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I studied in Tamil medium. When I entered college, I could not speak a sentence in English. Here are the things that helped me.

1. Read Bible cover to cover many time with a Tamil Bible side-by-side. I didn't understand many of the words / phrases. Still I kept reading as long as I understood the meaning.

2. In college we met every evening for prayer. I started sharing messages for few minutes. I made lot (a lot) of mistakes, but my friends helped me improve. Lot of folks made fun of me, but I still kept going because two of close friends kept encouraging me.

3. Watched Friends series with sub-titles. I didn't understand many of the dialogues because I lacked context. Still I would memorize sentences and repeat to myself.

4. Started writing a blog[]. The one I have currently is 2nd or 3rd one. In the first blog, I wrote primarily about what I knew well - SQL, Vantive etc. So the content was there, I had to only find ways to express it. Even now, I write about what I know or what I learn, so that makes it easier to blog.

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5. When I read articles or books, I note down the sentences or phrases I like. I store them in Evernote and re-visit them often. I try to use them in some daily usage.

Next month I will deliver a keynote speech in Azure global bootcamp in my city (Chandigarh). From not able to speak a sentence in English to this, has been a long journey of frustration, encouragement, and satisfaction.

Good luck.
I use both an MBP 2015 and an old Lenovo x220 running Arch Linux with i3. Both are equally outstanding to do front-end and back-end.

But I can do native iOS on the MBP, play some games, and make music more easily than I could with the Linux Box.

To each our own, but I moved away from Windows over a decade ago and never looked back.
She almost definitely categorized non-whites as “immigrants” based on assumption, simply based on the fact that I highly doubt she conducted a background survey of the protesters.
>"the truth is that you can’t"

Only defeatist quitters speak in such absolutes.

Again, it is not a dictatorship in the commonly understood terminology, but rather a term that is used for a political system where one part has political power over the other under the existence of a state, because we don't really have a proper and precise term for it.
But I stand by the general sentiment of empowering users to decide and telling them in plain language the reasons why their data is being collected.

That's exactly what the GDPR does. You can use the data for other purposes (e.g. marketing) as long as you request for that specific permission in "clear and plain language".

Citing the text:

"The principle of transparency requires that any information and communication relating to the processing of those personal data be easily accessible and easy to understand, and that clear and plain language be used."
> The US, and consequently the western democracies, lost the ability to genuinely criticize the bad guys for doing bad things like torture or kidnapping.

Would such criticism have had an effect otherwise?
Just curious, what makes this so overkill? I'm not a lib author but it seems pretty lightweight to me.
> ...not Irving’s government...

Surely city governments are responsible for acute mental health issues. Not all homeless have need for serious mental health care, but the number is high and those needs should be taken care of before (or at the latest, while) talking about jobs.

EDIT: At least, local governments should be educating the public about how much help they need from state and national government.
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Plenty of people got rich in Russia too. That doesn't mean it was something open to anyone.
I don't mean to say it's a bad idea by any means, just wanted to provide some constructive criticism. I'd say that GDPR's rules around providing purposes for data collection and not bricking services un-necessarily for refusing such are pretty good; and a labelling scheme similar to that you've proposed to highlight what is being collected outside the core requirements of the service might complement it nicely.
So 1440p is fine, but once you end up in 4K territory it's nigh unusable. They've barely started on fractional scaling, so your choices are big or even bigger.
One of the clips says over 60% of stock market trades are made automatically by computer, so my first thought is that this would be a bit like telling someone with 2 prosthetic limbs that if something goes wrong with them, he can just remove them both and get on with his life.
The principle is that people have the expectation that their movements in the public space aren't recorded. Anything that violates that expectation is problematic to straight illegal. I don't find that silly, quite the contrary.

I guess software that simply displays your name on a screen, but does not (identifiably) record that fact would be fine, though that would pose the question how the software would connect your face with your name - you would probably have to volunteer a photo for that to work.
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No, but I browse HN on a cell phone.
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> If Google turned evil the only thing they could do would be to lie about anonymising IP addresses and attempt to match users based on IP addresses.

My worry is that Google is already evil and could be very well lying and silently using the (deanonymized) data. I have no problems with Homebrew getting that data through their own platform but seriously, fuck Google.
This would likely have to be paired with a tiered pricing model for said good or service - i.e.

Class A = 100% of retail cost

Class B = 75% of retail cost

Class C = 50% of retail cost

Class D = free

I'm convinced that the vast majority of those outraged by today's data collection practices will conveniently direct their ire to some other cause when faced with the possibility of actually having to pay for the services they've gotten used to having for free.
The US allows local governments to control zoning. Local government will always protect incumbent landowners since incumbent landowners probably have control of local government. As such, ceding control to localities will result in a lot of localities protecting their investments and preventing dense developments.

A possible solution is to enforce national level zoning laws that forbid such practices that prevent dense developments where they otherwise should be.
This really is a regional problem. I live around the area, near the beautiful Santa Ana trail which connects two counties to the ocean. A few months ago, I rode down the 40-mile stretch for the first time in a long time, and I was absolutely shocked to see the extent of the tent city near the Anaheim Angels stadium. The people living there were living on hard times, it felt post-apocalyptic in some sense. The tent area spanned for a couple of miles - there was garbage everywhere, people washing the clothes on the trail, people urinating on the side, and some wondering around in a zombie-like state I can only assume was either mental illness or drug abuse.

Finally, officials decided to close the trail to do a clean-up. There was about 400 tons of trash, 14,000 needles and 5,000 lbs of "waste" removed. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/04/07/santa-ana-river-tr...

Honestly, I can't blame Irvine for not wanting this in their backyard. But unfortunately, as the people were getting evicted from these makeshift cities, they are setting up the tents in other neighboring cities. There is a small area near where I live now too.

I don't know what the answer is, or how to deal with it. All I can tell you is that it was not a good feeling, both from a humanitarian and safety point of view, i.e. I felt awful for the people living in this, but also uneasy around it.
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I watched the first 20 minutes or so. What I really miss here is some naration. A documentary that is tied together by quotes from interviews and flashy stockfootage is hard for me to follow.
We're a US-based remote company with employees in four countries and contractors in a few others. I have a sense that some of our unique needs make things more complicated for us than for many others, but my other SMB friends seem to be facing a lot of the same struggles.

I go into some more specific categories in another subthread in this article.
There's an implementation in Rust: https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p
Basically, every good scientific math publication does just that (on the level of the Trachtenberg system). What makes the Langlands program stand out is that it connects entire branches of mathematics previously thought to be unconnected; that means decades long legacies of journal publications of people working within their branch (each time through a novel discovery) and not noticing the connection. The two are not really comparable.
You don't click because you're educated in these matters. Most people are not.
Burdensome? Well, outsource then, to accountable specialists! Capitalism 101. Aggregation could be a service.

If so this law could create a data aggregation giant, where data from many (non-web) sources is combined, many more than today, potentially aggravating the problem.
Yes, it's very useful for motivating and mobilising people and nations to our cause. A banner to rally under. Now we have nothing besides plain old nationalism.
The problem is nobody wants the homeless at their doorsteps, including this community. If you leave them in tents in some place, nothing will change. If you apply pressure to the problem then hopefully it will get solved.
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I read the article and then realized why is it on the front page of Hackernews. Half the comments are flame-baiting. Wonder if there was a better way to self-moderate this without the moderators who may be offline on a Sunday.
I just got the 16GB/i7/512 with 2 year warranty from Costco for $1599. And I agree totally that it's an amazing machine! I have left it running W10 for now because I don't want to have to modify the DSDT for S3. Modern standby on Windows is magical - instant desktop after lid opening with the fingerprint reader!

I wish it had better speakers though and I still feel like the low power CPU in a thin package might get bogged down when thermally throttled compared to full wattage one in a bigger config. But so far no such problem.
I'm Asian/Canadian (arrived in Canada in 1988 at 8) and have worked in the US since 2009. I consider myself a 0.5 generation immigrant.

Talking my parents, other first generation immigrants, and even some second generation etc. They do have a common view. If we came here with very little (my parents arrived with $200 in their pockets), worked hard, and eventually became successful then why can't other people do the same. These people had much easier start then us (they didn't coming here at mid 40s with $200 in total) and had better opportunities. Most of them see people collecting welfare we leeches off them (and the taxes they pay).
The problem I see is that the county (Orange) is unilaterally deciding which cities (Irvine, Huntington Beach, Laguna Niguel) the homeless should be moved to.
Github is a very lousy metric to measure anything relevant to typical enterprise development.
That would assume that the homeless were caused by / came from Irving. That’s unlikely, as there are no borders in the US and people are free to move about.

See this article on how US cities pay homeless people to leave town, and they end up somewhere else, as someone else’s problem: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...

Problem is nobody wants them, yet no one will enact policies that will solve the problem. So if you sit back and accept the homeless while not really solving the issue, you’re just being a chump.
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I know the EFF opposes the right to be forgotten. I'm curious if there are any similar concerns with the GDPR.

The trouble with the right to be forgotten in censorship. The concept is nice, but in the end, the right to be forgotten can mean corrupt powerful people can censor their misdeeds.

I think something similar in the US would be problematic without our freedom of speech. Even if you get a criminal record expunged, anyone who scooped up that data, that was once public, does have the right to hold onto and sell it.

Not to say that's a good thing. It does encourage Labeling Theory, preventing people with criminal records from being able to find legit work (a counter example, the sex offenders registry in Australia is confidential. It can only be accesses for very specific things, like employment at a school).
The Ivory Tower has a way of phrasing concepts such that they are framed by finality and totality. The mentalility comes with having made it through the admissions process, and passing your final exams with a good grade point average, conferring some lofty degree of distinguishment into one's possession.

So, to look at the words:

The notion that software engineers are not
responsible for things that go wrong will be
put to rest for good.

I'd have to say that this sort of high-minded platonic concept needs some revision.

The notion that *some* software engineers *cannot*
be found as responsible (in part or in whole)
for *some* things that go wrong will be
put to rest in *some* situations.

There needs to be a degree of responsibility ascribed to some classes of systems development.

Meanwhile, there is very obviously a line to be drawn between the programmer that programs their VCR clock to time a recording, the programmer that programmed the VCR as a consumer-grade product intended for purchase by unlicensed individuals, the TV network that broadcast the television show at the time the individual programmed their VCR to record 60 minutes of broadcast on a given channel, and the programmer who locked me out of the firmware on my smart phone.
The garages are too expensive now, as they’ve been converted into studio apartments.
Thanks for your detailed recommendations. I also have anxieties about buying something “inferior”, but your comment has convinced me that Apple devices are not the best on the market.
Homelessness isn't a regional problem. It's a national problem. There needs to be an area designated for them at a a national level. Pushing people from place to place regionally is a terrible solution. An area needs to be designated for them nationally like Native American reservations when they were first created. The national solution needs to have programs to assist with addiction, mental health, and job training.

This is a really national issue. There are homeless everywhere. Let's approach it together with a national area all homeless people can go to for help.
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Most of the developers at my office are using the 9360. Every single one of those machines is subject to coil whine at load.
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It's an issue across generations (and even across manufacturers, it's the displays firmware after all). I think it's the 13" FHD version affected. My 15" is also fine.
I use a Razer Blade '14.

I would say its probably the best laptop in its class - even beating the MBP.
The point of the croissant "invention" was that it wasn't really a big R&D spend. It's a marketing spend, pretending to be R&D.
Years and years ago I used an X server on Windows named Hummingbird I think, could you use a native x server for Windows and run e.g. xterms under WsL?
Then reverse it, ship it them to Montana
You are absolutely correct.

No one (Asian or not, immigrant or not, Irvine or elsewhere) wants homeless moved into their neighborhood.
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> but it still hasn't gone into effect yet

Actually, it’s been in effect since April 2016, the information commissioners across the EU will be enforcing the regulations from 25 May of this year.
I think if you were living in limbo, you'd be pretty zombie-like. Regardless of drugs or mental health.
I think it will reduce the amount of flights of average people, not eliminate them. Flying will become more special, that's for sure.

The whole flying experience was a lot better in the old days, when indeed flying was special.

Also, remember that still most people on this planet can't afford to fly (i.e., even under current conditions).

Finally, I wouldn't mind seeing less vacation pictures on Facebook, of the kind "look where I am now!"
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Sounds like a nightmare, but I wonder if you can do a chargeback on your payment card, at least for the extended warranty.
> No one

The intelligence services knew. The general public didn't.
>Why do we keep investing in DSLR technology when mirrorless is obviously superior?

Are they superior for the same price?

I care very much for low light and high ISO performance. I get darn good performance with my Pentax ($500-1000 body). When I checked 2 years ago, the only mirrorless cameras that came close cost over $2000.
Sounds unlikely as that would only incentivise being openly (and vocally) critical.

If you have the resources and the time to invest in a long game, scorched earth strategy is likely going to be more effective.
You're correct, and all those thousands of people in Irvine whom are demonstrating are wealthy enough that a meager donation from most of them could've settled the problem in its entirety by building a local shelter or two.

Meanwhile, the people here who have no clue about the homeless problem being exacerbated by these same unthinking people just downvote you and demonstrate their own lack of critical thought.
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It's a trend in the media, that everything is framed as A vs. B. Whether that's immigrant status, race, color, religion, sex, it's all done to create a division, pander to one side or the other, and get viewers.
Sure, kdb+ would probably be worth every penny even at $100k/year when it's the right tool for the job. I gather it's genuinely the best in-memory database for computing arrays of varying rank.

But a lot of the use cases these other tools are good for are small tasks every now and then. I feel kdb+ is in a different category.
> you should care more about the quality of your lenses than your camera body

The only problem is low light. My 600D takes fine photos in sunlight or with a flash, but otherwise the sensor noise is awful.
I guess it depends on what work you do, personally I only rarely (if ever) use USB devices, but for the single one I have (a document scanner) I just leave the dongle plugged into it so it's basically part of the device - if I ever grab the device it's got the proper dongle with it already.
Yeah when I played in my sandbox as a child (not with my kids recently or anything....) and tried to get multiple flows from one source inevitably there was some difference between the two outlets and one would capture all the water.
Gave it in front of local high school students in an attempt to make them interested in programming. Seems like it worked, got a lot of question afterward and telegram messages.
I am glad that it is useful for you. It bugs me though that Twitter is trying to force everyone to use their service the same way. I want to use Twitter more like an RSS reader to catch interesting news stories and blog posts. The fact that they are actively discouraging using their platform like this is infuriating.
I got annoyed at my father once for making a sarcastic comment about 'algorithms' in the sense you're describing here. So I sat him down at the table and cut 10 bits of string of different length. I then walked him through bubble sorting the bits of string. Then I said something like 'that is all an algorithm is. A set of rules or instructions that a computer can follow. The only trick the computer has is that it can do the instructions really quickly. There is no magic and they're not inherently oppressive.'

I wasn't expecting it to work, but after that he never made another dig at 'algorithms'.
Aircraft fuel efficiency has gotten dramatically better since 2009. Utilization is over 70%, wingtips added 3% fuel efficiency, plus slightly slower fights, and many older aircraft where retired during the spike in fuel prices.

Average fuel consumption in 2014 was 75 mpg‑US per passenger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft
FWIW, there is a ton of affordable housing initiatives in Irvine, but the demand is greater yet.

http://www.cityofirvine.org/community-development/affordable...
So as someone said: if city X has a problem, they fix the problem by evicting the people, the people move to my city (city Y). Why should we (city Y) have to deal with it? Just evict them like city X did.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander..
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Nice.

I once wrote a “clone”[1] and when someone here pointed out the “first click is safe” feature, I implemented it by putting the reshuffle inside a while. Never thought of the first click as being “pre game”...

[1] https://www.ronilan.com/bugsweeper/
ACLU lawsuits against LAPD and other entities have provided legal framework for living on sidewalks and public parks (judge’s opinion ruled that sit-and-lie ordinance is likely unconstitutional), pitching up tents on public property, like sidewalks (by ruling that any regulation that prevents that in 100+ degrees LA summer constitutes cruel and unusual punishment).

Prop 57 also removed legal framework for prosecuting casual drug trade, so LAPD basically stopped making drug-related arrests in Skid Row, as the culprits just get a misdemeanor charge.
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I love index cards - despite running a computational lab, without index cards the whole thing would come tumbling down. And they're so versatile - the project management cards get taken off one board and then go into a pile that you can pull for annual reports, etc.

And yeah, there's something about being able to touch them, move them, etc.
You can buy the thing that meets the needs for $X, or you can buy something that's better for $2X. Of course, the better appliance would be better. Should we make a law that requires companies to only make the better one?

Well, it depends. If by "better" we mean it has an extra secondary feature, probably not. But if by "better" we mean it doesn't catch fire during use, then probably yes.

The execution is pretty crappy, and in the end it I think it likely reduces net consumer autonomy because it gives them less choice in how they relate to companies.

Can you expand on this? As far as I know, consumers can still give you express consent to use the data in other ways.
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The Star is a Canadian publication. The clear interpretation is of national pride.
Sounds like something losers tell themselves to feel better.

After all, you just need to rise early, work hard and strike oil to make it rich.