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The repositories mentioned in the post three levels above yours were taken down. There was no arguing back or ignoring.

I am not advocating of getting rid of kindness, and I think that preventing racism is a noble idea. And I'm not obviating a responsibility to avoid offending people by commenters who want to be taken seriously. But in the end, it is nearly impossible to entirely rid yourself of offense. Freedom of speech is necessary for productive environments, and it's been proven that people behave differently and speak differently when they know they're being watched.

There's a difference between attempting to be taken seriously and being disingenuous about who you are and they way you think. I believe in freedom of speech above all.
Brillant idea, very good product UI/UX. Keep going (y)
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poster said shot, not bullets:
"That said, a shotgun blast up into the air at a hovering drone doesn't pose much risk to anyone else (bullets are a different matter)."

If he was using birdshot, there would be no risk to anyone past a few hundred feet. If there was a risk, trap/skeet would not be possible in most of the places where you can shoot it.
Our smart devices seem to mandate syncing to the cloud, treating data as valuable, hardware as expendable.

However smart or self aware our household bot becomes, their brain should probably be stored on Dropbox or S3. Their thoughts might as well run in Lambda or Ethereum.
> Sure there are a few sites that insist on using flash for video or some old games, but I'm ok with that sacrifice.

I use this generic downloader (despite its name) for the few flash video sites that i use.
Works great for many sites.

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
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hi marijn,

did you end up using https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it for the AST pass?
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it's eerily similar to the type of emails I have exchanged in the past.
I could not possibly agree more. I have always been confused by the bold assertions to the value of chess as the greatest game of all time.

Yes, it's over 1500 years old and continues to amuse, but checkers is even older, and there's card games, and then Monopoly is basically just real life, so, that counts as eldest. What I mean to say is that chess is just another game, and just happens to be one of the old ones. It's a great game! But it's not like the holy incarnation of everything a game should be.

For people who defend chess's value by pointing to the enormous game complexity, the number of possible games / moves / etc, the same exact thing can be said of Super Smash Brothers and countless other multiplayer video games. Is Super Smash Brothers the greatest game in history?? (yes)
The FTC only involves itself with prize contests where you pay to enter. These twitter contests apparently require only retweeting something or following someone
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I've removed it immediately after reading the Hacking Team story and never looked back
Yep, that's including all requests. Here's the summary from DevTools (empty cache):

http://puu.sh/jp6oh/308c5d5655.png
Sounds wrong. Your summary implies the CEO stepped down due to sexual harassment.
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Sorry, should have mentioned - it's a 2.2L diesel.
One thing I find interesting about the example in the article:

(1) John threw out the old trash sitting in the kitchen.
(2) John threw the old trash sitting in the kitchen out.

Yes, (1) is easier to parse (and I prefer it) but (2) is less ambiguous: (1) could equally well mean that John threw the trash out while he was sitting in the kitchen.

I also find the title of the post a little confusing. I thought the article would be about how learning languages helps your brain recover.
Out-of-the-box, no (I needed to cap myself to prevent scope creep). But adding that functionality as a custom command would be very trivial. If a member of the community does not make a custom command very early on, I will likely do it myself, because that would be super useful.

Custom Commands are built using Javascript, and have all of the power of Node.JS at their disposal. Check out more details here: https://github.com/lacona/kickstarter-nerd-details
I wonder if this can be used to automatically shut down the DNS servers participating in a reflected DDoS recursion attack: those are unpatched.
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I've run Linux as my desktop for a long time, so I've always found it natural to set up my desktop as closely matched to the deployment server environment as possible. It's very simple to set up MySQL on Debian or Ubuntu, and only slightly more trouble on OSX.

Using SQLite would actually be more trouble and I've never seen a need to use it all for development. Any time I've tried to use SQLite, it's been pointless as some of my queries written to run on MySQL or Postgres fail due to lack of support for some feature or another. And I already have plenty of MySQL and pg running on my systems, so...
If you are working on your first startup, and are in love with the idea so much, that you would not be able to do anything else, then you might be right.

On the other hand, if your priority is to build a (working, sustainable) company, or become a leader / ceo, then a studio environment could provide you with a better basis for your goals - stability, etc etc
> The article quotes JAH's email as saying, "Two women, one of whom I work with and adore,

> and a friend of hers were hula hooping to some music. I didn’t have a problem with this.

> What I did have a problem with is the line of men sitting on one bench facing the

> hoopers and gawking at them. It looked like something out of a strip club. When I

> brought this up to male coworkers, they didn’t see a problem with it. But for me it felt

> unsafe and to be honest, really embarrassing. That was the moment I decided to finally

> leave GitHub."

From the HN discussion when this happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408492

Article in question: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes...
Indeed. Who you consider "toxic" and "angry" depends mostly on what side you take. It's best to keep all politics out of work-related places like Github. Unfortunately, their new Code of Conduct seems to encourage such stances.
The length is staggering, the quality of the winnings extremely low. Scrolling through it for about a minute I honestly haven't seen anything I would actually use.
Ex-deloitte employee here. I left before this change in performance review took place, but here's some thoughts & context based on my experience:

- People may be concerned that relying on four questions may be too narrow, but at the end of the day, regardless of which questions are officially on the performance eval form, those are the questions that matter. At Deloitte, I had to consistently find new projects every 2-6 months, and the question of "Given this person's performance, I would always want him or her on my team" is not hypothetical. Project manager and partners answer this question implicitly all the time when they hand-pick their team members, now it's just answered more explicitly. At the end of the day, if you're an employee, what's more important to your career: that your boss thinks you're an Excel whiz or that she enjoyed working with you and will put you on an interesting, challenging project next month?

- I think some of the criticism that these questions essentially about your likability or ability to "manage upwards" are fair. But for a firm, whose business is all about providing client service, evaluating people on their people's skills for "managing upwards" seems like a reasonable proxy for their ability to "manage clients", which really is a valuable skill to the company. On the other hand, for engineering orgs, these four questions may need to be rephrased - (e.g. off the top of my head: "do I want this person responsible for delivering and maintaining critical production services").
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Yeah and also twists the truth beyond recognition.

The reason he stepped down was not due to sexual harassment complaints, but to his wife misusing resources of the company.
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It looks like along with the proposed JEP 260 [1] they will leave

* sun.misc.Cleaner

* sun.misc.Signal

* sun.misc.SignalHandler

* sun.misc.Unsafe

* sun.reflect.Reflection::getCallerClass

* sun.reflect.ReflectionFactory

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/260
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I have this one: http://www.nooelec.com/store/sdr/nesdr-mini2-rtl2832u-r820t2...

I already received aircraft positions (ADS-B), aircraft radio, ACARS, VDL, HFDL, satellite pictures, ISS pictures, a ISS astronaut speaking, a bunch of other satellites (including radio pirates on US military sats), small outdoor weather stations, a portable radio for children, some AM radio stations, a lot of ham radio and pagers.

There is also huge amount of signals I can't decode yet.
So what is the correct legal response? Do you record the drone on your property and bring up trespassing charges? Are there any successful cases of this happening?
I have a seperate folder with the git checkout, then use symlinks to connect the actual dotfile locations. I think the author may have alluded to the same thing:

> I can quickly clone the git repository and fire up my bootstrap script to wire all the symlinks, aliases and scripts

Though personally I don't use symlinks for my scripts (only my dotfiles) - for my scripts I simply add my git checkout to my $PATH
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As was posted somewhere else in the thread, Floobits is a collaboration plugin that supports the IntelliJ family of IDEs, as well as Sublime, emacs, and neovim.

It works really well, even cross-editor. Though I've had a few issues when two users are editing lines too near each other (but the last time I used it was almost a year ago).
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I wonder if someone will sell a product that takes control of hovering drones and lands them without breaking them.
> You're talking about an observation, not a model or even a qualitative explanation.

It's certainly a model, based on correlating many observations. The report is at http://www.scribd.com/doc/89990298/Coleman-Report-Equality-o... and the technical explanation at p571 looks very much like the model building I'm familiar with in drug design.

Quoting from http://pages.jh.edu/~jhumag/0400web/18.html :

> Using data from over 600,000 students and teachers across the country, the researchers found that academic achievement was less related to the quality of a student's school, and more related to the social composition of the school, the student's sense of control of his environment and future, the verbal skills of teachers, and the student's family background.

That report (p. iv) deliberately did not suggest changes to social policy. However, it was used to guide changes. Quoting now from http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O88-ColemanReport.html

> First, it showed that variations in school quality (as indexed by the usual measures such as per pupil expenditure, size of school library, and so on) showed little association with levels of educational attainment, when students of comparable social backgrounds were compared across schools. (Differences in students' family backgrounds, by comparison, showed a substantial association with achievement.) Second, a student's educational attainment was not only related to his or her own family background, but also (less strongly) to the backgrounds of the other students in the school. These findings had clear implications for social engineering: opportunities could best be equalized via strategies of desegregation of schools (for example by busing). They challenged a major plank of Lyndon Johnson's vision for the Great Society; namely, that increased spending on education could rectify social deficits.

To answer your question "Did the Coleman Report do much to change the views of sociologists" - yes.

Your earlier statements suggested that you knew something about sociology and it's historical mistakes and developments. Your questions now, which are easily answered and are seemingly a standard part of sociology (Coleman's work is on the Wikipedia page for Sociology), suggest otherwise.

Going back to my question, what is the equivalent in sociology to proposing that a perpetual motion machine can work?

I gave an example - that a human culture can remain unchanged over 500,000 years.

Are there sociologists who believe this to be true? Could I, though force of argument, convince a large number of sociologists that this is true? I believe that is the basis of your opposition.

I do not believe so. There is neither biological nor archeological evidence to suggest this is the case.

If you do not like that one, what is your equivalent?
How easy is it to shoot a drone that's 200ft high?

Sounds like not quite trivial to me, though having never shot a gun, I'm not certain at all.
It should run just fine on an emulator. If you've got a Mac, Sweet16 is the way to go: http://www.sheppyware.net/software-mac/sweet16/

However, I get the feeling you are thinking of Mac OS - this is for the Apple IIgs - an entirely different beast. However, if you're interested in running old versions of Mac OS, give Basilisk II a try: http://basilisk.cebix.net/

Most Older OSes up to 7.5.5 can be downloaded directly from Apple last I checked. I particularly liked Mac OS 6.0.8 for it's simplicity.
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- Mark Twain
Right now the servers are in Frankfurt (EU) but we're planning to move them to the east coast (AWS) in the next few weeks. Right now we're working with the LinBit DRBD consultants to make that happen. After that we plan to move to Azure, but again on the east coast.
This list is weak. There really isn't anything there. None of these were actually major fiascos and most of them have nothing to do with hosting code.

I'm actually glad that they removed the satirical language repo and the one that used the word `retarded` and I don't believe that anybody actually endorses anti-white racism or anti-male sexism. You should feel bad for spreading that around.
BTW: I'm using an old TV antenna.
I think of myself as among the richest people of all time, because about ten years ago something happened that would've killed me about 25 – 30 years prior.

Pretty much everyone in Western countries who gets Penicillin is richer than the richest person alive in 1900.
The one-line patch to dns_tkey_processquery() fixes the immediate problem, but until they clearly document the dangers inherent in dns_message_findname() they're just asking to have this happen again.
I suspect if you take a drone apart you'll find a manufacturer serial number on the PCB. But it's not a registration which would tell you who the responsible party is. In both cases.
Where? Doing what?
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/PE/2/9/D/9.41
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/PE/2/9/D/9.42

The tl;dr of that - it is a bad idea to trespass in Texas as the threshold for a property owner being able to justify a shoot first and ask questions later policy is pretty low.

In all my years living here, I can't recall a single incident in the news where a property owner who used deadly force against a trepasser was actually indicted by a grand jury. I'm obviously not trying to imply that it couldn't possibly happen though.
High school popularity contest...
I knew this project. I had planned to invest in it. I couldn't imagine it could be good like this. This product is really smart.
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good luck you guys. God bless you.
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My "criticism" of Soylent is that it's essentially protein powder / vitamins / mass-gainer-type stuff with some other non-perishables, except marketed to geeks who have never stepped into a gym and thus have no idea that all this stuff already existed for the most part.

Pretty smart when you think about it.
Like others, I wrote a tool to manage "layers" of configuration and personalization files (https://github.com/dcreemer/wsup). "wsup" lets me compose various work configurations, personal dotfiles (https://github.com/dcreemer/dotfiles), dot-emacs files (https://github.com/dcreemer/dotemacs) and others from multiple git repositories.
The project was born from my need to manage multiple changing personal and work environments. Now I can go from zero to full environment with a couple of commands.
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Yep, I'm creeped out a bit by reading that in a programming context. (In a tango context, that's a different matter.)
I think you misunderstood the post your replied to. That poster was talking about employees that have been going above and beyond their current role and taking on many/most of the responsibilities that their "promoted to" role would entail. The promotion is just becomes a recognition of the increased capacity that they are currently taking on.
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Does Sharejs currently support distributed synchronization?

My appreciation of OT (having tried to implement it myself) is that proving that the code preserves the transform constraint is very hard (and the proof one makes is easily wrong).

I believe that the OT proof is equally hard for centralized and distributed versions of OT (I was only ever focused on centralized).

Proving that operations commute is way easier. Defining a global total order for operations is way easier.

Working with an OT base seems more difficult as a result; adding offline or new operations requires more proofs and gets harder.

I too turned towards simpler synchronization algorithms: https://github.com/espadrine/canop/blob/master/doc/paper.md
This is a little off-topic, but discrimination has never been a bad thing by itself. Discrimination means using judgment to differentiate two things or people. There are many ways in which we can discriminate that are useful and entirely valid (e.g. "this guy has a long history of scamming people and no sign he's really changed, so I'm not going to invest my money with him").
Chrome autoupdates Flash and Firefox blocks old versions of Flash. (I'm not sure what IE does.) That should help limit the number of people who are exposed.
To answer your question, some of the higher level skills may translate, but it isn't like a direct mapping of skills (i.e., a person who is good at TIG welding will almost definitely be good at soldering with little effort - it's all about heat management and metal flow).

Memorizing openings could mean that you will have an easier time learning standard libraries and syntax.

Realizing that some pieces can move certain ways that others cannot could make it easier to learn object-oriented programming.

Thinking several steps ahead and avoiding endgame stalemates could help you with loop-writing (or at least avoiding infinite loops).

But a lot of this is dependent on a particular language. I don't see chess being a lot of help with a functional language like Haskell. But an imperative language like C or an object oriented language like Java, sure. A good chess player will still have to study and learn like the rest of the world, but I'd put their chances of becoming a competent programmer above the middle of the general population.
Many people don't explicitly for this reason. I know I can't, its just too much stuff stuck together. I'd expect something like VS and Atom to be made well polished and optimized. The projects are rather large and both have well staffed teams behind them. I'll take sublime, eclipse, or even JetBrains products over VS/Atom because those editors/IDEs are polished and simple to use. I don't need to RTFM just to add three lines to a text file.
" high probability of several disorders and an estimated life span of 30.2 years"
"Thousands of people use Mailinator everyday, so clearly, its a useful tool that many sites accept"

How many of you would have an outright revolt on your hands from your QA/QE folks if you banned mailinator? I think everyplace I worked would experience this same issue if we did this.
The vast majority of guns are also registered, too. The only way to have an unregistered gun is to make it yourself, or to buy it directly from another owner who is not a dealer. If you buy a gun from a dealer the sale is recorded. There is a background check, too.

It's a lot further from the wild west than politicians and the media would have you believe in the wake of a mass shooting.
No, you don't. Often the sticker value that's declared is much higher than the actual value of the goods. There's a good explanation from a winner of The Price is Right here, where she paid taxes on a prize valued at $14,000 but was only able to sell it for $4,500: http://www.avclub.com/article/what-happens-when-you-win-ithe...
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The original quote was:

"Where it might frustrate a chess player, is that chess lacks an element of imperfect information."

Any chess player worth their salt deals with imperfect information, and has to manage risk, make kludges, pick imperfect paths, deal with the clock etc etc.