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oh come on

It's actually about values: guns, abortion, God, gays...

Jewishness is but a teeny tiny part of that, and this mostly because of things that aren't directly related to the faith. We don't see too many Jews protesting outside abortion clinics and complaining about gay marriage.
I'm waiting for Pizza Hut to show up next. I refuse to let them save my CC number because their password policy basically ensures that you can't choose a reasonable password.

And if the obvious, public part of the site is like that, I can only wonder what hackers would find probing deeper.
I found the post-impact part of the video interesting. The article says "turn an armor-piercing bullet into dust on impact". But in the video, it looks like it turns it into a lot of metal particles / shrapnel. As a body armor it looks like it could be increase the danger to those around a person getting hit.
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjuly10/Cold.War.Urban.Vulnerab...
> I thought shielding from radiation was mostly about mass.

Not for all types of radiation. Neutron radiation for example is absorbed better by a hydrogen rich material like say polyethylene. But then during absorbtion it would emit gamma rays sometimes, so metal shielding is needed as well.
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That's only free for demo usage. $120/yr for the lowest tier for non-trivial/toy projects.
In practice, you'd probably wrap the plate in fabric that would tend to catch the fragments, if nothing else because you need a plate carrier.
I'm the author of original Stomp protocol. Much of what changed in 1.1 and 1.2 came from people smarter than me, so blame me for the ugly and them for the good.

Why text? Because I wanted to be able to debug it with netcat, implement minimal but acceptable clients by inspection of the wire, etc. More importantly, I wanted anyone else to be able to do the same.

At the time, AMQP was just starting to get steam, and it was a gross, exceptionally difficult to implement, binary protocol. (AMQP has evolved a huge amount from those early forms.) In looking for something better, the ease of using SMTP and HTTP and the fact that I often did do them directly in netcat to debug or understand behavior, decided the direction.

Sure, SMTP, HTTP, etc., style protocols can be wonky at times, but the number of times I have in fact done them by hand is very high. Avoiding the need to break out Wireshark, and write a message packer on the fly as Wireshark only supports reading what comes across, makes using it, when you don't have a client yet, great. I've had people implement clients, from learning about the protocol to using the working client, during a half hour talk about Stomp. They can do this because it bootstraps on knowledge of HTTP, and text is easy on humans (if more involved for computers).

This ease of examination and manipulation is the same reason that JSON is (approximately) infinitely more prevalent than protobuf, thrift, avro, messagepack, or even smile (which is the exact json semantics, but way more compact and fast to parse). The desperate perl hacker of XML fame is a very real thing, don't ignore the implementation and debug affordances provided by text-based protocols.
"the point we make in the book is that few employees expect or want lifetime employment at a single company;"

Expect? Of course not, anymore; you'd be a fool to expect that.

Want? Well, more complicated: if it's a matter of wanting lifetime employment in the presently existing field of options, as employment and firms are presently constituted (and as firms presently look at employees), maybe not. If it's a matter of wanting to be working in the kind of regime in which lifetime employment really was more common, the answer might change.

Your response to 3 is a non sequitur. And employment as a condition is certainly not a voluntary matter: think of what that would mean! (Hint: it would mean that anyone who wanted to could quit their job and not seek employment elsewhere and things would be fine. We don't live in that world.)
I was working on a CentOS 6 box not long back and it's shocking just how many big projects you pretty much can't build. Not because they didn't write portable C, but because they have requirements on a minimum version of autoconf, which is later than shipping under CentOS 6.
> ... and the payment processor sends a verification token to the vendor

I would just add one more critical step: the vendor actually verifies the verification token rather than just checking that it exists (since the token is often passed through the client, it can't be inherently trusted either). This should involve either hitting the processor's server or verifying a cryptographic signature, and verifying that the payment associated with the token matches what the vendor expects.
> No engine in any car in the world has electrically actuated valves

It was just an example, I don't actually know what I'm talking about :) But it was my understanding that electronic fuel injection involves solenoids to, well, control fuel injection (as seen here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_injection#EFI_gasoline_en... ).

The point is that conveying the operating principles should be the main goal, if you call that "theory" or "practical info", it doesn't matter -- if you don't understand the basics well the practical (or theoretical) details will escape you.

Your suggestion about getting rid of distributors sounds reasonable.
I think the original expression was poor, it could perhaps be paraphrased as "gun safety is an oxymoron".
The problem is that the "red tribe" happily sold out the members of the "blue tribe" that were closest to them. When automation decimated manual labor in the early 1980's, the "red tribe" happily took up their pitchforks and stabbed the "blue tribe". Now, nobody left in the "blue tribe" has any really solid reason to give a damn about anybody in the "red tribe".
Google appears to be down for specific ISPs
What about vehicle armor?

Something like this would be a great improvement over the very heavy homebrew plating that our guys in Iraq and Afghanistan were forced to improvise on their Humvees? I.e. before MRAP type vehicles made it into the field.

Lighter and better armor isn't just for people, it's also for vehicles.
Rich Hickey's (of Clojure fame) Datomic database uses Datalog as its query language.

http://docs.datomic.com/query.html

http://blog.datomic.com/2015/01/datalog-enhancements.html

Nathan Marz's (of Twitter startup fame) Cascalog library (also implemented in Clojure) uses Datalog as its query engine to generate Hadoop jobs.

http://alexrobbins.github.io/cascalog-intro/#/step-14

http://clojure.com/blog/2012/02/03/functional-relational-pro...
> That sounded really stalker-ish, I did it to see if you are actually even older than I am.

It does.
I'm very curious how it's possible that just Google services seem to be down for these ISPs (seems like primarily TWC).

Anyone have any insight?
This is really cool! It has a bunch of rover data, altitude tracking, etc.

See:
https://starbase.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs-m-accel-5-altitude-v1.1/mg...

Which has some headers like this:

INSTRUMENT_HOST_NAME = "MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR"

INSTRUMENT_NAME = ACCELEROMETER

DATA_SET_ID = "MGS-M-ACCEL-5-PROFILE-V1.2"

TARGET_NAME = MARS

PRODUCT_CREATION_TIME = 2001-01-12T13:29:25.39

START_TIME = 1998-01-22T05:33:03.17Z

STOP_TIME = 1998-01-22T05:39:36.17Z

SOLAR_LONGITUDE = 258.21

ORBIT_NUMBER = 101

PERIAPSIS_LATITUDE = 45.95

PERIAPSIS_LONGITUDE = 83.93

Parsing through this stuff makes me feel like I'm in a Stross or Stephenson novel. Does anyone know of any visualizations or interesting insights drawn from this?
Medical insurance in the US is absurdly corrupt. Fun fact, health insurance companies are exempt from most anti-trust laws. Health insurance companies are free to collude on price and split up states between each other to limit competition.
Might be DNS issues? I'm with TWC and DNS isn't resolving.
Logically speaking, surely we need your wife's (honest) opinion on your approach here?
I didn't know what event sourcing was, but Martin Fowler's article did a pretty good job explaining it:

http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html
They pretend to, as would many companies if asked. I don't know how that would hold in court though. They also, for instance, pretend it's illegal to discuss your salary while the opposite seams to be true, so...
I think it's pretty clear that we're talking about white-collar, US-based, urban workers and not about a rural Argentinian engine mechanic
This is exactly how a Soviet style RPG works. Ironically, it is also why the "bird cage armor" works so well against the RPG. Here is a picture of a Stryker combat vehicle from when I was in Mosul Iraq circa 2004ish:

http://www.digitalprognosis.com/album/images/iraqpics/the-st...

The slats are smaller than the height of the outer explosive and prematurely detonate it. As a result, the penetrator simply bounces off the armor harmlessly.
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Depends.

Where I grew up (northwestern PA), there are suburbs where you can get a few acres and city water hookup. We don't consider it truly rural until you have double digit acreage and a water well.
I thought the slats were to provide stand off distance for explosively formed projectiles.

If the explosively formed jet forms more than a few inches from the armor, it's way less effective.
Yup. Bush's people who have written books all talk about his focus and sharpness. We don't really know Obama's grades they are sealed.
Yes, I understood that as "turns bullet into shrapnel" which sounds rather problematic.
Delta-v is defined as "change in velocity", ie. how much a spacecraft can change its velocity. I think you're talking about relative velocity.
In a social or informal context, most could not care less about linguistic correctness. On the other hand, in a professional context, presentation is highly relevant. The specific details of sentence structure are not important, the point is that it generally indicates a persons attention to detail and ability to communicate effectively.
I mean, relatively speaking these players were strong for their time but the science of chess analysis makes it difficult to imagine a situation in which history's best players would stand a chance against their modern counterparts. We have so much more public information about what lines of play are promising and others which are... not so much.
This is a problem if you try to make a high-revving engine, for instance, in order to get better fuel efficiency at low speeds and good power at high rpms: to allow high-rpm operation, you need stiffer valve springs, but this significantly affects your fuel economy.

The alternative is to just not design for high RPM; the most efficient internal combustion engines are huge low-speed two-stroke diesels used for ships and stationary generators.
Because it's not an arms race that can be won?
And in most cases, it's a complete waste of time to try?
instead of assaulting the poster directly we should pick up where he left and think of ways to improve the situation. Bickering just breeds more negative thinking
This sounds like older folks surprised/annoyed that the millennials aren't just going to play the game anymore...With Wall st. banks, they literally have no one to blame but themselves for pushing this model on the economy. Treat people (or their parents) like crap long enough and they will stop coming back for seconds.
Uber drivers aren't consumers, they are independent contractors. The better metaphor would be IOS developers.
Do you address the power imbalance between employees and employers? Do you address that an employee in such a culture is viewed as a disposable resource and no loyalty towards them is necessary, no matter what they do?

Or do you address that corporations are run by people, who each have lives and that those who are older, female or who gave young families they must support and who they want to spend time with don't feel they are in such "voluntary" work forces? What about corporate cultures where if you say no to ridiculous work hours (often unpaid) or unreasonable demands will be "graduated" from their role?

Or have you addressed the disruption to someone's life when they are forced out of a job, or the feelings of worthlessness they often feel, or the injustice that is often done to them?

Your views appear to promote toxic corporate cultures. Frankly, they are designed for people who are highly mobile and who have as much power as their employers. You don't appear to address any of these things.
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> Why do you believe liberals embrace meritocracy?

It's a little hard to discuss this in this context because the article talks about different kinds of liberalism and different kinds of meritocracy, that without specifics the question is a bit meaningless.

In particular, the word meritocracy itself is hard to describe because it was originally coined as a joke, and specifically defined to mean something that is satirical, ill-defined, and even oxymoronic[1]. Then the question becomes exactly how much of a joke is meritocracy in each circumstance. Many would say that in the GitHub case, meritocracy was a very extreme kind of a joke as it wasn't even self-aware. It was like describing a king's court as meritocratic. The liberals of the kind Frank talks about would be appalled at calling that meritocracy, and would want a "true" meritocracy. Frank would say (as would Michael Young, the sociologist who coined the term in a satirical essay), that even "true" meritocracy is a joke (and is also just a spoils system).

In any case, meritocracy is (intentionally) too ill-defined for comparing different kinds, but I think it is clear from Frank's article that the new kind of professional-class liberals he's talking about is definitely in favor of some sort of meritocracy (which, for Frank, is a bad thing).

> we idolize the dropout/self taught ubergeek - but liberal types generally oppose our culture.

That is a very ridiculous thing to say, as the vast majority of "our culture" is generally liberal. While libertarianism and other right-wing ideologies are more common in tech than in other professional occupations, it is still a small minority. In any case, the criticism from the left of the culture you describe is that there's nothing wrong with idolizing a self-taught ubergeek as long as you don't marginalize other groups with no less "merit".

[1]: After all, every system is some sort of meritocracy -- most people actually believed that noble-born people have more merit than commoners -- and so calling it that shows a lack of self-awareness more than anything else (especially as in all such systems, merit is something that is 90% due to luck of being born to the right family; this is almost as true for ubergeeks as it is for aristocrats).
What about this?

> Why doesn't Microsoft do more to prevent C# apps from being decompiled, inspected and recompiled into modified apps?

There's not much you can do when you have a very simple interpreted language (or JITed). Take C for example. Sure, you can take the outputted assembly and turn it into something readable, but because it's been optimized, it's not easy to figure out what it means. C# and Java OTOH compile down to a very simple set of assembly instructions. AFAIK, "stack variables" aren't reused as each variable is referenced by its index. If you were to take the JITed output from CIL or Java bytecode, making something readable would be hard.
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There are cases where the service is not substituting software. E.g., something like Stripe or Twilio... versus software which is offered as a service because it's a nice form of DRM.
The people who cry when telling work stories from insurance companies should seriously quit and preferably go to the media about why. I really don't doubt that if they asked for $1 on the media they'd get much more than their salary back for exposing this nonsense.
That still leaves five words to debate about, to quote a very sly fellow "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." I'm pretty sure we could distill the argument to the point where we find ourselves debating the finer points of chaos theory.
The effect is called "spalling" and current steel and ceramic armor plates are coated in a layer of rubber material to catch the fragments.
It costs an insane amount to rent an apartment in a good neighborhood in most big cities now in the country. San Fran is so expensive folks are leaving. No surprise that things are leveling out!
Exactly. Make a public fuss. I had a non-medical situation in which raising a public fuss resolved the matter quite swiftly when I had no other leverage.
This is pure speculation. You seem to be upset that Lyons has mischaracterised your work, yet you also seem to be happy to do the same to him.

Lyons worked for a company that has an abusive culture. They recently had two top people in management leave because of unethical behaviour - and you observed and promoted aspects of such a culture in your book.

I think that you are getting just criticism, and you are taking it quite badly.
Agreed - one urine soaked person can disrupt over 40 other passengers.
This is a fundamental fact that seems lost on most readers here. The article is a criticism of [modern day] _sales_ work.
Even though it's on a US government website, I'm dubious about their numbers and methods. That report (and earlier ones from 2006-2014) are riddled with weird inconsistencies. Examples:

(1) Vatican has 100% refusal it says. The Pope and 557 people have Vatican citizenship, and that's mostly cardinals and clergy. I doubt the US was turning away 25% of them. The overstay report (linked in my earlier comment) says that the Vatican (Holy See) had a 0% overstay rate. So the US was refusing 25% of visas from a country with 0% overstay?

(2) Canada has 49% refusal it claims. But Canadians don't need to apply for B-category visas to enter the US; they get an "implied" B1 or B2 at the border. Canadians could get turned away at the US border and I'm sure some do, but it's certainly not 49% of Canadians.

(3) The 2014 version of the report says that 100% of Serbia and Montenegro were refused visas! That's not credible. It's completely at odds with the overstay report that says that the US had 20,149 visitors from Serbia in 2015 and 17,422 in 2014, and 3,972 visitors from Montenegro in 2015 and 3,214 in 2014.
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We wouldn't be better off if we had not used coal, oil, and natural gas for the last 200 years, we would be much, much poorer. There would not be as much pollution in the world, but we would have missed out on a massive amount of economic growth that was only possible through abundant, realiable energy.
> when you got fired, it was called “graduation.”

"Smile or Die" (RSA Animate)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo

This seems to be a variation on the Wall Street style of magical thinking.
Sorry I meant education up to age 16.
you do not work for the firm. you have never worked for the firm.
Hate and anger are only problematic if you act on them in destructive ways or are in a culture that stigmatizes them.

For most of us, it's latter that causes the problem.
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Car insurance is worse actually. In the US if you have an accident with bodily injury the settlement can go in the millions, but the legal limit for car insurance is as low as 20k. They do the opposite of what insurance should do, hedge against a small risk and leave you unprotected from big risks.
That is a total misreading of the comments you are replying to. First of all, it's not at all clear that only white collar employees are what is being referred to in that book. Secondly, the book appears to be not just targeted to the U.S. market, but globally.
It's hard to say for sure since there's only five frames of video post-impact, but it looks like those fragments are slowing down really fast. In the first couple of frames they're moving faster than the bullet was, but in the last couple they barely move at all. It seems possible that they're only dangerous within a foot or two of the impact point, which seems like a very acceptable trade-off for the benefits.

Even if I'm wrong, unless it catches somebody in the eye, I don't think those little fragments could do worse than a flesh wound.
Rate limiting looks outdated.
Suppose you can spawn new servers (and turn down unused ones) fast enough to react to demand, and have a good LB that sends the traffic where you have capacity, then you do not need to limit anything until you reach full capacity, in which case you probably want to degrade (by query class and/or client class) rather than limit anyway.

Rate limiting is an inefficient way to distribute a service, that makes sense only if you preallocate your resources and have queries with predictable cost. Let's use this technique only as a bug-prevention tool not for resource economy, as organised scarcity is likely as inefficient for the data center as it is for the distribution of goods :)
I'm genuinely curious how this is relevant.
It would be nice to see some control as well, like filtering out movies that do not make back their budgets (within reason), as they are probably just terrible movies regardless of diversity characteristics.

Or maybe a minimum gross filter of 500K?
Click the "web" link and then the first link on the page should take you directly to the story.
I feel your pain!!

Last fall I got a very adjustable but affordable chair from Staples; best one I've ever had. Reg. $199 and WORTH IT, but frequently on sale for $99. PLUS 30-day risk free trial, return no questions asked.

Staples Carder Mesh Office Chair, Black

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In addition to swivel, height adjustment and back height and tilt, it features a tilting seat "pan". This is crucial for changing how your spine is loaded.

Tilt it forward to shift weight from your spine to your legs/knees/calves/feet. This helps you curve your lumbar spine. Then tilt it backward cradle your lower spine to reverse the lumbar curve for a time. Then zero it out level for a time. Rinse and repeat.

The combo of the height and seat pan adjustments are the only practical way to achieve the position advocated by PTs, i.e., your hips should be above your knees; though this position should be only one of many you assume throughout the day.

Also important: place chair on wood, tile or other hard floor, not carpet, and use plastic mat to make it easier to roll to/away from your desk without straining your back.

Good luck!!
All the best.

How will your service be different from Appsumo.com?
I am the only one who is confused with this protocol: what problem does it solve and exactly what does it do?
The article is talking about prices and vacancy leveling out due to developers building more units.

This is the market functioning the way it should be. Nowhere does the article attribute the leveling out to people leaving the city.

In fact, the more people are moving to SF than moving out [1].

[1]http://sfist.com/2016/03/25/san_francisco_metro_area_populat...
That's the front yard which is most likely substantially smaller than the back.

Also those look like cheaply made houses for people who want maximum square footage per dollar. It's easy to find smaller houses with larger yards.
And a big ass gun /
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Another thing that works is finding the format for e-mail addresses at the company and then searching LinkedIn for employees. Then use the Reply All button after you CC the whole company. If they don't respond it means that they didn't get the e-mail. Keep trying.