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>Do you have an address for the person in the Chinese legislature that I should be writing to, to pass the relevant law?

In a global market and considering a universal hardware platform, cooperation from any specific polity is entirely unnecessary. It is sufficient merely to convince one single polity that cannot be abandoned. America or the EU would do it. Both are markets that Apple absolutely cannot give up, and of course the former also has direct legal jurisdiction over the majority of Apple.

You also seem to be extremely confused about what I actually suggested should be legislated:

>I'm arguing with the underlying problem. I'm suggesting that passing laws against app stores is not a practical solution.

I never suggested that "App Stores should be banned", that's ridiculous. What I said is that Apple (or any other entity) should be required to offer (for free or at a reasonable fee [1]) owners a cert/key they can use to sign arbitrary software to run on their device indefinitely. That's it, though it might make sense to require that developers be offered that as well. That alone could be sufficient to serve as a foundation for various non-Apple implementations of side loading, up to and including full 3rd party App Stores. The point isn't that Apple wouldn't still have their own App Store, nor even that it wouldn't still be by far the preeminent choice. It's merely that there'd be a core level steam release valve available.

So in that scenario the actions of the Chinese (or any other) government would revert to the same as any standard computer: within their own borders they could pursue all legal and technical avenues their government wished, but people could try to go around it. A bypass of the great firewall (or merely a tourist visit outside of the country) would be sufficient to gain a key which could then be used on an iDevice within China (or anywhere else). Apple would simply not be involved in that, instead it'd be between a government and its people again.

The same would apply even beyond government, for example Apple doesn't allow certain content that is perfectly legal but not family-friendly enough on the App Store anywhere. A legal requirement that owners may sign software to run on their own devices would create an alternative.

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1: which can be a thing in law, no "of course you can do it on your $500 device for $1 million" stuff.
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I started with this: https://trello.com/b/2f37iYzy/sample-gtd-board

Then I made some alterations to fit my lifestyle.

For one, there's a giant "Homework" list with all of my assignments for the semester and due dates. This helps me make sure that on any given day, I know whether an assignment is coming up. I sync this Trello list with my Google calendar, which sends me an email reminder the day before something is due.

I have a "Now" list that keeps track of my current task and my next few immediate tasks (so like, "fix this bug," "do flashcards," and "call Doc to make apt.") Sometimes I couple this with Pomello (http://www.pomelloapp.com/) which helps prevent me avoid going down various rabbit holes when working on a specific task.

There's also a "Dragons" list which is where I put important big tasks that I've been procrastinating.

I removed the project lists. My GTD board is strictly a sophisticated to-do list. Projects get their own separate trello boards.

EDIT: here's a skeleton example of what my GTD board looks like: https://trello.com/b/Y5wBPXLH/kendalls-gtd
At the very least, I'd say that... after collision, assuming complete coalescence into the object, they will share identical orbital parameters
Is it really fair to compare something like Gvim to Slack though? I'm assuming Gvim is going to be magnitudes faster than an Electron app.
I imagine there's an opportunity for a startup that let's someone who wants to do a simple job themselves Facetime with a plumber to talk them through the work. No idea if there's any profit in it though.
Creating a machine learning algorithm to illustrate Magic cards
Maybe this sounds weird, I have no idea if it has any basis in fact, but I have noticed when you ask Google to translate between two non-English languages, it sometimes introduces errors that an English speaker would make. I've therefore wondered if they somehow, either deliberately or indirectly through some model, translate to English as an intermediate step.
They aren’t doing those jobs because they like it, they need it. Sure, they have better things to do, but step one is always, “don’t starve” right? Taking their marginal living and waiting for some mystical market force to save them is just... shitty.
>a comment consisting entirely of bashing someone else's attempt at humour

Actually, I was being self-critical. Self-awareness is a good thing.

>whining about downvotes

I have no issue with receiving downvotes in this case. "So be it" is a pretty simple phrase. Maybe you're projecting.

This is the thin skinned backlash I expected. Oh well.
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The internet ecosystem is pretty similar to ours
Even with the protective guard the little plastic tabs inevitably break on me. I can't even say those have fared any better than the unprotected versions.
I really love this rant. When I was younger I had lots of run-ins with "hustler" bullshitter types in business. Some of them were extremely negative. Eventually I learned how to identify and categorically dismiss not only these types of people but this entire philosophy of business. It's all bullshit.
The exit value is always 0 regardless of what's printed on stderr. If code parses stderr to determine error state instead of looking at the exit code, then it's doing unix wrong.
So the real life Da Vinci virus?
Isn't the barrier to entry much lower than any of the professions you mentioned?

Many professions have professional certifications that artificially limits the supply and drives up their prices. (Professional Engineer, CPA, Bar exams, etc.)
Does every paragraph needs to rephrase that it isn't thanks to Trump? Maybe I'm wrong but lately it seems every US media outlet needs to mention him this way or another in every topic possible (positive or negative light)
Correct, which matters in some use cases like production environments, but not most ad hoc experiments.
Tried it a few times now and then and it was pretty much dead. No wonder they didn't replied to Github.
That has started failing with iPhone. Now you need that and you need need a VPN. I haven't looked into why yet.

Outside of China you can just choose US as your region and it's fine.
Love it! But, in many countries regulation/ warranty might kill such an idea.
My undergraduate advisor would say that each new user uncovers a new class of bugs.
If you think of the minute hand needing to complete the full circle to reach 2, "Half two" means the minute hand has only completed half that circle, so it's 1:30.

I've even heard of "three quarters (of) two" in German, which means 1:45.
It's true, but there's also a 4,000 word detailed blog post that describes how I came to pick that monitor along with giving you insights and tips on how to pick a different monitor if that one isn't for you.
I imagine lots of this:

"Lefty loosey, righty tighty... no no your other left"
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I didn't say that one shouldn't mentor or receive feedback. I actually think if you disagree with the team lead you should let them know and then let them make the decision.

If they hear your opinion and still go a different way, that's fine - roll with it. It shouldn't require every individual on the team to be convinced, that's a massive waste of time.
Who owns and operates Bittrex and Poloniex? How are the licensed? Do they keep customer funds segregated from operating funds?
"halb zwei" (half two) in German is to be understood as "one half of the second hour has passed".

There are actually regions that use terms like "dreiviertel zwei" (three fourths of two) to indicate 01:45 and "viertel zwei" (one fourth of two) to indicate 01:15. Especially the latter confuses people from other parts of Germany, because regular high German uses the terms "viertel vor zwei" (a quarter to two) and "viertel nach zwei" (a quarter past two).
It seems likely that anyone with split opinions would support Raines over Snowden; the obvious difference between the two cases is J. Edgar Hoover.

Snowden exposed a mass surveillance program, some of which appears to have been illegal. Raines did likewise, but also exposed a serious campaign of harassment against activists - one prosecuted by an FBI director who was apparently viewed as beyond the control of even the President.

I think some of the more technocratic types I know might say Snowden's leaks were about "agencies doing what they should", while Raines' was a necessary reaction to an out-of-control administrator.

If there are people who support Snowden but oppose Raines, I'd be fascinated to hear what rationale that uses - nothing comes to mind.
A portal from Earth, maybe.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/54/
The author is giving us zero contextual information. That is a red flag in and of itself.

The variable is a proxy for a deeper issue which the author is purposefully withholding.
A sufficiently large radio system built on Mars or at its solar LaGrange point could provide the shielding effect that is normally the responsibility of the magnetosphere. It was studied for feasibility by NASA and found possible with current technology. Of course, possible doesn't imply practical and the natural formation of Martian atmosphere if we did that would be on geologic timescales.
I worked with small / medium manufacturers in the prosperous part of the Southeast. Hiring is brutal currently.

Last week one company setup interviews with 20 possible new workers. One showed up for his interview, and one wandered in the next day. 18 nonshows.

Another local company is seeing 50% of new hires failing their first drug test.

Anecdotaly, about 20% of new hires under 30 don’t understand the concept of showing up on time (or at all) even after that’s explained as a part of orientation.

Sub $160,000 houses (3-4 bedrooms, land, average schools, 15-30 minute commute) are now selling in 1-3 days, compared with 3-6 months five years ago. There’s definitely a boom getting started here.
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I don't think nn is good, but I think the current situation in the US drives people towards solutions like nn. Here are some reasons why you would want nn over the previous status quo:

- The company that builds and operates the network has been granted substantial subsidy; the government subsidizing it has a right to make demands to the quality and pricing of the product.

- The company is interested in maximizing profits from the product; the government is interested in providing the service to the maximum number of people. This includes places where laying infrastructure is not cost-effective, i.e. sparsely populated rural areas far from the current network. The company would not be willing to build infrastructure for them, so the government subsidizes it, but expects a certain measure of quality in return(back to argument 1)

- The de-facto situation is a monopoly, and the Telco Act is designed to deal with such a situation. While you say "just fix the root cause", it's not obvious how to do that. Assuming that new ISPs will pop up, there will still be a painful transition period. During this period, what are people supposed to do? NN shifts the "harm" from the users to the companies, which is a short and medium-term net-positive for the users. And what if no ISPs pop up? You're throwing people's livelihood in jeopardy on a gamble. This is essentially the "internet is a public good" argument.

For these reasons you want some measure of regulation where you can provide internet connectivity to the maximum number of people. This is very reminiscent to phones, so it's natural to reach for the Telco Act.

I think NN is a painful compromise for the current situation the US is in.

I think the only obvious endgame of NN is essentially nationalizing ISPs - what are you going to do in the long term when they refuse to provide better internet because they can't justify the cost? NN will be a fairly powerful tool for them to eliminate any possible competition, or as a MAD weapon to enforce their turfs(look at the clauses about compliance - they are regulated on a local level, guess where ISPs have the most lobbying power?).

On the other hand, the situation in the US "as-is" is pretty shit, and people want some kind of assurance for the future of their internet access. That assurance can only realistically come from the government. I am not sure whether I would vote for or against NN if I had to, even though I opposite it on principle(I don't think it's a good solution).

Luckily, I don't have to deal with such a problem. In our country, the nationalized phone company builds internet lines, and leases them to competing ISPs(they are also allowed to build their own). This has worked so far, but the situation is vastly different from the US.
I used to use SelfControl, but once I figured out how it blocks sites, it stopped being as useful. Don't fall victim to your inner Software Engineer and try to figure out how it works!
Or artists, or prostitutes, or athletes.
Ask HN: What are you doing about the impending “big” earthquake in the bay area?
Is anyone else worried about the "big one"? Real estate seems to be doing great and the economy, in general, is doing great, and people seem to be either completely ignorant or unperturbed by the earthquake situation. Has anyone thought of leaving the bay area? If yes, where are you planning to go? If not, what are you doing to prevent/control damage? We are thinking of moving out of the bay area and wondering if there are others in the same boat and looking for other places in the country/elsewhere with good tech jobs and less probability of natural calamities.
Downvoting this is preposterous when it's a legit point. I've been using Firefox since the Phoenix days and now many of my old extensions that I've been using for years are non-functional; it's very much telling old users to pound sand for the sake of new users.
> the most likely difference will be that the game GUI will be redrawn every frame whereas the desktop GUI wont (and there are game GUI frameworks that cache their output to avoid redrawing the entire widget tree every frame).

Modern UI toolkits (WPF, QML, JavaFX) operate on a scene graph, so they work exactly the same. Android is slowly catching up; it's a disgusting mix of the worst of both worlds.
It's worth noting that the leader of the break in, William Davidon [1], was an Argonne researcher who invented the precursor to BFGS (though it took the community a long time to publish his quasi-Newton method).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Davidon
So why did you mentation "Ext2/3/4 and XFS" if filesystem doesn't matter?
Illegal border crossings on the southern border are down 78% and blue collar wages are rising. Of course correlation does not equal causation, but when there are fewer available workers to hire/train and demand remains constant, wages tend to rise.
Right. Most people will just assume that is the only version of Skype available for Win10. Skype has gotten worse..but not to be judged by the bundled metro app worse... Metro is just a total failure altogether, I haven't seen a metro app that convinced me otherwise. It's a must to use PowerShell to uninstall that version of Skype and instead install the normal win32/win64 executable.
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I don't mind typing the notes once I'm in front of a real computer, I just don't want to do the "note to myself" while in public. And otherwise, I haven't found anything that gets me to capture things like "note: buy eggs" or "note: consider PEGs for the query builder optimization" fast enough. (Opening an app and laboriously using the mobile keyboard don't do it for me in the long run and just cause me to drop GTD again).

Maybe I should get one of those wearable chord keyboards from the late 90s and connect it to an always-on note-taking applicance...
I had a coworker who would often just throw out a random word as a hapax legomenon if he thought an edge case was unreachable, to make it easy to search the source code. One day we got a call from an analyst: "The program says 'atrocity' and I don't know what I did wrong!"

He also thought it would be funny in another edge case to have the program print out "SB no es bueno." I thought it was funny too...
Microsoft did a marketing demo of that (Skype Hololens):

https://bfgblog-a.akamaihd.net/uploads/2015/01/hololens-plum...

(it was faked, the remote guy was drawing with a tablet, but somehow it worked in 3d like tilt brush..)
If you are looking for such monitors, look for gaming monitors with TN-panel, with 2ms or 4ms response time. Compared to office monitors or even TVs there is a big difference. (mind that TN-panel have pro and cons)
Yes there will be some changes in foodchains. So what??? Universe is constantly changing, species come and go. I'll leave my sorrow and conservation efforts for species that directly benefit us and whole environment like bees, and not something that killed hundreds of millions of humans in pretty horrible ways.

Also this expects that whatever preys on these parasites will be completely and utterly unable to feed on anything else in environment. Well I consider life much more stubborn and successful.

And while we're at it, I would strongly welcome complete extinction of ticks, with same logic as above. And add tse-tse fly. Mosquitoes are also tempting, but since only few types transfer malaria, dengue and yellow fever, I can at least have a discussion about pros&cons (although these days these are by far the biggest human killers from the bunch)
No need yet, they usually can’t compete with incumbents. And as a US consumer I am fine with keeping local companies in competition with foreign ones because it usually means I just get more options.
This is unfortunately true, though it doesn’t have to be. The problem with webapps generated with JavaScript is that it’s tempting to create a custom implementation of built-in functionality. Good old anchor tags are “visible” to screen readers that visually impaired people use to browse the web. Chances are your JavaScript Link hack isn’t because you forgot to include the role=“link” attribute. Keybinding extensions are similarly blind when developers write inaccessible markup.

The solution is for developers to spend a day learning about accessibility. A good starting point is https://webaim.org/intro/.
That doesn't change the fact that they have tons of rotting DSL networks that should be upgraded. I was being sarcastic, saying that all that money could upgrade them probably many times over.
Denouncing shouldn’t add lag. On the first closure detection you can send the key down code. You then need some debounce logic to decide when to send the key up code, but after the key is solidly down you are again in a state to send the key up code as soon as the up begins.

The only time there should be lag is when a very short keypress happens, the key up might be delayed while the controller rules out bounce.
Because if iOS didn't prohibit installation of apps from anywhere but it's app store then this would be much less problematic.

But Apple does, because it decided at the start of the platform that being able to take a 30% cut and defend it's own weak services applications from competition was worth more than the inevitable human rights problems a closed app platform presents.
Either way the conclusion is the same: websites should have a minimum margin! I'm sure the author of the website is receptive to this feedback, so I sent an email.

Also, Firefox (and Safari on iOS) should have "view text-optimised version" button in the URL, maybe that would help you here? I don't know if other browsers have it though.
I work at a company (https://www.stage3systems.com) that builds software for the marine shipping industry.

Currently we are expanding one of our products for a large container ship owner so we can import these loading condition files into the product for both long-term analysis and also short-term alerting. Once this project is complete, a fleet superintendent will be able to set up alerts so that they get a push notification when we calculate that a load is risky or unbalanced. Hopefully this sort of thing will add an extra layer of validation before a ship sails from port.

Fortunately, for our customer, they build quite robust ships and do not skimp on cost. But due to the economics of shipping right now, a number of owners in the world cut costs wherever they can. This includes reducing the amount of steel used in critical support beams which could increase the risk of a vessel breaking in half [1]. Sadly this makes a hack like this even more risky, because the combination of marginal errors, bad weather and a frail ship could be more than enough to cause a big problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOL_Comfort
> 7D if you are a mantis shrimp.

Don't be sure:

* https://www.popsci.com/blog-network/ladybits/mantis-shrimp-v...

* https://phys.org/news/2014-01-mantis-shrimp-vision-different...

Though they do see polarization, which is a neat feature.
I'm very much on the pro-webextension side, but really, people's workflow being broken is not a legitimate complaint? What exactly would constitute a legitimate complaint then?
"dr--r--r-- 1 bork awesome 6872 Sep 24 11:09 file.txt"

This doesn't make sense.
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The reason that apps on Windows can bypass the compositor is that you can use them as the scanout buffer directly on fullscreen. On Linux (both Xorg and Wayland), this same exact behavior is supported with a compositor. For strange legacy reasons, it's known as "fullscreen unredirection". If you're running windowed on all three OSes, you see the same compositor latency.
I discovered that if I use grayscale or if I use darkroom mode, I can actually focus on content and not the bells abd whistles that are designed to hold our attention and keep us engaged longer.
Would be interesting to know how many guests use roxy and how they team tries to increase that number.
They don't have to explain much. Chinese protectionism paved the way for its tech sector while avoiding the security risks and loss of control of being dominated by foreign companies.
That makes them sound like some sort of supervillain.
The gap is closing but it means amenities are getting more expensive and since the people in the middle aren't getting raises it just isn't attractive to work in a smarter role
Those platforms can download the software from other sources trivially, so the lack of presence in an app store isn't nearly the problem it is on iOS.
"Now grab a 3ft section of copper tubing, cut it to length with your pipe cutter, bend it with your copper bending tool, and flare it with your flare clamp... what, you don't have any of those? Wellll.."
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I think you may be underestimating the importance of this article to US politics. One of the biggest issues in the 2016 election was stagnating blue-collar wages - it was one of Trump's main platforms, and one of the main factors that made him President. If the economy continues to do well across all income levels, regardless of why, and regardless of how unpopular Trump remains, there is a good chance we will see a second Trump term. As much as I dislike him, Scott Adams made this exact argument recently: http://blog.dilbert.com/2017/10/14/low-public-approval-of-pr...

As Bill Clinton said, "it's the economy, stupid".
Sure, all you need to do is retrain warehouse workers as nurses. Any progress there?
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