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I might be misinformed but it looks to me like a lot of protests in Hong Kong are state orchestrated.

The escalation in protests seemed very sharp. The ransacking of parliament appeared to have been allowed. There was no police presence at all. Almost as if they were being purposefully held back.

I might just have my tin foil hat on. I wouldn't be surprised though if Chinese groups have escalated mostly peaceful protests while police have been held back to create a situation which requires full Chinese state involvement.

I would like to second this. My father has this condition and he does hydrotherapy every week. Essentially exercises in the water. He has been able to stop taking medication and his quality of life has drastically improved.

Isn't this already what private companies are doing? Google and Facebook especially have the ability to create huge profiles about your life and activities. They could almost certainly make highly productive models on people's activity.

The concern about facial recognition and deep learning should be about its use in general. Perhaps I am fortunate with where I live. I am far more concerned about technologies use with private companies than I am with the local police.

I feel you are completely overlooking all of the costs the business incurs. The cost of premises, printing costs, image licensing, insurance, marketing budget etc etc.

The US system allows one party to freeze out another for periods of time due to control of different chambers. There were government shut downs under Obama.. I think that shows how terrible the US system is at the moment.

Other countries like the UK and AU will typically have the ruling party in control of a majority. The US seems to almost always be running some sort of minority government due to loss of one of either the senate or house.

I experience the same thing in the UK. I rarely go to the doctor. Perhaps once a year if that. If I go it is because something hasn't gotten better after a number of weeks, I am unsure about something or genuinely uncomfortable. The doctor is usually dismissive unless something is hanging off.

My partner was hospitalized for pneumonia. That was despite seeing a doctor 4 times. Each time the doctor was dismissive about the problems she was having. It was only when she struggled to get out of bed that a doctor said it was time to go to hospital.

This has happened for similar issues attending different doctors for issues such as fatigue (turned out to be low iron levels after an operation) and wrist pain (turned out to be RSI which required multiple cortisone injections and prolonged time off work.)

This attitude makes you not want to attend the doctor unless you become critically ill.

It is not false reasoning. She is relating to her specific experiences. Where I work 80-90% of applications are from men. We now have 2 women on our team but it is still male dominated. The women are there because they were best we could find when we was hiring just like everyone else we have employed. They have earned it with their knowledge and skill.

Employing for any other reason will likely demoralise the team because they will likely under perform. They will likely under perform because instead of finding the best person, you find the best person based on a subset of arbitrary equality rules.

There is no reason why 50% of tech jobs cannot go to women. The main barrier we come across is there aren't enough skilled women applying. I think the author hit the nail on the head. It reflects my experiences.

You appear be asking tech companies to pass over excellent candidates so they can lead the way on equality. To have equality for equalities sake. It's wrong. Where there are descrepancies between genders we should ask why they exist.

Take child care, the majority of people in childcare are women. Should we be passing over women with years of experience and excellent qualifications to bump the number of men in the industry?

I would love to see a few guys at my kids nursery. However they should be there because they were the best for job. I would pull my kid out of the nursery if they passed over better candidates to fix this gender ratio. I want the best outcome for my children.

The same is true with business. Merit is the measure that matters. More women in tech will lead to more meriting jobs in the industry, which in turn will lead to the male/female ratio improving.

I don't agree with this either. I am in my thirties now and still stutter but I have made huge progress in the past 5 years. In the past stuttering was a huge part my life. Now, while I stutter from time to time my self confidence means it doesn't matter.

In the past I refused to use the phone. I couldn't. I would be vocally paralysed. Today I spent an hour talking on the phone to a mortgage broker.

The only situation I struggle with is conference calling at work. I haven't thought much on it as I rarely do it. I guess I worry I will get stuck and someone will talk over me.. which I guess is silly. If I did it more I am sure I would master it too.

The problem with this line is 'gnaw' is actually a word. I find it very difficult to look past what is actually written and try to convert a correctly spelled word into something else.

The scary thing is how easily people are swayed by blatant lies. Britain has been let down twice recently. Both times it was the quality of the debate around the referendums.

For the voting system a lie was spread about how it isn't fair one person gets to vote once while another can vote 6 or 7 times.. this was the description of the AV system.

You then have Brexit which was a shit show. It worries me how few people ask to see evidence. This is why I do not feel people should have a say in complex decisions via referendum. If the should then Britain has demonstrated how not to do it.

What is insane? Windows 7 is 8 years old. Windows 8 is 5 years old. Microsoft is still providing security fixes for what are essentially now legacy platforms.

There has to be a cost in supporting these new processors. Windows runs on almost anything and the cost of testing updates across various platforms has got to be huge.

I also think it is a great way to reduce fragmentation. Windows 7 is supported till 2020. However you do not want to just cut people off. If you can reduce / stop new instalations before then it will greatly reduce the number of unsupported machines when Microsoft cut the cord.

The thing is I don't want to carry multiple devices or have tonnes of things plugged into my tv. I want to turn on a device and watch Netflix or YouTube.

I also got the WiiU late on a whim and it wasn't a good purchase. The switch looks like what the WiiU should have been but still seems underpowered compared to other things I can plug into my TV.

I already have a PS4. I cannot see the switch replacing it without the basics of a decent online system and access to streaming services.

I mostly agree with what you have pointed out.

The one exception is the British Airways site. That page is very confusing. At best is awful UI. At worst it was created to trick the user into purchasing a more expensive ticket.

It is typically found in very large stores. I only have only seen this in two Tesco stores.

Yep. It took a picture, insulted me then turned off the camera :D

I can't help but feel in the majority of cases fleeting access should not be a problem for a modern operating system.

Lets say you are working in an office and get up to go the loo. You lock your work station. You are expecting that your locked computer will mean that a visitor cannot gain access to it in the few minutes you are away.

They could steal the computer, they could destroy it but slipping something into the port of a locked computer shouldn't give them this sort of access.

I feel that we can do better.

From the foot of the elevator people walking will reach the top faster. However, navigating from the back of the queue at peak time to the start of the escalator is often time consuming.

It would be interesting what the times were between those navigating the queue and walking up vs during the trial where everyone stands but the queue to the escalator is shorter.

> The title could be rephrased as "Cheap guys risk the lives of thousands of people by promising savings of a few bucks".

You say "Cheap guys".. A growing number of people cannot afford an EpiPen. What are they supposed to do? Just die when they have a reaction?

I agree that this solution is not ideal and is probably prone to error or failure. For a lot of people who no longer have the means to purchase an EpiPen it looks like a solution that could save lives.

After playing a bunch of Clash Royale I feel a lot like the author feel's about clash of clans.

Clash Royale actually puts you into a routine of opening chests. Setting things in the game before going to bed and then opening things first thing in the morning. Paying increases the speed of your progress.

This works well because if you do not play the game you make no progress and feel bad as everyone around you is making progress.

It doesn't help that every 3-4 hours you get a notification reminding you of the opportunities you could be pursuing in the game.

If anyone is playing Clash Royale I would strongly suggest turning the push notifications off for the game. It makes it far more enjoyable and it helps eliminate the schedule that it tries to impose on your life.

PHPDoc is supported by most IDE's. Using this you can specify parameter types without using the actual type system.

Visibility and typing features are good. Visibility helps to design and write better code. The typing features are also welcomed in my view. I would rather a request completely fails because a variable is the wrong type rather than PHP's type coercion leading to an unexpected result with no errors or warnings.

That said, I use PHP for my day job. I see no reason to start new projects in it. I never use it in my side projects. Introduction of the single pipe operator to represent OR instead of a double pipe operator is baffling in my opinion.

7.1 does more work to improve consistency and error handling which is definitely welcomed. The problem is there is much legacy crap in PHP. It only exists for web applications and there are a growing number of languages which do this better.

He said he had a back up and restored his music. As a user I would not expect Apple Music to wipe my existing music collection.

Looks to me like there was a disconnect between what marketing wanted and what was delivered. Marketing saw this idea as a bit of fun, something that would create some good press and be playful.

Unfortunately the implementation was terrible, it confused users and lead people trying to seriously use the product to send silly pictures around.

Saying they don't care about the product because of this is silly. So many people use it because it is one of the best email applications around. A botched bit of fun doesn't mean the product is going to shit.

I recently switched my iPad 2 for the latest model. The main reason for the switch was a broken screen on my old iPad. The new iPad is fantasic. I will be upgrading my partners iPad 2 later this year.

The latest iPad is so much better. So much more response, you can have 2 apps open at the same time. Web pages are fast and iOS is really snappy. Also, touch id which I always saw as a gimmick turned out to be the handiest thing ever. I now sigh when my thumb doesn't unlock my phone.

The only thing that niggles me a bit is I feel the life of the iPad2 was cut slightly shorter by Apple and it's iOS updates. iOS7 killed the performance. It shouldn't really have had the update or any update after. I am still not sure if Apple gave delivered iOS updates to avoid fragmentation or to slowly kill of the device to encourage new purchases.

I am not convinced either are valid reasons considering the degradation in performance of an otherwise pretty good device.

I have always found these things to be a bit iffy. I think it is difficult to accurate track the number of steps or distance you have travelled.

As for heart rate you would think it is easier but again I guess it would depend on the fit around the wrist and the position on the wrist to determine it accurately.

I don't really understand why people are suing over this. If your heart rate is 160 and your Fitbit is saying it is 80 then you return it for a refund or replacement. You don't train yourself to death.

It is a bit like if your sat nav says drive a across a field then into a river.. you should be using your judgement - not deferring it to some device.

If you are struggling to catch your breath or feeling a bit funny then typically you would ease up rather than run yourself to death on a devices say so. I would hope that most people are smart enough to determine that if they can feel their pulse pounding and the monitor says you are barely above resting heart rate then something is probably incorrect with your device.

I agree, advertising is very important for the web. I think adblock is a step too far. If companies cannot generate revenue through advertising then they will need to start charging for their products which would be a negative for most people.

I would like to see Mozilla take the lead on bad advertising. Ads which cripple browser performance and page load speeds. These ads would then be automatically blocked by the browser. It would be similar to when apple decided to disallow flash on ios.

Just as apple encouraged a move away from flash, this would encourage content providers and advertising companies to create lighter, less intrusive ads.

Basically it would look at blocking ads which are known to track, ads which take a long time to serve, ads which prevent the page from loading till the page loaded (this might be difficult) and full ad overlays (again, could be difficult to identify)

Our team did something similar after the problems GitHub had when it came under attack a few weeks ago. We have a team of 20 or so and when GitHub becomes unreliable it becomes a big problem for the team.

Last week we set up the community edition of GitLab on one of our local servers. We then mirror the repository to GitHub. So far so good.

We all like GitHub but after it's recent problems we realised we rely completely on it being up. We couldn't even deploy if it went down.. we still use it for open source things. For our main product it has simply become offsite back up.

It is interesting if you type "Stop asking me questions" it responds with..

"Sure, go ahead questions! Nobody is preventing you.

What is your thoughts on computers replacing the function of humans? Apparently some people are afraid of the inevitable..."

I thought it had broken when I asked it what the capital of Egypt was but was pleasantly surprised that after some delay not only did it answer the question but it also displayed the weather in Cario.

Wouldn't it set an unwanted precedence if the British Government just let this go?

There is an arrest warrant against Assange and the British Government has a duty to carry it out. If they do not carry it out then theoretically anyone on the run could seek asylum in a foreign embassy knowing that if successful it was just a matter of time before they could make their escape.

I also wonder what would happen when the UK wanted to extradite a person from a foreign country after letting Assange walk. Would their position be weakened?

It is a bad situation but it seems like Assange would rather wither and rot stuck in an embassy rather than deal with the charges against him. The reason he will not come out is because he is locked in a prison of his own paranoia.

It is certainly money wasted but it seems that due to the chain of events it is money which has to be wasted.

My concern about this isn't the specific procedure, it is the moving of the line of what is allowed. What will happen next? I am sure there will be an illness where just a tiny bit of gene splicing could improve the lives of x amount of babies.

You look the blocking of websites.. It started with child porn which everyone thought was acceptable but then the same legislation was used against piracy websites. Now Britain has an internet filter...

Before there was a red line in genetics. Allowing this procedure really blurs that line and I worry this is just the start of a slippery slope..

As for how much it helps parents. It doesn't help many with their first child as the parents are often not aware they are carriers of conditions. For subsequent children adoption was always available.

You typically watch the player as much as the game. The game simply provides the context for the entertainment. Also.. Competitive tournaments are a good watch. You may be surprised.

It also makes you better at the game you watch. So watch someone play hearthstone for a few hours and you likely be infinitely better if you are just getting started.