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Many people are already highly critical of Russia (see, for example, yourself); what could Snowden add to that, and would it be worth the cost?

Before Snowden's leaks, those critical of the NSA could be shrugged off as paranoid tinfoil hats; Snowden not only brought that criticism into the public light, but provided hard evidence to back it up. That was a great contribution, and one he thought was worth the (also great) cost.
I work remotely whenever possible. I got rid of my car some time ago. Locally, I go pretty much everywhere by public transport. For domestic travelling I try to use high-speed trains instead of going by plane (also because it's much less of a hassle with today's airport security theatre).

Though concern about climate change was a factor, I'd be lying if I said that that was the main motivation for making these decisions personally. The main reason for me is simplicity (owning a vehicle means one more thing to take care of) and making better use of my time (by being able to work on the train for example).
>Instead of the answer, however, I get a fluffy human-interest piece that I simply do not care about. [...] How about we stop with crap like this, I don't need to hear a story, just the facts please. I've wasted several minutes on this story and still have no clue what the real reason is.

If you don't care for the lives affected by the phenomenon, then why would you be caring for the reason?

That's something even less important to know if one doesn't care about the effects.
It's also a myth that Sweden can't do the same for Assange (although one defended by certain lawyers for political reasons).

The courts can only stop extraditions, not non-extraditions. Politicians like to pretend their hands are tied because they would like to blame the bureaucracy for unpopular decisions, but they have full freedom to interpret their own bilateral treaty obligations. If the Norwegian government says he's a political refugee, he is as far as Norwegian law is concerned.
And do yourself a favour and buy his highly insightful and all-around great-to-read books:

http://hintjens.com/books
It may be cultural thing, but in the UK tech scene at least even if people are flexible about pepperoni it's mostly because there is a large and delicious range of meat-based pizzas to split the vote. The representative who orders just vegetarian pizza clearly isn't thinking in terms of re-election.
Well facts are usually more difficult to arrive at than you apparently think.

Putting forward a hypothesis requires facts and a ton of "fluff." It seems to me that you're not actually interested in learning anything, you just want some factoids. Try the CIA Factbook.
Then they should never have asked people what they want.
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Meanwhille: http://www.amazon.com/Violent-Python-Cookbook-Penetration-En...
You could have used CBOR for many of those things (http://cbor.io/).
That's really nice. I'll remember to use it whenever I need a linux box.

However, I'm not that interested in a zillion flavors of Linux.

I would be willing to pay for a box which comes with Windows and Visual Studio preinstalled (plus git, cmake, bash, etc):

In other words, an up to date development machine based on WinXP, Vista, 8, X, etc.

The main reason is that it takes hours if not an entire day to install all this stuff and run all the updates required to configure it.

As a Mac user writing cross platform C++, I sometimes need to test my app on various flavors of windows and compile the code on various flavors of compilers.

Keeping 30-50GB VM files ( for different versions of windows ) on my SSD is kind of wasteful, since I only need these boxes once every month or so..

I would easily part with $5 or $10 or even $20 (if it's very urgent) for an up-to-date box like that ..
I live 60 degrees northern latitude in a country with bad suicide statistics and the winters do get pretty harsh on you mentally. And there's still millions of people living norther than I do.

Highest suicide rates occur during the spring, around the vernal equinox not around the darkest time of the year. If you've never experienced the northern spring where each day is 10+ minutes longer than the previous, you'll never understand it. It just fucks up your mind in ways that are hard to describe.

My kitchen psychology thinks the high suicide rates in the spring may be related to the fact that people around you start to get more positive and active (some too much so) but if you're suffering from a bad depression, seeing that around you will make it worse.

It's not just suicides that peak. It also affects breakup/divorce rates as well as forming new relationships. It probably affects professional careers too, but I don't know if there are stats about it.

The long, dark winters and the rapid change that follows brings out some very primal sides. That being said, I'd recommend travel to the extreme latitudes around the solstices, both of them.

side note: we have about 15 hour long days at the moment. It's still pretty dark at night but I can't wait for the summer when you can see the sunset and sunrise at the same time if you look to the north at around midnight... it's magical.
The parent wasn't simply talking about making it a "cash machine", they're talking about using it as a PR vehicle for science.

And you don't have to be a child to appreciate the name, just not quite as allergic to whimsy as you seem to be.
I mean you can throw your hands up and say "No" all you want while quoting different documents (as others have pointed out, BOR v. Constitution) but it doesn't change the fact that that's what it is.
Now I want to see all those blowhards calling for a crackdown on the Drone Menace for a crackdown on the Plastic Bag Menace. Disgusting.
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The JeeNode is way bigger than an AA (with the upper pins bent outwards nearly double the size).

I recently bought teensys (or teensies?) to get smaller (a little to wide for AA slots though): https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/teensyLC.html Given the cost you might want to try to sand of one side of connectors to make it fit :)
What does that wiki article have to do with this book. Romack is not the author of the book?
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If they have permission from the owner, it's wrong to describe it as trying to get into "someone else's phone". There's no expectation of privacy in a government owned phone.
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> The article seems to push the idea that we think less of animals and that should change, but I don't think it's clear that the motive behind us humans pulverizing the animal kingdom is because we think we're superior to them.

The article doesn't put forward the idea that we should think more of animals for their sake; it's just saying that our understanding is factually incorrect.
The pushState is good it just needs to be fixed, after clicking around a few times the back button didn't go back properly, I had a bunch of states that were the same anchor/section?

If replaceState was used when interacting with a section and push/pop state was used when changing states/going back then it should only take a few backs to get back to where you were.
and Scala 2.12 change FunctionN to FunctionalInterfaces. That will add a huge boost to Java8 <-> Scala 2.12
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In abstract yes. In practice, the reasons you value it less than $5 and they value it more than $5 are not arbitrary, but based on factual concerns and real-world conditions.

Even if a crazy/fetishist/more-money-than-sense random person is OK to pay $20,000 for a bag of peanuts, the statistically important majority will not (and in fact, you'd be hard pressed to find even 1 such crazy person for such a thing).

So, yes, valuations vary, but not that much. In fact the reality is closer to products having an inherent value -- only it's not based on themselves, but on the conditions (e.g. a bottle of water is worth $1 now, $1000 in a dessert, $10,000 if Marilyn Monroe once drank from it, etc).

And while conditions change, they don't change that fast, or that much.
This may be correlation, but their own data doesn't look like causation.

For example, they talk about the "hole" in Boston with blacks carved out.

They don't talk about the hole in Dallas with whites carved out. In Dallas, compare the depiction of the hole on left vs. right. On the right they delete the whites (green dots) so it looks like nobody's in the hole. On the left, the hole is almost solid green, clearly invalidating the thesis.

They interview blacks in the Boston hole, but not whites in the Dallas hole, and nobody in L.A. where a higher % of blacks are served by same day Prime than whites.

I'm comfortable with a combination of two straightforward factors: where are Prime subscribers, and, where are the warehouses and package delivery hubs?

Prime and FedEx both likely have correlation to % of folks happy to pay $23 for a letter today vs $0.50 next week, and where you can put a warehouse and shipping hub to best logistically serve those folks, with Prime having a bias towards residential density and FedEx a bias towards commercial.
Direct democracy and representative democracy are different. But let's not fool ourselves into thinking the Internet suggestion box for ship names was direct democracy.
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If you like Neuromancer, you might like Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams. It's even more high-tech and morally ambiguous, and writing style very much like Gibson's in Neuromancer.
I've done the same, it took me a few days to finish unfollowing everyone but it was completely worth it. I find Facebook an excellent tool for connecting with people but the feed is too time expensive, that's supposedly how we pay for the service but if there's a way to circumvent it, I'll take it!
On the contrary, think of the why/who behind nicknames.
Actually the better question is why would they care about Snowden leaving (or not leaving) Russia? Or why wouldn't Putin let Snowden leave? Snowden is a minor liability for Russia.
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Good journey sir. Thank you for this piece. I feel your model should become an international standard.

I am saddened to see you are so young.

> ... and enforce the barbaric torture of decay and failure. It's especially relevant for cancer, which is a primary cause of death

I'm glad you find yourself somewhere enlightened. As someone who watched his father die of cancer over 2.5-3 years in the UK it almost robbed me of my father for a while. The last six months were brutal. He was either away with the fairies on Morphine, or in his increasingly rare lucid moments, pleading with NHS to reduce his dose. He chose pain and lucidity over a zombie state yet was often denied that choice as the system sought to reduce pain above all. He made it plain when he could, many times during the end months, that he didn't want to play this game any more.

Post death, our memories were of the brutality, of the incoherent husk on drugs who had had enough long since, of the ever increasing dosages and tripping in the system's wish to reduce pain, of the morphine smell. Of being increasingly worn down by it. It was harder in those early weeks after death to remember the real man, so defined by his mind, intelligence, humour and practical jokes. I still miss my best friend.

The UK is no nearer enlightenment on this topic today than 20 years ago when my father died. The views of those claiming a hotline to god, in our increasingly atheistic country, were exceptionally hard to hear, yet always sought in any media discussion of euthanasia.

I am thankful your children and other family will have the blessing of kinder memories.
How do you create this scale of sentience though?

I really have no idea "what it's like to be a cow."

What fact, theory, or experience convinces you that a cow's life is significantly less sentient than a monkey? (I'm genuinely curious.)
Bad food and TV didn't materialise out of thin air, they are part and parcel of that cultural bombing I was talking about.

I struggle to see how it's racist to admit that white people traditionally own and define the mainstream culture of places like Denmark and Canada. You cannot fix a problem if you don't admit you have one; the main problem here is that modern mainstream white capitalist culture (to which I belong and partake) might not necessarily suit all environments and all communities, and we have to find ways around that.

EDIT: note that I don't have anything against "successful white people", I'm just pointing out that our culture constantly sends out messages saying you should be like (some of) them, which might not be the best course of action in all situations. Zuck himself does not tell the media to glorify him, but they do it anyway; he might not be the best role model for the average not-white, not-male, not-Californian, not-Stanford-attending, not-programming-passionate person though, and when a lot of these not-zuck-like people see the Zuck-worshiping, they get a metaphorical kick in the teeth. Same for Hollywood celebs and so on. This is what I meant.
Seriously! I can't believe that the boat probably won't be named Boaty McBoatface!

My nephew would have wanted to learn about it, it would have been something I could keep up to date a bit on what it's doing and he'd love to hear about it.

Hell I can't believe the people on the project didn't go 100% for it right away, giving the boat a fun paint-job and maybe even doing something like working with a children's book author to write some stories about what the boat is doing that are geared toward children.

It would have been an amazing way to get kids involved and interested in the whole thing.
It might be consoling to some, but it is hardly accurate.
Serious analysis can result from even more drastic simplifications.

An analysis only requires as much detail as is necessary for its purposes.

The same way that you don't go into registers when you try to teach functions, or binary representation of numbers if you teach people to use a calculator.
Exactly. Think about the resources they put on this case. It should worth way more than $1M and all that came from tax payers money.
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Bear in mind, you don't have to be a proponent of something in order to support the right of people to choose it.
If the purchase was in cash for a second hand item (possibly third hand or more) then it becomes very dificult to track the buyer down. Look around a second hand store for a laptop that is more than a few years old and it is likely to have had at least one other owner since the original purchase. Do not use the laptop for at least 1 week, that way any CCTV from the store has been overwritten and really by the time they manage to trace it from the manufacturer through any owners and on to the second hand store it will be perhaps 2 weeks after purchase. At this stage even public CCTV records will start to be overwritten. If you bought one well in advance, i.e. 2 or even 3 months before you used it then it would make it nigh on impossible to find the buyer.

As an added level of security, a month after buying it make a post on craigslist to sell it as broken/not working. send an email to yourself from an internet cafe offering to buy it. Via email arrange a trade at a location without any CCTV. Plausible deniability if the police do ever show up at your door.
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That 'sweet sweet stream' actually contains not what surfaced while you slept but during the whole day except your allotted 20 minutes.

How do you consume 4 streams (HN, Reddit, Feedly and Twitter) each containing roughly 24 hours of activity, in 20 minutes?
Docker Hub. That is all.
> It sounds as if you're looking for fully formed applications (eg. PostgreSQL or whatever)

I'd like to see a good opinionated base stack for say Django (i.e. Postgres, uwsgi and redis) as well as fully fledged installs for stuff like Sentry, Gitlab, Zulip and similar apps.

We've of course built our own Django deploy using Ansible but I'd like to see some community efforts that are shared and get reviewed, critiqued etc.
He's interested in transport, so he's the kind of guy who is useful as a transport minister. Otherwise he mostly just votes with the whips and doesn't seem to have much focus on anything. I'm not sure that's really who you want for president
i'm also a procrastinator with clinical depression (F33.2) and i think our set of issues is entirely different
For those wondering like me about the word 'lakh' in the articles, it means 100,000.
I suppose this is an argument for 'recipe' over 'image'. You get to see how it was built and the chance to easily combine things from different recipes.

The downside is everything then is fragmented depending on the builder you choose (ansible vs whatever).
We are starting to realise that information overload is leading to a diabetes-like condition for the mind. Solutions like these mean we haven't only diagnosed ourselves but also almost immediately fighting back.
>Long-term, I am not very bullish on Google/Alphabet. More than 90% of their profits come online advertising, something that can be easily blocked for life with a simple browser extension/plugin. Some worrying figures

And yet frequently the press glorifies Google's "innovation" and is bullish on Apple, that has like 4-5 different sources of income (the PCs, the phone, the tablet, the watch, the tv, the cloud services, the app store, the music store) -- with more than one of them earning more profits than the whole of Alphabet put together.
I do agree with this comment. I work as a c++ programmer and my friends who stayed at uni to do their PhDs are bringing more money home each month than I do, mostly because it's tax free and they get paid a lot of money to do marking and demonstrating on top of their PhD stipend.
And yes, you have to finish in 4 years, extensions are uncommon.
I got some of the way there with https://github.com/xdissent/ievms and https://github.com/xdissent/iectrl but I'd really like a way to provision things on to the VM once it's up and running. Windows seems to suffer from a historical lack of attention to automated provisioning.
Well, TIL :)
Your reply is about Boaty McBoatface, am I correct?
This is an extremely odd thing to comment. You may be right, but your comment just feels inappropriate in the context of this thread.
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> You could do merchandise, books, characters

He was talking about free merchandise, books, characters then?
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>How long did it take for Google to really start printing money? 5? Maybe 10 years? Think of those projects now not wildly profitable as the seeds of new, profitable businesses down the road.

What projects? The self driving car? The traditional car companies (that also work on that), Tesla, the Chinese, and even Apple who's verified to be working on such a project can possibly all kill them on that market.

What else of importance is there? Their AWS competitor?
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Hear hear. I'm going to pass on your suggestion to NERC and my children's schools if you don't mind. I think using Boaty as a focus for school science projects is a great idea.

And you're absolutely right, it's bloody un-British to refuse to name it Boaty. I mean, we won't do anything about it but there'll be a lot of tutting I'll be bound.

I'm also a bit sore that they removed the Spanish admiral as an entry. Not exactly fair play. Rather disappointing actually.
Reminds me of the coding horror post, "Code: It's trivial" http://blog.codinghorror.com/code-its-trivial/
Then they are outliers, and market themselves out of the 80/20 customer segment.
He, some versions of the Z3 are getting the N(!)[1]. I'd say it's probable that it's your carriers fault, the Marshmallow updates for the Z3 have been out for a while.

[1] https://developer.sony.com/develop/smartphones-and-tablets/a...
People focus on the title and what it can buy you, but forget the skill set acquired and what that can buy you.

I have a PhD, but it didn't really help me get my job. What it did do is change me from a worker drone into an independent thinker and designer who can write design docs blindingly fast (compared to my highly esteemed, but slower writing, peers).

Not saying that everyone without a PhD is a worker drone, just that I was.
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+1 that is a good list

Although I use Google Search a lot less than I used to, I find myself a fairly happy customer of Play Music + TV + Movies, and I am using GCE as the platform for a new book I am writing on cognitive computing.

Google checkout may end up being huge. Google has sufficient funds to do more Google branded products. Their premium Chromebook is sort of too expensive to be a mainstream product, but I could see a Google branded cheaper Chromebook selling very well.

Google branded Chromebooks and Android phones bundled using their Fi wireless data services also seems like a good source of profit.
>Many of these queries - Q4, Q5, Q6, Q7, Q14, Q15, and Q20 -would have been better off using a bitmap index scan
on the driving table, but unfortunately that's
not supported in PostgreSQL 9.6.

the new Bloom index (9.6) can help here ?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/bloom.html

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the SQL queries:

Q4: https://github.com/tvondra/pg_tpch/blob/master/dss/templates...

Q5: https://github.com/tvondra/pg_tpch/blob/master/dss/templates...

Q6: https://github.com/tvondra/pg_tpch/blob/master/dss/templates...

Q7: https://github.com/tvondra/pg_tpch/blob/master/dss/templates...

Q14: https://github.com/tvondra/pg_tpch/blob/master/dss/templates...

Q15: https://github.com/tvondra/pg_tpch/blob/master/dss/templates...

Q20: https://github.com/tvondra/pg_tpch/blob/master/dss/templates...
I'm pretty sure he means he looks at all the headlines, and then picks whatever is the most relevant / interesting to read throughout the day.
Seriously. Especially now that VS is free-ish, this could be done much more easily (probably).
How would you accurately explain death to a toddler? It is a good analogy that takes the toddler's feelings into account. Daddy ran out of Legos but he loves you. Quite beautiful actually.
try deadbeef ?
Because prince has done nothing in the last 25 years; his best stuff is closer to the moon landings than to today, and because when people look back at the '80s they're not going to longer too long on his music.

Best description I ever read was "probably a reincarnation of one of Jimi Hendrix's pubic hairs".
Except that Google's self-driving cars do run Linux (after all, us humans do okay with 250ms latency).

https://www.linux.com/news/linux-leads-self-driving-car-move...
They also said:

> You could have Boaty McBoatface sale up to the ice caps to look at why they are melting.

An example of how it could be used to deliver important messages.

And merchandise can be part of the message anyway.

(I should however note that I just edited my comment to include the word "simply".)