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> Gradually business will see it needs consumers to grow further and some measures will be taken to make these people more productive to be able to earn and spend

To rephrase:
You're saying that the "common" people are just not working hard enough and the rich need to take measures to make them work harder so that they can be better consumers.

It's the "common peoples" fault that there is no middle class because they don't work hard enough.

According to you...India has a half billion lazy people.
You are an adult
"the ship is dramatically overweight"

We've always been better at building submarines anyway.
Which makes the removal of the location feature (or the default off) all the more better.
RMS is almost certainly reading mail via emacs.
Well, I just pointed out that Google actively encourages and enables 3rd party apps to ship ads and track users, and your only rebuttal is that theoretically you can pull off the same on other platforms.

So, if you really need more examples of Google's doing to convince you that it is the platform which causes Android's 3rd party apps to have so much more ads and tracking than other platform's 3rd party apps:

- Android has an "AdvertisingID", uniquely identifying you towards advertisers or anyone else who has a use for it, with essentially no effort required.

- Google's ad display component is a native UI element on Android, so when developing an Android app, you pretty much just need to drag and drop it onto your UI to be 90% there to displaying ads. Really, you don't even need to plan on making revenue with the app, it's so easy to just include ads.

- The Play Store doesn't even attempt to quality control apps in terms of advertisements. No other major software distribution platform is as laissez-faire with that.
I wonder if insurance companies or lenders with start forcing you to give up access to your main bank account in return for lower premium or rates...
Creating structured logging and response body for Python Web Application
Why do we need to know about prime numbers with millions of digits?
I like the idea of a library operating systems and the Unikernel architecture. But a good idea would be having a multi-thread operating system only as a hub for multiple virtualization boxes. Than we can leverage the idea of having an OS image bundles with the application and deploy there. We'd change completely how applications are managed/installed.
Nice to see this is a problem in other countries as well. Reminiscent of the f35
At the very least, there was some consensus that we were moving toward some sort of laptop/tablet convergence and Microsoft probably saw an opportunity to one-up Apple which ran (and runs) tablets and laptops on two completely different operating systems.

Instead it seems like in the main, people have (once again) decided that they don't really care to switch between a PC modality and a tablet modality [ADDED: on a single device], however appealing the concept seems on paper. And, as you say, the smartphones that everyone (to a first approximation) owns grew to their approximately maximum size and those are good enough tablets for a lot of people.
No they ask you to activate nicely with a grey overlay in the bottom right corner. This can be disabled but is not that annoying in practice.
That's a lot of bullshit. Article itself quotes 9% as middle class which will be around 100 million people. You think 100 million Indians belong to Babu Class.

This article does not do a very good job of getting its argument right. Some of the comments does a better job of explaining why companies are setting shops in India.

I too am pissed at Angrezi culture. Having said that English has become the defacto language for the world. Just google "learn english in paris" and see how many hits you see.
The Startup Blues
I joined an early stage startup after a career as a programmer in the military. Unfortunately I'm having some issues there:

• I feel I get "bottom stack" tasks: not really interesting, or I get mostly tedious ones. And in general feel like the technical position I'm in is a downgrade from my prior one.

• The organizational culture values significantly the more senior team members (joined a year earlier). They're the ones who influence the product and consulted with, and showcase the product. When I tried to get more involved I got "demoted" to just fulfilling my day job.

• Although we are a small startup , (I was from the 10th or so technical employee) I feel that I pretty much came to a 90 percent developed product, and moreover, although I can't read the feature I have a strong sense that I wouldn't have a chance to grow (managerially or technically), as they're 9 more people before me at the top of the food chain.

I haven't got any other point of reference for this situation, so I was wandering whether It's a bad situation for me, or maybe I'm in a bad slump (quite a long one) and eventually things will improve?
Have you experienced something similar, and how did you cope?
My favorite wrinkle of that "feature" (on mobile) is when there's an embedded video in a post that's wider than the viewport. Swiping very slightly left or right scrolls the page, but a tiny bit moar and it switches articles.
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Define "better"...all six subs are currently in port for repairs:

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2017/10/20/all-of-germanys...
Current and former Uber security staffers cast doubt on spying claims
Additionally. Cus this is for pets, theres certainly room for some charm. Eg. cute doggo pic will melt most peoples hearts even if they dont realise it.
But I would make something functional and bare 1st. then add the charm to it.
Although at least the German navy know when to reject something that's clearly not fit for purpose.
IKEA does price discrimination
I prefer Vista's taskbar - where running apps are grouped together.
But noisy UAC ends up being ignored completely by users - there's a very fine line to walk in order to ensure that it protects truly sensitive actions and is recognised by users as such.
Props to the author for admitting past failures even if the blog post didn't have a ton of substance.( Trying to get readers to check out a book)

Awareness is huge whenever trying to change and I think the author is on to something.
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Founder here. This is incorrect. It is no longer against the terms of service of any European bank as of today thanks to PSD2.
How many lines of WebGL would it be?
that's a nicely written story but none of it is really true. You can make a straightforward pencil manually with a little effort. It's all documented, because this stuff was figured out and documented hundreds of years ago. Having a degree in chemistry or physics helps, but it's not necessary.
Okay, I get that the computers don’t work right and there are some other engineering-specific problems of varying severity, but the primary objection from the WSJ’s point seems to be that it isn’t designed to hold its own in a shooting war with Russia. (And secondarily that Germany’s defense industry is no longer capable of building complicated programs like this.)

I know next to nothing about strategic planning, but it doesn’t seem that any missile battery whatever would be a better deterrent to Russia than the great big German flag flying on the top of the thing. How much effort should Germany really be trying to put into challenging the Russians?
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Besides the scientifically proven downsides for society and general human wellbeing that inequality is known to cause, why should people’s lives be improved or not at the whim of “business” and the “non-common”, most of whom are the beneficiaries of inherited wealth or a gamed system? What gives people the right to live a parasitic, non-contributory existence at the expense of the labour of other humans? You seem to be systematising and forgetting that you are talking about billions of real lives?
>As Larry Osterman noted, UAC is not a security feature. It's a convenience feature that acts as a forcing function to get software developers to get their act together.

What a great new perspective.
I use ferrules at the end of jumper wires to make a stronger connection when I put the wire into a spring terminal.
Loaded is implied, loading is not. I'm not speculating here; I'm a front-end engineer for Firefox and have seen the patches in question.
It probably isn't cancer, I have ulcerative colitis which bleeds but you need that colonoscopy. An er will diagnose you, blood in stool is an emergency.

I'm in the same boat as you mentally, I have extreme anxiety and I'm on 4 meds just for that.

Btw, ACA has subsidies, they'll pay a lot of your monthly premium.
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Valid questions!

Of course, we should assume that the information which the progress bar needs is "knowable".

And perhaps the question needs better phrasing, because there will be a trade-off between the resources used for computing the progress and it's accuracy.
Pilot shortage has no easy fix
i could actually respect libertarians if you guys would stop pretending that trickle down is a thing and embraced that a society with .1% superrich, 19-20% well off experts and 80% serfs is the natural endgame of your ideology
Spotlight will find applications in any location on your disk.

Also, Safari.app (e.g.) is not an executable -- it's essentially just a folder with special display characteristics in the Finder. Many app bundles contain several executables.
> Engineering graduates shun weapons manufacturers

I applaud this trend.
Probably a mobile-only behavior.
I wonder if the inefficiency of the meltdown patches will incentivize cloud providers to lower the price of large instances that have a high CPU core count (relative to small instances with low core count).

At the moment, the price of instances goes up linearly relative to CPU core count - Maybe in part because the performance overhead of virtualizing a single 32-core machine into 16 2-core machines had been minimal. But now that the performance overhead of virtualisation is higher (due to isolating the CPU cores being more expensive), maybe it's more efficient to lease entire CPUs (with all of their cores) without the patch (and associated overheads).
Thank you. I've been saying this for years but nobody influential wants to acknowledge it. Starve the beast is an incredibly stupid plan if you actually care about reducing national debt.

Reducing income can't help us reduce spending. To reduce spending, we have to actually sit down and do the difficult task of reducing spending. Nothing else will do. At best, we are kicking the can down the road.
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Benefits or profits? Are there more cancer treatments today than ten years ago?
May I introduce the G36, the main German Assault Rifle, that might be fit for purpose in cold Stalingrad but fails miserably in Afghan temperatures? Or the German Eurocopter Tiger that just falls from the sky when deployed to Mali, due to heat?
That's something that I've been trying to find myself, with not that much luck.

Jane Street Capital has a nice video presentation though: https://blog.janestreet.com/how-to-build-an-exchange/
>Pencils can be quickly swapped for different hardness. Swapping the lead grade in a holder is much more involved.

But surely you could just between multiple holders with different leads in them, which would be equivalent to swapping pencils?
OK but you're skipping over the central point that the energy drain disappears as a person grows more "skilled" in extroversion. You're welcome to disagree, but your comment is closer to ignoring the entire debate than addressing it :)
Video games, no doubt about it now. Tried to give them up to "be productive", backfired hard. Led to interesting times both in a good and a bad way. Who knew suppressing yourself and your desires leads to nothing good. Ended up scaling back on expectations and rediscovering the joy of wandering free on- and offline. Indulging my weird little cravings. Not trying too hard. Ended up with what I was putting all that effort for anyway (a job above the API). Not sure if it was worth it, but liked the journey anyway.
Hi there. That quote was from me. Thanks for finding it interesting. Thanks for asking lpolovets to weigh in. He is incredibly smart and thoughtful. Turns out... he’s one of the investors that responded well to our “pragmatic” pitch. A few angels did. It’s not that it doesn’t appeal to anyone or that it’s the wrong choice. But, if you’re pitching to a VC where success is measured in # of homeruns—not win rate or even IRR—you should talk about being a homerun, not a sure thing.
Do algorithms reveal sexual orientation or just expose our stereotypes?
Germany is silencing “hate speech”, but cannot define it
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I recall this amazing project, that aimed at simplifying gps locations even further:

https://what3words.com

(Admittedly, its not very useful for location funneling)
> How much effort should Germany really be trying to put into challenging the Russians?

So what are the options? Surrender when russian partisans cross the border?
The OS itself is not that DYI, even though I don't like being constrained in hardware terms. Let's say that I get over that. Then the DYI part begins, at least for me.

I like AAA games, almost none of the games I play are available on Linux (primarily Blizzard games). A lot of desktop apps I like or need are not on Linux, etc.

In any case, let's just say I used to have a Linux site and forum back in 2007 or so, I'be been through the Linux evangelism cycle a few times.

For many people, such as myself, Linux desktop is acceptable but not the best option. And for a reasonable price I'd rather have the best option for me, personally.
Does the history go back more than a year or two?
If they did, statutory regulation to prevent it would surely follow rapidly, and all they'd do is antagonize people and by extension the government and financial regulators. Doesn't seem like a worthwhile risk for them.
UK government is certainly on a good path of improving technological side of it. Along with more and more OpenData initiatives and migrating to FOSS (e.g. LibreOffice) it leads the efforts of many countries.
He’s saying GHB is virtually synonymous with Xyrem and GHB isn’t hard to make.
Never judge a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes. We’ve had a very difficult couple of years with some banks going to some lengths to inflict as much damage as they can on our business. It didn’t work. However, now they have failed to deliver something required by law I let my emotions get the better of me. It was a very cathartic moment.

Our technology is the best in the market but it’s entirely your prerogative to not build on it. We will be building products on it ourselves going forward anyway and that’s what I think the future of our company is.
The founder made his start facilitating real money trading (sometimes against ToS) in online games via sites like lewt.com and d2legit.com: https://www.bitrated.com/jespow. I'd say his execution at Kraken is living up what you'd expect from someone with his background.

A "deposit but can't withdraw" policy, however temporary, should be a huge red flag about their solvency.
This is fantastic, I was working on some tests for a scheduler, I can speed up running these tests using fluxcapacitor!
India's wealth gap is absolutely jarring. There are beautiful fenced mansions with manicured lawns and just outside the fence homeless kids setting up fires for the night.
Also, unikernels move in this direction. If you just run one program per VM, virtual memory doesn't gain you much security.
I'm struggling with the enterprise-y terminology. It sounds like:

* your bank is an "ASPSP"
* the second party is you
* the company (third party) is the AISP

So each individual company that needs to access your information is an AISP (or PISP for initiating payments)? Your accountant might be an AISP and your water company a PISP? And FCA requirements are (https://www.fca.org.uk/firms/new-regulated-payment-services-...):

"For businesses that only carry on account information services, there is an option to become a ‘registered account information service provider’. These providers have no capital requirements and need to meet fewer conditions than authorised firms. Businesses that provide payment initiation services must be authorised and must have a minimum of €50,000 in initial capital (or higher if they provide certain other payment services). Both AISPs and PISPs have to hold professional indemnity insurance (PII). The EBA has developed Guidelines on PII (link is external)."

Correct? This doesn't specifically rule out being a relay, but I guess there is more detail/restrictions in another document.

See also: https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2017/june/fca-urged-to-a...
The increase in debt is already being used to justify cutting services which non-rich people depend on. Things like Medicare are important to the middle class accumulating assets and passing it on rather than spending most of it on end-of-life care.
> Compared to Vista, Windows 7 was just a new (much better) taskbar, better tuned prefetch and with the very important difference that by the time Windows 7 arrived the drivers had matured and many of them even supported 64 bit systems... But that was all that was needed for Vista to be seen as a disaster and Windows 7 an unparalleled success.

Still, Vista was a disaster.

I remember a conversation I had with a MS engineer at that time:

- Vista is like, the foundations for the good things to come. If you want a solid house, you dig solid foundations.

- I am buying a house, not just pillars in the ground.

(It was the same with the w3c specs: "maybe mozilla and opera are the ones misreading the box model spec and IE has it right", me "ms is on the board...").
I don't think those scores are comparable between platforms, but it's hard to find any reliable information about it.
My GF and her son, Programming, my work colleagues and Chess.

I live a quiet life and I enjoy it, I don't aim for happiness that is ephemeral but I enjoy contentment.
It can no longer be against the terms of service of financial service providers to prohibit sharing the credentials used to access your accounts on their systems?
I interpreted the "deposit but can't withdraw" policy more as an attempt to avoid an immediate bank run. It could be a good business decision whether they're solvent or not.
It is flawed to 'roll back' changes. Instead, those changes have to have never existed. Otherwise, there is a short window of time when the cache-visible side-effects have happened, and haven't been rolled back yet, and the attacker can see them (due to preemption, due to hyperthreading, due to running in another core etc).
Made this as a 1 day hack.

Would love your feedback on ..
1. Is this useful at all? e.g. read all the news about Ethereum across the web in 1 place
2. What are the news / article sources you would like to see?
3. Would you be interested in a newsletter everyday about a particular cryptocurrency?
4. Sentiment analysis of the news stories?

Thanks in advance for the feedback. If any of you would like to contribute to this project, please feel free to reach out.
I love doing board games. You are in company but you have rules that guide the interaction. Board games are especially fun if you are playing together against the game.

Edit: As others have noted meditation can be helpful. This may help you realize what you really need in your current situation. But it is not a silver bullet. I personally recommend doing this in company once in a while and keeping a safety distance to "preachers of principles".

I really hope that you find your way.
I flagged this article for this reason. I would happily pay 1€ to read even just this one article but I'm not registering to your website and associating my payment details, which has god knows what kind of crappy security.

Can't they seriously accept dogecoin or redd or whatevercoin with low transaction costs to view articles?
Sorry, but that article's really annoying.

He accuses people of misunderstanding the terms "introversion" and "extroversion" but does the same thing himself by associating them with the stereotypical behavior that we commonly think of rather than the underlying neurological differences. Those differences are real (dopamine vs acetylcholine, different blood flow patterns in the brain) and appear to be linked to genetics [1] [2]. Yes, the terminology both in common use and within Psychology is imprecise and often misapplied, but that doesn't mean that there aren't actual differences.

He dismisses the "energy" interpretation as a simple matter of fatigue from undeveloped skills. I haven't seen any research that supports that or indicates that individuals can change their fundamental reaction to external/internal stimulus through practice and effort. Ie, an introvert can learn to work a crowd and present as an extrovert, but afterwards they will be exhausted compared to a true extrovert.

I do agree that the positive external traits that we typically associate with each (sociability, friendliness, assertiveness vs ability to focus on solo tasks without becoming bored) are enabled by skills that anyone can learn no matter where they are on the introversion/extroversion spectrum and people shouldn't give up just because they find it hard. But an introvert will have a fundamentally harder time developing the social skills and will need to recuperate afterwards (and same for an extrovert with solo skills). I don't think it's productive or helpful to encourage the "just toughen up, buttercup" dismissive approach.

1: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926641005...
2: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/50/18087.short
We actually don’t do this where we we have an option to, i.e. with Barclays and Nationwide. Regardless, users giving credentials to 3rd parties is not against the terms of any bank in the EU and it’s contrary to EU law for them to make it so. Banks are also on the hook for liability in the first instance and must immediately make good any customer loss, although they can pursue the 3rd party.
Putting a magic number into the “magic number” app unlocked emoji on any iThing iirc.
Man people love to rewrite history. I ran Vista. It was ok. But the constant asking for permission dialogs, while a security improvement, annoyed most users a lot. They were introduced suddenly without fully explaining why they were necessary. Additionally requiring device manufacturers to write new drivers meant lots of people’s printers went obsolete without warning. That was a PR nightmare.

Also the fancy Aero UI looked cool but was taxing for the average user’s computer. So a lot of people when they installed Vista didn’t get the experience they had been shown in commercials and screenshots.

On top of that literally everything in the OS had moved around from where people had been expecting it to be as far as settings and configuration stuff. Keep in mind people had a pretty consistent experience from 95 to 98 to XP. Vista flipped the script and users no longer knew how to do things. A mistake Microsoft repeated and was similarly punished for in Windows 8.

The whole world was not delusional to say they didn’t like Vista. When all your users say something sucks then you should listen.

Windows 7 was mostly PR but the big thing is that it had device support on rollout.