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> I don't think anyone is arguing that we should throw everything out, however for all my greenfield stuff Rust has been a welcome breath of fresh air.

If you can write things from scratch in a clear room fashion, perhaps.

C++ is very good, when you need to integrate a lot of 'low-level' libraries (that are alredy in C or C++) together in a meaninful way, like for instance, browsers do.

Like the capacity to 'talk' with FFMPEG, levelDB, linux, etc.. in a complete native fashion basically.

I think in that regard Rust is sort of late to the party, and will find a wall hard to beat down, once the adoption rate get some maturity.

If you are already a experienced C++ dev, compared to modern C++, Rust has very little to offer. Of course is more modern, (maybe) more ergonomic?

But little things like package manager or explicit lifetime management by itself wont cut it.. at least not for people with large codebases already in C++.

When you are younger, programming languages look like that secret ingredient that will turn whatever you do into a magical tool.. But experience tells you that nothing beats hard work or that you should understand the strenght and weakness of each language, and know when and how to use it.

So for the problem domains where C++ are being used, it will get hard to beat, because a lot of great software are already there, and can be integrated in a native fashion, with whatever you do on top of it.

And by the way, modern C++ is already secure enough, making some selling points for Rust, a little bit of cosmetic right now.

If you throw a language like Swift into the equation.. particularly i think they(C++ and Swift) form a lovely and unbeatable couple.
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Very nice idea, about the money situation: maybe you could try make every user pay something as little as $½/month

It would also be very kind move from you if you open sourced it instead of just pulling the plug, so if any one really wants to use it, he can on his own server/expenses
There's a youtube video linked on the github with a quick summary that I enjoyed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqxqbvyOnMY

The notion of the latent space is particularly fascinating to me.
Why Concerns About Net Neutrality Are Overblown
First, there’s a significant distinction between campaign donations and “paying legislators” cash.

Second, so-called “hard money” corporate donations to federal electoral campaigns have been and remain illegal.

Failing to make these distinctions and commenting as if corporate lobbyists are literally handing over suitcases full of cash is deceptive.
I feel for you. My wife and I have twins, a boy and a girl, and we try very hard not to gender their toys (or games).

But it’s hard when it comes to birthdays or Xmas gifts from others. My sister in law offered for their last birthday a playmobil police car to my son and a Frozen pearls craft set to my daughter.

At the end, both my kids played with the car and made bracelets with pearl. But, seriously...
Using rust for a shared library implementation seems like it would mean a big improvement for mercurial's tooling in the long run. Right now the options are command line invocation or using the python library (effectively puts a requirement on implementation). Though I'm not sure the integrations I'm aware of[0] would benefit from a shared library.

[0] https://secure.phabricator.com/T9548
We had a similar thing happen a week or so ago in New Zealand, with the Financial Markets Authority warning against an ICO: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&o...

The ICO was later withdrawn: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&o...

Basic rundown: 19 year old "serial entrepreneur" buys a Carosell [0] (similar to craigslist) clone script for a couple of grand (apparently he claimed to have made it himself), claims to have millions of users after a couple of months, and then tries to launch an ICO. It was a blatant scam, he was called out for it, and ended up cancelling the ICO, and promising to return all the money.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousell_(company)
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Posturing? Pettiness? Punishment for daring to negotiate? Companies invent policies to the disadvantage of employees.

Then again, I wouldn't want to work for someone who doesn't understand basic negotiations.
Which is itself slacktivism.
You can be detained on reasonable suspicion (a nebulous legal term), but you cannot be arrested without probable cause. If you are arrested without probable cause, you can sue and win.

If an officer had probable cause that someone was smuggling money, they would never have a civil asset forfeiture -- it would be a criminal case from start to finish.

The fact that the law was designed to end run around constitutional protections speaks volumes about it and its authors.
There is, Bitbucket was exclusively Hg before Bitbucket saw Git's popularity. This is my opinion: Bitbucket is like the new Sourceforge. I'd be interested to see a survey on Hg and Git usage today.
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It's almost like an inversion of the usual image classification problems, where you want to identify the broad strokes of the image while reducing sensitivity to the value of individual pixels. Instead, here, you want to ignore the overall shape of the program (which is likely to be benign) and focus on tiny details to pick up sneaky hostile behaviour.
Technically, yes, actually, it is a kidnapping by the state - a deprivation of freedom. But is it justified? I would hope that in most cases it is. However, if it is not, that doesn't make the individuals doing the arresting culpable for the offence they were acting in good faith, but the state doesn't escape, or should not escape, culpability. If it can be shown that the state did not act justifiably (i.e. within its social contract with its citizens) then the individual is entitled to recompense for that crime. This is why, in some states (and, I would like to say all) if there is a gross miscarriage of justice the individual is granted monetary relief.

The farce of "asset forfeiture" is in treating the asset, and not the holder of the asset, as an entity which may have civil claims brought against it. In effect, forcing the owner to act as its defender. This is a exploitation of the legal system. If they truly believed the assets were the result of a crime they should have to prove probable cause, and hence justify, their right to steal (i.e. seize/freeze) that property in preparation for a criminal/civil trial.

If they lose that trial, then even so, the seizure was justified and everything is fine. The question now is, are we as a society comfortable granting the ability for a single individual, i.e. a peace officer, the ability to justify in its entirety, their actions, even with massive conflicts of interest?

I would hope the answer is no. We have the judiciary to justify these crimes of the state and in so doing limit their effect on the innocent by preventing abuses of power due to conflict of interest.

Universal accountability and review of justification is the key to preventing the tyranny of the few bad peace officers in positions of extreme situational power from destroying countless lives and reaping massive personal benefit while doing so.

An effective way to do this is to take the position that hypocrisy is unacceptable. If it's an act which is unlawful for a person to commit, the state must actively justify itself (before the fact) in order to commit that same act, according to the social contract. If it doesn't, there may as well be no law - for what is the purpose of the law but to protect those without power from those with it.
It isn't just that they play with anything. A box is special. When I first gave my puppy a carboard box (6 years ago) she didn't know what to do with it. Then I tore it a little and something clicked. The box, unlike everything else in the human world, was expendable. There is nothing that she could do to the box that would upset anyone. Rip it. Sleep in it. Carry it around. Or forget about it and do something else. Another one will appear eventually. That's freedom. Every other thing either belongs to mom/dad or came from them and so must be used properly. Kids enjoy boxes for exactly the same reasons and in much the same ways as puppies.
If the parents decide to abort based on a DNA prediction of ugliness, that kid would have a bad life either way. Those are terrible parents, and that would be such a rare scenario it seems basically irrelevant.
Apple Pay Cash is rolling out for iOS 11.2 users
Probably. Hotter usually means closer to not working for semiconductors.
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Civil disobedience is only effective because we have checks and balances in place on the governments power. Without those all civil disobedience can be met with overwhelming oppressive force and all participants can be labelled as criminals and silenced. At that point no laws change nor does the status quo.

While you are correct that civil disobedience has been a force for great change it does not work on its own. Laws were still changed within the system and that is because we have democratic representation in our lawmaking process. Civil disobedience made the case clear that we needed to employ these democratic mechanisms to change the law.
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You could do something like this with Jekyll, which is supported on GitHub pages. You'd need to put some work into it to get the same features Gatesnotes has, but the framework is there.
>Bullshit. Smart watches with better features, better hardware and better battery life have existed for a long while now. The iwatch is good, but not better than any other comparable watch out there, hardware-wise.

What other brands full featured, actual app ecosystem smartwatch is the form factor of the 38mm apple watch? Which of them have LTE even as an option? It's smaller than some of the fitbit type trackers, even.

You can gripe over other things about it, but no one else makes a _small_ smartwatch like it that isn't severely limited in some way
They do it this way so there is no 'special treatment' from the manufacturer. They know they are getting the same build that any Jo Public would.
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My credit was unaffected. I objected to some of what they claimed I owed, and got them to throw out almost half. No interest and penalities.
You're 100% correct that this was a case of good presentation and not investigation by the reporter.

Questions:

1. Can you point me where to find more info on UCS ignoring results that contradict their political positions?

2. What "angle" does a nonproliferation shop have in this matter?

3. The article attempts to present some evidence (obviously mostly not to a level required for independent, academic confirmation). So when you see you "see no evidence here", are you saying you need to see it presented in greater detail and to a higher standard, or do you think that the evidence is flawed or misrepresented in some way?
There is a difference between constructive criticism and/or correction (which I am all for), and belittling, demeaning, insulting, and cursing at people.

IME a lot of thin skinned people on the internet always view the former as the latter. It's equally as tiresome.
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The study was published through NBER this week

http://papers.nber.org/papers/W24062
Outsmugging the smug surely does not count as substantive discussion so can we please just not go there?

If it helps we can argue that it breaks the "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize" guideline.

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Apple is very popular among the HN crowd. Any comment critical of Apple or skeptical of their intentions will be immediately rejected by a substantial number of readers.
They glow in the dark
My first guess was a group chat service, segregated by programming topics. "Channels" suggests realtime flows of information; something like "Silos" would more closely resemble this product.
> Only because you don't define lobbying as corruption. In most (any?) other nation, individuals and corporations paying legislators to vote a certain way fits the definition of bribery and corruption perfectly.

What you're describing isn't lobbying, and is already illegal under US law.
Civil liberties and effective law enforcement are not competing interests. Many laws exist to protect civil liberties and therefore an essential aspect of law enforcement is to protect civil liberties.
> Git has won the vast majority of mindshare and good will by being straightforward, ubiquitous, and well supported.

Thanks for a good laugh. The sheer volume of "No the REALLY right way to think about git's totally brain damaged use of source control concepts. This time we mean it." tutorials shows that "ubiquitous" is true but "straightforward" and "well supported" are a lie.

But you are correct. The vast majority of coders have decided on git. I will happily sit over here on Mercurial while you try to figure out the arcane git command for something that I was done with in Mercurial hours ago.

The Mercurial->git gateways are now quite good and I can do my development in Mercurial and transfer it to git at infrequent intervals. It's not like git people want to see all my intermediate commits anyway--that's the whole point of "rebase" after all.
No, you haven't read this déjà vu story before
> And political campaigns financed by corporations fits nicely in corruption/conflict of interest as well.

Good thing, then, that it's already illegal in the US for corporations to finance a political campaign!
If you keep posting inflammatory political comments we're going to end up banning you, which I'd rather not do. By now we've warned you like half a dozen times. That's more than most people get.

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$60 heroku seems odd. I wonder why the app can't be transferred over to cheaper (or free if using trial credits) hosting on aws/gcp/do etc.
An utter genius. I am a cynical person, especially around concerns of art, but the remaining celebration of Hockney gives me hope. Great article.
There is no mention of the fact that fiber is more reliable than microwaves. Inclement weather can cause substantial packet loss in a microwave link. Fiber has no such issue. Getco et al may not have made perfect decisions, but the fiber <-> microwave comparison is not apples to apples. That said, still an interesting article.
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I quoted this elsewhere but this part makes it sound like they are intending to move over large parts of the implementation into rust in the long run, migrating away from python due to the size of the project becoming more difficult to maintain

> In addition to performance concerns, Python is also hindering us because it is a dynamic programming language. Mercurial is a large project by Python standards. Large projects are harder to maintain. Using a statically typed programming language that finds bugs at compile time will enable us to make wide-sweeping changes more fearlessly. This will improve Mercurial's development velocity.
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The German Amateurs Who Discovered ‘Insect Armageddon’
I tried a speed reading course a long time ago. I didn't spend much time practicing, partly out of laziness and partly because the technique interfered with comprehension in such a way that I would end up spending double the time because I had to read the same page over and over again to get any information out of it whatsoever. Unsurprisingly, my day to day reading speed failed to improve at all.

However, it seems to have made me very good at skimming and picking topics off a page. I can identify the one or two Google results I want to follow at half a glance, while people whom I know to be capable of reading at twice my speed are still reading through each headline separately.

And I can run my eyes down a wall of tutorial text to pick out a couple key terms that identify the section I want to read in depth.

In short: it didn't deliver the benefits promised, but that doesn't mean it was without any benefits.
That assumes technology evolves linearly.
Thanks Danny, can’t wait!
>>Fortunately you're wrong

Unfortunately you are wrong

>In reality, the US is one of the 20 least corrupt nations on the planet, on par with Ireland and Japan and less corrupt than France.

In reality do to the distributed nature of the various governments of the US, corruption in local government is both wide spread and very very under reported, Sure maybe the Federal Government is one of the 20 least national governments, but there are over 3,000 local government units that are very very much corruptible and often are.

Further I do not by the premise that just because you are less bad than others that makes you good... A murder that kills only 1 person is not "good" because he did not kill 20...

> It has very strong property protection laws, which is both why the judge returned the money (naturally that would happen in a nation with no rule of law huh),

You should really research this issue more if you think that is the common outcome. it is not

I just looking at the work the Institute for Justice is doing in this space. Specifically their Policing for Profit Series

>why the Obama Administration took important steps to neuter civil asset forfeiture abuse

Those changes were superficial at best, did not really do much as have all been rolled back at this point

Most Civil Asset Abuse some at the local level anyway not at the federal level, the Federal Programs are generally used as a end run around state that have enacted laws to eliminate civil asset forfeiture or severely limit its use

>The US also has rare universal Congressional support for ending civil asset forfeiture abuses.

No the US Congress play both sides of this issue, if there was universal support the law would already be changed

Police Unions are a power lobby, most Congress Reps will claim publicly to be for it, while never ever allowing the issue to come up for a vote
>> I think at some point the burden of proof becomes on those claiming that it's not sexism to explain why it overwhelmingly happens only to one gender.

That is interesting... I am sure the world would be a much simpler place if people can just make claims with out having to offer any proof of those claims...

Science for example would be much better if one could simply offer a hypothesis with no backing data, tests, or any research at all, just a wild thought enters your head and the burden in on others to disprove you....

I for one would love to see your source(s) and under lying data to where you have come to the conclusion that is "overwhelmingly happens only to one gender". I am an aware of any data sources on the level of rescinded job offers by sex in the market place. I would question how such data could even be collected...
Then generate a session id and invalidate the URI after first use.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Practice.
I think you mean "principal"? (Got very confused reading your comment since I thought you were objecting to the concept in principle.)
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Everbody lies: FBI edition
> The problem was that other Cloudflare customers started calling and threatening to cancel their service if Cloudflare didn't cut the Daily Stormer off.

This is not the excuse they used back in August. Back then, the CEO said "The Daily Stormer site was bragging on their bulletin boards about how Cloudflare was one of them and that is the opposite of everything we believe. That was the tipping point for me.”
It’s not a trite point for BSD but if those are the kinds of objections holding back adoption by Linux and bsd, then I think the end result will just be a new Rust-first operating system.
Flamebait one-liners on inflammatory topics aren't ok here, so please don't post like this? What we want is (a) thoughtful conversation that (b) gives others the benefit of the doubt.

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Most people don't behave that way. You seem to be assuming that people always want to squeeze everything they can out of a system but that's simply not the case in real life.
Youth hostels serve this role in much of Europe. The Lausanne hostel would have a drunk homeless guy living there, the police would bring him in and pay for his stay. He reaked, it was difficult for me to share a dorm room with him. Good times.
Sorry about that. Too late to edit. Replace Russia with USSR in my parent post.
Why? If a company has $200B it wants to deposit in your banks, what tax rate should it pay on the interest on that deposit? If Ireland said 12.5% (which is ridiculously high), Apple would have deposited it somewhere else, outside of the EU likely.

Accepting bank deposits is a good thing, it didn't create any costs for the government of Ireland. On the contrary, it likely funded lots of economic development. Which is exactly why Ireland did and should have offered a near zero tax rate.
Why should we condemn a person for good acts based on previous poor actions? Or are you just so cynical that you can't take his good actions in good faith?
They paid exactly as much as Ireland agreed to have them pay. Those $200B in bank deposits was a huge windfall for the country of Ireland, why would they want to tax it at all?
>The first sentence doesn't even make sense, let alone have proper grammar.

Sadly this is the case for many "legitimate" ICOs. Understand legitimate as non-fraudulent.
I ignored nothing. On the contrary, I thought it was a clever way to say, “you’re not making a strong argument that the current situation is an improvement”. Because I’ve run across crooked cops, but to my knowledge have never had an interaction with a member of the mob.
Maybe they had many many candidates wanting the position, depending on the counter they may have felt it was not worth the time to negotiate when they could just get one of the other qualified people for the offer on the table.

Personally I hate negotiation, that is one the worst things about Human society IMO, offer me a fair wage, offer me a fair price, I do not understand people that want to haggle and negotiate over everything

The more I advance into higher and higher roles, and the more salary negotiation becomes a thing more I long for the days where it was just a job, the company was Paying $xx/hr and has 100 openings, if you wanted to work for XX/hr great if not there are 300 other people waiting to do the job.
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Honest question, why is it why is it 21 Megs? It sounds huge for just a front end.
Prototype augmented reality display with per-pixel mutual occlusion capability
What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it debuted in 1995
In fact, Regulation A offerings do require approval from the SEC.