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I do often think that we should get rid of special treatment for "important" people going through these types of systems. If politicians, executives, etc had to go through the same thing, I think a lot of the inefficiencies would get fixed. As they stand now, there's no reason to make them efficient, because anyone who has the power to do so bypasses the system entirely.

Imagine how fast things would change if the president had to go through the TSA.
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Most A.I. technologies emulate the biology of Neurological Intelligence. This A.I. technology emulates the biology of Swarm Intelligence.

A swarm is unlike a market and has been shown to outperform. The reason is that a market is sequential, subject to momentum and bubbles. A swarm is parallel, all the participating agents converging on answers in synchrony.

As I understand it, that is why biologists look at swarms as "emergent intelligence" that acts like a super-organism. The UNU technology creates such a system for humans, by enabling the real-time feedback loops artificially.
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> I have an issue with this - i don't lie.

Well, I don't either. That makes it much better for me that people use a test that separates liars from honest people.

Yes, the phrasing is bad, but it is a very understandable hyperbole.
Define 'good'. I've seen people in their early 20s go from one branch (say, combinatorics) to another branch (say, algebraic geometry) without taking any formal courses [one could argue this is equivalent to going from being a great neurosurgeon then 6 months later publishing papers at the forefront of pancreatitis research]. They end up out performing post-docs who've spent a decade solely in that field, often within months. In my mind that's just as impressive as the Ramanujans and all (who was 'discovered by Hardy' but still had quite a base line of formal training prior to being invited to England).

Mathematics has developed so extensively that there's going to be a base corpus of knowledge one generally has to acquire before they're at the caliber of being able to publish. Take a tenured topologist and place him in at a conference where people are presenting their findings in an entirely different field and he'll more often than not struggle to keep up. Combined with the fact that higher level education is a lot easier to attain than it was say, 50 years ago (and definitely 100 years ago) allowing a larger percent of population who those who want to enter into pure mathematics to do so, it's fairly understandable why you won't see many 'good' self-taught mathematicians. (Though, I argue that recluses like Perelman who go off the grid for years at a time after being inspired by something like Ricci flow to solve Poincare are the analogues of yesteryears self-taught mathematicians, as they are no longer collaborating with institutional academia.)
I think what he is pointing out is that if you don't know the modulus operator, you will fail FizzBuzz. The modulus operator is rarely used and somewhat obscure.

The only time I use the modulus operator is when I'm writing something to track what record / rule I'm processing and I only want to show every 10,000th record or so. I can't think of a time I've used it otherwise.
Indeed. See also the ongoing sagas of people being deported from Scotland (Brain family, Zielsdorf family). The policy is brutal because people demand that "something must be done" about "immigrants". The system is made ever tighter, but it does nothing to dampen the complaints, because the people who the rightwing public actually want deported are either EU residents or second-generation nonwhite Muslim "immigrants". Neither of which are going anywhere soon.
As well as the first SimCity and a few other series that started in the Apple ecosystem.

One of the bigger ironies is how Doom was developed on NeXTSTEP then went on to make the IBM PC cool among gamers. Also the first web server if I'm not mistaken.

Thankfully, unlike the Amiga etc. the Mac didn't completely die and has been having a great resurgence in the past half-decade. Looking forward to this Monday and hoping for Apple to focus on making this platform even better.
I think that the most charitable interpretation (for the FBI) is that they believe their targets are some kind of "unexploded ordnance".

That is, people who haven't been radicalized, and who aren't likely to go on shooting rampages, but who could be convinced to "kill" people with some psychological distance by firing a fake missile or pushing a button.

The problem from my point of view is that these are simultaneously victims who will spend years in prison, and people capable of clearing a low bar in terms of willingness to kill strangers.

My sense is that these are people who could go the rest of their lives without harm, but of course I don't know.

It reminds me of the old ethics saw. It's a box where, if you push the button, some American you don't know dies and you get $1,000,000. The FBI is making the death roughly that abstract, and sending people to jail for pushing the button.
Where are the best place to find that F# jobs? I will love to work on it (+17 developing but this years I have picked F#)
It's not a perfect method of collecting data, but interesting privacy is the top result in every continent on earth.
This is kind of an absurd point because it's not obvious that manufacturing different types of batteries would actually be more environmentally friendly.

More complicated logistics could also be detrimental to the environment.
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In this thread: people who don't turn JavaScript on by default and are unhappy when sites don't work because of it. They must get angry a lot.

It's like wanting my Android and Mac applications to work without code too, like wanting my entire operating system to just handle PDF files and maybe have a functional text editor. It's like whatever state computers were in 1999, that's what is desired. Are we on Hacker News? A technology news site? People here don't want to use technology and see it evolve and progress?
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Even better would be per charge probably. Pay $5 to charge once to 120% (or however much it is).
It is definitely different which is what makes it interesting. Since you're maybe getting something you didn't pay for. On one hand, it is dead weight if you can't use it, which is even worse (since it degrades performance) but if you can jailbreak it you get it for free. But either way, it definitely has a real physical cost, it's not just code.
I'm not sure C++ is more stable than Rust. It's pretty stable but it does introduce breaking changes and code written 10 years ago will not compile as C++11 without changes. Of course if you need to port C++ code across platforms, which can easily happen if code is to survive a decade, then even if the built-in type sizes don't change, you'll have to deal with things like there being no standard build system for C++, no standard interfaces for most of the functionality found in an OS, etc.

Overall, while C++ indeed is fairly stable, I wouldn't bet on C++ code to be easier to drag into the future than code in those other languages (of course I wouldn't easily bet the other way, either; it's hard to know in advance with these things which will bite you the hardest.)
> Do you prefer terrorism to happen and then be reactive, or do you want the government to be proactive and work to flush these people out from the shadows before they commit a terrible act and murder innocent citizens?

It's not an either-or choice.

What I want is a government that does policework and investigation, not a government that sets people up to commit crimes.
I always want a candidate's current immediate supervisor as a reference but I would be surprised if any other reference was less than positive about the candidate. A future employer wants and honest view on the candidate but the candidate wants to make the best impression. Generally I only check references after I've already made a choice (but before an offer), the choice was made based on what the candidate has presented so the reference check is basically a chance to avoid a total fraud or unbalanced person. So far I've been fortunate enough to have not made what I would consider a bad hire.
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I agree that the confidentiality agreement was poorly structured. Really the whole fiasco indicates that this agreement was badly worded.

The intent of the document was clearly to prevent the document itself from being used as a weapon against the company. Nevertheless it was used for that purpose.
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This actually seems like a really nice option. It allows you to get a loan for a cheaper car, and once that is paid off, you can upgrade it.
> rampant mass shootings and bombings like they do in Europe

Europe has "rampant" mass shootings and bombings? They are very rare, despite the media coverage. The U.S. has many more mass shootings, AFAIK.

> do you want the government to be proactive and work to flush these people out from the shadows before they commit a terrible act and murder innocent citizens?

The question is whether many of these people would commit crimes if not for the instigation of law enforcement.
We already have a word for that, though. It's "understand". And while I see what you mean about mockery, refusing to use a term/idiom is everyone's prerogative. I, and probably you as well, simply don't use certain widely accepted phrases because I think they're dumb.

Anyway, I came up with a better definition: accepting a word/usage is believing that it's a good way to express whatever it was.
F# comes from Microsoft Research and was notoriously ignored by the corporate side for years (and still is to some extent). So I'm not sure F# has really ever been a project of Microsoft corporate interest, and now there is the F# Foundation which has many non-MSFT people and companies involved.

While I like Erlang a lot, I'd say that Ericsson still has quite a bit of corporate control and interest. It's not always a bad thing to have companies involved in the success and advancement of technology.
I don't like it being required in order to browse effectively static pages on the web. The rest is fine.
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I can't find any evidence to support your story. Do you have a source?
Firefox uses SQLite for tons of things internally, like history and bookmarks. So when they say that SQLite is "quirky" and "bad for the web" I would tend to believe them. http://robert.ocallahan.org/2010/06/not-implementing-feature...

Edit: A better discussion of what the quirks are, so you don't have to just take their word for it. https://nolanlawson.com/2014/04/26/web-sql-database-in-memor...
Unfortunately, like other countries, the UK's Border Force[1] clearly has an above-average share of incompetents and bullies. If you give such people any power whatsoever, they will abuse it. Sadly, that's what happened here.

The real problem is that there is no accountability in these organisations. Even if a complaint by Rachel triggered an investigation, the culture in organisations like this is to protect their own. The worst that is likely to happen is that those responsible would be given "words of advice", which is more like a pat on the back than a slap on the wrist.

1: Incidentally, the Border Force is part of the Home Office, which is led by Theresa May, who is behind the push for 1984-style mass surveillance of the UK population.
Maybe 5 years of Java without using inheritance?

It's possible but feels like you haven't gone the distance.
I thought that was awesome, then I came here to see about half of the comments full of people criticizing and dismissing it. This is a really neat experiment, just appreciate it. The author didn't claim that this is some groundbreaking, perfect piece of art or technology.
I love using technology. I hate using shitty technology that detracts from the experience, by trying to provide an experience.
I just registered an account to upvote on this.
Thank you for this great article.
And don' t forget to watch this short video by Mozilla - "The Hidden Business of the Internet" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LcUOEP7Brc
From their video, "I am not a data point".

Proceeds to turn us into literal data 'points'.
There is no VISA you can get to receive an honorarium for speaking in the UK

Potential international speakers should also be warned this is also true of the US - except for certain types of academic institution (INA 212(q)). The UK also allows it via https://www.gov.uk/permitted-paid-engagement-visa but again, only for arts or academia. A commercial conference doesn't count, annoyingly (or even a community conference that merely happened to offer honoraria). However, if you are being paid by your employer to attend a conference to speak, it is fine (big disclaimer: IANAL).

Related from a few years ago, Uncle Bob was turned away from the UK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3282583 - but I'm pretty sure he has been back since.
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You may be interested in Paul Taylor’s “Practical foundations of mathematics”.
> Still, an entire year of lost wages is way more expensive than a bootcamp.

Plenty of people do online programs nearly equivalent to full-time (with loads like that of the 1.5-year track for the OSU second bachelor's, which is also available on 2-, 3-, and 4-year tracks with lower impacts, though longer terms) with full-time jobs and families, some even do full-time programs (like the 1-year track) that way. People that need to learn around an existing job and often family commitments are pretty much the core market for distance education.

That's not to say bootcamps don't have their place, but the idea that there is no other option for people who want to become programmers and can't afford to take a lot of time off of their existing job is just wrong.
Seems crass to do this so soon. I don't know what the reasoning is behind this and I hope they change their minds.
Carrier-grade microwave radios are usually sold at a base price for a specific speed (e.g. 100 Mbps). Software licenses can then be purchased to upgrade the capacity (e.g. to 200 Mbps, 500 Mbps, or 1 Gbps). Licenses are also sold to enable features such as encryption and hitless backup radio failover.
"I think it's a very low ROI approach for the FBI"

Wrong. Creating these instances is extremely, hugely profitable in the form of increased funding for anti-terrorism.

I see what you are saying on the rest, and thats the response I would expect from an intelligent person that is uneducated on the subject. The fact is that they are not getting jihadists the means and then grabbing them, they are preying on poor people and promising them money through corrupt informants who usually participate in the plot up until the last minute and then get off scot-free. A good primer book on the subject, along with some of the lectures from the author:

https://www.amazon.com/Terror-Factory-Inside-Manufactured-Te...

I started my military career in anti-terrorism, back before they had to change the very definition because they realized it applied to them quite often. You want to know the terrorists I'm the most afraid of, and I think America should be? The ones in suits and ties, on Wall Street and in DC. I'm not afraid of men in thwabs doing dastardly things, and even if they did, it's such an outlier and small scope/scale it's a drop in terror bucket compared the financial terrorists.
So you would have preferred a survey monkey experience to this site?
The legal code and the justice system need overhauling for a whole bunch of other reason, anyway.
But this isn't an app. It's a poll and some poll results. We were doing this on the web for decades without invoking JS.
> (Vietnam, Iraq)

> demonstrate the power of the American military

Given that the first of those was a clear defeat and the second is still bogged down in guerilla warfare, I'm not sure this sends the desired message.
The "fun" part is that neutrinos barely interact at all with other matter so the idea of something emitting so much of them than they pose a threat to life is impressive in itself, but sure, it would be the least of our worries if a supernova occured close to earth.
Sadly true. What sucks is having to choose between working on a fun side project or practicing algorithm or coding interviews (LeetCode, Hacker Rank). I honestly really dislike doing the latter, but I know I have to.
Yes, and it's been thoroughly abused by lazy/incompetent developers. That's why we end up with 3 MB pages running React or whatever shiny new web framework Facebook/Google has released to display three paragraphs of text.
> "We set out to create a slimmer, faster version of jQuery (with backwards compatibility in mind)."

Wait, isn't the whole point of a major version bump that it breaks backwards compatibility?

Later on it says there are a few breaking changes, but not many apparently. Which in general is a good thing, but focusing on keeping compatibility through a major version bump seems silly.
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Yeah, wanting brochures on the web to display without 10 megs of javascript is like eating with your hands and being afraid of fire.
On topic, I do think studying interfaces is exceptionally helpful. Just take a look at all the approaches in music! Faders, knobs, buttons, toggles...the gamut. Such a fascinating issue...and can be confusing, no lie.

But too manky knobs? How about Too Many Buttons?!

(It's a DJ parody video and actually hilarious):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grYXuR8ODwY
It's ALWAYS about who you know. Always.
How many innocent people must be wrongly convicted to give society a sense of security?
You missed the point. It's not about proving the ability to occupy a country, it's about proving the ability to annihilate its military, which is something to keep in mind whether you're China or Kyrgyzstan.
I put some cheesy sound effects in a powerpoint slide when I was up late working on it, then forgot when I was presenting. Completely threw me off.
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communicate with terrorists or terrorist supporters

This is actually a constitutional right.
Excellent! Due to its privacy protection (it can be used anonymously) Threema is my favorite messenger!
What's the difference between having a web server look up an article in a DB and serve it to you, and having a web page's JS look up that article in a DB and pull it to your browser? It seems like that would be the least offensive use of JS.
I can understand requiring JavaScript if it's a game or some sort of multimedia experience, but something like this really doesn't need JavaScript.

Search engines typically don't run JavaScript, so relying on it can be bad for SEO, and in some cases accessibility.

Considering iOS devices don't support Flash, and popularity for Flash is waning, I think it's even worse to suggest a website should cater only to those who can run Flash.
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I find it sad that people value privacy so highly over anything else, including accessibility and opportunity. It's not that I don't treasure my privacy. I just don't get how it can be more important that ability to work on interesting stuff, freedom to access world's information and to learn from it, or even control over my devices configuration.

Privacy should be an added value, not something we put in front of everything else. It would be meaningless if web wouldn't enable us to do what we do. So in reality, isn't this poll just a list of things we already have thanks to the internet, plus one thing we don't have - privacy?
As much as I enjoy feeling superior to the British (spelling color with a 'u' is nothing short of pretentious) I would love to know if people from the UK suffer the same sort of troubles entering the US. As a US citizen I have found traveling to Canada and Australia to be a relatively pain free experience, but then Australians and Canadians are, in general, a whole lot nicer than Brits or Americans.
I would have preferred this site not use crappy JS. Or at least not require it.
Looks like Hollywood is finally taking their cue from Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544788

Hopefully they also end up naming it Unicorn Blood.
For one, you have to execute javascript. For the other, you don't. If you want to do it on the server side, feel free.
Also, this script appears to have been selected by a human actively looking to find apparently meaningful and original structure and sentiments from a long list of attempts by Benjamin, most of which clearly derived from the source texts

> For a while, Sharp said, Benjamin kept "spitting out conversations between Mulder and Scully, [and you'd notice that] Scully spends more time asking what's going on and Mulder spends more time explaining."

Can't help thinking that this reported response to questions about the film appears more meaningful - poignant almost - than anything in the actual script

> The world is still embarrassed.
> The party is with your staff.
> My name is Benjamin.
I've looked at it and it looks nice indeed. Having BEAM underneath is a big plus.

However, dynamic typing turned me off. Whole my life I'm working with statically typed languages and heavilly rellying on compiler / type system to catch my mistakes / guide my design. Hard to give up on that.
Or if he's doing really well, some Tres Comas Tequila.
> We don't even know how the story ends!

I think Game of Thrones has shown that isn't a problem.
Yeah, the US has far, far more mass shootings. They're usually white supremacist or enraged-lone-male (practically a political faction of themselves) rather than carried out by an "organisation" of some sort.
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