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> will be mandatory on everyone in Kuwait in order to fight crime and terrorism

Anyone else tired of this excuse? Personally, I'm fine with current crime and terrorism. My motorcycle is more dangerous.
Hey, I'm from North Carolina too, from Clayton!

That's really awesome to hear that you were able to meet him. I always hear stories about people like that, who leave that 'approachable' impression on people they meet, I'm glad that there are still others like Campbell left, and that it seems that so many have learned from him. Surely his great work will continue on in the lives he touched.
Yes. Kids soak up your behaviour like a sponge, and will mimic you. For example, my kids often say "thanks for cooking, dad!"; because I also make an effort to always say "thanks for cooking!" when mom cooks. Makes me really proud.
You don't need breaches, just venality.
It's not name calling if it's a fact
Building a Serverless E-commerce Site with Stripe
Both jazz and rock (and virtually all popular American styles... country, hip hop, etc) put the "boom" on 1 and the "clap" on 2. Regardless of whether that "clap" is a high-hat, snare, rim, etc, it's the beat you would clap your hands on.

The two approaches you describe ("emphasis on 2 and 4" and "emphasis on 3") are actually the same thing. You're just counting twice as fast when you identify 3 as the back beat vs 2 & 4. To say that another way, any song that can be notated with the snare on 3 could also be notated with the snare on 2 & 4 by halving the tempo. I think most musicians would notate "And Then I Knew" such that the snare falls on 2 and 4, but that could probably go either way.

I'd contrast this with classical music (classical as in Mozart), where the emphasis is on beats 1 and 3.
They also have a video with some samples and an overview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRD8LpPvdHI
Read as: “shared a beer break”

Just like sharing a coffee doesn't literally mean drinking from a communal cup, but means taking a coffee break.
I guess I can rule out visiting Kuwait at any time, for any purpose, ever.
On OS X, every process on the system is a Unix process and has a PID, and is visible from the Unix APIs that Activity Monitor uses.
Even when OS X had more diversity in binary formats (the Classic environment, Carbon CFM apps, emulated PPC binaries), everything was still a Unix process.

I would say that OS X is just simpler, in that it doesn't use multiple subsystems which can each have totally separate process namespaces.
What the Windows Task Manager should at least do is have a catch-all entry for a non-Win32 subsystem, so you can see that the Linux Subsystem is taking 100% CPU.
Uh... Aren't the spread of buzzwords like "inbound marketing" and "content marketing" the result of insanely brilliant marketing? Isn't touting that the Modern Internet makes old school marketing irrelevant a genius marketing strategy to take over the market of marketing?

Sure, the new product might be worse, but these "tech world" companies have managed to take over, and I'd bet they'll keep repacking old wisdom in shiny new phrases and blog posts until they push the ivory towers of marketing into obselence. Hell, Brian Halligan, Hubspot's CEO, is even a senior lecturer at MIT...
There's an enjoyable summary of some other efforts in neural network music synthesis here:

https://highnoongmt.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/deep-learning-f...

The same author's Endless Traditional Music Session supplies all the Irish session music you could ever need, by mechanical means:

http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~sturm/research/RNNIrishTrad/inde...
No doubt it will be useful for the NSA and GCHQ. I remember seeing in one of the little publicised parts of the Snowden disclosures that African biometric systems were being targeted...No doubt Kuwait is of significant interest to them.
> Something that has been bothering me lately. I have no memory of 99% of my life.

Those would be your mental filters at work. Your brain is always sweeping itself, trying to take information and move it into long term storage to help keep your short term memory ready to process the next bit of information.

If you remove yourself from all stimuli and focus on those events, you will be able to pull them up. They will be through the lens of nostalgia, but they are not gone forever.

> I've spoken to lots of people about this, my friends who I've spoken to have forgotten their babies first steps, their baby's first words, first date with their spouse ect which most people would rate as top moments of their lives.

This is due to the hyperconnectedness and sheer amount of information we have available. Ours minds are wired to want constant stimulation, to always be seeking new forms of information. The internet has given that to us with a cost. The only way to get out is remove highl limit the amount of information you take in, and focus more on your daily life than th life of others.
All of these scenarios are possible but often they are presented as a certainty. This speaks more towards fears and feelings; I'd be interested to see studies that claim most office romances turn out badly.

People are being trained to make these leaps even if there are no facts to back them up. You might _feel_ your boss is treating you differently because she asked you out, but should we all adjust behavior to accommodate _potential_ negative impressions in a lowest-common-denominator kind of way (You seem to agree that we should not...)? These discussions tend to assume the absolute worst outcome regardless of incidence.

Some quick googling suggests 30% of office romances lead to marriage. Even if that stat is wildly inaccurate, it still feels bizarre to tell so many people they should have taken one for the team (not had a relationship).
>> "A Kuwaiti security delegation had earlier visited Washington to study DNA testing systems there."

^^ Wow.
Live viewing up 86% y/y in MLB at Bat app because of iPad multitasking
> I'll often go to the break room with headphones on and make tea while I puzzle through some code I had been working on.

It's sometimes in those moments when you come across a solution you wouldn't have thought of at your desk. YMMV though.
Ghost in the Shell 2 – Innocence (Intro)
If you're going to be that snarky and nonconstructive about it, you're going to get snarky and nonconstructive comments back. Or at the very least, you're not going to inspire any thoughtful and interesting observations from anyone.
Tough to get more carbon-intensive than coal! Seriously, from a GHG perspective anything is better. So good for them.
Could you stop faking to be an idiot, please? We already responded to that question and you know it.
> This assumes you have the social skills and awareness of your surroundings to notice when you've made someone uncomfortable.

Spot on. I rarely recognize I made people uncomfortable but reading all these discussions I guess I do :-/

OTOH, I try to be nice to everyone, -that way I should (theoretically) have less to worry about.
An outage requiring generator power for longer than 1 week might not allow transportation of fuel. Just want to bring that up in case people really did think you can run "indefinitely" on generator power if the roads, bridges, and gas supply network is out, or if there's an emergency state of war or terrorism.

At the 1wk+ territory, it will start to look something like Katrina, where the roads were all blocked by flooding waters and fuel resupply missions required the protection of the National Guard.

I mean you can charter helicopters to bring in fuel, but I think there are more urgent things to power than a datacentre in those cases, for example, hospitals and shelters for emergency humanitarian aid.
Understandable. Have published the debate on Medium as well, but no voting there.

https://medium.com/@citizendebate/resolved-taxes-should-be-r...
I wonder what prompted this. Did some minister just read some article about DNA fingerprinting in a magazine and decide that it would be really useful to have everyone's DNA on file?
>GP is referring to the cronies in charge when they say "people". Not the people of Venezuela.

Distinction without difference fallacy.
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We're super psyched to see that folks (especially founders) are very excited about the idea and can't wait to make the service widely available!
We don't support mixed clusters, though, and are unlikely to do so.

Most people testing Scylla at this point are doing A/B testing, using some proxy to replicate the writes to both clusters and then comparing the two.
I think that every person that I regularly interact with socially I have both offended and been offended by in some way. I suspect that that's just part of normal human interaction. But it seems like any offense from a man to a woman can be considered sexual harassment, which I would say makes those interactions dangerous.

Also note that I wouldn't blame women for this issue. It's really the fault of (mostly) men who are aggressively and shamelessly harassing women and putting everyone on edge.
Porque o Sen. Nunes foi a Washington um dia depois da votação do impeachment?
This is probably a frequently asked question, but why doesn't React Native implement its own list views, rather than wrapping UITableView (for iOS) and ListView (for Android)? I figured the latter approach would be the best way to address things like recycling native views.
Compassionate UX
We are in a bad way when one's subjective "feelings" determine the order of the day. There is a POSSIBILITY that one might FEEL they owe something (regardless of the reality)... So therefore, we need to guard against what may very well be an outlier case by restricting what the majority of people who do not have these feelings can do.
how about we start considering every single corporation above certain size/revenue not as an altruistic setup but rather ruthless gain-at-almost-all-costs oriented businesses and deal with them accordingly. and it would be their responsibility to prove state and public otherwise. something along presumed guilty until proven innocent.

I know, naive and with many holes, but imagine it for a moment...
> I might be missing something here but if they still track the last page read, then why would it incentivize click-bait titles and synopses?

It's much easier to make a book sound epic, insightful and/or wonderful than it is to actually write something like that. It might take a while for the user to give up, but who cares if people only get 50-100 pages into your book before quitting if you can attract multiple times more people?

> Additionally, I think you're first two points mostly address the outliers on the bell curve.

I have personally alternated between those extremes in the last six months. I've read multiple thousands of pages one month, and been too busy to read anything the next. I also suspect there's a population of people that will sign up and forget about it for long periods - just like gym memberships.
> "Our concern involves the tediousness of trying to log and capture daily uses among several hundred deputies in the streets," said Assistant Sheriff Ken Binder, referring to proposed body-worn cameras for deputies falling under the auspices of the ordinance. "How do we chart that and report it at the end of the year? It makes the job more onerous in terms of doing the job and investigative work."

As long as the county provides funding for this, I don't see the problem. Accountability isn't free, but it's worth the cost.
Some landlords want to remove any limit on number of tenants occupying a single unit, related or not. [1]

[1] http://somerville.wickedlocal.com/article/20160127/NEWS/1601...
Interesting to contrast these with Polynesion Stick Charts: http://thenonist.com/index.php/thenonist/permalink/stick_cha...

The Inuit maps have the characteristics of Inuit art: solid, smooth, compact. The Polynesian charts are remniscent of Polynesian architecture: airy, lightweight, resilient.
NoScript is not about disabling JavaScript but allowing only white-listed domains to execute JavaScript. Generally, I trust the domains I visit frequently, and have them white-listed. I explicitly block domains of "analytics" and social networking services, since these do not offer me any value-added content.

However, if I follow a link to a domain I have never visited before, I will first see if the content is viewable without JavaScript. Most of the time, it actually is.

But sometimes the content does not render at all or the page layout is broken beyond recognition. Then I'll try "temporarily allowing" executing JS from the home domain of the site (I've noticed most sites these days bundle JS from 5+ domains, most of which are analytics and social networking services). For maybe 80% of those sites that do not work without JS, this fixes the issue and I am able to read the content. Takes maybe 2 secs to temporarily white-list and reload the page.

The rest are generally pages that make assumptions like that the analytics library is always present in the page JS scope and then crash when it is not, leaving the content unreadable because the JS layout code never runs. A quick peek at the JS console when the page is loading generally reveals what is the issue.

Sometimes I just ignore those pages, but if I really badly want to see the content, I can launch an one-off incognito window for the page and have the page execute with all the JS tracking and social network code allowed. This solves any issues for almost all remaining pages. If problems still persist, these are generally pages that are just simply broken – maybe the page only works with some specific browser, like Google Chrome (I use Firefox), to start with.
> Who's going to be the one to tell all the people in developing economies, "Sorry, but you can't have those things that we have."

Who is going to be so brave to tell poor third world countries they cannot have nice things? We do all the time, by complicity in geopolitics which consist in things such as propping up dictators elsewhere so "our" corporations can get bigger slices of pies and resources rather than the local population. Not to mention war. So who is going to tell the actual centers of power that this can not be tolerated any longer? That is the real question IMO.

The problem is taking out resources and exploiting people at a level that cannot be sustained; not that others want to do it too, but that anyone does.

I mean, what is "a Western lifestyle"? For me it's stuff like basic sanitation, freedom of speech, high literacy rates, having medicine and clothes and shelter. Living and letting live, and last but not least work, preferably meaningful. Yes, some prosperity is a requirement to even have the possibility of those things. But buying new things all the time, ordering screws individually at Amazon, and throwing away a lot of plastic, those things and others seem not strictly needed to me.

We need the scientific method, human rights and rule of law, not so much a constant stream of trinkets. People should be free to strive for trinkets, sure, but without too much pollution (which is essentially a way of restricting the freedom of others; indirectly, but very powerfully). As many things in life, it's not really a complex issue, it's not wanting to step on the toes of powerful people or peers that makes it complicated and contorted I think.
That's not access for all. Locking information behind a paywall is limited access no matter how you spin it, whether someone can't afford to access information (individually or at scale) or said access isn't sponsored for them.
Welcome to creating a me-too product. It's some of the most difficult and expensive marketing possible.

Imagine creating a cola that's exactly like coca-cola except it's 20% better tasting (in your option). Well good luck beating out Coca cola - even though your product is better.

And you have to be very careful about assuming that your product is better in a way that people actually care about. For example, I visit the site FML every now and then --- and I never, ever post there...I just got to read other people's misfortunes to feel better about myself..

So be careful about your assumption that yours is better in a way that people care about.
Piracy on the high seas is on the decline, and so is the anti-piracy industry
Yes. It currently runs over 70% of global internet and considering all kinds of error conditions that show up on the global internet the code is extremely stable.
Meh.. all the marketing Estonia does to get attention is not really helping the tax payer.
There's definitely some overhead to start, but you don't have to do everything on day 1. You can simplify that a bit with existing GTD-friendly software. There are many, but one of the most popular is Wunderlist (https://www.wunderlist.com/).

If you don't have time to sit down to read the book right now, here's a nice 15-minute overview - https://hamberg.no/gtd/.
>It's close to being pleasant, but it's very discordant and hard to listen to…

You've probably never listened to free jazz (or 100 other genres besides)...
There's jazz which is more "non pleasant" than anything Bartok did.
I don't really see the similarity. With this Kindle scam, the scammers are taking money and directly putting it into their pockets. No one is discovering new content, no one is sharing content, no one is being entertained.

With file sharing, no the sharers make no money (except websites that show ads), and people discover new content that they enjoy.
Exactly. Something like 'P' = 'p' evaluates to true.
If you are busing... Sure the argument can be made that this doesn't take into account light-timers for walking, but if you're greedily selecting for shortest distance, this is exactly what you want when walking.
Stack->register JIT compiler for Python that maintains compatibility with existing C extensions because it runs as an extension within CPython. Average of 25% faster to up to 2.5x on the benchmarks in the paper.

Source link: https://github.com/rjpower/falcon/ (doesn't show up in the paper till the very end!)
Try saying this to someone that disagrees and see how quickly they refuse to agree or except any facts showing given the risks that the level of fear related to terrorism is at the very least irrational.
“Me-Too” Content Strategy Leads to Failure
>One of the central features of jazz (or any music) is rhythm.

Not really. There are lots of jazz styles not dependent on rhythm, and whole lot of genres having little to do with rhythm either (e.g. ambient music).
Quite interesting. If I ever get in a situation where one believer would like to engage in a dialog with me, that sounds like a good subject to discuss.
This seems to be my general experience. Female boss/female employee seems to be the most volatile combination.

To be fair, from my viewpoint, most of them seemed to be actually acting fairly. If a guy had done something similar, any one of them would have ripped him apart, too.

I don't have any explanation.
The police are the ones deciding how to respond to these (completely unbelievable) calls, and making them face consequences for their actions would be more effective than going on elaborate after-the-fact hunts for the guy that "tricked" them.
It's a massive distinction. I can refer to the CEO of a corporation as incompetent without commenting on the people that work for that corporation. The original poster was specifically referring to the people in charge [of the nationalized oil industry], not to the people of Venezuela[, the nominal owners of said industry]. Your conflation of the two completely misses their point and consequently derailed what could have been an otherwise interesting discussion.
Which is the same way they treat you. I don't think it's my fault this escapes you but I must admit, it's neither really based on logic nor efficacy, it's a social thing.

Put more emphasis on "I want to avoid an awkward situation" and "I don't want to hurt their feelings" less on "but people are adults" and you're pretty much there though.
Rails 5 has added accessed_fields to find the fields that are used in the app
There may be ways of making a client that doesn't need Android - like a simple WiFi chip that simply sends the information needed by the server. I'm currently looking into this!
my opinion: equity in a not-publicly-traded firm should be treated as icing on the cake, nothing more. you should negotiate (in good faith, not contentiously) for a proper, market-rate salary. consider (amongst other things) the future value of the money you will be missing out on if you were to take a below-market salary for some period of time.

a possibly relevant discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10783711
Simulating Build Clusters Part 3: When Auto Scaling Build Fleets Work
Most of those manuals were shitty to begin with.

You end up having to read the entire thing to properly understand a part of the functionality that got its own chapter. And don't get me started on the toy examples. The happy path is the least useful example you can use. I would stumble on that by myself.
"Why do you have something to hide?"
/sarcasm
Phineas Fisher has already publicly outed himself as an Italian security researcher. He openly shares his first and last name on his website.
Microservices Architecture – how we are implementing it at Stratoscale (part 2)
I'm near Dallas, and this is close to my experience.
So will there be a required DNA sample as part of visa/border entry for visitors and tourists?

How long until something like this is implemented in other places with Kuwait used as "prior art" of successful implementation?
Game of Thrones Set Designer Reveals the Show's Architectural Inspirations
> I'm questioning if employers will see that I have anything besides programming to offer...

Don't count on hiring managers (worse still, HR & recruiter bozos) to recognize some untapped potential in your background. That's not what they're trained to do.

> The issue I currently have is wondering what positions I should apply for.

Don't apply for positions. Instead, look for people who you can help. People who have problems that you can solve.
>Q: MoI has promised not to use the test for lineage or genealogical reasons. What are the guarantees it won’t do so?

>This has been confirmed by the law itself.

How reassuring.
They don't have to be fast-reading. They can just create a fake log, and send it to the mothership after an appropriate period of time.

Still, I will agree that that will make scammers' lives harder.
I don't see how this make a difference. Workers shouldn't have to accept abuse and poor treatment from others. Saying that someone treats everyone equally poorly too doesn't excuse their behavior. If we can effectively fight against jerks in the workplace by making it a fight against misogyny in the workplace, that seems better than the current situation.
To a degree, yes, but in my capacity as a moderator in /r/electroncis on Reddit, my heart sinks a little when a person asks what's the best way to get into electronics and someone replies that they should get an Arduino and a few interface shields or a bunch of LEDs and start turning things on and off. Programming I/O or PWM signals is considered by many to be 'electronics'.
Is "incredible gross incompetence" good or bad? I have problems judging people, so need help.
There was a clever game called Metal Marines back then that exploited this idea - the game was a 1v1 base-building RTS where each player's "base" was on its own map in its own window. When you fired missiles or launched APCs from one base into the other, the missile would fly out of your base window, over the desktop and into the other window to hit his base. The effect was jaw-dropping even though it was a simple and cartoony game.
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