And how about if the vote had been phrased as "do you wish to remain in the EU", with a 2/3rd requirement to meet the bar, meaning 1/3rd was sufficient to trigger Brexit? Would that have seemed fair? Democracy evolved…
To not only use UTF-8 as the internal string encoding but practically mandate it, if you want to remain safe. UTF-8 is a fine transport format, but for raw runtime performance it's obviously going to be an issue if you…
Are you sure? I thought Algolia literally was Solr (which is ElasticSearch which is Lucene).
That seems like a really unfortunate design decision. I used to think that Java's use of UTF-16 for strings was just a problematic legacy thing, but compared to this it seems quite good. Strings are pretty high…
The direction of the nation is decided by less than a majority in every vote. So why would this one in particular require "special measures"? I think what you're getting at here is you support the EU, so would prefer if…
IPv6 is less common at work, more common at home.
But are you roaming in those places? For reasons I don't understand fully but are presumably billing related your IP traffic gets tunnelled back to your home ISP when roaming, or at least, it used to.
Isn't it "people an NSA analyst believes are Russian hackers"? I read the Intercept story but didn't see where it showed convincing evidence of that. It just says they showed no doubt.
I don't know of a text off-hand, but this infographic is helpful: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/poster There's more to critical reasoning than understanding logical fallacies of course. But knowing how to avoid and…
The problem with insisting on roundness, which has been a focus of the education system for years, is that it generates tons of generic shapeless people who specialise in nothing and find themselves unable to obtain the…
Eh? UK engaged in mass telephone/fax taps during the Troubles with wild abandon. http://www.lamont.me.uk/capenhurst/original.html The inability to monitor suspects telecommunications is a very recent phenomenon.…
There is also the opposite problem. The public aren't asking for it not to be done either. Internet surveillance isn't a hot button political topic either way. However, terrorism is. Hence the problem.
Thought crime already exists for a long time already. Planning to commit murder (thinking about it) is punished nearly as harshly as succeeding. Is it really so controversial?
You're comparing the UK to the USA there and assuming the USA is saner. The origin of the USA's prohibition against self-incrimination was people who were tortured into confessions and other forms of undermining their…
I've never liked May's authoritarian tendencies - no way does that stuff remain restricted to targeting Islamism - but your last paragraph is in fact exactly what they are doing. Having asked the question of "why do…
They did that. It was the first iteration. The problem is that - as described above - many websites use ads from multiple networks, so actually even if you paid, most ads did not disappear. It was more or less random.…
I know for a fact mine weren't, because the profs tended to tell us so. Also, many of the academics could barely code themselves. Instead they found creative ways to set mark schemes such that the code didn't matter,…
Learning to read errors is itself a skill. The number of professional devs who ask questions of the form "I got this message what do I do" and the message itself tells them what to do is astonishing.
I seem to recall that in prior HN stories about CRISPR some poster was saying he believed CRISPR didn't work the way people thought it worked. He said it was simply killing cells that didn't have the desired mutation…
I saw the same thing. I had to kill the entire Chrome process. There's something being loaded, probably via ads, that totally wrecks the entire Chrome process group not just the renderer, which is impressive.
That's completely wrong I'm afraid. ART is a standards compliant JVM and Android has supported the native development kit (NDK) for C/C++ apps for years. You can't do everything you can with the Java APIs, but you can…
Well, I hope we're not getting sentimental about Win16. I've written more than my fair share of Windows API code and even though some of the concepts are now coming back into fashion again, largely due to the limits of…
Thanks for the correction - that's neat. They really pushed a lot of high level detail into the draw lists!
There is/was an extension that did that at some point, but it was never used (on Linux) due to poor implementation and a desire to target low RAM machines. Mac's backing store implementation was quite heavily optimised…
I found the article a little confusing to be honest. I wonder if the author has written a traditional widget toolkit that isn't Firefox oriented. In old widget toolkits, going back to the 90s here, there was a single UI…
And how about if the vote had been phrased as "do you wish to remain in the EU", with a 2/3rd requirement to meet the bar, meaning 1/3rd was sufficient to trigger Brexit? Would that have seemed fair? Democracy evolved…
To not only use UTF-8 as the internal string encoding but practically mandate it, if you want to remain safe. UTF-8 is a fine transport format, but for raw runtime performance it's obviously going to be an issue if you…
Are you sure? I thought Algolia literally was Solr (which is ElasticSearch which is Lucene).
That seems like a really unfortunate design decision. I used to think that Java's use of UTF-16 for strings was just a problematic legacy thing, but compared to this it seems quite good. Strings are pretty high…
The direction of the nation is decided by less than a majority in every vote. So why would this one in particular require "special measures"? I think what you're getting at here is you support the EU, so would prefer if…
IPv6 is less common at work, more common at home.
But are you roaming in those places? For reasons I don't understand fully but are presumably billing related your IP traffic gets tunnelled back to your home ISP when roaming, or at least, it used to.
Isn't it "people an NSA analyst believes are Russian hackers"? I read the Intercept story but didn't see where it showed convincing evidence of that. It just says they showed no doubt.
I don't know of a text off-hand, but this infographic is helpful: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/poster There's more to critical reasoning than understanding logical fallacies of course. But knowing how to avoid and…
The problem with insisting on roundness, which has been a focus of the education system for years, is that it generates tons of generic shapeless people who specialise in nothing and find themselves unable to obtain the…
Eh? UK engaged in mass telephone/fax taps during the Troubles with wild abandon. http://www.lamont.me.uk/capenhurst/original.html The inability to monitor suspects telecommunications is a very recent phenomenon.…
There is also the opposite problem. The public aren't asking for it not to be done either. Internet surveillance isn't a hot button political topic either way. However, terrorism is. Hence the problem.
Thought crime already exists for a long time already. Planning to commit murder (thinking about it) is punished nearly as harshly as succeeding. Is it really so controversial?
You're comparing the UK to the USA there and assuming the USA is saner. The origin of the USA's prohibition against self-incrimination was people who were tortured into confessions and other forms of undermining their…
I've never liked May's authoritarian tendencies - no way does that stuff remain restricted to targeting Islamism - but your last paragraph is in fact exactly what they are doing. Having asked the question of "why do…
They did that. It was the first iteration. The problem is that - as described above - many websites use ads from multiple networks, so actually even if you paid, most ads did not disappear. It was more or less random.…
I know for a fact mine weren't, because the profs tended to tell us so. Also, many of the academics could barely code themselves. Instead they found creative ways to set mark schemes such that the code didn't matter,…
Learning to read errors is itself a skill. The number of professional devs who ask questions of the form "I got this message what do I do" and the message itself tells them what to do is astonishing.
I seem to recall that in prior HN stories about CRISPR some poster was saying he believed CRISPR didn't work the way people thought it worked. He said it was simply killing cells that didn't have the desired mutation…
I saw the same thing. I had to kill the entire Chrome process. There's something being loaded, probably via ads, that totally wrecks the entire Chrome process group not just the renderer, which is impressive.
That's completely wrong I'm afraid. ART is a standards compliant JVM and Android has supported the native development kit (NDK) for C/C++ apps for years. You can't do everything you can with the Java APIs, but you can…
Well, I hope we're not getting sentimental about Win16. I've written more than my fair share of Windows API code and even though some of the concepts are now coming back into fashion again, largely due to the limits of…
Thanks for the correction - that's neat. They really pushed a lot of high level detail into the draw lists!
There is/was an extension that did that at some point, but it was never used (on Linux) due to poor implementation and a desire to target low RAM machines. Mac's backing store implementation was quite heavily optimised…
I found the article a little confusing to be honest. I wonder if the author has written a traditional widget toolkit that isn't Firefox oriented. In old widget toolkits, going back to the 90s here, there was a single UI…