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> I wonder if it would be helpful to mandate civics education for university students on student visas.

We need to make sure everyone - whether they are international students spending 4 years studying, immigrants in the workforce, or locals who have been here their whole lives - feel welcomed in this country and develop a strong positive affinity to their new home (whether or not they stay forever), and especially the values we try and represent.

We can make people feel more welcomed and included as individuals: we can try and include more newcomers and students in our own social circles.

I'm a bit skeptical of trying to reverse brainwash people with a western patriotic civics education, but a mandated program to teach newcomers their rights and how the (in principle) mostly fair and transparent legal system works is probably a good thing.

Each student or immigrant from Russia or China are individuals with their own unique motivations, personality and temperaments. It's absolutely unfair to paint them all with the same brush but they are clearly still vulnerable to a powerful authoritarian government which can threaten and coerce them to act against the US.

Also, for every strategy the west develops, the government of China will have a counter strategy. Fortunately, I think we can win this fight.

> Even so, just as a store can survive some shoplifters, surely American industry can survive some IP misappropriation, perhaps with some light assistance from a tariff system or deduction against foreign aid payments?

I suspect a systematic, state sponsored attack on US IP (particularly future technology) from a competent government is greater threat than you think. Remember that a strong economy funds all other parts of government.
the word for rice also comes from tamil arici and not from the chinese mi

unexpectedly even the japanese use a form of the tamil word coupled with the chinese word uruchi mai leading to theories of dravidian japanese linkages or atleast contact and trade

but the debate of whether the tamil word itself comes from sanskrit vrihi is not settled
there is the possibility of agriculture spreading to north india from south india and lanka starting 17.5kya and then on to the fertile crescent as well contrary to popular beliefs

http://indiafacts.org/how-old-is-indian-agriculture/
After the ESCOM buyout they produced a bunch of PCs for the UK market (maybe others) branded as Commodore.

Edit: Mine came with dual boot OS/2 Warp and Windows 95.
Or to Kannada, where the fruit is called "kittaLe", despite also being classified a Dravidian language. Kannada and Telugu in general seem to have too many differences from Tamil and Malayalam to be lumped into a common bucket.

The color has always been referred to as "kesari" in Kannada, and translates to saffron.
When my previous university built a new eatery, the architects decided to put vertical acoustic "blade" tiles on the ceiling. Those actually fitted the architecture of the entire building quite nicely (see [1, 2] for photos), and the effect on the acoustics compared to the previous building (with a similarly high concrete ceiling) was enormous. It was suddenly possible to have long conversations with a relatively large group of people over lunch without growing tired after a few minutes.

I figure that you could use similar, aesthetically pleasing (e.g., coloured) elements in a restaurant setting.

[1] https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/bau/images/gebaeude-x-6.jpg

[2] https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/bau/images/mensa_1_gross.jpg
A couple years ago, TimeWarner offered us a free upgrade from 100Mbps to 300Mbps. We didn't really need 300 Mbps service, but ok ... We felt so lucky!

Very shortly afterwards, TimeWarner sold out to Spectrum which promptly jacked up our rate by about 40%.

I asked Spectrum how I could lower my rate. They said "Sorry, we've eliminated the old 100 Mbps service." Now I'm stuck with the new higher price.
Sometimes the customer is wrong and it's not an issue with the service. And sometimes the customer is rude. I won't expect any human being to accept rude behavior from anybody.
Examples requested.
I suspect the advent of recorded sound has had a huge effect on slowing down the drift or oral languages as well.

Just think, in the 1930's people wouldn't really know what people sounded like in the 1850's, unless they had a very long-lived relative. Here in the 2010's, we have those sound movies from the 1930's to refer to, even though most of those actors and actresses are long gone now. (And they're still perfectly intelligible, even if the slang is sometimes odd to our ears). And hopefully in the 2090's, they'll still have those 1930's movies around...
Here are some immediate thoughts:

- $0: Sign up for Bing and Google free adwords credit - There is usually some promotion or other that gives you $$$s. Research SEO, long tail keywords etc. and forming a comprehensive list of keywords to test (before rinsing the credit). Target the early adopters for a beta program with it.

- $0: Give 6 months free to Youtubers that are willing to give an unbiased review - I.e. 'influencers'. Repeat for any specific bloggers you can find. They often have valuable feedback.

- $0: Create examples yourself with the platform (or convince other people to test it out). You can engage people a) by showing the value of the system or b) with the story itself. You need to get some high-quality content generated on that platform to entice people in. The people that will stick with you and provide constant feedback will also be your first customers and your biggest fans.

- $0: Find all of the literature and writing subreddits and communities. Message the administrators asking if you can a) ask for feedback and b) self-promote. If a and b is ok, then promote in that subreddit. If only a is ok, then use that subreddit first for gathering feedback before self-promoting elsewhere.

- $0: Find all of the 'promotion' subreddits (e.g. /r/shameless plug), websites etc. This might net you one or two users, but it is not the most valuable avenue

- $0: Stay active in as many relevant communities as possible, just being a valuable part of the conversation. This might result in leads or other valuable stakeholders being found

- $0: Write articles (genuinely insightful content, not blog spam) on the theory behind the software, share on social media, ask for feedback.

- $~~: Attend meetup.com meetups for literature and writing in your city, and exchange ideas. This may result in improvement suggestions, or actual customers.

- $30: Donate it to a literacy or eyesight charity
This is false. Samsung and others made Microsoft phones as long as it was a viable alternative. Google restricted others to prevent a split of their own platform - Android.
Marx wasn't the first, and he wasn't the last to argue for a community/worker owned and operated economic system. He's just the best known. He might have co-written written a manifesto, but had he not another would very likely have. It was a long time coming. But that's really besides my point.

Importantly, Marx did not advocate for a totalitarian political regime. That's a big deal, because that's a defining element of Stalinism. Marx didn't cause that aspect; the aspect that people actually detest. Stalin did. His military underlings did.

I'll say it again, because it's very misunderstood, generally speaking: Marx did not advocate totalitarianism.

Another underlying point is that violent men come from many places, and given the conditions of early 20th century Russia, I would argue the Russians would have had their violent revolution and totalitarian regime, Marxism or not. Like the French had happen to them. Violence begets violence, and Russia, under their monarchy, was an ugly place and had been for a very long time.

So, Stalin was probably coming no matter what, I hate to say. And he was a totalitarian, unlike Marx.

Interesting side note: Stalin was a darling in the U.S. before we demonized him after we were done with the War. Kind of like Saddam Hussein.
The 109 price seems like the market responding to the 30 $ diy epipen hack released 2 years ago.

https://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/10/01/hackers-prov...
For me, it’s everything I dream of and yearn for. I will work for it until the day i die whether you join me or not. We have built a trash pile and treat each accordingly. Libraries are little pieces of harmony. When they close, I will go with them.
I speak 4 languages and have read literature for 3.

The depth and diversity of modern english fiction has no parallel, at least for the genres I enjoy(sci-fi, fantasy, alternative history, thrillers).
This piece is terrible in its wanton pooicy metaphor mis-steps. It’s claiming that gun limits are equivalent to the government clamping down on free speech. The ACLU is taking the position that gun rights are actually limiting free speech, and I think they’re absolutely right.
Yuppie Fishtanks: YIMBYism explained without “supply and demand”
Same thing happened with .info domains. I used to trade domain names when I was in college. Initially, .info used to be decently well-used and respected.

Then the registrars started offering 1st year registration at $0.99/year and all the spammers jumped aboard.

Came to a point where .info was the equivalent of .spam
>There have already been documented cases of service providers preventing STARTTLS to avoid session encryption negotiation on some sessions. Doing so allows them to inject a super cookie that enables advertisers to track users; these actions are also considered an attack.

Is this even legal?
This is a matter of "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

In the long run, STEM is going to become increasingly niche, STEM is the industry that eats its young. Not too long ago, it was possible to make a lucrative career out of non-coding front-end, meaning a design focus with no javascript. Those days ended a few years ago.

You can't expect your job to remain stable if you go into anything STEM, unless you move up the value chain to underlying tech, where living-wage jobs are as rarefied as million-dollar, you're literally a rockstar, contracts / jobs. My dream job here is to actually get paid $X00,000 to work on Rails. Not implementing Rails, developing Rails.

This is a pattern that replicates all across STEM. In the humanities, all sustainable jobs are equivalent to my dream Rails gig. Out of hundreds of people who want a salaried anthropology job, only a handful are going to earn them, because the economics just favor STEM at the moment.

But eventually the mid-level market for all STEM jobs is going to dry up. Whatever obsession society has for engineering is going to pass, and then engineering is going to look like the humanities, and the humanities is going to find purchase with all the new technology that we're building and that's where the jobs will go.

Which is a grand shame. Humans shouldn't be so laser-focused on the mother-loving present all the freaking time. It's going to take the web world another 5-10 years to realize that the obsession it's been nurturing over Javascript is ridiculous and that Rails really did do it right. Web assembly is a solution in search of a problem, and native is eventually going to find its sea legs. React is okay but its successor will be better, my guess is that CSS is going to be seen as the bottleneck and the new React will do what React did, only with a management paradigm for styling. The focus on ES6 will die out and decent language design is going to one day win out over that ugly pile of hacks.

Once the development community realizes all of this, and thousands of other lessons that are essentially variations on the same theme of timelessness, then the focus will shift on the people actually creating the meaning and value that people want out of life. Young people who want to rap will, well, rap. The marketplace of ideas will cease to be dependent on the technical ability of creators because STEM will have long eaten its young and has fully professionalized and turned into Hollywood.

Every industry will eventually be Hollywood. It's just a question of how well they manage that mid-level market. Hollywood has a guild system. We feel we're too good for that.
I've yet to see a convincing reason for githooks.

Is it not a violation of abstraction to turn your version control system into a build/test/CI system?

Local staging, committing, rebasing, cherry-picking, etc. operate on arbitrary line-delimited text. I should be able to do those without triggering non-VCS things.

Do you want to add a convenient auto format step with your IDE, githooks, or inotifywait? Okay. But changing how a standard, fundamental tool works for everyone...

What's wrong with `make format`?
Ask HN: What is your favorite company swag?
Fidget cubes? Pajama pants? You name it!
On the contrary, these gTLDs have only increased the value of .coms.
To clarify, I should have said, "I don't foresee that happening here." I predict, based on the attitudes the article expressed, that the writer has little interest in the owners of these games, and even less interest in their rights.
There's something to be said for creating face putting safe experiences that don't feel restrictive. Stardew Valley is designed so that worst that experimenting can do is waste time. There are no items or challenges that destroy all of your hard work if mishandled. Similarly, dog owners make the world safe for their dogs, stopping the dog from sticking its face in a porcupine or from eating rancid roadkill (although how much of this hidden safety net is designed for the dog's benefit and how much to suite our human tastes is debatable). I think what makes Stardew Valley enjoyable for players and what makes pet life enjoyable for dogs is that, in addition to making face putting safe, the restrictions never feel smothering. Players and dogs still feel that they have agency, and for the most part they do.

Most games and software is not designed like this. Either they assume that users know what they are doing and will happily let them kill their characters or corrupt their files—even if the user had no clue that this is what they were really telling program to do—or they restrict the user so much that the safety net becomes obvious.
Forget SMTP, you’d have more problems with bad email regexes on sign up forms that assume anything more than an @.
They have proven they are a good 'car designer' too over the last 3 years.
That's the initial registration cost. If there are multiple applicants for it, it will go to auction.

For a popular gTLD, the auction can go into several million dollars. .shop, for instance, closed at $41.5M [1]

1. http://domainincite.com/19886-shop-gtld-sells-for-record-41-...
Yeah, it might fall under a "science", but that is Job Training, and a whole other thing.
only westerners date vedas to 15 century BC to prop up the fantasy of europeans being aryans and support the aryan invasion theory

indians date it quite securely via astronomical observations in the texts of dhruva the pole star to 3000 BC or 5kya

dhruva was thuban or alpha draconis of draco or the indian constellation sisumara whale dolphin

there were no pole stars from about 2300 BC to 1500 AD but the knowledge of the previous one was preserved in india

the rig veda and some other vedas even predate the dhruva observation but have not been securely dated
Tl/Dr: The ACLU will be asked to defend people that they disagree with. Heres what to do in that situation
1. Make sure the case has merit and is worth the time (no violence-with a pretty low bar no direct threats and no carrying weapons, is it winnable,is there an ally that can do a better job etc.)
2. Set up a meeting with the relevant internal group to make a battle plan (eg defend a Klan member, talk with civil rights department)
3. Give resources to conflicted department (eg use restitution from above to fund a civil rights campaign)
4. Inform everyone we disagree with what the client says, but we defend his right to say it.
When I read it, the other comment said the fate was uncertain if the other company had issues - unless it is recursive, there is only 1 level of redudancy
If you screw up with a gun someone dies.

If you screw up with facial recognition a human double-checks and nothing happens.

Scissors are dangerous but we don't regulate those either.
Unrelated to TLDs but on the subject of email validation: I like to put a +<some sort of tag> after the name on my Gmail address. This is a perfectly legitimate thing to do to tag your emails. Most websites I've come across don't accept such an email address.
The counter-argument is that some authorities have always wanted to jail some people, but haven't been able to. Capone was jailed because he was caught on tax evasion; the mechanisms to why they looked at his tax records become lost in the argument around causality, which I don't think is fruitful in this context.
Uber offers a real, irreplaceable service though. I can walk out of my apartment and be on the way to my office in an Uber pool in 5 minutes. The cost is basically 2x of the bus ticket I'd need to buy. As far as I know this service was being offered by absolutely nobody before Uber.
The comment you replied to received loads of responses, and many of the answers ignored the actual request, and plugged their favorite math books instead. In case you missed it, there was at least one suggestion that gave a real answer to the question: 'Basic Mathematics' by Serge Lang[1]. It's a streamlined but somewhat dry textbook that starts with the properties of arithmetic and ends with precalculus. You might try reading through the table of contents to get a better idea of whether or not it will solve your problem!

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Mathematics-Serge-Lang/dp/03879...
“Pursuing science is a human right,” Laufer said. “In fact, it’s the human right from which all other rights flow. You have to be able to do whatever you want to your body and to think the way you want.”
The article says "you can find the letter publicly here" but doesn't provide a link. Typo? I'd like to some of the other "interesting reads."
California High Court Rules Starbucks Must Pay for Off-The-Clock Work
This is why people should write proper code to parse and validate email addresses and not use regex
Indeed. But the Amiga had hard panning: two voices played on the left output (and only there), while the other two on the right. And listening to music on headphones was always awkward because of that.

Perhaps the author meant that they use a special cable to blend the two outputs a bit (e.g. 70/30% like some software MOD players do). Or perhaps the tracker plays the same sample on two voices?

Looking at the demo video, it does look like they have a splitter plugged into one of the audio outputs.

Edit: I seem to remember that later Amiga models automatically mix to mono if only one connector was in use. They must be doing this because of the hard panning. It makes sense for a DJ, too, because at times you might be wearing headphones only on one ear.
So according to this post they created geographically distributed, multi master (with a mesh topology) that is always consistent.

Either they created a holy grail of databases, or an opportunity to write a great Post-Mortem in the future.
I would have whined about that as well, but then I tried rural "broadband"...
Try taking a look at some of SiFive’s stuff. There’s the HiFive board ($59) or an FPGA bitstream that runs on an Artix-7 ($99).
Isn't it vacancelle in French? Never heard fin de semaine... although most just say le weekend.
What if he is wildly successful and brings down the profitability of future drug development by an order of 10x? And because future profits aren't as certain, investors decide to put their money elsewhere and those drugs aren't ever explored?

I am not suggesting this is the truth, or even a prediction. But I reject the emotionally charged language that people use to say there are no downsides.

There are always potential downsides; it is a dangerous way of thinking to be unable to see possible negativities and use that as certainty of a position. Otherwise, there's just no downside to Pascal's Wager, and we all must believe in God.
At the same time google was stocking every level of their org chart with legendary engineers, Yahoo appointed a demented Scientologist from Hollywood as their CEO. Yahoo for some reason thought they were in the show business. They could not have succeeded on that premise and it’s a miracle the company even survive the reign of Terry Semel.
I've also yet to find a website that isn't fooled by gmail's dot trick. They all thing myname@gmail.com is a different address to my.name@gmail.com. In fairness this is not an email standard, but you'd think devs would have copped this by now and started to recognise multiple signups from the same user
Thanks for sharing information.
https://www.sherekhudahazratali.com/2018/01/hazrat-bayazid-b...
Isn't think what PageRank is? I have a website; by linking to you, I am vouching in a public space that I believe in your truthiness?
Ask HN: AMZN is set to be larger than APPL soon. How did AMZN pull this off?
AMZN is currently at a $909 billion market cap. AAPL is around $960 billion. These numbers are insane to think about considering how close both companies were to 'being dead' at some point in their history.

I'm curious to hear your thoughts, insights, analysis on how you think Amazon went from being an afterthought to many in the industry to being a force on par with Apple and Google, maybe bigger in a few years.
Designing Data‑Intensive Applications. For Data Engineering
> In Taiwan, everyone is permitted to bring food and drinks to the theater and that's pretty common. In the US I'm forced to pay an absurd amount of money for awful junk food.

I think this is the standard for the world. In India, we often joke about how the theaters make the real money on the popcorn.

> None of the movies is the US are subtitled.

Yeah, and they shouldn't be. It's highly annoying.

> but I suppose this isn't really a US specific problem.

None of what you said is a US specific problem.
It was definitely a response to the shortage and bad publicity around epipens. Not sure it’s possible to know which was the more direct cause. It could have just been CVS going for some good publicity.
Just a nitpick, but medicare for all is not necessarily an obvious solution for those who want universal healthcare
I have always installed Racket even back in the PLT scheme days, but never really went too far with it. I always liked the integrated IDE (DrRacket) for starting to teach my son to code. Now, I am getting more serious with Racket pretty much because of the shift to utilizing Chez Scheme, well it's the catalyst for me to commit. Good work by the Racket devs and contributors!
Bing works fine for a rather narrow subset of queries most people need.
ICANN has access to the escrow files and they will find someone to run it if necessary. There are dozens of registry service providers.