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This isn't really about some esoteric desire - I know of literally no one who is interested in being told that a site uses cookies. People who care will have turned them off, and people who don't aren't suddenly going to start caring because a slide down banner has informed them of the fact.

Had the law required clearly stating what tracking was happening, and which third parties data was being shared with, in a way other than a wall of text privacy policy I'd be right behind it. The law as it stands does nothing but annoy people.
I would actually love it. If it worked. As it is, all it says is "by using our site you agree to everything" while you already have a ton of cookies from god knows where implanted into your browser.
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Every newspaper -- even ones that mostly use AP style -- has its own slightly different style guide. I don't think that proves style guides are pointless.
Nobel is not the exact word I'd use. It's been unenforceable from the get go.

If anything, think, just for a second, how much this law has costed the EU, and how many hours has been wasted reading/participating in the law. Of course, it could be one way of stimulating the economy, but I'd like to think it wasn't.
I studied prolog too! For a semester only but I loved it. I don't remember much of it but I loved it because it felt like a true "high level" programming language to me. Describe it a problem and ask questions. Felt like magic.

Also learning erlang was much easier when you had some basic idea of prolog. Clauses did not seem so weird and once you understood how clauses work you've basically got 80% of the language nailed.

What I don't really understand though is why erlang didn't go all the way. Why take only surface level features of prolog and ignore the really cool parts?
It's funny that the first result is now a link to this post on Hacker News.
Guest article by Sanket Nadhani of Upquire that includes a stack of case studies...
You have no free will? Only what your country taught you? Speak for yourself because you are not arguing that the majority is not in agreement you are just saying "you are a stupid American" which is one of the few acceptable slurs.
Seems like a really stupid idea (If you take it as other than an ad for Samsung)

Other than the funny games with making the monitors display the wrong thing.

What if part of the monitor is broken or has mud on it.

Tricks of the eye with on coming traffic, black car on a black road.

Will you still stop in time if the truck stops suddenly and you're watching TV.

Would you notice if the monitors go blank just as you overtake, or might your brain just register no traffic.

I guess all these can all be overcome or checked for, but the stupid bit is why on earth would the person who won't benefit pay for this tech and take on the risk of being sued when things go bad.

Plus you'll notice it was shot on dusk and night (and the night TV looked plain scary)
That won't work here in Australia as the two major parties are, for all intents and purposes, identical. They both voted for all these recent draconian bills. We _could_ vote for the third party, who stands against all these things. But generally we are too smug and stupid to do something like that.

If you knew Australians (remember, we have compulsory voting) you would know that there is no hope in the ballot box. The sheer size of the bogan [1] voting block will make sure that any election will go to whichever party cracks down hardest on dole bludgers/boat people/sex workers/terrorists/dual citizens/Internet pirates/etc.

At the end of the day, as they say, we get the government we deserve.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan
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I've been through two Braun shavers in the last 25 years. Extended the life of both by cracking them open and replacing the batteries myself. Other than that, and replacing the cutting head and screen every couple of years, they worked fine.

Spinning head shavers pulled like mad, and I hated them.

Every few months I have to use razor blades (forgot electric razor on a trip, etc.), and it's horrible.
I can vaguely remember that PVCS had a way of explicitly linking tickets to commits, TFS probably has this as well.
Now for the kicker: recurrent network can implement arbitrary algorithms, including a type of GOFAI. It's quite possible that such an algorithm isn't learnable without supervision; that it was discovered by sheer luck at the dawn of humanity and has been passed down by language ever since.
Companies don't drive innovation. Innovation is just the side product of the pursuit of profit. They fill a 'need' in society and get rewarded. If this just so happens to be innovative then so be it.
I agree that it's misleading based on the title. On the site and in the text above it's more explicit about being a Zelda-like engine for action adventure games, and it looks like an awesome project. I clicked the link expecting something like Adventure Game Studio, though.
I don't want to be mean as it's probably you, but you could probably make a better choice that the guy in the picture to sell your product...
>This instinctive anti-Reublicann sentiment is depressing

Most people on HN are probably too young to remember a republican president before GW Bush.
The Netherlands has seen some refinement of the cookie law, and there are some sites, for example http://www.ns.nl where you now have a choice in what kind of cookies you want to allow.

Again, companies are trying very hard to hide this choice, but a tiny result from the study is that you do get this choice.
Some of the 1-byte opcodes are specific subsets of instructions (e.g., 04 is ADD AL, Ib). Keeping in mind that many single-byte opcodes don't actually exist in 64-bit code (e.g., PUSH DS or DAS), the ones that do exist that aren't used:
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Because the pilots still have to be able to fly, which takes a lot of training, practice and certification. The skills called into play during a flying intervention are much more than the skills called into play by a driving intervention.

If a pilot walks, it's very expensive to replace him, because the pool of pilots are already trained and certified prior to a job app. An airline can't take anyone of the street and create a pilot. Or at least, they don't. Pilots are rare.

A trucking company can take anyone off the street and create a driver/monitor, in part because virtually everyone can already drive, even if they don't yet have a CDL. Drivers are not rare.
I remember reading about the development of Gillette's Mach 3 blade in the book "Good to Great". From what I remember, the spent considerable money in developing the tooling required to manufacture those blades. I think that razor has been around for quite some time now and maybe some of that tooling is easier duplicated now, but it seems like a market that would be very hard to enter because manufacturing a razor that could compete on quality and convenience would be very expensive to do.

From reading some of the comments here, it sounds like DSC's razors are not nearly as good as Gillette's and they are able to sell razors mostly because of their marketing, which confirms what I had thought about new players coming in. I was less skeptical of Harry's because they specifically including messages in their marketing about how they took over an existing manufacture.
Taliban beards are en vogue nowadays.
Clifford's TED talk is quite entertaining too: https://youtu.be/dSGHZ4YHP54
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This link got me started in TeX (I was just barely aware of its existence before). http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex

Not a thesis template at all, but great ideas and it sheds some light on how to get decent typography.

On a side note, I think it would be great to have a good WYSIWYG TeX editor for office/basic user level of proficiency. Typesetting does matter, it profoundly impacts reading, which is particularly relevant when you're giving 300+ pages of your hard work for someone else to read. It would be very good for everyone to get decent default typesetting. Unfortunately, our alternatives are:

* Word/typical word processors, which are are horrible at typesetting;

* TeX, which is good, but it's hard for most people and has an aura of complexity (it's code, after all...);

* Publishing software, such as Adobe InDesign, which are indeed great at typesetting, but only if you know what you are doing. This is professional software, which is clearly not aimed at common users.
How many non-programmers on HN?
Another unfortunate aspect of this law is that it is especially annoyng for those who delete cookies after leaving a website or closing the browser. Since the users acceptance of cookies is stored in a cookie, I get that pop-up repeatedly on most sites, instead of once for each.
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Erlang vaguely looks like Prolog, but it has semantically nothing in common with it. Even the syntax is quite different beyond base similarities to predicates.
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The evidence is pretty damming. There are emails that various Bitcoin companies have released publicly showing how these two agents tried to extort them. The way the investigation started to begin with is because they were reported to the authorities by an exchange for acting shady that links them to the transactions in the blockchain and the block chain doesn't lie.
"And resulted into this" is a full sentence now? I guess. It's not really English though.

The whole thing is serious bikeshedding in my opinion.
Even more popups, choices and waste of energy if you ask me :)
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Two things that are very wrong with this:

1. WhatsApp is dependant on cellular infrastructure which you count into your 10k engineers.

2. "Erlang was designed with the aim of improving the development of telephony applications."[1] So it powers/powered a large part of the cellular infrastructure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)
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I suppose my preference would be that providers simply build the capacity required to support the advertised bandwidth at 100% utilization. This is similar to what Google Fiber does. They don't care if you use 20GB or 20TB in a month from what I've heard. That sounds optimal in my mind. Underestimating usage and failure to anticipate demand are real issues that major ISPs have to deal with over the long run (off the top of my head AT&T's network problems after the first iPhone was released). I've always viewed these caps as short-term fixes until they figure how to increase their network capacity to support increased use.
Clifford Stoll is always a fascinating character to watch.
I did just say this was on my own Skyrim installation, so I already have tried it out.

Area/Cell transitions are MUCH faster on an SSD.

I'm playing through the game again currently.
Hey david!

What main features would a Linux dev team need to create to seriously compete with Windows? Obviously being able to support Windows/OS X applications is something that would be useful so Wine is great. What other things?

The thing that comes to mind preventing Linux is gaming. It is finally making some ground but Direct X is the leader and plays nicely with Windows.
Consider a simple old-fashioned safety razor with double-edged razor blades. They're not quite as fast and effective as the 4 (+1) bladed razors, but for the $30 you'd pay for a four-pack of the Mach 5 blades you can also get ~100 Feather blades off Amazon (Prime) so even if you replace the blade every single time they'll last you four months or so. and if you do that, they will be sharp enough.
LaTeX rule them all when it's time to write a thesis. This template is nice. The code is simple so a beginner can start to play with at any moment. Keep working hard I love what you did.
The US does have more than two parties. Most ballots have anywhere from 3 to 6. It's just that nobody votes for them unless they happen to nominate someone from the big two.
What about ssh proxy to Amazon EC2? Don't think they can block that unless they want to shut down half the Australian tech industry...
There is support for fully "exceptional" behavior. It's called "panic".

The Go language designers explicitly didn't include exceptions because "coupling exceptions to a control structure, as in the try-catch-finally idiom, results in convoluted code. It also tends to encourage programmers to label too many ordinary errors, such as failing to open a file, as exceptional" [1].

I agree with them. While handling errors everywhere is a little painful to write, it enforces better practices by making you acknowledge that things could fail and ignore, handle, or pass the buck.

[1] https://golang.org/doc/faq
Okay but once again, do you understand that this is an extra-curricular program and not a primary school??? That means that it is recreation outside of school hours. It is recreation outside of school hours where kids are encouraged to be creative, to take risks, to perform in front of people and to tell stories. Do you force your children to spend their recreation time working on things that will directly result in a job?

I will be blunt. The way that you are talking has me feeling serious concern about your children. Being creative is not 'a gift that only a few have' - every child has an imagination and I have never met a person who cannot come up with a new idea.
Homoiconicity extends well beyond the obvious AST primacy of Lisp. Tcl and Io are homoiconic languages too, for example. The reason I used that word is because the Erlang language and libraries exploit a few basic data types (tuples and lists being composed into proplists and iolists) very well, to the point that a lot of practical Erlang code is simply shuffling data by pattern matching on those types. It's not a Lisp-level code-data correspondence, but it's in a similar league.
All of those non-technical cofounders who are looking for a technical confounder, for one thing.
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On my computer it's a directory:

$ ls -l | grep Chrome

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If you are in the UK, please vote to withdraw from the EU. This sort of meddling into every minute detail of our lives is only going to get worse. (See also banning vacuum cleaners and light bulbs). Also checkout cars that aren't powerful enough to go up hills due to trying to meet EU emission laws.
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Locking in? You can pause your subscription at any time. You can adjust the amount of blades you get in a month based on your shaving frequency.

As a very occasional shaver, I'm very happy with their service, although I agree that the Mach 3 is superior to their top-end razor.

Still, I'm cheap and I find their razor far superior to Schick and other alternatives. I've adjust my shaving techniques to better suit their blades, and am happy to save a bunch of money.
I'm pretty sure DSC doesn't make the blades. They're just a middleman.
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It's pretty easy for the very small minority of people who don't want cookies to disable them in their browser.

Also it's pretty easy for any website that wants to track you, to track you using something other than cookies.
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Except for our current president, when he ran in 2008?
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Way too much energy to expend on worrying about this.

I put Github issue numbers into my commits because I use Github. Anything is fine if you're consistent.
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I don't even think this law makes any sense from a privacy standpoint since cookies hold very small amounts of data (thus are seldom used for much aside preferences and IDs). What's more, cookies are stored locally anyway.

If there was a law passed that users had to agree to being tracked (be that via tracking cookies, or any other medium), or that users had to agree to having persistent sessions (eg entries on a session table), then that might have actually made some impact. Though I'm sure even then, there's easy workarounds (eg web server logs).
It's very commonly used in insulation in the UK.

Are you sure people were being honest with you? Or were they trying to stop an inquisitive young person from grabbing a handfull of it?
The thing that scares me is that Google is probably right (my political leanings aside).

It's scary because the political machine (the "news" and media) probably gives off a signal that a deep neural network has learned. It might be that simple.

Our entire democracy could be exposed for the sham that it is. It doesn't matter what a candidate has done or says they're going to do, it only matters what media keeps saying about it 24/7.

I've seen this over and over. I'd tell someone about a particular congressmen's voting record and bills he's sponsored and they'll say "wow, that guy sounds too good to be true, I'd vote for him", then tell them it's Ron Paul's voting record and they'd say "That guys is crazy" and then repeat everything they've ever "heard" about him.

That's just one example, but voters only know candidates by the media's labels, not by their actions or platform.
Periscope question: "Periscope plugs directly into your databases...."

As I understand it, Periscope is cloud based, so could you elaborate on how it might plug into large locally hosted databases, or is the caveat that my databases must also be in the cloud?
Regardless of my opinion about this subject, i always find it good to see when people try to think out of the box.
Nowadays most people just follow what is the current hype:

yeah, let's do semver! And it HAS TO BE react, agile and also it must be in Git, because... yeah, because what? Did you as a developer really think why you are following a certain practice and if it is beneficial to your project at hand? Most people don't. They just do what John Doe posts on his hipster blog about Web3.0.
Hyperbole much? Out of fifty-something Presidential elections under the Constitution, there have been two close family members of a past President elected, the families involved winning a total of five elections.

That's not the same couple of families winning every time.
I'd watch a well made documentary. I'd probably help kickstart one.
He talks about recirculation, maybe they figured out a way to plug the ends? Ie if the plasma is positive charge, then would placing negative chargs at the sides seal it? I don't know if this was ever tried.
this is one of main reasons I moved to blackberry from android.
If you have a problem like that, you're using bootstrap the wrong way. It's okay—I do, too.

The right way is to use LESS mixins to match bootstrap classes with your semantic classnames.
The chat logs might not, but I'm sure the actions of the representative are logged somewhere and they could be reconciled.
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Take a look at OCaml, or any ML variant language (aside from Rust, which is more C++ than ML in my opinion anyway) for that matter, for a static typed language with a good implementation of generic types.
This might explain why some people (myself included) have such terrible handwriting. In the US we're taught on pencils or ball point pens.
It uses memcache for everything. It exports out state data to a static file on a cdn

This was an experiment in seeing how far I could get without using a traditional database
Definitely following on from the format that the NYT pioneered. IT's wel done, if you have a high-res modern desktop interface. Reminds me of trying to read WIRED in the 90s. Actually worth the extra effort.

I don't like the politically uncritical boosterish content, however.
The clicking noises from that robot, its brilliant !
I have set Flash to click-to-play for at least a year now, maybe more.

I'm using the "HTML5 Video Everywhere" extension [0], which covers some websites. Many other websites have a link to the mp4 video or an RTMP stream in the flashvars. It takes at most a minute to find it.

Whenever I come across a website that requires Flash, I usually decide to not watch it and eventually complain about them via twitter or something.

There's also youtube-dl [1] which has the -g option to print a direct link to the video. The name is a bit misleading, it actually supports over 500 websites.

And there is livestreamer [2] which gives you links for live streams with over 60 different services.

BTW, an issue with click-to-play is that websites can detect it. For example, SoundCloud asks you to enable it when click-to-play is active, but often works fine when it's completely disabled. I asked their support 2 times about this, but I didn't really get anywhere.
However, there are extensions that add a button to enable/disable Flash completely.

0: https://github.com/lejenome/html5-video-everywhere

1: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

2: https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer
Music machinery made a post[1] on what men and women listen to on Spotify. It has 40 most popular artists for either genre, 20 most gender skewed artists, and 12 most gender skewed genres. I haven't gone through and annotated each and every one of them, but at a glance it seems neither has a lot of distortion at the top 40. But in the male-skewed genres/artists there is a lot more distortion than in the female-skewed.

[1] http://musicmachinery.com/2014/02/10/gender-specific-listeni...
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& more Cliff, somewhat younger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKxaq1FTac
Genius. They should be called "NoFounders".

"NoFounder seeks CoFounder".
Who uses this? neo hipsters use safety razors. real hipsters use straight razors. Neckbeards ... I think that speaks for itself.
I have been. The prosecutor knew I was innocent too, but didn't care. It was a choice between paying court costs and having a suspended sentence hanging above my head, or potentially getting 3 years in prison. As a black 19 year-old in a white court in Arkansas, the smart choice was obvious.
Hang on, what is the evidence you have we're talking about a 'banana republic' or that the people who plead to stealing bitcoin did not, in fact, steal bitcoin but I don't know, did something else that involves not-stealing bitcoin? What is your plausible alternative theory of 'some bad actors stole bitcoin'?