowed spores to escape. The locals though stuck to supermarket plastic bags.
Well done. Thanks for sharing.
Here is a good short document[0] that can help unlock the missing visual intuition of high dimensional data. It does require a lot more thinking than 3d space, but eventually along side the maths it help you to get a "feel" for it.

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~venkatg/teaching/CStheory-infoage/ch...
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What to say when they ask: So how much do you make?
This still doesn't really explain the dfifference to PyMC. What is the advantage of using Pyro over PyMC which supports a multitude of inference algorithms as well as mini-batch advi.
And it pushes my CPU usage constantly above 20% (otherwise 1%) on a i5 desktop machine with a 27" monitor. I just wonder how painful would be navigating it on a netbook or small laptop, not to mention tablets.
What do you gain by controlling currency beyond corruption?
Don't hire asians, hire from Eastern Europe instead. It might be more expensive, but not by a lot and the quality is exponentially better.
Wow, that is bad. From your description I assumed it was just a slide up image, but no, it totally hijacks the entire experience, including the scroll wheel. What's more, I tried searching in page for a word ("update") and it took me to some step of the interactive map display. I'm not sure if there's some match that is underneath it all, or search is totally broken.

I agree it's pretty, and also agree it's difficult to navigate. :/
The explosion of TLD s shows they don't care about us. I cannot in good faith put trust in them. I don't know what a solution is but this is not it.
Surely this could be automated. If only HN had webhooks for new submissions...

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The Anglo-Saxons didn’t arrive in Britain until the 400s so nothing resembling English was spoken before then. This is very likely the first complete translation into English of the Odyssey by a woman.
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> you'll have to give me a full size keyboard as a replacement

It seems to me, speed is only an issue for long texts, and why would people type long texts (or lots of small ones) on a phone? Can't that wait until they're in front of a proper computer?

> If you want me to disable this

I don't want you, or anyone, to do anything ;-)

I simply find it strange that people rely on autocorrect, and then send a second message immediately afterwards, to say correctly what autocorrect got wrong. It seems it would be faster, and better, to get it right the first time than the current sequence of "type, send, proofread, retype, resend".
To a certain degree you are right about spam and malware, but I think those are quite in a different category, as it's pretty clear cut which is which. Spam is random email from people who seem to send a lot of those types of emails to many people, and malware is code that uses known vulnerabilities in the CVE database, so again, pretty clear-cut which stuff they are supposed to stop. Censoring speech is in a way different league.

So I think things started going downhill when they started being very aggressive about copyright. That's certainly been the case with Google.

They fought on our side against SOPA, because they figured abiding by SOPA would cost them too much manual work. But then they wanted TV content and music services on the Play Store and Youtube, so stuff like SOPA became more acceptable to them as they were trying to get those deals.

So they implemented highly-aggressive and anti-fair use takedown bots across the Google search engine and Youtube to appease those companies with which they were making deals as much as possible.

So now of course the governments are like: "Well, if you can identify copyrighted content, surely you can identify "extremist" content, too, right?"
Jumia is into etailing and exploitation.... Don't reference their data .....
> If Android had USB sync

It has, but last time I tried it (on Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.x), it was completely unusable. Transfers freezed and crashed all the time. I was unable to upload a single music album even after few tries.
My swiftkey keyboard handles that just fine.

> Hva skal du i dag? What did I say?
How do you hire programmers like that?
Isn't that really a problem with PowerPoint as well? If you e.g. use a font that isn't available on the computer you use to present. PDF export solves this, typically.
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Is there any point in joining a company like Amazon now?
in the same boat here, iOS 11 update for my older ipad has made it slow/buggy and significantly worse for my use case (browsing the web and watching netflix)

For example in IOS 10 to enable night mode was -> "Swipe up, tap" done. In iOS 11 it now requires 2 swipes, a long press then a tap. Also minimizes the app in focus requiring another tap to get back to it. Why?
Good question..... I wonder why they skipped it. They mentioned electric bills , and skipped internet data plan.

From the little know I have not seen mining via Wi-Fi. I know of a country where everybody is using Wi-Fi, is it possible to mine in such a place?
They are not. If the public plaza is private, you have only the option to not participate and be a social outcast or to bow to the allmende-renteers laws.
Both parties are, because people are starting to notice the limits of a two-party system. Heck, half of Americans don't even identify with either of the two parties anymore, so it's already pretty crazy that we've gotten this far without having more than 2 major parties.

There are a lot of hurdles in going beyond 2 parties - hurdles set-up by the 2 main parties - but I think people will increasingly put pressure on this system until it will break. This could happen for instance through a third-party presidential candidate that takes at least second place in a general election, while one of the two main parties is relegated to third place. I think we're getting pretty close to that happening, but I don't know if it's going to happen in 2020, 2024, or 2028. But probably no later than that.

There are millions of Americans who have extreme distrust in the two main parties, so "all it takes" (easier said than done) is for them to actually organize behind one candidate in an election and refusing to buy the "lesser evil" excuse that the two main parties have used for decades to keep people from fleeing to other parties.
> the spread of symbols belonging to unconstitutional groups

Cool, so an ideal "group of people who wants separation from the state" would also be banned? (Let's say like the Catalan party which is going on since years...)

> But what makes content “manifestly” illegal is left up to human

The least biased would be to have 1 person from each political party to assess these things and reach an agreement.

EDIT: downvoting without comments... come on guys, you can be better than this.
My point is subtle. We definitely know when the ancient Egyptian civilisation existed, and that has been definitely dated by many coherent methods: carbon dating of artefacts at other sites, historical record, and archeological layers. The issue (which I am perfectly aware merely articulating makes me sound like a kook, but hear me out and know beforehand that I am very skeptical about the likelihood of what I am stating might actually be true) is that we have not got definitive links between the pyramids and the Ancient Egyptian civilisation as we construe it. In most ancient Egyptian texts the pyramids are referred to as being already ancient but claimed to be of their own origin, but in other civilisations (e.g., the ancient Chinese and their claim of the “Yellow Emperor” et al) we have found that civilisations’ own accounts about their origins and claims to being the artificers of grand monuments is not always reliable. What if the pyramids actually predated the ancient Egyptians by millennia, and the ancient Egyptians merely arose later around them, in the same area, and claimed them as their own? There is much pseudoscience in this regard, but certain highly controversial geological observations about the weathering of the Sphinx in particular are particularly telling (in my opinion): it would seem that the prevailing opinion of geologists is that the weathering exhibited on the body of the Sphinx is the product of tens of millennia of water erosion, which is at odds with archeologists’ prevailing opinion is that the erosion “must be” the result of mere millennia of sand erosion, because “we already know” that the Sphinx was built “by the Ancient Egyptians, mere thousands of years before C.E.”. The reasoning is inherently circular, and enrages me. I would very much like to have original artefacts demonstrably linked with the epoch of construction from inside the Pyramids definitely carbon-dated so that this circularity can be once and for all escaped-from. In the end, I fully expect that such independent verification would lead to confirmation that the Pyramids and the Sphinx do indeed date from the early period of the Old Kingdom... but proof would be delightful, and besides, we do other kinds of science (such as running the LHC) in hopes of seeing disagreement with prevailing theories... wouldn't it be amazingly exciting if it turned out that this were not the case? No extraterrestrials... just much deeper human history than we have hitherto fathomed.