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You take the word 'line' too literally here, it just means a boundary.

Reality has very few lines.

Using an unnecessarily strict definition for line, you'll find there is almost nothing in the universe that is perfectly distinct:

There are no species, no genders, no living things, dead things, no discrete individuals, not even any discrete objects, no colors. Nothing is high, nothing is low, nothing is dark, nothing is bright; nothing is anything.

We can obviously draw a boundary between quadrupeds and bipeds -- we're doing it the second we use the words. Whether that boundary is absolute is not valuable.

The interesting question isn't "Can we argue for a continuum of awareness between insects and humans?" That part is easy.

The interesting part is, "Do we know enough about consciousness to describe a meaningful boundary between them?"
How does thing scale with user density? That's what I want to know. If everyone at a concert had one of these, would it still be useable? Unlicensed spectrum could already be crowded or noisy
> And of course, that's also wrong. The only way to guarantee that such a powerful tool isn't abused it and doesn't fall into the wrong hands is to make it impossible for such a tool to exist, not to refuse to create it.

And Apple has done that: the type of hack the FBI is asking for cannot work on newer iPhones.
Ah I missed the live stream. Anywhere I can watch a recording of the keynote?
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I was under the impression that Schemes generally compile down to continuation-passing-style, and hence in the case of something like Fibonacci one of the recursive calls would be performed as a tail call, whilst the other would become part of the continuation, e.g. something like:

function fib(n, k) {
if (n == 0) k(1);
if (n == 1) k(1);
fib(n-1, function(f_1) {
fib(n-2, function(f_2) {
k(f_1 + f_2);
});
});
}
It was mandatory at my school, as well. We covered basic orienteering, outdoor winter survival, emergency signalling, and avalanche safety.

If I remember right, it was a one- or two-day field trip we took during middle school. Everyone was excited when it was their class's turn to go. (But who doesn't get excited for a field trip?)

Not as comprehensive as what you'd learn in scouts or taking a professional survival class, but it was a good overview. I still remember a lot of it and find the material useful.

This was in South Lake Tahoe CA, so we were already in the mountains. :) Cost wouldn't have been any worse than any other field trip.
Ask HN: Is this recruitment tactic shady?
A couple of years ago I was about to become redundant and blanket uploaded my CV onto a number of job boards, including Monster.co.uk.

I quickly found a role by applying to a company directly and set my account on a number of CV sites (including Monster) to private. This is the current state of my profile. All other profiles I have across job sites have either been removed or disabled in this way.

Fast forward 2 years and I received an email today from a recruiter with the stock "your CV out of date, I am keen to talk to you" blurb. Usually this would go straight in the bin, I get about 10 of these a week so this isn't anything new.

This email however was part of a chain, and the recruiter had accidentally (I assume) forwarded me an email from a company called Logic Melon with a header saying:

You requested the details for <MY NAME> (from Monster). The C.V. should be attached as it was downloaded. Please find the details below.

Underneath this were details of my email address, mobile phone number, current location and date the profile was last updated.

What it looks like is that a recruiter has paid a third party service to retrieve my CV it scraped from Monster in 2014 and get my contact details. Contact details that shouldn't exist in the open.

I'm already fairly prejudiced about software recruitment firms from numerous run-ins with them in the past, so my natural response is to feel this is pretty shady behavior but should I be feeling so uncomfortable about this?

I understand that placing my personal details on a job board would have resulted in everyone and their mother being able to read and save it, but I didn't really think that my CV and personal contact details would have been archived and continued to be used by recruiters long after I disabled my account. I disabled my account as an indication that I was no longer looking for work, contacting me in this way is fairly blatantly ignoring this preference.
I'm not sure where you can justify inferring that extra information. From what you've described, the context simply doesn't exist outside of your mind.
In other words. This is how the actual IoT revolution (if one can call it that) looks like.
I had a bunch of shortcode issues too -- contacted support and they gave me some canned 'its an smpt gateway issue, we cant fix'. Checked online and found that that is incorrect, called support again and linked the support forum discussions and they escalated me to a tech who reset something -- I have since received shortcode texts.
Would you mind sharing a link to the app? I haven't seen (that I'm aware of) many apps using React Native.
> As the old Russian proverb goes: Арте́льный горшо́к гу́ще кипи́т, meaning the “an artel's pot boils denser.” The English equivalent is something along the lines of “many hands make light work.”

I'd translate it as "many hands lead to better result." Not easier to achieve, but better in quality.
Indeed! though the constraints that chaos imposes on predictability is a subtle question. See, e.g., ftp://mana.soest.hawaii.edu/pub/rlukas/LSASI/ENSO/Prediction/Predicability_a_Problem_2006.pdf
Here's the thing. Governmental credibility should not be a factor. Particularly in light of how things have and will continue to shift over time.

Clinton tried to push the Clippet chip through and failed. We can't just say thing got better and now we should help weaken crypto because bad guys and now the government has more credibility. Obviously, things swung back in the opposite direction.

So the only safe solution is to build strong crypto always.
Gnome 3 only allows whole integer steps in DPI scaling. This means that the options for me are a) too small at 1x or b) too big at 2x. I use a scale factor of 1.4x in KDE. I haven't tested on Cinnamon, so I don't know if it accepts non-integers for scaling.
Agreed, but that's almost a non-sequitur. The systemd developers are not the firmware developers. Additionally, while preferably we would have better firmware that couldn't be bricked in this way, we live in a world where this is often not the case, so the problem does need to be mitigated in some manner.
Well, technically they are moving to the right, but to left of centre from the far left. They used to be insufferable, I actually far prefered the independant in print.

They used to have this tiresome war reporter who would write these highly biased and inflammatory pieces which weren't news but propaganda. And the opinion pieces, ugh. I used to rotate papers (telegraph, indie and Guardian), I personally thought the Guardian was terrible at unbiasedly reporting the actual news.

As the Guardian has become the main left wing news due to the independant sucking on the web, I'm glad they've chilled out a bit.
All software acquired by Oracle. Well, not really all....but you know that many Oracle acquisitions are motivated or if the need to remove a competitor and keep their customers.
The disappearance of Brio Intelligence Designer (a.k.a. Brio Query) is a sad story. First merged into Hyperion, then diluted into bland Oracle products.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/brioquery-helps-simplify...

It had a visual query designer that was easy to use for mid to advanced power users without SQL knowledge, and didn't require the pre-join of tables as most self-service competitors do. So far I haven't seen anything as easy and powerful at the same time.
Wasn't me, but it's probably because iterative loops are believed to be easier to reason about. OTOH the recursive definition for the Fibonacci or factorial numbers seem easier, for one because they map to the literal explanation.
Given the clusterfuck between Hangouts and Messenger, and the painful process of getting Google Fi to work with shortcodes, I have little confidence in Google getting texting right. I want to be proved wrong, but I am not liking their track record here.
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>I suspect (because I have a similar challenge in our own ecommerce system) that the model underlying the representation of products has at least one additional layer of specificity, that's not directly revealed to the user. Consider that you're looking at Products, but what they're really manipulating are products as sourced from a particular supplier.

There's no doubt that's the case, but it also isn't that big a problem to solve (at least for amazon, your mileage may vary, possibly my commiserations depending on how good/bad your system is to work on).

I know this because of the "Does amazon ship to...?" plugin, which can iterate over every seller instance of a specific item and return it's eligibility for shipping to your country, along with an independent shipping price and item price. It can process two dozen instances in about a second or two via whatever API it uses.

Considering this is possible and frankly not all that difficult, I'm placing the blame for amazon not using a bit of JS-foo to run this form of processing server side (where it will be way faster) and deliver results to my browser asynchronously as they are finished squarely at the feet of amazons marketing department. This has the stink of "if we show it to them anyway, maybe they'll buy it and send it via a shipping service" all over it.
That is not impartial at all.. It's a bunch of people enjoying the schadenfraude.
Give them some way to prove that they sent you their work, and that it remains their property.

I've contemplated sharing some writing before, but I trust Kindle Direct Publishing far more than I trust nameless website with an email address and some nice sounding promises, even if I might make less money. Big publishers who might reject me still have a reputation to uphold, and won't turn around and take me stories, pay me nothing, then start publishing them with their own name on it.
ah, thanks, that's fascinating.

"It also learns every time you actively report to the community on sky conditions and hazards, translating this information into weather predictions."

does sunshine actively run a numerical weather prediction model like WRF?

it'd be great to assimilate all these extra sensors into the NWP centre's models, but i imagine things like cal/val and WMO agreements to share data might make things difficult for commercial companies?
You're asking people in America where politicians aren't held accountable even if they poison thousands of children and take hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbyist money? will you get an answer from the country where Generals are assured a job in the private sector after they've done their best to allocate juicy contracts to their corporate handlers and made plan to start wars where the flow of money is more important than strategic wins? Personally I don't think you will get any good answer from the land of the greed and home of the hate/jailed.
It seems to me that the real issue is that "rm -rf" should by default not recurse into mounted filesystems, but should at most try to unmount them.

In addition to clearing EFI variables, the current behavior will also attempt to clear any mounted removable drives and any mounted network drives, which is usually even more harmful than messing with EFI.

Of course that would be a backwards incompatible change, although I don't think many scripts rely on this behavior.
Interesting. I guess it's not really a good 1-1 comparison if Vive and Rift have such widely different tracking systems.

I'd guess that Rift is less expensive to the end consumer thanks to Facebook subsidizing, and HTC/Valve waited to price their VR device higher so they could position their device as the 'expensive high end' gaming VR device. Both Rift and Vive are probably going to be sold at a loss for at least few years just so they can get the market segment to boom, so they can manufacture at a large enough scale to profit.
I've got a Gotenna and it's basically works as advertized and I'm pretty happy with it.

http://www.gotenna.com/
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Nice karma you have there.
Something tells me it wasn't related to Hacker News.
Most of the Greek would come with the Latins. But are you sure Anglo-Saxon doesn't include the Norse already? The name Angeln comes from a region in Germany near the border of Denmark.
I think we should judge it by its budget. The same thing we admire on SpaceX and other companies.

Wiki says total cost was $4.2 billion over its lifetime (including development, assembly and orbital operation)
No, I think it summarizes the article rather well. What I'm not fully agreeing with is apparent emphasis on Mir shortcomings - a big part in the beginning of the article lists those problems which found during 15 years of service.

Mir was in large part for science - and it did that rather well. Along that, it also taught how humans can be working together, and how to build a long-term (from today's standpoint) station for space. And, teaching that, Mir shown a set of problems - fortunately without catastrophes.
It's not a systemd bug, it is not a kernel bug. It was a firmware bug. It is usually the Linux kernel that "fixes" these idiotic issues when vendors don't implement something correctly.
also note that an upgraded part, the ESP32 is in the works from the same manufacturer.

http://makezine.com/2015/12/09/meet-esp32-new-big-brother-to...
I only made a statement about "the only stories I see" and then went on to ask, in what I felt was an open and polite manner, what experience this person had that led them to this position. FWIW, I read in detail most every thread here I see that has any mention of PayPal, and I honestly and truly have never seen anyone tell a story that wasn't them effectively trying to get PayPal to provide them a loan of funds. People have a complete misunderstanding of credit, try to model it as if it were cash, and then are somehow surprised by the result. I have absolutely no sympathy for that position, and neither should you. Maybe, though, this person's experience is different: I continue to be interested in their story.
Can someone please Explain This Like I'm 5 - The potential Graphene has when compared to the Lithium batteries we have in the market today, and if Graphene is going to make it's way into our batteries any time in the near future?

Thanks

-- EDIT --

Pardon my ignorance! It seems I was very confused about the topic in question, and mistakenly asked about super capacitors. Thanks for pointing it out!
What if I told you that gun control and encryption control were equally pointless.

You can make a sten gun in your garage

You can compile strong encryption in your bedroom

Blaming guns doesnt solve either issue
I somehow missed your post and so wrote a comment covering almost all of this. Went ahead and deleted mine as yours is far clearer, and op has already responded
Yes, Sunshine is running WRF!

And yes it would be great to have all these sensor readings available to NOAA, Environment Canada, ECMWF, and everywhere. I have made lots of progress in getting them to talk about it, but it's a long road before any government starts using this data in its own NWP models.
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I suggest you never visit Twitch if you think this chat is bad.
There are two-way radios that support text. Since a lot of newer radios are using digital signalling, it's not hard to add in.

Off the top of my head, any of these would work: Amateur radios that have D-STAR (connected to an Android phone), Garmin Rino, Motorola DTR, and TriSquare (discontinued, but you can find them on eBay).
I believe the story you're referring to is called "Rabbit". They solved that one by forcing a situation which triggered the first law, breaking the deadlock. :)
Not yet, but I've been thinking of doing so. The difficulty is that you basically have to write the blog post (or at least take a lot of notes) while solving problems as otherwise you'll end up forgetting all the intricate little details.
I think he's talking about experts.

But for cooking, the AR can find out the temperature (you can do this with some tools already minus the AR), determine sizes of food and how long to cook them for, maybe overlay a line on food you're cutting to help you cut it better... etc
Piggybacking here but the FAQ is painfully vague. On the question of what phones does it work with their answer is:

> Beartooth pairs with both iOS and Android smartphones, as long as the operating system is up to date.

Which is a pretty much useless statement on Android especially since they would know what API level their app targets...

It certainly sounds like it'll use Bluetooth though and makes sense as a bridge between the two devices. The only other real option would be Wifi or if you wanted to be weird for the sake of it you could probably do it through NFC.

https://beartooth.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/217369867-Wh...
Not when hiking or skiing. I always have to make sure people hear me.
Once you have a kid, spouse, house, or significant medical bills you had better not use an EZ or you're just throwing money away.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DarknetPlan

forum about mesh networks, such as those products.
Indeed this is a niche rant. For a kid playing at home a tablet is very convenient and I'm not a UI fetishist. I don't think mouse or keyboards are that important. But for out of home, on the go, computer-secondary interactions they are subpar. If I may, it's like the old analog appliances that start right away versus smart TV that takes a minute to load an OS.
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Ask your friend how that's any better or safer than what the East German Republic did to its people under the Stasi. If he tries to dodge then I'm gonna say he's not much of a friend. When it comes to protecting the rights of others which includes their privacy I would probably have cut that person off day one. I'm a bit of an extremist to be sure, but some things are more precious than a friend and freedom, IMO, is one of them.
Awesome, I'm looking into becoming a freelancer next year and will definitely try bonsai. Thanks and good luck.
If you don't mind renewing manually every 3 months, my manual client [1] does DNS.

https://github.com/veeti/manuale
Yes, which is what we have here. My point is that I don't think there was ever any indication that the systemd developers thought there wasn't a problem to be fixed. That the fix was pushed farther up-stack so it was more comprehensive is not a bad thing in my eyes.

Put another way, systemd mounting efivarfs read-only doesn't necessarily prevent you from bricking your machine by deleting files within that file system, it protects only those using systemd. The problem stems from the nature of efivarfs, and that it was implemented as a file system and not some other interface. Making it default to something more sane is a better (but by no means the best) solution, and that ideally would happen within the source, which is the kernel.
Aha.

I just reread the letter. I would like them to use your direct language.

The use of encryption is a human right (to privacy). I utterly oppose any measure to curtail my right to privacy.

Arguing about the technical whatnots, and who did what when, as I've done here, is a trap, to better obscure the fundamentals. And I fell for it.

So thank you. I know it feels like restating obvious. But I needed to be reminded what's at stake here.
Just curious, were there any new changes made to branch creation and protected branches? I'm getting a

Branch creation was rejected by Git hook

When trying to create branches via my gitlab instance and it seems to take a lot longer to process the request. Pushing via a command shell seems to work well.

--update
I just rolled back my version to the older version and see that all of the branch functionality via the gitlab site works okay.
At a low enough temperature (< 4K) ...
<i>...apparently you don't believe welfare recipients are just regular people.</i>

I explicitly stated that one finds all types of people amongst welfare recipients as it is a sufficiently large set of people. The statement that I apparently don't believe welfare recipients are regular people is inflammatory. The wording you used seeks to paint me as someone who doesn't think poor people are "regular folks". (Using the colloquial definition of this phrase.)

Yes labor is scare in the strict meaning of the phrase. Labor is way too scarce? Hardly can this be concluded because you can't afford to pay people enough to do the work you want.
The most common term here is "portable", or "téléphone portable", or just "téléphone". "Portable" means what you think it means: you can carry it. Sometimes, (especially in the commercials), we see "mobile" instead of "portable". It also means what you think it means: you can move it.

I think one reason behind the word "mobile" is because "ordinateur portable" (or "portable" for short) is already used to talk about laptops. Destkops are in rare cases called "ordinateur de bureau". Generally, we just say "PC" —unless it's from Apple.

I am not aware of what the Académie Française may or may not have decided.

What I love about the English language here, is that we have 3 words that neatly apply to the three form factors: desktop, laptop, and palmtop. It's a bit of a bummer we can't exploit such regularity in French. If I had to settle on a term, I'd probably try "ordinateur mobile", or "mobile" for short. Unlike "palmtop", it wouldn't scream "computer", so the best I can hope for is that we just stop using "téléphone" to describe those things.
Third party libraries used by the client require C extensions.
If my job was how to craft national security policy in the face of asymmetrical warfare, I wouldn't be sleeping much anymore.

Self driving cars? Bad enough.

Self targeting drone swarms...?

'Prepping' just seems one tiny notch more rational.
Presumably you don't program in swift.
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The trouble is that there would have to be a new version every year for the new tax code changes and it would need to be updated in a timely manner.

We're talking like Chrome or Firefox level of support for an app most people would use once a year.
Chicken and egg. The majority of good writers are paranoid and would rather publish with established platforms.

Providing proof that this is legitimate is pretty necessary.
Github's shortcomings only really came to the fore in the last couple of months, due to a combination of factors. GitLab is working hard to exploit the current window of opportunity to make waves. I'm slightly surprised BitBucket is not doing the same, but their Atlassian masters seem more interested in pushing irrelevant features at the moment (like SSO across products I don't care about).

It's too early to talk about a shift away from GH, but increased variety in the ecosystem can only be a good thing, compared to the dangers of a GH monoculture... especially considering git migrations are literally just one push to a new origin.
I'm getting the same ad blocker screen, but the thing is, I'm not running an ad blocker.

Not sure how Wired's ad-blocker-detector works. I am on the campus of a large company that uses a shared proxy for outbound internet. If that's triggering the screen, that seems bad for Wired.
Part of being a good programmer is knowing, at least from a higher point of view, how the underlying systems work. OP doesn't seem interested in doing AI research, but learning the basics should help you stand out in the pool of other API-using programmers.