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Oh, I'm pretty sure they were all aware that credential value was ultimately going to have to be a pretty important component of getting people to pay more than a token amount. But the value of credentials is much more something that others confer on the credential than something the credentialing organization can confer on itself.

Sure, the organization can attempt to explain and promote how its credential provides evidence of X, Y, Z skills or knowledge. Which works reasonably for both well-established institutions and narrow vocational training (including in IT). But it's a lot harder to make a case that random MOOC course provides evidence of much other than a generalized interest in continuing education (for which you don't really need a credential to prove).
Got one upvote though (maybe yours).
A Bitcoin Exchange Just Got Approval to Operate Across the EU
You assume that you're not retaliated against. This is the essence of MAD, a kind of bizarre gentleman's agreement. The general opinion was that as soon as the nukes start flying, you can pretty much assume that your country is going to get decimated as well. When you nuke someone, there's a good chance they'll do exactly the same to you. Both sides planned for automatic counter strikes even in the event that the command chain was broken, though whether the capability was actually there is uncertain.

Not to mention that you will probably have allies. There is a good chance that if Russia had bombed the US, most of NATO would have turned on Russia. The Cold War wasn't exactly peacetime, but it wasn't open war either. An act of such extreme aggression as a nuclear strike would have had far-reaching consequences. You wouldn't have been able to sit on your hands, waiting for the person you bombed to set up the field hospitals before bombing them again.

On the other hand if you'd just nuked a superpower, you'd have started a world war. Odds are you're going to go back and bomb them some more anyway, and they're going to try and bomb you back.

It's true though, these reports tend to assume that a nuclear strike is the end of the conflict rather than the start of a protracted war. Although maybe they tend to focus on the civilian side and assume that the military is going to be off doing its thing.
If we're going to play "absurd conclusions" game, my move is to declare that we should kill everyone. No future victims, ever!
Same. London black cabs are fairly expensive, and at busy times (like just after pubs and bars close at night) you can have a really hard time trying to find one. I don't know what the deal is with the non-black cabs in London ... but they seem more shady, it's much harder to tell if the driver is registered or just some dude with a car, so I just avoid them. Uber solves both these problems. I and my friends are in our 30s, and we nearly all have been using Uber exclusively since it arrived.
Same here I can't. I live in France but as soon as I am back in SF I will!
A photo may be telling a thousand words, but quite often a lot of those words have little value or relevance to the topic.
WSJ does this too. Don't ask why I was a subscriber, but to cancel you have to call.
> This just sounds so wrong to me. If you have a good product and it brings value, then others should be able to value it by paying you back for your product or services. Period.

I completely understand this philosophy, but an attempt at building a two-sided market place is very likely going to require outside investors. This opinion that you need to be profitable from day one has been proven wrong repeatedly and while some 'unicorns' will fail or become less than worth $1bn, their achievements are still very real.

It is 100% OK to want to build a business, but entrepreneurs should be flexible enough to understand when it is appropriate to raise money, or make a product that does not generate profit up front.

For the record, I also attempted to create a two-sided market and I also failed. It was super painful and I hope you move on quickly with some really solid lessons learned.
this was the primary failure they're referring to

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/18/citing-disapp...
Sorry, I meant 2G - e.g. in Australia, Telstra/Optus have already announced shut-down dates, the third network Vodafone hasn't, but they're expected to soon - which renders the device useless.
Especially powerful is the LCL (Lazarus component library) a GUI wrapper library which makes it possible to "write once compile everywhere" (Slogan of Lazarus).
An in difference to QT or gtk and such toolskits it looks native on every platform because in the backend LCL can use GTK, GTK2, QT, Win-API or in this case MUI to create the GUI, so the application look not like aliens but native.
the term shifts over time.
Out of curiosity, what is your definition of an average js dev?

Are we talking 'does not use many jQuery plugins these days' or 'regular contributor to ${framework}' here?
Does anyone have a decent explanation of why? I'm confused why () => {} would be slower than function(){}.bind(this).
>most people who get Type-2

Do you have any evidence that it's most?

>let's shame everyone who is fat for being overindulgent.

Being overweight is tied to many diseases, and costs me a lot of money in health care costs. I have a say in this.
I hope so.

I try to live in that way, and I try to encourage those around me to live in that way (refusing imbalanced employment conditions). I think if enough people did, we could start to help each other, rather than relying on capital and private property so much.

Basic income is one sort of stepping stone towards that. Ultimately I think the ideal is people actually having real choices, not the huge bias we have towards salaried employment at the moment.

If life were an MMO, then salaried employment would be the cookie cutter build, hourly work would be the odd hybrid, and otherwise you've decided to not bother with your talent tree, and you're just gimping yourself. Can we tweak the rules of the game a bit, or are they just emergent?
The point of having an aggregator is not to have a headache with stock keepings and shippings, on the other hand doing an aggregator leads you to have less control over the products and customer service. Each has its own drawbacks
Correction - I meant to say 2G only (as in, their trackers only work on the 2G GSM network, which is being shutdown in many/most places).
exactly. the passphrase for the private key isn't touched. the >24 chars passphrase is used for the symmetrically encrypted pgp message.
I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes about a year and a half ago, at the time I had an HBA1C of 8.2 (6.0 is the top end of normal). The first thing I did when I got home was google "cure for diabetes", the newcastle diet is what came up. After 6 months of the usual medication (metformin etc.) I decided to give it a go. You can see my log, which includes medication, supplements, exercise, total calories per day and BG readings 5 times a day[1]. You can see that it took me just 12 days to come off the medication and that in the following 2 months I was able to maintain excellent BG control.

A year later I'm still off the medication, my last HBA1C was 5.7 which is considered normal. Maintaining that does require daily exercise (and I do mean _every_ day) and good diet management but I've found it a fairly easy regime to follow (half an hour of 80% intensity is enough most days).

My quality of life is now excellent (it was terrible on the medication) and I'm able to eat a little more freely. The only big differences regarding diet are that I now only drink a couple of times a month and I don't go near anything with wheat flour in it.

EDIT: google docs doesn't seem to allow me to share the docs publicly (I can only share with specific email addresses or within my domain) so I've made them available as csv and excel files.

[1]

CSV - https://www.dropbox.com/s/tr1xwd3l6ziiows/newcastle_diet.csv...

Excel - https://www.dropbox.com/s/12tjf23oz7ihq4d/newcastle_diet.xls...
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I don't think they had a actual bot at all.
What levels of compensation are we talking about here? Indeed shows ~$150k when searching for kdb in NY.
Great points @redmaverick. Your ideal interaction described above is what I called a 'meta-chatbot' i.e. a chatbot that interfaces with other bots and interacts on your behalf with them.

This bot receives input from you, based on its knowlwedge of available bots, routes your requests to them and pipes the response back to you.

The problem with the current bot arms race is that we end up shifting the app fragmentation issue from the device home screen to the messaging app screen.

We bot enthusiasts love to claim that one of the advantages of using bots is that the user is already within the messaging app. But when you have lots of bots for different 'small' tasks then there is still a huge fragmentation as you switch context from the taxi bot to the pizza bot.

I shared some thoughts on the 'meta-bot' here: https://medium.com/@pelumi/chatbots-igniting-division-of-lab... it will be great to know your thoughts
This is an important point. If your usage of these techniques is not on a hot critical path, I think there's much to gain by continuing to use them as the native optimizations continue to improve.
>The community takes a back seat to economic needs, it seems. Something like that. I'm not sure.

This is actually a phenomenon which, according to Karl Polayni's Aristotle Discovers the Economy, roughly began in Greece shortly after the inventions of the alphabet and coinage which helped lay the framework for a more global economic system.

Traditionally tribal or "uncivilized" economies produced goods and services primarily for the local consumption of the clan, community, or family.

But soon after, production for consumption shifted to production for exchange as such societies became less "tribal" and more "civilized" via increasing literacy and "the market system".

With this phenomenon began the shift from the tribal values of family and community over the individual to civilized societies' value of the individual over the community.

Aristotle warned that this dynamic would destroy the autonomy and connectedness of the family and community and create a dangerous dependence on foreign goods.
> So, there has to be a strong generic component to type 2 diabetes.

Yep. The inheritance in families with monogenic diabetes and high incidence in certain ethnic groups make this pretty clear.
Apart from the rough time it needs a very long time to get the ball rollin.. it's even tougher to do in a market where the people are not ready yet
ZipCar requires a phone call too. Despite being a subscription service, if your credit card expires, they will send it to debt collections until you call to officially cancel. Shady.
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I hope I am not... we still see new marketplaces coming up every day
"Self-inflict."

It's actually a fairly complicated and can be quite difficult for people to break out of, even people who desperately want to change. When people follow the standard guidelines (which are beginning, slowly, to change) to avoid fat and reduce calories, they end up feeling hungry all the time, and have to white knuckle their way through. This is not a state that people can maintain long-term.

Starvation studies from the University of Minnesota have been described this way: "During the semi-starvation phase the changes were dramatic. Beyond the gaunt appearance of the men, there were significant decreases in their strength and stamina, body temperature, heart rate and sex drive. The psychological effects were significant as well. Hunger made the men obsessed with food. They would dream and fantasize about food, read and talk about food and savor the two meals a day they were given. They reported fatigue, irritability, depression and apathy. Interestingly, the men also reported decreases in mental ability, although mental testing of the men did not support this belief."

In addition, there is evidence that the body begins to reduce energy output in response to reduced energy input, thus making the advice every overweight person hears from nearly every source to "eat less and move more" a load of nonsense. That can work short-term, but the combination of reduced energy output and constant hunger make that recipe very ineffective long-term.

There is even more to complicate the story (e.g. it is common for overweight people to feel hungry even with massive amounts of energy stored in fat due to some of the effects of what's now being called variously, metabolic syndrome, syndrome X and diabesity).

In short, when people become overweight, which is a progressive condition of insulin resistance that grows slowly over time, or in other words and emergent hormonal dysfunction because of diet, they cannot "eat less and move more." To that extent it is not self-inflicted especially since millions of Americans are doing exactly that as told by their doctors and it is having no effect.

The only way to really change body composition long-term, is to change diet in a way that is at odds with what doctors learned twenty years ago in the two days they studied nutrition in medical school, which, as it turns out, is wrong.
Skinny people get Type-2 diabetes too.

The beautiful thing about figuring out a treatment is that it'll help you if you're Type-2 diabetic and should ease your suffering from the disease regardless of your fitness level.
> "you have a developer experience I still haven't seen matched (ironically not even by later versions of Delphi)."

Out of interest, have you tried C#? Delphi and C# share the same lead architect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg
Is there a full datasheet available for it like there was for the OV7670 if we want to perform more bitwise calculations with it? http://www.cutedigi.com/pub/sensor/Imaging/OV7670-Datasheet....
What copyright infringement?
Partnership of corporation and government and college to enslave you
> which depends on the JVM ...

Which has a mature ecosystem managed by people experienced in maintaining software over a decade or more.
20 years in the same fund / strategy is generally a poor strategy, especially for retirement savings. That said investing for 20 years plus

Early on your appetite for risk should be much higher but as you get nearer to your end point (generally retirement, but could be kids going to college etc) you want to reduce your risk exposure. Generally this is done by switching the balance of your portfolio more into bonds and low volatility equities.
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Honest question: How does this improve on the info already on Wikipedia?
A bit off-topic: Does anyone know how this sort of documentation was built? Looking for something similar for a project. Would love to know.
You're asking whether we can create artificial intelligence.
IMHO, collaboration will be a hard one to crack. I use MS Office for office work and even they haven't gotten it as good as Google Apps.
I thought ribbon was really bad for productivity, as it's just a less-effective mega menu, or a mega-menu which hides some options without providing any mechanism to see everything. My understanding was that an application had to go to full mega-menu, with all the options visible, or traditional dropdowns w/ alphabetized groupings and lots of iconongraphy.
I sleep walked with our first baby. I don't sleep walk normally and as far as I know this was the first only time period when I did. Apparently my wife would tell me to get the baby and I would do it in my sleep with absolutely no recollection after of having done so.
I would say mainly for learning, as long as you first have enough knowledge to set it up to not be detectable outside your property.

But as it develops, it could be useful for building networks in developing countries, or for deploying emergency networks as it will be far lower cost than commercial equipment.
The assumption that classes should be taught on a semester ("seat time") basis, with everyone starting and stopping at the same time, is a professor-centric view of the world.

A student-centric view would use technology to help students have an educational experience around their own schedule and needs (e.g., varied pace; reinforcement or skipping where appropriate).
I believe it's Gitbook - https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook
While the rating for an entirely identical comment seems about as scientific a test as one could hope for, perhaps at least some of the fall-off in points is a penalty for literally copying old comments?

(Also, any one comment could fall through the cracks; the best comments can sometimes, by pure chance, fail to catch initial attention and fall out of view, without it necessarily reflecting anything but who was awake and browsing then—there's definitely a "rich get richer" effect in any system that promotes highly ranked content. For example, it would be interesting to know what times of day these two comments were posted.)
General-purpose channels on IRC seem to fall into two categories: on the one hand, small and populated by mutual acquaintances who view un-vouched-for outsiders with suspicion; on the other, gigantic, purposeless, and either dead idle or too busy to keep up with. Starting from scratch, you're better off looking for channels relevant to your specific interests, and branching out from there.
Meaning, that 2000 people have entered their email into a webform? How many of those have github accounts which indicate they are active? How many of those are regularly active on the site on a weekly or daily basis?
"Suicide"?

So American economic sanctions and attempts to instigate coups there have nothing to do with the current state of Venezuela? It's all because of the evil "Reds Under The Beds" socialist regime.

The breathtakingly sanctimonious and naïve weltanschaaung of so many Americans never fails to leave me gobsmacked
Streetcar companies in the US almost universally were under regulation where they were legally required to have a fare that could not support the maintenance of the system.
They can wage their own wars. It doesn't bother me, really. I have had a Lyft driver who also drove for Uber, tell me he used very similar tactics. He and other drivers would accept Uber rides and leave those people hanging at the airport to protest Uber's price decreases.
I use this extension on Chrome, both marks new comments with a vertical orange stripe, and adds expand and collapse thread widgets, including one to collapse the whole thread you're in in the middle of: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-news/mnlaodle...
Founder of Truebill here...

We plan to make money by recommending new services (i.e. we see you have X and Y, would you like to try Spotify).
It'd be interesting to formalize this as an IMAP extension, and announce it as a capability in the server.
>My is working conditions are probably far more comfortable than that most of the plantation owners, but I still claim to work for a living.

Are they though? They weren't supposed to solve hard (thinking-wise) business and algorithmic problems, or sit tied to a PC and program 8-12 hours a day.

If anything Southerners were considered leisurely compared to the Northerners.
If the transmission was encrypted, it would have also been illegal on the amateur bands [1]. This isn't 90s crypto-war paranoia; the concern about encryption is that if transmissions on the amateur bands are allowed to be obscured, unscrupulous individuals (say, taxi companies), could flood the amateur bands with commercial transmissions rather than pay for a share of the commercial bands. This goes against the open, public intent behind amateur bands, and takes away bandwidth from amateur users (read: the public, you and me). The FCC is looking out for us.

Radio spectrum is a finite resource. If you look at a chart [2] of US Frequency allocations, amateur radio operators have been given the right to transmit on a relatively massive fraction of the physically available spectrum. It would easily be worth billions if it were commercial. Instead, due to the quirks of history, the public has been given wondrous access to the airwaves. It's a public resource, like a park, and it's the Grand Canyon, it's Yellowstone, it's Yosemite. As hackers we have to respect it, and we have to protect it by using it responsibly. We need to get licensed, and we need to educate others so we can avoid a tragedy of the commons. Illegal transmissions are like litter. If we don't follow the rules and treat the amateur spectrum well, the FCC could plausibly decide to auction it off. It's not like there isn't pressure to do so. Demonstrating a DIY BTS is very cool, but at least have the decency to test it in a faraday cage. Don't litter in my park.

Amateur radio is fun, and it's one of the original electronics hacker activities. Get licensed, assemble a few simple electronic components, and talk to someone else (often like you), potentially thousands of miles away. All without reliance on any extant communications infrastructure. How cool is that? It's a tremendous way to learn about physics and electronics, and there are many exciting things happening with digital transmissions. It's a magical thing when you hear a foreign voice coming from your speaker, carried from a transmitter a continent away. Learn, build, and have (responsible) fun in the park!

1. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/97.113

2. https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/2003-alloch...
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Framing the problem
Maybe you should choose meetups for those of your hobbies that are not directly related to your career.

I mean, it is likely that if you are a programmer you'll end up talking about work in a programming or startup meetup.

It will be much harder if it's about boardgames or ultimate frisbee.
"First open source cloud"? I think not. ownCloud, Sandstorm.io, etc. This is not new territory.

Awesome, sure. First, no.
I started on a Udacity cert program, but had to drop it due to time constraints. The capstone of the program is/was a real-world project.

While I never signed up for the nanodegree track, it appears those are similar.
Ubuntu is nice as a (1) desktop, but I can't see it's benefits as a server operating system. It's harder to configure, and more opaque than the alternatives. The devs seem amateurish and the company is too much unfocused for its size. The system is not well integrated and surprising changes occur frequently. Documentation is scarse and fragmented. There are systems like BSDs and maybe some Gnu Linux distros where the behaviour of the system and that the devs are way more predictable and processes and practices transparent. Why use Ubuntu for server, for other than its popularity and tradition? Is there actually any pros to it that I don't know?

(1) Edit: Removed "disability" from here, autocorrect accident.
Extremely sound advice.