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> Don't wealthier Americans learn these skills at college?

Some learn while in college, but lots just buy a meal plan from the school or get takeout a lot (and/or "instant meals") and learn nothing about cooking.

> I'd watched my mum a fair amount growing up, and in the final few weeks before I left she showed me things like how to shallow fry chicken, or check it was cooked.

It seems to me lots of Americans don't get even this level of basics (and, with it, the confidence to actually be willing to try things in the kitchen) growing up, and that that's the problem.
Tim Cook’s Note to Apple Employees on the Anniversary of Jobs’ Death
It's a bit ironic since the "v6" literally stands for version 6. IPv4's 2.0 version would be IPv2, a step in the opposite direction.
> I've missed the part whre Windows was announced open source. Can you give me a link?

Sure:

http://blogs.msdn.com/windows/announcing-windows-10-open-sou...
It doesn't sound like you are making fair comparisons between Thinkpads and Macbooks. My 15" T550 is just .2 lbs heavier than a 15" Macbook Pro. The charger for my T550 is much lighter than the one I have for my Macbook Pro, so the overall weight might actually favor the Thinkpad. The 13" business-class ultrabooks that Lenovo sells are pretty close in weight to the 13" Macbook Pro and the Macbook Air.

It sounds like you are basing your opinion off of an old system or a current model that isn't even in the same class as a Macbook.
Wow Microsoft, do you even proofread? :P
I'd avoid anything with a speed written on the screen. I can't see an insurance company passing up the opportunity to screw you for going 5-over
What about a helicopter or small plane though? Both use the same airspace.
I wrestled all four years of High School. My point was to conflate it with Aikido in that some parts don't look practical or "only work if someone is working with you to make it work" when, in reality, they work. Although some are genuinely impractical. I would never go for a single leg sweep in a street fight, unless I managed to catch a poor kick, but most people don't try and kick that high. Or when their opponent isn't already on the ground.

Because I'm getting reply limited...

@atom-morgan

>Watch Division 1 wrestling and you see guys really going at it.

The difference there is it is a competition between two people trying to take each other down and pin. Aikido is not a competition between two people trying to take the other down - thus looks more demonstrative.

Demonstrative stuff looks fake and impractical, because it looks like a demonstration. :)
Some phones have native v6 but NATed (or even 464ed) v4, so the v4 traffic is going through a longer and slower path.
Excellent article. The one thing I disagree with is IDE's. I think that they actually present an overly complex interface that is daunting to the new user, not helpful. Ditching IDE's and switching to a text editor and CLI has made every aspect of programming easier for me to understand. As a new user, the price I paid to be able to click a button and run my program, was far greater than the price of learning how to run it from a CLI. I wish I had listened sooner to all the people telling me not to use IDE's.
> didn't you just criticize wrestling along the same lines?

No-one is marketing wrestling as a practical fighting style (though it is of course useful to incorporate ideas from it). That's the difference. Aikido proponents act like it's actually useful in general fighting.

It's not. It's useful when performing Aikido.
I'm two years into my bike commute. I ran into a woman on the street as she was not paying attention.
The problem is that if the MLS that covers your area didn't make a deal with Zillow, the overall stats don't really matter. Zillow will be useless for house shopping.
At that thickness I would assume that the RAM is soldered to the motherboard.
> In short, trust none of them

To amplify: I don't think it's any accident that the 2005 housing fiasco happened in this industry. Terrible pricing information (gaps + timeliness), as well as terrible conflicts of interest (buyers brokers are incentivitized to make the buyer pay as much as possible) make me wonder how much longer these dinosaurs are going to continue to operate the same way.
With the default IPv6 addressing scheme the last 64-bit are the MAC address of your Ethernet card, which makes tracking trivial.

Also, there is usually no NAT, meaning IP addresses are more likely to uniquely identify the user even without the MAC-based addressing.

But of course setting a cookie allows better tracking, and Tor defeats tracking anyway for those wishing to intentionally defeat it, so in practice it probably doesn't make much of a difference.
Listhub has its own problems -- specifically when MLS'es update data, Listhub has to ensure that all of the applications that use its data are updating their information as well. Listhub is also one HUGE xml file that is a pain in the ass to process. (We explored with a python based parser that chunked the file up into smaller listings and then imported that into Elasticsearch; but ultimately gave up and resorted into a C based parser that threw everything into MongoDB.
I'm on mobile and didn't watch the video, but a commercial airliner travels something like 500mph, 8 lbs of drone is pretty damaging at that speed. I know they take significant precautions against eg birds.
Breathing exercises are under appreciated by almost everyone. Breathing dictates everything that you do. Not learning how to control it is essentially crippling yourself through opportunity cost.
Hackathon teams get two days to tackle Toronto traffic
You're overestimating the loss of fungibility. When someone decides to stop rewarding a polluter, they'll broadcast that fact to the public. They can limit that to future rewards rather than past rewards. It would be rare for money you hold to suddenly become worthless. I agree that no one wants that, which is why I don't think large swathes of society would do something they don't want. It could happen, though.

This isn't about making a choice for the greater good. Choosing a currency that lets you decide who to reward gives you power. People like power. They will grab it.
Unfortunately, some of these so called Shariah-compliant transactions are not really. There is heavy debate around them, and as they say, the devil is in the detail.

For instance, my biggest issue with the scheme you mentioned is that, why would a third party come and buy the property and resell it back to you if they did not have an incentive (i.e. they have a buyer already lined up)? And can the contract be conditional that you have to agree that they sell it to you after they buy it? How is the profit rate set? Etc.

There are other schemes which seem permissible (e.g. a group of people agree to buy a house, then they find a renter and split up the rent between them. This way, the risk is spread across everyone, not just the one who owes the loan. The renter can then decide to buy shares of the house along the way). Of course, there need to be scholars who review this since there are small things that can render the agreement non-Shariah compliant.
That's valid, as that's seen as manipulating the hand. For example, to defend a rear choke attempt, people will grab the meat of the hand. Grabbing an individual finger would not be okay. However, if you're going for another kind of lock, and the only control you have is the four fingers (no thumb, not applying pressure at base of hand), you're probably not going to succeed.
Ironically, when I went to PG in Sunnyvale, it seemed like a lot of the people there-probably more than half at any given time-worked in tech.
In most places there's no real estate licensing law against the fee structure in question as long as they registered as a brokerage [0]. As an agent you can discount your fee as much as you want. At Open Listings we're actually operating a very similar deep discount model in California -- you find the home, make an offer on our site [1], then we have a digitally-enhanced agent team for advice, negotiation, and managing the close. The premise is that all of these great listing apps make house hunting (most of the work) accessible to non-Realtors but there's still some useful expertise we can provide in closing the deal, representing our buyer's interests, and making sure all the paperwork is in order.

Update: added sources

[0]: http://www.justice.gov/atr/rebates-make-buying-home-less-exp...
[1]: https://www.openlistings.com/offers/new
Actually the vast majority of their listings come from direct mls. I'm not sure if this includes the Houston mls.
Can you use the old dock with the Surface Pro 4?
I'm pretty sure new cars are storing this information anyway.
Native modules for Node.js for example.
I had the same problem this summer.

I was working with an agent and I told him I saw several houses I wanted to look at on Zillow. Sent him the list and all but one was sold. He said the listings were in some cases as much as 6 months old.

After that, he just plugged me into the MLS listings directly and then every time a new house would show up, I'd know about it and could email him if I wanted to see it or not.

I totally agree about not trusting 3rd party apps. MLS, unfortunately is the only reliable source I know of.
Yeah I'd also be surprised if many programmers weren't climbers as well. Those two activities are basically my favorite two things to do, and I believe they complement each other very well. Much like programming, it gets harder the better you get at it.
Not looking forward to having to support geolocation under IPv6.
It may cause future problems, but things like Visual Basic with the graphical interface are very easy for a child to understand (or at least me). As the artifacts that you are interacting with in the GUI are in the programming environment.
That's not necessarily true; If it can generate multiple outputs for the same input, it could mean that the derivation function exposes something about the secret in the degree or nature of the variation.
Introducing AWS SBS: Simple Beer Service
But imagine if your years of wrestling had no competitions, and no live wrestling during practices. Just four years of technique. That's the point myself and atom-morgan are making.
Depending how long you ride for and how frequently, and if it's just for backup purposes, you could potentially use the Spy Gear Panosphere with a large MicroSD card.

http://www.amazon.com/Spy-Gear-Panosphere-360-Degree-Cam/dp/...

I have two of them and while the native recording is very fish-eye, the software that comes with the unit functions fine in focusing on a specific point.

With a 32 GB card and full charge, I think I've gotten about 45 minutes of recording. Might not be good for daily use, but for recreational outings it might be usable with some customization (e.g. super glue a mount to it). I've got one mounted on a swivel clip from a clip-on guitar tuner that broke and it's been a neat tool.

Edit: Example footage of using the camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBpEGw3tTZ8
I Reinstalled Again
I meet an increasingly large number who use Windows now. They're often people who used to use Mac Pros and switched to PC towers when that fell behind in price/performance.

The new Mac Pro is very expensive compared to what you can assemble in a PC tower, and the tower gives you a lot more flexibility.

As others have said, there's plenty of video editing software for PCs. The main one that's missing is Apple's Final Cut Pro (which Apple bought from Macromedia, though it's changed a lot since then).

See http://ppbm7.com/index.php/tweakers-page/87-what-pc-to-use/9...
That's how I read it as well.
No, the fact that the US is a democracy just makes it legal. That still doesn't make it right.

Right now in the US almost all the income taxes are paid by 20% or so of the population. People who advocate a bigger, more expensive government are almost always planning to do it with someone else's money.
Otoh, are the very best agents going to work for rf and make less money? Redfin looks like modern KW to me. Most great agents don't want to undersell their own industry. And while there are many markets where a mediocre agent will do, I wouldn't take that chance in sf, la, Nyc, Miami, etc
You're missing the point. XP testing isn't an assurance activity.

XP "unit testing" isn't what's called "unit testing" in the software engineering literature, and it isn't designed to reduce bugs; it's an executable functional spec, and the reason you write the tests first is so that you don't end up designing some monstrosity of an interface whose clumsiness becomes contagious to everything that calls it. "Mock objects" are a particular way of writing those tests in which your testing stub objects actively validate that they're being invoked the way you expect, rather than just passively simulating the subsystem being stubbed out.

Orange Book testing, by contrast, is aimed at reducing bugs.

XP-style test-first unit testing is not the best way to develop all software, but it works pretty well for some things. Similarly for pair programming: it can help a lot with intra-team communication, code reviewing, and not getting stuck, but I'm pretty sure there are projects where working alone and doing the code review later is a better practice.

Yes, Cleanroom has a lot in common with XP.

I think that a lot of the "competitors in Agile" actually suffer from the same disease I'm blasting here: they try to solve technical problems with management practices, and consequently you have a lot of Scrum teams with really shitty code who can't make much progress because they're beginning programmers, or experienced programmers who have fallen into bad practices.
I agree that "unprepared for a fight with a skilled opponent" is true for many Aikidoka (perhaps they are more self-aware of their limitations than students of other arts?), but it's also true of Cat Zingano ;)
>Getting spied upon by GCHQ, the EU branch of the NSA, or by the mothership itself, makes little difference in practice.

It makes a difference depending on whether you're OK to be spied upon by a foreign power -- who might damage, take advantage and exploit your country.

Would Americans be OK to be spied by foreign powers while in the US?

And if yes, would the answer still be yes if the US wasn't the top dog, and the other country was, and could hurt them whenever they wanted?
Information asymmetry. How do I know who will be a polluter, a murderer, an immoral person, or a criminal in the future. You're creating friction rather than reducing inefficiency.

I'm not going to do some pyschoanalytical research on the guy who is making my sandwich at subway as well as dig around for the company's (probably bad and definitely unavailable) track record of food wastage and then decide whether or not to pay him and the company for my sandwich.

Also, the current monetary system already has the idea of "decay" built in due to the Fed targeting a 2% rate of inflation every year.

Also, not being able to trade "prefs" strikes me as a silly idea; one that you can't enforce and that a black market would form around relatively quickly.
The new Vaios? Vaio recently announced their newest offerings and they look, to me, like they're still in that high-end business offerings bracket.
Sony recently released the Vaio Z Canvas (who comes up with these names???) which you can demo/pre-order in the Microsoft Store. I tried to use it, but I believe the keyboard was dead (I guess since it fully detaches from the display and was not being actively charged). It also seems nearly impossible to use on your lap.
Bluetooth nice suck and have lag issues. It may be a subjective feeling but I hate blue tooth mice
By definition of how Windows Server is still licensed, yes, you will. Anyone using any resource hosted on a Windows Server system (with exception to public websites) needs a CAL.
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Nah, they were just trying to buy the domain for a fair price and not get gouged based on who they are. I totally understand and blame domainers for poisoning the well.
Would I use them to sell? Maybe. Would I use them to buy? Most definitely. As mentioned further down in this thread, buyer's agents have every incentive for the buyer to pay as high a price as possible (due to RE commission structure). I want someone earning a fee on my transaction because they got me the best price (as either buyer or seller).

Price of a service can be a form of signaling, but paying more for something does in no way mean you're getting better served.
I'm hoping to find something editable. If the document is complex, with multimedia, are the .docx exports reasonably functional? Some conversions to .docx and some multimedia content in that format can be unstable.
Now you're making me want to implement this with the js-csp library to show it off.

But you're exactly right. Redux (imho the best "flux" implementation out there, quotes because its only partly flux) is not against async abstractions like channels or observables. It just eschews requiring them as the backbone for communication with the UI, and favors a simple naive state change notification. But in action creators, if you need to do complex work, you should absolutely use channels or observables to synchronize stuff, and then dispatch simple actions to make state changes.

I've found it really, really nice to constrain async abstractions into a single place. It makes the rest of the code just normal synchronous stuff (i.e. all the UI code, about 70% of our app), and you can do record/reply simply by just replaying actions.
Many of the nice things we love about Swift are already in C++
Sure, but typically offers have 3 day expirations so you'll still have a window to go see the home and get an offer in if you like it. That said, the advice stands even if you're checking more than once a day -- only look at the new stuff (sort by listing date), and don't stress :).
well, people in tech also have the money (or company benefits) to afford the gym membership
Nespresso is one that immediately comes to mind as it's the most recent I've encountered besides my bank. I went to order some pods for my mum as a gift only to discover that their password restrictions were not only draconian but stupid. The moment a site prohibits punctuation (especially single quotes as they did) is the moment I suspect they're storing passwords in plain text.

It's not directly related, but I'm reminded of this Hall of Shame I stumbled upon from some HN comment a few weeks ago: http://plaintextoffenders.com/
>"make me wonder how much longer these dinosaurs are going to continue to operate the same way."

As long as the regulations are in place that protect them from market competition and innovation.
No, IPv4 + 2.0 = IPv6.

Easy math.
An alternative possibility is that the prices are getting cheap enough to be cost effective for problems which have always existed; fraudulent claims, and ambiguity when settling insurance claims.
And by Microsoft TV, you mean XBox One?
You should use better examples. Just parsing text that says "I'm so sad", or "I'm happy!" isn't noteworthy.
It also makes sense today. Look at how the rich are becoming richer, and the poor are becoming poorer. Practices such as interest are making the issue worse and worse. This is not sustainable.

A big point of banning interest is that one can just sit on his money, while making more money; without really incurring any risk. One can get wealth from other means, which contribute to the society, while incurring risk on the money owners part. This is key.
Since we're already OT, I'll add that she was actually using something more like a harmonizer than a vocoder[0].

A vocoder takes the formants from a singer/speaker and applies them to a carrier signal which provides the pitch. So you could for example use a piano as the carrier signal, resulting in a sound that is still very recognizably piano-like but "sings" whatever you do, ignoring the pitch of your voice.

A harmonizer is really one or more pitch shifters that take the original singing and move the pitch up or down a certain number of steps while retaining (more or less) the timbre or texture of the voice. The altered pitch(es) can track the original or be fixed to certain notes. The altered pitches are mixed with the original signal to create harmonies. (AutoTune is in fact a pitch shifter married to pitch recognition algos that nudge the pitch back to where it should be.)

Some harmonizers let you use a MIDI keyboard to determine the pitches that will play. With this kind of setup it's often referred to as a voice synth: you can play chords on a keyboard that result in copies of your own voice re-pitched and played back simultaneously. This is basically what she used to create that song.

None of this (hopefully interesting) aside changes the gist of the original statement: Hide and Seek is a beautiful song, and Heap's voice is a perfect match for the instrument because of her range and tonal flexibility.

[0]http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=288785 (forum link because the original article 404s)
OK. I appreciate the response; I've had my own issues and thus jumped to a totally WTF response. Looking upon it as satire makes much more sense. :)
Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo, Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, LinkedIn, Ebay, Bing use HTTP. Which as I'm sure you are aware was created by a European, working at a European institute.

Unless by Internet Blackout you meant blocking NNTP and Gopher?
I wonder what the exact CPU models will be? Microsoft seems to be taking clues from Apple's guidebook and doesn't bother with stating the exact CPU model even in 'Tech specs'. Likely the Y-series of the latest 6-gen (Skylake) mobile i5's [1] and i7's [2]. They are not released nor announced yet, but the Surface Book is not exactly shipping, either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i5_micropro...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i7_micropro...
Maybe that's it for the freemium model? We tend to forget that before the web most software had to be paid for unless it was pirated or unpaid shareware. The advertising model has given us everything from the original Star Trek television series to Google, but maybe this is the downturn of that model.
For me it largely depends on the cap. The soft rim cap is really easy on the fingers, while the old IBM and default Lenovo caps only seem to exist to generate callus.
I think I agree with at least some parts of that description. (I have no idea who Judith Curry is). However, it is important to note that the phrase 'wicked' problem refers policy problems rather than science problems. And it is useful to disambiguate between climate science and climate (change) policy. Sure, climate science is hard, but not much more so than say, geology or microbiology.

Climate change policy is on the other hand wickedly difficult (despite climate change itself being well-established), because there are so many practical uncertainties and so many different stakeholders, in which you could reasonably include unborn people and/or nonhuman ecosystems, which have a hard time lobbying for themselves. However, much like poverty (which is a hard policy problem, for much the same reasons), just acting like it doesn't exist, or denying the scientific evidence, is sure not to help.
Anything that reduces the need for lawyers is good with me!
As far as I know (and searching around seems to confirm this) Sony is out of the laptop business and just produces tablets. I should've phrased myself a little better, "what laptops are Vaio owners switching to".
If you have Progressive Snapshot or a similar device, that's storing driving data, but which cars do so by themselves?
That the Russians have been doing it for years and it's been so slow to catch on suggests the opposite, for the same reason that the increasing spread of autonomous cars is not a sign of the decay & fall of the West but its continued technological vitality.
Can you explain? If I know that I will recover less than expected if a counterparty defaults, I'm going to diversify my counterparties. That reduces moral hazard.