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This is such a strange comment. I had no idea that anti EU rhetoric escalated so much that it is being compared to China. I mean, of course there are US/EU disputes, even more when the tariffs started, but communist party?

People are mentioning MS Excel and the only other example I can think of is Logo (turtle graphics). It was quite popular in Poland when I was a kid to teach children programming and I vividly remember it was fully in polish (which even at that age I found a bit weird).

Damn, I'm probably reading too much into this and I admittedly don't have kids but that sounds a bit Orwellian. If I were a kid now that much surveillance probably wouldn't bother me, at least at that age, considering that it would be the only way I know but looking back at my school years I'm glad that wasn't a thing.

What do you mean? Tiananmen Square is a place in Beijing, right next to the Forbidden City. You can visit it all you want, there are so many tourists there.

You can get arrested if you want, shouting about the massacre, but there are much easier ways to do that.

China is such a vast place and there are a lot of places worth visiting. Don't let internet mentality stop you from exploring the world, no one is after you.

Sucks that China's govt is such an authoritarian hell but it's mostly transparent to you as a tourist.

Articles 'a/an' and 'the' are simply the hardest thing to learn for me (polish native). I've spent so much time trying to figure them out. There are no rules honestly, almost every text in english has a counter-example to what english textbooks say about whether to use definite or indefinite one.

Maybe that's because we don't have such a distinction in polish or maybe there is something I am missing. Interesting thing though is that I don't seem to ever misinterpret the meaning of the text I'm reading and I'm not sure if I'd even notice if articles were missing or not

This is fantastic! Standard level as crackpottery goes but visuals are great, he took it to the whole new level, beats all the other html or LaTeX ones. That pdf took a while to format.

No they are not. They minimize an error of some arbitrary fitness function.

The point is, if you perturb it by a small enough epsilon will it go back to the initial configuration or fall apart? Pencil standing on its tip kind of a deal.

Yeah, I want to talk further, It's 4am in Poland though, would you be willing to postpone it a little bit? Thanks in advance

My apologies in advance if that seems overly critical of US, I understand why it might look like it but, truly, it's one of those things I just cannot grasp about living there and that's why I'm asking questions, no malice intended.

Hmm... this contradicts everything everyone else said in this thread. I mean, everyone says that if you have insurance you have no chance of going bankrupt but it is not enough, you have to be insured for enough money in a first place, which I think might not be possible even for non-poor people and that defeats the purpose. And it's very scam prone...

Thank you all for your responses, that's definitely reassuring though there seems to be a common theme to avoiding poverty cause it's hard to get back on your feet. Well, that's probably true everywhere so...

By the way, when I was talking about going bankrupt I meant despite having health insurance but often you see cases where the insurance only covers accidents that happened 'while on a red or green bus going no more that 30mph at night, full moon required'. Reductio ad absurdum obviously but I think you know what I mean (probably yet another stereotype I have about US).

I've been thinking about getting a job in US (San Diego, from Europe), my field, perfect match and all, pay is much better if you compare absolute value in USD but after reading about all that stuff about US it seems like after paying taxes, rent and for everything else I'll end up with jack shit with the risk of bankruptcy if I broke my leg or sth (being sued for some bs etc).

Scary stuff.

But at the same time, my friend is living there (Chicago, I think, northwest for sure) and is doing fine with less than 50k gross a year. I don't know what to believe when I'm reading about US. Internet makes it look like a crazy place to live but is it classical "you only remember failures"/ "if you aren't poor it's fine" or something? What would you (US citizens) advise?

Every now and then dancing mania article pops out here or there and every time I'm reading it I wonder how much of it is exaggerated after telling and retelling this stories or even as a warning of sorts that such 'dirty', spontaneous rave may be deadly so should not be performed by a righteous christian (considering that it happened mainly in Europe between 7th and 17th century)

Everest Base Camp is clearly visible - together with full south col route and a lot of teleports to the summit

https://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#14.32/86.87956/27.98295/hot...

https://www.google.pl/maps/@27.9786991,86.8796431,8552m/data...

Plea bargain is often forced confession - so many plead guilty out of fear

That was very unpleasant to read but what he basically proposes is to change "don't know if true until proven true" to "true until proven false" which is ridiculous.

I'm sorry but are you seriously believe that or just venting some stuff? Because statements like cheaters are perhaps the most prolific customers of popular online games need some data, I mean, it's easy to see how that thought was formed - cheater gets banned, cheater buys another copy - but if the game is popular it's probably negligible effect.

This specific project has been open source since early 2016. Looking at the timeline of development in Counter-Strike history, extensive work and outsourcing has gone into improving the graphics, sound, and maps, with almost nothing being done to improve the game's immutability. Hacking is more prevalent, more trivial than it has ever been in the history of Counter-Strike.

Oh, come on, nothing was done and cheating is as easy as ever? And what do you mean by game's immutability other than that you can't cheat when looking at a screenshot?

Don't let us hanging, what's the game? I've been looking for something web-based and casual to log few times a day and click some stuff:)

Don't take it the wrong way, I wish you all the best but I also hope this particular project won't see any significant adaptation :(

Oh wow, this is the exact same use case for me. Other than that I prefer english one and rarely read articles in my own language.

Poland. In one of the top5 cities here but nevertheless, even if I'm visiting much smaller ones it's hard to find a place where you cannot pay in a contactless fashion. This PayPass, or whatever is called, technology really took off here in the last 5 years.

Wow, that took me back. I don't remember seeing anyone swiping their card in recent years, even chipcards are becoming more and more uncommon - contact-less payment leads the way now.

But even 'pond scum' would be a fascinating discovery imho... does it has gact DNA or not? Either way would be mind-blowing.

How do you know? I was trying to rotate the scene in a usual 'arcball' fashion but I'm not able to see southern hemisphere.

You are missing one very important point: bindings. You can bind to C from basically every other language, which is quite important for shared libraries.

1) and 2) are a MUST across the stack I believe. A lot of those crazy snippets from thedailywtf etc. come from the lack of this knowledge and suddenly performace suffers a lot when someone tries some O(n!) for simple stuff. Also, not to put anyone down but... it is kinda embarassing imho to not know how fast can you sort.

Quite interesting how plural form is an simple anagram of singular form. Is it common in arabic or just a lucky coincidence?

And now HN, my bastion somewhat free of SJW, has fallen down. Aren't there rules here to prevent that?

Yep, or the hornet's nest on your porch.