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I agree with you. I think the (relatively) success of the movement so far is due to the sheer creative energy of the protester population.

That said I am fine with measured civil disobedience and symbolic destruction of government / quasi-government / tax-payer funded infrastructure when appropriate.
The project is 12 days old.

Maybe you could contribute instead of complaining?
I'm not even getting into Brexit, if you look at the comments made by senior diplomats when he worked at the Foreign Office (along with the very obvious gaffs including getting a British woman an extended sentence in Iran...) which has a reasonably clear remit.

His front-bench roles even before becoming PM, and his previous roles, where he was fired from being a journalist for lying, for example, show he's just bad at anything other than playing the political game. And even then, you look at the advisers he has around him in order to be adept at even that.
Microsoft also had CodePlex yet they acquired GitHub.
I think other British politicians do it. What do you think websearching for "Jacob Rees-Moog lying" will get you now?
Pretty much this. It's especially true in startups where new features and edge cases pile up really fast. Solve a new edge case manually in the beginning (like adding a simple field instead of a smart calculation, like you mentioned) and work from there. It might turn out, in a few months, that that new feature nobody uses anyway so it's dropped. This is easier if you obey: 6) Think at product level
Oh no. There is a banner ad now at the top of the list.
How is that different from maven, apt, rpm, pacman, ports, brew, chocolatey, pip, gem, &c?
That was my question, too! I was wondering if they were developing some qualitatively different form of AI that's not just, e.g., matrix multiplication or something like that. That'd be neat, but I didn't notice anything in the article about that.

It did mention a few African-specific projects: controlling malaria and identifying African wildlife. So, perhaps, it means not that the tech is different, but the applications.
Possibly, but it's also a timeliness thing. This stuff has a window of opportunity: for like a week after the interview, it'll successfully game the results, but after that they may be crowded out by the reporting on the gaming itself.

If he's trying to spike negative results for just a certain period of time, it's quite an effective tactic. News cycles quickly, so even if each instance is eventually caught, it may successfully push down recent news / current events until they're no longer current, which may result in millions of people missing the reporting.
I don't think lower population density explains it fully, for example Australia has extremely reasonable phone plans - you can get 15GB data/unlimited talk/unlimited text for AUD$55/month (USD$37/month) [1], and it gets even cheaper if you get 12 months up front [2].

[1] https://www.vodafone.com.au/plans/state/sim/month-to-month/

[2] https://www.vodafone.com.au/plans/state/sim/12-month/
What ebook reader are you using? I've added a few notes to some books on my Paperwhite Kindle and it's a terrible experience. I have no idea where the notes are and, depending on the document type, it may or may not be synced to all the places I read Kindle books.

The iPad with the Pencil seems promising. If I could underline and scribble notes (that are recognized and indexed) it might be good enough to move me off of Kindle and their great e-ink screens. I have no idea if iBooks does that though.
You are aware of rhetorical questions, no?
Impostor syndrome: the fear of being exposed as a fraud
I agree with your comment, but I want to add the answer to "Why couldn't a mobile phone work for 15years?": because the evolution of chips and software makes a new phone much more efficient (energy, user's time) than a 10-15 years old one. I used a Samsung S3 as a GPS-only device on the car dashboard for a few years after I was no longer able to use it as a smartphone (old Android with no updates), getting a new smartphone was required not because the old one was "old", but because it was obsolete enough to be unusable.
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I was working through a contracting firm at the time.
In Canada the loser pays all legal costs.
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no one could replicate her experiments

... basically rode that to success in her professional and public life

Looks like the experiment has been successfully implemented in real life.
I thought the official definition of a parasite was an organism that benefits itself at the expense of the host? If the host gains from the relationship it would be called something else entirely. In that case, I think your statement that half of life on the planet are parasites is not really accurate...
I cannot believe someone posted this on HN.
This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for. Would be great if this was on iOS too.
Out of curiosity, what type of feature are often left to improve?

I do a lot of geodata analysis where building footprints are important and there are a ton of buildings missing once you get outside the main city centers. Even just 15 minute drive into the suburbs from where I live and you go from every building mapped to less than 20% of buildings mapped.
As a reference for any of us English-speakers who wish to get the characters correct, there is https://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/windows/codealt/, which I keep bookmarked at work and at home.
I don't want to even think about those things. I don't have to with Visual Studio or VS Code.
Some good news for Jordan Peterson while he is in rehab.
We can say he leveraged his privilege well, and I think that's different than offering someone blanket praise of being "bright".

And again, I'm not necessarily making judgement on his academic credentials - I made the point about his jobs. Of which a classical education is evidently rather worthless. With the exception of being a player of politics and narratives.
> ravaged by a tyrannical regime

Yes, the United States is a tyrannical regime. The embargo is an injustice.
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I certainly can't agree on how the intelligence of our article author.
A better anaology would be if the US implemented extreme Sharia law, how cavalier would people who don't want to live like that be?

Hong Kong didn't choose the CCP who didn't even exist yet when the lease was signed. They sure as hell didn't choose to lose their rights to a fair trial and freedom of expression either. So, if you do a thought experiment about protests against the government, keep in mind that the government in question commits some of the worst human rights abuses today.
You are assuming that the music is the most important thing.

I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion.

...obviously, you can digitize album covers and liner notes. I thought that was clear. You're right, there's culture around that, but it's not important to physically touch it to experience it.

Saying "you just had to be there", "you have to listen to this pressing of the record", "you must hold this in your hand", etc. is playing gatekeeper, which is antithetical to punk and DIY.
Just FYI that Zambia also has long standing relationships with Russia.[1]

Top government officials in the science space speak Russian.

Also Chinese have been involved in SSA since the 60s e.g. South African Boarder War (aka Namibian War of Independence), which Zambia was also involved in. [2]

Finally most of east and southern Africa was Socialist from 50s/60s until the 90s (many still are), so it makes sense for them to be trading with China, the world power that is closest to their political inclinations. [3]

Other side is UK/US/EU axis, who are the ones who royally fucked it up in the first place (pun intended). [4]

I know who I would choose, if I were in their positon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Border_War
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_socialism
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa
(using google translate)

"For example, holders who only have a few pieces of poultry must also comply with requirements for I&R and there will also be obligations for holders of animal species for which no requirements currently exist, such as bees, bumble bees and camel-like animals. The Netherlands has argued against these requirements when drafting these new regulations, but received little support from other member states and the EC. The EC indicated that it can allow Member States to grant exceptions to these obligations."

So it's up to member states if they want to require owners of pet chickens to register them
Re: them being inaccurate: that was true many moons ago, but it seems they’ve cleaned up and are more accurate now IMHO.
That is a very interesting point. We often see discussions in this matter that go nowhere. Personally, I think that the best solution is a bot with the funcionality of human intervention. That way, It can switch to a human when the chatbot doens't understands a question, or when the person talking to it just preffers a human agent.

I work in a company that offers chatbots for the hospitality industry, and we combined the live chat functionality with the chatbot because it was a demmand that we notice from some of our clients. Some hotels dones't use it, others do, specially the smaller ones. I think that this only works because of the omnichannel platform behind the chatbot. That way, the human agent can control and recieve notifications when the conversation with the bot is related to sales, for example. That way, the hotel worker can focus in the most important queries.

In our company, we have the motto "humans and robot do better together". That way, we reach both the general managers in hotels and their employees of the Call Center.

If you are interested to know more about us, visit us in http://asksuite.com

Again, that's a honest way to approach the matter. Great text, by the way!
Pretty much. Malcom McLaren's svengali ambitions notwithstanding, commercialism ain't punk.

The real germ of punk rock was pretty close to "Fuck Thatcher's England and Reagan's America, and all they stand for".

Here's some actual punk rockers participating in the music industry...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm0t99WmSCM
With cargo (Rust build tool) you don't need to use crates.io _always_ .

For instance, you can target a repository and even a specific commit like this in gour cargo.toml file:

[dependencies]
package = { git = "https://github.com/...../something.git", rev = "commit_hash_like_9876541_for_instance" }
Client side hashing + SRI
Science Apps That Will Make You Smarter
green day dookie was the first CD I owned. It was the first thing I found on the street (read: garbage), and inspired my interest in free and used things. I owe them a lot. But man do they suck.
No, a free market expects selfish players to function. The adjective "free", however, means an absence of a government that can be lobbied to restrict the market.
I hear you, but I remain skeptical about any sort of significant uptick in adoption of, not of e-reading in general, but of these particular books.

You mention a friend who read chose to read "Madame Bovary" and "Anna Karenina" upon discovering a cheap and convenient e-book format. Those books are classics in the Western Canon, yes, but they are also slogs, by some measures.

The other thing that happened, and continues to happen in parallel with the explosion of e-reading tech, is an explosion of other things to (copyrighted) read, written in the modern colloquial, (perhaps more) relevant to modern times. The rise of the tepid, self-published novel on Amazon is the best example of this.

I can believe that there is a latent desire out there for more good books to read or a cool new tech to use to read them, but I doubt very much that very old books in the public domain sate that thirst in any significant way. I think your friend is in the minority.
Personally I like a very short commute, ideally a 5-10 minute walk through a park. After having worked remotely for 5+ years, I absolutely need a separation between 'personal space' and 'work space.'
The distinction is going to be whether you have a rich social network outside of work. Stack up immediate family, extended family, a handful of close longtime friends, church, a softball team, a couple of hobbyist groups, and a volunteer board, and your half dozen colleagues you were randomly assigned to work near can seem rather superfluous.

On the other hand, you take a bunch of young people straight out of college, collect them from around the country and the world, drop them in a new city without any social network, lean on them to work 50, 60 hour weeks, and suddenly socializing with your coworkers becomes very important, especially if you're single, not very religious, and not very outgoing. The alternative is complete isolation and sad phone calls with friends and family thousands of miles away.
I think you've 100% missed the point here, but it's late, and I can't channel any more of Stanley Fish's "The Trouble with Principle" (very recommended, and readable) at this hour.
Neat, but not the most illuminating introductory demo. Took me a few minutes to figure out the UI is filling in the blanks at runtime, and I still don't see how/where it assigns an index to "members", or how it reasons about "members" at all.

Also confusing is declaring sum=0 instead of sum=?, since the program doesn't know what "sum" is until runtime. If I change the declaration to sum=10, does that change the runtime count?
There is caloric deficit and there is starvation. If you're getting headaches and lightheadedness you're short too many calories, or have some serious blood sugar issues.
> Some people will choose to fly, others will choose to have faster washing cycles...

And all will damage the climate? "Increase energy prices" just means that rich people will be able to continue to engage in undesirable behaviour while the poor will not. Why is that a desirable income? Why should a poor person have to pay more to heat their home in winter so that a rich person can wash their clothes more quickly? Not all energy use is equal.
I'm wondering what is causing the congestion - it's not exactly a lot of data
Reminds me of the conspiracy theory that Disney named the movie Frozen so that it would drown out searches about Walt freezing his head.
REQUEST FOR IDEA:

i have a backend tech stack that i believe is scalable and efficient (REST or websockets). i'd like to prove this out with a demo or app. i can do a pure-js SPA frontend (eg fitno.us) but i'm terrible at UI so it's not gonna be pretty

is there a free service that i could provide that people would use at high scale ? there doesn't need to be a way to eventually monetize it

required: store data to database
optional: rest calls to 3rd parties

anyone have an idea they're willing to share ?
> a natural question would be "why are you starting a GNAT LLVM project from scratch instead of building on top of DragonEgg?". If you want to know the answer, check the file README.dragonegg in the repository!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but from the README [1], the answer appears to be:

> The dragonegg plugin works with gcc 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 or 4.8

But a little more digging reveals that there are patches so[2]

> DragonEgg works for for GCC v8.x

Lack of Google-fu or am I missing something? If they believed dragonegg is flawed, why not just lay it out? I prefer that over a goose chase that doesn't fully check out.

[1] http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/dragonegg/trunk/README

[2] https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-August/116705...
Your estimate of "a couple of rednecks" is off by orders of magnitude. There are millions of AR-15's in private hands in the United States. Those are just a fraction of the 300 million privately owned guns in the US. This country is armed to the teeth.
One way pagers are the last bastion of privacy friendly wireless communication.
> But another question is, what are the protesters supposed to do?

But another question is, what people in Beijing supposed to do?

Think of that. To many, it's very clear that men in black will not be content even if given suffrage. Then they will want places in legislature, own foreign policy, armed forces, and ultimately sovereignty.

The popular sentiment that it's "poor HK kids" coming out at large out of desperation for their material situation can't hold water. Most of activists are children of very well off people, well educated, with a lot of life experience overseas, who had their future well being secured by their parents. No way they will be appeased with just a carrot.

The Party is well aware of that. There for long been a sentiment that Hongkong is a "trojan horse" the West gave to China, and the current crisis only reinforces this opinion among people in Beijing, and down to junior-mid-level cadres. There is no way the Party will back down.

This mess will take years to settle down in any scenario.
This is a case of "Streisand effect"
As others have noted, it may be "bonkers" but salaries that are partly determined by where people live are absolutely the norm for the vast bulk of companies with multiple offices.

The only thing that makes GitLab exceptional is they're very transparent and upfront about it down to the specific numbers--some of which admittedly seem rather off.
Yes, we humans are systematic when it comes to remorseless ess. We are remorseless to a dedicated poor person who the is remorseless for the delicate person to nature. Abstraction makes all the things easier.
This should be put in some context.

Today is the anniversary of China as a communist country. The Hong Kong marchers were all wearing black today as a sign of mourning. That is why the kids are dressed in black (so please, no black bloc/antifa comments.)

The police have been particularly aggressive towards protestors and journalists. They deliberately shoot tear gas at journalist "clusters" (presumably to prevent documentation of police actions?) They have shot multiple people with "rubber bullets" and they beat people with batons. The first people to use shields and clubs at the protests? The police.

Besides the state authorized use of violence, there is also the use of non-state assets. The authorities have encouraged the triads to assault protestors. The police stand back and allow this to happen, probably because a picture of civilians beating people is a less polarizing image than police beating protestors.

# the shooting

From the videos it is clear that there was an officer on the ground and he was being assaulted. He is wearing protective equipment. When police beat protestors with batons the protestors do not have the benefit of riot gear.

The officer who shot the 17yr kid should not have had his service weapon drawn, and should not have had his finger on the trigger. When a cop points a gun, finger on trigger, at someone the only party responsible for that shooting is the cop.

The "descent into violence" narrative adopted by the Western media is completely missing the nuance of the protests. Most of the "violence" by protestors is property damage. It is seldom violence against a person.
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> Extra $40 per month is not insane

Maybe "insane" was a bad word choice. But it's more than triple the price (£20 is $25, not $30, and $70 excludes tax)
I was good for me-- Very good. I am stronger now because of it. I can endure more physical and mental hardship now, thanks to the hardship I went through.

Going through challenges makes people grow stronger.

Avoiding challenges makes people grow weaker.

(Which is why SJW advocacy-- such as for safe spaces, censorship of wrong think-- signals weakness in certain sections of [brainwashed] society).

Look: People who lack strategy screw themselves. That's no one's fault but their own. If they get themselves into a mess, they deserve that mess. They should have done their research-- Everyone can access the internet and find life experiences, economic research, etc.

Again-- I lived in a tent in order to put my time into something more useful than waiting tables. I reduced my work hours and bills, so I could learn web development.

My tax dollars deserve to go towards more noble causes than to fund the poor lifestyle decisions of others.

Broke & in debt? Either don't have kids, or don't come yelling for my tax dollars when you decide to make poor decisions. May they be an example for the others.
I don't so much mind that as mind that they do it as that their calculation's way off for where I live (others have reported same for other cities, IDK first-hand though). I can do (presumably) easier interviews (zero whiteboarding/leetcode horseshit, I reckon they probably do that) and get fully remote or mostly-remote work at like 20% higher than Gitlab will give me. They'd be more interesting than a lot of the work I get but I have a family and am willing to jump through exactly zero hoops to take a significant pay-cut, you know?

[EDIT] actually, looks like they finally fixed it so it's about right. Nice. Glassdoor info on their interviews still make it seem like way too much of a PITA for a lateral comp move, but that's better.
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It is more complicated than that. In addition to citizens having guns, each state controls a their own portion of the military, called the National Guard. That includes an army and an air force with modern military weapons.
It's returning the empty set. You can click on the grid to cycle through some of the solutions.

Also, there's an easter egg hidden in this example.
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Why should a poor person have to pay more to heat their home in winter so that a rich person can wash their clothes more quickly

That can be solved with tiered pricing. Your first N kWh a month are cheap and then the price ramps up quickly.
What planet are you from where there is still such as unique and special flower that talks to only NetApp and no other operating system made in the last twenty years?
That was a really good read, consider writing more articles like this one, you have talent to keep things interesting even for such a long text.
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Sounds good, ill buy some uber stock.
Yes, Jobs believed Objective-C was fine and nobody would ever need or want another language. Swift had to wait until Jobs passed away, as he'd have never authorised it otherwise despite lots of people telling him Objective-C was out of date.

As for the rest, yes, fair point. Usually in corporate English "values" are very vague indeed, but I suppose you can consider it to be precise.
The US is not Texas. The image a lot of my Europeans co-workers have is Texas. Not sure where you are from.
Yes - it is absolutely insane:

https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/sa...

(Note that is ~700 sq feet, not meters)

But, you also make literally twice as much money, so it easily offsets the extra rent.
This argument of “fixing economies” is an invalid premise - Gitlab is a distributed company, they don’t bear the costs of operating a business in each of those locales. The business operating costs, nor revenue, are tied to locale. Why are salaries then? Because it is cheaper to pay the Nebraska guy a discounted $80k instead of paying everyone the same NYC rate of $140k, and use “local economy” as the scapegoat.

If they were a brick and mortar business operating in all these regions, fine, costs vary and it makes sense that salaries would too. But they are just using the excuse of locale to grow their margins, simple as that. It’s their business, and employees can work wherever they want. But let’s not pretend they are doing anyone any favors with that policy.