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> I suspect the real reason behind the question given in the example was that the teacher was oversimplifying the language of the question for his/her students to the point where all nuance was lost ... which suggests they're maybe not ready for it.

This is a good observation and you may well be right, although, I've been surprised by what kids are "ready for" in the past. For example, my son was in grade four last year, and his teacher started reading them The Diary of Ann Frank. My immediate reaction to this news was that I didn't think they were ready to learn about the Holocaust, but I did some research and discovered that, in fact, introducing them at that age isn't a bad decision and can be done well.

In any case, I think that your reaction to my comment actually proves my point. I'm not going to say "ugh, replies like yours are exactly the problem, smcl!" because replies like yours are not. You did not, for example, call me a racist. You engaged with me respectfully, I did the same with you, and now we're having an actual conversation. That's because HN is one of the few places where I think productive conversations like this still happen. By and large, we make a conscious effort to engage with one another respectfully, and to be open-minded and open to persuasion.

Even things like accepting that when someone voices an opinion, it's just that, an opinion. It may not always be entirely thought-out. Far better to react to poorly thought-out opinions (of which I have many, I'm sure) with "here's where you're wrong" in a respectful, persuasive way, than what we see playing out in society at large.
The bottleneck generally isn't at the client side for games, The server has much more network traffic to handle. So even if this performance fix only works server-side that might be enough.
This reminds me of http://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/ (Lisp in Arabic(?))
Keyboards switch between the two easily. I've worked with a couple Russian guys and sometimes they'd just write cyrillic jibberish in Slack because they forgot to switch keyboard :) One of them is a really big contributor in the Ruby open source scene, he has no problems switching back and forth.
I mean that's the nature of these kinds of lists. We don't tell anyone about how we set up our firewall, do spam filtering, or flag accounts for suspicious activity because then it would be easier to circumvent.
Plausible deniability in case of consequences for not revealing password.
Because this definitely didn't exist on text-only interfaces ;)
I know it seems like all of those things are important to you, but they really aren't.

They're mostly just passing momentary fascinations, so either act on them or let them go. If something actually is important, you'll come across it again, or simply remember it.

I struggled for years with tons and tons of unread tabs, forgotten bookmarks, endless unstarted projects, hundreds of unwatched movies, unlistened albums. Learning to just let them go was the best thing that ever happened to me. The important stuff tends to stick around in memory, all by itself.

As a small part of that, I've instituted a "24 hour minimum" rule. If I see something I like, I add it to the shopping basket or save it in some other way that's not immediately visible when I'm on my PC or phone. Then I wait at least 24 hours. If I still desire that item after the waiting period has passed, I'll consider buying it. It has saved me so much money, and helped me avoid a ton of junk that would otherwise just be taking up space in my home.

Keeping too much stuff "active" is stressful as hell, and it's wonderful to be able to just not care about it.
I find that hard to believe. Does the nutcracker remember, or just get the same environmental cues each time they visit a location? Does it remember whether the seed is gone? Does it search locations that have no seeds? How could this feat even have been validated? Who recorded thousands of seed hiding actions, and monitored all winter over 15 square miles?
This is like explaining global warming to a climate change denier.

The arguments for capitalism are not sexy, but the ramifications of socialism are profoundly harmful.
Public folder was a huge one that was axed. Then there was a photo gallery thing that was removed.
What I seem to be missing in this article is an explanation why marijuana farms apparently use so much rat poison in the first place.
This is the concept behind Lightening. TorGuard is already accepting Lightening payments, so it'll only be a decade or so before legitimate companies get on board.
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I don't think it has much to do with being a Londoner; I'm one too (native and resident), yet have used the "breakfast → dinner|lunch → tea" sequence my entire life.
Luckily most places have 2FA so giving them the password to Facebook or Gmail is "only" equivalent to logging in so they can look around then and there. They can't look around once you have passed the border, and they can't sabotage you by setting a new password unless they keep your device or actually change the 2FA settings. I think that's pretty rare.

I honestly don't think they need/use/keep passwords after I pass through. They may want to look in rare cases, but I actually think it's more of a "control question". If you don't have a normal set of social media accounts you are not normal or you are hiding something. If you aren't willing to show it, you are hiding something. What you are hiding doesn't matter. They use it as a "tell" to see if you need to be investigated further.

These questions have always existed. They ask you what your business is entering the country etc, but they are as interested in whether you are sweating as they are in what you respond. Same here. They don't need to see your family photos they need to see you give up your privacy like a "normal person"
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It probably varies based on country, team, and nature of the project. For Chinese OSS projects on Github, I notice that functions/vars/etc. are in English, but comments are in Chinese.
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It must be very hard for Americans to navigate the world having only allotted one braincell for both the concept of socialism and of social democracy.
A few months ago, I was daydreaming about creating a new programming language and started thinking about language internationalization. I found this page, with some interesting comments: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/alfredth/2011/07/21/why-are...

As an aside, this one stuck out to me: "One of the difficulties in allowing the keyword to be switched on the fly to a different language is that keywords have to be 'reserved' such that they cannot be used as identifiers"...

I find the concept of reserved keywords kind of strange. It seems like a "smarter" language/parser should be able to handle a keyword being used as an identifier.
Awesome stuff - i think this kind of languages are more important than most people (esp with strong english school background assume). I could see this as educational language for kids.

Related to this: In the 80/90s i saw a German BASIC variant floating around. Unfortunately i couldnt find it online

But… if you are into alternative-language programming languages i highly recommend you reading up on Plankalkül[1] - written by Zuse (after whom SuseLinux is named) which inspired ALGOL

Also worth knowing about is obviously GERMAN[2] a programming language much like brainfuck that is redused to only the most important German words.

Example code

SCHNITZEL BEER BEER BEER BEER BEER BEER BEER
SCHNITZEL BEER SCHNITZEL SCHNITZEL SCHNITZEL BEER SCHNITZEL BEER
SCHNITZEL BEER SCHNITZEL SCHNITZEL BEER BEER SCHNITZEL SCHNITZEL
SCHNITZEL BEER SCHNITZEL SCHNITZEL SCHNITZEL BEER BEER SCHNITZEL

More links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl

[2]: https://esolangs.org/wiki/German
Reminds me of the article “Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses.”

1. https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
Except in the US those houses almost certainly have a street address and are associated with a town, however small and dispersed that town may be. (At one point, there was a a fairly significant effort to give consistent addresses to houses that might lack them primarily for emergency services reasons. I grew up in a house on a rural delivery route that did not have a house number at the time.)
> I guess merely mentioning that the decision was 5-4 would've been enough and prevented this now rather long thread.

I enjoyed reading the back and forth, fwiw.
These just about symbolise everything wrong with the modern web.

Whereas the humble ascii emoticon was a fun exercise in pareidolia--as an emotional aside to whimsically add a little lightness to proper writing, they have now been standardised, streamlined and commercialised, and are used as a substitute for proper writing, turning everything they're supposed to represent into a lie--a Web of lies.

Popularity seems to be the death-knell for anything cute, quirky, quaint, or mildly amusing with its initial charm being brutally curb-stomped by the one-size-fits-all boot of commercial interests.

> it would revolutionize our culture’s way of communicating

Thanks for that :'( Sic transit gloria mundi. And no, I'm not being snooty: I am that old!
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It's all just degrees of suffering.

European socialism is "not so bad" compared to North Korea, until you learn that Europeans on the whole are also significantly poorer than those in the US.
> What would be insecure about a https-01 challenge, that esentially works identical to the http-01 challenge but allows any certificate?

There's a specific reason http-01 is HTTP-only, and it's actually quite similar to the tls-sni-01 situation. In many of the major web servers, including apache and nginx, the web server will use the first HTTPS vhost in its configuration for any unmatched domains, unless you explicitly specify a default vhost. In practice that means an attacker on the same hosting environment used by the victim could get themselves in a position where they control this default vhost and obtain a certificate for their domain. The vhost order is often based on the alphabetic order of the domain, so that's fairly easy to pull off. http-01's predecessor did allow HTTPS, but this attack came up during the IETF ACME standardization process and, IIRC, was fixed before Let's Encrypt entered public beta[1].

http-01 does permit the CA server to follow redirects to HTTPS, including to ones with self-signed, expired or otherwise invalid certificates, so common setups with HSTS and redirects to HTTPS are fine, you'll only be in trouble if you can't use HTTP on port 80 at all.

[1]: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/acme/B9vhPSMm9tcNoPrTE...
Declarative web APIs and truly serverless web endpoints
You're talking about at least a few hundred million dollars of investment in hardware. It's not something that you can easily keep secret.

People killed themselves over losing their Bitcoins already, so if you plan to attack the network with a 50% attack, make sure you have good physical security as well for all your life.
Maybe using single characters (e.g. chinese characters) instead of words for keywords is more efficient to type and read for programmers. Not sure how typing compares but it could give code more structure.

Does anyone know how governments in China, Japan or Korea handle this? Do they try to use non-english programming languages?
What's up with all this "Having children is bad, you will regret it. get a dog" mentality lately?
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That said, it should not be underestimated what an immense strain those people are on mental health workers. I wonder how much time those institutions dedicate to debriefing their own staff, I think that would make a big difference in how the patients are treated as well.
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I've worked remotely for a company in another state for the past 5 years, I can relate to many of these issues.

On socialization, I can understand the feeling there, but for me the solution was to find social circles beyond work. For me I have my church community and also meetup groups with other developers in a similar field. If you don't have those already you will definitely be feeling the loneliness.

Other things I do is have a dedicated office space that I only use for work, to create at least a semblance of home/work separation. I also have a pretty disciplined morning routine that involves working out (at the very least, taking a walk), reading and actually getting dressed. I've found just jumping out of bed onto a call is a recipe for disaster especially if it becomes ingrained as a habit.

I also work partial days from coffee shops (I also feel bad if I spend 3+ hours in a seat after just buying a bagel and an americano.) I'll often go there in the morning to also promote the work/home separation.

The other thing is that I work for a relatively small company and they bring me up to the office every few months for a few days, so there is a time to connect with people in the office. If you are 100% remote and never meet people in person I feel it could be a bit more difficult to make connections with people.

Overall, I really enjoy it, I do wish I could go into the office more often. Having a 2 office/3 remote weekly schedule would be my ideal situation - do meetings and socialization in person then have the distraction free time provide via remote work. I'm not sure how many companies would be into that idea.
If you don't mind me asking, if you already have a job you enjoy, what's driving you to the FAANG companies? I know there are a ton of valid answers to this question but I'm curious anyway!
Yes. Get a meeting a room and do a proper meeting. The thought of having a 1 hour long meeting makes me sick. The thought of having a 1.5-2 hours long phone call (adjusted for inefficiency of the phone call) makes me want to kill myself. I will not get anything done ever after that.
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My experimentation about multi view HTML editor which combine few textual formats, (horrible) GUI and preview for interactive editing experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNryKyBPfws

Some toughts about that by Steve:
http://futureofcoding.org/journal.html#niko-autios-microedit...
Americans have the weirdest ideas about Socialism. It is possible to have a state run healthcare system or nationalize the railways without devolving into Venezuela.
> This is more than a little puzzling at a time when socialism has proved a catastrophic failure in its remaining strongholds in Venezuela, North Korea and Cuba.

If the author is truly more than a little puzzled why today's youth would like more fairness in the world and less inequality, I don't know what to say.

No student is thinking, 'we should be more like North Korea'. However, all youth are thinking 'wow you old people are fucking brutal and want to kill a lot of kids by removing our healthcare and stealing from the poor, stop it' when they look at the practices of the extraordinarily wealthy US politicians and corporate owners.
Yes, that's Arabic, and it does indeed look like an Arabic Lisp!
I'm not sure that marxism-leninism is a science, but if we're going to use the Soviet Union in the 70-80s as an example of failure, one could just as well use success of China of the 00's.

Most economic theories are tested by the scientific method, and it doesn't seem that was the case in the Soviet Union or its satellites, which I assume you are referring to.

Frankly, by the 80s it was difficult to see the Soviet system as much more than a kleptocratic gerontocracy (theft by the government controlled by the old). The methods of distribution were no more communist than those currently used in China.
I could write this out word for word and it would be true for me as well. Generally, I think interacting with self help stuff is bad and can lead to being overly self critical. But when you take a hard look at your self and truly acknowledge that you aren't being who you feel like you are, what else is there to do?
People who live in upstate NY, and northern California would probably have something to say about that. As would the people who live outside of Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Eugene, and Minneapolis/St-Paul.
Sorry, I realize now that I may have sounded sarcastic. I really was curious, this makes sense. Thanks for responding.
Whether something is deniable is not a matter of software features, but your acting skill.
One big reason not to is due to corporate policies, mostly could be summed into legal matters, such as privacy, usage rights etc.
Have you heard the expression, It takes a village to raise a child? We don't have villages, so many people have to be a village for their child, and it's very hard and requires a lot of sacrifice. It's good to question whether it's worth it.
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Response from Jed that I stumbled on the last time I was researching this. Oddly enough, I cannot find the response on Quora anymore.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar/comments/7n8ntb/david_schwa...

> David I always enjoyed working with you and I thought we had a degree of respect for each other so I'm pretty disappointed in your tone here. I don't really want to get into a big back and forth about this but this just isn't correct. When I left ripple the board was 2 people; myself and Chris.

> I left because I made the mistake of bringing Chris on as CEO and it ended up being untenable to work with him for a variety of reasons.

> I feel like I've been extremely restrained in my criticism of ripple despite the frivolous lawsuits from you guys the constant attacks on my character and my family. I know you are actually a good person but I think you are in too deep to see how horrible Chris has acted toward me.

> Stellar hasn't abandoned the idea of distributing the lumens widely and the original facebook distribution was actually a success but the software/ecosystem wasn't ready for it at the time so we stopped it. We will do something similar in the future. I don't think any attempt at an internet level protocol like stellar or ripple can be widely adopted with a for profit company owning the majority of the tokens.

> Stellar has always been focused on cross border payments so the IBM announcement isn't a pivot by any means.

> Stellar and ripple are going after two completely different use cases as far as I can tell so I don't understand the continued hostility.
>Power is very different from influence

Influence is a function of power, it's in the very definition of the word:

1. the ability to do something or act in a particular way, especially as a faculty or quality.

2. the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events.

Does FB not have the ability to influence behavior?

Even if you choose not to visit FB (I don't), that doesn't mean FB has no influence over your life, especially when many/most of your friends and billions of others are plugged into it. Unless you live on Mars.
Wow, and I thought Azorean Portuguese was tough to understand (as a non-native Brazilian Portuguese speaker). This is a whole other level. :-)
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Praying and Bible reading in the morning (mostly I manage to do just one of the two though), is definitely the one most efficient thing to keep me balanced and sane. Helps you put life and yourself in perspective and have so much more patience and peace during the day.

Biking to work and going out for a run a few times per week also helps quite a bit. I think we're created for being out in nature.
So the DHS in the US began deploying facial recognition scan without any authorization and now they have gone and decided to implement collecting travelers passwords.

So the DHS requesting you passwords in order to enter and the DHS collecting your facial scan in order to exit will effectively bookend the experience of visiting the USA.

This agency seems to increasingly act with complete autonomy and impunity. The culture there seems to be one of arrogance and disregard. This is evident all the way down to the clowns at the airport who berate and harass regular folks who are just trying to get somewhere.
He was thinking "this is much more efficient than seven thousand words worth of pictures".
I have accidentally done this twice now, pollution also tends to be the lowest in the fall
I'm not sure why this is so surprising. Having children just because everyone else has children is not a good plan. If that's not what you want to do in life, why wouldn't you regret it? It eats out enormous chunks of your life for something you apparently don't want to do. Some people genuinely want to do it, some people genuinely don't...

Also: It is pretty irresponsible to have a child even though you know you don't want to take care of it.
Degrees of suffering! How many people in Norway died from not being able to afford a trip to the hospital? How many medical bankruptcies have there been on that entire continent? Any at all?
> She never wanted children (“I was very independent,” she says)—her husband did.

Premarital counseling would have caught that.

> “It would have been a deal-breaker.”

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN!!! Now you made a new person that you don't want! Shame on you and your husband!

Kids, money goals, debt, work goals, travel goals, where to live; these are all HUGE things that need to be discussed, while in the presence of a trained counselor, before saying "I do."
Dude, they do tend to be a bit overly simplistic about it, but don't need to insult them for it. Just point out and move on. (P.S: I am not even american)
As one of the people pushing up the average in the US (thanks to having a tech industry job in a big city), I would be quite happy to be significantly poorer if the poor of the US got significantly richer: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/15/extreme-povert...
Another way to look at it (exceptions abound of course):

Academic = comes up with new ideas

Industry = tweaks and implements those ideas for practical applications
He was fumbling to find the words.
I find the best way to explain it is to apply the concepts to something other than classical wealth. Do it to something like relationships, and people insist that for anything that isn't classical wealth the market should be strongly libertarian (often accompanied by a suggestion that no such market even exists).