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I don't think they would switch to another service, because another service is likely to suffer from the same problems of rotating availability. The only service I know of that doesn't suffer from that is piracy, which I don't think people will go back to on any significant scale.
> This is, precisely, how polities have always worked. Personal freedom of movement is circumscribed to lawfully prescribed means. It wasn't until after WW2 and airplanes when ordinary people gained the technical capability to move around. Before then, you had to have lots of money and time to travel. Serfs were considered part of the land, they needed permission to leave.

[Citation needed]

From what I have been taught by friends of mine who studied International Migration & Ethnic Relations, people moved around a lot more freely before the nation state came into existence than they do now, because there were no borders to keep them out.
that's impressive. What would you recommend between flow and typescript for an existing react app with an already large codebase?
Java is perfectly capable of running everywhere, so containers are used not to solve this problem. With a container you ship the fixed version of the execution environment: JRE, system libraries, startup scripts, etc.
I've written a bunch of tech blog posts over the years over a bunch of different topics, with the main intent of being able to actually show employers that I'm able to produce rather than only talk about it. It's worked out for me, and through cycles, I get a few hundred views per day through search engines on all the different posts.

The one thing I will say is that there are stories out there like your co-worker's or some others here are those that write articles and strike it off super rich with new job opportunities or contract work. Plenty, the vast majority, don't make it that far. So before you start writing articles, make sure you want to do that because you like the topics and projects rather than only trying to put yourself out there.
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"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things." - Terry Pratchett
Moreover, the Red Army did the majority of the 'heavy lifting' in Europe during WW2. There are some pretty striking political cartoon from Dr. Seuss about this, depicting the US and Britain traveling in comfort to Germany, while the USSR carries all of their luggage.
AI talent is operating in a sellers market right now. It's up to Google to act in such a way that the people they want to hire want to work there.
In your first example - why aren't there more assaults on buses? Why wasn't there a gang member on the bus demanding a secondary fare or "protection fee"? Because your taxes pay for a local police department and a federal policing force. I'm not talking about "bystander effect" here, I'm talking about government resources designed to protect the population at whole. Isolated incidents will still happen. The Law, and Government, is about doing as much good as possible.

Your family is de-facto defended from murder because it is harder to commit murder and get away with it when the FBI exists, generating criminal investigation resources and distributing them among local police detectives. Your taxes pay for this and are protecting you right now. The very existence of a justice system is preventing crime. Not all crime, obviously, but a great deal. The remainder is more a socioeconomic failure of this country than a justice system failure (or, a justice system failure in that the war on drugs is policy failure enforced by the justice system).

Mutually assured destruction is more a macro-comment. Why aren't hordes of Russian barbarians coming over the hill? Because the US exerts its sovereignty within its borders. Why doesn't an organized community (government) challenge that? Because both communities would be vaporized.

Since we're on the subject, your taxes are a much cheaper way to get clean water, medicine that you are guaranteed actually contains the active ingredients you're looking for, food that won't poison you, and ensure that the city upriver doesn't dump toxic waste into the river. If you wanted to "take care of those problems yourself," you'd be running around like a headless chicken. Communitize, instead.
Yes, but thread OP was essentially saying "look how those chars appear when you can only render ASCII." And then the person you replied to said that explicitly.

I'd wager that both of them know there are more languages than English.
Xiaomi is, in general, quite good about opening its products up. The YeeLight bulbs, for example, have a nice open API.
A good utility to use to combat all clipboard-related exploits is one of Apple's example code: ClipboardViewer[0]. You can see a screenshot of it displaying the copied code from the demo in the article here[1].

Besides being able to see the hidden characters, you can also see the internal "layers" of clipboard, e.g., how can a rich-text sentence be pasted to both a plain-text editor and a rich-text one.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/samplecode/Clipb...

[1]: https://s3.andyfang.me/screenshots/clipboard-viewer.png
I never thought I'd see a vendor of Yaupon at my regular farmer's market(HOPE) on HN!
Arguably the GDPR is more important to user who fb only have a shadow profile on, than those that use the platform. At least as a user you might get some utility from Facebook - otherwise you are simply a victim of spying.
I've dated a couple people I met in MUDs, but the person I ended up marrying I met through an IRL friend. I get where you're coming from, but I always felt that the text medium was a limitation that resulted in those relationships failing.
Replying for anyone else who comes along. Another good command to have for these kinds of things is "xinput". It's how I configure my touchpad (surpassing the synaptics thing) and other things.

I've found it a little harder to script in ~/.xsession though for hotplug devices. Things get addressed by integer ID, not necessarily names.
> Man, do I feel stupid for thinking the internet would be a force for good. That it would promote democracy, free speech, and critical thinking.

It did, once. Unfortunately, we have to accept that the average person's contribution will generally be thoughtless, emotional, and not very substantive. I wouldn't say it's their fault. They honestly do not know any better and feel like they are honestly expressing themselves in that manner.

Just saying that perhaps we should take it with a big grain of salt.

Building intelligent consensus is very hard.
> There are always going to be disgruntled or unbalanced people

Well, yes, of course. But their overall number and the number willing to pick up arms are not immutable.

And americans are even less likley to do anything about that than they are gun ownership.

We've been taught not to focus on the fact we do basically zero for people in distress beyond making sure they don't kill themselves. Or try and understanding how and why society puts people into mental states such that they think violent outbursts are their only recourse. We've been taught to focus on guns. Not for it's utility in fixing the root cause, or proximate cause. We fixate on a "but for" cause, which also happens to be an entrenched political issue that makes for clickable coverage.

And once guns are banned, will we have our European friends smugly rolling their eyes that we obviously need to institute background checks to buy fertilizer from farm supply stores? And ought to abridge another right of Americans so we can finally scrub the Anarchist's Cookbook from the internet?
Reminds me of Hatsune Miku from Japan, a humanoid persona, with a huge following. Miku is not deceptive about its virtuality. But people still love it. Some people love anime characters - there's a huge culture behind that.

The problem occurs when there's deception about its identity. There will be trust issues in the near future if things like this persist. Then again, would it even matter if some celebrity is a real person in the future?
This actually sounds reasonable; most other messaging programs do the same in order to provide previews, thumbnail images, scan for malicious links or spam, etc.
Why do you think that US (federal) courts have anything to say about this?

It's an EU law governing companies holding data about EU citizens. It means that EU courts can rule over the activity of such companies, whether the companies come from the USA or elsewhere. Do you anticipate the EU wanting to test the GDPR in a US court? That would be as strange as the US choosing to test a US law in an EU court.
We had a whole generation of class-heavy inheritance-ridden frameworks and applications. It's bad enough in static languages. In JS, it quickly becomes an unmaintainable pile of spaghetti.

Object literals with small doses (read: 1-2 levels at most) can be good. Going further risks multi-level breakage because properties are bound to get added/removed across the codebase over time due to the dynamic nature of JS.
It does not, because the 2nd amendment protects arms, not munitions (for example, bombs).
That is really, really cool!

My PC case does not have a window, so I will never know the difference. But it is very cool one can do that!
Yes, but he's profoundly mentally ill.

He (seemingly) has, at least, borderline personality disorder and possibly NPD.

That suggests highly unstable relationships, emotions, etc. Not a life you would wish for yourself.

Material luxury both comes with its own trappings (eg. fear of being kidnapped; a fear that your friends only want you for your money/fame; which creates paranoia in most rich people) -- and then, in lots of cases, mental illnesses.
If you get in a car accident, no one counts your car as a victim. This is the same thing.
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No humans maybe.

And if humans were in fact the source of Starfleet's knowledge of transparent aluminum then it'd be an instance of a causal loop, of which there are many examples in fiction.
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Amazing considering they reset the ratings of all the millions of binge watchers they already had. That stupid thumbs up, and thumbs down nonsense wouldn't have been bad if it retroactively gave a thumbs up to anything you rate 3 or higher. Yet here I am, re-rating movies/shows I've already done.
Why do you feel that they should have planned for this type of situation?

You can't plan for 'crazy'.
I believe the story was the person who invented transparent aluminum was the man they approached and just gave him the idea sooner (or maybe this is how he always came up with it, timelines can be funny)
In "A Reply to Professor Haldane", published in "Of Other Worlds", C.S. Lewis said the same thing as golergka. Lewis said that a robber baron may be satisfied with enough money (though I must say that history doesn't supply much hope of that). The robber baron may get lazy. And maybe, since on some level they know that what they do is morally sketchy, they may repent. But an idealist who holds their ideal or political theory with the force of a religion is far worse, because they commit their horrors in the name of doing good, and so their benevolent impulses seem to them to be temptations - something to be resisted in order to do what is "good".
Old news. Facebook has been doing this since at least 2009, I recall seeing an article where Facebook censored all links (including those in private messaegs) to thepiratebay.org [0]

They also crawl links you share in private messages to grab the title, intro, and favicon to generate that clickable widget link thing.

[0] https://torrentfreak.com/facebook-blocks-all-pirate-bay-link...
I support Google workers. The hubris of US Military is unprecedented. Our military is already trying to pick a fight mostly for no reason. The more the cost of war drops for them (less killed personnel) the more they will create devastation, look Middle East since Iraq invasion.
Don't forget Ken "Popehat" White! https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...

In US law, speaking the truth is never punishable, in any way. Making untrue statements that result in demonstrable harm to another may be punished.

In some other countries, truth is not an adequate defense against claims of defamation.
The only place we discuss directly using Curve25519 is in straightforward DH, as with X25519.

There is more distinguishing Ed25519 from Deterministic ECDSA than deterministic nonce generation.
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IANAL but I’m pretty sure the second amendment only applies to guns; you can’t walk around with an RPG on your shoulder.
It boggles my mind, with the current state of affairs, the number of people actively organizing to eliminate or curtail our fundamental human rights.

It seems to me that 1st and 2nd amendment rights are both under particularly intense bombardment these days.
Is anyone else not surprised to see this from Spirit? They are absolutely the worst carrier I've flown with in the states. Nothing is on time, everything seems dirty, and nobody that works there seems to care about anything.
I believe the first Apple Newton had transparent aluminium for the screen. I can't find confirmation of that but I remember going to a sales training session for it (long story) and they told people to say the screen was transparent aluminium, like they talked about in one of Star Trek movies.
Not having used Rust, I'm wondering how it makes writing a VM easier or harder?
> GDPR requires protection for all EU citizens regardless of location of the user or the data.

I haven't yet read the whole of GDPR, so maybe there is something further in that changes this, but based on Article 3 that does not to be the case. Here's an earlier comment of mine that quotes Article 3 and discusses this [1]. Here's a link to a nicely formatted online copy of GDPR [2].

It appears to require protection when either (1) the entity processing the data is in the EU or (2) the person whose data is being processed is in the EU.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16752857

[2] https://gdpr-info.eu/
I use a Linux desktop every day and love it.

Nevertheless, I can't help but laugh at the fact that you basically just suggested for him to try another distro.

More seriously, the reason that suggestion is so common is because it does sometimes work out and I can't blame you for pointing that out.
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I think people must think I hate Java. I don’t. I think it’s great and I love Spring, though I have been mostly programming in C++ so haven’t touched Java in a long while personally.

I’m more concerned with the copyright status of Java APIs. Can you really be sure that you will be safe from Oracle’s clutches?
Engineers have a right to complain, and to attempt to steer the company, and to leave if they don't like where it's going. I'm more referencing the parent comment that calls Google out as shameful. Not all military work is shameful, and some that is viewed one way initially might be viewed otherwise over time as future uses are found for the fruits of that labor.

> The problem here is that Google sold their engineers on "Don't Be Evil" and libertarianism and "we're a sweet little tech company that people like" and is now delivering military contracts.

And they specifically dropped that when they changed to Alphabet, so the writing was on the wall for people to see. That said, I still think the immediate jump to military work == shameful is far too broad a brush to paint with. What if a contract was for better field medical kits? That's still going to help any military engagement for one side, but does keeping one side's soldiers in better health so they can kill more the other side make it okay? What about future public uses of the technology?

The world isn't that simple, and people acting like it is just so they have an easy target for their anger doesn't really help anything other than to make that person feel a little better about themselves for a little while.
Be careful with this line of thinking. Not everyone contributing something is "doing a bit of good"; it's quite possible they're making it worse. It's sorta like "good samaritans" who try to help accident victims, but because they have no training, end up hurting the victim even more than if they had just left them alone until someone qualified could get there.

Just because someone (or some group) contributes something to the Linux ecosystem doesn't necessarily mean it's a net positive. It could, arguably, be a negative: it could cause more fragmentation and confusion, it could make Linux look bad to outsiders (decreasing adoption rates), it could take mindshare away from a better organized project, etc. Worst case, it could be done with malicious intentions, such as contributing code that has a secret (and not obvious) backdoor/vulnerability.

Also, I think there's a logical fallacy about criticizing people who don't contribute yet offer criticism, though I can't name it. For an extreme case, imagine a group of lousy coders writing an OS kernel, and some actual kernel expert like Linus or Dave Cutler jumps in an offers some criticism, though they aren't contributing to this particular project. Who should you listen to, the actual expert in the field, or one of the amateurs who really doesn't know what he's doing? Obviously, the expert's criticism should be considered and not rejected out-of-hand just because they're not a contributor.
Yes, it's notoriously difficult to find who actually makes the hardware for these devices! let alone who writes the firmware. Many cameras are much too hard to reverse engineer in order to run your own firmware.

Fwiw, I recall that this is exactly how Dropcam started: they reverse-engineered the firmware for (iirc) an Axis net cam, then provided their own.
Enough people believe in Tesla that they can certainly find a way to generate cash. As a WORST case scenario i’m sure another auto maker would love to recapitalize them in order to acquire their technology. Tesla actually going out of existence seems unlikely to me at this point.
I think it's very important to consider the increase in military spending over the past decade and decrease in funding for universities.

More and more funding in the military means more funding for specifically defense projects rather than straight up knowledge or public good.

What is the long term affect of this? Perhaps research far more focused on destruction instead of public good. More better drones, less general knowledge or cures for diseases?

It's a sad state of affairs, and workers standing up against military research within their companies is a good first step.

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One of the first sources I found on this is below, but I've specifically heard about it being vexing from AI researchers, as many don't want to directly support military applications, but don't have much of an opportunities for funding otherwise.

https://www.bu.edu/research/articles/funding-for-scientific-...
You can and he did. The main thing lacking in YouTube other than communication (which is not good - delays are inevitable but compete lack of is not) is actual reason. This is probably because they either cannot offer a real reason (either physically or because it'd expose the incompetence) or do not want it to be known (ulterior motives).
Not virtual though, they are CGIs but there is an artist behind giving it its soul. Its gonna be a lot more interesting when the entire agent is computerized.
I think you are changing the problem definition a bit.

"Protect the user's privacy" is not at all the same thing as "follow all the laws of the user's home jurisdiction".

If there is a legal obligation to follow the laws regarding privacy then what about any other laws? What about disclosure laws where service providers in the home country are required to disclose information to the government? Should the foreign service provider be required to follow those laws also? If not, why not?
IMHO, it's a specific problem of our drone program. It's being used often for a civilian agency (the CIA) to use military hardware to conduct assassinations of various individuals overseas in countries we are not even at war with.

And then there's the fact that we've killed hundreds of children with it. It's hard not to view everyone involved with the program as guilty of war crimes.

I don't have a problem with our military in a general sense, or even the idea of using drones to keep our pilots out of harm's way.
I installed Ubuntu 17.10 on my desktop. There is an awful tearing issue in video playback, so I installed the AMDGPU driver from the AMD website for Ubuntu.

After installing it, the machine would hang during boot. I had to boot to recovery mode to remove the driver. Then I tried to switch to Xorg from Wayland. That also caused the UI to fail to load. I eventually figured out how to get Xorg to work and tried the AMDGPU driver again. Again, failed to boot. I ended up reinstalling Ubuntu from scratch. I've consigned myself to the fact that I can't resolve the tearing issue and I'll just have to live with it.

So, I dual-boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu, depending on the task I'm working on.
Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman is something that I feel calls to me at times, and my bibleworn copy often sits on my workbench. I even have some sections memorized.
I agree with much of your commentary, but I don't really like the community bashing. Having looked at the average Windows community, I'm not really sure that it is better, they just act off-putting and helpless in different ways (just reinstall it, and that kind of thing being the most common responses).
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How so? Eisenhower finished the WW2, and then went on to topple the government of Iran and restore the Shah. Plus he gave bombers and napalm to help the French keep their colonies in Indochina.
It's worth noting that The Profit picks companies that are inherently dramatic because it's a TV show.

The goal of a TV show is to get you to watch. Thus, the more of a train wreck, the more likely you watch.

If Marcus was trying to maximize his ROI on the business investments, he would start with different businesses and more reasonable owners.

Instead, he is maximizing the ROI on his TV show and his Brand (ugh, I hate that word).

So, by losing a small amount of money on some ridiculous businesses, he makes a whole lot more on the back end of being on TV, selling business books, giving speeches, and in general looking like a business hero.

The long play here is very, very smart and has obviously paid off already.
Sure, I'll bite. Just falsify it: the Pentagon's killing machines have never brought about world peace, and world peace has never occurred while the Pentagon received killing machines.
The US was motivated by ideology.

Why was the US an ally of GB/France/etc and not Germany/Italy? Contrary to your belief, greed can be ideological -- striving for global free trade is an example of this.
I haven't seen the quirk where Linux doesn't allow typing full sentences before.
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No. Java's "write once, run anywhere" promise is that you would not have to re-compile your source code to target different architectures like you do with C or C++. Docker's promise is that you don't have to rely on external things like databases, filesystem details, and other things _outside your program_ being in place across environments. Same idea, different levels of abstraction.
We are software limited also. AFAIK you could design a high level easy to use programming language with high performance vectorized array operations, but such languages at least are not in wide use.
By high level I mean something like Ruby where you could specify lambdas for enumerables. But the vm would take care of vectorization and/or parallelization for you.