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This is because modern wars aren't really wars.

That's exactly the point. Proxy wars are how things have worked since WW2, and now they are getting even more complicated because they often involve non-state actors. This is what modern wars are.

To claim they aren't really wars is ignorant and kind of insulting to the people that fight in them.

No one is claiming that private armies will take over the anti-state deterrence.
See also

https://ocharles.org.uk/blog/guest-posts/2013-12-21-24-days-...
Explain me how do you pretend to change something when your clients are paying 50% of what the clients in other countries are willing to pay (if they pay, 'cause lots really like to delay payments indefinitely), while your suppliers are constantly banging your door to pay (rightly) them, and while your government 5 days a week is trying everything possible to shut your business down?

Be serious, go abroad for 3 months. Start a limited company, be a self-employed person and you'll finally understand the obnoxious bureaucratic process one needs to undergo and what kind of unimaginable amount of things one needs pay to keep his/her business running in Italy.
I don't understand when you say "you don't necessarily have to write JavaScript and target WebGL only to get your game to work in the browser"

What is deployed then ? Is an executable deployed ? Is it something like nacl, or asm.js ? Or does the user have to install an executable on his system ?
Do you need to take developer certifications?
OT means Out of Topic? In french we say HS (for Hors Sujet).
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That's an error only an amateur translator would make. Guess who makes free software translations...

A professional translator makes sure to check the context of the translation, it doesn't go blindly translating sentences and words without context.
Qt takes care of that in a really nice way.

You write tr("I scanned %1 directory.", "", count) and it takes cares of applying the correct translation with the right plurals depending on the number.

http://doc.qt.digia.com/4.2/qobject.html#tr
You can find analysis and hints on this and other similar situations in the last book from Ben Horowitz "The Hard Thing About Hard Things"
http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building-ebook....
I'm reading it now. There are a lot of interesting insights about how startup Companies scaling works.
Armed Response Vehicles (ARVs) are the mainstay of British armed policing, outside of London they are pretty rare and often fall back to traffic policing duties.

The qualfiied officers are Authorised Firearms Officers who will also stand up the equivalent of SWAT teams as needed for each constabulary.

London has Specialist Firearms Officers as well who are a standing set of SWAT type teams. Several have written some very good books about their experiences, Steve Collins especially.

The main thing in the UK is that armed officers who discharge their weapon, let alone kill someone, face extremely rigorous scrutiny by an external agency. This combined with no specific legal protections means that a police officer shooting their weapon is very rare, it happens a handful of times across the UK each year.
It means 'off topic'.
Not seen that much remote work in banking. I work at an investment bank in London at the moment, and while I do have to option to work at home, it's only really supposed to be if you need to.

With the state of public transport in London, it can't be long before they start looking at how much money they lose on a prticularly bad day of thier employees being stuch on a train somewhere!
Sure, before I was derailed by education, my point was that society is not meritocratic. So we're now agreeing.

We don't know if genetics is an effect here because we can't eliminate background wealth - even twin studies are broken because twins get adopted into similar environments.

But, the suggestion from twin studies is that income is primarily environmental, i.e. not genetic. Here's a fresh reference: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141106113202.ht...

I suggest that it's fashionable to say social inequality is down to genetics - it certainly happens a lot in these forums and it comes up especially when people would rather pass the buck for difficult social problems.
> It’s not impossible to build great companies in Italy

No, of course it isn't. But at the margin, it's more difficult, so if you have the chance, you should go elsewhere: I think Italy should get its own house a bit more in order before trying to attract people from other countries. They'll come naturally if Italy is a decent place to do business. It doesn't have to be perfect, because it has so many other nice things, it just has to suck less: California, for instance, is not the best US state to do business in, in terms of bureaucracy and taxation.
> If done right

That's a pretty big if. There's a very real possibility that the same municipal governments that granted the cable monopolies in the first place, will either license the network to an ISP that will either become Comcast-like (monopoly lazyness does that), be bought by Comcast or actually just simply is Comcast (remember, the municipalities have a "good working relationship" with Comcast) or they will setup their own ISP, which might get off to a decent start, but will either make money, and then go on to be milked hard, or it will lose money, and will have to fight with the fire service and the water utility over every last penny for infrastructure upgrades ("What do you mean you need a $5000 router? I have a $30 router at home and it works just fine! In fact, I'll go to Best Buy myself and get you a few of those tomorrow. What the next item on the agenda?").

But IF they do it right, it would be a great solution.
I was just trying to think of how it would work out in Polish....

directory is "katalog" in Polish, and it would be:

1 katalog

2 katalogi

3 katalogi

4 katalogi

5 katalogów

6 katalogów

....(it doesn't change for any number greater than 5)

But if you wanted to say "X files were found in Y directories" then you would have to say:

....1 katalogu

....2 katalogach

....3 katalogach

....1000 katalogów

(for 1001 even I am not sure if you should say katalogów or katalogach, both sound correct to me)

...and again, the whole thing changes depending on the speaker being male/female + singular/plural("I have found"/"we have found").

Compared to the grammar of Slavic languages, English is super easy.
Yeah sure. Go open a startup company in Naples, wait for someone to ask you for /pizzo/ and let's talk again about this.
Realtime exchange rate http://www.finanzen.ch/devisen/realtimekurs/eurokurs

Eur fell as low as 0.79 from 1.2.
A common method seems to have been to just run after the animals slowly, so they can't rest but don't run yet, until they die from exhaustion. Our heat dissipation system is better than most animals, so it works better when it's hot. It's possible to do it alone, and hunt big animals with only a knife to kill them in the end, if you know what you're doing. However, it means you have to move for a long time.
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Indeed, this is a solved problem. Use ngettext, see its page for all different language variations (even the Slovenian four different forms) https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Plural...
Ethiopia and the Baltics in the '90s

I suspect you may mean the Balkans? And the Balkans have actually been a pretty successful outcome.

In Afghanistan and especially Iraq the State department was not allowed to do their job. See [1] where:

Secretary of State [Colin] Powell recently wrote to Defense Secretary [Donald] Rumsfeld, urging that State oversee humanitarian assistance, an outcome that would help internationalize the effort. The United Nations and others, like the European Union, have experiences in the past relating to state-building. On the other hand, there are other elements in the administration, notably in the Department of Defense, which are beginning to try to invent a blueprint and map out the capacities in order to have the United States undertake this task alone.

As you note, the DoD took over this role. But it wasn't because of lack of interest of State.

[1] http://www.cfr.org/iraq/council-expert-says-state-department...
Not sure what the policy on linking to reddit is, but there was a recent discussion in /r/games (this is a subreddit for game discussion only. no memes).

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2qr7ra/i_know_its_bee...

With the start the game had, there was some surprise there were almost 4000 players at the time.

The gist of the comments are that it is still an awful buggy game, but apparently some people enjoy it (and some even stream it on twitch).
> "It would be fun to actually experiment with wine drinking," Sharpe said. "Of course, this was a university event, so we couldn't exactly do it on campus."

Having been a student in the UK, this sounds really strange.
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Maybe you want to ignore it, but Italy is so much heterogeneous that living here is not always being home: I'm not home. I'm in Italy but I moved away from my place years ago.

It's funny how the same thing can be seen in such different ways. I have been planning since long to go away from Italy and I will eventually go away, but I feel like it's an act of cowardice. You said just the opposite...
Yes I had to update my linkedin to try and make it clear it was Bedford Colledge (a FE college) and not the University of Bedfordshire where I went to do my Mech Eng Btech.

Bedfordshire University is regularly last in the UK legue tables on Universities.
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And likewise, after you utter the words “National Security”®, the U.S. all of a sudden don't have a constitution any more. I'm quite sure, however, that this isn't any mathematician's fault.
1 imenik
2 imenika
3 imeniki
4 imeniki
5 imenikov
6 imenikov
…
101 imenik
102 imenika
103 imeniki
…
201 imenik
…
1001 imenik
…
Slavic languages are f*d up :D
>I don't think our bodies are prepared to that sort of pattern where you stay inactive for 5 hours, while your brain is still very active, and stop to run non stop for 1 hour.

I disagree strongly with this part of what you're saying.

This seems exactly what human civilisation has traditionally done: conserve physical energy until it's the right time to hunt, do some very intensive hunting, spend a lot of mental energy figuring out better tools and systems.

The article measures activity as: cycling, running, swimming, etc. That's intensive activity. Missing that out had a higher risk of death.
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The disconnect between what our bodies are built for and the lives we're living in 2015 is the source of many modern diseases. Daniel Lieberman [1] has an excellent book on the matter called The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease [2]. Reading it was a deep realization for me that I needed to change my way of life and forced me to eat better (more fruits, vegetables, slashing everything processed from my diet) and exercise more.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lieberman
[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Story-Human-Body-Evolution/dp/0307...
Here are the recommendations from the Wikipedia page on Paleolithic lifestyle [1]:

- Adopt a Paleolithic diet as much as possible: plenty of fruit,
fish, vegetables, nuts, and meat while avoiding most forms of
food not in existence in paleolithic time. It implies avoiding
all processed food, and in particular junk food and food with a
high glycemic load, such as sweets and cultivated crops like
potatoes and cereal grains (in particular wheat).
- Exercise frequently, but with a variety of durations and
intensities (including rest periods) rather than doing always
the same, extended routines in a gym or while jogging.
- Perform a variety of complex "natural movements" (e.g. walking,
running, jumping, crawling, climbing, carrying, throwing,
swimming) that use the whole body rather than artificially
constrained exercises that focus on specific muscles (like those
afforded by most gym equipment).
- Maximize contact with nature, e.g. by keeping plants, gardening,
working with animals, hiking in the woods, or climbing trees (as
also proposed by the biophilia philosophy).
- Use a minimum of clothes and don't wear shoes: exposure to heat,
cold, pressure, and other natural forces strengthens rather than
weakens the body.
- Expose yourself regularly to the sun or at least to natural
light, to get sufficient vitamin D and prevent depression.
- Try to sleep at least 8 hours a day, preferably in line with
natural day-night rhythms (though people in pre-industrial
societies do not sleep in contiguous blocks - see anthropology
of sleep and segmented sleep).
- Spend sufficient time relaxing, playing, and just "being in the
present", without worrying about later.
- Reduce overall levels of stress; avoid overworking in favor of
downshifting and simple living.
- Allow contact with dirt: soil contains plenty of beneficial
bacteria that strengthen immunity. Eat fermented foods like
sauerkraut, kim chi, kombucha, etc. Lifelong exposure to a
variety of microbes may actually be necessary to prevent
allergies and autoimmune diseases, as proposed by the hygiene
hypothesis.
- Rear children the way hunter-gatherers do: extended
breast-feeding, carrying of babies on the body, co-sleeping,
while allowing older children to play and explore
autonomously.
- Sit with legs level with rear end (essentially, in the squatting
position), as people in indigenous tribes do.
- Socialize and interact closely with a small group of real
friends, instead of staying alone or "networking" with thousands
of superficial acquaintances.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_lifestyle
Having quite well in mind the most common problems with localization I tend to use strings like this:

Directory searched: 10. Files found: 0.

They are not shiny but a direct translation is OK in Italian and it could be OK in the other languages of the post (Chinese, Arabic and Russian).
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Whatever justifications the NSA comes up with, the crux with Dual_EC_DRBG remains: Either they are as malicious as is now publicly believed and those points were indeed generated with an included backdoor. Or they are stupid enough to endorse an RNG that is slow, not provably secure and may even contain a backdoor.

Extending on the provably secure part: There actually are constructions that allow you to reduce the discrete logarithm problem to the one-way property and to the pseudo randomness property of the RNG. And without such a proof, what is the benefit of a slow elliptic curve RNG anyway?

Regarding the backdoor part: Even for the NSA the potential of a backdoor is a problem, because every division has to trust the person that has actually generated the points. And as the Dual_EC_DRBG was used by the DoD, this person potentially has the keys to some very sensitive parts of the kingdom.
There is like a MILLION of these threads:
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.c...

I get it - I fell the same way - but it feels a little clingey now!
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I'd argue that the mathematicians know who they are working for, though. I'm sure there are plenty of great folks working there, but "I was just following orders" hasn't been a valid excuse for quite a lot of time.
I've long found that "externalized" translations in po files (or any equivalent) are more trouble than they're worth, for exactly this reason. Translations need to be functions, so they need to be written in a format that's good for writing functions - i.e. a programming language. What we want is a MessageSource interface, and a bunch of language-specific implementations.

Fortunately I work in Scala, so it's very easy to have an "embedded DSL" that's ordinary, first-class code but not much harder for non-technical translators to read or write than the .po format; we can write helpers for grammatical case or numbers or similar. But having the full power of a programming languages there means that when you hit a case you haven't thought of (and you will), you can fall back to just an if/else.
No, it was Hi5! =)
Interesting, but I am wondering if it is really worth going through all this trouble, just to support a few edge cases.

Personally, I usually don't even notice small mistakes like "1 directories" (or similar mistakes in my native language). Sometimes I will see the correct version somewhere and think "Oh, nice that they thought of that" but I definitely don't expect it.

Are the possible returns of having a "perfect" translation really high enough to justify investing in a much more complex system? I am sure translators who can code functions instead of just putting values into an Excel table will come at quite a premium as well...
Dunno man, it feels like people still living in Italy are poisoned by the level of madness there is.

In other words: http://i.imgur.com/dA5IUA1.png
"The problem results from too many people falling for this way of thinking"

And too many idiots thinking that stamps and signatures and certificates have magical powers and prevents the real ill-intentioned people from doing anything (we could say bureaucracy is the DRM for real life). Also people making use of their position as to gain personal power.

You have a point in saying that bureaucracy is not a bad thing per se, in both the original acception of the word and in some places, like in Germany it "mostly" works.
You won't find anyone who disagrees with you on this. This is not the point, however. Everyone in Italy is disappointed.

But if you're going abroad, there are good chances that you're one of those who can make the difference.

And if those who can make the difference go abroad, how do you pretend to change things here?

Let me only say that this: if Italy is a sinking boat, people who leave the country, they don't have guts, they're all so many Schiettino.
Cool example, but I think "ne" is the "correct" way to romanize ね.
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Huh. I actually took a stab at solving this problem using language generation with my final year [project](https://github.com/Zarkonnen/A-Natural-Language-Generator-fo...) at university.
Not too good news for developers working for foreign companies in Switzerland. (Google, etc.). They just got 15% more expensive without a salary raise.
Driving through it or being there for a holiday is not a problem as they are a member of Schengen but to obtain a Work Visa for Switzerland is another step of paperwork. People holding EU Passports still need to apply for a Work Visa.
> Compared to the grammar of Slavic languages, English is super easy.

And thus is solved the mystery all us Slavic speakers have such good English. Especially on the online. Because nobody had the guts to localize to our languages.

If they did localize to our languages "Omg this looks weird and smells off", we all cried. And switched our interfaces to English. Admit it, you did this in High School or even Middle School because the <insert slavic language> translation just didn't make sense.

And so all of us who are now in a position to localize these interfaces don't because it seems silly and pointless.

We come full circle. Younglings after us use computers in English because no good localization exists.
I read it with a thick Italian accent, it made it more funny than offensive :)
> Perhaps we can sidestep those problems, or at least escape from them for a while.

But we can't. Any decision we make -- even one based purely on data -- is a political one, because we can choose to change the data by changing society. If you say we should make future decisions (which affect lives and future data) based on current correlations only, you're executing a conservative political policy of maintaining the status quo. If you program computers to just take into account existing data (and not, say, desired future outcomes for society), you're programming conservative computers.
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Not to mention that I would never realise that "imenik" means directory. An imenik is a phone book. Potentially the Contacts app on my phone. But never a directory.

I think this has to do with vocabulary registers as well. We've learned to use English words for computer things. Using Slovene translations just feels weird unless they're a bastardisation of the English word. Similar to how English uses French words for foods because cuisine was a thing of the elite and they didn't eat pig, they ate porc.
I think the "In Europe" bit missing from the title is kind of important. It could happen that in other places (and I am not looking to anyone in particular here) the numbers are different.
> I would say a 630 calorie donut is pretty huge

Therein lies the rub: most people can't fathom they're eating way too much since they feel like it's normal because habit and social.
To be fair it was a beta of the "Ubuntu Netbook Remix" and that bug was shortly fixed.

I took some screenshots because I really liked the interface, but none of them show the bug because I usually stick to en_GB and the problem was spotted in my wife's netbook (she's Spanish teacher and likes to have the OS interface in Spanish to amuse the kids).
In this article (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/usb-3-1-and-type-c-th...), they hint at the capability called "Alternate Mode". It can be used to transport any non-USB data.
Except that filtering/censorship/monitoring don't have to work at the municipal level.

The UK's (big) ISPs are already required to 'offer' Internet filtering to all customers, collect activity logs, and prevent access to certain torrent sites.

None of them have had a problem implementing this at a national level.

(Setting up a DNS blacklist/redirect isn't hard - you do it in your network/backbone gateways, which aren't anywhere near your subscribers.)
It stands out because "regardless" and "irregardless" are adverbs, while the others you listed are all adjectives.

And it does fit the pattern of negating the root morpheme.
Regarding that IO.js, it makes me giggle when the first question in FAQ is «What is this?».

I have started hanging around the HN again nowadays, and this is the second link I'm commenting on and fourth or fifth one I have seen where the first one of the comments says «the website tells practically nothing». Also here, the link title (merely «NW.js» at the time I write this) also says nothing, and the linked page is annotated to be under construction. Heck, when presenting your project to the tech world shouldn't one be more cautious and more willing to make it be received better? I mean, just be a little bit more attentive before shouting out «Hey, this is a project I wish the public uses!».
But all their CHF accounts just got 15% more valuable. I'd consider that excellent news!
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