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If you are in SF/Bay Area, I would highly recommend taking a course from Jaunty (http://www.jaunty.org).

I took their Co-Ed Comprehensive course (twice!). They are not cheap, (around $1600 for eight week course when I took it), but for me, there is a clear demarkation in my life pre-, and post-Jaunty.

I read a lot of books (Art of Conversation, Seduction, How to Win Friends and Influence People, etc), but none of them came close to this course.

They target social intelligence with basic conversation skills, humor, body language, etc.

I would also highly recommend taking improv comedy classes. In SF/Bay Area, I recommend Made Up Theater (https://madeuptheatre.com/). I took their classes for over 3-4 months. That really helped me build on conversations (Yes, and...) and not let them die.

(Edit: added improv comedy section)
You'll love the tesla coil guitar amp, then:

https://gizmodo.com/this-tesla-coil-guitar-amp-would-make-sp...
Sounds like taste aversion.
>Since modern states don't have an entrenched hereditary aristocracy

We absolutely do, but because we are bombarded with propaganda telling us they "earned it" by "working hard" and "pulling themselves up by their bootstraps" we pretend it is just a co-incidence that the people born into the top 1% almost always remain there, and people born in the bottom 99% almost always remain there.

>After public schooling became a things, suddenly just being able to read and write is not a distinguishing feature

It never was. The aristocracy were educated specifically on economics, justice, etc. It wasn't simply a matter of being able to read.
Ahh yes the very traditional method of charging for extended emotions... Better then facebook I suppose.
Democracy is more about limiting the negative than determining truth or wisdom or even executing on positive programs. It's a way of making sure ruling oligarchies can't completely ignore the condition or will of large numbers of people, or at least not for very long and not without some kind of consequence. It also offers a peaceful mechanism to replace ruling oligarchies that are corrupt or incompetent.

For example efficient government was absolutely not a goal of the founders of the United States. They wanted government to be slow, deliberative, and to have many interlocking systems of balanced power to prevent the rise of unchecked autocracy. It was designed to be intentionally inefficient and frustrating to those attempting to wield power within it.

I still think this was probably a good idea. Efficient government was a significant cause of death in the 20th century.
I’m guessing because the expectation of privacy thing isn’t nearly as settled as the GP makes it out to be, and depends partly on how the public views such interactions — but the entire rant is deeply based on that point, which it aggressively and baldly asserts.

In short, because it doesn’t have much substance and may actually be counter-productive.
I can provide at least a half dozen studies that prove it does work.

You can't provide any that prove it doesn't. Even the few that you posted seem to be at the least, pointing to a possibly effective situation. Mentioning increased ODs in the immediate surrounding area is... I'd say kinda expected. That's kinda the whole idea, get all the ODs in the same place.

I mean, your own data shows that it reduces HIV rates (not possibly, it does)... and 'POSSIBLY' has unintended consequences.

Despite the data, you won't change your mind.

At least admit that like the anti climate change people, you just don't want to believe. It has nothing to do with data.
"zero ads"

So how do they make money?

Edit: They are doing the freemium model - its in their FAQ https://mewe.com/faq
Truly, the drama level isn't overly high.

But the focus ought to be on banning based on access logs from years ago. With potentially unreliable geolocation. And IPv4 addresses that may have been announced from many different autonomous systems, over the years.
Palaver (iOS), Textual (macOS) or https://www.irccloud.com/ if you want a "hosted znc" kinda behaviour. They also have an iOS app and a web interface.
This is a software space that could really use more devs. IRC is fine but many people can't use it because it's too technical. We need more user friendly XMPP clients with features that non-technical people want. I hate Skype but damn if the non-techies I work with don't love it.

I tried to download and run Jitsi a couple months ago for a project and it's voice quality was terrible. Skype just works. I sometimes have weird quirky bugs with Adium, and it's getting harder to justify telling my team to use it.

Get hacking folks. This space needs better tools.
medical tourism is a booming industry in places where US doctors tend to originate :)
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The extension pack is extremely easy to download by accident: for instance, it comes in the default Chocolately installation unless you pass a flag to disable it. With Oracle actively going around and sending threatening letters to enterprises with extensions download traffic coming from their IP blocks, it's easy to accidentally get in a bad situation.
Freenode and efnet are completely separate. But both freenode and efnet have lots of servers (typically spread out geographically) that are synchronized and it's between those that a split can occur.

People in channel #xyz on efnet doesn't have to be connected to the same server to talk to each other (during normal operation).
> Facebook, for its part, told the Daily Dot that the red notification icons are generic visuals meant to reassure users that the terms they’re agreeing to do, in fact, come from the social platform. The icons were supposedly added so people wouldn’t suspect they were agreeing to a phishing notification.

Yikes.
Hah you are right and the a smaller version against drones also exist

https://www.israeldefense.co.il/he/node/33796

And the British Army already using it!

https://www.janes.com/article/82347/uk-signs-for-drone-dome-...
Why people still use Facebook is beyond me. I think it's just more proof that the overwhelming majority of the people are sheep, always have been, and always will be. He who controls the sheep, rules the pasture.
I have a family, obviously for single people the numbers are different.
Just curious, why downvotes?
To follow up here, having read the paper, they have two 'medium temperature' tanks (for the hot and cold side materials, which are different). The turbines do indeed work at constant input and output temperature, and at constant flow velocity and therefore wattage.

The paper suggests changing the pressure of the working fluid to adjust load, but I suspect it is hard to design a turbine to be efficient at a wide range of working pressures, so instead they'll end up with many parallel turbines, and just switch some off to get less energy produced.
I mean, this is essentially how the House of Representatives works.
That was the same with the cryptography export restrictions during the 90s.
> Slack is not legally obligated to provide Slack accounts to anyone

Slack is legally obligated to provide Slack accounts to people who pay, with 30 days notice for termination in most cases. There is this stipulation:

> We may terminate the Contract immediately on notice to Customer if we reasonably believe that the Services are being used by Customer or its Authorized Users in violation of applicable law.

However, if they are terminating accounts based on ethnicity that doesn't seem like a reasonable belief they can use to justify applying export controls.
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I would love to see more things built on open protocols. But for that to be the case, we have to find ways to make better apps built on top of open protocols.

We should start by admitting that Slack beat IRC. Beat it like a cheap hallway rug. IRC was always a terrible experience for novices, and it wasn't a great experience for experts. That it had any users at all is a testament not to IRC, but to what it enabled. Slack found a way to provide the same value but with a much better user experience. And then they rapidly iterated on that experience, making it better and better.

They started out with IRC and XMPP bridges. But they eventually shut those down because they were a drag on improving the product. When faced with the same choice, IRC kept the original protocol and shut down improving the product. This was an understandable choice, but one that set up the situation where commercial developers could come in and do something radically better. Open source needs to figure out how to compete with that, or things like this will keep happening.
To me, Byuu didn't come across as dismissive of the SuperNT so much as the idea that FPGA's are inherently more accurate than software emulators. Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages.

20 known issues is significantly more than Higan's zero known issues (for the SNES emulator specifically; other Higan emulators are of varying degrees of quality and maturity). Unless you count issues like, there's a certain game that appears to randomly crash slightly less often in Higan than on real hardware, which was still being investigated as of when I last checked.
> why not one of the busiest airports in the world?

Is it mandated by law? No, so they're not going to pay for it.
Yeah, that is a good solution too. I have tried to avoid Google Photos for some of the same reasons I avoid FB, but I think it is still a huge improvement over FB. Although Gphotos is not too hard to set up, I was compelled when my 82 year old aunt could figure out the stock Photos app herself. No Google account required.

Also, you can view iCloud photo albums over the web too (although I don't think you can comment if you're not loggid in / on a iP([ao]d|hone)!

Back in the pre-FB era, I used the PHP Gallery app. It was so hot at the time--I was the only one with a photo sharing site at my own domain.

For a sort of intermediate approach, there is also Nextcloud Gallery for folks who want their stuff hosted on their terms but with (modern-ish) access and sharing controls. There's also iOS and Android Apps
They're still garbage malware distributors in the hearts and minds of most people. People don't just forget the atrocities associated with the sourceforge name. I know I'm not going to trust them any time soon.
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The game also wouldn't be anywhere near as successful with a flat price.

As a gamer, I prefer the Fornite model. F2P. Competitive. Purchases don't affect the competitive integrity of the game. Weekly, sometimes daily, updates. I love it.
Well when Fusion doesn’t run, vm’s become corrupt and VMWare answers your support query with “your new MacBook Pro must have a hardware issue”. Yes, I did switch. They lost my $80/year for upgrades and I have been a user since v3.

And Virtual Box has been more reliable than Fusion ever was for me.
I do agree with you it is worth openly discussing. And I never said it is something to not worry about or discuss, my overall point is knee jerk reactions over opinions and not facts are useless and you should always be protecting your business from 3rd party services you use, regardless of what you read.

But dismissing using quality tools because you read on some forum that a few people had their accounts disabled can just create chaos for your own teams. You have no clue what the facts are, and if you base doing business solely off subjection and hearsay you won't be in business long. Although, somewhat ironically, I do feel a healthy level of paranoia can be positive because it makes you ask more questions.
Those are properly licensed. They are not derivative works or "fan fiction" any more than the Broccoli produced installments.
If you live in a one-party state, secretly record them and then if Oracle threatens to sue, show them the recording and remind them of promissory estoppel.

(IANAL!)
But that means that if there's a security bug in the module, the whole computer is compromised, no?
This! Knowing that "this is wrong" is only half the battle. Having the political pull to actually push back and have fellow engineers behind you is the other blade of the scissors necessary to actually cut any wrongdoing.

We have a word for "when everyone who pushes back against wrongdoing must go out on a limb and do it at tremendous personal expense": Gomorrah. (I mean, in the sense of wanton immorality, not the dubious sexual mores.)
Except it isn’t because of ethnicity. There are thousands of people from Iranian descent that use Slack in the US each day and they aren’t getting banned. Nor has anyone else been banned “because of their ethnicity.” That is absolutely ludicrous. The guy who was banned is being banned for something beyond his ethnicity.
Objectivity does not require neutrality.
So, a fine-grained representative democracy.
Nokia 7 Plus, starting 7am, now 4pm, tells me wireguard ate 27% (1026mAh, using 4G most of the time: 9am - 4pm).

Though I'm not sure how much data I actually used. My phone does persistent keepalive so that I can use https://messages.android.com/ . Usage should go down quite a bit if you don't need remote connection to the phone.
Have you tried the "one large window" mode rather than the "multiple windows" mode? That could be closer to what you want.

See: https://i2.wp.com/www.maxtblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/0...
Is there anything as fast as Parallels on Windows? I've just switched back to Windows (dislike the new MBP keyboards yada yada), and Hyper-V on my 2018 X1 feels ridiculously slow compared to Parallels even on my Mid-2012 Mac.
>I'm not convinced that people intrinsically "care" about migration

Lots of people do. For many people it genuinely is about maintaining the nations their ancestors spent hundreds of generations creating. Nations, not states. Somalians can never be part of the German nation, no matter how long they have citizenship in the state called Germany. You can't spend decades telling white people how evil colonialism was, and then say "by the way you have to allow your native land to be colonized and if you say no you are an evil racist and we'll throw you in jail". People have a natural instinct for fairness.
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==Any changes are related to the expected value of the stock, not the company itself. ==

How are these different things? Company stock represents an equity percentage of the underlying company.
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WSL has supplanted VirtualBox for actually all of my use cases.
That’s how voting in China works.

There’s a hierarchical electoral system where those at the bottom of the group votes for the next position up.
I wonder if part of the reason we don't have any great open source Slack competitors (yes I know about Mattermost, Zulip, etc.) is that so many open source developers (or at least commenters here) seem to be under the illusion that IRC is a reasonable alternative to Slack.
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Word. I don't love Slack, but IRC is awful, and an open protocol replacement for Slack would have to make easier many of the features that Slack has and IRC lacks.
I am not sure you know what ethnicity means. “Iranian” isn’t an ethnicity.

Banning anyone who has ever used Farsi in Slack, now that would be a bit closer to banning for ethnicity.
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> That's not what happened at all ... when they just made a geoip check ...

It sounds as though you have access to data that the rest of people on HN do not. Would you care to share your source? Are you certain he would not have been banned by Slack if he were not an Iran citizen (just Canadian) but would have (possibly) used Slack when travelling to Iran?
I've heard Matrix might be a good IRC replacement. But it also still looks rough to me. I only tried it once, but didn't continue as I didn't need it for anything.
Mental percussive maintenance?
An effort is underway to standardize E2E encrypted group messaging in the IETF with the MLS [1] protocol. Open-source participants include Wire and Matrix. Commercial participants include Facebook, Cisco, Google and Apple.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mls/about/

Wire is open-source today and usable by regular people, with E2E encryption and email-only accounts.
Any public references for this anywhere?
I usually assume that the opposite of what he says is true.
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We have people confuse it in my office actually, new hires will just assume Ireland is 'IR' not 'IE' and enter stuff into the system as country of origin 'IR' which throws off all sorts of red flags in our system, similarly when they see 'KR' as country of origin they freak out thinking it's North Korea not South Korea.
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What virt solution on win10 has 3d acceleration functional on Ubuntu? The Unity Ubuntu desktop is dead slow on VirtualBox...
Mozilla’s privacy-first mobile browser just got a lot easier to use
This has been possible for a long time, right? Is there anything particularly innovative about this approach which has not been done elsewhere?
Tools which are basically dumbing down a generation in exchange for efficiency at scale. The day will come when provided with three whiteboxes, install media, switch + cabling -- there will be a lot of nothing going on.

Or - better yet: the blue collar guys do that.
Problem happened with SuperDrives too though. :(
"We don't sell data, we sell access to data. And use of it. Big difference."

Basically how I imagine the rationality in Zuckerberg's statement.
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Teared up a bit reading that last paragraph; I'll never forget his dogged insistence on checking for FOV sliders in options menus.
I mentioned in another comment that ages ago I used to be cool and host my own photo sharing using Gallery [0]. I went by the website, and turns out they put the project to bed in 2014. The codebase for the latest version (which I never liked quite as much as the older ones) is still around [1] if anybody wants to move it forward. Oh, the nostalgia!

[0] http://galleryproject.org/

[1] https://github.com/gallery/gallery3
The concept of "canon" does not have anything to do with copyright.
That's a very dim view of humanity you have there, friend.

Consider that perhaps choice of social network is not high on most people's priority list.
An iranian friend, living and working in Berlin, also lost his accounts today. He received the same email and lost access to all his accounts, no prior notice. That's really infuriating.
They weren’t selling data. It was a series of API integrations for popular sites that ended years ago. Users had to sign in to those services. I have way less trust for our tech illiterate congress than I do for Facebook.
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Integration. It is all about the integration. M$ platform is so tightly coupled that many companies see the value in spending on this tight integration than spending it on 25 different Engineers to manage their 40 vendors that may be needed to run some of these applications and platforms.

Dealing with one vendor, M$, is better than dealing with 20. You pay for one support package and get all the benefits that come with one platform.

As much as I love open source, I do see the benefit of working with one vendor on all of your stack needs.

M$ reporting systems of SSRS SSIS and other is probably their bread and butter when it comes to DB space. Very few want to spend 60-70 hours a week building complex command line reports where with SSRS and SSIS most of these tools come with a nice GUI that helps you build these reports. Sure there are others that do the same but most required a third party vendor to add to the functionality. For example Apache. With Java and Apache I've had to deal with literally 15 to 20 different vendors just to do the same thing I can do with one vendor. Jenkins, Zookeeper, Camel, Cassandra, Tomcat all under the banner of Apache, but in reality governed by their own set of standards. I mean take a look for your self: https://www.apache.org/index.html#projects-list
My dad used to say: "Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained with stupidity", but I love yours too.
> Decentralisation is clearly the end game as long as politics causes problems like this.

Only techies care about decentralization. Most people would rather follow a Twitter feed rather than an RSS feed. Most would prefer a mega forum like Reddit rather than multiple, standalone forums with separate accounts. There are also network effects that give centralized platforms more of a competitive advantage.

I keep hearing people talk about the need for decentralized social media, but nobody knows how to make it an attractive, viable option for the masses...especially when such a solution wouldn't be as profitable (or as frictionless) as Facebook, Twitter, etc.
There's also the implication that without OSMF affiliation you can't edit the map, which is wrong.
I'm in Victoria. There is a good, but small, tech scene here. Salaries are significantly lower than Vancouver in general, though.
Fortunately the regulatory way out is easy. Forbid ads on vehicles.
Am I missing something or is the program still on going? It seems like the article is about them getting access to information, not getting the program shut down. Don't get me wrong, I think exposing it is a good first step but getting it stopped where they can't just search for whatever they want without a warrant would be the end goal here.
I'm sure you are aware that the Netherlands is more or less unique in having good cycling infrastructure.
This is a bit of a shameless plug, but I just made a Show HN post about Glowing Bear, which is a web front-end for the WeeChat IRC client: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18725038. It's entirely implemented as client-side javascript, and you can easily self-host it without any requests being made to other servers. For me, it solves the problem of accessing IRC wherever I am without having to fumble with ssh on my phone or monospace text. And it doesn't have the limited functionality of these modern web IRC clients implemented in node because it's just a front-end for WeeChat, which is one of the most powerful IRC clients around.

Regarding your note on the path of least resistance leading to centralized solutions---Glowing Bear/WeeChat is definitely more work to set up than just signing up for Slack. You need a machine that runs WeeChat and get a TLS certificate so that the browser will let you connect securely. That definitely limits it to a somewhat nerdy demographic, even among the HN readers ;)