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> Installing pandoc is a pain, though.

I'm genuinely curious about this statement. I thought you must be using Windows, but the latter part of your comment contradicts that.
I find this tendency pretty counter-productive to learning anything at all.

More specifically, I think it's symptomatic of a tendency towards performative dismissal -- the GP's comment is intended to demonstrate the superiority of their knowledge to that of the author, and simultaneously insult the author via dismissal of their work. It's purely a social display, as evidenced by their need to comment on having stopped reading (completely irrelevant to e.g. alerting people to the inaccuracy of a fact essentially tangential to the subject of the piece).
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North Korea - 1948 to present day

Of course anyone can go down the path of "well that wasn't real communism" and that goes for any ideology where humans are involved. You won't achieve the utopian ideal put forth in a book. And that's really part of the failure, not the reason to explain it away.

The fact is some people work harder than others, are more ambitious than others and sacrifice more. And the reason people appreciate a capitalistic society is not only can those types of people get rewarded, those same people motivate others to aspire. And we also know that it's easy to deflate the ambitions of people when they feel like the extra work won't get them any further.

Which in my view is why these communist countries develop the fantastic religion around their leaders and at the same time take on the violent means to force their people into working harder. Respect through fear, intimidation and in the case of NK a fantasy of motherly love by the dear leader. Yes I said motherly that wasn't a mistake.

But we're talking about countries here, when if you want to talk about communism from a smaller scale, I'm sure I'd have little to argue with, other than that you don't exactly see a lot of what I would call technical progress coming out of communities, at least none I've ever heard of.
That's roughly first year school teacher income level, or parish priest stipend level. I think Tarn was a grad student before he got his doctorate, and $2500 would not be a pay cut; assuming that grad students loved their field at least once upon a time.

Per capita median personal income in the USA is right around that level, so 50% of the population earns less, while being statistically unlikely to love their job. If half the country hates their lower paying job, they have little to complain about in a relative sense.
Here you go: http://investor.fb.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1326801-14-47&...

The claim is made at about 95% of the way through that document.
Welcome to the spammer vs machine learning arms race, Wikipedia. :-)

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> As far as the cultural impact of the companies themselves, I think it's been modest at best.

Parents staring at their phones instead of paying attention to kids.

Social networks and their impacts on relationships. Movies these days are unrealistic these days because so much important dialogue happens via WhatsApp, text messages and Facebook Messenger, etc.

Guess who will not be driving their own vehicles in 10 or 20 years? Consumers.
> - perl6 is the first mainstream(ish) dynamic language to not suffer from a GIL of some kind.

GILs are features of implementations, not languages; Ruby has implementations (most notably JRuby) without a GIL. And Clojure doesn't have a GIL, and seems to be approaching mainstream.

And Perl 6 isn't mainstream yet (it hopes to be, but then so do most languages.) And there's plenty of not-currently-mainstream dynamic languages without GILs in their primary implementations; many in the Lisp/Scheme family.
That scene? The whole thing is fantasy, not hard sci-fi.
There's a great project blitzortung.org that I think uses that technology to create a real time map of lightnings.
That's more or less the definition of an Atoll, but nothing says something that used to be an Atoll needs to stay above water.
Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc tried this in China and failed. It inconvenienced the people, but it's not going to cause a popular uprising. In the west, you forget that guns and the threat of raw violence by the government are a very real deterrent

Kazakhstan isn't going to produce a Baidu, but I'm sure Yandex and VK would be happy to fill a void and play along with their rules. And in the end, people just have less access to unfiltered news about the outside world. It's a losing plan.
> The people of Kazakhstan can achieve the same outcome.

Highly unlikely.
From Wikipedia: In April 2015, Nazarbayev was re-elected with almost 98% of the vote.

That kind of tells the whole story - people are "behind" this (or rather no-one dares contradict the authorities). That country is basically owned by the Family and resistance is pretty much futile.
If it's only about surpassing people with zero knowledge in the field, I'd say it's probably closer to 10 hours with a good teacher. But that's if they're consecutive.
Star rating is the worst metric I have ever seen
One of the things that really bothers me about the Theranos coverage is how the media is using images of Ms. Holmes. Before the controversy started, all of the pictures of her were extremely flattering and now the pictures are all extremely unflattering.
Huh, I didn't know that, thanks. But still, the DF that most people recognize as DF is not an ASCII/text game, even though it looks kinda like it.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.

For a comparison, Gnomoria (http://gnomoria.com), which is an unapologetic DF clone but with basic graphics and first-party modding support, sells for $8 a pop on Steam and has 2,000 reviews despite still being in "Early Access" status.
Could kazakhstan take "national security cert" traffic, crack it and then apply a different, globally trusted cert? Couldnt they also strip the public-key-pins header from incoming traffic?
Android only on the sense that the ability to provisions two device keys with one account is Android only.

OWS is hiring iOS devs to implement more pieces of this.
> If you take the article with a bit of salt and step up the generalization ladder, the point is that skill expertise vs time grows exponentially

I thought about saying something like this, but after some reflection I don't think it's true. The shape of skill vs time curves is not always exponential.

For instance, take Argentine Tango. It took me 9 months of consistent 10 hours / week practice to even reach a point where I felt comfortable going to the average public social tango event. In fact, in tango it's pretty widely recognized that the learning curve shape is very different for leaders and followers. For followers it typically looks like [1]. But for leaders it's more like [2]. (Time on the x axis, skill on the y axis.) I really think that in general it's probably more like a "multi-hump curve" [3] in the general case. I had a situation recently where I took one lesson with a tango teacher and in one hour he totally revolutionized my dancing. And this isn't me talking, people I dance with regularly said that.

So I don't think the rate of progress at a new activity is always exponential or even fastest at the beginning.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Exponent...

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Logistic...

[3] http://mightybyte.net/learning-curve.png
The article mentions that they've been on iOS for almost eight years, so they must have been in the App Store at the very start. I imagine that helps to build a relationship.

That also makes their advice on this point rather difficult to apply. It's sort of like this marketing advice:

"It can be really helpful if the New York Times writes a two-pager about you. You should call up your contact on the editorial team in advance and tell them about what you're doing, so the story will be ready on launch day."
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Let's not forget when they bossed around some Italian secret services, police and administration underlings to arrest and deport the wife and child of a Kazakh dissident: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0d35c07c-e57f-11e2-ad1a-00144feabd...
Shame that its Android only. Was really looking forward to giving this a try!
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I doubt that they've all passed away. My great uncle was a WWII B17 navigator, and he's still alive (and quite active).
Are there many women in chaebols in non-secretarial positions?
Until next week when GFWoKazhakhstan blocks all traffic using the Netflix protocol. Unless the traffic is steganographically hidden, uncontrollable traffic will be simply killed.
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> Signal Desktop is a Chrome app which links with your [Android] phone,[...]

Unless your "adversary" is not the NSA, I wonder what's the point of encrypting your communications when those coms are taking place on technologies (iOS, Android, Chrome) from companies that are members of the Prism program.
Which again helps nobody, because forks of Chromium will inevitably lag on security fixes.
Can't spammers also use machine learning, or maybe I misunderstood something.
As often the case with articles about technology in mass media, some details are off.

I'm not sure what was found to be the cause of the rocket failure with previous Antares launch. What I am sure about is that NK-33 was never ever used in Soviet space program. And when it actually was used - two years ago - in Russian space program on Soyuz 2-1v rocket - it worked as intended.
It missed a G on my test image.

A very interesting project nonetheless.
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I think it's indicative of the value of the property that just the name alone is worth 300K. If they were interested in commercializing the game I suspect they would be able to make a lot more.
Obviously?
When you replace Certificate with Letter we understand how dedicated our governments are to our well being.
Don't forget Flooz
How could this have slipped through testing? Did their new version result in substantial enough code changes that the tests needed to be reimplemented but weren't? Of course, testing that kind of software/hardware interaction seems difficult.
Except that in PHP type declaration mismatches are actually errors... They aren't just "documentation" to be used by static analyzers.
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This is actually a huge improvement over the $5 wrench they used to use to decrypt personal communications.
No amount of testimonials will change my mind about this being a terrible idea...at least not in that format (1 driver, x observers). I'd be willing to try, 1 driver, 1 projector, X people with laptops. Break down project into tasks, allow observers to implement tasks as driver works on task, share code from/into project. That makes more sense.
Your characterization of the observer effect begs the question.
Agree but thats also because the we don't have the mental tools to deal with many of the consequences of this realization. Punishment, guilt, crime just to name a few.

Over time we will find new ways to explain it so that it makes sense. But my guess is that it will be aided mostly be technology.
So you're just doing UA + IP? Seems like that would be plenty for your use case.
It is a little more complicated than that. If you start doing MITM on https connections where pinning is involved, typically those sites / apps will just stop working as they don't trust the CA for the cert that is injected during the MITM. So yes it 'protects' you, but it does so by not letting you access that page / app. Chrome (and I'm sure most other browsers / apps) can have their pins overriden by user installed root CA's (which is what they are pressuring people to do in this scenario).

You can read more about how Google does certificate pinning here: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html
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And BlackBerry tried in Pakistan and "succeeded" - at least in delaying the shutdown of its servers by another month.

It's easier to do it in countries where "freedom" was the status quo and then the government decides to do something like that. China isn't exactly a free country to begin with, and the Great Firewall was older than Google in China.
You should have gone jogging before submitting this to HN.
I assumed that they would refuse to serve traffic that they couldn't decrypt with this certificate.
Another possible conclusion: fix this several years from now, the first time it causes a test failure and still probably before it causes any production problems.
All good with the Android, but disappointed this is Chrome. You would think they would have a FF plugin by now!
I think anyone with small-ish children can easily confirm this.
> Wow. I'd definitely play it with that UI.

You may want to take a look at Gnomoria (http://gnomoria.com), which is basically "DF clone with sensible voxel graphics". For example: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/45067176442464...

It's not a scriptable interface, but it is much saner than DF's, with a limited set of consistent hotkeys/toolbars/panels.
This is a Chrome app. I miss the days of native apps. :(
Nation that can't launch (human-carrying) rockets launches paperwork.

Potentially illegal violation of international law paperwork, at that.
But the assumption here is there are many many things to learn. What you are saying is mastery of a skill builds off itself, of course that's true.

But learning something completely new is still going to have a MUCH higher return. And this is more true the MORE uncorrelated the things you are trying to learn.
Also note that the multi device support only supports multiple desktop clients and not multi-mobile. If you have multiple phones or a tablet you're out of luck.
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It runs on your desktop/laptop but to link up with your Signal identity on your phone, your phone has to be Android ("for now").
What I meant is that I expect a huge initial win, as this catches 80-90% of spammy edits, until the spammers figure out how to get around it. Hopefully the constant stream of human-created training data (in the form of reverted or non-reverted edits) helps with this. But undoubtedly there will need to be some continual feature engineering to stay ahead.
> The parent seems to be talking about ground AA gun crews using tracers

Stopped putting tracers into fighter craft ammunition belts or magazines.

> The parent seems to be talking about ground AA gun crews using tracers -- presumably a lot of these would be firing at bombers?

I'm not aware of tracer ammo even existing for the big flak guns. This material implies there wasn't any.

http://www.lonesentry.com/manuals/88mm-antiaircraft-gun/ammu...
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Please tell me RET is a backronym for return like you'd hit when you've finished a line in a REPL ;)
I think that explanation would be new edge cases for the risk of fullscreen sites impersonating the desktop?

When I worked on bugs I would always be careful to note that kind of reason even if I was a little too terse for the users.. I'd hate to see the motivated new hire try to improve ease of use by examining closed bugs like this one.
Also, for those that aren't in on the joke:

In Dwarf Fortress lingo, "Fun" is a euphemism for losing. As in, Dwarf Fortress is a lot of Fun.
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That's remarkably close but NZ edges it. I make it about:
Wales: 250s/km
NZ: 330s/km
It is already par for the course in the enterprise world (both public and private sector), for difficult to deny political/economic reasons.
Materialism explains the world however. Flat earth model clearly doesn't and was obviously false even in antiquity.

What model does dualism provide and how can I use it to make predictions about how consciousness is embodied in physical beings. Why is it useful to presuppose the existence of a complete separate substance to explain consciousness.

To be brief dualism is woo woo.

>I think everyone intuitively knows that consciousness can't come from material things, but we convince ourselves otherwise.

Ok, I'll make a sweeping unsupported statement too. Dualists have limited imagination and flawed understanding of the nature of information and computation as well as a penchant for magical thinking.
That's a fair clarification - although I think there's a world of cultural difference between what people would describe as "SV" and "Non-SV" tech (By the latter, I don't mean running a TwitterForCats startup out of, say, Ohio.)
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One big release a year? I have a hard time wrapping my head around why that would be a good idea.

Also, I'm not too impressed with the UI change. It looks like they sourced their graphic design from 2008.
Any plans to make a Firefox add-on?
fair enough, I guess I don't like the "x-ray specs" analogy. Their example is a disruptive edit[1] where a URL is replaced by LLAMAS GROW ON TREES

perhaps rather than say it gives editors "x-ray specs", it would be fair to say it gives editors caffeine :)

[1] - https://wikimediablog.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/diff_64221...
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Sorry to be dense... what is "BC"?
In this case "Chrome-only" means Windows, Mac, and Linux support.
Found it. The Milliken brothers [1], together with the architect Reginald Blomfield, designed the first standard pylon in Britain. Also see [2].

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/may/22/national...

[2] http://www.gorge.org/pylons/structure.shtml
Complex systems can have strange behaviour. I'm just looking at data.
Ah the beauracracy.
Heck, a very popular Java book (Android programming specifically) has examples of database queries using concatenation (and hence SQLi).
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I know that SV seems to have abandoned the idea of good unit economics, but the concept of asteroid mining seems to take that to a whole new level. The cost of developing autonomous asteroid mining equipment, finding asteroids suitable for mining, getting this equipment to the asteroid, operating it, maintaining it, and shipping the mined product back to earth must be in the billions of dollars, if not more. This article talks about moving an asteroid into lunar orbit to make this easier, but it seems to me that the amount of delta-v needed to do that would be staggering, not to mention that even if we had engines capable of generating that amount of thrust, we would still need to somehow get them out of the Earth's gravity well and to the asteroid in question. Plus, even if we could somehow do any of the above, is there any evidence that asteroids like the article's $50 billion platinum asteroid even exist? As far as I am aware, less than 10% of the asteroids in the asteroid belt are metallic in nature (most are composed of carbon and silicon), and the metallic asteroids we do know about are all iron and nickel based, not exactly high-value metals. I'm all for space exploration, both by governments and by private enterprises, but this whole thing seems completely far-fetched and impractical.
Can you elaborate on how this could replace proof-of-work in a blockchain context? Certainly I can use records of astronomical observations to prove a message was sent after a certain date, but the double-spend risk is mainly mitigated by the ability to prove that a message was sent before a certain date.
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I would think the poster child for startups are unicorns: Uber, AirBnB, Square, Tesla, etc. Google and Facebook are far too down the line to be considered the stereotypical SF or Palo Alto up-and-coming challenger.
Got to love healthy competition.
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That's the problem with "client-side encryption". It doesn't work because the provider also has the power to replace the code with no say from you.

And it's not very detectible because they do it all the time.