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"My sudden surge in popularity raised no flags at Twitter headquarters as far as I could tell, even though many of the followers had egg avatars who hadn’t tweeted in years."

I'm not sure that Twitter could use how often you tweet as a metric. I haven't tweeted anything in years either but I still use the service to see what my favourite people are saying. I'm sure there are plenty of lurkers like me.
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100% agreed. Along with a review sent to the person that wrote the bug. Ideally with a non accusatory note like "I think this code had an issue and I think this fixes it. Yea?". That way they can double check you understood the issue and they can learn from their mistakes. When I get a CL like that I usually write a "Doh! Sorry about that. Thank you for the fix".
And what do you have to say to those of us who feel overwhelming love for our significant others, or who understand the basic nature of causality and how it relates to human life, without taking drugs?
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There is. Your progress is automatically saved in local storage, so if you come back later, you will continue right where you left (except that the level will be regenerated).
I heard Admiral Lord West[0] today giving an interview on the BBC radio station '5 live'. In it he sated words to the effect:

"Nobody cares about your emails or if your having 30 affairs".

This is just a variation on the 'if you have nothing to hide' argument which as ever forgets that bothersome dimension - time. Perhaps I have nothing to hide 'now', but who's to say I won't later? Even in very recent history I'm pretty certain that if I was gay I'd be very much regretting making any previous public declaration of my sexuality in Russia say 5 years ago, much less the age numerous examples over the last century where people have been persecuted as government positions changed.

This is a very difficult subject. I value privacy but I suppose I also value honesty. Knowing that what I put online (like this statement) is being surveilled en mass somehow feels better than finding out after the fact.

The flip side to that is then, what's the point of more security powers? Surely if everyone knows they're listening no one will say much of that particular interest? It's common knowledge that the security services have broken 'everything' save for cleanly and properly implemented encryption on a clean system (even then the hardware is breached so air gap it). The 'Bad Guys' know this so the likelihood of obtaining quality intelligence from such mass surveillance seems counter-intuitive to put it kindly.

Those who do use common online services will be the 'low-hanging fruit' and likely so stupid the'd have been caught anyway (maybe we should still pick that fruit, I guess).

The truth is, attacking a soft target like a western country is easy and requires no use of encryption. Just go and get a couple containers of fuel, go on a tube at rush hour with them in a backpack, pull the emergency stop, dump the fuel and light a match. You could probably rig up something custom made to get the job done simply and effectively (with no end of variation to counter your initial 'that wouldn't work'). That sort of thing would probably rival the 7/7 London bombings with just a one man attack (and talking about it will no doubt get me on a list now - wow look at me worrying about self-censoring).

In fact, I'd put £1000 on fire being the next weapon of choice because done properly it's incredibly effective. Could we defend against that sort of attack? No. We can't. That's the truth. We can't really stop anything (or most things) done quickly and where the attackers are themselves prepared to die.

So do we pull down all the (illusions of) freedom we have built up for ourselves in the hope of catching some low hanging fruit? I don't think that's a good idea. After all, the security services must remember that their job is in fact _supposed_ to be difficult (impossible even) and they must struggle to do it whilst maintaining those pesky freedoms the populace deserve that keep getting in the way all the time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_West,_Baron_West_of_Spith...
I think it's the reverse that's more insidious. Who doesn't automatically distrust a business with just 24 likes?

Creates a situation where you almost have to buy some fakes to get to perception neutrality where real likes will follow.
I suppose if you believe that the only correct amount of government action is zero, you might feel that way. But some of the rest of us enjoy having things like property rights.
rotation by only 90 degrees left/right is cumbersome for me... :/ I feel like I'm steering some weird stupid robot instead of dungeon warrior.

but I like overall feel and GUI, the way you give hints to user about keyshortcuts via dialog windows etc.
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At some point isn't there an argument to be made that they're being lazy? For example, say they gained the ability to inspect every single digital communication and read every message sent, as if that were actually feasible. So people stop sending the messages via the internet.

What's the next thing they're going to do? Install listening devices around the country to listen into private conversations in private homes all around major cities (assuming they already don't do that with mobile phone microphones on standby) ? Once they have that, will they begin exploring how to effectively 'read minds', or do pattern analysis on behaviors of different people as they walk around or sit in cafes or something to look for 'malicious intent behavior' ?

Terrorists will always continue to look for new ways to avoid detection, and these agencies are always going to push for more invasive means of circumventing them. It will always get worse, until we start saying, no thanks, i'd rather risk it. And, hey call me crazy, but maybe even working to stop the root causes of extremism rather than simply waiting for them to boil over could be a good idea.
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> I wonder if assembler is going to make a come back :)

Are you trolling? Assembler hasn't gone anywhere nor will it ever.
Short answer: Prohibition

Long answer: Americans REALLY hated prohibition. Mobsters fought the man when it was cool to fight the man.
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You can also argue that the policy of containment, however painful, worked. Even though "Communist" governments at one time or another controlled the majority of the landmass in Euraisa, the broken economic ideology, lack of trade, and heavy industries/military first policies (caused by a defensive stance against Western containment) meant that their economies could never develop in meaningful ways.

The Soviet policy of expendable buffer countries meant that there was little incentive to develop those territories beyond administrative and military control further impacted meaningful economic development.

The U.S. on the other hand tried to improve the general conditions of its vassal/buffer states with broad economic incentives -- namely trade access to the enormous and growing U.S. market, at levels far beyond heavy industry and military cooperation -- all the way down to the much larger consumer market. This policy generated tremendous wealth, which was then turned into better militaries. In the cases where local conditions didn't make that possible, the U.S. simply installed a dictator and funded the local military directly -- almost Soviet style.

I think it's important to not think of the U.S. in isolation, just like Soviet Russia can't be thought of without the USSR, the Eastern-Bloc and other Communist allies, the U.S. has to be thought of in similar terms. The U.S. had/has vanguard allies in the Five-Eye countries (U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand) each able to contribute military units at the strength of U.S. units, "vassal" states like Germany, Japan, Israel and South Korea -- where the U.S. could stage its military at will, and with each offering robust defensive militaries ensuring permanent beachheads, second-tier allies like Iceland, Italy, Philippines, Colombia, etc. that enabled the U.S. to have robust military supply lines.

The USSR had nothing of the order or integration of this global network. A network so large that it spawned tremendous technological innovation in order to manage communication, monitoring and logistics -- pieces of which broke off to form the Internet.

There's no reason to believe that the U.S. and its sphere won't continue to follow this kind of containment policy against states that it doesn't get along with. But economic prosperity is tempting, and China's more permissive environment and massive economic potential can be a tempting ally disgruntled parts of the sphere might turn to, allowing China (who has sufficient political willingness and economic means) to develop into its own super power.

My bet is that the next country that will matter after that will be India.
> I think Fiverr should hire a team to monitor the activity and authenticity of its sellers.

That would cause most of their revenue to evaporate.
This was incredibly hard to read, but you are correct in one thing, it is not racism. It's Institutional racism, which is any system of inequality based on race.
I'd agree with that if we had Congressional term limits to make Congress more answerable to the people. As it is, incumbency is way too powerful and is partly to blame for the dysfunction we're currently seeing.
You might also enjoy the recent novel Speak, by Louisa Hall. It's a thoughtful treatment of the idea of speaking dolls/conversational agents and the connections we form with them.

http://www.amazon.com/Speak-Novel-Louisa-Hall-ebook/dp/B00N0...
So, they work less, but they had to hire more people, at the same salary. Operating Costs are going up. Who is paying for that? Tax payers of course! Most of which have to work more than 6 hrs to pay for those kind of politics.
If you live in the UK and care get ready to start writing to your MP.
Well, 1-star spam is a spam also.
perhaps you should not hire developers but people who will own a whole "vertical slice" i.e. do what typically is sliced horizontally between business - product owner - analyst - architect - developer - tester
Still (and I am a quantum physics PhD) I don't get what is wrong with having many _interpretations_. Especially, as in physics there are many other phenomena that can be _interpreted_ in different ways. For the simplest: movement as forces vs as a teleological least action principle.

While for some phenomena one is easier that the other, considering that there should be only one "true" interpretation, is, at best, narrow-mindness (and at worst: dogmatism, a very enemy of science).
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>We don’t do a really good job of hiring with intent. We decide that we need more people, but we don’t do a really good job of figuring out what we need those people to actually do, and who we actually need to hire.

I don't understand what she's talking about here. Every time I see a job opening, the software hiring manager and the team peers know there's a pain point that needs to be solved. E.g. "We need to an embedded C programmer to make this firmware talk to our USB protocol". "We need a developer to port the Java code to Go." "We need to expose our mainframe transactions as a REST API", etc.

Look at the previous "Who's Hiring" thread. Do those posters look like they post the job slots without a clear intent?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10152809

>just automatically do, and we don’t think about, “Well, what questions are we trying to answer by asking a candidate to solve a problem?” Are we dinging people for trivia questions, for not remembering, “Oh, I need this third option flag, or an obscure method from a core library.”

I'm not sure where her experience with whiteboarding comes from. In my experience, companies use whiteboarding to sketch out algorithmic thinking. Whiteboarding is the opposite of reciting trivia such as the "3rd parameter to an obscure library function" Interviewers don't care about perfect syntax or missing semicolons.

>Instead, I really want to focus on questions that are asking about decisions that they’ve made, what choices have they made, and what choices would they make again in the future? Are they reflective about mistakes that they’ve made? Are candidates looking for opportunities to improve, and how do they actually go about it? Do they make plans for themselves, like how they would improve a certain skill set, whether that be a technical skill set or a more soft skill set, for example, management, or project shepherding for example. Those are the kinds of questions that I think really get you at the heart of not necessarily what somebody knows, but what they’re capable of.

Those questions are fine but it's wrong to prioritize them over concrete programming questions. Companies are trying to evaluate if the candidate can actually program and those "Emotional Quotient" questions she favors are easy to bs about. Instead, companies need to assess real programming skills and they can start with FizzBuzz and then move on to more comprehensive evaluations -- whether it's the take home programming problem or the onsite whiteboard algorithms discussion.
But Mad Men is more like regular soap opera sprinkled eventually with business, isn't it?
That firstly it's fantastic that you have such a great relationship. I felt this way before the experience too. Love is a wonderful thing.

I'm not saying that my love got my partner is because of taking drugs. It just allowed us to express it in a novel way.

I'm not saying that you should take drugs, especially not for marital purposes. LSD has the unfortunate effect of turning negative emotions and creating a nasty experience out of them.

The love already needs to be there to experience what we experienced. That and a whole lot of trust, in the very least.
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How is this any different than any app/executable/script period? When you download VLC did you read all the code to check it's not installing a root kit? When you added some python lib do you go through all the code and make sure that on the 20th run it doesn't upload your private ssh keys? Have you checked all the vim or emacs code in your latest download before running it? Maybe I'm missing the issue but they all seem about the same level of bad.

Am I missing something?
There is really very little difference between the mafia and legitimate governance.

Smaller organizations lack the propaganda reach and expertise to sanitize their actions and so they are classified as criminals. Larger ones have hordes of academics, journalists, philosophers, etc., proclaiming the moral righteousness of their use of lethal force and intimidation (see the "Bush Doctrine").

There is no such thing as politics without force, and force requires intimidation, killing, extortion, etc. Just like the shopkeeper who grudgingly but willingly pays the mafia for "protection", we pay taxes on threat of jail time for "infrastructure" and "education", etc. For all but the elite, education is just daycare and training for serfdom.

It's amazing how humans love the strong leader (Trump is capitalizing on this) and how we love to take sides against and enemy or other (sports, etc.) These are animal tendencies that we still embrace and that still have tremendous impact on us in spite of our large primate brains.

In the third world, politicians travel around with a few dozen soldiers carrying machine guns. Our leaders travel in a motorcade with limousines, to hide the raw projection of power from public view. But to an adversary it's a formidable show of force.
Is it just me, or is the example in the readme incorrect? Shouldn't the title of the third column be "creditcard"?
Ugh, quit complaining and put in a pull request. It's open source and a side-project, after all.
You just need to let the person that made the mistake post it themselves. Personally I think it's fun to laugh at myself though I agree it's not fun to be laughed at sometimes.
> The ones representing your interests are the elected parts of the government. Which, I know, is laughable in the US. But still, corporations are not it.

a bit off-topic, but is there a country that is not laughable and the general public actually trust and believe the government have their needs in mind?
I don't think the lessons from these experiences are really meant to transfer like that, they are so personal. That doesn't make them trivial though, just hard to communicate.
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Aboriginal people wouldn't be in Australia at all if it weren't for sea level lowering, so you could say it's actually more dramatic than flooding.

"There is considerable discussion among archeologists as to the route taken by the first migrants to Australia, widely taken to be ancestors of the modern Aborigines. Migration took place during the closing stages of the Pleistocene, when sea levels were much lower than they are today."[1]

"It is generally believed that Aboriginal people are the descendants of a single migration into the continent, a people that split from the first modern human populations to leave Africa 64,000 to 75,000 years ago, although a minority propose that there were three waves of migration, most likely island hopping by boat during periods of low sea levels"[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory_of_Australia#Arriva...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australians#Arrival...
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Homeless do the opposite of the musician really, throw a coin/bill into their glass and they will take it out and save it somewhere else.

"Nobody has donated, have some compassion" works for some.
I expect that as ad blockers become mainstream, the cross-site tracking iframe include style of ad will go the same way as pop-ups, and the advertising industry will have to look at new options again.
They also don't have a "report this post" button anywhere to allow people to flag spam or illegal activity. That would at least be something they could do...
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Watching The Godfather does not mean that one admires mobsters any more than watching Downfall means one admires Hitler...

Oh crap, I didn't mean to invoke Godwin so quickly. It was just an easy comparison. But seriously, someone else pointed out Walter White in Breaking Bad and, as much as I loved the show I (and the friends I spoke with) had no admiration for him in the end. We admired the storytelling not the actions.
Hmm. He seemed to me like a dreadful guy. I experience this quite a bit with American films. The "hero" is a dreadful person and I'm hoping they get what's coming to them ASAP.

I couldn't shake this on watching The Sopranos. Too often really disgusting behavior was made to humorous in a way that left a bad taste.

It's not that I'm squeamish. Off the top of my head the last US film I watched where I quite liked the "anti-hero" was "There will be blood". I particularly enjoyed him bludgeoning the preacher with a bowling pin.
Glitch has been around for around twenty years now.

If this was a parody, it would be hilarious.
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Is v4 ready for general use? Or should we continue using v0.12? (The main concern is compatibility with all the popular libraries in npm, the Node.js package ecosystem.)
Could someone can recommend me a book about deep learning and/or machine learning for this kind of open-source library ? I do not have any background in ML nor DL.
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Exactly. This view will take some criticism from people who are as yet not cynical about the power-seeking scumbags who lead our nation.
> This leads to the question "How can we get rid of social anxiety?"

Same way our forebearers did: drink.
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I take it you have actually lived in one of these neighborhoods and not that you're summizing this from something you've read our watched on TV. Fear is quite different from admiration. There are a few who aspire to the lifestyle and the 'respect' it brings but most ordinary law abiding people despise the gangsters/mobsters/gangbangers who make their lives so miserable. It's like living under a dictatorship or in Soviet Russia. Fear and silence doesn't mean admiration or willing complicity.
Jokes can be fine, if they're good.
One of the better proposals to fix whatever market structure issues we have is to move to "frequent batch auctions", in which a micro-auction would occur every 30 seconds or minute, which would amount to a similar thing. I'm not aware of any research that discusses whether such a system would be workable in the presence of the existing continuous trading market.
Oh, sure, right. The Constitution can never fail us, we can only fail it.

That surely doesn't sound like you're talking about a god /s.
Sure. The point is that t >> worst case synchronization latency.
What you mean "we"?

Much of this is just excitement added to a boring life, or curiosity, and should not be confused with "admiration". After watching or reading about such mobsters, I find I am disgusted, and hope I never come in contact with such a lot.
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Well the reason that it is "wrong" is that for many people (generally the ones outside of scientific endeavours) the interpretations are physics. Let's face facts : most people are never going to learn even basic physics beyond high school level, and oversimplified "philsophy" is all they'll ever know. (As my philosophy professor said: history seems to indicate that science is the way to be right, and philosophy is the science of being wrong)

And the opinion that interpretation doesn't matter, there's equations, and what they say takes precedence over whatever a human mind produces. That they don't fit well in any of these "interpretations" merely amplifies that belief (as it should).

It's a matter of perspective.
Most email clients block these by default, at least in a business setting. My advice is to check your audience first.

Bounce-back report tracking could be useful if you're checking emails are delivered. I've used this when emails that have to be delivered are delivered. This was mainly for compliance reasons - whether they're read or not, or end up in whatever user folder, was of little importance. That these emails are delivered successfully was paramount. The bounce-back reporting showed where customer contact failed and secondary measures were necessary to get back in contact.

Your use-case may be different, but if anyone reading this is in a similar situation to ensure delivery but not readership, implement a simple server-side delivery/non-delivery report.
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