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The problem is that before you bought stuff largely from Amazon.

Whereas now it's more akin to eBay which always suffered with scam problems (and responded by giving buyers far more power - which then resulted in buyers scamming sellers instead of the reverse).

I wish it could return to the days where you just bought stuff from Amazon - or at least make it very easy to only search for their products.
In Spain the Catholic Church created a series of banks for lending to poor people, and investing profit in social causes. I think the concept came from Italy.

Those banks were called "Cajas de ahorros". Most people had their money there instead of private Banks.

The concept worked very well for something like 200 years. Until politicians changed the law to control the Cajas themselves.

After politicians took control,they did things like private lending at 0 interest to their friends and party(they even lent to one of the biggest party 50 Million euro and then totally forgave the debt!!) or putting their almost illiterate friends as counselors.

It took only 15 years after that to totally bankrupt all cajas in Spain, and now they are owned by private banks.
I don't expect it to have 0 bugs. But generally speaking less features means less bugs. And as I said it's not just about bugs.
Sounds suspiciously like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell_efficiency#/media/F...

Perhaps they meant this, rather than a percentage of their total energy usage.
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Bought an X220T a few months ago as a possible sturdy laptop for my mother. Was something like $80?

A day after delivery, I had purchased an 8GB ram stick and an SSD for it to keep it for myself. If it had a 1080p screen it'd probably be my main laptop until High Sierra isn't supported by something I need.
NPC is the right-wing version of 'bot'. These days the term 'Bots' can refer to all sides of social media shilling, but seems to be most commonly used in relation to (perceived?) Russian interference and pepe-/the_donald-type memes.

(I'm not a fan, because I feel 'bot' should refer to, well, actual bots, and the better term would be 'shill' or 'sockpuppet', but whatever)

NPC, on the other hand, seems to be used mostly by right-wing actors in reference to left-wing activity/interference.

Personally I'm inclined to think it's largely projection on the side of the NPC-memers/(alt-)right, but I'm sure there's still a bunch of truth to it. Everyone with half a brain uses 'bots' these days.
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Linus has a reputation to protect. As he said in that BBC writeup, the last thing he wants is to be associated with that horrible scum on the internet. Personally and professionally, he wants to distance himself from the alt-right.

Among the most vocal activists for change in the OSS community, "alt-right" means anyone who does not accept intersectional feminism as a fundamental tenet of their worldview, and given their penchant for "call-out culture" they won't hesitate to put you on blast across Twitter and wherever else.
Curious if this can work with a sharded redis cluster?
Today I learned. I'm still sure it is written as a double entendre just like the last sentence of the article.
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> I desperately want to write my ML code in a statically typed language.

As annoying as it is to see the ML name being hijacked, that has to be one of the funniest inadvertent comments HN has ever produced.

I prefer MG, for Machine Guessing. This not only conveys "The machine has guessed a mapping from x to y", but also captures the research side of "I don't know what the machine is really doing anymore so here are my guesses".
>That time is better spent building a sustainable business on a fair valuation with more challenging access to capital.

The problems change, but the solution remains fairly consistent!
Are we talking general news or tech news? I have a hard time finding non-biased news sources. Oddly enough, 4chan is the best source of news I've found. These aren't bad either:

https://lobste.rs/

https://technews.infogalactic.com/

https://news.infogalactic.com/
A long time horizon is supposed to be what governments are good at. No reasonable employee would trust a private insurance company to still be in business by the time they come to require, absent a governmental guarantee - and if something is both paid for by the government-as-employer and guaranteed by the government-as-regulator, what is bringing in a private company supposed to add to the mix other than taking profits?
Mind you we have been living under Jewish finance for generations and that hasn't been going that well! Usury was a sin in the Catholic Church, iirc.

Which religion has stable, gold backed money and low taxes? I'd like to join that one.

I was going to find out if the Lakota tribe would adopt me and allow me to live with them as part of a peaceful, sovereign nation within North America. Also, the Amish are definitely on to something with how they live mostly outside of the corrupt, warmongering, inflationary system the US has.

I will say for the record that bankers being bankers, I doubt very much any type of financing will really ever be any different than any other. There's all these Type A guys out there with one thought in their brains--to shear the sheep as hard and as often as possible.
The same is done traditionally in Italy and Spain, at least where and when the weather allows it (more in the south than in the north).

In any case having the windows open for some time daily allows to change the air and it prevents moulds and similar, particularly in modern homes where windows and doors (and the actual building envelope) are airtight.

Living in a recently built home with a good energy rating (please read as insulated and airtight) but without a mechanical ventilation system is - as I see it - a health risk, unless you adopt this traditional routine daily.
Additionally it’s a top ten list where all ten are on the same page, rather than ten pages to make you see more ads.
Ubuntu shipped with Compiz by default up until last year. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/09/wobbly-windows-new-liban... I think the control panel to enable the weird effects was not installed by default though?
are other web servers vulnerable ? for example, wildfly jboss server,??
Agreed in the general case, but what about a laser?
I agree, actual figures would help a lot. The cynic in me suspects their absence is because they don't support the hypothesis.

The claim that halal restaurants have an "almost religious following" among non-Muslims raises my eyebrows almost as much as the claims that e.g. there are "no-go areas" in Muslim parts of Birmingham.

I've lived in various parts of the UK all my life, I've been involved in Muslim communities and I've been to a lot of restaurants, both halal and otherwise. Basically the only reason a restaurant will advertise its halal status is to indicate this fact to Muslims. It might be the case that e.g. Lebanese or Indian cuisine is popular among non-Muslim Brits, but that's because of the taste of the food. If anything, there are ethical concerns about halal meat in my peer groups due to the controversies over stunning, and undercover videos showing cruelty in some halal slaughterhouses.

Honestly, the first paragraph reads to me like a string of inflated claims that's been shivved in there to exaggerate the significance of the article's content.
Nothing stops anyone from being against arms, tobacco, alcohol, and any oppression in Middle East. If you are trying to say that sharia and the Middle East are somehow equivalent or one is a subset of the other, then I disagree.
This was just part of Sun's JDS (Java Desktop System). The motivation behind it I can only speculate: to get attention for Sun's JDS, demo Java + 3D while at the same time differentiate from default Linux desktop, and to demo the successor of CDE; basically it all boils down to stock price of SUNW/JAVA.

Remember, Sun didn't do well after the dotcom boom and Sun wasn't cheap but Sun did invest a lot in desktop UNIX (Gnome HIG, documentation, internationalisation, and a major contributor with LOC). Sun GPLed this and many other things (among which Java itself and Solaris) right before they were sold out (to Oracle). We can only thank Jonathan Schwartz & Co for that because Oracle would've kept it proprietary (speculation though).

It isn't very innovative. It was one of the many window managers which did this. 3dwm, 3d desktop [1] [2] (from around 2002 IIRC), Beryl, Compiz, and Enlightenment (E17 & onward) are some other examples though not all of these were 3D accelerated.

As you said, the problem with this is its gimmicky; not productive. In gaming nice 3D effects can add something to the experience (immersion) but on a desktop it shouldn't be very noisy or abundant. So after the initial wow-effect was over these effects didn't get a long lasting stay in products.

[1] http://linuxreviews.org/features/3ddesktop/

[2] http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/
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A place for people to put other people down for seeking help?
Very good to know, thank you.
I remember going to a StartupGrind event, and the VC they were interviewing flat-out said "VC's are dumb and stupid". I'm not kidding. Initially, I was glad that he was upfront about the situation. But the more I thought about it, I realized VC's have so much money they can literally afford to be uneducated. They can afford to "spray and pray" with their investments.
I wasn't making an assertion either way about Sharia banks. I just think it's good to have an open discussion about ethical banking in general.
Having the dollar serve as the world’s reserve currency has been a major subsidy to both the U.S. government and to Americans. Foreign governments and central banks are more likely to buy U.S. government debt, which allows the U.S. government to spend more money and run up deficits with a lower interest rate. The two biggest foreign buyers of U.S. government debt come from the governments of Japan and China.
This has also been a major subsidy to Americans.
In addition to foreign governments using dollars and buying up U.S. government debt, many immigrants in the U.S. will take dollars in the form of cash and send the currency to relatives in other countries. This actually serves as a deflationary effect, as it makes consumer prices cheaper for Americans in the U.S.
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It's driven by the intelligence agencies and large corporations looking to make billions off of pain, suffering and destruction. It's the same as it has always been! It's just another imperial disaster that human history is replete with.
Is there any modern prototypes/demos/products doing a code explorer/editor in a VR environment? The vision of 360 navigation and lots of screen space, with added Z depth, is very enticing, but have yet to found anything in this direction.
That happens to basically everyone who doesn't have enough power to be responsible for everything that happens to them. A factory worker losing his job due to the company going under isn't his fault. The CEO losing his job is responsible for failing to keep up or pivot. Camera crews lose their job after the star goes on a racist tirade. The star however totally deserved it.

The world isn't inherently just - we need to build our own systems to change or mitigate them if we want it.
Yugo was produced by Zastava (of Yugoslavia), not Lada.
Thanks so much for sharing! Checking them out! And yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to do here :)
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It looks like it's meant to be easy regexes for people who don't know regexes and I don't like that idea.
They're betting on the regulatory force of their review system and product listing SEO, which is linked to their search algorithm.
The truth is that it's easier for smaller sellers/brands who laser focus on one or a few products to outcompete bigger brands with many products, and as a consequence appear first in the search results.

The more niche a product is, the easier it is to compete. It's just hard to tell an establish brand apart from a brand that just does Amazon, if you search for something (brands) outside of your knowledge domain. Smaller private label brands can appear more professional as a result of that mentioned laser focus and having Amazon as only channel.

In my opinion it's also the fault of the bigger brands not investing enough into the optimization of their listing, they don't depend on it.
Whether this murder-scandal blows over or not, it makes the case for a random "one-damned-thing-after-another" version of history.

One day, the real-politic thing works. All money is green. A feudal monarchy makes a fine ally. The next it isn't, it doesn't. The next day, one little murder in the journalist persecution capital of the world threatens to blow up the entire alliance, military, political & economic.

Saudi Arabia's had an erm.. "eventful" power transition (MBS') but it isn't fundamentally different. It's a monarchy in the real, undiluted sense. Laws and courts are mostly religious. There are no rights, on paper or in practice. No freedom of speech, affiliation, religion or concious. No pretense of these either. Religion & Monarchy share power with eachother. Neither are bound by rule of law or by the people in any way.

Are these barriers to alliance, trade or investment? Whatever your answer, I don't see what Khashoggi's murder changes. Yet, this murder (or some other catalyst event, if this blows over) can change everything.

It really does seem like random chance.
I had the opportunity to translate technical documents for both conventional and sharia financial products a few years ago, and I find the market fascination of them mind-boggling.

These products seemed to incorporate convoluted jargon and concepts which dramatically increased complexity but at the same time, produced no extra utility for end-users.

On top of that, the addition of ongoing shariah-compliance introduced a level of uncertainty that was simply not there in conventional finance. If the building you constructed ended up being used as a cinema, then the shariah debt you used to finance that building needs to either be restructured or unraveled. Why on board such a risk?

Even as a muslim myself, I feel like sharia finance is a step backwards.
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Seems to be 'HackerNews'-ed currently.
Still available, in the meantime, via the Wayback Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20181021030134/globalaccessibilit...
it's not really her fault the physics doesn't work

That is an excuse on a par with “the black hole ate my homework”
I remember how many people said that about the iPhone.
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Fair enough! I'd more accurately describe it as composable regexes, but to each their own.
Looks like a nice reference, in addition to supporting custom protocols.
Thanks so much for that roadmap, sounds viable. And I completely understand, quality control seems to be the biggest challenge.

GoCopia is exactly what we want to do here, thanks so much for sharing :)
When it comes to pension funds, investing in anything volatile like hedge funds is an incredibly irresponsible thing to do. I’m kind of flabbergasted it’s even allowed in the first place.
Pension funds should have steady, modest gains year over year and minimize risk of dips as much as possible.
Do you take a similar position on Saudi Arabia's attempts to strongarm Qatar and Canada?
> Arab petro-states are not the only nation states in the region.

They’re the only ones I expressed an opinion on though. In the Arabian peninsula they’re a majority by population and in numbers. There are no non-Arab states on the peninsula at all. Which of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait and Oman do you see having a bright future?
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That reminds me of unlocking android boot loaders. I took the liberty to modify it and now have to live with a warning screen on boot. I'm fine with safe baby-mode defaults, but still want opt out to be available for those informed or willing to take the risk.

Sadly that phone vendor doesn't allow unlocks anymore, so the upcoming replacement will be a hassle and I'll probably have to settle on a somewhat inferior device (also hoping for a headphone jack and replaceable battery).

Thank god I can choose from a big and free-ish market of android phones and don't have a huge sunk cost locking me into a specific vendor.
I am surprised at how dismissive and intolerant the comments here are of this code of conduct. And I say this as an atheist that still harbors a lot of resentment against my family's religion.

Do you have so little empathy that you can't possibly image someone adopting The Rule of St. Benedict in good faith (no pun intended)?
Raleigh, NC has a bunch of them.

http://www.searshomes.org/index.php/2012/04/10/the-kit-homes...
Getting people to use your open source software.

People have a marked preference for popular open source software.

* It's a signal of quality even if it isn't always the best signal, and developers won't necessarily allocate the time to investigate the quality of a package on a deep level.

* CYA: more stars indicates more popularity which indicates that your choice to use XYZ with 1000 stars is more defensible than the ABC package with 5.

* It suggests that the package will be maintained and improved rather than abandoned.
Now you’re moving the goalposts. While percentage of the population is a good measure of how expensive an army is, it is not the definition of how large the army.

Part of what makes massive countries so dangerous is that they can field huge armies without damaging their economic base, which is why you’ll never see China field an army with 5% of their population, while smaller countries might have to.

This means by your measure the largest armies in the world are fielded by small tribes, which might have over 50% of their population at arms! Except this is absolutely silly, and we all know it.

But fine. Let’s play that game.How big are America’s armies by percentage of population?

You can’t use total people served, because that’s not the size of the army. When you measure total served you’re picking up the size of the army, the length of the war, and various bits about how recruitment and retention worked. The actual size of the army was 40,000 in 1776, which is a more prosaic 1.6% of the population.

By that measure the revolutionary army is decently sized (1.6%), the civil war army is actually about the same size (3.2%, or 1.6% per belligerent).

In between the wars you effectively have no army, by percentage. With 20,000 men under arms before the Civil War that’s 0.06% of the population. The army we had on the declaration of WW1 was a little bit larger at 0.16%.

Contrast that to Prussia above which had 187,000 men under arms in 1776 and had a population of 9.7m in 1800, which yields over 2.0% at peace, and that’s fudging the numbers in your direction because I can’t find population totals for 1776, which would be quite a bit lower.

France has a population of about 30m during the napoleonic wars, and they pushed a peak of 1.2m Frenchmen into the field at once, which was 4% of their population.

I could go on, but I think I’ve made my point. When other countries are tossing up armies an order of magnitude bigger and comprising more than double the proportion of their population, you don’t have a “large” army, you have a moderately sized army. Ditto when there are peace time armies larger than your war time armies.
> Neural networks [...] represent the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we write software.

That's an...interesting statement, considering that neural networks are nearly as old as software itself. The original Pitts-McCulloch paper was published in 1943. Active use of them has certainly been ongoing longer than that blog author has been alive.
As someone interested in functional programming, but works almost entirely in imperative languages, is category theory worth learning?

Function programming heavily impacted how I write imperative code. Would I have similar revelations with category theory – maybe write better abstractions?
Every hour they promise something will be done until the next hour. I haven’t been able to work all day so far.
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It's a shame neither of those Falcons made it here

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> The top result was Wikipedia's entry "List of Lakes in California" which contains a big list alphabetized by name, not sortable by surface area.

Works for me (at least for those where a surface area is maintained in the table). Do you have JS turned off?
The point is that, if that $18B number includes phones, Kodak wouldn’t even be able to address that part of the market (as you pointed out), rendering the addressable market even smaller in comparison to their previous position.
I wrote to him over a week ago. I haven't heard back. Timmy!
Releasss and gh pages are still completely broken too.
I remember people saying capacitive touch display is impossible on mobile devices because "physics". Not everyone and not always is right when they cite physics. Ubeam seems like a more clear case of physical impossibility, but who knows maybe someone improves this tech at some point. That probably won't be Ubeam though, the DNA of this company already seems to be broken.
Ah, spinning beachball time then.
That's apt.. I used to support them back in 2003-04 when they were struggling to survive. Quickly moved away from them when I realized their power abuse. They are the Grand-dad of locking and exploiting..
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Well at least that would generate some power... - although making it practical for mobile devices might require significant investment.
It's not a fact, though. Expungements are the legally way of saying "this should have never happened and legally it did not" for criminal convictions. So anything saying that someone was convicted of Crime X when it was expunged is by definition not a factual article.
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> Foreign governments and central banks are more likely to buy U.S. government debt, which allows the U.S. government to spend more money and run up deficits with a lower interest rate.

Foreign government hold US debt because it's a safe store of value. America can access cheap debt because it has good credit. If oil was traded in another currency for some reason those countries would still buy US debt.

> This actually serves as a deflationary effect, as it makes consumer prices cheaper for Americans in the U.S.

Deflation isn't desirable firstly. Secondly, the federal reserve controls the money supply so more demand doesn't matter as the federal reserve will just decrease interest rates to maintain 2% inflation.

It's amazing how prevalent conspiracy theorists are among people on this website. Also fyi, the amount of demand the Saudis have for the USD is a small percent (maybe a fraction of a percent) of global demand for USD. So Saudi Arabia deciding to trade oil in a different currency would have 0 effect on the US.
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> a freshman in engineering would understand

I don't even think that as a freshman, I would have gotten it. On the other hand, I was pretty loosy on the EM side of things, that's why I then went into software quickly afterward .
It was a disqualification once upon a time, or at least a severe black mark to atone for.
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Countries with universal health care spend less on health care. It’s empirically proven to be cheaper.