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In short - being passionate for something is helping forward. Having no safety net meants you have only one shot. If all the stars allign correctly.

That is not surprising at all. People are their best when they are engaded in something bigger than themselves.
> The drawing had to happen on three particular days of each year, two certain days of the week and at a certain time of day.

Why do these machine have a concept of time and date in the first place?
> You can't expect everyone who wants a Website with Basic functionality to have dedicated ops Teams, that would make it unfeasible for the majority of companies to run their own websites.

I don't and the very first thing I mentioned is that content management is a very domain specific problem. In some cases, WP may fit the bill, in many cases it does not.
No, he's reasonable enough to explain why and how long it takes to respond to the massive amount of mail he must receive daily.
> decades-long presidential mandate

A small note to put things into perspective: moon landing happened only 12 (!) years after Sputnik. It happened only 8 (!) years after Kennedy's speech and Gagarin's first space walk. The first launch of actual Apollo equipment was 3.5 years before the manned landing.

In other words: humans went from launching the first satellite to putting people on the Moon in 12 years. In 8 years from first person in space to first person on the Moon.

That's the speed of focused progress. Something we very much lack these days.
It looked like it originally landed closer, but bounced a little.
The quote you gave points out it isn't a Schengen issue, but a UK/Ireland vs. the rest, issue. The UK and Ireland has opt-outs, so you're right the UK is unaffected. But every other EU country is subject to the Schengen visa policy even if they are not part of the Schengen area. Bulgaria and Romania are explicitly called out on the first of your linked pages.
Personal secretaries used to be fairly common, and don't have to be viewed with disrespect. If you ever work in a large institution, you learn that the secretaries know more about how the organization works than you ever will, and can make your life much better. Most people accept that specialization and division of labor are part of the modern industrial economy.

Knuth is an oddball curmudgeon, and probably a bit autistic (watch his lectures), but he has managed to make the most of his strengths, and contributed to humanity with very little damage.
Cudos to the devloper for a long thought out hack. 2005 to 2011. I'm not saying, what he did was right, but he sure was patient about it.
>And make eye contact!

I'm about 99% sure this song is supposed to be satire. If you speak French, you'll get a kick out of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-VYdBKwSLc
Time to trot this out again: http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4208
It works like this. Google has an "open source office". When you open source code at Google, it's either a product, or it isn't. Even if it's not a product (which has its own extra set of launch procedures), it's possible to open source it. It's still a Google-owned thing, but not a "product". Google ownership does not necessarily mean it's a product, but it still requires the copyright stamp and the CLA.

If it's easier, just drop the word "official". It's not a Google product- IE, a saleable or free service that google provides to customers- but rather just a thing Google put out in the world, subject to the rules that Google applies.
top-notch hackers are not ordinary people ;)
And the people who buy food at a supermarket instead of hunting/growing it, or buy clothes instead of sewing, ...

We all employ others to do things for us, some people just do so with fewer middlepeople.
Please stay home.
The UK (and Ireland) has specific opt-outs that prevents this from affecting the UK. Any other non-Schengen countries other than the UK and Ireland are affected because the Schengen visa policy applies to them regardless.
Pride in personal achievements has a catch: it's only available to those who actually did achieve something. Those who did not still have a desire for pride and "group pride" (be it national, ethnic, religious, supportership of some sports team or even just membership in some specific profession) fills that gap.

As much as i despise patriotic displays, i still think they can offer great value as a lesser evil when even more dangerous group pride identities (e.g. religious or ethnic radicalization) are just waiting to fill the gap for those in need. Not only the american, but also the french or british group identities are much more accessible than for example german (much of national identity defined by difficult relationship with history, newcomers don't share that heritage) or belgian (much of national identity defined by being of either flemish or wallonian ethnicity, newcomers are neither).
Devil's advocate: Imagine a world in which theft, rape, slavery, and child abuse are impossible (more than once / for any meaningful period of time). Have you read any of Iain Banks's Culture series?

I think the peace of mind that you and everyone you'll ever know will never get disappeared into someone's rape dungeon doesn't seem so bad. Or that you can go into business and actually win because you're doing it better, because your competitors aren't in bed with government, corruptly and systematically destroying the possibility of competition. Just also don't do stupid shit like control the expression of two consenting persons just because what they're doing is not your cup of tea. Is this really so hard to differentiate between? And does perfect enforcement really mean minds can't changed, that the law can't be changed after it's created if it's understood that actions X, Y, or Z actually aren't against the universal bill of rights for living entities?

Sure, freedom is about being able to do what you want with your life, but it also means being able to do it safely, without the fear of getting pwned. People who want to pwn will always have the upper hand if we just all agree we'd rather keep letting people do whatever the fuck they want so long as they can get away with it. "Perfect enforcement" sounds only as horrible as the culture behind it is, to me. Turning away from that is to embrace and make a home for the devil we know---corruption, physical and sexual domination of the weak by the powerful, environmental devastation, rampant species genocide, etc etc etc.
Do MacBooks?
Two? Au revoir?
You refer to engineers as "monkeys", it's clear you don't have any respect for them in the first place.
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I'm thinking bigger than Wal-Mart. I'm thinking the world's largest foreign reserve owners, China and Japan.

In fact, in China's attempt to weaken their yuan, do capital controls, provide growth and jobs to they're lowest populace so the central govt doesn't face revolt -- You see the shadow of GD and BI

China even went so far to implement economically irrational activities like state owned enterprises, whose primary goal is to keep people employed and have some income, so there's no revolt. (For those that don't know, China govt is especially sensitive to revolt, much more than U.S. Because it happened so many times in history and the prior government members are all killed in a major way when it happens).

Thus, economic rationality be damned even if these SEOs are bleeding gobs of money or blowing a debt bubble.

Taken together, a lot of your Gresham dollars / basic income properties are already in place. In spirit at least.

And we see the flaws/limits.

Even with China's massive reserve, recently there have been coordinated attack by hedges including Soros, draining its reserves. And internal rich people are engaged with massive capital flight (despite the controls).

And the basic incompatibility of long term BI sapping productive parts of the country, all show up. At this point, either SEO(which is really like China's BI) goes away for good, or China will blow a debt bubble so big, that it explodes and kills everything, SEO included. Or USA included unfortunately.
We've also got a much lower appetite for risk.
This is the clearest I can put it: Parties A and B want to enter into an agreement. B will only do so under condition X. Party B is free to state any conditions they want just as A is free to not accept them.

Now substitute "Canada" for A, "Germany"/"France"/"Sweden"/... for B and "Enter a similar agreement with these other 25 countries" for X and you get the current situation. The EU member states decided to make this a condition to all their reciprocal visa agreements.

If Canada thinks that's not fair they can withdraw from the reciprocal visa agreements.
The drone ship and the rocket work independently. The drone ship uses GPS to position itself as closely as it can to a fixed position in the moving sea, and the rocket blindly lands at the position where the drone ship ought to be. So sometimes it will land in the middle, sometimes closer to the edges, depending on how steady the water is. The drone ship is huge so there is no need to land precisely in the center.
I grew up poor. Not Africa poor, but ex Soviet Union falling apart poor. One thing that made a huge difference was parents who sacrificed their career to make sure they were home with me after school. They encouraged education. Mom never finished more than 7 grades of school, but she saved money for and for the 8th of March, equivalent to mothers day (oh the irony) got me cheapest ZX Spectrum clone we could find. It was history after that, but it was just an example of what I think made a huge difference for me.
Weird. In my lectures (I study in the Netherlands) almost nobody uses a laptop to take notes. Maybe it is different for each major, but I study computer engineering so you would expect more laptops there if anything.

I myself would never use a laptop during lectures, too distracting. Also it would feel like I'm disrespecting the professor. I don't like to talk too people who are practically ignoring me. At least one professor feels the same way, since he banned laptops.
Are you saying you disagree with the idea of a secretary at all? I mean, handling mail and communication is one of the main tasks of a secretary. If you're against that because he is making someone do tasks he doesn't want, then I imagine you'd also be against the concept garbage men as well. The thing is, they get paid and choose to go into that profession - some may even enjoy it.

So what's wrong with that? Or did you mean something else? I just don't see why someone would question his books/teachings based on his personal strategy for email communication.
It's good for things like "who wants to do <X> tomorrow?" where you're looking to get a crowd together that includes people beyond your close circle of friends.

It's good for tracking what photos are uploaded of you. People don't think for a second that somebody might not want their photo online and they're going to do it anyway. I might as well know what's out there.

Most useful for me, it's good for finding out what's going on in my city. A lot of people just forget to invite somebody if they're not on FB.
> In my opinion, the most compelling reason is that many people are there.

Yes, I've seen this in action with real-world groups that form a Facebook group to replace a mailing list, or ( shudder ) a Yahoo Group. 99.99% of their recipients are already on Facebook, it's free-at-point-of-use and it supports group functions.

So they go ahead, freezing-out the ones who aren't on Facebook with quotes like 'just create an account, it's free'.

I'd join Facebook if I could pay a subscription fee each month so as not to be analysed and advertised-to, just to rejoin many groups that have moved there.
The Moon landing in the context of science and technologies available in the mid- to late-60's was an absolutely monumental human achievement that won't soon be equaled.

It was just 66 years after the Wright brothers!

ps - I think the landing yesterday was a pretty sizable achievement.
Problem is that many people feel a desperate need to be special. A thought that an animal can have same feelings, thoughts and behaviors is terrifying to them. Especially if that person have been raised in western culture.
They were also basically empty metal tubes that solid fuel was packed into.

But perhaps more relevant to point, the shuttle itself was "reusable". It remains to be seen if SpaceX can reuse rockets in a more cost effective way than the shuttle.
His time is important enough, and he is contacted/harassed/solicited by so many people that he expects people who waste it have to do it on their own terms.

If he reaches to YOU, and he still demands that, then that's another story.
The article doesn't link the study which it is based on. This is terrible science journalism to begin with.

In case anyone wonders, it's probably this study:
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/04/22/095679761452...
It's paywalled, so...
http://sci-hub.io/10.1177/0956797614524581

It doesn't strike me as an incredibly powerful study. I see no indication that it has been independently replicated. Usually these kinds of studies shouldn't be trusted unless you have a bunch of them and can do a metaanalysis.
I'm not entirely sure what you think the job description for a secretary role would be... but normally handling communications is absolutely within its scope.

If you want to argue that the concept of having a secretary in the first place is arrogance, and object to all those roles around the world, go for it. But singling out one person is just flawed logic.
For logic based classes the effectiveness of note taking is greatly diminished because the majority of learning happens at home while grinding problems.

However in memorization based classes, skipping notes is entirely suboptimal. When you're expected to keep esoteric information in your head for months at a time, you need every edge you can get. And in my experience, the most powerful edge is knowing exactly what was said in class.

At the end of the day it comes down to picking the right tool for the job. Back in college, I took handwritten notes for my technical courses so I could draw in figures. For courses like Biology, I took transcript-style notes on my laptop, and they were extremely effective.

I suspect the confounding factor in this study is that students who bring laptops are far more distracted on average than note takers, not that typed notes in and of themselves produce worse outcomes than hand written notes. Unfortunately, people see headlines like this and immediately jump to conclusions, which is a shame. Computers are powerful tools if used properly.
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Same goes for crack and meth?
Every digital transaction is trackable throughout it's lifecycle. Every transaction can be traced back to the origin even it changes hands several times. An ideal government can make a good use of this feature to enforce law for greater good, while a practical government, in reality, enforces whatever suits the powerful ones the best.
This is a project whose author is a Googler thus Google has the copyright and all the CLA stuff. However Google is not directly involved in the project, in the sense of having employees solely work on the project and have an OKR on this project, or roadmap whatsoever.

Think about this: someone work for Google wrote a software and Google is kind enough to open source it.

Disclaimer: I work for Google but my interpretation could be wrong.
> The "EU" isn't an entity you reciprocate visa free travel from and to.

The EU has decided that it is, with the exception of the UK and Ireland which has specific opt-outs from Schengen.

Whether the EU will stick to that or not, the point is that the visa policy of all EU members other than the UK and Ireland is set at EU level. Some non-Schengen EU members have still not fully harmonized their visa rules, but they are expected to, and the issue here is that the principles of Schengen visa policy is reciprocity, and then Canada's lack of willingness to reciprocate becomes a problem.
The existing comments are already largely meaningless, so I'll add another meta comment:

Is the use of "versus" in the headline correct in English? There isn't anything adversarial going on here, it is just his email policy.

In other places "versus" even seems to be used as a synonym of "and".
Yes. And we are still on a massive, unprecedented progress run that has created abundance.

I just hope we stay on that path.
>My guess is that his secretary still uses emails even if he's not. So basically he has just transfered his communication tasks to another person and somehow it is ok for him to enslave a person for jobs he doesn't want to do since he's a much more "important" human being. This is pure arrogance.

Sorry what?

Is that part of the very job of a secretary?

Is't not any much "slavery" than you ordering food from a waiter or asking a store assistant for a pair of shoes...
Maybe this is a stupid question, but why is it better to land the rocket on a ship instead of having it plop into the ocean and float for a few hours or days until a nearby ship can scoop it up?
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If you know the range of numbers then I'd do a binary search. Get each server to count how many are higher or lower. Play the high low game.
When the two totals are the same you're done. I think this covers the authors edge cases too. :-)
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From answers given by some CS professors on Quora, just a cert from a MOOC means nothing to them if you are applying for PhD.
What they really care is if you have mastered the techniques you got from learning the MOOC.
Voltage and current are just different ways to measure the same phenomenon. Both happen at the same time. The reason that we talk about the hazard of voltage rather than current is that most sources of electrical energy in our world have a particular voltage (voltage source) rather than a particular current (current source).

Also, very low currents can be hazardous but skin resistance is relatively high. Most of the voltage sources we are exposed to are fairly low. There is no point in putting a warning about the 1 Amp of current a power adapter can produce if that adapter is limited to producing 5 Volts. In a world where all power sources were producing thousands of volts the opposite would be true, an example warning would be "Danger, 200 mA".

In general we have to worry about the exception, not the rule.
> So basically he has just transfered his communication tasks to another person and somehow it is ok for him to enslave a person for jobs he doesn't want to do since he's a much more "important" human being. This is pure arrogance.

You know that this is like, the basis of entire civilization? The specialization of labour - you do what you're good at, I do what I'm good at, and we exchange the value produced by our work. His secretary is probably being paid for the job, and given that he/she specializes in e-mail correspondence, he/she will be much more efficient with it than Knuth himself could ever be.
The sea is filled with all kinds of stuff that pretty much ruins anything it gets into.

The cost of cleaning, refitting, and fixing issues from a splash landing is more expensive than doing it this way. At least that's what SpaceX's whole model is pretty much based on.
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I wouldn't be so absolutely convinced the legal case against this. For instance, designating something a private club. Private clubs include whomever they choose.
Which means you have an issue with people doing paid work in general, not Knuth in particular.

I guess you never buy anything too -- or have people e.g. build your house, or the street cleaners take your garbage, the taxi driver to drive you etc.
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Ask HN: What to do if the firewall removes all new HTTP response header fields?
A few months ago our company got a new firewall (WatchGuard). It removes every HTTP response header field not in RFC 2616 (HTTP 1.1, June 1999). Maybe even more.

This includes CORS headers which makes it impossible to see the real fonts on a website that uses hosted web fonts like Google fonts.

JIRA was behaving strangely because of missing headers.

And now the evaluation of Drupal 8 went bad because AJAX requests need the header X-Drupal-Ajax-Token: 1.

The admins aren't idiots and they aren't ignoring the users. We see web fonts again and JIRA works like before.

But we are now a bit traumatized. I realized that the web isn't functioning the way I imagined it. Browser vendors and the W3C have made many new features after 1999 that benefit security and speed. But they use new header fields. Content management systems and web development frameworks rely on some X- header fields for features and security.

And I can't rely on these header fields to be available in the browser because the user could be in a network behind such a restrictive firewall. And maybe in a network with administrators who don't care.

What does this mean for future web development work? There's no "we need all headers we send to be available" in the requirements of our tools. Because everybody thinks that all header fields always get delivered. And when you find a CMS that is OK today, it could be breaking everything after a minor update.

Do I need to write everything by hand again? Back to 1999? No new features (including WebSockets, HTTP/2, …)?
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What country was your computer built in?
I wonder what rude shocks we are in for .. BCI+VR may give us some sort of super-being, a multi-dimensional entity to deal with.

Just another annoying passenger on the bus, or supreme overlord of entire universes? Still a very thin line, or at least .. one can hope it will still be easy to unplug when this hits us.
For me it would be as simple as an alternative messenger that followed me around from page to page. It could be injected like a Greasemonkey script or browser extension, even.
As far as I understand the concept of "science", an empirical observation (including "it works from an engineering perspective, kinda") is only ever an observation. Scientific progress, by definition, involves advancing our understanding of hows and whys.
Bold fonts, awkward positionioned images, some with some without borders, Call to action that does not look like a button, different font types (like on the FAQ page or blog), the huge images that load very slow.

Also the social icons are empty for me (because the icon font is loaded over http and not https), the advertise site tells me something about missing resources in a alert dialog and then loads without CSS (this is my adblock, because you called it advertise.css).

Also looking at SEO, you have stories in the keywords and your titles are way to short and dont contain the company name or anything.

I would suggest showing the site to someone who knows what they are doing, those all are just typical small issues that should be fixed within a few hours at max.
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