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Ah, he found me out. I'm buying a new laptop every three years to impress strangers so they think I'm rich and are impressed with my status. Definitely not because my entire existence has happened in a time where the amount of transistors on a circuit doubling every 18 months was essentially considered a fact of nature.
The amount of effort required to produce such a video and article must be staggering. Keep up the good work.
Cool fact.

Driverless transport existed in Netherlands 16 years ago!
I used to take this driverless bus on the last leg of my travel to work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itmmLr8Fp0M

The difference this time is that it's on public roads.

edit: googling, I read many references to malfunctions.
But it never failed for me.
No, as old Macchiavelli put it: if a country is hard to conquer, it will be easy to hold; if a country is easy to conquer, it is hard to hold. The reason is that a united, highly organized country fights hard, but it won't fall apart into dozens of factions after being conquered. Unlike countries like Iraq or Afghanistan.
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I think your best bet is to build a highly valuable skill-set that makes it worthwhile for companies in the US to go through the trouble of getting you a Visa. You need to differentiate yourself from talent they can find domestically without the visa hassle.

In the interim, look at joining startups in other countries where you can build that highly valuable skill-set. This is self-promotion, but check out our startup, engageSPARK, where we use highly valued skills (GoLang, Docker, Microservices, AWS, Thrift, Django, etc) and based in Philippines. And, at the same time, help build a startup with American founders that is working on poverty alleviation. :)
"The Hornet’s cost per flight hour? $25,000 to $30,000, according to official Navy figures. It’s estimated the F-35 costs anywhere between $31,900 to $38,400 per hour to fly."

So the F-35's lower hourly rate is almost the same as the Hornet's upper rate? Doesn't seem like that much of a deal.
I honestly don't understand why this was down-voted. The planting of opium formed a major part of the Afghan economy - roughly 50%[1] of their GDP in fact - and outlawing parts of that economy is both expensive - the US spent $7.6 billion trying to stop it[2] - and likely to alienate the people who you rely on for intelligence.

That doesn't mean that the intelligence will stop coming, it's worse than that. It means it won't be reliable. The trouble, when you get into this sort of application of force, is that you end up being nothing more than an enforcer for the local grievances. They'll tell you where something is when they want you to squash it - and in the mean time, because it is illegal, people profit off it who you don't want walking around with a lot of money. No-one trusts you, because your behaviour pattern appears unreliable unless you know who's talking to who, you don't manage to stamp the things out, and you inflict a lot of grievances.

The smart move is not to try to exact control on an issue when it is not practically attainable. The U.S. hasn't been able to control drugs within its own borders, where they all speak the same language and there aren't the same degree of major tribal issues, let alone in Afghanistan. And it seems to me to have had the same sorts of disastrous outcomes there as it has in the U.S.

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1. http://www.cato.org/publications/foreign-policy-briefing/how...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/world/asia/16drugs.html?pa...

2.http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/21/world/asia/afghanistan-dru...
The smallest replaceable part on a MacBook is the entire MacBook

this is where the bourne comparison needs to come back into the discussion, because it depends who is doing the replacing.

I, my partner and my uncle had had three recent macbooks experience sudden unintended swamping, two with water one with red wine, charlie fixed them all.

The apple geniuses - james bond company men all - carefully removed the screws from my computer, reverently placing them in actual surgical kidney dishes, then looked at me with the practiced empathy on their young beautiful faces, shook their heads slowly without breaking eye contact and said 'logic board' - the macbook cancer diagnosis.

magic charlie is the bourne in this story.
I met charlie at his office, a claustrophobic box on a suburban shopping strip, tobacco fogged,
every horizontal surface except for a few stepping stones between charlie and the door
fractalling out jagged piles of derelict dismembered macbooks, maybe about a thousand, in pieces,
some with surprisingly brutal injuries, a fist sized whole though a 15 inch retina.

I was lucky to meet him, the shop had been open a year, he was planning on closing it down and working out of home.
he got few walk in customers,
the few that did seemed unsettled by his casual disemboweling of their pristine objects of beauty
atop of a mound of incomplete repairs, crowded by ashtrays - most of them overflowing, some for screws.

Those people would leave to take their computers to apple licensed stores,
who - in violation of licensing agreements, but in obedience with the imperative of profit -
sent the work to charlie. He charged the same price either way.

If a macbook is atomic, charlie is a quarks man, I watched for about ten minutes until he kicked me out,
as he scrounged chips from the racks of donor laptops,
desoldering and re-soldering tiny components into the open heart of my machine.
The only explanations he gave of the undertaking were when he pointed a chip on the logic board and said 'sound',
then lifted the board to eye level, held at two diagonal corners in his finger tips, and slowly spun the board through a full rotation, then made eye contact for the one and only time and said 'keyboard'.

When I came back the shop was shut. For about a week no-one answered the phone.
Then I got a message from a woman on my phone "your computer's ready".
I dropped by charlie's, I wanted to speak with him a moment, to emote my awe and gratitude,
he wasn't interested, he didn't look up.
the woman, standing in one of the bare-floored stepping stones took my money, don't remember how much, but less than a hundred.

it worked and still does.
I thought of these fighters as well. Governments don't buy these because they don't want a 9/10 fighter. They'd rather buy a decades old 10/10 fighter even though they'll never need (and probably can't pay for) that extra 1/10.
What if it's such advanced protocol layering and encryption that those alien signals appear to us to be "cosmic noise"? Surely an advanced civilization would have advanced communication capabilities we haven't even considered.
This is possible but extremely unlikely, hence an unscientific assumption. You always assume the likely. That is is more likely that you are in the middle.
You could argue that ONE of the steps to intelligent life is unlikely, incredible more unlikely as we assume. But the questions remains: Why are they not here? I am afraid we may not like the answer, whatever it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

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I don't see it in the figures. Perhaps you can tell me which category to look at? I've skimmed through the categories, and I mostly see flat spending in the $0-20k regime, increasing thereafter.

What you are describing hardly seems like a prevalent phenomenon.
"Understand that PCs were end-user fixable and upgradeable by accident."

I think if that were the case, IBM would not have released such complete documentation with the PC, XT, and AT. They could've just as well kept it to themselves, like they started to do with the MCA-based systems (PS/2).
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Nice. But does it handle extended jumps?

I know this is a problem for at least the Byteplay module.
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Another reason is that unless they want to communicate with other species, they'd use only the minimal signal strength that is required for the signal to reach its destination, not a signal strength that is several orders of magnitude higher.

That and our limited brain capacity, which prevents us from recognizing and/or understanding a message from an advanced alien civilization.
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The Taliban allegedly destroyed poppy fields.

The Taliban also destroyed Buddhist monuments.

You're right. People do not fit into boxes of good and evil.
Yeah just check out that picture of the clearly WW2 era all glass cockpit.

It has a freaking digital attitude indicator!
Which sort of begs the question: why the hell are we over there, now?

Originally, I guess we went to hunt OBL and punish the Taliban, but then there was the whole oil question (they have it, we want it, etc.).

But we failed to stop the Taliban (Mission Definitely Not Completed), which just shows we failed to learn anything from the Russians and/or the British.

So, why are we there now? Anyone? Bueller?

Sure, we can burn billions of dollars per year doing whatever the hell it is we're doing over there now, but, as history shows, it won't really change anything.

Freedom and democracy is a great thing, but if they're not interested in it at all, then maybe we should just stop trying to cram it down their throats.
I would never do that.
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Or they can only communicate through carefully modulated gastric emissions. Then discovered fire.

https://youtu.be/Do-wDPoC6GM?t=2m3s
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It is really old part in Persian culture. Russian observers reported that in 19th century when Central Asia became part of the Russian Empire (e.g. http://rus-turk.livejournal.com/80321.html)

On other hand, they didn't reported it be a rape, more like corruption of young boys.
Yeah, but it's more about macros semantics rathen than syntax in general sense.
Such as spread spectrum techniques

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum
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Its important to note the air force number is something like unit budget divided by number of hours flown divided by number of planes, so its fairly realistic, but the specifically named manufacturer provided cost estimate is something like gas and oil and scheduled maint assuming nothing ever breaks and there's no enemy action and things wear out according to the blueprints.

Also it costs the same to feed a pilot of any aircraft, ditto ATC and commo guys and all the rear echelon folks, although none of those costs were included in the mfgrs estimate.

No matter how badly the numbers are fudged its probably still one order of magnitude cheaper, perhaps a little more.
This is actually important to note.
Isn't ESET (NOD32) Czech too? They are pretty decent and I quite like their "gets out of your way" UX.
Still a long way to go then by looks of things (great top comment on that page also) ~ very interesting link, thank you!
With iOS9 notes become quite fun.
Not so much steganography, but spread spectrum communications does achieve the effect you are looking for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum
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Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10251470
I was about the make the same comment. There are plenty of other tech centers around the world, although SF is one of the better ones. Berlin and London are also pretty good and vibrant. You may also try to look at the 2nd tier tech cities in Spanish speaking countries such as Barcelona may be another option.
Sadly, there is no court high enough to haul the sons-a-bitches up in front of to face the justice they so richly deserve.
Here's another Python 3 compatible implementation:
https://github.com/cdjc/goto
Shortcuts are good but not good enough, though. They're a single dimensional layer on top of what is, in the whole Creative Suite, a workflow that has elements of hierarchy, repetition, feature identification, conditional selection, and many fine-grained adjustments on multiple dimensions. A well designed command grammar can map to all of these usage patterns much better than the flat superposition of shortcuts. And btw the command line and the point/click pattern are not mutually exclusive.

Adobe of course was intimately involved at the very birth of the GUI, so I'm not expecting it to change its culture anytime soon, but that's probably a lost opportunity. Its products are some of the most complex around and would benefit the most.
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Don't even have to be encrypted. Just compressing the data makes it hard to separate from noise.

Turbo Codes and LDPCs used to transmit data over noisy channels (like NASA uses in deep space satellite communications or UMTS and LTE networks) look just like noise. I don't think Seti or astronomers have ever tried to analyze noise for some alien codec that might be transmitting.
> Eventually we narrowed the focus to two well-thought out search terms to keep things manageable: "Pope Francis" and "Comet ISON".

Yes because if I come from the future, I want to discuss the Pope and some random comet.
DAFSA is much smaller and faster, but you can't insert new items in DAFSA once it is created, and you can't attach arbitrary values to keys.
I guess the alternatives you use depend on the country or region you are in. In France, I see everyone use Telegram instead of Skype.
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That might be true if you only consider technologically facilitated means of communication, otherwise simple direct speech probably still makes up the largest part of it, just like it did some centuries ago.

Though, strangely enough, only when you count it from the performative side. That is I bet overall more words are spoken each day than written down (or otherwise technically transmitted). On the receiving end, ie. hearing/reading, due to the "broadcast" nature of newspaper, radio, TV and the internet, maybe more communication is technologically facilitated than not. That is more words are read or listened to than heard directly from another person. I wonder if and when that happened.
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I got a place after my state school simply advised me not to bother applying. Independent schools don't give such misguided advice.

33% of Cambridge students (today) come from the 7% independent sector, with privilege evident at every level: independent candidates far more likely to apply, independent candidates still more likely to be offered a place upon application.

I don't have the data about the results but I suspect this trend reverses.
This is how our French AZERTY layout is behaving. Funny!
Good idea.
Although, even bicycles (at least those designed for racing) are starting to become more and more proprietary. Try mixing and matching Shimano and Campagnolo shifters and derailleurs or using a seatpost from an aerodynamic frame in another one.
Really? You really think Embraer would go to Vice for its PR?
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I like this article. I started with React last month, and navigating through the jungle of related technologies (Flux, Redux, Webpack, JSX, Typescript,...) is a real challenge. Most examples use one or several of these, which clouds the understanding. I like it how the author brings it back to basics.
The game doesn't "work" on microsoft edge but the brower doesnt recognize the Stanford links[0] , it is not possible to copy them by right clicking. Going directly to the page by copy/pasting the url doesn't even load the website. IE doesn't seem to understand the url as well.

The only brower I've tried that manages to get a page is firefox[1]

[0]http://www.stanford.edu/%%30%30

[1]http://i.imgur.com/nEDgBrq.png
Yes the urban Islamic countries were very modernized. Yes women were educated. If you look to early Muslim culture you would see tolerance for non-Muslims in Jerusalem and other important areas that they conquered.

This new conservative form of Islamic State is a reaction to that modern movement. They have re-defined their scriptures and history to become who they are today. They break the Koran all the time (I had to read it twice in Graduate school). They really have twisted their scriptures and put more on traditions which they have mostly invented.

> I don't believe this is part of Afgan culture at all anyway

You have to be careful with blanket statements. Looks like people have found examples of this type of things and we can see it here in the United States as part of a sub-culture sadly as well as other cultures around the world.

Ethic part of it all is we should be protecting children.

P.S. This is Pediatric Cancer Awareness month. Children have been getting 4% of Federal Cancer Research Funding and American Cancer Society gives 1 penny for each dollar you donate to pediatric cancer. This is why there have been THREE new Chemotherapy drugs introduced in the last 20 years. Children don't always get a big helping hand.
"From 0 to 8-figure revenue in spite of flat UI design and email (gizmodo.com)" My coworkers are looking at me like I've lost it. Oh my...
While this plane oviously isn't WW2 era, the glass cockpit says nothing. There are plenty J3 cubs, planes WW2 pilots learned to fly on, still out there today... and many of them have glass cockpits w/ gps and all the goodies. Airframes last a logn time when taken care of, and swapping panels is trivial...
Occupation isn't the key, it is the willingness to inflict civilian casualties to demoralize the enemy to the point they can no longer fight.

We go out of our way to not harm civilians, the very same who likely are supporting the people we are trying to kill and this has the effect of extending the length of any war. There are some who claim inflicting civilian casualties only encourages the enemy but history has proven time and time again that simply is not true.
>If WP had initially been developed in Python, perl or anything not named PHP would it be the dominating force it is today?

Most of the solutions around at the time were perl, including Movable Type, which was the WordPress of the time. The only reason anyone went with WordPress was because the MT developers jacked the price up, and WordPress was free at the right place/time.
Seems photos are accessible with a new iOS9 flaw:
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/09/20/ios-9-access-photos-...

How can this be, if they are encrypted while the phone is locked?
All true, but you're mixing up the profiles. In the Gulf era, you'd first send in stealth to take out C&C, AAA and SAM sites and get started on parked air forces. Then you'd send the fighters and escorted bombers to own the airspace and finish destroying their air force. That was the first few days. Then you'd be clear to go in with ground forces, which needed plenty of CAS against all the old Russian tanks. Then you'd be in for as many years as your budget allowed of going door-to-door and cave-to-cave on foot with CAS against "insurgents".

The new profile is that last part, at least for our current problems. If we're going up against the Russians or Chinese, then we'll be back to F35's doing standoff at 100 miles.
What's different from a gps coordinate on, say, google maps?

I expected it to have multiple markers like "go here - then here - then there" etc. Personalised markers with direction that google couldn't provide would be quite nice.
On the other hand, computing Levenshtein distance is O(n^2), while the cosine approach is O(n).
Yes and the trillions of dollars wasted would not have produced any results had it not been for the military. Seriously we can all do without the military. Period. The quicker we can get rid of such a parasitic organization that has plagued humanity for thousands of years the better.
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It is actually even worse. The US had the bomber mafia. But at least they were focused on the idea of hitting high-value industrial targets with daylight raids. If this had been carried out it would have removed the industrial capability of Germany.

The British also had a bomber mafia. But they were obsessed with nighttime raids that just carpet bombed cities. These were safer for crews, but completely ineffective. They just destroyed cities and massacred civilians.
> ...there seems to be a problem for men not being allowed to see the face of potential mates; is this custom associated with Islam or not?

Well, that's a digression on to a different topic. There's no law in traditional Islamic jurisprudence that requires wearing a veil, only modest forms of dress, and in fact it was not a common practice in the earliest history of Islam. Veils for women were adopted in later Islamic ruling courts as a fashion copied from Byzantium, as Greek women had worn veils since ancient times. Of course if you ask people in Afghanistan why they wear veils they will invoke Islam, but historically that's not the whole story.

In case that's taken in a pejorative sense, as a Christian I have to accept that many of the practices in Christianity have accumulated through later history in the same way. That's just how tradition and culture work.
Looks very well argued, though I'm not exactly in a position to judge the accuracy of either claim.

Still, if Tim White has proposed new species based on very flimsy descriptions and then argues against much better documented species, that's... certainly interesting.
Please pardon my ignorance. I'm not a security expert.

Is there any reason this can't be fixed by just copying iOS in this regard ??? I guess the question I'm asking is, this bug is entirely fixable right ???

Not trying to diminish the seriousness of it. It sounds pretty horrible. Just saying that if Android's architecture will allow you to do something like iOS does, but it's simply unimplemented currently, that's one thing. It would be quite another thing if Android's architecture would NOT allow you to do something like iOS does. As I said... I'm not a security expert... but it SOUNDS like you can implement a fix that would mirror the protections provided in iOS ???

Is that true ???
Anyone remotely interested in this idea should check out Stanislaw Lem's His Master's Voice [1], which is an entire (short) novel about how and why an extraterrestrial message would be encrypted. It's worth mentioning how why turns out to be the most compelling question.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice_(novel)
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Alas, all the benefits you list are just possibilities, not the reality. "separation of content from style" was a big thing back when csszengarden.com was making rounds, but that all is long forgotten in the name of angularreactnodecrap. Accessibility? Give me a break, how many web sites do even work without JS enabled?
I am not sure about Android, but iOS has a great accessibility support.
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> The internet was still great ... until around the time we got Google.

Correlation but not necessarily causation.
So, they got kicked out because "some participants felt unsafe"? How is that different from that boy with the clock situation? Seems like the organizers really have no self awareness.
Hi Fi stereo sound is strongly out of cultural favor, tinny little speakers and 64K mp3 quality means you're conspicuously consuming smartphones, which is more important. However, component hi-fi stereo or 80s era home entertainment systems were a very modular thing in the past. From my wife's point of view its one octopus like appliance, but to mine it was a collection of amp, speakers, and legacy media players.