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The UI of the EP voting system being so bad MEPs vote the wrong way is a serious problem, but how is it a systemic one?
Thank you for clarifying that, especially the second point. Looks like I was misunderstanding the report then.
How well does this apply to people who grew up in China (adept to culture) vs. not (and only might know Mandarin from talking with relatives)?
There is more than one alternative.
"But over the past three months our conversations with members of civil society and academics who are experts in race relations around the world"

Sorry I do not agree with this sort of shit. I have left facebook long back as a platform. I do not want some Phd in Gender Studies and Race relation to dictate what I can read and what I can not.
As a counterpoint: the FEC over the past decade.

The Republican voting bloc has stymied enforcement actions for much of that time.
Go is pretty good at "life lessons" too.

The game is over when both players decide it is over (skipping a turn). Its usually not worth it to try to kill opponents: the winning strategy is to typically capture territory. There's always more territory (especially in the early game) rather than aiming for conflict.

You've got to know when to fight battles, you've got to know when to sacrifice pieces. The entire opening is basically tradition and still has no unifying theory (there's 3-4 opening and a Joseki for how professionals seem to play, but there's no hard proof that this is the optimal strategy). So its still a very open-ended game with a lot of unknowns.
Since the selection of the JSF was during the Clinton presidency, the X-32 was often referred to as Monica.
One of CloudFlare's goals is to have a BSD-Licensed result. Seems reasonable to maintain isolation from the core WireGuard team that is publishing under GPL to support that goal, just to ensure they don't accidentally end up with GPL code in their codebase.
Restrictions on Geographical Data in China
I don’t think I’d take your uncharitable version of the offer either!
> Unless you play again and again and again there's not much correlation between skill and the winner.

Depends how closely matched people are. Last few times I've played games with friends/family who aren't poker players, I literally took all the money and I'm just using poker 101 strategy. The skill is all in getting people to play with you more than once :(

And if you ever watch casino games -- it's just a constant money spigot from fish to sharks.
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apparently "no Blackbird of any variety has ever flown over the landmass of Russia or China", according to former SR71 pilot Col. RH Graham.

so we don't really know if they have the capability, but after they downed the U2 in 1960, seems the US didn't want to find out empirically.

that said, you have to love this plane. it's a spaceship.
Discrimination is only illegal in certain contexts, mostly related to employment and essential services, as well as when interacting with the government (see First Amendment). For example, if I allow Girl Scouts to sell cookies on my business premises, it doesn't mean that I am also obligated to allow Jehovah's Witnesses to set up a stand as well.
... >= 1e7 ...

If we want to preserve (users.count > 9999999).
Looks like you have the same problem with your f key!
US has censored fundamentalist Muslim extremist material in concert with Twitter and Google since at least 2009.

Where were the free speech advocates back then? And why are they so vocal now that the extremists are a different skin color?
You are saying an 80-85% loss isn't brutal? Man, bitcoin people are way tougher than I am, because losing that much value in my investments would make me want to die. I only lost like 15-20% during the 2008 crash and recovered that and way more over the last 11 years.

edit: this is good for bitcoin, apparently.
Sure, you can share that with employees, but not with any person off the street who happens to be interviewing. They most likely haven't signed an NDA.
The official upstream windows implementation is making excellent progress however. In specific, WinTUN[1] was just released.

Disclaimer: My employer sponsored a lot of the work with Jason for the windows wireguard port. (Search for "Accelerating Windows Development on https://www.wireguard.com/donations/)

[1] https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-March/00403...
What's the exit plan? To run the company privately forever? To hit IPO? To get acquired by some megacorp (which one)? What's the timeline on these things?

I wish I'd been able to ask the CEO these things. I've had an interview interrupted at 10am by the CEO showing up to work, walking into the (his) conference room I was being interviewed in, no knock, drop his stuff and leave. Yes, it was an open office, and yes, I think he had pretty much checked out at that point.
> but I suspect that there are huge differences between each of the calculation/evaluation

Its a (nearly) linear brute-force search. Every thread is going to run "guess d", and then calculate "(33 - z^3) / d = x^2 -2xy + y^2".

All values must be integer, so (33 - z^3) / d must be an integer value. Which means the selected value "d" must be a factor of (33 - z^3). So "z" is going to be a small search space. I would expect that similar "d" values would have similar amounts of "z" values that satisfy this solution, so thread divergence doesn't seem to be a major issue.

That's about as uniform as it gets. Its a guess-and-check search, very much akin to cryptocoin mining. It seems like the GPU is the best architecture to the algorithm.
If anything it's demotivating. Other people that have also contributed greatly were just ignored by this award. While those that received the award were mostly represented by big corps Facebook(LeCun) and Google(Hinton) -- even though these three are deserving as well, especially Hinton. Awards like this are quite stupid. The award isn't even based on a single breakthrough, but on their "collective achievement." This was just a PR thing. Who does science for awards anyway? I thought that was an athlete thing.
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Thank you for taking the time to read the report!
I used to live there 6-7 years ago and even then I used contactless all the time. I've since moved the US (silicon valley no less), and no one had contact-less. Just this year my credit card finally got tap support... So yeah Canada is easily a decade ahead when it comes to this.
The NASA Shuttle, no, the Soviet Buran, yes.

As a Brazilian (see previous comments about the Wright Brothers), I consider that an airplane:

* Is powered, otherwise, it's a glider;

* Can maintain level flight, otherwise, it's just "Falling with style";

* Can take off on it's own, assistance (RATO, catapults) is allowed for short take-offs (like from a carrier);

The Shuttle fails in all that in some point of the flight or another, Buran on the other hand, could be fitted with air breathing jet engines that allowed it to do all that.
That's true. I never though about it that way.

Where I live there's a commercial for online Casino ("Mr Green") where a woman hit a 2,5 million approx. USD jackpot, and 2 years later she won 5 million USD.

The commercial was reported for fraud by someone of the public because it was unbelievable, but the casino showed for the investigators that the winnings were real.

However, guessing that the woman probably played for a lot of her winnings, a second jackpot is not that improbable. And I guess she didn't stop there either ...

That was a game of pure luck though, and Poker seems to be somewhat equal that off golf in skill vs luck at top level.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9469/72de84cd72f5f7edbcedf4...
Whilst it may be true that it can run cobol, one must have to aware the assembler part of the story. Still remember the enjoyment of from 24 to 31 bit. And apar and s/370 assembler language patch.

It is not all colour.

Btw the claim you cannot run old msdos is over stretching. Still running turbo pascal on dos.
> As the Marsh case demonstrates, Free Speech takes priority over property rights.

As the "subsequent history" section of the Marsh v. Alabama Wikipedia entry indicates, not always.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Corp._v._Tanner
i don't think it takes any effort to make amazon look bad
Great article with many insights that I never would have expected!

This quote in particular gave me an interesting thought:

>> Trust everyone, and people will take advantage of you.

>> Distrust too much? That’s just as bad — you’re going to be the one calling every hand, thinking everyone’s always bluffing you, out to get you.

>> You need to figure out when to distrust and when to trust.

That last line is interesting, especially when compared to mutual funds. I wonder how comparable poker outcomes at a tournament (or many tournaments over time) compare to an active fund manager?

And then that leads me to wonder what a simple ETF comparison would be in poker - someone who always calls?

It would be interesting to see how that "ETF" poker player would compare the the rest of the people in a tournament.

Obviously a top poker player will not fail out early very frequently, so that's one difference, but on average, what does the "average" poker player at a tournament look like number wise?
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Yep, that's the issue with nightly builds: you're living on the edge, and sometimes, you get cut :/

Totally, and I appreciate it. Good luck. :)
And why not? With the multitude of ground based missiles fielded today, a considerable part of the role of fighter aircraft is status. Imagine a programme as expensive as the F-35 that resulted in a plane so ugly that you'd want to hide it. It would be objectively worse at projecting power without actually fighting it out even if it had slightly better performance characteristics.
These groups aren't censored, full dead stop. Corporations have a TOS. IF you don't like it you can take your speech elsewhere. Governments are different. You are free to chose a private platform other than Facebook, Apple, Google. You are not free to chose a different government.
Google can't stop you.

In 2019, the potent combination is virality/discovery+monetization. Google along with the rest of the SV CEOs and other people of equivalent status can indeed withhold that, despite the wishes of large numbers of people. Just "putting things online" is so 1990's. In 2019, the real power comes from that dynamite combination of virality/discovery+monetization. A 2019 formulation of Free Speech needs to account for that.

We saw this before in the 1980's with Manufacturing Consent. The western papers technically weren't censoring like Pravda. But in effect it amounted to the same thing.

The litmus test should be: Are there people who want to hear, yet a few are using infrastructure control to stop them? Then Free Speech is being blocked. Are there people who want to pay, yet a few using infrastructure control to stop them? Then Free Speech is being blocked.
Does a Database book in the spirit of "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation" exist?
It could also lead to more discontent with the EU in general. The bloc is just not under sound economic leadership.

I'm not exactly a euroskeptic (I love the Schengen area), but the EU has had a number of very severe missteps, such as their continued flogging of austerity that has kept southern European economies from recovery.
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Enough to flip a tight vote by changing the order.
Although employers don't care if it is a self selected sample or they learnt that skill during the PhD
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> Another issue with poker - at least Texas Hold'em - is that the best strategy is folding 90% of the time, which is just boring.

That's what I always appreciated about professional poker players. Their patience and their emotional regulation. Both of which made me terrible at the game.
I find FT's reporting far superior to The Economist and the Wall Street Journal
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Wow this is awful.
That's just false. You can get all of the trust information necessary from the client. It's exactly the same amount of trust.

edit: To be clear, even if they open sourced the server right now, I would not even look at the code to determine if running the client was safe. The only time I would care to look at the server code is if the client's correct operation depends on the server running specific code. If it doesn't do that, then the server code doesn't matter. And if it does do that, I wouldn't trust the system, anyway.
>Here is a hand-wavy characterization...

I had never thought about degrees in those terms, but that feels like a surprisingly terse and accurate description. Thanks!
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Will Facebook ban Chinese nationalist, Black/Mexican/etc. nationalist accounts also? Or maybe Jewish nationalist content?

If not, then why not?
The kind that come in, buy up property and evict every tenant living in said building, followed by raising prices such that no one who lived in the area previously could afford it.

This isn't about outsiders who move to a neighborhood with the goal of having a place to live, this is about investors walking into a neighborhood and viewing it as a financial opportunity.
It's built in Python, it's pretty simple for a Linux user to run it (I have instructions on the readme that explain how to do so from the command line). I just haven't built an executable for Linux because of how many different Linux OS there are out there in use.

And yeah, only Twitter and Reddit right now, the next plans are to get Instagram working with this.
Raising everyone's salary serves as a permanent increase in compensation. It's very difficult to back-pedal from a salary increase. Other perks, which may boil down to monetary compensation, can be added/removed at will with far less push-back.

I vaguely remember a story one time about google (or microsoft) and towels that an old manager told me. But I can't remember what it was. :(
Who decides what white nationalist content is? This is just another move towards wrongthink.
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HN comments when a company does something awful, "This is terrible!"

HN comments when a company does something nice, "This is terrible!"
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is really wireguard that better than other VPNs?
I always wondered if there is need for a "better" vpn.

I mean a more reliable VPN is probably needed, i.e. something that isn't detectable. However I guess wireguard has all the problems than most VPNs once it's known how it works it's detectable with a DPI.
What I probably want to see is a VPN over h2c or over quick, its probably impossible to detect it, it looks like regular web traffic.
Sure. I was going for explanatory, not efficient.
Wow, I didn't even think about using a twitter archive to delete everything. This will help me get around the 3.2k API limit problem I was experiencing. I'll work on integrating this.
I think we need another word for that. It isn't really the definition of "open office" that is usually discussed. Open office typically refers to 10s or 100s of people in the same room. <= 10 is something else because that is small enough for everyone to respect each other's space, ears, etc even when on top of each other. I have had a few jobs with that particular set up and I never had a problem with it. However I have never liked larger open offices.
I work in an open office and it is clearly more collaborative than if we were all in separate rooms. You can easily talk to people about things and interested parties often overhear and join the discussion when they wouldn't have even known it was happening otherwise.

Also, being honest, I'd totally waste more time browsing the news if I had my own office.

The key is:

1. Have plenty of space per person. We have big desks and are only at about 60% occupancy at the moment.

2. Don't make the offices enormous. I'd say never more than 100 people in one room. Ideally less.

3. Good acoustics. Carpets are essential.

I used to work for Dyson and they had 1000 people (no joke, I counted) in one enormous office (actually it was a repurposed factory building) with no sound absorbing material at all and it was awful. Current company is just insanely better.

The only issue I have is there is one guy with a really loud and penetrating voice... But it's not a deal breaker.
Black Friday days?
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The problem is your definition of "white nationalism". The article explains the difference between violent white supremacy and white nationalism:

> Our policies have long prohibited hateful treatment of people based on characteristics such as race, ethnicity or religion — and that has always included white supremacy. We didn’t originally apply the same rationale to expressions of white nationalism and separatism because we were thinking about broader concepts of nationalism and separatism — things like American pride and Basque separatism, which are an important part of people’s identity.
What if you could use it for tuition reimbursement?

Companies have all sorts of benefits that don’t help everyone like subsidized family medical coverage. My company offers a decent tier of completely subsidized health insurance whether it is just you or you have a family with 10
dependents. They pay more for family coverage than individual coverage. Also paternity/maternity leave.
Google is second to none for AI.

Definitely going to disagree there. While Google has done more work on commercializing piss-poor AI, MS Research has been at the forefront of AI research since before Google learned how to make money. Google is definitely the second fiddle when it comes to AI research, and it's not even close.
It was an obvious violation of HN's rules. If you see other comments that violate the rules going unmoderated, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see them; we don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted. In that case the thing to do is to flag the comment (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). In egregious cases, you can email hn@ycombinator.com as well.
The one guy has public perception on his side: Bitcoin has been talked about to death, but besides a few booms and busts fueled by speculators wanting to get rich quick, it feels like a failure to launch. The onus is increasingly on the Bitcoin proponents to step up and deliver real value.
At this point, I find it hard to take mainstream journalist's criticism of bitcoin seriously unless the criticizers agree on what they're criticizing.

Bitcoin isn't exchanges or "crypto" or "blockchain" or ICOs or tokens.
It looks like this could perhaps be categorized under "educational assistance", saving both the employee & employer taxes. Essentially you'd be able to pay back your student loans pre-tax, rather than post-tax.
Can you buy your own train?
There seems to be a repeated response to what I said, so I'll just respond once. The fix for companies using loopholes to avoid taxes is not to raise the tax rate. The fix is to remove the loopholes.
WireGuard is currently in a place where it works really well for site-to-site VPNs (where network/devops engineers are the only ones interacting with it directly, and it's just magic for everyone else) and for access (laptop-to-VPC) VPNs for engineers.

It's not yet in a place where I'd recommend it for access VPNs for, say, support staff.

It's more pleasant to use and manage than SSH or SSH tunnels (this is surprising and speaks to what an achievement WireGuard is and why people are so nuts about it), so if you calibrate your tooling/slickness expectations accordingly, you should do fine with it.
I love this book, the accounts from the pilots (humourous and anxious) are incredible. Growing up I read this multiple times and it never fails to be a great read.

Some of my favorite stories include the fact that you could take off in the morning, fly up to the arctic circle, and back down in time for dinner in the evening.
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Ran into the "fun" around future dates big time at my previous company.

We allowed users to define schedules which would control light, temperature, co2, irrigation, etc for greenhouses. Those schedules would load into on premise controllers and run for weeks or months.

They might be built by a user in one timezone and deployed to multiple facilities in different timezones. They often ran across DST boundaries, and some users wanted them to follow "wall clock time" while others wanted to ignore DST to match the behavior of legacy control systems.
> White nationalists are literal Nazis, so... yes?

a) No they aren't.

b) Even if they were, you have no way of knowing how this rule will be applied.

> Were you asleep for Charlottesville or all the coverage of it?

Would you consider the Charlottesville incident "mainstream", or common enough (and manifest in some form on Facebook) that Facebook must police user-posted content on its site?

Try to not treat this like an internet argument that must be won, and try not to exaggerate the frequency of rare (as far as I know, I am seeking a reasonable, fact-based argument in order to change my mind) incidents like Charlottesville, or conflate the specifics of what happened there with unsavory words that don't literally (actually) meet the claim of advocating violence.

Make no mistake, I'm definitely playing Devil's advocate here, but if the facts are on your side this (making the case that literally advocating literal violence) should not be overly problematic.

Or, if you would like to lower your claim to something like "frequent and possibly increasing dog whistling" (without arguing about the technical boundaries of that) on Facebook, that seems like a fairly reasonable claim.
In that case you can just ask if they got a new phone.
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"If you need to debate the definition of 'witch' to make sure it excludes you, you're a witch."
This seems crazy to me. $70+ a year for something that you can just set up once with your loan servicer?
Nor is poker. You'll play with the same people over and over.
Really? Try Office 365 vs Google Docs and get back to me! There's no comparison. Microsoft is better.
There's a whole spectrum between super rich and broke. In the middle of that spectrum we may still have to work for a living, but we have a job an we have savings and if we need to pass up several offers from toxic and/or doomed companies then thats totally OK. That's not arrogant, that's experienced. We have seen the failure modes of management and business models, and want to do a little due diligence before we make a significant investment of time and energy. It's way better to burn a few hours in interviews and even get rejected occasionally for "arrogance" than to jump ship from a decent job to a quagmire. Not that we're accusing you of being a quagmire, but we gotta kick the tires and pop the hood. We've all heard the trope about how costly one bad hire can be. I'd argue that it's much more true in the other direction. Imagine moving from a 40 hour a week job in a clean codebase with good coworkers and management to a dumpster fire where everyone's working 80 hour weeks and the company is loosing money and goes bankrupt 6 months after you get hired. Not a such a big problem in SF, but say you moved your wife and kids to some medium sized city for this job, bought a house there, and the local job market is mediocre. Now you've go serious problems, all because you didn't spend 10 minutes asking "hard" questions.
Yes, I've bought computer books from Narosa and they were good. I think they had tie-ups with western publishing houses like Springer-Verlag, etc.
Who do you propose gets to decide what speech is dangerous?