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Then the place to discuss that is in the political arena.

Violating regulations because you think the regulations stink, the regulators are wrong, they shouldn't apply to you, whatever, is wrong.

We probably all agree here that dumping mad pollution into the air is a bad thing, and that regulation should be obeyed, but all it takes is one factory owner deciding that that regulation sucks, and the air's unbreathable again.
Thanks, yeah marking as read is kind of essential.
I don't know if you're still checking out this thread, but my girlfriend and I put it together.

Packaging is good, form factor is slick. The instructions were spot on and all the build materials seemed good. My biggest complaint is honestly the leather - its surprisingly lightweight and doesn't really give off the "premium" vibe. For instance I've got the apple leather case on my iphone6+ and it has a totally different feel despite being nearly the same thickness.

Just want to clarify I liked the kit and would recommend it but I figured I'd give you my whole honest opinion.
Residency, not citizenship. Huge difference, that's why it's that much cheaper.
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I'm talking about scheduling tasks within a single process.
Sadly, "import antigravity" doesn't work
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No it doesn't. US citizens and residents are taxed globally, regardless of where they reside.

And the last NYT report on it, if I remember correctly, the line to give up one's US citizenship was 5 years long (and you can't actually do that until you're taxes are all filed and paid)
As a programmer I never do the same thing every day. But dear god does it often feel like I'm stuck doing the same class of thing.

Get ticket. Reproduce bug. Fix bug. Close ticket. Repeat.
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>But suppose you owe me $50. Can I require you to pay me with one of the $50 gold coins? No, I have to take a $50 bill if that's what you choose to offer.

Ah, but think of the fun case. What if I offer you the gold coin? Let's say you think it's illegal compensation, too far from market rate, and don't want to take it. You don't want any part in this mess. Does the law force you into it anyway? Are you obligated to take a $50 coin that costs thousands of dollars in taxes?
Don't you get a very nice risk-free pension (defined-benefit)? Most of private industry has switched to 401K (defined-contribution).
There is no process for expelling countries from the EU, or even voluntarily leaving. Only route is full treaty renegotiation.
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6.6 Megs of binary blob download (pypy.vm.js.mem). Plus 593K of index.json. Yuck.

Curious. Interesting tech. But hardly practical.
You can get residency in Bulgaria for just starting a company and showing a bit cash to prove you can support yourself. I think it cost me all a few 100 euro's :)
What Estonia has is not similar at all.

Maltese citizenship grants you the right to live anywhere in EU and Switzerland. Not just visit, but settle. On the other hand Estonia's e-residency doesn't even give you a right to enter Estonia itself.
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No. There is a large difference between parsing commands which affect the structure of a program and directly parsing the structure itself. For one, commands that affect the structure in an invalid way can be rejected. Second, commands can be stored so that a history of source code manipulations can be replayed (which while possible via text ala git is very lossy and subject to merge issues - as stated in the article). In addition, commands are limited by context. So when parsing the user's input we now have a limited context to work within greatly improving accuracy and also simplifying the input space of the user.

These are just a few of the reasons...
> Technically speaking, Schengen-Area-wide.

No, it's actually EU-wide. An EU citizenship doesn't grant automatically grants you access to the labor market of e.g. Switzerland and Norway (both Schengen but not EU) but it does to the UK and Ireland (both non-Schengen but EU).

The Schengen treaty only is about to things: No passport checks on the border and joint police work. It doesn't grant any additional residency rights for citizens.
Too much overhead. Also, concurrent systems are actively malicious.
The thing I found most surprising about this article was during the accident and subsequent setting in on shock, the authors heart rate didn't really increase by that much. I would have expected the heart rate to hit much higher numbers, the shock of being in an accident and the rush of adrenaline kicking in (causing the heart to beat faster). Glad to read that everyone was okay though. I am interested in knowing why the other car swerved in the first place? Was it an accident or were they distracted? The kind of metrics Apple Watch will never be able to tell us.
Glorious indeed. At least three levels of abstraction, two JITs, and a host of supporting code. Can we add some more layers like an emulator or get recursive by getting something like Pyasm running inside it?
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> we have reached the end of a hundred-­year fluke, an odd moment in economic history

A lifetime of full-time employment is indeed a very recent invention in the history of humanity, and as the article says, it's going out of fashion already.

But we must not forget that this "fluke" helped bring prosperity and stability to an unprecedented number of people in the developed world over the last 100 years, and especially in the middle of the 20th century. The middle class would not have existed without it. Even the freedom and equality that a lot of us take for granted today might not have existed without it, since a strong middle class is often said to be a critical prerequisite for democracy (at least until they grow older and get addicted to Fox News).

Short-term, project-based employment is good when there are always enough projects to choose from. Both IT and Hollywood are having good times now, so a lot of people can afford to live project-to-project. But what happens when the projects dry up?

Full-time employees of large corporations and government agencies can get through economic downturns with relatively little impact on their paycheck as long as they manage to stay employed. Even if they are laid off, they can often rely on unemployment benefits for a while. But if you're a freelancer and the projects suddenly stop coming, what do you do? Not many countries have the equivalent of unemployment insurance for freelancers, and no amount of unionization will help you survive for long in a world without projects.

Unfortunately, there is no turning back. The world has steadily been moving away from the lifetime full-time employment model for the last 20-30 years, leading to a catastrophic increase in the number of young people with zero economic stability. The fluke is coming to an end, and we're headed back to the time when farmers feasted in the fall and starved in the spring -- only this time we have much more overall wealth and better technology.

In the brave new world of temporary jobs, should every man fend for himself by setting aside a rainy day fund, the financial equivalent of a Tesla home battery to smooth out intermittent income? Will something like basic income save us?
There's no way to do this on a large scale without attracting hostility. Even Switzerland were eventually strong-armed into ending banking secrecy.
Hmmm... compare http://www.loweringthebar.net/2015/03/obligation-to-make-sen... .

According to that one, it is not acceptable for a lawyer to file the petition his client wants him to file, if that petition doesn't meet the court's standards. If judges can censure lawyers for acceding to their clients' demands, so can the rest of us.

How much time does it take to withdraw as counsel?
That is true, but considering that this isn't your average website, but high security certified products there should have been security trained professionals working on the hardware, at the very least when they got the notice - they have no excuse.
I could see this working if it were marketed towards kids, as a kind of `Build a Bear` workshop.
The term for this is "citizenship by descent", in case anyone wants to look into it. Usually it will require that either your parents or grandparents were citizens when you were born.
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I grew up on a farm and had terrible allergies as a kid, so bad that I couldn’t go outside sometimes.

They cleared up a year after leaving that life.
Ever since I've seen "subtext"[1] I've been interested in tables for programming. I highly recommend checking that out.

[1] http://www.subtext-lang.org/
Off-topic: Anyone else found it difficult to navigate through the presentation?
sleep $[RANDOM/3600] works everywhere without requiring jot/seq etc. on BSD/Mac/Linux.
Microsoft would be my guess.
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The thing with the internet is that governments are allowing themselves practices that have been long forbidden in the physical world, and for very good reasons. Whether the technology was initially a military technology is irrelevant.

In most democracies, the state cannot open your mail or tap your phone without a warrant. But for some reason it's fair game to tap all your electronic communications. The sort of things that this law enables is nothing short of forcing all libraries, bookshops and newsagents to ask your ID when you pick a book or newspaper, keep records of what you read and send them to the state. Imagine how this would have gone in the sixties when you had strong political clashes in the society, whether it was leftists or social rights movements.

I think the issue is that the cynicism and short-termism of French politicians is combined with a lack of understanding of the technology (even today that generation and social group barely uses internet) to form a perfect storm.
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How is HDFS quite nicely in small environments?
I mean a minimal HA deployment of HDFS contains at least 5 nodes.
2x Namenode, 3x Data Nodes. Sorry but for "starting out small" this is definitely too much.
Why is that "scary"? The usual arguments (which I don't subscribe to) about social welfare etc don't really apply to people willing to pay that much.

I don't care for any immigration restriction at all. The war on immigration is failing globally. The US pays about 18 billion Dollars a year to enforce these laws, and has about a dozen Million illegal immigrants. Germany is quickly approaching the point where it should be deporting something like 500.000 persons a year, roughly the dimension of third-reich deportations, to not increase the population of illegal immigrants. But of course we can't deport that many people, even if we wanted to.

There will be a point where the European Union is forced to abandon the war on immigration. I just hope we don't lose our souls while trying to avoid that conclusion.
Yes, it's distinct. FinCen is only about money laundering. Money transfer licensing is about the money transfer firm not stealing your money. California is particularly strict about this, because so many people in California are sending money home to Mexico, and there have been some bad actors.

If any of these Bitcoin operators were serious, they'd register with the SEC as broker/dealers and as exchanges. That covers the whole US; no need to deal with individual states. Every stock broker does this. Customers then get investor protection - SIPC insurance up to $500,000 if the broker goes bust. That works quite well. Even Madoff's investors got everything back up to $500K, and slowly, the SIPC has clawed money back from the "winners" of Madoff's Ponzi, Overall, Madoff investors now have about 50% of their money back. Investor protection doesn't mean you can't lose money through investment risk, but it means that you're protected from theft by the broker, for both cash and securities held by the broker.

So why don't Bitcoin startups do that?

1) The broker has to pass background checks (Roger Ver has a criminal conviction and would fail.)

2) There are financial strength requirements (if you're handling millions of other people's money, you need to have a few yourself).

3) There are detailed accounting, audit, and reporting requirements.

4) FINRA can fine brokers for violating the rules for brokers. About once a day, FINRA takes disciplinary action against some broker.

5) There are exams to work in a brokerage. Individual brokers must pass the FINRA Series 7 set of exams. There are exams for top management, for inside auditors, and even for customer service reps. (Customer service reps have to know what they are and are not allowed to do.)

6) Segregation of customer funds from brokerage funds is required. (MF Global didn't do that and went bust. The case against their CEO is still in discovery and he may yet go to jail.)

Until Bitcoin startups start doing this, it's still amateur hour.
Actually no, that would get a very skeptical response until you proved your spreadsheet was made of awesome. Long before computers came along this was heavily standardized using cardboard or magnetic wooden strips to build the schedule, with fixed colors for day/night, interior/exterior and so on, likewise the daily schedules that go to each person on the cast and crew are super-standardized.

Remember that they've been making films in Hollywood for over a century (the first short to be made there was in 1910 and the first feature in 1914) and it's a very incestuous industry, so you have a smallish number of people floating back and forth between multiple film productions and sharing their techniques with each other, and the fundamentals of film production haven't really changed all that much.

One upside of this is that you can very quickly tell whether someone knows what they're doing or not - scripts are formatted in a certain very particular way, there's a lot of set jargon and so on. As far as software goes, there's plenty of room for innovation (which I'd be happy to discuss) but you have to be 100% backward compatible with existing practices. Nobody wants to waste time learning something that fall short and result in them getting yelled at, fired, and talked about negatively, so people are pretty conservative.
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I don't believe that you have too many active connections for threading to work. Passive connections can be handled by a single or small number of threads. Modern Linux on modern hardware has no problem with many thousands of threads and the overhead is minimal in $$$ compared to the time you wasted debugging a scheduling problem.

As for concurrent systems being harmful, you just have to design your program for threading in mind. Minimize shared state and be very careful when you can't.
Rough estimate here:

If you upload 4tb in a year, that's 333.33gb/month

So for tarsnap that equals

- $1k/year in data transfer charges (4000gb * $0.25 transfer charge * 12 months)

- $83/month per month of data (333gb * $0.25 storage cost/month)

- $6.4k/year for the first year ($83 * 78 cumulative months in a year)

So $7.4k for 12 months resulting in 4tb

If usage stays the same each year will add $12k to the incremental yearly cost
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I've asked their support folks whether they've plans to support mobile GUI too. I'm busy using Common Lisp to build a (hobbyist) home automation system and would love to develop mobile UIs in the same language ...
Because the team is primarily developers, not designers? That's my best guess... its quite common amongst open source projects (although this is becoming increasingly rare).
The unique snowflakes don't have to unionize, there just has to be enough average programmers who'll do it for it to work. And they'll do it once they realize they're being screwed.

On a related note, unions have been so important for workers in the west, yet there's a lot of developing countries where people just don't realize their importance.
Or they don't need since their business is making revenue since day 1.
Okai maybe not since day 1, but its making revenue.
As already said there are also businesses where you don't need any funding. Business 2 Business models mostly don't need that much money with a great idea.
s/\//%/ I assume?
I think rich people don't really trust the Greece government right now. And the ultra-left Syriza party would have a tough time selling citizenship to the ultra-rich.
I work in AdTech too. I'm still looking for a perfect counter solution. The counter we are using always overrun (which is better than up/down/up/down). We still manage to hack it by patching the number periodically.

p.s. I am working in an Ad Network but not plugging into exchange. Our system is not capable for that.
> Also, does erasing the dot after ≱ yield ≥ or ≯?

Yes. Actually, in my newest prototype, the dots disappear and we treat ≱ as having 3 characters (the first is !, the second is >, the third =). Deleting the first character is deleting the ! (you get ≥), or deleting the last character is deleting the = (you get ≯).
When Drew first do a "Show HN" [0] (before it was a thing, actually), there were a lot of response about how it doesn't do anything new that couldn't be already done by a technical inclined person (see the first two top comments in the posts).

To make a comparison with tarsnap, while it's probably possible to do encrypted backup manually with a combination of shellscript and such, there are just too many moving pieces that can go wrong. Where do you store the backup? Someone mentions S3, but even managing backup on S3 with deduplication is not something trivial, and managing the encryption process is definitely not something most of us can say with confident we won't mess up. I can imagine a thousand way that I encrypt something, then unable to decrypt it back.

And then maintenance is also an issue, if I'm using a set of OSS tools, I would have to make sure the tool is being maintained, and to follow any potential disclosure on bug/ updates etc. With Tarsnap, I know I will get an email from cperciva if something comes up.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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Oh, right, yeah those people coming in illegally by boat are a much better choice than rich people smart enough not to shit where they live...
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Might be interested to know that Kent Beck of XP fame is also a goat farmer.
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No, these are the "good immigrants". If they can afford to pay 1 million, they're welcome, just don't let them take over the government. The US has been doing this for a long time now.

You should be afraid of illegals from the Middle East...
You either quit from boredom, something more important comes along, someone intervenes, or you die from not eating or sleeping.
Slander/Libel, in the UK where this isn't, has to contain falsehoods.

Can people in the US really sue each other for reputational damage even for saying only true things? If so, that is bizarre IMO.
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For a $50 debt, yes I am obligated to take it. But I won't owe taxes on the much larger fair market value unless I sell it, in which case I pay the capital gains rate at that time, but AFAIK I would have to declare it as an asset on my tax return - well, this might not be strictly necessary, but it would be a smart thing to do in case you tried to write off the fair market cost of the coin as a business expense with my name on it. For any debt larger than $50, even if it's exactly the fair market value of the gold coin as a collectible, no I don't have to take it.
The point is that you only run a single application in the VM anyway. And if you do that, you should make your VM as slick as possible, because anything in there that doesn't serve your application is just increasing the attack surface and the probability of errors through side effects. That's what is already done today, and unikernels are just the natural progression towards that goal.

So you essentially don't separate your applications via users within your OS, but via VMs in your hypervisor.

Not sure if this turns out to be a good idea or not, but it's an interesting approach that shouldn't be put down easily.
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How would unionization interfere with any of that? (Why would collective bargaining not still present an ever stronger bargaining position?)
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Isn't d% a more likely vim command?

Although, you'd think vim would have a general "transpose text object" operator. If it were bound to some ŧ, then you could just do %ŧ% (here emulating Emacs' C-M-f C-M-t)
> It's more than a little ironic that you're posting this on the internet. People were using your same argument to argue that DARPA never should have funded the creation of the internet in the first place.

1. There's nothing wrong with using something you paid for, while also thinking you shouldn't have been forced to pay for it.

2. A much smaller government would still be able to fund research and development. Most states could fund DARPA.
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Google Launches Cloud Bigtable, a Very Fast NoSQL Database for the Enterprise
Sample code to execute some Javascript code inside PyPy.js. I couldn't find any examples.

import js
js.eval("console.log(\"hi!\")")
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Update: IOActive claims they gave 30 days notice, and that the company ignored it for 29 days. I guess we'll see which side is telling the truth.

Maybe they wanted to try to stealth-fix it without admitting an issue ever existed, and ran out of time?

Or it might be incompetence rather than malice. Maybe someone failed to take action until day 28.
Yeah, in work games you can actually get some work done. Without all the administrative overhead and hassle.

And also: No meetings.
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What is your planned version 1.0 release date? What milestones are you facing in the release process? What will future support for the language look like?
Iterated prisoners dilemma.

The interesting developments start appearing toward the end of a finite set of iterations. How long do you keep cooperating? Who defects first?
You get lifetime residency and Schengen visa not citizenship and EU passport. That's a big difference.
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>>> To some extent, the initial product wasn't important.

I am not sure if I agree with this.

I think a good initial product choice is really important to gain the much needed initial traction.

If the initial product is good, the potential users will resonate with it. They will think 'Yeah! I want it!'. They will think 'Yeah! These <initial_product> could be so much more convenient to use / cooler'. You get the idea.

But nowadays, few people use radios other than a car radio. It's much harder for the users to resonate and see what problem it solves for them.
It's actually a special case of the public good problem. Most public goods aren't worth more to one individual than it would cost that individual to produce. A strong military defense for my country is a classic example of a public good, but it probably costs way more than it is worth to me. Yet it's still a public good because it is worth more to the entire country than it costs to produce.
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Every time I am reminded of Armagetron I hear that low buzz sound of the lightcycles in my head. Right back in the saddle. Capture the flag Armagetron is awesome, going to have to reinstall it now!