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Ventura has a show that is on RT. You quoted my statement

>Again, nothing suggesting they are knowingly working with the Russians

And replied with a link to Assanges' show. I'll admit, "working" is too vague of a word to use, all my other posts use "collaborate," as selling the show to RT could be called "working with." However, if that contact is the damning evidence that you claim it is, the same evidence is available linking Ventura (and Larry King) to the Kremlin. Why aren't you calling for them to receive the same treatment?

>Ah, the Captain Renault defense. . (Sure, I collaborate with the Nazis, but I'd just as soon collaborate with the other side if they were winning!)

Still no evidence of collaboration has been shown. And nothing like that scenario, I'm sure he'd have gladly had his show run on both channels at the same time. More people would see his views and he'd make more money for his work.
Being honestly curious, do android or iOS phones offer audio quality/signal comparable to standalone headphone amps expensive Senneheiser headphones are designed to perform best with? Disclosure: I also own $500 Senneheiser headphones, but use my Bose Bluetooth ones for my phone.
> Congress should update its laws regarding political advertisers, and social media users need to “adjust to a media environment in which several dozen gatekeepers no longer control what is newsworthy.”

What is happening as been happening all along, for years. The now difference is who is doing the influencing; for what ends; and yes the how has changed but that's not really what's causing the friction.

For Stamos to suggest more people need to think for themselves, that more need to question authority more, sounds naive, at best. That is the last thing the powers that be will allow. They're fine with misinformation, they just want to sure it's their's and no one elses.

The irony is this latest "scandle" will ultimately be solved with less individual free thought, not more. It will be a psychological / emotional / intellectual nanny state. No human neuro activity too small to micro manage.

Yeah, it sounds extreme. But so would The Patriot Act pre 9-11. So would Ed Snowden before we knew about Ed Snowden. Both of these were met with barely a shrug of the shoulders. There's nothing to be fixed from Congress' pov everything is as it should be. It just needs a slight bit of adjusting.
Not disagreement in general with your post, but being wealthy is rarely independent of your investments or the industry you made your wealth with. And that, indeed make your judgement biased. Which is not an issue since the arguments count, not who or why one give them.
Basic Html version is here by the way, everyone: https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html&zy=h

Its really really fast.

I'm using it all the time now, and only dropping back into 'standard' mode if I need to do fancy formatting - which is rare
You think they pirated your course on March?
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I remember well the discussions, here and elsewhere, from around the time of the referendum.

Next time I need some happy distraction I might just look up all the pro-Brexit commentators and rub it in there face how entirely spot-on the dire predictions back then actually where.

Too bad they are far too likely to be scavenging for food to indulge my gloating :(
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Well that's quite a pickle to find oneself in, isn't it?
Trees are made of carbon. Growing a tree takes carbon from the atmosphere and turns it into wood. When you build a house out of the wood that carbon stays in the wood for the newer few hundred years rather than going into the atmosphere, so staying ‘locked up’.
You really need to stop making false claims of some “defamation campaign.”

Your business was registered in Lithuania and was owned by the owner of Tesonet/Nord. You signed your Android app with “Tesonet” as the name. I pointed these facts out and linked to them. Ever since, I have seen nothing but slanderous and defamatory attacks from you, as an individual and from Proton.

Why do you attack a truthful messenger?

Please stop this activity immediately. I’m asking you as a netizen. I did nothing wrong for pointing out these extremely scary peculiarities with ProtonVPN.

And now you attack me non stop for sharing facts with the internet one time on hacker news with links to sources - which everyone on HN agreed with and even found more peculiarities.

I guess you believe in censorship.
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In C++ there is a thing called exception safety and there are three level:

* No throw: the function will not fail. Full stop.

* Strong exception safety: if the function fails the state of the object(s) is acting on is unchanged. This is similar to transactional atomicity guarantee.

* Basic guarantee. If the function fails the state of the objects is unspecified but valid (i.e. no invariant is violated), but data might be lost.

From the point of view of the caller of course no throw is the most desirable property, the strong and finally basic. Anything less than that (i.e. corruption, leaks, dangling pointers) is considered unacceptable.

Another important insight is realising that exception guarantees have little to do with exceptions and everything to do with postconditions in the return path: for example the same techniques used to guarantee strong safety on the face of exceptions also work to guarantee postconditions on the faceof multiple explicit retun paths.
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Very true, stuff is going to happen, and you've got to scramble to get it fixed. I would imagine NY would be tough, I'm in an area where COL is probably half, maybe one-third of NYC, and expectations are considerably lower as well.
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It certainly did connect less educated. This is a only part of the picture - the misinformation crisis also involves the miseducated.

The quality of our collegiate has been much displaced by the rise of the true-believing college administrator with authority to suppress unorthodox curriculum and research.

Facebook ALSO gives this cancer a platform.
Yes this and Joeri’s post are on point. Unless you’re in the realm of mathematics or the physical sciences the more the education the stronger the disputes over “facts”.

It’s hubris to think any group can be the objective gatekeeper of truth unless they’re just reporting demonstrable facts like ball scores or weather.
That's a valid point. Out of curiosity, do phones have good enough audio hardware that makes wired sound better than Bluetooth? IMO (I'm no audio engineer) the new Bluetooth standards have pretty good bandwidth that I'd imagine can transmit rather high bitrate audio. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm genuinely curious.
Paper filters absorb more oils in the brew, giving maybe a slightly clearer cup, but depending on thee coffee there might not be a huge difference.

A metal filter might even make the coffee more enjoyable, but I think when reviewing coffee, the oils cover up some of the more subtle flavours.
The big difference is that in 1980s, we had no choice. If I wanted to play games I had to learn how to use this new TI99/4A. Back to those cartridges were in limited number and my time was kind of infinite (it seemed looking back ;) ). So I started to borrow books and copy listings, then started to understand basic and finally tried to adapt the gameplay etc...

I see my kid today, he is absolutely hooked to videogames. Minecraft and Fornite, they are already richer in variety than all of the games of my childhood combined!

He does some stuff on scratch and loves it so I tried python with the super simple 2d game engines... This has been a repeated failure. He has 0 patience left to try out stuff, learn the syntax or tinker with it.

But I understand, it is really easy to get instant satisfaction from the baked in stuff, oh look a new challenge to do on fornite!
Yes if you average over the market you're likely to make money in the long term. Though note that in some cases long term can be on the order of two or more decades.

Buying into a risky market right before a down turn will only increase the time for you to see a return on your investment. Meanwhile you could have been making a "steady" income in less uncertain markets. Or even invested in the world market as a whole.
Can USB-C splitters charge and output at the same time like the MacBook ones do?
In '83 I was a 17 year old wise-ass with a dippity-doo mohawk and video games I'd authored in every Sears and K-Mart nation-wide. My best friend did the contacting of computer stores, and one of them turned us onto his brother - a distributed of games and toys to Sears and K-Mart. Our best seller was a Vic-20 game called "GraveCave". Through that experience I became a beta tester for the original pre-release Mac and backdoored by way into Harvard, working with Mandelbrot and quite a bit more. Ah, the risks of youth...
https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x#build-you... ?
I'd be surprised if they're not logging the amount of data used (size of message), probably also it's type (voice or video call, or just text - possibly with some sort of attachment), not to mention location data for each participant, and whatever else they can glean - frequency of calls/messages between users for instance, and how that relates to other data FB know about - all sites visited that have social media buttons, as well as what anyone posts directly to their feed.
No - for two reasons.

The first is that those old systems were so limited you could either write BASIC or machine code. There were no distractions, no other apps, and no social media - except paper magazines. So 100% of your computer time was devoted to typing in code, learning about code, or writing your own code.

The other reason is that in the UK at least, a lot of one-man-shops produced an entire games industry around the Sinclair (Timex) Z81, Spectrum, and other 8-bits of the day.

The business had all of the magic characteristics of an open market: minimal cost of entry, minimal cost of marketing (through cheap ads in paper magazines), low-cost distribution, and an enthusiastic and largely untapped potential customer base.

No platform today has those characteristics. Web "apps" probably come closest, which is why we're talking about this on HN. But a lot of 8-bit businesses and careers were started without the corporate and financial cruft that surrounds modern start-ups.
For anyone interested in the neuroscience behind this, I recommend reading Judson Brewer’s book the Craving Mind. He did the first fMRI studies of meditators and makes explanations entertaining, interesting and accessible without sacrificing the science behind it.

The cool thing about using fMRI is that they can see which networks and physical systems deep inside the brain become active, not just surface level activity of eeg. From there they see decreased activity in the default mode network from meditators when they are meditating, which is the same activity seen when people take sufficient doses of pychideics such as psilocybin.
More likely the "lead Brexiters" make a lot on the period high volatility.
Competing to finish in the top 3% of an arbitrary test isn’t really useful. Setting up your youth to have 97% be failures isn’t really useful.
But the fact that they are aiming for profit beyond everything else is already implied by the word "company" I'd say.
> "But paid ads are one thing. Fake accounts posting lies and mis-information are another."

IDK. I just sat through 4 - 6 weeks of political ads (here in central NJ) and it was difficult to tell fact from fiction. To say nothing of the fact most did not disclose even their declared party. As for the super PAC ads. Those were more twisted informion with the source being far from transparent - not even a URL.

Point being. Same lies as always. Same misinfo as always. None of it done by Russians.

Let's not be naive. The system is optimized for bad info from bad actors. The difference is, the actors are not our (so called) representatives.
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Those who are not used to the terminology of physics or math would not be able to follow a paper no matter whether it was stuffed with the Greek alphabet or nice descriptive names. They'd be baffled by the formulae and concepts and lack the understanding needed to see the trees through the forest even if it were written like prose, maybe even more so as a formula at least gives some idea of what goes in and what comes out, what belongs together and in what order things are to be seen by virtue of some easily understandable symbols. While it is a fact that some people - often those who lack self-confidence - revel in being obtuse to increase the appearance of them being the guardians of some semi-magical 'Knowledge' this is not the reason why STEM-fields tend to gravitate to their own 'secret languages'. This starts in school where children learn that 1 + 1 = 2 instead of take the abstract number one, add another abstract number one and you now have the abstract number two.
It may well be uglier than sin's really ugly cousin, but if you are stuck managing Windows environments, it's a god damned life saver.
Fake news is a symtpom, not a cause. To fight fake news, we'd have to go to the sources (note: this is mostly off the top of my head):

* Fight partisanship/polarization. Not sure how to do this. But taking a big step back and trying to discuss things without labels would be a good start. And who knows... maybe a different voting system to encourage more parties to exist? There's a lot to do here.

* Fight corruption. The U.S. system is corrupt. Corrupt leaders thrive on partisanship.

* Stop emotionally framing things. An article frames something with lots of emotion? I'd be wary that they're telling you how to feel so you don't worry about what they're trying to achieve (what to think, or just views for money)

* Reject online advertising. Online advertising equates views with money. The more inflammatory something is, the more money it brings in. Be equally wary of any micro-transactional news / article service.
Is ‘less educated’ code for people with views different to yours?
> Facebook is, indeed, the only giant I can think of that has not yet been disrupted

It's also still the youngest one of them, but yes, for a company in the social networking space they've showed a lot of staying power (they could've already fallen to what could've become out of independent WhatsApp & Instagram).
Facebook (and Google) only exist as they do today because an acquisition by Yahoo didn't happen, and I think they've internalized that.
IF it's what you say, then we'll have to set up some form of education to make sure people do value their data correctly, and therefore, a re in a position to negotiate with that sort of businesses.

Each time a my genome data contributes to one pill to improve the life one person, I want price of the pill P divided by number N of genomes used, divided by 100, so P/(100*N) euro on each pill sold, for my whole life.
Of course more random education doesn't educate people specifically about influence and propaganda. Why would it?
The problem is the signal to noise ratio is getting so bad that you don’t know what information to trust.
I wonder if there's a file size + workload at which the coordination overhead of a parallel awk is low enough for an overall performance win.
> If you reverse the back edges of while and for loops a flowchart is a DAG.
Depending on language there could be also end recursions that never return or - the horror- GOTOs.
Thankfully, these days, you don't actually need to choose between GC and manually matching up your `free`s with your `malloc`s.

There is at least some data that GC does have an impact on command line tools like this: https://boyter.org/posts/sloc-cloc-code/ --- More experiments like that would be great to crystallize the exact trade offs here.
I think you have nailed the reason why I work like that: I learned to program in the days of line editors. So it was quite like what you said, only not with a word at the time but a line at the time which is way too little context so you need something to offset that.
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Hi Jammy,

My name is Andrew from PIA. I don’t know about our reputation, and quite frankly, I don’t think it’s a good idea to simply blindly trust any VPN. You need to look at track record more so than anything else. To that extent, PIA is the only VPN that has been verified as not logging by courts on multiple occassions.

That being said, we have been subject to a slanderous defamatory campaign by ProtonVPN for some time. I chose to ignore it but now his claims are going too far.

This all started when I shared a few links proving that ProtonVPN was controlled by NordVPN/TESONET’s CEO and that the ProtonVPN android app was signed by Tesonet.

I believe I did the right thing by sharing the facts about ProtonVPN given it is a purported privacy company - I thought people would want to know their android app was signed by Tesonet which says it is a data mining and machine learning firm on their own website.

If I was born again and had the same decision in front of me, I would make the same decision in every lifetime.

If you think that me standing by my beliefs and values makes PIA lose reputation - I hope PIA losses ALL OF ITS rep.
Theres a difference between sharing honestly and vulnerably, and self flagellation. Or humility versus spiritual pride.
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I borderline take offense to this lol.

I first got interested in computers and eventually programming by playing with custom ROMs for my Windows Mobile phone when I was in college, circa 2006. If it wasn't for smartphones, I never would have taken a networking class (I was a radio/TV major) and realized I was very interested in what I could make a computer do (I'm a software engineer now).

I think that the kids-these-days who aren't hacking their smartphones are the same kind of people who didn't do much more than watch TV in years past.
In practical terms, how do you feel meditation has changed you?

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No, there are some less educated people who share the same views as me. But it is no secret that the degree of education correlates strongly with certain political views. And the people currently in power in America certainly know that and play that to their advantage.

They know full well that their proposed solutions won't work a bit, but instead make them richer along the way. But the less educated people don't know that, they are being abused and mislead. I am not against conservative people and also not against people with different views. We live in a plural society and that is a good thing. It becomes a problem when some of those people can't tell the difference between truth and lie.
Just people searching for "random country"?
Dont' we already have the beginnings of such support with Canonical's support of ZFS in the Ubuntu Linux kernel? I'm writing this reply on a system running ZFS as the rootfs.

% findmnt /
TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS
/ rpool/ROOT/default zfs rw,relatime,xattr,noacl

Regarding Linux kernel on Windows 10, if you're referring to The Linux subsystem, there's no Linux kernel there, it's a Windows subsystem implementing the Linux system calls directly. Unless you're referring to full Hyper-V virtualisation, where you can run FreeBSD just as you can run Linux.
When you release a new one, do most of the sales come immediately after release and then trickle to almost nothing? I'm wondering if you are gradually building up more income, or if you need to keep working to remain stable.
Even if you don't end up using Rust in the future, having a Rust background will give you a solid foundation for writing C and C++, since Rust strongly encourages the sort of structure and idioms that are generally considered best-practices in those languages. Being inclined to structure things hierarchically when possible will also subtly help any programs you write in dynamic languages from becoming too tangled, as will the general attitude of separating data from behavior.

That said, I also encourage learning a wildly different language as well. If you know C/C++/Rust, then take a shot at something like Scheme. This is the advice that I wish that I had gotten in college, when I spent years doing nothing but Java, and then had to spend additional years practicing four other languages before I finally stopped trying to fit every program into a Java-shaped box. Having a wide variety of experiences to draw from will be useful in the long run. :)
Seems to me that "a virtual microphone [that] sits between your device microphone and Apps" would be a juicy target for attack

I am /not/ saying Krisp.ai is a trojan or is nefarious, but if I was the NSA or FSB or... something like this would be very interesting to me. Both for infiltration (deliberately malicious) or for exploitation (compromised / exploited at run time).
That's by far from the only failure case to worry about. In addition to random dataloss, the most frequent failure cause I dealt with was complete unbalancing making the filesystem read-only. This happened every ~48 hours of continuous use! I've not read that this is fixed yet, but I haven't used it in the recent past due to this making it unsuitable for production use.
> nor do they want to sell at a loss until they're sure that they have to count it as a loss.

I mentioned this as a possibility in my comment. Prices have not been adjusted because people don't actually believe, on the whole, that Brexit means anything material.

> And property prices in London have dropped.

By a low single digit percentage, last year, primarily at the top end of the market.

If you're trading on leveraged derivatives that might be relevant. There are approximately zero actual individuals affected by a change of that magnitude.

As I said, when we see real hard and fast falls, then I'll be interested. Right now it's just bluster on all sides. All talk, no action.

I ask - politely - if you're going to reply with a nitpick, and state that actually it's 2%, or 3%, not 1%, or something - consider what this actually means. Brexit is being spoken about everywhere as some sort of hugely important world-breaking apocalyptic event, not a very slight adjustment over decades.

The single largest contributor to quality of life for every single person I know is quality and availability of housing.

Everything else is linked to that - we don't need food banks because people can't afford food, we need food banks because all the money disappeared into a rent hole first.
I don't think it's really that different. I only knew a few other kids in the 80's that had a PC. It seems similar with my kids. They are among a few in their school that have an interest in things like Rpi, Arduino, ESP8266, etc.