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> Why would the weapons need to get out?

Non-proliferation, for one. If Turkey goes hardline Islamic and it would get its hands on those weapons that would make it yet another hard to predict factor in Middle-East politics.

> Why wouldn't the weapons be equipped with a self-destruct, or self-disablement mechanism?

Anything that can be added can be removed and likely such mechanisms would not work (for obvious reasons) by remote control.

> Why wouldn't the US destroy the facility if there was a risk of the weapons being used?

Because they were too busy saving their asses? Because raining bombs on Turkey would probably not be a better solution than getting those weapons out while it was still possible?
Mega is a standard SI-prefix. It is denoted with a capital 'M' as opposed to Milli which is denoted with a 'm' prefix.

I'm just following the standard :|
That's the complicated viewpoint.

The simple viewpoint is that it is completely nuts.
INAL. I'm not sure if there is much you can do. If you open sourced the project in such a way as another party can do what they want, we'll expect them to do whatever they want.
The web has been crafted to pray on our most basic instincts to keep us coming back for more, more, more. Being addicted to the internet is more indicative of the good work by 'engagement engineers' then of a need for amphetamines.
"Engines are incredibly expensive to manufacture"

Well, the Shuttle engines were, on the order of $50M or something like that. But the Merlin-1D, according to a former SpaceX employee on Reddit, is in the ballpark of $1M per unit. They've really streamlined the design for mass production, so even if thrown away after a single use, the Merlins are actually much cheaper than the Shuttle engines even if you take RS-25 reuse into consideration (9 launches per one RS-25 unit in average - so about $5-6M per engine-launch in just amortized manufacturing costs?). They're also much simpler and sturdier, much like the F-1 engines - despite not being designed for it, it turned out that those could have been used for about twenty-thirty times without major problems and without major component replacements. The RS-25s pretty much required general overhaul after every flight.
I2P? Freenet?
RethinkDB doesn't seem to be a general purpose BaaS.
I definitely don't think BaaS is a bad thing. It's just that the current flavours are not worth it. They are mostly some kind of MVPs.

Edit: I'm not very familiar with Horizon. It looks promising but I assume it's tightly coupled with RethinkDB?
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Thanks for your suggestion! Specially for providing the example. I will take a look at that.
If the price in real dollars is less, then then the product is cheaper.
Mainly the Opera Mini I think.
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Do you have any advice to someone who wants to be financially independent and own a lot of land/home investments? I would like to be able to afford any lifestyle I want without having to work hard for it and it seems like rental properties are the way to go for that.

Thank you.
Awesome to see so many updates! So this release is now running on http://generator.swagger.io/ ?
Because then you can curry/partially apply functions independent of your data.

It's _not_ because it's convention everywhere else.

(I realize that only really makes sense if you know why it makes sense, so this video gives a pretty good explanation in ~30 minutes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3svKOdZijA)
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The distinction isn't too relevant because all of the machine's software is click-wrapped in a license you must accept. With the BIOS/firmware being the sole exception, they can just lock it down with technical means (ie. crypto and certs), avoiding the conversation.
There's a lot of good gems in there:

"Right now, 1 Megabyte of memory costs about $45 retail. This will not drop by an order of magnitude in the next decade without a breakthrough, or an economical Gallium-Arsenide process to replace Silicon."

"It's much easier to pass a stack of prints among a group of people than to set up a viewing session on the TV."

It makes you wonder what new technologies we dismiss today will actually start a revolution. Of course, not everyone was wrong about the future of digital film; this guy was spot on:

"In my opinion, the popularity of electronic camera is dependant upon the popularity of computers. If this so call multimedia become a reality, then more people may want electronic cameras."
I2P and Freenet are the big ones.
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I agree with the distinction you make between targeted and non-targeted. But I think being able to easily accomplish targeted attacks on SSL/TLS is a cause for concern -- and indeed that's what I'm thinking of. My thought is that it should not be possible for users to place such trust in something that is so easily subverted. As for DNS, I see no reason why one cannot encrypt DNS packets to prevent tampering. If users ignorantly want to use third party caches (which opens up more problems than just the one you mentioned), even when it's so easy to run a local cache, then we see arguments for another "trust model", e.g., DNSSEC, etc. Same problems.
If you're referring to the project which cites yours as "a great source of inspiration", they are materially different. The idea of a shell-script collection for common admin tasks is not unique.

A quick look between the two (if my suspicion is correct) shows the new one being pared down to tasks which are universal to OS X management, whereas yours has things which appear to be useful primarily to you (magento configuration?)
tldr; a schedule helps you better manage your time.
Aren't 'serverless' PAASs just a reinvention of PHP hosting?
Sort of. Those were on Minuteman missiles, and that was put to a stop long ago. The PALs in the B-61 these days should be much more sophisticated and much less useless.

As I said in my other reply, I'd totally believe it if this was happening in past decades, but it seems much less likely now.
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> i think whether or not a plane can actually get to the target is pretty fair use of 'equipped to deliver'.

So "the target" is always and forever Russia, and mainland Russia at that? No, the generic statement "equipped to deliver" cannot be interpreted with respect to a particular use case among many. It means "capable of loading the weapon and striking a target".

> new york times is not writing for a military audience, 'deliver' in lay person speak means getting it there, as in parcel delivery.

Any aircraft capable of carrying air-to-ground ordinance can "get it there", for some set of "it"s.

> i.e. if your truck can only hold 1 gallon of fuel it's not equipped to deliver the package to a destination 1000 miles away.

By your definition no truck is "equipped to deliver the package to a destination 1000 miles away", yet trucks do this every day. You are adding a bunch of hidden assumptions about what "equipped" means, many of which aren't valid.
There have been extensions out for years that would swap bitcoin addresses with their own one. Extensions unrelated to bitcoin
Did Bill Gates personally write Microsoft Bob? I got the impression OP was referring to late 70s / early 80s Microsoft when Gates was still very much doing the coding himself, as opposed to the much bigger 90s Microsoft when he was a few layers removed.
Hooray! Couldn't come at a better time for me, we're about to roll it out to all our customers and the API stability promises are great news.

Many thanks to the authors for all their hard work, and congrats.
Is there a company offering a SaaS version of Prometheus?
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That's how CGI works.

> pass informations as an argument for the cgi script

Elaborate?
I was under the impression all chrome extensions had to go through the chrome web store now. I don't think you can manually install them anymore (outside of installing in developer mode). I could be wrong though.
Passing data as arguments is even more dangerous, especially when the program is a shell.
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Maybe the article is missing some information, but why wouldn't older people be allowed to talk to young people? I'm relatively young (24) and for my entire life, I've been talking with old people to gain knowledge. Why wouldn't this be ok?
I think there's a lot of confirmation bias there, you never hear about intelligence successes.
Can you name a few companies where this is practiced? Maybe if we all start going to those places (I would happily take less pay for a healthier/happier work life) then maybe our managers would start following them
Because declaring war on the most potent military force on the planet (along with all of NATO), murdering its troops in an ambush, and taking at least hundreds of hostages, is going to turn out really well for Turkey.

They'd be likely to get carved up in a back-room deal with Russia and NATO. The US would immediately declare war on Turkey and begin destroying its cities and infrastructure. The Turkish air force would be completely disabled within a week. All major access points to Turkey's cities, all transit lines, would be bombed and disabled, shutting down their economy and supply lines. All power generating stations and major grid lines would be disabled or bombed and non-functioning within the first week. Air superiority would be accomplished rapidly, the US could sit outside of Turkey and hit major targets with cruise missiles at will.

So what was your premise again, the US would lose some troops? Well that happens in a war. Is the premise that Turkey would threaten to use or attempt to use the nukes on US allies? All that would accomplish is providing justification for either preemptively nuking Turkey to put an end to the war, or dramatically escalating the all-out attack on Turkey to attempt to cripple them faster and convince the military to turn on Erdogan (which would happen very quickly). There's no scenario in which Turkey is a meaningful threat for long.
Surely there aren't enough US based "power users" for it to matter.
The title is a reference to a minor sarcastic remark made in the blog post: a forged document containing the font Calibri was claimed to be last saved (in 2002) before Microsoft released the font (in 2006), yet the questionable Turkish court disregarded this indication of tampering with the last-saved date and accepted the document as factual. In fact, most of the post has nothing to do with Microsoft.

Bear in mind, this is not a news article, but just a blog post from 2012.
"Perl has always considered itself primarily a programmer-centric language, while Python has always considered itself to be more institution-centric. So in a sense it's a bit dumbed down, much like Java. You'll note both of those languages make their greatest appeal to managers. :-) "

Huh? I was using Python when Perl was more popular, and this seems completely fabricated. He's trying to lump Python in with Java, which is bizarre because those 2 camps have pretty big philosophical differences.

I think that the main reason that Python became more popular because it has both clearer syntax and clearer semantics than Perl. It is compact AND readable -- not just compact. The data structures in Python also behave more like those you would see in a CS textbook.

I'm working on my own language, and I just read over the Camel Book ("Learning Perl"). Honestly I don't see much in there that I want to borrow, except maybe for ~= automatically introducing variables. What else is good about Perl, which is

1) not in Python/Ruby/JavaScript (like hash tables)
2) overly terse/clever?

(Honest question)

Perl's regex syntax seems to be it's biggest influence and legacy, with Python/Ruby/Java/PCRE all adopting its syntax.

And -e in Perl is also useful -- Python/Ruby/etc. aren't really good for one liners like Perl. This provides a nice gateway into the language.

But a lot of other features were rightly ignored by other languages IMO.

Also, with regard to the previous sentence, I actually consider Python OO kind of weak, but it's definitely better than Perl's AFAICT.
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Remember that with reusability in play, the guidance system can decide "screw the first stage landing, the payload is more important" and simply switch to an expendable launch profile if it turns out that you have more engine problems on the first stage than you designed for. Then you use the reserve fuel to get the $300M satellite safely to orbit instead of getting the $30M stage safely to the ground. The customer is happy and you've only lost a unit for which you have a dozen of direct substitutes in storage anyway (SpaceX already doesn't have enough storage space, apparently!).
The OP has even opened an issue on that other project's github and discussed it with the author of that other tool. The other author was very polite and explained clearly that it is not plagiarized or ripped from Mac-CLI.
I think it really depends on what type of property is being rented out, and whether it's a full unit or a room.

Furthermore, landlords don't choose purely on race. They also select based on the tenant's profession, or whether they are family members or friends.

Also, both landlords and tenants have the right to be as picky as they want. Tenants also actively choose landlords.

The truth is, there are many other factors that make a deal. Let's not make this about race please.

(I know this as I also recently rented a unit, and if you are curious, no, I didn't rent from a landlord that's my race profile)
There's noone presently offering that, it's designed more with a view to being on-prem for reliability (http://www.robustperception.io/monitoring-without-consensus/).
The github repo for rakudo-js dates to September 2012. You're correct, but it looks like this effort has been in development for longer than WASM has been around.
Yes we are working on a API so it would be easier to integrate content on the app and asign beacons to it, in the future we want to integrate muséums too. The idea is, one App for one city to explore it's culture. You won't need an app for one museum, and another app for another museum, and another app to explore the city. Thanks for your comment.
I wonder if this means that they own the Presto Layout engine too.
The B61 is designed to be delivered from any aircraft that can carry Mark 80-series iron bombs. Combined with the two-man rule (which means at least partial arming on the ground for a weapon launched from a single-seat aircraft), this means most of the setup needs to be done on the ground. It may be that the weapon is completely armed at that point, save for a failsafe tied to the rack that keeps the bomb from going off when still attached to the aircraft.
There's a startup called Persado that's using ML to optimise marketing.
http://persado.com/
I wonder what impact Korean reunification would have. I imagine it would create a large leisure class, supported by a new North Korean cheap-labor underclass, with which would come a leisure culture which could impact the overall culture. Some bad, with some good.
The pension plan owns and operates the old facility?

That's just weird.
>The US has had radio programmed artillery shells

These are just proximity fuses. I can find no reference to actual communication with in-flight artillery shells. Furthermore Nuclear Artillery shells were armed when loaded. They were one of the few systems outside of the two-man rule. As a single inferior officer would arm the shell when loading it.
I still see this as flawed. Avoiding all vendor lock-in means making every possible piece of software you write completely generic - no GIS from Postgres, no third-party queue/messaging servers/services - none of it.

We're "locked in" to AWS - in that it would take a massive effort to move to Google/bare metal, despite not using any AWS-written servers (that is, we're FreeBSD, MySQL, Redis, etc.). But the benefits of AWS have been huge for us, and anyone saying they're outweighed by the potential downside has no idea what they're on about.

The right tool for the job is sometimes a vendor with specific services that, yes, sometimes have a lock-in component, even for long-term use.

In this specific case this particular BaaS implementation may not be full-cooked enough to entice you onto it, but saying vendor lock-in is bad as a blanket statement or incontrovertible truth is just silly.
The point of tail recursion is using constant space for the environment and control flow meta info, not constant space absolutely.
Because those of us who believe otherwise usually get beaten out and decide to not run businesses any more.

My confounder doesn't like hiring, likes to have a huge pile of cash in the bank to no particular end, and sends people shitty emails if they're late in the morning.

He's successfully killed off enthusiasm and passion for getting things done (mine included), and now people are either making time or leaving.

We got crazy amounts done back when I wasn't cto and was still allowed to lead the tech team - because we'd work from 1pm until the early hours, myopically working on stuff because it was fun to create. That got slowly but surely strangled by timekeeping, requiring people to be in for 0900 (even if they were up half the night working support), and requiring that people only work from the office.

It's impossible to push back against without continuous effort, and eventually one throws the towel in.

Conservatism is easy as it requires you to just maintain the status quo, hence it is the norm in business - whereas change requires effort. It then turns into an endurance race, which can only go one way.

Edit: I don't know why I bother commenting here any more.
"Value of the employee's work" is determined by the market. So either you can get someone cheaper or you can't. Either you can run your billion dollar banking operation without them or you can't.
This is the best prolog solution I've seen for this kind of puzzle. Other solutions all had to define a bunch of primitives for neighborhood constraints.
NSFW version, hehehe: https://loisaidasam.github.io/language-evolution-simulation/
Wordstar was good stuff! Between Wordstar and MultiWrite we sold hundreds of Kaypro machines bundled with loud as hell daisy wheel printers to my fellow college classmates. Unless they lived alone almost everyone returned a day or two later for the sound proofed printer enclosure.
Why daisy wheel printers? At the time our professors refused to take dot matrix printouts for class assignments or papers; it took a couple of years for Epson's higher print density heads to appear and produce "good enough" output.

More amusingly - WordStar inspired a slew of -star knockoffs including one for farm management called DirtStar. Urban Dictionary has a very different definition for that word today.

At least when I was selling personal computers out of a MicroAge what slowly strangled WordStar sales was IBM DisplayWrite and Word Perfect both of which served the legal community much better. Microsoft Word and Apple's MacWrite didn't help either. And to a much lesser degree IBM's choice of swapping the control and shift keys made WordStar's navigation unnatural. You either had to adapt or order a special keyboard with CTRL back where it belonged.
I've never forgiven them for that change. (Damn you, IBM! :shakes fist:)
Very sorry to hear that you're having problems. Macs have had problems with GPUs in the past in Macbook Pros (2011 version?) where Apple has ended up replacing the entire insides (this happened recently on a friends 17" 2011).

But (knock on aluminum), I've had 4 macs since 2011 all without hardware problems.
>> Do you think that I can do something by changing the license on my open source project?

You can do something about future forks by changing the license on your project. The existing fork was created under the current license on your project and you can not retroactively change that.
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Exactly, which means the taxes have a linear relationship to the value. If my house value goes down by 40%, my property taxes go down by 40%.
This is true. They've actually made it difficult to do even with Developer Mode active, which is probably a net win.
I think you're severely missing the point of the article if you think the messages she was getting boil down to "older people trying to talk to young people"
Something along the lines of encompassing every positive thing about religions that pertains to the interaction of humans with other humans, environment, themselves, etc.

One that embraces debate and incites to challenge any dogmatic belief. One that doesn't shy away from hard questions, one where people would say "I don't know" instead of coming up with a story to explain something.

A human and humane religion, essentially, that takes out the divine from the equation..

If there is a God, I don't think a human can either harm or help him/her. But if you believe in Heaven and Hell, I think it's fair to assume that people go to Hell and Heaven for what they have done to and for humans, and rarely for what they have done to and for the Lord.
So how do you judge the revenue brought in by internal facing teams? IT teams? QA? Basically, anything that isn't a revenue center, or is a cost center?
Intelligence has discovered some very valuable information, but it has always been unreliable. There's plenty of information that is never discovered, and there's an incredible amount of noise that these intelligence agencies are collecting, that the signal is hard to find. To make things worse, other intelligence agencies are purposely spamming everyone else with noise and false information. The really hard part is figuring out what's true and what's valuable.

Agents have historically been fond of generating false intelligence to prove that they are valuable, and historical documentation has shown that agents aren't always that competent.

Using technology certainly helps, but it has its limits. Human intelligence tends to get better information, but can be unreliable and generate lots of false information.

It would not surprise me at all if intelligence agencies failed to realize something is coming. Hindsight shows that the intelligence failures in 9/11 and Iraq were due to valuable information not being identified or the intelligence community sucking up false information from informants who were just making it up to stay in the CIA payroll. It's a real hit and miss sort of business.
goto is banned; loops must be statically bounded.
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I don't recall ever hearing that.
Room 101 (in the Ministry of Love) was for torture, not censorship. Censorship was done in the Ministry of Truth (where Winston Smith worked).
There is a company called http://amplitude.com focus on AI analytics.
How do you stand people walking behind you all day? That would drive me nuts. Also, I work remotely, but I have been thinking about live streaming my desktop as a similar discouragement from slacking during work hours.
I think they're insinuating that this 16-year-old girl is getting unwelcome attention from older men in a way that a 16-year-old boy would not. If I had to guess, I would imagine many of them take the form of "Wow, you're very smart for your age, and very pretty too!"

I'm assuming that they didn't want to go into detail, not that they meant to imply that older people and younger people shouldn't talk.
Understood and generally agreed. That said, often when monitoring matters most is the exact moment when you least want to worry about the integrity or uptime of your monitoring.
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