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> pay the money for Omnificus

Absolutely not. I will not get sucked into their lock in again. I own several macs but I constantly switch between iOS and Android and, for the past year, I've been getting back into doing development on Windows again. I had most of my life in Omnifocus at one point but what good is it if I can't use it on my windows computer or my phone?

Focus GTD is awful. It's very buggy and relies on the Omni folks not radically changing or introducing something. The last time I used Focus GTD it actually lost some of my data during a sync. Sure it's probably better now but I'll never try it again.

I think it's a mistake to pick a system that forces you to only use a single platform. GTD helps people run their entire lives depending on how much you use it so I think it's important you pick a system that is flexible enough to come with you no matter what.

Though I'll be honest there are not a lot of good alternatives out there (especially if you want a dedicated windows app).
Good that they are streaming it this year. I think I'll watch the recorded replay though.
You keep making assertions, but my original point in posting that reference, is that if your style of argumentation is to make assertions, and then pass the reader off to another source to verify your assertions, then all other things being equal, the source with the most academic backing is going to win. Either you directly argue the point, or you argue by authority. If you argue by authority, academia has the most authority.
someone committed Harakiri, I guarantee it
Smart guns have an interesting history. In the 90's Colt developed a smart gun, but the results "backfired." Anti-gun groups were against it because of the idea that safer guns meant that the barrier to entry to ownership was lower (now that guns are "safer", why not have one?); people who depended upon guns for their livelihood were skeptical: when you need to use one there needs to be no questions that it will function (barring all the traditional issues of "dumb" gun); if successful, other manufacturings would have to follow suit and there could be legal actions against "dumb" gun manufacturing and ownershpi...etc.

I've linked some articles that touch upon this attempt by Colt.

NRP Article:
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/07/473416699/how-an-idea-to-devel...

Hacker News Discussion of Article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11462297
Dropbox does transparent updates between my computer's and phone, all I have to do is remember to save. With git I need to remember to pull before Editting, and commit+push after changing. As I only use one machine at a time, merging isn't really useful.
I don't think so. They've opposed any background check legislation proposed before, and that bill seems more like it is about "augmenting" "background checks" rather than actually augmenting background checks in a useful manner.
https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=11602544&goto=item%3Fi... summed things pretty well.

It is wrong in the assumptions it makes.
For your questions in particular.

- Yes, this was a concert (with paid tickets), in the US, attended by a large group of people.

- Yes and no, Miku is often called a Virtual pop star but that is a misnomer if by virtual pop star you mean anything else than just a fictional character who is a popular singer. It is just like saying Harry Potter is a wizard.

- It depends on your meaning of create. Miku was indeed created by Crypton. But what they created is nothing more than a voicebank for the vocal synthesis software Vocaloid, given it a name and commissioned someone to create the box art for the product.
Everything else about Miku (her personality, likes, dislikes, hobbies, friendships, rivalries, clothes, the songs she sings, etc.) was made by fans. Miku is by no means controlled by anyone. Crypton, who have the original trademark for the character have given everyone the right to create what they want with the character. Through the fan art you make (songs, animations, fan fics, etc.) you have as much control on Miku as anyone else. There is no canon version of the Vocaloids.

Vocaloid is the vocal synthesis software created by Yamaha. The software uses voice banks usually provided by third parties. Each voice bank usually has a character associated. These characters are collectively called the Vocaloids. Hatsune Miku is one of the characters for one of the voice banks.
It has nothing to do with all the visuals. Fans just created 3D animation software for crating animations with the characters. These animations were eventually used to create the concerts. Crypton, being the original trademark holder started providing these concerts to fans who requested them using fan made songs, fan made costumes and fan made choreographies.

- I leave the last question about the strangeness of reality to you.
I meant that I was ravenous after swimming, not typically during. I used that word because it's different than the usual "I'm a bit peckish" that happens in the morning or after a few hours of not eating. I like the comment about thirst, it could easily be that.

I did bodybuilding for ~5 years and did the whole bulk/cut cycle every 3-4 months so I had quite a few cutting session and a few times I let myself go (30-40lbs overweight) and had to lose more than 10-15lbs; in those instances I did IF (Intermittent Fasting) and ate in 6-7 hour windows (evening). The first week or so you get pretty hungry in the morning, but after that it's pretty easy.

I only say this because I want to express that I'm familiar with just being a bit hungry vs much more than that. When I was 19 I lived with a friend and we were both broke, I dropped from 180lbs to 145lbs (on my frame that was skeletal) in a few months from not eating much at all. That was pretty severe hunger, but even my ravenous after swimming isn't as bad as that was.

FWIW, and if it matters at all, I'll be 39 in a month.
I'm not into podcasts but I am VERY into audiobooks via audible. I listen to them while commuting, while doing chores around the house and while walking the dog. I used to read voraciously and never had time any more. I alternate fiction and non fiction. Some recommendations: 14 by Peter Cline, the Power of the Dog by Don Winslow, and The Like Switch by an ex-FBI agent about likability.

Changed my life immensely for the better. I read about 5 books a month now.
It seems unlikely that the Russian intelligence services would be forced to this in such an obvious manner. But it might have been done in such an obvious way to act as a deterrent: like a van parked outside a dissidents house: We are watching you, and want you to know that we are watching you?
I get it, the money isn't everything. It's hard to go into work. Every task feels like you can't get started on it.

I don't agree much with doing the things you don't want to do. But for that kind of money, you have to do it. Suck it up, do what you can to make it better, and when you have the fuck-you-money, well--tell 'em "fuck you" and do whatever you want, forever.

Vest in peace.
Good article, glad to see some knowledgable firearms writing in the general press.

This is how I've felt as a gun owner over the last two decades, translated into computing:

Imagine that someone in California hacked into a power station and caused a blackout. Police responded and found the hacker and their equipment. Shortly thereafter an "anti-hacking" bill appeared in the state legislature to prevent a repeat of such a disaster. The attacker used some strange system called Ubuntu which most computer users have little or no reason to have, so that was specifically outlawed in the state (while any other Linux distro is fine). They had a quad-core CPU, 16 gigs of RAM, and a USB 2.0 keyboard for "faster hacking"; the bill mandated a limit of 9 gigs, 2 cores, and PS/2 connectors only. The attacker also used something called the "TCP protocol" (misnomer intended); the bill also mandated that the protocol include a 4th and 5th step transmitting "I am not a hacker" and acknowledging "You will be prosecuted with a felony under California SB1137 for improper use of this TCP protocol".

The bill passes and no more hacks occur. Other states don't want to be seen as soft on crime, so they draft copycat bills and randomly ban openSUSE, Gentoo, and trackballs with more than 6 buttons. Within a few years computer enthusiast sites pop up detailing which states are safe to travel to with your laptop. 1 gig RAM chips get unexpectedly expensive as everyone wants to get up to that 9 gig limit in restricted states. California legislators visit university computer labs disapprovingly and talk about closing the "Linux loophole". Activist groups lobby Congress, maintaining that the Founding Fathers never could have conceived of computers as an evolution of the printing press and therefore the 1st Amendment did not apply to electronic devices or communications. Programmers everywhere grumble about coding for two different communication protocols depending on whether or not your users are in California (but it's such a big market you can't ignore it). Your mother wonders why you can't just get your work done on an 8 year old laptop running Windows 7, it's good enough for her web browsing!

The contractor maintaining the power plant control system again leaves the web admin panel open and unsecured after testing from home and forgetting to unflip a poorly labeled feature flag on the production server.
Discussions like these, among many clearly intelligent people, can sometimes get lost in the weeds. What's missing is a basic contextual foundation, without which all the wonky details in world are nearly meaningless. Why discuss AMT, Germany, and tax loopholes without first agreeing on inequality.

Most would agree that in a capitalist system there MUST be some inequality to provide incentive; extreme inequality is unsustainable; an economy (and society) is at it's best when inequality is low; and progressive earnings taxation is in fact the only proven and viable solution to address extreme inequality.

I rarely see this foundation laid here or in "the media". We can bitch and moan about the 0.1%ers and the tax code they've written for us, and it's certainly entertaining. But let's try to agree generally on where we want to go before discussing how to get there and who's going to drive.
That's absolutely false. The NRA's membership drives their policy, not the other way around - manufacturers have historically been perfectly content to give into things like the assault weapons ban or magazine capacity limits (they make roughly the same amount of money if they sell their guns with a scary flash hider or a sanctified muzzle brake). In fact there are numerous groups, like the Gun Owners of America, who are even more membership-driven and essentially exist in order to keep pressure on the NRA to avoid making "deals" with gun control partisans.

This idea of the NRA as a manufacturer-driven astroturf organization seems to have been made up out of whole cloth over the last 5 years or so and is only sustainable to the extent that its proponents avoid actually talking to any gun owners.
In Vim, you can place the cursor on a file name and press "gf" to open that file in a buffer. So, have a directory with your TODO files, one task per file. Then, inside the file put stuff like due date and description, then for dependencies or subtasks just write in the filenames for those tasks. They can either be relative paths, or you can `:set path=/path/to/todos` and just write the filenames. For an overview of everything, you can also just open the directory.

I'm sure emacs can do something similar if you're really resistant to org-mode. If it's not built in, it seems like it would be trivial to add with elisp.
It's all just policy information on there. It's not online banking. It'd be nice if all sites were available on HTTPS, but it's not unusual or funny.
In previous versions of Windows, the task manager menus could be toggled by double clicking an empty area in the window. You should also be able to select additional columns to display in the options. Note: I haven't used the win8 taskmgr.
Nando De Freitas has a great youtube channel with videos that you might find helpful, including this one in particular on unconstrained optimization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGOda9mz_yA&list=PLE6Wd9FR--...
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The lecture that covers gradient descent in the Youtube list you linked there is the first time gradient descent actually clicked for me, and I made it through the entire Andrew Ng Coursera ML course. Highly highly recommend it.
> NRA actually represents the business interests of people who manufacture and sell firearms

But this is in no way mutually exclusive from representing the interests of citizens who want to buy and possess those firearms.

It makes total sense that an organization lobbying against outlawing a product would be supported by both the manufacturers and consumers of that product.
Part of the push for smart guns for law enforcement would come from law enforcement's negligent inability to keep track of their own weapons. A local news channel covered the story of one Bay Area city's police department releasing a report on an inventory of the weapons used by police officers. They were literally missing hundreds of them. Often, the weapon would be lost when an officer left it in an unlocked car, either a police car or their own and the thief simply opened the door/trunk and took it.
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you mean for you :)
Based on last time when someone decided to rethink PID1 and wrote systemd, I'm kind of afraid of any research in this field...

EDIT: flicked through the article and yup, it's 2010 and systemd is announced: "You probably guessed it: what I suggested above as requirements and features for an ideal init system is actually available now, in a (still experimental) init system called systemd, and which I hereby want to announce."

2016 and I'd still say it's mostly experimental, but unfortunately reached production machines now.
Someone should send a Lync message to them about writing a Linq query to find all the links for projects with similar names.
>> The productivity gained by agreeing on a framework

This is a false dichotomy. This only applies once the developers have real experience with the framework. Throwing a brand new framework at the devs without at least a month to play with it - play, not work! - is doomed to failure. Expecting first-time use of a framework on an actual project to go well is a horrible mistake.

There is a lot to learn with any reasonably sized framework. Making devs use an unknown framework without time to learn it will result in a project that doesn't use that framework properly. Thousands of lines of code will be written... to duplicate functionality the framework already provides, but that the devs don't know exist. The rush of deadlines means that the devs skip reading documentation or researching the "right way" to do every task, and you wind up with a project that technically uses the framework... except that the entire project will be written in a way that someone with previous experience with that framework would never have allowed to happen.

Some frameworks have so much to learn that it's essentially equivalent to having to learn a new programming language. Would you ever expect someone to learn C in a week? Java? Python? No...? Then please don't expect devs to pick up a new framework on the spot with no time to self-train on it.
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There are many reasons to switch to HTTPS - protecting financial data in transit is just one of them. Here's an overview with further explanations but many similar examples exist: https://snyk.io/blog/10-reasons-to-use-https/
I find this pretty useful for org-mode directories

https://github.com/simonthum/git-sync/
From the beginning of the first comment in the HN discussion you link to:

he explained that it was only supposed to fire if the shooter was wearing a special wristband with a little radio frequency transmitter inside. The CEO put on the wristband and went to pull the trigger. ... And it didn't shoot. Just silence.

An "oops" which is entirely unacceptable for any law enforcement/self defense use case.
Thank you for the input. Yes I was being a bit flippant and shallow, ewll more conversational really.

You're right about hype being dangerous.
By the way, cool usage of markdown.
Take a look at the page source. Amazing!
Did you not read the article? It's from 2010 and written by Lennart Poettering, introducing the basic concepts behind systemd.
A business whose by-laws are encoded in an algorithm that runs autonomously, and is published. I think the algorithm says that people can submit proposals (i.e. "send X money to Y") and they'll be voted on by all members, and if the vote passes then the algorithm itself performs the action. There's no-one in charge outside of the emergent behavior of the member votes.
I disagree. The NRA has 4 million American members which I think makes it the largest lobby by membership. I doubt they're all pawns of the gun industry.

If the NRA wanted to solely juice sales and sell more guns they would give heavily to elect more Democratic candidates. The current presidency has been great for sales [0].

0 - https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/reports/nics_firearm_...
I was rather over simplifying a tad and being conversational (and I'm not an expert, not even much beyond beginner).

It is indeed an exciting time.
I suppose so, but it's not like that would make any difference in the number of illicit guns on the street, and I've never heard of smart guns being designed for that much harder use case, where an adversary had lots of time to modify them. The most common one is limiting who can fire it, e.g. preventing the all too common tragedy when a criminal snatches a cop's gun and kills him with it.
One of the largest banks here in Brazil is also HTTP-only for its main website. Of course, its online banking website is HTTPS-only (and until very recently, it required the use of the RC4 cipher).
I've worked with node/npm/frontendy land for 5 years solid now. At first I used a lot of libraries. I guess with experience, it became clear that relying on as few as possible is much better.

Frankly, build systems like grunt and gulp are not necessary for node or frontend development. You can write the same or much less code, with much less domain knowledge, and accomplish the same thing using npm scripts and plain JS files.
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yes, in USSR/Russia the BUK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buk_missile_system) is designed to defend ground forces on the battlefield against incoming A-10s. 70kg warheads :) With new, much better targeting electronics, etc., this lighter system is supposed to be doing well too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsir-S1 (20kg warhead)

Interesting that modern system like Pantsir seems to cover the F-35 case too: "Aerial targets include everything with a minimum radar-cross-section of 1 cm2 and speeds up to a maximum of 1,000 metre/second (Mach 3) within a maximum range of 20,000 metres and heights up to 15,000[7] metres". I don't think that F-35 RCS is less than 1 cm2.

Giving that and also that stealth isn't much of a stealth if there is a network of radars, including airborne ones, it doesn't seem like F-35 would be any better than A-10 in CAS against modern military, while against bearded guys with AKs in desert the A-10 is just more powerful and cheaper.
Smart guns are to self-defense and the gun industry what the Clipper chip was to encryption and the communications industry, except the Clipper chip actually worked.
It basically took the stock 80s movie plot of the ragtag bunch of misfits saving their community center from being shut down by greedy real-estate developers, and dressed it up as a 40s period piece.

Imagine if they told the story of the Normandy invasion as being a squad of GIs pulling one over on mean old man Eisenhower, saving the day by inventing the flat-bottom motorized landing craft.

That said, the small amount of stuff set in the future about Turing's persecution was well done.
Yes, amazingly I understand that. But it's not any more surprising or funny that the Bank of England would be on HTTP compared to any other policy website which still isn't on HTTPS.
Seeing a seven-bit value with three ones, my brain autocorrected 1100100 to 1101000 in order to turn this into a codeword in a perfect cyclic code...
Taking a year long sabbatical, when I could live off for 2 years without working. Writing a 3D sport simulation game. Leads to me being a scientific software developer now, another application of 3D graphics!
OP article author here: You are correct and the parent comment is incorrect. The NRA actually used to support background checks, but after decades of "compromises" where they basically gave up ground and got nothing in return, they went hard-line at the membership's insistence.

This cartoon does a great job of explaining the average NRA members view of what it means to meet the gun control lobby "halfway" on an issue:

http://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2013/11/08/cake-and-comprom...

I'll link another piece I wrote on this topic, which is way too long and incoherent and should have gotten edits but didn't:

http://www.alloutdoor.com/2015/11/12/why-fake-moderate-gun-o...

For discussion of the evolution of the NRA into a hard-line, no-compromise lobbying group, see the last section, "NRA: The Original Moderate Pro-Gun Group".
When they published the new logo design of Yahoo I came to the same conclusion. A stunningly professional answer to the wrong question. Mayer might be - and I emphasise "might", as I don't know enough about her - the archetype of the engineer who executes the wrong programme without flaw.
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The irony being is that the gun community acts just as irrational and certainly impractical. Even as a non-gun owner, I know what gun I'd rather have for self defence than these guys. :)

Does a 50cal really seem like a sport rifle? The inventor goes on towards the end of this video to suggest it's useful for personal self-defence?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3usocws0E&t=0m42s

Here's an example of a guy who has 1.5M subscribers explaining how he'd protect himself answering the door in the middle of the night with a completely impractical close range weapon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiWhFTfUCg&t=3m33s
Mitt Romney pays 14% tax. I pay about double his percent rate, on magnitudes less money.
The math is simple. Rich people in America don't have to pay their fair share. The system is rigged against the middle class.
> Root crops, on the other hand, don't store well at all. They're heavy, full of water, and rot quickly once taken out of the ground.

"In the Altiplano, potatoes provided the principal energy source for the Inca Empire, its predecessors, and its Spanish successor. In Bolivia and Peru above 10,000 feet altitude, tubers exposed to the cold night air turned into chuño; when kept in permanently frozen underground storehouses, chuño can be stored for years with no loss of nutritional value."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_potato

Seems like the potato was more of a blessing than a curse.
> People are knocking this guy for not being an expert and maybe getting some details wrong.

I think this style of teaching has great value. Someone who's learning something themselves is the person most suitable to teach it to others, since they know exactly what a novice user doesn't know. For example, I wanted to write something up for monads the other day, since it's a simple concept that's made super confusing by people who dive into mathematical notation right away. The downside with this approach is that the novice lacks experience, so what they're learning may not be entirely accurate.

I think the best approach is a hybrid: Someone who is learning the material explains it, and someone who already knows it points out mistakes. In this case, HN can serve as the expert, and we all end up with a very informative post.